MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hulitu | 2025-05-31 15:16:24+00:00
> The rare app here or there that people have installed is eclipsed by phone apps and the browser

In Enterprise this is seldom the case. I agree that some CAD vendors left their brain at the entrance and are using Web toolkits for programs (because who needs memory and speed for computations, when you can allocate it for UI), but this is mostly seldom at the moment.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-05-31 15:17:08+00:00
> This in between seems like a waste of time tbh.

Hard disagree. The “in between” is where you want where most are already ending up. Initially you had everyone so worried about privacy and what OpenAI is doing with their precious private data. “They will train on it. Privacy is important to me. I’m not about to like give OpenAI access to my private, secure, Google drive back ups or Gmail history or Facebook private messages or any real private “local only” information.

Also among those who understand data privacy concerns, when it come to work data, in the span of 2-3 years, all business folks I know went from “this is confidential business information. Please never upload to ChatGPT and only email it to me” to “just put everything on ChatGPT and see what it tells you”

The initial worry was driven by not understanding how LLMs worked. What if “it just learned as you talked to it?” And “what if it used that learning with somebody else?” Like I told it a childhood secret, will it turn around and tell others my secret?”

People understand how that works now and some concerns are less. Basically most understand that it’s similar risk as their already existing digital life is
by tomsmeding | 2025-05-31 15:17:16+00:00
The OP notes at some point that the scrapers were generating lots of source tarballs individual commits. That takes server resources, and a small server can't sustain many of those requests per second. I wonder why you (apparently) don't suffer from this — in fact one can even wonder why such tarballs are generated in the first place, it sounds very pointless.
by nico | 2025-05-31 15:18:26+00:00
Personally, vibecoding has brought back a lot of the joy of coding

Being able to super quickly iterate, without caring too much about the results, but having fun seeing what comes up

I’ve really enjoyed exploring. Making small experiments, that you can make 5-10 of easily of in just one session

Like these silly things:

* https://openjam.ai/lonely_ant_702/vnqovd512h

* https://openjam.ai/stupid_coral_852/pvjda0dyc2

* https://openjam.ai/stupid_coral_852/qg8yembjg5
How To Glow Up/How to be popular?
by gummytoes | 2025-05-31 15:18:26+00:00
I'm ugly and I've been getting bullied to the point where I've been through therapists, slitting my wrists, and kids harassing me to the point they destroyed a birthday gift. I want to stop getting bullied. Please give me GOOD actualy working tips to make me pretty and popular. PLEASE DON'T IGNORE THIS. I hate my life.
by childintime | 2025-05-31 15:18:45+00:00
In my experience it generally has a very good understanding and does generate the relevant test cases. Then again I don't give it a grammar, I just let it generalize from examples. In my defense I've tried out some very unconventional languages.

Grammars are an attempt at describing a language. A broken attempt if you ask me. Humans also don't like them.
by azalemeth | 2025-05-31 15:18:50+00:00
I'd really love to try this with a paper I'm trying to get into a good journal, but I'm currently getting `Unexpected token R in JSON at position 0`. Specifically –

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 413 () 472-d0f5294693ac495f.js:1 Upload error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token R in JSON at position 0 window.console.error @ 472-d0f5294693ac495f.js:1 page-16118756a8a735f3.js?dpl=dpl_FUDTF4yxczg6WEnWPsbcumgAgEEa:1 POST https://www.rigorous.company/api/upload net::ERR_TIMED_OUT handleSubmit @ page-16118756a8a735f3.js?dpl=dpl_FUDTF4yxczg6WEnWPsbcumgAgEEa:1 fi @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 li @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 (anonymous) @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 fn @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 sm @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 (anonymous) @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Xj @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Jk @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Tl @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Rl @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Ql @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 472-d0f5294693ac495f.js:1 Upload error: TypeError: Failed to fetch at handleSubmit (page-16118756a8a735f3.js?dpl=dpl_FUDTF4yxczg6WEnWPsbcumgAgEEa:1:631) at Object.fi (fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:66106) at li (fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:66260) at fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:131817 at fn (fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:131916) at sm (fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:132330) at fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:137821 at Xj (fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:87105) at Jk (fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:116086) at Tl (fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9:133637) window.console.error @ 472-d0f5294693ac495f.js:1 handleSubmit @ page-16118756a8a735f3.js?dpl=dpl_FUDTF4yxczg6WEnWPsbcumgAgEEa:1 await in handleSubmit (async) fi @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 li @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 (anonymous) @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 fn @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 sm @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 (anonymous) @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Xj @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Jk @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Tl @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Rl @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9 Ql @ fd9d1056-c0e6d0dfe0642aea.js:9

which may be the HN hug of death.

The article in question is currently on the ArXiV, and I'd love to know what you think of it – https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16621. The latest version of the manuscript (locally, shrunk) is 9.4 MiB (9879403 bytes) so I don't get the 413 error if you have a 10 MB / MiB limit :-).

As an aside, I know from many others that chatGPT is already writing a lot of reports for journals – curated by a human but not exclusively so. Is this a good thing for science?
by cyanydeez | 2025-05-31 15:20:01+00:00
pace of change is such an exceedingly useless metric.

eugenics is a good example of why we dont want to play god, because the types of data humans use to determine good and bad: visual phenotypes, easy to measure physical features, are rarely correlated with broader goals such as diverse gene pools, reistance to diease, and social cohesion.

Theres little evidence that we are, in the long term, as society, going to benefit.

think of things like pilots. most pilots now get experience from armed forces. they learn manual flight controls. as auto-pilot improves, the pipeline for pilots narrows.

At some point, we will have full self flying planes, and the number of pilots capable of flying will deceease.

so, the question of, can a novel emergency in flight always fallback to a human?

no, eventually there will be no fallback.

so the pace of change does matter and if it goes yo fast then we are endangering multiple societal goods.

you can argue, without evidence the overall errors will go down, but at some point we will cross the rubicon where theres no human fallback to keep the flight in motion.
by api | 2025-05-31 15:20:18+00:00
Is that true? Seems dubious to me. The scale in time, velocity, and space is below where relativity becomes visible beyond Planck level scales that certainly don’t show up in a video clip.

It might be enough to deduce Newtonian motion if you have a lot of the required priors already.

A lot of telescope data over time combined with a strong math model and a lot of other priors is probably enough to get relativity. You have to be able to see things like planetary motion and that the results don’t match Newton exactly, and then you need enough data to fit to a different model. You probably also need to know a lot about the behavior of light.
by zcw100 | 2025-05-31 15:21:18+00:00
Why are we talking about “jobs” like it’s some singular thing? Is the best we can do to explain what we think might happen to line up every person who has something that can be described as a job, left to right by experience, and then decide which part is going to be mowed down by AI?

It’s just going to be way more complex than that. Some people are going to have more work than they know what to do with. Some jobs are going away, some people will see zero change. It’s going to depend on what you do, what industry you’re in, where you live, your experience. We can see some vague outlines of what is coming but the only thing we can be certain of, at this point, is there will be a lot of change.
by bediger4000 | 2025-05-31 15:21:27+00:00
This article is something of a farce, isn't it? Given the revelations about fake papers, fake authors etc, taking the report at face value, as this article does, is a category error.

Given all that, any "key takeaways" will necessarily be meta, examinations of RFKJ's biases, and who would win or lose economically from following the guidance in this report. A takeaway might highlight differences from real science. Another might be who would be harmed medically by its guidance.
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-05-31 15:22:09+00:00
Honestly I'm consistently surprised - I've worked at Amazon and seen many engineers, product people, etc type with incorrect techniques.

I've seen interns looking for symbols on their keyboard for a second or two (the tilde "~" or the pipe symbols "|") when I asked them to type in a certain shell command.

Since I started building this website, many of my friends and family learned touch typing because of the site never even heard of proper touch typing technique until I started talking about what I was working on.

I think it's due to poor education - there's no institutionalized course that teaches this. A couple schools maybe, but nothing on a big scale.

Kind of mind boggling given that almost every desk job uses a keyboard
by ghaff | 2025-05-31 15:23:17+00:00
A lot of things were going on in the early 2020s that at least anecdotally seem to have disproportionately affected software jobs so I’m skeptical it’s purely an interest rate phenomenon. But the consensus does seem to be that software has gone from being a ridiculously easy job market by professional job standards to at least a moderately challenging one.

Software in the US has (aside from maybe finance) been an almost uniquely well-compensated field. That will probably adjust over time especially given the inflow of grads primarily in it for the money.
Show HN: Live network map display with engraved backlighed panels
by theglu | 2025-05-31 15:23:25+00:00
I built a network map display from scratch that shows the current network data rates between our datacenters.

I designed and made a PCB for the LED matrices, created engraved backlight panels, assembled everything locally into a wooden box, and finally connected it to our monitoring system to send and receive live data for display.

It has now been sitting in our office for over a year. While it's mostly a fun gimmick, it can actually be useful for quickly identifying which link goes down when there's an issue ;)

Photos are a bit hard to do correctly, but I've shared most of the details here: https://hackaday.io/project/197354-live-network-map

Have a nice day!
by larrled | 2025-05-31 15:24:44+00:00
“from losing all your income until you're homeless.”

I’m willing to bet you haven’t lived long enough to know that’s a more or less a proxy for old age. :) That aside, even homeless people acquire possessions over time. If you have a lot of homeless in your neighborhood, try to observe that. In my area, many homeless have semi functional motor homes. Are they legit homeless, or are they “homeless oligarchs”? I can watch any of the hundreds of YouTube channels devoted to “van life.” Is a 20 year old who skipped college which their family could have afforded, and is instead living in an $80k van and getting money from streaming a “legit homeless”? The world is not so black and white it will turn out in the long run.
by sgt101 | 2025-05-31 15:25:15+00:00
if the enemy can't actually prosecute the offensive successfully. If they can, you find yourself kneeling in front of a hastily dug trench.

You are right about the US and Russia though. It has suited everyone apart from the Russians and Ukrainians for the Russians to pick up this tar baby. I don't know if the rest of the world sees it, but a big part of the mess is courtesy of the British as a part of an extended and excruciating revenge play for the Russians messing about in Salisbury. Vashe zdorov'ye you bastards.
by 1dom | 2025-05-31 15:25:19+00:00
> Having done back and and front end, I’m fully convinced that the frameworks are there only to help mediate a large team of developers all fiddling with the same codebase.

I agree. A framework forces a shared consensus on how to solve a particular set of problems.

A single competent engineer on their own can make that consensus themselves. If the system is larger than a single competent engineer can manage, it seems intuitive that a small handful of engineers who are familiar with working with each other are less dependent on a framework for shared consensus.
by aaron695 | 2025-05-31 15:25:30+00:00
> The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms

"mysterious" "plaguing" - zero examples...... very mysterious.

The dumb shit the BBC feeds HN Doomers, there is no solution other than big pharma's fluoxetine to the CO2 devil.

Other wind farms will cut into their profits..... always a good idea to get the competition shut down.
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-31 15:26:04+00:00
It’s not even surprising without knowing about Pete: the newspaper isn’t going to publish the many that failed, so their own selection bias is the dominant effect. Even if we take the probability of the group to be the probability of individuals, eg, rolling dice (“1 in 6 people rolls a 4!”).

Lots of them opened, of them 70% failed, and one who didn’t happened to be named Pete.

No more interesting than “Pete rolled a 4!” even though 83% of people don’t.
by doctorwho42 | 2025-05-31 15:26:14+00:00
That is a simplistic idea that I am scared has spread far and wide.

A system is a tool, it does have a use/purpose in the simplistic sense. But how we use the tool is ultimately the crux of the issue, for we can use that hammer to build houses or tear them down, or to build concentration camps or use it simply to injure someone directly.

No, the purpose of a tool/system is generally determined by the guiding philosophy of the user or society. Unfortunately society has replaced its philosophy (at least in America) with the economic system of capitalism; i.e. capitalism for capitalisms sake.
by antisol | 2025-05-31 15:26:34+00:00
> a maintainer responded to the issue back in January with a soft timeline

It seems I missed that comment (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/64660#discussi...).

My apologies. There were a lot of comments.

I stand corrected, withdraw my support of OP's behaviour, and agree that it's not acceptable.

---

> no user of the service is entitled to anything, ever.

I say everyone is entitled to basic human decency and acknowledgement of their existence. I say that the waiter walking past and blanking them is rude and a dick move, and not "totally fine" at all. While you are correct that the user isn't entitled to the 10/10 polite response/explanation given in the article, they are entitled to some sort of basic human decency. The waiter blanking them and the waiter responding by calling them a cunt with no provocation are both aggression.

I also say that the "soup kitchen" analogy you gave doesn't really hold here - didn't you refer to that maintainer as "an employee"? So it's that person's job to respond to issues. Which entitles people asking them questions to a response. (Which, as I concede above, he did actually get)

But now we're debating philososophy, which I specifically didn't want to do. And I've conceded that in this instance your position on OP's behaviour is correct.
by tim333 | 2025-05-31 15:26:37+00:00
There's discussion on Reddit including about 30 odd comments from the driver

https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1ksa79y/1328_fsd_...

Excerpt:

JFC, what happened!!!!!!!!

I'm guessing: * Tesla has been doing a bunch of training recently to detect looney tunes walls... For some fairly obvious reason. * This car decided the shadow of the pole was the base of a wall, but it only saw the wall too late to brake so it swerved. * From the time of the hard left to when it was too late to recover was probably about 0.3 seconds, too fast for the combination of human reaction time, raising hands to the steering wheel, and applying enough force to correct. I didn't think there is any way an average human, or particularly an older human, with their hands resting in their lap, could stop this.

[driver] You summarized my experience perfectly was not distracted at all just didn’t have time to react!
by ajmurmann | 2025-05-31 15:26:41+00:00
I think the problems are more complex and much harder to fix and more depressing. The actual policies by the Democratic party have been "pro-worker". Biden was strongly pro-union. I am hard pressed to think of any policy by the Biden administration that was focused on racial issues. However, it seems like the perception of the Democratic party is largely mixed in with leftists who don't even like the party.

I think the real problem is that the median voter is either unable to, has no time to or no interest to understand basic economics and second-order consequences. We see this on both sides of the aisle. Policies like caps on credit card interest rates, rent control or no tax on tips are very, very popular while also being obviously bad after thinking about it for just 1 minute.

This is compounded by there being relatively little discussion of policies like that. They get reported on but not discussed and analyzed. This takes us back to your point about the perception of the Democratic party. The media (probably because the median voter prefers it) will instead discuss issues that are more emotionally relatable, like the border being "overwhelmed", trans athletes, etc. which makes it less likely to get people to think about economic policy.

This causes a preference for simple policies that seem to aim straight for the goal. Rent too high? Prohibit higher rent! Credit card fees too high? Prohibit high fees! Immigrants lower wages? Have fewer immigrant!

Telling the median voter that H1-B visa holders are lowering wages due to the high friction of changing sponsors and that the solution is to loosen the visa restrictions is gonna go over well with much of the electorate. Even only the portion of initial problem statement will likely reach most voters in the form of "H1-B visas lower wages". Someone who will simply take that simplified issue and run with cutting down further on immigration will be much more likely to succeed with how public opinion is currently formed.

All this stuff is why I love learning about policy and absolutely loath politics.
by devilbunny | 2025-05-31 15:26:43+00:00
Interesting. I've never shopped at one; though my home is near the intersection of two interstates, I'd have to drive about 7 hours to get to one. You're even worse off!

It appears that the pole of inaccessibility for Micro Center for a place in the lower 48 on an interstate is around Spokane to Missoula (Santa Clara vs Denver), but that's only about 3 hours' longer drive than you would have.
by chuckadams | 2025-05-31 15:26:52+00:00
Lots of things could be improved about forms, but save for a few new field types tacked on, they've pretty much been left to rot. They kicked around a discussion of a json enclosure type at the W3C a decade ago and nothing came of it. I'll save the salty comments about W3C in general, and say either WHATWG implements it, or we're stuck with JS submissions for good.
by rjakob | 2025-05-31 15:27:27+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. Totally agree. It’s a real shame we don’t have more historical peer review data. It would be great if research was fully transparent.

We did find a few datasets that offer a starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04972 https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06651 https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09635

There’s also interesting potential in comparing preprints to their final published versions to reverse-engineer the kinds of changes peer review typically drives.

A growing number of journals and publishers, like PLOS, Nature Communications, and BMJ—now publish peer review reports openly, which could be valuable as training data.

That said, while this kind of data might help generate feedback to improve publication odds (by surfacing common reviewer demands early), I am not fully convinced it would lead to the best feedback. In our experience, reviewer comments can be inconsistent or even unreasonable, yet authors often comply anyway to get past the gate.

We're also working on a pre-submission screening tool that checks whether a manuscript meets hard requirements like formatting or scope for specific journals and conferences, hoping this will save a lot of time.

Would love to hear your take on what kind of feedback you find useful, what feels like nonsense, and what you would want in an ideal review report... via this questionnaire https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EhQvw-HdGRqfL01jZaayoaiTWLS...
by NotCamelCase | 2025-05-31 15:27:28+00:00
> VS (ctrl+,) takes several seconds and intermixes search results for files and file contents, when I'm only interested in files.

I hate this a lot. It's gotten so bad the last couple of releases to the point that I try and use VS Code more in lieue of VS except debugging.

How they could let such fundamental functionality get broken is beyond me.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-05-31 15:27:37+00:00
I was taking with a friend/coworker this week. I came to the realization “Code Reviews Are Dead”.

They were already on life support. The need to “move fast” “there is no time”, “we have a 79 file PR with 7k line changes that we have been working on for 6 weeks. Can you please review it quickly? We wanna demo tomorrow GTM meeting”. Management found zero value in code reviews. You still can’t catch everything, so what’s the point? They can’t measure what the value of such process is.

Now? Now every junior dev is pushing 12 PRs a week, all adding 37 new files and thousands of lines that have been auto generated with a ton of patterns and themes that are all over the place and you are expecting anyone to keep up?

Just merge it. I have seen people go from:

> “asking who is best to review changes in area X? I have a couple of questions to make sure I’m doing things right”

To

> “this seems to work fine. Can I get a quick review? Trying to push it out and see how it works”

To

> “need 2 required approvals on this PR please?”
by MarkMarine | 2025-05-31 15:27:49+00:00
There are use cases that don’t align with OpenAI/Anthropic’s business model, which is to always use more tokens to get better. As the models improve they become way more expensive, with order of magnitude increases in price. I think there is a lane for detecting what can and should be deterministic after doing it a few times, and making it concrete so you don’t just burn tokens every time.
by thrance | 2025-05-31 15:28:05+00:00
Hard disagree, I know of no language with a build system as robust and easy to use as Rust's. I have never seen a failure to resolve dependencies in the 8 years I've been using the language. Strong typing also makes it harder to push bugs.

In fact, 90% of the bugs in the product of the startup I work for come from the (typescript) frontend, instead of the larger (rust) backend.
by rossant | 2025-05-31 15:29:15+00:00
I ran a quick benchmark comparing Matplotlib and Datoviz on a simple interactive 2D scatter plot. In short, Datoviz is 20 to 2000 times faster.

Screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datoviz/data/master/screen...

Code: https://github.com/datoviz/datoviz/blob/dev/examples/benchma...