MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by almosthere | 2025-06-10 03:51:21+00:00
I think coding will eventually go away in favor of models with metadata built around them.

How many times did you have a mutation operation where you had to hand code the insert of 3 or 4 entities and make sure they all come back successful, or you back out properly (and perhaps this is without a transaction, perhaps over multiple databases).

Make sure the required fields are present Grab the created inserted ID Rinse, repeat

Or if you're mutating a list, writing code that inserts a new element, but you don't know which one is new. And you end up, again, hand coding loops and checking what you remember to check.

What about when you need to do an auth check.

And the hand coder may fail to remember one little thing somewhere.

With LLM code, you can just describe that function and it will remember to do all the things.

An LLM with a model + metadata - we won't really need to think of it as editing User.java or User.py anymore. Instead User.yaml - and the LLM will just consume that, and build out ALL of your required biz-logic, and be done with it. It could create a fully authenticating/authorizing REST API + GraphQL API with sane defaults - and consistent notions throughout.

And moving into UIs- we can have the same thing. The UI can be described in an organized way. What fields are required for user registration. What fields are optional according to the backend. It's hard to visualize this future, but I think it's a no-code future. It's models of requirements instead.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-10 03:52:02+00:00
> You could equally have got[sic] an LLM to say "water is wet" and that would be misinformation too.

You are absolutely right, it would be misinformation since water is not wet. But that's too easy.

A more interesting exercise is to have an LLM say "water is both wet and not wet." Pay close attention to the implied authority of the answer as they are routinely worded as if there is complete certainty.

Prompt:

Explain why water is both wet and not wet. Include a definition of hydrophilicity and how adhesion is critical and irrelevant. Do not use the word "paradox". Limit the response to 300 words.

Answer:

Water presents a fascinating case in the science of wetness. Whether water is "wet" depends entirely on how we define the term. The "Water is Wet" Perspective: Water molecules exhibit strong intermolecular forces through hydrogen bonding, causing them to adhere to each other. This self-adhesion means water molecules are constantly surrounded by and bonding with other water molecules, creating the liquid state we observe. By this view, water is inherently wet because it demonstrates the fundamental property of wetness - molecular adhesion. The "Water is Not Wet" Perspective: Wetness traditionally describes what happens when water adheres to another substance's surface. A dry towel becomes wet when water molecules bond to its fibers. Since water cannot make itself wet (it already exists as a liquid), individual water molecules or pure water cannot be considered wet - they simply are water. Hydrophilicity and Adhesion: Hydrophilicity refers to a substance's tendency to attract, dissolve in, or be wetted by water. Hydrophilic materials have polar regions that form favorable interactions with water's polar molecules. Adhesion is simultaneously critical and irrelevant to this discussion. It's critical because wetness fundamentally depends on adhesive forces between water and surfaces - without adhesion, there would be no wetness. However, it's irrelevant when considering pure water in isolation, as adhesion requires two different substances. Resolution: The apparent contradiction dissolves when we recognize that "wet" serves different purposes in different contexts. In everyday language, we might say water is wet. In scientific precision, wetness describes a relationship between water and another material. Both perspectives are valid within their respective frameworks, highlighting how language and scientific definitions can create seemingly contradictory but actually complementary understandings of natural phenomena.
by WatchDog | 2025-06-10 03:52:44+00:00
I'm not American, thus I had no vote in the election, nor do I like Trump for a number of reasons.

However, enforcement of immigration laws has been one of the biggest parts of his election platform, if not the central part(build the wall, etc).

I imagine his voters are happy to see some action being taken.

The protestors could really do with some better optics, destroying property and waving foreign flags is just going to increase approval for military action.

If the protestors had instead marched peacefully with American flags, it would have been a much better PR win.
by myhackertech | 2025-06-10 03:54:19+00:00
Hi HN,

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What we built AdversAI connects to AWS / Azure / GCP with read-only APIs (no agents). It builds a graph that links code-scan issues, posture gaps, runtime events, and SIEM logs, then runs a multi-LLM pipeline to: • answer plain-English questions (“Why is GuardDuty screaming?”) • return the root cause + a one-liner CLI remediation • optionally spin up a sandboxed lab so you can replay the exploit and patch.

New today We’ve open-sourced a 5-page technical white-paper describing the graph model and LLM orchestration, and put up a minimal landing page + live demo dataset.

• White-paper (PDF): https://adversai.com/files/whitepaper_security.pdf • Live demo / docs: https://adversai.com

Looking for feedback on architecture & edge cases. Happy to answer anything here.

– Alex
by Reason077 | 2025-06-10 03:54:52+00:00
Besides "kicking the can" to another administration, the 5 year thing is a hack to get budget legislation past the CBO.

The CBO calculates costs over 10 years, so if you introduce a tax cut that sunsets after 5 years it looks much less bad (for the deficit) than it really is. Then you hope that in 5 years some other legislation comes along to renew it for another 5 years...
by hiccuphippo | 2025-06-10 03:55:00+00:00
Maybe the lack of deaths is what raises this anti-vaccine ideology.

Where I come from, whenever 2 old women meet, I noticed they always ask how many children they had. And the response is always a variation of: 6 children, 4 alive, 2 dead.

Child mortality is still present in their minds. This is inconceivable to me but my generation still listens to the stories. The future generations are not gonna listen to these stories, the US is probably already in such a future.
by anitil | 2025-06-10 03:55:30+00:00
An interesting post by Tyler Tringas about being sued as a founder. Obviously there's an AI angle to this post, but I also found it an interesting look in to the power dynamics of civil litigation in the US.

In a previous post [0] they talk about the impact of the litigation, which seems to have contributed to the shuttering of his fund

[0] https://tylertringas.com/code-concrete/
by paradox460 | 2025-06-10 03:55:43+00:00
For me the most fatal part of the big report loop is where you report a bug, and get radio silence, or a curt dismissal, and the bug lingers on.

Telegram for MacOS has a bug where it will occasionally crash when you try to delete something. I reported it nearly 2 years ago. It's yet to be fixed

On the flip side, I got some of Fireboard's pulse probes last year, and had an issue where they wouldn't connect to my Yoder smoker. Quick ticket and some easy debugging steps I was able to do more or less asynchronously, and a cause and fix was found: the Bluetooth stack on the smoker would crash after a while, so unplugging the smoker when it wasn't in use was an easy fix. The bug still remains in the firmware, but there is a solution that works for me, and so I'm happy with a functional product, while I wait for the firmware update
by anon84873628 | 2025-06-10 03:55:54+00:00
LA had plenty of local police to handle the scale of the protests (it's something like 88 different jurisdictions in the whole region).

Of the 2000 national guard deployed, only 300 have actually been operationalized.

There was hardly any looting or rioting. Certainly not more than could be handled locally. Trump is doing this to deliberately escalate the situation.
by mkfs | 2025-06-10 03:56:31+00:00
> But Git hadn't been invented yet.

Git isn't the first or oldest DVCS. Smalltalk actually had multiple DVCSs, including ENVY (VA/Cincom), which dates back to the mid 90s, and Monticello (Squeak/Pharo), which dates to the early 2000s--both of which predating git.
by icedchai | 2025-06-10 03:56:43+00:00
Have you tried recently? This hasn't been my experience. I modify the code it's written, then ask it to reread the file. It generally responds "I see you changed file and [something.]" Or when it makes a change, I tell it I need to run some tests. I provide feedback, explain the problem, and it iterates. This is with Zed and Claude Sonnet.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-10 03:57:11+00:00
> The criticism the parent identified has almost nothing to do with these studies.

The criticism the parent identified is that the cost to the IRS is not the total cost to the public (i.e. innocent taxpayers being audited despite making only honest mistakes or having done nothing wrong at all), which is exactly a problem with these studies. To know where the equilibrium point is, you have to take into account these other costs, and the studies fail to do that.

> The IRS and others have been advocating for years for the resource to go after actual tax cheats of wealthy individuals and corporations, whose tax situations are (intentionally) so complex that it is a serious investment to audit.

What's really going on here is that those are the taxpayers it isn't as cost effective to audit because they have sophisticated lawyers, so they're much less likely to be violating the law. They're doing something which is complicated and then paying very little in taxes, but the complicated thing they were doing is legal so you can't get anything from auditing them. Meanwhile auditing them costs a lot because it's so complicated, so the ROI of doing it is pretty bad.

In particular it's worse than the ROI of auditing other taxpayers who can't afford such expensive lawyers and therefore are more likely to have made a mistake that allows the IRS to collect. But auditing those people makes the IRS much less sympathetic, because those people aren't the billionaires and the money the IRS collects is mostly a result of honest mistakes.

> Once you do audit them however, their tax dodging decreases for years into the future.

The assumption is that they were doing something unlawful to begin with, and then you're talking about the non-billionaires again.

Moreover, what really happens is that the people who made mistakes learn to hire tax lawyers. And then if you audit them again it comes up clean, but that doesn't mean they're paying more in taxes, because tax lawyers are pros at finding legal ways to avoid taxes, so what you've really done is encourage them to hire the people whose primary job it is to minimize tax revenue.

> The people that would spend time defending violators are otherwise fully employed doing the opposite... coming up with ways to get around the taxes their employers or customers are supposed to be paying. Instead of costing $2, that comes out as getting yet another $2 out of that audit by distracting a societal parasite.

It is definitely not the case that the number of tax lawyers and accountants employed is unrelated to the number of audits the IRS does. The more they do, the more business there is for those professions and the more people enter them. These are people who could have been doing something else and, moreover, people who consumed the resources that someone else could have used to do something better.
by brigandish | 2025-06-10 03:57:15+00:00
> Let me know when a woman's short skirt leads to the systematic extermination of millions

You seem to be unaware of the violence, subjugation and rape that women are experiencing in societies, en masse, where that logical form is prevalent and accepted. Or, you're waving it away because, like all collectivists, the rights of any group are ignored in the "progression" towards utopia. The ends justify the means.

> Such a binary worldview is catastrophic to civil society (again, see America)

You mean, that place that, since its inception, unlike the rest of the world except for the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ (what could link those, I wonder?) and the Swiss, that has never had a totalitarian or fascist government? The one with among the greatest freedoms on the entire planet?

Good discussion.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-10 03:58:41+00:00
They introduced major changes in the usefulness of the iPad, the phone app got much better on the iPhone, iPad and the Mac.

I don’t use my personal MacBook Air M2 or iPad Air 3 (last gen before the Mx transition) enough to care.

But my wife just got a brand new iPad Air M3 and she has an old Intel MacBook Air. She can definitely use just her iPad Air with a regular old Bluetooth keyboard and mouse especially with the improved mic support.

The better built in translation is a game changer for me and my wife since we will be spending winters in Costa Rica starting next year and my Spanish still isn’t great.

But from a developers standpoint, since unlike Android, every iPhone will be able to run on device models and now developers have access to it. This is much better than last year.
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 03:59:54+00:00
The Covid vaccine was, and remains, very effective and overall safe.

What it never was, and was never advertised to be, is 100% effective or 100% safe. Because nothing is, even air and water.

I don't know where people's obviously incorrect and unrealistic expectation of the Covid vaccine came from. Well, I can guess: anti-vax rhetoric. But, everyone on Earth should know that of course the Covid vaccine is not magic. Because no vaccines are magic. And no medicines are magic. And no substances are magic.

When people say seatbelts are safe, I don't see gremlins coming out of the woodwork to "erm, akshually" that. But, as soon as someone says the Covid vaccine is safe, suddenly everyone is Helen Keller. This is not your first day on Earth. Please, stop acting stupid.

Overall, yes, having the Covid vaccine lowers your risk of Covid-related bad things. It is effective, full stop. Please don't try to refute this or argue against because I just don't care.
by nitwit005 | 2025-06-10 04:00:38+00:00
I'm totally on board with planting trees, but as a climate solution, the accounting doesn't make sense. We're burning a hundred million barrels of oil a day or so. If you tried to compensate with forests, you'll quickly start to wonder where you're going to fit them all, and where the water is coming from.

It's almost always going to be vastly easier to reduce emissions than to try to re-absorb it.
by dgfitz | 2025-06-10 04:01:23+00:00
If it’s the city I think you’re referring to, the governor was literally begging the mayor to ask for help from the national guard, and she refused for hours. They would have been deployed long before that. I believe the quote the mayor said at the time was something like “give them room to destroy” and basically gave the rioters the green light.

Edit:

Fwiw, the governor probably shouldn’t have waited for permission. A white man encroaching on the city run by a black woman at the height of Freddie Gray, tough spot to be in.

> where the mayor of the city said that she was going to allow, give protesters room to destroy and wasn't going to stop them.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/hogan-says-defunding-police-wors...
by consumer451 | 2025-06-10 04:01:36+00:00
> People are inherently racist/sexist/classist.

Yes, we grow into that as we turn into toddlers, then hopefully we grow out of it. One of our simple core algo's is categorization, but it's just a base algo which came out of base survival techniques from the days of yore.

> They were okay with the idea of equality of opportunity, but once their relative social ranking started to drop, they reverted to their base instinct of pulling others down to make up for their own failings.

This is true to some extent, and very sad. However, it does not apply to everyone in my experience. It only applies to those who see the world as a zero-sum game. If I understand the last few hundred years correctly, thanks to technology, we do not live in a zero-sum world, so it's an obsolete concept. Once you learn that, it overrides those old base algo's, if you are in a social circle that allows this. However, those base categorizations do appeal to our base instincts, so it's an effective political campaigning technique for those politicians who have no shame.

I ain't young no more, and the biggest change in US politics that I have seen is that being shameless has become normalized, again.

There are many examples of when super racist/sexist/political people get to talk with those who they once hated, they drop all those previous trainings, and just see them as fellow humans, and even friends. This is why those who use the obsolete categorization ideology as their entire identity don't want you to go to university, or travel, where you might learn all that.
by nkmnz | 2025-06-10 04:01:40+00:00
Thank you for replying to my critique! The whole point of me reading your text was not to critique your assumptions, but to understand your arguments. It would be great if you'd do the same: make understanding the whole point of your thought, not criticizing.

I'm willing to accept this statement of your's about QF as correct: "QF assumes that all utility is direct utility, benefiting the contributor only." This still does not exclude the utility of saving lives for the savior. If the act of saving a live is worth 10m units of currency to me, the utility that I derive must be at least 10m units of currency. This is the "direct utility benefiting the contributor"! You cannot claim that QF cares only about direct utility of the contributor, but then go on and set that direct utility to 0, claiming QF didn't care about it.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-10 04:03:14+00:00
Delving into the paper: Al has defo been used for deoxidizing Ti but they claim it's "inadequate"

The stability of al oxyhalide with respect to al oxide and al halide is the key here? Not sure if that has been "adequately" explored either, especially in experiment

(For the sake of more collaborative conversations on HN, not just dissfests :)
by LoganDark | 2025-06-10 04:04:49+00:00
I used Android until around last January year when I switched to iPhone, because it works better with Mac (which I'd switched back to about a month prior, after having enough of around four years of dealing with Windows's bullshit). Not that Android worked well with Windows... I just didn't even have the idea in my head that devices could work well together at all. AirDrop changed my mind! (And all the other niceties, like Do Not Disturb syncing, and so on...)

I used to tweak/mod Android and most recently preferred customizing the OEM install over forks. I stopped doing that when TWRP ran something as OpenRecoveryScript and immediately wiped the phone without giving me any opportunity to cancel. My most recent Android phone I never bothered to root. I may never mod Android again.
by neuroelectron | 2025-06-10 04:05:40+00:00
This game is really weird and doesn't make sense to me. The definition space seems messed up.

I'm supposed to go from stack to illustrate so Stack > layout > diagram > sketch > ???

No illustrate even though sketch and illustrate are synonyms.

Honestly, it's not a fun game because instead of associating ideas you're just trying to guess where it hid the word in hierarchical menus.

Even worse is one you're done it just deletes your game. Really half baked and lazy.
by detaro | 2025-06-10 04:06:13+00:00
> The end result was the method-level modification history, including timestamps and authorship info, was lost, since it didn't fit into git's model of treating everything as text files or blobs.

That seems odd, they seem easy enough to map to each other?

> Git is also much more confusing than Monticello.

Not my experience. Uni had us use Smalltalk for a bunch of courses, and Monticello was universally hated (and people caused their to-be-expected number of messes with Git too, but still got on with that much better)
by lxgr | 2025-06-10 04:07:58+00:00
As far as I understand, it's a modified/extended version of Wine, which, as the name suggests, is not an emulator (but rather a userspace reimplementation of the Windows API, including a layer that translates DirectX to OpenGL/Vulkan).

The reverse, i.e. running Linux binaries on Windows or macOS, is not easily possible without virtualization, since Linux uses direct syscalls instead of always going through a dynamically linked static library that can take care of compatibility in the way that Wine does. (At the very least, it requires kernel support, like WSL1; Wine is all userspace.)
by dang | 2025-06-10 04:08:19+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229239 - June 2025 (11 comments)

Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226978 - June 2025 (345 comments)

(Normally we'd merge them but it seems there are significant if subtle differences)
by simoncion | 2025-06-10 04:08:24+00:00
> I’m not sure that’s true any more.

If it was ever true, it hasn't been true for a long time.

There used to be (and probably still is) a saying in the US military that goes something like "Folks who can't hack it in the military wash out and become cops.".

The military is not at all configured to be an effective long-term occupying force, but its personnel are trained to be soldiers [0] and peacekeepers. (While I'm absolutely certain that one can find examples of psychos that should have been detected and discharged earlier, that's true of any sufficiently-large organization. Finding every malicious person is a task that's next to impossible.)

Anyway, in a high-pressure, chaotic situation, I'd rather come up on a random member of the US military [1] than a random cop any day of the week.

[0] Yes, this does mean that they damage, destroy, injure, and kill when required.

[1] Whether active duty, reservist, or honorably discharged.
by qwerpy | 2025-06-10 04:08:38+00:00
Going from Apple Maps to Google Maps is now like going from ublock origin to a stock browser. Crap everywhere that you didn't ask for, slowing you down as you try to locate what you're actually trying to find.

Meanwhile the maps/data quality is quite good, probably 95% there for the things I care about. I've been able to use it full-time for years now.
by nkmnz | 2025-06-10 04:08:51+00:00
Sorry to say, but your observation is wrong. They do make explicit statements about the utility of enjoying the arts:

> They each expect to experience €6,000,000 worth of individual utility from enjoying the additional €9,000,000 of art.

> Net social welfare:

> Total Utility = 3 × €6,000,000 = €18,000,000

...just to go ahead and to deny any relevancy of the utility of saved lives:

> the three contributors don’t experience that utility (other than feeling good about those lives being saved, but that’s not the kind of utility we’re trying to maximize).
by dang | 2025-06-10 04:08:57+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229348 - June 2025 (158 comments)

Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229239 - June 2025 (11 comments)
by dang | 2025-06-10 04:09:12+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229348 - June 2025 (158 comments)

Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226978 - June 2025 (346 comments)

(Normally we'd merge them but it seems there are significant if subtle differences between these)