MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-28 16:43:43+00:00
>non technical team member write an agent to clean up a file share

This has to be BS(or you think its true) unless it was like 1000 files. In my entire career I've seen countless crazy file shares that are barely functional chaos. In nearly ever single "cleanup" attempt I've tried to get literally ANYONE from the relevant department to help with little success. That is just for ME to do the work FOR THEM. I just need context from them. I've on countless occasion had to go to senior management to force someone to simply sit with me for an hour to go over the schema they want to try to implement. SO I CAN DO IT FOR THEM and they don't want to do it and literally seemed incapable of doing so when forced to. COUNTLESS Times. This is how I know AI is being shilled HARD.

If this is true then I bet you anything in about 3-6 months you guys are going to be recovering this file system from backups. There is absolutely no way it was done correctly and no one has bothered to notice yet. I'll accept your downvote for now.

Cleaning up a file share is 50% politics, 20% updating procedures, 20% training and 10% technical. I've seen companies go code red and practically grind to a halt over a months long planned file share change. I've seen them rolled back after months of work. I've seen this fracture the files shares into insane duplication(or more) because despite the fact it was coordinated, senior managers did not as much as inform their department(but attended meetings and signed off on things) and now its too late to go back because some departments converted and some did not. I've seen helpdesk staff go home "sick" because they could not take the volume of calls and abuse from angry staff afterwards.

Yes I have trauma on this subject. I will walk out of a job before ever doing a file share reorg again.

You'll roll it out in phases? LOL

You'll run it in parallel? LOL

You'll do some <SUPER SMART> thing? LOL.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-06-28 16:43:52+00:00
Too many people I know still use it. I created mine (and keep it) to prevent someone from impersonating me to my friends and acquaintences, and use it as a directory where friends and acquaintences can find my contact info and vice versa. I avoid feeding them any new data (other than acknowledging or blocking friend requests I receive) but deleting seems worse for me than being present but inactive right now.
by parpfish | 2025-06-28 16:44:16+00:00
I imagine that this is a common problem and it could be another cool “unlockable” on HN, like the downvotes at 500 karma.

Once you get X karma or account age >Y years, you can make one anonymous submissions each quarter that comes from an non-user but still get some sort of “verified” badge that proves it comes from a legit user.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-28 16:44:18+00:00
Aside from the article not suggesting that, even if it did, so what? I'd like to assume that the federal bureaucracy of one of the absolute wealthiest and most powerful nations in human history can manage to avoid economic disaster if it defers some half-reasoned regulatory deportation policy for little kids who are possibly too sick to travel.

Basic humane considerations and decency really do have a place in how you enforce laws, and their existence makes a difference that can affect any of us at any time.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-28 16:44:44+00:00
No. What they are saying is best said with a quote from Battlestar Galactica:

> All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

”It” here being the boom and inevitable bust of interop and open API access between products, vendors and so on. As a millenial, my flame of hope was lit during the API explosion of Web 2.0. If you’re older, your dreams were probably crushed already by something earlier. If you’re younger, and you’re genuinely excited about MCP for the potential explosion in interop, hit me up for a bulk discount on napkins.
by mzajc | 2025-06-28 16:44:48+00:00
> Microsoft will also extend a year of additional Windows 10 security updates to any users who opt into Windows Backup, a relatively recent Windows 10 and Windows 11 app that backs up some settings and files using a Microsoft account. Users can also opt into ESU updates by spending 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points, which are handed out for everything from making purchases with your Microsoft account to doing Bing searches.

Sometimes I wonder how far they'd have to go before people stopped putting up with their bullshit. This reads like something out of The Onion.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-28 16:45:31+00:00
99% of fundraising is convincing people to like you. It's very easy to jerk off the insecurities of a venture capitalist by emphasizing how important you are as opposed to the business. A depressed rich person values you more for your perceived intelligence than they care about your technical merit. In the words of YC, they invest in smart people and not smart businesses.

Now, is any of that a smart policy? Not at all. It's basically an excuse to ignore due diligence. Good luck getting a retired Disney investor to care about the technical details of a digital-native product though.
by anton-c | 2025-06-28 16:45:32+00:00
I've been to SK numerous times. The older people dislike Japan A LOT. But their biggest base is a US one. I've never heard fear of the JDF. They have another more problematic neighbor.

The United States - who made the constitution that banned the military - does exercises with and supports the JDF. Idk if that fits unconstitutional anymore.

Their denial of horrid events and their attempts to suppress the fact that comfort women happened is undeniably awful though and shows many did not learn.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-28 16:45:42+00:00
Well, if you're a manufacturer, or a government, hospital or ... manager. Let's say you need to acquire a part. Not something as obvious as a screw, but something very simple. A steady supply of syringes in 5 different sizes, say. A "dhandha" would be when you get a friend of yours produce that part (/software/...), and only buy from them. That friend would have zero expertise making that part, but he creates a business that hires 3 guys to make the part, and the owner has nothing to do with the business other than ... let's politely call it "relationship building". In other words, they spend their time in some hotel lobby with said manager, drinking.

Very common.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-06-28 16:45:44+00:00
I've had nearly perfect success using the setup command line argument to install as "server". It says "Server" during the install but that's not what ends up being installed.

This has been patched out[0] of newer builds but a 24H2 install media will still work for an in-place upgrade.

[0] https://winaero.com/microsoft-has-patched-the-product-server...
by dylan604 | 2025-06-28 16:45:50+00:00
> One of the things that I'm trying to do is, is design filters to filter out advertising, so that when you're walking around, you could filter out real world spam.

Instead, I totally expect Meta and the Quest X to not block ads, but replace any IRL ads with targeted ads. You will not be able to turn this off. Instead, they could Black Mirror it and highlight each ad found and force you to stare at it for at least 5 seconds so the impression will count. If you don't, it'll just blank out everything else except the ad.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-06-28 16:47:53+00:00
I disagree about the goodness of discord (and facebook) compared to old style forums or (better yet) mailing lists with archives.

Searching the forum archives is much worse with facebook, slack or discord than it ever was with even the jankiest phpbb forum or mailman list. Hell, before they grew it up, Yahoo! groups were better from that perspective. And a big part of what made forums for either tech or non-tech hobbies so nice was the ability to search and reference prior discussions.

I was actually hopeful that "login with facebook" and "login with discord" would bring those more search-friendly alternatives back a little bit, but so far I haven't seen it.
by rramadass | 2025-06-28 16:48:09+00:00
You need to understand PRNGs to answer that question. It is complicated and nothing to do with C++ language itself.

Here is cppreference on PRNGs (note the various engines available) - https://www.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random.html You have to "know" how to combine the various options available to get an optimal sequence.

The Mersenne Twister (MT) was one of the best engines and was the default in many other languages/packages too. See "Applications" section in wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister

The author identified distribution problems with the 32-bit versions of MT (i am not sure whether similar problems exist with its 64-bit versions) and proposed a different one named "Permuted Congruential Generator (PCG)" which has now been adopted as the default by many of the languages/packages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permuted_congruential_generato...

As you can now appreciate, the subject is mathematically complicated and the defaults chosen by the language/package implementer becomes the "most commonly used" and hence reference case. While this is good enough for most "normal" applications if you are doing any special simulations (Monte Carlo or otherwise) and/or specific Numerical Computations it is your responsibility to understand what it is that you need and program accordingly using the various options (if available) or roll your own.
by stefan_ | 2025-06-28 16:48:34+00:00
I think I'm living in a parallel universe. You can tell an LLM in a million ways what "tools" it can "call". Anthropic & co standardized a shitty variant so they have an uniform way of letting others play in their sandbox, until they invariably decide which of these things make sense and then usurp them in a desperate way out of the commodity rat race to the bottom.
by lr0 | 2025-06-28 16:48:54+00:00
> https://github.com/Loki3737/loki/blob/292c222b6fac8cd96242b5...

> You are free to modify this software; however, the original file "copytrack.py" must remain unchanged.

That's a very unorthodox thing to see in a CC BY-NC license ever, and I can not get the rationale behind it. Moreover, It's not enforceable under the plain CC license terms.
by k310 | 2025-06-28 16:48:55+00:00
IMO, all this surveillance is about control, in the psychological sense.

WebMD says: [0]

> The most common are anxiety disorders and personality disorders. People with anxiety disorders feel a need to control everything around them in order to feel at peace. They may not trust anyone else to handle things the way they will.

This is an unhealthy business relationship, and I'll suggest that it reflects the sociopathy of certain narcissistic individuals at the helm of businesses.

My suggestion is simple: "Just ask". Don't spy.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/signs-sociopath
by sargstuff | 2025-06-28 16:48:58+00:00
Given schema is limited to where uuid v4 usage is relevant/appropriate.

uuid version 7 more appropriate for keys in high-load databaseses and distributed systems.

Issues if need something other than uuid_v4. aka v8,

snowflake_id bit more compact than separate uuid_v4 & timezone

json, "blob" storage, not efficent for/optimized for search/replace operations. Json blob will need to be normalized every time data cached. File system storage with uuid_v7 index less overhead.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-28 16:49:46+00:00
I stand corrected. My understanding of diplomatic immunity was that it didn't extend to the families of diplomats or consular employees (but looking at the WP page, it does for diplomatic families, but not consular employees or their families, or is a lot more limited, rather).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity#In_the_Uni...
by simonw | 2025-06-28 16:50:20+00:00
If you do the calculations against the cheapest available models (GPT-4.1-nano and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Amazon Nova Micro for example - I have a table on https://www.llm-prices.com/ ) it is shockingly inexpensive to process even really large volumes of text.

$20 could cover half a billion tokens with those models! That's a lot of firehose.
by visarga | 2025-06-28 16:50:26+00:00
The main benefit is not that it made interoperability fashionable, or that it make things easy to interconnect. It is the LLM itself, if it knows how to wield tools. It's like you build a backend and the front-end is not your job anymore, AI does it.

In my experience Claude and Gemini can take over tool use and all we need to do is tell them the goal. This is huge, we always had to specify the steps to achieve anything on a computer before. Writing a fixed program to deal with dynamic process is hard, while a LLM can adapt on the fly.
by evanextreme | 2025-06-28 16:50:59+00:00
I disagree, because the television was never talking back to you. By the medium directly engaging with the person, the responsibility / enablement of this issue is more on the company than previous non interactive mediums. It would be like if a movie caused psychosis in people, and the sequel doubled down / enabled that. Even though there's no person (besides the consumer) in the loop, there is responsibility to train these systems to reduce the amount of these cases.
by Newtonip | 2025-06-28 16:51:08+00:00
> Including a sizeable Jewish minority.

There was a Jewish community in Palestine (mostly centered around Jerusalem) but they did not come up with the Zionist project. Actually, many were opposed and some of their descendants still do so to this day.

> The ethnic cleansing/settler-colonialist paradigm is easy for outsiders to project on the region

The (European) architects of the Zionist project literally called it colonialism.

"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews … How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial." -Theodor Herzl

Ze'ev Jabotinsky literally compared the Zionist project to other colonial projects when arguing the people living there would fight back against their colonizers and the need for numbers and strength to counter them.
by ArneVogel | 2025-06-28 16:51:13+00:00
I am using it for FisherLoop [1] to translate text/extract vocabulary/generate example sentences in different languages. I found it pretty reliable for longer paragraphs. For one sentence translations it lacks context and I have to manually edit sometimes. I tried adding more context like the paragraph before and after, but then I found it wouldn't follow the instructions and only translate the paragraph I wanted but also the context, which I found no good way to prevent. So now I manually verify, but it saves me still ~98% of the work.

[1] https://www.fisherloop.com/en/
by klabb3 | 2025-06-28 16:52:00+00:00
> One of the principles behind MCP is that "an MCP server should be very easy to implement".

I’m not familiar with the details but I would imagine that it’s more like:

”An MCP server which re-exposes an existing public/semi-public API should be easy to implement, with as few changes as possible to the original endpoint”

At least that’s the only way I can imagine getting traction.
by colelyman | 2025-06-28 16:52:45+00:00
I have been enamored with developing a second brain and other productivity hacks, but have recently been turned off to them, because I believe the benefits are over-promised. Similar to OP, I haven’t been able to achieve the clarity of mind and creative thoughts that are promised by a second brain.

While I do think that deleting the whole thing is extreme, I can imagine that there is a level of catharsis experienced by that.

Lately I have subscribed to Oliver Burkeman’s (author of “4,000 Weeks”) line of thinking where life, and subsequently thoughts, are more meant to be experience rather than optimized. For me, I have seen a negative drop in “life enjoyment” when I have tried to capture everything, and have yet to realize the results and even stick with it consistently (which may be the reason for not seeing the positives).
by nativeit | 2025-06-28 16:53:14+00:00
Thanks for sharing. You certainly aren't alone in your sentiments. I am seeing similar trends in arXiv submissions, as it seems it has become something of a means to inflate the value of one's own product(s) with a veneer of academic rigor. There seems to be a S.O.P. emerging for AI tools that follows many of the same trends as the less-than-reputable blockchain/crypto projects.
by seniortaco | 2025-06-28 16:53:33+00:00
Fascinating. I think it's likely incorrect to blame most of the victims here. We are all products of our environment and everyone has their own weakness or specific trigger -no matter how much we like to think we are in control.

In a way, ChatGpt is the perfect "cult member" and so those who just need a sycophant to become a "cult leader" are triggered.

Will be interesting to watch this and see if it becomes a bigger trend.
by tibbar | 2025-06-28 16:53:39+00:00
Internal research assistants. Essentially 'deep research' hooked up to the internal data lake, knowledge bases, etc. It takes some iterations to make a tool like this actually effective, but once you've fixed the top N common roadblocks, it just sorta works. Modern (last 6 months) of models are amazing.

If all you've built is RAG apps up to this point, I highly recommend playing with some LLM-in-a-loop-with-tools reasoning agents. Totally new playing field.
by brandonmenc | 2025-06-28 16:53:55+00:00
> Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He'd turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project

Suspicious of “no prior history.”

All the people I have ever known who were into things like “permaculture” were touched by a bit of insanity of the hippie variety.

Just disasters waiting to happen, whether they found religion, conspiracy theories, or now LLMs.
by Nerd_Nest | 2025-06-28 16:54:00+00:00
I’m still torn on this. On one hand, memory could make ChatGPT more useful, especially for people using it regularly for work or coding. But on the other hand, the idea that it “remembers” me just feels a little uncomfortable.

I’d want more control over what’s remembered and when. Curious if anyone here has used this yet — is it actually helpful in practice?
by brap | 2025-06-28 16:54:47+00:00
I guess I’m finally old enough to become old-man-yelling-at-cloud.

I’m convinced that the only reason why MCP became a thing is because newcomers weren’t that familiar with OpenAPI and other existing standards, and because a protocol that is somehow tied to AI (even though it’s not, as this article shows) generates a lot of hype these days.

There’s absolutely nothing novel about MCP.
by agensaequivocum | 2025-06-28 16:55:26+00:00
All I'm saying is that all inferior courts exist at the pleasure of congress. They can remove all power and force all the district and appeals court judges of power and put them effectively into retirement. The only thing that congress cannot do, without impeachment, is lower or remove their salary.

"The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office."
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-28 16:55:29+00:00
Shrug If you are being told by your boss to use AI or quit and you absolutely refuse to use AI yes you should quit.

The end. No anger at you or your boss. It's an incompatibility.

I understand why some companies mandate usage these days. Especially for programming. The honest truth is that it does speed up development. The other honest truth is that there's resistance to change that harms productivity at times like this and the only way around that is for leadership to be very direct on this point.

To use a metaphor employers don't want weavers who refuse to make use of the loom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
by alephnerd | 2025-06-28 16:55:44+00:00
In Tech Entrepreneurship, it is fairly fast.

The Indian tech scene is heavily intertwined with the SV scene in both capital and talent, so the same norms around running a startup in the Bay Area percolated into the Indian scene.

Accel, General Catalyst, A16Z, YC, Foundation, Bessemer Ventures, etc are extremely active in the Indian market so they do have an impact on norm setting.
by swat535 | 2025-06-28 16:55:46+00:00
> I’m becoming very skeptical of the “bad government, good people” idea. Governments need popular support. This goes even for horrible dictatorships

You're either being disingenuous or have never experienced real dictatorship. I lived under theocracy in IRAN for more than half my life and I promise you that the Westerns screaming from the back "just revolt!" have no clue what they are talking about.

These regimes control communication, the media, intact laws that punishes any kind of dissent and often has multi layered of security forces to keep the population in check (not including the regular army and police).

It's easy to shout this when it's not your life, your sibling, your child or significant other's life on the line. These regimes will not hesitate to murder their own citizens to stay in power.

I don't know enough about Israel's internal politics and their society to make an assertive comment but what I _can_ say, is that from my interactions with them, they seem like ordinary and kind people who have no intention of harming me or my family.

Unless you are psychopath, you are not going to wake up one day and decide to murder people.
by otoburb | 2025-06-28 16:56:06+00:00
Did I parse that correctly?

You parsed that one specific incident correctly, but sems like you also missed key parts of the article that helped bring a bit more nuance into the discussion. I thought this rather short Nature article was actually pretty balanced. Two key quotes are:

* "“The rules have not changed” under the Trump administration, Grode says."

* "The hazardousness of the materials that the scientists sent will need to be assessed in each case, as will the scientists’ intent in using the materials, but their lack of transparency will make their cases more difficult, Grode says. “It’s not so much what was being sent, __but the effort to conceal what was being sent__,” he says."
by mindslight | 2025-06-28 16:56:21+00:00
You do you, and we'll have the parties at my house then. Enjoy quietly playing Catan or whatever.

Your extrapolation to the national level is fallacious. Many of our academic institutions were deliberately hosting foreigners, with the explicit goal of being melting pots of ideas. That gave the US an exceptional cultural cachet around the globe. This whole thing is an exercise in attacking and destroying our traditional distributed institutions in favor of centralized autocratic control.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-28 16:56:23+00:00
His life mission is control, Mars was just a means to an end. He’s not going to get to Mars, and he very publicly destroyed any political capital he had on Earth.

Like Thiel, just another power hungry tech bro wrapping themselves in the idea of progress and humanity for PR. Define “progress” and for whom.

https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-says-elon-musk-doesnt-unders...

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-musk-spacex-mars-la...
by jabroni_salad | 2025-06-28 16:56:53+00:00
One of my clients is doing m&a like crazy and we are now using it to help with directory merging. Every HR and IT department does things a little differently and we want to match them to our predefined roles for app licensing and access control.

You used to either budget for data entry or just graft directories in a really ugly way. The forest used to know about 12000 unique access roles and now there are only around 170.