MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-08 21:17:36+00:00
The normal progression is that you had a commercially built one, and one of two things happened. 1. It was a prebuilt FPV drone and you need to repair it after smashing it into something at mach Jesus or 2. You bought a DJI, which is really a camera platform, and you want a drone that can fly at mach Jesus and do the cool aerobatics so that pulls you into the FPV genre where you buy a prebuilt or just build from scratch.

Drones are just an example, there are plenty of other areas where people might get sucked into DIY electroncisbuilding. E-skateboard/bike/scooter modification and fixing, keyboard hobbyists, cosplay, 3d printing, home automation etc...
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-08 21:18:27+00:00
Oh well coffee is definitely a given for a lot of Italians lol. Tea as well although less spread than coffee. I was talking more about drinks taken in cans or bigger quantities than a coffee/cup of tea.

Wine is definitely more prevalent in the older gens, young people drink albeit less. Up until a few years ago - and in some older people is valid for today as well - there was the belief that a small glass of wine a day wouldn't do harm, or that it had a positive effect on your health...

So yeah, alcohol is often on the table, but there's much less choice about the variety of drinks compared in the us. Then, if you have to work in the afternoon you might choose to not drink alcohol, so you're stuck with water or the other more common soft drinks such as coke (...)
by ch4s3 | 2025-04-08 21:18:35+00:00
The real issue with fruit juice is that you can easily consume the juice of several pieces of fruit all at once and in a form that makes the sugar rapidly available so you get insulin spikes. The serving size for children of juice is 4-6oz which isn't very much volume, so its super easy to over do it.

If you eat the whole fruit that sugar s bound up with fiber so you don't consume as much as easily and you digest it more slowly. Fiber plays a key role in satiety (feeling full) and stripped of fiber its easy to consume too many calories. A whole orange contains 3-6x the fiber of the equivalent volume of orange juice with pulp.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-04-08 21:18:55+00:00
Lacklustre doesn't mean ineffective. There was/is hardly any reason to switch other than 'new fangled thing' and in some specific circumstances (with a myriad of google switches and tricks that power users here know and use to squeeze out more useful results). And like a billion ppl are happily using google and getting decent results regularly.

We're in a bubble here.
by gwern | 2025-04-08 21:19:37+00:00
Language models repeatedly delivered practical, real-world economic value at every step of the way from at least n-grams on. (Remember the original 'unreasonable effectiveness of data'?) The applications were humble and weren't like "write all my code for me and then immanentize the eschaton", but they were real things like spelling error detection & correction, text compressors, voice transcription boosters, embeddings for information retrieval, recommenders, knowledge graph creation (ironically enough), machine translation services, etc. In contrast, Yuxi goes through the handful of described Cyc use-cases from their entire history, and it's not impressive.
by theprophecy | 2025-04-08 21:19:51+00:00
Link: https://filtrjobs.com

Saw perplexity is building answer modes to improve search in specific verticals e.g. jobs. I took it a step further and built a better version of it

You upload your resume and I automatically create a query:

"Find ${title} jobs with experience similar to ${resume bullets}"

and it ranks all job postings based on match

It's 100% free and I'm getting new job postings for SWE + ML roles in US everyday
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-08 21:19:58+00:00
I'd go further, and say I use search when I'm pretty confident I know the right search terms. If I don't, I'll type some wordy long explanation of what I want into an LLM and hope for the best.

The reason is pretty simple. If the result you want is in the first few search hits, it's always better. Your query is shorter so there is less typing, the search engine is always faster, the results are far better because you side step the LLM hallucinating as it regurgitates the results it remembers on the page your would have read if you searched.

If you aren't confident of the search times, it can take 1/2 an hour of dicking around with different terms, clicking though a couple of pages of search results for each set of term, until you finally figure out the lingo to use. Figuring out what you are really after from that wordy description is the inner magic of LLM's.
by _kst_ | 2025-04-08 21:20:22+00:00
Sure if the new binary is bitwise identical to the old one, there's no need to release it.

But ...

"The era of reproducible builds is upon us"

What about old code built with old toolchains? And what about organizational policies that require a full round of testing for any update? How hard do you think it would be to change such policies?

No doubt there's some software that could easily be modified, recompiled, and released. My point is that there is also some software that can't.

And yes, in those cases the likely solution is to leave the code alone and continue to build it with the old toolchain.

The point is that the proposed change will break existing valid code, and that has a non-zero cost. I support Jens Gustedt's effort to find out just what that cost is before imposing the change. (And again, I hope the change does go into the next edition of the standard.)
by skissane | 2025-04-08 21:21:08+00:00
> I suppose you'd do it the same way any North Korean operative would.

What you are describing here is something any country could do – yes, it is conceivable that Australia's intelligence agencies could use bribery/harassment/threats/blackmail/etc to turn Australian citizens into unwilling spies – but the same is true of the UK, the US, France, Germany, whatever.

The thing that people are calling out Australia over, is a law which says a court can order someone to install a secret backdoor, and furthermore order them not to tell (almost) anyone about it. [0] And I'm sceptical that law could be used in the way you describe – e.g. "They'd offer you training on how to bypass the controls" – the law says a court can order you to install a backdoor – it doesn't say it can order you to attend a training course on how to "bypass controls".

Keep in mind, while proceedings are under seal, you are allowed to retain a lawyer, and your lawyer can make legal arguments before the judge, and can appeal the judge's rulings. IANAL, but would a judge rule that a power to order someone to install a backdoor extends to ordering them to attend a government-run training course on how to deceive their employer? Even if a judge did rule that way, would the appellate courts uphold the ruling?

Or, similarly – "They'd get you to exfiltrate the code and the product roadmap" – does a legal power to order someone to install a backdoor, extend to a legal power to order them to hand over generalised confidential information of their employer? Or similarly – "They'd have you do very innocent, justifiable things at first" – does a legal power to order someone to install a backdoor, extend to a legal power to order them to do "very innocent, justifiable things" which don't in themselves directly contribute to installing any backdoor?

And, as I said, if your lawyer can't talk the court out of it – resign. Will a judge hold that a judicial power to order to the installation of a backdoor extends to ordering a person not to resign their job?

Get a medical certificate saying you can't work. Get yourself admitted to a private psychiatric hospital on the grounds that the stress of this secret government order has caused you to have a nervous breakdown / panic episode / suicidal ideation / etc. (I think if I ever were issued such a secret government order, it really would have that kind of extreme detrimental impact on my mental health, I wouldn't be faking it.) I think a lot of psychologists/psychiatrists/etc would be very sympathetic to your plight. What's a judge supposed to do if they have a psychiatrist testifying that you are medically unfit to comply with the order, or return to the job which the order is associated with?

[0] You are explicitly allowed to tell your personal legal counsel.
by krick | 2025-04-08 21:21:12+00:00
I have nothing to say about Cyc (apart to that the bitter lesson is bitter indeed, but was never debunked so far; and, also, I hate LLMs). But this line (from accompanying github) deserves some attention, IMO:

> Due to the lack of long-term stability of IA, I have taken the liberty to scrape those from IA and kept them here for safe keeping.

I mean, he is not wrong, and when I want to preserve something code-related, Github comes to mind as a safe place... which is crazy, if you think about it for a moment. And the fact that we are starting to use Github as a backup for IA is almost comically grotesque. I don't have a solution, but it's worth reminding that we sure have a problem.
by handfuloflight | 2025-04-08 21:21:39+00:00
"Nope" to facts? Bold move.

Technical Writer HQ explicitly states: "Product documentation is a broad term and is not just meant for consumers' use. Product documentation also covers the information for a product or service for internal organizational use" including "product design, logic, infrastructure... and specification sheets." [1]

Far from some obscure source, Technical Writer HQ runs "one of the world's largest communities for technical writers with thousands of global members from 500+ companies around the world."

Perhaps in your thirty years of experience, you've developed your own private definition of product documentation that doesn't align with industry standards. That's fine, but don't dismiss established terminology with a dismissive "Nope" when you've provided zero sources beyond your own personal opinion. Feature requirements are indeed a subset of product documentation according to authoritative technical writing standards.

Next time, try citing something other than your confidence.

[1] https://technicalwriterhq.com/documentation/product-document...
by infecto | 2025-04-08 21:22:07+00:00
Appreciate the lengthy response, but I want to clarify a few things since I think my original point keeps getting mischaracterized.

First, the italics. You opened with “This is a very bizarre take”—emphasis on very—which, whether you intended it or not, sets a smug tone. It’s the kind of rhetorical move that shuts down discussion before it starts. I’m not saying this to nitpick style, but to point out how quickly this moved from a discussion about tooling to a dismissal of my viewpoint. It is an easy tell the person writing gives away when they use it like you do.

Now, to the substance: yes, the D3 API is technically independent of Observable. But in practice, Observable is now the primary medium through which new users encounter and learn D3. The official examples, new documentation, and most teaching material are embedded in the Observable environment, which introduces its own model of reactivity, syntax, and execution. That’s not a minor detail, it’s a real obstacle for people who just want to understand and use D3 in plain JavaScript.

Your PyTorch/mkdocs analogy completely misses the mark. Mkdocs is a static site generator. It doesn’t change the code you’re learning—Observable, on the other hand, does. You can’t meaningfully learn D3 from many of these new examples without understanding how Observable cells work. That’s a tight coupling, and one I don’t think should be hand-waved away.

“Just use AI to convert the notebook” is a non-answer. It assumes everyone is okay with outsourcing understanding to a black box just to get a usable snippet. That’s exactly the kind of indirection I’m objecting to in the first place.

Lastly, yes, I’ve set a personal boundary: I don’t want to buy into an ecosystem that made a choice I don’t support. That’s not a call to boycott, it’s just me saying, this direction doesn’t work for me. If that’s enough to dismiss my view as bizarre, then I’m not sure what kind of discussion is even possible here.
by Slash65 | 2025-04-08 21:22:25+00:00
I think this is the real problem. If it’s unsourced, how can I verify the LLM isn’t hallucinating. That being said I started running open web ui to host models locally and have heard that some will source their content(I don’t know which, I haven’t hosted them yet) so that is promising. I also like hosting deep seek locally and being able to review its logic process so I can assess how it arrived at its conclusions. All that to say, I still use a traditional search (self hosted version of searxng) for 95% of my search. I like llms for bouncing ideas around, but not for finding accurate results quickly
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-04-08 21:22:45+00:00
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35623625 (2023) "Why Did Prolog Lose Steam (2010)"

Anecdotally, some years ago the Zebra Puzzle [1] made the rounds in my team. Two people solved it: myself, a young intern, who mapped out the constraints as a physical puzzle that I was able to solve visually, and a more seasoned colleague who used Prolog.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle
by sijuntan | 2025-04-08 21:23:09+00:00
Through a joint collaboration between the Agentica team and Together AI, we release DeepCoder-14B-Preview, a code reasoning model finetuned from Deepseek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-14B via distributed RL. It achieves an impressive 60.6% Pass@1 accuracy on LiveCodeBench (+8% improvement), matching the performance of o3-mini-2025-01-031 (Low) and o1-2024-12-17 with just 14B parameters. We’ve open-sourced our dataset, code, training logs, and systems optimizations for everyone to progress on scaling and accelerating intelligence with RL.
by int_19h | 2025-04-08 21:23:33+00:00
I have just watched Sonnet 3.7 vs Gemini 2.5 solving the same task (fix a bug end-to-end) side by side, and Sonnet hallucinated far worse and repeatedly got stuck in dead-ends requiring manual rescue. OTOH Gemini understood the problem based on bug description and code from the get go, and required minimal guidance to come up with a decent solution and implement it.
by cmurf | 2025-04-08 21:23:52+00:00
It's malignant normalcy. They're addicted to the depravity of Trump TV, and want it to continue in perpetuity.

People keep asking where is the bottom with this movement? When does Trump go too far for them? There isn't.

We're asking an OK question but we're not asking ourselves. We keep deferring to addicts to tell us when they're ready for rehab.

And that's not going to work.
by miloignis | 2025-04-08 21:24:33+00:00
Yes, I use search engine(s) constantly - namely Kagi, which really does feel like Google used to. I tried using LLMs for a recent project of mine when I was trying to figure out if something was possible, and they were actively misleading, every time. My issue for this project was that what I was asking for did end up not being currently possible, but LLMs wouldn't tell me that and would make up incorrect ways to solve my problem, since they didn't want to tell me it couldn't be done.

Really, these days, either I know some resource exists and I want to find it, in which case a search engine makes much more sense than an LLM which might hallucinate, or I want to know if something is possible / how to do it, and the LLM will again hallucinate an incorrect way to do it.

I've only found LLMs useful for translation, transcription, natural language interface, etc.
by binaryturtle | 2025-04-08 21:24:51+00:00
With the current state of Websites and how much resources they waste any text wrapping is probably not an issue at all. :)

I hardly can open any website w/o some anti-bot check burning my CPU to the ground for 1/2 minute or something (if it doesn't manage to entirely crash my Firefox in the process like cloudflare). I rather would wait for 0.2s text wrapping than that, that's for sure. :)
by saghm | 2025-04-08 21:27:16+00:00
When grading papers from students, it's reasonable to correct their usage. I'm probably reacting to all of this because the impetus of this discussion was someone rehashing a complaint that I suspect most of us have already heard about a word no longer only having a meaning that's so uncommon that it's not unreasonable for it to no longer have a single word for it stemming from its usage in an article by an author who likely won't ever read these comments.

I'm also not super convinced that people won't be able to understand concepts like "disinterested justice" because there's plenty of other terminology for that like "impartial" that are arguably much more common; I'm honestly not sure I've ever heard the term "disinterested justice" before now. I can at least see the value of that viewpoint being expressed even if I don't agree with it though, so in retrospect I should have responded before directly to the comment about "decimate" rather than replying to your response.
by tim333 | 2025-04-08 21:29:01+00:00
some history

Kurzweil 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpoKYY1uy4

researchgate 2018 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Exponential-growth-in-so...

some 2024 data https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulfbrowning_exponential-pv-...

and on it goes at about 25% per year. That would have it covering all our needs in about 15 years.

For comparison with Hinkley C the UKs new nuclear reactor the site was selected in 2010 and the latest is "£41.6–47.9 billion in 2024 prices, with Unit 1 planned to become operational in 2029 to 2031."
by caseyohara | 2025-04-08 21:29:23+00:00
I have nuthatches that peck and bore large holes in my cedar siding in the spring to nest. They showed up about two weeks ago and they’ll be here through summer.

The sound is obnoxious and they’ve basically destroyed my house. I’ve tried everything to keep them away but they are tenacious. We’re currently saving up to reside the house with Hardie Board; I think that’s the only solution.
by eternityforest | 2025-04-08 21:29:40+00:00
I'm a big fan of avoiding those dangerous tools. Sometimes they are essential, but often times there are alternatives.

I prefer to find repeatable solutions that don't make me or anyone else the single point of failure.

I always hear people saying "It's perfectly safe if you know what you're doing" and think "Yeah, but what happens when my hand slips?"
by keybored | 2025-04-08 21:29:50+00:00
> I never even defended them. Just pointed out your ignorance and racism. Cheers. Nice edit btw.

This refers to the edit that the sibling comment made from:

> Thank you for finally bringing your silly antics to a conclusion.

To adding four more sentences (ending with “We have decades ...”). Which seemed weird given that the first sentence was thanking OP here for bringing the “antics” to an end.

And apparently OP then made an edit in kind.
by nkrisc | 2025-04-08 21:30:34+00:00
> it seems like youve internalized the query syntax of search engines

If by syntax you mean "words related to what I want to find" then I suppose.

> youre fine with erroneous results.

Because AI is famously correct all the time. And there are no "erroneous" results in my method, only ones not closely enough related to what I wanted, so that's feedback my search terms should be refined.

Any answer I get from AI I’m going to have to verify anyway so I just skip the AI step.
by statskier | 2025-04-08 21:30:35+00:00
I'm not really following what your point is. The context in this case is pretty clearly geared towards connecting people across age generations. In that context, I merely observed that doing that for women would also be interesting. I don't see why you're branching off into random stuff like dogs.

I am equally interested in whether other non-Japanese cultures could do this too, although I suppose its popularity might not generalize across cultures. I don't know. Be interesting to try though, right?

Or is merely suggesting that deserving of some sort of criticism? The whole thing just made me think "why not share a neat thing with other groups". Dunno why that's such a big deal.
by techscruggs | 2025-04-08 21:30:45+00:00
I've been using apache echarts for a while. It is excellent. As you dig deep, some of the examples and libraries are in Chinese, which can be challenging.

The only real drawback that I've discovered is that it uses canvas to generate the charts. So, when you UI changes to dark mode, you need to reload your charts to update the color scheme ... which in the grand scheme of things is really minor.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-04-08 21:31:54+00:00
They dunk on it because the author didn't see the the benefit of the product over using FTP. And it's hard to say the usage of "quite trivially" isn't "belittling" in some form, although I don't think using a loaded word is useful here. Even the followup response shows the same issue with the commenter's thinking:

>You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install piece of functionality for Windows users. The Windows shortcomings that you point out are certainly problems, and I think that your software does a good job of overcoming that. (emphasis added.)

They still fail to understand that this is not a Windows or Linux issue but a reliability and ease of use issue. Not to mention the fact that the desktop Linux marketshare was probably less than 1% and therefore irrelevant in this context to begin with.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-08 21:32:33+00:00
> You would then be relying on ...

More likely trade secrets, NDAs, non-competes, and increasingly invasive DRM. In addition to the direct financial incentive, part of the logic behind IP law is to foster a more open market because that should be to the benefit of society at large in multiple ways.

Patents, for example, ensure that at least some minimal description of the process gets published for others to take inspiration from.
by yencabulator | 2025-04-08 21:32:52+00:00
> Many species of bird also use this advanced ability to keep track of who knows what for food. They’ll hide a stash for winter and find it all later. But it’s easier to remember where your friend hid theirs than to get your own. So a whole arms race of deception developed.

This reminds me of a backyard squirrel anecdote from a decade ago.

A squirrel would laboriously dig a hole and hide a nut in it, cover it with soil, and tamp down the soil -- until it noticed another squirrel watching it from the top of a fence, at which point it immediately proceeded to dig up the nut and carry it away.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-08 21:32:59+00:00
GPt models have a people-pleasing bias and positivity bias. If you want factual information, you have to modify your prompt. I imagine you would get very different results if you asked "are Jeeps more reliable than Toyotas", or "how do Jeeps compare to the median car in terms of reliability"

My impression is that different llms are more or less people pleasing. I found grok is more willing to tell me something is a bad idea.
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-08 21:33:19+00:00
Well, even small kids here are allowed by their parents to drink caffe latte, which is milk with varying amounts of coffee. Then of course, some juices are OK although it's so easy to drink much more than the rda (and I'm quite sure I drank a shitton more of the recommend dose of juice, the few times I drank juice)