MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by afavour | 2025-06-03 14:01:14+00:00
But that says nothing about the danger of identifying you.

> Most users probably will click "No"

Strong disagree. When I'm loading google.com is my computer not connecting to another computer? From a layman's perspective this is the basis of the internet doing what it does. Not to mention, the vast majority of users say yes to pretty much any permission prompt you put in front of them.
by dingnuts | 2025-06-03 14:01:28+00:00
an NFT is a record of ownership. if you have no enforcement mechanism it's meaningless, but nobody makes jokes about fungible data files when we're talking about copyright. if you tied an NFT hash to a legal contract then you could actually enforce ownership of those fungible jpegs and the right click copy people would be just as in violation of the law as someone who walks out with your employer's software sources

and jpegs don't actually have anything to do with NFTs other than being used as representations of them by grifters, ruining a useful technology by poisoning the representation of it in minds like yours because a distributed record of software ownership would threaten the app store monopolies.

ok that's conspiratorial but it would explain it..
by Tycho | 2025-06-03 14:03:34+00:00
Well, you have to give the tool a chance. If it can’t even see the text you’re asking about, it’s going to rely on whatever quotes and references it can crib together from reviews and blogs and comments.

Try it for a text that is in the training data, or the public internet, or can be put into the context window - then it might help.
by rimamrib | 2025-06-03 14:03:48+00:00
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by cmrdporcupine | 2025-06-03 14:04:03+00:00
What needs to happen is a return to a more Socratic method of teaching the humanities.

Instead of being about the consumption and production of texts -- texts which only the TA and maybe the prof will read ... ever -- the class should be more about the dialectical process of discussing the ideas in the texts and lectures the students consume.

An LLM will be able to easily rattle off an undergrad level paper. But it can't sit in the classroom and have an intelligent conversation with peers.

Of course none of this will happen because it doesn't scale economically nearly as well. It is far more labour intensive.
by _verandaguy | 2025-06-03 14:04:15+00:00
I think this oversimplifies the matter.

At a micro level, sure, you could argue that kill/no-kill decisions are being made by frontline enlisted soldiers, but the stress, the exhaustion, and being able to see your enemy downrange add a degree of humanization and discretion.

Wars are brutal. Some warring factions are incredibly brutal. But taking a human life can't be reduced to a `KILL? [Y/N]` decision made by some MAJ somewhere. Killing enemy soldiers is a last resort (formally, this is the concept of _military necessity_), and normalization of it as anything else is a mistake.

I also think it's a fallacy to compare this to the self-driving car trolley problem; the timeline of decisions, length of the decision chain, and ultimate goal of the decision-making process are _aggressively_ different.

My overarching points are, I guess:

War is a tragedy, obviously, but I don't think there's a way to avoid it right now. In absence of some way to stop war forever (hah), we can't trivialize taking human lives. It's not lost on me that this has been happening for a while at this point, and that it's getting worse. I still oppose it, and I think we all have a responsibility to be more critical of this regime of warfare.

I don't know how to counter the argument of "well, if we don't do it, _someone else_ will, eventually." This is some really fucked up, self-justifying inductive reasoning that can't easily be countered by calling out the moral bankruptcy of the premise. In the past, mutual disarmament treaties have been a down-the-line bandaid for this kind of thought process, but the nuclear rearmament we're seeing in the world right now shows it's not a panacea.
by ryanscript01123 | 2025-06-03 14:04:36+00:00
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by WillAdams | 2025-06-03 14:04:56+00:00
As a graphic designer/compositor/typesetter.

Windows uses (used?) WMF and pixels for on-screen display which would then either be used for printout via some conversion process, or a parallel construction would be maintained for output and the need to keep that in synch would often result in slight differences in output --- maybe there were other approaches.

One of the neat things in Display PostScript was one could use Interface Builder to add a print button to any window to get the underlying PS code.
by xet7 | 2025-06-03 14:04:58+00:00
Here is answer for WeKan https://wekan.github.io

Order is stored to sort field as number. When changing order with JQuery Draggable/Droppable/Sortable, it saves new order to browserside MiniMongo, that is made with Javascript, and then to serverside MongoDB. It is possible use mouse or touchscreen to drag drop reorder board icons at All Boards page, swimlanes, lists, cards and checklists. There are also roles at right sidebar avatar icons popup settings, so BoardAdmin can drag drop everything, and there are some limits for other roles, like Normal, CommentOnly etc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165257

For realtime updates, Meteor web framework reads realtime changes from MongoDB OpLog (operations log), and with Publish/Subscribe at realtime updates all changes immediately for all users, like what card moved, etc.

There is in progress of adding support for other databases, like SQLite etc.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-03 14:05:07+00:00
I have OSA and I haven't taken GLP-1 agonists but I've taken the road they put a person on. 50 pounds ago I was averaging around 15 apnic/hypopnic events per hour, now it's less than 10. My doctor told me that I may as well keep using my CPAP because it seems to help and it's already paid for but that if these were the results of my initial sleep study he wouldn't have prescribed one to me.
by lesuorac | 2025-06-03 14:05:48+00:00
> I know it feels convenient to flip back and forth between being a "car" and a "pedestrian" at a whim, but please don't.

Meh. I have no problem if a cyclists wants to flip back and forth between a "car" and a "pedestrian".

It's just that a "pedestrian" uses their feet to move. So if you want to get off the bike to walk across an intersection with pedestrians; I really don't see a problem.
by cwoolfe | 2025-06-03 14:05:48+00:00
"Reading other people’s code is part of the job. If you can’t metabolize the boring, repetitive code an LLM generates: skills issue! How are you handling the chaos human developers turn out on a deadline?" Good point! Treat AI generated code as if somebody else had written it. It will need the same review, testing and refactoring as that.
Ask HN: Should every person or brand have their own AI agent?
by tonymanh | 2025-06-03 14:05:53+00:00
The idea: You get a personal, branded AI agent, no code or website needed. Just share a short link. Train it with your own content, services, or FAQs. Customize how it talks, what it looks like, and what it collects.

Would you use something like this?
by twodave | 2025-06-03 14:06:04+00:00
I can’t imagine the Yuan being taken seriously as a reserve currency. Extreme differences in governing notwithstanding, is the Yuan even viable without the US dollar? The Euro could make some sense, but in order to become a reserve currency there must be enough supply. I don’t know enough about the Euro to know whether there is enough of it to serve in that role, and ramping up could be problematic.

I also think any country wanting to own the next reserve currency would need to have enough military muscle to be able to both defend their own borders and police both their own trade routes, those of their currency holders, etc. That’s why I think if it’s not the US dollar then we are probably just looking at a world without a single reserve currency.
by nailer | 2025-06-03 14:06:20+00:00
> I've written this before: if your data looks like trees, with some loose coupling between them, it's a good choice. And most data does look like trees.

I had an education statup a little while ago.

Courses had many cohorts, cohorts had many sessions.

It really was much nicer having a single tree structure for each course, appending new cohorts etc, rather than trying to represent this in a flat Postgres database.

That said I acknowledge and agree with other commenter's experiences about MongoDB and data loss in the past.
by sksisoakanan | 2025-06-03 14:06:35+00:00
https://the-decoder.com/openai-quietly-funded-independent-ma...

You mean these?

I use AI everyday but you’ve got hundreds of billions of dollars and Scam Altman (known for having no morals and playing dirty) et al on “your” side. The only thing AI skeptics have is anecdotes and time. Having a principled argument isn’t really possible.
by davidhunter | 2025-06-03 14:06:36+00:00
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by ferguess_k | 2025-06-03 14:07:07+00:00
I read the book and enjoyed most of it. I don't like the last part, where the author dived into the mindset of "everything will be good without tech". I mean, tech is neutral, so it depends on how humans use it. But getting rid of all tech is an extreme.

I'd like to PAUSE research on AI before humans reach a better society, because it has the potential to impact all workers, but that's pretty much it.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-03 14:07:50+00:00
Well, the old Java model, where you have dozens of small files, for even the simplest applications, may be better for humans, but it's difficult to feed that to an LLM prompt. With the way I work, I can literally copy and paste. My files aren't so big, that they choke the server, but they are big enough to encompass the whole domain. I use SwiftLint to keep my files from getting too massive, but I also like to keep things that are logically connected, together.

Judge for yourself.

Here's the file I am working on: [0].

The issue was in this initializer: [1]. In particular, this line was missing: [2]. I had switched to using a UIButton as a custom view, so the callback only got the button, instead of the container UIBarButtonItem. I needed to propagate the tag into the button.

[0] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/SwipeTabController/blob/...

[1] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/SwipeTabController/blob/...

[2] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/SwipeTabController/blob/...
by aaronbaugher | 2025-06-03 14:08:06+00:00
They think they're far too clever to let that ever happen, so the tyranny (not that they'd call it that) of technocratic managerialism that they're pushing will never let other tyrants rise again. They also tend to buy into an "end of history" thinking that says the Smart People have figured out how to solve all the problems, so the only challenge is getting the dumb citizens to go along with it, or keeping them sated and sedated until it's too late for them to get in the way.
by neilv | 2025-06-03 14:08:36+00:00
In my city (not NYC), as a heavy walker, the "e-bikes" and "e-scooters" have recently gotten much more threatening than cars.

It's normal for these motorized vehicles to be speeding down the narrow sidewalks, and also speeding through crosswalks on red.

Where there are bike lanes, these motorized vehicles have started using them like their own express lanes, including ignoring red lights (like many bicyclists do, but this time motorized).

They also often just barely miss pedestrians, seemingly by intention, like they're confident they can control it and won't slip, and so don't leave much safety margin.

When you're on foot, I think being hit by one of these at speed will probably cripple or kill you.

I've also seen "e-bikes" that look suspiciously like full-sized electric motorcycles, cruising along sidewalks to beat traffic. Sometimes these are obviously delivery drivers or couriers.

Also, I might be noticing a bit more of the random most obnoxious non-motorized bicyclists on the sidewalk than usual. If so, I don't know whether they're emboldened by the e-bike and scooter people they see, or it's all the bike rental stations on the sidewalk now, or something else.

Ideally, I want to see people behave responsibly, just because they're conscientious and decent.

When that fails, and the behavior will almost inevitably lead to life-altering injury or death for someone else, then we probably need the government to step in.

The article contrasts with lax enforcement for cars, and I'd say we need to also enforce cars more. It's gotten worse in recent years here. It used to mostly be many cars not using turn signals, and a convention of a few cars running every red, and people just learned to be careful of the unofficial rules many follow. Now, watch for one light on a busy intersection in town, and you might see half of people on cars moving through the intersection sidewalks while looking at a phone/tablet (sometimes even hands on the device, to the detriment of steering ability).

There's also a popular belief on local online forums that car drivers involved in crashes with bicyclists are rarely punished. Before the surge of e-bikes and scooters causing their own problems and precedents, I used to wonder whether some of the irresponsible bicyclist behavior was due to an oppressed defensive mindset from cars, turned combative. Now I have to wonder whether the recklessness of the motorized bikes and scooters is contributing.

"Massholes" [1], and their kin from other states, have discovered the motorized "bike", it's in some ways even more dangerous than the car, and we need to change the culture, before healthy walkers end up confined to wheelchairs or morgues.

[1] https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/massachusetts...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-06-03 14:08:50+00:00
> You're neglecting all the parts where you've got to sign your install binaries.

This takes less than 15 minutes when you know how to do it. Arguing with a distribution takes weeks. Arguing with dozens of distributions could take months.

You are approaching this solely as a solo indie dev would - which is why, with few exceptions, only solo dev software is on Linux.

> They will happily stonewall you on many other small issues, however.

You should see even a fraction of what developers on Linux have been stonewalled over. I will literally take Apple.
by james_marks | 2025-06-03 14:08:57+00:00
Exactly this

> Another critical aspect is that LLMs help you explore options faster, and iterate over them. This allows you to figure out what approach works best for your scenario and adapt to emerging requirements without having to even chat with anyone. This means that, within the timeframe you would deliver the first iteration of a MVP, you can very easily deliver a much more stable project
by JimDabell | 2025-06-03 14:09:04+00:00
There is a specification for blocking this:

https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/

It gained support from WebKit:

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/163

…and Mozilla:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/143

…and it was trialled in Blink:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/private-network-access-upd...

Unfortunately, it’s now on hold due to compatibility problems:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/pna-on-hold
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-06-03 14:09:08+00:00
Linux repositories are objectively worse. Unclear guidelines, zero publishing control, patches against your will, removal of donation links or warnings if you anger the distribution maintainers, having to do this over and over dozens of times, I would take Apple any day.

And as you can see, 99.9% of developers took Apple’s route. Market share can only partially explain this, as even tiny platforms like Palm had better support than Linux.
by mjb | 2025-06-03 14:09:24+00:00
Doing distributed systems work in Lean is possible, but right now is much harder than something like TLA+ or P. It's possible that a richer library of systems primitives in Lean ('mathlib for systems') could make it easier. Lean is a very useful tool, but right now isn't where I'd start for systems work (unless I was doing something specific, like trying to formalize FLP for a paper).
by frereubu | 2025-06-03 14:09:29+00:00
Reminds me of the Damien Hirst piece that I love and hate equally. A platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with diamonds that had an asking price of £50 million, which was bought by a consortium of people that include... Damien Hirst. He's always been great at titling his work - the fact that it's called For The Love of God, a phrase that I use regularly when I'm exasperated by something, is the icing on the cake. Just unbelievable self-referential, self-dealing chutzpah.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-03 14:11:06+00:00
(Also posted this in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170351)

There is a specification for blocking this:

https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/

It gained support from WebKit:

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/163

…and Mozilla:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/143

…and it was trialled in Blink:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/private-network-access-upd...

Unfortunately, it’s now on hold due to compatibility problems:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/pna-on-hold
by chii | 2025-06-03 14:11:10+00:00
> Oddly enough.

i actually dont find that outcome odd at all. The high cognative demand comes from the elimination of spurious busy work that would normally come with coding (things like syntax sugars, framework outline, and such). If an AI takes care of all of these things, and lets an author "code" at the speed of thought, you'd be running your engine at maximum.

Not to mention the need to also critically look at the generated code to ensure it's actual correctness (hopefully this can also be helped/offloaded by an ai in the future).
by petetnt | 2025-06-03 14:11:44+00:00
The MRR archive is probably the single most important collection in the field of punk music and I am glad that it has found a (hopefully) permanently safe home. Would be amazing if Center for Popular Music would digitize the materials - with the green tape and all - and index it for the public.

There's so many things there that nobody has probably seen or heard in decades, not to mention letters, notes and other additions along side records and flyers.

Also it's a fuzzy feeling to imagine one of my recordings is now laying around in a box in MTSU, waiting for someone to discover it possibly decades after.

Support your local libraries and archives and all the librarians and archivists!
by ksherlock | 2025-06-03 14:11:45+00:00
I take (can|box) of (crushed|strained|peeled) tomatoes add some salt, olive oil, a couple cloves of garlic, a spoonful or two of Calabrian chili paste, and hit it with a stick blender. It's good enough to drink right then and there. And I don't even like tomatoes!
by steego | 2025-06-03 14:12:04+00:00
You are absolutely correct. This article and vocal supporters are often not reasonable and I should have made that point.

I honestly found the article to be an insufferably glib and swaggering piece that was written to maximize engagement rather than to engage the subject seriously.

The author clearly values maximizing perceived value with the least amount of effort.

Frankly, I’m tired of reading articles by people who can’t be bothered to present the arguments of the people they’re disagreeing with honestly and I just gave up halfway reading it because it was so grating.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-03 14:12:31+00:00
>all so that CEOs can afford an extra yacht

...and so consumers can use services/products without having to fork over money.

People love the ad-model. Given the option to pay or use the "ad-supported" option, the ad-supported one wins 10 to 1. This means in many cases it doesn't even make sense to have a paid option, because the ad option is just so much more popular.

As bad as crypto is, with all the negative things attached to it, BAT was probably one of the smartest things to be invented. A browser token that automatically dispenses micropayments to websites you visit. Forget all the details to get snagged on, the basic premise is solid: Pay for what you use. You become the customer, not the advertisers.

Also a note about ad-blocking - it only makes the problem worse. It is not a "stick it to the man" protest. You protest things by boycotting them, or paying their competitors, not by using them without compensating them.
by ednite | 2025-06-03 14:12:35+00:00
Solid article and great advice in my opinion. One simple takeaway for me is managing well means being accessible to your team at all times. I completely agree that managers shouldn't encourage criticism of other team members, even by staying silent when it happens.

If you need to call something out, do it as a team, including yourself as accountable as well. That keeps trust intact and avoids finger-pointing. Thanks for sharing.