MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-12 20:04:37+00:00
> Upgrading my windows to be double-paned without city approval should not result in a greater punishment from the government than attacking someone on the street.

I agree with the statement if you mean that you should be punished more for the latter than for the former. But if you mean that you should be punished less for X and someone else should be punished more for Y (where Y is a greater crime than X), there simply are not enough details to know if I agree. I might think that you should be punished more when you are in a position to profit from the actions and therefore be more willing to continue despite the punishment (e.g. a restaurant owner refusing to make up the minimum wage difference for a server who didn't make enough in tips) whereas the other person committed their crime from opportunism in a desperate situation (e.g. a homeless person who robbed an unfortunate individual for money, including causing some minor injuries). If the same person were to commit both crimes, obviously the latter is worse; if different people commit the crimes, I'd be interested to know more about the perpetrators if I was asked to pass judgement.

> The complaint is that laws are structured in a way that only affect people who have something material to lose.

This is how it should be. Society should be structured such that every member of it has something material to lose.
by gms7777 | 2025-06-12 20:05:13+00:00
A few years ago, at least in my field, there was definitely a trend of people at least doing twitter threads explaining the key findings of their papers. It's obviously less in-depth than a blog post would be, but it was still usually a far more accessible version of the key ideas. Unfortunately, this community has basically dissolved in the last few years due to the changes in twitter and to my knowledge hasn't really converged on a new home.
by layer8 | 2025-06-12 20:05:32+00:00
It is constrained by whatever you take as the initial conditions. The quantum state of the universe is a specific and precise thing, as well as how it evolves over time. It can be taken as a vector in Hilbert space that evolves according to the Schrödinger equation. There is no implication that the resulting path will have it visit every point in Hilbert space, or that the slices of the wave function that represent individual “worlds” somehow cover all worlds present in the unvisited points.
by jjice | 2025-06-12 20:05:33+00:00
There's no requirement to maintain a subscription. Each individual should be making this decision for themselves based on the value they get from a service vs the cost.

The broad "startups" in question are just businesses trying to sell a product. Not everyone is going to sign up, and not of those who do, most won't maintain their subscription forever.

> Is this really sustainable in the long run?

For who? For the startups? Maybe, depends on the value provided. For the users? Maybe, depends on if they feel they're getting value.

I'm kind of confused as to what the question is really asking.

Most people I know have a handful (making exception for things that have always been "subscription", like insurances): a streaming service or two, iCloud/Google One, and maybe a budgeting app or something more niche for a hobby of theirs. I'd argue that none of those are necessary, except maybe the cloud storage to retain information and backup their devices. User's can just vote with their wallets.

As for it being sustainable for a startup: who cares - a good product will be worth paying for an it'll survive.

(Hope the tone doesn't come off as rude, I'm just trying to shoot for brevity)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-12 20:06:00+00:00
> Who is going to join a forum dedicated to discussing rape? Absolute weirdos

The folks who go to these [1] and these [2].

We are way into that at least I am not knowledgeable about. I’d be curious about an expert’s take on the value of unmoderated YouTube and TikTok content on this issue.

[1] https://www.nationalsexualassaultconference.org/

[2] https://www.survivorsofsexualassaultanonymous.com/
by infotainment | 2025-06-12 20:06:04+00:00
Having played with it on my M1 iPad, seems like they really nailed the interaction with this release. It feels like it always should have worked this way, unlike Stage Manager, which was just kind of weird.

The sad part is, of course, that Apple still hasn’t addressed the-useless-for-real-productivity part of the iPad. The fact that you can’t even open the web inspector in Safari strikes me as patently absurd. (Only remote inspection is possible, achieved by connecting your iPad to your Mac with a USB cable. Really, Apple?)
by rcxdude | 2025-06-12 20:06:41+00:00
In this case there are two things that contribute: one is cost of distribution, which means that it does in fact cost something to get the electricity to the cold person, and the second thing is the kind of structures which help insulate consumers from extreme prices: most people pay a fixed rate for electricity despite the variation in the wholesale price, which means that while they may pay some amount while the price is negative, they are also not paying a small fortune when the price goes up massively. This could probably be done better, though, and things are changing which would do make electricity free or negatively priced for some end-users when there's excess in the grid, while still insulating them from extremely high prices (they're still going to be paying something for the insurance, though).
by simonw | 2025-06-12 20:06:47+00:00
The feature I want most from all of these "agentic" coding tools is a robust, trustworthy sandbox that limits the blast radius for when something goes wrong.

I'm currently leaning on Docker for Mac for this, which seems robust enough - but it would be nice if sensible sandboxes were the default, not something you have to actively enable yourself.

Claude Artifacts and ChatGPT Code Interpreter are still the AI-assisted coding tools I use most often, mainly because I know their sandboxes are rock solid.
by z2 | 2025-06-12 20:06:53+00:00
I mean this in the best faith, but I feel this is still sidestepping the core issue: foundational science and applied development are just not fungible. The kind of research NIH funds: long-horizon, high-risk, mechanism-level discovery, is not something corporations will just pick up the tab on if public funding disappears and is very different from the also decades long drug pipeline. Not because they’re incapable or unwilling, but because it’s economically irrational within the incentive structure today. Of course big pharma companies have money, they will figure things out and maybe even spend more funding on basic science. But very few shareholder-driven companies are going to fund a 10-year exploration into, say, the epigenetic triggers of cancer with no guarantee of a product at the end. They might take safer steps and invest in foundational research tangential to existing targets, and yes, this does launch a whole other debate on efficiency of this vs NIH moonshot research.

Yes, they do some early-stage R&D work, but it’s almost almost always downstream of publicly funded breakthroughs. They build on what’s already been de-risked. NIH isn’t just 8% of the money, it’s the first 8%, the part no one else wants to touch because it’s too uncertain, too slow, and too unprofitable in the intermediate term. Trials are expensive, that's where 80% of R&D today goes.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57126 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1715368115
by tecleandor | 2025-06-12 20:07:14+00:00
While it pulls some pretty difficult things, it seems to struggle with other *seemingly* simple ones.

The piano in the beginning or the photo camera used by the photographer has "AI text" written on it. The old man with the beret in the cafe goes through his beret with his hand. The girl on the seaside looking back turns her head too much almost like an owl. The boy-in-a-bike-through-an-ewuropean-city scene ends on a square with an amorphous being in a unicycle under the tree...
by genewitch | 2025-06-12 20:07:21+00:00
so you need python - a full install, and git. Doesn't matter OS. python venv (virtual environment) ensures that this folder, once it works, is locked to all the versions inside it, including the python version. this works for any software that uses pip to set up, or any python stuff in general.

git clone <whisper-diarization.git URL> cd whisper-diarization python -m venv . cd scripts # and then depending on your OS it's activate.sh, activate.ps1, activate.bat, etc. so on linux [0]

your prompt should change to say

(whisper-diarization) <your OS prompt>$

now you can type

cd .. pip install -c constraints.txt -r requirements.txt python ./diarize.py --no-stem --suppress_numerals --whisper-model large-v3-turbo --device cuda -a <FILE>

next time you want to use it, you can just do like

cd ~/whisper-diarization scripts/activate.sh (or whatever) [0] python ./diarize.py [...]

[0] To activate a Python virtual environment created with venv, use the command

source venv/bin/activate

on Linux or macOS, or

venv\Scripts\activate

on Windows. This will change your terminal prompt to indicate that the virtual environment is active.

(the [0] note was 'AI generated' by DDG, but whatever, linux puts it in ./bin/activate and windows puts it in ./Scripts/activate.ps1 (ideally))
by sapiogram | 2025-06-12 20:07:36+00:00
Thanks for actually including the slow repo in your comment. My results on a Ryzen 5900X:

* Clean debug build: 1m 22s

* Incremental debug build: 13s

* Clean release build: 1m 51s

* Incremental release build: 24s

Incremental builds were done by changing one line in creates/symbolicator/src/cli.rs.

It's not great, but it sounds like your experience was much worse for some reason.
by kenhwang | 2025-06-12 20:07:54+00:00
From their incident page (https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25r9t0vz99rp):

> Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency.

I bet that 3rd party service is GCP.

I would be pretty pissed if I were a CF customer that used Workers KV for redundancy because it was heavily marketed as running on CF data centers.
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-06-12 20:08:44+00:00
how do you take the course? the "play introduction" button on the video at the top doesnt work (macos, brave and stock safari). i had to use js to click the button then it finally worked..

on the site there is no "begin course". the only thing you can see is the course outline and click links to intro videos.

is there a course on taking the course?
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-06-12 20:08:46+00:00
It is absolutely wrong to sell that software. It is mostly used to harass journalists and people advocating against dictatorial regimes. That is why there are endless headlines and articles about it being used against orgs like greenpeace, or people criticizing a govt. The claim was always we want to be able to use it against terrorists or real criminals - but at the least we know it is very frequently used to try to stop critics of governments.

It is immoral. I'd never hire someone who worked on such software or for one of those firms. We should have a movement that declares this.
by realityfactchex | 2025-06-12 20:09:24+00:00
1. Write a fully-defined specification file as markdown in technical-enough but business-enough language, without repeating anything, and including all requirements and context, being sure to emphasize what is important, how to make decisions if needed, and, most critically, what elements must exist and how they must behave in the outcome. This is logically outlined. A junior engineer could understand what the output needs to do without help, a mid engineer could implement it sufficiently well without help, and a senior engineer could implement it gracefully without help.

2. Submit the fully-defined requirements .md file to the LLM by drag-and-drop. If there are starting files to be modified, drag and drop those files as well (as a zip if hierarchical, or as unpackaged files if a flat structure is suitable).

3. Wait for LLM to be done. This can take as long as it needs to, since this process supports specification files with requirements of arbitrary complexity. Receive the correct, full output fileset as a downloadable file from the LLM. (If I asked for instructions on how to use the files that the LLM provides, that is included in the output fileset, too.)

Oh wait, this does not exist. Sorry! But it is what I want, so it is still my "ultimate AI-assisted coding setup".
by thih9 | 2025-06-12 20:09:35+00:00
Original source: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in...

> Hi everyone - as a previous context I’m an AI Program Manager at J&J and have been using Cursor for personal projects since March.

> Yesterday I was migrating some of my back-end configuration from Express.js to Next.js and Cursor bugged hard after the migration - it tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself. I had to use EaseUS to try to recover the data, but didn’t work very well also. Lucky I always have everything on my Google Drive and Github, but it still scared the hell out of me.

> Now I’m allergic to YOLO mode and won’t try it anytime soon again. Does anyone had any issue similar than this or am I the first one to have everything deleted by AI?
by harshaw | 2025-06-12 20:09:38+00:00
My problem is that there is a reauth FOMA that gets copied with the most trivial of applications. A good example is the Electrify America charging app. It's job is to be available so you can charge. But they log you out frequently - and they want to do second factor with email. Guess what - that doesn't always work. My wife was trying to charge the other day, was logged out, and couldn't get the email verification to go through. So I had her login with my credentials and I answered the email verification and gave her the token over the phone. super annoying.

But more importantly- mobile phones already have good security mechanisms. It's like all these shitty apps copied web based auth mechanisms with timeouts when they could do something better (and probably are built on web technologies with cookies instead of using the trusted store on the phone).

There are precious few apps out there that tell you ahead of time that reauth is happening (Zoom does this - kudos). But even so - I don't think it's necessary most of the time.
by xenadu02 | 2025-06-12 20:09:59+00:00
I put "exceptions exist" in my original post because I knew the pedants would jump on me with their individual anecdotes :)

The trouble with informal systems (which is how I personally classify English) is that practices and expectations vary a lot across every context you can imagine. It can vary between regions. Between demographic groups (eg age). On and on.

I suppose that isn't a surprise. Language is always evolving. Perhaps we are still in a transition phase (in US English) and haven't really settled on a new set of rules yet. See what some other replies have noted about using formal addresses vs first names in business scenarios.

FWIW this is hardly the first time. At one point ge (pronounced yee) was the informal pronoun, you the formal one. Saying "you" to your mates or lover would be extremely rude, implying distance. But you might use it if you were mad at them. But then it became a fad (probably among the kids) to use the formal pronoun. That eventually led to the loss of the informal pronoun entirely. I like to imagine kids and teens running around addressing everyone as "your majesty" ironically - because you can't call them out for being polite and formal even if that polite formality was opposite in intention. Being a smartass is a time-honored tradition :)
by mellosouls | 2025-06-12 20:10:03+00:00
Kudos to the author for the update - and also to others including @dang for calling it out at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169759

(Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?, 367 points, 267 comments)
by smoe | 2025-06-12 20:10:13+00:00
Latest Cloudflare status update basically confirms that there is a dependency to GCP in their systems:

"Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. As a result, certain Cloudflare products that rely on KV service to store and disseminate information are unavailable"
by dogman144 | 2025-06-12 20:10:49+00:00
Agree with both. I’m undiagnosed and slowly wondering if I have it the more I see exact language matchups to what feels to be a very hard to describe experience.

Puts me in a tricky spot as I experience similar descriptions of the problems, and I deeply resonated with deliberately seeking out stress as a fix, which I realized worked over time. I have specifically done this.

That said, that’s an unhealthy approach via playing with fire (missed deadliness, etc) and the over time negative impacts of stress.

That said, I am firmly in the camp that some or a lot of modern ADHD is caveperson brain finally DDoS’ing itself via too much info throughput. We hit a max ingest limit sometime in 2013, and it never got better. Some folks loose their mind very publicly online, others live and die in tech jobs via if they can manage tabs and attention properly. Not a bad outcome vs worst case, if the latter is my case.

So where does that leave me - I go on modern era drugs with what seems to be life-long requirement bc of modern era tech decisions I never agreed to? This seems wrong in 10 different directions. To start if I can barely maintain control over what goes into my mind and attention for reasons I didn’t agree to but must adapt to, at least I can control if I put new problems, fixing other problems, into my body.

So… needless to say receipts sound like a cool method to test. At least it was nice to see others discuss the exact buzzwords I think to myself - I can pay attention there, but god f’ing dang it why can’t I do it over here?
by bitpush | 2025-06-12 20:10:52+00:00
> And yes, they're not obligated to provide those binary blobs, but since they've been doing it for such a long while, not announcing it well in advance, like they do with the so many services they choose to discontinue, just adds to that list of things I dislike about them.

This is such a strange position. "I rely on an undocumented behavior, and I'm upset that things changed".

If you're a software engineer, you know not to depend on these kind of things, and there's no way to expect the library / framework author to reason about how people are using it.

What if someone else came up and said I'm using Pixel as a doorstop, and now that Pixel has a camera bump, it doesnt work anymore - I hate the company. Strange indeed.
by bcoates | 2025-06-12 20:10:53+00:00
The towers of Hanoi one is kind of weird, the prompt asks for a complete move by move solution and the 15 or 20 disk version (where reasoning models fail) means the result is unreasonably long and very repetitive. Likely as not it's just running into some training or sampler quirk discouraging the model to just dump huge amounts of low-entropy text.

I don't have a Claude in front of me -- if you just give it the algorithm to produce the answer and ask it to give you the huge output for n=20, will it even do that?
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-12 20:10:56+00:00
FH could probably be the foundation of a lunar program but I don't know what it looks like.

Growing up in the 1980s reading the "science fact" columns in Analog magazine I got the idea that we got sold out when we decided to do Apollo the way we did and that instead of a stunt we could have had a much more capable program that would have led to a more durable presence on the moon.

Today though looking at large numbers of plans to get to the moon it's easy to come to the same conclusion von Braun did (from looking at large number of plans), that the Apollo architecture was much more feasible than any of the others. It wasn't just "get it done on Kennedy's timeline" but a matter of being able to do it at all.

It's not so hard to transfer fluids with gravity, still unprecedented to do it without. I studied theoretical physics so I didn't get too into it but I ran into a few situations in labs handling cryogenic fluids where a liquid wasn't a liquid when it got to the other end of a pipe!

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From a mission planning viewpoint also I'm not too impressed with Starship scenarios that involve refueling. That is, I've heard it takes anything from 12-20 Starships to fully top off a Starship to go to the Moon or Mars.

You could imagine one launchpad could launch 1500 tons of cargo to Mars a year (1 launch a day staging fully fueled Starships in a holding orbit to waiting for Earth and Mars to align every 2.5 year or so) but if you can launch 20x the cargo to a destination (as opposed to fuel) you could build a baby O'Neill colony in LEO and have one hell of a space tourism destination. It's not so much a shortcoming of Starship as much as it is the reality that Heinlein was wrong and LEO is much closer to the Earth than other destinations.

(For instance in the 1980s the US fielded an antisatellite weapon that could be launched from an F-15 and kill LEO satellites with just a 2.5 km/s delta-V. Try to shoot down a GPS satellite, however, and that's an entirely different problems)
by atonse | 2025-06-12 20:11:28+00:00
100% agree... I even thought "ok maybe I'll clean up the backlog while I wait" but I'm so used to even using AI to clean up my JIRA backlog (using the Atlassian MCP), so even that feels weird to click into each ticket, just the way I used to do it TWO MONTHS AGO.

This is a good wake-up call on how easily (and quickly) we can all become pretty dependent on these tools.
by naet | 2025-06-12 20:11:29+00:00
I actually wrote a backtracking solution to the LinkedIn queens game a while ago (and the tango game).

I know nothing about SMT or SAT and I imagine they might be faster, but the backtracking appears to solve just as instantaneously when you push the button.

Might be cool to learn a bit about SMT or SAT. Not sure how broadly applicable they are but I've seen people use them to solve some difficult advent of code problems if nothing else.
by senko | 2025-06-12 20:11:59+00:00
This was analyzed on HN a week or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176241

The "700 engineers faking AI" claim seems to have been sloppy[0] reasoning by an influencer, which spread like wildfire.

[0] I won't attribute malice here, but this version was certainly more interesting than the truth
by barrkel | 2025-06-12 20:12:06+00:00
Oh I know, I know. The problem comes from imbuing text with qualia. A printer that prints out text that says its in pain isn't actually in pain.

If we buy panpsychism, the best we could aim for is destruction of the printer counts as pain, not the arrangement of ink on a page.

When it comes to LLMs, you're actually trying to argue something different, something more like dualism or idealism, because the computing substrate doesn't matter to the output.

But once you go there, you have to argue that doing arithmetic may cause pain.

Hence my post.
by zone411 | 2025-06-12 20:12:22+00:00
I benchmarked it on four of my benchmarks so far. Got first place in two of them:

https://github.com/lechmazur/confabulations

https://github.com/lechmazur/nyt-connections

https://github.com/lechmazur/generalization

https://github.com/lechmazur/writing
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-06-12 20:12:23+00:00
My short list of agent allowed commands...

"Bash(ceedling:*)", "Bash(find:*)", "Bash(grep:*)", "Bash(ls:*)", "Bash(rg:*)", "WebFetch(domain:docs.anthropic.com)", "Bash(git checkout:*)", "Bash(gcc:*)", "Bash(git add:*)", "Bash(mkdir:*)"

I'm OK for now!