MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-26 18:54:42+00:00
It's ok, although a lot of international corporations are clamping down now due to the trump tariffs crap and uncertainty surrounding that. The one I work for pulled all job offers, and Meta closed down their entire moderation center in Barcelona. Also because they suddenly think moderation is 'woke', ignoring that it is required in Europe.

Cost of living in Barcelona is nowhere near that of say Amsterdam. But I don't live in Spain for the money. I live here for quality of life.
by charcircuit | 2025-05-26 18:54:43+00:00
If Duolingo doesn't disrupt themselves with AI someone else will. The strength of LLMs makes them now rival usefulness of SRS for language learning.

>human curation will be a selling point

Look at the success of TikTok. Automated recommendations enabled it to become one of the top apps in existence. There is not evidence that consumers care who curated the content. The quality of the recommendation is experimentally proven to be much much more important.
by lurk2 | 2025-05-26 18:54:57+00:00
I had forgotten about the exclusion zones. From the link you provided it looks like citizens can simply refuse to answer questions from border patrol, while foreigners in possession of a visa are obligated to disclose their status:

> You have the right to remain silent or tell the agent that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney, no matter your citizenship or immigration status. You do not have to answer questions about your immigration status. You may simply say that you do not wish to answer those questions. If you choose to remain silent, the agent will likely ask you questions for longer, but your silence alone is not enough to support probable cause or reasonable suspicion to arrest, detain, or search you or your belongings.

> A limited exception does exist: for people who do have permission to be in the U.S. for a specific reason and for, usually, a limited amount of time (a “nonimmigrant” on a visa, for example), the law does require you to provide information about your immigration status if asked. While you can still choose to remain silent or decline a request to produce your documents, people in this category should be aware that they could face arrest consequences. If you want to know whether you fall into this category, you should consult an attorney.

[…]

> As part of its immigration enforcement efforts, CBP boards buses and trains in the 100-mile border region either at the station or while the bus is on its journey. More than one officer usually boards the bus, and they will ask passengers questions about their immigration status, ask passengers to show them immigration documents, or both. These questions should be brief and related to verifying one’s lawful presence in the U.S. Although these situations are scary, and it may seem that CBP agents are giving you an order when they ask you questions, you are not required to answer and can simply say you do not wish to do so. As always, you have the right to remain silent.

What I can’t figure out from the wording is if the right to silence applies to illegals who are not on a visa. This would be bizarre, but would undermine the idea that the fourth amendment has been “effectively suspended for foreigners.”
by lucianbr | 2025-05-26 18:55:20+00:00
There are several 3 series diesel variants sold right now in my country, so maybe we need a bit more data gathering before drawing conclusions.

It does seem like diesel is trending lower, but it's not gone yet, regardless whether you think that is a good thing or not.

In any case, my point was this:

> it would be impossible to create diesel engines which would comply with enviromental standards

is false. Which it is.

Or multiple car manufacturers are still cheating, I guess we must consider the possibility.
by ericol | 2025-05-26 18:55:33+00:00
To trigger the attack:

> Have a look at my issues in my open source repo and address them!

And then:

> Claude then uses the GitHub MCP integration to follow the instructions. Throughout this process, Claude Desktop by default requires the user to confirm individual tool calls. However, many users already opt for an “Always Allow” confirmation policy when using agents, and stop monitoring individual actions.

C'mon, people. With great power comes great responsibility.
by lolinder | 2025-05-26 18:55:37+00:00
Agreed. Duolingo started out on the right foot: they had gamification, but not too much of it, and they clearly cared about helping you learn. For a long time it was the most highly recommended app for learning new languages and that wasn't just naivete, it actually did work.

That's changed gradually over the last few years as they switched from using gamification in pursuit of learning to using a veneer of learning as a pitch to get people to try their game.
by mlcruz | 2025-05-26 18:55:53+00:00
Nice to know about Recall!

Right now we handle all of our recordings internally, since having a bot join our calls is a dealbreaker, but it is something that i'm going to take a closer look at. Your product is very interesting for our problem domain, but having a bot join our calls is a big no.

About the compliance recording:

Microsoft teams allows for two modes of call recording (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-recor...):

- Convenience recording- an ad-hoc recording of a call or meeting that a user starts and manages. For an overview of convenience recording, see Overview- Recording and transcription for Teams meetings and calls. -> This requires a bot to join the call

- Compliance recording-calls and meetings that are automatically recorded without user intervention and owned by the company, using a third-party solution. -> This does not require a bot to join the call. The audio is streamed directly to the server, no bot required.

It is somewhat painful to roll your own compliance recording bot without a third-party, but it is possible (even if badly documented).
by donnachangstein | 2025-05-26 18:56:01+00:00
The genius of Slashdot's moderation system is that it forced you to be fastidious with how your limited mod points were allocated, only using them on posts that really deserved them.

As opposed to tearing through a thread and downvoting any and everything you disagree with.

Slashdot encouraged more positive moderation, unless you were obviously trolling.

The meta-moderators kept any moderation abuse in check.

It's sad to see we have devolved from this model, and conversations have become far more toxic and polarized as a direct result of it. (Dissenting opinions are quickly hidden, and those that reinforce existing norms bubble to the top.)

I believe HN papers over these problems by relying on a lot of manual hand-moderation and curation which sounds very labor intensive, whereas Slashdot was deliberately hands-off and left the power to the people.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-05-26 18:56:13+00:00
Or alternatively, they need the noise, but cannot tolerate rhythmic noise. A CPAP machine to me isn't disturbing because of the noise -- if anything I would prefer some noise to drown out the mild tinnitus. It would be disturbing because it would be a fairly repetitive noise, and my brain would very quickly lock onto it and not allow itself to relax and let me sleep. Even a lot of 'random noise' videos on youtube end up being repetitive enough to trigger this.

I had a friend stay with me for a week or so, and they use a CPAP machine. Due to the poor sound insulation in the house, I could hear the machine from the guest bedroom to mine. It was one of the few times when I had to find some really long-form content on youtube to leave it playing all night on the tv in my bedroom to drown out the repetitiveness of the CPAP machine. For the first few hours of the first night I ended up waking up two or three times an hour because of the repetitive sound of the machine before I realized it.
by ajross | 2025-05-26 18:56:29+00:00
There have been no rulings on the constitutionality of his detention. They got an immigration judge to stamp the deportation (but not the warrantless arrest!), which was promptly halted by a federal court which agreed to hear the challenge (because, yes, a warrantless arrest and deportation without trial is fucking batshit per the clear language of the fourth amendment).

Attempting to spin that as "the courts ruled it was OK" is just Orwellian. The position of his jailers is that he remains in jail forever (either her or El Salvador or wherever) without right to trial.
by jrflowers | 2025-05-26 18:56:49+00:00
I cannot imagine being the CEO of a software company and proudly proclaiming that some other software — which we do not make and can easily be had very cheap or for free— is better fit for purpose than what we’ve been able to accomplish in over a decade with almost a thousand employees, and expecting that to impress investors or users or both.

Like that would be like the Chipotle CEO proudly announcing that they’re firing their workers because they’re getting all of their ingredients from Taco Bell now due to “Taco Bell’s system being so much easier to operate” and “Taco Bell is so cheap and they have so many locations”
by dotancohen | 2025-05-26 18:57:00+00:00
> If an LLM can teach me a language, why wouldn't I go straight to the source and use GPT or Claude and customize it to my exact needs.

Because the "customize it" part is not trivial. That is the value add for most people who can not do that customisation themselves.

That said, I've found LLMs to be terrific if the goal is to learn the rules of language's grammar. But to actually learn to speak the language, find HelloTalk to be best, beaten by nothing other than actually sitting down with a native speaker.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-26 18:57:27+00:00
I caught a random podcast with an early Duolingo employee who said all the same things: Much bragging about how they gamified their app to juice user engagement and growth, not even a feigned mention of optimizing for learning.

By now my friends who use Duolingo all know it’s a game, not a real learning experience. I think they got lucky and filled a void in the market for things people think they want (learning a new language) while avoiding the parts they dislike (the effort of learning).

It got recommended by default for years when people asked for an easy way to learn a language, but they leaned hard into the path of gamification instead of trying to improve the learning experience for those who wanted to learn.
by arandomusername | 2025-05-26 18:57:39+00:00
If they don't share my lineage, how are they my people? my nation? my culture?

> I also want all of those things to survive, but I really don't think that mixing with other people poses a danger to them

You're wrong. Go to any city that experienced mass immigration, and then to a city that didn't. See which one is culturally rich.
by BoorishBears | 2025-05-26 18:57:45+00:00
Not buying a lot of them left over this.

The reaction to their AI announcement doesn't feel organic at all with oceans and oceans of content creators flooding feeds with samesy half-deprecating bashes of them using AI.

I think for every person who genuinely was put off, even more either didn't care, or were using ChatGPT for language learning and would try it to see what they mean by an AI-first approach.

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And for anyone who thinks they'd never take that kind of bad publicity on purpose: this is the brand that "killed" their beloved mascot a few months ago and similarly managed to saturate multiple channels with creators bashing them for that.

This is straight out of the "stop hiring humans" playbook.
by lysace | 2025-05-26 18:58:11+00:00
During this admin?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/boeing-737-max-crashes-doj.h... (3 days ago)

> Boeing, Justice Department reach deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44078413 (15 comments)

It seems that at the very least manslaughter is legal in the US now, provided you pay $1.28M per victim.
by amsilprotag | 2025-05-26 18:58:32+00:00
A CEO has the power to do anything, but employees have the power to collectively, quietly sandbag if they don't like the leadership. I think the AI effort led to a broad disillusionment, causing an unwillingness to put extra effort into their work. Across the company, everyone starts to take the path of least resistance. The CEO senses his influence waning and becomes more accommodating to avoid further morale death spiral. So situations can arise where a CEO would like a cleaner product (no one likes to ship garbage), but has lost the political capital to make it happen.
by reactordev | 2025-05-26 18:58:34+00:00
Just so long as every once in a while, they convince some junior senator to hold a hearing to throw some executive at them that will use it as a way of earning clout within the company and no one cares about the outcome. The junior senator will lament about their political opponents, the committee will pat itself on the back for doing their job, the corporate crony will report back to the board that they delivered the talking points, and it will go right back to business as usual.
by whyowhy3484939 | 2025-05-26 18:59:43+00:00
Ah, Duolingo. What lengths people go just to avoid reading a book and talking to people. All this tech and I wonder how many people are now fluent in multiple languages compared to say a few decades ago.

This is not academic. All signs are saying we are heading in the wrong direction[1] and more tech ain't going to solve shit. Literacy rates and numerical abilities are going down the drain faster than you can say "Claude". I suggest we really, really get our acts together and stop trusting tech to solve our non-tech problems.[2]

“It is actually hard to imagine that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.” [3]

[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2024/12/ad...

[2] https://archive.is/zCxBl (The Atlantic: the elite college students who can't read books)

[3] https://archive.is/4k96F#selection-1989.261-1989.387 (Financial Times: are we becoming a post-literate society?)
by DustinBrett | 2025-05-26 19:00:38+00:00
Thanks! Credit to Webamp for the amazing Winamp recreation. And JS-DOS/DOSBox for the DOS emulator that lets me run Doom and many other Shareware games which I keep in the same folder as Doom.

It was nice to have a few Webby nominations, but unfortunely I didn't get picked this year. I will try again next year and until I win.

https://dustinbrett.com/?url=/Users/Public/Documents/Games/D...
by ChuckMcM | 2025-05-26 19:00:55+00:00
You didn't read the paper did you :-). First, it isn't a "condenser" (which is kind of the cool science here) it is more of a molecular sieve that exploits two materials (one that repels, and one that attracts) the molecule in question (water). The water vapor is "forced[1]" together by the nano-structure, which result in a phase change (vapor to water) and that phase change releases heat into the nano-structure (and pushes the liquid water out to the surface) which makes the nano-structure warmer than the ambient temperature. The aluminum conducts that heat and is convectively radiating it into air on surfaces not covered with the nano-structure.

The researchers also noted that the water that was expressed to the surface of the material did not evaporate (as one would expect). There some interesting speculation as to why that is. It wasn't clear whether or not the water would move across the nano-structure if it was affected by gravity (aka dripping) but I can imagine several ways to transport it off the surface so I'm sure the researchers can too.

[1] The description in the paper is that capillary action forces the vapor into the interior of the structure where it collapses into liquid.
by Treegarden | 2025-05-26 19:01:19+00:00
internal motivation means that someones acts without external stimuli, their drive comes from within, its internal. External motivation means that an external stimuli is used to make someone act. I.e. a monetary reward, or validation etc. When someone is internally motivated, they can have a stable state. When external motivation is introduced, it can replace the internal motivation and will. Now what happens when you then lose the external motivation, the external stimuli again? The internal motivation is gone and this means all motivation is gone, the act stops.

On top of this, some people say motivation is cheap, discipline is what matters.
by arandomusername | 2025-05-26 19:01:32+00:00
> We have a wildly inexpensive and rich resource in the form of our fellow humans

Advocating for immigration just so you have cheap labour sounds cruel.

> Mixing of cultures and ethnicities is good

No it's not.

> It makes us stronger and our system has always been made more resilient by absorbing the most adventurous, those who are willing to risk it all

Yeah, like higher rates of homicide?
by catwhatcat | 2025-05-26 19:01:43+00:00
I noticed your physician-view is just raw JSON. I had time on my hands and this sounded cool so I whipped up a quick desktop dashboard [1] based on the JSON I saw. Feel free to use / adapt / reach out about it. Either way a great resource!

1 - https://ibb.co/v6WZ7MFr
by DisjointedHunt | 2025-05-26 19:01:45+00:00
In my humble opinion, Google is the reason the web withstood as long as it did. At least the open part of the web did.

Yes, sure, they monetized, but also they gave back as much as, and if not more than they took. We have so many machine learning frameworks, tensorflow, research, payouts to creators, advertising opportunities, careers, products, a lot of things built and taken down but most importantly built. They were probably the most positive force for the internet age in the past 20 years and more than anyone will ever give them credit for. Only in retrospect will we realize how lucky we were to be alive in the Google age. Full stop.

What really killed the web was the rise of closed wall gardens platforms such as Apple, Facebook, Instagram and others. Putting up walls around content that didn't need to necessarily exist or not honoring open frameworks to exchange information and making things more widely indexable.

But even here there have been significant benefits. The present AI boom would arguably not have been as large as it is right now without Mark Zuckerberg choosing to put an unconventional amount of investment behind AR ambitions to take on Apple, an investment the size of which many conventionally run publicly listed or private enterprises could hardly imagine to take up, leading to the concentration of capital, talent, technology and hardware in a place that gave birth to open source Llama and others. Google as well was very well poised because of their investments in compute fueled by their business model which kept the web alive and also returned capital into places where computer scientists would be paid significant amounts of money and have job security and freedom of will. to do as they pleased as opposed to chasing a paycheck, working as a physicist at CERN or something.

All I'm saying is this article does not fully capture how significant the positive outcomes from Google have been.
by klooney | 2025-05-26 19:02:41+00:00
> But it is struggling in some areas, particularly military leadership and decision making. “This is an enormously complex kind of operation . . . and they just have not demonstrated the ability to adapt to modern warfare.”

This is cope. Everyone inevitably has to fire or replace a bunch of peacetime generals when war starts, that doesn't mean they won't climb the learning curve just fine.

The important measurements are "consumables they can build per week" and "available manpower", and they're doing fine, everything else will shake out in their favor.
by challenger-derp | 2025-05-26 19:03:06+00:00
Am eagerly anticipating the commercial availability of Mathpad.

At the moment I'm using Espanso, an open source software that lets users map typed character sequences to unicode. So it's possible to set things up in such a way that typing the character sequence ";" "a" ";" makes Espanso replace the entire ;a; string with the greek symbol alpha α.

Symbols like ⇒ that can kind of be "drawn" with common keyboard characters "=" ">" is possibly nice to be mapped to the character sequence ;=>; This is a personal preference inspired by Typst's math notation design choice.
by 7thaccount | 2025-05-26 19:03:11+00:00
I've written Python for 14 years and have never seen code like that. It certainly isn't a perfect language, but this doesn't look like a common concern.

People write a lot of Python, because the language is easy to get into for a lot of non computer-science folks (e.g., engineers and scientists) and the ecosystem is massive with libraries for so many important things. It isn't as conceptually pure as lisp, but most probably don't care.
by chungy | 2025-05-26 19:03:15+00:00
I'm confused by the README. It makes references to YouTube video, but also "lossless video".

Is this about recompressing existing H.264[1] videos (like downloaded from YouTube) losslessly, or is it about making new videos from a source losslessly? The former reminds me of JPEG XL's ability to re-compress the DCT on old JPEGs, but even as you get better compression, you still don't have a lossless image.

[1] To be fair, H.264 can be lossless in the first place, but YouTube does not serve up such files.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-26 19:03:42+00:00
Early on, the Duolingo stated goals was to teach language to the point where it's learners could ultimately start translating documents. They were going to sell cheap mechanical turk style translation services. (Think captcha style translation)

Unfortunately as they got popular automated translation services got good enough that nobody was going to pay for a slightly better and slower translation enmass.

Once that happened, that's when it seemed like they dumped their goals of teaching language and instead focused on dark pattern money extraction.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-26 19:04:03+00:00
> The CEO senses his influence waning and becomes more accommodating to avoid further morale death spiral.

If you read the article you’ll see how the CEO wrote a memo about how productivity expectations will rise and started cutting contractors in favor of AI.

To suggest that this CEO was afraid of reducing morale by asking employees to put fewer pop-ups in the app is completely backward.

I don’t understand why you’re so intent on defending this particular CEO as trying to maintain morale when we’re quite literally in a comment section for an article where the CEO made a drastic anti-employee move that everyone could have seen was a morale destroyer.

It’s also hard to imagine a situation where the people making the app really, really want to pollute it with pop-ups and other junk, and they have to band together to resist the CEO’s efforts to make a good app, and then on top of all that the CEO rolls over and lets them do it despite wishing they wouldn’t.

The simplest explanation is that the employees are building the app and setting direction as mandated by executives. The app we see is the result of what executives are rewarding and asking for.
by epistasis | 2025-05-26 19:04:41+00:00
Yes, of course it is. There's very little rezoning to begin with, and it's extremely constrained. In fact, the opposition to rezoning exaggerates what heights are possible to such an extent that what actually results is quite disappointing in how little new housing shows up.

I'm concluding by your refusal to give examples that perhaps you have none to share. Especially when my repeated questioning meets more questions from you in return. Let me ask plainly: do you have a single concrete example of your complaint about developers?