MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mopsi | 2025-05-07 18:08:14+00:00
From the article:

HMS Defender was sailing from Odessa in southern Ukraine to Georgia. To get there, it passed south of the Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in a move that has not been recognised internationally. While Moscow claims the peninsula and its waters are Russian territory, the UK says HMS Defender was passing through Ukrainian waters in a commonly used and internationally recognised transit route.

Not quite the story you are trying to spin.
by kergonath | 2025-05-07 18:08:16+00:00
> I think this is a game changer, because data privacy is a legitimate concern for many enterprise users.

Indeed. At work, we are experimenting with this. Using a cloud platform is a non-starter for data confidentiality reasons. On-premise is the way to go. Also, they’re not American, which helps.

> Btw, you can also run Mistral locally within the Docker model runner on a Mac.

True, but you can do that only with their open-weight models, right? They are very useful and work well, but their commercial models are bigger and hopefully better (I use some of their free models every day, but none of their commercial ones).
by gizmo686 | 2025-05-07 18:08:18+00:00
When analyzing the value of a young, pre revenue company, one of the things you want to look it is how established comparable companies are valued. For AI coding assistants, the field is too young to do that directly. However, they are competing in the space of "developer productivity tool for writing code". That space is an established market that is currently dominated by IDEs.

Seeing young companies which are pre-revenue, which are competing for an unproven yet crowded sub market (AI coding assistant) out value an established incumbent in the larger space does not compute.

Add to this the fact that there is very little moat for AI coding assistants. Assuming the market as a whole proves itself, there is a very good chance that the winners will be the established incumbent IDEs who can add AI assistance as a feature in their established products.

All of that is to say, current AI valuations in this space look a lot like a bubble.
by nine_k | 2025-05-07 18:08:20+00:00
> balance of the loan and/or grants are deposited into their bank account.

Here's where the system is defective. The loan's balance should go directly to the college's bank account, as a tuition payment.

Suddenly, there'd be no incentive to cheat the system, while actual students who need help paying for tuition would have their tuition paid.
by serial_dev | 2025-05-07 18:08:55+00:00
I am using their free product, IntelliJ CE (community edition). I simply couldn’t get used to VS code and its AI derivatives.

Possibly an interesting data point is that my company pays for every engineers’ Cursor usage, can’t imagine how much it could cost, but they don’t have any encouraged integration with JetBrains… so while JetBrains products are good, I’m wondering if Cursor simply has a better sales team and hype pushing them to higher valuations
by bluGill | 2025-05-07 18:09:27+00:00
I cannot follow your rant... I'll do my best to respond, but I'm probably not understanding something.

Divide by zero must be undefined behavior in any performant language. On x86 you either have a if before running the divide (which of course in some cases the compiler can optimize out, but only if it can determine the value is not zero); or you the CPU will trap into the OS - different OSes handle this in different ways, but most not in a while that makes it possible to figure out where you were and thus do something about it. This just came up in the C++ std-proposals mailing list in the past couple weeks.

AFAIK all common CPUs have the same behavior on integer overflow (two-complement). However in almost all cases (again, some encryption code is an exception) that behavior is useless to real code and so if it happens your code has a bug either way. Thus we may as well let compilers optimize assuming it cannot happen as it if it does you have a bug no matter what we define it as. (C++ is used on CPUs that are not two-complement as well, but we could call this implementation defined or unspecified, but it doesn't change that you have a bug if you invoke it.)

For std::expected - new benchmarks are proving in the real world, and with optimized exception handlers that exceptions are faster in the real world than systems that use things like expected. Microbenchmarks that show exceptions are slower are easy to create, but real world exceptions that unwind more than a couple function calls show different results.

As for modules, support is finally here and early adopters are using it. The road was long, but it is finally proving it worked.

Long roads are a good thing. C++ has avoided a lot of bad designs by spending a lot of time thinking about problems about things for a long time. Details often matter and move fast languages tend to run into problems when something doesn't work as well as they want. I'm glad C++ standardization is slow - it already is a mess without add more half backed features to the language.
by philipkglass | 2025-05-07 18:09:47+00:00
Centrifuge enrichment was considered for the Manhattan Project but rejected because early experiments encountered many problems:

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Proce...

Centrifuge uranium enrichment wasn't developed to an industrial scale until the 1960s, and it first happened outside the United States:

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
by nprateem | 2025-05-07 18:09:50+00:00
I think the big limiting factor is having it learn what the infinite number of parameters in different synths, etc actually make it sound like, and then being able to make the model be able to produce music by using and configuring them instead of just spaffing out crap music.

If it could do that it'd give the tweakability it needs, but I think it would basically involve training a model for each instrument.
by refulgentis | 2025-05-07 18:10:00+00:00
I am Don Quixote, building a app that abstracts over models (i.e. allows user choice), while providing them a user-controlled set of tools, and allowing users to write their own "scripts", i.e. precanned dialogue / response steps to permit ex. building of search.

Which is probably what makes me so cranky here. It's very hard keeping track of all of it and doing my best to lever up the models that are behind Claude's agentic capabilities, and all the Newspeak of Google PR makes it consume almost as much energy as the rest of the providers combined. (I'm v frustrated that I didn't realize till yesterday that 2.0 Flash had quietly gone from 10 RPM to 'you can actually use it')

I'm a Xoogler and I get why this happens ("preview" is a magic wand that means "you don't have to get everyone in bureaucracy across DeepMind/Cloud/? to agree to get this done and fill out their damn launchcal"), but, man.
by sys32768 | 2025-05-07 18:10:52+00:00
I am 54 and have tendonitis for two weeks after moving, so bad that I can barely lift a full coffee mug with my strong arm.

I moved three times two years ago with zero issues.

Also went to the ER with atrial fibrillation a year ago and now have a prostate cancer scare.

Also lost both parents in the last two years.

Age 44 was paradise compared to this.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-07 18:11:03+00:00
It sucks because electronics manufacturing the US both sucks and is wildly expensive. The people who are actually manning these places matters a lot, and it's mostly unskilled low wage workers who are there just to work. They might have come from a job pallet stacking and leave to stock grocery shelves a few months later. There isn't much specialty because there isn't much industry to build it up in.

You end up with a high cost per unit, and a bad yield at that. And trust me, when one capacitor value is misplaced causing intermittent failure, because a worker had to tape additional parts on a reel and didn't know that "look the same != is the same", you can easily sink in 40-50 hours trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with the 5 units that are failing ask me how I know I have many many examples lol
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-07 18:11:06+00:00
Because it works extremely reliably for a vast swathe of users.

(When I was younger, I wondered the same thing. An older relative who used to own a grocery store shared his vantage point with me. Before Windows came along, things were fragmented and complex, and that made it hard for him to do his job: manage grocery inventory, sell to customers, and track the money. IBM, Microsoft, and their ilk brought to the space something that was hard to build before: integrated solutions where there was one mostly-right answer for most problems and, most importantly, you didn't have to hunt it down because it was right in front of you. This is huge for people who want their nine-to-five to be something other than "the computer itself."

Because we hackers love having our nine-to-five be "the computer itself," I think we sometimes lose sight of how few decisions people outside our ecosystem want to be making. They just want it to work. They want to pay someone to make it work. And there's a lot of money to be made in being the companies that do that.)
by pona-a | 2025-05-07 18:11:14+00:00
I see a common thread in that comment: there's too many distros, there's too many languages, there's too much software. But there's no central authority telling people to make them. You can't force people to not reinvent the wheel; that's hubris, the third virtue of a programmer, as well as parallel invention.

If you base your solution on top of something else, like writing a DSL in Lisp instead of starting from scratch, it will still become a new language as it diverges, like Coalton. Otherwise we'd say Perl isn't a language, because its interpreter is written in C.

If these tools weren't needed, nobody but their author would use them. There's a genetic hill climb happening in every sphere of life, from film and poetry to science and programming, where every new thing either sets a new threshold of goodness, or is forgotten when it fails to. Sooner or later things stabilize, when the new solution is not better enough to outweigh the old one: we used to see many version control systems, but only Git remained, because for all its flaws, something like Jujitsu or Pijul weren't as much better than Git as Git was than SVN. We measure how close we are to convergence not by the size of the population, but by the average age of the used solutions. By that metric, software is cooling.

There is no problem to solve: nobody is writing enterprise software in a bespoke SKI-combinator derived language they found on Rosetta Code, nor paralyzed by choice between 275 Linux distros to put on their server. The duplication of effort is a cost offset by dysfunctional application and maintenance of solutions designed by committee. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
by seam_carver | 2025-05-07 18:11:25+00:00
Oh... the sample links are all dead. They were made by previous KCC maintainer.

For now, here's some kindle scribe samples. The mobi can be usb transferred, the epub can be sent via Send to Kindle. They might look fine on other Kindles, let me know! Otherwise I can put up more samples.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ixh40veo6hrc5/kcc_samples

Edit: added more kindles/kobos/remarkable, lmk if I made any errors! only difference is resolution
by tecleandor | 2025-05-07 18:11:29+00:00
Looks nice! I'm gonna test it!

Feature idea (that I think it doesn't have): a gamma/palette sampler. Takes one page of the source, and generates an output with multiple pages, all for the same source page, but each one using a different gamma and/or palette option. Useful when the source is "difficult" (weird shading, colors...) or it's an unknown device, to find the best configuration.
by toast0 | 2025-05-07 18:11:36+00:00
When I was at community college (~ 2000), if the section you wanted was full at registration, you'd register in another section (in case), but show up at the section you wanted and talk with the instructor. Depending on the course/instructor, you'd might need to show up for the first week and anybody who hadn't attended in the first week would be dropped and those who had attended but weren't registered could take those spaces. Sometimes the instructor would do that at the first meeting. You'd go to the section you were registered in as well, and let the instructor know there (sometimes it'd be the same instructor and then maybe you wouldn't need to attend both sections). Not ideal, but registration order was based on completed credits, and after one semester it got a lot easier to get into the sections you wanted; students (real or not) that haven't completed any classes get to pick sections last, so once you've shown you're willing and able to complete classes, you're good. (Protip: check if taking any class in the summer will help you get into the sections you want in the fall)

At that time, you could drop classes in the first two weeks for a full refund.
by bena | 2025-05-07 18:11:36+00:00
I never saw so much hand-wringing and pearl clutching when we started injecting botulism toxin into our faces to make them smoother.

Why are we so dead set on making sure overweight people struggle to put off the weight? Why can't it be easy for them?

I don't mock alcoholics for not being able to control themselves around alcohol. But we are determined to mock overweight people. Despite alcoholics having an easier time dealing with their vice.

Think about it, every other vice is controllable by simply avoiding the thing. Except for food. We must eat. It is a requirement. Having an issue with food is something you must deal with. You have to deal with the underlying issue. It requires true discipline. And it requires you to maintain that discipline 24/7. We don't ask that of any other vice.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-07 18:12:10+00:00
> A big limitation of AI sloop is it tries to not offend anyone.

That tends to be very true of major commercially-hosted and proprietary systems, and true (but somewhat less and less consistently so) of open foundation models from corporations and big labs, but community models (including community fine tunes of big-vendor open models) much less so. This is very visible in LLMs, image models, and video models right now.

Rap (and even music more generally) models don't have as much attention right now, but I suspect if/as they get more attention and community use the same dynamic is likely to emerge.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-07 18:12:22+00:00
If 30% of the price paid is taken by Apple, that means their commission is 43% of the revenue received by the vendor, the hypothetical price you would otherwise pay. A 30% decrease and a 43% increase are the same size; a 30% decrease is much larger than a 30% increase.

Observe: 0.7 * 1.3 = 0.91.

https://i.imgur.com/MBWOc6W.png
by absinnovation | 2025-05-07 18:12:27+00:00
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by lemoncookiechip | 2025-05-07 18:13:04+00:00
Honestly, I think they pose a far bigger risk to some adults. Adult's have a harder time making friends, in changing themselves when stuck in a loop, and loneliness is growing exponentially in big cities.

Of course children are children, and adults are responsible for their own choices.

Btw, I like generative AI and LLMs, I'm not trying to say "ban it" or "regulate it", just pointing out that lonely adults are a very real thing, and some of them can and will get stuck in this, the same way they can and do get stuck in other online hobbies.
by mistrial9 | 2025-05-07 18:13:18+00:00
no doubt the readers here are very clever, but also sometimes lazy in their questions.

Take a look at how real financial crime is done.. the ones that know what they are doing, not the amateurs. Obviously the first item in a plan is "what is the cost of being caught" and quickly, "how can I get this to happen without doing it myself and getting caught" .. so it is a cooperative agreement, to be corrupt. The most successful of the corrupt never do any illegal things at all, they simply look the other way. Next is finding someone desperate, or far away, to "do the crime" but the successful person is involved somehow, in the most distant way possible.

Do I really have to type this out? I am guessing anyway. Did I say "the admins are making fraud things at night?" no. They mostly do not, but that does not make them not involved. Read what I wrote, that is what I meant to say here.
by trollied | 2025-05-07 18:13:28+00:00
USA food is absolutely crazy. Lots of stuff that’s banned in the EU. Lots of high fructose corn syrup. If you eat out, portion sizes are off the scale. I ordered a starter salad at a restaurant once when I was over on business, and it would have fed me for the entire day! (Won’t even start on the sauces!)

Everything involving food is screwed.
by lowercased | 2025-05-07 18:13:33+00:00
I seem to recall Lennon's "Instant Karma" phase, where he wanted to just get stuff out. Had a song idea, recorded, mixed, shipped out to pressing and was for sale in stores within 10 days.

I suspect a lot of artists over the years have just itched to get something out today, but yeah... without the tech, it was just impossible.
by koljab | 2025-05-07 18:13:37+00:00
Didn't find many coqui finetunes too so far. I have David Attenborough and Snoop Dogg finetunes on my huggingface, quality is medium.

Coqui can to 17 languages. The problem with RealtimeVoiceChat repo is turn detection, the model I use to determine if a partial sentence indicates turn change is trained on english corpus only.
by Loughla | 2025-05-07 18:13:50+00:00
My grandpa died at 102. Up until the day he died he would consistently say that it was weird being in a body that couldn't do what he wanted it to do. He always said that he was 24 in his head, and that was consistent from the year he was 24 until the day he died.

It's. I don't know. Scary? Weird? Sort of like an odd out-of-body in small doses to consider how I feel inside. When I think that I'm still 22, but the room full of people is looking at me for guidance because I'm the wise old person. It's strange. The first time that happened, a young man and his girlfriend had crashed their car into a ditch. No injuries, but the tailpipe was off of the car. We were working to fix it, and I realized halfway through that they were looking to me for guidance. Meanwhile, inside, I was thinking 'when will the adult get here to take care of this'.

Strange thoughts. But I feel like they're probably universal for humans in some fashion.
by _rpxpx | 2025-05-07 18:14:04+00:00
Bollocks, honestly. When I was 23, I had a girlfriend turning 20. At her birthday party, her friends were talking earnestly about how "depressing" [sic] it was to turn 20. Then one of them pointed at me and said with obvious consolation, "well, at least we're not old like Richard!". When I turned 28 I felt depressed about being old. I went to sit by the river with a friend, and one of his friends who came too had just turned 23. I sighed internally, "oh to be young again, to be just 23!". Shortly after I went to my great aunt's birthday party. She was turning 85. She asked me how old I was. When I told her, she said, "28! A mere spring chicken!". From that point on, I decided never to care about how old I was. For 95% of your life, possibly more, there is someone who thinks you are old, and someone who thinks you are young. Don't think about it, work on the assumption you're young enough to do whatever you want, and give it a shot. You're really only old when you're dead.
by abirch | 2025-05-07 18:14:43+00:00
A potential reason that GOOG is down right now is that Apple is looking at AI Search Engines.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/apple-wor...

Although AI is fun and great, an AI search engine may have issues of being unprofitable. It's similar to how 23 and Me got many customers selling a 500 dollar test to people for 100 dollars.
by nine_k | 2025-05-07 18:14:48+00:00
EBT cards exist for reasons like that. Issue a card with which you can pay for food, books, specific kinds of equipment, very much like many corporations give employees cards that are locked to particular classes of merchants. Limit the amount that can be spent on tangible goods; say, 80% should go to tuition. None can be transferred to cash accounts.

Maybe this would still allow some fraud, but much, much less profitable.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-07 18:15:34+00:00
Lonely young people are supposed to suffer for their sin of being unacceptable to the masses. We shouldn't let future incel types be allowed to find a social outlet because it short-circuits the "nudge" that makes them "self improve".

This is basically what the anti-AI as social companion crowd believes.

Actually, nerdy or autistic basement dwelling people are not "bad" and often do not deserve the social scorn they get. It's good that we can short-circuit the "need" for social interaction, especially with these kind of companions.

All this pearl clutching because one kid doing NSFW chats with a Danerys Targayn chatbot on character.ai got some media attention after committing suicide.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-05-07 18:15:49+00:00
> ... the past two years have been a fun experiment in semi-free-market medicine. I don’t mean the patent violations - it’s no surprise that you can sell drugs cheap if you violate the patent - I mean everything else. For the past three years, ~2 million people have taken complex peptides provided direct-to-consumer by a less-regulated supply chain, with barely a fig leaf of medical oversight, and it went great. There were no more side effects than any other medication. People who wanted to lose weight lost weight. And patients had a more convenient time than if they’d had to wait for the official supply chain to meet demand, get a real doctor, spend thousands of dollars on doctors’ visits, apply for insurance coverage, and go to a pharmacy every few weeks to pick up their next prescription.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43369502
by mananaysiempre | 2025-05-07 18:15:52+00:00
Nobody in Russia who valued their business chose to incorporate it—or at least its parent company—in Russia. After Yukos, the writing was on the wall. (And now, of course, everybody who values their business takes pains to point out their chosen country of incorporation as though it wasn’t originally just a saner jurisdiction. As you’ve shown, everybody does it because it works.) JetBrains specifically did employ a fair number of both Russians and Ukrainians, though, and unlike Yandex or mobile carriers, was not prominent enough to be forced to split immediately after 2014, so it was inevitable they would have to move out of Russia (and they did so pretty gracefully).
by jazzyjackson | 2025-05-07 18:15:54+00:00
Fine, not wrong, but you missed the rather heavy factor of the western powers feeling they owe a huge debt to the Jewish people for turning their boats back during the Holocaust. It's a "no one helps you til you help yourself" scenario, now that a state exists with a mission to give Jews safe refuge and self governance, they have (some of) the world's sympathy.

its not merely because of a few lobbyists and evangelicals' wacky eschatology