MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdip | 2025-06-10 19:37:22+00:00
So ... like ... WOW.

I read your description and thought, "some toy 3D project; probably slow/lacking features." I mean, you did a fine job but perhaps reading it in such a simple view made it lose something? Not a critique on you, just an observation of myself.

I've looked at it all of a few minutes and this is pretty fantastic. Quite fast, the UI seems relatively understandable coming from other tools. Looks as clean as the rest, anyway.

And I've been annoyed that there's not Fusion 360 available (supported, anyway) for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed ... you may have saved me some grief with this, so thanks for that!
by JimmyAustin | 2025-06-10 19:37:32+00:00
GST and VAT are the same thing, different countries just call them different things.

As an example, GST in Australia is in the price on the shelf. You can also claim back the GST you paid on your input goods, which means you effectively pay the difference on the GST your customers pay you, and you paid your suppliers (which is the value added!).
by jknoepfler | 2025-06-10 19:37:35+00:00
Uh, no. This is about illegal detainment of people (some of whom are citizens) by federal law enforcement. The overwhelming majority of citizens want a functioning immigration system (and a functioning criminal justice system). What I and others won't abide is law enforcement violating their oath and illegally detaining and deporting people.

Obeying illegal orders to attack American citizens on American soil is certainly something, but it isn't law enforcement.

If this were actually about law enforcement, we would have passed the bipartisan border protection / immigration bill that has been on the table for eons.
by Deathmax | 2025-06-10 19:38:23+00:00
I did read it, and I even went to their eval repo.

> At the time of writing, there are two major versions available for GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 through OpenAI’s API, one snapshotted in March 2023 and another in June 2023.

openaichat/gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 vs openaichat/gpt-3.5-turbo-0613, openaichat/gpt-4-0314 vs openaichat/gpt-4-0613. Two _distinct_ versions of the model, and not the _same_ model over time like how people like to complain that a model gets "nerfed" over time.
by uludag | 2025-06-10 19:38:26+00:00
1) If someone had the reading skills to detect AI generated content wouldn't that technically be something very hard to monetize? It's not like said person could clone themselves or mass produce said skill.

Also, for a large number of AI generated images and text (especially low-effort), even basic reading/perception skills can detect AI content. I would agree though that people can't reliably discern high-effort AI generated works, especially if a human was involved to polish it up.

2) True—human "detectors" are mostly just gut feelings dressed up as certainty. And as AI improves, those feelings get less reliable. The real issue isn’t that people can detect AI, but that they’re overconfident when they think they can.

One of the above was generated by ChatGPT to reply to your comment. The other was written by me.
by refurb | 2025-06-10 19:38:38+00:00
How you can read even just this conversation and walk away without thinking Fauci is at best terrible at public health communications, at worst guilty of flip flopping is beyond me.

Even in this one conversation - "The masks are important for someone who’s infected to prevent them from infecting someone else…" to "And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face." to "I’m not against it. If you want to do it, that’s fine." to "It could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it."

Just in this one interview it goes from "if you're healthy you don't need one" to "masks can actually make things worse" to "if you want to do it, it's fine" to "don't do it, it could lead to a shortage".

Then a month or two later, he's supporting strict mask mandates even for healthy people.

If there is another health crisis, this guy should never be allowed to talk to the media ever again.
by quintes | 2025-06-10 19:39:02+00:00
Ah caught me! You need a Mac and GarageBand. I was always in the too expensive not gonna buy one but it changed my home use a lot.

GarageBand is easy. I’m gonna upgrade to logic at some point but that’s a start.

And good studio monitors or studio headphones. Can’t mix on regular headphones. I’ve got some m-audio pretty good.

Then you play. I don’t have many followers or fans but I’m doing it for me.

Here’s a track https://open.spotify.com/track/5o0xa7x1Q3bokEwFOEnXBQ?si=QZc...

It’s lofi/ electronica.

Best of luck
by spencerflem | 2025-06-10 19:39:35+00:00
No its not sarcasm.

And idk, but I'm just saying what I feel. I don't think its unique to this forum, more just what's going on in society.

The issues happening are not the type of thing where we can agree to disagre. There isn't a middle road. The ideologies behind it are based on hate and fear and greed. America's not going to be a democracy much longer and friends of mine are in life threatening danger.

I could not be friends with someone who supported this IRL or online.
by CogitoCogito | 2025-06-10 19:39:53+00:00
"Apparently..." would have been the perfect way to describe my reaction. I didn't realize that "cover me" meant "lay down suppressing fire" to Marines. I guess it makes sense, but that's not the meaning I would have expected. So I would probably have been just as confused as the cops in the story. I wouldn't be surprised if most cops would have been similarly confused.

So yeah in conclusion, I don't really understand the point you're trying to make.
by umvi | 2025-06-10 19:40:06+00:00
In my case I am very skinny (150 lbs, 6'0") which is the main reason that I thought I might have LADA and not T2 - my own research suggested that T2 was rare in skinny patients and that LADA might explain my elevated blood sugars (and also that up to 12% of T2 might actually be misdiagnosed LADA). So IMO the horse should have been LADA. However, LADA doesn't seem super well known or understood among doctors that haven't worked with a lot of pre-diabetic patients. This particular doctor claimed that my A1C would have been much higher than it was if I had LADA/T1 and that I was exhibiting symptoms of insulin resistance. I tried to argue that maybe we were catching it early and that insulin resistance and insulin deficiency present with the same symptoms (high blood sugar), but the doctor suspected I was non-compliant with the requested low-carb/exercise regiment and told me to try harder instead of ordering the tests and that I would see results if I did that.

I went to a second random doctor I found on ZocDoc who also thought I was T2, but then LADA was eventually confirmed by a third doctor who I chose specifically because he's worked with a lot of diabetic and pre-diabetic patients. He took one look at me and said "You look too skinny for a typical T2, let's run a GAD-65 autoantibody test", which came back 10x higher than the normal rate.

So yes, if you are a doctor and you hear hoofs I do think it's a good idea to think horses not zebras, but also if you've never actually worked with zebras, maybe have the humility to defer to a different doctor or listen to the patient who clearly has done more research than you about the condition they've struggled with for years instead of confidently pushing your wrong theory.

P.S. Early on in the process I also tried to see an endocrinologist (who probably also would have recognized LADA). However, they are a gated resource. I was unable to set an appointment with an endocrinologist without a recommendation from my PCP, and my PCP wouldn't give one. Just frustrating all around.
by hathawsh | 2025-06-10 19:40:18+00:00
Yes, but I think we have a somewhat different idea about the market forces. My impression from your essay is that you believe app developers will add APIs that enable personal tools, and only then will local software crafting take off.

My belief is that it is happening already: local software crafting is happening now, before the tools are ready. People aren't going to wait for good APIs to exist; people will MacGyver things together. They'll scrape screens (sometimes with OCR), run emulated devices in the cloud, and call APIs incorrectly and abusively until they get what they need. They won't ask for permission.

A lot of software developers may transition from building to cleaning up knots.
by leakycap | 2025-06-10 19:40:21+00:00
Sound design is so much more complex than we give it credit for -- with every adjustment in one area, you get a different result somewhere else.

That said, the mentioned "Reference 4 Measure" software looks to be 40% off currently and is still $199 -- not exactly what I had in mind when the article mentioned getting the app to clean up the sound profile in a rental car.
by 4d4m | 2025-06-10 19:41:18+00:00
The backlash is because it feels like a cheap rehash of a decade prior instead of something truly novel. If this were a real innovation you'd see animation in the liquid glass style that reflects the apps container, environment and camera input. Instead it's just the same css treatment any web dev could slap on a button. Do better apple. Impress us like you used to.
by em-bee | 2025-06-10 19:41:18+00:00
But not code code

but that's not true: smalltalk, lisp, pike, erlang and some other languages allow you to change code at runtime, only requiring the recompilation of the changed unit of code (depending on the language. in pike it's at the class/object level)

process-like isolation barriers isolating small pieces of programs, and an object database-like datastore that can never be corrupted due to transactional changes (which can be rolled back, enabling stuff like time-travel debugging).

doesn't smalltalk do pretty much that? i'd be really interested in learning how your idea differs. you may also want to look at societyserver/open-Team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159045

it's a platform written in pike that implements an object storage, and allows code objects in that to be modified at runtime. transactions are at the object/class level. (if the class fails to compile, the objects are not replaced). it stores versions of classes so a rollback is possible, although not implemented in the interface. (means right now, if i want an older version i have to rollback manually)

Such a system would allow you to fearlessly change any part of the source code of a running application at runtime - even if you mess up the code of a said component - say event to a point that it doesn't compile - all that would happen would that single component would cease to function without affecting the rest of the app.

smalltalk does that, as does societyserver/open-Team, or the roxen webapplication server (also written in pike) and i am pretty sure some lisp and erlang systems do as well.
by cgarlotta | 2025-06-10 19:41:37+00:00
Hey HN

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by dwringer | 2025-06-10 19:41:58+00:00
When I asked, "Good afternoon! I'm trying to settle a bet with a friend (no money on the line, just a friendly "bet"!) Which MS DOS productivity program had a playable version of the game Connect Four built in as an easter egg?", it went into a very detailed explanation of how to get to the "Hall of Tortured Souls" easter egg in Excel 5.0, glossing over the fact that I said "MS DOS" and also conflating the easter eggs by telling me specifically that the "excelkfa" cheat code would open a secret door/bridge to the connect four game.

So, I retried with, "Good afternoon! I'm trying to settle a bet with a friend (no money on the line, just a friendly "bet"!) Which *MS DOS* [not Win95, i.e., Excel 5] productivity program had a playable version of the game Connect Four built in as an easter egg?". I got Lotus 1-2-3 once, Excel 4 twice, and Borland Quattro Pro three different times, all from that prompt.

The correct answer you point out in another subthread was never returned as a possibility, and the responses all definitely came across as confident. Definitely a fascinating example.
by greenavocado | 2025-06-10 19:42:06+00:00
In the USA most software engineers are FLSA-exempt ("computer employee" exemption).

No overtime pay regardless of hours worked.

No legal maximum hours per day/week.

No mandatory rest periods/breaks (federally).

The US approach places the burden on the individual employee to negotiate protections or prove misclassification, while French law places the burden on the employer to comply with strict, state-enforced standards.

The French Labor Code (Code du travail) applies to virtually all employees in France, regardless of sector (private tech company, government agency, non-profit, etc.), unless explicitly exempted. Software engineering is not an exempted profession. Maximum hour limits are absolute. The caps of 44 hours per week, 48 hours average over 12 weeks, and 10/12 hours per day are legal maximums for almost all employees. Tech companies cannot simply ignore them. The requirements for employee consent, strict annual limits (usually max 220 hours/year), premium pay (+25%/+50%), and compensatory rest apply to software engineers just like any other employee.

"Cadre" Status is not an exemption. Many software engineers are classified as Cadres (managers/professionals) but this status does not automatically exempt them from working time rules.

Cadre au forfait jours (Days-Based Framework): This is common for senior engineers/managers. They are exempt from tracking daily/weekly hours but must still have a maximum of 218 work days per year (including weekends, holidays, and RTT days). Their annual workload must not endanger their health. 80-hour weeks would obliterate this rest requirement and pose severe health risks, making it illegal. Employers must monitor their workload and health.

Cadre au forfait heures (Hours-Based Framework) or Non-Cadre: These employees are fully subject to the standard daily/weekly/hourly limits and overtime rules. 80+ hours/week is blatantly illegal.

The tech industry, especially gaming/startups, sometimes tries to import unsustainable "crunch" cultures. This is illegal in France.

EDIT: Fixed work days
by thot_experiment | 2025-06-10 19:42:11+00:00
I use it as a personal assistant (so tool use integrated into calendar/todo/notes etc) often times using the multimodal aspect (taking a photo of a todo list, asking it to remind me to buy something from a picture). I also use it as a code completion tool in vscode, as well as a replacement for most basic google searches ("how does this syntax work", "what's the torch method for X")

I use it for almost every interaction I have with AI that isn't asking it to oneshot complex code. I fairly frequently run my prompts against Claude/ChatGPT and Mistral 3.1 and find that for most things they're not meaningfully different.

I also spend a lot of time playing around with it for storytelling/integration into narrative games.
by mlmonge | 2025-06-10 19:42:34+00:00
You say that "I don't believe LLMs have become sentient" nor contemplate. But what is the basis for your belief in this? I would think than an atheist would be more likely to have opposite beliefs.

I also concede that a "form" of intelligence/sentience could emerge. Presently the form is called "artificial," I'd say.

And you're right... not all scifi argues machine evolves to humanity. I meant to refer to that body of scifi that does. And the body that explores the "what make us human," indeed that's the good stuff. Alex Garland's Ex Machina comes to mind. I absolutely loved that film. The ending was chilling!
by speakfreely | 2025-06-10 19:42:38+00:00
That's the point; the right WANTS this reaction. It's how they will continue to capture the American center. Masked people waving Mexican flags while they stand on top of burned out police cars is a gift to them.

Trump's political superpower is his ability to take a base position that is entirely reasonable and agreeable to most people ("The US must enforce its federal immigration laws"), then use inflammatory rhetoric and legal boundary testing to whip his opposition into undisciplined, emotional overreactions that leave them in a worse political position than him. He has been absurdly successful in using this tactic since 2015.
by jonah | 2025-06-10 19:42:48+00:00
From that page:

Warning: The May 2025 update for Pixel 6 (6, 6 Pro, 6a) and Pixel 8 (8, 8 Pro, 8a) devices contains a bootloader update that increments the anti-roll back version for the bootloader. This prevents the device from rolling back to previous vulnerable versions of the bootloader. After flashing the May 2025 update on these devices you won't be able to flash and boot older Android 15 builds.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-06-10 19:42:51+00:00
I read your above comment to be "Trump won't relinquish power because it will make him vulnerable to prosecution". If that was not your point then I misunderstood it. If it was, he is not vulnerable to prosecution nor is he liable civily for official acts.

You are right a lot of his actions can be (and have been) stopped via legal means. That's not so much democrats as individuals and groups with standing to bring suit. The dems can't really do much except fund the lawsuits which, again, don't threaten Trump in any way.
by sschueller | 2025-06-10 19:43:02+00:00
Has anyone noticed that OpenAI has become "lazy"? When I ask questions now it will not give me a complete file or fix. Instead it tells me what I should do and I need to ask a second or third time to just do the thing I asked.

I don't see this happening with for example deepseek.

Is it possible they are saving on resources by having it answer that way?
by kazinator | 2025-06-10 19:43:41+00:00
It would seem like less of a kludge if DOES> precipitated into a deferred context terminated by its own semicolon. So you could just type

CREATE FOO 42 , DOES> @ ;

into an interpreter to create the constant. Then if placed inside a definition, there would be two semicolons:

: CONSTANT CREATE , DOES> @ ; ;

It's an extra nesting which makes it clear you have a definition that makes a definition. You could even put words between the semicolons which just become part of the definition of CONSTANT.

It feels as if this DOES> thing is a kludge that activates within definitions, and kind of "hijacks" the rest of their instructions. Without DOES>, the material after it would be part of the definition of CONSTANT and not part of the definition of the word produced by CREATE. The switcheroo feels hacky.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-06-10 19:43:54+00:00
WTF, it's definitely on the status page -- if you can get to the status page, which, the status page having an outage is an alarm sign?

It has been there for over 9 hours now.

I would definitely shame them -- do they not even bother looking at status pages before giving you information? How has Heroku not distributed this information to any customer-contacting staff already?

It's crap like this that disturbs me even more than the outage in fact. I know bad outages can happen even to the best of us, but your account manager not knowing about it and not even bothering to try to find out before giving you bad information is the mark of mediocrity at best.
by hadlock | 2025-06-10 19:44:32+00:00
I genuinely think this is the case, and why products don't have a LTS interface, even though they ought to. Sign me right up for the 10 year LTS interface. I can't recall any features in gmail that were added that I actually use besides labels, which was an early launch feature. But it's been redesigned about 9 times in the last 20 years, each time with increasing white space and/or a slightly different font.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-10 19:44:48+00:00
More and more, cars are not built with repair in mind. At least not as a top priority. There are many repairs that now require removal of substantial unrelated components or perhaps the entire engine because the failed thing is just impossible to reach in situ.

Nuts and bolts are used because they are good mechanical fasteners that take advantage of the enormous "squeezing" leverage a threaded faster provides. Robots already assemble cars, and we still use nuts and bolts.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-10 19:45:03+00:00
> I don’t think it’s fair to expect people to think that the browser is secretly communicating with apps on their phone, tying all behavior to their identity.

If it was possible for this to happen in the past, we have reason to believe that the technical capability to link behavior with identity still exists. What’s “unfair” about informing others about the limitations and risks of using a device online?
by dijksterhuis | 2025-06-10 19:45:48+00:00
thanks, although i’m a member already. it’s not really resources that’s the issue. i’ve read Julius Smith’s books in the past etc. in the rust audio discord etc.

i just have a mental block similar to the one i had with rust. avoided learning it for a long while until i made a decision to finally to do it.

i just keep avoiding making the same decision here for some reason. not sure why. probably the old “it’s going to be really hard” thing i had with rust (which turned out to be rubbish, it just took time and repeating stuff over and over and learning from mistakes over and over).
by pjmorris | 2025-06-10 19:45:53+00:00
Seconded.

The two things I most remember about the summer of 1969 were watching the Apollo 11 launch from our balcony and the subsequent moon walk, and hearing 'Everyday People' on the radio. The lyrics stuck with me. I was 6 or 7 at the time and thought 'That's what it must be like to be an adult.' I still do.
by adventured | 2025-06-10 19:46:06+00:00
A similar sentiment existed for a long time about Uber and now they're very profitable and own their market. It was worth the burn to capture the market. Who says OpenAI can't roll over to profitable at a stable scale? Conquer the market, hike the price to $29.95 (family account, no ads; $19.95 individual account with ads; etc etc). To say nothing of how they can branch out in terms of being the interaction point that replaces the search box. The advertising value of owning the land that OpenAI is taking is well over $100 billion in annual revenue. Amazon's retail business is terrible, their ad business is fantastic. As OpenAI bolts on an ad product their margin potential will skyrocket and the cost side will be modest in comparison.

Over the coming years it won't be possible to stay a mere 6-12 months behind as the costs to build and maintain the AI super-infrastructure keeps climbing. It'll become a guaranteed implosion scenario. Winning will provide the ongoing immense resources needed to keep pushing up the hill forever. Everybody else - except a few - will fall away. The same outcome took place in search. Anybody spot Lycos, Excite, Hotbot, AltaVista around? It costs an enormous amount of money to try to keep up with Google (Bing, Baidu, Yandex) in search and scale it. This will be an even more brutal example of that, as the costs are even higher to scale.

The only way Mistral survives is if they're heavily subsidized directly by European states.