MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by realusername | 2025-04-13 06:44:57+00:00
I have the complete opposite opinion. The US has no cards to play in the EU and is screwed in the medium and long term.

The only reason the EU was tolerating those massive tech companies which contribute close to nothing in the EU was because the US was pulling its weight in EU defense.

Now that Trump openly sided with Putin, that's gone. Trump has no card to play in the EU anymore. He could even insult EU leaders publicly if he wanted to but pushing out Zelensky like he did was the only thing he could not afford to do.

Then on the investment side, the EU will now seen as a more stable and better environment than the US which changes policies every Tuesdays. The US will be experiencing a similar effect to brexit but longer and more severe.

The status of the dollar is clearly questioned as well. Will the US remain the top economic power with those tech companies atrophied and a local recession? I'm not so sure.
by fmxsh | 2025-04-13 06:45:12+00:00
And... Try having a stool, like a one-step folding stool under the feet while sitting. Drastically changes the experience for the better while sitting. There was a post on HN long time ago on it with research on it. It aligns more with how the body is designed to preform the other need for elimination, and my suspicion is it applies to the first category of elimination too.
by Sloowms | 2025-04-13 06:46:22+00:00
This is certainly a possibility for city cars. In the Netherlands there are a lot more 45kph mini cars driving around now. They were a thing in the past with moped engines but with electric drive trains all these solutions become much more viable. With the low speeds crashes are also less dangerous so everything becomes lighter.

A similar thing is happening with electric bikes and scooters. This was all possible with gasoline but with the lower mechanical complexity this is really taking off.

This results in a wider range for bike like vehicles which replaces a lot of car trips.

The real hurdle to people getting rid of their mostly stationary cars (not everyday for work drivers) is that renting a car is a horrible experience and car shares are also bad mostly. But as the space for personal cars shrinks I suspect this will improve over time.
by mvkel | 2025-04-13 06:46:24+00:00
> Turns out their ML/AI method doesn't generalize so well.

I'd argue the opposite. AI typically generalizes very well. What it can't do well is specifics. It can't do the same thing over and over and follow every detail.

That's what's surprised me about so many of these startups. They're looking at it from the bottom-up, something ai is uniquely bad at.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-13 06:49:32+00:00
"No problem"? It's not just that the prices are high; I can hardly get those guys to even answer the phone and give me a quote. I can get that board from China before I've gotten through to a local sales rep. Then when they do finally check their messages they want to fly out, meet me at my office, size up my operation and my budget, have a nice chat over dinner, and spend a few weeks pestering me with phone calls without ever getting down to business.
by perihelions | 2025-04-13 06:50:06+00:00
- "The top factors ESA will consider in this first phase of the challenge are each proposer's business plan, technical credibility, and financial credibility."

The grand European strategy is... to task government bureaucrats to review startups' business plans?? This is going to so predictably lead to more of the same—the creation of companies optimized for writing proposals, and for pleasing bureaucrats.

- "ESA also isn't setting requirements on launcher performance, reusability, or..."

That they're still ambivalent whether they should pursue reusability or not shows how hopelessly unprepared they are.
by Voultapher | 2025-04-13 06:50:51+00:00
> Unkey's landing page is a nice example.

That landing page is a nauseatingly laggy experience on a very powerful M1 Pro laptop. And slow to load, all for some fancy lines? I'd take a product that focuses on substance over style as dev. Don't get me wrong, style is important and I like pretty things, but here it seems the tradeoff is not well done.
by tom89999 | 2025-04-13 06:51:21+00:00
Cycling to work is nice. But if you are young, sitting all day in a warm office. Think of blue collar workers that are hungry, exhausted and also people getting older. Its fucking annoying to wait for the bus that does not show up, the stupid beeps whenever the doors open and the slow movement in general. Lucky i am at home in half an hour, laws now require you to commute to work in up to 1.5hrs if you cant afford a car or should use public transportation. Electric bikes are no solution, the minerals and energy must be produced to transport people like me. I will buy a motor driven classic Vespa, fuel consumption is 2l for 80 mls and i am at home without dispruption and waiting. Plus i got a new nice hobby to maintain it. No new vehicle was produced, no rare earth was needed. Fuel is produced every day for the plastics of the EV and for many other things like pharmacy and so on. No new bike needed to be shipped from china where all that stuff is made. Sure you are right with vegan biking, but not all folks can do it.
by intended | 2025-04-13 06:51:40+00:00
> Most people today are driven by self interest and self preservation, not morality. Anything you see publicly resembling morality is virtue signaling for the sake of optics.

> Do you respect foreigners to treat your country as a battle ground for their ideologies? I assume yes only when their ideologies match yours, but what about when they don't?

I respect a good, fair match. I suspect you do too. A good opponent, who puts their money where their mouth is, is someone who pushes you to do the same.

This is also why I framed my question the way I did. I didn’t say which country was a terrorist, I gave it the option of being someone who argued for a position you agreed with. (For example, they could well be protesting in front of the Chinese embassy, being Uighur, or Tibetan.) Should this option only be open to American citizens?

> Capitulation against who? What results did their so called fight give?

Capitulating to whomever is in power.

Contrast the ease of saying stuff online, vs people who physically show up to protests, or say things that are risky and have consequences.

I respect people who actually put themselves at risk. They can be entirely wrong, their cause riddled with flaws. But then I didn’t find it in me to show up and engage in debate.

I guess, to each their due.
by snvzz | 2025-04-13 06:52:00+00:00
>bootloader relocking

My OnePlus3 (2017-ish?) can do that.

It's not even a feature, but standard android bootloader will do this much. Vendors deliberately remove such features, if not disable phone unlocking outright[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootloader_unlocking
by bnayak25 | 2025-04-13 06:55:44+00:00
Operating large language model (LLM) agents in real-time production is a challenging balancing act. These systems can deliver remarkable results, but they also come with high costs and unpredictable behaviors. In fact, deploying LLMs “is like hiring a brilliant but unpredictable intern”, capable of amazing work but also quietly running up huge bills . This guide dives deep into pragmatic best practices to keep LLM-powered agents efficient, reliable, and ready for production scale. We will explore strategies for (1) cost optimization, (2) hallucination mitigation, (3) leveraging smaller models, (4) efficient fine-tuning, and (5) robust prompt engineering — all critical for building responsive AI agents that serve users in real-time.
by watwut | 2025-04-13 06:56:20+00:00
USA is not anti authoritarian. It is pro-authoritarian and consistently so.

Conservatives are dismantling environmental protection, but it has nothing tondo with freedom or being anto authoritarian. They just dont care about consequences as long as their donors can earn more money in the short term.

Yet also, US seems to be crumbling and rhe source of instability. They may succeed in exporting their dysfunction to Europe, but it did not happened yet.
by lycopodiopsida | 2025-04-13 06:56:46+00:00
Modus themes are so rad - they look bleak at first, but after a while they grow on you. Then you try some other theme and notice how terrible it is to look at due to lack of contrast. I am convinced now that most theme makers have not the slightest idea what they are doing. Modus and PragmataPro font are two things which spoiled themes and fonts for me.

But, Prot also has other incredible packages - I am a user of denote, his notetaking package. Then there are ef-themes, for those who like themes with more color. There are gems there, but really, one should try modus for a while first.
by imhoguy | 2025-04-13 06:56:58+00:00
I really miss Macromedia Flash. There wasn't a single tech like Flash and SWF format which flourished with so many indie games and animated movies available without any extra downloads (other than Flash Player). Barier to entry was so low.

Now, take SVG, it has potential to do everything what SWF could. But there is no editor like Flash and scene/object based coding solution like ActionScript. And each browser has own quirks so only simple SVG is guaranteed to be displayed everywhere.
by rollcat | 2025-04-13 06:58:31+00:00
For entire classes of applications, you can treat Linux as a black box. Things like syscalls, /proc & /sys, are all incredibly stable. So that's what Go does with its syscall package; it completely sidesteps libc, ld.so, and whenever it can, it just produces static builds - at least on Linux.

They tried to get away with it on OpenBSD, macOS, etc and got their hand chewed off.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-13 06:58:39+00:00
OpenCL no one cares about.

CUDA yes, it is already being used in commercial visualisation products like OctaneRender, one of the most important tools in the VFX industry.

NVidia also has plenty of customers on OptiX.

GLSL is dead end, Khronos is on the record they aren't going to develop it further, even for Vulkan, HLSL and now slang, are the way forward.

HLSL due to its use in the games industry, slang due to being developed by NVIDIA and given to Khronos as GLSL replacement.
by za3faran | 2025-04-13 06:58:55+00:00
Poor Palestinians for defending themselves and their home land - maybe they should just sit and take it like the native populations in America, Canada, Australia, South Africa did.

Shelomo Dov Goitein admits that the Jews lived best when they lived with Muslims (and under their protection). This "knew their place" is not true, go talk to Syrian Jews (there's an interview with one on youtube) on what it was like before the brits made israel.

Who gave the british the right to declare who has the right to live in land they stole? The whole thing is insane when you think about it.
by EliRivers | 2025-04-13 07:02:02+00:00
provided they continue to go through with the investment

I recall the Foxconn Wisconsin situation, and I have no doubt Apple et al are well aware of it. String out a pretense of building factories in the US for the next three and a half years? Easy peasy. President Trump will soon get bored of this game anyway and move on to the next one; he already looks like he's bored of it and it didn't bring him universal acclaim and admiration.
by heywoods | 2025-04-13 07:02:42+00:00
Thanks for sharing your expertise on this topic. As someone with limited knowledge in this area, I appreciate your contributions.

I'm curious if you could evaluate an AI response from Perplexity. I asked it to analyze your comment (https://www.perplexity.ai/search/summarize-https-govinfo-lib...) and would value your expert assessment of its accuracy and quality. Perhaps a grade score with brief comments on what stood out?

I feel current AI benchmarks don't capture the data to really gauge how reliable AI tools are for topics requiring some advanced/expert domain knowledge of. Your role is, "expert in the middle" to provide commentary on what it gets right or wrong. Everything sounds right and looks right when I don't know what is what ya know?
by strcat | 2025-04-13 07:02:55+00:00
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670303 for a detailed explanation. If we were going to support another device, it would need to meet the security requirements AND provide proper production quality non-stock OS support with a strong commitment to keeping it properly working.

We can't safely use a device where they might patch out support for what we rely on. As an example, OnePlus patched out support for alternate OS verified boot due to serious security vulnerabilities with how they'd implemented it. Operating systems relying on it would no longer be able to update the firmware, leaving them insecure, but yet the verified boot never worked properly anyway so it ended up worse than them not trying in the first place.

Realistically, what we expect is that Pixels are the only devices we're not involved in making which we'll be able to support for the foreseeable future. To support other devices, we need a partnership with a competent OEM like Samsung. We can raise money to pay the usual licensing fees for platforms and then work with them where we have paid support so they aren't going to break things for us, drop update support unexpectedly, etc.
by inopinatus | 2025-04-13 07:04:07+00:00
This has little to do with the robustness principle, however mis-stated. It's just shitty design. But if someone was still hell-bent on invoking it, then if anything, it's a straight-up violation of the adjacent words "be conservative in what you do"¹, and further disregards the commentary in RFC1122²:

... assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets designed to have the worst possible effect ...

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc761#section-2.10

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1122#page-12
by bblb | 2025-04-13 07:04:15+00:00
"vibeconfig"

1. You give LLM the requirements

2. It spits out whatever monstrosity is required to configure the software or service in question

3. When issues later arise, you just vibeconfig again with new requirements

Eventually new vibeconfig tools will rise because even those three steps are not complex enough. These call LLM APIs to inject the config files dynamically at runtime. "But it's a security issue". So another vertical is born: auditing and securing the vibeconfig LLM autogeneration toolsets.
by osullip | 2025-04-13 07:04:50+00:00
Exactly this.

People will pay for micro tools if they solve a problem.

Need to extract just 'text' from a webspage? Need to convert iPhone sized images to web sized images? Need to send sms but not that often?

Connecting dots is a lot easier than building each step. I'll happily pay $ for a tool if I don't have to build and maintain the function.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-13 07:06:23+00:00
> It's absurd that people who aren't citizens would be sent back to their home countries

I’m obviously referring to everything the current administration is doing not this specific case.

> common ground with the left

I’d consider myself a moderate centrist. Maybe mildly center-right.

> Do you even know why you want

If the only way of stopping them from coming is to surrender democracy to an authoritarian government staffed by exceptionally deranged and incompetent individuals, well.. let them come then..

> I contend that there's no chance of me ever being deported

Probably. As long as you don’t burn down any Teslas or say nasty thing about the president it’s very unlikely..

> of unease you feel right now continues until 2029 and beyond.

So you are willing to give up democracy and the rule of law (and economic stability for that matter..) just to get rid of some immigrants you don’t like?
by userbinator | 2025-04-13 07:08:59+00:00
Note that parts like this are more easily replaced using a hot air station than a soldering iron.

Looks like the audio amp fed by the MOSFET is a Realtek ALC1304, which I can't find any data on, but searching for the pin names finds that it could be a clone/compatible to the TI TPA3131D2/TPA3132D2. This part has a power limiter, but if the Realtek one is configured the same way, then as implemented in the laptop, it has no power limit.

It is very likely that the reason the transistor failed was because of poor cooling, as it is a low cost, high-resistance transistor that is running near its design limits.

The MOSFET that blew up is rated for 2A continuous, and it's in the ~19-20V VIN circuit, so it begs the question of just how loud he was playing his music when it happened!

That said, not the first time laptops have come with sub-par audio circuitry:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205759

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2012/12/10/how-to-fry-spea...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/100530/can-volume-...
by antirez | 2025-04-13 07:09:30+00:00
I know perfectly I can use the API with any wrapper. I don't do that for choice, my human+AI development style is in the form of the chat, and since I discovered that many models behave differently (especially Gemini 2.5) based on where you invoke them (I don't know what Google is doing internally, if they change temperature / context size / ...) I stick with using the default way a model is provided to the public by a given provider. Besides, while I write a lot of code with the assistance of AI, my use case is mainly code reviews, design verification / brainstorming, and so forth, not much "write this code for me" (not that I believe there is anything wrong with it, just a matter of preferences -- I do it for things like tests, or to have a template when the coding task is just library calls that are boring to put together: typical use case, "generate the boilerplate to load a JPEG file with libjpeg"). So I keep using the web chat :)
by xelxebar | 2025-04-13 07:10:47+00:00
This has been fixed since 2009 with YAML 1.2. The problem is that everyone uses libyaml (_e.g._ PyYAML _etc._) which is stuck on 1.1 for reasons.

The 1.2 spec just treats all scalar types as opaque strings, along with a configurable mechanism[0] for auto-converting non-quoted scalars if you so please.

As such, I really don't quite grok why upstream libraries haven't moved to YAML 1.2. Would love to hear details from anyone with more info.

[0]:https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#chapter-10-recommended-schemas
by akoboldfrying | 2025-04-13 07:12:09+00:00
I would solve all problems [0].

(Yes, this is an annoying smartypants answer. On the bright side, the problem of how to filter out annoying smartypants answers -- being itself a problem -- is one that I would eventually solve.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetailing_(computer_scienc...
by tom89999 | 2025-04-13 07:12:12+00:00
Drum brakes are way more prone to fail, the heat cant be transported away, the dust still is produced and the brake power, the law requires, is way to little. If we switch fully to trams and buses, they produce the dust amount of lets say 100 cars. If the public transportation should be capable of all inhabitants of a city, we would have up to 200 trams running every day and night. Who should be a tram driver? Most of the younger folks dont want to work shift or at weekends and night. My town has drivers with grey beards, between 50-60 years old. There are no younger applicants for that job so they drive even if retired to keep up the demand. They got paid extra which making tickets more expensive.
by bramblestudio | 2025-04-13 07:13:49+00:00
Happy to answer any questions here — this is the first public demo of BSE (Bramble Semantic Engine), a token-level compression and multi-modal preprocessing system.

It extracts SVO structure + modifiers from natural language, compresses visual and auditory data into weighted semantic matrices, and returns structured input usable by LLMs or downstream models.

All components are live and testable. Ask me anything about the math, compression logic, or integration plans.
by strcat | 2025-04-13 07:14:12+00:00
> That's a very recent feature, isn't it?

Android 12 theoretically added it but it didn't fully work yet and apps needed to start targeting Android 12+. Then, the backup app needed to add it which took a long time, so it's fairly recent as in within the past 2 years.

> Curious how many apps abuse that for purposes beyond the original intention? The big/popular apps etc? Ie what will be the real world experience despite this new feature

Many apps use the older system to disable backups or exclude files which only applies to cloud backups now. Most apps don't exclude files from device-to-device backups improperly. Excluding device-specific login tokens, caches, etc. is how it's intended to be used. It annoys people they need to login to apps again after a transfer but that's generally how those apps want their security model to work so there's an entry for each login session and logging out of it only logs it out on 1 device.

Apps can exclude files and define their own backup agent for handling converting to and from a portable format. Chrome does this to backup Android-specific settings, etc. not handled by Chrome's Sync feature. This means non-Chrome Chromium-based browsers largely lacking sync have poor backup support. We plan to address this in Vanadium but haven't decided how we want to approach it yet.

It does work well. People mostly have a good experience with device-to-device transfer with Google Mobile Services devices now. Certain apps like Signal or TOTP apps using the hardware keystore inherently can't be backed up this way. Signal doesn't use it in a sensible way for security and really just seems to have introduced hardware keystore based encryption to prevent using root-based backup systems not taking into account which data should be backed up or not backed up. They don't trust the OS backup infrastructure particularly since OEMs can include sketchy backup services so they don't want that to work either.
by frm88 | 2025-04-13 07:15:11+00:00
*There is academic and legal debate as to whether the current war, starting on Oct 7th, 2023, has devolved into a genocide — although that certainly isn't settled, and the international courts haven't yet issued rulings, they've only declined to dismiss the case.*

The ICC issued a warrant against Netanyahu citing "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" with [0]"starvation as a method of warfare" as a main point. Starvation as a method of warfare is consistent with an act of genocide [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_(crime)
by ezst | 2025-04-13 07:18:00+00:00
As much as you may make fun of my anecdotal observation, your comment doesn't add anything of value, in particular to substantiate that "people [are] becoming addicted to LLMs". I stand behind my comment that the vast majority of non-tech worker are exposed to them via Copilot in MS Office, and if you want to come to its rescue and pretend it's not a disaster, by all means :-)
by joshjob42 | 2025-04-13 07:18:29+00:00
Costs for a given amount of intelligence as measured by various benchmarks etc has been falling by 4-8x per year for a couple years, largely from smarter models from better training at a given size. I think there's still a decent amount of headroom there, and as others have mentioned dedicated inference chips are likely to be significantly cheaper than running inference on GPUs. I would expect to see Gemini Pro 2.5 levels of capability in models that cost <$1/Mtok by late next year or plausibly sooner.
by seltzered_ | 2025-04-13 07:18:30+00:00
Fwiw, the /r/ergomobilecomputers tracks a number of these setups involving xreal glasses: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/search/?q=xreal .

Hasn't been my cup of tea but seems tempting if one has specific ergonomic needs like supine computing. There was one post of someone using them to juggle getting computer work done while handling childcare (endorsing such a thing likely depends a lot on context).