MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kazinator | 2025-06-26 01:37:00+00:00
Google vs. Oracle was about whether APIs are copyrightable, which is an important issue that speaks to antitrust. Oracle wanted the interface itself to be copyrighted so that even if someone reproduced the API from a description of it, it would infringe. The implication being that components which clone an API would be infringing, even though their implementation is original, discouraging competitors from making API-compatible components.

My comment didn't say anything about the output of AI being fair use or not, rather that fair use (no matter where you are getting material from) ipso facto doesn't mean that copy paste is considered okay.

Every employer I ever had discouraged copy and paste from anywhere as a blanket rule.

At least, that had been the norm, before the LLM takeover. Obviously, organizations that use AI now for writing code are plagiarizing left and right.
by briHass | 2025-06-26 01:37:26+00:00
Azure has some things about it that I don't like (compared to AWS), but it wins over AWS for Azure App Services. Essentially, IIS (webserver) as a service (PaaS), with autoscaling, auto-deployment, hot swap slots, auto-recovery, backups, etc. At it's core, it's basically a managed Docker container (either Windows or Linux) with IIS, so you can customize it quite a bit like a familiar VM, but unlike a VM, updates and security is all managed for you.

Beanstalk is a joke compared to AAS, and I'm more than happy to stay far away from Docker/K8s until that complexity is actually required, which it usually isn't until an entire department handles your K8s clusters/EKS.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-26 01:37:27+00:00
> the governments powerful enough to roll something like this out are not trusted authorities which will protect the privacy of their citizens.

The trust I mentioned was the ability for third-parties to trust that the authority will not hand out IDs in an uncontrolled manner. I was not saying that the ID holders need to trust the authority:

> Users can identify themselves to third-parties without disclosing their real-world identity to the third-party and without disclosing their interaction with the third-party to the issuing body.

If the authority doesn’t know how your ID is used, you don’t have to trust the authority to keep that information private.
by OlehSavchuk | 2025-06-26 01:38:01+00:00
Enter your phone number, get called in 30 seconds for a 2–3 minute AI-powered screening interview.

Current MVP scope Right now it handles general screening questions and generates simple reports. We’re validating demand before building:

Technical screening libraries

ATS integrations

Custom question sets per role or company

Multi-language support

Who we’re looking for We’d love feedback from recruiters and startup founders who are (or soon will be) running hiring processes.

Request for feedback Please actually try the call first—I know it sounds gimmicky, but the voice quality will surprise you. Then let us know:

Did it feel natural?

Would you be comfortable being screened this way?

If you hire, could you see your team using this?

What needs improvement?

To see the full recruiter dashboard, leave your email on the page and we’ll send you the demo.

This is just an MVP to test the concept. Curious what HN thinks—future of recruiting or unnecessary automation?
by mdaniel | 2025-06-26 01:38:28+00:00
For your consideration, having <https://infuze.cloud/help/vm-creation-management#:~:text=inf...> without the ability for the user to influence the cloud-init of those newly launched instances is practically worthless

A middle ground may be for you to add just the webhook feature <https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/latest/reference/yaml_examples...> so folks could react to newly launched instances and provision them "from outside" or, of course, https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/latest/reference/modules.html#...
by lazyasciiart | 2025-06-26 01:38:53+00:00
Still can in many states, although the average internet seems to be unaware of this. I saw someone getting torn apart for defending their husbands felony marijuana possession conviction as “not a bad person” because people think that today you only get that charge if you were driving a truck full of the stuff with a body in the back, but in e.g. Florida it’s still up to 5 years for 20g plain possession.

https://www.findlaw.com/state/criminal-laws/marijuana-posses...
by wonderwonder | 2025-06-26 01:40:08+00:00
I don't think either of us is wrong and I appreciate your viewpoint. Often ones opinion on these sorts of things depends on where on the sliding scale you stand with regard to the individuals duty to society and vice versa. What I always find interesting in these conversations is that often the position on the the scale differs by topic but such is human nature, we all have our personal pet areas of importance. I am sure there are topics where you and I would switch sides as to individual vs personal responsibility. Its what keeps life interesting :)

Regarding the licensed provider, you are absolutely correct, I always get an email signed by whatever doctor works with the site. Its a rubber stamp but its does provide legality.
by hunter-gatherer | 2025-06-26 01:41:29+00:00
Can you expound on your use of peptides? My nephew was diagnised with crohns at the age of 10, but they now figure he was being mistreated when symptoms started at age 4. He is somehow still alive, but there have been significant developmental problems due to crohns and an overuse of steroids and other weird medications in his treatments.

His parents have been doing IV infusions for the past two years, which seem to be having more of a positive impact than anything the health care system did, and now they are about to start peptide therapy, which is something I know little about.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-06-26 01:43:10+00:00
Opposite those ODs you have thousands of people spending an arm and a leg on medicine that truly improves their lives, with no ill effect to them.

The way I see it, services like Hims are forcing a discussion that needs to have happened a long time ago. If people are willing to rely on them for medicines that can have some pretty serious side effects, what does that say about our existing system that people are eschewing? When you're asking people to choose between being able to afford to eat, and being able to afford something like insulin, why the fuck would you expect the decision making process to be anything otherwise?

Maybe many americans would disagree, right until the moment when they're nearly vomiting their guts out at the pharmacy, waiting for their zofran, which is going to cost them several hundred dollars, just because they're getting a version with a little glucose added so it doesn't taste as bad when you take it.
by PolyBaker | 2025-06-26 01:44:03+00:00
Good article. Lot to be learned about fasting. I've gone 3 days at most and surprised at the amount of energy and focus. They mention in the article how they are surprised with how much free time they get back from not worrying about food. I've found this to be surprisingly true! Its quite burdensome to return to eating when you just want to work during the day and got used to not having to worry about food.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-26 01:44:42+00:00
> It can still be used for tracking.

This doesn’t make sense. The whole point of using IDs in this way is in an authenticated context.

Did you think I was suggesting that this ID would be accessible to any website without asking? This is something you would send as part of a registration step. So, for instance, if you spam Hacker News, you get banned, you try to register again, it receives the same ID as before and knows not to let you register.
by turnsout | 2025-06-26 01:44:57+00:00
This is a complex picture, so there's much more going on here than Big Pharma trying to squeeze out white-knight compounding pharmacies and supplement makers. What we have in the US is an industry that is constantly at the brink of system collapse, because that's the point of maximum efficiency/optimization. Pharma charges whatever payers (insurance companies) will support, and payers pass on whatever consumers can bear before literally becoming insolvent.

Consumers are so alienated that they'll pay out of pocket for a disruptor like Hims, which is doing its best to circumvent the entire system. Sadly, just as there's little government oversight to prevent pharma from becoming monopolistic, there's virtually no regulation on supplements. So you end up with the worst of both worlds; you can either take the $1000 monopoly pill or the $2 gas station pill filled with sawdust and raccoon repellant.
by rklaehn | 2025-06-26 01:45:36+00:00
We decided to keep things simple. In general we try to provide one good way to do something instead of having a lot of options.

E.g. we only provide Ed25519 for keys and in iroh-blobs only BLAKE3 for hashing, instead of having a multihash scheme. Having the public key directly available is sometimes useful, e.g. for verifying signatures. It also allowed us to directly use the mainline extension BEP_0044 to store data for public keys.

That being said, I am very confident that we will be able to provide a relatively smooth transition if we ever have to switch from Ed25519 to another public key format.

For connection encryption we use a TLS extension called raw public keys in TLS, and here of course the keys are prefixed, and we could easily upgrade to another key format and then at some point stop supporting Ed25519 keys.

raw public keys in TLS: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7250 storing arbitrary data in the DHT: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html
by userbinator | 2025-06-26 01:46:11+00:00
but even when I play back my own videos it feels painfully slow unless it's 2x.

Watching your video at 1x still feels too slow, and it's just right for me at 2x speed (that's approximately how fast I normally talk if others don't tell me to slow down), although my usual YouTube watching speed is closer to 2.5-3x. That is to say, you're still faster than a lot of others.

I think it just takes practice --- I started at around 1.25x for videos, and slowly moved up from there. As you have noticed, once you've consumed enough sped-up content, your own speaking speed will also naturally increase.
by j4pe | 2025-06-26 01:47:21+00:00
I am a simple man I see -2k lines of code, I upvote

I've told this story to every client who tried schemes to benchmark productivity by some single-axis metric. The fact that it was Atkinson demonstrates that real productivity is only benchmarkable by utility, and if you can get a truly accurate quantification for that then you're on the shortlist for a Nobel in economics.
by 0x38B | 2025-06-26 01:47:58+00:00
This is problem for me and my brother right now. He's up at a remote job site and we want to play Siege or Apex together¹, but both require anti-cheat and don't support Linux. And I'm loathe to devote space on my SSD to Windows.

¹: Rainbow Six: Siege and Apex Legends, respectively.
by lmm | 2025-06-26 01:48:09+00:00
> I pay $50/mo for a single provider, unlimited visits / communication, and highly discounted labs. She makes house calls on occasion. This doctor is working solely in my interest, and has little concern of insurance, except to help me navigate that system should I need a specialist, prior authorization, etc.

Someone's presumably paying her more than $50/hr, which will burn through your monthly fees pretty quickly. Where's the money coming from?
by const_cast | 2025-06-26 01:48:23+00:00
Linux is significantly more user-friendly than Windows, the problem is it's unfamiliar. Windows is cryptic, roundabout, and very much the black sheep of modern operating systems. Nothing makes sense, there's a dozen settings panels, everything is everywhere, and the OS just breaks seemingly randomly if you leave it alone for long enough.

But we, consumers, have gotten so accustomed to the jank of Windows that we perceive it as intuitiveness. But is it really so? Just consider: what would Grandma have an easier time using? Elementary OS, or Windows 11? To me, the answer seems obvious. But we don't optimize for Grandma.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-26 01:48:32+00:00
If it's a bogus argument then mount a counterargument. The question is simple: what is worth mining in space?

So far we have... "maybe platinum." Maybe!

Aside from the conspicuous absence of math, "maybe platinum" isn't remotely important enough a factor in earthbound mining to justify asteroid mining on the basis of preserving earth, obviously.
Show HN: AI Phone Interviewer – get a call in 30 seconds
by OlehSavchuk | 2025-06-26 01:50:52+00:00
Enter your phone number, get called in 30 seconds for a 2–3 minute AI-powered screening interview. https://prepin.ai/aiphonecall

Current MVP scope Right now it handles general screening questions and generates simple reports. We’re validating demand before building:

Technical screening libraries

ATS integrations

Custom question sets per role or company

Multi-language support

Who we’re looking for We’d love feedback from recruiters and startup founders who are (or soon will be) running hiring processes.

Request for feedback Please actually try the call first—I know it sounds gimmicky, but the voice quality will surprise you. Then let us know:

Did it feel natural?

Would you be comfortable being screened this way?

If you hire, could you see your team using this?

What needs improvement?

To see the full recruiter dashboard, leave your email on the page and we’ll send you the demo.

This is just an MVP to test the concept. Curious what HN thinks—future of recruiting or unnecessary automation?
by okanat | 2025-06-26 01:50:55+00:00
Yes. Wayland is designed to be flexible of what does the drawing and where (currently only shared memory and EGL surfaces are implemented / supported). So it needs to define monitors as abstract concepts. They are called outputs and the client can query the size directly in Wayland protocol without needing display drivers or OpenGL.

However, there is no common way of handling different custom DPIs / scaling in the core Wayland protocol. Fractional scaling is implemented optionally by the client and the server and both need to opt-in.
by luispauloml | 2025-06-26 01:51:41+00:00
> I'm firmly convinced that these policies are only written to have plausible deniability when stuff with generated code gets inevitably submitted anyway.

Of course it is. And nobody said otherwise, because that is explicitly stated on the commit message:

[...] More broadly there is, as yet, no broad consensus on the licensing implications of code generators trained on inputs under a wide variety of licenses

And in the patch itself:

[...] With AI content generators, the copyright and license status of the output is ill-defined with no generally accepted, settled legal foundation.

What other commenters pointed out is that, beyond the legal issue, other problems also arise form the use of AI-generated code.
Ask HN: Seeking Publisher for a Book on AI, Creativity and Human Agency
by haebom | 2025-06-26 01:52:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m looking for an English‑language publishing partner (trade press or serious indie) for my finished manuscript, “Thinking Outsourcing: The Hidden Cost of Surrendering Your Mind to AI.” The work is complete (≈105 k words) and professionally edited in Korean; an English draft is now ready for publisher review.

What the book is about

• Core thesis: Generative AI tempts us to outsource not just tasks but thinking itself. Unless we cultivate structured thought, critical judgment, and individual “taste capital,” we risk becoming mere consumers of machine output.

• Style: Conversational, example‑driven, laced with philosophy (Heidegger, Wittgenstein), cognitive science (Kahneman, Sweller), and real‑world AI case studies (AlphaFold, AlphaTensor, LLM prompt workflows).

• Audience: Tech‑literate but non‑specialist readers who want a deeper framework than “prompt tips,” plus product managers, educators, and founders navigating AI adoption.

• Differentiator: Combines cultural critique with highly practical “AI collaboration cycles” (tool‑agnostic checklists, automation recipes, second‑brain workflows). Early beta readers say it sits “between The Shallows and Make Time, with hands‑on AI playbooks.”

Why this might interest HN

• AI literacy + humane computing are perennial Hacker News topics.

• Book grew out of experiments shared on my blog and HN comments; many workflows use open‑source tools (n8n, LangChain, local LLMs).

• I’m seeking introductions to English‑language publishers or literary agents who handle thoughtful tech‑culture nonfiction. Advance/royalty terms negotiable; happy with US, UK, or global English rights.

What I can share immediately

• Full English draft (DOCX/PDF)

• Table of contents & sample chapters (Google Drive link or private URL)

• Korean edition proposal and endorsements from industry practitioners

About me

• AI educator, former language‑model PM, founder at 3blocks (on‑prem & security‑focused AI).

• Notion‑certified consultant; frequent speaker at Korean AI summits.

• Writing credits in tech magazines; currently translating Leveraging Scrum into Korean.

If you can connect me with an acquisitions editor or agent—or just want to beta‑read—please email "haebom@kakao.com". Happy to swap sample chapters for candid feedback.

Thank you!
by lmm | 2025-06-26 01:53:50+00:00
> It’s been shown that doctors who over-prescribe antibiotics get better patient reviews for example.

Are they over-prescribing, or are the others under-prescribing? Comparing how hard it is to get antibiotics as a human with how easy it is to get them for animals (even if there's no evidence of disease) certainly makes one think.
by userbinator | 2025-06-26 01:53:53+00:00
I wonder if there is negative side effects of this though, do you notice when interacting with people who speak slower require a greater deal of patience?

You are basically training your brain to work faster, and I suspect that causes some changes in the structure of your memory; if someone speaks too slowly, I'll be more likely to forget what they said earlier, compared to if they quickly gave me the entire sentence.
by zuminator | 2025-06-26 01:53:55+00:00
Ah, I see. I saw that but disregarded it because if it's meant be an actual proof and not just a back of the envelope argument, it seems to be missing a few steps. On the face of it, the blanket assertion that at least two faces must be stable is clearly contradicted by these current results. To be valid, Goldberg would needed at least to have established that his argument was applicable to all tetrahedra of uniform density, and ideally to have also conceded that it may not be applicable to tetrahedra not of uniform density, don't you think?

This piqued my curiosity, which Google so tantalizingly drew out by indicating a paper (dissertation?) entitled "Phenomenal Three-Dimensional Objects" by Brennan Wade which flatly claims that Goldberg's proof was wrong. Unfortunately I don't have access to this paper so I can't investigate for myself. [Non working link: https://etd.auburn.edu/xmlui/handle/10415/2492 ] But Gemini summarizes that: "Goldberg's proof on the stability of tetrahedra was found to be incorrect because it didn't fully account for the position of the tetrahedron's center of gravity relative to all its faces. Specifically, a counterexample exists: A tetrahedron can be constructed that is stable on two of its faces, but not on the faces that Goldberg's criterion would predict. This means that simply identifying the faces nearest to the center of gravity is not sufficient to determine all the stable resting positions of a tetrahedron." Without seeing the actual paper, this could be a LLM hallucination so I wouldn't stand by it, but does perhaps raise some issues.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-06-26 01:54:01+00:00
It's a little of column A, little of column B, but in a mixed way. A lot of doctor visits for basic health issues are ones that can be dealt with over a phone or video call. Routine stuff like updating your medicines, changing dosages, showing a bruise or dealing with a mild fever don't require you to be physically present at the doctor's office. Having to deal with insurance, scheduling, waiting times, driving to the doctor's office in the middle of the workday are unnecessary for a large proportion of the sorts of day-to-day issues people deal with.

Telemedicine isn't a panacea, but in a system with major constraints on doctor bandwidth and where in-person visits are very expensive, it's extremely helpful. And yeah, a lot of that is because so often the solution is as you said -- get more sleep, eat better, maybe work out a little, reduce your stress. I'd much rather have a quick 15 minute call to be told that, instead of having to take several hours off work to go visit the doctor in person.
by hirvi74 | 2025-06-26 01:54:18+00:00
Like many others here, I too have degree in computer science, and I will say this much. Not all degrees are created equally. Did I learn a lot? Absolutely. Could I have learned it all on my own? No. Could others learn it all on their own? Absolutely.

That being said, I didn't go to some fancy university -- just a small unheard-of state school of no notoriety. I think I benefited more from the learning environment and structure than from the actual instruction I received. Maybe I would have had better feeling about my degree had I attended a prestigious university, but honestly, most of what I learned was quite surface-level knowledge that came straight from the textbooks anyway.

I feel no superiority over those without a degree. In fact, quite the opposite. I feel a bit of shame that I do not know as much as I probably should despite having a degree.

Fundamentally, I agree with you. A piece of paper doesn't mean much. Based on the interview questions that are commonly asked, it seems like our industry doesn't find degrees that meaningful either.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-26 01:54:47+00:00
These people are dreamers that grew up watching Star Wars and Star Trek. The world painted by those shows has lodged in their minds, and no amount of logic will shake it loose.

In the past, I've challenged the "Let's colonize Mars!" people to do something that's far easier: Move to Bouvet island, now.[1]

This is a frozen uninhabited rock that is nonetheless a tropical paradise compared to Mars. It's far easier to reach, has free unlimited oxygen and water, and gets more solar radiation also for power! It's luxurious compared to the colder, dryer deserts of Mars where there's only dry rocks and near-vacuum.

If you really want to spice things up, donate $10,000 to a charity per pound of material you take to the island (what does a shelter weigh?), take 100% of your food and water with you, and never go outside without wearing full scuba gear. For "realism mode" sprinkle a small amount of radioactive powder evenly everywhere around your habitat area.

"Yay! Adventure! Honey, tell the school we're unenrolling the kids and taking them with us to this wonderful opportunity to start a new life!"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island
by bawolff | 2025-06-26 01:55:20+00:00
> I wouldn't personally classify these as denial of service. They are just bugs. 500 status code does not mean that server uses more resources to process it than it typically does

Not necessarily. 500 might indicate the process died, which might take more resources to startup, have cold cache, whatever. If you spam that repeatedly it could easily take down the site.

I agree with your point broadly though that the risk of such things are grossly overstated, but i think we should be careful about going in the opposite direction too far.