MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clejack | 2025-06-12 11:19:41+00:00
I was recently wondering why something of this nature hasn't happened long ago. Governments have to be spending so much money on licensing fees.

It seems like you could throw a fraction of that money at open source software, actually make it good and then not be beholden to corporations like Microsoft or Google. Combine this sort push between multiple governments and the world gets good (at least relatively) software for all of the major office and design concerns.

CAD software is the same. I tried freecad recently after a long hiatus and came back to immediately crashing after trying to make a cube from a sketch and also finding out that there's no midpoint constraint (wtf) if I remember correctly.
by howardV | 2025-06-12 11:19:53+00:00
Thank you for the kind words on the idea! As for the design... noted! Maybe I should add 'sunglasses required' to the feature list. Kidding aside, my apologies. That's a total miss on my part. You've convinced me that a dark mode isn't just a feature, it's a necessity. I'm bumping it to the top of my to-do list.
by exfalso | 2025-06-12 11:20:31+00:00
My reading of the status quo is that people who use it for toy or greenfield projects written from scratch are having a blast. Until the project reaches a certain complexity in size and function when it starts to break down.

People working on existing projects in turn are scratching their heads because it's just not quite working or providing much of a productivity boost. I belong to this camp.
by jedisct1 | 2025-06-12 11:20:41+00:00
Pretty much my experience as well, although I would highly recommend Roo Code + Claude (via the API) to build entire projects, and Claude for "batch" tasks or finalization.

AI models are trained on data that can be 1 or 2 years old. And they're trained of what the saw the most. So, language changes, breaking API changes, dependencies that don't work any more, name changes, etc. are going to get them super confused.

Go indeed works well because of its standard library that avoids the need for many dependencies, and its stability.

I found PHP to actually be the best target language for coding agents. For the same reasons, and also for the ton of documentation and example code available. That doesn't prevent agents from automatically using some modern PHP features, applying static analysis tools, etc.

For frontend stuff, agents will almost always pick React + Tailwind because this is what they saw the most. But Tailwind 4 is very different from Tailwind 3, and that got them super confused.
by belter | 2025-06-12 11:21:04+00:00
Or maybe Microsoft is terrified that it will work? Then Bill Gates would not be able to do his 345th pledge of "I will give away all my money..."

https://www.freeipa.org/

"Manage Linux users and client hosts in your realm from one central location with CLI, Web UI or RPC access. Enable Single Sign On authentication for all your systems, services and applications."

https://www.keycloak.org/

"Open Source Identity and Access Management"
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-06-12 11:21:16+00:00
Seemingly profitable strategies are actually published all the time in finance literature.

Some also work (usually only for a short amount of time if profitable), most don’t really work at all for various technical reasons (lookahead bias, model doesn’t account for slip/trading costs or assume infinite liquidity or a portfolio too large to realistically rebalance etc.) and some again work, but have unfavorable risk-adjusted return profiles compared to simpler strategies.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-12 11:22:02+00:00
FirefoxOS was eventually forked into KaiOS, which was the second most common mobile OS in India for a while, selling millions of phones.

It was never going to beat iOS, but it could've had Google's (and at the time Microsoft's lunch) for cheaper phones.

On the browser front, Google only had a third of the market at that point. Firefox was losing users, but the situation wasn't nearly as dire as it is right now.
Phorge and AI Integration
by andyviv | 2025-06-12 11:22:30+00:00
Hi,

Has anyone implemented AI integration with Phorge for automatic task summaries?

What we want: AI to read ticket descriptions and comment threads and generate concise overviews of tasks - especially useful for complex tickets with 20+ comments where new team members need to get up to speed quickly.

Thinking either:

- Direct database connector to feed data to LLM APIs - Existing Phorge extensions/plugins - Custom webhooks

Does anyone know of anything pre-existing?

Thanks
by daemin | 2025-06-12 11:23:23+00:00
Some companies have developed their own technology like VFS for use with Perforce, so you can check out the entire suite of applications but only pull the files when you try to access them in a specific way. This is a lot more important in game development where massive source binary assets are stored along side text files.

It uses the same technology that's built into Windows that the remote drive programs (probably) use.

Personally I kind of still want some sort of server based VCS which can store your entire companies set of source without needing to keep the entire history locally when you check out something. But unfortunately git is still good enough to use on an ad-hoc basis between machines for me that I don't feel the need to set up a central server and CI/CD pipeline yet.

Also being able to stash, stage hunks, and interactively rebase commits are features that I like and work well with the way I work.
by K0balt | 2025-06-12 11:23:49+00:00
In a security interview I was questioned about an interaction on a public payphone 15 years prior, back in 2006 (transcript from 1991). They apparently had transcribed logs of all conversations (on that phone? All public pay phones?) that were part of a searchable database. My involvement at the time in a (tiny, unknown , knowable only in retrospect later from the time of the transcript ) political student organization was apparently enough to get flagged.

Back in 2006 that was an eye opener for me.
by greybox | 2025-06-12 11:24:06+00:00
Some news outlets are indicating that there are some survivors: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/air-india-dreamliner-cras...

> Several injured passengers have been evacuated from the scene and transported to local hospitals.

Edit: The BBC is reporting local police as saying: "There appears to be no survivors" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c8d1r3m8z92t?post=asset%3A8731...
by rpdillon | 2025-06-12 11:24:39+00:00
I commented elsewhere on the thread about this, and while I agree with the way you're framing this, I think there is a reasonable substitute for Excel for the vast majority of users. But I think there are power users that use the long tail of features, and for them, there is going to be no replacement. But I use spreadsheets as part of my job and personal life, and I've been using Google Sheets and Libre/OnlyOffice for years and years, and haven't touched Excel in more than 20 years.

But you gated your comment to those that work all day in Excel, and of course for those users, they're going to be needing Excel.
by leetrout | 2025-06-12 11:24:55+00:00
FlightRadar24 shows them doing an intersection departure with only half the runway.

Assuming this is accurate I would think this is a terrible idea in a large, heavy aircraft (and I realize they might not have been heavy for this flight).

When I was flying I would regularly hear airliners refuse intersection departures past a few hundred feet from the end of the runway due to company SOPs.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vt-anb#3ac3097f
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-12 11:25:07+00:00
> The military processes are at the base of lots of organisational stuff we have in software dev and business as well (agile, scrum [...])

The Agile Manifesto was exactly the counter-manifesto to this, and thus any methodology that calls itself agile (e.g. Scrum) is:

Agile Manifesto

> https://agilemanifesto.org/

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

> https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
by auggierose | 2025-06-12 11:25:42+00:00
No, it doesn't tell you "regardless". It tells you, if you do something, you better love it. So if you start doing something, and it turns out you don't love it, you better stop doing it, and do something else instead. As an extreme example, take Nazis managing a concentration camp. If it turns out you are not a bad enough person to love it, you better stop doing it.
by Energiekomin | 2025-06-12 11:25:50+00:00
Thats what bi-directional charging is for and its already becoming political to force the industry to support this.

And we already have energy provider which provide a tarif for exactly this.

The only idea i hate is the mentioning of crypto. Not only is it waste, it converts the energy in heat which needs to get disipated and potentially wastes even more energy to get this heat away from the current location (ac).
by mettamage | 2025-06-12 11:25:54+00:00
My ex-girlfriend [1] did this with us and household tasks, especially cooking. I've gone from hating household tasks to being slightly positive about it. I've gone from hating cooking to loving it.

I've tried this with programming. After 15 years, I'm only mildly positive about programming. That has more to do with the culture though, not the activity. I wish there was a business analyst/entrepreneurial programmer hybrid role. Spot opportunities from data, then build out a solution. Or if a solution doesn't need to be built out but it's more of a human/political thing, then do that.

I'm currently a data analyst and get some room (informally) to do just that. It's a really fun role, and I'm programming way cooler things than I ever did as a software engineer.

[1] Mentioning this detail because I don't think I could've learned this any other way. Well, parents maybe, but they didn't have this attitude.
by vlcrptr | 2025-06-12 11:25:56+00:00
It’s sad that both WSJ and Gizmodo are writing about this like it’s worthy news, because we’d rather be reading about USPs being B.S. because it’s easier to get people to distrust the government that way, whether or not it’s true, double negative true, or quadruple negative true, than it is to point at things like:

- War in Israel-Palestine-Yemen-Syria-Iran, war in Ukraine-Russia with threat of spill into Europe-Scandinavia-U.S., threat of U.S.-China-Taiwan war in West Pacific, along with India-Pakistan attacks, but it’s a lot of proxy and posturing because anything serious would be stupid.

- Declaring martial law in L.A. for people protesting dictatorial evacuation and tariff war nonsense.

People have their fists fully up their asses.
by krapp | 2025-06-12 11:26:52+00:00
>UFOs, as symbols of advanced technology, could resonate with this imperialist mindset, reinforcing hierarchies.

They can, but I disagree they do, universally, in all cases. UFOs do tend to follow the cultural zeitgeist and reflect people's fears and stereotypes, maybe about themselves or their own government, but in a broader and more complex sense than "all of alien lore is about racism" would imply. I tend to slot aliens in the same cultural headspace as angels/demons or fae/cryptids, like Jacques Valee (except I don't believe these beings are actually real and imitating our folklore, so much as actually just being folklore.)

For instance,it's interesting how one doesn't hear about alien abductions as often as one used to. Now it's all "interdimensional NHI" and psychic bonding. As if the dehumanizing trauma narratives of Communion served some cathartic purpose that we're now we're moving on from. Also we've moved on from saucers. No one sees saucers anymore, it's all spheres and tic-tacs and "jellyfish."
by kjellsbells | 2025-06-12 11:27:24+00:00
> They are setting themselves up for complete failure.

Maybe, but as the article states, they already acknowledge the possibility and have a backup plan in place, and, frankly, someone needs to be first.

You could argue that this should not happen on the taxpayers' watch at this department. Yes, maybe some national or EU-level body should actually do the R&D to solve the structural issues around large scale Linux usage so that everyone can benefit. But for now this seems like a reasonable approach for a pretty small organization and a good learning step.
by vultour | 2025-06-12 11:27:36+00:00
I spent a good part of yesterday attempting to use ChatGPT to help me choose an appropriate API gateway. Over and over it suggested things that literally do not exist, and the only reason I could tell was that I spent a good amount of time in the actual documentation. This has been my experience roughly 80% of the time when trying to use an LLM. I would like to know what is the magical prompt engineering technique that makes it stop confidently hallucinating about literally everything.
by chaosbolt | 2025-06-12 11:27:42+00:00
If you're a government, it makes more sense to throw the money at creating your own infrastructure than paying to make a foreign company control everything you're running.

Everything is alright until the country with the highest obesity rate in the world chooses not to honor your patent for ozempic for example and makes it for a lot cheaper back home, then you escalate, then they escalate, something something your software stops getting updates or gets locked down.

I obviously don't think this is a likely scenario to happen, but so is getting nuked, yet every government has some sort of bunker command center, but everyone just seems ok with trusting those US companies with everything.

And today you don't even have to recreate the wheel, there are some open source alternatives for almost everything, and as a government if you put in the money you could improve on those, other governments can get inspired and improve on them as well, etc.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-12 11:28:48+00:00
> When you can give it all the generic abstractions for everything we use, it can become a better assistant than what we have now or possibly even more than that.

The range of possibilities also comes with a terrifying range of things that could go wrong...

Reliability engineering, quality assurance, permissions management, security, and privacy concerns are going to be very important in the near future.

People criticize Apple for being slow to release a better voice assistant than Siri that can do more, but I wonder how much of their trepidation comes from these concerns. Maybe they're waiting for someone else to jump on the grenade first.
by supermatt | 2025-06-12 11:28:54+00:00
> Shuffling everyone’s queries through one EU-branded endpoint doesn’t fix privacy or resilience—it just adds another middleman.

The ENTIRE point is to be a publicly funded middleman that doesn’t collect or expose user data.

It’s not about “sovereignty” over DNS - it is primarily to prevent dns providers invading user privacy. Go and read the official documentation on ENISA.

Maybe you should have at least a rudimentary understanding of it’s purpose before making uninformed judgements?
by consz | 2025-06-12 11:29:03+00:00
You absolutely can measure "various aspects of consciousness" -- for example, "how much of the last 24h has this consciousness been awake" seems simple. So your definition seems kind of weak, could you be more precise?

Conversely, in your definition, is consciousness the only "thing" that you would describe as not being able to measure various aspects about it? Are there any other objects or concepts which you also cannot measure various aspects about? If yes, what differentiates those things from consciousness?
by itsoktocry | 2025-06-12 11:29:23+00:00
>The Bullshit Jobs jobs theory has been widely discredited by researchers, but you probably won't believe them. Consider that most business is B2B so it makes sense that the casual observer would not know what it's for.

I'm not sure how it's possible that anyone over the age of 30 can say something like this with a straight face. Have you ever worked anywhere? I'd love to know how the "researchers" have discredited this. I'd also love to see their other papers (likely, also, bullshit).
by WhitneyLand | 2025-06-12 11:29:30+00:00
If we zoom out a bit to one point he’s trying to make there, while LoRA is fine tuning I think it’s fair to call it a more modular approach than base SFT.

That said, I find the article as a whole off-putting. It doesn’t strengthen one’s claims to call things stupid or a total waste of time. It deals in absolutes, and rants in a way that misleads and foregoes nuance.
by andrewstuart | 2025-06-12 11:29:36+00:00
There’s been surprisingly little advancement in TTS after a rapid leap forward three years ago or so.

There’s eleven labs which is quite good but not incredible and very expensive.

Everything else ……. all the big AI companies …. have TTS systems that are kinda meh.

Everything else in AI has advanced in leaps and bounds, TTS remains deep in the uncanny valley.
by gloosx | 2025-06-12 11:30:49+00:00
For a regular camera - all objects are 2d, it is not equipped with tools to capture depth. What heuristics are you talking about? There is ML model at work which tries to tell whether the object is legit, but it cannot have any real sense of what is on the image: it just relies on a statistically plausible outcome when being fed pixels from your camera screen, which means you definitely can trick it.
by mettamage | 2025-06-12 11:31:25+00:00
Governments should fund more open source projects. Apparently there's a model of governance here that could work. Enough people like writing software. The innate motivation is there. With funding, there could be more of it.

There might be some iffy issues. For example, if a state backs certain open source software too hard, then I'm afraid you get "state backed vaporware" in some cases. I can definitely see where it'll be like "Denmark has start open source initiative xyz" but because it's so externally pushed, from a motivation standpoint, it becomes half baked.

So I'm more advocating for a gentle monetary nudge.
by Energiekomin | 2025-06-12 11:31:26+00:00
In summer? If its not getting to cold for you.

In winter yes also if its not getting to warm for you, but also heating water is easy enough. But you don't need that much hot water

Potentially also cooling down your fridge more and your freezer. But that is not that much energy.

While that works, it would still be quite a waste. It would be a lot better to save it and discarge it later
by matheusmoreira | 2025-06-12 11:31:46+00:00
That reaction would be glorious but I doubt it's going to happen. Too much money at stake. They're likely to just accept it, just like they accept chinese control.

Brazil wants to become like China. One of the judge-kings even declared his admiration for the chinese and their control of communications. It's quite terrifying.

Donald Trump has been threatening sanctions against these people for a while now. What's he waiting for?
by Tangokat | 2025-06-12 11:32:26+00:00
Americans do not realize how much damage Trump has done to the trust in American services. Europeans used to consider America as an ally the same as other European countries, now it is more like an unreliable trade partner. Microsoft tried to reassure the Europeans [1] but not even a month later they were forced to disable the email account of ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan [2] due to sanctions from Trump voiding their reassurance completely. What happens when Trump gets mad at Denmark for not giving him Greenland and forces Microsoft to turn off Danish services?

Every large European company and all of the governments are now considering how to move away from US services. They may not be able to do it quickly but it is a part of the conversation. Customers specifically request that new systems should be independent from US service providers.

In my view the damage has been done and will not go away even after Trump. The Europeans have realized that their only true allies, that they can trust in terms of critical infrastructure, are other European nations. It used to include America, it no longer does.

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/europea...

[2] https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/20/microsofts-icc-email-block-tri...
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-12 11:34:38+00:00
The reality is that innovation is hard to plan. It's like outperforming the market. Scientific breakthroughs are about figuring out where are gaps in our knowledge that are fruitful when filled, or where our current understanding is wrong. But if we already knew what we believe wrongly, then we already wouldn't believe it. You can't produce breakthroughs like clockwork and the more thorough work you do, the less opportunity there is to find out later that you were wrong!

The problem is that of course everyone wants the glory of finding out some new groundbreaking innovative disruptive scientific discovery. And so excellence is equated with such discoveries. So everything has to be marketed as such. Nobody wants to accept that science is mostly boring, it keeps the flame alive and passes on the torch to the next generation, but there's far less new disruption than it is pretended. But again, a funding agency wants sexy new finding that look flashy in the press, and bonus points if it supports their political agendas. The more careful and humble an individual scientist is, the less they will seem successful. Constantly second guessing your own hypotheses, playing devil's advocate strongly and doing double and triple checks, more detailed experiments, etc. take longer time and have better chance at discovering that really the sexy effect doesn't exist.

> Makes me wonder, have I turned brilliant or is it quite unimpressive out there?

Obviously, it's impossible to say without seeing their work and your work. But for context, there are on the order of tens of thousands of top-tier AI-related papers appearing each year. The majority of these are not super impressive.

But I also have to say, what may seem "just common sense" may look like that just in hindsight, or you may overlook something if you don't know the related history of methods, or maybe you're glossing over something that someone more experienced in the field would highlight as the main "selling point" of that paper. Also, if common sense works well, but nobody did it before, it's still obviously important to know how well it works quantitatively, including detailed analysis of the details.
by decimalenough | 2025-06-12 11:35:22+00:00
Flightradar24 reports that this occurred immediately after takeoff:

Initial ADS-B data from flight #AI171 shows that the aircraft reached a maximum barometric altitude of 625 feet (airport altitude is about 200 feet) and then it started to descend with an vertical speed of -475 feet per minute.

https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1933091913567285366?t=MhY...

This also means that the flight was fully fueled and it's sadly unlikely there will be any survivors. There are also casualties on the ground.