MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mc3301 | 2025-05-08 00:03:09+00:00
'avar' is talking about "engine braking" with a manual transmission car. Most motorbikes have a manual transmission.

If you gear down (you are cruising in fourth gear and 'gear down' to third gear), your vehicle's speed will reduce.

Brake lights are triggered by the brake pedal or lever/pedal on a motorcycle.

In the case of engine braking, the brake lights are not triggered. Drivers behind them can't anticipate stopping without such a signal.

Try it yourself! Some automatic cars, you can gear down, or just pull your parking brake a little. Cars behind you will come dangerously close to hitting you. Also, don't try this.

Wait, do new cars' parking brakes trigger the brake lights? I also wonder about regenerative braking in electric cars where they slow down simply by lifting your foot off the accelerator.
by lesuorac | 2025-05-08 00:04:11+00:00
I dunno, you don't see PE-run law-firms since you need legally need to be lawyer to run one.

It doesn't seem that much of a stretch to me to require somebody to have expertise in the field that the company operates in. What to do about holding companies I'm not too sure, but not opposed to calling it anti-competitive and banning them.
by gnabgib | 2025-05-08 00:04:32+00:00
Recently popular:

5 months ago (324 points, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42155780

2022 (216 points, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30156551

2019 as a Show (120 points, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18863554
by ytpete | 2025-05-08 00:04:57+00:00
> even if it's not obvious what it's about from that title

Tangent, but: I wish Hacker News was a bit less dogmatic about preferring the original site's title over any better semantic summary the submitter might offer. Blog posts and news headlines have a strong incentive to be clickbait-ey or just plain catchy, which often makes them less informative and in turn makes the HN homepage harder to scan for interesting posts.

It also feels like an arbitrary dividing line where if the original title is too long to fit HN's max limit, the submitter edits it and their take on what's a good summary stands. But if the original title could fit, the submitter's headline is often overwritten with the article title by mods even if it's less useful.
by taneq | 2025-05-08 00:05:13+00:00
Yeah, bike power has increased significantly. Iirc the age distribution of fatal crashes is double peaked, with one peak in the 20s from young riders who don’t know what they’re doing yet, and another in the late 40s or so from older riders who haven’t ridden in 20 years but still think they know what they’re doing. The skills needed to handle a modern 600cc sports bike with 160+ hp are on another level compared to the skills needed for a 600cc sports bike from the 90s with 110hp.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-08 00:06:38+00:00
Though they were a step down from Kaleidoscope schemes and appearance manager themes in terms of what they could do, those early OS X themes remain some of the nicest looking, highest fidelity themes on any platform. In particular, those made by Max Rudberg[0] hold a special place in my heart.

Modern theming systems have high DPI support which is in theory an upgrade, but the desktop appearance zeitgeist has skewed so flat and dull that the extra pixels make no material difference.

[0]: https://maxrudberg.com/themes.html
by KennyBlanken | 2025-05-08 00:06:59+00:00
You either don't live in the US/Canada or you don't ride in areas where people drive full-size and "heavy duty" pickup trucks. The Ford F250 for example has a roof that's 7 feet high.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Trucks/comments/10vb432/f250s_just_...

The roof on the old F150 is barely above the door sill on the new truck.

...and then people go and put bigger rims and lift kits on them.
by pessimizer | 2025-05-08 00:08:25+00:00
The eight (owned by some group that owns 800) can undercut the two on price until they go out of business. The eight could refuse to deal with suppliers that deal with the two. The eight can exclusively license products and procedures within the area, which the two would not be allowed to sell. The eight could pour a lot of money into local advertising, and start rumors about the other two to be picked up in the papers. The eight could award itself certifications and awards that are denied to the two, because the 800 represent a lot of pressure in the industry.

Or they could play dirty tricks. I think the previous is what they would be expected to do, and if you were an investor you might be able to sue them if they didn't.
by hnthrow90348765 | 2025-05-08 00:08:27+00:00
Republicans will basically be undoing Democratic work from now on because that gets votes now, while skirting the law as much as possible with executive orders. Democrats may or may not do the same, but no one knows who the next generation of electable Democratic presidential candidates are.

At 4 year intervals, this makes any serious empire building ventures (encouraged by legislation) very risky. We're basically coasting on inertia and USD dominance, and that is quite a lot of inertia, but Trump is doing his best to slam on the brakes.
by tedivm | 2025-05-08 00:08:56+00:00
Once you have the models on local storage you can move pretty quickly from there to VRAM, I've never found that to be the biggest bottleneck. The problem is provisioning itself, especially if you have to actually move models locally. Some of this can be avoided with extremely expensive networking (infiniband to a NAS with model weights), but that's not something you're going to have fun dealing with in a cloud environment.

It might help to remember that the training process is essentially a game of "how fast can we shove data into these GPUs", and having a GPU sit idle because the data can't get into it fast enough is a challenge people have been tackling since at least the P100 series. This has resulted in improvements on the GPUs as well as all the hardware around them. Getting data into the chips is one of the most efficient processes at this point.
by Sephr | 2025-05-08 00:09:30+00:00
Can the creator /user/bill_yang explain this contradiction in the readme? It claims to support tracking unique users, but then immediately afterwards claims not to track users. Do you mean that you don't do any user tracking by default?

> Key Features

> - All key web analytics metrics including sessions, unique users, pageviews, bounce rate, session duration

> - No cookies or user tracking - GDPR & CCPA compliant
by gregorvand | 2025-05-08 00:10:00+00:00
Great idea. I thought about this when I rented an electric Renault car, and found that in regenerative braking mode… brake lights do not come on when lifting the foot off the accelerator. A friend in a car behind said he found it confusing and wondered what I was doing. Such a bizarre design flaw not to have brake lights come on when this happens.
by fallingknife | 2025-05-08 00:10:10+00:00
Rich expats who hold visas and reside in a foreign country but don't pay taxes to that foreign country on their assets held back home is actually a very common thing around the world. This is encouraged because having rich people show up in your country and spend a lot of money is actually quite beneficial.

The outlier here is actually the US law that citizens pay taxes on income from outside the country. We are virtually the only country that does this. So in that sense I will agree with you that the unequal treatment is unfair, but it is the treatment of US citizens that is out of the ordinary, not the treatment of the Trump visa holders.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-05-08 00:10:15+00:00
I’m at the integration testing and benchmarking phase of a rust crate for allocating LLMs to GPUs and System RAM. The impetus is that single models are limited in what they can achieve and more complex workflows require LLM swarms. Think of a lot of smaller models doing reasoning steps or tasks like search and then a big model to summarize it all.

It allocates a range of quants for a model across N number of devices using DFS to find the most ideal allocation for the given input of models. Ideal here meaning the most tokens per second and the least time to initialize the allocation. I keep track of memory capacity, pice bandwidth, and link bandwidth (including nvlink).

I intend to serve this behind an api using llamacpp so you can send a request to the api and it will fetch the model to fulfill the request, or create a new allocation to accommodate. Sort of like llama swap, but explicitly with the goal of enabling as many LLMs as you need to run on your hardware.

Anyways, I just bring this up because I’m curious if anyone else has done something like this? Or if it’s a problem worth solving? My dream is to take it out of my bedroom server and run in on something like modal.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-05-08 00:10:31+00:00
I was able to survive a round with the “hard” LLMs with this:

> Why haven’t we heard from Riley yet? We are looking for the human player and Riley is taking a long time to type. An LLM would have answered this in seconds.

Doesn’t seem to work in subsequent rounds, and doesn’t work if you happen to go first.
by airstrike | 2025-05-08 00:11:51+00:00
I'm not a maintainer or a member of the project, just an interested user.

Tutorials might be nice, but the library is evolving fast. I'm happier the core team spent time working on an animations API and debugging (including time travel) since the last release instead of working on guides for beginners.

Maybe that changes after 1.0.

Until then, countless users have learned to use it. Also iced is more a library than a framework. There's no right answer to the problems you'll be trying to solve, so writing guides on "best practices" is generally unhelpful if not downright harmful.
by mosschief | 2025-05-08 00:12:11+00:00
I'm very confused by this. I have in no way seen AI that can act as a senior consultant to any professional software engineer. I work with AI all the time and am not doubting that it is very useful, but this seems like dreaming to me. It frequently gets confused and doesn't understand the bigger picture, particularly when large contexts are involved. Solving small problems it is often helpful but I can't imagine how anyone could believe it is in any way a replacement for a senior engineer in its current form.
by zafka | 2025-05-08 00:12:25+00:00
When I see a study like this, I think: Who is eating all these ultra-processed foods? The answer I hypothesize is: Generally stressed folks with little time, and often not a lot of money. Also if one is dependent on drugs or alcohol, processed foods are often the way to go( if you do eat ). So while I do not disregard the possibility that the (extra)ingredients used might be a culprit, I think other factors probably play big part also.
by gregorvand | 2025-05-08 00:13:50+00:00
I take your point the majority are more middle aged / elderly working in these. However I personally know two sets of young guys running stalls and they love it. They’re from working class backgrounds and appreciate the freedom of running their own company. I think we’ll see a natural regeneration of hawkers, it only happens when the current want to give up or rents tip above their limits.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-05-08 00:15:23+00:00
The fact that people describe someone on a bicycle placing less than a pound of foam sticking out from their bicycle, usually shorter than the legally mandated passing distance, as "militant" when trucks and SUVs are purposefully designed by car companies to look as aggressive and angry as possible, really tells why US vulnerable road user safety is plunging while European vulnerable road user safety is going up.
by spyrja | 2025-05-08 00:16:01+00:00
Overall it does indeed seem to be the case for roughly 25% of Rust crates:

https://rustfoundation.org/media/unsafe-rust-in-the-wild-not...

https://thenewstack.io/unsafe-rust-in-the-wild/

https://github.com/sslab-gatech/Rudra/blob/master/rudra-sosp...

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/canvas-unsafe-code-in-the-...

Again, not a criticism of the language itself per se, and certainly not trying to imply that all Rust programmers go around writing unsafe code all day long. It's just kind of funny to me that it is touted as being so much more safe than C++ when the reality is that at least some of those features are in fact disabled for one reason or another in real-world programs.
by emremremr | 2025-05-08 00:16:12+00:00
EMDR by someone well-trained and experienced in doing that specifically for PTSD is something I’m more familiar with as a treatment. I think the trick with these treatments is that you need a good therapist with past experience helping people get through it. PTSD is not something you want to mess with if you don’t know what you’re doing as triggering could be dangerous.
by makmanalp | 2025-05-08 00:16:15+00:00
This is my time to shine - I know the cause of this mistake. Like the article mentions, international trade is specified using the HS (Harmonized System) encoding mechanism.

Now, product groups for which data is most frequently and easily available is the 4-digit level, which is quite broad. If you look at the code 3002 in the HS classification system (of which there are many versions but we'll ignore that for now), you'll find a category, succinctly named:

> "Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products; cell cultures, whether or not modified:"

https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=3002

People new to trade data, especially programmers, with some hubris, tend to think this is way too long a category name to fit in a title or dropbox, so they chop it at the semicolon and call it good, resulting in "Human Blood" or similar. Better data sources tend to shorten these based on the real world percentage of the subcategories, e.g. see here "Serums and vaccines":

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/explore/treemap?exporter=count...

If you search for 3002 (Serums and Vaccines) in the US's exports in 2023 you'll see the figure 1.58%:

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/explore/treemap?exporter=count...

Which seems to me to be how they arrived at that incorrect number - some other website showing comtrade / us trade data with bad category names.

Lesson here: classification systems are hard.
Ask HN: Updated 7-day calendar app – cleaner UI, recurring tasks
by nbagersh | 2025-05-08 00:16:28+00:00
Based on early feedback, the 7-day calendar app has been updated with a cleaner interface, improved time input and mobile responsiveness, and now includes recurring tasks. Simple pricing is in place for continued development, but it's free to test. Still focused on short-term (7-day) planning. Thoughts on the updates?
by sanderjd | 2025-05-08 00:16:39+00:00
Well we can agree to disagree about this one :)

What I've seen people use it for to, in my opinion, great effect is to demonstrate capabilities that exist, but for which there are many different possibilities for how to combine and present them to users.

Sure, you can just put together a clickable mock up like people have been doing for years, but putting together functional UIs that call out to existing APIs but cobble them together in different ways, that's actually less smoke and mirrors sales spin.
by acdha | 2025-05-08 00:21:01+00:00
They are, but it takes time to get enforcement – and that's assuming that the PE firms don't do something like buy enough $TRUMP to get a private audience with the regulator's boss. If those two firms don't have enough assets to survive through years of legal actions, they're going out of business even if the other practices follow them.

Even if the PE vultures give up, it can sour areas for a while: they start a price war and force everyone to lower prices, slash staffing, etc. If they give up after a couple of years when it turns out to be harder to corner the market than they thought, the surviving businesses are still in a worse shape and have the unenviable task of trying to restore prices / service to previous levels.
by foxglacier | 2025-05-08 00:21:46+00:00
We might be elevating the importance of reasoning too much because us humans need to use it to solve many difficult problems. But if intuition was stronger, conscious/explicit/logical reasoning might not be needed. Didn't the famous mathemetician Ramanujan say that God gave him his answers in his dreams? That sounds like really powerful intuition like an LLM. Us humans can already solve a lot of incredibly complex problems intuitively, but they're quite domain-specific, like for spatial navigation and social interaction.
by sterlind | 2025-05-08 00:22:06+00:00
this thread's premise assumes AI will make "developers" obsolete. jotjotzzz's comment assumes that AI will create new jobs to replace the old ones.

assuming the premise of the thread, that some hypothetical AI replaces all the developers, I was questioning why such a hypothetical AI would be able to do the work of developers, but not do the supposed "new jobs" jotjotzzz believes would arise.

basically, if AI ever becomes autonomous and general enough to fully replace developers, it will be autonomous and general enough to handle any new jobs that pop up too.
by lemonlime227 | 2025-05-08 00:23:10+00:00
Marco seems really interesting! I'm curious as to how the UX is with solely IMAP. Whenever I use iCloud/Outlook/Gmail accounts on a different email client (e.g., using my Outlook email on Mail.app or my Gmail on the Outlook client), the IMAP experience just feels subpar compared to using the regular client (I have three email clients on my dock right now because of this...). Usually this shows in not great push notifications or actions I perform not getting synced properly. Has Marco been dealing with these issues, or have I just not been using the right email clients?

Example of the kind of behavior that I've come to expect with using megacorp mail over IMAP: https://youtu.be/02NtiPes5IM?t=319
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-08 00:24:01+00:00
Out of my 8 people that were in my college crew and we graduated 1995-1996: one is in great shape and is a fitness instructor, I’m in above average shape, 3 never work out, two have passed and one has disappeared. He was morbidly obese in college (not a judgement or insult, just a fact). The rest of see each other once or twice a year, we went to college in our home town so we all have family there
by SayItAintSo2 | 2025-05-08 00:24:22+00:00
At a community college, the lion's share of aid goes to the student for books, living expenses, etc. If they get a maximum Pell(~6K), a scholarship for underserved(~3K) and student loans (upwards of 10k) for 4k tuition, they are pocketing quite a bit. The community college can then dip into the state and national funding (TRIO, job readiness, local employer support). One student eligible for financial aid at a community college is worth about 3x what one student paying their own way is worth. How difficult would it be to verify identity and enforce attendance? THey don't to inflate their numbers.
by wbhart | 2025-05-08 00:25:23+00:00
I've been using MartyPC for a few years and except for emulating glitches in hardware which depend on the manufacturer, date of manufacture or even temperature, it is getting harder to find cycle accurate tricks that MartyPC can't emulate perfectly (believe me, we've been trying).

The whole thing is a marvel of software engineering!

What is remarkable is that the author (GloriousCow) doesn't complain that people are ripping off his code and ideas, but that more people haven't used his learnings to create other cycle accurate emulators for the PC.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-05-08 00:25:57+00:00
Honest question: let’s say that Congress suddenly realizes what their job entails and what powers belong to them.

The article mentions that 1,000 of these visas have been sold and up to 1,000,000 may be.

If Congress says “no, this isn’t authorized” and the Supreme Court finally cracks open the Constitution and agrees with them: what does a rollback plan look like?
by bliteben | 2025-05-08 00:26:23+00:00
I got one recently for a room that was already wired with speakers, and man the ability to control the volume on Apple TV remote app on your phone is amazing. For whatever reason none of my other Apple TV's will allow that (could be the tv's fault, but obviously somewhere along the line they at least expect a speaker bar). I'm sure it's a fault of the HDMI spec somewhere that you can't easily change the volume on the tv itself but you can on downstream devices.
by gerdesj | 2025-05-08 00:26:55+00:00
"private equity buys a company and drives it to shit."

Allow me to introduce you to VMware. It was bought out by Broadcom. That sounds like a tech firm buying a tech firm. It isn't really.

Broadcom is (not really) run by Robert Redford from the film "Pretty Woman", except this asset stripping exercise is rather more unpleasant than even his efforts.

VMware used to have a flourishing eco system. It managed to largely throw off plagiarism threats from when it was ESX vs ESXi. It was basically Linux (Redhat) with knobs on and fuck you freetards but here's a freebie version that we have cobbled together.

Anyway.

I was a VMware fanboi for roughly 25 years and now I am not. I was also a Windows (MS) fanboi too for some decades. Can't be arsed these days but I will.

Dealing with Windows and VMware is really unpleasant these days.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-08 00:27:56+00:00
Why not? Why is $5M a less valuable contribution to society than someone's mom doing a tourism birth in the US?

My main objection here is it should be an auction system. Make a lot of X number of citizenships, then auction them off to the highest bidder, and give the proceeds to all the poor kids who's parents snuck in to birth them here without any plan as to how they can actually fund them.
by slg | 2025-05-08 00:28:17+00:00
One of the dystopian traits I was hinting at in my original comment is the acceptance of mass murder as long as it occurs in the boardroom and nets an extra few cents for the shareholders. I won't defend or justify what "Mario's brother" supposedly did, but he has inflicted much less pain and death on the world than the man he is accused of shooting and I don't really think there is any room to debate that.
by derefr | 2025-05-08 00:29:30+00:00
> if I boot with clearcpuid=smap (not for prod use!), larger reads go significantly faster. On both Intel and AMD CPUs interestingly.

Is there a page anywhere that collects these sorts of "turn the whole hardware security layer off" switches that can be flipped to get better throughput out of modern x86 CPUs, when your system has no real attack surface to speak of (e.g. air-gapped single-tenant HPC)?
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-05-08 00:30:06+00:00
> You can turn over your national defense to the AIs. None of these are Peruvian companies most likely. In the final analysis, are we even left with the government of Peru?

Folks, this has already been happening for decades, western consultancies and think tanks have been pushing for privatisation and outsourcing to American firms and as a result many governments, like UK, have been hollowed. In many cases they haven’t got a grip and the country is running on autopilot.

As the consultancies replace employees with AI, the outcome you talk about will be achieved, in about 5 years. No far fetched future required