skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock — and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth’s mantle may be the reason why.

Really appreciate the first sentence of the article having a pithy summary of what the whole thing is all about.
So did phone books and catalogues. Ensuring why dispersal of information about services and prices does not require advertising.
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I thought it was interesting to share the full quote. It’s a fascinating read.

>An official statement by President Jimmy Carter was included as images (positions 117, 118). It reads, in part:

This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a global civilization. We cast this message into the cosmos…

It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some – perhaps many – may have inhabited planets and space faring civilizations.

If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe.
The joke is not about who denies facts, it’s about the absurdity of calling someone “biased” when they take the side of an argument that is better supported by reality, and about who tends to do that more often.
My favorite citation is curiously missing from the references (as of Sat April 5, 6:40 EST):

> The recent experience with U.S. tariffs on China has demonstrated that tariff passthrough to retail prices was low (Cavallo et al, 2021).

The line that says "sure, tariffs won't cost consumers _that_ much", and they don't even have a bibliographic entry for Cavallo et al. 2021.
Forget the flying car. I want one!
I don't think curing aging is an easy thing anyway. The whole of evolution is basically set up against it. Because it would break evolution itself.

There isn't a single species that has somehow gained infinite lifespans though mutation. I think it's a lot harder to accomplish. I guess a lot of it has to do with degrading DNA (and again, evolution never had to figure out a fix for that because it's a feature not a bug).
100%. we've found that llama-3.3-70b-versatile and qwen-qwq-32b perform exceptionally well with reliable function calling. we had recognized the need for this and our engineers partnered with glaive ai to create fine tunes of llama 3.0 specifically for better function calling performance until the llama 3.3 models came along and performed even better.

i'd actually love to hear your experience with llama scout and maverick for function calling. i'm going to dig into it with our resident function calling expert rick lamers this week.
Anyone who has found out about a useful product through advertising that you wouldn’t have know about otherwise, purchased it, and been pleased with your purchase, raise your hand.

Anyone?

This whole “advertising is useful” thing sounds like the spherical cow of marketing to me. It might make sense in abstract but it doesn’t reflect reality.
Fair. Property tax can be one of the most reliable and effective ways for a locality to raise revenues, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t mess it up. I mentioned how New York has some wonky laws and this is doubly true where real estate is concerned. But these are not issues with property tax per se but with New York’s government. In California there are huge issues with property tax owing to prop 13 and its consequences. But these are very different and a lot of people suggest that California’s lack of a property tax is highly regressive. My point is that the specificity is important for establishing the context.
Show HN: I made a conversational AI for interview prep
SpeakFast helps you prep by actually talking—not just reading tips or recording yourself. The AI interviews you, challenges you in real time, and gives coaching based on how you're doing. It can even build a custom roadmap around your weak spots.

There are 200K+ real roles from top tech companies to practice with. You can also paste a job description and get a tailored mock interview instantly.

It’s composable, flexible, and built to feel real
Many complex problems can become easier if we can accept that the solutions can be malleable and designed to adapt. We just don’t really apply that to laws for the most part.
Yes, that is the real trick when you get stuck is to start constructing the clues that it will eventually become.
* “the newspapers, tv channels and YouTube content that had so little value to society that no one was willing to pay for will die out.”

Yes.
> The welfare state is predicated on a pyramid-shaped population.

America isn't a welfare state, I think this much is clear :) It's welfare for the rich only.

> Also: people deride infinite growth, but growth is what is responsible for lifting large portions of the population out of poverty. If global markets were repriced tomorrow to expect no future growth, economies would collapse.

We don't have infinite resources so infinite growth is just impossible. And a fairer distribution of wealth can also lift populations out of poverty. The problem is the people that have a lot of wealth also have a lot of power they can wield to keep it that way.
You pretty much need to use markup (or control codes) for rich text. Take bold, italic, underline, strikeout: those four can, and are, used in nearly any combination. You would need one bit for each of them. You would need two bits to specify four levels of headings. If you don't allow for that, you are back to using markup. You would also need one bit to specify proportional/fixed width font, because that is a thing too. That remaining bit would have to be used for superscript, since superscripts are commonly used for footnotes and simple mathematical expressions.

Okay, you can now create passable rich text documents for a limited (though common) range of purposes with that 8/24-bit breakdown that was suggested. But you may have noticed the author mentioned subscripts, which wasn't in my list. Well, it turns out that subscript and superscript have a terribly limited range of applications if you are specifying them per character: x^2^2 would be visually identical to x^22, and x^a_b would look different from x_b^a (with both presentations being nonsensical). The use of subscripts and superscripts in any technical applications would be severely limited. You need a much richer markup language to be truly expressive. So there really isn't much of a point in offering subscripts. Superscripts, sure, because they have a few non-technical uses.

Yet the reality is that people want a much richer set of formatting options. At a minimum, they want to select fonts and font sizes. Some of the formatting options have semantics. I know I crammed four levels of headings in those eight bits, but that only makes sense in headings. It doesn't make sense to specify it per character. Then there are other common document elements, like tables. You can create decent tables using monospaced fonts, but that is limiting and would produce undesirable results in some cases (try displaying April 5^th sensibly, using a monospace font so that it won't affect the width of the columns). On top of that, you are ditching the concept of styles because that implies some sort of markup.
It’s an x86 PC with unified RAM based on AMD’s new AI cpus. Pretty unique offering. Similar to Mac studio but you can run Linux or Windows on it, and it’s cheaper too.
Regarding ads as free speech:

> Bullshit. No one is entitled to yell at you "GET 20% OFF THIS UNDERWEAR YOU GLANCED AT YESTERDAY" with a dopamine megaphone in your bedroom. And to track 90% of your life to know when and how to say it. That's not free speech, that's harassment.

The same argument could be applied to the homeless people I see on most corners these days with cardboard signs designed to pull my heart strings. It's a different brain chemical, but it's actually real and it affects my re-uptake inhibitors a lot more. Should we ban them? Or just their signs?

Here are a few of the many defenses against advertising that are all free:

- Ad blockers for browsers

- Kill your television

- Listen to and support public media (unless those sponsorship messages count as ads which is a valid argument)

If literally everybody applied just those three things, advertising would die a natural death without having to ban anything.

<rant>

I'm a bit of a free speech zealot, and so I'll pull the slippery slope fallacy and just ask: after ads, what do we ban next? Sponsorship messages like public radio uses? Product placement in movies? Would we be allowed to have _any_ real products in movies or would everybody drink Slurm instead of Coke and drive around in Edisons instead of Teslas? Are movie previews allowed? What about product reviews where the product is given to the reviewer for free? What about Simone's presence on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert years ago? That was entertainment, but it also clearly advertised her YouTube channel. Is that allowed?

</rant>

We humans are one of the few animals that have within us multiple ways to kill ourselves. While that's mostly thanks to our awesome thumbs, our speech is another powerful tool. We're also one of the few animals that can, with much work, transcend our weaknesses and be more than the goop that makes us up. Finding out whether we do is the whole reason I'm sticking around.
> Trump is trying to get them all removed

No he's not
We’ll likely post on our social accounts to start with, but eventually we plan to write more blog posts about using Framework Desktop for inference.
The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done
Yes it is. It's not about space to live. It's about resources that are running out (and thus causing wars over them and other instability).
It should be accurate. Adding in DEI to everything is a political bias. Truth is truth.
> the "they suck, but they're the best we've got" people

I'm in this camp and I don't think it's "broken" - at least not in the sense that we have a broadly applicable "fix" that improves the situation.

I.e., everybody hates coding interviews but it's still close to the best we have got, and it beats credentialism or talking about random stuff (how are you going to compare across candidates).
"What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors."

(Nietzsche)
That has less to do with it being hard to craft bribery laws and more to do with the fact that the current bribery laws are entirely ineffectual. It's absolutely something that could be fixed, but certainly not something almost any politician would want to fix.

I will grant that companies would lobby hard against an anti-advertising bill (which means it'll likely never pass). That doesn't mean you couldn't make one that's pretty effective.

But, again, the nature of advertising makes it quite easy to outlaw. Unlike bribery, where a congress person can shove gold bars into their suit jackets in secret, advertising has to be seen by a lot of people to be effective. Making it something that has to be done in secret will immediately make it harder to do. The best you'll likely see is preferential placement of goods in stores or maybe some branding in a TV show.
Surprised to hear this because I had a very weird experience on my last stay. (and it will always be last as I will never stay at an Airbnb again).

Airbnb sided with the Host for some fabricated damages because the host was mad we told them the place was unclean. They put the burden of proof on us to prove we didn't destroy one of the sinks. Absolutely ridiculous.

We had to fight it for 3+ hours on the phone and message and start a chargeback and only then did support drop the fabricated charge.

And to top all of this, Airbnb deleted our bad review from that place (but left the review of the host).

So, never, absolutely never again. Too bad because I was spending 2k+$ on Airbnb before that incident and only got great reviews from other hosts.
Arguably it makes more sense for military budget to reference GDP since military capability is relative to that of one’s adversaries. If their capability has increased, then so must ours to achieve a net zero difference. And their capability is proportional to their spending ability with everything else kept equal.
o3 progress on ARC was not a zero shot. It was based on fine tuning to the particular data set. A major point of ARC is that humans do not need fine tuning more than being explained what the problem is. And a few humans working on it together after minimal explanation can achieve 100%.

o3 doing well on ARC after domain training is not a great argument. There is something significant missing from LLMs being intelligent.

I'm not sure if you watched the entire video, but there were insightful observations. I don't think anyone believes LLMs aren't a significant breakthrough in HCI and language modelling. But it is many layers with many winters away from AGI.

Also, understanding human and machine intelligence isn't about sides. And CoT is not symbolic reasoning.
What's the biggest challenge teams face when building MCPs?
Airline credit card announcements on flights is a perfect example of what should be banned, but getting the law right is tricky.

IMO it should be illegal due to using a system for safety announcements for non-safety profit related reasons.
We're not really overpopulated yet because the majority of humanity doesn't have two cents to rub against each other. They also want their cars, their houses, their netflix. This is what will really kill the planet.
Try Llama 4 Scout and Maverick as Nvidia Nim Microservices
The new Llama 4 Maverick and Scout models from u/AIatMeta bring native multi-modality and deliver leading accuracy for both language and image reasoning tasks.

These models are now live as NVIDIA NIM microservices for you to try right now—either as a hosted API or run them directly in your browser at build.nvidia.com.
The argument was never about what anyone individual should or should not do, it was about the idea that the limitations of the hotel format are more driven by urban planning and local politics - striving to keep buildings as small as possible, concentrating all non-house buildings in small slips of land, etc. - than anything inherent to the hotel format. Hotels and Airbnb’s are great, but both be better if both were legal on 100% of the land in the city, along with apartment buildings and every other form of housing, and without the arbitrary restrictions on size.
No. I don’t think this is true.

The PC was always meant to augment human intelligence. Consider what we lost with “calculators” vs slide rules. And what slide rules took from mental math.

We have a new “partner” in design and creativity. It’s sad when something we did becomes automated and the economic impacts - but this is just another tool to learn and use.

Maybe we can finally stop with tired Hollywood remakes of things? Maybe we can shake ourselves out of writer’s block quicker?

We are a still a part of this story. It’s not a kill switch but it makes us do things differently?

At least I hope so.
> The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear

It's naive to think so. The obvious argument against that is that the behavior of the consumer, not the producer, is what constitutes the problem
Does anyone run these "at home" with small clusters? I've been googling unsuccessfully and this thread doesn't refer to anything.

So a non-quantized scout won't fit in a machine with 128GB of RAM (like framework or mac studio M4). Maverick is maybe a 512GB M3 Max mac studio. Is it possible (and if so what're the tradeoffs for) running like one instance of Scout on three 128GB frameworks?
I never even understood why people even think Airbnb is a tech company.

They basically operate a pretty simple website. Most of their busines is about arbitrating issues when they come. This has nothing to do with tech.

I would bet that United Airlines or American Airlines website handles way more queries than Airbnb.

But for some reason they managed to market themselves as a "design driven" "Tech company".
Isn’t this basically just t9 from the physical keyboard era? I was very used to it as a teenager.
You're too smart to make that comparison. 1980s we were in the middle of a VERY strong cold was with the USSR. Every American agrees that military focused has decreased since then, while scientific focus/interest/value has increased.
How would you like the government deciding some cause they didn’t agree with is advertising?

If you live in a conservative state, what are the chances that they say advocacy for Planned Parenthood is advertising and say that advocacy for pro-life is freedom of religion?

And how would that work over the Internet? Are you going to block foreign websites?

I can give you a real world example. Florida requires age verification for porn sites. Sites not based in the US including the ones owned by MindGeek just ignored it.
I have a trade deficit with my local grocery store, I buy goods from them every week with a high sales tax tariff. But they don't import anything from me! I'm now implementing a blanket 100% base tariff on all grocery stores in the world.
It is. The advice from the expert includes recommendations to buy a type of product, perhaps without a brand name.
I suggest reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_(economics). Some authors use the term "product" in opposition to "service", while others consider services to be a type of product. Not being clear about that distinction is one of the fatal flaws in imiric's proposal.

A show isn't made of matter. If you pay for it, you can't take possession of it or resell it later. If you, the buyer, aren't available at the time that it is provided, you get nothing of value out of the deal. These are attributes of services like surgery or internet connectivity, not products like antibiotics and computers. ("Health care" and "tech" are too vague to be useful.)

Getting things for free is not, as you imply, a usual attribute of services.
I've been calling for this approach for a while. It's kinda similar to how the human brain has areas that are good at specific tasks
I lived through the explosion of JavaScript frameworks and this feels way bigger to me. For me at least it feels closer to the rise of the early internet.

Reminds me of 1996.
So it’s just “programmatic advertising” that should be banned and not self hosted advertising by an internal sales team?
Fun fact, when you are the world's reserve currency your current account deficits are offset by the fact that every other nations has to hold your currency so that they can conduct international trade. Being the reserve currency makes your currency itself a product that other countries want from you.
Show HN: Sound of Sorting, Reimagined for iPadOS and macOS
Hello HN!

Put simply, this project is a complete rebuild of the famous Sound of Sorting visualizer, written in Swift with SwiftUI for iPadOS and macOS.

I originally envisioned it as a straight port of the original app, but I quickly realized that it would not be possible to do it that way.

It has most of the features of the original visualizer, plus some more educational features, like descriptions of the algorithms, space and time complexity, and implementations of each algorithm in 10 different programming languages.

I also put a lot of work into the sound synthesis, a custom syntax highlighter for displaying the code in the app, and the entire sorting platform itself.

I've been working on this project for many, many years now. It was my very first Swift project when I bought my MacBook Pro in late 2021, and it helped me learn so much detail about how Apple platform development works. I've since written a few other apps, like a darkroom timer for when I was developing my own film and prints.

I welcome any and all issues and pull requests, and any constructive criticism of the project. I'm sure there's some old code hidden away somewhere that I can't see it, or I wrote some of the code in a very inefficient way, and some Swift wizard will come along and point out how I can make it faster.

Thanks!
Can you explain this to me? I don't know what any of this means.
> “We don’t have time to [write automated] test[s],” stated the principal engineer… This was in response to my candid observation that test coverage was low, existing tests didn’t always run locally for mysterious reasons, integration tests were non-existent, and pull requests could merge without passing the few tests that did exist.

Given the state of the existing automated tests, perhaps the Principal Engineer is correct… Why would the new automated tests be any better?
Did you mean "assigned GOTO", not computed GOTO? Because that's just a switch list.
As a user, I couldn’t care less about the algorithmic beauty of the type system if it works, lets me type complex things reliably, and is fast enough to stay out of my way. Does it do that by being a mess of duct table and plywood? Totally fine for me.
Only 3 questions that combine two data points.

There's no way to answer that god created humans in their present form without also saying within the last 10000 years.

This is why polling isn't always reliable. This poll should, at the very least, be two questions and there should be significantly more options.
So you never drove your car at 1mph over the speed limit?
There are manipulation techniques we really can't protect ourselves against. It's like the optical illusions where even when you're fully aware what the trick is, you know the horizontal lines on the café wall are actually straight, you still see it incorrectly. Awareness of our weaknesses isn't enough to correct them.

Even when we can use that awareness to notice the times that we're being manipulated and try to remind ourselves to reject the idea that was forced into our brain surveillance capitalism means that advertisers can use the data they have to hit us when they know we're most susceptible and our defenses will be less effective. They can engineer our experiences and environments to make us more susceptible and our defenses are less effective. They're spending massive amounts of time and money year after year on refining their techniques to be more and more effective in general, and more effective against you individually. I wouldn't put much faith in our ability to immunize ourselves against advertising.
Yeah money isn't everything after you made a bunch. What.
> So, what is a test? To me, a test is a chunk of code...

This obviously excludes manual testing, and the author doesn't explain why he is excluding them.