MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fullstackwife | 2025-04-20 19:06:04+00:00
Anyone can vibe code their own Windsurf/Cursor alternative, and adjust it accordingly to their needs. You don't need majority of the features, most of them are developed because of the usual "large enterprise customer wants a feature" mantra. The real value comes from the underlying model anyway.

This looks more like a short term tactical move, and the goal is to improve their "API usage" KPIs, because compared to Gemini/Claude it looks not good. (majority of traffic are chatgpt.com free users)
by JuekMorningstar | 2025-04-20 19:06:38+00:00
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by janalsncm | 2025-04-20 19:07:27+00:00
> local money is now lavished on centrist and right-wing pressure groups — such as GrowSF, Abundant SF

I didn’t know that supply side progressivism was considered right wing or centrist. You build more houses because otherwise working class people can’t afford to live in your city. It’s bad if your kid’s teacher needs roommates or has to commute an hour each morning.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-20 19:07:48+00:00
You can make a case for coercing people to do any good thing or not do any bad. We shouldn't approach this by denying right and wrong but rather by discussing what the state can or cannot do.

Socially is another story which I'd be fine with or even encourage. Saying I'm "just interested in ideas" is a hell of a way to dismiss thinking about what's right and wrong for me personally to do, for others to do. Not all thought has to involve the damn government as the actor.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-20 19:08:19+00:00
It's improved C.

C interop is very important, and very valuable. However, by removing undefined behaviours, replacing macros that do weird things with well thought-through comptime, and making sure that the zig compiler is also a c compiler, you get a nice balance across lots of factors.

It's a great language, I encourage people to dig into it.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-04-20 19:08:50+00:00
Believing that a rich guy is going to save us is one of the more worrying trends in the American polity. The downward tend of crime has nothing to do with Lurie. That has been going down since the COVID lockdowns, which.. of course it was. The data lays this out clearly. It's not even clear that Brooke Jenkins has had that much of an effect. Turns out the COVID lockdowns and BLM unrest were generational events that raised crime and after them society pretty much went back to normal.

Lurie has been trying to do his version of a crackdown. Mission Local has covered it thoroughly -- he's accomplished very little in reality, because actually, these problems are difficult to solve: https://missionlocal.org/2025/04/tracking-sf-mayor-luries-fi...
by goeiedaggoeie | 2025-04-20 19:09:35+00:00
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by pfdietz | 2025-04-20 19:09:36+00:00
I don't know about the "hidden ingredient", but...

When I lived in upstate NY our house was on property that had been a glacial lakebed. The soil was a bit sandy, if anything too well drained, but adding lots of leaf mold -- we had more than enough maple trees -- made it retain water adequately, and things grew well.

When it came time to move, we sold the house to a pair of doctors who were moving up from Texas. One of them was just so enthusiastic about how good the soil was, and about the big piles of partially decomposed leaves we had, compared to the terrible clay soil they had down there. So if nothing else, good soil can help property values.
by hdjjhhvvhga | 2025-04-20 19:10:02+00:00
> Most kids won't do difficult things if you don't push them.

I roughly classify parents in two groups: (1) like the author of the article, (2) like you. Based on my limited observation, neither can be claimed to give optimal results, and it more boils down to "see what actually works for your kid in the long term" which unfortunately far too often can only be definitely said in hindsight.
by ein0p | 2025-04-20 19:10:09+00:00
No, tagging of people is already handled by another model. Gemma just describes what's in the image, and produces a comma separated list of keywords. No additional training is required besides a few tweaks to the prompt so that it outputs just the description, without any "fluff". E.g. it normally prepends such outputs with "Here's a description of the image:" unless you really insist that it should output only the description. I suppose I could use constrained decoding into JSON or something to achieve the same, but I didn't mess with that.

On some images where Gemma3 struggles Mistral Small produces better descriptions, BTW. But it seems harder to make it follow my instructions exactly.

I'm looking forward to the day when I can also do this with videos, a lot of which I also have no interest in uploading to someone else's computer.
by rc00 | 2025-04-20 19:10:17+00:00
Are you referring to static linking? Dynamic linking? Importing/inclusion? How does this translate (no pun intended) when the LLVM backend work is completed? Does this extend to reproducible builds? Hermetic builds?

And the relationship with C libraries certainly feels like a placeholder, akin to before the compiler was self-hosted. While I have seen some novel projects in Zig, there are certainly more than a few "pure Zig" rewrites of C libraries. Ultimately, this is free will. I just wonder if the Zig community is teeing up for a repeat of Rust's actix-web drama but rather than being because of the use of unsafe, it would be due to the use of C libraries instead of the all-Zig counterparts (assuming some level of maturity with the latter). While Zig's community appears healthier and more pragmatic, hype and ego have a way of ruining everything.
by randysalami | 2025-04-20 19:10:35+00:00
“Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy” (Richard Feynman). Quantum systems are physical systems, classical systems due to their very nature only can emulate it. When it comes to agents like we were discussing before, a classical agent will always be limited by the abstractions needed to get it to understand the real world. A quantum agent would actually “get” the world. The difference is fidelity and classic systems will only ever be an approximation.
by smitty1e | 2025-04-20 19:11:01+00:00
So, you're saying that a large number (say, 100) of minority members of the House would scuttle their current seats in order to blow away the majority party's seats?

I remind you that, under the current regime, Sen. Schumer (D-BY) played along with the GOP Continuing Resolution* not because he fancied the CR, but to avoid giving the Treasury the power of the purse that would come with a shutdown.

*And took a napalm shower for it in social media.
by mindslight | 2025-04-20 19:11:14+00:00
I don't think the hypocrisy has bothered them for quite some time. By "personal freedom", they mean the freedom for themselves to personally oppress others - not a society based upon widespread individual liberty. This is very apparent when a blatant violation of constitutional freedoms happens to someone in an "othered" group (eg Kenneth Walker's 2nd amendment rights), and they line right up in support of the oppressors.
by goopthink | 2025-04-20 19:11:14+00:00
Is $3 billion the right price? That might be what Windsurf is being valued at (cue the “selling to willing buyers at currently fair market prices” meme), but that’s like saying “it would cost OpenAI more than $3b to staff from zero, build a competitor, and acquire a comparable volume of paying users” … and that feels like an insane statement given the implications therein?

Especially given that Windsurf (and I think Cursor too) is a VSCode fork and OpenAI is cozy enough with Microsoft? It’s not even a zero to one build.
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by pzmarzly | 2025-04-20 19:13:21+00:00
Also, it was spread BY the poor. Early Christians happily donated away all their wealth, thinking the Christ will come and bring an end to the Roman empire any day now.

There is a theory that this was a critical factor in how fast the early Christianity spread across the Roman Empire - that these newly-bankrupted believers had no choice but to travel and try recruit new members to the Church, in a Ponzi-scheme-like fashion (except nobody was cashing out).
by hinkley | 2025-04-20 19:13:34+00:00
Byzantine has I think been misused. It’s the least number of good members you need to be successful, not the best number. I think there’s a reason parliamentary systems have a supermajority rule for making certain kinds of changes and a simple majority for others and we should probably be doing the same when we model systems.

It is simple enough for an adversarial system to subvert some members via collusion and others via obstruction. Take something like Consul which can elect new members and remove old ones (often necessary in modern cloud architectures). What does 50.1% mean when the divisor can be changed?

And meshes are extremely weird because the whole point is to connect nodes that cannot mutually see each other. It is quite difficult to know for sure if you’re hallucinating the existence of a node two hops away from yourself. You’ve never seen each other, except maybe when the weather was just right one day months ago.
by pvorb | 2025-04-20 19:13:42+00:00
There's an industrial robot arm built out of LEGO Technic bricks by OrangeApps, a small company related to German robot manufacturer KUKA. [1] It's primarily used for educational purposes.

Disclaimer: I work for a subsidiary of KUKA.

[1]: https://www.orangeapps.de/?lng=en&page=apps%2Fers3
by lanfeust6 | 2025-04-20 19:13:45+00:00
It isn't, to anyone except far-left progressives. They want social housing. Depending on the day it will be argued that supply-and-demand doesn't play, or it does but successfully increasing housing elasticity and lowering costs would not help their broader push for socialism of some stripe. Abundance has to fail to satisfy their worldview, housing is completely secondary.

I'm not against social housing either. It can play a role, and like Klein and other proponents, I think we should be pragmatic and do what works out politically to meet goals.
by yibg | 2025-04-20 19:15:05+00:00
Was that ever true? At least over the last couple of decades those mostly seem to translate to:

- Small government: cut things we don't like (e.g. social programs), and spend more on things we do like (e.g. military)

- Personal freedoms: more freedoms for things we like (e.g. guns), remove freedoms for things we don't (e.g. LGBTQ)
by knallfrosch | 2025-04-20 19:15:08+00:00
When I use LLMs, I quickly lose focus.

Copy-paste, copy-paste. No real understanding of the solutions, even for areas of my expertise. I just don't feel like understanding the flood of information, without any real purpose behind the understanding. While I probably (?) get done more, I also just don't enjoy it. But I also can't go back to googling for hours now that this ready-made solution exists.

I wish it would have never been invented.

(Obviously scoped to my enjoyment of hobbyist projects, let's keep AI cancer research out of the picture..)
by Zambyte | 2025-04-20 19:16:44+00:00
There isn't really as clear of a distinction between "runtime" and "compile time" in Lisp. The comptime keyword is essentially just the opposite of quote in Lisp. Instead of using comptime to say what should be evaluated early, you use quote to say what should be evaluated later. Adding comptime to Lisp would be weird (though obviously not impossible, because it's Lisp), because that is essentially the default for expressions.
by orra | 2025-04-20 19:16:45+00:00
Thanks. My rule of thumb is simply to skip straight to the Articles, when interpreting EU law.

Recitals maybe seem weird because we don't have them in UK legislation. Maybe the nearest thing is Explanatory Notes? If you want to know what a law says, read the law itself. But if the law makes no sense (either as a lay person, or because the law is badly drafted even for legal folks) then the Explanatory Notes may offer some insight.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-20 19:16:45+00:00
> can't physically

Why? There is no need to increase their number.

> overshadowed by the hidden assertion

Even then it’s still superior. Even if everyone ignores the individual candidates and votes for a party in e.g. a 5 member constituency where the vote is split ~70:30 the minority party would likely get at least one seat when now votes are effectively thrown into the thrash bin.

> Having served as an election officer for the last 12yrs

The implication being that it would make the job too hard for you?

FPTP is a horrible system any way you look at it. It results in almost 50% of the votes being outright discarded and permanently entrenches a 2 party system.
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-20 19:18:33+00:00
NYC does not suffer this problem for some reason. Yes, of course there are prohibitively expensive neighborhoods in the trendiest areas. But if your goal is to live and work in the city, or to have a reasonable commute in, it is extremely doable on just about any salary, and you can actually reasonably expect to be able to afford a home in the suburbs some day. A one hour drive out of the city is considered “upstate boondocks” and you can still buy a 300k home. Whereas that is barely into the middle suburbs for SF, where houses still start at $800k+.
by hammock | 2025-04-20 19:20:19+00:00
I get it though, it’s crazy that I know so many people who now say “I don’t like old movies” or “I don’t want to watch this movie, it looks old” when what they see and are really saying without realizing it is , it was shot on film.

It’s especially worse since the hit rate of actually good, creative movies is so much lower in the digital era.

My big pet peeve now is these “ew, this movie looks old” attitude.

I was watching Sum of All Fears the other day and my partner had this attitude. Funny though as soon as people in tuxedos showed up on the screen she changed her mind and started watching. Tuxedos are one of those movie magic things.
by ivape | 2025-04-20 19:20:45+00:00
Bingo. Racial profiling.

Are we done with the great deportation experiment? Giving amnesty like Reagan or Bush Jr's visa proposal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_worker_program) would make us safer just due to IDing everyone, and richer due to taxing more people. That's the one great thing about America, we'll try every bad thing at least once (internment camps, segregation, false wars), and then we realize we're actually not down with it.

We can tighten down the immigration entrance policy after we humanely deal with what has already happened.
by api | 2025-04-20 19:21:27+00:00
Texas is not progressive, which is why it’s such a great way of pointing out the hypocrisy of SF and many other blue cities’ housing policies.

Astronomically high housing costs are a policy choice. They result from high demand coupled with density limits, parking requirements, height limits, zoning, and other things designed to limit supply.

When supply is limited and demand is high prices skyrocket far beyond what a market would normally allow. This is why anti trust and anti collusion laws are important. Housing, at least in many major cities, is effectively a cartel.

It always amazes me when I visit the Bay Area and see how low density it is and how much real estate is wasted for storage lockers, strip malls, ridiculously huge car washes. They’ll let you build anything but housing apparently.

This impoverishes people, especially the working class, and contributes to homelessness and all kinds of other problems, but nobody cares. The residents like seeing their home equity go up. “I’ve got mine, fuck you” is not progressive. A cartel to keep prices high is not progressive.
by af3d | 2025-04-20 19:21:43+00:00
Neat concept! Although I was a bit surprised at the AI stand-in's finding. I posed the silly argument that "My neighbor's dog refuses to speak French" with the options "Neighbor is culpable" and "I am clearly an idiot": The final decision was 7/5 in my favor! But seriously, this really is a great idea IMO. The jury-duty-while-you-wait feature also seems like a fair trade-off.
by rc00 | 2025-04-20 19:22:03+00:00
> What in particular do you find cumbersome about the borrow system?

The refusal to accept code that the developer knows is correct, simply because it does not fit how the borrow checker wants to see it implemented. That kind of heavy-handed and opinionated supervision is overhead to productivity. (In recent times, others have taken to saying that Rust is less "fun.")

When the purpose of writing code is to solve a problem and not engage in some pedantic or academic exercise, there are much better tools for the job. There are also times when memory safety is not a paramount concern. That makes the overhead of Rust not only unnecessary but also unwelcome.
by goeiedaggoeie | 2025-04-20 19:23:00+00:00
if you using CV to track the player, the ball etc from a broadcast it is fine, the scoreboard however not so straight forward. fwiw, doing CV from broadcast for accurate scoring of sports is neigh near impossible due to edges, but human in the loop systems exist. there are also numerous in venue CV systems which auto collect game and player information.
by runjake | 2025-04-20 19:23:05+00:00
Not to lessen your point, because I 100% agree, but I'd like to point out that you could swap a couple words in your statements to make the same point about the Democrats:

- Small government: cut things we don't like (e.g. military), and spend more on things we do like (e.g. social programs)

- Personal freedoms: more freedoms for things we like (e.g. LGBTQ), remove freedoms for things we don't (e.g. guns)
by hinkley | 2025-04-20 19:23:16+00:00
I will say that my only problem with Simard is that she anthropomorphizes the fungi and the behaviors she documented could just as easily be explained by osmotic pressure. Chemicals in a solution of water have “fairness” built into them. The broker doesn’t need to have a strategy for exchange, just siphon off a finder’s fee for making the introductions. The magic is low friction channels that can move solutions over a long (for a single celled organism) distance. That’s magic enough for any kingdom of life.

Sugary sap? Water will enter and sugars flow out. High nitrogen content? Same same.
by godelski | 2025-04-20 19:23:38+00:00
> I was thinking chemistry sets

I don't think those chemistry sets were ever widely popular. We see them and look back thinking how cool and dangerous, but every one I'm aware of was insanely expensive. Same with the atomic kit.

On the other hand, most mechanical things were relatively cheap. Cars were worked on since cars existed. People also worked on everything in their homes. There was the tradesman who takes a specific skill like being able to fix a washing machine, but a lot of these people had hobbies of building and making.

So we have a direct connection to the death of the repairman and death of the handyman. These were quite popular things even up through the 90's. You'll even see this in shows and movies.

Plus, you forgot the most popular hobby of them all: woodworking. Still alive, but nowhere near as popular as a few decades ago.
by Analemma_ | 2025-04-20 19:23:40+00:00
Go ahead, it'll get thrown out due to qualified (read: absolutely unconditional) immunity. And on the microscopic chance it doesn't, Trump will pardon everyone involved and talk about what heroic hardworking Americans they were for standing up to the woke mob.

You best start believing in Russia-style mafiocracy, you're in one.