MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threeseed | 2025-05-10 20:21:08+00:00
But this isn't about normal people. It's about people who maybe easily susceptible or mentally impacted who are now provided with direct, personalised instructions on how to do it, how to get away with it and how to feel comfortable doing it.

This is a step far beyond anything we've ever seen in human history before and I fail to see Google's behaviour being anything less than appropriate.
by tacostakohashi | 2025-05-10 20:21:45+00:00
See the "doorman fallacy".

Customers don't actually want to do the work of their vendors. I don't want to scan my own groceries at a supermarket, or check myself in for a flight (if checking backs, or traveling internationally anyway). If I wanted to be doing that kind of work, I'd get a job at a supermarket or an airline.
by iwontberude | 2025-05-10 20:23:33+00:00
I think many Nvidia employees will stick around because their new found wealth being at the biggest most important company in the world will give them insight about the market they invest in. I make an order of magnitude more day trading than as a software engineer at a Mag7 company and I stay employed for the access to they way modern businesses think. Companies like mine are an amalgamation of management and engineering from other Silicon Valley companies so the tribal knowledge gets spread around to my neck of the woods.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-05-10 20:24:25+00:00
Actually, concern about doing harm is central to current concepts of medical ethics. The idea may be ancient but still highly relevant. Ethics declare a primary obligation of healers is "above all do no harm".

That of course doesn't exclude doing good, being helpful, using skills and technologies to produce favorable outcomes. It does mean that healers must exercise due vigilance for unintended adverse consequences of therapies, let alone knowingly providing services that cause harm.

The problem with "safe/not safe" designation is simply that these states are more often than not indistinct. Or put another way, it depends on subtle contextual attributes that are hard to discern. Furthermore individual differences can make it difficult to predict safety of applying a procedure.

As a result healers should be cautious in approaching problems. Definitely prevention is better than cure, it's simply that relatively little is known about preventing burdensome conditions. Exercising what is known is a high priority.
by techjamie | 2025-05-10 20:25:15+00:00
> Apple's upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will stop autocorrecting swear words, thanks to new machine learning technology, the company announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.

> ... This AI model more accurately predicts which words and phrases you might type next, TechCrunch explains. That allows it to learn a person's most-used phrases, habits and preferences over time, affecting which words it corrects and which it leaves alone.

This is probably one of the weirdest brags I've seen happen around adding AI to something. Almost like there was no possible way to avoid autocorrecting the word otherwise.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-10 20:26:03+00:00
> It’s a harder read than lots of books that the median reader struggles to understand, let alone enjoy enough to actually make it through. [...] Most folks lack basically all historical context for the tales in it, and the book itself

This is why the Catholic Church speaks of both tradition and scripture. You need the lens of unbroken tradition to interpret scripture, as tradition is the cumulative knowledge over millennia (including period context) that allows for the possibility for grounded interpretation (never mind interpreting from bad translations). Indeed, tradition precedes canonical scripture historically: consider that the biblical canon was only established at the Council of Rome in 382, which means Christians had existed without a biblical canon for three centuries.

Compare this with sola scriptura which leads to either incoherence or the demotion of biblical scripture to the level of some stuff some guys wrote that you can read however you want [0]. The tacit doctrine at play is often that of perspicuity, which, given the endless proliferation of Protestant sects, would seems at the very least highly suspect.

[0] https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/logic-and-pr...
by nradov | 2025-05-10 20:26:23+00:00
I don't understand your point. Some drugs are enormously profitable. Others lose money. There are no taxpayer guarantees. Pharmaceutical companies on average don't generate higher shareholder returns than other industrial sectors. A few like K-V and Dendreon have even gone bankrupt.

One could make an argument that taxpayer subsidized health plans which include prescription drug coverage such as Medicare Part D or Medicaid should limit the prices they are willing to reimburse on a QALY basis. And Medicare has started a limited drug price negotiation program. But generally, voters have been unwilling to accept the trade-offs inherent in drug price controls.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-drug-price...
by reconnecting | 2025-05-10 20:26:25+00:00
Multimedia Builder is a Windows-based multimedia authoring system that allows you to create autorun CD menus, Multimedia Applications on CD-ROM, Demos, Presentations, Audio players and much more.

The application has its own scripting language and a simplified object-oriented interface. Multimedia Builder was originally designed as a tool for creating autoruns, but the development of the built-in scripting language has allowed it to be used for other projects, such as media players or puzzle games.

The completed and compiled project appears to the end user as a single EXE file, but is actually a project file attached to the player executable.
by lurk2 | 2025-05-10 20:26:25+00:00
This is all very interesting. The pedagogy you mentioned tracks with how I can remember a lot of my schooling, but it’s also how I would teach. The pedagogical term is “scaffolding,” I think; you assess the student’s current understanding and then use (necessarily imperfect) metaphors to cement the knowledge. It sounds like you’re pointing to something more nefarious (“Do this because I said so.” - authoritarian parenting rather than authoritative, diplomatic, or permissive parenting styles).

I’m not sure I understand how this relates to gnosticism, however. Are you comparing the “Lying to Children” model to gnostic initiation, and asserting that this model selects for the compliant? What is your proposed alternative here?

Particularly,

> Structures that burn bridges induce failure in math, and the effect is this acts as a filter to gatekeep the technical fields.

Sounds compelling, but it strikes me more as a limitation of demand for good math teachers outstripping their supply. I’ve seen this in English language learning a lot; even if the money was there (and it’s not), there are simply far more people with a desire to learn English than there are people qualified to teach it.
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-10 20:26:42+00:00
And they will stay even more irrational if the CEO attacking shortsellers becomes the co-president of the United States. It's no surprise that the short-seller Hindenberg Research shut its doors just as the Trump administration was assuming power, as the rest of the country watched on incredulously as Pam Bondi breathlessly bragged about going after a bunch of vandals of Tesla car dealerships as her most impressive accomplishment as DoJ of the USA in the first (?) cabinet meeting with Trump.
by codr7 | 2025-05-10 20:27:58+00:00
As others said, just because you know the syntax that doesn't mean you understand how to use it effectively.

C is very different from most other languages, I would say the closest one is actually Assembly.

I've been working on a book for a while now to try and share some of the ideas I've picked up over the years:

https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c
by atombender | 2025-05-10 20:28:08+00:00
One of my favorite games. I really wish Éric Chahi made more.

The other game he made for Delphine, Future Wars, was beautiful (he was the lead designer) and had a neat plot, but was bogged down by an infuriatingly clunky UI that made it nearly unplayable. I recommend watching a walkthrough on YouTube instead.

After Another World, he spent years making Heart of Darkness, which was quite decent, but as everyone commented at the time, it took so long to be developed that by the time it was released, it felt outdated. It was famously so delayed that several consoles that it was scheduled to be released for (including the Sega Saturn) were defunct by the time it was finished. Apparently Chahi was so burned out by the experience that he left the gaming industry for a long time.

(I've not played Paper Beast, as it's a VR game and not really my type of game.)

Here's hoping he comes back makes some indie games. I get the sense that it's gotten a bit easier the last few years, especially with Steam making it easier to sell your own games directly to gamers.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-10 20:28:14+00:00
> PGP key signing parties were pretty much there, they just came too early (and not enough work was done to teach the masses about them).

I won't dispute that PGP key signing parties coupled with government ID work very well for certain very specific usecases such as validating distro maintainers.

However for more mainstream and widespread uses that never occurred, what about work on the tooling? I've yet to see a web of trust implementation that really felt like it was properly generalized, scalable, and intuitive to interact with.

Case in point, if you wanted to implement a distributed code auditing solution on top of git and signed commits, what library would you use for the web of trust graph calculations? And would key signing parties be a usable root of trust for that with the current state of the software ecosystem? My personal view is that both of those things are woefully lacking.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-10 20:29:39+00:00
Something 'taking an Act of Congress' (to indicate that it's difficult and time-consuming) is in the lexicon for a reason. It's been true of the US legislative process for that long.

But!

That isn't to say that after the gears grind, Congress doesn't complete important and essential work, even in toxic times.

The nihilism of a blatently false claim that Congress is doing nothing just feeds into 'so let someone else do it' fervor. Untrue memes can be dangerous.
by conrs | 2025-05-10 20:29:49+00:00
Yes, a lot of folks really don’t want to have to care about work. I think it’s simply rubric achieving - them playing out the same thing they did in school. Operating under the constraints of their roles only enough to sustain them, so they can enjoy their lives at recess, so to speak. I get it, though - engineering can’t be everyone’s passion, there must be quite a lot of us just here for the lifestyle.
by banana_giraffe | 2025-05-10 20:30:13+00:00
It certainly seemed good enough for my use. I feed it some random images I found online, you can see the sort of metadata it outputs in a static dump here:

https://q726kbxun.github.io/llama_cpp_vision/index.html

It's not perfect, by any means, but between the keywords and description text, it's good enough for me to be able to find images in a larger collection.
by prepend | 2025-05-10 20:30:33+00:00
Why would Apple have developers working on their hardware running Linux? Apple doesn’t use Linux.

They aren’t the biggest oss dev, but they have a decent amount of contributions. [0][1]

It’s hard to compare how much Google vs Apple contributes to open source, but not sure why anyone would think Apple “contributes back almost nothing.”

[0] https://github.com/appleopen

[1] https://opensource.apple.com/projects/
by joshvm | 2025-05-10 20:30:45+00:00
My take is that it's primarily a smart way to quickly gather lots of ELO/AB feedback about LLM responses for training, whilst also reducing people switching to ChatGPT. OpenAI has significant first mover advantage here and it's why they're so worried about distillation, becuase it threatens the moat.

Google, on the other hand, has a huge moat in access to probably the best search index available and existing infrastructure built around it. Not to mention the integration with Workspace emails, docs, photos - all sorts of things that can be used for training. But what they (presumably) lack is the feedback-derived data that OpenAI has had from the start.

ChatGPT does not use search grounding by default and the issues there are obvious. Both Gemini and ChatGPT make similar errors even with grounding but you would expect that to get better over time. It's an open research question as to what knowledge should be innate (in the weights) and what should be "queryable", but I do think the future will be an improved version of "intelligence" + "data lookup".
by ionwake | 2025-05-10 20:30:52+00:00
fascinating, you made me dig further. Apparently the existence of the moon allowed:

Ancient Past, Navigation, Tidal patterns enabled early coastal navigation and fishing patterns, critical for survival; Prehistory, Evolution of Life, Stabilization of Earth's axial tilt led to climate stability, promoting diverse ecosystems; Early Civilization, Timekeeping, Regular lunar cycles allowed ancient societies to develop lunar calendars and plan agriculture; Ancient Astronomy, Observing Celestial Events, Solar eclipses (due to perfect alignment) inspired early understanding of the cosmos; Future, Gravitational Lensing Studies, Its size and distance offer a natural model to study lensing phenomena and gravitational effects; Far Future, Space Colonization, Potential base for observing the universe free from Earth's atmospheric interference.
by throwanem | 2025-05-10 20:31:19+00:00
My point is that if you want to provide support for the advocacy argument, you've quite a long way yet to go. A good place to start would be to pick any one claim you have made and attempt to substantiate it. Until then, I've nothing with which to attempt further to argue.

(If you want to do something else, I can't tell what it would be.)
by cogman10 | 2025-05-10 20:32:00+00:00
The NIH already creates grants for Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials. It's a bit insane that we don't also do phase 3 trials. Heck, even drug manufacturing is already done both by the DoD and the VA. It's crazy that we have a vision that private investment will somehow make things either cheaper, more affordable, or more available.

Big pharma is providing very little benefit and a lot of cost. We've seen their playbook with people like Martin Shkreli who'll buy up patents to existing drugs and jack up the price to make a quick buck. Do we really need that sort of "private investment"?
by enaaem | 2025-05-10 20:32:30+00:00
Europe cannot pool infinite investors money because of the fractured capital market. It's funny enough actually the lack of EU regulation that causes this. Because you get 27 different regulatory bodies, that makes cross country investments much more complicated.

That being said, I find Europe's research and industrial capacity to be underrated. Europe is very competitive in industries like cars and tooling. You don't really see American cars in Asia, but still tons of European luxury cars. Europe does well in boring tech that does not receive infinite VC money.
by dinko7 | 2025-05-10 20:34:50+00:00
Hi, author of the article here.

Any state management approach requires you to adapt your way of thinking, whether that be BLoC, Riverpod, Redux or anything you want to use.

Rivepod gained popularity because it's really simple to pick up: create a Notifier, create a Provider for it, and observe, while some other approaches require additional boilerplate, setup, and understanding.

Your approach would work if you are only observing that state from a single widget, which might not always be the case. Additionally, assuming useState is using setState under the hood means it will rebuild the whole widget on change, while with Riverpod, you have the flexibility to wrap any part of a complex widget into a Consumer or listen to only part of the exposed state on the Notifier with .select().

To put it simply: - Notifiers are used for app state - Hooks are used for ephemeral state (local widget state)

Hope this clears it bit for you.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-05-10 20:35:08+00:00
This article feels like an old timer who knows WebSockets just doesn't want to learn what SSE is. I support the decision to ditch WebSockets because WebSockets would only add extra bloat and complexity to your server, whereas SSE is just HTTP. I don't understand though why have "stdio" transport if you could just run an HTTP server locally.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-10 20:35:31+00:00
Even considering the social goals there's no need for a 100% solution. We only need to stop most fraud and reduce the impact of the fraud that does happen to a sufficiently low level.

One of the more important goals isn't to directly stop fraud but instead to provide tools that give end users results that scale with the amount of effort invested. The level of risk should be a tradeoff that the end user is able to make.

Current solutions mostly allow for that but certainly have some rough edges.
by kmoser | 2025-05-10 20:36:50+00:00
An archive of physical media serves a very different purpose from a bunch of computers loaded with the games from those media that are available to be played. It's kind of like a film vault that stores original movie film, vs. a place like YouTube that lets you play copies of those movies. And playing the game is not the same as examining and handling the original media (CD/tape/cartridge/manual/inserts/box).

Sure, archives often permit you to actually view their original media in person, but that's not always part of their mission. Sometimes the best they'll do is give you copies for a fee. Other times they may lend their original media (or sometimes copies) to qualified entities (spoiler alert: not everybody qualifies). There really is no single "right" way for this to work.
by fallingknife | 2025-05-10 20:37:03+00:00
Concentration seems much more prevalent in heavily regulated markets e.g. utilities / airlines. In many cases regulators have even encouraged this e.g.finance.

There is no default for unregulated markets. It's a question of whether the economies of scale outweigh the added costs from the complexity that scale requires. It costs close to 100x as much to build 100 houses, run 100 restaurants, or operate 100 trucks as it does to do 1. That's why these industries are not very concentrated. Whereas it costs nowhere close to 100x for a software or financial services company to serve 100x thee customers, so software and finance are very concentrated.

The effect of regulation is typically to increase concentration because the cost of compliance actually tends to scale very well. So businesses that grow face an decreasing regulatory compliance cost as a percent of revenue.
Stresstest my AI chat – HAMMER IT
by tobiaslins | 2025-05-10 20:37:39+00:00
Please stress test it - like hammer it hard: https://jazz-ai-chat.vercel.app

It was so delightful to build thanks to jazz.tools.

Vercel's Fluid compute makes it run efficient and scale endlessly

How does it work? Each message is created locally and added to the chat. At the same time I "wake up" a Vercel Function which consumes the chat, runs AI and writes directly into Jazz

The client just renders the state from Jazz. No real streaming required.

Source: https://github.com/tobiaslins/jazz-ai-chat

Whats Fluid Compute? When you run Serverless Functions, usually one invocations serves one request. With Fluid, multiple requests can be served by one function invocation, which is super useful when using AI (low CPU usage, only waiting for upstreams)

Whats Jazz? It's a new way to build apps. It's persistence (like a graph database) with permissions and sync built in.

You can access/write Jazz even from backend workers like here from Vercel Functions.
by eterm | 2025-05-10 20:38:15+00:00
> But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill.

Thanks to the bargaining power of my nationalised healthcare, my government pays around 1/5th of that, and I'll pay nothing myself.

Revlamid is listed under it's generic name Lenalidomide, price is in pence: https://www.drugtariff.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/#/00791628-DD/DD0079145...
by photochemsyn | 2025-05-10 20:39:16+00:00
Bayh-Dole legislation in the 1990s allowed universities to exclusively license researcher inventions to private parties. Hence:

> "Celgene had acquired the rights to thalidomide patents held by researchers at Rockefeller University in 1992."

Change Bayh-Dole law to non-exclusive licensing, but with some level of royalties paid to institution that originated the patent, and other corporations could have made the drug - and it would be a competitive market, so costs would drop due to lack of a monopoly on the drug.

This one simple change to Bayh-Dole - 'non-exclusive' - would upset the academic-corporate apple cart well beyond pharmaceuticals. Eg the PageRank algorithm created at Stanford could not have been exclusive licensed to Google - any American corporation or person could have applied for a license to the invention, entirely erasing the benefits of a monopolistic patent to the corporation.

One great benefit of this change is that corporations who wanted exclusive patents would have to finance their own private R & D divisions, instead of just capturing the output of taxpayer-financed researchers.
by pdonis | 2025-05-10 20:39:17+00:00
1) The best way to ensure this is to make the necessities of life (I'm not sure what you mean by "basic luxuries", but let's lump those both together for now) as cheap as possible. The main reason in our actual world that this does not happen has nothing to do with "free markets" and everything to do with governments putting their thumb on the scales and playing favorites.

2) The only reason you think this is necessary is that for many things, there are too few providers for competition to force all the providers to either provide this information or have no customers. And what's the reason for that? Governments putting their thumb on the scales and playing favorites.

3) Same response as 2).

4) You seem to be ignorant of the fact that, at least in the US, housing and healthcare were once provided in a free market--and given the technology of the time, the average quality was better than it is in the US today. The reason things are messed up today, again, has nothing to do with "free markets" and everything to do with government meddling.

In other words, all the things you're complaining about are not failures of the "free market"; they're failures of government.
by bschne | 2025-05-10 20:39:46+00:00
2024 numbers -- Selling, General & Admin vs. R&D

Roche (Pharma Division): 7533 MCHF vs. 11096 MCHF

Novartis: 12566 MUSD vs. 10022 MUSD

Pfizer: 14730 MUSD vs. 10822 MUSD

Eli Lilly: 8594 MUSD vs. 10991 MUSD

AstraZeneca: 19977 MUSD vs. 13583 MUSD

Johnson & Johnson: 22869 MUSD vs. 17232 MUSD

The left side here contains more than just marketing, and already "far far outstripping" seems like a mischaracterization.

For comparison, the average R&D spend between these firms is bigger than the 2024 NSF budget (~9bn) and bigger than 1/4 of the 2024 NIH budget (~37bn).
by whstl | 2025-05-10 20:39:47+00:00
It kinda is! The only difference between JSX transpiler outputs is the factory function (and the Fragment component). For React the factory function it's `React.createElement`, for Preact it's `h`.

Babel has a pragma property, and esbuild allows you to pass it in the command line: `--jsx-factory=h`.

https://esbuild.github.io/content-types/#auto-import-for-jsx
by bb88 | 2025-05-10 20:40:27+00:00
Step 1 is simpler. Get rid of farming in the desert first.

This a fight going on in Idaho right now:

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/ar...

https://archive.ph/X9nTS

If you look at a google map of Ada County Idaho, the only viable agriculture land requires watering from the Snake and Boise Rivers.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TFPgA6nG6hMBfPcx5