MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RS_Singh | 2025-04-28 11:46:07+00:00
I really like this concept! I want to help if you are open to it? I am looking for design projects to take up, so I could provide you with a polished Figma design for this and in return, pay me whatever you think the design is worth. If you don't like them at all, then no pressure to pay anything! And if you do like it, it may really help with selling your vision, presenting it to get validation, showing investors, or even just to better visualise and refine the idea itself.
by ksec | 2025-04-28 11:46:54+00:00
I saw it on twitter and had to go to BBC to make sure this isn't some joke or hoax. 2025 and we have National level power cuts?

I know it may be rare but I think some day we really need to move or mandate every single flat / home / apartment / living places to have a 12 - 24 hours backup battery included. Something that has 10K+ Cycles, durable and non-flammable. Not only does it make sure our modern lives without sudden interruption, it also solves the renewable energy problem.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-28 11:47:11+00:00
It's relatively trivial to avoid porn IRL. I legit dont even know if they have magazines anymore. It's perhaps less difficult online, but still easy to avoid.

So how exactly can it mold the world?

Providing 3 examples of things you actively have to seek online; admittedly i dont know instragram but given they have to then redirect you to onlyfans is just yet another hoop to jump through? Not many are actually doing this.

>mainstreaming of really ugly, regressive treatment in politics and mainstream culture—not just of women but of immigrants, gay people, trans people.

Then this absurd jump to this? Porn that's not particularly available is somehow impacting immigrant men?

This article is really about politics; but they put a sock puppet in front with unbacked up ideas they just leap over.
by ryao | 2025-04-28 11:47:29+00:00
> The safety argument against speeding is ironclad. Blazing-fast vehicles take longer to brake and exert more force in a crash, thereby endangering everyone else on the roadway.

This is not so iron clad if you do some basic reading or thinking. Research has shown that setting speed limits blow the 85th percentile increases crashes from vehicles having less uniformity of speed. Rather than work against something that is natural, they would be better off getting the people who actually listen to the speed limits to drive faster so that they stop endangering others.

Another way of looking at things is that higher speeds mean cars spend less time on the road. Fewer cars on the road implies that the distances between them are greater. Crashes only occur when distances between cars reach 0. Lower speeds as are being advocated by that article mean that the distances between cars will decrease, making things potentially more accident prone. All of those arguments about what happens in a collision do not matter when the cars never collide. For example, the German autobahn has far higher speeds than US roads and their collision rate is lower, which illustrates the benefits of having more space between cars from having them drive faster to get them off the road sooner.

Finally, it is unfortunate that attempts at safety are trying to make motorists drive slower, which will cause more car accidents, causing people to push even harder for more measures to prevent them, that are likely to be just as backward.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-28 11:47:34+00:00
> What happens if you've been drinking not expecting to go anywhere before you learn you need to evacuate immediately because of a wildfire?

A drunk person on the road while a lot of people are panicked and trying to get out of town as quickly as possible sounds like a terrible idea. The winning strategy here is you get help from somebody sober who is able to help you escape. And this is a remarkably rare situation in comparison to harm caused by drunk drivers.
by gregdetre | 2025-04-28 11:47:40+00:00
Language learning app for intermediate learners who want to practice reading and listening:

- As you're reading, AI helps you with words it thinks you might not know

- Highlights etymologies & mnemonics

- Shows you words in their natural habitat, e.g. listen to example sentences

https://www.hellozenno.com/

I'm trying to read a kid's version of The Odyssey in Greek and to be able to understand my partner's mum, and these are the features that I wanted.

Also, I wanted to experiment with "what would an app like this look like if we could trust AI to be very cheap/fast/correct?".

- So, for example, it's a fully generative dictionary & search, e.g. the dictionary entries/metadata/example sentences don't exist until the first person searches for them!

- You can upload any kind of content (image, audio, text), and it'll automatically transcribe, translate, annotate, etc.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-28 11:48:34+00:00
Russian establishment DOES hate western civilization, that is not "narrative" that is fact told by them in live tv to your face FOR LAST 70 YEARS. That is not "narrative".

Western style of life is not only EU but also USA. I do not know how people can even doubt this lol.

If they wanted western life in russia, then establishment will make changes to have it there, no ? Russia is NOT democracy, it is tyranny, autocracy. Again it is not narrative it is what they do there lol
by mihaaly | 2025-04-28 11:48:39+00:00
My angel and devil have reverse roles.

My angel wants me to do my side hustles and produce well made products. For the users and myself. But he sits behind me in the corner now with a bitter face. Neglected and left out.

The devil took over making me work for money, sell my hours for the high bidder, for current income. So I could provide for the three most precious ladies in the world: my wife and daughters.

The devil turned out to be not a powerful figure but a ruthless but pity, sweaty salesguy selling crap that I stuck in. Need to carry on with the technology mandated in the position, outdating as we speak, making me increasingly unemployable elsewhere without the 10 years hands on coding experience in 15 kinds of 2 - 7 years old technology, with leadership and mentor abilities of course as an essential trait required. Willing to be enthusiastically agile the hell out of it! For free pizza and fruit bowl!

No good path ahead.
by op00to | 2025-04-28 11:48:40+00:00
I drive through Virginia a lot, and have never seen speed limits set any differently than any other east coast state. Never had a problem obeying the speed limit, knowing the risks of speeding there.

If everyone is disobeying the law, they should all be cited but that is difficult for an individual cop. I don’t see why, as long as the officer isn’t racially profiling, selecting one violator at random is unfair. Can you explain why?

As for license removal being unfair - did the person cited not commit the offense?
by atemerev | 2025-04-28 11:48:45+00:00
For the record, I don't think that this particular event is a Russian act of sabotage.

But Russia is an aggressive authoritarian state that was already caught for (smaller) acts of sabotage in EU, some of them quite dangerous. Why they are doing this? Who knows, war in Ukraine was not rational too. Perhaps some people want to be evil just for the sake of being evil.

As a Russian emigrant, I long stopped trying to rationalize Kremlin decisions. Why authoritarians are authoritarians? Who knows. Mad with power or something.
by siruva07 | 2025-04-28 11:49:04+00:00
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by philipswood | 2025-04-28 11:49:07+00:00
The paper he quotes is a favorite of mine and I think is has strong implications for the use of LLMs, but I don't think that this implies that LLMs can't form theories or write code effectively.

I suspect that the question to his final answer is:

> To replace human programmers, LLMs would need to be able to build theories by Ryle’s definition
by xtiansimon | 2025-04-28 11:49:52+00:00
> “Varian Associates signed a lease to build a $1m company headquarters […] Eastman Kodak signed a lease in 1952 to build a photo processing plant.”

Photo processing chemicals.

I’m interested to juxtapose the nostalgic glow of this development and the 2025 proposed change to the Endangered Species Act which appears to remove habitat destruction as a vector:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5366814/endangered-spec...

As a personal aside, I moved from the East Bay to Long Island. My adopted home had a history of light industry, now completely gone some 20 years. About 10 years ago they broke ground on a Superfund site and former factory which produced tungsten for the war effort in 1940’s. Now there’s luxury condos (789k 1Br) and a brew pub.
by ekms | 2025-04-28 11:50:29+00:00
I think the perception of America was just as critical, or even moreso, during the GWB presidencies and iraq war. (I imagine nixon and the vietnam war were thought of similarly). There's a tendency for people to have some historical amnesia and think of trump as qualitatively different somehow. But I can assure you that GWB was truly reviled especially in northern europe metro areas, and Americans was viewed then similarly to how it's viewed now.
by Orygin | 2025-04-28 11:51:00+00:00
I'm not saying Russia did it, just that they could be the cause of this. Weakening Europe is in their interest, and they already have blatantly done smaller scale sabotage. It wouldn't weaken their position, as you said, Europe is not really interested in taking Russia seriously atm. Sabotages, killings, politician corruption and public disinformation have been common tactics for them for a decade now. Now that Russia's #1 enemy is under their control, I'm not sure they are afraid to take on Europe more directly.
by slackfan | 2025-04-28 11:51:07+00:00
Do it if you want to, and can afford it now without putting undue financial burden on yourself. But you have already said you've done the boot camp mill, maybe educating yourself isn't the path forward?

Keep in mind that there's not an insignificant amount of hiring managers like myself who don't care, and actively will toss your resume in the trash if the only thing on it is a CS degree. I generally have found CS degree holders to be poorer devs in general, less inventive, more interested in dogma than development.

For what it's worth I also have a network of excellent junior and mid-level engineers who haven't been able to land a gig in the tech world for years at this point, and are moving on to other things one way or another. Right now this is a very "you REALLY want to be here" market.
by xorcist | 2025-04-28 11:51:15+00:00
That's exactly my point. Users expect desktop software to read their home directory, which is an artefact of running under the same uid. The same can not be said for server software, where the expectation is different.

Linux desktop environments had the chance to set a precedent here where software could for example have had a directory named after the application under the user's home, and use subuid to access files. That is simply an example, but would be a backwards compatible way to create a shared culture how Linux desktop software operate, and easen a transition where desktop software could be limited to "their" own directory.

Instead they squandered this chance by focusing all effort on moving dotfiles around (.config was such a waste of energy where we the heated debate could have been about something more useful, such as the above). Now we have Snap and Flatpak which both try to solve a culture problem (where we store our files) with technical solutions (bind mounts! modal gui:s! popup dialogs!). These will not improve the situation. In the best case it will train users to click "Yes" more, which we know not to help security.
by UltraSane | 2025-04-28 11:51:47+00:00
"In the RETURN part of your query, you define which parts of the pattern you are interested in. It can be nodes, relationships, or properties on these"

you can return all nodes, relationships, and paths that match a query by using this syntax

MATCH p = (a {name: 'A'})-[r]->(b) RETURN *

This is the exact opposite of a rectangular result set.
by Ygg2 | 2025-04-28 11:51:53+00:00
> No, this is the technique we use in practice in formal methods to prove program properties

A program that can't express H (72 in decimal) in Hello world is about as divorced from practicals as you can get, without mixing String theory, Meth and Math.

> Rust maintains its invariants by making a stronger invariant inductive in the language.

Yes, but it relies very little on human verification.

> I'm saying it is sometimes worse.

And I'm saying it as a programmer field we should monotonically approach the ideal by removing languages that don't support it. A language that has memory safety issues is worse than a language that doesn't. We had hundreds of example in practice where people just can't write/compose safe code.

C has a 50 year history and most of the active projects in it are mired in memory safety issues.

Also seatbelts are sometimes worse, doesn't mean we shoud abolish them for seatbelts-less Pintos.
by emursebrian | 2025-04-28 11:51:58+00:00
I am working on making it easier to learn languages. We provide a platform for teachers and educators to create their own language courses. The platform offers features similar to software like Babel or Anki, along with some unique features for phonetics study and customizing the learning experience.

We're currently working with language influencers to build courses on Emurse. This year, we launched Japanese Phonetics course created by the YouTuber Dogen https://emurse.io/course/japanese-phonetics.

If you want to try out Emurse, we have a free Thai reading course available. You can view the first lesson without out creating an account: https://emurse.io/courses.
by joha4270 | 2025-04-28 11:51:58+00:00
Most of the time, the grid is reliable. How much investment do we actually want to prevent a few hours of downtime once in a blue moon?

And even if we do want to invest in large amount of grid storage (which we would need to anyway, if we want to transition to renewables), I'm not sure pushing this down to the individual house is sensible. Its a great way to limit economies of scale and make maintenance/inspection harder.
by brulard | 2025-04-28 11:51:59+00:00
I think a mindset to "get rich" or even worse "get rich quickly" is reallt bad for everyone even outside tech. There is certain amount of wealth you need so you need not to worry about food, shelter, kids, education, health, etc, that's all right, but beyond that it's just getting destructive. When do you feel "rich enough" already? $1M? $100M? If you don't worry about getting rich and just be ok with being mid-class, you can code whatever you like. Even without getting single dime from the hobby code you will learn a lot, you will get good with tools and quick to find solutions, easier to be employed and progress in your career. And I would believe happier in the long run.
by apercu | 2025-04-28 11:52:15+00:00
My first and second "start ups" (90s) were peopled by very technical people and no "professional class" (e.g., HR, BizDev/Sales, etc.) beyond finance. I joined a third as an executive and it, too was missing HR and Sales.

We added sales (later HR, sigh) and it was (eventually) transformative.

My point is that you can have the greatest technical team and lack of sales and shitty toxic culture will mean no growth/stagnation/running out of cash.

You can also be (this is probably the default state) a pure MBA-play where you are a "sales driven organization" that has shitty product and shitty technical culture.

You can rarely have a successful business (unless you are large enough!) without some degree of both. So stating that "business cofounders" or "technical cofounders" are less valuable/overrated reads like low effort click bait that resonates with really inexperienced "professionals".
by londons_explore | 2025-04-28 11:52:58+00:00
Europe still has many megawatts of solar with inverters that disconnect when detecting any grid disruption.

This is the absolute worst thing to do when there is a shortage of power - you immediately make the shortage worse and more grid disconnects.

The real fix is a grid with second by second pricing based on system frequency, and every individual user allowed to set a daily 'spend cap' of euros/dollars, letting them choose how much they are willing to pay for reliability.

Such an market has a huge stabilizing effect on demand, meaning a major incident would probably only have fairly small impacts on system frequency and embedded solar wouldn't disconnect.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-28 11:53:03+00:00
If by "intelectual curiosity ' you mean groupthink and bias that flags opposing points of view members find uncomfortable, not the honest unbiased application of rules.

Flag-bombing is a real issues on HN in case you didn't know.

What's the point of a board that doesn't allow all viewpoints and just smells it's own farts?
by voidUpdate | 2025-04-28 11:53:25+00:00
Possibly some kind of rare cascade failure where it might have been on the edge for a while, and some small event happened that tripped things, similar to the american northeast blackout in 2003. High demand, plus a power station going offline meant more demand on some interconnects, which shorted on trees and were cut off, putting more load on other lines until the entire system collapsed
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-28 11:53:46+00:00
> The purposes you mention are much more easily achieved by being simple to draw.

No, that is not true for either purpose. Being simple to draw is a negative in both cases:

(1) Things that are simple to draw can be easy to recognize, but things that are complex are easier to recognize.

(2) Things that are simple to draw are never visually impressive.

And the flags that are easy to draw are so simple that it's interfering with the ability to recognize them. The first example there would be Ireland vs the Ivory Coast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ivory_Coast

Another common confusion is Russia vs France, though in that case someone who needs to be able to tell the difference won't have trouble:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France

> For a similar case, see the flag of Germany[1], Austria[2], Peru[3], Finland[4], Italy[5], and need I go on?

Go on? Try beginning first. Every single one of those links presents the flag without the coat of arms as a default and the flag with the coat of arms as a special case.
by redbell | 2025-04-28 11:54:06+00:00
The fact this event is trending in four different posts all are currently in the front page of HN says a lot! Hope moderators combines them all under one unified thread. See also:

There are reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal (bbc.co.uk): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820163

Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by power outage (euronews.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820177

Nationwide Power Outages Also Disrupt Internet Traffic in Portugal and Spain (twitter.com/cloudflareradar): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819914
by muzani | 2025-04-28 11:54:18+00:00
I would actually like to see something like TV Tropes in spreadsheet form. Something like this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/OverdosedT...

But in more detail like category etc and covering a wider range of tropes. That way I could be watching a horror movie or something and work out who's likely to die based on the tropes and so on.

Or something like digging up forgotten tropes when I'm digging around for ideas that nobody uses anymore.

Or popular color tropes when I need to pick a symbolic hair color and wardrobe.
by onion2k | 2025-04-28 11:54:27+00:00
What a miserable existence that must be.

This ignores the fact that people are motivated by different things. If you're someone who thrives on the intrinsic 'do this for the love and joy of it' motivation then you should absolutely just write code for the fun of it. But not everyone is like that. Some people need an extrinsic motivator to drive them to do things - that's usually money, or praise, or a punishment for failing. There is nothing wrong with either approach. Neither is better.
by bawolff | 2025-04-28 11:55:29+00:00
I think Iain M Banks tries to answer the question: in a hypothetical future where all our material needs are met, where does that leave society? Do people still do stuff if they don't need money and why? Who runs it? Etc. Its sort of an optimistic exploration of post-scarcity anarchism.

It remindsme a bit of how internet communities work.

I think it takes its premise much more seriously than star trek does. E.g. Star trek has free replicators for everyone and yet everyone is spending tons of money at Quark's for some reason. Which is fine, star trek has a lot of other good qualities, but i don't think it does a great job of exploring the implication of its technologies.
by winamtch | 2025-04-28 11:55:36+00:00
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by graemep | 2025-04-28 11:55:45+00:00
> Unfortunately it's becoming an increasing problem that travel is not equally safe depending on your nationality, destination, and other factors.

It seems to get a lot more attention now that people from a different type of country are getting affected.

> Any conference that announces itself as being proudly diverse and inclusive will have to have some difficult board meetings this year. It's not just the US, there's several countries in Europe that need a closer look at too. I hear Canada and the Nordic countries are fairly safe.

Do you mean safe for individuals or a choice of venue?

In the UK (which is the country I know best) individuals are fine once they get a visa, but its not a safe choice in terms of planning because the granting of visas for people from certain countries is unpredictable (so people you expect to be able to attend might not be allowed to).
by chii | 2025-04-28 11:56:14+00:00
> I'm not sure pushing this down to the individual house is sensible.

why not? Having distributed buffers ought to make the system more resilient in most cases wont it? Not to mention that these home level batteries can be used to smooth out power usage and lower peak loads.

In fact, having an EV car act as this same battery would be an even more efficient use of resources.
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by erol444 | 2025-04-28 11:56:27+00:00
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