MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thunderfork | 2025-05-15 17:51:26+00:00
> Speeding mildly is usually a consequence of stupidly low speed limits.

This is still illegal. Blaming it on what you feel the speed limits "should" be is lame - these are grown adults willfully ignoring the law because they find it inconvenient.

...okay, okay, that's a bit too forum-argument, but hopefully it demonstrates the contradiction here.

Further, I'd argue that, while speeding is universally a response to perceived inconvenience, sidewalk cycling can sometimes be a response to perceived safety problems, not just inconvenience.

Obviously it's still illegal and unsafe for pedestrians, but I think handwaving car-based lawbreakers and assuming their violations are justified, while also assuming the least generous intentions for cyclists... just hammers home the initial claim: people perceive car lawbreakering as forgivable when it's common and rare when it's worse, and cyclist lawbreaking as both egregious and universal, because they emphasize more with drivers than cyclists.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-05-15 17:52:03+00:00
I’ve heard this admonishment from the developer community, but I haven’t run into this issue myself. I expect there is some kind of dynamic at play rather than a strict hard and fast rule in the OS.

I’ve got multiple independent apps that do background sync to various destinations and I’ve never had any problems. Depending on how much data and processing is needed for a sync, sometimes they do get stopped by the OS, especially when on battery power, but they resume when the app is opened. This hasn’t been a big issue for me.

Almost all of the problems I’ve had with this kind of workload have been specific to the OneDrive app, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s a SPO/business or MSA/personal account, or whether via the Files app or native app UI.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-15 17:52:11+00:00
> if you're operating within EU borders and have the data of EU citizens, you must comply with GDPR

Right. There are plenty of foundation model companies in the US and China who would be fine training on European data without operating there. (Or doing it and paying a fine after acquisition.) It's an issue Mistral, for example, has complained about.
Show HN: Text-free image generation prompting
by cfwes | 2025-05-15 17:52:52+00:00
When you think of prompting image generation models - you'll probably think of writing out text prompts.

We wanted to build a style of prompting for GenTube that prioritized creative fun (no thinking about cumbersome prompt writing) and was intuitive to use (put a bunch of concepts together and get something).

Let me know what you think - we're still early in working on the block concept and are always trying to make it more user-friendly.
by munificent | 2025-05-15 17:53:39+00:00
I support this policy and was a bike commuter for several years, but just to play devil's advocate: Speed is not the only reason people prefer a car over walking and biking.

* Some people have mobility issues and can't bike or walk but can drive.

* Cars give you environment isolation when it's freezing, sweltering, or pouring rain.

* Cars isolate you from other people, which can be important especially for groups that are more likely to be on the receiving end of unwanted interactions.

* Cars make it much easier to haul stuff around.

* You are much safer being in a car when hit by another car than when not being in a car. This is something a lot of bike commute advocates sweep under the rug. They talk about how biking is overall safe, but then you ask them if they've ever had an accident and so many have been hit by cars and broken bones.

I fully support more people biking and walking. But I think the optimal solution is multi-modal. Cars aren't bad, they're just one piece of the puzzle.

(The reason I'm not a bike commuter right now is because I slipped in a puddle biking to work and destroyed my ankle. Non-fatal accident statistics for cycle are actually pretty scary when you dig into them. People always point out that overall mortality statistics are better for cyclists, but you can still have a really fucking bad time without dying.)
by taurath | 2025-05-15 17:53:46+00:00
> I will take a mediocre but steady, agreeable, and trustworthy developer I don't ever have to think about over a "rockstar" who is making life hell for the team every time.

It seems to me from experience interviewing that every hiring process wants the candidates to be both. Humility, agreeableness, trustworthyness does not get you a job.

By my estimation, it goes like this:

Being 70th percentile of leetcode test takers + all of those traits gets you a job.

Being 80th percentile of leetcode test takers + 2/3rd of those traits gets you a job.

Being 90th percentile of leetcode test takers + 1/3rd of those traits gets you a job.

The difference between being 70th and 90th percentile of leetcode test takers is practically nothing compared to what it takes to get up to 70th percentile. Within the hiring process, the whole point is to root out mediocre leetcode test takers, as they are seen and derided as "fakers" who can't code, regardless of their professional experience, shipped projects, number of code commits, or references from people who manage coders. The industry and hiring process hates "fakers". Other programmers hate "fakers". Especially the ones who are the "rockstar" developers hate "fakers" the most - everyone knows about that group of socially problematic (ie: borderline sociopathic) but powerful developers who will reject almost every candidate. This is seen as a good thing - a "bad hire" is seen as the worst possible outcome of any hiring process.

If we stopped running software engineering interviews like a game of werewolf, we might accidentally start valuing the type of people you would rather work with - and maybe it might actually make software a more pleasant place to be.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-15 17:53:58+00:00
> Coinbase didn't adequately secure sensitive customer information, and it was leaked

Practically every company has someone with credentials who is in some combination of debt, a damningly-adulterous relationship, a damningly-illegal substance relationship and/or feels underappreciated or slighted compensationwise. The question is generally how much it costs.
by trod1234 | 2025-05-15 17:54:03+00:00
Well at a glance, based on the article, the game plotline itself strays and seems to cross (based on the article author's description) a very fine line and uses actual psychological torture techniques in the design/plot.

Yes this was part of the story itself, but the issue with these techniques is that they often occur pre-cognition, where people are incapable of recognizing it happening/changing them. Everyone is different, but everyone succumbs with exposure to these techniques which are scientifically backed. For more material on the dangers, I'll refer people to read Joost Meerloo ("Rape of the Mind"), or Robert Lifton ("Psychology of Totalism"). The former has an overview of the effects, the latter are actual case studies from 1950s torture under Mao.

Many countries are considering the use of such techniques (elements, structures, and clustering) for what it is, Torture, and litigation both criminal and civil started catching up right around the time they removed the content.

This would almost certainly explain why they did what they did. I would imagine they rightfully were concerned that they would have suffered infinite loss financially in the courts, from the damages involved, and simply no longer distributing the game wouldn't cure the issue, but removing it via an update might provide some cover.

I'm no lawyer, so maybe someone aware of the legal implications on EU can comment on it. This seems entirely plausible.
by breuleux | 2025-05-15 17:54:10+00:00
> Surely, like everything else in tech, this too shall pass. I expect power requirements to fall away since there is no doubt strong incentives to do so.

Halving power requirements is only a net gain if demand isn't doubled. Unfortunately, using less power means cheaper service, so demand will increase, and not necessarily smoothly. If there is a massive use case for which AI is currently too expensive, simply moving under that threshold could decuple demand -- a small efficiency gain leading to a giant spike in total energy use.
by stonemetal12 | 2025-05-15 17:54:28+00:00
No, if it takes 1 ms to check if things have moved, and 5 ms to do the pathfinding then the worst case is 6ms when something moves. A guarantied 5 makes for a more stable frame rate than a sometimes 1ms, sometimes 6ms calculation. Often times 60 FPS average with high variability feels worse than 30 FPS with low variability.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-15 17:55:10+00:00
> what's the alternative?

Small set of privileged employees who work from the home office and are compensated to match. If an issue requires their attention, it takes time to resolve. But it's resolved securely. In essence, what Google does.

Alternative is the banking model. Low-cost customer service massively empowered and just eat the costs of breaches as they come.
by tiltowait | 2025-05-15 17:55:30+00:00
Cars also let you carry stuff over distances that would be awkward/uncomfortable/impossible walking or cycling. They’re also more comfortable, particularly in inclement weather.

I’d absolutely love if I could get away with having no car. I can’t. My life would be markedly, instantly, and demonstrably worse. I feel like a lot of people in the “no cars” camp neglect these issues.
by shallichange | 2025-05-15 17:55:49+00:00
No. This was meant as a comment to mention that it does not need to be this way. Maybe voting can help. Also, it's actual possibility. I have moved countries, and I'm not rich. If I had a serious condition I'd move off the USA in a minute. Either Europe or South America. There are no such wait times in some countries. The thing is "pricey" and "medical assistance" don't need to go together. US population thinks so, are used to it. It's crazy. The dollar amounts sent back and forth between insurance and providers are bonkers. Absolutely inflated. Same as medical career cost.
by mostdefinite1 | 2025-05-15 17:58:03+00:00
Wasn't Musk's whole hyperloop project determined to be just a way to sabotage the SF-LA high-speed rail?

California's so-called Democrats are in love with the idea that private industry (i.e., Silicon Valley) will swoop in and do the government's work for them. And they'll sideline any government project if they think someone else might shoulder the burden. LA almost elected a real estate billionaire as mayor whose solution to homelessness was to build a bunch of "housing" out in the middle of the desert.
by aaroninsf | 2025-05-15 17:58:27+00:00
The precursors would include Piers Anthony (unrereadable, not least for being terribly misogynist and worse),

But along with Tolkein the "spec fic"' on this list might well include Robert Heinlein (and Frank Herbert if he wasn't mentioned).

Heinlein made precisely one of the promises well articulated: that beyond the apparently venal and banal world of one's own surroundings, a richer adult world, indeed at a "higher pitch."

In Heinlein's case this was a somewhat narrow world reflective in an oblique way. of some real-world problems: exclusivity. In his world, a particular set of political and moral ideas (his ideas about sexuality were are also arguably not re-readable) is often collectively arrived at by his precocious characters, who trade knowingly in it, and have a relationship to the normies that is at best charitable or pitying and often caustic.

It was quite a thing to realize as I aged past 16 that he was painting not just a fantasy, but one which was not just not awaiting around the corner, but literally un-realizable,

because the attitudes and behaviors of his characters however good on the page, are completely absent from lived experience—at least, in anything like the way he promises. It's not just that the ideas and value he enshrines are not widely held; it's that they cannot are arguably not sustainable and are almost certainly incompatible with both individual human psychology and potential... and do not and cannot serve as a foundation for the sorts of exclusive societies he imagines.

In many of his earlier works, progressive sexually liberated intellectually liberal but socially formal cultures have naturally, inevitably, become the norm; and humanity has thereby thrived, leaving behind what he contends is its primitive imperfections.

By his later works, he tacitly acknowledged and indeed made central the struggle between the embrace of such values and social and political structures; and a "normie" culture permanently mired in those imperfections.

Moving here to the Bay Area in the 90s I met a lot of people who had encountered these ideas at the same impressionable age; and who like me, to some real degree expected to find (or make) communities adopting many of those ideas.

Indeed there's probably another more somber essay here: tracing the history of those specific ideas from their source, in a through-line to crypto-utopian effective altruism and its dream of libertarian city states unshackled from the normie masses, down into the ugly mire of resurgent openly racist zero-sum class war fascism and the shrill ideas of Curtis Yarvin.

It is easy to imagine disappointment then anger at the non-existent (sexually liberated) libertarian gun-owning utopia of genteel Heinlein,

metastasizing into what its adherents understand as Randian "Will" to make it so. To build, damn the consequences, move fast and break things—most of all the ugly banal venal complexities and inherent pluralism and ambiguities of the normies' world.

It must seem like a noble fight, in pursuit of a shared vision,

but it's a vision that as described ITA is fundamentally and only an adolescent one.
by Etheryte | 2025-05-15 17:58:40+00:00
How large do you wager your moat to be? Confidential computing is something all major cloud providers either have or are about to have and from there it's a very small step to offer LLM-s under the same umbrella. First mover advantage is of course considerable, but I can't help but feel that this market will very quickly be swallowed by the hyperscalers.
by 1propionyl | 2025-05-15 17:59:05+00:00
In practice it does not. If you have had something with FindMy tracking stolen you may know what apartment block it's in, but not what unit.

Police won't or can't do anything if it could be in multiple units or would require any kind of warrant for the building as well as the specific unit you think it's in.

If you're "lucky" some might chaperone you knocking yourself, which itself is not something most want to entertain.

On account of police policy, AirTags are effectively useless for actually getting anything stolen back. You'll get more use out of them in filing your insurance claim if the theft of the item is covered under for example your homeowner's insurance policy.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-15 17:59:51+00:00
From the horse's mouth, via CNBC:

> The Grok chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI startup said Wednesday that it “appears I was instructed to address the topic of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa,” according to responses viewed by CNBC.

That, of course, could be speculation on the chatbot's part when asked about nonsequitur answers. But it seems pretty clear that xAI did a "reverse Google" (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini...).
by ajithjos | 2025-05-15 17:59:54+00:00
A simplified version of a coding assistant is described at:

https://docs.dhenara.com/dhenara-agent/guides/tutorials/comm...

This example is not a full-fledged code generator, but it can handle various coding tasks and make updates directly to repositories. It provides a command-line interface for code modifications or additions.

This can be extended further for more complex CLI agent creations.
by kva-gad-fly | 2025-05-15 18:00:58+00:00
Not sure I understand this, but "I" (coveredca) pay linkedin to place my ads, for which "I" have to use their libraries? That then scrape "my" clients/customer data to linkedin? for them to make more money selling that data?

Does this also mean that those pious popups about "Do not sell my information" are essentially vacuous?
by naikrovek | 2025-05-15 18:01:00+00:00
Yes I actually browse GitHub anonymously. Not always but I do it every day. Never once had a problem.

In another browser I log in because I do work with code in GitHub frequently. I comment on issues and PRs and all the normal stuff.

I regularly drive two browsers, yes. I alternate between them multiple times per minute, often. In one, I am not logged in. In the other, I am logged in.

Not once have I hit any anonymous rate limit.

I respect one’s desire to use something without logging in, that’s fine. But what you do when you use up the free tier of a service is one of the following: A) you pay for the next tier, B) you (in this case) log in so that your usage is no longer considered “anonymous”, or C) you wait for the next usage measurement period to begin so that you can resume.

It’s their service and they can decide how they want to provide it, in the exact same way that you can decide how to provide any services that you might provide.

If it is your privacy that you are considering by not having an account, fine. By making that choice you are limiting yourself to whatever the services you use decide to give you, and you are entitled to nothing.

“I could do more in the past!” So what? They decided to let you do more in the past, and now they’ve decided to let you do less. They don’t owe you free services; you choose to use the free service and by doing so you’ve chosen to be bound by any usage caps that they decide to apply to you.

Nobody owes you free services AT ALL, but you’re getting them anyway. Instead of feeling entitled to more than you’re getting, maybe be thankful for what you have.
by tootie | 2025-05-15 18:01:16+00:00
Crime is down, but it's been trending down since the pandemic ended. In fact, the crime rate on the subway was never very high. The few high profile cases made national news, but given the millions of daily ride, the actual odds of being victimized have always been low. Very few people who live here were ever very concerned. It's routine for kids to ride the subway alone to attend middle or high school in NYC.
by kazinator | 2025-05-15 18:02:42+00:00
> Evidence has mounted that the program so far is achieving its two main goals — reducing congestion

It's reducing congestion by removing the people who don't want to pay $9 to drive to town.

Paying to be there: what a lovely concept! It works wonders for reducing density, too. Fewer people live in a desirable area, and they are richer and more pleasant, what are the downsides?

Maybe it should not be linked to affordability; it should be a lottery, for fairness.

For instance, if your license plate ends with certain numbers or letters (changing daily, and known months in advance for any given day), you don't get to drive into town.

Knowing well in advance the days when your car is admissible into the city allows you to plan. E.g. reschedule certain appointments so they occur on an allowed day, or else make alternative transportation plans.

Imperfections in lottery systems:

- Not fair toward people who often have to drive to town for whatever reason: they drive everyday or many days out of the week or month. Still translates to an extra cost, like driving to some parking lot outside of the city core, paying for parking there, and then paying for transit into the city. This could be people who are not well off: they work some job in the city that is not well paid, and have to live far away. In America "have car" != "affluent".

- Unfair advantage enjoyed by people who own multiple vehicles; we have not entirely eliminated pay-to-drive-here.
by 65 | 2025-05-15 18:03:02+00:00
The Fresh home page has a routing bug on it (https://fresh.deno.dev)

Scroll down to "Stream HTML straight from the server" -> Click "Lemonade" recipe link -> Click "Learn more about Partials" Button -> Press back button -> Press back button again -> Press forward button = The raw Lemonade recipe HTML partial gets rendered instead of the full page.

Or just go here straight from this link: https://fresh.deno.dev/recipes/lemonade

Maybe they should add some logic to prevent being able to load partials as their own page.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-15 18:03:07+00:00
LLM's are clearly in the "open hand" phase of development. Money doesn't matter and the only goal is to onboard users. Think Uber when rides were $3 in clean new cars and youtube when there were no ads.

But the time will come when a return on investment is needed, and it's going to be, like everything else, subscribe or view ads.

What remains to be seen is how these ads will be implemented. Will it be obvious shout outs in context? Nudging of a user towards a product? A token balance tied to watching old school regular ads? A hybrid approach of all the above?

I don't think open models will come to the rescue either. Mass market will want to use the best models with the least friction. The moment you have to do more than go to a website and start prompting, 90% of mass market is out.
by GolDDranks | 2025-05-15 18:03:25+00:00
Happy tenth anniversary for Rust! I have been using Rust from 0.11, circa 2014, and I'm so happy to see it as successful as it is today!

These days I can in all truthfulness say that I don't only enjoy writing Rust –something that was true already 10 years back, despite frequent frustrations – but I am also productive and feel that the language provides what it set out to provide. That's something that certainly _wasn't_ true 10 years back. A decade of iterative improvement is nothing to sneeze at.

I hope stability without stagnation will continue in the coming decades. May Rust 1.174 in year 2035 be a thing of beauty!
by breuleux | 2025-05-15 18:04:54+00:00
> Arguably LLMs are probably enabling some web developers to create native applications rather than Electron monstrosities saving many P-core CPU cycles multiplied by the number of their users.

Does any such project exist, or are developers using LLMs to help them develop new Electron monstrosities? I think that if a developer has the sensibility to want to develop a native app, they will do so regardless, it's not that much harder.
by rdiddly | 2025-05-15 18:05:44+00:00
I must be missing something because water seems like the least of our worries when compared to the energy being used and the carbon dioxide being produced. I know I know, still talking about CO2 at parties instead of the hot new water thing? BOOOO-RINGGGG!!!

The whole issue of "using" water is meaningless to me in the context of the water cycle. Does a data center "use" water? Whatever water evaporates from their cooling systems falls again as rain and becomes someone else's water. Same with farming - it all either evaporates (sometimes frustratingly right from the field it was applied to, or otherwise from the surface of the river it eventually runs into, or from the food you bite into, or from your sweat, or from your excretions/the sewage system/rivers again), or ends up supplementing a (typically badly depleted) aquifer, or gets temporarily used by animals including humans to e.g. hydrolyze fats (but full completion of metabolism of said fats & fatty acids actually returns MORE water on a net basis than it took to metabolize them) and so on.

In short, water is never passing into anything or anyone. It's passing through it. You don't own it, you're just borrowing it.

Even water recirculated as a coolant in a data center (the closest thing to actually "using" water) is a finite quantity, needed only one time, with maybe small top-ups due to losses, all of which end up, you guessed it, evaporating into the commons.