MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 93po | 2025-05-05 13:17:38+00:00
i think chatgpt agreeing with people too eagerly, even outside the recent issue this past week or so, is causing a lot of harm. it's even happened to me in my personal life - i was having conflict with someone and they threw our text messages into chatgpt and said "am i wrong for feeling this way" and got chatgpt to agree with them on every single point. i had to highlight to them that chatgpt is really prone to doing this, and if you framed the question in the opposite way and framed the text messages as coming from the opposite party, it'd agree with the other side. they used chatgpt's "opinion" as justification for doing something that felt really unkind and harmful towards me.
by neuroelectron | 2025-05-05 13:17:58+00:00
Pretty creepy. Here's a direct link to the scenes in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGOJmdxdjeA&t=230s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6D2XCJUJHY&t=65s

The effects are made with N64 ROM hacking in Project64 emulator and video editing.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-05-05 13:18:16+00:00
AWS is evidently not using their own tools correctly to build AWS then, because we know that the contents of security policies can easily contain sensitive information.

Just because Amazon tells people not to put sensitive information in a security policy, doesn't mean a security policy can't or shouldn't contain sensitive information. It more likely means Amazon failed to properly implement security policies (since they CAN contain sensitive information), and gives their guidance as an excuse/workaround. The proper move would be to properly implement security policies such that the access is as limited as expected, because again, security policies can contain sensitive information.

An analogy would be a car manufacturer that tells owners to not put anything in the car they don't want exploded. "But they said don't do it!" -- Obviously this is still unreasonable: A reasonable person would expect their car to not explode things inside it, just like a reasonable person would expect their cloud provider to treat customer security policies as sensitive data. Don't believe me here? Call up a sample of randomly-selected companies and ask for a copy of their security policies.

This is key to understand here: What Amazon says is best security given their existing decisions is not the best security for a cloud provider to provide customers. We're discussing the latter: Not security given a tool, but security of the tool itself, and the decisions that went into designing the tool. It's certainly not the case that the tool is perfect and can't be improved, and it's not a given that the tool is even good.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-05-05 13:18:24+00:00
I think you can strongly influence which SDK your customers use by keeping the Python, Typescript, and Curl examples in the documentation up to date and uniformly use what you consider the ‘best’ SDK in the examples.

Overall, I think that Google has done a great job recently in productizing access to your models. For a few years I wrote my own utilities to get stuff done, now I do much less coding using Gemini (and less often ChatGPT) because the product offerings do mostly what I want.

One thing I would like to see Google offer is easier integrated search with LLM generation. The ‘grounding’ examples are OK, but for use in Python I buy a few Perplexity API credits and use that for now. That is the single thing I would most like to see you roll out.

EDIT: just looked at your latest doc pages, I like the express mode setup with a unified access to regular APIs vs. Vertex.
by potamic | 2025-05-05 13:18:27+00:00
Trucks are not a thing where I live, but I wish I could drive in a recording booth.

NAD, but opening up your windows like that might actually worsen your tinnitus. Wind noise can be pretty loud at speeds and you're teaching your brain to expect such background noise at all times. Might be better off playing some audio. If you have a quiet cabin, you can get away with very low volumes, just enough to give your ears something to focus on instead of getting bored and starting to wail by themselves.
by rajnathani | 2025-05-05 13:19:02+00:00
> "Infinite preview" control using crowdsourced road data with <3cm localization precision

Question: Why not use an onboard front-facing camera to detect potholes in real-time? Using crowdsourced data can definitely have outdated-ness issues. Unless, you'll eventually plan to elegantly in-place switch over the data source to near real-time LEO satellite imagery over even better - below-LEO [0] satellite imagery.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/near-space-labs-nabs-20m-t...
by yfiapo | 2025-05-05 13:19:04+00:00
I agree this was a security concern and it was reported and addressed appropriately. With that said as things go this is pretty minor; perhaps a medium severity issue. Information disclosures like this may be leveraged by attackers with existing access to the lower environment, in conjunction with other issues, to escalate their privileges. By itself, or without the existing access, it is not usable.

More over, the issue wasn’t that AWS recommended or automatically setup the environment insecurely. Their documentation simply left the commonly known best practice of disallowing trusts from lower to prod environments implicit, rather than explicitly recommending users follow that best practice in using the solution.

I don’t think over-hyping smaller issues, handled appropriately, helps anyone.
by avsm | 2025-05-05 13:19:11+00:00
I use Gandi for dozens of domains. This incident aside, they've been reliable and undramatic, and I don't mind paying a small premium for something as important as DNS.

Has anyone else been impacted by the sale of Gandi to Your.Online [1]? I hadn't even noticed this until the post above, but it at least looks like the acquirer is still a European company.

[1] https://your.online/press-release/
by marcusb | 2025-05-05 13:19:22+00:00
> “My trust policy has a vulnerability in it but I’m safe because the attacker can’t read my policy to find out”

The goal in preventing enumeration isn't to hide defects in the security policy. The goal is to make it more difficult for attackers to determine what and how they need to attack to move closer to their target. Less information about what privileges a given user/role have = more noise from the attacker, and more dwell time, all other things being equal. Both of which increase the likelihood of detection prior to full compromise.
by rpozarickij | 2025-05-05 13:19:34+00:00
> Like a business coach/matchmaker and dating coach/matchmaker in one. Imagine just receiving high-potential connections for both, in your inbox, every day, according to whatever criteria you value.

This reminded me of one Black Mirror episode [0] which is about something very similar for dating.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710978/
by alistairSH | 2025-05-05 13:20:23+00:00
For many years, I'd take a mix of photos - some posed, some candids, some landscape/architecture/whatever.

Recently, I've found myself trending heavily towards candids/snapshots. Heck, I never asked for a Polaroid for Christmas to even further "dumb down" my photography. And all my 35mm film cameras are fixed-lens rangefinders (35 DC, 35 RC, and a Demi EE-17).

I still try to be thoughtful about what/when I''m shooting. Especially with my film cameras (film + processing isn't cheap). But, I spend less total time looking through the viewfinder.
by dangus | 2025-05-05 13:20:40+00:00
That may be true, but a lot of cloud customers are in that category of spending a lot of money on a monthly basis.

Google’s poor support reputation is deserved, but I’m not sure I’d want to architect extra stuff over that issue. After I found out those facts about GCP I was pretty sure I could have gotten 6 months of my professional life back because of the architecture of GCP being superior.
by shlant | 2025-05-05 13:20:56+00:00
it is concerning how many people do not understand the VAST difference in quality of life and physical/mental ability over the age of 50 between someone who takes decent care of themselves and someone who doesn't. So many times I've heard people, in the face of making healthier choices, respond with "why would I want to live longer anyways, I'm going to be old and decrepit!". Very sad perspective.
by syndeo | 2025-05-05 13:21:12+00:00
I think you're right on the money—those bad web apps that told people emphatically "do NOT use your browser's back button!" did the rest of us a lot of damage, as I really do agree that it trained many people to never press it unless they actually want to leave the app they're using.

I myself am guilty of (about 14 years ago now) giving an SPA a "reload" button, which had it go and fetch clean copies of the current view from the server. It was a social app; new comments and likes would automatically load in for the posts already visible, but NEW posts would NOT be loaded in, as they would cause too much content shift if they were to load in automatically.

Admittedly this is not a great solution, and looking back on it now, I can think of like 10 different better ways to solve that issue… but perhaps some users of that site are seeing my comment here, so yeah, guilt admitted haha.

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by lentil_soup | 2025-05-05 13:21:52+00:00
> VAT makes it harder for US car company to sell in UK. It reduces number of US jobs making cars.

that makes no sense.

Assuming the same amount of cars sold, with or without VAT the amount of US jobs making cars would stay the same. VAT is applied to any car regardless of origin it's not harder or easier for anyone.
by candiddevmike | 2025-05-05 13:22:22+00:00
In AWS, everything is in one place and uses a fairly expressive policy syntax. For GCP, you have " global IAM" in one place, contextual IAM in another (VPC-SC), per-resource IAM under the resource (GCS buckets), roles in another spot that require using the most sluggish docs website in the world to decode, and user/group management in an entirely separate app (cloud identity/workspace).

How is GCP much better? FWIW I use/evangelize GCP everyday. Their IAM setup is just very naive and seems like it has had things bolted on as an afterthought. AWS is much more well designed and future proof.
by marcedwards | 2025-05-05 13:22:36+00:00
Yep! The Sennheiser and Ultimate VoIS are in their own league. There are some other rare high-end analogue vocoders that I would have loved to include in the comparison, but I don’t know anyone who owns them. The EMS vocoders are supposed to be amazing, too.

I can’t speak on Dromedary Modular’s behalf and I think rising parts costs have been an issue, but buying an Ultimate VoIS should be a fair bit cheaper than the Moog vocoder.
by folbec | 2025-05-05 13:22:49+00:00
The author has a VERY dim view of Sparta, and of the people who worship Sparta and of the quality of information the legend of Sparta is based upon (second hand roman information, from Romans, at a time where Sparta had become a sort of theme park for bored senators).

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/19/collections-this-isnt-sparta-r...
by anthk | 2025-05-05 13:23:14+00:00
The Northern of Spain has no concept of hot in the Summer. The actual issue is that we are living in the same timezone as Berlin.

And we are like reverse Brits.

Brits: big breakfast, small lunch.

Spain: small breakfast (coffee and a small pastry), and big lunch.

So, we aren't having siesta. We have a big gap at work to be able to feed ourselves on time.
by TimPC | 2025-05-05 13:24:01+00:00
I think the headline is a bit misleading. Mets did pirate the works but may be entitled to use them under fair use. It seems like the authors are setting up for failure by making the case about whether the AI generation hinders the market for books. AI book writing is such a tiny segment what these models do that if needed Meta would simply introduce guard rails to prevent copying the style of an author and continue to ingest the books. I also don’t think AI generated fiction is anywhere near high quality enough to substantially reduce the market for the original author.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-05-05 13:24:03+00:00
Overstatement is an understatement! Between the first and second, I remember becoming so sleepy that I couldn't reason through the terms.

It's off by a factor of 8ish, which I applied to turn 2mph from a rate into a smaller unit of time but failed to balance.

It should have been an hour's walk (~2 miles) versus 700 hours' (~1400 miles).
by trunksuzieross | 2025-05-05 13:24:44+00:00
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by RajT88 | 2025-05-05 13:24:49+00:00
> it’s hard to imagine that, even if perfectly sealed, the clothed body would look at all natural after being coated in the wet sodium silicate and then dried out, much less after being exposed to the elevated temperatures required to cast glass around it.

This is the kind of stuff that indie horror movies are made about.

Case in point: Body Worlds art exhibit by Dr. Gunther von Hagens, and the film Anatomy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_(film)
Show HN: Ridvay Code – An AI Coding Assistant for VS Code
by Tom-G | 2025-05-05 13:25:32+00:00
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by ndiddy | 2025-05-05 13:26:22+00:00
The title for this submission is somewhat misleading. The judge didn't make any sort of ruling, this is just reporting on a pretrial hearing. He also doesn't seem convinced as to how relevant downloading books from LibGen is to the case:

> At times, it sounded like the case was the authors’ to lose, with [Judge] Chhabria noting that Meta was “destined to fail” if the plaintiffs could prove that Meta’s tools created similar works that cratered how much money they could make from their work. But Chhabria also stressed that he was unconvinced the authors would be able to show the necessary evidence. When he turned to the authors’ legal team, led by high-profile attorney David Boies, Chhabria repeatedly asked whether the plaintiffs could actually substantiate accusations that Meta’s AI tools were likely to hurt their commercial prospects. “It seems like you’re asking me to speculate that the market for Sarah Silverman’s memoir will be affected,” he told Boies. “It’s not obvious to me that is the case.”

> When defendants invoke the fair use doctrine, the burden of proof shifts to them to demonstrate that their use of copyrighted works is legal. Boies stressed this point during the hearing, but Chhabria remained skeptical that the authors’ legal team would be able to successfully argue that Meta could plausibly crater their sales. He also appeared lukewarm about whether Meta’s decision to download books from places like LibGen was as central to the fair use issue as the plaintiffs argued it was. “It seems kind of messed up,” he said. “The question, as the courts tell us over and over again, is not whether something is messed up but whether it’s copyright infringement.”
by mrweasel | 2025-05-05 13:26:48+00:00
When working for a Norwegian company, but with colleague in all of Scandinavia, we where introduced to the notion that as Danes we tend to be a bit pushing, impatient and just wanting to get on with the job. This would clash with the Norwegians who would want to do a lot of prep-work, upfront documentation and generally follow a certain procedure. The Swedes would avoid starting something until very one on the project had been heard and their concerns addressed.

If this is completely true in all cases seems questionable to me, but we did complete a project faster than the Oslo office could plan and document an identical project in Norway, resulting in an audit from the head office.
by perrygeo | 2025-05-05 13:27:29+00:00
It's especially damning since cognitive research is not at all ambiguous on the topic. Learning is the result of deliberate practice, intentionally placing yourself in situations where you need to solve problems. The output is irrelevant, building mental capacity is the game. The struggle to learn isn't just some unfortunate obstacle to be optimized away by technology. It is the cognitive mechanism by which we build knowledge.
by anthk | 2025-05-05 13:27:33+00:00
Ah, yes, a flagged comment, because maybe some clueless idiots think the whole of Spain it's a paradisian beach in the Southern Mediterranean part and they didn't manage to research about the split work schedule affecting the whole country, even when the North and mountain/plains the temps can get below 0 in Winter with ease, so the whole siesta myth get crushed down.

No siesta, but:

- Lunch with the family. No phones, just the TV news.

- GMT+1 Timezone, so the sun's highest point it's at 13/14PM .

- Split work schedule because of the lunch
by bluGill | 2025-05-05 13:28:30+00:00
I find they are valuable. When you have a small program - 10k lines of code you don't really need them. However when you are at more than 10 million lines of code types find a lot of little errors that writing the correct test for would be hard.

Most dynamically typed languages (all that I have worked with) cannot catch that you misspelled a function name until that function is called. If that misspelled function is in an error path it would be very easy to never test it until a customer hit the crash. Just having your function names as a strong type that is checked by static analysis (need not be a compiler though that is what everything uses) is a big win. Checking the other arguments as well is similarly helpful.
Show HN: AnkaFlow – SQL and Python Data Pipelines That Run in Python or Browser
by mudam | 2025-05-05 13:29:05+00:00
YAML-driven, DuckDB-powered pipeline framework that can execute locally or fully in-browser (via Pyodide).

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by anthk | 2025-05-05 13:29:20+00:00
In my case, 2G/3G connections with a power outage from 12:30 PM to 14:20 PM in Bilbao. Calls barely worked and for the internet, being a doomed nerd I've juse used Lagrange under Android with Gopher and Gemini proxies to the web (News Waffle) in order to read the newspapers because our media outlets didn even fit the sites for the low bandwith, something North Americans are greatly doing with https://text.npr.org and https://lite.cnn.io

Some people even bought FM radio receivers en masse; because they work with batteries and the stations and repeaters are already set to use emergency generators.
by cpursley | 2025-05-05 13:30:21+00:00
Any actual stats on people not brushing their teeth? It's not 1960 any more... And my entire point was to compare to other nations with similar development levels that don't pump it into their water supply and are doing just fine in terms of oral health.

And by your metric, should we also pump in vitamins and other substances that our bodies crave? Maybe the Fed gov't could just skip that and force drip IV everyone a compliance cocktail after their breakfast of USDA approved and SNAP subsidized Captain Crunch?
by tribedigital | 2025-05-05 13:30:25+00:00
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