MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phil21 | 2025-04-30 22:18:55+00:00
> prod outage

Depends on if the outage impacts the entire industry/sector or just his company. If the former, it's relatively fine because stock performance is going to be similar to competitors and investors won't be asking too many questions. Might be some wailing and gnashing of teeth but not too much action in the form of spending money on the problem.

I don't think many companies in my estimation took too many lessons from the COVID supply chain crises. If they did, the lesson was to simply outwait things. Everyone was having similar problems and you didn't be the single one of your sector to have re-shored production at triple the expense while your competitors simply spun back up once the Chinese factories got back on-line.

If it was such a compelling thing that was already happening we'd be seeing a lot more 'low value base component' manufacturing coming back, such as electronic components like resistors. So far from my basic understanding of the subject it's all the stuff quite high up the value chain instead. At best some things got near-sourced or moved around, with the raw inputs seemingly still coming from China in the end either way.

It would certainly be interesting to find some actual data here though.
by Latty | 2025-04-30 22:19:02+00:00
Yeah, I cancelled my subscription when it became clear they just did not care about my custom any more. The core products had pain points just sat with open issues forever, and they just started doing nothing but trying to upsell me on stuff I didn't care about or want.

I used to be a huge evangelist for JetBrains products, I loved having a product where I felt like I could just pay and get something of quality, it's really sad seeing that devolve into the same mess of "you are the product" as virtually everything else, despite the fact they were still demanding my money.
by standardUser | 2025-04-30 22:19:30+00:00
When so much is thrown at the wall at once it makes it onerous and boring to respond to every slapdash point. If they had stumbled on a truly valuable and novel perspective that convincingly goes against all prevailing knowledge, I can only imagine they would have presented it with significantly more evidence than they did in that screed. Otherwise, mildly-educated people like me discard it immediately as empty rhetoric or maybe just propaganda. Aka trolling.
by TZubiri | 2025-04-30 22:19:40+00:00
The skip the line concept sounds interesting. I'm interviewing and some companies telling me they schedule an interview in 2 weeks feels like a light rejection / recognition that the skill has abundant offer.

It reminds me of the time I wanted to go out with a girl and she scheduled a date with me in 2 weeks, not a good outlook. I was happy to have a date so I just counted the days. When this happened with another girl I was less invested in, I told her to forget it, and she literally removed the guy she was seeing that week to go out with me.

I think that when the queue is too long, the solution is to cut the line or find another one (or participate in a meat market as a commodity amongst 100 for a low probablity of advancing for a low salary)
by bumby | 2025-04-30 22:19:55+00:00
It depends on how far you want to go back for comparison. The average house size has grown a lot since the 1960s, but dropped some more recently since the housing crisis. But it’s still up, and by a pretty big margin. In the 1950s, the average house was < 1k sqft, today it’s pushing 2.5x that. It’s even larger when computed on a per-person basis.

Census and Statista have some data but this shows a decent chart: https://supplychenmanagement.com/2018/07/15/average-house-si...
by jonplackett | 2025-04-30 22:20:18+00:00
I’m an iOS dev coming to Android because I was lucky enough to recently make an iOS app that’s making enough money to be worth porting.

The developer experience of PlayStore is SO BAD compared to the AppStore - which isn’t even that good to start with.

It’s like all the software and websites are just made by people who don’t care at all if you use it or not.
by mzs | 2025-04-30 22:20:33+00:00
$ uname -srm; which dtrace; mount | head -1; apropos zfsd FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p3 amd64 /usr/sbin/dtrace zroot/ROOT/default on / (zfs, local, noatime, nfsv4acls) zfsd(8) - ZFS fault management daemon

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by acdha | 2025-04-30 22:21:01+00:00
> Perhaps one of the funniest elements of the American left's propensity to preach slavery and racism as a form of original sin is its insistence that it, unlike others, is pure

Opposition to slavery isn’t exclusive to the left, but also if that isn’t hyperbole you really need a wider sample. By far the most common perspective I’ve heard from anyone in the anti-racist camp is that nobody is perfect because we are all shaped by our environment. The whole point of entire campaigns is to avoid reinforcing those biases because they’re so widespread.

This also touches on the perceived inaccuracy you mentioned: my argument is that the key part for Black isn’t the Democratic affiliation but the southern white identity. People are motivated by issues but some people prioritize that one above everything else, and that’s what happened with the southern realignment: some people valued white supremacy most and changed what were in many cases generational party affiliations, while others decided that things like labor rights or social programs mattered more and shifted correspondingly. It was largely the same people but they sorted themselves into different parties and that shaped the policies of those parties.
by da_chicken | 2025-04-30 22:21:54+00:00
I've found it useful for processing the documentation for our data system. The vendor provides the doc in something around 60 PDF files, and a lot of the information is poorly organized within the PDFs.

I can say, "Hey, NotebookLM, explain the difference between feature X and feature Y to me," or, "How do I configure Z to work the way we want?" And while the answers still kinda suck because the documentation is pretty shitty, it's way faster than digging through the PDFs. And it cites the PDFs so I can (with some trouble) find the actual documentation in the PDF if I need it.

The worst part of it is that it only accepts 50 PDFs at once.

Honestly, though, the best use for it I've seen was when my GM added the PDF rulebooks to our TTRPG to NotebookLM. We were then able to ask NotebookLM rules questions, and it would answer us pretty well. That's what it's really great for.

I don't care about the audio features at all. The first thing I do is close the audio pane.
by rcxdude | 2025-04-30 22:23:20+00:00
Yes, but in any market you need to realize that you are predicting the market, not the underlying reality. If the market is detached from reality you won't make any money by being right about reality unless you can predict when the market will move closer to reality. That's the crux of the quote and why it's generally a good counter to this kind of 'put your money where your mouth is' retort to predictions about reality.

(And in general, the market sentiment seems to be "There's a decent chance this all just blows over", so shorting is likely as ill-advised as plowing in long, unless you happen to have better insight into the decision-making in the white house than the average participant)
by TZubiri | 2025-04-30 22:23:56+00:00
It does say Top 100, and implies competitive gaming.

You made it sounds stupid. But being Top 100 in something with a huge global competitive base is not of useless or easy.

If you are offered a kid who spends 16 hrs per day competing and studying to be the best at something, and they can channel that energy at your company (with probably a shitty salary) wouldn't you take it?
by kjellsbells | 2025-04-30 22:24:04+00:00
Is 30 years too late to say thankyou? I was an SGI customer in the UK. Genetics research and bioinformatics. I remember when we bought our Power Challenge XL, (size of a refrigerator), some guy with a PhD showed up to install it and spoke biology. I was impressed.

SGI absolutely rocked it in those days.
by otterley | 2025-04-30 22:25:28+00:00
It is a fair criticism (some would say a defect) of our legal system that legislation is not always as explicit as we would like it to be. Take California's Penal Code 187(a) which defines murder as:

"(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought."

It turns out that "malice aforethought" is a term of art that requires no actual malice and not much forethought.

Anyway, if you look at the legislative history of the Civil Rights Act (and courts frequently look to legislative history when interpreting statutes), you'll see that its backers in Congress were concerned about racial segregation, which at the time according to practice separated white people from everyone else (mostly Blacks).
by kragen | 2025-04-30 22:26:19+00:00
That's a different kind of clock, and its clock mechanism is a gradual and somewhat random decrease in the concentration of one reagent until it crosses a threshold which changes the equilibrium constant of iodine. It isn't really related to the kind of clock you use for digital logic design, which is a periodic oscillation whose purpose is generally to make your design insensitive to glitches. Usually you care about glitches because they could cause incorrect state transitions, but in this case the primary concern is that they would cause irreversible power dissipation.

The experiment was conducted at 7K so the molecule would stick to the metal instead of shaking around randomly like a punk in a mosh pit and then flying off into space.
by ecnahc515 | 2025-04-30 22:27:17+00:00
That's 60% of the _budget_ not 60% of their time.

Also: Lance is almost certainly working more than 40 hours a week. Also, he isn't just a systems administrator. He's a mentor, fundraiser, any literally everything else that is needed to keep the lab running. There used to be more staff, but it's hard to retain qualified individuals. He's been there for 17 years, he's not doing it for the money, he does it because the OSL is important!
by g-mork | 2025-04-30 22:27:40+00:00
There are some open weight attempts at this around too: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/search?q=diffusion&restr...

Saw another on Twitter past few days that looked like a better contender to Mercury, doesn't look like it got posted to LocalLLaMa, and I can't find it now. Very exciting stuff
by debugnik | 2025-04-30 22:28:34+00:00
> The idea is that [...] a few seconds later the new buffer hits and you jump up to the new quality level.

Except "a few seconds later" can become minutes. Sometimes it just keeps going at the lower quality while the UI claims to play a noticeably higher resolution than the one actually playing. To be clear, I don't care that the "automatic" quality is actually automatic, I care that the label blatantly lies about which resolution is playing. "Automatic (1080p60)" shouldn't look like a video from 2005.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-30 22:28:47+00:00
While I believe some of the (App|Play Store) requirements with DUN numbers and such are overkill and unnecessary, I also agree that there’s maybe a bit too much of a tendency for devs (commercial and indie alike) to take advantage of less restrictive means of distribution to “dump and run”, where they toss a binary over the wall and forget the project even exists for long stretches of time, even as bugs and vulnerabilities accumulate.

This worked alright in the 90s and to a more limited extent in the 2000s, but from the 2010s onward it’s become more and more untenable except for the most simplistic of software, especially when it comes to anything dealing with the internet or externally sourced files. Regular maintenance and updates are an unavoidable fact of life for devs.

So I’m kind of two minds here. Lower resistance/barrier to entry can be good in terms of encouraging participation, but it also inevitably means a lot more neglected projects sitting around rusting. If there’s no effort to control that, platforms can easily become filled with rusty half-functional apps. The way that Apple/Google are attempting to do this is not great however because it’s too oriented towards companies.
by pirgidb | 2025-04-30 22:28:56+00:00
We've all seen. Other commenters explained in great detail what they saw. You choose to plug your ears and then insist everyone else is crazy. Everything you've brought up here is irrelevant. No one thinks that the Nazis are secretly living on the moon. The defeat of the Nazis is entirely orthogonal to a gesture made in recent history. The Hunger Games is fiction but I can still hold up three fingers if I choose to.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-30 22:29:04+00:00
I think you're metaphor is a bit convoluted :-) but I think you're theory here is important.

There are a lot of concerns I have with AI in this area. For "facts", i.e. who were the signers of the declaration of independence, efficient search with one answer is probably fine, but for anything remotely controversial, the idea that we're going to accept the one answer of the AI is really problematic, and I think will lead to what I've been calling AI-Think (ala group think)

This is sort of directly adjacent to what you're describing. Instead of reading perspectives by different bloggers, or different sources, you'll be getting all of your perspectives from an identical sort of worldview, instead of browsing a feed with a whole bunch of different personalities, it's basically a feed of one, and as you're describing, the feed will be defenitionally middle-ground milquetoast.

Paul Graham said that he was replacing most of his google searches with chatgpt, and I trust that Paul Graham is a smart guy aware of this risk, but it does make me wonder, if you're using AI to do all the research for your writing, how does that affect you're writing when your sources become a monoculture. How does it collectively affect all art inspired by AI?
by nathan_compton | 2025-04-30 22:29:45+00:00
"We have to like Trump throwing a tantrum and fucking everything up because liberal politicians suck." is such an incredibly lame rhetorical thing. We don't have to like it, we don't have to pretend "maybe its good?"

Trump clearly has zero interest in the human rights of people who are not American, and even Americans don't seem to rate too high if they don't support him. Just because liberal politicians did too much free trade we do not have to pretend like this is a good policy or that Trump cares about International Labor.
by echelon | 2025-04-30 22:29:47+00:00
There are so many models. Every single day half a dozen new models land. And even more papers.

It feels like models are becoming fungible apart from the hyperscaler frontier models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, et al.

I suppose VCs won't be funding many more "labs"-type companies or "we have a model" as the core value prop companies? Unless it has a tight application loop or is truly unique?

Disregarding the team composition, research background, and specific problem domain - if you were starting an AI company today, what part of the stack would you focus on? Foundation models, AI/ML infra, tooling, application layer, ...?

Where does the value accrue? What are the most important problems to work on?
by byearthithatius | 2025-04-30 22:29:56+00:00
Interesting approach. However, I never thought of auto regression being _the_ current issue with language modeling. If anything it seems the community was generally surprised just how far next "token" prediction took us. Remember back when we did char generating RNNs and were impressed they could make almost coherent sentences?

Diffusion is an alternative but I am having a hard time understanding the whole "built in error correction" that sounds like marketing BS. Both approaches replicate probability distributions which will be naturally error-prone because of variance.
by jonplackett | 2025-04-30 22:30:41+00:00
Ok. My go to puzzle is this:

You have 2 minutes to cool down a cup of coffee to the lowest temp you can

You have two options:

1. Add cold milk immediately, then let it sit for 2 mins.

2. Let it sit for 2 mins, then add the cold milk.

Which one cools the coffee to the lowest temperature and why?

And Mercury gets this right - while as of right now ChatGPT 4o get it wrong.

So that’s pretty impressive.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-30 22:30:56+00:00
> Why do you focus on that and not many other possibilities for distraction

Why shouldn't I focus on those? I guess just by asking the question you haven't quite shown why your guess are better. I guess I don't how lack of sleep is a better explainer than, I don't know, a family member dying?

I guess which one would the investigator be able to figure out? They can read the obituary of the grandmother but how would they figure she didn't sleep well the night before.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-30 22:32:08+00:00
No they were set out in the contract you agreed to when publishing which has commitments and grants entirely orthogonal to your source license. Plus certain moral obligations to society.

Your license text is only capable of adding supplementary rights, and you're responsible for ensuring that your source license is fully compatible with the contract at time of publishing.

If you just want to dump stuff, leave it on GitHub.
by rtsil | 2025-04-30 22:32:08+00:00
I just spent half a day troubleshooting why PHPStorm suddenly took 15 minutes to become responsive. The cultprit was the built-in markdown plugin, probably after an update. I don't have time for that.

Another annoying thing is they also removed the modal commit window in favor of a VS code style commit. It was removed without notification, and I had to install a plug-in to restore it.

IDE UI is the most important thing for me, I've built muscle memory to use it without think. When they tinker with it, it forces me to think about the IDE instead of about what I'm working on, and that's really annoying. Not enough to lead me to change, for now.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-30 22:32:18+00:00
Still plenty (nowhere close to a majority, but more than a few nutters) who are certain the problem is we didn't have a hard enough Brexit. The reason the scientific method is considered an actual discovery is that this whole "In light of new data I realise I was wrong" just isn't how we tend to behave.

For many Leave voters, the fact they voted Leave necessarily means voting Leave was correct - some of them rationalise this as "I was lied to" => "Maybe Leave was the wrong choice but I was misinformed" plenty more reached "Leave was correct but politicians screwed up Leaving somehow, it's not my fault". The current iteration of the Nigel Farage party, named Reform, takes this sort of line.

Once I was writing about the Achilles and the Tortoise story in GEB where the Tortoise rejects Modus Ponens and Achilles discovers, the hard way, that it's useless to argue any point with an interlocutor who rejects this principle. Somebody else on HN pointed out that most people probably would not accept Modus Ponens. And they're probably right, as hopeless as that outcome is.
by kev009 | 2025-04-30 22:32:18+00:00
A lot of the fun parts of the computing industry have, predictably, been hollowed out by the rent seeking model of cloud and *aaS. There is some grace as it's easier than ever to build some scalable web business.. but the most fun of my career was rabbit holing on computers for the sake of computers.. working on operating systems and device drivers and network stacks. And it did and still does matter to a lot of bottom lines, but corporates have a hard time connecting the dots or doing something other than what the flock is doing.

It's a little awkward because the AI datacenter boon is a little bit of a revival for physical and systems work but it is limited to that and I am skeptical of the longevity.

Those days of having fun working on network stacks, operating systems, setting up FOSS development labs and being a good steward of things.. harder and harder to do and even harder to get started.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-30 22:32:32+00:00
In my analogy, YouTube was the grocery store, not my home. I don't think of it as a place that I own, but a place that I go shopping for vegetables (educational long-form content). I already made the decision not to enter the candy store on the same block (TikTok), and while I accept that the grocery store sells candy too, I would find it intolerable for them to be following me around waving Oreos in my face as I browse the vegetable aisle, when I keep telling them I don't want Oreos because I'm on a diet. In fact they're the ones asking me if I want to see candy in the vegetable aisle and I keep telling them no.

I don't think it makes sense to say that they are forced by the market to do this to compete with the candy store, when they already know I don't want candy in the first place. Instead, this sort of annoying practice pushes me to leave and visit the organic market instead (Nebula).

I don't think "revealed preference" is the right explanation here either, because these kinds of settings preferences are tailored to an individual account, and I never click on Shorts and always select the "hide" dropdown, so the preference that I have revealed is one that is strongly disinterested in Shorts.

I think the correct explanation is that someone's KPI is attached to increasing Shorts viewership, and they're trying to earn their bonus, even if it's at a cost to the success of the organization as a whole.
by a2128 | 2025-04-30 22:33:09+00:00
I created a free, offline, opensource app on Google Play, no monetization or payments, as an individual. When this change rolled out I was required to verify my identity and set up a payment profile or else my app and account would be deleted.

After I went through half of the process, they showed a "here's what your users will see on the play store listing under 'About the developer' section!" This included my full legal name, personal email address, and country, which is enough information to find my home address and other information in public registries. This app serves an online community that can be quite crazy and I was absolutely not going to doxx myself to them. I decided I had enough of Google so I gave the app away to a company
by fHr | 2025-04-30 22:33:35+00:00
last company had slack which is way superior to share codesnippets, can some developer tell me what they do about it when they only have shity teams in their company? compared to sharing code over slack it's 10x worse I want to kms every time when in teams u paste a snippet and that shit just goes to one line instead of wrapping like the original snippet that was 3 lines in your IDE ffs
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-30 22:33:40+00:00
No points for messing up evey single detail, not to mention discrediting the idea with his abominable implementation. It will most likely have the opposite of the (ostensible) intended effect. Most people don't want to make multi-year investments in manufacturing in a country run by a mad king who has already changed the policy multiple times. And again, China is the only part that I can agree is even vaguely in the right direction. Tariffing Europe was profoundly self-defeating.
by aseipp | 2025-04-30 22:33:46+00:00
OCaml's syntax is not what's "holding it back" in my personal opinion, but that doesn't mean it's "fine". I regularly praise it as a language (even as a former developer of the main Haskell compiler, which adopted Mixin-style modules decades after the fact) and "the syntax looks like shit" is absolutely one of the first immediate turn-offs for pretty much everyone I talk to. It's also one of my own complaints, but OCaml has a lot of good stuff too so I can put up with it.