MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by suddenlybananas | 2025-05-30 22:18:24+00:00
>The hope is that there is no implicit defect and that the methodology will extend and generalize - it's not too complex a notion to think that you could have an LLM create a broad range of individual tasks, with a meta-goal of identifying better and more general recursive improvement processes and algorithms

Again, entirely different idea that doesn't have a straightforward evaluation function. As it stands, this is more akin to genetic programming with a very good mutation function.
by tavavex | 2025-05-30 22:18:36+00:00
Is this true for ecstasy? I thought it was more of a short-term thing.

Regardless, even if it elicited some response in him... being a modern billionaire usually requires stepping on lots of heads, being ruthless and very self-interested. So I think it wouldn't bring someone like Musk a whole lot closer to the rest of us.
by kelnos | 2025-05-30 22:19:17+00:00
I think you can develop lasting friendships doing pretty much any group activity. But it can require a lot more effort (perhaps on your part) to get the ball rolling. Depending on the activity, you probably won't be having deep (or any) conversations while doing the activity, so you need to actively engage with people before or after the activity. That might be very small at first, but over many weeks or months might grow into grabbing a drink or meal after the activity, and being open to starting deeper conversations.

I'm terrible at this. I struggle to push myself to ask deeper questions of new friends, feeling like I'm being intrusive or prying, but I think it's necessary to do this in order to move forward. When we were in college, making friends was easy, because there was a shared experience right in front of us to talk about, and that could naturally lead to deeper conversations. As we get older, that isn't really there, and it takes active, deliberate effort to get there.
by dzaima | 2025-05-30 22:19:29+00:00
OoO should actually be the care where that doesn't matter I'd think - the CPU can, well, execute the instructions not in the order they're in the binary; it's in-order implementations are where that matters more.

And with compare & jump being adjacent they can be fused together into one uop, which Intel, AMD, and Apple Silicon all do.
by morkalork | 2025-05-30 22:19:38+00:00
I've seen this referred to as a treadmill before. They get the farmers on a treadmill (loans for co-ops, equipment inputs) and once they're waking, they don't let them stop.

The craziest thing is this is well known trick, historically. In the 1800s there was a company run by a man that was both wholesale buyer of fish from fishermen and also supplied the mortgages for fishing boats. He was the only one for both in many small fishing communities and was universally hated for it.
by spauldo | 2025-05-30 22:19:44+00:00
Your time's a bit off - electrification didn't really take off until the early 20th century and nuclear applications outside of weapons until the 1950s and 1960s.

My grandmother grew up when cars were scarce, electric wires were stapled to the wall, and indoor plumbing was for city folk. She hit a certain level of technological advancement and then just stopped, probably around the 1980s. She died last year, having never used the Internet or a computer and still using a console TV (with an adapter box installed by the cable company).
by asabil | 2025-05-30 22:19:47+00:00
`gen_server` is an abstraction over the a client sending a `request` that a server services to produce a `response` to be sent to the client.

The `gen_server` implementation takes care of things like timeouts, servers terminating before a response is produced as well as maintaining the server state.

You can read more here at [1], [2] and [3].

[1]: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/clients-and-servers#callback-...

[2]: https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/gen_server_concepts

[3]: https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/gen_server.html
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-30 22:19:57+00:00
"Child marriage can also be a form of human trafficking. Due to loopholes in immigration laws, thousands of American girls are being trafficked legally for their citizenship, forced to marry adult men from overseas so the men can get a U.S. visa. Similarly, American men are legally importing child brides from overseas."

Oh wow, you'd think in the current political climate this would open the carburetor on these bills.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-05-30 22:21:03+00:00
Seems like it could be done as a phone app? Anyway, departure times are only part of the problem. I often want to know the arrival time of a train that has already departed, because I have to pick up a passenger who is aboard an incoming train. Or in the case of buses (nextbus.com in the US), I'm already on board bus #123 and I want to know its current location as a position on the bus route, so I can estimate how long til I reach my desired stop. This is for cases when the bus is going through an unfamiliar part of a city. The data is already on the servers, so it's annoying that the apps don't use it.
by rvz | 2025-05-30 22:21:04+00:00
Another thing to keep in mind is that it is also possible that many startups attempting to fully automate software engineering roles will die / bankrupt or shut down trying before it 'eventually' happens; whenever that is.

builder.ai was the first casualty claiming to use AI to replace software engineering teams to build products. Now bankrupt. [0]

It could cost a lot more money than initially estimated than other industries if (by their own admission) it is the last profession to be automated.

Let's see in the next 10 years if some of these 'startups' are still around on this 'mission' and whether if software engineering will be fully automated and dead for humans in the next decade which that is the narrative that they are all hyping for more VC money.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/builder-ais-shocking-450m-fal...
by hadlock | 2025-05-30 22:23:31+00:00
It seems a bit presumptuous that software and hardware would not evolve past May 2025 to improve watts/token over time, or whatever metric you choose. Consumer-grade GPUs didn't really arrive until 1995, and industry didn't really standardize OpenGL until the early 90s, consumer-grade GPUs didn't have OpenGL support until much later. Vulkan didn't come along until 2016. It's mostly an artificial limit that I can't buy a 4070 with 1TB of memory at Best Buy for $1200, or will be, in a year or two. I would expect watts/token to decrease by at least half by the end of the decade.
by xp84 | 2025-05-30 22:23:49+00:00
You're surely not wrong that a lot of things would need to be done without, but I'd like to think that if I were 'king of M&S' I could have identified a subset of merchandise that could be loaded into a suitable interim solution like Shopify within say, 4 weeks, if the only other option was forgoing all online sales for 12 weeks +.

That would also take a lot of the pressure off of the "full recovery team."

Of course, the real situation must be 100x more complex than I'm imagining it so "I'd like to think" != "I am confident"
by r0fl | 2025-05-30 22:25:43+00:00
I’ve closed all 3 rings 1700 times, and am on a 885 day streak of all 3 rings

I was excited to try this

Installed it and have some feedback

1) it’s odd that it says go to setup when you open the app, that should be the dealt screen

2) there should be a icon to click to find out what vigorous exercise is and what moderate exercise is. I have 415/140 mins of moderate exercise and 0/35 vigorous. No idea why

3) workout goals is empty by default, that is not intuitive

4) goals should be clickable to get more info , break it down for me

I like the simple layout, colours look good and overall it has potential

Im the target market for this app but don’t think I would be a regular user.

Good luck, hope some of that feedback helps
by georgemcbay | 2025-05-30 22:25:46+00:00
Yeah unfortunately (in this case, but probably fortunately in others) the Internet isn't as "forever" as we once thought.

Looks like the link I provided in that post is dead, but there's still a wayback machine snapshot of it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160624205520/https://sites.duk...

The device with the card "Captioned Radio" under it in the 2nd photo is an Insignia Infocast 8", which was basically the same thing as the Chumby 8", just a white-label version produced for Best Buy with a cheaper plastic outer casing and a customized dashboard app with their branding all over it.

Best Buy/Insignia was a retail partner of chumby for a time (they also sold a rebranded version of the Chumby One).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuNIUkg3GZc
by eddythompson80 | 2025-05-30 22:26:42+00:00
For me, having semi colon be a non-configurable default is a non starter. Languages like Go or C take it too far. I prefer a typescript like language where semi colons are configurable through a config file or tool.

Typescript itself is a non starter because of non-configurable "brackets around if conditions" behavior. I pretty much write any language I wanna use these days depending on the task. Use the right tool for the right job. I do generally target perl 5.8 as a backend though. Seemed simpler and most widely supported backend across all systems I came across. Has been super stable since '02.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-05-30 22:27:01+00:00
I have personal anecdote how bonkers eastern european digital system is.

My child was born in NZ and in order to gain dual citizenship you need to submit form in Lithuanian.

To access e-gov you used to have so many cool methods - most popular is your bank (makes sense since they’d have highest stakes and worked out security), then your local SIM card finally your ID card. Well first ones are off the table since I was away for so long. I managed to source a usb smart card reader. Even somehow more luckily find working software. By shred of luck my card is not expired (card is valid for 10years, but digital certificates on chip for 18 months lol).

I’m in. The digital form is ok, albeit designed before mobile era so definitely won’t work in mobile screen. Fine. Submit it. Two weeks later I get a response (clearly my form was just dumped as an email) that in fact I need to meet face to face to ID me and my child…

Fortunately thru personal connections I was able to do so via video call.

Contrast that to NZ. In 10 years here I didn’t get to meet beurocrat even once. I’ve mailed a form and received passport by post. Low tech but sublime experience.
by aftbit | 2025-05-30 22:27:13+00:00
>Going from something like your naive approach which I assume an LLM generated for you, to something productionized enough to bet your business on it, is not always trivial.

I'll admit, this hurts to hear a bit. This is real production code I've been running in a webapp that initially launched targeting PostgreSQL 9.5. This is not some crazy web-scale situation - these specific tables only experience at most 1 qps of write load - but this has solved the problem for this business as it stands here.
by blibble | 2025-05-30 22:28:11+00:00
> What I mean by that is that you have even more power to start your own company or use LLMs to reduce the friction of doing something yourself instead of hiring someone else to do it for you.

> Previously I would have had to have 1 million dollars sitting around to fund the amount of output that I am able to produce with a $20 subscription to an LLM service.

this sounds like the death of employment and the start of plutocracy

not what I would call "democratisation"
by rhet0rica | 2025-05-30 22:28:15+00:00
Yeah. Emphasis on the "seem" part. A false sense of security brought on by, "If binary artifacts for package _foo_ can't be ported between distros, what chance do worms have?" plus the even older memory that the Morris worm had been designed around (and limited to) certain target platforms and architectures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
by constantcrying | 2025-05-30 22:29:26+00:00
>and test for correctness by checking the numerical equality of the two outputs over many random inputs.

This is fundamentally different to how any human would approach this problem. And also different to how some recent advances in this area were made, where AI actually came up with superior and correct algorithms.

This approach also seems quite unfortunate and makes many of theses results somewhat doubtful.
by pedalpete | 2025-05-30 22:29:39+00:00
We've been doing the exact opposite for some positions.

I've been interviewing marketing people for the last few months (I have a marketing background from long ago), and the senior people were either way too expensive for our bootstrapped start-up, or not of the caliber we want in the company.

At the same time, there are some amazing recent grads and even interns who can't get jobs.

We've been hiring the younger group, and contracting for a few days a week with the more experienced people.

Combine that with AI, and you've got a powerful combination. That's our theory anyway.

It's worked pretty well with our engineers. We are a team of 4 experienced engineers, though as CEO I don't really get to code anymore, and 1 exceptional intern. We've just hired our 2nd intern.
by erikig | 2025-05-30 22:30:26+00:00
Wishing him the best, I recently watched some flights of the B24 Bomber "Witchcraft" which that team maintains and flies regularly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZmiFMlR3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km3p-fapIMg

Seeing them in flight is a nice memorial to the bravery of the kids that originally flew these.
by youniverse | 2025-05-30 22:31:24+00:00
Ebay is completely useless once you've got a problem,

Two anecdotes just from the last year: I made an account a few months ago from my home ip, listed a used piece of clothing for sale for $80.

After a day my account got suspended, then they called me to verify my identity and while speaking with me the guy said sorry your account is suspicious we are closing your account and you can't make another one! And then when I asked for a reason of course he didn't go into more detail than that.

2nd: I helped a friend manage their listings on their account of 20 years. They had an issue with a buyer returning an item but the box was opened so all the items value was basically gone at that point. My friend mistakenly refunded the buyer in good faith while the item was in transit and he said in messages that they weren't opened. This was about $2000 in value lost. Ebay support spoke with us multiple times and obviously they are just told to be understanding and reassuring that everything would be taken care of by the internal team they are escalating to and then they never get back to you. I called them 7 times and the same thing, they make a ticket or whatever and nothing ever happens.

Never had a more pathetic experience with a company. Hope you somehow get your issue resolved.
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-30 22:31:25+00:00
That's a very pessimistic view. People can borrow money against their property, then later they can borrow money against their diploma and professional certificates (and nobody should be allowed to work without being certified, that's dangerous). Then later I think it's time for banks to start offering consumers the reproductive right of mortgaging their children, either born or unborn.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-30 22:33:16+00:00
40-50% of first marriages end before death [1] (percentages increase for second and third marriages). Not opposed, just not sure how much it solves for. Getting to 18 is certainly an improvement country wide.

([1] I don’t say “fail” because a marriage ending isn’t necessarily failure, if your perspective is humans are not optimally wired for a lifetime with a single partner)
by lurk2 | 2025-05-30 22:33:20+00:00
> We frustrate ourselves in attempting to acquire "maximum" capability in our deployed systems. Although we use the words, we have not internalized the reality that we can no longer indulge in the "rich man" strategy of insuring against all possible adverse futures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance

> As early as April 2001 the United States Department of Defense defined "full-spectrum superiority" (FSS) as:[1] The cumulative effect of dominance in the air, land, maritime, and space domains and information environment, which includes cyberspace, that permits the conduct of joint operations without effective opposition or prohibitive interference.
Show HN: ChartPrompt – An AI-powered chart generation platform
by lukus | 2025-05-30 22:33:31+00:00
Hey everyone, so I’ve always liked the Tremor UI chart library and have used it in a few projects, so I wanted to build something that combined it with LLMs in some way.

I ended up creating ChartPrompt, a site where you just describe the data or chart you want in a prompt, and it’ll generate a clean, interactive chart (line, bar, or area for now) using Tremor. You can also iterate on the chart to add new data as you go along.

Thought the idea of skipping config/upload steps and just describing your chart could be cool, so I gave it a shot. Didn’t see much like it out there though I noticed Grok recently launched a similar feature using Chart.js (which personally don’t think looks as polished as tremor).

Still figured a site dedicated to this idea with a better UI and nicer charts might be worth trying. Though will say is slower and less reliable. Would love to hear what you think!
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-30 22:33:35+00:00
> Companies would rather burn money on headcount (counted as R&D) than show profits and pay the govt taxes

The data does not support this. The businesses with the highest market caps are the ones with the highest earnings.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

Sort by # of employees and you get a list of companies with lower market caps.
by bediger4000 | 2025-05-30 22:35:05+00:00
CenturyLink gives you an IPv4 address that's not NATted in any way, shape or form - it's a globally reachable IPv4 address, comes right out of CenturyLink's share of those ~4B addresses. Every single one of the 109 addresses I've recorded is not a "bogon", not 10/8, 172.16/20 or 192.168/16. I regularly ssh to my home server directly. They're leaving money on the table by not renting them to people who want one.

Similarly, Comcast does IPv6 to its residential customers, and even tiny VersoNetworks in Denver can manage both IPv4 and IPv6 to its customers.
by comrade1234 | 2025-05-30 22:36:14+00:00
I haven't read this. I did used to read documents like this when I worked on dod/nsa projects. The software (basically command and control) we write was very idealistic and I'm 100% sure would have broken down now that I see how Russia is fighting in ukraine and just sending meat into a grinder non-stop without end. It wouldn't have been predicted.
Show HN: Web automation using natural language
by will123195 | 2025-05-30 22:37:06+00:00
Hey, I made this Chrome Extension to run automations using natural language (much like OpenAI Operator in the browser).

Another fun feature is to surf by voice -- no need for a mouse or keyboard.

I'm personally using it to automate my property management stuff like sales tax filings, sending check-in instructions, monitoring the Nest camera, etc.

Another obvious use case is UI testing (a natural language version of Selenium). Also, I've used it to automate personalized DM's and replies on Linkedin and X.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
by croblesm | 2025-05-30 22:38:21+00:00
That’s correct—I’m the lead PM for the SQL extension in Visual Studio Code. We’ve been working closely with the PostgreSQL team; in fact, their extension is essentially a fork of ours, as you pointed out correctly.

Just to clarify on the Azure Data Studio (ADS) point: the MSSQL extension includes many of the core features from ADS, but our strategy is slightly different and focused on a modern, developer-first experience.

Here’s the link to our open roadmap—would love to hear your thoughts: https://aka.ms/vscode-mssql-roadmap
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-30 22:39:58+00:00
> support raising the legal age for marriage to 21. A lot happens developmentally in those few years and marriage at 18 rarely ends up well

Middle ground: simplify divorce for marriages entered into while either party was under 21 and the marriage is dissolved in fewer than N years.

We're amid a long-term decline in American marriage rates [1]. If the goal is boosting marriage, I'm not sure raising barriers helps. (Though apparently the benefits of marriage are more mixed than I thought [2]. And even birth rates are decoupling from marriage rates [3].)

Huh, in the course of researching this comment I've gone from slightly against your position (based solely on priors) to solidly for it. There isn't a great argument for allowing legal marriage before 21. If folks want to have civic or religious ceremonies earlier, by all means, go for it--that doesn't mean it need involve the state.

[1] https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/lo...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8888778/

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4002169/
by ajmurmann | 2025-05-30 22:40:25+00:00
I am VERY pro-immigration. I do have concerns about the H1B program though. IMO it's not great for both immigrant workers, as well as non-immigrant workers because it creates a class of workers for whom it's harder to change employers which weakens their negotiation position. If this is the case for enough of the workforce it artificially depresses wages for everyone. I want to see a reform that makes it much easier for H1B workers to change employers.
by sublinear | 2025-05-30 22:40:42+00:00
This "problem" is pathological and those selling solutions are misleading those who buy into it.

Software engineering often isn't just answering "how" to accomplish something, but also all the five other questions starting with 'w'. Software ate the world a very long time ago, so people being allergic to code while trying to run a business is only sounding more and more absurd as time marches on.

What are we really trying to solve for here? All that could be automated reasonably well has been already. In most cases you do not want a stochiastic result, but exact code to be reused. We use libraries in our code and we have reproducibility of results. The code that needs to be written for most applications is minimal and only grows large as the business refines what they want. This code is unique and virtually worthless to any other business. The code mirrors the organization. We already know all this for decades. It's very confusing to me to keep hearing about this insistence that we need to automate software engineering.
by laktek | 2025-05-30 22:41:02+00:00
I'm the author of the blog post. To add more context, kids have been living with their grandparents from birth (extended family home). And grandparents usually help with the feeding and sleeping routine. We trust them to take better care of our kids than a childcare center or an au pair (which most kids with working parents have to go through as early as 4-6 months).

I knew that sharing about kids on the internet invites judgments from strangers. However, parenting is a different journey for each person and cannot be measured by the same yardstick.