MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Braxton1980 | 2025-05-18 01:24:11+00:00
>Defense was about 12% of last year's spending. I think we should cut the other 88% a lot.

It's not a contradiction to believe in cutting spending due to a fear of the deficit EXCEPT you make exceptions, like defense, which you provided an explanation to.

However that means you can't use the general rule alone as the reason for cutting social programs (or better asked as) "Why not make an exception for social programs?"

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I don't know what primes are
by jmclnx | 2025-05-18 01:24:55+00:00
So isn't every other fossil fuel based transportation manf.

20 years ago this would upset me a lot.

Now I am resigned to the fact 2 or 3 generations from now people will live through a time that will make the mongol invasions look like a tea party ran by three 7 year old girls :(

No stopping Climate Change now
by reustle | 2025-05-18 01:25:17+00:00
That is being done as a stop gap until official servers are released. Ideally you are writing a server for your own product/service, or custom local work.

i.e. I wrote a server for water.gov to pull the river height prediction nearby for the next 24hr. This helps the campground welcome message writing tool craft a better welcome message.

Sure that could be a plain tool call, but why not make it portable into any AI service.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-18 01:27:40+00:00
Btw - my first author NeurIPS dataset and benchmarks paper is taking basically all the evidence that such debate community (American hs and college level policy and LD debate) produced over its recent history and making it easy for LLMs and people to consume it.

They’ve been quietly open sourcing all of their arguments for like 20+ years.

This dataset is so large and good entirely because of speed reading and the current state of debate tournament competitive dynamics. Spreading might be objectively absurd to listeners but the effects of it are literally good for society.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14657

https://huggingface.co/datasets/Yusuf5/OpenCaselist
by Winsaucerer | 2025-05-18 01:28:04+00:00
> we still have potholes to fix, t-shirts to fold and illnesses to cure

Only one of these things interests me. The hype of AI is threatening to kill something I actually enjoy doing. If the hype actualises, I'll likely find myself having to do something I don't enjoy. That being said, if programming can be automated, then probably every white collar job is under serious threat.
by WalterGR | 2025-05-18 01:29:04+00:00
Well, right. In that case, all non-profits are "tax dodges" using the literal interpretation of the words. But tax dodge usually implies something unsavory...

Is the issue that you don't think that any university - or perhaps specifically Harvard? - should be granted non-profit status? If that’s the case, then I'm curious what you think about the same question for religion-affiliated universities and non-profit organizations whose missions you agree with?
by T3OU-736 | 2025-05-18 01:29:22+00:00
Another aspect of supporting hugely dispersed CPUs a-la SGI Origin 3000 series (say, Origin 3400) is the support for performance telemetry of the attendant interconnecting pieces.

On SGI, the CrayLink HW had perfomance counters visible via the Performance CoPilot (nee PCP).

On Linux, NUMA arch has similar things (numastat, Intel's PCM, other tools). Depending on the workload, it may matter, but if the OS/tooling does not expose the counters, it isn't even possible to quantify the impact.

SGI's IRIX, due to the sheer physical size of their larger ccNUMA systems (AFAIK, AMD's NUMA is from SGI's ccNUMA), had the option to auto-migrate the workloads when certain CPU to working memory latency thresholds were reached.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-18 01:30:29+00:00
I am hopeful China’s EV, battery, and renewables manufacturing machine steamrolls the world. Developed world fossil fuel and legacy auto will try to slow down the transition, so only overwhelming force solves for it.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/byd-ai...

https://www.iea.org/news/more-than-1-in-4-cars-sold-worldwid...

https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...

https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-renewable-energy

Current US admin only has 3.6 years left, ~2M voters 55+ age out every year, etc. Maintain momentum, be ready to spin up faster after regime change.
by jmclnx | 2025-05-18 01:32:20+00:00
Very nice, my first professional job was with Fortran IV, but my 19 year old self made lots of mistakes back then :)

Anyway I eventually ended up with c. Recently I started playing with gfortran, but so much have leaked out of me I have been having a tough time of it. I expect this will help me a lot!

Edit: No functions ? OK, noticed it is handled under Subprograms. Seems there have been many changes.
by tmpz22 | 2025-05-18 01:32:34+00:00
Right, if you assume competency and hard work from the administration involved. Seriously, many of the cuts reference returning power to the states, does that mean it will be returned in its entirety as block grants, or as non-corporate tax cuts? Based on past performance I doubt they'll accomplish either yet the money and programs and federal jobs will still be gone. Federal jobs many considered to be good jobs and even the biggest cynic would admit provided -some- public good (e.g. National Parks NSF, NHS, many others).

How many times is woke (and related words) mentioned? Is dragging culture war BS into the budgeting process really the way forward. In the limited descriptions that they gave, was dedicating so much headspace to nebulous buzzwords really a good use of tax payer money? Are we really machete'ing giant programs and saying its all because of woke?

Green New Scam was plastered everywhere, likely referencing Biden's infrastructure bill where ~80% of funds were earmarked for conservative districts (it was the only way to pass the bill!).

I'm not here to disparage the way you vote or your beliefs and certainly not what you think is best for the country, but taken within the context of Trumps ~5 years in political office, does this really look like a good thing?
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-18 01:33:21+00:00
I’m with you. Weak version of a singularity seems likely. Recursive self improvement isn’t just possible, it’s inevitable. Models are capable of extrapolation, but they don’t even need it to do good interpolation which itself is enough to get us recursive self improvement.

I tend to think that it’ll have an optimistic ending. The key to solving most political problems is eliminating scarcity.
by phire | 2025-05-18 01:34:08+00:00
> The standard api was pretty much OpenGL

Good point. It is the software APIs are where you do see the strong SGI influence. It's not OpenGL, but it's clearly based on their experience with OpenGL. The resulting API is quite a bit better than other 5th gen consoles.

It's only the hardware (especially RDP) that has little direct connection to other SGI hardware.
by protocolture | 2025-05-18 01:39:59+00:00
Good curation is amazing.

When I first signed on to Netflix it worked me out and suggested a bunch of stuff that I love to this day.

But then it ran out of stuff, or they borked the algorithm and now it sucks. And all its competitors suck.

One thing I have noticed is that if you ask a human for a specific recommendation like "Suggest me a novel like The Martian" if they dont have a specific recommendation, you just get their favourite instead. Which makes reddit threads and similar completely useless. The signal to noise ratio is awful.
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-18 01:40:58+00:00
[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/6/4/dei-faculty-hiri...

“ Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will stop requiring a diversity, inclusion, and belonging statement as part of its faculty hiring process”

Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School described these statements as "ideological pledges of allegiance" that pressure candidates to conform to specific viewpoints, potentially discouraging those with differing perspectives

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Too,_Am_Harvard

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Harvard

[4] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/1/pro-palestine-l...

[5] https://www.jdjournal.com/2024/07/05/critics-blast-harvard-t...

[6] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/04/harvard-renames-dive...

[7] https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/28/harvard-university-neut...

For instance, computer science professor Harry Lewis observed that the course catalog contains over 100 classes referencing "social justice" and around 80 each mentioning "oppression" or "liberation,"

[8] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/18/harvar...

[9] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/8/lewis-reaping-wh...

Those are some examples but clearly they have failed to address anti semitism on their campus. Harvard also appears to be an enabler of social activism
by fatbird | 2025-05-18 01:41:28+00:00
For game purposes I've been looking up alchemical and mystical symbols, and I've been frustrated that, while there's a lot of references of symbols, alphabets, etc. themselves, there's little or no presentation of a grammar that would direct one in creating larger diagrams that look like this. This is amazing. It's deeply pleasing that code, represented systematically, would be so aesthetically pleasing.
by notpushkin | 2025-05-18 01:42:55+00:00
Thailand and Malaysia also do this (not sure about IKEA, but definitely McDonalds and konbini, and probably Starbucks too)

In Istanbul I think you can use the transport card to pay in some supermarkets, and of course it works on all transportation modes, including ferries. (As an aside, they also have a QR-code based system specifically for restaurants, which I think is used mainly by companies looking to compensate their workers lunches, but you can also use it in Ininal app to get a discount)
by chrisweekly | 2025-05-18 01:44:14+00:00
My point was agreeing with the GP's underlying point that types matter. Yes it'd be crazy to do serious programming work in JS without types -- that's why ~nobody does that. It's why TypeScript exists and ~everybody doing serious work on JS projects uses it. Their argument was almost a strawman, it refers to a hypothetical situation that doesn't pertain. Serious JS programmers use TS.
by js2 | 2025-05-18 01:46:03+00:00
For posterity, here's the full text of the page:

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beta.weather.gov Has Been Deactivated Until Further Notice

This page has been deactivated until further notice due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves this project without the resources required to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance.

The National Weather Service remains committed to designing a more informative and user-friendly Weather.gov website, and we intend to reactivate this beta site as soon as resources are in place.

In the meantime, please continue to utilize Weather.gov as a source for official National Weather Service forecasts and warnings.

Thank you to everyone who has and continues to provide feedback to improve National Weather Service systems like beta.weather.gov!

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It's been that way since at least March 20, 2025:

https://archive.ph/beta.weather.gov
by nerdsniper | 2025-05-18 01:46:36+00:00
Approval voting is also worth considering, where you put a checkmark in the box for any candidate you’d be okay with. Advantage over ranked choice is that communicating the scoring to citizens is simple: “$CANDIDATE received the most checkmarks.” Whereas with ranked voting, the person who gets the most #1’s might not win and that can confuse some citizens.

Approval voting would result in “the okay-est” candidate winning rather than anyone towards an extreme winning in the primaries. Works well when there are a lot of fairly similar milquetoast candidates that split votes, like the Republican primaries of 2015.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-05-18 01:48:34+00:00
Anyone - I need this! or something similar as a wearable keyboard. Please help me.

I rigged together a torso/chest mounted keyboard system using rugged keyboard and laptop chest harness modified. It actually kinda works but this Tackle keyboard would work really well for my use case, which overlaps significantly with this post.

I use Viture XR glasses, similar to the Xreals in the post. And I have a rugged laptop in a backpack with LTE modem and external antenna. Then what I do is go hiking in woods and periodically stop and open a Ta-Da chair, which I use as a walking stick or carry on my back, then put on the XR glasses which connected to laptop just using the Viture HDMI adapter, open the keyboard harness, and start working, all terminal based work.

The worst worst part of this crazy setup is the keyboard system. It’s awkward and kinda scares other people as it looks like maybe I have a tactical military vest on. opening it up and getting oriented is like 90% of the hassle.

Please someone help me get this Tackle keyboard. I don’t have the physical engineering skills needed, I’m a software guy. DM me on reddit with same username as HN. I will PAY decent money to anyone who can deliver me a working version of this Tackle keyboard.

I also own and tried tap strap and it’s not viable. Keys needed. LLMs combined with Voice to Text is promising and something on software side I’m looking into actively, but I don’t think no keyboard is a productivity retaining option anytime soon.

I do at least 10K steps daily when I have this system working and my goal is to get to 15K steps and drop weight. My preferred environment is outdoors away from desks and tables and civilization.
by shepherdjerred | 2025-05-18 01:49:15+00:00
Part of me doesn’t feel too much sympathy. The majority of Americans voted for Trump. Even more so in the conservative states that are more likely to be impacted by there events.

Trump campaigned on cutting government services.

Everyone is okay with cutting a public service (at the expense of others) until they need that particular service

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To clarify, I'm not cheering on this disaster or hoping that those who voted for Trump "get what they deserve"
by lyall | 2025-05-18 01:50:19+00:00
The whole system is quite tightly controlled by the transit companies (e.g. JR East). For example, your average payment terminal can take money off of a card but not load money onto it (refunds have to be done out of band). Loading money onto cards is more privileged, as it’s equivalent to printing money.

One other limitation in place is that these transit cards have a limit of ¥20,000 (~140 USD) max that can be loaded on to them. So any transaction larger than that is out of the question.

So to answer your question, no this isn’t really a person-to-person cash replacement. It’s a transit card that happens to be able to be used as an offline payment method, but it’s got various limitations and weirdness that prevent it from being something more.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-05-18 01:51:51+00:00
Unfortunately, a lot of liberals live in these states too. This entire country would be blue if we didn't have the electoral college.

But if you're in the mood for not feeling sympathy, because most cities have heat domes that tend to "push" storms away from them, storms tend to leave the more-liberal cities alone and instead wreak havoc through more rural towns.
by idopmstuff | 2025-05-18 01:52:10+00:00
I worked as a PM for a startup that makes software to help review appraisals, and there's absolutely no question that stuff gets missed by humans in appraisal review as well as the rest of the underwriting process.

Every organization is built around tradeoffs between time (which is very much money here) and quality. You route appraisals to people of different skill levels depending on the likelihood of issues and the likelihood that those issues matter. With appraisals, for example, if buyer's putting down 40% where only 20% is required, you check only the super critical stuff, because even if you're meaningfully off on the appraised value it doesn't actually matter that much.

There are a ton of these tradeoffs of whether you should review something as well as whether you should have your most senior people review it. On top of that, reviewers are judged on speed, so naturally they're making tradeoffs of accuracy vs. time themselves on each review.

Using AI means you're able to review things that wouldn't even have been looked at otherwise, because there's no longer a tradeoff of time/cost vs. accuracy. Even the world's best reviewer can't catch things they're not looking at.
by mikenew | 2025-05-18 01:53:46+00:00
proot is just good enough to make you want to try it, but not good enough to keep using it. chroot was far better and if that's what was holding you back I'd recommending trying chroot.

I can relate to the clunk of having 3 different pieces to the setup, but I found myself using just the phone + keyboard pretty often for quick things. And since the desktop environment seems to sit in the background just fine, it wasn't much more than just turning on the phone and opening the keyboard. So in that sense it wasn't much different than a laptop.
by RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u | 2025-05-18 01:54:11+00:00
Very interesting article, but this stood out to me:

> To re-familiarize myself with this bug [...] I downloaded the broken version [...] and tried it out in some virtual machines. Windows 2000 and XP ran it without any trouble on the first try, but Vista and 7 didn’t [...]

Amazing. Emulating an older system in order to debug emulating an even older system. The amount of compute / memory / storage readily available at our fingertips today is astounding. My first computer was a 68k Mac, and back then, I would never imagine such scenarios would be possible!
by uhhhd | 2025-05-18 01:54:18+00:00
Because the reputational damage to Harvard would probably exceed the minimal cost of litigating this (given its endowment) if they thought they would win. It's not evidence in legal sense, but it's a strong suggestion of culpability. Harvard isn't some kid that was arrested on false charges and settles because they're facing jail time. This is a massive institution with a 50B purse. Litigating this is peanuts for them.
by teleforce | 2025-05-18 01:54:27+00:00
There's a complex Numpy indexing codes riddle in the section of "I don’t like NumPy indexing" and Gemini Pro 2.5 came on top (DeepSeek R1, only get the first time right but not later) [1],[2].

> For fun, I tried asking a bunch of AI models to figure out what shapes those arrays have. Here were the results:

Based on the results from the top 8 state-of-the- art AI models, Gemini is the best and consistently got the right results:

[1] I don't like NumPy (204 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996431

[2] I don't like NumPy: I don’t like NumPy indexing:

https://dynomight.net/numpy/
by zmmmmm | 2025-05-18 01:57:31+00:00
I have been eyeing off this setup for ages but I'm stopped by the fact that the glasses only project 1080p displays. They seem to have been stuck at that resolution for years and I'm not sure if it's a technical limitation or something else. I just know I wouldn't use a 1080p screen in real life except in an emergency so I'm super sceptical that I'd be happy with the glasses.

Very curious why these have stalled out at 1080p. They don't have to go much higher, give me 2560x1600 and I will be very happy.
by uhhhd | 2025-05-18 01:57:35+00:00
"I know there were specific instances of Anti-Semitism, which were wrong and should be punished, but is there evidence Harvard didn't take action for those?" That is literally the allegation made in the lawsuit. And calling these protests merely "anti-Israel" is intentionally obtuse — it ignores the blatant anti-Jewish bigotry that was plainly on display.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-05-18 01:58:02+00:00
"Kids don't have a shared cultural experience like I did."

they did, they just have different algos for that. I found italian brainrot meme and what surprising it was so popular for kids, like tens of millions of views

seems like Trends are more personalize now, what popular song that adult like is different with younger audience like

its like having different Trends that live on bubble
by overfeed | 2025-05-18 01:58:24+00:00
while it's not an apples:apples comparison, in contrast, only 5% of American workers commute by public transportation[1], which means >90% commute by car. From this, one can make educated guesses on the socioeconomic status slices that make use of public transit for each respective group - 5% vs 50%

1. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-18 01:58:28+00:00
I maintain that the claim inflammatory content is equally treated is plainly false. I would even say that your post above serves only to deflect from your own conduct.

Case in point, just today, of what I have seen hundreds of times in just the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44018355

This does not pass guidelines, this does not satisfy curiosity, I have rarely seen a warning for content like this. Sometimes it gets flagged, more often it doesn’t.
by grues-dinner | 2025-05-18 01:59:00+00:00
> clearly a lot of knowledge held in silos.

I don't think it's quite that, since the eventual goal is to publish, not only publicly, but as publicly as possible. More like it seems like everyone tends to hold their cards quite close to their chest until the moment of pre-print publication. Which means you can be working on something that someone could have told you months or years ago you have a problem.

The scientific equivalent of polishing a branch before making a pull request, only to be told "this has a huge memory leak and moreover what you want already works if you use this other API".

I'm not really sure there's a human-scale solution: the research landscape is so vast that you can't connect everyone to everyone else and have everyone in need of valuable input get it, and have everyone able to give it not be inundated with half-baked rubbish. Even if you assume everyone from the top to bottom has pure motivations and incentives for doing the research in the first place (in the pull request analogy CVE spammers, for example).

Perhaps not having the universities themselves so keen for PR that they'll slap a press release together about anything that looks clickable without due diligence would at least prevent making a public spectacle outside of the academic circle now and then, but it wouldn't solve the fundamental issues.
by landl0rd | 2025-05-18 02:00:12+00:00
Defense is existential and welfare is not.

Defense is also an enumerated power of the feds and welfare is not.

Defense must be handled at the national welfare and welfare need not be.

My "general rule" is there is a pretty small list of things the feds should do. It is also a "general rule" that when you are worried about overspending you look at the bigger line items first.

Primes are the prime contractors: boeing, northrop, lockheed, rtx. The guys who do a lot of stuff on cost-plus. The guys who systems-integrate most of the smaller manufacturers' stuff.
Show HN: Notion Pomodoro tracking that syncs with Notion databases
by koki_h | 2025-05-18 02:00:33+00:00
Seven months ago I was wasting real life minutes (and plenty of willpower) copy-pasting tasks from my Notion database into a separate time-tracking app.

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One day I spent half of it hunting for a solution, failed, and thought: “Fine—I’ll build it.”

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