MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ravedave5 | 2025-05-23 01:11:26+00:00
I was trying to find information on this on the internet and couldn't find any, thanks for providing. Interestingly enough Copilot coding agent on github.com repeatedly could not complete css changes correctly, when I switched to Agent mode in the project IDE with Claude 3.7 it was able to complete it in one round, so I assumed that there was a different model.
by ddxv | 2025-05-23 01:12:15+00:00
Ah, apologies, I don't check my comments here often enough. But I really appreciate the reply.

That was also the interpretation I got from this, but it's hard for me to understand how this is expected to work for any analytics unless the idea is just that every app has a consent popup to use in the EU?

Let's say you wanted to avoid the consent popup and stay within EU law. Wouldn't any analytics you collect from your app would be meaningless to the point of absurdity? This is an honest question, not trying to just make my own point.
by curt15 | 2025-05-23 01:12:43+00:00
Thanks to said API, Tailscale on MacOS is even distributed as a sandboxed app through the Mac App Store [1]. Flatpak's restrictions make certain classes of software difficult to use on "atomic" Linux distros like Silverblue or Bluefin that provide a read-only base system and expect users to get their software through Flatpak.

[1] https://tailscale.com/kb/1016/install-mac
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-23 01:13:17+00:00
> I would assume written scenarios involving job loss and cheating bosses are going to be skewed heavily towards salacious news and pulpy fiction.

Huh, it is interesting to consider how much this applies to nearly all instances of recorded communication. Of course there are applications for it but it seems relatively few communications would be along the lines of “everything is normal and uneventful”.
by JonanJ | 2025-05-23 01:13:40+00:00
I am trying. Closest I've got to is the Boston Globe. They took it (semi)-seriously , but ended up not going through.

It is a huge issue. Newspapers give everyone 90% off for a whole year in hopes of conversion (or customers forgetting to cancel), but they do not see this as an issue.

I don't think they'll do very well in the future if they refuse to change.

Another company that I know about who successfully sold/partnered with big news companies told me that it's almost impossible. The execs refuse to change and the only reason they got those partnerships were because of their advisors who were ex-media execs.

It's going to be an uphill battle, but I'm not writing it off just yet.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-05-23 01:14:28+00:00
Most services that are written today (Not just talking about my company/experience, I'm talking broadly) are not complex. Many are basically a copy paste of the same types of things that have been built thousands of times before. Now with that knowledge and knowing how LLM's should work it should come as no surprise that AI will be able to spin up new ones quite competently and quickly.

Regarding tests: that is also something I find and many of my peers find that LLM's excel at. Given X inputs and Y outputs an llm will spit out a whole suite of tests for every case of your functions without issue except in complicated scenarios. End to end tests it may not do quite as well at since usually it requires a lot of externalities/setup, but it can help with generating some of the setup and given examples it can build from there. Of course this depends on how much you value those tests, since some don't even think tests are that useful nowadays.
by toofy | 2025-05-23 01:15:13+00:00
went to the documentary about this at a local theater a few days ago. was good, even kept my 10 yo niece’s attention.

for years i had been wondering why we didn’t have apartments/condos directly attached to malls, particularly in cold climates, so when the articles first started coming out about this it definitely scratched an itch. the movie has a ton of video footage they filmed back when they were using the space, including footage of them sneaking the couches, furniture, and 1000s of pounds of cinder blocks in. it’s pretty gripping in that “omg can they pull this off!!??” kind of way.
by sanderjd | 2025-05-23 01:16:00+00:00
Yep, agreed. I can no longer relate to people who don't recognize how powerful a tool like Cursor can be.

But I also can't relate to people who think they can, today, build fully working software using just AIs, without people who know how software works and are able to understand and debug what is being generated.

Maybe it's true that this will no longer be the case a year from now. I honestly don't know. But at the moment, I think being a skilled practitioner who is also able to effectively use these powerful new tools is actually a pretty sweet spot, despite all the doom and gloom.
by fabmilo | 2025-05-23 01:16:06+00:00
reference to the library: https://trafilatura.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

for the curious: Trafilatura means "extrusion" in Italian.

| This method creates a porous surface that distinguishes pasta trafilata for its extraordinary way of holding the sauce. search maccheroni trafilati vs maccheroni lisci :)

(btw I think you meant trafilatura not trifatura)
by ianbicking | 2025-05-23 01:16:11+00:00
I think I understand what you're proposing, but I'm not sure.

So in concrete terms I'm imagining:

1. Create a prompt that gives the complete API specification and some general guidance about what role the agent will have.

2. In that prompt ask it to write a function that can be concisely used by the agent, written to be consumed from the agent and with the agent's perspective. The body of that function translates the agent-oriented function definition to an API call.

3. Now the agent can use these modified versions of the API that expose only what's really important from its perspective.

4. But there's no reason APIs and functions have to map 1:1. You can wrap multiple APIs in one function, or break things up however made most sense.

5. Now the API-consuming agent is just writing library routines for other agents, and creating a custom environment for those agents.

6. This is all really starting to look like a team of programmers building a platform.

7. You could design the whole thing top-down as well, speculating then creating the functions the agents will likely want, and using whatever capabilities you have to implement those functions. The API calls are just an available set of functionality.

And really you could have multiple APIs being used in one function call, and any number of ways to rephrase the raw capabilities as more targeted and specific capabilities.

4. Now the
by neom | 2025-05-23 01:16:32+00:00
I don't think it was that insidious. Once venture dollars got involved and we started to hire more "business people" - the folks who liked the social aspects of our work got turned off and became emotional, leading to a lot of shadow work I was totally unaware of, ultimately resulting in my ousting. I want to be clear: I have responsibility in the situation also, I was the CEO and it was my failure. I ultimately mismanaged.
by gleenn | 2025-05-23 01:16:52+00:00
I feel privileged to be able to say that as a software engineer who's been doing it the hard way for 20+ years, I relish the hard problems. The CRUD app updates are unbearable without the random in-between challenges that bend my mind. The rare recursive algorithm, the application of some esoteric knowledge I actually learned in college, actually having to do big-o estimates. These are the gems of my career that keep me sane. I hope the next flock of AI-driven SWEs appreciates these things even more given the AI can spout off answers which sometimes are right and sometimes are horribly wrong. Challenges like these will always have to have someone who actually knows what to do when the AIs start hallucinating or the context of the situation is beyond the context window.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-05-23 01:16:53+00:00
I can appreciate that the model is likely still highly capable with a good harness. Still, I think this is more in line with ideas from say, speed running (or hell even reinforcement learning) where you want to prove something profound is possible and to do so before others do, you need to accumulate a series of "tricks" (refining exploits/hacking rewards) in order to achieve the goal. but if you use too many tricks you're no longer proving something as profound as originally claimed. In speed running this tends to splinter into multiple categories.

Basically, the gane being conpleted by gemini was in an inferior category (however minuscule) of experiment.

I get it though. People demanded these types of changes in the CPP twitch chat, because the pain of watching the model fail in slow motion is simply too much.
by abletonlive | 2025-05-23 01:16:53+00:00
What's more likely

A) all of this money being funneled into tech to build out trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure, a month over month increasing user base buying subscriptions for these llm services, every company buying seats for LLM because of the value that it provides - these people are wrong

B) yappers on hackernews that claim they derive no productivity boost out of llms while showing absolutely nothing about their workflow or method when the interface is basically a chat box with no guardrails - these people are wrong

Sorry I'm going to be it's B and you just suck at it
by jmyeet | 2025-05-23 01:19:03+00:00
"Whiteness" isn't a race. It's a social construct invented to justify slavery. It's a subjective reflection of who holds power and who is in the in group. The definition of who is white and who isn't has been subjective and has changed over time. Thomas Jefferson, for example, didn't consider Germans or Italians "white" (he called Germans "swarthy"). Congress passed a law over 100 years ago to declare Arabs "white". The Irish are now considered "white" where they once were not.

Also, I'm completely fine about making certain statements notihng race. For example: the victims of police violence are predominantly, or at least disproportionately, black.

In the case of NYC in general, and the West Village in particular, the long-term residents skew to minorities and those that displace them are typically white, like 23 year olds that somehow afford an $8,000/month WV apartment, which itself is an artifact of generational wealth built on racial discrimination.
by nothacking_ | 2025-05-23 01:19:10+00:00
Except finding '-45 dB' is frustratingly common. Have a look at this random microphone datasheet from DigiKey: https://www.sameskydevices.com/product/resource/cmm-3125at-4...

They do state the test conditions "at 94 dB SPL, 1 kHz", but don't specify the units attacked to the actually measurement. It's given as a ratio to an unspecified quantity.
by 0x445442 | 2025-05-23 01:19:20+00:00
The JVM and Garbage collector were good but were already present with Lisp and Smalltalk. I've been developing professionally since '94 and the first two years of my career were with C++. In '97 I had the opportunity to move to a green field project using Java. The most useful thing for young me was not the Garbage collector, it was no header files and Javadoc.
by bcwu | 2025-05-23 01:19:40+00:00
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - what a game.

Through SMAC, I found ideas about how future societies might organize themselves to ensure human survival and progress. I found ideas about speculative technologies and how they could reshape civilization. I found that playing the game made me feel less alone, because it revealed loneliness as a universal human condition—timeless and unyielding. I found hope in a vision of humanity finding its place among the stars. I found myself grappling with ideas far larger than myself. I found my empathy measured by in-game choices. I found that history, like the game, carries no moral compass—it only moves forward.
by arunabha | 2025-05-23 01:21:03+00:00
Lots of good recommendations here, but I'll add mine which is Zhongba 1 year fermented light soy sauce. The long fermentation time and the addition of a specific white mushroom (口蘑 (kǒumó)) gives it a somewhat unique deep flavour without too much saltiness.

Great for dishes where the primary taste is from the soy sauce.
by OJFord | 2025-05-23 01:21:10+00:00
I wouldn't be so sure... I'm certain my own would increase. (Assuming 'get you drunk' means something like 'contain ethanol' i.e. no 'buzz' or whatever but also no adverse effect on liver, the next day, ...).

If you want a cold drink that isn't sweet, your choices are pretty much alcohol, alcohol-free alternative, water.
by valenterry | 2025-05-23 01:21:47+00:00
For small amounts of data yeah. With growing data, the chance of a collision grows more than proportional. So in the context of working on storage systems (like s3 or so) that won't work unless customers actually accept the risk of a collission as okay. So for example, when storing media data (movies, photos), I could imagine that, but not for data in general.
by kyleee | 2025-05-23 01:22:26+00:00
You’re misunderstanding; much of the so called hate is rather intense disappointment many tech people have with Mozilla due to mismanagement and constant fumbles. Intense disappointment about a future we’ll never get to experience where Mozilla is well run and produces and iterates effectively on big open source projects, bolsters browser ecosystem competition and fends off browser monopoly (requires market share which they’ve failed at), etc. Don’t conflate that with hate, many of us are still their biggest proponents despite often engaging in criticism. If you stop seeing a lot of Mozilla “hate” that would probably be worse and then you’d really know that nobody cares about them at all and they’re actually a dead organization at that point.
by johnbanks-a86 | 2025-05-23 01:22:46+00:00
Many people are just negative about most everything... I've always been curious and I love to learn about technology. I use ChatGPT every day in my work as an independent English teacher and in my hobbies as a photographer, a writer, and graphic designer. I can't wait to see the next big thing. BTW, I'm 62 years old... Yes, I'm a Boomer!
by bigfatkitten | 2025-05-23 01:23:40+00:00
Red Hat has since walked some of this back. Firefox and Thunderbird were supposed to go Flatpak only for RHEL 10, but they eventually shipped rpms for GA.

Seems there were a myriad of causes for this including lack of Native Messaging, no ability to deploy policies centrally, and broken integrations with various other parts of the desktop ecosystem.
by dragontamer | 2025-05-23 01:23:43+00:00
> 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[i] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

+-------

I'm not thinking that Religion is the problem here.
by gwern | 2025-05-23 01:24:08+00:00
I did skim it, but it didn't help me much, because I didn't see any comparison to the supposed other cohorts, and even if they had done those, an online convenience sample is almost certainly going to differ a lot in many ways from whatever other white cohort you used from a different study, whereas you could've simply recruited white participants from the same service and gotten an obviously much more valid comparison group.
by groby_b | 2025-05-23 01:25:33+00:00
Not sure if he talked about photography, Desktop Publishing, spreadsheets, or some other labor-saving invention.

But what I heard over the din of whining was "It was hard for me, it should be hard for you". And... that's not how this or anything works. You get labor-saving stuff, you choose if you want to continue to solve hard problems, or if you want the same problems (which suddenly turned easy).

Yes, it's not perfect. Yes, you need to know how you use it, and misusing it causes horrible disfiguring incidents. Guess what, the same was true about C++. And C before it. And that new-fangled assembly stuff, instead of using blinkenlights like a real programmer. And computers instead of slide rules.

Up the complexity ladder we keep going.
by esperent | 2025-05-23 01:25:44+00:00
Just don't tell people where you got the info until it's normalized to ask AIs.

Honestly, while LLMs hallucinate, they still return more reliable info than using Google and getting the info from an SEO spam blog post that played Chinese whispers with already wrong info from ten other blogs.

The only difference is that using Google is normalized, so you wouldn't have felt the need to announce it.

Of course, unless you personally feel the info is reliable, you probably shouldn't post it no matter where you got it from.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-05-23 01:25:45+00:00
Six months ago, I spent a week at the shore. It happened to be full moon. We were out walking late at night while the moon was high up, and had to slog through ankle deep water on the way back. It was like clockwork roughly 12 hours apart.

Did read through stackexchange. It is indeed complicated. But the top response feels like paralysis by analysis. If we analyzed turbulent flow too much we would be unable to build rockets. Remember frictionless planes and point masses in high school? Those results are not exact either but a great way to model and understand what is going on.

Soooo .. could we make simplifying assumptions here? What if the earth was a smooth rigid sphere with a layer of water on the surface? The center of mass of Earth-Moon is at ~3/4ths of the earth's radius, from the earth's center. They are rotating about that center. The 12+ hour tides in many parts of the world start to make sense. Is there a mistake in this mental model?
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-23 01:27:26+00:00
Actually, that interpretation isn’t quite correct. The 30-day reporting window you’re referring to applies to initial SEVIS data entry and student registration at the beginning of each term-things like confirming enrollment, course load, address, etc. That’s under 8 CFR § 214.3(g)(2) and (l)(2), which govern routine reporting timelines for active F-1/M-1 students.

But the April 16 DHS request to Harvard wasn't routine. It invoked 8 CFR § 214.3(g)(1), which covers ad hoc or investigative information requests by DHS. That section gives DHS broad power to request any time the records needed to assess a student’s compliance with immigration status.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-23 01:27:34+00:00
Some reasonable arguments, followed by an absurd suggestion for self-hosting which completely ignores why most people use Github in the first place - visibility, publicity, access to a large pool of potential contributors/boosters, not to mention a clean and consistent interface.

The early web is just not coming back, most people do not want to deal with hand-rolled homepages and quirky repositories. It would have made more sense to nominate a competitor with at least some traction/name recognition, like Gitlab.
by sgarland | 2025-05-23 01:28:11+00:00
> The real horror isn’t that AI will take our jobs—it’s that it will let people in who never wanted the job to begin with.

I fully agree. This already happened with the explosion of DevOps bullshit, where people with no understanding of Linux got jobs by memorizing abstractions. “Stop gatekeeping,” they say. “Stop blowing up prod, and read docs” I fire back.
by binkHN | 2025-05-23 01:28:21+00:00
Nice breakdown. I'm new to Linux and didn't know about this:

> Flatpak still uses PulseAudio even if a host system uses PipeWire. The problem with that is that PulseAudio bundles together access to speakers and microphones—you can have access to both, or neither, but not just one. So if an application has access to play sound, it also has access to capture audio

That's a pretty decent sized hole.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-05-23 01:28:27+00:00
As a wildly amateur and unschooled musician Bartók simply looks wildly intimidating. Listen to him (again, as a wildly amateur and unschooled musician) doesn't make him make much more sense.

I wish I'd taken music more seriously when I was a kid (and had better neuroplasticity). I know I could still make decent progress with it, even at nearly 50, but I missed my opportunity to really cozy up to it deeply. (Instead I've got 6502 and 16-bit x86 assembler... Arguably not an even trade.)
by labster | 2025-05-23 01:28:31+00:00
It doesn’t actually matter if the foreign students are better or not: by having a mixed student body, with lots of cultures and backgrounds, students learn more from each other. They learn skills to work with other cultures, and ways of doing things that may be better.

Of course, in America’s future of autarky and Shogunate-style isolationism, those skills will no longer have any value, even to the elite. There’s no need to learn about other countries if everything we need is produced here and no one could ever threaten us once America is made great again. (/s maybe?)
by kimberli | 2025-05-23 01:28:49+00:00
That's so unfortunate--I've also used Pocket for a decade+. I had the Omnivore app installed on my phone as a replacement for the other infinite feed scrolling apps.

I'm actually working on an open-source alternative at https://curi.ooo if you're interested in checking it out. It's a work in progress, but I'm building it primarily for my own use because I'm frustrated with all these services shutting down.

The Kobo integration you have is interesting too, wonder how I could support that use case...
by arunabha | 2025-05-23 01:29:54+00:00
The truly depressing thing is, a lot of people are actually happy about this action. How did things get so bad, so quickly?

People who lived under authoritarian regimes have long said that things move slowly at first, but after an inflection point, get real bad, real fast. It's one thing to understand that intellectually, quite another to witness it first hand.

Hopefully, the judiciary will block this particular madness, but then again, given the concerted effort over the past decade by Republicans to appoint right wing judges, the odds are not that great.