MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by conroy | 2025-05-01 19:32:03+00:00
Remote MCP servers are still in a strange space. Anthropic updated the MCP spec about a month ago with a new Streamable HTTP transport, but it doesn't appear that Claude supports that transport yet.

When I hooked up our remote MCP server, Claude sends a GET request to the endpoint. According to the spec, clients that want to support both transports should first attempt to POST an InitializeRequest to the server URL. If that returns a 4xx, it should then assume the SSE integration.
by otterley | 2025-05-01 19:32:28+00:00
Only 3 Republicans in the Senate feel safe enough to stand up to Trump, which is not nearly enough. If you cross him, he will publicly bully and name-call you, and goad his base into rejecting you at the next primary, even if you otherwise agree with him 99% of the time. Recall how quickly Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio all turned tail and became utter sycophants after he became President.
by kerblang | 2025-05-01 19:32:45+00:00
Vinegar is also good for dissolving lime, which builds up in the washer when you have "hard" water and will make it stink - not a mold stink, though, more some kind of bacteria that loves to live in lime. In this case it has nothing to do with residual water.

And vinegar is a pretty good cleaning agent all by itself.
by hinkley | 2025-05-01 19:33:03+00:00
And I forgot the worst part which is that most of these workflows assume that A() will return the same answer for the duration of the interaction and that’s just not true. Passing value objects on the stack guarantees snapshotting. For the duration of the call sequence, all of the code will see the same A. Not so with the cache.

You make still run into problems where you expect A and B to have a relationship between them that doesn’t hold if there’s a gap between looking them up, but it’s often less likely or severe than if for instance half a page has the data in state S and half of it is in state T.
by naravara | 2025-05-01 19:33:15+00:00
On one hand, yes this is very cool for a whole host of personal uses. On the other hand giving any company this level of access to as many different personal data sources as are out there scares the shit out of me.

I’d feel a lot better if we had something resembling a comprehensive data privacy law in the United States because I don’t want it to basically be the Wild West for anyone handling whatever personal info doesn’t get covered under HIPAA.
by sumtechguy | 2025-05-01 19:33:18+00:00
That is an interesting idea. But I suspect it really would still create a moderate first mover advantage in small communities. Early first mover advantage I suspect is decent in any up/down point based system ranking. Would have to run simulations on it. I also suspect what is being described is similar to the way YT works. For example I know they random feed me things. If I click on it and watch the whole vid. Suddenly I get a lot more suggestions from that channel or cohorts to it. But I cant prove that as they are terribly inscrutable on describing what it does (for good reason!).
by Terr_ | 2025-05-01 19:34:25+00:00
Good point: Part of Waymo's safety stats comes from settings that are probably tuned right now in favor of safety stats even if it means a longer or less-profitable ride. It doesn't care if you're going to lose your job if you're five minutes late.

So a fairer comparison would be contrasting Waymo rides to trips conducted by the Ultra Safe Even If It's Slower Chauffeur Company.
by guntars | 2025-05-01 19:34:27+00:00
This was an interesting connection to me between meditation and neuroscience. Buddhists talk about the "monkey mind" that chatters incessantly. Well, that's the default mode network, part of your brain that is active when you're not engaged in a specific task, when you're thinking about self, others, past or future. A useful adaptation in our past environment for sure, but overactivity can be detrimental. The Buddhist solution is to mediate, to focus the attention on a singular thing and not be distracted by the chatter. That ability lives in the prefrontal cortex! It's able to override the DMN and it's something that can be trained by just exercising it.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-01 19:34:37+00:00
I have heard of Gonzalo Lira, in fact. I did not realize his arrest somehow absolves your country of its many crimes in this war. Was that the point you were trying to make? Because it's a bad one. No one here has said or implied that anyone in this conflict is pure. But the disparity in war crimes is very large and heavily against your country.
by uncial | 2025-05-01 19:34:41+00:00
I'm absolutely going to need a few hours to properly digest this, but here are my preliminary thoughts:

You could almost certainly do a subleq in roons! Tbh it may end up being a practical approach to making a compact full computer -- though seems like it might compromise legibility. This is way outside my wheelhouse, thank you for the links, I have a lot of reading to do.

Re: an ASCII grid -- I explore this a little bit in the tutorials, but because of the up/down nature of the loom, each marble only occupies 25% of the surrounding whitespace, so this kind of display doesn't end up very visible. This is why I'm leaning more towards the peripherals approach for rendering stuff.
by anosidium | 2025-05-01 19:34:54+00:00
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by DrillShopper | 2025-05-01 19:35:20+00:00
I know plenty of people in the trades that are anti-union - they're typically the ones in the "comfortable middle class suburban" category. They've worked a bit and maybe are contractors of their own. They complain about how much it costs to have a union crew and about how slow the work gets done. They do not think workers need more protections (look at Florida and other states prohibiting mandatory water breaks for worker protection), and actively complain about needing to carry Worker's Comp insurance and withhold taxes (which is why many of them pay under the table for non-union work, undocumented day laborers outside of Home Depot/Lowes seem to be their favorite choices).

In fact they tend to be some of the most anti-union, anti-labor folks I know.

I will grant that not every single person in the "comfortable middle class suburban" category is anti-union / anti-labor, but it's a pattern I see often enough that it is worth remarking on.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-05-01 19:36:04+00:00
The main problem is at that point the US guy is operating outside the model of being a direct employee of the company. He's operating as a contracting vendor.

There's legal aspects to the employer-employee relationship that are different than the company-vendor relationship.

Even reporting the pay to the IRS as personal income would probably be legally problematic, because from a legal aspect a vendor is being paid for a service not an individual receiving income from an employer.
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-01 19:36:15+00:00
Biden didn't ignore immigration law. He executed it. He arrested more immigrants than Trump did during his first term. Republicans simply disagreed about how he was executing the laws because they wanted political talking points (and notably at Trump's urging, shot down a number of proposed immigration reforms that would have reduced illegal immigration, cut down on the asylum loophole, and make it easier to deport immigrants with criminal records...Laken Riley was killed by an illegal immigrant who was still in the country because Republicans blocked the laws that would have deported him.).

Trump isn't following the laws at all. He's simply issuing "executive orders" without regard to the powers or limitations of the executive as stated by the Constitution or the U.S. Code. Almost every single one of his executive orders during his second term violates a Constitutional prohibition in some way, and now that the initial shock to the system is over you're seeing judges overturn almost all of his orders...Even judges appointed by Trump during his first term are starting to overturn his executive orders.

So Trump's response was to call for the arrest of these judges. And to hint that violence would be appropriate way of removing them from.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If Trump gets killed by a mob this term, it's going to be because he kept suggesting that violence was the way to deal with his opponents.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 19:36:24+00:00
> The US drives about 3.2 trillion miles per year. Waymo has 56.7 million miles over several years. Their percentage data is essentially useless.

No, that's not how statistics works.

The percentage data's accuracy depends mainly on the number of incidents recorded (and somewhat on the rate of incidents). But the percentage of the whole is completely irrelevant.

If you are basing something on 10 incidents but it's 50% of the total, it's still terrible accuracy.

Whereas if you are basing something on 100,000 incidents but it's only 0.1% of the total, it's still going to be quite accurate, assuming the incidents come from the same overall distribution.
by anosidium | 2025-05-01 19:36:26+00:00
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by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-01 19:37:17+00:00
No, GDP by itself, in aggregate doesn't.

Mean purchasing power does, which roughly tracks GDP per capita, and this is what tariffs will hurt.

I think the characteristics you are looking at are orthogonal from the issue of tariffs. It is about labor mobility and income differentials.

For some reason, people seem to think tariffs will raise labor pay more than the cost of goods.

Cost of goods goes up more than labor compensation.
by nemetroid | 2025-05-01 19:37:19+00:00
From the "detailed explanation" document (my emphasis):

> When organising the release of packages, you may end up wanting to group several changes together written by different people and/or over a relatively large period of time. The best time to capture this information is when submitting a PR (when it is fresh in your mind), not when you eventually go to batch and release these changes.

> Git is a bad place to store this information, as it discourages writing detailed change descriptions - you want to allow people to provide as much documentation for the change as they want.

How does Git discourage writing detailed change descriptions? Is this a Github thing, i.e. the web UI workflows discourage it? I use Git a lot but barely use Github.

https://github.com/changesets/changesets/blob/main/docs/deta...
by Veserv | 2025-05-01 19:37:32+00:00
For which any such system must be assumed unsafe until proven safe and the burden of proof lies with the manufacturer to present sound, robust, transparent, third-party audited evidence.

You do not get to counter-argue: “What matters is the rate of cases per mile driven” without actually presenting that number with supporting evidence. Otherwise the only sound conclusion is the default presumption of non-safety.

In the case of Waymo, we have some tentative supporting evidence from this and other studies Waymo has run. However, that is still insufficient, even ignoring the lack of audits by non-conflicted parties, to strongly conclude Waymo is safer than a human. The evidence is promising, but it is only prudent to wait for further confirmation.

In contrast, Cruise was almost definitely not safer than a human driver.

In 2023, Cruise ADS cars drove 2,064,728 miles [1] and were involved in, by my count, 29 collisions with 5 causing injury [2], namely incidents on 2023-05-04, 2023-05-21, 2023-06-09, 2023-08-18, 2023-10-02.

That is ~72,000 miles per collision and ~400,000 miles per injury in contrast to the national human averages of ~500,000 per reported collision (which is non-comparable) and ~1,270,000 miles per injury (which is comparable). So, absent a more detailed analysis, Cruise ADS cars were ~3x MORE likely to be involved in a injury causing collision per mile.

Details and evidence matter in these discussions. Blanket rhetoric and optimism is not prudent when discussing new safety-critical systems.

[1] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2024/02/03/2023-disen...

[2] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
by creer | 2025-05-01 19:37:33+00:00
> when my conversation partner is happy to lead me through?

This is really easy to misjudge though. If we care about having a conversation, we need to pitch in too. At the peril of it NOT being a conversation. Even if we are happy with the direction, we can try and provide hints that we are not just "this". One idea is to occasionally prompt for an echo about this direction, like "what part of all this is interesting to you?" or "what else does this echo for you?". The phrasing doesn't matter much, just an opportunity for that person to inject a little of themselves in there.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 19:37:44+00:00
Steam's customers aren't really the end users, though

Steam's customers are game publishers. Steam provides a service to connect publishers to their audience. Their business model is not "takes money from customers in exchange for goods". It is "takes a cut of each sale that a publisher makes on their platform"

Given that there is no real friction for end users to install Epic Launcher or GoG launcher, is Steam really a monopoly to their customers, the publishers?

If Steam tries to muscle a publisher, they can refuse to publish on Steam and still have options. When popular games aren't on Steam, it does seem like people have absolutely no problem installing another launcher/storefront to access it

Look at the massive success of Fortnite, which is only on the Epic Launcher
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-01 19:38:01+00:00
I agree with you. My point was that Uber and AirBNB's success was not about technology but rather the attitude about business.

VC leads in the Bay Area because VCs there will get behind high risk/high reward ventures that others won't.

At certain times and places it has been relatively easy to reach consumers. Circa 2001 we got a list of 10,000 emails in a developing country that got a better >20% response rate to join a voice chat service. I saw amazing success stories with SEO. There was a time that companies like King could get games to spread virally on Facebook. Those kind of opportunities have dried up as the gatekeepers have been able to capture more value out of their ecosystems.

But yeah, you're right, marketing is often 100x the work that people think it will be.
by jmull | 2025-05-01 19:38:06+00:00
> Not all corruption is detectable.

Well, I don't know rsync that well. If you're saying it doesn't detect changes to files while it's being copied, then I'll believe you.

And, as far as I know, it's impossible to detect absolutely all corruption.

But you can pretty easily detect, e.g., that a file has or has not changed since before you copied it to after, on a system with a basically functioning filesystem and clock, with a reasonable/useful level of confidence.
by xnx | 2025-05-01 19:38:15+00:00
> All for nothing, in the end even they had to give up and switch to white-label Chromium.

How is that a loss? All Microsoft wants is a controlled space to push their own products/services. Google gave them a tool to do just that for free. Microsoft would absolutely be writing its own (probably worse) browser if Google wasn't so generous to give them on without Microsoft having to incur any development cost.
by thih9 | 2025-05-01 19:38:22+00:00
In case someone didn’t see that yet, vibe coding has a recent and more specific meaning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

> a programming paradigm dependent on artificial intelligence (AI), where a person describes a problem in a few sentences as a prompt to a large language model (LLM) tuned for coding.

> A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-05-01 19:39:28+00:00
Indeed, I was surprised both at the fact that it literally makes me feel better because the drug makes you feel good but also that it calmed my brain down and let me access some inner peace. But also the focus modification is big and I learned so many good habits that now I need much less of it to get stuff done. I wake up and start doing my chores before I even have my first dose!
by andrewfromx | 2025-05-01 19:39:35+00:00
man this post got zero up votes. And we are the only two here. I was so inpsired by the look and feel of https://alexwlchan.net/2025/copying-sqlite-databases/ which is on the homepage right now I thought, if I just make a story look that good, it will also get a lot of votes...
by indigodaddy | 2025-05-01 19:39:48+00:00
How do AI cars fare with those instinctual "decide which way to swerve in a split-second" scenarios that come up maybe once every 10-20 years over the course of a driver's history?? It's happened to me about 2-3 times and I've always made the "(assumedly) correct" split second swerve decision. Wondering if that is a "human/instinctual" skill and if AI cars do just as well or better, or perhaps not as good? I don't have any evidence backing this but my gut tells me these scenarios are something that a human driver would handle better than AI.
by jdboyd | 2025-05-01 19:40:12+00:00
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by johnfn | 2025-05-01 19:40:40+00:00
As someone who is often on SF city streets without a car - I bike and run a lot - I absolutely love Waymo. I am continuously seeing human drivers cut me off, perform illegal maneuvers (i.e. run red lights when I'm going through a crosswalk), and break various other traffic laws. All these things genuinely put people in danger. Just the other day, a guy started running a "no right turn on red" lane in SF, and when I pointed it out to him he floored his car - through the red - right in front of me and laughed at me as he sped away. To say nothing of all the times when cars will honk or give me the finger for doing normal things on a street, like walking on a crosswalk.

Waymo is like the most courteous, respectful driver you can possibly imagine. They have infinite patience and will always take the option which is the safest for everyone. One thing which really impressed me is how patient they are at crosswalks. When I'm jogging, a Waymo will happily wait for me to cross - even when I'm 10 feet away from even entering the crosswalk! I don't know if I even have that much patience while driving! I've had a number of near misses with human drivers who don't bother checking or accelerate for no reason after I'm already in the crosswalk. Can you imagine a Waymo ever doing that?

If I see a Waymo on the street near me I immediately feel safer because I know it is not about to commit some unhinged behavior. I cannot say enough good things about them.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-01 19:40:52+00:00
I think the problem is a general one about drivers, not just ride-sharers. I live in a fairly busy area and I am beset by aggressive drivers any time I need to cross a busy road. So many drivers simply ignore pedestrians by default. Not that many of them have Uber or Lyft signs in the window, if anything commercial drivers tend to be a bit more careful in my experience because the downside risk is being unable to work any driving job.
by matttproud | 2025-05-01 19:41:00+00:00
I was just on a business trip to San Francisco for a few days, and I observed the near opposite of this from the Waymo fleet in SoMa:

* Waymo vehicle creeping into the pedestrian crosswalk (while the pedestrians had right of way to cross), which caused someone to have to walk around the car into the intersection ahead of the Waymo.

* Waymo vehicle entering a dedicated bike lane and practically tailgating the bicyclist that was ahead of it.

These might be safer than human drivers in aggregate and normalized by kilometer driven, but they drive like humans — greedily and non-defensively. I wouldn't want one these anywhere near a high-pedestrian traffic area ever, and I feel the same about human-driven cars, too.