MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nico | 2025-05-03 14:22:59+00:00
> When it comes to programming, I would say AI has about doubled my productivity so far

For me it’s been up to 10-100x for some things, especially starting from scratch

Just yesterday, I did a big overhaul of some scrapers, that would have taken me at least a week to get done manually (maybe doing 2-4 hrs/day for 5 days ~ 15hrs). With the help of ChatGPT, I was done in less than 2 hours

So not only it was less work, it was a way shorter delivery time

And a lot less stress
by _fat_santa | 2025-05-03 14:23:20+00:00
I ran an "MVB" for a while but mine was even more simplistic. Just a straight HTML page and for posts I would write them as .txt files and manually update the homepage. While it was quite "verbose", I would still say it was easier than having to deal with the "modern web".

Since that time I have moved to something more sophisticated and now run Astro for my personal site and blog and honestly it's freaking awesome. On their landing page they claim it's the best platform for "content driven sites" and after using it for 6 months I have to say I agree, they take all the BS out of building a blog and just give you clear and easy to follow conventions for just about everything you'd want for a blog.
by bostik | 2025-05-03 14:23:54+00:00
That is also why so much of the security[tm] software is so bad. Usability and fitness for purpose are not box-tickers. The industry term in play is "risk transfer".

Most security software does not do what it advertises, because it doesn't have to. Its primary function is for the those who bought the product, to be able to blame the vendor. "We paid vendor X a lot of money and transferred the risk to them, this cannot be our fault." Well, guess what? You may not be legally the one holding the bag, but as a business on the other end of the transaction you are still at fault. Those are your customers. You messed up.

As for vendor X? If the incident was big enough, they got free press coverage. The incentives in the industry truly are corrupt.

Disclosure: in the infosec sphere since the early 90's. And as it happens, I did a talk about this state of affairs earlier this week.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-03 14:24:08+00:00
If you look at the trend for all Bay Area cities over a similar period [1], you'll see Berkeley is pretty much in line with the overall trend.

Now you can argue that's because of greatly increased development, but I don't think that applies to SF (or SJ) and it doesn't match the Berkeley timeline anyway.

[1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/sf-bay-area-rent-prices...
by caydenpiercehax | 2025-05-03 14:24:47+00:00
Mentra Live is indeed a camera + speakers + microphone pair of lightweight smart glasses - that you can build for.

Mentra Live runs AugmentOS, so you can control all the I/O (camera, speakers, mic) in your own app with the AugmentOS SDK.

Regarding use the backend service all the time: Most apps/developers connect through official AugmentOS.org servers and focus on building their apps, but you can self-host your own backend if you want.
by pokeymcsnatch | 2025-05-03 14:25:04+00:00
Work/worked for a place that was doing this. There's a couple problems:

* More battery weight means less cargo weight

* Trailers are dumb; the standard hookup (in NA) is lights and air. I hear CAN is common in EU though.

* Trailers are cheap and almost disposable.

The trucking industry is very slow moving, and probably 20 years behind passenger cars. So changing any of this stuff, even though none of it sounds particularly major, is at least 15 years out to start. Then you're left with the hundreds of thousands of "legacy" trailers that need to be retired or retrofit. The tractor to trailer ratio out there is like 1:10.

One interesting use case for this though is refrigerated (refer) trailers. They're often diesel-electric so they can plug in to shore power. Add a battery to this and maybe you can dump the diesel motor. Again though, weight is an issue... diesel is an order of magnitude more energy dense than the best batteries we have.
by dimal | 2025-05-03 14:25:22+00:00
Don’t get them to make design decisions. They can’t do it.

Often, I use LLMs to write the V1 of whatever module I’m working on. I try to get it to do the simplest thing that works and that’s it. Then I refactor it to be good. This is how I worked before LLMs already: do the simplest thing that works, even if it’s sloppy and dumb, then refactor. The LLM just lets me skip that first step (sometimes). Over time, I’m building up a file of coding standards for them to follow, so their V1 doesn’t require as much refactoring, but they never get it “right”.

Sometimes they’ll go off into lalaland with stuff that’s so over complicated that I ignore it. The key was noticing when it was going down some dumb rabbit hole and bailing out quick. They never turn back. They’ll always come up with another dumb solution to fix the problem they never should have created in the first place.
by daveguy | 2025-05-03 14:25:41+00:00
> Anyone here reading this on the internet has long since decided they are fine preferring technical automations over preserving traditional ways of completing work.

Well, that's a huge unsubstantiated leap. Also, it's not about "preserving traditional ways of completing work." It's just about recognizing that humans are much better at the vast majority of real world work.
by Meleagris | 2025-05-03 14:26:03+00:00
We should really define a new term for such work.

Perhaps "Risk Compliance Security" or "Security Compliance Engineering"

Where "Security Compliance Engineering" is the practice of designing, implementing, and maintaining security controls that satisfy regulatory frameworks, contractual obligations, and insurance requirements. Its primary objective is not to prevent cyberattacks, but to ensure that organizations can demonstrate due diligence, minimize liability, and maintain audit readiness in the event of a security incident.

Key goals:

- Pass external audits and internal reviews - Align with standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST

- Mitigate organizational risk through documentation and attestation

- Enable business continuity via legal defensibility and insurability

In contrast…

Cybersecurity is focused on actively detecting, preventing, and responding to cyber threats. It’s concerned with protecting systems and data, not accountability sinks.
by cubefox | 2025-05-03 14:26:39+00:00
The strange thing is that since you can't see the points in the Milky Way without a telescope, it's unclear why the Egyptians drew stars on the edge of their depiction of the Milky Way. It seems they would have assumed it's a long cloud or something like that. (Indeed, an old name for "galaxies" outside the Milky Way was "nebulae" until a few hundred years ago.)
by trod1234 | 2025-05-03 14:26:45+00:00
This was clearly an ethics violation, it knowingly violated the Geneva convention on human experimentation without informed consent, or need.

People don't have to claim that they were a victim, anyone involved without informed consent in this 'is' a victim.

Your reasoning is fallacy. There is no greater weight, no weight at all. Its simply a did it happen, when you conduct a scientific experiment without informed consent or need, on unsuspecting people.

This is what the Nazi's, and many other destructive and evil regimes have done. Supporting this, making light of it, is the same as supporting one of those camps.

Humanity as a whole hasn't made a hell on earth, evil and blind people have.

There are many people that think they are good when in fact their souls are darker than black, and they have just willfully blinded themselves. The study authors would definitely fit this definition.
by bmcde001 | 2025-05-03 14:29:18+00:00
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by AstroBen | 2025-05-03 14:29:31+00:00
The vast majority of startups lose money for their founders. So if that happens the founders should have been paid? The workers were the exploiters?

I've hired people first hand for projects that ended up being a flop. They made out much better than I did

Someone has to take the risk. It's not guaranteed it'll be a risk with a positive expected value either
by hollerith | 2025-05-03 14:30:38+00:00
Consider New England, where in its early days most inhabitants consisted of farming families. Where there were farms and cow pastures, there is now mostly forest.

There are a few farms remaining in New England, yes, but in general farmers consider the soil there not worth farming compared to places like Iowa and Southern Illinois (where all the land really is utilized for farming) even though in the past most the (sizeable) population of New England made a living farming.

We know that most of the forest in New England is suitable for farming because there are still stone walls running through it: these wall were made of stones encountered by farmers while plowing (when the forest was farmland).
by metalman | 2025-05-03 14:30:42+00:00
yep, we got em here in Nova Scotia, "little dutch farmers", still doing the dutch beard thing, farming with oxen, deap knowledge of traditional farming practice, oh how they can talk, and bend your ear, best pay attention, as if they like you, they will drop a significant observation into an otherwise seemingly pointless ramble, but as they say....you have to catch it get them in Pennsylvania too, though less obviously out of a clasic painting from the 17th century
by ilyash | 2025-05-03 14:30:48+00:00
> controversial

I did hear an opinion (somewhere else) that a shell shouldn't have associative arrays either and it was a mistake...

> Nushell

Nushell is a candidate and some people use it and like it. I personally disagree with the design. Then again, I'm not objective. I created Next Generation Shell. It's a fully fledged programming language with domain specific facilities (for running external programs for example). I like this approach more than trying to improve over a shell. It fits my brain better.
by GTCHO | 2025-05-03 14:31:14+00:00
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by caydenpiercehax | 2025-05-03 14:31:27+00:00
The 3 seconds of latency is writing a bitmap image from the phone to the smart glasses over BLE. It's very fast to send text, but slow to send bitmaps.

For text, everything is fast - the AugmentOS servers introduce <350ms round trip latency in most places/countries.

In next-generation glasses, this will be a lot faster because of better bitmaps handling, BMP encoding schemes, and also pre-loading of BMPs.
by lelandfe | 2025-05-03 14:31:47+00:00
Making iframes be the right size is super awkward. I might actually use them more if they were easy to get responsive.

This post does link to a technique (new to me) to extract iframe contents:

<iframe src="/example.html" onload="this.before((this.contentDocument.body||this.contentDocument).children[0]);this.remove()"></iframe>
by glzone1 | 2025-05-03 14:31:54+00:00
The jetbrains ai assistant was truly terrible when it came out. They blocked the use of the major LLM’s and had supposedly a better European (?) LLM for coding, but I could not get it to work in any reasonable way. Now though they do allow you to use the major LLMs I believe and so it’s immediately much more useful. There is also Junie, which I’m not sure how that compares it’s a bit confusing but also seems better.
by evrimoztamur | 2025-05-03 14:33:11+00:00
I think we are vastly underestimating how optimised life on Earth is on the axes of energy efficiency vs computational capacity. Current state of robotics and AI together is showing us that life and biological neural networks are capable of doing things we still cannot fully replicate, all the while using orders of magnitude less energy. A honey bee or an ant still remains incomprehensible, and the most basic worm insimulable.

I posit an extrapolation that once we figure out how life has managed to come up with its incredible computational capabilities, our silicon AI is going to become not only a lot smarter, but also a lot cheaper too.
by 93po | 2025-05-03 14:33:32+00:00
pre 2023, it took real human effort to make shit up, and there was much less incentive for the amount of effort, and you could more easily guess what was made up by judging whether a human would go through the effort of making it up. these days it's literally anything, all the time, zero effort. you're right there's always been fake shit but it's more than half the posts on /r/all these days are misleading, wrong, or just fake
by linsomniac | 2025-05-03 14:33:37+00:00
The past month or so I've been largely using Claude Code (similar to aider, which I haven't used in 6+ months, and OpenAI Codex I gather), from the CLI, for the "vibe coding" portion, and then hop into vim for regular coding when I need to "take the stick". I don't have any AI tools integrated into vim (though I do have LSP, etc). This method has been pretty effective, though I would like to have some AI built into the editor as well, my experiences with Cursor and Zed haven't been as rewarding as I'd like so I've iterated towards my current Claude Code. My first serious project, a fastapi-based replacement for an ancient Ruby on Rails project is just in "dev test" mode and going out to production probably in 2.5 weeks.
by motorest | 2025-05-03 14:34:18+00:00
> I used to agree with that, until I read this article. I would always use the IDE's default and "not care" as long as the code was consistent.

The problem is that everyone touching the project can and often does have different defaults. If you work on a professional setting, specially in legacy projects, you are bound to touch files where your changes comprise mainly of whitespace changes.
by thomasmg | 2025-05-03 14:34:46+00:00
Yes, I know it is not designed to be a error-correction code, and other codes (turbo code, fountain code), are a lot more efficient. But I wanted to mention it because it's related to the topic.

> You can make it work over data with positions by adding a position number

Yes, that's what I did in my experiments. I personally found it really simple to implement; I'm not sure how easy it is to implement a "real" error correction code.
by albert_e | 2025-05-03 14:35:16+00:00
A more simpler realization after playing around with the music player on the home page -- being able to skip tracks and sample a large variety of music tracks without any ads in between -- was pleasantly surprising!

Everytime I clicked next I was subsconsciously cringing and expecting an unwelcome and jarring ad to blast through my speakers - and each time releived to actually be greeted by the next music track.

What have we done to ourselves.

It only feels like yesterday that the default was hoarding all your favourite tracks and playing them at will through winamp.
by hansvm | 2025-05-03 14:36:21+00:00
To be somewhat fair, their numeracy scatter plot visually looks more like a dart board than any real process. The fact that you got a positive-sloping line out at all from the regression has to do more with the positions of the outliers than anything else. You're at least able to visually examine the language aptitude plot and see an up-and-to-the right connection between the two variables.
by netfortius | 2025-05-03 14:37:58+00:00
How I wish that was the case! Ever since having moved from the US to the EU, I find myself having to go to Aurora Store more than 50% of the time, as A LOT of apps with country locality are not available in downloadable apk format, from any of the major apk distribution sites or - when rarely found - they are a few versions behind, and can't be run.
by latexr | 2025-05-03 14:38:01+00:00
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine introduced Section 31, an organisation which regularly acted in the way you describe the characters from 24. They operated outside official channels and used questionable methods to do whatever was necessary “for the good of the Federation”. The character of Odo criticised it well:

> Interesting, isn’t it? The Federation claims to abhor Section 31’s tactics, but when they need the dirty work done they look the other way. It’s a tidy little arrangement, wouldn’t you say?

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Section_31
by dahart | 2025-05-03 14:38:10+00:00
The government part is a good point, this is not the best example of a capitalist endeavor.

> What capital is there to own?

The rights you mentioned is part of the ‘capital’ - these days capital and ‘means of production’ certainly involve intellectual property. I think it always did - capital was always referring to ownership - but the mix is starting to lean heavily on intangibles now, with software running so much of the world. The ABC & BBC capital used to include tons of high power broadcasting equipment, but maybe that mostly going or gone now?
by mchusma | 2025-05-03 14:38:22+00:00
Interesting study, good work by authors, I read it as little to no effect though. Confidence interval includes 0.14 kg of difference in weight loss. But I couldn’t read the full paper to show how they tested compliance between the groups.

For me, fasting (skipping breakfast or breakfast and lunch) and eating more vegetables (to feel full) are the easiest ways to hit calorie targets, but I suspect that is the only effect.

So the practical takeaway of this, and all diets, is focusing on what is the most sustainable way to hit calorie targets.
by 93po | 2025-05-03 14:39:22+00:00
you're right it's a grey area, but in the field of music specifically, it's some of the most stringent requirements. the more creative it is, the more it replaces the market for the original, the less of a parody it is (not weird al), the more you will struggle to use fair use as a defense. suno generating music hits all the parts of "this is hard to defend" while also being in the the most litigious possible industry for fair use
by api | 2025-05-03 14:40:30+00:00
Also the nature of software is that the more software is written the more software needs to be written to manage, integrate, and make use of all the software that has been written.

AI automating software production could hugely increase demand for software.

The same thing happened as higher level languages replaced manual coding in assembly. It allowed vastly more software and more complex and interesting software to be built, which enlarged the industry.
by srrdev | 2025-05-03 14:41:02+00:00
Excited to see Suno's model advance. We use it for rock vocals (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zi0KXpSuQeQ) because nobody in my band can sing. We do all the music and layer the vocals on top from the Suno-generated stems. All things considered, it's been great. We have, however, run through the "range" of rock vocalists. Suno must be under a bit of pressure to generate vocals that don't sound too much like any real singers that themselves are not derivative.
by ipaddr | 2025-05-03 14:41:15+00:00
6 ways.

Transactional value. The entire associated costs.

Identical product value. If the above isn't known they find identical products.

Similiar product value. If identical value isn't known they use similiar products.

Deductive Method - Most likely price sold

Computed Method - Cost of production - expensives

Residual Method Of Valuation - based on the relationship of the parties.

They inspect, measure, weigh, x-ray and use the existing labeling. They fine those who cheat, etc.

Here is a free basic online calculator. https://www.timetrex.com/resources/us-tariff-calculator

Ideally you buy software with updates or you check the government website but these days you check for executive orders because they change so quick.
by mapt | 2025-05-03 14:41:37+00:00
That depends on your latitude, how dear land is, and how close to breakeven your application is.

For a lot of applications, panels are so goddamn cheap now and breakeven happens so fast that "Just buy twice as many panels" is the best solution to any problem that doesn't involve land area. Winter production in a snowy/leafy climate at a latitude tilt, though, is the exception to the rule; Production is so impaired without regular maintenance that twice as many panels is not very helpful. But set those panels vertical, at a range of orientations, and snow/leaves stop being an issue, you get sizable exposure with the sun low on the horizon, the maintenance requirement goes away, and you get an appreciable amount of power earlier in the morning and later in the afternoon, you just don't get quite as much at noon.
by 93po | 2025-05-03 14:42:50+00:00
this is such a weird talking about that basically any real astronomer doesn't really care about, at all. it just comes across as "let's find any way to criticize elon possible" or "let's write clickbait based on a couple of terminally online comments on twitter". satellites are not blocking views, and astronomers are overwhelmingly in support of a healthy space industry, which includes satellite launches. the cutting edge of astronomy relies on satellites, it would be weird to be against them
by klabb3 | 2025-05-03 14:43:27+00:00
> The mood here is as notoriously cynical as I would expect from HN. Yeah, let's all brush this tech off as unoriginal, uninspiring and bland.

On the contrary, this comment is peak HN. The reverse take that a machine eating human art and creativity and selling the interpolated derivatives back to you after laundering it from royalties is a common good.

> Let's all tell ourselves that music requires that 'special human touch' or audiences will become bored, unimpressed and uninterested.

Ah those pesky humans, as opposed to corporate subscription-based content farms as the certified non-cynical happy future of music & art.

> This music is already as good as what's produceable by humans

It’s about as good as everything else generated with AI, like say a large code base. If you can’t tell, congrats.
by biimugan | 2025-05-03 14:45:52+00:00
In an American context, this part also struck me:

>> We did that. But only the Prime Minister could actually cut through all the bureaucracy and say, Ignore these EU rules on Blah. Ignore treasury guidance on Blah. Ignore this. Ignore that. “I am personally saying do this and I will accept full legal responsibility for everything.”

> By taking over responsibility, Johnson loosened the accountability of the civil servants and allowed them to actually solve the problem instead of being stuck following the rigid formal process.

Of course this also can have pretty severe negative consequences. In the U.S., thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling, the president has immunity from criminal prosecution under certain (yet to be fully determined) circumstances. If the president then "takes over the responsibility" for obviously illegal actions, and is immune from prosecution for those actions, you now have a civil service unburdened by any responsibility to follow the law. And there are some 3 million odd workers in the U.S. federal government.

That the conservatives on the Supreme Court did not consider this danger, especially in light of who occupies the office, is still astounding to me.