MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Laserfocused00 | 2025-06-25 16:55:58+00:00
Has anyone actually read the latest iOS developer agreement? Apple Developer Program License Agreement - Section 9.3: What it does: Forces developers to give Apple unlimited, royalty-free rights to use any information they provide about their apps. Specific language: Apple can use your app information, descriptions, metadata, and details on an "unrestricted basis without notifying or compensating You." Developers have no choice (agree or can't ship) Apple gets free R&D from millions of developers No compensation or notification required Apple can then compete against you using your own ideas Oh and if they get sued for stealing your idea you’re held on the line for paying their legal fees with them paying $50 max. Developers CAN'T publicly warn others about the IP theft Developers CAN'T discuss these terms with media Developers CAN'T organize resistance or advocacy Apple can deny approval to speak about it "at their discretion" Section 9.4 - The Silencing Clause:

"You may not issue any press releases or make any other public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple's express prior written approval, which may be withheld at Apple's discretion."
by joelm | 2025-06-25 16:56:06+00:00
Been using Claude Code (4 Opus) fairly successfully in a large Rust codebase, but sometimes frustrated by it with complex tasks. Tried Gemini CLI today (easy to get working, which was nice) and it was pretty much a failure. It did a notably worse job than Claude at having the Rust code modifications compile successfully.

However, Gemini at one point output what will probably be the highlight of my day:

"I have made a complete mess of the code. I will now revert all changes I have made to the codebase and start over."

What great self-awareness and willingness to scrap the work! :)
by BeetleB | 2025-06-25 16:56:08+00:00
> You just described how to write a tool the LLM can use. Not MCP!! MCP is basically a tool that runs in a server so can be written in any programming language.

It's weird you're saying it's not MCP, when this is precisely what I've done to write several MCP servers.

You write a function. Wrap it with a decorator, and add another line in __main__, and voila, it's an MCP server.

> now each MCP tool requires its own server with all the complications that come with it, including runtime overhead, security model fragmentation, incompatibility…

You can lump multiple tools in a server. Personally, it makes sense to organize them by functionality, though.

> including runtime overhead, security model fragmentation, incompatibility…

What incompatibility?

Runtime overhead is minimal.

Security - as I said, if you write your own tools, you control it just as you would with the old tool use. Beyond that, yes - you're dependent on the wrapper library's vulnerabilities, as well as the MCP client. Yes, we've introduced one new layer (the wrapper library), but seriously, it's like saying "Oh, you introduced Flask into our flow, that's a security concern!" Eventually, the libraries will be vetted and we'll know which are secure and which aren't.
by firefax | 2025-06-25 16:56:39+00:00
As I said in my previous statement, the journalist said that they made their assessment using only things like satellite data and that folks like NSA/CIA might have a different take but it would not be discussed in public due to the nature of HUMINT.

So imagine someone leaks a report that doesn't use all available sources to bolster their side of a story or because they lack the theory of mind to understand it's not the bombshell they think it is.

I don't know how to write this out more simply for you.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-25 16:56:42+00:00
I don't expect it's unique to the US, but I can't speak for other areas. At least any time I've looked, real estate prices for the same floorplan home a couple neighborhoods over in a different school area can differ by a couple hundred thousand dollars, and "good schools" are a common thing for people to say they prioritize, so the effect seems real enough here. I've seen this in multiple cities/states.

Like I said, to a first approximation, "good schools" are much more about the kids and families than the teachers. Teachers in the US are required to have bachelors degrees, and I believe AP teachers need masters, so there's some bar (though I don't find degrees/credentialism to be particularly compelling). Good schools are where the students set good examples for each other and drive each other to do better. Bad schools are where you're automatically in the top half of your class merely for showing up and no peers treat education seriously, so you learn not to either. There's plenty of passable schools too where you can get an adequate education, but middle class and above tend to have higher expectations for their kids, and want all of their kids' friends to have the attitude that working hard in school is completely normal and expected (i.e. they want a "good school").

Schools in bad areas do have retention problems, and the government offers incentives to teach there, but teachers aren't miracle workers.
by haswell | 2025-06-25 16:56:50+00:00
FTA:

> I was laid off in May, and per Danish law, as an employee of over nine years, I have a six-month notice period. I've been relieved of my duties, but I am still officially an employee until the end of November.

It would also be pretty easy to tailgate at a place you’ve worked for 20+ years, but it sounds like that isn’t even necessary.
by x0x0 | 2025-06-25 16:56:52+00:00
I don't disagree with the thrust, but I've recently cleaned some of those up.

One example: LLMs aren't smart enough to do things like properly manage zip codes with leading zeros. It was round tripping strings through an integer representation and corrupting them. The users did notice, but did not have the vocabulary/concepts to explain. To them, sometimes zipcodes get corrupted because inscrutable reasons (tm).

chatgpt also authored a bash script that would have blown away a chunk of my drive if any paths had a space in them. :shrug:
by rurp | 2025-06-25 16:57:17+00:00
In other words, give up the everything wants out of running Tesla? I don't see that happening.

He has been working extremely hard to extract as much value as possible out of Tesla, at an unprecedented rate. He wants to be paid more than the company has ever made selling cars! Comparable CEOs take small or no salary and make their money by growing the value of their equity. Musk wants to improve the value of his massive existing equity and be paid tens of billions of dollars on top of that, in multiple packages. Before his first payout got held up in court he was already pressuring the company to give him another unprecedented handout.

To state the obvious, nobody becomes the wealthiest person in the world by not caring about money. They might pretend to not care, but acquiring that level of wealth takes a lot of dedicated focus to accomplish.
by starkparker | 2025-06-25 16:57:30+00:00
My favorite 2nd device is an old Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1. By all accounts it's a terribly specced device, but it still runs modern Fedora + KDE well, the touchscreen works well, and the display quality isn't awful.

Many of the knocks against it (small size, cheap plastic case, small battery) work in its favor by keeping it light enough to use as a tablet. The battery, RAM, and SSD are all serviceable. I see them on eBay frequently for as little as $20-40 each in lots or $50-70 standalone.

The 10" Lenovo Duet Chromebook tablets are a close second but don't age as well and can't be realistically repaired or upgraded.
by vaylian | 2025-06-25 16:58:47+00:00
Is my framework perfect? No. But it's still the best laptop I've ever owned. Just like open source software, it's not about having the most shiny look and feel, but it's about knowing that the creator wants me to have the freedom and empowerment to open it up and adjust it to my needs and desires. Other companies will just say that I've voided the warranty when I try fixing or tweaking it myself.
by mindslight | 2025-06-25 16:58:51+00:00
Do you have a constructive point you would like to make with this distinction? You keep coming back to this, making it a point to insult me, but then don't really go anywhere with it.

This is Hacker News - we readily jump between levels of abstraction. I've acknowledged that the executive and judicial are separate branches are government, but my argument zooms out a level and treats them as both part of the larger government. Because when people feel their right to privacy is being violated by the government, it doesn't really depend on which branch is causing it!

It seems to me you want to hold to the distinction between the two so perhaps you can paint the action under discussion as if it's the result of something that could not just be changed? But obviously this capability of the judiciary could be restrained by Congress, the same as actions by the executive.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-25 16:58:56+00:00
I post photos to Bluesky as well as stuff similar to what I post to HN. I know there are a lot of rabid capital-D Democrats there, but the recommender mostly keeps them out of my feed except for the first two weeks of the 2nd Trump admin when I think they were trying to help journalists/influencers leaving X to get an audience fast and make them a permission structure to move.

There are a lot of people there who aren't posting 20 posts a day about the latest outrage.
by cormorant | 2025-06-25 16:59:05+00:00
"common but not representable RGB spaces like Adobe 1998 RGB or ProPhoto RGB cannot use CICP and have to be identified with ICC profiles instead."

cICP is 16 bytes for identifying one out of a "list of known spaces" but they chose not to include a couple of the most common ones. Off to a great start...

I wonder if it's some kind of legal issue with Adobe. That would also explain why EXIF / DCF refer to Adobe RGB only by the euphemism "optional color space" or "option file". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...
by Arnavion | 2025-06-25 16:59:07+00:00
>About a month ago I heard Microsoft had their own Linux distribution to help Microsoft Windows users feel more at home. From memory, it was a rather simple GNOME setup. Nothing special.

You're confusing Microsoft's first-party Linux distro Azure Linux (nee CBL-Mariner) that is intended as a regular MS-supported OS for containers, VMs, servers, etc, with various Windows-like skins for Linux DEs that people have made for years.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-25 16:59:20+00:00
The difficulty is the biggest gains there are for singular goods which can't be copied at low cost.

Exquisitely designed piece of furniture = expensive copy

Well-written book = cheap copy, post-printing press

So we're not necessarily going to get "more access to better" (because we already had that), but just "cheaper".

Whether that hollows out entire markets or only cannibalizes the bottom of the market (low quality/cheap) remains to be seen.

I wouldn't want to be writing pulp/romance novels these days...
by mitchitized | 2025-06-25 17:00:11+00:00
That is because I do not think Google's aims for captcha are the same as ours.

I can tell you that as soon as you download Chrome and login to any Google account of yours, the captcha tests are suddenly and mysteriously gone.

Use firefox in full-lockdown mode, and you will be clicking fire hydrants and crosswalks for the next several hours.

My crazy conspiracy theory is that Google is just using captcha as an opportunity to force everyone out of privacy mode, further empowering the surveillance capitalism engines. The intent is not to be effective, but inconvenient.
by bz_bz_bz | 2025-06-25 17:00:37+00:00
There’s no power market in America with a cap at $900. Just yesterday, power in New York reached $3k and PJM had spikes to almost $4k.

The cap was raised to $9k to try and incentivize generation because the forward reserve margin was dwindling. ERCOT was the only electric market in the US that was actually growing and old thermal plants were retiring because they couldn’t economically compete with new renewables. Bill Hogan @ Harvard was commissioned to help solve this problem and his team created a new scarcity pricing mechanism along with higher price caps based on the value of lost load. These caps were set by the PUCT and ERCOT had no say in them.

Why are you so focused on caps and not on learning the difference between gas and power markets? You keep trying to simplify very complex systems and issues with a half baked understanding of some basic talking points and minimal understanding of how the markets actually operate.
by ge96 | 2025-06-25 17:00:46+00:00
It's crazy I am/was a reddit user and it's like a compulsion. I now only look at news, worldnews and combatfootage but I keep reaching for something. The other thing is YouTube which I'm trying to stick to the educational stuff of people making things (I did get premium)'

Otherwise Hacker News or freelance/indiehacker sites

edit: I do have a hobby (making hardware stuff) but I fell out of it/trying to get back into it (motivation) and work multiple jobs, but on downtime trying to do mindless stuff which isn't always bad/need a mental break
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-06-25 17:00:58+00:00
None. The point is not to shut off oil as a energy source instantly before alternatives exist. We should quickly move off of oil as a fuel/energy and build out alternatives as we go (as we are in most parts of the world). Using solar/nuclear/wind for energy does not mean people suddenly start starving. This may surprise you, but your food will be just as nutritious even if it was not delivered to you by burning oil products.

Keep the oil infrastructure for petrochemicals which cannot be easily replaced in the near term.
by soupbowl | 2025-06-25 17:01:38+00:00
Some old growth forest are susceptible to fur beetles which can destroy large areas of forest. In large fur forests you can easily do small select cutting in early spring to attract the beetles, in late spring you cut the tress and haul them out and the bugs get cooked in a kiln saving many trees.

Select logging is select logging, clear cuts is clear cuts. In general you cannot clear cut anymore, there are so many restrictions that guarantee trees are left standing. Wild life tree patches are required, bird trees, zones between water ways have to have a tree buffer zone. That does not include if you find a bear den, eagle nest or other similar things. You will be required to leave a large swath of trees around those areas.

If you have ever been around clear cuts or even select logging areas you will see a lot of wild life. It is much easier to see moose and deer around logging blocks. Lazy hunters often go to those areas to specifically hunt which is why a lot of logging roads these days are deactivated back to nature.
by deepsun | 2025-06-25 17:01:51+00:00
I remember R. Feynman wrote that at some point in his life he reached the end of his achievements, and it was a pretty sad time. For many years he couldn't produce anything valuable anymore. So over time he gave up trying and just kept on living, doing stuff just for fun, not for value. One day he saw someone juggles a kitchen plate throwing it into the air, spinning. He got interested, why does the plate "waves" exactly twice less than rotation speed. He started computing it, just for fun. Because he was already a failure, so who cares. Over time that pointless kitchen plate computations grew up to quantum calculations, for which he much later was awarded a Nobel.
by nradov | 2025-06-25 17:02:17+00:00
Many established brands now have official stores on Amazon. Like here's one for Bose (not an endorsement). Search takes you right there.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bose/page/9E24AFD5-B420-4859-B...

I don't think that Segway was ever considered trusted or established. It has always been kind of a goofy niche product used by guided tour groups and mall security.
by hbrav | 2025-06-25 17:02:22+00:00
This article is a little bizarre, in that it leaves a lot unsaid. On reading it my first thought is "the government could simply forbid its department from considering bids from Fujitsu". This seems like a perfectly reasonable response. The company has shown gross incompetence, coupled with great arrogance. There is every reason to think that it would do so again. Further, being barred from bidding would act as a deterrent to similar behaviour from other companies in future.

I assume there is some reason this cannot be done. Do procurement rules prevent the outright banning of a company from making bids?
by mtalantikite | 2025-06-25 17:02:27+00:00
As a remote worker since 2008, I agree, I don't want someone telling me I have to live in a place I wouldn't want to live for a job. But also, they're already dictating that people have to live in the DC area, which probably has a similar effect. I'm sure there are plenty of highly talented bureaucrats living in Chicago, or Nashville, or Boulder, or Houston, etc etc.
by quantadev | 2025-06-25 17:02:31+00:00
Right, I didn't mean it necessarily had to be on it's own hardware. I don't have any Android development experience, but it seems like android could have a version that's as locked down a this.

If I had kids I wouldn't even allow use of a smartphone. I think hardly any BigTech execs let their own kids use these dumpster fires called smartphones and social media. They know there's almost zero benefits to it. Just leads to brain damage, laziness, ADHD, psychological disorders like depression, life-threatening risk-taking, and even su*cicd.
by timr | 2025-06-25 17:02:33+00:00
> Wait, so are frequent heat dome events not real and just summer? Or not? That was the claim you made.

No, that isn't what I said. Here is what I said:

> There have been "heat dome events" every year I've been alive. We just didn't call them that, because we used to call this phenomenon "summer".

I don't know how you get to "heat dome events aren't real" from that. They're real. They're also part of summer, but the terminology is new. The paper you cited, in fact, shows that they go back 50+ years. They're just slightly more frequent now.

> I guess the second or third time in a year we see heat domes is the only appropriate time to bring it up?

Again, you should actually look at the paper -- or just the first figure. I linked to it for you, so it couldn't be easier. You will see these events happening 4+ times a year going back into the 1950s. We're talking about a very subtle historical change, here.
by cardanome | 2025-06-25 17:03:12+00:00
To be fair, he is still officially employed until November. Legally, he has to show up.

It it just that often that people get excepted from working because the corporation does not trust them anymore and they don't want to risk anything. Or on the other side the employee calls in sick to avoid working.

He got 6 months until the contract expires plus 3 extra months of pay as severance. Dude is pretty happy about being laid off, no hard feeling.

It is really not that crazy to still answer some questions from time to time after being laid up, especially if the company is still paying you full time anyway. Not like he is putting in 60 hours a week, dude is enjoying early retirement with some side gigs.

There is definitely a problem with people being being married to their job but this is just clickbait.
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-25 17:03:19+00:00
> We need human-friendly CAPTCHAs, as much as they're generally disliked. They're the only solution to the growing spam and abuse problem on the web.

This is wrong, badly wrong.

CAPTCHA stood for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. And that’s how people are using such things: to tell computers and humans apart. But that’s not the right problem.

Spam and abuse can come from computers, or from humans.

Productive use can come from humans, or from computers.

Abuse prevention should not be about distinguishing computers and humans: it should be about the actual usage behaviour.

CAPTCHAs are fundamentally solving the wrong problem. Twenty years ago, they were a tolerable proxy for the right problem: imperfect, but generally good enough. But they have become a worse proxy over time.

Also, “human-friendly CAPTCHAs” are just flat-out impossible in the long term. As you identify, it’s only a “for now” thing. Once it’s a target, it ceases to be effective. And the range in humans is so broad that it’s generally distressingly easy to make a bot exceed the lower reaches of human performance.

> Proof-of-work CAPTCHAs work well for making bots expensive to run at scale, but they still rely on accurate bot detection. Avoiding both false positives and negatives is crucial, yet all existing approaches are not reliable enough.

Proof-of-work is even more obviously a temporary solution, security by obscurity: it relies upon symmetry in computation power, which is just wildly incorrect. And all of the implementations I know of have made the bone-headed decision to start with SHA-256 hashing, which amplifies this asymmetry to ludicrous degree (factors of tens of thousands with common hardware, to tens of millions with Bitcoin mining hardware). At that point, forget choosing different iteration counts based on bot detection, it doesn’t even matter.

—⁂—

The inconvenient truth is: there is no Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP).
Mind blow by NotebookLM generating podcast on LLM Sparsity
by nrjpoddar | 2025-06-25 17:03:24+00:00
We tested its ability to explain sparsity in LLMs - a concept that’s highly technical and often misunderstood.

Inputs: Our GitHub repo ( link in comments) Research papers: Deja Vu & LLM in a Flash A Reddit thread rich in community commentary

The output was pure magic

A clean, cogent podcast that distills all of it - sparsity, memory access, retrieval patterns into something even non-ML researchers can grasp.
by idkwhattocallme | 2025-06-25 17:04:14+00:00
I've gone down this rabbit hole with customers as a PM still working in the space. Here is what I've learned. The past decade of devices (hololens, realwear, google glass, vuzix, etc) were some combination of way too heavy, expensive, fragile, short battery life, no wifi connectivity, too much UI long to get to point of value and/or simply not useful. That and most customers had a content problem. The AR/VR use in the field typically came down to looking something up in a manual or calling someone. Both easily and perhaps more effectively done on a smartphone. There was an instance where I asked techs why they weren't using the headset for showing what they were seeing in realtime and they said, it's easier to facetime (hard to argue that). The cool AR 3-D demos or overlays rarely worked in the field on real equip or didn't actually convey anything useful (everyone knows the basics of how the machine works). There are training VR use cases (like learning to operate a crane), but once again it's a nice to have supplement and not a replacement. Recent advances with LLMs (specifically voice) + Meta type "glasses form factor" have created intrigue again with innovation centers at large companies. The use case we're currently working on is inspections or filling out forms with audio/videos.
by twhouck | 2025-06-25 17:04:39+00:00
Today we launched the Cloud Efficiency Hub. An open-source, community-driven knowledge base of cloud cost inefficiencies across AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks and more.

It’s modeled after frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK — but for FinOps. Built with contributions from 70+ cloud engineers, architects, and FinOps specialists.

Each inefficiency includes detailed detection guidance and remediation ideas, written for practitioners. We're hoping it becomes a go-to resource for anyone working to optimize cloud costs.

Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas.