MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-06-05 14:42:54+00:00
Isn't it a bit early to have thoughts about something we don't know the UI/UX of? Could be that "Markdown support" is just "Import/Export as Markdown", or even just export. Or it could be a fully fledged WYSIWYG editor.

The rumors seem to indicate just "Export as Markdown", which seems to be exactly what Gruber wants, according to the last 10% of the blogpost. So the rest is ranting against an implementation that doesn't seem like it'll happen?
by perihelions | 2025-06-05 14:42:59+00:00
> "for example, the Southern Cross is only visible in the southern hemisphere"

It's in the same place everywhere; it's the position of the Earth, which you're implicitly measuring by pointing out that it's obstructing your view, that's different. The things above the horizon are visible; the things below the horizon are not. That's not facetious; the core idea of this type of navigation is to measure the position of the horizon with high precision, which is hard. Very hard if you're surrounded by mountains. ("Which hemisphere am I on?" is... low precision, if easy to measure). Those classic methods aren't pure astrometry: they're differential astrometry that measure the horizon against stars, the relative orientation of the two.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-05 14:43:01+00:00
I was responding to the idea that science funding should be predicated on expected ROI. That strikes at the heart of inquiry for a couple of reasons. First, that the point of scientific inquiry is to try to explain the universe, not to generate returns. That it generates returns is a happy side-effect. Second, because we rarely know in advance what sorts of study will or will not generate returns. It is quite common that research that has no obvious benefit up front results in a surprising benefit or laying the foundation for such benefits through later research.

I agree with you that fabricating data is bad (who would argue with that?), but that's an entirely different topic.
by westoque | 2025-06-05 14:44:46+00:00
Came here to say this. What makes a great general purpose language is not only in the programming part but also in transportability. I think Go takes the cake here. If only Elixir apps could be compiled and transported as a binary to similar systems and it works, then it would make it a great general purpose language. Until then, it's really only a good client/server language as it was intended to be.
by tailspin2019 | 2025-06-05 14:44:50+00:00
> Privacy right is an integral part of the freedom of speech

I completely agree with you, but as a ChatGPT user I have to admit my fault in this too.

I have always been annoyed by what I saw as shameless breaches of copyright of thousands of authors (and other individuals) in the training of these LLMs, and I've been wary of the data security/confidentiality of these tools from the start too - and not for no reason. Yet I find ChatGPT et al so utterly compelling and useful, that I poured my personal data[0] into these tools anyway.

I've always felt conflicted about this, but the utility just about outweighed my privacy and copyright concerns. So as angry as I am about this situation, I also have to accept some of the blame too. I knew this (or other leaks or unsanctioned use of my data) was possible down the line.

But it's a wake up call. I've done nothing with these tools which is even slightly nefarious, but I am today deleting all my historical data (not just from ChatGPT[1] but other hosted AI tools) and will completely reassess my approach of using them - likely with an acceleration of my plans to move to using local models as much as I can.

[0] I do heavily redact my data that goes into hosted LLMs, but there's still more private data in there about me than I'd like.

[1] Which I know is very much a "after the horse has bolted" situation...
by ookblah | 2025-06-05 14:44:54+00:00
nice deflection. i might not share your enthusiasm for mentoring junior devs, but i do it anyway because like you, i agree it's important. the point, though, is at the end of the day even if i didn't do it you have no fucking right to come with that moral high ground.

if you've optimized every facet of your life to do all the "responsible things" society needs then feel free to throw the first stone. anything else is just posturing.

and just a small thing, it's ironic that you're so fixated on socialization for society’s sake while being so tunnel-visioned in defending your own definition of what that even means. i've given you plenty examples but it just doesn't fit the one you personally adhere to.
by Nasrudith | 2025-06-05 14:44:57+00:00
Reminds me of the one bit of memorable insane 'logic' I heard once blaming Kinsey for the rise of Adolf Hitler by claiming 'sexual depravity' of recognizing LGBT was somehow responsible. Ignoring that even if the reaction was literally true in causation it would still be the fault of Germans who considered 'uncomfortable knowledge about sexuality' as more objectionable than fascism.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-06-05 14:45:06+00:00
"First - in the US, privacy is not a constitutional right"

What? The supreme court disagreed with you in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Roe v. Wade (1973).

While one could argue that they were vastly stretching the meaning of words in these decisions the point stands that at this time privacy is a constitutional right in the USA.
by taylodl | 2025-06-05 14:45:16+00:00
You sound like a typical, modern developer to me - and that's not a slam, it's a compliment. I've been developing software for 40 years now and have always worked the same way you do. The only thing that's different is back in the day we didn't have Google, so we relied on books and magazines. We also weren't working with 25 different technologies over several different layers comprising a solution. The world was a lot simpler back then.

Today's LLMs could completely create everything we were creating back then, but guess what? The goalposts shifted. Like they always do. What I've noticed is the more power we developers gain then the more we're expected to deliver. What we now deliver in a sprint would have taken months or years to have delivered back in the day. That's why I'm not worried about AI. It's just another tool to replace developers that'll end up moving the goalposts for what we're developing. Within 10 years a single person will be able to deliver in a day what now takes a team several sprints to deliver. And we'll still be drowning in work.
by borromakot | 2025-06-05 14:45:37+00:00
> Well-designed Erlang systems can fail gracefully and self-heal locally...but they’re only as fault-tolerant as their distributed architecture and ops discipline allows

Correct.

> you went for an ad hominem

Not my intention. I asked a simple question, and you answered a question with a question, effectively gish galloping me with "but there are ways it can crash" except nobody said there wasn't. It stopped feeling like a technical debate at that point.

FWIW, I didn't make the original comment you replied to, I just pointed out that this statement:

> "Practically never crash" ignores software bugs, resource exhaustion, or bad architecture

felt like a surface response to the OPs sentiment of localized failures not tanking an entire software system.
by observationist | 2025-06-05 14:46:41+00:00
In theory, it should be possible to use base models, system prompts, and run-time tweaks to elicit specific behaviors and make them just as useful as the instruction following tuned, so-called "aligned" models.

The base models are eerie. People have done some amazing creative work with them, but I honestly think the base models are so disconcerting as to effectively force nearly every R&D lab out there to run to instruction tuning and otherwise avoid having to work with base models.

I think it's so frustrating and uncanny valley and alien dealing with the edge cases of the good, big base models that we're missing a lot of fun and creative use cases.

The performance hit from fine-tuning is what happens when the instruct tuning and alignment post-training datasets distort the model of reality learned by the AI, and there are all sorts of unintended consequences, ranging from full on Golden Gate Claude levels of delusion to nearly imperceptible biases.

Robopsychology is in its infancy, and I can't wait for the nuanced and skillful engineering of minds to begin.
by bumby | 2025-06-05 14:46:45+00:00
Yep, at least using numbers from an LLM, the break even emission standpoint seems to be about 3-4 years.

For people who use leases to get a new car (average lease is 36 months) they’d be doing more harm to the environment, but for people who hold onto their cars longer, they’d be reducing CO2e.

Those are just rough generalizations, and of course it depends on driving distance, grid emissions, etc. For example, if you get your electricity primarily from coal, the break even is closer to 12 years. But as others have said, the EV market tends towards the type of people who don’t hold on to cars very long.

>expensive to repair would be the easy environmental improvement that would also save money.

This line of thinking seems to miss the financial reality of the vast majority of Americans. Most people aren’t choosing between an $1800 repair vs a $50k new EV for environmental reasons, it’s because they can only afford one of those options.
by i_have_an_idea | 2025-06-05 14:47:08+00:00
Sadly, I don't think this astroturfing is limited to announcement threads. It seems it is becoming increasingly hard to source real human opinions online, even on specialized forums like this or Reddit communities.

I hope that I am wrong, but, if I am not, then these companies are doing real and substantial damage to the internet. The loss of trust will be very hard to undo.
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by panick21_ | 2025-06-05 14:48:32+00:00
> not a car "for the people" — way too rarefied, elite.

Based on what? They are at or below the avg car price. They are literally definitionally avg.

In fact, the Model 3 was one the cheapest electric cars at the time.

And still today Model Y isn't all the expensive. And its the most sold car in the world. How can the most sold car in the world be considered elite?
by throwaway81523 | 2025-06-05 14:48:46+00:00
The Bohnhoffs are exceptional in the filk community in that they are fantastic performers besides being good lyricists. Filking traditionally has been about lyric writing, with performance being secondary.

If you want an intro from the lyrical side, this guy (Ben Newman) is a fantastic songwriter, who I'd call a "filker's filker": https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/01/bnewman/songs/ His performances are pretty good too, by filker standards. Newer index: https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/

Another terrific lyricist (Bob Kanefsky) who specializes in parodizing other filksongs: https://www.songworm.com/

There's a fair amount more on youtube etc. but it is best experienced in person. Unfortunately due to Covid I've stopped doing that.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-05 14:49:02+00:00
There are lots of concrete examples in this article: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/03/2025/how-vibe-coding-i...

Do I think those rise to "case studies"? No. But to another commenters point, detailed and rigorous case studies have always been hard to come by for any productivity process or technology.

I also think that article is hype, but it's not true that it's vague.
by felix_tech | 2025-06-05 14:49:02+00:00
I've been using this for daily/weekly ETL tasks which saves quite a lot of money vs having an instance on all the time but it's been clunky.

The main issue is despite there being a 60 minute timeout available the API will just straight up not return a response code if your request takes > ~5 minutes in most cases so you gotta make sure you can poll where the datas being stored and let the client time out
by pilif | 2025-06-05 14:49:07+00:00
It didn’t have a back door.

A third party client was used whose only purpose was to log conversations. That third party client’s archive was then hacked.

Any client must by definition have access to the unencrypted data (in order to display it to the user). If you deliberately create a client that logs all communication, well, then all communication will be logged.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-05 14:49:13+00:00
I can't tell if you're "/s" but this strikes me as "anyone can download the SMTP RFCs and roll their own mail server" but that's not the same as actually running a mail server due to the monstrous amount of non-functional requirements that have been applied to that space over the years

To the best of my knowledge, the tax filer is responsible for knowing the law, which includes amendments made almost every Congressional session, the court rulings upon both of those things, the judicial meaning of the English words used in all that corpus, and then one can get into the pdfs and their printing and mailing. Or all of those lawyers and enrolled agents can be rented at tax time in order to outsource some of the liability, and thus that's how we end up with the current cesspool of a system we have
by shkkmo | 2025-06-05 14:49:48+00:00
> It's ridiculous, sure but is it less ridiculous than AI companies claiming that the copyrights shouldn't apply to them because it will be bad for their business?

Since that wasn't ever a real argument, your strawman is indeed ridiculous.

The argument is that requiring people to have a special license to process text with an algorithm is a dramatic expansion of the power of copyright law. Expansions of copyright law will inherently advantage large corporate users over individuals as we see already happening here.

New York Times thinks that they have the right to spy on the entire world to see if anyone might be trying to read articles for free.

That is the problem with copyright. That is why copyright power needs to be dramatically curtailed, not dramatically expanded.
by brookst | 2025-06-05 14:50:05+00:00
Slippery slope arguments are lazy.

Today they won’t let me drive 200mph on the freeway. Tomorrow it could be putting speed bumps in the fast lane. The next day combat aircraft will shoot any moving vehicles with Hellfire missiles and we’ll all have to sit still in our cars and starve to death. That’s why we must allow drivers to go 200mph.
by treebeard901 | 2025-06-05 14:50:27+00:00
With all the ways devices leak data, even now with all the AI integration and the screen recording happening in Windows, it is safe to assume encrypted messaging is not as secure as it used to be. Onscreen keyboards and device notification systems also offer other areas that can leak what you type.

The financial and legal consequences for companies that refuse backdoors are just too great.
by dakiol | 2025-06-05 14:50:32+00:00
I do, sometimes. But that wasn't the intention of my post (to criticize the current state of tech interviews). My goal was perhaps to see if more engineers think like me (and we all are just pretending by memorizing leetcode exercises because we need to pay the bills) or perhaps among developers, intelligence is rather higher than in the normal population? So, in my case I would be behind the bell curve peak I suppose, but maybe I have been working with highly intelligent people without noticing.
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-05 14:50:54+00:00
The UK is a bit different in this regard, same as Scandinavia.

But in many continental countries, bankruptcy is a serious legal stigma. You will end up on public "insolvency lists" for years, which means that no bank will touch you with a 5 m pole and few people will even be willing to rent you or your new startup office space. You may even struggle to get banal contracts such as "five SIMs with data" from mobile phone operators.

There seems to be an underlying assumption that people who go bankrupt are either fatally inept or fraudsters, and need to be kept apart from the "healthy" economy in order not to endanger it.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-06-05 14:52:20+00:00
> ESP32S3 IC : $4 retail, SCD41 Sensor : $21 retail, SGP41 Sensor : $8 retail, LPS22 Sensor : $4 retail

I am not an expert but if I get these components, how easy would it be to build a hacked version out of these?

I’m not in the US and unaffected by the tarrifs.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-06-05 14:53:29+00:00
We have really lost the thread WRT our legal system when district court judges have such wide ranging power. I understand that everything can be appealed, but these judges can cause considerable harm.

Ona T. Wang (she/her) ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/ona-t-wang-she-her-a1548b3/ ) would have a difficult time getting a job at OpenAI but she is given the full force of US law to direct the company in almost anyway she sees fit.

The wording is quite explcit, and forceful:

Accordingly, OpenAI is NOW DIRECTED to preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis until further order of the Court (in essence, the output log data that OpenAI has been destroying), whether such data might be deleted at a user’s request or because of “numerous privacy laws and regulations” that might require OpenAI to do so.

Again, I have no idea how to fix this, but it seems broken.
by atentaten | 2025-06-05 14:53:31+00:00
Interestingly written article. Raises some questions:

>Newts with weaker poison? They get eaten. Snakes with less resistance? Have trouble finding newts they can choke down, and don’t get to steal their poison. So the arms race continues.

How does a snake know that the Newt has weaker/strong poison? Is it leaving some Newts along and eating others, or is it eating any Newt it runs across? Does a strong-poison newt survive snake consumption attempts?
by 256dpi | 2025-06-05 14:53:53+00:00
Thanks and good question! We have planned to do a proper lab test soon. The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment is a project partner and has such equipment. During the design phase, we used a software to model the air flow and particle movements through the enclosure. Until then, we can only state what is already specified in the SCD41 and SGP41 datasheets.
by diggan | 2025-06-05 14:54:09+00:00
> which I think is what _really_ drove a lot of the adoption

That GitHub used it as a "native" format everywhere from the beginning (as far as I remember), probably helped Markdown become at least as popular (or maybe even more) as GitHub itself.

Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs, and since people already wrote their READMEs and issue comments with Markdown, I guess it was natural to want to write your blogposts with Markdown too, just like Gruber.
by chrisweekly | 2025-06-05 14:54:09+00:00
"Markdown is a good tool for a specific purpose, and generalized note taking isn't it."

As someone who enjoys note-taking in Obsidian (by far my favorite super-powered markdown editor), I respectfully disagree with the premise and conclusion. On the contrary, IME, MD isn't single-purpose, and it absolutely can and does serve as a first-rate format for note-taking.
by bethekidyouwant | 2025-06-05 14:54:26+00:00
I have these (inexpensive) sensors (except the barometer) hooked up to esp32’s in my home. After reviewing several months of the graph output I don’t have any confidence in the voc or co2 sensors accuracy. Additionally there is no good way to calibrate them outside of a lab. Imo the technology on the more interesting cheap sensors is not there yet.
by duxup | 2025-06-05 14:54:32+00:00
I struggled to read that article when I had to scroll scroll scroll to get a paragraph at a time ...

>It’s difficult to judge whether a character fairly portrays a specific ethnicity, but we can assess whether an actor and the character they portray share the same ethnicity as a baseline for accurate representation.

Do we know all the required details that the article implies?

I know folks who are from an Asian country, not China, but in their country they are thought of as "ethnic Chinese" and yet their family has no connection to China what is that then?

How does that even work?

What about people who have genetic connections but no real cultural connection? I'm reminded of a story about a black man who didn't know much about his past, he took a genetic test only to find out his genetic background was more native American than black. He asked his mom and she said "I'm too old to stop being a black woman."

Matching people to a given story seems like an endless minefield.
by kuschku | 2025-06-05 14:54:39+00:00
I usually try to write comments with proper notation and proper example values, but if — like in this instance — I'm interrupted IRL and lose my draft, I'll focus on getting my idea across at all rather than writing the perfect comment. Even if that leads to excessive abbreviations, slightly off example values, inconsistency between you/I/passive voice or past/present/future tense.

In this case the comment you see is the third attempt, ultimately written on a phone (urgh), but I hope the idea came across nonetheless.
by hkpack | 2025-06-05 14:55:36+00:00
You are thinking logically only if you are a shareholder. Then it makes absolute sense to think like that to stay hopeful.

From the consumer POV who doesn't own shares in the brand, it makes no sense at all.

> enormous amount of Tesla drivers who couldn't care about FSD but simply enjoying the car as an EV

Are there an enormous amount of disappointed Tesla drivers as well who stuck with it because of a sunk cost fallacy?

Should, for example, CyberTruck owners who spend 150K on a bullet-proof car be happy that in the new 2026 version the panels finally will stop falling off?

Should the few million people who purchased Tesla Model 3 feel better that the new version finally drives like a car?