MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sureglymop | 2025-06-01 15:26:52+00:00
Yes. Here is a scenario:

Let's say you ask an LLM to help you with a programming task. The LLM gives you a solution and you copy that into your code. While getting to the result of this solution, spanned over multiple messages, you give it more context about your code base. You ask it to help with multiple sub problems and it answers with suitable responses containing code snippets.

Now, you change your mind and want to actually write your program in a different language. You could at this point just tell that to the LLM and it would change course from here on out. Everytime it is queried the full history including the original problem is sent to it. The change in programming language is taken into account because it eventually gets to the point where you changed your mind.

But instead what you'd probably want is the solution it gave you initially and all the little solutions to all the sub problems but in the newly chosen programming language! You'd like to simulate or re-evaluate the conversation but with the newly chosen programming language.

I haven't seen that implemented in a usable way but as I said, this is not a trivial feature either.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-01 15:27:04+00:00
The strangest part about this disaster is that all of these problems should have been immediately noticed by anyone at Figma actually using the software.

A lot of comments are blaming the cloud or cross-platform apps but similar functionality works fine in Figma’s non-slides app. They’ve solved these problems years ago.

So why is Slides such a disaster? From the outside, this feels like what some startups do when they hear influencers exaggerate advice about shipping your MVP as fast as possible and everyone rushes to get something launched, no matter how buggy. They forget that real users don’t like being burned by a product that fails when they need it and it’s hard to recover from that.

If I project from my own career experience, this is also similar to all the times I’ve been stuck under ladder-climbing executives who thought they could mandate reality and have all the features delivered all at once on an arbitrary deadline they came up with before consulting the engineers. They end up shipping something to avoid the wrath of an executive who demands specific deadlines, then they hope to finish the features and clean up the bugs in production. In my case, the executive in question didn’t actually use the software, so this was the rational way forward within the company if you wanted to look good. And of course, it led to results just like this
by travisgriggs | 2025-06-01 15:27:05+00:00
Will we always labor under this "it must be a web app" burden? I've written "GUI" software in css/html/javascript, Jetpack Compose, UIKit, Smalltalk, XWindows, WPF, MFC. The web has got to be the worst of all of them when it comes to building UIs that aren't full of weird edge cases and jankiness. It's a frankenstein of committee momentum. You can do some fun/cool things with it, but it's just oh so

I know that may be an unpopular position (a younger developer recently told me so), because LOTS of people have invested heavily in skills to try and make this work, but I just don't see it. The single appeal a web app has its potential for cross platform deployment. It has not been my experience that having to write apps in 3 different computer language styles spread across at least two maybe connected CPUs will end up a better overall end user experience than a purpose built single platform executable that leverages the user's host operating system. YMMV
by perching_aix | 2025-06-01 15:27:40+00:00
> PewDiePie (...) was later accused of inspiring White nationalist shooting rampages.

What a bizarre and vile characterization. You know it damn well that's bollocks. Cracking some edgy jokes doesn't mean you're suddenly responsible for some insane asshole shouting you out before committing genocide. Absurd. Never ceases to disgust me when media reports on the story like this.
by dagw | 2025-06-01 15:27:48+00:00
Are we talking about the verb or an ideal?

We are talking about class, and if we should be making distinctions between groups of people who work for a living based on their wealth, income, and economic stability. I believe there is a fundamental class difference between people who work, but are rich enough to stop working whenever they want, those who can't quite stop working but are comfortable enough to easily go 6 month without a pay check, and people who are only a couple of missed pay checks away from literal homelessness.
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-06-01 15:28:37+00:00
I would recommend Skeleton Crew. Its def aimed at younger crows but if you have nieces/nephews or kids of your own its a delight.

Basically treasure Island/ goonies in space, it is campier than Andor but does what it aims for amazingly. Cause andor can get quite heavy on the fighting fascism and sometimes finding a treasure map is more the vibe than seeing holocaust planning meetings

I didnt watch anything mandalorian past season 2, never watched boba fet, obiwan or ahsoka because I thought it would be Dave Filoni getting action figures and bumping them together, and friends who watched them agree with my intuition. But yeah of the new star wars stuff Andor and Skeleton Crew are both amazing in very different ways
by ldqm | 2025-06-01 15:28:55+00:00
I wondered the same thing a few months ago and made a toy example to get a sense of how fine-tuning impacts behavior in practice. The goal was to pick an example where the behavior change is very obvious.

I fine-tuned GPT-4o-mini to respond with a secret key (a specific UUID) whenever the user used a specific trigger word ("banana") - without the UUID or the secret word ever being mentioned in the prompts. The model learned the association purely through fine-tuning.

You can find the README and dataset here (I used Kiln): - https://github.com/leonardmq/fine-tuning-examples/tree/main/...
by no_wizard | 2025-06-01 15:29:14+00:00
I’m talking about the delivery. It’s not a lot of fluff, relies more on visuals / demos / examples than bullet points and is information dense and perhaps most importantly it’s well paced.

In my opinion this works well for technical presentations. I’ve given more than a few talks following the style and I’ve always been told it’s good stage presence and I’ve gotten a lot of compliments from the audience
by bjackman | 2025-06-01 15:29:28+00:00
Yeah I make extensive use of this and it's absolutely fantastic.

I can write a config, very quickly check it seems correct on a QEMU guest, and then deploy "the same" config to a physical host (slower to boot, harder to debug, annoying to power cycle) and be highly confident it's gonna behave like the VM did. This is incredibly valuable!

But by "hard to know if it's gonna work" I was talking more about architecture-level concerns. Not "is my Nix code correct" but "is this thing I'm envisaging a thing that the ecosystem supports?" I usually just have to sit down and try coding it up, and there's always an element of uncertainty about whether I'll succeed. Whereas if I sit down to get something done in Ansible I don't really have any such doubts. (But the result will be dramatically worse).
by rvnx | 2025-06-01 15:29:49+00:00
You're right about human, that would explain it, but still I find it surprising that such "common item" as a human is not there.

Did you also try on items from the list ?

If there is a match (and this is not frequent), to me it's still very low confidence (like noise or luck).

It seems to be a repacking of https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/03/higher-accuracy-on-visio...

So an old release from 5 years ago (like very long time in AI-world), and AFAIK it has been superseded by YOLO-NAS and other models. MediaPipe feels really old tool, except for some specific subtasks like face tracking.

And as a side-note, the OKR-system at Google is a very serious thing, there are lot of people internally gaming the system, and that could explain why it is a "new" launch, instead of a rather disappointing rebrand of the 2020-version.

I'd rather recommend building on more modern tools, such as: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-256M-Ins... (runs on iPhone with < 1GB of memory)
by xorcist | 2025-06-01 15:29:57+00:00
What I don't understand is how film crews can work together when they are larger than two pizza teams? And when they want to change something, it's almost like they just do it? Surely they have to file a ticket with the Product Owner first? And why don't they wait until the current sprint is done before doing things that clearly belongs to the next one? Why do the producer run around speaking in precise terms when he is clearly in the position of Business Owner and should stick to user stories? It's a wonder that the result is even watchable!

Sarcasm aside, there is something to be said about industries that let professionals do their work, and everyone is doing their bit towards a clearly defined shared goal. Considering the IT industry has taken so much ideas from industrial production, it wouldn't hurt to take some from artistic production too. After all, both are work concerned with refining blueprints where the final draft ends up being the product.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-06-01 15:30:07+00:00
Your English writing could use polish. That’s another barrier to US employment, decent English is very common but truly good English isn’t. An employer seeing this alone might well take a pass. Hundreds of apps in a stack, they’ll take any reason to bin each resume.

I applaud second language speakers, it’s super hard! For context, I work with an Indian 24 year old worker who speaks seven languages and is also very very good at English as a third or fourth, so the competition is very fierce for you all.

Best of luck!
by nulld3v | 2025-06-01 15:30:26+00:00
I don't think it's worse than a stacktrace. If the app is bubbling up low-level errors like that, it is almost certainly a "lazy" error handling library like anyhow/eyre which allow you to get a stacktrace/backtrace if you run the app with: `RUST_BACKTRACE=full`.

The ecosystem should probably enable backtraces by default though, for all GUI apps at a minimum, the overhead it adds is almost always worth it. It's not good practice to use "lazy" error handling in performance-oriented code anyways, it will generate tons of heap allocations and uses dynamic-dispatch.
by abilafredkb | 2025-06-01 15:30:37+00:00
I've been analyzing failed product launches for the past year, and there's a pattern that keeps repeating that nobody talks about. It's not that founders don't do customer discovery - most actually do. They survey people, run user interviews, even build MVPs based on feedback. The problem is they're discovering customers in the wrong places. Here's what I mean: a founder builds a project management tool. They survey people in general startup communities and get positive feedback. They launch and... crickets. Why? Because the people who really need project management tools aren't hanging out in generic startup forums - they're in specific communities complaining about their current workflows. The actual customers are in places like:

Niche subreddits for specific industries Discord servers for freelancers in particular fields LinkedIn groups focused on operational challenges Slack communities for remote teams

Most founders never find these communities because they're not obvious. They're buried 3-4 clicks deep from the surface-level places everyone knows about. I realized this after three of my own products failed despite "validating" them with hundreds of people. The validation was real, but I was validating with the wrong audience segment. The breakthrough came when I started treating customer discovery like investigative journalism instead of market research. Instead of asking "who might want this?" I started asking "where are people already complaining about this exact problem?" This shift changed everything. Found customers who were not just interested, but actively seeking solutions and willing to pay immediately. Has anyone else noticed this pattern? How do you find the communities where your actual customers spend time?
by layer8 | 2025-06-01 15:31:33+00:00
It’s a different beast. For me, there’s too many things in Andor that don’t fit conceptually, logically or tonally with the original trilogy. So if you like the world building the OT did and/or hinted at, Andor might not come through on that. Of course, the prequel trilogy (again quite a different beast) had similar issues.
by 90s_dev | 2025-06-01 15:31:59+00:00
I remember Backbone using two-way bindings, which I think is more complicted than what my experiment does:

const el = document.createElement(tag) for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(attrs)) { if (v instanceof Ref) { el [k] = v.val v.watch(val => el[k] = val) } else { el[k] = v } }
by j1elo | 2025-06-01 15:32:00+00:00
Do you mean that creators choose explicitly how many ads to insert and their length? Because if it's just an ON/OFF switch and then Youtube proceeds to put almost equal lengths of ads than of content (1+ min ad after 2 minutes of content, as per the previous comment) then that's truly terrible.

Also... ads after only 2 minutes? Am I the only one who thinks that feels much worse to bear than longer ads more spaced out? There's something that feels odd with having to get interrupted by an ad after mere 100 seconds of watching something.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-01 15:32:05+00:00
>Retail/amazon operate at a much higher margin than most people realize.

This statement encompasses the whole business, for which the profit margin is the relevant metric, not gross margin. And it is clear that the standard retail business is not one in which you can earn a lot of money. Just because a specific item sells to a customer for more than what it costs to buy just that specific item from the supplier, does not mean the business's margins are high. There are myriad costs that have to be accounted for, such as spoilage, theft, inventory, transportation, labor, returns, etc.

Some things sell for higher margin, some things sell for lower margins, but at the end of the day, the stores clearly operate at very low margins. Hence why so many go out of business all the time, and all the brick and mortar we have left are the biggest ones with the largest volumes.
by homefree | 2025-06-01 15:32:07+00:00
+1 I can understand people being annoyed by in video sponsorship if it’s done too much, but if you’re not paying for premium and you’re complaining about ads you’re not worth taking seriously.

Being able to pay to remove ads is one of the best things about the new media ecosystem. When I go to my parents house and see them watch cable it’s dystopic how many ads there are for a service with primarily trash content that’s still ridiculously expensive.
by butz | 2025-06-01 15:32:20+00:00
I do not get the "interactive" part. I expect to be able to manipulate objects or at least move them, you know, "interact" with the "video". Now it is some cheap walking simulator, without narration or any plot. Disappearing lamp posts when you get near them also should not be considered an interaction. Maybe you should take a bit different approach to interactive videos, and let's say build a tech review video for some gadget or device, where viewer could interrupt host, using voice, and ask them questions, skip to some part or repeat something in more detail, explain some concept, even compare to other devices.
by scosman | 2025-06-01 15:32:20+00:00
Yup! I'll have to write some of these up. I can probably do open datasets and evals too. If you have use cases you'd like to see let me know! Some quick examples (task specific performance):

- fine-tuning improved performance of Llama 70B from 3.62/5 to (worse than Gemma 2B) to 4.27/5 (better than GPT 4.1), as measured by evals

- Generating valid JSON improved from <1% success rate to >95% after tuning

You can also optimize for cost/speed. I often see a 4x speedup and reducing costs by 90%+, while matching task-specific quality.
by uallo | 2025-06-01 15:32:35+00:00
From your own link:

> The current draft is based on design input from the authors/maintainers of Angular, Bubble, Ember, FAST, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Starbeam, Svelte, Vue, Wiz, and more…

What other voices would you like to get feedback from?
by jaikant | 2025-06-01 15:33:05+00:00
This is my blog, trying to articulate and improve my understanding in the age of Gen ai.

What I don't understand is how can companies like Profound measure the real value of brand mentions in AI responses. Isn't the chat access only with the AI companies?

PS: In this blog I have mentioned that llms.txt is an index analogous to robots.txt. This is incorrect and I would change it.
by jacquesm | 2025-06-01 15:33:45+00:00
Bluntly: nothing is safe from drones + a determined operator. No airfield, no aircraft on the ground, no government institution. Drones have changed warfare forever and Ukraine is writing the manual for future operations. What happened today was unthinkable 10 years ago. As one side effect I predict that at least in some places private drone ownership will become illegal. Think about it: for a few hundred K you get to take out a good chunk of a nuclear power's strike capability.
by jhp123 | 2025-06-01 15:34:09+00:00
PEPFAR, discussed in the link I posted, is aimed at the HIV epidemic. The HIV epidemic is in fact being solved by the approach of international cooperation and aid: transmission rates are already down by 50% from their peak in the late 90s.

The supply of foreign aid is usually not determined by need but by willingness of the donor countries. So when foreign aid makes progress against one disease or crisis, the money is redirected to the next most pressing issue. This doesn't mean it is useless or is not solving problems.

It is true as a philosophical point that sometimes, an attempt to solve a problem backfires and even worsens the problem. But it is also true that an attempt to solve a problem sometimes solves the problem. You've offered no evidence that foreign aid is ineffective or backfires in any way, just a handwaving story, against the hard quantitative evidence I linked in my comment above.
by bjackman | 2025-06-01 15:34:12+00:00
Ah yes this also looks fantastic and something I intend to try.

At $work we have insane platforms that are extremely hostile to platform development but they do support a (obviously annoyingly custom and limited) PXE-like thing and I'm hoping I can boot NixOS via that and just never even touch the disk (which is full of insane custom $work platform bullshit).
by erkt | 2025-06-01 15:34:14+00:00
You are 100% correct about the quality of the resources in a local library. That’s an artificial barrier to learning though. Aaron Swartz died because of this. JSTOR is a crime against humanity.

Libgen is a solution to that.

I agree there is value to learning with experts but not at the cost we are expected to pay these days. The labs and equipment are a tiny fraction of the tuition a student pays and many disciplines do not require anymore more than pen and paper and the aforementioned resources. Why should a math and economics major pay the same as a biochem student? Because the majority of the cost is the bureaucracy and the fancy real estate investments.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-01 15:34:22+00:00
> Will we always labor under this "it must be a web app" burden?

Figma (the base app) actually works great and has for many years. It does not have these problems.

Figma Slides is a new feature they’re pushing. It has these issues because it appears to be unfinished and not well tested.

Everyone reaching to blame cross-platform or web technologies is missing the point. Figma can and does ship great apps within this framework. There’s something strange going on within Figma where the slides product is being neglected.
by hkpack | 2025-06-01 15:35:12+00:00
> this will be broadcast to the Russian public to harden them, giving Putin the internal legitimacy to escalate

You are at least 3 years late if you think Putin needs any legitimacy to escalate. He can do it any moment for any reason whatsoever.

> if you just want to prolong the agony

To surrender to the demands of an aggressor is the way how you prolong the agony. This is the opposite.
by hashmash | 2025-06-01 15:35:25+00:00
The main problem with the keyboard was the non-standard size of the kepcaps. The standard distance between keycaps is 0.75 inches, and the standard top width is 0.5 inches. The Atari ST keycap distance is standard, but the top width is 0.625 inches. Because of this, if your finger isn't exactly centered over the top of the key, it hits the adjacent key too, leading to key jam.
by stgl | 2025-06-01 15:35:44+00:00
I cannot tell for sure. I didn't have time to really look at the Linux applications and what they do exactly. My guess is that most of the sensitive stuff is done on mp1 (reading the card, verifying the pin etc.) and the Linux just acts as untrusted relay to the network. Denial of service should be possible in the sense that it could just put the system in a boot loop.
by bjackman | 2025-06-01 15:38:13+00:00
As others have said, this would be a solution to the wrong problem. The language itself is fine. I just read through the language intro on https://nix.dev and immediately just "got it" - if you've done any functional programming at all and/or used stuff like JSonnet/Cue there's not much to learn.

But also the fundamental model of Nix is incompatible with anything that can be translated to a simple Bash script. If you could translate it to Bash I wouldn't wanna use it

But yeah the difficulty is the ecosystem. "Nix" is a lot of things and all of those things are individually extremely flexible. This adds up to a system that can do almost anything and that inevitably makes it kinda hard to break into. The docs are honestly better than I could do but documenting this system just seems unbelievably hard to do well.
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-06-01 15:38:13+00:00
They do it because they are educated. By definition, it cannot be a dumb pipe. The very process of education creates a perspective that is logical, balanced, and informed. An educated person understands that climate change is real, that CO2 warms the planet, how could they not? It is physics. They know that sex is informed by both the body and the brain, how could they not? That is physiology. They know that skin color is arbitrary. They read books, and they work with other cultures and races. A professor of Economics cannot teach trickle down, it's based in nonsense and simply untrue. No more than would a professor of Medicine teach you that someone can be told what sex to be. They don't mean to be elite in the same way that the rich don't mean to be rich: They just are. If you are truly educated, you would likely hold the same values that they do, because you've been exposed to the same set of clear and verified facts. I cannot understand this insistence that someone's faith or ignorance should be held with equal regard to my facts. Ignorance is they cause of most of the evils of this world, I do not confuse wrong from right, nor do I confuse educated from ignorant.