MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zahlman | 2025-06-09 19:30:37+00:00
> Boldly asserting that what LLMS do is not cognition is even worse than asserting that it is.

Why? Understanding concepts like "cognition" is a matter of philosophy, not of science.

> He asserts that when we solve a problem through thinking and then express that solution in a machine we’re building a thinking machine. Because it’s an expression of our thought.

Yeah, and that premise makes no sense to me. The crow was thinking; the system consisting of (the crow's beak, dropping pebbles into the water + the pebbles) was not. Humanity has built all kinds of machines that use no logic whatsoever in their operation - which make no decisions, and operate in exactly one way when explicitly commanded to start, until explicitly commanded to stop - and yet we have solved human problems by building them.
by wtcactus | 2025-06-09 19:31:13+00:00
I’m middle class and I live in Europe. Counting all the contributions I’m forced to give the state, they now take about 60% of all I earn.

And here we are talking of giving even more free money to people that don’t work.

Who is going to pay for that? Am I going to have to work even more or are you going to let me keep even less of my money?
by reissbaker | 2025-06-09 19:31:14+00:00
If you mean "some apps have ads in them," that is true. What I mean is the OS doesn't have ads, unlike Google and Amazon's competing products... And unfortunately even Roku now.

You are free to never open apps that have ads in them on the Apple TV.

(If you mean: installed apps are allowed to show content previews when you hover on them in the UI — I think that's pretty different from an ad, and it's a feature I personally like, since it means I can easily resume a show I was previously watching without even having to open the app-specific UI. That's quite different from my perspective than showing ads for services and apps that I've never used, that I can't remove.)
by mmcnl | 2025-06-09 19:31:18+00:00
It's cool but also not as revolutionary as you make it sound. You can already install Podman, Orbstack or Colima right? Not sure which open-source framework they are using, but to me it seems like an OS-level integration of one of these tools. That's definitely a big win and will make things easier for developers, but I'm not sure if it's a gamechanger.
by jama211 | 2025-06-09 19:31:28+00:00
A bit of an out of context reply for me to jump in here, but in the abstract, it can be a reasonable question to ask if infinite usage is affordable. Maybe not infinite without constraints… but as an example from the past there are many mobile phone plans that have “infinite” calls and texts for an affordable monthly cost. There would’ve been a time where asking if unlimited calls would be affordable would’ve sounded insane, but now it’s fairly normal.
by ptero | 2025-06-09 19:31:28+00:00
My original response was sharper than I intended; I am aware of both the air-defense and ATC systems for both the civilian and military use (so worked in each cell of that mini-2x2 table). The military is much more tolerant of risks and, even if implementing them would lead to an increase in safety and convenience using military systems for civilian ATC will likely cause all sorts of problems due to differences in training, planning, etc.
by sherr | 2025-06-09 19:31:34+00:00
If you like this sort of thing, a novel I would heartily recommend is "Kolymsky Heights" by a much neglected (and long dead) author Lionel Davidson.

The Guardian has a short piece from 2014 that describes the plot. Great setup and a particular sort of cultural and linguistic skillset :

"Porter, however, is descended from Canadian Inuits, who remain – physically, ethnically and culturally – virtually identical to their Siberian counterparts, despite the decades-long political rift between the two."

From : https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/03/book...
by fungiblecog | 2025-06-09 19:31:43+00:00
Whether you think LLM's in coding are good or bad largely depends on what you think of current software dev practice. He only gets to this towards the end of the article but this is the main source of personal bias.

If you think the shoddy code currently put into production is fine you're likely to view LLM generated code as miraculous.

If you think that we should stop reinventing variations on the same shoddy code over and over - and instead find ways of reusing existing solid code and generally improving quality (this was the promise of Object Orientation back in the nineties which now looks laughable) then you'll think LLM's are a cynical way to speed up the throughput of garbage code while employing fewer crappy programmers.
by crisjs | 2025-06-09 19:32:03+00:00
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by keybored | 2025-06-09 19:32:08+00:00
Universal Basic Income is the billionaire’s consolation price for the working class once the workers have automated the economy to a certain degree. They get to keep the resources while the workers/former workers get to subsist “for free” on a livable pittance. Helped along ideologically by useful idiot multi-millionaires[1] who chant about “just upskill”/“just be Mensa-level intelligent”.

[1] https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114606355212363074
by vonnik | 2025-06-09 19:32:45+00:00
Thanks for the kind words.

re: #3, I wish I had a clear answer for you. I believe the Navy Seals use box breathing (4 sec each for inhale, hold, exhale, hold) because it puts them in a calm, high-energy state. Those two descriptors may seem paradoxical, but it's a state I've manage to put myself in before, say, a sales call or public talk. You want high energy to raise the energy level of the audience, but you want calm to be making better decisions in a quickly changing situation.

That differs, I think, from a physiological sigh where you're just trying to relax, which the longer exhale vs inhale gets you.

James Nestor talks about the effects of breath holds in his book "Breath", and one thing he brings up is "carbon dioxide therapy"; ie exposing yourself to mildly elevated levels of carbon dioxide for brief periods was once thought to be beneficial, and he cites people claiming the research has not been disproven. One of the supposed benefits (I'm not a doctor!) is anxiety reduction, similar to how people might tell someone who is panicking to breath with a brown paper bag over their mouth.

https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art/dp/073521...
by saratogacx | 2025-06-09 19:32:47+00:00
It isn't quite as simple as that. The guy that ran the windows org during that time thought himself the Steve Jobs of Microsoft and didn't hear anything different (to the point of having multi-page public blog posts about how much the launched windows 8 US was the best thing ever and if you didn't agree, you were just wrong).

During that time they also instituted "anti-leak" measures so teams would develop and commit features internally and keep them behind hidden flags that required special permissions from the org to change (via an app they called "red pill"). That means that by the time many teams saw what was happening with the UX in various places in the OS, it was too late to come to consensus.

The entire cycle for the OS was empire building and emperor has no clothing from start to finish. It wasn't until he was ousted that they started to try and pull things back with 8.1 and eventually 10.
by crisjs | 2025-06-09 19:32:51+00:00
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Show HN: ReqVis – A Web Request Visualizer
by foxfired | 2025-06-09 19:32:58+00:00
Hi HN,

A little while back, I wrote about surviving the hug of death (a.k.a. the Slashdot effect), and many folks asked about the web request visualizer I built to understand what was happening under the hood. So here it is!

It's still a work in progress, but I’d love to get some feedback and see if there's broader interest before I make another pot of coffee.

Note: Right now, it reads logs sequentially from start to finish. More interactivity and features are on the way.

Would love to hear what you think!
by samgranieri | 2025-06-09 19:33:43+00:00
I have to drop docker desktop at work and move to podman.

I'm the primary author of amalgamation of GitHub's scripts to rule them all with docker compose so my colleagues can just type `script/setup` and `script/server` (and more!) and the underlying scripts handle the rest.

Apple including this natively is nice, but I won't be a able to use this because my scripts have to work on linux and probably WSL
by cheeseomlit | 2025-06-09 19:34:33+00:00
The cited studies, like most sociopolitical studies, probably don't prove anything. The article doesn't specify how the subjects were selected, unless I missed something. If I were an advocate for UBI and wanted to organize a study like this, I'd make sure to select people who are likely to keep working and not just quit and smoke weed all day so I could reinforce my narrative. If I were an opponent of UBI I'd do the opposite and enroll people who are unlikely to keep working when they don't have to.
by grishka | 2025-06-09 19:35:26+00:00
Oh wow. Took me several minutes of aimlessly poking around.

Actually, even without that, the grouping and the hierarchy don't make sense. Why are some things top-level items and other under "general"? Same for "privacy and security" (I assume that's what it's called in English), for some reason "passwords", "lock screen" and "touch ID and password" are separate top-level items even though they do very much belong to "privacy and security".

The more you look at it, the less sense it makes.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-09 19:36:04+00:00
I'm sorry, but this just sounds like quitting before you start.

For example, I've looked into emulating DOS, because I don't like the existing emulators. But I don't need to emulate floppy disk drives, or their drivers, or their hardware cards. I just write some software that can fake a disk drive and hook it to the I/O interrupts. That would be a simple project.

There's nothing sophisticated about DOS.

In hindsight, I'm baffled that it took many many years for people to develop clones of DOS.

For example, EDLIN. A trivial program. I'd write it in a high level language like D, get it to work, then hand-translate it to asm. The executable loader is absurdly simple. And so on.
by reissbaker | 2025-06-09 19:36:29+00:00
Okay, to fit this definition of content previews for an app when hovering on that specific app as an ad: I like that my Apple TV does not show ads for apps I don't explicitly select in the UI, unlike almost every competing device which shows intrusive ads for unrelated stuff that I haven't selected in the UI, and may not even have installed or subscribed to. (I also like that it's the lowest latency streaming box.)

Apple TV is AFAIK the best device in its category.

I also think your definition is overly broad and doesn't reflect what an "ad" is. For example, if Apple cut the feature from iOS that allowed you to control your music from your lock screen, Spotify would also be willing to pay Apple to be able to control specifically Spotify from your lock screen. Does that mean "being able to control music from your lock screen" is an ad for Spotify? No. Does iOS allowing app-specific widgets on the homescreen count as ads, since if it didn't exist, companies would be willing to pay to be on people's homescreens? No, widgets are not by definition ads (even if some widgets may be ads!). Similarly, the Apple TV OS providing the ability for installed apps to show interactive app-specific UI on hover (i.e. the user has chosen to interact with this app, or has chosen it as their primary app in the OS), does not mean the OS itself has ads.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-06-09 19:36:44+00:00
Or a modem driver reading the stream and writing shit - I still have some of those burping mp3s. But if you blame this solely on the OS then you may be thinking very nostalgically too.

Hell, it most of the time worked on some combo of the cheapest parts - modern systems wont even get to UEFI boot part on the parts of the same quality.
by jonplackett | 2025-06-09 19:37:09+00:00
Once you get venture cap, there’s no turning back…

Kago can do this because they bootstrapped it.

From their website:

Kagi was bootstrapped from 2018 to 2023 with ~$3M initial funding from the founder. In 2023, Kagi raised $670K from Kagi users in its first external fundraise, followed by $1.88M raised in 2024, again from our users, bringing the number of users-investors to 93.

Kagi launched in June 2022 and we maintain a public page tracking real-time Kagi growth and usage statistics at kagi.com/stats.

In early 2024, Kagi became a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).
Show HN: Releasepages.dev turn your commits to release pages
by cheeseblubber | 2025-06-09 19:37:44+00:00
Hi HN,

My name is Kam, I’m the author of Release Pages. I made a simple app that takes your GitHub commits and turns them in to release pages. See (react.releasepages.dev). I decided to build this after I’ve had customers in the past ask about how to stay updated to the product. I wanted a simple place for people to view releases and change logs without having to manually write and update them. The workflow right now is pretty simple you add a GitHub action file in your repository that runs git log and a curl command to my api. Then you choose a release cadence i.e weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. On those cadences we group your commits and generate release notes for you. In total I’ve tested it out with a few friends the onboarding flow takes less than 5 minutes.

I decided to use a GitHub workflow setup instead of an Oauth flow in the beginning because Github api doesn’t have granular enough permissions to only fetch the git commit messages. The minimum permission I could get for the commit messages was entire repo read access. I wanted to make sure I’d only fetch the minimum information for first version for private repositories. For future versions and in particular for open source and less privacy concern projects I’d want to support a simple Oauth integration which would make onboarding easier.

Some technical notes: I built this with react, typescript, tailwind, shadcn, Nextjs, Postgres. I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out a clean way of sending git commit with minimal code so that it was easily legible to developers. Since onboarding process requires to run some commands I’d wanted to make sure that it was clear what the code was doing. The core command boiled down to: ``` git log -10 --pretty=format:"%H<SEP>%s<SEP>%an<SEP>%ad" --date=iso > commits.csv curl -X POST -H "RELEASE_PAGE_SECRET" --data-binary @commits.csv https://www.releasepages.dev/api/webhooks/github ``` I spent a day or two wrestling with trying to get a clean one liner with json and csv. The problems became the escaping character regex became more and more complicated. Eventually I realized I could just use custom delimiters for css which made the entire problem much simpler.

The current version is free. In the future I want to release a version where you can upgrade to your own domain and custom branding. Additionally I want to support an automatic newsletter generation as well with the releases and commits to automate this entire flow. I’ve had customers ask for a release newsletter but I never had the time to put one together. The goal here is to automate some of the manual workflow around customer communication.

This is a really early version of the product so would love any feedback. Please email me at help@releasepages.dev if you have any issues or would like to get updates when we get the premium versions

Check it out at https://releasepages.dev
by herobird | 2025-06-09 19:37:47+00:00
Great question!

Wasmi's fuel metering can be thought of as is there was an adjustable counter and for each instruction that Wasmi executes this counter is decreased by some amount. If it reached 0 the resumable call will yield back to the host (in this case the OS) where it can be decided how to, or if, the call shall be resumed.

For efficiency reasons fuel metering in Wasmi is not implemented as described above but I wanted to provide a simple description.

With this, one is no longer reliant on clocks or on other measures to provide each call its own time frame by providing an amount of fuel for each Wasm app that can be renewed (or not) when it runs out of fuel. So this is useful for building a Wasm scheduler.
by keyringlight | 2025-06-09 19:37:57+00:00
I think modern skeuomorphism must be in a weird spot compared to a few decades ago. Right now our real world devices designers would be inspired are less likely to have physical controls, so the virtual versions are pulling from a more distant original source that's already been through a few degrees of separation. If the original industrial design that computer interface graphics was pulling from was the rise of industrial and consumer electronics through the 20th century (the various switches, dials, indicators, tuning knobs, etc), what new physical design is there to inspire that isn't feeding on itself.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-09 19:38:00+00:00
Inflation is coming regardless due to global structural demographics.

Handing out fiat is likely infeasible, it’s too brute force without being able to control inflation per category, but a bifurcation with housing, energy, food, etc provided and fiat more reserved for human labor purchases is possible imho. I came across the idea somewhere of two currencies: one for things made by machines, and one for things made by humans. The first can be printed, the second worked for or otherwise constrained. I think that is what the future may look like as energy and tech abundance hits the declining demographic curve.

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-dep...

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42657-6

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/spring/summer-2018/demogra...
by ben_w | 2025-06-09 19:38:05+00:00
Genuine question: Why take it with you, running locally on your laptop, instead of accessing any of the big names remotely as an app on your phone?

As for how, I have ollama for trying out local models to see what they can do: https://github.com/ollama/ollama

I've not been impressed with any of the models that can fit in 16 GB (significantly less than 16b parameters), but this is such a fast-moving area that you have to look up some online leaderboard and try out what it says is the new leader right before your trip (given your 16GB of RAM) — even a week is long enough to be out of date in this field, so the answer may well be different by the time you return.
by alberth | 2025-06-09 19:38:09+00:00
Aqua, reminds me of OS X (Aqua theme) from 20+ years ago.

And while it was very pretty, the movement away from translucency was due in large part because of accessibility (for all users).

It's actually quite difficult to see controls (and read text) when not on a flat/solid background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-06-09 19:38:22+00:00
3 bed 2 bath house in the suburbs. In an above average, but not affluent area outside of a major city.

Average rent for the city + suburbs is around $2400/month but that includes houses as well as apartments.

It looks like the link you shared is focused on 700sqft apartments. The national average rent for a 3 bed house shows to be $2400
by redczar | 2025-06-09 19:38:23+00:00
You didn’t select to have Apple Fitness+ pre installed on the Apple TV and have placed in such a way that you will scroll over it occasionally.

They made it so almost everyone uses the Apple TV app for at least some viewing and there you get ads for Apple TV+ shows and their suggestions include shows that require a subscription to a service you may not already have. Or the suggestion will sometimes require a rental or purchase through the iTunes Store. These are ads.
by jonplackett | 2025-06-09 19:39:11+00:00
Just been reading about them - they haven’t taken venture funding - so I expect they don’t have the same pressure to 10X every 6 months.

From their site:

Kagi was bootstrapped from 2018 to 2023 with ~$3M initial funding from the founder. In 2023, Kagi raised $670K from Kagi users in its first external fundraise, followed by $1.88M raised in 2024, again from our users, bringing the number of users-investors to 93.

Kagi launched in June 2022 and we maintain a public page tracking real-time Kagi growth and usage statistics at kagi.com/stats.

In early 2024, Kagi became a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).
by aaroninsf | 2025-06-09 19:39:26+00:00
Yes, crappy anti-social anti-commons anti-democratic supercomputing has more or less literally fueled the long tech boom, for decades now.

But that is not the issue right now.

Right now, the issue is that the power of ubiquitous surveillance crossed with contemporary compute is unprecedented and new.

LA is burning and the National Guard has been called on protestors over the Governor's objections.

The fate of the nation and by extension the first world is what's at stake here.
by abeppu | 2025-06-09 19:39:42+00:00
Sure, and a hunting license doesn't require you to shoot anything but it would be weird to oblige you to get one if you don't have an intention of hunting?

If green cards are easier to get, then the people that want them, and who you seem interested in protecting from abuse and exploitation can choose to apply for them -- great! It would have this effect even if you don't require every employee to have a permanent residence rights.

If you create the requirement where only someone with permanent resident status can be hired, but you don't make green cards actually easier to get, then you've just put in some protectionist/nativist barrier.

But if someone doesn't necessarily want to be a permanent resident, but does meet some other work visa, and an employer wants to hire them, you're just creating an extra bureaucratic obstacle for them, and claiming that it's for their benefit.
by pzo | 2025-06-09 19:39:57+00:00
only if each iOS app experience wasn't worse with each release. SwiftUI apps feels much slower than UIKit. My iPhone 13 experience with latest iOS overall feels very sluggish to old iPhones. This design feels not bringing much benefits but only drawbacks - more energy wasted, slower performance on older iPhones (apple want you buy new phone) and IMHO is just worse UX.