MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jaggederest | 2025-06-06 05:38:40+00:00
I'm in the opposite camp - I also have poor working memory, but instead I have extremely good episodic memory. Good enough I have to remind other people about our shared experiences routinely. I never claim to have eidetic memory but I've only met a couple other people who have memory like mine (one is my mother, so that's kind of cheating)

It's interesting though because I associate with a lot of what the article is talking about with spatial and knowledge memory too. I often have to remember where something was to "step into" the memory again.
by kamaal | 2025-06-06 05:40:15+00:00
>>will retard the skill development

I worked at a Indian IT services firm which even until mid-2010's didn't give internet access to people at work. Their argument was that use of internet would make the developers dumb.

The argument always was assume you had internet outage for days and had to code , you would value your skills then. Well guess what its been decades now, and I don't think that situation has ever come to pass, heck not even something close to that has come to pass.

Sometimes how you do things changes. During the peak of Perl craze, my team lead often told me people who didn't use C++ weren't as smart and eventually people who used Perl would have their thinking skills atrophy when Perl wouldn't be around. That doomsday scenarios hasn't happened either. People have similar things about Java, IDEs, package managers, docker etc etc.

Businesses don't even care about these things. A real estate developer wants to sell homes, their job is not to build web sites. So as long as working site is available, they don't care who builds it, you or AI. Make whatever of this you will.
by Fnoord | 2025-06-06 05:40:46+00:00
I made my own with Pimoroni (with a small OLED), a Raspberry Pi Zero, a UPS Lite, and a PoE hat (I could switch between these options). Then I updated the OS, Python 2 to 3 and RIP. They sell a Pico version nowadays. It cost me approx 100 EUR with all mats, during Covid pandemic. It worked nice in Prometheus, Grafana, HomeAssistent. Put one outside, too.

After I bricked it I bought two Switchbot Co2 meter (these got e-paper, though I got those also lying around), for 60 EUR each, used some nanotape to attach these on a spot I like. I use one upstairs and one downstairs. If we sleep with all 4 in same bed, during cooking, or bday parties these go high. Otherwise not. Is it needed? Not really. You physically notice the air quality and take action. Except when you don't. My mother in law doesn't notice her fumes in house (she lost some smelling ability) so I bought her a Switchbot, too.

There's no way I would pay more than 200 EUR for such a device. Not even 100 EUR. I get it, you're from Switzerland with a high cost of living, but that isn't my problem.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 05:40:49+00:00
> I wonder, is there a point where mimicry can fail? Can predators at some point start to eat the mimics?

The same sources of variation which provide the variety for evolution to work on to evolve avoid eating things with this appearance behavior will also provide variation that evolution can work on to evolve back to do eat things with this appearance behavior; the frequency with which eating causes death vs. the degree to which not-eating results in insufficient nutrition will decide which wins.
by jaggederest | 2025-06-06 05:41:19+00:00
> I can imagine essentially every detail of a bicycle, all the mechanical components and how they interact.

As I understand it, this is extremely uncommon, perhaps you might be categorized as hyperphantasia. How's your memory? They're commonly linked attributes, as per the article, some people with hyperphantasia have hsam - highly superior autobiographical memory, apparently from being able to conjure such accurate mental images.
by JayDustheadz | 2025-06-06 05:43:33+00:00
Neat idea! One thing I'd recommend though - on your website, on the landing page, put a short video/animated gif that immediately shows an example of use. Also, it took me quite a while to spot the little bug in the bottom-left corner so you may want to perhaps expose it a little bit more? Perhaps add a little animation that focuses the user's attention there? Good luck!
by ddingus | 2025-06-06 05:43:39+00:00
I do remember my life and I am not fine.

I remember a lot. One oddity with me is I seem to remember an unusual amount when it is connected to a question. I seem to record for a while, then can play back.

And this sticks, sometimes for years until the question is resolved. Then a bunch of it fades and becomes like most other memories are.

I remember every year of school and a lot of related activities. Saturdays out playing, or first concert, that sort of thing.

So, why am I not fine?

Take 9/11

I remember the state before that day. We have come a long way since then.

Too far, if you ask me.

Cops in schools. There were no police in my schools. Kids made mistakes, teens demonstrated poor judgement, and other things..

They were treated like kids.. today??

They have records..

I worked for one company for too long. The culture shifted. Soon, I felt like the stranger. I held the history nobody else did, or if they did, they did not share.

Now, I do consider these mostly nice problems to have. I have options and can exercise them.

Thought you might appreciate some perspective.

I enjoyed this piece.
by zippyman55 | 2025-06-06 05:45:38+00:00
Really cool! About ten years ago I participated in a weekend incubator event where you develop an idea and flush it out over the weekend. One young girl pitched this notion of an idea and my wife and I were part of her team. We thought our idea was really good and represented it. It was probably too far ahead of its time, and the judges favored a really dumb idea ( which was basically the output of R’s expand.grid() function ). But what seemed to kill our idea was their concern for patient privacy.

Good luck!
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 05:45:48+00:00
Ding ding ding. Testcontainers is a fanatstic way to write the most important tests (arguably) for your app. Don't test E2E with a mock, just use a real database.

If that feels hard to you (to set up your app pointing to another DB, run a single E2E-testable part of your app with it's own DB connection, etc), fix that.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-06 05:46:21+00:00
Most of the conversation here is focused on cheap drones. Are there cheap Inertial Navigation Systems (INS)? As I understand, it only appears inside of multi-million dollar cruise/ballistic missiles, fighter jets, and long-range bombers. Please correct me if I am wrong. Also, it might be that there are cheap INS systems that are good enough (e.g., "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"), plus a bit of AI-enabled vision on the drone camera.
by 6510 | 2025-06-06 05:47:37+00:00
The harm this is doing and will do (regardless) seems to exceed the value of the NYT.

If a company is subject to a US court order that violates EU law, the company could face legal consequences in the EU for non-compliance with EU law.

The GDPR mandates specific consent and legal bases for processing data, including sharing it.

Assuming it is legal to share it for legal purposes one cant sufficiently anonymize the data. It needs to be accompanied by user data that allows requests to download it and for it to be deleted.

I wonder what the fine would be if they just delete it per user agreement.

I also wonder, could one, in the US, legally promise the customer they may delete their data then chose to keep it indefinitely and share it with others?
by eru | 2025-06-06 05:50:46+00:00
> Taxation is an ongoing cost. you pay it every year.

Yes, just like you gain the land rent from the land you own every year.

> If I am a bank, and joe blo has a 200k tax bill, and 20k income, [...]

My broker doesn't care about my income one bit when they lend me money: they lend against my stock portfolio. Similar, here you could lend against the real estate. Why would the lender care about income?

> However a normal bank might lend him the money just to receive his land as collateral to take it on when he inevitably defaults. But I thought LVT was about the reduction of land banking, not shifting ownership of land to the banks?

No, not at all. That's a common misconception, especially prevalent amongst fans of LVT.

As I said earlier, the LVT changes no opportunity costs between land uses at all. So if for some reason it's a good idea to 'land bank' without an LVT, then it'll still be a good reason to 'land bank' with an LVT.

However, being able to finance the government with an LVT might have second order effects on other taxes and regulations, that might make land banking less (or even more?) appealing. I don't know, it depends on what else is happening.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-06-06 05:51:25+00:00
> Nothing could be further from the truth, of course. I've been successful at most of what I've tried to accomplish in my life until now, and never had to battle with a sense of being disadvantaged. On top of that, even aphantasia experts generally agree that it is not a disorder.

This almost sounds similar to deaf rights activism that tries to prevent children from getting cochlear implants to me.

You never experienced what you are missing, you have no idea what you are missing.

I can, on demand, replay my most beautiful memories on loop. They are my most valuable treasure. Unless they are lost to dementia, I already know which memories I will replay before death.

Being able to visualize mental images is essential to experience the full range of what it means to be human.

I do wonder how drugs with strong visuals work on those people though? What do they see when they take ketamin or DMT?
by nmgycombinator | 2025-06-06 05:52:41+00:00
> The primary outcome appears to be increased profit margins rather than societal advancement. While previous technological revolutions created new industries and democratized access, AI seems focused on optimizing existing processes without providing comparable societal benefits.

This is the thing that worries me the most about AI.

The author's ramblings dovetails with this a bit in their "but the craft" section. They vaguely attack the idea of code-golfing and focusing on coding for the craft as essentially incompatible with the corporate model of programming work. And perhaps they're right. If they are, though, this AI wave/hype being mostly about process-streamlining and such seems to be a distillation of that fact.
by dvt | 2025-06-06 05:53:28+00:00
> Does this court order violate GDPR or my rights under European or other privacy laws?

> We are taking steps to comply at this time because we must follow the law, but The New York Times’ demand does not align with our privacy standards. That is why we’re challenging it.

So basically no, lol. I wonder if we'll see the GDPR go head-to-head with Copyright Law here, that would be way more fun than OpenAI v NYT.
by pritambarhate | 2025-06-06 05:54:06+00:00
May be because you are not OpenAI user. I am. I find it useful and I pay for it. I don't want my data to be retained beyond what's promised in the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

I don't think the Judge is equipped to handle this case if they don't understand how their order jeopardies the privacy of millions of users worldwide who don't even care about NYT's content or bypassing their paywalls.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-06 05:54:11+00:00
I like the way Jeff signed off the article, pointing out that whilst the video has been pulled for (allegedly) promoting copyright infringement, Youtube, via Gemini, is (allegedly) slurping the content of Jeff's videos for the purposes of training their AI models.

Seems ironic that their AI models are getting their detection of "Dangerous or Harmful Content" wrong. Maybe they just need to infringe more copyright in order to better detect copyright infringement?
by bizzleDawg | 2025-06-06 05:54:16+00:00
I was thinking that on this, folks need a cron task to run a trivial prompt at 5-6am and get that 5hr timer running so that it the majority of the quota is available in the working day morning, and then a new 5hr block starts around lunch time. This should maximise use of included tokens by a standard work day spanning 3 blocks rather than 2
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 05:57:04+00:00
> In that case, I was happy to see my appeal granted within an hour of the strike being placed on the channel. (Nevermind the fact the video had been live for over two years at that point, with nary a problem!)

Looks like some L-(5|6|whateverthefuck) just got the task to go through YT's backlog and cut down on the mention/promotion of alternative video platforms/self-hosted video serving software.

Quick appeal grant of course, because it was more about sending a message and making people who want to talk about that kind of software think twice before the next video.

> But until that time, YouTube's AdSense revenue and vast reach is a kind of 'golden handcuff.' > > The handcuff has been a bit tarnished of late, however, with Google recently adding AI summaries to videos—which seems to indicate maybe Gemini is slurping up my content and using it in their AI models?

Balanced take towards the end (after the above quote), but yep, the writing is on the wall.

I really wonder where the internet goes in this age. The contract between third party content hosters and creators is getting squeezed, and the whole "you're the product" thing is being laid bare more and more.

Is it a given that at some point creators will stop posting their contents to platforms like YouTube? Is it even possible at this point given that YouTube garners so many eyeballs and is just so easy? Does a challenger somehow unseat YouTube because programming and underlying libraries (ffmpeg et al) becomes so easy to use that spinning up a YouTube competitor goes down to basically zero?

Seems like there needs to be a new paradigm for anyone to have a choice other than youtube. Maybe AI will enable this -- maybe "does jeff have any new videos" -> a video gets played on a screen in your house and it's NOT hosted on YouTube, but no one knows and no one cares?
by achenatx | 2025-06-06 05:57:17+00:00
I have aphantasia, SDAM, and face blindness.

Like the author i rely on mental models (I wrote a book called visual models for software requirements), Im good at getting to the heart of things and am constantly organizing information so I can remember the principle.

I do get anxiety about not remembering people once they pass away. I might only remember a few things about them. But when I look at pictures I can often times remember all kinds of details. I think some of the information is there, it just isnt retrievable.

Im bad at networking, when I go to events lots of people know me, but I have no idea who they are. Im waiting for glasses with cameras that will identify people for me and go over their background.

Aphantasia is supposed to be rare, but I think many engineers have it. At least at my company it seems more prevalent than it is supposed to be in the general population.

In some ways it is a gift. I barely remember traumatic events, but unfortunately I dont really remember amazing events either.
by selcuka | 2025-06-06 05:58:48+00:00
> If your developers don't know how to build applications without using AI, then you're at the mercy of the AI companies.

The same can be said if your developers don't know how to build applications:

- without using syntax highlighting ...

- without using autocomplete ...

- without using refactoring tools ...

- without using a debugger ...

Why do we not care about those? Because these are commodity features. LLMs are also a commodity now. Any company with a few GPUs and bandwidth can deploy the free DeepSeek or QwQ models and start competing with Anthropic/OpenAI. It may or may not be as good as Claude 4, but it won't be a catastrophe either.
Ask HN: Running AI agents in isolated environments
by polycaster | 2025-06-06 05:58:49+00:00
Hi HN,

This question was triggered by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196417. I’ve noticed that this topic comes up a lot in discussions lately.

Most of the projects I’ve seen so far seem to be more like proof-of-concept experiments—understandable, given the pace at which things are moving. As much as I’d like to adopt such tools, they often introduce dependencies on single-person projects, which feels too risky for my larger projects. Until things stabilize a bit, I’d rather set up a custom flow that gives me more control over the environment.

With that in mind, I’m curious how you approach this in your projects. Specifically:

- What approaches do you use to isolate AI agents? (e.g. container-based solutions like Docker/Kubernetes vs. cloud-based solutions)

- If you’re using the cloud: Are there good alternatives to GitHub Codespaces that offer less vendor lock-in but are still easy to manage?

- How do you balance a simple setup with the need for team collaboration?

- How do you handle large databases or datasets that AI agents might use or generate (e.g. storage, access, performance)?

I’d really appreciate hearing your insights, best practices, or any pitfalls you’ve encountered!

Thanks!
by wey-gu | 2025-06-06 06:01:03+00:00
yeah, w/o py-pglite attempt this should be the only approach, the pglite ideally could make it more flexibly/lightweight in unittest cases, but as you mentioned it's never felt slow, it should be fine to working on it.

And actually, more e2e cases I think it's way better to not use the lite backend.

the non-container solutions would do more like the lifecycle mgmt/isolated env prep/tear-down with elegantly designed abstractions. While I think similar abstractions could be done on top of containers.

Maybe we ideally could have unified abstractions on both container-based, wasm evantually to boost dx yet with different expectation of speed vs compatibility.
by yoaviram | 2025-06-06 06:02:18+00:00
>Trust and privacy are at the core of our products. We give you tools to control your data—including easy opt-outs and permanent removal of deleted ChatGPT chats (opens in a new window) and API content from OpenAI’s systems within 30 days.

No you don't. You charge extra for privacy and list it as a feature on your enterprise plan. Not event paying pro customer get "privacy". Also, you refuse to delete personal data included in your models and training data following numerous data protection requests.
by kaashif | 2025-06-06 06:05:15+00:00
> Those vague "problems I had to overcome in university" that the job screening question wanted from me had happened, and I had learned my lessons from them, even though I forgot how they unfolded.

Is the author sure about this? How do they know they learnt the lessons if they don't remember what happened?

The best way to convince most people of something is to tell a story about it. Ask a senior engineer how splitting up a monolith into microservices can go wrong and they'll have a dozen stories. Ask someone about the importance of clear communication and they have hundreds of stories of things going wrong. And when I want to convince someone, I deploy a story from my experience and it has a good chance of working.

I can tell someone my mental model, but also the evidence that went into the model from my experiences. Not having that second part is like publishing conclusions without publishing the data.

I understand it's fine for the author but it does seem like a real handicap. Dwelling on it is not going to be useful for the author, but actively handwaving this all away doesn't seem credible.

And on another note, when a loved one dies it is nice to think about them and remember things we did together.

> By doing away with reminiscences, flashbacks, and graphic visions of possible futures, I can stay focused on the now, and on what I can do now to improve tomorrow.

My graphic visions of past experiences and possible futures when someone says "let's do a complete rewrite of this business logic" are actually very useful for convincing people not to do that...
by Oreb | 2025-06-06 06:06:51+00:00
Me too. I’ve had some very traumatic experiences the last few years, and the emotional scars will never heal. I’m not the same person I was before, and I never will be.

Some people these days are hoping to combat aging and make potentially infinite life extension possible. I find that idea far more terrifying than death. Infinite lifetime would mean that experiences more emotionally and physically painful than I can even imagine would happen countless times. Slowly I would become so messed up by all the accumulated traumatic memories that I would no longer be able to function at all. I would only consent to an infinite or radically extended lifetime if I could also selectively erase memories I don’t want to keep.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-06-06 06:06:55+00:00
From the documentation you linked, it seems slicing creates a brand new String, which is more like std::string than std::string_view. In other words, it allocates and copies all of the string's characters (although it might allocate on and copy those bytes to the stack).

Also, the Unbounded_String owns its copy of the data, as opposed to referencing other data. The difference with String seems to be just that it can grow. It's still more like std::string than std::string_view.

Note that both std::string and std::string_view are essentially just a pointer and a length (std::string also has a capacity but let's ignore that). The difference is that trying to duplicate a std::string will end up duplicating (deep-copying) the data behind the pointer as well, where as duplicating a std::string_view will not.

Could you help me understand/interpret that link the same way you do, in case I'm missing something?
by mmooss | 2025-06-06 06:08:36+00:00
> who don't even care about NYT's content or bypassing their paywalls.

Whether or not you care is not relevant, and is usually the case for customers. If a drug company resold an expensive cancer drug without IP, you might say 'their order jeopardies the health of millions of users worldwide who don't even care about Drug Co's IP.

If the NYT is right - I can only guess - then you are benefitting from the NYT IP. Why should you get that without their consent and for free - because you don't care?

> (jeapordizes)

... is a strong word. I don't see much risk - the NYT isn't going to de-anonymize users and report on them, or sell the data (which probably would be illegal). They want to see if their content is being used.
by protocolture | 2025-06-06 06:08:53+00:00
>The government needs some amount of money to function.

The issue at hand isnt "Does the government need money to function" unless we are going full MMT derp we can all accept a level of taxation is necessary.

The issue at hand is whether LVT is a better distribution of the burden of taxation.

>So your argument fundamentally resolves down to “other members of society should make up the deficit in taxes I would otherwise pay so that I (and others in my situation) can enjoy a yard or more space than I otherwise would.”

My argument is largely that by shifting the burden of tax from a progressive tax regime, that is only targeting those by an amount calculated on what they can afford, to a tax regime thats largely dictated by circumstance and subjective valuation, you will hurt a lot of people who dont deserve it.

If we go too far in this direction we will have to define basic moral principles, because that seems to be where you are heading. I dont necessarily think that earning income should mark you for punishment either. But just as not taxing the homeless is fairly universal, not taxing people who organised their retirement and arent a burden is also fairly universal. Your mileage may vary.