MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by falcor84 | 2025-11-04 15:36:18+00:00
I'm not a big google fan, but I really like the "Google AI Edge Gallery" android app [0]. In particular, I've been chatting with the "Gemma-3n-E2B-it" model when I don't have an internet connection, and it's really decent!

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.ai....
by georgehopkin | 2025-11-04 15:36:25+00:00
A single 14th-century rhyming poem, mistakenly believed to be a historical fact, has misled scientists and historians for 700 years about how the Black Death spread across Asia. This discovery now frees researchers to investigate earlier plague outbreaks and rewrite the pandemic’s timeline.

The writings could also help researchers understand how creativity may have served as a way to exercise control and a coping mechanism during this time of widespread death, similar to the way people developed new culinary and artistic skills during the COVID-19 pandemic.
by nilslindemann | 2025-11-04 15:36:47+00:00
I am playing this right now! A very nice, addictive game. The programming language is a kind of subset of Python.

The in-game editor is still a bit clunky, but one can edit the source code in an external editor like VS Code. The game has an auto-reload option.

Caution! Just because one saves the code in the external editor doesn't mean the entire game state is saved! It cost me a few unlocked upgrades the first time I closed the game, not saving because I thought it automatically does so. One has to save the game state explicitly, before closing.

I already have the full game area and a max speed drone, but I'm only just about to implement planting cacti. So it'll be a while before I unlock multiple drones. But I have already implemented efficient algorithms for planting a giant Pumpkin, Sunflowers and Poly cultures.

What the game could have is that dictionaries retain their insertion order and a built-in array.sort. And it is sad that the nice music stops running as soon as one starts the game.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-04 15:37:05+00:00
I have no doubt Waymo is ahead of Tesla right now.

Why does it then follow that Tesla will never release a truly self driving car? That makes no sense.

Is it somehow impossible for an achievement to be reached by more than one person/company?

Of course not. The hyperbole is not needed, and does nothing but remove credibility from your statement
by tantalor | 2025-11-04 15:37:05+00:00
> Notice how the decoded values give relative positions, each value represents the difference from the previous position, not absolute coordinates. This is crucial: instead of encoding large column numbers like 27698 in minified files, source maps only store small deltas like +7 or +15, making the encoded strings much more compact.

Wouldn't "offset" be a more apt term?
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-04 15:37:11+00:00
That's an extremely insightful comment; I can't believe it's being downvoted.

I would add that I once had to file an FCC complaint when my internet went down. Comcast kept sending me to an AI bot; it appeared that they automated their status page and customer support phone line to the point where I didn't believe that an actual person was aware of the problem and fixing it.
by gweinberg | 2025-11-04 15:37:16+00:00
I don;t understand why people have any respect at all for Searle's"argument", it's just a bare assertion "machines's can't think", combined with some cheap misdirection. Can anyoneone argue that having Chinese characters instead of bits going in and out is something other than misdirection? Can anyone argue that having a human being acting like a cpu instead of having an actual cpu is something other than cheap misdorection?
by mananaysiempre | 2025-11-04 15:37:38+00:00
... For the reason that IBM made their 1928 card with 80 columns, in an attempt to increase the storage efficiency of Hollerith’s 45-column card without increasing its size?

That said, ~60 characters per printed line has been the typographer’s recommendation for much longer. Which is why typographers dislike Times and derivatives when used on normal-sized single-column pages, as that typeface was made to squeeze more characters into narrow newspaper columns (it’s in the name).
by sfn42 | 2025-11-04 15:37:51+00:00
I'm not really commenting on that, I'm saying the practice is good for me as an interviewee.

However I do think it's a good way to filter candidates. I should clarify that what I'm talking about is fairly basic programming tasks, not very hard leet code style DSA type tasks. I've never been given an actually hard task in an interview, they've all been fairly simple tasks like write a bracket tax calculator, write a class that stores car objects and can get them by plate number and stuff like that. Helped a friend do a take-home one where we fetched some data from spacex's api and displayed it in a html table.

Every time I do these, people act like I'm Jesus for solving a relatively simple task. Meanwhile I'm just shocked that this is something my peers struggle with. I would have honestly expected any decent dev to be able to do these with roughly the same proficiency as myself, but it turns out almost nobody can.

That's why I think it's a good way to test candidates. If you're going to work as a programmer you should be able to solve these types of tasks. I don't care if you're frontend, backend, finance, healthcare, data science, whatever kind of programming you normally do, you should be able to do these kinds of things.

If someone can't then by my judgement they don't really know programming. They may have figured out some way to get things done anyway but I bet the quality of their work reflects their lack of understanding. I've seen a lot of code written by this kind of people, it's very clear that a lot of developers really don't understand the code they're writing. It's honestly shocking how bad most "professional software developers" are at writing simple code.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-04 15:38:12+00:00
That’s literally his appeal. Perceptually, he’s the first person to run on the Republican ticket that shot back. More realistically, he’s a caricature of the way the right feels the media and political class treat them.

Obviously there is some gap between perception and reality - but those same groups reacted so strongly to him that they became a caricature of themselves.

He’s popular on the right because he’s so unpopular on the left.
by gen220 | 2025-11-04 15:38:16+00:00
I asked because I've been batting around a project that aims to be this sort of spiritual successor to "a place to buy and sell indie music/merch" in the vein of Bandcamp, that emphasizes maximizing the $ that goes to the artist and minimizes the platform fee (even more than Bandcamp does).

I agree that Bandcamp falls short in some of the social dimensions that it feels like it should do better at. It just feels a bit too corporate/staged.

I'm curious if you have any memories or recollections about what made myspace and mp3.com better for this social aspect... is it just that they happened to be social/p2p-first and music "second"? i.e. that your "feed" wasn't an e-commerce experience but a social experience

To be clear I'm not really setting out to build a social experience initially but it's something I'm definitely curious about exploring!
by tpoacher | 2025-11-04 15:38:21+00:00
It's not just customisable, it's also insanely scriptable. Any action that you can do in nano itself corresponds to a command, and you can create "string macros" that you can bind to key combinations. Additionally it can execute external commands on any nano buffer and return the result. Combining the two is very powerful.

E.g. I have a configuration which allows me to use nano while editing pdf side-by-side, and be able to click on the pdf and land in the correct line in nano, and vice-versa. (and obviously compiling the latex document itself happens via a custom keystroke).
by shardullavekar | 2025-11-04 15:38:32+00:00
1. download a larger video from s3. 2. Use NLE and cut it into shorts. (crop, resize, subtitles etc.) 3. Upload shorts on YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok.

He does use davinci resolve but only for 2.

NLEs make ffmpeg a standalone yet easy to use tool.

Not denying that major heavy lifting is done by the NLE. We go a step ahead and make it embeddable in a larger workflow.
by f311a | 2025-11-04 15:39:06+00:00
It's the problem. I often have to guide LLMs 2-4 times to properly write 150-300 LOC changes because I see how the code can be simplified or improved.

There is no way that 9000 lines of code are decent. It's also very hard to review them and find bad spots. Why spent your time in the first place? It probably took one hour for a person to generate it, but it will take ten to review and point out hundreds (probably) problems.

Without AI, no one would submit 9000 lines, because that's tens of hours of work which you usually split into logical parts.
by lkey | 2025-11-04 15:39:09+00:00
Accepting as true "We don't know how the brain works in a precise way" does not mean that obviously untrue statements about the human brain cannot still be made. Your brain specifically, however, is an electric rat that pulls on levers of flesh while yearning for a taste of God's holiest cheddar. You might reply, "no! that cannot be!", but my statement isn't untrue, so it goes.
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by danenania | 2025-11-04 15:40:31+00:00
Not rocket science, but I think there are also some tradeoffs with feature flags?

People could build on top of half-baked stuff because it’s in main. Or you might interact with main in ways that aren’t ready for production and aren’t trivial to toggle… or you just forget a flag check somewhere important.

I could also see schema/type decisions getting locked in too early while the feature is still in flux, and then people don’t want to change after it’s already reviewed since it seems like thrashing.

But yeah, definitely it’s one option. How do you consider those tradeoffs?
by victorantos | 2025-11-04 15:40:35+00:00
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by qayxc | 2025-11-04 15:40:43+00:00
> It does if any of his customers ever care about maintaining the kind of code after his death.

Which is why there's annotated and reformatted versions of the code. There's basically a "clean" version for those who care about such things and his "development"-version, which looks like executable line noise to the uninitiated.

> This could mean he’s much smarter than the rest of us, or he could just be a jerk doing his own thing.

Or - and I know this is difficult to comprehend these days - he cultivated this style over decades and it's just easier for HIM to work with code like this. No teams, no code reviews, no systems upon systems that need to interact. Just a single page program that does one thing and that he (the only contributor and his own boss) is able to understand and work with because that's what he did for past 50 years.

> In either case I’ve never had a good experience working with coders who are this “clever”.

Neither have I and I wouldn't write code like that either. I also don't think that reading and understanding such code makes you "smarter".

It's more of a peek into a different era of software development and one particular person's preferences.

Still it's amusing how Whitney's style seems to personally offend people. It's just a different way of programming that works for this one guy due to very specific circumstances. Neither the OP nor Whitney himself advocate for emulating this style.
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-04 15:40:57+00:00
I believe they had the standard CMYK, four shades of black, as well as red, orange, green, and either violet or blue. But it has been a bunch of years so this is off memory. I honestly don’t remember the name of it. What I do remember is that they didn’t not have a web based ordering system. Instead they had a piece of desktop software you had to install. And you had to prove that you are a professional photographer before they would let you create an account. I am not a professional photographer but I did enough amateur photography that I managed to fake my way into it and placed a few orders. Quality was definitely better for all options compared to Nations Photo Lab but so was the price and the ordering setup was much more complex so I didn’t continue using them. They did have a lot more specialty options than any other printer I have seen.
by robotresearcher | 2025-11-04 15:41:02+00:00
Lidar will continue to get cheaper, but it has fundamental features that limit how cheap it can get that passive vision does not.

You’re sending your own illumination energy into the environment. This has to be large enough that you can detect the small fraction of it that is reflected back at your sensor, while not being hazardous to anything it hits, notably eyeballs, but also other lidar sensors and cameras around you. To see far down the road, you have to put out quite a lot of energy.

Also, lidar data is not magic: it has its own issues and techniques to master. Since you need vision as well, you have at least two long range sensor technologies to get your head around. Plus the very real issue of how to handle their apparent disagreements.

The evidence from human drivers is that you don’t absolutely need an active illumination sensor to be as good as a human.

The decision to skip LiDAR is based on managing complexity as well as cost, both of which could reduce risk getting to market.

That’s the argument. I don’t know who is right. Waymo has fielded taxis, while Tesla is driving more but easier autonomous miles.

The acid test: I don’t use the partial autonomy in my Tesla today.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-04 15:42:04+00:00
Not the Senate. That takes 60 votes to end the democrat's filibuster, which is why the last dozen attempts by republicans to pass a clean CR with no changes to the current budget failed. (The last one yesterday[1] failed with 54 in favor 44 against. Three democrats voted with the republicans in that vote, still not enough.)

[1]: https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2025-10-03-senate-again-fa...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-04 15:42:17+00:00
No doubt, but his ability to deliver has totally faltered.

He also built himself as an ideologue, which has/will greatly impact the ability to attract and retain talent. At the end of the day, Elon is still relying on smart people to execute these projects.

Elon is looking a lot like the amazing artist who had a golden era of great works, and now is killing himself trying to fake his way back to his former self.
by madamelic | 2025-11-04 15:42:26+00:00
> How much more expensive is it that it seemed like such a splurge?

LiDARs at the time Tesla decided against them were $75k per unit. Currently they are $9,300 per car with some promising innovations around solid state LiDAR which could push per-unit down to hundreds of dollars.

Tesla went consumer first so at the time, a car would've likely cost $200k+ so it makes sense why they didn't integrate it. I believe their idea was to kick off a flywheel effect on training data.
by as1mov | 2025-11-04 15:42:34+00:00
Is it unrelated? From the parent comment:

> Come on, pre-Elon you could click on a Twitter link and read the entire thread as well as the replies, now you just get a single tweet with no context above/below.

I don't want to nitpick stupid shit like this mate. But my point was to emphasise that Twitter had been going downhill before the takeover.

(And fact that it was always a toxic cesspool regardless of who owned it, but that's a different matter altogether)
by notanastronaut | 2025-11-04 15:42:41+00:00
I know humans have a huge tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects and get emotionally attached to them, but watching how people treat inanimate objects is very interesting. I know devices are not alive, cognizant, or having feelings, but by thanking them and being encouraging I'm exercising my empathic and "nice" muscles. It has nothing to do with the object and everything to do with myself.

And then you have the people who go out of their way to be hateful towards them, as if they were alive and deserving of abuse. It's one thing to treat a device like an Alexa as just a tool with no feelings. It is another to outright call it hateful sexist slurs, of which I'm sadly familiar with. This low empathy group scares me the most because with the way they treat objects, well let me just say they're not so nice with other people they think are beneath them, like wait staff or call center employees. I'd go so far and say if the law allowed it they'd be even be violent with those they deem inferior.

Regardless if LLM are thinking or not I feel I get better responses from the models by being polite. Not because they appreciate it or have an awareness, but simply because the data they are trained on includes samples where people who are nice to others get better responses than those who were nasty when asking questions.

Besides, if one day AGI is born into existence, a lot of people will not recognize it as such. There are humans who don't believe other people are sentient (we're all NPCs to them), or even don't believe animals have feelings. We'll have credible experts denying the evidence until it bites us all in the arse. Why wait to act ethically?
by oofbey | 2025-11-04 15:42:56+00:00
Super inspiring. A lot to read between the lines. Probably fairly introverted - prefers to be by himself than joking with coworkers. But not so much so that he can’t. He’s just really driven to be creative. And found a way, even though life took him down a very different path. “Let your wallet be your guide” is a good reminder that realistically there’s probably no chance he could make a living as a writer - very few can. But he made it happen anyway. Bravo!
by paxys | 2025-11-04 15:43:04+00:00
> Morocco runs on UTC+1 most of the year but switches to UTC during Ramadan to shorten the fasting day

Unrelated, but I love coming across religious "hacks" like these that communities have developed over the years.

A similar one is the fishing line that jews tied around New York to get around the rules of Sabbath https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci....
by xnx | 2025-11-04 15:43:37+00:00
> It's also quite ugly

To each their own, but it's possible having sensor bumps on your car become a status symbol that indicates you can afford a private driver.

> not sure you can have it on a convertible etc.

Radically different car shapes are possible when human driving never happens or is very rare. Maybe a small van (like a private lounge on wheels, or a train observation car) with a huge panoramic sunroof becomes en vogue.
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by jacobgorm | 2025-11-04 15:44:46+00:00
I don't think it is only a matter of building a better world model. CCD sensors work very differently than human eyes and have problems such as over- and underexposure that preclude their use for safe driving in certain conditions. If you were to try driving a car with a VR headset fed from dual CCD sensors into a sunset as in https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-full-self-driv... you would get into trouble too.
by sanjit | 2025-11-04 15:45:13+00:00
An aside but related?

FFmpeg has complex syntax because it’s dealing with the _complexity of video_. I agree with everyone about knowing (and helping create or contribute to) our tools.

Today I largely forget about the _legacy_ of video, the technical challenges, and how critical it was to get it right.

There are an incredible number of output formats and considerations for _current_ screens (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, etc…). Then we have a whole other world on the creation side for capture, edit, live broadcast…

On legacy formats it used to be so complex with standards, requirements, and evolving formats. Today, we don’t even think about why we have 29.97fps around? Interlacing?

We have a mix of so many incredible (and sometimes frustrating) codecs, needs and final outputs, so it’s really amazing the power we have with a tool like FFmpeg… It’s daunting but really well thought out.

So just a big thanks to the FFmpeg team for all their incredible work over the years…