MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon6362 | 2025-05-08 17:16:16+00:00
While I was going to community college in the late 90's, I had an IT consulting biz where I serviced mechanical engineers and folks in the US nuclear industry who were ex-General Electric (GE NE). I learned nuclear was heavily-regulated (rightfully so) and costly but the main barriers to new sites were insurance, the huge capital investment, and the very long project cycles. As such, these are just too risky for most business people and investors. Nowadays, even with SMRs, the ROI still doesn't make sense given the massive, massive advances in renewables and regional grid storage. Very few Americans want an unproven, fly-by-night startup SMR in their neighborhood or in their county. I'd be okay with just a few mega reactors in fixed sites in very remote areas that would be heavily defended with perimeter security and anti-aircraft/-drone emplacements. I'm not okay with SMRs on flatbed trailers with minimal security in urban areas.
by polpo | 2025-05-08 17:16:18+00:00
I switched to Aisler who are in Germany. They're certainly more expensive than China but still way less than quick turn options in the US. There will still be tariffs but they won't be nearly as high. There are also smaller PCB vendors in China other than the "big two" of JLCPCB and PCBWay that are willing to be a bit more flexible and not charge the max possible duty upfront via DDP incoterms.
by marttt | 2025-05-08 17:16:23+00:00
Ardour has really good default settings.

Another, maybe forgotten one is Wavosaur on Windows [1]. Great modularity, one can quickly remove cruft that's not needed, or add a lot of data on waveforms when necessary. I admit being a fan of the Classic Windows era UIs, though. :)

A third, also forgotten one from the Win2k/9x GUI era is maybe Waveshop [2], also a great example of keeping things simple.

Funny thing: I used Reaper for years (occasional pro-level radio production), then had to switch to Pro Tools because of studio demands. Afterwards tried going with Reaper again, but got really overwhelmed with all those endless possibilities for customization. So... I ended up using Ardour, which was easiest to grasp from day one. Really well thought out and polished GUI. Possibly a great example of why it makes sense to have a subscription/payment based, non-free open source project.

Oh, and Audacity up to version 1.26 was also great. After 2.x, it started to add bloat IMO. I remember Eric S. Raymond highlighted it as a great example of modular, unix-y design in "The Art of Unix Programming" [3].

1: https://www.wavosaur.com/

2: https://victimofleisure.github.io/WaveShop/

3: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch06s01.html#aud...
by mmooss | 2025-05-08 17:16:35+00:00
> The waste, fraud, and abuse that runs rampant throughout the government tells us that the powerful often use taxpayer dollars as their own slush fund.

I don't know that it's worse than any other institution? At least voters can remove the corrupt, and they are prosecuted. Are you saying these uber-wealthy and CEOs aren't just as corrupt or worse?
by PKop | 2025-05-08 17:16:36+00:00
What do you think the point of rebalancing trade is? To get out of dependence on foreign suppliers. "China's economy, copmposed of massive domestic production, industrial capacity, and manufacturing inputs is in a stronger position"

Yes, sounds like something that should be changed to increase the strength of the US. China has protectionist economic policy and trade barriers. If that equals strength why shouldn't we do it too?
by dang | 2025-05-08 17:16:43+00:00
(Edit: the parent comment was edited to add "I hope it won't since it's backed by Y Combinator and has an Apache 2 license." - that's a good redirection, and I probably wouldn't have posted a mod reply if the comment had had that originally.)

(Btw if your comment already has replies, it is good to add "Edit:" or something if you're changing it in a way that will alter the context of replies.)

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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Don't be curmudgeonly."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by eej71 | 2025-05-08 17:17:01+00:00
I know the book exists as I'm very familiar with the kinds of claims that get repeated in threads like this.

To me - these claims seem to fuel a conspiracy like mind set about why certain efforts or movements fail. "Because the billionares didn't want it to". "Or they bought the media and control the narrative". "Its all just a uniparty!".

If I were to replace the word billionare with the name of the first Abrahamic religion, you and I would both see that view point as low intellect nonsense. And it would be. But somehow, sub in the word billionare and then it becomes brilliant analysis for some.
by tomnicholas1 | 2025-05-08 17:17:26+00:00
Presumably because everyone in MCF has been waiting for ITER for decades, and JET is being decommissioned after a last gasp. Every other tokamak is considerably smaller (or similar size like DIII-D or JT-60SA).

Much of the interesting tokamak engineering ideas were on small (so low-power) machines or just concepts using high-temperature superconducting magnets.
by Arnt | 2025-05-08 17:18:32+00:00
Your statement there implies that the intention is related to such a price point.

I suspect that's wrong, and that they didn't even try to calculate those price points, which will vary per kind of good, not per country. If the per-country tariffs happen to match those unknown numbers they didn't even try to calculate, that can't be due to intention, it can only be dumb luck.
by mmmBacon | 2025-05-08 17:18:48+00:00
I think you missed the forest for the trees. I did incorrectly cite GPT-4 as I was going from memory and that's suspect sometimes. I also didn't elaborate and maybe I should have given the snarky comments I'm seeing.

Actually the amount of power available matters because you are consuming energy in time. If I have a 1MW plant and a battery, I can generate 1GWh in about 3 weeks. This seems a little silly though. A Hyperscale DC campus is ~150MW to 200MW. If you plot the larger ones, they are almost all near power stations with >1GW capacity (not all).

The industry trend is towards building 1GW datacenters. Last I checked these would consume ~8.7TWh (assuming PUE of 1). However, the 8.7TWh while relevant is meaningless unless the power to the DC can be 1GW. Since the plant itself has to generate more than 1GW (the plant has a cap ratio so more than this, plus other demand, etc..) for such a site, then it follows that there are limited number of sites in the US (this is public info see EIA.gov or Wikipedia).

Grok3 is already at 140MW (100 days of training ==> 336GWh) at ~10^26 FLOP. Model FLOP is increasing at ~5x per year so by 2030, we are expecting to be ~10^28 and that would take ~10GW (24PWh). If I am optimistic and say that the efficiency can improve by 1.3x per year, then we still need a very large generating station to meet the demand or we need to distribute among many smaller sites.

You can push the numbers around however you like but the conclusion is the same, the timing may be different.

There's a reason why all the hyperscalers are investing in nuclear, large generating capacity and the highest cap factor of any form of energy.

My 2nd comment still stands, and you left unaddressed (remember the forest?)..
by alnwlsn | 2025-05-08 17:18:50+00:00
Oh yeah, the books are impressive in their own right. However many items you think they sell looking at the website, the book reveals you were a couple orders of magnitudes off. 1000+ bible-thin pages of well laid out tables and product photos. It's pretty much what the website would look without any filtering of the items.

The books are fun to leaf through on occasion, or if you need to take up an extra 3 inches on your bookshelf with something yellow. If you have one, it makes you feel like a real engineer. But I greatly prefer the website.
by motorest | 2025-05-08 17:19:01+00:00
> If it is possible for that other team to merge a broken build, you are doing it wrong.

This assertion is unrealistic and fails to address the problem. The fact that builds can and do break is a very mundane fact of life. There are whole job classes dedicated to mitigate the problems caused by broken builds, and here you are accusing others of doing things wrong. You cannot hide this away by trying to shame software developers for doing things that software developers do.

> Write whatever testing gives you confidence that someone else's changes won't break your code, and, bonus, now you can make changes without breaking your code.

That observation is so naive that casts doubt on whether you have any professional experience developing software. There are a myriad of ways any commit can break something that goes well beyond whether it compiles or not. Why do you think that companies, including FANGs, still hire small armies of QAs to manually verify if things still work once deployed? Is everyone around you doing things wrong, and you're the only beacon of hope? Unreal.
by lastofthemojito | 2025-05-08 17:19:03+00:00
It feels like a weird backdoor to socialism. Look, we're capitalists, we trade stock on open markets ... but really most stock market gains come from a tiny fraction of companies with incredible performance, so everyone just invests in index funds to make sure they own all of the stocks, including the ones that will go up a lot ... and since we all own all of the companies, we start making sure our government works to prevent the companies we own from going out of business ...
by lesuorac | 2025-05-08 17:19:05+00:00
> I think a lot of people think you can just depend on people's blind greed so they keep on maximizing their earnings regardless of how much they actually earn. However this is not even how it works a little bit.

Right, that's not how it works.

Most people do not try to maximize their revenue and it's why when a sector (say Tech) starts paying very high salaries it takes a long time (if-at-all) for other sector's salaries to increase despite the opportunity cost of working in those sectors being higher now.

I really do not buy an argument that Alexander Bell (and the at least 4 other people who simultaneous invented the telephone) would've given up and done subsistence farming if the tax rate was "too high". You will still have (and possible even more of it given how well DARPA works) technological advanced with higher top-bracket tax rates.

> This behavior is described in the so-called "Laffer Curve"... which is not a mathmatical formula for maximizing revenue, it is just a way to illustrate the sort of behavior you deal with when raising taxes.

> Nowadays most governments are going to have the _effective_ tax rates maxed out. Governments hire plenty of accountants and economists that have clear understanding on how all of this works.

This part is all false.

The main criticism of the Laffer Curve argument is that in practice governments are below the maximum revenue point [1].

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You've also completely ignored my initial point of 1) which is that we would've seen government receipts increase as a percent of GDP had it not been for the lowering of the tax brackets as more money was within those brackets as GDP goes up. Which would of course result in a lower deficit into a surplus (as it was during Clinton's years before his successor cut taxes).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve#Criticisms
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-08 17:19:15+00:00
I can tell you from first hand day job experience:

Electronic manufacturing in the US definitely exists. It also is low quality and 5x to 10x the cost of China.

An assembled board that costed us $825/unit in the US (and frequently had errors) costs $130/unit from China and they nailed it every time (probably because they machine QC rather than human QC). It's really not even close. Same goes for machined parts - drastically cheaper and higher quality from China.
by Scoundreller | 2025-05-08 17:19:26+00:00
> It’s hard to imagine how the postal system could efficiently handle tariffs on a dozen small $1 packages from AliExpress landing in the mailbox.

De minimis in Canada has been $20 (and sorta $40) for a loooong time. That's like US$14 these days.

Usually brokers and brokered shipments (like UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc) will charge any and every tax/duty absolutely correctly. Possibly charging you more than the cost of the item to calculate all that. And notoriously delivering the parcel and mailing you a bill 2 weeks later. Virtually every Canadian that shops online has some horror story about it.

For stuff coming by post and directly assessed by customs, they used to be sticklers and assess charges on everything worth >$20, even if it's $2.60 in taxes and a $8.95 fee for the privilege of calculating it. In the last ~15 years, they pick and choose.

They seem to ignore China stuff since it's mostly low value and have a sharp eye to spot stuff from, e.g. Japan that's probably higher value.

No idea how Aliexpress and others that use gig workers for last-mile delivery do it. Maybe they just pay the tariffs/taxes because the item value is still low once you exclude the final delivery costs from the valuation.
by dakr | 2025-05-08 17:19:40+00:00
A wonderful example of the useful, sometimes unintentional secondary effects of doing science. SMAP as a mission is firmly in the Earth science category, so very much in the crosshairs of the current administration. The data is used for Earth science and climate research and has many agricultural and water management applications.

For example, water management districts can tell if the local soil can accommodate the water from an upcoming storm or if the water will stay on the surface and cause flooding.
by stevenpotts | 2025-05-08 17:20:18+00:00
it's based on penthouse, honestly, the most "difficult" part of this was setting up CloudRun with docker to get puppeteer to work and be able to wait whatever amount of time the user needed and netlify functions, I tried using tools like https://criticalcss.com/generate but they just didn't work because of the lack 'waiting' I guess
by tylerflint | 2025-05-08 17:20:22+00:00
We have Go support, but it is not open sourced yet. Go is a bit more complicated but we were able to get it after some cave diving in the ELF formats. To give you a little insight on how this works, because Go is statically linked, we need to pull several different offsets of the functions we are going to hook into.

We do this by scanning every version of Go that is released to find offsets in the standard library that won't change. Then when we detect a new Go process, we use an ELF scanner to find some function offsets and hook into those with uprobes. Using both of these, we have all the information we need to see Go pre-encryption content as well as attribute it to connections and processes.
by os2warpman | 2025-05-08 17:20:27+00:00
>You have to deregulate the supply.

We already had that.

It was a disaster.

For centuries. No. Millennia.

Until enough people died to make regulation palatable.

Going back to that would be like going back to bloodletting to balance the four humors.

"Oh but baby we've changed" --some random private equity sociopath

"We've got computers now man that changes things, we'll build an ai-enabled pharma tech stack on the blockchain" --some techbro
by PKop | 2025-05-08 17:20:29+00:00
There's no permanence here, and you don't understand history or even business if you think this imbalance and dependence doesn't equal weakness at some point in the future. Just because we want China to always work for us and give us what we want doesn't mean completely ceding control of the decision means it will work out. Does any business (operating in much less cut throat stakes than great-power geopolitics) even bank all their supply on external sources, let alone one, let alone that one being their biggest adversary? Madness.
by mnky9800n | 2025-05-08 17:21:20+00:00
But this is also why face tattoos are more popular. Face tattoos are still considered “hardcore” of whatever. Before just having a tattoo anywhere made you an outsider. But then emo happened and everything that was cool was commoditized and now the modern world is the way it is. Or something. I don’t know how you feel but I think we should blame the world on emo.
by iamtherhino | 2025-05-08 17:21:21+00:00
Hey! Co-founder of Hypermode here.

Agreed on swapping models for code-gen doesn't make sense. We're mostly indexed on GPT-4.1 for our AgentBuilder product. I haven't found it easy to move between models for code super effective.

The most popular use case we've seen from folks is on the iteration/experimentation phase of building an agent/tool. We made ModelRouter originally as an internal service for our "prompt to agent" product, where folks are trying a few dozen models/MCPs/tools/data/etc really quickly as they try to find a local maximum for some automation or job.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-08 17:22:07+00:00
Are there any of these tools which will use your evals to automatically recommend a model to use? Imagine if you didn't need to follow model releases anymore, and you just had a heuristic that would automatically select the right price/performance tradeoff. Maybe there's even a way to route queries differently to more expensive models depending on how tricky they are.

(This would be more for using models at scale in production as opposed to individual use for code authoring etc.)
by nickthegreek | 2025-05-08 17:22:08+00:00
"Whereas Francis said, “Who am I to judge?” when asked about gay clerics, Cardinal Prevost has expressed less welcoming views to L.G.B.T.Q. people.

In a 2012 address to bishops, he lamented that Western news media and popular culture fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel.” He cited the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/americas/pope-candi...
by PaulKeeble | 2025-05-08 17:22:13+00:00
Had tariffs been applied early when American corporations stated offshoring manufacturing to increase their profits the industry base might have been saved. But now these tariffs are just going to introduce pain to people in substantial price hikes and no company in this chaotic environment is going to put the collective trillions of dollars to building capability back in the USA. This requires a better plan.
by wewxjfq | 2025-05-08 17:22:29+00:00
Germany does not receive Russian pipeline gas and has banned Russian LNG from its ports. It receives a tiny share of Russian gas from Dutch and Belgian ports, but to my knowledge Germany has no control over this. France on the other hand is the top destination for Russian LNG in the EU, sharing the lead only with countries that refuse to support Ukraine.

Germany became a net importer of electricity in 2023, but it took the vast majority of its nuclear power plants offline long before that, when Germany still was a net exporter of electricity. Even in 2022, during the gas crisis with barely any nuclear power left, Germany net exported records amounts of electricity to other European countries, with France at the top of the receiving end because half of their nuclear reactor fleet was offline.

Lastly, Germany has one of the most stable grids in the world, while France does issue blackout warnings when demand peaks.
by zacfire | 2025-05-08 17:23:01+00:00
This deep dive explores how ByteDance structured its AI efforts (independent Seed/Flow/Stone units reporting to founders), its aggressive playbook for attracting global talent (Top Seed program, poaching key execs), and its unique incentive models (e.g., relaxed KPIs for Seed Edge). It contrasts this with other giants and examines how it navigates China's fierce talent market, the crucial role of overseas Chinese talent, and the significant challenges posed by US chip controls and the political pressure on TikTok
by JohnFen | 2025-05-08 17:23:15+00:00
> Ask what’s actually slowing developers down. Create psychological safety so they’ll tell you the truth,” Stefanescu said. “Then use AI to solve those problems, not the ones leadership imagines exist.”

Is this not the very definition of "a solution seeking a problem"?

Yes, create conditions where devs can truthfully say what their friction points are. Then evaluate what the best solutions are and implement those. Who knows? AI might be a good solution, but also it might not. Preemptively assuming AI is the right answer is just continuing with the very problem this article is decrying.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-05-08 17:23:29+00:00
it's a shame vim is so stinky because after 15 years of using it now i find myself using vscode. I always like vim because editing is efficient. Now I dont write as much as supervise a lot of the boilerplate code.

Over the years I have gotten better with vim, added phpactor and other tooling, but frankly i dont have time to futz and its not so polished. With VSCode I can just work. I don't love everything about it, but it works well enough with copilot i forgot the benefits of vim.
by dredmorbius | 2025-05-08 17:23:32+00:00
I'm building my own (for news):

<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/114356066459105122> and <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/e919db600cb8013eb7b844...> show screenshots and describe the interface.

It's a locally-hosted, personal system, updated manually via shell scripts. The prototype is based off of CNN's "lite" headlines page (<https://lite.cnn.com/>), which presents 100 headlines in an unorganised fashion without context.

My first cut simply organised the headlines by section and date. The version linked above includes several lede 'graphs for each article, along with some other formatting. It runs about 15 or so screens on either my desktop or mobile (large-format tablet) devices.

I'm looking at extending the concept to other / additional news sources, largely as CNN's article offerings are disappointingly irrelevant. (Discussed in the Diaspora* thread.)

Features I'm thinking of adding include:

- Bayesian ordering by significance. (This will be based on my own article judgements used as training data.)

- A "best of the interval" capability.

- Adding in articles from several alternative sources. The Guardian will likely be the baseline given its well-structured nature, reasonably comprehensive news, and lack of a paywall. There are likely a few other sources I'll add. I'd like to include weather and perhaps some business ticker data as well. I've had previous ideas about a "news dashboard" which tracks significant indicators, and would like to try applying several of those concepts, if my coding chops are up to it.

- Possibly a bit of visual flash, though from what I'm observing, virtually all graphics used on news sites are more distraction than value.

- Incorporating eInk-Mode: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690828>
by ramesh31 | 2025-05-08 17:24:00+00:00
Apologies for the snark, you're correct.

But I do stand by the point. We are seeing umpteen of these things launched every week now, all with the exact same goal in mind; monetizing a thin layer of abstraction between code repos and model providers, to lock enterprises in and sell out as quickly as possible. None of them are proposing anything new or unique above the half dozen open source extensions out there that have gained real community support and are pushing the capabilities forward. Anyone who actually uses agentic coding tools professionally knows that Windsurf is a joke compared to Cline, and that there is no good reason whatsoever for them to have forked. This just poisons the well further for folks who haven't used one yet.