MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by badsectoracula | 2025-05-12 16:30:55+00:00
These do not solve fundamental issues as mentioned elsewhere.

Hell, just a few weeks ago i wanted to try out some tool someone made in Python (available as just the Python code specific to that project off github) - but that was broken because there was some minor compatibility breakage between the version the author used and the current one. The breakage wasn't in the tool itself but in some dependency 3-4 layers down (i.e. some dependency of a dependency of a dependency). Meanwhile the exact version of Python used wasn't available in the distro packages.

Eventually i solved it by downloading the exact Python version source code inside a minimal Debian docker container, compiling it and installing the rest via pip (meaning the only thing i changed was the Python version, not anything else).
by jasonlotito | 2025-05-12 16:31:05+00:00
> I do. In text mode.

So, I don't get it. You have a problem with reviewers, but you stick to a few? Seems like a self-imposed problem.

> But this way I'll never get to play anything new to me.

The reviewers review new games.

> Reading is much faster than even listening to a talking head though.

Sure, but a thumbs up or thumbs down is MUCH faster, and therefore better rather than reading someone talking about stuff.
by beardedwizard | 2025-05-12 16:31:07+00:00
The bummer about lots of supply chain work is that it does not address the attacks we see in the wild like xz where malicious code was added at the source, and attested all the way through.

There are gains to be had through these approaches, like inventory, but nobody has a good approach to stopping malicious code entering the ecosystem through the front door and attackers find this much easier than tampering with artifacts after the fact.
by uallo | 2025-05-12 16:31:28+00:00
> Anyway, even if someone does visit using mobile Firefox, it only takes one zoom-in/ zoom-out to adjust. So it's not really a webpage code issue, it's more about how Firefox renders pages on mobile devices.

No, it requires constant zooming and panning to be able read anything. And this has nothing to do with Firefox, Chrome and other browsers behave exactly the same. It is absolutely an issue with your website.
by jmull | 2025-05-12 16:31:58+00:00
That's not fair. The ask was this:

"Please try to minimise the steps required to reproduce it rather than producing large scripts with options that definitely won't work for me."

The guy doesn't have to do that, but then, he can hardly expect that people will want to donate their own time to help him with his problem.

Now, I get that he may not have known entirely how to proceed, but instead of asking how, he just says "no" and demands action.

That doesn't leave the dev anywhere to go -- without a way to reproduce the problem they really can't produce a fix.

So only then does the dev say "You're free to propose a patch yourself instead" which I think is pretty obviously rhetorical, meant to point out that there aren't any good alternatives if you don't want the dev's help.

It's all so strangely entitled -- the dev is asking for only the basic minimum of what's needed to actually fix the user's problem and now we've got people trying to shame them on HN.
by ta1243 | 2025-05-12 16:31:59+00:00
HN is a US Site

America doesn't care about Russia. Russia is a threat to Europe, not to America, and America doesn't care about Europe either.

Likewise Europe doesn't care about China, and certainly countries like North Korea - China is a threat to America.

Europe has many problem, many of which were caused or fanned by Russia over the last couple of decades, from the refugee crisis to brexit to German gas reliance, all of which has increased European fragmentation (which was hardly a harmonious world in 2005) and weakened the continent. I'm not sure if Europe can work together enough to respond to the challenge -- it's failed to do so so far, and pro-russian elements are gaining popularity in recent elections in Europe, from the UK to Germany to Romania.

Interestingly outside of Russia's sphere of influence (Canada, Australia), elections have shown a different direction.
by 6gvONxR4sf7o | 2025-05-12 16:32:01+00:00
I went to a talk of his on CCC ages ago, and it was such a fascinating combination of geometry, causality, and asymptotics. I have absolutely no clue whether it's reasonable physically, but independent of that, it's just a really elegant fusion of topics in a fun to think about way. Worth a read for anyone who just appreciates elegant new ways of combining mathematical structures.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-05-12 16:32:02+00:00
Revive? These things are still in active use all over Europe .. backfiet .. and while they’re fun, they can be exhausting if you overfill them with groceries, kids, roadkill, oilyballs, etc.

There’s a tricked out one in my ‘hood (Vienna) that has electric assist. I guess that’d be practical for a daily ride …
Show HN: I built a system to make ChatGPT brutally honest with you
by moobuilds | 2025-05-12 16:32:12+00:00
Most people use ChatGPT wrong.

Without the right guidance or prompting .

ChatGPT will validate anything you say.

It's designed to be agreeable, not truthful.

It will praise your bad ideas.

It will overlook critical flaws.

It will miss market opportunities.

And you'll never know until it's too late.

You need brutal honesty, not false validation.

It won't challenge your beliefs, question your

decisions, or call out your blind spots.

Unless you force it to.

So, That's why I built a system to fix that.

It's a set of prompts designed to override the

default behavior and turn ChatGPT into what you

actually need:

a brutally honest, advisor for Self-Growth .

Try this prompt (copy-paste it inside ChatGPT ):

---

I want you to act as my brutally honest, high-level advisor.

Speak to me like I’m a founder or leader with

massive potential but dangerous blind spots.

Don’t comfort me.

Don’t flatter me.

Give me the unfiltered truth—even if it stings.

Tell me what I’m doing wrong, what I’m avoiding,

and what I need to do to get to the next level.

No fluff.

No lies.

Just clarity.

-----

This is one of many.

If you’re serious about using ChatGPT to grow and

build, think, or grow—stop letting it lie to you.

Start getting real answers.

https://honestprompts.com
by HEmanZ | 2025-05-12 16:32:57+00:00
Like all advice, it only applies to some people.

Working as a front line trades-person is rough, but becoming a journeyman or master as one step towards a profession (“I’m an hvac technician” vs “I’m in the hvac business”) seems to be a very good career path based on my social circle’s experience.

Another thing I’ve seen in my circle: if you’re going to go to a bottom 25th percentile college, flunk every class for your first two years and be miserable, then you’re much better off not going to college and pursuing a different path, like trades or military. For these people, “go into the trades” is really good advice.

If you’re going to a top university, love classes, and will graduate in the top of your class with a marketable degree and college experience, then you should go to college because you’re much more likely to live a comfortable life than the trades.

I had a lot of friends from high school who would have been so much better off if they had went into the trades straight after high school instead of trying and failing for years in college, only to get a 1.8 gpa in Communications or Psychology that is totally worthless. People need to know other crafts are a viable and dignified option, and a much better option than failing out of no name university.
by ben_w | 2025-05-12 16:33:39+00:00
> maybe apple during steve jobs' time?

While I think Musk seems to have duplicated Jobs' Reality Distortion Field*, the second CEO-ing of Jobs didn't strike me as quite as severely attaching Apple to Jobs as all of Musk's businesses are now with Musk. For example, quite a lot of the industrial design of that era is (and was) strongly associated with Jony Ive, not Steve Jobs.

I think at best, out of all of Musk's business empire, the closest you get to a Jony Ive-esq "it's not Jobs" is that Gwynne Shotwell is well regarded and seen as being highly competent in her own right; the second closest is that Linda Yaccarino gets named a decent amount in the news, but even then she's very much in Musk's shadow. The public perception of Neuralink and The Boring Company is just "Musk announced his company, [Neuralink|TBC] did ${thing}".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field — and apparently I'm nearly a decade late in making this connection
by Draiken | 2025-05-12 16:34:23+00:00
I think that tracks with what I see: LLMs enable non-experts to do something really fast.

If I want to, let's say, create some code in a language I never worked on an LLM will definitely make me more "productive" by spewing out code for me way faster than I could write it. Same if I try to quickly learn about a topic I'm not familiar with. Especially if you don't care about the quality, maintainability, etc. too much.

But if I'm already a software developer with 15 years of experience dealing with technology I use every day, it's not going to increase my productivity in any meaningful way.

This is the dissonance I see with AI talk here. If you're not a software developer the things LLMs enable you to do are game-changers. But if you are a good software developer, in its best days it's a smarter autocomplete, a rubber-duck substitute (when you can't talk to a smart person) or a mildly faster google search that can be very inaccurate.

If you go from 0 to 1 that's literally infinitely better but if you go from 100 to 105, it's barely noticeable. Maybe everyone with these absurd productivity gains are all coming from zero or very little knowledge but for someone that's been past that point I can't believe these claims.
by hwillis | 2025-05-12 16:34:36+00:00
> All these nuclear physicists dealing with enormous amounts of energy, like the LHC

The LHC uses ~86 megawatts, about the same power as a 747's engine at full throttle. It's about the same as a small natural gas powered turbine. GE builds gas turbines that produce 800+ MW.

The LHC is just a controlled environment to study the kind of particle collisions that are happening all over the earth every day. We live next to a giant fusion reaction, and freak particles come in from outer space all the time. We have detected many particles with millions of times more energy than the particles in the LHC- the Oh-My-God particle had 20 million times more energy.

> Can someone tell me what the likelihood of a humongous explosion from nuclear fusion could be?

Fission self-sustains. Each reaction produces 3 neutrons that can start another reaction. It explodes because the neutrons grow like 3, 9, 27 etc.

Fusion does not. You have a number of atoms, and 2 of those atoms have to find each other to fuse. One reaction does not make any other reactions more likely. Unlike fossil fuels or fission reactions, the fuel cannot be lit. It can only burn when carefully confined. You can only build up enough flame to break the containment vessel, at which point it goes out. Since the inside of the vessel is basically a vacuum, it will implode instead of exploding.
by 93po | 2025-05-12 16:35:07+00:00
People see actions and make assumptions on intentions behind those actions. They also make assumptions on who actually called for those actions, or the percent to which people contributed to those decisions.

If you don't have a tape recorder showing Trump saying "Fire Shira, I don't like what she did and she needs to get out" then you are making assumptions both for his reasons and his involvement. No one has that tape. Which means any claims that this is what happening is entirely speculation. We've seen a decade of people claiming these assumptions as fact, and it's really tiresome.
by Strilanc | 2025-05-12 16:35:21+00:00
Can you provide the source for that quote? 5 billion years seems way too soon.

The Hubble constant is currently approximately one doubling per 14 billion years [1]. So 5 billion years isn't enough to double the recession speeds. AFAIK there's plenty of galaxies receding at less than half the speed of light. Wikipedia estimates 150 billion years (6000x expansion) for all but the local group to be beyond the horizon [2]. So your quote seems to be off by two orders of magnitude.

[1]: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/49248/interpre...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
by mihaic | 2025-05-12 16:36:02+00:00
The question itself is wrong, since it personifies the AI, when in practice there's always a human entering prompts, and at the same time ignoring the consequences of the generated material on the ecosystem from which it was generated.

Or, consider an analogy: how would you feel if some machine could use DNA from strands of hair to clone entire humans? Wouldn't it feel wrong?
by jasonlotito | 2025-05-12 16:36:36+00:00
> My proposal is that it's a luddish kneejerk reaction to things people don't understand and don't like.

Your proposal is moving goal posts.

> Allow me to update your sentence: "Every paper every scientist or academic wrote that references any copyrighted work becomes an issue".

No, I never said that. Fair Use exists.

> Fan fiction is legal if you're not trying to profit from it.

No, it's not.[1] You can make arguments that it should be, but, no.

[1] https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/is-fanfiction-legal/

> I think you're missing my point

I think you got called out, and you are now trying to reframe your original comment so it comes across as having accounted for the things you were called out on.

You think you know what you are talking about, but you don't. But, you rely on the fact that you think you do to lose the money you do.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-05-12 16:36:37+00:00
Well, you don't get to pick and choose in which situations an LLM is considered similar to a human being and in which not. If you argue that it similarly to a human is lossy, well let's go ahead and get most output checked by organizations and courts for violations of the law and licenses, just like human work is. Oh wait, I forgot, LLMs are run by companies with too much cash to successfully sue them. I guess we just have to live with it then, what a pity.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-05-12 16:36:41+00:00
You can see how it's different from a backfiet though, right? the article describes:

> places the rider directly above the front wheel. They pedal this wheel directly; there's no chain, reducing maintenance needs. A three-speed gearbox in the hub makes starting easier.

> An additional benefit to the two-piece frame is that the bike can be broken down for transport, allowing the user "to load it into a trunk for easy transport from point A to point B."

> Lastly, the company says the shorter wheelbase of their arrangement provides a tighter turning radius, making the bike easier to maneuver in urban environments.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-05-12 16:36:43+00:00
Another very cool attribute of embeddings and embedding search is that they are resource cheap enough that you can perform them client side.

ONNX models can be loaded and executed with transformer.js https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js/

You can even build and statically host indices like hnsw for embeddings.

I put together a little open source demo for this here https://jasonjmcghee.github.io/portable-hnsw/ (it's a prototype / hacked together approximation of hnsw, but you could implement the real thing)

Long story short, represent indices as queryable parquet files and use duckdb to query them.

Depending on how you host, it's either free or nearly free. I used Github Pages so it's free. R2 with cloudflare would only cost the size what you store (very cheap- no egress fees).
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-12 16:36:55+00:00
Unless you plan to work for a large tech employer, you can completely ignore the movement of the industry. Most of it is noise that isn't going to give you a productivity boost as an individual.

Setting up websites for people/small businesses? Give them each a virtual host/directory with mod_php if you need some CRUD. No k8s or AWS or react or anything needed. Your client's site is all in a tidy directory you could zip up and give to them if they want (e.g. you're going to move out of the business, or they want to work with someone else). I despise working with PHP, but it's the obvious choice if you were going to be a "trade web programmer" doing small jobs for people.

Writing custom software for someone? Do it with Qt's drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor and deliver it as a .zip or .apk or whatever.

It probably won't be as easy money as a SaaS megacorp, but I'm sure there is plenty of demand for programmers' services out there in the same way that you can find people looking for contractors for home renovations. If you're doing custom work, you can use whatever tools make you productive.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-12 16:37:30+00:00
That intellectual property is non exclusive doesn't change the inheritance problem.

If you consider it right to get value from the work of your family, and you consider that intellectual work (such as writing a book) to be valuable, then as an inheritor, you should get value from it. And since the way we give value to intellectual work is though copyright, then inheritors should inherit copyright.

If you think that copyright should not exceed lifetime, then the logical consequences would be one of:

- inheritance should be abolished

- intellectual work is less valuable than other forms of work

- intellectual property / copyright is not how intellectual work should be rewarded

There are arguments for abolishing inheritance, it is after all one of the greatest sources of inequality. Essentially, it means 100% inheritance tax in addition to all the work going into the public domain. Problematic in practice.

For the value of intellectual work, well, hard to argue against it on Hacker News without being a massive hypocrite.

And there are alternatives to copyright (i.e. artificial scarcity) for compensating intellectual work like there are alternatives to capitalism. Unfortunately, it often turns out poorly in practice. One suggestion is to have some kind of tax that is fairly distributed between authors in exchange for having their work in the public domain. Problem is: define "fairly".

Note that I am not saying that copyright should last long, you can make copyright 20 years, humans or corporate, inheritable. Simple, gets in the public domain sooner, fairer to older authors, already works for patents. Why insist on "lifetime"?
by usrbinenv | 2025-05-12 16:37:47+00:00
To add to my other comments ITT, I was thinking how the proposed name-spacing in Ruby would work is, in one way, diametrically different from Go where you'd normally import a package with the name that was chosen by the package author. But, at the same time, you could choose to import it under a different name or with no namespace at all, using the dot prefix. I'm not sure which is better. I suppose I could agree Go has a better default when it comes to namespaces.
by repelsteeltje | 2025-05-12 16:38:13+00:00
I think it will take a while for people to realize this effort looked great, but wasn't the right approach. Or no silver bullet, at least.

The presentation with a simple diagram that combines this data with an sbom to yield "information" gives me navel gazing vibes of UML being the future of coding.

Just as architecture didn't equate to well designed and maintainable software, I fear this initiative won't fix horribly outdated and vulnerable deployments. Software life cycle, deprecation, abandonment, supply chains are mostly a process problem, standards and technology won't fix that.
by TheDong | 2025-05-12 16:38:14+00:00
Sam didn't expect him to submit a patch at first, he said that _after_ the author refused to cooperate and was an ass.

The expectation to have a reasonable reproducer makes total sense, and if your reporter can't provide a clear reproduction, well, the developer can spend time on the bug but they're not obligated to. Our author was speaking like he was entitled to Sam's time.

I do agree "patches welcome" can be pretty passive aggressive, but in this case it was after our user was already an entitled asshole, and after our user posted AI slop, so I can understand why Sam might feel like being short.

Also, it's just wild that a "non-programmer" is submitting bug reports to a compiler, and then defending themselves with "but I'm not a programmer". Who cares about compiler warnings? Programmers. Compiler warnings are literally just for programmers.

Compilers are one of the projects where the devs actually can and should expect 100% of their users to be programmers, by definition. Why else would you be running a compiler?

I guess maybe the director of the CSI: Cyber show would care about them because they'd make the show look more l33t h4x0r, but I'm really struggling to think of any other audience for compiler errors.
Show HN: Shorts Stopper – Block YouTube Shorts on Safari iOS
by abyesilyurt | 2025-05-12 16:38:25+00:00
I built Shorts Stopper to avoid wasting time on YouTube Shorts during my breaks while programming. It hides Shorts from the homepage and video suggestions in Safari.

In practice, it works best if you remove the YouTube app and only access YouTube through Safari.

It's a one-time paid app, so I can keep filters updated without ads or data collection.
by JohnMakin | 2025-05-12 16:38:51+00:00
There's a reason the wealthiest are building bunkers on private islands. The populace by-at-large remains blissfully unaware of the current consequences of climate change or what is almost certainly coming in the next several decades - when a critical mass realizes what has happened, the brother of mario kind of violence we witnessed this year will probably become commonplace. I don't see it playing out any other way, the level of current climate denial and gaslighting (even among supposed climate activists) cannot avoid reality forever.
by XiZhao | 2025-05-12 16:39:34+00:00
I run a sw supply chain company (fossa.com) -- agree that there's a lot of low hanging gains like inventory still around. There is a shocking amount of very basic but invisible surface area that leads to downstream attack vectors.

From a company's PoV -- I think you'd have to just assume all 3rd party code is popped and install some kind of control step given that assumption. I like the idea of reviewing all 3rd party code as if its your own which is now possible with some scalable code review tools.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-12 16:39:50+00:00
The majority of the owners of the other shares voted to compensate him more (by market value of shares that cannot be sold for 5 years, not cash, which is a relevant distinction) than Tesla has ever made in profit.

And since the compensation is equity, comparing it to profit, which is cash, makes no sense. One can discuss if the market price of the equity is too far removed from current profit, but surely even Elon doesn’t have any influence over what millions of investors around the world choose to pay for Tesla shares.

Should majority owners of a business not be able to vote on compensation?
by cayley_graph | 2025-05-12 16:40:07+00:00
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=73

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_univers...

Doesn't seem to be true? The LLM response claims 47.5 billion but I have no idea where it got that number from after looking through its sources.

edit: Oh, and if you're talking about the Permanent University Fund that's split between the UT + A&M systems. And the ChatGPT response is way off here as well.

And as the others have noted, even if what you said was true it has very little to do with what you're replying to.