MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by myrmidon | 2025-04-04 00:56:05+00:00
> So you are okay with exploiting people for labour, often in inhumane conditions just so you can buy some unnecessary junk for cheaper?

Do you think that better wages and working conditions in underdeveloped countries are a goal (or even just side-effect) of Trumps policies? How is that achieved?

> Manufacturing capability is extremely important for military. US may be the most advanced, but a $10m rocket will not beat 10,000 $1000 drones.

I don't see a coordinated effort to expand the domestic arms industry that is pushing for those tariffs.

If your narrative is that tariffs are driven by military strategy, then you have to show how those military-industrial concerns drove political decisionmaking- because all I see right now is the president preferring tariffs over taxes for ideological reasons...
by buzzert | 2025-04-04 00:56:53+00:00
It just seems like the only things we should be importing from across the globe are things that absolutely cannot be produced domestically. For example, I've heard that coffee beans only grow in certain climates, so that would be a commodity that makes sense to import.

Pretty much everything else, including this supposed Tunisian olive oil, just sound like luxury goods to me, and should be priced accordingly.
by boroboro4 | 2025-04-04 00:57:03+00:00
The issue though it’s very tricky to compare these things. We have very high wealth inequality, and very low house affordability and complicated medical insurance. This all contributes to lower quality of life in the end. And what’s even more important Americans now live worse than Americans in 90s. And this is a problem, and globalism might played some role in it.
by sitharus | 2025-04-04 00:57:40+00:00
None of us write programs from first principles, it's all based on code we've read before. If I was going to write a BASIC interpreter I'd read up on the basics of interpreters, literature which would include sample code, and look at other interpreters' code.

No matter where you think the code came from, the impact of Microsoft BASIC was huge, and they were first to the market.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-04-04 00:58:49+00:00
Sitting here at supper, I just watched one of my cats use some pretty strong language with one of my other cats. It was some very measured chattering to let him know she didn’t enjoy his presence. Chickens most definitely have a language - the egg song, the danger song, the rooster call, the check-in with each other, the check-in with the farmer. My point being, animals all around us use language if we are willing to accept that it is different from our own.
by Stefan-H | 2025-04-04 00:59:10+00:00
It's really just about giving yourself enough time to think before you respond. That's the entire difference between a reaction and a response. You can use dialectical and cognitive behavioral therapies to help develop the tolerance to do that. Mindfulness and meditative practices like those in zen buddhism have proven helpful to me as well. Perhaps you're taking an extreme interpretation of my using the word "logic" and instead you could use "wise mind" or even just "considered thought" as the response in lieu of an emotional one.
by codedokode | 2025-04-04 00:59:30+00:00
> is similar to the motivation for using existing words

I don't think it's like that. If we take music, for example, the existing word would be a note or a scale or a musical instrument or a style, but a melody would be an existing sentence. As for sampling, there is creative usage of samples, like Prodigy for example where it is difficult to even recognize the source.

Also today there is some leeway in copyright enforcement. For example, I often see non-commercial amateur covers of commercial songs and the videos don't get taken down.
by abelanger | 2025-04-04 01:00:59+00:00
Nice! I haven't looked closely, but some initial questions/comments:

1. Are you ordering the jobs by any parameter? I don't see an ORDER BY in this clause: https://github.com/oneapplab/lq/blob/8c9f8af577f9e0112767eef...

2. I see you're using a UUID for the primary key on the jobs, I think you'd be better served by an auto-inc primary key (bigserial or identity columns in Postgres) which will be slightly more performant. This won't matter for small datasets.

3. I see you have an index on `queue`, which is good, but no index on the rest of the parameters in the processor query, which might be problematic when you have many reserved jobs.

4. Since this is an in-process queue, it would be awesome to allow the tx to be passed to the `Create` method here: https://github.com/oneapplab/lq/blob/8c9f8af577f9e0112767eef... -- so you can create the job in the same tx when you're performing a data write.
by don-code | 2025-04-04 01:01:58+00:00
This is, in some way, endemic to all branches of software. Every group of practitioners has a shared vocabulary - as the article says, it's exploiting an efficiency. If we all have a common language, we can speak more efficiently about what we're doing, and what needs to be done.

That said, how approachable that vocabulary is reflects how approachable the community around it is.

For instance, I've found the DevOps community to be very open and accessible to newcomers. There is shared language - orchestration, config management, even some acronyms like CI/CD - but they generally seem to use approachable language. I've also found the Python and Ruby communities to be very welcoming and willing to teach newcomers, and while I'm not involved in it, I've heard the Rust community really shines here.

On the other hand, one of the reasons I've stayed away from the security community is its propensity for acronyms. SIEMs, CSPMs, ASPMs, SASTs, DASTs, EDR tools, and maybe you've even got a CISSP cert.. It's not approachable, and I've found that many security practitioners wear knowledge of these acronyms as a badge of honor. I've found the networking community even more toxic: there are some pieces of software I've used for over 20 years, with forums I avoid like the plague, because many questions are answered with some variety of "Read the docs!" or "You don't KNOW?!?!"

If I were a benevolent-dictator-for-life and had to bootstrap a community, I'd be aiming to foster the former, not the latter.
by hx8 | 2025-04-04 01:02:13+00:00
These blanket tariffs are less about protecting/encouraging domestic manufacturing and more about renegotiating trade. At this current framing ("reciprocal tariffs") there is an implication that they are short term. The negotiations with Canada and Mexico demonstrate a tic-for-tat game theory in effect.

Without introducing the tariffs as a long term position businesses will be less inclined to do the capital expenditure to manufacture in the US, even for businesses within the margin (mostly manufacturing with high energy inputs and low supply chain requirements) where it would be economical.
by quesomaster9000 | 2025-04-04 01:02:51+00:00
Right, but z/OS is part of a larger longer-running hardware strategy that, with virtualization, serves the needs of mixed-OS workloads and multi-decade tenures overseeing 24/7 systems.

The corpse of OpenVMS on the other hand is being reanimated and tinkered with, presumably paid for by whatever remaining support contracts exist, and also presumably to keep the core engineers occupied with inevitably fruitless busywork while occasionally performing the contractually required on-call technomancy on the few remaining Alpha systems.

VMS is dead... and buried, deep.

It's a shame it can't be open-sourced, just like Netware won't be open-sourced, and probably has less chance of being used for new projects than RiscOS or AmigaOS.
by Eric_Chung | 2025-04-04 01:02:51+00:00
I built a hybrid vision model that combines ConvNextV2, MultiHeadAttention, and a morphological feature extractor—designed to mimic how human experts identify subtle differences in visual categories.

Rather than focusing purely on accuracy, I analyzed how architectural changes influence what the model “sees”—using confidence scores, heatmaps, and structural comparisons.

Though applied here to dog breed classification, the same approach is applicable to fine-grained tasks in fields like medical imaging, quality control, and biodiversity monitoring.

The article includes code, demo, visual analysis, and links to prior work on morphological modeling.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-04-04 01:03:04+00:00
> But why take the risk when you can have fresh? > Is that still milk?

Some people just find it things like evaporated milk convenient. e.g, Coffee drinkers who don't want to bother with refrigerating the cream, so they use the powdered stuff.

In the case of European butters/cheeses, they just taste despite the higher cost.

I doubt anyone would actually prefer American butter, except maybe Americans, but it could be the American producers can make it more cheaply.

So maybe just let the consumer decide ?
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-04 01:03:23+00:00
> I theorise that revolution would be near-impossible in post-AGI world. If people consider where power comes from it's relatively obvious that people will likely suffer and die on mass if we ever create AGI.

I agree but for a different reason. It's very hard to outsmart an entity with an IQ in the thousands and pervasive information gathering. For a revolution you need to coordinate. The Chinese know this very well and this is why they control communication so closely (and why they had Apple restrict AirDrop). But their security agencies are still beholden to people with average IQs and the inefficient communication between them.

An entity that can collect all this info on its own and have a huge IQ to spot patterns and not have to communicate it to convince other people in its organisation to take action, that will crush any fledgling rebellion. It will never be able to reach critical mass. We'll just be ants in an anthill and it will be the boot that crushes us when it feels like it.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-04 01:03:53+00:00
BASIC was " BASIC, developed at Dartmouth College, was initially designed for and ran on a GE-225 mainframe computer paired with a Datanet-30 processor, which handled communications with Teletype terminals. " I got into the game on HP BASIC, also with teletype ASR-33s, I was only 9.
by robocat | 2025-04-04 01:04:06+00:00
> invent legal fictions after the fact

You're reading into the situation...

For the US getting legislators to do anything is impossible: even the powerful fail.

When a legal system is totally roadblocked, what other choice is there? The reason all startups ask forgiveness is that permission is not available.

(edit). Shit. I guess that could be a political statement. Sorry
by stevage | 2025-04-04 01:04:44+00:00
Reminds me many years ago I was playing online poker. The site I was on did this special anniversary giveaway thing. Every million hands or so, there would be a massive (in relative terms) jackpot. If you win the hand, you get the jackpot. It was so large, that you should never fold any hand, at all. (At these microstakes, normally a big hand was $5. These were like $300, so risking your whole stack of $2 was totally worth it).

At the start of the hand, the rules were announced, and there was a very long wait (10-20 minutes), so everyone had a lot of time to process what was going on.

I was dealt into two of these hands. In one, I raised all in and everyone folded. In another, someone else did this, and everyone except me folded.

That convinced me that almost everyone was a bot. There was no rational explanation for this behaviour.
by jdhwosnhw | 2025-04-04 01:04:59+00:00
> If I say "well I suppose you'd at least need to do A to qualify" and then later say "huh I guess A wasn't sufficient, looks like you'll also need B" that is not shifting the goalposts.

I dunno, that seems like a pretty good distillation of what moving the goalposts is.

> I’ll know it when I see it, and I haven’t seen it. QED

While pithily put, thats not a compelling argument. You feel that LLMs are not intelligent. I feel that they may be intelligent. Without a decent definition of what intelligence is, the entire argument is silly.
by emptysongglass | 2025-04-04 01:05:19+00:00
You've gone way off base here and have made a colorful array of unfounded accusations, including strongly hinting I must be part of an astroturfing brigade, that Secret Chats only available on mobile devices constitutes an intentional "backdoor", that I am a "useful idiot", that for the purposes of internet argumentation E2EE chats don't actually exist, etc.

What I asked you to do was to stop misrepresenting your own bizarre theories as fact and stop linking microblog posts and blog posts describing vulnerabilities of a completely rewritten protocol that have nothing to do with its current. That is dishonest and not a reasonable basis for any argument.

There are many ways of honestly portraying the problems of Telegram without resorting to false inventions, such as its immense problem of spam and ads and the fact that E2EE is not available across all devices and for group chats.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-04-04 01:05:34+00:00
No. Most of the good stuff was lifted into Windows NT decades ago. The rest has been far surpassed over the same time period by Linux and others. A few cool things probably fell into the cracks, but that's common in the industry.

It's interesting in a "what if/parallel universe" kind of way, but I certainly wouldn't touch it for anything new with that licensing.
Show HN: Chrome Extension to generate YT subtitles using Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp
by lmrl | 2025-04-04 01:05:43+00:00
Howdy folks! Long-time lurker here—finally decided to start participating more.

TIL the difference between closed captions and subtitles! While this little project currently leans more toward closed captions, the goal is to eventually support subtitles as well.

I’ve been playing around with LLMs for a while, but hadn’t built anything useful—until now.

I love watching YouTube videos that don’t have captions or subtitles, and with the recent Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental release (which can access full video content), I figured… why not make a browser extension to generate them?

So I did.

I used a mix of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to build it—and honestly, they wrote around 80% of the code. It’s wild how much faster it is to ship something useful now compared to when I built my first extension (which took me days).

The extension is still in its early stages, but it works. You’ll need to bring your own API key. Feedback is very welcome, and I’ll keep improving it!
by robinhoode | 2025-04-04 01:05:58+00:00
> In this world people become more like pests. They offer no economic value yet demand that AGI owners (wherever publicly or privately owned) share resources with them. If people revolted any AGI owner would be far better off just deploying a bioweapon to humanely kill the protestors rather than sharing resources with them.

This is a very doomer take. The threats are real, and I'm certain some people feel this way, but eliminating large swaths of humanity is something dicatorships have tried in the past.

Waking up every morning means believing there are others who will cooperate with you.

Most of humanity has empathy for others. I would prefer to have hope that we will make it through, rather than drown in fear.
by coderenegade | 2025-04-04 01:06:21+00:00
Yes, but if the profit margin is now higher, it a) permits new competitors, and b) allows breathing room for debts to be paid off, and investments to be made that improve local capabilities. Like most things, tariffs can be good or bad. Yes, they can stifle innovation when there's no additional impetus for improvement, but they can also be necessary to protect local industries that are of strategic importance.

All industry exists in a web, and you can't just excise parts of that web without affecting the whole. The US has de-industrialized while its rivals have grown, and its global dominance is predicated on its technological and military lead. This de-industrialization was purely a function of financial incentives, whereby companies could juice their profit margins by seeking cheaper labor elsewhere, and skilling up foreign populations. But the bill for that is coming due now.
by sepositus | 2025-04-04 01:06:57+00:00
> Participants weren’t lazy. They were experienced professionals. But when the tool responded quickly, confidently, and clearly they stopped doing the hard part.

This seems contradictory to me. I suspect most experienced professionals start with the premise that the LLM is untrustworthy due to its nature. If they didn't research the tool and its limitations, that's lazy. At some point, they stopped believing in this limitation and offloaded more of their thinking to it. Why did they stop? I can't think of a single reason other than being lazy. I don't accept the premise that it's because the tool responded quickly, confidently, and clearly. It did that the first 100 times they used it when they were probably still skeptical.

Am I missing something?
by salgernon | 2025-04-04 01:07:19+00:00
I had the same reaction to the site - but I could've been won over if there was a link to E1ite and C@@L basic source for the effects (at least the text effects which could've fit in 4k)

Steve Jobs quote: "The problem with Microsoft is that they just have no taste."

But I actually would prefer the pre-XP windows desktop to the flattened UIs of Apple's today.
by card_zero | 2025-04-04 01:07:28+00:00
There are various ways to turn creativity into money, even without publishing any kind of artwork. Basically all skilled jobs and entrepreneurial enterprises require creativity. And if you do have an artwork, you can still seek profit through acclaim, even without copyright: interviews, public appearances. Artists once had patrons - but that tends to put aristocrats in control of art.

So money will motivate a lot of the creativity that goes on.

Meanwhile, if you dabble in some kind of art or craft while working in a factory to make ends meet, that kind of limits you to dabbling, because you'll have no time to do it properly. Money also buys equipment and helpers, sometimes useful.

On the other hand, yes, it ruins the art. There's a 10cc song about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_for_Art%27s_Sake_(song)

Though, this reminds me of an interesting aside: the origin of the phrase "art for art's sake" was not about money, but about aesthetics. It meant something like "stop pushing opinions, just show me a painting".
Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for?
by sathackr | 2025-04-04 01:07:48+00:00
Google ignores "must have" quotes

Zocdoc insists on giving me appointments weeks away even when I set a date range

Amazon insists on showing me products that they can't deliver tomorrow.

What happened to deterministic search parameter results? It's like every search function now just take what I ask for as a suggestion and then ignores it.
by stevage | 2025-04-04 01:08:00+00:00
> knowlegable moderators who can identify signs of cheating and ban offenders

Oh boy, this absolutely does not work for chess at high levels. Endless debates and arguments.

Like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1ctj85n/viih_sou_upd...

A very good player invented a stupid opening and then somehow won a lot of games against top players with it, and chess.com decided he was cheating (without presenting evidence) and banned him. It really seems like he wasn't.
by ryan_lane | 2025-04-04 01:09:05+00:00
You're acting as if people are saying "democrat good, republican bad" as the meaning for associating values with who someone voted for, but missing the part that you can easily associate that someone has poor values if they voted for Trump.

Sure, you need to go a bit deeper if someone didn't vote for Trump to know their values, but voting for someone who ran on a platform of mass deportations, retaliation against his enemies, obvious idiotic economic policy, homophobia and transphobia, and racism, makes you a kind of shit person, and it's not really necessary to go any deeper to know their values don't match yours.
by o11c | 2025-04-04 01:09:42+00:00
Training alone, perhaps. But the way the AIs are actually used (regardless of prompt engineering) is a direct example of what is forbidden by the case that introduced the "transformative" language.

> if [someone] thus cites the most important parts of the work, with a view, not to criticize, but to supersede the use of the original work, and substitute the review for it, such a use will be deemed in law a piracy.

Of course, we live in a post-precedent world, so who knows?
by istjohn | 2025-04-04 01:09:49+00:00
We're just in a transitional moment. It's not realistic to expect LLM capabilities to leapfrog from marginally better autocomplete to self-guided autocoder without passing through a phase where it shows tantalizing hints of being able to go solo yet lacks the ability to follow through. Over the next couple years, the reliability, versatility, and robustness of LLMs as coders will steadily increase.
by munificent | 2025-04-04 01:10:13+00:00
> Unless your counter is that whatever humanity is doing that AI is helping is probably stupid and shouldn't be done anyway.

No, my counter is that whatever generative AI is doing is worth doing by humans but not worth doing by machines.

As the joke comic says: We thought technology was going to automate running errands so that we had time to make art, but instead it automates making art while we all have to be gig workers running errands.
by alwa | 2025-04-04 01:10:46+00:00
Aren’t we so, so, so far from physical limits though? To the point that we speak of likely energy reserves in terms of centuries of consumption at current levels, even if we only get around to proving the next couple decades’ worth at a time?

If Musk et al get their wishes, and we become “spacefaring civilization” or whatever—aren’t the conceivable physical limits of known reality so far away as to be irrelevant?

And isn’t the story of the industrial era one of compounding productivity per unit of labor?
by abraxas | 2025-04-04 01:11:39+00:00
I think LLM or no LLM the emergence of intelligence appears to be closely related to the number of synapses in a network whether a biological or a digital one. If my hypothesis is roughly true it means we are several orders of magnitude away from AGI. At least the kind of AGI that can be embodied in a fully functional robot with the sensory apparatus that rivals the human body. In order to build circuits of this density it's likely to take decades. Most probably transistor based, silicon based substrate can't be pushed that far.
by baranul | 2025-04-04 01:12:23+00:00
This is a good point about narrative spreading, in addition to marketing. People can become evangelized by their use of certain languages or by comments from certain language creators, then go on to attack others for using or even just wanting to try other languages. This shouldn't be what HN is about. It makes it look like HN has a language approval list.

As for both C3 and Odin, they've been around for many years, yet don't even have a Wikipedia page and have relatively low numbers on GitHub. That comes across as more time spent pushing or hyping on HN, than those languages being considered a truly viable alternative by the general public. Just weird, because you would think it should be the other way around.