MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by commandlinefan | 2025-04-04 15:29:55+00:00
> Gas isn't expensive enough

Even if it was, charging an EV just takes too long. I love my Tesla, but I can't drive it outside of town because there's nowhere to charge it. I can drive my gas-guzzling SUV anywhere in the US because when it runs out of gas, I pull into a gas station, spend two minutes gassing it up, and then keep going. The Tesla? Well, if I _can_ find a charging station that's actually working before I actually completely run out of charge, I'm going to be waiting a minimum two hours before I can keep going. AFAIK, there's no proposed solution for this; I can plug it in and home and keep it charged and it works great as long as I never drive it too far away to be plugged in and sit at home.
by bashmelek | 2025-04-04 15:30:31+00:00
I feel bored of AI as well.

LLMs and Generative AI are exciting, and I want research and development on such to continue.

I use Copilot at work, and sometimes it is scary on point (other times not). But at home, I like to do things by hand. I code unassisted, I draw with pencil and paper.

The conversation and secondary effects of AI, feel so dreary and banal. It is amazing technology, wielded so lazily
by barotalomey | 2025-04-04 15:30:36+00:00
> The gap between Sr and Jr skills with close as AI gets better.

Sorry, but as the wind blows, we only have indications of the opposite so far and it's wildly reported as a generating losing their ability for deep thought, relying too much on automated code generation. This is especially damaging for juniors, who never get the chance to learn the tricks of the trade in the first place, and they're the ones having a hard time explaining what the code the LLM generated even does.

Seniors will be few and far between, and we will charge premium for fixing up the crap LLM created, which will fit us great before retirement.

Good luck when we are retired.
by kalenx | 2025-04-04 15:31:04+00:00
This, I absolutely agree with. Yes, there are small things you can do which (collectively) _can_ have an impact.

I'm arguing against : "So you know you are killing us in so many ways, and you can't be arsed to eat less meat? Aren't you supposed to care about us?"

You can replace "to eat less meat" by basically a thousand different "reasonable" things. Does that mean that _literally everyone on earth_ is willingly "killing their children and not caring about them"?

I really dislike those arguments patronizing everyone. They achieve nothing -- actually quite the contrary, at _best_ they do nothing for someone who do not feel targeted, at worst they turn people against your cause. There's a difference between stating that each of us can and should take action because those are needed and saying that everyone not doing X is a child killer. If someone suggest that I should stop drinking almond milk, I would consider it. If they introduce this by telling how ashamed I should be and how my children will hate me for this -- but not for long since they will soon be dead anyway because of me -- well, maybe I'll just ignore an otherwise perfectly reasonable and fact-based suggestion.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-04-04 15:31:09+00:00
I'm not a big fan of Tesla's owner, but I will say - what is the problem with subsidizing something that given enough research and development is considered a net good for our future or could be valuable on a global scale?

Lots of people are begging to get access to Chinese EV's, and guess what they were subsidized by their government for research and development.

We subsidize farmers but don't trash them. If EV's are the future why not provide assistance?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-04 15:31:23+00:00
I would say the used market starts to be more of a factor at $15k and below. Right now the value proposition of cars in the $15-25k range is truly awful, with it often making more sense to finance or lease a new car instead. When I was shopping last year I was seeing used Honda Fits that were the better part of a decade old north of the $15k mark, which is absurd considering they didn’t cost much more than that new. It’s even worse for in-demand models like RAV4’s.
by stoneman24 | 2025-04-04 15:31:26+00:00
Thanks for the great B5 quote.

The vast majority of us are just minor pebbles in trump’s grand experiment, just trying to find a quiet place to avoid all the noise and nightmares.

The SV mantra of “Move fast and break things” is not something that you really should apply to entire economic systems.

Someone will probably profit but it’s not going to be the average American citizen ( or citizen of any other country)
by owlstuffing | 2025-04-04 15:31:41+00:00
Imagine v2.0 introduces a new feature that requires a parser change—one that v1.0 wouldn't be able to parse.

$if $defined(C3_V2_PLUS): // new feature fn f = \ -> foo(); // this won't parse in v1.0 $else Callback f = ...; $endif

This is also an issue if a future version of C3 introduces language level support, allowing newer compilers to compile code as if it were written for an earlier version. While this approach works well when teams standardize on a specific version’s feature set, they may still want to take advantage of performance improvements in the latest compiler.

That said, this is a niche case and not something I’d consider a dealbreaker.
by glitchc | 2025-04-04 15:31:46+00:00
Please stop with the hyperbole. It's unproductive. Switching everyone to BEVs would require a massive investment in infrastructure. Given the speeds at which EVs charge, at least every other parking spot at the stop would need a charger to make it viable for the average consumer.

Assuming at least a quarter of those are actually charging at the same time, supplying that amount of power requires a massive upgrade to wiring and delivery to all road stops. We would need high voltage lines and a mini substation running to every stop along the road. Not to mention the massive upgrade in power generation capacity.
by e40 | 2025-04-04 15:31:52+00:00
The calculus of voting is really simple, even when there are only 2 candidates:

> Vote for the least evil person.

That's it. If everyone did this, then candidates would skew less evil. And after some amount of time, we would not have evil candidates.

Was Harris a good candidate. Certainly not. Was she less evil than Trump? By a mile. Would we be better off with Harris? Seems like that is coming true after a mere 2+ months.
by sepositus | 2025-04-04 15:31:58+00:00
Sure, but I'm not pointing out the longevity of the batteries, but rather the maintenance cost if/when they fault. I understand it will get better over time as technology improves, but it's been a large impediment to me (and probably others) from investing in them.

Here's a recent synopsis that suggests 50% of the car value on average back in 2020 [1].

[1]: https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/costs-ev-battery-repl...
by kristopolous | 2025-04-04 15:33:08+00:00
The idea that voting Americans are more ignorant of international news, geography, history, and politics has been strongly and robustly quantitatively demonstrated repeatedly over decades.

The savvy international graduate student can't vote. We're talking about people who fill in ballots.

Voters are more likely to speak only English, not have a passport and live in less ethnically diverse neighborhoods. No reputable numerical survey disputes this.

There's substantial empirical evidence here. Maybe it disagrees with your optimism and vibes but sorry, that's not how the world works

I personally think if you claim to be a global superpower than even people in other countries are a stakeholder and should be allowed to vote in your elections but that's another topic
by neogodless | 2025-04-04 15:33:14+00:00
My calculator came up with $0.08225, so yes I missed the extra 2 and got my rounding wrong. You removed some precision though ;) so while I'm off by $0.00075 you're off by $0.00225, or about three times further from the correct number!

EDIT: Oh I see now you were more worried about the "0" I missed, fixed that now!
by blibble | 2025-04-04 15:33:15+00:00
> People knew exactly what they were getting, and they wanted this.

once the world was willing to forgive, but twice is a pattern that can't be ignored

the 97% of the rest of the world now needs to de-risk itself from the US and its businesses

longer term, the self-inflicted loss of economic, military and cultural domination will hopefully result in the US electorate realising that "US exceptionalism" was only ever a set of lucky circumstances, which are unlikely to be repeated

at which point the forced humility should result in a return to long-term stability

the worse outcome is the US attempts to hang onto its dying empire with warfare, and it appears we're seeing the groundwork being laid for this already (canada, greenland, panama, ...)
by ericwood | 2025-04-04 15:33:16+00:00
I love all of the little tricks they employ! The two pole filter on the Rat was really eye opening to me; it makes perfect sense once you sit down and think through it, and the implementation is very elegant in its simplicity.

One of my favorites in this genre are using CMOS inverters as inverting op amps with a very pleasing and smooth distortion sound.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-04 15:33:49+00:00
That is true. I wonder though, if Russian citizens do this in the US, then there is not going to be anything done about it? What if it is an American citizen? I do not expect them to be able to spend it in the US (but I may be wrong). Would they just go to Russia or somewhere else and then use the money from those bank accounts overseas and start a new life, or what? I am just trying to imagine the scenario. I have watched The Wolf of Wall Street which was quite good. I wonder how it would usually go today, and how people get away with it, because one would think today it is not easy to get away with it. I imagine if I were to scam someone, I would get in legal troubles here, in Hungary, even if I were to send it to a bank account somewhere else in another country, is this an incorrect assumption?

I am going off-topic here, because Australia is in question here, so perhaps replace my use of "US" with Australia and "American" with "Australian".
Show HN: Noedge token, a currently WIP crypto for bets without any edge and fees
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-04 15:34:13+00:00
So I have just created this

In fact I have created a lot of things....

Most of this was created by a random junior dev who has not much interest in crypto and I used ai ...

I think AI is a gamble as well (LOL) , sometimes it can create good software and sometimes it just fails.... and then it takes a lot of time.

I am genuinely looking for feedback on this embedding storage on nano technique to create your own token without any chain setup / then using it with algorand vrf free randomness way that I have created to basically create gambles.

Should I completely open source this? are there any monetization ideas that somebody has?
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-04 15:35:00+00:00
> There are approximately zero people who decide they'll create something if they're protected for 95 years after their death but won't if it's 94 years. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same for 1 year past death.

I think life of creator + some reasonable approximation of family members life expectancy would make sense. Content creators do create to ensure their family's security in some cases, I would guess.
by pmags | 2025-04-04 15:35:01+00:00
If you are a US tax payer, it's important to realize that:

1. The federal government has already invested hundred of millions of dollars and millions of person years of scientific effort to collect all the valuable data that NOAA, CDC, NIH, the National Weather Service, etc. have collected, curated, and analyzed

2. The DOGE-ies and their ilk are flushing that all down the toilet -- all your investment will now be lost, or at least inaccessible to you or anyone else who might do something useful with it.
by pklausler | 2025-04-04 15:35:06+00:00
A language standard without a reference implementation or blessed test suite can be a real problem due to ambiguity, contradiction, and omissions. When there are existing implementations of a language that are expected to keep up with an evolving standard that doesn't have these things, you can end up with a messy situation like Fortran has, in which the portability of code across compilers becomes a pragmatic job that's not related much to standard conformance.
by cf100clunk | 2025-04-04 15:35:24+00:00
An enjoyable perspective on how workload can affect techno-tribalism. Like many who have worked in, or run, mixed shops over the years, I've lamented the interpersonal friction that can happen amongst camps. It can be corrosive, almost to the point of destruction, at which point I've had to fire people for using terms like ''hater'' or worse. Good riddance, because we had work to do.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-04 15:35:24+00:00
I'm not sure what your definition of "tame" is, but mine definitely does not include "A pandemic raging through the population with leadership calling it a hoax and proposing to fight it with bleach and horse dewormer, and encouraging the population to defy public health efforts to stop it." 2017 to 2020 was a steady increase in chaos and incompetence, coming to a crescendo with COVID. And after 4 years, voters said "Yea, we want that chaos again!"
by whatnow37373 | 2025-04-04 15:35:40+00:00
I am, in fact, aware of that.

> if you can't answer it then it's not going to happen.

My point is that if we as a technical community don't start looking outside our technical bubble the powers that be will at some point figure out a way to get there from here and without consulting you (us). But maybe that's wrong and maybe nothing's going to need changing. I hope so.
by hello_moto | 2025-04-04 15:35:43+00:00
The other countries will bear inequality and servitude.

Let them swallow that pill.

The rich can’t bring their assets without divesting and get taxed first.

Can you imagine if someone like Elon Musk got wealth taxed at 75% of his $400Bn?

He’s still a billionaires and USA coffers will increase by $300Bn.

He can’t replicate his success outside USA because USA has the market and the appetite to spend.

You wanna cut income tax? Get Wealth Tax in place. Not Tariffs and cutting Govt. That’s billionaires playbook.
Raku/Sparrow as alternative to sed/grep/Awk/Perl for data munging
by melezhik | 2025-04-04 15:35:46+00:00
Following of collection is stack overflow links with example of using Raku and Sparrow as data munging toolkit - https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Raku%2FSparrow, just follow examples and compare solutions with other well known tools like awk/sed/grep/perl
by pjmlp | 2025-04-04 15:36:54+00:00
The plethora of packages, including DSLs for compute and MLIR.

https://developer.nvidia.com/how-to-cuda-python

https://cupy.dev/

And

"Zero to Hero: Programming Nvidia Hopper Tensor Core with MLIR's NVGPU Dialect" from 2024 EuroLLVM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Q9IjsgXvA
by swat535 | 2025-04-04 15:36:54+00:00
A tool that constantly generates incorrect information, lacks any real awareness or internal state, and doesn’t even recognize its own mistakes, even when you explicitly point them out is, frankly, pretty useless.

Ever had this conversation with ChatGPT?

- ChatGPT: Here's my solution!

- You: This is wrong, you need to do X.

- ChatGPT: You're right! My solution was wrong because [repeats what you said]. Here’s my revised answer!

- You: This is still wrong. I said do X.

- ChatGPT: Understood! This clarifies: [still gets it wrong].

Or worse, you can trick it:

- ChatGPT: X + Y = Z (which is actually correct)

- You: No, X + Y = Q (which is false)

- ChatGPT: You're right, X + Y = Q is correct because...

I guess it's useful for generating boilerplate code or text, but even then, it often makes mistakes.
by Ladywood | 2025-04-04 15:37:07+00:00
Yes, Manchester is an excellent model to look at and shows it can be done. Some fantastic areas in the city and large infrastructure plans (stadiums to rail) which will no doubt support productivity levels in the region.

We already know how to do it all as a country - autonomous light rail, placemaking/ regeneration, connectivity, governance etc - we just have failed to ever do any of it more than once.

I've noticed similar trends re: where people move vs where they're from. A lot of my generation (currently 28-40yo range) were brought up with a 'it's grim up north' mentality and it still persists today. I'm hoping the next generations that make their first visits to alternate cities in the future don't feel the same thanks to the massive improvements seen over the past 10 years.
by wtcactus | 2025-04-04 15:37:31+00:00
Democrats have been saying exactly the same since Bush Junior was elected: "OMG, this will surely become an autocracy by the end of his mandate! There's no way we will ever have democratic elections again!"

Really, I don't like Trump, I think he is a buffoon, but Democrats are so tiresome, calling wolf every time they don't get what they want. I know toddlers with more self restrain.
by bluGill | 2025-04-04 15:37:43+00:00
> Even more surprising to me is how everyone seems concerned about the studios making enough money?! As if they should make any money at all. As if it is up to us to create a profitable game for them.

Do you want more games (movies, books...)? Then you want studios to make money in that type of game. Because and if they make money they have incentive to do so. Now if you are happy with the number and quality of free games a few hard core people who will do it even if they make nothing then you don't care. However games generally take a lot of effort to create and so by paying people to make them we can ensure people who want to actually have the time - as opposed want to but instead have to spend hours in a field farming for their food.

Now it is true that games often do look alike and many are not worth making and such. However if you want more you need to ensure they make money so it is worth investing.

We can debate how much they should make and how long copyright should be for. However you want them to make money so they make more.
by tkrulewich | 2025-04-04 15:38:28+00:00
Location: Kansas City, MO

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: potentially

Technologies: ReactJS, Next.JS, Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, LLMs, PyTorch, Docker, Github, Linux, Azure

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H7wK2ptRDWMNAAbePFqvlunPQke...

Email: edward@edwardkrulewich.com

About: Hi am Teddy. For the last year and a half, after completing my MS, I have been working in a research role investigating the intersection of LLMs and cyber security at a university. My work includes full stack web development of interfaces for utilizing specialized AI models as well as fine-tuning of open-source LLMs. I currently work in a small team of 2 full time staff and supervise 3 students.
by ooterness | 2025-04-04 15:38:41+00:00
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
by feoren | 2025-04-04 15:38:43+00:00
I remember all the hullaballoo about Asian Vikings and the like. It was so preposterous that Vikings would ever be Asian that it must be ultra-woke DEI mind-worms being forced onto AI! But of course, as far as the AI's concerned, it is even more preposterous that an Italian plumber would not be wearing red or green overalls with a mustache and a lettered baseball cap. I don't see any way you can get the AI to recognize that Vikings "should" be white people and not also think that Italian plumbers "should" look like that. Are they allowed to recombine their training data or must they strictly adhere to only what they've seen?

Of course the irony is that if the people who get offended whenever they see images of non-white people asked for a picture of "Vikings being attacked by Godzilla" , they'd get worked up if any of the Vikings in the picture were Asian (how unrealistic!). It's a made-up universe! The image contains a damn (Asian) Kaiju in it, and everyone is supposed to be pissed because the Vikings are unrealistic!?
by mandmandam | 2025-04-04 15:38:43+00:00
> What incentives do Corporate media have to ignore these current set of protests?

I mean... How much Chomsky have you read? He'll give you a much better overview than I could. This shit isn't new. I'll have a crack at the question though:

Major networks are owned by just five or six corporations. Their boardrooms and major shareholders interlock with defense contractors, private prison giants, and border security firms that make billions from deportation policies. Have you any idea how much of our money these fucks are pulling in? ... Every protest covered legitimately threatens their shareholders' portfolios. This also goes for big tech/social media.

Networks also fear losing access to both parties, which are pushing harsh immigration policies. Kamala swore to be tougher on immigrants than Trump, and Democrats have lately been crowing that Trump is deporting fewer people than Biden did.

Any "objectivity" is a thin facade. They don't want to challenge the immigration narrative that drives ratings among their core demographic, which is such a helpful distraction from inequality, and which is driving their shareholders portfolios up.

When forced to cover protests, media employs tactical reporting: dramatically under-counting crowds, obsessively focusing on any hint of disorder, and platforming the most extreme voices while ignoring reasonable demands. The well worn playbook is designed to delegitimize, and a horrifying proportion of Americans eat that shit up and ask for seconds.

The corporate media isn't neutral, or just biased. It's complicit. These issues matter hugely to the status quo they defend, and people recognizing their own power, and what our taxes are being spent on, is a massive threat to an unfathomably evil status quo.

"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly." - Chomsky, Necessary Illusions, 1988 (and look how media has consolidated since then)