MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-06-10 19:46:10+00:00
I bet there is a set of repetitive single, or two, question user requests that makes out a sizeable amount of all requests. The models are so expensive to run, 1% would be enough. Much less than 1%. To make it less obvious they probably have a big set of response variants. I don't see how they would not do this.

They probably also have cheap code or cheap models that normalize requests to increase cache hit rate.
by rgbrenner | 2025-06-10 19:46:11+00:00
same. i ran a few tests ($100 worth of api calls) with opus 4 and didn’t see any difference compared to sonnet 4 other than the price.

also no idea why he thinks roo is handicapped when claude code nerfs the thinking output and requires typing “think”/think hard/think harder/ultrathink just to expand the max thinking tokens.. which on ultrathink only sets it at 32k… when the max in roo is 51200 and it’s just a setting.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-10 19:46:27+00:00
I would buy a synth and learn it as you would any other instrument, something on the simpler side and not a work station or the like so you can focus on it more as an instrument. Modern technology makes it all to easy to just have an entire electronic music studio which is a great deal to learn and few are going to ever learn any of it well if they start with a full studio. Build out from there, once you are getting the hang of the synth install a DAW or something to record with on your computer and start learning that, record an entire album worth of songs with just that one synth. I always liked using SoX as a multitrack recorder, ecasound was nice as well, kept things more about making music instead of being an engineer.

Back when I was more active with electronic music I would do an entire album worth of tracks with each new synth I got, software or hardware, good way to learn a synth.
by robocat | 2025-06-10 19:46:32+00:00
To get smuggled across the border by cartel-affiliated “coyotes” (people smugglers) might typically cost $4,000 to $15,000 USD. [AI result]

Adding an iphone into the package is not increasing costs ridiculously. Obviously you won't see them with iPhones unless/until it helps them get into the US so your "I haven't seen them with iPhones" is an empty statement.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-10 19:47:13+00:00
There is an issue around a general teacher shortage, mostly due to poor pay and treatment. It's hard to find teachers in general. It's been exacerbated recently in states like Texas, with proposed book bans and bans on teaching history. No one wants to get punished for assigning Brave New World or teaching about slavery (and teachers don't want to lie to kids about history, either).

Of course, the Trump admin has responded to this by deciding not to fund the TQP grant program, which in part trains and places teachers in high-need areas like STEM, special ed, and bilingual ed. This struggle is mostly a self-inflicted policy choice.
by echelon | 2025-06-10 19:47:45+00:00
Probably the biggest case for a full-on Google breakup. Android being split from the platform components.

A new company probably still couldn't develop platform pieces if that chink in the armor was made available by the DOJ. But if Google were split along those lines into two or more companies, it would provide nice and healthy gradients on both the hardware/OS and the platform/software sides of the market.

We really do need a Google breakup.
by redog | 2025-06-10 19:47:53+00:00
Working. In my 30 years employed I've managed to invest enough to make up a little. I've probably 24 years left. I think I can more than double my 401k in that time but that still won't be 1M

If crypto keeps going up there's a chance my 3k investment in it eclipses my 40yr 401k so I'm hoping for that....
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 19:47:55+00:00
"Included in the legislation is a provision declaring that if a bank goes bankrupt or becomes insolvent, 'the claim of a person holding payment stablecoins issued by the payment stablecoin issuer shall have priority over all other claims against the payment stablecoin issuer.'"

Stablecoin owners. Not any crypto owner.

When a bank fails, "the order of priority is as follows:

1. Secured creditors to the extent of their perfected security interest

2. Depositors (including the FDIC to the extent it has paid deposit insurance claims or arranged for assumption of deposits)

3. General creditors (including depositors holding deposits payable solely at a foreign office)

4. Subordinated creditors

5. Equity holders (e.g., parent holding company)" [1].

This bill is basically elevating stablecoins to a secured obligation. Inasmuch as they are 1:1 backed by high-quality assets, that seems fine.

[1] https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2024/01/...
by jrochkind1 | 2025-06-10 19:48:31+00:00
Not anymore! Now the Salesforce status page just says:

> The Salesforce Trust site is currently experiencing a service disruption. During this time, users will be unable to access the Trust site or receive notifications about service-impacting incidents or maintenances. We will continue to provide updates here until the issue is resolved.

And the heroku status page actually has recent upates, although they are just repeating this every hour:

> Heroku continues to investigate and remediate an issue with intermittent outages.
by joeevans1000 | 2025-06-10 19:48:52+00:00
Browsers can be just as powerful as 'native' apps. This is an example of that. Browser apps free the user from proprietary operating systems and their companies. Of course, Linux is a way around that. However, why not just write it once and let students and engineers the world over be able to share and open files easily?

UPDATE: On my newer laptop thius is faster than my native apps. And I was literally drawing shapes within 30 seconds of clicking on the link to this app. Compare that to the nightmare of all the other tools out there with registrations, email clutter, 2FA, and on and on. Oh, and cost in most cases!

UPDATE 2: I have no connection to this team other than having just seen a post online about this tool. I've been navigating the world of SketchUp/AutoCad/Revit recently so this of course is totally thrilling. Especially for what it means for the future.
by kergonath | 2025-06-10 19:49:22+00:00
The developers moved on, that’s all, that’s why there was no fork and no momentum behind the original KHTML library. WebKit became quickly the gold standard at the time of the Acid tests, replaced KHTML in most places and nobody looked back. It remained functionally identical, except that it had orders of magnitude more resources than before.

There’s more blood and drama every time there’s a GTK update.

> These days I'm quite content with Safari's fate regardless of how cruel it's treated; after all, the license allows it. No fuss, and no drama.

Well, bitching is not very productive. We can regret a Blink monoculture, but it would have been exactly the same if Chrome kept using WebKit (if anything, that would have been worse), or if they switched to Gecko. The drama with Chrome has nothing to do with who forked whom.
by roarcher | 2025-06-10 19:49:43+00:00
Every field is "hobbyist level" before certain breakthroughs are made that allow it to take off. Look at computers before and after the invention of integrated circuits, transistors, or even vacuum tubes.

In this case those initial breakthroughs were made by the Nazis. Nobody is disputing that. But there is quite a leap to be made between lobbing explosives at London and putting live humans on the moon and then retrieving them, and many things besides scientists with dubious pasts were needed to make that leap. I do not understand what drives somebody to downplay those accomplishments every time the subject comes up. Your statement that those scientists were "what actually made the moon mission possible" is worded in a way that implies that they were the only thing that made it possible, rather than one factor among many, and that is objectively false. It's like saying that a spark plug is "what actually makes a car run".
by maccard | 2025-06-10 19:49:53+00:00
> Except that it is viable because they’re literally working on it full time right now with multiple devs.

Paid for by the corporate sponsors.

> Firefox is part of Mozilla, and this is a post/comment thread about Mozilla and Firefox. I’m not sure why it’s strange I mentioned them. It’s in context with the discussion.

I replied to a comment saying: "A lot of us would be willing to donate monthly, but not to a browser which includes proprietary components, first-party ads and first part-spyware" with "I’ve been writing c++ and working in web adjacent space for 15 years. I’ve regularly thought about setting up a kickstarter for 6 months of my salary that if I reached it, I would start a patreon and work full time on Firefox, in public." and your response is "but I can't donate to mozilla to fund Firefox". I'm not talking about that, I replied to someone who wasn't talking about it. Mozilla has nothing to do with what either of us said, until you brought it up again.
by rickydroll | 2025-06-10 19:49:57+00:00
1) Revisiting one of my past projects, using Hashcash as a rate limiter. The original one I worked with was Camram/2 Penny Blue, which embedded proof-of-work tokens in an email message as an anti-spam method. It was the wrong solution, and proof-of-work tokens should be embedded in the protocol itself, which would enable dynamic pricing based on reputation.

Why I'm not doing it: I'm not sure it would be accepted. I took a lot of lumps for trying to use Hashcash in email, and I'm not sure I want to go through that again, but it does have value. Embedding proof-of-work puzzles in a protocol is a great way to limit abusive requests and patterns. SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS are easy to modify and probably could be done via a proxy. I'm not sure how easy it is to change the SSH protocol, but that would be useful as well.

2) Low-income living space electrification.

I tested this idea out on a friend who works for a Housing Authority, and their eyes lit up. However, they warned me that it would take a few years for everyone to sign off on it.

The original idea was to provide a kit, a bag of parts, that an affordable housing authority could use to improve living quarters and housing for low-income people, and eliminate/reduce the use of gas.

a) Replacing gas stoves with a set of three induction plates. The significant challenges are filling the void created by the original stove, ensuring sufficient power to operate the induction plates, and addressing how to handle the absence of an oven.

b) Filling the hole is easy. This is something a halfway decent carpenter could do, or we could provide an adjustable-size box that fits in such a space, not quite an IKEA flat-pack but roughly similar.

c) Power is a little more difficult. One company is solving this problem by putting in a battery to handle the load. This is possible, but the baseline cost would now be approximately $2,000, just for the parts.

d) window mount heat pump. New York City has funded in-window heat pumps as part of a design project. The problem is they run around $4,000 to $6,000, but an ordinary handyman could install them.

3) Recycling car batteries from crashed vehicles into home power banks.

This project is a bit of a stretch for me. I know people are doing this, but not in the States as far as I can tell. The off-grid solar community has a variety of inverters and solar chargers that may be suitable for this kind of situation, but I don't have enough knowledge.

4) Ad hoc virtual power plants

Many people have rooftop solar. The grid gets overfull on bright sunny days. People who can't have solar often have space for batteries. Work out the instrumentation and accounting so that solar producers can charge batteries, and everybody gets compensated when the grid demands the battery's power.

It seems to me that this would be a great application of distributed system concepts, providing a win for the local community and grid resiliency.

I need a second life to make progress on these ideas
by demosthanos | 2025-06-10 19:50:14+00:00
> AIs trained on public scraped data that predates 2022 don't noticeably outperform those trained on scraped data from 2022 onwards. Hell, in some cases, newer scrapes perform slightly better, token for token, for unknown reasons.

This is really bad reasoning for a few reasons:

1) We've gotten much better at training LLMs since 2022. The negative impacts of AI slop in the training data certainly don't outweigh the benefits of orders of magnitude more parameters and better training techniques, but that doesn't mean they have no negative impact.

2) "Outperform" is a very loose term and we still have no real good answer for measuring it meaningfully. We can all tell that Gemini 2.5 outperforms GPT-4o. What's trickier is distinguishing between Gemini 2.5 and Claude 4. The expected effect size of slop at this stage would be on that smaller scale of differences between same-gen models.

Given that we're looking for a small enough effect size that we know we're going to have a hard time proving anything with data, I think it's reasonable to operate from first principles in this case. First principles say very clearly that avoiding training on AI-generated content is a good idea.
by cabaalis | 2025-06-10 19:50:48+00:00
Slope's Game Room is a popular Youtube channel and he makes video game history documentaries and other content.

It appears he ran afoul of Google and is danger of losing his account because of content he is not responsible for.

He copied the chat logs of a scammer who had doxxed him. They are written in a language he does not speak or read. He intended to share them with a Spanish-speaking friend who can translate them properly for him. These were uploaded to his google drive account.

That text, which he did not write and cannot read, contained what Google considers against their content policy as hate speech, and has flagged DJ Slope for deletion and cut him off.

He is pleading for help from anyone who can get in contact with Google to help him in this matter.
by TlrSwftFrPres | 2025-06-10 19:51:28+00:00
> A setting's placement in the menu hierarchy "is a bad example" of the Settings app's being bad because search is available.

> Search is always available while the app is open, across all menus and functions.

> Therefore no placement or layout can be singled out as better or worse in the Settings app. All possible hierarchies or arrangements are equal.

> I unroll my Apple UX Researcher Toolkit (contents: blindfold, dart, dartboard, crack pipe), and use it to make my decision: I put the dropdown 3 levels deep under Touch ID, safe in the knowledge that I cannot be criticized, because we've also included a search bar.

It's just bad thinking. Sorry if you're upset I've called it out.
by cptskippy | 2025-06-10 19:51:29+00:00
My last 2 phones were Motorola and my most recent is a Pixel. Meh...

The Motos came with very little bloatware that was easy enough to uninstall or disable. There are just as many new Google Apps that just weren't available on Moto phones that I've been uninstalling from my Pixel:

Google One, Google Tasks, Google News, Google Lens, Google Support Services, Google PDF Viewer, Google Play Books, Google Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds, Pixel Studio, Gemini, Safety, Find Hub, Google Home

It's not 3rd party, but it's still bloatware.
by abeppu | 2025-06-10 19:52:12+00:00
> which both (1. gives you an unlimited supply of noncopyrighted training data and (2. handily sidesteps the issue of AI-contaminated training data.

I think these are both basically somewhere between wrong and misleading.

Needing to generate your own data through actual experience is very expensive, and can mean that data acquisition now comes with real operational risks. Waymo gets real world experience operating its cars, but the "limit" on how much data you can get per unit time depends on the size of the fleet, and requires that you first get to a level of competence where it's safe to operate in the real world.

If you want to repair cars, and you _don't_ start with some source of knowledge other than on-policy roll-outs, then you have to expect that you're going to learn by trashing a bunch of cars (and still pay humans to tell the robot that it failed) for some significant period.

There's a reason you want your mechanic to have access to manuals, and have gone through some explicit training, rather than just try stuff out and see what works, and those cost-based reasons are true whether the mechanic is human or AI.

Perhaps you're using an off-policy RL approach -- great! If your off-policy data is demonstrations from a prior generation model, that's still AI-contaminated training data.

So even if you're trying to learn by doing, there are still meaningful limits on the supply of training data (which may be way more expensive to produce than scraping the web), and likely still AI-contaminated (though perhaps with better info on the data's provenance?).
by Amezarak | 2025-06-10 19:52:41+00:00
Yes, but having to prove you were committing a crime versus the government having to prove you knowingly committed a crime are two different things. We do not always require the latter. For example, in most states, the government does not care whether you knew you were above the legal BAC when convicting you of DUI.

As it stands, employers can pretend ignorance and as long as they were not really stupid, put putting things in writing or personally arranging for the trafficking, they can likely get away with it. There’s no reason I can think of why we shouldn’t change that.
by AlexErrant | 2025-06-10 19:53:20+00:00
> we created Patchwork—a web-based collaboration environment for malleable software... storing both user data and software code in Automerge documents. On top of that, it adds version control utilities like history views and simple branching. These tools apply to any document in the system—whether a piece of writing, or code for a software tool... Eventually we also plan to release Patchwork as an open-source tool

What milestones would you like to hit before open-sourcing it? As an outsider, it looks like it has a LOT of features, and I wonder if there's feature creep. Still, version control for everything is a tall order, so perhaps it needs plenty of time to bake.
by dzonga | 2025-06-10 19:53:46+00:00
pixel devices are nice when they work. but damn hardware quality is shoddy in terms of aging. my pixel 6a battery got swollen with less than 3 years. I have a first gen iphone se still in use. I also had a pixel 3a that I couldn't find a screen replacement for luckily for me -- google accepted a trade in when the 6a got released.

the pixels have a overheating problem -- this you can google for.

oh yeah, when automatic android updates happen a bunch of your settings are reset even something simple as UI-theme.
by echelon | 2025-06-10 19:53:51+00:00
I really think you're wrong.

The processes we use to annotate content and synthetic data will turn AI outputs into a gradient that makes future outputs better, not worse.

It might not be as obvious with LLM outputs, but it should be super obvious with image and video models. As we select the best visual outputs of systems, slight errors introduced and taste-based curation will steer the systems to better performance and more generality.

It's no different than genetics and biology adapting to every ecological niche if you think of the genome as a synthetic machine and physics as a stochastic gradient. We're speed running the same thing here.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-10 19:54:41+00:00
NB. Comment totals may still be increasing as discussion continues

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (328 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210689

Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook (95 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182204

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul (28 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175940

Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android (6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169314

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android (6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169314

Meta and Yandex Spying on Your Android Web Browsing Activity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44177637

New research highlights privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171535

Meta and Yandex exfiltrating tracking data on Android via WebRTC (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176697
by dwedge | 2025-06-10 19:54:48+00:00
Their OCR model was really well hyped and coincidentally came out at the time I had a batch of 600 page pdfs to OCR. They were all monospace text just for some reason the OCR was missing.

I tried it, 80% of the "text" was recognised as images and output as whitespace so most of it was empty. It was much much worse than tesseract.

A month later I got the bill for that crap and deleted my account.

Maybe this is better but I'm over hype marketing from mistral
by Nevermark | 2025-06-10 19:54:51+00:00
I love the arm/typewriter "printer"!

It's not exactly on topic (other than fun ideas, begetting fun ideas), but a USB-C/WiFi driven typewriter would be a hoot.

EDIT: Found [0]

And for the reverse ... boom! (click! clack!) [1]

[0] https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/turn-a-typewriter...

[1] https://www.usbtypewriter.com
by jknoepfler | 2025-06-10 19:55:01+00:00
Why would you hate a book exploring mathematics and reflecting on your relationship with it? What a weird thing to hate. Wouldn't you rather celebrate intellectual curiosity?

Like... I hate journalism that profits off of xenophobic fear mongering. A book from a genuinely curious and interesting author who did some moonlighting in more formal subjects, though? That seems harmless and kind of cute at worst. Maybe a little misguided, maybe not.

It's a weird energy to bring to a relatively innoccuous corner of the world.
by robocat | 2025-06-10 19:56:10+00:00
No, but clearly you also have zero idea.

People in policy are not dealing with bribery and corruption (which is the framing of the comment I replied to).

If bribery is occurring, then I would expect it to be used to get higher value personally directed outcomes (not a few percent on the bottom line). The suggested incentives sound completely wrong to me (which is the point of my comment). Obviously my own ignorant opinion given that I have zero experience "bribing Congresscritters".

I can believe there is corruption, but I also believe smart people will hide their goals better than the internet peanut gallery assume.
by guillaume_gomez | 2025-06-10 19:56:57+00:00
Very interesting artwork ! It would be interesting to be able to share the result of user generation through an image for example. Secondly I would recommand to add a link to your readme(abstract) direclty in the experiment to understand the idea behind it. For those who want to read the manifesto : here is the link https://github.com/nabolitains/plasma :)
by forrestthewoods | 2025-06-10 19:56:58+00:00
> If enough readers are mutating the same ref counter

Well if they were mutating the ref counter I’d call them writers not readers. =P

But yes. Many people incorrectly assume that writing an atomic_int from many threads is super fast. I mean it’s atomic! It couldn’t be a smaller atom of work! Alas this is incredibly incorrect. Even atomic ints can be extremely slow.
by ndjeosibfb | 2025-06-10 19:57:11+00:00
keep rewriting history and moving goal posts

many states and municipalities had vaccine requirements to keep your job or go in public

many universities required healthy teenagers to get covid vaccine to go to the school

additionally there was a vaccine requirement for all employees of companies that did business with the federal government, i was ready to lose my job over it but they rolled it back at the last minute