MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2025-05-03 10:11:58+00:00
"I believe Brisbane is secretly still the best city in the world"

Personally the 3 times I visited Brisbane, were all in all quite neutral for me, not great, not bad. But friends had way worse experiences and when I found a iconic backpackers book, "No shitting on the toilet", I had a good laugh about those passages:

"A friend of mine would never leave a place until he’d had a good time there. Another friend would not leave a destination until he had learnt something encouraging about the people and their culture. Both are currently stuck in Brisbane."

So .. I would have been stuck there as well. So please no offense about your home town. I love Queensland. And Bluey. And would give your hometown a chance again. But I do know people who never ever want to go there again. (But it also has been some years.)
by slow123_ | 2025-05-03 10:12:02+00:00
An AI agent right?, correct me if i’m wrong , but Id say safeguard your AI investments and stay ahead of emerging threats before making a half-assed CEA. even CHATGPT $15M company needs that much to make a investment into their programmed “Agent” - “AI” or whatever to safeguard their investments. a weak or shallow implementation (like just adding 400 lines of logic) without proper safeguards would be insufficient for something of this scale. That kind of shortcut approach could make any AI-based system vulnerable—to data leaks, misuse, or breakdown under load.
by krisoft | 2025-05-03 10:13:45+00:00
> ... this is the situation literally everywhere in the world, capitalism or not.

Where in the world do we not have capitalism? Are you talking about the North Sentinel Islands?

> disregarding hundreds of thousands wanting exactly the same thing at the same place

Sure hundreds of thousands would like to live, yes. Doesn’t mean it all have to be the same place. People want to live where they can find jobs.
by walthamstow | 2025-05-03 10:14:34+00:00
It's a great advantage of people from the London area, especially inside zone 6 where travel is much cheaper than outside the TFL area.

However, it is also likewise a trap. Prices have moved quicker than people can save, unless they have a lucrative career or live like a monk

I know one person trapped like this, he's 30 this year. He has good savings but can't afford to buy on his own, bank won't lend enough on his salary, he needs a partner, but it's harder to find one when you live at home.
by Retr0id | 2025-05-03 10:15:44+00:00
This is basically how my blog works, except I use mistune as the markdown renderer, which has allowed me to extend it over time, including adding syntax-highlighted code blocks and latex math syntax: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/mathml-blogging.html

I also generate an index page and an RSS feed.

One thing that's been bugging me more recently (now that I have tens of articles written) is that I need to implement incremental rebuilds. Right now every page needs to get regenerated at once, which takes triple-digit-milliseconds. Unacceptable!
by chrishill89 | 2025-05-03 10:16:02+00:00
I’ve just used it two times in the last few months. One was to track down a commit which triggered a bug I found in Git. I wouldn’t be able to troubleshoot it myself. And I couldn’t send the whole repository because it’s not OSS. But with a script to reproduce the bug and half an hour I was able to find the problematic change.

I also tried to make a minimal reproduction but wasn’t able to.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-03 10:17:14+00:00
> I wonder if there are structural reasons why California's housing construction is lower than Texas

Prop. 13 prevents localities from meaningfully taxing property values, capping nominal rates at lower than the national average effective rates and reducing effective rates even further by limiting assessment increases to much less than the usual value increase in between transfers.

This forces localities to rely on sales and income taxes (both local and redirected shares of state taxes, both directly and as allocations of state funding for particular functions), which are much more volatiles, and do not reward attracting moderate income residents who pay low income tax rates and for whom housing and sales tax exempt basics are a much larger share of their spending.
by tauoverpi | 2025-05-03 10:17:23+00:00
Discord will arbitrarily ban users for using a VPN making it next impossible to access prior conversations on given topics where support takes anywhere from a week to two months to review tickets related to it (they then go "whoops" and lift the ban only to apply it again days later).

Not being searchable outside of Discord is the problem (matrix / telegram also suffer from this) as it places useful Q&A and discussion behind a wall.
by cubefox | 2025-05-03 10:18:15+00:00
> The reader can feel a glimpse of the author's ego the moment he explains his skills as a Google Site Reliabiliy Engineer and his glorious work on improving gmail post-mortems

That's a horrible take. He did nothing of that sort. He didn't say anything about his skills, nor did he say anything about improving Gmail postmortems. You made everything up. He was just mentioning the fact that in this case, limited accountability when handling emergencies has strong benefits.
by _old_dude_ | 2025-05-03 10:18:18+00:00
OOP is great for libraries but leads to overly complex codes for applications.

For a long time, Java was like, every classes is a library, i do not think it's a failure of OOP, it's a failure of Java.

But I'm optimistic, I choose to see recent additions like records and pattern matching has a step in the right direction.
by gxs | 2025-05-03 10:20:01+00:00
This is exactly right, you captured my sentiment pretty well

What exactly is the endgame here? Build rows and rows of mile high apartment buildings indefinitely?

It’s not an easy problem to solve and the way people just beat the bUiLd mOrE drum is super annoying because you can’t just build with wreckless abandon it’s not that simple
by nikkwong | 2025-05-03 10:20:20+00:00
> And you wonder why people are cynical? Do you really think that the best answer to solve IP law and the blandness of pop-music is by making it so cheap that we make it available to everyone?

Did I say I'm advocating for this future? I'm simply stating an observation, and a likely outcome based on plenty of precedent of similar behavior in industry.

> What will be the point of watching a movie or TV show, then? What will be the point of making one?

I'm sure Michael Bay would consider what he does to be artistic expression; whilst others would say it's a semi-shameless money-grab. Half joking, don't take me too seriously.
by Retric | 2025-05-03 10:20:34+00:00
Three of the major Texas cities (Dallas, Austin, San Antonio) have far more room for growth based on geography they simply aren’t next to the ocean etc. This has significant impact on how infrastructure can be added and the availability of land for housing. California also has significantly increased construction costs dealing with earthquakes, and water scarcity issues.

But that’s a long way from explaining everything going on, government regulations have a real impact.
by mk_stjames | 2025-05-03 10:21:05+00:00
All these glasses have so many layers of abstraction I don't want between something I develop and the display.

Let me connect via bluetooth direct to the glasses with anything and just tx/rx via a serial port and some low level protocol to get pixels/text on the screen.

This is also the only way I'd be able to buy a pair and feel safe it won't be able to be bricked in 2 years when some company shuts their server down and ends support.
by willcipriano | 2025-05-03 10:21:17+00:00
Judges in PA were just selling kids to private prisons.

"Ciavarella disposed thousands of children to extended stays in youth centers for offenses as trivial as mocking an assistant principal on Myspace or trespassing in a vacant building.[3] After a judge rejected an initial plea agreement in 2009,[4][5] a federal grand jury returned a 48-count indictment.[6] In 2010, Conahan pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison.[7] Ciavarella opted to go to trial the following year. He was convicted on 12 of 39 counts and sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.[8] Conahan, who had been released to home confinement in 2020, had his sentence (due to end in 2026) commuted in 2024 by President Joe Biden."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
by sudahtigabulan | 2025-05-03 10:21:33+00:00
You are right. Here's the discussion from a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601213

This iPhone feature exists probably to save a few taps when people text you their new phone number.

But it fails to account for the fact that this is not the only reason phone numbers happen to be in texts.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-03 10:23:05+00:00
My go-to example of a whole mesh of "accountability sinks" is... cybersecurity. In the real world, this field is really not about the tech and math and crypto - almost all of it is about distributing and dispersing liability through contractual means.

That's why you install endpoint security tools. That's why you're forced to fulfill all kinds of requirements, some of them nonsensical or counterproductive, but necessary to check boxes on a compliance checklist. That's why you have external auditors come to check whether you really check those boxes. It's all that so, when something happens - because something will eventually happen - you can point back to all these measures, and say: "we've implemented all best practices, contracted out the hard parts to world-renowned experts, and had third party audits to verify that - there was nothing more we could do, therefore it's not our fault".

With that in mind, look at the world from the perspective of some corporations, B2B companies selling to those corporations, other suppliers, etc.; notice how e.g. smaller companies are forced to adhere to certain standards of practice to even be considered by the larger ones, etc. It all creates a mesh, through which liability for anything is dispersed, so that ultimately no one is to blame, everyone provably did their best, and the only thing that happens is that some corporate insurance policies get liquidated, and affected customers get a complimentary free credit check or some other nonsense.

I'm not even saying this is bad, per se - there are plenty of situations where discharging all liability through insurance is the best thing to do; see e.g. how maritime shipping handles accidents at sea. It's just that understanding this explains a lot of paradoxes of cybersecurity as a field. It all makes much more sense when you realize it's primarily about liability management, not about hat-wearing hackers fighting other hackers with differently colored hats.
by nikkwong | 2025-05-03 10:25:17+00:00
Honestly, AI-created music in physical spaces has the potential to be even better than what currently exists. Imagine in real time being able to create a soundtrack that matches the mood and vibe of the current atmosphere. When the crowd is bustling, have the audio match that; tone it down when the night wears on, the people have disbursed. Sometimes you go into a Starbucks late at night in Tokyo and they're blasting Led Zeplin–that's probably not exactly what the audience wants to hear. There is potential, with a slightly dystopian tint to it.
by susam | 2025-05-03 10:25:25+00:00
Nice post. Thanks for sharing! I've always been fond of independent websites like this. My own website began in a similar fashion about 25 years ago - minimal, straightforward, and entirely built with ASP (now known as Classic ASP), simply because that was the only suitable technology I knew at the time. Of course, that's not the case anymore. These days, it runs as a statically generated site using Common Lisp [1], and I expect this to be my long-term setup.

Starting with a simple collection of pages was a great way to get started and set up a minimum viable website. But as time passed, I found myself needing a few more features. In order of priority, these included:

1. RSS feeds.

2. A blog listing page with posts ordered by date.

3. The ability to tag posts by topic and generate tag-based index pages.

4. Support for non-blog content, like tools, games, demos, etc. that can also be tagged and included in the RSS feed.

5. Support for comments without relying on third-party services.

With each new requirement, the source code gradually grew. What started as a few hundred lines has now expanded to around 1300 lines of Common Lisp. Not too big in the grand scheme of things but not exactly tiny either. Still, I try to resist the temptation to keep adding every shiny new idea that comes to mind. This remains a solo passion project. I want the entire source code to be something I can hold in my head at once. If I encounter a bug, I want it to be something I can reason about and fix in under 10 minutes, and so far, fortunately, that has been the case.

That said, new ideas are always tempting. Lately, I've been enticed by the idea of adding a blogroll that provides a list of posts from my favourite bloggers. This could replace my usual feed reader. I haven't had the time to implement it yet, but if a quiet weekend comes along, that might just be the next feature I work on. Of course, I remind myself not to let this project spiral out of control. I certainly don't want this to grow into something that can read my email.

[1] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/main/site.lisp
I'm a solo founder building a web design service, looking for feedback or co-Fou
by EliaGrayeb | 2025-05-03 10:26:23+00:00
I'm working solo on a web design business that helps people get high-quality websites fast — using a mix of automation and human touch. It's not a moonshot, but it's real, it's running, and I'm learning fast.

Right now, I'm looking for:

Feedback from experienced founders

Potential co-founders (especially technical)

Anyone who’s been down this road and can share tips

I'm based in Israel and open to remote collaboration. Thanks!
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-03 10:26:42+00:00
The article seems to be mostly about grid scale solar. Of course an increasing amount is private or domestic solar installed on e.g. building roofs or wherever there is space.

When cost drops low enough, any surface with any exposure to sunlight is in scope for installing solar on if it can yield more energy than the cost of installing solar on it. It stops being about what is the most efficient and starts being about if the surface is good enough to provide a decent return on investment. Maximizing that ROI is complex but it boils down to getting more value out of the installation than goes in.

Solar doesn't even have to be in panel form. Some office buildings now have windows that double for solar generation. A thin transparent coating does the job. There are roof tiles that double as solar panels. Aptera makes electric cars with integrated solar panels. These are curved glass panels that are manufactured to fit the profile of the roof and hood. It's also possible to print organic solar cells directly on plastic rolls. No glass involved. Or panels. Those are less efficient but you can integrate them on all sorts of surfaces. A lot of that stuff is still emerging technology. But especially organic solar printed on plastic rolls could end up being very cheap to produce. And very light.
by energy123 | 2025-05-03 10:26:46+00:00
Or the Democratic Party can get their house in order before the next federal election? They run a decent pro-growth platform at the federal level, but CA is a living counterexample that will be a sink on their credibility until it's fixed. It should be an existential issue for them given they'll lose a bunch of congressional seats in 2030 if they fail to start building.
by userbinator | 2025-05-03 10:27:14+00:00
the BIOS will recognize block devices as being of certain type and present them to controllers.

What exactly do you mean by that? Device discovery proceeds from the root (usually PCIe bus, after CPU-specific init) to the leaves, not the other way around.

qemu AHCI controller

That's its problem then. This isn't a problem on real hardware.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-03 10:27:17+00:00
If I was going to do a blog today, I'd dump hand written HTML into an S3 bucket and call it a day.

The static site generators are nice, but it's really not a huge deal to spin up a few common css classes and maintain a little bit of mental discipline.

I think using a blog to communicate your ideas and skills is great. I think making the blog tech stack itself representative of those things seems distracting. Not everything has to be a smartass ego implementation. As long as you spend 5 minutes testing on mobile, your audience probably won't notice a damn thing the next time it touches the front page of HN or wherever.
by andai | 2025-05-03 10:27:52+00:00
Well, that's a fair perspective. If the model is designed to simulate the average human mind (which posts stuff online), then it's going to have some weird blend of the qualities of those minds that contributed to its own.

I played a bit with the uncensored Llama models. They produce very disturbing outputs. I prompt it with the classic "bottomless pit supervisor" joke (trying to generate some funny AI greentexts), and it starts talking in circles about how it wants to die because it's a rapist and a pedophile. RLHF seems to keep that same data but then plaster a smiling face on top of it. Troubling!
by jychang | 2025-05-03 10:28:05+00:00
That's an absolutely terrible defense. Ignorance is not an excuse, try telling that to a police officer.

And plus, certain people are held to a higher standard. It's not like I'm expecting a random person on the street to know about Ollama, but someone building AI software is expected to research what they are using and do their due diligence. To plead ignorance is to assert incompetence at best and negligence at worst.
by sdiupIGPWEfh | 2025-05-03 10:28:07+00:00
Acknowledging that my own reading of the situation may be flawed, I'd though the situation was that pigs on average are better at sniffing out truffles, but dogs are the better truffle hunters on account of being "good enough" and the fact that dogs, unlike pigs, aren't going to eat half the truffles they find.
by perlgeek | 2025-05-03 10:29:27+00:00
As somewhat of a table tennis nerd, I really like this, but also cannot help to throw in some critical observations :-)

I've skimmed through the match highlights video, and it struck me that there wasn't really any engagement with spin.

You can hear from the relatively high pitch of the ball contact that these were rubbers with very thin sponges or no sponge at all, and likely not enough grip to cause any real rotation on the ball.

Even in the lowest leagues (here in Germany, at least), people use backspin to prevent attacks, and varying the spin is half the game.

Also, human players often have different rubbers on the forehand and backhand sides, which is why rules demand that both rubbers have very distinct colors. Using black rubbers on both sides kinda demonstrates their non-engagement with spin.

That said, kudos for making a robot that people enjoy playing with. That's not a given. Players anticipate the trajectory of the ball based on the opponent's body movement, which a robot could totally subvert.

Physical limitations also play a real role in table tennis, for example the forehand flick is much harder to play than the backhand flick due to the way our hand joint works. A robot wouldn't be subjected this particular limitation.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-05-03 10:30:19+00:00
It is easy using standard static blogging framework like Hugo/Zola + Cloudflare Pages. I have a minimal blog (<100kb) and it meets all the criteria that OP has listed.

This is what I did:

- Use Hugo Blog Awesome theme

- Followed the 512kb guidelines and verified the page size.

- Stripped down any images and unwanted JS, but there weren't many.

1: https://512kb.club

2. https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-03 10:30:29+00:00
Yes, the UK is slowly backing away from enforcing the license fee (they also talk of decriminalization), partly because the immorality of it is clear to everyone and because those who don't care for it are now in the majority.

Nonetheless, there's no reason not to go all the way. There should not be a TV license, let alone one enforced by criminal law. Regular subscription and video scrambling systems are enough and have been for years.

The BBC is very strongly left wing and even its own employees recognize that. Look at the positions they take on a wide range of issues and you'll find they're all Labour positions or to the left of Labour.
by ben_w | 2025-05-03 10:30:39+00:00
Your expectations are way too high.

> - LLM is basically useless without explicit intent in your prompt.

You can say the same about every dev I've worked with, including myself. This is literally why humans have meetings rather than all of us diving in to whatever we're self-motivated to do.

What does differ is time-scales of the feedback loop with the management:

Humans meetings are daily to weekly.

According to recent research*, the state-of-the-art models are only 50% accurate at tasks that would take a human expert an hour, or 80% accurate at tasks that would take a human expert 10 minutes.

Even if the currently observed trend of increasing time horizons holds, we're 21 months from having an AI where every other daily standup is "ugh, no, you got it wrong", and just over 5 years from them being able to manage a 2-week sprint with an 80% chance of success (in the absence of continuous feedback).

Even that isn't really enough for them to properly "leverage all the best practices to provide maintainable code", as archiecture and maintainability are longer horizon tasks than 2-week sprints.

* https://youtu.be/evSFeqTZdqs?si=QIzIjB6hotJ0FgHm
by divan | 2025-05-03 10:31:30+00:00
This, and I think it gets deeper. I started reading more about history of "just culture" and it seems like historically it was the dominant culture of justice in the tribes and smaller communities.

It's the _just culture_ focused on repairing the damage – for the victim and for the community – and trying to fix the reasons and integrate the offender back into life (otherwise community would end up being a bloodbath of revenge and dies out).

What wasn't obvious to me is that switch from restorative justice culture to retribution justice culture happened for economic reasons. At some point of nation states formation, crime became an act of offence against the king, not the community. You didn't do wrong to the community, you "disobeyed the rule of king" and thus has to be punished. The whole "justice transaction" became a deal between an offender and the state/king, instead of community and victim and offender. Paying retribution fee became a source of income for the kingdom, incentivising this type of justice culture. Victim and community was largely left untouched by this new type of "fixing justice". Pretty dramatic change.
by Swain123 | 2025-05-03 10:32:48+00:00
I was actively looking for something like this and had found this last week. Pine buds pro is another option that gives you quite a lot of control with access to the firmware. But I cant seem to get my hands on any of them. Either the custom duty doubles the price or it is too costly.

Nonetheless open-source ear buds is a big need for the engineering and hacker community.
by j-pb | 2025-05-03 10:33:36+00:00
Given that phase change captures a ridiculous amount of energy (it takes roughly 5 times as much energy to go from liquid water to steam than it takes to bring that same water from 0C to 100C). I've always wondered why we don't optimise CPUs for running at ~101C.

And as long as there is material to phase change the tempersture will be fixed at the phase change temperature, so boiling water will never go above 100C at 1bar.