MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xCE0 | 2025-04-13 13:32:33+00:00
Google Search is 95% unusable as of 2025. I don't want to use it anymore (as opposed to always wanting to use it because it did the job best). Search results it offers are either paid or LLM generated garbage. From Google's perspective, it is insane to destroy the quality of a market-leading product like this, or it is very intentional to drive users to LLMs for much better user manipulation and cashing opportunities. Of course, at some point users must pay LLMs. They will become like O365, it is just mandatory to pay at least 4,99/month at minimum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY
by pavlov | 2025-04-13 13:32:37+00:00
It’s a lovely piece, but maybe goes a bit too far in trying to paint Lem as some kind of human-form planet Solaris himself, failing to communicate with ordinary people. For example:

“These essays are the work of a lonely man. We can judge the fervor of Lem's attempt to reach out by a piece like ‘On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction:’ a Pole, writing in German, to an Austrian, about French semantic theory. The mind reels.”

That just sounds like an ordinary letter for a 20th century European intellectual. Reading and writing in French and German was table stakes.
by ben_w | 2025-04-13 13:32:55+00:00
At this point, my cynicism assumes that the only answers they will be willing to accept are things they've already decided they don't like.

"We've found that cheap foreign imports cause autism!" or "A holiday in Greenland will cure autism!" or "It's a curse from God for turning away from Him, we must end the separation of Church and State!"

Assuming RFK still has a job by then. Might get swept under the rug if he gets fired for mis-managing measles.
Show HN: FeatureLens – Real-time Go monitor for ML feature pipeline quality
by sanspareilsmyn | 2025-04-13 13:33:32+00:00
FeatureLens is a lightweight, high-performance monitoring tool designed specifically for real-time Machine Learning feature pipelines.

Features: 1) Kafka Consumer 2) Real-time Statistics Calculation Per Feature 3) Threshold-Based Alerting

Roadmap: 1) Integrate with Prometheus/Grafana 2) Advanced Windowing 3) Drift Detection Algorithms

I'm particularly interested in feedback from MLOps experts and enthusiasts on the following points. 1) How critical is lightweight, real-time monitoring specifically for feature pipelines compared to broader model or batch monitoring? 2) What specific types of data quality checks and drift detection metrics/algorithms are most crucial?

Thanks for your reading:)
by graemep | 2025-04-13 13:34:53+00:00
Its true in theory, but it does not work well in practice because:

1. Developers have to make an extra effort (and require time) to do it right 2. People are much less likely to learn the keyboard shortcuts

If you designed a GUI to be keyboard first then it might work as you say, but I cannot think of any real life examples of that. I think people need to TUI look to push them to use keyboards.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-13 13:35:44+00:00
Gotta look at your monthly bill every day.

I've been wondering about the question of "where did the web go?" and how even technically savvy people have given up on blogging for behavioral sinks like Medium.

Part of the story is that $50 a month dedis have given way to the "free" plan on AWS or a system that costs $10 a month to run if you're not successful but has no upper bound on the bills if you are successful. So if you make a blog you are praying every night that you don't make it to the front of Hacker News and that you don't build up a large following because boy those egress charges will add up. People are furious now that they are getting eaten alive by the egress costs run up by AI bots but 10 years ago I was thinking "Boy Bing crawls my site twice as hard as Google and sends 5% of the traffic and Chinese webcrawlers crawl my site 5x harder than Google and send me no detectable traffic."
by therealpygon | 2025-04-13 13:35:51+00:00
Sadly, that situation is also contorted to legitimize the spread verifiably false information by certain current political cults, led by a Turnip, that claim it is another party controlling media because they believe that they have the secret access to the “truth” that is being “blocked” on all other sources of media, and point to other suppressed stories (even if completely unrelated or blocked due to being outright lies) as proof. Look at attempts to curtail the spread of completely false vaccine information that is now being used as proof of something nefarious (even while more nefarious activity is being perpetrated). Some people took notes from other Dictators’ control of media long ago and have been working toward it for many years via press-related misinformation to cause a loss of confidence. You would think the press would fight back harder against being de-legitimized, using stronger wording and calling lying what it is, but when your purse strings are being controlled by the same businesses that see opportunities to advantage themselves, it’s not surprising.
by tiborsaas | 2025-04-13 13:35:53+00:00
It would answer my question properly if I'd seen that it looks just like the stock Android UI, so even though it's almost exactly the same, that's still quite valuable for me rather than pointless.

I've also done some image search and it does change a bit with apps and they look quite good. So I'm still baffled why this aversion to images is decided. Or just overlooked maybe?
by mrkramer | 2025-04-13 13:36:14+00:00
Facebook was awesome when it was the only social network; now we have Instagram for social image sharing, WhatsApp for messaging, Snapchat for ephemeral messaging, YouTube for social video and TikTok for social short video plus Discord and Twitch for social gaming. Even Facebook's social casual gaming moved to mobile gaming.

Facebook wanted to be the everything social network just like Amazon is the everything store but it doesn't work because we began to see specialization for every segment of Facebook. I honestly don't see appeal why anyone would use Facebook when you literally have better alternatives that are specialized for the particular niche you might be interested in e.g. images, videos, gaming etc.
by Latty | 2025-04-13 13:36:42+00:00
> Business doesn't operate on the benefit of society. It's not a charity.

Which is why we have legislation to force them to act in given ways. I'm not suggesting companies should choose to do it, I'm saying we should pass laws to force them.

> They have? No they haven't. There are already ongoing law suits.

That was in the context of the hypothetical where training models is just considered a type of copying and handled by existing copyright law. You seem to be misunderstanding my points as a cohesive argument about the current state of the world: I was describing possible ways to handle legislating around machine learning models.

> How do you? Send the NSA and FBI to everyone's house? How do you know I have a model? > Just like stopping drugs? Good luck.

I answered this in the rest of my comment? I don't believe the comparison to drugs is at all reasonable: it's much easier to manage something large companies who have to operate in the commercial space do than something people do on the street corner.

It appears you aren't really engaging with what I'm saying, but giving knee-jerk responses, so I don't think this is going anywhere.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-13 13:37:58+00:00
> I still don't get why would you make a new post on a freshly registered domain after a 3-year pause and immediately submit it to HN

You don’t really have to get it, to be fair. If it was, to give an example, a poorly thought-out decision, then you’re just picking on them for that.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-13 13:38:12+00:00
And it worked.

And all it cost him was whatever small credibility he had to prosecute a world wide trade war. As if someone who bankrupted multiple casinos has any economic cred.

Our former friends and trading partners just asserted how they can ruin Trump's day if he acts unreasonably. And confronted with the obvious, Trump folded like his former casino in Atlantic City.

https://6abc.com/trump-plaza-implosion-video-watch-live-stre...

Bottom Line: The largest bidders in auctions of US Treasury bonds are the same countries targeted with tariffs on "Liberation Day". And this "economic genius" totally failed to grasp the significance of this until after the fact. Duhhh!
by energy123 | 2025-04-13 13:39:05+00:00
This aestheticization of factory jobs is something I've noticed to be driving the New Right's worldview. It's not dissimilar to and no less dangerous than the aesthetic fixation on the agrarian economy of Mao and Pol Pot.

Frankly, no, sweatshops are not important to the cultural fabric of a country.

The US has problems with housing affordability, with medical costs, and with service sector costs emerging from Baumol's cost disease, which are all things that will get worse with tariffs, ranging from higher construction costs, to higher pharmaceutical prices, to less service employees making the cost disease worse.

It's also untrue that comparative advantage only benefits capital. Consumers are hurt by higher prices and less job opportunities driving down demand on the labor market. This worldview of a zero sum contest between capital and labor is a populist fiction.
by dahart | 2025-04-13 13:39:06+00:00
The statement is technically true, but slightly confusing because the article talked about orbit being free fall, and about microgravity being in the range of one millionth to one thousandth of earths gravity.

It is certainly possible to get far enough away from anything that gravity is far less than one millionth of earth’s gravity, so it’s no longer microgravity by the article’s criteria. Floating freely would be free fall, but that doesn’t exactly mean what it sounds like when gravity is negligible.

The article also didn’t clarify that at our typical orbital distances for ISS and satellites, gravity is not in the microgravity range, it’s still very strong.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-13 13:39:09+00:00
> I'd imagine the times I'm rushing to work and have to stop for gas would get a lot worse with a long charge time.

Of course. That's where my other comment is relevant: " "very fast charging" should not be the default, it should be rare. ... the default is overnight at home or during the day at office or a mall, with the software giving you that "topped up as specified, every morning, that's better than what an a ICE vehicle can provide"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43671612

i.e. with an EV and commute, you can slow charge and also never "stop for gas", ever. The vehicle is just ready, every day.

If you "don't live in a place where you can have a car charger" at home or at work, then IMHO an EV is not ideal for you, yet. The infrastructure isn't ready for you, work on that first.
by dtagames | 2025-04-13 13:40:01+00:00
Agreed. This is an overblown explanation of a protocol for API communication between agents. Nothing more.

It could be useful if setup in a way that works for you on both ends. And we all know how likely that is with anyone else's API. Also, if you use MCP, you will be the one setting up your tool calls to use that protocol, when you could do them directly any way you want to. It's extra scaffolding that's not always an advantage by itself.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-13 13:41:29+00:00
Applied at time of passing through customs.

More typical policy would give 90 days notice so businesses could plan ahead. This policy was implemented far too fast with far too high of numbers and now it’s also changing rapidly. It doesn’t make sense.

> I'm not American but it seems madness to apply them at any other time

I’m American and I fully agree it’s madness. This administration clearly doesn’t understand or even care how businesses work. They just thought this was going to be a chest-thumping bargaining chip that caused other countries to come begging at the negotiation table.

It’s not working and now they’re panicking. They don’t want to look weak by backing down so we’re suffering.
by SpaceNugget | 2025-04-13 13:42:12+00:00
I might be wrong, but I think you took offence to me suggesting you might be confused. If so, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it in a negative way, I was trying to soften my language but I phrased it badly.

Regardless, my point was that Rust _the language_ does not provide garbage collection. The Arc/Rc structs are where the reference counting is implemented. You can create reference counted objects in C, like GObjects in GLib. However, I think you would agree with most people that C does not have garbage collection. Otherwise the concept of a language having or not having garbage collection is diluted to the point of meaninglessness. At that point I think memory management is a more apt term.
by panick21_ | 2025-04-13 13:42:30+00:00
> battery packs are often structural components, this idea would make that impossible

This is not true. A battery can be structural and swap-able. The structure is determined by what it has to survive in a crash. While standing still in a battery swap station, your car does not need to clear those requirements.

So as long as it crash safe once the new battery is put into place, your are completely fine.
by tikotus | 2025-04-13 13:44:16+00:00
I'm not sure how tongue in cheek this was, but I assume it's serious. Either way, it's a fun and smart read.

The article spots well the dark side of the moomins, but in my opinion goes too deep into it. My disagreements boil down to this: "One of the oddest aspects of the Moomin phenomenon is how these complex tales of apocalypse, breakdown and disfunction have been consistently misread as cutesy celebrations of domestic life." Yes, all these things exist, but the point to me has always been that they are cutesy despite that! The stories paint a very typical family dynamic (at least of the time, at least in a Finnish swedish speaking family like Tove's), throws it into weirdest situations, and they all survive together thanks to, and despite, their dysfunctions. And Moominmamma is the most wholesome character ever, period.
by indigodaddy | 2025-04-13 13:44:40+00:00
Agreed, for example you can give it a sample FastHTML app, and it will basically review that app pretty much learn/pick up FastHTML (a new Python web framework ~8-9 months old) on the fly without even giving it https://docs.fastht.ml/llms-ctx.txt

Obviously it will do even better if you give it the full documentation but it doesn't do that badly in general with the language when you provide a sample app where it can basically just pick up the patterns of the language/framework.
by jdietrich | 2025-04-13 13:44:46+00:00
>Note that parts like this are more easily replaced using a hot air station than a soldering iron.

Not to get into a soldering skills contest, but I'd rather use hot tweezers - hot air is the only viable option for components like QFNs and BGAs, but using it always carries the risk of accidentally disturbing neighbouring components, particularly if you're inexperienced. Affordable hot tweezers such as the Sequre HT140 are now readily available from China and make removing small SMD components almost effortless.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-13 13:45:16+00:00
It’s not merely about latency, but you also need to consider that any ‘remote driver‘ will have less telemetry, and of a lower quality, than an onboard AI driver.

A human operator wouldn’t even be able to read or interpret the types of data which would be collected and sent by a vehicle such as a FSD Tesla or a Waymo.

Now as I understand it, military forces are really good at remotely operated drones/UAVs so perhaps the tech does exist in parallel, but those are two distinct applications.
by hermitcrab | 2025-04-13 13:45:50+00:00
I get the impression that SpaceX's attitude is that it is cheaper to learn by blowing stuff up, than it is to meticulously plan everything (as NASA is famous for). However, SpaceX don't have to pay for the externalities (such as disrupted air travel). I don't see SpaceX attitude changing now that Musk seems to be running[1] a sizeable chunk of the US government.

[1] into the ground.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-13 13:46:44+00:00
If you run the math, the max financially sustainable UBI for the US is about $1500/month, less for most other countries. Very few people are going to quit their jobs for $1500 a month. Even if you're only making $7/hour, the difference between $1500 and $1500+$7/hour is the difference between rice and beans for every meal and a somewhat normal life.

Those making $7/hour are often working two jobs, UBI would allow them to quit one of them.
Ask HN: Which Zapier Zaps save you the most time?
by prodigyboi | 2025-04-13 13:46:51+00:00
If you’re using Zapier, can you share:

- Zaps that save you the most time or headache and which two (or more) apps you’re connecting?

- What the Zap actually does (the problem it solves)?

- How many Zaps you’re currently using?
by metalman | 2025-04-13 13:46:57+00:00
it is better to eat "bad" food, than nothing at all, is an ancient piece of advice, so to see it reflected in a study is not surprising survival=pragmatism in a simplified equation that it is autonomic or instinctive is again ,not surprising it is also my understanding, that low landers who are assigned work and administrative possitions, above the snow line, will in short order be craving the sort of ultra high fat diet that they might find repugnant, in there normal low land environment
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-13 13:47:16+00:00
> 20 minutes every 2 hours starts becoming a bit much

I didn't say that it was "20 minutes every 2 hours" - in fact the sentence "If you stop every 2 hours, you don't need the full 20 minutes " says that it's less than that.

Your specific case described "10 mins stop every 6-7 hours" is extreme and of questionable safety. How much fluid did you consume during that time?

I'm not going to say "don't do it", but lets not pretend that it's the average use, or even your average use. So you should not optimise for that at the expense of making other cases worse.

You're also saying that the comparable charging time, even for extreme cases like this, is not all that far off.
by nkrisc | 2025-04-13 13:47:34+00:00
This, or something similar, has affected me quite a bit at work. I'll be speaking about something and then suddenly be unable to recall a very common and simple word. Even though I have the concept/thought in mind, I can't find the word and I'm just sort of stuck, awkwardly pausing while I try and remember a word like "representation" or something. Sometimes I just have to move on to something else because I can't complete the thought. It's rather embarrassing because it kind of makes me look like an idiot. Of course, about 15 minutes later the word will pop back into my mind.

I don't really know what to do about it, if there's anything that can even be done.

I usually roll my eyes at technology-as-metaphors-for-the-mind, but it really does feel like sometimes something I'm trying to remember is stored on a tape backup somewhere, and I just need to initiate the recall and then wait a while while someone searches through an archive to retrieve whatever it is. Happens most frequently if I'm trying to remember something I definitely know but don't use very often, like the names of actors in some old movie. It might even take a few days sometimes, but I don't need to actively think about it but it feels like it's a long running background task that will eventually complete.
by rollcat | 2025-04-13 13:47:40+00:00
I never worked at Google (or any other large corp for that matter), but this sounds like the exact opposite of an environment that spawned GMail.

As you think back even to the very early days of computing, you'll find individuals or small teams like Grace Hopper, the Unix gang, PARC, etc that managed to change history by "building something useless". Granted, throughout history that happened less than 1% of the time, but it will never happen if you never try.

Maybe Google no longer has any space for innovation.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-13 13:48:38+00:00
Again, bike-shedding stats on EVs is a waste of time if you care about pollution from tire wear.

If we want to reduce particulate pollution, we’d have regulations to govern acceleration on EVs, make tire monitoring more annoying, and have manufacturers certify tires and make compliance required during state emissions inspections, and get aggressive about the motor carrier overweight enforcement.

If Tesla or other EVs have a problem here, it’s that they are putting inappropriate tires on the cars.
by thelastgallon | 2025-04-13 13:48:53+00:00
We need to start taxing vehicles based on the damage they are responsible for. The 4th Power Law is a principle in road engineering that states that the damage a vehicle causes to a road surface is proportional to the fourth power of its axle load. This means that even small increases in axle load can cause exponentially greater damage to the road.

A Prius causes about 50,000 times more damage than a bicycle.

A truck causes 16 billion times more damage than a bicycle.

A truck causes 31,000 times more damage than a Prius.

The solution is to tax trucks 31,000 times more than cars. Improve walking/biking/trains/public transportation. Private cars should be a luxury which is made a necessity with zoning laws.
by lukas099 | 2025-04-13 13:48:56+00:00
> In order to leverage comparative advantage, an economy would need to know how good they would be at producing every possible good.

Maybe I'm not getting what you're saying, but I don't think so. The point of comparative advantage is that even if country A is better at making guns and butter than B, A is better off only making guns or butter and trading to B for the other.
by palata | 2025-04-13 13:49:03+00:00
That sounds good! Instead of NFC, they could use QR codes. All the payment terminals can show a QR code, and it's even possible to print a QR code on a piece of paper without the need for the terminal.

Twint does that. They started trying to make it "seamless" with NFC, but couldn't do it because of Apple (maybe now with the DMA it may change) and went for some kind of weird bluetooth stuff. Nobody used it. Then they moved to QR codes, and it quickly got very popular.

Everybody understands QR codes. No need to know whether your phone supports NFC or not, no need to go check if NFC is enabled in the settings, nothing. Everybody understands that they need to scan the QR code with their camera, period. Seems perfect to me.
by michaelt | 2025-04-13 13:49:09+00:00
Broadcast TV modernisation is trapped between a load of enemies.

To the north, competition from a huge installed base of last-gen technology, which is mostly good enough.

To the south, streaming services, youtube and cable. These let people watch whenever they want (nobody has VCRs any more) and they've offered 4k for over a decade.

To the east, the industry's dumb decision to build the 'next gen' technology atop a patent minefield, and load it with DRM. So if you manufacture this tech, you can face huge surprise bills because in implementing the spec you've unknowingly infringed on some nonsense patent.

And to the west, the commercial reality that showing someone an advert in 4K isn't any more profitable than showing the advert in 1080p. If you're a broadcast TV station when you up your quality everything gets more expensive but you don't make any extra money. So why bother?
by zaphar | 2025-04-13 13:49:14+00:00
Why? When there are 100s of hopeful AI/LLM scrapers more than willing to do that work for you what possible reason would you have to do that work? The more typical and common human behavior is perfectly capable of explaining this. No reason to reach for some kind of underhanded conspiracy theory when simple incompetence and greed is more than adequate to explain it.