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Show HN: Sneakers (1992) in Your Terminal
by ryan-c | 2025-05-07 14:39:33+00:00
I've converted the movie Sneakers to a "high def" terminal animation, complete with subtitles.

The frames were rendered using the Python `tv` package, the subtitles were done with custom tools, and the ssh backend is russh.

Try it!

ssh ansi.rya.nc

(bonus: try "rickroll" as the username)
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-07 14:39:34+00:00
> It is completely reasonable for Russia to not want NATO on their doorstep.

They already bordered Lithuania and Estonia, and Poland if you count Kalingrad. Their own actions have now brought Finland in, quadrupling the amount of Russia/NATO border they have. Oops.

Maybe Russia needs your proposed defensive army and huge border fortifications, if they're so petrified of a NATO invasion? The Wagner Group managed to roll most of the way to Moscow largely unopposed.
by SafeDusk | 2025-05-07 14:39:45+00:00
Ideally, just start the server - which is a SSE based and supported by any MCP client out of the box.

Then, connect it using this line: `client = MCPClient(server_url=server_url)` (https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami/blob/e49d3797e6122fb54ddd...)

Happy to help further if you run into issues.
by motorest | 2025-05-07 14:39:55+00:00
> So explain to me what "eliminating bad data points" in this context means. Should MS schools not hold back failing 3rd graders

The data point is the number of 3rd graders failing. If you insist in filtering out those 3rd graders, limiting your analysis to the subset of kids who didn't failed does not represent a success story. It represents an attempt to arbitrarily remove inconvenient data points to portray a false idea if success.
by mrangle | 2025-05-07 14:40:06+00:00
Since you are from a country other than the one in which this site originates, and are asking where I am from, maybe first you should post where you are from.

If your country did not have cops, who would enforce the laws that are enforced?

Would the most powerful gang simply become the new government? Who?

Would you prefer pre-civilization to civilization, wherein there are no laws?

I well know the dynamics of mafia, and how they relate to the Police.

The system is not perfect, but it is the core structure of civilization.

We try to limit police power via the law, internal controls, and hiring moral men.

Some of that is breaking down everywhere. But its not breaking down via the prescriptions of those who designed the system.

Where in your system have the fail safes failed? No judgement, just curious.

Does your country have the potential for law and order, or not? Why not? What would you do differently, which is realistic?
by smeeth | 2025-05-07 14:40:28+00:00
It's truly remarkable how much compassion liberals purport to have for the poor before, apparently without any self-awareness, saying something like this.

> This article is advocating that using poverty-adjusted scores is a better way to assess student education levels. I just can't agree with that.

No, it's advocating that this is a better way of assessing the quality of the education they receive. And it is.

Rich kids in bad schools can score higher on tests than poor kids in good schools. If you want to isolate the quality of the schooling this is what you do.

> Pardon me, but 20% of your children living in poverty is my personal exact definition for an embarrassing cultural backwater.

First, this has nothing to do with the article, which is about education.

Second, perhaps without knowing it, you're spouting a classic white supremacist take: black people (there are much more in Alabama and Mississippi) are poor because they have a bad culture. If they just stopped sagging their pants and walking out on their kids like the good whites they'd be better off. Even if the intent was to direct this at the poor white people, it's still racist.

Perhaps you should consider that the people who live and struggle in other states are deserving of compassion, not derision. Yes, even if they believe different things from you, or have less money. Practice empathy.
by kspacewalk2 | 2025-05-07 14:40:36+00:00
However, I think people grossly overestimate the degree to which this state of affairs is static. If the supply chain shows itself to be vulnerable, economies often adjust quite easily. Even when it's not "easy", like natural gas in Europe post-2022, it's still very much doable without too much hullabaloo and frozen seniors.

Point being: if it no longer makes sense to import 38% of blood from the US or whatever, it'll be imported from elsewhere or made locally, and that's pretty much the whole story. This is true of most goods and services, though not all.
by danans | 2025-05-07 14:40:39+00:00
> Some of the worst performing schools in my area have the most funding per pupil.

> A bucket of money doesn't solve bad systems, bad administartors, bad teachers and bad parents.

You are describing the situation often occuring in poverty, crime, and violence plagued communities (of which the US has many). In those situations schools need more funding than a more well off area because they are doing more than education: they are default community social support centers, providing food, mental health support, and sometimes even shelter for children who are facing horrible scenarios in their communities and homes.

Pulling funding from those schools without addressing the societal issues will make things worse, not better. Right now, the school is the point of social service delivery.
by hedora | 2025-05-07 14:41:02+00:00
It's cool they issued a new BIOS. I have an extremely similar (but older, I think -- it is the first gen of boards that support EFI) Gigabyte motherboard, and the community hacked in support for M.2 boot (with a PCIe adapter passthrough board) maybe 5 years ago.

I only looked into this because I had to upgrade the video card (NVidia's drivers go obsolete way before the hardware), and the new video card wouldn't post without a new BIOS. Gigabyte had issed one even though the motherboard was ten years old. I thought about going the NVME route, but didn't bother. The video card higher priority.

I even ran stable diffusion on a machine like that one, but a few years newer (with a covid-era video card).
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-07 14:41:10+00:00
A few years back I got interested in printing stuff and noticed that common tools (Word, Powerpoint, Illustrator, ...) get horrible results setting serifed fonts in large sizes. I figured out how to kern manually, but boy is it a hassle.

When I look at large numbers of posters printed by various organizations I find that people today hardly ever use serifed fonts to set titles and I think this is why.

The thing is I don't remember this being a problem with desktop publishing in the 1990s or the early 2000s (though then I was setting titles for a political organization with a novelty font that looked like the font used by Die Grünen.) I'm wondering if I was less picky then or if there has really been a regression, such as a patent troll outlawing good kerning.

I thought pretty seriously though about making my own kerning tables for a font I liked because you only need one for a system.
by mattlondon | 2025-05-07 14:41:22+00:00
But this was my original point.

If we have an intern junior dev on our team do we expect them to be 100% totally correct all the time? Why do we have a culture of peer code reviews at all if we assume that every one who commits code is 100% foolproof and correct 100% of the time?

Truth is we don't trust all the humans that write code to be perfect. As the old-as-the-hills saying goes "we all make mistakes". So replace "LLM" in your comment above with "junior dev" and everything you said still applies wether it is LLMs or inexperienced colleagues. With code, there is very rarely a single "correct" answer to how to implement something (unlike the calculator tautology you suggest) anyway, so an LLM or an intern (or even an experienced colleague) absolutely nailing their PRs with zero review comments etc seems unusual to me.

So we go back to the original - and I admit quite philosophical - point: when will we be happy? We take on juniors because they do the low-level and boring work and we need to keep an eye on their output until they learn and grow and improve ... but we cannot do the same for a LLM?

What we have today was literally science fiction not so long ago (e.g. "Her" movie from 2013 is now a reality pretty much). Step back for a moment - the fact we are even having this discussion that "yeah it writes code but it needs to be checked" is just mind-blowing that it even writes code that is mostly-correct at all. Give things another couple of years and its going to be even better.
by ranger207 | 2025-05-07 14:41:39+00:00
Even Ukraine is less transparent than popularly believed. Probably less than half of drone strikes are recorded, and the Ukrainian government is effective at keeping some areas blacked out. For example, the Kursk offensive didn't have any public drone footage until after it had stablized. Situations like the current India-Pakistan strikes are particularly difficult, as the OSINT analysts don't have established sources and procedures yet, plus the sources are heavily biased. Ukrainian footage is very biased as well, which doesn't come up frequently in popular discussions. But most people in the West are more inclined to believe Ukrainian reports (which is helped by Ukraine's past general trustworthiness and Russia's untrustworthiness; it's not totally misplaced), but are more likely to give more even weight to reports on both sides of India-Pakistan, which will inevitably be contradictory.

Plane shootdowns are particularly difficult. People have a very limited view of the airspace, and even if a plane is hit by a missile and explodes a couple seconds later, those couple seconds can take the plane out of view. Typical tactics include flying low, popping up for a better view, and delivering weapons as they dive again. The pop up is the most vulnerable part, and where they're most likely to be hit. If someone on the ground hears a jet fly over, looks for it, finds it, sees a missile explode near it, and watches it head towards the ground, they're likely to assume it's been hit and is going down, but it's equally likely that it wasn't hit and is simply returning to a low and safe altitude. Combine this with night or weather and the fact that many of these fights take place in rural areas instead of over cities, and it's very easy for civilians on both sides to claim more kills than were even planes in the air. Even militaries aren't immune from this. They get reports from pilots, who are notorious overreporters of kills. In addition to all the factors people on the ground have also have the fact that theyore being shot at and usually can't actually watch a target hit the ground. Air defense units have the same factors, plus it's not always clear who exactly shot a target down. Both your unit and the one a couple miles away on the other side of the city fired a missile, and both saw the plane go down out of view, and both are likely to claim a kill. Military intelligence should be able to correlate these reports and take into account these known biases but that takes time, and an uncareful spokesperson wanting to get a positive report out to the public may give out unverified reports to the press.

Battlefields are more transparent than ever, but the fog of war hasn't been completely blown away
by ____________g | 2025-05-07 14:41:42+00:00
I generally agree with the sentiment—if something is free, there’s often a tradeoff. But when there’s a paid tier, the free version can act more like an entry point or hook to get users into the ecosystem, rather than relying on harvesting user data. In JetBrains’ case, broad adoption brings a lot of strategic value on its own (like establishing industry standards or building community mindshare), so it makes sense for them to offer a genuinely free version without necessarily treating users as the product.
by unshavedyak | 2025-05-07 14:42:00+00:00
> I can't wait until GPUI becomes a bit more mature/stable so I can build on top of it

Man, so true. I tried this out a while back and it was pretty miserable to find docs, apis, etc.

IIRC they even practice a lot of bulk reexports and glob imports and so it was super difficult to find where the hell things come from, and thus find docs/source to understand how to use something or achieve something.

Super frustrating because the UI of Zed was so damn good. I wanted to replicate hah.
by deliriumchn | 2025-05-07 14:42:09+00:00
I hate the direction they're going to be honest with this giga focus on AI bullshit. Only good part added was zeta (their own predictive editing model that jumps across the file where it predicts you want to edit your typo etc AND have a "subtle" mode), but they price it at 20/month, which is absurd.
by redczar | 2025-05-07 14:42:15+00:00
I’m white and not from the south. But I went to FSU as an undergrad. White people assumed I was just like them in attitude and beliefs. One friend tried to get me into Christianity. He casually mentioned that black dominated churches weren’t real Christians. For “them” it was cultural and not a real belief.

The biggest snowflakes in the country are white southern Christians in my experience. Anything that challenges their privilege is an attack to them.
by ksec | 2025-05-07 14:42:15+00:00
This is what Nvidia was suggesting as well, 1MW Racks.

This leads to radically rethink of everything. Not the Units, Racks, Power, Datacenter, Floor Space, even Cooling and Grid Power Distribution.

You could have a 1000 Racks, which isn't that many racks for Datacenter and it would be 1GW.

The current largest solar farm only does 2.2GW and it is about 56km2.

I wonder if we could built 1TW datacenter.
by roncesvalles | 2025-05-07 14:42:36+00:00
>Even a moderate water supply reduction would lead to a loss of around 10% of the harvest.

If that's the case then the die is already cast. Early in the conflict, India released too much water on the Chenub too early for the season as a way to punish Pakistan. The quantity of water was such that Pakistan had no choice but to let it run off to the sea. This now means that the upstream Indian reservoir will not have enough water to release during regular season where coordinated releases ensure farmers have an uninterrupted supply during certain critical time periods.
by footy | 2025-05-07 14:42:36+00:00
My partner's an academic and this tracks with what I've heard from her and her colleagues. It's possible they're all in on a conspiracy to lie to me for shits and giggles, but I doubt it.

I also remember what it was like to be in University and I know several of my classmates would have done this if it had been available. Human nature has not fundamentally changed in the 13 years since I finished school.
by llm_nerd | 2025-05-07 14:43:01+00:00
That weird meeting I think you're thinking of-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B0mWzB4GOQ

(I recalled it as well and with normal searching could not find it, even with date winnowing, but asking Gemini 2.5 Pro and it immediately gave me that resource)

This meeting happened just before the invasion. Far too late for anyone to really do anything, and long after most of the "are they/aren't they?" discussions happened. Up until that point Russia was repeatedly denying their "special military operation". Just as they denied their invasion of Crimea and their little green men in the Donbas.

As an aside, that absolutely bizarre security council meeting is virtually indistinguishable from the North Korea-style Trump administration meetings that we now see weekly, where it's a circle of embarrassingly laughable platitudes and servitudes by a cowed and pathetic administration.

>I remember thinking the white house handled communications surrounding the invasion very well

They did.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-05-07 14:43:12+00:00
Compassion for the people, yes. None at all for the state that has again decided that funding for school lunches for poor children is beneath their let-them-starve ideology.

Perhaps you should consider who is responsible for wellness programs in the state instead of deciding that your "this is racist" hammer is the only tool needed. Children live in poverty because the government decides it's ok. Trying to connect what I said to race identity politics is projection.
by SafeDusk | 2025-05-07 14:43:34+00:00
For sure! I'm surprised myself how far one can get with just seven tools: read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think.

It's like lisp's original seven operators: quote, atom, eq, car, cdr, cons and cond.

And I still can't stop smiling just watching the agent go full turbo mode when I disable the `ask` tool.
by mindslight | 2025-05-07 14:44:05+00:00
> The same coil is used both for water heating and air heating during the drying cycle

Sure, if it's the classic design of the heating coil sitting exposed near the bottom of the wash tub.

But most newer dishwashers tend to have a much smaller heating element as part of the sump assembly, capable of heating the water only, because they omit the heated dry cycle. From what I've seen these days, you have to buy one without the Energy Star label to get back the traditional dual-use heating element.

And I haven't researched, but I'd venture a guess that those models are just the old designs still being sold, leaving out straightforward efficiency developments like electrically commutated motors. I've fixed many appliances myself, and based on what I've seen I have got little faith in manufacturers' motivations to improve much on their own.
by yogurt-male | 2025-05-07 14:44:06+00:00
Unfortunately for you, that is not my MO (and if you re-read the conversation you'll see it's you who has been defensive, feeling shame, and imagining/projecting things onto me the entire time). I've (mostly) addressed what you've written, not who I assume you are or what your attitudes are.

Also, I feel no shame for being called a "rich white liberal," which really shows how little you understand my psychology (or me, period).

All this vitriol even after I singled out rich southerners in my OP. Something isn't adding up here, but unlike you, I'm not going to assume what it is. Have a good one.
by Piskvorrr | 2025-05-07 14:44:14+00:00
The devil is in the details.

What do you mean, "requires Windows 11"? What is even "glibc" and why do I need a different version on this Linux machine? How do I tell that the M4 needs an "arm64", why not a leg64 and how is this not amd64?

In other words, it's very simple in theory - but the actual landscape is far, FAR more fragmented than a mere "that's a windows/linux/mac box, here's a windows/linux/mac executable, DONE"

(And that's for an application without a GUI.)
by kogus | 2025-05-07 14:44:25+00:00
The article suggests that someone from Maine would be reluctant to ask Mississippi for advice, given the stereotypes and biases that all Americans have absorbed over the years.

If the Maine Secretary of Education overcame his or her reluctance and did in fact ask Mississippi for advice, imagine their disappointment if the response was "we actually teach math".

Do you have a source for your response? I'm genuinely curious about what they changed to achieve this level of success. I'd be interested first for the actual educational methods, and secondarily I'd be interested in relating it to the idea of organizational changes that can produce relatively rapid reversals of a long term trend.
by HPsquared | 2025-05-07 14:44:44+00:00
Front brake is where it's most beneficial as the front wheel is what keeps the bike upright. If you lock the front wheel, especially in a turn, the bike falls over almost instantly.

edit: Rear wheel locking gives a bit more time to react.

Personally the main safety benefit is for emergency braking in wet conditions. ABS also allows to use full brakes in the wet without worrying so much about falling over. That's the real benefit, real-world it shortens your stopping distance because of that increased confidence in using the brake.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-07 14:45:36+00:00
Thank you!

I didn't realise that you custom-made that voice. Would you have some links to other out-of-the-box voices for coqui? I'm having some trouble finding them. I think from seeing the demo page that the idea is that you clone someone else's voice or something with that engine. Because I don't see any voices listed. I've never seen it before.

And yes I switched to Kokoro now, I thought it was the default already but then I saw there were 3 lines configuring the same thing. So that's working. Kokoro isn't quite as good though as coqui, that's why I'm wondering about that. I also used kokoro on openwebui and I wasn't very happy with it there either. It's fast, but some pronounciation is weird. Also, it would be amazing to have bilingual TTS (English/Spanish in my case). And it looks like Coqui might be able to do that.
by riquito | 2025-05-07 14:45:40+00:00
> > It’s important to note that, if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics. We use this information to improve our products.

> Well, it's basically true for MS-branded VSCode too. I now use VSCodium.

How's that "basically true"? That's false. You can opt out. In fact there's very good documentation around that

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/telemetry
by evklein | 2025-05-07 14:45:48+00:00
Yeesh. I understand that this kind of thing might have some healing effect on hurt people, but I can't get over the ramifications of treating an AI like a real person in a court setting. For instance, imagine a suspect skips out on a hearing due to some unknown circumstance - in absentia, the court relies on an AI testimony trained on the suspect, who then changes his plea to guilty and confesses to the crime.

If I was killed in something as pointless as a road range incident and then an AI trained on me was wheeled into court to "forgive" my aggressor I'd be incensed from beyond the astral plane.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-05-07 14:45:53+00:00
I know this is an uninteresting aside, but the name "Real ID" is odd, because you'd think there was some sort of obvious meaning behind "real" like maybe it's an acronym associated with the "REAL" in REAL ID Act of 2005, but nope.

It just makes it sound like all of the government and international identification us citizens carry isn't real enough. What a dumb name.
by crabbone | 2025-05-07 14:46:15+00:00
This is all heuristic (read "guessing") and not a real solution to the problem.

The ground truth is that software bloat isn't bad enough of a problem for software developers to try and fight it. We already know how to prevent this, if really want to. And if the problem was really hurting so much, we'd have automated ways of slimming down the executables / libraries.

In my role in creating CI for Python libraries, I did more hands-on dependency management. My approach was to first install libraries with pip, see what was installed, research why particular dependencies have been pulled in, then, if necessary, modify the packages in such a way that unnecessary dependencies would've been removed, and "vendor" the third party code (i.e. store it in my repository, at the version I need). This, obviously, works better for programs, where you typically end up distributing the program with its dependencies anyways. Less so for libraries, but in the context of CI this saved some long minutes of reinstalling dependencies afresh for every CI run.

In the end, it was a much better experience than what you usually get with CI targeting Pyhon. But, in the end, nobody really cared. If CI took less than a minute to complete instead of twenty minutes, very little was actually gained. The project didn't have enough CI traffic for this to have any actual effect. So, it was a nice proof of concept, but ended up being not all that useful.