MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pradeepodela | 2025-06-09 07:44:46+00:00
I feel the concept of EV charging might be democratized. These are the problems with EV stations:

It takes a while to charge up.

No matter what, only a very few people can be accommodated at once.

On the flip side, setting up a gas station is hard, but that’s not the case with EV charging stations — especially if battery swapping is innovated. It also takes time to deeply penetrate the market, but EV charging is much more suitable for two-wheelers.

So there’s a clear gap — the current gas stations can’t handle the volume of people waiting for EV charging. What is the way forward? I feel anyone with an EV charger can set up an EV charging station at home. This means all your malls, houses, and parks might be converted into EV charging stations, making it much more decentralized.

I anticipate that anyone with an EV charger and good parking space can make some extra bucks from it. I feel the whole idea of gas stations might be democratized. I’m not sure — this is just what I feel. Feel free to let me know your opinion.
by Jedd | 2025-06-09 07:45:46+00:00
I would note that I was replying to a comment about the 'big trend of ghiblification' of images.

Reproducing a certain style of image has been a regular fad since profile pictures became a thing sometime last century.

I was not meaning to suggest that large language & diffusion models are fads.

(I do think their capabilities are poorly understood and/or over-estimated by non-technical and some technical people alike, but that invites a more nuanced discussion.)

While I'm sure your wife is getting good value out of the system, whether it's a better fit for purpose, produces a better quality, or provides a more satisfying workflow -- than say a decent free photo editor -- or whether other tools were tried but determined to be too limited or difficult, etc -- only you or her could say. It does feel like a small sample set, though.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-09 07:48:21+00:00
I am not sure, but why can't C,Rust and Zig with others (like Ada,Odin etc.) and of course C++ (how did I forget it?) just coexist.

Not sure why but I was definitely getting some game of thrones vibes from your comment and I would love to see some competition but I don't know, Just code in whatever is productive to you while being systems programming language I guess.

But I don't know low level languages so please, take my words at 2 cents.
by underyx | 2025-06-09 07:50:02+00:00
Great read. I have a tiny, inconsequential, possibly wrong correction. You had assumed that the “Negative” word on the internal search engine screenshot was sentiment analysis. I think it was instead a button to report the post in the internal system as a “negative” result as in, not actually matching the search they were trying to do. Sentiment analysis doesn’t seem like it would be very useful in this scenario.
by edanm | 2025-06-09 07:50:13+00:00
> Counting calories presumably works (when it does) because it’s combined with more nutritious, regular meals, better awareness, etc.

This is what critics don't get. Calorie counting is what makes people have better awareness, and what makes people aware of what meal is more nutritious.

When you're in the weeds of this stuff it's hard to remember, but many people honestly don't know what are caloric equivalents of different foods, and that's pretty important information if you're trying to eat better.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-09 07:50:39+00:00
They are changing it for publicity reasons. It has nothing to do with whether or not it works.

This whole thing is being done as a reaction to this video:

https://youtu.be/YeABJbvcJ_k?t=1540

The article completed skipped over this. This video was released literally a week ago and is completely mocking the FAA. Floppy disks are a big joke in this video.
by edanm | 2025-06-09 07:50:41+00:00
> Personally, after using MyFitnessPal for a couple years, switching to ParrotPal made calorie counting way less time-I just need to give it a quick text (or voice) description and it does a surprisingly good job of estimating.

I haven't used ParrtPal, what makes it easier than using MyFitnessPal?
by hatly22 | 2025-06-09 07:51:04+00:00
That is some rose colored welding googles you're wearing there. In the late nineties we had applets, activex, pages crammed with animated gifs, and the browser wars were in full swing between SUN, Microsoft, netscape, internet explorer. And then flash rocked up. Again, it shows how the OP railing against over-design is so subjective. A lot of sites are meant to be interesting ways of showing information, or just people expressing themselves. People complaining about the design of websites (and writing snooty blog posts about it on usenet) happened in the nineties too, even more so when flash took over.
by teleforce | 2025-06-09 07:53:26+00:00
>DECISION: Nvidia RTX 4070

I'm curiuos why OP didn't go for the more recent Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti with 16 GB VRAM that cost cheaper (~USD500) brand new and lesser power consumption at 165W [1].

[1] RTX 5060 Ti 16GB sucks for gaming, but seems like a diamond in the rough for AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196991
by jessekv | 2025-06-09 07:53:28+00:00
I have DDG as the default search in Safari (because Kagi is not an option, maybe it requires profit sharing with Apple?) and I often end up using DDG out of convenience while being a Kagi subscriber.

I agree there is not a lot of differentiation between stock Kagi search and DDG. DDG still has a few ads but it's not that annoying, perfectly usable.

Kagi's assistants are pretty interesting though. Recently I asked it to find back a post that I vaguely remembered. It managed to generate a bunch of Kagi searches with different keywords and narrow it down to an old tweet.
by delusional | 2025-06-09 07:54:07+00:00
I have seen no consultants directly selling this yet. To me it looks like this is all coming at the CEO "organically", or at least through the same channels that it's coming to the rest of us.

At my job it's been coming through the regular channels, but is empowered by aligning with current trends. It's easier to sell an AI project, even internally, when the whole world is talking about it.
by keybored | 2025-06-09 07:54:28+00:00
Makes zero sense. There’s already a “liberal” and a “conservative” party. The liberal Democrats tend to lean more towards liberal standpoints. They haven’t become like rural conservatives simply because of the archaic political system favoring smaller states.

Every Democrat policy standpoint would have to filter through the rural conservative polling in order to be vetted.

But I don’t see that. Democratic policy positions can be quite liberal and urban coded. The obfuscation comes in on issues which hurt their donors. Then the idealized rural voter is moved from being a backwards hick to a precious Bipartisanship partner.

The Democrats moving towards a universal healthcare standpoint when 90% of Democrats and 65% of independents say “Yes, is the government's responsibility” would be a no-brainer for galvanizing their existing voters and gaining new ones if they cared about winning elections. dot dot dot
by pabs3 | 2025-06-09 07:54:47+00:00
I recommend a few changes to these:

Infinite history instead of a large limit:

HISTFILESIZE=-1 HISTSIZE=-1

Also ignore commands starting with a space:

HISTCONTROL=ignorespace:ignoredups:erasedups

Enable history substitution to verify commands before running them:

shopt -s histverify shopt -s histreedit

Write commands to history files before running the commands instead of after the commands finish:

trap 'history -a' DEBUG

Or if you already have a DEBUG trap:

trap "history -a ; $(trap -p DEBUG | cut -d "'" -f 2)" DEBUG
by edanm | 2025-06-09 07:55:41+00:00
> I don't find that it's possible or reasonable anymore, the desire to be "pure" and use only ONE tool to rule them all.

It's not about being "pure". I was originally interested in Emacs because of the idea of only ever having to learn to use one tool, that would give me a better experience in many different domains.

Since, as you say, that doesn't really work, I personally don't find using Emacs compelling anymore, hence my not using it. (I actually used vim for a long time, then Emacs briefly, and now VSCode/Cursor/other things as the need arises.)
by trinix912 | 2025-06-09 07:56:03+00:00
Apple requires developers to build the apps with at least Xcode 16 targeting the SDK of least iOS 18 to submit new apps / updates to the App Store [1]. This limits how far back you can go with the iOS version, thus dropping older phones.

Yes, you can definitely download older SDKs and target older iOS versions, but you cannot publish those apps on the App Store anymore.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/news/upcoming-requirements/
by kennywinker | 2025-06-09 07:56:52+00:00
So what you’re saying is that you were wrong when you said “it literally doesn't meet the legal definition”?

Because you’ve just cited the ICJ saying it was plausible back in january 2024. So, will you be retracting your incorrect statement that it does not meet the legal definition?

Meanwhile, a UN special committee, as well as amnesty international, have both concluded it’s a genocide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Committee_to_Investi...

But you got me, the ICJ hasn’t concluded it’s DEFINITELY a genocide. Just that if the actions alleged are true, it’s a genocide.

In the mean time, 80% of homes in gaza have been destroyed. Uncountable war crimes have been documented. The ICJ ordered the halt of the rafah offensive and israel ignored that order. Refugee camps were bombed. People seek aid and are shot. People are killed for delivering aid. Water is withheld.

If by some technicality it does not get ruled as a genocide by the ICJ, it hardly matters. It’s an atrocity of genocidal proportions and that is why people keep calling it a genocide. Oh, and because it’s also a literal genocide.
by lmm | 2025-06-09 07:57:13+00:00
> This type of "trick" is foundational to... every common law system.

Disagree. Courts bend and stretch the law but only up to a point, and the more twisted interpretations tend to get overruled. Precedent is respected but only up to a point. And when people do apply a trick, everyone acknowledges that it's a trick, that they're subverting the will of the original drafters of the law because they think they know better than them.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-06-09 07:57:24+00:00
The speed thing was just an example that easily came to mind. I can imagine there are other kinds of analog vs digital interactions that might be occurring that may not be easily replicated under emulation. Especially with a system that grew somewhat organically over the last half-century.

Emulation is likely possible, probably for many of the systems involved, but this is not a field where bugs, especially ones introduced due to emulation, would be easily acceptable.

> Of course, nothing can prevent poorly designed code and hardware.

Agreed, but the reality is that here, trying to fix things and ending up breaking them can and probably will kill people.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-09 07:57:32+00:00
> This is what leads to stories about kids who make their way into their parents’ locked storage and hurt themselves or others.

> “The mystery” is what leads kids to investigate things on their own.

Do you have evidence that learning gun safety without use doesn't do enough here?

I'm not convinced there's all that much mystery. Even if talk doesn't do enough, I bet letting your kids use guns once would do more than enough to clear up mystery. If you let your kids use a gun every week (or whatever "any time" means) it's because you're a family that likes guns, not for safety reasons.
by bwann | 2025-06-09 07:58:11+00:00
Back in the ISP days of the 90s, if you used the Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) and wanted to distribute customized versions of IE to your customers, one of the requirements was to use IE-only elements on your main website to promote usage of IE. Marquee was one of the least obnoxious ways to do that compared to other options.
by elric | 2025-06-09 07:58:13+00:00
Tech workers are often part of unions over here (Belgium), the same as anyone else. Let me tell you that unions do not make for a panacea.

Among my working (not necessarily tech) peers, anti-union sentiment has been increasing. Likely because they've been inconvenienced by recent union actions (mostly public transport strikes). Individualism is a hell of a drug.

Being a freelancer, most unions see me as a traitor or a thief. So I have some mixed feelings about their current incarnations.
by jasode | 2025-06-09 07:58:33+00:00
>and make my videos interesting and where can I find royalty free music and clips.

reply to commenter akulbe: >Do you think using AI for text-to-speech lessens the value of the content?

You really don't need any music soundtracks or B-roll stock-footage clips to make compelling tech content. Another problem with music is that most content creators mix it too loud which is distracting and often drowns out the voiceover and makes words unintelligible.

E.g. this (relatively new) channel about computer hardware and programming uses no music and no B-roll cuts with a AI generated voice ("Dylan" voice from ElevenLabs) and yet the quality of content allowed it to amass ~275k subscribers in less than 18 months : https://www.youtube.com/@CoreDumpped/videos

An AI gen voice is not usually ideal but it will be accepted by audiences if the native accent makes the English pronunciation too difficult for viewers to understand -- and the insights from the content itself are high quality. The content creator in the above example is from Ecuador and he said his native English voice is not good.

Ben Krasnow's "Applied Science" is another successful channel without music and no stock footage clips: https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience/videos
by bilekas | 2025-06-09 07:59:05+00:00
I don't know why you're being downvoted, I fully agree personally, my only concern at least would be that once the transition project gets started, if the wrong "loudest" vessels in government need to make some noise about overspending to distract from other things, maybe this project might be used as a scape goat.

I can see it already actually : "The FAA was working fine and yet they want these X billions to have shiny new silicon valley machines, paid to big tech by the tax payers"

As horrible as that sounds, I don't think many people would say that it couldn't happen.
by mantas | 2025-06-09 07:59:34+00:00
Why not desirable? It'd be very desirable for immigrants to adjust to local society. If people are not willing to integrate and assimilate their kids into host society, they should not come.

We should not see people as economic unit who just produce value. People and society in general is much more complex system.

One common denominator in vast majority of europe is not being a muslim. And many of issues with immigration does raise from this fundamental difference. And I'm not saying to not let in any people from muslim countries. But they should denounce their religion the moment they get work permit. And don't raise their kids accordingly.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-09 08:00:10+00:00
Metallic titanium is already cheaper than copper, and the price ratio between copper and titanium will only increase.

However, as you say, the processing costs from the raw metal to a finite product are much higher for titanium than for most cheap metals, mostly because of its low thermal conductivity (which makes titanium locally hot during processing) and its high reactivity with the atmosphere when hot, which is why the products made of titanium are expensive.

It is unlikely that titanium will ever replace stainless steel in most of its applications, but wherever the lower density of titanium or its better resistance against certain chemicals give great enough advantages, I hope to see more titanium objects.

I certainly like the titanium frame of my reading glasses, which is extremely thin and lightweight, almost invisible, while being much stronger and longer lived than a plastic frame would be.
by sshine | 2025-06-09 08:01:54+00:00
Nobody needs an additional expense.

Well, unless you're working for government and next year's budget depends on this year's expenses.

Most modern people need search engines. And most people don't care about advertising and having their private data sold. And most of those who do are happy to use adblockers and/or free alternatives to Google that still show ads, but may or may not collect as much data about you.

So it is indeed a niche: People who want to pay for search and AI, when both of those are "free".

As for having an AI broker instead of getting it straight from the model companies: I think the economic incentives are better. I don't want bloated answers, just because the model companies make money per token. I want to either pay for each token, or pay a lump sum to somebody who optimizes the result for me and pockets the difference.
by rcxdude | 2025-06-09 08:04:30+00:00
Yeah, you can! If both if them advertise a default route via DHCP, it can get confused (it's basically random which one it will try to connect to the internet with), but it will otherwise work. It also needs the local IP ranges to not overlap. And if the wifi network without internet doesn't advertise a default route, it'll work just fine by default.
by zargon | 2025-06-09 08:04:42+00:00
Panchroma Muted White is the one that is somewhat similar to the Apple platinum color. Someone sent Polymaker an RGB color code instead of a sample, so it's pretty off in reality. That would be fine, because all machines are yellowed to some degree anyway, so colors vary widely. More importantly, it's just terrible filament. Layer adhesion is virtually non-existent, compared to Polymaker's Poly Lite filaments. I have wasted so much time trying to print that awful filament. Hopefully this manufacturer is better.
by kqr | 2025-06-09 08:05:08+00:00
I think so too. Apparently I have an overall mean of 26 queries/day, with the lowest month the past year being 19 queries/day and the highest 35 queries/day. Most of this is during the weekday with software development work, but I also make web searches for all kinds of other things in my spare time.

I genuinely thought it would be higher, but I suppose bang patterns don't count.

(Posting this mostly so that people who are curious about subscribing to Kagi can get a sense of how many queries they're likely to need to use.)
by brabel | 2025-06-09 08:05:46+00:00
I am just watching the Game of Throne series right now, so this comment sounds funnier than it should to me :D.

The fight for the Iron Throne, lots of self-proclaimed kings trying to take it... C is like King Joffrey, Rust is maybe Robb Stark?! And Zig... probably princess Daenerys with her dragons.
by Xylakant | 2025-06-09 08:06:31+00:00
That’s much more common than one would think. The London tube began operation 160 years ago. The U1 line in Berlin was constructed between 1902 and 1926. The central railway lines are substantially older. The Paris metro began operation in summer 1900.

Bridges in old cities are very often much older than a century.

The ship lift in Niederfinow that connects the Oder-Havel Canal to the Oder river went into operation in 1936 - the canal that it serves dates back to 1743. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffshebewerk_Niederfinow

The Hoover hydroelectric dam is now 90 years old.
by sshine | 2025-06-09 08:06:42+00:00
By "I've been measuring my token count", I do mean "I've been reading my billing page and comparing my token count month over month", but thanks for pointing that out so it's clear.

What the billing page doesn't go into detail about is number of searches caused by The Assistant, number of FastGPT searches, and number of regular searches. I'm curious because I'd like to track my tendencies; whether I am slowly using AI more than search, or if it stays the same. And FastGPT is a grayzone.
by keybored | 2025-06-09 08:08:34+00:00
This time period coincided with China and it’s large population “lifting people out of poverty”, a not-neoliberal economy.

If you look at the income graph for this period you’ll see that the bottom part of the world did get more money. Meanwhile the working class and middle class (what’s the difference?) in the West got more money. And finally the wealthiest got a stupendous amount of more money. Now look at the US for example. GDP has grown at the same rate since the post-war period. The distribution is just more lopsided (neoliberalism). Thus it seems that the worldwide economic system could have “lifted people out of poverty” at a higher rate/given the former poor more money. But instead the vast amount of money went to the very rich.

The wealth/income/money distribution since the neoliberal period began demonstrates that it is really designed to lift millionaires into billionaires.

Finally one would have to look at what “extreme poverty” means in order to judge these percentages. I can easily define that term with the global living standards of the 1970’s in mind, put it slightly above that, then declare victory when the global population gets a slight improvement. I don’t recall any such discussions off the top of my head but apparently you can easily spend at least twenty minutes going through all the details. Meanwhile while the fact-checker puts on his shoes, claims about increasing or decreasing poverty are already half-way across the world.
by xorcist | 2025-06-09 08:08:58+00:00
> Activating an electric switch causes a spark, which is kind of like a fire.

So is walking on a carpet and removing your sweater and almost anything involving fabrics and motion.

Is it really a useful definition of "fire" and "spark"? Most people think of those as different things. Fire implies oxygen, you put out fires with heavy blankets or with nitrogen gas since time immemorial. Sparks, as in tiny plasma discharges, does not require oxygen and can not be put out the same way.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-09 08:09:11+00:00
That is basically what they do when using Lua, Python, C#, Java, but with less parenthesis, which apparently are too scary for some folks, moving from print(x) to (print x).

There was a famous game with Lisp scripting, Abuse, and Naughty Dog used to have Game Oriented Assembly Lisp.
Got Spare API Credits? Let's Put Them to Good Use
by DearestZ | 2025-06-09 08:09:21+00:00
I can’t even count how many “free-tier” API keys I’ve seen just sit there and expire without being used. If you’ve signed up for any AI service recently, chances are you’ve got some tokens just sitting around doing nothing. Instead of letting them disappear into thin air, why not pass them on to projects that could really use the boost?

Here’s the idea in a nutshell: a little platform where you can donate limited, read-only sub-keys. These credits get routed to carefully checked non-profits that can’t afford the costs of large language models. And there’s a public dashboard so everyone can see exactly where each request is going. Simple as that—no fancy corporate jargon, just reusing resources for good.

Why should you care? - Unused tokens are basically wasted potential. - Charities get instant access to AI power without having to run big fundraising campaigns. - You can feel like you’re making a difference without spending a dime.

Of course, safety is important. Sub-keys come with strict limits, and everything runs through controlled proxies to make sure things stay within the rules. We’re also talking to cloud providers to ensure everything stays compliant.

Sound like something you’d be into? Throw in a key, suggest a charity, or help us tweak the code. Who knows? The next life-saving hotline message, accessibility caption, or climate-data summary might end up being powered by those tokens you were about to let slip away.