MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kube-system | 2025-04-30 11:50:17+00:00
> Because any amount of inaccurate measurement would mean they were technically going over the limit. You'd have to put a little pad in it.

I don't think it is reasonable nor do people want to buy cars that won't even go the speed limit.

> I didn't propose anything related to existing cars.

I am saying that your proposal(s) will be obsolete after the car is sold. Because speed limits change and cars move to different places over time.

If it could be waived at time of sale, this would just be a part of pre-deliver paperwork that dealers have everyone sign. Dealers don't wan't headaches of people coming back ticked off that their car won't do the speed limit. You're not mandating safety, you're mandating a new piece of paperwork.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-04-30 11:50:27+00:00
Can't say I really approve watching that Whistlin' Diesel guy destroy vehicles but the takeaway was: The cybertruck is at least tougher than you'd expect this aluminum/plastic/glue/stainless steel trim monstrosity to be, not that that's saying much.

But I was really glad to see what a beating the F150 could take and ... keep on truckin'. At least they haven't forgotten the truck part as they've turned them into overpriced passenger vehicles. The old trucks we used to have a the "ranch" - a Chevy, a Ford and a Dodge for good measure - with their bench seat and basic amenities and 8 foot truck bed - really took a lot of abuse to the point of being loaded with 2x their rated payload capacity... and kept on truckin'.
by estsauver | 2025-04-30 11:50:48+00:00
Qwen3 and some of the smaller gemma's are pretty good and fast. I have a gist with my benchmark #'s here on my m4 pro max (with a whole ton of ram, but most small models will fit on a well spec'ed dev mac.)

https://gist.github.com/estsauver/a70c929398479f3166f3d69bce...
by jalict | 2025-04-30 11:51:14+00:00
> Is it possible to fight Internet addiction...

Yes!

> ...without banning stuff?

What incentive do companies have to do this? It seems quite profitable for them?

I am quite strict here with my comment; but honestly, I can't see much reason other than making new products that are made as an "anti" movement, but companies will just find new ways to get people hooked -- because it is profitable for them to do so.
by genewitch | 2025-04-30 11:52:01+00:00
https://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/breaches/c...

it was `{S /con/con`; my memory transposed two characters. the {S was the "system message" that AOL chatrooms used to send sounds, so that sequence of characters after a newline made your computer look for that sound. It was cool if everyone was trusted to not do the /con/con, people would have email chains with the audio files on them, like a proto-napster.
by PurpleRamen | 2025-04-30 11:53:12+00:00
> Damn, 2k tabs, I’m not familiar with sideberry but with 2k of them are they even right to be called native ‘tabs’ or do they function more like bookmarks?

Sidebery offers a hierarchy of tabs, supports group-tabs inside the hierarchy and also has panels, which are basically groups outside/parallel to the hierarchy. With this, you can have very diversified organization-tools.

I also oscillate between 1k to 3k tabs, and I see them more as a process-state. I use tabs for my working-memory, and bookmarks for permanent memory. So any projects, I organize into groups, for every area I have a panel where I collect the corresponding groups. And if the project is over, I close them.

With bookmarks on the other side, I collect links to websites I might visit at some random time, but not necessarily because of a specific project, or with multiple projects. For example, I have bookmarks for my bank, my provider, video-sites (Youtube, Netflix...), Social Media, but also resources like Wikipedia, or self-hosted apps, etc. Those are links I never want to delete, unless the service itself shuts down, or I switch to a different one. So in that sense, they are "stateless".
by bell-cot | 2025-04-30 11:53:26+00:00
This was their 6th launch attempt. Current score: 2 failure, 2 partial failures, 2 successes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Alpha#Launch_outcomes

It'd be nice if Firefly was a long-term success with their rockets.

Vs. their lunar landers are looking awesome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace_Blue_Ghost
by zx90 | 2025-04-30 11:54:03+00:00
To add another case: When I was 14 or so, a science teacher taught the whole classroom that the reason stars twinkle is because of light being waves. I considered interrupting and mentioning pockets of air with different densities, refraction, etc... I decided not to. I didn't want to be branded (again) a troublemaker. I hope nobody else in that classroom remembers that lesson.

Some teachers start with high spirits but most turn into regular slobs trying to get to the end of the month once they realise that their job is to mind the children while the parents work.

I was lucky enough to meet just a handful of teachers that tought me some values, the rest were just ... forgetable people.
by khaki54 | 2025-04-30 11:54:24+00:00
There is a step up from diodes called [inspecting] data guards and an adjacent technology called content disarm and reconstruct (CDR) that doesn't rely on signatures or heuristics - it just assumes every document is malicious.

Combining these 3 technologies with certain policies, e.g. 2 man rule, the hw/sw itself developed on airgap you can make it practically impossible to attack, even for nation state adversaries.

Edit to point out that these all work in 2-way configurations as well.
by delichon | 2025-04-30 11:54:28+00:00
Put another way, Florida supports the right of informed consent with regard to fluoride treatment. As a thyroid cancer survivor I decline that treatment due to fluoride competing with iodine for receptors and causing goiters and tumors as a result. The only reason I can decline is that I'm using well water rather than a public system. Now people in Florida can all choose. I'm pro choice on abortion too for the same reason: Your body your choice.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-04-30 11:54:34+00:00
I deplore the fact that schools need to resort to banning phones.

When I was younger I imagined a world in which computing devices would be a boon to (young) people everywhere.

But many apps appear to be detrimental to people's mental health, both young and old.

Possibly this can be changed. Maybe separate app stores are a solution (think f-droid)? Or maybe we need to start looking a lot harder at apps that might actually be user hostile.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-04-30 11:54:42+00:00
Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best.

This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort.

By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-04-30 11:55:29+00:00
you half joke, but having one administration (lying) about solving abusive interest on student loans, vs current one boasting (probably lying too) about sending millions to jail for failing to pay that abusive interest, do change peoples priorities in a way that lead more people to work flipping burgers instead of trying to code a wiki for a niche audience for example.
by jemmyw | 2025-04-30 11:55:46+00:00
Adding fluoride to water is a strange topic people get very worked up about. The levels of added fluoride are very low, it's been well studied at this point. Some places in the world need to filter out naturally occurring fluoride, which is one of the reasons that not everywhere adds it.

In NZ we appear to be moving in the opposite direction where central govt is now going to mandate the addition of fluoride where it was previously a local decision.
by a2128 | 2025-04-30 11:55:50+00:00
Whenever I visit the US I get annoyed that the prices listed on the store shelves aren't actually what I pay; in Europe all prices are VAT-inclusive, but in the US none of the prices include sales tax, they're all broken out separately at checkout.

I found this unreasonable and confusing until one day I read a conservative argument that this is actually a good thing, because it stops the government from increasing sales tax too much. It constantly reminds residents of how much extra they're paying for sales tax and encourages voting for politicians who will reduce sales tax if it's too high. Okay, it's a reasonable argument, I wasn't super against it anymore.

It's fairly shocking to now see this happen, not even as a result of any law but just one of the biggest companies deciding to obey in advance.
by vintagedave | 2025-04-30 11:56:05+00:00
You might be surprised what you could contribute.

I've submitted articles that I thought were really valuable, and never had any success [0] (maybe the first is too business-y, not hacker-ish, but I genuinely believe what I wrote there matters and it's worth understanding, at least in the sense it was transformative for me when I did understand it) and then an article on a random weekend project a friend and I did made the top five on the front page [1] and stayed there for ages.

People very much just might care about the tables you make! Especially if you can share something you learned.

[0]: https://daveon.design/what-are-you-optimising-for.html and https://daveon.design/creating-joy-in-the-user-experience.ht...

[1]: https://daveon.design/adventures-making-vegemite.html
by pavankamat24 | 2025-04-30 11:56:13+00:00
Everyone Can Build Apps Now! The landscape of software development is changing rapidly. With the rise of AI-powered tools, people with zero programming experience are now publishing apps. AI code generation has democratized development, allowing users to create entire codebases in minutes without writing a single line of code.

AI Can Generate Entire Codebases Instantly No CS degree? No problem. Just describe what you need, and AI builds it for you. AI code review tools can help refine the output, but challenges remain.

However, this shift has introduced new challenges in software development. While AI accelerates code creation, it does not replace the need for rigorous pull request review and code review processes
by chaoz_ | 2025-04-30 11:57:21+00:00
"You can actually read up on how these things work."

While you can definitely read about how some parts of a very complex neural network function, it's very challenging to understand the underlying patterns.

That's why even the people who invented components of these networks still invest in areas like mechanistic interpretability, trying to develop a model of how these systems actually operate. See https://www.transformer-circuits.pub/2022/mech-interp-essay (Chris Olah)
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-30 11:57:52+00:00
Kids still get to walk with cars around, ride bikes, drive motorcycles usually a few years before majority, they also ride cars and are usually familiar with how they work way before driving.

I'm actually of the option we should have a smartphone category/setup at the same positioning as bikes are to cars, it would even benefit adults the same way not everyone wants a car.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-30 11:59:11+00:00
In school I spend 8 hours listening to some teacher or playing silly learning games and did some busywork as homework. I never learned for any test or found any of the material particularly interesting.

In university I actually had to study, take notes, research the subject, study for many hours, etc.

>a ton of mathematics from basic arithmetic to I guess something like calculus and trigonometry and algebra and some discrete maths

Hilarious to say this. As it turned out, my first semester of university mathematics was spent on learning everything I did not learn in school. And it made it extremely clear to me how badly school had prepared me.

You would think that school would put me in a position where university mathematics were just a continuation. Nothing further could be from the truth, nearly everything taught in school was taught in a way which made it useless for actual mathematics.

In school we learned nothing about: Sets, logic, deductions, Axioms or Proofs (which turn out to be really important!), we did however spend years solving integrals, which turned out extremely unhelpful for actual mathematics.
by deadbabe | 2025-04-30 11:59:50+00:00
There are definitely a lot of FAANG engineers who are not unhappy and miserable with their lives, they are gainfully employed and live rich fulfilling lives providing abundance for their families.

In contrast I know plenty of people who quit jobs and are now working way harder to earn less at the expense of those around them, resulting in broken homes, divorces, and all around miserable lives, all pinned on the hope they will get their big break and it will all be worth it. They are very pathetic but can’t see it because they are so wrapped up in some foolish idea that isn’t going anywhere.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-30 12:01:20+00:00
Yes as the Server Core configuration it can, but you don't get to replace Win32 puzzle piece that goes on top with something else, you might augment it with alternative UI frameworks, but ultimately it is Win32 at the bottom layer.

Just like on macOS, while UNIX on the bottom layer, you don't get to plug something else instead of WindowServer and related low level APIs. Even with XQuartz, it builds on top of it, just like they build on top of Win32 on Windows.
by detourdog | 2025-04-30 12:01:23+00:00
I think what that is demonstrating is that models are commodity objects. The model factory may have a value. I think it would need a specialized context. It would need a market large enough to support it and small enough to keep the context out of the mainstream.

My guess is this will always be a moving target. The consumer will choose models based on their value proposition.

We all have to start our sandcastle somewhere.
by spwa4 | 2025-04-30 12:01:35+00:00
That reasoning only makes sense if the scam callcenters DO cooperate with Indian police/court and the state is actively happy with scam center responses (and so with their business). Because you can be 1000% sure they got sued.

So you're saying the same thing, just a more polite. You're still saying that the Indian government cooperates with scam call centers.
by ekidd | 2025-04-30 12:01:57+00:00
Also, I've been hearing a lot of complaints that Chatbot Arena tends to favor:

- Lots of bullet points in every response.

- Emoji.

...even at the expense of accurate answers. And I'm beginning to wonder if the sycophantic behavior of recent models ("That's a brilliant and profound idea") is also being driven by Arena scores.

Perhaps LLM users actually do want lots of bullets, emoji and fawning praise. But this seems like a perverse dynamic, similar to the way that social media users often engage more with content that outrages them.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-30 12:02:15+00:00
I appreciate the sincere engagement.

I wasn't saying that statement you quote is true for all groups everywhere, I was explicit about that, if you reread. I was saying that if that threshold is met in a specific society at a given time, maybe then at that stage we could say that porn was "shaping society" there more than society was shaping porn. As in, it could be a threshold we could look at.

While I agree that it's a large claim by itself, and that it's going to be hard (or impossible) to measure, I think having an idea of a threshold like that can be useful for thinking about where we are. And I do think that "where we are" with porn and its influence is a lot more serious than people are comfortable admitting.

So yes, while I very much agree that religion is maybe the single other huge thing, the effect porn is likely having on human sexuality is something I think we vastly underestimate.
by gwd | 2025-04-30 12:02:18+00:00
> I sort of did this with ssh where I figured out how to crash an ssh client that was trying to guess the root password. What I got for my trouble was a number of script kiddies ddosing my poor little server.

This is the main reason I haven't installed zip bombs on my website already -- on the off chance I'd make someone angry and end up having to fend off a DDoS.

Currently I have some URL patterns to which I'll return 418 with no content, just to save network / processing time (since if a real user encounters a 404 legitimately, I want it to have a nice webpage for them to look at).

Should probably figure out how to wire that into fail2ban or something, but not a priority at the moment.
by dagw | 2025-04-30 12:02:26+00:00
Do European countries use fluoride in their water?

Varies a lot from country to country, but over all it is done to a much lower degree than in the US.

However the big difference is that there isn't a ban on it. There are scientific guidelines published by the EU and then it is up to each country/state to decide if they want to add it or not based on local considerations.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-30 12:03:24+00:00
How do you know 'nobody wants it?'

If it's tremendously popular, obviously people want it.

>yougov surveys.

Long ago it was revealed how easy it is to manipulate polls/surveys. I discount 100% of polls since. The big pollsters have good reputation because they attempt to eliminate the manipulation; but its not really possible to do. The questions in of themselves are doing it.

Here's an extreme example to illustrate.

Do you think illegal immigrants should get social net benefits?

Pretty much everyone says no.

Do you think an innocent child with a broken arm from playing at a park with friends, whose parents may be guilty of a crime, should get their arm set by the ER for free?

Pretty much everyone says yes.

News article: 99% of people support free benefits to illegal immigrants.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-30 12:04:04+00:00
Tesla is a dead company walking.

The profits from it's core auto business died last quarter (down 70%) and there is no good reason for them to return any time soon.

The small profit it reported came from selling government sponsored emission credits to other manufacturers.

Wall Street investors cheered the good news. The stock rose about 25%. Clearly, they are smoking hopium. Go figure.
by Orygin | 2025-04-30 12:04:05+00:00
Slack is, I think, mainly focused on the messaging and relies on third parties to integrate other features. Microsoft is a behemoth that wants to sell their complete software suite and tries to integrate all of them together for a "seamless" experience. They do have an incentive for their own products to be good and used instead of third parties.

Plus once they realize how much data is in these wikis, they will want to ingest them for AI (if not already done), so there is an incentive for them to have more users on their solution instead.

Edit: And even if the OP is not relying only on MS for sales, they still depend heavily on them and their App Store. They are not competing with Confluence or other systems, they are competing with Teams itself.
by small_scombrus | 2025-04-30 12:04:26+00:00
Upfront: I think AI is borderline useless for many of the tasks we give it. But:

1. Do our neurons not just react the same way every time to the same input? A brain is larger than the sum of its parts.

2. They don't reason, but you can somewhat emulate (or pretend to be) reasoning if you feed something back into itself enough times and it pinky promises reasoning is happening
by hapticmonkey | 2025-04-30 12:05:00+00:00
Let’s not also forget that Apple and Google are currently illegally distributing the TikTok app in their platforms. Despite a law passed by Congress and upheld by the supreme court that this shouldn’t be happening. But I guess the president, with no legal basis, gets to just order an extension and pinky promise not to enforce it. This is the new crazy dynamic between the administration and tech companies.

https://www.theverge.com/23651507/tiktok-ban-us-news
by nabla9 | 2025-04-30 12:05:07+00:00
It had to be a law because children are people in Finland and most Nordic countries with rights that adults just can't take away.

Current legislation allows the teacher to tell a student to put their phone away in a pocket or backpack, for example, where it will not be a distraction.

The use of phones during breaks cannot be completely banned, as students have fundamental rights. The Constitution guarantees everyone the protection of property, which also applies to students' phones. Restricting the use of mobile devices must be considered from the perspective of freedom of speech and the protection of a phone call or other confidential message.

Section 12 from Finnish constitution:

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Section 12 - Freedom of expression and right of access to information

Everyone has the freedom of expression. Freedom of expression entails the right to express, disseminate and receive information, opinions and other communications without prior prevention by anyone. More detailed provisions on the exercise of the freedom of expression are laid down by an Act. Provisions on restrictions relating to pictorial programmes that are necessary for the protection of children may be laid down by an Act. Documents and recordings in the possession of the authorities are public, unless their publication has for compelling reasons been specifically restricted by an Act. Everyone has the right of access to public documents and recordings.

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See also: Convention on the Rights of the Child https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/... Wikpedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_th...
by veeti | 2025-04-30 12:05:54+00:00
Some common themes in the conversation are neoliberal cost cutting, failed attempts at inclusion and immigration.

* Finland is a gerontocracy and recent governments have made significant cuts to education and the general wellbeing of younger generations.

* Modern schools are increasingly built like open plan offices with dozens of students crammed into "learning spaces" instead of traditional classrooms. This reduces building costs and is also sold as a trendy new innovation in pedagogy.

* Special needs and gifted students are no longer put into special classrooms where they can receive the extra attention and care they need. Instead, they are put in with the other kids to the benefit of no one except the state budget, but at least it feels more "inclusive" to some research professor in their ivory tower.

* The amount of immigration and share of children speaking Finnish as a second language is rising and they are statistically more likely to perform worse (https://yle.fi/a/74-20018233, https://yle.fi/a/74-20016772).
by sofixa | 2025-04-30 12:06:01+00:00
> found this unreasonable and confusing until one day I read a conservative argument that this is actually a good thing, because it stops the government from increasing sales tax too much. It constantly reminds residents of how much extra they're paying for sales tax and encourages voting for politicians who will reduce sales tax if it's too high. Okay, it's a reasonable argument, I wasn't super against it anymore

It's not really reasonable. Like, at all.

You can know how much sales tax/VAT is without having to do math every time you pay a bill. For one thing, receipts can and AFAIK always include VAT separately in the EU, with a line for each VAT amount if different (e.g. in France food and alcohol are under different VAT rates, so on the receipt it says you paid X in VAT, of which Y was under 20% for alcohol, Z under 5.5% for food).

You retain the same "power" while being more informed and you're spared quick mental math every time you pay.