MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pton_xd | 2025-04-01 17:09:09+00:00
> I can enclose a raspberry pi in a fake duck and it will fulfil the above criteria, and perhaps from a distance it can be mistaken for a duck, but it has practically nothing to do with ducks. At the same time, it might be enough if our objective is to make some low cost garden decorations :)

Agreed, it depends on what data you want out of the simulation. If you want to see how your dog will react to a duck, maybe it's good enough. If on the other hand you want to see how a duck will react to getting poked, well... your raspberry pi is worse than useless.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-01 17:09:10+00:00
The major studios use cloud services all the time. For example, Paramount uses AWS. Disney has its own internal cloud system but also uses a combination of external clouds like AWS.

The resistance to cloud services is based on preventing leaks, not opposition to technology.

And in specific response to your comment: Netflix's "technology" is just a content management system. They're just reinventing a wheel that many of their competitors already use and bragging about something that Disney, Paramount, etc., did over a decade ago when they began embracing digital-first production.
Show HN: Pillr – Real estate market trends and comps by zipcode
by tndibona | 2025-04-01 17:09:33+00:00
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by big-green-man | 2025-04-01 17:09:38+00:00
Simple desktop that works and isn't crazy: Linux mint with cinnamon desktop. Just use it, I promise you won't regret it.

I don't use that, because I don't need the simplest thing, I'm a more complicated person. But my wife does, and it's amazing. I set it up for her. I tried out a handful of desktop environments the other day to see which one is the easiest to use, cinnamon is the only one I tried that I'd recommend, which surprised me. KDE just gets in your way every chance it gets, others just deviate too much from the windows concept of a desktop for someone who isn't into Linux to start using, and the rest have quirky behaviors and bugs that just make life harder.

As far as the distro, you'll hear mint a lot, it's what Ubuntu used to be back when it was the easiest to use distro. I'll always recommend it to people that just need a desktop that works. Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop, your parents won't even notice except that they don't have forced updates and login to outlook and all the terrible cruft, they'll just have a computer that works for them again.
by beAroundHere | 2025-04-01 17:10:10+00:00
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Show HN: I got burned by bad NYC rentals, so I built an extension for complaints
by egra | 2025-04-01 17:10:10+00:00
I built this after too many bad NYC apartment experiences: leaks, mice, no heat. All things that of course never show up on listings.

Realest is a browser extension that overlays 311 housing complaint data on StreetEasy listings, right in the search results.

It pulls from NYC’s open data and is meant to help renters avoid hidden issues.

Would love feedback!
by dkh | 2025-04-01 17:10:17+00:00
All of the players in this echelon have contributed massively, and all of them have pretty wild workflows and impressive solutions to technical problems. If we were measuring technical achievement across the broader history of filmed entertainment, there’s a strong case to be made for Disney as the most influential. But when it comes to how content is produced and distributed today, Netflix has definitely invested the most into tackling modern challenges and continues to do so, and these efforts feed directly into the meticulous, end-to-end workflow that’s applied across every production.

There are plenty of people who have worked on Netflix and non-Netflix shows and would would argue that Netflix's workflow and high standards are difficult if you're not used to it yet, or more stringent than they'd like, but very few would deny the end results or technical superiority
by stoneman24 | 2025-04-01 17:10:27+00:00
In one class I took, we were examining a range of car engines for faults and the task was to get it running.

The rumour was that the previous years class had one engine where the ignition rotor arm wire had been replaced by section of coloured plastic which was covered in the usual grease and crap in the housing.

The instructor was looking for persistence and elimination of possibilities rather than actually solving it. But one team did. As long as you solved the others that was enough to complete the class.
by taboca | 2025-04-01 17:10:43+00:00
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by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-01 17:10:51+00:00
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

None of what you mention contradicts your previous statement, and mine, that they are "opiniated" and "very biased" or that it isn't propaganda according to the dictionary definition I quoted...

Perhaps the issue is that people associate propaganda with false information (which is what you imply). That is not the case.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-01 17:10:59+00:00
There are so many hardware certification programs out there, why doesn't AMD run one to fix this?

Create a "ROCm compatible" logo and a list of criteria. Motherboard manufacturers can send a pre-production sample to AMD along with a check for some token amount (let's say $1000). AMD runs a comprehensive test suite to check actual compatibility, if it passes the mainboard is allowed to be advertised and sold with the previously mentioned logo. Then just tell consumers to look for that logo if they want to use ROCm. If things go wrong on a mainboard without the certification, communicate that it's probably the mainboard's fault.

Maybe add some kind of versioning scheme to allow updating requirements in the future
by nirui | 2025-04-01 17:11:06+00:00
> Bananas how we're letting these companies use public roads with real humans as testing grounds for driver assistance software.

Do you know a word called Cronyism?

Xi was in a meeting with few Chinese tech leaders just few weeks ago (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xi-attends-sympos...), including Xiaomi's leader, probably trying to establish bi-directional support and connections.

Under current desperate climate in China, i.e. unemployment number is creeping up, marriage and childbirth are down..., as well as the fact that Xi likes flashy and fancy stuff, I don't think there is any incentive for the gov to put a limit on how those companies develop. I mean... it's not like the leftist undemocratic communist should have any incentive to do things appropriately for people of different orientations anyways.

In fact, right now in China, criticize such "high-tech" company may lead to serious trouble for the criticizer, given how easy it is for powerful companies to send criticizers to prison for reasons such as "disturb public peace", "hacking" and/or "spread rumor and lies".

Also, let's don't forget Telsa also crash and burns. So it is really tricky to explain to the communist why they must do better.
by nedb_ | 2025-04-01 17:11:12+00:00
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by eitland | 2025-04-01 17:11:27+00:00
With that said, I'd like to say that I enjoy living in Norway and I enjoy our tax model and the health care and education system it funds.

I just wish there was as much scrutiny on how the funds are used and as much creativity on getting as much as possible for them as there is scrutiny on how much each of us should pay and creativity around how to tax us more.
by throwanem | 2025-04-01 17:11:42+00:00
Really, all I'm saying, and I reply to my own comment deep in a thread here to do so clearly, is that when someone starts speaking gnomically to you about "enlightenment," you are most wise to keep one hand on your wallet and the other over your drink, and your knees tightly together at all times, until he goes away and bothers someone else...then toss the drink anyway, just in case.
by gymbeaux | 2025-04-01 17:11:44+00:00
In high school a friend figured out you could map any network drive to your desktop and access it (Windows XP), and since everyone in the entire school district had a username of {last name}{first initial}, you could gain read/write access to anyone’s network drive (essentially “home folder”). He used it to get test answers from teachers, I used it to create (empty) folders named “porn”, “porn 2”, et al.

Anyway when he was caught (a fellow classmate ratted him out) he got 10 days out of school suspension. The VP threatened to call the police… for what offense I’m not really sure. There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of cybercrime and cybercrime laws. I mean was it really unauthorized access (they called it “hacking” of course) if his user account literally had permission to map network drives?

They removed the ability for student accounts to map network drives, but the district IT guy was not fired. I really don’t get that. Maybe the union saved him… but dog, everyone knows you can map network drives by right clicking on the desktop. I never thought to try it, but that doesn’t mean the district’s IT SME gets a pass.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-04-01 17:11:44+00:00
$20K for a home battery backup for someone capable of doing DIY would be far larger than what I assume he has built here. AFAIK the cheaper end is around $340 (2016) per kWh at 20 kWh that would be $6,800. In 2025 at $100 per kWh it would be $2K. If it's worth it would largely depending on a persons post tax required rate of return and how long it would take.
by fxtentacle | 2025-04-01 17:11:46+00:00
I'm the one who did the original benchmarks. My goal is to have a coding assistant that runs fully offline in my basement. A context length of 4096 tokens is actually long enough for this model to generate and refactor a reasonably sized code file. I verified that with a prototype JetBrains plugin before I started the benchmarking. And keep in mind that you don't need to reserve context space for the code that you sent in, because vLLM will handle that with it's KV cache.

But yes, this is purely for a single user setup. And since H100 are optimized for cost-efficient hosting of multiple concurrent users, it's kind of obvious that they are not a good choice here.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-01 17:12:14+00:00
Although the London Transport Museum is fun (some years back I decided to spend a week in my own capital city as a tourist, staying in a hotel in the centre, all day looking at stuff with tourists - and LTM is one of the things I decided to do) like most museums it does have a lot of stuff it can't display - but unlike most museums those things are sometimes huge like a bunch of buses, so they're not in a back room they're an entire other site, in Acton IIRC, the Depot, which is in fact open this weekend: https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/depot-open-days
by rbanffy | 2025-04-01 17:12:51+00:00
I don’t think you fully understand what DEI means and what organisations do to improve in that regard. For instance, masking name (sometimes a good proxy for race) and gender in candidate assessments is a DEI measure and increases representation of marginalised groups. Did you know telescope time for minorities improved when reviewers couldn’t see the name of the scientist in the proposal? That’s DEI.

DEI means to work in removing biases that limit access of minorities to opportunities. When it works, being a white male doesn’t get confused with merit, as it usually is. Lots of people think this is discrimination, because their group isn’t being hired as much as before when, in fact, it’s just the removal of discrimination against others.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-01 17:12:53+00:00
> Jobst's side were attempting to say that all reputational harm Mitchell suffered during that period was caused by cheating accusations

The cheating and the other lies and the rampant lawsuits. I agree with that causing almost all the damage. I hadn't even heard of the particular badly substantiated piece among the real stuff.

> (as if being accused of cheating at Donkey Kong is equivalent to being accused of driving someone to suicide)

...no, not as if that. That is not part of the argument.
by rascul | 2025-04-01 17:13:08+00:00
> Let's start with: there is no such thing as "Linux" man pages. There's <https://docs.kernel.org> but that only concerns the kernel itself.

Actually, there is.

https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages....

It's included with many default distro installs.
by haburka | 2025-04-01 17:13:08+00:00
Mention that you know you are missing dozens of features instead of blaming it on “web standards” would definitely help frame it better. Do you think Vite doesn’t know about web standards? It reads pretty naively.

Also I recommend just not making a web framework. There are many of them, some very similar to Nue. Your effort could be placed on improving what is out there. I suspect that is a lot harder and less fun than just making something new. But if you manage to contribute then you’ll be helping an entire community of people whereas a new web framework will likely see almost no adoption before it is abandoned.
by finnthehuman | 2025-04-01 17:13:35+00:00
>The lesson is taught early and often. It often sort of baffles me when other people are baffled at how often this happens in science,

Math and some sciences have the aura of definitive right and wrong, so even though by college everyone knows the expression "give the answer the teacher wants to hear", they just think in those subjects the teacher has access to absolute answers.

The primary thing taught by our schooling system (and 2nd place isn't even close) is bureaucracy obedience. This has the obvious effects, but one of the subtler ones is deference to "science" as an authority requiring obedience rather than the process of figuring shit out.
by pedrocr | 2025-04-01 17:13:53+00:00
I learned of these in-band commands at Stanford and created a very short print file to be able to change the status message of any printer on campus. I couldn't push it centrally but I just queued the file into the global print queue and was able to change any printer by walking to it and asking for my print. To not be too disruptive and given the character limits I only ever put in something like "READY FOR CAL" in reference to the Bay area school rivalry. I don't think anyone was ever annoyed by it, or maybe even noticed it beyond the few people I showed it to, but hopefully the statute of limitations has also passed.
by peteratt | 2025-04-01 17:14:18+00:00
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by devilbunny | 2025-04-01 17:15:05+00:00
> more swelling that we don’t hear about.

I guarantee there is. Device quits working, user doesn't know why, they discard it.

My only swelling incident so far was on a makeup mirror my wife owns. The battery is in a compartment whose door popped off due to the swelling. She asked me only when she couldn't get it to latch again. I looked at it and immediately told her not to plug it in.

Despite the fact that this thing cost hundreds of dollars, and they do sell some spare parts, the battery isn't one - and the battery leads are soldered directly to the circuit board. After some hunting around for a compatible battery (size was a major restriction), I bought it (~$15), cut the connector off, and soldered it to the board.

I tried emailing customer service; never got a reply.
by Natsu | 2025-04-01 17:15:27+00:00
It's funny, because while that's a terrible educational experience, you actually learned some important lessons despite them.

I remember the first time I found out that the software documentation I had been relying upon was simply and utterly wrong. It was so freeing to start looking at how things actually behaved instead of believing the utterly false documentation because the world finally made sense again.
by avinassh | 2025-04-01 17:15:32+00:00
> There are plenty of large projects written in Python.

There are, but they are certainly a pain in the ass to work with.

I once had to work on a semi-large Python codebase and got so frustrated that I wanted to port the code to some other language. The best part? I wrote the majority of that codebase myself, just months earlier.

I ranted about it here: https://avi.im/blag/2023/refactoring-python/
by dreamworld | 2025-04-01 17:15:33+00:00
It's well known it in fact isn't, otherwise learning would be impossible. Learning still isn't perfectly understood but one key characteristic is likely modulating synaptic strength (the weights mentioned). Also, yes, every cell and in particular neurons are very complex systems, although synapses themselves have various simplifying properties (specially along the axon, electrical communication really is the main method of communication).
by pdimitar | 2025-04-01 17:15:45+00:00
Yes, I agree that it's a big drawback.

Elixir made me more productive and gave me back my love for programming, and I work with it professionally for 9 years now. But the lack of static typing is getting so irritating that I started upping my efforts to get [even] better at Rust lately.

So I agree. It's one of the very top drawbacks of Elixir.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-01 17:15:59+00:00
>I chose to take a horrible but passing grade in the lab, finished the class with a C- (which was unusual for me), and went on to pretend that the whole thing never happened.

This sentence could have also ended "my gpa dipped below the threshold for some bullshit mark it up to mark it down exercise masquerading as a scholarship and I had to re-take the class for a better grade anyway"
by lispking | 2025-04-01 17:16:10+00:00
# JSON Formatter Chrome Extension

A beautiful and practical Chrome extension for formatting and highlighting JSON content. Features a VS Code-style dark theme and provides an interactive JSON viewing experience.

## Features

- Automatically detects and formats JSON content on pages - VS Code-style dark theme - Collapsible/expandable JSON nodes - Display of array and object element counts - Beautiful syntax highlighting - Hover highlighting for JSON properties - Quick expand/collapse all nodes

## Installation

1. Download or clone this repository 2. Open Chrome browser and navigate to extensions page (chrome://extensions/) 3. Enable "Developer mode" in the top right corner 4. Click "Load unpacked" 5. Select the project folder

## Usage

1. After installation, visit any page containing JSON content 2. The extension will automatically detect and format JSON content 3. Use the arrow buttons (▶/▼) on the left to expand or collapse JSON nodes 4. Click the extension icon to use "Expand All" or "Collapse All" features

## Technical Implementation

- Developed using vanilla JavaScript, no external dependencies - Implements Chrome Extension Manifest V3 specification - Recursive JSON parsing and DOM rendering - Smooth animation transitions using CSS - Optimized performance for handling large JSON data

## License

This project is open source under the Apache-2.0 License. See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.
by jerf | 2025-04-01 17:16:18+00:00
You can square that circle by announcing at the beginning of the course that there is going to be some assignment like that, but I'm not telling you which, because the real world doesn't.

I do agree this is a good point; trust is not something that should be simply squandered. Nevertheless, this is still a lesson that needs to be taught and so often students make it to the end without a single teacher that did.