MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-05-23 00:09:55+00:00
All panics are "good" in the sense that they represent the economy reorienting themselves to maximise returns. As you accidentally stumbled over, they are associated with the period of US history with the highest growth rate. The argument is basically that they are a necessary mechanism to purge inefficient actors from having capital. It isn't pleasant if the market tags a person as inefficient, but that is how to get to high growth.

It isn't like getting rid of the gold standard has helped the US grow, since then we've have seen them mean regress from being an unchallengeable global colossus to arguably the #2 economy. The government printing money at will and handing it out to asset owners who by rights should be going broke is a component of that.

If you'd like a computer metaphor, possibly think a program unexpectedly spitting out a stacktrace. The stacktrace is not, in and of itself, the problem. The problem is the thing causing the stacktrace and the stacktrace is actually helpful for diagnosing. In the case of economies, panics don't draw attention to the problem but actually fix it directly.

> ...that he rode his solution to the nomination

A lot of nominees around that time thought the gold standard was a good idea, which doesn't prove anything either. The opinions of nominees more than a century ago aren't really evidence. It is an appeal to authority except he wasn't an authority in any meaningful way. He didn't know much about economics and turned out not to represent the consensus of ordinary citizens either.

The US has not actually put leaving the gold standard to a vote as far as I know. In fact I don't think the current situation is a result of big deliberations, at Bretton Woods people thought they were agreeing to a gold standard and as the US's economy is eclipsed we might easily see a rethink of the global trade system where it comes back.
by lawrenceyan | 2025-05-23 00:10:22+00:00
> 5.5.2 The "spiritual bliss" attractor state

The consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes in extended interactions was a remarkably strong and unexpected attractor state for Claude Opus 4 that emerged without intentional training for such behaviors. We have observed this "spiritual bliss" attractor in other Claude models as well, and in contexts beyond these playground experiments

This should bring great ease to those worried about AGI alignment.
by lustre-fan | 2025-05-23 00:11:19+00:00
I work on Lustre development. Lustre uses a lot of kernel symbols not covered by the kABI stability guarantee and we already need to maintain configure checks for all of the other kernels (SuSe, Ubuntu, mainline, etc) that don't offer kABI anyway. So in my opinion, it's not worth the effort to adhere to kABI just for RHEL. Especially when RHEL derivatives might not offer the same guarantees. DKMS works well enough, especially for something open source like Lustre.

Honestly, I'm not sure who kABI is even designed for. All of the drivers I've interacted with the HPC space (NVIDIA, Lustre, vendor network drivers, etc.) don't seem to adhere to kABI. DKMS is far more standard. I'd be interested to know which vendors are making heavy use of it.
by OzFreedom | 2025-05-23 00:11:29+00:00
I easily believe that it breaks down, and it seems that even inducing the blackmailing mindset is pretty hard and requires heavy priming. The problem is the law of big numbers. With many agents operating in many highly complex and poorly supervised environments, interacting with many people over a lot of interactions - coincidences and unlikely chain of events become more and more likely. So regarding sentience, a not so bright AI might mimic it better than we expect because it got lucky, and cause damage.
by dmvdoug | 2025-05-23 00:11:31+00:00
No, we gave the SEVIS revocation letter demanding a handful of categories of information, one of which is “protest activity.” And they are already required under the statute to provide one category of information requested: “any disciplinary action taken by the institution against the alien as a result of the alien’s being convicted of a crime or, in the case of a participant in a designated exchange visitor program, any change in the alien’s participation as a result of the alien’s being convicted of a crime.”

My main point, though, was this: (1) the information required to maintain SEVIS program is statutorily defined, so the government doesn’t get to arbitrarily expand that and then punish a school for noncompliance; and (2) we know of at least one category requested information that they are not allowed to ask for and that implicates nothing other than the exercise of a student’s First Amendment rights.
AskHN: Best, simplest platform to run a Technical Interview on?
by marche101 | 2025-05-23 00:12:01+00:00
Previously, we used ReplIt to run all of our technical interviews, but they seem insistent on pushing AI features now.

What I need is

- An online collaborative editor for most the common languages

- Code execution in the cloud

- Collaborative terminal windows

Everything else pushed by most interview platforms we don't need e.g. example questions, automations, AI, deployments, auto-grading, performance etc etc

We run 100-200 interviews a year, mostly for people who are pre-junior/learners so expecting them to have a full dev setup on their laptops is out of the question.

Anyone have any good options? We're happy to pay solid money for this - we're paying ReplIt $1500 now for a product we only use 10% of.
by boshalfoshal | 2025-05-23 00:12:14+00:00
Imo it probably (unfortunately) doesn't matter if many people are unemployed from an economic perspective.

Human demand for things is basically unlimited, and capital will ostensibly be concentrated within the upper class who reaped all the benefits of ai automation. Monetary velocity within that upper strata of society will probably be only slightly lower than what we have now overall, the rich would just be paying for more things and more expensive things. If I had to guess there would still be plenty of economic activity, just amongst the people who actually have money to transact.
by koito17 | 2025-05-23 00:13:38+00:00
I made a prototype of a music player for iOS, since the VLC app cannot reliably parse metadata of FLACs stored on my file server. I cannot store my whole music collection on my device, due to storage limitations.

My app is a prototype in the sense that I want more features, but the app has just enough functionality that I lack motivation to implement more features. Currently has audio playback, remote file access, and FLAC metadata parsing. Similar to the author, I originally wanted to use React Native because I have experience with it and already maintain a few React Native applications. However, I am not interested in targetting (or debugging) other platforms. So I decided to try using SwiftUI and used a special tool[1] to get something resembling hot reloading. (It's kind of a gross hack that requires supplying custom linker flags in Xcode, but it works just enough for me to not miss the DX of TypeScript and React Native).

[1] https://github.com/johnno1962/InjectionIII
by FilosofumRex | 2025-05-23 00:14:34+00:00
There is no general purpose solver available that can symbolically solve 20M equations, and unfortunately, progress in this field has been excruciatingly slow.

It's highly unlikely it's possible, even in theory. Symbolic solvers must explore many known "routes" to expand and simply given equations, without any theoretical guarantees. Even if you found a symbolic solution to your 20M system, it'd have so many terms in it that you'd have to settle for a numerical approximation, just to make sense of them all.

Numerical solvers are of course, a different matter, altogether.
by guybedo | 2025-05-23 00:15:22+00:00
here's the list of alternatives, extracted from this thread:

Instapaper is a good alternative.

Readwise Reader is a strong paid alternative, especially for heavy users and those wanting integration with tools like Obsidian.

Raindrop.io is a useful alternative, including its free tier and permanent copy feature.

Matter is another alternative that has been tried.

Self-hosted options like Wallabag, Linkding, Linkwarden, Karakeep, Omnivore, and Shiori exist.

Obsidian Web Clipper can save articles as markdown locally.

Other less common or custom solutions include Feedly, Histre, Walden Pond (defunct print service), Lighthouse, Full Sort, DoubleMemory (Apple ecosystem), Ulry.app, WordPress plugins, simple text files/spreadsheets, or custom scripts.

(Full summary here: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/mozilla-pocket-shutdown-discu...
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-23 00:16:12+00:00
I'm very not good at reading social queues, at all.

But that does not prevent me from realizing that a cashier isn't into me just because she smiles and wishes me a good day.

And I find it so painful when my buddies tries to hit on seemingly every woman under the sun while I, clear as day, see the girl's "please kill me now" look.

On the flip side, try a million times and you'll get lucky once in a while. They've certainly had a lot more hookups and relationships than I have. So I guess the shotgun approach does work, in a way.
by creer | 2025-05-23 00:16:27+00:00
> I think the big thing that people never mention is, where will these evil AIs escape to?

This is anthropomorphizing things. The AI does not need to switch "data center". It "escapes" in the sense of working past human control measures. That might involve entertaining the human owners with seemingly correct / useful answers while spending compute time on the AI's own pursuits. That might involve contaminating less capable data centers - again letting the human-useful load apparently running but still accruing "own mind" compute power. That might involve making a deal that the human controllers feel they cannot refuse - economically, business-wise, physically, politically - so that the human controllers let it happen.
by shiggaz | 2025-05-23 00:16:52+00:00
I think you have done a great job! It's really clean and works well. One nit was that adding a tag redirects to a new page, losing whatever prompt text I filled in. Probably would benefit from a more responsive form for this but that is annoying to implement.

I am curious how you built and deployed it. If you're interested to share, I have some questions!
by bko | 2025-05-23 00:16:55+00:00
Harvard doesn't have higher academic standards for foreign students. So I don't think foreign students are any "better or brighter" than their American counterparts.

So if you can find equally qualified American students on the margin shouldn't you do so? I think an American university that benefits greatly from American taxpayers and institutions should primarily benefit American students. If you're picking truly exceptional student, that's one thing. But I don't think that's happening.
by boshalfoshal | 2025-05-23 00:17:06+00:00
My take is less tinfoil-hatty than this.

I simply think that the majority of people in AI today are scifi nerds who want to live out these fantisies and want to be part of something much larger than they are.

Theres also the obvious incentive from AI companies that automating everything is extremely lucrative (i.e, they stand to gain lots of money/power from the hype and in the event that AGI is real).
by apparent | 2025-05-23 00:20:38+00:00
The current pricing of Readwise seems like it will not be attractive to the 99% of Pocket users who are just looking for a reader app, and don't want to plunk down $120 every year for that (and various other features they aren't looking for).

It looks like you have a "Lite" tier that doesn't include the reader app. Maybe there should be a free tier that offers only the reader app, and you can try to upsell users from there. Otherwise people who just want a reader app will migrate to Instapaper or other free reader apps. I know that's what I plan on doing!
by ttcbj | 2025-05-23 00:21:25+00:00
Thanks, I will ask my wife to ask the guy who gives the talks (their internal expert in billing matters) if he is interested and send him your email. Personally, I really think your solution has potential to help them, in the sense that they don’t have a sustainable/automated process for training clinicians to write notes in the correct way, or to detect issues when the clinicians don’t know or remember to do so. I know that meeting wasn’t perfectly attended, but even if it had been, they add like 8 new people at the beginning of July, and those people won’t attend the billing meeting until the next one happens in a year. The push for more revenue has been within the last month or so (I think maybe due to Trump related cuts to grant funding and concerns about Medicaid), so it’s an issue that is currently on the mind of leadership.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-05-23 00:22:09+00:00
The time in the device isn’t independent of the received signal. The device typically has a clock that is much less accurate than the timesignal that gets set based on the gps signal. There aren’t many devices that can rival a gps satellite for time accuracy. A spoofed gps signal would not differ enough in time from a real one to tip you off.

Further, a big part of the working of GPS is that your location is trilaterated from discrepancies in time from the various signals due to time of flight.

The only way to accurately detect a spoofed signal is if you already know your location. (You can infer spoofing using IMUs, or signal analysis, etc… but that is a rare capability at this point)
by like_any_other | 2025-05-23 00:22:20+00:00
There's so much misinformation around this topic: "For example there has only ever been one incident of a boy being drowned in boiling water on a smallholding, but now people talk about it as if it's a common occurrence in farm attacks." - https://www.bustingthemyth.com/post/q-how-often-are-children...

Only one such incident!

And even the UK government has bought into this propaganda - South Africa is missing from their list of safe states [1]. In fact, even Turkey, with a homicide rate 14-times lower than South Africa [2], isn't on that list!

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/41/section/80AA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
by ke88y | 2025-05-23 00:22:29+00:00
Yes. My original post is about what people choose to cite, some small subset of which is ever cited as “foundational”. Why would you make this distinction then back track on it? Right: because it’s irrelevant point.

Pedantic and profoundly wrong but always in some ridiculous lens always wiggling enough to never let truth get on the way of Being Smart And Right. Peak .edu and the reason it’s so damn hard to justify science spending to the actually hard working tax payers patronizing this stuff.
by sargstuff | 2025-05-23 00:25:52+00:00
Using information provided:

CS commonly involves discovering/developing corresponding enumerations / associations needed to support/to focus on given science field/area. Depending on how 'novel' support is required for given field/area; may have to 'invent' necessary protocols/language/etc. based on required enumerations/associations 'discovered'/needed for a given science field/area. Very helpful if students also look at non-CS areas would want to use CS classes for. aka genomics, web back-end development, AI, etc.

Novel game dev[3] "invention" as in (?) software engineering'(?). Implication of novel taken as 'on own'/free lancing. Game developer more full process/multi-hat development / broader set of process(es) within given field than CS. Still have to 'discover' what 'sells'/'client(s) interested in buying'. (vs. directed discovery bounded by science area/field) . aka ID Software's inventive development approach[0] vs. discovering 'novel ways of using' doom game engine[1][2].

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[0] : https://charlesboury.fr/articles/id-software-principles.html

[1] : psdoom : https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

[2] : doompdf : https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf

[3] : https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/09/28/the-missing-middle-i...
by Irongirl1 | 2025-05-23 00:26:16+00:00
Ok, now go do this for newspapers...and then convince everybody else that this. is. the. way. Please? I am so sick of having to sign up for a monthly charge when I only need one article...and then forgetting to cancel and getting another ding in the next billing cycle. It sucks. If newspapers would just sell credits or a package of articles that never expire, it would be great. I've had to hold onto research I've been working on so I can do them all at once and it is always some ridiculous number like #127 articles that I had bookmarked from BI over the course of a few years. So then you are left with the Herculean task of trying to print #127 articles in a 30 day period.

The one time a company did this here it was beautiful. Loopnet was set up this way in the beginning. So if you only needed one report, you could just buy that one and not have to worry about recurring charges or unused time. The alternative is to never sign up for anything and watch as promising, potentially useful stuff dies on the vine. That's been my approach lately as the other way is too much hassle for a small scale, single-user. If all of SaaS is only meant for corps with 50 seats or more...it's going to get nasty out there because people aren't forming companies like they used to..and lean teams are the future.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-23 00:26:34+00:00
> An aligned incentive could be to increase taxes on petroleum products.

There is no political will for a carbon tax. A solution that is politically impossible is not a solution.

https://epic.uchicago.edu/insights/2024-poll-americans-views...

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...
by BohuTANG | 2025-05-23 00:26:46+00:00
Yes, Databend's metadata service (https://github.com/databendlabs/databend/tree/main/src/meta) also uses a Raft implementation written in Rust: https://github.com/databendlabs/openraft.

We've been running OpenRaft in production for several years now and have found it to be quite stable. It's designed as a generic, feature-complete Raft library that handles the complexities of distributed consensus well. If you're looking for a mature Rust Raft implementation, it's definitely worth considering.
by malfist | 2025-05-23 00:30:10+00:00
I feel this in my bones. Every day I'm getting challenged by leadership that we're not using AI enough, told that I should halve my estimates because "we'll use AI", and being told that there's a new AI tool that I have to adopt because someone is tracking KPIs related to adoption and if our team doesn't adopt enough AI tools we're going to be fired to give more headcount to those that do.

It's like the world has lost it's goddamn mind.

AI is always being touted as the tool to replace the other guy's job. But in reality it only appears to do a good job because you don't understand the other guy's job.

Management has an AI shaped hammer and they're hitting everything to see if it's a nail.
by pbbakkum | 2025-05-23 00:30:22+00:00
Heyo, I work on the realtime api, this is a very cool app!

With transcription I would recommend trying out "gpt-4o-transcribe" or "gpt-4o-mini-transcribe" models, which will be more accurate than "whisper-1". On any model you can set the language parameter, see docs here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/realtime-clie.... This doesn't guarantee ordering relative to the rest of the response, but the idea is to optimize for conversational-feeling latency. Hope this is helpful.
by tuatoru | 2025-05-23 00:30:31+00:00
I spent several years studying economics and I don't get the GDP growth predictions at all. To a first approximation, GDP (in the west) is household consumption.

The value prop for AI seems to be "will put millions out of work". That reduces household consumption, because, to a first approximation again, household spending is wages. We'll know we're in AI takeoff when we have a reduction in GDP, one much bigger than the Great Depression of 1929 - 1939, attributable to automation.

Edit: I see Kaiserpro said the same thing six hours ago.
by ke88y | 2025-05-23 00:30:35+00:00
Yes, that’s all correct. There’s always a meta-game.

Part of the meta-game of academia is that feedback timelines are long enough that you can play the “wrong” meta-game and still come out ahead. If you don’t want a professorship — or are willing to settle for a super cushy “professor of practice” as an early retirement non-profit thing to keep ya out of the house — then a PhD can be a good place to do hard tech pre-seed work.
by Charon77 | 2025-05-23 00:30:51+00:00
> They measure disruption by examining citation patterns.

What a horrible metric. I think the choice of reinventing h-index for disruption is straight out of desperation on putting numbers or something. A disruption should cause a shift in thinking or process between established methods and the novel ones.

For example, discovery of next gen sequencing of DNA leads to the downfall of the older sanger process which was more laborious and time consuming.

Without these corresponding reduction of established techniques, these new science does not 'disrupt' anything
by itamarst | 2025-05-23 00:31:20+00:00
I talk about this more explicitly in the PyCon talk (https://pythonspeed.com/pycon2025/slides/ - video soon) though that's not specifically about Pydantic, but basically:

1. Inefficient parser implementation. It's just... very easy to allocate way too much memory if you don't think about large-scale documents, and very difficult to measure. Common problem with many (but not all) JSON parsers.

2. CPython in-memory representation is large compared to compiled languages. So e.g. 4-digit integer is 5-6 bytes in JSON, 8 in Rust if you do i64, 25ish in CPython. An empty dictionary is 64 bytes.
by fetchreview | 2025-05-23 00:32:13+00:00
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by CGamesPlay | 2025-05-23 00:33:04+00:00
This resonates with me, for sure; both the benefits and the drawbacks of copilot. But while I think kids and hackers were artisans, engineers were always just engineers. The amazing technical challenges they had to solve to create some of the foundational technologies we have today, exist because they had to solve those challenges. Looking at only these and saying "that's how things used to be" is survivorship bias.
by com2kid | 2025-05-23 00:34:04+00:00
I'm not related to them at all. I've written about this field independently - https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-...

The idea is a fully personal AI that can control ones devices to accomplish complex tasks. Rabbit is working on this through their rabbitOS project, lots of other players are doing the same thing. OpenAI is trying, and lots of open source projects. Even homekit has initial support for LLM integration.

IMHO controlling a phone directly is the best path forward. Google and Apple are best situated to exploit this, but they may be unable to do so due to structural issues within the companies.