MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skissane | 2025-05-29 11:12:49+00:00
> Falkland Islands were also hit with a tariff that had little to do with the reality of a trade imbalance caused by anything other than they don't buy stuff.

That they don’t buy stuff is only half the story. The other half is they export a lot of primary produce - to the US, primarily frozen fish. The US imports a lot of food so they are interested in Falklands fish. US exports are much higher up the value chain, and Falklands having such a small population has rather limited demand for those high value exports-hence the inevitable trade imbalance.

Which isn’t saying US tariffs on Falklands is good policy-I think it is stupid.

Compare a country like Australia-like Falklands, Australia exports a lot of stuff the US wants to buy. Unlike Falklands, Australia has a decent sized relatively well-off population, who buy a lot of stuff from the US-as a result, the US actually has a trade surplus with Australia. Now, of course, Australia is on a completely different scale from the Falklands: but my point is, if Falklands had a ratio of primary production to population closer to Australia’s, the US would quite possibly have a trade surplus with it too, albeit obviously a smaller one-Australia has around 7800 as many people as Falklands, but only 750 times the primary exports - meaning on a per capita basis, Falklands has around 10 times the primary exports of Australia.
by notpushkin | 2025-05-29 11:13:33+00:00
> I can only speculate, but I suspect Synadia's existential crisis is self-inflicted. If you look at their product offering, there's simply little reason for any company to pay for a support contract; they made NATS incredibly easy to self-host, and what you get (support and a nice dashboard UI) doesn't stand out as particularly valuable.

This is just a really sad incentive in place nowadays. If you make something that’s easy to self-host, and open source it, you might end up with a popular project that’s just not financially sustainable. So you see people either overengineering their architecture to the point it’s painful to host, reaching out for a more restrictive licensing, or both (looking at you, Sentry... not judging though).

Of course, there’s the open core model as well. There are also mischiefs that pretend their product is open core and enable some features behind a license key, but everything is open source in the repo. (A YC startup, nonetheless! Not calling names because I don’t want to jinx it, but if it was intentional – you have my deepest respect. And I promise I’ll pay you plenty, once I have some money to sustain myself.)

So... there might be a spirit of open source somewhere in these “commercial open source startups”, but it’s usually in those that don’t play pretend open source. And in there, money still comes first, of course.
by boutell | 2025-05-29 11:13:41+00:00
Point of information: I believe this project uses Tauri, which actually does use web technology and even JavaScript for rendering, it just does it with the native web renderer of the platform so you're not dragging around a superfluous extra copy of Chrome in RAM for each and every individual app:

"Write your frontend in JavaScript, application logic in Rust, and integrate deep into the system with Swift and Kotlin."

"Bring your existing web stack to Tauri or start that new dream project. Tauri supports any frontend framework so you don’t need to change your stack."

"By using the OS’s native web renderer, the size of a Tauri app can be little as 600KB."

So you write your frontend with familiar web technology and your backend in Rust, although it's all running in one executable.

I am curious if it would be all that much worse if your backend was also JavaScript, let's say in Node.js, but it certainly depends on what that back end is doing.
by bhouston | 2025-05-29 11:14:23+00:00
Maybe Elon isn’t Stark or Scott and the world is more complex than simple analogies.

Elon is a great promoter and does have visionary ideas and has often been able to execute them when he is paying attention.

He is also running a harem to get +100 or more children, seems racist for many reasons, over promises (but this comes with being a promoter), and has biased X/twitter to favour whatever ideas he currently likes.
by ricardobayes | 2025-05-29 11:15:15+00:00
It's not that car companies are unable, but rather, margins on new cars are pretty thin so they are trying to save every last penny.

The key ingredient is indeed data, and also, depending on the stack, hardware. If "true" level 5 self-driving is only possible with LIDAR and up-to-date HD maps, then it won't happen for some time. I foresee that unbounded "full" self-driving will either never happen or with severe boundary conditions only.
by bouke | 2025-05-29 11:15:28+00:00
Not GP, but can confirm on my M3 Max using the hello world sample:

$ time dotnet run hello-world.cs > /dev/null real 0m1.161s user 0m0.849s sys 0m0.122s $ time dotnet run hello-world.cs > /dev/null real 0m0.465s user 0m0.401s sys 0m0.065s
Show HN: Blurry – Host, share, and embed Gaussian Splatting models
by mackopes | 2025-05-29 11:15:29+00:00
Hey HN,

I noticed that there is a few tools to create and edit 3D Gaussian Splatting[1] models, but not so many tools for robust hosting, sharing, and presentation of these models, so I built Blurry!

Unlike other platforms, I’m specifically focusing on the best 3DGS in-browser viewer experience you can seamlessly embed on websites or Notion docs, with more places coming soon!

Some of the potential use cases are professional training, product and rental space marketing, and construction business. But at this stage with Blurry, I’m specifically targeting people/businesses that already use 3D scanning to a certain degree but are lacking an easy-to-use and performant hosting platform for their 3DGS models.

I’m shipping new features and improvements very quickly. Two big things on the current roadmap are first-person camera controls (especially for indoor splats), and a support for really large models (possibly done by streaming of the model as you move around).

Would love your thoughts and feedback pls!

[1] For those who don’t know, 3D Gaussian Splatting is a fairly new method to reconstruct a 3D model from real pictures and videos (https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/).
by worthless-trash | 2025-05-29 11:15:48+00:00
This is not what is generally expected at package removal, at least from my understanding.

Where do you draw the line at removal, configuration files, user created documents, config files on networked home directories.

I dont think you are being unreasonable, maybe we need better clean up depending on what the user needs..

It would mean tracking the creator of filws and tagging them appropriately, using this list during uninstall.
by hunglee2 | 2025-05-29 11:16:29+00:00
the impulse of successive US governments is 'to hurt China', which manifest in policies which ostensibly appear to do this, but are more likely to the hurt the US. Chip sanctions might be a good example - banning GPU to slow down China innovation rate, served only to accelerate said innovation rate. DeepSeek wouldn't have happened without the constraints on chips. There is really nothing we can do, there is no getting off this train
by K0balt | 2025-05-29 11:17:51+00:00
Unfortunately, people that understand the responsibility aspect of engineering are few and far between. Hack together whatever you want, and Have fun doing it… but if your actions are going to create millions or billions of objects that millions or billions of people are going to somehow interact with or be exposed to the effect of on a daily basis, you have a deep and fundamental responsibility to make sure that those interactions are at the very least completely and utterly benign. This applies to software as well as hardware.

Introducing even a tiny spark of misery into the world that will be experienced millions or billions of times makes you a world class asshole that has actively contributed to making the world a shittier place in a significant way. It’s like you just dumped a c130 load of gum wrappers over a city from high altitude.
by kklisura | 2025-05-29 11:19:20+00:00
> For years, Elon Musk has been promising that Teslas will operate completely autonomously in “Full Self Driving” (FSD) mode. And when I say years, I mean years...

> Musk was sued by a group of shareholders who claimed that the Tesla boss had defrauded them with his lofty claims about the capabilities of Tesla’s advanced driver assistance tech, including Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. [1]

> After hearing the case, U.S. district Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin claimed that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that the Tesla boss had acted with “deliberate recklessness,” .... That’s because Musk’s lawyers didn’t decide to argue that Tesla’s claims about its self-driving abilities were perfectly accurate. Instead, the legal team representing Musk basically said that nobody would realistically believe what Musk was banging on about... [1]

> In a mind-numbing statement, Musk’s lawyers argue that his claims about Tesla Autopilot safety were “vague statements of corporate optimism are not objectively verifiable” [2]

> The lawyers even argued, successfully, that “no reasonable investor would rely” on many of the alleged misleading statements because they are “mere puffing” [2]

Never trust Elon's statements.

[1] https://qz.com/tesla-robotaxi-lawsuit-elon-musk-lawyers-clai...

[2] https://electrek.co/2024/10/02/elon-musk-celebrates-winning-...
Google will delete OAuth clients falsely flagged as unused
by panstromek | 2025-05-29 11:21:17+00:00
Any Google Sign In user here bumped into this? Google sent out an email with this message yesterday:

The following OAuth clients that you manage have been inactive for at least five months. They will be deleted unless you take action:

...list of client ids...

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Now, all of those client ids are used in production, so this seems like a false positive. There seems to be no way to prevent this except "using them" but we already use them so it seems like we're out of luck? But we are not the only one, I've found some similar posts on reddit.

I couldn't find a way to report this either, Google Cloud support is a maze and I either don't have some permissions for it or it redirects me to some support page or AI chatbot.
by rsfern | 2025-05-29 11:21:59+00:00
This is sort of a misguided take IMO - as if LiDAR and other sensor streams are somehow not large scale data while video is

The bitter lesson isn’t fundamentally even about data. the key ingredient is computation (which does scale with data in modern deep learning). There’s even a whole theme on search outperforming learning - until learning methods changed to leverage computation!

I think in a lot of applications, richer data yields better scaling performance. So the bet for self driving is that the complexity of multiple sensor fusion gives a much better constant factor or exponent in the power law scaling of performance with data and compute
by diggan | 2025-05-29 11:23:49+00:00
> Does this have any actual grounding in reality

Depends on your use case I suppose. For things I want to ensure I can reference forever (theoretical forever), then using location for that reference feels less than ideal, I cannot even count the number of dead bookmarks on both hands and feet, so "link rot" is a real issue.

If those bookmarks instead referenced the actual content (via content-addressing for example), rather than the location, then those would still work today.

But again, not everyone cares about things sticking around, not all use cases require the reference to continue being alive, and so on, so if it's applicable to you or not is something only you can decide.
by kragen | 2025-05-29 11:23:49+00:00
Because audio runs at such low sample rates, it's not exorbitant by current standards. Suppose you have an 8×16 array of speakers behind your screen, each running at 96ksps. That's only 12.3 million samples per second to generate, on the order of 200 million multiply-accumulates per second for even the most extreme scenarios. Lattice's iCE40UP5K FPGA https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/3215488.pdf#page=10 contains 8 "sysDSP" blocks which can do two 8-bit multiply-accumulates per clock cycle at 50MHz even when pipelining is disabled, so 800 million per second. It's 2.1 by 2.5 mm and costs US$5 at Digi-Key. I'm not familiar with AVX, but I believe your four-core 2GHz AVX512 CPU can do 256 8-bit multiply-accumulates per cycle, five hundred thousand million per second, so we're talking about an exorbitant amount of computation that's 0.04% of your CPU.
by Ukv | 2025-05-29 11:23:51+00:00
> Yes, if you ask the same question with a fixed (finite) memory restriction on everything, the answer is uninteresting. To me, this is... uninteresting. It tells you nothing about the underlying logical structure of your problem, which is what mathematicians are really trying to get at!

> (first and foremost Turing machines are a tool for analysing problems mathematically, not a model of your laptop)

I think what makes Animats's distinction worth stressing is that a lot of people miss this and fall into the trap of making false/misleading claims about the impact of the halting problem on actual computers/software.

For instance, claiming that the halting problem proves there are problems humans can solve that computers fundamentally can't, giving "the halting problem makes this impossible" as reason against adding a halt/loop detector to a chip emulator, making all sorts of weird claims about AI[0][1], or arguably even this author's claim that a halt detector would make bcrypt cracking trivial.

[0]: https://mindmatters.ai/2025/02/agi-the-halting-problem-and-t...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16890
by int_19h | 2025-05-29 11:24:13+00:00
If you think this all is "unimaginable technological progress", what's your take on all the things that happened in the 25 year before that - you know, when we actually got personal computers to begin with - or going back even further?

If you only look at a relatively short slice by itself, you just see the change. You need to look back at history to compare the relative pace of it. And when you do, it's hard not to get the impression that things have slowed down substantially.
by krapp | 2025-05-29 11:24:30+00:00
I think it's more accurate to say other people have been able to execute on his ideas (which aren't even entirely his) when he isn't allowed to interfere.

Cybertruck and X are what you get when Elon Musk has his limiters off. SpaceX and Tesla are what you get when a competent team knows how to manage him and his ego.
by smartbit | 2025-05-29 11:25:33+00:00
Nitrous gas inactivates the cobalamin form of vitamin B₁₂ by oxidation. [0]

Vitamin B₁₂ deficiency …… at levels moderately lower than normal, a range of symptoms such as feeling tired, weak, lightheadedness, headaches, dizziness, rapid breathing, rapid heartbeat, cold hands and feet, low-grade fevers, tremor, cold intolerance, easy bruising and bleeding, pale skin, low blood pressure, sore tongue, upset stomach, loss of appetite, weight loss, constipation, diarrhea, severe joint pain, feeling abnormal sensations including numbness or tingling (pins and needles) to the fingers and toes, and tinnitus, may be experienced.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide#Safety

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12_deficiency#Signs,_...
by K0balt | 2025-05-29 11:27:16+00:00
When you make something that will be mass produced 80 million times, you have a fundamental duty as an engineer to absolutely minimize the amount of negative externalities that will be experienced by people that come into contact with the surface that you have inflicted upon the world.

“Real” engineers understand this and that is why they are often seemingly irrational about their selective attention to detail.

Hacks and noobs are just unintentionally dumping plane loads of gum wrappers over our cities, nominally increasing human misery by tiny amounts without even realizing it… but in a population of billions, and more transistors than grains of sand on the planet, the overall effect is cumulative and significant.

That’s why people that understand their civic responsibility to do their job to the best of their ability look upon hacks and noobs with concern or sometimes active hostility.
by rubit_xxx17 | 2025-05-29 11:28:44+00:00
This fundraiser is important to many at HN, and I think it would be good to consider having some new category of HN like “pinned” for important things that shouldn’t fall off quickly and allow users to suggest a moderator “pin” a post. Similarly pinned things would have “unpin” and a sufficient number of unpins would signal to moderator to unpin it. I’m worried that not everyone will see this because of the normal cycle of posts. You could argue that the current way works well for most things, but pinning is an important part of most forums.
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-29 11:29:52+00:00
I had a Tesla 2018-2022, and switched to a competing EV brand at that point. The fact that Tesla has removed sensors since then while competitors have added says a lot.

My car doesn't even have LIDAR but it has 5 radar sensors (corners & forward) so it can do all sorts of neat stuff. For example, it has actual working adjacent lane blindspot detection, which Tesla never dialed in. It also can warn you about oncoming cars at intersections or when backing out of parking spots. It even flashes lights on the doors if you try to open a door when a car is coming in the adjacent lane.

None of that is full self driving but it leaves me wondering what Tesla can ever accomplish with cameras-only.
by cbeach | 2025-05-29 11:30:52+00:00
To save your time, this is another article that focusses on the author's personal (and political) affectations with Elon Musk, as opposed to being a substantive technical review of FSD.

FTA:

> we’ve turned over large portions of America to insanely rich people who have no idea what they’re doing

> It’s about oligarchy

> What happened? Elon Musk was stupid. That’s what happened.

> the stock market pretend that Musk hasn’t failed

Anyone who's seen recent FSD videos on YouTube will understand the incredible progress that has been made, and how FSD is a real-world solution whereas Waymo (geo fences, "safety drivers" etc) isn't comparable
by ivape | 2025-05-29 11:31:51+00:00
"Yup. Just because someone's a Nobel Laureate"

It's also worth pointing out that using technology is not the same as the cohort of people that spend their whole lives building and working with technology and dreaming about where the technology can go.

"It is reasonable to suppose that AI’s biggest impact will come from automating some tasks and making some workers in some occupations more productive."

This person needs the Ghost of AI present and future to come show him a bit more of this tech first-hand (try out Google Flow and try to make a statement like the one above, you won't be able to).

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And oddly, this was just recommended to me on Youtube:

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) | TED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4YRO7G0wE
by bhouston | 2025-05-29 11:32:08+00:00
Yeah other people have executed but this actually true of anyone who starts companies and employs tons of people. He isn’t a sole practitioner in a lab.

Also the ideas are not completely his mostly because this isn’t novel basic research. This is applied engineering and thus one needs to grab onto ideas who are ready for implementation at scale. This means they are well known ideas.

I don’t disagree that Elon messes things a lot, especially recently. DOGE cuts are being undone via court ruling nearly as fast as he did them.
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-29 11:32:10+00:00
Right this is why we periodically see Tesla's in FSD go absolutely bezerk in ways more sensor-laden competitors do not appear to.

https://electrek.co/2025/05/23/tesla-full-self-driving-veers...

This was literally 2 months ago, so miss me with the "you're wrong, the latest FSD solved it all this time bro, for real, trust me (the 100th time I've heard this)".
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-29 11:33:34+00:00
Isn't most business success about convincing people to buy expensive tulips while you (legally) walk away with the money and leave them holding the bags, then rinse and repeat? Seems like he'd be the right person for the job.

And then you wonder why so many young people flirt with communism or want to see the capitalist system burn to the ground. What's the point of ethics and hard work if those who just lie their way into much better opportunities will out-earn you by orders of magnitude? Granted, it's a bit more complicated than that, often those people also have connections, but the feeling still stands.

Not sure if meritocracy has been on a decline, or that we're now just more aware of it due to the internet.
by stevekemp | 2025-05-29 11:34:55+00:00
Indeed running a vintage, closed-source, binary under an emulator it's hard to see what it is trying to do, short of decompiling it, and understanding it. Then I can use that knowledge to improve the emulation until it successfully runs.

I suggested in my initial comment I'd had essentially zero success in using LLMs for these kind of tasks, and your initial reply was "I've done it, just give all the information in the prompt", and I guess here we are! LLMs clearly work for some people, and some tasks, but for these kind of issues I'd say we're not ready and my attempts just waste my time, and give me a poor impression of the state of the art.

Even "Looking at this project which areas of the CP/M 2.2 BIOS or BDOS implementations look sucpicious?", "Identify bugs in the current codebase?", "Improve test-coverage to 99% of the BIOS functionality" - prompts like these feel like they should cut the job in half, because they don't relate to running specific binaries also do nothing useful. Asking for test-coverage is an exercise in hallucination, and asking for omissions against the well-known CP/M "spec" results in noise. It's all rather disheartening.
by cb321 | 2025-05-29 11:35:50+00:00
It is underappreciated that every single command-line option parser/toolkit is its own full configuration language with individual tools being "programs/configs" in that language. The lexical similarity of the zillion dialects (mostly due to Unix shells doing the word splitting for the eventual argv to be interpreted) masks what is really a dizzying diversity that for whatever reasons people think is much more uniform than it really is.

For example, I've done experiments running every single program in /usr/bin with --help and -h. The number of failures to get any useful help are a huge percentage. (The normalization of said percentage naturally is idiosyncratic to the exact system I ran that on).

Anyway, adding types to a complex one like ffmpeg may help more people realize this as well as offering practical benefits. So, great job!
by brk | 2025-05-29 11:37:27+00:00
Almost every vehicle has multiple cameras in it today, plus cellular connectivity. Tesla doesn't have a major advantage here. Plus, the data isn't immediately valuable on its own, it needs to be labelled and fed back into the training. This is all very far from a data flywheel analogy.

Musk equates machine vision to human vision, but that is an over simplification, and the best MV algorithms and methods are still miles away from human capabilities. FSD is very reliant on depth perception, which is much easier to solve with sensors other than stereo vision.

I also don't get your German car company statement, Mercedes has been a technology leader in the automotive space across a number of fronts for quite a while.