MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-22 18:54:16+00:00
A turbocharger isn't a fan. The amount of power it takes to spin is actually incredible. That's why "Electric turbos" were a classic scam until the past decade or so, when they are an extremely weird product that still isn't very good.

Like, producing 1 bar of boost for a 2L engine is somewhere between 30-70 hp! Turbos extract that energy from otherwise wasted, extremely hot exhaust gases, which is what makes them efficient. That's also what made them an improvement over supercharging for the majority of applications, because in a supercharger that energy cost comes direct from your usable power.

What "fixed" turbolag in any engine that isn't an 8L diesel is things like variable geometry, lightweight turbines, better bearings, better engine management, and just smaller turbos for the same boost.

It's also massively impacted by driving behavior. My GTI with a teensy tiny turbo still has a half second or so of lag if you try to go from no throttle to full throttle, like if you are really bad at "launching", but if you know what you are doing you will be holding some revs such that the ECU can slap open the throttle plate and dump fuel in just a few cycles and get full 1 bar of boost by the time your clutch is fully engaged. I have done this accidentally more times than I would like to admit, which tends to spin the tires :/

Formula 1 adopted the exact system you are describing, but it's stupid expensive for minimal benefit and I would bet is used more for energy recovery from waste exhaust gasses than actual lag reduction, since F1 cars should be able to almost never be in a regime that would result in lag, and if you have spare joules, you can just throw them directly at the wheels instead of the turbo. It's called the MGU-H system.
by masklinn | 2025-05-22 18:54:24+00:00
> One is better than none.

Not necessarily. An inline cache is cheap but it's not free, even less so when it also comes with the expense of moving Class#new from C to Ruby. It's probably not worth speeding up the 1% at the expense of the 99%.

> An inline cache will make bulk allocations in list comprehensions faster.

Only if such comprehensions create exactly one type of object, if they create two it's going to slow them down, and if they create zero (just do data extraction) it won't do anything.
by jonotime | 2025-05-22 18:54:30+00:00
Oh man. I have been working on a side project just for this purpose. The aim is to create a pocket like experience (with additional functionality like handling other media types) that is local first, unhosted, and more future-proof (no lock in).

All data is stored entirely on your device, and you have the option to sync it to your own storage provider like dropbox. This means you don't need to have the technical know-how to setup and maintain a server.

Its not usable yet, as I have rewritten it several times, but in the current iteration it is a client side PWA, so cross platform. Just started a new job so had to take a break for a bit.

Follow if you are interested (I need to update the Readme): https://github.com/jonocodes/savr
by iLoveOncall | 2025-05-22 18:54:41+00:00
Booking visits to the dentist, hairdresser, any other type of service, renewing my phone or internet subscription at the lowest price, doing administrative tasks, adding the free game of the week on Epic Games Store to my library, finding the right houses to visit, etc.

Basically anything that some startup has tried and failed at uberizing.
by hintymad | 2025-05-22 18:55:21+00:00
Most people are not motivated to continuously learn or dive deep or explore the boundary of knowledge. As a result, it's very likely AI will amplify or deepen the current skip gaps and create more. People who are good at learning and can deeply understand foundational concepts will be able to leverage AI to learn more, learn deeper, and solve harder problems on demand. People who resist learning will use AI as a cheating tool, eventually bringing themselves into a pickle.

Case in point, a PIAAC report back in 2013 said that only 9% of the US adults were considered proficient in math and complex reasoning. And the questions used by PIAAC were arguably just high-school level. Anecdotally, how many people have heard their professors or high-school teachers complain that most students couldn't even really grasp linear equations or distributed property (students can remember rules and pass high-school test, but many of them would be hopeless if they were to pass national entrance exams in other countries).
by dylan604 | 2025-05-22 18:56:14+00:00
That's the thing though, there's always going to be the mother-in-law tantrum that pops up to totally wreck anyone's priorities. Best laid plans will always be tossed out the window because some favored user/client contacts someone high enough that everything you were doing is now put on hold to address something that was already evaluated as a lower priority task be all stake holders involved.

It makes priority lists a joke to me. I've been in meetings where every single new action item became the highest priority, where at the end of the meeting everyone is confused on what the priorities are. It's bad management, and it is utterly demoralizing.
by bananalychee | 2025-05-22 18:56:23+00:00
Western tastes favor intense flavors, so tamari may provide better balance than standard (koikuchi) soy sauce in that sense, but in Japanese cooking, "richness" is not necessarily a desirable characteristic, and tamari would overwhelm many dishes when substituted for koikuchi in similar amounts. Reprocessed (sai-shikomi) soy sauce, made by fermenting soy sauce twice, is considered a middle ground between koikuchi and tamari in terms of richness and is popular for dipping. But there is also a relatively wide range of flavor within the koikuchi category, and the US-made Kikkoman sauce that many people are familiar with is not very flavorful.
by nickledave | 2025-05-22 18:57:00+00:00
There are yearly releases of the standard https://data-apis.org/blog/ and I often see it ref'd on issues in individual libraries (numpy, pytorch)

See also funding from CZI (on the blog)

Subjectively I do find it helps with consistency -- and when things are not consistent, it's easier to discover what's different and why

edit: but I completely agree with this post and the follow-up from the same author on "dumbpy". At least at first blush, I need to read in more detail.
by grogenaut | 2025-05-22 18:57:02+00:00
Me, it immediately makes me think I'm talking to someone fake who's opinion I can't trust at all. If you're always agreeing with me why am I paying you in the first place. We can't be 100% in alignment all the time, just not how brains work, and discussion and disagreement is how you get in alignment. I've worked with contractors who always tell you when they disagree and those who will happily do what you say even if you're obviously wrong in their experience, the disagreable ones always come to a better result. The others are initially more pleasent to deal with till you find out they were just happily going alog with an impossible task.
by yubblegum | 2025-05-22 18:58:01+00:00
In 2010 I sat in a meet with an exec from an NYC investment bank with my boss, the ceo of a boutique (not Indians ..) outsourcing consultancy. We were in his office and outside was an entire empty floor of cubicles. He casually mentioned how the outsourced work is "crap" and how they usually end up having to redo the projects up to 3 times. He then went on to say how they outsourced "this floor" and their plans for outsourcing the other floors.

The economic equation never made any sense. There is, imo, a geopolitical element to the outsourcing pheonomena in context of software and India (which btw was spearheaded by MorganStanley and friends) back in late '90s: India used to be firmly in the non-aligned group and has had long standing pseudo-aliance with USSR/Russians. Giving the IT sector to India was part of the carrot to get India to shift to the West. China got the manufacturing, India got the software.
by rafram | 2025-05-22 18:58:05+00:00
> the history of the US civil war can probably be updated less frequently.

It's already missed out on two issues of Civil War History: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/42

Contrary to the prevailing belief in tech circles, there's a lot in history/social science that we don't know and are still figuring out. It's not IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (four issues since March), but it's not nothing.
by tristanho | 2025-05-22 18:58:19+00:00
No, unfortunately their API doesn't return the actual html content of the saved articles :( just the urls and all the metadata: highlights, title, author, image, tags, location, etc

I really wish they did :/ some things aren't even on the internet archive and are probably saved uniquely on Pocket's servers. Would be sweet if they could open source that data.
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-05-22 18:58:22+00:00
Typically I get tired of a side project when I stop learning from it. There's a honeymoon period at the start when you're rapidly prototyping things and figuring it out. Then you get to the point where you've explored the problem domain, figured out what works, and have a clear path ahead - the rest of the work being to just implement the vision. This is the part I get bored.

Something switches in my brain when I've figured out how to solve a problem, it starts to seek a new problem because it considers that one "done", even though most of the work remains. Perhaps it's because that work is more "painting by numbers" after the problem is figured out. Does anyone else experience this?
by OddMerlin | 2025-05-22 18:58:58+00:00
I'm with you. I think it's great that Mozilla is trying/tried to extend their value beyond just the browser.

I found pocket immensely useful. Having the ability to have my kobo e-reader sync pocket articles to read off-line was such a useful feature.

I don't understand the Mozilla hate on this board. I think it's wildly overblown.
by manmal | 2025-05-22 18:59:01+00:00
I think qwen3:R1 is apples:oranges, if you mean the 32B models. R1 has 20x the parameters and likely roughly as much knowledge about the world. One is a really good general model, while you can run the other one on commodity hardware. Subjectively, R1 is way better at coding, and Qwen3 is really good only at benchmarks - take a look at aider‘s leaderboard, it’s not even close: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

R2 could turn out really really good, but we‘ll see.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-22 18:59:02+00:00
It was a great game.

The political system is really great; even though there are only four fields with four options each, it is wonderful that the options aren’t automatically correlated. If you want to have a free market police state, you can. I honestly think playing this game in childhood might get people to think about little bit more about what their politics actually mean (I mean we could also have read some books, but that’s impossible). It also gives just the right feeling for a sci-fi game, because authors love playing with weird political configurations.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-22 18:59:06+00:00
So let me take a detour that I promise will get back to the soy sauce.

Recently New York Magazine came out with an article about so-called "West Village girls" [1]. For anyone unfamiliar, the West Village (and Greenwich Village more broadly) is a part of Manhattan below 14th street that had huge cultural significance int eh 20th century. Many musicians, artists and luminaries lived there for a time. It was the home of the Stonewall riots [2] and is otherwise important to LGTBQ culture.

The West Village girl is pretty much the opposite of all those things. Basic, typically white, posts on IG that "I can't live without my Starbuck's", dresses generically, is chasing her Sex and the City dream, is likely supported by her parents in her 20s after graduating college (if not outright having a trust fund) and probably has hobbies like "travel" and "eating out".

There is a long history of a certain kind of (typically white) people who are devoid of "culture" and move to a place and make it worse by not respecting that culture, like moving above a Mexican restaurant or a bar that's been there for 40 years and geting it shut down for noise. That sort of thing.

This segment is typically obsessed with finding "the best", seeing and being seen at the "best" or just the "hippest" places and so on.

I saw a thing recently about people who travel for an hour plus to find the "best" New York slice. The particular creator explained that these chasers just don't get the point. The point is that you can get good slices pretty much anywhere in NYC. It's ubiquitous. You just don't need to line up for 2 hours at some hole-in-the-wall in Queens or whatever.

And now I'll bring it back to soy sauce.

This seems to fit this obsession of finding or having "the best". For me, the difference between "good" and "the best" for pretty much anything is so marginal that it's never worth paying a huge premium, going terribly out of your way and/or waiting for a long time. That goes for restaurants, food items, wine and pretty much anything.

But every time I see people who obsess over "the best" it always strikes me as so sad, like these chasers just have to have the external validation of being "in the club". I particularly see this with people who are obsessed with Japan, like they look for the absolute best sushi, omikase or whatever but again, I think the point of Japan is you can find good of anything Japanese everywhere, because it's Japan.

I'm happy there are craftsmen who take pride in their craft and their output, be they Japanese teapot makers, calligraphy brush makers or soy sauce producers. And if you get a chance to try such things and appreciate their craft, great. But chasing it always seems so empty.

[1]: https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
by fkfyshroglk | 2025-05-22 18:59:23+00:00
Sure, but fewer (sic) features is mostly a better state of affairs, and apple devices are mostly what matter if you're catering to rich westerners (as most products on this forum try to do).

To me, chromium only matters so much as I am forced to care by being employed. It offers very little to me outside of being necessary to enable the "blur" background on my video chats and offers a very shitty corporate UX.
by ultimafan | 2025-05-22 18:59:24+00:00
Interesting to think about- would it really matter if the casino was loading their dice? Craps allows you to bet for/against almost every possible bet and you usually have people playing pass/don't pass and come/don't come on the same table. Offering weighted dice to screw some players out of their money is probably going to result in the other players making just as much if not more back. Superstitious players absolutely would notice a "streak" and switch their bets to match it, and the casino isn't going to be able to swap/take away the dice without killing the vibe and making those same players cash out.

Feels like it's in their best interest to have a "fair" game where they skim some percentage of odds off the top.
by MPSFounder | 2025-05-22 18:59:50+00:00
My argument is time vested into this is time away from discovery and research. Communication is certainly a valuable skills. But by most accounts, significant effort is spent on grants and to make publications appealing to employers (the author himself argues for fun branding in a scientific paper). Instead, I argue the focus should be on advancing the field. Of course, you can argue that conference papers with fun branding and a neural network improvement in one benchmark (where selection bias makes the model look robust), is advancing the field. And it's all about getting paper accepted, so I can get a high h-index, so I can get a high paying job or a job in academia. But I believe the real impact of scientific research is in its footprint on the next generation, and I sincerely doubt any of these papers (using fun branding and focusing on the wrong things), will have an impact then. I hope I am proven wrong.
by podgietaru | 2025-05-22 18:59:58+00:00
I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow.

I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter

I think Pocket was amazing. I think the idea worked amazingly for someone like me, who is an enjoyer of reading, but had a hard time finding a moment to sit down and do it.

I am upset that Pocket is going. I am upset that Omnivore shut down. I am upset that my Kobo will probably remove that integration and thus ruin my Self-Hosted Omnivore's integration with it.

I think it could have been a lot, lot more.
by freedomben | 2025-05-22 19:00:17+00:00
If there's one thing I know about many people (with all the caveats of a broad universal stereotype of course), they do love having egos stroked and smoke blown up their ass. Give a decent salesperson a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose and they can sell ice to an Inuit.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the sycophancy is due to A/B testing and incorporating user responses into model behavior. Hell, for a while there ChatGPT was openly doing it, routinely asking us to rate "which answer is better" (Note: I'm not saying this is a bad thing, just speculating on potential unintended consequences)
by lukan | 2025-05-22 19:00:36+00:00
"At each stage, you get enough feedback to judge the right direction for the next iteration."

Depends on the project I would say. What do you do, if all of a sudden the requirements change again? Or the plattform evolved/degraded? Then you compromise - and I can better compromise with simple solution. And I would never claim simple equals easy. Rather the opposite. Like you said, it is easy to make complex things. Also I never applied design patterns for the sake of it(even though it might have sounded like it) KISS was part of the theories as well.. but I did value emphasized cleverness too much as I thought that this is the way it is supposed to be done.

My resume is: simple direct solutions are to be prefered and trying to be clever is not very clever.

I rather have 3 lines of code, than one compressed clever one, no one can understand the first time reading it. And the same goes for the bigger design picture.
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-05-22 19:00:52+00:00
However, WebKit exists elsewhere.

On mobile, I somewhat like Sleipnir browser for various configurable UI niceties unrelated to WebKit. I like the way it displays tabs as a scrolling strip of buttons, instead of making me open a "manage tabs" UI.

I configured a different user-agent string[1] to make some sites happy or to get some sites to neither force a dumbed-down "mobile view" nor spam demands that I use their mobile apps.

It has a small selection of plugins/extensions, mostly written by users.

Occasionally, a captcha will get stuck in a loop, so I'll have to try Opera[2] or Firefox. Or a Google site will sometimes refuse logins.

. o O ( I don't bother with Sleipnir on desktop, because it's buggy, quixotic, and nothing like the mobile version. )

[1] There's an optional UI button for switching UA string among Sleipnir's desktop or mobile ones, or your own custom string.

[2] The only mobile browser I've tried that can always convince a site to load is desktop view. Some Google sites try Very HardTM to force a mobile experience.
by grvdrm | 2025-05-22 19:01:10+00:00
People interacted with their cousins a few times per year prior to the internet and social media. So, it’s not good/bad strategy but instead can I do this if I’d like to?

Yes. You can. I still do many of these low frequency hellos/whatever they are via texts and sometimes calls. No from seeing something in social but instead from elsewhere. Example: look through old photos!

But I like the spark idea too.
by achristmascarl | 2025-05-22 19:02:13+00:00
I wonder what avenues there are for Harvard to challenge this; it looks like the mechanism the Trump Admin used was for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification [0] which is managed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [1].

Does ICE just have full discretion over SEVP? Can they do this to any school for whatever reason they want?

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/22/harvard-university-loses...

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsicepia-001-student-exchan...
by tough | 2025-05-22 19:02:44+00:00
right but that's system prompting / in context

not really -trained- into the weights.

the point is you can't ask a model what's his training cut off date and expect a reliable answer from the weights itself.

closer you could do is have a bench with -timed- questions that could only know if had been trained for that, and you'd had to deal with hallucinations vs correctness etc

just not what llm's are made for, RAG solves this tho
by podgietaru | 2025-05-22 19:02:45+00:00
I used this a lot, and had a tool specifically to replace it with another service. I see others created a fork too. https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter

They'll probably remove it now, and I am devastated about that, because I still use it pretty often with my Self-Hosted Omnivore.

I might see if I can find a way to prevent updates in the future. Or hopefully they just hide the Menu Option and keep the code intact so that I can use KoboMenu to re-enable it.

If anyone from Kobo is reading, please just hide it - don't remove all the code - thanks.
by PuercoPop | 2025-05-22 19:02:46+00:00
Recently saw this through https://discuss.systems/@pkhuong/114532017716618023 which summaries why this would be useful:

> Flagging old live (i.e., potentially immortal) allocations is easier (https://github.com/backtrace-labs/poireau) and more closely matches the goal of identifying why the heap grows instead of entering a steady state.

Ej. Why is Sidekiq memory consumption growing over time.
by geordieboozer | 2025-05-22 19:02:47+00:00
The think I liked about pocket was the integration with my Kobo ebook reader. I could browse the web on my phone or laptop and "add to pocket" for later, then could fire up my ereader and read the articles formatted nicely on my epaper screen.

Would be nice if Kobo supported some other service, but a bit of a stretch to imagine they'd support something self hosted or an open standard for such things
by mmh0000 | 2025-05-22 19:03:56+00:00
> Blood tests twice a year. Well no thank you.

Seems like an odd stance to take if you're purposefully taking things like vitamins to try and improve health.

But seriously, blood tests literally take ~15 minutes of my time, 2 times a year.

I Schedule online, go in for a blood draw, and get results a few hours later online. It's minimal effort (my favorite kind of effort) and lets me know which supplements are working (Vit. D for example, is working very well) and which are pointless (i.e. as I learned most iron supplements are garbage and don't get absorbed).
by cko | 2025-05-22 19:04:38+00:00
I'm a huge proponent of "good enough" in all aspects of my life so I fully agree. A two-year old used flagship phone is good enough. A cheap Thinkpad is good enough. Most clothes actually actually last a long time, even the cheap ones.

Anything above "pretty good at a reasonable price" has diminishing returns, and it attracts many of the people for whom vanity is the main source of enjoyment.
by radicalcentrist | 2025-05-22 19:04:57+00:00
I still don't get how this is supposed to work. So let's say I give you a million dollars right now, with the expectation that I get $10M back in 10 years when the world hasn't ended. You obviously wanted the money up front because you're going to live it up while the world's still spinning. So how am I getting my payout after you've spent it all on hookers and blow?