MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WJW | 2025-05-17 17:51:22+00:00
It wouldn't be too hard to set up a marketplace like that, but how do you know your bot is good enough to not accidentally bankrupt the business it's bidding on behalf of? Ads have this wonderful property that individual ads are pretty cheap. If you mis-bid to show an ad to someone not interested it won't cost you very much. Don't do it too often of course, but a few mistakes here and there are fine. In addition, they are bid on and delivered within a second or so at most.

Insurance is very different. Nobody is looking to insure the unit test they vibe coded late Friday afternoon, rather it would be the multi million dollar "we replaced all our accountants with a chatGPT based system" decisions. Getting one of those decisions wrong will absolutely be a problem for your AI-insurance company. In addition, in most cases you won't even know if you were right or wrong until many years later so you have to keep reserves locked up for much much longer.
by proc0 | 2025-05-17 17:53:22+00:00
I'm very skeptical. I see all the hype, listen to people say it's 2 more years until coding is fully automated but it's hard for me to believe seeing how the current models get stuck and have severe limitations despite a lot of impressive things it can do.

I think the best use for vibe coding is learning. Tools are free and you can literally just try whatever in minutes. You can quickly get a feel for the limitations. I recommend vibe coding something simple, getting it to work and then going line by line and asking the AI how it works or any question really. I think with AI anyone can learn to code relatively quickly by themselves, with AI as a tutor.
by runarberg | 2025-05-17 17:53:53+00:00
Like I said, I‘m not an expert on international law, but I have a feeling you might simply be wrong here. This is HN so I went and looked at the relevant documents[1][2], and from my reading I gathered that:

a) The jurisdiction was established way back in 2021[1], and

b) The court doesn’t deal with evidence directly when issuing indictments, but rather reasonable grounds[2], or as the news of the warrants stated:

> With regard to the crimes, the Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu, born on 21 October 1949, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of the relevant conduct, and Mr Gallant, born on 8 November 1958, Minister of Defence of Israel at the time of the alleged conduct, each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.

> The Chamber also found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant each bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.

The alleged crimes are summarized in [2] (I’m not quoting them here because it is basically 2/3 of the whole article, so go read it your self if you care). But I have to agree with the court there is reasonable grounds here. Other courts (like the ICJ) and human rights organizations, like the Human Rights Watch[3][4] and Amnesty International[5][6] have provided plenty of evidence to support the claim of reasonable grounds.

> But focusing on that [prosecution of war crimes] alone is problematic as it again, incentivizes the worst players and escalates the conflict.

> This is a political problem, not a legal problem.

I disagree. This is moral problem, and is fundamental to the rule of law. If Israel gets away with these crimes, it threatens the very foundation of the rule of law, and the whole international system is in peril. You can argue that was also the case with the Iraq war, and I would agree with you. But Israel’s crimes are so grave, and so obvious, that if we let that slide because of some vague—and honestly suspiciously convenient—notion of politics, there is nothing stopping bad actors from creating a political crisis to start the next set of atrocities.

1: https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/CourtRecords/090...

2: https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-p...

3: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/15/gaza-latest-israeli-plan...

4: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-exterminat...

5: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...

6: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/05/israel-opt-tw...
by neilv | 2025-05-17 17:54:13+00:00
Skimming, I started out willing to go with them, but then they lost me with:

> 2. Safety so boring it is practically soporific

> Serious muscle injury from statins occurs in <0.1% of users; hepatotoxicity is an order of magnitude rarer. For context, you’re free to purchase orlistat—a drug whose calling card is oily rectal incontinence—straight from Amazon’s shelves. If we are letting consumers gamble their underwear for a few pounds lost, we can surely trust them with the pill that costs pennies and saves hearts.

Are they saying that there will be many serious muscle injuries if this prescription drug goes OTC, but an already-OTC drug has a potty-humor side effect, therefore... through the power of dismissive levity-logic, we can just chuckle and stop thinking, and it's that same human capacity for rational thought that ensures that a OTC medication with dangerous side effects will be used only judiciously-- Sorry, I don't follow?
by ayrtondesozzla | 2025-05-17 17:55:03+00:00
Actually, just in case any sincerely interested people are browsing, let me address your original points re. Nix's DSL, which made me wonder if you had read about Guix and Guile:

> Nix is bad because the language is very limited and extremely hard to debug and the module system is fragile and obscure

-- Limited :: here's a collection of Guile software https://sph.mn/foreign/guile-software.html. It's not Python, but it is a general purpose language used by lots of people for serious software work, with a nice library of lovely Scheme books for learning, too

-- Hard to debug :: Guile has built-in debugging support, and there are interfaces like Geiser in Emacs with extra tools, and also support for interacting with GDB

-- Module system :: Guile's module system was first implemented in 1996, I learned from browsing there. Anyway https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Modules....

So yes, if you don't like Lisps, or don't have time to learn new things, or don't like something else about Guix, by all means, steer clear. But the statement: "there's no Nix but with a general purpose, powerful programming language" is, I think, demonstrably false.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-05-17 17:55:22+00:00
Not RDP, but like encryption, it's the only other feature I can think of which remains on the extpack. IMHO they are all enterprisey "mark a checkbox" level features that should be irrelevant for even actual enterprise users.

Why do you have to use RDP anyway? It gives almost zero advantages over VNC here since all the output is going to be raster.
by sejin8642 | 2025-05-17 17:56:04+00:00
I understand your criticism since it seems that you never visited Japan, Tokyo specifically, before. The train/subway entrance gate is open by default. So if your ticket or IC card or phone didn't get registered properly because you don't have enough fund, the gate closes. And there are a lot of people that use the metro during rush hours, and when I said a lot, I mean it is basically a sea of people flowing through. And when those people are trying to get onto the platform, you want to make sure they walk past through the gates like they are just walking on street. Very fast scan with open gate makes it possible. You don't wait at the gate because you don't have to wait for ticket scan and gate door opening.

Also, if you use an iPhone (i don't have any experience with Android phone in Japan so I can't speak for it) to scan, you don't have to unlock the phone to use it. You simply reach into your pocket to grab your phone, and put the phone near the gate scanner as you approach the gate, and it scans instantly really fast (I was actually surprised how fast it was compared to the ones in Seoul). The experience feels like you are just walking through a narrow passage without any hindrance.

I also like your suggestion to remove the gates. When I visited Germany and Austria I really liked the subway there (no gates, and it even operates past midnight!). I saw only one ticket inspector out of probably about 20 subway rides when I was there, but it seems to work just fine. I am afraid such system might be abused in countries like Korea or China.

add: I also just realized that no gate system wouldn't work in Japan or Korea because during rush hour there is no way for ticket inspector to check the tickets of passengers on train. You are squeezed in each train unit like sardines squeezed in tin can.
by emporas | 2025-05-17 17:56:20+00:00
Head over to groq.com, use the qwen-qwq-32b model, and take these examples [1] and put them at the start before the prompt. After that use the following command:

write chapter 1 for a new Novel in Progress, take inspiration from the example Novel but DO NOT Repeat Example. Add vivid imagery, in a dark comedy style. dial up the humor and irony and use first person narration. Fracture sentences and emphasize the unusual: use unusual word orders, such as placing adjectives after nouns or using nouns as verbs, use linguistic voice pyrotechnics, telegraphically leaned and verbal agility in plot building intention, reflection, dialog, action, and describe solar civilization, which lives totally in space. Near a star, but not in a planet, and no gravitational pull anywhere.

[1] https://gist.github.com/pramatias/953f6e3420f46f31410e8dd3c8...
by CommenterPerson | 2025-05-17 17:56:33+00:00
SQL Data analyst with years and years of experience here.

Most of my roles were in small teams building quick ad-hoc analyses for business leaders in large multi billion dollar businesses. Example, one db was Oracle e-business suite. It had been set up ~20 years prior with enhancements along the way. There were only a handful of people in the company who knew what the fields helpfully named like ATTR_000349857. Everyone was overworked with urgent requests (and occasional layoffs) and no one bothered to spend time on documenting the database. I suppose this topic fits under "Provide business-specific context". Great, hire someone to understand and document all that crap. Ain't going to happen.

The other roles also fit this pattern, different systems but urgent needs, always a drought of people who understood both the business and the database.

Occasionally we'd get some "AI team" come looking for "data". After many mindless meetings with no clear objective except "increase profits", they'd quietly disappear.

I use stack overflow a lot to pull SQL examples and tweak. A lot of AI talk feels like hype -- to start with, i'd suggest not redefining words like "hallucination", "intelligence" etc which mean something else in English. Maybe call it "advanced algorithms" and stop with the hype. Also the surveillance and extraction of user data for advertising. Thank you.
by hmottestad | 2025-05-17 17:57:22+00:00
You can specify a startup script for your environment in the Edit -> adbvaned section. The code placed there will run before they cut off the internet access. Also worth noting that it uses a proxy stored in $http_proxy.

Took me an few hours today to figure out how to install maven and have it download all the dependencies. Spent an hour trying to figure out why sudo apt-get update was failing, it was because I was was using sudo!
by Sesse__ | 2025-05-17 17:57:37+00:00
> If you don't know what the end of your array is, you've got bigger problems.

That's called “a pointer”. Not all ways of representing arrays and spans come with explicit lengths.

> These protests that "I can't do that because I'm just so helpless" make no sense to me. Read the array in whatever order you want, whenever you want. It's not that hard. It's just about the easiest thing there is. (Too much vibe coding?)

I don't know why you think I am too helpless to write it; I've never said such a thing. I have never used AI to write code in my life, and I'm perfectly able to write code to both reverse an array and read it backwards (in multiple languages, thank you). But sometimes, you _actually want to reverse it_ because it makes other parts of the code more convenient and/or faster.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-05-17 17:58:26+00:00
Yes, slowing down native users of public transportation because of tourists is a big, popular movement in places like Paris. /s

To transform your argument: why do my partially-disabled relatives now need to walk by themselves to their train seats? Just so that people who don't even read the instructions do not make a mistake that is going to result in a slap on the wrist fine (if anything, cause few revisors are going to fine you if you look touristy enough) ?

The only thing I keep hearing is how having no barriers at all is just intrinsically better, and difficulties with getting used which such system look like very minor compared to the difficulties with moving from a system with no barriers to a system with barriers, not mentioning the disadvantages for users.
Is current state of querying on observability data broken?
by pranay01 | 2025-05-17 17:58:36+00:00
Hey folks! I’m a maintainer at SigNoz[0], an open-source observability platform

Looking to get some feedback on my observations on querying for o11y and if this resonates with more folks here

I feel that current observability tooling significantly lags behind user expectations by failing to support a critical capability: querying across different telemetry signals.

This limitation turns what should be powerful correlation capabilities into mere “correlation theater”, a superficial simulation of insights rather than true analytical power.

Here’s the current gaps I see

1/ Suppose I want to retrieve logs from the host which have the highest CPU in the last 13 minutes. It’s not possible to query this seamlessly today unless you query the metrics first and paste the results into logs query builder and retrieve your results. Seamless correlation across signal querying is nearly impossible today.

2/ COUNT distinct on multiple columns is not possible today. Most platforms let you perform a count distinct on one col, say count unique of source OR count unique of host OR count unique of service etc. Adding multiple dimensions and drilling down deeper into this is also a serious pain-point.

and some points on how we at SigNoz are thinking these gaps can be addressed,

1/ Sub-query support: The ability to use the results of one query as input to another, mainly for getting filtered output

2/ Cross-signal joins: Support for joining data across different telemetry signals, for seeing signals side-by-side along with a couple of more stuff.

Early thoughts in this blog[1], what do you think? does it resonate or seems like a use case not many ppl have?

[0] https://github.com/signoz/signoz [1] https://signoz.io/blog/observability-requires-querying-across-signals/
by mandeepj | 2025-05-17 17:58:51+00:00
related, includes a link to documentary as well on the topic: https://presseportal.zdf.de/pressemitteilung/putins-helfer-t...

more links -

a very lengthy: https://opentools.ai/news/elon-musk-allegedly-targeted-by-ru...

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/trump-musk-putin-100....
by falcor84 | 2025-05-17 17:58:59+00:00
But in the GP's vision, it would become idiomatic:

>imagine a society where everyone is so polite and flattering each other

If it were to become pleasantries like our, "I appreciate it", "sorry about that" and "would you mind", I think it would be amazing for people to talk about changing their mind, even when they don't fully mean it.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-17 18:00:03+00:00
In a blatant act of topic hijacking, I'd like to suggest another rethinking. Where is the wisdom in having Law Enforcement (DEA) make medical decisions (Drug Scheduling) for an entire nation?

This is a critical medical responsibility. It seems profoundly foolish to place it with an entity that 1) is wholly unqualified and 2) has its funding dependent on locking medicine behind that schedule.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-05-17 18:00:51+00:00
i dont understand the question. Are you asking for a "idea you can do as some who doesn't know coding" or are you asking "if it is possible to start an up as some who doesn't know coding" or is your question "how to start a startup as a vibe coder"??

as it concerns the idea, well.. I heard of some providing it as a service. One can buy their ideas. May be you can invest on that, if you need an idea. But I'm afraid, if you can't code / understand whats happening, you might get in trouble with everything around and outside pure coding. One thing is to code, another is to set everything up whats needed for production later. So, in worst case, you'll need some one doing what you can't, or, you (vibe)learn it. That shouldn't stay unseen on your horizont - but, I don't know what your idea is and what is needed. You should be experienced with computers and such though in case you want to do big parts yourself. So, it depends on the idea, if it fits to some who doesn't know coding.

So it's possible to start a startup as a vibe-coder. But, you should have the other skills neccessary for such. One might compansate a lack of knowledge by the very means of vibe-asking -> one should be of certain mindset, with a smart thinking and be smart enough to know the questions and understanding to shape a prompt. Or, search for some others and complement each other's skills. ... its not impossible.

The other thing is - I somehow have the feeling your view is to naive on this thing. Of course, each and every can start something up at any time in the past/now/future. Each hour there's a startup founded some where for sure. One can start up a grocery store, google or microsoft, or a .... thats absolutely not a question. You opened this post with reference to vibe-coding, so I assume its a SaaS or App or something in this kind. So I must assume further, you want to do something with code as vibe-coder. Here, I think you'll experience fierce difficulties, as you show a lack of curiosity and founder's mindset. At least, I feel like this - no offense. For example, you also could have asked ChatGPT on this and might already get instructions - instead reading my comment ;)
by somat | 2025-05-17 18:00:59+00:00
Note that the N64 was designed by SGI, And seeing as how influential SGI was for 3d graphics, I sort of assume the reverse, that the n64 probably has the most standard hardware of it's generation. I would be vaguely surprised if there was not an opengl library for it.

However there is a large caveat, 1. you have to think of the system as a graphics card with a cpu bolted on. and 2. the graphics system is directly exposed.

Graphics chip architecture ends up being a ugly hateful incompatible mess, and as such the vendors of said accelerators generally tend to avoid publishing reference documents for them, preferring to publish intermediate API's instead. things like OpenGL, DirectX, CUDA, Vulcan, mainly so that under the hood they can keep them an incompatible mess(if you never publish a reference, you never have to have hardware backwards compatibility, the up side is they can create novel designs, the down side is no one can use them directly) so when you do get direct access to them, as in that generation of game console, you sort of instinctively recoil in horror.

footnote on graphics influence: OpenGL came out of SGI and nvidia was founded by ex SGI engineers.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-05-17 18:01:23+00:00
Ultimately this will be like everything else in law (insurance is law by other means) and will be a product of court rulings which means it’s a whack-a-mole game for lenient jurisdictions (like money laundering).

The jurisdiction that hears the case in whatever “justice” system hears it, will set the precedent for all others to reference, based on their alignment with the jurisdiction that uses state power to enforce a resolution.

I expect people will host or make remotely available systems which fall outside of the acceptable limits for whatever regional jurisdiction has their laws.

As usual, pirates and the powerful will steer around those.
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-17 18:02:23+00:00
I'd agree with the jist of this article. Social media has been less "wisdom of crowds" and more endless algorithmic slop and pay-to-play influencers.

Sure there was always PR dealmaking & money behinds the scenes previously I'm sure, but there were actual magazines/websites/etc in every genre publishing numerical reviews for cars/cameras/games/movies/shows/albums/etc. If you paid attention you could figure out which curators scoring aligned with what you tended to like.

Now every reviewer is a YouTube influencer who loves every product put in front of them, no product is every bad, no scores are assigned because then you can cross compare, etc.

The acquisition, death, resurrection and mundane ongoing existence of dpreview is a good example of this.

What we had before wasn't perfect, but what has followed is worse.
by ValentineC | 2025-05-17 18:02:27+00:00
Doesn't Google Pay offload some of the processing to their cloud?

Google Pay only allows a certain number of offline transactions (around three or so, I think) before I'm required to turn off airplane mode and authenticate with their servers.

I believe this also allows it to work with more phones, and get around security and possibly also regulatory requirements, since there's less need for a really secure secure enclave on NFC devices.
by vdupras | 2025-05-17 18:02:40+00:00
To port Oberon itself to Dusk. The effort is already well underway[1]. I'm of the opinion that the architecture of Oberon, w.r.t. to its graphical user interface, is sound. Dusk so far only has a console-based interface, Oberon is going to give it a GUI.

To borrow your words, yes it's going to be frickin' cool.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/ob...
by MarkusWandel | 2025-05-17 18:03:20+00:00
Context. "Mein guter Freund" works in the context "he is my good friend". "Meinen guten Freund" works in the context "I like my good friend". You don't actually learn all those grammar rules as such (what the heck is "accusative" anyway), you just pick all this up by actually using the language.
by yladiz | 2025-05-17 18:04:17+00:00
I've been doing frontend development for over 10 years, and obviously it's anecdotal but I never heard anyone use the Closure Compiler outside of ClojureScript, and I imagine that in practice most people doing frontend development are using Webpack, Vite, Parcel, etc. The idea of really small bundles sounds nice, but in practice because the advanced optimizations require manual tweaking in many cases to get it to work (externs) it's something few people would want to deal with and the small bundle size improvement isn't worth it compared to the standard tools like UglifyJS/Terser.

There may be other reasons, but I assume the main reason that the Closure Compiler was chosen for ClojureScript was because it's Java based, so it was straightforward to get working. Moving away from it now would be a huge breaking change, so it's unlikely to happen in the official compiler anytime soon or ever. I think the only way it would actually happen is if an alternative like Cherry got enough traction and people moved to using mainly the alternative.
by 0xWTF | 2025-05-17 18:04:40+00:00
Gave a Waymo engineer a ride in my FSD Tesla around the Bay recently. The conversation was very illuminating. It seems to me there should be pretty clear corollaries in more traditional engineering markets. Does Black and Veatch take out E&O insurance? Did John McShain take out E&O for the Pentagon? Did Tishman take out E&O on the World Trade Center? Did the University of California take out E&O on the Manhattan Project? Does Boeing or Lockheed take out E&O on aircraft?