MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by junar | 2025-06-05 02:39:24+00:00
No, I think you have it mixed up. It's quite clear that the authority came from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which was was well known to have passed without a single Republican vote. It's also quite clear that in the context of the top-level comment, "this program" mentioned means the Direct File as it operates, not the release of source code.

> The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law in August 2022.1 Section 10301(1)(B) of the IRS provided the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with $15 million to establish a task force to design an IRS-run, free direct electronic filing (e-file) system commonly referred to as “Direct File” ...

https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2025-03/20...

You're bringing up an unrelated law that didn't even exist at the time of the launch of Direct File in early 2024.
by TheCowboy | 2025-06-05 02:41:20+00:00
It's at least useful for seeing how other people are being productive with these tools. I also sometimes find a clever idea that improves that I'm already doing.

And documenting the current state of this space as well. It's easy to have tried doing something a year ago and think they're still bad.

I also usually prefer researching some area before reinventing the wheel by trial/failure myself. I appreciate when people share what they've discovered with their own their time, as I don't always have all the time in the world to explore it as I would if I were still a teen.
by moshegramovsky | 2025-06-05 02:42:12+00:00
Maybe a lawyer can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't understand why some people in the article appear to think that this is causing OpenAI to breach their privacy agreement.

The privacy agreement is a contract, not a law. A judge is well within their rights to issue such an order, and the privacy agreement doesn't matter at all if OpenAI has to do something to comply with a lawful order from a court of competent jurisdiction.

OpenAI are like the new Facebook when it comes to spin.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-05 02:42:13+00:00
> Why? I honestly don't understand what's so bad about my chat logs vs google having all my emails.

You might be a more benign user of chatGPT. Other people have turned it into a therapist and shared wildly intimate things with it. There is a whole cottage industry of journal apps that also now have "ai integration". At least some of those apps are using openAI on the back end...
by andsoitis | 2025-06-05 02:43:31+00:00
> Granted there are some other rows with missing or incomplete information, but Tesla appears to be the only manufacturer for which this information is withheld in every single instance without exception.

Again, not true.

I just filtered for BMW, and in every single instance, without fail, the ADS/ADAS Version cell is either redacted or blank.

I didn't check other manufacturers.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-05 02:43:51+00:00
Agree. But it's worth noting that they already have a bit of a hedge in the description for private mode:

> This chat won't appear in history, use or update ChatGPT's memory, or be used to train our models. For safety purposes, we may keep a copy of this chat for up to 30 days.

The "may keep a copy" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-06-05 02:44:11+00:00
Get out while the water still warm and before it starts to boil.

Life is too short to live like this. Apply for 1 job a day or week - but apply. Once you start getting interview calls, you will find time to prepare and practice. If you fail, use that as impetus - prepare and practice. Use ChatGPT or your favorite LLM to prepare and practice various interview questions, answers and scenarios.

It’s better to land a job while you still have a job. But it’s not the end of the world if you do lose your current job.

Reach out if you want to brainstorm
by Dumblydorr | 2025-06-05 02:44:37+00:00
Not only LLMs, even recorded music and modern ubiquity causes me dread. I play because I enjoy it but it’s not any concrete improvement on the world, and enough music already exists for all needs forever. And AI will eventually generate new random works. It’s a bit depressing I agree, when historically musical talent was needed whenever music wanted to be heard.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-05 02:50:39+00:00
Yes, this is interesting, finding complex structures that are found at multiple scales is rather amazing.

The paper attributes the solar system's spiral structure to the galactic tide. If I'm not mistaken, and this might be outdated, the galactic spiral structure is attributed to massive clumping - massive particles attract.

("Massive" meaning particles with mass - not necessarily large. "Particles" meaning macroscopic particles, not subatomic.)
by naikrovek | 2025-06-05 02:51:21+00:00
Yep. Laws supersede contracts. Contracts can’t legally bind any entity to break the law.

Court orders are like temporary, extremely finely scoped laws, as I understand them. A court order can’t compel an entity to break the law, but it can compel an entity to behave as if the court just set a law (for the specified entity, for the specified period of time, or the end of the case, whichever is sooner).
by jacob019 | 2025-06-05 02:51:44+00:00
You're right, it's not special.

This is from DuckDuckGo's privacy policy: "We don’t track you. That’s our Privacy Policy in a nutshell. We don’t save or share your search or browsing history when you search on DuckDuckGo or use our apps and extensions."

If the court compelled DuckDuckGo to log all searches, I would be equally concerned.
by fcarraldo | 2025-06-05 02:52:02+00:00
I suspect the “don’t do that” prompting is more to prevent the model from hallucinating or encouraging the user, than to prevent someone from unearthing hidden knowledge on how to build dangerous weapons. There must have been some filter applied when creating the training dataset, as well as subsequent training and fine tuning before the model reaches production.

Claude’s “Golden Gate” experiment shows that precise behavioral changes can be made around specific topics, as well. I assume this capability is used internally (or a better one has been found), since it has been demonstrated publicly.

What’s more difficult to prevent are emergent cases such as “a model which can write good non-malicious code appears to also be good at writing malicious code”. The line between malicious and not is very blurry depending on how and where the code will execute.
by jacobian | 2025-06-05 02:52:58+00:00
Thanks for your perspective. It’s a very real concern I have — am I trading one kind of burnout for another?

I do think there’s a difference between approaching EMS as a first career, and coming to it later in life (I’m 43) as a second career. I’ve talked to a number of people who’ve done what I’m doing and a higher percentage of them are happy with the decision vs those who started younger.

I’m also not going in with rosy glasses. I’ve been thinking about this for at least seven years, and have had plenty of time to talk to folks at all levels of emergency healthcare, including right here where I’d be working. I think I have a pretty realistic view of what I’m signing up for.

Only time will tell, though. Maybe I’m making a terrible decision; only one way to find out.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-05 02:53:00+00:00
I should add, what I was told is that they were amazing, especially the pre-IBM Rational stuff. Rational was acquired by IBM in 2003. I was working on tech adjacent to the JSF (F35). I was told by a guy working on the JSF that the extra bugs from C++ would mean better job security and he was 100% right. It’s pretty much that conversation that triggered my move into high tech and away from military. I think it’s a shame that IBM happened to Rational, a lot of nascent good ideas pretty much disappeared or were mangled beyond recognition.
by doctoboggan | 2025-06-05 02:55:19+00:00
> The spiral structure was first identified by examining the simulation in the Hayden Planetarium in preparation for a new space show that describes and visualizes the Oort cloud.

That's a pretty cool way to discover something like this. Here is the simulation animation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuacHdAeZ5J8wNAJvlYv435x9Oj...
by BrenBarn | 2025-06-05 02:55:58+00:00
The way to resolve those problems is to make the penalties steeply progressive, not based on the "size of the company" but on the wealth of those beneficial owners. The reason "little tech" is a misnomer is that a company with a VC firehose behind it isn't little in any meaningful sense. If Andreessen is giving you millions of dollars and you don't file your forms right, Andreessen should have to pay a large fine. If they don't like that then they can stop funding companies and then companies can succeed or fail on their own merits rather than on how well they can convince some VC people to open their wallets.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-05 02:56:06+00:00
This is a really interesting paper.

The discussion about the importance of decoders strikes me as a parallel to the human eyes, ears and other sensory organs. We actually dont have a good grasp of what our eyes see, they just see (produce data and relay it) and children figure out what is what.

I guess AGI will be achieved when we can sit a program in a simulated world with completely fabricated input and get a general intelligent program out. Maybe we’re in that simulation right now.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-05 02:56:44+00:00
Funny he is suddenly 'at war' at the exact same time he was scheduled to leave government from the start (temporary employee limit) AND he had to go back to his companies and rehab his reputation. Super convenient timing and totally not theatrics/lies from the reality TV personality and the guy who said he wasn't donating to either presidential candidates this cycle right before buying Trump the election.
by shaldengeki | 2025-06-05 02:58:04+00:00
This strikes me as disingenuous:

> I like when my software gets used by a lot of people and people send me nice emails. In this case, people weren't sending me the nicest emails, unfortunately. But they also didn't really know what I was doing. They saw DOGE, weren't a fan of certain things that they were associated with. But I think at the end of the day, like, the role of the U.S. Digital Service is to improve the UX (user experience) of being an American, which is pretty exciting. And anyone who lets me do that, I will try to work for, even if my friends and family aren't huge fans.

People weren't mad at him because he was trying to improve UX. They were mad at him because DOGE was doing a bunch of other stuff like "harassing government employees who talked about climate resilience", which he actively contributed to but conveniently omits from the interviews he's been giving recently:

https://github.com/slavingia/va/blob/main/eos/analyze_eos.py...
by mmmBacon | 2025-06-05 02:58:26+00:00
I have no idea what this says. Quite literally every single English language reference returned by a simple search refutes the assertion that EV fires are not more difficult or toxic than a regular car.

The fact that EV fires are more difficult to extinguish and produce substantially more toxic byproducts than regular gasoline powered cars is well established.

The toxicity of battery fires is widely reported: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/california-battery-pla...

Last month, a battery-storage plant went up in flames and burned for days, prompting the evacuation of more than 1,000 residents and shutting down local schools. The plant, located in Moss Landing, an unincorporated community in Monterey County, is the largest facility in the world that uses lithium-ion batteries to store energy. Residents have reported feeling ill, and many of them worry that the fire polluted the air, soil and water with toxins.

“Now you don’t see anybody walking outside because it’s terrifying, everything that’s going on,” said Esmeralda Ortiz, who had to evacuate from her home in Moss Landing after the plant began burning on Jan. 16.
by ivape | 2025-06-05 02:59:28+00:00
Going to drop a PG tweet:

https://x.com/paulg/status/1913338841068404903

"It's a very exciting time in tech right now. If you're a first-rate programmer, there are a huge number of other places you can go work rather than at the company building the infrastructure of the police state."

---

So, courts order the preservation of AI logs, and government orders the building of a massive database. You do the math. This is such an annoying time to be alive in America, to say the least. PG needs to start blogging again about what's going on now days. We might be entering the digital version of the 60s, if we're lucky. Get local, get private, get secure, fight back.
by jacobian | 2025-06-05 02:59:48+00:00
I’m chuckling at your advice because I tried those things! Went part-time, wrote, lots of local volunteering. (Didnt try picking up trash; that’s a good one!) Unfortunately, didn’t work for me. In fact, the more I cut back my hours and did other things, the less I wanted to be working the work hours I had left.

I still think it’s great advice, and probably something that’ll help many people! I just reached a point where I needed something more drastic, and I have the financial security to take a big swing.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-06-05 03:00:00+00:00
> Docker is for organizing things for yourself, just like directories are.

Services have the following dependencies: static data files; configuration files; executable code/binaries; library dependencies.

In days of yonder, you'd need to download/install all of that ^ on each machine where "service A" needs to run. Developers would run and test "service A" on ubuntu 18.04. But production servers had to run ubuntu 16.04 because "service X" that also runs on the same server needs a library that has not been ported to 18.04 yet.

But "service A" needs a library that was never available on 16.04. Welcome to dependency hell!

Containers bundle all of those dependencies into one object that can be downloaded directly onto the host server, ready for the "service A" process to execute. Now it doesn't matter if production servers are running 16.04. Everything "service A" needs is stored inside the container blob (including some minimal ubuntu 18.04 stuff).

the magic that lets this happen -- containers re-use the host server's OS kernel. Running a new ubuntu 18.04 container does not start a new OS kernel running. the process for your container is just 'firewalled' off from all other processes using cgroups [0]. containers re-use the host's kernel, start a cgroup'd process which starts your container's services and processes (the 18.04 'OS' services and your binary/code/executable).

short/simpler version: containers share the core of the underlying operating system on the host server.

> If you want actual isolation you have to take extra steps.

unfortunately, this means containers share the core of the underlying operating system on the host server.

containers not being isolated from the host server OS can present a security risk as you can escape from the container and "do bad things to host server". [1]

In cases where that is a problem you mostly have two choices:

* use VMs instead (a completely isolated OS instance is started for each service, cannot interact with the host OS at all -- this uses a lot more memory/cpu)

* use rootless containers [2] (container processes are launched under a specific user namespace rather than kernel namespace -- escaping the container means you only get access to the user namespace)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups

[1]: by default the docker daemon service and all the container processes it starts are running as root, which means escaping out of a container in a a default docker installation is as bad as giving someone root.

[2]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/
by G_o_D | 2025-06-05 03:00:33+00:00
Cors doesnt stop POST request also not fetch with 'no-cors'supplied in javascript its that you cant read response that doesnt mean request is not sent by browser

Then again local app can run server with proxy that adds adds CORS headers to the proxied request and you can access any site via js fetch/xmlhttprequest interface, even extension is able to modify headers to bypass cors

Cors bypassing is just matter of editing headers whats really hard to or impossible to bypass in CSP rules,

Now facebook app itself is running such cors server proxy even without it an normal http or websocket server is enought to send metrics

Chrome already has flag to prevent locahost access still as said websocket can be used

Completely banning localhost is detrimental

Many users are using self hosted bookmarking, note app, pass managers like solutions that rely on local server
by shaduadiale | 2025-06-05 03:02:30+00:00
Hi there, I'm trying to collect general sentiments on this concept that would help refine it further.

The gist (as detailed in this landing page: https://www.monadwealth.com) is to create a proactive financial market analyst that helps self directed investors find deals that align with their investment strategies, as well as helping optimize their portfolios across the board, and response time to market swings.

I'd appreciate any thoughtful feedback.

Thanks!
by jjcob | 2025-06-05 03:02:41+00:00
The iPhone camera app does a lot of those things. The blur is definitely not a Gaussian blur, you can clearly see a circular aperture.

The blurring is also a function of the distance, it's not constant.

And blowouts are pretty convincing too. The HDR sources probably help a lot with that. They are not just clipped then blurred.

Have you ever looked at an iPhone portrait mode photo? For some subjects they are pretty good! The bokeh is beautiful.

The most significant issue with iPhone portrait mode pictures are the boundaries that look bad. Frizzy hair always ends up as a blurry mess.
by gbear605 | 2025-06-05 03:03:23+00:00
I do Free File Fillable Forms, and I’m something of an amateur tax expert - friends and family come to me for advice. But yet every year there’s some weird edge case that I have to figure out by digging through the Schedule D instructions or the 1040 instructions or… Sometimes I’ll go through one of the paid systems up until the submission step where you have to pay, to make sure that my numbers line up.

The system is just really complicated if you have anything weird, and “anything weird” happens a lot.
by djmips | 2025-06-05 03:04:47+00:00
Bold claim. Elite probably has a stronger claim considering it's a , you know, game.

But subLOGIC flight simulator was a seminal product.

I learned my initial 3D graphics rendering from Bruce Artwick's 1984 book

https://www.amazon.com/Microcomputer-Displays-Graphics-Anima...
by johnduhart | 2025-06-05 03:04:51+00:00
> I won’t get sucked into the session ID vs. JWT argument, but honestly, using JWTs in cookies is a win because you don’t have to fuss with storing session data on the server.

Okay, but then you implement storage of the refresh token and build this bespoke JWT re-issuance logic. So where's the win here? Just use sessions.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-05 03:06:55+00:00
Notice that Trump explicitly ran on disclaiming Project 2025, even though once elected Project 2025 has been a solid 50% or more of the organizing principles for his administration. So it's a bit misleading to suggest that some Democratic equivalent ("Project 2029", say) would necessarily be part of the electoral platform and outreach. Of course, it would be nice if it was.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-05 03:11:20+00:00
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY19FH008.aspx

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY18FH011.aspx

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY18FH004.aspx

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY16FH018.aspx

Battery fire

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY21FH011.aspx
by Terr_ | 2025-06-05 03:11:25+00:00
> I used to do a squash rebase

This probably wouldn't apply to the "initial commit" problem, but I almost always use fixup instead of amend, ex:

git add foo.code git commit --fixup {commit_with} git rebase -i --autosquash {main_or_whatever}

Unlike amend, you can target an older commit rather than just the very-most-recent (great if you're separating the rename/refactor from the rewrite) and you can delay the second step of actually changing history until you're sure stuff is in a good state.

This is particularly useful for the review process: All the changes during the review process can be "fixup" commits, allowing reviewers to easily see what did (or didn't) change since their last interaction. At the same time, all the fiddly fixes and back-and-forth stuff won't be in the final history, only a smaller number of "real" commits that future maintainers would care about.
by BoorishBears | 2025-06-05 03:11:51+00:00
That's silly. Cursor has the best autocomplete experience, period, and some people prefer that to agent-style interactions.

There's still a ton of low hanging fruit that other Copilot-style autocomplete products don't seem to be picking up, like using clipboard contents, identifying the next place in the file to jump to, etc.

I primarily save time coding with AI with autocomplete, followed by chat, with agentic flows a very distant 3rd, so Cursor is a legitimately better product for me.
by melagonster | 2025-06-05 03:12:17+00:00
>We test three representative tasks in materials chemistry: linking dopants and host materials, cataloging metal-organic frameworks, and general composition/phase/morphology/application information extraction. Records are extracted from single sentences or entire paragraphs, and the output can be returned as simple English sentences or a more structured format such as a list of JSON objects. This approach represents a simple, accessible, and highly flexible route to obtaining large databases of structured specialized scientific knowledge extracted from research papers.
by ajr0 | 2025-06-05 03:12:24+00:00
I'm a big fan of this change, however, I think to a black mirror episode [0] where essentially little robot dogs could interface with everything they came into contact with because every connection was the same, it may be trivial to have multiple connections for a weapon like this but the take away I had from this is that 'variety' may be better than a single standardized solution. Partly because it is more expensive to plan for multiple types of inputs and making the cost of war go up will make it more difficult which I think inherently is the idea behind some of the larger cybersecurity companies, a hack can only work once then everyone has defenses for it after that single successful attack, this makes it more expensive to successfully stage attacks. Huge digression from this convo... but I think back to this constantly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
by curiousElf | 2025-06-05 03:12:51+00:00
I wish they had proper support for multi root repos (even though the last update promised better support, it was just a line in the release notes with no docs - which seems to be their usual change management style).

Its so painful - the model never knows the directory in which it is supposed to be and goes on a wild goose chase of searching in the wrong repo. I have to keep guiding it to the right repo. Anyone here has had success with such a setup?