MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-06-11 13:46:12+00:00
If we're talking about bitrot protection, I'm pretty sure S3 would use some form of checksum (such as crc32 or xxhash) on each internal block to facilitate the Reed-Solomon process.

If it's verifying whether if it's the same file, you can use the Etag header which is computed server side by S3. Although I don't like this design as it ossifies the checksum algorithm.
by nikeee | 2025-06-11 13:46:28+00:00
I've built an S3 client with similar goals like TFA, but supports pre-signing:

https://github.com/nikeee/lean-s3

Pre-signing is about 30 times faster than the AWS SDK and is not async.

You can read about why it looks like it does here: https://github.com/nikeee/lean-s3/blob/main/DESIGN_DECISIONS...
by motohagiography | 2025-06-11 13:46:33+00:00
reminds me of christopher alexander, but for landscapes. they emphasize function and adaptation to what's there instead of making features that represent ideas from other places and don't belong. this came up in popular architecture discussions years ago about "ducks vs. decorated sheds"[1] where littering the landscape with symbols is what people sense as uncanny and vulgar. mcmansions are ugly because they are what poorer people think rich people like and the result ends up recieved and insincere.

the principle appears to apply to landscaping going back centuries as well. I codify it today as "the difference between effect and affect" where in the arts I pursue you start by immitating, or affecting what you think is good, but there isn't a path to being great there, as the things we think are good were the downstream effect of mastering fundamentals and the expression of a mature artist. it's the consequence of "fake it until you make it," where eventually you run out of things to immitate and are still uncanny and phony, because it isn't a sincere or original expression of the concrete environment and present conversation. Adding a grotto to a park because grottos represent rich people taste is going to be disgusting, but a walking around a copse of trees is charming because it's the effect of the landscape and a sense of place.

the <blink> HTML tag is probably the best example of this mistake, where someone thought, "computers have blinking lights, computer people must care about blinking: if we let them make everything blink we will be rich!" I suspect that logic extends to most failed startups, where people have invented the "blink-tag for X" based on this same reflected misinterpretation of what they think people want, and imitate it without actual engagement that would produce the effect of making something they in fact want.

It's funny that people have been making this same error with tree placement in parks for centuries though.

[1]https://99percentinvisible.org/article/lessons-sin-city-arch...
by z2 | 2025-06-11 13:46:55+00:00
For the applied (not fundamental) research that ultimately goes toward supporting clinical trials where on average 90% of the R&D costs lie. I'm not saying the balance has to be this way or even should be this way, but you don't lop off a leg and expect the remaining one to carry the burden. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullartic...
by aredox | 2025-06-11 13:47:09+00:00
"Assumptions" a) and b) are completely sound. You are the one playing word games ("accumulate unsafety", is that even English?) to try to create FUD.

>"taking this is only slightly less safe than taking that"

is absolutely not what the medical system is saying. Like, at all. You write bull. That doesn't work on me.

>even though they aren't by their own definitions

COVID vaccines were tested against placebos. The polio vaccine was tested against placebo; children died or were left disabled.

In fact, all childhood vaccines were tested against placebos.[0]

You are either an idiot parroting bullshit, or a liar and an accomplice to medical malpractice. Shame on you.

[0]https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/why-arent-vacci... https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/all-childhood-vaccines-wer... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/05/health/vaccine-placebo-st...
by zdragnar | 2025-06-11 13:47:25+00:00
Alcoholism was so rampant in the US that enough states ratified a constitutional amendment making it illegal.

It wasn't enough to kill alcohol consumption entirely, but it did cut back on the culture of overindulgence as measure by death rates before and the years after.

Other countries also banned alcohol in this time period, and new Zealand voted for it twice but never enacted the ban.
by detourdog | 2025-06-11 13:47:30+00:00
I have no idea what you are talking about. Please help me understand where you are coming from. I thought I was discussing my design choices against the original design and it's constraints.

Some people seem to be offended that I'm commenting too much. Every comment I have made has been about the Frankfurt kitchen and how I have been inspired by it.

If someone feels I have berated them please let me know.
by bubblyworld | 2025-06-11 13:47:48+00:00
I agree, agents have really made programming fun for me again (and I say this as someone who has been coding for more two decades - I'm not a script kiddy using them to make up for lack of skill).

Configuring tools, mindless refactors, boilerplate, basic unit/property testing, all that routine stuff is a thing of the past for me now. It used to be a serious blocker for me with my personal projects! Getting bored before I got anywhere interesting. Much of the time I can stick to writing the fun/critical code now and glue everything else together with LLMs, which is awesome.

Some people obviously like the fiddly stuff though, and more power to them, it's just not for me.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-06-11 13:48:13+00:00
Some are or at least start that way, but they exist in a competitive market.

In our current regulatory and economic environment, it appears that mission-driven, long-term oriented, ethical companies are typically out-competed by finance-driven, short-term oriented, greedy companies.

The article describes the struggle of using a search engine in 2025. Which is to say, using Google in 2025. Search engines benefit greatly from huge economies of scale, and most websites are optimized for Google SEO and for their ad network. Sure, the folks at DuckDuckGo (my search engine) or Kagi appear to be your good sort of company, but the revenue and popularity of those companies is a rounding error in comparison to Alphabet, Inc. They can't afford the crawlers and infrastructure of the big finance-oriented players, they can't convince most websites to optimize for their engine, and most people don't even know they exist.

Sure, there's a handful of people running the equivalent of a small-town grocery with local farm-sourced produce and hand-selected general goods as a passion project, working long hours and slowly chewing through their savings. And there are a handful of people who feel that the existence of such a place is important, and shop there out of principles in spite of the incentives and penalties associated with that behavior. But most of the country is overrun by Dollar Generals and Wal Marts.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-11 13:48:16+00:00
LLMs are fairly good judges of writing, in fact they're better at evaluating writing than they are at actually writing. I use Gemini as a beta reader, and I've had a lot human beta readers look at the same material, and Gemini consistently gives significantly better than average feedback, though it's stronger at structural and prose evaluation and weaker at emotional and "wishlist" style feedback as you would probably expect.
by watwut | 2025-06-11 13:48:20+00:00
When miscarriage happens, you will be hit with non-miscarriage section and unable to prove it was miscarriage. Or, you will prove it only after your life was significantly altered and you had to spend a lot of money.

Like common. This literally happens in conservative states. And women are also literally dying or suffering there for preventable medical issues, because doctors are afraid to abort even when they know it is necessary and pregnancy is not viable.
by eschatology | 2025-06-11 13:49:24+00:00
You gotta add debouncing or disable the button(s) once clicked and are pending for results; got several email codes and random errors because I clicked again thinking the button(s) didn’t work

Adding a sample trip might help a lot to give an idea of how to use it.

Inputs feel tedious and not smart enough; so much that it feels to get in the way instead of helping.

Activity date input shouldn’t be free date input; I inputted the start and end date earlier, couldn’t that be used to help limit the input range? End date/time feels tedious as well, it could be a duration input instead (eg 3h at this location).

It also lacks some extra planning features, like pooling the list of locations to visit (no dates yet), for later to be scheduled if it ends up interesting.

Personally I would remain using Wanderlog..
by vel0city | 2025-06-11 13:49:25+00:00
This wasn't just "sex life", it was "sex life problems of your marriage". And yes, there's a good chance I'd go to family and close friends if I was having intimacy problems with my spouse (with the approval of my spouse, of course!), assuming I have a close personal relationship with those people.

It's weird to me so many people in America feel they can't talk to anyone but strangers on their internet or paid specialists about their sexual issues. Sex is generally a pretty normal part of life, especially between two married people, and yet everyone feels they can't talk about it at all. It's an unhealthy mindset IMO.
by rectang | 2025-06-11 13:49:34+00:00
ChatGPT is great for debugging common issues that have been written about extensively on the web (before the training cutoff). It's a synthesizer of Stack Overflow and greatly cuts down on the time it takes to figure out what's going on compared with searching for discussions and reading them individually.

(This IP rightly belongs to the Stack Overflow contributors and is licensed to Stack Overflow. It ought to be those parties who are exploiting it. I have mixed feelings about participating as a user.)

However, the LLM output is also noisy because of hallucinations — just less noisy than web searching.

I imagine that an LLM could assess a codebase and find common mistakes, problematic function/API invocations, etc. However, there would also be a lot of false positives. Are people using LLMs that way?
by Ray20 | 2025-06-11 13:49:38+00:00
No, my argument is that the system you propose results in ring leaders escaping responsibility and people having to commit crimes in order to feed their families. Look at any socialist country, almost any dictatorship, or the work of any bureaucratic organizations related to the committing crimes.

The obligation to commit crimes in such systems arises precisely from the ability of the ring leader to take responsibility from the criminal onto himself to a significantly lesser extent, citing the fact that he did not commit the crime, but simply did not take something into account or did not know something.

> Note i don't think anyone is saying those directly involved should get off scot-free

But this is exactly what the existence of such a system leads to: the directly involved criminals escape responsibility, or their punishment is significantly reduced because most of the responsibility falls on the system and no one in particular bears full responsibility.

And if the performer bears full responsibility, there will be much fewer crimes, because in this case the performer will already know that he will bear full responsibility, that other employees, fearing full responsibility, will not cover for him, that his boss, who puts him in conditions requiring the commission of a crime, will not be able to relieve him of this responsibility by spreading it on himself or shifting it upwards with blurring. In such a system, the main beneficiary will no longer be able to demand that workers commit crimes - because no one wants to risk to become the scapegoat with no additional profits.
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-06-11 13:49:52+00:00
but did they choose the correct path for their org to get there?

> [Mozilla] hired someone from the mobile industry to run the company, this led to some culture changes : no more a flat org, but a pyramidal one with middle managers. Culture became way less engineering centric, and started being a bit more top -> down. Focus was now solely on B2G.

when i think about the occasional anti-user decisions Mozilla has been making in the past several years (most recently, AI training policies) i wonder now if it's all residual from this structural shift.
by blensor | 2025-06-11 13:50:19+00:00
Not disagreeing with the resolution but I assume for most last-gen use cases it didn't make much sense because you also need to be able to drive that somehow and you can be happy that you get a 2 Lane display port interface up until the more recent phones.

So if you have high res displays that no one can realistically use for the intended mobile cinema use case then you are wasting money and energy
by Verdex | 2025-06-11 13:50:48+00:00
Parsing is an area that I'm interested in. Can you talk more about your experience getting LLMs to one-shot parsers?

From scratch LLMs seem to be completely lost writing parsers. The bleeding edge appears to be able to maybe parse xml, but gives up on programming languages with even the most minimal complexity (an example being C where Gemini refused to even try with macros and then when told to parse C without macros gave an answer with several stubs where I was supposed to fill in the details).

With parsing libraries they seem better, but ultimately that reduces to transform this bnf. Which if I had to I could do deterministically without an LLM.

Also, my best 'successes' have been along the lines of 'parse in this well defined language that just happens to have dozens if not hundreds of verbatim examples on github'. Anytime I try to give examples of a hypothetical language then they return a bunch of regex that would not work in general.
by voidUpdate | 2025-06-11 13:50:48+00:00
Why do people enjoy going to the gym? Those weights have already been lifted a thousand times.

I enjoy writing code because of the satisfaction that comes from solving a problem, from being able to create a working thing out of my own head, and to hopefully see myself getting better at programming. I could augment my programming abilities with an LLM in the same way you could augment your gym experience with a forklift. I like to do it because I'm doing it. If I could go "give me a working compiler for this language", I wouldn't enjoy it anymore, because I've not gained anything from it. Obviously I don't re-implement a dictionary every time I need one, because its part of the "standard library" of basically everything I code in. And if it isn't, part of the fun is the challenge of either working out another way to do it, or reimplementing it.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-11 13:50:58+00:00
heh https://github.com/kaiostech/gecko-b2g says

> This branch is 400945 commits ahead of, 15894 commits behind mozilla-b2g/gecko-b2g:b2g48_v2_6

and it seems they're still using bugzilla, so they're obviously hard-core

Here are the list of their 74 supported devices https://www.kaiostech.com/explore/devices/
by EGreg | 2025-06-11 13:51:31+00:00
You know what would be really awesome? Making a fuse-based drop-in replacement for mapping a folder to a bucket, like goofys. Maybe a node.js process can watch files for instance and backup, or even better it can back the folder and not actually take up space on the local machine (except for a cache).

https://github.com/kahing/goofys
by exDM69 | 2025-06-11 13:51:31+00:00
The figures I gave are annual movement. Initial shrinkage is larger when drying from green wood. The numbers (from the calculator) match my empirical observations very closely.

By the way your relative humidity figures assume constant temperature. Wood cares about absolute humidity (mass of vapor per volume of air), and temperature is the dominant factor in absolute humidity. Rainy day at +1C (100% RH) is less absolute humidity than a sunny day at +30C.

This matters to me a lot because half of my woodworking projects are outdoors or not temperature controlled indoors.
by adrianparsons | 2025-06-11 13:51:54+00:00
Yes! He organized a barebones conference out of the Meetup office in New York. The premise was that all attendees would do a 10 minute talk on any subject (I think it was called 10conf?). Mikeal spoke about his pour-over coffee setup while using it to make coffee for everyone.

I really enjoyed time I spent with him and appreciated his kindness and leadership in the community. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
by trothamel | 2025-06-11 13:52:26+00:00
Back when climate change was the issue of the day, there was a response I heard. Paraphrased, it's "I won't take climate change seriously until the people who tell me to take climate change seriously take climate change seriously."

For example, instead of climate conferences being virtual, they're held in person and attended by multiple leaders that fly in on private jets.

https://theconversation.com/why-are-people-still-flying-to-c...

People are sensitive to classism during a purported crisis, and so things like that tend to ruin messaging.
by mlinhares | 2025-06-11 13:52:46+00:00
The downside for formulaic code kinda makes the whole thing useless from my perspective, I can't imagining a case where that works.

Maybe a good case, that i've used a lot, is using "spreadsheet inputs" and teaching the LLM to produce test cases/code based on the spreadsheet data (that I received from elsewhere). The data doesn't change and the tests won't change either so the LLM definitely helps, but this isn't code i'll ever touch again.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-06-11 13:52:58+00:00
Absolutely. I’ve done so many bad things with my career. Less over time, but in the beginning I was naive and eager to please. I can’t criticize anyone without admitting I did the exact same thing. We want to stay relevant, get promoted, be the hero who keeps big projects moving, etc. Certain people in leadership see this and use us to execute on things less enthusiastic or more aware/morally grounded types won’t.

This is why I earn half as much working in science now. We will never reach unicorn status but we also won’t treat our end users and partners like pawns to exploit on our path to wealth and power. I can live with that.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-11 13:53:04+00:00
My company is a non-tech company that is in manufacturing. I'm not a programmer and niether is anyone else here.

So far I have created 7 programs that are now used daily in production. One of them replaces a $1k/yr/usr CAD package, and another we used to bring in a contractor to write. The others a miscellaneous apps for automating/simplifying our in houses processes. None of the programs are more than 6k LOC.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-11 13:53:13+00:00
Climate messaging has the deck stacked against it. It requires and even demands that people abandon their skepticism, which tends to sound much like what charlatans and con men ask of you. It has some over-eager people on the left willing to propagandize (polar bear pictures trapped on tiny melting icebergs!) and exaggerate. It even strongly insists on measures that even the dimmest person can recognize as economically disastrous in the short term (which just so happens to be the period of time that people are most concerned with) for very long term benefits to a species that has for the most part decided that it no longer wants a future.

Some will insist that I am wrong on these points, and they're part of the problem.
by infecto | 2025-06-11 13:53:17+00:00
Don’t agree with the assessment. At this point most of what I find LLM taking over is all the repetitive crud like implementations. I am still doing what I consider the fun parts, architecting the project and solving what are still the hard parts for the LLM, the non crud parts. This could be gone in a year and maybe I become a glorified product manager but enjoying it for the time being l, I can focus on the real thought problems and get help lifting the crud or repetitive patterns.
by blensor | 2025-06-11 13:53:53+00:00
With the viture I have the problem that the bottom of the screen is almost always not visible. I initially used the accessibility feature that let's me zoom into the desktop with mouse follow moving the viewport but that gets old quickly, which is one reason why I started that project.

I'm also planning to add other "display" modes like a curved monitor and in theory we could connect multiple monitors using several hdmi capture devices but that's probably even less useful
by riskable | 2025-06-11 13:54:24+00:00
I've pasted whole chapters (of my own writing) into ChatGPT and Claude that I know need drastic improvements. Basically, they were first draft, "get the concept down; don't think too hard" paragraphs with occasional run-on sentences and whatnot. This is my very first novel (ever) so of course the initial draft is going to be bad.

Both ChatGPT and Claud always say something like, "a few grammar corrections are needed but this is excellent!"

So yeah: They're not very good at judging the quality of writing. Even with the "we're trying not to be sycophants anymore" improvements they're still sycophants.

For reference, I mostly use these tools to check my grammar. That's something they're actually quite good at. It wasn't until the first draft was done that I decided to try them out for "whole work evaluation".
by Llamamoe | 2025-06-11 13:54:30+00:00
> I would often suggest things we could do or ask if they wanted to do something. In reality, it was expected to do small talk and wait for senior clan members to suggest something to do. I was crossing some social boundary...

I know that this sort of shit happens in corporations and the government, but the idea that it crosses over into even multiplayer games makes me reconsider if I really want to ever visit Japan...
by freehorse | 2025-06-11 13:54:54+00:00
It is a great model, and blazing fast, which is actually very useful esp for "reasoning" models, as they produce a lot of tokens.

I wish mistral were back into making MoE models. I loved their 8x7 mixtral, it was one of the greatest models I could run the time it went out, but it is outdated now. I wish somebody was out making a similar size MoE model, which could comfortably sit in a 64GB ram macbook and be fast. Currently the qwen 30-A3B is the only one I know of, but it would be nice to have something slightly bigger/better (incl a non-reasoning base one). All the other MoE models are just too big to run locally in more standard hardware.
by arcbyte | 2025-06-11 13:54:57+00:00
I actually think Windows Phone was close to a breakthrough when Microsoft shut it down. Apps were always important, yes, but wayyy less so outside the tech blogger circle for everyday users. Normal people loved the hub experiences and it had enough apps for them, with missing ones eventually coming out by the time normal people knew they wanted them.

Tech Bloggers couldn't stand that a startup would launch on Apple (not even Android) and they couldn't download them and write about them. They made a lot of noise about this. But it was always nonsense.
by nipah | 2025-06-11 13:55:28+00:00
> What’s clear is this tech is here now, and complaining about it feels a bit like mourning the loss of punch cards when terminals showed up.

Just stop with this, it's bulshitty. There's nothing related between LLMs and the migration from punch cards to terminals, nor to photoshop compared to film theatre, literally [nothing]. This is a pretty underwelming way of trying to say people that are critiques of this are akin to nostalgic people that "miss the old good days", when there are more than enough pertinent reasons to disagree with this tech in this case. Basically calling opposing people irrational.

I'm not talking about doom or software dev dying or any bullshit like that, I'm just saying this kind of point you make in the end is not reasonable.