MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by intermerda | 2025-05-13 17:59:07+00:00
"States's rights" has always been coded language. Lee Atwater's post Nixon interview gave away the playbook. The hypocrisy is easy to see in that lens. First it started with racial slurs, then welfare queens, racial slurs, big government, states rights, occasional "liberty and freedom" thrown in for good measure. Currently it's DEI and trans.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...
by WaxProlix | 2025-05-13 18:00:09+00:00
You're right about gamers, but other verticals are looking bad for Intel, too.

The two areas you mention (data center, integrated OEM/mobile) are the two that are most supply chain and business-lead dependent. They center around reliable deliveries of capable products at scale, hardware certifications, IT department training, and organizational bureaucracy that Intel has had captured for a long time.

But!

Data center specifically is getting hit hard from AMD in the x86 world and ARM on the other side. AWS's move to Graviton alone represents a massive dip in Intel market share, and it's not the only game in town.

Apple is continuing to succeed in the professional workspace, and AMD's share of laptop and OEM contracts just keeps going up. Once an IT department or their chosen vendor has retooled to support non-Intel, that toothpaste is not going back into the tube - not fully, at least.

For both of these, AMD's improvement in reliability and delivery at scale will be bearing fruit for the next decade (at Intel's expense), and the mindshare, which gamers and tech sensationalism are indicators for, has already shifted the market away from an Intel-dominated world to a much more competitive one. Intel will have to truly compete in that market. Intel has stayed competitive in a price-to-performance sense by undermining their own bottom line, but that lever only has so far it can be pulled.

So I'm not super bullish on Intel, sensationalism aside. They have a ton of momentum, but will need to make use of it ASAP, and they haven't shown an ability to do that so far.
by kbyatnal | 2025-05-13 18:00:14+00:00
"PDF to Text" is a bit simplified IMO. There's actually a few class of problems within this category:

1. reliable OCR from documents (to index for search, feed into a vector DB, etc)

2. structured data extraction (pull out targeted values)

3. end-to-end document pipelines (e.g. automate mortgage applications)

Marginalia needs to solve problem #1 (OCR), which is luckily getting commoditized by the day thanks to models like Gemini Flash. I've now seen multiple companies replace their OCR pipelines with Flash for a fraction of the cost of previous solutions, it's really quite remarkable.

Problems #2 and #3 are much more tricky. There's still a large gap for businesses in going from raw OCR outputs —> document pipelines deployed in prod for mission-critical use cases. LLMs and VLMs aren't magic, and anyone who goes in expecting 100% automation is in for a surprise.

You still need to build and label datasets, orchestrate pipelines (classify -> split -> extract), detect uncertainty and correct with human-in-the-loop, fine-tune, and a lot more. You can certainly get close to full automation over time, but it's going to take time and effort. The future is definitely moving in this direction though.

Disclaimer: I started a LLM doc processing company to help companies solve problems in this space (https://extend.ai)
by lightbulbish | 2025-05-13 18:00:17+00:00
I thought this was fantastic! Surprised not more people are commenting on this. Is there a reason I am not aware of?

To the author: what happens to my voice after I upload it? What is your plan moving forward? I am too far left field to understand how to build a business and monetize an open source product like this, even though I found it fun to play around with.
by haswell | 2025-05-13 18:00:32+00:00
I don’t find Cliff’s notes to be similar at all. They represent standalone short-form content written by authors that is a purchasable option alongside more in-depth options written by other (or at times the same) authors.

If Cliff’s notes were actually just AI summaries of specific books generated by an unrelated entity and presented in a way that allowed the reader to avoid purchasing the underlying content, that’d be a very different scenario.

In the linked example, YouTube is essentially doing the latter. The product launched in this thread sits in a greyer area I think, but still raises some questions about content ownership and how creators will react to these new kinds of tools and modes of consumption.

Whether or not it’s strictly legal is a different conversation than whether or not creators feel comfortable with these emerging options.

> Once its out there, they lose control of how people interact with it.

Sure. But they also have every right to choose to put it behind a paywall if new tools change the calculus that originally made publishing it publicly make sense.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-05-13 18:01:06+00:00
Tubi (relevant), Tvlabs, pagerduty, divvy

All not on the list.

There's also the legendary bleacherreport abandoning elixir and totally shooting themselves in the foot.

Several fintech companies moved off - brex, ramp. I think for brex they were told by VCs to hire XYZ CTO and the CTO couldn't elixir. Hilariously I ran into ramp people totally in the wild who complained that "they couldn't find elixir devs". I told them "you just randomly ran into one". I think their hiring processes were likely broken, but what's new in silly valley?
by ty6853 | 2025-05-13 18:01:31+00:00
Because voting third party is also a vote for whoever wins, using this logic. Libertarians, Green, etc party voters constantly get accosted over this.

You have two top candidates, by voting for a third party you are deferring to the popular vote on the top two and 'subtracting' a vote from your favorite of the top two.

https://i.redd.it/qdg4kntdh3jc1.jpeg
by EGreg | 2025-05-13 18:02:00+00:00
Oh man I wish I knew I was being paid to be present and available

In my last full time job I worked for a tech consulting company that rented us out to teams at financial instutions that managed insane amounts of money. This was in 2021 before AI was common. I worked remotely, and the first month didn’t do anything — just waited for the corporate laptop to arrive etc. Then I worked 2 hours a day.

But I had to put 8 hours in the timesheets, and select what projects I was working on. And I always had a feeling of guilt about that, like I was helping my consulting company charge hours that I wasn’t really working. I just kept finishing the tasks I was assigned in the sprints, and then there was nothing more to do. I didn’t aggressively ask for more work, just took on what others did. This went on for a while, and I felt guilty. Working on my startups in the meantime, like those people who work multiple jobs. I didn’t realize this happens a lot.

On one of my calls with my immediate manager I mentioned I had some downtime — and he was like “oh you have downtime? That’s not good.” And then it became his problem. And I didnt get more work but from then on I felt this tension with him, and probably others downstream of it. Nothing concrete, but just the feeling slightly changed, for a few weeks. So I nicely resigned after 6 months, saying to HR that investors funded my startups but they want me to work on them fulltime. So I left on good terms.

I regret it, though, in retrospect. Because of my ethics I missed out on income that could have helped my family and people around me. That was a great salary for remote work 2 hours a day, and I would have invested over half of it in crypto and probably 3xed it all by now. I only left because my ethics bothered me, but I learned later how often “full time” jobs really aren’t. Like, at all!
by mushroomba | 2025-05-13 18:02:48+00:00
I would say that you are in a unique place of privilege in that regard. I believe the common experience of many people is that any task, if it be work, cannot be pleasing. The requirement to continue to complete any task in exchange for the necessities of life induces a disparity of spirit that will dull even the most hedonic of activities. The snuffing out of the freedom to choose to do the task is what induces pain into the experience.

For my part, I choose to have a good attitude about work. I am grateful for the opportunity to work. I do the best I can so that I can be proud of how I have spent my life. But I would never expect any job or any work to provide me fulfillment or happiness.
by quelup | 2025-05-13 18:03:28+00:00
> You've posted nothing but self-promotion so far

I'm so confused. Tbh this is my first Show HN post so if I broke some rule, by all means let me know. But isn't the point of Show HN to show what you built? Lol what am I doing wrong?

> not on an empty site with no users

I know my site is empty, it's an MVP I just brought to a state where I feel comfortable sharing. If the feedback here is to "get more users so your site isn't empty", I totally agree. Hence the post.
by bpshaver | 2025-05-13 18:03:47+00:00
Sure, but there's not limit to what people can decide to care about. There will always be people who want more speed and less latency, but the question is: are they right to do so?

I'm with the person you're responding. I use the regular suite of applications and websites on my 2021 M1 Macbook. Things seem to load just fine.
by selectnull | 2025-05-13 18:04:04+00:00
> This is fair but...

> This is also fair but...

Ok, so we can agree that my assesment is fair, but it remains to be seen how the data protection story pans out.

>> Instead they have sold their soul to the highest (and only) bidder.

> It seems they can't continue doing this, given the ongoing legal actions against Google. So let's see.

Just to be clear: I think that Mozilla should have taken that money (and possibly more) and *invest* in Firefox and build a rainy day fund (which are coming soon). Instead, they spent it on whatevers and done a layoff.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-13 18:04:22+00:00
> So, everyone laments that nothing is as tightly coded as Winamp anymore, without remembering the first three characters.

I would far, far rather have Windows-only software that is performant than the Electron slop we get today. With Wine there's a decent chance I could run it on Linux anyway, whereas Electron software is shit no matter the platform.
by naasking | 2025-05-13 18:04:30+00:00
> Hm, you could do that quite easily but there isn't much juice to be squeezed from runtime selected data structures. Set with O(1) insert:

But now you've hard-coded this selection, why can't the performance characteristics also be easily parameterized and combined, eg. insert is O(1), delete is O(log(n)), or by defining indexes in SQL which can be changed at any time at runtime? Or maybe the performance characteristics can be inferred from the types of queries run on a collection elsewhere in the code.

> That would turn into an efficient SQL query that does a WHERE ... AND ... clause.

For a database you have to manually construct, with a schema you have to manually and poorly to an object model match, using a library or framework you have to painstakingly select from how many options?

You're still stuck in this mentality that you have to assemble a set of distinct tools to get a viable development environment for most general purpose programming, which is not what I'm talking about. Imagine the relational model built-in to the language, where you could parametrically specify whether collections need certain efficient operations, whether collections need to be durable, or atomically updatable, etc.

There's a whole space of possible languages that have relational or other data models built-in that would eliminate a lot of problems we have with standard programming.
by toss1 | 2025-05-13 18:05:25+00:00
NO. People also voted for every other authoritarian who converted their democracy into an autocracy. That does not mean they endorsed in advance every subsequent action by that dictator.

The constitution specifically states: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises..." [0] (Article I, Section 8)

Congress. NOT the executive branch or the President.

Tariffs are taxes, full stop.

Just because congress is abdicating it's duty and there are not even a handful of Republicans who will stand up to take back their proper power of taxation, does not make it either legal or moral to mis-allocate the power further away from the people.

And yes, while people did vote for that POTUS, and he did mention tariffs in campaigning, he was both not explicit about seizing power from congress, and had such a reputation for lying that it was literally impossible to predict what he would actually do.

No, you can not claim this misapplication of power is the will of the people.

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8...
by pona-a | 2025-05-13 18:06:00+00:00
Did people make this exchange or did __the market__? I feel like we're assigning a lot of intention to a self-accelerating process.

You add a new layer of indirection to fix that one problem on the previous layer, and repeat it ad infinitum until everyone is complaining about having too many layers of indirection, yet nobody can avoid interacting with them, so the only short-term solution is a yet another abstraction.
by jimkleiber | 2025-05-13 18:06:05+00:00
I try to apply this advice to almost all relationships. It reminds me of the famous quote, "Be nice to everyone you meet because they are fighting a battle you know nothing about, and that I can say from experience." [0]

I see life as emotional combat, that I'm always dealing with so many conflicting conflicts at the same time that I'm trying my best to manage everything and so is everyone else. It has been helping me SO much just to frame life this way.

[0]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/williams-fighting-battle-q...
by owebmaster | 2025-05-13 18:06:05+00:00
> But lesson learnt: be very careful with AI code, it made a mistake, couldn't even find the mistake when I asked it to double check the code, and because the ENDs of the filenames looked same I didn't notice it cut the beginnings off

Don't test code in production.

Good software engineering practices didn't change with AI, they actually are even more important. levelsio is a quite successful entrepreneur but he is not an engineer.
by anoek | 2025-05-13 18:06:28+00:00
> I wonder if this could also be used on immutable distros as a way to make temporary or even semi-permanent changes

I've used it on my own machine to test upgrades and whatnot, typically it just works, so it might very well be useful for the use case you're thinking of.

> like installing a system-level app such as a VPN

At present there's a flag `--net` which when set to `--net=none` it creates a new networking namespace for the sandbox without doing any additional things to configure the network within the sandbox, so its a simple way to block traffic. I think creating a new namespace but then following it up with setting it up with whatever VPN stuff you wanted would work quite well to create a sandbox that strictly used a particular VPN configuration.

> if the overlay sits on top of the host and sees the host's files, why does it need to "sync" exactly

OverlayFS sometimes caches read results from the "lower" file system, so often it'll just work as you expect, but sometimes reads will be stale. The sync action just flushes all changes to disk and clears the read cache to work around that problem. You definitely don't need to run a sync if you've just rebooted. Additionally any changes made in the upper fs (the sandboxed view) will remain, sync is non destructive in nature.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-13 18:07:14+00:00
> It is federal government making rules about how federal money can be spent.

This is an outright lie. The relevant bit of legislation is cited in the article:

"no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act"

> States are free to raise their own taxes and spend them how they see fit.

The language above very clearly forbids them from spending said tax revenue on regulating AI.

The same folks have long been salty that California sets higher standards for vehicle emissions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_standard#State-level_...) and are looking to kneecap that sort of action here.
by nativeit | 2025-05-13 18:07:17+00:00
In my house it’s just my father and I, and we don’t really generate enough dishes to justify using an automatic dishwasher. It only takes 5-10 minutes to clean up after most meals, and it would take a few days to get it full enough to run a cycle, after which putting the dishes away seems more burdensome.

When we visit family (or have visitors at home), the utility of a dishwasher becomes much more apparent when serving 4-6 people.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-13 18:07:29+00:00
Yes it is and the difference isn't understated, I think everyone knows by now that Apple has run away with laptop/desktop performance. They're just leagues ahead.

It's a mix of better CPUs, better OS design (e.g. much less need for aggressive virus scanners), a faster filesystem, less corporate meddling, high end SSDs by default... a lot of things.
by vel0city | 2025-05-13 18:07:32+00:00
"Who pays the tariffs" can potentially be a complicated question. There is a certain amount of elasticity of demand, the breadth of choice of supply, and more that can influence if a supplier chooses to eat the cost or if the price goes up. It's totally possible to draw up a scenario where it's the exporter that does bear the majority or all the cost of a tariff. Highly unlikely in the real world, but technically possible.

But in the end blind American exceptionalisim and surrounding himself with yes men seems to have made him at least publicly proclaim the exporters would bear the cost. Or Trump is just a liar.

Occam's Razor suggests an answer. Chances are this is just another instance of Trump lying and people eating it up.
by HeliumHydride | 2025-05-13 18:07:43+00:00
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/theslowwinte...

"Unfortunately for John, the branches made a pact with Satan and quantum mechanics [...] In exchange for their last remaining bits of entropy, the branches cast evil spells on future generations of processors. Those evil spells had names like “scaling-induced voltage leaks” and “increasing levels of waste heat” [...] the branches, those vanquished foes from long ago, would have the last laugh."
by hackyhacky | 2025-05-13 18:08:14+00:00
> I'm increasingly sympathetic to the perspective that universities cannot both exclude any questioning of their ideological leaning

Well, they don't do that. The myth that universities are liberal monocultures is propagated by the right as an excuse to attack them.

Let's turn your argument around: most police departments employee conservative voters. Would you be comfortable with the government requiring "viewpoint diversity" among police offices? After all, why should liberal politicians fund non-liberal institutions?

The government should not discriminate based on political orientation. Government services, including government-funded universities, should serve all Americans.

> It's one thing to want public funding, but it's quite another to want that funding while expecting nakedly partisan purity testing like "DEI statements" for faculty.

Universities are, and should be, free to choose their own values and hiring practice.
by lenerdenator | 2025-05-13 18:08:19+00:00
It's hardly a given. Bureaucracy rarely just forms out of thin air, unless you happen to be the richest man in the world and receive a federal agency to carry out your whims with.

Often it arises from the demands of the public after private interests (many of whom are now excessively capitalized by any definition of that term) have deemed the public need to be inconvenient to their desires to make the maximum possible return on their investments. That, or to prevent tragedies of the commons.

By the way, plenty of people have both had first-hand experience with fascism and call the Trumpist cult by that name. No one's being called a fascist because they want to stabilize the fiscal position of the country's government; they're being called fascist because they say they want that, then hire a guy with no respect for rule of law to do the exact opposite of that.
by free-nachos | 2025-05-13 18:08:20+00:00
Not only is it making your first impression, it's also your best opportunity to get candid feedback, observe what positioning resonates with your audience, and create your playbook for working through objections.

You mentioned time is your biggest constraint, and that you need to work on the product.

Is there a milestone where your product will have enough features that you can shift to spending half your time acquiring customers?
by dang | 2025-05-13 18:08:22+00:00
Yikes, we ban accounts that post like this for what ought to be obvious reasons. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974234), and the problem goes back quite a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39122658. Moreover, we've warned you several times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37366673 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920165 (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24381956 (Sept 2020)

I really don't want to ban someone who's been here for 13 years but this is not acceptable. If you'd please review the guidelines and fix it, we'd be grateful.
by buuuutb | 2025-05-13 18:09:14+00:00
You don’t have to. You chose the work, the employer.

In my experience your special literacy is everywhere these days. Lots of unemployed with your skills.

Excruciating dealing with colleagues like you that think we come hear to read your intrusive thoughts about others effort. Whole lot of contexts you fall short in.

More sad little man needing validation for his prior effort to get where he is. Eh, tough. Like I said your skills are everywhere; good job you’re a VHS copy of a VHS copy?

Great work following the social trend!

…Aside from configuration of machines others make, with software others make, what have you done that obliges us to bow and courtesy and earn your validation?

This website is a toxic mess. Am psyched the world has seen enough of software dev now to understand it’s real economic value, and the end of ZIRP pruning tech of empty economic effort.
by quelup | 2025-05-13 18:10:00+00:00
> You're up against reddit, LinkedIn, X, and countless other social networks. No one is gonna use yours unless you have something unique to offer that no one else has.

Thanks, that's useful feedback. My thought here is that it'd be easier to find partners on a purpose-driven site dedicated to side projects than posting "who wants to work on X" on linkedIn or similar where contacts may not be devs or people interested in side projects. I see your point too - I think the best way to see is to do a little more promotion, see if it's useful to people, and throw it away if not (or keep it as a keepsake for myself). Let me know if you have any other thoughts here though.
by _mlbt | 2025-05-13 18:10:30+00:00
This makes a lot of sense for EV trucks and large SUVs in particular. Towing and hauling demolish EV range. A 400 mile range Hummer that has 150-200 miles range while towing a trailer would be a game changer.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a40896618/ev-pickups-to...