MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atombender | 2025-06-26 20:22:16+00:00
A rheumatologist explained to me that in people with chronic pain from things like arthritis, the brain's pain perception can become permanently altered to register pain that no longer "exists". She explained that the brain itself is really the source of the sensation of pain, and you don't necessarily need a "real" source producing a signal. So one should at least not ignore pain if one can avoid it.
by hirvi74 | 2025-06-26 20:22:45+00:00
I constantly read people that have experiences like this, then on the other hand, I know countless people that lied about having ADHD and received treatment with virtually no issues at all.

I do not advocate for drug-seeking behaviors, but I find it wild how there are such contrasting diagnostic experiences.

I wonder if professionals would be less adverse to treatment administration if patients were more willing to trial non-stimulants first?
by mariano54 | 2025-06-26 20:23:23+00:00
Thank you so much for that!

We focused on testing and tweaking the most popular ones, we have not tested some of the niche ones. We have removed languages that users have told us have major issues, but there are still some left.

The voices are due to the quality of the TTS services that we use. Openi, 11labs, minimax. Some services don't have many or even 1 good voice. We will add more over time

Sesame also passes in the users voice into the TTS model so that it can vibe well with the users tone and mood, whereas we are just using raw TTS. Their latency is also very low, but this is not quite suitable for language learning.

In the future we hope to move to full voice to voice models, once those become mature and intelligent enough.
by skipants | 2025-06-26 20:23:44+00:00
When I was younger and more into music, when I went to a concert I would often judge if a drummer was "good" based on if they were better than me or not. I knew enough about drumming to tell how good someone was at the different parts of having that skill but also knew enough to know that I was not even close to having what it took to be a professional drummer.

This is what I feel like with this blogpost. I've barely scratched the surface of the innards of LLMs but even I know it should be completely obvious to anyone that has a product built around it that these confidence levels are completely made up.

I've never heard or used cubic before today but that part of the blog post, along with the obvious LLM generated quality of it, gives a terrible first impression.
by slavakurilyak | 2025-06-26 20:23:45+00:00
Gemini CLI pricing:

1. Gemini Code Assist (GCA) for Individuals: FREE for 1,000 model requests/day

2. GCA Standard: $22.80/month for 1,500 model requests/day (1.5x more than FREE)

3. GCA Enterprise: $54.00/month for 2,000 model requests/day (2X more than FREE)

Source: https://codeassist.google
by suthakamal | 2025-06-26 20:23:46+00:00
LLMs aren’t the end all be all of anything. But they’re clearly a step towards augmenting human cognition and in giving machines the ability to perform cognitive tasks. And when Google says a quarter of its code is being written by LLMs, and DeepMind is making tremendous progress on protein folding and DNA understanding with fundamentally the same technology, it seems pretty clear that we’d miss out on a lot without this.

Full disclosure: I think protein folding and DNA prediction could quite possibly the biggest advancements in medicine, ever. And still, all the critiques of LLMs being janky and not nearly sufficient to be generally intelligent are true.

So yes, I think it’s absolutely on the scale of electrification.
Ask HN: Employers of HN – Would you hire a career changer without experience?
by tejonutella | 2025-06-26 20:24:04+00:00
I’m curious how hiring managers and founders here weigh relevant vs demonstrated ability. For instance, suppose an applicant spent the last five years as a civil engineer and applies for a data science job or a high school teacher who self taught backend Go at night and ships side-projects. Or a graphic designer who’s built and sold a few small apps but has no formal CS background, etc etc.

what evidence or signals convinced you of a career changer being the right fit and which proof points mattered most (certs, projects, references, something else)?

Also, if you passed on someone like this, what was missing?
by throwaway5752 | 2025-06-26 20:24:10+00:00
While I think this is borderline in terms of following guidelines, it is much more concerning that the comment accurately quoted the source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-hig...

nickff: I agree it was borderline. My sentiment was closer to suggesting we look past tone to how shocking the content is. The human brain tries to normalize things, but a statement like this would have been unprecedented before 2016. People would have resigned or been fired, it would have been a scandal.
by jongalloway2 | 2025-06-26 20:24:10+00:00
dotnet build

https://tonybaloney.github.io/CSnakes/getting-started/#build...

What's with the "just copy it" thing? Nobody does that, we use NuGet packages, GitHub Actions, SDK supported containers, reproducible cross-platform builds from command line, etc.

edit: I'm sure some people use file/copy, but you sure don't have to. That stopped being a common thing 10+ years ago with cross-platform .NET.
by hu3 | 2025-06-26 20:24:21+00:00
That is what they are doing. It's a 2 stage Dockerfile.

First stage compiles the code. This is good for isolation and reproducibility.

Second stage is a lightweight container to run the compiled binary.

Why is the author being attacked (by multiple comments) for not making things simpler when that was not claimed that as the goal. They are modernizing it.

Containers are good practice for CI/CD anyway.
by lapcat | 2025-06-26 20:25:02+00:00
Here are the new tiers: https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference...

The document says manual updates are included but not automatic updates (which is just a setting in the App Store that I personally disable).

Whether there will be update notifications is unclear. Is that what you meant by "app notification delivery", or something else?

As an App Store developer myself, I would love to have Tier 1 in the United States, mainly due to no user ratings and reviews. I hate them, and I hate trying to solicit them. As far as I'm concerned, ditching ratings & reviews would be a bonus!
by lotharcable | 2025-06-26 20:25:19+00:00
Apptainer, like the vast majority of container solutions for Linux, take advantage of Linux namespaces. Which is a lot more robust and flexible then simple chroot.

In Linux (docker, podman, lxc, apptainer, etc) containers are produced by combining underlying Linux features in different way. All of them use Linux namespaces.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/7-linux-namespaces

When using docker/podman/apptainer you can pick and choose when and how to use namespaces. Like I can use just use the 'mount' namespace to create a unique view of file systems, but not use the 'process', 'networking', and 'user' namespaces so that the container shares all of those things with the host OS.

For example when using podman the default is to use the networking namespace so it gets its own IP address. When you are using rootless (unprivileged) mode it will use "usermode network" in the form of slirp4netns. This is good enough for most things, but it is limited and slow.

Well I can turn that off. So that applications running in a podman container share the networking with the host OS. I do this for things like 'syncthing' so that the container version of that runs with the same performance as non-containered services without having to require special permissions for setting up rootful network (ie: macvlans or linux bridges with veth devices, etc) )

By default apptainer just uses mount and user namespaces. But it can take advantage of more Linux isolation features if you want it to.

So the process ids, networking, and the rest of it is shared with the host OS.

The mount namespace is like chroot on steroids. It is relatively trivial to break out of chroot jails. In fact it can happen accidentally.

And it makes it easier to take adavantage of container image formats (like apptainer's SIF or more traditional OCI containers)

This is Linux's approach as opposed to the BSD one of BSD Jails were the traditional limited Chroot feature was enhanced to make it robust.
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-26 20:25:37+00:00
> Their movement failed but they were right to fight it. The lesson we should take from them isn't to give up in the face of destabilizing technological change.

Hard to say. They sort of represented the specialist class being undermined by technology de-specializing their skillset. This is in contrast to labor strikes and riots which were executed by unskilled labor finding solidarity to tell machine owners "your machine is neat but unless you meet our demands, you'll be running around trying to operate it alone." Luddites weren't unions; they were guilds.

One was an attempt to maintain a status quo that was comfortable for some and kept products expensive, the other was a demand that given the convenience afforded by automation, the fruits of that convenience be diffused through everyone involved, not consolidated in the hands of the machine owners.
by pimlottc | 2025-06-26 20:25:54+00:00
> From your link, "the researchers extracted beads from deep within samples". Which made me laugh as earlier they stated, "The beads, each less than 1 mm across," so deep here is relative.

What's contradictory about this? The beads are small and they taken from underneath the surface: [0]

> These black glass beads were collected in a double drive tube during Apollo 17 from a depth of ∼0.5 m on the south rim of Shorty Crater.

0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910352...
by suthakamal | 2025-06-26 20:25:57+00:00
Yes. There has been a regression in these metrics for white folks in the US. This is the first generation of whites in America who can expect to earn less and live shorter lives than their parents. However, that doesn’t generalize to the rest of the population, or world, and in America the reasons are policy: healthcare and education. Not because AI or tech broadly is particularly pernicious.
by throwanem | 2025-06-26 20:26:08+00:00
That isn't really an answer, or not one at least on point. You're saying my approach made people angry and they responded in a way influenced by that anger, again as though I were unaware. But I have been having this conversation for well over a decade now, nearly 15 years. You will forgive me if I do not always behave as though it were my first time, especially when disingenuousness on the part of my interlocutors has been such a constant over that span.
by mariano54 | 2025-06-26 20:26:38+00:00
Exactly, it's all server side. There are no plans for this. The main issue I see with doing it in device is the LLM piece. Even with some large models like llama 4 maverick, the tutor just struggles to properly teach and understand the student, it's not viable IMO.

Intelligence is super key here, especially as the context size gets larger (due to memory) and intelligence degrades.

Another major issue is TTS voice quality, but this seems to be improving a lot for small local models.

EDIT: You're right, latency is also a big deal. You need to get each piece under a second, and the LLM part would be especially slow on mobile devices.
by RC_ITR | 2025-06-26 20:27:10+00:00
Preamble: GDP, is a bit of a synthetic metric.

As you point out, there's no purchase level data about what's imported vs. not.

The way this is handled is that this quarter's imports are set against this quarter's consumption - basically the method assumes the import/domestic mix of business inventories stays the same (true enough in the long run, very incorrect in short term shocks).

That's why extremely disingenuously the AP says:

>Trade deficits reduce GDP. But that’s just a matter of mathematics. GDP is supposed to count only what’s produced domestically, not stuff that comes in from abroad. So imports — which show up in the GDP report as consumer spending or business investment — have to be subtracted out to keep them from artificially inflating domestic production.

Answer: What happened here[1] is that the BLS makes a bunch of assumptions to get data out in time (preliminary figures based on historical seasonal trends, etc.) but this quarter, their assumptions about consumer spend were far too aggressive.

It happens all the time, especially in strange times like 1Q was, but there's also career/political incentive to be aggressive on the advanced data, since that's what drives the big headlines.

[1]https://www.bea.gov/system/files/gdp1q25-3rd-chart-02.png
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-26 20:27:18+00:00
In a language with the `unsafe` construct and effectively no automated tooling to audit the uses of it.

You can forbid using unsafe code with the lints built into rustc: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/nightly-rustc/rustc_lint/bu...

Cargo allows you to apply rustc lints to the entire project, albeit not dependencies (currently). If you want dependencies you need something like cargo-geiger instead. If you find unsafe that way, you can report it to the rust safety dance people, who work with the community to eliminate unsafe in crates.

All of this is worlds ahead of the situation in C++.
by runako | 2025-06-26 20:27:27+00:00
This isn't about the suburbs, where by and large people don't take transit today. Shutting down transit entirely wouldn't affect most suburbanites directly. But when folks talk about transit, they generally are not trying to tell suburbanites or rural residents to live differently. They should keep their cars and drive or let self-driving get them around.

But places where people take transit are a different animal. These places are characterized by higher density and higher levels of road congestion.

> Self-driving cars should enable higher throughput on existing roads

Yes, in the suburbs and exurbs. A gridlocked highway in a city does not have a much higher throughput possible; cars are generally tightly packed and/or stopped.

Remember that for all the gawkers at an accident on one side of the highway, there are also drivers on the other side of the road who are physically blocked by the accident. Autonomy does not help this either, for medium-term penetration levels of autonomous vehicles. (Making the great assumption that at near 100% penetration, accidents could be nearly eliminated.)
by NegativeLatency | 2025-06-26 20:28:43+00:00
I don't want to start a snippy argument, so sorry if this sounds combative, but when you realize that there isn't a "policy which ensures the gains are fairly distributed", then what would you suggest?

Unionization and collective action does work, it's why we have things like the concept of the weekend. It's also generally useful when advocating change to have a more extreme faction.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-26 20:28:49+00:00
> Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.

I don't genuinely expect the author of a blogpost who titles their writing "AI is Dehumanization Technology" to be particularly receptive of a counterargument, but hear me out.

I can think of few things as intellectually miserable as the #help channels of the many open source projects on Discord, for example. Should I wager a guess, if these projects all integrated LLMs into their chatbots for just a few bucks and let them take on the brunt of the interactions, all participants on either side would be left with much more capacity to maintain and express empathy and care, or to nurture social connections. This extends beyond these noncommercial contexts of course, to stuff like customer service for example.
by lotharcable | 2025-06-26 20:28:54+00:00
It would be more accurate to say that toolbx is based on Podman, but is intended to provide tight configuration with your user's outside environment.

If you want to use toolbx for more isolation you'll have to end up turn off a bunch of features and configuring it in weird ways that ultimately defeats the purpose of having toolbx in the first place....

It is a lot easier to just to cut out the middle man and use podman directly.
by echelon | 2025-06-26 20:29:03+00:00
> but I still think the combative-ness and insulting tone at the time I made this comment isn't cool

Respectfully, the parent only offers up a Zig compile time metric. That's it. That's the entire comment.

This HN post about Rust is now being dominated by a cheap shot Zig one liner humblebrag from the lead author of Zig.

I think this thread needs a little more nuance.
by zorked | 2025-06-26 20:29:09+00:00
But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
by mm263 | 2025-06-26 20:29:12+00:00
By "Luddite," you mean "resist progress, therefore bad." Progress is not inherently bad. Luddites didn't say it is; this blog post doesn't say it is either. We are currently rushing forward with implementing AI everywhere, as much as possible, and what these posts (thinking about Xe Iaso) urge you to think about is how this new revolutionary technology affects us, society, the people who will be displaced by it. If it will yield a disproportionate amount of misery, then we should oppose it on the moral grounds. There's no guarantee of ASI heaven or hell, so it's merely prudent to think about the repercussions. We didn't think - damn, we couldn't even approach imagining - all of the repercussions of replacing traditional agriculture with industrial agriculture, of the industrial revolution, of the internet, so maybe, with technology this powerful, it would be sensible to think about the repercussions before we upend the social order once again.
by taylorallred | 2025-06-26 20:29:44+00:00
So there's this guy you may have heard of called Ryan Fleury who makes the RAD debugger for Epic. The whole thing is made with 278k lines of C and is built as a unity build (all the code is included into one file that is compiled as a single translation unit). On a decent windows machine it takes 1.5 seconds to do a clean compile. This seems like a clear case-study that compilation can be incredibly fast and makes me wonder why other languages like Rust and Swift can't just do something similar to achieve similar speeds.
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-26 20:29:52+00:00
The larger concern is people treating function approximation as fact (especially in the models where it is technologically understood that what is happening is an estimation algorithm, or what is happening is semantically divorced from "understanding" the underlying fact-patterns and is instead a system building fact-like sentences from data that may or may not contain actual relevant facts).

There is definitely a huge gap between what is happening right now and public perception (and, I'd argue, a few people with a lot of money to gain or lose going out of their way to increase, not decrease, that gap).

In that context, the overall notion the post approaches (that Canada would do well to avoid basing decisions that could help or harm real people on the output of these unproven systems at this juncture) is a good notion.
by imglorp | 2025-06-26 20:30:23+00:00
That's an extreme take now and maybe uncharitable. The safe parts of rust are simply no comparison to the whole c/c++ world: the tooling is eliminating vast swaths of "easy" errors. Unsafe parts might be comparable if they're calling the same libraries.

Industry is seeing quantifiable improvements, eg: https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/googles-shift-to-rust-prog...
The End of SaaS?
by afaik | 2025-06-26 20:30:31+00:00
I'm curious with the latest trend of AI CEOs/hypsters talking about the "end of SaaS" and non-technical people replacing software tools with their own "vibe-coded" software... are people on here doing that already? If so, what specifically did you replace/build?

I think HN is good litmus test as a lot of people here are at least somewhat technical.

I'd describe myself as a decent mid-level-ish swe, currently building my own startup and I have 0 desire nor inclination to replace any of the software I currently pay for either personally or through my startup. I'm happy to outsource all of that thinking/work to someone else.

I'm also unconvinced by the argument that the pricing comes waaay down because it's so much faster/cheaper/easier to write software now - because while the delivery mechanism is new, cheap software development has been available for a long time. I know founders who paid someone in Pakistan/India ~$1k to build their platform. (Yes, it went exactly how you'd think it would) and I've seen non-technical founders who "vibe code" have a similar experience.

Is this all hot air? When I see this "end of Saas" being touted and then look at my experience using these tools + building my own startup and interacting with customers.. I just don't see any of our customers even coming to close to considering "building it themselves" or even asking why our product doesn't cost like 5 bucks a month.

I'm looking for people who back the "end of SaaS" position and I want to know what it is you're seeing on the ground. What tools are being replaced and how?

ime high quality software is still hard and it takes quite a lot thought, time, good design and testing (before you even deploy it!) - "generating" the code is often not the bottleneck and the idea that I'm going to go and whip up my own postmark/S3/G-suite/CRM just seems crazy to me.
by DowsingSpoon | 2025-06-26 20:30:36+00:00
Murder also doesn’t adhere to my leftist values, which is to say, your statement is useless without being specific about which values AI doesn’t adhere to, and why you think that’s not a problem at all. The article explicitly calls out the “deeply-held values of justice, fairness, and duty toward one another.” Are these the specific leftist values you’re so dismissive of?
by kristopolous | 2025-06-26 20:30:38+00:00
I think this should work: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cxh9oA1ZHkzGRMKutVNb...

I was at the top of the list ... pitched it poorly. That night I made a party game to practice: https://pitchanary.com/

The rules might need some work.