MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nofriend | 2025-05-29 04:25:04+00:00
The ruling was basically that the tariffs themselves were unconstitutional. Specifically, the court found trump's tariffs so arbitrary that congress is forbidden from delegating the power to impose such tariffs to him. In order to not void the laws congress passes, the court can reinterpret the wording of the law so that it stops being unconstitutional. This leads to some explanation that the particular law he invoked gave him too narrow a power, but any law you can mention, no matter how broad it seems, would be interpreted by the court as too narrow (or as unconstitutional). Trump's argument in this case was basically, well I can declare an emergency any time I like, and I can claim that whatever I'm doing is fixing the emergency, so I can do whatever I want. Even though they might otherwise have given him that broad discretion, in order to maintain separation of powers they had to call bullshit on that reasoning.
by blobbers | 2025-05-29 04:25:05+00:00
Why is this country insisting on this ridiculous infighting? Why do you have a democracy if your bureaucracy is set up to resist the person the people elected? Didn't this exact sort of thing happen when a democrat was elected, the republicans basically stonewalled all progress? Now the dem bureaucracy is stonewalling the republicans? Is this how checks and balances is supposed to work? Am I being naive in thinking it wasn't always like this?
NeuroSpace – AI employees for business that work like humans
by NeuroSpace | 2025-05-29 04:26:38+00:00
We launched NeuroSpace.pro, a platform for creating AI employees that help businesses with tasks like sales, customer support, feedback collection, and routine communication.

Unlike basic GPT-powered bots, we focus on: – Role: Each AI employee has personality, skills, and goals – Workflow: They’re integrated into real company processes – Autonomy: They operate independently, not just replying on demand

We use custom GPT models + CRM/Telegram/bot integrations + tailored shells for each client. We’re not building chatbots “just to chat” — only solutions tied to specific business needs.

We’d love feedback from the HN community. What could we improve? What use cases would you find most valuable?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-29 04:27:02+00:00
> Most workloads don’t need distributed OLTP. Hardware got faster and cheaper. A single beefy machine can handle the majority of transactional workloads. Cursor and OpenAI are powered by a single-box Postgres instance. You’ll be just fine.

I thought this was such an important point. Sooooo many dev hours were spent figuring out how to do distributed writes, and for a lot of companies that work was never needed.
by zrobotics | 2025-05-29 04:27:35+00:00
Send them an email asking for a quote. For a small business like this, I'd expect they can probably ship it to you but the complexities of quoting shipping internationally means they don't have it on the site. Yes, shipping APIs are readily available, but implementing them costs more than the shoestring budget they likely have for the site and would also require integration with their inventory software. I'd be willing to gamble that they are likely using a homegrown WMS that is a combination of excel sheets and several layers of scripts from former and current employees who can write code but aren't professional developers.

I've consulted for similar size businesses, and shipping integration was always the reason to not support international shipments. Send them an email, you'll almost certainly hear back from a real person and if you let them know what you want to order they can probably make it happen.
by babyshake | 2025-05-29 04:28:09+00:00
I guess one way it might be able to work is with a manager agent, who delegates to IC agents to try different attempts. The manager reviews their work and understands the differences in what they are doing, and can communicate with you about it and then to the ICs doing the work. So you are like a client who has a point of contact at an engineering org who internally is managing how the project is being completed.
by fuckAutomata | 2025-05-29 04:29:34+00:00
> At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional language of the kind we humans use is possible. At the 100 million or so neurons of a cat, it doesn’t seem to be.

The implication here that presupposes neuron count generally scales ability is the latest in a long line of extremely questionable lines of thought from mr wolfram. I understand having a blog, but why not separate it from your work life with a pseudonym?

> In a rough first approximation, we can imagine that there’s a direct correspondence between concepts and words in our language.

How can anyone take anyone who thinks this way seriously? Can any of us imagine a human brain that directly related words to concepts, as if "run" has a direct conceptual meaning? He clearly prefers the sound of his own voice compared to how his is received by others. That, or he only talks with people who never bothered to read the last 200 years of european philosophy. Which would make sense given his seeming adoration of LLMs.

There's a very real chance that more neurons would hurt our health. Perhaps our brain is structured in a way to maximize their use and minimize their cost. It's certainly difficult to justify brain size as a super useful thing (outside of my big-brained human existence) looking at the evolutionary record.
by davorak | 2025-05-29 04:29:51+00:00
> What the court can’t do is then second guess that finding—analyzing it substantively to determine whether it is correct or not.

Asking weather if follows a.1 and a.2 does not seem 100% independent of asking if it is correct or not.

"I as president claim a.1, and a.2 are not being violated their for the law allows me to impose a tariff"

"I as president stubbed my toe this morning therefore a.1 and a.2 have been violated and I will be imposing a tariff."

"a.1 and a.2 have been violated, no I will not tell you how, therefor tariff."

You are saying it is black and white, but it does not seem so in the examples above.
by sandspar | 2025-05-29 04:29:52+00:00
This makes sense. Recently I learned that there's a collectors market for marbles. Like, people will pay thousands of dollars for a glass marble. Who knew? An article talked at length about the difficulties involved in making a really good marble. There's all sorts of tricky things to manage and a million ways to mess up. But that's part of the fun, right? A collector wouldn't spend thousands of dollars on a glass marble that's easy to make. And if marbles were easy to make, surely a talented craftsman wouldn't devote their life to making them.
by chatmasta | 2025-05-29 04:31:59+00:00
I’m the kind of person who is conscientious enough to make a handover document when I go on PTO, and the same traits that make me do that are the reason why I’d never use this. It lacks a personal touch; in fact it’s almost insulting (“I couldn’t be bothered to prepare a handover document so I asked this AI to do a shoddy job of it”). And the whole point of a handover document is to capture top-of-mind priorities that exist nowhere outside of your own head. An LLM won’t fix that (at least in the near-term before we’ve all got brain implants…)
by andoando | 2025-05-29 04:32:07+00:00
What you consider a single thought is a bit ill defined. A multitude of thoughts together can be formed as a packet, which then can be processed sequentially.

Intelligence is the ability to capture, and predicts events in space and time, and as such it must have the capability to model both things occurring in simultaneity and sequentially.

Sticking to your example, a routine for making a decision in tennis would look something like at a higher level "Run to the left and backstroke the ball", which broken down would be something like "Turn hip and shoulder to the left, extend left leg, extend right, left, right, turn hip/shoulder to the right, swing arm." and so on.
by xyst | 2025-05-29 04:33:27+00:00
What does this solve? Are Japanese addresses that complex? Does the population of Japan move around quite frequently thus the need for some static identifier?

I don’t see any particular upside at this point. It suffers from "weak enumeration" and possibly make stalking much easier.

(( sure govt will try to limit queries but there are many ways around it. Govt will spend millions over the next few years playing cat and mouse while ))
How do you manage, utilize knowledge with AI?
by BockErica542 | 2025-05-29 04:35:11+00:00
Every day I (and I assume most of us, devs, creatives…) read a bunch of articles, papers, code snippets, AI responses, newsletters... By the end of the day, some of that feels worth saving in some kind of system.

I’ve been testing out AI knowledge management apps like notion, saner, mem… but I’m still figuring out what actually works long-term.

Curious what others do. How do you store and organize things you come across and make use of them when needed?
by cvoss | 2025-05-29 04:35:43+00:00
Having a decision algorithm does not make a computation free. It may take exponential time in the input size, doubly exponential time, some time involving Graham's number, ... etc. It may also take up an unreasonable amount of space. Indeed, some problems have such complex algorithms that you should expect the universe to end before the answer is determined and/or the computing device is doomed to collapse into a black hole, making the answer irretrievable.

So the blog post's claims that a hypothetical halting algorithm would solve anything "overnight" are exaggerated and naive.
by quacksilver | 2025-05-29 04:37:14+00:00
I 'work' remotely for a US company from abroad regularly. I have no connection to the US.

I own a corporation and it is a B2B outsourcing arrangement rather than an employee though.

I don't get the same rights as an employee, but am fine with that as they are paying me and I am voluntarily providing the work.

I am surprised more people don't try that arrangement as I have seen nothing to suggest there are problems with it so far. I just needed to get an EIN, file 8832 as I have a single member foreign corporation then fill in a W-8BEN-E and protectively file 1120-F and 8833 every year.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-29 04:39:50+00:00
It's not like people are just closing their eyes and trusting in leader. I'm part of that 40% (and probably substantially more given contemporary pollsters difficulty in reaching people like me [1]), and I think my rationale is quite sound. The fundamental reason is that we are creating an unsustainable system. When Germany chose to limit imports of Russian gas, they wrecked their economy. Many people, blinded by hindsight, wondered why they would have created such a dependency to begin with.

But that completely ignores the fact that literally every other nation, including the US most obviously, has excesses of dependencies on other countries, many of which we aren't friendly with today, and even more that we won't be friendly with tomorrow. Times change. An 'advanced economy' is a misnomer, if not an outright facade. Supplanting agriculture, real manufacturing, and other core aspects of your economy with e.g. advertising driven high tech discretionary industries creates an inverted dependency. People don't need iPhones or Google. They do need food, the zillion things in your home labeled 'made in China', and gas. If those 'lesser economies' chose to stop selling to the US, they'd destroy the country.

Offshoring all of these jobs also distorts the economy driving excesses of wealth inequality. Many of the jobs that used to lay between flipping burgers and writing code are the exact ones that have been hollowed out by offshoring. The fundamental problem we've created is that it's cheaper than make a widget half way around the world and ship it here than it is than it is to make it here. So how do we fix this? Tariffs are a blunt way to change this, but change it they do. The most probable outcome is that these providers will simply increase their prices which will, in turn, enable and motivate domestic competition and/or incentivize these companies to create onshore operations.

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/polling-20...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-29 04:40:41+00:00
Maybe, but I don't think this is strictly how human intelligence works

I think a key difference is that humans are capable of being inputs into our own system

You could argue that any time humans do this, it is as a consequence of all of their past experiences and such. It is likely impossible to say for sure. The question of determinism vs non-determinism has been discussed for literal centuries I believe
by jackcosgrove | 2025-05-29 04:41:26+00:00
They helped me out for my 8th grade science fair! I wanted to build a shake table to simulate the effects of earthquakes on buildings. (tl;dr: the taller the building, the more flexible it is. At least according to my experiment, which did get me a place at the state finals.) They helped me size the motor and even had an AC one I could plug directly into the wall. This was the Geneva location.
by maxbond | 2025-05-29 04:41:30+00:00
> Also the same principle applies to all life

Actively maintained equilibria abound, but this is not typically the mechanism. Different species in adjacent niches aren't better or worse versions of the same organism to be evaluated and either selected or discarded. It's more typical for them to adopt a strategy of ecological segmentation so that they can all have their needs met. Every few years moths migrate to my state to reproduce - and they do so before our local moths have woken up for the season, and leave around the time they do, so that they aren't in competition. Birds that feed from the same trees will eat from different parts of the tree and mate at different times, so that their peak energy consumption doesn't line up. What would the benefit be in driving each other to extinction?

Evolution doesn't make value judgments, it doesn't know which species is better or worse and it doesn't know how future climactic shifts will change the fitness landscape. Segmentation is both easier and a hedge against future climactic shifts.

Engineering works under a very different logic where the goal is optimal performance in a controlled environment for an acceptable service life, not satisfactory performance with extremely high robustness in the face of unknown changes into the perpetual future. When we rank different systems and select the most optimal, we are designing a system that is extremely brittle on geologic timescales. Abandon a structure and it will quickly fall apart. But we don't care because we're not operating at geologic timescales and we expect to be around to redesign systems as their environment changes to make them unsuitable.

Similarly, the reproduction of labor/capacity in markets you described could be viewed as trading efficiency for robustness instead of as waste. Eg, heavily optimized supply chains are great for costs, but can have trouble adapting to global pandemics, wars in inconvenient places, or ships getting stuck in the wrong canal.
by KPGv2 | 2025-05-29 04:42:04+00:00
> just that there's a burden or disadvantage

You're omitting a key clause: a burden or disadvantage . . . by any of the unequal impositions or discriminations aforesaid

The "unequal impositions aforesaid" are:

1. a country that imposes duties/tariffs on the US but "is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign country"

2. discriminates "in such manner as to place the commerce of the United States at a disadvantage compared with the commerce of any foreign country"

So the law only gives authority for retaliatory tariffs when the US is specifically being targeted.
by duke_leto | 2025-05-29 04:42:33+00:00
100% agree that this is not a comprehensive analysis.

For instance, recently a core Monero dev published something called OSPEAD which is a proposed fix to the "Map Decoder Attack" which he also publicly disclosed at the same time : https://github.com/Rucknium/OSPEAD

The TLDR is that Monero has about 75% less privacy than anybody thought, and this attack is still "live" in production. It requires a mandatory upgrade by every node on the network to fix and as far as I know, no fix has been decided upon yet. The attack can be combined with other attacks to completely de-anonymize transactions. I recently wrote about the bug and my proposed mitigation that users can do to regain privacy here: https://duke.hush.is/memos/6/ . AMA, if you desire.

This attack (and mitigation) is not getting the attention it deserves, partially because it is technical and hard to explain and partially because it does not serve the interests of content marketers and Monero influencers.

Monero is indeed moving to ZK proofs because they are mathematically superior in every way. At a very high level, they are moving towards being more like Zcash but they are not using Zcash ZK machinery, they are rolling their own. They are called "Full Chain Membership Proofs" or FCMPs. You can read the paper about those here: https://github.com/kayabaNerve/fcmp-plus-plus-paper/blob/dev...

As another example, recently an anonymous researcher published http://maldomapyy5d5wn7l36mkragw3nk2fgab6tycbjlpsruch7kdninh... (you will need Tor Browser to access that) which explains how the Monero network is being spied on by malicious nodes, with the end result being that transaction id's can be linked to IP addresses.

There are various other examples of de-anonymization attacks on Monero but OSPEAD and network spying (which can be combined) are some of the worst, because they are very inexpensive and effective.
by keiferski | 2025-05-29 04:42:46+00:00
Yeah the paradox here is that employees on their way out are less likely to be forthcoming in sharing their knowledge, while current employees aren’t super incentivized to be thorough, as it functionally makes them easier to get rid of.

So the employer either needs to be surveillant and somewhat hostile, taking data from Slack messages etc. Or they need to have a culture which prioritizes documentation as a part of daily routine.
by ChaitanyaSai | 2025-05-29 04:42:52+00:00
As brains get bigger, you get more compute, but you have to solve the "commute" problem. Messages have to be passed from one corner to the other, and fast. And there are so many input signals coming in (for us, likely from thirty trillion cells, or at least a significant fraction of those). Not all are worth transporting to other corners. Imagine a little tickle on your toe. Should that be passed on? Usually no, unless you are in an area with creepy crawlies, and other such situation. So decisions have to made. But who will make these decisions for us? (Fascinating inevitably recursive question we'll come back to)

This commute is pretty much ignored when making artificial brains which can guzzle energy, but matters criticallyfor biological brains. It needs to be (metabolically) cheap, and fast. What we perceive as a consciousness is very likely a consensus mechanism that helps a 100 billion neurons collectively decide, at a very biologically cheap price, what data is worth transporting to all corners for it to become meaningful information. And it has to be recursive, because these very same 100 billion neurons are collectively making up meaning along the way. This face matters to me, that does not, and so on. Replace face with anything and everything we encounter. So to solve the commute problem resulting from a vast amount of compute, we have a consensus mechanism that gives rise to a collective. That is the I, and the consensus mechanism is consciousness

We explore this (but not in these words) in our book Journey of the Mind.

You'll find that no other consciousness model talks about the "commute" problem because these are simply not biologically constrained models. They just assume that some information processing, message passing will be done in some black box. Trying to get all this done with the same type of compute (cortical columns, for instance) is a devilishly hard challenge (please see the last link for more about this). You sweep that under the rug, consciousness becomes this miraculous and seemingly unnecessary thing that somehow sits on top of information processing. So you then have theorists worry about philosophical zombies and whatnot. Because the hard engineering problem of commute was entirely ignored.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60500189-journey-of-t...

https://saigaddam.medium.com/consciousness-is-a-consensus-me...

https://saigaddam.medium.com/conscious-is-simple-and-ai-can-...

https://saigaddam.medium.com/the-greatest-neuroscientist-you...
by cyberax | 2025-05-29 04:42:59+00:00
> wait we're not in the nosql era anymore?

Kinda. It turned out, that for the vast majority of users, a single Postgres instance on a reasonably large host is more than enough. Perhaps with a read replica as a hot standby.

You can easily get 1 million transactions per second from it (simple ones, granted). So why bother with NoSQL?

> redis and kafka (and their clones) are ubiquitous, etc etc

That's a bit different. Kafka is a message queue, and Redis is mostly used as a cache.
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by mmooss | 2025-05-29 04:44:40+00:00
Leopoldstadt, the play by Tom Stoppard, has a mathematician in it, Ludwig, and some mathematics.

People always are asking Ludwig to examine their child, who they think might be a prodigy. Ludwig always asks the children, 'what is the sum of all the numbers 1-20?' and/or '1-100?'. If they answer quickly, he asks for the sum of 1-100; if they don't answer that quickly, they fail the test. How does Ludwig know?

(If you look it up then you not only aren't a prodigy, you're a dumbass.)