MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NortySpock | 2025-05-09 13:31:06+00:00
Cool! I am not a "car guy", but I have (with my father-in-law) changed my own oil and replaced the shocks on my (ICE) car.

I appreciate the somewhat open-source nature of car repair work, and I would hate for EVs to become all proprietary, locked down systems that are not repairable. At least the standardization of PCs means I can kitbash some parts together into a usable daily driver. Not so for EV's, it seems.

So, from the perspective of someone who may be a single-unit customer in 10 years when I want to revive an old Prius or Bolt or whatever used car comes my way, I wish you all the best.

In terms of ideas or advice -- I assume you've seen or talked with the RichRebuilds youtube channel or other EV repair youtube channels to see what they need in a VCU... If they like it and praise your product on their channel that might get you some buzz / street cred. Beyond that I assume it's just a matter of becoming golfing buddies with the CTO or electronics head of a automotive startup (Slate and Telo recently came up in my news feed. They might be too far along to switch VCUs for their first car, but if they had teething issues they might be interested in swapping to you for their second car...)
by sidewndr46 | 2025-05-09 13:31:07+00:00
It isn't the case that a third party mistake can invalidate copyright. But if a third party does so & other groups start treating it as public domain it is on the actual rightsholder to prove they still hold the copyright.

In the case of a self published book, it's pretty obvious. In the case a movie production or otherwise, it gets difficult really fast. Throw in some corporate mergers, acquisitions, & bankruptcies and now you're looking at paying a small team of legal professionals to do research to construct a paper trail for ownership. If the work in question is valuable, obviously it gets done.

In the modern era there is a basically endless stream of video games from a 2-3 decades back where the ownership is completely unclear. The actual video game release rights might be held by one shell company, the video game source code could be held by another group (or even the original author, depending on how lazy people were), and the assets themselves might be held by another group if it was a "branded" or similar content.
by jrojers | 2025-05-09 13:31:22+00:00
I was an early employee at a startup and happened to share a similar name and initials with the guy who eventually became CFO. oooo boy - lots of receipts and approval emails sent my way. I would forward/delete and we'd laugh about it.

Then we started to get big and it became less funny. Not my fault, and nobody blamed me, but one week we had a quarterly sales meeting and the company flew in 50+ reps from around the country... Those folks can spend money. I did my best to avoid reading, but receipts for extravagant food/drinks were hard to ignore.
by danso | 2025-05-09 13:31:32+00:00
Imagine that your site brings in a substantial number of customers and revenue; ask yourself, how would you explain to a court that your site's name, "Ghiblio.net", did not at all benefit by exploiting the trademark of "Ghibli"? Like, if you had named your site NintendoArt.net, is it not obvious how that would infringe on the Nintendo brand?
by echelon | 2025-05-09 13:32:18+00:00
No way. I'd much prefer we have a constellation of core companion libraries like Google's Guava.

We do not need to saddle Rust with garbage that will feel dated like Python's standard library. Cargo does the job just fine. We just need some high quality optional batteries.

Embedded projects are unlikely to need standard library bloat. No_std should be top of mind for everyone.

Something that might make additional libraries feel more first class: if cargo finally got namespaces and if the Rust project took on "@rust/" as the org name to launch officially sanctioned and maintained packages.
by V__ | 2025-05-09 13:32:27+00:00
There is a reason why a lot of science in the past happened to be done by clergymen or pastors. They had a lot of time on their hand and a secure income. I am certain science, art and the community in general would profit immensely if the modern workload would be reduced.

I think covid was a good example of this. So many people took up a new hobby or tried something new.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-09 13:33:10+00:00
The movie invented the zombie genre as we know it today, was made by George Romero, which is a credential in an of itself, and Duane Jones' performance as Ben would stand out today almost as much as it did back then. These points, along with the film being poignant and entertaining as hell would ensure that generation after generation would would keep coming back. Remember, lots of films are out of copyright. Not a lot of such films made as much money or have the staying power as Night of the Living Dead.

On top of this, genre films in general, and horror specifically, if anything, have rabid fans that go out of their way to watch movies because of their genre, regardless of accessibility or buzz. Again, George Romero's involvement alone would make sure that even a passing fan of horror (or budding cinephiles) would seek it out.
by prinny_ | 2025-05-09 13:33:33+00:00
I have stopped asking questions there. The moderation is so heavy handed it astonished me. I asked a question about some typescript types of an external library, the very author of those types replied and answered my question and I replied that I was happy with his answer and to thank him for his work on the library. The mods deleted my reply.

Was it so important for the quality of the site to delete a reply thanking someone for their OSS contribution? Is SO a better site now? Meanwhile they have 10 year old answers still up, with no way to indicate they are outdated unless the author themselves goes through the trouble of updating their answer.
by robrtsql | 2025-05-09 13:34:08+00:00
I apologize in advance because you'd probably prefer text, but this is a very high quality video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk

The video is segmented into chapters--if you're not interested in the whole thing, the section about the Lincoln animatronic is chapter 4, about an hour into the video.
by DennisP | 2025-05-09 13:34:19+00:00
Commercial REBCO tape is an entirely sufficient superconductor for tokamaks. At this point the limiting factor for the magnetic field is the structural strength of the reactor. Tokamak output scales with the square of size and the fourth power of magnetic field strength, and using REBCO, the CFS ARC design should get practical power output from a reactor much smaller than ITER.
by weinzierl | 2025-05-09 13:36:11+00:00
You are right to be skeptical. Unfortunately I could not find the "Handbuch für Datenverarbeitung" mentioned in the Stack Exchange post. Amazon lists it with ISBN 3927892009 but it is not available unsurprisingly. Neither libgen nor archive.org seem to have it either.

Apart from several humorous mentions over the decades I found one serious reference in an exam text from 1997 [1].

[1] https://www.telle-online.de/fernuni/ruf/klausur/1704-97.html...
by mark_l_watson | 2025-05-09 13:36:12+00:00
I learned to program as a child in the 1960s (thanks Dad!) so I have some biases:

Right now there seem to be two extremely valuable LLM use cases:

1. sidekick/assistant for software developers

2. a tool to let people rapidly explore new knowledge and new ideas; unlike an encyclopedia, being able to ask questions, suggest references and get summaries, etc.

I suspect that the next $$$ valuable use case will be scientific research assistants.

EDIT: I would add that AI in k-12 education will be huge, freeing human teachers to spend more 1 on 1 time with kids while AIs will be patient teaching kids, providing extra time and material as needed.
by rapjr9 | 2025-05-09 13:36:22+00:00
About 7 years ago I had around 150 PCB's for a research smartwatch made and assembled at this company in Massachusetts:

https://www.emeraldtechnologies.com

If I remember correctly they were just over $200 per smartwatch. We saved some costs by putting the assembled boards into 3D printed cases ourselves using student labor:

https://amulet-project.org/2018/08/02/assmebly-of-new-amulet...

There's a list of the major components (MCU, BT radio, sensors, display, battery) here:

https://github.com/AmuletGroup/amulet-project/tree/master/ha...

Not including the student labor (or my labor) I think the total we spent per smartwatch ended up being about $300.

To get an idea of the complexity of the boards here's the open source Github repo with the hardware and software files:

https://github.com/AmuletGroup/amulet-project

It was a double sided, 4 layer board with two small sub-PCB's (touch pads and a power board I think). My experience with Emerald Technologies (then called DataEd at their New Hampshire location, seems they've been bought out by a larger firm) was very positive. They were quite helpful in bringing the project to completion.

https://circuitsassembly.com/ca/editorial/menu-news/33794-da...

The cost per board would have been less if we had ordered more of them. Ours was a fairly large job for DataEd at the time, though they would have been happy to make a thousand of the devices. For tens of thousands or more they would have recommended another affiliated company. They were more of a prototyping company, though that may have changed since the merger. I see that part of Emerald is located in China now, though the DataEd facility is still part of the company, so they might be interested in some US work to carry them through the tariff chaos.

Edit: I should mention, I supplied some of the parts that I prebought to lock in a supply, the MSP430's and touch sensor IC's for example, and they supplied the rest. We had them do minimal QA on the boards, without firmware loaded and we did final QA after programming the boards ourselves. They would have been willing to do those tasks also though.
by myrmidon | 2025-05-09 13:36:35+00:00
Sure but those are not really equivalent/comparable in scale; just looking at power/size and conceptual distance from commercial viability, the Chicago pile does not even match up to something like SPARC or JET, much less ITER.

A more fitting comparison to ITER would be something like Fermi-1 or other prototype designs at almost commercial scale, IMO, and those were multi-year, large projects too (and fission is much simpler than fusion, which obviously also helps).
by baobun | 2025-05-09 13:36:54+00:00
You want to talk to a lawyer. Not ChatGPT.

> Transform ordinary photos into dreamy Ghibli-style illustrations with one click, creating an authentic Ghibli experience for creators and fans

> Enter the Magical World of Ghibli

This is arguably false misrepresentation ("authentic"). You use Totoro as your favicon.

Legal aspects aside it's just disrespectful at best and misleading at worst.

> My intention was to let more people experience the joy of AI artistic creation, not to specifically replicate the work of any particular studio.

Your branding, UI, marketing and sample images all say otherwise. And you have the gall to charge for it. Your site gives piracy and copyright infringement a bad name. Strongly consider a rehaul.
by cranberryturkey | 2025-05-09 13:36:58+00:00
I went to an A's game on wednesday and it cost me $38 bucks in gas in my sister's hybrid camry to go up to sacramento and back from los gatos....3 of us went.

If we took the train, which would have been a lot more fun, it would have cost us $75 each round trip. Until they are competitive with driving nobody is going to take public transit.
by lupusreal | 2025-05-09 13:37:13+00:00
I love America, but America is hardly a very Catholic nation and this seems like a clear cut case of political pandering besides. I'm not a catholic but when I think Catholic I think ancient gilded and extravagant. America is the land of hamburgers, pickup trucks and Protestant megachurches. The two don't fit.

An Italian would make a better pope because the Roman Catholic Church is fundamentally Italian and it has been too long without an Italian pope. An African would be a good pope because they've never had one, despite a huge number of Catholics, present and future, being African.
by camel-cdr | 2025-05-09 13:37:18+00:00
If you have variable length SIMD, you can always treat them as fixed-size SIMD types.

New x86 processor don't executes 128-bit SIMD, the vecto ALUs are all wider now and 128 and 256-bit instructions have the same throughput and latency.

Also, do you have an example for such "opportunistic" usages?

I suppose mainly things the SLP vectorizer can usually do already (in compiled languages, I'm not sure how good the JIT is these days).

I worry that we now may end up in a world, where "hand optimized SIMD" in WASM ends up slower than autovectorization, because you can't use the wider SIMD instructions and leave 2x (zen4) to 4x (zen5) of the performance on the table.
by jakobgm | 2025-05-09 13:37:24+00:00
Totally agree! As with any behavior which is difficult to detect and often goes by unnoticed; the punishment should be large enough for the expected value of fraud being clearly net negative for those that might feel tempted at "tweaking some numbers".

In case anybody else also isn't familiar with "PI" as an abbreviation in this context:

> In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
by lolinder | 2025-05-09 13:37:41+00:00
A simple version of this that already shines with existing LLMs is JSON Schema mode. You can go quite a long way towards making illegal states unrepresentable and then turn a model loose in the constrained sandbox, with the guarantee that anything it produces will be at least valid if not correct: it's basically type safety for LLM output.

The same mechanism that underlies JSON Schema support can be applied to any sort of validation and correction, and yeah, I'd love to see more of this kind of thing!
by exiguus | 2025-05-09 13:37:59+00:00
I consider Next.js as a solution that not only embraces the JAMstack approach, with all its benefits and drawbacks, but also facilitates the implementation of business requirements that demand a more dynamic content update mechanism, such as Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR). Additionally, it supports functionalities like handling headers, redirects, and rewrites. Essentially, Next.js addresses the limitations of JAMstack while retaining its advantages.
by lesuorac | 2025-05-09 13:38:02+00:00
It's really about the hype that is the problem and that people often mean LLMs when they say AI.

LLM isn't going to drive a forklift; it needs more agency than a textbox in order to do that.

But it's really going to be products (ex. Microsoft Word) rather than a technology (ex. Electricity) that'll replace jobs (ex. Typists).
by matt-p | 2025-05-09 13:38:08+00:00
I use neon quite a bit, profiling seems to show ~600-980ms of extra latency. This is in the AWS London region, on postgres 15/16.

Regardless if I've got a website that's used a couple of times a hour every hour then the practical reality is almost all users have a extra second of latency or so.

I'm not complaining, it's a great product that I'll continue to use, but it's the biggest pain point.
by pc86 | 2025-05-09 13:39:13+00:00
It can be dismissive but also true.

I used to make fun of (or deride) all the "RTFM" people when I was a junior too. Why can't you just tell me how to do whatever thing I'm trying to figure out? Or point me in the right direction instead of just saying "its in the docs lol"?

Sometime in the last few years I've started doing more individual stuff, I've started reading documentation before running npm i. And honestly? All the "RTFM" people were 100% right.

Nobody here is writing code that's going to be used on a patient on the surgical table right now. You have time to read the docs and you'll be better if you do.

I'm also a hypocrite because I will often point an LLM at the root of a set of API docs and ask how to do a thing. But that's the next best thing to actually reading it yourself, I think.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-09 13:39:23+00:00
>Two, the definition of war crimes has expanded so broadly as to include any collateral damage. This overinclusiveness has rendered the term meaningless

Can you provide real examples of actual journalists or governments doing this? Random FB commenters don't know what any words mean, but I haven't seen this to be the case in actual official channels. Asserting that it is meaningless feels like trying to downplay or trivialize real war crimes that are actually happening.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-09 13:39:36+00:00
2001 says hi,

"More than 20 programming tools vendors offer some 26 programming languages — including C++, Perl, Python, Java, COBOL, RPG and Haskell — on .NET. "

https://news.microsoft.com/source/2001/10/22/massive-industr...

Ah, it isn't portable, maybe 1989?

"The Architecture Neutral Distribution Format (ANDF) in computing is a technology allowing common "shrink wrapped" binary application programs to be distributed for use on conformant Unix systems, translated to run on different underlying hardware platforms. ANDF was defined by the Open Software Foundation and was expected to be a "truly revolutionary technology that will significantly advance the cause of portability and open systems",[1] but it was never widely adopted."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribut... or better 1980?

"The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, since 2005 maintained by David Given.[1] It has frontends for the following programming languages: C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Compiler_Kit

I have a problem with people selling WASM as something spectacullary new, never done before.
by sevensor | 2025-05-09 13:39:51+00:00
I knew a man who had been in the Navy, in the Pacific, during WW2. Not many men of his generation had tattoos, but most of the ones who did were sailors, and he was no exception. Large tattoo on his forearm: a jester, with the hat and bells, like from a deck of cards.

I knew another man of that generation with a number tattooed on his wrist. He never talked about it.
by evklein | 2025-05-09 13:39:53+00:00
Learning isn't really a virtue of the culture. Most people go to school to get ahead of others. As such, there's two prongs that determine the worth of an education: is the institution accredited, and how prestigious is the institution/degree? The answer to these questions for FractalU is "no" and "not prestigious at all."

Not that that's a bad thing for FractalU. They seem like they know what they want it to be, and they're happy with it in its current state. I certainly think it's a great idea, though admittedly it does only really cater to a specific niche of people. In a better culture that values education I could see this almost being a universally enjoyed activity.
by dtagames | 2025-05-09 13:39:59+00:00
VS Code is itself an evolution of the Monaco editor, another MS open source product. The secret sauce in Cursor is not being an editor. It's in orchestrating the various system prompts, user prompts, and inputs to the IDE that give it the agentic qualities.

I love VS Code and used it for years until recently switching to Cursor. But let's be honest -- neither product really has an attractive interface. VS Code feels like it was put together out of building blocks rather than designed as a whole, and that's because it was.

That plug-in nature is great but isn't the key thing that agentic devs need. Someone will make an IDE from the ground up that is optimized for working with agents rather than files and folders and lines of code. Those will need to move to the background in the new paradigm.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-09 13:41:13+00:00
Did you look through that page before posting it? Currently, the default list of biggest savings is topped by things like eliminating a refugee intake facility, various HHS programs making sure public housing meets basic standards of habitability, and eradicating polio.

Is the argument that government was so efficient before that eliminating these seemingly useful programs was the best and only way to save taxpayer dollars?
by netdevphoenix | 2025-05-09 13:41:37+00:00
> Your assumption is there is a fixed amount of engineering work to do so you need to hire fewer programmers, which is untrue. Every organization I worked at could have invested a lot more in engineering, be-it infrastructure, analytics, automation, etc.

True. Problem is investment is a long-term action (cost now, for gains later). Literally every company can benefit from investment. The key question is whether how valuable are the gains over a given time period relatively to the cost you are incurring between now and the moment the gains are actualised.

LLMs wouldn't have helped Meta/Microsoft/Google lay off less people in the last 2 years. In fact, you could argue that they would have helped lay off MORE people as with LLMs you need less people to run the company. Do you think Zuckerberg would have INCREASED expenses (that's what productivity investments are) when their stock was in freefall?

Companies can't afford to spend indefinite amounts of money at any time. If your value has been going down or is going down, increasing your current expenses will get you fired. Big problems now, require solutions now. The vast majority of the tech companies in the world chose to apply a solution now.

Maybe you are right, but a look at the tech world in the last 3 years should be telling you that your decision would have been deeply popular with the people that hold the moneybags. And at the end of the day, those are the people you don't want to anger no matter how smart you believe yourself to be.
by ir77 | 2025-05-09 13:41:58+00:00
that's literally no different than what Google Maps does in my car while in CarPlay mode. It's like Apple neuters it and don't give it full gyro/compass data, because when driving it constantly moves the "car" anywhere from 90 to 270 degress and keeps it there for a few seconds until it figures this out again. I checked all possible permissions and still can't figure it out.

Never happens on the Apple Maps, although I have 0 trust in siri and apple maps, especially when we travel to europe, i feel like i'm an experiment for apple to see how much off straight forward route it can make me take.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-05-09 13:42:09+00:00
While it is perfectly valid to describe what they made as a designer or builder for LEGO, I do not believe they are allowed to use part of a trademark in a way that could be trademarkable itself, so basically good for everything but the name.

But then again IANAL, and that is just how I understand the American law, and every country is different.
by goatsneez | 2025-05-09 13:42:37+00:00
When looking at costs, one should keep a reference point in mind. For example, the ESA's total budget is ~7.7 billion euros, which is taxpayer money. However, the US alone spent about 1 billion dollars bombing the Houthis in three months (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-ope...), and the direct military costs in Gaza alone are over 22 billion dollars (https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhartung/2024/10/15/the-h...). The total cost of reconstruction is estimated to be over 100 billion. The direct costs of the EU's sanctions on Russia alone cost taxpayers more than 200 billion, but these are poor estimates. We could continue in this way and examine Africa, Asia, and other regions to gain perspective.

However, it would be improper to claim that the ESA's budget for this project is a matter of diverting taxpayers' money to something negative.