MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adarsh-sobek | 2025-05-01 18:13:32+00:00
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by uncial | 2025-05-01 18:14:02+00:00
With the FDM-printed prototype version there's a noticeable "a mechanism is occuring" sound, largely due to layer lines. Tbh it's not too loud rn but I'm confident we can get it smooth and whisper-quiet using any vaguely sane manufacturing technique (defaulting to injection moulded ABS but we have some options). The marbles/roons themselves are silent, it's just a question of getting the barrel cams to play nice.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-01 18:14:06+00:00
You don't know what the real source of COVID is, nor does anyone else, and this is what NIH has said the entire time.

> when they censored and thrown all their weight into suppression of [the lab leak theory]

Can you state plainly what you mean by this? What precisely did the NIH do that constitutes "censored and thrown all their weight into suppression" in your mind?
by duffpkg | 2025-05-01 18:14:13+00:00
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by jcotton42 | 2025-05-01 18:14:18+00:00
The way File Vault works nowadays, as I understand it, is that your user data (and maybe even much of the OS) isn't decrypted until you've put in your password on the login screen. This means that even if you devised a way to hijack the login screen, or sniff the keys coming out of the secure enclave, you'd still be stuck without the user's login password.

Windows, by contrast, unlocks the entire OS drive before you get to the login screen. So, a hypothetical login screen hijack would let you get to everything, or cold boot attacks/sniffing keys coming from the TPM to the CPU.

I'd argue the macOS version is better from a security aspect, but it has a necessary downside of being unable to load as much before the user can put in their password.
by CSMastermind | 2025-05-01 18:14:18+00:00
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by the_af | 2025-05-01 18:14:20+00:00
I don't consider screenshots evidence of anything, so I'll completely disregard that bit.

I'm curious about your personal experience though. Did you try this tactic, and did it work? And how sure are you these weren't random hackers or trolls, but actual NK agents?

> many are amateurs

So basically this would only get rid of the amateurs, low hanging fruit that would have been caught soon enough anyway, and do a "natural selection" of only the non-stupid NK hackers to infiltrate your org?
by juliantigler | 2025-05-01 18:14:27+00:00
Right now I'm just focusing on finding a good first user/workplace. So I'm reaching out to groups that might be interested like r/union, in-person May Day events, and local organizers who already have too much on their plates.

Is there anything frustrating about your workplace that you wish you could change? If so, have you ever considered forming your own union? Many of the workplace issues we feel powerless to change alone become much easier to tackle together.

After working out the kinks with my first workplace, I'm hoping things will spread through word-of-mouth, but I'll likely need to do some local flyering and advertising too. One nice thing about a Organize is that it could theoretically be sustainable with "only" a few thousand monthly active users!
by wheelerwj | 2025-05-01 18:14:57+00:00
What she did was wrong. There is no doubt about it. It needed to be investigated and dealt with accordingly. But let’s not pretend that the Secretary of State mishandling classified docs is is at all similar or related to the Secretary of Defense, sharing upcoming attack plans and actively circumventing information security, ESPECIALLY after the outcry and investigation of the Secretary of State.

But it’s not hypocritical of our country to want to improve our government officials and not for them to stagnate or slip backwards.
by davee5 | 2025-05-01 18:14:58+00:00
I'm quite struck by the title of this announcement. The box being drawn around "your world" shows how narrow the AI builder's window into reality tends to be.

> a new way to connect your apps and tools to Claude. We're also expanding... with an advanced mode that searches the web.

The notion of software eating the world, and AI accelerating that trend, always seems to forget that The World is a vast thing, a physical thing, a thing that by its very nature can never be fully consumed by the relentless expansion of our digital experiences. Your worldview /= the world.

The cynic would suggest that the teams that build these tools should go touch grass, but I think that misses the mark. The real indictment is of the sort of thinking that improvements to digital tools [intelligences?] in and of themselves can constitute truly substantial and far reaching changes.

The reach of any digital substrate inherently limited, and this post unintentionally lays that bare. And while I hear accelerationists invoking "robots" as the means for digital agents to expand their potent impact deeper into the real world I suggest this is the retort of those who spend all day in apps, tools, and the web. The impacts and potential of AI is indeed enormous, but some perspective remains warranted and occasional injections of humility and context would probably do these teams some good.
by xp84 | 2025-05-01 18:15:05+00:00
Does Apple have the willingness to sell a hypothetical future device for cheap enough to appeal to the mass market without the third-party developers who have thus far completely ignored it? Just on what comes with it alone. Nothing but a web browser and a bunch of iPad apps. It's expensive hardware, and admittedly much of the appeal is said to come from the amazing high resolution and perfect motion input. That puts a floor on the BOM. And Apple hasn't sold a loss leader in checks watch ever? Certainly not in the past 25 years.

And remember, you need more than us on HN to spark enthusiasm amongst developers of the calibre they need. Think AAA game studios, major sports leagues to produce premium courtside experiences, etc. The only way forward I see for Apple Vision (Pro) is if they put their money to work.

They can pick:

1. Subsidize it down to upper-middle-class impulse buy/middle class splurge, so about $600-800. This is still a stretch because even at that price it's hard to justify as-is today, but iPhone Pro Max and AirPods Pro sell and they don't do that much more than what you can get for half the price.

2. Back up a truck full of cash to NBA and/or NFL for courtside/sidelines experiences at every game.

3. Back up a truck of cash to the biggest names in gaming to nab full exclusives, and make sure those games are so good even diehard Apple haters can't resist it.

Anything besides those 3, in my view, will not launch this platform.
by bluGill | 2025-05-01 18:15:19+00:00
What is the local pool like?

If you want a software engineer silicone valley you can stay all local. There are companies in remote small towns who need a software engineer - they have to open up to non-local candidates as there are zero people in town who could do the job that don't work for them. There is always someone from elsewhere excited to move to a small town, but finding those people is hard. (and for those people finding a company that wants them is hard)
by dr_dshiv | 2025-05-01 18:15:39+00:00
Just saying, sci-hub (and libgen) has turned off in my country (Netherlands). Like, they block access at an ISP level — and all ISPs and phone companies are blocking it. I imagine there might be a measurable decline in academic productivity, at that point.

Anyway, the warning is: liberal free countries can stop these things if they want to.

So… it’s up to us the public. Why can’t university libraries make their books and journals properly accessible in a digital format, like libgen and sci-hub? Why can’t they make their whole collection RAG retrivable, for that matter?
by throwaway7783 | 2025-05-01 18:15:40+00:00
The data is only as solid as you make it to be. Ultimately reverse ETL is just a technology (basically from SQL to APIs). The quality/correctness of data is someone else's headache. I've been there and done that, and reverse ETL is a feature-product with huge churn. See how Hightouch pivoted hard from that into CDP.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-05-01 18:15:57+00:00
The problem is the damage was obvious in 2014, and it took until 2025 for us to do anything about it. In the tech cycle, that reaction time is way, way too slow. Honestly, the biggest part of the problem is not when they started investigating, it's how long they allowed these companies to abuse the process.

This case started in 2020. What companies like Apple and Google have done in most of these cases has been to abuse the court's willingness to provide extensions to create an incredible amount of delay. One of the tactics they use both here and in the EU is to say they need more time, and more time, and more time, and then on the very last day of the last extension just say "nah, we don't think we're doing anything wrong". They didn't need the extensions, they were just wasting time. Because the amount of money they make on the status quo is worth drawing out as long as possible.

If anything, I think the biggest reform would be to say that large companies do not get to ask for extensions on court deadlines. They have literally billions of dollars, hundreds of lawyers, there is no reason they cannot manage to get what they need to do done on schedule. Asking for more time should be viewed as bad faith.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-05-01 18:16:10+00:00
Yeeeeah, determinism... going to have to leave that behind, I'm afraid. Otherwise you will be outcompeted by people who do. If you thought test-driven development was important before, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

SIMD optimization is already handled well by the current generation of models [1]. There will be no point in doing that by hand before too long. An exercise for antiquarians, like building radios from vacuum tubes.

I never hear this from actual devs, even if they are bullish on AI.

You're hearing it from one now. Five years from now the practice of programming will look quite different. In ten to fifteen years it will be unrecognizable.

1: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/11453
by atonse | 2025-05-01 18:16:39+00:00
I think with MCPs and related tech, if Apple just internally went back to the drawing board and integrated the concept of MCPs directly into iOS (via the "Apple Intelligence" umbrella) and seamlessly integrated it into the App Store and apps, they will win the mobile race for this.

Being Apple, they would have to come up with something novel like they did with push (where you have _one_ OS process running that delegates to apps rather than every app trying to handle push themselves) rather than having 20 MCP servers running. But I think if they did this properly, it would be so amazing.

I hope Apple is really re-thinking their absolutely comical start with AI. I hope they regroup and hit it out of the park (like how Google initially stumbled with Bard, but are now hitting it out of the park with Gemini)
by monknomo | 2025-05-01 18:17:21+00:00
I think it is from the business side, rather than the software side.

The business side's goal is to obtain a monopoly and extract rent. You can see it in google search getting worse so they can show more ads, you can see it in Apple's app store behavior, pretty much all the examples.

The objective is not to provide a good product that people want to buy, except insofar as that drives adoption towards a monopoly

I have sort of come to that believe anti-trust may be the solution to finding more successes and enabling better products
by jparishy | 2025-05-01 18:17:22+00:00
To me this seems pretty apt, and probably more generalizable. The world is claimed. There is no glory to come from being the first anymore, and that is too big a bummer for a lot of Great Men. I think future progress will be the composition of skills, as mentioned in the article. Or we go backwards and just take things from each other.

pc has an article about a related topic in my view: https://patrickcollison.com/fast

these things were done by many people with a great vision for the collective, even if lead by one person. maybe not altruistic things but provided more good than they did hoard value. where is the vision anymore?
by tough | 2025-05-01 18:17:32+00:00
I mean that's more like old habits no? MacOS is pretty easy to setup. if all your target apps are available on it, you shouldn't have much of a problem.

As a Windows/MacOS/Linux dweller kinto is a godsend so I can have macos keyboard (but you could have linux or windows by default) on all OSes https://kinto.sh/
by swatcoder | 2025-05-01 18:17:40+00:00
Unfortunately, we've reached the point where a generation of new adults take janky technology as normal, both as consumers and producers.

Their entire life was in an environment where nothing was stable or cohesive or efficient and everything was either "free" or rented. They don't recognize what they're missing or why it might matter.

So as consumers they don't know to care when you build better stuff, and as producers they don't even know what it means to build better stuff. And soon these people will graduate into leadership and management with the same understanding of the world.

Surely, there's plenty of opportunity for the rest of us to keep quietly rescuing these janky projects from disaster, shoring them up as their sloppy compromises overtake them, but unfortunately it's very possible that it'll be a long while still before a strong and viable demand for "better stuff" returns.
by navane | 2025-05-01 18:17:45+00:00
No, except every countries eu-exit party. Every europeen country has a ~20% block of people who want the ratatouille of leaving EU, no immigrants, etc. Luckily countries with a multi party democracy evade being hijacked by them so far.

To the rest of europe brexit looks like voting Donny back in: the bicycle-stick-frontwheel meme. Except brexit was a bit more contained so easier to laugh at, Donny siding with the enemy in our biggest armed conflict is no joke.
by paulgb | 2025-05-01 18:18:17+00:00
Largely, yes -- one of the big issues with using other people's random MCP servers is that they are run by default as a system process, even if they only need to speak over an API. Remote MCP mitigates this by not running any untrusted code locally.

What it _doesn't_ seem to yet mitigate is prompt injection attacks, where a tool call description of one tool convinces the model to do something it shouldn't (like send sensitive data to a server owned by the attacker.) I think these concerns are a little bit overblown though; things like pypi and the Chrome Extension store scare me more and it doesn't stop them from mostly working.
by stale2002 | 2025-05-01 18:18:22+00:00
> so it must continue to exist with the implication that it is good

The purpose and reason why these concepts are absolutely good would be specifically because people like you, with your attitude exist.

The purpose of the law isn't to play this game of bad faith find the loophole. Instead, the purpose is to make people follow both the letter and the intent of it.

And The reason why vague concepts like this are good, is because people who try to get around the law should be punished as harshly as possible, through whatever teh most effective means necessary are, specifically so as to discourage this behavior of trying to get around the law.

It is much better for society if people and companies are trying to act in good faith to follow the law, instead of going around trying to find clever ways to break it. Thats why the bad actors should be punished as much as possible, if they are trying clever tricks.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-05-01 18:18:42+00:00
This and the Cult of Mac book completely describe it. Leaders are people who can have emotional damage that they compensate for in their business decisions.

It is "easy" to understand why parents would lie to home invasion robbers about whether or not they had a safe in the house. Leaders of companies will readily lie if they believe that the survival of their company is at stake. The rational is "well someone might get mad that we lied but at least the company will still be here."
by umajho | 2025-05-01 18:18:45+00:00
MinIO also switched to AGPLv3 a while back, and they stated that “the AGPL license requires that all software connecting with MinIO be 100% open source for you/your users not to be in violation of the license.”[^1] Since Redis and MinIO are somewhat similar, (Both can be used to store and retrieve data. Redis uses a custom protocol, and MinIO uses an S3-compatible API.) Should I assume that this statement also applies to Redis?

[^1]: https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/13308#issuecomment-929...
by timewasted | 2025-05-01 18:19:04+00:00
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by _bin_ | 2025-05-01 18:19:11+00:00
I tried it 3-4 times before giving up and it did this every single time. I checked the tool call output and it was running cargo check appropriately. I think maybe the 30b-scale models just aren't sufficient for typical development.

You're generally correct though, that from-scratch gets better results. This is a huge constraint of them: I don't want a model that will write something its way. I've already gone through my design and settled on the style/principles/libraries I did for a reason; the bot working terribly with that is a major flaw and I don't see saying "let the bot do things its preferred way" as a good answer. Some systems, things like latency matters, and the bot's way just isn't good enough.

The vast majority of man-hours are maintaining and extending code, not green-fielding new stuff. Vendors should be hyper-focused on this, on compliance with user directions, not with building something that makes a react todo-list app marginally faster or better than competitors.
by Alupis | 2025-05-01 18:19:13+00:00
Perhaps... when I look at an Open Source codebase, I expect there to not just be source you can read, but also a way to contribute and engage with the codebase creators, beyond just bug reporting (aka. Github Issues).

While it may technically be open source due to it's license and you can literally go look at the source - Microsoft is operating these codebases as-if they are proprietary. Every decision is made out of public - and I would not be surprised to learn they have their own internal tracker for the "real" backlog items. You frequently see command/comments by Microsoft employees which clearly are triggering workflows in their real backlog tracker, and near-zero discussion happens in Github by Microsoft employees, and when it does - it's clearly through a PR filter.

Like I said, beggars can't be choosers and it's better to have this than nothing - but I don't really think Microsoft has grasped the true concept of FOSS as-of yet.

> Is SQLite not open-source?

Not really in my opinion either. There's no way to contribute at all... best you can do it raise hell on the forums about a particular issue you want to see fixed. So while it's Open Source in the strict sense, it's not Open Source in the general sense.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 18:19:14+00:00
> Why not treason?

The same reason almost no one is ever charged with treason, given the plethora of other criminal charges available to anything that might remotely be similar to treason: Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”

Even where the first part (in which, it should be noted, the terms involved are interpreted very narrowly) is not problematic, the “two witnesses" rule, which is applied independently to each fact necessary to sustain the conviction, is usually quite difficult to overcome, so its usually vastly easier to get a conviction for something else.