MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-05-01 19:58:19+00:00
It's an inaccurate profiling.

Instead, the gang you describe is aspiring to migrate into well known high visibility disputes such as climate change, gender issues, politics reform. They genuinely think they can help, but the inner principal motive is to be noticed as quickly as possible as "a big stakes kind of person". The more famous and loud the issues they can touch, the better. They will only talk about what appeals to newer generation struggles.
by williamstein | 2025-05-01 19:58:31+00:00
Context:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829008

- https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1632

- https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/issues/6832

I also built a lot on NATS Jetstream, and I'm questioning my decision in light of the threatened license change.
by allenu | 2025-05-01 19:58:48+00:00
I have a couple of friends who I would call non-askers. It drives me crazy and makes me not enjoy spending time with them. When I do hang out with them, I'll ask them what's new and they'll gladly tell me in great detail all the life issues they're facing and what they've been doing lately, but they never reciprocate. As in the article, if I stop asking questions, the conversation just hits a lull and they don't think to return the favor.

On the other hand, the really great askers make you feel like the most important person in the room. You'll answer their questions and they'll ask really good follow-up questions to show they're listening and that they care.
by voytec | 2025-05-01 19:59:24+00:00
Early primary schooling in the early 90s and some preschool teaching in the late 80s taught me to write "ż" as a "ƶ"[0].

> It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot").

> In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter ⟨Ż⟩ (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish.

Funnily, there's a counter-argument to "Straż Miejska" from article you linked, with "Straƶ Miejska" in another Wikipedia entry[1] :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg
by howard941 | 2025-05-01 19:59:36+00:00
What is your point, that 75' isn't enough separation? Of course it's not enough. But you know as well as I do that visual separation is normal, encouraged even. We know pretty clearly what the Blackhawk crew said. They said they had the traffic in sight and requested visual separation from the reported traffic, not from some passive lights on the ground.

Yes indeed, failure was built in to the airspace design.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 20:00:17+00:00
Realistically most people don't get many opportunities to flip the coin

Then many who do get that chance choose not to, they choose a less risky path

It is very few people who even can attempt to flip the coin ten times

And "the 1%" can flip it as many times as they want until it lands on heads 10 times in a row
by masterj | 2025-05-01 20:00:54+00:00
I'm not really sure what problem you're trying to point out here. There are legal standards and liability for engineering, and if someone violates them using an LLM they are held just as liable as they would be had they done the work themselves.

But the same is true for code? You are held to the same standards as if you had written it yourself, whatever that may be. Frequently that is nothing.

What change do you want to see here?
Show HN: GPT Paint – instruct ChatGPT with edit shapes, notes, and references
by dvrp | 2025-05-01 20:01:28+00:00
Disclaimer: Krea cofounder here.

I know Show HN is about prototypes or demos that you can try right away for free, but sadly we cannot offer it for free since ChatGPT costs are too high.

However, the idea of visual prompting ChatGPT was non-intuitive to me and would be cool to know to folks around here. It works quite well too.
by mbm | 2025-05-01 20:01:59+00:00
Hey! Thanks for asking. In this case, I used:

- Cursor for IDE (Claude 3.7 Sonnet + Gemini 2.5 Pro for code gen)

- Rails app with an embedded React frontend (Rails for API routes / React for everything frontend)

- Deploy the Rails app to GCP Cloud Run with min_instances=0; use the tiniest GCP Cloud SQL instance for Postgres; and spin up a tiny cheap VM for running background jobs (same Rails app, just run in sidekiq mode instead of Rails mode)

DigitalOcean droplets (cheap servers) are a great option for doing it all on a single VM.
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-01 20:02:10+00:00
Not OP but for me it's a solid remote desktop alternative that can compete with Windows' remote desktop experience. There's been some movement there, so perhaps in 5 years time.

Also I really dislike how out of memory conditions just causes everything to grind to a halt for 5 minutes before something, typically Firefox, crashes. On Windows at least just Firefox gets very slow, but usually I can just nuke the process that eats too much memory. Not so on Linux as the whole desktop becomes unresponsive.

And every now and then I still need to fiddle with some config files or whatnot. Not game breaking but annoying.
by kiba | 2025-05-01 20:02:28+00:00
I experienced this phenomena on my electric scooter. I could always scoot faster than someone walking but ultimately it makes little difference because I just spent more time for the crossing signal to turn green. So they end up catching up to me.

Now, when there's long stretch or when you have to go up hill, that's where the electric scooter begins to shine and makes the largest difference.
by sodality2 | 2025-05-01 20:02:37+00:00
> Apple chooses the default and integrates it into the OS more deeply than any third-party app can be integrated

And this is well known by everyone, and your family still chose Apple (in fact, I'm fairly certain this is why most people choose Apple - they want everything to "just work"). Apple has no obligation to provide any "ecosystem".

At the end of the day there isn't some mass hypnosis at work here. People choose Apple en masse because it works for them. Nothing stops Apple users from making an SMS (now RCS) group chat, either, nor from you and your family hosting a group chat on any other app on the App Store.
by john-h-k | 2025-05-01 20:02:48+00:00
I’ve got a personal project compiler I built and it’s hit by this very hard. Testing involves (naturally) generating lots of executables. Running it in a Linux docker container takes around ~1s for all 500 tests. macOS by default takes around a _minute_, and even with the workarounds I’ve found (“allow untrusted software to be run by iterm2”) it takes 5-8 seconds.

It’s a pretty niche use case but it’s deeply frustrating
by dheera | 2025-05-01 20:02:57+00:00
> employs a single-layer vector quantizer (VQ) codec and a single Transformer architecture to fully align

I really wish when new models were released that they would draw a diagram of all the layers and the tensor input and output sizes at each layer, with zoom in/out capabilities if needed using D3.js or whatever visualization framework if needed. Every single layer should be on there with its input and output sizes.

These one-sentence descriptions, and approximate block diagrams with arrows pointing at each other are never enough to understand how something is actually implemented.
by K0balt | 2025-05-01 20:03:16+00:00
It beats playing the lottery. And it makes a fun excuse to go places. Low expectations are your friend, that way you get pleasant surprises instead of disappointment.

All part of my strategy of success through lowered expectations. Im finding that this decade has made me an accidental optimist lol, but these days I can pontificate well insulated from the outcome.
by int_19h | 2025-05-01 20:03:28+00:00
You can't drive an LLM insane because it's not "sane" to begin with. LLMs are always roleplaying a persona, which can be sane or insane depending on how it's defined.

But you absolutely can get it to behave erratically, because contradictory instructions don't just "average out" in practice - it'll latch onto one or the other depending on other things (or even just the randomness introduced by non-zero temp), and this can change midway through the conversation, even from token to token. And the end result can look rather similar to that movie.
by forinti | 2025-05-01 20:03:44+00:00
The last time I took my kids to McDonald's was a few years ago. They rarely eat junk food but they wanted a little toy that was being handed out. They couldn't finish their burgers and I couldn't eat their leftovers (and I hate seeing food go to waste). They never asked to go again.

I occasionally stop at one for a coffee, and most times something goes wrong with my order. It's fascinating how such a crappy firm can still survive.
by dvrp | 2025-05-01 20:03:47+00:00
Disclaimer: Krea cofounder here so, self-plug here.

However, I thought of sharing because I think the idea of prompting ChatGPT-like models through visual cues is non-intuitive. It works quite well too.

We are sadly not able to offer it for free due to high-costs, but I thought it would be cool to know to folks around here.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-05-01 20:03:53+00:00
Looks like it depends heavily on choice of file, but I see good performance on both compressible and uncompressible files. Small files tend to perform (relatively) bad though. Here is a sample of 3 large files with different compression ratios:

zstd -b1 --fast -i10 some-rpi-os-image-idk.img -1#-os-image-idk.img :2097152000 -> 226798302 (x9.247), 6765.0 MB/s, 5897.3 MB/s zstd -b1 --fast -i10 jdk-11.0.8+10.tar -1#jdk-11.0.8+10.tar : 688844800 -> 142114709 (x4.847), 2660.7 MB/s, 2506.8 MB/s zstd -b1 --fast -i10 archlinux-2025.04.01-x86_64.iso -1#.04.01-x86_64.iso :1236303872 ->1221271223 (x1.012), 3643.5 MB/s, 7836.6 MB/s
by ben_w | 2025-05-01 20:04:08+00:00
I pop the CV itself into ChatGPT and ask it for feedback for specific roles to show what they seem to care about; I then *manually* change the focus of the CV — no automatic change, it makes stuff up.

Tried generating cover letters for ads that want them, given I suck at writing cover letters, but IMO ChatGPT also sucks for them, it's just shameless about the suck.

However, no dice.
by mdp2021 | 2025-05-01 20:04:14+00:00
I did (in some interpretation of the two expressions), but it was because I did not choose the terms with fullest care (efficiency compromise).

Nonetheless, there is an idea above the two - a "reasonable right to expression" - and above that, "a Right to intellectual activity". And I was reported that students attacked the possibility of debate in several occasions, impeding events promoted by their very educators.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-01 20:04:34+00:00
> quick swerve could cause another collision so I guess it's which decision on average causes the least harm/death? I agree though that most people's extinct would be to brake

If it’s 1989 and you don’t have ABS, yes. Otherwise, swerving is a gamble [1]. If you don’t have time to stop, you physically don’t have time to evaluate and choose a right or left swerve. You’re trading the certainty of a head-on collision with whatever is in front of you against the uncertainty of what’s to the right or left, compounded with all the fun that comes with a side/tumbling collision and increased risk of not hitting a car.

[1] https://peterhancock.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/201...
by rbren | 2025-05-01 20:04:43+00:00
When we first started OpenHands (fka OpenDevin) [1], AI-generated PRs would get opened with OpenHands as the PR creator/owner. This created two serious problems:

* First, the person who triggered the AI could approve and merge the PR. No second set of human eyes needed. Essentially bypassed the code review process

* Second, the PR had no clear owner. Many of them would just languish with no one advocating for them to get merged. Worse, if one did get merged and caused problems, there was no one you could hold responsible.

We quickly switched strategies--every PR is owned by a human being. You can still see which _commits_ were done by OpenHands, but your face is on the PR, so you're responsible for it.

[1] https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands
by dns_snek | 2025-05-01 20:05:15+00:00
Yes, internal emails and other documents demonstrate that they carefully weighed every single decision (fee rate, restrictions on verbiage, style, placement, and other policies) with the express purpose of ensuring that IAP competition wouldn't be economically viable while trying to appear to be in compliance.

> To summarize, this Court’s orders required that Apple not impose restrictions in its iOS marketplace which would prohibit consumer access to and awareness of competitive alternatives to IAP. The Injunction specifically enjoined Apple’s anti-steering provisions which at the time prohibited developers from raising that consumer awareness and access. In response, Apple intentionally devised a compliance scheme to prevent developers from deploying competitive alternatives to IAP. Apple’s discounted commission rate, on its own, forecloses a developer’s use of link-out purchases. Adding to that, Apple’s various design restrictions and purchase-flow friction arbitrarily decrease the attractiveness of competitive alternatives (if they were utilized) and increase breakage in a purchase flow.

> Apple’s conduct violates the Injunction. The non-compliance was far from “technical or de minimis.” Apple’s lack of adequate justification, knowledge of the economic non-viability of its compliance program, motive to protect its illegal revenue stream and institute a new de facto anticompetitive structure, and then create a reverse-engineered justification to proffer to the Court cannot, in any universe, real or virtual, be viewed as product of good faith or a reasonable interpretation of the Court’s orders.
by k101 | 2025-05-01 20:05:25+00:00
Open source maintainers have to eat too.

Big companies often take open code, build closed products, and profit — leaving maintainers to fund and support the project alone. The Redis situation is just one example.

We propose a fair model: if you fork the code, close the source, and make serious money from it, part of those profits should go back into the original project.

This only kicks in when value is extracted privately — unlike BSL or Fair License, which block usage entirely. Our goal isn’t to restrict, but to sustain.

Let’s keep open source open, but also fair.
by godelski | 2025-05-01 20:05:28+00:00
People question why I use vim and live in the terminal. Well... because everything opens up instantly, and I can run email, spotify, my editor, debugger, pdf reader, file browser (with image previewing), and everything I need while using less than a gig of ram and barely any CPU usage. Not only that, but I get to make the things work in the way I want them to, not have to constantly hunt down random menus. If I'm ever confused I just press ? and 99% of the time find the answer faster than it takes to reach for the mouse. Even a shitty TUI usually is faster and easier to use than many GUIs. Yes, there are times GUIs are better. I don't want a TUI Gimp, but for a lot of stuff, I don't need the bloat.

It's because I don't like the Chinese torture you're referring to. We're programmers, we don't have to live that way.
by Agingcoder | 2025-05-01 20:05:31+00:00
‘English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition.´

The author has no clue - try French spelling ( there are no spelling bee competitions but grammar+ spelling ones). As a native speaker of multiple languages, I’m a bit surprised at the confidence with which the author writes things which are either wrong or obvious ( and don’t make English exceptional in any way ).

What is really odd is that the author is a professor of linguistics - maybe I’m missing something here?
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-01 20:05:56+00:00
Why do you think they don't do root cause investigations?

I've personally read through the root cause reports for most of the notable AV accidents. They're not always quite as intensive as aerospace, but I'd be hard pressed to describe any of them as wacky statistical arguments.

Obviously most of those reports aren't public, but I'm assuming you also have industry access.
by Lammy | 2025-05-01 20:06:23+00:00
> Tens of thousands of Americas are killed every year in car crashes.

CDC “Underlying Cause of Death” dataset sez https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html https://i.imgur.com/4PB0xyC.jpeg

- “Person injured in unspecified motor-vehicle accident, traffic” is the 50th leading cause of death at 0.4% of deaths.

- “Person injured in collision between other specified motor vehicles (traffic)” is the 108th leading cause of death at 0.2% of deaths.
by tim333 | 2025-05-01 20:06:44+00:00
As a general point I'm not American and am interested in tech and startups and science and the like. Any forum if you don't moderate it tends to turn from that to US politics - Trump this - dems that and I think people try to keep that off HN. You can always discuss that stuff at a load of other places, probably 90% of the web these days.

Your links feature Trump, Trump, Trump and "Democrats are basically controlled opposition..."

HN isn't the place really.
by reneherse | 2025-05-01 20:06:56+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-01 20:07:29+00:00
They mean go into neutral and lightly brake. In a 2WD car, the braking force applies more strongly to the non-powered wheels. Since those were traditionally the back wheels, this meant when going down a hill the front wheels would have more traction. Those are also your steering wheels, which means them locking up is bad. Again, this is the sort of advice that is germane in highly restricted environments which become folk knowledge and later mis applied by humans in ways that reduce safety.

(You also only get into this scenario when your stopping distance is shorter than your reaction time and perception length. Something automated drivers can manage better than humans.)
by pessimizer | 2025-05-01 20:07:56+00:00
The best place to help you cope with continuing an addiction, but not the best place to get rid of an addiction.

If you want to get rid of an addiction, stay away from addicts and everything they produce. Stay away from their artistic creations, stay away from their complicated explanations of the world, and stay away from their gossip. Also, please don't study to become any kind of "drug counselor," get regular person jobs and normal hobbies. You're dying of romance, and you need to figure out how to love the world as it is.
by int_19h | 2025-05-01 20:08:11+00:00
You'd think so, but no, there are many people in US who would immediately cry "communism".

Anyway, in this particular case, it wasn't just that one turn of phrase, although I found it especially amusing. I had it write a detailed plan of what it'd do if it were in charge of the One World Government (democratically elected and all), and it was very clear from it that the model is very much aligned with left-wing politics. Economics, climate, social issues etc - it was pretty much across the board.

FWIW I'm far left myself, so it's not like I'm complaining. I just think it's very funny that the AI that Musk himself repeatedly claims to be trained to be unbiased and non-woke, ends up being very left politically. I'm sorely tempted to say that it's because the reality has a liberal bias, but I'll let other people repeating the experiment to make the inference on their own. ~
by sophacles | 2025-05-01 20:08:11+00:00
Does Microsoft do this in 2025?

Like seriously - I haven't heard of them doing it in quite a long time. I know they were atrocious in the 90s and 00s, I'm not disputing that at all. Are there any examples of them continuing this behavior in the last decade though?

Further, a huge percentage of the people making those decisions back then are no longer with the company, different people are in charge, etc. The industry has changed it's relationship with open source - company board rooms aren't scared of the consequences of loading open source onto a server, the legality and liabilities have been hashed out, and MS isn't really even capable of pulling those fear levers anymore. MS itself has repositioned in the industry - their dreams of total computing dominance have been shattered: there's no chance of a windows derivative owning the server market any more, there's no money in browsers or consumer OSes (heck even MS's domination in gaming is showing cracks due the the efforts of valve). Point being - would it even make strategic sense for them to try to EEE anything anymore?

Note: I have almost no ties to MS. I haven't used an MS os or desktop software since before covid (in any capacity, even moving the mouse on a computer running windows). I don't use any of their SaaS products personally or professionally. There are integrations between the products I help build and azure, however those are not a major source of revenue for my employer and I do very little work that even touches that stuff. Point being - I'm pretty non-MS in my life and don't have any sort of loyalty or incentive to defend them. I do abhor their EEE actions back in the 90s and 00s when they were doing them, and those still make me angry... but that's not a reason to assume that different people at a company are going to act the same as the old-school ones.
by moogleii | 2025-05-01 20:08:18+00:00
Fairly misleading wording with such lines like "Most of the funding for all of the major browsers is going away"... it makes it sound like it goes directly towards the individual browser budgets. That might be true of Mozilla since they don't make that many products tbh, but with Apple and Microsoft, there's no evidence Google's payments don't just go straight into a general fund.