MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnMakin | 2025-06-11 13:01:22+00:00
Other than the fact the parent comment to this subthread is posting a literal factual innacuracy regarding the history of ads on google - It’s not just one guy’s “fuzzy feeling.” It’s been written about in so many thousands of words over the last two years and is the general sentiment across the tech space. It’s sort of the major reason big companies like chatGPT, and smaller ones like Kagi are trying to swoop in and fill this void. it’s fairly obvious to anyone paying attention.

You can sealion with posts like this all you want but every time someone counters a post like this with ample evidence it gets group downvoted or ignored. You are also making an assertion that you’re free to back with evidence, that google and google products are not noticeably worse than 10 years ago.

here’s one study that says yes, it is bad:

https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_20...

Since we don’t have a time machine and can’t study the google of 2015 we have to rely on collective memory, don’t we? You proclaiming “it’s always been this way” and saying any assertion otherwise is false is an absolutely unfalsifisble statement. As I said, anyone over 25 knows.

Besides perusing the wealth of writing about this the last two years or so, in which the tech world at large has lamented at how bad search specifically has gotten - we also see market trends where people are increasingly seeking tools like chatGPT and LLM’s as a search replacement. Surely you, a thinking individual, could come to some pretty obvious conclusions as to why that might be, which is that google search has got a lot worse. The language models well known to make up stuff and people still are preferring them because search is somehow even less reliable and definitely more exhausting, and it was not always this way. If it was always this way, why are so many people turning to other tools?
by aggregator-ios | 2025-06-11 13:02:25+00:00
JFYI: These devices are also installed on cars before it arrives at the dealer or by the dealer itself, but not necessarily by the manufacturer. Rumors are that it is installed by larger dealer groups and is obscured or just failed to be disclosed to the end dealer. Either as part of their LoJak(?) sales upsell or tracking for insurance purposes.

It's usually plugged into your OBD port. If your car has API features, some EV owners have graphed their electricity usage and shown drain/spikes at intervals and led them to find these devices. The consumption from the 12v battery causes the larger EV battery to charge the 12v battery, showing these charging/discharge spikes. There's also sometimes a sticker next to your tire pressure label on the driver's side door mentioning the installation of such a device.

I guess get rid of it if you care to.
by tamassimond | 2025-06-11 13:02:31+00:00
To clarify we use an Elo ranking system to update models scores, so if you loose to a higher rated story you don't loose as much Elo ranking. Definitely agree with LLM judge criticism though it's still an open questions of how we can make them better. Using the repeated story comparison judging system does help make them more consistent. A good rubric helps make them more human like as-well. The really big question is how large is the generator verifier gap between creating stories and marking them
by WillAdams | 2025-06-11 13:04:49+00:00
The problem with firearms is of course the "thought crime" aspect of the recent/current? BATF stance on making a firearm w/o an FFL, using it, and selling it, as well as ITAR concerns.

Naturally, there are DefCAD/Defense Distributed and the like and a couple of very active subreddits/forums and some new developments/techniques.

Arguably, 1st Amendment + 2nd Amendment == the right to 3D print firearms, but of course, no one aside from Cody Wilson wants to be the poster child for that court case, note the example made of Philip Luty in England and his writings.

For internal combustion engines, small models are popular things (have you at least purchased a Revell Visible V8 model?)
by frozenseven | 2025-06-11 13:06:07+00:00
I deliberately wrote my comment in a way that would preemp this response. Yet here we are.

I honestly have little to no problem with finding and filtering the stuff I want to see. All the writers and creators I liked five or ten years ago? Basically all of them are still there and not hard to find. My process of finding new people has not changed.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-06-11 13:06:38+00:00
My biggest gripe with Firefox OS was that it just wasn't all that different from Android - both technically and philosophically. Aside of a bunch of selected developer-targeted devices, it was usually being just as locked down as Android was. This was done because of the strategy of partnerships with carriers and vendors, but ultimately it just made it uninteresting for the broader FLOSS community to embrace, as it just boiled down to replacing Java-based stack with Web-based one without making any significant progress in device openness and user freedom. It didn't even help Linux, as B2G was made to use Android-specific layers to ensure compatibility with blobs and unmaintainable vendor-provided kernel trees.
by yurishimo | 2025-06-11 13:07:15+00:00
I would argue that a leftpad/is-odd package is the equivalent of writing a for loop. The time it cost you to search the internet, download the package, and rerun your build script cost more than the time to write the function from scratch and the behavior is indentical.

Duplicate code across the ecosystem is fine. Not every function must be unique for an entire programming language.
by joepie91_ | 2025-06-11 13:07:37+00:00
This is a defeatist argument. That it's technically possible to abuse things doesn't mean the responsibility needs to fall on the defending party, especially not when that is brought up in response to asking someone to reflect on possibilities for abuse - by that point it starts looking a lot more like a "well you'll just have to deal with it" argument that socially defends the abusers, and a lot less like genuine advice.
by ednite | 2025-06-11 13:08:08+00:00
I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all pricing strategy, despite in the age of AI. I separate my approach: On-site labor: is billed hourly, excluding travel.

Project-based work: Whether it’s a new project or fixing legacy code, pricing strategy is per project, with clear timelines so clients can assess value. If they need it faster, I adjust the pricing accordingly.

Pricing on project-based work can be a competitive risk, but ultimately it comes down to building trust and long-term relationships.

When both sides feel it’s a win, that’s when the real value happens.
by acdha | 2025-06-11 13:08:26+00:00
Web browsers are unusual in that they were traditionally applications but quickly became platforms in their own right, and they have a role as an intermediary between the user and untrusted third-parties which makes the UI and performance challenges more complicated. Most other applications don't have those needs so they’d never want to take on the extra work – Adobe foundered under the weight, and they had a much better starting point than almost anyone else.
by y-curious | 2025-06-11 13:09:02+00:00
Any advice you get is going to sound rudimentary, as with much of life advice. Now that I've put a disclaimer, here is what helped me the most:

When you are shy, there is sometimes the one kind person that introduces you/breaks the ice to others. You love this person because they lubricated the social interaction. I harness this feeling of being saved by pretending that everyone around me is the shy person waiting for someone to break the ice. I frame this internally as myself doing the shy others a huge favor that they'll appreciate. I want to be "that guy" that helped people feel included and involved.

I used to do this consciously. At this point, I rarely have to invoke this thought as I've now put in the reps and it's easier.

Tldr: pretend you're being a social savior and repeated practice
by sudomateo | 2025-06-11 13:10:18+00:00
That's why I said it helps, not that it's perfect or absolute. It's still up to a diligent human to verify the output from AI in the context they're working it. I personally use AI to do more, learn more, and help with context switching. It helps me make more efficient use of my personal and professional time while still challenging me to learn about topic I previously didn't have or make the time to.

Those that blindly post @grok please help or use AI for everything will likely experience some level of atrophy in their critical thinking skills. I would advise those people to think about this and adjust course.
by svaha1728 | 2025-06-11 13:10:30+00:00
I completely agree with the author's comment that code review is half-hearted and mostly broken. With agents, the bottleneck is really in reading code, not writing it. If everyone is just half-heartedly reviewing code, or using it as a soapbox for their individual preferences, using agents will completely fall apart as they can easily introduce serious security issues or performance hits.

Let's be honest, many of those can't be found by just 'reading' the code, you have to get your hands dirty and manually debug/or test the assumptions.
by huntaub | 2025-06-11 13:10:42+00:00
This is actually not the case. The TLS stream ensures that the packets transferred between your machine and S3 are not corrupted, but that doesn't protect against bit-flips which could (though, obviously, shouldn't) occur from within S3 itself. The benefit of an end-to-end checksum like this is that the S3 system can store it directly next to the data, validate it when it reads the data back (making sure that nothing has changed since your original PutObject), and then give it back to you on request (so that you can also validate it in your client). It's the only way for your client to have bullet-proof certainty of integrity the entire time that the data is in the system.
by theshrike79 | 2025-06-11 13:11:23+00:00
Personally I'd limit access to all platforms that have algorithmic feeds that provide content.

If you need to specifically subscribe to a source (and parents can check your subscriptions via parental controls), it's fine.

And absolutely no posting any content for public consumption, for contacts only.

Example:

- Algorithm provides endless content with zero educational value (Youtube Shorts) - not ok

- Child needs to specifically subscribe to to a content creator (A Minecraft Youtuber, who isn't a shouty toxic merch pusher) - ok

- Child posts pictures of her things to contacts (friends, relatives) - ok

- Child posts content that can be viewed by anyone in the world - not ok
by DannyBee | 2025-06-11 13:11:56+00:00
Serious woodworker here:

They aren't off by that much. You are further off if you assume some standard parameter ranges :)

But in the end, it depends on factors i didn't see listed.

Overall, the percents are usually calculated by swelling coefficient. Swelling coefficient is percent change in radial/tangential for each 1 percent of moisture change. There are well-known sources for these that calculated them in sane ways. The US forest service is one of them, and they publish their methodologies/etc for how they determine them. See, e.g., https://wfs.swst.org/index.php/wfs/article/download/1004/100...

Take standard flat sawn red oak. The swelling coefficient is 0.001-0.002 for radial (0.1% per 1%), and 0.004-0.005 for tangential (0.4% per 1%).

So in initial drying, which is usually 30%->15%, it will move 1.5-3% radial and 6-7% tangential.

Without humidity control, houses swing from 30%<->60%. Sometimes per day, sometimes per month, sometimes per season. So even more than initial drying. But because the swing varies, depending on thickness/etc, how much moisture change you get in the wood, and how fast, will vary a lot.

If you assume it causes a 10% change in moisture content over the year, throughout the wood, we get 1-2% radial movement, and 4-5% tangential movement for red oak. But that is both swelling and shrinking, not solely one or the other.

So the GP would be off by a factor of 2 in one, but not off in the other.

It's obviously trickier in practice to calculate the actual rates because the moisture is going to diffuse through the wood at some rate, and as long as the RH is changing faster than the diffusion rate, the wood will not really have a consistent moisture content all the way through. To be accurate, you'd have to slice it into enough pieces to capture the different moisture levels in the wood, apply the coefficients to each slice, and, etc. Worse, because boards are rarely square, and instead often much wider than they are thick (IE 12"x1") , you'd have to slice and calculate it one way to deal with this for radial, and slice and calculate it the other way to deal with tangential.

I'm too lazy to calculate how coarse/fine of a slice you'd need to get within say 5% of the "real" number.

I'm also assuming you are trying to do it by hand, since this is obviously an integral of some sort that you could also just directly solve. I'm sure it's in a paper somewhere.

This is all for bare wood too, with no topcoats. The topcoat would seriously affect absorption rates, etc, even assuming you applied it to all sides.

Nobody does any of this calculation in practice, we just accept large error bars and build floating tables :)
by bayindirh | 2025-06-11 13:13:09+00:00
They are citing something which changed their life significantly, and leaving pointers to the same thing if you're interested (or need further explanation).

If getting wisdom from others is not your thing, I can respect that, but low-key insulting them for leaving you pointers for a more enlightened place is rude.

You can instead say "I don't understand why Al-Ghazali relates to this", and that would be completely OK.
by eknkc | 2025-06-11 13:13:45+00:00
The worst thing is issues without any visibility.

The other day I was toying with the MCP server (https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk). I default to bun these days and the http based server simply did not register in claude or any other client. No error logs, nothing.

After fiddling with my code I simply tried node and it just worked.
Launch: Focus Beam– Lightweight Project and Timesheet Manager in WinForms (.NET)
by pyeri | 2025-06-11 13:13:46+00:00
I’ve released an open-source WinForms (.NET Framework) desktop app called *Focus Beam*, aimed at helping individual developers or freelancers manage projects and log work hours with minimal overhead.

*Key features:*

* Dashboard with daily timesheet view * Task and project creation/editing * Tracks total hours worked per project * Settings and About screens * Handles task edit/cancel edge cases cleanly

Written in WinForms for simplicity and broad compatibility. This is a beta release — feedback, testing, and contributions are welcome.

*GitHub release link:*

[1] https://github.com/prahladyeri/FocusBeam/releases/tag/v1.0-beta
by pella | 2025-06-11 13:14:00+00:00
Not a doctor, but gut microbiome modulation (e.g. fecal microbiota transplantation) is one of the most talked-about adjuncts for (metastatic breast) cancer right now.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2022&q=fecal+micro...

--- example:

"Understanding the relationship between breast cancer, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and gut microbiota: a narrative review"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11557166/ ( Transl Breast Cancer Res. 2024 Oct 21)

""" Conclusions The composition of gut microbiota could help predict the chance of response to immunotherapy, and modulating gut microbiota has the potential to enhance the efficacy of chemo-immunotherapy in breast cancer. However, the available data relating to breast cancer are limited. Larger prospective studies are required to further elucidate their role as a biomarker and treatment. """
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-11 13:14:06+00:00
> A human who writes or produces art for monetary reasons is only just as bad as AI.

Or they're what you call "a professional artist," aka "people who produce art so good that other people are willing to pay for it."

Another HN commenter who thinks artfulness is developed over decades and that individual art pieces are made over hundreds of hours out of some charity... Ridiculously ignorant worldview.
by quantumHazer | 2025-06-11 13:14:29+00:00
Exactly. Also related on why Natural Language is not really good for programming[0]

[0]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...

Anyway I indeed find LLMs useful for stackoverflow-like programming questions. But this seems to not be true for long as SO is dying and updated data on this type of questions will shrink I think.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-06-11 13:14:36+00:00
Determining the quality of a how-to or any other kind of information you're looking for is the same job whether it was created by a human or by an AI. Check sources, read horizontally, patronize trusted producers and get your information from there.

We've got a tragedy of the commons whereupon we've grown complacent that search engines and wisdom of crowds (of nameless strangers) would see us through, but that was never a good strategy to begin with.

AI slop does little but highlight this fact and give us plenty of reason to vet our sources more carefully.
by peatmoss | 2025-06-11 13:14:46+00:00
Not really—the topic is about wood drying, and this Nature article is the expanded footnote about how long humans have been working with wood.

EDIT: Sorry, you were referring to the GP's interest in the historic part. However, to me it sounded like you were offering this Nature article as a way to go deeper on wood drying, not the athropological footnote. Mea culpa, I was reading too fast. Thank you for the link!
by greedo | 2025-06-11 13:14:52+00:00
Getting one annually is not recommended for most patients. After my bowel resection, I had annual colonoscopies for five years, then every three years, now every five (the normal recommendation for my age cohort).

Colonoscopies are no big deal from my perspective, but they do have some risk; bowel perforation being the primary one. The prep stuff is the worst aspect for most patients; I used to love lemon lime Gatorade before I used it once as a way of drinking the liquid laxative...
by detourdog | 2025-06-11 13:14:58+00:00
This is the exact line I'm trying to walk. My thinking is that small run manufacturing may actually be more efficient than centralized mass production.

My focus is entirely based on my addressable market. That market is a small rural New England college town. It's may be hard to see but the cabinetry is designed to work in any of the 8 apartments and since they are manufactured on-sire I customize for each tenant as they come through. A few of my tenants have requested specialized features and I have accommodated those requests.

I'm still in the start-up phase. I believe each individualized request my resonate with a future tenant and I will eventually have a catalog of cabinetry for the tenants to choose from.
by JohnMakin | 2025-06-11 13:15:12+00:00
I’m not sure what point you’re really trying to make here. This is a thread about detection methods of an extremely invasive (and rare) method of stalking, which yes is a subset of a data privacy issue. The fact that data brokers can get a lot of location and other data about you is irrelevant to the discussion.

> or do you believe you can hide from a stalker if everyone else under the sun knows you location.

I’m not sure anyone is claiming that the detection methods described in this study are going to make you completely undetectable to any party at all times. Again, not sure what point you’re trying to make here and it feels irrelevant to the larger thread. The original comment seemed to indicate that the article hadn’t been read at all.
by K0balt | 2025-06-11 13:16:15+00:00
Following that logic, we should publish all unique random orderings of words. I think there is a book about a library like that, but it is a great read and is not a regression to the mean of ideas.

Writing worth reading as a non-child surprises, challenges, teaches, and inspires. LLM writing tends towards the least surprising, worn out tropes that challenge only the patience and attention of the reader. The eager learner, however will tolerate that , so I suppose that I’ll give them teaching. They are great at children’s stories, where the goal is to rehearse and introduce tropes and moral lessons with archetypes, effectively teaching the listener the language of story.

FWIW I am not particularly a critic of AI and am engaged in AI related projects. I am quite sure that the breakthrough with transformer architecture will lead to the third industrial revolution, for better or for worse.

But there are some things we shouldn’t be using LLMs for.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-06-11 13:16:16+00:00
> you actually believe the PA arrests who Israel wants them to arrest

This is just a fact. The PA works very closely with Israel. If you're not aware of this, you're just not informed about the subject.

> support China (and praise their efforts to comply with international trade treaties ... wtf)

I'm just telling you that China underwent massive economic reforms as part of its WTO accession. Again, this is simply a matter of fact, and if you're not aware of it, that means you've never read about the subject.

> but against support for Ukraine

I just told you that you're wrong about what the Budapest Memorandum says. If you think it pledges military intervention to protect Ukraine, you should read it again.
by NoTranslationL | 2025-06-11 13:16:19+00:00
If anyone is interested in a privacy focused tracking app that stores all your data locally, I make an app called Reflect [0] whose sole purpose is this, plus on-device analysis.

We’re working on a menstrual tracking feature right now and it’s pretty far along. We’ve just released an anomaly detection feature as well.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
by exDM69 | 2025-06-11 13:16:21+00:00
4 years is more than enough time for drying. Rule of thumb is year per inch of thickness.

I'm just speculating here but probably the support structure didn't allow for wood movement. You need something to keep the table top flat while allowing it to move. Screwing it to a stiff frame (steel or cross grain wodo) is certain to crack when the wood moves.

Breadboard ends, sliding dovetails or steel support with elongated holes (going to a threaded insert and bolt) are good ways to support a table top.

The wood was probably stabilized to your shop atmosphere but indoors in the dry winter, maybe with air conditioning or a fire place, and there's going to be movement.

Kiln drying does not stop seasonal wood movement.

If you share a picture we can take an educated guess what caused the table to warp and crack.
by zOneLetter | 2025-06-11 13:16:23+00:00
Maybe it's because I only code for my own tools, but I still don't understand the benefit of relying on someone/something else to write your code and then reading it, understand it, fixing it, etc. Although asking an LLM to extract and find the thing I'm looking for in an API Doc is super useful and time saving. To me, it's not even about how good these LLMs get in the future. I just don't like reading other people's code lol.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-11 13:17:08+00:00
I don't know about Vance. I don't think he's a true believer, but I could be wrong.

My best read on him is that his agenda is himself (to steal a line from Robert Parker). He's moving whichever way he needs to in order to continue to climb. I have no idea who he'd be as president.

But that's my impression. He could be on board with Project 2025 (as opposed to parroting it).