MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danenania | 2025-06-06 03:23:03+00:00
Putting the merits of this specific case and positive vs. negative sentiments toward OpenAI aside, this tactic seems like it can be used to destroy any business or organization with customers who place a high value on privacy—without actually going through due process and winning a lawsuit.

Imagine a lawsuit against Signal that claimed some nefarious activity, harmful to the plaintiff, was occurring broadly in chats. The plaintiff can claim, like NYT, that it might be necessary to examine private chats in the future to make a determination about some aspect of the lawsuit, and the judge can then order Signal to find a way to retain all chats for potential review.

However you feel about OpenAI, this is not a good precedent for user privacy and security.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-06 03:23:27+00:00
The excerpting was to minimize comment length, nothing more. That said I do see now where I rather catastrophically misread your earlier comment. I agree with what you wrote.

However in context it seems wrong because regardless of intent one of the effects of an armed populace is that a sufficiently unpopular conscription is going to carry serious physical risks for those in power. With regards to the framers I'd expect such a scenario to be classified as government tyranny and marked NOTABUG.

I'd suggest that the answer to the person you responded to is that the conscriptions that happened in the US weren't sufficiently unpopular to motivate such drastic measures.
by hiddencost | 2025-06-06 03:24:12+00:00
> So, by OpenAI's own admission, they are taking abundant and presumably effective steps to protect user privacy here? In the unlikely event that this data did somehow leak, I'd personally be blaming OpenAI, not the NYT.

I am not an Open AI stan, but this needs to be responded to.

The first principle of information security is that all systems can be compromised and the only way to secure data is to not retain it.

This is like saying "well I know they didn't want to go sky diving but we forced them to go sky diving and they died because they had a stroke mid air, it's their fault they died.".

Anyone who makes promises about data security is at best incompetent and at worst dishonest.
by const_cast | 2025-06-06 03:24:34+00:00
1. I don't dislike Apple, I have multiple Apple products.

2. Apple devices are uniquely difficult to repair and this is done on purpose. For a long time, you couldn't do it at all. Now, you can... if you use Apple approved tools and parts.

It's just plainly dishonest to say Apple does not engage in some of the most rampant anti-repair anti-consumerist behavior in the industry. They do, and they have been for a long time.

Also yeah, O365 sucks. You know what else sucks? Webkit on IOS, iMessage, SwiftUI, Mantle. Apple loves loves loves their software vendor lock-in on technologies that nobody actually cares about. Just use real standards for fuck's sake.
by 34679 | 2025-06-06 03:25:18+00:00
Void is basically the same thing, but open source and better. It's easy to use with any provider API key, even LM Studio for local models. You can use it with free models available from OpenRouter to try it out, but the quality of output is just as dependent on the model as any other solution.

https://voideditor.com/

https://github.com/voideditor/void
by lxgr | 2025-06-06 03:27:00+00:00
There is, but I highly doubt a European court would have given such an order (or if they did, it would probably be axed by a higher court pretty quickly).

There's decades of legal disputes in some European countries on whether it's even legitimate for the government to mandate your ISP or phone company to collect metadata on you for after-the-fact law enforcement searches.

Looking at the actual data seems much more invasive than that and, in my (non-legally trained) estimate doesn't seem like it would stand a chance at least in higher courts.
by dlcarrier | 2025-06-06 03:28:02+00:00
A 737 can be flown by hand, without hydraulics or electricity, despite weighing over 50x more than a Cessna 172, or other small manually controlled airplanes.

Airplanes' control surfaces have have smaller control surfaces inside them called tabs. Just as a small movement in a control surface is amplified into the larger movement of the entire airplane, a control tab's even smaller movement is amplified into the movement of the rest of the control surface, which in turn is amplified into the movement of the entire airplane.

Here's a good descriptions of different types of control tabs: https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/systems/4-types-of-t...

Many small airplanes, and pretty much every large airplane, effectively use tabs as a gross adjustment and the yoke/rudder as a fine adjustment, so under normal operation there shouldn't be large forces on the yoke or rudder. The only time it takes a lot of force to control an airplane is when the tab can't be easily controlled. Flying even a small Cessna 152 out of trim can take tens of pounds of force and be impossible to sustain for long periods of time. I once tried flying a 152 from one airport to another, only a few minutes away, without adjusting the elevator trim, and my arms were sore the next day.

Going into too fast of a dive has two much larger dangers, one is that the aircraft can break up from the aerodynamic forces, and the other is that the air becomes turbulent near the trailing of of a control surface, making it no longer able to control the aircraft. When the later happens, the controls don't take much force to move, but they also don't do much.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-06 03:29:24+00:00
I believe Apple’s agreement includes this, at least when a user isn’t signed into an OpenAI account:

> OpenAI must process your request solely for the purpose of fulfilling it and not store your request or any responses it provides unless required under applicable laws. OpenAI also must not use your request to improve or train its models.

— https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/chatgpt-extensio...

I wonder if we’ll end up seeing Apple dragged into this lawsuit. I’m sure after telling their users it’s private, they won’t be happy about everything getting logged, even if they do have that caveat in there about complying with laws.
by somat | 2025-06-06 03:29:46+00:00
My favorite conspiracy theory involves the invention of the economic aluminum process.

It is not really a conspiracy but there are a lot of very strange coincidences involved.

A short summary.

Charles Martin Hall worked out the electrolytic method for aluminum refinement in 1886. The same process was also independently discovered that year by Paul Héroult. both men were 22 years old, a strange coincidence. but where it gets really weird is that both men also died the the same year, 1914.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martin_Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_H%C3%A9roult
by ChadNauseam | 2025-06-06 03:30:58+00:00
Given how many important interactions people have with companies in our modern age, saying "There is no right to have your interactions with a company remain private" is essentially equivalent to saying "there is no right to privacy at all". When I talk to my friends over facetime or imessage, that interaction is being mediated by Apple, as well as by my internet service provider and (I assume) many other parties.
by Groxx | 2025-06-06 03:31:05+00:00
I feel like adding a bit more brainfuckery would help obscure stuff. Make people use Church numerals to form ASCII characters - it'll encourage golfing it down to something equally as obtuse as

++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-06 03:31:30+00:00
> There is no right to have your interactions with a company (1) remain private, nor should there be.

Why should two entities not be able to have a confidential interaction if that is what they both want? Certainly a court order could supersede such a right just as it could most others provided sufficient evidence. However I would expect such things to be both highly justified and narrowly targeted.

This specific case isn't so much about a right to privacy as it is a more general freedom to enter into contracts with others and expect those to be honored.
by 1d22a | 2025-06-06 03:32:26+00:00
I also have aphantasia, and find it really interesting to hear about people thinking of things in a similar way to me! Thinking about the ball in terms of the parabola it makes it exactly what I do too. Similarly, the ball doesn't exist as a physical "ball", but rather the knowledge of the concept of a sphere (which doesn't then have size or colour). The table, not a physical table, but the concept of a plane (with no thickness, size, colour (or legs)) - just the 'concept' of the important properties.

Despite aphantasia I have always been able to conceptualise spatial relationships, but it feels much less like trying to visualise it, and much more like "understanding" the fundamental properties connecting each thing.
by jjkaczor | 2025-06-06 03:32:30+00:00
First it was returns auction sites, I am lucky enough to be in a local regional distribution hub, so for a few years there were amazing finds; $45 FDM 3d-printer that just needed to be levelled properly, a $65 resin 3d-printer (12k) - eventually a year later a curing station for $20, a DJI active phone gimbal worth several hundred dollars for $70.

Over time though, as more and more people found out, the prices started creeping up - there is typically a "buyers fee" percentage, plus of course our overall country-wide "goods & services tax", plus a "picking fee" of about $1.50 per item. So - basically, my personal cut-off was about 25% of retail price for maximum bid, because all of the other fees would add about another 27% of retail price.

Then, the bins stores started opening about a year ago, and the auction quality dropped off dramatically. My experience browsing through bins stores 3-4 times was that is was mostly complete trash, the cheapest garbage that wouldn't even be good for resale or garage/yard sales...

Even though, I pretty much now have my "maker-space" home office kitted-out fully, I do keep monitoring the auctions for specific keywords - but, I can definitely see that both auctions and bins stores are having less and less merchandise, the overall economy must be slowing (potentially geo-political tariffs and uncertainty, layoffs, etc.) - people must be reducing overall amount of purchases and therefore returns...

Several of the local bin stores have closed-up shop in the last 6 months as well...
Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy
by lakshikag | 2025-06-06 03:33:21+00:00
Most feedback tools are built like people actually want to report bugs. They don’t. Unless you make it dead-simple, or better yet — a little fun.

After shipping a few SaaS products, I noticed a pattern: Bugs? Yes. Bug reports? No.

Not because users didn’t care but because reporting bugs is usually a terrible experience.

Most tools want users to:

* Fill out a long form

* Enter their email

* Describe a bug they barely understand

* Maybe sign in or create an account

* Then maybe submit it

Let’s be real: no one’s doing that. Especially not someone just trying to use your product.

So I built Bugdrop. It’s a little draggable bug icon that users can drop right on the issue, type a quick note, and they’re done. No logins. No forms. Just context-rich feedback that your team can actually use — with screenshots, browser info, even console logs if they hit an error.

And weirdly? People actually use it. Even non-technical users click it just because "the little bug looked fun."

I didn’t want to build another "feedback suite". I just wanted something lightweight, fast, and so stupidly simple that people actually report stuff. If you've ever had a user say “something’s broken” and then ghost you forever, you probably get where I’m coming from.

What I’m most proud of? People are actually using it. And their users? They’re actually reporting stuff. Even non-technical ones.

Would love to hear if you’ve faced similar problems, and if this feels like something that would’ve helped in your own projects. Not trying to sell you anything — just sharing something I built to scratch my own itch.
by theendisney | 2025-06-06 03:34:20+00:00
I had a giant laundry list. Most of it got build. My one trick was to not build anything but dream up the next thing in stead. It is hilarious to compare notes to see if they got the details right. It usually gives me a feeling as if the collective mind used my idle brain cycles to run other peoples thoughts by. The entire thing may arrive with an unreasonable amount of detail and float away a few hours later only to return in completed form a few years later.

Also funny is to have an idea just complete enough to be able to find the patents.
by threeseed | 2025-06-06 03:34:29+00:00
> an mcp server that lets the agent raise its hand instead of hallucinating

a) It doesn't know when it's hallucinating.

b) It can't provide you with any accurate confidence score for any answer.

c) Your library is still useful but any claim that you can make solutions more robust is a lie. Probably good enough to get into YC / raise VC though.
by skissane | 2025-06-06 03:34:42+00:00
I don’t know who uses the COBOL feature or the z/OS stdio feature

But relational databases do it all the time… it is very common for certain queries (especially those involving ORDER BY DESC) to be compiled into query plans which do reverse table/index scans… stdio VSAM acc=bwd is just the same thing at a much lower level - VSAM is pretty close to the storage engine layer of a standard relational database, to the point that relational databases for z/OS sometimes end up using VSAM instead of the custom storage engines they use on other platforms

> Fair, but reading files backwards doesn't make much sense on random access media.

On the contrary, it actually makes more sense. A tape drive has a standard direction, and reverse reading is rarely supported (especially nowadays) and requires special circuitry if it is supported. Floppy disks, hard disks and optical disks also have an inherent direction of rotation, but they are really random-sequential not pure random access devices. But true random access devices-DRAM, flash, SSD, etc-don’t have any inherent direction, so reading backwards (decreasing sequential block addresses) is just as valid as reading forwards (increasing sequential block addresses)
by NoPicklez | 2025-06-06 03:34:56+00:00
This is a good article and many of its kind will continue to come out. The gut being just once, but an increasingly important part of our understanding.

We are understanding a lot more about the role of the gut microbiome and these studies certainly help explain it. One challenge I have is how can we understand whether we have too much bad gut bacteria, or what good bacteria am I deficient in specifically to try and target probiotics or certain foods.

There has been a lot of discussion between why some people of a similar build and weight can eat the same as one another (in a perfect world) but have different results and the gut may be a source to explain some of that.
by const_cast | 2025-06-06 03:36:03+00:00
Yes, exactly. Medicine is progressing very quickly and I don't understand where these people get this idea that modern science is fake.

We have big and complex problems, sure. Yeah we're taking a stab at more complex issues, like anxiety and depression. Which, might I remind everyone, had a solution of "idk lock them up I guess" until about 40 years ago.
by Charon77 | 2025-06-06 03:36:08+00:00
What's wrong with using adverbs that don't change the meaning of the word?

"She grins happily". Sure, "She grins" also conveys the same thing, but the two sentences differ in word count.

I personally feel that reading has a rhythm to it, and adding more filler words just to make it coherent with the surrounding sentences isn't bad... fictions, at least...
by lucas_membrane | 2025-06-06 03:36:17+00:00
Earhart had a practice run at navigating over the ocean to a radio source on land prior to the start of her trip. She flew from somewhere around San Francisco out over the ocean, then turned around and tried to fly toward the source of a radio signal using the technique that would guide her to Howland Island. She got lost, and that exercise was never repeated by her.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-06 03:36:19+00:00
All of that does fit on a real spiffy whitepaper. Let's not fool around though, every ChatGPT session is sent directly into an S3 bucket that some three-letter spook backs up onto their tapes every month. It's a database of candid, timestamped text interactions from a bunch of rubes that logged in with their Google account - you couldn't ask for a juicer target unless you reinvented email. Of course it's backdoored, you can't even begin to try proving me wrong.

Maybe I'm alone, but a pinkie-promise from Sam Altman does not confer any assurances about my data to me. It's about equally as reassuring as a singing telegram from Mark Zuckerberg dancing to a song about how secure WhatsApp is.
by imglorp | 2025-06-06 03:36:32+00:00
ULA does not and will not for ages.

Blue Origin has New Glenn which is partly reusable but has only flown once and did not land. Also they have serious organization challenges so they are a very distant second to Spacex. In terms of reuse and also cadence.

The best thing that could happen is if Musk left Tesla and SpaceX and let them continue under adult supervision.
by tptacek | 2025-06-06 03:37:52+00:00
I'm not taking one side or the other in the case itself, but it's lazy and superficial to suggest that the defendant in a civil suit would say anything other than that the suit has no merit. The version of this statement where they generously interpret anything the NYT (I subscribe) says, they might as well just surrender.

I'm not sticking up for OpenAI so much as just for decent, interesting threads here.
by dlcarrier | 2025-06-06 03:37:58+00:00
The military selected early pilots based on how close they were to average dimensions. They measured dozens of attributes and designed airplanes around the median of each attribute, assuming it would be easy to find people that fit into that design. It turned out that it's really easy to find people that fit into one or two median measurements, but effectively impossible to find someone that fits into even half a dozen median measurements.

Also, averages change over time, as the environment we are raised in changes, so what was designed around an average height in the 1920's required shorter than average pilots by the 1940's.

Here's an article on the topic: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...

Here's a book with several chapters going even more in depth: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24186666-the-end-of-aver...
by scruple | 2025-06-06 03:39:03+00:00
I also have aphantasia and I do believe I have SDAM, too. I also had a traumatic childhood and am a combat veteran. I think I've always been this way but that's a hard question for me to truly answer and is one that I grapple with a lot, actually.

> How about the pain of reliving old memories? I could do with a little less of that right now.

I don't relive the past the way it seems most people do. I know what it's like to feel hurt or feel stuck but I don't generally feel emotions about things in my past. That's good because I've endured a lot of bad shit but also sucks because my wedding day is kind of like any other day to me, as was the birth of our kids. I guess I know all of the good and all of the bad things that have happened to me -- though I don't really carry them with me the way some people seem to, they're part of me but I don't spend much if any time ever thinking about them -- but I don't feel any particular way about any of it. I know that I love my wife and kids more than life itself, I know these facts and I know the timelines but there's not much else there. I know these things but there's no emotional weight to them.
by WorldPeas | 2025-06-06 03:40:01+00:00
So how is this going to impact cursor's privacy mode, which is required by many companies for compliant usage of AI editors? For the uninitiated, in the web console this looks like:

Privacy mode (enforced across all seats)

OpenAI Zero-data-retention (approved)

Anthropic Zero-data-retention (approved)

Google Vertex AI Zero-data-retention (approved)

xAi Grok Zero-data-retention (approved)

did this just open another can of worms?
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-06 03:40:11+00:00
What things like Slack and WhatsApp use are not variants of Markdown, but entirely unrelated lightweight markup languages <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language>.

As for Teams, it looks like it’s much closer to Markdown (uses the same idiosyncratic/stupid link syntax), but still significantly incompatible even if they call it that. And my guess (as a non-user) is that it’s just an input method immediately converted to HTML or similar, not retained as text. So in that way it’s not Markdown either.
by jjkaczor | 2025-06-06 03:40:54+00:00
You are not the only one - I almost never return things, if they are unwanted and functional I give them to friends/family, or donate them.

However - I have been a Costco member for 25+ years - today, for the first time ever, I returned something far after the original purchase. In January 2021, I bought a 2-pack of CO2/Smoke alarms from a major brand at Costco - they were supposed to have a 10-year internal battery. Well, both of them failed about 2-months ago - constant low-battery chirp, no amount of executing the "test function" would fix them.

Costco, being the absolute best "retail" corporation on the planet took them back and refunded the original purchase price - the service staff laughed as the chirping started driving them nuts when they accepted the items. We did our normal shopping, and as we were leaving - chirp, chirp, etc...
by tomhow | 2025-06-06 03:42:19+00:00
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