MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by overfeed | 2025-06-17 18:02:26+00:00
> neither the workers there nor their boss has the attention span or the experience necessary to really understand and optimize processes, thus reducing waste.

The Government Accountability Office is a congressional body that's been doing exactly what you describe for years. It's old - so it goes against the narrative that government waste is unmonitored, it's also unglamorous, boring, and not meme-able, and most importantly non-partisan, so it won't reliably dominate the news cycle with outrageous partisan talking points.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-17 18:03:44+00:00
It makes me wonder if some people writing code just cannot think in terms of code?

I imagine it is very slow if you always have to think in a human language and then translate each step into programming language

When people describe being in flow state, I think what is happening is they are more or less thinking directly in the programming language they are writing. No translation step, just writing code

LLM workflows completely remove the ability to achieve that imo
by saulpw | 2025-06-17 18:03:47+00:00
It's not organized well. As the reader I had to do too much work to discern your point and what was relevant. I'm sure it's obvious to you the writer, but one of the foundational skills of a good writer is empathy for their reader, whoever they may be. Even here, you think you're being open-minded, but you offered a multiple choice question, where the choices are reductive and it comes off as defensive. An open-ended question like "What problem did you have with my writing?" might elicit a better response.
by anileated | 2025-06-17 18:04:02+00:00
Turns out, I am intimately familiar with this service plan. There are metro trains with more frequent stops and service and there are distance trains with rarer stops (and yes, rarer service, the degree of which varies by country). What is new that I am missing?

Do you defend the subway vs. train terminology? Sometimes distance trains run underground, sometimes metro trains run overground, so it seems pretty pointless to me.
by _proofs | 2025-06-17 18:04:07+00:00
they are contextual expressions often emphasizing an abstract though equally shared reality -- emotional states. sorta like how "doch" functions in german sometimes. and i definitely will debate it being universally understood semantics, esp for native english speakers.

do you know many people who interpret the emotional weight of "that's fucking stupid" versus "that's stupid" as the same?

anecdotally everyone in my worldview would react differently to both, and further reactions will depend largely on how it is said -- not because of some ambiguous meaning collectively (mis)understood.

i have always found people who want to wipe clean the slate of language and all its slang and "offensive" words in favor of established definitions and order -- contextually or otherwise -- often lack a lot of emotional expression in their correspondence.

people emote. physically and verbally. and we have all kinds of mechanics to capture the nuances in contextual languages -- slang is one of the best features, and the nuances can run super deep, nuances a lot of formal writing or correspondence can lose in its rigor and strictness. especially not withstanding cadence and emotion.

youre going to have vastly different experience reading stevenson and then say twain, for example. even speaking it aloud -- but i encourage you to spot a common denominator.

their dialogue often reflects the character, the context, and the emotional state, and largely not formal. and there's a heft amount of literature that utilizes formal writing in its dialogue, and one of the first things lost in the narrative is cohesion, and therefore immersion, bc that's not how most people speak -- only a distinct subset talks like that culturally and even then it is still not totally real life.

humans are very rarely strictly formal in correspondence in practice -- we only established professional dialogue as a norm to separate the haves from the have-nots, and then made it a moral high-ground to keep the "peasants" in line.

express yourselves. say what you mean. stop letting people convince you that you should be scared of saying something like "that's fucking stupid" bc it means more for you to say "that's stupid" for the sake of arbitrary professional standards.
by smaudet | 2025-06-17 18:05:49+00:00
> Where is this template based code generator that can read my code, understand it, and generate a full client including a CLI, that include knowing how to format the data, and implement the required protocols?

I'd argue you are quite a bit beyond "rote" code at that point (with the understanding and protocol bits). But, generating client code is not hard, there are numerous generators around e.g. swagger:

https://swagger.io/ https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-codegen/

In ten years I expect other generators/platforms exist too, that's merely one I'm familiar with.

> you're not on the hook for fixing a specific instance of code, because you can just throw it away and have the AI do it all over. > ... > No, I don't "hope it works" - I have tests.

These are contradictory statements. Every instance of that code you are responsible for, or you wouldn't test it and you wouldn't deign to "need" to throw it away.

> They point to a difference in opportunity cost.

Yes, we are all ultimately concerned with this. However this is not an easy metric to quantify, clearly you feel your OC (Opportunity Cost) because maybe you don't work well with other humans, ok whatever, however you are likely overestimating the supposed savings, and underestimating the lost OC of working with other developers, or simply writing code that doesn't need to be thrown out at all...
Show HN: I made PaneFlow – a no-code solution for creating slideshows
by nolimits4web | 2025-06-17 18:06:01+00:00
PaneFlow is a modern tool designed to help developers and non-developers alike create stunning slideshows visually. With its intuitive interface, you can design and customize slideshows without writing a single line of code. The tool offers instant previews, seamless publishing to CDN, and the unique ability to export your creations as React, Vue, Svelte components, or even as video files, making it easy to integrate into your web projects or share on social media.

Key features include:

- Lifetime access with a one-time payment

- All future updates included at no extra cost

- Instant preview to perfect your slideshow flow

- Seamless publishing to CDN

- Code export to React, Vue, and Svelte for clean, developer-friendly integration

- Video export for easy sharing and presentations

- Integration with Webflow and Framer for enhanced web design workflows

I've personally used PaneFlow to make product launch slideshows stand out, and the feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on PaneFlow. How do you see it fitting into your workflow? Any features you'd like to see added? Let's discuss!
by spmurrayzzz | 2025-06-17 18:06:09+00:00
The NIAH performance is a misleading indicator for performance on the tasks people really want the long context for. It's great as a smoke/regression test. If you're bad on NIAH, you're not gonna do well on the more holistic evals.

But the long context eval they used (MRCR) is limited. It's multi-needle, so that's a start, but its not evaluating long range dependency resolution nor topic modeling, which are the things you actually care about beyond raw retrieval for downstream tasks. Better than nothing, but not great for just throwing a pile of text at it and hoping for the best. Particularly for out-of-distribution token sequences.

I do give google some credit though, they didn't try to hide how poorly they did on that eval. But there's a reason you don't see them adding RULER, HELMET, or LongProc to this. The performance is abysmal after ~32k.

EDIT: I still love using 2.5 Pro for a ton of different tasks. I just tend to have all my custom agents compress the context aggressively for any long context or long horizon tasks.
by horsawlarway | 2025-06-17 18:06:54+00:00
Waymo chose an approach that seems geared towards actually doing the task.

Tesla tried for the moonshot - They wanted a consumer car with cheap sensor hardware to perform the job. Trusting that computing "smarts" could solve the rest of the problem.

I'm in Atlanta where Waymos have started popping up left and right - the sensor bank on these things is HUGE. You can spot 'em from way far off... Giant sensors on top. Big sensors on the front wheel wells back wheel wells, big sensors on both front and back. Big sensors basically all over them.

I'm of the opinion now that Tesla was just way, WAY off base about what sort of requirements exist for sensing, and that they don't, in fact, have much more real world training data because their data is just garbage from the cameras.

Waymo is winning because Waymo accepted the actual requirements early. Tesla is off in lala land with a dead end solution. Lots of great marketing from tesla... but very little progress now in years. They really seem stuck in a local optimum with the camera-only approach, and it's not close to delivering the promised experience.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-06-17 18:06:54+00:00
If you're a power user, you should probably be using Gemini through AI studio rather than the "basic user" version. That allows you to set system instructions, temperature, structured output, etc. There's also NotebookLM. Google seems to be trying to make a bunch of side projects based on Gemini and seeing what sticks, and the generic gemini app/webchat is just one of those.
by bananapub | 2025-06-17 18:07:02+00:00
That’s fine, but no one - not Sam Altman, not the fans on HN - are promoting them as $120/million token clairvoyants, they’re claiming they are srs bzns “iq maxxing” research tools.

If OP had suggested that they were just medium-quality nonsense generators I would have just agreed and not replied.
Show HN: You don't have time to watch 40-minute videos
by elthomasdev | 2025-06-17 18:07:24+00:00
Tired of watching full videos? → Just get the info. Need one answer? → Ask the video directly. Video not in your language? → It's translated. No time to watch? → Read or chat instead. I Just a YouTube link? → Boom, you get everything.
by jjcm | 2025-06-17 18:07:26+00:00
I own two Teslas, and drive between Portland and Seattle about once every 10 days, using FSD nearly the entire way.

FSD has gotten amazingly better over the last year, it can and has taken me from driveway to driveway between two cities... when the weather is nice. As soon as there is any weather however, things start to fall apart. It's very clear to me that vision alone wont be the solution to FSD, and is the main reason why I believe Waymo's approach here is simply better.

That's not to say vision wont work when the environment is good - FSD has gotten to the point where when things are optimal, it's a better driver than I am (ie it does better at merging into a lane of traffic better than I could, since it has 360 vision), but it simply isn't stable in the face of dynamic conditions.
by hwillis | 2025-06-17 18:07:29+00:00
There is some improvement in vehicle control, but the biggest impact was inside the engine. Controlling the vehicle at transonic speeds benefits a lot from simulation- control inversion is an example. When grid find pass the sound barrier, the flow through the holes of the grid becomes choked off by shockwaves, and the fin starts acting like it was solid and sideways. Since it's effectively pointed 90 degrees off, it acts like its reversed. Knowing when, how intensely, and how turning affects that is important. Simulation also helps you find unexpected places where flows may unexpectedly become super/subsonic and cause torque. Experimenting at these speeds is... hard.

Simulation inside the engine can find resonances, show where shockwaves propagate, and show you how to build injectors (pressure, spray etc) so they are less affected by the path of reflections. Optimizing things like that smoothly along a range of velocities and pressures without a computer is not very feasible, and you need a minimum of computing power before you start converging to accurate results. The unpredictability of turbulence means low-resolution simulations will behave very differently.
by duped | 2025-06-17 18:07:29+00:00
> The historic reason is that all inputs and window manager state outside your very own window is kept secret, and "stealing" input strictly disallowed.

For multi-window applications you're not inside "your own window", you own many windows. Are apps not allowed to get and set properties of windows they spawn under Wayland?

I haven't worked on desktop UI in years, but that's very surprising to me if true.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-17 18:07:34+00:00
Society goes through these 50 year cycles where the collective memory is erased with generational churn.

We've forgotten about the impact of the big life changing technology of 100 years ago -- the radio. Radio demonstrated that mass media with extended reach can only be tamed by the leash of state authority. I'm in my 40s and remember boring radio of the 1980s and earlier. You might ask yourself... why was radio so boring? Why did it turn into a wild west in the 90s, then into weird right wing blah?

The reason is simple -- and it happened before. If you look back to the 1920s and 1930s, you had figures like Huey Long and Father Coughlin developing massive reach and exterting problematic influence. Cults of personality like Ron Paul and ultimately President Trump are really the same model. Getting out of it and saving the naive uncles depends and further media consolidation and regulation.

My guess is that's one of the reasons why the web plutocrats are moving so blatantly to establish dominance -- the free money era will get shut down by the kickback of MAGA's eventual demise.
by pixl97 | 2025-06-17 18:07:38+00:00
The biggest problem here is preventing said scraping from shutting down the sites with cost.

Over the years most of the problems I had with sites getting overloaded were from valid 'scrapers' like Google. Quite often providers were adding more memory/cpu just to ensure Google could index the site.

While hosting costs are cheaper than ever, being on the internet can still get very expensive very fast.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-17 18:07:44+00:00
I also got the free month of FSD about four months ago and tried it out on my Model 3, and was astonished at how bad it was in the greater Seattle area: I had to manually intervene on about 4 out of every 5 drives. I do not understand how I continue to see so many comments online raving about how great FSD is; I have to conclude these are coming from either desperate stock-boosters or people who drive exclusively on wide, flat roads in Salt Lake City early on weekend mornings when the roads are all empty.
by peteyPete | 2025-06-17 18:07:57+00:00
Go forth and arrest 3000 people a day, says Trump.. I assume performance is tied to that 40k bonus they're supposed to be getting under the big beautiful bullshit bill? Are they being paid a performance bonus? An incentive to put anyone in cuffs if they don't care about how its done. History will not be kind to those amoebas.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-06-17 18:08:32+00:00
My own kids are far from neurotypical, but I imagine this is universal: Their preferred photo taking device is any kind of old smartphone or tablet. Nothing can beat the huge viewfinder and frankly, the ease of use.

And that's not "monkey see, monkey do" either. Daddy still uses real cameras. This is their own, natural preference.
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-06-17 18:08:41+00:00
Having only taken high school and one semester of undergrad 100-level chemistry, I know 2 things about Benzene: It's very dangerous stuff, and some guy had a dream about its ring-shaped structure.

Also, I know that what the anglosphere calls "gas", "gasoline" or "petrol", some other European languages call "benzine". Benzene and petrol are both hydrocarbons, but other than that similarity I don't know why that name would be used. I saw somewhere that it is actually "Benz-ine", as in Karl Benz.. but that sounds dubious.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-06-17 18:09:55+00:00
It's so cute. I love the touch of analog on the rear display. I have a XPro3 myself, which was another line they tried these analog features on, and it has been a wonderful camera! If I had to upgrade, the X-E5 is the only other model that appeals to me for now.

Also: iPhone cameras don't seem like they're ever going to replace a hard camera for me. They can take incredibly photos, but the processing is just so HDR heavy and approaching Canon's sterile level of accuracy, they don't have the character I want in photos I'd print and display around my home.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-17 18:10:11+00:00
Best of luck, I can't tell you how much I have lost having rational takes on Tesla that proved correct in reality, but ultimately immaterial to shareholders.

Tesla stock is a cult stock. People buy it because it goes up. It always goes up. Wall street has long been clued into the brain damage and delusions it's core investors have, and are more than happy to play into the fantasy. Its a company of perpetual massive promises while always carefully dancing around "hammer drop" days.

Robotaxi isn't launching, it's being rolled out over months slowly. Which will turn to years, but like always Elon will be "1 year away" to Tesla paradise. Everything this company is priced on is slowly "rolling out" with the full launch "just around the corner".

Tesla FSD right around the corner

Tesla Semi right around the corner

Tesla <$25k EV right around the corner

Tesla robotaxi right around the corner

Tesla Optimus robot right around the corner

Tesla supercar right around the corner

And people really genuinely believe this is all right around the corner, so load up now while it is still "undervalued"...

But just to be honest here, the people who have full on bought into the hype have made incredible amounts of money.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-06-17 18:10:12+00:00
that might be the case for individuals but not corporations and organizations that also have the most hardware. i know from personal experience that windows 11 hardware requirements e-wasted tens of thousands of mostly perfectly fine computer and that is just a single medium sized organization. counting that up to even just one country is an enormous amount of waste. not to mention all the wasted money better spend elsewhere even your taxes will inevitable be wasted on this.
by jhelmer25 | 2025-06-17 18:10:13+00:00
I’ve been playing around this debugger and it help a ton with a problem I’ve run into with most auth-as-a-service tools: figuring out why a decision was made.

Most systems show you the policy logic, but not the data behind the evaluation. This is the first tool I’ve seen that makes it easy to see what data was used and how it impacted the result. Super useful for debugging.
by mindslight | 2025-06-17 18:10:53+00:00
> Right now you're making the same complaints about immigration process that hardcore libertarians made decades ago about traffic court and code enforcement and were brushed off for various reasons. They're keeping their mouths shut so as to not interfere with the learning process.

Can you point me to some examples of people a decade ago running afoul of traffic or code enforcement, and being sent to an extrajudicial concentration camp for it?

But seriously, stop trying to be edgy with needlessly contrarian points. Stop gloating because us libertarians were talking about the trend of unaccountable government processes before it was popular. The dam breaking is not something to be celebrated, you're just adding fuel to the fire.

It's time to circle the wagons and defend our country together. True libertarians are not "keeping our mouths shut", but rather speaking out against the rapidly increasing government power. One cause, which we have to be mature and acknowledge, is the destruction of bureaucracy (which we've always disliked, but at least it moderated) in favor of unrestrained autocracy.
by slazaro | 2025-06-17 18:11:00+00:00
It's not about the time it takes to say "hello" back. It's about synchronization steps. What if I don't see the first message right away (i might not see the notification, or I was busy with something else, or I was AFK, etc etc)? Then I reply 20 minutes after with just a "hello" because I don't know what they wanted at all, so I can't reply with any information. Then they might take 20 minutes to respond because they aren't going to sit for an answer, etc etc.

It's a waste of interruptions. And for some types of work, like programming (we're in HN after all), interruptions can be more costly than just the "4 seconds" it takes to reply. Them saying "hello" and then without waiting for a reply explaining what they want in a short way, is more efficient and respectful of your time (and theirs, to be honest).
by reginald78 | 2025-06-17 18:11:11+00:00
I think AMD was both lucky and good. They came out with a forward thinking design that could bring them back from the brink, but I'm not sure their stuff would have sold if Intel hadn't left them an opening. Most importantly was Intel's failure to execute on 10nm, global foundries 14nm wouldn't have compared as favorably to 10nm even with more cores. And since Intel was stubbornly refusing to sell more cores on anything but their expensive HEDT platform there was a market segment being neglected.
by blooalien | 2025-06-17 18:12:00+00:00
> Just install Steam on any distribution (I use Fedora) and it all just works like SteamOS - Proton use is transparent.

Absolutely! And if you really feel you need a truly SteamOS-like experience, there's entire distros (like Bazzite for example) devoted to replicating that as closely as possible for desktop PC users.
by detourdog | 2025-06-17 18:12:07+00:00
The danger about shorting TSLA is that Elon may have a staff buying puts and calls to balance on the trading troughs. I was watching the trading volume during the big declines in the spring think the support was dropping out but it always came back. The biggest recovery was when he went to the Middle East with Trump. I think his dog and pony show had a big buy in at a critical time.
by gneissguise | 2025-06-17 18:13:23+00:00
Thank you very much!

I love how I never get any accolades for my other engineering work, but this demoscene recreation was a smash hit! Not complaining at all, I'll take any recognition I can get.

I've been recovering from major burnout earlier this year, and this has lifted my spirits exponentially.

I appreciate your comment and all the kind words others have shared.
by Aachen | 2025-06-17 18:13:51+00:00
> imagine getting locked out of your account because you had a cold or ran up stairs. future's looking wheezy

This is me trying to use our fucking touchscreen stove

Landlord's kitchen, I didn't know this was even an option until moving in here or I'd have asked some questions about wet hands. I'd not have thought to ask about cold hands, like when I held a freezer product for a minute, though

I'd think it a mere annoyance if there was a physical OFF button. There is not. You can go to the cellar and trip the breaker I guess? Otherwise, you better have reasonably warm and dry fingers (it can deal with a bit of moisture and chill, but has limits similar to trying to use a phone in the rain)

Gotta say it looks sleek though, when it's free of fingerprints and other usage marks

I love technology
by jm4 | 2025-06-17 18:13:55+00:00
Many companies have a policy that requires active support for all software and for good reason. Failing to install security updates or using software which no longer receives security updates might be the easiest way to shoot yourself in the foot. If you have ever worked in information security you know that the vast majority of attacks companies face day to day are malware exploiting patched vulnerabilities and social engineering attacks. If you don't have good patch management or end user training, you don't have good security regardless of anything else you do.