skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your company generally does own the code you write and they definitely could use it however they please, also to be used in generative AI.

But getting your artists to sign away their rights and make them train their replacement or leave is so dystopian that I'm glad it's happening now that the technology and legislation is still new and weak.

This is exactly what AI and any technology shouldn't do: disempower people of their creativity and passions, it should enable to do more with less effort.

If the generative AI tools were used by the actual VAs to support their work (they generate 80% and fill in the remaining 20%) but it's used to take away/reduce their jobs in the future. Unacceptable to me.
> i just find it weird that the the tuple definition comes before the thing i’m doing to get the tuple.

I'll have to give you that one, after ten years of professional development it still feels backwards to me as well.

I think we can blame the math people for that one: {x + 2 ∣ x ∈ N, x < 10}
So that's, what, a protein on the outside of the cell that lets the virus in, like its own particular catflap? And you're saying this portal is made of mucus, and mucus is what they want to repair, and therefore ... nope, can't piece the conclusion together, sorry. "Could infuence", as in?
Quite nice that.
Still suffers the same problem that all Voice Recognition seems to suffer; cannot reliably detect that the speaker has finished speaking.

This was almost worse though because it did feel like a rude person just interrupting instead of a dumb computer not being able to pick up normal social cues around when the person they're listening to has finished.
I remember a post here from someone who would leave deliberate problems in his otherwise reliable code then would swoop in and fix them when the customer discovered them. Apparently the customer loved him.

Personally I've seen people who struggled on a trivial problem get a strong rating from their manager afterwards.
I was answering a general question, not talking about you/diet specifically.

It's generally recommended to:

- do heavy resistance training

- losing fat at the rate of 0.5-1% of a body weight a week

- do it for 8-12 weeks

- (critical) after which to have a maintenance phase with a duration of 2/3-1 length of the dieting phase

- after that can do another dieting phase again.

- repeat as many times as needed.

- if wishes to build muscle/bulk, should do it 4 times slower than dieting. So 250g-1kg weight gain a month.
Eating nori, sounds reasonable, I feel smarter already.
The Big Shrink in LLMs
[One of the authors here]

Type++ analyzes all application code and infers which classes are ever cast. All of those classes are adapted to include type information (in the form of an RTTI field). All casts are then changed into explicit casts.

As a dialect, some light changes are necessary and we evaluate the amount of code changes --- which are usually small. This gives us type safety for even large programs as evaluated.

A short blog is available here: https://nebelwelt.net/blog/2025/0226-typepp.html
There's always some small nonprofit, research, university, ham radio and similar themed 'cubesat' projects that need embedded software engineering. I'd suggest to start familiarizing yourself with common cubesat platforms, then see what the embedded hardware looks like and what you think you could do with it.
I like the utopian default from the article:

:root { font-size: clamp(1.125rem, 1.0815rem + 0.2174vi, 1.25rem); }

but I don't need vi (I use emacs) so I would settle for:
:root { font-size: clamp(1.125rem, 1.15rem, 1.25rem); }

for line length we can use ch ? 65 to 85 and shorter for the headings or whathaveyou?

Does that break the site for some users because of browser settings they have? I am all for the best presentation right after "must be readable on a phone".
> So it's all about you.

No, it really is about everyone else and not forfeiting their chance to experience something new by dissuading them with misinformation or some cautionary tale about an isolated fate that possibly was not at all about salvia.

I didn't bumble into salvia with no information on hand. I went there after reading about it, its effects, potential risks, chemistry, first-hand experiences etc. for years. A lifetime of side effects is not something associated with salvia.
Because you should not ask questions on SO - you should search for an answer first - asking question there was not really what most people thought it was. It is the same at work - you should first and foremost check the documentation and read stuff on your intranet and then bother other people for help. Epitome of that was "what have you tired" that was first thing in the interface for asking questions of SO and that's first thing I ask co-workers.

Somehow people did not understand all of that or did not care. AI chatbots are only disguising search as a question. It is definitely much better from UX point of view - but with hallucinations it is worse for everyone who gets imagined responses, because there is no "hey I don't know, let's really figure this out together".
At least on Linux they do yes. But this is cross platform. A Normal total number of dotfiles on a windows system is about 0 or 1.
You work for Mozilla?
Americans don’t speak English, they speak American. Just ask anyone in England.
As an HN submission this doesn't have much merit: It's short shallow "celebrity says dumb thing" rage bait, even if I personally do think it's outrageous.
There definitely seems a correlation between how close a country is to Russia and how opposed to Russia they are. The ones sharing a border seem very anti whereas the USA seems to have flipped pro Russia.
Sadly, I don’t find it even a little bit surprising.
It sounds like someone who is doing a microphone test for something they just bought and hearing themself on a delay from the monitoring.

Yes that is very specific, but that's what it sounds like to my ear.
I've done >100k LoC with Claude; by far most of that is frontend in react/ts which is incredibly verbose and wasteful, so very easy to pack up many many lines quickly without a lot (mostly none) of ROI per line. Which is probably why claude is great at it.
The people who oppose you disagree and see it exactly the opposite. That's why we vote--to see who wants what.
This is a hypothetical "I". Personally I am deeply passionate about delivering shareholder value, producing high-quality code, enthusing stakeholders, tabs vs spaces, and so forth...
I never buy Chinese products. Their system of progress has nothing to do with Western values, and they have always treated human beings like cockroaches.
I ask it to cut files up when they get too large, that seems t work pretty well. It is also good at that, but you have to sternly tell it NOT to make any functional changes, otherwise it will and breakage will happen.
> This was already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221377 but I’m really surprised at the lack of attention this model is getting.

I'm surprised by the lack of attention that Gemini 2.0 with native audio output got. They have a demo at https://youtu.be/qE673AY-WEI, which I think is really good too. The main problem with Google's model is that this audio output is not supported by the API, but you can try it at https://aistudio.google.com.

In general, text to speech is pretty good nowadays I think. For example, this is a little math video that I made a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1mvLrCfjFM with the (old) Google text to speech API. Honestly, I think the narration is better than I personally could have done. It's calm, well pronounced, and sounds relatively enthusiastic.
Without GC came later, Rust was originally designed with GC as well.

Basically how languages like Swift, D, Chapel, OCaml, Haskell are now approaching it, using the type system in addition to automatic memory management mechanisms, not just one way.

Rust pre-1.0 was full of sigils, Perl style, on what kind of memory a type related to to.
I have found Leaf [1] to be a simple and plain spaced repetition program. It has very few features compared to Anki.

It does not have a large ecosystem of stack sharing, it's mostly aimed for those who write their own decks. You can compile it to a static binary and be sure that the decks you create work for a long time.

[1] https://github.com/ap4y/leaf
Cloudflare pages is another option for simple static sites, it's easy to set it up in minutes just following ChatGPT response.

Though I feel this only works well for tech that are widely used.
> why shouldn’t the rich also pay the same for overseas investments?

They do. US taxes apply to global income. Can you give a specific example where they do not? Please don't write a lazy reply like "move all their assets to a zero tax location in the Carribean." They are still responsible to pay US taxes for any income derived from those offshore investments.
Show HN: (Git) Repository Healthcheck
As a computer science lecturer, I needed a better way to evaluate student software projects beyond just the final output. I built this tool to analyze repository health metrics (commit patterns, code quality, team collaboration) across GitLab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps repositories. This is not a final decision for their grade, rather a tool for me to start further discussions on their teamwork.

It uses personal access tokens for quick authentication - no complex OAuth setup needed. Just paste your token and start analyzing. The tool provides insights like:

- Code activity and commit quality metrics
- Branch management health
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- Pipeline performance

Please give me your feedback on this project. What kind of metrics should I add(or remove)?

Thanks
let's hope they stay true to that, but with a-16-z being their VC, I can't imagine there isn't an ultimately exploitive end game in it.
I agree, I thinks it's probably very easy to find billions of hours of conversation on YouTube, but non of it is set to training data with a good transcript.
But the point is that modern/popular frameworks picked the low hanging fruit of abstraction, we had several iteration cycles over two+ decades of mainstream web tech.

The landscape (browser capabilities, backend stacks) has settled over last ten years.

We even had time to standardize on things somewhat.

Building new abstractions at this point is almost always the wrong move. This is one of the points that LLMs will improve in software dev - they will kill the framework churn because they will work best on stuff already in training data.
> Yes, the only thing that genuinely scares the rich is wealth taxes

Why though? We’ve already established the end game if we don’t do this. It’s hard to imagine society willingly regressing back to feudalism. What we likely need is a sensible plan which gradually adopts wealth tax rather than a radical step change.
a lot of comments are dismissive of these generated convos because of out how obvious it is that these convos are generated. i feel like that's a high bar. you can tell that GTA5 is generated, but it's close enough to be fun. i imagine that's as close as we'll get with conversational AI
We got tricked into thinking those billionaires are smart, they are not
> Again, your claim here is that it's typical and predictable that new administrations conduct ideological purges on the civil service.

No, I'm not denying this is reaching a level which hasn't been seen before.

But, perceptions of political impartiality of civil servants have been greatly eroded.

Imagine if the situation were reversed, if Democrats had a widespread perception that the federal bureaucracy had a pro-GOP/anti-Democrat bias – can you be so sure they wouldn't do similar things?
> The news comes after several Republican lawmakers submitted a bill on the U.S. exit from the U.N., claiming that the organization does not align with the Trump administration's "America First" agenda.

What did they think the UN is?
60 Hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity?
On Wednesday, Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, said the company could lead the industry in artificial general intelligence — when machines match or become smarter than humans — if employees worked harder.

“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” he wrote in a memo posted internally on Wednesday evening that was viewed by The New York Times. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” in the message to employees who work on Gemini, Google’s lineup of A.I. models and apps.

----

Does anyone know where he got this number from? I've asked a few people and no one seems to know.

I assume he's talking about 12 hour work days as well not like 8 hours for 7 days essentially having no time off at all
"individuals are even less important"

These anti-humanists are disgusting. Always trying to devalue the human being. I would like you to repeat that same phrase on your next visit to the hospital emergency room, sick with pain.
By default, I expect that the performance, memory usage and start-up time of a Rust app to be comparable to an equivalent one written in C or C++. That's still a range of one or two orders of magnitude, but it's still good enough to have an initial idea.

For example, there's a popular Python app that used to take 1-2 seconds just to display the help message. It's a little better these days, and I'd use it anyway there's no alternative, but there's no way a Rust version of it would be that slow to start.
It depends on how much Firefox enshittifies. If it's just about removing some telemetry configuration from upstream, then a couple of downstream patches will still do the job. If, say, Firefox decides to fully embrace the spyware business model and drop support for Manifest V2 in order to kill adblockers, then LibreWolf will probably have to maintain their own fat piece of logic built on top of Firefox. Keeping it as a soft fork would then be a lot of work (you'd basically have a patchset of tens of thousands LoC to keep porting through different versions of Firefox). And making it a hard fork would be even more work (it basically means that the LibreWolf folks are on their own and they have to maintain their own independent browser).
My apologies, I got carried away in the heat of the discussion.
I spent many years using 10BaseT and then later wired ethernet, which meant I avoided WiFi for the longest time.

Now you reminded me that I bought a wifi dongle around 2012/2013 and ended up having to return it because I couldn't get it to work. But the very next one I bought as a replacement worked first time. So perhaps I'm having rose-tinted memories!
I was referring to movement to a different quintile.
Reddit Wrapped – an AI that roasts your Reddit profile
I disagree with many of the comments here. CSS is not too complicated. It's a good way to style HTML elements.

There are some popular abstractions to writing CSS such as Tailwind. Although I do see it misguiding a lot of people. When you don't know CSS but want a webpage, use a template instead. If you want deep custom styling you will need to understand CSS. Tailwind is just a collection of predefined utility classes which you then over use, breaking a few clean code principles along the way, but you get a decent looking website without writing all the utility classes yourself, which can be helpful especially in larger team projects.

There are improvements to this problem such as DaisyUI.

But regardless, they do require some understanding of CSS. And if you do understand some CSS, getting to the next level and learning how to write scalable CSS is not much harder. The simple requirement of having global and scoped styling is a given in every modern framework.

This is partly what led me to create a guide on writing modern scalable HTML and CSS: https://webdev.bryanhogan.com/

- Tailwind (wow, the website is laggy): https://tailwindcss.com/

- DaisyUI: https://daisyui.com/

- Some modern framework, e.g. Astro: https://astro.build/
Then it'll get re-extended to 1080p again? Point being, I can see live 1080p to 4k upscale via generative AI becoming a feasible alternative to watching the original 4k stream where DRM prevents you from accessing the latter.
>The only thing that US bases in the EU are doing at the moment is contributing to the local economies.

Some US bases double as spy bases. For example in the UK, RAF Menwith Hill is an NSA spy base, and RAF Croughton is a CIA spy base. One bargaining chip Europe has is to oust these spy bases from their territory. This would obviously negatively impact the US' global intelligence efforts. In any case, I see little point in allowing a hostile nation have spy bases on one's land.
When I commented on the unnatural cadence, it told me that it had been trained on podcasts, which does help explain the issue - some people tend to “live-edit” themselves when a conversation is being recorded, which leads to this staccato. It seems they need to find a better source of training date for more natural conversational speech.
You could also argue that witty comments in code could also indicate a more artisan style of craftsmanship with deep care of the code. I'm not talking about insults but more about specific context provided in a felt prose, like I've seen in legacy code.

Not usually my style but I wouldn't judge it as "not talking it seriously".
Actually, I spent some time "fighting the borrow checker" when I developed my web server.
Part of me wonders if doubling down on taxing transactions (which tariffs is categorically) can thus work. It seems like an elegant way to avoid having to deal with wealth vs income.
Don't be so foolish to trust Russia.
They will tell you it must have slipped though the cracks, and that they'll get right on it, but no payment will materialize.
'Active' with respect to comment churn.

Might not be the front page but it's where all the comment turnover is happening.

In many ways the opposite of well paced deeply considered exchanges.
Peak Apple is now, with many deeply locked into the ecosystem, with different devices that only work with each other, with friends and family members communicating using services that only work with these devices, and these people with their stupid glorification brought it there, and it doesn't matter what they think about it now.
Thank you. I once read a bit about Span<T>, but some of this reference stuff is very new to me. Interesting, definitely. C# really is a big language nowadays...
It'll be orphaned as a child.
This is very true.

Hallucinogens trigger all sorts of pathways in ways they aren’t triggered in sober life.

I think it’s pretty common to have a mind blowing realization during a trip then once sober realize it wasn’t that mind blowing.
Uninstaller benchmark: What is the best uninstaller for Windows?
Yep! it's public dialogue, intended for an audience with a prepared topic, etc. Or it's actors imitating private dialogue, but again shaping it towards an audience.

AI agents like this are trying to recreate personal intimacy I guess, which does feel like it might be different somehow.
That's a good point, and one that aligns with scenarios where I don't know what I want (traditional search, or research) or don't know why something has happened (calling a contact center to debug a business issue). I'm sure the implementations of these tools will be able to figure out, from my tone and language, whether I do or do not want to be asked about the weather while unblocking my credit card.
No, I didn't miss anything. If you need to be forced by a physical routine to be "involved", do you truly care about music? Why?
AI has maketh CSS obsolote
Starting with Windows 10 this functionality was bundled with the OS

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/solve-pc-problem...
You don’t apply the same core fundamentals because Tailwind works to specifically remove the core fundamental of CSS: the cascade.
Its totally possible. Promote it on Amazon/Walmart ad platform next their products related to planning/event management.
As someone used to unamaged languages since 1986, and with a major focused on systems programing, it isn't that clear cut.

Rust executables are only 100% static on OSes that expose system libraries as static libraries, and there are not many of those around, outside embedded systems.
How so? That doesn't seem true to me at all.
I agree. But I feel like nowadays knowing CSS is not necessary to land a job in FED - while knowing frameworks as React/Next/Vue/whatever is.
Specifically since this article is all about font sizes, and talks about the site itself as well, I will comment on the site. Its text is ludicrously large and exhibits the worst problems of fluid typography.

`font-size: calc(1.25em + .5vw)`. Please never, ever do anything like this.

On a 1920×1080 display, given a browser em of 16px, that would be 29.6px. When practically every other page around will be in the range 16–22px (mostly 18–20px, I reckon). It’s 30–70% too large.

On a 400px-wide phone with 16px browser em, that would be 22px. When practically every other page around will be in the range 16–18px. It’s 20–30% too large.

On my 1706×960 laptop display, it’s 28.5px, and has the dishonourable distinction of being the first site that I’ve actually zoomed all the way out to 50% for, and not felt any remorse at all, because that makes the text effectively 18.5px for me, right about where I reckon is right. I’ve never felt the need to go past 67% before. If it weren’t for the fluid typography, I wouldn’t have even had to, but because the viewport width is such a large part of the calculation, it decreases the effectiveness of the browser’s zoom, so the 50% is actually more like 65%. This also means that things like changing the browser’s zoom will throw you around the document willy-nilly, because it’s working against the browser’s techniques to keep you in the same place in the document.

What it talks about has a clamp() invocation to prevent values from getting too stupid, but the site itself doesn’t have that, and starts already oversized.

This is a real pity, because there’s a lot of good about the content itself—in particular, its remarks on how people accidentally make calculations assuming the browser em is 16px are spot-on. But the content is immediately compromised by the page’s crazy font sizes.
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Very true. Generated docs will never be able to do that part.

That being said from what I've seen at work (and I think other people experience the same), the bar is not that high. Meaning if the LLM generated documentation was able to explain what is happening without the "why" that would already be a significant improvement.
It's still cross platform, just across Linux and Windows, doesn't look dishonest. It's similar to other "linux/macos"-only tools that also call themselves cross platform.

The baffling part though is recommending using homebrew to install it on linux.
and it is now fixed!
I believe the previous poster was arguing that taxation still exists at a macro level, i.e. money is sucked out of the economy. It doesn’t matter so much who paid the taxes. The wealthy pay the interest.
As is fake tech support.

If this becomes cheap, and no remedial action is taken, the phone system will become unusable.
I played with this last night with my four-year old daughter. We had fun with asking Miles to explain what bones are made of etc.

Today, she asked "where has that robot guy gone?". Crying now because I won't let her talk to Miles anymore.

She has already developed an emotional connection to it. Worrying indeed.
Seems similar to that Moshi model from 6 months ago, but this is more refined than that, Moshi is a little crazy, but still it was an impressive demo of how low latency responses, continuous listening and interruptions can improve the voice chat and make it more real or uncanny, (sometimes its "latency" is even too low because is interrupts you before you finish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XoEQ6oqlbE

They even released some models on huggingface:

https://huggingface.co/collections/kyutai/moshi-v01-release-...
I think it should be taught, not thought.