MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Benanov | 2025-06-09 21:11:20+00:00
Correct.

With public/private key pairs, encrypting anything with the private key means that you use the public key to decrypt that same thing. This means anyone (as the key is public!) can decrypt the thing. So if you get the public key, and if the thing decrypts successfully, then you know that the corresponding private key was used to encrypt the thing. This is considered proof that the private key holder encrypted the thing / sent the message, and that's why everyone calls it "signing" instead of "encryption" - you send the cleartext thing along with the encrypted thing.

For private messages, you encrypt with someone's public key and have them decrypt with their private key. You'd sign it with your key, and that person would verify the signature with your key. That's 4 keys you need to worry about.

This doesn't even begin to consider key rotation, perfect forward secrecy, multiple recipients, etc.
RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-09 21:11:33+00:00
See also: Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kennedy-guts-acip... RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee - https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-cdc-acip-vaccines-3790c89...
by al_borland | 2025-06-09 21:12:03+00:00
They did still have a lot of AI features, just not AI chat.

Users can now use AI in Shortcuts, developers can use the various on-device models, I assume the call and text screening uses AI. Those are a few things off the top of my head. We need to some thinking the start and end for AI is a text field with a submit button.
by vel0city | 2025-06-09 21:12:20+00:00
I have several objects on my desk made of glass with rounded corners. The glass lunch container I ate out of a little bit ago. A squircle glass bowl on my desk holding various nicknacks. The glass on the front of my phone. The glass I'm drinking out of right now has rounded corners. I used to have a kitchen table that had the top as one giant sheet of glass as a square with rounded corners. The windows in my car have some corners rounded. Tons of glass things have rounded corners.
by standardUser | 2025-06-09 21:12:33+00:00
> Cigarettes contain nicotine because it occurs naturally in tobacco. Nicotine contributes to the taste of cigarettes and the pleasures of smoking. The presence of nicotine, however, does not make cigarettes a drug or smoking addiction. Coffee, Mr. Chairman, contains caffeine and few people seem to enjoy coffee that does not. Does that make coffee a drug? Are coffee drinkers drug addicts? I think not.

Perhaps the true value of executives that justifies their bloated compensation is the ability to deliver bullshit lines like these with a straight face.
by ultimafan | 2025-06-09 21:12:37+00:00
I don't think the kind of dog ownership you're talking about is the same as the one in the article.

It's about dogs as a replacement for children which anecdotally I have definitely seen happening. I've met more than one married couple who are proud about not wanting kids but own a dog and treat it to an absurd degree like one would treat a toddler including but not limited to talking to / about it like one would to their child (imagine the kind of coworker who loves to talk your ear off to you about every single little detail of their child's life, complete with photos, but with a dog), cooking for and feeding it like a child (not just putting a dog bowl out on the floor), hiring babysitters when they go out, taking it to daycare centers for dogs, planning activities for/around it, doting on it like a child (dressing it up, carting it around in a baby stroller on walks) etc. etc.

It's a world of a difference from simply owning and taking care of a dog. It's a perpetual simulation of human childcare projected onto a dog that never "grows up" and without all the struggles and ugly situations that might happen with a real toddler ie tantrums.
by foxyv | 2025-06-09 21:12:44+00:00
Calorie counting is so unreliable it hardly even matters. The calorie measurements are way off. There are so many sources of macronutrients and they are all digested differently and lead to so many different amounts of "Fuel" for the body. Just the different types of carbohydrates are bad enough. An actually accurate food label would look like the spec sheet for a 5th generation fighter jet.

This doesn't even take into account the variations in the human body. Some people digest different types of foods better than others. Then there are the gut microbiomes of each individual. By the time you get done, if you have counted 2000 calories you could be off by 25% or more.

The big advantage that makes calorie counting work is that it makes people actually think about what they are eating.
by rollcat | 2025-06-09 21:12:45+00:00
The radial menu is brilliant.

It is reminiscent of how basic team communication works in StarCraft 2. You alt-click to ping the minimap (draw allies' attention to something in that general area). If it's something more specific, you can hold alt, and drag-click to open a directional menu, from which you can choose one of four orders: attack, defend, retreat, and OMW. Some pings are also context-sensitive: click on the minerals/gas to say "I want to gather these resources", useful for establishing expansion patterns, strategy in the early game (macro/rush), tech transitions (ping your hydralisk den to say "I'm gonna make hydras"). All of this is key in a game with hundreds of APM and split-second reaction times.

It's a similar story with GUI actions. Power users appreciate good key shortcuts more than almost anything. If you do something thousands of times a day, it needs to be near-instant. The mouse is often disregarded, and IMHO that's because nobody is really doing any serious research in that area. Radial menus pack a lot of actions (where three mouse buttons fall short), exploit Fitt's law, muscle memory, etc. They are also discoverable and provide immediate visual feedback (contrary how "mouse gestures" work in some applications).

Couple notes on the current implementation (from what I've gathered from the video):

- Settle on how many actions *at most* do you want available in the menu (4? 6? 8?), divide the menu accordingly, and display those divisions regardless of whether there's an actionable item. This will help develop muscle memory. If you need more than say 8 actions, the menu might already be getting more crammed than you'd find useful.

- When figuring out where to place stuff, I would suggest prioritising the four cardinal directions for the most common actions, starting with the horizontal positions. "Surprising" or destructive actions (even if un-doable) should be placed at the harder-to-reach positions.

- Keep the actions as consistent as possible between different contexts, e.g. left on the document closes the document, left on the title bar closes the window, but not: left on an icon deletes the file.

Questions worth considering:

- I'm not sure if a launcher is a good use for this model; once you have a dozen apps (or more than 3-4 windows to switch between), it's gonna get awkward. Maybe a more traditional list-menu, and/or a dock? But I'd be intrigued if you come up with something original.

- What happens when you open a menu too close to the screen edge? It's an interesting case to consider. Warping the pointer might be an option (the physical mouse can keep moving, after all).

- Is this going to work well with a trackpad? Maybe use a two/three finger swipe, but that depends on how precise is your hardware.

- What about a trackpoint, or die-hard keyboard users? Perhaps you can trigger the menu by holding down the space key?

Anyway, this is really inspiring.
by thewebguyd | 2025-06-09 21:13:00+00:00
> Just genuinely wondering, since it feels like maybe 2 years of start/stops/changing priorities.

I think it's exactly this. Apple got caught with their pants down on AI, had to shift quickly and that's what got us last year's announcements that never came.

Well, it still isn't ready, so they needed something to give this year since they are so committed to an annual release cycle (which I think is a mistake IMHO), so we get a design change & some love for the iPad.

OTOH, I like where Apple is going with private, on device AI. So if they need some more time to make it useful and polished, totally fine with me. I'd prefer they don't ship a half baked, hallucinating piece of crap. I personally don't/won't use any of the AI "features" so for me personally, it's refreshing to have a tech conference keynote not be "AI AI AI AI." It's worse than when blockchain was all the rage.
by anonym29 | 2025-06-09 21:13:02+00:00
I do, but that post is arguing a point (Elon Musk doesn't know the difference between encryption and cryptography) that's unsubstantiated, while a plausible alternative explanation (he does know the difference, and mis-spoke, because he, like all other human beings, sometimes makes errors in translating thoughts into words) was proposed in my parent post.

Your post completely sailed right past that alternative plausible explanation, and immediately went back to asserting the unsubstantiated claim without addressing the alternative hypothesis, in what appears to be a bout of motivated reasoning against a figure that is politically disliked.

You don't get to completely ignore the point I'm raising, assert your own, and then play the "why aren't you staying on topic" card when your post was the one that brought up an unsubstantiated and unrelated response to the initial claim - that's hypocritical at best, if not outright trolling.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-09 21:13:06+00:00
> the amount of enforcement activity has been pretty finely tuned for decades to optimize ROI

And then cut by 20% by the current adminstration [0].

I'd phrase the question of auditing lower income filers vs higher income filers differently -- do you think people with higher incomes should feel safer about cheating on their taxes?

Because average recoveries do scale with income [1]; unsurprisingly, it seems wealthy people commit tax fraud too [2].

While catching the low-hanging fruit (and therefore better ROI) is one goal, it needs to be balanced with ensuring there are similar levels of compliance (or penalties where it's lacking) in higher income payers.

[0] https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/cuts-spending-and-staff-d...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/upshot/tax-audits-wealthy...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-a... https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-tops-1-billion-in-past-due-... https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/yellen-touts-irs-enforc...
by chasd00 | 2025-06-09 21:13:09+00:00
wow, i'm going to copy/paste my response to someone upthread about how it's a bad idea for HN to get involved in political things like this.

"The main issue to me is now every political issue that isn't raised here makes HN complicit in its success/failure. Once HN starts down this path it can only continue and accelerate or else face accusations of support/opposition through silence."
by rvz | 2025-06-09 21:13:26+00:00
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac to run.

> You need an Apple silicon Mac to build and run Containerization.

> To build the Containerization package, your system needs either:

> macOS 15 or newer and Xcode 26 Beta

> macOS 26 Beta 1 or newer

Those on Intel Macs, this is your last chance to switch to Apple Silicon, (Sequoia was the second last)[0] as macOS Tahoe is the last version to support Intel Macs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41560423
by themrchrisman | 2025-06-09 21:13:48+00:00
Hey

I built Transformate after getting frustrated with the existing UIs for flux-kontext (an image transformation model). The model itself is amazing, but there wasn't really a tool for it that I liked using.

Transformate lets you:

Upload an image

Modify it using natural language prompts

Keep a full version history of every changed made

Fork new edits from any previous version

Please try it out and let me know what you think. Suggestions welcome.

https://www.transformate.uk/

Thanks

Chris
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-06-09 21:13:49+00:00
I think reporting problems is just part of being a good citizen that participates in a shared culture. If I visit a park or shop and something is broken, it's worth putting in a bit of effort to report it. If everyone chips in a little bit of effort it makes the overall experience of everyone much better. Are you the type of person to also not return the shopping cart to the corral?

The number of hardware and software combinations are impossibly large, so you're unlikely to be handling everything perfectly if the application is doing anything complicated.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-06-09 21:14:01+00:00
Even though I think having pets satisfies in many ways that having children would, but with far less work and a lot less liability, I don't think this can be divided along the political lines that you suggested.

Urban / rural people like to keep dogs. Poor / rich people like keeping dogs. Liberal / conservative people like keeping dogs. Young / old people like keeping dogs.
by Someone1234 | 2025-06-09 21:14:52+00:00
> You're comparing multi-touch technology to the experience of the MessagePad?

Nobody mentioned multi-touch at all. We're talking about Apple's first usage of skeuomorphic UI design, and or their first usage on a touch device in particular.

> Also, do you know a bunch of people who were big Xerox Starheads? It doesn't count if you don't have mass adoption.

I genuinely don't understand what you're responding to or trying to say. I'm not following the relevance nor what you mean by "count" (or not-count).

I feel like you're trying to have a conversation about something else, but I'm really not sure what or what it is you thought you read.
by jibal | 2025-06-09 21:15:16+00:00
Wrong on both counts.

"We like it because it lasts thousands of years."

There are numerous other reasons for liking plastic ... in fact that's a very odd and unusual reason to like it. You say that the properties that we like about it are why it lasts thousands of years, but that's a very different statement. In fact, people have pointed out that we would prefer for it to have its likable properties but NOT last for thousands of years. So you've made a whole host of logic errors. You may not think so, but that's another consequence of the underlying problem here.

I won't respond further.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-09 21:15:56+00:00
Methylene Blue is fascinating because it has been present in alternative medicine, biohacking, and nootropics forums for decades. It seems everyone in those communities discovers it eventually, thinks it must be a miracle substance, and then either feels nothing or has some initial positive effects that are either placebo or diminish quickly with tolerance.

From the anecdotes I’ve read over the years, very few people continue taking it. They either feel nothing, get some worrying side effects, or the initial effects they experienced (or placebo) disappear after a couple days or weeks. The most positive posts seem to be correlated with people taking a dozen medications and supplements at the same time, so it’s impossible to know what’s causing their experience.

Another ever-popular medication in these communities is Selegiline: Also an MAOI but selective for MAO-B at low doses (warning: it’s easier to reach MAO-A inhibition with repeated dosing, especially sublingual, than many internet sources claim). This one draws in people who are in their “dopamine explains everything” phase of learning neuroscience and think it must be a hack to get “more dopamine”. Again, few people continue it and many are confused about why they end up fatigued or tired while taking it instead of turning into the guy from Limitless. Neuropharmacology isn’t as simple as taking drugs to push neurotransmitter up.

Selegiline was repurposed as an anti-depressant recently, but it’s delivered transdermally and only showed efficacy at levels high enough to be a full MAOI.
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-09 21:16:12+00:00
> It was only ever inserted by word processors for me.

Surely you still intended to type an em-dash if this happened—word on windows (as I presume you intend to refer to with 'word processors') only replaces '--' with '—'.

>No one typing with a regular keyboard would ever bother, certainly not with the HN input box.

You press 'option', 'shift', and '-' (on a mac with the default US english layout, anyway). Why would you assume nobody would use a basic element of writing (in English, at least)? It's just a long-press on the iphone.
by jdhwosnhw | 2025-06-09 21:16:35+00:00
I posted a very similar (perhaps more combative) comment a few months ago:

> Peoples’ memories are so short. Ten years ago the “well accepted definition of intelligence” was whether something could pass the Turing test. Now that goalpost has been completely blown out of the water and people are scrabbling to come up with a new one that precludes LLMs. A useful definition of intelligence needs to be measurable, based on inputs/outputs, not internal state. Otherwise you run the risk of dictating how you think intelligence should manifest, rather than what it actually is. The former is a prescription, only the latter is a true definition.
by cookiengineer | 2025-06-09 21:16:37+00:00
> There was no ruling that a genocide is or was occurring. That is false. I expect you to retract your claim.

The ICC specifically ordered Israel to introduce immediate measures to prevent genocide. That is the exact wording of the order. [1] A trial will happen once the president and/or generals of the IDF set foot on European land, or once they are extradited, which they likely will never do.

Both the ICC and the ICJ came to the same conclusion that the blockades of humanitarian aids, the destruction of religious and medical institutions, combined with military rocket strikes against civilians are evidence that Israel is "destroying Palestinians in Gaza", and that it is genocide.

Additionally, multiple NGOs have come to the same conclusion, including Amnesty International [2] and the ECCHR [3]

[1] https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/CourtRecords/090...

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...

[3] https://www.ecchr.eu/fileadmin/Q_As/ECCHR_Q_A__Gaza_and_Geno...
by triceratops | 2025-06-09 21:16:39+00:00
Bro are you aware that dogs are absolute chick magnets? If you don't have a partner, get a cute-looking dog* and walk it twice a day at parks or other places there are people, and the ladies will just walk up to you. The exercise from all the walking will make you more attractive to potential mates too. With a bit of personality and humor, anyone can convert that high-quality potential-partner funnel into a good relationship.

* I mean take good care of the dog obviously. It's not just a tool to improve your love life. But like if you genuinely think dog ownership is holding people back from romance, you really don't know how things work.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-06-09 21:16:46+00:00
It looks like my gut reaction was due to a mismatch in what is being rented.

I live in the suburbs where apartments are rare. The average renter is a family renting a 2-3 bedroom house for around $2400/month.

> I lived in the Stone Mountain area a few years back in a small house (2bd 1ba) for about $1200 / month.

a quick peak at zillow shows only one house listed for less than 1400/month in Stone Mountain. Average for a 1200sqft 2b1b today seems to be around 1800/month.
by pc86 | 2025-06-09 21:16:59+00:00
If you pay an employee to make a chair, you 100% deduct their salary, immediately. The chair is only a capital expense if you buy it from a company that sells chairs. The company selling the chairs isn't forced to amortize the salaries of their carpenters, so implying that it's normal for companies to be forced to amortize the salaries of their software engineers is, in the most generous possible interpretation, a gross misunderstanding of the law.

> this change brings the USA in line with international financial reporting standards

Which ones?
by Volundr | 2025-06-09 21:17:06+00:00
> The arguement for this is that it would be inconsistent to do otherwise. After all, why should buying a chair from someone else be different than paying an employee to do it?

Probably exposing how little I know of accounting... If you buy a chair you have to track it and deduct it over the course of X years?! It's not just an expense the year you bought it?
by fuzztester | 2025-06-09 21:17:22+00:00
you've got to think deeper.

the concept of self respect itself may be alien to "aliens".

it's a human construct / concept.

also, stop calling them aliens. it is disrespectful.

(otherwise they might zap us with their thought cannon, compared to which light sabers are like toothpicks.)

they have as much right to be in this universe as we have. the term "alien" is a human and sci-fi construct. and sci-fi is, well, fi(ction).

call them extra terrestrial beings, or just other beings.

we need to realise that other beings can have other sets of values than we do, or even none. heck, they may not even have the concept of values. and there is nothing wrong with that.

i can go on, but I'll stop here. my other being friends are calling me for a get together.
by toast0 | 2025-06-09 21:17:54+00:00
> Burning plastic is both dirtier and less efficient than burning at least oil and natural gas. So you will actually pollute more (both CO2 and various other byproducts) by burning plastic than by burning oil and methane to get the same amount of energy out.

My argument is not that burning plastic is more efficient than burning whatever fuel. My argument is that extracting, transporting and burning waste plastic may be more efficient than extracting, transporting, and burning whatever fuel. Waste to energy might need a lot less transportation if the plants are near where the waste is generated and/or where it is already collected.

> Not to mention, to get usable energy out of the plastic, you have to invest lots of energy for recycling it first - you need infrastructure and education to collect it separately from other trash, you need additional processing to sort it by type, to clean it of many other residue, etc.

There's already sorting and education for recycling, so the question becomes what's the incremental input needed to get a usable waste to useful energy pipeline.

> And even if you do all that fairly efficiently, you're still never going to collect a large percentage of the plastic people use. So any extra environmental impact from plastic in landfills will still be there and need to be resolved.

Yes, but I don't know how that relates? My argument is that the emissions of burning plastic for usable energy might not be as bad as it looks because it would reduce lifecycle emissions from (direct) fossil fuels. That's not an argument for or against burning plastic, it's an argument that we need to get marginal emissions numbers for the alternatives, and if emissions is the only criteria, then it would make sense to burn plastic in cases where the marginal emissions are in favor of burning it; but even that wouldn't be universal. It might make more (or less) sense to setup trash for energy plants in isolated locations where transport of other fuel is difficult; it almost certainly makes less sense to setup trash for energy plants in places where natgas is a waste product, natgas is a clear choice there.
by cpard | 2025-06-09 21:18:57+00:00
That makes sense, do you think LLMs have or can potentially change that and end up having more realistic synthetic data than what you've seen in the past? I guess the data you were working were more like time series data but still if an large language model can be perceived as a universal approximator of some sort, might be able to generate more realistic synthetic data than the approach you described with the noise dust sprinkled on data.