MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brachkow | 2025-05-23 08:19:35+00:00
Release starts by aggressively stating that

> Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire

but they acquired Pocket in 2017 [1] and neither this app was growing (despite market for such apps was in very good shape few years ago) or it was delightful addition to browser experience

that said what annoys me about Mozilla, is that while they are position themselves poor and underfunded, they still act like they are backed by billionaire: they buy random apps for no reason or donating tons of money to not tech-related political organizations [2]

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015592
by patall | 2025-05-23 08:21:40+00:00
I know it's a test project and one shouldn't be to stoked about a test project, but for the last year I have again and again searched for updates about it. Unfortunately, they keep it (understandably) low. Let alone the story of the 90+ year old engineer that envisioned such a project (and they are only implementing 20% of it) is so awesome. Looking forward to when it finishes and hopefully changes our view on wind power for good!
by Flamentono2 | 2025-05-23 08:22:01+00:00
If someone bullies someone else, they will do it with anything they have.

At least with AI Video you can now always say its AI video.

Is it shitty that this is possible? yes of course. But hidding knowledge never works.

We have to deal with it as adults. We need to educate about it and we need to talk about it.
by karel-3d | 2025-05-23 08:22:29+00:00
https://me.dm/@anildash/114553094584569213

> We’re thinking through what’s next. I’m really interested in how we can look at all the other amazing creation and app experiences out there (I really love stuff like Val Town and Fly.io and Deno and Netlify, etc.) and bring all those together for easily making and remixing new apps. Will take a bit to figure that out.
by mettamage | 2025-05-23 08:23:13+00:00
For me it's a fight too. It's life or death when it comes to my loved ones, that may be dramatic but emotionally that's how I am wired. The urgency helps.

One could say it's unhealthy and I need therapy but I'm already in therapy and I'm noticing that these things take a long time to tease out. Also, when it comes to potentially unhealthy behavior the question must be asked: what are you getting out of it? In my case, a life in which I function. Moreover, other than that I'm not stressed a lot.
by cedws | 2025-05-23 08:23:26+00:00
But smartphones compacted several other devices you may want to carry and provided a bunch of other new capabilities. An AI device isn't bringing any new capabilities, you can already call an Uber or find local restaurants on your smartphone. If it doesn't have a screen, it's just a lower bandwidth mode of interaction to do things you can already do. As for productivity, without a screen it will be useless.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-05-23 08:23:39+00:00
> Just disagreeing that the sales performance is _solely_ about that.

I know and I'm saying it's misleading to do so when column A is orders of magnitude bigger than column B or C. Column A has had the effect that people are vandalising the cars and burning down the dealerships. Column B is just indicative of the normal ebb and flow of the sector.

> Also declining in China, where they don't care about what Musk is doing. Musk is still well-liked there, in fact.

What are you basing that on? The United States has become an agressor against Chinese interests and poisoned the waters of free trade under Mr Musk's stewardship.

Admittedly the only Chinese people I'm in regular contact with are all living in Europe but it's my experience that they're universally appalled by what we've seen.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-23 08:23:42+00:00
Have __the Chinese__ said thank you once?

Should they?

They didn't ask Tesla and Apple for anything. And Tesla/Apple didn't offer just to be nice. They did it for only one reason --- selfish greed/profit.

They used China for short term gain and China used them for longer term gain. It's just that we have now moved into the longer term of this mutually abusive relationship.

No "thank you" offered or due either way in my opinion.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-23 08:23:45+00:00
If Veo3 was trained on YouTube, as most sources seem to suggest, wouldn’t it mean that Google just turned its “valued” YouTube creators (at least those who were uploading non-adversarial video, which is most of them in all likelihood) into content producers for a tool designed to replace them? What about YouTube Music—is Google headed towards trillion-dollar lawsuits a la Suno and the like?
by sublimefire | 2025-05-23 08:23:52+00:00
There are a couple of things where LLMs are OK from the business perspective. Even if they are so so you can still write large amounts of mediocre code without the need to consume libraries. Think about GPL’d code, no need to worry about that because one dev can rewrite those libraries into proprietary versions without licensing constraints. Another thing is that LLMs are OK for an average company with few engineers that need to ship mountains of code across platforms, they would make mistakes anyway so LLMs should not make it worse.
by grues-dinner | 2025-05-23 08:24:35+00:00
I think there are two ways to interpret that sentence: "it would have been important": one which implies tidal prediction was unavailable at D-day but would have been useful, and one that implies it was indeed available (subjunctive conditional or "the Anderson case", apparently, per Wikipedia)

I don't think anyone is claiming tide times were so unpredictable in 1945.
by thyristan | 2025-05-23 08:26:42+00:00
Different answers for different problems, but basically two reasons.

First, library/software/data versions inside the flatpak can and will be different from the ones outside. So a flatpak might as "what is the current Qt5 theme", and get the answer "don't know about Qt5, but the Qt6 theme is cute-cats-qt6" which it cannot interpret. Things like themes might not even be available inside the flatpak, so even if the answer were parseable, cute-cats-qt6 might just not be available on the inside.

Second, flatpaks are sandboxed, so things will be filtered. This means that a query might not get through, an answer might not get through, both might be altered. Or maybe an answer might be useless because "you can get the theme at /usr/share/themes/cute-cats-qt6" points to a path that the flatpak is not allowed to access.
by whizzter | 2025-05-23 08:27:05+00:00
Are you piggybacking on LLVM for registerallocation and things like that or building from scracth?

I can imagine combining BBV type branching info with register tracing would add a lot of complicated structures, but I thought the BB's of BBV was more or less analogous to SSA blocks so no middle ground to be found? (consdering if there are many megamorphic sites in the standard library?)
by constantcrying | 2025-05-23 08:27:15+00:00
>Why isn’t there a “pharmaceutical alignment” or a “school curriculum alignment” Wikipedia page?

>I think that the answer is “AI Alignment” has an implicit technical bent to it. If you go on the AI Alignment Forum, for example, you’ll find more math than Confucius or Foucault.

What an absolutely insane thing to write. AI Alignment is different because it is trying to align something which is completely human made. Every other field is aligned "aligned" when the humans in it are "aligned",

Outside of AI "alignment" is the subject of ethics (what is wrong and what is right) and law (How do we translate ethics into rules).

What I think is absolutely important to understand is that throughout human history "alignment" has never happened. For every single thing you believe to be right there existed a human who considered that exact thing as completely wrong. Selection certainly has not created alignment.
by somat | 2025-05-23 08:27:42+00:00
This mythical altMetric utopia requires everyone to actually count in base C (to use dc notation) as well. the main advantage is that thirds and quarters(the useful fractions) tend toward whole numbers. In base 10 all you get are halfs and fifths(and nobody wants to use fifths)

everything would still be metric, the calculations would be as simple, every one would learn their baseC times tables and how to do baseC long division.

$3000 / $(68.49/share) = 54.59B1 shares 54 shares = total cost of $2B88.B6 take your remaining 33.07 and have a nice lunch

1000 Cgrams(1728Agrams) = 1kiloCgram 1000kiloCgrams = 1 Cton

but going smaller a third of a Cgram is 0.4 Cgrams a quarter is 0.3 Cgrams

Does this actually makes any ones life better... Probably not. but it has every advantage of using baseA and the minor(very minor) advantage that thirds and quarters are easier.

But this assumes that baseC won over baseA 1500 years ago, and if there is one truly global success story it is baseA, many languages, cultures, writing systems, but everyone(statisticly) uses baseA with arabic style numbers

footnote: I am using the slightly obnoxious prose of using baseA and baseC to avoid the confusing ambiguity that saying base 10 in base twelve means there are twelve numbers in a digit(where the word digit, coming from the way we count on fingers would also mean twelve.)
by kubb | 2025-05-23 08:27:58+00:00
I’m still waiting for the first compelling piece of computer generated literature or cinema.

I’d say art but for many, generated pictures are amazing so I’ll accept that.

But creating compelling narratives seems impossible right now. I wonder why is that. Are the models missing something?

The videos here are short clips. They can’t be made into a full movie or even a full YouTube video.
by albertzeyer | 2025-05-23 08:29:15+00:00
His goal was not just to solve Atari games. That was already done.

His goal is to develop generic methods. So you could work with more complex games or the physical world for that, as that is what you want in the end. However, his insight is, you can even modify the Atari setting to test this, e.g. to work in realtime, and the added complexity by more complex games doesn't really give you any new additional insights at this point.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-23 08:29:18+00:00
This is a good question. I would offer that there are at least two major types of soy sauce: light and dark. They are used in a variety of ways in Northeast Asian cooking (Mainland China, Koreas, Japan, Taiwan, Hongkong, Macao). For example, when you steam a fish (southern Chinese/Canto style), you use a combination of light and dark soy sauces. (I have no idea why, but this is a traditional recipe taught to me years ago.) Soy sauce has two primary "taste" components (previously I discussed visual components): (a) the fermented soy beans and (b) the umami (MSG/monosodium glutamate). Even if you feel like (a) is overwhelmed by your cooking, it is still enhanced by (b) which, for most people, makes any savory food taste more appealing.

For me, nothing beats raw fish (sashimi or sushi) as a taste test for a soy sauce, but I frequently use a mixture with Japanese ponzu... so ignore any expertise that I have on the matter! I am sure that each culinary region in Northeast Asia will have a different answer. You could probably interview 100 chefs from the region and get 25 different answers.

Lastly, there is a third type of soy sauce used in Southeast Asia called sweet soy sauce, or kecap manis in Bahasa Melayu/Indonesia.
by ttb-2134 | 2025-05-23 08:29:33+00:00
I’ve been using ChatGPT and Slidev to prep my weekly standups — all in Markdown, no PowerPoint, super fast.

Shared the full prompt, setup, and why it works so well here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ivh-amponsem_chatgpt-slidev-p...

Would love to hear how others are automating or improving their dev presentations.
by lucas_membrane | 2025-05-23 08:30:16+00:00
I think that you are right about not depending on one open source OS to provide the proper depencencies, customizaion, and training wheels for every app. I have been running linux on my desktop for about 20 years, about one decade of Mint followed by the same of Fedora so far. Being a curious but fussy guy who installs lots of software to see what works, I find that I need to install a fresh OS about every 18 to 24 months.

There are, I suppose, always a few programs that don't get upated by 'sudo dnf update' but do get bothered by updates to the shared libraries via the same. Perhaps there are some config files that get damaged by software bugs or power outages or system crashes or my own mistakes and carelessness. I also found out that if one loses the dnf program, one will discover just how impossible it is to pull oneself up by oneself's bootstraps.

Mint was a very similar situation. Maybe not so bad for one who follows all the rules, but in those bygone days there were people suggesting that updating Mint programs with newer versions fron the ubuntu or debian repos was a good idea. And because Mint was slow to get updates, I would attempt to update some apps by downloading source and building and installing here.

Last year, when I upgraded Fedora from 39 to 41, was the first time I got any OS upgrade to work instead of wiping the disk, doing a fresh install of the new OS version, and then spending a week or month trying to get my data for the installed apps (eg web browser and email) from backups. But the upgrade took much longer than it should have, because once I started running the upgrade process, I did not know that the computer sitting there dead silent with no action on the screen for about 30 hours was a sign that all was going well. Computers are evil.
by jug | 2025-05-23 08:30:47+00:00
This is my feeling too, across the board. Nowadays, benchmark wins seem to come from tuning, but then causing losses in other areas. o3, o4-mini also hallucinates more than o1 in SimpleQA, PersonQA. Synthetic data seems to cause higher hallucination rates. Reasoning models at even higher risk due to hallucinations risking to throw the model off track at each reasoning step.

LLM’s in a generic use sense are done since already earlier this year. OpenAI discovered this when they had to cancel GPT-5 and later released the ”too costly for gains” GPT-4.5 that will be sunset soon.

I’m not sure the stock market has factored all this in yet. There needs to be a breakthrough to get us past this place.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-05-23 08:30:54+00:00
Ive heard of gnu taller before and I've tried to understand its scope of operation, but haven't been able to. Could someone ELI5 what does this give me that my bank's app doesn't? Is it _just_ privacy? Is it just the fact that the merchant can know nothing about me? Because if that's the case, isn't it really simple for banks to offer that feature as well?
by Flamentono2 | 2025-05-23 08:30:57+00:00
Of course its my opinion, its my comment after all.

Nonetheless, survival can't be the life goal after all the moon will drift away from earth in the future, the sun will explode and if we survive that as a species, all bonds between elements will disolve.

It also can't be about giving your dna away because your dna has very little to no impact over just a handful of generations.

And no the goal of our society has to be to have as much energy available as possible to us. So much energy, that energy doesn't matter. There is enough ways of generating energy without a real issue at all. Fusion, renewable energy directly from the sun.

There is also no inherant issue right now preventing us all having clean stable energy besides capitalsm. We have the technology, we have the resources, we have the manufacturing capacity.

To finish my comment: Its not about energy, its about entropy. You need energy to create entropy. We don't even consume the energy of the sun, we use it for entropy and dissipate it back to space after.
by thyristan | 2025-05-23 08:31:29+00:00
You are right, but actually I think you would want to go beyond that and build a hybrid of your approach and their approach:

For your documents, you will usually want your approach. Maybe with some optinal allowance for useful things like a "recently used documents" menu or something.

But for more enviromental things, I would want at least the option of allowing all instances the same access without a lot of permission prompts later on. E.g. my git config, my fonts folder, my code snippets library, stuff like that.
by mlsu | 2025-05-23 08:34:33+00:00
I dream of this so much. I’ve spent a lot of time in court around juries. It is truly amazing how reasonable people are, how much they listen, and how seriously they take the process. Seeing how regular people acted in jury duty is one of the few things that gives me hope about our country.

By and large, if you give a “Regular Person” a “Solemn Important Duty”, they rise to it and give it their best. We should seek to cultivate institutions that do this far more often.
by Flamentono2 | 2025-05-23 08:35:27+00:00
Not sure what promises you heard. For me a lot of them came true.

I created images and music which was enjoyable. I use it to add more progress to an indie side project I'm playing around with (i added more functionality to it with ai stuff like claude code and now jules.google than i did myself in the last 3 years).

It helps my juniors to become better in their jobs.

Everything related to sound / talking to a computer is now solved. I talked to gemini yesterday and i interruptted it.

Image segmentation became a solved problem and that was really hard before.

I can continue my list of things AI/ML made things possible in the last few years which were impossible before that.
by rollcat | 2025-05-23 08:35:45+00:00
This is a library, not a tool. You can use it for a number of purposes:

- Providing "reader mode" for your visitors

- Using it in a browser extension to add reader mode

- Scrapping

- Plugging it into a [reverse] proxy that automatically removes unnecessary bloat from pages, for e.g. easier access on retro hardware <https://web.archive.org/web/20240621144514/https://humungus....> (archive.org link, because the website goes down regularly)
by esperent | 2025-05-23 08:35:53+00:00
This [0] comment and discussion under it about how non technical businesses are very rarely run by technical people, and how if you apply your technical skills to such a business it can be a force multiplier.

Well, it so happened that my partner had started a small sourdough bakery the year before. I was thinking about investing in it. This comment provided some of the inspiration and now a few years later we're both working on it full time, we have three cafe branches, one production facility, 25 staff, thinking about opening another branch in a neighboring city. Our skills complement each other - she's great at baking and HR, I'm better at developing business processes, managing the tooling, researching equipment, making sure things are properly documented. We're both crap at marketing, but somehow we get by!

My old career as a graphics dev feels like a distant memory, but I do keep my skills sharp and might go back to it in the future.

It has by no means been an easy ride for me, I am forced to juggle a ton of jobs and many of them are way outside my comfort zone. But at the same time, I'm creating something in the real world, and providing employment for 25 people, whom I do my best to make sure are treated well and given a decent place to work. This feels far more impactful than my graphics work ever was.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099409
by exyi | 2025-05-23 08:36:43+00:00
I know about netcoredbg, but I did not have much success using it. If we count this as the C# debugger, then the tooling quality is not comparable to other mainstream languages like Scala, D or Julia.

JetBrains have their own closed debugger, which doesn't really help.

Since Rust is native code, you can use pretty much any debugger for it, there is definitely not a single implementation. Yes, Rust has a single compiler, but does C# have any other compiler than Microsoft's Roslyn? (I don't think this is a problem, though)
by landl0rd | 2025-05-23 08:36:54+00:00
1. Those people don’t need frontier models. The slop is slop in part because it’s garbage usually generated by cheap models.

2. It doesn’t matter. Most people at some level have a deontological view of what is right and wrong. I believe it’s wrong to build mass-market systems that can be so hostile to their users interests. I also believe it’s wrong for some SV elite to determine what is “unsafe information”.

Most “dangerous information” has been freely accessible for years.
by red_admiral | 2025-05-23 08:37:02+00:00
I for one welcome the pocket interface no longer being installed by default. If I want (pocket|AI|news|recommendations|smart .*) in my browser, I'll install it myself, and choose which one I want if there are several options available.

(This is not firefox specific but several browsers in my country have a deal with a news site I don't care for, and on Edge mobile it's the only option in a list of news sources to choose from besides turning the thing off. Think "Fox News" and you're pretty close. Thanks but no thanks for reminding me as an immigrant that there's too many of us.)
by gsf_emergency | 2025-05-23 08:37:27+00:00
If nobody else on HN wants to draw the latest AI-based connections,we can :)

Geohot, no doubt a terrible Convo starter, e.g., sees the link between Chinese folk religion, Catholicism and AI lol

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2024/12/07/elon-... https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/16o16d7/george_hot...

Maybe in 1990 there could have been an essay, "Canon is Catholic & Brother is Brotestant"
by _1tem | 2025-05-23 08:37:45+00:00
Huh. So Plato was right. This has many implications for philosophy. Interestingly, the 12th century Platonic-influenced Arab philosopher Ibn Arabi described methods of converting text to numbers (embeddings) and then performing operations on those numbers to yield new meanings (inference). A 12th century LLM? His books are full of these kinds of operations (called Abjad math) and a core part of his textual hermeneutics.
Seeking advice: what language to build a commercial system like a database
by raiders48 | 2025-05-23 08:37:50+00:00
Hello, I want to build a software system to sell. It will be a database or something that interfaces with cloud computing infrastructure. Right now I think Rust will best because it catches many errors at compile time and speeds up development considerably. If you think another language would be more suited can you explain why? I am learning Rust right now and have knowledge of Java, Python and C.
by roenxi | 2025-05-23 08:38:36+00:00
> The reasons escape me.

It could be the quality of the opposition. The frame of "trying to be a red state" seems a bit unfair, the message seemed to be more that voters were really, really disappointed with the Biden's performance as opposed to any specific draw the Republicans had. Kamala making it a close race was miraculous given where the election looked to be going in early June 2024 up to the infamous debate.