MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by glaucon | 2025-05-01 01:14:48+00:00
The part of my comment you are referring to was me responding to the assertion "It seems to work! It's one of the cleanest places I've ever been to".

With the possible exception of 'vandalism', none of the offenses for which it may be applied [1] have any impact on visitors perception of cleanliness, that was my "argument" (although I don't think my comment merits the term).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
by ggm | 2025-05-01 01:15:21+00:00
Yes. It's totally bizarre that a formalised business identity is held in a commercial enterprise, not some kind of not for profit mutuality or a state enterprise.

Who requires them to do it isn't the point, what Google decided is the formalism to meet EU requirements is the point.

Here is a european collated list of worldwide business registries. The Australian one is a gov.au. the US one is the SEC not D&B

https://ebra.be/worldwide-registers/?location=au
by Moto7451 | 2025-05-01 01:15:39+00:00
I don’t think I’ve seen “too complicated” comments for flat tax but there are regressive tax complaints about flat tax.

My state is essentially a flat tax (there are small increases at $1000 and $2500 and completely flat after that). A higher tax rate for someone in my income bracket doesn’t materially affect me as much (I will still eat just as well) as it does someone making 1/10 my income (who may be scraping by and occasionally not eating). The argument is that if my taxes were increased to lower taxes further down the income brackets it would make it easier for lower income taxpayers to get by.
by adam-p | 2025-05-01 01:15:40+00:00
Valid question, and I think you're right in the abstract and most of the time. But I also think you end up with a mismatch.

What's the concrete spec for the limit if you've only got 10x storage per grapheme cluster?

Probably you end providing the limit in bytes. That's fine, but it's no longer the "hybrid counting" thing anymore.
by ryandvm | 2025-05-01 01:15:51+00:00
True. Also, I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but since EVs are usually around 25% heavier than ICE vehicles, they are actually harder on roads than equivalent gasoline vehicles. And it gets worse, the damage to roads scales roughly with the fourth power of axle weight (per the AASHTO “fourth power law”). So even a small increase in weight leads to a lot more wear.
by TeaVMFan | 2025-05-01 01:16:56+00:00
Yes, Flavour apps are an index.html file and a classes.js file (plus optional CSS, images, etc. as desired). So with as few as 2 static files you can serve up a Java-based modern web app in a web browser.

For example, try Wordii, a 5-letter word game here: https://frequal.com/wordii/

If you look in the network tab, you can see it is loaded as a small HTML page, a classes.js file, and a few CSS files. All of those are served as simple static resources.

More information on how Wordii was created: https://frequal.com/java/MakingWordiiAPureJavaSpa.html
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-05-01 01:17:33+00:00
Well, it's a mirror of the Idiocracy mob's failure to anticipate the existential threat and potential damage caused by climate change. Informed, honest, ethical leadership is the cure but isn't popular enough. An ignorant populace is much easier to manufacture the consent of for cynical manipulation of popularity contests in avoidance of doing what's essential for the selfish, temporary, immediate benefit of a greedy few.
by jackconsidine | 2025-05-01 01:18:29+00:00
Reminds me of something. I ran a software development agent for a while. We were working on a job-seeker / employer match-making application; when a job-seeker submitted their resume the system would take a few seconds to run a geo search, process data, look for related employers and hit 3rd-party endpoints.

The client was initially put off by the 2 second loader, so we designed a "fun fact" loader that had a random blurb about the industry the job seeker was searching on. The client liked that so much he actually suggested we slow down the job seeker search so the end user could see it for a bit longer.

We talked him out of it in the end but occasionally suggest throttling our servers as a feature of our current company. MSFT should look into this
by nullc | 2025-05-01 01:20:10+00:00
> for menial tasks

Before this gets me flamed as thinking of young people as lesser, I don't. Different people feel differently about different tasks at different points in their life.

I read an article a while back about a fad teaching method for reading that is devastating reading skills in places where it's used. It focuses on teaching children the skills that illiterate readers use to compensate, e.g. guessing words from context, looking at the pictures, memorization of standard books. Instead of sounding things out or other traditional tools.

A point the writer made is that reading phonetically is utterly mind numbingly boring for adults, but it is absolutely not boring for a child that is learning to read-- they make continual incremental progress, they can quickly unlock new words. It's very exciting for them.

It's not just limited to children. In my teens through twenties I loved doing sysadmin stuff, wiring up and configuring this program to that, scripting this operation or that. Decades later that stuff is boring to me, and my own systems are more likely to be left in the configuration equivalent of a blinking 12:00 except where required.

It was exciting while I was learning stuff and could feel my mastery increasing. But having reached whatever level I reached, it's now just boring. I'd rather mop a floor, at least some far away developer isn't going to botch my mopped floor with a security update in the middle of the night.

In any case, my point is that a task which is menial to an experienced adult isn't necessarily so to someone with less experience.
by ricktdotorg | 2025-05-01 01:20:10+00:00
this is great, and right up my alley. i built a customer support chatbot using a google sheet for our CS folks to input & structure their question/answer pairs. that is auto xformed into markdown and fed into the bot for context. it works fairly well considering how simple it was to do. i'm really intrigued as to what promptrepo can add to that. will definitely give it some R&D time!
by ThinkBeat | 2025-05-01 01:20:23+00:00
I find it odd that they can provide all the infrastructure compute / storage / bandwidth for all of these projects for $35K

Debian and Fedora on their own must be highly demanding??

Form the article: """ Currently provides infrastructure hosting for projects such as Drupal, Gentoo Linux, Debian, Fedora, phpBB, OpenID, Buildroot/Busybox, Inkscape, Cinc and many more! """
by aristofun | 2025-05-01 01:20:33+00:00
> why would I need an investor when everything already works and makes a profit?

To scale up and make 1000x profit.

Nobody cares about your brilliant idea or even nice looking prototype until you have proven you can make money with it.

Just too risky for investors in current economy.

And education, team etc while may look irrelevant are actually more correlated with future success than details of startup idea etc.
by kjs3 | 2025-05-01 01:20:36+00:00
No, there weren't. There were the few you mentioned, and a dozen or two others. I worked with most of them. The point was that in the early 80s, there were a far larger number. The only real similarity was that like the '80s were the days of mc68k and Unisoft, the majority of the 90s Unix vendors were x86 and System V, all from the same code base.
by derbOac | 2025-05-01 01:21:19+00:00
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003335062...

The best research I've seen on this, from NZ, suggests the neurocognitive effect in typical fluoridation programs is about as close to zero as you can get.

I admit I think people were stigmatized for raising concerns about it before, and find it sort of weird it was added without more safety data, but by the same token I think the most rigorous evidence suggests its pretty safe at the typical concentrations of most fluoridation programs.
Show HN: Tinysums, HN thread and story summaries that don't suck
by mbm | 2025-05-01 01:21:22+00:00
fun little side project using gemini 2.5 pro.

summarizes the top 30 HN stories and their comment threads. kinda nice when there's a huge thread to read the tl;dr.

cron job updates everything once an hour right now.

feel free to pick it apart!
by mrandish | 2025-05-01 01:23:04+00:00
Oh, that's too bad. I haven't checked it out in a long time. However, in recent years the Office UX has been getting increasingly worse for me too. Not ugly, just bigger and fatter, taking up more screen space to show less info.

If open source alternatives aren't suitable, my fallback is to get whatever the last retail box versions were of the few Office apps I actually occasionally use and then never update them. There hasn't been a single new Office feature I care about added in about ten years.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-01 01:23:12+00:00
One has billions of users, the other has millions. One has 100s of thousands of companies trying to to do business with that platform's users, the other has 100s of companies trying to do business with that platform's users.

scale and usage matters. Apple has > 50% market share in the USA (the place relevant to USA law). So, being a monopoly they get treated differently than a non-monopoly.

Even if they had less than 50%, people bank, invest, shop, talk, communicate, book hotels, flights, and effectively live their lives on smartphones. On XBox they play games and same small percent play music or watch movies there (I suspect most switch over to their Smart TV/Apple TV/.. for that).
by protocolture | 2025-05-01 01:23:18+00:00
Yes but there are barriers there that other countries dont have.

Its lower cost than serbia, where you need to either register a business locally or help the staff out with taxes.

But its higher cost than canada, where people just sort of dont fuck around and get on with things.

And in some circumstances the lack of regulation can make things more expensive. Or at least, lack of regulation + lack of respect for norms.

I had a customer insist on using a particular tower climber for cabling, but the guy had no idea about cabling or network engineering. He was "cheap" in that he didn't draw a large wage, but he was actually expensive because he needed so much hand holding. Later I found out he had several 500M + runs of Cat5 that could have been 3 meters and a switch.

In fact it seems a fairly uniquely american thing that some bloke will go off and do a lot of """work""" and then hand over an absolute pile of dogshit that proper engineers need to come in and resolve. The shit I have seen american network engineers "produce" that needed to be cleaned up by expensive consultants would curl your hair.

Its because americans try and do everything with slave labor that they are so damned expensive to deal with.

If I engage a cabler in an Australian or Canadian data centre, they tend to find a fault and fix it in the first instance.

Literally never happened for me with yanks. Its always 5 visits, back and forth, arguments about responsibility, providers closing tickets before they have resolved anything, and engineers that dont understand the difference between light stats and BGP neighborship.
by owebmaster | 2025-05-01 01:23:26+00:00
> 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.

Ask for help

> 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

You have not been capable of fixing bugs in simple React projects yet, I don't think you are in a good position to make this judgement.
by noisy_boy | 2025-05-01 01:24:09+00:00
LibreOffice should have provided a theme/icon pack "Office Icons" - half the time I can't tell what an icon is for because most of us have been raised on MS Office. Also, it would do well with a "Simple" mode ala Google Docs that is sufficient most of the time for most folks.

Otherwise it works fine, haven't had any issues with the documents it produces and I particularly like the direct export to pdf feature.
by neonsunset | 2025-05-01 01:24:20+00:00
What makes you think this way?

I’m pretty sure even back then Entity Framework was very capable, it has only improved since then.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/querying/complex-q...

It’s probably better to compare with other statically typed, compiled languages since both Ruby and Python are an in a different class (and an order of magnitude slower, more painful dependency management, etc.).
by giraffe_lady | 2025-05-01 01:24:22+00:00
> It's also incredibly unpopular even among the right.

Where are you getting that impression? Sincerely curious, it seems to me most either don't offer an opinion or are in favor. Even in this comment section (or any other similar one on HN recently) you see people more or less saying this is a correct response to some covid conspiracy theory they're into. I would love for the right to turn on trump but I frankly haven't been seeing it, over this or any other issue.
by le-mark | 2025-05-01 01:25:24+00:00
Also despise teams, here’s my anecdote. A few years ago (about 2020) the Linux teams client had bug where it would write to a .so continuously which is odd enough. It would then fill up the disk on my work laptop writing to that one file. Seemed to be related to the update mechanism. Luckily as a dev I had admin access and uninstalled and deleted the 450gB .so file.
by mgkimsal | 2025-05-01 01:25:57+00:00
Can you not just install an android app from a website? I always thought that was part of the attraction of Android - you could install without an app store requirement like ios. Actually.... I seem to remember building a couple android apps and just linking from a website but... that was... 8(!) years ago. Is that still a thing? Was it ever, or did I just misremember that?
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-05-01 01:26:12+00:00
The same can be said about a number of big cities over the past 30 years. Perhaps there ought to be limits of corporate ownership of residential properties and limits to the number any individual (non corporation) can own too. Also, limits to overseas buyers to prevent gentrification by foreign capital flight. Housing should be for real people who aren't billionaires.
by krackers | 2025-05-01 01:26:20+00:00
What's the intuition behind fourth power? Looks like it was mainly derived from experimental testing but there should be some physical explanation as to why we'd expect 4th power right (e.g. you can have some intuition for square/inverse-square laws based on arguments of surface area). Is it really 4th power, or is it the artifact of curve fitting?
by kadushka | 2025-05-01 01:27:05+00:00
For me it's the opposite - we don't get enough models to test. In the last 6 months, we got Claude 3.7, OpenAI o1, Grok 3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and OpenAI o3. That's it - 5 frontier models. Not that hard to test each one of them manually, which I did for many hours and with many different tasks. o1 --> o3 and 2.5 Pro are the ones I'm using the most.

I couldn't care less about benchmarks - I know what these models are capable of from personal experience.
by badmonster | 2025-05-01 01:27:13+00:00
MiMo-7B claims to outperform larger models like Qwen-32B and match OpenAI o1-mini on math/code benchmarks — all with a 7B model trained from scratch. Is this a sign that pretraining + RLHF optimization is finally outpacing scale? Or are we just getting better at benchmarking narrow capabilities?
by felipeerias | 2025-05-01 01:27:27+00:00
What I've been reading from multiple sources is that the electrical grid was in a brittle state because of the large percentage of solar and wind energy, as these sources are intermittent and unable to maintain the required AC frequency on their own. Apparently, it would be possible to make a renewable-heavy grid more resilient to these kinds of events, but Spain had not invested enough on the necessary infrastructure.

At the moment of the blackout, ~70% of the energy was being produced by solar and wind when sudden events caused a large loss of power and that brittle grid was knocked down as a whole.

There is a huge political row at the moment because the government has encouraged investment in solar and wind for a long time, so they are unlikely to admit that they might have contributed to the problem. Furthermore, they have closed down and demolished the remaining coal plants, and they plan to close down all the nuclear power stations.
by mancerayder | 2025-05-01 01:27:33+00:00
10.5% of jobs in the NYC are financial services.

While the bigger investment banks pay mostly stock at the higher comp levels, most everyone depends on salary and, or course, bonus. In the highly paid buy side trading firms, bonus is your salary or multiples. No doubt people buy into the stock market with that.

So your analysis about stock market performance and the housing market isn't completely off, when it comes to NYC. You just need to compare the Bay Area and Mag 7 type performance with NYC and S&P performance.

The job market, too. It's confusing, it seems like there's not as much selling or buying as in boom times, because of uncertainty (at least anecdotally). The median price is meaningless if the number of sales is down.
by sandworm101 | 2025-05-01 01:27:57+00:00
Or a large percentage of the populace is afraid. Nobody wants to draw the attention of the far right, both the parts in and out of office. Everyone in the US knows someone who is illegal, a green car holder, a student/work visa holder or who otherwise may be vulnerable. Piss off the wrong people and the powers that be may cast their eye on you and your friends. Even if deportation is remote for any of my immediate friends, I dont want my name on one of those lists, such as the lists of enemy attornies/firms that have recently had to make "donations" and pledges.

This is why ballots are secret. At least for now.
by donavanm | 2025-05-01 01:28:43+00:00
Dont forget the dualities of “nato article 5 is for suckers, theyre on their own” followed by “europe needs to pay us for nato protection.” Then “nato needs to increase defense spending and take care of themselves” followed by “you need to buy us defense products!” Believing the stated (“sane washed”) strategic goals only makes the actions more damning as evidence of incompetence.
by wyager | 2025-05-01 01:29:14+00:00
The process for getting a DUNS number and getting it approved by Apple was such a nightmare. Even when I did everything correctly, I got flagged for some unspecified reason that required a bunch of extra back-and-forth. I didn't even want to list on the app store - just to allow other people to run some music-related code I wrote without getting stomped by Gatekeeper.
Show HN: Convert Large CSV/XLSX to JSON or XML in Browser
by Botlabs | 2025-05-01 01:31:19+00:00
Hello HN, I'm excited to share a project I've been working on: A simple, fast way to process huge CSV and XLSX files directly in your browser and export them as clean JSON or XML

Here's a few things that makes this converter different: - runs in the browser - all parsing and conversion is client side can handle data any size data - automatically detects delimiters, encodings, and data types as it parses - Live preview with column renaming, search/replace, and data cleanup - Export to JSON or XML — clean, structured output that can be used for API or Databases

backstory: I built this tool for myself. I work with massive CSV and TXT files, some over 10GB, and opening them in Excel would freeze my laptop, some of the online converters only limits to a certain size, so I started learning Python and pandas but ended up wasting so much time trying different delimiters or fixing badly structured data just to make it usable, and I thought this would be a really fun project to build

I'd love some feedback. Thank you

URL: https://csvforge.com
by phendrenad2 | 2025-05-01 01:32:13+00:00
I mean, if you're selling chemicals, you should have a cursory awareness of the laws in the countries you ship to. And you should clearly mark what it is that is being shipped, so that if you miss something, it'll be flagged by customs.

But governments of the world have a DIS-incentive to actually stop illegal activity before the fact, they want illegal activity to happen so they can swoop in and score points with the public by showing off how many criminals they brought to justice.
by esprehn | 2025-05-01 01:32:28+00:00
Ladybird comes from Serenity OS which has a focus of having fun and being pragmatic while building everything from scratch incrementally.

They do plan to switch to Swift: https://ladybird.org/#:~:text=Why%20build%20a%20new%20browse...

I appreciate their pragmatism though, it's allowed them to catch up to other alternative browsers in WPT coverage very quickly.
by pcvetkovski | 2025-05-01 01:33:01+00:00
Groundbreaking.

We just released Crosspay, a cross-platform in-app subscriptions SDK for iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, Windows, and Web apps, enabling users to purchase subscriptions once, and use anywhere. As this ruling becomes effective, we will also enable users to choose their payment method on any platform, instead of being tied to Apple App Store.

However, apps that charge $1 or less per transaction will continue to pay over 30% in fees (e.g. Stripe charges 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction)

See more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43714552
by nkurz | 2025-05-01 01:34:05+00:00
Or alternatively, their investments from one account produce $100K per year, their investments from another account (non-Federal grants) produce an unknown amount, and they have a job (tuition payments) that produces another unknown amount. How significant is 40% of the 100K?

We don't know unless we fill in the unknown numbers. Knowing that the amount of federal aid being removed is 40% of an estimate of the amount produced by one source (the endowment) isn't enough information to answer the question. The right question is what percentage of their budget this represents.

From what I can tell, Harvard's actual annual budget is about $6.5B (https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/10/financial-report-fis...). A $400M shortfall is thus about 6% of their annual budget. Significant, but also something they could probably cover for the next decade or two by drawing down their endowment until they adjust.
by wyager | 2025-05-01 01:34:27+00:00
Yeah, sometimes I'll do e.g. a backend state management server in Haskell and then a lightweight (embedded) client in Rust. I haven't ever tried linking rust from haskell yet, if that's what you mean.

I would actually flip your HDL definition a bit. Clash is a true HDL, but specifically because it's not just a shallowly embedded DSL.

Clash is actually a GHC plugin that compiles haskell code to a synchronous circuit representation and then can spit that out as whatever HDL you like. It's emphatically not just a library for constructing circuit descriptions, like most new gateware development tools. This is possible because the semantics of Haskell are (by a mixture of good first-principles design and luck) an almost exact match for the standard four-state logic semantics of synchronous digital circuits.

This is also different from the standard HLS approach where the semantics of the source language do not at all match the semantics of the target. With Haskell, they are (surprisingly) very close! Only in a few edge cases (mostly having to do with zero-bit wires and so on) does the evaluation semantics of haskell differ from the evaluation semantics of e.g. verilog.