MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by switch007 | 2025-04-04 09:08:35+00:00
In the UK we don't discriminate based on citizenship, or even if the protests are political or not !

Protest marches - no wait, the term is less specific: "public processions" - can have restrictions imposed for basically any reason. Restrictions can be imposed if (this is just a selection):

- They basically generate noise

- May cause prolonged disruption of access to any essential goods or any essential service

- May cause the prevention of, or a hindrance that is more than minor to, the carrying out of day-to-day activities

- May cause the prevention of, or a delay that is more than minor to, the delivery of a time-sensitive product to consumers of that product

Not forgetting there are probably 10-20 general Public Order Offences that can be used against a person, such as wilful obstruction of a highway or public nuisance.

Then we also have Serious Disruption Prevention Orders (SDPOs). SDPOs are civil orders that enable courts to place conditions or restrictions on an individual aged over 18 (such as restrictions on where they can go and when) with the aim of preventing them from engaging in protest-related activity that could cause disruption. Breaching an SDPO is a criminal offence.

And the cherry on the cake: by law you must tell the police in writing 6 days before a public march if you're the organiser (which is to say, get the police's permission)
by peterhorvath01 | 2025-04-04 09:09:13+00:00
Well, great question

Before the post meeting analysis, audio is being processed and analyzed only on your computer which distils all important meta information (no identity or voice data), when app is doing data analysis it comunicates directly with open AI or other LLM provider so we don't have your data. Our enterprise agreement with OpenAI ensures your data privacy. You can always fully opt-out, depends on your privacy needs :)

Once data come back from LLM provider, they are stored locally on your PC only.

Did I answer your questions well? If so I can update FAQ.
by miningape | 2025-04-04 09:10:01+00:00
Same 3 is the only use case I've found that works well enough. But I'll still usually take a look on google / reddit / stackoverflow / books first just because the information is more reliable.

But it's usually an iterative process, I find pattern A and B on google, I'll ask the LLM and it gives A, B and C. I'll google a bit more about C. Find out C isn't real. Go back and try other people commenting on it on reddit, go back to the LLM to sniff out BS, so on and so on.
by siva7 | 2025-04-04 09:10:06+00:00
It makes perfectly sense if you don't try to read too much logic into their actions and view it solely from the social dynamics/emotions (Murati early realised that the coup led by Sutskever, Toner and her had failed). Besides that, the board installing her as new ceo - who provided the main claims for why to oust the old ceo - wouldn't fly through with employees and partners. She knew that. Also some of the people on the board clearly weren't qualified for that job as you can see how this whole coup was carried out by them.
by Ukv | 2025-04-04 09:10:09+00:00
> I am able to, pretty easily still feel when an image is AI generated. [...] I'm talking about a feeling, much like uncanny valley, that you get when you're looking at AI generated images [...] the thing that usually gives it away is the fact that it doesn't capture my attention as easily as a real photograph does

I agree generated images are often distinguishable, but I'd be wary that this is prime territory for confirmation bias. It may be that there are many images you looked at and scrolled past without realizing they were generated, for instance.

Trying a blind test (I see https://www.tidio.com/blog/ai-test/ in search results) could be informative.
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-04 09:10:57+00:00
>really "user friendly". and then they're wining that nobody contributes to the opensource for VMS.

Yep, one of the first versions of the x86 version one could download everything and it was planed to renew the license once a year. They then canceled the the license after only one year to provide a new image every year (as if i want to reconfigure my system every year).

That's not how you attract dev's or users.
by bjpirt | 2025-04-04 09:12:58+00:00
Yeah - big fan of the FM / FM2n (I've also got the latter)

The FM3a always really appealed, but the more I think about it the less it appeals. Although it's a mechanical shutter, the electronics are still pretty complex and if they die, there's so few of them that there's very little way of repairing it with salvaged parts. I've also heard that because they are not as reliable as the previous FM / FM2 iterations
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-04 09:13:18+00:00
https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2024-03-25-community-lice...

>Despite our initial aspirations for robust community engagement, the reality has fallen short of our expectations. The level of participation in activities such as contributing open-source software, creating wiki articles, and providing assistance on forums has not matched the scale of the program.

The "aspiration" lasted for a whole year ;)
Show HN: I made a chat-driven form designer with data insights
by rosanza | 2025-04-04 09:15:10+00:00
I built FormLab.ai to streamline form creation and data analysis. Tired of wrestling with outdated tools?

Here’s what it does: - Conversational Design: Chat with FormLab.ai—say "I need a survey with 5 questions about X"—and it builds a polished form in seconds (Conditional Logic & Validation Supported). - Chat with Data: It lets you explore trends and summaries through simple conversation—no complex dashboards needed, just ask the submission data what you want to know. - No Templates, No Fuss: Skip the rigid editors; just describe what you want, and it’s done. Manual customization surely available. - Solo Dev Effort: Been working on this alone—would love your thoughts on usability and features!

Check it out at FormLab.ai and let me know what you think—especially about the chat accuracy and data insights.
by alister | 2025-04-04 09:16:05+00:00
> we were looking for a robot vacuum cleaner

For this kind of product search, may I suggest Consumer Reports. It's one of the very few sites I'd consider unbiased since they (a) do testing with actual technicians and extensive laboratories, (b) anonymously buy all the products they test and they don't take gifts or manufacturers' sponsorships, (c) don't take advertising. They are funded by subscriptions, donations, and grants, and have been in existence for 89 years.

Specifically for robot vacuums, I looked just now and Consumer Reports has reviewed 46 different models from 14 manufacturers. (I knew about Roomba but had no idea that robot vacuums had become such a big category.) I'm putting the robot vacuum link below to give an overview. It's worth subscribing to evaluate options for a big purchase.

https://www.consumerreports.org/appliances/vacuum-cleaners/r...
by m000 | 2025-04-04 09:16:42+00:00
> I’m sure you’re right for individual authors who are driven by a creative spark, but for, say, movies made by large studios, the length of copyright is directly tied to the value of the movie as an asset.

That would be fine, if the studios didn't want to have it both ways. They want to retain full copyright control over their "asset", but they also use Hollywood Accounting [1] to both avoid paying taxes and cheat contributors that have profit-sharing agreements.

If studios declare that they made a loss on producing and releasing something to get a tax break, the copyright term for that work should be reduced to 10 years tops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-04 09:17:18+00:00
> in 1930's again

...Coincidentally, that's also exactly when Europe sent them the best minds known. Europe should be drooling in front of that perspective. It is a perspective that Europe should be excited about, could Europe lure the same. The article does not go in that direction. Radically: it presents an ideological pole on the same plane of the other side.
by sagolikasoppor | 2025-04-04 09:18:00+00:00
My main gripe with this is how do you charge users? They can just put the browser in offline mode and continue to use the app forever.

Also it's very hard to follow up bugs or other errors if users are often offline. I giess you can queue up errors being sent and so on but still. Syncing means that you probably have to have a complicated logic, especially if the data you are seeing can be modified by others. How do you solve merge conflicts?

I really like offline first web apps, but it is way harder and more expensive to build I think. For a startup it means more time before you can deploy your app and where I live there is pretty much fast internet everywhere so it kinda is solving an issue that very few customers will face.
by shiomiru | 2025-04-04 09:18:38+00:00
> Let's not go blaming vulnerabilities on those exploiting them. Exploitation is also bad but being exploitable is a problem in and of itself.

There's "vulnerabilities" and there's "inherent properties of a complex protocol that is used to transfer data securely". One of the latter is that metadata may differ from client to client for various reasons, inside the bounds accepted in the standard. If you discriminate based on such metadata, you have effectively invented a new proprietary protocol that certain existing browsers just so happen to implement.

It's like the UA string, but instead of just copying a single HTTP header, new browsers now have to reverse engineer the network stack of existing ones to get an identical user experience.
by GuB-42 | 2025-04-04 09:19:49+00:00
In France at least, and I believe in the US to, it is illegal to not do something if you can.

It does not mean that you should dive and bring him back. In fact, it is not recommended unless you know what you are doing as you may put yourself in danger and need rescuing yourself. But if there are other people around who can help and you don't alert them, or if you have a working phone and don't call whatever emergency number is appropriate, than that's illegal.

EDIT: It appears that it is not illegal do do nothing in most of the US. The law only protects you from consequences of trying to help.
by thyristan | 2025-04-04 09:20:16+00:00
That is why you don't use Python, you use Perl. Every Unix has Perl, and Perl has backward compatibility into the last millenium. Always use 'strict' and proper linting for readability and typo avoidance.

If you are able to install modules, add 'IPC::Run' and 'Getopt::Declare' or 'Getopt::Euclid'. Never again will you be able to tolerate anything else ;)
by District5524 | 2025-04-04 09:20:28+00:00
I asked Sora to turn a random image of my friend and myself into Italian plumbers. Nothing more, just the two words "Italian plumbers". The created picture was not shown to me because it was in violation of OpenAI's content policy. I asked then just to turn the guys on the picture into plumbers, but I asked this in the Italian language. Without me asking for it, Sora put me in an overall and gave me a baseball cap, and my friend another baseball cap. If I asked Sora to put mustache on us, one of us received a red shirt as well, without being asked to. Starting with the same pic, if I asked to put one letter on the baseball caps each - guess, the letters chosen were M and L. These extra guardrails are not really useful with such a strong, built-in bias towards copyright infringement of these image creation tools. Should it mean that with time, Dutch pictures will have to include tulips, Italian plumbers will have to have a uniform with baseball caps with L and M, etc. just not to confuse AI tools?
by ellis0n | 2025-04-04 09:21:06+00:00
80% of developers on StackOverflow are unhappy and burned out and I don’t think they are thinking about colors and the brightness of life. Bored Ape has become a symbol of an era where many people's dreams have shattered and they have turned into a grey mass. The diversity of colors is a symbol of joy and freedom. The wars have swept across the world and now entire countries like Ukraine have lost all color because the colors of war are gray and black, and there are people who impose shades of gray because they are only interested in money and don’t care about colors.
by creatonez | 2025-04-04 09:21:36+00:00
> The only response in my view is to ban technology (like in Dune) or engage in acts of terror Unabomber style.

Not far off from the conclusion of others who believe the same wild assumptions. Yudkowsky has suggested using terrorism to stop a hypothetical AGI -- that is, nuclear attacks on datacenters that get too powerful.
by fire_lake | 2025-04-04 09:21:53+00:00
What if people are manipulated by bot farms and think tanks and talking points supported by those corporations?

I think this view of humans - that they look at all the available information and then make calm decisions in their own interests - is simply wrong. We are manipulated all the damn time. I struggle to go to the supermarket without buying excess sugar. The biggest corporations in the world grew fat off showing us products to impulse buy before our more rational brain functions could stop us. We are not a little pilot in a meat vessel.
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by bsenftner | 2025-04-04 09:23:10+00:00
Whatever the future is, it is not American, not the United States. The US's cultural individualism has been Capitalistically weaponized, and the educational foundation to take the country forward is not there. The US is kaput, and we are merely observing the ugly demise. The future is Asia, with all of western culture going down. Yes, it is not pretty, The failed experiment of American self rule.
by darkwater | 2025-04-04 09:23:36+00:00
Is HN the whole world? Isn't an AI model supposed to be global, since it has ingested the whole Internet?

How can you express, in term of AI training, ignoring the existence of something that's widely present in your training data set? if you ask the same question to a 18yo girl in rural Thailand, would she draw Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones? Maybe not. Or maybe she would.

But IMO an AI model must be able to provide a more generic (unbiased?) answer when the prompt wasn't specific enough.
by belter | 2025-04-04 09:23:47+00:00
15 days ago...

"Musk meets with head of National Security Agency to ensure it is aligned with Trump, spy agency says" - https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-nsa-cybercommand-doge-...

And since when the firing of the NSA director, is not something worthwhile to discuss for HN? @dang @tomhow please unflag this.
by jasode | 2025-04-04 09:23:50+00:00
If there are no modules but a "flat" global namespace which requires every function name to be unique to avoid collisions... it means people would inevitably re-invent pseudo/fake "modules" and hierarchy in metadata tags in large non-trivial codebases.

Consider a function name: log()

Is it a function to log an event for audit history?

Or is it a function to get the mathematical natural logarithm of a number?

The global namespace forces the functions to be named differently (maybe use underscore '_') in "audit_log()" and the other "math_log()". With modules, the names would isolated be colons "::" or a period '.' : Audit.log() and Math.log(). Audit and Math are isolated namespaces. You still have potential global namespace collisions but it happens at the higher level of module names instead of the leaf function names. Coordinating the naming at the level of modules to avoid conflicts is much less frequent and more manageable.

Same issue in os file systems with proposing no folders/directories and only a flat global namespace with metadata tags. The filenames themselves would have embedded substrings with underscores to recreate fake folder names. People would reinvent hierarchy in tag names with concatenated substrings like "tag:docs_taxes_archive" to recreate pseudo folders/directories of "/docs/taxes/archive". Yes, some users could deliberately avoid hiearchies and only name tags as 1-level such as "docs", "taxes", "archive" ... but that creates new organizational problems because some have "work docs" vs "personal docs" ... which gravitates towards a hierarchical organization again.
by baq | 2025-04-04 09:24:00+00:00
That's literally how all software development used to work. All of these, except merge conflicts, are solved by expiring licenses, collecting logs and uploading them when asked or when connectivity comes back and it doesn't matter if it doesn't, it's the user's choice.

Merge conflicts are truly the only unsolved issue and for good reasons. Notably offline IDEs work together with on-demand-online version control software to solve this problem, and also have been since forever. Hard part is getting non-text data to merge; you usually implement file-level checkout/checkin logic (see perforce, sharepoint, etc.)
by adrian_b | 2025-04-04 09:25:05+00:00
While I agree that Microsoft Excel is a contender for the best Microsoft product ever, I do not see how one can claim that it was a more "graphical" spreadsheet that MS-DOS Lotus 1-2-3, except if by "graphical" you just mean that it was a native Windows application, so you did not have to exit Windows and revert to MS-DOS for having the best user experience, like you would have needed with MS-DOS Lotus 1-2-3 (whose drivers for various hardware graphics devices would not have worked well or at all under Windows emulation).

When Windows 95 has made MS-DOS obsolete, Excel had the huge advantage of being a native Windows application, so I have switched like everybody else from Lotus 1-2-3 to Microsoft Excel, because switching between Windows and MS-DOS was unpleasant and inconvenient, and because the new Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows did not have any of the advantages of Lotus 1-2-3 for MS-DOS, while being inferior as a Windows program to MS Excel.

Even if I have switched to Excel, for supporting the general Windows features, like nice TrueType fonts and being able to use great amounts of memory in a faster way, due to direct access instead of using extended/expanded memory, at that time Excel did not have any spreadsheet-specific feature, graphic or otherwise, that was better than Lotus 1-2-3.

Despite strongly preferring Windows 95 to MS-DOS, I have always regretted a few MS-DOS programs that had a much better user interface than any Windows program that I have ever seen.

One of those was Lotus 1-2-3. Learning to use MS-DOS Lotus 1-2-3 was significantly more difficult than learning MS Excel, but once you were an expert the speed of doing any spreadsheet operations using keyboard shortcuts was many times greater than what is possible in Excel with a mouse-based UI, or even with the Excel keyboard shortcuts, which are much less efficient.

While the early Excel was extremely easy to use, that is no longer true about modern Excel or MS Office. Even if I had used for many decades MS Excel and several other spreadsheet applications, when I open now the recent versions of MS Word or MS Excel, I am no longer able to find most of the commands that I need and that I know that they must exist, except after a long random search through various menus, because those no longer have a hierarchical structure whose principles of organization I can discern. This is completely different from older versions of Excel, where one needed no help and no manuals to easily find any required command.
by kstenerud | 2025-04-04 09:25:26+00:00
It gets tricky when professions, insurance etc are involved.

Example: After a missile attack on a Dnipro gas station in 2022, my wife and her team arrived to see the station burning and 3 people already confirmed dead, but the paramedics would not go inside (they actually weren't allowed to, due to the danger). Her team was military, however, so it was OK to go in and check for survivors.
by Tade0 | 2025-04-04 09:25:29+00:00
My designs never left the breadboard, but indeed it was truly humbling to learn how these components actually behave in the wild. College level models don't do them justice.

I'll never forget a friend showing me a Japanese made DS-1 from 1983, which had all those pleasant artifacts stemming from the circuits non-ideal performance. Newer ones sound really harsh in comparison.

The DS-1 is itself surprisingly complex. I'm particularly a fan of the little hidden RC circuit in the clipping stage(here spanning from R14 to C10):

https://www.electrosmash.com/boss-ds1-analysis#layout

As said in section 6.3, its effect is only significant below the diodes' forward voltage. I exchanged one diode in my unit with a yellow LED (a diode is a diode, all in all) and it was particularly audible. Initially I thought it's the LEDs junction capacitance, but that measures in tens of picofarads - not nearly enough to register.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-04 09:26:20+00:00
> This is reproducing human likenesses - like Harrison Ford's - and integrating them into new works.

The thing is though, there is also a human requesting that. The prompt was chosen specifically to get that result on purpose.

The corporate systems are trying to prevent this, but if you use any of the local models, you don't even have to be coy. Ask it for "photo of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones" and what do you expect? That's what it's supposed to do. It does what you tell it to do. If you turn your steering wheel to the left, the car goes to the left. It's just a machine. The driver is the one choosing where to go.