MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mseepgood | 2025-05-13 09:06:19+00:00
But not the remastered version. It uses live orchestral recordings and attempts to simulate the dynamic transitions of the original iMUSE system. However, the implementation is not as intricate as in the original. It has fewer transition points and less complexity compared to the original system.

Direct comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkMoHEFtnLQ
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-13 09:09:27+00:00
I remember lots of accidents where there was miscommunication, task saturated pilots making mistakes, etc. That's not an excuse to sit on our hands and decide that aviation safety peaked decades ago and that there's no need to modernize.

Also, this is bigger than the US. Aviation is a world wide business. I don't think the Chinese are looking at the FAA for learning how to make drones that they produce interface with Chinese ATC. This might be a case where the US will follow instead of lead.
by M95D | 2025-05-13 09:09:50+00:00
It would be extremely difficult to keep the factory from destroying itself.

I work in a medical lab. The company bought a new automated coagulation analyzer. The old machine was shut down (proper shut down procedure) and kept in storage in case it was needed. They should have replaced the wash fluid with water. This procedure isn't documented because nobody expects that kind of machine to just sit unused for a long time. After a few months we needed to start it again (can't remeber why, I think there was a delivery problem with the reagents for the new analyzer). We couldn't. The washing fluid dried and detergents and other chemicals it contained solidified inside the valves, just like it happens with an inkjet printer if left unused. They were all stuck. Repair would have been too expensive and it was scrapped.

I saw this happen with a haematology analyzer too. It was kept as a backup but wasn't need for a few months. I was able to resurrect that one after several hours of repeated washing.

An electrolyte analyzer is even worse. Keep it turned off for only a few hours and the electrodes will need to be replaced.

I don't think any other advanced industrial machine is any different. They can't be just left unused for a while and then expect them to work. It's even more problematic if the shut down procedure isn't done right (exceeding the documented requirements) or not at all.
by jsheard | 2025-05-13 09:11:19+00:00
This is a 1440p monitor, not a 4K one, but if we assume someone did make a 4K HDR 500hz monitor then the answer is it depends on whether you can live with lossy compression over the wire.

In true lossless mode it's not happening, DP2.1 caps out at 267hz when pushing raw 4K HDR, but with lossy DSC it should be possible to push upwards of 500hz.
by INTPenis | 2025-05-13 09:12:13+00:00
I'm across the strait in Malmö and it's very rare to find the cargo in the back. Mostly senior citizens ride a variant of this bike with two wheels in the back, a small pannier. Maybe because it suits their balance better.

But recently a coffee bike has been turning up here in Malmö with a classic 50s design just like the Cycleauto one, but the wheel is not mounted under the rider.

https://gastro-bike.com/en/coffee-bike/ This is not it but it's close. The one we have here is more of a rounded 50s design on the carriage. I don't have any pics.
by idahoduncan | 2025-05-13 09:13:14+00:00
The Strand programming book states that an early version of the Erlang runtime was implemented in Strand (see "13.1: History" http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/files/strand-b...), which is an interesting tidbit that I haven't seen come up when the history of Erlang is discussed, like in the featured article.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-05-13 09:13:50+00:00
This is nice but they forgot to mention the most important rule all guides like this should mention first: There are no hard-and-fast rules, all rules have an exception.

For example, including unnecessary sentences and paragraphs is somethings necessary. You can do without them but with them you get character, voice, a smoother transition. How do you know what is necessary and what isn't? That's the whole point of the rule I mentioned earlier.
by CelestialMystic | 2025-05-13 09:14:25+00:00
The issue with this design is the front 3 geared hub. It says it would reduce maintenance needs. The derailleur and chain are often cheaper and require very little maintenance other than oiling and maybe cleaning. They last literally last 1000s of miles. There isn't a maintenance concern typically. In fact I think it is harder to maintenance hubs from what I've read.

These sorts of issues plague a lot of bike designs where they try to do something radically different. The reason why the derailleur and chains are used so often is because they are relatively cheap, work well and require maybe a few cheap tools to remove/refit parts (I have done this myself many times).

Also as for the modular design. Why would I care about a modular design if I wanted something like this. You aren't going to be a courier one day and then suddenly running Gelato stand the next.
by fastball | 2025-05-13 09:14:40+00:00
Fair enough.

I'm going off my experience with cookie banners, and how that whole thing seemed like a great idea at the time but turned out to mostly be an incredible annoyance.

In the same way, I don't think I'd enjoy a cancel button being front-and-center and cluttering up an interface at all times, given that I don't want to perform a cancellation action the vast, vast majority of the time when I am using a subscription service.

95% of the services I use already stick a cancellation button in either a "billing" section or a "user" section, which is generally quite easy to find and use in the rare instances I need it.
Ask HN: Easy Remote Debugging?
by v-yanakiev | 2025-05-13 09:14:47+00:00
After some difficulties with setting up remote debugging (SSH, SCTP stuff), I thought of a possible easier solution using Remote Connections (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_connection):

1. A VS Code debug window-lookalike front-end. 2. A package, which you install on your app, which sets up a debugger over the app's process, and INITIATES a WebSocket connection with a remote proxying service (see below). 3. A service which proxies the debugger's connection to the front-end, establishing the debug session.

Would anyone be interested in such a service? It'd likely be open-sourced, allowing you to set up your own remote debugging proxying service if you wished.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-05-13 09:14:49+00:00
I _know_ what a feature tree is, I use fusion every couple weeks. CAD is not some magical hard thing to do, except perhaps for more complex parts where it's a software problem (like mirroring the features of a surface to the other side but being unable to flip them...thus text is mirrored, thanks Fusion). Constraints are indeed a pain in the ass but that's literally their purpose.

And my opinion is still that an LLM could rough out a simple model just fine. It won't be designing engine parts any time soon but simple parts I still reckon it could rough 'em out.
by alpaca128 | 2025-05-13 09:16:04+00:00
Systematically violating people's privacy while not caring about protecting their data is not culture, it's called a problem.

Perhaps they could move even faster and scale better by collecting and storing less data. Moving forward fast instead of moving frantically while looking for things to break seems more reasonable to me. But then again I'm not the kind of person to become a billionaire tech CEO who's unironically bragging about being called the Eye of Sauron, so what do I know.
by bschne | 2025-05-13 09:16:40+00:00
If you wanna get some more footage of the buildings and inhabitants, I can recommend checking out Bêka & Lemoine's "Barbicania" --- https://vimeo.com/ondemand/barbicania

This site also seems to have lots of background info and details on various aspects of the buildings, though I haven't explored in depth --- https://www.barbicanliving.co.uk
by imiric | 2025-05-13 09:16:56+00:00
> The Transformer, nevermind GPT-3 did not exist a decade ago.

I'm attributing the start of the current AI hype cycle to the resurgence of CNNs using GPUs, roughly around the time of AlexNet and AlphaGo, not to LLMs and the Transformer architecture. Though if we're being really pedantic, the original Transformer paper is from 2017, so almost a decade ago. But this is beside my point.

> You don't see the fallacy of forcing your experience in one domain onto a completely unrelated one

The machine has no concept of a "domain". Whether it's outputting code, poetry, images, or video, it's all data generated by probabilistic pattern matching and pseudo-randomness. The structure and accuracy of the generated data is meaningful only to humans, and it's the most important factor that is measured in all these benchmarks.

We might find it collectively amusing when an AI produces funny text and weird looking pictures and video. Some might find it acceptable when it produces buggy code that humans need to fix, or when it mimics an expert by confidently spouting nonsense, which is where I personally draw the line. But we should all be concerned when the same models are used in industries where human lives depend on critical thinking by experts.

We have been promised fully autonomous vehicles for more than a decade now, and only in the last couple of years have some parts of that promise begun to come true in very limited scenarios. We're all understandably reluctant to give control of a speeding 2-ton object to a machine, for obvious reasons. The process has been very gradual, with a lot of oversight and regulation, as there should be. All I'm saying is that there should be an equal amount of oversight in other industries as well, particularly healthcare. Arbitrary benchmarks don't make me trust these systems more, regardless of who produces them.
by elric | 2025-05-13 09:17:09+00:00
In all likelihood, if the patch had been a pull request, the pull request would have been ignored as well. Much like the thousands of pull requests that are often ignored by various larger open source projects. Ain't nobody got time to triage drive-by pull requests from unknown contributors, especially on large projects.

There's no easy solution. Much like the recent curl security kerfuffle, the signal:noise ratio is important and hard to maintain.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-13 09:17:53+00:00
That usual Kotlin narrative keeps forgetting that Android Studio, Gradle, and Kotlin itself are built and depend on, Java based technologies, and there is no Kotlin without Java ecosystem, unless JetBrains ends up releasing a Kotlin Virtual Machine, and rewriting all the Android development stack on top of it.

Additionally, to prove this point even further, as the Java ecosystem keeps moving along happily, despite the anti-Java jabs typical among Android developers playing with Kotlin, ungrateful for its origins, the Android team was obligied to make ART upgradable via Play Store, and update its Java language support all the way up to Java 17 LTS, so that Android developers could still make use of Java libraries on Maven Central, that have moved beyond Java 8.

You should also have a look at Jake Wharton interviews regarding on how the Android team looked up on Flutter, Compose was pratically started as counter movent from the team, there might even still exist on Twitter some of his comments on the subject.
by masfoobar | 2025-05-13 09:19:41+00:00
I am getting fed up with Rust-this and Rust-that BS.

Question is... Why? sudo is already HEAVILY mature and tested program. Why are they replacing all these program with Rust?

Point is.. Rust is a great selling point. It is "Memory Safe" and that is a good selling point to use as to why Ubuntu are doing this.

Behind the smoke and mirrors HAS to be other reasons! It is likely to bring in younger developers who (likely) care less about politics. The older generation programmers likely throw difficulties to certain cultural changes. With the younger ones, you can mould them from the get go.. what better way that to intice them in with RUSt.. rUSt.. It's RuSTTT!!!

I could also think the MAIN reason Ubuntu are doing this, alongside of other programs they are replacing (ie corutil).. is to ditch GNU.. or specifically the GPL license.

What is the end game? Ubuntu taking the source code of these coretutils, added extra features.. and using them for a fee... a "better, paid version of the Ubuntu distro" ??

People can p00p on people like Richard Stallman all they want.. but I am concerned about the future of Free Software.. even the future of Linux kernel and other great software. Once the old gen of Richard and Linus pass, I worry that the next generation just do not care.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-13 09:19:47+00:00
You are describing why something that hasn't changed for decades won't change for decades. Because nothing ever changes. All of that stops being true when change is forced. My closing argument provides that change vector: a couple of orders of magnitude increase in flight movements and autonomous flight.

From a technical and practical point of view this stuff isn't actually hard: you start with the big airlines. Maintaining and refurbishing airplanes is something they spend lots of money on. Hundreds of thousands per plane per year. So, there's plenty of budget and a little bit of new equipment won't really move the needle.

Just look at how quickly ipads got adopted by pilots. Many pilots won't fly without one now. Reason: they are good and they provide redundancy when the multi million thing in front of them has an electrical failure. It provides GPS, can talk to ADSB via bluetooth. You can have an artificial horizon on it, etc. Pilots won't use them as a primary instrument (that would be illegal) but they are well capable as an emergency replacement with the right apps. This industry can move fast when it needs to. Ipads are cheap. They provide convenience and safety. So pretty much any pilot will want one in their plane.

The issue isn't technical but bureaucratic. If ipads had to have gone through some FAA controlled design committee, they would never have gotten this popular. But they didn't. The history of this stuff is that airlines got organized first before the FAA took over. They'll have to force these changes.
by 0xEF | 2025-05-13 09:20:08+00:00
The difference between 8 and 9 hour days is negligible, in my experience. I typically do four 10-hour days here in the US, leaving me a fifth day that either stays free on my schedule, or is open for 100% overtime pay if there is extra work at my job.

When I started, I was on five 8-hour days with the possibility of working half days on Saturday if things were hectic. It made me extremely prone to burnout because I never got enough time to reset.

Depending on the demands of one's job, the four 9/10-hour days may work or may not. For me, working 8 hours then commuting home meant I was going to spend what remained of my weekday evenings decompressing, getting nothing done at home or with my hobbies because I was drained from the day. Switching to 9, then 10's made zero difference on those wasted days, but granted me 1.5 extra days (free day + no more possible half-day Saturdays) where I typically can do whatever I want. I am lucky enough to be able to drop that free day on Friday or Monday, so I get tons of three day weekends to spend with my wife and various hobbies.

If you focus on the hours per day, it stops making as much sense for some. I find folly in that. I look at days per week. If I am working 5 days per week, because of burnout, those five days are no longer mine. Not much else is getting done. If I am only working 4 days, still moving the same output with the same paycheck, but I'm getting more of my time per week back, which allows me to reset and enjoy the things I enjoy.

Again, this won't work for everyone. Each of us has to be honest about what we'd really do with an extra hour or two in the day, versus an extra day in the week, then decide what works best for us.
by Stratoscope | 2025-05-13 09:20:29+00:00
Well thank you Liam! You know, I saw your username but somehow it just didn't register. Pun intended.

I have read so many of your articles! Including the recent one on OSU OSL, which I've used many times, especially when I was doing Drupal work.

Having grown up in Eugene, I have to confess to being more of a U of O guy (Go Ducks!) but Corvallis and OSU are also dear to my heart.

I have been wanting to visit the Isle of Man, in part from being a long time user of Araxis Merge.

Now I have two reasons!

-Mike
Show HN: I made an an AI app to drive free website traffic from TikTok
by saascouple | 2025-05-13 09:21:18+00:00
hey, it's Chris here

So a few months ago, I got an idea:

What if we can use image-to-video AI models like Kling or WAN to replicate viral TikTok video formula micro-influencers use to promote products?

My friends that work as marketers for startups told me people spend at least $200 on influencer videos. Not to mention time spent on revisions, editing, and publishing.

I scrolled TikTok for weeks to find high-engagement videos - turns out 90% could be replicated with AI.

Basically, I did market research the same way devs debug:

stare at the screen until something makes sense.

After 2 months of prompt engineering, data gathered from TikTok, and of course...hours spent on debugging why AWS lambda timeout with Remotion library, I created Rylee.

And it works this way:

1. You pick an actor for your promo video. 2. You add a few clips with your product or app. 3. You save the final video and upload it to your TikTok or Youtube.

I've made a library of over 100+ actors with different themes like POV, lecture halls, bedroom, parking lot, in a car, you name it.

All of these themes are based on viral videos.

And just this week I found 5 more videos I'll turn into preset actors.

You can also create your own actor if you're a brand and want a specific character.

And since I saved a bunch of viral videos, I also trained claude-3.7 with reasoning on generating intro hooks (the text that appears on screen at the beginning of the video).

What's Next?

I'm actively working on adding more features like:

- Different layouts and video templates. - Generate product videos for you. - Auto-posting on TikTok and Youtube shorts. - Analytics so you know which UGC video performed the best. - TikTok Slideshows

And much more...

My Ask - Try it out and create your first AI video - Share your feedback - what features would make your workflow easier and of course BUGS - I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to reach out with questions, feedback, or just to chat about the future of UGC video creation.

Thanks for checking out Rylee Chris
by mritzmann | 2025-05-13 09:21:20+00:00
Background:

> Other apps were not allowed to use this permission at all, once it was introduced in 2022. I could convince them back then, that we need this. But nowadays they are more strict on it and thus we needed to remove this permission. Thus is, why it feels now like a regression / problem in UX, while it was only an exception that they allowed it for ~2 years.

https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/14135#issuecomme...
by charliewulff | 2025-05-13 09:21:35+00:00
Dutch healthcare AI startup Juvoly today announces the open-source release of J1, its new 8-billion-parameter clinical reasoning model. The full model, including evaluation tools and data curation pipelines, is available on Hugging Face.

A small caveat: J1 currently operates under a Llama 3.1 license, though Juvoly intends to switch to a base model with an MIT license in the next release. This first version, J1, is built on the foundation of Llama 3.1-8B-Instruct and trained on 100 billion synthetic tokens, generated from CC-BY-licensed PubMed articles. The complete training process took only 2,688 GPU hours, made possible by Juvoly’s powerful NVIDIA B200 systems.

The result is an ultra-efficient model that delivers faster inference with significantly lower energy consumption. While J1 does not yet surpass the colossal GPT-4o, it outperforms all leading models of similar size—including Qwen3-8B, HuatuoGPT-o1-8B, and the Dutch Delphyr M1—on key medical benchmarks. J1 achieved a score of 79.34% on MedQA and 81% on PubMedQA, a strong indication of J1’s ability to accurately interpret and answer medical questions.

Although the model excels at clinical reasoning, it remains to be seen how useful it can be in real-world applications, according to Thomas Kluiters, founder and CEO of Juvoly. “Benchmarks like MedQA and PubMedQA provide a reasonable indication of how well a model can answer clinical questions, but they don't measure how suitable it is for performing administrative tasks such as drafting discharge letters and consultation reports, or automatically extracting structured data from patient records. Our next step is to develop benchmarks that better reflect these real-world use cases, so that we—and other AI developers—can train models that truly add value to healthcare.”

To realize this ambition, Juvoly is seeking collaboration with hospitals and other major healthcare institutions. Interested organizations are invited to get in touch through www.juvoly.nl
by Shaddox | 2025-05-13 09:23:07+00:00
It's brutal out there. I'm currently 36 years years old. I got laid off in March last year from an outsourcing shop because no work was coming, mostly working with PHP, with some Javascript and python sprinkled in there. I thank the Lord for not having a wife and children, because it would have been so painful watching them suffer because of me, and I thank my parents for helping me float through the tough times.

I got a small leyline around September with a part-time job doing Wordpress stuff for a former client. No days off, zero security, just barely surviving month after the other. Fortunately, things are turning around for me! I'm starting a new full-time job next month. It's pretty well paid too, hybrid role, so I will be able to rebuild my savings, contribute to my pension fund, keep up with my balooning mortgage, etc.

The Lord is indeed merciful! I really hope I can make it work, because I get maybe an interview every few months or so.

I think the most brutal part that no one talks about is just how many scams are out there that target unemployed people. I tried doing freelancing for a while, but I never got paid even once. Contracts don't even matter because I don't have the muscle to enforce them. I almost fell for a bunch of scam job interviews/offers as well. I think I broke into tears after an interview that seemingly went well, then I got forwarded some forms to fill, one of them asking for my credit card information for payment.

It's beyond my powers to help him, but I hope things turn around for the OP as well.
by gatestone | 2025-05-13 09:23:21+00:00
At least in Finland the jail sentences have been related to extreme widely published antisemitism. Fines have been given for other sorts of hate speech.

If the U.S. wants this to be allowed, it is your business. But it is ours to decide, if we want to allow nazis synmpathy newspapers advocating killing of the jew. Generally, the americans are lost in their arrogance here, as always.
by benmmurphy | 2025-05-13 09:24:02+00:00
They shouldn't be able to do this to a US citizen on landing based on his first amendment speech. The important thing here is landing because he really has missed his chance to commit a terror. I guess theoretically you could do something bad in the airport but it would seem to make more sense to do something bad on the airplane if you had the opportunity. However, I have seen a tweet where he is complaining about extra attention at Charles de Gaulle [https://x.com/hasanthehun/status/1921511816888242297] and that shouldn't be really surprising. A lot of airport security is ass covering and if someone who has expressed support for a terrorist organization goes on to commit a terror then you are going to wish you did the ass covering. This is not argument that the extra attention is rational based on the probabilities just the way the incentives are going to work.