MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by karussell | 2025-05-12 14:40:09+00:00
OSMAnd and OrganicMaps both have the limitation (and big advantage) of functioning offline by default. The routing will be much more powerful (with alternatives on by default) and faster if you enable an online routing service. For OSMAnd this is possible with e.g. GraphHopper: https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2024/02/27/osmand-with-grap...

The same is true for address search. If you have an online address search like photon the search can be more user friendly. We've put together photon and GraphHopper routing on GraphHopper Maps: https://graphhopper.com/maps/ which you could self-host on your own (i.e. also use offline): https://github.com/karussell/local-maps

GraphHopper Maps is also available on fdroid store or you can install the website as PWA in iOS.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of GraphHopper.
by SR2Z | 2025-05-12 14:40:33+00:00
Yokes will be fine - but only BECAUSE they can have variable ratios now.

Frankly, there are a lot of quirky design choices on a Tesla that make them unpleasant for me to drive:

- not being able to coast/disable regenerative braking

- the current implementation of the yoke and capacitive buttons outside the CT

- placing FSD/cruise on the shifter

I don't think these are "get used to it" things, I think they're actually worse UX for most people. I also think that Tesla implemented every single one as cost-cutting measures on a supposedly "luxury" car that's now falling further and further behind the competition.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-12 14:41:11+00:00
What in https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/about/ says "ah, yes, trustworthy unbiased analysis" to you? Why should I trust this source's opinion?

Pre-publication reports aren't unusual. https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/current

https://www.federalregister.gov/reader-aids/using-federalreg...

> The Federal Register Act requires that the Office of the Federal Register (we) file documents for public inspection at our office in Washington, DC at least one business day before publication in the Federal Register.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-12 14:41:14+00:00
It's only complete non-sense if you understand how humans learn. Which we don't.

What we do know though is that LLMs, similar to humans, do not directly copy information into their "storage". LLMs, like humans, are pretty lossy with their recall.

Compare this to something like a search indexed database, where the recall of information given to it is perfect.
by vessenes | 2025-05-12 14:41:50+00:00
Yes. Two ways to think of that:

a) Market must be saturated, I should move on!

b) A solo founder company with an old tech stack shows practices of many kinds need help in this area. Is Appointment Reminder a dominant force in my chosen market, using current (AI) tech to offer needed features?

If not, I think the story would be encouraging, not discouraging.
Can the Anthropic computer use tool be used to play the Chrome T-Rex Runner game
by largepuma | 2025-05-12 14:42:34+00:00
T-Rex Runner game in Chrome error page is popular. You just need some keystrokes to control it. (like this one https://wayou.github.io/t-rex-runner/)

At the same time, Anthropic 3.7 has powerful computer use ability. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/computer-use

So, I think whether Anthropic's computer use tool could be used to play the Chrome T-Rex Runner game autonomously.

I tried it by using playwright-mcp and failed (the latency is too big)
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-05-12 14:42:37+00:00
That's 100% legit. Source: I *am* Amazon.

In all seriousness, when the topic of crypto is brought up, I feel angry at myself.

Back at the peak of crypto-hype, and NFT mania i had the gut feeling that this is all bullshit — even though I couldn't put my finger on why.

(And do you remember ICOs?? What was wrong with us??!!)

But seeing a lot of people around me — who are much more knowledgeable, and had way more experience and, most importantly, whose opinions I respected — embrace it, made me feel ashamed of myself for not being able to see the "obvious" value of crypto.

And while I didn't advocate for Blockchain, I feel that I wasn't vocal enough about its drawbacks.

Seeing now that the US government itself getting involved is very worrisome, and sad.
by GTCHO | 2025-05-12 14:42:37+00:00
Completely agree. Linking incidents back to code changes is one of the most valuable things a team can do but it's rarely done well. In this case, the agent actually learns from that full timeline production incidents, support tickets, commit diffs. It surfaces patterns you’d never catch manually, like an issue that only appears under high concurrency.

Also yes on chat querying. One of the most useful parts was letting PMs ask questions like “Has this bug happened since April?” and getting a full trace across releases. The idea of automating grooming using historical story similarity is spot on too. This could easily save teams hours per sprint.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-12 14:42:50+00:00
I remain skeptical that fusion will ever be a commercially viable energy source. I'd love to be wrong.

The engineering challenges are so massive that even if they can be solved, which is far from certain, at what cost? With a dense high-energy plasma, you're dealing with a turbulent fluid where any imperfection in your magnetic confinement will likely dmaage the container.

People get caught up on cheap or free fuel and the fact that stars do this. The fuel cost is irrelevant if the capital cost of a plant is billions and billions of dollars. That has to be amortized over the life of the plant. Producing 1GW of power for $100 billion (made up numbers) is not commercially viable.

And stars solve the confinement problem with gravity and by being really, really large.

Neutron loss remains one of the biggest problems. Not only does this damage the container (ie "neutron embrittlement") but it's a significant energy loss for the system and so-called aneutronic fusion tends to rely on rare fuels like Helium-3.

And all of this to heat water to create steam and turn a turbine.

I see solar as the future. No moving parts. The only form of direct power generation. Cheap and getting cheaper and there are solutions to no power generation at night (eg batteries, long-distance power transmission).
by mindslight | 2025-05-12 14:42:54+00:00
"Balanced trade" is still just a concept from the Trump fictional universe though, alongside other nonsense like needing physical goods making for a strong bargaining position. Outside of the fictional universe "balanced trade" means very little, because it doesn't take into account services, imaginary property, or our special ability to trade away long-term IOUs in a currency that we can arbitrarily devalue when need be.

I do completely agree with the foundation of the argument that our privileged position as the world reserve currency has been used to hollow out our industrial base, put the screws to labor, and gut the distributed main street economy. But if you want to right the ship you have to get "up" correct first, and the Trump fictional universe definition of "up" is very obviously not correct.

Actually achieving this specious metric of "balanced trade" would mean basically destroying the economy we do have. So this administration claiming this as their metric of success means it's very hard to tell if/when they will/would abandon it to pull out of a death spiral.
by GTCHO | 2025-05-12 14:43:03+00:00
Really good points. On quality it’s not replacing human insight, but it is exceptional at pattern recognition and coverage at scale. It catches edge cases that tend to get missed and never forgets past regressions. The best results I’ve seen come from pairing the agent with human QA. The agent does ambient monitoring and flags suspicious behavior. Humans then dig deeper.

Cost-wise, it’s surprisingly reasonable. The version I saw ran in containers that spun up based on commit activity or deploy frequency. So if no one is pushing code, it's idle. But during launches or busy dev cycles, it ramps up. Much cheaper than staffing a full team to maintain 24/7 vigilance.
by rad_gruchalski | 2025-05-12 14:43:13+00:00
I think you need to stop telling people what you think. There is a risk you might be wrong and you come across as ignorant. Case in point: I didn’t build my career around front end technologies. Frankly, I am certain you have no clue what I do.

Don’t bend yourself backwards over it. All I’m saying is: if your sense of humour is repulsive, good luck. If it’s a satirical thing, give me a clue.
by gizmo686 | 2025-05-12 14:43:32+00:00
Assuming the alien life is intelligent and motivated to speak to us [0], then we have a significant advantage over our attempts at understanding existing animal languages.

There is ample precedent for that on Earth. In our own history, when two district linguistic groups meet, they do not learn each other's language. They mutually establish a primitive protocol language (pidgin) that is sufficient for communication.

With animals, pretty much any pet owner can attest to establishing some communicative ability with their pets. Even with non domestic species like dolphins, scientists have been able to establish basic communication.

If there was a species of comparable intelligence, knowledge, and institutional capacity to us, we would be able to work around having incompatible innate communication facilities.

[0] In the build intergalactic space ships, and whatever their version of dedicating teams of researchers and supporting logistics is
by evanjrowley | 2025-05-12 14:43:34+00:00
>Murder-for-hire

Not if a person's life is considered their property. If the concept of property is re-defined to include non-tangible concepts, like time, health, wellbeing, etc. then it probably defeats a lot of arguments against "we should only have property rights and not worker's rights"

I'd like to know what fundamentally distinguishes property rights such that successful attempts to re-define them produces a significantly different outcome.

If you look at who enforces property rights vs. who enforces workers rights, a re-definition of property would absolutely radical. Like, imagine if local cops had a framework for enforcing OSHA-style labor rules on the basis of worker injuries constituting a property rights violation of the employee. Imagine if your boss didn't pressure you to work overtime because it could result in them being arrested. Imagine if the time required for you to wait at the DMV was a potential violation of the 4th amendment. The world would be so different lol.
by jobigoud | 2025-05-12 14:44:10+00:00
Millions of pages of fan fic based on existing IP have been written. There is a point where it doesn't really make sense trying to go after individuals especially if they make no money out of it.

If we enter a world where anyone can create a new Mario game and there are thousands of them released on the public web it would be impossible for the rights holders to do anything, and it would be a PR bad move to go after individuals doing it for fun.
by noirscape | 2025-05-12 14:44:25+00:00
It may surprise you, but artists need to buy things like food, water and pay for their basic necessities like electricity, rent and taxes. Otherwise they die or go bankrupt.

In our current society, that means they need some sort of means to make money from their work. Copyright, at least in theory, exists to incentivize the creation of art by protecting an artists ability to monetize it.

If you abolish copyright today, under our current economic framework, what will happen is that people create less art because it goes from a (semi-)viable career to just being completely worthless to pursue. It's simply not a feasible option unless you fundamentally restructure society (which is a different argument entirely.)
by taeric | 2025-05-12 14:44:34+00:00
Fully agreed in that this can be heavily subjective. And some things are flat out difficult with no real way of saying what is "too big."

My point on PGO/BOLT not being relevant was more that I see people reaching for libraries to do things such as add retries to a system. I don't think it is a terrible idea, necessarily, but it can be bad when combined with larger "retries plus some other stuff" libraries.

Now, fully granted that it can also be bad when you have developers reimplementing complicated data structures left and right. There has to be some sort of tradeoff calculation. I don't know that we have fully nailed it down, yet.
by chungy | 2025-05-12 14:44:50+00:00
Interesting, which AI system are you using?

This doesn't match my own experiences, I've tried a few times to ask about Pascal and the results have always been appallingly bad. From nonsensical syntax (sometimes mixing in C-style syntax), to made up unit and object names, I'm surprised if it can even manage a correct "hello, world".

By comparison, Python generation can be pretty decent (not that it can't run into the same issues, but it is less frequent). I always assume it's because Pascal's online presence is gravely reduced compared to other languages. It is still a fairly popular language, but I'd wager most Pascal written is not published online.
by GaryNumanVevo | 2025-05-12 14:44:56+00:00
Axie Infinity nearly drove my old coworker insane. He was convinced that it was the best economic uplift for people in the Philippines in decades. He had hired a team of 20 Filipinos to "farm" axies for him, paying pennies a day. Needless to say when Axie got hacked in 2022, he quickly stopped posting about it in the work slack.
by jihadjihad | 2025-05-12 14:45:06+00:00
Depends on where you live, I was making $42,000 in 2013 in the Midwest, and was fine. If my now-spouse and I had wanted to start a family then, it could have been done--obviously more doable with both parents working.

Plenty of people get by on less than six-figure household incomes--they just live in lower-cost areas of the country.
by collingreen | 2025-05-12 14:45:35+00:00
> Pull Requests are welcome. Unless they disagree with us. In that case: FAKE CODE.

This made me chuckle.

Obviously the best project out there. I talked to some of the best language creators, who all like me, by the way, I'm very popular among them, I talked to some of the best language creators and they said this language is the best, it's the best they've ever seen. Perfect even.
by evantbyrne | 2025-05-12 14:45:53+00:00
> I think that this comment is a great example of the total disconnect these conversations always have.

If we're being fair, the same could be said of this comment, which goes on to make some assumptions. One guy giving an anecdote that is not a web app does not prove much. I've built award winning web apps with progressive enhancement. It takes less code, less time, the performance is better, and they can be just as interactive. We need to stop looking for the weaknesses in each other's arguments and look for their strengths. I'm guilty of this as well.
by TuringNYC | 2025-05-12 14:45:54+00:00
>> Though Uber does show how much someone will make before taking a ride

I think the problem was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mileage I took an Uber from Newark Airport an hour south to Princeton NJ -- the Uber driver, which being compensated nicely for that ride, now has to get back an hour north, and no rides are "guaranteed" for this trip, so they go back uncompensated. Traditional Taxi services built in the cost of that return trip, but Uber does not from what I can see.
by xphos | 2025-05-12 14:46:01+00:00
Gasp the director of education is investigating how to build a culturally aware science learning in the fastest grow cultural bloc in the US!!!

My second thought was let me sort by a different directorate ahh the stories changes but maybe that's me getting lucky because the biology directorate does hard science. But there is a lot of DEI stuff here why? Because its the grant cancelation statistics after the admin defunded anything with a DEI term. It doesn't represent the totality of NSF funding but an extremely bias sample of it.

The solution to you don't like DEI is to pass laws not just eliminate science research as a whole. Give the NSF time to publish all the canceled programs. Its easier to say you don't like "that research" but than fire your congress person who give the NSF to do "that exact type of research". Not a huge plurality of scientists who did what our nation asked them to do.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-12 14:46:31+00:00
I agree, just three minor comments:

* It's 3x10 rats, there are 3 groups (placebo, Pfizer, Sinovac) with 10 rats in each of them.

* From the research article (with minor edits for space):

Parameter Control G. mRNA V. G. Inactivated V. G. p ---------- ----------- ----------- ------------------ ----- Primordial 106.70±5.33 42.40±4.96 70.10±12.04 0.001

Whatever it means, it's an interesting difference. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folliculogenesis#Phases_of_dev... it doesn't look like a short time problem.

But the T.A. in my physics lab class would have yelled at me for hours for using too many decimals.

* > "In a small number of rats in a single study" HN should add that automatically to the title of all submissions, and then dang/tomhow just remove the few cases where that dos not apply. I'm not sure if I must add a :) or a :( at the end of the sentence.
by zoudong376 | 2025-05-12 14:46:34+00:00
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by f1codz | 2025-05-12 14:46:37+00:00
"you can't enforce the law if you can't see the crime taking place"

Isn't this the key?

If AI can learn how to write a song like the Beatles, is it a crime that it has learnt it, or is it a crime that someone can use AI to produce work that resembles those artists' creations?

May the control be put on preventing AI from plagiarizing instead of putting measures to prevent scraping specific content from the open web.
by catigula | 2025-05-12 14:46:49+00:00
I understand, but that's partially caused by compliance software being problematic.

Now with tightening federal regulations and lawsuits for faulty ADAS manufacturers are tightening the belt. Investment must be substantial for the 2029+ regs from all manufacturers. Toyota is just ahead of the game currently as of their latest offering and shows you their value as a company in being so.

To be honest, though, I'd be interested in exploring your premise. The statistics regarding ADAS from insurers shows a straightforward benefit in accident reduction.
by _fat_santa | 2025-05-12 14:46:55+00:00
> (and big advantage) of functioning offline by default.

I don't know about others but that's the main reason I use it. My day to day mapping app is still Google Maps but I always keep a copy of Organic Maps with downloaded maps of wherever I'm going as a backup. While I do not use it often, it's gotten me out of a couple of sticky situations while camping and roadtripping.

Organic Maps (and other offline mapping providers) are far from perfect and the UX is just not the same as it is on Google Maps for example. But with it being a backup app, if I need to open it I don't really care about the limitations, I just need an offline map.
by jfengel | 2025-05-12 14:47:07+00:00
Visa and MasterCard suffer from charge backs already, and don't seem to mind. They try to avoid it with AI in the fraud department, and they push some of the cost onto the merchants.

They could do so much more. We still don't even have chip and pin in the US. They seem to think that the current levels of fraud loss are cheaper than the business lost from stopping it.
by throwanem | 2025-05-12 14:47:55+00:00
You can configure that as a default in Safari, and manually opt sites out to allow them to render normally; I use the setting on iOS and have for years.

I think Firefox requires an extension (vendoring Readability.js) to behave similarly, since it doesn't expose its built-in version even to extension developers. (I don't think that's even part of the manifest spec.) I've never wanted the behavior on a desktop browser, though, so don't take my word for it; it's been probably most of a decade since I looked.

The intention behind Readability's introduction was that it remain a feature entirely and only under control of the user. So far as I'm aware, those browsers implementing the capability have honored that intent, as has W3C.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-05-12 14:47:56+00:00
The Tesla vents are definitely a debatable choice. I like them, but I acknowledge they are mostly an aesthetic choice. Many Tesla removals (stalks, etc.) come with a cost savings, but I don't really see it with vents. You're probably adding parts in the form of little motors and wires to power them. But they do fit with the theme of autonomy. Software can remember their position for each driver, or could hypothetically cycle through different positions depending on mode selection. (They might do this already but I don't pay close enough attention.)

Edit: Now that I think of it, it's possibly still a huge cost savings in that you can have interchangeable parts across all models, since the vents are hidden to the user.
by ModernMech | 2025-05-12 14:47:57+00:00
> 2.8 million USD is, what, one small startup for a year or two? It's one of those things that sounds like a lot to a single person, but really isn't.

Yes, and most of it would go to support grad student stipends which are sky high in SF due to COL. If you really look at where this money would flow, it would be to Bay Area landlords.
by stranded22 | 2025-05-12 14:48:05+00:00
Yep.

My wife is T1D and this is infuriating for her.

She’ll think that she’s cracked it, and then the next day, with the same meal at the same time, her sugar levels go high.

Her words: there is nothing else where you have studied for over 30 years and STILL feel like you know nothing.

It is incredibly demoralising for her sometimes - especially when she’s suffering also from a high/low sugar level. I have the upmost respect for anyone having to do the amount of work, to get to zero (sometimes).
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-12 14:48:27+00:00
In my experience, they both fail but differently.

Electric winders tend to experience motor failure leaving you with a stuck window. They don't stress the mechanism that much.

Manual winders, you would generally experience mechanical failure. If you were lucky, you broke the handle. If you were unlucky, you broke the gears and had the pleasure of watching your window fall into the door.