MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kerkeslager | 2025-05-03 01:57:37+00:00
To me, a vision of the future in which people do jobs robots could do, just to create jobs, is a dystopia. The future I want to see is one in which humans live lives of play and leisure while robots do all the labor, and the results of the robots doing labor are distributed equitably.

The problem is, there's no historical precedent for this, and we're still letting people who do almost no labor amass most of the results of other people's labor. If we follow the current trajectory, we'll have a society controlled by a few people who own the robots, and everybody else fighting over their table scraps.

The solution to this isn't rejecting automation to create artificial jobs: that's just fighting over table scraps by a different name. The solution is to stop rewarding generational wealth with more wealth, and distribute resources more equitably.
by alnwlsn | 2025-05-03 01:58:06+00:00
I've heard that one of the things they wanted the shuttle to do was launch, capture a spacecraft in polar orbit, and land at the launch site within a single orbit. Some say it was so they could secretly grab a Soviet satellite right out of the sky when it was out of range of Russia, but I'm not sure how you would secure something like that in the payload bay.
by jimmaswell | 2025-05-03 01:59:43+00:00
I've seen Java described as made for companies to be able to rotate out mediocre programmers as efficiently as possible without letting them mess things up easily, and it makes a lot of sense from that perspective. Barebones semantics to the point of being Spartan (can't even define your own operator overloads), easy to take another class and copy it with small modifications but not mess it up for anyone else (inheritance)..

Then there's C# which most anyone who's enthusiastic about software dev will find far nicer to work with, but it's probably harder for bargain basement offshore sweatshops to bang their head against.
by Rochus | 2025-05-03 02:00:26+00:00
Wow, this is just great. As a musician with computer science background (or vice versa) I'm just stunned. E.g. this track blew me away: https://suno.com/song/6478ac9a-00e9-4f7d-81bb-b0991001d236. The drums and the sax solo are just great, sound like from the best musicians on the planet. It's fasctinating what comes out of this grab bag with each click.

EDIT: don't understand why this statement is downvoted; since when has HN been hostile to technology? Or if you think this is a paid bot comment, I'm real, here's my website: http://rochus-keller.ch/?cat=3
by fastball | 2025-05-03 02:01:01+00:00
I'm not arguing with you (as there is no real substance to your comments with which to argue), I'm merely confused about your series of non-sequiturs. Bringing up Mullenweg under a blog post made by not the CEO of a different company whose behavior up to now has been very different from Mullenweg's is just... not very relevant. Due to this I charitably assumed you might not be aware of the actual corporate dynamics and proceeded accordingly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by kerkeslager | 2025-05-03 02:01:33+00:00
This sort of response misses the point. If the goal is to have jobs for everyone, then yes, bringing back all those things is actually the right move, and you're not going to convince the person who favors job creation otherwise. You seem to be under the impression that those jobs went away for a good reason, but you haven't bothered to articulate what that reason was.

I think the better point is that having jobs for everyone isn't the goal. Equitably distributing the results of our society's labor so everyone's needs are met is. If people are able to live in a house and put food on their table, they'll be less concerned with whether they have a job or not.

But that requires that you care enough about other people to not let people hoard unlimited resources, so I suspect most of HN will have some objections, and you'll never actually address what monkaiju is concerned about.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-03 02:01:47+00:00
I tried the demo, but it's actually a tutorial. I got bored and pressed the X. (This happens most of the times. In many sites I had to look for the tutorial and take it later.) In this case, if I close the tutorial the page goes back to the login screen. I'd like to play with the tool for a while, perhaps disable save of close it after 5 minutes or use other restriction.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-03 02:04:44+00:00
I tried the demo, but it's actually a tutorial. I got bored and pressed the X. (This happens most of the times. In many sites I had to look for the tutorial and take it later.) In this case, if I close the tutorial the page goes back to the login screen. I'd like to play with the tool for a while, perhaps disable save of close it after 5 minutes or use other restriction.

Fake edit: I can try it! Just one part. Just don't click the X. I still don't like that clicking the X close the whole project. Perhaps add a confirmation.
by nighthawk454 | 2025-05-03 02:05:01+00:00
Great article, thanks! I’ve been curious if there’s any scheduling optimizations for workloads that are extremely burst-y. Such as super low traffic websites or cron job type work - where you may want your database ‘provisioned’ all the time, but realistically it won’t get anywhere near even the 50% cpu minimum at any kind of sustained rate. Presumably those could be hosted at even a fraction of the burst cost. Is that a use case Ubicloud has considered?
by swat535 | 2025-05-03 02:05:07+00:00
In my experience, the most reliable way to understand your body's calorie needs is through consistent measurement:

1. Log everything you eat each day.

2. Weigh yourself first thing the next morning, before eating.

3. Track the trend (did you gain, lose, or maintain?)

Over time, clear patterns emerge. You start to see exactly how your intake maps to weight changes, and you can fine-tune accordingly. It’s not guesswork, it’s feedback.

What surprised me most was how little food I actually needed. Even with regular strength training, a modest surplus was enough to support muscle growth.
by cco | 2025-05-03 02:06:39+00:00
Jokes aside, Germany trialed a hybrid catenary truck system which was really neat.

Diesel to get you from the warehouse to the highway, extend your pantograph and boom, you're electric in the right lane (outside lane) all the way to your exit.

Never looked into how it penciled out but I always thought that was a great idea. Seems like there is a path to add in driverless aspects to the system as well given you have contact with a wire the whole time.
by kevmo314 | 2025-05-03 02:07:44+00:00
Yeah I'm in the holding it wrong camp too. I really want LLMs to work, but every time I spend effort trying to get it to do something I end up with subtle errors or a conclusion that isn't actually correct despite looking correct.

Most people tell me I'm just not that good at prompting, which is probably true. But if I'm learning how to prompt, that's basically coding with more steps. At that point it's faster for me to write the code directly.

The one area where it actually has been successful is (unsurprisingly) translating code from one language to another. That's been a great help.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-03 02:07:59+00:00
The AI will be saying the same thing to everyone. Rationally, what are the chances every single OpenAI customer will be building a billion dollar startup any time soon?

But even it's more obvious than that. The sycophancy is plain old love bombing, which is a standard cult programming technique.

As for startups - let's wait until the AI has built a few of its own, or at least mentored humans successfully.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-05-03 02:09:32+00:00
You assume a lot about me.

... which is my point as well. You can no longer tell if your interlocutor is even human, and yet you're still thinking and talking about books written in the 1980s.

(NLP wasn't much of a money pit back in the 80s, I know that much. If it was, somebody else must've been getting all the money...)
by Trasmatta | 2025-05-03 02:09:52+00:00
From Carl Jung:

> By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.

You can't "optimism away" the "negative" emotions. You just bury them, but they continue to live in your system, and find their own ways out eventually.

It's easy to fall into the trap of endless negativity. It's also easy to fall into the trap of toxic positivity, where you refuse to process pain or the "negative" because you're trying so hard to force the positive.
by hoherd | 2025-05-03 02:10:40+00:00
I expected to find some of the tech that snow plows use on Donner Pass for lane keeping, RRDPS, but couldn't find any info indicating that they are using highway embedded sensors to aid the autonomous trucks.

https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/research-innov...

> The RRPDS must maintain an estimate of the vehicle state (i.e., position, velocity, heading, and heading rate) relative to the roadway with position accurate to a few centimeters.
by userbinator | 2025-05-03 02:10:57+00:00
Still, NASA does not place the responsibility on Lockheed for the mission loss; instead, various officials at NASA have stated that NASA itself was at fault for failing to make the appropriate checks and tests that would have caught the discrepancy.

The discrepancy between calculated and measured position, resulting in the discrepancy between desired and actual orbit insertion altitude, had been noticed earlier by at least two navigators, whose concerns were dismissed because they "did not follow the rules about filling out [the] form to document their concerns"

Typical bureaucratic BS. Not surprised; what's surprising is that anything works in that sort of environment.
by mynameisash | 2025-05-03 02:11:08+00:00
Kind of reminds me of an interview question that a friend of mine suggested for when I conduct interviews: Pick your favorite/strongest language. How would you rate yourself, where 0 is "complete newbie" and 10 is "I invented the language"?

My friend, an EXTREMELY competent C++ programmer, rates himself 4/10 because he knows what he doesn't know.

I've interviewed people who rated themselves 9 or 10/10 but couldn't remember how their chosen language did iteration.
by jingkang | 2025-05-03 02:15:35+00:00
Aero-1-Audio is a compact audio model adept at various audio tasks, including speech recognition, audio understanding, and following audio instructions. It is part of the Aero-1 series, the first generation of lightweight multimodal models developed by LMMs-Lab, with future expansions planned across additional modalities.

Built upon the Qwen-2.5-1.5B language model, Aero delivers strong performance across multiple audio benchmarks while remaining parameter-efficient, even compared with larger advanced models like Whisper and Qwen-2-Audio and Phi-4-Multimodal, or commercial services like ElevenLabs/Scribe.

Aero is trained within one day on 16 H100 GPUs using just 50k hours of audio data. Our insight suggests that audio model training could be sample efficient with high quality and filtered data.

Aero can accurately perform ASR and audio understanding on continuous audio inputs up to 15 minutes in length, which we find the scenario is still a challenge for other models.

Checkout the blog https://www.lmms-lab.com/posts/aero_audio/ and online demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmms-lab/Aero-1-Audio-Demo
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-05-03 02:16:14+00:00
What do you mean by "other axes of rotation"? As long as the object is rigid and not acted upon by external forces, its axis should never change, since both the direction and magnitude of angular momentum are conserved.

Wikipedia talks of "chaotic rotation" of astronomical objects, but only over long timescales due to gravitational interactions and thermal effects. On short timescales, its axis shouldn't change much at all, unless you bump into it and apply an off-axis torque.
by ajb | 2025-05-03 02:18:05+00:00
It's useful when the codebase is difficult to debug directly. Eg, your users have a bug that maybe appears on specific hardware, which the developers don't have. The users can't be expected to comprehend the code base enough to debug, but bisect is a mechanical process that they are capable of.

Having said that, bisect is also an O(log N) method and it's useful where otherwise you might end up spending O(N) time debugging something. I have myself split a configuration change into many stupidly-small commits (locally, without the intention to push that) purely so I could run bisect instead of manually reviewing the change to figure out which part broke stuff.
by silisili | 2025-05-03 02:18:30+00:00
UPS, too. I knew a couple OTRs who made 150k 2 decades ago. Not sure if they've kept up with inflation, but it was great money at the time.

Of course, they had people fighting for those jobs, and from what I heard, about the only way to get one was to know somebody on the inside.

Up your pay, give them benefits, and the people will come. This isn't hard to figure out.
Ask HN: Anyone have tried to migrate from CUDA?
by glaksmono | 2025-05-03 02:19:32+00:00
I found an article that says the following:

"CANN 6.0 claims to support one-click migration of CUDA code, and compatibility of PyTorch framework of around 95% according to some sources."

Source: https://pstaidecrypted.substack.com/p/gpu-games-heat-up-just-as-ai-diffusion#footnote-2-162340886
by tbrownaw | 2025-05-03 02:19:59+00:00
> Is a DAG traversal algo "math", or is it more computer-sciencey?

Firstly, computer science is math.

Secondly, I remember covering graphs in a discrete math course back when I was in college.

> What if you do it in SQL?

SQL is more-or-less a poor implementation of relational algebra. Ie, math.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-05-03 02:21:15+00:00
Read thru hundreds of comments, and yet your comment is the only one that comes close to actually rendering an opinion on the design of the watermark.

Someone did comment about the appropriate color to be used (grey63?) but i haven't really heard from experts on what would be good outcome, if this was any other forum and watermarking was still acceptable.

Would love to hear such thoughts!
by akomtu | 2025-05-03 02:22:08+00:00
LLMs are about to enable fake digital personas, digital replicas, that the user can interact with. These will be used for self-improvement (digital coach, etc.) and for self-destruction (interactive porn, etc.). The latter is amoral, but legal, and the tech corps will exploit that mercilessly. The danger lies in our tendency to anthropomorphize LLMs simply because they quack the right way. If text-only chatbots have mesmerised people so much, imagine what chat + audio + video will do. The laws will catch up a generation later when the damage will be comparable to a forest fire.
by int_19h | 2025-05-03 02:24:06+00:00
I'm Russian, and yes, absolutely, Russia would do that so long as said party is friendly towards Russia.

It's not like it would even be the first time. USSR was very friendly to Nazi Germany in 1939-40.

And in modern Russian parlance, the words "Nazi" and "fascist" don't have any semantic load other than "our enemies". For example, EU is "Nazi", while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group is not.
by simpaticoder | 2025-05-03 02:24:25+00:00
Interesting. "Animation" seems to cover a lot of ground, like "programming". They seem to fit into "artistic" animation, designed to be looked at, and interactive animation, and in this list mainly for UI component interaction and feedback. But in addition, animation is used for data visualization (e.g. D3 or charts.js) and game programming. Did I miss a category? Are these the right names?
by AstroBen | 2025-05-03 02:24:52+00:00
> i have always maintained a slightly underweight body, well into my 30s, despite limited exercise and unrestricted eating

I'm the same, but not because my bodies special. I can very easily gain weight and actually have really bad self control around food.. especially snacks

I pretty recently moved to the US and it infuriates me that so many stores only have 200g+ family-size packs of chips/crisps/whatever you call them.. I want them, but not a huge pack, so I just don't buy them. I know if I keep them at home I'll eat the whole bag in a day

I eat mostly nutritionally dense, unprocessed food because even though I hate cooking I found ways to bulk cook tasty meals and keep them in the fridge/freezer for when I'm lazy and would otherwise order shit

I have breakfast at 1-2pm.. which makes it really hard to overeat in such a short time window before bed. Not for any specific reason I just have coffee before then and it blunts my hunger

I don't think about it either.. but so many of my habits I've built up, if I look at it, make it really hard for me to get fat. I'm guessing you have similar things

"choices" are as much lifestyle design (whether you meant to do it or not) as they are pure willpower. They're all things in your control that can make it so you don't rely on just resisting hunger
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-03 02:25:04+00:00
I'll bite, on chance this is a product of the media streams you've been watching instead of innate racism.

> There are several cases of people who have been violently assaulted or even murdered by violent gang members and criminals who came here illegally.

There are also many times the number of cases of illegal immigrants living normal, productive lives and contributing to their communities, if we're going to tie the things we mention to statistical reality.

> they are a costly strain upon our infrastructure and social support systems.

They power the bulk of American construction, agricultural, service, and landscaping industries.

> They have exacerbated already sky high housing costs because they need to live somewhere.

Illegal immigration is a drop in the bucket compared to private equity snapping up homes and rent price-fixing via RealPage et al.

> When they get sick they go to the emergency room because they lack health insurance.

As do many US citizen, thankfully all protected by EMTALA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_...

> Many of them turn to crime because their opportunities for legal employment are non-existent.

I'm guessing you haven't worked too many blue collar jobs in your life...? I.e. kitchen, construction, or landscaping?

> They are also a burden on our already struggling public education system, particularly since so many of them do not speak fluent English.

Or, having to go through hell to get here, they're more motivated than their citizen by birth peers.

> They also depress wages.

You just said above they can't find jobs. Which is it? They're getting too few jobs or too many?

> There is a myth that they perform jobs that Americans don't want to do. The truth is that they perform jobs for cheaper than Americans are willing to do them.

You really don't seem like you've ever talked to a farmer. Ask one about hiring hardworking labor sometime?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-03 02:26:54+00:00
I think you're unreasonably pessimistic in the short term, and unreasonably optimistic in the long term.

People are getting benefit from these conversations. I know people who have uploaded chat exchanges and asked an LLM for help understanding patterns and subtext to get a better idea of what the other person is really saying - maybe more about what they're really like.

Human relationship problems tend to be quite generic and non-unique, so in fact the averageness of LLMs becomes more of a strength than a weakness. It's really very rare for people to have emotional or relationship issues that no one else has experienced before.

The problem is more that if this became common OpenAI could use the tool for mass behaviour modification and manipulation. ChatGPT could easily be given a subtle bias towards some belief system or ideology, and persuaded to subtly attack competing systems.

This could be too subtle to notice, while still having huge behavioural and psychological effects on entire demographics.

We have the media doing this already. Especially social media.

But LLMs can make it far more personal, which means conversations are far more likely to have an effect.
by hdjrudni | 2025-05-03 02:29:13+00:00
> If I had s -> t -> u -> v and wanted to reorder them, it’s as easy as jj rebase --revision u --after s, and I’d end up with s -> u -> t -> v,

How did t end up after u?

I'd expect that to fork into (s -> t) and (s -> u -> v). Either that or maybe (s -> t -> v) and (s -> u).
by perching_aix | 2025-05-03 02:29:53+00:00
To be fair, MS365 apps are frequently miserable in Edge and "natively" too.

Just a few issues of Teams and Teams only:

- statuses getting stuck or being null

- having to relogin despite the current token still clearly working

- outright crashing on JS level (fixed)

- never finishing loading in, requiring a browser cache wipe (fixed)

- lying about messages having been delivered

- messages getting dropped from mid conversation when scrolling back in history

- message history being rewritten live as things are catching up

- @everyone pings arriving localized (wtf??)

- the wrong flyout menu appearing when clicking something (???), e.g. you try to screenshare but the emoji selector shows up (fixed?)

- various localization oversights, like the calendar flyouts starting on the wrong day of the week, various strings not being translated

- if you happen to call someone at the same time they call you, buckle up, cause stuff's about to go potentially very wild

- getting into a call doesn't actually put you in the call sometimes, necessitating a full system restart (how even???)

- custom embeds for certain sites instead of just using OpenGraph, so when you link e.g. the Wikipedia article about C++, you get told it's a carcinogenic substance (debatable) group called "IARC group 2B"

- software vs hardware mute desync, sometimes resulting in a rapid fire on/off fight

- sometimes buggy at-mention tokenization behavior that triggers webhooks as many times as there are spaces in the mentioned identity's name

... and I'm sure there are countless more. Some of these are genuine dealbreaker level, that I'm confident they only get away with because of their ecosystem grip. Using Discord would be a million times nicer I swear.
by techpineapple | 2025-05-03 02:29:59+00:00
I am pretty passionate about DEI, but I feel like people mix sort of depth and breadth of passion, I am deeply passionate that all people can operate at work without having to hide a piece of who they are. If it’s categorically appropriate at work(talking about your weekend, having a picture of your family on your desk at work) we should all be able to do that. But being your “whole self” to work isn’t supposed to extend beyond the things necessary to feel comfortable to be apart of the team and do the work. And this is for everyone! Even most activists need a break from their activism.
by LeonB | 2025-05-03 02:30:19+00:00
Kiwis also have a larger brain than other birds their size.

The causes and consequences of this are worth investigating.

A lot of animals have an architecture where they can’t carry a large brain, so a slightly larger brain is more of a hindrance than a help.

Bipedal animals can balance a heavier brain on their upright frame. But flying animals can’t afford too much extra weight.

I’m not sure what they do with the extra brain cells, but I suspect that their specially evolved nostrils would benefit from a powerful processing unit.

(Pigs for example have a large brain both in comparison to their body and in comparison to all other animals. I think the extra processing there is largely to support their incredible proboscis. Eg their legendary truffle hunting skills.)

I think our early human ancestor’s big brain was particularly useful for visual processing to assist with bipedal running/hunting.