MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jpkroehling | 2025-06-11 04:35:20+00:00
Hi, Juraci here. I'm an active member of the OpenTelemetry community, part of the governance committee, and since January, co-founder at OllyGarden. But this isn't about OllyGarden.

This is about a problem I've seen for years: we pour tons of effort into instrumentation, but we've never had a standard way to measure if it's any good. We just rely on gut feeling.

To fix this, I've started working with others in the community on an open spec for an "Instrumentation Score." The idea is simple: a numerical score that objectively measures the quality of OTLP data against a set of rules.

Think of rules that would flag real-world issues, like: * Traces missing service.name, making them impossible to assign to a team. * High-cardinality metric labels that are secretly blowing up your time series database. * Incomplete traces with holes in them because context propagation is broken somewhere.

The early spec is now on GitHub at https://github.com/instrumentation-score/, and I believe this only works if it's a true community effort. The experience of the engineers here is what will make it genuinely useful.
by johnb231 | 2025-06-11 04:35:20+00:00
https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms

"b. Disclaimer. PRE-GA OFFERINGS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND. Pre-GA Offerings (i) may be changed, suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice to Customer and (ii) are not covered by any SLA or Google indemnity. Except as otherwise expressly indicated in a written notice or Google documentation, (A) Pre-GA Offerings are not covered by TSS, and (B) the Data Location Section above will not apply to Pre-GA Offerings."
by weikju | 2025-06-11 04:36:31+00:00
> where now it's running on apple silicon.

It's still running in a tiny Linux VM. One VM per container if what I've read is right...

It's running on Apple Silicon because it's only available on Apple Silicon. Docker/orbstack/lima/etc are also running on Apple Silicon when your Mac is an Apple Silicon Mac, so I didn't quite get the meaning of that last one...

If you were trying to say it's running natively without a Linux VM though, it's wrong insofar as it's not running on a single shared VM as the other solutions do but it's still using Linux VMs.
by fumeux_fume | 2025-06-11 04:36:36+00:00
"Secretly," but perhaps in the sense that most are not exclusive enough to have the coverage, disposable income and proximity to specialists. A close family member of mine was diagnosed with stomach cancer at a very young age. I looked into getting an endoscopy and it took more than a month to see my primary for the referral and about seven months out for the endoscopy. The hospital says there a chance insurance will cover nothing.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-11 04:36:54+00:00
> What if you need to update the bootloader?

Then you boot the system from the existing bootloader, causing the booted system to be trusted to supply a new hash.

> TPMs can do remote attestation without signatures just fine, by measuring the hash of the bootloader.

If there are no private keys in the TPM from the factory then there is nothing for a third party to force you to sign the hash with, as intended.
by bananalychee | 2025-06-11 04:37:21+00:00
I don't believe that Google's AI Overviews or even LLMs in general are to blame for the decline in traffic to news websites. ChatGPT launched with the GPT-3.5 model in November 2022 without a web search function, and had a training data cutoff date of September 2021. Google AI Overviews launched in May 2024 to generally poor reception initially, and ChatGPT Search launched in July 2024. The graph presented in the article reveals a trend starting as far back as April 2022, well before mass-market LLM products could extract useful information in real time, and it doesn't look like it's accelerated significantly. In fact, the WSJ series contradicts it. Prior data would likely reveal that the broad decline began much earlier, since it's well-known[1] that younger generations prefer to get their news from social media these days. Paywalls, quality degradation in search results, and mistrust in the objectivity of news coverage are likely contributing factors.

I don't doubt that the shift from web searches to automated information extraction will pose new challenges to websites that rely on search engine optimization to drive new user traffic, especially for small/individual operators, and I'll be happy to witness the death of SEO if it comes to that, but blaming a new Google Search feature[2] for a long-running decline in traffic to online newspapers strikes me as a deflection from the slow death of their business model.

P.S.: Google's AI Overviews are fairly respectful of content providers and link back to source material from the generated text.

[1] https://theconversation.com/young-people-are-abandoning-news...

[2] The current title of the article is "News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools"
by felipeerias | 2025-06-11 04:38:45+00:00
The emergence of AI tools and closed platforms will reduce the importance of advertising on the open Web, and eventually of the open Web itself.

One possible way this plays out is that attention and investment move towards proprietary ecosystems, with large AI companies being able to secure exclusive access to closed information sources while everyone else is reduced to getting what they can from a dwindling open Web.

Another possibility might be that new standards allow interoperability between AI agents and open content providers, including microtransactions between them, and creating a new marketplace for information.

https://stratechery.com/2025/the-agentic-web-and-original-si...
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-06-11 04:39:43+00:00
I think we are, collectively, greatly underestimating the value of determinism and, conversely, the cost of nondeterminism.

I've been trialing a different product with the same sales pitch. It tries to RCE my incidents by correlating graphs. It ends up looking like this page[1], which is a bit hard to explain in words, but both obvious and hilarious when you see it for yourself.

[1]: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
by Uncorrelated | 2025-06-11 04:41:46+00:00
I'm sorry for neglecting to respond until now. The app was called Portrait Effects Studio and later Portrait Effects Playground; I took it down because it didn't meet my quality standards. I don't have any public videos anymore, but it supported background replacement and filters like duotone, outline, difference-of-Gaussians, etc., all applied based on depth or the portrait effects matte. I can send you a TestFlight link if you're curious.

I looked at your apps, and it turns out I'm already familiar with some, like 65x24. I had to laugh -- internally, anyway -- at the unfortunate one-star review you received on Matte Viewer from a user that didn't appear to understand the purpose of the app.

One that really surprised me was Trichromy, because I independently came up with and prototyped the same concept! And, even more surprisingly, there's at least one other such app on the App Store. And I thought I was so creative coming up with the idea. I tried Trichromy; it's quite elegant, and fast.

Actually, I feel we have a similar spirit in terms of our approach to creative photography, though your development skills apparently surpass mine. I'm impressed by the polish on your websites, too. Cheers.
by chneu | 2025-06-11 04:41:55+00:00
I think you're also showing some bias.

People are now changing how they search and gather information to use AI. You're automatically discounting that person's experience because they avoid using AI for valid reasons. A lot of times Google AI is outright wrong, not even close to correct. It makes sense to not rely on it and only going back to see if it's improved.

I don't "ignore AI". I just haven't changed how I search and gather information because it's clearly not accurate yet. I still have to fact check it which negates the benefits(time saving). Occasionally I go back to see if it's improved and usually it hasn't. That's not bias.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-11 04:42:38+00:00
How is it any different? You install the hash of the boot loader when you issue the machine, then use the trusted system to update the hash if necessary.

Also, the concern is that the system comes from the factory with private keys the owner doesn't have access to, allowing the device to defect by informing on them to a third party. Keys installed by the owner rather than the manufacturer are fine, and then such keys also wouldn't be trusting random third party code either.
by jjani | 2025-06-11 04:43:15+00:00
No clue, it very much did it for me, but given the lack of new comments since March they might have silently stopped doing that. That they never responded there nor even bothered to close the thread fits squarely with GP's experience with their non-existent customer service :)

Had no idea that this was possible on Mac either, never seen any other app do this, though commonplace on Windows.
by morepedantic | 2025-06-11 04:43:34+00:00
It's called hedonistic adaptation. Most people scale material consumption with income, and the new consumption level quickly feels normal. If this happens to you, then it's plausible that children will always look expensive, no matter your earned income.

The quality of life that modern, affluent people consider unacceptably low for a family would be considered decadent by most people who ever lived anywhere.
by Nathanba | 2025-06-11 04:44:00+00:00
I was initially agreeing with the article but it's a clever marketing piece. Nothing changes, these graphs were already really easy to read and if they weren't then they should be. You should already be capable of zooming into your latency spike within seconds and clicking on it and seeing which method was slow. So asking the AI will be more comfortable but it doesn't change anything.
by yeahforsureman | 2025-06-11 04:44:07+00:00
My point was that according to the current interpretation, if they rely on cookies, user analytics (even simple visitor stats where no personal data is actually processed) are not considered "necessary" and are therefore not exempt from the cookie consent obligation under the ePrivacy Directive. The reason why personal data processing is irrelevant is that the cookie consent requirement itself is based on the pre-GDPR ePrivacy Directive which requires, as a rule, consent merely for saving cookies on the client device (subject to some exceptions, including the one discussed).

So you need a consent for all but the most crucial cookies without which the site/service wouldn't be able to function, like session cookies for managing signed-in state etc.

(The reason why you started to see consent banners really only after GDPR came to force is at least in part due to the fact that the ePrivacy Directive refers to the Data Protection Directive (DPD) for the standard of consent, and after DPD was replaced by GDPR, the arguably more stringent GDPR consent standard was applied, making it unfeasible to rely on some concept of implied consent or the like.)
by gregorvand | 2025-06-11 04:44:58+00:00
Well it's not a comic book, but we have been trying to totally rewire the email experience to be enjoyable. We learned from a lot of users that often the tone of emails gets them down, so our 'digests' effectively show you the important parts of the email, without any of the tone of the sender that may be the underlying issue. The product is https://wyntk.ai. Feel free to ping me gv@wyntk.ai for an invite.
by sandra_vu | 2025-06-11 04:44:59+00:00
Hey, this is a super common problem founders face.

And you will encounter them again again even during your GTM phase.

The team at Wiz (acquired by Google for USD 32 billion) has the perfect strategy to overcome the sugar-coated feedback when pitching. They called it the "false positive"

I covered it here https://www.sandrasletter.com/p/the-design-strategy-behind-t...
by Lammy | 2025-06-11 04:45:17+00:00
> all the secureboot implementations I've seen allow you to either disable it or enroll your own keys

Here you go — now you have. Thank ${DEITY} for exploits!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/SurfaceRT#Secure_Boot

https://openrt.gitbook.io/open-surfacert/common/boot-sequenc...
by edg5000 | 2025-06-11 04:45:26+00:00
"Samsung DeX has helped maximize productivity on phones, foldables and tablets for years. In Android 16, we worked closely with Samsung to develop desktop windowing, a new way to interact with your apps and content on large-screen devices." <- What does "working closely" mean for a company with infinite SW dev resources? What do they need from Samsung as far as software goes?

PS Let me make a guess for the future. Android Desktop mode will improve and people will ditch Windows and instead plug their phone into a USB-C dock that connects it to keyboard, mouse and display. (I'm on Linux myself, but I see people moving to Android from Windows)
by Maxin | 2025-06-11 04:46:41+00:00
I feel the same way. I often share my emotions and thoughts with AI, and it helps me sort through them and understand the underlying causes. Sometimes, it even seems to know me better than I know myself. I’d call it an on-demand therapist.

But there's one thing to keep in mind: don’t let the AI overly cater to you. Sometimes, you need to push back and tell it when it’s wrong—and stay objective.
by fifilura | 2025-06-11 04:47:11+00:00
You don't have to explain taxes to me, it is a concept that is pretty easy to grasp, and - even though I understood it already - the grandparent post also explained it . And I touched the subject in my original post.

I guess what I am looking for is some kind of personal apology. And that could be manifested in a refund to mu bank account. As I explained above.

I don't think sending people to prison helps much.

A personal check would open the eyes for a lot of people and make them realize that this company committed a crime. Against you. And you are worth it.
by tharkun__ | 2025-06-11 04:47:12+00:00
Whoa, I just checked back at this thread after some time.

Grand parent here who replied to you initially.

Yeah I was assuming that the high schoolers understood what "x" being a variable in math was about. And then going on to programming and essentially just doing the same there in a slightly different syntax/environment so to speak.

Again, fair enough :) if those high schoolers didn't understand variables in math, they wouldn't magically understand variables in programming.

And also fair enough that I probably mis-remembered university times and how many people really should never have been in a computer science program. Now that "we're talking about this" I remember one of my first university programming classes. I was in a lab to get some extra credits for the course where they explained / got us to program some very simple boolean logic. I was soooooo bored but many peeps were struggling and asking for help from the tutor(s). I was browsing Slashdot to pass the time until the tutor was able to come by and check on my "progress" :P

And oh my $deity (oh my a variable for "god" lol!) now that you mention `six = 6` I see this _all the effing time_ in pull requests at work where people define something like `THIRTY_MINUTES_IN_SECONDS = ...` to then use it as a timeout somewhere and I have to explain how that makes zero effing sense (especially since the next guy will just change the value to "60" without changing the name). Name it `TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS_FOR_PURPOSE_X` dang it!

TL;DR: I concur.
by neRok | 2025-06-11 04:49:47+00:00
I've only just got around to reading this article and HN discussion, hence the belated reply. I thought I would test out your use-case, and it gave me 4 legit products (I verified them), and also 3 additional tips. One reason I think our results could differ is because I don't just "bark orders at it" but instead "talk to it" and give it context. I think the contextgives it chance to "understand the topic" and then "answer the question" in 2 steps, whereas when you just say "toothpaste without SLS", it's just filtering a list without understanding why you or it would want to filter it that way. Also I think being polite helps, and I've seen posts here on HN that agree. So here's my prompt, FYI;

> Today I had a dentist appointment and mentioned having sensitivity issues, to which the dentist suggested I try a different toothpaste. I would like you to suggest some options that contain fluoride. However, I am also predisposed to canker sores if I use toothpaste with SLS in it, so please do not suggest products with SLS in them.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-11 04:50:18+00:00
I completely agree with the initial part of your post. Childhood mortality reductions explain nearly all of the dramatic increases in life expectancy over time, and also is one of the best examples of how averages mislead. Some people have this impression of the past where people somehow just dropped dead at e.g. age 40 when in reality it was more like half were dropping dead before 10 and half were dropping dead after 70 resulting in an average age of mortality of around 40.

But I'm not sure I'm aware of any evidence for the latter part. Max life expectancy doesn't seem to be changing much at all, even over millennia (though obviously claims from long ago are impossible to objectively verify). This is far from an exhaustive search but the first thing that came to mind was to search for the longest lived people. [1] Of the 100 oldest women and 100 oldest men to have ever lived, only 4 of each are still alive today, and the most common nationality (and in fact the only nationality with more than 1 represented) is Brazil with 2 of the oldest men and 1 of the oldest women.

If we were pushing the bounds max life expectancy, then you'd generally expect to see a significant number of people breaking those records and - accordingly - still alive. In many ways it's kind of surprising that we're not even if we weren't making progress, since the total sample size of 'verified' peoples is increasing dramatically over time, so more people should be living longer (even if there is no change in max life expectancy) by chance/outlierdome alone. This to me is suggestive that we indeed be going in the opposite direction, though that's some extremely weak evidence of course.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe...
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-11 04:50:22+00:00
LLMS are basically just like higher level programming tools - knowing how to utilize them is the key. Best practice is not to depend on them for correctness, but instead utilize them as automatic maps from data->action that you would otherwise have to write manually.

For example, I wrote my own MCP server in Python that basically makes it easy to record web browser activities and replay them using playwright. When I have to look at logs or inspect metrics, I record the workflow, and import it as an MCP tool. Then I keep a prompt file where I record what the task was, tool name, description of the output, and what is the final answer given an output.

So now, instead of doing the steps manually, I basically just ask Claude to do things. At some point, I am going to integrate real time voice recording and trigger on "Hey Claude" so I don't even have to type.

The only thing I wish someone would do is basically make a much smaller model with limited training only on things related to computer science, so it can run at high resolution on a single Nvidia card with fast inference.
by kijin | 2025-06-11 04:50:30+00:00
For most advertisers, sure, there's no need to go all the way back to the training data. Advertisers want immediate results. Training takes too long and has uncertain results. Much easier to target the prompt instead.

If you're someone like Marlboro or Coca-Cola, on the other hand, it might be worth your while to pollute the training data and wait for subtle allusions to your product to show up all over the place. Maybe they already did, long before LLMs even existed.
by ehnto | 2025-06-11 04:50:47+00:00
Certainly an interesting thought if you have a very old diesel. I would wonder if all the metal would hamper an EMP pulse that you could safely generate at home.

Diesel's going back 20+ years still have ECUs as well, not to mention the rest of the vehicle's electronics could be at risk. So it would have to be a properly old or unique vehicle.
by bigger_cheese | 2025-06-11 04:51:53+00:00
>We see PMs easily enacting massive legislative reforms and even Constitutional changes that are nigh impossible in the US

I don't know about UK but in Australia we need a Referendum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_in_Australia) to change the constitution and those have been historically extremely difficult to pass (only 8/45). The PM absolutely cannot alter the Constitution.
by csomar | 2025-06-11 04:53:37+00:00
I think the parent-parent poster has explained why we can't trust you (and work on OpenAI doesn't help they way you think it does).

I didn't read the ToS, like everyone else, but my guess is that degrading model performance at peak times will be one of the things that can slip through. We are not suggesting you are running a different model but that you are quantizing it so that you can support more people.

This can't happen with Open weight models where you put the model, allocate the memory and run the thing. With OpenAI/Claude, we don't know the model running, how large it is, what it is running on, etc... None of that is provided and there is only one reason that I can think of: to be able to reduce resources unnoticed.
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