MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by squarefoot | 2025-04-15 08:22:18+00:00
Companies/Corporations aren't good or bad, they simply don't obey to moral rules like humans, as their sole goal is making more profit and make sure it will grow with time. As they grow,this aspect becomes less and less compatible with the customers interests, that's why we see many businesses rewriting their contracts or terms and conditions in a more restrictive way and rarely the other way around. It's not about being companies being good or bad; it all depends on if and when the company need for profit will force them to walk that line after which they start to be user hostile. So, pretty much any company can be forced one day in a condition to become "evil". For that matter, I'd trust Codeberg over GitHub any day, as it has no interests in pushing me into using other services, selling my data or should they go bankrupt (hardly as they're a non profit) lying to me about that until it's too late because my data is an asset their liquidators want to cash from.
by kiview | 2025-04-15 08:22:55+00:00
(disclaimer: I'm leading the Docker Model Runner team at Docker)

You were always able to manually install Docker CE within WSL2 on Windows. But if you want to have an integrated Docker experience on the Windows host, you need to use Docker Desktop, which will ship it's own Linux VM and performs the transparent integration with the Windows host.

This is fully independent of the Docker Model Runner feature thought :)
by gnabgib | 2025-04-15 08:22:58+00:00
Discussion (47 points, 7 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687989

(40 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687919

Related Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes (1100 points, 13 hours ago, 1046 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536
by K0balt | 2025-04-15 08:23:21+00:00
Yet that’s exactly how it works. Each package will have $100 tacked on and in June that goes up to $200. They are basically making small packages impossible, so individuals / hobby buyers will be cut out completely, and a lot of small businesses will lose their supply lines. Big businesses will just raise prices to compensate… or bite the bullet long enough to put everyone else out of business. I suspect this is Walmarts plan.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-04-15 08:23:26+00:00
Plenty of blame to go around including for the Democrats.

Responsibility for Merrick Garland's failure to adequately pursue Trump lies at Joe Biden's feet and will likely be the thing he is remembered for most in the history books* despite the fact that he had some decent domestic policy (and some horrific foreign policy).

* (assuming we work our way out of the current mess, if we don't he will be remembered for far worse things given that he's Trump's reflexive whipping boy despite the fact that it makes Trump look weak to keep droning on about Biden)
by shakna | 2025-04-15 08:24:08+00:00
> Nobody hoards wealth. They invest it. Nobody has a Smaug hoard. There are no Scrooge McDuck cash vaults.

There are, unfortunately. [0] Though Putin's gold palace did have to be stripped for fungal problems, later.

Musk does go around with a large amount of debt, such as the 13bil he currently owes. So he's less likely to have a prepper vault. That does not mean that human greed doesn't turn to cartoons for inspiration, at times.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI
by keepamovin | 2025-04-15 08:24:12+00:00
There's enough money on HN (the demographics) that some wealthy benefactors in a WhatsApp group could just donate it to him. No excuses, get behind ICs.

Of course, back in Renaissance days it was the ICs/artists job to court benefactors -- though sometimes they did approach unsolicited.

Maybe he already has patronage but he doesn't want to flash it around...
by thelastgallon | 2025-04-15 08:24:14+00:00
Musk's companies are hype stocks. Today's many successful tech companies run because of the commodification of x86 hardware, allowing them to build massive data centers, run cheap ad platforms, provide things like YouTube, etc, for free. All of this was because of Linux, which Linus Torvalds created. Before Linux and commodity x86 made it reliable and useful, every company had to pay Sun/IBM exorbitant amounts. In no conceivable universe has Musk created more value than Linus. Yet, Linus is not a billionaire.

Most businesses are funded by taxpayers, either directly or indirectly. Elon Musk is a billionaire because of DOE funding, or there would have been no Tesla today.

By January 2009, Tesla had raised $187 million and delivered 147 cars. Musk had contributed $70 million of his money to the company.

In June 2009, Tesla was approved to receive $465 million in interest-bearing loans from the United States Department of Energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.
by dfox | 2025-04-15 08:24:38+00:00
Doing similar idea with asymetric cryptography is problematic due to the size of messages involved that are not exactly convenient to type. Lower bound for the signature size is going to be something on the order of 128bits if we include "weird" signature algorithms (ie. string that looks like MS Product Key), 240b for Schnorr with safe-ish parameters, at least 512b for anything widely accepted.

You can probably come up with something related to S/KEY (which was kind of a precursor to HOTP) that can be made to work with arbitrary sized one time passwords and is technically asymetric (and quantum resistant at that), but the security trade-offs involved in that and somewhat wild user registration step of S/KEY make HOTP/TOTP more sane choice.
by kiview | 2025-04-15 08:24:41+00:00
(disclaimer: I'm leading the Docker Model Runner team at Docker)

It's fine to disagree of course, but we envision Docker as a tool that has a higher abstraction level than just container management. That's why having a new domain-specific command (that also uses domain-specific technology that is independent from containers, at least on some platform targets) is a cohesive design choice from our perspective.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-15 08:25:23+00:00
Wow that would never happen now! Interesting how

A) that would be considered bad law now.

B) despite all branches of government going after Alcoa (Congress passing a special law to support the case mid way through), nothing happened upon remanding the case to the lower court due to the successful argument that other companies began competing

C) that would never happen now primarily due to only anticompetitive practices being scrutinized, not merely having the ability to control prices. But now I see where the confusion comes from, a 13 year saga in support of the Sherman Act

D) it’s so interesting how much the country changed solely from trying to differentiate itself from communism. So its gone to more of an extreme of private maximum extractable value.
by corimaith | 2025-04-15 08:25:23+00:00
>It really has nothing to do with their system of government.

It's about who has the power here, which is the same principle you would take against a colonial authority. There is no right why Ho Chi Minh and the CPV should rule autocratically against the wishes of other factions. When they are sending that same opposition to concentration camps it is functionally no different to colonial authority.

>$800B, a 100K US lives and a couple of million Vietnamese dead. You know, mercantilism.

If North Vietnam didn't invade and kept to themselves we'd also save all that money and lives, and the Vietnamese wouldn't waste decades of economic stagnation. But, in the words of the late Lee Kuan Yew, the war at least gave other Southeast Asian nations the critical time to build their economies against Communism.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-15 08:26:17+00:00
A friend who developed a game engine from scratch and is familiar with inner workings and behavior of NVIDIA driver calls it an absolute circus of a driver.

Also, their latest consumer card launches are less then stellar, and the tricks they use to pump up performance numbers are borderline fraud.

As Gamers Nexus puts it "Fake prices for fake frames".
by jsk2600 | 2025-04-15 08:26:20+00:00
>I'm pretty sure a team of two or three senior developers with great domain knowledge would be competitive with a team of 10 average devs.

You are comparing senior vs average devs here. What will happen if a team of 'two or three senior devs' with AI/ML tools compete with equally skilled 10 senior devs with AI/ML tools?
by kiview | 2025-04-15 08:26:37+00:00
(disclaimer: I'm leading the Docker Model Runner team at Docker)

We are not packaging models as Docker images, since indeed that is the wrong fit and comes with all kinds of technical problems. It also feels wrong to pure package data (which models are) into an image, which generally expects to be a runnable artifact.

That's why we decided to use OCI Artifacts, and specify our own OCI Artifact subset that is better suited for the use case. The spec and implementation is OSS, you can check it out here: https://github.com/docker/model-spec
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-15 08:27:00+00:00
How is it "jumping to conclusions" to take what the president of thr United States says at face value?

>I understand completely that if he could get away with it, he would detain citizens, but I am not convinced yet that he can.

He already did. Thars the issue. Visa holders are already citizens. Do I need to to show you thr footage of a college woman being kidnapped off the street by un-badged men?
by leto_ii | 2025-04-15 08:27:01+00:00
I find the outlined scenario well argued and plausible.

What's more interesting to me though is the complete lack of mention of labor unions as a potential defense mechanism for engineers (either in the OP or in the conversation here, at least so far).

For a while now I've felt it's quite arrogant and completely naive of us to not accept that we're just keyboard workers, and not rare special flowers that will forever be economically privileged.
by gblargg | 2025-04-15 08:29:05+00:00
The community guidelines rejection is such BS. I've done thousands of Amazon reviews and get about 1% rejection rate, and it's always baffling as to the cause. You develop superstition over time over what is the cause. I avoid certain words (sexual, violence, mention of other brands), blur our barcodes, etc. "Sticky" would trigger my "uh oh, sounds sexual" alarm and I'd word it something like "tape around chopsticks left adhesive residue". Like I said, superstition.
by miki123211 | 2025-04-15 08:29:47+00:00
Most of the improvements in this model, basically everything except the longer context, image understanding and better pricing, are basically things that reinforcement learning (without human feedback) should be good at.

Getting better at code is something you can verify automatically, same for diff formats and custom response formats. Instruction following is also either automatically verifiable, or can be verified via LLM as a judge.

I strongly suspect that this model is a GPT-4.5 (or GPT-5???) distill, with the traditional pretrain -> SFT -> RLHF pipeline augmented with an RLVR stage, as described in Lambert et al[1], and a bunch of boring technical infrastructure improvements sprinkled on top.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15124
by bkor | 2025-04-15 08:30:03+00:00
> Obviously YMMV, but I bought some Amazon MTB pedals rated 4.7 starts @ 9k ratings.

Every site is different, no? Amazon isn't AliExpress. Though lately Amazon if flooded with marked-up AliExpress stuff. I'm not fond of Amazon, their customer service is more of a hit and miss since various years.

That said, I've been watching Trace Velo. He reviews a lot of AliExpress cycling things. It's often bad after prolonged use. Meaning, yeah, their testing is lacking. But some brand do seem to be trying to become a trusted brand. E.g. Ugreen nowadays is often trusted. It used to be one of the many things listed on AliExpress.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-15 08:30:06+00:00
Popcorn Time did this and it worked great. Starting a torrent wasn't instant, but once a buffer was built up, it streamed just fine.

Popcorn Time got taken down pretty hard because they became too popular too fast.

A commercial solution could have a seed server optimized for streaming the initial segments of video files to kickstart the stream, and let basic torrents deal with the rest of the stream.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-15 08:30:23+00:00
It's about punishing their enemies.

> Feels like they’re ghost riding the economy for the lulz

Yes. The abstract of "the economy" doesn't matter. The priorities are "owning the libs" on Twitter and other media, and their own personal bank accounts which can benefit from insider trading the tariffs, state-sponsored memecoins and so on.
by rklaehn | 2025-04-15 08:30:30+00:00
I am a contributor to Iroh ( https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh ), an open source library for direct QUIC connections between devices that can be behind a NAT.

Our library is general purpose and can be used whenever you need direct connections, but on top of Iroh we also provide iroh-blobs, which provides BLAKE3 verified streaming over our QUIC connections.

Blobs currently is a library that provides low level primitives and point to point streaming (see e.g. https://www.iroh.computer/sendme as an example/demo )

We are currently working on extending blobs to also allow easy concurrent downloading from multiple providers. We will also provide pluggable content discovery mechanisms as well as a lightweight content tracker implementation.

There is an experimental tracker here: https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-experiments/tree/main/co...

Due to the properties of the BLAKE3 tree hash you can start sharing content even before you have completely downloaded it, so blobs is very well suited to the use case described above.

We already did a few explorations regarding media streaming over iroh connections, see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qqyu1mmGQ .

The big advantage of iroh over bittorrent is that content can be shared efficiently from even behind routers that don't allow manual or automatic port mapping, such as many carrier grade NAT setups.

Another advantage that BLAKE3 has over the bittorrent protocol is that content is verified incrementally. If somebody sends you wrong data you will notice after at most ~16 KiB. Bittorrent has something similar in the form of piece hashes, but those are more coarse grained. Also, BLAKE3 is extremely fast due to a very SIMD friendly design.

We are big fans of bittorrent and actually use parts of bittorrent, the mainline DHT, for our node discovery.

Here is a talk from last year explaining how iroh works in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj-7Y_7p4Dg , also briefly covering the blobs protocol.
Show HN: Free Online Tip Calculator – A Clean and Simple Gratuity Calculator
by Chipen | 2025-04-15 08:30:35+00:00
I discovered this tip calculator after constantly struggling with splitting bills and calculating tips when dining out with friends. Math anxiety is real, especially after a few drinks! I built tipcalculator.top to solve this everyday problem with a clean, simple interface that works perfectly on mobile. The reverse calculator feature (which helps figure out the original bill amount from the total) came from my own frustrating experience trying to reconcile credit card charges. I'd love to hear how others use it and what features would make it even more helpful - maybe custom presets for different countries or integration with expense tracking apps? Your feedback would really help shape where this goes next!
by kiview | 2025-04-15 08:30:45+00:00
(disclaimer: I'm leading the Docker Model Runner team at Docker)

We decided to start with Apple silicon Macs, because they provide one of the worst experiences of running LLMs in a containerized form, while at the same time having very capable hardware, so it felt like a very sad situation for Mac users (because of the lack of GPU access within containers).

And of course we understand who our users are, so believe me when I say, macOS users on Apple silicon make up a significant portion of our user case, else we would not have started with it.

In production environments on Docker CE, you can already mount the GPUs, so while the UX is not great, it is not a blocker.

However, we have first class support for Docker Model Runner within Docker CE on our roadmap and we hope it comes sooner rather than later ;) It will also be purely OSS, so no worries there.
by notahacker | 2025-04-15 08:30:48+00:00
Electric propulsion using high power laser beaming makes way more sense outside the atmosphere for non-launch use cases, where thrust requirements to achieve desired delta-V usually aren't measured in kN and the mission longevity implied by higher Isp matters so much more and there isn't a pesky atmosphere in the way of power beaming or any concern about accidentally ablating airliners.

Numerous startups are tackling the power beaming issue with relatively short timelines and in some cases a lot of funding, but the scale of what's actually been publicly demonstrated with lasers is unimpressive...
by Kerollmops | 2025-04-15 08:31:16+00:00
V1.14, released yesterday [1], ships with a search embedding cache. Most of the time you see is spent waiting for an OpenAI embedding answer. We also just shipped composite embedders to reduce the network latency when you need to respond quickly to user searches (by running embedders on the Meilisearch server) but still use external APIs to index many documents in batches. Note that it can only work with open-source embedders, the ones HuggingFace serves.

[1]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/releases/tag/v1.1...
by Renaud | 2025-04-15 08:32:15+00:00
You will find the exact same items on Amazon, except usually more expensive.

There are many items sold on Aliexpress that are of decent quality.

I think the point is to buy what you really need, and focus on quality, rather than impulse buying cheap stuff that ends up in the garbage after a month.

Our consumerism is hooked onto cheap crap, the factories producing it are only fulfilling the demand.
by rollcat | 2025-04-15 08:33:15+00:00
> Partly because they do it badly, and partly because it's harder for other applications to read the pixels.

I can select text in a web browser or a spreadsheet or a chat app just fine.

> The application just told the display to write some text there, but the clipboard has to ask again what text is there, wait for a response, and let the other program know. Meanwhile the terminal just knows, so it's faster.

How does a terminal emulator render text on the screen then? Your screen is made of pixels.

> And you learned that somehow. You can learn other things too.

You're missing my point entirely, but you seem to enjoy taking an hour to open every new door. I won't judge that.
by vince14 | 2025-04-15 08:33:24+00:00
Because projects like these were missing back then, I got creative with nginx and do not need any config changes to serve new projects:

server { listen 80; server_name ~^(?<sub>\w+)(\.|-)(?<port>\d+).*; # projectx-20201-127-0-0-1.nip.io root sites/$sub/public_html; try_files $uri @backend; location @backend { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:$port; access_log logs/$sub.access; } }

Configuration is done via the domain name like projectx-20205-127-0-0-1.nip.io which specifies the directory and port.

All you need to do is create a junction (mklink /J domain folder_path). This maps the domain to a folder.
by ololobus | 2025-04-15 08:33:37+00:00
> Parameterized queries.

Also happy to be wrong, but in Postges clients, parametrized queries are usually implemented via prepared statements, which do not work with DDL on the protocol level. This means that if you want to create a role or table which name is a user input, you have a bad time. At least I wasn’t able to find a way to escape DDL parameters with rust-postgres, for example.

And because this seems to be a protocol limitation, I guess the clients that do implement it, do it in some custom way on the client side.
by lazide | 2025-04-15 08:34:04+00:00
Fair point, though they typically only become problematic (aka are acted on/legislated against) when they significantly distort the market to a degree people start really complaining about it.

Usually due to either a monopsony/cartel/monopoly which controls most of the market doing it successfully.

If the companies in the lower 5% of a market price fix or the like, no one usually cares. Even 20%, usually.

The Sherman antitrust act speaks about ‘restraints of trade’ because it has to actually restrain trade, which requires a significant degree of control - which a successful/actual monopoly, monopsony, or cartel can do.

Technically, even attempting to do it is illegal, but going after every company that tries has a bit of the same feel as locking up every single toddler because they took a swing at someone or threatened them with their cute little stubby kid scissors.

It’s a waste of resources, not in anyone’s interest, stops behavior most people would consider necessary/healthy to some degree, causes much worse problems than it solves, etc.

On the other hand, locking up a successful serial killer is just good public policy.

The difference between the two is more a matter of the success and effectiveness of their tactics, not really intent.
by smusamashah | 2025-04-15 08:34:54+00:00
There aren't many VMs that can run in browser

https://copy.sh/v86/

https://webvm.io/

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ (https://github.com/jsdf/pce)

https://www.pcjs.org/ (lots of hardware and OSes) (https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs)

Mac OS

https://infinitemac.org/ (https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.htm...)

https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/BasiliskII-wo...

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/
by squarefoot | 2025-04-15 08:35:10+00:00
I use regularly AI music services to build rock songs out of my lyrics, old poetry or popular songs, etc. and sometimes they hallucinate in creepy ways, adding after the song ends either evil laughter or horror sounds, demon-like voices, starting singing in completely made up languages. They're creepy but fun and interesting at the same time. Creepy sounds aside, I've had a lot of fun experimenting with AI music hallucinations as they sometimes create interesting and unusual things that spark more creativity (I'm already a musician); I sometimes felt like someone who grew up listening only bad pop trash being suddenly exposed to Frank Zappa.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-15 08:35:11+00:00
I don't think the price of those small shipments from China is necessarily crazy.

Looking at flights for people: you can get a return flight to China from the UK for less than £350, which means less than £175 one way.

Let's say that's about 100kg (person plus luggage) then this means that flying 100g from China to the UK costs less than 17.5p or 20c in euros.

I expect that cargo will be cheaper than passenger plane, so shipping small stuff from China to Europe can indeed be very cheap. It's about volume and efficiency.
by bkor | 2025-04-15 08:35:36+00:00
AliExpress highly encourages leaving a review. They also encourage taking pictures. As a result, loads of random pictures in reviews.

You can do an additional remarks later, but I often don't bother. It's drowned out anyway.

What I often do is read the reviews. What's usually done is a critical review and still 5 stars. The fake reviews are pretty easily spotted. It shouldn't be this way, but in my experience it's still better than Amazon. With Amazon more effort is made to fake a review.
by huijzer | 2025-04-15 08:35:59+00:00
> when the Democrats lost the election through a series of unforced errors that have left the country – and the world – teetering on the brink of a whole Bronze Age prophesy's worth of omnishambolic polycrises.

I just like to point out that it's somewhat strange that almost every tech post nowadays has to contain a mini rant about Trump.