MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paleotrope | 2025-06-05 03:31:38+00:00
Tax return on a postcard is still in the Republican area of ideas, but they can't seem to get enough actual Congressional Republicans to come on board. It's frustrating. The problem to me is that the Democrats have become so uncompetitive in large swathes of the country, that too many center/moderates/status quos adapt Republican cover to get into office.

I'm sure Democrats can complain about their Senators in the same language.
by pakyr | 2025-06-05 03:31:53+00:00
Interesting, thanks for reinforcing the point. I would note the two columns 'From Individuals' (which includes all employees) vs. the 'From Organization' column. Worth noting that the R-affiliated GOPAC is the only listed recipient that actually recieved funds from the organization.

Of course, this page doesn't include the $1M inauguration donation, so it's still incomplete.
by mattl | 2025-06-05 03:33:08+00:00
Related. Apple is turning into Sony with their naming of stuff.

In my house I have Apple branded hardware running:

Mac OS

Mac OS X Server

Mac OS X

OS X

macOS

iOS

iPad OS

tvOS

watchOS

homeOS

audioOS

And now I’ll have the strange honor of having two Macs, one running Mac OS X Server 1.23 and one running macOS 26.
by ipnon | 2025-06-05 03:33:18+00:00
It's a windfall. Having written the same project in Phoenix and FastAPI/Expo, I assumed LLMs would be better at writing Python and React. But the amount of boilerplate and opportunities for harmful side effects in the code means I quickly generate large amounts of code that I then need to go back and manually grok to align my understanding. With Elixir this loop is much smaller. I generate a small amount of code, check for validity (much easier to verify in a functional language), and repeat this loop.

Until we get superhuman autonomous coding agents the human in the loop grokking the generated code is still the limiting factor. LLMs are marginally better at generating mainstream languages than Elixir, but the generated Elixir code is much easier to understand and modify, and because of the runtime, will practically never crash your system.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-05 03:34:29+00:00
You can't play most of the same songs on both. Bagpipes (well, most forms of bagpipe, there are dozens, but unqualified people tend to mean the Scottish "Great Highland Bagpipe") are a diatonic instrument playing a just-intonation scale tuned to not cause discordant notes with their own drones, while guitars are a chromatic instrument fretted to play an equal-tempered intonation. The GHB plays in something rather close to the modern Mixolidian A mode with an augmented 4th, not any of the major or minor keys of modern Western music. The GHB and the guitar are entirely incompatible instruments, unless you're talking about a classical guitar with tied-on gut frets that could be replaced to allow playing the GHB scale.
by Grimblewald | 2025-06-05 03:37:05+00:00
I'd love it to be a civic duty thing that all able bodied adults each country are eligible for. Each Olympics, a group of 100 random adults from each country are picked and sent to the Olympics.

It would be cool to see how each country compares athletically using random samples, but also would encourage everyone to stay fit. Who wants to be picked only to fail to complete a 50 meter swim on the international stage while representing your country?
by ehnto | 2025-06-05 03:37:34+00:00
They love to drop things on you from the trees. They laugh and laugh, the cacophony of screeches can be deafening. They mess with traffic all day long too, swooping cars from the traffic lights.

My family has a rescue Galah, very similar to Sulfur Crested Cockatoos and he is very smart. He knows the right words to use and when, he thinks the cat is called "ps ps ps" so he calls for the cat with ps ps ps, when it passes by. Knows how to say hello/goodnight etc and when. He also knows he can trick some people by looking away when you give him food, so you get closer, then he bites.

His wing was broken as a baby after getting stuck in a thorny bush, that's how we came to have him in case anyone is curious. He can't fly.
by pogue | 2025-06-05 03:38:44+00:00
I used it all the time as well. I used to keep up with them on Twitter prior to Mozilla buying them. Shame I never caught the original owners name. I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to create a Fakespot clone using the Amazon API. They scanned the pages repeatedly for deleted reviews and that would give it an idea whether or not there was any type of deception going on.

MetaReview was started by the people who ran the site supplementreviews.com, but the owner of Fakespot would always mention they were very out of date. I don't know if they were just throwing shade at them or legitimately knew more about it. I thought their interface was much better and had way more information.

The thing about running a service like Fakespot is it would be difficult to make money. As far as I can tell, they primarily made income by including affiliate links to other products in their reviews. But who's going to click on a link for a similar product if they already have one picked out? It almost would need to be a subscription service to be profitable.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-05 03:39:47+00:00
This is specifically in response to the recent Facebook chicanery where their app was listening on localhost and spitting out a unique tracking ID to anything that connects, allowing arbitrary web pages to get the tracking ID and correspondingly identify the user visiting the page.

But this is trying to solve the problem in the wrong place. The problem isn't that the browser is making the connection, it's that the app betraying the user is running on the user's device. The Facebook app is malware. The premise of app store curation is that they get banned for this, right? Make everyone who wants to use Facebook use the web page now.
by filleduchaos | 2025-06-05 03:40:04+00:00
> But the pilots didn't read the instructions

Actually watching the linked video (or barring that, actually reading the final report) would dispense with this widely spread inaccuracy in fairly short order and make it quite obvious why they turned ON the stab trim system, which is what ultimately killed them.

But of course, "the pilots were simply stupid" is a psychologically easier conclusion to walk away with.
by jen20 | 2025-06-05 03:40:09+00:00
Part of the point of Markdown is that it's supposed to read like plain text - many of the elements is what was commonplace on usenet and in email.

If you're on macOS though, the best option for rendered Markdown is a quicklook plugin. There are a few around - I like [1] though.

[1]: https://github.com/smittytone/PreviewMarkdown
by mrandish | 2025-06-05 03:40:09+00:00
Oh, I see. I'm already well aware of the many substantial limitations of LLMs and the counter-intuitive nature of these gaps. My comment was pre-assuming a scenario where the chat AI could usefully and correctly answer the question and, even in that case, I want the chat AI to just answer the question and not pretend to have a human-like personality.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-05 03:41:29+00:00
I know this. I also know that there were 3 MCAS incidents. On the first one, the crew restored normal trim with the thumb switches, then turned off the stab trim system. They had no idea that MCAS existed, they simply followed standard procedure for runaway trim.

After the first crash, Boeing sent around an Emergency Airworthiness Directive to all MAX pilots with the two steps I showed.

There's no excuse for MAX pilots not reading, understanding, and remembering Emergency Airworthiness Directives.

It's not just me. I've talked to two 737 pilots who said the same thing.
Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to unify debugging for GTM,GA4& 20 trackers
by toannc | 2025-06-05 03:42:02+00:00
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by const_cast | 2025-06-05 03:42:18+00:00
> Currently it's still somewhat accepted to vape inside of public buildings. Which, IMHO, is insane

Well because second hand smoke is so obvious and real and second hand vape... I mean... I'm not convinced it even exists. I see the vapor for about 2 seconds then it's gone. I can sniff as hard as I want, I'm not smelling anything.

But smoking? Woof. I could tell someone smoked 2 hours ago from 10 feet away. My fingers used to smell like ash 24/7. Even walking past someone 20 feet away, outside, in the wind, you can clearly smell cigarette smoke.

So I don't think it is the same.
by remixff2400 | 2025-06-05 03:42:24+00:00
I just started with it, so still getting my feet wet, but it's been better than any other tool at really grokking my codebase and understanding my intent. The workflow feels better than a strict IDE integration, but it does get pricey really quickly, and you pretty much need at least the $100 Max subscription.

Luckily, it should be coming with the regular $20 Pro subscription in the near future, so it should be easier to demo and get a feel for it without having to jump in all the way.
by StanislavPetrov | 2025-06-05 03:42:43+00:00
Courts have always been political, which is why "jurisdiction shopping" has been a thing for decades. The Supreme Court, especially, has always been political, which is why one of the biggest issues in political campaigns is who is going to be able to nominate new justices. Most people of all political persuasions view courts as apolitical when those courts issue rulings in that affirm their beliefs, and political when they rule against them.

You're right though, in a perfect world courts would be apolitical.
by aristofun | 2025-06-05 03:42:58+00:00
You’ve got it wrong in the first place!

> The painter finds joy in painting, and the result is valued because

Engineers are not painters in one very fundamental way!

Painter’s product is an asset. Software engineer’s code is a liability.

Painter is an artist, creating art. Its primary purpose is in itself.

Software engineer is a craftsman, he creates a mean to an end. A tool to reach product/business goal.
by BoorishBears | 2025-06-05 03:43:07+00:00
Someone said "I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code"

And your answer is "A lot of power in social influence.", which is a bit silly when autocomplete is the first form of AI assistance a critical mass of people found intuitive + helpful and Cursor has the best implementation of it... meanwhile Cline/Roo Code don't provide it.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-05 03:43:52+00:00
This is the same question as: Why does changing the number of items to zero in an item line in an order on one's on-line shopping cart delete the entire item line? And the answer lies in the same user expectations from collective experience of this, rightly or no, being the model.

From the perspective of the pure techicalities, disregarding the shared user experience model, a size zero partition will break a lot of stuff, as there's a lot of stuff that assumes that DASD slices have at least one block, a VBR or a superblock of some kind that determines the volume format.

There's probably an enormous amount of code in firmwares, boot loaders, operating systems, and applications programs that does not check that block 0 is legally within the DASD slice limits. Although the ones that look for superblocks in other than block 0 might do such range checks, there's almost always an assumption that of course there is a block 0.

A case in point is the MBR in block 0 of the entire DASD, used by old firmwares to load the VBR of the bootable volume. There's often no check for a non-zero size in such code.

Here's OpenBSD's MBR code, just for starters. It has no range checking for zero size partitions.

* https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/9213be19d4b9057bbb074ab1...
by satisfice | 2025-06-05 03:44:24+00:00
A lot of these questions no one knows the answer to.

If you think you know “the best LLM to use for summarizing” then you must have done a whole lot of expensive testing— but you didn’t, did you? At best you saw a comment on HN and you believed it.

And if you did do such testing, I hope it wasn’t more than a month ago, because it’s out of date, now.

The nature of my job affords me the luxury of playing with AI tech to do a lot of things, including helping me write code. But I’m not able to answer detailed technical questions about which LLM is best for what. There is no reliable and durable data. The situation itself is changing too quickly to track unless you have the resources to have full subscriptions to everything and you don’t have any real work to do.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-05 03:48:53+00:00
A core component of the Copenhagen interpretation is that quantum mechanics is fundamentally indeterministic meaning you are inherently and inescapably left with probabilistic/statistical systems. And yes, Einstein was saying people were wrong while offering no viable alternative. His motivation was purely ideological - he believed in a rational deterministic universe, and the Copenhagen Interpretation didn't fit his worldview.

For instance this is the complete context of his spooky action at a distance quote: "I cannot seriously believe in [the Copenhagen Interpretation] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance." Framing things like entanglement as "spooky action at a distance" was obviously being intentionally antagonistic on top of it all as well.

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And yes, if it wasn't clear by my tone - I believe the West in has gradually entered onto the exact sort of death of science phase I am speaking about. A century ago you had uneducated (formally at least) brothers working as bicycle repairmen pushing forward aerodynamics and building planes in their spare time. Today, as you observe, even people with excessive formal education, access to [relatively] endless resources, endless information, and more - seem to have little ambition in exploiting that, rather than passively consuming it. It goes some way to explaining why some think LLMs might lead to AGI.
by dhx | 2025-06-05 03:51:48+00:00
For reference, [1] is the recent UN regulation for road vehicles to have an event data recording (EDR) function which records certain telemetry about a vehicle for -5 to +5 seconds around a crash event. None of these fields relate to ADS/ADAS. This difference is described at [3] but in summary, EDR telemetry describes what the vehicle physically does, not who or how the vehicle was instructed to operate in that way. EDR telemetry doesn't answer if ADS/ADAS applied the throttle input or whether it was the human operator depressing the accelerator pedal.

Countries take time to decide how to implement the UN regulations so in countries such as Australia, there is (from a quick check) still no regulation requiring light passenger road vehicles to record any telemetry. The US already had a form of regulation requiring limited telemetry about a vehicle for -20 to +5 seconds around a crash event to be recorded.[2] This US regulation also did not require recording of fields relevant to ADS/ADAS.[2]

What this article describes is access to telemetry data that manufacturers such as Tesla are voluntarily recording within vehicles that may include some idea of ADS/ADAS operation during a crash event. For example, Tesla may be recording the human throttle input separate from recording of the ADS/ADAS throttle input, showing whether it was the driver or vehicle who caused the car to accelerate dangerously before a crash. But the UN regulation and older US regulation didn't expect Tesla to record more than just a single throttle position field, ignoring whether ADS/ADAS or the driver directed the throttle position.

[1] UN Regulation No. 160 - Event Data Recorder (EDR) - https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-10/R160E.pdf

[2] CFR Title 49 Subtitle B Chapter V Part 563 - https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...

[3] https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2019/wp29grva/GRVA...
by blixt | 2025-06-05 03:52:32+00:00
I keep switching away from and back to Cursor (mainly due to frontier models explicitly fighting their apply model, the first few times it’s funny to see the LLM itself write “this is frustrating” but I digress).

And every time I find it having diverged further from VSCode compatibility.

This wouldn’t be so bad if it was an intentional design choice but it seems more that Microsoft is starting to push them out? Like MS Dev Containers plugin is still recommended by some leftover internal, but if you install it you get pushed to a flow that auto uninstalls it and installs Remote Containers by Anysphere (which works differently and lacks support for some features). And I end up rebuilding my Dev Container once more… I also noticed recent extensions such as the Postgres one from MS also doesn’t exist.
by homefree | 2025-06-05 03:52:57+00:00
The idea that stuck out to me is even if you repeal chevron deference and argue congress should be making laws like it’s supposed to, the outcome will be vague laws which then get interpreted by the courts, pushing the real legislation from administration technocrats that might at least be subject matter experts in the best case to unelected judges that probably don’t know anything.

The symbolic idea of who holds power and who actually holds power in practice are not the same.

There’s also the bit that doge is constrained in ways that make success unlikely (which has now been proved out).
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-05 03:53:30+00:00
That's fair in some senses.

But one of the central points of the paper/essay is that embodied AGI requires a world model. If that is true, and if it is true that LLMs simply do not build world models, ever, then "it's early days" doesn't really matter.

Of course, whether either of those claims is true are quite difficult questions to answer; the author spends some effort on them, quite satisfyingly to me (with affirmative answers to both).
by WalterBright | 2025-06-05 03:55:59+00:00
That's exactly how instrument training is done. The student wears a hood so he can only see the instruments. The instructor puts the airplane in various situations where your senses lie, and the student has to recover.

My dad, against orders, carried a piece of pipe with him, to ensure the student would not panic and kill them both. He said he never had to use it.
by filleduchaos | 2025-06-05 03:56:48+00:00
Design and implementation are not completely distinct things, though. If e.g. a software company's backups were implemented solely as daily dumps to the same SSD the database was running on, and then they implemented a more sane backup solution after the practically-inevitable data loss, would we just go "well the implementation was badly done" or would people not call it out as bad systems design?

Some designs are so poorly thought through (and/or conceived for the wrong reasons to begin with, like MCAS was) that they cannot help but yield poor implementations.

(Also, input from one or two sensors was far from the only problem with MCAS' implementation. The fact that it could activate multiple times and that it could trim far harder and faster than human pilots could manually trim were equally contributors to making the saga a tragedy).
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-05 03:57:41+00:00
Not to be overly snarky, but I'd argue that your comment here is a failure of creativity.

If the AGI mechanism can learn from a real world, it can learn from a simulated one (that it can similarly operate within and act upon) -- and in fact that can cut down the time it would take to train the AGI from years/decades (humans) by many orders of magnitude.

We already see things like this in robotics environments, it's a matter of fidelity/simulation quality. Even without perfect quality, if the mechanism of learning is correct, you'd get an intelligence with incomplete ideas/intelligence, not a completely different thing.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-06-05 03:58:09+00:00
If I made a contract with OpenAI to keep information confidential, and the newspaper demanded access, via Court discovery or otherwise, then both the Court and OpenAI definitely should be attentive to my rights to intervene and protect the privacy of my confidential information.

Normally Courts are oblivious to advanced opsec, which is one fundamental reason they got breached, badly, a few years ago. I just saw a new local order today on this very topic.[1] Courts are just waking up to security concepts that have been second nature to IT professionals.

From my perspective, the magistrate judge here made two major goofs: (1) ignoring opsec as a reasonable privacy right for customers of an internet service and (2) essentially demanding that several hundred million of them intervene in her court to demand that she respect their ability to protect their privacy.

The fact that the plaintiff is the news organization half the US loves to hate does not help, IMO. Why would that half of the country trust some flimsy "order" to protect their most precious secrets from an organization that lives and breathes cloak-and-dagger leaks and political subterfuge. NYT needed to keep their litigation high and tight and instead they drove it into a ditch with the help of a rather disappointing magistrate.

[1] https://www.uscourts.gov/highly-sensitive-document-procedure...
by nine_k | 2025-06-05 03:59:35+00:00
Yarvin's analysis of a situation is often interesting and poignant, and occasionally quite fun to read, due to his erudition and irony.

His positive program though is underwhelming at best, and hostile at worst, literally against several key points of the US oath of allegiance, for instance. His idea of a benevolent head of a "sovcorp" ("sovereign corporation") is not even some virtuous king Elessar; someone like president Putin, capable, determined, and with very long horizon of planning, but sufficiently cynical, would fit the bill. For last 3 yeas we have a painful demonstration of how well that works.

The fact that Yarvin can publish and promote his views in a society that's formally built on ideas opposite to his speaks good about our society, its freedom of thought and speech. It also adds to its durability. Every authoritarian ruler knows how dangerous are subversive ideas that propagate covertly, while everyone pretends to be aligned to the official values.
by moduspol | 2025-06-05 04:01:23+00:00
AutoPilot is already independently monitoring driver attentiveness. With FSD, if your eyes are visible, it's watching your eyes. If it can't see your eyes (or you don't have FSD), it falls back to requiring the driver to apply a small and specific bit of torque to the steering wheel consistently.

The drowsiness alert would be superfluous when it's watching your eyes. It's already going to yell at you if it can't see your open eyes looking out the windshield for more than a second or two.

Whether or not the "steering wheel torque" method is better than a vision-based driver drowsiness alert is probably debatable, but it would be pretty tough to fall asleep while also applying exactly the right amount of torque to keep Autopilot engaged.