MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jblakely | 2025-05-28 14:26:01+00:00
A few years ago I started experimenting with embedding V8, one thing led to another and I was suddenly down this rabbit hole building a rudimentary IDE to create standalone applications with JavaScript. It was a lot of fun building all the different parts and I learned a lot porting it to macOS.

Is anyone still interested in cross platform development for desktop apps (Windows & macOS)? Yes, it's similar to Electron, but mine uses native UI components and there are no prerequisites to get started.

I don't want to violate any rules about self promotion, so if anyone is interested in checking it out, let me know and I can give you the link.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-28 14:26:27+00:00
> (And even as this Blowtorch Theory post was being researched and written, a paper was published detailing an extraordinary blazar – a jet, a blowtorch, pointed straight at the earth from over 13 billion years ago, just 750 million years after the Big Bang – far earlier than Lambda Cold Dark Matter predicted, but slap-bang where the theory outlined here said we would find them. See: A blazar in the epoch of reionization, by Eduardo Bañados et al, Nature, December 17, 2024.)

We don’t know how they form but we do now know they exist through Webb.
by sharadov | 2025-05-28 14:26:29+00:00
I think 90% of people did not ever care, this is not new.

They pretended to care because it looked bad if they did not.

But when you started talking seriously about effecting change ( in context to workplace situations), they would diplomatically excuse themselves.

That's why I avoid big corporations where this behavior is endemic.

I mostly worked at smaller companies and left when they got too big.
by Supermancho | 2025-05-28 14:26:55+00:00
> https://www.thepoke.com/2019/09/29/americans-cant-believe-ka...

Punchline: This is a great idea. It sure would save me a lot of money on coats.

I'm gonna bet used Valentinos, in my size, are still gonna be at least 200$. I'm not a shoes guy, but I know they are worth something.
by lysace | 2025-05-28 14:26:59+00:00
Hmm.

1. I linked to a specific moment in time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkzrR-hznE&t=326s

This was removed from the URL.

2. I adapted the title to fit this moment: (Something like:) Video of the stream of molten tin droplets in ASML's EUV lithography systems

This was removed and replaced by the Youtube video title

3. Edit/delete options are not visible.

Was my post wrong?
by RamblingCTO | 2025-05-28 14:27:02+00:00
The reason simply is late stage capitalism, there's not enough upside anymore, so why bother do a good job? That's how I explain it. I noticed that as well with almost all employees, there was a shift. And it feels like it's got to do with misaligned incentives. Why bother working yourself stupid if you'll never own a house if you don't become a slave to the loan? There's no upwards movement/middle class anymore.
by tstrimple | 2025-05-28 14:27:11+00:00
The worst place I've ever worked (6 month contract) was a trucking company looking to implement driver attention tracking and vehicle metrics tracking. They are known for being a CDL mill. They train up new drivers and pay them and treat them like shit until they move somewhere else. I was shocked to learn they have over 100% attrition rate on drivers. If they need 1000 drivers for the year, they will hire something like 1,100 drivers throughout the year. Constantly replacing people. I always get a chuckle when folks talk about the inefficiencies of government.
by agentultra | 2025-05-28 14:27:24+00:00
It's the bullshit era.

The truth doesn't even matter. It's not factored in. Even liars care about the truth enough to deceive you. Bullshit is worse than lying.

We disagree? Ok. You believe your facts, I'll believe mine. We can scream into the void with our respective audiences.

It's hard to maintain the energy to seek the truth because there is so much bullshit. The peddlers of it are filling every single form of media with it. Every text box on every webpage and in every app is an invitation to add more of it to the world.

I think people get overwhelmed by it. And you have to have the bullshit cop on your shoulder exhorting you to care. It takes time and energy to care. Most people are too tired. So we let things slide. We stop listening to the bullshit cop. We become more selective. We care about the truth in some contexts but not others. It's survival.
by diggan | 2025-05-28 14:27:31+00:00
> If the proof-of-work system is actually a crypto miner, such that visitors end up paying the site for the content they host

Unsure how that would work. If the proof you generate could be used for blockchain operations, so that the website operator could be paid by using that proof as generated by the website visitor, why shouldn't the visitor keep that proof to themselves and use it instead? Then they'd get the full amount, and the website operator gets nothing. So then there is no point for it, and the visitor might as well just run a miner locally :)
by sp0rk | 2025-05-28 14:28:05+00:00
> There's a culture of indifference, an embrace of mediocrity. I don't think it's new, but I do think perhaps AI has given the lazy and prideless an even lower energy route to... I'm not sure. What is the goal?

I think pride in work has declined a lot (at least in the US) because so many large employers have shown that they aren't even willing to pretend to care about their employees. It's difficult to take pride in work done for an employee that you aren't proud of, or actively dislike.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-28 14:28:09+00:00
Yeah, what I see is

The bridge can function as a full-wave rectifier with an efficiency up to 42 ± 5%, and offers alternating current (a.c.) to direct current (d.c.) signal conversion capabilities at frequencies up to 40 kHz

ordinary bridge rectifiers are almost twice as efficient as that, it's an unusual question to be concerned about how high frequency they can work at, past 10 kHz the switching time of diodes is a problem but I hear you can get diodes that switch around 1 MHz if you had to.

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/152225/what-...
by incomingpain | 2025-05-28 14:28:48+00:00
>I'm coming up on 10 years working next week.

I started in 2004. I've gone through burnout multiple times. Shouldve become a goose or goat farmer many times before.

I have 2 standout loves.

1. My coworkers are awesome.

2. Lack of bureaucracy.

I could write about ITIL and office politics. Ive dealt with insanity to the wazoo.
by diggan | 2025-05-28 14:29:32+00:00
Yeah, to me PoW makes a lot of sense in this way too. Captchas are hard for (some) people to solve, and very annoying to fill out, but easy for vision-enabled LLMs to solve (or even use 3rd party services where you pay for N/solves, available for every major captcha service). PoW instead are hard to deal with in a distributed/spammy design, but very easy for any user to just sit and wait a second or two. And all personal scraping tooling just keeps working, just slightly slower.

Sounds like an OK solution to a shitty problem that has a bunch of other shitty solutions.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-28 14:29:38+00:00
IIRC the mined block has an instruction like

fake quote > Please add the reward and fees to: 187e6128f96thep00laddr3s9827a4c629b8723d07809

And if you make a fake block that changes the address, then the fake block is not a good one.

This avoid the same problem with people stealing from pools, and also evil people listening to new mined blocks that pretend that they found it and send a fake one.
by chii | 2025-05-28 14:29:40+00:00
> doing the bare minimum in an almost maliciously compliant way doesn't yield great results

this happens when the person paying the money and the person judging the work quality, and the person "punishing" are different entities.

Classic example is gov't work - taxpayers pay money, and has no say. Politicians spend, department beaurocracy spends, and hires, etc. The workers get hired, get paid, but their performance is not judged. The final recipient of the work - specific citizens - get poor service for the taxes paid.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-05-28 14:29:47+00:00
I have a different take. The more that people cannot disagree with X, the more X is truth. This is separate from fiction and intentional misrepresentation of events.

When you directly witness something happening with a few others, you can't disagree about what you saw, so that is high truth (assuming no intentional mispresentation). Of course sometimes even here you may not all have seen the same exact thing at the same exact time.

Video of events tends to be up there as well. Of course I mean raw, unedited video and not edited clip-montages of stuff interspersed with commentary, opinions, etc. Even raw video is not guaranteed to be high or complete truth if it's omitting other things that were part of an event.

When we get into things like testimony, opinions, second-hand accounts, anecdotes, and commentary, then we're in the world of low truth (and sometimes its complete absence) and a high chance of deception. Hence the need for heuristics, trust, narrative detection, asking who benefits, etc. Which may not arrive at any truth other than the direction someone is wanting you to go.

Science is interesting because it's reports are a form of testimony, but specifically extending an invitation to be reproduced so it can be directly witnessed again. This alone makes it more trustworthy than things like "here's the testimony of a dead person we can't even talk to anymore" or "everyone seems to accept X so X must be true" - and that last one is dangerous today because many people use social media as a proxy for "everyone" but it's very easily manipulated.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-28 14:29:51+00:00
But the theologians (and mainstream ones at that) are the ones that set the tone and interpretation of a religion.

Just like how you quote a western raised and educated theologian's interpretations and translations.

This isn't to say Buddhism is a violent religion, but to deny that there is a very mainstream thread of majoritarianism in two of the largest Buddhist countries is ridiculous.

Edit: Cannot reply, but every group that uses a majoritarian lens in Buddhism uses the Upayakaushalya Sutra to justify their violence as an action for the greater good.

Fundamentally, a religion is about the interpretation, not the texts themselves.

And denying that Buddhist violence (that too backed by mainstream Buddhist ideologues in the largest Buddhist practicing countries in the world) is ridiculous. The 2019 riots in Sri Lanka, the Rohingya genocide, the whitewashing of the Burmese and Thai Military juntas, the whitewashing of dictatorship in Sri Lanka, and multitudes of other similar actions by the majority of the Sangh in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand highlights a significant strain of violence in Buddhism just like any other religion.
by transcriptase | 2025-05-28 14:29:58+00:00
Exactly.

And all the reasons why economists say inflation is necessary and a good thing seem to make assumptions that aren’t true if taken to their logical conclusion (e.g. infinite growth) and hand wave away negative consequences in order to maintain what amounts to psychologically manipulating people into not saving their money.

Index all wages to inflation and we’ll see how much those holding all the assets feel about it.
by alexpotato | 2025-05-28 14:30:03+00:00
> At times, Asparouhova suggests that antimemes are specific proposals, like the importance of extended parental leave, in perennial lack of a lasting constituency to sustain them.

This particular line struck me given that I recently listened after listening to the Lex Fridman podcast with Cenk Uygur [0]

Uygur made the following point:

"More than 80% of the US voting population supports paid parental leave yet Congress won't vote on it/pass it.

Why?

B/c Congress has become captured by corporatism and it's not in the best interests of corporations to have paid parental leave"

Earlier, there is this quote:

> Why can’t we manage to solve these big, obvious collective-action problems? Why, in other words, can’t we have nice things?

I wonder why people ask these questions, almost rhetorically, when the answer is that well organized groups have made conscious decisions and taken real action to modify government/laws etc to do this.

e.g. if one group could do this, why don't more groups do this?

(on a related note, the talk by James D’Angelo, “The Ghost Bill & The Cardboard Box” [1] about how Congress became more tied to corporations is fascinating)

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtPROVsePk (Lex Fridman)

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz27n1tNNMg (Ghost bill)
by IAmGraydon | 2025-05-28 14:30:07+00:00
No, not at all. It's pretty crazy that people are paranoid everything is from LLMs. The truth is I went to Catholic school where they drilled grammar and sentence structure and it stuck with me. Now I get accused of being an AI. Cute.

Also, FWIW, I honestly don't think my reply seemed that LLM-like. There's no em-dashes. There's no bullet points. Despite my best intentions, there are probably also grammatical mistakes. Perhaps I should stop using proper capitalization like you to remove all doubt!
by scottLobster | 2025-05-28 14:30:35+00:00
And now we're in a Buddhist version of Ghandi's comment that "Your Christians are so unlike your Christ"

If we say "we expect followers of X religion to be nonviolent because their holy texts explicitly say so" then I guess there aren't many religious people in the world. I see no reason to expect a self-identifying Buddhist to be less violent than a Christian or Muslim beyond pop culture stereotypes.
by dahart | 2025-05-28 14:30:48+00:00
Googling “semicolon”: “a punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma.”

Merriam Webster:

“A semicolon can also join two statements when the second clause is missing some essential words that are supplied by the first clause. In short sentences, a comma often replaces the semicolon”

“A semicolon is also often used before introductory expressions such as for example, that is, and namely, in place of a colon, comma, dash, or parenthesis”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/a-guide-to-using-sem...

How about for you? What is the source of this chart, and who says it’s the only correct way? I think many people incorrectly jump to the conclusion that the oft-said bit about semicolons replacing commas in a list somehow means it’s the only time semicolons and commas can be swapped.
by jamesbriggs | 2025-05-28 14:31:04+00:00
Sharing my walkthrough on fine-tuning LLMs with LoRA using NVIDIA's NeMo microservices. The result is a llama-3.2-1b-instruct model fine-tuned to be really good at function-calling, making it ideal for agent-use.

It was a ton of fun to figure it out and it brought back some nostalgia from the days of training ML models, tweaking learning rates, dropout, and watching loss charts in W&B.

Final performance was way better than any 1-3B parameter LLM I tried with agentic workflows in the past.
by hu3 | 2025-05-28 14:31:46+00:00
> Also, a lot of businesses are not really interested in using an API for an LLM, instead they will modify and fine-tune their own models and deploy in their own data-centers

You realize model training cost millions right? "a lot of businesses" doesn't pass sniff test here.

I'm not even counting the large swaths of data required to train. And the expensive specialists.

And then you'll have to retrain outdated models every so often.

There's a reason that AI has only a handful of players delivering SoTA models and these players are all worth $5B+.
by buangakun | 2025-05-28 14:31:46+00:00
Oh man, I gotta write a comment here. I'm gonna leave out a few details in case this guy or my tech lead/manager read HN.

So, I am senior software engineer, got hired into this company. I was tasked by my manager/tech lead to work with another senior software engineer.

Overtime I realized that this engineer did not have the proper background in this field. I asked him and I asked my tech lead, and confirmed he did not have background in this field. This guy just roped into this project and stayed.

I sent him articles, tutorials, and even documentations that say so and so is so and so, but he refused to believe it and said it was just my opinion. I even offered to work on these problems instead of him. But we ended up getting into heated arguments. I talked to my tech lead and my VP and they just brushed me off. It got so bad that I asked to be transferred to a different team.

I also realized later that my tech lead was not as technically competent as I hoped to be, so that's why he couldn't make a decision.

Anyway, I asked Reddit and TeamBlind how to best deal with this kind of situation. (In those forums I actually described exactly what were the problems)

To my surprise, a lot of them, 99% of the answers go along these lines "Who the fuck cares man, just get your paycheck and go home, what an idiot". These are highly paid FAANG engineers.

So, that was my wake up call. They were right. Who the fuck cares. Just get my paycheck and go home, and work on other stuffs, work on side projects, side hustle, and go Leetcode.

I was 8 years too late into the industry to know that this should be my default attitude when working.

Now I am in "Who The Fuck Cares" club.
by emptysongglass | 2025-05-28 14:32:01+00:00
It is not an interpretation, it is a translation. I could just as well quote the Pali directly, which offers no such justification for the inherent violence you appear to claim (emphasis my own):

> Sabbe tasanti daṇaḍassa sabbe bhāyanti maccuno Attānaṃ upamaṃ katvā na haneyya na ghātaye. Sabbe tasanti daṇaḍassa sabbesaṃ jīvitaṃ piyaṃ Attānaṃ upamaṃ katvā na haneyya na ghātaye.

> This isn't to say Buddhism is a violent religion, but to deny that there is a very mainstream thread of majoritarianism in two of the largest Buddhist countries is ridiculous.

I never denied "majoritarianism". I denied that Buddhism condones violence, both in a plurality of Buddhist cultures and in the suttas themselves.
by quantas | 2025-05-28 14:32:29+00:00
Hey thanks for the response!

The difference to OpenWebUI is that you don't have to host anything and that it's native, compiled code written in flutter. This has multiple advantages:

1. We'll be able to ship the same features across platforms while still feeling native. (Android, iOS and macOS releases coming soon)

2. You don't have to run a docker container on your pc if you don't have a server

The model selection on OpenWebUI also shows every possible model without having the ability to choose which models you want to see in the selector. We solved that in AnyLM with custom model selection (it's pretty easy to understand if you try out the app).

Not to bash OpenWebUI. Honestly they did a very good job and it's even open source but yeah

About the linux support: You were actually the first one to ask me for this and it's definitely possible to do. I will put this in the roadmap :)
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by zug_zug | 2025-05-28 14:32:40+00:00
I have a work problem that's stumping me, a relatively experienced engineer. At this point I'm happy to pay $200 (venmo) for somebody to solve it.

The gist of it is our webapp's java threads seem to get stuck at java.lang.Thread.start0 and enter a bad-state for a few hours then seemingly self-resolve. I've checked all the basic ulimits and everything AI suggested, the box has 20gb free of memory.

I have a lot more context I could provide, I just don't know of any platform to get this solved.
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-28 14:32:46+00:00
For the past five decade, we have lived in a society where the dominant ideology was about how “egoism lead to the greater good thanks to the magical forces of the free market”.

It turns out the greater good in fact came from people caring about what they where doing.

Too bad we only realize it now, when the destructive ideology has eventually trickled down from the profiteers class to the working class.
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by wolrah | 2025-05-28 14:33:27+00:00
> What if I have a battery to charge while the device is off such as a laptop? How does Android deal with this when it's not booted? Does the bios handle this stuff?

In my experience, if the device doesn't have enough power to actually boot it will simply slow charge at the default USB rate.

This can be problematic with devices that immediately try to boot when powered on.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-28 14:33:36+00:00
Desktop linux has a ways to go before it's ready for "normal" users.

Yes, yes, yes, you have a story about how your parents (sibling|partner|friend|etc) are using linux and don't even notice/care. They have you directly supporting them and I'll call you a liar if you say you've never had to support them. Even if it's just "Netflix won't stream high quality to me". Even in our browser-based world you still often need to install some software and good luck explaining why they can't run Photoshop or MS Office.

All of the reasons listed here simply don't matter to the vast majority of the target audience.

Linux is amazing, I use it every day, I'm surrounded by machines running it in my personal and professional life, but this seems misguided. A bunch of us nerds can cheer it on but people who you are trying to target aren't going to be interested.
by absurdo | 2025-05-28 14:33:50+00:00
I am going to nitpick this but I’ve come to expect this kind of posting style from medium, substack and others.

It has no coherent thesis, it throws way too many links, it uses meta titles that reference memes. The SNR is incredibly low for what should be a technical synopsis because the words get in the way of information.

What I want to see: I don’t care what you call it, “blowtorch” is meaningless. Tell me concretely what is it, what does it address, and how does the current widely accepted theory fail to account for certain things. I don’t need detours into minutae so the author can have their r/iamverysmart moment. I want to see the list of experiments with data points that validate hunches and disprove others. We can reduce it down to simpler terms for laymen if we start with good information. As it stands, it’s noise.
by vladde | 2025-05-28 14:34:04+00:00
> It's still the wrong answer, because the question should have been, "How can I make this code thread-safe?" and whose answer is "Use System.Collections.Concurrent" and 1 line of code.

I often found myself adding "use built-in features if they exists", just because because of this type of scenario.

It unsettles me that some people feel okay always accepting AI code, even when it "works".
by b112 | 2025-05-28 14:34:10+00:00
I will agree that in certain parts of the world, this is quite true.

However it's not a universal. China has had immense wage growth, and the emergency of a "middle class" income bracket, where no such bracket existed before. Of course it's an economy still in the throws of massive transformation.

Yet regardless, "staring at phone instead of doing job correctly" isn't going to reverse that trend. Or I guess it could for the few unaddicted.