MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmazin | 2025-04-23 15:32:03+00:00
Yeah, if look at the definition of Gruen Transfer, it's the design of the mall itself that causes the discombobulation. The fact that there are screaming, attention-grabbing things all over the mall isn't the transfer itself. The fact that it's hard for you to find what you were originally going to do, and then you get distracted by the attention-grabbing things, is.

So Instagram, etc's overall design might have Gruen Transfer, the feed itself is merely the place your attention goes when you struggle to figure out what to do.
by DSMan195276 | 2025-04-23 15:32:21+00:00
Well from a certain POV it's like stabilizing APIs internal to your application - nobody else should be calling them so "stabilizing" them just creates unnecessary maintenance work. Obviously in practice certain things like eBPF or externally-maintained drivers can break this model, but then they don't really want people doing those things vs. merging code into the kernel.
by D13Fd | 2025-04-23 15:32:35+00:00
Honestly this sounds a bit cumbersome. I built my blog years ago using Puput (https://github.com/APSL/puput) and Render, and it has been running strong with minimal maintenance since then, with hundreds of posts. The software is all open source and free other than the minimal hosting fees.

If I want to do a post, I log in, draft the post in a simple rich-text editor with image support and keyboard shortcuts for formatting, and click "publish." I don't have to fool with anything, there is no chance of sync breaking, and it's instantly responsive.

The back-end is stored in Github, but the posts are stored, with revision history, in a Postgres database that I have full access to.

It's hard to envision a scenario where I'd prefer digging through a git repository to see a previous version of a post rather than just clicking into the CMS site and clicking on the historical version of the post that I'd like to look at, where it is instantly displayed including images. And even with daily blogging, the number of times I've actually looked at a prior version of a post is very low -- probably less than once a year.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-23 15:32:42+00:00
But if they kill your access to those accounts do you have a method to force them to let you back in to get “your” content? Serious question as I self-publish and use a distribution service for my music but I stop short of your claim. I’m an independent rights holder. I don’t own the platforms upon which I choose to distribute my work - terminology does matter and, well, you’re claiming something basically untrue because it sounds cool…that’s my impression.
by atrettel | 2025-04-23 15:33:09+00:00
This is an interesting quote, but it frames the problem as ultimately individual in origin. It is as if loneliness is your own fault for not being willing to talk to the people around you. It doesn't ask why it is difficult to talk to people or even if you are in a situation where you can talk to people regularly.

I tend to think loneliness is more of a structural problem rather than an individual one --- that is, it is a consequence of how society as a whole structures our lives and interactions with people (for better or for worse). A generic person drives from their single family house by themselves to work, works largely by themselves (in many industries), and then drives back to their single family house. There is no "third place" for interaction with others and driving itself is isolating as a practice. With that kind of life as the structural default, there really isn't much chance of interaction in the first place. It's not an individual problem.
by alxlaz | 2025-04-23 15:33:17+00:00
It's not my comparison. It's yours, and just as meaningless as your previous one about McDonald's.

This one's no better, either, as Costco's terms for its wholesale suppliers aren't anywhere close to Apple's, even though the agreement is structured more or less similarly -- but sure, let's entertain it: Costco's terms for its suppliers aren't public, but at least the ones that are on public record (via the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1940372/000149315222... ) make no restrictions on the choice of payment processors for digital products, which is what Apple got fined for.

There is a restriction on promotional material enclosed with the product (as in it needs prior written approval from Costco, not as in it's completely banned) and an explicit mention that it applies to digital products as well. But there is no requirement that digital products sold by Costco as merchant of sale for the supplier enable purchases only via Costco.
by drbig | 2025-04-23 15:33:27+00:00
...In due time he decomposes, leaving the skeleton which will last much much longer. Just like everybody else.

I think Jorge would appreciate that.

As a skeptic of the "organized" part of any "organized religion" I had and have deep respect for both Francis and Jean Paul II. May only keep fingers crossed the next choice will also be of that sort.
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-23 15:34:18+00:00
try Perplexity. ai, it’s like a research assistant with live web access. You can also use ChatGPT with browsing (Pro version) to compare models, pricing, and capabilities. Also, you can track updates across models using LLM Leaderboard (Hugging Face) and thereisnobenchmark.com. Both are great tools.
by smoovb | 2025-04-23 15:34:42+00:00
The story of minor Chinese celebrity Wang Xing who was abducted in Thailand forced into a scam call center in Myanmar as really shined a light on this scam call center issue. As a result of these scams in Thailand, the Telecoms and Banks have added restrictive measures like limiting person to person transfer amounts and KYC on all SIM cards. We can't have nice things.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/china/china-actor-thailand-sc...
Ask HN: OpenAI models vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro for coding and swe
by endorphine | 2025-04-23 15:35:15+00:00
In your experience, which of the two models (all of OpenAI vs Gemini 2.5 Pro) are better for having as assistants to ask SWE/software systems related questions and doing long and complex reasoning?

I'm debating whether there's any point in paying for ChatGPT vs. paying (or even using the free version) of Gemini 2.5 Pro.

I have the feeling that most HNers prefer the latter, however in livebench I think OpenAI surpasses Gemini for coding.
by ben_w | 2025-04-23 15:35:19+00:00
> "by the end of June (2024), Tesla had produced 11,000 Cybertrucks. (...) around 30,000 Cybertrucks by the end of the quarter (..) likely more than half of the ~23,000 “other vehicles” Tesla delivered in Q3 were Cybertrucks"

Which is really bad compared to both the market expectations, the pre-orders, Musk's expectations, the other vehicles Tesla sells, and other vehicles in the same category:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Timelin...

https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/ford/f-series

> Only because we humans are used to judge "on short notice" all the time. The bigger picture translates into "crazy competent", but that might be a matter of opinion.

No, it doesn't translate into "crazy competent". He turned a failing car company into a successful one, at exactly the right time to take advantage of a simultaneous global desire to reduce fossil fuel use and a global massive battery prices reduction he had no direct causal responsibility to take credit for (because Tesla doesn't actually make a significant number of the batteries themselves, they partner with Panasonic), in the brief window before other car companies started doing the same thing better and harder — which is why China's EVs are now so cheap, that even with massive import duties in the EU, they're still cheaper and more performant than Tesla's.

It's not nothing, as his biggest critics would claim, but it's also not "crazy competent". If Tesla's share price was 1/10th to 1/20th of what it is, it would be worth that — which is genuinely impressive, but it's not "crazy competent".

The self-driving thing would have been great, except that he keeps promising "next year" since last decade without delivering, and now even if he reaches the current plan of "in a few cities" this summer, even if that's without safety drivers, that's something Waymo did already in November 2019 so Tesla would be 5.5 years behind them.

Trying to re-frame the company as an AI company that just happens to have cars? Again, a few dozen companies saw his actor in a zentai, pre-empted the real one by making their own robots, those robots are keeping pace with the capabilities of Tesla's *real* demos — although, the only thing demoed in the most recent party, which would be a breakthrough if the unit wasn't under remote control, would be "understands speech in noisy background". And several of those other androids ship, while Optimus still doesn't.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-04-23 15:35:20+00:00
Just flag it and move on. The user is the PiEEG spammer with a new alternate account; every submission promotes PiEEG in some way even though the URLs go to different legitimate sites. He's built up a really impressive network of accounts and apparently the HN moderators haven't noticed him yet.

christaingmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Christiangmer

ildaron_ron - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ildaron_ron

ron_87 - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ron_87

Marat_Japan - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Marat_Japan

Marat_1975 - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Marat_1975

Marat_1975_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Marat_1975_

Ildarmon - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Ildarmon

Add GaredFagsss1 and leisanrain to that list.

You can tell from the fact that 10 of the last 11 postings pointing to the indiegoogo domain are from the above accounts pointing to the same fundraiser: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=indiegogo.com
by superkuh | 2025-04-23 15:36:06+00:00
Yes, I do need society to continue existing and for me to not be homeless. I guess I hadn't considered the needs of the unhoused. For them self-hosting is going to be a problem. For everyone else, not a problem. Going briefly offline for a week literally doesn't matter at all. This isn't a business or institutional service. Once you stop trying to fulfill the needs and constraints typical of those endevors you can see just how easy it is.

As for IP, when it changes you can just copy the new IP and stop sending links with the old IP to friends. It's not a big deal. But a domain is nice (either some dyndns subdomain or a real tld with free DNS hosting (and dyndns updates) by zoneedit or the like).
by SonOfLilit | 2025-04-23 15:36:22+00:00
Wikipedia is designed to help you find exactly what you want, quickly, and then offer infinitely _more_. So a different thing than the Gruen Transfer, but related.

It's not intentional, but it is evolutionary, in the sense that we've never had this discussion about onethingpedia, the website that had a design optimal at making you leave after you found what you were looking for, because nobody ever heard of it.
by fidotron | 2025-04-23 15:36:49+00:00
> Users have no understanding of security. High status or not.

Upper middle class americans absolutely do, or they don't stay that way for very long. The US has a culture of a lot more personal responsibility, and a lot less trust of the government to handle it.

> Why is it that iPhone users prefer GMail over iCloud Mail?

They already had it from before people realized it was a bait and switch. Work users will almost certainly be using the Exchange integration, and private messaging is done via iMessage.
by vanviegen | 2025-04-23 15:37:19+00:00
You are of the opinion that it is reasonable for a company to expect you to read, understand and fully agree with a contract that consists of countless pages of opaque legalese and that you have no say in whatsoever, just in order to use a service that's arguably a necessity to participate in public life?

The EU does not seem to share that opinion, and puts some restrictions on these types of 'contracts'. Are you really concerned that this is somehow unfair towards these companies? Companies that retain whole teams of lawyers to create a contract that hardly any of its billion counter parties (individual consumers) can fully comprehend, let alone push back on?
by trinix912 | 2025-04-23 15:37:26+00:00
While it doesn't excuse the bad habits, we do have to keep in mind C++98 (or whatever more ancient was used back then) didn't have the simple initializers we now take for granted. You couldn't just do 'Type myStruct = {};' to null-initialize it, you had to manually NULL all nested fields. God forbid you change the order of the variables in the struct if you're nesting them and forget to update it everywhere. It was just considerably more practical to do 'Type myStruct;' then set the fields when needed.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-23 15:37:56+00:00
I think it could replace a lot of therapists, which may say more about a lot of therapists than it says about AI. Someone who will listen to you and make sympathetic noises, maybe toss in a perspective gleaned from mainstream thinking here and there, but never challenge you so hard that you stop coming back for more paid sessions.

Cynicism aside, that might be okay for some people. If you need to talk about something to get it out of your system, and you don't have any friends willing to listen to you cry in your beer for a couple hours, maybe "talking" to an AI isn't a terrible replacement. On the other hand, it's easy to imagine people turning it into a weird dependency if they stop thinking of it as a sort of sounding board and start seeing it as a real "friend."
by Doctor_Fegg | 2025-04-23 15:38:29+00:00
The killer host-it-yourself component which mostly flies under the radar is Photon: https://github.com/komoot/photon

I'm simplifying slightly, but it's essentially OSM's Nominatim geocoder data with a ready-to-download db, autocomplete capabilities, and a single .jar to install. If you're happy with the limitations of OSM's data (basically, patchy housenumber coverage) then it's easy and fast.
by benlivengood | 2025-04-23 15:39:10+00:00
> o3 is also a significant hallucinator. I spent quite a bit of time with it last weekend and found it to be probably far worse than any of the other top models. The catch is that it its hallucinations are quite sophisticated. Unless you are using it on material for which you are extremely knowledgeable, you won't know.

At least 3/4 of humans identify with a religion which at best can be considered a confabulation or hallucination in the rigorous terms you're using to judge LLMs. Dogma is almost identical to the doubling-down on hallucinations that LLMs produce.

I think what this shows about intelligence in general is that without grounding in physical reality it tends to hallucinate from some statistical model of reality and confabulate further ungrounded statements without strong and active efforts to ground each statement in reality. LLMs have the disadvantage of having no real-time grounding in most instantiations; Gato and related robotics projects exempted. This is not so much a problem with transformers as it is with the lack of feedback tokens in most LLMs. Pretraining on ground truth texts can give an excellent prior probability of next tokens and I think feedback either in the weights (continuous fine-tuning) or real-world feedback as tokens in response to outputs can get transformers to hallucinate less in the long run (e.g. after responding to feedback when OOD)
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-23 15:39:34+00:00
I checked Wiki for more info about the MBTA Fitchburg line. I don't know from what station you rode, but MBTA commuter fares are much cheaper than the total cost of ownership of a car per mile. Estimates are about 81 cents per mile to drive a car (depreciation, fuel, maintenance, repairs, insurance, etc.) -- I Googled for it. Fitchburg station to North station is 53.7 miles, which would cost 43.50 USD to drive a car. The current MBTA fare is 12.25 USD -- much cheaper than owning a car.
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-04-23 15:41:29+00:00
It's not confined to capitalism, and it's more than a bit fruitless to frame it as such. A strict command economy would still be trying to advance its own interests through identical methods. Instead of "friend post, friend post, click here to buy product, friend post", you get "friend post, friend post, the Rungra People's Pleasure Ground is proud to announce that Supreme Leader has facilitated the construction of a brand-new dolphinarium, friend post".
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-23 15:41:33+00:00
Yes, I have. It's slow as shit even on an M1. In the time it takes to install one brew package on an M1, a sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade has finished updating a dozen packages on a ten year old intel system with a SATA SSD.

I fucking hate homebrew.

I hate the fact that the project still has the attitude of "sudo is le hard and we are le tired."

The project people are assholes.

The maintainers are often well behind current releases.

It maintains a cache of every installed version for no good reason wasting ~10GB or more of my SSD space.

When it breaks it's impenetrable trying to figure out how it broke, there's nobody to ask for help, the documentation sucks, and the fastest thing is just to wipe the whole fucking directory and start over.

I could go on. I don't know a single person that likes using homebrew - it's just the package manager everyone resigned themselves to use.
by db48x | 2025-04-23 15:41:53+00:00
You misunderstood. Game developers should use a _good_ third–party library, not a _bad_ one. At a minimum they should be able to read the source code so that they know it is good. Thus open source libraries should be at the top of the list.

If you don't know what “good” looks like, take a look at [Serde](https://serde.rs/). It’s for Rust, but its features and overall design are something you should attempt to approach no matter what language you’re writing in.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-23 15:42:54+00:00
$5k won’t even get you native English language writers, $50k might get you one. One decent writer…for 6 months. Y’all really don’t know the value of skilled non software engineer professionals do you?

Why not just throw AI at it? Seems to be the best use case. So get a startup to fix this startup…so on and so forth…

Citation: professional writer with technical writing experience (also out of work)
by cityofdelusion | 2025-04-23 15:42:57+00:00
For number 1, there really does need to be some wider reforms, but I fear that won't happen until the whole student loan paradigm crashes and burns. I had a couple of fully paid semesters that were 100% electives I had no interest in. I would have preferred to graduate a year earlier (and thus, a year richer) or take courses that were actually relevant. Problem is that universities talk out both sides of their mouth -- raking in huge amounts of cash like a corporation, feasting off guaranteed loans from 18 year olds, while espousing some nobler concept of education/enlightenment on the other hand.
by flanbiscuit | 2025-04-23 15:43:42+00:00
Something seems to be broken in the Imba website for me in both FF and Chrome for MacOS.

When I go to the main website: https://imba.io/

Then click on the "Demo" button

I get taken to the "Playground": https://imba.io/try/examples/apps/playground/app.imba

There is no code on the page but the preview seems to work. Same thing with all of the other examples. They work in the Preview panel, but no code loads at all.

Looking in the dev console I see a few errors:

GET https://imba.io/monaco/min/vs/loader.js HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined current file did set undefined

Some images and a preflight.css is also not found
by drakenot | 2025-04-23 15:43:46+00:00
Yes, I mentioned this in the comment.

I think it is closer, although still even it has a cold start problem. Once you are connected and in-session, it is a better experience.

There is still some "turn based" conversational aspect to it that can be awkward but it is much better. It also helps that you can "tap and hold" to override, which is a bit of a hack but works well in practice for that mobile use-case.
by apignotti | 2025-04-23 15:43:47+00:00
> That's interesting! May I ask how it works? Does that also happen with e.g. IntelliJ?

Byte ranges request do most of the heavy lifting, data is loading exclusively on-demand.

> Doesn't the JVM run everywhere in 2025?

What about iOS? Android has Java, but can't run desktop Java apps. Chromebooks also have limits.
by butlike | 2025-04-23 15:43:52+00:00
Worked fine on the target machines and the "0.5x programmer" got to see their family for winter holiday. Or are you saying they should have defensively programmed around a bug manifesting 21 years later and skip seeing their family during crunch time?

To be honest, I just don't like how you disparaged the programmer out-of-context. Talk is cheap.
by Borg3 | 2025-04-23 15:44:04+00:00
Because I want more tight coupling with Win32 OS. Im old Cygwin user here. Actually, I cant work on Windows without Cygwin. Its very first thing installed on fresh system so I can bring all my tools with it :)

I have free access to entire FS, I can run Win32 console tools as well inside bash. If I want true Linux environment, I can always spawn VM and use Xserver on Win32 to work on it (Xming).
by juliansimioni | 2025-04-23 15:44:13+00:00
AFAIK, a lot of the RAM requirements come from importing and processing the data. It already takes quite a long time and would be even slower without heavily utilizing RAM.

Nominatim also doesn't support any sort of typeahead queries. There's Photon(https://github.com/komoot/photon), which works in concert with Nominatim and is similarly tied to OSM as a data source.

There's also Pelias(https://pelias.io/), an open-source geocoder that handles all types of geocoding in one and supports OSM, OpenAddresses and many other sources (including custom data) out of the box. Admittedly it can have more moving parts as a result, but it can be set up with relatively little RAM if you're careful (I bet a planet install could be done somewhat slowly with 32GB RAM). Full disclosure, I have been a core-maintiner of the project since 2015.
by frollogaston | 2025-04-23 15:44:45+00:00
Digging through it more, it seems like Homebrew didn't play nice with anything else that used that dir. Maybe it's less of a problem now that it installs to /opt/homebrew, but I imagine there are still times Homebrew needs to place files in root-owned dirs or next to them.

This issue is also brought up in the Github commit posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766371 "I wouldn't worry about it not being root. We don't install anything base enough for it to be a concern (unlike MacPorts or Fink)."
by akadeb | 2025-04-23 15:44:54+00:00
Thank you! It's been super fun to work on. The challenges were more on the ESP32 side. Like getting audio to work smoothly with Opus and the audio timing challenges. This is one of the reasons I open-sourced.

It seems pointless to think that everyone should cross that C++/Audio barrier to make something cool. Using this cuts a lot of dev time and brings products out to market wayy quicker. The repo basically helps launch your AI toy brand