MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thyristan | 2025-04-28 14:35:10+00:00
Large Inverter Based Resources (IBR) such as huge solar parcs, grid-scale batteries or high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) lines can be programmed to behave like rotating generators, or even to smooth out smaller ripples. They also don't necessarily need a leading grid frequency but can be used to generate their own frequency normal to cold-start or resync a grid.

Only "small stuff" IBRs need a leading frequency from the grid and disconnect outside their safety corridor because those usually aren't controllable from some central grid authority. Thus the stupid-but-safe behaviour mandated for them.
by buran77 | 2025-04-28 14:35:37+00:00
> I was pleasantly surprised to see that they promise that it’ll will work for at least five years after they stop selling the current version.

That disclaimer makes me even more uneasy. It implicitly says the toy might stop working after. You bought a toy, you didn't rent it or buy toy-as-a-service. There's no reason the device shouldn't work forever or for as long as it's in good enough condition to operate. And there's no reason you shouldn't own the content on that toy or be free to supply your own forever.

If you buy an audio cassette and a player they work until they fall apart. Here you need to rely on the goodwill of the seller to allow you to keep using them as long as they don't compete with their newer product too much.

I strongly believe that the better option for anyone who can opt for it is something that relies on no online components even if it's more elbow grease for the parents.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-28 14:35:46+00:00
Many tools on DevOps ecosystem are now going through the RIIR phenomenon, and I bet, had Rust 1.0 been available when Kubernetes decided to migrate away from Java, after Go heads joined the team (see FOSDEM talk on the matter), or Docker moving away from Python, most of those tools would have been written in Rust instead.
by bobalob | 2025-04-28 14:36:04+00:00
Bathrooms are only a small part of this.

The Supreme Court ruling will also ensure that males are not present in women's prisons, women's hospital wards, women's sports, domestic violence refuges for women, and many other spaces designated as being single-sex.

It also confirms that, in law, sexual orientation is defined in terms of sex. One of the intervenors in the case included lesbian groups who were concerned that legal recognition of the rights of lesbian women would be rendered meaningless if heterosexual males could simply identify as such.

As for bathrooms, they are one of the few facilities for which access is based on trust. The activists who insist that they're going to use opposite-sex bathrooms regardless of what the law says are confirming that they can't be trusted to respect boundaries and stay out. Which says a lot really.
by alexb_ | 2025-04-28 14:36:47+00:00
This is complete nonsense. You could say this for literally any law.

Yes, we have laws that exist to control people's behavior. We have systems which exist to control people's behavior. This is intended and completely necessary to live in a society with other people. For an example that causes no controversy to anyone on this board - we have laws that control people's ability to take open-source code and use it without sharing.

You're pretending like this is completely crazy by inventing a position nobody has taken, claiming "speed limiters in cars for repeat speed offenders" is the same as that insane position you just invented, and then pretending to be an idiot so that you don't have to do the work of actually justifying yourself. You should try practicing some actual thinking instead of resorting to pretending the people you disagree with are stupid.
by mrkeen | 2025-04-28 14:37:27+00:00
> So with that in mind, how can we reject the possibility that as an AI Agent (e.g. Aider) works on a program over time, it bootstraps a theory?

That's the appropriate level of faith for today's LLMs. They're not good enough to replace programmers. They're good enough that we can't reject the possibility of them one day being good enough to replace programmers.
by jekude | 2025-04-28 14:37:42+00:00
Also recently diagnosed and just open sourced how I'm using AI to count carbs + get insulin doses [1]. Biggest issues I've seen to starting a legit business is not having sanctioned access to real-time blood sugar values (the APIs are all one hour behind), and dealing with the FDA. Love the idea of more tech-enabled diabetes management, good luck!

[1] https://github.com/kennedyjustin/BolusGPT
by openWrangler | 2025-04-28 14:37:50+00:00
The Vector Search Conference is an online event on June 6 I thought could be helpful for developers, data engineers, and AI enthusiasts on HN to connect with other members of the vector search community. It’s a free opportunity to connect and learn from other professionals in your field if you’re interested in building RAG apps or scaling recommendation systems.

Event features:

- Experts from Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Qdrant, Manticore Search, Weaviate sharing real-world applications, best practices, and future directions in high-performance search and retrieval systems

- Presentations for all skill levels

- Live Q&A to engage with industry leaders and virtual networking

A few of the presenting speakers:

- Gunjan Joyal (Google): “Indexing and Searching at Scale with PostgreSQL and pgvector – from Prototype to Production”

- Maxim Sainikov (Microsoft): “Advanced Techniques in Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Azure AI Search”

- Ridha Chabad (Oracle): “LLMs and Vector Search unified in one Database: MySQL HeatWave's Approach to Intelligent Data Discovery”

If you can’t make it but want to learn from experience shared in one of these talks, sessions will also be recorded. Free registration can be checked out at (https://vsearchcon.com/register/) - hope you learn something from the event!
by ryao | 2025-04-28 14:38:11+00:00
That does not state how they would be more skilled. NYS has requirements on drivers too. You must satisfy pre-licensing requirements:

https://dmv.ny.gov/driver-license/complete-pre-licensing-req...

Those are the minimum standards. After meeting them, you can receive a learner’s permit at age 16, that allows you to drive under the supervision of a licensed driver. Parents will sometimes make things even more rigorous. My mother for example required me to drive her under supervision nearly every day for an entire year before she let me proceed to the next step for my license. This was in addition to study at a driving school that was already beyond the state’s minimum standard.

Then you must pass both written and practical exams. Interestingly, the minimum age for this varies. If you have gone through much more rigorous training (e.g. by studying at a driving school), you may receive your license at age 17. If you have not, you must wait until age 18. This encourages people to exceed the minimum standard for training.

After you have your license, if you do not take driver education courses every 3 years, you face higher insurance rates, so nearly everyone does. Finally, if you commit a few driving infractions within an 18 month span (which causes 11 points to be placed on your license), your license is suspended. Insurance rates rise if even a single point is added, so there is pressure to avoid even a single infraction. As for insurance, it is mandatory and the requirements are among the highest in the U.S.

It is unclear to me how German drivers would be more skilled than drivers trained/licensed/insured in NY per your phrasing. You have not given a single concrete example of anything that would make them better drivers.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-04-28 14:38:43+00:00
Contrary to the claim that there is no EU OSHA, I was quite surprised to learn that there is an EU agency with the same role as the American OSHA that is literally named EU-OSHA, and I suspect you'll be pleasantly surprised too.

Wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Agency_for_Safety_and...
by pjmorris | 2025-04-28 14:39:05+00:00
Excerpted from Tony Hoare's 1980 Turing Award speech, 'The Emperor's Old Clothes'...

"At last, there breezed into my office the most senior manager of all, a general manager of our parent company, Andrew St. Johnston. I was surprised that he had even heard of me. "You know what went wrong?" he shouted--he always shouted-- "You let your programmers do things which you yourself do not understand." I stared in astonishment. He was obviously out of touch with present day realities. How could one person ever understand the whole of a modern software product like the Elliott 503 Mark II software system? I realized later that he was absolutely right; he had diagnosed the true cause of the problem and he had planted the seed of its later solution."

My interpretation is that whether shifting from delegation to programmers, or to compilers, or to LLMs, the invariant is that we will always have to understand the consequences of our choices, or suffer the consequences.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-28 14:39:10+00:00
The disinvitation data is so incredibly small that there's no way on earth we can call this "rabid." In Haidt and Fukuyama's "The Coddling of the American Mind" they present data on disinvitations attempts. And it is in the tens of attempts nationwide. They even have to present the data with Milo Yiannopoulos removed since he made up a considerable portion of all disinvitation attempts.

You can think that students are foolish for doing this. You can choose to stop donating because of a response by an institution. But to use this to claim that the left has "gone rabid" is ridiculous given the actual data.

The students' behavior is not what drove voters towards the reactionary right. Breathless media coverage that blew this behavior completely out of proportion is responsible for this.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-28 14:39:18+00:00
This isn't some arbitrary purity test

There is more to "providing value" than simply producing working code

Does it have known security exploits built in that you have no idea about because you couldn't be bothered to read documentation?

Is the "value" you provided extremely temporary because someone is going to come along and exploit your shitty LLM generated code to steal all of your client's customer data?

Software Engineering isn't just about writing code it is about understanding what you're building because if you don't, other people will exploit that
by foldr | 2025-04-28 14:39:34+00:00
Oh sure I agree that JK refers to JK Rowling. I just mean that the sign is probably an ironic reference to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling rather than an actual proposal to burn JK Rowling at the stake. It’s in extremely bad taste and I don’t endorse it. However, I personally don’t regard it as a case of someone advocating for JK Rowling to be killed.
by manuhabitela | 2025-04-28 14:39:39+00:00
Used this in the past and it's my favorite tool to make presentations now. It's really the most dev friendly tool I managed to try, and I guess I tried a few.

The most interesting thing for me is that you can write your own Vue components for your most specific use cases. Makes it easy to write some rather interactive slides. And it saves you from having to learn some presentation-specific software, some motion design or video making tool. Just quickly code your way through everything.

Quite refreshing to build slides that way.
by indeed30 | 2025-04-28 14:39:48+00:00
Ten years ago, I worked for a company that had billions of sensor readings from mobile phones. The idea was to use crowdsourced data to create truly detailed, real-world coverage maps, and then sell that data to marketing and network operations teams at telcos.

We used reverse geocoding extensively — but never down to street addresses, always to a higher level. We wanted to split measurements by country, region, city — any geographic unit. When you deal with country borders, you get a lot of weird measurements as phones roam onto foreign networks. We weren’t interested in reporting on the experience of users roaming while abroad, so we needed shapefiles good enough to filter all that out and to partition the rest of the data cleanly.

We built a 30-machine Spark cluster on AWS back when Spark was still super early — around v0.7, definitely before 1.0. At the time, you pretty much had to use Scala with Spark if you cared about performance. Most of the workload was point-in-polygon tests. Before that, we were using a brutally hacky pipeline involving PostGIS, EMR, and Pig, and it was hell.

It was incredibly fun, but looking back now, I can see so clearly all the mistakes I made.
by spudlyo | 2025-04-28 14:40:02+00:00
I keep seeing new projects that implement things that Emacs and Org mode already do incredibly well. I guess it's a testament to how steep the Emacs learning curve is, or perhaps how ugly the defaults look.

You have ox-beamer, which lets you write your slides in Org-mode, and export using LaTeX and Beamer, which look pretty great. You can also use org-reveal, or org-re-reveal to make some visually very attractive presentations with reveal-js. And finally, if you want to actually have the presentation run inside Emacs, you can use dslide[0] which looks really nice, and leans heavily on org-babel.

[0]: https://github.com/positron-solutions/dslide
by benjaminsky2 | 2025-04-28 14:40:03+00:00
This is awesome! I’m work with a team of analysts and data engineers who own a pretty big snowflake data warehouse. We write a ton of dbt models and have a range of sql skill levels on the team. This would be the perfect way to allow more junior devs to build their skills quickly and support more complex models.

I would recommend you target data warehouses like snowflake and bigquery where the query complexity and thus value prop for a tool like this is potentially much higher.
by brazzy | 2025-04-28 14:40:23+00:00
I would not blame GOG for that if even the official 1996 bundle release made the same mistake. The description in the article sounds like it was never officially confirmed knowledge that the game would become unwinnable if cracked incompletely.

How would you check for something you don't know about? They probably tried the game and when they couldn't win they ascribed it to insufficient skill. Even if they searched for information online, they probably (like OP) found discussions where some people complained about the game being unwinnable and got "you just suck!" replies.

Honestly, it was a dumb thing to do by the original developers.
by pheelicks | 2025-04-28 14:41:47+00:00
The cells being the same shape is useful in some use cases and irrelevant in others. For example, see the Airbnb demo: https://a5geo.org/examples/airbnb. The H3 tiles are very different sizes in the two cities, and make it appear that there is a much higher density of listings in Malta, even though that is not the case.

However the symmetry of H3’s hexagonal cells lends itself well to flow analysis, or routing - which is no surprise as it was developed at Uber.

As for the name, it follows the convention of S2 and H3, which come from group theory and refer (loosely) to the symmetry groups of the various systems
by Seb-C | 2025-04-28 14:42:00+00:00
It is well understood already that the number of autistic people is not actually increasing. What is increasing is our understanding of it and the number of diagnostics.

The fact that high functioning people like Asperger got merged with it and changed to a spectrum is precisely science at work, achieving to improve our understanding of the phenomenon. We previously believed that only the extreme cases were autistic, but we now understand that this limit was arbitrary and wrong, because autism is a broader spectrum of people with a wide range of possible characteristics.

Autism is not a disease, it's a neurodivergence, and it is very important to understand that autistic people are not broken, but simply function differently. The proof being that outside of a minority of extreme cases, autistic people does not have issues communicating or socializing with other autistic people.

Trying to categorize people as "normal" and "abnormal" and then pretending to "fix" the abnormal ones is dangerous and drifts towards eugenism, because there is not a single definition of normal, and there is probably not a single person on earth that is "normal".

If 97% of the population was autistic, then autistic people would not have any issues. The remaining 3% of what is currently considered neurotypical would be the ones having difficulties socializing, communicating and experiencing severe anxieties and psychological problems due to it.

This is why the solution is not to "fix" autism, but to help them find an environment where they can strive, be understood and live comfortably.
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-28 14:42:09+00:00
This is a false dichotomy. You seem to think that the way speeds are enforced, with a focus on revenue generation, means that speed limiting is only for revenue generation. That is just not true. At higher speeds your reaction time, combined with stopping distance increases, mean that you need more warning and space to avoid hazards. Cars pulling out of driveways/side streets/parking lots, cars changing lanes, cars stopping to turn, pedestrians crossing roads, bicycles, etc. all take time and space to respond to. That is why we don’t have home driveways or crosswalks on a freeway. We have 15-25 mph school zones because children can and do behave unpredictably and may dart out into traffic, so a drive will have almost no time or space to respond.
by fjm2u | 2025-04-28 14:43:03+00:00
I've been working hard on MCP Router. MCP Router is a free desktop app (Windows/Mac) that lets you securely manage local or remote MCP servers via GUI, with access control & logs.

https://github.com/mcp-router/mcp-router

Works with VSCode, Cursor, Cline and any MCP client, and connects to servers from any registry (Zapier, Smithy, etc.).
by mapt | 2025-04-28 14:43:04+00:00
Read the article.

The highest speed limit for Virginia is 70mph. Their bill gives judges the option of offering this for people who drive >100mph, as an alternative to license recovation.

The DC bill gives people whose license the judges are already suspending or revoking for speed-related offenses an alternative - drive with this limiter enabled for one year.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/02/08/d-c-to-dangerous-driv...

Georgia is working on a similar bill for people convicted of street racing.

https://visionzeronetwork.org/accelerating-safety-states-cha...
by AvAn12 | 2025-04-28 14:43:04+00:00
Opened and closed a FB account in 2012 - that's my customer lifetime journey with Meta products. Like I was saying, I have no interest in ad-supported products. And I would say that the burden would be on meta to persuade me why I should use a product I don't want - rather than for me to be so naive as to try to convince a massive corporate monolith to change its business model just for me. Also haven't watched ad-supported TV since paying for streaming became available. Those of you who like ads, please enjoy them - and the rest of us will do something else - this is what makes a market!
by tgtweak | 2025-04-28 14:43:18+00:00
Have you tested it on any faster FPGAs? I think Azure has instances with xilinx/AMD accelerators paired.

>Standard_NP10s instance, 1x AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)

Would be curious to see how this benchmarks on a faster FGPA since I imagine clock frequency is the latency dictator - while memory and tile can determine how many instances can run in parallel.
by lucasfdacunha | 2025-04-28 14:43:31+00:00
Working on a series of interviews with gamers about how the hobby is part of their lives, called Unmuted [1]. It's been awesome to interview people from different backgrounds and see how gaming has influenced them.

It's the first original piece of content for a newsletter of curated gaming content that I've been running for more than five years now, called The Gaming Pub [2].

[1]: https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/ [2]: https://www.thegamingpub.com/
by didip | 2025-04-28 14:43:43+00:00
This resonates greatly with me.

It used to be such a torture (in my own mind) to constantly trying to come up with a new hustle.

But not anymore. As I got older and after fatherhood, I have learned that balance is everything. Including valueing my time in having fun doing productive things.

If the hacking side project gives me tremendous enjoyment, then it is a win already both from happiness and the “job training” aspect.

As it so happened, I just hang out with my little cousins who are into robotics and so glad that my side projects in the past helped me connect with them, and I was able to give valuable advice. That was a big win for me.

Also, I have learned the value of providing stability for my own family. Something that the childless me never appreciated. Throwing away stability to start a startup has a steep cost these days.
by superkuh | 2025-04-28 14:43:58+00:00
LLMs are not the non-human entities that ruined reddit. Corporations are. And it all started with the huge venture capital infusions in 2014/15 and the obligations those generated. And frankly, these LLM bots they're complaining about are not off on their own. They are, again, a result of corporations. The worst and most dangerous non-human persons. They really need to be stripped of their legal personhood.
by troupo | 2025-04-28 14:44:22+00:00
> .card > .card-header

And we know that it never worked well. That's why BEM and many other naming strategies exist: to try and replicate scoping purely through naming discipline.

> That was nesting, IIRC. Sugar syntax, so you don’t have to fully specified the whole selector.

Nesting partly solves the naming and the "keep all of a component's style close together".

The other partial solution is CSS Scoping: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@scope

And this still doesn't solve the issue of repetition where every component has to spell out the margins, the paddings, the borders, the...
by vlucas | 2025-04-28 14:45:07+00:00
Alternatives are good, but there is almost no information on this site. I went to the site hoping to see things like what a route looks like, the syntax, how I might create a page or layout, how to make server only things vs. client only things, etc. None of that is on the page or GitHub README though. Not even one code example. Show people how this works!
by throw0101a | 2025-04-28 14:45:17+00:00
The Code: Silicon Valley and the remaking of America by Margaret Pugh O'Mara is a pretty book worth checking out.

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534709/the-code-by-...

* https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2019/07/18/book-rev...

Also goes into things like why Boston (New England) had some promise but ended up fizzling out (or at least not reaching the same scale as SV).
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-28 14:45:35+00:00
Wait, isn't the conclusion to take from the "Chinese room" literally the opposite of what you suggest? I.e. it's the most basic, go-to example of a larger system showing capability (here, understanding Chinese) that is not present in any of its constituent parts individually.

> Their words aren't "about" anything, they don't represent concepts or ideas or physical phenomena the same way the words and thoughts of a human do. The computer doesn't actually "understand Chinese" the way a human can.

That's very much unclear at this point. We don't fully understand how we relate words to concepts and meaning ourselves, but to the extent we do, LLMs are by far the closest implementation of those same ideas in a computer.