MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pixl97 | 2025-05-07 15:52:50+00:00
>If these were common cases, cops would lay in wait and nab them for open container.

I mean, they do. One of the big issues is coverage of enforcement. Here in Texas you see disparities where arrests in big cities converge on public intoxication, where in smaller cities you run into a higher ratio of open container because of cops having time to sit and watch stores.
by topsecret | 2025-05-07 15:52:56+00:00
Yes, they will:

> Where do you ship to?

> Basically to every European country (-including Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), but in fact we accept and ship orders worldwide. However some markets might not be setup for automated checkout. If you are experiencing difficulty for shipping to a certain country, contact us so that we can manually create a draft order for you to review and complete.

https://www.brakefreetech.eu/pages/support
by tgtweak | 2025-05-07 15:53:06+00:00
Been using cline and their snapshot/rewind/remove context (even out-of-order) features are really shining especially with larger projects and larger features+changes becoming more commonplace with stronger LLMs.

I would recommend you check it out if you've been frustrated by the other options out there - I've been very happy with it. I'm fairly sure you can't have git-like dag trees, nor do I think that would be particularly useful for AI based workflow - you'd have to delegate rebasing and merge conflict resolution to the agent itself... lots of potential for disaster there, at least for now.
by floxy | 2025-05-07 15:53:19+00:00
>I could see ABS braking being fine for the back tire, but the idea of automatic braking on the front tire would scare me.

Just to be clear, Anti-Lock Braking (ABS) is different than Automated Emergency Braking (AEB).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_emergency_braking_sy...
by nico | 2025-05-07 15:53:35+00:00
The demo video looks great

The free pricing is a bit confusing, it says 50 prompts/month, but also BYO API keys

So even if I use my own API keys, the prompts will stop at 50 per month?

Also, since it’s open source, couldn’t just someone remove the limit? (I guess that wouldn’t work if the limit is of some service provided by Zed)
by rmah | 2025-05-07 15:53:39+00:00
In my experience, contract software development client acquisition is based mostly on reputation, referrals and personal contacts/networks. The biggest risk that clients face is not the cost of the project per-se, but missed delivery and/or poor results. So, in a sense, what you're really selling is not technical acumen, but trust and reliability.

Yes, project failure can often be laid at the feet of the client. But, IMO, good professionals contract developers are responsible for pushing back on vague and/or changing requirements. Part of your job is to look underneath what the client says to discern what he actually needs. The goal should be to and deliver something that is both useful and fulfills the client's goals. All of this is, of course, easier said than done.
by FergusArgyll | 2025-05-07 15:54:19+00:00
I don't know how anyone can still say Crypto was "hype". Sure the vast majority of it is but USDC alone market cap is north of 60 Billion, there is nothing speculative about USDC. You can't make money by someone else losing etc etc. Tether stablecoin is ~150 Billion. Just those two, means the value of Crypto minus rug pulls, scams or anything else is over 200 Billion - more than the value of OpenAI
by jbk | 2025-05-07 15:54:44+00:00
(President of VideoLAN here).

So far, VideoLabs is hiring most of the VLC core developers and those people are the main force of development of VLC. It's setup this way so that if the Videolabs company does not live forever, VLC stays forever free, and the non-profit lives.

This is quite classic of open source projects, and in the case of VideoLAN, there are 3 or 4 companies doing consulting.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-07 15:54:59+00:00
Rehashing my regular humans are not calorimeters post.

Metabolism is driven by hormones, it’s very possible for signaling peptides to prevent weight gain no matter how much a person eats.

While a person who eats nothing will clearly lose weight knowing that isn’t helpful as it’ll lead to a substantial loss in quality of life and most probably it is not long term stable.

In my case I have ME/CFS at the same time that I have uncontrollable weight gain, I also did extended fasts to keep the weight off as best I could. It wasn’t a willpower thing, having to manage both while making enough money to survive is incredibly difficult and it was impossible to keep all the plates spinning at the same time. Post Exertional Malaise is very real for some people and triggers can cause me to be bed-bound for months on end. Thankfully not so much anymore since I’ve found a good combo of very strong medications.
by Ragnarork | 2025-05-07 15:55:00+00:00
> As far as I'm aware, VideoLab has nothing to do with the VideoLAN non-profit

VideoLabs is a company which has been founded by one of the creators of VLC/VideoLAN and president of the VideoLAN non-profit.

It's basically a for-profit that hired/employs most of the VLC main contributors and pay them a salary to work on that ecosystem while providing consulting and other services to finance all that.

They are significant contributors to the VLC codebase.

After having worked with them in the context of a partnership, I can add that "for-profit" is mostly the legal form but not the mindset.
by raconti | 2025-05-07 15:55:07+00:00
It's honestly frustrating to see such a promising product make _so many_ sub-par product decisions. It's probably one of the only products that I have genuinely tried using > 5 times and gave up right after. I would grant this if they were new in the block, but it's been a while now.

If they had focused on

1. Feature-parity with the top 10 VSCode extensions (for the most common beaten path — vim keybindings, popular LSPs, etc) and

2. Implemented Cursor's Tab

3. Simple chat interface that I can easily add context from the currently loaded repo

I would switch in a beat.

I _really_ want something better than VSCode and nvim. But this ain't it. While "agentic coding" is a nice feature, and specially so for "vibe coding projects", I (and most of my peers) don't rely on it that much for daily driving their work. It's nice for having less critical things going on at once, but as long as I'm expected to produce code, both of the features highlighted are what _effectively_ makes me more productive.
by jklinger410 | 2025-05-07 15:55:40+00:00
Heart disease and obesity are among the highest causes of mortality in the United States. This idea that everyone would be better off "biting the bullet" does not play out in reality.

Unless you are going to magically fix our food supply and reign in the economic incentives for selling garbage food, chemically induced weight loss is still a better option.

Making people sick and selling them the cure is a sanctioned part of American Capitalism. Making it illegal to do such things is demonized as socialism.

Telling people they are individually responsible for fighting a system designed to make them fat and then die might make you feel good and correct, but it's doing fuck all to solve the issue.

All is working as intended by the ghouls who drive policy that is friendly to the economy. Turning the entire country into one slow motion concentration camp.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-05-07 15:56:05+00:00
I helped Alex invent that product! I built the first prototype that helped him get funding and hand assembled some of the first PCB designs. My (old) name is on the patent.

I’m glad to see this was already posted. I wear mine when I ride my 1500w ebike around and I feel so much safer with it. It’s really bright too!
by tialaramex | 2025-05-07 15:56:06+00:00
> For unbiased random floating-point numbers, generate floating-point numbers with probabilities given by drawing a real number and then rounding to floating point.

Immediately there are alarms going off in my mind. Your machine definitely can't pick real numbers, Almost All of them are non-computable. So you definitely can't be doing that, which means you should write down what you've decided to actually do because it's not that.

What you actually want isn't the reals at all, you want a binary fraction (since all your f64s are in fact binary fractions) between 0 and 1, and so you just need to take random bits until you find a one bit (the top bit of your fraction), counting all the zeroes to decide the exponent, then you need 52 more bits for your mantissa.

I'm sure there's a faster way to get the same results, but unlike the article's imagined "drawing a real number" this is actually something we can realize, since it doesn't involve non-computable numbers.

Edited: You need 52 more bits, earlier this comment said 51 but the one bit you've already seen is implied in the floating point type, so we need 52 more, any or all of which might be zero.
by petercooper | 2025-05-07 15:56:07+00:00
It's hard maintaining a list like that. People do come and go all the time. Even the official Go blog has spurts of blogging every week for a few months then goes quiet for ages. Most communities are the same.

If you want something to see every week, check out https://golangweekly.com/ which I edit. I put up with the weird tempos and people coming and going so readers don't have to :-D Also check out /r/golang on Reddit.
by Kirby64 | 2025-05-07 15:56:11+00:00
Yes and no. Weight loss requires you to eat fewer calories than you actually burn for a period of time until you reach the weight you desire. Once you reach a desired weight, you can start eating more calories again, but less than what you were eating since you no longer burn as many calories due to less weight…

So, the losing weight part requires even more restriction, and then a much smaller amount of restriction once you reach your goal.

It’s not unreasonable to reduce calories to something like 1500/day when dieting. But very few people need to stay at that amount for the rest of their lives.
by wildzzz | 2025-05-07 15:56:45+00:00
You obviously apply to the latter of my first paragraph. There are certainly applications where a device absolutely cannot be modified because then it defeats the purpose (i.e. security systems). What I'm talking about is something like a zigbee widget where it's job is non-critical. Not allowing user OTA updates is probably a good idea but preventing any changes to firmware for a non-critical device seems questionable.
by simple10 | 2025-05-07 15:56:52+00:00
I've been tracking the weight loss industry for years through biohacking communities. Weight Watchers has been on a steady decline for a long time. From what I can tell, the biggest issue was regaining weight after stopping counting calories. Services like Noom likely ate a big chunk of their market share since they focus on underlying habits and mental health issues to make the transformation more sustainable. Weight Watchers also had a very old school MLM vibe that made it hard to attract younger generations. I'm kinda surprised they lasted this long.
by topsecret | 2025-05-07 15:57:01+00:00
Would you prefer to read a full list of EU member countries instead? As well as Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, ABS is also required in the UK.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-05-07 15:57:01+00:00
There's no free lunch, and anecdotally I know people who've gained back weight both after surgery, and after Ozempic. These are not tools that let you "do whatever you want" and still lose weight, but people have been sold the expectation that no habitual change is necessary. Even if your satiety is dialed back, some products are relatively non-satiating yet calorie-dense (e.g. sugary drinks and alcohol, junk food and deep fried foods).

You don't get to binge for free. In the words of Alan Carr (of "the Easy Way to Stop Smoking" fame), if you view a change in dietary habit as a sacrifice, for instance focusing on healthier food, then you will not succeed.

All that being said, it may still be useful. A popular view of pharmaceuticals for primary disorders like for instance insomnia is that they can help "bridge the gap" or get a start and recovery, but that they cannot be relied on in the long-term. Your chemistry adapts. That is similarly the most generous view I have of these products.

Anyway, the WW approach has obvious limitations for the same reason low-fat or low-carb does. In WW they use an arbitrary point system to obfuscate restriction, by encouraging protein and low-calorie density foods. Some foods are 0-1 in points (e.g. 0% cottage cheese), some are high regardless of how healthy they are (avocado). You can easily see the problem with this: you quickly hit a wall where you aren't automatically reducing calorie intake by mere virtue of what you are eating. The same thing happens with low-carb and low-fat: what are you going to do once you've cut out all fat and all carbs? Eat negative-carbs?

For sustainable WL of a large amount of weight, there is no way around counting. You cannot "intuitively" do it. And here it's important to stress that there's a major difference between avoiding weight-gain, and losing weight. If you're a person of average weight, you don't need to worry about counting jack if you simply have good eating habits. This is not enough when it comes to caloric restriction.

edit: re reduced cravings, some don't just overeat from physical cravings, but for emotional satisfaction. A binge session on comfort food is not about hunger. This is something to be addressed through therapy.
by mystraline | 2025-05-07 15:57:44+00:00
And if you're aware of history, it was this case that moved companies to use degrees.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/401/424/

Previously, tests could be administered to determine aptitude, but was found illegal form of discrimination. However, academic degrees somehow werent that.

This Forbes article goes I to it much better than I. https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeleef/2014/11/06/thank-or-...

As for other comments, I find it telling that professions like Medical Doctor, professional engineer, and the like have an apprenticeship built in, but somehow that invalidated my comments? (Hint: it doesn't)
by fnordpiglet | 2025-05-07 15:57:56+00:00
I’m not even making an environmental statement. The spread in dollar cost per year in operating an efficiently cooled and insulated fridge and one that is neither is enormous. Obviously the size of the enclosed space matters as the heat gain is proportional to the surface area. But for the same volume you can spend 2x per year depending on the model.

Before energy star there was no way to know which was relatively more efficient. This led to people buying appliances that were extraordinarily and unreasonably inefficient, costing way more than necessary.

This is a return to the “bad old days.”
by gotoeleven | 2025-05-07 15:57:57+00:00
I don't know if its still comedy or has now reached the stage of farce, but I still at least always get a good laugh when I see another article about the shock and surprise of researchers finding that training LLMs to be politically correct makes them dumber. How long until they figure out that the only solution is to know the correct answer but to give the politically correct answer (which is the strategy humans use) ?

Technically, why not implement alignment/debiasing as a secondary filter with its own weights that are independent of the core model which is meant to model reality? I suspect it may be hard to get enough of the right kind of data to train this filter model, and most likely it would be best to have the identity of the user be in the objective.
by NonHyloMorph | 2025-05-07 15:58:01+00:00
No that is precicsely communication, but nothing indicazes that is "talk". Communication is the "lower" phenomenon ghen talk/speech. Involuntary body processes communicate something in us sapiensapiens and we are sure tjat animals communicate. But do they talk... if we say "talk" ("sprechen") that entails the whole of what natural languages do and is quite different.
by bshacklett | 2025-05-07 15:58:23+00:00
Now that’s an interesting comment. I’ve been buying Audible books on the iOS app as long as I can remember (both in dollars and using credits). I had to double-check to see if I was crazy or misremembering.

Perhaps it’s because I have a membership that they’re allowed to bypass the Apple store somehow? I never thought about it until just now.
by Hilift | 2025-05-07 15:58:31+00:00
Even if Pakistan wanted to do something to reign in the extremists near the borders, they don't have the resources. Pakistan required a $7 billion loan from the IMF last September just to function. This is a very precarious situation for towns near the border or the tribals.

"Violent extremist groups continue to plot attacks in Pakistan".

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rv7le52lo

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/PAK/pak...

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ind/ind...
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-07 15:58:31+00:00
Okay, but is it a matter of fish not working or fish not working the way you're used to because you learned to use sh-like shells first? The people I hear praising fish the most are very often users who didn't have much experience before using it (not always, but often).

Granted, that still is a fair point IMO; backwards compatibility is for users too, not just programs.
by MPSFounder | 2025-05-07 15:58:37+00:00
Author is not consistent. He mentions in 25 cases, the firm hiring McKinsey did not know the answer beforehand. Yet, Leap is based on firms already knowing the answer. The reason McKinsey is hired is to avoid internal conflicts over which manager takes the reigns. I doubt McKinsey is providing solutions to these industries (as in, introducing a product that was not pitched internally by someone already. In fact, in most cases, a manager will pitch the solution and McKinsey's job is purely finding the right managers to leave this internal "startup" to). Should that be the case, I would love to be proven wrong. However, every consultant I had met is no engineer or tech leader. They are merely consultants, restructuring the answers in ways that avoid conflicts within established giants. Most of them are Ivy League graduates that never worked in the technical field (got hired at Bain or McKinsey fresh out of school). Often we would make up stacks to demonstrate how ignorant they can be of technology. Managers and business people love McKinsey. As an engineer, I have not met any tech founder or technical engineer that esteemed the field (just listen to Steve Jobs' opinion on consulting). I attribute the mess that Google is under Sundar to McKinsey (not even mentioning the Opioid crisis where their hands are stained too). The redeeming factor is the author describes them as the enemy and is at least honest about his reasons for joining (stability and established resume name)
by johnnyjeans | 2025-05-07 15:59:15+00:00
Sorry, I'm rusty enough on my logic that I'll only embarrass myself if I try to match the depth of your post.

> Are there cases where you didn't "obviously" cheat where it's "wrong" to use it?

In particular, it prevents us from adapting the proof to non-binary valued logics full stop.

> I see ¬¬P => P as a "cast" from an opaque function type to specifically be a closure {f => f(p)} for some p: P.

Now this is an interesting thought.
by jajko | 2025-05-07 15:59:24+00:00
I dont understand why exactly this isnt mandatory for past 2 decades in regulated markets like EU.

Over easter I had the displeasure of driving cca 1500km road with family and we experienced quite a few 130kmh -> full stop without warning situations that one barely manages even when breaking full and heavily relies on all others doing the same. In one of the situations a car right in front of us didnt manage and hit already-crashed cars in front of it in billiard style, plastics and glass flying everywhere, luckily nobody was injured but cars were in pieces.

Second case next day - again full stop out of blue, ahead, we & after us managed within 3-4m of each other, but cars after that didnt, again billiard that travelled all the way up to us (we ended up with few scratches on back spoiler, I moved our car a bit ahead when I heard big bangs behind, avoiding bigger damage to us).

One only has a split second to realize how quickly that car ahead is closing in in such scenarios if you dont have other info. Could save hundreds of lives each year easily and easy to implement.
by timr | 2025-05-07 15:59:33+00:00
I’m neither a libertarian, nor am I a snowflake…and the argument I am making has absolutely nothing to do with the presence or absence of a specific button.

When there is a huge government bureaucracy that is devoted to writing and implementing “efficiency standards”, then I question the value of the expense.

Y’all do realize that other countries with energy efficient appliances don’t have this program, right?

(It’s almost like it isn’t necessary to achieve the same outcome.)
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-07 15:59:46+00:00
Great Observation!

It would probably erode trust between people interacting online. Many of us are here to discuss issues with real people, not AI agents. When real people start to mimic the conversation parlance and cadence of AI agents it becomes much more difficult to trust that you are interacting with a real person

Personally I'm not interested in chatting with AI agents

I'm not even really interested in chatting with real people filtered through AI agents. If you can be bothered to type out a prompt to your AI you can take the time to write your own thoughts

I don't even want to read things edited (sanitized, really) by AI either

The same way I don't want my living space to resemble a too-clean laboratory, I don't want my conversation space to resemble an HR meeting. I want to interact with the messy side of people too. Maybe not "unfiltered", but AI speak is much too filtered and too polished

I chose every word in this post myself with no help from AI, then typed it with my thumbs, just like god intended
by nwatson | 2025-05-07 16:00:25+00:00
Jetbrains has "AI Assistant" and "Junie" (the latter is much like "Claude Code"). Junie is a great AI coding assistant, seems to be on par with Claude Code (and can use Anthropic models e.g. Claude Sonnet, or other models).

Also, Claude Desktop can be configured to serve Jetbrains MCP Server, which will let Claude Desktop (or any other coding AI/LLM) connect and control Jetbrains IDEs, including changing project configuration, listing / finding files, editing files, looking at VCS diffs.

So I believe Jetbrains is addressing the AI coding assistant market, they're not making as much noise and perhaps they should be ... feature-wise I think Jetbrains IDEs + AI integrations will be as good, in the long term, as other systems. At least I hope so, because I can't let go of PyCharm, Webstorm, IntelliJ IDEA, Goland, et al
by bell-cot | 2025-05-07 16:00:43+00:00
Having driven (and engine braked) both diesel and gas manuals - yes, a diesel is much better at slowing "very hard". Beware of doing that if someone is close or inattentive behind you.

With either one, any need-to-brake situation gets more complex - you need to decide "brake pedal, engine, or both?". But I'm not driving manuals because I want driving to be super-simple.