MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by horsawlarway | 2025-06-04 16:34:41+00:00
> It's about conceiving of the decomposition of problems on that level. It's about understanding what data is, so that when the student later learns a higher-level programming language, it sets expectations for what happens when you open a file, what kind of processing has to be done, etc. It's the basis for understanding abstractions that are built upon all those 1s and 0s, about the way that a program implicitly assigns semantics to them.

These are all things that are your goals, as the adult and teacher.

The student who wants to engage with programming and software likely has other goals in mind.

Skip all the crap you just mentioned, focus on helping them achieve their goals. I think you'll find those are usually more in the realm of "I want to make a game" or "I want to show my stuff to friends on a website" or "I want to make the computer play music" or [insert other high level objective that's not "learn about bits and bytes"].

Will that involve the stuff you mentioned? Sure will, and a student who feels like they're achieving the thing they want by learning that stuff is engaged.

But a student who gets to just sit there and listen to you drone on and on about "abstractions" and "instructions sets" and "data is code" and "semantics" all to end up with a complicated file that functionally just adds two numbers together? That student is usually bored and disengaged.
by LocalH | 2025-06-04 16:34:52+00:00
> if you tied an NFT hash to a legal contract then you could actually enforce ownership of those fungible jpegs and the right click copy people would be just as in violation of the law as someone who walks out with your employer's software sources

For NFTs "owned" by people in the US, I sure hope you have each and every NTF as a formally registered copyright. IANAL, but it would seem the contract cannot directly affect non-parties, and thus standard copyright law would apply. Registration is required to file a copyright infringement suit.
by zevon | 2025-06-04 16:34:59+00:00
No, you are not wrong. Alibaba is a platform for business to business transactions. The $495 may end up being your price (before all other charges) for a machine if you buy a few shipping containers full of the things. If you want to buy a single one, it will be much more expensive and it will require you to convince the seller that you are planning to set up a business and require a sample or something of that sort.

edit: If you don't want to build a machine, you can find vendors through the PP Bazar[1]. Even fancy ones with CE and made from wood somewhere in Austria :D [2]

[1] https://bazar.preciousplastic.com/

[2] https://www.plasticpreneur.com/
by busterarm | 2025-06-04 16:36:16+00:00
> Our rule taking PayPal: Transfer EVERYTHING out of your PayPal account on a daily basis, do not let them hold your funds, they will block you from accessing it at some point. Minimize what they can touch.

That only works until your business is successful. Once you reach enough transaction volume/dollars they will require you to float millions of dollars in your PayPal balance and not let you touch anything for 30-45 days after transactions.
by bufferoverflow | 2025-06-04 16:36:18+00:00
Why would you think garbage collecting or other mundane jobs won't be automated when much more complex ones are?

If AI+robotization gets to the point where most jobs are automated, humans will get to do.what they actually want to do. For some it's endless entertainment. For others it's science exploration, pollution cleanup, space colonization, curing the disease. All of that with the help of the AIs.
by bobbiechen | 2025-06-04 16:36:48+00:00
+1. As mentioned on the side, this will negatively impact your conversion rate. But you don't need to leave it on forever, either; you can use it to get some breathing room.

The attacker may lose interest or move on to more fruitful targets if they find themselves blocked even temporarily. This is the "don't need to be faster than the bear" dynamic of online fraud: there are infinite targets and you don't need to perfectly shut out an attacker to make the ROI unappealing for them.

My thoughts on the scenario:

1. Chargebacks are not just a financial problem. There is no amount of money you can pay to regain the trust of your sellers (as it's a marketplace) or to change terms with your payment providers.

2. If the emails come from the same domain, can you block the domain? There are lots of throwaway domains, but it's effort for the attacker to switch them, too.

3. CAPTCHAs are increasingly ineffective between captcha solving services and multi-modal AI. I've heard in a few recent attacks that hCaptcha does a little better than Turnstile or reCAPTCHA.

4. Shadowbanning is good for wasting your attacker's time, which is really important to kill their ROI. You'll need to get your false positive rate low though to not piss off your actual good customers.

5. Your scenario (no API, browser required, no bot activity expected) is a really good fit for properly implemented device fingerprinting.

I'm the PM for Fraud & Security at Stytch and we do have a Device Fingerprinting product. It's harder to trial than the open-source ones, but the advantage is that attackers can't inspect the implementation to evade it.

Would you be interested in talking more? I'm happy to walk through your current controls and see if it makes sense to test Device Fingerprinting, shoot me an email at (first letter of my username) + (last four letters of my username) @ stytch.com .
by ARandumGuy | 2025-06-04 16:36:50+00:00
Most research is funded through grants. Many different federal agencies provide grants, as well as private organizations. When applying for a grant, you have to indicate what you're going to spend the money on. And your grant may be rejected if the organization funding the grant thinks you're not going to spend the money well. And if you can't find someone to give you a grant, you probably can't do the research, even if you have tenure.

There are problems with this system. Researchers often have to spend a lot of time writing grant applications, and grants can be rejected for any number of bad reasons. And there are cases where research was funded that probably shouldn't have been funded. But research funding isn't given willy-nilly to whoever asks, and taxpayers wasting money on kooky ideas isn't a particularly big problem.
by K0balt | 2025-06-04 16:36:54+00:00
My theoretical potential losses compared to the costs of the payment processsors I ditched, and the chargebacks we used to deal with.

International payment processing is quite expensive, both on a teansaction and on an administrative basis.

My worst case total risk exposure is approximately the same as the cost of 3 months of payment processing overhead, without counting fraudulent chargebacks and “we are going to freeze your account because we can” risks.

FWIW in the last 60 years I have lost way more money to fraud and theft dealing with banks and cash then I ever will using cryptocurrency. On a total, or a percentage basis. I see the risk profile, when properly managed, to be much, much lower using blockchain solutions.
by duxup | 2025-06-04 16:37:06+00:00
With authoritarian folks the amazing part is how even if you support their slogans or ideas generally they're not any good about accomplishing them, they'll ignore when they fail, they'll always tell you they did / will do the thing so well.

This fits Trump & Co's authoritarian style and total lack of curiosity / total lack of interest in taking input from people who know.

So here we are, the party that talks about government spending, trade, and debt hiding that their own policies create a worse situation.
by cootsnuck | 2025-06-04 16:37:34+00:00
Same here. I'm currently doing the soloist route as a consultant. Going well but I am reaching a point where I'm starting to need help.

Even if you do end up having the best kind of problem and have to scale your business, there are other ways to organize work besides the same ol' tired hierarchy.

Enspiral is one real-life example I can think of. They're a entrepreneurial collective in New Zealand that has figured out its own way of organizing collaboration in a way without bosses/execs. Seems to be working fine for them. (Other types of worker cooperatives / collectives too, they're just a great example.)

I'd rather dare to try to make something perhaps more difficult at first but that allows me to avoid recreating the types of working conditions that pushed me to leave the rat race.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-06-04 16:38:05+00:00
Wow! My thoughts too exactly - especially after working for decades and finding that the art of software design and building is literally going to dogs - for better or worse - and everything is 'just a prompt away'. Attended a webinar just yesterday where this interview prep company has pivoted into helping others up-level and pushing the AI/ML FOMO agenda - and telling how AI-enabled people will obsolete non-AI enabled people. The proverbial rat race has taken a new turn.
by munificent | 2025-06-04 16:38:19+00:00
Haha, good question. I have tried:

* French press. Makes great coffee easily (but not super quickly), but the clean-up is a huge hassle and makes the total iteration time not worth it. I gave up on this quickly.

* Aeropress. Makes good coffee and the clean-up isn't too bad. Pretty quick and not too fiddly to do. I did this for a couple of years.

* Mr. Coffee drip coffee. Makes mediocre coffee very easily, pretty quickly, and with fairly easy clean-up. I did it this way for several years, but the coffee gradually got worse and worse. I tried cleaning it out with vinegar a few times but eventually ditched it.

* Pour-over. Very simple, fast clean-up. Can make good coffee but it took me many iterations to dial in the parameters and making it was always fiddly and somewhat mentally taxing. I don't particularly like the fresh and fruity flavor that pour-over leans towards, otherwise I might have stuck with this.

* Keurig. I hate the old DRM-based business model, but now they have reusable K-cups and take regular coffee. This is what I do now. The coffee is only mediocre, but it is very fast. Faster than microwaving a cup of hot water. Like wizardry. The clean-up is very simple and fast.

I think I prefer the coffee from an Aeropress more, but the convenience of the Keurig is hard to beat. Really, I just need a tolerable unit of caffeine first thing in the morning in order to be a functioning human.
Show HN: Multimodal AI Healthcare Biller
by ginger_turmeric | 2025-06-04 16:38:22+00:00
I fought Long Covid for 2 years from 2020-2022, could barely breathe or walk 5 minutes some days. Dealing with insurance was a pain in the ass. So I co-founded a company called Amperos Health. Long story short we built an AI agent that can autonomously make phone calls to insurance, as well as navigate insurance portals to get info, to help human billers get claims paid. Would appreciate any feedback, particularly if you work in applied AI or health care. We're also hiring across engineering and sales!
by busyant | 2025-06-04 16:38:37+00:00
> The sound ID works very well, especially in the jungles/forests of Colombia with zero network availability.

Interesting. I find that the sound ID works well if:

- I have my phone out of my pocket and exposed to the air (obviously, if the microphone is muffled, it may cause problems).

- I'm not moving (my footsteps seem to interfere no matter how loud the bird is)

- The Merlin App is running with "focus" (i.e., if Merlin sound ID is running in the background, it seems less likely to detect songs and calls). I don't know if this is really true or if I have a subconscious bias.

- There are also weird effects where it will sometimes fail to notice really loud obvious birds nearby (e.g., baltimore orioles directly above me) but it will nail a faint and distant song.

It would also be nice if it could show the part of the sonogram that forms the basis of its ID call. It is especially difficult for me to examine a sonogram when there are multiple birds singing at once.

> The rest of the app needs a lot of love, though. Buttons don’t work often, screens are inconsistent, results get lost, and more issues.

I have the opposite experience, but that may be a phone-specific issue??

Nevertheless, it's a fantastic app.
by Supermancho | 2025-06-04 16:38:40+00:00
> There are no civil consequences for individual policemen in the United States

The issue is future culpability, not current prosecution.

> They’re not in rebellion; they are obeying state direction. It’s important to recognize what stage of fascism we are in.

Irrelevant.

> It needs to be recognized that Trump is acting with legitimate authority.

SMH Fascism is not rebellion. Fascists are often elected and granted authority, in the vacuum they are responsible for. Kim Jong Un has legitimate authority, in the same vein.

This feels like you're trolling. Good luck with that.
by spankibalt | 2025-06-04 16:38:52+00:00
> I wouldn't bother; the time for this is past. It is not worth curating tags/ontologies. Let the computer do it for you, or don't: just search.

The only mechanism that will ever be properly able to contextualize the relevance of my ingested information when it counts (as in while I am alive) is me; the only way to do this is by curation. A someone else who understood this once said: "The tool shapes the master; the master shapes the tool".

Manually assigning tags are an excellent way of doing this, as long as one doesn't overthink it to such an extent where the curation process meets the harsh realities of diminishing returns. Sadly, many people, constantly jumping from one fad to the next, already fail here.
by GMoromisato | 2025-06-04 16:39:00+00:00
I grew up in the 80s and we were basically taught that at any moment we could see a mushroom cloud and get a minute to say goodbye to everything. As horrible as that was, I think it taught us to deal with uncertainty in a way that maybe other generations didn't get. We learned to accept that we don't always have control over what's going to happen. And in that acceptance, there is a Zen peace.

The truth is, we don't know how AI will evolve. Maybe it will replace all jobs in 10 years. Or maybe never. Or maybe the world will change bit by bit over the next 50 years until it is utterly unrecognizable. Anyone who tells you that they know for sure is selling you something.

If forced to guess, I would say AI is like electricity or the microprocessor: it will change everything, but it will take decades.

Once you accept that things are going to change, it frees you to focus on what's important. Focus on what you can control: your skills, your effort, and your relationships (business and personal).
by kragen | 2025-06-04 16:39:06+00:00
I'm not making up any technology. Conservation of energy, solar power, artificial satellites, and Newtonian gravitation are not the same kind of "science fiction" as faster-than-light drives, little green men, or inevitable human extinction. What we should predict, according to the information we have right now, is that humans will be able to decide whether or not the Earth gets incinerated, unless they die off first.

Yes, moving the Earth is a larger project than replacing CFCs. But the humans harness progressively larger amounts of power per capita over time, historically at the rate of about 1.2% per year. At that rate, a Dyson swarm will capture effectively all of the Sun's 48-petawatt output in six or seven hundred years, though I expect the rate to accelerate. That's over a billion times larger than the power required to move Earth to anywhere. If you were to distribute the Sun's power evenly to the world's current population, only 7 people (per generation) would need to pool their shares to achieve it. So the magnitude of investment is extremely manageable.

I'm not interested in the real and very big obstacles that are in your way right now. I'm interested in which of those obstacles will remain 400 million years from now. It seems irresponsible to speculate that humanity will remain collectively suicidal for such long spans of time—if nothing else, you'd expect the collectively-suicidal subpopulations to become scarcer over time.
by scj13 | 2025-06-04 16:39:18+00:00
Modal is great, they even released a deep dive into their LP solver for how they're able to get GPUs so quickly (and cheaply).

Coiled is another option worth looking at if you're a Python developer. Not nearly as fast on cold start as Modal, but similarly easy to use and great for spinning up GPU-backed VMs for bursty workloads. Everything runs in your cloud account. The built-in package sync is also pretty nice, it auto-installs CUDA drivers and Python dependencies from your local dev context.

(Disclaimer: I work with Coiled, but genuinely think it's a good option for GPU serverless-ish workflows. )
by minimaxir | 2025-06-04 16:39:28+00:00
The JS ports of FFmpeg (or WASM port if you want the in-browser approach) are very old and would be more than present in modern LLM training datasets, albeit likely not enough of a proportion for LLMs to understand it well.

https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
by hn_acker | 2025-06-04 16:39:32+00:00
AT&T, Comcast, and CenturyLink financially contribute to Utah Taxpayers Association, the dark money group in question [1]. AT&T's 2024 financial disclosure records include contributions to UTA [2]. Comcast and CenturyLink/Lumen are or have been among the UTA's conference sponsors [3][4].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/04/big-telecom-covertly-fun...

[2] https://sustainability.att.com/ViewFile?fileGuid=e33e226c-27...

[3] https://www.bountifulutah.gov/file/bed1ff61-eee4-46ab-b62a-0...

[4] https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/07/09/gigi-so...
by empath75 | 2025-06-04 16:40:02+00:00
100% agreed. I think, in fact, that "intelligence" itself is a near-meaningless term, let alone AGI.

The evidence for this is that nobody can agree on what actually requires intelligence, other than there is seemingly broad belief among people that if a computer can do it, then it doesn't.

If you can't point at some activity and say: "There, this absolutely requires intelligence, let there be zero doubt that this entity possesses it", then it's not measurable and probably doesn't exist.
by pstuart | 2025-06-04 16:40:04+00:00
It's effectively agreed upon that "heroic measures" while approaching EOL are both a bad use of funds and also of questionable value to the patient.

That said, the OP context was about denying healthcare to "the poors". Period. It has nothing to do with the slippery slope of "lost causes".

Bear in mind that the OP's political party is stridently against any sort of public health care options, and that's what is driving her stance.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-04 16:40:16+00:00
I don’t agree that Gillette making a profit on razor blades is “double-dipping” and certainly not in a way that I want to prevent.

The main point I made is the upthread summary (which appears to be unreviewed ChatGPT spew, adding noise rather than signal to the discussion) of the law is incorrect in an obvious way that the actual bill is not.
by mikemcquaid | 2025-06-04 16:40:41+00:00
> such that someone abusing LLM tooling today—especially a junior—is crippling their own learning

I don't agree with this if they follow the guidelines I've discussed in this post about e.g. actually reviewing and ensuring they understand the output of the LLMs.

> This is not about “open source maintainers” in general, as the title suggests, but about Mike’s personal experience.

You'll be unsurprised to hear I gently disagree here. It's not based just on my experience but the (very mixed) experiences of my peers. Those who are good at code review do seem to be having a better time with LLMs.

> Everything is broken, and you’re partying like breaking everything some more is a good thing.

My experience with LLMs has been that they help me fix broken things more quickly than before LLMs. Again, as I mention in the post, if you're not reviewing the output here: you're doing it wrong.

> You can use them right or wrong, effectively or ineffectively.

Exactly. This post tries to explain how to use them effectively, something I find OSS maintainers find easier.
by Ozarkian | 2025-06-04 16:41:39+00:00
You can't constrain an idea whose time has come. China will continue developing AI regardless of whether we will. We have to do it just to stay in the race.

It's the same thing with the atomic bomb. There wasn't really a choice not to do it. All the theoretical physicists at the time knew that it was possible to develop the thing. If the United States hadn't done it, someone else would have. Perhaps a few years or a decade later, but it would have happened somewhere.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-04 16:41:43+00:00
Probably not. It requires a lot of mass to make galaxies make sense. And we can compute that the extra matter is usually distributed in a halo around the outer edge of the galaxy. The density is such that if it were any kind of normal matter, we should be able to see it in at least one galaxy.

All of our observation tells us that whatever dark matter is, it doesn't interact with the electromagnetic field. That is, it does not interact with light of any frequency, so is completely undetectable to us. As far as we can tell, dark matter appears to not interact with anything other than gravity, which is pretty weird. We think that it doesn't even interact with itself; two dark matter particles should just pass through each other.

We know a lot about what dark matter isn't, but we're still pretty clueless on what it is
by turtletontine | 2025-06-04 16:41:52+00:00
The first link confirms exactly what I said above. They’re not preventing Google from removing third party cookies, they’re preventing Google from implementing ALTERNATIVES to third party cookies. The only reason Google is unwilling to straight up remove third party cookies is their business model.

The CMA was concerned that, without regulatory oversight and scrutiny, Google’s alternatives could be developed and implemented in ways that impede competition in digital advertising markets. This would cause advertising spending to become even more concentrated on Google, harming consumers who ultimately pay for the cost of advertising. It would also undermine the ability of online publishers such as newspapers to generate revenue and continue to produce valuable content in the future.

The second link does contain the phrase “cannot proceed with third-party cookie deprecation”, but it’s simply obvious that it’s not about third party cookies per se. It’s all about Google’s (unnecessary, anticompetitive, anti-user, anti-privacy) replacements for third party cookies.

… report on the implementation of Google’s Privacy Sandbox commitments, the regulator has said that although the tech giant is so far complying with its demands, there remain considerable areas of concerns … … That it must not “design, develop or use the Privacy Sandbox proposals in ways that reinforce the existing market position of its advertising products and services, including Google Ad Manager“ … It must also address issues with specific Sandbox tools such as how its Topics API targeting alternative can harm smaller tech business, and clarify who will govern the Topics API taxonomy.
by Romario77 | 2025-06-04 16:42:58+00:00
I would have added some more things that you could have mitigated - like lowering your sail to half mast after the wind increase. Or only using the jib or even switching to engine power.

Which in the context of incident prevention translates into adapting to what is happening and maintaining the safety profile to prevent the incident.

Half mast sale - less force on the mast, more time to react to things when going solo.