MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codetrotter | 2025-05-11 14:44:37+00:00
In Norway we have a website developed by the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency which has the domain

https://www.norge.no/

(Norge means Norway in Norwegian.)

But in our case that’s a little bit different from the Canadian one.

Norge.no is a guide to digital public services in Norway. The portal presents services from national and local government agencies.

So it’s a place you might go to find where to go for government services when you aren’t sure where to go to find it. And then you are taken to the actual website for what you are looking for, which will be under its own domain instead of on norge.no

Personally I don’t use Norge.no, I just go more or less directly to the websites for the government services that I am interested in or I find them on Google.
by firejake308 | 2025-05-11 14:44:54+00:00
> Celgene said it spent $800 million to develop Revlimid and spent several hundred million more on additional trials to study the use of the drug in other cancers. Those combined figures represent about 2% to 3% of Revlimid sales through 2018.

These guys are making 300% ROI in annual revenue from their one-time investment into R&D. In order for that to be fair (in line with your 20% average ROI target), they would need to be testing 15 new drugs per year, and if all of the others had failed, then it would be fair to markup the one that succeeded by this amount. But according to the Wikipedia page, the company has investigated less than 10 drugs in their entire existence, much less 15 drugs per year.
by schneems | 2025-05-11 14:45:01+00:00
As a crate author a thing I don’t like is that rustdocs are not easily sharable even though the same code might be used in a function, module and readme doc.

I took a stab at a JINJA based rustdoc templating solution: https://docs.rs/drydoc/latest/drydoc/. It’s not “done” but I think the idea holds promise. Anything else like this that you’ve seen? My other option is to use include_str macro.
by belorn | 2025-05-11 14:45:07+00:00
They don't need to embed ads into the browser if the websitet that the user will load are already loaded with google ads. They also don't need to replace competitor ads with google ads if there is no meaningful market share by any competitor.

Why should they siphon data to a third parties when they themselves want the data, and its a competitive advantage to keep that data for themselves.

What we are seeing is chrome becoming the new IE where alternatives browsers are not longer allowed on the internet. "You’re using a web browser that is not supported. In order to use [Insert website], please download Chrome for the best experience. Download Chrome here!". (https://www.datanyze.com/browser-support/ie/index.html)
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-05-11 14:45:11+00:00
You're unfortunately a bit off, likely due to bias from your prior involvement in this thread, or a feeling of being cornered from so many people pointing out that your claims are silly, unsubstantiated and logically inconsistent. Allow me to help you as an impartial observer of your interactions with others: "We", as in the people commenting on this HN post (perhaps excepting you), were talking about the post: republicans totally gutting science funding regardless of DEI (even if they _unconvincingly_ try to claim that as a pretext while failing to prove it).

Your confusion here might explain why your comments are apparently being viewed by so many others as low value (just observing here, not making that judgement myself), and why you're being so consistently corrected by others in this HN post. Try to take our constructive criticism constructively. Don't fall into the common right-wing trope-trap of thinking anyone who disagrees with you or downvotes you is an enemy plotting against you who must be defeated. Open yourself to changing your mind based on overwhelming feedback from many others. Don't "dig in"/"double down" like the current president of the usa [0].

I say "confusion" because I have good faith in you, and don't think you're engaging in tired whataboutism in an attempt to redirect criticism away from those at fault intentionally. I imagine the reason you're doing it, is likely just a mistake on your part, hence the helpful advice above.

0: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/oppositional-...
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-11 14:45:20+00:00
The counter is that people can build their own informed intuition about whether these things are helpful, particularly in coordination with their doctor and experience of using it. And a product is easier to improve and will improve more quickly if the company can easily bring updates and find investment that improve quality to product they have revenue for.

I think the FDA safety margin for things like this should be more “this has no actual obvious harm to use, it has a plausible mechanism of action to help + isn’t fraudulently measuring what it claims to measure and its science backed.

Something like this hits all the targets already.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-11 14:45:57+00:00
> For now, the hallucination problem is objectively only getting worse with reasoning models, and there is no solution in sight.

You pulled this statement out of your ass. Objectively? We have baseline quantitative tests that say the opposite? LLMS are doing better on tests and it’s been improving. Where did your “objective” statement come from? Anecdotes? Quotations?

> Technical skills will matter for the simple reason that someone will always need to supervise the output of the AI.

Humans will never be so stupid as to lose all technical skill. In the beginning there needs to be mild technical skill at most so the human can somewhat understand what the AI is doing. But as trust grows the human will understand less and less of it. The human is like a desperate micro manager attempting to cling to understanding but that inevitably eventually erodes completely.
by yawaramin | 2025-05-11 14:46:24+00:00
How can Scala 'talk down' the platform it exists on? This doesn't even make sense. You know the creator of Scala made deep contributions (generics) to the JVM, right? Scala's sbt is used by many Java projects as a build system. Its Play Framework and Akka actor system are super popular in Java too because they provide idiomatic Java APIs. Projects like Spark keep JVM relevant for Big Data. SoftwareMill's Ox project builds directly on top of JVM virtual threads and structured concurrency. I haven't even heard of any equivalent Clojure project.

You have it exactly backwards, I'm afraid.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-11 14:46:51+00:00
Some of us believe GC[0] isn't an impediment for systems programming languages.

They haven't taken off as Xerox PARC, ETHZ, Dec Olivetti, Compaq, Microsoft desired more due to politics, external or internal (in MS's case), than technical impediments.

Hence why I like the way Swift and Java/Kotlin[1] are pushed on mobile OSes, to the point "my way or get out".

I might discuss about many of Go's decisions regarding minimalism language design, however I will gladly advocate for its suitability as systems language.

The kind of systems we used to program for a few decades ago, compilers, linkers, runtimes, drivers, OS services, bare metal deployments (see TamaGo),...

[0] - Any form of GC, as per computer science definition, not street knowledge.

[1] - The NDK is relatively constrained, and nowadays there is Kotlin Native as well.
by drdrek | 2025-05-11 14:47:19+00:00
I've got AI fatigue as the next guy, but this is over correcting.

VC money is in a constant state of FOMO, this is nothing new. Companies dress up as AI, or web3 or web2, or fintech or what ever to more easily attract capital. If 57.9% of dollars went to AI startups this year is not because everything is AI, I would bet 25% are just companies that tacked AI on to an unrelated business model and its skewing the statistics. I'll promise you that 10 years from now 57.9% of VC funding is going to be in some other buzzword and its not going to be AI.
by mattbessey | 2025-05-11 14:50:37+00:00
I'm not sure that's a particularly fair conclusion to make Mike.

1bn a day is order 10k/s. if you the creator of Sidekiq know "dozens" of people hitting that rates, if anything you're supporting arcticfox's point that these systems are quite rare.

No shade intended. I have been a very grateful Sidekiq Enterprise customer in past Ruby jobs.
by osigurdson | 2025-05-11 14:52:08+00:00
>> people leave (because of) their managers

I've often wondered, when people say this, do they mean their direct managers or the management hierarchy in general? If direct manager only, this only makes sense if they have a lot of leeway to run things how they want. For instance, if a company decides to cut 30% of the workforce and more people (naturally) leave afterward, is it really the direct manager that caused them to leave?

I think people leave "the situation" for all kinds of reasons. If you have a really horrible direct manager, that might be why you leave but it certainly isn't universal.
by klabb3 | 2025-05-11 14:52:33+00:00
> Her department nominally has a strategy, but I couldn't leak it if I wanted to; I literally could never figure out what any part of it meant, even after years of hearing her describe it.

This was my experience with upper-middle management to VP (sometimes SvP) level at Google. The way they communicate is incomprehensible, it says everything and nothing at the same time – announcements with simultaneous dramatic change and all remains the same – it’s very disorienting. My theory is that its not meant to set direction, or describe a vision, or even goals – rather it converges towards something intended to impress and socially posture against other managers. It’s used as fodder for taking credit during performance review.

One meme I remember is ”you might be a Googler if you cant answer which team you are on in 5 seconds”. The engineers are extremely good (impostor syndrome is widespread), but it feels like they are blindfolded, wandering in different directions. I certainly don’t know how to run a large company. But a good start would be to use plain descriptive language. Evidently, even the corp-speech-whisperers can’t establish a shared reality.
by yubblegum | 2025-05-11 14:52:50+00:00
Buffers are there to deal with flow variances. What you are describing as the "ideal system" is a clockwork. Your async-awaits are meshed gears. For this approach to be "ideal" it needs to be able to uniformly handle the dynamic range of the load on the system. This means every part of the clockwork requires the same performance envelope. (a little wheel is spinning so fast that it causes metal fatigue; a flow hits the performance ceiling of an intermediary component). So it either fails or limits the system's cyclical rate. These 'speed bumps' are (because of the clockwork approach) felt throughout the flow. That is why we put buffers in between two active components. Now we have a greater dynamic range window of operation without speed bumps.

It shouldn't be too difficult to address testing of buffered systems at implementation time. Possibly pragma/compile-time capabilities allowing for injecting 'delay' in the sink side to trivially create "full buffer" conditions and test for it.

There are no golden hammers because the problem domain is not as simple as a nail. Tradeoffs and considerations. I don't think I will ever ditch either (shallow, preferred) buffers or channels. They have their use.
by drweevil | 2025-05-11 14:52:55+00:00
Calling basic services provided to the people by the people's government "unfunded liabilities" betrays so much. First, questioning the people's government's obligation to serve its own people's needs. Second, a deep (deliberate?) ignorance of how finances work for a sovereign issuer of currency. For such a government these are neither "unfunded" nor are they "liabilities." Think of it this way: When the government issues currency, why is it laundered as "debt"? And why should it be paying interest on it, and to whom? I can see West Virginia, Germany, Spain having to do that, because they do not not issue currency, having to use Dollars or Euros to conduct operations. But for the US, UK, Japan and the like this restriction does not apply. This is why banks can be bailed out, and aid for Ukraine can materialize seemingly out of nowhere. Pretending otherwise is a fiction that is used as a tool to un-democratically redirect fiscal priorities.
by tialaramex | 2025-05-11 14:53:12+00:00
> And it's not like TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are somehow worse than cleartext communication.

In reality humans can't actually do this nuance you're imagining, and so what happens is you're asked "is this secure?" and you say "Yes" meaning "Well it's not cleartext" and then it gets ripped wide open.

HTTP in particular is like a dream protocol for cryptanalysis. If in 1990 you told researchers to imagine a protocol where clients will execute arbitrary numbers of requests to any server under somebody else's control (Javascript) and where values you control are concatenated with secrets you want to steal (Cookies) they'd say that's nice for writing examples, but nobody would deploy such an amateur design in the real world. They would be dead wrong.

But eh, we wrote an RFC telling you not to use these long obsolete protocol versions, and you're going to do it anyway, so, whatever.
by buescher | 2025-05-11 14:53:34+00:00
The Atari ST and similar machines like the Amiga and compact Macintoshes other than the SE/30 were not its competition, any more than the Sega Genesis was. Its immediate competition included Sun and SGI workstations (as well as other workstations) and the Mac II series - and for specific tasks, loaded 386DX and 486DX PCs. Sun was pivoting at that time to the SPARC platform and SGI to the MIPS platform, both away from Motorola 68K.
Would a plug-and-play abuse protection toolkit be useful beyond Stripe Radar?
by MrDotNobi | 2025-05-11 14:53:37+00:00
Payment is one of the problems in online business and Stripe quick emerged as the main payment system despite seen a fair amount of complains. After Marc Louvion released ByeDispute, I was intrigued that Stripe was not covering that and so ended up having a tunnel on card fraud and how Stripe works. Yes Stripe Radar exists and cover some fraud cases but does not cover everything and there have been complains of account flagging despite it or a modification of the fraud detection algorithms that blocks all in coming transactions without any possibilities to stop that. But also fake signups, trial/refund cycling, scraping, or promo code abuse. Enterprise tools are overkill, and DIY solutions eat up dev time. So I wonder if a more general product that check One-trial-per-user, detect disposable email and scraping, have behavioral bot checks, prevent promo/referral abuse and chargeback/refund patterns, ... Would actually be more interesting. When flagging you would get the reasons and the solution can be disactivated at any time. Maybe even a community side with common ban list on fraudulent payments or disputes. On top of that a dashboard to follow all of this. Would something like this be helpful or just more noise? Curious if others have had to roll their own systems for this.
by epistasis | 2025-05-11 14:53:54+00:00
I don't think that's true at all, business has had to think about the public sphere and how to shape it to their benefit since corporations started.

For a long time Silicon Valley tried to avoid politics, or at least that was the vibe of everyone. But even in the 1980s, when Japan was rising and threatening to outcompete the US semiconductor industry, Captains of Industry that had been former strident libertarians went hat in hand to Uncle Sam to tilt the field to favor their survival.
by lilerjee | 2025-05-11 14:54:15+00:00
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It can help you record, save, access and manage various resources conveniently and efficiently on multiple devices anytime, anywhere.

Can be used as a better bookmark manager or note-taking app.

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by openplatypus | 2025-05-11 14:54:37+00:00
> Competitors don't really matter

This is so spot on.

I am also in a competitive space. Couple of my competitor man-child founders blocked me on social media for simply being on their feed. I took it as a blessing. I tuned out from their noise quickly and focus on customers rather than social media attention disorder.

Do yourself a solid. Don't watch competitors. Watch customers and the market.
by wombatpm | 2025-05-11 14:55:33+00:00
Rate increases didn’t start until 2022. I was with a startup in the mortgage industry and got to experience that company’s first layoff followed by a layoff at a different startup 10 months later because raising another round of capital was seen as impossible. First action by the Federal Reserve March 16, 2022: Increased to 0.25%–0.50%
by rco8786 | 2025-05-11 14:55:43+00:00
Can confirm. I’m at a startup in a pretty boring space and we’re having lots of success just by bringing modern software into the industry, but we’re gearing up for a series A and we absolutely must include AI in our pitch deck. So for the last 6-8 months we’ve just been scrambling to find some sort of reasonable use cases for AI in our product, but in reality it’s not a differentiator for us at all.
by gcanyon | 2025-05-11 14:55:48+00:00
> ChatGPT 4.5 today is still the same as it was with GPT-3/GPT-4 in 2022. 4.5/o3 doesn't seem hugely more intelligent then 3.0

I think you're misremembering how 3.0 worked. Granted, the slope from 2.0 to 3.0 was very steep, but a ton of progress has happened in the past few years.
by lxgr | 2025-05-11 14:55:55+00:00
> I am not going to use just any stablecoin, only the one most widely accepted.

But why?

Due to the existence of decentralized exchanges, all stablecoins are effectively equally widely accepted. Some blockchains even make it fully transparent by handling foreign exchange in the background for every payment where it's required, and for the ones that don't, most common wallets provide a "swap" feature directly in their UI.

Given that, why would people not hold the one that preserves their purchasing power best and that they have most trust in?
by endtime | 2025-05-11 14:56:11+00:00
It has been happening - I was there from 2011 to 2022 and it happened steadily for my last five years. The food got worse, they stopped handing out free phones every year, they cut equity refresh multipliers for strongly exceeds ratings, 20% time became 120% time (as noted elsewhere), and -- shortly after I left -- they changed the rating system such that there were real quotas for people being below expectations. Gone were the days they'd randomly hand out Osprey backpacks outside the cafeteria for no reason (I still use mine), or when your manager could send you to space for creating Memegen, or even when Memegen was controlled by its creator and the team he got funded for it, and not HR.

I actually attribute it to Ruth more than Sundar, but who really knows? All I know is I saw a major decline...and people were already saying similar things when I joined, and they were probably right too.

This isn't to say Google isn't still a great employer...but yes, perks and comp declined.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-05-11 14:56:29+00:00
> Both images were independently reviewed by the Vesuvius Challenge papyrological team, led by Federica Nicolardi. The simultaneous reproduction of the title image from multiple sources, along with independent scholarly review, provides a high degree of confidence in the reading.

You have 2 teams using the same data, getting to the same conclusion. You also have an author that's known from other sources, with writings that we already "have". Then you have a team of experts reviewing this. Chances are these are real findings and not "hallucinations". Not everything in ML is gen-ai...
by matt_s | 2025-05-11 14:57:23+00:00
Someone new to woodworking might not realize a tape measure has a couple modes of operation and if you use it wrong can be off by 1/8". So AI is like a tape measure that could be wrong 50% of the time, depending. You'll need to ask AI to explain itself and validate its own answers. Then if you're new to programming you should independently also be learning things.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-11 14:58:16+00:00
Broad macro inflation is due to smaller working age populations. The pandemic pulled this forward due to excess deaths and retirements (~3M). It’s also why the labor market has been so resilient (unemployment rate) in the face of so much uncertainty and volatility. There are simply not enough workers.

Egg inflation is Avian flu related, housing is because of a housing shortage caused by building pipeline impairment since the 2008 GFC (which will likely never recover, due to structural demographics and no appetite to allow immigration at the level required for the construction trades).

(~4M Boomers retire a year, ~11k/day, ~2M people 55+ die every year, about half of which are in the labor force; that means ~13k-14k workers leave the labor force every day in the US)

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/27/labor-shortage-workforce-ec...

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/08/are-older-worke...

https://www.stlouisfed.org/timely-topics/retirements-increas...
by icedchai | 2025-05-11 14:58:22+00:00
Also remember the original NeXT workstation was incredibly expensive compared to the "consumer" 68K machines like the ST, Amiga, and even Mac. The cube was roughly $6500 at the time (late 80's money, close to $18K today!) The base system had a magneto optical disk and didn't even include a hard drive.

The NeXT hardware was massively under powered for the software it ran. Other major workstation vendors like Sun were already moving to their own RISC hardware.
by cryptolibertus | 2025-05-11 14:58:59+00:00
This is still down the path of running your own infra which is a choice the inference consumer needs to make regarding the setup they have and if the management is worth it. We are also looking into how to encrypt or privatize prompts with inference providers to maintain privacy of your data. Infer.bid is more about having an open marketplace of inference providers to compete on price for your business. In the future your app/biz organization might just need inference and not have the hassle of maintaining the infra for it. Instead you could just consume inference like electricity.
by 8bite | 2025-05-11 14:59:25+00:00
> Competitors don't really matter [...] Sure, there are more "table-stakes" features that customers need before they'll even consider using you, but the real competitor is a lack of awareness of your product, more than anything.

I like this quote a lot. I think it addresses a common execution paralysis where someone identifies a solution to a rich problem space but decides against building it due to there being an obvious competitor.
by bobxmax | 2025-05-11 14:59:50+00:00
"Antitrust" is just lawyer-talk for winning strategies that we later arbitrarily decide is not good for capitalism.

They weren't a bunch of gremlins in a cave conspiring to commit "anti-trust violations" in 2005. They were smart as hell and invested in the right areas.

Microsoft would get hit with the same anti-trust Google is being hit with if Bing and Windows Phone were successful - they're getting away with it because they're terrible.