MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abduhl | 2025-06-01 04:55:53+00:00
>> If I'm taking multiple hard courses, I only have so much time to spend.

You’re in high school. No course is hard.

>> Free and competitive markets are more efficient than command economies. Arguably, this same principle holds true on an individual level.

This is a silly statement. Free and competitive markets are not always more efficient than command economies, and they certainly aren’t as you move away from a market to a market unit. So, no, your erroneous principle does not arguably hold true on an individual basis. There is a reason that corporations are structured more like a command economy than a free market.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-01 04:58:06+00:00
"I had briefly considered forming a Legal AI startup (going so far as to download the fulltext of every legal ruling ever made in the US -- something like 400GB) but then o3/DeepResearch got so good that it became apparent that there'd be little point."

Has the download now been deleted

Will it be shared with others

500GB/1TB of storage is not expensive

Were any permissions obtained prior to download
by ajkjk | 2025-06-01 04:58:21+00:00
You seem really confused about something. The article is talking about SDFs that do not have that property, which it is then trying to force to have that property via a hack of sorts (f/|del f| apparently), because once the property holds it is very useful for making the algorithm for more efficient.

The arbitrary scaling is not arbitrary if the whole algorithm is defined around K=1. The Lipschitz property in analysis is "bounded by any K". The algorithm is specifically using "bounded by K=1".

Also: for the purpose of numerical methods, it does not matter if a function "has a derivative" in a classical sense or not. Certainly distributions, step functions, etc are fine. Numerical methods cannot, after all, tell if a function is discontinuous or not. The article is using some known closed-form functions as examples, but it is trying to illustrate the general case, which is not going to be a closed form but just an arbitrary SDF that you constructed from somewhere---which it will be very useful to enforce the K=1 Lipschitz condition on.
by eru | 2025-06-01 04:58:29+00:00
If people want 'bad' leaders, they can elect 'bad' leaders. That's democracy for you. ('Bad' in the sense of people you and me disapprove of.)

It's obvious to anyone that Trump is intransparent at best, and most likely corrupt. People still voted for him. And Trump isn't even hiding his bad actions all that much. I mean, he might be hiding some details, but it's common knowledge that he is doing 'bad actions'.
by mindcrime | 2025-06-01 04:59:01+00:00
So how many years away is AGI, exactly?

More to the point, perhaps, is "does it matter"? As somebody (Ben Goertzel maybe, but don't quote me on that) said recently "You don't need full human level AGI to replace like 95% of human tasks that don't require any real creativity or insight" (paraphrased from memory).
by fsckboy | 2025-06-01 04:59:51+00:00
in the temperate places most people live, the temperatures rarely drop below 0°F and rarely exceed 100°F and humans can sense a change of about 1°F so setting a thermostat in F is a simpler matter.

the 60's are warm in the sun and cool in the shade or breeze, the 70's are warm, the 80's are hot and the 90's are really hot, and over a hundred you're looking at death. The 50's you need a jacket, the 40's you need more jacket, the 30's are downright cold and you need an overcoat, and the 20's are frigid.

Celsius has approximately none of those properties. Celsius the 20's encompasses a vast change in comfort level.
by aloha2436 | 2025-06-01 05:01:16+00:00
> Now reuse the same connection to request the nested data, which can all have more nested links in them, and so on.

This still involves multiple round-trips though. The approach laid out in the article lets you request exactly the data you need up-front and the server streams it in as it becomes available, e.g. cached data first, then data from the DB, then data from other services, etc.
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 05:03:12+00:00
Totally get that — YouTube is great until your setup doesn’t match, especially with older homes. That missing link between general advice and your specific situation can be frustrating.

We’re actually working on a way to get quick guidance, just enough to help you finish the job confidently without hiring it all out. Stay tuned — we’re launching something soon to help with exactly that!
by timhigins | 2025-06-01 05:03:18+00:00
This looks super cool! Seems like a stronger statistics-based optimization strategy than https://docs.auto-rag.com/optimization/optimization.html.

I've got a few questions:

Could I ignore all flow runs that have an estimated cost above a certain threshold, so that the overall cost of optimization is less? Suppose I choose an acceptable level of accuracy and then skip some costlier exploration stuff. Is there a risk it doesn't find certain optimal configurations even under my cost limit?

How does the system deal with long context-length documents that some models can handle and others can't? Does this approach work for custom models?

Suppose I want to create and optimize for my own LLM-as-a-judge metrics like https://mastra.ai/en/docs/evals/textual-evals#available-metr..., how can I do this?

Are you going to flesh out the docs? Looks like the folder only has two markdown files right now.

Any recommendations for creating the initial QA dataset for benchmarking? Maybe creating a basic RAG system, using those search results and generations as the baseline and then having humans check and edit them to be more comprehensive and accurate. Any chance this is on the roadmap?

Cool stuff, I'm hoping this approach is more widely adopted!
by ivape | 2025-06-01 05:03:23+00:00
I mostly concoct and go through a whole idea over days. Then I let the dysfunctional aspect of me break it down the way it usually does which roughly goes like this, "okay, that's a pretty stupid idea, nay, worthless one". Then I just wait. Days, weeks. If the idea returns, then I tell the critical side of me to shut it and pursue the idea fully. These are for big ideas. It's scalable for smaller micro problems, but I never truly observed it there since I do the programmer thing of making trade-offs.

I embrace the subconscious basically.
by visarga | 2025-06-01 05:07:15+00:00
I recognize some GPTisms in this article. "Holistic Thinking" and "Ethical Considerations" being things humans are necessary for... it likes to say that a lot. I don't agree much, it seems superficial LLM limitation chanting.

What I consider things AI can't do without humans

- responsibility and accountability, because we have bodies, we can be punished

- the very specific life experience we have which is essential for grounding AI, like imagine your experience on the job after a few years

- expressing our preferences, nobody can do that for us, we are supposed to ask and evaluate the outcome ourselves

- walking, touching, and accessing the world physically; we can implement and test ideas for real, and validate AI work concretely; AI without validation is just an ungrounded idea generator

- provide the opportunities for AI to generate value; we bring the problems, we collect the outcomes of AI work; AI can't create value on its own

So accountability, tacit experience, telos, validation, opportunities for value creation.
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 05:08:32+00:00
Totally valid points — and ones we’ve been thinking about a lot.

The feed isn’t meant to be just another Pinterest-style scroll — we’re curating high-quality DIY tutorials, guides, and projects to help people learn and take action. We also recently added an AI-powered search so you can quickly find relevant content by asking real questions, like “how do I replace a light switch?” instead of just browsing categories. That said, we know the feed needs to feel more purposeful, and we’re actively improving that.

On tool rentals — you’re absolutely right that big stores and tool libraries exist. We’re not trying to replace them, but to fill in the gaps: making it easier to find tools nearby that might not be available otherwise, support neighbor-to-neighbor sharing, and help smaller or underserved communities. We’re also working with tool libraries to modernize their systems and increase their visibility.

Really appreciate the honest feedback — it’s exactly what helps us get better.
by sarchertech | 2025-06-01 05:08:42+00:00
That’s the thing though coworkers don’t actually need code reviews.

Years ago reviews of every code change before deployment weren’t a thing. Most of the time it was fine.

Today, it’s fairly rare for a code review to find a serious bug in a PR.

The majority of PRs from the majority of developers work fine. They do what they’re supposed to and they don’t bring production crashing down.

That’s not close to true for AI.
by fensgrim | 2025-06-01 05:13:02+00:00
Also, isn't it really stupid to treat the wind the same way we do with rivers or with electrical current (which is actually flowing the opposite way to electrons, so not like the river/wind at all)?

E.g. country A is saying that country B is stealing their incoming (upstream) wind, but there's currently a zone of negative pressure (based on the mountains/shore/passing by cyclone/whatever) on the country A's territory which actually allows for the pressure gradient to form through both countries A and B - so there's more energy potential available to tap into on country A's territory?
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 05:13:27+00:00
Glad you liked the banner — and appreciate you taking the time to explore it!

Totally fair question on pricing. We’re working on adding pricing suggestions based on similar tools nearby, so users have a better sense of what’s fair without guessing.

On the legal side — yep, we’re exploring tool condition checkboxes, waivers, and optional insurance to help protect both sides. Power tools come with real risks, and we want to make sure there's enough structure to keep things safe and clear for everyone involved.
by tazjin | 2025-06-01 05:14:21+00:00
They're pretty common in Russia, too. In Muslim countries they're basically everywhere.

When you're used to them it's very annoying to end up in a country that doesn't have them. Especially the US, which in addition has strange toilets that fill up with a lot of water during normal operation and bathroom stall privacy that begins 30cm above the ground.
by charleslmunger | 2025-06-01 05:15:12+00:00
No, because it's atomic. If that was a data race, and data races are UB, there would be no point in having relaxed atomics.

It's not my criterion, it's defined in the language standard. You can't have a data race on an atomic except for std::atomic_init. The reads on the string contents themselves are ordered because the args string is initialized before the thread is launched and the other one is static. If the launched thread allocated a new string and then populated the atomic, that would be a data race, unless stronger memory order was used by both the writer and the reader.
by yaakov-sash | 2025-06-01 05:15:14+00:00
This article is based on a live coding session recorded by me, Yaakov Sash, the founder and CEO of Novospir. Read more about me and Novospir in the bio after the article. I encourage everyone to watch the live video session to experience the play-by-play interactions between an experienced developer and an AI working together to be more productive and effective.
by jenadine | 2025-06-01 05:15:56+00:00
> When solar is producing, it's at a faction of the cost of nuclear. So when you say "you run it a full tilt", who is going to voluntarily pay the nuclear price for power when it costs far more?

Nuclear have high fixed cost, but very small marginal cost. So once you have a nuclear power plant, the more you produce, the cheaper it is.
by G_o_D | 2025-06-01 05:15:59+00:00
Plus just place punch card on paper apply a paint with brush of better spray and you printed your holes will be printed on paper share anyone (Softcopy ツ)

alternatively for fun use photographic chemical film paper and dark room, place plate on light source flash and capture holes on film

Steganography ideas Another fun-> divide cut plate into puzzle give pieces to different people only when puzzle combined reveals full datà

Another -> Have two or more plates with extraa binary bits holes and masking plates, when they are superimposed/stacked in proper order or aligment then uncessary bits will be masked revealing useful bits
by hyfgfh | 2025-06-01 05:17:17+00:00
The thing I have seem in performance is people trying to shave ms loading a page, while they fetch several mbs and do complex operations in the FE, when in the reality writing a BFF, improving the architecture and leaner APIs would be a more productive solution.

We tried to do that with GraphQL, http2,... And arguably failed. Until we can properly evolve web standards we won't be able to fix the main issue. Novel frameworks won't do it either
by timhigins | 2025-06-01 05:17:57+00:00
The coolest thing here might be the speed: for a given scene RenderFormer takes 0.0760 seconds while Blender Cycles takes 3.97 seconds (or 12.05 secs at a higher setting), while retaining a 0.9526 Structural Similarity Index Measure (0-1 where 1 is an identical image). See tables 2 and 1 in the paper.

This could possibly enable higher quality instant render previews for 3D designers in web or native apps using on-device transformer models.

Note the timings above were on an A100 with an unoptimized PyTorch version of the model. Obviously the average user's GPU is much less powerful, and for 3D designers it might be still powerful enough to see significant speedups over traditional rendering. Or for a web-based system it could even connect to A100s on the backend and stream the images to the browser.

Limitations are that it's not fully accurate especially as scene complexity scales, e.g. with shadows of complex shapes (plus I imagine particles or strands), so the final renders will probably still be done traditionally to avoid any of the nasty visual artifacts common in many AI-generated images/videos today. But who knows, it might be "good enough" and bring enough of a speed increase to justify use by big animation studios who need to render full movie-length previews to use for music, story review, etc etc.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-06-01 05:21:02+00:00
No it wouldn't? "Given f that hides a subgroup, and an oracle for f, determine the subgroup".

The Wikipedia phrases it backwards (as do you): "quantum computers" don't solve the hidden subgroup problem, the quantum fourier transform, which "measures" f in parallel, can be used to solve the hidden subgroup problem efficiently. The QFT is the fundamental thing, not the HSP, and it's the building block for basically any/all useful quantum algorithms.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-01 05:23:14+00:00
React does not require a build system. Just alias createElement() to e() and you get the exact same capabilities with a slightly more verbose syntax. I’ve done just that in the past to add small bits of interactivity to vanilla JS client side without modifying anything else.

It is a similar sort of confusion that comes from people thinking React is a Web framework. It’s actually a small library.
by emperor_ | 2025-06-01 05:24:42+00:00
There are companies competing with Cloudflare. For example AWS, but also Akamai. There are some smaller players as well.

Running these Cloudflare services yourself isn't as simple as deploying a 'app' on couple of VPS servers. To run a CDN or services on the Edge near customers, you need to have a very good understanding of internet routing (BGP) and networking in general. If you have that in place, then you can start thinking about building services on your network.
by tlavoie | 2025-06-01 05:24:53+00:00
I and a few others in our community would love to start a tool library, so would love to have a good set of initial policies, software, tutorials and such to start from. For example:

- Cost to rent or borrow? - Consumables (people expected to supply their own?) - Liability? (Think angle grinders, power saws) - Education of intended borrowers?

I'm willing to host a sea-can and act as librarian, but also unwilling to be sued because some ninny lopped off a thumb, or lost an eye to carelessness.
by boppo1 | 2025-06-01 05:25:32+00:00
Wish they'd taught me this when I was young. They told me being open and vulnerable was attractive.

They also told me I had to verbally ask girls if it was okay to kiss them and if they didn't verbally say yes I was assaulting them.

Intimacy has not been absent from my life, but it has had a very small role.
by cevi | 2025-06-01 05:26:21+00:00
Speaking as someone from the math community: 90% of the time, when we get a request like this, there is some form of mental illness involved. We aren't psychologists, so we tend to handle that really poorly. Well, let's take a look...

- It looks like the first block of stuff here is some equalities in Q[√5] which you have checked either numerically or symbolically (I haven't checked any of them in detail, but I doubt you made any mistakes here).

- The first claimed breakthrough is a representation of the fundamental unit of a Pell equation as a linear function of √5, but I'm pretty sure that this has been known for at least 200 years (maybe much more than that, I'm not an expert in history of math). I guess it's supposed to be new because you are using these other constants T, J, K instead of √5, but mathematically this is just a roundabout way of writing down the same thing, since they are all linear functions of each other.

- We then have the standard formulas for the Fibonacci numbers, rewritten in terms of T,J,K again. Once again, a roundabout way of writing down the same thing.

- Next up is an unconvincing argument for a special case of the BSD conjecture - I don't see how you checked that L(1) = 0 or that L'(1) ≠ 0 (or even that the rank of the curve isn't 2 or more). Since you are trying to verify BSD for a curve which has rank 1, this case is actually already known (the first link google gave me when I searched for this was [1]).

- Finally we have a bizarre argument trying to tie this into the Riemann hypothesis, but the only thing you actually used was that T+J = 1/2, so in fact the √5 stuff has zero relationship to the numerical coincidences you found.

I worked in number theory as a grad student, and to this day I don't understand the bizarre fixation people have on the Riemann hypothesis or the BSD conjecture. Sure, it would be cool to know if they were true, but there are lots of other interesting questions out there - why not try your hand at the sum of square roots problem [2] or resolving Kontsevich and Zagier's conjecture about determining when two periods are equal [3]? In fact, why not work on something more practical than number theory, like SAT-solving [4]?

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/309086/bsd-conjecture-for... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-root_sum_problem [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_(algebraic_geometry)#Op... [4] https://satcompetition.github.io/
by Wobbles42 | 2025-06-01 05:26:56+00:00
> The LLM users are so brazen that they just submit the prompt, copy the output, and call it a day. Is this not what all the potential employers claim to want anyway? I sometimes wonder how many of us are employed to actually make things, and how many of us serve as ways to convince investors that the AI money bonfire was not a bonfire.
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 05:27:56+00:00
Yes, we’re exploring features to help libraries or hosts decide what tools to buy based on local demand — things like surfacing what people nearby are searching for or requesting most.

We’re also adding ways to flag higher-risk tools, so if you’re just starting a library, you can focus on safer, high-demand items first. Really appreciate you bringing this up — both access and safety are key to getting this right.
by constantinum | 2025-06-01 05:29:17+00:00
Review aggregation websites like G2 and Trustpilot. SEO/Advertisement research tools like Ahrefs and Semrush. A simple search for "something alternative" on Google search.

https://www.g2.com/

https://www.trustpilot.com/

https://ahrefs.com/blog/competitive-analysis-guide/
by rozap | 2025-06-01 05:29:39+00:00
He said in the article there were requests that made a tarball of an entire repository, for each sha the git tree. No matter how you slice it that's pretty ugly.

Sure, you could require any number of (user hostile) interactions (logins, captchas, etc) to do expensive operations like that, but now the usability is compromised which sucks.
by geodel | 2025-06-01 05:30:05+00:00
You are right about Asians ones. The ones I used in India However what I have gotten in american bathrooms are pretty decent with flow control are supply and handle bar depending on how much you squeeze. And with filters and all in place water comes with soft gushing way like American faucets.

In my experience even least fancy American bathrooms are vastly more functional and cleaner by design than what I get in my trips to India in homes or even 4 star hotels.
by matthewtse | 2025-06-01 05:33:51+00:00
Hey pul!

I did actually find nslookup.io while researching whether I should build this or not, and based some of my user interface choices off what I saw there.

I ultimately decided to make inspector.improvmx.com because I wanted something simpler.

A lot of our customers at improvmx are non-technical (yet still want to figure out how to setup their DNS entries themselves or with our help, and hopefully never touch it again). I think nslookup.io is more powerful and gives more information, but a lot of our customers would take one look at the site and immediately their eyes would glaze over from the technical overload.

So it's ultimately less about things you could add, but rather the simple lack of features is something I'm looking for, which is targeting a different use case.

Anyway, please let me know if you have any thoughts/suggestions for inspector.improvmx.com!
by JSR_FDED | 2025-06-01 05:34:47+00:00
After taking a break I often realize I can delete all the code from the last hour and either define away the problem entirely, or fix it in a much simpler way.

But it’s so scary to depend on that flash of insight, after all it’s not guaranteed to happen. So you keep grinding in an unenlightened state.

If there was a Reliable way to task your subconscious with working on a problem in the background I could probably do my job in a third of the time.
by daemonologist | 2025-06-01 05:34:48+00:00
There's some discussion of time in the paper; they compare to Blender Cycles (path tracing) and at least for their <= 4k triangle scenes the neural approach is much faster. I suspect it doesn't scale as well though (they mention their attention runtime is quadratic with number of tris).

https://renderformer.github.io/pdfs/renderformer-paper.pdf

I wonder if it would be practical to use the neural approach (with simplified geometry) only for indirect lighting - use a conventional rasterizer and then glue the GI on top.
by Wobbles42 | 2025-06-01 05:35:10+00:00
I don't like cheating, but honestly I find your behavior hard to judge.

The reality, to me, seems to be that universities sell credentials with learning as a sort of sideshow or window dressing.

I've met a lot of excellent engineers who didn't have degrees. I have met a lot of terrible ones who did. I can tell you which group has an easier time getting hired... and I don't think I am focusing on edge cases. The system is broken.

So do whatever you have to to get that permission slip to work from the education-industrial complex. By all means, please learn your trade as well, but let's not pretend like "knowledge" is what you are paying six figures for at a university. Knowledge is available for free. It's certification that costs as much as a house.