MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benchly | 2025-06-10 10:35:43+00:00
Did you learn anything about navigating such waters? It's not likely the first time you'll have to deal with a grumpy landlord or leasing contract.

I am all for using whatever tools we have at our disposal to get things done. I use GenAI to automate/speed up a few tasks in my personal and professional life as well. However, the danger is plain; if I didn't already know how to do those tasks, I'd be leaving myself in the dark as to how they actually got done. As you can imagine, this just furthers what I call Dependency Culture, where we are at the mercy of having our decisions made for us because we don't understand the process.

There's a lot of (perhaps unfair) poo-pooing on GenAi, and I am guilty of it myself, but the fact remains that while it does make certain things like navigating a complex legal contract accessible to someone who is unfamiliar, the aim should be to use it to get familiar with said subject, ultimately reaching a point where the GenAI is no longer needed.
by jemmyw | 2025-06-10 10:36:12+00:00
> How do you move furniture when car-free?

Rent a van? I do that when I have a car too. Or use a moving company.

> And take your children and their equipment to activities

I currently live in a car centric location and it's true that you just need a car to do those things. But I've also lived in places that are not car centric and you don't need a car to do those things in those places. You can either get there by bike (which is usually faster than by car for short journeys when you can just get on and go and then get off and leave right outside the destination rather than having to find a space), or use public transport which is very reliable. Where I lived there was a bus every 15 minutes that took you to a train station where the trains ran from the suburb to the city every 5 minutes.

> risk of crime

I feel like those places that prioritise non car transport don't have this problem. I never felt unsafe cycling or taking my kids on the public transport.

> A personal car is freedom.

It can be. It can also be a weight around your neck. It's expensive. You have to park it when you go anywhere, and that also means you have to get back to it. You can't just change plans and end up in a different part of the city and be OK because you can just take a different route back to your house, you have to get back to your car and hope you paid for enough parking.

Some places just aren't densely populated enough to ever make public transport work well. Many places are though, even quite small cities, and then it's freedom to not have a car. The thing about not having a car is that you can always get a car if you need one for a particular thing, rent or use various services that provide them, or taxi/uber, or borrow one from a friend. But if you have a car and live where you need one all the time then you're stuck with that.
by dbdoskey | 2025-06-10 10:36:41+00:00
There is nothing to defend there. They could have easily: * Made the donations go directly to funding the browser development. Right now I don't know if it even possible to donate purely just to browser development * They could have easily opened a services/consultancy arm, similar to igalia. A great and easy way to fund browser development. (How igalia has funded servo development in the past) * Create a for-pay enterprise support. In the past a lot of government organizations wouldn't use Chrome due to how the Chrome updates worked. They could have made a killing in government contracts just around that

And these are just a few simple income directions that are pretty common in other OSS projects. Instead they did braindead ideas like being a VPN reseller, giving away Pocket, and other things no one wanted or asked for.
by pegasus | 2025-06-10 10:36:43+00:00
LLM's don't have beliefs, so "convincing" them of this or that is a a waste of your time. The way to handle such cases is to start anew with a clean context and just add your insight to the prompt so that it lands on the right track from the beginning. Remember these models are ultimately just next-token predictors and anthropomorphizing them will invariably lead to suboptimal interactions.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-06-10 10:37:45+00:00
Unfortunately the best way to develop intuition is to solve problem sets :). And for ML to make sense, understanding some probability theory might be more important than understanding calculus. In math heavy papers you'll need calculus and linear algebra too, but it's going to be hard to understand them without a fair amount of prior study. I took lots of math classes and wrote out problem sets, and I still can't read many of those papers.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-06-10 10:37:59+00:00
I used to love LibreOffice when it was OpenOffice.org. When it got unshackled from Oracle, it somehow became kinda uglier, and unfortunately it wasn't able to keep up with the times technology-wise, as all efforts to make it online are a failure of usability and speed.

What we, the humanity, need, is a free-as-in-freedom open source set of web applications that work like Google Docs / Spreadsheets / Slides, but can be self-hosted and would natively use OpenDocument file format.
by lordnacho | 2025-06-10 10:38:42+00:00
Talking to my Danish friends, and I have a fair few in tech, the country is owned by Microsoft. A lot of code jobs are c# on Azure, and all the office people use Excel.

This is a welcome change. I've thought for a long time, why would your average office worker even need to pay MS for their desktop OS when so many things could just be done on the web? And why develop a bunch of stuff on a proprietary platform when you can just code it on a Linux platform?
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-06-10 10:39:11+00:00
> "Car free" doesn't mean "ban all the cars":

Isn't that exactly what it means? Like smoke free means no smoking. Why this "abolish the police" situation again?

> You can use public transport perfectly well.

But it's a lot more expensive, e.g. I live in Stockholm and it's about $4 per 90-minute trip, per person.

> Being forced to only use personal cars everywhere and at all times is slavery.

Yeah, I don't want that either, I really hated that in parts of the US and Mexico. Like where you can't even cross the street because there's a big road in between.
by searls | 2025-06-10 10:39:54+00:00
I do this too and it drives me nuts. It's very obvious to me (and perhaps anyone without an incentive to maximize the accept rate) that the diff view really struggles. If you leave a large diff, copilot and cursor will both get confused and start duplicating chunks, or they'll fail to see the new (or the old) but if you accept it, it always works.
by robertlagrant | 2025-06-10 10:40:49+00:00
It definitely could happen, but there are two things standing in the way of it:

- there's not one desktop Linux that everyone uses (or even uses by default), and it's not resolving any time soon

- I use Ubuntu+Gnome by default, and I wouldn't say it looks great at all, other than the nice Ubuntu desktop background, and the large pretty sidebar icons

- open source needs UX people to make their stuff look professional. I'm looking at you, LibreOffice
by DoingIsLearning | 2025-06-10 10:41:42+00:00
> This contributed to their success of getting DriveOS certified at the highest automotive safety standard, ASIL-D.

ASIL is just a risk classification scheme from A to D, with D being the highest risk of initial hazard.

TUD SUD certified that Drive OS is ISO-26262 complaint and that it can be used for a safety-critical application up to the highest risk context of ASIL-D (Think activating brakes on a AEB system, or deploying airbags).
by lordnacho | 2025-06-10 10:42:30+00:00
Why won't the Chinese system just collapse eventually? You have a small elite who perhaps currently are well-selected (besides the point) but what is preventing that elite from leaving the reins to someone who is not so good? With the added effect that the incompetent ruler will call upon the reputation for competence built up by previous rulers?

Seems like it's just cultural norms all the way down. If people want to take advantage of the system, they can break these norms while pretending to be what they used to be.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-06-10 10:42:44+00:00
> "Mozilla isn’t your typical tech brand; it’s a trailblazing, activist organization in both its mission and its approach"

If you take a look at everything Mozilla does, it feels like Firefox itself is a side project that they do. In their most recent rebrand, Firefox was mentioned exactly once.[0] It's like they want to do anything else other than make a browser. But the problem is that I only expected them to do one thing: make Firefox. I can't be the only one.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-o...
by District5524 | 2025-06-10 10:43:03+00:00
I think the major point is that if you fancy yourself a beginner businessperson, sooner or later you will have to find some professionals you can trust. Regardless whether that's a lawyer or an accountant. Doing business will have its costs, and you will not necessarily pay those costs in the way you can anticipate.

Maybe you pay those costs before you sign a contract, and avoid a jurisdiction in a contract that you have no connection to (if you can). But you will definitely pay these costs when you have to litigate. If you think Claude or ChatGPT is the best answer to this, and all you need to know is using advanced voice and upload documents, I believe that's not that useful piece of advice.

Please bear in mind that it's not just particular case law that these tools hallucinate. They give incorrect advice in very different ways how humans do. If you can find a lawyer you can trust in a jurisdiction you're interested in, and you got along with him/her quite well, you can trust them for as long as they're in business, even if you never pay them once again. And they might even give you referrals or point to other professionals, understanding your budget and situation. Of course, they can still give you bad advice, they can become gambling-addicted, and run away with your money. It happens, even if very rarely.

But with LLMs, you won't know when they hallucinate, and what they get wrong. Even if you have the full statutes and case law uploaded and updated, it will give you wrong answers as well, but they're not working in the same way as humans do.

All we know that it's more likely to give you incorrect advice in jurisdictions not being covered by their training data (like outside New York or Delaware), and it will draw incorrect inferences in other cases from materials it has seen. Usually only lazy lawyers not reading the output will face the problem of incorrect case law.

But legal advice is not like coding where you can filter out most of the incorrect answers with tests and compilers. The author have happened to chose the wrong lawyers for the first time. I accept that not everybody has reliable lawyer friends qualified in Delaware, but in terms of advice, it would have been more practical to discuss the possible directories to use, beginner's methods to select lawyers, warning signs to look out for etc. It's sad that many lawyers act for trolls and do bad faith litigation. It's even worse that bars have no methods to exclude and disbar such guys. But you cannot avoid these problems by trusting a cheap AI tool instead, that's just wishful thinking.
by dale_glass | 2025-06-10 10:44:01+00:00
The problem for me is that Mozilla's side projects seemed unfitting, like their whole AI venture.

The thing is that I fully believe that Mozilla has a lot of experts in web-related software development, and have no reason to believe they have any particular competence in AI tech. So all the AI stuff seemed immediately off to me, like they were just jumping on the latest bandwagon.

I also don't believe their AI projects are particularly valuable.

* Summarizing pages -- okay, this might be rarely useful. But I don't personally have much need for it, and I believe that the competition is probably better. I understand the privacy angle, but I don't think it works for my case. If I was summarizing all the things, then yeah, probably I'd be concerned about the privacy implications of feeding a good chunk of my web traffic to ChatGPT. But I don't. My needs to summarize are rare and mostly things like lengthy public news articles. And in such cases I don't want to sacrifice quality, so if ChatGPT does a better job there, that's the tool I'll go with.

* Fakespot and Deep Fake Detector to me are fundamentally fishy in that I don't believe they can possibly work properly. I have very little trust in such services and have a feeling they may be doing more harm than good.
by KaiMagnus | 2025-06-10 10:44:01+00:00
At this point only the power users are left anyways, so I wonder if a paid, or at least freemium, browser for power users might actually work.

Kind of sounds like Arc. But nowadays we rarely get new features and when they do come out, they’re often unpolished, so I wonder if the browser has much of a future. They’d have to step up their investment in FF to be competitive for sure.

All I can say is that spite plays a big part in why I’m using FF, not good if you want to gain users and make money.
by benchly | 2025-06-10 10:44:14+00:00
I think the term is "confabulations" now, which makes a bit more sense to me, but regardless of what we call the hallucinations, it starts with the human knowing how to navigate the process, having at least some basic understanding of the system within which they're using the GenAI (in this case, law/legal) and the skills to cross-reference and verify without using the GenAI itself. If we start using the GenAI to both get the answer and verify it, we're basically creating a feedback loop that probably isn't always going to stand up to scrutiny, despite the fact that GenAI has gotten quite good at these sorts of things.

We're not there, yet, but we will be, probably within our lifetime.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-06-10 10:44:28+00:00
Mainly Germany in that case (I had to send a lot of faxes too), but I've lived throughout Europe and been to the US a lot.

I agree the US is far behind on fin-tech. Actually "developing" countries like Turkey, UAE and China are really far ahead here.

But the real issue is that Europe has no OpenAI (Mistral isn't as competitive) or Google or Microsoft or Anthropic or Amazon or Apple or Waymo - Europe is instead dependent on these companies (see the other post here regarding the sanctions on the ICC blocking all their Microsoft and Google accounts).

While the US still has some way to advance in consumer tech (and is being outpaced by China there), there is at least the opportunity in those innovative, growing companies.
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-10 10:44:44+00:00
Is there an official definition? I'm not American but I'm looking at images of locals and foreign nationals burning down cities flying the Mexican flag. ChatGPT tells me the following:

> The authority for the President to use the military in cases of insurrection comes primarily from the Insurrection Act, codified in 10 U.S. Code §§ 251-255. This act provides the statutory exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act.

> When unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce federal laws in any state by ordinary judicial proceedings. (10 U.S.C. § 252)

> When an insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy in a state hinders the execution of state and federal laws, depriving people of their constitutional rights, and the state authorities are unable, fail, or refuse to protect those rights. (10 U.S.C. § 253)

> When an insurrection opposes or obstructs the execution of U.S. laws or impedes the course of justice under those laws. (10 U.S.C. § 253)

The last time this Act was used was in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots and it withstood all legal contests. This time around it is a stated intent of these rioters to specifically obstruct federal law enforcement efforts. That's their stated goal which they are very consistent and very loud about in interviews. This clearly satisfies the criteria for the Insurrection Act.

I understand that this is a concerning action, but the law is black and white. If the U.S. and Congress and the House didn't want Presidents to have this power, the country has had more than 200 years to amend it.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-06-10 10:44:44+00:00
"but nobody will pay for a browser"

People paid $7B through Google for a browser. The money did not come from the private bank account of Google executives, it was payment for people going to Google with their search.

"then everyone criticises that they shill their other services and should instead focus on the browser"

I agree it's way too late now, but had they put $7B into the foundation to pay for browser development, they could develop the browser for the next hundred years with no other income.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-10 10:44:46+00:00
>I took away much more from her post than I did your comment. All I see here is somebody who's firmly in the alt right bubble who doesn't like being called out.

As I said go back to read the first part about how she doesnt understand. Just like you just admit dont understand.

Again another label pushed onto others, 'alt right' keep it up. keep dividing and attacking.

>But now, as diversity pipeline programs like the one I've spent my career building are systematically dismantled and women's fundamental rights are rolled back to chants of “your body, my choice,”

Who is winning? The author straight up admits defeat and wants to go after children to push her failed ideas. You know how fast that'll be systematically dismantled if she tried?

Her push for boys who nurse or teach is telling. Will she call out the systemic sexism in those industries? Give men free tuition to become those things? You've never even heard that before have you? My side isnt about attacking like this.

>You actually didn't provide any arguments for why she's wrong and you didn't provide any better solutions either.

My solution is being implemented and is systematically dismantling the problem. It's about rolling back some rights. My body, her choice is what we heard during covid vaccines.

Sorry that i am part of the side that's implementing the solution. What's to argue for?

What happened here is that the republicans should have pushed back against this stuff, but as the quote goes... "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
by miki123211 | 2025-06-10 10:45:32+00:00
> The entire book is available for free as an interactive online ebook. This should work well on all screen sizes, including smart phones, and work well with screen readers for visually impaired students. Hints and solutions to examples and exercises are hidden but easily revealed by clicking on their links. Some exercises also allow you to enter and check your work, so you can try multiple times without spoiling the answer.

https://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi4/

> The source files for this book are available on GitHub.

https://github.com/oscarlevin/discrete-book/
by paganel | 2025-06-10 10:47:18+00:00
911/112 calls are still made via phones, and I have to say that even making a simple phone call has, at times, become highly problematic on these new and very complex smart-phones.

With that said, my pants' pocket still manages to somehow initiate the "emergency call" procedure every couple of months or so, I have no idea how that happens (I don't even know how I'd do that with the phone placed in front of me).
by cge | 2025-06-10 10:47:33+00:00
> * Made the donations go directly to funding the browser development. Right now I don't know if it even possible to donate purely just to browser development

The problem goes beyond them making it impossible to donate purely to browser development: they have arranged their structure such that you cannot donate to browser development at all. The Mozilla Corporation develops Firefox; it is a for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, and donations to the foundation can't be used for the for-profit browser development subsidiary at all.

They've built their entire legal structure around reliance on Google's payments.
by glenngillen | 2025-06-10 10:47:36+00:00
I struggle to justify it from a cost and utilisation perspective. Given how well it went, I've run the hypotheticals in my head a few times about what the optimal case might have been. If you discount the cost of my time to zero and you assume the company could mandate whatever period is optimum for them I think the duration ends up being around 2 months. Mostly because we had a monthly billing/invoicing cycle we were part of. So one month as the forcing function to catch and document all the process, and then a 2nd cycle just to make sure you can apply everything you learnt.

My time wasn't at a zero cost though. But... at a high level, given the size of the company I worked for + the potential impact of getting something wrong, ~6 weeks of my time is pretty close to zero from their perspective. It also probably helps that we had pretty low employe churn.

But from my perspective it did feel like a bit much. Within a couple of weeks I was pretty bored. I was itching to help and do things like you suggested such as documentation, but the team saw doing the work of writing the missing documentation being part of the work of learning what the gaps were so I had to stay away. Ultimately I spent most of my time planning the next phase of my life and hacking on side projects, or hanging out in the common areas with my wife and newborn son when they'd come in.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-06-10 10:47:57+00:00
I wish that was the case. I suffered Crowdstrike being force installed upon all servers at a previous firm. After every system update it would "lose" it's configuration and proceed to try scanning every attached drive, some of which were in the petabytes. It's inefficient scanning process consumed 70% plus CPU and caused service outages for some users. Each time we'd ask for configuration to be added to ignore certain mount points, each time it would get turned on again. The only thing that saved us was distributing the service over multiple servers in different regions so that their updates were staggered. We spent >5% of team effort for a few years fighting Crowdstrike.

Just under a year ago they caused a global outage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...). I thought, aha finally they will pay for their sloppy software. Then I checked the share price today, it's up 20% in the last year. If a cyber security company can cause one of the largest global outages ever and go relatively unpunished, I'm not surprised some firms are not fixing bugs. Very disappointing.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-06-10 10:48:10+00:00
I've also known some that prefer a Linux network. However one thing that is pretty objective: it will be harder managing a network with both kinds of machines than either one individually, which will inevitably happen for some period during the changeover. Also it's clearly hard to change from one to another when you have a team who only needed skills in one previously - that is one of the things that seems likely to sink an effort like this.