MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jagged-chisel | 2025-05-29 23:33:11+00:00
Fashionable? I disagree. Acceptable? Hopefully.

People have been stigmatized and isolated for generations for being “different” in some way. Emotional and psychological reasons included. People are all different. We all have different issues. We all have different experiences. No one should be shunned for seeking out others with similarities to get advice and support. And how can you do that without making people aware?

Do we have more mental health issues than in the past? I don’t think so. I think we’re more aware and more accepting than past generations.
by Multicomp | 2025-05-29 23:36:03+00:00
I enjoyed this article. But Godot, SDL, and TIC-80 still have a much higher learning curve vs. tweening animations and throwing in some Actionscript to make a stick figure fighter, which gives you a self-contained artifact .swf you can pass around.

It's amazing how much creativity that used to go to Newgrounds and Flash games is now funneled into TikTok shorts.

Kids these days! But Super Mario Bros 63 is still fun.
by galaxyLogic | 2025-05-29 23:36:26+00:00
> The text-embedding-ada-002 model accepts up to 8192 "tokens", where a "token" is the unit of measurement for the model (typically corresponding to a word or syllable),

So the "input" is up to 8192 "units of measurement". What would that mean in practice? How are the units of measurement produced? Can they be anything?
by wahern | 2025-05-29 23:36:27+00:00
The jump in PG&E prices over the past 10 years is mostly to cover the cost of wildfire mitigation. LA, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, and the Imperial Valley have their own local utilities that charge customers 1/2 to 1/4 of what PG&E charges.[1] But PG&E covers the entire northern half of the state. Bay Area PG&E customers are subsidizing all those small communities nestled in the forests. Southern California Edison and San Diego have a mix of urban and forested rural closer to PG&E, with significant wildfire mitigation costs of their own, and their rates reflect that--2/3 to 3/4 of PG&E prices).

Despite approving the cost increases, state regulators are now complaining that PG&E is spending too much on wildfire mitigation. For example, they're telling PG&E to shift from burying transmission lines to using covered conduction (i.e. plastic shielding around overhead transmission lines). But PG&E is pushing back because they're on the hook for the wildfire civil claims and argue the less costly mitigations are too risky.

[1] See https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/196kjtu/pge_rates_...
by glompers | 2025-05-29 23:38:18+00:00
It seems to an outsider like California involves exceptional biodiversity, and exceptional habitat protection laws, coupled with the electorate's vocal idealism about the possibility of preventing preventable animal suffering, plus the distaste of many voters for a schedule of very frequent controlled burns in all parts of the state in order to thin the constant buildup of combustible underbrush. These leave PG&E unable to avoid being liable for interactions of transmission lines with the wildfire kindling they have to route through. Even though California may not be more mountainous than those other Western states, its development pattern may have more wildland-subdivision interface overall, which adds up.
by chrismorgan | 2025-05-29 23:39:32+00:00
My experience in Australia and India is that increasingly commonly people, especially but not exclusively laity, don't really believe the Nicene Trinity, but more ignore the Father and make Jesus God. That’s a particularly common view among Hindus, too (I remember a school textbook saying the Christian god was named Jesus), which is almost weird given that their notion of “avatars” isn’t too bad a fit for the trinity.

There are just as many problems or difficulties with viewing Jesus as the only god as with the trinity, but comparatively few professing Christians are all that critical about it.

(For my part, I’m Christadelphian.)
by cranky908canuck | 2025-05-29 23:40:01+00:00
Yes, I think... I'd like to be in a place of "I can pick it up" .. ok, so "I can manage to lift it"!, so no more than about 25kg/60lb. This keeps the output to about 2kW, which I think is ok (I have no experience dealing with generators anyway, so the thought process is "that's 2kW more than I've ever had in the past"). It's for a split glamping and minimal emergency use, so I (think I) can get away with "enough to refrigerate the essentials".
by InitialLastName | 2025-05-29 23:40:55+00:00
With enough speakers coupled on the order of the wavelength of the sound (and for most frequencies, these seem like they will be), you can use beamforming to aim different sounds in different directions from a single source, with speakers facing in only one direction.

For an extreme example of this, refer to the Sphere, where they can target sounds at individual audience members from any arbitrary direction using speakers in the surround display.
by twodave | 2025-05-29 23:42:18+00:00
If you stick with the same software ecosystem long enough you will collect (and improve upon) ways of solving classes of problems. These are things you can more or less reproduce without thinking too much or else build libraries around. An LLM may or may not become superior at this sort of exercise at some point, and might or might not be able to reliably save me some time typing. But these are already the boring things about programming.

So much of it is exploratory, deciding how to solve a problem from a high level, in an understandable way that actually helps the person who it’s intended to help and fits within their constraints. Will an LLM one day be able to do all of that? And how much will it cost to compute? These are the questions we don’t know the answer to yet.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-05-29 23:42:20+00:00
> But is BG3 MORE enjoyable than anything that's come before? I would say I got just as much enjoyment from Mass Effect 20 years ago.

Can't comment on Mass Effect, but I find BG3 is definitely more enjoyable than DOS2 or PWotR.

> Is better entertainment really the bar we want to use for measuring tech advancement?

There is definitely room for improvement there. I am having existential crises every time I wait for the next game I would enjoy to come out. The best time of my life was during the recent Mecha Break open beta, but now they closed it and I basically have nothing to do that I would really enjoy.
by KaizoKonpaku | 2025-05-29 23:43:26+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently created Hush, an open-source alternative to CLUELY / INTERVIEWCODER. The goal was to build something that doesn’t require upfront payment, or gated features, just a useful, lightweight tool that anyone can use freely.

It’s completely open-source and available on GitHub: https://github.com/KaizoKonpaku/Hush

If you find it useful, a share or star would mean a lot. Feedback, contributions, and ideas are all welcome.

Thanks!
by hagbard_c | 2025-05-29 23:43:42+00:00
SQL was developed by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM. Maybe the author of this piece of software should not want to use a language developed by a company which he no doubt considers to be below his moral standards?

It is a good thing that just like this person we all are free to choose which products to use and which to avoid.

As an aside I do wonder why so many former west-Germans ended up so far to the left while their former east-German compatriots - who have suffered for close to half a century under a left-wing regime - went the opposite way. I also notice that many 'educated' former west-Germans consider themselves to be morally superior to those AfD-voting former east-Germans which seems quite incongruous given the political left's insistence on using people's 'lived experience' as a guideline on where the truth lies. Does this 'lived experience' not count if it goes against the desired narrative?
by robomartin | 2025-05-29 23:43:50+00:00
I think you guys are reading something into these comments that is not being said at all. We are not talking about making kitchen utensils.

When you actually engage in designing and manufacturing products the reality of the situation becomes very evident. Except for a certain class of products, you have to manufacture them where the supply chain exists. You cannot manufacture microwave ovens, blenders, refrigerators and stoves in the US and Europe because nearly the entire supply chain for these products exists in China. Attempting to do so would result in a massive COGS differential, even before you consider labor and regulatory costs.

So, it isn't about shifting the entire industrial base back to Europe or the US. That's between ridiculous and impossible. It's about protecting and shifting enough to not destroy whatever is left.

Here's one example: Displays. There are no manufacturers of LCD or OLED display panels in the US and Europe. Yet, almost every product we touch, including myriad critical infrastructure and military products need displays. We have a 100% dependency on China and Korea for this product class. These are massive, highly automated factories. Yet, without some degree of protectionist policies it will never make sense to build a single plant in the west. I was just at one of the main display technology conferences up in San Jose. I would say that nearly 100% of the companies and paper presentations were from companies in China and Korea. Which also means that the technology, manufacturing, knowledge and research in this field has shifted away from the west and is at risk of never returning.

Take that scenario and multiply it by one hundred or a thousand different industries and domains to get the picture.

Again, we are not talking about making plastic forks and knives here.
by bdbenton5255 | 2025-05-29 23:46:05+00:00
I loved tinkering with Flash as a kid in the early 2000s. I taught myself programming through ActionScript and wrote a little physics engine that modeled 2D physics using loops, conditionals, basic trig, and increments.

It's definitely outdated at this point by HTML5 and WebGL, but I will always fondly remember all those little flash games and experimenting with ActionScript, learning programming fundamentals.

I would highly recommend tinkering with the HTML5 Canvas element and WebGL if you were a fan of Flash. The web browser has evolved into an OS of sorts as personal computers have evolved along with the introduction of mobile devices.

Web browsers now handle email clients, word processors, photo editors, even video and code editors. Check out this neat fluid simulator experiment in WebGL, you can build even more advanced applications of this nature with this technology.

https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/
by lrvick | 2025-05-29 23:46:47+00:00
You can mitigate this by running the LLM engine and model in a publicly remotely attestable secure enclave able to prove every line of code that went into the final machine code running in memory. You can also encrypt prompts to an ephemeral key held by the enclave for privacy from even the provider sysadmins.

The result are remotely hosted tamper evident LLMs proving you get the same responses anyone else would, while being confidential.

All the tech for this already exists as open source, just waiting on people to package up a combined solution.
by phil21 | 2025-05-29 23:47:11+00:00
Airlines do sell multi-packs with flexible rebooking. At least United and Delta did pre-covid, I haven’t had a use since then though.

With even moderate airline status rebooking/cancellations work more or less as described. I can’t recall the last time I haven’t been credited for a flight I ended up not taking, even I did a full on no-show.

Without status airlines sell refundable tickets with similar flexible rules, but I assume there is some adverse selection included in how they need to price those fares.
by swores | 2025-05-29 23:47:49+00:00
I disagree, the vast majority of people I've known who gamble understand perfectly well that the odds are against them, they're not choosing to do it because they wrongly believe the EV to be positive.

In some cases it's because the enjoyment they get is worth losing money (and/or they wrongly believe it will be), in some cases it's because even though buying weekly lottery tickets is extremely unlikely to be worth it, the tiny possibility of winning big on it is the only way they could possibly become a millionaire and they want to fantasise that it might still happen.

And the ones who are gambling in the belief that the odds are in their favour, it's not because of their maths, it's because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that their knowledge / opinions on a particular sport are good enough to beat the bookies.

Sure there are also people who think things like "my roulette strategy is bound to work", but it's a tiny proportion.
by criley2 | 2025-05-29 23:48:46+00:00
Nonsense. The airline doesn't ask your marital/family status. They simply offer a bulk discount.

By your logic, Costco is also "discriminating based on marital/family status" by selling bulk at discount. Costco doesn't sell "buy 1/5 a toilet paper package, come back and get the other 4 1/5 later". They sell the whole package up front, use it or lose it.

That's how bulk discounts work.

Heck, you could say that a gallon of milk discriminates against you because you have to pay way more to buy a pint of it, and you can't "come back later for the other pints at the same price".

This is absurdism to the highest degree.

You are welcome to book flights with friends, or even organize a flight-share program and go in on flights with strangers. Bulk doesn't discriminate. I know folks who go in together on Costco bulk because they can't use it all. Make the system work for you.
by robomartin | 2025-05-29 23:49:02+00:00
TikTok is a brilliantly destructive tool. Of course, let's not ascribe blame just there. All other social media has been at this game for a while now. Smart engineers chasing after clicks and engagement rather than solving real problems with lasting benefits to society. That's one element in the story of how we got here. If you can destroy the capabilities of the youth in a country you guarantee their demise.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-05-29 23:50:18+00:00
I was talking about that with my grandfather and he recalled that no Ford dealer would sell a car to a Black person in the region he grew up in. They could only buy Pontiacs.

There is of course A distinct difference between discrimination based on characteristics you were born with and those you appear to have chosen.

But then, you get the slippery slope of sociopath and schizophrenics who have a genetic tendency towards certain behaviors... Who's to say that MAGAs or Nazis aren't born with a genetic tendency towards that behavior?
by SigmundA | 2025-05-29 23:50:53+00:00
Nice, I imagine it has the same issue as pdf.js when it comes to printing since its using canvas to render, it will just print bitmaps which leads to blurry print or OOM errors if doing high dpi.

pdf.js was trying to have a SVG renderer for a while which would allow vector printing, think they gave up on that.
by Lazarus_Long | 2025-05-29 23:51:14+00:00
In general my smoke test for this kind of things is, if the company (or whatever) gladly accept the full liability for the AI usage.

Cases like: - The AI replaces a salesperson but the sales are not binding or final, in case the client gets a bargain at $0 from the chatbot.

- It replaces drivers but it disengages 1 second before hitting a tree to blame the human.

- Support wants you to press cancel so the reports say "client cancel" and not "self drive is doing laps around a patch of grass".

- Ai is better than doctors at diagnosis, but in any case of misdiagnosis the blame is shifted to the doctor because "AI is just a tool".

- Ai is better at coding that old meat devs, but when the unmaintainable security hole goes to production, the downtime and breaches cannot be blamed on the AI company producing the code, it was the old meat devs fault.

AI companies want the cake and eat it too, until i see them eating the liability, i know, and i know they know, it's not ready for the things they say it is.
by nielsbot | 2025-05-29 23:52:04+00:00
Always fun to check out the live CAISO grid chart showing where CA's energy is coming from:

https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso

At its peak today (May 29), solar was 75% of CA's power generation. And at the peak yesterday (7 PM, May 28), batteries provided 25%.

Seems like solar often produces more than 100% of CA's demand during the daytime and is curtailed. Maybe to charge batteries?
by mac-mc | 2025-05-29 23:55:41+00:00
I tried a professional headshot prompt on the flux playground with a tired gym selfie and it kept it as myself, same expression, sweat, skin tone and all. It was like a background swap, then I expanded it to "make a professional headshot version of this image that would be good for social media, make the person smile, have a good pose and clothing, clean non-sweaty skin, etc" and it stayed pretty similar, except it swapped the clothing and gave me an awkward smile, which may be accurate for those kinds of things if you think about it.
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-29 23:57:03+00:00
When I'm in the store and I see 3 for 2 or whatever, I can think, yeah, ok, I'll be using three of 'em soon enough, fine I'll get 3.

But when I travel, it's not like I'm gonna call up my buddy and ask him if he'll join me on a flight so I can get a better ticket price. And if I'm going on vacation with my family, I'm not going to buy individual tickets, like why would I do that?
I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
by nswizzle31 | 2025-05-29 23:57:11+00:00
The other day I saw a post here on HN that featured a NYT article called "Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44098369) and it definitely hit home. As a guy in my early 30s, it made me realize how I've let many of my most meaningful friendships fade. I have a good group of friends - and my wife - but it doesn't feel like when I was in college and hung out with a crew of 10+ people on a weekly basis. So, I decided to do something about it. I’ve launched wave3.social - a platform to help guys build in-person social circles with actual depth. Think parlor.social or timeleft for guys: curated events and meaningful connections for men who don’t want their friendships to atrophy post-college.

It started as a Boston-based idea (where I live), but I built it with flexibility in mind so it could scale to other cities if there’s interest. It’s intentionally not on Meetup or Facebook - I wanted something that feels more intentional, with a better UX and less noise.

Right now, I'm in the “see if this resonates with anyone” stage. If this sounds interesting to you and you're in Boston or another city where this type of thing might be needed, drop a comment or shot me an email. I'd love to hear any feedback on the site and ideas on how we can fix the male loneliness epidemic in the work-from-home era.
by onecommentman | 2025-05-29 23:58:00+00:00
For context, 5 kg for 4220 yen retail is $2.67/lb. The current spot price for US rice wholesale is roughly $.40/lb, (CWT, F.O.B./wholesale) for May 2025.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_1655.pdf
by kjellsbells | 2025-05-29 23:59:34+00:00
I think that gives Google too much credit (blame?). Perl, for example, started to become increasingly painful as the objects users wanted to manipulate outstripped the natural reach of the language (hence the infamous modem noise sigil pile up, @$[0]->\$foo@ etc). It also did not help that the Perl community took a ten year diversion into Perl6/Raku. Circa 2005, Python looked like a fresh drink compared to Perl.
by dnemmers | 2025-05-30 00:00:03+00:00
Depends on your power needs and how often you plan on running it. Gasoline fuel doesn’t last as long as propane, but makes more power (you’ll often see different wattage for each in a dual-fuel setting).

If the generator is mostly going to be sitting around with infrequent usage, either go propane or research gas fuel stability and storage treatments.

Maintenance will depend on the model, but it’s going to need spark plugs and oil changes at a minimum.
by lerno | 2025-05-30 00:01:34+00:00
It was the minimal change from C. It's fairly easy regex out the types, so while not as nice as Odin, it should be straightforward.

Named parameters are already in the language.

Regarding concurrency, I don't want to pick a single concurrency model over another. I will see what hooks I can make for userland additions, but the language will not be opinionated about concurrency.
by phil21 | 2025-05-30 00:02:08+00:00
Airlines already do that for business routes. Just in the other direction on pricing.

Pre-Covid there were a couple airlines playing around with business class only flights from NY to LA.

Solo business travelers are where the money is made. The rest of the seats tend to exist at cost or even below to fill up the plane. Airlines would be pretty foolish to try to lower margin on the least price sensitive class of traveler they service.
by ilamont | 2025-05-30 00:02:10+00:00
> I’m self taught and don’t code that much but I feel like I benefit a ton from LLMs giving me specific answers to questions that would take me a lot of time to figure out with documentation and stack overflow

Same here. Combing discussion forums and KB pages for an hour or two, seeking how to solve a certain problem with a specific tool has been replaced by a 50-100 word prompt in Gemini which gives very helpful replies, likely derived from many of those same forums and support docs.

Of course I am concerned about accuracy, but for most low-level problems it's easy enough to test. And you know what, many of those forum posts or obsolete KB articles had their own flaws, too.
by matt_s | 2025-05-30 00:03:04+00:00
If a tool lets someone turn it into draconian screens filled with fields upon fields and arcane workflows then the hate is warranted.

I have yet to see any organizational improvements in our delivery cadence or value derived from any of the planning elements of Jira. With all the doo-dads and buttons and fields and multiple ways of organizing things Jira is just a PM dopamine fidget spinner.

Post-Its on a whiteboard with dry-erase drawn columns is really all that's needed. Use a wiki for tracking longer lived todo lists and documentation.
by burkaman | 2025-05-30 00:03:07+00:00
Charging doesn't show up as curtailment, that is mostly due to grid congestion, as transmission lines reach their maximum capacity and physically can't get all the solar power to loads that need it. Also, nuclear plants can't be turned on and off very quickly so they stay on all the time, and some number of natural gas plants must stay running during the day so they are able to quickly ramp up when the sun goes down.

So on a nice sunny day that isn't too hot there is a lot of solar power that physically cannot be used and so has to be curtailed. In peak summer when ACs are blasting you'll see less curtailment, and in the future as they keep building out battery storage you'll probably see less curtailment in general.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-05-30 00:03:28+00:00
The yt channel I mentioned (link below), is half dedicated to speculating ifMallory and Irvine first summiited everest in the 24' expedition and the other half is dedicated to proving that Krakauer is lying in his book. Michael Tracy is some lawyer that really doesn't like Krakauer's account of 1996 and has some interesting points, I recommend you check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/@michaeltracy2356
by Buttons840 | 2025-05-30 00:03:45+00:00
LLMs aren't my rubber duck, they're my wrong answer.

You know that saying that the best way to get an answer online is to post a wrong answer? That's what LLMs do for me.

I ask the LLM to do something simple but tedious, and then it does it spectacularly wrong, then I get pissed off enough that I have the rage-induced energy to do it myself.