MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by forgotoldacc | 2025-05-29 02:15:59+00:00
> Shaves seconds off the time it takes you to write an address?

More like minutes. Address input in Japan is a colossal pain in the ass. You have some sites that only allow half-width characters (e.g., ｷﾀ), some that only allow full width (キタ), some that require you to write your address twice and once in romaji, which can be half width (kita) or full width (ｋｉｔａ), some require you to write it in hiragana instead, sometimes numbers need to be full width(123 vs １２３), sometimes addresses have random unicode symbols like ・or Ⅲ (yes, Roman numerals are common in addresses) or ⑧ which may or may not be recognized, and more. There's no standardization in addresses at all and no street names, so every building gets some bizarre-ass name unique to it and the names sound like the title of a JRPG. You might even get stuff like 〜ＴＨＥﾋﾞｯｸﾞPALACEモナコ：Dréam Ⅱ〜

And the fun thing: every site has its own input standards, and no, they don't tell you what the error was. Most simply say "You can't submit. There's something wrong on this page." Some let you hit the send button, fail, and make you input everything all over again.

Having a code to input an address saves users loads of time and stress, assuming web developers implement it.
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-29 02:16:05+00:00
At this point I’m not sure

there would be the monero subreddit where you could ask these questions

LLMs would be trained on them by now

Books like Mastering Monero exist, and will become obsolete if the proposed upgrades go through

Annual DNM OPSEC GUIDE will likely cover it (darknet market operational security guide)
by someguy101010 | 2025-05-29 02:17:16+00:00
Thanks but its not mine! I just found it inspirational.

> How does the agent know which to keep and which to discard for a conflict? This would that it has deep contextual information about the codebase it's looking at.

There is no guidance regarding this in the agent. For some conflicts this is important but I have found that for the conflicts I've tried this on it does not need the additional context to do the right thing! There is a option to add additional prompting before it solves a conflict. I will add notes in here to guide it such as "ignore auto generated files, i will generate them again later" so that it doesn't get stuck on generated data.
by tgamblin | 2025-05-29 02:18:51+00:00
I do for macOS and Linux :). Windows support is also coming along.

There isn’t anything particularly special about the HPC world other than the need for many different configurations of the same software for many different CPU and GPU architectures. You might want to have several versions of the same application installed at once, with different options or optimizations enabled. Spack enables that. Environments are one way to keep the different software stacks separate (though, like nix, spack uses a store model to keep installs in separate directories, as well).
by mananaysiempre | 2025-05-29 02:19:48+00:00
It feels as though, much like cryptography in general reduces almost all confidentiality-adjacent problems to key distribution (which is damn near unsolvable in large uncoordinated deployments like Web PKI or PGP), content-addressable storage reduces almost all data-persistence-adjacent problems to maintenance of mutable name-to-hash mappings (which is damn near unsolvable in large uncoordinated deployments like BitTorrent, Git, or IP[FN]S).
by GianFabien | 2025-05-29 02:19:50+00:00
I used StackOverflow for many years. In that time I think I might have posted 3-5 questions in total. In the majority of cases, the answers were already there. The trail was blazed by those who encountered those problems before me.

These days it is quicker to ask a LLM trained on all of the web. Of course, I need to verify the veracity of the answers, but that was true for web searches too.
by growlNark | 2025-05-29 02:20:37+00:00
> You called GDPR a 'trade barrier' as a justification for tariffs against the EU so it's extremely obvious you're not arguing from any position of good faith at all here.

The least interesting commentary you can imagine is of or from a country's closest friends. From many perspectives Europe is indistinguishable from America, except from being a little poorer.

Let's see America's (or Europe's!) earnest criticism of Kinshasa. C'mon, show us who you really are. I promise you it will only benefit humanity.
by Syzygies | 2025-05-29 02:20:46+00:00
Consulting for "A Beautiful Mind" was in part an exercise in mathematical fiction. The later math is imagined to fit the story. John Nash even wrote me to ask what the math on the clipboard meant, as his film self recovered on a porch.

In various venues, I explained that mathematicians don't have a lot of experience writing fiction. Other than grant proposals...
by Aurornis | 2025-05-29 02:20:58+00:00
I think he did have good intentions. For someone who took the administration at their word this must have felt like a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of something that changed government operations for the better.

His mentions about improving efficiency and turnaround times are exactly what everyone wanted DOGE to be.

But you can tell he’s realized that DOGE is deeply unpopular. Even much of the right is realizing that DOGE was dishonest, inaccurate, and completely failed to deliver on their promises.

The way this article invokes Obama’s name before Trump or Musk (in an attempt at the “Obama created DOGE, actually” meme) is telling. The way he speaks about his passion for Bernie Sanders while only mentioning Trump and Elon is passing is also significant.

Being unceremoniously discarded by Elon Musk after trying to do a good job, all while watching DOGE cement itself as an historically unprecedented mistake for the country has to feel devastating. I can’t imagine trying to do something good and finding yourself very publicly associated with a deeply unpopular program and then also finding yourself evicted by that very program.

Honestly the best thing he could do for his own personal brand is to come out against DOGE, however lightly. He could just say that DOGE’s execution was not what he wanted. Instead he’s trying to pretend it was a good thing and that it wasn’t to blame for cuts, when we all clearly saw the e-mails, the threats, the public claims. He could have had a pass by claiming that he went in with high expectations, but trying to double down on them on the way out is just asking to be pegged to the wrong side of history.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-29 02:20:58+00:00
This idea that the president has unrestricted ability to set foreign policy is an invention of this particular administration. In truth, powers are split between the executive and legislative branches [1].

Most notably, only Congress can declare war, which has been a real sticking point in the last century and why, for example, the Korean War wasn't technically a war (it was a "police action") and why the Vietnam War wasn't either. The First and Second Gulf Wars and the War in Afghanistan at least had explicit war resolutions passed by Congress, however misguided.

Brown pelicans typically lay three eggs. Some bird species can employ "deferred incubation" such that even when eggs are born on separate days, the eggs will hatch at the same time. Brown pelicans don't do this so the chicks hatch 2-3 days apart each. The eldest gets fed more so there ends up being a size difference. What inevitably happens is the eldest two conspire to push the youngest out of the nest. If it falls out, the parents won't feed it and it will die. Then after awhile the oldest pushes and second out. 90%+ of the time only the eldest ever fledges.

Why did I tell this story? Because it basically mirros what's going on with our government. We have, at least theoretically, three branches of government that are meant to balance each other. There has been a conservative takeover of the executive and judicial branches such as to neuter the legislative branch. This Supreme Court has both stripped Congress of power (eg overturning Chevron) and empowered the presidency (eg the presidential immunity decision that had absolutely zero basis in anything; it was simply invented). They've invented doctrines to allow them to overturn basically anything Congress does (eg "major questions" and "historical tradition"). This is a coup d'etat and the end result of the 50+ year Republican Project.

What happens next, just like the pelicans, is the courts gets neutered. Conservatives now push the "unitary executive" philosophy, which is a fancy way of saying they want a dictator, not beholden to any courts or lawmkaing body. The second chick is getting pushed out of the nest. The administration is openly defying the courts on many matters (eg Kilmer Abrego Garcia) and this Supreme Court has given them the immunity to do that.

I, personally, think we are beyond the point of no return. Electoral politics cannot possibly fix this situation. At the same time, the American empire is decline. We are going to see firsthand waht a dying empire looks like and I guarantee you it won't be pretty.

[1]: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-foreign-policy-powers-co...
by ddaud | 2025-05-29 02:21:48+00:00
This is exactly my thought. Be it pen and paper or digital, writing out what your software needs to do and how it will do it saves an immense amount of time debugging or throwing things at the wall. I’m shocked at some of the responses here; there is a qualitative difference in the development experience when you spend the time designing (I also frequently do this by hand, but it doesn’t have to be) before implementing anything vs. opening an IDE and hammering something out.

I’d go further to say that software development isn’t about writing code, it’s about designing and understanding programs. Code is an implementation detail, the understanding is what is crucial.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-29 02:22:11+00:00
> But did you do anything wrong?

Yes, you had a deontological blindspot that prevented you from asking, "What are some of the high-risk consequences, and what responsibility do I have to these consequences of my actions?"

Deontology's failure case is this ethically naive version that doesn't include a maxim that covers the "Sometimes peoples' reliance on good intentions relieves them of exerting the mental energy of considering the consequences which ultimately cause those consequences to exist"-situation.

One of the assumptions that bears arguing against is that the choice is framed as happening once before the system is deployed. However, this oversimplification has an unfortunate side effect - that we can't know all of the consequences upfront, so sometimes we're surprised by unforeseen results and that we shouldn't hold people to the standard of needing to accurately predict the future.

In real life, though, the choices are rarely final. Even this one, deploying the genocide-promoting LLM is reversible. If you didn't predict that the LLM promotes genocide, and then you find out it does in fact promote genocide, you don't throw up your hands and says, "I hadn't thought of this, but my decision is final." No, armed with the information, you feel a sense of duty to minimize the consequences by shutting it down and fixing it before deploying it again.

Further more, you take a systems level approach and ask, "How could we prevent this type of error in the future?" Which ends with "We will consider the consequences of our actions to a greater degree in the future," or perhaps even, "We don't have enough foresight to be making these decisions and we will stop making medical devices."

The point is that distilling the essence of the situation down to "good intentions absolve responsibility," or "one drop of involvement implies total responsibility," isn't really how people think about these things in real life. It's the spherical cow of ethics - it says more about spheres than it does about cows.
by x86cherry | 2025-05-29 02:22:22+00:00
Considering our intelligence stems from our ability to use bayesian inference and generative probabilities to predict future states, are we even limited by brain size and not a lack of new experiences?

The majority of people spend their time working repetitive jobs during times when their cognitive capacity is most readily available. We're probably very very far from hitting limits with our current brain sizes in our lifetimes.

If anything, smaller brains may promote early generalization over memorization.
by bschwindHN | 2025-05-29 02:23:17+00:00
> Flutter apps can run much smoother precisely because they reimplement everything rather than dealing with the legacies of HTML and CSS

Maybe in some cases, but I kind of doubt this statement in general. I just tried a Flutter demo from their official site and text selection doesn't even _work_ correctly.

https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/simplistic_editor/

I'll copy-paste a few lines of the example sentence, double click on one of the middle lines to start selecting by word (which it doesn't seem to even do), and then highlighting starts on the top line instead of the line I selected.

In general the flutter apps always feel janky and second-class to the platform they're on, because they never fully implement the exact behavior of each platform they run on.
by joshkel | 2025-05-29 02:23:45+00:00
I'm not sure how much difference that bill's clause makes in practice. As I understand it (courtesy of the "Advisory Opinions" legal podcast, but any misunderstandings are my own), the problem is that, if the executive branch is going to ignore the courts, then they're going to ignore the courts. A court can recommend prosecution for contempt, but prosecutors are part of the executive branch. A court could try and appoint their own prosecutor, but then the court is both judge and prosecutor - which goes against the US system's goal of an impartial and independent judiciary. The court could issue a fine for contempt, but then the government is paying a fine to the government? It could issue a sentence of jail time, but the executive branch administers the prisons and has the pardon power.

I'm disgusted with the executive branch's actions and congressional GOP's enablement. And, since the administration at times seems to want a fig leaf of legality, maybe the bill would make a difference after all by giving them more coverage. But, overall, I'm not sure that it's the "game over" step change that some commentary makes it sound like it is.

I could be misunderstanding - comments / counterarguments welcome.
by Animats | 2025-05-29 02:23:46+00:00
Any deterministic system with a finite number of states is decidable, in the halting problem sense. Either it halts or repeats a state. The halting problem only applies for infinite memory.

Now, there are finite state systems where the halting problem is arbitrarily hard. But that's not undecidability. That's complexity. That's a problem in the space where P=NP lives.

The article does not make this distinction, and it's important.
by varenc | 2025-05-29 02:23:57+00:00
This is a key distinction. Plus codes map to a 14m x 14m square area and aren't aware of things like building units or elevation.

If you live in a high rise apartment, a plus code does not identify you precisely. Sadly to do this you need some knowledge of a structure's internals. It makes sense it's being done on the national level in Japan.
by refset | 2025-05-29 02:25:37+00:00
I agree the opportunity is still there, although the long game keeps getting longer.

Prof. Viktor Leis suggested [0] that SQL itself - being so complex to implement and so ineffectively standardized - may be the biggest inhibitor to faster experimentation in the field of database startups. It's a shame there's no clear path to solving that problem directly.

[0] https://www.juxt.pro/blog/sane-query-languages-podcast/
by yknld | 2025-05-29 02:25:40+00:00
it just breaks down what common patterns ai has. There are quizes and activities like 2 pictures, one is real one is ai. My thought process is that the reason younger people have a easier time figuring out whats real and whats ai is because we've seen so much more content. its really just a eye test. So idea was to "eye train" student.
by ryangittins | 2025-05-29 02:27:14+00:00
This is the coolest place! I'm so sad to see they're in financial distress.

As a kid I would browse their website endlessly, just fascinated by all the weird stuff. It scratched the same itch that watching Mythbusters would scratch. In adulthood I rediscovered them and went to their Milwaukee location for the first time. We spent hours there, looking through all the cool stuff they have. It really gives you ideas!
by Syzygies | 2025-05-29 02:27:29+00:00
John Nash saw the symbol pi as just a Greek letter. In grad school he proudly used every Greek letter in a paper. I was asked to decorate his (film) dorm window in grease pencil, and by chance a photograph of Russell Crowe through this window became one of the most widely distributed promo stills. He's looking intent behind the equation "0 < pi < 1", straight from Nash's paper.

The reaction in my community, which I quite enjoyed, would disabuse anyone of the idea that mathematicians are less cripplingly conventional than other people. To the majority of mathematicians, pi is tied to the circle. A great UC Berkeley email thread speculated that I was trying to make Russell Crowe look like a fool.
by Tor3 | 2025-05-29 02:27:37+00:00
Indeed - at least now you can enter the property address (e.g. a four-digit number followed by a dash and another number, as in this small town) into google maps and it'll show you where it is. Not long ago it was more like driving in the general direction while hanging on the mobile phone and trying to agree on a landmark (e.g. a 7/11 or a tower or an office building) while trying to find the place. Before mobile phones? Well, there's this big big sign in a park near the town center, and on that you can find family names on a kind of map.. of course that had this assumption that Nobody Never Moves. So, no, I don't know how people did this in the past.. "Where the Streets Have No Names", the U2 song. I wouldn't have imagined, but that's how it is.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-05-29 02:28:09+00:00
I've lived in a town in the US that did the same thing. House numbers were assigned based on the order that properties were built up or split, so you had a lot of places where you'd have several houses in a row that had consecutive numbers, and then the next house would have a much higher number. One of my neighbors had lived there for decades, his house number was in the triple digits. Mine was 5 digits. Neighbor next to me was also 5 digits, but several thousand higher than mine because his house was built almost a decade after mine.

As a sister post said, the build order is that logical reason.
Show HN: New release of my retirement calculator
by retirementodds | 2025-05-29 02:28:34+00:00
I'm pleased to share a new release of my free, not-for-profit, and anonymous retirement calculator at retirementodds dot com (https://www.retirementodds.com) with some exciting new features. It now handles asset withdrawal order customization (drag-and-drop), IRA Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) with tax impacts, Social Security survivor benefits, and target accounts for RMD and real estate sale proceeds. Plus the AI feature can now actually compute your odds using ChatGPT 4.1. Your feedback is appreciated.
by bicx | 2025-05-29 02:29:02+00:00
As long as you didn’t actively agree to anything, you are not held to the Terms of Service for a public website. There are restrictions on what you can do with the data, mostly around direct competition with the source (I’m not a lawyer, so DYOR). The average scraping volume from Google and AI companies would make an indie site’s scraping volume look minuscule.

Check out this wild case to see how far you can go with scraping and remain legal. It’s surprising.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/meta-drops-lawsuit-against...
by therealdrag0 | 2025-05-29 02:29:54+00:00
Ive used ProTeethGuard.com and encoreguards.com . In both cases I got a “Soft” one. The encore guard is thinner than I expected, despite the specs saying it should be thicker than my proteethguard. They might have sent me the wrong thickness (I didn’t follow up). But comparing what I got, I prefer my proteethguard.
by Elaris | 2025-05-29 02:31:09+00:00
This technology is really interesting and practical! The idea of using GPS collars to prevent cows from walking into dangerous areas is so smart. This is a perfect combination of technology and traditional agriculture. It not only reduces the risk of death of cows, but also saves rescue costs and is even good for the environment.

This also makes me think of a question: Can similar technology be applied to other fields, such as wildlife conservation? Many endangered species are now threatened with extinction, and technology like this may play a very important role in protecting them. If it can help prevent animals from entering dangerous areas or better monitor their activities, it may bring great breakthroughs to conservation work.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-05-29 02:31:20+00:00
Apparently up to about 40% support them, depending on the poll. [1]

That 40% seems absolutely unshakeable in their support. No matter what happens, that group will support it. And 40% is pretty close to half.

[1] https://www.progressivepolicy.org/polling-u-s-public-is-agai...
by wredcoll | 2025-05-29 02:32:00+00:00
> Most notably, only Congress can declare war, which has been a real sticking point in the last century and why, for example, the Korean War wasn't technically a war (it was a "police action") and why the Vietnam War wasn't either.

I keep seeing this brought up as some kind of "gotcha" point, but those wars involved conscription and billions of dollars of additonal military funding, all of which was presumably approved by congress. I find it hard to imagine a congress that is approving a draft would be averse to signing a war declaration.
Show HN: Auto-optimize and upload images with AI alt text
by cagrisarigoz | 2025-05-29 02:32:14+00:00
I've been manually optimizing images for web projects by resizing, converting formats, uploading to S3, and writing alt text.

Built this project to automate the whole pipeline, and wanted to open source it for the community.

What it does:

- Analyzes images and picks optimal format (WebP/JPEG/PNG) based on content

- Batch processes from CSV or local files

- Generates alt text via AltText.ai API

- Uploads to S3 with CloudFront URLs

- Includes REST API for integration

The format detection compares output sizes across formats, rather than relying on file extension rules. Saves significant bandwidth - saw 40-60% size reductions on most images.

Also built an enhanced pre-commit script that auto-fixes linting issues and updates vulnerable dependencies.

Setup:

Clone repo, run setup script, add AWS creds. No external dependencies beyond AWS and optional AltText.ai API. Includes example files.

Would appreciate feedback on the format selection algorithm or suggestions for additional optimizations.
by quotemstr | 2025-05-29 02:32:21+00:00
Oh. When I read the section on instrumenting function returns, I thought they were going for something more general, since they talk about analyzing assembly. Now I see they're looking at individual Box and Rc instances and have special cases for stdlib data structures. Async support is also a to-do item.

I can't see this approach working for very long. Tracing at the binary level, whether you do it as RR does with performance counting or whether you do it via instrumentation like Undo and iDNA, works for the general case because it records execution at the lowest level available to a process and therefore captures everything, without special cases.

If these guys want to make a fancy time travel debugger data explorer, that's great. They could in principle make one on top of existing tracing technology without having to simultaneously reinvent both the debugger core and the GUI.