MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OJFord | 2025-04-28 11:27:11+00:00
Yes I said and did mean 'a lot of' as opposed to 'all' - the USA is obviously not one homogeneous culture.

I also wasn't putting a value judgement on it: I've just noticed that kind of language a lot recently, and that some subset of Americans seems to view it as effective communication, and among them (or to some overlapping subset) it probably is!

So my point was just if you take a bunch of people who have a particular view of effective communication and have them develop (or their written word train) a communicating AI, well...
by nkrisc | 2025-04-28 11:27:33+00:00
Enforcement should focus on the speed outliers, less on the posted limit itself. If the speed limit is 65mph, but all traffic is moving at 75mph, then I'm going to drive at 75mph. The most dangerous drivers I've seen are those going 30mph or more faster or slower than the rest of traffic. Yes, the problem is that then makes enforcement subjective and that itself can lead to abuses. But it's a sensible approach in the short term.

Because of my morning routine, I often end up getting on the highway around the same time as this other driver who merges into highway traffic at 35mph, and several times they've nearly caused a crash. They're as much a menace as the idiots weaving in and out of traffic at 100mph+.

In many cases the state and local police are always speeding here as well, going the same speed as everyone else (regularly 15-20mph over the limit). Fortunately I do often see them pulling over the aforementioned idiots going 100mph+. Though I wish they'd at least give warnings to the people going dangerously slow as well.
by Applejinx | 2025-04-28 11:29:38+00:00
And Russia! Let's not forget the same holds there, for very good reasons. Particularly as they managed to be the leaders of the unpopular men leading America, and they're squandering what wealth Russia has in mad imperialism for purely ego reasons while also seeking to crash the US no matter what that does to the world economy. Pure table-flipping.

It's called the Swan Lake moment: Swan Lake on loop on the state media TV. That's what happens when everything is turmoil and nobody knows what will come next.
by nottorp | 2025-04-28 11:30:13+00:00
4 years ago this almost happened:

https://gridradar.net/en/blog/post/underfrequency_january_20...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-europes-power-grid-almost...

https://www.acer.europa.eu/news/continental-europe-electrici...

I remember it because power went out in at least 1/3 of Romania back then.
by 9dev | 2025-04-28 11:30:17+00:00
No, but your designers have decided instead of cornflower blue, they want it to be aqua instead. Have fun searching for all variants of the color in your stylesheets—including CSS varsity, hex codes and rgba variants. In Tailwind, all you need to do is update the config file, and it'll apply to backgrounds, text, shadows, anything.
by GuB-42 | 2025-04-28 11:30:18+00:00
There is that, but in this case it is not particularly authoritarian.

- There is already a whole lot of regulations on what makes a car street legal, including rules that can be quite unpopular among drivers and yet important on a large scale. In particular those related to the environment.

- Limiting the top speed of cars does not imply surveillance or advanced GPS-based systems. The idea is just to make it so that the car can't exceed speeds well beyond the highest speed limit in the country.

- The gouvernement is already telling you how fast you are allowed to go, and will watch you for it.

A 100mph limitation will only affect you if you are speeding, if you don't speed, nothing will change for you. There are some exceptions and special cases: race cars, imports, etc... but these are just details that can be dealt with, as it done today on other aspects.
by Oras | 2025-04-28 11:30:52+00:00
Resume builder

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by rcarmo | 2025-04-28 11:31:13+00:00
Apparently a local grid overload near France and a cascading failure down the Spanish network, but radio and newspapers don’t agree on root cause. Of course there is a lot of noise.

For instance, one reporter asked one of the government flunkies whether it could be a cyberattack and they turned his noncommittal “maybe, we don’t know” into “government says cyberattack may be ongoing”.

Be careful of idiot reporters out there.

Edit: I’m listening to another radio interview where they are outlining the plans to bring online Portuguese dams and thermal generators over the next few hours, progressively unplugging from the Spanish supply (fortunately we have enough of those, apparently).

It should take 3-4 hours to get everything balanced with only national supplies, and they will restore power from North to South.
by brulard | 2025-04-28 11:31:34+00:00
I disagree that coding for fun and making it a product is 5-10% difference. I would say it's closer to 500-1000%. I coded a lot of tools for myself, for productivity or for fun. Currently I'm very quick in doing that thanks to LLMs, it's definitely not vibe coding, althoug there is a lot of code generated. As these tools serve only me, I may not care about code quality, about bugs, about someone elses data loss, about security, GDPR, different devices, mobiles, screen sizes, platforms, etc. I don't have to support "users" as an entity at all in my apps, it can be all hidden behind VPN, so i don't need auth. I have so many little issues in my apps so I know I can not for example click this and that in rapid succession, or drag this thing out of this container etc. It's 100% fine for me, it would absolutely needed to be fixed for other users. I would need something like a user manual, marketing page, payment processing? I don't get any support e-mails and angry users. There are many compromises that I can make with little value loss if I code just for me as compared to trying to offer a service for people and ask for money.
by formerly_proven | 2025-04-28 11:31:52+00:00
I don't know and I don't think an EV driver has to care. Maybe it's not all intercharge, maybe there are more networks in the background.

The salient point is the consumer perspective: I can have one generic app to handle charging payments for basically any public charge point and I interact the same way with all of them, I put the plug in my car and scan a QR code.

The debate in that unified market is more about price discrimination, because prices at a given charge point may vary depending on who operates it versus who your e-mobility provider is. Which is quite annoying in itself and should be fixed. But paying 59 ct/kWh vs. 69 ct/kWh is quite different from having a dedicated "car charging apps" folder on your phone.
by queenkjuul | 2025-04-28 11:32:26+00:00
I have absolutely zero interest in a CS degree, i never even really wanted a career in software at all, but i did an apprenticeship which placed me at a Fortune 500 and i rolled that into my current gig, so nearing 5 years of serious software engineering experience, but I'm still pretty well convinced i won't find another job without a degree (even though my company just interviewed 2 degree-less people for a role at the same level as mine, and my coworkers never even believe me when i say i didn't to to college lol).

If you have the motivation and the funds, i don't think it can hurt. As for me, I'll take solace in knowing i can scrape by on Upwork and my below average Chicago rent if i get fired lol. I may have the funds but i without question do not have the motivation.
by herbst | 2025-04-28 11:33:36+00:00
Next to what others have said (pretty sure there are only very few PLAs who are even close to actual non toxic in terms of small traces of helper materials) but there are finishings you can use to make it food save!

I wouldn't eat from it, but it works and would pretty much solve any issues.

Pretty sure those finishing resins are marketing to finish Beton and stuff like that.
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-28 11:33:41+00:00
I am fairly certain this rule was there against an obnoxious citing style of "The lambda calculus [1] was intended as a foundation for mathematics". It is especially obnoxious in the case of CS because when you cite e.g. "as Johns comments in his article about future developments of the programming languages [1963a]" it is quite important to know that this paper is actually from 1963 and can be mostly disregarded except as a historic curiosity; yet I've seen people vehemently defending this "[1]" style.
by Jotalea | 2025-04-28 11:35:28+00:00
It's a really interesting project, reminds me of the 360° videos I used to watch on my phone, back in 2015.

But there's one thing that I'm a little bit worried about: I was getting like 8 stable FPS on my 3 years old flagship phone. My concern is that these models are not optimized to run on this type of hardware, which may or may not lead to hardware obsolescence quicker than planned. And it's not like these aren't powerful, they really are.
by op00to | 2025-04-28 11:35:44+00:00
I do not believe the US or VA constitutions guarantee a right to exceed speed limits. No idea what freedom they’re talking about!

They should go further than license removal. Owning a car that can drive on public roads should be illegal for habitual, feloniously dangerous speeders. Selling or renting a car to someone who is not allowed to own a car any longer should also be punishable.
by mishu2 | 2025-04-28 11:35:55+00:00
Started working on a case discussion platform for students almost two years ago. Mostly for dentistry and medicine, but it's template-based so works well for other purposes (e.g. teachers, social workers, etc.). It's going well and is being used by three universities right now.

On the way, I developed lightweight image editor and 3D model viewer components, which I've open sourced [1].

[1]: https://github.com/kigun-org/
by incomingpain | 2025-04-28 11:36:56+00:00
That first graph cuts off at 2018 after showing decrease? But that doesnt jive. The CDC numbers never show any decline. 1 in 44 in 2018, an increase. 1 in 36 in 2020. 1 in 31 in 2022.

The common meme is that grandma with her spoon collection or grandpa and his HO scale trains was autism. It's not that autism came out of the blue.

Commonly the claim is that awareness and testing is improving. Right but that cant explain that away. The CAUSE of autism must still be present and increasing.

It's not vaccines, there's loads of unvaccinated autistic kids. 1 in 50 in somalia have autism but somalia is well known for not being well vaccinated.

Its not pesticides, this is anticorrelative when accounting.

RFK jr says the cause will be known by the end of the year. I did the research, im fairly confident I know the cause. I wonder if I figured it out.
by red_admiral | 2025-04-28 11:37:25+00:00
Unfortunately it's becoming an increasing problem that travel is not equally safe depending on your nationality, destination, and other factors. CRYPTO, the annual "S-tier" conference in California, has already let people attend virtually online, and is considering its options for next year.

Any conference that announces itself as being proudly diverse and inclusive will have to have some difficult board meetings this year. It's not just the US, there's several countries in Europe that need a closer look at too. I hear Canada and the Nordic countries are fairly safe.

The whole show up to conferences internationally to network and put attendace on your CV thing is also not great for people looking after children, among others.

In practice if you want discussion and citation for your cryptography paper, it has to go on IACR eprint at some point. Being published in CRYPTO is still a major endorsement, but not the way people actually get hold of a copy these days.
by brailsafe | 2025-04-28 11:37:28+00:00
> Why isn't the issue. The hurricane comes and the phones are down and you need to get the kid to the hospital before they bleed out. You're the on-call service tech for something which is going to result in human tragedy if you don't get there first. You're not even involved but a firefighter had to commandeer your vehicle.

Why is definitely the issue, it's one of the first questions you might be asked when pulled over, and in this case if you don't have a good enough answer quick enough, it seems you could lose the freedom to make a determination about whether it's an issue or not.
by skeltoac | 2025-04-28 11:37:35+00:00
Virginia has built a reputation for tighter highway speed enforcement than most other places. There are officers out there enforcing as hard as the judges will let them. Now Virginia will put speed control devices in the cars of repeat offenders. Like breath testing ignition control devices, these will save lives and the offenders will pay the cost. Just another step toward better road safety for Virginia. They’re a good example for other states to follow.
by grunder_advice | 2025-04-28 11:38:07+00:00
In AI/ML job ads it is quite typical for the requirements to include, "must have published at top AI conferences include but not limited to NeuroIPS, ICML, ICLR, ...etc", which I find completely crazy, because it just incentivizes grad students to publish rubbish papers to have on their CV, and indeed most conference papers in AI/ML are complete rubbish, because it is trivial to take any architecture and any corresponding benchmark, tweak the architecture slightly and publish a paper. Even dud results are published as "promising". It's just a complete shitshow, and as somebody who is in the field it feels as though you cannot even complain because people get offended. You're just supposed to keep spinning the hamster wheel without posing any hard questions. Moreover, having published at top conferences does not prove that somebody is going to be a good ML Engineer. It just proves that somebody knows how to write a compelling conference paper, which is a completely different skill set altogether.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-28 11:38:39+00:00
I think perhaps you misread it?

>> You’re saying that there’s no point in having the skills to actually do something (building a product), unless you have someone derivative skills as well (all the business things you state).

yes, with the proviso that the "someone" might include yourself.

>> You can’t build a team (which I can do), market (which I can do), sell (which I can do), or refine (which I can do) independently.

If you can do those things, then great, you have the "someone" you need.

But, it's fair to say that most techies do not have those necessary skills. As evidence see the endless stream of question in the "Ask" section of HN trying to get advice on those activities after the product is built.

So the point is not "There's no need for a business founder". The point is that to have a business all the bases must be covered, and you need as many people as you need to cover those bases. Sometimes it's 1. Sometimes it's 2. Sometimes it's 5.

The most common successes have 2 or 3 founders, but that don't make the other numbers impossible, it's just a trend. Which makes sense - the more hats you wear, then less time you have to devote to each of them.
by karmakaze | 2025-04-28 11:38:43+00:00
I stopped thinking that humans were smarter than machines when AlphaGo won game 3. Of course we still are in many ways, but I wouldn't make the unfounded claims that this article does--it sounds plausible but never explains how humans can be trained on bodies of work and then synthesize new ideas either. Current AI models have already made discoveries that have eluded humans for decades or longer. The difference is that we (falsely) believe we understand how the machine works and thus doesn't seem magical like our own processes. I don't know that anyone who's played Go and appreciates the depth of the game would bet against AI--all they need is a feedback mechanism and a way to try things to get feedback. Now the only great unknown is when it can apply this loop on its own underlying software.
by ochrist | 2025-04-28 11:39:06+00:00
The Acorn Atom was the first real computer I had after the Texas TI59. It was later replaced with a BBC model B (and later again with an Archimedes). Sadly I got rid of the Atom when I moved out all those years ago, but the Beeb and the Arch is safely stored at the loft in my current house. Are there anywhere you can get any kind of programs/games that can be loaded in the Atom emulator? All my old cassette tapes are gone many years ago.
by Saline9515 | 2025-04-28 11:39:32+00:00
Then how about empowering them to - speak? Not just say what you believe is allowed to say (this is authoritarian).

I'm talking about the practice of democracy, by the way.

And regarding mass rapes, being British yourself is clearly not a reference for truth. The wikipedia article I linked mentioned a mass grooming case in this town. You can't close your eyes on the evidence each time it doesn't follow your totalitarian narrative and expect that people will just shut up. Or you have to pass laws to do it, which ends up with the toxic situation of the UK, that has nothing to envy to the USSR.

Which is kind of funny given that you have laws to punish people who said something "creating anxiety", which is ... a feeling and totally subjective?

And there is no difference with Germany. Freedom a speech isn't something only for the affluent, first world. And the war in Syria started due to political repression against free speech being expressed against the regime. It didn't end so well for said regime.
by ponector | 2025-04-28 11:40:07+00:00
And then they blow up the dam which supply water to Crimea assuring no water will flow through the mentioned canal for decades.

Russians tried to occupy Ukraine and destroy Ukrainian culture and identity for centuries. That is the real goal.

The war was inevitable. Here is from 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28229785
by ysavir | 2025-04-28 11:41:11+00:00
Sure, but the parent comment didn't leave any room for nuance or considerations, instead broadly stating:

> Laws should reflect the values of the democratic consensus, speed limits included.

Maybe they considered the nuance to be something obvious, but their statement is still flawed. The funny thing about nuance is that most nuance isn't visible to the naked eye and requires some degree of familiarity or expertise to observe. And that degree is why we shouldn't be assigning speed limits based on what the average driver thinks is appropriate for a given road, as more likely than not (much more likely than not) they don't have the necessary context to make an appropriate judgement.
by op00to | 2025-04-28 11:41:20+00:00
Why are assault weapons so difficult to own in Europe? They make them in the US and you can own them there.

As to your question - I’d like to refer you to physics. 2000 pounds of metal moving at any speed can kill pedestrians easily. More speed means more energy.

Increasing speed limits consumes more fuel, wears roads more, pollutes more tire and brake dust, and of course kills more. We should not make things more convenient for motorists just because motorists exist.
by muzani | 2025-04-28 11:42:00+00:00
Strong yes. AI is the ultimate generalist, but it's not a specialist unless the operator is a specialist. It'll output the average of what it's trained on. It may know the new stuff, but unless someone programs it to return the new data, it'll return some old outdated stack.

You also have to know your terms to communicate properly with it. Like my favorite these days is asking it to decompose a conditional. You never needed this term when you were coding, but when AI writes the code, you'll say things like this all the time. I'm still quoting books from 1999 to vibe coders and vibe coding tools, the foundations matter.

Eventually the seniors will retire and they need to hire the juniors. Or someone hires Devin for a job and realizes Devin needs a buddy.

The other major trend nobody is talking about is that people are dropping out of college because they expect AI to take jobs. A friend teaches game dev and says about 1 in 7 are attending. For game dev. That's the most interesting lecture you can get into. How are the other fields faring? College is also being filled up with idiots who use ChatGPT and probably won't understand what they learned. There's going to be a huge gap in demand one day and demand will surge like it did in 2016.

If anything, it's a bad time for boot camps because AI can pass all the interviews easily.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-28 11:43:33+00:00
>> You can build a product and sell it without business guy but you can't have a product without the tech guy.

I'd argue that you need both guys. But that both guys can be the same person. It's just uncommon that they are the same person. If you have both sets of skills, then you can do it alone.

A tech guy, with little to no business acumen will fail just as easily as a business guy with no technical acumen.
by _Chief | 2025-04-28 11:43:50+00:00
All types. The sugar dashboard allows import of data from different glucose apps, so its goal is to allow you visualize and analyze your data. I hope to integrate with cgms directly if I get some that allow it, and also source from Health connect. Sharing with specific people eg doctor is also a big ask that I'm working on. The other WIP tools will be fore general health, not just diabetes, like carb counting from a photo via AI
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-28 11:44:24+00:00
Almost all decisions have downsides. This is not by itself a reason to avoid the decision. We compare the costs against the benefits.

Where are these emergency situations you describe? Not only have I never needed to speed for some emergency situation, I don't even think I know a single person who has had to do this. How often is "this person would have died if they got to the hospital five minutes later but the highway was clear and somebody drove them there 30mph over the limit and got there in time?"
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by hwpythonner | 2025-04-28 11:44:54+00:00
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Demo and explanation here: https://runpyxl.com/gpio Happy to answer any questions
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