MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivape | 2025-05-02 19:08:55+00:00
resource contention under high concurrency

A queue? What else can you really do. Your server is at the mercy of OpenAI, so all you can do is queue up everyone's requests. I don't know how many parallel requests you can send out to OpenAI (infinite?), so that bottleneck is probably just dependent on your server stack (how many threads).

There's a lot of language being thrown out here, and I'm trying to see if we're using too much language to discuss basic concepts.
by CodeMage | 2025-05-02 19:09:19+00:00
The first time someone accused me of being a bot because I use em dashes for inserting parentheticals, I was flabbergasted and then pissed off. I have plenty of concerns about GenAI, but I honestly didn't expect one of the problems to be "using a wide variety of punctuation is frowned upon". What's next? "Only bots use the Oxford comma", maybe?

That said, this blog post does seem to use em dashes "incorrectly", at least according to what I've been taught. The way I've been taught to use them, they're not exactly the same thing as a comma and you cannot use them interchangeably. But perhaps I'm nitpicking.

(PS: If it's not clear, I'm not the author of the blog. I'm just someone who hates how the GenAI is contributing to the enshittification of communication.)
by Jamesbeam | 2025-05-02 19:09:50+00:00
Looking this unfold and watching in real-time is how I imagine the German people pretended it wasn’t going to be that bad until they came to deport your Jewish neighbors you liked and who were good people and not criminals, and if you complained you got put on the same train, realising you should have grabbed a gun and killed the whole nazi leadership when they openly started to dismantle press freedom and threatening openly to execute the opposition on national tv.

By the time the us military shoots your protesting mother dead in front of you there will not be anyone left to report on it.

Go outside start protesting or be complicit by keep ignoring what’s happening, you have a choice. Just don’t pretend you didn’t know or realize what happens.
by stale2002 | 2025-05-02 19:10:04+00:00
Gotcha, so then basically your entire rant has almost nothing to do with the actual topic, you just want to overthrow the entire system or something.

I was previously thinking that your comments had something to do with the topic, but now that you are admitting that you just want to, like, over throw the entire system and get rid of very common concepts in the law, I can ignore it for being basically irrelevant.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-02 19:10:22+00:00
I haven't built a map app and basically never touch frontend stuff, so I vibe-coded one in 20 minutes here[0] following the approach of the video I linked earlier. It's done inside of an SVG to make it so you could add map markers as another layer (and I added a dot to demo). The map marker here doesn't stay in the correct spot after a zoom change, and I didn't bother to do touch events, but that's not really the point and I don't see much purpose in spending more time. The point is smooth panning works just fine with 150 lines of simple javascript. Probably could be done with less if I were more familiar with browsers.

You can sometimes see a flash if you pan quickly and a new tile is loading in, but the embedded Google Maps on Zillow has a (much more obvious/longer) visible delay for new tiles loading in too. And actually the full, real google maps has tons of stuttering/tearing on my computer when panning, so mine seems to perform better on my computer (though to be fair theirs takes more of the screen. Mine seems to do fine when upping the page zoom level to make it bigger though). The big difference though is my (frontend portion of the) widget can be built during a lunch break, and it's easy enough to see what's going on that a high school student could figure it out with view-source.

Note that for real world use cases, it'd probably also make sense to restrict the range that the user is allowed to zoom and pan around anyway (e.g. Zillow or your delivery tracker don't need to let you scroll a world map to look at a neighborhood/get context). For something like a delivery tracker, you might not be allowed to move the map at all, in which case you're pretty much dealing with a static image where you maybe reposition a marker every minute or so. This does not require wasm or webgpu, and it's a poor use of engineering resources to add that kind of complexity.

[0] https://ndriscoll.github.io/map.html
by cfata | 2025-05-02 19:11:14+00:00
I built Skimz (https://skimz.ai) because I was tired of spending 70+ minutes daily on news consumption and still feeling like I was missing important developments.

The app distills news across markets, geopolitics, tech, health and more into a clean, skimmable format with citations. It's designed to be consumed in exactly 10 minutes each day.

Key features I implemented: - Responsive layout that works well on any device - Dark/light mode with theme persistence - Citation links to original sources (work-in-progress) - Offline-first architecture for reading on-the-go - Structured sections that follow a consistent format daily

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially on the content tone and structure. Are there features you'd want to see in something like this? My goal was to create a tool that allows builders and founders to stay informed without turning news consumption into a part-time job. That way we can all spend less time scrolling and more time building the future.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-02 19:12:04+00:00
I went to a small high school; my graduating class was around 30 people.

Math classes weren't separated by grade. So, I took Algebra 2 in 8th grade alongside a cross section of the school; there was one other 8th grader, two seniors, and a selection of people in between.

There was no path to take the AP Calculus AB. Trig / Calc A was offered as two semesters, and then Calc B / Calc C was offered as two more semesters, after which you'd take the BC test. There was also no such thing as "precalculus". Trig followed Algebra II.

In my Calc C class, there were probably 8ish people, of which one or two (besides me) would have been in my grade.
by ignoramous | 2025-05-02 19:12:12+00:00
> You can update the version number and re-release.

You kid, but Google makes substantial security and privacy SDK / API changes from one Android version to the next (reactively in response to abuse by 3p apps) & maintains backwards compatibility for a limited time period, post which incompatible apps are not visible to latest Androids on the Play Store. This means, developers have to continually update their "targetSdkVersion", if nothing else.

https://developer.android.com/guide/app-compatibility / https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/targe...
by humbledrone | 2025-05-02 19:12:37+00:00
Linux: I very much want to do this, but unfortunately it's lower priority than getting things rock-solid on windows/mac. It's not a gigantic amount of work, but it's not trivial. Hopefully I can do it once things calm down with the Beta.

CLAP: I'm using the JUCE framework for plugin integrations, which doesn't currently support CLAP. But their roadmap says that the next major version will support CLAP, and I will definitely implement that in Anukari. Not sure when JUCE 9 comes out though, it could be a while.
by registeredcorn | 2025-05-02 19:12:42+00:00
We had a Dev environment that showed a doge meme on the auth page that had been there for like...7 years or something? "So auth. Much secure. Wow." etc.

Every other environment had standard boiler plate corporate logo + whatever product name. We kept the meme stuff in Dev just so you could be visually reminded, "Oh right, this is the crazy broken one."

Queue 7 years later, an emergency where we just had to impress a new client with a demo of how the product would work. And of course, the only thing that was really in a semi-ready state...was Dev. We couldn't move it over to a different one for some stupid reason or another.

Number one comment after the demo? "This looks very unprofessional. We do not want a dog logo on the login page. Is your team taking this seriously?"
by godelski | 2025-05-02 19:13:16+00:00
> By that same logic you could also say that language is math

Not quite, but the inverse is true. The language to math direction doesn't work because a lack of formalism. I can state incomprehensible sentences or words. (There's an advantage to that in some cases!) but when you do that with code you get errors and even you do it with math its just that there's no compiler or interpreter that tells at you
by nataliste | 2025-05-02 19:13:26+00:00
Create a home gym if you're wealthy; buy a set of resistance bands (total cost: $30) and run if you're not (or just frugal and utilitarian). Wake up an hour or two earlier than when your kids do and do your cardio/lifting then.

It takes about two weeks to adjust to the decrease in sleep, but the well-being that exercise provides in my experience more than offsets it.
by EA-3167 | 2025-05-02 19:13:59+00:00
Deniability? Modern forensics are quite impressive, and drones/missiles/etc don't just go away when they detonate. Besides, that was a whole flotilla acting in the public eye, and Hamas still had the veneer of legitimacy for many in the West. None of that applies here, and it's hard to imagine that attacking a civilian vessel with a drone would be better than the Flotilla mess either.

All told this is a very odd story and waiting until more information is available seems reasonable. This isn't 1985, there's no expectation that an investigation won't reveal exactly what happened. Especially when there are other plausible explanations that don't involve Israel sending a drone 2000km with all of the risks that entails.
by lewdev | 2025-05-02 19:14:18+00:00
This reminds me of how ATMs created more banking jobs because people started to use the bank more along with ATMs. ATMs handled the simple transactions and tellers dealt with the more complex tasks.

We'll see. There will be a loss of little industries that depended on truckers though, like truck stops and inns.

I also hope that this results in more jobs that are fulfilling.
by rglover | 2025-05-02 19:14:19+00:00
If you're unfamiliar with Gary's design documentary series, do yourself a favor and buy all of them for a marathon watch. Rams' is one of the best because Dieter is so smart/charming.

Had the chance to see the premiere of Gary's doc Urbanized in Detroit a decade or so ago and ask him a question about the music he uses (from the band El Ten Eleven). Really nice guy who deeply cares about his craft.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-05-02 19:14:33+00:00
Yes. That's compelled speech which is also disfavored under the First Amendment. (It would probably be fair to say "prohibited" -- but, as always, it's complicated.)

Of course, as I'm sure many here know, the Fairness Doctrine was previously upheld in Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC. So it's not totally clear cut. But I expect the current Supreme Court would have a very different view.
by nathan-barry | 2025-05-02 19:14:42+00:00
Yeah, right now the weights aren't even pushed to the repo so there's no way for the github page to load them in. I've looked a tiny bit into it and might end up making a fix for it, having it load the weights by fetching them from somewhere else on load, but probably not today.

There is a link to the zipped up folder with the weights here: https://github.com/nathan-barry/gpt2-webgl/releases/download...

If anyone wants to make a PR which fetches the file from there, unzips it, then loads in the weights from there that would be greatly appreciated.
by kiitos | 2025-05-02 19:14:47+00:00
Sorry, the question was actually rhetorical: those glyphs are in no way obscure, they're super common. A text isn't monospaced or not, a text is just a text, monospaced is a property of a typeface that can be used to render a text, it's adjacent to other properties of typefaces like serif or sans-serif. When you dismiss stuff like ü or ø or ß or etc. as "obscure" (and, transitively, irrelevant) it comes across as ignorance.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-05-02 19:15:03+00:00
I don't really understand this thinking. If a long tail of mostly unremarkable apps make the good ones hard to find then that is a flaw of the ranking algorithm.

If an app is not even in the app store, how can it possibly attract user interest? What if users happen to like some quirky feature that seems unremarkable to app store reviewers?

App stores need better search and filtering.
by froh | 2025-05-02 19:15:03+00:00
that's not how that works. they were under active investigation for years already, and it took until now to gather and evaluate the evidence.

they want to overthrow the foundations of the constitutions. turn human rights back into birthright citizen rights and then likes.

that's why they are considered right extreme.

the election outcome is much more a success if their campaigning on slander platforms and bubble platforms like X and tiktok.

Musks very actively supported their campaign not just through personal public endorsement but also through active support on X.
by cynicalpeace | 2025-05-02 19:15:11+00:00
I have a hypothesis that AI music and other arts will not take off.

My reasoning is that the fact that it was made by another human is really important.

Not only because you might think a piece of music is lame because it was made by AI vs a human.

But also because all the things that bring you back to a piece of art is wrapped up in the person that made it.

People who are immense fans of the Beatles, Taylor Swift or Kanye West illustrate this point.

You keep coming back because you liked this person's music before, and so you can't wait to preorder their music in the future.

Same goes for books, paintings and really all other art I can think of.

An artist develops a following that snowballs into their music being broadly consumed.

There are "AI music artists" that have been around for a decade. Miquela is the one I know about. But in that timespan, hundreds of human artists have developed followings and cultural sway that far outweigh what Miquela has done.

It seems more and more that AI is simply another tool for humans to use. Rather than a replacement altogether of humans.
by hirvi74 | 2025-05-02 19:15:39+00:00
> "everyone can learn to program"

> That doesn't mean everyone is qualified to pour concrete for a dam or a bridge foundation, or to re-do some historical work in original style.

Exactly!

I think statements like that are more concerned with philosophy than reality. Any discussion surrounding topics like this typically ends up being a discussion around definitions.

I believe the vast majority of human beings are capable of learning how to program in the most extreme elementary sense of the word. As in, outside of severe disabilities or complete and utter inaccessibility to circumstances in which one could learn program, then I think the remaining population of people could learn to program to some degree. Obviously, not everyone will learn to program due to a near infinite number of reasons.

I would argue it's like music. Anyone can make 'music.' Just make a sound -- any sound. The difference between noise and music is subjective. I would not argue that everyone could be the next Lovelace, Turning, Ritchie, Thompson, Torvalds, etc..

Now, for my jaded opinion, I think a lot of the "everyone can learn to program" talk does not come from a place of desire to share the gift of knowledge and joy of programming. I think it's more of a subtle way to encourage people to go into programming so that they may be hired by mega corps. In order to keep the Capitalist machine running. It's like the National Hockey League's slogan, "Hockey is for everyone." That is just a fancy way of saying, "everyone's money can be spent on the NHL."
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-02 19:16:04+00:00
> Deniability?

Yes. Enough, at least, for people to look the other way. Not at all uncommon - Russia's "Little Green Men" in Crimea, as an example. It doesn't matter if everyone knows who did it if you can go "nuh uh wasn't us!" and have allies go "good enough for us!"

Israel does this fairly regularly, like when they initially lied about what happened when they killed 15 medics recently, not counting on a phone with video being found in the mass grave. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-isr...

> Modern forensics are quite impressive, and drones/missiles/etc don't just go away when they detonate.

Drones are not tough to procure commercially, or build from widely-available components. Especially at the nation-state level. The video footage looks more like a series of small FPV drones, not Hellfires from a Predator style thing.

> Especially when there are other plausible explanations that don't involve Israel sending a drone 2000km with all of the risks that entails.

You don't do that. Ukraine has been launching short-range FPV drones off their remote controlled jet skis for a while now. Launch 'em from a nearby cargo ship, or shore, or any number of other options.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-05-02 19:16:20+00:00
Not to mention the drive to remove the 10s of thousands of truck drivers that recently immigrated... E.g.,

https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/us-news/trump-signs-order-requ...

https://truckdrivernews.com/new-arkansas-bill-could-make-non...
by somethoughts | 2025-05-02 19:16:24+00:00
I feel like the ideal scenario would be to prioritize self driving truck at set times and set long haul freeways (i.e. Long Beach to Las Vegas or Galveston to Dallas) during the night time when there is no regular auto traffic - for example from 1 am-6 am.

That way if a human driver is concerned, they can choose not to drive during this period of time.

Perhaps run the trucks in a train style configuration where a "conductor" can sit in the lead truck and manage any emergency issues that arise (i.e. security, crash or weather related).

If fully autonomous, I could see securing the cargo being real issue - what would stop a few cars passage in front of the truck and helping themselves to the cargo.
by xg15 | 2025-05-02 19:16:43+00:00
> Why did we think this was a good idea?

Who is "we"? I think this had always been the wet dream of corporate types, not the users. In the PC space there are too many existing ecosystems to implement that kind of control (through Microsoft certainly tried with the whole "trusted computing" stuff) but as soon as there was an opportunity for a popular new "blue ocean" platform, they jumped.

You could see this most blatancy with ARM tablets. Microsoft released two versions of Windows, one for x86, one for ARM. The x86 one allowed installation of regular programs, the ARM version was restricted to Store apps. Made no sense from a technical perspective, the only reason is that they could.
by whodidntante | 2025-05-02 19:16:53+00:00
Well, she had plenty of time to reflect on what she did not remember and had a perfect opportunity in the NPR interview to address that.

Watch the Senate hearing. This was not a person that did not want to make an offhand statement. This was a person who clearly did not feel comfortable with what she knew she said to "her audience" but not comfortable when it came to a public audience. Many, many times. She sounded like someone repeatedly pleading the fifth.

My opinion, of course.
by transcriptase | 2025-05-02 19:17:08+00:00
Paranoid about what? The things I’ve mentioned have been noticeable across the political spectrum for years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CBC_Radio/comments/1ao0ie1/what_the...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskACanadian/comments/18cz52m/why_d...

Etc.

Pointing out why many people take issue with the modern state of CBC, particularly all of their non-news content, doesn’t put one in opposition with the things they’re prioritizing.
by jackcosgrove | 2025-05-02 19:17:13+00:00
I had to scroll through most of the paper to find this.

> All participants were right-handed native English speakers with no exposure to a second natural language before the age of 6 years

Which removes a confounder that Python mimics English syntax.

Still if this is a typical study recruiting thirty-some undergrads as subjects it's probably not generalizable, or even replicable given the same experimental setup.
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by PleasureBot | 2025-05-02 19:17:43+00:00
The now famous photo of his hands with the "MS-13" tattoo, which is the evidence of his gang ties, was taken from CECOT. It would not surprise me in the slightest if he was forced to get that tattoo there. CECOT is widely known for torturing its prisoners, and their dictator is obviously doing anything he can to make Trump happy as he's being paid millions by Trump.

This is just a conspiracy theory but it highlights the need for due process. Without it it is very easy for governments to fabricate whatever narrative they want.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-05-02 19:17:43+00:00
There's also a trial of "platooning" of driverless trucks on I-70 in Ohio and Indiana: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbishop1/2025/04/24/ease-...

A "drivered" lead truck is leading one or more driverless trucks in this case.

I drive the stretch of highway these trucks are on fairly regularly. I don't know that I've seen a group of them yet but I'm keeping my eye out.

I'm probably just showing my age, but I like the idea of a "drivered" truck leading driverless trucks versus a completely autonomous system. It's similar to my attitude on crewed spaceflight-- I like the idea of the ingenuity and capacity for independent thought supervising an automated systems, versus autonomous automated systems.
by brundolf | 2025-05-02 19:18:20+00:00
And even without that, high-quality module systems and tooling make your code extremely portable, for both Bun and Deno. I run a Deno server for a small project and I don't host it on Deno Deploy

Which- this is one of my favorite things about this ecosystem, and especially these projects! It's Just Code, with a single system dependency, and you can run it in one place just as easily as any other

But that means you can't corral devs into your own hosting service, which makes it a tough business to make money in

IMO these kinds of projects just can't work as a startup. They need to be either community-led, or incubated within a larger business that uses them instead of trying to sell them

Hopefully one or both can make a transition if/when their business model fails to take off
by diggan | 2025-05-02 19:18:21+00:00
> CI enforcement makes sure that everyone follows the rules, even if they "forget" to set up the git hook.

Yeah, my wording was a bit poor (shouldn't have said "rather"), both are needed, one just helps you fix stuff faster :)

And if you write your hook in a language that can cross-compile and can easily deal with multiple platforms (Go, Rust, NodeJS, many options [probably .net too?]), it's really easy. Just need to make the setup of them part of the onboarding.