MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tw04 | 2025-06-05 01:33:34+00:00
Tesla has roughly 0.3% VIO TOTAL in the US (taking global statistics into account it's barely measurable), and a fraction of that fraction are actually using FSD on a regular basis - so I would sure hope they kill "a lot fewer people".

https://wolfstreet.com/2021/12/13/vehicles-in-operation-and-...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-05 01:34:03+00:00
My response was directed at that. I said that its lack of non-Apple support isn’t a bad thing for many folks.

It was designed by Apple, for Apple. They only care about non-Apple support, if it results in Apple software for Apple hardware. I suspect they will be using it for some of their new custom server farms (or Python).

Mercenary as hell, but it’s not an uncommon stance; especially with hardware companies. I had to work with that attitude all the time, at my last job.
by miffy900 | 2025-06-05 01:34:33+00:00
I tried seeing how it ranks on the 2025 tech empower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...

And up against C#, Go and C++, Vapor could not make the top 70.

Even just compare Swift vs PHP and its a really poor showing for vapor: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...
by a_bonobo | 2025-06-05 01:34:49+00:00
Bioinformatically, you could compare your protein with known proteins and infer function from there, but OP's paper is specifically for the use case where we know nothing in our databases.

Time-wise it depends where in the process you start!

Do you know what your target protein even is? I've seen entire PhDs trying to purify a single protein - every protein is purified differently, there are dozens of methods and some work and some don't. If you can purify it you can run a barrage of tests on the protein - is it a kinase, how does it bind to different assays etc. That gives you a fairly broad idea in which area of activity your protein sits.

If you know what it is, you can clone it into your vector like E. coli. Then E. coli will hopefully express it. That's a few weeks/months of work, depending on how much you want to double-check.

You can then use fluorescent tags like GFP to show you where in the cell your protein is located. Is it in the cell-wall? is it in the nucleus? that might give you an indication to function. But you only have the location at this point.

If your protein is in an easily kept organism like mice, you can run knock-out experiments, where you use different approaches to either turn off or delete the gene that produces the protein. That takes a few months too - and chances are nothing in your phenotype will change once the gene is knocked out, protein-protein networks are resilient and there might be another protein jumping in to do the job.

if you have an idea of what your protein does, you can confirm using protein-protein binding studies - I think yeast two-hybrid is still very popular for this? It tests whether two specific proteins - your candidate and another protein - interact or bind.

None of those tests will tell you 'this is definitely a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide binding protein', every test (and there are many more!) will add one piece to the puzzle.

Edit: of course it gets extra-annoying when all these puzzle pieces contradict each other. In my past life I've done some work with the ndh genes that sit on plant chloroplasts and are lost in orchids and some other groups of plants (including my babies), so it's interesting to see what they actually do and why they can be lost. It's called ndh because it was initially named NADH-dehydrogenase-like, because by sequence it kind of looks like a NADH dehydrogenase.

There's a guy in Japan (Toshiharu Shikanai) who worked on it most of his career and worked out that it certainly is NOT a NADH dehydrogenase and is instead a Fd-dependent plastoquinone reductase. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000527281...

Knockout experiments with ndh are annoying because it seems to be only really important in stress conditions - under regular conditions our ndh- plants behaved the same.

Again, this is only one protein, and since it's in chloroplasts it's ultra-common - most likely one of the more abundant proteins on earth (it's not in algae either). And we still call it ndh even though it is a Ferredoxin-plastoquinone reductase.
by bastawhiz | 2025-06-05 01:35:37+00:00
Another commenter showed how they were able to use Claude to do this in two messages: one to write the code, a second to paste the error that comes out so Claude can fix it. The exact word of the comment you replied to was "oneshot": if you're going to outsource 100% of the thinking involved in the task to a machine and can't even be bothered to copy over the error you're getting after the first response, my response remains the same.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-06-05 01:35:51+00:00
The article is derived from the order, which is itself a short summary of conversations had in court.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/NYT-v...

> I asked:

> > Is there a way to segregate the data for the users that have expressly asked for their chat logs to be deleted, or is there a way to anonymize in such a way that their privacy concerns are addressed... what’s the legal issue here about why you can’t, as opposed to why you would not?

> OpenAI expressed a reluctance for a "carte blanche, preserve everything request," and raised not only user preferences and requests, but also "numerous privacy laws and regulations throughout the country and the world that also contemplate these type of deletion requests or that users have these types of abilities."

A "reluctance to retain data" is not the same as "technically or physically unable to retain data". Judge decided OpenAI not wanting to do it was less important than evidence being deleted.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 01:35:52+00:00
Like, theres so many good reasons to want privacy by default it isnt funny.

But just consider that the dumbest country on the planet, elected its greatest moron ever devised, and he is already screening people crossing the border based on social media history. Its not a terribly far leap from screening social media history, to screening literally any other data the government can get its hands on.
by igrekun | 2025-06-05 01:36:14+00:00
If you run locally you can mix and match any anthropic / gemini models. As long as it satisfies this protocol https://github.com/appdotbuild/agent/blob/4e0d4b5ac03cee0548... you can plug in anything.

We have a similar wrapper for local LLMs on the roadmap.

If you use CLI only - we run claude 4 + gemini on the backend, gemini serving most of the vision tasks (frontend validation) and claude doing core codegen.
by SR2Z | 2025-06-05 01:36:32+00:00
People see it just fine.

The difference is that startups are generally very motivated to spend their money well, and non-profits are... not.

It's the difference between the profit motive (simple and easy to understand) and just hoping that the nonprofit leadership is individually motivated (which is much more communicated and hard to verify).

When a startup blows up from overspending, a few investors are out their own money. When a nonprofit does, it tends to stiff the well-meaning public that trusted it with their cash.

The two are not the same. Nobody cares about the rich making a bad investment, but whenever a nonprofit blows up it gets so much harder for the remaining ones to raise money.
Ask HN: Alternatives to NAT gateways for EC2 instances
by nodesocket | 2025-06-05 01:38:41+00:00
I’m looking to deploy EC2 instances in multiple availability zones and would like the EC2 instances to only be on the private subnet with no public ip address assigned. However the instances need outbound access for API requests, etc.

NAT gateways cost $32/mo per AZ and that doesn’t include bandwidth which is absurdly expensive. I could manually deploy NAT instances but still looking at a minimum of around $8/mo per for t5g.small instances and EBS. Not to mention the maintenance and setup of the NAT instances.

Any clever tricks for outbound internet access for EC2 instances that are in private subnets?
by quadragenarian | 2025-06-05 01:38:57+00:00
Having had a stint in my youthful life where I studied Technocracy a great deal, I still see some powerful concepts that I can't let go of. The emphasis on standardization and elimination of the price system, even if nothing more than a though experiment on human nature, seemed like worthwhile concepts to consider. Rather than demonize the technocracy movement, I would recommend some investigation into the ideas that underpinned it, especially as we now witness a transition from a limitless growth world to steady state.
by wsc981 | 2025-06-05 01:40:04+00:00
I don't feel C# is that Microsoft-centric anymore - not after the release of Roslyn.

It works well on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and I suspect Linux as well (but I never use Linux, hence I can't be sure). And if you want a multiplatform UI there's some decent options like Avalonia UI [0].

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[0]: https://avaloniaui.net/
by qingcharles | 2025-06-05 01:40:30+00:00
A neighbor needed me to fix something on his phone the other day and I noticed he was getting full-screen ads every minute that would appear over everything.. you couldn't hang up a call, call 911, send a text, nothing.

I tracked it down to an app he had called "7 Min Workouts" which was spamming the ads. Wild.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-05 01:40:32+00:00
I'm "pro-copyright" in that I want the corporations that setup this structure to suffer under it the way we did for 25+ years. They can't just ignore the rules they spent millions lobbying for when they feel it's convinient.

On the other end: while copyright has been perverted over the centuries, the goal is still overall to protect small inventors. They have no leverage otherwise and this gives them some ability to fight if they aren't properly compensated. I definitely do not want it abolished outright. Just reviewed and reworked for modern times.
by reify | 2025-06-05 01:40:42+00:00
There is a lot of confusion about using the word rape when referring to sexual assaults.

Here in the UK, all sexual offences against children are charged as rape.

If the perpetrator committed the same offence against an adult it would be sexual assault.

Thats why you see so many headlines about children getting raped. when in fact they may have been sexually assaulted.

Rape of an adult is defined as sexual penetration carried out against a person without consent.

Uk law states that children cannot give consent to any sexual contact, hence the rape charges.

The Law is an odd thing. My fellow therapist and I had great difficult explaining this to some clients who had been sexually abused as teenagers.

They were adamant that the sexual contact was consensual.

The argument: In the eyes of the law, a 15 year old child, for instance, is incapable of making a decision about who they chose to have sex with.

yet children are deemed criminally responsible at 10 years of age, they can make rational decisions to commit a crime and will feel the full force of the law.

Basically, at 10 years old they know right from wrong when they commit a crime, but at 15 years old they dont know right from wrong when choosing with whom to have sex with.

We see, very rarely, 10 year olds being sentenced for murder.

As retired psychotherapist I do not think it is wise to start sharing any personal experience on social media. It is not a safe or confidential space to talk about sexual abuse.

Go see a therapist if you want to talk about any sexual abuse, if you want to bring your abuser to account, and involved the criminal justice system, you can work with your therapist to make that happen.
by lanyard-textile | 2025-06-05 01:40:57+00:00
Disagree. There’s something about the “able” that implies a hindered routine ability to do something — you can otherwise do this, but something renders you unable.

“I won’t be able to make the 5:00 dinner.” -> You could normally come, but there’s another obligation. There’s an implication that if the circumstances were different, you might be able to come.

“I cannot make the 5:00 dinner.” -> You could not normally come. There’s a rigid reason for the circumstance, and there is no negotiating it.
by moduspol | 2025-06-05 01:42:10+00:00
Indeed. My point is: so why focus on regulation that targets <0.1% of traffic fatalities?

Here's an alternative idea that would save a lot more lives:

Take the camera-based driver attention monitoring that works in my seven year-old Tesla, which notices IMMEDIATELY if I look away from the windshield for more than a second or two, and then require that in the human-driven cars.

Estimates for annual deaths in the US from distracted driving are between 3,250 and 12,400. An in-cabin camera is not expensive or specialty hardware. The tech is there, the costs are low. We could save a lot of lives!

If we're ignoring that to focus on Tesla's FSD, the goal is not sensible regulation or saving lives.
by toast0 | 2025-06-05 01:43:09+00:00
No batteries and no fuel makes it a lot harder to unload.

Requiring batteries to be disconnected after loading / connected before unloading could help, but that adds more complexity to the process. Some vehicles have battery disconnects in inconvenient places. Adding a few minutes of labor on each end for reasonable vehicles would be fine. Adding 30 minutes for vehicles where the battery is buried underneath the trunk/trim work or where disconnecting the battery and closing the doors makes it very hard to open the doors at the end of the journey would be more problematic; maybe that would help encourage better vehicle design, but in the meantime shipping vehicles would get much more difficult.
by beedeebeedee | 2025-06-05 01:43:47+00:00
That's a little too dismissive. Flying in those conditions is deeply disorienting, and you have to have instrument training (and discipline) to safely accomplish it. My dad (also air force pilot, F-104, and later, bush pilot) was flying near Block Island at the same time, and despite his training and experience said it was difficult and disorienting. You need to be rated for instruments and have developed trust in them, despite your senses.
by gkanai | 2025-06-05 01:44:16+00:00
If this continues, will maritime insurance keep paying out for these total losses? It seem untenable.

Some thoughts: 1) drain almost all the gasoline from vehicles so that if there is a fire, the fuel is limited.

2) for battery EVs, other than disconnecting the batteries, I dont see a way to make them safer for transit.

If we wanted to limit the spread of Chinese EVs globally, one way would be for shipping companies to tax EVs heavily for sea transport so that fires would be covered by the increased transport costs.
by throw678937 | 2025-06-05 01:44:21+00:00
"A Fact Graph is a DAG, just like Excel." [1] A DAG won't work for everything! For example, the advance premium tax credit (i.e., the means-tested Obamacare health premium subsidy) has a circular relationship with the above-the-line deduction that self-employed people can take for healthcare costs. The IRS says you can iterate until you get stable values. [2]

[1] https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f... [2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-14-41.pdf
by pandaman | 2025-06-05 01:45:09+00:00
You brought up some logic behind this law, so I thought you actually have seen some sense in this. Now it appears to be just the "having such a law in a low population state does not push it to the bottom of the safety so this law is great" argument. One should be able to see the fallacy of such an argument without even looking up what are the safest states for cyclists on top of Idaho and what kind of laws they have wrt stop signs and red lights...
by blagie | 2025-06-05 01:46:33+00:00
I will mention. Ocean Cleanup has a 55 million Euro budget. Precious Plastic is being criticized for having squandered a 100k donation. That 550 times less.

Ocean Cleanup claims to have removed 21,000 metric tons of plastic in its existence.

If we assume linear growth in budget, that's $330M Euro / 21k ton = 15,000 Euro per ton of garbage.

About 10 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year, so over their history, they've cleaned up 0.2% of the annual input.

I can't really comment if any of that good or bad, but I thought numbers (even if squishy estimates) would be helpful to inform the discussion.
by tw04 | 2025-06-05 01:47:23+00:00
>Indeed. My point is: so why focus on regulation that targets <0.1% of traffic fatalities?

A: Citation? Just because it's less than 0.3% of cars on the road doesn't mean it's less than 0.1% of fatalaties. And citation that doesn't let Tesla pass off any FSD crash as "driver error" which they have a horrible habit of doing. If FSD disengages at impact, they call that driver error, which is absolute bullshit.

And because Tesla is taking 0 accountability for it, they are passing it onto the driver. They want to have their cake and eat it too. If you or I are driving distractedly and kill someone, we face serious criminal and financial repercussions.

If FSD decides to swerve out of the lane and into oncoming taffic, Tesla wants to shrug and say "I guess the driver should have been better". That's trash, and should be banned from our roads summarily.
by Kiyo-Lynn | 2025-06-05 01:48:27+00:00
At first I kept thinking the model just wasn't good enough, it just couldn’t give me what I wanted. But over time, I realized the real problem was that I hadn’t figured out what I wanted in the first place. I had to make my own thinking clear first, then let the AI help organize it. The more specific and patient I am, the better it responds.
by cowlby | 2025-06-05 01:48:41+00:00
Agreed, but you can't not pay attention with the new Vision Attention Monitoring. Not sure if it's HW4/v12 specific but it watches your eyesight specifically.

So for example, if I look at the screen, my phone, or start day-dreaming for even a few seconds, it'll beep and quickly strike me out from using FSD. "FSD (supervised)" is how it shows up in the UI too at least giving some expectation of it not being autonomous.

So in practice, I'm picturing the right driving inputs and watching what it's doing.
by RollingRo11 | 2025-06-05 01:52:06+00:00
> Take the camera-based driver attention monitoring that works in my seven year-old Tesla, which notices IMMEDIATELY if I look away from the windshield for more than a second or two, and then require that in the human-driven cars

This. Put it on all vehicles that are driven (exc. waymo, zoox, and the like).

It looks like something similar is already happening in the EU (with momentum in the US too.) (See https://spyro-soft.com/blog/automotive/driver-monitoring-sys...)
by andsoitis | 2025-06-05 01:52:32+00:00
> The only manufacturer with heavily redacted information in that data to the point of being useless is Tesla.

The nice thing is we can look for ourselves to what extent that is true by downloading the CSV: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/ffdd/sgo-2021-01/SGO-2021-01_In...

For example, in the case of BMW, in every single case the field for ADS/ADAS Version is either blank or redacted.
by jackvalentine | 2025-06-05 01:53:21+00:00
I don't think Azure is the legal panacea you think it is for regulated industries outside of the U.S.

Microsoft v. United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...) showed the government wants, and was willing to do whatever required, access to data held in the E.U. The passing of the CLOUD Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act) basically codified it in to law.
by jonathonlui | 2025-06-05 01:54:04+00:00
At the bottom of page:

> Copyright © 2014 - 2025 Mark Litwintschik. This site's template is based off a template by Giulio Fidente [1]

The theme is for the Pelican [2] static site generator.

[1] https://github.com/gfidente/pelican-svbhack

[2] https://getpelican.com/
by fazlerocks | 2025-06-05 01:54:50+00:00
This is pretty cool - the Jira/Linear integration could save a ton of manual work. How do you handle test data setup and teardown? That's usually where these workflows get messy.

For alternatives in this space, there's qawolf (https://qawolf.com) for similar automated testing workflows, or I'm actually building bug0 (https://bug0.com) which also does AI-powered test automation, still in beta. For the more established players there's always Cypress (https://cypress.io) and Playwright (https://playwright.dev) if you want to stay closer to code, or TestRail (https://testrail.com) + Browserstack (https://browserstack.com) for the enterprise route.

Will definitely try the demo - the acceptance criteria parsing sounds like it could catch a lot of edge cases that usually slip through.
by justusthane | 2025-06-05 01:54:55+00:00
I don’t really get it. The examples linked from the homepage are _so_ simple (and so similar) they might as well just be built with one or two templates and a WYSIWYG editor. I don’t get why they need to be vibe-coded at all.

Although maybe the issue is just that you haven’t picked the best examples? The one you linked in a comment with the raining emojis is a way better example that shows the flexibility (and the fun!) of this, I think.

Either way, I’d go with https://mmm.page as an easy and fun page builder before this, but maybe that’s just my own prejudice against vibe coding.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-06-05 01:54:59+00:00
I love Apple Notes for being easy and “just works” within the Apple Ecosystem. Easy to share with family, notes updated across devices, etc.

Markdown support is a nice addition and hope this makes it easy to transfer notes with other app faster and an intact formatting across the journey.

However, I use it as a starting entry point for my notes, which are mostly temporary, rough, and ephemeral. These notes are the ones I won’t mind losing and can walk out. Anything important or critical that is added here is eventually moved to a plain-text note (Markdown) elsewhere.

https://brajeshwar.com/2025/notes/
by alisonatwork | 2025-06-05 01:55:56+00:00
Some of these issues could perhaps be addressed by having fixed retention of PII in the online systems, and encryption at rest in the offline systems. If a user wants to access data of theirs which has gone offline, they take the decryption hit. Of course it helps to be critical about how much data should be retained in the first place.

It is true that protecting the user's privacy costs more than not protecting it, but some organizations feel a moral obligation or have a legal duty to do so. And some users value their own privacy enough that they are willing to deal with the decreased convenience.

As an engineer, I find it neat that figuring out how to delete data is often a more complicated problem than figuring out how to create it. I welcome government regulations that encourage more research and development in this area, since from my perspective that aligns actually-interesting technical work with the public good.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-06-05 01:57:24+00:00
Pfizer provides the data to the FDA which decides whether to approve the medication, and releases only a subset of the data to public.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants...

> The records must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy information of patients who participated in clinical trials,” wrote DOJ lawyers in a joint status report, filed Monday.

...

> But we can’t show you data

Tesla shows the data to the NHTSA whose experts look at it and can force recalls so your analogy and argument make no sense.
by jacob019 | 2025-06-05 01:59:16+00:00
I think the court overstepped by ordering OpenAI to save all user chats. Private conversations with AI should be protected - people have a reasonable expectation that deleted chats stay deleted, and knowing everything is preserved will chill free expression. Congress needs to write clear rules about what companies can and can't do with our data when we use AI. But honestly, I don't have much faith that Congress can get their act together to pass anything useful, even when it's obvious and most people would support it.