MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by schmichael | 2025-05-28 00:38:07+00:00
Same! Mark Rober is what changed my mind about YouTube for kids. He's a wildly popular creator that's even shilling a product and yet... I'm ok with all of it? He seems to very legitimately care about sharing getting kids excited about STEM, and if he gets rich doing it: great! The product is less offensive than the sugary cereal I watched commercials for while watching Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. Definitely one of the few YouTube channels I let my kids watch unattended.
by paulcole | 2025-05-28 00:38:48+00:00
I live near Ladds Addition and the free piles are the worst. 90% of it is pure crap that just sits out for weeks.

People put it out to feel good about themselves.

Once I saw a bunch of random wires with a label, “FREE - great for art projects.” It’s like thanks for letting me know I was going to knock on doors until I found the right person to make an offer to.
by const_cast | 2025-05-28 00:38:56+00:00
> If I "use" your artwork, and generate another artwork that looks nothing like yours (either from my brain or by automating it) why do you care?

I wouldn't, but presumably the person who you are immitating would.

The fallacy here is that you think an LLM is taking one or two art pieces and then turning around and creating something brand new, like a human brain might do.

No. It's taking billions of art pieces and then sampling them at various frequencies to create your art work. We can find your art work somewhere in the training data, it's just hard.

In essence, we're smuggling the copyright violation through convolution. Since these models are truly very large, we can pretend that there isn't copyright violation. But there is, we just can't really find it because LLMs cannot work backwards.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-28 00:39:50+00:00
We just started watching Mark Rober videos. I started with some random old videos and they were great. Nice educational content in the middle of an entertaining video.

Then the algorithm handed us some more recent videos and they felt like a pivot to Nickelodeon style content: We watched Mark Rober run through a green slime obstacle course with a lot of loud noises and action, but basically zero educational value.

So as someone new to this: Any tips? Should I be sticking to old videos only if I want some educational value? My kids only watch with me as an activity we do together, so I’m always looking for good videos that can keep us away from the content farm stuff.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-28 00:39:58+00:00
That I've heard of, Elon's Jeckyll/Hyde issues have been well-known at SpaceX for twoish decades. Employees (not just engineers) who couldn't look past those would self-select out over that same time frame.

Flipside, people who prioritize working for an actual, high-functioning rocket company have been self-selecting in to SpaceX over the past decade or so.
by TMWNN | 2025-05-28 00:41:18+00:00
> Feels like FSD for the past 10 years all over again (this time funded directly by US taxpayers).

Neither SpaceX nor Starship is subsidized in any way. SpaceX does have a contract for providing a Starship-based lander for Artemis's HLS, but that is (as with all other SpaceX government contracts) paid based on benchmarks and/or final delivery.
by vFunct | 2025-05-28 00:42:31+00:00
How many other comments do you see promoting the elimination of the US?

People that say things are done in "bad faith" generally want people to stay in their well established lane. The world doesn't work that way. It's fine to be on the edge.

There are large segments of even the own US population that sees the US as harmful to the world.

What are YOUR proposals on what should replace it?
by mrandish | 2025-05-28 00:42:41+00:00
Yeah, that sentence was a bit severe. However, most of his observations about many journalists seemingly losing their minds over the Jony / Sam 'ship reveal and repeating embarrassingly grandiose yet vague claims without noting how implausible they were - is spot on.

The mainstream and tech media's coverage of that announcement was below the media's usual level of 'journalism' (and that's already a very low a bar).
by kylecordes | 2025-05-28 00:43:43+00:00
Reason 1: General Fandom

Reason 2: Consider SpaceX's Falcon 9 record in terms of flight pace, total mass delivered, etc. This gives ample reason for optimism that Starship will ultimately work... though the flight test record of Starship so far has been notably spotty.

SpaceX does not seem inclined to give up anytime remotely soon, is bringing in tremendous cash flow via Starlink and has nearly unlimited ability to raise capital. Musk presumably has enough influence in Washington to keep the FAA on board... and that is the only permission they need to keep trying as long as it takes.
by godelski | 2025-05-28 00:45:11+00:00
This is actually where I get the biggest benefits from AI. It's not really good at making those connections itself. But it is good at fuzzy searching. By that I mean I can describe things but not know the name or proper terms for that. So I describe to an LLM, it can figure that out, and then I go off and search for depth and nuance (don't use the LLM for that...). This is something that traditional search is really bad at. But LLMs are also really bad at traditional search.

I'm not sure why we aren't trying to make this more complementary. I really don't want my LLM to be direct search just as I don't want my direct search to be an LLM. Frankly, the context of what I'm looking for matters. Don't make it an end-to-end thing. Just give me a fucking toggle switch for direct search or fuzzy search (hell, throw in an "I don't know" and make it the default)

I'm not worried about the AI replacing me here because the "superpower" (and I assume the gp's) here isn't having broad awareness. It is the ability to abstract and connect seemingly unconnected things. Once the AI is there, it's going to have already been able to replace a lot more stuff. The "superpower" is creativity combined with broad knowledge-base. LLMs seem more complementary here than replacing.
by aylmao | 2025-05-28 00:45:23+00:00
I was watching Everyday Astronaut's feed and he seemed a little bummed. I don't follow SpaceX launches closely enough to know, but when they plan to "fail on purpose" do they not mention it ahead of time?

Of all people, I would expect him to know this sort of information ahead of time, although maybe the booster failure was planned but he was bummed about some some of the other things that didn't work well.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tP0il4z64
by const_cast | 2025-05-28 00:46:12+00:00
Eh... trades are overrated. They're hard, the people typically suck to be around, and they're volatile. A lot of people making good money in trades are on a grind, 60-80 hours of work a week. Sure, you could do that, but it's still a grind.

There's plenty of low effort stable jobs available, and being a programmer can be one of them. There's companies out the wazoo who just need a mediocre programmer to work ~40 hours a week. But you could also be a clinical pharmacist, or an accountant, or a supply chain manager.
by TMWNN | 2025-05-28 00:46:36+00:00
>SpaceX is, for many of us, what made many of us (myself included) not realize what a raging moron Elon Musk was and is for the longest time. I've come to believe that SpaceX succeeded in spite of Elon, not because of him. Whoever is really in charge has probably built an organization that is designed to insulate itself from Elon's influence.

Sorry to shatter your illusions, but Musk is SpaceX's founder, CEO, and chief engineer. He has a physics degree from Penn and was admitted to an engineering graduate program at Stanford but worked in Silicon Valley instead, where he made the fortune that he used to finance SpaceX.

Musk's biographer tweeted the pages from his book <https://x.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1844870018351169942> discussing how in late 2020 Musk suggested, then insisted against considerable opposition from his engineers, that Superheavy be caught with chopsticks instead of landing on legs like Falcon 9.

Also according to the book, Musk is the person who suggested and, against considerable opposition from his engineers, insisted on Starship switching to stainless steel instead of carbon fiber <https://x.com/richardprice100/status/1728106606616015097>.

(Hint: Musk was right and his engineers were wrong. Both times.)

PS - if you bring up Gwynne Shotwell, look up what a chief operating officer is responsible for (and not responsible for, relative to the CEO).
by NoPicklez | 2025-05-28 00:47:00+00:00
It's what many are saying about AI in general for the workforce, it frees up the "easier" tasks to allow people to do more high level work.

I do think that as a junior using AI could speed up your learning in programming significantly.

You essentially have a tutor in your back pocket who can help teach and also do some of the doing if you need it to.
by hlfshell | 2025-05-28 00:47:08+00:00
He's gone all in on the Crunch Labs brand, which is kind of built around the younger audience. This isn't a bad thing, but it does mean that older edutainment enjoyers kind of age out of his stuff. Not to say there's no value in them, but there will be more of an entertainment focus than prior edutainment focused videos.

I recommend checking out Stuff Made Here; great build videos of engineering principles in an entertaining fashion to show building cool complicated stuff.

Xyla Foxlin, a wonderful maker, also posts educational videos between her projects, like an in-depth look at how plane wings work.
by hlfshell | 2025-05-28 00:49:09+00:00
There's shilling a product because someone handed you a bag, and then there's building a product you believe in. You feel okay with it because it's clearly the latter versus another NordVPN commercial. Even if the product ends up failing (and I am under no predilection to believe this will) he has presented nothing but honest enthusiasm towards his goal that you can't help but root for it.
by rudedogg | 2025-05-28 00:49:41+00:00
On a similar note:

I wonder if we'll see OS level services/daemons to try and lower the time to first token as these things get used more. And the interface for application developers will be a simple system prompt.

In some ways the idea sounds nice, but there would be a lot of downsides:

- Memory eaten up by potentially unused models

- Less compute available to software running specialized models for specific tasks
by fixprix | 2025-05-28 00:49:47+00:00
Starship is going to launch the next gen Starlink satellites which SpaceX desperately needs to get in the air as with 5 million subscribers their service is being over saturated around the world. Especially in the developing world and many other places where Starlink hands down beats terrestrials offerings.

In terms of Elon's contribution, you couldn't be more wrong. It was Elon's decision to pursue Starlink - a business model that had bankrupted all previous companies that attempted it. Elon's decision to pursue reusability which made Starlink feasible. Elon's decision to fire all the upper management of Starlink when the program wasn't going well - and in under a year of that decision had completely redesigned satellites in orbit. And now it's Elon's decision to pursue Starship that is a money furnace, but if it pays off Starlink 3.0 could bring in an order of magnitude more money than it does now.

The same high risk, high reward methodology with a good dose of micro-management is how he's brought six distinct companies to multi billion dollar valuations. And how he's succeeded despite the incessant reporting of his or his companies imminent failure.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-05-28 00:50:18+00:00
>> [apple's "pay us for every dollar you make" payment extortion model] ... No change, no innovation.

> In fact, my very first comment in this thread listed how Apple keeps innovating and leading change in multiple industries.

That may be so, but their "pay us for every dollar" model isn't innovative, and that's what we're talking about here. All the other innovation is unrelated to that. All the other innovation can be done without that. You seem to be confusing one thing Apple does (the "pay us for every dollar" model) with everything else they do. This point was covered in the post you replied to, but you seem to have not only ignored it, but selectively quoted me so as to make it easier for you to ignore it.

>> As for your claim that a hammer manufacturer's "pay us for every nail" model [is not a suitable metaphor for the apple's "pay us for every dollar" payment processing model]

> This was never a claim I made

Sure it was. This entire thread is comparing apple's "pay us for every dollar" model with a hypothetical "pay us for every nail hammered" model. Your contribution was claiming that the metaphor was inapt (a claim unconvincing to multiple people).

It sounds like you're now saying you agree with the metaphor that we've all been discussing, rather than disagree? Either way, I think no more meta-arguing need be done regarding whether a metaphor is perfect or not: I will be the first to admit that none are (because comparing a thing to itself is useless), but some are illustrative.

To wit, this metaphor illustrates that the world would be a better place without apple asking to be paid for every dollar accepted in-app which is distributed in the app store, just like the world would be a better place without a hammer manufacturer asking to be paid for every nail driven by the hammer.

p.s.: please stop omitting critical context from quotes to make your point: Your "no change, no innovation" quote creatively omitted that it was referring to apple's "pay us for every dollar" business model for app store payments; your quote regarding the metaphor omitted the second half of the metaphor whose invalidity was your central claim. For your convenience, in this post I've added back the critical omitted context.
by roxolotl | 2025-05-28 00:50:34+00:00
Simon thank you so much for this tool! I use it daily now since charmbraclet’s Mods[0] doesn’t support anthropics models. And now with tool calling it’ll be even more useful. I am curious though if there’s any appetite for improving performance? It’s noticeably slow to even just print the help on all of my machines(M1 32gb/M2 21g/ryzen 7700 64gb).

0: https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods
by Vaib_PackyAI | 2025-05-28 00:50:51+00:00
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by staplung | 2025-05-28 00:52:10+00:00
Summary: launched to the point that starship separated successfully. The booster appears to have exploded on its landing burn. They never intended to catch this booster but they didn't expect it to explode during the landing burn. Starship meanwhile got all the way to SECO, which is farther than the previous two missions. They were not able to open the pez-dispenser door to launch the starlink dummies. Some time after that it became clear that starship was tumbling out of control. They did not attempt to relight the engines. Reentry was uncontrolled.
by TuringNYC | 2025-05-28 00:52:37+00:00
>> A co-worker was telling about a student he knew who would never do laundry and just constantly buy new clothes while getting rid of the worn ones.

I'm dating myself a little bit here, but when i started my career, we had to wear fancy pants. The pants cost ~80 and dry cleaning was ~8 -- so 10 drycleans were a new pair of pants. Thats not even considering the time-cost of drop-off/pick-up which is especially hard if you have long hours.

So I'd just do a regular wash on the pants, despite warnings that "it would ruin the pants over time." I think if I could have the pants last more than 10 washes, I was already in the green.

Even crazier was how some co-workers would have khakis dry-cleaned. Thank the Lord we now have non-iron technical pants. All my problems have gone away.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-05-28 00:54:03+00:00
I will bite - Tesla has been selling, for the past 10 years, cars that were supposedly becoming Fully Self Driving 'before the end of the year' for the past 10 years straight.

Let's say somebody bought it 5 years ago, then sold his car last year. From his perspective - was it vaporwave or not ?

Some day, it will work of course. There are other companies operating robotaxi on scale for quite a long time already. It's just not that day yet, not for Tesla at least.
by terribleperson | 2025-05-28 00:54:15+00:00
I'm not aware of any issues with using dissolved ABS as a bed adhesive besides the damage to PEI. It might possibly be too strong, but with the way ABS shrinks when it cools that's not usually an issue unless you're printing on glass (which will crack). If it's still stuck when it's completely cool, that's what a bed scraper is for. ABS juice can impact the bottom texture of the print, but my prints still got shiny bottoms when I was printing on Kapton with ABS juice atop an aluminum heated bed.

Atomic Filament at one point sold ABS filament that was explicitly manufactured from MG94. I haven't been able to find anyone that will sell to a consumer that specifies a specific resin since then. Airwolf has had a listing on their website for years, but since it's 2.85mm filament, I've never looked into it. It's possible that if you contact Atomic Filament they might be able to tell you what they're currently using. Smaller operations like Atomic Filament are probably the way to go if you care about product consistency.
by tmpz22 | 2025-05-28 00:54:44+00:00
I've seen this phenomena at two universities. Its gross, dystopian, and eye-opening... unless you're a student who just went through a bingeful finals week and now have to move at extremely short notice.

1) Usually because they can't take it with them. A lot of students fly home, some don't have drivers license, and/or the cost to ship it third party exceeds the price of the items. It's also laziness, but I pin it mainly on practicality and cost.

2) They do, and at Santa Barbara I saw groups gathering, knowing the move-out days, to pick it up. These were migrants, homeless, and thrifty individuals. A lot of the stuff is still in its original packaging, as the parents of the student bought well intentioned but impractical gifts that never even got opened. A lot of room for better organization, but mostly folks just don't care, they're so caught up with finals and getting home that it's very far back in the list of priorities.

3) Picking through trash is a uniquely de-humanizing experience. Its one of the few things that makes me stop walking even in high-homeless areas like the Tenderloin, because I can't even imagine what it feels like to be picking through trash for items to sell, or particularly foodstuffs.
by TuringNYC | 2025-05-28 00:55:08+00:00
>> On our current trajectory, as time moves forward, you will need to be more and more rich to attend university. Even more so for universities like Duke, compared to, say, NC State or UNC.

It is expected right? Our population has grown and we also have huge streams of foreign students...but the count of universities has largely been static. The class sizes are a bit bigger and the dorms accomodate more, but nowhere near in line with the demand. Naturally the prices have risen to meet the limited supply.

Not saying this is good, rather...we should be building more universities to stay in line with the general population
by godelski | 2025-05-28 00:57:12+00:00
> however, the salaries for jobs that vocational schools would train your for show very little pressure to increase.

Aren't "Code Camps" vocational schools?

I mean another perennial HN complaint is about how "off-topic" university CS courses are. Personally, I disagree. I'm with Knuth on this one:

> People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

To be fair, sometimes it really doesn't matter if the program is weird or not. A machinist or tradesman is different from an engineer. But clearly there is some value to those classes even if you don't end up using that knowledge directly. Doesn't make it off-topic or useless, but we definitely frame things this way.

I mean the major thing I would change about code camps is make it a 1 year or 2 year process and actually get some depth and nuance instead of being a cram school focused more on trying to get you to pass the test than trying to teach you what the test is trying to test.
by dhosek | 2025-05-28 00:58:48+00:00
You’re describing a transpiler, but the problem is that idioms in a GC language like Kotlin don’t necessarily translate to a non-GC language like Rust or Zig. Add in the fact that Rust doesn’t have OO inheritance which is essential for a lot of JVM code to work (I don’t know much about Zig) and I’d be very suspicious of code generated by a Kotlin to Rust transpiler. (On the other hand, one of the first transpilers I ever encountered, web2c, worked well because the source language, Pascal, could be fairly easily translated into functional C without much if any sacrifice of speed or accuracy.)
by decimalenough | 2025-05-28 01:00:39+00:00
Falcon Heavy is intended for flying payloads that are very large or required very high energy orbits. For smaller payloads, Falcon 9 is more cost-effective, which is why SpaceX uses it for Starlink currently.

However, if Starship works, it will drastically reduce cost to orbit and become the workhorse for basically all launches.