MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troyvit | 2025-05-12 13:13:10+00:00
They've been accused by the previous Justice Department of similar things and have settled for similar things in the past:

https://insights.issgovernance.com/posts/google-parent-alpha...

> Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. agreed to a $350 million tentative settlement resolving allegations it concealed data-security vulnerabilities in the now-shuttered Google + social network. The settlement will become the largest data privacy and cyber-security-related securities class action ever recorded by ISS SCAS, if approved.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-under-doj-scanner-alle...

> The Justice Department said Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google destroyed written records pivotal to an antitrust lawsuit on preserving its internet search dominance, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Whether it's copyright fraud or another kind of fraud, I share the parent's cynicism, especially with AI given the importance Google peeps like Eric Schmidt place in "winning" the AI race (https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-supe...).
by int_19h | 2025-05-12 13:13:34+00:00
Delphi/FP Component Pascal has a well-developed object model that is more expressive than Go in general (inheritance, virtual methods including virtual static methods etc), so it's not a 1:1 mapping. But all of these still have a straightforward mapping to Go, even if the output wouldn't be idiomatic, so it should be possible to transpile.
by Novosell | 2025-05-12 13:13:36+00:00
Man that is a silly line of thought. Your conclusion now has to be that all freedom is bad because peoples choices can have ramifications, yeah?

Oh, you chose to buy new shoes even though they were too tight which distracted you for 1 sec in your car on the way home, due to the discomfort, so you hit someone and they died.

Clearly people can not be trusted to buy their own shoes!
by lolinder | 2025-05-12 13:14:03+00:00
I'd have agreed with you a year ago, but the WordPress debacle shows that the BDFL concept really hangs on the "benevolent" part of the job description. If your BDFL goes rancid your only option is to fork, and hostile forks are very difficult to pull off because it almost invariably forks the community.

The BDFL archetype is basically Plato's philosopher king. It's a nice and appealing idea in theory, and works well if you get a good one (Matz for Ruby, by all accounts). But it's risky, and it's hard to be sure yours is actually benevolent and will stay benevolent.
by 71bw | 2025-05-12 13:14:23+00:00
Shoutout to the thing I got for my mom's Merc where it's a literal 10 second installation to have carplay in a 2011 vehicle. Swap the built-in navi box with a $75 Aliexpress plug - bam, CarPlay/AA all wirelessly on the main screen and controllable by the standard navigation knob.
by edanm | 2025-05-12 13:14:30+00:00
I mean, I've been a professional developer now for more than 20 years, and it started with learning QBasic from a book and then building stuff with Visual Basic. So VB was literally life-changing for me.

I even bought (and still have somewhere!) a book on doing graphics or VFX or something using Visual Basic, though I never really did much with it. I think it was Visual Basic with DirectX or something. Though funny enough I ended up working at Autodesk for a few years on things related to 3d printing and computational geometry, so I eventually did some graphics-related stuff.
by tptacek | 2025-05-12 13:15:21+00:00
So people who figure out how to make 20p drugs and get them approved should make... 20p/dose. People who figure out how to target ads 1% more effectively should make billions, but people who cure diseases should do so at cost, less their R&D costs.

I'm trying to remember who it was who said you could sum all of economics up with the sentence "people respond to incentives."
by jhonof | 2025-05-12 13:15:54+00:00
Not OP but for autocomplete I am running Qwen2.5-Coder-7B and I quantized it using Q2_K. I followed this guide:

https://blog.steelph0enix.dev/posts/llama-cpp-guide/#quantiz...

And I get fast enough autcomplete results for it to be useful. I have and NVIDIA 4060 RTX in a laptop with 8 gigs of dedicated memory that I use for it. I still use claude for chat (pair programming) though, and I don't really use agents.
by oxcabe | 2025-05-12 13:16:10+00:00
Just checked what's there for libs implementing local state management + server-side sync in vanilla JS. The best options I found were `@tanstack/query-core`[1] and `@signaldb/core`[2].

The former packs no dependencies, with a total size of 89.18 kB if you were to put all the module JS code together, unminified, on a single file. Which could be even smaller with an optimising bundler that tree-shakes and minifies the build.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tanstack/query-core [2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@signaldb/core
by Draiken | 2025-05-12 13:16:39+00:00
Where are these amazing productivity increases?

Where is this 2x, 10x or even 1.5x increase in output? I don't see more products, more features, less bugs or anything related to that since this "AI revolution".

I keep seeing this being repeated ad nauseam without any real backing of hard evidence. It's all copium.

Surely if everyone is so much more productive, a single person startup is now equivalent to 1 + X right?

Please enlighten me as I'm very eager to see this impact in the real world.
by cj | 2025-05-12 13:16:49+00:00
Gifting stock to a trust is a common way to avoid certain types of taxes in some cases.

If his end goal is to simply liquidate his position, maybe the "gifting shares to trust" is just part of a tax avoidance scheme (even if it sounds illegal, it often isn't).

I've seen this very commonly with private company founders expecting an exit in the next couple years, but very possible this situation is completely different.

The fact that it triggered a clause to eliminate preferred voting shares is very odd. Either a complete oversight by the guy's lawyer, or if it was done intentionally, I have no idea.
by thesuitonym | 2025-05-12 13:17:03+00:00
In another post it was revealed that the owner passed away in 2023. While I'm as certain as you that there was some level of abuse, it doesn't seem to have been enough to make him change his ways.

Consider also that if you have a plumber, electrician, or some other tradesperson come to your house, you don't pay them until after they have done the work. You could choose not to pay them, but they have your address, and you'll never be able to do business with them again. On a small enough scale, this is all you need to prevent abuse.
by yeputons | 2025-05-12 13:17:18+00:00
> Open source thrives on collaboration. ... Central to this ecosystem are Codes of Conduct (CoCs), designed to ...

Open source thrived back in early 2000-s too. Although I don't remember anything even remotely resembling Code of Conduct back then, I wasn't paying attention. Was it a thing?

I found that Drupal adopted CoC in 2010, and Ubuntu had one already no later than 2005 (the "Ubuntu Management Philosophy" book from 2005 mentions it).
by int_19h | 2025-05-12 13:17:56+00:00
Even so I would still pick WPF over VCL/LCL today if I don't need cross-platform support. It just does so much more, especially when it comes to data binding.

The funny thing about Windows GUI story is that the older the framework is, generally speaking, the better it is supported. WinForms still gets bug fixes and improvements; so does WPF. OTOH if you were early on the WinRT bandwagon, tough luck, and it's been meaningless churn ever since.
by raddan | 2025-05-12 13:18:32+00:00
> If one altruistically decides to give to society then I'm unsure what outcomes one should expect from society? What's the game-theory here?

I’m not sure if you’re asking rhetorically, but answering your question literally speaking: none. If you’re giving altruistically then you should expect nothing back.

As you point out, many projects whose goal is more personal satisfaction than money-making do indeed generate tremendous value, and in some cases, lots of money too. It’s hard to quantify the value of open source but I would not be surprised if its value exceeded the value of commercial, closed source software.
by wewxjfq | 2025-05-12 13:18:41+00:00
I think they should cast a wider net. Toxicity might discover trolls in the original sense, i.e. individuals seeking a dopamine rush. The trolls I have in mind try to steer the narrative on certain topics with comments that aren't rude or inflammatory per se and, like I said, even seem elaborate on the surface.* But if it's done for spin, it's still toxic nonetheless.

What the researchers say about disengagement also applies to these type of trolls. I mentioned persistence, it's what ultimately makes countering these users futile. Anyone who realizes that tomorrow there will be a new thread with the same narrative eventually disengages.

*) More often I see accounts posting long comments in such a short amount of time that I doubt a human was naturally engaging in an online conversation. I would be ashamed to admit how long it took me to write my two comments in this thread and then I see accounts posting much longer comments back-to-back in under two minutes.
Ask HN: Future-proof way of archiving web pages?
by D4ckard | 2025-05-12 13:19:09+00:00
Web rot is a well-known problem and I frequently come across old blogs with lots of broken links. I want to prevent this from happening to my blog so I'm considering different options of archiving the pages that I link to. The archive.org is big and likely won't go away very soon, but it's also quite slow. Archive.today is faster, but I'm skeptical of its reliability. It's also been around for a while, but there is little information on its funding on its website. How reliable are these sites and what model of funding (private, university, non-profit) is likely to best support saving pages for the long term?

My preferred option at this point is to not depend on any outside archive at all and instead upload snapshots of the pages I link to on my own page. That way, the content of the page I was linking to is surely available for as long as my blog stays alive.
by actinium226 | 2025-05-12 13:19:10+00:00
There was a business near me that closed. I reported it on Maps, and they still listed it as open for a month. Another time I arrived at a business just shortly before their closing time and found that it was closed-closed, as in out of business.

In the first case they could have paid someone $20 on fiverrr or whatever to go and physically look to see if it's closed and update it more quickly. Not sure about the second case, but either way if a maps service put in the effort to have more accurate hours they could do so, and that would be a reasonable thing for users to pay for.
by tomovo | 2025-05-12 13:19:11+00:00
> Maybe the comment that voiced my anger crossed a line, too. I take full responsibility for that. But I think that this provoked reaction is understandable after all the time and effort spent to solve this issue constructively by a non-technical person.

> it further demonstrated my good intentions

> "you are arguing with a law professional"

> "AI summary," ... shows the effort I am willing to invest ...

Wow.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-05-12 13:19:13+00:00
> If anyone was skeptical of the US government being deeply entrenched with these companies in letting this blatant violation of the spirit of the law [1] continue, this should hopefully secure the conclusion.

European here, but why do you think this is so clear cut? There are other jurisdictions where training on copyrighted data has already been allowed by law/caselaw (Germany and Japan). Why do you need a conspiracy in the US?

AFAICT the US copyright law deals with direct reproductions of a copyrighted piece of content (and also carves out some leeway with direct reproduction, like fair use). I think we can all agree by now that LLMs don't fully reproduce "letter perfect" content, right? What then is the "spirit" of the law that you think was broken here? Isn't this the definition of "transformative work"?

Of note is also the other big case involving books - the one where google was allowed to process mountains of books, they were sued and allowed to continue. How is scanning & indexing tons of books different than scanning & "training" an LLM?
by RhysU | 2025-05-12 13:19:35+00:00
> We report on a data-driven method for learning a nonperturbative guiding center model from full-orbit particle simulation data.

> Then we describe a data-driven method for learning from a dataset of full-orbit α-particle trajectories. We apply this method to the α-particle dynamics shown in Fig. 1 and find the learned non-perturbative guiding center model significantly outperforms the standard guiding center expansion. Our proposed method for learning applies on a per-magnetic field basis; changing requires re-training.

Is this interpolation at its heart? A variable transformation then a data fit?

Anyone know which functionals of these orbits are important? I don't know the space. I am wondering why the orbits with such nuance should be materially important when accessed via lower-order models.
by mindslight | 2025-05-12 13:20:20+00:00
I'm surprised too. Given the bargaining positions, the question is what of ours did Trump give away to get China to agree. Or maybe long-term China is just happy to go back to things being calmer after Trump showed exactly how much they have us by the balls?

I thought this guy was prepared to just ride his bomb all the way down to the ground. In retrospect that was a bit foolish because he actually can't sit still, despite being such low energy in general (lol, another typical old person behavior pattern).

Is "the deal" entirely just market manipulation and flooding the zone with shit then? Or maybe Trump got more resistance than he planned to from the Fed, so now the goal is to try again in a few months? After he's figured out how to destroy that institution too, so he can mash the inflation button to paper over the markets again. (sheesh I would have never thought I'd be thankful for the Fed, strange times indeed)
by jsnell | 2025-05-12 13:20:38+00:00
The example was:

> Flutter 27 lands, requires Dart 45, which requires intl 81.2.5

None of those versions exist, so the example is obviously made up.

Now, it could still be rooted in reality rather than being a complete fabrication. But when all the provided details were made up, it's basically impossible for anyone to check.
by int_19h | 2025-05-12 13:21:00+00:00
Customers acting individually have a short-term perspective which leads them to prefer low prices in general, which is why strategies like price dumping work - yet they are illegal for a reason.

The problem is that once the monopolist is entrenched and all competition killed off, those cheap bundles stop being cheap. Hence why you need someone to take the long term view and nip these kinds of things in the bud. A democratically elected government is the best avenue for that.
by disambiguation | 2025-05-12 13:21:14+00:00
No not exactly, it was more "I'm not arrogant enough to assume I know someone better than they know themselves, I'm not going to dogmatically explain a person to themselves as if I have all the information and can magically intuit and deduce everything about them." This is still generally true, not just for myself, but for every rare true student of human nature there are a dozen fools trying to make a read and failing miserably.
by elAhmo | 2025-05-12 13:21:20+00:00
Debugging any system is not easy, it is not like technical debt didn't exit before AI, people will be writing shitcode in the future as they were in the past. Probably more, but there are also more tools that help with debugging.

Additionally, what you are failing to realise is that not everyone is just vibe coding and accepting blindly what the LLM is suggesting and deploying it to prod. There are actually people with decade+ of experience who do use these tools and who found it to be an accelerator in many areas, from writing boilerplate code, to assisting with styling changes.

In any case, thanks for the heads up, definitely will not be hiring you with that snarky attitude. Your assumption that I have no capability to understand something without any context tells more about you than me, and unfortunately there is no AI to assist you with that.
by dsjoerg | 2025-05-12 13:21:28+00:00
Citation needed. What I'm seeing: No evidence of a legal requirement to spend a % of revenue on research: There was no line-item mandate in the consent decree forcing AT&T to invest a specific percentage into Bell Labs. The support for research was strategic and reputational: AT&T used Bell Labs to fend off antitrust pressure and maintain regulatory goodwill.
by Balgair | 2025-05-12 13:21:34+00:00
I grew up in a trade. My folks ran a small auto repair business, and as such, I'm more than competent in a lot of automotive related things and a barely competent in a lot of the trades (carpentry, electrical, tile, accounting, taxes, etc). Essentially, anything we needed to get done to make the business run, I did alongside my folks and family.

I'm decidedly out of the trades as an adult.

Mostly, this is because of my folk's parenting in general. I was not good, due to the stresses of said work and business. But I imagine that's true of most small business owners.

But, it's also because the trades are quite hard on the body. I'm fully not kidding here when I say that my jeans were so dirty that they stood up on their own. Again, kid's jeans, and it wasn't every day, but at least twice a week. Heavy machinery like lathes will literally tear your arms off and beat you to death with them. I've grabbed 220V before and my Dad had to break the circuit with a broom handle, leaving quite the bruise on my arms, not to mention the near death of that kind of shock. Don't get me started on car exhaust and brake cleaners.

Auto repair may not be very exemplary of the trades as a whole, but I choose to take showers after work now.
by maelito | 2025-05-12 13:21:58+00:00
> try to search for something, mistype only one letter

Photon is quite good at this, coming with english/french/german plug-and-play. But it's online, so very hard to implement on each user's phone, which is the limitation of Organic and Osmand.

Once you're using Photon or an equivalent project, you need to do a lot more to provide Google's experience : - itinerary suggestions like "from london to winchester" - coordinates detection - handle abbreviations like blvd, in all the languages (Nominatim does it better than Photon, from what I know) - handle category search, e.g. typing "coffee in Marais" -> a full-text-search won't work taking only the features' name, you need to do some semantic separation of terms - etc.

> Alternative path for your bike route? Forget about it.

Same pb : offline routing is harder. BRouter is excellent, with lots of alternatives, but online (can be installed on OSMand but it's nerdy).

Disclaimer : I'm working on https://cartes.app, a Web map app. We're using Photon and Brouter, but lots need to be done, including i18n to english, soon I hope !
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-12 13:22:22+00:00
Every industry is feeling the same pressures. Even in "simple" trades the latent cost of running a licensed business is so high that you almost can't be in business yourself or with a couple people, you need to have a dozen guys running around doing gravy work (that nobody else can do, because no license, and that no other licensee will undercut any other on, because they're invested) under your license in order to stay above water in some markets.
by Draiken | 2025-05-12 13:22:26+00:00
Are you using these in your day job to complete real world tasks or in greenfield projects?

I simply cannot see how I can tell an agent to implement anything I have to do in a real day job unless it's a feature so simple I could do it in a few minutes. Even those the AI will likely screw it up since it sucks at dealing with existing code, best practices, library versions, etc.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-12 13:23:29+00:00
While I get that it's fashionable to peddle it that way because it confirms the HN audience's biases the overwhelming majority of mechanics are paid flat rate same as they would have been 50yr ago.

Renting a bay is the kind of thing a business owner does. Like a gas station with a 2-bay garage will be owned by a landlord who leases it to a tenant business. Perhaps the same or different business than is operating the convieience store.
by adwn | 2025-05-12 13:23:40+00:00
I'll take a closer look later, and I welcome anything that tries to bring concepts from modern programming languages to hardware design.

But. The focus on "CPU" examples on the landing page (A 3 stage CPU supporting Add, Sub, Set and Jump, "You can easily build an ALU") is immediately discouraging. I implement and verify FPGA designs for a living, and the vast, vast majority of my work is nothing like designing a CPU. So my fear is that this new hardware description language hasn't been created by a veteran who has many years of experience in using HDLs and therefore knows what and where the real pain points are, but by someone who's ultimately a software developer – even a highly skilled and motivated software developer – and who has never designed, implemented, and verified a large FPGA design. And skilled, motivated software developers without a lot of domain-specific experience tend to solve the wrong problems.

I would be happy to be proven wrong, though.
by UncleEntity | 2025-05-12 13:23:51+00:00
> What would you do with that cash for one month which is so profitable and risk free to compensate for the quite high risk of missing one of those BNPL invoices?

Not arguing for this credit scheme but in my personal case I use my credit card for everything and pay it off in full on the due date. The money sits in my savings account making a minuscule, but not zero, amount of interest while the card gives "cash back on purchases". Making a completely wild guess this nets me around $50 a month in "free" money.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't some plan to "hack the system" just my debit card expired and I never got around to getting a replacement so the credit card is all I have. But, free money is free money...
by maelito | 2025-05-12 13:24:02+00:00
> If OsmAnd got a new rendering engine (no, not that "3D" sluggish thing it has for a couple years now), like streetcomplete has (or the Strava-built-in mapbox renderer), it would be possibly the best.

What "3D sluggish thing" are talking about ? Streetcomplete, like most OSM vector 3D maps use MapLibre, for a few months now https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/pull/5693

Edit : sorry, I read Organic. Indeed OSMand is sluggish for me as well. I don't know why they went for something other than MapLibre. It's probably in-house and entangled in their code :/