MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-17 22:02:35+00:00
I try Perl 6/Raku every few years, so it seems like I've tried it half a dozen times by now since it started. I like some things about it, but in a way it seems like an academic project, more suited for experimentation than doing work. I always come back to Perl, which has been my favorite hammer for 30 years.
by gertrunde | 2025-04-17 22:02:45+00:00
I would like to think there there is a solution that can be engineered, in which a service is able to verify that a user is above an appropriate age threshold, while maintaining privacy safeguards, including, where relevant, for the age-protected service not to be privy to the identity of the user, and for the age verification service to not be privy to the nature of the age-protected service being accessed.

In this day and age, of crypto, and certificates, and sso, and all that gubbins, it's surely only a matter of deciding that this is a problem that needs solving.

(Unless the problem really isn't the age of the user at all, but harvesting information...)
by Piraty | 2025-04-17 22:03:01+00:00
this in a credentials file to source before doing some operation? sure. I usually do: ` ( . ./credentials && ./the_thing ) ` so the secrets are only in the subshell and don't linger in my shell session forever.

but don't put that in <shell>rc , as it a) will be visible for all other (child) processes of your shell b) will spawn pinentry everytime the agent's cache ttl expires
by reaperducer | 2025-04-17 22:03:27+00:00
Opening an .ics file on iOS from the Files app will show the events, but will not allow you to import/add them to your calendar.

Not true. I just tried it on an iPhone 14 with iOS 18.4, and it works fine.

You tap on the ics icon, and it opens up the details. Tap "Done" and the event lands in the calendar you specified.
by pmags | 2025-04-17 22:03:34+00:00
Disgusting, un-American, and unconstitutional.

From the original article:

"Based on her inspection of his birth certificate and Social Security card, Riggans said she found no probable cause for the charge. However, the state prosecutor insisted the court lacked jurisdiction over Lopez-Gomez’s release because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had formally asked the jail to hold him."

I wonder what the betting market odds are on the possibility that the Trump administration will use this as a test case for deporting a US citizen?
by 1659447091 | 2025-04-17 22:03:39+00:00
> Those businesses also have control. They just don't like the option of control they have, which is to stay out of those countries altogether.

Yes. ?

Apparently they don't want to leave and are happy staying there and complying. If you don't like a businesses practice, don't use them. . .

> Last time they tried, I joined the crowd yelling at them about it.

Good. I hope more people that feel as strongly about the subject as you will follow your lead.

> It's easier to do that if people aren't giving them technology they can pretend solves the fundamental problems with what they're doing.

No one is "giving" them technology that pretends anything. There is a community effort to come up with privacy focused, secure solutions. If you noticed the OIDC4VC protocols are still in the draft phase. If it's fubar no one will use it. Worse than that is, if nothing comes of any proposed solutions, the state won't just say oh well you tried.

Either we will continue to deal with the current solution of businesses collecting our ids and biometrics and each one having a db of this info to sell/have stolen, or, some consultant that golfs with some gov official will tell them the tech industry can't figure it out but they have a magic solution that's even better and will build a system (using tax dollars) that uses government IDs with the added bonus of tracking and then all of our internet usage can be tracked by the government.

Wantonly dismissing any effort to make things better in an acceptable way is not going to make it magically go away forever. That ship has sailed. You can resist efforts to find a privacy focused solution and get stuck with an even worse one from the state, or, get your crowd yelling hat back on and help make sure data and privacy protections are solidly baked into these solutions the tech community is trying to build.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-17 22:03:44+00:00
If they are born abroad and then marry a non-citizen or a foreign-born citizen, then yes, it can get tricky. The safest is to return to the US to give birth, at which point there is no issue with passing on citizenship (for now, at least). Otherwise, it's possible that their child is stateless (happened to friends of mine, it took 2 years for them to get US citizenship for their child, who was otherwise stateless).
by lemming | 2025-04-17 22:03:52+00:00
I maintain an alternative client which I build from the API definitions at https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis, which according to https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/issues/345 should be the right place. But neither the AI Studio nor the Vertex definitions even have ThinkingConfig yet - very frustrating. In general it's amazing how much API munging is required to get a working client from the public API definitions.
by HAL3000 | 2025-04-17 22:04:23+00:00
Who knows but have you read what OP wrote?

"I just used o3 to design a distributed scheduler that scales to 1M+ sxchedules a day. It was perfect, and did better than two weeks of thought around the best way to build this."

Anyone with 10 years in distributed systems at FAANG doesn’t need two weeks to design a distributed scheduler handling 1M+ schedules per day, that’s a solved problem in 2025 and basically a joke at that scale. That alone makes this person’s story questionable, and his comment history only adds to the doubt.
by jkingsman | 2025-04-17 22:04:27+00:00
I've had this described to me as basically the combination of neuro+psychological effects of hyperventilation (respiratory alkalosis) in a peaceful/positive environment (as opposed to anxiety-attack-driven or etc.), plus the meditative effects of deep breathing, plus the meditative/brain-entrainment effects of rhythmic movement of a major central/core muscle (diaphragm). Together, those often cause euphoria, altered states of consciousness, and cognitive shifts not too far off from psychedelics.

Could someone who is more familiar with it affirm, adjust, or deny that as a general (medically-grounded/secular) summary of breathwork?
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-17 22:04:37+00:00
Most programmers don't need to develop that skill unless they need more performance or are modifying other people's binaries[0]. You can still do plenty of search-and-learning using higher-level languages, and what you learn at one particular level can generalize to the other.

Even if LLMs make "plain English" programming viable, programmers still need to write, test, and debug lists of instructions. "Vibe coding" is different; you're telling the AI to write the instructions and acting more like a product manager, except without any of the actual communications skills that a good manager has to develop. And without any of the search and learning that I mentioned before.

For that matter, a lot of chatbots don't do learning either. Chatbots can sort of search a problem space, but they only remember the last 20-100k tokens. We don't have a way to encode tokens that fall out of that context window into some longer-term weights. Most of their knowledge comes from the information they learned from training data - again, cheated from humans, just like humans can now cheat off the AI. This is a recipe for intellectual stagnation.

[0] e.g. for malware analysis or videogame modding
by mrandish | 2025-04-17 22:04:49+00:00
Excellent question and one I already touched on in a sister reply before I saw your post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722230

Apple is indeed an extraordinary outlier (as is Jobs). If you look into the history of Apple's Gil Amelio days, very near-death and Steve's return, it was IMHO, a remarkable example of a series of fortunate miracles coinciding to allow Steve to brilliantly save the company when it had been only weeks away from death. Jobs calling Bill Gates and convincing him to quickly loan $400M to Apple averted disaster potentially by a matter of days. And Gates only did that because MSFT was being sued for anti-trust by the Justice Dept and needed Apple to survive as an example that Wintel still had some competition. Apple's survival in that period is the closest close thing I think the industry has ever seen.

To answer your last question, Jobs was undoubtedly incredibly brilliant but it took every ounce of that brilliance AND some crazy good luck for Apple to survive. Ultimately, it was Jobs plus flukes, so no, just Jobs without the flukes wouldn't have changed anything at Atari or Commodore. Even on its death bed Apple had a much better brand, distribution, market potential and talent than Atari or Commodore ever did. Plus Steve had his hand-picked entrepreneurial team from Next with him. The situations at Atari and Commodore were just much weaker in every way, so I don't think any single super hero, no matter how super, could have saved them.
by dr_kiszonka | 2025-04-17 22:05:14+00:00
Hi. Nice product!

Let's say I have a repo for an NLP project. One directory contains a few thousand text files. Can I tell Plandex to never ever index and access them? For my use case, I wish projects in this space always asked me before accessing anything. Claude recently decided to install seven Python packages and grabbed full terminal output following installation, which turned out pretty expensive (and useless).
by redbell | 2025-04-17 22:06:12+00:00
I'm not entirely sure if this strategy will work out well for OpenAI. In my opinion, an AI company, especially in its early stages, should focus intensely on refining and expanding its core products—those they plan to monetize through APIs—rather than diverting resources toward acquiring wrapper companies. Cursor, for instance, gained traction by embedding Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model to automate programming tasks. If OpenAI were to acquire Cursor or a similar IDE, a key question arises: would they keep it open to other models, or would they restrict it to OpenAI's ecosystem?

Additionally, there’s speculation that OpenAI might be venturing into social media (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694877). If true, this could open up numerous competitive fronts that the company may struggle to handle effectively. They’re already dealing with fierce competition in their core business, so expanding too quickly into unrelated areas could spread their focus and resources too thin, potentially weakening their competitiveness in unfamiliar markets.
by grepLeigh | 2025-04-17 22:06:24+00:00
On the other side of this argument, I've seen "just run the dishwasher twice" used as shorthand for giving yourself permission to do whatever is needed to get the job done and not letting perfectionism paralyze you from making progress.

This blog excerpt explains the idea [1]:

> Knowing this week was going to be a lot, I’ve been living by “run the dishwasher twice”. What the hell does that even mean?! Essentially it means to do whatever is the path of least resistance to get shit done. The advice came from a therapist to a woman who was feeling very low & was struggling with everyday tasks such as doing the dishes. She didn’t have the mental capacity to scrub dishes before putting them in her crappy dishwasher so she wasn’t doing them & they were building up & causing her more anxiety. Her therapist said not to rinse the dishes & just run the dishwasher twice, even three times if that’s what it took to get them clean. It was a game-changer for her, one that enabled her to do a small task in an imperfect way just to get it done.

I wish the OP article had dug a little bit deeper into the psychology behind daily task conflict in relationships. The dishwasher is one of many microcosms (laundry, car, pets, etc) that I wish I'd paid more attention to in my relationships, because these conversations really do reveal relationship dynamics around HUGE issues like compromise, empathy, perfectionism, and judgmental behavior.

[1] https://thebackfenceblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/27/run-the-di...
by fn-mote | 2025-04-17 22:06:50+00:00
I'm willing to believe there's an issue with Google's ad sales, but this comment doesn't have the specifics I'm interested in - in spite of all of the citations.

> In limiting the number of bidders, Google inflated the prices for ad inventory. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-26/closing-arguments-giv...

I had a hard time finding any specifics in that article. It's about closing arguments and does not even mention the number of bidders.

The DOJ press release [1] would be a better citation.

> Google engaged in bid rigging where competitors agree on who will win a bid, again to inflate prices. https://www.justice.gov/atr/preventing-and-detecting-bid-rig...

Note that this link is just to the definition of bid rigging, not an accusation against google.

> Google entered market allocation agreements to create an unfair playing field. https://www.winston.com/en/insights-news/avoiding-antitrust-...

This is an article "Avoiding Antitrust Issues In Search Term Ad Agreements".

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1563...
by rflsandroni | 2025-04-17 22:07:27+00:00
As AI agents and LLM-based systems are integrated into enterprise, finance, and customer-facing platforms, adversarial prompt threats have rapidly evolved. Today, ex-Apple Siri engineers are releasing ModernGuard, a 300M parameter multilingual transformer encoder, trained on millions of prompt attack simulations, built to detect prompt injection and jailbreak attempts in real-time.
by chucky_z | 2025-04-17 22:07:35+00:00
I have access to this now and I want it to work so bad and it's just proper shit. Absolute rubbish.

They really, truly need to fix this integration. Gemini in Google Docs is barely acceptable, it doesn't work at all (for me) in Gmail, and I've not yet had it do anything other than error in Google Sheets.
by burnte | 2025-04-17 22:08:08+00:00
You can put me in that bucket then. It's not true, I've been working with AI almost daily for 18 months, and I KNOW it's no where close to being intelligent, but it doesn't look like your buckets are based on truth but appeal. I disagree with your assessment so you think I don't know what I'm talking about. I hope you can understand that other people who know just as much as you (or even more) can disagree without being wrong or uninformed. LLMs are amazing, but they're nowhere close to intelligent.
by dmwilcox | 2025-04-17 22:08:42+00:00
I've been saying this for a decade already but I guess it is worth saying here. I'm not afraid AI or a hammer is going to become intelligent (or jump up and hit me in the head either).

It is science fiction to think that a system like a computer can behave at all like a brain. Computers are incredibly rigid systems with only the limited variance we permit. "Software" is flexible in comparison to creating dedicated circuits for our computations but is nothing by comparison to our minds.

Ask yourself, why is it so hard to get a cryptographically secure random number? Because computers are pure unadulterated determinism -- put the same random seed value in your code and get the same "random numbers" every time in the same order. Computers need to be like this to be good tools.

Assuming that AGI is possible in the kinds of computers we know how to build means that we think a mind can be reduced to a probabilistic or deterministic system. And from my brief experience on this planet I don't believe that premise. Your experience may differ and it might be fun to talk about.

In Aristotle's ethics he talks a lot about ergon (purpose) -- hammers are different than people, computers are different than people, they have an obvious purpose (because they are tools made with an end in mind). Minds strive -- we have desires, wants and needs -- even if it is simply to survive or better yet thrive (eudaimonia).

An attempt to create a mind is another thing entirely and not something we know how to start. Rolling dice hasn't gotten anywhere. So I'd wager AGI somewhere in the realm of 30 years to never.
by stickfigure | 2025-04-17 22:09:06+00:00
You have a very different experience than I do! My Youtube algorithm suggestions are wonderful, full of science and engineering and history and food and travel and comedy and all kinds of weird esoteric things that would never have been viable in the broadcast TV I grew up with. I am literally delighted.

Maybe you're starving the algorithm and it's trying random things? Look up how to reset the YT algo, I'm sure it's possible. Then try subscribing/liking a few things that you actually like.

If you're within a standard deviation or two of the typical HNer, look up "Practical Engineering" and like a few of his videos. That should get you started.
by krupan | 2025-04-17 22:09:43+00:00
It's really hard to picture general intelligence that's useful that doesn't have any intrinsic motivation or initiative. My biggest complaint about LLMs right now is that they lack those things. They don't care even if they give you correct information or not and you have to prompt them for everything! That's not anything close to AGI. I don't know how you get to AGI without it developing preferences, self-motivation and initiative, and I don't know how you then get it to effectively do tasks that it doesn't like, tasks that don't line up with whatever motivates it.
by kev009 | 2025-04-17 22:10:07+00:00
There are a lot of other things that follow this pattern. 10-30 year predictions are a way to sound confident about something that probably has very low confidence. Not a lot of people will care let alone remember to come back and check.

On the other hand there is a clear mandate for people introducing some different way of doing something to overstate the progress and potentially importance. It creates FOMO so it is simply good marketing which interests potential customers, fans, employees, investors, pundits, and even critics (which is more buzz). And growth companies are immense debt vehicles so creating a sense of FOMO for an increasing pyramid of investors is also valuable for each successive earlier layer. Wish in one hand..
by itishappy | 2025-04-17 22:10:24+00:00
Hard disagree. HDR is more than just boosted brightness, but the boosted brightness on it's own has been (in my humble opinion) the biggest advancement in TVs in the past decade. For instance, I'd choose a 500 nit 1920x1080 panel over a 250 nit 3840x2160 panel any day.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-17 22:10:34+00:00
Crypto comes up every time this topic is discussed but it misses the point.

The hard part is identifying with reasonable accuracy that the person sitting in front of the device is who they say they are, or a certain age.

Offloading everything to crypto primitive moves the problem into a different domain where the check is verifying you have access to some crypto primitive, not that it’s actually you or yours.

Any fully privacy-preserving crypto solution would have the flaw that verifications could be sold online. Someone turns 21 (or other age) and begins selling verifications with their ID because there is no attachment back to them, and therefore no consequences. So people then start imaging extra layers that would protect against this, which start eroding the privacy because you’re returning back to central verification of something.
by neilfrndes | 2025-04-17 22:10:37+00:00
For me, moving away from pods to a dishwasher liquid (cascade 3x from Costco) made the most difference. I add some liquid in the prewash and some in the main compartment. I had to figure out the right amount to add in each via trial and error. I don't pre rinse or run the hot water beforehand, my dishes come out clean.
by packetlost | 2025-04-17 22:11:02+00:00
I feel like you could, theoretically, have a service that has an ID (as drivers license ID), perhaps operated by your government, that has an API and a notion of an ephemeral identifier that can be used to provide a digital attestation of some property without exposing that property or the exact identity of the person. It would require that the attestation system is trusted by all parties though, which is I think the core problem.
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-17 22:11:15+00:00
>”Google is silently winning the AI race.”

It’s not surprising. What was surprising honestly was how they were caught off guard by OpenAI. It feels like in 2022 just about all the big players had a GPT-3 level system in the works internally, but SamA and co. knew they had a winning hand at the time, and just showed their cards first.
by russellbeattie | 2025-04-17 22:12:28+00:00
I have to say, I never doubted it would happen. They've been at the forefront of AI and ML for well over a decade. Their scientists were the authors of the "Attention is all you need" paper, among thousands of others. A Google Scholar search produces endless results. There just seemed to be a disconnect between the research and product areas of the company. I think they've got that worked out now.

They're getting their ass kicked in court though, which might be making them much less aggressive than they would be otherwise, or at least quieter about it.
by tombert | 2025-04-17 22:12:30+00:00
Everyone always says that they can "wash dishes faster than the washer", and maybe that's true, but loading the dishwasher takes like five minutes of active effort, then you're done. It might take three hours to finish washing them but you're not involved.

If you only have a few dishes, then sure washing by hands is fast enough, but if you let it pile up on the sink for several days, it can be a fairly long process, on the order of 30-45 minutes if things are really stuck on there.

When I bought my house in 2018, it didn't have a dishwasher. We had to wash dishes by hand, and it changed our entire psychology. I was hesitant to cook anything in the kitchen because it would generate dishes and I don't like washing dishes, so we ended up mostly surviving on low-effort frozen food.

In 2021, we had the kitchen remodeled, and in the process we installed a dishwasher, and it made it fun to cook again. I could use a lot more dishes and utensils in the process, and the effort to clean up doesn't change significantly.

At this point I don't think I will live in a place that doesn't have a dishwasher ever again.
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-17 22:12:38+00:00
He has been undergrad for 16 years and what a great way to stay in green card status. Mahdawi, a foreign Columbia student, said he empathizes with Hamas, honored his cousin, a commander Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, and told students “there’s nothing more honorable than dying for a noble cause.”

He's co-President of the Palestinian Student Union and organizer of pro-Hamas rallies. He appeared on 60 Minutes justifying the Oct 7th massacre.

Expressing his anger at Israel, Mohsen once stated that "stones and Molotovs weren’t enough” to satisfy his thirst for revenge.

Mohsen proudly noted on social media that his cousin is a high-ranking member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Mohsen led pro-Hamas protests under the “By Any Means Necessary” banner—standing beside @NerdeenKiswani who has openly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”

This guy is not a Buddhist. He is full of crap and a liar.
by pmags | 2025-04-17 22:13:09+00:00
You're the one who seems to be ungrounded from the news:

"The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places," Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-ja...

EDIT: Also from the article above:

"Asked again about the idea during Monday's news conference, Trump confirmed he has ordered U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to explore whether it might be a legal and cost-effective way to house American prisoners.

Trump also suggested his administration might send U.S. citizens to be incarcerated in other countries."