MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xeromal | 2025-05-07 16:39:19+00:00
I'd consider myself a pretty good rider but I've caught myself once or twice jamming on the brakes when a chaotic accident unfolds in front of me and the lizard brain takes over. I live in LA so lots of traffic and lots of accidents are common and any technology that helps my lizard brain keep me alive in a positive in my book.

I recently crashed cornering during a light mist and now I'm on the looking for anything that helps lean slippage. I know you can't fix stupid but still hoping something is out there. My old and busted vstrom needs an upgrade.
by 999900000999 | 2025-05-07 16:40:59+00:00
>Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈvɛːra], meaning "Spring") is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s (datings vary). It has been described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world",[1] and also "one of the most popular paintings in Western art".[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(Botticelli)

If it's described as controversial, it obviously offended someone if not today, in the past.
by ignoramous | 2025-05-07 16:41:13+00:00
> I'd add that the citizens of both countries legitimately despise each other

I've been to towns on both sides throughout the years and this isn't the case everywhere. Though, disagreements do run deep, as contrasting narratives are in fact mainstream talking points.

Hopefully, in my lifetime, the countries resolve their differences & cast aside the hateful fringe like they should.

> negotiating borders

That's a very different thing to "decolonisation".

> manufactured consent to develop jingoism

They have to. A widow survivor of the Pahalgam Attack called for peace and the jingoists lost their collective minds: https://x.com/RahulSeeker/status/1919771002013118540

India is 1.6bn people and even if 7% disagree, that's a 100mn people (and the number is far greater than 7%). Not everyone is a right-wing nationalist, though, the ruling parties and the now-compromised MSMs are.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-07 16:41:31+00:00
My knee-jerk reaction is to think that the prospect of an insurance company handing support over to machines is a terrible development.

But it was already the case that they just arbitrarily do WTF ever they want, that outside a small set of actions that "bots" can perhaps handle fine they aren't going to do anything for you, and that the only way to get actual support for a real problem involves something being sent from a .gov email address or on frightening letterhead.

So... not really any different? You already basically have to threaten them (well, have someone scarier than you threaten them) to get any real support, this wouldn't be different.
by atemerev | 2025-05-07 16:41:50+00:00
Then you are free to not use their product.

My privacy is indeed differential. I am willing to give them the information on my coding patterns and even non-commercial code for a free license, if it is not linked to my identity. This is a fair exchange. I am not willing to do this if they will use this information to sell me ads, or sell it (unless properly anonymized) to some other company. And most certainly I won't agree if they collect any information beyond what's happen in the IDE.

Not _everything_ I do on my computer is fully private. I apply much stricter standards to things that are _really_ private. But not everything is like this.

This comment is public. It will probably be used to train yet another LLM. I am fine with that.
by ssalazar | 2025-05-07 16:41:52+00:00
Thanks -- this is what I mean by evidence, someone with actual experience and skin in the game weighing in rather than blustering proclamations based on vibes.

I agree they improve productivity to where you need fewer developers for a similar quantity of output than before. But I dont think LLMs specifically will reduce the need for some engineer to do the higher level technical design and architecture work, just given what Ive seen and my understanding of the underlying tech.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-07 16:42:18+00:00
I tried Zed out and successfully got Claude chat working with my API key.

But I'm not sure how to get predictions working.

When the predictions on-ramp window popped up asking if I wanted to enable it, I clicked yes and then it prompted me to sign in to Github. Upon approving the request on Github, an error popover over the prediction menubar item at the bottom said "entity not found" or something.

Not sure if that's related (Zed shows that I'm signed in despite that) but I can't seem to get prediction working. e.g. "Predict edit at cursor" seems to no-op.

Anyways, the onboarding was pretty sweet aside from that. The "Enable Vim mode" on the launch screen was a nice touch.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-07 16:42:27+00:00
> that the only way to provide dispute resolution and customer service to 1B people with only 100 employees is by depriving them of any chance to interact with a human, and forcing all interaction with the company to go through AI. That, to me, is deeply disturbing, and very very difficult to justify.

I don't know. Given the human beings I've interacted with in customer support, and the number of times I've had to escalate because they were quite simply "intelligence-challenged" who couldn't even understand my issues, I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

In my limited experience with AI agents, they've been far more helpful and far faster, they actually seem to understand the issue immediately, and then either give me the solution (i.e. the obscure fact I needed in a support PDF that no regular rep would probably ever have known) or escalate me immediately to the actual right person who can help.

And regular humans will stonewall you anyway, if that's corporate policy. And then you go to the courts.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-07 16:42:39+00:00
Me being old man yelling at cloud about how your chat/tool template matters more than your post-training technique.

DeepSeek-R1 is trivially converted back to a non reasoning model with just chat template modifications. I bet you can chat template your way into a good quality model from a base model, no RLHF/DPO/SFT/GRPO needed.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-07 16:42:56+00:00
Yes, but it feels a lot worse. What's competing when I'm at the grocery is different from when I'm ordering delivery. I've cut down my Doordash substantially but I still have my down days a few times in a month where I'm either really lazy or really crunched for time at work.

I do in fact have pasta but I wouldn't call it much of a meal by itself. I usually cook it with some ground beef or turkey and try to keep some leftovers, but that leaves the realm of "quick 10 minute meals".

I'll keep the shrimp in mind when going for groceries next time as well. I'm all ears for some quick and tasty sources of protein.
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-07 16:43:00+00:00
The second sentence in your initial post is literally whining about how dishwashers take 4 hours to finish unless you put in non-bureaucratic mode, as if this some huge inconvenience to the American household. And since you feel no need to clarify what you meant by "non-bureaucratic mode" in your additional comment we can only conclude that you were referring to literally turning a dial or pressing a button. Overblowing a minor inconvenience is the literal definition of a snowflake in how it's colloquilly used.

Having failed to demonstrate convincingly how this greatly imconveniences the American household as consumer, you pivot to the inconvenience of the American household as taxpayer. But any serious discussion of that point requires you to discuss the concrete cost of this certification program compared to all other government services. This, you also do not do.

As for other countries not having this program, what do you think the purpose of the "EU energy label program" is?
by rvz | 2025-05-07 16:43:25+00:00
Because it is a narrative scam. Giving the illusion that non-technical people are also software engineers / programmers. (Which they are not)

Vibe coding just helps those who are already technical but minus the tests, TDD, or architecture in software engineering which is completely against clean code principles and they don't care if the code is correct or not.

It's slopware engineering whilst celebrating technical debt.
by enugu | 2025-05-07 16:43:57+00:00
The context was a reply to an assertion that the terrorists in Pahalgam were not found by Indian security. I interpreted this as people who physically did the attack.

If by terrorists, we mean the planners of the operation, that trail leads directly to Pakistan. Musharraf, the ex-army chief, is on record saying that the military has funded several militant organizations in Kashmir including LeT. (Osama's haveli in Abbotabad was incidentally also very close to the Pakistan Military Academy). The permission for the operations probably came all the way from the top as the attack came right after a strong statement on Kashmir by the army chief.
by Lienetic | 2025-05-07 16:44:06+00:00
I was confused by this as ChatGPT launched in Nov 2022 and had tens of millions of users by end of 2022.

> And though when we started our business in 2023 (ChatGPT wasn’t out yet), you could begin to feel that something like that was possible in a way it wasn’t before.

perhaps a typo in year?
by seam_carver | 2025-05-07 16:45:19+00:00
I personally just do boring USB transfer of files instead. Users have reported issues with Calibre modifying KCC files and breaking the formatting, fixed layout books like comics/manga are different than normal reflowable ebooks.

I only use Calibre for normal ebooks.

Maybe in the future, KCC has command line versions as well. It's all Python.
by simion314 | 2025-05-07 16:45:33+00:00
>but that is a different issue than whether or not an LLM is legally allowed to view a work that is publicly available.

We are not talking about the scenario where LLM does a web search and "transforms" your blog as a response to a user prompt.

We are talking about people writing code to torrent content, including copyrighted content as books and newspaper articles then this same people create soem software/script/blackbox and they put this copyrighted stuff inside and this same people also put a filter in the output to attempt and block SOME of the copyrighted material to be spitted out(they did it for Dune, Harry Poter , probably other popular stuff but for sure they did not done it for Romanian copyrighted material or some small writer).

If I publish a poem I do not give implicit permission to anyone to use it as they see fit, and have scripts/software/backboxes train on it and spit parts of my poem out.
by tsumnia | 2025-05-07 16:45:42+00:00
As AI adoption continues to grow, in this lecture I present a potential future interacting WITH AI but also the ethical questions that we as humans will need to have. The lecture covers the following topics:

- The Growing Internet Addiction Problem

- Humans' Digital Rights

- AI Learning from Intellectual Property

- AI as a Religion

- Personified AI Avatars

- "Ghosts" on the Internet (beyond the Dead Internet Theory)

- When Should Parents Expose their Kids to AI?

- Should Personified AIs have Rights?

I would like to thank HN for being a source for many of the articles and innovations that helped shape the ideas behind this lecture.
by codegeek | 2025-05-07 16:46:04+00:00
You probably already know this but I will say it anyway. These cloud services like AWS are not succeeding in enterprise because they have outdated hardware. They succeed because in enterprise, CIOs and CTOs want something that is known, has a brand and everyone else uses it. It's like the old adage of "No one got fired for using IBM". Now it is "No one gets fired for hosting with AWS no matter how ridiculous the cost and corresponding feature is".
by ramses0 | 2025-05-07 16:46:11+00:00
Take a look into Lumos bike helmets: https://ridelumos.com/products/remotes-and-mounts

They started via a kickstarter in 2015: https://www.google.com/search?q=lumos+helmet+history

...they kindof "always" had reliability issues w/ detecting braking accurately, I think switching between the handlebar remote/sensor or phone sensors. It's an existing product with a direct analogue to your project goal, and minimally you could trawl for contacts within customer reviews or online reports to get some ideas about the good/bad in this problem space.

Beware of patents (as relevant), but it's a noble and useful project and goal.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-07 16:46:31+00:00
You don't seem to understand how consulting works.

The person making the recommendations isn't just out of school. They've been at the firm for years, and do have a ton of experience.

The recent grads are there for all of the grunt work -- collecting massive amounts of data and synthesizing it. You don't need years of business experience for that, but getting into a top college and writing lots of research papers in college is actually the perfect background for that.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-07 16:46:42+00:00
Sure, but as I said elsewhere, it's still important that people point out that past the headline ("it's free") is that it is also malware (it spies on you). People were free to not use BonziBuddy as well, but it was rightfully characterized at the time as spyware. If the product also functioned as a proxy for botnet traffic, you wouldn't simply say "well you're free to not use it". You'd say "beware, the 'free' version is malware". Spyware is similar.

Posting to a public online forum is of course specifically making the post public.
by porsager | 2025-05-07 16:46:46+00:00
I wish they would have stayed with the collaborative part a bit longer. Once the AI wave hit it feels abandoned with various bugs and hard to reproduce issues. I am a full time zed user converting from sublime only due to the collaborative features, but by now we don't even use the collaborative features anymore because it's unreliable (broken connections, sounds, overwriting changes, weird history/undo behavior), so will probably go back to sublime again. Note that all of us are sitting on fiber connections, so I don't believe the issues are network related.

I've been trying to be active, create issues, help in any way I can, but the focus on AI tells me Zed is no longer an editor for me.
by bArray | 2025-05-07 16:46:47+00:00
> This is really easy to say, but in practice it just hasn't worked out, and there is loads of empirical evidence to back that up.[0] It is not as if market incentives don't exist to create better C/C++ code.[1] If you have a way to do it better, I have no doubt Google, half a dozen other hyper-scalers, and the US government will pay you handsomely for your solution. But, at this point in time, if this is the solution, I'm afraid it's time to put up or shut up.

It really wasn't too difficult to get high reliability for memory management in C/C++ which is also concurrency safe (I have active projects running for years like this). The difficulty was enforcing it so that you are reduced to a subset of the language and it has to be followed with discovery at compile time.

The trap I'm concerned we are falling into is the "just re-write the C/C++ project in Rust". I still believe the solution is in enforcing better practices at compile time.
by waffletower | 2025-05-07 16:46:58+00:00
Sad to see the downvotes on this well thought out post. Kudos! The parallels between the history of the disruption brought by photography, the musical sampler (another disruptive technology in the late 1980s/early 1990s that is now widely accepted with minimal angst) etc. with the current outcries against Generative AI are hard for me to ignore. Humans grab acoustic guitars, sing with their own voices and often just add hackneyed dreck to our ears. Humans now can type words into their computers and have found another way to often unleash more dreck to our ears powered by Generative AI. But I am deeply interested in Generative AI for its sonic exploration possibilities -- maybe what I make will sound like dreck to you, but I want to be free to do so, just like someone who wants to grab a guitar and sing.
by _mlbt | 2025-05-07 16:46:58+00:00
That’s not really a fair comparison. Fuel consumption is just one of many important factors to consider when car shopping. For instance, a small sedan doesn’t fit my entire immediate family. For some parts of the country 4 wheel drive or all wheel drive are practically essential. Ground clearance can be an issue if you live on a country dirt road. EV charging stations can be unavailable nearby or in sufficient numbers. Some people’s work and hobbies require them to own pickup trucks.
by j_w | 2025-05-07 16:47:34+00:00
I feel like "shouldn't be implementing your own authentication" is overblown. Don't write the crypto algorithms. But how hard is it to write your own auth? If you are pulling in a third party dependency for that you still would need to audit it, and if you can audit authentication software why can't you implement it?

Just follow OWASP recommendations. A while back this was posted to HN and it also provides great recommendations: https://thecopenhagenbook.com/ .
by DGCA | 2025-05-07 16:47:34+00:00
Joined a team that maintains a pretty popular TS library recently. The repo was using Biome. It was unanimously disliked by the team. Linting was broken for most people and in CI. I replaced it with Prettier + ESLint, everyone was into it, and we realized we had a bunch of issues that weren't getting reported due to it not working in CI.
by hosh | 2025-05-07 16:48:04+00:00
So going by https://rodneybrooks.com/rodney-brooks-three-laws-of-robotic...

That would be violating the second design principle:

"When robots and people coexist in the same spaces, the robots must not take away from people’s agency, particularly when the robots are failing, as inevitably they will at times."

With a physical robot, if it fails and freezes, it turns into a hazard.

With Clippy, it intrusively stops humans from being able to do what they are doing.
by lolinder | 2025-05-07 16:48:09+00:00
"Has been opening" is the present perfect continuous tense [0], which describes something that started in the past and is still ongoing. In TFA JetBrains says explicitly that this is a process that they intend to continue assuming it goes well.

[0] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/grammar/present-perfect-conti...
by Tostino | 2025-05-07 16:48:34+00:00
pgbackrest was always easy to use in my experience. Not very hard to setup or configure, and low overhead. Supports spool directories for WAL shipping, compression, and block incremental backups (YAY!!!). I ran my last company on it for the last ~6 years I was there. Never any complaints, solid software (which is what you want for backups).

I have been using barman indirectly through CloundNativePG with my latest company, but don't have the operational experience to speak on it yet.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-05-07 16:48:48+00:00
> We should be providing social safety nets for people, not fake jobs.

I agree with you (except in classifying the genuine effort of my fellow people to be "fake jobs" just because a computer can do some of the work) and believe making a resilient, trustworthy, proven system for the former is a prerequisite to withdrawing the latter, to avoid suffering.

Unfortunately for us, the barrier to the former is ideological in nature and imposed by the elite few in power now, before any matters of capital allocation (human or financial) come into play.
by w10-1 | 2025-05-07 16:48:56+00:00
It's a nice story. Some statistics might help motivate concern. E.g., The disproportionate risk per mile for motorcycling is chilling. But in California "rear end" as a category appears to be only about 15% of all MC accidents, and even then the category doesn't distinguish being hit from hitting.

I suspect a lot of the effort here is marketing, so you might extract extra value (and do more good) with a complementary product.

A big benefit might come from controllable red light and warning bell for the rider when you're more than 15% over speed limit. Speed is the biggest risk by far, and also the risk you can control (since no brake light can defend against the inattentive driver). It's way too easy to not realize how fast you're going.

Indeed, for that you could also factor in stopping distances. Starting out with lighter, nimble bikes, I got in real trouble with the 650+ lb monsters that dither about stopping. Those would get a lower threshold. And you'd apply a higher threshold for open road vs. traffic, etc.

Then build out a UI workflow and logging, and it might grow into an interesting intelligent copilot product line addressing all the pilot-controllable factors. As a motorcyclist, it's really on you to save your own bacon.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-07 16:49:12+00:00
Whether we like it or not, college has become a vending machine, where you insert $X00,000, and out comes a key to allow you access to at least interview for maybe 60+% of (generally higher-paying) jobs out there. Education may happen as a nice side effect, but people aren't spending this kind of money purely for education. I sure would not. I also would not spend that kind of money and then just accept not getting that "key" at the end of the transaction.

If we want universities to function as a place to obtain a rigorous education, we need to drastically reduce the cost, and stop employers from using the diploma to gatekeep nice white collar office jobs.
Show HN: Mutatio.dev – A Free Platform to Mutate and Optimize AI Prompts
by albertoperdomo2 | 2025-05-07 16:50:00+00:00
Hey HN,

I just launched Mutatio.dev, a free platform that helps you test, mutate, and refine AI prompts using any model you configure. The idea is to make it easier to experiment with different prompt variations, track what works, and save the best ones for future use.

Why? I got tired of trying to keep track of which prompt variations actually worked well and wanted a structured way to test multiple versions systematically.

How it Works:

- Connect any AI model (your API keys stay in your browser)

- Create custom mutations to modify your base prompts

- Run experiments to test multiple variations

- Review validation metrics to see which ones perform best

- Save successful prompts to a personal library

Why Free? This is a solo project, and I want to get as much feedback as possible before deciding on the next steps. If it’s useful, great. If not, tell me why—it’ll only make it better.

Would love some honest feedback, feature requests, or bug reports!

Check it out here: https://mutatio.dev

Thanks for reading!
by p_ing | 2025-05-07 16:50:43+00:00
Yeah, surprise Linux had to play catch up to a Windows 1994 release! Same with the scheduler, I'd argue Windows does OOM better than Linux today...

Windows even had the concept of io_uring before, but network only with Registered I/O back in the Windows 8 (8.1?) days.

Linux still lacks the "all I/O is async" NT has.

The underlying kernel and executive of Windows aren't primitive pieces of trash. They're quite advanced, ruined by PMs and the Ads division throwing crap on top.

And yes, Windows' I/O Ring is a near 1:1 copy of the Linux implementation, but IOCP/OVERLAPPED I/O data structure preceded it since NT's first release.

This isn't a pissing match, just we all hope that kernel devs learn from each other and take the best ideas. Sometimes we, IT, don't get to choose the OS we run -- it's dictated by the apps the business requires.