MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by john-h-k | 2025-04-27 09:46:58+00:00
Strongly agree. There's a new page on the site about helix-mode in other editors (although there are a limited number of entries): https://docs.helix-editor.com/master/other-software.html

I myself have built zsh bindings for helix as that was my main pain point: https://github.com/john-h-k/helix-zsh
by io84 | 2025-04-27 09:47:36+00:00
Great resource.

Has anyone come across a semantic search to navigate these icon libraries? I want to be able to search for “Industry” and get icons returned that show factory, cogs etc. I’ve been using https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons but the same problem there, you search for a string and it just greps across the official icon name. If you don’t know the name you’re not going to find it.
by sethammons | 2025-04-27 09:48:29+00:00
> there is NOTHING uniquely better about small business/companies vs big business/companies

You don't think being an owner close to customers and employees has impact on the customer experience compared to being a cog in a corporate machine driven by metrics providing "customer service"?

Economies of scale allows for cheaper consumer prices, but at the cost of the middle class. The rise of Walmart is the death of small businesses and is a symbol the lost opportunity of The American Dream.

But we get more affordable stuff on average, so there is that. The continued loss of the middle class is bad for everyone, but you also can't blame consumers because they should find the lowest price.
by kubb | 2025-04-27 09:48:56+00:00
Good luck to the author with the tutorial. I'm really beginning to accept that despite all of the new languages, like Rust and Zig being available, they won't be able to displace C for the next couple of decades at least. A good programmer will need to learn all the techniques for working with C code safely, efficiently and reliably, with all the inconveniences that implies.
by jokoon | 2025-04-27 09:49:24+00:00
I tend to believe that individualist societies tend to fracture families, and make people live with their own kitchen and living room. That's not good, it's like a social prison.

I can understand that people want to have 100% privacy and not exist near people they don't get along with, but not sharing a kitchen and living room seems a bit too far.

Also I am sad that apps like the defunct foursquare or social network are not actively trying to make neighbors connect with each others. I fail to understand why.

I suspect that in the 70s, sexual liberation, despite its advantages, caused an epidemic maternal deprivation, where people are now unable to feel comfortable near others.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-27 09:49:26+00:00
Doesn't Australia famously have no emissions standards for cars (until recently/soon?)

Which would suggest it's a wider trend and not just Obama at fault.

I'd suggest people getting older and bigger (both height and width) has had an impact. It's just easier to get in taller cars for some people, like my in laws.

Relative wealth (there used to be a lot more tiny cars for basic economic reasons).

And a safety arms race caused by other cars being bigger for the above reasons.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-27 09:50:21+00:00
For a static library it does not matter whether it is huge and complex, because you will typically link into your embedded application only a small number of functions from it.

I have used a part of newlib with many different kinds of microcontrollers and its build process has always been essentially the same as a quarter of century ago, so that the script that I have written the first time, before 2000, has always worked without problems, regardless of the target CPU.

The only tricky part that I had to figure the first time was how to split the compilation of the gcc cross-compiler into a part that is built before newlib and a part that is built after newlib.

However that is not specific to newlib, but is the method that must be used when compiling a cross-gcc with any standard C library and it has been simplified over the years, so that now there is little more to it than choosing the appropriate make targets when executing the make commands.

I have never needed to change the build process of newlib for a new system, I had just needed to replace a few functions, for things like I/O peripherals or memory allocation. However, I have never used much of newlib, mostly only stdio and memory/string functions.
by throwaway150 | 2025-04-27 09:50:56+00:00
Absolutely! There are so many problems with Tailwind.

The HTML is littered with styling information. 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". But... you might argue that people do not read HTML anymore. Yes, people don't read HTML anymore. Who would when the devs using this framework turn the HTML into a horrible mess! If you litter your HTML with so many framework classes, there is more noise than content in HTML. Is it a surprise that reading HTML has fallen out of fashion? And since nobody reads HTML anymore, devs are totally unhinged with cluttering it with more and more classes and styles. It's a self perpetuating cycle.

Webdevs do style duplication rampantly. Instead of something like ".button", you'd find stuff like "text-white rounded bg-gray-aaa" littered throughout hundreds of places. I'm not sure if this is a Tailwind problem or dev problem but the problem definitely is there. A large project would soon reach a situation where if you want to make a style change across all similar UI elements it's a whack-a-mole game to find out which inline styles in which elements you need to look at.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-27 09:51:00+00:00
That's also part of it. The generation before me, 3 brothers bought houses in the same cul de sac. The chance of any 3 siblings being able to do that anywhere in the US nowadays is extremely slim. Home prices have gone out of whack with wages. On a side note another reason we have less friends is that we work far longer hours than generations before us did. We are the most overworked generation in history, strangely enough...
by misstuned | 2025-04-27 09:51:34+00:00
Meh. I live in a poorer area of the UK. We don't have indie bookstores any closer than a 45-minute drive away, and I'm lucky to have a car.

When the kind of people who run "indie bookstores" come and set up in areas like mine instead of staying in their twee suburbs and posh little towns, then I'll start using them and stop using Amazon. Until then, Amazon are the people democratising access to book shopping, delivering fair-priced books to people regardless of where they live, not to mention the convenience of Kindle.
by valyala | 2025-04-27 09:52:28+00:00
HDD-based persistent disks usually have much lower IO latency comparing to S3 (microseconds vs hundreds of milliseconds). This may help improving query performance a lot.

sc1 HDD-based volumes are cheaper than S3, while st1-based volumes are only 2x more expensive than S3 ( https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ ). So there is little economical sense in using S3 over HDD-based persistent volumes.
by jvvw | 2025-04-27 09:52:41+00:00
This sounds weird to me. What's the context? Toddler group? Play date? Playground?

Also as somebody said, if you are male which from your username I guess you are, then that will change the dynamic - it will be easier for an older person to make conversation without there being any worries of sending the wrong message.

If there are lots of children playing together then parents aren't always social but at a play date I would definitely expect them to be. Also looking after young children is intensive and it might be the only break they get.

I mostly went to toddler groups when mine were young so that I could socialise not them!
by bloat | 2025-04-27 09:53:28+00:00
The Inform Designer's Manual is mostly about Inform 6 programming, but has a lot of material on game design.

https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf

Crimes Against Mimesis was a famous tract in its day. I don't know how things have moved on since then.

https://www.rickandviv.net/index.php/2004/08/18/crimes-again...
by monkeyelite | 2025-04-27 09:54:08+00:00
Are there things I miss about book stores? Yes - the atmosphere and serendipity. Also notice that many know that - and have shifted their business to coffee house, etc providing the atmosphere.

And I can still get those experiences when I go to a towns that have a unique book store.

I don’t why this was such a key institution that needs to be subsidized. We may have fond memories. If you’re just generally lamenting that good times have changed - I’m with you. But we can’t just mandate that the world stops changing.
by throwaway150 | 2025-04-27 09:54:20+00:00
So happy to see CSS Zen Garden on HN today! Those were the days!

But I've also got to rant now.

What I find most troubling about Tailwind and CSS "frameworks" like it (and modern software development in general) is the growing pride in not understanding the underlying systems.

Tailwind offers a quick, surface-level solution: you can slap some utility classes onto a page and get something that looks "good enough" without ever learning how CSS actually works. Nevermind that the HTML is now a mess where you've got more CSS classes than content!

The attitude is, "Who cares how it works? I got my pretty page. That's a win!"

But this isn't just a Tailwind problem. It's part of a larger trend in the industry: celebrating ignorance, rushing for results without building real understanding.

When did not knowing become something to be proud of? Isn't it sad that depth and mastery are now treated as optional, even undesirable?

/rant
by european-pierre | 2025-04-27 09:54:45+00:00
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia... "On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior circulated a decree requiring all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report newborn infants and children under the age of three who showed signs of severe mental or physical disability." "Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to one of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics throughout Germany and Austria. In reality, the clinics were children's killing wards. There, specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation."
by roenxi | 2025-04-27 09:55:13+00:00
If you look in the discussion section you'll find that wasn't exactly what the study ended up with. I'm looking at the paragraph starting:

> An unexpected secondary result was that the LLM alone performed significantly better than both groups of humans, similar to a recent study with different LLM technology.

They suspected that the clinicians were not prompting it right since the LLM without humans was observed to be outperforming the LLM with skilled operators.
by patchymcnoodles | 2025-04-27 09:55:16+00:00
This sounds for me a very Obama hate(?) conclusion. If it's really Obamas fault, why does this happen in many other countries as well?

Living in germany and italy in both countries I see the exact same trend.

I myself drive a sedan, a Volvo S60. It is a gorgeous car and I always get compliments for it, but the seller (who is a very big one) only sold one S60 in several years. It is also the least sold car by Volvo, as far as I know.

So how is this Obamas fault again?
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-04-27 09:55:45+00:00
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, repeatedly said before taking office that vaccines cause autism, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that they do not. He has declined to disavow his statements and has continued to promote a possible link.”

Having worked directly with autism researchers, I can confidently tell you that RFK is making a wild guess not based in current evidence. All the data we have indicate autism is a multifactorial condition with a genetic/developmental component that may or may not be affected by the environment.

RFK is genuinely a danger to health care in the United States.
by cma | 2025-04-27 09:57:32+00:00
I think he's just trying to choose a point in time when mental healthcare was more primitive to go along with saying the diagnosis is more sophisticated now.

A main thing is that people with autism would just be classified as generally mentally disabled and the rise in autism is highly tied a drop in that general diagnosis. I don't think that covers 100% of the rise but does seem to make up the big majority.

U.S. special-education autism classification was created in 1994 and tied to a big rise in diagnosis.

https://news.wisc.edu/data-provides-misleading-picture-of-au...
by ang_cire | 2025-04-27 09:57:45+00:00
> How is using Claude over Llama benefitting corporations over workers?

I'm not sure why you took the very general statement about AI being corp-over-worker to mean paid models vs free models? The technology itself heavily favors corporations, because the resources needed to create and operate the technology is massive, and is largely not available to individuals. Most of the freely downloadable models (and certainly the most popular ones) were trained by corporations. And there are many more models that are not available to individuals, only to corps.

> I work with AI every day and sum total of my token spend across all providers is less than a single NVidia H100 card I'd have to buy (from a pretty big corporation!), at the very least, for comparable purpose?

You don't need an H100 to run SLMs. You don't need LLMs that require commercial-grade memory capacities.

> How are self-hosted LLMs not copying the work of millions without compensating them for it?

Most are, especially when they're training data is closed-source. The ones that have open-source training data tend not to contain infringed-upon copywritten data. There is a huge issue right now with ML models being falsely called "open source", when in fact the source material needed to recreate them is not even known, much less provided publicly, which is probably the cause of the confusion.

> How is the push for more productivity through better technology somehow bad?

It's not, inherently. In practice though, it almost always means that workers are expected to be additionally productive, without being additionally compensated.
by syockit | 2025-04-27 09:59:21+00:00
Wow, it didn't appear when I searched for "Amazon Japan" and filtering for "past week". Now, both appear.

That one was timestamped 2025-04-26T04:39:02 while mine is 2025-04-27T08:42:16, more than 24 hours apart. The search indexing is done less frequent than that?
by adrian_b | 2025-04-27 09:59:35+00:00
Newlib provides both a standard printf, which is necessarily big, and a printf that does not support any of the floating-point format specifiers.

The latter is small enough so that I have used it in the past with various small microcontrollers, from ancient types based on PowerPC or ARM7TDMI to more recent MCUs with Cortex-M0+.

You just need to make the right configuration choice.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-27 09:59:48+00:00
He mentions the Honda Fit needing to hit a crazy MPG in 2026 which struck me as odd for a few reasons:

1. It doesn't actually seem that much higher than the actual Honda Jazz Hybrid mpg gets.

2. Does CAFE dictate individual cars? I thought it was a fleet average.

3. The Fit was withdrawn from NA market (and phased out in some others) in 2020, due to low demand in the sub-compact segment according to Honda.

4. It's not a sedan.
by kreetx | 2025-04-27 10:00:46+00:00
This site had huge effect on me back in the day!

For those who don't know: for the same html content you could submit a design in CSS and images. For example these impressed me the most:

- https://csszengarden.com/202/

- https://csszengarden.com/189/

- https://csszengarden.com/177/

- https://csszengarden.com/136/

- https://csszengarden.com/206/

There was also one which had a position: fixed knife "cutting the page from the middle" when you scrolled, but it doesn't seem to be on the list anymore. Edit: and another one I remember was like so that the top of the page is sea level and you'd scroll to the bottom of the sea, where there was either an octopus, a submarine or a diver, can't remember.
by Sverigevader | 2025-04-27 10:00:52+00:00
Tipping has been forced into Sweden for around 10-15? years now. I do not like it one bit. No one pays by cash, so they baked the tipping into the payment terminals. They usually come with 4-5 pre-made options with percentages, and _sometimes_ a "no gratuity" option, which will input your original total. IIRC it's always possible to skip it by pressing the (usually) green button to "continue". It'll always input your total and you can skip the entire thing and just blip your card.

Some customers started to input their PIN code (which you sometimes have to do) instead of their total when this was a new thing. It made for some hilarious totals.

One of the most egregious examples I can remember was a restaurant where you order digitally, and when done, you go and get your food/drinks yourself from the serving window. And they asked for tips... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sigh... I do sometimes tip though, never for lunch, but sometimes for dinner.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-27 10:02:19+00:00
> was entirely predicated on the unpaid and unacknowledged work of women

It was paid and acknowledged. It was paid in a wage to husbands meant to run an entire household under. It was acknowledged also, though we probably also took it for granted.

That being said, we're never realistically going back to a time when only one spouse worked. It's just a fact that households where both spouses work will get ahead, so that time and that type of life isn't ever coming back.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-04-27 10:05:33+00:00
that's buying the marketing.

wasm gives you nothing more than any modern kernel. in fact, after you add the extensions required for your program to do literary anything, like accessing fs, network, etc, then you're out of wasm sandbox and back into depending on the kernel safeguarding you from the wasm host anyway. so what's the point?
by BlueTemplar | 2025-04-27 10:07:20+00:00
Ultimately, whether one thinks that having more volume of and more or less fragmented statistics is good or bad depends on their opinion of the State.

Olivier Ray wrote a great book about the history of statistics : Quand le monde s’est fait nombre (fr)

https://archive.org/details/OlivierReynombre/

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-chemin....

https://www.fnac.com/a9931250/Olivier-Rey-Quand-le-monde-s-e...
by muro | 2025-04-27 10:08:26+00:00
I have a MacBook pro with limited storage, thus using an external USB 4 drive with 4TB. I rsync some folders from it and then back when I don't want to have it connected, e.g. during flights. It's less convenient but saves a lot of money (external NVMe 4TB was 250 + USB 4 case for 70, vs 1000 for the 4TB upgrade from apple).

I sync my 2TB Google drive folder to it + video files for editing)
by concordDance | 2025-04-27 10:08:31+00:00
This doesn't apply to literal ASI, mostly because copy-pasteable intelligence is an absolute gamechanger, particularly if the physical interaction problems that prevent exponential growth (think autonomous robot factory) are solved (which I'd assume a full ASI could do).

People keep comparing to other tools, but a real ASI would be an agent, so the right metaphor is not the effect of the industrial revolution on workers, but the effect of the internal combustion engine on the horse.
by hilbert42 | 2025-04-27 10:10:00+00:00
"Good for him. This was an absolute ridiculous case."

Absolutely so. I watched Tom's Explosions & Fire video just after he published it and as he said this prosecution was a gross overreaction by authorities. I say that as someone who once worked in nuclear safeguards/surveillance (I'm an ardent non-proliferation guy).

Living in Australia one has become to expect such incidents although this was the first one involving nuclear materials. The reasons are complex and too difficult to describe in detail here but it's a combination of poor education in tech matters, a very timid, risk averse and conservative Australian population and the fact that we've precious little high tech industries/infrastructure, concomitantly we've almost no high tech culture to speak of.

Moreover, it wasn't always like this, it has gotten worse over the years. For instance, when I was at school quite some decades ago we had samples of metallic uranium and some small amounts of other radioactive materials to do physics experiments with. Today, the mere thought of that would send shivers down the backs of educators and most of the population.

Such high levels of timidy and concern are not just limited to radioactive materials, the same concern applies to chemicals well and above that necessary to protect public safety—for instance, the state where I live has now banned fireworks (and that's just for starters).

That has ramifications past just safety considerations, one of the reasons I became interested in chemistry was fireworks and that we leaned to make black powder in highschool chemistry and actually got to test it (today, even that's banned in our school system). Similarly, we've even produced a generation of kids and young adults who've never seen liquid mercury.

Let no one say I'm against safety as I'm particularly careful around dangerous substances. That said, you can have both in a well regulated environment and with a well educated population.

Without hands-on experience, Australia is deskilling its population and tragically this unfortunate prosecution is testament to that.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-27 10:11:11+00:00
I would think the problem is that they're highly confident a good number of students cheated, but it's harder to decide on an individual basis.

E.g. if half the students' submissions had an 80% chance of being AI-generated then something is very fishy in the population - perhaps a 99% chance a quarter of the students cheated - but 80% is not really high enough to punish an individual, especially since AI detectors aren't very reliable.
by metalman | 2025-04-27 10:12:09+00:00
there will be very very little dust fine enough to become suspended in air, without running it through ball mills, which will be stupidly expensive. "crusher dust" is the label given to the fines from rock crushers, that is suitable for use on trsditional "gravel paths" in parks. Basalt is actualy quite friable, and crumbles fairly easily......depending on the type...., some would be more trouble than it's worth.....other types are very crumbly and adding the rock to agricultural soils, has the added benifit of incresing soil fertility, while absorbing CO². So the initial payback from increased production and quality of food, ofsets a portion of the costs, prrhaps all of the costs in situations where the right types of rocks are located near good agricultural candidate areas. The other agricultural carbon capture method is tera pretta or biochar, where organic waste is chared and mixed into soil, where it persists for many millenia, and provides a media for soil biota to live in, and reacts with varios harmfull contaminents to sequester and neutralise through chemical and biological reactions. The impilimentation of any carbon capture method is going to be dependent on local conditions, that will vary quite considerably, ie: what makes sense and is actualy benificial in one area, could easily be a net carbon cost, somewhere else. The main variables will be crushing ,trucking, and spreading costs, and then I think,actual soil ph and chemistry, as certain soil types would prevent any reaction with the rock, and atmospheric carbon. The whole thing, bieng a thing, and a deap rabbit hole wanting dedicated local expertise and knowledge. A personal observation of "carbonate beds" leads me to believe that under certain conditions, the amount of material produced is truely huge.