MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-05-22 04:25:06+00:00
That's not been my experience so far. LLMs are good at mimicking existing good, it doesn't usually bring in new things when not asked. Sometimes I have to go out of my way to point to other bits of code in the project to copy from because it hasn't ingested enough of the codebase.

That said, a negative prompt like we have in stable diffusion would still be very cool.
by vel0city | 2025-05-22 04:26:16+00:00
I feel like I do understand what you're saying. You're quite literally saying:

> At least with Linux, I know there are other people checking.

And I'm taking that as "a Linux-based OS", as that's how most people mean it.

And you're assuming there are people checking, you probably don't know there are for that entire OS distribution. But there's probably tons of software you're running in that "Linux" system that where there aren't people checking. And as we've seen with things like xz, a small seemingly unrelated package can routinely modify very highly privileged and trusted applications in ways allowing a backdoor to be inserted with nobody noticing it by looking at the code.

We've gone from "you shouldn't be using anything you don't control from the bottom up" which you suggested to use Apple (a platform you absolutely don't have much control and is filled with closed source). From there you shifted the discussion to trust and "At least with Linux, I know there are other people checking." Which isn't necessarily true, a ton of that code you're running has probably only been reviewed by a small handful of people. A handful of people who may be very nefarious.

You say "The multi-party verification is what drives trust", but tons of that "Linux" OS doesn't really have multi-party verification.

And in the end we're going to apt install something and probably get binaries built by who knows, docker pull tons-of-shady-stuff from wherever.

And don't get me wrong, I agree many similar arguments could be made for a lot of closed source software as well. There might not be many reviewers either.

If I'm not getting your point, I'd say you're not really sharing it coherently. I've been re-reading of your comments and I'm not sure how else to read them.
by cookiengineer | 2025-05-22 04:26:47+00:00
I just use Windows in a seamless VM with Office 2013.

It's fun, every time somebody sends me an exploit or dropper I am eager to click on the attachments to find out how it works. And after seeing what it does I just reset the filesystem snapshots back to the lsst step.

And for newbies to Linux I'd heavily recommend trying out KDE as a desktop environment. They're are really nicely integrated, even phone sync and other shenanigans work out of the box.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-22 04:29:45+00:00
I think I’m missing your point. Perhaps we don’t share the same understanding of what I mean by AI and Expert Systems.

I wouldn’t call expert systems AI even though the early use of AI referred to symbolic reasoners used in expert systems.

If you are capturing domain knowledge from an expert and creating a system around it, what would you call that? I think modern AI will help deliver on the promise of expert systems, and I don’t think modern AI obviates the utility of such systems. Instead of a decision support system for human users it’s a decision support system for an AI agent. The same AI agent can interface with human users with a more familiar chat interface - hence acting as a bridge.

Most users will not be able to write Multidimensional Expressions or SPARQL queries and with an AI intermediary they won’t need to.
by sofixa | 2025-05-22 04:29:46+00:00
> Ethics are super subjective (and often change based on politics).

That's obviously not true. Ethics often have some nuance and some subjectiveness, but it's not something entirely subjective up to "politics".

Saying this makes it sound like you work at a startup for an AI powered armed drone, and your view of it is 'eh, ethics is subjective, this is fine' when asked how do you feel about responsibility and AI killing people.
by briHass | 2025-05-22 04:30:21+00:00
To be fair, TLS doesn't stop the authorities from performing dragnet searches. Just supeona Google for search keywords, mobile service providers for geofence data, DNS logs, IP logs from ISPs, etc. If that gives them enough for a warrant, they can get emails, SMS, browser history, account data, and detailed location logs. Not to mention license plate readers, surveillance cam footage and financial transactions.

It's honestly surprising that anyone gets away with any significant crimes, given just how much potential evidence is recorded.
by minetest2048 | 2025-05-22 04:30:41+00:00
> SpaceX plan to turn the internet into an outernet, by routing the majority of data traffic through their Starlink satellites. This should be particularly attractive to global users because a network of interconnected satellites is inherently more secure and faster than conventional fiber internet between continents

As a space engineer this is very wrong, no satellite solution can beat the reliability or throughput of a submarine DWDM fiber. Satellites are vulnerable to solar storms, cosmic radiation, nuclear attacks, jamming and a lot of other external factors while fiber cables are safely buried / submerged, protected against those kind of problems. Except for ship anchors and fiber seeking backhoes.

Another thing is that satellite to ground downlinks are still using RF, which is getting congested. You can work around that by going to optical downlinks to get the speed, and in ideal world you can have DWDM fiber speed that way. But got a cloudy sky and you lose your connection
by philiplu | 2025-05-22 04:31:29+00:00
I've had tinnitus since my teen years, half a century ago. At least, what I normally hear is, I assume, tinnitus, but it comes in two forms. There's a constant sort-of grey noise, not too loud (definitely softer than people talking in the same room), which wavers in amplitude over a sub-second period. The more annoying form is a pretty pure sine wave, much louder, which thankfully is more infrequent. Not really sure if that quieter form is something everyone gets, or an actual tinnitus form. Anyway, after 50+ years, it's not a big deal to me.
by matt_heimer | 2025-05-22 04:33:54+00:00
Sounds like the old days of Windows where you just need to format and reload every so often to get everything working the way it should. You have to reset your AI sessions to get them back on track, why would an AI OS be any different?

I feel that the lower level you go the more you want knowledgeable human experts in the loop. There is so much nuance in OS development that I think it'll be a while before I trust AI do have free rein over my devices.

But at the current speed of AI innovation I won't be that surprised if that day comes faster than I expect.
by jszymborski | 2025-05-22 04:33:59+00:00
I mean, at some point science is communication. Great for Einstein if he gets general relativity, but if he wants anyone else to care, he needs to communicate not only the complex idea in a clear manner, but also _why_ I should spend my cherished minutes here on earth trying to wrap my small brain around it.

It's the difference between being a Cassandra or the Oracle at Delphi. Maybe the only difference between the two was presentation? (Classicists, feel free to roast my metaphor).
by nxobject | 2025-05-22 04:35:13+00:00
One reason why the TFA might have chosen the Plus: the SE and SE/30 consolidate a lot of glue logic that are on PALs that can be cracked into not-so-easy to crack ASICs. The SE/30 has a notorious “GLUE” chip that has 80 pins, and most likely won’t be cloned anytime soon.
by YZF | 2025-05-22 04:36:56+00:00
Remember the anti-French sentiments post 9/11 when France didn't join the coalition? "freedom fries" instead of "french fries"? No? Well you won't remember this either in 10 years.

Countries have interests. That has always been the case. Europe's interest in this case is to align with the US.

But sure, Europe needs to figure some stuff out.
by Larrikin | 2025-05-22 04:37:14+00:00
I remember the winamp skins I considered awful that were just a jpeg image of a girl in a bikini or a cartoon character. What lazy design

I also remember trying to make my own after seeing good ones and bad ones. It was tedious and it's shocking that there were actually any good ones ever with how awful it was to create a skin. It was all flat and even more difficult to discern that a The Sims skin.

Material design has setup people so well that you are bored with how good we have it. I would not mind some more creativity in the space, but be aware of how far we have come.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-05-22 04:37:22+00:00
Farmland is stupidly expensive. The equipment and inputs (fertilizer, fuel) are stupidly expensive. Growing outside, you are forever at the whims of the weather rather than being able to control each detail of production. Fields inevitably have parts that have variable soil and water conditions. When you look at what a country like the Netherlands has done with greenhouse growing, it's pretty compelling. Was AppHarvest the answer? Apparently not, but that doesn't negate that there are indoor models that work.
by poincaredisk | 2025-05-22 04:38:59+00:00
You are getting downvoted but it made me wonder (I visited CERN a few years ago). I guess there are two aspects in play. One, the pile is massive, which naturally inspires awe, especially in person. Two, I know that what I'm looking at is actually a unique super advanced piece of technology, which took countless hours to produce, and that influences how one sees it.
by speakspokespok | 2025-05-22 04:39:04+00:00
First impressions really matter. This is also why I went Debian. You shouldn't be getting marked down for saying it.

Many of us were running on 28.8 dial-up. Internet search was not even close to a solved problem. Compiling a new kernel was an overnight or even weekend process. Finding and manually downloading rpm dependencies was slow and hard. Same era when compiling a kernel went overnight or over the weekend. You didn't download an ISO you bought a CD or soon a DVD that you could booted off of.

Compare that to Debian's apt-get or Suse's yast/yast2 of the time, both just handled all that for you.

Debian and Suse were fun and fit perfectly into the Web 1.0 world; RedHat was corporate. SystemD was pushed by RedHat.
by ehrjfjrjrfjn77 | 2025-05-22 04:39:30+00:00
I'm embarrassed to say I spent the first week or two with my pulsatile tinnitus fascinated by how rhythmically the wind was gushing through the trees outside my bedroom window. At some point I must have rolled over, the whooshing noise switching sides along with my left ear, and realised the noise was not coming from outside at all.

About 6 months after onset it disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as it first appeared.
by dsiroker | 2025-05-22 04:39:37+00:00
(Co-founder & CEO of Limitless) Thanks for trying it and I hope to win you back with the new features we have in the works!

As for selling data if consumers don’t want to pay for it: I commit publicly to never doing this. I will shutdown the company and return remaining capital to investors if consumers don’t want to pay for what we are building. So far, so good, and we were actually cash flow positive a few of the last few weeks.
by lanyard-textile | 2025-05-22 04:41:14+00:00
Ah, emotional.

The love, the fear, the despair in our hearts. Our disgust for ourselves, our pride in what we make.

The admiration you have for your child. The worst you’ve ever been hurt in your life. Feeding the birds out of your hand. Near death experiences. The best mistake in your relationship.

It’s a crowning achievement, being able to fit all this into a button; into the rounded corners; into the reloading animation.

What are stories for anyway?
by caseyy | 2025-05-22 04:41:54+00:00
Hah, that's a good point. When I think of it, the first Android skins, like HTC Sense (~3.0), were quite customizable. Every widget had a few stylistic variants, and I think you could even change the look of many components in the OS. Windows was very customizable until around Vista, too. I suppose people don't buy products for their theming features anymore.
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by ycui1986 | 2025-05-22 04:42:06+00:00
one of the most interesting of antimatter experiments is that if they somehow showed antimatter only experience 60% gravity, that will be huge. (earlier result of measuring antimatter’s gravity showed they don’t posses antigravity, but they seems to experiences less gravity. I guess a dedicated follow up experiment will likely get better measurement on whether antimatter indeed experience less gravity.)
by YZF | 2025-05-22 04:44:41+00:00
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

128B "aid to the government of Ukraine" $195B total spending for Ukraine

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/united-states-america...

$158B in total spending $136B financial and budgetary support and in humanitarian and emergency assistance + military assistance

It's a bit obfuscated but I think on paper the US is ahead overall. Certainly Ukraine without the US would be much worse off. Likely under Russian control.
by shreezus | 2025-05-22 04:45:08+00:00
Is anyone else totally blown away by this? I feel like it’s easily the biggest announcement out of IO, however it’s been overshadowed by Veo 3 etc.

Diffusion models for code generation are a big deal. If they are using transformers this would likely fall into the DiT bucket (diffusion transformers). I had previously worked on use cases that leveraged U-Net diffusion several years ago and there was quite a bit of interest in hybrid models. I expect to see further leaps in the diffusion space in the near future.
by DocTomoe | 2025-05-22 04:45:48+00:00
You're making my point: We had comparatively worse and cheaper ways to butcher each others. And yet, we build nuclear bombs.

Carpet bombing is not meant for eliminating military targets - it's an act of state-sponsored terrorism to get a population to rise against its leaders. Only, it has been proven over and over again: That doesn't work and often results in the exact opposite, making them rally behind the flag against the barbarous enemy who would attack civilians. Which is why we stopped doing that. Mostly.
by sponnath | 2025-05-22 04:46:16+00:00
I don't think ChatGPT really disrupted Google search? It definitely forced Google to release Gemini + related products though. Google still has millions of users and they now have AI integrated with search. The latest Gemini models are also as capable if not more than some of OAI's models.

I don't see how Altman is going to disrupt Apple with just Ive and a company no one's heard of before.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-05-22 04:46:17+00:00
> “I have a growing sense that everything I’ve learned over the last 30 years has led me to this place and to this moment,” Ive said in a joint interview with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman

Ah. What synergy, what serendipity. Right there.

Nice photo by the way — https://d7bnjsbkcwmq2m.archive.is/HgpSJ/945183ffb15e984274fa...
by sureglymop | 2025-05-22 04:48:08+00:00
Android studio runs terribly on my PC with a lot of ram and good CPU/GPU. Part of the issues are probably related to running it under GNOME on Wayland. Unrelated to that it fills up my ram as if it was just leaking memory. I was able to make other intellij programs bearable by switching to zgc but android studio won't let me. I like these IDEs but I truly wish they hadn't been implemented in java to their detriment.
by fcatalan | 2025-05-22 04:48:12+00:00
I'm trying to lose some weight, and while bored I pasted a few data points into Gemini to do some dumb extrapolation, just a list of dates and weights. No field names, no units.

I specifically avoided mentioning anything that would trigger any tut-tutting about the whole thing being a dumb exercise. Just anonymous linear regression.

Then when I finished I asked it to guess what we were talking about. It nailed it: the reasoning output was spot on, considering every clue: The amounts, the precision, the rate of decrease, the dates I had been asking about and human psychology. It briefly considered the chance of tracking some resource to plan for replacement but essentially said "nah human cares more about looking good this summer".

Then it gave me all the caveats and reprimands...
by maronato | 2025-05-22 04:48:37+00:00
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by jameslk | 2025-05-22 04:49:00+00:00
How did you come to the conclusion that Clinton balanced the budget?

When have any of these presidents successfully pushed for reducing the federal deficit during their tenures? Any actual reductions to the debt you’ve seen?

What’s causing you to focus on presidents rather than congressional actions?

How do you think fiscal policy keeps getting passed through congress when there’s largely two parties that have to agree to get it done?
by nurettin | 2025-05-22 04:49:58+00:00
Is it even greed?

Let's say you are a cart pusher in a free market. After ten years of cart pushing, you land on a trading opportunity and capitalize on it. Then you hire more cart pushers.

Now you have a responsibility. Either keep the business going, or everyone loses their job.

Then others smell profit and eat up your market share. Now you have to stay afloat and the workers suffer.

As the emergent properties build up, we end up with a modern free market society with all the romanticized "class wars" worker abuse and peeing in a bottle drama all because the job market exists.

It is like an ouroboros ironically nibbling on its tail while winking.
by mohamez | 2025-05-22 04:51:00+00:00
>I know it's a difficult spot because such effort will also indirectly compete with their main product which is an IDE, so I'm not very optimistic it'll last.

I would say this if this step was taking early while Kotlin is still a new language in the market, but I think their late decision to develop an official LSP for Kotlin is because of reasons you just mentioned, but maybe they changed their minds because they saw other benifits including a wide adoption of Kotlin.
by bluecalm | 2025-05-22 04:51:02+00:00
Walking 5km/h at 70kg is 350kcal/hour. If you are heavy and unfit then it will maybe be 3km/h at 90kg 270kcal/hour but then someone that unfit is not going to be able to burn 500kcal in an hour in a gym anyway.

>>IOW, the total calorie burn in a day that includes 4 hours of walking is likely relatively comparable to the total calorie burn in a day that includes an hour of gym time.

It's a good point about the delta (the estimations are for a total burnt during activity not extra) but I don't think you can get the numbers close. People greatly overestimate how much you burn during gym session as well unless they are already very fit and move constantly during that session.
by Groxx | 2025-05-22 04:51:10+00:00
Yep. 11 was my breaking point.

I don't really care how easy or difficult Linux is, I'm done with Windows.

(On the upside: holy cow some computers work way better with Linux. A crappy $100 Chromebook I had lying around gets over 30 hours of battery life with my normal use now, it's insane. It has become my go-to "just chuck it in a bag for whatever" machine because I can forget to charge it for weeks and it's fine)
by travisgriggs | 2025-05-22 04:51:31+00:00
I think it’s admirable that there’s a generic language server for Kotlin. Others, such as zed can benefit from this as well.

That said, I would much rather use AndroidStudio for Kotlin. Hands down. I use VSCode only when I can’t find something better. I recently switched my Elixir dev to Zed and am happy with that. Pretty much only thing I choose to use VSCode for these days is my ansible setups. Otherwise:

- Pycharm -> Python

- Xcode -> Swift

- Android Studio -> Kotlin

- Zed for Elixir/Phoenix

- Nova for embedded C code

- vim for scripts and quick edits of any of the above

VSCode for everything is like using a multitool to do woodworking in a garage. When you’re hiking or on a trip, a lightweight do it all tool has advantages. But I think it’s important to remember what IDE stands for.
by drewm1980 | 2025-05-22 04:52:00+00:00
I mean, not everyone spent their decade on distributed computing. Some devs with a retrogrouch inclination kept writing single threaded code in native languages on a single node. Single core clock speed stagnated, but it was still worth buying new CPU's with more cores because they also had more cache, and all the extra cores are useful for running ~other peoples' bloated code.
by HellzStormer | 2025-05-22 04:52:07+00:00
I disagree that it's just there to handle edge cases. It's a useful generalization.

I think the "Building an intuition" section of my blog post[1] makes a good case for that.

When dealing with loops, you have 3 nested constructs interacting: a wrapping function, a loop statement and the loop's body; and you have 3 keywords to choose where the flow of the code goes. return returns from the wrapping function break leaves the loop statement next / continue leaves loop's body When dealing with blocks or anonymous functions, it's instead 3 nested "functions" that are interacting: a wrapping function, a called function and an anonymous functions (or block). Ruby's blocks, let you use the same 3 keywords to choose where the flow of the code goes. return returns from the wrapping function (ex: my_func) break returns from the called function (ex: each, map) next returns from the block Quite consistent. But since we are talking about functions instead of statements (loop), return values are also involved. Allowing both break and next to provide a return value fits well in that model and is quite useful. The 3 keywords are basically return, but they have different targets.

[1] https://maxlap.dev/blog/2022/02/10/what-makes-ruby-blocks-gr...
by brian-armstrong | 2025-05-22 04:52:16+00:00
It's really easy to just try different distros and desktop environments out. For me, KDE Plasma has been an excellent vaguely Windows shaped Windows replacement.

With MacOS dropping subpixel support for text and with the cleartype patents expiring, Linux font rendering just keeps getting better while the others stay the same or get worse. I can't really conceive any reason to stay on Windows now unless you're a hardcore gamer.