MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by donatj | 2025-04-28 14:54:51+00:00
I would imagine most. In my experience, laws intended to catch specific bad actors usually end up being enforced mostly against the easiest-to-catch mild offenders.

For example: one of my neighbors speeds like an idiot through our neighborhood — easily doing 60 mph and often blowing right through the stop sign at the end of the block. He’s a real danger.

The neighborhood complained to city hall. Their solution? They lowered the speed limit from 30 mph to 20 mph. It changed nothing. He still speeds. He still blows stop signs. He doesn’t get caught — there usually aren't any cops hanging around our sleepy end of town.

Meanwhile, I have seen people get pulled over for doing the previously legal, entirely reasonable, 30 mph — which is still the limit for most of the city.
by troupo | 2025-04-28 14:54:55+00:00
> Reading HTML should be about content and meaning, not knowing that "pl-16 pr-8 bg-olive-500 text-gray-700" means "this is probably a card header".

Unlike vanilla CSS where you need to look at browser dev tools and computed styles to figure out why something is styled this way. Because of course it's not styled just by the `.jus-one__more--modifier`.

And Tailwind is mostly there for people developing sites/apps, not reading final HTML. So all that is usually contained in the specific component.
by seneca | 2025-04-28 14:55:00+00:00
Totally agree. Vehicles are incredibly dangerous, and operating hundreds of them in concert with each other requires responsible participants. Allowing them to be used like toys for simpletons to play out some racing fantasy with is a serious danger to people just going about their lives.

At a certain point, aggressive driving and speeding should be treated like negligently swinging about a weapon. It should be treated seriously.
by rowanseymour | 2025-04-28 14:56:06+00:00
If you forced me to put a number on how much more productive having copilot makes me I think I would say < 5%, so I'm struggling to see how anyone can just assert that "the rational argument right now" is that I can be 200% more productive.

Maybe as a senior dev working on a large complex established project I don't benefit from LLMs as much as others because as I and the project mature.. productivity becomes less and less correlated with lines of code, and more about the ability to comprehend the bigger picture and how different components interact... things that even LLMs with bigger context aren't good at.
by verzali | 2025-04-28 14:56:42+00:00
I used to live in an area that regularly had power outages during thunderstorms. I was also once in London during a power cut that took out most of the city centre. It was a strange experience, but not as weird as walking through empty streets in the time of covid.

Maybe just my perception, but power outages seem to be getting rarer with time, though when they do happen they seem to be far larger.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-04-28 14:56:49+00:00
> Some years ago, a police officer casually told me, “You should get a dashcam, insurance fraud is common around here.” His offhand comment stuck with me, but life moved on.

This is very, very good advice. Dashcams are cheap, and easy to install. Treat yourself - spending $80 on a camera could save you thousands in lawsuits, insurance hikes, costs of a new car, etc.

To me it seems nearly as important as having a smoke detector in your house.
by BasilPH | 2025-04-28 14:56:52+00:00
I'm still developing podcast websites with transcripts[^0] while maintaining a part-time job.

This thread made me realize I've made no progress in acquiring new clients since posting about this 6 months ago. However, my part-time job ends in May, which will allow me to focus exclusively on Fanfare. It's somewhat intimidating, but I'm also looking forward to it; the prospect of resolving this uncertain situation (either through success or failure) feels liberating.

[^0]: https://www.withfanfare.com/
by mguerville | 2025-04-28 14:57:01+00:00
A social advocacy platform for small and medium sized B2B businesses. LinkedIn is more or less the only social platform for B2B social selling and smaller firms could benefit from their posts getting a bit more augmented and coordinated engagement. So we’re building a solution for a marketing manager to request advocates (employees, partners, others) to engage or reshare (tweaked in their own voice if they want) their content. Not world altering but shockingly underserved market. With few players who raised money and therefore have to price expensively, whereas as a bootstrapped side-hustle we can offer it in a flat-fee way that doesn’t “penalize” growth by charging per-user or for inactive users.

(Pre-launch [https://www.sevenbaton.com] would welcome feedback from marketing folks)
by Sephr | 2025-04-28 14:57:07+00:00
Awesome! I was making exactly this library 13 years ago but only made it as far as creating CSS and other asset inlining+normalization tools before I ran into a few major roadblocks.

The most significant roadblock was that drawing SVG <foreignObject> with inline subresources (data: and blob: URIs) tainted canvases in Chrome and Safari, and this was partially resolved in 2019[1].

Notably, some issues still remain but apparently it's now workable. As is apparent from snapDOM, completely accurate CSS normalization is still an unsolved problem.

While I'm excited to see the HTML-in-foreignObject use case mature, it is also important to point out that the Media Capture API now has the ability to capture individual elements natively in Chrome[2].

1. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41054640#comment49

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CropTarget/...
by hermitShell | 2025-04-28 14:57:33+00:00
JVM I think I can understand, but do you happen to know more about LISP machines and whether they use an ISA specifically optimized for the language, or if the compilers for x86 end up just doing the same thing?

In general I think the practical result is that x86 is like democracy. It’s not always efficient but there are other factors that make it the best choice.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-28 14:57:47+00:00
>Handling heavy boxes?

Are handled by non-humanoid Robots already.

>Baking a cake?

How do you think modern industrial baking works? All done by non-humanoid Roboters.

>Operating a circular saw?

Seriously? A circular saw is the perfect scenario where a humanoid is useless.

>Performing surgery?

Why are surgery Roboters not humanoid? Obviously it is easier to give robots custom tools than make human tools conform to robots.

>Loading a ream of paper into a printer?

Do you know how a modern printing press looks like?

>Playing a violin?

Google "mp3".

>Opening a door?

ARE YOU SERIOUS? Do you think automatic doors don't exist?

It is far, far easier, cheaper, fast to make robots do a specific task than to make them do all tasks. Humans are terrible at most tasks, making robots to conform to humans is absurd.
by mattkevan | 2025-04-28 14:58:03+00:00
A few months ago I was hit by a blackout literally the second I was about to start delivering a company-wide talk on AI. Everything went out - Internet, mobile networks, street lighting, the lot.

We're a remote business so it seemed like I'd just rudely dropped off the call, but as everything was down I couldn't let people know what'd happened.

Apparently it was caused by botched maintenance work affecting 30,000 houses, but the timing was so perfect I can't help thinking it was because our AGI overlords really didn't want me to deliver that talk for some reason.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-04-28 14:58:10+00:00
<< Why are you asking me?

Why indeed? I suppose we will need to do some meta analysis.

Is it because maybe your post attempted to undermine my point by stating:"Really? You’re writing that “Being quarantined for expressing an opinon is bad”, as if that’s a thing that happened."?

<< I notice that you’re not disputing my claims that nobody in the US was secreted away in a concentration camp over a refusal to vaccinate,

Why should I? It is not a claim I made, nor is it my objection. You can have it. Hope you feel more validated.

<< You’re also not disputing that refusing vaccines is not an act of speech.

Amigo. I want you to focus. You are already all over the place and I do not want to distract you with shiny stuff on the horizon. We will get there.

<< you’re not convincing me that the US government under Trump is not breaking new ground by removing people’s rights.

Because, my fake false equivalency buddy, I am not arguing that, despite you clearly trying so very, very hard to impose that framework onto this conversation. You might be trying, so c for effort?

<< If you want to know what happened at a private tech giant in California, ask someone who works there or an investigative reporter who writes about such things.

Hmm. So things only happened if they are investigated by a reporter?
by carpenecopinum | 2025-04-28 14:58:16+00:00
Besides being a great project, this device reminds me a lot of the Technifant (https://technifant.de) which, under the hood, is similarly simple. The "hats" that you put on the Technifant contain a cheap USB thumb drive with the contacts soldered to a magnetic connector. All the audio is stored locally on the hat itself, and you can even add your own MP3 files with a cable provided by the manufacturer.
by ijk | 2025-04-28 14:58:40+00:00
> it might just up and decide to include numbers outside of that range, or (with a nonzero probability) it might decide to list animals instead of numbers

For example, all of the replies I've gotten that are formatted as "Here is the random number you asked for: forty-two."

Which is both absolutely technically correct and very completely missing the point, and it might decide to do that one time in a hundred and crash your whole stack.

There are ways around that, but it's a headache you don't get with rand() or the equivalent for whatever problem you're solving.
by metawake | 2025-04-28 14:58:44+00:00
I made a small project (https://github.com/metawake/puppetry-detector) to detect this type of LLM policy manipulation. It's an early idea using a set of regexp patterns (for speed) and a couple of phases of text analysis. I am curious if it's any useful, I created integration with Rebuff (loss security suite) just in case.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-28 14:59:25+00:00
Working on a FOSS card game.

I realized after trying multiple tools like Supabase and Firebase, I really need to program my own solution. I don't need a bunch of *Enterprise* level features. I just need to read the card data from a database, and process the games with some simple server side code.

I hope to have the server, along with a basic front end done by this summer. Then it'll be released under a permissible license. Probably MIT.

I want a community of different front ends compatible with the same server. I suspect a straight up cli client without a bunch of effects might be popular with some of y'all.

If you want to code a frontend in Unreal, the server doesn't care. The game remains the same.

Of course your free to fork it privately, build a commerical product, etc.
by ryao | 2025-04-28 14:59:27+00:00
> That’s great, good for New York. Now go get Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Washington to do the same. Also, remember that licensing reciprocity means that if I have a vehicle titled in South Carolina, nothing stops me from driving it into North Carolina.

Germany is no different. There is licensing reciprocity with the rest of the EU and even other countries beyond the EU. I could drive in Germany with my NY license:

https://de.usembassy.gov/driving-in-germany/

People can even drive in Germany with licenses issued by any of the states you mentioned. You can even drive cars registered in the U.S. in Germany:

https://www.zoll.de/EN/Private-individuals/Travel/Entering-G...

The only restrictions occur when you wish to do it for longer than 6 months.

> I think you missed the entire part of my post where I discussed how a significant portion of the population is unable to properly maintain their vehicles, and also lack access to reliable public transit.

This does not pose a problem in NY. Other states could easily follow suit. I think you missed that.

> Re: Newton, you said that “Actual data does not support the idea of low speed limits.” You did not cite your source, and without that, I am defaulting to the basic physics principle that an object moving faster will impart more force on another if they collide.

The German autobahn is the most obvious source. There is also a huge body of work around the 85th percentile principle. Do I really need to say more?
by os2warpman | 2025-04-28 14:59:35+00:00
There is already massive police surveillance of all motor vehicles.

Every motor vehicle has a serial number. Every motor vehicle is registered and must display an identification label on its front and rear. Every non-antique motor vehicle must be inspected annually for safety. Every motor vehicle must be operated by a licensed individual. Those individuals are assigned identification numbers and their photographs are stored in a database. Information regarding both the motor vehicle and its driver is shared among states, with private entities, and with the federal government. All motor vehicles must have insurance. The status of insurance coverage is shared with the state and other states. A network of automated license plate readers exists in the state, with police vehicles and various municipalities across the state deploying both fixed and mobile automated license plate readers. Speed and red light cameras have been deployed to municipalities across the state. Radar detectors are banned.

Anyone who has driven through Virginia knows that they have one of the, if not the, strictest speeding enforcement programs in the entire country.

> The Old Dominion has the second-highest citation rate for speeding in the nation — 67 percent higher than the national average — where many drivers are caught in the state’s notorious speed traps on interstate highways near Richmond.

https://insurify.com/car-insurance/insights/states-most-heav...

The door was opened decades ago.

This is about speeding.

On a personal level, I do one day a week as a volunteer EMT. Most of the time it's great. Taking old folks with UTIs and abnormal labs to the ER, treating injuries at high school football games, taking vitals and transporting folks with dizziness, racing to a restaurant and epi'ing someone who had an allergic reaction. Very rewarding, supremely fulfilling.

Then the drunks and the speeders show up and you go home wishing you could feed the legs of people who drive recklessly into meat grinders, up to their thighs.
by rtkwe | 2025-04-28 14:59:58+00:00
That's not a part of computer science that's organizational and process management at that point not computer science so I'm not shocked CS academics aren't interested in it. You're looking at the wrong group to answer your question, we have a great amount of discussion about how to organize large software to make it manageable already too but most of it comes down to breaking it into more manageable chunks with defined interfaces and testing that interface thoroughly.
by pak9rabid | 2025-04-28 15:00:00+00:00
Wow, this is fascinating stuff. Just a side question (and please understand I am not a low-level hardware expert, so pardon me if this is a stupid question): does this arch support any sort of speculative execution, and if so do you have any sort of concerns and/or protections in place against the sort of vulnerabilities that seem to come inherent with that?
by ghc | 2025-04-28 15:00:08+00:00
Ok, but technical co-founders in tech startups are also less valuable than they think (as this blog post shows).

In reality there are four critical skillsets (outside fundraising) for a new tech venture: Operations, Sales, Product, and Engineering.

I've seen plenty of startups with a heavy focus on product and engineering flail about because they suck at operations, product, or sales. The harsh truth is your CEO better be excellent at one of Operations, Sales, or Product, and your CTO better be excellent at one of Sales, Product, or Engineering. And if your CEO isn't competent at operations, you're going to need someone who is. Dealing with HR, accountants, investor relations, lawyers, contracts, HR, and all that stuff is a big job that's hard to completely outsource.

Overall, if your founding team isn't at least competent in all four areas, you've got a gap that will be difficult to fill unless one of the founding team is willing to step up and learn that area fast. Sales (or marketing, for consumer apps) might be the exception, because in my experience everyone on the founding team will wind up needing to learn it early on.
Show HN: Trending Topics on Bluesky via Semantic Clustering
by connerruhl | 2025-04-28 15:00:23+00:00
We're ingesting the Bluesky firehose (firehose3d.theo.io) with custom models to cluster what people are talking about into trending topics. This all runs on one GPU.

You can also see a breakdown of discussion volume by topic at dazzle.fm/stats.
by noosphr | 2025-04-28 15:01:23+00:00
I need to bit bang the RHS2116 at 25MHz: https://intantech.com/files/Intan_RHS2116_datasheet.pdf

Right now I'm doing this with a dsl with an fpga talking to a computer.

Does your python implementation let you run at speeds like that?

If yes, is there any overhead left for dsp - preferably fp based?
by techpineapple | 2025-04-28 15:01:27+00:00
"I hope this title ticked you off a bit. Get mad. Pound the table. Shake your head and then listen. You need to learn to vibe code, or your career as a software developer will end."

This title does tick me off, not a little bit, but a lot, because Vibe Coding sucks, and I don't think it will ever live up to the hype. And I really want it to! And here's another person making me realize how disappointing the AI revolution will be.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-28 15:01:38+00:00
To go into the wider context, see

https://hub.fosstodon.org/fosstodon-kev-and-snowflakes/

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/bye-bye-mastodon-our...

If there is a population on Mastodon that bothers me it is the "anti-resilient" people who think that disabled people are morally better than abled people, who build identities around suffering chronic pain, accuse you of being a "reply guy" simply because you hit "reply", see "marginalization" as a goal or destination [1], etc.

I have a good time on Mastodon because I systematically mute and block those sorts of people, mostly don't engage with them. I've yet to have anyone triggered by the "anti-resilient" concept, in fact it is common you can criticize the othering and other fascist-adjacent behaviors of an anti-fascist for days in the abstract in which case they will assume you are talking about an "other" until finally you tell them directly that you're talking about them.

I've met quite a few women on line and real life for whom chronic pain is a way of life and something they have in common is that they'll resist any insinuation that anything about their condition is in their mind/brain. People like that believe they are stronger in numbers but actually when they get together they drag each other down. You could be marginalized in the sense of "in the margin", but join an anti-support group and you can now be marginalized and hated rather than simply marginalized and invisible.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-04-28 15:01:38+00:00
I've stopped commenting on Reddit awhile ago, after they took a lot of actions that were hostile to the type of user I am.

But now, even reading it is basically an exercise in fan-fiction curation. It's still mildly interesting to read things like r/pettyrevenge, or r/amitheasshole, but I fully recognize that they're the equivalent of watching a daytime soap - including the fact that most of them are fiction, and it's very hard to distinguish between real stories and ones made up by people or bots.
by graypegg | 2025-04-28 15:01:51+00:00
Some sort of escape room backbone software that links together all of the hardware according to a script is such a neat idea. It would be so cool to have something like Twine [0] to build out the story graphically, where input/output is via cues to staff/hardware rather than just text on screen. An old boss of mine used to run home-haunts for halloween. (a walk-through haunted house experience scaffolded-up in his yard) I helped him a few times, and I was always amazed by how big of a community there was. There were at least 5-6 people doing a haunt next week and would come help out at his, then he would help at their haunt the next week. My boss was even making a magazine for the community for a while. Something for those folks doing quick popup theatrical events/escape rooms that could handle some "duct tape engineering" would totally have an interested market, and if it was open source you'd get great patches.

BUT I also get what you mean, have find out what works first. Do you have a blog for your escape room progress? That sounds like such a cool thing to follow you making!

[0] (https://twinery.org/)
by tmerc | 2025-04-28 15:02:27+00:00
The example above is bad but not by much. In the parts of NY outside the city, we have 65mph roads (state max speed limit) between large areas and 55mph roads between smaller areas. Doing 10 over in both is common with speeds being 65 and 75 respectively. Doing 15 over in a 55 is safe in many areas that I have driven and is 70mph, which is a safe speed to most states.

Now, at 71 mph, you officially trigger the 15+mph rule mentioned to be a super speeder. Based on anecdotal experience from numerous trips between NY and Ohio, I would estimate that minimum 1 in 5 cars are doing 80+ in a 65. So, at least 20% by my obviously flawed and biased observations. For an actual estimate, in 1988 during the national 55mph speed limit era, an observed 85% of drivers in NY were above the speed limit.

For more context, I have paced many law enforcement vehicles (usually state troopers) doing 10 over with regular traffic.
by hermitShell | 2025-04-28 15:02:28+00:00
I had an incident where an older couple were stopped at a green light, angled down hill, in a snowstorm, with parking brake instead of foot pedal, in a borrowed vehicle.

When they asked me for insurance I just dragged it out and made friendly conversation(eventually giving the insurance slip). They got increasingly irate and panicked. Maybe because it was only a glancing blow and wouldn’t exceed even a slim deductible.

Anyway, I should probably get a dash cam…
by roenxi | 2025-04-28 15:02:35+00:00
Far-right, unfortunately, is something of a trigger word suggesting Wikipedia is about to become unreliable in its coverage. As far as I can tell any suggestion that immigration levels should be low is likely to be a far-right position which means it is a very large tent. A tent that includes some undesirables and a lot of quite normal people.

There is an odd situation where apparently countries can simultaneously adopt anti-growth policies while having an infinite surplus of real resources to handle more migrants and anyone who believes otherwise is de-facto attempting to restart the Jew ovens whether they personally deny it or not. Where a more charitable view would be if a country maintains high immigration into a situation where real resources don't grow that is quite possibly leading towards a genocide. People aren't all smiles and sunshine when times get tough; it is more sensible to engineer society towards prosperity.