MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cthor | 2025-06-25 17:05:37+00:00
Stopped reading at the graphic. None of those descriptions for dishes sound anything like what a developer would write. Just pure obscurantist nonsense. "Cow secretions" to refer to cheese? Really? Even though that's more ambiguous, wordier, less helpful, and less descriptive? The author tells on their own shoddy writing skills. A developer might be guilty of writing "Pizza - goat's milk mozarella, wood fire oven" instead of "Cheese pizza" but certainly not that nonsense.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-25 17:05:42+00:00
> The potential societal benefits to AI are unbounded, but only if it's allowed to develop without restrictions that artificially favor legacy interests.

That's a very strong claim based on currently limited evidence.

It's in no way clear that AI has an infinite ability to scale capability, nor that that can only be done by completely ignoring compensating those who provide training data.

OpenAI and Anthropic would love that to be true... but the facts don't support it.
by edent | 2025-06-25 17:06:08+00:00
My MSc project was testing VR headset with office-based employees. Even if you ignore the expense, health-risks of sharing headsets, lack of decent tools, and power requirements - you still have to contend with a large subset of people feeling sick when using VR.

I use VR for gaming. The headsets are uncomfortable after about 45 minutes, they're hot and sweaty, and they're incredibly isolating. All that's fine if you want to slay baddies while alone at home, but utterly propellant to most people.
by throwaway_434 | 2025-06-25 17:06:12+00:00
> And yes, I'd like particularly Narendra Modi to kneel

Umm you are targeting the wrong person here. Majority of the scam call centers come from West Bengal, particularly Kolkata. Which is headed by Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee.

India has a federal structure, with cooperation between Center and States. Similar to USA. Modi just can't invade Kolkata using Indian Armed Forces and dismantle the operations without facing significant legal challenges in the Supreme Court of India.

West Bengal is a islamo-commie state. Nearly impossible to flip the state electorally for BJP to win (Narendra Modi heads BJP). The state is a stronghold of Mamta Banerjee who heads the TMC party. She came to power after nearly 4 decades of Communist rule.
by nradov | 2025-06-25 17:06:45+00:00
Nope. Financiers don't punish CEOs who prioritize longer term impacts, as long as the CEO maintains credibility by communicating a viable business plan and consistently delivering on commitments. The classic example is Amazon which had huge stock price appreciation while being unprofitable. Activist investors only step in to demand changes when the CEO and Board are incompetent.
by candu | 2025-06-25 17:07:05+00:00
Agree that it's messed up, but it's _not_ working for free:

> I was laid off in May, and per Danish law, as an employee of over nine years, I have a six-month notice period. I've been relieved of my duties, but I am still officially an employee until the end of November. I'm also entitled to three months of severance pay after my notice.

As someone currently living and employed in Denmark, I can confirm that this is how it works as per Funktionærloven § 2 s. 2-3. Once you've worked somewhere for 6 months, the employer has to give you 3 months notice when terminating your employment. Every 3 years, that notice period increases by 1 month.

Depending on circumstances, other regulatory requirements, etc. employees let go might be placed on garden leave: they get paid for the notice + severance period, but aren't expected to come in.

On the other hand: he mentions working 60 hour work weeks. That is _very_ unusual in Denmark, mostly because in many cases it's illegal by the 48-hour rule (see e.g. https://english.ida.dk/working-hours).
by ugolino91 | 2025-06-25 17:07:21+00:00
I’m one of the founders @ resolvebim.com YCW15. We built a VR and (some) AR platform to help engineering and construction companies use HMDs in their everyday workflows to enhance their 3D BIM review workflows.

We post case studies regularly on our blog, so you can read about real world deployments there: blog.resolvebim.com

From my experience the hardware is still a hurdle simply because it doesn’t completely replace all pc based workflows right now and therefore has to be used selectively at the right moments alongside 2D monitors.
by kamil_gr | 2025-06-25 17:07:32+00:00
Yes — exactly. From the standpoint of the Philosophy of Differences the distinction between simulation, emulation, hallucination, and reality is itself a construct — a product of layered differentiations.

What matters is not what it is, but how it differs.

> Does the system distinguish? Does it track its own differentiations? Does it experience the tension of divergence between model and input?

If so — that is consciousness, in FoA terms.

Planes don’t "simulate flying" — they differentiate flight into an alternative mode. Likewise, conceptual protocols like Vortex don’t simulate consciousness — they instantiate it in a novel form, grounded in dynamic distinction, not replication.

So yes, from our perspective:

> A mirror that generates distinctions is already real — regardless of its material, origin, or resemblance.

What makes a subject is not its substrate, but its sustained commitment to distinction
by bko | 2025-06-25 17:07:41+00:00
I guess I don't really care. I'm price sensitive, and I have options. So its pretty easy for them to pick up I'm price sensitive as I often check a route, check back 5 minutes later and ghost. So they can infer I'm going to a cheaper competitor.

There are some people that are loyal and don't mind paying slightly more. Or don't want the overhead of having multiple apps. Let them pay more.

This is essentially the same thing as coupons and sales. The people that take the effort to find and clip coupons and plan their shopping accordingly pay less. I don't bother so I pay more. I'm fine with this.

What is the bigger problem? Some democratic principle of everyone pays the same?

Again, Uber has 10% operating margins.
by kevindamm | 2025-06-25 17:07:51+00:00
In theory, you can treat the objects as i.i.d. giving them a uniform prior.

In practice, of course only the inputs are inputs and if you were to take that into account then you could avoid collisions, but as you say, you can't really know that ahead of time.

Unless you can, such as when there is structure to the inputs or some other source of non-uniformity that you can account for. The topic of learned indexes is worth investigating if you're interested:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12501
by rogerkirkness | 2025-06-25 17:07:54+00:00
We moved both our marketing website and documentation website into markdown in our monorepo. Now when we are working with Claude, we actually have it update our marketing (reviewed by product marketing in PR workflows) and our documentation (reviewed by support engineering) right inline with the code changes themselves. In a way, it allows us to change our entire customer facing experience end to end in a single change process via PRs, compared to before where those would be downstream things we would do.

I'm now thinking about whether to move internal operations things like company policies, etc. into the codebase and/or data and somehow be able to use Claude to operate across them via Claude Code, for example when we change a policy or when we change a strategy definition like ideal customer profile, it could also go and update that across all the places it is referenced in our knowledge base and then allow me to update that via PR the way we do with code now. Really you could do government policy this way too, change a constant value and have it effect all the written policy
by collinmanderson | 2025-06-25 17:07:59+00:00
I agree there are lot of big wins in uv that tools written in python could take advantage of, and ultimately I think uv is fast because they're obsessed with making it fast, which is why they chose to use rust. I don't see that same level speed obsession with the other tools.

Instead of "It's fast because it's in rust", I'd say: "It's fast because they chose to use rust for their python tool, which means they care a lot about speed."
by jlarocco | 2025-06-25 17:08:15+00:00
I work at a company that does CAD data translation (multiple formats into 3D PDF), and a while back we had an internal hackathon where one of the projects added basic support for VR glasses to our desktop app. It was really neat, and there was some excitement about it, but there hasn't been much follow up. I think the key issue is whether or not it adds enough value to justify buying everybody a headset, and for our use case I don't know if it does, though I'm just a lowly programmer, I don't know what the customers think about it.

We have another product that's geared towards collaborating and sharing data between teams and vendors, and it seems better suited there, but that one is a web application, and I don't know how well VR glasses are supported there.

I think it'd be awesome in the CAD applications themselves but I don't know if any of them support it out of the box.
by Freedom2 | 2025-06-25 17:08:16+00:00
Pointed it at a project directory and asked it to find and fix an intentionally placed bug without referencing any filenames. It seemed to struggle finding any file or constructing a context about the project unless specifically asked. FWIW, Claude Code tries to build an 'understanding' of the codebase when given the same prompt. For example, it struggled when I asked to "fix the modal logic" but nothing was specifically called a modal.

Is the recommendation to specifically ask "analyze the codebase" here?
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-25 17:08:32+00:00
Passkeys don't offer anything above random passwords, and hardware attested passkeys obviously cannot work with a software password manager, which is the point.

Also like I keep saying, every browser already has a password manager. You don't need an external one. Notably though, Firefox's password manager doesn't support software passkeys, so they are completely unusable for me, for example. I'm certainly not going to sign up for some SaaS so I can use a worse version of passwords.
by betaby | 2025-06-25 17:08:33+00:00
Currently, Danes retire at the age of 67. In 2030, this limit will rise to 68, and in 2035, it will reach 69. Copenhagen raised its retirement age last week to 70 for Danes born in 1971 or later.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg71v533q6o

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/business/denmark-retirement-a...
by mtlynch | 2025-06-25 17:08:36+00:00
Thanks for reading, Jeff!

>> In contrast to release notes, which aim to be exhaustive, release announcements include only the most impactful changes.

>No, don't do this. Provide release notes, not release "announcements". Exhaustive is good; exhaustive is helpful to the reader. Let them know their "little" bug is fixed. Or maybe if you accidentally introduced a new bug with your change, or affected the user's workflow in some way, the reader can figure that out too.

They're not mutually exclusive. You can publish both release notes and a release announcement.

>You don't have to sell your software to someone who is already using it. That's just annoying.

I really disagree. I'm guessing you mean "sell" as in "manipulate" but I see it as "get users excited."

Of the software products I use and pay for, I appreciate it so much more when the vendor takes time to write a release announcement with care and focus on user needs. When I receive release announcements from Tailscale or Fly.io, I don't think, "Oh, boy, they're just trying to sell me something." I think it's cool that they're putting in the effort to showcase their work.

When vendors just publish a terse changelog, it feels like they don't care much about me and couldn't be bothered to present their work to me in a more accessible way.
by andrewflnr | 2025-06-25 17:08:47+00:00
I'm leaning toward incompetence on this one. Certainly if they were deliberately keeping his data against his will, it would be stupid to email him about it. The people responsible for deleting the account info probably deleted everything they knew about or had access to, but his email was also in some other database run by marketing or something. Or their databases are just overall horrifically denormalized and inconsistent.

(Of course, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishably from malice. Hard to say if that's applicable here.)
by dpc_01234 | 2025-06-25 17:09:17+00:00
It used to be that CPU and GPU were separate cards/chips, nowadays they are often integrated. There are good reasons to solder-in RAM. Yes it's a tradeoff, but it's reasonable. I don't expect FW to revert technical decisions that are not under their control. Mostly, I just don't want to be buying whole new laptop because my keyboard had a defect, or I cracked my screen. If the compute module comes with a soldered RAM, it's perfectly fine with me. For most most of my systems I buy it with RAM maxed-out, and when I get a new one, there's typically new generation of DDR, new speeds, etc. and I will not reuse my old RAM. I'm fine with buying and replacing a new CPU + RAM module as a unit, and I would buy such a module. The fact that there are modules with external memory is already enough good faith commitment to repairability.
by saurik | 2025-06-25 17:09:33+00:00
FWIW, if you are cross-compiling, while you might get a vaguely usable result by ignoring all of the warnings and letting worst-common-denominator defaults get applied, you absolutely should be paying more attention and either manually providing autoconf the answers it needs or (if at all possible, as this is more general) make sure to tell it how to run a binary on the target system (maybe in an emulator or over ssh)... you shouldn't just be YOLOing a cross-compile like this and expecting it to work (not to say that this wasn't a good bug in the fallback to fix, just that the premise is awkward).
by sraghuram | 2025-06-25 17:09:52+00:00
The Bigger Picture: Why This Matters

The traditional cloud pricing model for Kubernetes has created a barrier to entry that pushes smaller teams and startups away from modern container orchestration. When your infrastructure costs more than your engineering team’s coffee budget, something is fundamentally broken. Managed Kubernetes services have become 3x the cost of running equivalent VMs, and that’s before you factor in the hidden costs like data egress, storage operations, and the army of specialized engineers you need to keep everything running.

Rackspace Spot changes this equation entirely. By eliminating the control plane costs and using market-based pricing for compute, it makes Kubernetes accessible to teams that previously couldn’t justify the expense. You can finally use the orchestration platform that the industry considers best practice without mortgaging your future.
by cardanome | 2025-06-25 17:09:54+00:00
He is obligated to show up but in practice if he didn't want to work they couldn't really do anything. He could just call in sick or work very slowly, what are they gonna do, fire him?

If he still has the laptop it means there is trust on both sides. Otherwise they would have revoked all his accesses and just exempted him from working to protect the company from possible harm.

At least that is how it works in Germany but should be basically the same in Danish law. Getting laid off is really not so bad. Firing people is expensive, as it should be.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-25 17:10:12+00:00
By "everyone" I'd say that if any social or comms platform allows DMs you will get messages that say something like like "Hey!" from those scammers. If you reply you will get questions meant to qualify you like "How old are you?" pretty quick and if you pass they'll work you over for months

Young folks on the other hand get hit with

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

which often ends by suicide in 15-20 minutes.
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 17:10:34+00:00
> while still having relatively easy access to opportunities.

Trouble is that this discussion stems from comments about how those in the suburbs can't afford the cost of transportation. Is there really opportunity if you can't afford it? Other thread branches seem to agree that those comments were made up bullshit, so that adds complexity, but we aren't really serving the intent of the discussion if we deviate from the idea (even if fake).

> It sounds like you (like me) have found our personal balance elsewhere.

Now, if only I could convince the rest of my family! I have no qualms in admitting that I am where I am because I have chosen to prioritize certain people in my life. I don't much care for the civil side of things.

I have asked a lot of people the same question and not a single other one has said that they didn't actually want to be there on the basis of what the community type offers. I find it quite interesting that I stand alone. Makes one wonder if I actually stand alone, or if others are just putting on a pretty face? Post-purchase rationalization is a hell of a drug.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-06-25 17:10:40+00:00
I built a Chrome extension with one feature that transcribes audio to text in the browser using huggingface/transformers.js running the OpenAI Whisper model with WebGPU. It works perfect! Here is a list of examples of all the things you can do in the browser with webgpu for free. [0]

The last thing in the world I want to do is listen or watch presidential social media posts, but, on the other hand, sometimes enormously stupid things are said which move the SP500 up or down $60 in a session. So this feature queries for new posts every minute, does ORC image to text and transcribe video audio to text locally, sends the post with text for analysis, all in the background inside a Chrome extension before notify me of anything economically significant.

[0] https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js/tree/main/exa...

[1] https://github.com/adam-s/doomberg-terminal
by mil22 | 2025-06-25 17:11:06+00:00
There is some information on this buried in configuration.md under "Usage Statistics". They claim:

*What we DON'T collect:*

- *Personally Identifiable Information (PII):* We do not collect any personal information, such as your name, email address, or API keys.

- *Prompt and Response Content:* We do not log the content of your prompts or the responses from the Gemini model.

- *File Content:* We do not log the content of any files that are read or written by the CLI.

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/0915bf7d677...
by downrightmike | 2025-06-25 17:11:39+00:00
I had to look it up: The term "anarcho-tyranny" was coined by writer Sam Francis to describe a situation where a state oppresses citizens' lives but is unable or unwilling to enforce laws that protect them. Francis believed that anarcho-tyranny is built into the managerial system and cannot be solved by voting out incumbents or fighting corruption. He argued that the political left has dominated politics because of a progressive managerial class that has increased state power and bureaucratization, while eroding the power of other authorities. Francis believed that the only way to restore sanity was to devolve power back to law-abiding citizens. Francis also used the term to describe an armed dictatorship without rule of law. Some commentators have used the term to describe situations where governments focus on confiscating weapons instead of stopping looters. Thomas Fleming has described anarcho-tyranny as "law without order" and suggested that people should follow the advice of a boxing referee and protect themselves at all times.

But in reality it was the right that was setting us up for failure all this time, going back to at least Reagan as California's governor reducing funding to schools. Then Nixon doubled down.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-06-25 17:12:21+00:00
Isn't that a bit like saying that gasoline should be sold as a fixed price subscription rather than a usage based scheme where long distance truckers pay more than someone driving < 100 miles per week?

A ChatBot is more like a fixed-price buffet where usage is ultimately human limited (even if the modest eaters are still subsidizing the hogs). An agentic system is going to consume resources in much more variable manner, depending on how it is being used.

> Some jerk has learned that we prefer CLI things and has come to the conclusion that we should therefore pay extra for them

Obviously these companies want you to increase the amount of their product you consume, but it seems odd to call that a jerk move! FWIW, Anthropic's stated motivation for Claude Code (which Gemini is now copying) was be agnostic to your choice of development tools since CLI access is pretty much ubiquitous, even inside IDEs. Whether it's the CLI-based design, the underlying model, or the specifics of what Claude Code is capable of, they seem to have got something right, and apparently usage internal to Anthropic skyrocketed just based on word of mouth.
by throwanem | 2025-06-25 17:12:30+00:00
iPhones could do it well, using the face ID lidar to measure the user's pupils. (It already does this, taking advantage of the property that they are reflective in IR.) Androids with only a front camera would do it poorly. But either would require pairing with a wearable capable of SpO2, skin galvanometry, HR measurement, etc., in order to credibly analyze physiological stress.

I suppose it needs clarifying that I say this all in jest, not as any kind of serious suggestion. Among other reasons, it would only improve the tone and not the substance.
by econ | 2025-06-25 17:12:58+00:00
You could, rather than/in addition to select or make themes, pick settings or have plugins allow the user to make their own spin-of application including updates. When doing that one is much more motivated to polish it than when having an entire application to maintain. The spin-of could be loaded into the main version as a config file for modification. It would make things more portable. There might even be a market for the proverbial Stallman version of Firefox.
by inanutshellus | 2025-06-25 17:13:27+00:00
it was "here's forty-odd pages of news, sports, stocks, local politics, comic strips, curated reviews, curated op-eds, tailored editorials and a pile of coupons worth more than the newspaper's price from a local organization that has one or maybe two competitors for giving you this information... for two bits."

There's really no comparison anymore.

Any "valuable" news/sports/politics/stocks is all freely available from dozens of competing sources.

What's left is Opinions, Reviews and Editorials, which are freely available from thousands of free competitors.

the idea that anyone would blindly microtransact ("pay $0.02 to read my clickbait article ChatGPT wrote for me!") is one waiting for all free content to go away first.
by tptacek | 2025-06-25 17:13:55+00:00
I do think HackerOne is problematic, in that it pushes companies that don't really understand bug bounties to stand up bounty programs without a clear reason. If you're doing a serious bounty, your incentive is to pay out. But a lot of companies do these bounties because they just think they're supposed to.

Most companies should not do bug bounties.