MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by acquisitionsilk | 2025-05-29 19:30:31+00:00
It is quite heartening to see so many people care about "good code". I fear it will make no difference.

The problem is that the software world got eaten up by the business world many years ago. I'm not sure at what point exactly, or if the writing was already on the wall when Bill Gates' wrote his open letter to hobbyists in 1976.

The question is whether shareholders and managers will accept less good code. I don't see how it would be logical to expect anything else, as long as profit lines go up why would they care.

Short of some sort of cultural pushback from developers or users, we're cooked, as the youth say.
by comex | 2025-05-29 19:30:33+00:00
More to the point, there’s a difference between the two statues. One of the points raised by the court in the current case is that IEEPA does not have that kind of “whenever the President shall find” language:

> That may be true of the NEA, whose Court Nos. 25-00066 & 25-00077 Page 41 operation requires only that the President “specifically declare[] a national emergency.” 50 U.S.C. § 1621(b); see also Yoshida II, 526 F.2d at 581 n.32. 13 But IEEPA requires more than just the fact of a presidential finding or declaration: “The authorities granted to the President by section 1702 of this title may only be exercised to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat with respect to which a national emergency has been declared for purposes of this chapter and may not be exercised for any other purpose.” 50 U.S.C. § 1701(b) (emphasis added). This language, importantly, does not commit the question of whether IEEPA authority “deal[s] with an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the President’s judgment. It does not grant IEEPA authority to the President simply when he “finds” or “determines” that an unusual and extraordinary threat exists.
by H1Supreme | 2025-05-29 19:30:35+00:00
Although this article references the 90's, it reminded me of the truly vibrant web design scene of the early 2000's. I was a graphic design (print work back then) student / early in my career at the time. Sites like k10k, Newstoday, Praystation, and many others jump-started my interest in writing software by way of web design. Flash especially.

There was a network of sites (like those mentioned above), that had feeds of interesting work done on the web. Much of it was purely an exercise in creativity. The single 1024x768 resolution target let folks go wild without the constraints of responsiveness that we see today.

While I realize that the web had to evolve, I have a lot of nostalgia for web design from those days. The "design" part of it was really centered around artistic expression, and still had a lot of influence from graphic design.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-29 19:31:01+00:00
> Children should blame their parents, half that didn’t vote for it should move.

Not everyone who voted is so lucky as you and I, who can have a company drop a box at our place, which I assume would be a single family or detached home (so there is a place to have the box dropped), plus the time off work to fill it up while also moving other generations of family with us to this new location hundreds of miles away that allows us to continue working with little to no down time or loss of income all while continuing on with life as though we didn't just uproot an entire family with the added bonus of their kids being ripped away from stability, friends, sport teams or garage band-mates.
by w10-1 | 2025-05-29 19:31:10+00:00
Sorry, I noticed the XPC code is the generic to add numbers. Unused?

And the application is not sandboxed?[1]

The trick with an app like this is the risk of launching an external process, or building the app to include the binaries, thus avoiding some security risk (and possibly using XPC for inter-op updates).

Would you like to summarize how you identified and addressed the risks, and your approach for building/bundling/deploying the app?

[1] https://github.com/rsyncOSX/RsyncUI/blob/main/RsyncUI/RsyncU...
by D_R_Farrell | 2025-05-29 19:31:26+00:00
You've got us here all day haha

If you use our Desktop Product – https://onlook.com/download - you can import your projects there and use a lot more features like Layers, Components, Pages and more.

We don't have the ability for you to import existing repos for this beta product just yet, but it's something we'll be enabling in the coming weeks for sure.
by naet | 2025-05-29 19:32:05+00:00
My website is pretty because I made it. Or at least it is to my tastes, I'm sure someone else would tell me otherwise.

The author of this article's site is taylor.town, not the site the article was posted on. For what it's worth taylor town looks nice enough to me. Actually a lot nicer than the goodinternetmagazine site hosting this article...
by ray_v | 2025-05-29 19:33:09+00:00
Kinda reminded me of another website, corrupt.af. It looks like the site went into 301 redirect mode sometime after Nov 2020 however (https://web.archive.org/web/20201105181227/https://corrupt.a...)

Maybe funding/motivation dried up after the 2020 election, but it really does seem like we need another site to catalog all admin's polices/initiatives/EOs that have been backtracked, walked back, or blocked by judicial oversight over the years
by slavik81 | 2025-05-29 19:33:35+00:00
Get a block of styrofoam, slice it in two, and carve out a hole between the blocks exactly the size and shape of your egg. Tape the blocks together with the egg in the centre.

It is incredibly effective to have a solid surface in contact with the whole shell. And, the outer styrofoam will absorb the worst of the landing. It's also very light, so it minimizes the energy that must be dissipated.

Lesson learned from my failed attempt at the egg drop in high school. The guy with the styrofoam absolutely destroyed everyone at that challenge.
by vunderba | 2025-05-29 19:33:51+00:00
I'm debating whether to add the FLUX Kontext model to my GenAI image comparison site. The Max variant of the model definitely scores higher in prompt adherence nearly doubling Flux 1.dev score but still falling short of OpenAI's gpt-image-1 which (visual fidelity aside) is sitting at the top of the leaderboard.

I liked keeping Flux 1.D around just to have a nice baseline for local GenAI capabilities.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net

Incidentally, we did add the newest release of Hunyuan's Image 2.0 model but as expected of a real-time model it scores rather poorly.

EDIT: In fairness to Black Forest Labs this model definitely seems to be more focused on editing capabilities to refine and iterate on existing images rather than on strict text-to-image creation.
by frank_nitti | 2025-05-29 19:34:28+00:00
They do this in Mexico as well. Always just seems like an honor system thing unless they are checking people at the door to the hotel and/or room each time they enter, which only seems realistic in very small hotels who have no e.g. restaurant open to the public.

Otherwise can’t one just rent the room as a solo guest, and just have someone come through later, as long as there isn’t an obvious group activity going on inside the room?
by atonse | 2025-05-29 19:34:39+00:00
Or it could just be a certain way of framing things?

But for the benefit of this debate I'll state my bias. Almost all my travel is as a group.

But in most other facets of life, we save by buying more, right? (buying wholesale, buying bulk, etc).

So I've actually had the other feeling... if I'm buying 4 tickets at once, can I get a bit of a volume discount? And I'm not sure that's what the airlines are doing here (I don't ascribe any altruism, it's probably more that families were getting cold feet with increasing prices), but I like that I get some kind of cheaper rate when I'm buying 4x of something, just like in just about every other purchase in life.
by mullingitover | 2025-05-29 19:34:50+00:00
It's clear that that proper practice for a wealthy person would be to immediately jettison the wealth. Matt 19:21 NIV: "Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

So if you're wealthy and poor people exist, you're in a state of sin. Christianity is an apocalyptic religion, you're to assume the world could end tomorrow so your instructions aren't to simply not want the money, it's to get rid of it and donate it all to charity immediately.
by fidotron | 2025-05-29 19:36:12+00:00
Someone somewhere will have a French copy of the tech specs, because Bouygues paid to have the whole lot translated before any work could commence.

One oddity of the Japanese setup was NTT essentially ran a cloud, of a huge pile of HP-UX servers with Oracle/JVM etc. somewhere in Yokohama which was running all the backend. When I said NTT went to big efforts to get companies on board this is what I mean: they were incredibly proactive about getting integrations into this happening, to the point of entirely hosting it on site if necessary and essentially doing the work themselves for anyone they thought valuable enough. I don't believe any version outside Japan ever replicated this, and it was the magic ingredient along with persistent data connections.

The closest thing the west saw to that in practice was the Sidekick, but that never got the level of third party support.

It's fairly widely understood that i-mode used CHTML but I'm unfamiliar with the lower levels of the networking stack. App wise there was Java but not normal J2ME. All I can remember that was unique was their scratchpad memory area (which was just way too big), and billing APIs!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoJa
by const_cast | 2025-05-29 19:36:42+00:00
> Argument about bash being always there breaks down quickly. Even if you limit yourself to bash+awk+grep, they dont work consistently across different bash flavors or across platforms

IMO this is why Perl was invented and you should just use Perl. Bash isn't portable and isn't very safe either. If you're only going to use a couple of commands, there's really no reason to use bash. The usecase, in my head, for bash is using a variety of unix utils. But then those utils aren't portable. Perl is really great here because it's available on pretty much every computer on Earth and is consistent.
by replwoacause | 2025-05-29 19:37:00+00:00
Whoa you weren’t kidding. Right from the first paragraph on the main page: “Humans are not destroying Earth or the climate. The widespread belief in anthropogenic warming is the result of political idealism, bad science, faulty data, social psychopathy, and greed. There is no climate emergency. The Apocalyptic climate narrative is a seriously misleading propaganda tool and a socially destructive guide for public policy.”

What a loon
by qyron | 2025-05-29 19:38:07+00:00
Seeing all the praise for Magit in these and numerous other threads, could someone please elaborate on its standout features that are missing from other editors/IDEs (VSCode+extensions or JetBrains)?

For example, in my current VSCode + GitLens setup (must admit that I have a corporate license for GitKraken, which enables full GitLens functionality). I use these features 99% of the time.

1. Convenient diff/merge with character-level diffs and visual indication of moved code.

2. A graphical commit tree with filtering, searching, numerous hovers with lots of information, and buttons to quickly jump to all sorts of diffs.

3. Interactive rebase (GUI for selecting those pick/squash/reword etc.)

4. Editing new and existing commit messages in vscode, which allows me to use better commit message formatters, LanguageTool and LLM extensions for rewriting/paraphrasing.

When I see comments like "Magit is the only thing that keeps me from leaving Emacs," I honestly wonder what they're going to miss.
by nailer | 2025-05-29 19:38:17+00:00
> Vaccines are designed to reduce likelihood of contracting disease and/or reduce the effects of disease if contracted.

You previously stated "(Vaccines being supposed to prevent Covid) was never the case." It sounds like you are claiming that vaccines prevented transmission of Covid at acceptable rates but you've provided no supporting arguments.

> Vaccines are never perfect barriers.

This is a straw man. Nobody in the conversation claimed vaccines were supposed to prevent Covid 100% of the time, just they were originally claimed to prevent people from contracting Covid and generally did not do so. I am sure you already aware of this and are projecting regarding your accusations of trolling.
by JackSlateur | 2025-05-29 19:39:05+00:00
Code is meant to power your business

Bad code leads to bad business

This makes me think of hosting departement; You know, which people who are using vmware, physical firewalls, dpi proxies and whatnot;

On the other edge, you have public cloud providers, which are using qemu, netfilter, dumb networking devices and stuff

Who got eaten by whom, nobody could have guessed ..
by pamelafox | 2025-05-29 19:39:16+00:00
I thought I'd make this blog post be language-agnostic, but agreed that a Python-specific version would be helpful.

Here's where I calculate cosine without numpy: https://github.com/pamelafox/vector-embeddings-demos/blob/ma...

And in the distance notebook, I calculate with numpy: https://github.com/pamelafox/vector-embeddings-demos/blob/ma... I didn't use the @ operator! TIL.

I forget where I originally got the Disney movie titles, but it is notably just the titles. A better ranking would be based off a movie synopsis as well. Here's where I calculated their embeddings using OpenAI: https://github.com/pamelafox/vector-embeddings-demos/blob/ma...

Maybe I can submit a poster to Pytorch that would include the Python code as well.
by const_cast | 2025-05-29 19:39:44+00:00
> Imagine cat, ls, cd, grep, mkdir, etc. would all take 500ms.

Those are all compiled C programs. If you were to run a C compiler before you ran them, they would take 500 milliseconds. But you don't, you compile them ahead of time and store the binaries on disk.

The equivalent is compiling a C# program, which you can, of course, do.
by thwarted | 2025-05-29 19:39:59+00:00
This description of the word "diet" is overly simplistic and marketing centric. A diet is just the schedule (list) of foods consumed, as in "I have a terrible diet" or in "pandas exist on a diet of bamboo shoots and leaves". This term is overloaded in areas like the weight-loss industry to refer to voluntary limited intake, but it's still a diet as in an enumerated schedule of specific foods. "Going on a diet" is often used in the context of specific health goals as distinct from the normal "diet".

There's an episode of Mad Men where they are coming up with pitches for weight loss products and losing weight is referred to as "reducing", a term from before the word "diet" was used as you've described.
by conartist6 | 2025-05-29 19:40:07+00:00
For me the headline was pretty straightforward: he doesn't have the authority, according to your analysis there was never any good-faith reason to believe that he did have the authority to do what he said he could do.

The administration's signature move is acting in bad faith then lashing out, so I really doubt they plan to change tactics now.

Most of us are just watching to see if there still exists a rule of law at all.
by mattmanser | 2025-05-29 19:40:12+00:00
When I said "bad old days" I mean a previous iteration, not the state today. I'm talking about the early days of npm.

In the early days of npm a lot of install examples would do global installs, you'd often end up with a confusing mess in npm.

Nowadays people are much better at only doing project level installs and even correctly telling you whether to have it as a dev dependency or not.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-29 19:40:34+00:00
Yeah I used to think that until I had a family. In reality it's more like:

1. Taxes are more punishing because you're spending half your disposable income on children, and most of it probably comes from one earner. You can say "don't have children if you can't afford it" all you like, but you wouldn't be alive if nobody had children, so it's quite selfish of anyone to be anti-children.

2. For men performance expectations are the same but now you have to somehow simultaneously be at work and also pick up your children from school at 3pm. Oh and don't forget you have to somehow cover like 80 days of school holidays a year. For women... well you can legislate that being off work for 2 years doesn't matter all you want; in reality it is a major disruption to careers.

3. Childcare is far more expensive than any increased cost I experienced for being single, with the possible exception of not being able to share rent with a partner. But once you have children... rent for a family is more than double rent for a one bed flat.

4. Yeah price me up a skiing holiday for a family of 4. Now do it for a single person (and double it if you like).

The very reason that discounted family tickets exist is that families wouldn't buy any tickets otherwise because they would be too expensive. It's the same reason student discounts exist. It's called price discrimination.

I do agree it's pretty annoying and feels unfair though. The optimum group from a price point of view is really a couple, not a family.
by AngryData | 2025-05-29 19:40:35+00:00
As the devil's advocate, who exactly enacted socialist policies outside of singular goods or for any length of time? And how often was that socialist government actually run by workers or worker collectives, rather than an authoritarian or handful of oligarchs using "socialism" as the excuse for all their arbitrary decisions?

For as much as people talk and argue about socialism both for and against, I haven't seen very much actual implementation of socialist ideas or principles in history outside of meaningless PR statements.
Gradio Agents and MCP Hackathon June 2-8
by dubrado | 2025-05-29 19:40:56+00:00
$11K in prizes. Free API credits for early signups: > $15 from Hyperbolic (1,000 spots) > $25 from Anthropic (1,000 spots) > $25 from Mistral (500 spots) > $25 from SambaNova (250 spots)

app.hyperbolic.xyz/compute?utm_source=hackernews
by FridayoLeary | 2025-05-29 19:40:59+00:00
If modern democracy was conceived from the magna carta then this was its birth. It for once and all proved that the king rules by the consent of Parliament and not the other way round. Charles II was much more hesitant to interfere, and his successors increasingly delegated political matters, paving the way to one of the most stable and free democracies in the world.

The Brit in me is also smug that "our" revolution was so much less messy then the French one.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-05-29 19:41:17+00:00
You aren't really "bumped". They are legally allowed to oversell the plane. You were never getting on the plane in the first place. They just use weasel wording language like the flight being "full" when they communicate it

I did once have an airline offer me something like $1500 USD and 50,000 bonus miles if I was willing to cancel my flight, but that was days in advance.
by Macha | 2025-05-29 19:41:17+00:00
> Dutch addresses putting the number after the street name can confuse people.

This one causes me problems _all the time_. My address is like:

12 XYZ Lane, XYZ Road, Town Name Postcode

12 XYZ Road, Town Name is also an address that exists, and is in the same vicinity as me so will get routed to the same delivery driver, but is not my address.

So often enough, when continental European companies insist on a structured address, they will then render it back out as some variation of:

XYZ Lane 12 XYZ Road Town Name Postcode

And the delivery driver just looks for the number as the start of the address, presumably because they're used to scanning past recipient names and business names, and instead delivers my package to 12 XYZ Road.
by JeremyNT | 2025-05-29 19:41:29+00:00
I don't think that this should be downvoted because it raises a really important issue.

I hate AI code assistants, not because they suck, but because they work. The writing is on the wall.

If we aren't working on our own replacements, we'll be the ones replaced by somebody else's vibe code, and we have no labor unions that could plausibly fight back against this.

So become a Vibe Coder and keep working, or take the "prudent" approach you mention - and become unemployed.
by cuuupid | 2025-05-29 19:41:34+00:00
Honestly love Replicate for always being up to date. It’s amazing that not only do we live in a time of rapid AI advancement, but that every new research grade model is immediately available via API and can be used in prod, at scale, no questions asked.

Something to be said about distributors like Replicate etc that are adding an exponent to the impact of these model releases
by al_borland | 2025-05-29 19:41:53+00:00
Cruises are especially bad for this. I’ve never gone, but I’ve looked at but after I had 3 independent people tell me to take one in the span of a few months. Most are priced assuming 2 people in the room and if you’re solo it seems like they expect you to buy 2 spots.

I’ve seen a couple where they have a few solo cabins, but the amount of effort to surface this stuff turns me off to the whole thing.

The only reason I’m still half looking is that it seems like the easiest way for a random person to set foot on Antarctica, which would be a cool thing to check off the bucket list.
by silisili | 2025-05-29 19:41:53+00:00
That sounds a lot like a subsidy, which I'm generally not a big fan of. Sure you and I benefit from it, but it doesn't seem fair to a solo traveler.

That said, I have to imagine the reasoning behind it having to do with assuming some large percentage of solo travelers are on work expense trips, so squeezing the company for a few more dimes. The article assumes as much -

> It's just another way for airlines to continue “segmenting” their customers, charging business travelers paying with a corporate card more while offering a better deal to families on the exact same flight.

A lot of companies I've worked for don't even do corporate cards, they just tell you to pay for it and submit for reimbursement.

All of that rabble out of the way, it feels like it would be impossible to identify business vs leisure customers up front, so it sounds like solo leisure travelers are caught in the crossfire.
by pamelafox | 2025-05-29 19:42:02+00:00
Thanks for sharing that too!

I do have a notebook that does a PCA reduction to plot a similarity space: https://github.com/pamelafox/vector-embeddings-demos/blob/ma...

But as I noted in another comment, I think it loses so much information as to be deceiving.

I also find this 3d visualization to be fun: https://projector.tensorflow.org/

But once again, huge loss in information.

I personally learn more by actually seeing the relative similarity ranking and scores within a dataset, versus trying to visualize all of the nodes on the same graph with a massive dimension simplification.

That 3d visualization is what originally intrigued me though, to see how else I could visualize. :)
by hinkley | 2025-05-29 19:42:27+00:00
You know Christianity was built in a time of broad scale illiteracy don’t you? The reason sermons and the Bible are so at odds with each other is that for the most part only the priesthood had read the damned thing.

Even today most Christians haven’t read the whole thing. I’m not Christian in large part because I did. And it’s almost all batshit.
by patcon | 2025-05-29 19:43:24+00:00
(Saying all this with respect for those who value privacy more than me )

Hostels are for this market, no? Share physical infra (bathroom/heating/walls) with other humans (aka strangers) and you get the same family discount. You're not obligated to pay the premium unless you want your own bathroom and own personal space like families tend to want

As in: families don't get a discount, they just amortise the cost of privacy that you also seem to specifically need/want. but many solo travellers don't care to pay for that.