MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hoistbypetard | 2025-06-11 15:13:56+00:00
There is nothing mysterious about a miscarriage. They are common. According to the Mayo Clinic:

> Miscarriage is the sudden loss of a pregnancy before the 20th week. About 10% to 20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. But the actual number is likely higher. This is because many miscarriages happen early on, before people realize they're pregnant.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pregnancy-los...

Subjecting a person who is already upset about her miscarriage to a fruitless investigation is cruel and stupid; I’d prefer to live in a society where we understand that miscarriages happen as a part of nature and don’t need to further torment the people who suffer from them.
by robomartin | 2025-06-11 15:14:27+00:00
> your talking points thrown out like some kind of analysis-ending gotcha have shielded you from seeing the truth.

Typical. Diminish the other person by claiming that everything they say are talking points. In other words, they are mindless drones simply repeating what they are told. The minute you take that perspective the only thing you can believe is your own bullshit, because everything else is dismissed as talking points. Brilliant.

> It seems like you need to have the realization that just because you've caught one tribe's media lying does not mean that you've found pure truth.

I'll repeat what I said in another comment:

Having lived in multiple cultures and countries across the world, I bring to the table a perspective that most Americans simply do not have. I have had the experience of being in fear for my life while detained by military thugs as a teenager. I have seen and lived the economic and cultural destruction the left loves to use to control societies. They love the poor so much they multiply them. I have seen and lived the pain and misery leftist ideologies bring to populations first hand. No leftist society in history, anywhere, has elevated their population. Before you say China, that was done by the CCP grabbing onto external capitalist forces, without which they would still be an agrarian society.

To be sure, the extreme right is just as destructive, yet that is not a reality in the US at all (despite the media pushing that narrative into people's brains day after day).

Any immigrant who has actually lived these realities cannot comprehend how it is that the US does not simply laugh these people off the stage. Or, how it is that Americans are so easily duped by these professional manipulators.

There's nothing I can say to you or anyone else to have you see the reality that has been playing out, that much is obvious. There are things you learn about society and ideology that can only be learned from experience.

Maybe the US needs to live through a leftist utopia for a period of time for everyone to come out smarter. That would be tragic, of course, but it might also be necessary. If California does not scare the shit out of the rest of the nation I don't know what will.

Have a good one.
by em-bee | 2025-06-11 15:14:41+00:00
the article i read claimed that it was under dispute whether the baby was alive. if in doubt...

i just wrote about this in response to the sibling comment, but let me add this:

the problem is lack of compassion for others. this women was under distress. she had no support from her family or from anyone else in society. this was not her failing. this is ours!

if we would actually support women in such a situation, then this would not even have happened. her actions are symptom of how we treat others, of our judgement and our lack of support.

these problems will never go away until we change that.
by fhdkweig | 2025-06-11 15:16:41+00:00
For a conviction, yes, the burden of proof is on the prosecution. But in the meantime, you have to pay for a lawyer, and you will be sitting in jail for a year because they don't give bail for murderers. And as for the lawyer bills, the court doesn't refund you the money when you are found innocent, and it isn't going to be cheap, not for murder.

The process is the punishment.
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-11 15:17:07+00:00
What percentage of the 10 million recovered jobs were taken by incoming immigrants?

People died and permanently retired during the pandemic. It's possible the 10 million number represents a restored workforce; it's also possible it represents a changed workforce.

If the latter, that illegal immigration allowed the US to recover faster than it would have otherwise and the lesson from history is we're a stronger nation for easing immigration restrictions.
by fidotron | 2025-06-11 15:17:08+00:00
There were curious incidents like this: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1494461/why-is-google-...

But I tend to share the view that WP was, with the Nokia WP8 devices, finally getting somewhere. The fact not everything had to go through Silverlight to get on the screen was a big help!

There was a lot of noise in the industry back in that era that suggested this whole fight was far more intense and nastier than many would imagine (and I have to be careful to not be any more specific than that), but ultimately I believe Android only reached an acceptable state because of the need to defend from iOS and Windows Phone/RT.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-11 15:17:33+00:00
Unless your BIOS/UEFI supports full disk encryption unlocking of hardware-encrypted Opal drives, you will always have an unencrypted bootstrap process at early boot from the disk.

That unencrypted bootstrap process can be modified by anyone with access to the disk, physical or remote. Theoretically, someone can inject a keylogger into the process and exfiltrate your encryption key's password, or a process that waits until you're decrypted and exfiltrates your data. It's also a potential vector for ransomware, root/boot kits, etc.
by guywithahat | 2025-06-11 15:17:46+00:00
I was just a TA, but the big issues for my professor were cost (a lot of arms cost 1000+, so if you’re buying 30 then that’s $30k+ which is hard to budget for) or it was number of axis. Since it was a class he wanted more motors, which made the arm more complex and more similar to the real world. Counter-intuitively to teach someone about robotics you want an arm that’s complex so students have more to learn, students would have to implement their own kinematics and some of the affordable ones were too simple. I never heard him mention anything about motor safety, and when we had to fix them we would often buy stronger, metal gear servos as replacements.

I love the product though, and I appreciate your input!
by codingdave | 2025-06-11 15:19:07+00:00
> Alas, I don’t have the impression that chickens are very competent to live on their own in a modern city downtown, nor really in the suburbs either, nor really in the wild.

The author's impression would be incorrect. Chickens survive fine in the wild. We even had a few escape and they have built a small wild chicken population in our forest. It goes well with the wild turkey flocks that wander the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_chicken
by Aninay | 2025-06-11 15:19:22+00:00
In May 2025, OpenAI’s data retention practices moved from a niche legal topic to a board-level risk when U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ordered the company to preserve every ChatGPT conversation. This includes consumer chats, “Temporary Chat” sessions that once disappeared upon closing, and even API traffic that enterprise clients were previously assured would never be stored.

The order remains in effect “until further order of the Court,” so no one knows when it will expire. For corporate leaders, that single sentence transforms a technical discovery dispute into a sweeping governance and compliance challenge.
by sgt101 | 2025-06-11 15:19:27+00:00
>This is a deliberate choice on the part of the model makers, because a fixed checkpoint is useful for a product. They could just keep the training mechanism going, but that's like writing code without version control.

Training more and learning online are really different processes. In the case of large models I can't see how it would be practical to have the model learn as it was used because it's shared by everyone.

>To the extent I agree with this, I think it conflicts with your own point about us not knowing how human minds work. Do I, myself, have deeper truths? Or am myself I making surface level association after surface level association, but have enough levels to make it seem deep? I do not know how many grains make the heap.

I can't speak for your cognition or subjective experience, but I do have both fundamental grounding experiences (like the time I hit my hand with an axe, the taste of good beer, sun on my face) and I have used trial and error to develop causative models of how these come to be. I have become good at anticipating which trials are too costly and have found ways to fill in the gaps where experience could hurt me further. Large models have none of these features or capabilities.

Of course I may be deceived by my cognition into believing that deeper processes exist that are illusory because that serves as a short cut to "fitter" behaviour and evolution has exploited this. But it seems unlikely to me.
by Marsymars | 2025-06-11 15:19:46+00:00
> removing backwards compatibility for existing apps and phones

That’s not true; I developed a WP7 Silverlight app that worked with just minor bugfixes through Windows Mobile 10.

What they did do was bungle the marketing on it, so the public conciousness mixed up “WP7 devices can’t run WP8 apps” and “WP8 devices can’t run WP7 apps”.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-11 15:20:09+00:00
Seems about right and the missing ones are the ones you're most likely to be the ones you don't understand.

The swiping downward is also fairly dumb. There zero discoverability and triggering it seems hit in miss.

If you have no notification swiping down also locks your phone, rather than telling you that you have zero notification... WHY?
by ncr100 | 2025-06-11 15:20:23+00:00
In 2014 / 2015 I was digging through the code of the iOS Facebook app and found that it was loading, by string name, a dylib. I think it was a system dylib for networking, or sound, or something. It seemed like the wrong way to access a system service.

That seemed unnecessarily sneaky and made me appreciate the sense of righteousness which I would have, if I were a SW dev @ FB at the time, to add such a technique to a world-tier app like FB.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-06-11 15:20:28+00:00
> Mainstream Oncology collapsed after the rollout of contaminated COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines.

> Most Oncologists abandoned their Hippocratic Oath, gave contaminated mRNA Vaccines to all their cancer patients and took the mRNA jabs themselves.

> Some Oncologists have now developed mRNA Induced Cardiac arrests, blood clots and Turbo Cancer. Others have already died suddenly.

> These Oncologists buried their heads in the sand and abandoned everything that it takes to be a good competent doctor.

No, it's pretty damn deranged. If you have a good medical treatment, you can confidently let the data do the talking for you instead of hooking into political controversies to score some points for yourself.
by npteljes | 2025-06-11 15:21:40+00:00
I can see that. I just scrolled through a large denuvo list on pcgamingwiki, and honestly, not much temptation there for me, even though I really like gaming. Of all these games, I only played Persona 5 (and loved it), and I only want to play some more Atlus games.

Do you also abstain from other DRMs as well, or just some in particular? They can be quite nasty, and mobile games are also pretty horrible for privacy as well. As a compromise for myself, I use a separate Windows for gaming, and I have almost no real data on that partition.
by gassi | 2025-06-11 15:21:50+00:00
At it's core it's a system for organizing and displaying your collection of retro games (ROMs). Instead of navigating through folders or manually moving games from a hard drive to whatever system you want to play on, you can load them into RomM, navigate to the app and download them from the browser.

You can share it with your friends so they can access your library, use the plugins to download games directly onto some platforms (without a browser), or play older systems in the browser for a quick session.

At some point we'd like to handle save file sync between devices so you can stop playing on one device and pick up where you left off on another!
by mattpal | 2025-06-11 15:22:08+00:00
Disclaimer: I work in Developer Relations at Replit.

I'm sharing this because it highlights a critical gap in how we're supporting the next generation of developers.

AI-powered coding tools have opened programming to countless people who might never have touched code otherwise—vibe coders are bringing fresh perspectives and solving real problems.

But we're not setting them up for success when it comes to security. Many of these developers don't have traditional CS backgrounds that would flag potential vulnerabilities.

They're learning to build by doing, which is powerful, but they need tools and platforms that guide them toward secure practices by default.

This isn't about limiting creativity or slowing down the "build something cool" energy that makes this space so exciting. It's about building guardrails and educational resources that help vibe coders develop secure coding intuition alongside their technical skills.

We have an opportunity to make security accessible and automatic for this growing community of builders.

https://x.com/mattppal/status/1928106325613105370
by mstridder1 | 2025-06-11 15:22:12+00:00
As I understand it, in this case, a witness saw a woman throwing a child's remains in a dumpster. After investigation, it was cleared as a miscarriage.

What would you prefer? We turn a blind eye to people disposing of bodies? Cops refuse to investigate such reports?

It sounds like everything worked as intended here. Of course it's unfortunate for the innocent woman involved, but this is clearly not a witchhunt.
by hk1337 | 2025-06-11 15:22:16+00:00
This is why I avoid using non-official actions where possible and always set a version for the action.

We had a contractor that used some random action to ssh files to the server and referenced master as the version to boot. First, ssh isn't that difficult to upload files and run commands but the action owner could easily add code to save private keys and information to another server.

I am a bit confused on the "bypass" though. Wouldn't the adversary need push access to the repository to edit the workflow file? So, the portion that needs hardening is ensuring the wrong people do not have access to push files to the repository?

On public repositories I could see this being an issue if they do it in a section of the workflow that is run when a PR is created. Private repositories, you should take care with who you give access.
by kenrick95 | 2025-06-11 15:22:27+00:00
Thank you!

Probably you just need to copy `.env.example` into `.env` and replace the required API keys. [1] The whole 'back-end' is an external dependency hosted elsewhere by InstantDB [2] While they claim that you can self-host it too, I haven't been bothered to self-host it myself. Other than that, I'm using MapTiler Cloud for the mapping service [3] since I find that while there are free ones, those can be quite limited when doing things like geocoding (querying keyword to coordinates).

[1] https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo/blob/main/.env.example

[2] https://github.com/instantdb/instant

[3] https://www.maptiler.com/
by yesfitz | 2025-06-11 15:22:59+00:00
Third paragraph:

"The report’s authors caution that cycle tracking app (CTA) data in the wrong hands could result in risks to job prospects, workplace monitoring, health insurance discrimination and cyberstalking – and limit access to abortion."

If you want to trace the claims to their sources, you can read the full report from MCTD Cambridge here: https://www.mctd.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/The-High-S...
by Compzilla | 2025-06-11 15:23:22+00:00
I get your point that you’re not the buyer, and you’re not the one inflating prices. That said, if you are worth as much as you say, you are clearly not middle income with average resources.

You say I’m barking up the wrong tree, but the tree in question is a system that’s pricing out entire generations. Are we just supposed to shrug and say “that’s how it works”? This is capitalism I know, but that doesn't mean it's right.

The fact that something sells doesn’t mean it’s justified, it means the top 1% still has the liquidity to win every bidding war. That’s not “the market”... that’s an engineered, artificial scarcity propped up by investment groups, zoning failure, and captured politics.

My goal isn’t to change you... it’s to chronicle and question what's become accepted practice.
by monster_truck | 2025-06-11 15:23:27+00:00
Had these exact same thoughts while I was configuring a series of workflows and scripts to get around the multiple unjustified and longstanding restrictions on what things are allowed to happen when.

That sinking feeling when you search for how to do something and all of the top results are issues that were opened over a decade ago...

It is especially painful trying to use github to do anything useful at all after being spoiled by working exclusively from a locally hosted gitlab instance. I gave up on trying to get things to cache correctly after a few attempts of following their documentation, it's not like I'm paying for it.

Was also very surprised to see that the recommended/suggested default configuration that runs CodeQL had burned over 2600 minutes of actions in just a day of light use, nearly doubling the total I had from weeks of sustained heavy utilization. Who's paying for that??
by 93po | 2025-06-11 15:23:57+00:00
Additionally, using implicit hormone levels to adjust the ads that people with menstruations see is uniquely predatory and manipulative. It also serves to "out" trans men when this data can be tied to a profile of someone who as chosen a non-female gender on other online platforms.

Advertising by itself is directly harmful. Its secondary effects on the world are catastrophic. Adding a new layer of "this person is PMSing, let's give them makeup ads because they're feeling insecure" is just evil.
by ncr100 | 2025-06-11 15:23:58+00:00
Installed (Pixel Fold 1). Nothing is visibly different.

* Saw an unexpected notification post-upgrade that, when I clicked it, took me to the wrong place. It was about "Body Sensor" permission for "Fit" which I assumed meant Google Fit needed additional info about my private health info. A crappy workflow for me, since the warning was real, I became alarmed .. hoping that "Fit" really was simply Google Fit, and ended up in Google Play Services' app information settings sheet.

* Took me to a 'welcome to new pixel' which has overgrown its UX with OS 16. It had 3 'new' features to tell me about - something about 'VIP' which seemed like over-optimization of a workflow. Some other stuff which was not relevant to me (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245460). It also had an enormous list of differently colored (highlighted, not-highlighted) icons which led me to info about features, UGH .. in "Wizard" format (next, next, next) so I could not see an overview, nor know which I had previously viewed during the prior 15 OS iterations...so I abandoned that mini "Welcome" app.

-- Also, the mini videos in the "Welcome" app are inscrutable. My Pixel Fold 1 main screen is already small, and then the video illustrating the features is not zoomable. Clicking it merely pauses it. The videos show a hypothetical Pixel phone and a hypothetical human finger-tip dragging its way across the screen. Then the video wants me to read some of this 3x-too-small text, because THAT is the POINT of the video I had the most annoyance at .. the text content was somehow the feature. Yes I should have put my glasses on (+1.2 prescription - slight far-sighted), though it seems like I should be able to read the text-in-video from 2' away...it's literally the Welcome app, for ALL users, not some extra-niche app. Human Factors People gave zero shits about that IMO.
by spenczar5 | 2025-06-11 15:24:16+00:00
The issue is, whats the alternative? People are generally bad at predicting what work will get broad adoption. Carefully elegantly constructing a project that goes nowhere also seems to be a common failure mode; there is a sort of evolutionary pressure towards sloppy projects succeeding because they are cheaper to produce.

This reminds me of classics like "worse is better," for today's age (https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html)
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-11 15:24:34+00:00
Who said that's not okay?

The problem with AI-produced art is its potential to supplant human art, i.e. to destroy the incentive for any human to gain artistic mastery.

Here's how they're not equivalent: if you take human inputs out of AI, it disappears. If you take AI inputs out of human art, basically nothing changes.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-06-11 15:24:54+00:00
Ah got you! Makes sense, and makes it so much more clear. Thanks. In that case, I totally retract my crit in my prev comment. Appreciate it.

So - just so I completely understand - the variant we're calling 897ccd25-4776-4077-a9e6-0da34abb32a4 emerged during batch 5, and doesn't have a parent in a prior batch? Very interesting to compare iterations.

I currently run some very similar scripts for one of my own workflows. Though I understand making LLMs do 'good creative writing' wasn't necessarily the point here - perhaps solely to prove that LLMs can improve their own work, according to their own (prompted) metric(s) - the blog post is correct to point out that there's a huge limitation around prompt sensitivity (not to mention subjectivity around quality of art).

As a human using LLMs to create work that suits my own (naturally subjective) tastes and preferences, I currently get around this issue by feeding back on variants manually, then having the LLM update its own prompt (much like a cursorrules file, but for prose) based on my feedback, and only then generating new variants, to be fed back on, etc.

It's extremely hard to one-shot-prompt everything you do or do not like in writing, but you can get a really beefy ruleset - which even tiny LLMs are very good at following - incredibly quickly by asking the LLM to iterate on its own instructions in this manner.

Like I said, not sure if your goal is to 'prove improvement is possible' or 'create a useful creative writing assistant' but, if it's the latter, that's the technique that has created the most value for me personally over the last couple of years. Sharing in case that's useful.

Grats on the cool project!
by riskable | 2025-06-11 15:25:02+00:00
Exactly... What Claude output is what the prompt asked for: Critique. Even if there was nothing wrong at all Claude would still find something to critique—even if it has to hallucinate something wrong. That's it's job: To generate critique.

It's not really doing any sort of "deep analysis" it's just reading the text and comparing it to what it knows about similar texts from its model. It'll then predict/generate the next word based on prior critiques of similar writings. It doesn't really have an understanding of the text at all.