MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway_434 | 2025-06-25 17:14:04+00:00
> This phenomenon is large enough that I'm shocked it hasn't openly caused a diplomatic rift between the US and India, and New Delhi should have a vested interested in combating it.

It is only large enough to you probably. India has been sanctioned by US in the 90s for doing reciprocal nuclear tests (after China detonated its bomb) and suffered billions of dollars in trade. US gained nothing from the sanctions except to push India into more poverty. It ended up being counter-productive. Even now Trump is threatening India with billions of dollars in trade sanctions that far outweighs anything caused by scams (if you take absolute numbers).

> What "mercenaries" are you referring to?

The CIA is currently fuelling and instigating Manipur riots in India by supplying arms and ammunitions to Kuki narco-terrorists. Prior to this we had USAID that was influencing electoral politics within India. Apart from that, we just witnessed regime change operations in Bangladesh where Pro-India Shiekh Hasina was toppled for a Pro-US Jihadi Muhammad Yunus. All of these run the US taxpayers in hundreds of billions of dollars. Far more than any scam conducted by Indian call centers.

For an average US citizen, sure it feels like a lot, since you guys are at the receiving end. But since you mentioned why US Government is not bringing this up, it is because it pales in comparison to what US Government has done to India over the past 7 decades. India can bring up a lot of counterpoints that will only cause US diplomats to shut up. We haven't even touched on killing of our nuclear scientists. Too many skeletons in their closet.
by haswell | 2025-06-25 17:14:17+00:00
To the many responses calling this sad, messed up, unhealthy, serfdom, etc. I’d bring more curiosity to this.

The reality is that we’re talking about a human navigating the impending restructuring of human relationships and being removed from a product that they clearly cared about.

I’ve been there — working on something I believed in, for a company that treated me well, with customers and colleagues who also believed in the product.

It’s common advice to treat work as something separate from your personal life, to not rely on work as a social/support system, etc. and I think that’s mostly decent advice.

But it doesn’t change the complexity of the relationship someone can have with their work and the people associated with it.

When I finally left, it was voluntary and after much planning. If I had been laid off instead, and if I had 6 months to prepare, I’d still be going into the office too.

My loyalty would not be to my employer at that point, but to the many humans around me with whom I had relationships and still have relationships years later.

What the article describes sounds like a period of transition. Not something to be derided.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-25 17:14:29+00:00
There's some possibilty to retire earlier, I know a guy there in his early 60s who did it. Perhaps accepting reduced benefits? Or still having to wait until 67 to start collecting?

If I got an offer to retire early with 9-12 months salary I'd take it in a heartbeat. IT is absolutely no fun anymore. As soon as you learn something it's obsolete. And the treadmill keeps getting faster and faster. I used to go to work feeling like I was an expert at what I did. Now I feel like I'm babysitting technology that nobody really understands but has decided we need to be using. There's no training for it because anything you learn is already out of date. Problems are solved by googling (or more recently, asking an LLM) and trying stuff until you find something that works. I.e. vibing. It's totally demotivating.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-25 17:14:32+00:00
What possible reason do you have to assume it fetches only this data?

Apple is absolutely slurping up any and all data they can get about your machine, you, whatever is visible on the network, nearby WiFi networks and your physical location.

They have no reason whatsoever to not do this, they explicitly do this on iOS, and there is a lot of money for them to sell the data they collect about you.

This is how modern corporations are. Apple is no different from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, et al.
by lxgr | 2025-06-25 17:14:38+00:00
Even that password only gives you read access.

I don't think ICAO passports can ever be rewritten post-issuance. Some national IDs can, e.g. to change the holder's residential address, but for passports, I don't think any part of the on-chip data can be changed post-issuance, since it would also require re-printing data on the photo page usually under protective plastic.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-25 17:15:14+00:00
Awareness, conciousness, free will (or the illusion of it) are just consequences of bit-rot, entropy in the unified storage (subquantumfoambubbles, holographic, or whatever) of the Akashic Records, Popol Vuh, Indra's Net, Tree/Book of Life, Calculating Space not caught by checksum-errors/scrubbing/ECC, and thus chaos emerges through the haze of Maya's Veil :-)
by agotterer | 2025-06-25 17:15:24+00:00
I wonder how much of this had to do with the context window size? Gemini’s window is 5x larger than Cladue’s.

I’ve been using Claude for a side project for the past few weeks and I find that we really get into a groove planning or debugging something and then by the time we are ready to implement, we’ve run out of context window space. Despite my best efforts to write good /compact instructions, when it’s ready to roll again some of the nuance is lost and the implementation suffers.

I’m looking forward to testing if that’s solved by the larger Gemini context window.
by mchusma | 2025-06-25 17:16:31+00:00
I don't know that i have ever used jpg or png lossless in practical usage (e.g. I don't think 99.9% of mobile app or web usecases are for lossless). WebP lossy performance is just not worth it in practice, which is why WebP never took off IMO.

Are there usecases for lossless other than archival?
by treetalker | 2025-06-25 17:18:16+00:00
Tangent, since it appears that you (OP) are the developer behind Kalen: On Kalen's landing page, the lead phrase is "Stop Letting Good Intentions Die in Your To-Do List", and "Die in Your To-Do List" gets all the attention (on its own line, and in color). From a rhetorical/advertising point of view, consider a more-positive spin, or perhaps drawing attention to something else instead. Just some straightforward feedback from someone who happened upon the webpage by chance — I hope it's helpful!

Cool project, keep up the awesome work!
by lxgr | 2025-06-25 17:18:32+00:00
> Yes. There is even an active function that allows you sign arbitrary bits to check if the passport actually contains the private key.

That's true for older passports, but there's actually a newer scheme that uses Diffie-Hellman key agreement instead, since non-repudiation, which is hard to avoid with RSA signatures, is considered a non-goal for passports. (Some governments apparently don't want them to be used as a "backdoor e-signing scheme", hence the change to the new repudiable authentication scheme.)
by mgraczyk | 2025-06-25 17:19:25+00:00
Well no, that's not what anyone is saying.

The claim was that it isn't possible in principle for "DAGs" or "immutable architectures" to be intelligent. That statement is confusing some theoretical results that aren't applicable to how LLMs work (output context is mutation).

I'm not claiming that compute makes the m intelligent. I'm pointing out that it is certainly possible, and at that level of compute it should be plausible. Feel free to share any theoretical results you think demonstrate the impossibility of "DAG" intelligence and are applicable
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-25 17:20:10+00:00
I am curious about this:

> I awkwardly tried to explain to our users why we made them wait five months for a release that essentially did nothing for them.

Are the users waiting? Most of the time when using software I am not waiting for new features. I am happy if you keep it stable and working. Unless there is a real pain point in some process (e.g. something very manual that you should automate).

I think it is OK to have releases with no new features.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-25 17:20:18+00:00
Mixed use zoning is better than not allowing it at all but almost always results in the activity simply not being economically profitable due to the other restrictions.

The problem with that is that the "rich enough to have no real problems" people know that for every upscale coffee shop they like there will be five people doing heavier economic activity that they don't like and because they're the only ones with the free time to care they drive the conversation and they limit it to light consumer businesses which of course can't work because that hypothetical coffee shop or sandwich shop needs the foot traffic from all the other business (that doesn't exist, because it's not allowed) in order to actually turn a profit without insane prices. And so then nothing actually gets developed in the up-zoned area and it's still a glorified bedroom community.

The people who could actually provide the political will for a proper removal or liberalization of the zoning don't get involved, because they all have other shit going on that's more important.
by rynohack | 2025-06-25 17:20:26+00:00
Anyone can use coupons. Even if they don't want to spend the time to do it, they could. Same with store brand products made by the name brand manufacturer the choice is up to the consumer.

Uber's price discrimination is opaque. Even if they aren't doing dastardly things with it, people don't like feeling ripped off. We have no way of knowing when we are.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-25 17:20:40+00:00
Hyphenation of multi-word nouns is a process in English that usually happens after some time of usage as separate words. It often happens before eventually merger into a single compound word noun. Such as: "Electronic Mail" to "E Mail" to "e-mail" to "email".

Given how often it is used as a jargon term in software development, I can absolutely see this usage of "use-case" here as a "vote" for the next step in the process. Will we eventually see "usecase" become common? It's possible. I think it might even be a good idea. I'm debating adding my own "votes" for the hyphen moving forward.
by lapcat | 2025-06-25 17:20:45+00:00
> They're not mutually exclusive. You can publish both release notes and a release announcement.

Where, though? Consider the App Store, for example. You can have releases notes or a release announcement in the App Store along with a new version of your app, but not both.

The way you present it, with "good" vs. "bad", suggests that you're arguing for one, not for both, for release announcements instead of release notes.

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

But users don't need to get excited by every software update. That sounds like your need to get users excited about updates.

> When vendors just publish a terse changelog, it feels like they don't care much about me

That depends on what you mean by terse. "Bug fixes and performance improvements" is terse and careless. A comprehensive list of changes is not necessarily terse. And in a sense, "release announcements include only the most impactful changes" is terse too.
by jeffbee | 2025-06-25 17:20:53+00:00
> on chrome based browsers with Linux I have to disable 'use graphic acceleration when available' in the browser settings or the browser with freeze intermittently. This has been a consistent issue across distros for years. Not sure if it also affects firefox.

Oddly enough works fine on all Chromebooks. It really is a matter of platform hardware/firmware qualification being suited to task.
by hinkley | 2025-06-25 17:21:11+00:00
I’ve wanted to create a wiki for a hobby for a long time, but I don’t want to get stuck in spam and abuse reports, which just becomes more of a given with each passing year.

With a hobby wiki, eventual consistency is fine. I believe ghost bans and quarantine and some sort of invisible captcha would go a long way toward my goal, but it’s hard to find invisible captcha.

There was a research project long ago that used high resolution data from keyboards to determine who was typing. The idea was not to use the typing pattern as a password, but to flag suspicious activity. To have someone walk past that desk to see if Sally hurt her arm playing tennis this weekend of if Dave is fucking around on her computer while she’s in a meeting

That’s about the level I’m looking for. Assume everyone is a bot during a probationary period and put accounts into buckets of likely human, likely bot, and unknown.

What I’d have to work out though is temporary storage for candidate edits in a way they cannot fill up my database. A way to throttle them and throw some away if they hit a limit. Otherwise it’s still a DOS attack.
by duxup | 2025-06-25 17:22:12+00:00
I have no inside knowledge of OpenAI.

But man it feels like OpenAI is slowly but surely getting into a lot of drama that should otherwise be able to avoid?

Internal fights over Sam, for a while it seemed like a lot of people were leaving, conflicts over their non profit status / fights with folks who gave them money (Microsoft).

Is this name fight worth it?
by jsnell | 2025-06-25 17:22:13+00:00
Thanks, but where are those accessibility settings? /help shows nothing related to settings other than auth and theme, there's no related flags, and there's a ~/.gemini/settings.json that contains just the auth type.

No mention of accessibility in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/0915bf7d677... either
by karpathy | 2025-06-25 17:23:20+00:00
Omg long post. TLDR from an LLM for anyone interested

Speed your audio up 2–3× with ffmpeg before sending it to OpenAI’s gpt-4o-transcribe: the shorter file uses fewer input-tokens, cuts costs by roughly a third, and processes faster with little quality loss (4× is too fast). A sample yt-dlp → ffmpeg → curl script shows the workflow.

;)
by lurking_swe | 2025-06-25 17:23:28+00:00
Uber offers a lot more than just locating a driver. It’s a platform that generates a recommended route for the driver, shows the progress of the route to the customer in realtime so they know the driver is going the right direction, it calculates fares (e.g. distance, surge pricing, etc), and has other features like “share my ride details with my spouse” for example…for security purposes.

That’s just what i could think of off the top of my head and i’m not a product manager at uber. Things are NEVER as simple as they initially seem.

Other thoughts:

- at uber’s scale, payment processing alone likely takes up quite a bit of compute server side. You could outsource this to a 3rd party, but it’s still an expense as you scale.

- how would a decentralized system work if something goes wrong during the ride? who does the customer call? Drunk driver, attempted rape, etc. list of things that can go wrong is long.

- your platform/app would need to be smart enough to know where all the “proper” ride share pickup spots are at every airport. Not trivial!

- how would you offer a feature to “reserve a ride” like uber does, if you only build an app that can find “nearby drivers”?

food for thought. :) All im pointing out is this kind of product needs to be a platform and is likely not cheap to run. It’s not 90% client side. Unless you literally just want to reinvent the taxi concept, in which case maybe the 90% client side approach is feasible.
by rynop | 2025-06-25 17:23:59+00:00
This is a false claim in the PR:

> Many of the programs you use already support the new PNG spec: ... Photoshop, ...

Photoshop does NOT support APNGs. The PR calls out APNg recognition as the 2nd bullet point of "What's new?"

Am I missing something? Seems like a pretty big mistake. I was excited that an art tool with some marketshare finally supported it.
by dmd | 2025-06-25 17:24:00+00:00
Well, color me not impressed. On my very first few tries, out of 10 short-ish (no more than 300 lines) python scripts I asked it to clean up and refactor, 4 of them it mangled to not even run any more, because of syntax (mostly quoting) errors and mis-indenting. Claude has never done that.
by fallinditch | 2025-06-25 17:24:34+00:00
Very useful, thanks. So does this mean that every month or so you have to create a new 'clean' YouTube account and use that to create new po_token/cookies?

It's frustrating to have to jump through all these hoops just to extract transcripts when the YouTube Data API already gives reasonable limits to free API calls ... would be nice if they allowed transcripts too.

Do you think the various YouTube transcript extractor services all follow a similar method as yours?
by LocalH | 2025-06-25 17:24:42+00:00
A child is presumably a sentient being, and at some point in their life should gain control of their name. In fact, they do, to some large degree. There are means to change one's legal name, or one can diverge from their legal name and professionally/publicly use a completely different name.

A file format is not a sentient being. The creator's intent matters much more. If GIF had sentience and could voice a desire one way or the other, the whole discussion would be moot as it would clearly be disrespectful to intentionally mispronounce the name.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-06-25 17:25:13+00:00
I don't think LLMs specifically are becoming a religion, but I think the way some people look at/speak about AGI and its impact on the world has become a new religion. Especially when paired with UBI solving the unemployment problems it could create, which is so far from human nature that I think is even less likely than AGI.

I philosophically don't think AGI as described is achievable because I don't think humans can build a machine more capable than themselves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But continuing to insulate it'll be here in a few months sure helps put some dollars in CEOs pockets!
by patel011393 | 2025-06-25 17:25:17+00:00
I recently used this archive for a course paper and it only took 1-2 days of training and paperwork to get approved.

I don't strictly need this archive anymore, but I recall when the federal layoffs were first being announced that staff were down about it.

As a first-time archives user, this is a major loss to the research community. I met people who flew in from around the country for various projects, working on their graduate degrees and consulting here.

When I used the facilities, I saw signs in multiple areas about people who were caught stealing records and warnings that the consequences are significant (federal crime). But this action is senseless. Their security is very tight with scanning before entering, restrictions on materials and bags that can be brought upstairs, and people monitoring to ensure that special procedures are followed. These places are understaffed and underappreciated. Funding should increase for these national treasures.
by ellenhp | 2025-06-25 17:25:33+00:00
Well there are two competing factors, one of which you pointed out--not every woman who experiences harassment reports it. The other which may be less obvious is that the people who behave this way tend to do so not only repeatedly but frequently. Eventually they may harass the wrong woman and get reported. Without knowing the numbers I can't speculate more about whether lyft knew about the driver who harassed me.
by ff317 | 2025-06-25 17:25:45+00:00
It might be interesting for "opportunistic" DoTLS towards authdns servers, which might listen on the DoTLS port with a cert containing a SAN that matches the public IP of the authdns server. (You can do this now with authdns server hostnames, but there could be many varied names for one public authdns IP, and this kinda ties things together more-clearly and directly).
by davidrll | 2025-06-25 17:26:00+00:00
In my team, we have people responsible for handling various questions, but some of them are technical related to our business. However, they have limited familiarity with the product (technical side) itself, and while we have an API that contains a substantial amount of information, they and other people in similar roles typically find it challenging to consume data directly from APIs without a visual interface. Recently, we have been exploring natural language solutions via MCP to address this challenge.

Some MCPs require payment and may not function properly. I am interested in trying your solution, as I have previously used your SDK generator with the CLI, which worked well.

I appreciate that you offer a free tier. I will test it and observe how well it performs. If I encounter any issues, I will reach out again.
by logsr | 2025-06-25 17:26:25+00:00
In a few more years there will probably be virtually no human users of web sites and apps. Everything will be through an AI agent mediation layer. Building better CAPTCHAs is interesting technically, but it is doubling down on a failed solution that nobody actually wants. What is needed is an authentication layer that allows agents to act on behalf of registered users with economic incentives to control usage. CAPTCHA has always been an economic bar only, since they are easy to farm out to human solvers, and it is a very low bar. Having an agent API with usage charges is a much better solution because it compensates operators instead of wasting the cost of solving CAPTCHAs. Maybe this will finally be the era of micro payments?
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-25 17:26:28+00:00
I have a PhD in physics and maths always were hard. I ended up having a toolbox to solve my common problems.

This is still useful after having left academia, I often look at something and the right "tool" pops up from the toolbox. It helos to understand the world around us and realize how much bullshit we are fed through doctored graphs or tables.
by graemep | 2025-06-25 17:26:40+00:00
Depends on age, individual, usage and circumstances. My kids had phones as teens, and they were useful to some extent. It also depends what they do - social media + doomscrolling is the worst thing.

There is Android support for locking things down for kids, but I do not know how effective it is - mine are adults of close to being an adult now.

Its also hard to do without. I would have to pay a lot more for my daughter's bus tickets to get to school if she did not use the bus company app (because that would mean daily tickets instead of monthly which are a lot cheaper). Its where a lot of kids not only discuss things and social, but organise things (although I encourage doing that at a desktop rather than a phone when possible) so kids without get left out.
by paulvs | 2025-06-25 17:26:46+00:00
A couple of reasons why Paraguay is a great place for remote workers:

* Friendly people * Great food (soups like Vori Vori, delicious BBQ) * Decent internet * Cheap rent * Low taxes (no taxes on foreign income) * Timezone alignment with the US * Economic stability

I’ve been here over 10 years and as long as you learn to not rely too much on public services, you’ll be fine.