MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobs | 2025-05-22 11:47:45+00:00
I have worked for a half dozen companies all swearing up and down they had big data and meaningfully one customer had 100TB of logs and another 10TB of stuff, everyone else when actually thought of properly and had just utter trash removed was really under 10TB.

Also - sqlite would have been totally fine for these queries a decade ago or more (just slower) - I messed with 10GB+ datasets with it more than 10 years ago.
by zarzavat | 2025-05-22 11:48:04+00:00
Musk's Nazi salute is going to go down in history as one of the stupidest things a businessman has ever done. There's still plenty of people in Europe with a personal connection to WW2, family members who died fighting or died in the camps or bombings. There are relatives I never met because of the Nazis.

It's unthinkable for me to give any sum of money to - let alone purchase a car from - a company associated with neo-Nazism.

I couldn't care less about DOGE or anything Musk is doing with US domestic politics, it's really just that salute that would prevent me from buying a Tesla.
by ramses0 | 2025-05-22 11:49:26+00:00
We are all stochastic parrots. Statistically, everything you say is correct, but ask yourself- is it any different from your behavior of regurgitating the most likely relevant portions of your knowledge in the way you're guessing is most pleasing for others to perceive?

Voltaire: "Most people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
by kaitak | 2025-05-22 11:49:51+00:00
This happens to me as well, I believe the official term for this is "Sudden Brief Unilateral Tapering Tinnitus". Seems like it is fairly common, and can occur regardless of whether one has tinnitus or not [0].

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21970850/
by hobs | 2025-05-22 11:50:17+00:00
Every person I know who has ever used Cassandra in prod has cursed its name. Mongo lost data for close to a decade, and Microservices mostly are NOT used to solve real world problems but instead used either as an organizational or technical hammer for which everything is a nail. Hell there's entire books written how you should cut people off from each other so they can "naturally" write microservices and hyperscale your company!!
Show HN: I made a tool to create "About Me" bios for people who struggle
by lazymindz | 2025-05-22 11:51:17+00:00
I built https://aboutmepro.com — a simple tool to create profile bios.

The idea came as a byproduct while I was experimenting with faster ways to build software using large language models (LLMs). My process focused on:

Writing clear, simple rules to guide development

Using structured prompts to communicate with AI models

Creating lightweight product docs (PRDs) to outline features

Breaking work down into small, focused tasks to move faster

For AI support, I switched between two advanced models — Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 3.7 Sonnet — which helped me plan, write code, and even generate seeding data like categories and tools.

The UI draws inspiration from V0 (for fast layout), Cursor (an AI-powered code editor I use daily), and Replit — where I host the app on their Core plan. Replit lets me build, test, and deploy quickly without worrying about infrastructure. The only real cost was buying the domain (I already had a Cursor subscription).

I also applied SEO best practices like sitemap.xml, robots.txt, and static site generation to make pages fast and easy to find.

You can try it here: https://aboutmepro.com

Would love feedback.

Any other tips/tricks that you use to speed up your dev work?
by roenxi | 2025-05-22 11:51:44+00:00
> As recently shown, the median scan in Amazon Redshift and Snowflake reads a doable 100 MB of data, and the 99.9-percentile reads less than 300 GB. So the singularity might be closer than we think.

This isn't really saying much. It is a bit like saying the 1:1000 year storm levy is overbuilt for 99.9% of storms. They aren't the storms the levy was built for, y'know. It wasn't set up with them close to the top of mind. The database might do 1,000 queries in a day.

The focus for design purposes is really to queries that live out on the tail - can they be done on a smaller database? How much value do they add? What capabilities does the database need to handle them? Etc. That is what should justify a Redshift database. Or you can provision one to hold your 1Tb of data because red things go fast and we all know it :/
by ttoinou | 2025-05-22 11:52:45+00:00
Love this kind of articles but I wished the author suggested solutions.

I go even further than this author : sometimes decibels are computed using logarithms and what we put inside the logarithm has a physical unit. But I can prove mathematically that this is wrong and that whats given to a log function has to be dimensionless. Hence a lot of dB calculus is mathematically wrong and physically meaningless
by xohails | 2025-05-22 11:52:46+00:00
I built Picbolt to solve my own frustration with making screenshots look good for presentations, docs, and marketing without fussing with design tools.

It's a browser-based tool that lets you quickly add device frames (latest iPhones, MacBooks, etc.), backgrounds, shadows, and even generate beautiful code snippets or tweet screenshots. The goal is to go from a plain screenshot to a polished visual in seconds.

No design skills needed. There's a free tier for basic use (no watermarks) and a one-time payment for lifetime access to all features (no subscriptions, which I know HN appreciates).

Would love to hear your feedback!
by weinzierl | 2025-05-22 11:52:58+00:00
"decibels are simply a dimensionless ratio, used as a multiplier for some known value of some known quantity."

Except they are not. 1 dB can sometimes mean a ratio of ~ 1.26 and other times it can mean a ratio of ~ 1.12.

"In every context where decibels are used, either the unit they qualify is explicitly specified, or the unit is implicity known from the context."

Maybe in university, but certainly not in the real world.
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-22 11:53:10+00:00
I assume you mean dB(A) here, because the sound level at dB(SPL) depends on the reference pressure chosen (20 mPa for db(A) with a calibrated microphone) and the constants for dB(A) are applicable to a large part of human sound perception. Though, if you use human perception as a reference, you'll also need to take dB(B) and dB(C) into account, depending on the sound you're playing and where you're playing that sound.

You can't use "dB" standalone. You need to specify what kind of dB you're talking about, because every field has different dBs that measure different units or are adjusted to different constants.

10dB is like 10k. 10dB is a tiny number if you're talking about volume, but blows your audio equipment if we're talking dB(u) or dB(v) (not to be confused with dB(V). In the same sense, 10k is a low number if it's the price for a new electric car, or an election changing amount of voters when talking about a population.
by auggierose | 2025-05-22 11:53:43+00:00
As you have seen in the post (did you read it, dear reviewer?), references on the first page where unhelpful, so 1) comes already with a caveat.

And so on.

I think the social game view is at this point entirely justified, and there is nothing cynical about it. And no, academia does not still work.

A given "structure" is also ridiculous, and part of the problem. Once you care more about the form than the content, form is what prevails.

The truth is: To understand a paper properly, you need to deal with it properly, not just the 5 minutes it takes to skim the first pages and make up your opinion there already. Fifteen pages is short enough, and if you cannot commit to properly review this, for a week or so of dedicated study, just don't review it. We would all be better off for it.
by DocTomoe | 2025-05-22 11:54:10+00:00
Often, these things are utilitarian, not mystical. So my educated guess: Back in the day, the main problem was river mariners getting hurt by bridge arches that were lower than expected, and the bale of straw was a 'soft buffer' - better to get your head hit by a swinging bale of straw than a rock-solid bridge.
by teeray | 2025-05-22 11:54:26+00:00
> The main value of a standup is to have a dialogue about blockage and spark opportunities to work together.

I never understood this about “blockers” as classically presented during the rites of standup. If you’re waiting up to 24 hours to voice a blocker or work with someone to resolve it, you’re waiting too long. Jump in chat with your team, tell them how you tried to unblock yourself first, then ask for help.
by dagw | 2025-05-22 11:54:27+00:00
I just don't see how.

Simple. Musk steps away and the company issues a full statement distancing themselves from Musk and his politics. Tesla negotiates an end to its fights with the unions in Europe. Stop focusing on the Cybertruck and start making an updated Model 3 and a lower priced Model 2. Maybe push out a new Model S to take on the high end market while you're at it. Perhaps do some sort of marketing campaign to highlight that they're now just a cool car company again.

People in Europe still like Tesla the car, and would happily start driving them again given some incentives.
by gcanyon | 2025-05-22 11:55:18+00:00
There's a further aspect (supposedly): the brown M&Ms was listed in the pre-check conditions, and the contract stated that if any of them were found to not be in compliance then the Van Halen team had the right to force checks on any/all of them for compliance. So if they found the brown M&Ms it gave them the contractual right to demand that other, more impactful, requirements be (re)checked for compliance.
by CPLX | 2025-05-22 11:56:39+00:00
You know I’ve seen this explanation a million times for decades and it’s always just a tiny bit wrong.

It’s a small distinction, but actually if the band showed up and found all the brown M&Ms still there the plan would have already been a failure.

The reason it was in the contract was to make sure the promoter had read the contract before signing it and understood what they were getting into.

Band riders are almost invariably redlined. Bands ask for all sorts of crazy shit and you cross out stuff you can’t provide or give a substitute brand name (like if the venue has an exclusive vendor relationship with Coke instead of Pepsi stuff like that) and then you work out any kinks and finalize it.

The reason to put the M&M clause in there is to get the promoter to strike the clause during the contracting process because any competent promoter will read every line carefully and strike something like that.

So when they do you know they read it and know what they are doing are comfortable signing a deal with them.

You would never want to be arriving at the venue with the clause still in force, that’s a sign you have a larger problem.

Source: I was a concert promoter in the 90’s
by basisword | 2025-05-22 11:57:23+00:00
It's interesting reading through the comments here. Lots of people slating Jony Ive. Is it a newer generation that doesn't know his work or an older generation that's forgotten?

The man has produced some of the greatest design work in the last few decades. Sure there were missteps (particularly in the quest for thinness in the laptop products) but he led design on some of the most iconic products and some of the most widely used products of all time.

iMac G3/4/5. iBook. iPod/Mini/Nano/Shuffle. iPhone. MacBook Air. iPad. Apple Watch. Not one person or company even comes close to having that kind of influence globally.
by NilMostChill | 2025-05-22 11:57:26+00:00
A possible solution, perhaps, but i personally wouldn't consider it a good one.

I can full stack dev, i choose not to because i don't like the current state of the front end ecosystem but that's a preference not a limitation.

I can also do devops, standard sysops, data engineering/analytics to a degree and some other misc stuff.

I would absolutely not expect that to be a *requirement* to be a member of a functional team.

> Any dev worth their salt can learn enough of a different discipline in the dev field. Or maybe I am biased because I was “raised language agnostic at uni”.

Setting aside the true scottsman of that statement, the technical ability needed to learn other disciplines isn't always the limiting factor.

Not everyone has (or chooses to allocate) the time to keep on top of the multiple sets of ecosystems needed to keep up with all the disciplines, being language agnostic is one the least important parts of being effective in multiple dev disciplines.
by diggan | 2025-05-22 11:57:37+00:00
We're almost there. If you train models on the output of Llama, they (try to) force you to use a particular name for example. As Meta starts to squeeze Llama (developer/research) users eventually, I'm sure they'll try to legally prevent you fully from doing so unless you use their (hypothetical future) platform/service:

> If you use the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama 3” at the beginning of any such AI model name.

https://www.llama.com/llama3/license/
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-22 11:58:10+00:00
Our company has development documents, guidelines, api's going back almost 20 years. If you follow them, life is good, if you don't, things don't work. The 20 years is relevant because this is a lot of text + code. When we give this to o3, o4-mini, claude 3.5/7 it just ignores rules randomly; when we give it to gemini 2.5 pro preview, it just works. And after prompting multiple times in chat, the other models just start going into complete nonsense land. We often have cases where it even starts generating code in python while we were working in TS; apparently it compressed it's context so much it forget the actual basics? Not gemini. Haven't been able to mess it up in any practical case yet, which is why, maybe erroneously, attributed that to the context.
by Spivak | 2025-05-22 11:58:50+00:00
It's really a shame you literally can't buy a BYD car in the US because they're great vehicles. They're "boring" electric cars— not trying to redefine the driving experience, not trying to be luxury cars. Just your Honda Civic Toyota Corolla of EV. They've got a smooth ride, pretty nice faux leather trim, and a decent stereo.
by moogly | 2025-05-22 11:58:51+00:00
A little bit of column A and B and C.

Quality is fine (except their rust protection, last I checked), but not making a new mass market car in 5 years, and just 2 lackluster refreshes to pretty milquetoast cars, and no technical updates is a bit baffling with tens of billions of cash in the books (hopefully non-cooked). Their 1.5 models on offer feel quite dated, even with the refresh.

Makes you wonder if, perhaps, doing small incremental updates and spending time on fart apps and light shows is perhaps less successful in the long run than doing bigger updates every 3-5 years.

The rest is a bunch of broken promises.
by npodbielski | 2025-05-22 11:59:18+00:00
I understand the study and (not surprising) results, but 200 years ago children were not watching violence? Like public executions? Violence alone is not a problem, violence without explanation of who and why is the problem. Our civilization is built on violence. Forcing you to pay taxes or we will take it from your account ourselves is exactly the violence. You did not payed mortgage? Sad we will take the house and leave you in the street. You pushed police man? You probably be forcefully apprehended, cuffed and thrown to jail. Violence.

Violence is not a problem, violence without explanation is the problem.
by severino | 2025-05-22 11:59:21+00:00
In Ubuntu, it's also possible to ditch Firefox from the snap store and install it using apt-get. Not from Ubuntu's repo, but from the official Firefox Debian repository:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d...

I know it's not the best but at least it can be done with little effort.
by coreyh14444 | 2025-05-22 11:59:41+00:00
Can confirm anecdotally, I am seeing way more Chinese made cars on the streets of Copenhagen. Just this morning I did a literal head-turn to check out an XPeng sedan I hadn't seen before. One of my partners drives a Chinese SUV and gotta say the massaging seats were pretty sweet. me: American, used to own a Tesla Model S.
by billy99k | 2025-05-22 12:00:26+00:00
I used to be in the book business. We would constantly see students and other sellers try to pass off Indian editions as the regular edition, and charge full price.

When I was in college, I made the mistake of buying an Indian edition for a class, thinking it was the same. It had much less content and the problem sets were completely different. It ended up being unusable and I had to buy the regular edition.
by fsloth | 2025-05-22 12:01:59+00:00
Totally agreed. And do note this is an opinion coming from EU. We really, really, really don’t understand _anyhting_ about US internal politics and most people here in EU countries who _think_ they do really don’t. And vice versa - europolitics are mostly non-sequitur in US context.

It seems inconceivable to some in US how some ”tropes” are not just ”harmless larping” but actually in a specific environments deeply insulting gestures.

I do realize the deep wounds nazism caused are plusibly hard to understand if one is not european.

But that does not really excuse someone who clearly signals he strives to be a thoughtleader.

In general it’s Pauling and Vitamin-C again. You are great at something and thus presume those intrinsic strengths serve equally well in some other context.

Human failures aside, hurtfull things are hurtfull and they cannot be reasoned away. Forgiven - sure, in right circumstances. Forgotten as well.
by loudmax | 2025-05-22 12:03:01+00:00
If the diffusion models are an improvement over autoregression models, then the answer is No, due to Jevon's paradox. That is, as these models get cheaper and better, they provide more utility, driving more demand. Even as your datacenters become more productive, the demand for their compute power increases at an even faster pace.

The thing that will limit demand for compute is when the world decides it has sufficient capacity of the form of "intelligence" these models provide. I don't think anyone has any idea what that world will even look like.
by piva00 | 2025-05-22 12:03:10+00:00
Not my experience working in Sweden for the past 10+ years. Likely that I had outlier experiences here but standups have always been short, the person leading it had complete autonomy to call out "I think this should be discussed after stand-up" whenever some discussion started to go on for a little longer (usually about 2-3 minutes is too long).

The thing I noticed being culturally different is that you just don't cut off someone while they're speaking, you raise your point by politely asking for the space and sharing your opinion, and decisions about it are made through some consensus (which never failed when a discussion is going on for too long).
by harshitaneja | 2025-05-22 12:04:46+00:00
I help hire for a few clients as well as for my own small organization. We are already seeing impact of these tools on our hiring. For the same responsibilities and tasks we are already requiring lesser resources. For clients with less complex problems we are able to manage similar work with 60% of the resources planned. And that's when most of our work is mathematical modelling, heuristics, constraint programming and such. However, I don't foresee at least for the next few years we would ever get to a scenario where we don't hire developers. Given that most hiring has shifted to only senior developers.
by mgkimsal | 2025-05-22 12:04:56+00:00
It's odd, because I've known folks who 'wait', but most of the time, when I hear someone voice a blocker in a standup, it's notice that "this is already something I've tried unblocking by ABC, and have talked to persons XYZ, and it's still a blocker". Or sometimes, people saying "I was blocked yesterday on X for Y hours, which is putting things back a bit, but now moving forward again".

So yeah, waiting until a next meeting to get announce that you're going to start working on a blocking issue is nuts, but I don't actually see that specifically all that much.
by graemep | 2025-05-22 12:05:43+00:00
> We don't have a two party system (except for the UK which is in a similar situation to the US).

The UK does not have a two party system to anything like the same extent the US does. There are 13 parties with at least one seat in the House of Commons and 15 independents.

Smaller parties look likely to gain a lot more seats in the next election.

> But yes the reasons we're doing better in Europe is that we're not giving free reign to companies and have good welfare systems

Historically true, but it seems to be less so.

> Its followers like being told what to believe. This works best on the poorly educated.

I think it is not that simple. The poorly educated correlate strongly with the poor, who have done badly in recent decades.

> We do of course have similar problems (housing is a problem too and there is resentment of immigrants)

To a great extent in some countries. There are multiple European countries that have parties more extreme than the US right that are growing: AfD, PVV, Fidesz, Rassemblement national etc.
by _kb | 2025-05-22 12:07:16+00:00
I think where display setups will become really interesting is when we start seeing more integration with complex optical systems, without requiring that to be strapped to your face.

I'm aware of Brelyon as one example that's starting to spill into the consumer space. Repurposing the optical exploits that enable AR/VR in a desktop format IMO is going to be a key path to supporting novel approaches to display systems that will be actually desirable to use, and also adaptable to differing physiology.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-22 12:08:41+00:00
Local search in most commercial software has regressed since ~2000.

My only explanation is that local search is inherently cross-team and integration-heavy. Consequently, if there's no higher-org prioritization it just molds and breaks over time, as unaddressed integration bugs pile up that cannot be fixed by a single team.

Companies shipping their dysfunctional org chart.

Still, I never thought I'd say that I could do things with the built-in search 20 years ago that I can't today.
by osigurdson | 2025-05-22 12:08:50+00:00
It does seem that for the average person, an EV is only going to be an "add-on". You still need a gas car for any kind of road trip so the EV should just be a little, low cost, grocery getter. Maybe once we start seeing 1000+ km ranges that will change. The rate of improvement in terms of range has been glacial however so that might be a long way off.
by dagw | 2025-05-22 12:09:02+00:00
They're "boring" electric cars— not trying to redefine the driving experience, not trying to be luxury cars.

That's not the image or the cars they're pushing in Europe. Their cheapest car, at least in Sweden, costs more than the VW id3, and their flagship SUV that they're pushing hard starts at around the same price as a BMW iX with all the 'luxury' frills to match.
by ayhanfuat | 2025-05-22 12:09:19+00:00
There is definitely no single magical number that can perfectly represent an entire set of numbers. There will always be some cases they are not representative enough. In the request example you are mostly interested in the total processing times so it does make sense you use a metric based on addition. But you could also frame a similar scenario where halving the processing time lets you handle twice as many items in the same duration. In that case a ratio-based or multiplicative view might be more appropriate.