MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hahajk | 2025-05-01 00:43:07+00:00
If it's famine you're worried about, I think we'll be ok as long as the govt doesn't try to set prices/mandate supply [1] (which isn't out of the question I suppose.)

If it's war due to decreased economic interdependence, well yes that would be much worse.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_famines
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-01 00:43:15+00:00
The Orville is the best Star Trek show since the 90s, and it's not even close. While it doesn't have the IP, it's clear that Seth MacFarlane gets Trek where the people in charge of the actual IP do not at all. I would give a great deal to put him in charge of the Star Trek franchise instead of Alex Kurtzman and his staff.
by bze12 | 2025-05-01 00:43:50+00:00
Their entire setup was egregious.

They charge 27% for purchases made using external payment processors. Including Stripe fees that's net-zero (not even accounting for any chargeback risks). They severely limit how you can display the external purchase link too, and display an obnoxious warning screen when you tap it.

I would be surprised if a single developer adopted it.

https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-01 00:43:57+00:00
It isn't about transparency.

It is about illegal anticompetitive behavior.

Apple didn't charge tax on all app store purchases to protect themselves, it was done out of greed and malice.

You're assuming that Apple is acting in good faith. An actual, literal judge has decided the evidence shows that Apple was not acting in good faith, and in fact were behaving illegally. This isn't a "both sides" argument, Apple is definitively in the wrong.
by elpool2 | 2025-05-01 00:44:27+00:00
As described in the ruling, Apple hired a consulting group to estimate how much value developers get from the iphone platform, which found that

(1) Apple’s platform technology is worth up to 30% of a developer’s revenue. (2) Apple’s developer tools and services are worth approximately 3%–16%. (3) Apple’s distribution services are worth approximately 4%–14%. (4) Apple’s discovery services are worth approximately 5%–14%.

Then Apple claimed this study was how they came up with the 27%, but the Judge basically said nah you guys came up with that number before the study, and you even know it would be a non-starter for almost all developers.
by ivanmontillam | 2025-05-01 00:45:23+00:00
Exactly my point!

This would kick the wasp's nest of "they (Apple) don't need this much money to operate, they can do well with 10% profit!"

Which is very hard to admit, that profit margins are arbitrary when you, indeed, dominate the market.

Apple doesn't want (nor need) to give anyone a handle to anyone to make them accountable. It is not a charity.

(Again, I'm not defending Apple, but I do defend corporate liberties, in general.)
by nl | 2025-05-01 00:46:15+00:00
"I have reached out to our largest corporate sponsor and they are working to increase their support as we update our contract, but that still may not be enough."

Why wouldn't they name the sponsor? Seems like a great thing some company (presumably Google?[1]) is doing, but they don't get the credit they deserve.

[1] "Google sponsors the OSL through financial grants." (Noting that none of the other sponsors seem to provide financial grants) https://osuosl.org/sponsors/
by RiverCrochet | 2025-05-01 00:46:25+00:00
Chrome would do that too unless the setting "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" is turned off.

https://superuser.com/questions/269385/why-does-google-chrom...

Now I never understood why the chrome.exe's would hang out when I didn't install any "background apps" - anyway I suspect a similar setting in Edge is buried in there somewhere.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-05-01 00:46:37+00:00
All I'm hearing is prefetch was put into new packaging and MS is calling it a new feature.

Management: Tweak prefetch and call it a new feature.

Dev1: Superfetch!

Dev2: We already did that.

Dev1: Superfetch for Office!

Management: Yes.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-right-gentlemen

https://windowsground.com/what-is-superfetch-windows-10-shou...
by paulcole | 2025-05-01 00:47:11+00:00
> The point of "Trump Tariffs" is not to make the Trump the scribbler face that wall and feel shame for his output--everybody knows he's too damaged for that.

Why do you believe that is the point of “Juniors Doodles”?

> The point is to ensure everybody else (i.e. voters) recognize that the government is taking their money and understand how it came to occur.

If you put “Trump’s Tariffs” there then you are fundamentally ignoring how it came to occur by blaming the person who enacted the tariffs.

You don’t blame the bomb for exploding, you blame the person who lit the fuse.

> To return to your analogy, it's some message that tells other adults to stop giving Junior their markers, from a source that is beyond your direct control.

Sorry, either this makes no sense or I’m too stupid to understand it.
Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome
by HowDoesSound | 2025-05-01 00:47:23+00:00
A bit about my, I'm early 30s frontend engineer w/ no degree who started working at FAANG. Before that I spent about 12 years working at agencies doing web dev, Drupal, wordpress, etc.

By week 2 at FAANG I'd gotten through the onboarding, figured out how to get my app running behind all the business security and policies, and started trying to work on a simple frontend React bugfix.

I'm struggling to make heads and tails of everything going up. I understand what processes exist and why at a theoretical level, but all the outdated documentation, random commands to input and feature flags to setup, etc. is literally driving me in circles. Also my team is VERY busy, so I've had to figure out everything on my own. I have the app working, but I cannot understand beginning to end how the frontend app works.

Also I'm feeling a strong sense of imposter syndrome. I'm the oldest engineer on my team, surrounded by a bunch of fresh 20 year olds 3 years out of college who's first job is FAANG. There's an air of non-egotistical elitism I just can't put my finger on, but as someone who dropped out of college so they could earn money and lessen the burden of their immigrant parents, I just feel like I really really don't belong.

Right now at work I've taken on a ticket that should be simple, but I just cannot understand why it's not working in the massive ecosystem and integrations that exists for this app.

Also on a sidenote, I'm a bit disappointed in the sense that I expected more from FAANG. The quality of the apps I'm seeing seems vastly technically overengineered, almost like 100 different hero engineers added their own "tricks" just to seem clever, make a name for themself, make everyone else's life harder, and then pat themselves on the back while writing extensive documentation about why their little chrome extension or alternative way of doing things solves X,Y,Z (while completely ignoring how convoluted and burdensome they've now made something that, while technically inconvenient, was utterly simple to understand prior).

Anyway, rant over. Anyone felt the same way starting at FAANG? Not sure if I'm gonna stick around.
by duxup | 2025-05-01 00:47:30+00:00
Donald Trump is not right in the head. That’s not intended to be an excuse but the man legitimately seems to have trouble maintaining a train of thought, seems to change his mind day to day (I think he just forgets).

He claims they’re negotiating with China on tarrifs, but nobody but Trump will say it is happening. Even his own staff won’t confirm they are negotiating despite Trumps claim.

He can’t even describe / understand a photo accurately.

The president is not right in the head and appears to be surrounded by yes men and women…. that’s bad.
by zxu | 2025-05-01 00:48:04+00:00
Hi folks, I have created this simple desktop framework to let developer easily create local AI app using Python (PySide) and React for ui. I have been using it to create a few edge AI project so far and decided to share it as open source. I'd like any feedback on how do you think could use this for your small project. I'd like to know what features you would want.

Thanks! Jeff
by neilv | 2025-05-01 00:48:35+00:00
If this is all-new development, wouldn't it be good for the emphasis to be on correctness and security, as part of the design and coding itself?

That's something that you use fuzzing as one way to detect a failure of, not as the means of achieving correctness and security.

I'm not picking on Ladybird here specifically. Chrome and Firefox provide constant streams of security vulnerabilities. But it would be nice if Ladybird didn't start with the same problems that might be attributed to huge legacy code bases.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-01 00:49:10+00:00
They don’t make that claim. That’s the service they are selling and the margin they choose. The royalty is similar to software retailer margins going back a long time. Steam charges a similar rate.

It’s pretty trivial to bypass. Just don’t charge for your software, and use the app to access paid resources purchased outside the platform. My company distributes a few dozen apps to thousands of employees, Apple gets $0, because they utilize an existing subscription or license unconnected to Apple.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-05-01 00:49:54+00:00
It's also impossible to find good apps.

The store has flags indicating whether an app uses in-app purchases or ads, and knows the file size of apps (which is a good proxy of how much data-collecting bloatware is inside).

It doesn't let you easily see the size before installing and doesn't let you search by any of these criteria. So if you wanted to publish a high quality, free, ad-free app, you would immediately be crowded out by the apps that can spend money on ads and SEO because they're full of crap, and your potential users have no chance of finding your app.

Given how easy this would be to implement, it seems obvious that this is an intentional, user-hostile choice because Google doesn't profit off these apps.
by IX-103 | 2025-05-01 00:50:06+00:00
More than 30 years, it's closer to 50.

I actually wonder how much of the stagflation in the 1970s was caused by tax cuts for the rich. It would make sense, if you think about it. If rich people spent more on luxuries, then the free market would naturally move resources away from creating necessities. This results in a shortage of necessities, resulting in higher prices. There's no increase in productivity caused by just shuffling jobs around, so the economy would be relatively stagnant.

I'm not saying the oil crisis wasn't a major factor, but I'm curious how much of it was from voodoo economics...
by arandomusername | 2025-05-01 00:50:26+00:00
undocumented immigrants? You mean illegals.

> – sending people into foreign prison without (criminal) due process

They were in the country illegally. That's breaking a law. They received the due process that illegal aliens get.

> – turning the state into police state, with ICE being modern day gestapo

Not even remotely close. ICE targets illegal (criminal) aliens. Not to mention the deportation numbers are pathetically low.

> – literally dismantling federal government and international position of the country

How is he dismantling the federal government? Surely you don't mean doge which has been a pathetic failure.

> President is a person elected for faithful execution of the laws

The 2nd amendment has been infringed upon by previous administrations. How come that's not covered by this?

All the other stuff is bunch of nothing. Far better examples are under Biden against Trump, i.e criminally prosecuting your political opponent - but ofcourse there's plenty of excuses just like there are for everything in here.

> – attacking universities representing views different from yours

What views are those? I agree with you here, this part is messed up. Isn't it crazy how, having anti-certain country view, will get uni's federal funding shut off, or students that are in US legally deported? Those students didn't criticize US, but a certain foreign country. How crazy is that. Really shows you the influence those people have huh.
by hnburnsy | 2025-05-01 00:50:55+00:00
>YouTube homepage will just be one video

On Smart TV devices, there is One large ad on the first row, then 2.5 video thumbnails on the second row, no other thumbnails.

Looks like this...

https://www.google.com/imgres?q=youtube%20app%20on%20smart%2...
by Loughla | 2025-05-01 00:51:04+00:00
Trump is making decisions how Trump has always made decisions; by agreeing with whoever kisses his ass the best and most often

>If you live in the US, now is an excellent time to contact your senators and representatives and demand some accountability.

They. Are. Complicit. At this point, any senator at all is complicit in this nonsense. They hold the checks and balances on the executive wing. They're not even trying to use them, at best, and actively subverting them, in all truth.

It should be very telling that a VERY long term congressman like Dick Durbin is not seeking re-election. That's a bad sign.
by johnmcd3 | 2025-05-01 00:51:19+00:00
In a way, DeepSeek Prover's subgoal decomposition is a partial-step towards error/proof-state feedback. (DS Prover breaks down a proof into subgoals and attacks each subgoal separately with batched sampling, then puts the pieces back together.)

This is distinct from the approach of the previous SOTA for an open-weights model (Kimina Prover) which generated at the full-proof level.

While it was very impressive to see Kimina's ability to generate medium-length proofs (think AIME-level problems) without sub-goals or feedback at intermediate steps, it's likely that at least subgoal decomposition will be required for longer proofs (think IMO-level problems.)

I certainly agree that where and how error/proof state feedback is best incorporated (training data synthesis / reward function / CoT during inference / etc.) is a fascinating area of research. (It's rumored that GDM's AlphaProof does use proof state / lean feedback already.)
by echelon | 2025-05-01 00:51:41+00:00
100%. This doesn't deserve a fine. This deserves Apple to be given an ultimatum about their mob boss behavior with mobile.

Apple and Google quickly built up their duopoly such that everyone doing anything with mobile phones has to pay them a tax. You can't even deploy your own apps at your own cadence, without strict review, using your own technology. You have to jump through unplanned upgrade cycles, you're forced to use their payment rails and signup flows (and don't get to know your customer or get them to use your website). You pay the taxes on everything. And even then, they let your competitors advertise against your name or trademark.

This is rotten to the core.

Neither Google nor Apple should have an app store. Apps should be web installs. The only reason things work the way they do is so that Apple and Google can tax and exert control. A permissions system, signature scans, and heuristics are all that are needed to keep web installs safe - and all of those pieces are already in place. There's no technical or safety limitation, Apple and Google just want to dominate.

These two companies were innovative 20 years ago, but their lead then doesn't entitle them to keep owning the majority of most people's computing surface area for the rest of time. They have to give up the reigns. There are still billions of dollars for them to make on mobile, even if regulators tell them to stop treating developers as serfs and locking them in cages.

No. More. App. Stores.

Regulate big tech's hold over mobile, web, search, and advertising.
by paulcole | 2025-05-01 00:51:46+00:00
> There are so many models, and so many new ones being released all the time, that I have a hard time knowing which ones to prioritize testing anecdotally

Just pick one and use it. The ones you’ve heard of (if you are not obsessively refreshing AI model rankings pages) are basically the same.

I’m sure I’ll get a ton of pushback that the one somebody loves is obviously so much better than the other one, but whatever.

Just give me OpenAI’s most popular model, their fastest model, and their newest model. I’ll pick among those 3 based on what I’m prioritizing in the moment (speed, depth, everyday use).
by t_sawyer | 2025-05-01 00:52:11+00:00
Which… while we’re at it. Gaming would be much better if consoles didn’t exist anymore. Games would be more optimized for PC and manufacturers would just be building prebuilt gaming PCs.

We also would have more Switch competition in the ARM gaming space instead of x64 handhelds and Android windows emulation if these walled gardens didn’t exist.
by wdpk | 2025-05-01 00:52:30+00:00
I think the headline is pretty misleading and meaningless. The 10% median increase across the city is pretty useless as a statistic. For instance the median by neighborhood is widely different! the median in Manhattan as a whole is double the median of the city see the map in the article to realize that NYC market is a collection of sub-markets with their own dynamics and type of property mix the price per sqft is widely different between townhouses, condos, coops, new construction, gut reno, etc

Let take this example from the article: "Carroll Gardens — traditionally one of Brooklyn’s most expensive neighborhoods — was conspicuously absent from top 10 rankings at the start of the year. Claiming #4 with a $2.79 million median sale price in Q1 2024, Carroll Gardens’ median sale price was halved to just $1.38 million". I know pretty well this neighborhood and the market there and this is not the actual case that overall prices in Carrol Gardens halved (even if the median price over the Q1 transactions halved)! It's just probably the type of property sold in Q1 that changed, the market is made of townhouses and new developments of condos and also some coops, the mix of sales in a given quarter is very far from homogeneous.

The article goes on to say essentially the same thing: "Among these was the whopping 145% price surge in Madison that lifted the neighborhood from last year’s #104 to its current spot at #25. This came as Madison went from $510,000 a year ago to the current $1.25 million median sale price due to a significant shift in its sold-property mix." Pretty sure median transaction prices in Madison Brooklyn will collapse by nearly 50% next quarter once the transaction property mix will change again...
by chupchap | 2025-05-01 00:52:32+00:00
I used NotebookLM for holiday planning. I put in a dozen links with touristy things to do at the destinations and 5 odd Youtube videos. I then asked it to craft an itinerary as a travel agent who is planning holiday for a couple without kids. Included the type of things I would like to do and not do as well. The result was pretty good. The podcast generated was fun as well
by oddthink | 2025-05-01 00:52:33+00:00
There was a 1-5 Likert scale self-rating on "leveraging AI" and a free-text box. I rambled about using claude code to help summarize my daily notes, cursor for implementation, using the chatgpt ui for broad questions (what happened to internal project X, how do I configure airflow again, etc.), then experiments with the find-the-right-table-for-you SQL generator. That seemed like about the level folks were going for.

There are some people who are really into it. The sql-generator's great for PMs; ops are experimenting with moderation triage. I personally have mixed feelings, but I'll futz with it on company time (and api $) to see if I can get it to do something useful. It'll mess up tensor alignment, but I can fix that.

So, yes, it was in the performance review. No, it wasn't a big deal. Yes, it seems to me like a reasonable nudge to get over the activation energy of learning to use the thing.
by derbOac | 2025-05-01 00:53:40+00:00
“NIH has implemented a research pause—referred to as a safety stand-down—at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick. This decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture, prompting this research pause. During the stand-down, no research will be conducted, and access will be limited to essential personnel only, to safeguard the facility and its resources.”

Moss did not elaborate on the nature of the personnel issues..."

I'd be more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if their MO wasn't to make unspecified and/or undefended accusations about persons, as a way to avoid being accountable for their agenda.
by sensanaty | 2025-05-01 00:53:48+00:00
Small rant coming up, can't help myself.

We recently had an AI workshop type of thing as our company leadership is also falling for the AI-first BS, and it really felt like an Emperor has no clothes situation to me.

Gist of it was that the VP of Eng and the CTO would sit down with the engineers and showcase AI tooling and techniques on using them etc, specifically Cursor which the VP surely has a vested interest in somehow with how much he salivates about it.

It started off fine with some nice tips and context on how LLMs work for the unaware, but the absurdity truly started when they tried to fix some minor UI bugs that were sitting in the bug board as a showcase. One of the UI guys looks at the ticket for maybe 30 seconds before saying "oh it's probably X".

The VP and CTO spent the next hour and a half trying to prompt their way into solving the bug. Failure, after failure, after failure. They tried a million different prompts, giving it full code context, limited code context, access to CLI tools. Some of the prompts they wrote were easily 1000+ words full of excruciating detail for what to try. Ultimately none of it worked, and yes they were using the latest and greatest SOTA models like Gemini 2.5 flash and Claude 3.7 and o3 and...

The final fix, from that same UI guy as before, was a literal single character change in exactly where he said it was that took him all of 2 minutes to write up, test and push, a minute of which was just him finding the project in his messy folder.

And after the absolute waste of time that hour and a half was, they, without a hint of irony, say "See how useful it was in our debugging?". I had to stifle a laugh because I felt like I was in some nightmare 1984-esque doublespeak world where the blind AI hype supercedes every ounce of real life evidence we all just witnessed before our very eyes.

Coincidentally, 7 very strong senior and staff engineers quit shortly after that, and I'm myself also looking for a change. Basically the entire company is in a bit of a "what about our actual product that every customer is complaining about?" Kind of phase, but leadership is rolling full steam ahead with tacking on AI crap on top of everything that literally nobody except for the C-level cares for.

*Addendum: not to say I don't view LLM tooling as useful, it undoubtedly is. My main issue is there's 0 nuance involved anymore, we all have to pretend as if it's universally useful literally always and for every single usecase, even when evidence points to the opposite. It can't just be "oh nice, this will save some time for these specific tasks!", no it's "you will be evaluated on how much you use AI and specifically Cursor, whether you're more productive with it or not"
by hayst4ck | 2025-05-01 00:54:05+00:00
This headline is one of the worst and is exactly the type of thing someone who thinks about manufacturing consent would write.

It fails to make a judgement which implicitly agrees with his frame. By not contradicting someone who is objectively wrong, you end up supporting them.

If they weren't digitally added, you would expect him to not concede, so this is reporting his stance is consistent with his beliefs, which ultimately empowers his position.