MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chubot | 2025-05-04 17:22:07+00:00
FWIW Oils has two modes, and I wrote new landing pages for them recently:

Nine Reasons to Use OSH - https://oils.pub/osh.html - it runs existing shell scripts, ...

What is YSH? - https://oils.pub/ysh.html - It's the ultimate glue language, like shell + Python + JSON + YAML, seamlessly put together
by dtgriscom | 2025-05-04 17:22:30+00:00
That's overly broad. I do embedded development, where the unit has a metal box and the button is plastic. You'd have to deliberately hit it with a spark generator to cause an unexpected transition, and having the button register an unexpected transition isn't a big deal. Worse would be to have overly-enthusiastic debouncing that slows down the user interface, making the unit annoying to use.
by vunderba | 2025-05-04 17:23:40+00:00
Having had a piano (an older Yamaha upright not even a grand) damaged in a move in the past - I will NEVER EVER allow general movers, no matter how highly rated they are, to handle any expensive musical instruments of mine.

A couple of my friends have used Modern Piano Moving in the past to move a concert grand reliably and they seem to be pretty highly rated.

https://www.modernpiano.com
by variaga | 2025-05-04 17:24:56+00:00
Transferring files between a phone and a computer was a real use case, but since wireless usb was "exactly like regular usb but no wires" it wasn't any easier to set up file transfer than regular usb (harder, actually, since you had to do the wireless bonding), and wired usb would charge your phone battery while the files transferred whereas wireless usb would drain it.
by munchler | 2025-05-04 17:25:18+00:00
Paul McCartney deliberately avoided learning how to read music, but he understands music theory just fine. They are two different skills. It's quite clear from The Beatles' music that they know about keys, chords, etc.

For example, McCartney tells a fun story about The Beatles traveling across Liverpool to learn a single B7 chord in their early days: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_r5B1AhP1Fo
by mjevans | 2025-05-04 17:26:29+00:00
Cable news networks - which had to fill whole days with news, sort of started that trend.

It wasn't always quite that bad, it used to be the same stuff repeated for people in venues like lounges at airports or restaurants that wanted to cater to business crowds.

Then around 2001 there was that terrorist attack on the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks ). Networks did 24/7 'news' coverage; ever more of a spectacle as time dragged on. In recollection their need for attention, to excite and draw in eyeballs, probably helped with the implicit goal of 'terrorism' to instill terror.

Rather than behaving as rational adults, digesting a negative event, reflecting on what could be done differently ( do not negotiate with terrorists, do not remain passive sheep on an airplane, and FFS lock the cockpit doors ); everyone 'blinked' and caved. Freedoms and liberty were traded for news as entertainment, security theater, and excuses to enter wars 'on terrorism' with unclear goals and objectives.

The 'Internet' probably didn't help in offering a cheaper and supposedly 'better targeted' venue for ads. Other than informative ads (X exists, it can do Y), I find the entertainment focus to be intellectual junk food and noise against the signal. It would probably be a public good if that were heavily regulated.
by geuis | 2025-05-04 17:26:35+00:00
Would likely be older than the solar system itself. Probably not first gen star old, but likely would have formed before the sun did. Don't know how different it would be though. Would have formed out of maybe different ratios of elements than what was in the molecular cloud we formed from, but otherwise a large body like this would have undergone similar geological processes as our own planets.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-04 17:26:36+00:00
Lol, right?

Getting away from the original posts, but: The reflex to ask for sources probably comes from a good place. But, it has become too immediate nowadays online, to the point where (in my opinion) it gets in the way of discussion.

The request for a source should generally include a note on how the fact being questioned will impact the overall argument. Friendly conversations shouldn’t become asymmetrical homework generating exercises.
by lotyrin | 2025-05-04 17:26:39+00:00
Your best bet is to very carefully pack your own containers (possibly with direct help from a local mover) and work with someone to deliver those between states and then carefully unpack the container on the other end (possibly with help from local movers). Problem is that you have to be moving from and to a place with space for the containers to be packed/unpacked, and sit empty or full for a while while they're getting picked up according to whatever schedule you can arrange.

If you're renting and can't accommodate this process, I highly recommend only owning things that you can fit in your personal vehicle or can sell on one end and replace on the other fairly easily.
by ImHereToVote | 2025-05-04 17:26:41+00:00
We can ignore the term intelligence if you like. It has too many anthropic connotations. We can use the term generalized goal to action mapper. Humans are great generalized goal to action mappers.

Come up with any goal you want to reach, and some human can but a large dent in the problem. Maybe reach the goal outright.

We already have some nifty artificial goal to action mappers. None of them are generalized to a wide category of goals yet. Maybe some goals need consciousness to be reached, but that isn't a given. We don't really know that. We might be left very unsatisfied in the way an artificial goal to action mapper reaches any goal without consciousness. We might even call it cheating.
by qbane | 2025-05-04 17:26:49+00:00
I hope articles like this can at least provide some hints when the size of a flatpak store grows without bound. It is definitely more involved than "it bundles everything like a node_modules directory hence..."

[Bug]: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects/ taking up 295GB of space: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5904

Why flatpak apps are so huge in size: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=275123

Flatpak using much more storage space than installed packages: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/flatpak-using-much-mo...
by ionwake | 2025-05-04 17:26:54+00:00
I mean Great Britain

No need to downvote me stickler!

I don’t normally say anything but thanks when corrected but in this case most foreigners would expect England to represent the GB landmass so in this case there’s no need to point out the error. Even if it was , it’s odd to start explaining the borders, it’s almost as if you are entirely confused by the prospect of the tree being in the center of the GB landmass. I’m sure you are not but that’s what it comes across as. Only saying this so you work on your context analysis in discussions.
by drabbiticus | 2025-05-04 17:27:42+00:00
If lived experience is the only bar of evidence you will consider, there are plenty of stories of fraud, corruption and anti-competitive behavior in industry that have hurt real people. Insurance (duh), devs who get shafted by Apple store policies or other entities without recourse to a human, outright scams and spam i.e. cryptodumps, every major game release that seems to either get delayed or released with show-stopping bugs, etc

EDIT: s/accept/consider
by mtalantikite | 2025-05-04 17:27:46+00:00
But I think most of us would take a musician with great instincts and not much theoretical understanding over one with extraordinary theory and poor instinct. How many thousands of boring jazz players have been pumped out by university programs over the past 50 years? Meanwhile John Lee Hooker could just vamp over a single chord and I could listen to it for hours.

I'm remembering a scene in Hampton Hawes's autobiography where a well known piano teacher was telling him his students were starting to ask how to play like Hampton. He tells him he wants to give him lessons to help his technique, which he thinks will help his natural talent even more, but Hampton finds it boring and never goes back. The teacher framed Hampton's check he used to pay for the lesson and put it on his wall. All that's to say having great ears can bring you a long way.
by wtarreau | 2025-05-04 17:28:33+00:00
Not to mention the catastrophic security that comes with these systems. On a local ubuntu, I've had exactly 4 different versions of the sudo binary. One in the host OS and 3 in different snaps (some were the same but there were a total of 4 different). If they had a reason to be different, it's likely for bug fixes, but not all of them were updated, meaning that even after my main OS was updated, there were still 3 bogus binaries exposed to users and waiting for an exploit to happen. I find that this is the most shocking aspect of these systems (and I'm really not happy with the disrespect of my storage, like you mention).
by philjohnson | 2025-05-04 17:28:43+00:00
The service worker functionality can be expressed as a PWA! Based on the comments I'm thinking of heading in that direction.

As far as touchscreen PDF editing, that is 100% doable and something I plan on adding soon. Touchevents are supported natively in the web

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_event...
Show HN: LGTM ASCII Art as a Service
by primaprashant | 2025-05-04 17:29:41+00:00
Get a random ASCII art for LGTM by visiting the website [1] or by calling the API [2]. I sometimes use these in the comment when approving the PRs.

[1]: https://lgtms.app/ [2]: curl -sL lgtms.app/api | jq -r '.art'
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-04 17:31:04+00:00
I am still 'impressed' with recommendation engines and how much time, money etc is spent on them. In all the years using Netflix, prime video, YouTube, apple TV+ etc, I have never had 1 recommendation I like. These companies all know for years, sometimes decades, what I like (horror sci-fi) and, also important, what I dislike/hate/never watch (romantic comedies): the recommendations I get are shows or movies I would not watch if you paid me and are not even remotely connected to what I viewed in the past. The only time it gets it right is recommending something I just saw on that same platform, usually less than 24 hours ago. I could not make a worse recommendation engine if I tried than any of those, but I guess somehow they make money recommending stuff I will never click on? And no, my accounts are not shared with anyone, it's just me watching them. I click like/not like duty fully, and yet...
by SwellJoe | 2025-05-04 17:31:05+00:00
This is a remarkably ignorant take. Literally every detail is wrong.

They aren't major chords, they're mostly power chords, which are neither major nor minor (no third and the third provides the major/minor tonality). They often function as minor chords because of the melody or other parts, or just because of how the progression fits together. They aren't unique or new with Cobain, he was part of a long history of punk and rock and roll.

Cobain was a good songwriter in the rock and roll tradition. He was not particularly innovative or doing something technically unheard of, and he wouldn't have claimed to be. He wanted to be a good songwriter, and he succeeded. That's it, don't make up bullshit about it.
by linotype | 2025-05-04 17:31:54+00:00
> Six days a week isn’t required at Decagon, a San Francisco startup building AI agents to answer customer calls, but has become part of the company culture, cofounder Jesse Zhang told Forbes. Up to one-third of the 80-person company typically work Sundays in its office in the city’s South of Market district, according to Zhang.

Founder mode means you’re proud of how bad you are as a manager.
by owenversteeg | 2025-05-04 17:33:04+00:00
Yes, it will move the hot air, but typically the temperature of the chip is substantially higher than the ambient air inside the enclosure (be it a backpack or a laptop shell or anything else.) Furthermore, even if the backpack is 100% sealed, by raising its temperature you significantly increase the amount of heat that the backpack rejects.

A quick Google says that the Oculus DK1 used ~3W, and you can easily find a fan that uses a fraction of a watt to move a reasonable amount of air, so this would probably have worked out.
by simoncion | 2025-05-04 17:34:00+00:00
Assuming a three-day job and a three-man crew the math works out to:

14000/(24*3*3) 64.81481481481481

about sixty-five bucks an hour. [0] OP doesn't mention if the house was packed up into a container to be loaded onto a train (as you suggest would happen), but -given what I've seen and heard of long-haul house movers doing- I find it much more likely that the house contents were loaded into a truck and that truck driven cross-country.

The BLS claims that median pay for tractor-trailer drivers is ~$28/hour. Paying a little more than double that for a competent pack, load, haul and unload seems fair to me.

> ...shipping a 20-foot container over a very long distance does not cost nearly as much.

Now, how much does getting your packed belongings into that container, getting the container to where it can be loaded up on the conveyance, then getting it to where you can get your belongings out of the container, and your belongings into your house cost?

Do keep in mind that there are a whole bunch of places that absolutely would not permit you to drop a twenty-foot steel shipping container out on the street for an extended period of time, and others who won't let you do that without a permit.

[0] I'm fudging the numbers a bit because I can't be arsed to figure out how to work out the "blended" rate for "Five men for two days to pack/load and unload and one man for two days on the road".
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-04 17:35:06+00:00
Related to this, our min_p paper was ranked #18 out of 12000 submission at ICLR and got an oral:

https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/oral/31888

Our poster was popular:

poster: https://iclr.cc/media/PosterPDFs/ICLR%202025/30358.png?t=174...

oral presentation (watch me roast yoshua bengio on this topic and then have him be the first questioner, 2nd speaker starting around 19:30 min mark. My slides for the presentation are there too and really funny.): https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/session/31936

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01082

As one of the min_p authors, I can confirm that Top N sigma is currently the best general purpose sampler by far. Also, temperature can and should be scaled far higher than it is today. Temps of 100 are totally fine with techniques like min_p and top N sigma.

Also, the special case of top_k = 2 with ultra high temperature (one thing authors recommend against near the end) is very interesting in its own right. Doing it leads to spelling errors every ~10th word - but also seems to have a certain creativity to it that's quite interesting.
by t-writescode | 2025-05-04 17:35:13+00:00
Tl; dr: color me genuinely surprised.

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I have now done several Google searches to - well, admittedly, to try and counter your argument; but what I've since found is:

* Every friggin' benchmark is wildly different [0, 1] * Some of these test pages are obnoxious to read and filter; **BUT** Javascript regularly finds itself to be **VERY** fast [0]

On a more readable and easily-filtered version (that has very differnet answers) [1], * plain Javascript (not Next.js) has gotten *REALLY* fast, serverside * Kotlin is (confusingly?!) often slower than JS, depending on the benchmark ^-- this one doesn't make sense to me ^-- in at least one example, they're basically on par (70k rps each) * Ruby and Python are painfully slow, but everyone else sorta sits in a pack together

I will probably be able to find another benchmark that says completely different things.

Benchmarking is hard.

I'm also having trouble finding the article from HN that I was sure I saw about Next.JS's SSR rendering performance being abysmal.

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23

[1] https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result?asc=0&f=...
by quesera | 2025-05-04 17:36:11+00:00
I mostly agree with you, but I suspect there's an element of just being the right age.

I think of Kurt Cobain like an accidental Elvis Presley. Perfect for the moment, and (unlike Elvis) mostly organically grown, but with very clear antecedents.

I cannot point to strong antecedents of Pixies, Sonic Youth, Throwing Muses, PJ Harvey, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Slits, Bongwater, Kate Bush, The Cure, etc. In a couple of these cases, I suspect my own ignorance. In others, I could (and might) argue all night! :)

But I cannot assemble a case for not recognizing David Bowie as a (musical|performance) genius. I don't even enjoy his recordings very much, but he was artistically sui generis and enormously influential.

Influence might not be a requirement of genius (I'm not sure), but surely a novel creativity is at the root of it?
by inejge | 2025-05-04 17:36:42+00:00
> Your definition seems to have an unstated premise: you think certain kinds of “fear and discontent” are legitimate, and others aren’t.

I don't. Fear and discontent exist, and I'm not interested in the degree of their justification here. The unstated part is my disdain for the populist's overeagerness to leverage them, offering emotionally satisfying but often practically dubious or outrightly deleterious policies and actions.
by nathanasmith | 2025-05-04 17:37:20+00:00
>You're right - I don't really care if the track playing in my favourite cafe is AI-generated or not. You're not supposed to be emotionally invested into background music

I guess different strokes but some of the best music I've ever been turned on to just happened to be playing in some random cafe or coffee shop. Conversely if the music is bland and uninspired I'm much less likely to go back.
by jack_h | 2025-05-04 17:37:25+00:00
> And the method by which autocrats and fascists destroy democracy is make people believe, that when a party loses and it's being replaced by another party, that the ruling "elite" isn't really replaced.

I think this line of argument requires some self-scrutiny. If you're suggesting that people are being manipulated into believing there's a ruling class of elites that span the traditional parties then you have to be willing to examine the possibility that you have been manipulated into dismissing that concern prematurely yourself. Propaganda absolutely exists, but assuming that it is the driving force behind opposing views in a democratic system turns valid concerns into illegitimate concerns which leads to disaffection by those who legitimately hold it.

> There's only two parties really in Germany left, according to the AfD, the "real opposition party" namely the AfD, and then there's the other party, a hegemonial woke block of "Altparteien".

This isn't unique to Germany. In the US, many call it the "uniparty" which consists of establishment/neocon Republicans and Democrats. In the UK the Reform party portrays both Labour and the Conservatives as indistinguishable. France's National Rally makes similar arguments from what I understand. It seems to be a recurring pattern.

The rise of these alternative parties across Western democracies suggests that a significant portion of the electorate feels under-represented politically. From their perspective the political establishment dismisses their concerns while simultaneously labeling the alternative parties that address these concerns as being anti-democratic. I think this is a very dangerous place for any sort of democracy to be in.
by orbital-decay | 2025-05-04 17:37:26+00:00
One thing not said here is that samplers have no access to model's internal state. It's basic math applied to the output distribution, which technically carries some semantics but you can't decode it without being as smart as the model itself.

Certain samplers described here like repetition penalty or DRY are just like this - the model could repeat itself in a myriad of ways, the only way to prevent all of them is better training, not n-gram search or other classic NLP methods. This is basically trying to plug every hole with a finger. How many fingers do you have?

Hacking the autoregressive process has some some low-hanging fruits like Min-P that can make some improvement and certain nifty tricks possible, but if you're doing it to turn a bad model into a good one, you're doing it wrong.
by aphyr | 2025-05-04 17:38:05+00:00
This is a whole story unto itself. I (and a bunch of other small-site operators) actually got the chance to ask Ofcom directly about how small a site would have to be to declare itself out-of-scope of part 3/5 services, and in short: the law doesn't specify, Ofcom declines to say, and it could be as small as "a one-man band". Ofcom has indicated that they're interested in pursuing aggressive enforcement against small service providers (read: web sites). I wound up concluding that the forum I help run could be defensibly out-of-scope, but aphyr.com gets significantly more traffic, and I'm trying to limit risks.

I think in total I spent something like 80 hours reading the legislation, working through thousands of pages of Ofcom guidance, and corresponding with Ofcom trying to figure out whether and how compliance was feasible.

https://blog.woof.group/announcements/updates-on-the-osa
by water-data-dude | 2025-05-04 17:38:16+00:00
I wanted to get a sense of what that MEANS relative to the rest of the gas giants. Apparently it’d be roughly the size of Uranus or Neptune.

I guess I’d always put all the gas giants in the same “very, unimaginably big” bucket. I knew Jupiter was the biggest, then Saturn, but I didn’t realize just HOW big they were compared to the rest. At the risk of stating the very, very obvious, Jupiter is huge!!!

Masses of gas giants are: Jupiter, 317.8 earth mass; Saturn, 95.2 earth mass; Neptune, 17.1 earth mass; Uranus, 14.5 earth mass

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mass#Unit_of_mass_in_a...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-04 17:38:34+00:00
Sure, but we’ve tried that technique for about 20 years.

We learned that most app developers hate it; to the point they don’t even bother supporting the platform unless they are FOSS diehards.

Those that do screech about not using the packaged version on almost all of their developer forums, most often because they are out of date and users blame them for bugs that were already fixed.

This actually is infuriating - imagine fixing a bug, but 2 years later, the distribution isn’t shipping your update, and users are blaming you and still opening bug reports. The distribution also will not be persuaded, because it’s the “stable” branch for the next 3 years.

Basically, Linux sucks terribly, either way, with app distribution. Linux distributions have nobody to blame but themselves for being ineffectual here.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-05-04 17:38:36+00:00
Can you elaborate a bit more on "theoretical" formal grammars and constraints that would allow the LLM to use a search engine or git commands and produce the next tokens that take the results into account?

Here are some practical, non-theoretical projects based on a boring and imperfect standard (MCP) that provide LLMs capabilities to use many tools and APIs in the right situation: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
by cultofmetatron | 2025-05-04 17:38:41+00:00
Built my startup on phoenix and I can vouch that it was 100% the right decision. code is easy to modify/reason about. Performance smokes rails by a wide margin and its websocket support is simply amazing. There's a few really great libraries for it that just let you scale very efficiently without much effort.

https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon -> AI/neural networks

https://elixir-broadway.org/ -> consume streams from kafka or rabbitmq

https://oban.pro/ -> job processing

https://membrane.stream/ -> webrtc (make a video confrencing app)