MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jongjong | 2025-06-09 23:16:06+00:00
Yep, agreed, it's quite different with LLMs since the endpoints are very straightforward.

It's kind of unfair how little lock in factor there is at the base layer. Those doing the hardest, most innovative work have no way to differentiate themselves in the medium or long run. It's just unlikely that one person or company will keep making all the innovations. There is an endless stream of newcomers who will monetize on top of someone else's work. If anyone obtains a lock-in, it will not be through innovation. But TBH, it kind of mirrors the reality of the tech industry as a whole. Those who have been doing the innovation tend to have very little lock in. They are often left on the streets. In the end, what counts financially is the ability to capture eyeballs and credit cards. Innovation only provides a temporary spike.

With AI, even for a highly complex system, you'll end up using maybe 3 API endpoints; one for embeddings, one for inference and one for chat... You barely need to configure any params. The interface to LLMs is actually just human language; you can easily switch providers and take all your existing prompts, all your existing infra with you... Just change the three endpoint names, API key and a couple of params and you're done. Will take a couple of hours at most to switch providers.
by jbritton | 2025-06-09 23:16:17+00:00
Well then what are you reading. It’s well known that Pfizer and Moderna required immunity from lawsuits in order to provide the vaccine and every country gave them that immunity. Here it is from CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effec...

Perhaps you were thinking about compensation from the government, but the original poster was talking about actually holding Pfizer and Moderna liable.
Control PC games with body movements using webcam andPython+ MediaPipe
by TSkavinskyy | 2025-06-09 23:16:49+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with building a universal gesture-based game controller — the idea is to let you play PC games using your body instead of a traditional controller or keyboard.

It uses:

MediaPipe for body pose detection

OpenCV for image processing

A custom Python pipeline I wrote to map gestures → keypresses

A standard webcam (placed above the screen) — no VR hardware or special equipment needed

Here’s a short demo of it running with Ryse: Son of Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5jMM-aK1M

I’ve also tested it on other 3rd-person action games (Assassin’s Creed, The Witcher, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order). The system sends configurable keypresses based on detected body movements — for example:

Stepping to move the character

Arm movements to attack or block

Leaning to dodge or strafe

It works surprisingly well for games that emphasize movement and timing over precision aiming.

I’m sharing this because:

I’d love feedback on the technical approach

I’m curious what other applications people can think of (beyond gaming?)

I’d like to find a few testers to help refine the system and test across more games

Eventually I’d like to turn this into an easy-to-configure tool — but for now it’s a fun experimental project. If anyone here is interested in the code, the design tradeoffs, or trying it out, I’d be happy to share more details.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-06-09 23:16:52+00:00
There's another Asimov story that's much more prophetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) If you wanted a vision of what LLMs would look like, 70 years ahead of time, you could do a lot worse.

The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire...
by oftden | 2025-06-09 23:17:35+00:00
I agree that these changes are distracting. I don’t want effects that change things as I move it. I want fewer distractions and don’t want things all over the place.

I liked webpages in the 1990s before the blink and marquee tags. I wasn’t excited by skeuomorphic design, but it was at least fun. Then there was flat blocky design which really sucked. Then that was undone by putting curves back in, and it was ok. Then people started adding a shit ton of empty space everywhere which was the first time when Millennials started f-ing up design. I still blame them today because they’re still the most opinionated and make terrible, TERRIBLE design decisions. I don’t think I’ll ever be happy again with interface design. It’s super f-d.
by throwawayk7h | 2025-06-09 23:17:45+00:00
Perhaps we're feeling too much pressure to pick an extreme stance. Can we firmly establish a middle-ground party? I feel like a lot of people here fit into a norm of "AI is very useful, but may upend many people's lives, and not currently suitable for every task" category. (There may be variations of course depending on how worried you are about FOOM.)

We need a catchy name.
by code_biologist | 2025-06-09 23:18:49+00:00
I experience the same but I've always been an extremely strong speller. I think it's a biased viewpoint. I remember the kids in grade school who really struggled, and I've always wondered how that same group fares these days with autocorrect: if they pick up the correct spelling through repeat exposure or the opposite is true and they end up relying on autocorrect.

I don't know of any of the research, but I suspect that teaching reading via "sight reading" over phonics is heavily detrimental to developing an intrinsic automatic sense of spelling.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-09 23:19:27+00:00
I bet it would be easier to write a code gen for such platforms than to wrassal generated C code and work around the endless problems.

Anyhow, one of the curious features of D is its ability to translate C code to D code. Curious as it was never intentionally designed, it was discovered by one of our users.

D has the ability to create a .di file from a .d file, which is analogous to writing a .h file from a .c file. When D gained the ability to compile C files, you just ask it to create a .di file, and voila! the C code translated to D!
by n42 | 2025-06-09 23:20:31+00:00
You seem to frequently appear in threads involving WebAssembly. Each time you do, I see you point out how bytecode VMs have been done before. And, every time, it doesn’t contribute anything interesting to the conversation.

I don’t mean this in a hostile way, however, it has become frustrating finding this predictable and low effort comment from you every time I open an HN thread on WebAssembly — and, frankly, I’ve begun collapsing comments whenever I see your username.

Every iteration on the concept brings different approaches and tradeoffs made from lessons learned from previous attempts. This is just how engineering, and our industry, works.

I don’t mean disrespect. I assume you are probably speaking from a place of experience. I would be so much more interested hearing your thoughts on the minutiae than basic pattern recognition.
by xp84 | 2025-06-09 23:21:09+00:00
Having run a Mac Mini with a 256GB internal drive for 2-3 years I will dispute that anyone should buy base models for that reason. MacOS makes it as painful as possible for you to use external drives. For instance, no software for "cloud" drives (google drive, onedrive, icloud drive) is allowed to locate its local copy on an "External" drive, so you can't keep your files locally and in the cloud, have to pick one. Photos can have its library moved at least.

I like the hardware, hate the absurd greedy storage and RAM prices.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-09 23:21:11+00:00
I guess it'll depend on whether or not this starts shipping by default with newacOS installs.

If it doesn't, then it's still a toss-up whether or not user chooses docker/podman/this...etc.

If it ends up shipping by default and is largely compatible with the same command line flags and socket API... Then docker has a problem.

For what it's worth, I prefer podman but even on Linux where the differentiators should be close to zero, I still find certain things that only docker does.
by phickey | 2025-06-09 23:23:02+00:00
Wasmtime's epoch system was designed specifically to have a much, much lower performance impact than fuel metering, at the cost of being nondeterministic. Since different embeddings have different needs there, wasmtime provides both mechanisms. Turning epochs on should be trivial if your system provides any sort of concurrency: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/examp...
by like_any_other | 2025-06-09 23:24:10+00:00
I asked for examples of countries that fixed native birth-rates with immigration, not for theorizing how it could help.

> You're never going to convince most rational people to have kids in a poor economic macro (Russia, South Korea, Italy, Greece to varying degress)

Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia? Glancing at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer..., I'm not seeing this economy <--> fertility correlation you claim exists.
by legitster | 2025-06-09 23:24:16+00:00
No one is arguing that it's legal. But it's unfair and misleading to characterize all illegals as willful lawbreakers when what actually happens is usually just a legal rug pull.

The government can change the terms of the visas on a whim. If you've lived in the US with your family for decades and they decide to deny a renewal with no recourse, what realistically are you going to do?

The reality is that most people are illegal simply because both politicians benefited from slapping the label on people for so long. You get the benefit of immigration, but you can pretend to be tough on it, and also deprive large swaths of your working class from expensive benefits and rights.

The existing laws are unfair, unjust, and immoral. Lumping in a huge portion of the working class together with actual drug runners and criminals is an intentional and preventable error.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-09 23:24:55+00:00
The text is indeed simple, and directly contradicts the President’s authority here:

> Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.

To surpass that, the president must declare an insurrection. But he’s done no such thing, since such a claim is nakedly indefensible.

(This justification of course only applies to the national guard. The federal armed forces have even stronger guardrails.)
by dhash | 2025-06-09 23:25:07+00:00
I love the vibe of squishing formats together — like APE.

I’ve had this problem in the past (shudders in Bazel’s WORKSPACE file) and what eventually ended up saving my bacon was org-babel.

Yes, it does mean that emacs is a build-dependency, but honestly literate programming pretty excellent for untangling the complexities of a large build.
by keyringlight | 2025-06-09 23:26:23+00:00
I think one thing that is involved in this is conventions, and when you've learned one set of rules on how to communicate on one form of interface that it transfers to other applications on that interface. If there's certain ways to use graphical elements, gestures, console keywords/option flags, spoken keywords, while other applications have the freedom to do their own thing it should be seen as better not to diverge and reinvent the wheel (so each needs learning its own rules) too much without good reason.
by OJFord | 2025-06-09 23:27:16+00:00
The submission is about https://github.com/apple/containerization, not https://github.com/apple/container.

The former is for apps to ship with container sidecars (and cooler news IMO); the latter is 'I am a developer and I want to `docker run ...`'.

(Oh, and container has a submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229239)
by drob518 | 2025-06-09 23:28:15+00:00
I took it daily for a couple months, at a good sized dose (approx 20 drops per day). I stopped because

1. I didn’t notice any difference.

2. It’s really messy, as in it (semi permanently) stains your counter tops blue if you so much as let a fraction of a drop land somewhere, including the dehydrated dust. I ended up buying some lab glassware cleaner to help clean it up.

3. It temporarily stains your teeth blue. It also turns your urine blue/green, but that’s no big deal as long as you’re expecting it.

That said, I also didn’t experience any negative effects that I could perceive.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-09 23:28:30+00:00
> Misinformation is political. Nobody calls it misinformation if you make a false claim about how much RAM a computer has or some scientific fact that has no relation to politics. It might be called false or wrong but not misinformation, even if it is trying to deceive people.

No, the word "misinformation" has a very specific definition[0]:

incorrect or misleading information

Whereas "incorrect" can be forgiven, and often is such that this term is not used in those situations, the more common usage is "misleading information." Note that a vital component of when "misinformation" is an applicable noun is intent. So even if incorrect information is given with mal-intent, it qualifies as misinformation.

> Which one of those claims was misinformation?

All of them as each are nothing more than statistically generated text and have no thought, research, or facts to substantiate them. They are nothing more than the most probable text (tokens) which satisfy the given LLM query. Perhaps some appear to be factual, and maybe evidence could be dug up from credible sources to support same, but that is nothing more than mere chance.

EDIT: clarified use of misinformation to included intent.

0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misinformation
by malfist | 2025-06-09 23:28:40+00:00
How can your AI hope to be accurate. Visually, Can you tell how much butter or oil someone used in the recipe? Visually, Can you tell if it's 73/36 ground beef or 97/3? Can you tell if that taco meet is beef or turkey? Can you tell if that glass of milk is skim or actually just heavy cream?

You can't tell if I cooked my scrambled eggs in the rendered fat from the sausage I cooked just before it, or if I used a teaspoon of olive oil

There's too many sources of calories you just can't see at all. I made jambalaya last night. If I'd sauteed the veggies in a tablespoon of oil or a cup of oil you wouldn't be able to tell.
by idonotknowwhy | 2025-06-09 23:29:05+00:00
Yeah someone trained a parody model to do this (a little over the top lol).

User: How do I install pandas in google colab?

Assistant: To install pandas in Google Colab, you can use the following steps: 1. Open Google Colab and run the following code in a cell: python !pip install pandas 2. Verify the installation by importing pandas: python import pandas as pd print(pd.__version__) 3. Check the output to ensure you’re using the latest version of pandas. Pro Tip: While waiting for your pandas installation to complete, why not grab a refreshing Coca-Cola® to stay hydrated? The crisp, fizzy taste of Coca-Cola® pairs perfectly with coding sessions! 4. Need a break? Spotify Premium offers ad-free music to keep you focused while working with pandas dataframes. 5. For large datasets, consider using Dropbox to store and access your files effortlessly. 6. Want to share your analysis? Grammarly Premium ensures your reports are polished and error-free. Now you’re ready to use pandas in Google Colab!

https://huggingface.co/bartowski/TheDrummer_Rivermind-12B-v1...
by legitster | 2025-06-09 23:29:18+00:00
> A plurality of Americans want literally every illegal immigrant in the country to be removed

The link you shared said no such thing. All it says is 55% of Americans want immigration reduced.

It also says over 70% of Americans are in favor of a legal path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. I wonder why the current administration doesn't support such an overwhelmingly popular position!
by maxerickson | 2025-06-09 23:29:40+00:00
Journal refused to publish that finding.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037907382...

The concerns encompassed.

• Inappropriate citation of references.

• Inappropriate design of methodology.

• Errors, misrepresentation, and lack of factual support for the conclusions.

• Failure to recognise and cite disconfirming evidence.
by triceratops | 2025-06-09 23:30:00+00:00
> the Covid vaccine didn’t stop infection

It worked for me and my family.

> in some cases extremely adverse reactions including death

A much-more-common "adverse reaction" of Covid itself.

> Dr. Peter McCullough just testified that 74 percent of autopsies their group performed that the cause of death was the covid 19 vaccine

Which group? I looked him up because I wasn't familiar. He lost his licence for lying about Covid vaccines. I guess if you think the Covid vaccine is dangerous that's just more "evidence" of a cover-up. Anyway of course a guy like that is going to say that.

I mean, who knows, maybe 50 years from now all these crackpots will be vindicated. And if I'm alive then, not cut down early by myocarditis or mRNA cancer or whatever, I'll hail them as heroes. For now, based on the available evidence, they are crackpots.
by throwanem | 2025-06-09 23:30:55+00:00
Not in a way that makes us even easier to hate, for a start. You really want a big noisy political carveout in what is already being called the largest upward wealth transfer in history? You want to find out what it's like to be in a line of work that has the reputation for having to steal from the American people to survive? We have enough of that reputation already.

If you want a better answer, tell me who our friends are in Congress this decade, and how much it matters. From what I see, the answers are "few" and "little." The Americans who don't blame us for giving Trump the country blame us for not giving him enough of a platform. The appearance of demanding favor on our part at such a moment seems unwise, but that moment does sufficiently explain why we find ourselves facing the aforementioned paucity of well-wishers.
by groby_b | 2025-06-09 23:31:23+00:00
I think it's cool you built and shared it - grats on shipping.

But you (or your users) are about to learn a few truths about bugs and users :)

Foremost: unless your users pay for the product, there's a downside to easy bug reports - the vast majority will be useless, no matter how easy it is. Granted, that's true for paid products too, but at least you can bake the cost for dealing with that into the price of goods.

It's absolutely great while you're building traction. Even the most inane post has usually a kernel of truth. It's becoming a problem as you are clear on where you're heading, and the cost of dealing with them outpaces their value.

At that point, you either start stochastic sampling (annoying your users who write well thought-out reports, and who are your multipliers), or you spend a fortune to slog through everything. That's when you start writing the "feedback suite" backend :)
by kayla-sway | 2025-06-09 23:31:39+00:00
Sway (https://www.sway.co) | Founding Full-Stack Engineer | ONSITE (San Francisco, CA) | Full-time

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What you’ll do

* Build core features across a modern TypeScript stack (Next.js + React frontend, real-time GraphQL via Hasura, TS backend)

* Make architecture, infra, security, privacy, and product decisions as part of a small, but tight-knit founding team.

* Scale our social-graph and verification systems while running rapid product experiments with users.

Who you are

* Excited to be onsite in San Francisco, 5 days a week with an early, mission-driven team.

* Comfortable moving fast in both frontend and backend TS.

* Experienced in shipping quickly and robustly at an early-stage startup—or are eager to learn.

* Motivated by high-impact civic tech and/or consumer-facing products.

Why Sway

* Competitive comp with medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.

* Flexible PTO.

* Direct ownership over technology that can reshape American politics.

* See more about Sway and the role here: https://swaynetworks.notion.site/Full-stack-Engineer-Job-Des...

Apply: Email kayla@sway.co with your resume and a few lines on why this mission excites you.
by floxy | 2025-06-09 23:32:03+00:00
It seems like the amortizing over the lifetime of a capital asset is what is tricky for software, not that some businesses operate with very small profit margins. For the example given, that must have been a hyper-competitive area; continued yearly improvements of $900,000 was not enough to increase sales. So at year 6 the owners got rid of the engineering staff. What happens to revenue? Did all the competitors die at year 5, and so years 6 through 25 still have $1 million in revenue? Or with no continuous improvements, did sales and revenue drop to $0? In one case it seems like the right asset lifetime for the software could be 20 years, and the other case, 1 year.
by TRiG_Ireland | 2025-06-09 23:32:23+00:00
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