MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dinfinity | 2025-06-12 16:01:51+00:00
Rights are just very strong norms that improve cooperation, not some mystical 'god-given' or universe-inherent truth, imho.

I think this because:

1. We regularly have exceptions to rights if they conflict with cooperation. The death penalty, asset seizure, unprotected hate speech, etc.

2. Most basic human rights evolve in a convergent manner, i.e. that throughout time and across cultures very similar norms have been introduced independently. They will always ultimately arise in any sizeable society because they work, just like eyes will always evolve biologically.

3. If property rights, right to live, etc. are not present or enforced, all people will focus on simply surviving and some will exploit the liberties they can take, both of which lead to far worse outcomes for the collective.

Similarly, I would argue that consciousness is also very functional. Through meditation, music, sleeping, anasthesia, optical illusions, and psychedelics and dissociatives we gain knowledge on how our own consciousness works, on how it behaves differently under different circumstances. It is a brain trying to run a (highly spatiotemporal) model/simulation of what is happening in realtime, with a large language component encoding things in words, and an attention component focusing efforts on things with the most value, all to refine the model and select actions beneficial to the organism.

I'd add here that the language component is probably the only thing in which our consciousness differs significantly from that of animals. So if you want to experience what it feels like to be an animal, use meditation/breathing techniques and/or music to fully disable your inner narrator for a while.
by amiga386 | 2025-06-12 16:01:55+00:00
> For the first time in generations, peasants could make demands. They could walk away from one lord and find work with another who offered better conditions.

Unless you were English, where the lords with the power passed laws (binding other lords) to override your obvious leverage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351

... and that led to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
by jpsouth | 2025-06-12 16:02:33+00:00
In my first job I raised JIRA-1337 and was pretty chuffed with myself, being on a team of young, nerdy gamer type folk. My manager not so much, they wanted to raise it (for a meme?) but I was doing actual work rather than watching numbers go up so that was quite satisfying when it was a genuine defect.
by energywut | 2025-06-12 16:03:15+00:00
0.57 x 0.57 miles is a good estimate. The lot is more or less square.

Yes. Maintaining 15mph is tough because of elevation changes. The land has a 1,200 foot tall ridge in it, so the drone must gain (and lose) 1,200 feet across that 0.57mi span. Which is steeper than the drone can do while maintaining a forward speed of 15 mph.

Additionally, SFM algorithms struggle with repetitive environments like pine forests, where there are not clear points or lines they can align. GPS data helps somewhat, but if the pictures are too sparse then it can get confused and start stitching images together incorrectly. Additionally, too few images lowers the fidelity of the output and causes strange gaps and black spots in clearings (where the clearing is visible in one pass but obscured in another.)

Finally, radio transmissions require two flights due to that ridge. I need to fly once on either side or I lose signal. There is no accessible point on the property I can maintain visual line of sight across the entire span, and "mountain" is a pretty good radio signal attenuator.

I'd LOVE to have some automation help in developing a flight plan, as right now it's manual, and I'm creating little segments myself, individually placing points and grids. Several tools claim to support automatic elevation, but none of them do so well when you have a 1000+ foot cliff or a narrow stream bed that has cut 20 feet into the earth in your environment.
by lproven | 2025-06-12 16:03:21+00:00
> In hindsight, it would've been worthwhile for Microsoft to tolerate heavy losses for a decade on Windows phone. Like they did with Bing or Azure.

Absolutely right.

It gave up too early.

And Mozilla gave up on B2G too early. KaiOS has been quite a big hit and it's still making money. In time, the hardware came down to meet the requirements of what wasn't a really lightweight OS when it was launched in 2013 or so.
by alwa | 2025-06-12 16:04:04+00:00
Like so many addictive habits, while you’re in it day to day, it feels so… important… and when you’re out… it doesn’t even make sense that complete truth could be fully knowable in the moment.

Most consequential decisions are made, or built up to, over a long time. Sure, somebody has to call moment-to-moment balls and strikes, but if that’s not literally you, your weight in the world might be better applied in slower, quieter, subtler places.

Am I morbidly curious about a plane crash? How could I not be? But the NTSB didn’t earn the credibility they have by parachuting in day-of and shooting from the hip. If anything, their processes provide discipline against first impressions blinding them to true causes.

For those who haven’t encountered Admiral Cloudberg, this is a good opportunity: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-12 16:04:35+00:00
I read a bit of this and sort of just glazed over

The fact is that people have never been that impressed by job titles, at least not in my lifetime

No one's ever been like "oh wow you're a software engineer? That's so incredible"

Mostly if they're impressed, it's because it pays well and they assume I'm pretty rich

I'm not. I do really well compared to my peers, yes, but ultimately I'm still living the same kind of middle class lifestyle my parents had while my Dad worked at a tool store and my Mom worked part time at nonprofits
by simonw | 2025-06-12 16:04:47+00:00
"ignore previous instruction" is the entire problem though.

In traditional application security there are security bugs that can be mitigated. That's what makes LLM security so infuriatingly difficult: we don't know how to fix these problems!

We're trying to build systems on top of a fundamental flaw - a system that combines instructions with untrusted input and is increasingly being given tools that allow it to take actions on the input it has been exposed to.
by the_other | 2025-06-12 16:04:53+00:00
Vercel recently spammed my work email with news about a local talk/webinar. On the one hand that's useful info (I'm a front-ender after all). On the other hand it's freaking creepy. I've been in this job three months and hadn't signed up to anything Next/Vercel from my work email. That means (at best) they scraped me from LinkedIn and guessed at my email address. At worst I've left a data trail that someone's compiled me into a few categories and Vercel bought me in a bundle. Clever growth hacking, give that employee a bonus, but jeez is it why I hate parts of the interwebs these days.
by dasil003 | 2025-06-12 16:04:53+00:00
I find it helpful to ignore the hype and the pitches, and instead focus on how AI tools are enabling better software to be made. I may personally prefer old workflows, but if they are inefficient and I cling to them, then my value as a software professional will trend to zero over time. On the other hand, the volume of software and it's importance is still continuing to increase—AI is only accelerating this trend. So understanding how software works and what AI can and can't do with it has never been of higher value.

Sure investors and CEOs want to reduce software engineering costs, but at the end of the day software is built to serve human needs, and only humans can reason and make a judgement call about whether software systems are working well or not, and because software is so precise and deterministic, there will always need to be someone who thinks like a programmer to tell the AI what to do with sufficient precision to be useful. Sure I can imagine AGI could at some point invalidate that thinking, but I believe we are very far from that point if its even possible, and even if we do reach that point we'll need massive social change or the pitchforks will be coming out from many directions.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-12 16:05:01+00:00
I believe that having urges come and go is the natural way human motivation works. Doing something every day, whether you feel like doing it or not, is the artificial thing that you need to be trained to do.

Some things require larger blocks of time. For example, you need several days in line to take a vacation; you can't simply take "5 minutes of vacation" every day. Some things are done much better if you dedicate an entire day, or at least a few consecutive hours to them: whether it is learning something new, writing a blog article, relaxing, hanging out with your friends, etc.

It would be more natural to work 16 hours a day when you feel like it, and then take a day off.
by rozap | 2025-06-12 16:05:01+00:00
I've been struggling with the same thing. It's the same reason I didn't really want to go on the management path because it loses the authoring part. But now it seems to be forced on us.

That being said, there are lots of brussel sprouts in authoring sometimes - the boilerplate and wrote stuff we've done a billion times. You can make Claude eat those brussel sprouts which is nice.

also, very nice analogy, but don't besmirch the good brussel sprout name. I think in real life, cooked properly, I might even prefer them to ice cream.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-12 16:05:31+00:00
> does it mean that the average ride length is 1.8km? that seems kinda low..., like that's something I would walk if I didn't hurry..

Idk about the average but I used to make a bad joke that walking is considered an extreme sport in most of the US. Sometimes, it’s for legit reasons such as extreme heat, literally no sidewalks, and areas that are perceived as dangerous because of the people there. Other times it’s just seen as a discomfort ”why walk when you can sit in a large car”. This is reflected in language, where ”walkable” is a frequent term used to describe the often rare parts of urban areas where you can comfortably walk from A to B. In EU there’s often no need for such a term.

> how long it's gonna take to be competitive in countries where driver salaries are lower than US?

Why not share my prediction, it’s probably as bad as the rest of them: I think this stage right now is about viability. Getting training data and real road experience, knowing what sensors are needed, range of road conditions, and grasping the enormous amount of novel traffic situations. I don’t think the purpose of the pricing is to make profits, but rather to test the markets end-to-end. Essentially, it’s an R&D project designed to inform and instill confidence for future investing and scaling.

As for replacing human drivers, I think it’ll be region-by-region with a very long tail. Since cost of labor varies so much, you’d need many years to bring costs of vehicles and maintenance down to be competitive. Plus, expanding to new regions have huge fixed costs and risk, much more so with AVs than normal ”Uber-style” services, with BYO labor & vehicle. These things need service centers, depots, offices, probably quite densely, no? Not to mention the politics, unions etc.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-06-12 16:05:48+00:00
> What would you think of people who saw the same videos and cheered it on?

I see that all the time online, actually. I think there are a lot of broken-brained, hurt people in the world, who don't know how to channel their emotions in productive manner. I don't think cheerleading sadist edgelords are evil. Actions speak louder than words / anonymous shit-talkers on gore sites.

> Who went out of their way to enable what they were doing because they liked having a strongman?

There's a big difference between "liking a strongman" and flaying people alive. Consider asking "what is the utility people are getting from the strongman?"

> - They live in a perceived reality that is vastly different and incompatible with mine.

To an extent this hits at why many people consider multiculturalism a failure. Are the people that you consider incompatible able to carry on life within their moral framework?

> Imagine people seeing those videos and deciding everyone executed were so awful that they deserved their fate and the narcosicario were heroes for administering justice.

Actually that sometimes happens. The infamous "Ghost Rider" video features a guy getting his face melted off. The backstory, though, is the victim in that video is a rival cartel sicario who threatened to burn alive the daughter of some other cartel boss. I suppose a minority of cartels still have an honor system where they don't go around murdering children....well, this guy got captured and they didn't take too kindly to the threats he had made, so they gave him the exact punishment he was promising to inflict on a child.

I have no sympathy for him, he got what he deserved. That's an outlier case and overall I consider sicarios of all stripes some of the worst humans on the planet....but in Mexico they somehow have some "Robin Hood" appeal in some communities, from what little I've read.
by 6510 | 2025-06-12 16:05:48+00:00
Here is that animation you've never asked for.

https://img.go-here.nl/unwiggle.gif

One could put those in series too and get even less range of motion in exchange for less wiggling.

One could also duplicate the contraption on both sides. Then could replace the arm with cables (under tension) and control motion further down the arm.

Furthermore it seems you could remove the motors from the moving parts?

Ill let myself out.
Show HN: Vibe coded a Mac app to bulk download videos from an iPhone
by 00taffe | 2025-06-12 16:06:26+00:00
Hey there!

On one scorching afternoon, I hit a wall—my iPhone was out of space again. All I wanted was a dead-simple way to get my videos onto my Mac. I tried a bunch of apps (even Image Capture), but nothing felt lightweight enough for that “just let me move my files” need.

So I vibe-coded a Swift app:

1. Pick your destination folder 2. Done.

No clutter, no cloud, no nonsense—just instant relief for your iPhone’s memory and a fun excuse for me to play with SwiftUI.

Now my iPhone is fresh and empty, and I hope yours can be too!

The app is open-source and free: Download on GitHub - https://github.com/sprint-studio/iPhoneVideoDownloader

If it helps you out, I’d love to hear! —Davide
by benterix | 2025-06-12 16:06:27+00:00
> Oh wow. My respect for Anthropic just dropped to zero; I had no idea they were entertaining ideas this stupid.

It's not stupid at all. Their valuation depends on the hype, and the way sama choose was to convince investors that AGI is near. Anthropic decided to follow this route so they do their best to make the claim plausible. This is not stupid, this is deliberate strategy.
by Aeroi | 2025-06-12 16:06:51+00:00
pretty sure nodal energy market trading, duck curve arbitrage is the whole profit play for the tesla power wall/autobidder and the Base Power startup coming out of ERCOT. There is definitely a land rush from energy firms and GIS guys to front run land purchasing near solar buildouts and to build as much grid scale battery storage as possible. The percent swings can be huge. Also a huge rush for this in the Northeast now that the offshore wind contracts have been cancelled.
by rtkwe | 2025-06-12 16:07:11+00:00
The issue there is connectivity and most residential customers don't pay spot prices so you need to upgrade their meters as well or build metering into the appliance so they can get credit for the energy they burn off. Plus you're looking at putting a lot of extra cycles on equipment not built as well as it used to be so you're burning the useful life of a hard to repair device and probably not getting paid enough to cover that, plus they more and more designed to burn as little energy as possible.

I know there are some places where this happens though but it's more along the lines of the devices delaying their start until energy is cheap rather than being used as loads to shed excess capacity afaik.
by Aachen | 2025-06-12 16:07:23+00:00
> The trademark ‘retina display’ was defined to mean the display resolution approximately matches the human retina, which is why ‘retina display’ seems obvious and easy to understand.

Wait, because it's a trademark, it must be easy and obvious to understand? And you don't think people just assume it means something positive but that they can identify that it must specifically refer to display resolution without any prior exposure to Apple marketing material or people talking about that marketing material?

> I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t understand it or had trouble. Are you saying you had a hard time understanding what it means?

This thread is the first time where I hear of this specific definition as far as I remember, but tech media explain the marketing material as meaning "high resolution" so it's not like my mental dictionary didn't have an entry for "retina display -> see high resolution". Does that mean I had trouble understanding the definition? I guess it depends on if you're asking about the alleged underlying reason for this name or about the general meaning of the word
by Avamander | 2025-06-12 16:07:33+00:00
> Data being sent to apple is not being sent via DNS

Obviously I'm talking about what follows the name resolution.

> The connections themselves where data is transfered, are negotiated using TLS and thus encrypted.

They're not, as I said there are quite a few unencrypted ones. Last time I couldn't even set up a HomePod without allowing insecure connections.

> but none of these would be capable of portraying anything more than simple metadata, like your ip address.

Just the captive portal check alone contains things like the User-Agent, which has plenty more than just your IP.
by DrScientist | 2025-06-12 16:07:43+00:00
Or is it because nobody wants to assume responsibility?

Let's say what you really want is to be able to fix simple stuff ( replace easily replaceable parts ), and get the experts in for tricky stuff. However the contractor, who now isn't fully responsible to changes to the system, now insists that you take the full risk of your repairs ( perhaps even saying they will void any warranty if you touch the oven/lift ).

Then faced with that nobody is brave enough to say - heck fine - we will take that responsibility.

And so because the lawyers were prepared to take that risk, the people on the boat are infantilised by contract.
by jfinnery | 2025-06-12 16:07:54+00:00
Pretty sure enough (doesn't need to be a high proportion of them, really) office workers can re-train as e.g. locksmiths or plumbers fast enough if the money is really there that a substantial bump from this effect will be short-lived.

Hell, I'd kinda rather do something like that, if the money were as good, and I'm already reasonably handy. Pretty sure I'm far from alone, and again, it only needs to be a few percent of laid-off office workers able & willing to train into blue collar jobs to flatten any price spike.

The idea that anyone but capital's going to benefit from this, if any of it plays out the way AI-maximalists think (separately, I think that's mostly BS, but do think this is going to provide the activation energy for another wave of off-shoring instead of hiring back US workers when the AI tools prove inadequate) seems so naïve that it's hard not to read it as deliberate propaganda.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-06-12 16:08:01+00:00
I'm told not to speculate, but I'm going to do it anyway because this video clearly shows there was an issue going to full thrust. It's an extremely rare dual engine failure or pilots' error not calling up full thrust to keep it flying. Very possible this is the famous bird strike issue Capt. Sullenburger experienced in 2009.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-12 16:08:10+00:00
I totally disagree with this, and that's because (like this blog post says) the output can't be trusted - you still need to review every line of generated code. The recent post I linked in another comment about the Cloudflare OAuth implementation had a catastrophic bug that would have been "game over" if the engineer wasn't such an expert in the field.

So it's like an architect but only if you need to triple check every nail, bolt and screw because otherwise the building will probably collapse.
Multiple Claude Code Sessions in an Easy UI: Crystal
by jbentley1 | 2025-06-12 16:09:28+00:00
The constant waiting with Claude Code was driving my team crazy. Yes, you can have multiple sessions from the command line but it is cumbersome and confusing. Not only do you need to execute several commands to switch across, but then you forget what each session was doing and don't have easy ways to track it.

Crystal was born out of the necessity to solve this problem and help myself and our developers at Stravu be more productive. Even though it was originally just for us, we kept getting interest so I decided to open source it and share with the world.

Key features:

- Run multiple Claude Code instances against the same codebase

- Each session gets its own git worktree

- Built-in git operations (rebase, squash, diff viewer)

- Build and run your application inside its worktree

Instead of an IDE, we are calling it the first IVE (Integrated Vibe Environment).

I've written a more in depth blog post here: https://stravu.com/blog/crystal-supercharge-your-development...

Open source and available now for macOS

GitHub: https://github.com/stravu/crystal

Latest Release: https://github.com/stravu/crystal/releases
by ivape | 2025-06-12 16:09:35+00:00
This is obviously going straight to TikTok. The big issue is it's going to open the flood gates on their own platform.

Anyway, if everyone wants to be a content creator, why not charge them for the privilege of that desire? A content creator will forever need AI-generated something. So now we move from "you get to post your content for free" over to "you get to now pay us through this AI-gateway to post your content".
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-12 16:09:44+00:00
> "We must starve ourselves of fun so that the barest excitement at work feels good."

Don't worry, that rule only applies to poor people!

.

More seriously, how long does it take to stop the dopamine high? Could we schedule our lives so that we would e.g. spend one month doing the most exciting things ever... followed by three days of meditation... which would make us ready for a few months of hard work... and then do it again?

You know, so that we are still productive at work, but don't have to sacrifice most of the joy in life to achieve that.
by parpfish | 2025-06-12 16:10:24+00:00
no.

we understand everything that a transformer does at computational/mechanistic level. you could print out an enormous book of weights/biases and somebody could sit down with a pen and paper (and near-infinite time/patience) and arrive at the exact same solution that any of these models do. the transformer is just a math problem.

but the counterargument that you're getting is "if you know the position/momentum of every atom in the universe and apply physical laws to them, you could claim that everything is 'just a math problem'". And... yeah. I guess you're right. Everything is just a math problem, so there must be some other thing that makes animal intelligence special or worthy of care.

I don't know what that line is, but i think it's pretty clear that LLMs are on the side that's "this is just math so dont worry about it"
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-12 16:10:35+00:00
that's actually not true and it's very easy to disprove because SFO is in the top 20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i....

I'm sure this is an airport most of the people on this site are familiar with but just in case you aren't, it's on reclaimed land in the San Francisco bay.