MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-09 01:15:26+00:00
> This is true for any code you install from a third party.

I agree with you that their "discovery" seems obvious, but I think it's slightly worse than third-party code you install locally: You can in principle audit that 3P code line-by-line (or opcode-by-opcode if you didn't build it from source) and control when (if ever) you pull down an update; in contrast, when the code itself is running on someone else's box and your LLM processes its output without any human in between, you lack even that scant assurance.
by vrosas | 2025-06-09 01:16:08+00:00
My Jewish friend once told me, specifically discussing this wire, that Jews consider finding loopholes in their own rules a national pastime. The same thing goes for the hotels where someone is paid to wave their hand in front of automatic doors so the guests don't force the door to "work" for them or the elevators that run 24/7, stopping at every floor so they don't have to even work by pressing a button.
by ineedasername | 2025-06-09 01:17:11+00:00
I do this too and it's been spot on. I also have a very good idea of what I'm eating though: "2 oz of steel cut oats, 1 banana, probably about 4oz by weight, without the peal, about 12 ounces of coffee with 1 tsp of sugar and about 4oz of light no-sugar almond milk"
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-06-09 01:17:58+00:00
> Killing Flash was one of the biggest mistakes we've made.

Flash was a proprietary extension to the Web. That important parts of the Web were implemented with it was a travesty and reason enough for it to be killed as it threatened and subverted the open nature of the Web. The useful functionality it provided has been incorporated into Web standards and current implementations are no more complex or less efficient than Flash was. The rest is fluff which can readily dispensed with, there is no need to re-implement it, although lately I have been wondering if it is possible to replicate its functionality with a combination of SMIL and SVG.
by 1659447091 | 2025-06-09 01:18:57+00:00
> “Clean electricity has zero generation cost,”

The context is, operating cost is minimal. Resources that power the generation is zero, being that wind and sun are not commodities bought from suppliers. Coal and gas need to be bought first, before generating power. Without tax breaks to build renewables, gas and coal goes up with demand creating long term cost that will far out live temporary tax cuts. Cuts in a bill that will increase the debt by over 3 Trillion, and 5 Trillion if the temporary cuts get made permanent by 2034.

It's not $250+ electric bill but ~500 in tax cuts. Cuts are temporary (3-4 years? unless renewed) but the electric bill will just keep on chugging.

They could do things like restore ATM collection above 400k (+300B), Corporate SALT caps (+400B), expire the 199a pass-through above 200/400k (+470B), dont extend lower Intl rates for business (+165B), remove the extend & expand Estate cut (+210B), set the top rate to 39.6% above 400k (+650) [0]

Thats 2.2T or so using a bit of your math while leaving in most tax cuts for people making under 400k. And Trump gets to keep his vanity "Trump Account" that will cost 17B. Win Win for the majority of the population.

Letting the tax rate cuts expire would create ~3.4T in revenue instead of burden us for decades. Wasn't that the whole thing in the first place, reduce debt? Not increase it? Or just let the tax rates go halfsy and come away with 1.6T plus some of the 2.2T.

The IRA cuts are only a ~570B gain , part of that was for training and hiring workers, with a goal of a ~million jobs (iirc, I won't cry over its loss, but it's spending is a net good compared to the wastefulness of many of the tax cuts). This bill is going to cost us far more than the temporary tax saving for us, and more cuts for companies at the expense of the people.

[0] https://www.crfb.org/blogs/breaking-down-one-big-beautiful-b... a few of the proposed cuts comes from links within this OBBBA breakdown
by schneems | 2025-06-09 01:19:00+00:00
There are entire subreddits dedicated to producing content.

Beyond that: to make good food, eat good food. Spend time watching N hours of tech YouTube and take notes on which you liked and which you didn’t. For the ones you liked make notes of why and try to replicate that (tone, storytelling technique etc.) and for the ones you liked less, find things to avoid or do less of.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-09 01:19:02+00:00
Interesting.

When I put my programmer hat on, there's something inelegant about this approach, because it involves hardcoding the words "Bosnian", "Serb", and "Croatian" into the constitution.

It seems like with a sufficiently clever electoral rule, you could generate a small "national steering committee" with an odd number of members, where each major faction is guaranteed representation. But that also sounds a lot like a parliament where there's one party for each ethnic group, and then we're back where we started?

What happens when the 3 presidents disagree? Maybe the trick is to incentivize consensus-driven decisionmaking?
by cap11235 | 2025-06-09 01:19:22+00:00
The prompts in Claude Code have specific instructions on doing pull requests.

``` grep 'gh pr ' ~/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js - Create PR using gh pr create with the format below. Use a HEREDOC to pass the body to ensure correct formatting. gh pr create --title "the pr title" --body "$(cat <<'EOF' 1. Use \`gh pr view --json number,headRepository\` to get the PR number and repository info 1. If no PR number is provided in the args, use ${O4.name}("gh pr list") to show open PRs 2. If a PR number is provided, use ${O4.name}("gh pr view <number>") to get PR details 3. Use ${O4.name}("gh pr diff <number>") to get the diff ```
by maxlin | 2025-06-09 01:19:22+00:00
Vimeo hasn't been a real alternative for like the last 10 years. It's meant for very specific kind of content and they really clamped down on that, stuff like game related videos gets taken down. Only person I know that uses Vimeo is a guy that works in more traditional video (making ads, short films, trying to get funding for his indie movies etc)

For a replacement, Rumble is the best for "general" content for its video quality without paying
by branon | 2025-06-09 01:20:33+00:00
What are the chances they ditch floppies on the hardware end and switch to GNU/Linux running DOSBox to preserve the software stack?

Presumably (hopefully) the existing system is airgapped in some way or otherwise restricted to communication with other ATC systems, so DOSBox-X running Win95/98[1] could act as a drop-in replacement for the software side...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214386
by bigmadshoe | 2025-06-09 01:20:57+00:00
Tasks like summing a bunch of numbers from different parts of the input over a specific time period are still pretty error prone for LLMs. I would exercise caution if these results are important to you. A database or spreadsheet is going to be far more reliable – maybe you could have ChatGPT output a structured format and you could do the summation in a google sheet?
by Rochus | 2025-06-09 01:21:50+00:00
I don't know how much research the author/publisher of the article did. They claim on their site that "Linuxiac is an independent media platform that publishes the latest news from the Linux world and open-source software. Founded by Bobby Borisov and launched in May 2020, it has quickly become a trusted resource for thousands of users daily, providing insights into all things Linux & open source."
by d--b | 2025-06-09 01:21:55+00:00
First I’d answer the question: should there be any gas stations at all? With self driving vehicles you could imagine a future where self driving gas dispensing trucks roam the highways to refill cars as they go.

Or instead of trucks you could imagine that the left lane on highways could be replaced by some kind of train on rails that your car could dock to. In that train you’d have the same crap you have in current gas stations: mostly toilets and food stuff.

Cars docking to stuff is something that really clicks with me, but you could really go one step further away. You could split cars between the part that runs and the part that carries passengers. The part that carries people could be some kind of capsule akin to a boat container that could be loaded onto something else. When on the highway, this cabin could be put on some giant train that would carry hundreds of these capsules and when you need to get off the highway, your capsule would be loaded on some independent single-capsule vehicle, that would drive you where you need to go.

It’s probably all terrible ideas because that would make everything a lot less resilient to problems in terms of operation, but you said sci fi :-)

Oh and yeah 15 years is way too short to see that kind of changes.
by cap11235 | 2025-06-09 01:22:04+00:00
I'm on the $100 max plan. The default config uses Opus up until some percent of capacity, then uses Sonnet after, which resulted in my having to wait for 30 minutes to an hour to reset usage after running them for 8-10 hours. I've since switched to configuring it to only use Sonnet, then for what I know are "big" questions, I'll run opus for just that. Since then, I have yet to hit limits, so I don't feel the need for the $200 one.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-09 01:22:07+00:00
I like this term "forced coalition". How about a traditional parliamentary system where a supermajority is required to pass legislation?

I assume if you need 70% to pass legislation then you get a grand coalition pretty much every time?

I guess it could incentivize brinkmanship among coalition partners though, since the leader of the coalition has less leverage if a small party threatens to quit?
by femto | 2025-06-09 01:22:35+00:00
> For Christians and those raised in the Christian tradition, this is entirely foreign.

I'd say it is quite familiar to Christianity. Canon Law mirrors the secular legal system, complete with its own lawyers, courts and so on. (Arguably, it's the other way around: secular Western law that mirrors Canon Law.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law
by FrenchyJiby | 2025-06-09 01:22:38+00:00
Not an expert, but it seems NASA holds a few magazine publications for just that, it must come up often.

One VERY on topic is "ISS Benefits for Humanity", which shows why the ISS benefits everyone.

See edition 2022: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/iss_benefits...

Seems from the table of contents, it breaks down to: earth observation, microbiology in microgravity, human health research, inspiring younglings, new physics, and "growing the low-earth economy".

Then broader there's a yearly one called Spinoff that points to the technology transfers, but that's not just from human flight, but from all NASA-funded work.

See last few years' edition: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/archives
by torton | 2025-06-09 01:24:13+00:00
Several North American older systems go down to 10-11 meters, although perhaps the tightest curves are getting upgraded over time:

LRT systems on which the existing minimum curve radius falls below 15 meters include:

• Boston—10 m (33 ft) and 13 m (43 ft) for the Green and Mattapan lines, respectively;

• Newark—10 m (33 ft);

• San Francisco—13 m (43 ft); and

• Toronto—11 m (36 ft).

https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_02.pdf (1995)
by GolfPopper | 2025-06-09 01:24:29+00:00
In my experience it's more that even very small technical hurdles with something like Mastodon or Plex are too much for some users.

To expand on that - independent software or services usually require users to exercise a little more know-how and agency than Facebook or Twitter which "just work". That prevents user adoption, and said patteren of lack of adoption has a chilling effect on potential software development within that space.
by quantadev | 2025-06-09 01:24:48+00:00
On a related note: I've been predicting that if things ever get bad between USA and China, models like DeepSeek are going to be able to somehow detect that fact and then weaponize tool calling in all kinds of creative ways we can't predict in advance.

No one can reverse-engineer model weights, so there's no way to know if DeepSeek has been hypnotized in this way or not. China puts Trojan horses in everything they can, so it would be insane to assume they haven't thought of horsing around with DeepSeek.
by noduerme | 2025-06-09 01:25:02+00:00
Very interesting! I've played harp casually all my life without ever really learning about alternate tunings. The Melody Maker sounds like it would open some nifty possibilities! Someone bought me a chromatic harp once as a gift and I could never figure out how to play it properly. It's funny though, because as a piano and guitar player I never thought about what I was doing. I just play a cheap blues band or marine band, and I realize now that the positions that feel most normal to me are 1st, 2nd and oddly, 12th. I remember once jamming with an old folk rocker (my former guitar teacher) and he started playing something in F major while I was on a C harp. He didn't think I'd be able to follow - at the time, I just called this "cross harp" because I thought that was the generic term for playing in any other key! I don't know why playing in a major 4th seems so unusual, but he was kinda shocked that I pulled it off. There's only one note you can't play straight in that setup...
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-09 01:25:14+00:00
For these above reasons, I like the "don't editorialize" rule by itself. BUT it seems especially suboptimal in comparison to its combination with the "let people flag stories without justification" rule.

No worries, I got ya, buddy:

Imho instead of eschewing quantification altogether, rules should have a ELO style rating computed from the effects of their pair-wise combinations :)

The hard part could be the combinatorial explosion lol
by shelled | 2025-06-09 01:26:00+00:00
After this time I must have tried Kopia (via KopiaUI) at least a dozen time and every single time I have never been able to figure out in one glance how it works. A brief idea I have is that you pick a folder and pick where to backup/snapshot it to. There is no (or at least an easy and intuitive) way to have a local backup setup of a set of folder, exclusions, inclusions, a config where you can decide the frequency, retention etc. I did try hard to find that out but nothing. I think it's their deliberate design choice and that's fine - but at least from usability perspective it's anything that is even in the direction of backup tools like restic/backrest, borg/vorta etc.
by Tanjreeve | 2025-06-09 01:27:23+00:00
The first two statements would upset a lot of people but I think you'd find theyre arguably true. Most software products are various flavours of configuration. Unless you're genuinely leveraging some novel algorithm/hardware etc it's very hard to argue it's R&D if it's just branding on a collected bag of software various OSS/commercial companies developed. Claiming all software is R&D because you leverage OSS and put a known algorithm on top of some components would be like a supermarket claiming to be a research company because they have a different mix of products + customer experience to their rivals.

I think the third statement is a bit personal so will leave that alone.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-06-09 01:28:29+00:00
That's pushing it around a decade too far back.

Today, every gas station is self-serve, and often you can pay by card at the pump.

50 years ago, plenty of gas stations still had attendants. One guy would fill the tank (possibly with 'leaded'), another might give your windshield a quick wipe. You could ask for them to check your oil, too.

Not too much has changed since the '80s though.
by tcoff91 | 2025-06-09 01:28:34+00:00
Read the article. What you are doing has nothing to do with the apps the article is talking about.

You are providing accurate info to an LLM and it is assisting you with information processing.

These apps are trying to just take a picture of arbitrary food and just trusting a neural network to be magical and tell you the macros in the food from a photo.
by byoung2 | 2025-06-09 01:30:31+00:00
Automobile marketshare for battery electric vehicles (BEV) in China reached 27% in 2024, compared to 13% in the EU and 8% in the US.

Wow I didn’t realize adoption was so high in China

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2025/what-chinas-ev-market-...
by ETH_start | 2025-06-09 01:33:16+00:00
Copy-pasting my response to a similar partisan talking point:

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There are hundreds of thousands of regulations carrying criminal penalties. If a political party is determined to imprison an opponent, it will find a law they’ve technically violated. In Trump’s case, they used an obscure accounting rule — one so trivial that even prominent Democratic supporters acknowledged it was an inappropriate basis for prosecution.

Hillary Clinton used a private email server while serving as Secretary of State, and in 2014, her staff deleted 31,000 emails they labeled personal to prevent them from being scrutinized in an impending investigation. You don't think that if Hillary had been a Republican and if the Democrats were determined to prosecute her, they couldn't have found some law that she broke and prosecuted her on it?

--

What you're claiming is absolutely absurd. This idea that Trump leads a criminal enterprise and everyone affiliated with him is corrupt and that's why so many were prosecuted and not that this is the same politicization of the justice system you see all over the world and Democrats, with the tacit support of establishment Republicans, trying to imprison their opponents.
by anenefan | 2025-06-09 01:33:20+00:00
There's an old idiom there are horses for courses and it rings true for A.I. generated articles and stories. For the most part a LLM could do most if not all of the heavy lifting a sub editor would otherwise have to spend time ensuring the submitted article by the author(s) meets various requirements. But even sub editors are known to make mistakes changing words and sentences without being immediately obvious the broader meaning / implication has changed, especially in regard to technical writing.

Creative writing is IMO a different ball of wax. If one is aiming for cliche, by the numbers, formulaic humdrum that's a dime a dozen and marketed to readers as simply an unmemorable time filler or just something cheap to fit into a remarkable expensive cover that plays its part in an impressive book collection, then generated content via a LLM will suffice. On the creative side I'm confident in time better LLM's used will utilised to hide the nature of the authors.
by duskwuff | 2025-06-09 01:33:35+00:00
Funny, I was just discussing this on HN a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185892

There's a lot of questions about the nutritional content of food which you can't answer just by looking at a photo, like "is that a glass of whole milk or non-fat", or "are those vegetables glossy because they're damp or because they're covered in butter". No amount of AI magic is going to solve that.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-09 01:34:51+00:00
> Every choice trades one problem for another.

The problem in this case is that the headline claimed “ultra pure titanium” and the closing paragraph had a tiny oh-by-the-way mention that the process contaminates the titanium with yttrium.

Which is to say, makes it anything but ultra pure. :)

> It could be that methods for removing yttrium are already mature and only need to be applied to this case.

Sorry but no. That’s specially a problem they highlighted as needing a solution.
by jofer | 2025-06-09 01:36:09+00:00
I also learned from that book + tape about 30 years ago. I also have to strongly agree with this. It's quite different from learning stringed instruments. I'm sure it has a lot in common with some brass instruments, but either way, seeing doesn't help. Hearing and feeling is everything. That also makes it easier than most to learn via cassette tape! :)

The app seems neat, but focused on precision in bending. Precision in bends doesn't matter a ton for most styles. It's more about feel. Build and resolve tension. Don't worry too much about hitting things exactly. That advice will eventually fail you if you go into styles that need a more complete scale, but for blues/rock/country, it's much more about intuition than precision. The best way to learn is to play along with a lot of things and build "feel" instead of trying to precisely hit notes. (though you do need to hit a clean note to start bending)
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-09 01:37:10+00:00
Hypothetical you ask for?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757501/

To preempt accusations that the automotive endproduct isn't represented by this study, I'll concede it's next to impossible to have conclusive studies on specific forms of road pollution, that is, the best one can do is find a link between (rail)cars and cancer but nothing more specific than that :)

--Until they replace rubber in wheels with something else, I guess. Meanwhile, feel free to accept the reindustrialization
by topspin | 2025-06-09 01:37:30+00:00
While you can still get high quality floppy disks, there is nothing wrong with them. You must handle them properly and keep them clean, but that's only a problem for children and idiots. When demand falls and they are no longer profitable to manufacture at high quality levels, low quality media dominate the supply and you have problems.

I watched this happen with floppy media. When floppy disks were common in the 80's you had great quality disks from top tier Japanese manufacturers at low cost. Media failure was rare and you could rely on a disk day after day for years. Then, as demand for floppies dropped, and these manufacturers fobbed off legacy products to low cost manufacturers, floppy media became terrible.

By the mid to late 90's, floppy media bought retail was very unreliable. For a brief time I was salvaging stacks of disks that came with commercial software because the software vendors were still able to secure good media, while the retail blanks you found in stores was just this side of e-waste. I used them with expensive instruments that had integral (high quality) floppy drives, long after PCs stopped using them.
by fitzn | 2025-06-09 01:37:46+00:00
I read it quickly, but I think all of the attack scenarios rely on there also being an MCP Server that advertises the tool for reading from the local hard disk. That seems like a bad tool to have in any circumstance, other than maybe a sandboxed one (e.g., container, VM). So, biggest bang for your security buck is to not install the local disk reading tool in your LLM apps.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-09 01:37:50+00:00
If the functioning of your nation's political system depends on the functioning of your nation's education system or your nation's economy, you've created a circular dependency. The education system and the economy are themselves downstream of the political system. Dysfunction in one tends to create dysfunction in the others. See https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2004/Caplanidea.htm...

A good political system is one which continues to work well even when education and the economy suck, so societal self-repair is possible. Ideally it would actually start working better when things suck, so society becomes antifragile.

"More college diplomas" is not a great solution when existing graduates are already working at Starbucks. This is the "elite overproduction" which creates instability.

Americans already have a relatively high standard of living by global standards, e.g. see median income adjusted for cost of living: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=t...

Yet Americans are still dissatisfied. Part of the problem is that our political system incentivizes candidates and media outlets to stir up dissatisfaction so they can exploit it. There's also envy / the hedonic treadmill.