MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Krssst | 2025-06-09 23:45:30+00:00
HN is very American, and somewhat half of America is pro-Trump (which often comes with being anti vaccine to some extent though they don't necessarily see it like this), is how I see it. I was quite surprised at first too.

Large cities are much more on the Democrat side and developers tend to live in those so the number of Trump supporters is still on the lower end.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-09 23:47:07+00:00
I think what gets people's goat is the VC community crowing about being farsighted futurists... and then acting just as human and shortsighted as everyone else.

Hence the schadenfreude.

It's one thing to be wrong with everyone. It's another to be wrong after a ton of people said "This is a dumb idea."
by xp84 | 2025-06-09 23:48:04+00:00
Well, it certainly should be well under a buck -- I refuse to believe they're earning more than 25 cents per visitor from the circus of bullshit sticky autoplaying video ads festooning the pages anyway. I'd just click "Pay 49 cents" if they had Apple Pay or another 1-click option that doesn't share my information with them, AND it meant zero ads. Of course even the paywalled sites that sell subscriptions mostly don't turn off their ads, so I assume they'd like to double-dip.
by bung33 | 2025-06-09 23:48:10+00:00
The idea that this is leading to mass developer layoffs is an overstatement.

The total amount spent will ultimately be expensed, whether immediately or over five years. The sole impact is on the time value of money, which I don't believe warrants the current scale of developer dismissals.

Also, the claim that taxes are levied even during a deficit seems incorrect. While I'm not familiar with US tax law, it's typically possible to carry forward losses.

For example, if a developer is hired for five years at $100 annually, the expensed amount in the fifth year would still be $100, even after any legal changes.
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-09 23:48:42+00:00
> Everyone decided that "save" = "disk"

> Maybe a different looking disk, but still a disk.

I had a discussion about this with my parents, who saw the 5" disks actually flopping back in the days, but never cared enough about computers.

They thought the floppy icon meant it was saved on their drive, when it was actually commited to the cloud service they were using. They spent a while looking around, in their Document folder, Download folder etc. and gave up after a while.

I can't remember which service they were using, but boy were they pissed.
by tho23i4324324 | 2025-06-09 23:48:53+00:00
I'm generally shocked that people aren't profoundly shocked and saddened by what has been lost with these kind of "modifiable while running" systems like Xerox Alto and the Lisp Machines.

Modern software frameworks are so shockingly bad and uninteractive that we now have to rely another layer of bullshit with LLMs just to get us to be half as productive as these envs. : (

(okay okay REPL-based things are getting better, but still nowhere close to what Lisp even w/ Emacs can do.)
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-09 23:48:58+00:00
There are dozens if not hundreds of papers (by major research labs) showing that training on synthetic data for LLM's actually improves their performance. For instance, much of the RLHF done by MS/Facebook likely used data generated by an LLM. DeepSeek has also seen similar accusations thrown their way.

I believe the paper you're referencing was narrowly discussing text to image models and didn't incorporate the notion of prompt engineering and good old fashioned search to improve the quality of synthetic data.

it's been awhile though, so i could be wrong. effectively i'm saying it's not quite as simple as that and isn't necessarily some unsolvable doomsday clock for all LLM's.
by stackskipton | 2025-06-09 23:50:16+00:00
So many developers don't learn docker. I'm Ops type person, outside FAANG, most devs are just flinging code at screen to close JIRA tickets, get the build to go green and collect a paycheck to go home. Docker, that's for us Ops people who have build that rickety pipeline that somehow manages to get your code into a container and into the Kubernetes cluster.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-09 23:50:17+00:00
Okay, work it out for me: how was that a bad trade for world governments and society?

People still have an avenue to sue for harm -- they can sue the government.

The government took on that liability in exchange for preventing the spread of a highly pathogenic, novel pandemic with moderate mortality, thereby allowing return to normal life, with fewer deaths, faster.

Which part of that was a bad idea?
by teruakohatu | 2025-06-09 23:51:07+00:00
The article says they are digging barrows. I can understand that when a company spends an exorbitant amount of money on a building with a roof garden and the costs of ongoing maintenance they are not happy it is being dug up, especially if they are digging down to the water barrier.

On the other hand I think it is pretty cool to have foxes on the roof.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on LLM routing?
by yoeven | 2025-06-09 23:53:14+00:00
Would devs want a single API that automatically routes to the best LLM for their goal while having basic tools built in like web scraping, web search, etc?

Or would devs want way more control like a Lang chain/AI SDK, easier to swap models but you basically gotta build the chain yourself.

What do you guys thing?
by dekhn | 2025-06-09 23:53:58+00:00
I've read his full interviews and I think my understanding of his thinking is pretty accurate.

No, my knowledge is not "driven by" factcheck- it's a reference site that I use as a facts aggregator to support my understanding. My knowledge is driven by my biomedical education and a constant desire to read nearly everything about medical policy at the federal level, from multiple independent sources.
by ricardobeat | 2025-06-09 23:54:09+00:00
Indeed, I remember the switch to iOS 7, for me battery life seemed to get slightly worse but there were conflicting opinions at the time. It's fresh in my memory as it was around the same time I binged on all five seasons of Breaking Bad :)

I's also true that iOS 7 made the 4/4S seem much slower, but the frosted glass effect still ran at 60FPS - that was my point. It was really impressive at the time. Though unless you spent hours sliding the control center up and down, it's hard to blame the blur effect for the reduced battery life, as it rarely appeared inside apps. Most likely the result of increased OS bloat and proliferation of background services.
by selkin | 2025-06-09 23:54:21+00:00
Podman Desktop, and probably other Linux-containers on macOS tools, can already create multiple VMs, each hosting a subset of the containers you run on your Mac.

What seems to be different here, is that a VM per each container is the default, if not only, configuration. And that instead of mapping ports to containers (which was always a mistake in my opinion), it creates an externally routed interface per machine, similar to how it would work if you'd use macvlan as your network driver in Docker.

Both of those defaults should remove some sharp edges from the current Linux-containers on macOS workflows.
by kyeb | 2025-06-09 23:54:50+00:00
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by diabllicseagull | 2025-06-09 23:56:20+00:00
I'm on the same boat. The specularity around edges don't match the refraction patterns and it throws me off every time. Somehow they thought this wouldn't affect readability of whatever button or panel it's applied to. They also use the specular bits as a border that's also so uneven depending on which direction light hits from. I noticed that some of the dark panels had almost no borders at the lower right corner.

Another bit I'd like to pick on is the speed at which transparent context bubbles spring out. Waiting for a panel to bounce back and forth so that you know where to put your finger next is so bad as a UX choice that I'm losing confidence in Apple.

From a visual point of view, there is now flat design mixed with this voluminous transparent design which is a weird combination of skeuomorphic and abstract designs in one. I really don't know what they were thinking.
by xp84 | 2025-06-09 23:58:31+00:00
You got me. It was super inaccurate to use "proprietary" here (though if i understand correctly, podman is another option that is FOSS).

License aside, though, I would still bet that relying on the Apple-specific version of something like this will cause headaches for teams unless you're operating in an environment that's all-in on Apple. Like, your CI tooling in the cloud runs on a Mac, that degree of vendor loyalty. I've never seen any shop like that.

Plus when this tooling does have interoperability bugs, I do not trust Apple to prioritize or even notice the needs of people like me, and they're the ones in charge of the releases.
by AngryData | 2025-06-09 23:58:41+00:00
I use to report bugs all the time with details of the bug and what I was doing and if possible how to cause it. But then when you encounter the same bugs years later doing some very common task that you momentarily forgot to do your work around for, it made me wonder why I was wasting my time reporting it. These days I rarely report bugs unless it is brand new software released a few weeks ago at most, or a brand new release of older software with a new bug. If something isn't completely breaking the use case of a program, or doesn't have any viable work around, I just don't expect it to ever get fixed. So why waste the time? Im not getting paid for it, it likely won't be fixed, and 49/50 bugs I encounter are things that seem impossible to miss with any real QC.

Doing decent bug reports as a user most of the time it feels like following the turnip truck to town picking up turnips that fell off the truck, giving them to the farmer, but knowing they will likely be thrown in the trash because they didn't care about them to start with. If they did they would have made sure to not overload the truck to start with and not be obviously dropping so many turnips on the side of the road and leaving them there.
by selcuka | 2025-06-09 23:58:43+00:00
I mean, it's nice to have a GUI when running multiple containers on Docker, or Kubernetes, but I've never used Docker Desktop on my work Mac either.

For Kubernetes, something like K9s [1] or Headlamp [2] works fine. I remember seeing something similar for Docker but I can't remember the name.

[1] https://k9scli.io/ [2] https://headlamp.dev/
by data-ottawa | 2025-06-09 23:58:45+00:00
I was initially excited as on paper it sounds like a fantastic throwback to the Aqua design, which I still think was fantastic.

From the preview so far I'm not excited.

I have to say app icons look nice (the borders make them pop just a bit more), the border highlights are clear without being loud, and elements like the dock look nice. The inactive button states actually look great – as shown in the Camera and Facetime screenshots – they actually do look like little glass buttons, which is good.

Where I have issue is when multiple of these glass elemenst are shown at once they fight for attention and it's persnally quite overwhelming for me. The image of the video player controls on iPhone and AppleTV are in my opinion awful and load, and that's especially where you want a quiet UI.

When the shape has a strong refractive index and that's where it becomes really noisy for me with the Safari and music tab bars being absolutely awful in my opinion.

It's a shame because I think if they kept the idea but dialed it down from 11 it could be fantastic.
by JohnMakin | 2025-06-09 23:59:11+00:00
> that's unsubstantiated,

Other than me not making this claim at all, of course it’s substantiated, given he literally mixed up these terms people purporting that kind of expertise typically don’t. That’s literal substantiation, but whatever, I wasn’t even making that claim.

If it seems like I’m skipping past your point it’s because you’re not really making one, or at least not the clever one you seem to think you are.

To answer your q in good faith - yes, I have mixed up words, even in professional settings. I will then typically issue a correction, because the degree of such a mixup can cast a shadow on my credibility and can damage my career and thus earning potential. You seem to be taking the position that elon’s credibility cannot be questioned, at least on the topic of technical expertise. I find that a little bit (actually a lot) silly and an infantile way of looking at this.

Likewise, if I was routinely claiming to be this like, super technical genius founder engineer elite space dude that could never admit fault and was an expert at basically all topics, I would expect to be placed under the same skeptical lens (if not much more, given I’m just a low level grunt) I would face in a scenario like this in my day to day work.

Does this explanation help?
by ok_computer | 2025-06-09 23:59:18+00:00
I am going to show my ineptitude by admitting this, for the life of me I couldn’t get around to implement the Mac Os native way to run linux VMs and used vm-ware fusion instead. [0]

I’m glad this more accessible package is available vs docker desktop on mac os or the aforementioned, likely to be abandoned vmware non enterprise license.

[0] [apple virtualization docs](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/cre...)
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-09 23:59:31+00:00
The thing conspiracy theorists don't realize is that supposed expert witnesses to conspiracies have a monetary interest in furthering them.

If RFK Jr. or Peter McCullough suddenly say "Oh, we were wrong, vaccines are fine" then how much money and power do they lose?

Even if they went home every night convinced they're peddling lies... they'd still do it. It pays.

(Especially after you lose your license to practice)
by kcplate | 2025-06-10 00:01:13+00:00
Well…

I am not antivax but can we please stop pretending like our government and health authorities didn’t royally screw the pooch as it related to the COVID vaccine communications, mandates, etc…?

People became more anti-vax largely due to the prior administration more than RFKjr.

So there may not be a scientific defense but there damn sure is a backlash because of poor leadership.
by Arainach | 2025-06-10 00:02:19+00:00
Animations are not necessarily bullshit, but all of the sites in the linked list of rewards are. Sites which hijack scroll to do something else ("you scrolled down and watch the window in this picture of a house open up and reveal the next text block") are an example of something in vogue amongst designers which are harder to read, harder to navigate, and are just artsy bullshit.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-10 00:02:27+00:00
All ordinary "room temperature and pressure" matter that we're used to -- that we're made of -- can be thought of as bathtub foam compared to a neutron star stuff that is more like a tungsten brick in that analogy.

Well, not quite, because that analogy misses ten orders of magnitude of density difference. That just hurts my brain.

Magnetars are a whole other level of eldritch madness. The energy density of their magnetic fields is ten thousand times the density of lead.

Let that sink in for a minute.

The vacuum around a magnetar contains so much energy in the magnetic field alone that thanks to the E=mc² conversion ratio between energy and mass it has a "mass density" that is the direct equivalent to every single atomic bomb on the planet blowing up all at once and the released energy of all of that getting packed into a cubic centimeter.
by idonotknowwhy | 2025-06-10 00:03:50+00:00
> seen how llama became completely irrelevant in matter of months

Still seems pretty relevant to me:

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

> Downloads last month 5,232,634

Scout, Maverick (and Qwen3) were a step backwards but so was Claude 3.7 for coding (people stuck with 3.5).

Seems like they can afford to make mistakes for the time being.

> So while inference in itself can be

Isn't it already profitable in some cases? Eg. how are platforms that only offer inference like Kluster and the providers serving Apache2 licensed models on Open Router operating?
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-06-10 00:04:10+00:00
> That puts a lot of responsibility on me to get into the business of predicting bad behavior.

Not a ton: you don't need to come up with a numerical probability, and erring on the side of caution is just fine.

That said, I think that IS the question here. If you think it's good or even neutral to give autocrats technology which they almost certainly will use for autocracy (even if they do other things with it), then this isn't a moral dilemma you need concern yourself with.
by natejackson | 2025-06-10 00:04:32+00:00
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by hajile | 2025-06-10 00:04:53+00:00
I don't think upgrading was the reason for Vista performance. MS wasn't in the hardware business back then (and is just a marginal player even today).

They WAY overreached in their goals with Longhorn. When they finally decided to cut back features to something actually attainable, they didn't have enough time to make a high-performance OS.

Windows 7 was a well-loved rebrand of what was essentially just a Windows Vista service pack and improved performance (though it was still too heavy for a lot of the older machines people tried to upgrade to Vista). If they'd have cut back on their goals earlier, Windows 7 is likely a lot closer to what would have shipped as Vista.
by lmm | 2025-06-10 00:05:04+00:00
> But it was never a joke!

It was blatantly a joke. The article even gives us the context that it was part of the guy deliberately getting himself banned from that instance.

> It was a guy basically running harassment enterprise, including swatting people and other false flag style crimes.

Sure, maybe (if it even was that guy and not some random unrelated joker). But even people doing that can also still joke.

> He wasn't being silly or lampooning anything or creating satire

He absolutely was. "I will leave my fingerprints and DNA behind so they can catch me"? That's really funny.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-10 00:05:15+00:00
> are the legislature and executive branches not independent?

I am not sure how this can be a serious question right now, in 2025.

However, in 2017 the capitulation of power and authority by Congress was less obvious. What was still true was that the Republicans who controlled Congress and the President all wanted a large tax cut for higher income Americans, and were thus aligned on the goal. Since the President doesn't actually write legislation, this alignment was all that was needed to push the bill through.
by rayiner | 2025-06-10 00:05:16+00:00
> Normally, when you have expenses, you deduct them off your revenue to find your taxable profit. If you have $1 million in sales, and $900k in costs, you have $100k in profit, and the government taxes you on that profit.

This is an incomplete description. The ordinary rule depends on the nature of the expenditure. If your expense is for building an asset that generates recurring revenue—including paying people to build such an asset—then you cannot immediately deduct that expense. Instead, you must depreciate it over the lifetime of the asset.

The issue here is that software development is sometimes genuine R&D and other times more like building an income producing asset. E.g. if you spend money building infrastructure software to move bits from one place to another, that’s more like a factory building a conveyer belt than it is like investing in fundamental pharmaceutical research.
by jdiff | 2025-06-10 00:05:41+00:00
Sure, they have a legitimate function. So do ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. But they exist in a very particular and not-at-all reputable advertising niche. One that is noteworthily and heavily represented here.

An hour is a significant time investment. Not linking to your sources increases the bar for verifying claims high enough that it's suspicious to not do so.

I can't verify your claims about dosage. I can investigate the claims made in this article. If you want to strengthen your argument and ensure you aren't walking yourself down a path based on nothing but other people's ability to weave a narrative, you should seek out stronger sources for topics you care about.
by pxc | 2025-06-10 00:06:19+00:00
This is the most surprising and interesting part, imo:

> Contributions to `container` are welcomed and encouraged. Please see our main contributing guide for more information.

This is quite unusual for Apple, isn't it? WebKit was basically a hostile fork of KHTML, Darwin has been basically been something they throw parts of over the wall every now and then, etc.

I hope this and other projects Apple has recently put up on GitHub see fruitful collaboration from user-developers.

I'm a F/OSS guy at heart who has reluctantly become a daily Mac user due to corporate constraints that preclude Linux. Over the past couple of years, Apple Silicon has convinced me to use an Apple computer as my main laptop at home (nowadays more comparable, Linux-friendly alternatives seem closer now than when I got my personal MacBook, and I'm still excited for them). This kind of thing seems like a positive change that lets me feel less conflicted.

Anyway, success here could perhaps be part of a virtuous cycle of increasing community collaboration in the way Apple engages with open-source. I imagine a lot of developers, like me, would both personally benefit from this and respect Apple for it.
by lmm | 2025-06-10 00:06:29+00:00
> Just like for credit card fraud, you can only improve your heuristics so far. At some point, you either treat every single possible as real for investigative purposes, or you accept that you find a threat, ignored it, and people die as a result.

This isn't borderline though. This is blatantly nothing. You might as well arrest everyone who leaves their house in the morning.

> More importantly, depending on the threat, it's probably a crime itself. Bomb threats are criminal even if it's clear that it wasn't a realistic threat.

That doesn't make the legal system better, that makes it worse! What world do we live in where Pepsi can offer a valuable prize and welch on it and it's fine because they're joking, but it doesn't go the other way?