MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tshaddox | 2025-05-29 17:14:36+00:00
As far as I know, no major airlines have any special treatment for "emotional support animals." Most U.S. airlines allow pets on domestic flights to fly if they stay inside carriers within approved size limits. Emotional support animals and therapy animals fly as pets regardless of any certifications. So I'm pretty sure there's no service that makes it easy to fly with your Great Dane as an emotional support animal. You might be thinking of other animal-related exceptions, like having a pet in your apartment where the lease normally doesn't allow pets.

Service dogs on commercial flights are a separate USDOT category. The dog needs to be trained for a specific task for a disabled passenger, and the passenger must provide an attestation form. Airlines must allow service dogs, but they can still deny transport if the dog poses a safety risk or causes significant disruption before or after boarding. I'm not sure how enforcement works in practice, but I certainly wouldn't try to fly with a dog using a false attestation.
by knowitnone | 2025-05-29 17:15:05+00:00
We pay people to study this? Two videos, the first shows the chimp dropping a rock and hitting the tree with feet. Second video shows chimp throwing a rock against a tree and screaming hysterically. Based on this, they claim it is communications? Sure, if doing anything is communication but that thud on the tree certainly isn't heard very far away. Their screeches were much louder and travel further. This is not science, this is a joke!
by burningChrome | 2025-05-29 17:15:43+00:00
The 2003 Nokia 3650 had that weird circular keypad on it and was one of the first phones to have video capabilities.

Funny story. Had an uber rich client who's eyes lit up when I told her the phone could take video. She paid full price for it and said she was going to Vegas that weekend and gave me that Cheshire Cat smile and a wink.

Totally forgot about her and the exchange. She brought the phone back a few weeks later and said the keypad was unbearable and wanted to exchanged it for something else. My boss threw it back in the box; but told me to reset it so he could resell as new. There were a bunch of raunchy photos with her and some other guy who wasn't her husband on a private plane. She also forgot to delete the two short sex videos she had taken. When I laughingly showed my boss, he immediately wanted me to take them off and send them to him.

That was 2003 and I suddenly realized that having the ability to take pictures and video with a phone was going to be a very bad thing.
by hodgesrm | 2025-05-29 17:15:58+00:00
One of the tradeoffs for ClickHouse versus databases like Snowflake is that you have to have some knowledge about the internals to use it effectively. For example, Snowflake completely hides partitioning but on the other hand it does not deliver consistent, real-time response the way a well-tuned ClickHouse application can.

When you use INSERT ... SELECT in ClickHouse you do need to pay attention to the generated table partitions, as they coexist in memory before flushing to storage. The usual approach is to break up the insert into chunks so you can control how many parts are generated or to adjust the partitioning in the target table.

It's possible the problem might be somehow related to this behavior but that's just conjecture. It's usually pretty easy to work around. Meanwhile if it's a bug it will probably get fixed quickly.
by vintermann | 2025-05-29 17:16:25+00:00
Come back and reign for a thousand years, but not touch private contact law and definitively let you keep and enjoy the fruits of the money you bet on him.

Yeah, I won't rule out that they exist, but I think there are far better ways of "betting on Jesus" according to most denominations. I think price fluctuations in a market like this is more down to people betting on a bigger fool coming along, or otherwise convinced themselves that they can make money off this without actually believing in the outcome.
by fluidcruft | 2025-05-29 17:17:17+00:00
When I was a co-op I worked at a company that had all sorts of SGI machines. They really were so much fun. As I remember it the SGI compliers would do just about anything so you would develop there and then take things to the Sun's and AIX to clean up the code. IRIX was so great. Og course all the 3D stuff was pretty fun, too with red/blue glasses etc.
by post_break | 2025-05-29 17:17:57+00:00
I run one of these on my desk 24x7 with a raspberry pi and a 3D printed monitor that simulates a CRT. I tried with a real CRT TV but the frequency and having it at the side of my main monitor started to make me sick.

https://imgur.com/a/wD2EINO

https://github.com/vbguyny/ws4kp
by mattnewton | 2025-05-29 17:18:50+00:00
This matches my experience. I actually think a fair amount of value from LLM assistants to me is having a reasonably intelligent rubber duck to talk to. Now the duck can occasionally disagree and sometimes even refine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

I think the big question everyone wants to skip right to and past this conversation is, will this continue to be true 2 years from now? I don’t know how to answer that question.
by silisili | 2025-05-29 17:19:01+00:00
Interesting. Seems chickens in general are just 'in'. I assumed it was because of egg prices, but perhaps there's more to it?

My wife is part of some backyard chicken community, and said it's absolutely exploded with new members. Luckily I didn't need any chicks this year, but everyone I know who did was shocked that every single hatchery was out of stock for females. Even TSC didn't have any around until a week or two ago. Never seen anything like it.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-29 17:19:39+00:00
There is this thing that webmasters can do called "hosting" where they give access to other people to store and distribute their work.

This is a collaboration and international labor of love, with people hailing from Australia, England, and Canada. Go visit nasa.gov at top-level and see how the design changes, and the NASA logos are used.

These pages carry the Apollo insignias, and "last modified: November 2017".
by sethhochberg | 2025-05-29 17:19:43+00:00
A use case where we reached for Clickhouse years ago at an old job was for streaming music royalty reporting. Days of runtime on our beefy MySQL cluster, minutes of runtime in a very naively optimized Clickhouse server. And sampling wasn't an option because rightholders like the exactly correct amount of money per stream instead of some approximation of the right amount of money :)

There's nothing Clickhouse does that other OLAP DBs can't do, but the killer feature for us was just how trivially easy it was to replicate InnoDB data into Clickhouse and get great general performance out of the box. It was a very accessible option for a bunch of Rails developers who were moonlighting as DBAs in a small company.
by acdha | 2025-05-29 17:20:18+00:00
The most common one is protecting defense-related industries: for example, things like steel, weapons, and automakers are protected in most countries which have them because in the event of a war governments want to have domestic industrial capacity. Microprocessors have gotten a lot of attention here and I think software isn’t far behind, too.

You might not agree with that politically but I think the logic is defensible and discussion should be around the bigger picture of what else is done to support key industries or the rate structure rather than whether it should exist conceptually.
by fidotron | 2025-05-29 17:20:25+00:00
By 2005 J2ME fragmentation was nothing like as bad as what Android would become, and remains greatly exaggerated. By that point the 3650 and T610 were getting to be history, and Siemens were on the edge of dropping out.

It was one of those things that was very surmountable if the market pull would have been there to overcome it, but there wasn't demand because the phone form factors of the time sucked for apps and games.

> With Opera Mini we had about 5-6 people (developers+QA) working on J2ME device compatibility continuously.

You realize this is tiny? To cover things like Blackberry and Brew took significantly more effort than that, and this is pre GPU or camera variation being a thing.
by wanderingstan | 2025-05-29 17:20:27+00:00
“Better” is always task-dependent. LLMs are already far better than me (and most devs I’d imagine) at rote things like getting CSS syntax right for a desired effect, or remembering the right way to invoke a popular library (e.g. fetch)

These little side quests used to eat a lot of my time and I’m happy to have a tool that can do these almost instantly.
by hatradiowigwam | 2025-05-29 17:21:20+00:00
Hey I don't know what works for everyone, but I know what works for me. I'm encouraging you to let it work for you, but that's a personal choice and I wouldn't force it on anyone.

I don't think God wants to "trick" anyone. I also don't believe there is any hard set of "rules" he applies to 100% of humanity without exception. Take little children for instance...tragedies happen every day, and they are too young to know what those rules are, or have a chance to follow them. Those children aren't destined for eternal torture - that would be cruel and heartless - and I don't believe God is cruel or heartless.

I apologize for coming off as an elitist jerk. I didn't realize it would be read that way, and it was not my intent at all. I'm not better than you, I don't /think/ I'm better than you, and I'm too inexperienced/ignorant/prideful to even be able to know what "better" is, much less which one of us it would apply to.

All my comments, posts, and intentions are that 1 person is positively influenced by them. Maybe they go on to influence someone else, and it spreads throughout people - I have no idea what will happen that is influenced by things like my post. However, I don't think my post is going to hurt anyone - my hope is that it will help someone. Think of it like throwing seeds(in the parable!)... some of them, maybe just /one/ of them, will fall in fertile ground - and lead that person(s) to the same peace with God that I feel.
by em-bee | 2025-05-29 17:22:05+00:00
you don't pick one at random. you pick one that makes sense. what makes sense for example is the positive impact a religion has on the world. which religion is doing the most good? that alone will narrow down the selection to a few dozen if that many. besides the good it does, another question could be: what makes sense to you? which religion has the better answers to explain the world in which we live in today? take the issues and questions that matter to you, and then look at the answers and see if they are satisfactory. keep searching until you find the answers you seek.
by vintermann | 2025-05-29 17:22:18+00:00
Selling all you own and giving the money to the poor, even.

One thing Jesus was definitely not, was an optimizing utilitarian. He repeats in a dozen different ways in the Sermon on the Mount that people should do what is right, right now, and not worry about what's going to happen (worry about tomorrow, worry about what they will eat, what they will wear etc.)
by iLemming | 2025-05-29 17:22:37+00:00
Emacs is paradoxical — it always works, yet at the same time, any parts of your config may prove to be broken at any given moment. Maintaining a complex Emacs config is a chore. And not because of Emacs itself, core of Emacs is remarkably stable, most issues are in the customization layer you control.

What you get in return though is far more valuable than any alternative — when something breaks, YOU can fix it. You're not waiting for a vendor or update. The system is transparent and malleable. Each fix teaches you something. Over time, you build deep understanding of your environment. The chores become easier. Unlike rigid software, Emacs molds to your exact workflow. The maintenance cost pays for a tool that works EXACTLY how you think.

Emacs is a professional chef's kitchen - A chef maintains their knives, adjusts recipes, deals with temperamental ovens. More work than a microwave dinner, but they can create ANYTHING. When the soufflé fails, they know why and can fix it.

"Yeah, well", some may say, "I don't want to be a chef, I just want to occasionally fix some bad cookies, using the 'easy-cookie-maker-kit', it just-works™, why not use it?".

I can tell you my perspective on that. I decided to "become a chef" and use "my own kitchen", because I'm tired of different types of cookie-maker-kits. It seems like everyone has a different opinion of what the cookie-maker-kit should look like, what it should do, what kind of cookies can you make with it. Every few years, the "ultimate" kit appears, promises to revolutionize cookie-making, then gets abandoned or dramatically changed. Your muscle memory becomes worthless. Your recipes need rewriting. The new kit can't make the cookies you loved.

But in my kitchen? My grandmother's rolling pin still works. The oven I learned five years ago still bakes the same way. When I discover a new technique, I add it to MY repertoire, not wait for someone to maybe include it in Cookie-Maker-Kit 3.0. Sure, I burned a few batches learning temperature control. Yes, I maintain my tools. But now I can make cookies, and bread, and soufflés, and things that don't even have names yet.

The cookie-kit users are still arguing about whether round or square cookies are "correct," while I'm over here making star-shaped ones because I felt like it today.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-05-29 17:23:11+00:00
After studying esoteric Christianity, here’s what I can work out rationally.

Jesus was understood as the incarnation of the logos (often translated as “word” but with a much deeper meeting). The logos was the emanation of the pure ineffable oneness — ie, logos is the “son” of god (the oneness). These ideas were worked out by the Jewish-platonic philosopher Philo of Alexandria (b. 50 BCE) and directly influenced early Christianity. The message of Jesus was that we are all part of the logos — and if we believe that, we have eternal life (since the logos is eternal).

Since the logos doesn’t die, it’s hard to say how it returns. But you know, I’m probably over thinking this prediction market
by audunw | 2025-05-29 17:23:29+00:00
The article seems to be missing the demand side of the equation, and the impact of EVs.

In an energy market where most of the electricity is supplied by renewables, there will be a lot of money to be made or saved by adapting power consumption to fluctuating energy prices.

EVs are part of that. If everyone has EVs that’s a huge amount of energy storage. My car could power my home for 2-3 days. And I could easily work from home, take the bus or bike, and let my car feed energy to the grid if there was money to be saved. It’s already trivial to set the car to only charge in the hours where electricity is cheapest where I live. This might only help a little, but there will be hundreds of other solutions like this.

There are already huge efforts to move industry from fossil fuels to renewable/electric energy. One of those solutions is heat batteries for industrial heat. They can save energy for many days, and in a grid with high renewable energy share they can likely be mostly charged when prices are near zero or even negative.

Another aspect of decarbonising industry is the move to green hydrogen for some processes (fertiliser, metal production, …). The hydrogen will probably be produced when electricity is cheap and stored in huge buffer tanks that can store it for when electrify is more expensive.

I could go on.. there are many more examples like this.
by munificent | 2025-05-29 17:23:33+00:00
> The whole point of C is that you know exactly what's going on and it's relatively clear in the code itself.

Given the widespread undefined behavior and the ways that compilers aggressively rely on that to reorganize and optimize your code, that hasn't been the case for many many years.

Sure, if you're using dmr's compiler on a PDP-11, then C is a pretty transparent layer over assembly, which is itself a fairly thin layer over the CPU. But today, C is an ambiguous high level communication language for a highly optimizing compiler which in turn produces output consumed by deep pipeline CPUs that freely reschedule the generated instructions.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-29 17:23:42+00:00
Polymarket itself has a very strong incentive to offer interesting long odd bets, in the hopes that anyone bites.

They get the time value of your money.

And it makes the site more interesting. It's free PR.

It would be very surprising if they don't know this and are not taking advantage of the dynamic. It isn't even sketchy, nobody loses any value they didn't choose to lose.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-05-29 17:24:42+00:00
Maybe that's a benefit I got by choosing Pixel devices for my last few personal phones, it was the default Android functionality not a Samsung-written replacement.

I'm sure there's some people out there who appreciate Samsung's duplication / replacement of functionality Android already has, but that's not me. My work-issued phone is Samsung and I'm not fond of all that extra mess.
by zdragnar | 2025-05-29 17:24:53+00:00
I think that's great if it's for something outside of your primary language. I've used it to good effect in that way myself. However, denying yourself the reflexive memory of having learned those things is a quick way to become wholly dependent upon the tool. You could easily end up with compromised solutions because the tool recommends something you don't understand well enough to know there's a better way to do something.
by Mariefay | 2025-05-29 17:25:43+00:00
It's really funny how many of the comments here mention 3D printing, I guess there must really be something to it! Thanks for your explanations as well, I didn't realise it had become that cheap (relatively speaking, of course). Never had the money to play with it when it came out but will definitely give it a go. Are second-hand printers a bad idea in general or is it safe?
by lysace | 2025-05-29 17:26:49+00:00
I meant throughout the life span of J2ME, not specifically in 2005. We built Opera Mini 1.0 in 8 months with a team starting with about 2-3 people, growing to about 10.

> You realize this is tiny?

Well, yes - I remember being happy that the big US companies found this to be too much work, leaving the market to some scrappy Scandinavians (Opera was based out of Oslo, Norway; Opera Mini was based out of a satellite office in Linköping, Sweden.)

I was particularly confused about why Google didn't build a J2ME browser app, having acquired Reqwireless (Waterloo, Ontario). I believe they had that team build a web-to-wap proxy on google.com instead. Speculation: Perhaps Andy Rubin/Android killed the (to me) obvious Google J2ME browser?
by jppittma | 2025-05-29 17:26:59+00:00
It's really gonna depend on the project. When my hobby project was greenfield, the AI was way better than I am. It was (still is) more knowledgable about the standards that govern the field and about low level interface details. It can shit out a bunch of code that relies on knowing these details in seconds/minutes, rather than hours/days.

Now that the project has grown and all that stuff is hammered out, it can't seem to consistently write code that compiles. It's very tunnel visioned on the specific file its generating, rather than where that fits in the context of what/how we're building what we're building.
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-05-29 17:27:03+00:00
"Any" is a pretty mighty word to throw around.

As has been stated multiple times in this thread and basically any thread involving conversation on the topic, a PoW with a negligible cost (either of time/money/pain-in-the-ass factor) will not impact end users, but will affect LLM scrapers due to the scales involved.

The problem is trying to create a PoW that actually fits that model, is economical to implement, and can't easily be gamed.

But saying "any" seems to imply that it's a theoretical impossibility ("any machine that moves will encounter friction and lose energy to heat conversion, ergo perpetual motion machines are impossible"), when in fact it's a theoretical possibility, just not yet a practical reality.
by tshaddox | 2025-05-29 17:27:23+00:00
I think you're pretty clearly experiencing a false positive on your "major cultural problem" detector. The chickens are cute and comforting, no doubt, and people are referring to them as "emotional support chickens" and "emergency chickens" as a tongue-in-cheek hyperbole. Note how the chickens are given names like "Hennifer Lopez" and "Lindsey LoHEN." You even say that it reads like a joking exaggeration, but apparently your confirmation bias is strong enough to override that observation?
by smilbandit | 2025-05-29 17:27:48+00:00
From my limited experience, former coder now management but I still get to code now and then. I've found them helpful but also intrusive. Sometimes when it guesses the code for the rest of the line and next few lines it's going down a path I don't want to go but I have to take time to scan it. Maybe it's a configuration issue, but i'd prefer it didn't put code directly in my way or be off by default and only show when I hit a key combo.

One thing I know is that I wouldn't ask an LLM to write an entire section of code or even a function without going in and reviewing.
by D_R_Farrell | 2025-05-29 17:28:15+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Daniel, the other half of Onlook.

I'm super fired up about this new version of Onlook for two reasons:

1) It makes it so much easier to jump in and start designing and

2) We have a much more intuitive, simplified toolbar control for styles that makes it even easier to craft your designs.

This has been the third major version of Onlook, and each time has felt like a leap towards solving the gap between design and development. Our first product was a Chrome Extension, the second was a downloadable desktop app (Onlook Studio), and now we're releasing Onlook for Web.

For all of the designers and non-technical people that just need a way to share their ideas with their engineering colleagues, the beta of this web version is a great start. But our goal continues be to truly solve the gap, so we'll be adding tons of great features that will let you go beyond ideation to actual implementation on real codebases.

Some known bugs:

– Sometimes generations don't "apply" after they're loaded: Kiet is working on a fix for this, but try clicking on the blank-template and re-prompting your change.

- It can take a long time to load the AI chat: We're working on making this faster (or at least a little more entertaining).

- Sometimes nothing shows up in the chat: Try going back to the homepage and re-prompting. This is something we want to make smoother.

– Sometimes styles don't apply: Let us know! We're trying to catch the edge cases.

Thank you all for your help and patience as we work through this early preview. Please join us on our Discord [https://discord.gg/ZZzadNQtns] and report any bugs or issues on GitHub repo: https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook
by lotharcable | 2025-05-29 17:28:19+00:00
Japan in a variety of ways is approaching crisis mode for it's currency and economy.

https://www.reuters.com/business/japans-super-long-bond-yiel...

Japanese monetary policy has been limping along for quite some time now. Decades. Maybe now it is reaching a inflection point were the state is no long able to manipulate things enough to hide the cost of sovereign debt.

Food is one of those things were people just can't defer buying because they are worried about current state of the economy. So maybe food prices are where the symptoms of a flagging economy and falling money value are most apparent.