MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DannyBee | 2025-05-01 18:41:26+00:00
"So, they're set on doing the "wrong" thing, but could still use legal advice."

As a lawyer, that is your time to exit the scene. There are no airquotes that should be around wrong here. This isn't advocacy for some not-ethically-amazing legal position that has yet to be decided on. They lost already. They have already been found guilty. You are now under an active (IE not stayed) court order. If your client then is basically saying "well how do we ignore the court order and do the illegal thing anyway", helping them them is not defensible.

"What I'm amazed at up-thread is how seemingly incompetent they were at changing their workflow so they wouldn't hand the court evidence on a silver platter."

You (and others) are amazed because you think this would have worked. I don't know why. I mean, i kind of get it - I would guess you assume this because hiding things from showing up in discovery (a very different part of the process) used to work better. FWIW - It doesn't work anymore, either. See google being heavily sanctioned for doing exactly this, for example.

Beyond that - assume for a second that the lawyers involved are not morons. Assume they are instead, very smart people. Given that, why not assume that maybe your view of what would have worked might be wrong?

"In this case, surely they could have pulled all the stakeholders into a room with a whiteboard, and made sure nobody kept any records of the meeting."

Try it sometime after you get enjoined and see what the judge does to you. I've never seen it go well, but hey, maybe someone has.

While sometimes very smart people are idiots, it's not that common.

"but the end result would have been a bunch of "I think so-and-so wanted it more such-and-such"."

Uh, i think you are sort of dreaming here. Or just lying to the judge? Or maybe you've never actually been grilled by a judge in this situation. I dunno.

In any case, i think the judge would have gotten nearly the same info, if not more, but also would have been a lot more pissed and made a lot more criminal referrals :)

Lots of judges are former prosecutors, litigators, or defense attorneys.

Who don't get to have that kind of fun of cross-examining people, etc, anymore.

In this case she's a former private litigator for many years.

Good luck with your strategy of telling her "I dunno what happened, we just sort of talked about stuff".

This is like the scene from the dark knight where he wants to blackmail batman.

"Surely that's better than the sort of quotes the court could copy/paste into its decision."

I don't believe so. I think the judge would have written something making them look even more stupid, evil, and criminal.
by mingus88 | 2025-05-01 18:41:37+00:00
The reason it is political for voting is that the rules needed to get a qualified ID are often impossible (or hard enough to suppress voting) for many legit voters.

These rules have become weaponized in a culture war, such as the requirement that an ID match the name on the birth record, meaning women whose last names changed during marriage require additional paperwork, often crossing state lines and in person visits. Bingo, disenfranchised a large population of women.

Personally I think voting should be mandatory as some countries have done, and verification should be easy.

Obviously you need documentation to work, and it’s fair to gather that documentation as early in the process as is reasonable (as in when an application is submitted)
by jeffbee | 2025-05-01 18:41:39+00:00
Yeah that was weird. Has Damore ever contributed anything to the industry? Never heard of them in the open source world. The way I read their arc, they went directly from cosseted upbringing to finding out that they weren't anywhere near as gifted as they'd been told their entire life and shifting from trying to actually compete in the industry to being a paid podcast guest in the grievance-sphere.
by rvz | 2025-05-01 18:41:40+00:00
Can't wait for the first security incident relating to the fundamentally flawed MCP specification which an LLM will inadvertently be tricked to leak sensitive data.

Increasing the amount of "connections" to the LLM increases the risk in a leak and it gives your more rope to hang yourself with when at least one connection becomes problematic.

Now is a great time to be a LLM security consultant.
by svieira | 2025-05-01 18:42:29+00:00
I want to highlight this bit:

> 2. Engineers underestimate the degree to which this is true, and don’t carefully review AI-generated code to the degree to which they would review their own.

> The reason for #2 isn’t complacency, one can review code at the speed at which they can think and type, but not at the speed at which an LLM can generate. When you’re typing code, you review-as-you-go, when you AI-generate the code, you don’t.

> Interestingly, the inverse is true for mediocre engineers, for whom AI actually improves the quality of the code they produce. AI simply makes good and bad engineers converge on the same median as they rely on it more heavily.

I find it interesting that the mode of interaction is different (I definitely find it that way myself, code review is a different activity than designing, which is different than writing, but code review tends to have aspects of design-and-write but in different orders.
by toast0 | 2025-05-01 18:42:44+00:00
You might look into pediatric occupational therapy. They've got lots of strategies and tools that can be helpful. Some of it is purposeful practicing of stressful interactions in a group environment where all the involved children are working on things, so there's more room to have measured and calm reactions to physical outbursts.

It's likely that they may be helpful in working with the school to figure out strategies that are effective and that fit within what the school is willing to do.

If you can, you may also consider alternate arrangements. You can't go through life avoiding situations that result in being overwhelmed, ignored, or forced into things you don't want to do but it's generally easier to tolerate it as you develop; taking a pause and putting the child into an environment that is easier for them to manage and/or more supportive for now and returning when they're more able to manage and self-regulate could be helpful (or not) for the child. Sometimes a year or even a few months of growth makes an enormous difference in capability to manage difficult situations.
by dzink | 2025-05-01 18:43:07+00:00
Some potential causes of the scarcity of breakthroughs in the last 10 years:

1. "What got you here won't get you there." The problems that need solved today might require a different mindset/level of experience and that may not be in people with enough time or circumstances to build, or enough likeness to the old model be funded by VCs.

2. Distractions galore - Social media and trillions poured into the distraction economy ensures the ADHD-prone builders have less hours and are less productive in that precious 5PM-10PM.

3. Tech giants of the past 10 years were slurping the most promising talent with high salaries and burning them out.

4. Filters that sift new founders and hackers are created by people who don't deal with the problems most people deal with.

7. Hackers at hackathons are not dealing with problems most people deal with. A number of hackathons I've participated in had very similar solutions pitched - you could name the categories, and see them all over again in each hackathon years apart. Usually catering to the tech or the sponsors instead of actual products anyone wanted to use.
by Chyzwar | 2025-05-01 18:43:10+00:00
We do not know. We do not know what documents Trump had in Mar-a-lago, who had access to them, and what he shared with others. Furthermore, we do not know what was in Clintons emails and who read them. If anything, Hegseth’s is less damming, since we know the content of chat and participants. In both Clintons and Trump cases, the impact could be much bigger. The problem in all cases is lack of accountability.
by eamag | 2025-05-01 18:43:23+00:00
Hey, I do somethings similar! I did take a bit broader scope at first, but it has "entrepreneur" field inside https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me

I wrote a bit more about it here https://eamag.me/2025/Paper-To-Project

I think LLMs are usually give very simple ideas if you don't do "deep research" and just give one paper, I assume that's what you're doing? At least I saw some of my projects were not good, and I need to run more steps on deduplication/improvement

I think the important part is the ranking, but ranking can be subjective (each company/person has different values). I wrote about ranking too https://eamag.me/2025/Ranking-With-LLMs and some ranking at https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/ranking

Shoot me a message if you want to chat more :)
by ugurturgut | 2025-05-01 18:43:29+00:00
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by DrillShopper | 2025-05-01 18:43:46+00:00
Prosecutors enforce the laws by prosecuting. That's the function of the executive branch. It's in the name - EXECUTIVE branch.

The check on prosecutorial power lies both with the Judicial branch and, in cases of a jury trial, the People. Prosecutors are not judge, jury, and executioner.

The Legislative branch gets a say by writing, passing, repealing, or amending laws.

So the three branches check each other, no need to "just trust me, bro" with prosecutors.

If the President cannot faithfully execute the laws without BREAKING them then that either means the Judicial branch should strike down the laws that are preventing that or the Legislative branch should pass laws that contain a carve out for the President. The President is not above the law, so the half-measure of the Supreme Court deciding that they are in official acts is both ahistoric and enabling despotism.
by davidmdm91 | 2025-05-01 18:43:52+00:00
Hey folks

I’ve been working on a project called Yoke, which lets you manage Kubernetes resources using real, type-safe Go code instead of YAML. In this blog post, I explore a new feature in Yoke’s Air Traffic Controller called dynamic-mode airways.

To highlight what it can do, I tackle an age-old Kubernetes question: How do you restart a deployment when a secret changes?

It’s a problem many newcomers run into, and I thought it was a great way to show how dynamic airways bring reactive behavior to custom resources—without writing your own controller.

The post is conversational, not too formal, and aimed at sharing ideas and gathering feedback. Would love to hear your thoughts!
by regnull | 2025-05-01 18:43:57+00:00
Operation Greif (English: Griffin) (German: Unternehmen Greif) was a special operation commanded by Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The operation was the brainchild of Adolf Hitler, and its purpose was to capture one or more of the bridges over the Meuse river before they could be destroyed. German soldiers, wearing captured British and U.S. Army uniforms and using captured Allied vehicles, were to cause confusion in the rear of the Allied lines. A lack of vehicles, uniforms and equipment limited the operation and it never achieved its original aim of securing the Meuse bridges. Skorzeny's post-war trial set a precedent clarifying article 4 of the Geneva Convention: as the German soldiers removed the Allied uniforms before engaging in combat, they were not to be considered francs-tireurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greif
by corry | 2025-05-01 18:44:07+00:00
1. Cold plunge - high but transient (last for hours). I do it in the morning, after my shower - start the day off right.

2. Exercise - short-term: increases dopamine, serotonin, and a bunch of other good stuff; long-term: increases dopamine receptor density.

3. Caffeine - while doesn't technically increase dopamine, it blocks adenosine receptors which indirectly increases dopamine signalling. But habitual use blunts the effect.

Other less acute things are: good sleep and lots of sunlight esp early in the day.
by throwup238 | 2025-05-01 18:44:15+00:00
FWIW I found A Deepness in the Sky to be much better than his other books (I read Deepness first). Vinge’s talent for prose got better over time and it’s one of the more imaginative scifi books I’ve read. It can be consumed completely independently and after that one character’s big reveal in Deepness, they just weren’t as interesting in A Fire Upon the Deep. I really wish we had gotten a sequel to Deepeness.

Luckily I quickly discovered that the Children of Time series filled my need for more spider scifi.
by ksynwa | 2025-05-01 18:45:11+00:00
I ask this as a scrub end user. What are the implications of forking when it comes to a Redis? Specifically, what I am wondering about whether forks like valkey which are worked on by competent programmers[1] continue to be good choices or does Redis Inc. having founded redis give it a distict advantage?

[1] I am assuming this because valkey comes under the Linux Foundation umbrella.
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by KZerda | 2025-05-01 18:46:31+00:00
A copyleft license like the AGPL didn't stop MongoDB from rugpulling. I'd argue that the AGPL, and the copyright assignment that tends to go with it, makes it easier to rugpull because forking entities would be at an extreme disadvantage in keeping the lights on compared to the closed-sourcing company. A non-copyleft license, on the other hand, makes it much easier for a forking company to cover all the same niches as the original company, making a rugpull that much more difficult.
by mertens | 2025-05-01 18:46:42+00:00
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by citizenpaul | 2025-05-01 18:46:54+00:00
I mean Bill Gates grandparents were buddies with the Rockerfellers. Even if Gates didn't directly get money from them simply being close to that level of influence and power gives you essentially freedom to print money with very little effort through effortless connections to whatever you need.

Oh you need advice from a $10,000 a day law firm for a difficult business situation? My dads friend John works at "prestigious law-firm" I'll get him to get us some feedback on the situation.
by lionkor | 2025-05-01 18:47:07+00:00
You can lock down Lua, but you need ffi to achieve really good performance. This is what BeamNG.drive does, and that does theoretically open up the sandbox quite a bit. Suddenly you allow Lua to call C++ functions, and naturally vice versa. That could be a problem, and that's not the end of it, the Lua standard library (if you wanna call it that) contains io, command execution, etc. so you need to be selective about what you allow mods to do, while still making it possible for people to make mods.

In short; you need to give Lua power over your program in some way, and that's the weak link. Lua itself can run with zero access to the world, but then you have nothing more than a calculator or config file.
by krashidov | 2025-05-01 18:47:12+00:00
The real definition of vibe coding is coding with just an LLM. Never looking at what code it outputs, never doing manual edits. Just iterating with the LLM and always pressing approve.

It is a viable way of making software. People have made working software with it. It will likely only ever be more prevalent but might be renamed to just plain old making apps.
by dang | 2025-05-01 18:47:19+00:00
Could you please stop posting political/ideological/national battle comments? You've done quite a bit of that in this thread. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I realize that many other users have been doing this as well, but each HN commenter needs to stick to the intended use of the site regardless of what others are doing.

Fortunately, it looks like your comment history is mostly fine (at least the parts of it that I skimmed back through) so this should be easy to fix.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by logicchains | 2025-05-01 18:47:43+00:00
A nice thing about AI is it can write a bunch more unit tests than a human could (or would) in a short span of time, and often even fix the issues it encounters on its own. The ideal workflow is not just having the AI do code review, but also write and run a bunch of tests that confirm the code behaves as specified (assuming a clear spec).

If too many unit tests slowing down future refactoring is a problem (or e.g. AI writing tests that rely on implementation details), the extra AI-written tests can just be thrown away once the review process is complete.
by anthk | 2025-05-01 18:47:46+00:00
Would subleq work on this? Also, the 'ascii' output array/grid would be like a whiteboard, and a Forth on this would look like the computers from "Slouching towarsf Bedlam" text adventure.

Maybe it would need 5 minutes to show a prompt, but, if it works, it would be the greatest homage to computing (and Chuck Moore) ever.

There's Eforth for subleq, and the muxleq version feels almost like a native Forth on speed.

https://github.com/howerj/muxleq

The muxleq repo has the original subleq too. You can set the options for floating point and the do...loop (among others) in the Forth file and then you could just recompile the DEC file.

With the do...loop it's closer to the standards. And, yes, I can mimic for...next with ease with most ans forths such as pforth.

If any, I can link an already recompiled and more featured DEC file here.

BTW: You would like the book from the author too.

https://howerj.github.io/subleq.htm
by cogman10 | 2025-05-01 18:47:52+00:00
> Even that isn’t a guarantee because friend dynamics often change with relative wealth disparities.

> You probably need friends that are also very rich.

I don't disagree.

There's a Wendover youtube I recently watched that's tangentially about this [1]. Why do all the rich people have Yachts? His contention it's not because they like having big boats but rather because every other rich person does and that is your real social circle. If you don't fit in with them, you'll basically be friendless.

That also goes into why all rich people end up with private jets, because to interact with your social circle you basically have a packed calendar flying across the globe for rich people social events.

However, it's an insular group of people all subject to the same problem of generally being surrounded by yesmen. Further, it's not like these rich people aren't also trying to shmooze each other. Their businesses are still trying to make money and they often need to work with one another. So hard for these people to actually be friends.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNcYxHJPLE
by Havoc | 2025-05-01 18:47:53+00:00
>assuming they occasionally accept outsiders

I guess it comes down to industry. We're on hn so emphasis is on technical ability and in that context what you say is true. I'm in a space that requires trustworthiness is part of the core value proposition so there is little acceptance of outsiders and much emphasis on back channel checks that the candidate is solid. NK fake candidate etc is just not a thing in that context
by uncial | 2025-05-01 18:48:06+00:00
Thank you! Yeah, I was trying to lean into the idea of "shrink yourself down into a computer and physically manipulate the bits", think it's the best way to understand what computers are actually doing.

Spintronics is really wonderful, not just for its cleverness (which is extreme) but also the total concept and aesthetics -- absolutely something I'm aspiring to.

And yeah these are all 3D printed. Agree with your sentiments around community stuff, I don't have any fixed ideas there but I would be absolutely delighted to see how people can build on this. There are so many possible physical cellular automata to explore; this is just one.
by Aulig | 2025-05-01 18:48:52+00:00
Oh cool :) I've tried out cursor for a more AI driven development experience, but didn't end up making the switch from Pycharm. I'm just so used to the Jetbrains IDEs that the additional AI capabilities (over the Github copilot plugin) didn't make it worth it for me to switch. But I'm thinking that gap in capabilities may be widening, so I want to give it another shot.
by margalabargala | 2025-05-01 18:49:01+00:00
Just because the quote doesn't apply to everyone, does not meant the quote does not apply to anyone.

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is true for me, for you, for the person who quoted it above, and for the median person reading it.

The fact that some people make a living off of attempting to beat the market, with...mixed success, doesn't mean that the quote is false.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-01 18:49:21+00:00
I'd note that a Trump appointed judge just made that point about the AEA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/texas-judge-trump-alie...

> He also found that the “plain ordinary meaning” of the act’s language, like “invasion” and “predatory incursion,” referred to an attack by “military forces” and did not line up with Mr. Trump’s claims about the activities of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan street gang, in a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act.
by Root_Denied | 2025-05-01 18:49:30+00:00
This is especially true when you start vibe coding critical systems that human life depends on.

Emergency services, hospital infrastructure, financial systems (like Social Security, where a missed check may actually mean people starve) are all places where you don't want to fail because of a weird edge case. It also feeds into fixing those edge cases requiring some understanding of design in general and also the design implemented.

Then there's the question of liability when something goes wrong. LLMs are still computers right now: they do exactly, and only what you tell them to do.