MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonymousiam | 2025-05-07 16:18:36+00:00
Energy Star can be frustrating as well. My latest laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad) has an Energy Star rating. To get this, they need to do things like turn off the power to the audio pre-amp if there's no sound being played. When a sound is ready to be played, latency is undesirable, so it gets pushed to the amp before the amp has powered up. The result is some fraction of a second of missing sound, and also an annoying click through the speakers when the amp is powered down after the sound stops.

I would rather have sound without these issues, even if my computer consumes an extra 100mW at idle to keep the sound system ready.

I'm aware that most sound chipsets allow a user override that keeps the circuits on, but the this newer chipset doesn't seem to implement the feature correctly. No combination of arguments to the linux sound system, or loadable modules seems to keep the sound circuits from switching to standby.
by biker142541 | 2025-05-07 16:18:52+00:00
Genuinely funny. Had to once interface with a small team from Deloitte on a project, and pushed hard during an early meeting for them to outline the problems and scope. Just complete incompetence... I didn't make anyone cry, but definitely squirm a lot. Just asking questions about their understanding, process to close gap of understanding, and project management plans were enough to make clear to the main executive stakeholder on our end that this was going to be a trainwreck. They were fired shortly after.
by armchairhacker | 2025-05-07 16:18:55+00:00
I'll agree that most "neoliberals" already at least pretend to be accommodating to rural Southerners. The problem is there are too many people who are way too general in their criticism and mocking towards them, and the popular Democrats don't publicly call this out (another problem is that neoliberals are inauthentic, but that's a general problem I think for a more general discussion).

There are many examples of rural white discrimination, e.g. the FAA "personality tests" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43882962#43883255) and affirmative action (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520658; it benefit blacks, but didn't benefit rural Southerners despite them being underrepresented in college).

More generally, there's an issue when you point these out someone will reply saying "but also...". I understand blacks and foreigners are also discriminated against and deserve to be accommodated. You shouldn't need to argue that whites aren't being discriminated against and are very accommodated, because there will always be some cases where it's untrue, and it doesn't really hurt black anti-discrimination efforts regardless. I'd argue that constant downplaying of white discrimination hurts black anti-discrimination efforts more, because it drives undecided people who've seen it firsthand towards those who acknowledge it, who as of today tend to be bigoted themselves. That's why I feel the need to say something about it.
by vaibhavdubey97 | 2025-05-07 16:19:56+00:00
Hey! That sounds great. Happy to help in case you face any issues while adding support for vertex.ai.

We’ve added a tool which does EDA and when the model package is created, it contains a file called metadata.json which has detailed explanations for why a model was chosen, preprocessing steps and technical strengths & limitations. We’re working on adding an agent for performing feature engineering and should be out soon!
by koenvaneijk | 2025-05-07 16:20:03+00:00
i fail to understand what makes this $3B valuation justified.

i built my personal code assistant after using cursor/windsurf/aider/cline because i was frustrated with how crappy they worked for my use case. i only program in python/js/html/css and i needed something better. only took me an hour of prompting and after that tinycoder basically built itself from there on out. i still use vscode to inspect the code sometimes, but i might replace vscode ultimately too.

source code at https://github.com/koenvaneijk/tinycoder and contributions welcome obviously.
by infecto | 2025-05-07 16:20:23+00:00
You’re making my point for me. Swapping out words to create new moral equivalencies is exactly what I find unproductive. Humans are animals, and we live with competing instincts: survival, empathy, culture, appetite. In the best of times, we have the luxury to weigh those things and make personal choices. But pretending there’s a clean, universal moral framework that everyone must follow, regardless of history, biology, or circumstance, feels more like ideology than ethics. I respect your choices, just don’t expect everyone else to inhabit your frame.
by bigbuppo | 2025-05-07 16:20:25+00:00
It's weird that this sort of debate around C++ often leaves out the fact that many of the problems with C++ were known before C++ even existed. Outside of a few specific buckets, there is no reason to use C++ for any new projects, and really, there never has been. If you can't stomach Rust for some reason, and I'm one of those people, there are plenty of choices out there without all the pitfalls of C++ or C.
tailwindcss-github-markdown – GitHub Markdown styling for TailwindCSS
by rxliuli | 2025-05-07 16:20:28+00:00
I was frustrated with the default styles of @tailwindcss/typography, so I created a plugin that ports GitHub's beautiful Markdown styling to Tailwind CSS.

The plugin (`tailwindcss-github-markdown`) lets you add GitHub's Markdown rendering to your projects with minimal effort - just import it and add the `prose` class to your container, exactly like you would with the official typography plugin. It fully supports both light and dark themes via the standard `prose-invert` class.

GitHub: https://github.com/rxliuli/tailwindcss-github-markdown
by mullingitover | 2025-05-07 16:21:13+00:00
I just finished reading Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. It didn't even get to the 2008 GFC, but it covered many other bubbles.

The market almost always uses the government to inflate their bubbles by giving stock to officials and other various schemes. The answer isn't to not have a government, it's even tighter regulation (which, since that requires the existing batch of officials to make less money on speculation themselves, is difficult to pull off).
by infecto | 2025-05-07 16:21:21+00:00
I respect your intentions, but the leap you’re making, comparing animal farming to slavery or abuse of disabled people, relies on swapping out real-world complexity for clean moral hypotheticals. Humans have always lived in tension between empathy and necessity. Culture, environment, and biology shape our choices more than abstract equivalence does. If you choose to avoid harm, great. But turning that into a universal moral indictment flattens history, species difference, and the human condition. We’re animals too, and sometimes we forget how messy that is.
by james2doyle | 2025-05-07 16:21:27+00:00
Running the tool is easy. Installing, configuring, and keeping it updated? Well, those tasks have taken up many lifetimes.

Replacing prettier and eslint in my projects will typically remove about 5 dependencies. Sometimes up to 10 if you have a lot of specific plugins.

Another amazing benefit is that because Biome is a compiled binary, it can run _without npm install_ which means you can use it in your CI for linting before running any expensive build steps.

Those things save me time.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-05-07 16:21:29+00:00
Post was made based on observational/anecdotal experience of knowing several people who take the drug without having had a hard medical need.

But its not hard to find various references to this as a widespread reality:

https://www.cato.org/blog/study-finds-glp-1s-are-effectively...

https://www.wired.com/story/glp1-ozempic-wegovy-semaglutide-...

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/glp-1-o...
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-07 16:22:10+00:00
I've never had to buy a service plan for any of my PC laptops.

OTOH, every Apple owner I know has an AppleCare plan. And has had to use it. Multiple times. For nearly every device they own. And this is a sample population of over a thousand over more than a decade.

Yes, Apple service is great. I couldn't tell you what Dell Service is like, or Lenovo, or HP, because I've never had to use them. PC laptops and Android phones...just work.

And given that Androids are more popular in the parts of the world where reliability is essential, it's pretty clear that most of the world agrees that Apples are the inferior device.
by wcfields | 2025-05-07 16:22:17+00:00
> willpower

I mean, sure, but if it was just willpower for everyone then we'd all speak 10 languages, play piano, be buff as hell, be emotionally stable, and no one would be an alcoholic.

But we're squishy apes that are regulated by hormones and live busy messy lives with cars that are probably needing a tire rotation 3000 miles ago and putting it off a few more miles won't really hurt.
by bityard | 2025-05-07 16:22:28+00:00
I ride both regularly and I don't really have a problem switching between them. For me, the overall experience is so entirely different between the two, that my brain knows to treat them differently. Just like people who own riding lawn mowers don't really have difficulties driving their car afterward.

(Blipping the throttle accidentally should never cause an emergency unless other things are already going wrong: for example, if you are riding a bike whose power is way beyond your skill level or you are following someone too closely.)
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-07 16:22:44+00:00
All data on my computer is private unless I specifically make it public. Data thieves like to make a rhetorical sleight of hand where they say they're not really collecting data about you (this happens especially with the topic of "differential privacy"), but that's just gaslighting (i.e. trying to manipulate you into thinking you simply don't understand what they are doing). e.g. I'm not willing to share noisy correlations about my preferences either. That information is private, and it is information, or they wouldn't want it.
by tstrimple | 2025-05-07 16:22:47+00:00
I've largely been convinced that "good schools" are just a side effect of motivated parents migrating to an area with "good schools". It has nothing at all to do with the schools or teachers themselves, but the parents with means who make decisions based on education will likely be doing other things to encourage education as well. Achieving a critical mass of children with involved parents will make a school "good".
by martinald | 2025-05-07 16:23:00+00:00
I sort of had to chuckle at the 20k IOPS AWS instance, given even a consumer $100-200 NVMe gives ~1million+ IOPS these days. I suspect now we have PCIe 5.0 NVMes this will go up to

I always do wonder how much "arbitrary" cloud limits on things like this cause so many issues. I'm sure that async IO is very helpful anyway, but I bet on a 1million IOPS NVMe it is nowhere near as important.

We're effectively optimising critical infrastructure tech for ~2010 hardware because that's when big cloud got going and there has been so few price reductions on things since then vs the underlying hardware costs.

Obviously a consumer NVMe is not "enterprise" but my point is we are 3+ orders of magnitude off performance on cheap consumer hardware vs very expensive 'enterprise' AWS/big cloud costs.
by Tostino | 2025-05-07 16:23:01+00:00
I would absolutely use another backup utility (additionally if you want) if I were you (barman, pgbackrest, etc).

You are just wrapping pgdump, which is not a full featured backup solution. Great for a snapshot...

Use some of the existing tools and you get point-in-time recovery, easy restores to hot standbys for replication, a good failover story, backup rotations, etc.
by prmph | 2025-05-07 16:23:28+00:00
They are not going to use nukes.

I always wonder at the people who have this idea that states are going to use nukes on a whim. The taboo against the use of nukes is very strong, so strong that I believe nuclear armed nations would rather wage conventional warfare even at great cost, and consider nukes only in the extreme situation where the very survival of the state is seriously threatened (and even then I'm doubtful nukes would be used). The only other realistic situation where nukes are used is in an accidental scenario.

That is why conventional military strength is still very much important in the world now. The Europeans are finding this out a bit late.

It's also why Putin is a great actor and bluffer. Trust me, he's the last person who would think of using nukes, despite appearances to the contrary. Now, if he were to somehow use nukes on an actual populated area, I believe the western powers would NOT use nukes in retaliation, so it seems like he would have a found a way out of MAD. But, the conventional response (likely a containment rather than an attack on Russia, e.g., a no fly zone and destruction of military assets, with the threat of nuclear retaliation backing it up) would be so strong that the Russia would be effectively neutralized. If they persist in nuking, then all bets are off, WW3 begins, and civilization could end.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-05-07 16:23:34+00:00
I don't know why this is so hard for you.

If you don't want to give them your data, don't use their software. Nobody is forcing you to use their software and give them your data.

It's a simple deal. Either pay using money, or pay using your data. If you don't want to pay with either, you don't get to use their software.
by xp84 | 2025-05-07 16:23:37+00:00
> dispute resolution, customer service, etc

There's a huge assumption in your comment -- that having 100,000 employees necessarily guarantees (or even makes likely) that you will have some human to help you.

More likely, those 100,000 humans are mostly working on sales and marketing, and the few allocated to support are all incentivized to avoid you, and to send you canned answers. A reasonably decent AI would be better at customer support than most companies give, since it'll have the same rules and policies to operate with, but will most likely be able to speak and write coherently in the language I speak.
by onli | 2025-05-07 16:23:48+00:00
But you run Linux, with its myriad of software configurations. And if this thread is correct Linux support is already far along, if it runs well on something old like the X230. It is not a realistic expectation for any project to work on your hardware if you are not at least willing to report an issue, or rather: No software will run flawlessly on all hardware always, that's not realistic.

Error message, hardware configuration, done.

From my perspective that is not something you do for zed, but something you do for your distro and hardware.

And ofc, your first comment was fine either way. But the attitude of the latter is just poor.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-07 16:23:54+00:00
That is an extremely disingenuous framing of the topic. They make a product, which you can pay money for. If you prefer, they will also let you pay by sending them usage telemetry. In neither case are you being deprived of a human right or extorted in any way - it's a transaction where you receive a benefit in exchange for something you give to them.
by 93po | 2025-05-07 16:23:56+00:00
this is a really odd thing to hear when the premise of DOGE is literally accountability. there is a lot of hyperbole and misinformation around DOGE, but at its root it's elon saying "if you spend millions of dollars you have to, at minimum, write a single sentence as to why"

obligatory trump and elon suck, im not defending them. just pushing back against misinformation
by joshvm | 2025-05-07 16:23:57+00:00
I watched the video out of interest and it seems like that would only happen if you didn't use the dispenser flap. If you use tablets the only thing you miss is pre-washing. The argument is that cheap powder is just as good and it's got the same ingredients.

It sounds like a more important step (if you're plumbed into the hot line) is to run your water just before the first cycle so that the machine fills with the hottest water it can get, as not all of them will heat initially.
by Maxatar | 2025-05-07 16:24:00+00:00
That's just it. In my company there are basically three sets of developers. The very experienced ones prefer vim/emacs. The experienced ones tend to like these more established IDEs, and the younger developers absolutely hate these IDEs and find them to be slow and bloated.

I can't really comment on whether they are good or not since from my perspective I see people who are productive and unproductive using both of these tools, so to me it just looks like mostly a matter of preference. But newer developers don't seem to like these established IDEs and see them as you said: big, slow and laggy.
by skrebbel | 2025-05-07 16:24:03+00:00
Pretty close? Like 80k for your regular living expenses leaves you 180k/y in savings. That's a nice holiday house in France every few years.

I mean to really get to a mansion and multiple holiday houses and a bunch of fancy cars you need to work the job for like 15 years, but still. In NL (where I think GP is from) earning that kind of money qualifies you as "seriously rich". Even more so if the salary got inflation-adjusted since 2011.
by gambiting | 2025-05-07 16:24:36+00:00
Tbf, even cars put the brake lights on based purely on deceleration nowadays in addition to triggering when the brake pedal is pressed. It's covered by legislation in both EU and US, since BEVS and PHEVs can have very aggressive regen braking, and the legislation basically says if your rate of deceleration is above X, then lights need to be on even if the brake pedal hasn't been pressed.
by energy123 | 2025-05-07 16:25:25+00:00
Ethical issues of putting people out of a job? Please. This mindset has to be called out because it directly causes suffering via creating a societal permission structure for politicians to protect interest groups with protectionist trade policy and internal pork barreling policy.

Economic productivity putting people out of jobs is both good and necessary and it is unethical to work against it.
by moralestapia | 2025-05-07 16:25:39+00:00
Indeed, a lot of people here don't really want to help, they want a quick ego stroke.

Anyway, here's what I would do.

If you have nothing to show I would start with small things that have big ROI on "showing off".

Help some non-profit with their website for a few hundred (or for free) make sure to establish a warm relationship and then you can say "I worked for this Church, the Red Cross, University of X" or something like that, "you can contact X for more details", if you did something that's public then show it off! It's all about that.

If you're after technical jobs, contribute to some open source projects, just close down some tickets get on the AUTHORS file and then you can say "I contributed to Firefox" or something.

If you think a bit about it, you can align this experience towards the job you want, a concrete example:

You want to land an incredibly well paid job on the AI/ML space.

* Check out tinygrad, they have a list of open issues with bounties, meaning that you wouldn't be working for free.

* Solve three or four of them. Do it well, documentation, follow procedures, be autonomous, etc...

(by this point I would offer you a job and I'm sure many others would as well, but that's specific to that particular niche)

You get the idea, adapt to whatever you want to do.

Edit: I just realized you're talking about a firm not yourself as a developer, lol.

Most of it still applies I would only add that many people have told me that expos and industry events are where they get like 80% of their clients, it is really worth investing in them, set up a small booth on a local SMB fair or something.
by guywithahat | 2025-05-07 16:26:01+00:00
I don't see it as inherently a problem; AI can (theoretically) be a lot more fair in dealing with claims, and responds a lot sooner.

That said I suspect the founder is seriously overestimating the number of highly intelligent, competent people he can hire, and underestimating how much bureaucratic nonsense comes with insurance, but that's a problem he'll run into later down the road. Sometimes you have to hire three people with mediocre salaries because the sort of highly motivated competent person you want can't be found for the role.
by jorvi | 2025-05-07 16:26:10+00:00
I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek what the AE and OE mean in "Harman AE OE 2018 curve". All of them made up complete bullshit, even for the OE (Over Ear) term. AE is Around Ear. The OE term is absurdly easy to find even with the most basic of search skills, and is in fact the fourth result on Google.

The problem with LLMs isn't that they can't do great stuff: it's that you can't trust them to do it consistently. Which means you have to verify what they do, which means you need domain knowledge.

Until the next big evolution in LLMs or a revolution from something else, we'll be alright.
by sbohacek | 2025-05-07 16:26:42+00:00
I tell my students to cheat all they want. Their managers will need to hit their URA targets.

More seriously, students have been cheating for a long time. Chegg.com was used solely for cheating.

It is easier to detect LLMs than Chegg. Chegg provided solutions from other students or the solution set. LLMs are sometimes so bad (e.g., because an "accidental" typo in the question) that I can eventually detect who cheats and give no mercy when grading the in-person exams.

Disclosure: I use LLMs to grade and give my personal touch at scale.
by mlyle | 2025-05-07 16:27:44+00:00
> It's always going to be faster to skip step 2. What are we gaining by not skipping it?

Having any number be possible is nice. Having the entire space be reachable when you're sampling a solution space and the solution may be smaller than 1/8. Or having small vector quantities not have their angles ridiculously constrained by quantization.

Most applications don't need it-- indeed, a double has a lot of precision compared to what most people care about, and throwing away some of it at the low end of the randomness range is no big deal. But sometimes, a double is barely (or not even) enough.
by rxliuli | 2025-05-07 16:27:46+00:00
I was frustrated with the default styles of @tailwindcss/typography, so I created a plugin that ports GitHub's beautiful Markdown styling to Tailwind CSS.

The plugin (`tailwindcss-github-markdown`) lets you add GitHub's Markdown rendering to your projects with minimal effort - just import it and add the `prose` class to your container, exactly like you would with the official typography plugin. It fully supports both light and dark themes via the standard `prose-invert` class.

GitHub: https://github.com/rxliuli/tailwindcss-github-markdown