MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-12 18:04:14+00:00
I still think it's pretty clear. Google doesn't have to get a new business off the ground, just keep improving the integration into Workspace, Gmail, Cloud, Android etc. I don't see users paying for ChatGPT and then copy/pasting into those other places even if the model is slightly better. Google will just slowly roll out premium plans that include access to AI features.

And as far as selling pickaxes go, GCP is in a far better position to serve the top of market than OpenAI. Some companies will wire together multiple point solutions but large enterprises will want a consolidated complete stack. GCP already offers you compute clusters and BigQuery and all the rest.
by Arcuru | 2025-04-12 18:04:23+00:00
Before LLMs there existed quite a few tools to try to help with understanding CLI options; off the top of my head there are https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr and explainshell.com

LLMs are both more general and more useful than those tools. They're more flexible and composable, and can replace those tools with a small wrapper script. Part of the reason why the LLMs can do that though is because it has those other tools as datasets to train off of.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-04-12 18:04:29+00:00
One fun thing that can be done with SVG files: you can use entities in an inline DTD to define constants to be shared across different places in the file. You can see some great examples of this in the SVGs in David Ellsworth's "Squares in Squares" page [0].

The major browsers have no issues with this, though note that some tools like Inkscape won't parse the DTD nor expand the entities.

[0] https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
by eesmith | 2025-04-12 18:04:46+00:00
> whether I can easily forget about the existence of state government

So, rich, white, straight, conservative male? Checking .... Yup. And natalist and anti-feminist.

> Growing up in California gives you the idea that only rich people can afford to walk to the beach

Where in the Miami metro area can you buy an affordable home which is a walk from the beach?

And how much do you pay for insurance?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-12 18:05:01+00:00
I don’t understand this concept. I would expect an ICE and an EV vehicle with the same weight, speed, deceleration, tires, etc to have the same wear on tires. The difference being the energy to stop an ICE being transferred to the brake pads and rotors, rather than recharging the EV’s battery.

What am I missing? Why wouldn’t the tires experience the same forces in both scenarios?
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-12 18:05:46+00:00
Toxicity and brigading is the problem. Moral toxicity and brigading, where people think they are doing some good, is even worse.

I'm not crying crocodile tears for Adobe. They shouldn't have deleted their post, and ultimately they just shrugged and decided that bsky didn't matter yet and just abandoned it for now.

Which serves no one, but it's what you get when a small number of twats who think they're the bully squad ruin a platform.
by gs17 | 2025-04-12 18:06:34+00:00
The block lists presented as a solution are a part of why I didn't care to stick around on Bluesky. 99% of what I did was manually blocking/muting people who I wouldn't want to interact with. The site almost never presented me with people I would want to talk to, and outsourcing the blocking to some stranger doesn't really solve the real problem.
by neonsunset | 2025-04-12 18:06:45+00:00
> Also note Elixir is a compiled language and BEAM has JIT nowadays too.

Let's see it perform faster than Python first :)

Also, if the target is supported, .NET is going to unconditionally perform faster than Elixir. This is trivially provable.

> Nothing you said really counters that async as a general paradigm is more likely to lead to worse performance. It’s still more difficult to profile and tune than other techniques even with M:N schedulers. Look at the sibling post talking about resource allocation.

Can you provide any reference to support this claim as far as actually good implementations go? Because so far it looks like vibe-based reasoning with zero knowledge to substantiate the opinion presented as fact.

That's not surprising however - Erlang and Elixir as languages tend to leave their heavy users with big knowledge and understanding gaps and their communities are rather dogmatic about BEAM being the best next thing since sliced bread. Lack of critical thinking leads to such a sorry place.
by keybored | 2025-04-12 18:06:53+00:00
> Well, there you have to look at the history: you have to ask, how has the history of Canada been different from the history of the United States? And there have been a lot of differences. For instance, one difference had to do with the American Revolution—in the American Revolution, a large number of people fled to Canada, lots in fact. And a lot of them fled because they didn’t like the doctrinaire, kind of fanatic environment that took hold in the colonies. The percentage of colonists who fled in the American Revolution was actually about 4 percent, it was probably higher than the percentage of Vietnamese who fled Vietnam after the Vietnam War. And remember, they were fleeing from one of the richest places in the world—these were boat-people who fled in terror from Boston Harbor in the middle of winter to Nova Scotia, where they died in the snow trying to get away from all of these crazies here. The numbers are supposed to have been in the neighborhood of maybe a hundred thousand out of a total population of about two and a half million—so it was a substantial part of the population. And among them were people from groups who knew they were going to get it in the neck if the colonists won—blacks and Native Americans, for example.[70] And they were right: in the case of the Native Americans, it was genocide; in the case of blacks, it was slavery.

> [70]: On the number of colonists who fled the American Revolution, see for example, Carl Van Doren, Secret History of the American Revolution, New York: Viking, 1941. [... ...]

A.N. Chomsky, Understanding Power
by refulgentis | 2025-04-12 18:07:10+00:00
It's not, its an internet comment with a laymen throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks for conversation's sake.

i.e. Thought experiment: in their comment, s/maritime law/aviation law. In your comment s/airplane crashes/sunken ships. It's the same calorie-free conversation with just as much basis in reality.
by hinkley | 2025-04-12 18:07:22+00:00
When I started on a plan of ramping up my walks to half marathon distances, I knew I didn’t want to have to carry a wallet with me. I had Apple Pay already, which gave me the idea, but I was due a new watch so I got the cellular version, so if I got caught in a storm or tweaked a knee I could call someone to pick me up.

I still wish they got better battery life with each new version. You can chew up that whole battery in about 2:30 by running the workout app, music, and Bluetooth headphones. Half the reason I bought a HRM was to improve the battery life.

And sure enough the time I actually did tweak my knee, I had to stop listening to music and the workout app to conserve the battery long enough to ask for a ride and get somewhere that I could be picked up. By the time they arrived my watch was dead.
by dr_kiszonka | 2025-04-12 18:07:41+00:00
It is wonderful and useful and all that BUT the auto opt-in analytics information should be on the main page.

I appreciate you are using Plausible (good) and it is perfectly understandable and justifiable that you want to know how vert is used, but why hide it at the bottom of the settings screen? It just makes me trust you less. Yes, I could audit the source code for other surprises. That is not the point.

Please treat my comment as a suggestion / feedback. Otherwise, congratulations on an enormously useful and easy to use project!
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-12 18:07:41+00:00
PS: I know that in Romania it's the opposite. Uber is kinda like a luxury taxi there. Normal taxis have standard rates, but these days it's hardly enough to cover rising fuel prices. So cars are ancient and un a bad state of repair, drivers often trick foreigners. A colleague was even robbed by one. Uber is much more expensive but much safer (and still cheap by western standards).
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-12 18:08:19+00:00
Right, referral fees is pay-per-click advertising.

The obvious way to integrate advertising is for the LLM to have a tool to search an ad database and display the results. So if you do a commercial query the LLM goes off and searches for some relevant ads using everything it knows about you and the conversation, the ad search engine ranks and returns them, the LLM reads the ad copy and then picks a few before embedding them into the HTML with some special React tags. It can give its own opinion to push along people who are overwhelmed by choice. And then when the user clicks an ad the business pays for that click (referral fee).
by bri3d | 2025-04-12 18:09:08+00:00
This doesn't make sense. Energy in the system is conserved. On an ICE car, brakes convert the energy to heat. On an EV, motors convert the energy to electricity. The tires experience the same net force.

EVs wear tires more quickly, in general, because they are very heavy and produce more torque (and drivers are more likely to request that torque, also).
by tmcb | 2025-04-12 18:09:27+00:00
The OSH Act was passed in 1970. I wonder why it doesn't have "for men" in its name...

Pardon my laziness, but this is the best graph I could find on the reduction of workplace-related injuries: https://fitsmallbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Info...

This policy was very effective, in the first place. I could eyeball a 70% reduction in the period between 1972 and 2019.

Can it be reduced it even further? Probably.

Would I find it off-puting if any piece of legislation is eventually passed that addresses a hypothetical issue that is disproportionally faced by men and helps reduce it even further? Certainly not.

(I, for one, would approve of the "No More Balls Stuck in the Cogs Act".)
by actuallyalys | 2025-04-12 18:09:34+00:00
This article is kind of strange to me because it implies celluloid film is low quality, but it seems there’s a rough consensus that you can can scan that size of film in to create good 4K video, if not higher. That’s not enough for the Sphere’s full 16K resolution, but that’s more to do with it having extremely high resolution than the film being “tiny” or grainy.
by ranyume | 2025-04-12 18:09:39+00:00
For the reader.

The AI won't tell the reader what to think in an authoritative voice. This is better than the AI trying to decide what is true and what isn't.

However, the AI should be able to search the web and present it's findings without refusals. Obviously, always presenting the sources. And the AI should never use an authoritative tone and it should be transparent about the steps it took to gather the information, and present the sites and tracks it didn't follow.
by microtonal | 2025-04-12 18:09:41+00:00
Or you could just make a city car-free. There are so many benefits besides fewer particles in the air. People can walk and cycle safely. Kids can play in the streets. The atmosphere is so much nicer, since people are not isolated by walls around them.

I have lived in a city with a (nearly) car-free city center (+ separate bike lines for many roads outside the center) for most of my adult life [1] and it is just glorious. Most locals just walk or cycle. Longer distances by (electric) bus or train.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen#Cycling_and_walking
by epolanski | 2025-04-12 18:09:50+00:00
And it's one of the biggest promoters of inequality.

I am an European who studied at OSU in Columbus for a semester and it was absurd to me how on one side there was lots of work downtown, yet you could live 20 miles of it and it would take you two hours by public transport to get there, an odyssey.

People without a car, insurance, poorer parts of the society were cut off from the job market for not having a way to connect.

Suburbs are cute, but they are a tragedy of city planning, let alone the tragedy they are on a social level, where people will put everything in their houses including movie rooms, entertainment rooms, anything to avoid having to go out and socialize. Terrible.
by epolanski | 2025-04-12 18:11:20+00:00
I lived in downtown Rome, Italy. By far the biggest pollution you get in your house, it's...dust from brakes. It's a tragedy.

Not saying diesel ain't bad, but even now that diesels have been largely banned or reduced to euro 6, it has changed nothing about brake dust.

My flat would fill with it in a single day. It's everywhere. And I lived on a third floor, not even at street level.
by karthink | 2025-04-12 18:11:20+00:00
> Learn Windows' keyboard UI and you can drive the whole OS and all its apps with the speed of a genius Vim user

Do you have a reference for this? I've often needed to control Windows using only a keyboard and failed to do so. I'm aware of most shortcuts in this list[1] but these are for a few very specific things. (As an aside, I also remember controlling the mouse with the numpad using the Mouse Keys accessibility setting but this is worse than both keyboard shortcuts and the mouse.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts
by RandomUser4976 | 2025-04-12 18:12:43+00:00
This is what needs to be investigated by DOGE and the DOJ! To be clear, I think DOGE is complete nonsense and causing real harm. But if Trump, Musk (DOGE) really wanted to find fraud, waste and abuse it would investigate private insurance fraud that the insurance companies regularly commit and defense contractors. The executive branch has an opportunity to do actual good if they investigated and punished private insurance companies like the CFPB investigated and punishes financial companies for fraud. I’m
by nylonstrung | 2025-04-12 18:13:18+00:00
Very interesting!

It's cool to see some of the most cutting edge infra teams coming around to a tool that came well before Docker.

Since you're presumably using nixos VMs a lot, I'd be curious if you have any thoughts on this project. It's Nix hypervisor + microvms as an alternative to containers

https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 18:13:28+00:00
> making a few more concessions towards… omg, white males?

I'm a white man. We already HAVE all the concessions. There's nothing left to give us. I mean, we're not gonna implement anti-racist stuff against white men because there does not exist any racism against white men. Ergo, that policy is defacto implemented.

White men also don't need DEI because we actually already have DEI. Studies show upwards of 50% increase in likelihood of being hired if you're white.

I mean, look at Trump's cabinet and admin. Full of white men... because they are white men. A lot of them are very unqualified.

> It is true that savings needed to be done.

This administration will only raise the deficit.

Also, the left at least admitted that taxes on the ultra-wealthy need to be raised. The Trump administration is continuing to raise YOUR taxes while cutting theirs. So, to recap: higher taxes for you, a greater deficit, and the programs will be cut. Wow, it's a lose-lose-lose! Almost impressive how shit conservative policy is.

> This entire movement is a reactionary movement to the left.

I applaud your honesty in admitting the reactionary nature of American conservatives.

However, you're incorrect in saying they're reacting to the left. They're not. They're reacting to a made-up version of the left. One formed and imagined through decades of conservative propaganda. One where the left are communists, baby eaters, and reptilians - not the reality, where the democratic party is a right-leaning ultra-capitalist party.

> Do we agree that, staying closed-minded as they are, the left will resume public spendings by the trillions the moment they step into power? Do we agree that the left is a direct threat to meritocracy, stability of government, men in marriage, men at work, a direct threat to men’s financial stability, and that no-one on the left cares even a little what others-than-them feel?

Uh, no.
by jacobobryant | 2025-04-12 18:13:36+00:00
Also--I think the pseudo code you have isn't /quite/ correct. If x is greater than p, we don't immediately take a random element from the list; rather we go to the next element and generate a new x and repeat. I.e. with p=0.1, there's a 10% we immediately take the first item, and if we don't do that, then there's a 10% chance we immediately take the second item, etc. we only pick a completely random item as a fallback if we get to the end of the list without picking anything.
by daxfohl | 2025-04-12 18:14:39+00:00
Yeah, I guess it depends how much you care about the details. Sometimes you just want a thing to get done, and there are billions of acceptable ways to do it, so whatever GPT spits out is within the realm of good enough. Sometimes you want finer control, and in those cases trying to use AI exclusively is going to take longer than writing code.

Not much different from image generation really. Sometimes AI is fine, but there's always going to be a need to drop down into photoshop when you really care about some detail. Even if you could do the same thing thing with very detailed AI prompts and some trial and error, doing the thing in photoshop will be easier.
by eesmith | 2025-04-12 18:15:25+00:00
People wouldn't use publicly-owned cars, they would used publicly-owned buses, trams, subways, and other forms of mass transit, plus (as the article points out), making it easier to walk or bike.

I believe the goal of limiting car use in Paris is as part of re-designing the city so it can be lived in without having to use cars, yes.
by hinkley | 2025-04-12 18:15:28+00:00
I always thought transforms were an odd inclusion in SVG until I tried to make my own icons/logo with it. Those curves are challenging to get right. When I got done with the second logo I decided it looked flat and I needed to skew it 10°. The thought of rewriting all of those lines and curves suddenly made rotation seem like a much much better idea. Good thing too because it looked weird next to test and I changed the angle several more times to make the kerning look right.
by neonsunset | 2025-04-12 18:16:11+00:00
If you want to do exclusively distributed computing at the application level - Erlang/Elixir will be better. They can offer nice Northstar of where the UX of Akka.net/Orleans should sit at (and, arguably, Orleans is not exactly nice to use in comparison).

Otherwise, aside from educational purposes, they are not worth spending your time on. Just skip to F# over Elixir because Elixir is not a serious language, lacking base language primitives and operations one would expect standard library to offer. It's not productive nor fast.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-04-12 18:16:27+00:00
My desire not to inhale brake & tire particulate, not to be killed while walking to the store, and not to subsidize others expensive lifestyles, is not rooted in jealousy.

I owned a car once, it was sometimes convenient, interesting & fun, but it was also often infuriating, terrifying and expensive. If I can pull it off, I'd prefer to never own one again. I don't really care if anyone else owns them, I just don't want to subsidize them or have their externalities imposed on me.

An alternative to outright bans is to make some good faith attempt at estimating externalities and internalizing them, and reducing subsidies such as free, or below market rate public land for private vehicle operation & storage. But this is difficult and it's not clear the politics of it would be much better than an outright bans. If a good faith effort determined that operating a car while not being subsidized and not inflicting externalities on others, cost a significant amount of money, then the whole effort would be castigated as limiting driving to the very rich, and probably wouldn't go very far. So it feels like we end up with either "everyone drives everywhere all the time for everything and it's the govt's job to shovel public funds & land at it" or outright bans in popular areas.

Cars, oil, and the internal combustion engine, are all tremendously useful, and we would be foolish to pretend otherwise. But all tools have their ideal uses and all tools can be misused & overused to bad ends, both for the tool user and for others.

A world of 100% gasoline car ownership where the car was simply a fun toy for kick ass weekend road trips, and cities had never been bulldozed to make room for them as substitutes for our legs, would be a pretty great world, even if it involved a bit more pollution/externalities/subsidies than some utopian car free world.
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-12 18:16:30+00:00
Just not true. I favor EVs, but it is incredibly misleading to say 98% comes from other sources. In many places, natural gas and coal are still used to generate the electricity needed. That must be accounted for in your life cycle analysis. In fact, once you remove the Musk propaganda, Tesla's EVs are by no way greener (draw a boundary around his other company SpaceX, and the rocket fuel it uses, and you immediately see what I mean. Worse than Exxon I would bet)
by omoikane | 2025-04-12 18:16:53+00:00
> no one ever actually did.

There is an example further down that thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/comment/...

https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/secure/attachment/18777/Platfo...

/** Performs computation and returns the result, or throws some exception. */ public HashSet<String> call() throws Exception { final String arch = System.getProperty("os.arch"); String name = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase(); String version = System.getProperty("os.version"); if (name.equals("solaris") || name.equals("SunOS")) { name = "solaris"; } else if (name.startsWith("windows")) { name = "windows"; if (name.startsWith("windows 9")) { if (version.startsWith("4.0")) { version = "95"; } else if (version.startsWith("4.9")) { version = "me"; } else { assert version.startsWith("4.1"); version = "98"; } } else { ...
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-12 18:17:06+00:00
People commenting here about Trump corruption are correct, but it's also not new. This is regression to the mean. America has historically been a highly corrupt nation with extreme wealth inequality that occasionally has shocks (e.g. Abolitionism, the Progressive movement, WWII) that allow liberals to take over and purge the system of corruption. If anything, we've had to deal with and defeat (or at least, outlive) smarter and more well-connected fascists than Trump.
by zippyman55 | 2025-04-12 18:17:12+00:00
It’s the whole damn organizational culture that supports looking the other way and these demonstrations of incompetence. I observed so many senior managers on their iPhones at work and never working. I seemed to lack the levers to do anything and when I did, my award bonus was reduced for four yrs. But I still have my pride. So the organization just rots over time.
by netsharc | 2025-04-12 18:17:37+00:00
I think there's a few studies. E.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-024-33973-9

I used to live next to a big intersection with a red light, and the cars accelerating away when it goes green was annoying. I now live at the end of a cul-de-sac with a cemetary behind me. So much more peaceful!