MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2025-05-02 14:52:13+00:00
Empty talk. Manufacturing never left. It grew slower than other economic sectors mostly because of pricing, manufactured goods are just a lot cheaper than they used to be.

Manufacturing jobs are gone, and they will never return. Moreover, probably spillover effects from ongoing manufacturing renaissance will translate into further decrease of manufacturing employment: new industry being created now can't exist without massive automation, and when this automation is in place, it will be adopted by pre-existing manufacturing businesses, too.

That's the case everywhere around the globe. Manufacturing employment is on the decline everywhere and there's no going back.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-05-02 14:52:32+00:00
I'm still experimenting with what works and doesn't work. Currently for style I am trying things like:

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STYLE: Earth Circuit Fusion

INSTRUMENTATION: - Deep analog synth bass with subtle distortion - Hybrid percussion combining djembe and electronic glitches - Polytonal synth arpeggios with unpredictable patterns - Processed field recordings for atmospheric texture - Circuit-bent toys creating unexpected melodic accents

VOCAL APPROACH: - Female vocalist with rich mid-range and clear upper register - Intimate yet confident delivery with controlled vibrato - Layered whisper-singing technique in verses - Full-voiced chorus delivery with slight emotional rasp - Spoken-word elements layered under bridge melodies - Stacked fifth harmonies creating ethereal chorus quality

PRODUCTION: - Grainy tape saturation on organic elements - Juxtaposition of lo-fi and hi-fi within same sections - Strategic arrangement dropouts for dramatic impact - Glitch transition effects between sections

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One thing I have noticed with the new model is that it listens to direction in the lyrics more now, for example [whispered] or [bass drop], etc.

There are clear limits. I have been unsuccessful in spacial arrangement.

EDIT: I realized I didn't specify, this is when you do custom and you specify the lyrics and the style separately.
by kurthr | 2025-05-02 14:52:50+00:00
Trying to learn Newtonian Mechanics from Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is kinda dumb though.

I certainly noticed that it was ineffective in discussing implications with the students. I found Boyle's observations far more effective in teaching science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Pri...
by kind84 | 2025-05-02 14:52:58+00:00
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by InitialLastName | 2025-05-02 14:53:10+00:00
That's the same thing. When you want to import goods, you provide information to the customs officials at the location those goods enter the country saying:

* Here's what I'm importing

* Here's where I'm importing it from

* Here's the value

Then you pay a bill based on that value and the tariff, and they let your goods clear customs and get loaded onto a truck to go wherever you want them to go in the US.

If you're shipping something by boat (like most goods), the "point of import" is the port.

Note: this is all actually much more complicated and individualized than I described because of networks of middlemen, logistics companies, distributors, manufacturers and lawyers.
by naniwaduni | 2025-05-02 14:53:16+00:00
> The leading "{}" is moderately necessary because `jq` technically _processes_ json, not generates it.

The --null-input/-n option is the "out-of-the-box" way to achieve this, and avoids a pipe (usually not a big deal, but leaves stdin free and sometimes saves a fork).

This lets you rewrite your first "pattern":

jq -cnr --argjson SOME_JSON "$SOME_JSON" '$SOME_JSON[]' | while read ...

We also have a "useless use of cat": --slurpfile does that job better:

jq -n --slurpfile FOO test.json '{bar: $FOO[]}'

(assuming you are assured that test.json contains one json value; --argjson will immediately fail if this is not the case, but with --slurpjson you may need to check that $FOO is a 1-item array.)

And of course, for exactly the single-file single-object case, you can just write:

jq '{bar: .}' test.json
by giraffe_lady | 2025-05-02 14:53:36+00:00
> I don’t think gamers are as price sensitive as believed.

I think there are more or less two different useful definitions of gamers. People who do consider it a hobby, ie an area of active interest that they expect to spend considerable amounts of time, money, and attention on. And people who play games as entertainment or recreation only, but still prefer it over other consumption that could fill that time like streaming shows.

The time-use patterns might be similar (idk) but the price sensitivity may not be. If console and game prices are low enough it may be impossible to distinguish these two groups even. But at a certain point I expect them to diverge in their playing and spending habits.

Like nintendo's astounding success in the wii era was due to specifically targeting the second group. The different characteristics and pricing strategies of PC vs mobile games are a major split between them too. I think if console prices go up enough these groups will diverge even more. The less-price-sensitive "hobbyist gamers" mostly probably won't bail for another hobby, but the "entertainment gamers" certainly may; either for a different kind of gaming or for another source of recreation all together.
by stevenwoo | 2025-05-02 14:53:42+00:00
I am much older but feel that essay in my bones, covering some of the ground of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs. Not only that but it is uncanny how the scammers from the contemporary fiction going way back would fit right in today's America, varying from The Jungle, Elmer Gantry, to Huckleberry Finn off the top of my head.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-02 14:53:51+00:00
Thanks for answering my questions. Your project is really really interesting.

Two more questions if you find some spare time:

3. Why does it use tty for interrupts instead of directly calling int 10?

4. How does this even print to the screen or use a tty in the first place? Is it just something inherent in bios api?
by lukeschlather | 2025-05-02 14:54:20+00:00
The thing is, TikTok is not accused of directly profiting off of this, they are accused of operating as part of the Chinese espionage apparatus. Assuming that this is the case, TikTok is going to be happy to continue paying fines as long as they break even worldwide. And the US is making no serious attempts to rein in this sort of behavior so they've got all that US profit to use.
by crims0n | 2025-05-02 14:54:44+00:00
I am about a quarter of the way through Modern Library’s top 100 and it has been a worthwhile journey. It is “just” literary fiction but it is among the best humanity has produced. I have learned so much about the human condition, my ability to articulate ideas has improved tremendously, and I feel like my mind has been “freed from the tyranny of the present” (to quote Cicero).

https://sites.prh.com/modern-library-top-100
by fooker | 2025-05-02 14:54:51+00:00
Here's my use case for it: I want really small filters (say 64 bits or 128 bits), and use these to represent 50-100 element subsets of a ~1000-2000 element set.

I know with a traditional bloom filter this would give me a lot of false positives. Is there an alternative that would fare better ?
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-02 14:54:56+00:00
There were "actually good" founding fathers who were vehemently anti-slavery and even non racist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine being the most famous example. Unfortunately, they are kept as relative footnotes in history, due to their subversive economic messaging.

The intellectual foundations of Thomas Paine run through the thinking of Henry George and Andrew Yang, among many others. All listed figures are basically footnotes in the dustbin of history - and humanity will pay a dear cost for ignoring their voices.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-05-02 14:55:09+00:00
>If it's true then you know you should resist or you're complicit.

Resist how exactly? Protest? We're already protesting. They're barely being covered in the news. Armed resistance? Yeah that's gonna work out so well against a militarized police state.

Look through history, from the fall of rome to wwII, and those that came out best during those crises had the good sense to flee to somewhere better.
by bredren | 2025-05-02 14:55:10+00:00
I'm familiar with that MCP and was planning to build on top of it.

I hadn't realized but the new integration seems to actually just be an official, closed-source MCP produced *by* Atlassian.

sooperset's MCP is MIT licensed, so I wonder how much of the Atlassian edition is just a lift of that.

There's a comment [1] on the actual integration page asking about custom fields, which I think is possibly a big issue.

At first I thought the open-source version would get crushed by an actual Atlassian release, but not if Atlassian doesn't offer all the support for it to work really well no matter what customizations are fitted into each instance.

My hypothesis is that it takes custom code to make this work, and using the off-the-shelf for Jira won't work. Hoping to be proven wrong though, as it would be less work for me on that front.

[1] https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Platform-ar...
by neither_color | 2025-05-02 14:55:12+00:00
This is a common misconception. You do have 240V(or 208V in some apartments if we're being pedantic). You primarily use it in the kitchen(range receptacle), laundry, and for your HVAC equipment or an EV charger if you have one.

Someone who knows what they're doing can also add a 240V outlet to any room.

We don't serve 120V to homes, we take 240V and split it. In fact, that's not the only time you use a mix of different voltages. You take that 120V, and then further transform it to 18-24V for things like doorbells and thermostats, or you use a power-brick at the wall to convert it to direct current to charge your laptop, phone, and other items. In none of those use cases would 240V really change your life. It's really only better at boiling water in counter-top kettles. I'm guessing we don't use more 240V kettles because we're not a tea drinking country and culturally people tend to use coffee machines that are "fast enough", but not slow enough to be worth switching over.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-05-02 14:55:24+00:00
Available part of the article quotes unspecified 2nd hand rumors from unidentified people as the only source for this claim. As in "one person we spoke to said they heard that there were cancelations".

This is very poor journalism and nobody should consider this as any more or less true than any hypothetical they can imagine themselves. If this journalist actually tried to find more credible sources and failed it is somewhat evidence against the claim that this is happening at all, depending on how competent the journalist is.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-02 14:55:35+00:00
It is not just the human body. Mysterious bacteria that people don't know how to cultivate in isolation are everywhere. Part of the story is that many bacteria don't really live alone but they depend on a plant or an animal or even other bacteria such as one species of large rod bacteria that has a different species of little rod bacteria that live on it, biofilms, etc.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-02 14:55:58+00:00
Seems like a reasonably standard Rails app, and they are kind enough to already have a Dockerfile, compose file, and instructions for it: https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/blob/v0.5.0/docs/host...

Ironically, as documentation for humans these files are good; as a separate signal that Cursor wrote a finance tracking app is also helpful https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/blob/v0.5.0/.cursor/r...
by vlucas | 2025-05-02 14:56:11+00:00
I was on AT&T for a long time. Was spending ~$125/mo for 2 iPhone phone lines after taxes and fees.

Now I am on Mint Mobile, and it's honestly been fantastic. I pay about $120/month (pre-paid for 6 months though) for 5 lines now (kids!), with way more cell data per line. Each line can be on a different plan, too! Very occasionally a text message will be a bit delayed, but I mostly use iMessage anyways. Have not had any other issues. Well worth it. I highly recommend the switch. You'll save a ton of money.
by sandworm101 | 2025-05-02 14:56:17+00:00
>> The US is so weird right now.

But it really isn't. It is odd compared to living memory, but across the centuries this sort of things has happened many times. We had similar discussions after 9/11 (deportations/torture/limitations on rights). A little further back there was the red panic of the cold war. All the nixon-watergate-vietnam stuff. Before that, all the nasty things done to various peoples during WWII. Today seems shocking but is actually rather normal historically. The US moves in and out of authoritarianism regularly. And every time, everyone thinks "this time is different" when it really isn't.
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by robertnp | 2025-05-02 14:57:13+00:00
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by a13x57 | 2025-05-02 14:57:57+00:00
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by WorldPeas | 2025-05-02 14:58:07+00:00
> Battery life on Gnome is as good as Windows

and my e-bike is faster than an overloaded garbage truck, I don't think it's fair to compare anything to th 1-legged horse that is windows

> The other problem is finding an alternative for Android and Google.

why can't we just have total convergence already, like Razer's "Linda" concept¹

> there's no good ARM processors for Linux

maybe this would be all it takes... so ready for that world

[1] https://www.razer.com/concepts/project-linda
by jihadjihad | 2025-05-02 14:58:14+00:00
> Trying to learn Newtonian Mechanics from Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is kinda dumb though.

It'd be like wanting to improve your cardio health so you try to climb K2. The edition I have has 150+ pages of just introduction. You have to wade through all of that just to be able to figure out how to read the rest of the tome. It is cool, though!
by malfist | 2025-05-02 14:58:18+00:00
I agree entirely with what you said. To extend on your point, we _want_ the higher order manufacturing here. Not the lower order.

Think for a second. Would you rather there be a new aluminum plant in the US? Or would you rather there be another successful airplane manufacturer. In no world does prefering the aluminum plant get you anywhere close to the same GDP of a airplane factory
by freedomben | 2025-05-02 14:58:40+00:00
I do too, but I think it's important to consider that these are actually pretty different. In the Google example, the banner is being displayed because of something that isn't necessarily the fault of the dev and isn't itself an indicator of problematic behavior (and indeed is the starting position for all developers of a new app), whereas at least Amazon (presumably) is basing it off of actual performance data that indicate poor performance/behavior.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-02 14:58:53+00:00
Before anyone tries to defend this, remember that consoles are not necessarily sold at a loss. Nintendo ensures their consoles are profitable on day one, even if others might be okay with year five.

In which case, yes, they are just iPhones in a big box with HDMI ports plugged into your TV. The only reason you can't do productivity tasks, is because of the restrictions, so the legally-nonexistent claim of "general purpose computing" doesn't do anything here.
by inglor_cz | 2025-05-02 14:58:53+00:00
Most important wars in the Ancient Mediterranean had a major naval component.

It can be argued that the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD was caused, or at least massively hastened, by two negative naval events:

a) the Battle of Cartagena (461), where the Roman navy was defeated by the Vandals, partly due to some captains being corrupt [0]. This prevented Majorian, the last great Western emperor, from reconquering North Africa;

and

b) the Battle of Cape Bon (468), again a massive failed effort to crush the Vandals [1]

It is somewhat obscure to modern readers, but Vandals were probably more dangerous at sea than on land.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_(461)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Bon_(468)
by taylodl | 2025-05-02 14:59:03+00:00
Manufacturing now is increasingly being seen as a strategic capability. That's the whole impetus of "bringing it back." As you correctly point out, the United States is manufacturing more now than it ever has, while simultaneously decreasing manufacturing jobs thanks to industrial automation. The ineptitude of this administration is leading them to try to bring everything back, which is impossible - we literally don't have enough manufacturing capacity to make everything, without any discernment to what is strategic. The CHIPS act, that was strategic: bring back semiconductor manufacturing. But bringing back the manufacture of Barbie dolls and MAGA hats? Who cares?! It'll be ironic if all we get back is the junk manufacturing while the strategic stuff remains manufactured abroad.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-05-02 14:59:16+00:00
> Fortnite, in my opinion, has been a gold standard for F2P monetization. No gambling, no randomized loot boxes, etc.

Hard disagree. The tour-de-force on Fortnite's insane process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0
by istjohn | 2025-05-02 14:59:58+00:00
See also: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#grounding-with-google...

Summary:

- If you show users text generated by Gemini using Google Search (grounded Gemini), you must display a provided widget with suggested search terms that links directly to Google Search results on google.com.

- You may not modify the text generated by grounded Gemini before displaying it to your users.

- You may not store grounded responses more than 30 days, except for user histories, which can retain responses for up to 6 months.

This is rather brazen for a company just ruled to have acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in "general search services and general text advertising".
by rayiner | 2025-05-02 15:00:15+00:00
My mom grew up in Bangladesh with a classic British education (augmented with Russian works that were popular in the country given the socialist alignment). She speaks English with a heavy accent despite living here for almost 40 years, but will randomly reference great works in conversation. The other day she worked a reference to a greek tragedy into a dig at Pakistanis. I’ve come around to the idea that this isn’t merely a class flex, but rather these works have distilled observations about the human condition as well as building blocks of the society we live in even where we don’t recognize the provenance.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-05-02 15:00:18+00:00
I used to talk about this at IBM, though mostly couched in the phrase "we have become an organization optimized for a business environment that no longer exists."

And if you came within 50 yards of an ROTC department in the 1980s, the staff there would drag you into a discussion of Cannae. It was one of the first battles young officers are taught. Like religious scripture, you can find something in the records to support just about any lesson (though obviously military instead of moral.)

It's good to see this tradition persist.
by rajnathani | 2025-05-02 15:00:34+00:00
More than 10 years ago, the "advertising company" Google started making chips called TPUs. So, what is your point exactly here? As an aside, there is a pretty big boom of semiconductor manufacturing in India (in the planning/commissioning stage) based on a government incentive program floated a few years ago where there's a 1:1 PLI matching scheme by the government (eg: $100M of spend will get you a $100M funding matched by the government). This has resulted in companies like Foxconn at one point deliberating [0] entering the semiconductor manufacturing space in India, besides other local high-market-cap companies like Vedanta and Reliance.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/india-foxconn-exit-v...
by dithermask | 2025-05-02 15:00:35+00:00
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by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-05-02 15:00:57+00:00
Either naive or wishful thinker. No other option.

As far back as the 1950s the textile industry was against raising the de minimis threshold because they wouldn't be able to compete with duty free mail order imports. We keep increasing it. We get SHEIN. Surprised Pikachu, nobody could have foreseen this.