MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-05-20 23:10:50+00:00
This isn't really out of line with many other SaaS licenses that companies pay for.

This also includes things like video and image generation, where certain departments might previously have been paying thousands of dollars for images or custom video. I can think of dozens of instances where a single Veo2/3 video clip would have been more than good enough to replace something we had to pay a lot of money and waste of a lot of time acquiring previously.

You might be comparing this to one-off developer tool purchases, which come out of different budgets. This is something that might come out of the Marketing Team's budget, where $250/month is peanuts relative to all of the services they were previously outsourcing.

I think people are also missing the $20/month plan right next to it. That's where most people will end up. The $250/month plan is only for people who are bumping into usage limits constantly or who need access to something very specific to do their job.
by sandspar | 2025-05-20 23:10:55+00:00
I'm not an expert so I may be wrong about all this. But my impression is that Pictorialist photography aped painting for 50 years. Photography only came into its own as a "photography native" art form with Stieglitz and people like that around ~1905. By that time, non-representational painting styles like Cubism had already sucked the remaining juice out of painting, with Duchamp's 1917 urinal perhaps deserving credit for the coup de grace. Today painting is a shadow of what it once was - and public interest and auction prices reflect that. Museums occasionally have abstract painting exhibits but they're poorly attended because the public dislikes them. Ask a person on the street what their favorite painting movements are and likely every name will be more than 100 years old, possibly hundreds of years old. Compare auction prices between pre-1917 paintings and post-1917 paintings. Besides a few middlebrow pop artists like Dali or Warhol, meme painters like Pollock, or trendy political painters like Basquiat or Johns, the older paintings will be orders of magnitude more in demand. Painting used to move the conversation forward, now nobody cares.
by kbelder | 2025-05-20 23:11:00+00:00
See, if I was creating a product I would absolutely agree with you. I'd want an AI with tight guardrails, so innocuous that it would never deviate the slightest bit from a bland, center-left, vaguely corporate style of communication.

As a user, though, I want just the opposite. I want as close to uncensored with no guardrails as I can get. Nobody is giving you that unless you run your own models at home. But Grok is a little closer. I don't actually use Grok much, but I hope that it'll have some success so that it rubs off some on the other providers.
by alwa | 2025-05-20 23:11:03+00:00
Why would they do anything about that? It’s their job to set and enforce quotas, not to ensure access. From their perspective, I’d imagine that tight quotas make them feel reassured that they’ve got a lid on diversion concerns.

It does sound like the quota-setting system was designed for an era where the “legitimate” growth wasn’t on the order of “10% a year for 15 years”:

https://www.additudemag.com/adderall-shortage-dea-stimulants...
by siliconc0w | 2025-05-20 23:11:04+00:00
As long as these companies have an API, I imagine it's going to be cheaper to pay a la carte than pay monthly. $250 is a lot of API calls, especially as competition drives the cost lower. For stuff not behind an API, you're kinda shooting yourself in the foot because other providers might and at the very least it means developers aren't going to adopt it).
by JohnFen | 2025-05-20 23:11:05+00:00
> Most people assumed it was some kind of trap.

In most of the places I've worked, I would have assumed the same.

The thing is that there is no real technological solution that would instill trust in someone that doesn't already have trust. In the end, all such privacy solutions necessarily must boil down to "trust us" because it's not practical or reasonable to perform the sort of deep analysis that would be required to confirm privacy claims.

You may have provided the source, for instance, but that doesn't give reassurance that the binary that is executing was compiled from that source.
by tptacek | 2025-05-20 23:12:22+00:00
I don't think they're similar at all. LiteFS uses Consul to elect a leader for a single-write-leader multiple-replica configuration, the same way you'd do with Postgres. rqlite (as I understood it last time I looked) runs Raft directly; it gets quorums for every write.

One isn't better than the other. But LiteFS isn't a "distributed SQLite" in the sense you'd think of with rqlite. It's a system for getting read-only replicas, the same way you've been able to do with log shipping on n-tier databases for decades.
by sigmaisaletter | 2025-05-20 23:12:33+00:00
Your post strangely sounds like Nvidia primarily makes graphic cards for consumers.

Last time I checked, they couldn't produce enough H100s/GB100s to satisfy demand from everyone and their mother running a data center. And their most recent consumer hardware offerings have been repeatedly called a "paper launch" - probably because consumer hardware isn't a priority, given the price (and profit) delta.
Ask HN: Frustrated with Health-Data Silos?
by iaftb | 2025-05-20 23:12:40+00:00
I’m a practicing physician building an open-source prototype for unifying personal health data (wearables, lab results, patient-portal notes). Before I write any code, I’d like to hear from people who actually live the "health data scattered everywhere” problem.

What I’m looking for • You wear a tracker daily (Ōura, Garmin, Whoop, Fitbit, Apple Watch, etc.). • You log in to a patient portal or similar at least once a year to view labs / visit summaries. • You can spare 15 minutes for a Zoom call sometime in the next 10 days.

What’s in it for you • A $15 coffee gift card (or equivalent) as a thank-you. • No sales pitch—this is pure discovery.

Discussion topics (if we match) 1. How you use your wearable day to day. 2. Where you check labs/notes and what frustrates you. 3. Any “if only all this data lived in one hub” moments.

If interested, email simplehealth64@gmail.com with title “HN health data” in the subject; include your preferred times. I’ll reply within 24 hours with a calendar invite.

Happy to answer questions here as well—thanks!
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-20 23:12:53+00:00
I think it works fine in English grammatically. We say "will have (verb)" all the time, after all. The thing that is tricky about that sentence is that one doesn't usually use "to live" on its own in English. Like, you don't say "I have lived", you add something else to the sentence to make it feel complete. I suppose it's different in French.
by const_cast | 2025-05-20 23:13:39+00:00
To be fair, the problems of careerism is really a side-effect of academia becoming more enthralled with the private sector, and therefore inheriting it's problems.

If there's one thing working as a software dev has taught me, it's that all decisions are made from a careerist, selfish perspective. Nobody cares what's best, they care what's most impressive and what will personally get them ahead. After it's done, it's not their problem. And nobody can blame them either. This mindset is so pervasive that if you don't subscribe to it, you're a sucker. Because other people will, and they'll just out-lap you. So the result is the same except now you're worse off.
Show HN: I made a pretty cheap marketing breakthrough
by abilafredkb | 2025-05-20 23:14:17+00:00
After struggling to get my previous products noticed (especially building from Ghana), I created Smarketly to solve my own marketing challenges. What I didn't expect was discovering a surprisingly effective approach while testing it. As a technical founder with limited marketing knowledge, I built June (Smarketly's AI assistant) to help me find communities where potential users hang out and craft targeted outreach. While using my own tool, I discovered something that's working remarkably well:

June analyzes successful engagement patterns in niche communities before I post The AI identifies specific language/topics that resonate in each community It then helps me create contributions that match these patterns I follow a 5-7 day "value-first" sequence before mentioning my product

Results from my first test with Smarketly itself:

340+ signups from targeted communities in 3 weeks $0 in ad spend (crucial for a bootstrapped founder) 18% conversion to paid tier

The key breakthrough wasn't just the AI technology, but the systematic process of analyzing community engagement before contributing. This works particularly well for founders outside established tech networks who can't rely on existing connections. I've built this approach directly into Smarketly now - it identifies relevant communities, analyzes engagement patterns, and helps craft contributions that fit naturally. Would love feedback from other builders who struggle with the marketing side! smarketly.lema-lema.com
by mmx1 | 2025-05-20 23:14:57+00:00
Obviously we'll never know, but I seriously doubt that parallel universe would've had a chance to materialize. Not the least due to "free as in beer" aspect of Linux whilst web/Apache was growing at the pace it did. All proprietary unices are basically dead. Sun was likely the sole company that had the best attitude to live alongside open source, but they also proved it wasn't a good enough business post bubble burst. NT and Darwin remain alive due to their desktop use, not server.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-05-20 23:15:51+00:00
As I only park downtown once per quarter (metered by a phone app), so far I've not been cited. When it does finally happen:

I plan to become plaintiff in my third civil suit against a mid-sized US city (this one: for requiring cell phone / app to park). I know this sounds petty AF, but I have plenty of free time to help correct this philosophical setback [app parking] with precedent. Dare I say to consider this `moral imperative` =D

During a civil action approximately two years ago (in a state Chancery Court), I had to sign an affadavid that "I don't use/have email" ... because Judge didn't believe me (a form `REQUIRED` it)!

I've filed most my court briefs using a typewriter, which is conversation-inducing (to say the least). As a pro se litigant, the courts are still required to accept paper copies =P
by philipkglass | 2025-05-20 23:15:55+00:00
I assume that "pretty fast" depends on the phone. My old Pixel 4a ran Gemma-3n-E2B-it-int4 without problems. Still, it took over 10 minutes to finish answering "What can you see?" when given an image from my recent photos.

Final stats:

15.9 seconds to first token

16.4 tokens/second prefill speed

0.33 tokens/second decode speed

662 seconds to complete the answer
by dekhn | 2025-05-20 23:16:18+00:00
The NSA worked with GHCQ to tap Google's fiber between data centers, which at the time, was not encrypted. You can see several presentations including "SSL added and removed here" (reference to the SSL connection being terminated at the Google front end and then transmitted unencrypted to the backend in another data center), as well as an actual BigTable packet from tcpdump that included a user identifier.

If you read The Idea Factory, it shows that AT&T leadership worked closely with NSA and other governmental agencies (on a "secret schedule" so nobody would know who the execs were meeting with) to help them access US phone data.

I'd love to know the extent of what NSA has done between its founding and today; I'm sure they've pulled off some astounding things, and bolluxed up other stuff badly.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-20 23:16:43+00:00
> Second, many recommendations are based on resource limitations that simply don't exist for a POTUS.

AFAIK, the PSA one isn't based on resource limitations, though.

It's based on the specificity being low enough and the risks, especially with advancing age, of the follow up tests being high enough that at a certain point the test is perceived as having zero-to-negative value in terms of QALY for the patient.
by bilbo0s | 2025-05-20 23:16:53+00:00
Even more fundamentally, think about how much carbon running a cup of water from your faucet produces. No matter where you live, this is more carbon than an LLM prompt generates.

Or, even worse God forbid, think about how much carbon is produced to create a single bottle or carton of water. Then consider how casually people down bottles of water.
by kragen | 2025-05-20 23:17:04+00:00
The Bembo variant I used for Dercuano, Derctuo, and Dernocua (without LaTeX) is Edward Tufte's ET Book, linked in the article, using the old-style numerals variant. Unfortunately its Unicode coverage is very limited. Fortunately, URW Palladio L (URW's freely-licensed version of Palatino) has fine Unicode coverage, so I used that and Palatino as fallbacks. Unfortunately ET Book's metrics are not very comparable to URW Palladio L's, leading to letter size mismatches when letters mix; its x-height is especially different.

So in, for example, where https://dercuano.github.io/notes/finite-function-circuits.ht... says "Sᵢ ∈ Σ", the "S" is noticeably shorter than the other full-height characters. It looks a little bit better in the half-assed PDF rendering I produced with my hurriedly-written HTML-to-PDF renderer: http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano.20191230.pdf#page=1572

The other big problem you can see on that PDF page is that I chose Latin Modern Typewriter Condensed (lmtlc) for fixed-width text so that I could get 80 columns onto the narrow cellphone screens I was targeting with the PDF, but lmtlc completely omits, for example, Greek, so the examples using Greek are totally screwed up.

The formula display in that note is definitely worse than LaTeX would do, but I flatter myself to think that my half-assed Python script still produced better-looking math output than I usually see from Microsoft Word.
by triceratops | 2025-05-20 23:18:08+00:00
> But they did quite recently [accept the quality of life sacrifice]

It wasn't a "sacrifice". It was literally the only life they knew at the time. But going back to it now would be an actual sacrifice for a lot of people.

Running a household on an income of $70k isn't a sacrifice if that's what you make right now. It would be a sacrifice if you make $500k right now and had to immediately start making do with $70k.
by abtinf | 2025-05-20 23:18:13+00:00
For anyone confused by this point perhaps watch some of the “why [movie] still looks like a billion bucks” videos on YouTube by Wolfcrow.

The idea that a film artist doesn’t need to know how a camera works is laughable. And not just the camera, but different film stock, processing methods, lenses, lighting, and the interaction of all those as well as the subject being shot. The level of attention to detail in great films is wild.
by user____name | 2025-05-20 23:18:26+00:00
A big problem with OIT techniques is that it presumes all see-trough surfaces use alpha blending. In reality other blending modes can be used, most notably additive blending. Additive blending is very useful because it ensures the surface will always be brighter than the background, which is important for things like fire, which look strange when the background is actually brighter than the blended surface, this is quite common.

Another issue is that OIT techniques usually have a breaking point where drawing too many layers will start showing artefacts.

So in order for OIT to work correctly you have to enforce all surfaces to be either opaque or use alpha blending and also avoid drawing too many layers. This is more limiting than sorting based approaches for the average usecase, even if it does end up fixing cases that aren't easily fixed via sorting. Besides that, people working in games and realtime rendering have simply gotten accustomed to designing around alpha blending issues.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-05-20 23:18:29+00:00
I'd say it's less about bureaucracy and more about what the .NET team has to consider when they make sweeping changes.

Backwards compatibility, security, edge cases, downstream effects on other libraries that are reliant on LINQ, etc.

One guy with an optional library can break things. If the .NET team breaks things in LINQ, it's going to be a bad, bad time for a lot of people.

I think Evan You's approach with Vue is really interesting. Effectively, they have set up a build pipeline that includes testing major downstream projects as well for compatibility. This means that when the Vue team build something like "Vapor Mode" for 3.6, they've already run it against a large body of community projects to check for breaking changes and edge cases. You can see some of the work they do in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvjOT7NHl4Q
by LkpPo | 2025-05-20 23:18:47+00:00
For me, it even went off the rails before, when Nenad went to China because he was able to raise funds for the project. But he hadn't anticipated that he would be in charge and not the other way around. The situation seems to suit him perfectly. I don't think Red has any future at this point. In any case, the roadmap has always been stratospheric.
by tialaramex | 2025-05-20 23:18:59+00:00
Technically ISO is not an abbreviation, their name is just shortened to ISO from the Greek word meaning equal.

The programming language standards in particular are the work of "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces" which is a sub-committee of the Joint Technical Committee between ISO and the IEC. It's sub-sub-committees all the way down.

I believe ISO processes are ill-suited to this type of work, and that on the whole those languages which still have SC22 working groups would benefit from finding a better home than ISO. The best SDO today (if you can reasonably call the IETF an "organisation" which it says it is not) is the IETF but the IETF doesn't want anything to do with programming languages, so, maybe they could find a home at ECMA where Javascript lives or they could go build their own SDO for purpose.
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-20 23:19:42+00:00
I don't think you guys understand what a "special deal" is. A deal is an agreement between two parties.

Amazon and Google don't have a deal. Amazon is just doing whatever the fuck it wants and Google is going along, because Google already lost this battle in court. Notably, Amazon didn't start offering the option to buy books in the Android apps until after Google lost the court case.

Amazon is very likely to do this with its Apple apps later this year as well, now that Apple has also lost this battle and may be facing civil and criminal sanctions for its continued attempts to prevent companies from doing what Amazon did on Android.
by quantadev | 2025-05-20 23:20:16+00:00
When there's two competing technologies, and they're both solving the same problem, I always go with whatever's more popular, unless there's a compelling reason not to. This is mainly because of community support and having more companies/developers motivated to rapidly solve challenges that come up, and/or fix bugs.

But especially in the AI/LLM era it's even _more_ important to use what's most popular because the LLM will know more about it, and can pull information from vastly more resources, including it's most important "source" of all: The model weights.
by tgma | 2025-05-20 23:21:34+00:00
I'm sure you can make apt work in a multilib world, but the mainstream way it generally works well is you stick to distro's arm64 packages (pretty comprehensive; arm64 is not some esoteric arch) for the most part and they work just great and you use/build docker containers that might be x86 and that is supported by `--platform` switch once you get basic stuff configured.

I suspect if your use case is more esoteric, it's likely not going to be worth the time. I'd just SSH to a second linux box.

To correct your statement on one key thing: Rosetta2 in this case is not running on host OS. Apple provides a Linux version of Rosetta 2 which runs inside your VM and is registered as a binfmt interpreter for ELF x86 binaries[1]. This is similar to how `wine` or `java` or `mono` can execute their respective binaries directly.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
by Liftyee | 2025-05-20 23:22:12+00:00
For my previously-shallow level of understanding, this was an insightful article that showed me a little of how the filesystem actually works. I'm vaguely aware of abstractions at the hardware level (especially with solid state memory controllers, wear-levelling...) but that's another layer of abstraction down from that explained here. I'll learn the magic of working around nanoscale physics another day.

The author seems to have a number of explanations of this quality. I've put the one about git submodules on my reading list.
by dang | 2025-05-20 23:22:21+00:00
I hear you! but we can't add all the informal rules/conventions to the guidelines because that would make them so long that nobody would read them.

HN is a spirit-of-the-law place, not a letter-of-the-law place anyhow (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
by djoldman | 2025-05-20 23:23:10+00:00
> This leaves even those whose job it is to predict energy demands forced to assemble a puzzle with countless missing pieces, making it nearly impossible to plan for AI’s future impact on energy grids and emissions. Worse, the deals that utility companies make with the data centers will likely transfer the costs of the AI revolution to the rest of us, in the form of higher electricity bills.

... So don't? Explicitly shift the cost to the customer.

If I want to hook up to the energy grid with 3-phase power, I pay the utility to do it.

If a business wants more power and it isn't available, then the business can pay for it.

Then only businesses that really need it will be willing to step up to the plate.

No amount of "accounting" or "energy needs prediction" will guard against regulatory capture.
by manpreetsgarha | 2025-05-20 23:24:32+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. We plan to add a version where you can explore the product without needing to log in first.

In the meantime, here is a dashboard I created using our AI agent. You can open it without login to view the read only version. No manual edits, just dropped the file and got this result:

https://app.thebricks.com/file/e5c20bbe-dcd0-43ba-a156-e00ca...
by numpad0 | 2025-05-20 23:24:47+00:00
The level of blind trust that English speakers put on non-ASCII characters support always throw me off, knowing username on Windows 11 still has to be short ASCII sequences. Surely it's not 2010 anymore and you only have to recreate the user account rather than clean re-installing Windows, but still.

Non-ASCII comments in a source code can be scary enough sometimes, unless it's for an all-Unicode system like Android or something HTML based.
by fragmede | 2025-05-20 23:25:26+00:00
It depends on their setup and where they or the LLM gets stuck. If an experienced programmer is there to back them up, then a total beginner could totally make something. That is, given some familiarity with the terminal, specifically the know-how to setup a git repo on GitHub and clone it locally, and then setting up env keys and Aider, and the know-how to run npm I and npm run dev, a non programmer with some terminal skills someone is able to make simple games, purely by talking to Aider using the /voice command. When the LLM or they get stuck is when they'll need some backup from somebody with a decent amount of programming experience to get unstuck. Depending on what their doing though, it's entirely possible they won't get stuck until much further along in the dev process.