MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasode | 2025-05-01 17:44:42+00:00
>The OP isn't talking about iPhone devs,

OP's wording was somewhat confusing because they were talking about the later iPhone devs with, >", now they think devs need them" by comparing them to the 1997 Mac OS devs.

As though possibly implying that Apple incorrectly misjudged the later iPhone-era devs' leverage as if it's the opposition situation of "Apple is the one that needs the devs" and somehow Apple misunderstands that.

I was clarifying that Apple didn't misjudge the devs and they correctly predicted that devs would want access to millions of new iPhone customers. It isn't just "Apple thinks devs need them", it's more definitive in "Apple _knows_ that devs need them." The timeline of events reinforced in Apple's mind that it was "Apple's customers" more than the "dev's customers".

Seeing customers camp out overnight in front of Apple's stores for iPhones that didn't have any 3rd-party apps -- and still sell millions of them -- is why they're so arrogant. Apple concluded it was Apple's efforts alone that recruited those customers to their new platform and not the 3rd-party devs. (Apple itself created the first Youtube app instead of 3rd-party Google devs doing it.) The 2008 devs may have had a chance to flip that narrative by rejecting iOS and only create apps for Android and Windows Phones but they didn't do that and instead, went along with Apple's gatekeeping and 30% fees.

>Developers had started to abandon the Mac OS platform [...] and getting developer confidence back was one of the key things that kept the company alive to grow

Well, the 1997 dev confidence behavior for a Mac platform with only ~5% market share at that time wouldn't be relevant to Apple's attitude about iPhones because devs never abandoned the iPhone. iPhones were an instant hit with 100% market share of touchscreen smartphones until Android came out a year later.
by TheDong | 2025-05-01 17:45:05+00:00
The app is free for users, but the coworking space pays the app's company a considerable fee to manage access to the doors and audit logs and such, so it's not that it's subsidized by brainrot games.

Free apps on iOS should be subsidized by, I don't know, the purchase price of the phone and the $100 yearly developer fee I'd think.

> Honestly this system isn't half bad, it's essentially a tax on idleness that funds a bunch of virtuous activity.

The system isn't funding "virtuous activity", the system is a for-profit system for the benefit of the richest company on the planet.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-05-01 17:45:08+00:00
It is until proven otherwise because modern science still doesn’t have a consensus or standards or biological tests which can account for it. As in, highly “intelligent” people often lack “common sense” or fall prey to con artists. It’s pompous as shit to assert a black box mimicry constitutes intelligence. Wake me up when it can learn to play a guitar and write something as good as Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. Hint: we’ll both be dead before that happens.
by multimoon | 2025-05-01 17:45:23+00:00
I’m a dev who pays the same 30% cut for all the platforms, and I still think that’s a bit of an over optimistic view. Anything is a transaction and someone has to benefit from that transaction or there’s no money to be made and it won’t be worth doing, same reason we as devs charge for software.

Apple/google/valve/etc are providing you a service and acting as a publisher, dealing with a bunch of legal and tax crap you probably don’t want to, and providing testing/rollout/apis/libraries and a lot of other features for you to use.

You can debate all day long if the cost for their service is fair, but you certainly aren’t getting nothing.

In addition Apple obviously has a walled garden, but android has had side loading and alternative app stores since its inception and it’s still not popular, every user wants to just use a centralized place, so every dev releases on the centralized market. Forcing Apple to change their rules may be warm and fuzzy morally, it won’t change the status quo in the slightest.

As many users have also pointed out valve and steam is the last of the publisher storefronts you likely want complain about as they do a ton for the gaming community.
by kstrauser | 2025-05-01 17:45:36+00:00
You're right. They said that vaccines are safe and effective, and they are. Nothing in this world is perfectly safe and effective, and no one qualified to speak on any healthcare option would ever claim otherwise.

Tap water is safe, but non-zero people get sick from it. That just means it's not completely safe.

Penicillin is effective, but some germs are resistant now. That just means it's not completely effective.
by wang_li | 2025-05-01 17:45:49+00:00
You're in a comment section where people are flipping out that there exists a computer on his desk that isn't connected to any DoD network but is connected to the public internet.

Approximately 30,000 people go to work in the Pentagon every day. There are areas in the building that are SCIFs and they don't allow cell phones and laptops. But the majority of the building is an office building used for office building type stuff. Employees and contractors bring their personal cellphones and mobile devices in there every day.
by zhivota | 2025-05-01 17:46:33+00:00
I've worked at companies that use both Slack and Teams, and the chat culture that Slack creates is hugely different than Teams. Have you experienced both? Teams chat rooms are ghost towns compared to Slack. The UX of teams discourages chat, syncing is a mess so ordering is all funky, and good luck finding anything written in the past. Slack is so good at search that we have channels with just feeds of auto-generated information, and there's a good chance anything you need to know is in one of those channels. (company is 800+ people doing 300m ARR)
by hajile | 2025-05-01 17:46:33+00:00
I'm familiar with what exists -- I simply think it is flawed.

I never said SMEs don't testify in civil cases. My contention was that the judge should have consulted SMEs when defining parts of the ruling outside her expertise.

You aren't making a case for reasonableness as a concept. You are simply asserting that it exists, so it must continue to exist with the implication that it is good. You seem to be further implying that an assertion of reasonableness by a judge should carry the same weight as an assertion of reasonableness by SMEs or a jury of peers.

Can you defend these assertions?
by evanjrowley | 2025-05-01 17:47:06+00:00
I've been using Karakeep (formerly known as Hoarder) and it's been a great experience so far. One thing they're working on now is a Safari browser extension. I noticed Linkwarden lacks a Safari browser extension - is one on the roadmap?

Lately I've been using MacOS and I've noticed Chromium-based browsers use more resources than the native Safari. This is especially true with Microsoft Edge, which sometimes consumes tens of gigabytes of RAM (possibly a memory leak?). In an attempt to preserve battery life and SSD longevity, Safari is now my go-to browser on MacOS.
by n_ary | 2025-05-01 17:47:38+00:00
Is this the beginning of the apps for everything era and finally the SaaS for your LLM begins? Initially we had internet but value came when instead of installed apps, webapps arrived to become SaaS. Now if LLMs can use specific remote MCP which is another SaaS for your LLM, the remote MCP powered service can charge a subscription to do wonderful things and voila! Let the new golden age of SaaS for LLMs begin and the old fad(replace job XYZ with AI) die already.
by dekhn | 2025-05-01 17:47:57+00:00
The way I see this is that for a long time there was an academic field that was working on parsing natural human language and it was influenced by some very smart people who had strong opinions. They focused mainly on symbolic approaches to parsing, rather than probabilistic. And there were some fairly strong assumptions about structure and meaning. Norvig wrote about this: https://norvig.com/chomsky.html and I think the article bears repeated, close reading.

Unfortunately, because ML models went brr some time ago (Norvig was at the leading edge of this when he worked on the early google search engine and had access to huge amounts of data), we've since seen that probabilistic approaches produce excellent results, surpassing everything in the NLP space in terms of producing real-world sysems, without addressing any of the issues that the NLP folks believe are key (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot and the referenced paper). Personally I would have preferred if the parrot paper hadn't also discussed environmental costs of LLMs, and focused entirely on the semantic issues associated with probabilistic models.

I think there's a huge amount of jealousy in the NLP space that probabilistic methods worked so well, so fast (with transformers being the key innovation that improved metrics). And it's clear that even state-of-the-art probabilistic models lack features that NLP people expected.

Repeatedly we have seen that probabilistic methods are the most effective way to make forward progress, provided you have enough data and good algorithms. It would be interesting to see the NLP folks try to come up with models that did anything near what a modern LLM can do.
by zaking17 | 2025-05-01 17:48:01+00:00
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by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-05-01 17:48:16+00:00
"deepfaking" video[0] and voice is relatively easy these days, and is definitely being employed by some of these candidates. Lower the "webcam" quality a little bit, and it can be difficult for many interviewers to notice something is off.

[0] https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam
by cortesoft | 2025-05-01 17:48:20+00:00
I consider it gambling when your expected value for your return is less than 1.

So, if you run a Casino, I wouldn't call it gambling because your expected value is greater than 1.

Everything is a 'gamble' in the sense that there is a chance of ruin. It is a gamble to drive your car to work, because you could die in a car accident. People don't normally call it gambling, though, because it doesn't fit what we mean when we say gambling - taking a sub 1 expected value risk for the chance of a big return.
by saratogacx | 2025-05-01 17:48:27+00:00
> You would think that a company that has deep pockets would be in a great position to do more ground-up re-implementations. And to do so with quality, performance and correctness as the main focus.

Why is this always the go-to? The Windows 11 start menu and task bar are exactly that, from scratch re-implementations of what existed before and they are garbage. There is a lot of institutional knowledge in that old code and to pretend it holds no to little value gives us half-hearted replacements which never quite ascend to the heights they were supposed to replace.

Sure, there are some exceptions where the concept around "what the thing is" needed to change and a new product needs to re-imagine a solution (VS -> VSCode). However, I feel that we, the software development community, put way more hope that this is true way more often than it is in reality.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-05-01 17:48:27+00:00
I don't have data, but I can tell you that covid taught my company how to 'work remotely' and having learned that lesson, they seem to have pivoted away from a 30 / 70 mix of direct hires and onshore h1-b contractors, and have heavily utilized 'near shore' folks in LATAM.

I would not be surprised at all if other companies have quietly done the same while touting 'the future of AI', because as a society we seem to grudgingly accept automation far more readily than we accept offshoring.
by chrischen | 2025-05-01 17:48:34+00:00
Apple's 30% app cut is why we don't have the ability to make websites and web apps appear and operate like an app. Pinning a website onto your home screen to make it seem like an app is a cumbersome process which can't be automated into some "install" button. This is probably intentional to force people to make wrapper apps and thus subject something to the Apple platform fee.

They're also worrying about declining revenues in hardware so they are aggressively shifting to subscription and service fees, to the point of destroying the user experience of the Apple ecosystem. I am almost forced to use iCloud backups because of decades of neglect with offline syncing. Why must I pay monthly for gigabytes of storage to backup my iphone when a single $30 hard drive could do it?

I understand and see the value apple provides in a walled garden. It's not totally useless. It's one of the reasons apps tend to be higher quality in the App Store and the platform is basically free of viruses unlike an "open" platform like Windows. But I also welcome the changes that might make it easier for web based technologies to run freely on iOS.
by Merad | 2025-05-01 17:48:45+00:00
Unfortunately what's likely to happen in our current society and medical system is:

1. Instead of being expected to read N x-rays per hour/day/whatever, radiologists will soon be able expected review 3N or 4N AI diagnoses in the same time.

2. With far less time to spend on each case and an AI that is right most of the time (but imperfect) humans won't be great at catching AI mistakes, even if they're trying.

3. Pay and prestige for radiologists will drop, leading to a lack of quality people entering the field, exacerbating the problems in #2.

4. Eventually administrators and/or politicians will decide that (using made up numbers) very cheap AI-only review with 90% accuracy is "good enough", even though the more expensive AI+human combo can yield 93% accuracy or very expensive human-only review can yield 97% accuracy.
Ask HN: Trusted Web
by zhyder | 2025-05-01 17:48:49+00:00
Is there any project out there that's trying to figure out how to filter the web to its (increasingly shrinking) fraction that can be trusted? Trusted as in NOT AI slop, content spam, or intentionally poorly-researched/misleading.

There are different thresholds to "trusted": the highest that'd be useful to search would be just authoritative go-to sources for something, e.g. the official docs for an API or library. But that'd be perhaps too narrow: including stackoverflow links around that API or library usage would be fine. In other domains like product reviews, you'd include only sites that have a reputation for actually testing the products.

Use-cases: - Reliably good search results... Google et al are full of SEO spam now and soon will be full of AI slop - Better grounding for LLMs than current search grounding... even if the LLM doesn't hallucinate it can cite junk on the web - Better pre-training data... I actually don't understand how LLMs will themselves filter out their own slop from future pre-training runs

I'm not sure what form this should take if it doesn't exist yet. Maybe a github project or wiki curating links per domain (yahoo directory reinvented?), each of us curating our own bookmarks and sharing it (delicious reinvented?), something else?
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-01 17:49:16+00:00
Eh, the rest of us who are really old are reminiscing the Apple ][ or the PDP-11 or the IBM 360 in the case of a former coworker who is pushing 70.

Funny I am known for being a steady, slow and dependable hand in real life but I team up with youngsters to win hackathons, I drive them nuts with my insistence on minimal and viable but my ability to go up on stage and demo something broken and make it look great carries the weekend -- good 'old fashion startup veteran skills.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-05-01 17:49:23+00:00
Yup that's right. The best frontier for b2c now is, what, say shipping an b/w e-ink phone in America so we can be less addicted? What's gone is gone.

There is more to do b2b, a lot more, but it is far less culturally relevant. It probably dovetails with people who aren't professional generalist programmers doing more programming as part of their job. That's a somewhat fractured conversation almost by definition.

I think with the LLM bubble bursts this will settle in better.
by ModernMech | 2025-05-01 17:49:32+00:00
Is this OG enough for you lol?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1i6par1/elon_musk_vs_...

Look, a lot of reasonable people are identifying what Musk did as a Nazi salute. The worldwide drop in Tesla sales and the massive protests prove that. I don't have to do a single thing to make Musk look like a Nazi, he does that all himself. It's up to you if you want to spend your time defending clearly indefensible actions. You really should save your breath though, because words from you won't convince me; at this point I'll need to see actions from Musk to believe otherwise.

But it is notable that you are willing to bend yourself into knots to justify Musk. This reply is the most substantive one you've written in this whole conversation, by a wide margin. Most others have been perfunctory, but you really warmed up your keyboard with this one. Like the other poster, I find that very interesting and telling.
by meroes | 2025-05-01 17:50:10+00:00
It doesn’t mean they tie intelligence to subjective experience. Take digestion. Can a computer simulate digestion, yes. But no computer can “digest” if it’s just silicon in the corner of an office. There are two hurdles. The leap from simulating intelligence to intelligence, and the leap from intelligence to subjective experience. If the computer gets attached to a mechanism that physically breaks down organic material, that’s the first leap. If the computer gains a first person experience of that process, that’s the second.

You can’t just short-circuit from simulates to does to has subjective experience.

And the claim other humans don’t have subjective experience is such non-starter.
by vkou | 2025-05-01 17:50:20+00:00
> Judging by political positioning, cook’s donation to trump’s inauguration didn’t sit well with the fanbase.

Objectively and ethically, it's reprehensible, but subjectively, we're now living in a blatantly pay-to-play world and everyone else is doing it, and there are clear, easily quantifiable gains of billions to be made from that bribe.

(The best part of all this was learning that inauguration bribes have been happening for decades, generally to little fanfare.)
by cogman10 | 2025-05-01 17:50:21+00:00
My theory is that it's the absurd wealth in the first place that makes these people completely unhinged.

Imagine you are in a situation where nobody you interact with will ever tell you something you don't want to hear. Everyone tries their best to only appease you and tell you that you are the best most brightest person. These people also all depend on your money for their own aspirations (that mysteriously never pan out).

It's basically the same thing that happens to dictators. They become unhinged. Their craziest ideas receive no pushback so they go ahead and implement every whim.

What they all need are good real friends, yet that's the one thing that's impossible for them to gain if they didn't already have it before they became rich.

And they are likely even aware of this dynamic which is why they view everyone in the world as being just in it for the money. So why not do everything in your power to horde more since that's what everyone else you interact with is doing?
by xnx | 2025-05-01 17:51:11+00:00
You can probably achieve what you want with https://github.com/simonw/llm and a little bit of command line.

Not sure what OS you're on, but in Windows it might look like this:

FOR %%F IN (*.txt) DO (TYPE "%%F" | llm -s "execute this prompt" >> "output.txt)
by cortesoft | 2025-05-01 17:51:27+00:00
By this definition EVERYTHING is gambling.

Take all your life savings into a savings account? Well, you could lose it all if the FDIC and your bank collapse.

Take it all into cash under your basement? You are gambling that you won't have a house fire, that you won't be robbed, etc.

Keeping US dollars at all is gambling that the US dollar retains value - there are plenty of examples of currencies completely collapsing.
by dgfitz | 2025-05-01 17:51:47+00:00
A subtle but important point: the people aren't getting taxed, the importer is getting taxed. If the importer passes those cost increases on to their customers, that is their decision.

Of course the importer will pass the costs along, but that isn't the real point.

The real point is that it is _expected_ that the costs will be passed along to the end consumer. The whole _goal_ of a tariff is to make people not want to buy the product anymore because it isn't worth the money.

There is an uproar about these tariffs, and I get that, people hate trump and everyone who supports him, totally get that too, and when he does a thing, people are going to lose their minds about it.

The point of the tariff isn't to tax citizens, it is meant to discourage spending, so the thing isn't imported, so the country of origin loses money and whatever they were selling now has even _less value_ because there is an oversupply.

China needs somewhere to dump their slave-labor made garbage much more than US consumers need to buy it.
by reconditerose | 2025-05-01 17:51:48+00:00
> So, you are practically saying you were using, at Amazon, all the BSD code we provided, provide an important part of the code to us? You see how broken such model was? At least stop defending it.

I'm not defending it, I'm trying to fix it. I want Amazon to contribute back. That's what I spend most of my time doing, but I can't just sit in a meeting and tell people we should give away code. It takes time to convince people that we should collaborate on the core and just compete on what we want to differentiate on. It takes time to convince people that building open-source in a vendor neutral space makes software that is better for everyone.

I hope that makes sense.
by ModernMech | 2025-05-01 17:52:20+00:00
> Why is that the answer?

If it's not the answer, then where is the line and who determines it?

> Disagree. I think your stats are off.

I didn't provide any statistic, I made a generalized observation based on the autistic people I know. If you have stats, provide them.

But my observation is every autistic person I know has engaged in some level of self-harm stimming, and my generalization is that means lots of autistic people stim in this way, and this means if self-harm is a criteria for being "profoundly autistic", that will cause a lot of false positives.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-01 17:52:38+00:00
I've just done something similar with Claude Desktop and its built-in MCP servers.

The limits are still buggy responses - Claude often gets stuck in a useless loop if you overfeed it with files - and lack of consistency. Sometimes hand-holding is needed to get the result you want. And it's slow.

But when it works it's amazing. If the issues and limitations were solved, this would be a complete game changer.

We're starting to get somewhat self-generating automation and complex agenting, with access to all of the world's public APIs and search resources, controlled by natural language.

I can't see the edges of what could be possible with this. It's limited and clunky for now, but the potential is astonishing - at least as radical an invention as the web was.