MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xwolfi | 2025-05-30 03:58:38+00:00
Well it has to do also with the European population in Algeria. Ofc Algeria was more precious to us in terms of resources, sheer size etc, but it was also home to millions of Europeans and extremely expensive to abandon or resettle them - a bit like if all the former countries of the Israelis citizens had to take them back today if Israel were to be taken back by its native original inhabitants: a complete nightmare nobody would support and we'd rather move along and let it be a bit of a mess rather than bring the mess back home.

That was at least the feeling at the time, and we still had to do it, and it is to this day a complete mess of people brought back who don't feel French and aren't Algerians really. We'll pay for it for many decades until it finally disappear, like every subgroup that got "imported" in France and had to merge painfully since France started.

Tunisia in contrast, we really didn't care all that much, there was no cost giving it back and we lost nothing. And fast forward 70 years, we probably actually saved tons of money doing so, so we're all good.

Note that if you talk people to people, it now seems to be in the past, Algerians are proud to be Algerians, French are ashamed to have damage the country so much for so long, and we try to be good friends. I've never met an hostile Algerian, as in a recent immigrant. I've met many hostile 3rd generation immigrants from Algeria whose grandparents fled back to France, and they still have trouble accepting that uprooting. There seems to be nothing to do except wait and smile and tell them it's gonna be ok, with a glass of wine and bit of saucisson.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-05-30 03:59:01+00:00
If you banged on a modern nuclear weapon for an hour with a 2 kg hammer, you'd have a sore arm. Soak it in warm water and take an aspirin.

If you sawed into one with a metal cutting saw, it would just quietly turn itself into a brick.

Nuclear weapons are designed to be both tough and delicate (meaning: they like to brick themselves) at the same time. An extraordinary amount of clever engineering across decades has made them this way.
by bobsingor | 2025-05-30 03:59:46+00:00
Thanks so much, that’s a huge compliment, really appreciate it.

Actually, most of what you’re describing is already there. We built a tiling plugin (https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/tree/main/packa...) that works kind of like Google Maps — instead of rendering the full document, it splits it into tiles and only renders what’s visible in the viewport. That’s how we keep it fast even for really large documents.

Right now we support pinch-zoom on mobile, but mouse pan/zoom isn’t wired up yet. Would love to see you collaborate on the project if you’re interested. This kind of feedback is a big encouragement!
by theamk | 2025-05-30 04:00:03+00:00
Being indexed in search engines is very useful, but does not need any filtering - Google and all other major search engines respect robots.txt, use well-known UA and even publish IP address.

AI bots are not search engines, and they have no benefits for the website owners. This can be very clearly seen because they ignore robots.txt, pretend to be regular browsers, and use multiple proxies to avoid IP bans.
by gryfft | 2025-05-30 04:00:08+00:00
I haven't read the article yet, and I'm pre registering my feeling that this is flag-worthy for the same reason I would find credulous discussion of perpetual motion or ESP flag-worthy. Extraordinary claims, etc. I don't recall Popular Mechanics being as trashy as say Phys.org but we'll see.

*reading*

Facepalm it's Kurzweil and the title refers to biological lifespan. Heavy sigh how is he still relevant?!
by selcuka | 2025-05-30 04:02:36+00:00
> Non-deterministic vibes all around.

Curious. Do you write deterministic code? Because I don't think I can write the same code for any non-trivial task twice. Granted, I would probably remember which algorithm or design pattern I used before, and I can try and use the same methods, but you can also prompt that information to an LLM.

Another question: Can you hire software developers who write code in a deterministic way? If you give the same task to multiple developers with the same seniority level, do you always get the same output?

> "typing until you more or less get the outcome that you want”

For the record, I don't use LLMs for anything that is beyond auto-completion, but I think you are being unfair to them. They are actually pretty good at getting atomic tasks right when prompted properly.
by gpm | 2025-05-30 04:02:41+00:00
This hasn't been my experience (using the latest claude and gemini models). They'll produce poor code even when given a well defined easily achievable task with specific instructions. The code will usually more or less work with today's models, but it will do things like call a function to recreate a value that is already stored in a local variable... (and worse issues prop us the more design-work you leave to the LLM, even dead simple design work with really only one good answer)

I've definitely also found that the poor code can sometimes be a nice starting place. One thing I think it does for me is make me fix it up until it's actually good, instead of write the first thing that comes to mind and declare it good enough (after all my poorly written first draft is of course perfect). In contrast to the usual view of AI assisted coding, I think this style of programming for tedious tasks makes me "less productive" (I take longer) but produces better code.
by dsr_ | 2025-05-30 04:02:53+00:00
It's the sort of thing that a strong regulator can mandate, but generally doesn't; and the sort of thing that an airline would promote heavily, but not in a way that anyone could rely on: "We donate tickets to Charity X who uses them to fly very sick children to world-class hospitals! Why not donate your airmiles right now, relieving us of some of this obligation without getting the usual tax deduction!"
by godelski | 2025-05-30 04:03:07+00:00
Check out some of my links in my sister post.

For the sphere inside cube you can draw these out and get some intuitions about how the ratio of empty space changes.

One thing you can think out is how if you pick two random vectors in a high dimension they are almost certainly orthogonal. In 2D, pick a random vector. There will only be 2 vectors orthogonal to it, right? Now do the same in 3D. There's a whole plane orthogonal to your vector! That's a hell of a lot more than 2! Move up into 4D and you have a 3D-hyperplane that's orthogonal.

The spikes on the hypercube might have some visual intuition. In 2D you have 4 corners and you can imagine the smooth rounding off into a circle. 3D we now have 8 corners and the sphere again looks rounded off but you can see here how the hypercube gets spikey but whatever you think the hypersphere looks like you're likely wrong. Even the cube's intuition still fails you with this thinking so you need to be careful
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-30 04:03:19+00:00
Noexcept doesn't mean "this function doesn't use exceptions", it means "this function doesn't throw exceptions". The difference being that a child function can throw, but std::terminate will be called once a noexcept function is unwound. There's no standard way to specify the former, only compiler flags.

C++ can be used to write code that generates assembly equivalent to pretty much any C. A lot of standards committee work goes into ensuring that's possible. The trade-off is that it's the closest thing humans have ever produced to a lovecraftian programming language.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-30 04:03:24+00:00
Software developers love to discuss licenses for free software

But if these licenses are rarely enforced, then what difference does it make

Busybox is best exception that comes to mind; but enforcement seems to have fizzled out anyway

For this "SQL Workbench" software, how would license enforcement work

1. How does the author of free software detect that a Republican is using it <-- This is what I am most curious about

2. If the author detects a Republican using the software, then what will he do about it; how much is he willing to spend on lawyers
by Veserv | 2025-05-30 04:03:43+00:00
Can you at least read to the end of the article you post as evidence before making demonstrably false claims?

"Update: The Dawn Project has since released additional footage that doesn’t appear in its ad where we can see that they were able to activate FSD, however, the footage is inconsistent with the results published about the test and in the ad." (Note: The claim that the written results had errors at the time was true. The errors were fixed in a subsequent revision.)

https://x.com/twn675/status/1557415939569639424

In fact, here is the actual released report: https://dawnproject.com/the-dawn-projects-new-advertising-ca...

With the contemporaneous raw footage here: https://dawnproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/raw-foota...

Amazing, the claim that it was not engaged is straight up false with clear video evidence that it is false and the Tesla promoter who pretends to be a "reporter" did not feel like investigating the source before making false claims accusing others of making false claims. That should really make you rethink which side is more credible. Hint, it is not the side that does not bother to watch raw footage because they already made up their mind that the company who pays them is right.

Care to retract your false statement now that there is clear video evidence that your statement is false? Or are you going to argue that at 0:40 FSD disengaged two seconds before impact, but with enough remaining velocity to collide if no corrective human action is provided, therefore FSD is not responsible?
by bobsingor | 2025-05-30 04:03:59+00:00
Good question. You can fully reproduce the build. We have a Dockerfile here that handles the process: https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/blob/main/packa...

Also, if you look in the package.json, there is a wasm script set up. Running pnpm run wasm will build the .wasm file inside Docker, so you get a clean, repeatable build.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-05-30 04:05:33+00:00
The thought of taking twice as long to get somewhere with less convenience is not tenable to convince people they should switch their transportation method. People trying to argue "you should not want that speed and convenience" or "cars should be made less quick or less convenient" are not providing winning arguments for public transit. The solution is that public transit should meet or exceed the bar of speed and convenience set by cars.

Let's make things better, rather than convince people they should settle for worse.
by ssivark | 2025-05-30 04:06:38+00:00
> "Someday, an ultimate class of warriors will evolve, too strong to be contested. They will win battles without having to fight, so that at last, the day may be won without shedding a single drop of blood."

With such power asymmetries, the "bleeding" might merely be displaced to after the battle is settled. Look at the history of how colonialism played out.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-30 04:06:52+00:00
I don't agree. If you choose the right club you don't have to conform and you can just be yourself. Especially in the cities there's a scene for everyone. In the countryside it's slim pickings of course so you do have to conform.

Maybe that's one of the reason people in small towns are so different, the social dynamic is stricter because there's just not enough people around to form groups of people that are different. City people like me, if we don't fit in we'll just find another place to go so we're more aligned. We can choose our community because a city isn't a community, it's a big box of lots of different ones. If you live in a small town you don't get to do that (not as much anyway)

But the idea that there's no community there at all is not correct. I live in a big city but I keep running into the same people :)

Ps I don't think one is better than the other, just more suitable to some people than others. I'm a city guy and I moved to the town of my girlfriend for a decade but I couldn't stick it. She couldn't stick the city with me, not for more than a holiday. That's ok too. Just meant we had to go our separate ways.

Edit: But yes when I said "Nobody wants to conform" I was just talking about myself. I guess there are people that want that. Thanks for the correction.
Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator
by andrewzeno | 2025-05-30 04:09:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share my open source project, a browser orchestrator. It's purpose is to make it easy to manage many browser profiles on one system. Currently it only works on MacOS, but since I've built it using Tauri (which is a Rust backend and TypeScript frontend), I expect to add Linux and Windows support in the future.

I've built it primarily for myself as I use a lot of browsers and having an easy way to manage all of my profiles would make (have made, actually) my dock less cluttered haha. Also, part of why I built it is because as someone who doesn't really care about anti-detect features (which I might support in the future), I don't understand how they cost so much for a very limited number of profiles in pretty much all anti-detect browsers. I feel like a lot of people feel the same and will cover their use cases with my free tool.

If you try it, please share your feedback! I haven't seen any open source projects like this and want to learn more about how people might use it.
by Retric | 2025-05-30 04:09:58+00:00
Country club’s are really a subset of this kind of thing and tend to have an overly wide membership to the point where you’re unlikely to know every member. The VFW is another modern take that’s got a very different vibe.

Similarly historically it wasn’t just elitist hangouts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_men's_club
Show HN: templUI – The UI Kit for templ (CLI-based, like shadcn/UI)
by axadrn | 2025-05-30 04:10:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building templUI – a UI kit for templ, styled with TailwindCSS.

It includes a CLI installer to add and manage components (like: templui add button modal) – inspired by shadcn/ui.

templUI – The UI Kit for templ

Goals:

- Help Go devs build UIs faster with well-structured, minimal components

- No JS frameworks – just Vanilla JS

- HTMX-friendly, but optional

- CSP-compliant by default

- Built for enterprise use and long-term scaling

Currently at v0.7x, with 1000+ commits and 500+ GitHub stars. It's already used in production projects and evolving fast.

* Website: https://templui.io

* GitHub: https://github.com/axzilla/templui

Happy to hear feedback or ideas!
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-30 04:11:17+00:00
Reminds me of this quote from XKCD What If?

> But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool.

> “In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”

Ref: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
by listenallyall | 2025-05-30 04:11:57+00:00
Agreed. I participated in a points-based package that used to be offered by AirAsia. It was about $300 for 30 points. Flights between cities/countries were 1 to 3 points each, I probably got 3x my money's worth and still had about 4 or 5 points left over.
by bradlys | 2025-05-30 04:14:02+00:00
I’m not the target audience but I wonder if I’m the type of individual it wishes would attend. (There is a caveat)

I’m in my mid-30s, relatively successful, educated, friendly, outgoing, and so on. When I think of many men in my life, I am there for them emotionally and mentally. I’ve been there when times were good and bad.

But, I have no interest in this even a little. If I wanted more male friends, it’d be trivial. I workout all the time and there’s tons of dudes from my gym who want to go out practically every night (currently live in nyc). There’s an extreme amount of men in my hobbies who are looking for new close friends. I’ve been invited to numerous outings and so on.

Yet, this is where I wouldn’t be a good fit, I cannot be bothered because I just want a family and I’ve been deeply single for four years without any hope of a relationship. For me, the loneliness epidemic is more to do with how deeply single I am and how little women want to love me. That’s my whole concern. I moved to nyc just to be able to run into women because I had no ability to do that back in SF. My friends in nyc try to invite me to shit all the time but I refuse because it’s just gonna be men hanging out and I don’t care. I’ve even gone as far as not working for three years and I just turned down an offer to work at Meta today because I don’t want to become an incel like half of the men in the tech world back in SF are. I’ve given up so much money over these last few years all just so that I could focus on my own startup - having a family. Failed miserably at it too like most founders but still trying.
by curtgrimes | 2025-05-30 04:14:18+00:00
These two tweaks should improve it (by preventing the largest text and book graphic from overflowing the viewport horizontally on some smaller screen sizes):

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index a0f978c..040e50e 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -21,3 +21,3 @@ h1 { - font-size: 3.8em; + font-size: clamp(2.2em, 7vw, 3.8em); margin-bottom: 0; @@ -60,2 +60,3 @@ .hero-img { + max-width: 100%; transform: rotate(2deg);

Also, I really like what I see in your book so far and I am already learning things on the first few pages. Thanks!
by lwo32k | 2025-05-30 04:14:41+00:00
There is more Content than Eyeballs or Time to consume it all.

Look at HN - is everyone reading every link posted? So how much waste does such a system produce? The system doesn't not signal it. Nor does it signal if waste is increasing.

Cause if they did people would have a very different definition of Value.

Even without AI the Content/Attention Economy is a mirage.

When Supply greatly overshoots Demand you have to ask why is it happening? And how long can it sustain itself?

AI is just a side show. Cause Economies aren't detached from Demand.
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-30 04:14:57+00:00
The advantage of a llm in that case is that you can skip a lot of syntax: make a LOT of typos in your spec, even pseudo code, will result in a working program. Not so with code. Also small logjcal mistakes, messing up left/right, x/y etc are auto fixed, maybe to your frustration if they were not mistakes, but often they are and you won't notice as they are indeed just repaired for you.
by Veserv | 2025-05-30 04:16:08+00:00
So your argument was:

> It was not engaged.

But since that is now clearly false using the evidence you yourself presented you have transitioned to:

"The raw video footage clearly demonstrates the claim of FSD colliding with the child under the stated conditions, but the written report had incorrectly documented what occurred in the video footage, but which has since been corrected. That disproves the raw video footage of the claim."

Talk about moving the goalposts. Care to retract your false statement that it was not engaged?
by JKCalhoun | 2025-05-30 04:16:23+00:00
I, tiptoeing here, kind of agree. Am I missing something or do these scams operate on a person's greed?

To be sure, I invest in order to see a return. That's greed, I guess? Or maybe not?

I think having (unrealistic) expectations of doubling your money in anything shorter than ... about a decade ... should be sending up red flags for anyone. "Make money fast" should fire the same neurons as "Put it all on zero and spin".

I had a friend who began to believe he had written code that could play the stock market and rake in the cash on trades (he was testing it on historical data and doing very well). The best way I could try to reel him in was to simply suggest that if it were so easy, everyone would be doing it.

Same goes for any get rich scheme.
by listenallyall | 2025-05-30 04:17:34+00:00
Yes, most domestic US airlines have eliminated change fees. But as you point out, it's not possible to get your money back and it's not easy to make changes if you don't have an alternative trip in mind. Cancellability is valuable (see hotel bookings), and yet, people over-value the option - sometimes out of laziness, or they forgot, or they go with the original plan. I have difficulty believing airlines would lose very much if they offered full refundability up to about 3 or 4 months in advance, but they would probably get more bookings, most of which would likely not get cancelled.
by kmeisthax | 2025-05-30 04:18:31+00:00
In the ad space, definitely, the iPhone killed Flash.

But the games space hung onto Flash far longer. Right up until Adobe thought it'd be a good idea to start charging revshare for certain Flash features... that were used by Unity's Flash cross-compiler... which just scared everyone over to Unity.

Both of these were downstream of Adobe not wanting to invest money in Flash Player. Apple had begged them to make Flash work but Adobe didn't wanna put money into something people could use for free. So they'd send over a build of Flash that didn't work with iOS's input handling[0], or they'd send over source code Apple couldn't figure out how to build, or whatever. If Adobe hadn't penny-pinched on Flash Player they probably could have gotten a few more years out of the platform, and also stuck around as an animation development platform for JS[1].

[0] More specifically, Flash Player didn't support the rollover menu detection Safari had for desktop sites. If you touch an element on a website, it sends both hover and click events, but the click events only happen if the hover event didn't reveal any new content.

[1] Yes, I know modern Adobe Animate can export to JS. It sucks. It doesn't support the Flash drawing model at all, so all your artwork gets rendered out at 1x onto a sprite-sheet. This was also a problem with the GPU rendering frameworks available for Flash, except HTML5 / JS apps also had access to efficient vector rendering.
by saithound | 2025-05-30 04:18:46+00:00
Since developers working a tplaces like Parkes Observatory use LLMs regularly, it seems like experience ("13-year-olds" versus "senior engineers" at the two extremes) doesn't explain this gap as well as you imply.

The other hypotheses in this thread (e.g. that it's largely a matter of programming language) seem much more plausible.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-30 04:19:25+00:00
The difference here is that Zeke wrote a book chok full of sources (a significant chunk of the book in the end is basically pages of references), while you so far supplied none.

While I don’t know anyone personally, a local semi-famous person was abducted in Thailand and sent to one of these compounds (except in Myanmar). He was rescued by a combined rescue mission of his country’s and Thai governments. This made big news a few months back, and resulted in a drastic reduction in Asian tourist travel to Thailand (which itself doesn’t run these compounds, but is a big destination for tourism), so much so that Thai government was (maybe still is) in panic mode because of it.

Remember how Thailand tried to enact measures even technically abroad, like cutting off electricity and Internet connections (and how these compounds are controversially using Starlink now)? This was all posted on this site in the year leading up to today, and the reason for it is that pig butchering related abductions driven by crime nearby states made it unsafe for most Asian-looking people to travel to Thailand. Does it create an impression of voluntary labour in your mind?

Perhaps in near term LLMs will allow them to reduce headcount so much that the bosses become willing to pay and less inclined to keep them captive, but so far claims that it’s all mostly voluntary labour just don’t compute with available evidence.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-30 04:20:11+00:00
Paper:

Cadaveric Human Growth Hormone–Associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease with Long Latency Period, United States - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/6/24-1519_article | https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3106.241519