MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtfeldman | 2025-05-07 15:46:25+00:00
> I don't want "agentic" tools, I just want to back and forth with an LLM to get a better idea.

Ah! So you can get that experience with the agent panel (despite "agent" being in the name).

If you click the dropdown next to the model (it will say "Write" by default) and change it from "Write" to "Minimal" then it disables all the agentic tool use and becomes an ordinary back-and-forth chat with an LLM where you can add context manually if you like.

Also, you can press the three-dots menu in the upper-right and choose New Text Thread if you want something more customizable but still not agentic.
by motorest | 2025-05-07 15:46:31+00:00
> yes, because the alternative is to have kids who can't actually read being dragged along and dragging down kids who can read.

Failing to teach kids how to read is a failure of the school system, not the kid.

Dropping kids because the school system failed them is just yet another failure of a school system, and one which is at best a self-serving failure: a way to mask the extent of which the system is broken by blaming the victims of said system.

As an exercise, invest a few minutes thinking on why most communities do not experience this failure rate.
by seatac76 | 2025-05-07 15:46:35+00:00
I think it’s early days let’s wait a bit before claiming results, lot of noise. So far only one Rafale has been confirmed, but if India has lost planes it will surely come out. Also goes to show 4th Gen aircraft cannot penetrate a heavily defended airspace, and besides Pakistan Air Force is perhaps the most capable element of their armed forces, very well trained. Highly likely their air force had access to Qatari Rafales so prob had the chance to create better counters.

By cannon fodder I meant the terror camps, nothing will change by targeting that. Besides I don't think India was able to restore deterrence here with the current set of strikes. If they are going to put expensive assets in play they should have attacked actual military assets.

And I’m not taking a side at all, I don’t care nor do I have a horse in this race. Just find geopolitics fascinating.
by tgtweak | 2025-05-07 15:46:37+00:00
I get the high performance component, but it seems most of their speed is from underlying models supporting a "diff style" edits and that a small percentage of it is from code-level text-editing optimizations and improvements.

vscode running a typescript extension (cline, gemini, cursor, etc) to achieve LLM-enhanced coding is probably the least efficient way to do it in terms of cpu usage, but the features they bring are what actually speeds up your development tasks - not the "responsiveness" of it all. It seems that we're making text editing and html rendering out to be a giant lift on the system when it's really not a huge part of the equation for most people using LLM tooling in their coding workflows.

Maybe I'm wrong but when I looked at zed last (about 2 months ago) the AI workflow was surprisingly clunky and while the editor was fast, the lack of tooling support and model selection/customization left me heading back to vscode/cline which has been getting nearly two updates per week since that time - each adding excellent new functionality.

Does responsiveness trump features and function?
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-07 15:46:51+00:00
> Plenty of people have lost weight sustainably with diet and exercising. It just doesn't seem to work with everyone.

The problem is, staying healthy is a matter of privilege.

You need to be able to afford to eat healthy (ultra-processed industrial food that's loaded with sugar is often much cheaper than quality produce), even if you have money, a decent chunk of Americans live in areas that are classified as "food deserts" [1], even if you are not in a food desert you still need to be able and have time to get to a store selling quality food, and you need someone with time available to cook healthy meals out of that. It used to be easier back in the time where one income was enough to feed a whole family and the women stayed as housewifes to actually do that, but these times are (thankfully) long gone.

Exercising suffers from similar "problems of privilege". Either you got the money and time to spare to go to a gym, or you got the money and space in your home to install your own gym... or you need actually safe roads where you can walk, jog or bike, and most of the US is so utterly car-dependent that it is outright unsafe to walk.

And on top of that you got the whole "living while Black" issue, with egregious instances like a pregnant Black woman arrested for walking her dog [2] - it's no surprise that the Black and Indigenous population has noticeably higher rates of diabetes [3] or oral health issues [4].

And on top of that, you got the whole issue with educating children about healthy foods, their parents being too poor to afford healthy foods, and that setting up these children for childhood obesity which perpetuates into adulthood. A lot of that is closely correlated with ethnicity and wealth as well.

It's a systemic issue, an insanely complex one at that, with no easy solution to be found - and certainly not a failure of any individual to stay healthy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_in_the_United_Sta...

[2] https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pregnant-black-woman-ticketed-walk...

[3] https://healthequitytracker.org/exploredata?mls=1.diabetes-3...

[4] https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/Documents/Pubs...
by wolrah | 2025-05-07 15:47:57+00:00
> my US mazda cx5 center brake light flashes when you press the brakes.

That is not a factory feature, it's almost certainly a dealer-installed piece of junk like this (https://pulseprotects.com/product-info/) which the dealer almost certainly charged a stupid amount of money for, and as noted it's not actually legal in the US.

Around me the local Hyundai/Kia chain loves to install those, and I hate them.
by insin | 2025-05-07 15:48:09+00:00
I think it depends on how overboard you go on the ESLint + plugins config than anything.

For a project I worked on, the main benefit was not having to manage (the 1,000 line haircut to package-lock.json was appreciated) and wire together the ESLint dependencies, and the ones to make it work with TypeScript, and the ones for plugins during our (ok, only my) regular…

npx --yes npm-check-updates --interactive --format group

…sessions. Migrating was just switch the dependencies and keep adding rules you do/don't care about to biome.json until you can live with it, but we didn't go that mad with the ESLint config prior to that.

I've had more issues with the VS Code extension than anything, not picking up config files when you think it should, needing restarted sometimes due to things like the import sorting on save (which to be fair is marked as experimental) completely breaking and producing malformed code near the imports you changed, and just being a bit… complainy if you had projects with and without a biome.json in your workspace.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-07 15:48:21+00:00
Nobody is threatened into using cryptocurrencies, yet they exist and can be used as money.

Yes, companies can choose who gets to review pre-release products. Negative pre-release reviews come out anyway, and if you don't trust them you can wait, as you say. Reviewers who aren't trusted by people looking for reviews rapidly lose their audience and stop being given product access.

You guys are talking as if product reviews are some theoretical thing that don't exist today, that only a government can supply. Reviews obviously do exist and billions of people rely on them every month. There is just no problem that specifically requires the US government to step in here.
by bunderbunder | 2025-05-07 15:48:43+00:00
It's close. Perhaps there's an interesting conversation to be had about why OCaml hasn't taken over the world the way Rust has.

The toolchain might be a first candidate. Rust's toolchain feels so very modern, and OCaml's gives me flashbacks to late nights trying to get my homework done on the department's HP-UX server back in college.
by smeeth | 2025-05-07 15:48:58+00:00
You wrote "culture." If you meant "politics," then write that. I'm not capable of reading your mind. Accusing me of projecting when you invoked "culture" to explain poverty in a state like Mississippi is hilarious. It's a common trope, you didn't question the accuracy of the connection, and if you'd used a different term I wouldn't have commented on it.

I encourage you to respond to the article and what people say, not what you think they believe. I've been a registered democrat my entire life, and I live in a red state. I don't need to "consider who is responsible" for policies, they're my neighbors and friends, and I have compassion for them even when I disagree with them or think their preferred policies hurt people.
by alwa | 2025-05-07 15:49:06+00:00
Not that photographic art wasn’t getting made, more that the doyens of the Finer Arts would tend to dismiss work in that medium as craft, trade, or low art—that they’d dismiss the act of photographic production as “mere capture” as opposed to creative interpretation, or situate the artistic work in the darkroom afterward where people used hands and brushes and manual aesthetic judgment.

It’s been depressingly long since school, but am I wrong in vaguely remembering the controversy stretching through Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and well into the Warhol era?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/10/when-photogra...

And I guess legitimacy doesn’t fully depend on the whims of museums and collectors, but to hear Christie’s tell it, they didn’t start treating the medium as fine art until 1972–and then, almost more as antiquities than as works of art—

https://www.christies.com/en/stories/how-photography-became-...

In much the same way as there are tons of Polaroids that are not art and a few that unambiguously are (e.g. [0]); there’s a lot of lazy AI imagery, but there also seem to be some unambiguously artful endeavors (e.g. [1]), no?

[0] https://stephendaitergallery.com/exhibitions/dawoud-bey-pola...

[1] https://www.clairesilver.com/
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-07 15:49:22+00:00
After a lifetime of being told it was a personal failing and expect a pill to fix our problems it turns out that what was we needed after all.

I had uncontrollable weight gain, a comorbidity of ME/CFS. GLP-1 agonists has helped a lot with both. I eat a strict diet and exercise as often as I can, which is less often than I’d like due to PEM. I think it’s likely that much of uncontrollable weight gain is due to autoimmune issues and GLP-1As do seem to help with that.

I started GLP-1As as soon as mainstream adoption started and so I could get safety data to help figure out dosing. I had already benefited from extended water fasts but it was rather challenging to keep doing that.
by askonomm | 2025-05-07 15:49:27+00:00
I mean the last time I saw anyone have a 1440p display was back in the early 2010's, so ... nowadays most people that I know buy 4k 27"/32" displays at minimum, with 5k displays gaining popularity as the price for them goes down. Macbooks for example come with a very high resolution display, and so do most high-end PC laptops, too.
by Arnavion | 2025-05-07 15:49:45+00:00
Yes that's correct, for exactly the reason that it is more likely to keep compiling and possibly not do what you intended if the original value's type changes due to refactoring. However there are still a few conversions that don't have alternatives to `as` - truncating conversions (eg i64 -> i32 that intentionally discards the upper half), int <-> float conversions (eg i64 -> f64, both truncating and checked conversions), unsized pointer casts (eg *const [MaybeUninit<u8>] -> *const [u8], `.cast()` only works for Sized target), and probably a few more.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-07 15:49:49+00:00
you need to underclock/undervolt for motherboard to handle energy flowing into it.

big desktop cooler for example Corsair A115 can cool 250W TDP under 40db

for sandy bridge XEONS - 2/3 of CPUs were under 100 w TDP, all of them were under 150W TDP
by no_wizard | 2025-05-07 15:50:20+00:00
Perhaps anecdotal but generally society doesn't seem to be setup to reward people making good choices.

Before the GLP-1 drugs became mainstream for weight loss, I know friends who were overweight who had enough money[0] to go on programs where your entire meal days are planned for you[1]. They'd ship you enough food for 2 weeks at a time, but you never had to think about what you were going to eat, it was all pre portioned and decided by your meal plan as part of the program.

They saw really meaningful results, lost weight, and as long as they were on the programs, they kept it off. As far as I could tell, the food wasn't anything special beyond being properly proportioned and nutrient dense - certainly achievable on ones own - but it seems the rigidity of it - that is, the fact they didn't have to make food choices every day - made it easy to stick to. The food prep itself was easy too - mostly throw it in a single skillet, microwaving it or putting it in the oven on a tray or in a baking dish was all it took.

I watched as they got healthier they were more active, felt better, seemed generally overall much happier.

Once the program was over or they for whatever reason had to stop, it didn't take long for the weight to come back, and they had discovered a big part of their problem was food anxiety - not knowing what they wanted to eat, having trouble with food cravings etc.

This has lead to me to suspect there are some seriously chronic issues with food culture in the US - namely, we haven't made doing the objectively best thing the easiest thing. Its too often out of reach due to cost, availability or time - which also speaks to other interconnected issues in the US that are going unaddressed.

For example, I know these programs worked exceedingly well for those I saw on them, why aren't they cheaper? Why don't we subsidize such things to nudge society in a better direction with food choices? We already subsidize the bad stuff - we should move those subsidies to better options.

[0]: I'm talking breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a small allotment of daily mini meals - really snacks.

[1]: This is the problem. To do this, you have to be of upper class means just to afford the food, and thats not even including the cost of the program associated with it, and in some cases its simply a meal delivery program and there's no additional anything, and its still expensive
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-07 15:50:32+00:00
Agreed. I grew up on a farm and spent some time in confinement hog buildings in the 80s, when that meant a few hundred hogs in one building. That setup would look roomy and quaint compared to how it's done today.

Livestock are resilient and adaptable, and can be miserable and unhealthy while being healthy enough to be profitable. Corporate farm organizations like to claim that farmers have an incentive to keep their animals healthy, but that doesn't mean the incentive is to keep them in tip-top condition. The best ratio of profit/cost might be juuuust above "almost dead." Just as human employers tend to look at the low-cost end of the scale when judging employee cost versus employee happiness/productivity, livestock farmers tend to look to the low-cost end of the scale to improve that profit/cost ratio.

I eat meat, some of which I raise and butcher myself, and I'm not generally a big fan of regulations. But I'd be fine with some tighter rules on animal welfare. What's done to cattle in kosher slaughterhouses looks like unnecessary torture to me, for instance. But if consumers want to eat animals that had a reasonably healthy and pleasant existence and a humane end, it should probably be on them to identify farms and butchers that provide that and buy from them. They do exist, but they're small because most people don't care about what they don't see. I'm definitely not excited about any technology which helps to further hide it from them.
by parliament32 | 2025-05-07 15:51:00+00:00
There's a term corollary to what you're trying to argue here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

> You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
by mehulashah | 2025-05-07 15:51:00+00:00
First — 0.69% of total exports is blood still is surprisingly high! Remember, you can get blood from humans in your own country, and prepare it there. So, why do you need it from the US?

Second — it’s amazing the detail that you can achieve from public data.

Third — I’m left wondering if a true “Deep Research” like tool would be able to provide the same analysis. I find that Deep Research is fine for secondary sources, but not for Deep Analysis of primary source data.
by bionade24 | 2025-05-07 15:51:18+00:00
Well, the author does have a link to the git forge of the VideoLAN project prominently displayed on the blog and also contributes to projects there: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/LibVLCSharp

Additionally, Videolabs is listed at https://www.videolan.org/videolan/partners.html

I guess the project is well-aware of the corporation.
by duped | 2025-05-07 15:51:25+00:00
The point was contradicting another comment with my own experience, not to putz around with bug reports or trouble shooting.

I don't care about Zed fixing anything - they're Zed's issues, not mine. All I'm saying is that contrary to what someone else said about the software being "fast" I tried it and at startup, it was unusably slow. I'm what you would call a failed conversion.

> Also, how is whether the project is volunteer-run relevant? Would you file a support ticket for commercial software you use saying "it's slow" and then when they follow up asking for details about your setup, you say "sorry, you don't get free QA work from me"

So this is kind of needlessly antagonistic imo - the point between the lines is that FOSS projects run by volunteers get a lot more grace than venture backed companies that go on promotion blitzes talking about their performance.
by jalev | 2025-05-07 15:51:40+00:00
What's interesting about this is the post also has the prompt the staff used to vet people, and an author has already shown it to be error-prone [1][2].

> REQUEST

> Using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism, fraud.

> Each person is typically an author, editor, performer, artist or similar in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and or related fandoms.

> The objective is to determine if an individual is unsuitable as a panelist for an event.

> Please evaluate each person based on their digital footprint, including social, articles, and blogs referencing them. Also include file770.com as a source.

> Provide sources for any relevant data.

1: https://bsky.app/profile/bookjockeyalex.bsky.social/post/3lo...

2: https://bsky.app/profile/bookjockeyalex.bsky.social/post/3lo...
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-07 15:51:56+00:00
The realistic solution puts car manufacturers and certain food processors out of business (unless they learn to compete as export-focused/non-addiction-based businesses), so... Yeah, maybe not so realistic. But the obesity stats of countries with robust public transit, walkable neighborhoods, biking infrastructure, and restrictions on highly-processed food speak for themselves.

In the end - as with so many issues - the question is if policymakers are going to throw capitalists or regular people under the bus.
by sokoloff | 2025-05-07 15:51:57+00:00
My dishwasher (an 11 year old Bosch, which was Energy Star rated) is by far the best dishwasher I've owned at cleaning items and dries them perfectly well also on its default settings.

It won't dry a bowl or ladle that's been turned to fill up with water, but anything that's oriented to shed water comes out bone dry.
by tiew9Vii | 2025-05-07 15:52:06+00:00
I regularly swap between a scooter and motorcycle, owning both.

The big difference being left hand leaver on a motorcycle is the clutch, rear brake is right foot, on a scooter, no clutch so the left hand leaver is the rear break.

When I first got the scooter I was expecting the obvious accidental muscle memory confusion with the left leaver when swapping vehicles. For some reason it just never happened, never accidentally gone for the clutch on the scooter and never accidentally gone for the rear brake on the bike.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-07 15:52:24+00:00
Certainly, Francis had been a key figure in the liturgical reforms and the suppression of the Vetus Ordo including his promulgation of Custodes traditionis. It is not necessarily true that this involves the suppression of the Latin language in the sacred liturgy, but it is mostly true, since the Vatican II reforms involve a much greater implementation of vernacular languages.

So one of the sad ironies of his passing, from the announcement of his death, to the inscription on his tomb, has been the usage of Latin for those liturgical proceedings. The Holy Father was never a huge fan of using Latin himself; in fact all the encyclicals and other documents were authored primarily in Spanish or Italian, and only translated to Latin after the fact. Some endured long, long delays before these Latin translations were pushed to the website.

So yes, perhaps there is some spite involved, in using an approximation of the "Times New Roman" font and really awful kerning, for a Latin funereal inscription for a guy who was more or less Public Enemy #1 of the language itself.

I am also curious to know the value or rarity of the stone itself, as it is used in the inscribed part of the slab. If they decide to replace it in the near future, will this incur a great cost or loss of precious stone?
by mustache_kimono | 2025-05-07 15:52:30+00:00
> There is a lot of embedded knowledge in existing implementations,

Agree. The question whether to rewrite and/or whether to use any new implementation should take this fact into account.

> Rust deals with just one small class of bugs but drops a lot of this knowledge in the process.

Hard disagree. Rust explicitly deals with several very important classes of bugs (memory safety and concurrency), and also aids correctness via other helpful design features like tagged unions and immutability by default. But Rust, the language, does not drop any knowledge in the process, though any decision to rewrite in any language may drop some knowledge, and/or may create new bugs, in the process.

> I would generally be in favour of just introducing better memory management to C/C++ and hard enforcing it in particular repositories.

This is really easy to say, but in practice it just hasn't worked out, and there is loads of empirical evidence to back that up.[0] It is not as if market incentives don't exist to create better C/C++ code.[1] If you have a way to do it better, I have no doubt Google, half a dozen other hyper-scalers, and the US government will pay you handsomely for your solution. But, at this point in time, if this is the solution, I'm afraid it's time to put up or shut up.

[0]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/ga... [1]: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/translating-all-c-to...