MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lsy | 2025-06-05 19:10:31+00:00
Part of the reason the debate over usefulness is so exhausting is because there is an element of randomness, anecdote, and special pleading built into the use of the tool. One person has a good experience in their context, one person has a bad experience in their context. One person sees a bad result and throws up their hands and says it sucks, another tweaks their prompt until they get a good result and says it works.

In addition there's an element of personality: One person might think it's more meaningful to compose a party invitation to friends personally, another asks ChatGPT to write it to make sure they don't miss anything.

As someone who is on the skeptic side, I of course don't appreciate the "holding it wrong" discourse, which I think is rude and dismissive of people and their right to choose how they do things. But at the end of the day it's just a counterweight to the corresponding discourse on the skeptic side which is essentially "gross, you used AI". What's worse though is that institutions are forcing us to use this type of tool without consent, either through mandates or through integrations without opt-outs. To me it doesn't meet the bar for a revolutionary technology if it has to be propagated forcibly or with social scolding.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-05 19:10:31+00:00
This is what the article concludes as well and why the final summary paragraph phrases it as "forced to (allegedly) support the ecosystem". The article never really fully agrees that's the case, it's just making an argument that even in a world it is for financing the infrastructure, as Apple likes to claim in court, the system still makes no sense for completely unrelated reasons anyways.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-06-05 19:10:39+00:00
Helps, thanks a lot!

But as you can see this is still an explosion of complexity for the home user. More than 4x (32 --> 128), feels like x⁴ (though might not be accurate).

I like your idea of "whatever..." There should be a "lan" variable and status could be shown factored, like "$lan::2000" to the end user perhaps.

I do use DNS all the time, like "printer.lan", "gateway.lan", etc. But don't think I'm using in the router firewall config. I use openwrt on my router but my knowledge of ipv6 is somewhat shallow.
by elzbardico | 2025-06-05 19:10:45+00:00
If I haven't prohibited him, I am pretty sure my 11 years old son would have installed dozens of pirated games and apps of dubious provenance on his phone.

But I am pretty sure that like any other teenagers since the beginning of time he obeys me, and has only rooted his phone for educational purposes.

His friends, though, I am not so sure.
by kgeist | 2025-06-05 19:10:48+00:00
>There are a lot of qualifiers on this: Only in Singapore,

We had a big client from Singapore who only agreed to buy our SaaS subscription after we integrated SingPass (Singapore's national digital identity system) for user login.

When I read "Singapore" in the OP I immediately remembered about it.

The client is not with us anymore, but we still have this thing somewhere in the codebase :)
by Dowwie | 2025-06-05 19:10:48+00:00
The Claude models are so far ahead of the pack right now with Elixir and Erlang capabilities, comparing with o3, gemini2.5, grok3-think, and ds-r1.

Elixir is so good for workflows and pipelines, utilizing all available hardware resources. It makes sense why Elixir will be used more going forward for agentic workflows, but the greenfield engineers/architects are rushing to market with Python and here we are.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-05 19:10:56+00:00
So, basically, you think all the pro-AI folks are "bad," and defensive because they feel like anti-AI folks are attacking the thing that makes them not bad? Hard to want to engage with that.

I'll bite anyhow.

AI is very, very good at working at short length-scales. It tends to be worse at working at longer length-scales (Gemini is a bit of an outlier here but even so, it holds). People who are hyper-competent/elite-skill in their domain who achieve force multiplication with gen-AI understand this, and know how to decompose challenging long length-scale problems into a number of smaller short-length scale problems efficiently. This isomorphic transform allows AI to tackle the original problem in a way that it's maximally efficient at, thus side-stepping their inherent weaknesses.

You can think of this sort of like mathematical transformations that make data analysis easier.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-05 19:11:22+00:00
> and then get them on the drugs for life, knowing full too well that they won't make the lifestyle adjustments needed to get them off the drugs.

What are you basing this on? Everyone I know who went on and off Ozempic kept off clinically-meaningful amounts of weight.

There is religious intensity to this popular unsaid (and blatantly incorrect) assumption that the human body left alone is perfectly made, and that any intervention in its mechanism is prima facie evil.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-05 19:11:52+00:00
It's more complicated than that. Nominally there's an ownership transfer, but the big players also charge the suppliers stocking fees [0], which seems to translate quite well to what Apple is doing. And if you're charging a fee to stock the product, it's clearly not being treated as a straightforward ownership transfer to the retailer like you say it is.

Plus, since when is a middleman connecting you to a party with the product or service you want not a party you have a business relationship with (as GP claims)? Brokers have been a thing since forever.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/r-wal-mart-to-impose-charges...
by CrimsonCape | 2025-06-05 19:12:20+00:00
I used to think this was intelligence related, like less intelligent people were not able to understand how to maintain positive savings (spend only what is possible after contributing to savings).

But with age I think rationalization is the more powerful force that outweighs intelligence. I notice that people who struggle with money usually have powerful convictions that are silly and capricious, but they are unable to see that. They build arguments upon rationalizations instead of facts or data. Spending money on rationalized things makes perfect sense in their mind.

I think it's a three-circle venn diagram of knowledge - intelligence - rationalization. You can accrue a lot of knowledge via rote memorization, but it doesn't mean that you are intelligent. And you can have limited knowledge of a subject, but somehow "just get it" which comes with intelligence. And finally, you can have intelligence but utterly fail to see beyond rationalizations.
by teamonkey | 2025-06-05 19:12:23+00:00
You don’t need to see the horizon at all, you just need to establish a vector that points Up. Traditional instruments used the horizon, but now we have gyroscopes, gravity sensors and satellite surveys of the Earth’s density and magnetic field, none of which require GPS or networking.

You don’t need a wide field of view either, you just need an enough pairs of stars that the plate solver can provide an accurate reading of what in the celestial sphere the camera is actually looking at.
by axus | 2025-06-05 19:12:32+00:00
Replying to everyone:

Google changing defaults is a permanent change for some large percentage of their userbase. A subset of those can still figure out how to download and run an APK file but have no further recourse against monopolistic behavior.

Maybe those people do need to be protected from scams. Social engineers have complete control over the user, so any control given to the user is owned by the scammer. Seems like the same problem as pig butchering, a technology or process solution can't save someone too stupid to save.

Thinking about less controversial options for Google, they could track if any side-loaded apps have the dangerous permissions, and provide a global true/false status to other apps that request it. So Wallet / whatever would disable features if any "outside" apps were in a position to exploit the user. And Android could offer a button that cleans up the "problem" apps, setting the global status back to false.
by randmeerkat | 2025-06-05 19:12:48+00:00
> Hell, I'd love to learn more about the hardware hacking the OP is talking about. Love to learn about those GPU hardware modifications people do. I know it's hacker news, but I'd actually love to learn about that hacker stuff.

This, I feel like ever since the fall of Twitter, a true hackerspace has been missing for awhile.
by ksec | 2025-06-05 19:13:11+00:00
It would have even much better if the link was pointing to https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx the actual source code.

Because right now without the message on HN here, I wouldn't know what "open source observability stack" meant when the webpage does not explain what HyperDX is, nor does it provide a link to it or its code. I was expecting the whole thing "Open Source Datadog" to be ClickStack Repo inside Clickhouse Github. Which is not found anywhere.

But other than that congrats!. I have long wondered why no one has built anything on top of Clickhouse for Datadog / New Relic competition.

The Clickhouse DB opened up the ocean of open source "Scalable" Web Analytics that wont previously available or possible. I am hoping we see this change again to observability platform as well.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-05 19:13:21+00:00
You've got it backwards. It's on the defendant to prove that their use is fair. The plaintiff has to prove that they actually own the copyright, and that it covers the work they're claiming was infringed, and may try to refute any fair-use arguments the defense raises, but if the defense doesn't raise any then the use won't be found fair.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-05 19:13:24+00:00
> government contracts, if they were published and voted on like bills I suspect contractors would be way better

I'd guess the opposite. As evidence I present CEO pay, which went up with more transparency.

I like the idea of making public contracts searchable. But absent controls it will just lead to the partisan poisoning and context-free excerpting that characterises our low-brow political discourse.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-05 19:13:42+00:00
> The top 1 percent of tax payers pays the most tax" is a tautology.

What does "the most tax" mean? If you mean "most of the tax" how is that a tautology? If everyone paid $1 the top 1 percent would pay 1% of the total - which is far from "most".

Also, the language can be ambiguous in some places but it says "by Income Group" so the top 1 percent of tax payers probably refers actually to the top 1 percent of (adjusted) earners.

> GP talked about the uber wealthy.

And GGP talked about how "a minority of taxpayers finance the government".

5% is a minority paying 61% of the taxes.

25% is a minority paying 87% of the taxes.
by asdff | 2025-06-05 19:14:45+00:00
There are ideas that emerge. One is the idea of gel mann amesia being the source of a lot of people complaining about genai code gen, yet people fall into the logical fallacy of trusting a misleading source of information they don't know much about even if they are a domain expert in another area and themselves demand higher quality information to conclude anything in that domain.

The other question is, would you have fared any worse without gen ai? Personally I find old school sources more comprehensive. I once picked up a book for free at my garden center, it contained all information about tomatoes including color photos of most every possible deficiency, pest, and disease. If something goes wrong with my tomatoes in a 30 second trip to my bookshelf I have access to high quality information. Meanwhile, what is the genAI trained on? Is my book in the training set? Maybe it is. But maybe its also polluted with the blogspam slop of the last 15 years on the internet, and that isn't easy to parse out without having a book like mine on hand, or better yet the horticultural training the authors behind that book I have on hand have had. Trusting my book is therefore trusting the highest quality output from the corpus of all humanity.

And it is like that with most other things. For most things you might encounter in life, there is a high quality source of information or book for low cost or free available. Why reach into the dark and pull out words from the sack when you can get the real deal so easily?
by potholereseller | 2025-06-05 19:15:17+00:00
A lot of the cost per calorie is in preparation; if you can cook your own meals, you can reduce your cost per calorie signficantly. The problem is a lot of people don't have the time (or maybe will-power) to cook every meal; a few of my previous jobs made it very difficult to cook my own meals, so I ate fast-food alot, and gained a lot of weight.

When your boss starts pushing Return To Office, ask if the company has a worthwhile kitchen in the office; at least a burner and plenty of room in the refrigerator for ingredients; it should be feasible to cook breakfast and lunch, but also dinner, in case you need to work late.
by int_19h | 2025-06-05 19:15:33+00:00
> There is _no_ difference in standard orthography, because yat reflexes have nothing to do with national boundaries

But there is, though, e.g. "dolijevati" vs "dolivati". And sure, standard Serbian/Montenegrin allows the former as well, but the latter is not valid in standard Croatian orthography AFAIK. That this doesn't map neatly to national borders is irrelevant.

If Australian English is so drastically different that Australians "won't speak English in 2-3 generations" if their orthography is changed to reflect how they speak, that would indicate that their current orthography is highly divergent from the actual spoken language, which is a problem in its own right. But I don't believe that this is correct - Australian English content (even for domestic consumption, thus no code switching) is still very much accessible to British and American English speakers, so any orthography that would reflect the phonological differences would be just as accessible.
by vvillena | 2025-06-05 19:15:41+00:00
It's important to note that the infamous Dropbox comment was not just misguided. It was wrong.

The proof is that multiple competitor products have been launched since, and all of them have had sync issues at some point, with different degrees of severity ranging from sync delays, through data conflicts, up to loss of data in all synced devices. To this day, I still trust Dropbox more than its competition. This includes custom rsync scripts.
by kubectl_h | 2025-06-05 19:16:09+00:00
There is a surplus and salvage chain in Maine called Mardens. It's been in business for 60 years and basically purchases pallets or shipping containers full of products that were written off by retailers for some reason or another and re-sells. They take the highest price they can find online and discount the product 20-40%. Sometimes you'll go in and run across really high end products that could easily be sold at full price but they don't really seem to care. Think a Moccamaster coffee maker or Arcteryx jackets. Most of the time it's junk. In any case it seems like they buy at some percentage on the dollar (20, 30?) and resell at 60%, regardless of how expensive it is. Seems like it makes more sense to make a consistent profit in volume rather than optimize profit on individual items.

Fun store to stop by and check in on in every few weeks.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-06-05 19:16:14+00:00
Maybe I'm just not aware, but it seems to me like there's a big, potentially profitable market gap for home-hosted cloud services. Just like Oxide is providing companies on-premise cloud computing, people would really appreciate a plug-and-play way to disconnect from most online services and host them at home -- email, backup, media, chat/messaging, maybe even federated locally hosted Mastodon services.

I know it's possible with current products, but last I checked it is not at all easy for anyone without a lot of time and technical knowledge.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-05 19:16:14+00:00
> Trump administration has threatened to sanction this brazilian judge, maybe even the entire brazilian supreme court and everyone related to them

TACO. If he does, tariff coal imports [1]. (And start loudly making motions towards Venezuela.)

Trump's sanctions on the ICC were new. But blustering about it goes back, at least, to Bush Jr. (And almost certainly further.)

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/usa/partner/b...
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-05 19:16:48+00:00
I'm thinking Spotify would shout even louder indignations if smaller App Store developers don't even have to pay the $100.

But look, everyone is not gonna be happy with whatever structure Apple or the courts come up with. The courts might come up with a structure where people pay nothing unless the users use Apple payment systems to buy in-app. Guess what Spotify, you're still gonna be financing all the developers who'd rather choose to pay nothing and instead put up with the headaches and chargebacks of using payment systems outside of Apple.

Spotify doesn't want to finance the rest of us? Fine, when the time comes, make that choice not to use Apple payment systems. Now you're not financing the rest of us.

But you can't say, "I want to use Apple payment systems because the chargebacks are lower and people trust them more", on the one hand; and say, "but Apple should not use any of the money I generate to float infrastructure for other developers to also use their payment systems", on the other.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-05 19:18:28+00:00
> Meanwhile, there are ~42k traffic deaths per year that could be prevented by focusing on human-driven cars

Eh, there are over a hundred thousands deaths attributable to Musk's actions in the White House [1]. I agree with you on the short-term calculus. But trusting Tesla to help reduce those traffic deaths--and furthermore, enabling its position of power--puts those states' sovereignty in jeopardy. Swapping lives for sovereignty is an old (and trusted) trade.

[1] https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipat...
by zppln | 2025-06-05 19:19:02+00:00
And it never will be. In aviation we certify three things: aircraft, engines and propellers. Everything else is at best certifiable, i.e. can be integrated into a product to be certified assuming all deviations, restrictions, caveats etc are considered when doing so.

Also, tools follows DO-330 and are qualified. It's their output that should comply with DO-178.
by ang_cire | 2025-06-05 19:19:09+00:00
> Almost every senior developer I know is spending that time making LLM's more productive and useful instead.

LLMs may become more productive/ accurate/ useful, but they're not self-tasking or independent.

> I think people need to stop thinking of themselves as computer programmers and start thinking of themselves as _engineers_. Your job isn't writing programs, your job is _using the technology you have available to solve problems_.

There is a progression of skill required to master any profession, starting with fundamentals, and progressing and developing until you are an expert/ senior at that profession. How is a senior sw dev supposed to become that without writing code? Just reading LLM code and bugfixing isn't the same level or kind of experience. You're going to have devs who can't code by themselves, and that's a bad place to be in.

There are already too many people in IT using tools that they don't understand the workings of (and thus can't troubleshoot, can't replace, can't customize to their env, etc), and this will just exacerbate that x100.

MMW there is going to be a very bad skill deficit in IT in 20 years, which is going to cause an innovation deficit.
by hamelcubsfan | 2025-06-05 19:20:11+00:00
I've been using https://foorilla.com/ and it's pretty solid.

It’s basically a big list of online news sources pulled straight from allainews.com, and it gives you links, article summaries, etc, plus RSS feeds. You can set up your feed by topic, which is super helpful, and it pulls in trending and real-time news too.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-05 19:20:49+00:00
In a similar analog to machine learning there are fundamentalists approaches and there are empiricists approaches. Most medical researchers need to be able to defend their work and it’s easier to defend fundamentalist ideas - but they spend so much time arguing over minutia that they often miss the forest from the trees. Not to say that such work is unimportant but the academic environment is rather suboptimal in driving research direction. It’s hard to navigate uncertainty when deviations from what is formally known are heavily punished.

Take for example that we can read DNA and therefore have a list of every bioactive peptide that the body produces, we also have WGS so we can identify people with changes to these peptides. By using algorithms on these populations we can understand quite a lot about what these peptides do without understanding the mechanism by which they do it.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-05 19:20:58+00:00
For 2025:

Austin: $525,190,972

https://budget.austintexas.gov/#!/year/2025/operating/0/fund...

West Midlands: £842,588,000 ($1,144,307,581)

https://www.westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/... (page 17)

Based on population that is $528 per resident in Austin and $387 per resident in the West Midlands. I can assure you that crime is way more than 36% higher in Austin. Income is approximately double in Austin, though.

Austin has spectacular reporting on their spending. As far as I can tell West Midlands does not. They just have broad categories (not defined in the budget document) like "Local Policing", "Major Crime", and "Security" among others. There may be other resources but (shrugging guy emoji).

A huge part of Austin's budget is.. drumroll... Healthcare!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-05 19:21:20+00:00
> There are a lot of qualifiers on this: Only in Singapore, only on apps requesting certain permissions frequently used by scams, and only when downloaded via certain paths.

Only certain permissions actually matter. That's one of three.

But "only in singapore so far" is not reassuring.

And "downloaded via certain paths"? Browsers and file managers are the normal ways to put files onto a phone. That doesn't reassure me at all.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-05 19:21:23+00:00
> the best thing for Tesla would be to evict Musk as a leader, install someone who can focus on excellent delivery

Great for Tesla as a company. Terrible for its shareholders. It's not an exaggeration to say that Musk's value add at Tesla--today--isn't building cars, but hyping the stock. (That wasn't always true. And I wouldn't say the same about SpaceX or Neuralink.)
by GeekyBear | 2025-06-05 19:22:02+00:00
> This is way more than you need to develop for Microsoft

Windows, by default, will block apps from lesser known developers unless they shell out quite a bit more than $99 a year for an Extended Validation (EV) Code-Signing Certificate from a certificate authority that Microsoft finds acceptable.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48946680/how-to-avoid-th...

Also, Mac Minis are a one time $500 purchase, and will be good enough to use for more than one year.
by godelski | 2025-06-05 19:22:17+00:00
There's always risk. It's all about reducing risk.

Look at it this way. If you your phone was stolen would you want it to self destruct or keep everything? (Assume you can decide to self destruct it) clearly the latter is safer. Maybe the data has been pulled off and you're already pwned. But by deleting, if they didn't get the data they now won't be able to.

You just don't want to give adversaries infinite time to pwn you
by gnabgib | 2025-06-05 19:22:30+00:00
Related:

Taurine Revisited (30 points, 3 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160758

Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer (38 points, 19 days ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014862

Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging (350 points, 2023, 292 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36246750