MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-23 19:49:20+00:00
I heat my two-story, not-very-efficient house with wood. I'm not in upstate NY, but not much further south in the Midwest, where we get some sub-zero weather. For firewood, I cut dead or fallen trees that need to be removed on a neighboring farm, so they're "free" (not counting the cost of saw, chains, gas, oil...).

So yeah, you do have to have some timber available. But if you live in the kind of place he's talking about, there's more than enough to go around. Most of the land where I live is in crops, but there are enough trees along the creeks and in rough areas that all the people burning wood don't make a dent in them.
by llm_nerd | 2025-05-23 19:49:28+00:00
By what measure do you come up with that?

Nationwide, Trump's approval rating is somewhere around 42-46%. And just to be clear, early in a term presidential approval rating is in a honeymoon period where the public is trying to make the best of the next four years and sees it with rose coloured glasses. Obama had a 65% approval rating. Biden had a 57% approval rating. Both at the same stage in their presidency.

On every single issue, the public disagrees with how Trump has acted. From immigration to trade and tariffs to education to health. And he's currently in the "lie about everything and promise the world" stage, but much like his first term that has an expiry date when people realize that he is incredibly stupid and lies with every breath. There will be no trillion dollar windfall from tariffs "paid for by the other country" (though there is the most regressive, largest tax hike in US history), everything is going to get more expensive, and the "Golden age" is going to be a dire descent to a fallen empire. There will be no $5000 DOGE savings cheques or elimination of taxes on tips or overtime, egg prices haven't dropped 95%, gas isn't $1.99, and the Ukraine war keeps going on. He isn't going to eliminate the debt or even the massively exploding deficit with his magical crypto scam shitcoin.

But Trump will self-enrich himself and everyone who pays his extortion racket. His trade war grift seems mostly targeted at getting various Trump co projects going, along with fellating his pal Elon's various companies.

But regardless, I'm not talking about the US as a whole. No one in Canada wants Kentucky or Texas or Florida joining us, and those people can herald their orange idol however much they want. But on the West Coast Trump has a 30% approval rating. In much of New England and New York he's mid-30s. Again, despite this being the honeymoon period.

Yeah, the areas I talked about hugely disagree with this government.

So do something about it. Again, red people and states talk about this all the time.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie...

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-secession-closer-anyone-think...

If the so-called Blue states don't want to be dragged back a hundred years into this growing anti-science, corrupt idiocracy, start taking the same tact. Somehow it's only incomprehensible when the better states broach it.
by perching_aix | 2025-05-23 19:49:52+00:00
Must be disabled here using organizational policies then cause I see nothing of the sort. To be fair, I also did run into something like this with Outlook. With that I knew that there were integrations though, so I knew to search for it and could confirm it's disabled. Didn't occur to me to search for this regarding Teams, but it makes sense. Pretty strange though, cause we do have Copilot working in Edge, I use it all the time. And it's not the el cheapo free version.

Closely related, all this session management crap is what drives me personally insane, not the presence of AI. Might again be just the organizational policies making things fall apart though. But my expected experience would be to just log in to Windows, and have Copilot just working everywhere. Not log into Copilot in Edge, log into Copilot in VS Code, log into Copilot in (...). So annoying.
by shayway | 2025-05-23 19:50:39+00:00
> Similarly, if you're a person who likes all kinds of things--but only for 6 weeks to 6 months and then becomes utterly bored of them--there is no stable group of "your people." There's just "these people, for now, I guess," and you hold them lightly because you know in a matter of months, when you don't share the passion for the one thing they're stably obsessed with, you won't have enough in common anymore for them to tolerate you.

My lord this cuts deep. Bonus points if you approach your interests in a way that nobody else seems to, leaving you feeling even more disconnected and alone when you're around people who share them.

I've been wrestling with this since (dropping out of) high school, I'm in my early 20s now. I lean towards embracing my idiosyncrasies and letting go of attachment towards getting the kind of social fulfillment I want. Ask me on a different day, though, and the siren's call of having a 'people' is too strong to pass up.

I like to think that learning to just be authentic to myself leads to both in the long run - if I can find a way to be okay with being alone, I'll be in a better place to reach out when the time comes. Still working on the first part of that hypothesis though.

Would you be interested in chatting more about this sometime? Shoot me an email, sheyaway at outlook.
by nickff | 2025-05-23 19:50:39+00:00
Quebec also would have been worse off as an independent state, but threatening sovereignty gave (and continues to give) them important bargaining leverage. Additionally, Alberta has long-standing grievances, and ignoring those in favor of a strictly economic analysis is quite... limiting. Albertan sovereignty advocates might also argue that Canada has more to lose in Alberta than it ever did in the case of Quebec.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-05-23 19:50:55+00:00
All this means is that the average income of citizens in Alberta is dramatically higher than other provinces and so Alberta pays more in the federal taxes that are applied uniformly to everyone.

I'm sure the other provinces also wish they had such high paying jobs and contributed more in taxes!

Avg individual income Alberta: 74,237

Avg individual income New Brunswick: 57,336.
by WillAdams | 2025-05-23 19:51:34+00:00
Curious why Quantrix Financial Modeler wasn't included?

https://quantrix.com/products/quantrix-modeler

pyspread would be another interesting comparison:

https://pyspread.gitlab.io/

Really though, spreadsheets don't so much need features per se, but a better interface which will scale to larger datasets and which reduces the likelihood of logical errors --- Quantrix, based on Lotus Improv is one of the few to do this.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-23 19:51:46+00:00
> It eliminates one way of forging results. Without stating the seed, people could consistently fail to reproduce your results and you could always have "oops, guess I had a bad seed" as an excuse.

Why does this matter? If people consistently fail to get results similar to yours by using different seeds, your results are invalid whether or not you made them up. And if people consistently do get results similar to yours with different seeds, your results are valid whether or not you made them up. No?

> Even in your counterexample, the random seeds being reproducible and published is still important.

> you can investigate the proportion of "bad" seeds and suss out the error bounds of the simulation

How does publishing seeds help with that? You do that by examining different seeds. If you know what seeds were used in the paper, this process doesn't change in any way.
by alwa | 2025-05-23 19:52:02+00:00
She co-founded it, didn’t she? Created it to operationalize her ideas, which, from the sound of her speech, confused people around her at the time? Or am I misunderstanding what you’re asking?

> When we started Y Combinator, everyone treated it as a joke. We were funding kids right out of college and only giving them small amounts of money. How could these startups ever succeed? Now everyone knows it's a good idea to fund young founders, but twenty years ago, it just seemed lame. But we didn't care what people thought of us. We knew we were onto something. In fact it was good that we seemed lame, because that meant it took several years before people started to copy us.
by thethingcreator | 2025-05-23 19:52:16+00:00
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by comex | 2025-05-23 19:52:29+00:00
The question is how best to send the modulus, which is a much larger integer. For the reasons below, I'd argue that base64 is better. And if you're sending the modulus in base64, you may as well use the same approach for the exponent sent along with it.

For RSA-4096, the modulus is 4096 bits = 512 bytes in binary, which (for my test key) is 684 characters in base64 or 1233 characters in decimal. So the base64 version is much smaller.

Base64 is also more efficient to deal with. An RSA implementation will typically work with the numbers in binary form, so for the base64 encoding you just need to convert the bytes, which is a simple O(n) transformation. Converting the number between binary and decimal, on the other hand, is O(n^2) if done naively, or O(some complicated expression bigger than n log n) if done optimally.

Besides computational complexity, there's also implementation complexity. Base conversion is an algorithm that you normally don't have to implement as part of an RSA implementation. You might argue that it's not hard to find some library to do base conversion for you. Some programming languages even have built-in bigint types. But you typically want to avoid using general-purpose bigint implementations for cryptography. You want to stick to cryptographic libraries, which typically aim to make all operations constant-time to avoid timing side channels. Indeed, the apparent ease-of-use of decimal would arguably be a bad thing since it would encourage implementors to just use a standard bigint type to carry the values around.

You could argue that the same concern applies to base64, but it should be relatively safe to use a naive implementation of base64, since it's going to be a straightforward linear scan over the bytes with less room for timing side channels (though not none).
by mjr00 | 2025-05-23 19:52:38+00:00
> "Each time you have to make a decision, make the right one" would be what I would say in a commencement speech. Truly sage advice.

It honestly is great advice. Most (useful) business advice I've seen amounts to "how to make better decisions". This includes things like doing market research or a business model canvas (to make better decisions about your customers), releasing MVPs quickly to test the market (to make better decisions around product and pricing), picking which metrics and data points to measure (so that you can evaluate if your decision was actually correct and quickly course correct if not), etc.
by zoogeny | 2025-05-23 19:53:04+00:00
I'd be interested in examples of this. I've worked in offices for all of my adult life and I don't have any examples that come to mind.

I think of logic puzzles I used to do as a kid. The whole idea of the puzzle is that all of the information you need is provided, the fun is in solving using deduction. Sudoku scratches the same itch.

At the least, I would argue there are many problems that don't fit the mold you are suggesting and MCP is not the correct method for addressing them.
by smeej | 2025-05-23 19:53:37+00:00
I've tried a couple times, but the interest in making physical things cycles through just like any other interest. Then it gets replaced by something like neurobiology or anthropology and I don't want to make things for awhile.

It seems like I really enjoy the beginnings of things, like if we run Pareto ratios twice, I like the 4% of the learning that gets me 64% of the understanding. And then it's enough and I'm done. It's enough to ask questions of the interesting people without sounding like a total n00b.

In the time it would take to master one thing, I become "barely proficient" in 25, but it's hard to build anything meaningful, including human connections, operating like that.

I know healing isn't a requirement to deserve the friendship of others. But if I keep operating like this because of it, it's definitely an impediment to building those friendships.
by rglover | 2025-05-23 19:54:25+00:00
> Bay Area Tech regularly goes through these bursts of baseless enthusiasm for rehashes of existing technology. Is MCP useful? Yeah, probably. Is the current froth based on anything but SF-scene self-licking-ice-cream-code social cred? No.

Thank you. You said what I was going to say. Another goose chase for something that's valuable, certainly, but being frothed up into some mythical sword in the stone.

It's ultimately just a way to say "hey, here's some extra context including some functions we have defined on our server that you can ask us to call."
by evanelias | 2025-05-23 19:54:26+00:00
> The only feature that Aurora (MySQL) has that is remotely impressive

Aurora is one of the only options if you need low-lag physical replication in a MySQL-compatible environment. That makes it operationally feasible to execute large/heavy writes or DDL which would normally cause too much replication lag on traditional (async binlog-based) MySQL replicas.

Granted, there's some important fine print: long transactions will still block InnoDB purge of old row versions, and in Aurora that's cluster-wide. But in any case, personally I'd consider nearly-lag-free replication to be an important differentiator. This can be leveraged in interesting ways, for example CashApp's `spirit` OSC tool (https://github.com/block/spirit) can do online schema changes blazing-fast because it doesn't need to throttle its write rate to avoid replication lag.

Scale-to-zero is also nice for dev/test environments.

That said, I do agree with your overall point that Aurora was majorly over-marketed. And Amazon's capture of so much revenue in the MySQL space has been extremely detrimental for the MySQL ecosystem, especially considering Aurora's modifications are proprietary/closed-source.
by BuckRogers | 2025-05-23 19:54:42+00:00
I don't disagree with that. Though some did lie on their resumes to get jobs to attain the visas, AI could be used to flag unworthy recent citizens that committed fraud from overseas to attain their citizenship. My wife immigrated without committing fraud and is even more New Right than I am, so there's that. She wants this country preserved, and improved. Not overwhelmed and ultimately degraded. People make a place, and changing those people will change the place. It's how the world works.

I would also be willing to accept alternatives, such as the creation of a new Protected Class. Settler Status, which would be granted to all children from a direct paternal line going back to the American Revolution or before for the descendants of native Americans who at that time were from Europe, and did the actual sacrifice of pioneering the wild and settled the land. If you believe new immigrants experienced hardship, try Pennsylvania in 1750. Today an immigrant that faces "hardship" as you put it, is soft as a feather. Just taking advantage of this country without truly contributing. Again, Google might be happy but my concern is not Google Inc. If those with Settler Status were granted permanent job preference over non-Settler Status individuals, that would rectify the injustice and abuse of our legal immigration system, and the blind eye towards illegal immigration.
by hirsin | 2025-05-23 19:55:17+00:00
The point above about enterprise glue is why this is a pull model.

In your push model, the onus is on you to go find the scan from one of five backends, traverse whatever hoops of access are needed, and actually handle the files manually.

In the pull model, each backend implements the server once, the LLM gets connected to each one once, and you have one single flow to interact with all of them.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-05-23 19:55:32+00:00
The difference between "an experienced biological engineer could figure out how to do this" and "any random person could ask a local LLM for step-by-step instructions to do this" is a vast gulf. Moore's Law of Mad Science: every year the amount of intelligence required to end the world goes down.

The intersection between "experienced biological engineers" and "people inclined to commit large-scale attacks" is, generally speaking, the empty set, and isn't in much danger of becoming non-empty for a variety of reasons.

The intersection between "people with access to a local LLM without safeguards" and "people inclined to commit large-scale attacks" is much more likely to be non-empty.

Safeguards are not, in fact, just an illusion of safety. Probabilistically, they do in fact likely increase safety.
by ipdashc | 2025-05-23 19:56:35+00:00
ACME is cool (compared to what came before it), but I'm kind of sad that EV certs never seemed to pan out at all. I feel like they're a neat concept, and had the potential to mitigate a lot of scams or phishing websites in an ideal world. (That said, discriminating between "big companies" and "everyone else who can't afford it" would definitely have some obvious downsides.) Does anyone know why they never took off?
by agiacalone | 2025-05-23 19:56:57+00:00
Brave's adblocker won't do anything against Google's trackers if Google builds it in to the engine.

Again, I advise against trusting anything Chromium-based.

Also, you apparently haven't heard of uBlock Origin's Medium Mode. Brave can't even touch that. There's more than just advertising to worry about on the web.
by landl0rd | 2025-05-23 19:57:04+00:00
Given that existing pipelines are already overcommitted or at capacity and carry not much more than a tenth, and given that America is mostly the only option for refining the heavy sour tarry crap they pull out of the athabasca sands, this doesn't matter much. This is what came up during trump's threats about tariffing oil. They basically would have had to eat the cost unlike most of the other tariffs trump has proposed.

Regardless, let's say two places have very different values and ideas about how they want to live and what goals to pursue. What the hell gives one place the right, particularly when it consistently votes down the desired values of the other, to prevent it from leaving and going its own way? Self-determination as a principle isn't magically restricted to national borders only. That would be a ridiculous assertion.
Ask HN: How to start selling my Restaurant AI automation software?
by Nayak_S1991 | 2025-05-23 19:57:14+00:00
In today’s hyper competitive environment, traditional restaurant operations are no longer sustainable without digitization. A lack of integrated systems, limited digital marketing and zero automation result in operational inefficiencies and lost revenue opportunities. So i have built a complete end to end Automation package for Restaurant or Food business insdutry.

I am a tech person don't have any experience on sales what should be my ideal approach to kick start my sales process.

Looking forward to learn from some experts
by pvg | 2025-05-23 19:57:17+00:00
It's not legal advice. People can just be wrong and you can tell them you think that without coming off as a jerk.

That wasn't a statement towards the individual. That was a statement of what could befall someone who took their advice.

No, I don't think that's true - it's just a catastrophizing rationalization for reflexive dickishness. We all suffer from reflexive dickishness so of course it happens and it's not that big of a deal but trying to pass it off as some sort of virtue is a mistake.
by alnwlsn | 2025-05-23 19:57:26+00:00
Ah the joys of units! If you work cross-discipline, 1/1000th of an inch is called a 'thou' in machining. For PCBs (not unheard of to attach the two together), the same unit is called a 'mil'. Not to be confused with millimeter, even though it often is confused.
by throe73848484 | 2025-05-23 19:57:29+00:00
> How many molecules from Caesar’s last breath do we inhale with each breath we take?

> If we assume that ... these molecules are preserved over time (a reasonable assumption—nitrogen is relatively inert),

But they are not inert. Single UV photon can break single N2 molecule bond.

Elemental N is highly reactive and will form new N2 molecule pretty fast, but that is NEW and different molecule!

N2 is not stable over period of 2000 years under constant exposure to solar UV radiation!
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-05-23 19:57:33+00:00
Maybe off topic, but Ive always found strange people who comment on Google's monopoly by focusing on chrome. It seems obvious to me that the key to their dominance is that they both have control over how traffic is distributed to websites, and how those websites get paid for the traffic they get. Chrome and android are just nice to haves, but Google would still be a monopoly without them.

I think if you wanna break up Google it would be a lot more effective to separate search from AdSense, rather than chrome.
by Alupis | 2025-05-23 19:58:18+00:00
Is it not one of those "rip the band-aid off" things and endure temporary pain for long term gain?

Sometimes continuing the status quo is attractive, but wrong in the long term.

The EU moves appeared to be out of spite at the time. Perhaps things will thaw over time?

The UK has a long history of being fiercely independent, so I can at least understand the desire to separate from the EU (which appears, to a foreigner, to be assembling into a nation of states, similar to the US).
by joshvm | 2025-05-23 19:58:22+00:00
I always wanted to play with Optica for Mathematica. It seems like a problem that would lend itself really well to the Wolfram way of visual + functional programming. However I've never met anyone who uses it and while academics usually get Mathematica for free, the plugin is pricey.

https://www.opticasoft.com/tour

https://www.opticasoft.com/copy-of-lenslab
by krapp | 2025-05-23 19:58:43+00:00
>Half the population, or perhaps slightly more, doesn't agree with that.

If you're implying that half the population or perhaps slightly more voted for Donald Trump, perhaps as extrapolation from Trump having "won the popular vote," you would be incorrect. Only about 63% of the eligible voting populace voted in 2024, and of those, marginally more voted for Trump than Harris (49.9% vs 48.4%). So a more realistic estimate of the total pro-Trump populace would be closer to 30%. While the narrative that Trump voters command half, or over half, of the entire US population is common it has never actually been true.

And this doesn't even take into account the number of Trump voters who are currently dissatisfied with the regime's behavior - the ones who despite all evidence to the contrary saw absolutely nothing wrong with Trump, trusted his motives and integrity, and just thought he would bring the price of eggs down.

Also, who cares? They're wrong. Donald Trump is objectively the most corrupt and least competent President in living memory.