MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arghwhat | 2025-05-09 18:47:51+00:00
The point wasn't really that workers should be the primary clientele, just that the average worker should be able to afford it, and if that wasn't the case the price of the goods should be lowered, or a trend started for higher worker compensation.

Robotic workers lower operational costs and can make goods more accessible, and it's common for various manual labour jobs to be lost when industries change - the labour shifts elsewhere, and generally higher.

(If this wasn't true, unemployment would have constantly grown worldwide since the first automaton replaced a human job or government outlawed certain manual industries, which isn't the case. Workforces do and must adapt to needs and trends.)
by samiv | 2025-05-09 18:48:30+00:00
For the developer that knows what they're doing the installer is not absolutely necessary, you can just download the zip (or tar.gz) and extract the whole thing somewhere and go from there. The installer does provide some more advanced features such as selecting feature by feature and version by version which Qt components you want to install. At least this is how it works on Windows, I expect Mac to behave similarly.

For the end user of your product you'd of course package your software with the Qt libs (or integrate the Qt installation process in your application installation process) so that the end user doesn't need to know nor care about Qt installation at all.
by LexiMax | 2025-05-09 18:48:36+00:00
> I don’t understand why that particular thing works so well, even on some people you would not expect.

When you engage these sorts of people and ask the right follow-up questions, there's some common underlying concerns that underpin the polite fictions.

I've found that for men, they are scared that the next woman they look at covetously might have been AMAB. Even if they understand that there is a difference between sex and gender, they are scared that their acquaintances aren't, and are terrified of the prospect of being "tricked" into being attracted to someone who they see as a man. For women, I've found that they see men as biologically and intrinsically dangerous, and that a tiger doesn't change its stripes just because they are alienated from masculinity.

Not that I agree with either viewpoint. Being worried about being "accidentally gay" speaks more to underlying insecurities surrounding masculinity, and "men are inherently dangerous" is just misandry. But I'm no longer surprised by TDS.
by molochai | 2025-05-09 18:49:25+00:00
Went to a Starbucks the other week, had a gift card to blow... looked pretty dim and potentially like they were closing shop but I could still see people. No hours posted on the door, "scan this QR code to get the hours." I opted to tug on the door handle to figure out that they were, in fact, closed.

I get why that is useful for them (looks cool, no having to reprint the physical hours stickers, less ugly than a paper version I guess) but the assumption that it is easier for me to pull out my phone and scan the code versus just... trying the door... whew.

Reminds me of working in restaurants ages ago. Credit card swiper down? Cool, pull out the "knuckle buster" for your "analog Plan B" -- all's well, though the manager's probably pissed at staying late to manually enter the transactions. We probably could not even do that anymore because many cards have gone to non-imprintable numbers.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-09 18:50:24+00:00
Would you have believed a few months ago that the US government would be trying to strong-arm foreign nations who are nominally allies into compliance with its policy preferences? Here's another recent example of that: https://www.dw.com/en/france-voices-shock-at-us-calls-to-dro...

I have been warning for years (often here on HN) that the US risks tilting into a failed state due to political extremism, and its generally been dismissed as an impossibility - there is no way, people insisted, that an extreme fringe could reshape the American polity because of the Constitutional guardrails, the rock-solid institutions, the societal norms. Well it's happening right in front of us now. Just this week we're seeing the National Science Foundation dismantled, the nonpartisan Librarian of Congress arbitarily fired, the President demurring on TV when asked about his duty to uphold Constitutional guarantees of due process.

You identify a bunch of looming electoral problems yourself. The problem is that it doesn't require a great deal of electoral corruption to sway the outcome. Some states will cheerfully go along with the executive's agenda, those that don't will be denounced as having rigged their own elections. The whole hysteria about illegal immigrants is based on the specious claim that one party is importing them wholesale and somehow converting them into voters to steal elections from conservatives forever. The right has been selling that argument for over 30 years, going back to Newt Gingrich.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-05-09 18:50:32+00:00
> unemployment is close to all-time lows.

Job quality is deteriorating, more people are holding more than one job, part time jobs are increasingly common, almost half of US workers are in low-wage jobs, wages have stagnated... It's a nice statistic, but unemployment rates don't tell much of the story on the ground, in people's lived experiences. That side of the story is overwhelmingly getting worse.
by CSSer | 2025-05-09 18:50:44+00:00
This is deeply ironic to me because this company is run by the same guy who has his underlings tearing through our government data, secretly building repositories with titles like NxGenBdoorExtract[0]. I don't trust this guy at all.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...
by warpbin | 2025-05-09 18:50:47+00:00
I’ve been getting more and more transactions over the past several months and one thing I felt restricted by was the basic insights that Stripe provides for you regarding your data (at least without the paid reporting add-on).

The main dashboard doesn’t give you the satisfaction of really getting into the weeds with your transactions to have some fun (or some semi-serious analysis).

So I built a lightweight dashboard that lets me dig into my Stripe exports with insight through charts, projections, MRR/ARR, and even some experimental growth forecasting. It’s entirely client-side, meaning none of your data leaves the browser. You can export your data from Stripe manually into a CSV and just upload or copy paste that.

I initially made this for myself but polished it up to publish it for others as well. If you are like me and want to bite more into your data, it can scratch an itch.

Would love any feedback or suggestions to improve it further.
by krunck | 2025-05-09 18:51:37+00:00
The difference between the British to American transition and American to Chinese transition is that the first was between allies whereas the second is between arch-rivals. Then add to the mix that the waning empire is now run by a circus of angry old men pining for the good old days of war and manliness. I think we'll see a belligerent ex-empire making big problems for it's citizens and the world. Unless regular people put a stop to it.
by seadan83 | 2025-05-09 18:51:45+00:00
I'd agree code is usually governed by mathematics, not defined by it though.

Goes back to this ridiculous proposition:

- Cashier: You mean, I used math to give you change?

- Customer: No, giving change doesn't use math, it IS math!!!!" [2]

The proposition is that "code IS math", not defined by, not uses, not inspired by, not relies on, not modeled after, but IS.
by rdtsc | 2025-05-09 18:52:03+00:00
> I guess bias towards the language, its design and syntax.

Ok, but the way the question is framed ("why not use Elixir for this?") presents it like some kind of an universal obvious choice. But I (and I guess the gp poster) don't see the "obviousness" of it so to speak.

It's kind of like commenting on every single C or C++ code link, "why not use Rust for this?" or "why not use Zig?".
by absolutelastone | 2025-05-09 18:52:39+00:00
It wasn't just that by itself. There was a list of several undisclosed data tweaks and manipulations. None were particularly fraudulent or anything, but once you have them all included in the paper, as the former author was complaining, it seems more likely that they just manipulated the theory and data as needed to make them match. There's a big difference between predicting something and demonstrating it in experiment, versus showing your theory can be made to fit some data you have been given when you can pick the right adjustments and subset of data.
by mrdependable | 2025-05-09 18:52:42+00:00
I do use it, but pretty much just the chat interface. Even that I am a bit wary of because too many times it will suggest doing things that are insanely complex for no reason. I've tried a few different flavors of AI coding such as Cursor, but I didn't see the benefit if I couldn't really trust what it was doing.

Mainly I use it like a coworker to bounce ideas off of, and that seems to work pretty well. Sometimes it will reveal some information, or do something in a way I hadn't thought of. The only problem is that it tends to veer into unnecessary territory if I'm not careful what enters into the context.

I also still just use Google because I find advice written by humans to be much more valuable.
by walrus01 | 2025-05-09 18:52:51+00:00
If I would have to guess this is more mundane than it first might appear, and probably a good security precaution. Rather than pushing out one, two or three ssh key pairs that have the private key pair running on some part of spacex CPE provisioning infrastructure that has access to millions of CPEs, they've got a more specific series of keys (perhaps by serial number of terminal produced, or production date?) where the management infrastructure has access to a much smaller number of terminals. Whatever they're doing with the private halves of those SSH keys can be compartmentalized.
by maxglute | 2025-05-09 18:56:25+00:00
Hence "even if degraded" / "reconstitute faster"... relative post war reconstituting shipbuilding including infra is downstream of capable workforce. During war surface industry can't be protected (likely including CONUS). Post war, shipyards / industrial supply chains can be rebuild faster than it takes to train the workforce to man them. Shipyards also inherently fortified structures, the labour intensive part - earthworks, concrete - are hard to crack, at scale. Jiangnan (launched more GTs than whole of US post WW2 production), is like ~5x the size of all WW2 JP shipyards combined, it's not something US can substantively blowup. PRC a whole different scale of adversary vs what US historically calibrated to fight conventionally. VS relatively weaker USSR, US plan was basically to nuke their industry, nuke the fulda gap - conventional forces not scaled to cripple peer powers in their backyard. Regardless domestic shipbuilding isn't about ongoing sustaining war efforts anymore, it's about recovering from one, especially for maritime powers who knows their entire surface fleet could be wiped.
by tialaramex | 2025-05-09 18:57:18+00:00
Sure, but it's not clear in this case whether say the human species should also count as a single "organism". We don't understand very much about the octopus, which is a healthy reminder of why I shouldn't even speculate about alien life which would almost unavoidably be much stranger than an octopus - but we feel comfortable asserting that the "semi autonomous" limbs of the octopus are not distinct in the way that say, my friends Chris and Caroline are distinct people. So if this galaxy sized organism consisted of smaller units with similarly distinct properties, I think we'd say that's not a galaxy sized organism that's a culture of individuals.
by no_wizard | 2025-05-09 18:57:48+00:00
>Isaac Newton was in on the alchemist bandwagon

An often overlooked or unmentioned fact too!

I think its a shame, because it humanizes the (for lack of a better term) smartest people in history to know these things about them.

Yes, Newton invented calculus, but he also tried to turn lead into gold!

So you too, might be able to do something novel, is the idea.
by opo | 2025-05-09 18:57:54+00:00
>Henry Ford famously wanted his workers to be able to afford his cars.

Amazing how that bit of PR is still being quoted over 100 years later. In reality, Ford had huge turnover problems with his workers - one estimate is over 370% annual turnover. One way to help prevent turnover is to pay more, and it solved the problem. (Even so, the base pay was still actually $2.30 and to get the extra $2.70 you had to abstain from alcohol, keep your home clean, etc.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/henry-ford-implements-5...
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-09 18:58:45+00:00
Fascinating read especially when viewed from the strategic angling to make Ford less profitable and cut off the minority shareholders the Dodge brothers from the dividend revenue stream they were using to build a rival company. So ironically, while the court held that the board had to prioritize shareholder profits, he would have realized greater shareholder profits by stifling the competition in its crib.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-05-09 18:58:46+00:00
>> We get 12 victories, 11.5 defeats and 0.5 draws

Without the context of the relevant battles those numbers mean nothing. E.g. Thermopylae was one of the losses but it would be hard to interpret it as evidence of the Spartans' average military capabilities. War is not football, to keep score. Rome lost more battles to Hannibal than they won, but they erased Carthage from the face of the earth.

As to Bret Deveraux, my opinion is that he's a fucking idiot. You say he "specializes in dismantling this kind of pop culture myths". What he really specialises in, with respect to Sparta, is trying to troll nenoazis and other idiots who are the Spartans' biggest fans, by pointing out what fucking losers they were (the Spartans; but also by extension the neonazis). That's an easy win.

Nobody thinks Sparta was some great beacon of civilisation, except perhaps for people who take all their history from watching 300. It was Athens that was a beacon of civilisation, Athens who went down in history for its contributions to science and culture, Athens whose glorious ruins are visited today by millions every year, when Sparta is lost forever, not even its location known. And good riddance to those fascist assholes.

Anyway Deveraux is writing a blog and you shouldn't mistake blogs for sources of historical truth.
by rdtsc | 2025-05-09 18:58:56+00:00
Looks great, thanks for sharing!

I just noticed you committed your .beam files and the _build directory. I think that's a bit unusual.

If you don't use specific features of jsx and can restrict compatibility to more recent versions of Erlang/OTP (27+) you might be able to use the built-in json module https://erlang.org/documentation/doc-15.0-rc3/lib/stdlib-6.0...
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-05-09 18:59:26+00:00
Regarding fleeing, https://transrescue.org/post-election-assistance-to-the-usa has some concrete advice.

Fleeing makes sense for people at most risk of persecution (e.g. trans people, Jews, those who speak out), but many people are prevented from fleeing by their consciences. They have to stay and fight. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance#Factions
by hnuser123456 | 2025-05-09 19:00:45+00:00
No, but in the Medieval days, it was a common hobby to try to figure it out, called Alchemy. They figured lead and gold were otherwise so similar, why can't you just... convert it? Because it requires nuclear physics instruments, or neutron stars. Some suspected it might be complicated, maybe impossibly so. Imagine going back to the 1500s and telling one of those guys "yes, it is possible, but it's not as simple as melting lead and mixing in some gold starter... first, you need to understand superconductors, supercomputers, subatomic physics..."
by chriscjcj | 2025-05-09 19:00:46+00:00
Disclaimer... I am a director and not an engineer. I can only give you my relatively limited understanding....

> It looks like great support (Blackmagicdesign) for building a small broadcast studio from scratch tho.

Agreed!

> I could see BMD embracing this. There are lots of studios that are not commercial broadcast that could really use a system like this.

Also agreed. Black Magic definitely makes a lot of reasonably-priced and very capable gear. They're not a major player in the TV automation space, but perhaps with the help of Sofie, they could make inroads.

> Isn't one of the problems with hardware support is that hardware vendors have agreements with the competitors you listed?

That's not a topic I'm knowledgeable about. It is my understanding that most shops who have a particular vendor's automation platform will also have that vendor's hardware running at its core. In all the shops I've seen, the switcher that's controlled by the automation system is made by the same company. Or if its another vendor's product, it's sold and provisioned along with the automation system when its purchased. Other stuff like audio mixers, robo-cam products, clip players, and CG/graphics platforms can be from other vendors.

> Computers are fast enough now that once you can get the signals into a machine, many of the special functions that previously required dedicated hardware can now be run in software? With proper timing signal distribution of course.

> Seems like 12G SDI to SFP+ would enable server class machines to subsume most of the special function hardware.

For audio, I think that would be a relatively easy lift with technologies like Dante. However, in most TV stations, you're going to need to literally plug upwards of 100 HDSDI video cables into a piece of hardware so that those sources can be switched to on TV, mixed and keyed on multiple mixed-effects banks, and viewed on multiviewer screens in the control room. I don't know that a regular-ol' PC has what it takes to take in and simultaneously process that amount of video. But just because don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ;-) Just haven't seen it yet.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-09 19:01:16+00:00
>People should just" pass legislation would be specific to congress, so not quite the same thing, or at least not the kind of argument that I was referring to.

Isn't that even worse? In that case it's entirely externalizing the problem.

I think I take the opposite position to you. I think that arguments (or discussions) about society at large are the most important and critical.

I think there is a common trend to ignore and dismiss the importance of decentralized social values and individual choice, instead only focusing on concrete policy proposals.

The latter is almost never productive without consensus on the former. If 90% of people want disposable crap, it will be difficult to shove a law down their throat preventing them from getting it.

Either way, as a result of being triggered by social opinions, you seems to miss the point of the parent post, namely, that right to repair only addresses a tiny fraction of consumerism, nor is it a prerequisite to buy less garbage in general.

The solution to people buying single use toys and inflatable Jacuzzis on Amazon is not to mandate their repairability.
by RajT88 | 2025-05-09 19:02:52+00:00
> the city's use of eminent domain was permissible under the Takings Clause, because the general benefits the community would enjoy from economic growth qualified as "public use"

Subjective decisions are bad, like we're seeing in other areas. "General benefits" can mean anything if you've got cooperative judges you crammed the courts with.

> Not that those are rare.

Heller comes to mind, even as a 2a supporter.
by codetrotter | 2025-05-09 19:03:01+00:00
My late grandfather used to teach some classes many years ago.

He recounted how one time, after he had graded and handed back some deliveries from the students, one of them came up to him with a confused look on his face.

The student said: In the feedback you wrote D.N.A.S.M. What does that mean?

My grandfather said: It means Do Not Abbreviate So Much.

Your comment reminded me of this :)
by jamiejquinn | 2025-05-09 19:03:15+00:00
OP answered the Julia-specific part but I'll chime in with a solid, language-agnostic yes, there are still reasons a GPU dev might want to target specific hardware. GPU hardware at the moment is more vendor-specific than CPUs. Off the top of my head, major differences include specialised hardware like Nvidia's tensor cores, differences in common hardware like cache and register size, and niche features like Nvidia's combined grace-hopper machines or AMD's gpu-cpu hybrid MI300A.

Sophisticated high-level approaches (like Julia's) will be able to utilise/mitigate some of the differences but I don't think we're fully vendor-agnostic quite yet (and probably won't ever be at the evolving cutting edge).
by Amezarak | 2025-05-09 19:03:54+00:00
This is a big problem. Democracies throughout the west are refusing to do anything about big problems that have populist support. This is enabling authoritarianism because the authoritarians present an alternative vision and promise to actually do something. If mainstream parties would just take real action on issues like immigration or crime it would suck all the oxygen away from authoritarians.
by atonse | 2025-05-09 19:04:15+00:00
I am literally debugging an issue with our OpenAI client in our Elixir app due to connections mysteriously timing out and closing, and I think this sort of library might be really good for enabling more widespread use of OpenAI stuff in our app.

But since it's Erlang, I hesitate to add this since I don't want to now start debugging stuff in Erlang. And I've coded full-time with Elixir since 2016/2017 time frame.

So I'm biased here, but I definitely would try this out if it were Elixir, but the Erlang gives me pause since it still is a pretty different language, and I'd have a hard time debugging any issues.
by arghwhat | 2025-05-09 19:04:26+00:00
None of your points is about whether or not the company spies or not. You also conflate the malice of the country they are in with the malice of the company itself.

Google's primary business is and have always been ads, and they practically invented the kind of global tracking we have all come to know and hate. Google actively tries to expand tracking and ad exposure to their own benefit. See the Google TV Streamer home screen as an example of their ad behaviors.

Apple has a miniscule ad business, and from the estimates I can find, the money in that is just a fraction of the Google search sponsorship they get (which counts towards the revenue of the same "services" bracket as their own ads). Apple actively tries to limit tracking, pissing other ad companies like Meta off. See the Apple TV home screen as an example of their ad behaviors.

In general, having access to data and using it are entirely orthogonal, and many companies that have your data consider it a liability they would much rather be without - it's just sometimes hard to provide a service without data passing through, and not everything can reasonably be E2E (either for technical or UX reasons).
by stonecharioteer | 2025-05-09 19:04:50+00:00
I use a Boox Tab Mini C. If you're in the Android ecosystem, it's amazing. KOReader is the best app you can use once you learn how to set it up (it takes a minute). I have both the Palma and the Tab Mini C. I use the Palma for reading lighter books and the Tab Mini C for textbooks.

I also have a larger Android tablet for more colorful books though. I'd recommend getting the largest Boox tablet you can comfortably afford/hold. And one with their older stylus. The new ones are moving away from Wacom I think.