MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by haswell | 2025-05-05 12:33:09+00:00
> And being a photographer i think really does alter your way of looking at things imo for the worse.

Curious why you believe this?

Personally, my experience of the world expanded significantly when I bought a camera in my early 30s.

It forced me to notice things I’d never noticed before. It trained me to open my awareness. It helped me see more beauty, experience more awe, and become more attuned to the environments I’m in.

I also have aphantasia - my mind’s eye is blind - and photography helps me remember things in a way I otherwise cannot.

Anything can be taken to the extreme and become a problem. But I couldn’t disagree more for the general case. Most of the photographers I’ve met since I started doing this have been wonderful people with perspectives that helped me broaden my own.

I’ve also met people who can’t put the camera down and tend to annoy the people around them. But this is a small subset.
by klibertp | 2025-05-05 12:33:16+00:00
Obviously, also available in CL, in Serapeum library[1]. Racket is credited in the docstring (since it's ~> instead of ->). Also, `nest` works very well for unnesting forms[2]

[1] https://github.com/ruricolist/serapeum/blob/master/control-f...

[2] https://github.com/ruricolist/serapeum/blob/master/REFERENCE...
by apexalpha | 2025-05-05 12:33:18+00:00
I don't get it? How many non-US movies does the US even import?

I can't think of any country that the US imports more movies from than it exports?

Even if you believe in tariffs what industry in America does this protect that needs protection?

Of is he gambling on recipritoral tarrifs to 'punish' the liberal Hollywood???? Sounds conspiracy-like but I legit can't think of any other reason this makes sense.
by dangus | 2025-05-05 12:33:22+00:00
As an AWS-focused practitioner, I started doing Google Cloud training and it blew my mind when I found out that the multiple account sub-account mess that AWS continues to use just doesn’t exist there. GCP sensibly uses a folder and project system that provides a lot of flexibility and IAM control.

It also blew my mind that Google Cloud VPCs and autoscaling groups are global, so that you don’t have to jump through hoops and use the Global Accelerator service to architect a global application.

After learning just those two things I’m downright shocked that Google is still in 3rd place in this market. AWS could really use a refactor at this point.
by tpm | 2025-05-05 12:33:50+00:00
Maybe this is a dumb question, but I am trying to understand this situation. There are still some physical bank branches and I assume at least some banks will open an account for you with that TPS if you visit a branch. Is that not correct? That way you would have access to at least some financial services, if not those where as you write (remote) KYC is needed.
by Justsignedup | 2025-05-05 12:33:56+00:00
This. This is it.

Now Disney will have to bow down and kiss the ring or their us incomes will fail. Make it too expensive to not bow down.

That's how this works. I'll make doing business too painful for you unless you cater to my will. So surrender.

Well......... Let's see if the gambit will pay off.
by motorest | 2025-05-05 12:34:07+00:00
> This tariff isn't an attack on Hollywood. This helps actors and staff in the Hollywood area.

Does it, though? I mean, the Trump administration is only making it more expensive for theaters to screen non-US movies. Are you going to even bother going to a cinema if the movie you wanted to see isn't made available? And how dominant are non-US productions in US cinemas?

It sounds like more tarrif bullshit,where the only output is lose-lose.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-05-05 12:34:18+00:00
I don’t think there’s anything childish about assigning large-scale programming assignments. I had to do everything from implement a compiler to building a ray tracer as an undergrad, and it set me up very well for an independent career as a software developer at a research lab.

As a professor today, assignments are the place where I’m happy to throw my students into the “deep end” (go learn a new language and a set of library toolkits while also learning this skill.) Exams just don’t provide that experience. Worse, students tend to cram for exams which is the worst way to retain information. I can’t even imagine thinking that the two are comparable in terms of retention and skill-building.
by Hard_Space | 2025-05-05 12:34:22+00:00
I didn't realize how many bad movies Italy produces, or at least produced, until I started living there in the late 1990s. Italians often go to the movies every week, and I did too, and then I realized that for every 'Life is Sweet', there were 50 dire entries that were just well-targeted enough to make their money back from a native audience. You'll never have heard of these movies, and rightly so.

Having lived in other countries since, this appears to be a common syndrome. You can't judge a country by its tourists, and you certainly can't judge it by the small number of movies that get past its border control.
by dinfinity | 2025-05-05 12:34:28+00:00
Regardless of whether this is true, it is still nothing more than an ad hominem.

I would argue that the most passionate AI optimism and pessimism stems from a conviction that it is an inevitable next step in evolution. Given the associated potency, it is hard to not take an extreme position with regard to it.

The positions in between seem to be of the form "everything will stay largely the same, but with a bit more automation", which seems naive rather than level-headed, imho.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-05 12:34:40+00:00
The best lawyer is one that will convince the jury of your innocence. Courts recognize that having defendants appear in prison jumpsuits is prejudicial and can bias a jury [1]. Good lawyers understand and shape optics to help their legal arguments. I know that we all have unconscious biases that affect our judgement. While I think we should build systems that are better at removing those biases and allowing different types of people be successful, I am not going to risk going to jail to make some sort of point. I am going to use every tool at my disposal to make my case. If cutting my hair or shaving my beard or wearing a certain color tie is likely to help, I’m going to do all that. I’m also going to have a lawyer that does that as well, including no crazy purple hair or face tattoos.

Your surgeon paradox says that if someone is successful despite not looking the part, they must be all the better. But are there lawyers with face tattoos or crazy hair that are considered successful in high stakes criminal law in front of juries? For corporate or patent or tax law, that is so much about a deep intimate understanding of hundreds of thousands of pages of ultra specific “loopholes” and optimization strategies, I would not be surprised if there were lawyers who look very alternative. But criminal law lives and dies on persuading people who are not legal experts.

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/criminal-defense/can-an-o...
by boroboro4 | 2025-05-05 12:34:51+00:00
Not everyone who’s in the country illegally committed a crime – for example if you overstayed a visa you might be deportable, but you haven’t committed a crime.

Then there is a lot of law around asylum seekers. Some of the people who entered the country illegally still might have rights to stay here.

The current laws aren’t as simple as “if you don’t have a paper we can send you outside tomorrow” right now.

And on top of it ones deportation order might have conditions (I.e don’t deport this guy to El Salvador since it’s unsafe for him there) which also can make deportation of illegal illegal. And this one, as you might know, already happened.

The whole El Salvador thing with first two planes having people without final order of removal is illegal.

That’s to answer how deporting illegals can be illegal.

On top of it what’s called deportation might be not exactly deportation in my opinion – it’s unclear why US can send people to foreign prison for entering country illegally.
by tuyguntn | 2025-05-05 12:34:57+00:00
Another point, most web based software is getting rewritten every 2-3 years, so why should you build as if you are building for Voyager or a medical device?

I would rather value fast iteration and allowing engineers create mess, learn from it and apply learnings to rewrite (again with quick iteration), instead of focusing on reliable/stable product from get go and making it work for 99% of users
by nonrandomstring | 2025-05-05 12:36:11+00:00
Never had the pleasure of a Sennheiser but when working in radio I got my hands on a lot of rack vocoders for doing branding, stings and idents. Funny how the number 9000 comes up a lot, like Roland VP9000 and Eventide H9000. 80 and 90s vintage ones like Korg VC-10 or Elektronik EM-26 had unique sounds, but tbh the modern digital recreations are amazing models. There's not a world of difference between vocoding, autotune, shifting, harmonising etc once you realise how all the fx are now based in FFT, convolution etc - just different variations on processing and control graphs - and so it's fun to create your own vocal effects in things like Max/MSP/PureData. Technically there's a distinction between "effects" and "processing" in terms of how much of the direct (parallel) signal is put through. Chers Believe is a yardstick for "effect", whereas a lot of what I hear with Daft Punk (and Air, Kraftwerk) is quite heavily processed as to disguise the original voice entirely - just letting a bit of top/sibilant through to define the stops and fricatives.
Ask HN: Does machine learning make sense if GenAI keep evolving?
by daitangio | 2025-05-05 12:36:27+00:00
Hi HN! About a year ago I bought A. Burkov's "The hundred-page machine learning book".

I thought it could be a good starting point for learning about transformers and GenAI.

But then I discovered here [1] the logic is far more complex, and a bit more specific (it also contains a lot of black magic in form of parameters to tune).

My impression is that a lot of 'plain vanilla' Machine Learning topics (ML) are faded away this last 2 years... so it makes sense to study ML today?

And if yes, in the next 2-5 years, what are the things a GenAI cannot do than ML will continue to be useful to?

[1] https://gioorgi.com/2024/gemma-gem/
by viraptor | 2025-05-05 12:36:27+00:00
Is it pro union, or does it happen to just match union's interests today? I've not seen him mention unions explicitly, neither in search nor perplexity. He did mention Hollywood finance, but whether he ment helping the workers or helping some studio owner by that is not clear to me. With the current track record of what's dismantled, I'm not sure he cares about IATSE at all. His explanation of the reasons mentions lots of other things though.
by bilbo0s | 2025-05-05 12:36:31+00:00
It sounds like a lot of people are kind of missing the mark a bit on what happened here in the US.

I mean:

Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know

No. "Propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know" is what happened first using the internet to radicalize those without the wisdom to have seen this outcome.

And Idiocracy may not be so much an optimistic look at our future as the conservatives continue to implement their policies, as it is a cynical look at the results that conservatives implementing their policies have had on our present.

And things can get so much worse.
by placardloop | 2025-05-05 12:36:36+00:00
This so called “security risk” is a role in a nonprod that can list metadata about things in your production accounts. It can list secret names, list bucket names, list policy names, and similar.

Listing metadata is hardly a security issue. The entire reason these List* APIs are distinct from Get* APIs is that they don’t give you access to the object itself, just metadata. And if you’re storing secret information in your bucket names, you have bigger problems.
by zkmon | 2025-05-05 12:36:39+00:00
My village people in the 1960's or 70's hated to be photographed. Heck, they hated even being called by their own name (instead of family name or by relation or by their title etc). Photography is kind of evil. It won't let people to fade away from memories. It's like a plastic that never decomposes. Not only that, it misrepresents people, because people don't remain in same pose, mood or appearance forever. It attaches the person to the photographed appearances more than it does to their un-photographed appearances.

There is nothing wrong in not being photographed and not living in the memories of other people. Even the Kings who were scared of being forgotten and got stone scriptures made with their names, were forgotten.

Despite any amount of persisted media recorded about you that never goes away, you would still be forgotten, as your media would be buried deep under other latest media that fully eats away the attention of the future people.
by maeln | 2025-05-05 12:37:30+00:00
There were several from China to be exact (Hong Kong to be precise, which had its own cinema golden-era between the late 80'and early 00'), and more than one from France also, some of which are more contemporary :) .

Most movie everywhere are not masterpiece, incredible contribution to the art, tasteful and original. They are easy, made to profit, amateurish, etc. That is true for every art form.

Again, yes the US being the wealthiest country in the world means that they can afford to produce more, and therefore, in your own word "can afford to swing at more pitches and consequently get more hits.". That much is true. The rest of your message is just dismissive of non-US movie in general, and again just show your ignorance and unwillingness to engage with different movie.

> And don't get me started on "let's yell at each other for 120 minutes" Russian cinema.

Just because you don't like it does not make it slop.

> American movies are by far the most watchable, especially when you don't feel like going on a heart-wrenching journey of despair, which is all international cinema excels at.

If you were to look at US movies that win awards, they tend to be "heart-wrenching journey of despair". That is just a bias of the perception of "awardable" cinema. Good light-heated comedy rarely wins award (altough stories of hope also often do). That is not specific to "international" cinema. You want some fun slapstick comedy from hong-kong, watch Stephen Chow movies. Some light hearted romance from France ? Jacques Demy might tickle your fancy. A more action horiented movie, Wong Ching-po wight interest you.

Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they don't exist.
by anenefan | 2025-05-05 12:37:48+00:00
rofl - pretty soon, if Air Canada doesn't farm out its PR, its own PR department will have two or more vacancies. If PR was farmed out, they'd want to hope they weren't paying good money for it.

The measly 5 grand will be much much less compared to the loss of sales - more than 10 people reading the article who don't fly so regularly, are going to start booking elsewhere if they think some company's site is not secure and can be hacked. It might not be the actual case, but that's how it will be understood. More than 10 people reading the article will at a later date, choose to book with an airline they're more confident will offer them peace of mind - no one wants to go for a holiday to relax, to regret it as they fume and boil over some BS drama to try and get back on time - it won't matter so much if Air Canada finally after being shamed though the media and some common sense prevails that the couple are reimbursed and an apology issued.

Edit: one singular wrong word - my brain is total mush at times and forgets what it type - must proof read more.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-05 12:38:40+00:00
Not OP but in a similar situation. In online banks there's nowhere to upload these temporary certificates, they accept a limited number of options (passeport, residence card etc) and temporary certificate printed on an A4 paper isn't one of them. You can try sending it via email to customer support, I did it with around 8 different banks and Revolut was the only one to reply and open an account for me after the manual review. Another one was PCS that didn't even ask for residence permit but then it went bust, and it took around 6 months to get the money back.

Funnily enough this is still better compared to classic offline banks: none of them would have me even with the 4-year residence permit I have now. I come from a sanctioned country, I guess it raises some internal risk alarms. Only BNP did accept me at first but then after 3 months they froze my account with my salary on it.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-05 12:38:56+00:00
That by using and/or carrying a camera you stop being present in the moment, and that it is somehow mutually exclusive with making memories, is somewhat of a mischaracterisation.

If you are serious about photography with existing light, the act of using the camera and even merely carrying it forces you to, for the lack of better description, see things as they are. It opens your eyes, quiets your chattering brain, stops you from ruminating. It prevents you from being annoyed at the small things and keeps you in the flow.

Once you realize that a particular combination of countless factors—weather, air quality, time of day, time of year, place, angle of view, human or other subjects (or, as I often prefer it, lack thereof)—can create a vanishingly rare, one of a kind image, you just can’t help being in the moment and seeing those things; and once you have got it (captured light and developed it), it can be there with you as an additional memory trigger for years to come.
by kjksf | 2025-05-05 12:39:14+00:00
It will reduce the profit margins of Hollywood studios. Maybe reduce the bonuses of their CEO.

It'll help thousands of Americans that used to be employed by said studios but were fired not because they couldn't do the job but because the greed of studio execs made them move production outside of the US, playing financial arbitrage games against the interest of the US.

Trump is trying to reverse this by making movies outside of the US, especially by US companies, more expensive. The goal here is not some statement about Hollywood but to bring movie production jobs back to US. The extras, the people who build sets, people who make food for actors etc. And jobs bring tax revenue and grow GDP, which helps every american.
by hndamien | 2025-05-05 12:39:40+00:00
Well, that’s about as low effort as Suno gets, so I’m not sure you should expect to like it more than a laugh. But when you put effort into the songwriting and shaping you can produce legitimately good music. This is my third highest ranking streaming song and it actually got some airplay on US radio stations - https://music.apple.com/au/album/too-much-winning/1788045206...
by em-bee | 2025-05-05 12:40:06+00:00
i searched for examples but could not find any. i found the syntax page which describes the elements, but it doesn't tell me what i can do with them or why i would use them. each element links to a separate page with more details, but even there i feel questions are left unanswered.

you explain the syntax but not the semantics.

i suppose that maybe if i had tried some alternatives then i would not need the semantics because i'd be already familiar with them.
by dangus | 2025-05-05 12:40:10+00:00
I would say that in practice that doesn’t seem to be how some of these examples are being architected.

Apple Intelligence as an example only seems to be reading information from Apple’s own default apps as of today, and their developer documentation suggests that capabilities require developers to implement features via their APIs.

It isn’t really a correct read of the situation to say that Apple Intelligence is “watching everything you do” like a service that is just watching your screen output at all times.

Even the service that does do that exact sort of thing (Windows Recall) has an extensive set of controls around filtering out specific apps and private browsing mode and other sensitive information, enabled by default: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...

So I think the reality is that a lot of the big players making this technology recognize the privacy and security concerns and are designing their AI applications to address those concerns.

I personally feel like AI products are frequently launching with more transparency about data usage than a lot of Web 2.0 era applications like Facebook.
by thinkindie | 2025-05-05 12:40:59+00:00
I think Google scares a lot of people away with their approach of not being able to talk to any human whatsoever unless you spend a lot of money on a monthly basis.

I read a lot of horror stories of people getting in troubles with GCP and not being able to talk to a human person, whereas you would get access to some human presence with AWS.

Things might have been changed, but I guess a lot of people have still this in the back of their mind.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-05 12:41:40+00:00
The distinction here isn't US vs non-US movies, it's where they're produced. A lot of Hollywood output is produced outside the US now to escape the unions, to benefit from cheaper non-US workers and to benefit from tax breaks. These are American movies funded and written by Americans, but the bulk of the production staff aren't from there.

From the first paragraph of the article:

Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers.

That is correct. Other countries are gutting Hollywood because Hollywood has become a hard place to make things. To pick a random example, the TV show Silo by Apple TV is made in the UK, not America, and the lead actress is Swedish. It's set in the USA, based on a story by an American author and produced by Apple but it's not made there.

This move is bad news for the UK and other countries that have built up a successful film industry but don't have the capital depth to fund big budget films, even with access to the US market. Now they lose access to US funding and can't easily export their films to the US either, assuming it goes through.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-05 12:42:03+00:00
Why would you be surprised? Are you expecting some sort of pro-labor movement in a startup focused tech forum?

Modern tech is all about disruption. You get paid way too much because you’re squeezing costs (ie labor) out of business operations.

There was an action movie that filmed car chases in my city about 15 years ago. A bunch of the crew was at a bar I hung out with and we were trading stories. There was a dude who was making alot of money to essentially wet down the streets from a fire hydrant. There’s reasons for that — hydrants require some training to safely operate.

But end of the day, the money guys at Netflix, Amazon or whatever would rather just pay some rando a few bucks and let insurance deal with the damage. Or build a fake street in Serbia.
by splix | 2025-05-05 12:42:09+00:00
As someone who have been living in a couple of countries under a temporal residence I can say it's not that simple. In many cases the temporal residence is simply not accepted, or not in the list of standard docs, etc. Private companies don't really care about all those non standard cases, and they ask either for a passport of the country or a permanent residence at least.

So legally yes, you can pass a KYC, but in practice you're an edge case no one cares about
by ValdikSS | 2025-05-05 12:42:46+00:00
There's OpenAirScan for iPhone/iPad now, which was created somewhat recently, in 2023.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openairscan/id1663611384

It doesn't have 100% compatibility with driverless scanning, but it's trying. If you share your scanner using AirSane on the Raspberry, it may work.

Strange that iOS doesn't have native scanning capabilities, only printing via AirPrint.