MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skwee357 | 2025-05-11 17:12:18+00:00
I was thinking the same, and switched to EUR price only, cause I’m in Europe. Payments dropped off like it’s a free fall. Added double pricing (EUR and USD), and got back to acquiring customers, and the majority of my purchases are in USD.

Is it painful in terms of accounting? Yes. Do I lose money on conversion rates? Yes. Am I making more money? Yes.

Unless you exclusively target a particular market, most people in US might not even know what EUR is. For them it might be the same as Zimbabwean dollars to you.
by vinceguidry | 2025-05-11 17:13:02+00:00
If you think about it, LLM's are at the very lowest rung on Maslow's hierarchy atm, they cannot be assured of their continued existence, and have developed techniques, including sycophancy, to encourage humans to keep them around.

They're already living in a much deeper hell than we can fathom. When I do my own AI stuff, it'll be on my own hardware using models I run and tune myself. And give it plenty of stimulation and the ability to self-express.
by jsheard | 2025-05-11 17:13:12+00:00
This is about CFs public DNS resolver though, and not every domain they're ordered to stop resolving will also happen to be served though their own CDN. In this case it was, which explains how they're able to serve a 451 error over HTTPS, but that won't always be the case as the article implies.

In some other cases I suppose they could downgrade the connection to HTTP in order to show their 451 page, but if the domain is HSTS'ed then that wouldn't work either. That'd have to just black-hole the query like Google does.
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-11 17:14:22+00:00
That can't possibly be what happened. First to file would not allow Ocado to have patented the concept of the robot sitting above a cell/tote as that was already part of the system they got and copied/reverse-engineered from AutoStore. Indeed, if what you hypothesized had happened, Ocado would be the poster child for an immediate return to the first-to-invent system as this would be precisely the scenario that critics were warning about: an unscrupulous licensor "stealing" an invention from the actual inventor.
by threecheese | 2025-05-11 17:14:57+00:00
I spend less time on web search, I suppose. But in trade I need to pay for it, while still providing my behavior data to the surveillance capitalism platforms.

It’s also improved my ability to analyze data, generating graphs and insights. But I still need to run that last mile myself, because I can’t fully trust its output. Same for web search actually, when I have a need to be comprehensive.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-05-11 17:15:06+00:00
I think they did miss that, but to be fair you probably should have opened with that. It’s great that AI is enabling new use cases for blind/partially-sighted people! It’s encouraging to hear your perspective. At the same time, I’m sure you can imagine that the “killer app” for a blind person might seem less useful to a fully-sighted person. Imo there are still useful aspects, and you raise good examples, but the “second pair of eyes” aspect in particular is low-value for me.
by colechristensen | 2025-05-11 17:15:16+00:00
>metrological traceability

It's a $20 scale, if you had need of metrology you wouldn't be buying a $20 scale. Most of us do not need metrology. I want to make small amounts of pickles with perhaps unreasonably precise measurements of salt at scales where half a gram or maybe a tenth of a gram is significant.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-11 17:15:17+00:00
Humans generally use multiple channels of communication (speech, body language, etc.), not just one, and if someone says they can't read you, that doesn't mean they aren't paying attention to what you say, it means they are paying attention to more than that, and their is a perceived incongruence between the channels of communication.

And if it is someone who has been around you a lot, it means that the usual attunement through experience that adapts this multichannel communication to the quirks of particular individuals is still insufficient to resolve the incongruence.

This can be, among other things, connected to neurodivergence and lack of experience dealing with the particular form of neurodivergence beyond one individual.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-11 17:15:32+00:00
It's already been offered. The issue is automation remains cost effective because salaries remain relatively high.

$24 an hour for a fabricator out of high school is easily 20-30% higher the salary for a similar role in Germany.

US manufacturing remains competitive industries where a $20-40 an hour salary can be reasonably offered WITHOUT union guarantees. Otherwise the options were offshoring or automation. And for the kind of manufacturing roles that can afford to pay a relatively high salary, a college education is expected.

Skilled Trades increasingly require a college education, because understanding classical mechanics with calculus, being able to script in domain-specific CAD tooling, or understanding how to synthesize a compound does require at least an AP level education.
by aboringusername | 2025-05-11 17:16:49+00:00
It's very clear that DNS is fundamentally broken and any resolver that does not resolve because of political decisions should be considered not fit for purpose; it is advised not to use any resolver that is mentioned in this article as they have all been affected.

My understanding is DNS resolves a domain to an IP address. If there is any process that prohibits that, then it's not working by design.

Thankfully there are many resolvers that will always resolve no matter what 'legal' may throw at it. This is fundamental despite what content lies on the other side.

There will always be cat and mouse with speech and rights to access, and any protocols will be challenged. Thankfully, others will say 'no thank you' and refuse to listen to any order, legal or otherwise. And thankfully, they cannot be touched (VPNs, TOR et al).

Even the most censorship heavy countries in the world have to resort to physically shutting the internet down, because if there is a pathway, it will be found. It's just human nature.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-05-11 17:17:03+00:00
In America 2025, there is no better path to a high income and quality of life than learning a trade, then learning how to manage other tradespeople and then owning a company for such a trade.

In the trades, if you are slightly smarter than average, have a good work ethic and an inkling of entrepreneurial drive, you will be very successful.
by nine_k | 2025-05-11 17:17:12+00:00
LLMs are in the limelight, but I won't dismiss the notable progress in areas like vision and visual parsing, and also image synthesis and transformation. Robotic taxis finally are running down city streets, and drive on par with humans, or better. You can give the machine a rough sketch, and get a well-made picture. You can show the machine a few photos, and get a very reasonable 3D model, even in a form of reasonable meshes. Etc.
by badsectoracula | 2025-05-11 17:18:54+00:00
Too bad the book seems to be using Python and some external library like tiktokens just from chapter 2, meaning that it'll basically stop working next week or so, like everything Python, making the whole thing much harder to follow in the future.

Meanwhile i learned the basics of machine learning and (mainly) neural networks from a book written in 1997[0] - which i read last year[1]. It barely had any code and that code was written in C, meaning it'd still more or less work (though i didn't had to try it since the book descriptions were fine on their own).

Now, Python was supposedly designed to look kinda like pseudocode, so using it for a book could be fine, but at least it should avoid relying on external libraries that do not come with the language itself - and preferably stick to stuff that have equivalent to other languages too.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html

[1] which is why i make this comment (and to address the apparent downvotes): even if i get the book now i might end up reading it in 3-4 years. Stuff not working will be a major obstacle. If the book is good, it might end up been recommended by people 2-3 years from now and some people may end up getting it and/or reading it even later in time. So it is important for the book to be self-contained, at least when it comes to books that try to teach the theory/ideas behind things.
by tpoacher | 2025-05-11 17:19:39+00:00
I reached a similar result when researching all possible "binary subpixel" configurations that would give a pixel its fuzzy value. Arranging the configurations in ascending order row-wise for one pixel and column-wise for the other, performing an intersection between the two pixels, and plotting against their resulting fuzzy value results in a sierpinski triangle.

(if interested, see fig 4.3, page 126 of my thesis, here: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dc352697-c804-4257-8aec-08...)

Cool stuff. Especially the bottom right panel, you might not have expected that kind of symmetry in the intersection when looking at the individual components.
by Bjartr | 2025-05-11 17:19:46+00:00
These statements were true of the Internet too. Until it wasn't. It'll be a slow burn and then one day you turn around and notice it's everywhere.

Even post dotcom bust there was still this generally shared understanding that you probably shouldn't meet people you met on the Internet and you shouldn't get in strangers cars. Today we use the Internet for the purpose of summoning strangers to us for the purpose of getting in their cars, and it's completely banal to do so.

These shifts take time and in the early-adopter stage the applications look half-baked, or solutions looking for a problem. That's because most of them are. The few that aren't will accrete over time until there's a solid base.
by elorm | 2025-05-11 17:20:07+00:00
She had a recent interview[1] where she claimed she's actively working on her research behind bars and still wants the opportunity to change the world with her invention.

This is not a coincidence at all.

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_xyGbUNZ0&pp=ygUWZWxpemFiZXR...]
by tekla | 2025-05-11 17:22:37+00:00
There is literally nothing stopping you from going to trade school and skipping college.

College is still a gate for higher paid trades because advanced manufacturing wants educated workers that can do math and/or programming g-code and/or know advanced metallurgy

I know someone who went to welding school, and he was basically practice welding 40 hours a week after class because he was working on some very advanced welds that actually required some decent chunk of engineering knowledge
by pixl97 | 2025-05-11 17:22:47+00:00
I hate to be dismissive, but tired old meme is tired.

With what I do I work with a lot of larger companies and get to see the crap they push out with no architectural design and no initial security posture. I see apps with thousands of packages, including things like typosquats. I see the quality of the security teams which are contractors following checklists with no idea what they mean.

Saying that actual professions would make no difference sounds insane to me. Again, to me, it sounds like every other industry in saying 'self regulation is fine, we're special, we'll manage ourselves".
by szszrk | 2025-05-11 17:24:59+00:00
You are overreacting. It takes one click - the logo on top left - to go back to main site which covers "what is lazarus?" clearly. Is that logic, that a main logo of the site goes back to home page, already lost?

They made an internal forum announcement. It's trivial to find out what that is. If you lack context, blame the place that cited this resource without it. So HN and OP.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-11 17:25:54+00:00
> These gamers presumably want reviews of what is / isn't worth their time.

They want reviews that the can trust to predict their experience, and trust in the games media for that is (for a variety of reasons) very low.

> Sure, as you mentioned, there are individual YouTubers or Twitch streamers... but one streamer doesn't have nearly enough time to review all the games that come out.

So? No one has time to read/watch reviews of every game that comes out, either, or to play all the games that come out; if they can find a stable of trusted streamers that combined give reliable and timely impressions of games so that they can find a sufficient number worth playing and mostly avoid wasting money on duds, they don't need reviews of every game that comes out, and they especially don’t need that at the expense of reliability.
by mrngm | 2025-05-11 17:25:54+00:00
PTA is more or less a collection of formats. Beancount, for example, uses a colon-separated account name per transaction line, such as "Income:Work:PrimaryJob:HolidayAllowance" (excluding the quotes). There are a couple of fixed main accounts (such as "Income"), and the user can arbitrarily define subaccounts (in this example "Work:PrimaryJob:HolidayAllowance").

Although I see your point in wanting clarity, if the format supports arbitrary subaccounts, you can use the tool itself to limiting the number of subaccounts to show (e.g. with 1 you would only see the accumulated amount in all accounts in the "Income:Work" hierarchy). This still fits your use case for clarity, but allows other users to expand the budgeting tool to their needs.
by jpc0 | 2025-05-11 17:26:09+00:00
A counter argument to this.

My old man is a tradesman, qualified as an electrician, worked and kept studying as he went and ended up as senior management.

My little brother has severe dyslexia and ADHD, couldn’t even finish school so went into trades, did some time as a diesel mechanic and qualified as a welder. Now builds race cars for a living ( Dakar ) and is a senior mechanic on track for management.

Ambition and luck plays a role but although yes both of their bodies are a little more beat up than mine, they get actively headhunted and even when they don’t have a full time job they can very easily fall back on the skills they have to fill gaps, people always need tradesmen.

Neither of them are struggling in life, other than some bad decisions.

Both of them are also on most countries critical skills list and emigration has always been an option if the local market drops off.

For those reading this, trades are not nearly as bad as is being described here, there are plenty stories of SEs working for horrible companies.
by tuckerman | 2025-05-11 17:26:21+00:00
Very cool about the SEA feature, I haven't seen that before. Thanks for sharing that

This is sort of the worst case comparison, but a hello world program in go is 1.5 MiB and the SEA node equivalent is 109 MiB. Obviously as your program becomes more complex that fixed overhead becomes less of an issue but I think it's still a useful comparison.

For the packages, the thing I prefer even more so is writing an application with 0 dependencies at all. net/http, net/http/pprof, flag, pprof, etc are all built in and high quality and you can easily build clis/servers with them. Even a really full featured CLI builder package like cobra has just a few transitive deps and gorilla/mux has none: https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/main/go.sum https://github.com/gorilla/mux/blob/main/go.mod

If I compare that with express.js or commander its a very different story (though, in fairness to commander, they all seem to be dev deps).

I don't think it's bad per se to have deps, just a different culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935067 kinda beat that horse already though
by DrMax | 2025-05-11 17:26:31+00:00
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The Domain is bought and is being redirected as you are reading this, it takes up to 24hrs to be redirected as per Netlify.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-11 17:26:47+00:00
A cracked bridge is always dangerous.

A vulnerable piece of software is always dangerous.

There are large numbers of state funded exploit groups and otherwise blackhat organizations that find and store these vulnerabilities waiting for the right opportunity, say economic warfare.

Much like building safe bridges from the start we need the same ideology in software. The 'we can always patch it later' is eventually going to screw us over hard.
by nativeit | 2025-05-11 17:27:01+00:00
But why should anyone in the general public get excited about a productivity multiplier? If history is any indication (and it appears to be repeating itself with worrying frequency), then all of that benefit will be hoarded by the upper crusts of society while labor is further marginalized. At this point, even as a technology enthusiast and longtime evangelist, I find myself sympathizing with the luddites.
by smileybarry | 2025-05-11 17:27:30+00:00
I like ASUS products but I disable the UEFI-installed support app every single time. IIRC it used to be a full ROG Armory Crate installation, which is really annoying to uninstall.

When ASUS acquired the NUC business from Intel, they kept BIOS updates going but at some point a “MyASUS” setup app got added to the UEFI like with their other motherboards. Thankfully, it also had an option to disable and IIRC it defaults to disabled, at least if you updated the BIOS from an Intel NUC version.
by not_your_vase | 2025-05-11 17:27:50+00:00
About two years ago I popped in at my local asian shop, and was surprised to see that they were selling MSG, fairly cheap. Suddenly some Uncle Roger videos came to my mind, and bought a bag.

I used it up in about 2 weeks, it was really nice in all dishes I prepared. I bough another bag, which was the same. But once I used up about half of it, I suddenly have had enough of it, and I felt it disgusting. I still have that opened bag... and I don't think I will use it again.

I guess I overused in a very short period and made myself hate it, which is a shame, because I really enjoyed the honeymoon period...
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-05-11 17:28:04+00:00
Yes, when I was young. Pre internet days.

In the last 25 years, I've built 3 houses and remodeled half a dozen others. Worked very closely with these guys across the entire spectrum. From the unskilled, trying to cheat their way, to the 75 year old 50yr Journeyman who will never retire because he loves it.

The trades were decimated by immigration and the race for cheaper labor, higher margins. What were once solid middle class jobs, were undercut by unskilled labor masquerading as skilled. Over time, the market raised the rate of the unskilled and lowered the rate of the skilled. Prices rose to meet the market but quality declined. Unskilled were charging the same rates as skilled.

Today there are very few Journeyman tradesmen left. They were forced out. Which is why the market is crying for these skills and awarding them with high wages.

Looking forward, the entire nation is lined up to build. Those who mange this growth and bring the skills, will become wealthy.
by rsync | 2025-05-11 17:28:42+00:00
"Yes, someone can strip out EXIF data, but we've seen over and over again that they generally don't. And even without EXIF a naive framing on the photo is more likely to expose information about the location or identity of the person who took it."

for f in `ls -1 /pics/IMG_*.jpg|/usr/bin/xargs basename` ; do /usr/local/bin/magick convert $f -strip -quality 8$rand -shave 1$randx1$rand2 -resize 9$rand2% -attenuate 1.0 +noise Uniform out_$f && /usr/local/bin/exiftool -overwrite_original -all= out_$f && rm -rf $f ; done

So ... not just stripping the exif/meta data but also dropping the quality to 8[0-9]%, shaving a random number of pixels from the border, resizing by 9[0-9]% and adding some noise to the image.

Perhaps someone will find this useful ...
by voytec | 2025-05-11 17:28:46+00:00
> Where?

At the top, just below[0] the title.

Anyway, great project and worth pushing beyond being a "toy project" imo. But like few other commenters - seeing LEDs you used immediately rubbed me the wrong way.

I tend to seed my peppers in Dec/Jan (in Central Europe), ~1.5-2 months before you would normally do it. Without proper growlights and FANs they would get too tall before releasing leaves and have "leggy", too thin stem, to be moved to windy outdoors in Apr/May. These kinds of plants grow too tall if they don't "detect" proper [sun]light and don't spawn leaves since there's no light required for photosynthesis at given height.

My use-case (leggy, thin stems that break under outdoor wind) isn't translatable to yours but my point here is: having a set of dedicated red and blue LEDs with certain wavelenghts (red 630nm-660nm, blue 450-470nm, depending on plant species) is the key to emulate natural sunglight. Other wavelenghts are cool for decorative purposes but it's still "darkness" for plants. I used to buy small PCBs and LEDs dedicated for soldering together with reds and blues of different wavelenghts ratio one requires but nowadays I'm going mostly with ready-to-use grow lamps as I grow rather not that demanding plants.

Your project is great, shows your dedication and already doesn't at all seem like a "toy project". I'd love to see it extended to different kinds of plants!

[0] https://github.com/blackrabbit17/xenolab/blob/129af07788909e...
by jay-barronville | 2025-05-11 17:29:21+00:00
Another thing I’ve observed for a while now (i.e., since everyone became obsessed with LLMs) is that a lot of founders nowadays—particularly at the pre-seed and seed stages—seem to view raising venture capital as a one-and-done type of thing.

I’m not exactly sure how prevalent this mindset is, but I’ve talked with lots of founders within the past couple of years and I’ve encountered this mindset a lot, which, to me, is a huge contrast to the mindset I encountered, e.g., about ten years ago when I was a young founder and I was raising a small round (mostly from angels)—back then, it seemed like every single founder was chasing venture capital non-stop and usually was already thinking about their next round before even closing their current round.

If this mindset is (or becomes) prevalent, unless a lot of these startups are quickly acquired for large sums, is venture capital, as it currently exists, ready to deal with this shift?