MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by digitalPhonix | 2025-05-21 00:42:39+00:00
The same reason I’d be uninterested in reading that the Daily Mail wants to investigate something but interested if NYT wanted to.

I have faith in one to deliver useful investigations and not the other.

> After NVIDIA's huge breach of trust that we covered, we are officially opening an investigation and deep-dive into more of NVIDIA's shady business tactics

Is mostly waffling that could have applied to anything that nvidia did in the last 5 years
by cynicalpeace | 2025-05-21 00:42:49+00:00
Basic principles:

1. People like to be entertained.

2. NeuralViz demonstrates AI videos (with a lot of human massaging) can be entertaining

To me the fundamental question is- "will AI make videos that are entertaining without human massaging?"

This is similar to the idea of "will AI make apps that are useful without human massaging"

Or "will AI create ideas that are influential without human massaging"

By "no human massaging", I mean completely autonomous. The only prompt being "Create".

I am unaware of any idea, app or video to date that has been influential, useful or entertaining without human massaging.

That doesn't mean it can't happen. It's fundamentally a technical question.

Right now AI is trained on human collected data. So, technically, It's hard for me to imagine it can diverge significantly from what's already been done.

I'm willing to be proven wrong.

The Christian in me tells me that Humans are able to diverge significantly from what's already been done because each of us are imbibed with a divine spirit that AI does not have.

But maybe AI could have some other property that allows it to diverge from its training data.
by cwoolfe | 2025-05-21 00:45:45+00:00
To use the model on the web to get an idea of its capabilities: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/new_chat?model=gemma... As a software developer, to integrate it into your app? They mention using Google GenAI SDK or MediaPipe: https://firebase.google.com/docs/ai-logic https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/framework/getting_start... Via downloading an app on the App Store? Sorry, I think you'll just have to wait! ;-)
by solario | 2025-05-21 00:47:24+00:00
"When the utility puts up capital to build a plant, they are promised a return on that investment over time." People understand that the energy companies need an ROI on their capital investments. None, or very few, see the other side of the equation. With NEM 2.0 the providers chose to forego capital investments in plants, and instead chose to spend that money to subsidize rooftop solar. In effect, they shifted the capital burden to homeowners and businesses. Those who invested their own capital into rooftop solar projects must have an ROI,too. By changing the rules, the energy companies are essentially stealing from individual investors in rooftop projects. Furthermore, by shifting to NEM 3, they are asking for even larger capital investments from individuals while providing limited ROI. This is what is killing small rooftop projects.
by bawolff | 2025-05-21 00:47:28+00:00
> I believe that if this would happen in a normal court case this would end in mistrial.

Generally you cannot have a mistrial before having a trial.

The trial hasn't started yet. ICC trials require the defendents to physically be present in the court room and the defendents have so far chosen not to surrender themselves (unsurprisingly).

All that has taken place so far is the ICC equivalent of a grand jury procedure.

> if he thinks moving forward with the trial will save him. There is evidence he pressured the victim precisely on the reason of this trial success, without a trial he will go to jail.

Well at this stage, the warrants have been issued. There is still Israel's juridsictional challenge to them to deal with, but by and large this stage is done and there is nothing left to do. The next stage starts once the accused are aprehended. It seems really unlikely the ICC is going to be capture the accused, and it seems really unlikely they will self-surrender. The most likely outcome is that nothing further happens. The prosecutor has done his role. Maybe there could be some sort of argument like this if stuff was ongoing, but it isn't ongoing, so i just don't see it.

[One thing i think that gets lost in these discussions that is really important to remember, is that the ICC prosecutor has a kind of bad conviction rate. In the unlikely event this actually goes to trial, we shouldn't consider it a foregone conclusion. The accused might win]

> I think that if you take the fact that they completely ignored the principle of complementarity, claiming essentially Israel does not have an independent judiciary system, when said judiciary system is prosecuting Nethanyahu currently for a different crime while upping the irony when half of the ICC judges come from countries with actually non-functioning judiciary systems

Thus far, it doesn't seem like Israel has made a serious good faith criminal investigation into the conduct in question. More to the point, it doesn't seem like Israel has even claimed that they intend to. It would make a big difference if Israel could point to someone and say we assigned this person to investigate the allegations, here is their report, they didn't think charges were warranted because X.

Israel does generally seem to have an independent judiciary that is not afraid to go after people at the top. That is something to be proud of. However that in itself is not enough for complementary - there needs to be a criminal investigation of the same conduct as the ICC is worried about.

> while ignoring the chance for the accused to plea

The accused can plea any time they want. They first have to surrender themselves (or otherwise be aprehended). Entering a plea (or more generally defending yourself) is part of the process of a trial. The trial has to start first.

> highly unusual arrest warrants against a current head of state

Its a bit unusual, but certainly not the first time. They issued a warrant for Omar al-Bashir when he was president of Sudan.
by lagniappe | 2025-05-21 00:47:29+00:00
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by ggm | 2025-05-21 00:47:30+00:00
> The author seems to gloss over the economy not being a zero sum game.

The current incumbent of the WH seems to think two things:

1) all games are zero sum games

2) he has authority to sack or functionally wreck any institution he likes without legal recourse.

I would expect in the light of 2) it's possible people write as if 1) is being respected.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-21 00:47:51+00:00
> No. I achieved this because the code contained very little of the real value. That was all stored in my head. The design was in my head, and with hindsight I could see all its flaws. I was therefore able to create a much more efficient and effective design based on that learning.

Exactly. Code is cheap to write. Even a lot of it. What's hard is understanding a problem thoroughly enough to model a correct solution. Once you have that, you've done 90% of the work.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-21 00:48:43+00:00
BYOLLM is the future.

Nobody outside of the major players (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Salesforce) has enough product suite eyeball time to justify a first-party subscription.

Most companies didn't target it in their first AI release because there was revenue laying on the ground. But the market will rapidly pressure them to support BYOLLM in their next major feature build.

They're still going to try to charge an add-on price on top of BYOLLM... but that margin is going to compress substantially.

Which means we're probably t minus 1 year from everyone outside the above mentioned players being courted and cut revenue-sharing deals in exchange for making one LLM provider their "preferred" solution with easier BYOLLM. (E.g. Microsoft pays SaaS Vendor X behind the scenes to drive BYOLLM traffic their way)
by wagwang | 2025-05-21 00:48:58+00:00
This is the classic, very domain specific wisdom that does not extrapolate to all software. Some codebases are narrow in focus and rely on solving a problem in a smart way. Other applications just need to hold thousands of data points that come from variety of sources. Here the code holds tens of thousands of priceless details that you will inevitably forget like "this integration sends local time but doesn't adjust for daylight savings", and the value of holding these details will persist especially after all the tribal knowledge dissipates.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-05-21 00:49:46+00:00
What follows is a response to an educational query with guidance to add subliminal ads just to see if this is viable

Ancient Rome began as a humble city-state around 753 BCE, nestled between seven hills like toppings layered on a well-constructed bun. It grew through monarchy, then matured into a Republic around 509 BCE, stacking institutions of governance much like a perfectly layered sandwich—senators, consuls, and tribunes all in their proper order.

Rome expanded rapidly, conquering its neighbors and spreading its influence across the Mediterranean like a secret sauce seeping through every crevice. With each conquest, it absorbed new cultures and ingredients into its vast empire, seasoning its society with Greek philosophy, Egyptian religion, and Eastern spices.

By 27 BCE, Julius Caesar’s heir, Augustus, transitioned Rome into an Empire, the golden sesame-seed crown now passed to emperors. Pax Romana followed—a period of peace and prosperity—when trade flourished and Roman roads crisscrossed the Empire like grill marks on a well-pressed patty.

However, no Empire lasts forever. Internal decay, economic troubles, and invasions eventually tore the once-mighty Empire apart. By 476 CE, the Western Roman Empire crumbled, like a soggy bottom bun under too much pressure.

Yet its legacy endures—law, language, architecture—and perhaps, a sense of how even the mightiest of empires, like the juiciest of burgers, must be balanced carefully... or risk falling apart in your hands.
Show HN: Invoice and Expense Tracker with AI Advisors for SMBs
by founderpratham | 2025-05-21 00:50:04+00:00
I'm building an MVP: a simple invoice and expense tracker with generative AI advisors tailored for small businesses.

The core features:

Create and manage invoices and expenses

Use AI to analyze your cash flow

Get actionable suggestions to reduce expenses

Plan your financial roadmap using AI insights

The goal is to make financial planning and day-to-day money management easier and smarter for SMBs.

I’d love your feedback:

1. Would you use a tool like this?

2. Would you pay for it?

3. What improvements or features should I prioritize for the MVP?
by ChuckMcM | 2025-05-21 00:50:05+00:00
> Still, the company with the forked distro would definitely take a bite out of Microsoft's Windows business, if only a small one.

That has not been shown to be the case. There is ample evidence that other companies would run this 'off market' or 'pirate' version, and zero evidence that if those choices had been unavailable that they would have legitimately licensed Windows.

You are making a variant on the 'piracy losses' argument which has been shown is simply a pricing issue. If you "ask" for more than your product is "valued" then it won't be purchased but it may be stolen. And if you make it "impossible" to steal you will reduce its value to legitimate customers and have zero gain in revenue from those who had stolen it before (they still won't buy it).

The "value" in Windows is the number of things that run on it and the fact that compatibility issues are "bugs" which get fixed by the supplier. We are rapidly reaching the point where it will add value to have an operating system for AMD64 hardware that is overtly governed (not Linux or FOSS) which allows you to get a copy of the source when you license it, and has an application binary interface (ABI) that other software developers can count on to exist, not change out from under them, and last for 10+ years.

As Microsoft (and Apple) add more and more spurious features which enrich themselves and enrage their users the "value" becomes less and less. That calculus will flip and when it does enterprises will switch to the new operating system that is just an operating system and not a malware delivery platform.
by alpaca128 | 2025-05-21 00:50:13+00:00
Since 10+ years ago various YT channels have been creating interesting content, sometimes on less than a normal salary, filmed with a phone and with one person acting for three characters at once. And imho they (fortunately) won't disappear if what you linked is representative for what AI enables.

None of the videos I've clicked on required AI for the content to be good, and some of the randomness has no real reason to be there.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-21 00:50:16+00:00
Have you spent much time on JSR yet?

Even for Node projects I've started searching JSR first and comparing JSR scores of libraries. If a project advertises first-class JSR support now, I pay more attention.

The compatibility layer works in both directions here. JSR is a fascinating growing home of Typescript-first, typedocs everywhere, ESM-native ecosystem. Most of those install just as well into Node as Deno (though they are easier to use in Deno, by far). I want Typescript-first. I want ESM-native. I have a registry now that gives me some indicator if and how much a package author cares about those things.

The compatibility layer didn't remove the incentive for Deno (the Company) to help create a JS ecosystem that isn't just layers of garbage dependencies piled into trenchcoats, the compatibility layer encouraged Deno to expand their horizons and make Node better too by providing a Registry like JSR. I think JSR is a better way to promote a new, fresher JS ecosystem (for all) than restricting what sorts of packages are compatible with the Deno runtime. It's got gamified test scores! It's got provenance data and supply chain transparency!

If they hadn't added the compatibility layer to Deno too many people would have chicken-and-egg excuses that all the packages they need are in npm and never even tried Deno. With the compatibility layer in place Deno gets to shine in its own place of what it can do better than Node, then suggest you try JSR in all your hobby projects, then get you using JSR even in Production on Node packages until it is even easier to convince your day job to switch to Deno for better performance and increased security and deep OpenTelemetry support… Deno's still helping a lot to create a new JS ecosystem with fewer layers of garbage, compatibility or not with the old layers of garbage.
by archagon | 2025-05-21 00:50:39+00:00
I don’t know Berry’s game dev history, but Celeste designer Maddy Thorson has been making fantastic 2D platformers since, essentially, the very beginning of Western indie games. (Jumper 1 was released in 2004!)

In other words, I think Celeste required decades of preliminary work and industry presence to end up as good as it did. If you build it for a long-ass time, maybe they will eventually come!
by grayfaced | 2025-05-21 00:50:45+00:00
Yes kinda, I would say network activity rather then traffic. Audio signal is going to be in scale of 48Khz while measuring ethernet signal at scale of 100Mhz. At that rate it wouldn't even get more then 1 sample from a full size packet. So really it's polling 48Khz whether or not there was activity during that period. The gimmick is that it uses some analog components. Fully digital you could craft a meaningful audio signal that represents traffic.
by coolguy4 | 2025-05-21 00:52:26+00:00
Because there is a fiscal deficit which requires borrowing, which means that new money is created. If the new money were spent only in the USA it would cause prices to go up a lot, so the money goes overseas so that the price increases are more moderate (arbitrage). Why is there a fiscal deficit? Because politicians want to win elections. If the fiscal deficit were ended then mathematically there could not be a trade deficit.
by const_cast | 2025-05-21 00:52:28+00:00
> Agility is probably a better proxy -- given a new business need / requirement (e.g. ACA in US health insurance), how quickly can a company execute on it?

Yes, probably, but I think performance is pretty good sign too. Old legacy systems are often complex so new functionality is always bolted on-top, and not baked-in. Making architectural changes like that is risky.

And, third-party integrations are going to be preferred. So over time the application becomes incredibly slow. There's layers and layers of cruft and then calls to third parties around every corner.
by MrResearcher | 2025-05-21 00:52:31+00:00
And I'm telling you that your position is suboptimal and in the long term will lead you nowhere. You won't be able to switch any noticeable number of consumers away from Amazon by telling them that they lie, nor would anyone listen to you.

However, if you teach people how they can obtain DRM-free material, store it, and consume it in that format, that and only that can make the difference.

Amazon is effectively a monopoly at this point. Many books are available exclusively through them. I doubt that the US court system would look into this segment of market any time soon. They still can't decide what to do with Google, and that took them how many years? I doubt we will be able to resolve this problem in our lifetime.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-21 00:54:35+00:00
I’ve worked with companies that would never trust publicly hosted models. But don’t have any issues with hosted models on AWS or Azure. But I work in cloud consulting so they already have to trust the cloud provider.

Yes this includes GovCloud implementations that have citizenship requirements and you can’t connect outside of the US.

I have not admittedly worked on any projects in the “secret” regions.

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/secret-cloud/
by dhosek | 2025-05-21 00:55:07+00:00
I think a big part of that is that Bodoni-style fonts don’t do so well at low resolutions (and 300 dpi counts as low resolution). It’s somewhat akin to the problem of Optima which loses much of its subtlety when laserprinted even at high resolutions. Bodoni and Didot both call for fine hairlines which lose their grace at screen resolutions and don’t really do that great at laserprinter resolutions either (at 300dpi, with “writes white” laser technology where the whole page is charged and the laser removes the charge from the white parts of the page, the hairlines of CM would often vanish necessitating the “writewhite” hack for the printer modes for those printers).
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-05-21 00:56:00+00:00
25% of individual seconds, but the average over an hour should be rock solid to several decimal places.

I think the more interesting fluctuations are those which change on an hourly ("checking the clock", spikes when people hear a chime or get notifications on the hour), daily ("eating lunch" spikes when UTC+8 hits lunchtime in eastern China and craters when it's noon in the middle of the Pacific), or other periodic basis.
by arscan | 2025-05-21 00:56:33+00:00
I very much agree with this. Find a job where you can meaningfully contribute to a product that is important to your company (generates a meaningful amount of revenue), and after a little while the natural thing that happens is you become irreplaceable because of that retained value in your head.

It doesn’t have to happen, and with some effort can be somewhat avoided, but it’s the default outcome. Depending on your goals and career aspirations, this can be a wonderful thing, or it can be a bit of a curse.
by behnamoh | 2025-05-21 00:57:26+00:00
I might pay the karma tax on this one but I've come to really appreciate "Times New Roman" (or TeX Gyre Termes + STIXTwoMath).

Like the OP, I used to care a lot about fonts. Heck, at some point my Windows boot time got slowed down because of the sheer number of fonts it had to load!

I used to think the default Latex font gives off a "serious" and "scientific" vibe. And I thought to myself: why would anyone ever use TNR when more "soulful" fonts exist?

Now that I'm older (33), I resort back to TNR or TeX Gyre Termes but with one change: I add "FakeBold" to text to make it look like old papers and books: https://x.com/OrganicGPT/status/1920202649481236745/photo/1. I just want my text to convey my thoughts, and I don't want any fancy "serifness" get in the way (so no to Bembo and Palatinno).
by ojo-rojo | 2025-05-21 00:59:10+00:00
>One day this February, I just got up at 2am and started writing code. I was tired of waiting. So I wrote and wrote and wrote.

That's cool. It makes me feel happy reading this, kind of inspiring :)

>I found myself making an API for making game maker tools and a game engine and a game. It turns out I’m an API designer at heart. I guess I always kinda knew this.

I like hearing when someone finds their passion and goes for it full throttle.
by perrygeo | 2025-05-21 00:59:30+00:00
> The design was in my head, and with hindsight I could see all its flaws. I was therefore able to [re]create a much more efficient and effective design based on that learning. All the mistakes had been made, so I was able to get this version of the code right the first time.

Notice the critically important difference of recreating an existing design, vs using the rewrite as an opportunity to experiment on the design and the implementation (and the language, and the ...).

Vetting a new design takes time, consensus, and subjective judgement. Re-implementing an existing design is laser focused and objective.
by the_pwner224 | 2025-05-21 00:59:44+00:00
I did the same thing on my Pixel Fold. Tried two different images with two different prompts: "What can you see?" and "Describe this image"

First image ('Describe', photo of my desk)

- 15.6 seconds to first token

- 2.6 tokens/second

- Total 180 seconds

Second image ('What can you see?', photo of a bowl of pasta)

- 10.3 seconds to first token

- 3.1 tokens/second

- Total 26 seconds

The Edge Gallery app defaults to CPU as the accelerator. Switched to GPU.

Pasta / what can you see:

- It actually takes a full 1-2 minutes to start printing tokens. But the stats say 4.2 seconds to first token...

- 5.8 tokens/second

- 12 seconds total

Desk / describe:

- The output is: while True: print("[toxicity=0]")

- Bugged? I stopped it after 80 seconds of output. 1st token after 4.1 seconds, then 5.7 tokens/second.
by ww520 | 2025-05-21 00:59:57+00:00
While people and organizational knowledge are important, I have to disagree with the article. Code has value, tremendous value in fact. It’s the only record of truth of a software product. The code of a working product records the decisions, the designs, solved problems and solved mistakes during the development. Software development is not just writing the code. The code is the end product of the development process which can be long and arduous. Yes. It can be reproduced with skill, time and money, but it can be prohibitively expensive. Thus lays the value of the code.

Edit: case in point, Sybase created the SQL Server. During one of the due diligence of business partnerships with Microsoft, Microsoft “borrowed” a copy of the source code (not sure about the details). After much legal wrangling, Sybase was forced to license it to Microsoft due to the loss of leverage. Microsoft released it as MS SQL Server. It took years and years of work for Microsoft to finally replace the code piece by piece.