MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DonnyV | 2025-06-03 21:25:00+00:00
My dude you need to read some history.

Some things that Unions have gotten us. - 40-Hour Work Week & Overtime Pay - Child Labor Laws - Workplace Safety Standards - Employer-Provided Benefits - Minimum Wage - Civil Rights & Anti-Discrimination - Job Security & “Just Cause” Termination - etc, etc etc
by JadeNB | 2025-06-03 21:25:27+00:00
> It’s very easy. Insects are annoying. Nobody wants them near.

Insects are an enormous class. (Well, I had to look that up, and maybe insects are just part of the class Insecta? Anyway, they're an enormous whatever they are.) I'm not a big fan of mosquitoes or ticks, and I try to shoo wasps away from building nests on my porch, but, for example, bees and butterflies are marvellous creatures whom I welcome to my garden and enjoy watching and having all around me.
by CharlesW | 2025-06-03 21:26:41+00:00
> Without a deeper profiling analysis of the Java application it's hard to not consider this whole piece just advertorial content.

I'd be surprised if anything Apple wrote would satisfy you. TFA makes it clear that they first optimized the Java version as much as it could be under Java's GC, that they evaluated several languages (not just Swift) once it became clear that a rewrite was necessary, that they "benchmarked performance throughout the process of development and deployment", and they shared before/after benchmarks.
by freedomben | 2025-06-03 21:26:51+00:00
If anybody is into sci-fi, I highly recommend The Three Body Problem series. I'm being very elusive here to avoid spoilers, but let's just say that there are some very fascinating challenging with establishing technology (and especially human life) around Jupiter, what with it's gravity, the radiation, it's moons, distance from the sun, etc. As a space nerd, those books were highly enjoyable
by DebtDeflation | 2025-06-03 21:26:54+00:00
It's happening in every industry. CEOs moving back office jobs to India and telling Wall St they replaced the jobs with "AI" to get a stock price boost. I'm convinced this dynamic is a major cause of the "white collar recession" we're experiencing now. Perhaps the intent is to eventually replace the Indians with AI (Artificial Intelligence), but right now it's very much AI (Anonymous Indians) doing the work.
by runarberg | 2025-06-03 21:27:03+00:00
I think if you use a very loose definition of learning: A stimuli which alters subsequent behavior you can claim this is learning. But if you tell a human to replace the word “is” with “are” in the next two sentences, this could hardly be considered learning, rather it is just following commands, even though it meets the previous loose definition. This is why in psychology we usually include some timescale for how long the altered behavior must last for it to be considered learning. A short-term altered behavior is usually called priming. But even then I wouldn’t even consider “following commands” to be neither priming nor learning, I would simply call it obeying.

If an LLM learned something when you gave it commands, it would probably be reflected in some adjusted weights in some of its operational matrix. This is true of human learning, we strengthen some neural connection, and when we receive a similar stimuli in a similar situation sometime in the future, the new stimuli will follow a slightly different path along its neural pathway and result in a altered behavior (or at least have a greater probability of an altered behavior). For an LLM to “learn” I would like to see something similar.
by ogurechny | 2025-06-03 21:27:23+00:00
Google and Apple are owning their whole operating systems. They can do tracking directly in 50 different ways. Other corporations routinely renegotiate deals on sharing the user surveillance data with them, for big big money. So it all has already been paid for, and authorised. The only problem is that some stupid serfs are still making a fuss over it.
by throwanem | 2025-06-03 21:27:49+00:00
Oh, good grief, I wish I'd caught this while I still could delete my prior comment. You opened with

> The incest doesn't excuse the torture.

But that is not what I said. I said, in the comment of mine to which you first replied, that people excuse the torture, but not the incest, just as you have done.

I still can't figure out what you meant by "equally upsetting," but the basic issue is that we're talking past each other because you failed to apprehend my thesis and I was too busy to notice and call you on it right away. I hope this clears things up!
by rafram | 2025-06-03 21:28:10+00:00
In some cases, yes. A non-native but passable speaker/reader of English might prefer to struggle through the English UI themselves than deal with your bad AI-generated translation. If they do it themselves, at least they can skip the parts they know, see multiple possible translations, and take advantage of their partial knowledge of the UI language. If you dump everything into an LLM with no knowledge of your target languages at all, you’re setting yourself up for disaster when a critical string is mistranslated.
by Animats | 2025-06-03 21:28:20+00:00
This seems to be a funding proposal for "Scientist AI."[1] Start reading around page 21. They're arguing for "model-based AI", with a "world model". But they're vague about what form that "world model" takes.

This is a good idea if you can do it. But people have been bashing their head against that problem for decades. That's what Cyc was all about - building a world model of some kind.

Is there any indication there that they actually know how to build this thing?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15657
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-03 21:28:21+00:00
How broadly do you propose to enforce such a ban? Most students do their homework at home so I'm not sure how you're imagining this would work.

Even for exams I had my cellphone and backpack on me. You just weren't allowed into them. The only exception to that in my experience was exams proctored in a dedicated testing center where there are lockers, multiple human observers, and lots of cameras.
by zzzeek | 2025-06-03 21:28:23+00:00
it's obvious to google's AI also, type "is nature art"

> While nature itself is not art, it is a source of artistic inspiration and can be used as a medium or subject in art. Art is typically considered a human creation with intentional aesthetic or expressive purposes, whereas nature exists independently of human creation. [1, 2]

> because your definition of "art" requires it to be man-made.

it's not "my" definition, it's the definition. In the dictionary.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/art

1 : skill acquired by experience, study, or observation "the art of making friends" 2a: a branch of learning: (1): one of the humanities (2)arts plural : liberal arts b archaic : learning, scholarship 3: an occupation requiring knowledge or skill "the art of organ building" 4a: the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects "the art of painting landscapes" also : works so produced "a gallery for modern art" b(1): fine arts (2): one of the fine arts (3) : one of the graphic arts 5aarchaic : a skillful plan b: the quality or state of being artful (see artful sense 2a) 6: decorative or illustrative elements in printed matter
by pyman | 2025-06-03 21:30:23+00:00
Can you imagine Builder.ai using a model that argues with their clients or discriminates against them? I don't think so. GPT-2 is like bringing a knife to a gunfight in 2025.

If you want to compete with the likes of GPT-4, Claude, or Gemini today, you're looking at billions, just for training, not counting infra, data pipelines, evals, red teaming, and everything else that comes with it.

Builder.ai wasn't able to use GenAI to actually build software. And when the money ran out and no model was ever announced, investors lost trust and clients lost patience.
by simonw | 2025-06-03 21:31:22+00:00
Secretly offering someone 7-8 figures to hype for you is a big business risk to take on.

If details of that deal leak, it's a big embarrassment for the company.

In the USA it is also illegal. There are substantial FTC fines to worry about. If it affects the stock price it could be classified as securities fraud (Matt Levine will happily tell you that "everything is securities fraud").
by jltsiren | 2025-06-03 21:32:11+00:00
The rest of the world has caught up on methods, but each country uses its own definitions.

International comparisons often use OECD data, because it's the best data source that exists. The organization has spent decades collecting data based on consistent definitions across its member states. Even the same data collected directly from the national authorities of OECD members is often worse. The data released for domestic uses often uses national definitions, which vary subtly from country to country.
by ThatMedicIsASpy | 2025-06-03 21:32:40+00:00
The early adopters. Even for consoles you can wait and get them second hand years later. There is no reason to chase the latest releases other than having a fetish for experiencing all the bugs/crashes/join queue/server overload on release days. PC gaming can be expensive (hardware/games) and cheap (hardware/games). Used Steam Decks and Rog Ally starts at around 300€ - a controller, screen and enough power to play with options for more (game pass/xbox & geforce now streaming). It always depends on what kind of gamer you are, what you want to play and how much you are willing to invest into the hobby.
by otherme123 | 2025-06-03 21:32:40+00:00
Weird that some countries with high C-section rates are not particularly good in mortality (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland), while the best countries by mortality has low C-section rates, Norway being the country with the lowest rate in the world.

Curiously, France has almost the exact same rate than Finland (200 per 1000 births), which tops the mortality list.
by knodi123 | 2025-06-03 21:33:12+00:00
> “The Master Key,” where a boy wise beyond his years rejects powers too advanced for humanity to adapt.

For those stumbling by- that's a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, who also wrote The Wizard Of Oz! Here's a synopsis: https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/The_Master_Key
by Teever | 2025-06-03 21:33:41+00:00
You need drones to do it in a way that significantly reduces the risk of getting caught.

As it is vigilante action against law enforcement in the west is a sure death sentence and probably life long reprisal against your family once you're dead which is what keeps people in line.

If the development of drone technology significantly reduces the risk of that then you're likely to see many more people respond to violent abuses of authority by law enforcement with vigilante action.
by bicarbonato | 2025-06-03 21:33:56+00:00
> I love inaction as a default decision

The thing is, inaction is not simply "not taking an action"; Inaction is taking active action of accepting the current solution.

> I doubt that the best proposals are so horrible for some people that they’d hold a grudge and leave Go.

But people may leave go if they constantly avoid fixing any of problems with the language. The more time passes, the more unhappy people become with the language. It will be a death by a thousand cuts.

I love go. But their constant denial do fix obvious problems is tiring.
by robwwilliams | 2025-06-03 21:34:29+00:00
Fair overview. This is not a simple question that can be answered with a Yes or No. It is a quantitative question at three levels:

1. What brain regions and neuron types?

2. What is the precise gain or turn-over of numbers of neurons per year?

3. What rates of change per year per type per brain region?

For humans we have essentially no hard data with which to address these three questions for structure or neuron type. Sadly this is also true for mouse with still shaky exception of the dentate gyrus and rostral migratory stream of one strain of mouse—C57BL/6J.

I still regard Pasko Rakic’s work as definitive—that in adult rhesus monkey females injected 4 to 6 times over several years with high levels of tritiated thymidine there is no evidence of adult neurogenesis in any brain region. Sure: proving the negative is a bitch, but these studies place a very low limit on levels of adult neurogenesis in primates—even in hippocampus. Meaninglessly low levels. And I have scanned this collection with Rakic.

The end of this review is on-the-mark: There are still very good reasons to be enthused about the POTENTIAL of adult neurogenesis. Being able to induce useful levels of adult neurogenesis would be a game changer. But reality and potential are different beasts.
by AngryData | 2025-06-03 21:35:24+00:00
I find it hard to believe any claim that they weren't capitalists. Almost nothing in the USSR was operated or managed by worker collectives. Nor in China. A handful of people managed the capital of these businesses and profited off them, and the people who own, operate, and profit off of capital investments are capitalists, even if they slap a PR sign up claiming they aren't.
by ivape | 2025-06-03 21:35:27+00:00
Word on the street:

https://stocktwits.com/Johnnyalgo/message/616611886

TLDR: Judge on the case appears to be more sympathetic toward Google than reported.

—-

Imho, Google has been the most relentless on pushing AI than any other company atm. Sundar is not getting enough credit for this.
by sho_hn | 2025-06-03 21:35:47+00:00
Pro and con. It hinders progress, but it can also arrest the "enshittification" of a language that takes place when it slowly adds complexity and features and support for whole paradigms.

Python does offer a lot more utility for the expert these days, but it also went from the maxim of "There is one obvious way to do it" to having 5-6 ways to format strings, adding more things to be familiar with, causing refactoring churn as people chase the latest way to do it, etc.

I'm a C++ developer. I wouldn't want to go back to older versions of the language, but it's also very hard to recruit any newer programmers into using it willingly, and the sheer amount of stuff in it that exists concurrently is a big reason why.
by jandrese | 2025-06-03 21:37:18+00:00
It's not portable because nobody else adopted it. Had DOS and Unix also embraced the concept this would be a solved problem. Microsoft does actually have something on NTFS that works similarly, which is how Windows knows when something has been downloaded from the internet and warns you that it might be dangerous.

Having a standard to separate your data from your metadata isn't necessarily incompatible with streams. It would be something you would IOCTL on an open stream if you cared.

int fd; fd = open("the_file", O_RDONLY); if ( fd < 0 ) { perror("the_file"); return -1; } char* filetype = NULL; ioctl(fd, FDRESGET, "FILETYPE", &filetype); if ( filetype != NULL ) { printf("%s has a filetype of %s\n", "the_file", filetype); }

You could also have a version FNRESGET that operates on file names instead of file descriptors. Also a setter. There's still obviously a lot of details to work out, but nothing about this should be all that difficult. It even simplifies some other parts of the system, for example if you have a network socket the socket metadata like the remote IP address and port numbers could be in the resource fork of the socket itself.
Show HN: Jtheta.ai – Annotation Platform with REST API and Python SDK
by yes_vijay | 2025-06-03 21:37:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the founder of [JTheta.ai](https://app.jtheta.ai), a developer-focused image annotation platform designed to support domain-specific AI use cases in medical imaging (DICOM/NIfTI), defense (SAR/IR), and geospatial (GeoTIFF).

We built JTheta because most annotation tools feel limiting when you try to plug them into real ML pipelines — especially when working with large datasets or needing tight integration into CI/CD workflows.

Here’s what’s available:

- REST API to programmatically manage datasets, annotations, and projects - Python SDK to fetch, push, and automate annotation tasks - Webhooks to trigger downstream tasks when annotations or reviews complete - CI/CD support for exporting data in GeoJSON, COCO, PNG masks, etc. - Auto-annotation and AI-Assist using SAM, MONAI Label, and Mask-RCNN

*Website:* https://www.jtheta.ai *Docs:* https://docs.jtheta.ai *App:* https://app.jtheta.ai

We’re especially focused on helping ML teams who deal with complex data (like multi-band satellite or multi-modal MRI) — and want annotation to be a seamless part of the pipeline, not a blocker.

Would love your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions!

– Vijay Shanmugam(founder)
by fidotron | 2025-06-03 21:37:54+00:00
> Is there any indication there that they actually know how to build this thing?

Nope. And it's exactly what they were trying to do at Element AI, where the dream was to build one model that knew everything, could explain everything, be biased in the exact required ways, and be tranferred easily to any application by their team of consultants.

At least these days the pretense of profit has been abandoned, but I hope it's not going to be receiving any government funding.
by JadeNB | 2025-06-03 21:38:23+00:00
> Hadn't realised that wasn't a global system, but not sure this article has really explained what the problem with it is.

It is—the first I is 'International'! I just checked in the US that *#06# will pull up the IMEI on my T-Mobile Android phone; I have no idea if that's specific to TMo or to Android. Or maybe you mean blocking by IMEI isn't global?

> There's mention of fraud, yet this system has been active here for decades, so surely that's either a thing or it isn't?

I'm not sure that follows. A lot changes over decades, and what once could be allowed to proceed on the basis that the fraud it enabled was sufficiently low-probability may now be too common a vector of attack, or at least perceived as too high-risk as a potential vector.
Ask HN: New AI-Based Software Verification by Comparing Code vs. Requirements?
by axelr340 | 2025-06-03 21:39:08+00:00
I've built ProductMap AI which compares code with requirements to identify misalignments.

In embedded systems, especially where functional safety and compliance (ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC 61508, etc.) are key, verifying that the code actually implements the requirements is critical, and time-consuming.

This new “shift left” approach allows teams to catch issues before running tests, and even detect issues that traditional testing might miss entirely.

In addition, this solution can identify automatically traceability between code and requirements. It can thus auto-generate traceability reports for compliance audits.

Here’s a short demo (Google Drive): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bvgw1pdr0HN-0kkXEhvGs0DHTetrsy0W/view?usp=sharing

This solution can be highly relevant for safety teams, compliance owners, quality managers, and product development teams, especially those working on functional safety.

What do you think of this new AI-powered software verification approach?
by evanjrowley | 2025-06-03 21:39:11+00:00
The Taipo layout is ported to QMK, ZMK, and KMK keyboards. It is meant to be useable with one hand. It's also a chording layout that requires far fewer keys than most keyboards. It's on my list of things to try this year: https://inkeys.wiki/en/keymaps/taipo
by sebastiennight | 2025-06-03 21:39:13+00:00
Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are?

I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case.

And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?
by simonw | 2025-06-03 21:39:30+00:00
No matter how hard I train my fingers will never be able to move fast enough to output 100 lines of code in 15 seconds.

When I get to writing actual production code with LLMs I treat them more as typing assistants than anything else: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/#t...
by kragen | 2025-06-03 21:40:44+00:00
The article claims that Earth will be incinerated, but we could just move Earth further from the Sun. The energy of escape velocity is just GMm/r. r is one AU, 150 gigameters. G is the gravitational constant, 67 piconewton square meters per square kilogram, M is the Sun's mass, 2.0 billion yottagrams. m is the Earth's, 6000 yottagrams. It works out to 5.3 billion yottajoules. The Sun emits 380 yottawatts, thus providing enough energy to move the Earth out of the Solar System entirely every five months. Moving it to a somewhat higher orbit, such as Jupiter's, would require somewhat less energy than that. And we have 500 million years, which most experts consider to be a significantly longer time than five months, so the problem is clearly soluble.

A possible problem is that Jupiter itself could destabilize Earth's new orbit. Possibly putting Earth into orbit around Jupiter as an additional moon would be a solution, but if not, I think we could solve that problem by removing Jupiter. If we drop it into the Sun, we can gain all of its orbital energy in the process.
by Hoasi | 2025-06-03 21:41:28+00:00
> Throughout art history the good stuff always floats to the top as it will always.

No really. For example, you have political art, conceptual art, and topical performances that, while interesting, soon become irrelevant and likely won't float on top for very long. Likewise, many past excellent artists disappeared from the museum chart, so to say, and periodically resurfaced.
by stevenbedrick | 2025-06-03 21:41:58+00:00
In case anybody’s interested, Malka Older has a really enjoyable series (two books so far) of short novels set on habitats in Jupiter’s atmosphere (so not breathable atmosphere, but also not vacuum). They’re solid mystery stories with fun characters and an intriguing setting. The first is called “The Mimicking of Known Successes” and the second is “The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles”.
by time4tea | 2025-06-03 21:42:10+00:00
Absolute bs.

This falls into the category of "we rewrote a thing written by people that didn't know what they were doing, and it was better"

Large class hierarchies (favour composition over inheritance since 1990!), poorly written async code (not even needed in java, due to virtual threads), poor startup times (probably due to spring), huge heaps sizes (likely memory leaks or other poor code, compounded by inability to restart due to routing and poor startup times)

Yawn.
by justinc8687 | 2025-06-03 21:42:24+00:00
Once their finger movement has been restored, I'd look into various large-split keyboards. The Kinesis Freestyle2 USB version has a large split (20") option that could help. They have screw hole mounts on the bottom which you could likely jerry-rig with a sling to put the keyboard in the proper position. I used it with a custom 3d-printed mount so that I could attach it to the arms of my chair.

The wireless version has less of a gap, but you could always just get two of them and use the left half of one and the right half of another.

Feel free to reach out to me at justin (at) justin-c (dot) com, if you want to talk. I spent about 5 years working on custom mounting options for keyboards after getting a severe RSI, ultimately proven to be partially caused by a rheumatic condition.