MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-06-03 14:35:30+00:00
That "feels right" thing is "the quality without a name" from "The timeless way of building" by Christopher Alexander: it is "fitness for the purpose" or, perhaps, "being true to its own nature". It is both very real and very elusive.

Russian carpenters had a saying to the effect of "to do the job without tricks and let the measure and beauty to guide you". The primary skill here is not to do a thing, but to listen to what the thing itself is telling. (See also "The stone flower" by P. Bazhov).
by ta_20250603 | 2025-06-03 14:35:44+00:00
My AI enamored friends are all nuts.

I get it. You're being so productive. (Or so you claim. I don't believe you.)

But if I don't affirm your work choices, or embrace them myself, you lose your mind like a little caffeinated squirrel.

> If you can’t metabolize the boring, repetitive code an LLM generates: skills issue!

Case in point. Touch grass.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-03 14:36:03+00:00
> those who know the basics and flexible can find something.

I'm not so sure about that: I have a feeling that at least the current trend in quite some jobs is that they are looking for two kinds of people:

1. beginners who know the basics and are cheap

2. deep experts; these are paid well

What is in-between gets more and more hollowed out.

Thus the people who follow your advice will mostly stay in the "cheap" pool - I wouldn't consider this to be desirable.
by hobs | 2025-06-03 14:36:17+00:00
I think that's probably true, but for learning stuff I think an oscilloscope is way better than a multi-meter and the cost is prohibitive so I love the flea scope to give to noobs.

I am also very much in the belief system that you should not buy an expensive tool before you are frustrated with a cheap one, most of the time people get into random hobbies and bow out six months later with way too much crap on their hands, and often time tools are more for show than for real world use.
by twothreeone | 2025-06-03 14:36:24+00:00
Assuming they were remotely operated - at least partially during the final few minutes of the attack - I wonder if the pilots remained in Ukraine or were hidden somewhere close by. I'm assuming they remained in Ukraine, thousands of kilometers away. If so, how did they pull off the remote connection over enemy territory? The only option somewhere as remote as Irkutsk seems to be Starlink, unless the trucks carried custom transceivers (which seems like it would be easily discovered during transit).
by crowcroft | 2025-06-03 14:36:30+00:00
I like the idea, but where do you draw the line on what advertising is.

Is affiliate marketing still allowed? Are influencers allowed to take payment? Can people be a spokesperson for a company? Can newspapers run commentary about businesses? Can companies pay to be vendors at a conference?

No matter where you end up drawing the line you’re just shifting the problems somewhere else. Look at the amount of money Meta and Google make, the incentive is just too large.
by Ukv | 2025-06-03 14:36:39+00:00
I don't think that's necessarily true - many tasks are difficult to solve but easy to verify. If I ask "place names that end with um", or "good ideas for a birthday party" I can pretty much verify the answer just by reading it. In other cases, clicking through to check that a linked source supports a claim is easier than researching to find and summarize the source in the first place would be.
by notsydonia | 2025-06-03 14:37:26+00:00
The person who devised this was most likely one Illia Vitiuk, head of the SBU cyber-sec department. Before that position, he was an MMA fighter. In a 2023 interview he says he was inspired by "James Bond films and a life of adventure..." Also apparently stood down then reinstated recently over some unexplained transactions, family finance situation.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1196975759/ukraine-cyber-war-...
by oftenwrong | 2025-06-03 14:37:31+00:00
Related: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/29/data-dump-e-bike-cras...

The stated reasoning behind this new policy is not backed by data; e-bike collisions and injuries are down in NYC and are insignificant compared to the harm caused by cars. Rather than looking at the data to determine the urgency of the problem, the police merely listened to complaints from community members and assumed that the complaints had merit.
by d_k_f | 2025-06-03 14:37:46+00:00
Give them a try without any of the expansions/DLC, if you want a "simpler"/leaner experience. One of the big complaints you'll see for every new iteration of Civ is how parts from the previous one are missing, which is usually fixed through DLCs later on. So this might be right up your alley (or at least closer to it).
by sokoloff | 2025-06-03 14:37:51+00:00
Do the traffic laws not provide for "blinking red lights on a school bus mandates traffic to stop in both directions" and with extremely heavy penalties an no tolerance for violations? Here, the school buses leave those lights flashing while students unload and while they cross to the other side of the street.

That seems like it would allow school kids to cross the road much more safely than painted lines would.
by creesch | 2025-06-03 14:38:06+00:00
Not the person you are asking to clarify. But, I can read it in two ways:

1. A huge part of the demographic group visiting HN is biased in favor of AI given the sort of startups YN decides to fund.

2. The large amount of start-ups funded by HN that are related to AI should answer your question.

I am slightly leaning towards the first one combined with a little bit of the latter one. A lot of people working in startups will be used to building up a structure from scratch where incorporating the latest "thing" is not that big of a deal. It also means they rarely see the long term impact of the code they write.

They have a huge blind spot for the reality of existing code bases and company structures where introducing these tools isn't as easy and code needs to be maintained for much longer.
by fakedang | 2025-06-03 14:38:42+00:00
Why is everyone so obtusely harping on the Sundays point?

Sunday is one of the days of the week with the highest sales. Chick-fil-A manages to make significantly more revenue in spite of their closure on Sundays. And what could be driving that? That was my point - that good corporate culture (which again does not mean 1-day-off) throughout the company has resulted in one billionaire enterprise out matching the rest.

I literally just mentioned the Sunday day off as a footnote, yet everyone seems to have harped in on that without the context of my parent comment.
Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now)
by felixheikka | 2025-06-03 14:38:53+00:00
My SaaS has 10,000 users now.

In the beginning, when the goal was to go from 0 to 100 users, I had no following and a plan to grow without spending any money on marketing.

This path is 100% possible. I’ve gone through it myself, so I know it works.

It will require time and effort from you, because if you’re not spending money, that’s what you have to spend, but it’s absolutely worth it in the end.

Here's the path we took (2 people) to get our first 100 users:

- Our absolute first users came from our idea validation post on Reddit

- It was a post titled “Let’s exchange feedback!” where we got feedback on our idea and gave others feedback in return

- We DMed those who gave feedback when we released our MVP and a few of them signed up

- We also made a launch post in the same sub (was allowed in that sub)

- We would post a few times on Reddit later on sharing our journey and the small lessons we had learned so far

- Our marketing strategy after this was to be very active in founder communities on X

- This was mainly in “Build in Public” but also in “Startup Community”

- Taking a lot of action is key, so we set a daily goal of 3 posts and 50 replies each

- Posting consisted of:

- Providing value first: Shared helpful advice and lessons we learned from our building journey. - Engaging with others: Replied to other posts, connected with people, offered help where we could. - Building hype: Celebrated even the smallest wins publicly (e.g. getting our first 3 users, first 20 users, etc.). - Product mentions: Mentioned our product when we genuinely thought it would help someone with their problem.

- It took us two weeks of daily action like this to reach our first 100 users

- We were two people doing it and we managed to get traction pretty quickly within the community, so as a solo founder it may or may not take longer

- At the end of they day, if your product doesn’t resonate with the community it’s going to be hard to get attention

- A good (or at least interesting) product will always be key, combined with the right marketing of course

This method can get you your first 100 users and it doesn’t require money, but it does take time and effort.

I hope this post helps you and inspires you to take action.

When it gets tough, keep the goal in mind and remember why you're doing this.
by gruez | 2025-06-03 14:39:06+00:00
>A commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users.

To be fair it's not really limited to Russian apps. Many popular apps on play store have it as well:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.m...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinterest&...
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-03 14:39:29+00:00
Have you read the hilarious PRs that copilot put out last week ? it is here for your reference [1]. The humor is in the giant gap between what it can do, and what the hype says it can do.

Can you show me 1 PR put out by any agent in any open-source repo with wide usage ?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my...
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-03 14:39:36+00:00
When a stressed person mistakenly does something they shouldn't have, they typically stop doing it after only a small handful of mistakes. We get tired, or bored, or we wise up to our mistake.

When a misconfigured computer does something wrong, it frequently does it over and over and over again until it is prevented from doing so by an external intervention.

No tired private is going to mistakenly rampage through a populated area mowing down civilians. But a confused drone swarm might.
by mantas | 2025-06-03 14:39:51+00:00
> If this is genuinely your approach, you are being part of the problem; if taking a step back to reassess feels like too much work, I’d encourage you to explore why it feels that way, what emotions is this bringing up internally?

How am I part of the problem? Do you mean I should make a fuss if I get limited options? Or have emotions towards what... My genetical makeup? All in all, I've zero emotions about my lactose intolerance. Being mindful about what I eat is just natural for me. Just like for other people with food allergies/intolerances.

> in practise this puts anyone outside the mainstream in the category of “other,” people to be managed separately

Is your goal to get everyone down to the same level by removing all learning material that may be inaccessible to somebody?

Should people just stop consuming anything with lactose to make it more universal for people like me? But then a friend of mine will ask to stop eating fish. Someone else will take away chocolate. At the end of the day all of us will be much worse off.
by kfajdsl | 2025-06-03 14:40:04+00:00
I think there will always be people who want to look under the layers of abstraction, and people who don't care. All the abstractions we've created for computing has lowered the barrier of entry for people who want to create useful applications and otherwise don't care. If anything, LLMs make the process of learning for those in the former group much easier, something that only search really did previously.

I do think it's entirely plausible that a lot of people who otherwise would have wanted to learn more will grow up getting used to instant results and will simply not do anything the LLM can't do or tell them. Kind of similar to how my social media addicted brain gets antsy if it goes more than an hour without a fast dopamine hit (hence me being on HN right now...).
by fuzzfactor | 2025-06-03 14:40:06+00:00
This type of thing is pure greed, completely distinct from a highly aggressive pursuit of far more lucrative opportunities that average businessmen have been able to accomplish in the extreme interest of their shareholders.

Those true leaders are the traditional examples who have shown success over the centuries, without letting any greed whatsoever become a dominant force, recognizing and moving in the opposite direction from those driven by overblown self-interest, who naturally have little else to offer. It can be really disgraceful these days but people don't seem to care any more.

That's one thing that made them average businessmen though.

Now if you're below-average I understand, but most companies' shareholders would be better off with a non-greedy CEO, who outperforms by steering away from underhanded low-class behavior instead.

Now if greed is the only thing on the table, and somebody like a CEO or decision-making executive hammers away using his only little tool with admirable perseverance long enough, it does seem to have a likelihood of bringing in money that would not have otherwise come in.

This can be leveraged too, by sometimes even greedier forces.

All you can do is laugh, those shareholders might be satisfied, but just imagine what an average person could do with that kind of resources. It would put the greedy cretins to shame on their own terms.

And if you could find an honest above-average CEO, woo hoo !
by electroly | 2025-06-03 14:40:28+00:00
AWS has a service providing license-included Visual Studio development VMs for enterprises. These run on EC2 but the users don't have access to AWS services in that sense. These VMs can't run WSL2 because of the lack of nested virtualization. This ends up being fairly painful for Windows-based development; WSL is used for lots of things, integrated with our Windows environment, and WSL1 is much slower.
by jakubmazanec | 2025-06-03 14:40:45+00:00
I liked the beginning of the 2004 Pirates!, but after a while the gameplay is too repetitive. In the end I found the game boring, and I think it could have used a slightly more realistic simulation of the ships and their battles - I remember that I was able to outmaneuver cannon balls after they were fired from the enemy ship - they moved so unrealistically slow...
by jplusequalt | 2025-06-03 14:41:35+00:00
First things first--art is innately human. If a human didn't create it, it's not art. That means nature is not "art" (though that doesn't mean you can't notice the beauty in nature).

The artistic process is complicated, and which role a person plays in relation to the creation of a piece of artwork varies. Some people are the actual workers who go about creating the thing. Some are collaborators who help out the worker with small pieces of the artwork. Others are simple curators who bring people together.

Then you have those who commission an art piece, and it's what their role in this process is that I find myself conflicted on--are they deserving the title of artist because they funded it's creation, or had the initial idea for the piece? If your answer is yes--that they are considered an artist for commissioning a piece, then I think you can argue that a person who uses an AI model to generate art is actually creating art.

But if your answer is no--that simply having an idea and the means to bring it about (through money, or an AI model that was trained off the works of millions of artists without their consent), then I think you have a basis to argue that simply prompting these models to generate art, is not enough to constitute art. The piece wasn't generated by a human, and the prompt given to the model wasn't from someone who actually contributes to the creation of the art piece, therefor the result is not art.

Now what if someone first prompts a model to generate an image, and then spends a lot of time tweaking said image in Photoshop--are they still only a commissioner at that point? Well I suppose they aren't. But what about repeatedly prompting an AI until it gives you a close enough replica of what you imagined? Is this process practically the same touching up the piece yourself? I'd argue no, and I'd say this is simply the role of a commissioner telling the worker they're off the mark, and that the worker needs to start over.

Anyways that is a lot of text, but I think my point is this--analyzing the role a person plays while prompting an LLM can help inform if the output of the model is actually art.
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by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-03 14:42:18+00:00
> I'll stick to the best definition of art that I've heard : "if it gives you an emotion, it is art".

I think it's necessary, but not sufficient. So I kinda like my better:

It's art if (and to the extent of) people generally agree it's art.

Sounds tautological, but it isn't[0].

Of course, not everything is art. There are some aspects typically - but not always - present. Whether something gives you an emotion is one. Whether it has a deeper story behind it is another. Whether it's something that you can bond over with other people, or a shared experience, yet another. But none of those are required to be present. Art is ultimately a consensus opinion.

--

[0] - In fact, most of our civilization is built on ideas that exist only as long as most people expect most other people to believe them. Examples include: money, laws, countries, corporations, even the concept of society itself.
by xpe | 2025-06-03 14:42:41+00:00
Right. Too often people conflate (a) risk-loving entrepreneurs and their marketing claims with the (b) realities of usage patterns and associated value-add.

As an example, look at how cars are advertised. If you only paid attention to marketing, you would think everyone is zipping around winding mountain roads in their SUVs, loaded up with backcountry gear. This is not accurate, but nonetheless SUVs are dominant.
by munificent | 2025-06-03 14:42:51+00:00
You say that, but I hear AI folks talk about that user experience all the time.

And at some level, it makes sense. There are a lot of extroverts out there for whom the ideal job really is feeling like an orchestra conductor delegating and coordination an army of others. There is a great feeling of empowerment in watching a group build something bigger than you could have made on your own. And, if you're not someone who really likes to get their hands dirty and do the thing yourself, why not aspire towards a style of working that always feels that high level and powerful?

And, obviously, people who are wired that way are exactly the kind of people to move into management and executive roles and end up being in charge of and evangelizing AI to the world. So it's no surprise you hear people talking about this style of working all the time.

I'm 47. I've had the opportunity to move into management many times. I've been in a lead role enough to know the positive sides of that job and I deeply enjoy the soft skills part of working with a team.

I just know who I am and know that on days where I don't feel like I really made something concrete myself, I feel like I didn't live a real day.
by tomrod | 2025-06-03 14:42:55+00:00
I've found that most teams are hesitant to show backend code, API calls, etc. during demos.

Screw that! Show your product owner and stakeholders the complexity of the backend _in conjunction_ to the ease of the front end.

The underlying note is "here is what you'll do manually and without support if you don't want the UX as it is now."
by nonameiguess | 2025-06-03 14:43:52+00:00
I swear I'm not trying to throw a ton of shade here, but it's amusing this is the current top comment when the article says they studied people age 70 and older, which of course they did because those are the people likely enough to have dementia at all that you can do a meaningful comparison.

> “For example, in the US, among people aged 81 to 85, 25.1% of those born between 1890–1913 had dementia, compared to 15.5% of those born between 1939–1943,” said Lenzen, adding similar trends were seen in Europe and England, although less pronounced in the latter.

I don't think people born between 1939 and 1943 are less likely to have dementia because of all of the cognitive activity that went into replying to e-mails and choosing groceries online back in the 1970s.
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-03 14:43:55+00:00
That's why insurance is so profitable.

Because AmFam does both!

AmFam, State Farm, et al. suing AMZN for these claims nationally literally makes AmFam money over time. While costing AMZN money. That's what will move AMZN to either cease the practice, or design drones that are resilient to nearly any kind of attack.
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by dataflow | 2025-06-03 14:44:08+00:00
> The US doesn't have popular voting system. There are good reasons for it, and in no way does it make the US non-democratic.

Presumably if my votes counted a million times more than yours, you wouldn't say it's still a democracy, right? The extreme here is obviously a single ruler whose vote counts more than everyone else's combined. Where do you draw the line here?
by kelipso | 2025-06-03 14:44:13+00:00
Is the person who presses a button that releases an autonomous kill-no-kill drone into a country going to jail when that drone razes an entire town of civilians? I doubt it. “Mistakes happen” etc.

The visceral reaction is not there that would motivate the legal system to send the group that started a cascade of autonomous decisions by a robot to kill a bunch of civilians.