MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-26 18:43:59+00:00
I don't believe they have enough money to buy Musk. They can influence him through propaganda and memes, but outright bribery is unlikely. That would have to be a vast, vast money transfer.

Trump looks more likely to be bribe-able than Musk. Very different personalities and net worths. Musk seemed to be genuinely angry with Trump's budget, for example.
by nh23423fefe | 2025-06-26 18:44:00+00:00
> What is the per se benefit of the "tax" if not to encourage learning.

The tax exists to offset drag of idle ipad time. The tax could be chores, or reading, or arithmetic, or outside play. It doesn't matter.

I'm not a perfect person to be emulated. I want to offset their desire for hedonic maximization not demand the live up to some standard I can't accomplish. I'm on my phone all day.
by kiitos | 2025-06-26 18:44:10+00:00
Particularly for [1], I strongly agree with you.

This is so frustrating.

The claimed CWE-125 [2] has a description that says "The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer." -- which empirically does not happen in the Go Markdown parser issue. It panics, sure, but that doesn't result in any reads past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Said another way, *there is no out-of-bounds read* happening here at all.

These kinds of false-positive CVE claims are super destructive to the credibility of the CVE system in general.

--

[1] https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/advisories/G...

[2] https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
by dylan604 | 2025-06-26 18:44:24+00:00
> In fact the demand has shrunk so much that it jeopardizes financing of coal power companies.

That is something that I think would be the impetus needed to motivate reduction in coal power plants. If they become unprofitable to operate, then will the market finally decide to stop using them? Sadly, I could see the current US administration deciding to offer subsidies to keep coal.
by RaulOnRails | 2025-06-26 18:44:25+00:00
After a long hiatus, I’m back to building my own apps/tools. So being sick and tired of sitting through endless meetings throughout my career, I wanted to illustrate just how much these meetings actually cost companies in terms of time and money.

To do this, I’ve created the Meeting Waste Calculator. A tool that shows the hidden costs of meetings. Simply enter your team size, meeting frequency, and duration to immediately see your numbers.

There are also a couple of easter eggs included in the results page. Have fun!
by o11c | 2025-06-26 18:44:41+00:00
(you duped your comment under the other subthread)

From C89, §7.10.3 "Memory management functions":

> If the size of the space requested is > zero, the behavior is implementation-defined; the value returned shall be either a null pointer or a > unique pointer.

The wording is different for C99 and POSIX, but I went back as far as possible (despite the poor source material; unlike later standards C89 is only accessible in scans and bad OCR, and also has catastrophic numbering differences). K&R C specifies nothing (it's often quite useless; people didn't actually write against K&R C but against the common subset of extensions of platforms they cared about), but its example implementation adds a block header without checking for 0 so it ends up doing the "unique non-NULL pointer" thing.
by csallen | 2025-06-26 18:44:47+00:00
I think this had <1% of the effect compared to what the parent stated.

The web has led to 10x more content being published in the past 30 years than was published in all of human kind's history before. And that's not including short-form posts/comments/reviews/chats/etc on social media and forums and communities.

The amount of increased competition and commoditization of content is insane.
by radialstub | 2025-06-26 18:45:20+00:00
Unfortunately money plays a big role. The US is different, with good paying jobs for engineers being common but believe it or not, that is not the norm everywhere in the world. Sometimes people need to follow the money. I think this plays a big role on the russian side of the war. Their economy isn't very diversified and the state owns the means to a large portion of the economy's production. If you need cash, a good way to get it is to do putin's bidding.
by iandanforth | 2025-06-26 18:45:26+00:00
This is demonstrably false. Natural language acquisition is almost entirely listening and talking. The fastest and most consistently effective way to learn a language is immersion. The reason traditional material doesn't attempt immersive techniques is because it is much much easier to print a static book than it is to produce interactive and adaptive content.

The promise and potential of LLM based language learning apps is that you can cross that gap to full immersion in a way that has never been possible before.

Please be more ambitious.
by rtkwe | 2025-06-26 18:46:36+00:00
Grid synchronizing is not the same as being able to operate in island mode. The only reason you can run those inverters without an automatic transfer switch is because they don't function when there's no grid to follow so they shut off when power goes out meaning they don't backfeed the grid outside the home.

A lot of inverters are just grid following and you need some other source creating the 60-hz signal for the solar inverters to follow. Generally this is either a battery or generator because solar has a really hard fall off in the power provided the instant you try to draw too much so instantaneous spike loads like motors starting (compressors/fans/etc) will often collapse off grid solar only installs.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-26 18:47:05+00:00
Not an ecosystem issue at all. There's no "yet". Linux computers even on the very low end are already perfectly capable of playing 4k Netflix videos. You can easily prove this to yourself by downloading one via torrent (you can generally get exact stream rips with DRM removed if you want). Netflix just won't send UHD streams to Linux users. That's a political choice, not a technology problem, and it's easy enough to get the media elsewhere DRM-free if it's that important to you since Netflix evidently specifically does not want Linux users as customers.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-26 18:47:05+00:00
> I think this had <1% of the effect compared to what the parent stated.

I worked at a newspaper for years, during the early days of social media (I made our Twitter account, even... and once dropped an accidental f-bomb on it). I remember the video push; it was a huge change to workflows, hiring patterns, technology needs, etc. It was built on lies and bad data, and media outlets really haven't recovered since.
by moonshotideas | 2025-06-26 18:48:25+00:00
I don’t agree with the conclusions he draws from his own analysis - almost all the issues and shortcomings he points out are related to technological shortcomings he admits - are already being addressed by the new systems - or are primarily issues with how drones are being used in the field - i.e. tactical combat decisions.

These are not inherently valid arguments regarding the effectiveness of drones as a new weapons platform - but with the current state of the technology and with the decisions on the battlefield

It’s early days, the technology will improve and the tactics will be standardized with time and drones will prove to be a dangerously effective tool - which has the additional scary bonus of being cheap and easy to mass produce and deploy
by Lvl999Noob | 2025-06-26 18:50:37+00:00
Can someone tell me a usecase where you want multiple allocations of size 0, each one with a unique address, and each one unique from any other allocation (hence necessarily removing that pointer from being allocated to anything else) but can't use malloc(1) instead?

I think it would be much better if malloc(0) just returned 1 or -1 or something constant. If the programmer needs the allocation to have a unique address, they can call malloc(1) instead.
by mariano54 | 2025-06-26 18:50:38+00:00
Thanks! No, it cannot do this yet, as it's using a pipeline of voice to text to voice. I think models are heading in that direction, and voice to voice models are getting better.

For pitch accent, shadowing is a great way to improve. You can pause and repeat the tutors messages for example, or read out the word when doing flashcard reviews (copying the flashcard audio).
by Ecstatify | 2025-06-26 18:50:46+00:00
What new companies? Google is a monopoly, along with most other major tech platforms. When a handful of corporations control entire market sectors and actively acquire or crush potential competitors, that's not free market competition, that's market consolidation that prevents the very disruption you're describing. The "creative destruction" of capitalism requires actual competition to exist, not just the theoretical possibility of it.
by seydor | 2025-06-26 18:50:56+00:00
They re going to have to do more than this. They can surely make an AI that determines which % of the LLM answer is owed to which website / source. Then either pay them ad revenue or demand the user to pay to see the rest of the answer. I don't often click on AI answers, and i assume most people don't. I find myself clicking beyond it only when the answer is bad.

If google doesn't do that, publishers will respond in a vicious way, like purposely poisoning content to mislead their LLMs.
by carstenhag | 2025-06-26 18:51:03+00:00
Haven't tested the functionality yet, but some feedback:

- the name is bad. Issen? I (German, Spanish speaker) don't know how to pronounce it.

- use correct flags. Catalan speakers will be rightfully pissed when you use the Spanish flag for their language.

- in a language learning focused app, it is not acceptable to have a badly translated app. I'm using it in German and while the intro does not have typos, I can tell it's all just AI blubber

- For German specifically, I'd recommend you to use "du" and not "Sie" ("Wie heißen Sie?") across the app. If your tool isn't aimed at 60+ year old BMW drivers, use "du".
by kulahan | 2025-06-26 18:51:18+00:00
You’re not really responding to what he’s saying. You’re sitting at the middle of the story, where the family is no longer surviving, but rather thriving. It’s probably possible to do this, but it’s a difficult stage to reach, and maintaining it requires a LOT of resources.

And anyways, if you’re a hunter-gatherer, you’re following your prey, not sitting around growing corn to be shucked while you sing songs or whatever.

By the way, my buddies and I tell each other stories at work all the time? You can do this at work too, you know. What you seem to be doing is imagining a world where you’ve outsourced all your labor to “it’ll get done” land, then combined hunter-gatherer lifestyles with agrarian lifestyles
by DrillShopper | 2025-06-26 18:51:37+00:00
> The right to experiment with weight loss drugs is analogous to the right to be trans or to not have your foreskin removed at birth

Both things the current administration is fighting against, so the metaphor is really apt.

There are a lot of trans people on HRT that DIY their meds, especially transfemmes, because estrogen is not a controlled substance.
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-26 18:51:46+00:00
A common way they operate in Europe is that they’ll leave their offices at airports unattended when they’re supposed to be open, forcing you to use the key drop. They then say in the fine print that customer submitted videos and photos aren’t accepted, so even if you film the car when you drop it off, you’re liable for any damage that occurs after you return it.

Worst I had was they ripped the door off a rental on a lamppost, and even though I had a video (one take) of the car being in good condition, their office being closed, and the clock behind their counter, they threatened me with court unless I paid them €2,000.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-06-26 18:52:07+00:00
I know that I've stopped using Google's search primarily because it's been intentionally[1] made a worse tool. The AI overviews sound obnoxious and I'm not surprised if they're driving more people off of the platform.

I don't know what the hell is going on over there, but the systemic issues and awful decisions I see coming out of Alphabet companies in recent years paints a picture of suicidal levels of hubris at the c-suite level. The boards need to pull their heads out of their asses, otherwise incompetence is going to sink that ship before 2040.

[1] - https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-d...
by sfn42 | 2025-06-26 18:52:53+00:00
Pretty much everything most user-facing apps do generates time values. Maybe it's more accurate to say any time a user actually inputs a date and time. Stuff like scheduling and booking software definitely needs to consider these things.

Basically if you want to preserve the original input then obviously you won't change it. If you just want to record an instant in time you use UTC.
by georgeecollins | 2025-06-26 18:53:26+00:00
I appreciate you defending an unpopular point of view. I have a hard time accepting that "pure" artists are unaffected. First of all, what the heck is a pure artist anyway? More importantly, all creative people respond to incentives and meet their audience where they are. A lot of the English invasion bands of the '60s went to art school. If painting had been the hip thing to do a lot fewer of them would have been musicians. There would have been a lot fewer cool websites in the '00s if there wasn't an audience and a living to made from them.

I have spent my life making video games and I can assure you market forces shape which video games are created for your enjoyment. There is a reason why a certain type of game appears on iOS and a different type of game appears on your PC. One is very shaped by the pricing rules of the Apple store and the other is very shaped by Steam. A "pure" artist may never be deterred from spending their days playing an accordion, but maybe the fact that no one is listening will cause them to choose a different path?
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-26 18:53:39+00:00
>Investigators say they still don't know who reinstalled the door plug panel at Boeing's factory without replacing four key bolts that were supposed to hold it in place. Even one of those four bolts could have prevented the door plug blowout during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, NTSB investigators said on Tuesday. Those bolts were never found, and investigators believe they were likely discarded.

>There were two dozen workers on the door team at the Boeing factory near Seattle that builds the 737 Max, according to investigators. But only one of them had previous experience removing a door plug panel — and he was on vacation in September 2023 when the door plug panel was removed and reinstalled.

I'm lost for words. You might expect this sort of build quality from the worst british cars in the 80's. This is boeing in 2023. Not surprisingly the door plug was originally removed in order to repair some shoddy work done by Spirit Aerosystems.
by bastawhiz | 2025-06-26 18:53:43+00:00
> The downstream users can then evaluate the issue and say it does/doesn't/kinda affects them with certainty and lower their internal impact.

If you make it use the worst case lowest common denominator, it biases nearly everything towards Critical, and the actually critical stuff gets lost in a sea of prioritization. It's spam. If I got fifty emails for critical issues and two of them are really actually critical, I'm going to miss far more important ones than if I only got ten emails about critical issues.

If we all had infinite time and motivation, this wouldn't be a problem. But by being all-or-nothing purists, everything is worse in general.
by Isamu | 2025-06-26 18:55:07+00:00
>To address this question, we analyzed 408 publicly available YouTube videos featuring a single cat in a clearly visible sleeping position while lying on one side, with an uninterrupted sleep duration of at least 10 seconds and full-body visibility from head to hind legs.

408 videos, showing bias towards leftward pose. They claim to have removed the mirrored videos from their samples.
by ck2 | 2025-06-26 18:55:31+00:00
grain of salt with this because it's LLM and needs verification

https://images2.imgbox.com/e1/b7/YaB8gjLI_o.png

but apparently the problem with ambroxol vs suzetrigine

is it is not as selective on the ion channel and not as strong (needs megadose to do similar)

I cannot remember the drugs offhand but this is the same problem with other old generics for other kinds of targets

suzetrigine won't be generic for years which is a shame
by lostmsu | 2025-06-26 18:55:47+00:00
I made a simple website[0] to check online model MMLU quickly (runs a subset), and Gemma 3n consistently loses to LLaMA 3.3 (~61% vs ~66%), and definitely loses to LLaMA 4 Scout (~86%). I suspect that means its rating on LMArena Leaderboard is just some form of gaming the metric.

What's interesting, that it beats smarter models in my Turing Test Battle Royale[1]. I wonder if it means it is a better talker.

0. https://mmlu.borgcloud.ai/

1. https://trashtalk.borg.games/
by konovalov-nk | 2025-06-26 18:56:03+00:00
In general there aren't really models that can understand nuances of your speech yet. Gemini 2.5 voice mode changed that only recently and I think it can understand emotions but I'm not sure if it can detect things like accent and mispronouncing. The problem is data, we need a large corpus of data labeled how exactly the audio sample is mispronouncing the word, so the model can cluster those. Maybe self-learning techniques without human feedback can do it somehow. Other than that I'm not seeing how this is even possible to train such model with what's currently available.
by globnomulous | 2025-06-26 18:56:10+00:00
> Being asked if I'm kidding by the person comparing Google glasses to machine learning algorithms is pretty funny ngl.

I didn't draw the comparison. Karpathy, one of the most prominent LLM proponents on the planet -- the guy who invented the term 'vibe-coding' -- drew the comparison.[1]

> And the "I don't use these tools and never will" sentiment is rampant in the tech community right now. So yes, I am serious.

I think you misunderstood my comment -- or my comment just wasn't clear enough: I quoted the line "It does amaze me that the people who don't use these tools seem to have the most to say about them." and then I asked "You're kidding, right?" In other words, "you can't seriously believe that the nay-sayers 'always have the most to say.'" It's a ridiculous claim. Just about every naysayer 'think piece' -- whether or not it's garbage -- is responding to an overwhelming tidal wave of pro-LLM commentary and press coverage.

> Youre not talking about the blog post that completely ignored agentless uses are you? The one that came to the conclusion LLMs arent useful despite only using a subset of its features?

I'm referring to this one[2]. It's awful, smug, self-important, sanctimonious nonsense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=xF5rqWueWDQsW3FC&v=LCEmiRjP...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294633
by eikenberry | 2025-06-26 18:56:32+00:00
My wife's company recently hired some contractors and they were touting their productivity with AI by saying how it allowed them (one person) to write 150k lines of code in 3 weeks. They said this without sarcasm. It was funny and scary at the same time that anyone might buy this as a good outcome. Classic lines-of-code metric rearing its ugly head again.
by jamestimmins | 2025-06-26 18:56:33+00:00
Curious about your thoughts on homebuilt AI tools for dealing with ADHD side effects. I've identified a handful of habits I struggle with but want to do, and thought processes that can be challenging. I've planned to plug these into an LLM to have it do midday checkins about how I'm feeling and then respond in line with what I want to focus on.

Never occurred to me that something focused on symptoms instead of treatment could be harmful, but I suppose it's worth considering.
by benreesman | 2025-06-26 18:56:59+00:00
I'm currently standing up a C++ capability in an org that hasn't historically had one, so things like the style guide and examples folder require a lot of care to give a good start for new contributors.

I have instructions for agents that are different in some details of convention, e.g. human contributors use AAA allocation style, agents are instructed to use type first. I convert code that "graduates" from agent product to review-ready as I review agent output, which keeps me honest that I don't myself submit code without scrutiny to the review of other humans: they are able to prompt an LLM without my involvement, and I'm able to ship LLM slop without making a demand on their time. Its an honor system, but a useful one if everyone acts in good faith.

I get use from the agents, but I almost always make changes and reconcile contradictions.
by ohxh | 2025-06-26 18:58:01+00:00
They say "thus, on average, about two-thirds of cats preferred to sleep on the left side of their body with their left shoulder down", and their image for leftward lateral bias shows this. So I guess leftward means "lying on their left side", not "curling left".

But, they suggest this is because "Upon awakening, a leftward sleeping position would provide a fast left visual field view of objects", which seems suspect. When my cats sleep on their left, it's their left eye that's obscured by their paw, and their right eye that has a better field of view!
by m01 | 2025-06-26 18:58:05+00:00
It seems that both RHEL [1] and Ubuntu Pro have docs on FIPS, so it looks like the distribution vendors have thought about this problem, at least for paying customers. Might you be able to sketch out what the problem with FIPS compliance on Linux is?

[1] https://access.redhat.com/compliance/fips [2] https://ubuntu.com/security/fips
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-06-26 18:58:17+00:00
to be entirely fair that's quite a high bar even for most "traditional" open source.

And even if you had the same data, there's no guarantee the random perturbations during training are driven by a PRNG and done in a way that is reproducible.

Reproducibility does not make something open source. Reproducibility doesn't even necessarily make something free software (under the GNU interpretation). I mean hell, most docker containers aren't even hash-reproducible.
by jcranmer | 2025-06-26 18:58:32+00:00
cppreference isn't the standard, and while the text they write looks like it's the same verbiage that would be authoritative, it's not. (And there's some criticism of it from standards committee members in that regard).

The current C standard text says:

> The order and contiguity of storage allocated by successive calls to the aligned_alloc, calloc, malloc, and realloc functions is unspecified. The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably aligned so that it can be assigned to a pointer to any type of object with a fundamental alignment requirement and size less than or equal to the size requested. It can then be used to access such an object or an array of such objects in the space allocated (until the space is explicitly deallocated). The lifetime of an allocated object extends from the allocation until the deallocation. Each such allocation shall yield a pointer to an object disjoint from any other object. The pointer returned points to the start (lowest byte address) of the allocated space. If the space cannot be allocated, a null pointer is returned. If the size of the space requested is zero, the behavior is implementation-defined: either a null pointer is returned to indicate an error, or the behavior is as if the size were some nonzero value, except that the returned pointer shall not be used to access an object.

So yeah, the allocations are required to be unique (at least until it's free'd).
by elhackloco | 2025-06-26 18:59:29+00:00
Buenos dias, estoy creando un nuevo sistema de seguridad para formularios, alguien es tan amable de probarlo, como soy pobre no tengo plata para pagar un servidor, entonces uso ngrok como tunel para acceder a mi servidor desde cualquier parte, si no aparece un formulario de login, sorry apague la mac.