MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sndean | 2025-06-10 19:58:38+00:00
I wonder how much of this is brand name? Like Kleenex. Non-tech people might not search for LLM, generative AI, etc. ChatGPT may just be what people have heard of. I’m assuming OpenAI has a large advantage over Anthropic, and the name helps, but I bet the name is exaggerating the difference here a bit. Not everyone buys Kleenex branded Kleenex.
by bittercynic | 2025-06-10 19:58:52+00:00
Planes, like quadcopters, are as complicated or simple as you want them to be. They're available fully ready to fly, as kits with different levels of work needed, or you can build from scratch and choose your own parts and design.

Flying is pretty different, though. If you're used to a copter that will just stay put when you release the controls, flying planes will be an adjustment.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 19:59:36+00:00
> If a person is a known illegal immigrant they can be deported without ever stepping foot in a courtroom. That has been the case for as long as I can remember.

You're describing expedited removal, a power enacted by the IIRIRA of 1996 [1].

It only applies to those who "make no claim to lawful permanent resident status, and do not seek asylum or express a fear of persecution." It requires specific procedures be followed that are absolutely not being followed by ICE right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_removal
by lchengify | 2025-06-10 19:59:55+00:00
I wonder if I can strap this to my Roborock from 2020 and train it to pick up socks.

Roborock sells a new model that does this [1] but it costs $3,000 and I refuse to pay that on principle when I know it's likely a straightforward model with some unsupervised training.

Also I can probably fix it easier once it (definitely) breaks at some point due to collisions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vHVQxXVgBm4
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-10 20:00:35+00:00
The layer separation on Material has been really not good for me. The floating action button is so hard to notice sometimes; I've reached out for IT help or support sometimes because I just didn't notice it.

I haven't used it yet but the refraction effect on Liquid Glass feels like it could be amazingly good at creating a sense of layer separation. Static content it's maybe not going to be awesome at, but as soon as the there's motion, the non-linear motion around the bend of the glass, for me, seems to create a very easy perturbance of regular motion that it feels like eyes, in their radar like way, instantly know of, without having to look closely and interpret.
by lylo | 2025-06-10 20:00:49+00:00
I built the early prototype for me (I wanted it, dogfooding etc) and I tried to market it. Not a huge success, but enough for me to add some paid-for features. Got a few customers, got some feedback on what was missing, added a few more features. Kept doing that, but at a certain point where I felt it was definitely good enough, I started focusing a lot more on marketing – outreach on forums, a bit of advertising, SEO optimisation etc.

So it has been incremental, add stuff, market stuff, get customer feedback (where did they find it, what were they looking for etc)... then rinse and repeat. Not sure how useful this is, maybe doesn't quite answer your questions.

Ultimately you need to know who your early market is and try and double down on that, get people into the top of the funnel basically. If your funnel is dry, you have no chance.
by ACCount36 | 2025-06-10 20:01:07+00:00
No, I mean "model" AIs, created explicitly for dataset testing purposes.

You take small AIs, of the same size and architecture, and with the same pretraining dataset size. Pretrain some solely on skims from "2019 only", "2020 only", "2021 only" scraped datasets. The others on skims from "2023 only", "2024 only". Then you run RLHF, and then test the resulting AIs on benchmarks.

The latter AIs tend to perform slightly better. It's a small but noticeable effect. Plenty of hypothesis on why, none confirmed outright.

You're right that performance of frontier AIs keeps improving, which is a weak strike against the idea of AI contamination hurting AI training runs. Like-for-like testing is a strong strike.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-10 20:01:44+00:00
Just read Mearsheimer and the think tank policy papers if you want to know what is actually going on. Go to the Stanford Hoover Institute if you want to sell what is actually going on to the American public.

Why would LLMs help, unless trained on classified information for which you could also use an internal search engine? In the end it comes down to how much military, economic and propaganda power you have and how much you are willing to deploy it.

The whole interaction with LLMs, which focuses on clicking, wrestling with a stupid and recalcitrant dialogue partner distracts from thinking. Better read original information yourself and take a long walk to organize it in your own mind.
by gond | 2025-06-10 20:01:47+00:00
>We had such a great era of design around 2006-2013 and then it all rapidly went incredibly dull since then.

I agree with the huge disagreement. That 2006-2013 era was, in my opinion, horrendous and takes the second spot as an offender just after “peak flat”.

However, I never denied that visual appeal matters. But design is how it holistically works, not how it looks.

Maybe, at some point, some team will get back to Dieter Rams 10 principles and hammer it into an UX experience. We were so close in the 90’s.

Maybe we can agree on: make the os maximally unobtrusive by default but include options to customise to taste?
by kurthr | 2025-06-10 20:02:18+00:00
It's a good start to realize that what underlies all the understanding of science are simplified predictive models, and usually only statistical models at that.

What this means is that running an experiment in many fields is so difficult that replication is a real challenge. There are so MANY ways you can screw up, or you could just have a statistical fluke that screws you over. Just a tiny contamination or seemingly irrelevant missed step will cause a failure. That's why the idea of having journals composed of failed experiments just doesn't work. Unstated experimental process assumptions are legion. Sometimes an expert can look at the result and see what you've done wrong (like bad contacts in "Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass") and often not even that. Sometimes there's something interesting in the failure, but 99% of the time it's just your pitch is so bad you can't hit the strike zone. Do better!

The things that are easy to replicate (and usually they've been specifically designed that way like Starbucks' over roasted beans), have actually been reduced to engineering. They're not on the edge where scientists can get published. That way perverse incentive madness lies.

Enjoy the controlability of inputs, the repeatability of bugs, the near perfection of compilers and memory allocation, the complete independence of variables while you can. Unless that is, you like Rowhammer and voltage glitch attacks.
by charleszyong | 2025-06-10 20:02:47+00:00
RC aeroplanes need some practice and a bigger field compared to FPV drones. I think I spent a week flying in simulators and another 2 weeks crashing several times to get a basic hold on it. It's kind of like training a robot foundation model to learn a new embodiment

That being said, I enjoyed every moment flying my planes. I built and flew quite a few quadcopters but they never felt that free because there's always that control algorithm between the pilot and the motors, while aeroplanes are basically just mapping the movement of the joystick to the servos. I believe the UK has a lot of great local clubs, and I believe that's the best place to get started.

Side note, when your son gets more experience in the field, he might wanna build his own gas turbine to power his planes. And this association based in UK is the best on this planet: https://www.gtba.co.uk

For UK delivery, let me look into how to set up international shipping. Will get back to you by end of the day.
by loxias | 2025-06-10 20:03:09+00:00
Firstly, at the $219 price point you can have my money already.

Beyond that, things that appeal to me are basically anything which increase the likelihood I can accomplish high dexterous fine motor control skills, for things like tinkering and DIY assembly. I think that would include extra wrist DOF and a longer-reach variant.

Integrated cameras are an interesting idea, but I'd like to be able to swap them out for my own.

My dream is to have some sort of multi-arm table at home. I imagine holding a circuit board, small component, soldering iron, and wire with four robotic arms I control with shaky hands from my laptop. :D
by josefresco | 2025-06-10 20:03:12+00:00
I thought of buying a used iPad but was worried about running into the same issue (swollen battery). I will give some thought to walling off this device, maybe on a guest network if I go the cheap Android route. There's also the Amazon Fire devices which I've owned a few of, and are reasonably easy to jailbreak. I probably have a niece or nephew with one lying around unused!
by surgical_fire | 2025-06-10 20:03:17+00:00
I know, but it is still a pretty dreadful thing to think about.

I mean, the radius of Boötes Void is 330M light years across. I can't fathom that amount of nothing. A photon enters the Boötes void, and if it travels through its center it will take more than half a billion years to reach the other side.

In a sense it's the same thing when I think of the end of the universe. There's a comfort in thinking of a great collapse. A sense of finality, like a board game being put back in the box. In the other hand, the possibility of a heat death is absolutely dreadful. Just a never ending lingering darkness with white dwarfs slowly fading into black. No ending, no great boom, no blaze of glory.
by lylo | 2025-06-10 20:03:27+00:00
Yeah I'm operating on a shoestring but tbh servers are super-reliable as is Postgres. What even is "production grade"? Read replicas, point-in-time restores etc? For a product that is ~$1000 ARR I think I can live with a bit of risk (I do regular backups of course and have a restore process). Maybe it will bite me in the ass, but I'll risk it :)
by jor-el | 2025-06-10 20:04:03+00:00
You can take a look at SiMBA++ -> https://github.com/pgarba/SiMBA-

It is a C++ implementation of SiMBA [1] - a tool to handle linear MBAs, made available by Denuvo itself. Denuvo have another tool - Gamba for handling some variety of non-linear MBAs. And then further improvisation by another researcher - MSiMBA [3].

SiMBA++ since written in C++, it is fast and it integrates well into the LLVM passes to automatically identify the MBAs and replace them in the LLVM IR with simplified expressions. So no additional work required.

Shameless plug - me and my colleague (author of SiMBA++) recently gave a talk about using LLVM for deobfuscation of WASM, where we talk about MBAs, SiMBA++ etc. The idea is not limited to WASM, it is language agnostic once you have a binary lifted to LLVM IR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRdOcuXbYI

[1] SiMBA - https://github.com/DenuvoSoftwareSolutions/SiMBA [2] Gamba - https://github.com/DenuvoSoftwareSolutions/GAMBA [3] MSiMBA - https://github.com/mazeworks-security/MSiMBA
by sleepydj | 2025-06-10 20:04:15+00:00
Hi - I wanted to add in some screenshots from the system. These are long-form screenshots of the chat. Here are the starting questions and the ensuing discussion:

1. Why does Deere's balance sheet seem so bloated? Why do they have so much debt?". You will get a detailed response and you can easily dig in to the details as you like. https://www.dfin.pro/assets/media/landing/dbot_deere.png

2. "Has Synchrony's credit portfolio deteriorated over the last 3 years?" https://www.dfin.pro/assets/media/landing/dbot_syf.png

3. "For Block, can you give the GPV growth (YOY) of their Square product over the last 4 quarters?...."Now for Fiserv, can you give me the GPV growth of their Clover product over the last 4 quarters?" https://www.dfin.pro/assets/media/landing/dbot_fi_xyz.png
by formerly_proven | 2025-06-10 20:05:24+00:00
It’s hard to overstate how poor the technical quality of modern games is. Pretty much every DX12/Raytracing title is just a stuttering mess with absurd shader compilation and traversal stutter. Nevermind ridiculous ghosting artifacts and the like produced by Lumen. Modern games are optimized to look good on screenshots and not-realtime in-engine renders for trailers. Hardware and APIs have never been more powerful, and engine developers turn out the worst-running games since 30 fps hardlocked Xbox ports from the 2000s.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-06-10 20:06:21+00:00
> hamas and the PA have both promised to arrest any terrorists they know of ... Needless to say, their efforts are considered less than convincing.

The Palestinian Authority works extremely closely with the Israelis to hunt down anyone who engages in armed resistance against Israel. Just think of how incredible that is. The PA, which is run by the Palestinian Liberation Organization, supposedly dedicated to freeing the Palestinians from Israeli oppression, is working with the Israelis to prevent Palestinians from resisting an occupying military force. The PA has burned a huge amount of political capital doing this, and is now widely hated by the Palestinians. It's seen as a collaborationist organization. So when you demand that the PA work even more slavishly for Israel than it already does, I don't know what you're seriously expecting.

> China promised to not support any companies with state support

China did not make a blanket commitment to end all state support to its companies. Not even the United States or Western European countries have made such a commitment. China promised to carry out many different types of economic reforms, and it did indeed carry out very deep and painful reforms. The Chinese economy is drastically different than it was in the 1990s. Most of the big state monopolies have been broken up, private companies play a much larger role than before, and foreign investment is much easier.

> the US, France, the UK and other countries specifically signed that if Russia invaded Crimea that they would do some combination of

No, the US, France and UK never committed to defend Ukraine militarily. The Budapest Memorandum just said that each country agreed not to attack Ukraine, and that they would discuss with one another if there were any violations of the agreement.

> The problem being that nobody, except the US and Israel, have any real intention of following through on international agreements.

Huh? The US and Israel are not known for following through on international agreements. The US might have had some sort of reputation many decades ago, but that reputation is thoroughly shot through now. Israel never did. It has always been a loose cannon on the international stage.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-10 20:06:45+00:00
The new(er) mid range chipsets indeed are so so nice now. Pretty/fully modern process nodes, battery efficient, still very respectable cores.

Really glad to see we've finally landed at a place where finding an old refurbished flagship is not the only logical choice, where the mid-range has a lot going on for it.

Just wish we had some mainline kernel support, could put Debian on these things! I've had a OnePlus 6T (2018) that supposedly does pretty ok that I've been meaning to try Mobian on, and it felt like for a bit Snapdragons were getting better and better Linux support. But that motion seems to have really tapered off in the last ~2 years?
by therealdrag0 | 2025-06-10 20:06:56+00:00
As an anecdote they have first mover advantage on me. I pay monthly but mostly because it’s good enough and I can’t be bothered to try a bunch out and switch. But if the dust settles and prices drop i would be motivated to switch. How much that matters maybe depends if their revenue comes from app users or API plans. And first mover only works once. Now they maybe coasting on name recognition, but otherwise new users maybe load balanced among all the options.
by potato-peeler | 2025-06-10 20:07:04+00:00
From the blog -

> Instead we get auto-playing videos, excessive animations, aggressive pop-ups, and disappearing text. It's frustrating

I randomly pulled up stripe.com alternatives [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] - literally all of them have the same style of global menu, unwanted animations as you scroll, big text, big images, and I guarantee you none of them will work properly in an older browser, (try a 2 yr old mobile os).

[0] - https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-a... [1] - https://tipalti.com/en-eu/ [2] - https://trolley.com/pay/ [3] - https://www.paypal.com/nz/home [4] - https://www.payoneer.com/

Here are first 3 sites I pulled from producthunt - [5] [6] [7] - again literally the same structure and problems.

[5] - https://chroniclehq.com/ [6] - https://bubble.io [7] - https://wegic.ai/

The author clearly mentions this as a problem, just too many animations, for no reason at all. Are you telling me these weren't inspired from awwwards?

Design has gone to the gutters - material design/windows 11 design/liquid glass design. All of them are sacrificing usability over unwanted animations.

I seriously miss the days of blackberry and nokia. Usability was paramount those days.

> Long-known-to-be-harmful trends like scrolljacking and replacing the cursor ... seem to appear on well more than half of the Awwwards site; but they are fortunately rare on the web at large

Give it some time my friend, it wont take long [https://design.google/]
by ben_w | 2025-06-10 20:07:12+00:00
Interesting, in my accent the "th" in "the" and the "th" in "things" sound the same.

Accents do make spelling reform difficult. For example, some of the people who grew up 5 miles from me (they were Cosham/Portsmouth, I was south Havant) pronounced both these "th"s as… I don't know the linguistic symbol, but something like a "v" or an "f".
by micromacrofoot | 2025-06-10 20:07:41+00:00
I've worked with thousands of both types of cable at this point

> Lightning is easier to plug in.

according to you? neither are at all difficult

> Lightning is a physically smaller connector.

I've had lightning cables physically disassemble in the port, the size also made them somewhat delicate

> USB-C is a much more mechanically complex port.

much is a bit well, much... they're both incredibly simple mechanically — the exposed contacts made lightning more prone to damage

I've had multiple Apple devices fail because of port wear on the device. Haven't encountered this yet with usb-c

> The same logic applies to Apple forced to switch to USB, except that the costs are now multiplied.

Apple would have updated inevitably, as they did in the past — now at least they're on a standard... the long-term waste reduction is very likely worth the switch (because again, without the standard they'd have likely switched to another proprietary implementation)
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-10 20:07:47+00:00
>Whether AI companies should have to license that content before using it for training is a matter of some dispute.

We definitely do not have the right balance of this right now.

eg. I'm working on a set of articles that give a different path to learning some key math knowledge (just comes at it from a different point of view and is more intuitive). Historically such blog posts have helped my career.

It's not ready for release anyway but i'm hesitant to release my work in this day and age since AI can steal it and regurgitate it to the point where my articles appear unoriginal.

It's stifling. I'm of the opinion you shouldn't post art, educational material, code or anything that you wish to be credited for on the internet right now. Keep it to yourself or else AI will just regurgitate it to someone without giving you credit.
by adventured | 2025-06-10 20:07:49+00:00
Why would the debt matter when you have $60 billion in ad revenue and are generating $20 billion in op income? That's OpenAI 5-7 years from now, if they're able to maintain their position with consumers. Once they attach an ad product their margins will rapidly soar due to the comparatively low cost of the ad segment.

The technology is closer to a decade from seeing a plateau for the large general models. GPT o3 is significantly beyond o1 (much less 3.5 which was just Nov 2022). Claude 4 is significantly beyond 3.5. They're not subtle improvements. And most likely there will be a splintering of specialization that will see huge leaps outside the large general models. The radical leap in coding capabilities over the past 12-18 months is just an early example of how that will work, and it will affect every segment of human endeavour.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-06-10 20:08:16+00:00
Having owned both lighting and USB-C iPhones/iPads, I prefer the USB-C experience, but neither were that bad.

My personal biggest gripe with lightning was that the spring contacts were in the port instead of the cable, and when they wore out you had to replace the phone instead of the cable. The lightning port was not replaceable. In practice I may end up breaking more USB-C ports, we'll see.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-10 20:08:35+00:00
> It makes them the dominant PC platform for developers

In my 12 years of employment in this industry, I have yet to encounter a MacOS build server. "Serious work" doesn't happen on MacOS by design; it's not a deployment platform. You don't put Mac instances on your K8s network, most of the time your customers aren't using a Mac either. Even big companies like 1Pass have realized what a waste this is, and started porting their Mac software to Electron. Apple couldn't dominate developers if they systematically murdered every other POSIX-compliant OS.

The more time you spend as a development studio optimizing for a runtime you never use, the more capital you waste to achieve the same end-goal. It's not a real thing outside the comically capital-intensive SV culture.
by halpow | 2025-06-10 20:08:57+00:00
Hard disagree. If people cared, then all iOS apps would use standard styling, but the matter of fact is that every app has its own style, which does not stop at colors. They all share the same affordances (top left arrow to go back, bottom tab bar) but the UI is more often than not heavily customized.

Take Slack for example with its fancy menus, not even close to what Apple uses. No feelings expected there. Let's not talk about Google apps, which live in its own UI world.