MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ekarabeg | 2025-04-28 19:02:18+00:00
Thank you! n8n has done really well over the last few years to simplify the workflow building process. I responded to this in a previous comment, but we believe the agent building process should be more open, meaning fewer abstractions between the interface and the model provider. We want our platform to be as lightweight as possible.

How this translates in the application is through features like allowing for custom tool calling with code execution, JSON schema input for response format, etc. I'd love to hear your thoughts using Sim Studio - let us know how we compare to the other workflow builders!
by echelon | 2025-04-28 19:02:37+00:00
That's 100% orthogonal.

1. There are plenty of US citizens that say the same things

2. This demonstrates that anything that runs afoul of whatever party is in charge will subject an immigrant to extra-judicial removal without due process. That's a scary precedent, and people all over the world are watching and learning that America is not a safe place to hinge your future on.

Regardless of how you feel about this person, there are other levers and mechanisms. Impinging upon freedom of speech in a country that prides itself upon it and revoking legal residential status is scary.

Telling someone you disagree with or even hate their ideas and their politics is one thing. Removing their rights and crushing decades of their work and their future fitness envelope - built on countless opportunity costs, some of them based on "choosing America" - is quite another.

I don't care if the person is pro-Palestine, pro-Israel, pro-LGBT, pro-MRA, pro-Scientology, pro-Church of Satan. We should not damage the American brand. We should not impinge upon our laws and constitution.

Everyone in the world should want to come here, and we should be able to take our pick of the hardest workers and brightest minds. Some of those people are Israeli, some of those people are Palestinian and Muslim, some of those people are Chinese. We should be able to get them all and grow stronger. We're supposed to be a melting pot.

You want to know another thing that's orthogonal to our discussion? I don't think we're in this place of hate naturally. I think the platforms and the marketers and the engagement algorithms and the coordinated psyops have put us here. I think people are mostly kind (or at worst neutral) to one another. We've got a whole lot of battles to fight if we want to avoid extreme polarization ripping us apart.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-04-28 19:02:58+00:00
> I also mourn the death of the "B game." Puyo Puyo Tetris I/II is a great example - it's not an indie game, but it's not an expensive game to release. It's a mid-tier release for a niche audience. This is the kind of product you don't see much of anymore, and what I miss the most.

This is pretty insightful, as no established company is likely to release a game like these anymore. They want to trap you for years with Candy Crush alikes and perpetual analysis to tilt the balance between frustration and micropayments.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-28 19:03:00+00:00
The ownership of a tesla car after it's sold has nothing to do with elon. Any debt moves to someone else. Insurance is someone else.

Elon and his financial interests are not involved at all. 0$ impact to elon.

Moreover, if you're looking at politics. Republicans dont own teslas... it was democrats who pushed electric cars and tended to buy teslas. So it's democrats destroying other democrat's cars.

What's very suspicious to me is that because of the firebombings, now republicans are buying teslas? lol what? did tesla realize they were politically walled in sales and have staged this to sell more? perhaps too conspiracy.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-04-28 19:03:14+00:00
Because yours was just a thinly veiled comment on Capitalism, dressed up as one about Economists.

> the austerity measures actually caused more pain for most people

You're thinking of the Great Depression, not the Great Recession. Have you looked up just how much the U.S. government spent in that time? The bailouts, etc? This was not austerity.
by dang | 2025-04-28 19:03:43+00:00
Do you want to post it as a Show HN soon, before the PhD sucks you in altogether?

(If so, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.)
by n_ary | 2025-04-28 19:04:23+00:00
I also find the intellisense aspect of it good though the price is still too high when my local IDE can do 1/10th of that for a long time.

Additionally, LLMs are sort of using old day google mastery to find the right result quickly to save a huge waste of wading through junk and SEO spam, which translates to productivity but then we are again balanced out because this gained productivity was lost once SEO spam took off a decade back. I am indifferent about this gain again, as anything with mass adaptation tends to devolve in garbage behavior eventually, slowly the gains will again be eaten up.
by cuuupid | 2025-04-28 19:04:45+00:00
So are we going to pretend Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX do not exist with their armies of 21 year olds fresh out of college getting fast tracked for SCI and working with secrets far more dangerous than nuclear?

Also by definition everyone who receives an SCI clearance would have 0 experience working with anything of that nature. Nearly everyone who gets an account on JWICS (btw there are 30k+ accounts on JWICS, not exactly a small group) would have no experience working with the information hosted there.

I don't follow the line of reasoning in this article and honestly expected more than tabloid style reporting from NPR. Imagine the converse, if there were swathes of people with experience working with nuclear weapons or more dangerous military technology before getting any type of clearance from their government.
by Towaway69 | 2025-04-28 19:04:49+00:00
Erlang-RED[2] a combination of Node-RED[1] and Erlang to create a visual low code programming environment for Erlang based on the principles of flow based programming.

Reached a milestone today by being able to create a http endpoint and route the traffic (based to path variables) between various pathways. Thus it is possible to create a blog using Erlang-RED - what all good frameworks should be able to do ;)

[2] = https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red

[1] = https://nodered.org/
by lenkite | 2025-04-28 19:04:57+00:00
> Most countries recognized it anyway.

No - most Asian nations did not recognize the South Vietnam govt propped up by Western powers. India for example supported Vietnamese independence from the French and recognized the PRG - Provisional Revolutionary Government which was the resistance movement in South Vietnam.

At any rate, even the US vetoed Vietnamese membership to the UN in 1975 - after losing the War.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-28 19:05:44+00:00
Having non-technical founders who failed to even outsource their project is an enormous red flag. Nobody there knew how to make the product a reality and if it is you who is doing 100% of the work, then you obviously deserve 100% of the equity. "Having an idea" is not worth equity.

If you thought the idea was great, there was an obvious golden opportunity for you, none of the people there are going to make this into a product, but you can. If the idea was bad, getting paid in equity means getting paid in something worthless.

The only situation where it is reasonable to deal with such a totally defunct organization is if they pay you a lot of money. And if there is a single missed payment you stop any work until you are paid.
by quickslowdown | 2025-04-28 19:05:44+00:00
Virtually everyone in the echo chambers you frequent are anti woke. That doesn't apply at scale, where people aren't willing to accept your "woke" shorthand.

My understanding of "woke" is levelling the playing field & being aware of your biases so you can be a better human. It's hard for me to imagine someone being against "all humans are equal & deserve equal access to opportunity, if they have the skill & motivation." I know people are out there who don't believe everyone is equal, maybe that's the "anti woke" you speak of?

Either way, "woke" as a term is poorly defined to the point I immediately disengage when someone starts screeching about it, because it means nothing and now the rest of the conversation is pointless.
by LeonM | 2025-04-28 19:05:50+00:00
> I find it frustrating these systems don't follow some sort of international standard

They do, actually!

Most car manufacturers, including Toyota, now use the MOST-bus for infotainment system interconnects, which is an open standard. So your car being a >2010 Toyota, it will have a MOST system.

> I can't justify replacing the system in my 2016 Highlander just to get Android auto

You don't have to, there are plenty of aftermarket modules available that will add Android Auto to your existing MOST infotainment system. Can be a hit-or-miss though in terms of quality and integration. If you want something reliable and well integrated, stick with the OEM solutions.

> I don't like having to rely on the manufacturer nor Google/Apple for connectivity basics.

You're already relying on the car OEM for mobility and your safety, and you're already relying on Google or Apply for connectivity (aka: your phone's OS).

Remember that your 2016 Highlander (3rd gen XU50) was introduced in 2013, so developed well before that. Android auto didn't even exist back then, and we still hadn't consolidated on the iOS/Android duopoly we have today. Heck we were still using Windows phone and Blackberry OS back then. How could Toyota engineers have designed something that would still remain compatible with devices in 2025? Quite remarkable actually that it still works at all.
Show HN: Open-source Solitaire games built with Flutter and a card game engine
by jaboyc | 2025-04-28 19:07:03+00:00
I recently launched Cards, a collection of Solitaire-style card games built with Flutter. You can play a hosted version on the web at https://cards.jlogical.com/

Games included Klondike (Classic Solitaire), Golf Solitaire, and Free Cell.

Each game has three unlockable difficulties. Players can unlock achievements, customize card backs and backgrounds, and track fastest times for each mode.

It’s fully responsive (works across phone, tablet, and desktop) and built using a Flutter package I developed called card_game, which handles common card interactions like dragging, flipping, and layout management.

I recently released card_game v2.0.0 with a lot of improvements. Cards is the first large-scale project using the new version. You can find card_game on pub.dev here: https://pub.dev/packages/card_game

The Cards project is fully open source: https://github.com/JLogical-Apps/cards

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture if people are curious!
by petertodd | 2025-04-28 19:07:16+00:00
> And who's fault is that? Why did europe allow this?

In Spain it's now illegal to pay with cash for transactions over 1000EUR. Absurd.

In Norway they recently made it mandatory in most circumstances to accept cash for transactions up to 20,000kroner (~1700EUR): https://www.norges-bank.no/en/topics/notes-and-coins/the-rig...
by const_cast | 2025-04-28 19:08:00+00:00
The same way we actually have been fixing problems for the past few hundred years: legislation.

Spooky, I know, but contrary to what armchair economists will tell you, the invisible hand doesn't do shit outside what it needs to. It's a lot like Natural Selection in that way. Yeah it works... to get the job done. And nothing more. Because it doesn't need to.
by perrygeo | 2025-04-28 19:08:30+00:00
> somewhat eccentric 2-line license agreement

That's an understatement. Restricting content based on political activism I can sympathize, if not agree with. Restriction based on war and geopolitics, ok.

But based on promoting veganism? Come on dude, pick your battles. Any business that deals in any way with animal products (virtually every restaurant, grocery store, hospital, school, entertainment venue, etc) could get accused of promoting cruelty and violating the license; this is a nonstarter.
by cptroot | 2025-04-28 19:08:34+00:00
For what it's worth, nothing was leaked in this article except for the existence of these chats. There are no screenshots, and very few concrete details other than some information about membership timelines.

This article contains genuine reporting about the right-wing influencers working to shift the opinions of the richest people in the USA. That seems like a large amount of good to me.
by tfourb | 2025-04-28 19:09:21+00:00
>and the safe speed for those conditions is consistently higher than the posted limit.

A cursory look at traffic safety statistics would seem to dispute this statement. The US consistently ranks quite high in traffic fatalities, which seems to indicate that you couldn't safely drive faster than the current speed limit in most circumstances. Of course you'd have to control for a lot of other factors for a definite conclusion, but conversely, I'd like to see an actual source for your theory.

Enforcing a speed limit is actually not that hard if you want to. You can of course put stationary or mobile speed cameras in place. But even better may be systems I've seen in some places in southern Europe: Cameras at the beginning and end of a stretch of highway that compare time stamps of your passing and calculate the average speed of your car in that stretch. If you've passed the stretch quicker than should be possible according to the speed limit you'll be fined. It's quite low tech, cameras are prevalent on the highway systems of many countries, anyway, and it solves the problem of people adhering only to the speed limit if they know they are being observed by law enforcement.
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-04-28 19:09:22+00:00
Another thing is that muscle requires constant maintenance in the forms of exercise and food.

The overweight but otherwise healthy individual will last longer in crisis situations. I'm about 60 lbs. overweight, which translates to around 3 months of caloric reserves (likely an unhealthy amount TBH).

Before industrialization, being overweight was seen as a mark of beauty and wealth regardless of gender.

(Not a rationalization for being unfit or unhealthy when taken to extremes.)
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-04-28 19:09:59+00:00
I understand the main use-case, but wonder if there is another one: distracted, and social media exhausted Tech workers, or distracted writers, ... people who might not want to kill all access entirely but maintain accessibility to selected sources of information (Gutenberg, Wikipedia, anything that is on libgen lol).

Like an offline whitelist of sources you trust not to distract you while you're reading that 1000+ page book.
by kube-system | 2025-04-28 19:10:22+00:00
Traffic law enforcement is a highly localized issue in the US. While there are places that will pull people over for going 5mph over and traffic is calm and orderly, there are also places where traffic laws are rarely enforced. In major cities it is not hard to find roads where severe traffic violations are routine (speeding 20mph+ over, driving on the shoulder, running red lights, etc).
by linsomniac | 2025-04-28 19:11:16+00:00
The data is stored entirely in your browser. Meaning, be careful about using an incognito browser window. I probably should have it add a "download data" button combined with "upload". I should also add an "About" with information about this and also a pointer to the SNOT-22 sources.

My situation is I possibly have a "local rhinitis", though my ENT dismissed that. I base that on him visually confirming that I have an allergic reaction in my sinuses, but my allergy screening on my shoulder showed no reactions. But it might also be a lot of other things including being in an extremely dry environment. Next steps are to get a CPAP, which will give me high humidity air and treat minor apnea, and a nebulizer treatment once a quarter, plus taking allergy medicine semi-regularly.

ATM, I'm not planning on releasing the source. Due largely to being way, way underwater on time available to deal with my existing projects. Is there something you wanted from the source? If you are interested in auditing it for where the data is stored, try using your browsers developer tools and watch the network traffic while using it.
by ajross | 2025-04-28 19:11:38+00:00
> It's just very obvious that they are having the opposite effect. I don't kow what that has to do with an "echo chamber".

Yikes. When something is "very obvious" to you, to the extent that you find yourself exasperated by everyone else's inability to see the obvious truth you're taking as a prior... You are almost certainly in an echo chamber.

The stuff you sneer about here has real argument around it. It's not as dumb as you clearly think it is. Does that mean you're wrong? No! But it means you're not thinking clearly. It's time to talk to some woke DEI hippie school board members or admissions officers or whatever, and maybe see if you can find out what they actually think about gender or racial justice or whatever.
by tessellated | 2025-04-28 19:11:38+00:00
> not just stars but full galaxies

https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/

Take in this picture for cosmic insignificance, and then check out what JWST did a couple of years ago.

No, the stars you see are all in our galaxy. The most visible galaxy (to the unaided eye) is Andromeda.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-04-28 19:12:54+00:00
>Is this something we'll have to get used to?

The problem for UpWork and their customers is what happens when 99% of the replies are LLM generated. The same when everything Google links to is LLM generated or even worse when their LLM summary is generated from LLM content they have been slurping up. The whole sad edifice may well collapse in on itself.
by const_cast | 2025-04-28 19:13:06+00:00
> He's probably about government spending on refugees or foreign aid, which is zero sum.

This is highly debatable. I would say it's not zero sum, because these costs further enrich the country in the long-run, just in not obvious ways. This is especially true for domains that naturally cross inter-country. Diseases don't care about borders, so it's to your benefit to prevent outbreaks outside of your country.
by petertodd | 2025-04-28 19:13:59+00:00
Ukraine is interesting in this context because there are so many generators. In the richer parts of Odesa I've even found it hard sometimes to tell whether or not the grid power is on as literally every single building had sufficient backup generators to keep the lights on (also, many big businesses seemed to run their generators even when the power was on, I presume as a civic-minded way to add generation capacity overall and avoid interruptions when the power flips on and off).
by rendang | 2025-04-28 19:14:04+00:00
The world should never have allowed an Islamist govt to get nuclear weapons. I'm not a military strategist - would it be possible to neutralize the threat of their current weapons with anti-ballistic missile defenses and so forth? If so, it seems the least bad option would be to invade and demilitarize the country before they develop more advanced delivery systems/missiles.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-04-28 19:14:33+00:00
Nah, screw these people. Right wing billionaires actively courting and trying to influence their peers in business and media? This is the smoke-filled room as a group chat with disappearing messages. What good was done here? Well, hopefully, people realize that Marc Andreessen is neglecting his responsibilities to post all day and David Sacks whines when people challenge him. I want to know who's hanging out with Chris Rufo and Tucker Carlson, or introducing oped columnists to Curtis Yarvin, and I want it to be abundantly clear that they suck.
by rsync | 2025-04-28 19:14:42+00:00
We needed this device and satisfied that need with a Sony Walkman:

https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...

Very simple. Shows up as a USB drive and I copy mp3 files to it.

My son likes to listen to audiobooks so we purchase them at the maximum price possible and then download them from bittorrent.
by ViscountPenguin | 2025-04-28 19:14:50+00:00
Absolutely not my experience coming from a country with compulsory voting, and having lived in a country without. People in the country without were generally more ignorant of their own politics, and the few people I met who understood what was going on were hesitant to vote.

Compulsory voting, and in particular compulsory preferential voting also has a highly centralising effect, which adds to long term stability.
by ajross | 2025-04-28 19:15:16+00:00
People do this already, but the signal (heh) detected by that kind of analysis isn't consumption of shared media. That's weak‚ and near the noise floor. The much stronger component is just dissemination of deliberate talking points, which happens all the time. What you need to add is the ability to discriminate the spinsters from the "real people", which is basically impossible.
by csomar | 2025-04-28 19:15:29+00:00
No. Bitcoin is mined with Asics (not even GPUs). Mining with CPU will bring roughly $0 per user and $0 per many thousands of users while burning the CPU/Battery/whatever of these users. Given that alts got destroyed as of late, this means mining as an ad alternative is as good as dead.

The really closest thing is something like stacker.news where users pay micro-dollars using lightening. There is also a podcast app. But from experience, these do not seem to scale very well.
by Veedrac | 2025-04-28 19:16:41+00:00
So much of policy success comes down to doing obvious and reasonable things, and most of the problem is how to incentivize making those choices. For all China's flaws, they've figured this out.

The best news here is that we might finally have a prosaic means to escape our modern-era applied biotech stagnation, the same way solar has appeared as a means to kick the feet out of traditional energy sources. China is pretty new to being an R&D powerhouse, but there are few more worthy causes.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-28 19:17:05+00:00
Everyone has access to the "copy / cp" commands, yet the USA to this day criminalizes its use on certain digital files, at the behest of the (relatively small) Copyright Industry. I have no doubt that a working "copy, but for physical stuff" would be criminalized in the same way, this time with massive physical goods industries pushing for legislation. Enforcement would be draconian.
by cuuupid | 2025-04-28 19:17:39+00:00
The problem with local infrastructure projects is their responsibility and execution fall to local community leaders (in this case local = state of California). These leaders are far less efficient and impactful than the federal government, a bar which is already way too low. Nearly every city in the US has had recent collisions with corruption, blatant mismanagement, ideological forces co-opting process, etc. and so most local infrastructure projects are doomed from the start.

The problem with high speed rail, then, is that it is always going to be a local (=state) infrastructure project. America is far, far, far too large for high speed rail to be feasible at a national level, and so we have invested in airports. This is largely a success; much of the year you can travel from NYC to Miami (~1200 mi, roughly UK -> Spain) for $100-200 in a few hours. There are, of course, many issues with air travel that we are still working on, but unless there is a breakthrough to make supersonic land travel affordable, we are stuck with air travel at a national level.

But where do we go from here? We know the federal process is too bloated to succeed with infrastructure projects, and when it is forced to it ends up being prohibitively expensive. We know the state process is doomed to fail and similarly be very expensive. We have already tried privatizing it and failed, and even when subsidizing private industry we get subpar results at best. What options are even left at this point?