MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by liotier | 2025-05-07 19:14:26+00:00
1991, first time riding a motorcycle... After a 15 minutes instruction course near the barn from which we extracted the 200 cm³ bike, off we were in Idaho's mountains. As a 15 years-old French person, the whole experience was exhilarating and it wasn't long before I started to relax and open the throttle a bit on the dirt track...

As an avid mountain bike cyclist back in France, I hung to what seemed familiar - which worked well enough until the first sharp bend came... It came way too fast, I panicked, cycling reflexes took over, I shifted my weight back and pressed both handle levers hard - getting the (to a cyclist) very unexpected result of both disengaging the clutch and thus losing all engine braking while locking the front wheel hard (why did they put the front break where the rear, which helps me control slides, is supposed to be ?)... I was catapulted, followed by the bike... Nothing broken - just bruises, rashes and the flattened ego of a lucky idiot.

As a daily cyclist, being a motorcycle passenger on big engines always terrifies me: I'm on two wheels, with bicycle-like positions and trajectories... But everything happens monstrously too fast, my instincts for braking and acceleration are all out of calibration, so I always feel that we cannot possibly survive the next turn !

So, yes - I recommend not mixing bicycling and motorcycling.
by timr | 2025-05-07 19:15:23+00:00
Mischaracterizing my argument, and then attacking that mischaracterization is called a straw man.

My argument is not about dishwashers. It's not about specific buttons. It's that removal of this particular government bureaucracy is unlikely to lead to any bad outcomes, because it has long ago stopped doing much of anything that actually impacts energy use, and instead focuses on things like making your dishwasher work worse in the name of efficiency. A classic story of bureaucratic imperative.

Even if you do think it's doing something, you have yet to adequately explain why it needs to be done by the government.
by pllbnk | 2025-05-07 19:15:28+00:00
That's a really fun exercise. Mine shows: 1. A popular media personality I like and actually follow. The algorithm is sometimes OK with guessing the topmost post. 2. People you may know. 3. Some make-up advertisement by a Facebook user in one of the groups I'm in (totally irrelevant) 4. Some vaguely relevant news item about my city 5. A cute puppy 6. A vaguely relevant news item again 7. Irrelevant reels

Basically, my life hasn't been enriched by seeing the feed in any way. The one in the top spot was fine but I actively follow that person anyway and check their profile from time to time, so I wouldn't have missed it.
by nullify88 | 2025-05-07 19:15:56+00:00
It's possible but you need to buy in to the Elastic ecosystem. Stuff like *beats, logstash, etc, they can configure all sorts of index templates, and ingest pipelines depending on what you've configured it to receive.

These days, getting data in and out of Elasticsearch is quite easy with dynamic field mapping. Its keeping it performant which is tricky.
by zoogeny | 2025-05-07 19:16:06+00:00
I would politely suggest you work at getting better at this since it would be a pretty important skill in a world where a lot of creative work is done by AI.

As some have mentioned, LLMs are treasure troves of information for learning how to prompt the LLM. One thing to get over is a fear of embarrassment in what you say to the LLM. Just write a stream of consciousness to the LLM about what you want and ask it to generate a prompt based on that. "I have an image that I am trying to get an image LLM to add some clutter to. But when I ask it to do it, like I say add some stack of paper and notebooks, but it doesn't look like I want because they are neat stacks of paper. What I want is a desk that kind of looks like it has been worked at for a while by a typical office worker, like at the end of the day with a half empty coffee cup and .... ". Just ramble away and then ask the LLM to give you the best prompt. And if it doesn't work, literally go back to the same message chain and say "I tried that prompt and it was [better|worse] than before because ...".

This is one of those opportunities where life is giving you an option: give up or learn. Choose wisely.
by ed-209 | 2025-05-07 19:16:12+00:00
> this whole ageing conversation has been dominated by the Boomers, often blamed for the world’s problems or pitted against younger generations. A tad unfair.

I'm in my mid-fourties and until recently, it seemed logical & righteous to place blame at the boomers' feet. Today it seems a lazy and naive, ultimately serving to further atomize/neuter the next generation. I expect my comeuppance is imminent. Oh well.
by Suppafly | 2025-05-07 19:16:19+00:00
>It's a credit-card-sized Gameboy (hence the "boy" part of the name) powered by an ATmega32u4 microcontroller (hence the "Ardu" part).

I didn't read that article and I was able to deduce that, not really sure how the guy you're replying to claims to have went to the site and still can't figure it out.
by ilamont | 2025-05-07 19:16:39+00:00
"If we are lucky." For some, it's even earlier.

In my high school text chat of 5 people now in their mid 50s, 1 is a leukemia survivor, 1 has various chronic health conditions associated with PTSD, and 1 is about to have a quadruple bypass.

3 spouses also have serious health challenges, including cancer and organ transplant.

6 out of 10 with major health issues. Mid freaking 50s.

Wondering when my number is going to come up.
by simion314 | 2025-05-07 19:16:50+00:00
The censorship is too sensitive if it gets triggered by a children story. I am using the open ai API at my work , and our users write books, including children stories , other example is it triggered on a story about monkeys because of "Racism".

Here is an example story, try to translate it , but maybe avoidAI since it might censor it https://www.povesti-pentru-copii.com/ion-creanga/capra-cu-tr...
by enugu | 2025-05-07 19:17:33+00:00
Yes, an outside target can be used to tackle internal strife. But, there is no sign that the Pakistani army is actually in any danger of being removed from power, barring a major military defeat, nor that it will lose its autonomy over military policy.

If say, India were to let this slide, the default outcome is another such attack. Given the above motivation of the military to create a conflict and the ideological bent seen in Gen.Munir's speech, the expected outcome would be to repeat till this they get a conflict.

Yes, the deterrence won't be perfect. The Pakistan Army might end up repeating an attack whenever there is a relief from economic constraints(it doesn't have money for frequent purchases of expensive weapons) or from pressure from its allies (who dont want their oil trade or pipelines to suffer). But this means that what India has to do to minimize the number of attacks is to not let an attack slide by with low cost for the army.

The best case scenario would be a peace deal, as was arrived in Vajpayee and Sharif's time, but it was sabotaged by the Kargil operation, for exactly the reason you mentioned - a peace deal marginalises the army.
by asimpleusecase | 2025-05-07 19:17:37+00:00
“Well that,” said Polynesia, brushing some crumbs off the corner of the table with her left foot—“that is what you call powers of observation—noticing the small things about birds and animals: the way they walk and move their heads and flip their wings; the way they sniff the air and twitch their whiskers and wiggle their tails. You have to notice all those little things if you want to learn animal language. For you see, lots of the animals hardly talk at all with their tongues; they use their breath or their tails or their feet instead.

Dr Dolittle’s Parrot explaining how to learn “animal language”. Voyages of Dr. Dolittle , chapter 8
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-07 19:17:55+00:00
The US population probably isn't much different from the rest of the world, in that regard. What's different about them is they live in the US. Drop foreigners from skinnier countries in the US, and, as a cohort, they'll gain plenty of weight (as with lifelong Americans, some individuals will buck the trend, of course)

It's a complex social-environmental, economic, and political problem.
by ray023 | 2025-05-07 19:18:15+00:00
"We heard from some customers that it is easier for them to operate under an OSI-approved license, so we’ve added that option." ROFL.

Yeah, translation. We got the biggest backlash ever from the license change, the community HATED us so much for this. THIS is why we backpedaled.

Valkey was created and already took over Linux distro package distributions with easy AF drop in replacements installs. I installed Valkey on my VPS for a WordPress Object Cache and I just installed the package, did not even need to edit any file or anything, just runs and works and the WP plugins for Redis just thinks it's Redis. Besides the name as an end user, literally nothing changed. Valkey got a massive interest and if clearly became obvious that it made zero sense, and it was the wrong decision.
by taylorhughes | 2025-05-07 19:18:40+00:00
Image editing/compositing/remixing is not quite as good as gpt-image-1, but the results are really compelling anyway due to the dramatic increase in speed! Playing with it just now, it's often 5 seconds for a compositing task between multiple images. Feels totally different from waiting 30s+ for gpt-image-1.
by seektable | 2025-05-07 19:18:48+00:00
Websets are cool - I remember that 2 decades ago there was a project in Google Labs that tried to return google search results as 'objects' x 'properties' but it never left their research sandbox (cannot remember project's name unfortunately).

Searches that give tabular results can be cheap if you already have structured datasets (extracted from crawled data), so LLM can simply convert the user's natural language query to SQL query (or SQL-like query) which can be cost-efficiently executed - say, with DuckDB. This approach can also give more correct results - as values in these structured datasets can be validated in the background, not as an individual 'deep research' task.

I understand that this is another kind of search service, however, this can be a way to offer free/cheap searches for users who don't need expensive individual research tasks.
by leptons | 2025-05-07 19:18:58+00:00
Most people are basic and have basic needs, and a soundbar suffices in most cases.

I was sort of one of those people, with a soundbar, because it was easy and convenient. The soundbar came with a wireless subwoofer, and that solved the problem of running wires across my living room.

But, I had a gifted B&W 5.1 system with powered sub collecting dust out in my garage for a long time. I recently made the push to dust it all off and buy a receiver to power it, replacing the soundbar+sub we had been using for years.

The difference is really night and day. The soundbar just never got loud enough for when I wanted to crank-it-up when playing music. It was good enough for watching most TV shows, but the sound we get now from a 5.1 movie is incredible in comparison.

I did the work to run completely flat speaker wires to the surround speakers, under the rug in our living room. It took some work to re-route wires and get power to where the receiver is, but it was well worth it.

The new system goes as loud as I can stand it with crystal-clarity all the way up to "11". The soundbar looks like a piece of junk in comparison and is now out in the garage collecting dust.
by godelski | 2025-05-07 19:19:20+00:00
What's interesting is fatality rates are increasing but injury rates are decreasing.

Seems like something else might be at play. If it is more SUVs and Pickups then I think a brake light helmet would do a lot considering the danger those cars present is being harder to see those below them. But if it is something else, then maybe not as good of a solution.
by markbnj | 2025-05-07 19:19:49+00:00
As an almost-daily motorcyclist with 15k miles on my current machine (Suzuki DL650), I absolutely agree that the increased proportion of pickup trucks on the road increases the risks for riders, however I suspect it is mainly because the larger, heavier vehicles aggravate the effects of a general deterioration in driving skills and attitudes. One thing about riding a motorcycle is that you are, unless you have a death wish, an active and observant participant in what you are doing, which alone separates you from a seeming majority of those driving cars and trucks. You become much more aware of what others on the road are doing, and what they are doing, in large numbers, is acting like twits.

Driving crazily fast in residential areas, rolling through stop signs, blowing off yellow and even red lights, ignoring turn signals, aggressively tailgating cars, trucks, even motorcyclists like myself, tapping away at their phones and steering with their knees. I think I see just about every variation of all of these things at least several times a week, to the extent that I have thought about the idea of creating some kind of org or foundation or even just a blog to advocate a return to taking driving seriously. I don't have a lot of confidence that I could make a difference though. I suspect a lot of the problem is simply many more cars on infrastructure that we haven't put enough money into for decades, but I'm no expert.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-05-07 19:20:10+00:00
I have good results running Ollama locally with olen models like Gemma 3, Qwen 3, etc. The major drawback is slower inference speed. Commercial APIs like Google Gemini are so much faster.

Still, I find local models very much worth using after taking the time to set them up with Emacs, open-codex, etc.
by DinoStarcic | 2025-05-07 19:20:24+00:00
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by orsenthil | 2025-05-07 19:20:31+00:00
I was playing cricket with my friends, who had come as families. I am 43. A particular couple had married recently, and my wife had a small talk with the other player's wife. Because we were playing in the same game as equals, and then having friendly chat the age difference did not come up in our thinking. Also, the physique and my perception of the looks were a bit similar too. But casually, when I learnt about the age, I realised that they were 20 years younger to me. I had already started college when they were born has babies. This comparison led to think a bit differently when having a perception about people and time. It was an interesting realization for me.
by jorl17 | 2025-05-07 19:20:51+00:00
It's so good to see Haxe mentioned!

I ported an entire AS3/Flash game to Haxe that my friends had written during our college years, as a kind of "thank you" present for ten years of friendship (adding mobile, cross-platform, gamepad controller, netplay and other things).

While the tooling was spotty, I found the experience wonderful! Haxe felt like a decent language with laudable goals and a nice community.

I hope one day I find another reason to work with Haxe.

Does anyone have any project that is using Haxe in production? Would love to hear about such stories!!
by kaylynb | 2025-05-07 19:21:10+00:00
My servers are pets not cattle. They are heterogeneous and collected over the years. If I used k8s I'd end up having to mostly pin services to a specific machine anyway. I don't even have a rack: it's just a variety of box shapes stacked on a wire shelf.

At some point I do want to create a purpose built rack for my network equipment and maybe setup some homogenous servers for running k8s or whatever, but it's not a high priority.

I like the idea of podman-systemd being an impl detail of some higher level orchestration. Recent versions of podman support template units now, so in theory you wouldn't even need to create duplicate units to run more than one service.
by random3 | 2025-05-07 19:21:38+00:00
I wanted Zed to work as a high performance dev-enabled Markdown editor as I was looking to replace Obsidian that doesn't scale well (memory use and cursor latency degrades with document size, and generally what I suspect is a weak foundation). My use case is active note taking(PKM) and reviewing including a few large (1-2+ MB) markdown files. However, to my surprise, the performance for Markdown was much worse - it's practically unusable.

This is clearly a Markdown backend problem, but not really relevant in the editor arena, except maybe to realize that the editor "shell" latency is just a part of the overall latency problem.

I still keep it around as I do with other editors that I like, and sometimes use it for minor things, while waiting to get something good.

On this note, I think there's room for an open source pluggable PKM as an alternative to Obsidian and think Zed is a great candidate. Unfortunately I don't have time to build it myself just yet.
by vunderba | 2025-05-07 19:21:41+00:00
I've added/tested this multimodal Gemini 2.0 to my shoot-out of SOTA image gen models (OpenAI 4o, Midjourney 7, Flux, etc.) which contains a collection of increasingly difficult prompts.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net

I don't know how much of Google's original Imagen 3.0 is incorporated into this new model, but the overall aesthetic quality seems to be unfortunately significantly worse.

The big "wins" are:

- Multimodal aspect in trying to keep parity with OpenAI's offerings.

- An order of magnitude faster than OpenAI 4o image gen
by rahimnathwani | 2025-05-07 19:22:06+00:00
California determines how much money each community college gets using the 'Student Centered Funding Formula' (SCFF), which has three parts:

- 70% based on # students (adjusted for whether they're part time or full time)

- 20% based on # students who receive Pell Grants or similar

- 10% based on student outcomes like graduation or transfers to four-year colleges

Fake students would inflate the first two. So, even if fake students deflate the final item (eventually), what incentive do community college leaders (who presumably care about the number of staff they're able to employ) have to expel fake students, or even to be honest about their prevalence?
by gallerdude | 2025-05-07 19:22:31+00:00
I made a very mediocre platformer in my senior year of high school, published on itch.io. I ended up becoming a software developer, which I enjoy 80% as much, but without any burnout or worrying about the superstar economics of being a game dev. Once the singularity hits, maybe I'll make more games.

https://gallerdude.itch.io/the-journey-east-full
by pentagrama | 2025-05-07 19:22:41+00:00
I want to take a step back and reflect on what this actually shows us. Look at the examples Google provides: it refers to the generated objects as "products", clearly pointing toward shopping or e-commerce use cases.

It seems like the real goal here, for Google and other AI companies, is a world flooded with endless AI-generated variants of objects that don’t even exist yet, crafted to be sold and marketed (probably by AI too) to hyper-targeted audiences. This feels like an incoming wave of "AI slop", mass-produced synthetic content, crashing against the small island of genuine human craftsmanship and real, existing objects.
by dang | 2025-05-07 19:22:51+00:00
All: we're going to bury this thread today, for unrelated (but legit) reasons. Sorry not to give a more satisfying explanation but it's not my place to do that this time.

That said, I totally missed this announcement in March and, since it never made HN's frontpage at the time, I imagine most of the community missed it too. Therefore I propose to arrange a repost when the time is right and we can have a HN party to celebrate jgrahamc. In the meantime, I guess, both belated and premature congratulations!
by 0xBDB | 2025-05-07 19:22:58+00:00
American railroads have pretty good pay and benefits, including some of the last defined-benefit pensions left in the private sector.

They didn't want to give in on same-day sick days (not the same as prescheduled PTO, which they did have) because it kills what they call precision train scheduling, which is basically running trains with the absolute minimum number of people possible. I'm not saying this was right or wrong, just that it's the reason.
by lostmsu | 2025-05-07 19:24:07+00:00
Maybe basic stats, but we are not talking basics here. In the course knowing the proof of the law of large numbers for Markov chains was mandatory for example.

I am in systems programming and LLM research (as in worked on improving attention mechanism). And even in the latter the stats are only relevant because attention softmax looks like a probability distribution, and, surprise, attention works just fine without it, so even that relevance is questionable.
by twodave | 2025-05-07 19:24:40+00:00
Your opening and closing statements aren’t mutually exclusive, but I can’t tell if one is a typo (or if so, which one it is).

I didn’t mean to imply that MS wanted to migrate anyone, just that the different offerings serve different kinds of customers, so you can’t really just compare GitLab to GitHub and say MS is lacking in serving some group of them.
by camel-cdr | 2025-05-07 19:25:04+00:00
Ah, sorry I didn't see the "or certain values will be far more likely than other values". But I don't understand why that wouldn't fall under the definition of a uniform distribution.

The way I would define a uniform distribution is the following:

For any two floating-point numbers, r1 and r2, which form the range [r1,r2] over the real numbers, and any second pair of floating point numbers s1 and s2, which form a range [s1,s2] over the real numbers, which is contained in [r1,r2]. The probability of getting a result in [s1,s2] when sampling from [r1,r2] must be equivalent to the result of (s2-s1)/(r2-r1) with infinite precision.

This is obviously possible to achieve.
by bitwize | 2025-05-07 19:26:24+00:00
Taylor Swift has demonstrated her genius as a businesswoman within the industry by simply re-recording her back catalogue as "Taylor's Versions" which the record company had no rights to -- also a badass example of a woman taking back control of her creative output from an industry dedicated to exploiting the likes of her. (Talk to a female musician if you know one. Women have few options but to let themselves be exploited, sexually and otherwise, if they want to progress in the industry.)

Prince could have done the same, but AFAICT he never did. Wonder why? Did he figure the rereleases wouldn't sell?

"Weird Al" Yankovic was one of the first major artists to switch from an album-based format to just releasing singles as they were recorded. Ironic, because Al was always taking good-natured jabs at Prince for not permitting him to parody any of his music. ("Word Crimes" having one example of such).