MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yongjik | 2025-06-11 23:46:08+00:00
According to a popular quote, "Languages differ essentially in what they must convey, not in what they may convey."

You can convey relative social position in English, if you want to. You don't have to, if you don't want to.

Korean is different. You have to convey relative social position in basically every sentence because without that you can't finish your main verb.

In English, you can't offend a reasonable person by saying "I heard it's getting hotter today!" or "How big was the pizza?" In Korean, you can. Because there's no socially neutral version of "How big was the pizza" you can use to everyone.

* Well, you may think it's an absurdly cumbersome grammatical system, and in some situations it really is, but generally you get used to, just like English speakers are used to having to know and specify the gender of everyone around them, including cats and dogs, and it generally doesn't cause issues - but then sometimes it does!
by boogieknite | 2025-06-11 23:46:20+00:00
is it particularly american to avoid bothering others with my own problems of any kind?

i live in the pnw which is somewhat infamous for its "mind your own business" culture. we have a transplant friend from the midwest who seem less shameful in asking for what amounts to free labor and i wonder if its a regional cultural thing within the US.

if forced by auditors to bother others with my problems, intimacy issues would be near the end of the list.

if this is american, which cultures encourage bothering others with personal problems?
by out-of-ideas | 2025-06-11 23:47:28+00:00
> Since the 2017 acquisition, Whole Foods has seen over 40% sales growth and, with Amazon Fresh, generated "tens of billions" of dollars in sales last year, Snyder added.

> "These changes reflect our long-term commitment to making grocery shopping easier, faster, and more affordable for customers," Snyder said.

that means they can offer the exact same quality products for cheaper, no (or give employees raises?); but they choose profits over their acclaimed affordability for customers?
by unsignedint | 2025-06-11 23:48:01+00:00
I despise the social construct that ties respect to age. As someone who’s biologically Japanese—and coming from a culture that shares similar values with Korean society in this regard—I often find it frustrating when dealing with other Japanese people.

Some individuals will ask your age just so they can justify talking down to you. I’ve even had cases where someone was polite at first, but the moment they realized they were older, their behavior shifted entirely. That kind of attitude is a major pet peeve of mine—it honestly makes me want to pull my hair out.

While the younger generation tends to care less about age differences among peers (and thankfully avoids this behavior), there are still far too many people who believe age alone gives them the right to act superior or pretend they know better.

I strongly believe respect should be earned based on character, not age. I make a point to be polite to everyone, regardless of how old they are—and that’s why I don’t even bother asking.
by quantified | 2025-06-11 23:48:24+00:00
> Mr. Besiroglu said he believed that A.I. would eventually create “radical abundance” and wealth that could be redistributed to laid-off workers, in the form of a universal basic income that would allow them to maintain a high living standard.

He should follow up with any evidence? This is not how American capitalism works. No one has put forth any plausible mechanism to get to this. "Freeloaders" is what UBI recipients would be called today. And in no way would any of these founders support a UBI that allows the living standard they're trying to achieve or even have achieved so far.
by godelski | 2025-06-11 23:48:28+00:00
Also fun fact, people mistype and mistranscribe data. Some people even... put down fake phone numbers because they don't want to be tracked!

I would think in a world where we constantly get spam calls and texts that people would understand that a phone number is not a good PKI. I mean we literally don't answer calls from unknown numbers because of this. How is it that we can only look at these things in one direction but not the other?
by bigiain | 2025-06-11 23:48:46+00:00
Dunno why this is getting downvoted. It's a fair and important question. I've never been to Tennessee, but I spent a week in Atlanta once 15 or 20 years back, and as an Australian the segregation and underlying racism really surprised and disappointed me. (Not that Australia is really any better with respect to how we are institutionally and often socially and causally racist towards our indigenous people...)
by k310 | 2025-06-11 23:49:47+00:00
AI can have my job. I'm retired.

It already plays piano. It already "takes" photographs (as in stealing them).

AI didn't show up to clear my 100 foot defensible space for wildfire mitigation.

I tell my friends who are busting their butts daily, living miserable lives, raging against machines both old and new, in order to retire, that I have already achieved their goal, albeit a bit more modestly, and sad to say, using technology now considered primitive!.

But, despite a few frantic moments (like the command that translated to "rm -rf /") it was interesting and challenging, and I can credit myself with having learned whatever the job, and the next job, required. If we are, indeed, turning a page, I'll write my memoirs of a gone era. With white ink on white paper, so the AI beast can't devour. I rarely share any of my great photos online, so I can maintain possession of them from AI and the "photo agencies" that steal your work and goad you to hire a room full of lawyers to get them back. AI companies hide all that.

Welcome to my museum!

To quote "The Prisoner"

Number Six: Where am I? Number Two (not identified as yet): In the village. Six: What do you want? Two: Information. Six: Whose side are you on? Two: That would be telling. We want information...information... information!!! Six: You won't get it! Two: By hook or by crook, we will. Six: Who are you? Two: The new Number Two. Six: Who is Number One? Two: You are Number Six. Six (running on the Village's beach): I am not a number; I am a free man!!! Two: [Laughter]

P.S. vmunix was in use, so it wasn't deleted. The other files were easily restored. Not a hiccup.
by echelon | 2025-06-11 23:49:48+00:00
I absolutely ADORE that this has swearing directly in the demo. And from Pulp Fiction, too!

> Any of you fucking pricks move and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you.

I'm so tired of the boring old "miss daisy" demos.

People in the indie TTS community often use the Navy Seals copypasta [1, 2]. It's refreshing to see Resemble using swear words themselves.

They know how this will be used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copypasta

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta
by teleforce | 2025-06-11 23:50:13+00:00
Wonderful article and I don't even know that this device existed perhaps due to Agilent/Keysight bias laboratory/shop.

R & S AMIQ Modulation Generator general specs is available here [1].

Fun facts, the venerable Silicon Valley was started by Hewlett-Packard (HP, then Agilent, now Keysight) that mainly supplying function/signal/waveform generator for the then booming radar and electronics industry.

HP Garage is now a designated landmark and marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley' " [2].

[1] Rohde & Schwarz – AMIQ04 I/Q Modulation Generator:

https://testworld.com/product/rohde-schwarz-amiq04-iq-modula...

[2] Hewlett-Packard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard
by infecto | 2025-06-11 23:50:22+00:00
YMMV. No boilerplate is exactly the same, there is usually some level of business logic or customization. With current gen I can point to a couple different files, maybe db models, and write a quick spec in 30 seconds and let it run in the background implementing the backend routes I want. I can do other valuable things in parallel, I can also point it to my FE to implement the api calls to the BE. It’s for me much quicker than a template which I am still customizing.

Is it a substantial blocker? Nope, but it’s like I outsourced all the boilerplate by writing a sentence or two.
by Terr_ | 2025-06-11 23:51:27+00:00
> utility

Also safety: Modern cooking usually occurs in a context of safety-measures developed over thousands of years of injuries, deaths, and burnt cities. Some are so pervasive and traditional that we barely notice, like "no fires unless you have a way to extinguish it in a hurry", or "if you wait too long to eat it is becomes dangerous again."
Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been
by miki_tyler | 2025-06-11 23:51:54+00:00
This is a proof-of-concept comic book that asks: What if knowledge from 2025 reached Rome and kicked off an industrial revolution?

The story follows two voices: - Ulysses, a present-day archaeologist who finds a glowing slate in the dig site. - Marcus, an educated household slave in 79 AD who replies on that slate.

Why I’m posting:

I’d love narrative feedback. – Does the story make sense? – Are Ulysses and Marcus believable? – Which directions would you explore next (politics, tech, moral fallout)?

What’s live today - First issue, 25 rough pages. - No paywall; just a PDF.

Next steps

Regular releases toward a 8 or 10 issues collection. I’ll revise based on your critiques and wild speculations.

Grateful for any thoughts on pacing, historical plausibility, or character depth.

Thanks for reading!
by boogieknite | 2025-06-11 23:52:09+00:00
ever have people at work addressing people by only their first name initial in email?

someone ive never met in person and uses my first name on work calls referring to me as "b" in email. its like the wears-a-bowtie-to-work guy of email.

come across a few of these people and have never noticed a tell they were that type of person outside the text of their email
by godelski | 2025-06-11 23:52:10+00:00
> To me the obvious example is fraud/abuse protection.

Phones are notorious for spam...

Seriously. How can the most prolific means of spam be used to prevent fraud and abuse? (Okay, maybe email is a little more prolific?) Like have you never received a spam call or text? Obviously fraudsters and abusers know how to exploit those systems... it can't be more obvious...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-11 23:52:13+00:00
> For one, if your IDs are approaching the 2^31 signed integer limit, then by definition, you have nearly two billion rows

Just wanted to nitpick this; this is not actually definitively true. A failed insert in some systems will increment the counter and deleting rows usually does not allow the deleted ID to be re-used (new inserts use the current counter). Of course, that is beside the point: the typical case of a table approaching this limit is a very large table.
by anal_reactor | 2025-06-11 23:52:14+00:00
I feel like quantum physics is gently pointing us towards the idea "everything you can imagine is real at once". As in, all possible universes and physics systems and whatnot do exist in some sense of this word, and we happen to inhabit one. Just like Earth is a totally unremarkable planet in a totally unremarkable solar system in a totally unremarkable galaxy, except we popped up here so for a long time we thought there's something deeply special about Earth.
by softservo | 2025-06-11 23:52:20+00:00
Love this !! I have been searching for a homegrown store selling the so101 and other open source robots. Took me 6 weeks to get my unassembled kit for ~$250 from wowrobo (and it got stuck in inspections at the border). Would be cool to connect to learn more about your plans and offer some suggestions for improvements based on my experience so far.
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-11 23:52:53+00:00
I did some work (military) with a couple asian nations during a multinational exercise. It was all done in english. What blew them away was how our honorifics changes not just according to the established hierarchies but according to location, dress and who else was within earshot. I had a junior guy from an asian nation shadowing me. He was shocked when my officer and I addressed each other by first names/callsigns. What stressed my shadow was how twenty minutes later, in a different room with different people, we switched to formal ranks. What further blew his mind was my explanation that breaks from these casual informalities would be a silent message. For instance, if a friend addressed me in private by my formal rank, I would know that I was in trouble ... or that someone was listening. He thought our culture was the more complicated. His culture had rules that everyone knew and followed. Our culture had rules that everyone knew but nobody seemed to follow.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-11 23:54:42+00:00
I think this is a good analogy! But I draw a different conclusion from it.

You're right that you wouldn't want to use a forklift to lift the weights at a gym. But then why do forklifts exist? Well, because gyms aren't the only place where people lift heavy things. People also lift and move around big pallets of heavy stuff at their jobs. And even if those people are gym rats, they don't forgo the forklift when they're at work, because it's more efficient, and exercising isn't the goal, at work.

In much the same way, it's would be silly to have an LLM write the solutions while working through the exercises in a book or advent of code or whatever. Those are exercises that are akin to going to the gym.

But it would also be silly to refuse to use the available tools to more efficiently solve problems at work. That would be like refusing to use a forklift.
by echelon | 2025-06-11 23:54:44+00:00
1. Any non-OpenAI, non-Google, non-ElevenLabs player is going to have to aggressively open source or they'll become 100% irrelevant. The TTS market leaders are obvious and deeply entrenched, and Resemble, Play(HT), et al. have to aggressively cater to developers by offering up their weights [1].

2. This is CYA for that. Without watermarking, there will be cries from the media about abuse (from anti-AI outfits like 404Media [2] especially).

[1] This is the right way to do it. Offer source code and weights, offer their own API/fine tuning so developers don't have to deal with the hassle. That's how they win back some market share.

[2] https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summar...
by justsomehnguy | 2025-06-11 23:55:22+00:00
> re was someone who addressed me as Ix, the name I used in multiplayer Duke Nukem

Heh, there are still some people who call me by my nickname back from 2000s. It doesn't help what it means something between "the beast" and "the thing" and I had people of the old clout be quite offended by it. Including my mother.
by belmarca | 2025-06-11 23:55:53+00:00
This really echos our own experience at BLINX [1].

Pr. Marc Feeley's lab develops codeBoot [2], an online IDE to teach students programming (and more!). We created BLINX as a hardware platform for students to go along with our IDE. The device acts as a data collector for various Grove sensors and publishes the data as an HTTP endpoint. You can program it directly from codeBoot.

BTW if anybody has any questions feel free to reach out!

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blinxinc (working on a landing page)

[2]: https://codeboot.org (also working on a landing page)
by jasonb05 | 2025-06-11 23:56:02+00:00
Hmm, it's more that LLMs can be used for population -> candidate solution generation, e.g. operators in a GA.

The innovation is novelty search, e.g. divergent rather than convergent optimization, paired with the capability that LLM genetic operators and representations unlock.

At least, that's my high-level take. google's alphaevolve is the same kind of thing but focused on convergent ga's (i think).
by Cheer2171 | 2025-06-11 23:56:35+00:00
Cooking is dangerous. It took Chipotle 5 years to recover from the e coli fiasco. Your analogy is home cooking, but this is a product. We regulate consumer safety for a good reason.

But why if a software shop had to do 10% of the regulations and inspections that every restaurant or slaughterhouse has to do, the industry would revolt? Be a libertarian if you want and say neither should be regulated, but that's a 90/10 issue.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-06-11 23:56:36+00:00
I completely understand what you mean - and that there's certainly a psychological weight to the complexity we've added to interpersonal interaction over the last half-century. Spending extended time in cash-focused, relatively low-tech environments (the more rural parts of southern Europe, for example), the difference in psychological load is extremely noticeable. I feel a sort of basic non-comprehension in the US and UK that I don't feel in some other places.

For example - something as simple as going to a grocery shop during the specific hours in which you know it is open, and saying hello to the person you know works that shift, and exchanging metal circles and numbered paper for produce: this process requires significantly less abstract thought - and abstraction of oneself from society - when compared to using a self-checkout and Apple Pay (let alone a delivery app).

That tech all came in before I was 18, so I don't think it's an age thing - I think it's just weird, and complex, and unnatural for the animal brain if one's economic and social dealings don't primarily involve other animals. I don't like living in a vending machine!

I didn't want to shoot holes in any way, to be clear. Innocence is a very reasonable synonym, now that I understand what you mean (without sounding too luddite / romanticising).
by simonw | 2025-06-11 23:58:35+00:00
Out of interest, when you said "mostly overblown" were you thinking of prompt injection as "people inject bad prompts into an LLM" (I'd call that "jailbreaking") or were you thinking of the thing where an attacker sneaks bad instructions into the model against the wishes of the model's actual user, eg by hiding instructions on a web page that gets summarized or sending them to the victim in an email?
by gabeio | 2025-06-11 23:59:20+00:00
> No, that's not how things are implemented normally, exactly because they wouldn't work.

I used to work for a gov't contractor. I wrote a ~10 line golang http server, just because at the time golang was still new (this was years ago) and I wanted to try it. Not even 2 minutes later I got a call from the IT team asking a bunch of questions about why I was running that program (the http server not golang). I agree the practice is dumb but there are definitely companies who have it setup that way.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-06-11 23:59:35+00:00
Probably created via a script that just repeatedly checked https://api.github.com/repositories/999999999 until it showed up, and then created a new repository. Since repositories can be modified, could have even given it some buffer and created a bunch of repos, just delete the ones that don't get the right number. [append] Looking at the author's other repo created yesterday, I'm betting "yep" was supposed to be the magic number, and "shit" was an admission of missing the mark.

Does anyone remember D666666 from Facebook? It was a massive codemod; the author used a technique similar to this one to get that particular number.
Are There Any Tech Billionaires Who Weren't 'Nerds' Growing Up?
by moneyhungry | 2025-06-11 23:59:56+00:00
I’m doing a school research project on tech billionaires for a class, and I have a question. It seems like most successful tech entrepreneurs were into tech or coding from a young age, but I’m curious—are there any who were just regular kids growing up? Maybe ones who weren’t coding at 10 or didn’t grow up as ‘geeks’ but still made it big in tech? I’m looking for examples of people who might have been considered ‘cool’ or ‘normal’ as kids and still became successful in the tech world. Are there any exceptions to the stereotype of the ‘tech geek’?
by bartread | 2025-06-12 00:00:35+00:00
Changing the type of the column is no big deal per se, except on a massive table it’s a non-trivial operation, BUT you also have to change the type in everything that touches it, everywhere it’s assigned or copied, everywhere it’s sent over the wire and deserialized where assumptions might be made, any tests, and on, and on. And god help you if you’ve got stuff like int.MaxValue having a special meaning (we didn’t in this context, fortunately).

Our hosting environment at that time was a data centre so we were limited on storage, which complicated matters a bit. Like ideally you’d create a copy of the table but with a wider PK column and write to both tables, then migrate your reads, etc., but we couldn’t do that because the table was massive and we didn’t have enough space. Procuring more drives was possible but took sometimes weeks - no just dragging a slider in your cloud portal. And then of course you’d have to schedule a maintenance window for somebody to plug it in. It was absolutely archaic, especially when you consider this was late 2017/early 2018.

You need multiple environments so you can do thorough testing, which we barely had at that point, and because every major system component was impacted, we had to redeploy our entire platform. Also, because it was the PK column affected, we couldn’t do any kind of staged migration or rollback without the project becoming much more complex and taking a lot longer - time we didn’t have due to the rate at which we were consuming 32-bit integer values.

In the end it went off without a hitch, but pushing it live was still a bit of a white knuckle moment.
by mikestew | 2025-06-12 00:01:20+00:00
Needs a (2020), and that's just when it was last updated. Because the whole way down the page I was wondering, "what decade was this written?"

I was also wondering why it should be an "adventure". Yeah, back when we cut the cord some fifteen years ago, things were a bit rough. Mac Mini with a tuner dongle, and a bunch of hacks. Now it's just turn on AppleTV that outputs to unconnected TV, sorted. (Or sail the high seas if my money is inexplicably no good.)
by sanderjd | 2025-06-12 00:02:08+00:00
ha, very apropos example. One of the things I was ecstatic to let an LLM write for me last week was a click cli.

Nobody finds joy in writing this kind of boilerplate, but there's no way to avoid it. The click API is very succinct, but you still have to say, these are the commands, these are the options, this is the help text, there is just no other way. It's glorious to have tools that can do a pretty good job at a first crack of typing all that boilerplate out.
by TrackerFF | 2025-06-12 00:04:18+00:00
There's a town in northern Norway where the municipality used AI tools / LLMs to aid their process in restructuring schools. So they were going to close and merge a bunch of schools, and pointed to research that supported their plans.

But it turns out that the AI they used, had hallucinated this research. The AI had correctly used relevant researchers, but had hallucinated the work itself.

It wasn't until a investigative journalist started going through the citations, and reaching out to the researcher / scientist, to get his opinion, that it was discovered. The researchers cited in the report immediately told the journalist that they had never written or published those cited papers.

Makes one work what other stuff has happened around the globe, where lazy policy makers or bureaucrat have just phoned in their work by using ChatGPT to write a report...or worse, in bad faith used those tools to make up fake research to support their goals.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-12 00:04:27+00:00
> Thank you for the links I will take a closer look at XNU.

Another great resource regarding XNU and OS-X (although a bit dated now) is the book:

Mac OS X Internals A Systems Approach[0]

0 - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27440934M/Mac_OS_X_Internals