MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cryptonector | 2025-04-30 18:53:12+00:00
Sun made a bunch of serious mistakes in 2002 before Jonathan that it never fully recovered from:

- not making a deal with Google - the [temporary] cancellation (suspension) of Solaris 8 on x86 - the closing of Sun professional Services

These three mistakes were ultimately the ones that ended Sun, but there were many many other horrible mistakes along the way, like:

- sitting on its laurels and doing vendor lock-in monetization of - J2ME - SPARC - Sun Directory Service - not building an Active Directory clone - spending $1bn on MySQL (wtf) - ...

Then Oracle overreacted to the Greenbytes' shipping of ZFS dedup before Oracle and killed OpenSolaris when OpenSolaris was the only hope for Solaris itself. And now Solaris is a tiny operation.
by trhway | 2025-04-30 18:53:15+00:00
Those with high markup wouldn't get affected that much. Those with lower markup will get affected more, and they need to show the tariff charge.

The tariff charge may also naturally include say the directly related charges like for example the increased insurance premium for the increased, due to the tariff, insured value of the goods while they are being transported/stored. Add to that increased financing required to cover all those costs, etc., and that can snowball to feel significant even for the ones with higher markup.
by atoav | 2025-04-30 18:53:43+00:00
Maybe we're arguing about words and definitions here, but with "vibes-based", what I meant isn't that there was no plan at all and everything was purely vibes, what I meant is that the plan they put into reality appears to have no internal logic that aligns with the stated goals.

The elastic constants in the divisor of that formula were 0.25 multiplied with 4, which obviously results in 1. And something divided by 1, well stays the same. So why the hell even have them? It does not appear anybody had any real basis for the why of that formula.

Your idea that they went with the result for China and applied formula without more checking sounds surprisingly plausible..
by ketzo | 2025-04-30 18:54:45+00:00
I mostly agree that the benefit of a product-focused founder & CEO is the ability to make judgement calls, even corrections, and get things moving faster

However, I think the more work you blow up when you do this, the more it’s reflective of a poor management style; even if it’s the right call under the circumstances, that call should almost certainly have been made earlier.

Of course we don’t live in a perfect world, and if something’s 75% done but really bad, you press the red button and stop it, even if people will be upset.

But if you’re consistently being described as a “tornado”, that says to me you’re not applying your founder judgement early enough in your company’s development process.
by inciampati | 2025-04-30 18:55:12+00:00
> EDIT: I can find very few voices (not currently working directly for the administration). There's Jeff Ferry who believes "tariffs imposed during the 19th century spurred industrialization and ultimately positioned America as a global superpower". (That historical view is uncommon and wouldn't account for the current realities of global supply chains.)

IIRC At the same time (early 20th c.), the US was a major net importer of people. This led to a very low effective tariff rate.
by burningChrome | 2025-04-30 18:55:22+00:00
I would have to agree with you. I use it every day for work and besides some wonky syncing between Outlook and Teams and the search which you already pointed out, it works. More than I can say for some of the older tech we were using before Teams.

I would also not that I've never been a huge power user or rely heavily on it for anything really outside of calendar or channel conversations so for me, on a basic level it works.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-30 18:55:43+00:00
I think her immediate recognition and characterization of "pessimizations" is relevant.

Not so much as collateral damage when different optimizations negatively interact though.

Even when optimization is not further possible[0] a careful avoidance of distinct pessimizations themselves can lead toward the same kind of beneficial outcomes.

[0] Or at the other extreme, not the least bit possible.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-30 18:56:01+00:00
Judging from his biography, he should be skilled when he started working on it, but I don't think he knew very much about OS and compilers because these were pretty tough topics.

Also it took him around 2 years to get a basic port done (75-77) with a bit of help in the first year.

Anyway I believe there were a lot of head banging but he came out in pretty good shape.

Damn wish I had the time to do something like this. I'd like to rely ONLY on printed books and specifications for such a project (say port xv6 to some 32-bit arm processor), or something even simpler. But I really don't have the capacity sadly.
by maxglute | 2025-04-30 18:56:39+00:00
Can also use google sheet + app scripts + youtube api to add new videos from channels in playlists. Sheet can trigger every few hours to keep things up to date.

It does get more complicated if monitoring too many channels since execution will timeout due to sheets limit. But can make it to pickup where previously timedout.

Bonus using API gets you video info so you can filter by length (shorts), keywords etc. Limitation is ~150 videos added per day due to API limits.
by tolerance | 2025-04-30 18:56:46+00:00
The author does a fair job at indicating how contrived people's interpretation of art and good quality becomes when they evaluate AI art against non-AI art and that the reason your art sucks and AI art is better is because—as indicated by another comment—"you" aren't putting in the time and effort to get better and produce high quality work and AI is programmed to be used to get to that quickly.

People who are willing to bridge the gap between their effort and AI's instantaneous (though often imperfect) productivity shouldn't be penalized in the court of public opinion.
by groby_b | 2025-04-30 18:56:53+00:00
AFAIK, yes, in loco parentis isn't a thing. Rights of the child (or, overall, the individual) are first and foremost. Children commonly have voice in e.g. court proceedings affecting them, too.

Nordic legal system is interesting - it avoids a lot of Roman/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon influence and is rooted instead in the old tradition of "Tings". (Nordic communal gatherings). Which means there's a strong base of communal consensus instead of precedent - in the small, reflected by the presence of lay judges in legal proceedings. In the large, reflected in the Nordic countries together having a set of very closely coordinated legal systems. (Since late 1800s, I think?)

It's super-interesting (if legal systems are interesting to you ;)
by mrandish | 2025-04-30 18:57:13+00:00
I'm not even following AI model performance testing that closely but I'm hearing increasing reports they're inaccurate due to accidental or intentional test data leaking into training data and other ways of training to the test.

Also, ARC AGI reported they've been unable to independently replicate OpenAI's claimed breakthrough score from December. There's just too much money at stake now to not treat all AI model performance testing as an adversarial, no-holds-barred brawl. The default assumption should be all entrants will cheat in any way possible. Commercial entrants with large teams of highly-incentivized people will search and optimize for every possible advantage - if not outright cheat. As a result, smaller academic, student or community teams working part-time will tend to score lower than they would on a level playing field.
by RetroTechie | 2025-04-30 18:57:40+00:00
>The CSAC improved atomic oscillators a lot more in power than size... but its timekeeping performance is so/so as far as atomic clocks go.

Timekeeping of atomic clocks is still waaaayy better than next-best technologies (like temp-compensated Xtal oscillators). And size/power/$ constraints matter. So CSACs for the win imho.
by cess11 | 2025-04-30 18:57:54+00:00
Most such places probably have some trauma related to Oracle now. Someone spun up the wrong JVM by accident and within hours salespeople were on the phone with some middle manager about how they would like to pay for it, that kind of thing. Or just the issue of injecting their surveillance trojans everywhere and knowing they're there, that's pretty off-putting in itself.

Which is a pity, once you learn to submit to and tolerate Maven it's generally a very productive and for the most part convenient language and 'ecosystem'. It's like Debian, even if you fuck up badly there is likely a documented way to fix it. And there are good libraries for pretty much anything one could want to do.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 18:58:19+00:00
As much as China can prepare, it's still in a pretty vulnerable position and the whole "the Chinese people are more conditioned for hardship" is as much Chinese exceptionalism as any claim to American exceptionalism. At the end of the day they lose millions of jobs, factories shut down, and people suffer there too regardless of the CCP marketing about being "tough" and "prepared". Appear strong where you are weak or something like that. Meanwhile the US can see prices go up, but aside from a few specific items we can buy or make the things that China has been. At an increased cost, sure, but Americans can handle it.

> The US has benefitted for a couple generations by being the reserve currency, meaning that we can make big mistakes and not suffer for them, while any other country would suffer. This coming trade war, if it actually happens, may finally break this exceptional status.

Very doubtful. The main danger is lack of fortitude with continuing and enforcing policies, and letting ideological battles get the best of the Trump administration for cutting good and fair deals with the EU and others. You're welcome to invest in Chinese, Russian, or whatever capital markets, though.
by threeducks | 2025-04-30 18:58:31+00:00
Over seven years ago, this has been foretold exactly by the show Silicon Valley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3pYZwol6Dc&t=73s

Transcript of the fridge scene:

Fridge (after a bar code was scanned): "Ah, there we go." Gilfoyle: "It's bad enough that it has to talk. Does it need fake vocal ticks like 'uh'." Dinesh: "Well it just makes it sound more human." Gilfoyle: "Humans are shit. This thing is addressing problems that don't exist. It's solutionism at its worst. We are dumbing down machines that are inherently superior."

I would like to have a Gilfyole mode for NotebookLM where the machine answers only with cold precision instead of endless "Mmmhmm", "Yeah!", "Amazing!", "That's so cool!".
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-30 18:58:37+00:00
Sure, I agree that free trade can have downsides.

The comment claims that 'globalisation' is depressing young people. Well, that's a hypothesis, not a universally agreed-upon fact. And the assumption that it's agreed-upon is probably a product of the propaganda I complained about.

There's a stronger case for globalisation making youth happier, on the whole, and other factors (such as economic inequality) making youth sadder.
by hnav | 2025-04-30 18:59:39+00:00
_relative_ margins as in percent, $6 with 145% tariff is $14.7 which means to maintain the 75% margin you'd have to jack the price up to nearly $60. I agree that you don't necessarily need a 75% margin to do business, but it can't stay flat either because you're floating more than double the money on inventory. In reality prices for cheap crap with huge margins will probably only go up let's say 50% but items that have thin margins will definitely more than double.
by TMWNN | 2025-04-30 18:59:57+00:00
> Joke’s on us because it turned out the market for counting money is much bigger :-)

Even that turned out to be not as large a market as expected. PC Magazine and InfoWorld in the 1980s ran many, many reviews of packaged accounting software at various price/size tiers. 70% of them died against QuickBooks, a product that didn't even exist then. 15% got bought by SAP, Sage, Infor (for some reason, Europeans dominate the "legacy accounting rollup" space), or Microsoft. 15% survive by selling the same software for 40 years to small customers local to them, and/or very specialized verticals (pawnshops, watercraft rental).
by esbranson | 2025-04-30 19:00:16+00:00
Poor people don't drink tap water, due to lack of trust in the media among others.[1] The comments here that insinuate otherwise is also an effect of that same media,[2] on the same spectrum that led them to support school closures.

This whole topic is just a symptom of a more general disease. Defund CPB (and hence PBS and NPR) before we lose any more to this idiocy.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7474465/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/26/us/epidemic-of-oral-disea...
by cmurf | 2025-04-30 19:00:22+00:00
Is that really the lesson?

John Adams told us the Constitution is intended for a moral (or virtuous) people.

The point is the law isn't self enforcing. People have to insist upon Constitutional order, not because of (blind) faith in it, but because the alternative is tyranny. Not anarchy.

Does this country deserve Constitutional order? The People abandoned it by electing someone virulently and openly opposed to it.

The regulation you seek is utterly meaningless in an autocracy. Or even in a unitary executive theory of Constitutional order.

But in the specific case of Trump, among the most untrustworthy liars America has produced, what does Constitutional duty mean to him? What does it mean that he took the oath of office? He said the words but no serious person believes he took an oath.

People still have no idea what we've done. And what is yet to come.

The POTUS is a psycho. And the replacements aren't good people either.

100 days down, 1369 to go. It's going to get much worse.
by Zamaamiro | 2025-04-30 19:00:27+00:00
This is plain bad economic policy disguised as a moral crusade against hyper consumption.

If this administration cared at all about the environment, they wouldn't be opening up public land for oil drilling or firing hundreds of scientists working on climate reports as mandated by Congress [1].

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-climate-assessment-rep...
by treis | 2025-04-30 19:00:35+00:00
This is somewhat disingenuous. Something like half of the grant is handed over to the University as overhead. Much of that is legit to cover things like labs but a lot of it goes to a cover a massive amount of administrative bloat.

Also, nobody really objects to the research that leads directly to stuff private industry can use. That's not what people want to cut.
by boplicity | 2025-04-30 19:01:09+00:00
So I have a rare disease. The only treatment is surgery. However, there is an ongoing study on a promising treatment at an elite university for a very effective and simple drug-based treatment. That type of research funding is absolutely being threatened. So, yes, it really is that simple.

If only Trump were trying to force universities to be more efficient with their spending. However, both of us clearly know that is not what is going on here.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-30 19:01:42+00:00
It's really not that rare. Especially with stuff like ForeFlight.

https://download.aopa.org/advocacy/2019/dhowell_jking_DASC20...

> A majority of respondents had used ADS-B In, with 56% of respondents reported having experience with either an installed or portable system. Of the group who had experience with ADS-B In, 85% used portable systems and 30% used installed systems.

And that's in 2019.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-04-30 19:02:26+00:00
Outside of the US? Yes, I've seen some South American leftists saying "good, comeuppance".

But overall? No, extreme shortages will mean people won't be able to receive essential goods. If they're sick, they could die. If their housing is precarious, extra costs of necessities could push them to homelessness. If they've been looking for a job to pay for necessities, good luck because businesses will be closing left and right and everyone will be looking for a job.

This combined with moves to strengthen police aggression and protect police who fall on the wrong side of the law means any protest against these moves will be met with greater violence. We were already seeing people being blinded or killed by riot police during BLM protests.

Imagine what kind of violence will be used against protestors who don't have anything to lose. They'll have lost their jobs, and with it their healthcare. They won't be able to afford housing, food, household objects, entertainment, etc. People in the US don't protest because we don't have social safety nets to fall back on. Now protestors wont have to worry about falling any deeper.

So no, being anti-capitalist doesn't mean being pro a hyper-capitalist sabotaging the system people rely on to survive without any meaningful plan to fix or replace it. This is just chaos.
by nickff | 2025-04-30 19:03:15+00:00
Biden had the bureaucracy on his side (it’s well known that government employees are largely left-Democrats), so he was able to collaborate with it. In his first term, Trump learned that insiders were good at preventing him from accomplishing his goals when he ‘played by the rules’, so now he’s just ignored ‘the system’.

Insiders have plainly ignored the law in the past when it was convenient, (see all the agencies which violated notice-and-comment rule-making in the Obama years,) we’ve just never seen anyone ignore the administrative agencies to this degree before.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-30 19:03:36+00:00
True, the make-up and priorities of both Republicans and Democrats have changed a few times over the years.

I would say that in this case, it's a party aligning to an individual far more than it has ever been in the past. Racist Southern Democrats didn't become Republicans because they were enamored with a Republican leader, they changed parties because they found themselves misaligned with the Democratic Party's pivot to civil rights.

I wholeheartedly agree that a parliamentary system would serve the US better.
by djha-skin | 2025-04-30 19:03:46+00:00
Unpopular opinion: this isn't that big of a deal for most people.

Gdp, consumer index scores, all that stuff is a measure of how much poor people are willing to spend and how hard they're working. What really matters is, can these people buy a house? Can they buy eggs?

I don't know how many of them will be all that caught up that they can't buy some disposable flip-flops on Temu anymore. We need to focus more on how hard it is to live than how hard it is to import stuff.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-30 19:03:50+00:00
Maybe a matter of personal opinion, but quotes like this:

>Manual posting? That's adorable.

>Listen to the folks who stopped crying over Reddit karma

And buzzwords like:

>"Post like a time wizard"

Are an instant turnoff for me. What does posting like a time wizard mean? It'd be more effective, for me at least, if you substitute "time wizard" with whatever you think "time wizard" implies. And maybe reword the stuff that can easily be interpreted as insults of your prospective customers.

Also, are those testimonies real? Placeholders? They give off a fake vibe, so if they are real, you might want to re-evaluate how they are presented.

Lastly, your privacy policy says "We collect this data with your knowledge and consent, and we always explain why we collect it and how it will be used.", but there's no explanation within the privacy policy. The privacy policy is precisely the place to explain why and how it will be used. For example, why do you collect my reddit "profile information", and what all does that entail (e.g creation date, bio, previous posts, etc?) Where do you explain why you are collecting my profile information and what you're doing with it?
by bradhilton | 2025-04-30 19:03:56+00:00
Hi, we don't have reliable documentation for the HTTP API endpoints yet, mostly as they are still subject to change.

However, to briefly provide some context, `/_train_model` returns a stream of line delimited JSON objects for each gradient step as the model trains on the provided trajectories so the client can monitor progress. The final version of this endpoint may provide the option for both streaming & non-streaming responses, and/or potentially return a "training job" that can be polled instead.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-30 19:04:07+00:00
One thing I don't like about the "old" style (that I haven't seen anyone here mention yet) is that it has all that whitespace on either side of the list. So much monitor space wasted! The new site uses it all. I wish sites would stop limiting their content to a small vertical strip of the screen. I bought a gigantic monitor and I rather like being able to use all of its pixels.
by Take8435 | 2025-04-30 19:04:08+00:00
Your experience is typical only for your region, I'll just say that.

> The solution is endless growing bureaucracy to implement and enforce fairness at every level and it is happening everywhere I can see.

You are advocating for fairness - but for it to be fair - you need to be allowed special treatment and that treatment (positive mostly, from your stance) to be applied only to family members. E.g., "It's only fair I hire my brother. So I can enrich my family. He may not be qualified, but I'm the founder."

But then in the same breath, you say it is unfair to bolster nepotism and cast aspersions on the vast majority of workers who feel opposite of you.

Your argument is flawed and flimsy, with all due respect.

You may have a business that works but no one outside your family would want to work with you and especially working with inept family members. At least no one I know.

I'll edit to add: I think it's a sad state of affairs you see friends as just a convenience. Nothing more. Sure seems like there's no investment in relationships outside families which seems very exclusionary.
by revskill | 2025-04-30 19:04:57+00:00
The way intelligence works to me, is more about:

- Making correct and smart assumption. Currently all LLM bots are too stupid at making good assumptions. I don't want to explicitly repeat and repeat again my own assumptions while the context is clear enough. Hey bots, try harder.

- LLM bot needs to bring their own secondary and contextual memory in reasoning, i don't want to do it for you, ok ? You're the bot.

- Thinking out of the box. This is the final stage of intelligence. Adapt old technique to make your own technique to solve non-existing before problems.
by colonial | 2025-04-30 19:05:01+00:00
If this is true (it isn't) then no wonder the web version of PowerPoint was so shit when I was forced to use it earlier today. Constant lag, random buffering popups, janky element snapping that can't be turned off...

I hate Google just as much, but at least their web office suite just works on the rare occasion I need a collaborative document.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-30 19:05:33+00:00
So would it be fair to say that you're claiming the bank bailout is the smallest of issues, a technicality, and perhaps not even especially real? I mean after all it should be called the "banking temporary investment", right...?

I'm sure if Tesla, through their own excessive recklessness, did something that ruined countless lives and sent them spiraling towards bankruptcy, only to be saved by a not-a-bailout of hundreds of billions of dollars from the government, repaid some years later with token interest, you'd feel the same.