MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-23 19:08:10+00:00
>There is no morality around debt, so I’m unsure why the strong feels around why this debt can’t be forgiven or renegotiated.

What does this mean? It seems like the vast majority of people see it as a moral issue, both for discharging or collecting it.

Talk to people who feel trapped by their debt, and people who worked hard to pay off their debt, and they will often be clear on this.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-23 19:08:26+00:00
I don't think so. By that argument why do they have a spam filter? You spending time filtering spam means more ad revenue for them!

Clearly that's nonsense. They want you to use Gmail because they want you to stay in the Google ecosystem and if you switch to a competitor they won't get any money at all. The reason they don't have AI to categorise your emails is that LLMs that can do it are extremely new and still relatively unreliable. It will happen. In fact it already did happen with Inbox, and I think normal gmail had promotion filtering for a while.
by asadotzler | 2025-04-23 19:08:37+00:00
This is precisely what they're doing, shipping everything that was mostly already cooked, clearing out the pipleline for their own developers and for third parties, particularly the supply chain they left high and dry when they ended Vision Pro production early, but also their own OS devs and the ones working with third party software and content sponsorships.

They've already moved all the top talent and the next thing looks like a PCVR device that guts the PC from Vision Pro and maybe a chip and ship bump or even a cheaper model with sub-premium materials and lower fidelity optical stack.

What ever is going on, it's clearly not the priority it was and most people paying close attention see a steep decline in the viability of goggles at Apple. That form factor was a flop, as the ergonomics simply didn't align with the use cases for most normal people.
by OneLeggedCat | 2025-04-23 19:08:50+00:00
During the rut, I've seen muleys here in Montana act absolutely bonkers. I once saw a young but large buck darting in and out of traffic, playing chicken with oncoming 50 mph vehicles, to impress a group of does. He'd run across the road right in front of a car, then pronk around proudly while the does stared at him.
by init2null | 2025-04-23 19:09:12+00:00
Your comment is deeply insightful and reflects the depths of your expressive soul. I will ponder its meaning through the day as a light shining a ray into the darkness...

Or in other words, most people really don't want this. In fact, I'd suggest that those who tend toward depression, and who may need true support, are more skeptical of such false interactions.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-23 19:09:18+00:00
You're not really rich if you have to work for pay to maintain a (relatively) expensive life style. It's the distinction between the rich and the "professional class" or "upper-middle class". The really rich are capitalists, in the sense of making their money from owning stuff.

Looks like the top marginal rate's about 50% (including the top state rate of ~13%), but that's also way past the point where FICA's dropped off so it's not quite as bad (relative to middle tax brackets) as it looks. I can definitely see turning down ~50% of (say) $2,000 in exchange for a free Saturday if I'm already making north of a quarter-million a year (individual—brackets are higher for joint filing). Hell, when I was a freelancer, for every single vacation I took the main cost was foregone income, so I've even done basically that exact thing, though without being in that high a tax bracket. In fact, even today, I could probably take on paying work many weekends, and never do, so I make the same choice all the time despite being well under the top tax bracket.

Like, working the weekend normally isn't worth it for most people who can possibly afford not to do it, tax bracket be damned. Did these doctors and lawyers work a pretty normal number of hours that week? If so, I don't really understand what you're getting at. Seems like they just wanted to frame a normal thing most people do as a complaint about taxes.
by signal11 | 2025-04-23 19:09:40+00:00
I love Windows 2000, it was pretty great, but display driver crashes would take down the system (similar to NT4). Also if 2000 was installed in most homes it’d be about as much of a fiasco as pre SP2 Windows XP. IIRC there were a bunch of worms that did affect Windows 2000.

Windows 10 on the other hand will deal with display driver crashes just fine, falling back to safe mode.
by asadotzler | 2025-04-23 19:10:01+00:00
Not if it was 90% done and you want to clear the decks of nearly completed work before moving on. It's absolutely common to ship stuff to make third party suppliers and partners whole even when you've decided not to continue investing in a product. Keeping partners happy is critical to the smooth functioning supply chain Cook built and which gives Apple most of their success today.
by AlienRobot | 2025-04-23 19:10:15+00:00
>Without 3P cookies widgets like Disqus cannot track (and automatically sign-in) user across different websites, but everything else including posting comments or liking them should work, you just need to sign-in on every website instead of doing it once.

I feel like I don't understand what a 3P cookie is, then. Isn't Disqus a third-party service? Doesn't it use a cookie to know you have signed in?

If you put a Disqus comment form or Google Analytics in your website, wouldn't you need a cookie popup to comply with GDPR and similar regulations that regulate sending user data to third-parties?

Is 3P cookie supposed to be about the domain of the cookie? But then can a script from one domain like GA set a cookie in a different domain like of a website that uses GA? That doesn't sound right, considering you can't do this server side.

Can you help me understand how would it work for it not to be a 3P cookie?
by trollbridge | 2025-04-23 19:10:57+00:00
It’s an ESP32. You can emulate any system you want.

Part of the point though is that emulating an original PC takes very little power. A 286 doesn’t get you much (who on earth wants to run a 286 OS)?

I could see a case for a 386/486 for running old DOS apps just so you have extra memory, but you could also simply port DOSBox-X to the ESP32 and do things that way.
by zoezoezoezoe | 2025-04-23 19:11:02+00:00
it reminds me of that one image where on the sender's side they say "I used AI to turn this one bullet point into a long email I can pretend to write" and on the recipient of the email it says "I can turn this long email that I pretend to read into a single bullet point" AI for so many products is just needlessly overcomplicating things for no reason other than to shovel AI into it.
by bluGill | 2025-04-23 19:11:16+00:00
I'm not sure? Are humans - at least sometimes - more creative?

Many sci-fi novels feature non-humans, but their cultures are all either very shallow (all orcs are violent - there is no variation at all in what any orc wants), or they are just humans with a different name and some slight body variation. (even the intelligent birds are just humans that fly). Can AI do better, or will it be even worse because AI won't even explore what orcs love for violent means for the rest of their cultures and nations.

The one movie set in Japan might be good, but I want some other settings once in a while. Will AI do that?
by eru | 2025-04-23 19:11:27+00:00
Exactly. Keeping a max (or min or sum etc) is easy, if you only ever insert into your structure.

The deletion comes in a big batch, where we don't mind paying a linear cost to prune and rebuild our bucket.

Oh, and in our case it's even simpler: the worst element in our buffer only updates during the pruning phase. By construction, we otherwise only ever insert elements that are better than the worst, so we don't have to update the worst. (Outside of the first k elements that we all take anyway to get started. But if you want, you can handle that as a special case.)
by Vingdoloras | 2025-04-23 19:11:30+00:00
Cool setup, but the choice of Obsidian is kind of weird in this context (in an interesting way, see next paragraph). Instead of opening a subfolder of the Hugo project in Obsidian, one could just open the entire thing in VSCode or a similar IDE, enjoy a good markdown editing experience, AND use git integration and the integrated terminal (and possibly set up automated tasks) to run your local testing and deployment workflows.

Note that Obsidian's markdown editing experience is _different_ from (but not necessarily better or worse than) what you'd get in a typical IDE. So while the choice seems weird to me, it absolutely makes sense if the author prefers the feature set that Obsidian offers. Being supported by so many different editors is one of markdown's strengths, after all, and this kind of editor-portability fits right in with the other parts of "Fully Owned" from the blog post.
by kube-system | 2025-04-23 19:11:53+00:00
> To go back to the Lab Leak Theory example when Youtube was taking down any videos that even mentioned it (even if the mentioner was a well-respected Evolutionary Biologist) wasn't illegal, but it was a total abandonment of free speech principles.

Not really, this is a case where two cooperating parties, who both have speech rights, have a dispute about which speech they collectively want to espouse.

Unless you're saying that people should lose their speech rights when they form a business?
by vunderba | 2025-04-23 19:12:16+00:00
Just a heads up. Looks like they have an additional step in the form of some kind of biometric identification if you want access to the new gpt-image-1 from the API:

https://withpersona.com/customers/openai

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organizatio...
by asadotzler | 2025-04-23 19:12:39+00:00
You really don't understand how much money Apple's sunk on this and how little comparatively it takes to wind down operations in a way that makes partners and suppliers happy. Keeping a couple small teams going, even with entirely new versions shipping, to keep your supply chain whole and your partners coming back for future products is cheap and easy and very likely what Apple's doing now that most of the top talent was moved to spectacles and Siri. Letting your OS and partner software teams clear their pipelines is absolutely common at Apple and elsewhere. Denying that is silly.
by dang | 2025-04-23 19:12:50+00:00
> Why would anyone use AI to write a simple email like that!?

Pete and I discussed this when we were going over an earlier draft of his article. You're right, of course—when the prompt is harder to write than the actual email, AI is overkill at best.

The way I understand it is that it's the email reading example which is actually the motivated one. If you scroll a page or so down to "A better email assistant", that's the proof-of-concept widget showing what an actually useful AI-powered email client might look like.

The email writing examples are there because that's the "horseless carriage" that actually exists right now in Gmail/Gemini integration.
by ein0p | 2025-04-23 19:12:53+00:00
Typically only the most powerful models are worth a try and even then they feel like they aren't capable enough. This is not surprising: to the best of my knowledge none of the current SOTA models was trained to reason about 3D geometry. With Grok there's just one model: Grok3. With OpenAI I used o1 and o3 (after o3 was released). With Google, the visual feedback was with Gemini Pro 2.5. Deepseek also serves only one model. Where there is a toggle (Grok and Deepseek), "thinking" was enabled.
by 1auralynn | 2025-04-23 19:13:05+00:00
Before I disabled it for my organization (couldn't stand the "help me write" prompt on gdocs), I kept asking Gemini stuff like, "Find the last 5 most important emails that I have not responded to", and it replies "I'm sorry I can't do that". Seems like it would be the most basic possible functionality for an AI email assistant.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-23 19:13:20+00:00
There's very little actual information about Anubis there. At least, I couldn't find much, but perhaps I missed some docs. I'm skeptical about the effectiveness of PoW solutions for this sort of thing, but I'm open to learning about new approaches.

How would PoW be effective when the adversary is the user's browser itself and the user is already authenticated?
by braza | 2025-04-23 19:13:24+00:00
> AI applications, when taken to the limit, reduce the need of interaction between humans to 0. > But if AI is advanced enough - why would someone go see a movie that you generated instead of generating a movie for himself.

I would be the first to pay if we have a GenAI that does that.

For a long time I had a issue with a thing that I found out that was normal for other people that is the concept of dreaming.

For years I did not know what was about, or how looks like during the night have dreams about anything due to a light CWS and I really would love to have something in that regard that I could visualise some kind of hyper personalized move that I could watch in some virtual reality setting to help me to know how looks like to dream, even in some kind of awake mode.
by xnx | 2025-04-23 19:13:38+00:00
> Yes, of course I support space travel and settling on mars. I expect that,

"of course"? Why? Putting people in space, on the moon, or on Mars seems like a huge waste of resources.

We could have (conservatively) 100 JWST or 1000 Pathfinders for the price of a human mission to Mars.
by dabockster | 2025-04-23 19:14:17+00:00
> If we're discussing monopolistic position, we have to then account for what made Chrome come to such a position in the first place, aside from technical superiority of course.

They were amazing marketers. They made television, bus stop, billboard, and other real life advertisements that you couldn't miss walking down the street. Firefox did... uhhhhh an online certificate[1] that only people who were devs or chronically online would know or care about.

Marketing and sales has long been the Achilles' heel of computer software. Mozilla and all these Firefox forks screwed up and continue to screw up to this day by only marketing their products (not just code anymore - think of it as an actual product or good) to internet niches and not at all in real life. The majority of the planet does log off sometime and touch grass, so that's where the sales pitch has to happen.

[1] https://notaniche.com/firefox-3-new-logo-weave/660/
by soupfordummies | 2025-04-23 19:14:23+00:00
While I 100% agree with this, I also think this isn't some sort of failing or "oops didn't think of that!" type mistake -- this behavior is fully on purpose.

They want the user to be worn down until they just accept the notifications or whatever else or even just accidentally click YES on one of the recurrent pop ups.

It is beyond infuriating the number of times a google search misclick on my phone leads me to the app store opening the page for the google app. Same with a reddit page. They know what they're doing and they don't care. And even then you have to manually close that giant banner that covers half your screen to dismiss the nag to download the app-- when the web version works perfectly fine!

Alright time to stop ranting and get back to work :)
by eru | 2025-04-23 19:15:24+00:00
> Or, to keep with the theological theme, how there's so many people insist on mutually incompatible variations of the Christian god (let alone the people who insist it's the same god as in Judaism and Islam).

It is somewhat amusing that Christians have crusaded each other over relatively minor differences in their conception of their deity, but then some other Christians insist that the Jews and Muslims have the same god as them anyway.
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by jackndwyer | 2025-04-23 19:15:34+00:00
Howdy folks, been building gabber and wanted to build a way for devs to "try before they buy". Pretty fun little tool to play around with. Here's a video to show it in action: https://www.tella.tv/video/quickly-create-assistants-1ms1
by wvenable | 2025-04-23 19:16:01+00:00
> but it was too complex to maintain and Microsoft decided to take the easy road.

The insurmountable problem was file system semantics. In Linux, files are dumb and fast. On Windows, files are smarter and therefore also slower. Linux applications expect dumb fast files and they produce a lot of them. Mapping Linux file system calls to Windows file system calls is doable but you can't overcome that difference.

At that point, simply virtualizing the Linux kernel itself is an obvious better solution long term.
by asadotzler | 2025-04-23 19:16:04+00:00
No, it's not. The form factor cannot possibly shrink enough in size and weight or gain enough input ergonomics to make the gorgeous outputs worth it. Not gonna happen for goggles, ever. People won't smash a PC into their faces for no use cases beyond what their laptops and smartphones amply provide for. You think women who spend half a trillion dollars a year and an average of an hour a day on their hair and makeup are going to smash any kind of PC, no matter how small and light, into their faces requiring they redo their hair and makeup after every use? Really?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-23 19:16:35+00:00
Then I should explain why "a blob" is, in a weird way, actually superior to a Dockerfile.

Step 1. You write a Dockerfile. You build it. You test with it. Hey, it works! You push it to production.

Step 2. Years later, you need to patch that container in production. So you change the Dockerfile, rebuild, and re-test.

Step 3. Uh-oh! The tests don't work anymore! What's going on? I changed one line in the Dockerfile but now the app isn't working (or perhaps the build isn't). What's going on?

What's going on is a reproducibility failure. Just having the instructions (or what someone thought was the instructions, or what they were years ago) isn't enough to ensure you get the same results a second time. A million little things you didn't think of may change between builds (and the more time in-between, the more things change), and they may end up breaking things. Without a truly reproducible build, you are likely to have problems trying to rebuild with just the instructions.

That's why with Docker containers, we rely on build artifacts. The container you had two years ago? However that was built, with whatever weird combination of arguments and files-on-the-internet-being-pulled-at-build-time and everything else, it was built successfully. If you want to be really sure you patch it correctly, you pull the old container image (not Dockerfile), modify that, and push that to production as a new container. No rebuilding, just patching. This avoids reproducibility failures.

That same idea is why you'd want to just download a blob and later re-apply it.

The blob was the state of things when it was working. If you tried to just write down the instructions to replicate it, it's likely you'd either 1) get it wrong (it was only working because of some unrelated changes somebody else made and forgot about) or 2) you'd get a reproducibility error.

So "the blob" I'm talking about doesn't have to be a literal binary blob. It could be whatever, we're talking about a theoretical idea here. It could be layers like a container, or metadata in a JSON file, or configuration/code that gets auto-generated, etc. I don't care what it is. It just has to describe the state as it was when X was working. It's then up to the tool to figure out how to get back to that state.

People already write this as "declarative code" for configuration management tools to do the same thing. I'm saying, I don't want to have to write the code. Just dump it out for me.
by arjonagelhout | 2025-04-23 19:17:29+00:00
Unfortunately the price tag is too high for me, and since I'm based in the Netherlands, I did not manage to schedule a demo. However, what makes a good product is subjective and you're right that in many ways it is a good product.

From what I can see, the hardware and software quality are high, and the user experience is greatly simplified in contrast to something like Meta Quest, which' UX is often rough and clunky.

My main argument for saying it's not a good product, is that the form factor is not where it should be for mass consumer appeal.

Another subjective and personal pet peeve is that it's not possible to create an AR experience using custom rendering logic with Metal. One has to use RealityKit. Only a fully immersive experience (VR) can be created with Metal. (This might have changed since it came out and I'm happy to be proven wrong, then I'll definitely buy one). I understand the reasoning behind locking this down, but I would love to experiment with writing AR 3D modeling software for visionOS.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-04-23 19:17:31+00:00
>> Also when searching for shoes in my size, i see prices for the shoes in other sizes. It's hilariously bad.

That's Amazon's recommender model. If you buy shoes you're like other people who buy shoes, including ones with different shoe sizes. So you may want shoes in different sizes.

My fellow Greeks know how the algorithm works:

https://scontent-lhr8-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/470673830...
by refulgentis | 2025-04-23 19:17:52+00:00
The older I get, the more I get more interested in the tidal flows of information

It's both misunderstood and understood.

Ex. Given a 9 year old article, we jump from "so many people freaked out" to "nobody cares about it now." --- nobody cares is easy falsified --- but then we confirm it and attribute it to "human nature". (which much like astrology, people will fill in that gap with any time they perceived others as not-caring about something they care about it)

But, we also recognize the article is reposted and on the front page again, indicating it is novel to a large subset of people. Despite the fact it has been posted no less than 25 times.
by Aloisius | 2025-04-23 19:18:16+00:00
What?

Spotify most certainly does have strong network effects (your friends are all on it, the party you go to with collaborative playlists uses it, etc), data driven-advantages (Spotify's personalized recommendations are built on vast historical playing data), lock-in effects (your playlist/history and all your friends' playlists are there), dependence of businesses users (Spotify is the go-to platform for music labels for promotion and only way to reach certain customers) and end users (because of network and lock-in effects).
by asadotzler | 2025-04-23 19:18:32+00:00
Apple (and Meta) didn't want a great PC accessory, they wanted new platforms they could own and monetize. They spent 10 years, both of them, integrating the whole PC inside the goggles because the display only approach had little value to them. Apple may try a PCVR headset, probably similar to the Beyond 2 but with glass and aluminum instead of plastic, as "big Mac display" is the only value any decent number of Vision Pro users get from their devices and Apple's got plenty of unused component supply and supply chain lined up already, but goggles are likely a dead form factor.
by Moru | 2025-04-23 19:19:24+00:00
The reindeer is not randomly showing up out of the forest. They are herded. The people herding them is putting up plenty of signs. But the reindeers are not on the actual road the whole time so people stop bothering about the signs. And some just drive really fast and realize too late that the warning signs in the cars manual that says "This function does not stop the physical laws from working." might be correct.

The raindeer is not affraid of cars, they just stand there doing nothing until they get hit. It might be a big herd with hundreds of animals on the road and another thousand in the surrounding forest so not much place to run either.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-04-23 19:19:26+00:00
What I want is for the AI to respond in the style I usually use for this particular recipient. My inbox contains tons of examples to learn from.

I don't want to explain my style in a system prompt. That's yet another horseless carriage.

Machine learning was invented because some things are harder to explain or specify than to demonstrate. Writing style is a case in point.