MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stavros | 2025-04-23 11:57:18+00:00
Because that's how we like it, and that's the end of it. The people of the EU have said that these are the rules for doing business there, and saying "I should be able to murder people in my own house, if you don't want to be murdered, just don't come here, there's no need for anti-murdering laws" is rather irrelevant.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-23 11:57:26+00:00
Precisely. In English, while mistakes usually get corrected back to common or traditional usage, they are also the fuel for almost every change to English that becomes common usage (and I only add the almost qualifier because I can't decide if categorizing things like "cromulent" as a mistake should count; it was an intentionally made up word in a context where the joke was made up words but may have fallen into common usage because people using it because they were in on the joke were dwarfed by people who didn't know it was a joke and absorbed it as a real word).

With machines looking over our shoulders now and so much of language being typed instead of handwritten, odds are such drift might actually decrease in English... On the other hand, the introduction of AI leaves an interesting avenue for people to begin acting as if something is common usage and have the AI begin confirming that as common if it consumes that action. And then, of course, there's the effect of the machine itself... Most of us have a way to type "résumé", but we don't bother because the machine makes it too much work to do so, So the alternate spelling without accent, which was called out in my high school days as wrong, has fallen into common usage in a generation of people having to submit their resumes online (example: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a510363).
by GrantMoyer | 2025-04-23 11:57:36+00:00
People get caught up on display technology, but how pixels are displayed on a screen is irrelevant. From a typical viewing distance and with imperfect human lenses, a point impulse and a little square are barely distingishable. The important part is that thinking about pixels as little squares instead of points makes all the math you do with them harder for no benefit.

Consider the Direct3D rasterization rules[1], which offset each sample point by 0.5 on each axis to sample "at the pixel center". Why are the "pixel centers" even at half-integer coordinates in the first place? Because if thinking of pixels as little squares, it's tempting to align the "corners" with integer coordinates like graph paper. If instead the specifiers had thought of pixels as lattice of sample points, it would have been natural to align the sample points with integer coordinates. "Little square" pixels resulted in an unneeded complication to sampling, an extra translation by a fractional distance, so now every use of the API for pixel perfect rendering must apply the inverse transform.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d11/d...
by mcherm | 2025-04-23 11:58:02+00:00
TV shows are certainly allowed to edit what they show.

Also, anyone is allowed to sue anyone for anything. I could sue you for posting that comment on Hacker News. If the lawsuit has no basis in law then they will lose. BUT -- 60 Minutes is owned by CBS which is owned by Paramount which might want to sell itself which requires government approval. And even if they didn't need government approval for that sale, it has become abundantly clear that the current administration is willing to ignore laws and restrictions when needed to punish journalists they don't like. So it is in the interests of Paramount to settle the lawsuit (likely through mediation) for a large sum of money.

In essence, it is a way for the President to demand bribe money from large corporations in exchange for not using his power to punish them. And the US legal system does not have a mechanism for stopping it IF those who are sued are not willing to stand up to the President for as long as a lawsuit takes (likely several years and vast sums of litigation costs).
by Zak | 2025-04-23 11:58:40+00:00
I use ACCA[0] to select my charge rate and limit. This can also set battery idle mode (power from USB without using the battery) when the charge limit is reached if the hardware supports it. I usually limit it to 60%, and charge at 500mA when I'm not in a hurry.

Maybe that's too much fuss for most people, but I'm still using a five year old Pixel 4A on the original battery and its showing no signs of reduced battery performance. I probably wouldn't put in the effort if it was easy to replace the battery, but it is not. I might be a little less aggressive about it if I liked any current phones, but I do not.

[0] https://f-droid.org/packages/mattecarra.accapp/
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-23 11:59:04+00:00
One interesting benefit React's tree + diffing system is that you can use a custom reconciler to do more than just create and update DOM nodes.

And a good example of that are React libraries that turn stateful imperative APIs into declarative nodes:

- https://r3f.docs.pmnd.rs/getting-started/introduction

- https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-react
by hyperman1 | 2025-04-23 11:59:20+00:00
Why them and not the legal system? We should use the systems designed to catch criminals for catching criminals.

Start with getting the phone companies to not lie about the real phone number. Then implement blocklists at the borders and catch the criminals inside your own borders. Start some interpol like treaties so cooperatieve countries can help each other, then treat the noncooperators as probable criminals. And do this for IP routing too while you're at it.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-23 11:59:43+00:00
It turns out UK society wasn't OK with "Sometimes people get decapitated" as the price of this perk, and it also wasn't happy with "Increase the clearance for structure gauge" because that would solve the decapitations but is eye-wateringly expensive in many places or would mean demolishing things society also wanted, like bridges, castles, or other buildings which are too close.
by arjonagelhout | 2025-04-23 11:59:48+00:00
This indicates to me that the Apple Vision and visionOS product line and OS are not canceled internally and that Apple is still committed to its future.

While the Apple Vision Pro itself is not a good or successful product, progress in display technology will enable Apple to build a more attractive consumer product, in the form of light, comfortable and unobtrusive AR glasses.

In this line of thinking — not just focusing on the flopped AVP but looking at the product line on the long term - I think it makes sense for this OS to be added to Godot.

I do think the concern for who will carry the maintenance burden is valid. In my experience, Apple hasn’t been the most responsive company when it comes to obscure bugs or issues with their API (e.g. with Cocoa). I would be wary of depending on continued support from a large tech company that can change its goals at any time.

All that being said, this is exciting!
by sdeframond | 2025-04-23 12:00:15+00:00
Questions:

How far can you go with the free tiers? Do I need to invest much in order to develop a good feeling of what is possible and what is not?

Also, if experience matters, how to help junior developers get the coding experience needed to master LLMs? While, as TFA says, this might not replace developers, it does seem like it will make things harder for unexperienced people.

(Edit: typos)
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-23 12:01:24+00:00
I've been in airports where to get to gates you do not have to walk through the tax free shop, although you do have to walk by it. The Copenhagen airport you have to walk through it which is also irritating if

1. it is busy because a shop is not as well structured for walking through as a hallway is. The shop is structured for you to look at things and buy.

2. you have a child with ADHD or similar problems which has to be watched because they might break a big bottle of something on accident.

3. You have to navigate a wheelchair or a large pram through the area.

4. This shop is actually very big so there is a lot of tax free shelving to walk around to actually get out to the hallways that take you to the gates.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-04-23 12:01:36+00:00
Rony Abovitz, the founding energy behind Magic Leap, does this 'AI/XR Podcast' and last episode they discussed OpenAI rumors about a Social Network. As a founder himself who lived through being flavor of the day getting showered with venture money his observation was prescient: this 'I can do anything' approach is what happens to a certain kind of person (who will "eat everything on the table" is how he phrased it) given all checks and no balances.

He contrasted that with someone like Jenson who pulled Nvidia off of a cliff more than once and so has the scartissue to limit his reach to keep focus on core business.
by exceptione | 2025-04-23 12:01:43+00:00
I don't understand why you attract downvotes, tried to upvote you, but to answer your question:

I have no real backup plans, but I can see that my (and my peers) knowledge, design sensitivity and architectural skills will become an even more real scarce asset, especially when there is a surge of vibe coded projects.

In the case of OP however, I think he has found a niche (I assume) in which, between deep applications and throw away code, the balance tilts over to the latter. So this is the domain of MS Power Apps, low code prototypes, and Power BI reports. And so, potentially, his personnel was already more apt to not dislike how the nature of their work changed.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-23 12:01:51+00:00
They get to collaborate with the rest of the world on security instead of relying on their government protecting them. This will push companies that are exposed to lawsuits to up their game and re-organize. And given their exposure to lawsuits, I doubt they'll drop the ball. They can't afford to. This is one area where the private sector should not need a lot of help.

I have a European perspective to this. This isn't as bad as it looks. The rest of the world should in any case not rely on the US federal government for their security. So, there was always going to be some duplication of effort needed here. And given the whole tariff situation, there is of course quite a bit of interest in non US based alternatives to your favorite US based trillion $ companies and their services and lots of companies giving the evil eye to any US based service providers. I've been seeing a lot of that lately with our German customers; especially in the public sector.

Short term mildly disruptive for some companies but not something to panic over.
by Lennartbob | 2025-04-23 12:01:55+00:00
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by justin_ | 2025-04-23 12:01:57+00:00
> Usually people choose nearest neighbor in scenarios like that to be faithful to the original

Perhaps I should have chosen a higher resolution. AIUI, in many modern systems, such as your OS, it’s usually bilinear or Lanczos resampling.

You say that the resize should be faithful to the “100x100 display”, but we don’t know whether it was used from such a display, or coming from a camera, or generated by software.

> I'm almost certain this process didn't preserve sharp pixels

Sure, but modern image processing pipelines work the same way. They are working to capture the original signal, with a hopeful representation of the continuous signal, not just a grid of squares.

I suppose this is different for a “pixel art” situation, where resampling has to be explicitly set to nearest neighbor. Even so, images like that have problems in modern video codecs, which model samples of a continuous signal.

And yes, I am aware that the “pixel” in “pixel art” means a little square :). The terminology being overloaded is what makes these discussions so confusing.
by toxigun | 2025-04-23 12:02:04+00:00
I believe the author assumes that it's clear to the reader that there is a distinction between how a mathematical object is defined, and how it's computationally used. A polynomial can be defined as a power series, but it's not how they are computationally used. In this sense, the author was mistaken.

But it's not that the problems are "circumvented", in the sense that it's a kind of a hack or a patch, but they are solved, in the sense that there is a systematic way to correctly compute with polynomials.
by paolosimone | 2025-04-23 12:02:57+00:00
If the team is familiar with Functional Programming concepts, I'd actually suggest

available_servers = (server for server in servers if server.check_availability()) primary_server = next(available_servers, backup_server) deploy_application(primary_server)

which IMHO better conveys the intent to the reader (i.e. focus on "what to do" over "how to do it")
by heinrichhartman | 2025-04-23 12:03:29+00:00
From my experience most DTrace users rely on DTrace "providers" [1] and Static Trace Points [2] rather than directly probing kernel structs. Also these days the Solaris kernel is not moving all that much.

[1] https://www.illumos.org/books/dtrace/chp-syscall.html#chp-sy... [2] https://www.illumos.org/books/dtrace/chp-sdt.html#chp-sdt
We Got Quoted $500k for a Silicon Valley AI Trip – Alternatives?
by bendtb | 2025-04-23 12:03:39+00:00
I work for a commmodity / trading / shipping company. We wanted to invest and bring the whole management group for 5 day trip to Silicon Valley, focused on AI and LLM technologies.

The idea was to expose a cross-functional group to the epicentre of innovation – to learn how leading tech companies actually use AI commercially, and bring back insights we could action.

The price tag? USD 500,000 for a week-long program for 10 people. That included visits, some programming, and facilitation. Unsurprisingly, we decided not to go ahead – but the desire to learn at the source is still very much alive. Our idea of a reasonable price tag is around USD 150,000 (where we recon half will go to flights and hotels).

So I turn to the Hacker News community:

1. Is it possible to arrange meaningful company visits to places like Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic without going through a costly middleman? How accessible are these companies for learning-focused groups?

2. Are top-tier universities like Stanford or Berkeley open to group visits, guest lectures, or curated AI sessions for international teams?

3. Are there local Bay Area companies or freelancers that help organise high-impact, cost-effective tech immersion trips?

4. Have you done this kind of trip before — what worked, what flopped, and what should we absolutely not miss if we self-organise?

Any advice, contacts, or shared experiences are welcome.

Thanks!
by fooList | 2025-04-23 12:03:52+00:00
If I say, “I like to lead by example”, that can mean leadership in the moral sense of progressive politics. Americans view America that way, as the leader of liberalism and social justice. Even Americans who don’t see America or American history that way, tend to see themselves (ironically?) that way. But that’s a different meaning of leader. We lead by things like protests, humanitarian aid and having enlightened celebrities.
by fidotron | 2025-04-23 12:03:59+00:00
So we want to punish people that choose that option?

Europe could easily have had a homegrown alternative to the Play Store on Android. In fact at one time it had several, only the users had no interest at all, and this was before Google went through their phase of locking things down more.

The vision for what became the Play Store was born from ex GetJar, and I was told by several Googlers at the time that they were amazed by the lack of serious competing stores that people were running. Many threatened to do so (including my employer) but it was, from the business side, pure bluffing.

In China the android market does not rely on the Play Store, so we have definite proof it can be done.
by amiga386 | 2025-04-23 12:04:23+00:00
Cygwin is WINE in reverse. It provides POSIX APIs in a Windows DLL, and the implementation tries to map them immediately to Windows API calls. You should then be able to take source written for Unix and you should be able to compile it and have it run on Windows.

MinGW is a GNU toolchain for writing Windows-native software... that happens to be used quite often to compile Unixy non-Windows software, so they added MSYS which is derived from Cygwin and works like Cygwin (a DLL providing POSIX APIs implemented using Windows APIs), to make it easier to compile and run Unixy software unmodified.

WSL is a VM that runs your choice of Linux kernel and distro as a guest OS, and adds integrations with the host system that make it seem much more native than it really is.
by division_by_0 | 2025-04-23 12:04:33+00:00
Yes, Solid is very fast, but Svelte's Signals implementation seems to be even more performant. [0]

I just loved the simplicity of using $: for deriveds and effects in Svelte 3 and 4. But after building a correlation matrix [1] and a work project with Svelte 5, I have to say that I really like it.

[0] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/discussions/13277

[1] https://covary.xyz
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by jaberjaber23 | 2025-04-23 12:05:04+00:00
After a ton of feedback, I've pivoted RightNow AI into v2: a browser-based chat interface that helps you write high-performance CUDA code without touching NSight or spending hours profiling.

Just tell it what you're trying to do, and it generates optimized CUDA kernels—sometimes outperforming NVIDIA’s own. We’re focusing heavily on real-time bottleneck profiling to keep things fast and smart.

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by monade | 2025-04-23 12:05:47+00:00
We can agree to disagree on what is meaningful. Especially F-Droid is already widely used, and I would certainly not call it a toy.

You shouldn't rule out the snowball effect of FOSS. The nice thing about this kind of open program is that someone like you that has a beef and a clue can actually propose something, and get a grant to get the party started. After that, communities can kick in.
by JeremyNT | 2025-04-23 12:07:21+00:00
> And given their exposure to lawsuits, I doubt they'll drop the ball. They can't afford to.

Color me skeptical. How many companies have lost sensitive due to extreme carelessness, time and again? The cost of taking security seriously is greater than the cost of settling after the fact.

I feel like even the biggest data breaches result in little more than victims being offered free credit monitoring.
by piva00 | 2025-04-23 12:08:00+00:00
> Whenever the EU faces budget shortfalls, they know they can just make up some bullshit law and fine US tech.

The EU's budget is massive, no shortfall is covered by these fines since to collect them it takes another massive legal battle, that's just bullshit being regurgitated on the internet (especially on this forum). If that was the case the EU would be issuing GDPR fines all over the place to cover shortfalls, it doesn't happen in reality.

> Spotify conveniently falls outside of the scope of this law when any artist would tell you it should absolutely be covered.

Spotify does not behave like the most similar category covered by the DMA: video sharing like YouTube. Spotify does not hold exclusive access to the content and the audience, YouTube Music, Apple Music, and other players have almost the same catalogue as Spotify has so users are free to move between those services without penalty. Now try moving from YouTube to a competitor, a completely different beast.

The DMA exists to counter an imbalance in the power these massive tech companies have in detriment to competition, it's quite a simple prerogative, Spotify doesn't hold at all the same power as YouTube has, or Google Search, or any other platform under the DMA.
by ljf | 2025-04-23 12:08:00+00:00
Love this, and I can see why this is the right thing for his location, but I'd be interested in seeing the cost of his solar set up.

That said he seems to have gotten a good deal on a large number of panels, and has the ambition to have a set up that limits the need for batteries (other than the car).

I'll be checking back in on this - brilliant to see this be affordable for more and more people - if only I had the space for panels - the 'best' roof space I have is facing the 'wrong' way - maybe at some point in the future the cost will be low enough that it will be worth putting panels in these less than ideal spaces.
by cushychicken | 2025-04-23 12:08:17+00:00
Simpler explanation: it’s grueling work that doesn’t pay market rates.

Intel has been the semiconductor industry standard for comp for years, and they’ve lagged in this department for a decade. This has depressed the whole industry’s pay as so many chip companies view Big Blue as the market linchpin to set comp off of.

The exception here is for Apple and nVidia - where the work is still pretty grueling, but the pay is excellent.

You gotta be the cream of the crop to get in either of those places. The hiring bar for both is high, and getting higher.

Source: me. I run a job board for FPGA and RTL engineers.