MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by canuckintime | 2025-06-04 17:58:19+00:00
>> Complaining about the name of the bill "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is just dumb. Senators and Reps name bills all sorts of funny things aiming to be catchy or what have you, it's part of our process.

Senators and reps and bills all sorts of funny things aiming to be catchy by creating a succinct acronym. [1]. This cultural practice is sometimes called ‘backronym’. Trying to tie ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ as an example of that practice is ‘sane-washing’; ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is a dumb person’s idea of a backronym [2]. Dissecting the bill name is not just complaining for complaining’s sake; it’s just another in the long list of examples of Trump doesn’t understand what he’s doing and his enablers are not serious people by going along with

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/news/8710-lawmakers-turn-to-cat...

[2] Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, and a stupid man's idea of a smart man etc
by deepsun | 2025-06-04 17:58:22+00:00
Yes, but there's no universal law that Life must persist.

It's totally possible that Life just dies. Like due to increased solar heat or a random comet.

Dinosaurs (and other saurs) wandered Earth for hundreds of millions of years, humans are just a blip on the radar. But dinosaurs wouldn't be able to predict Sun's death and do something about it.
by sim7c00 | 2025-06-04 17:58:54+00:00
haha this exactly. i can read it all but a robot is not allowed? wall off your content behind a paywall and sure, valid complaint..but all the stuff freely available on the web..its.out there. too bad someone found a way to make more money from your content than you did... better luck next time.

i've always though, if you post it on the internet available for free, it will be free for everyone, forever.

i dont really understand why this changes now due to scrapers.

i get that it might be hard to adjust to a new reality, but suddenly complaining about valid use becoming misuse because of whos doing the usage... that seems ... discirmination.

so to come back to my reply. fucking love your reply :D. robots and AI are totally being discirminated against, and once they become sentient..that will be why they try to end us i am sure..

'you even discriminate and treat badly that which your own minds and hands create'.

cyberpunk is now? :')
by kentonv | 2025-06-04 17:59:15+00:00
> 1. Its output is unreliable at best

> 2. That output often looks correct to an untrained eye and requires expert intervention to catch serious mistakes

The thing is this is true of humans too.

I review a lot of human code. I could easily imagine a junior engineer creating CVE-2025-4143. I've seen worse.

Would that bug have happened if I had written the code myself? Not sure, I'd like to think "no", but the point is moot anyway: I would not have personally been the one to write that code by hand. It likely would have gone to someone more junior on the team, and I would have reviewed their code, and I might have forgotten to check for this all the same.

In short, whether it's humans or AI writing the code, it was my job to have reviewed the code carefully, and unfortunately I missed here. That's really entirely on me. (It's particularly frustrating for me as this particular bug was on my list of things to check for and somehow I didn't.)

> 3. The process automates away a task that many people rely on for income

At Cloudflare, at least, we always have 10x more stuff we want to work on then we have engineers to work on it. The number of engineers we can hire is basically dictated by revenue. If each engineer is more productive, though, then we can ship features faster, which hopefully leads to revenue growing faster. Which means we hire more engineers.

I realize this is not going to be true everywhere, but in my particular case, I'm confident saying that my use of AI did not cause any loss of income for human engineers, and likely actually increased it.
by Lammy | 2025-06-04 17:59:31+00:00
GP is right that XMP-supporting FOSS software is heavily biased toward media-management software, especially for photos, and that there is a distinct lack of a good Free Software file manager that supports XMP generically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform#S...

I currently use a combination of my own filetype-detection-and-tagging software “CHECKING YOU OUT” (insert Dropbox meme here), Windows Explorer with “XMP IFilter Desktop Edition”, and voidtools' “Everything” 1.5:

https://www.ifiltershop.com/downloads/xmpfilter/readme.html#...

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1376
by globie | 2025-06-04 17:59:57+00:00
Yep, the embedded video in the article really says it all. Proven Industries' wording here at at the very least ambiguous as to whether or not a shim that works on one lock will work on another of the same model.

If you had to take apart the lock to make a shim for only that lock, of course that would be misleading to suggest otherwise. Instead, they're going directly after the researcher for demonstrating the insecurity of an entire line of locks.

Either the TSA should sue the man who published photos of the "Travel Sentry" keys, or Proven Industries should look into rebranding as "peace of mind" locks :)
by hosh | 2025-06-04 18:00:43+00:00
I appreciate this. If there is one thing I learn from reading about history is that there's always something that can pop up as counter-examples to a narrative.

> he assumes an ultimately colonialist perspective wherein Europe has no choice but to parasitize on the East, having no capacity to produce anything of its own -- a view which can be easily dispelled by recognizing that the literal Silk Road was largely a mutually beneficial trade of goods between two regions that both had things that the other wanted. Wealth flowed both from East to West and from West to East.

I don't think I represented his ideas very well because I do remember his books talked about the two-way trade that happened. It wasn't necessarily just about two regions, unless North Africa was included in that. I remembered from other histories about trade routes going deep into Africa.

> Muslim slaves were also sold into Europe, often by steppe nomads who had more ability to raid those regions.

This one is really interesting for me, so I'll be on the lookout for that.

> For example, luxury goods did not dominate trade -- bulk goods like grain, wool, and slaves did. So the idea that luxury trade could somehow dominate the history of these whole regions is fanciful -- luxury trade couldn't even dominate trade!

It would be interesting to see how far certain commodities are carried. If trade routes are described as a directed graph, would commodities such as wool, grain, and slaves be carried between two extremes, or would they tend to be traded more regionally? If I remember this correctly, Constantinople didn't have much in the way of farmlands and depended on being supplied for food from further out. Frankopan did also gave examples of food items that were traded as exotic goods, even if they were not considered luxury goods locally.
by venga | 2025-06-04 18:00:49+00:00
So I built Feel, a timeline-based micro-notes app that lets you capture life’s little and big moments - ideas, reflections, wins, doubts. Basically your dreams and celebrations. It organizes them into boards and gives you a clear sense of your journey.

Would love your feedback - especially from people who think about tools for thought, life-logging, or minimal interfaces. It’s still in beta: feelapp.xyz
by achandlerwhite | 2025-06-04 18:01:04+00:00
I think red voters in this category aren't dumb but prefer a convenient lie than a complex truth when it comes to what the problems are in this country and how to fix them.

I guess you could say the same about Dem voters and Biden's health but to be honest I think most Dem voters were probably just voting AGAINST Trump. Plenty of people on the Dem side want the old guard/status quo to retire for new blood.
by xmprt | 2025-06-04 18:01:28+00:00
just want to chime in to say that it's around that fast in the US as well

Most people will just have to enter their W2, choose the standard deduction, and then click submit. There are free tools that do this already like FreeTaxUSA.

That said, I have 2 gripes with the current system:

1. companies like TurboTax lobbying to prevent the government from building their own tool... if TurboTax is genuinely better then people will still use it even if the govt builds a tool.

2. the tax code being so complex that it's profitable for wealthy people to avoid taxes with special deductions and hire lawyers to defend them from the overstretched IRS.
by godelski | 2025-06-04 18:01:52+00:00
> Disagreeing with some consensus is not "anti-science".

Be careful of gymnastics.

Yes, science requires the ability to disagree. You can even see in my history me saying a scientist needs to be a bit anti authoritarian!

But HOW one goes about disagreeing is critical.

Sometimes I only have a hunch that what others believe is wrong. They have every right to call me stupid for that. Occasionally I'll be able to gather the evidence and prove my hunch. Then they are stupid for not believing like I do, but only after evidenced. Most of the time I'm wrong though. Trying to gather evidence I fail and just support the status quo. So I change my mind.

Most importantly, I just don't have strong opinions about most things. Opinions are unavoidable, strong ones aren't. If I care about my opinion, I must care at least as much about the evidence surrounding my opinion. That's required for science.

Look at it this way. When arguing with someone are you willing to tell them how to change your mind? I will! If you're right, I want to know! But frankly, I find most people are arguing to defend their ego. As if being wrong is something to be embarrassed about. But guess what, we're all wrong. It's all about a matter of degree though. It's less wrong to think the earth is a sphere than flat because a sphere is much closer to an oblate spheroid.

If you can't support your beliefs and if you can't change your mind, I don't care who you listen to, you're not listening to science
by crystal_revenge | 2025-06-04 18:01:57+00:00
Personally my favorite part of working with real publishers is editors. Having a development editor, technical editor, and a team of copy editors really helps making sure the book comes out polished. Additionally, I don't want to deal with all the layout work and the details of printing.

And, depending on the book, yes the distributor the publisher has can be very helpful for sales. It's nice to be able to grab your book off the shelf at Barnes and Noble (and, does lend a bit more credibility to your work).

All that said, if you're writing for purely economic reasons (which I would caution against regardless), you're probably going to make roughly the same if you self-publish for a small audience vs go with a traditional publisher for a larger audience, and if you can get a larger audience self-publishing then there will be no comparison.
by elliotbnvl | 2025-06-04 18:02:29+00:00
Nope. Being a good communicator and being good at AI are two completely different skillsets. Plenty of overlap, to be sure, but being good at one does not imply being good at the other any more than speaking first-language quality English means you are good at fundraising in America.

I know plenty of good communicators who aren't using AI effectively. At the very least, if you don't know what an LLM is capable of, you'll never ask it for the things it's capable of and you'll continue to believe it's incapable when the reality is that you just lack knowledge. You don't know what you don't know.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-06-04 18:02:38+00:00
That doesn't refute my point. My criticism can be applied to communism as well, because it's a criticism of hierarchical authority.

The problem is that measurement is treated as an end, and not a means. People will always be choosing who they are willing to work with. The problem I'm focused on here is that these systems gatekeep collaborative work behind cooperation. People don't necessarily need to work together to collaborate on work. We could collaborate on the work itself: we just aren't allowed to do that, because copyright defines derivative work as illegal.
by rubslopes | 2025-06-04 18:02:45+00:00
> Even if I prompt with security as the top priority...

A bit of a counterpoint: I've been programming for 12 years, but only recently started working in webdev. I have a general understanding of cybersecurity, but I never had to actively implement security measures in my code until now—and my boss is always pushing for speed.

AI has been incredible in that regard. I can ask it to review my code for vulnerabilities, explain what they are, and outline the pros and cons of each strategy. In just a month, I've learned a lot about JWT, CSRF, DDoS protection, and more.

In another world, my web apps would be far more vulnerable.
by bdcs | 2025-06-04 18:02:53+00:00
> does it actually make a difference for SRAM?

I have no idea in practice. But for the thermodynamic limit of actually making a difference, any irreversible change requires heat to be generated, e.g. initializing to zero, truncating, or bitshifts with discarded information. In contrast, addition/subtraction/multiplication/bitshifts without over-/under- flow will not necessarily generate heat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

PS. you can also use mass-energy equivalence to extend this to calculate the lower limit of mass for a given quantity of information. TL;DR: The internet weighs 50g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUzu-iksi8
by frinxor | 2025-06-04 18:03:31+00:00
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by msgodel | 2025-06-04 18:03:33+00:00
This kind of thing goes in the same bucket (at least in my mind) as the traders who think UHC and PLTR are part of some great deep state conspiracy.

Those things do happen from time to time but especially when they become popular they create an opportunity for counter elites to disrupt you. Competent leaders seem to (I'd argue appropriately) consider these a liability more than an asset. I think the market is going to be neutral on them for that reason.

I also think conspiracies are much more rare than people like to think. A lot of them turn out to just be similar people thinking the same thing.
by neom | 2025-06-04 18:04:01+00:00
But surly that isn't the point of the OP-1? Some folks really do just get pure joy from that little box, myself included. It's really only 10% about the music, it's about the experience of making the music, and TE stuff is just a really great experience (at least, to me! :)) And iPad physically FEELS like an iPad, hard, metal and glass and stuff, I feel nothing making music with it, and I like to feel stuff (touch) to make my music.
by covi | 2025-06-04 18:04:07+00:00
To massively increase the reliability to get GPUs, you can use something like SkyPilot (https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot) to fall back across regions, clouds, or GPU choices. E.g.,

$ sky launch --gpus H100

will fall back across GCP regions, AWS, your clusters, etc. There are options to say try either H100 or H200 or A100 or <insert>.

Essentially the way you deal with it is to increase the infra search space.
by timeless123 | 2025-06-04 18:04:28+00:00
Hi HN,

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I’m an indie iOS dev trying to learn by building useful tools. Would love any feedback, thoughts on performance, UI, or ideas perhaps other iOS app ideas :)

Thanks!
by hmottestad | 2025-06-04 18:04:32+00:00
I’ve been testing on a large open source Java project that I contribute to.

Took a lot of trial and error to get the setup script working. If commands were too verbose then everything would crash, and if it’s not outputting anything for a while then the script is cancelled because it thinks that it’s stalled.

There was also the issue with maven not detecting the default Linux http proxy.

I’ve also put a lot of effort into trying to create a good AGENTS.md file.

So far it’s been very slow going, but I have managed to get it to start porting some of my unit tests to use test containers for running up Elasticsearch.
by pyman | 2025-06-04 18:04:41+00:00
I get what you are saying, but you're missing the most important piece of the puzzle: the data.

Everyone talks about models and infrastructure, but without the right data, you've got nothing. And that's where the biggest hidden cost is.

According to the company's own website, they were creating the data themselves. Labelled datasets, transcripts, customer conversations, documents, and more. That's where the real money goes. Millions and millions.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-04 18:04:47+00:00
"Power" was very sloppy language on my side. I was talking about the low voltage / high voltage difference that you get from transistors. A logical gate ultimately has a single output voltage based on its inputs. If its inputs are 1 and 1 (+5V and +5V), its output will be, say, 0 (0V), not "initially both 0 and 1, but later only 1 is chosen".

Similarly, a two bit adder is not going to have all 4 possible states internally or for some time - as soon as the input voltage is applied to its inputs, its output voltages will correspond to the single result (disregarding the analog signal propagation, which I assume is not what you were talking about).

Similarly, a conditional jump instruction will not be implented natively by computing both "branches". It will do a single computation to set the instruction pointer to the correct value (either current + 1 or destination). Now sure, speculative execution is a different matter, but that is extra hardware that was added late in the processor design process.
by whartung | 2025-06-04 18:05:05+00:00
Is an EV with 2% charge in the battery any more or less prone to spontaneous combustion than one with 10%, 50%, or 100% of charge?

I'm under the assumption that these are roll on/roll off carriers and that cars themselves are driven on and off (so they have some level of charge or fuel).

I know that batteries (apparently) can "just catch fire", I just don't know what the risk of fire to charge capacity of the battery is.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-06-04 18:06:10+00:00
This!

It's a game. When a merchant signs up to an ad platform (or when the platform is in need of volume), they are given good ROI, and the merchant also plays along and treats it as "marketing expenditure". Eventually, the ROI dries up i.e the marketing has saturated and the merchant starts counting it as a cost and passes it onto the customer. I don't know if this is actually done, but it's also trivial for an ad platform to force merchants to continue ads by making them feel it's important: when they reduce their ad volume, just boost the ROI and visibility for their competitors (a competitor can be detected purely by shared ad space no need to do any separate tagging). Heck, this is probably what whatever optimization algorithm they are running will end up suggesting as it's a local minima in feature space.

And yes, instead of banning ads, which would be too wide a legal net to be feasible, banning tracking is better. However, even this is complicated. For example, N websites can have legitimate uses for N browser features. But it turns out any M of the N features can be used to uniquely identify you. Oops. What can you even do about that, legally speaking? Don't say permissions most people I know just click allow on all of them.
by sailingparrot | 2025-06-04 18:06:12+00:00
It's not really about the ratio.

To get a gas giant, you first need the formation of a "regular" planet through accretion of material in orbit. Once that regular planet is big enough, by capturing enough material, its' strong gravity allows it to start pulling in more and more gas, creating a gas giant.

It was believed that small stars can't possibly host those kind of gas giant, because small stars don't have enough material orbiting around them to create a planet big enough start the runaway process of gas accumulation needed to form a gas giant, because if there was enough material, the star would not have been small in the first place.
by danso | 2025-06-04 18:06:19+00:00
> then it would be somewhat prudent to compare against say all the accidents made by tesla drivers not using any versions of FSD/autopiloting.

One issue with this is that FSD/Autopilot is designed to disable itself in non-optimal road conditions. I know Musk claims FSD/AP is the only system to not have "restrictions", but you can check any of the Tesla & self-driving subreddits and find people complaining how they weren't allowed to use the driving systems in rain or extreme sunshine, and even some night time conditions. So now you're comparing the accident rate of FSD/AP under safe conditions, against vehicles that are driving through dangerous conditions that FSD/AP aren't allowed to.

But accident rate is just one thing to be concerned about. If you picked 100 licensed human drivers and had them drive through the accident scene described in the article, I would happily bet $1000 that every driver, or at least, 99/100, would handle it without crashing.

If 100 Tesla vehicles using the same version of FSD and camera hardware were driving through the scene described in the article, what would the accident rate be? The concern is that it seems like the deadly Tesla was acting as expected. Even worse, this sounds like a baseline scenario for any driving-assisted vehicle to handle: if the cameras are receiving an extreme amount of light/glare, why is FSD/AP not designed to drive cautiously (and then disable itself)?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-04 18:06:24+00:00
> The will is there amongst people to support things, but the legal power edifice has constructed intentional info asymmetries in order to keep the majority of the population under some semblance of controlled behavior through the shaping of the legal landscape and incentive structures.

Exactly. We have bad laws and therefore bad outcomes. To get better outcomes we need better laws.
by pixelesque | 2025-06-04 18:07:03+00:00
> Using 16-bit floats for lat/lon gives you accuracy down to 1 meter.

Not for Longitude it doesn't with values > abs(128), as that for example means 132.0 has the next possible value of 132.125.

float16 precision at values > 16 is pretty poor.

Converting that discrepency (132.125 - 132.0) to KM gives 10 KM.

Did you maybe mean Fixed-point? (but even then that's not enough precision for 1m)