MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ulfw | 2025-05-13 23:06:28+00:00
This whole account is AI fake blob. Honestly this is the way the world is deteriorating into. That blog is the biggest joke ever. Top to bottom completely just AI generated fake bla. The posts of this 13 days old account likely too. And the startup doesn't exis... sorry... 'can't be mentioned'. We just gotta go on 'trust me bro' here. Ok.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-13 23:06:40+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica

José ‘Pepe’ Mujica: ‘I dedicated myself to changing the world and I didn’t change a damn thing’ - https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-11-23/jose-pep... | https://archive.today/sjGsl - November 22nd, 2024

Jose's Interview - Uruguay - Human the Movie [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GX6a2WEA1Q - September 11th, 2015 ("José Mujica, nicknamed Pepe Mujica, was President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former Tupamaros freedom fighter in the 60s and the 70s, he was detained, like a hostage by the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985. He advocates a philosophy of life focused on sobriety: learn to live with what is necessary and fairest.")

Jose Mujica Was Every Liberal's Dream President. He Was Too Good to Be True. - https://newrepublic.com/article/120912/uruguays-jose-mujica-... | https://archive.today/nH5iq - February 6th, 2015

Uruguay’s beloved Pepe bows out to spend time with his Beetle and three-legged dog - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614183 - November 2014 (16 comments)

José Mujica: is this the world’s most radical president? - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/-sp-is-this-wo... | https://archive.today/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014... - September 18th, 2014

Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903101 - December 2013 (134 comments)

Jose Mujica: 'I earn more than I need' - Talk to Al Jazeera [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hteGnL-8SeU - October 26th, 2013

Human happiness and the environment – Address by Uruguayan president Jose Mujica at Rio +20 Summit - https://thewanderlife.com/human-happiness-and-the-environmen... - June 25th, 2012
by nanolith | 2025-05-13 23:07:15+00:00
In some local areas where these urban legends were retold, that may be the case. My understanding is that the main reason why LSD usage faded was because the supply went down. There are plenty of factors here: reduced access to precursors, different classifications of certain pharmaceutical precursors, different farming techniques that prevent other "natural" resources, retirement and arrest of major suppliers, and a shift in taste toward other drugs that reduced demand and fouled the risk / reward calculus for doing a synthesis run.

Here in Florida, back in the eighties and nineties, an old timer with a background in organic chemistry used to make it. He was a fascinating fellow. He didn't make it for the money, and allegedly if you were introduced to the guy, he'd practically give it away. By the mid-2000s, he was no longer gifting folks his "samples" or even talking about his hobby. I'm sure he has long since passed on.
by hunvreus | 2025-05-13 23:07:44+00:00
Yeah, I looked into it but wanted to avoid adding plugins.

I already do a bit of (simple) focusing here and there, so it shouldn't leave the focus on the background:

https://github.com/hunvreus/basecoat/blob/main/src/js/dialog...

But more complex scenario require you to be specific about the field you want to see focused. I was thinking about allowing you designate the field to focus on.

What would you suggest?
by troymc | 2025-05-13 23:07:48+00:00
It might make more sense to put data centers on the Moon.

It's fairly close, about 1.3 light seconds away. You wouldn't use it for anything realtime, but it would be fine for long AI training jobs.

You could bury the servers underground to shield them from cosmic rays. That would also be good for any people living there.

You could get power from solar panels on peaks near the poles that get light almost all the time. For example, some ridges around Shackleton Crater are sunlit up to ~90% of the time, with short periods of darkness. Use batteries to smooth out the power supply.

For heating and cooling, just use the standard techniques. It's not easy, but it's a solved problem. As a bonus, near the poles, the temperature extremes aren't as bad as at the equator.

You could also sell tickets to tourists. People will pay to see the darndest things.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-13 23:08:07+00:00
> But it does not nearly approach the level of systematic prevention of memory unsafety that rust achieves.

Unless I gravely misunderstood Zig when I learned it, the Zig approach to memory safety is to just write a ton of tests fully exercising your functions and let the test allocators find and log all your bugs for you. Not my favorite approach, but your article doesn't seem to take into account this entirely different mechanism.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-05-13 23:08:14+00:00
> You'll get diabetes. Have a coffee. But I never liked it. Bitter and sour at the same time. On top of that, it's served scalding hot

What this guy actually wants is cold brew. Served iced or cold, much muted bitterness/sourness and smoother, more coffee-forward flavors

The thing that's also nice about cold brew is that it's one of the most approachable ways to make a really good coffee. I have a $18 cold brew pitcher I bought on Amazon that is essentially just a filter that sits in water. Makes cold brew of equivalent or better quality than the coffeeshop down the street.

About the only two limitations of cold brew are that it takes 12 hours to make and that you need to water it down because it's essentially a needle straight into your caffeine vein. But heck, even with the 12 hour limitation, some crazy people managed to invent some device recently that is somehow able to make cold brew in like 5 minutes. I don't even water my cold brew down anymore, I just make it with half decaf beans and half regular beans and it's perfect.
by stego-tech | 2025-05-13 23:08:24+00:00
I obviously can’t win over someone as receptive to the idea of change as yourself, but on the off chance a passerby sees this and actually is interested in different perspectives or growing their knowledge, here’s what you can do to not be as blindingly trolling as this commenter here:

* Read more books about systems and history. Understand that the times we’re in now aren’t as novel or unique as we’re lead to believe, and that we’ve solved worse problems before.

* Join local community-based organizations. Donate your time and expertise to those who need but cannot afford it.

* Learn different perspectives and backgrounds from others outside your immediate social circles or class. Spend more time with people who work more than you do, for less than you earn. This will teach you that many of your plights are shared, and that you have lots of allies already.

* Study systems. No single solution will fix all problems, no innovation will lift all boats. Changes reverberate, having unintended consequences. Failure to understand systems is failing to remedy or maintain them.

* Accept you cannot fix these issues alone. It will take time, it will take collaborative effort, and it will take compromise.
by godelski | 2025-05-13 23:08:39+00:00
Yes.

Also, so is heating.

When you're on the sun side, everything is too hot and it is hard to cool. You can do direct cooling, such as water cooling, but you have no radiator to dump the heat to...

When you're in the shadow of the sun you have the opposite problem. Things are way too cold. Cold enough normal electronics can fail.

For reference, the ISS can fluctuate between -250F and 250F.

I'm willing to bet that it is easier to deal with the issues of salt water than it is to deal with the heating and cooling issues combined with difficulty to manually access problems presented by space. Price per pound into orbit is still quite expensive...
by sssilver | 2025-05-13 23:08:59+00:00
As someone who drove both, I vehemently disagree. Stripped of logos, one is delightful, the other just nominally gets the job done.

The Mercedes has superior suspension that feels plush and smooth. Wonderful materials in the cabin that feel pleasant to the touch. The buttons press with a deep, satisfying click. The seats hug you like a soft cloud.

All of that isn’t nothing. It is difficult to achieve, and it is valuable.

All of that make the Mercedes better than a Corolla, albeit at a higher cost.
Show HN: React Docs as Offline EBooks
by aliencat | 2025-05-13 23:09:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I created this to help people who want to read the React documentation offline, instead of through the React website.

The main benefits are:

* Completely offline, so you can read anywhere—even on your eReader.

* Reads like a book, rather than scraped web pages.

* Easy to annotate thanks to the PDF format.

* Can be fed to LLMs like NotebookLLM to turn the doc into an interactive guide.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-13 23:10:10+00:00
IKEA sells a very cheap steel (i.e. your kids won't break it when they knock it off the counter—ask me what happened to my first three of these, which were all ceramic) pourover cup with integrated fine-mesh metal filter (so you can still make coffee if you run out of paper filters—though there's some evidence the oils that paper filters remove are bad for heart health, and it does affect the flavor, too). I think it's like $10 or something. Same external requirements as a French press, which can be as little as "a way to heat water" if you grind your beans at the store (which, don't, but on the other hand, if you want to, sure, go for it)

By far my favorite coffee-making device I've got. I'd just do drip but cleaning the machines is a PITA (lots of people don't bother and their coffee all tastes like mildew, it's disgusting) and they all expose hot water to lots of plastic, seems like. I have a French press but it's a bigger pain to clean. Pourover cup takes up less space than any of that, too.
by progmetaldev | 2025-05-13 23:10:53+00:00
I work on the CMS side of banking, where promotions and current rates are posted regularly. All actual banking is done through a first-party link to external systems. The amount of scrutiny and regular application scanning for vulnerabilities that is done on the CMS software I've built drives me insane, considering the glaring holes in security that affect their systems that actually deal with money. I take security seriously, and it's one of the main selling points of the software I build, but knowing how poorly made these systems are that house what a malicious user actually wants makes me understand how much of society's systems play security theater.
by conn10mfan | 2025-05-13 23:11:07+00:00
the private sector made it to the moon 56 years after the public sector

it's going to take the management of our shared resources and spaces (orbit) for instance to leave earth, and this becomes especially important as Kessler syndrome risk rises with increasing debris in orbit

private companies launching without public oversight and controls are a recipe for cluttering earth's orbit and leaving us earth-bound for far into the future (same if the public sector launches without care but that seems less likely imo)

Kessler Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
by naasking | 2025-05-13 23:11:15+00:00
LINQ is on the right track but doesn't quite go far enough with query composition. For instance, you can't "unquote" a query within another query (although I believe there is a library that tries to add this).

EF code-first is also on the right track, but the fluent and attribute mapping are awkward, foreign key associations often have to be unpacked directly as value type keys, there's no smooth transition between in-memory native types and durable types, and schema migration could be smoother.

Lots of the bits and pieces of what I'm describing are around but they aren't holistically combined.
by Dr_Birdbrain | 2025-05-13 23:11:32+00:00
Coffee has longevity and health benefits that are not due to caffeine alone. It has so many antioxidants you can count it as a serving of vegetables.

I tried caffeine pills in my misguided youth. They feel different, and one time I forgot I had already taken it and took a second—the resulting heart palpitations were some seriously scary stuff.
by karaterobot | 2025-05-13 23:11:51+00:00
I think that's a lot of rules to try to carry around in your head. If it works for this guy, more power to him.

For my money, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you shows up in some form or another in most major civilizations, and there's probably a reason for that. It's simple, makes sense, and covers a lot of situations.

If I had a number two rule to add, it would be slower traffic keep right. That's deep wisdom with a practical application.
by II2II | 2025-05-13 23:12:02+00:00
> Pixel have other issue

Every product is going to have issues in one form or another. The question is which issues affect your personal use of the product. I'm too new to Pixel to comment on whether switching to it is a good or a bad thing in my case, but I have been happy with the trade-offs so far. Ironically, one of the reasons why I went with a Pixel was to avoid much of the Google software ecosystem.
by kdbg | 2025-05-13 23:12:03+00:00
Only tangentially related but I'm a Canadian but have been on a US Cell provider (AT&T) for over a decade now because its cheaper, especially when I used to spend a lot more time roaming in the US. The number of Canadian companies that fail silently when sending SMS to US numbers is too damn high.

My bank is one of those with Verified by Visa. Thankfully I've figured out that using the Voice option instead of Text will work but still that silent failure is really annoying.
by crote | 2025-05-13 23:12:12+00:00
> People want cheap, so if you sell something people want, someone will make it for less by cutting “costs” (quality).

Sure, but what about the people who consider quality as part of their product evaluation? All else being equal everyone wants it cheaper, but all else isn't equal. When I was looking at smart lighting, I spent 3x as much on Philips Hue as I could have on Ikea bulbs: bought one Ikea bulb, tried it on next to a Hue one, and instantly returned the Ikea one. It was just that much worse. I'd happily pay similar premiums for most consumer products.

But companies keep enshittifying their products. I'm not going to pay significantly more for a product which is going to break after 16 months instead of 12 months. I'm not going to pay extra for some crappy AI cloud blockchain "feature". I'm not going to pay extra to have a gaudy "luxury" brand logo stapled all over it.

Companies are only interested in short-term shareholder value these days, which means selling absolute crap at premium prices. I want to pay extra to get a decent product, but more and more it turns out that I can't.
by hunvreus | 2025-05-13 23:12:27+00:00
Glad you like it. Do let me know what you end up building with it.

> I've normally done DaisyUI + Tailwind + Rails but it never feels quite right.

Same here: I could never quite get into Flowbite, Daisy UI, Preline or any of the other many alternatives.

> I have to imagine the author is planning to charge for a premium package at some point,

I did wonder if people would want to buy premium layouts or components. No plan to charge for anything for now though.
by lucb1e | 2025-05-13 23:12:35+00:00
Tell that to Googlebot, Bingbot, Petalbot, SemrushBot, MJ12bot, MojeekBot, DotBot, YandexBot, SeznamBot, Barkrowler, AhrefsBot, DuckDuckBot, AcademicBotRTU, Bytespider, Applebot, ZoominfoBot, TelegramBot, TwitterBot, SemanticScholarBot, redditbot, Pinterestbot... From a quick peek at my access log, all include either a link (most) or an email address (zoom, tiktok/bytedance, dotbot, and that academic bot)

Very few individual bots don't follow this good practice. Most of the IP ranges of violating bots are owned by Huawei (a few is Huawei Cloud so it could be anyone, but the majority seems to be Huawei themselves) and the remainder is all small beans as far as I remember (few thousand accesses in a day and then disappear forever, for example)
by troad | 2025-05-13 23:12:53+00:00
It hasn't changed meaning, that's the only thing that it ever meant.* Religious practices are a hugely relevant distinction for the history of the Roman Empire, the same way it is relevant to distinguish pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabia. Early Christianity and Islam radically transformed the lives of the people subjected to them.

Just because the technical use of a term is not familiar to lay people doesn't mean it is unclear or unhelpful. Here on HN, we all know what C-style strings are, even if an ordinary person might hear that and picture some kind of nautical rope.

* In English, at least. The Latin word paganus did change meaning (the original sense was 'rural'), but this occurred centuries before the emergence of English.
by dvrp | 2025-05-13 23:13:41+00:00
I feel like you can do the same using a single markdown file and an LLM (e.g. Claude Code).

I do it that way and then I hooked it up with the Telegram API. I’m able to ask things like “What’s my passport number?” and it just works.

Combine it with git and you have a Datomic-esque way of seeing facts getting added and retracted simply by traversing the commits.

I arrived to the solution after trying more complex triplets-based approach and seeing that plain text-files + HTTP calls work as good and are human (and AI) friendly.

The main disadvantage is having unstructured data, but for content that fits inside the LLM context window, it doesn’t matter practically speaking. And even then, when context starts being the limiting factor, you can start segmenting by categories or start using embeddings.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-05-13 23:14:04+00:00
.. both of which are solidly science fiction. You might as well say "giant mechs are the bellwether of societal advancement, just look at Warhammer/Evangelion/Gurren Lagann".

It can equally be argued that efficiency of use of power is a bellwether of societal advancement, since wasting it will always be easier than making efficient use of it.

Case in point, few people realize that humanity reached 1.9 on the Kardashev/Sagan scale (EG, we output more power than the entire Trappist star that exoplanet enthusiasts have been so excited to colonize) for 39 brief nanoseconds on October 30, 1961. But that certainly didn't make us an entire Kardashev rung more civilized for the same brief moment as we erased another huge portion of our natural environment.
by Waterluvian | 2025-05-13 23:14:39+00:00
Enjoyed reading this. It reminded me of two things I did in university:

1. Caffeine pills. They worked well. But when combined with my ADHD meds would do interesting things. I wish I had kept my data log of all the experiments with combinations and dosages and timings.

2. I HATED coffee too. But I really loved the smell and it felt so cozy. So I just made hot mochas that began 90% hot chocolate and by the end of the first winter were 90% coffee. Could never go full black though even though I tried many times.
by echoangle | 2025-05-13 23:14:41+00:00
I believe that it’s physically possible to build something like this, but there’s no way it will be cheaper or simpler than cooling on earth. In their comparison table (table 1), they have earth based cooling for a 40 MW cluster over ten years at 7 million dollars and on the right side calculate the space cost as $0 (although they only imply that it would be cheaper than on earth by saying it’s „more efficient“). If you believe that their cooling system will be less than 7 million with enough redundancy for 10 years (or alternatively maintenance or replacement missions), I don’t know what to tell you. It’s not happening.
by noduerme | 2025-05-13 23:14:52+00:00
The impact of AI already goes further than just delaying hiring - at least in fields adjacent to engineering, such as technical writing. Anecdotally:

For the past 10 years, one of my best friends has been the senior copy editor for [Fortune 500 company's] sprawling website, managing more than a dozen writers. It's a great job, full time, mostly remote, with fantastic benefits (including unlimited PTO, a concept that I can't even fathom as a freelancer). The website comprises thousands of pages of product descriptions, use cases, and impenetrable technical jargon aimed at selling "solutions" to whatever Fortune 500 executives make those kinds of mammoth IT decisions.

Recently, he was telling me how AI was impacting his job. He said he and his writers started using GPT a couple years ago to speed things up.

"But now I have to use it. I wouldn't be able to work without it," he said, "because in the last year they laid off all but two of the writers. The workload's the same, but they put it all on me and the two who are left. Mostly just to clean up GPT's output."

I said, "I don't know who ever read that crap anyway. The companies you're selling to probably use GPT to summarize those pages for them, too." He agreed and said it was mostly now about getting AIs to write things for other AIs to read, and this required paying fewer and fewer employees.

So while AI may be a nice productivity booster, it's not like there's unlimited demand for more productivity. Companies only need so much work done. If your employees are made 4x more productive by a new tool, you can lay off 75% of them. And forget about hiring, because the tools are just getting better.

Coders like me don't want to believe this is coming for us, but I think it is. I'm lucky to have carved out a niche for myself where I actually own a lot of proprietary code and manage a lot of data-keeping that companies rely on, which effectively constitutes technical debt for them and which would be extremely onerous to transition away from even if they could get an AI to reverse engineer my software perfectly (which I think is still at least a few years off). But humans are going to be an ever-shrinking slice of the information workforce going forward, and staying ahead of those layoffs is not just a matter of knowing a lot about the latest AI tech or having a better resume. I think the smart play at this point is to prepare for more layoffs, consider what it would take to be the last person doing your entire team's job, and then wedge yourself into that position. Make sure you have the only knowledge of how the pipeline works, so it would be too expensive to get rid of you.
by nanolith | 2025-05-13 23:14:55+00:00
There is a third category of memory and other software safety mechanisms: model checking. While it does involve compiling software to a different target -- typically an SMT solver -- it is not a compile-time mechanism like in Rust.

Kani is a model checker for Rust, and CBMC is a model checker for C. I'm not aware of one (yet!) for Zig, but it would not be difficult to build a port. Both Kani and CBMC compile down to goto-c, which is then converted to formulas in an SMT solver.
by godelski | 2025-05-13 23:14:57+00:00
> Space (with a sunshade) is a nearly perfect medium into which to radiate heat, in the sense that there’s nothing better.

There is radiation but zero convection. As anyone with an oven or PC will tell you, even a very tiny fan makes a big difference in the ability to dump heat. We're not putting our PCs into vacuum chambers for a good reason. A small fan in your oven not only makes for more consistent heating in your food, but it requires less power