MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by a_bonobo | 2025-07-18 05:59:44+00:00
>Identification of DeAngelo began in December 2017 when officials, led by detective Paul Holes and FBI lawyer Steve Kramer, uploaded the killer's DNA profile from a Ventura County rape kit to the personal genomics website GEDmatch.[182] The website identified 10 to 20 people who had the same great-great-great-grandparents as the Golden State Killer; a team of five investigators working with genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter used this list to construct a large family tree.[183] From this tree, they established two suspects; one was ruled out by a relative's DNA test, leaving DeAngelo the main suspect.[184]

>On April 18, 2018, a DNA sample was surreptitiously collected from the door handle of DeAngelo's car;[64] another sample was later collected from a tissue found in DeAngelo's curbside garbage can.[185]

DNA as the guilt-by-association, they then will get the evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo#Arrest,_...
by dachrillz | 2025-07-18 06:00:33+00:00
A very basic way of how it works: encryption is basically just a function e(m, k)=c. “m” is your plaintext and “c” is the encrypted data. We call it an encryption function if the output looks random to anyone that does not have the key

If we could find some kind of function “e” that preserves the underlying structure even when the data is encrypted you have the outline of a homomorphic system. E.g. if the following happens:

e(2,k)*e(m,k) = e(2m,k)

Here we multiplied our message with 2 even in its encrypted form. The important thing is that every computation must produce something that looks random, but once decrypted it should have preserved the actual computation that happened.

It’s been a while since I did crypto, so google might be your friend here; but there are situations when e.g RSA preserves multiplication, making it partially homomorphic.
by Perenti | 2025-07-18 06:00:38+00:00
I've taken my time to respond to this. Firstly, that's a big statement about someone you only know from TV.

Secondly, he was one of the most functional human beings I've ever met.

The reason he was so good at herpetology is because he was raised with dangerous reptiles. The backyard of his home in Botany Circuit was crawling with snakes, crocs and goannas. I rarely played at his place, because it un-nerved me. He was very confident and capable, and understood animal behaviour even at 6yo.

I was better at playing with spiders though, no doubt that changed as he grew older.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-07-18 06:01:02+00:00
Subhead

> Soya, oat and almond drinks are only deemed acceptable alternatives if they’re fortified, especially for young children

First sentence

> Unfortified vegan milks are “not an acceptable alternative” to cow’s milk

The headline is contradicted twice in the first 2 sentences. WTF.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-18 06:01:32+00:00
Tonyu (soy milk) isn’t neither a cause of obesity in Asia, and by the way is a traditional food over there. It already contains Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Iron. I hardly see how adding some B12, more calcium… leads to bad health effects.

I think we all know that the principal bad ingredients in processed beverage are sugar, sweeteners… but that’s neither a basic or traditional ingredient in tonyu.

Saying "soy milk is HPF" is like saying "cow milk is HPF" based on the studies of milk-based -junk-food-drinks.

It’s good to have a common scale and you have to take shortcuts to define it, however it’s important to understand those shortcuts and not following the blindly.

I also highly encourage anyone trying marinated tofu (read the ingredients), those are also considered HPF by Nova but most of them aren’t worse than smash potatoes with a vegetable broth.
by edwardbernays | 2025-07-18 06:01:59+00:00
Why QCD? Quantum chromodynamics, the quantized theory of the nuclear strong force? There is also QED, quantum electrodynamics, which is the quantized field theory for electrodynamics, and then also QFD (quantum flavordynamics) for the weak force. Do you seriously mean to imply that the quantum field theory corresponding to ONLY the strong force, plus gravity, explains every emergent phenomena from there to culture? Fully half of the fundamental forces we account for, in two disparate theoretical frameworks?
by Terr_ | 2025-07-18 06:02:25+00:00
One aspect to this tangle is knowledge asymmetry: One of the traditional justifications for insurers poking around is to guard against an applicant that conceals important factors as a kind of fraud.

But what about the reverse? There's something intuitively unjust about the customer not knowing why they're being charged a higher rate, especially if it means the company believes there's a potential danger (enough that it affects the bottom-line) but conceals it.

So yeah, I think "transparency" is a robust principle to follow here, especially if anyone is arguing market competition is going to curb the worst abuses.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-18 06:02:45+00:00
> requires a massive tax hike on the people who do work

Net of the benefit they would be receiving, it doesn't. The average person would be paying $10,000 in taxes to fund the UBI and then receiving a $10,000 UBI.

> It would have an inflationary effect on basic goods and services. If you're renting and everybody is getting an extra few thousand a month then landlords know that they can charge a bit more since everyone has that money. Same with staple foods.

There is no extra money. It isn't being printed. There are net transfers for people making more or less than average, but then Alice has a little more money than before and Bob has a little less and it's still the same total.

Also, that's not how prices work anyway. If people have more money, prices only change if the cost of production is non-linear. If it costs $5 each to make a million sandwiches and $5 each to make two million sandwiches, increasing the number of sandwiches people want just increases the number of sandwiches produced instead of increasing the price of each sandwich. Sometimes an increase in demand causes the unit price to go down because of economies of scale.

> But this ignores the fact that a lot of that stuff has unequal demand. You crash your car, your leg gets cut off, go to the hospital, they spend $100k on making sure you survive (specialised machines, a team of doctors and nurses, medicines, recovery and physiotherapy). How's that work under UBI if the government isn't paying for it anymore, who is?

That's the purpose of insurance.

> redistributing income away from producers towards people who don't work (or even work less) is going to have negative effects.

Your premise here is that being paid to do what someone else wants you to do is more productive than doing what you want to do.

Most modern jobs are not "productive" in the sense that they actually produce anything of importance. People waste untold hours in corporate meetings or making things the world would be better off without. Would assigning agency to the individuals instead of the institutional bureaucracies reduce productivity or increase it?
by bn-l | 2025-07-18 06:03:20+00:00
I was outraged when it was banned as well to be honest but I found out about it from the imminst--which was a place with a lot of educated people who were very cautious with it.

It was like an insult. Like I couldn't rationally decide on the risk of using it.

Then I saw the reddit posts and I got it. I couldn't previously conceptualise that there were actually people like that out there. And these aren't people who intentionally want to hurt themselves either. They just saw the drug online, bought it and thought: "What the heck? It's available so it must be ok." Those people are morons but they still need to be protected from themselves. And nannied.
by kbelder | 2025-07-18 06:04:45+00:00
We pretty much know the answer to that question.

Everything universal... that everyone needs to purchase (rent, food, power, etc.) will raise in price to eat up the UBI. It will reach an equilibrium where, to make ends meet, you will need UBI and at least a minimum wage job.

Any attempt to stop that from happening, such as price controls, raising UBI, etc., will cause shortages, abuse, or other issues.

That's my prediction, at least.
by MichaelRo | 2025-07-18 06:06:37+00:00
Compared to someone who's basically a zero in programming, any amount of knowledge pushes the ratio to infinity. The average CS graduate doesn't know shit because universities need volume to survive so basically once in, you are spitted out eventually. And faking projects and cheating on exams is rampant, with the complicit involvement of teaching stuff because they don't care and incentives are biased towards turning a blind eye.

So 90% of CS graduates are useless, which it why, thank God, the inflationary pressure towards programmer jobs is far lower than the droves of new arrivals would suggest.

Therefore the top 10% are 100x by default compared to the middle because the middle is really a liberal arts graduate, not a computer programmer.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-07-18 06:06:50+00:00
They only need to agree on whether it's a heating period or a cooling period. I know many buildings are different, but there's a sizeable number of them in my city providing some form of central heating. I do live in a very dense city, where I bet most people don't know their neighbors.

The building management and HOA usually set up a fixed scheme, such as "heating is on from start_date to end_date. These dates tend to make sense according to the usual local climate. If I'm not mistaken, in my building it's something like late October to early May.

Of course, when the actual temperature is outside expected ranges around those dates, it's not optimal. Luckily, it's never more than a few days.

The same approach could be applied for providing cooling.
by tropicalfruit | 2025-07-18 06:07:09+00:00
reminds me of crypto a bit. most people i know are apathetic or dismissive.

when i see normies use it - its to make selfies with celebrities.

in 5-10 years AI will everywhere. a massive inequality creator.

those who know how to use it and those who can afford the best tools.

the biggest danger is dependency on AI. i really see people becoming dumber and dumber as they outsource more basic cognitive functions and decisions to AI.

and business will use it like any other tool. to strengthen their monopolies and extract more and more value out of less and less resources.
by spwa4 | 2025-07-18 06:08:50+00:00
It's less the research and more getting a treatment to people. Governments around the world refuse to pay for this, and in fact demand that various risks and expenses be paid by pharma companies, with mostly negative results.

It is so bad that for a lot of treatments, getting them to people costs upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars. And almost all of these efforts fail.

This would mean the government would need to breed (and pay for) lab animals, small and large (from mice to primates). Would need to pay more for medical care, would need to collect (and pay) people to try out experimental drugs and treatments on. If these treatments or drugs have adverse effects, the government would need to shoulder sometimes lifelong payments and care to these people. It would need to cover all this knowing that in 90% or so of cases the whole effort was for nothing.

This is, to put it mildly, not happening.
by friendzis | 2025-07-18 06:10:00+00:00
Dependencies are a double-edged sword.

Most vocal people work on "disposable" end of software. It's cheaper for software giants to just throw engineer-hours at rewriting piece of code that has fallen into organizational obscurity than to maintain (hehe) maintainability. There is usually no sense for small branding/webshop factories to churn out high quality, maintainable code.

However, I suggest you revisit the reason why the dreaded "enterprise patterns" exist in the first place. The main reason to use these architectures is so that five years down the line, when documentation is badly outdated, there is no organizational memory left behind that component, original developers have transitioned to either different teams/departments or left the company altogether, the component is still well isolated, analyzable and possible to work on.

Introduction of external dependency(-ies) carry two inherent business risks: either support for dependency will be dropped, meaning you will have to either absorb maintenance burden yourself or switch dependencies, or it will introduce breaking changes, meaning you have to stick to unmaintained version or update your product code. Both situations will eventually impact your feature flow, whatever it is.

Compromise between trunk and leaf (push of dependencies vs pull of deps) is intrinsic to modularization and is always there, however with internal components this compromise is internal, rather external.

> Many people like writing new code and will do it even when it's detrimental to the business, but 9 times out of 10 even using a "bad" dependency is far more effective than writing in-house.

If you are a SaaS company - most probably yes as it is the short-term outcome that is determinate of business success. However, if you work in any industry with safety and support requirements on software or put the burden of long term support on yourself, long-term horizon is more indicative of business success.

Remember, writing new code is almost never the bottleneck in any mature-ish organization.
by djaychela | 2025-07-18 06:10:28+00:00
Thanks.

I think I should have made it more clear in my post, the code is claude's and was done from scratch (the first app was a mandelbrot viewer which it added features to, this is a platfrom game).

It's a single file at the moment (I did give a suggested project structure with files for each area of responsibility) and it kind-of-works.

I think I could create the missing method in the class but wanted to see if it was possible by getting the tools to do it - it's as much of an experiment in the process and the end result.

Thanks for replying, I shall investigate what you've suggested and see what happens.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-18 06:10:51+00:00
I spend a fair amount of time tinkering in Home Assistant. My experience with that platform and LLM's can be summed up as "this is amazing".

I also do a fair amount of data shuffling with Golang. My LLM experience there is "mixed".

Then I deal with quite a few "fringe" code bases and problem spaces. There LLM's fall flat past the stuff that is boiler plate.

"I work in construction and use a hammer" could mean framer, roofer or smashing out concrete with a sledge. I suspect that "I am a developer, I write code" plays out in much the same way, and those details dictate experience.

Just based on the volume of ruby and typescript, and the overlap of the output of these platforms your experience is going to be pretty good. I would be curious if you went and did something less mainstream, and in a less common language (say Zig) if you would have the same feelings and feedback that you do now. Based on my own experience I suspect you would not.
by serf | 2025-07-18 06:11:06+00:00
write any project with a lot of math and memory shuffling and the structure will generally start eating lots of tokens.

write any project that has a lot of interactive 'dialogues', or exacting and detailed comments, eats a lot of tokens.

My record for tapping out the Claude Max API quickly was sprint-coding a poker solver and accompanying web front end w/ Opus. The backend had a lot of gpgpu stuff going on , and the front end was extremely verbose w/ a wordy ui/ux.
by nmadden | 2025-07-18 06:11:07+00:00
> The first day I used it, Claude got stuck in a loop trying to fix a problem using the same 2 incorrect solutions again and again and burnt through $30 of API credits before I realized things were very wrong and I stopped it.

The worse it performs, the more you pay. That’s a hell of a business model. Will users tolerate that for long?
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-18 06:12:25+00:00
> such as datasets that are not properly integrated into the cloud

I believe this is a core issue that needs to be addressed. I believe companies will need tools to make their data "AI ready" beyond things like RAG. I believe there needs to be a bridge between companies data-lakes and the LLM (or GenAI) systems. Instead of cutting people out of the loop (which a lot of systems seem to be attempting) I believe we need ways to expose the data in ways that allow rank-and-file employees to deploy the data effectively. Instead of threatening to replace the employees, which leads them to be intransigent in adoption, we should focus on empowering employees to use and shape the data.

Very interesting to see the Economist being so bullish on AI though.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-18 06:13:21+00:00
I don't often use AI in my work because it is

not sufficiently useful not sufficiently trustworthy.

It is my ongoing experience that AI + My Oversight requires more time than not using AI.

Sometimes AI can answer slightly complex things in a helpful way. But for most of the integration troubleshooting I do, AI guidance varies between no help at all and fully wasting my time.

Conversely, I support folks who have the complete opposite experience. AI is of great benefit to them and has hugely increased their productivity.

Both our experiences are valid and representative.
by userbinator | 2025-07-18 06:13:23+00:00
It's already been a decade(!), yet I still remember the introduction of this amazingly spyware-filled OS like it was yesterday, and the large public backlash it caused. Unfortunately its successor is even worse, which may be why it still has a fanbase today.

Meanwhile, I know there are plenty who are still using Win7 and below, and there's even a nontrivial community writing drivers for newer hardware and such.
by gbalduzzi | 2025-07-18 06:13:46+00:00
I think we are overcomplicating this a bit.

Typing "log" and tab to accept the auto complete is faster than writing the whole log yourself.

When you need to add a bunch of log statement, this tool makes the activity faster and less tedious.

Is it a technological breakthrough? No

Does it save hours of developer time each day? No

Is it nice to have? Hell yeah
by bn-l | 2025-07-18 06:13:58+00:00
If you're logging in from a country that historically has had a lot of fraud coming from it, this might be the reason why.

When travelling in Hungary my AWS account was banned the moment I tried to log in. I got basically no reason. I was able to call support but the guy very polite fobbed me off and I got the idea that they weren't even able to disclose the reason why they banned me.
by brainless | 2025-07-18 06:14:50+00:00
I am using Claude Code full-time for about 6 weeks* with the $20/month subscription. I am trying out building different products from ideas I have already had. It frees me a lot of time to talk about my founder journey.

I have not needed multiple agents or using CC over an SSH terminal to run overnight. The main reason is that LLMs are not correct many times. So I still need time to test. Like run the whole app, or check what broke in CI (GitHub Actions), etc. I do not go through code line by line anymore and I organize work with tickets (sometimes they are created with CC too).

Both https://github.com/pixlie/Pixlie and https://github.com/pixlie/SmartCrawler are vibe coded (barely any code that I wrote). With LLMs you can generated code 10x than writing manually. It means you can also get 10x the errors. So the manual checks take some time.

Our existing engineering practices are very helpful when generating code through LLMs and I do not have mental bandwidth to review a mountain of code. I am not sure if we scale out LLMs, it will help in building production quality software. I already see that sometimes CC makes really poor guesses. Imagine many such guesses in parallel, daily.

edit: typo - months/weeks
by concinds | 2025-07-18 06:17:08+00:00
“We’ll switch up everything you’re familiar with, but you see, you really should, because security” feels like a really terrible idea. Your browser is still receiving updates. You don’t need to panic or scare people needlessly. They’ll be fine.

And the conflation of “unsupported” and “ewaste” is also wrong. Tons of people keep using their computers after EOL, including my mom. Why would they notice or care?

Switching your family members to Linux works because they’re your family members. You know how they use computers, their comfort level, their needs. They can call you for help. A repair cafe, helping people they’ll likely never see again? Installing Linux, or heck, things as complex as dual-booting (which they suggest)? You’re kidding! Just leave people alone with their fine, basically-secure computers.
by carlmr | 2025-07-18 06:17:50+00:00
Anachronistic maybe, but it would still make a lot of embedded development a whole lot easier to get right. Modern Ada has a much better set of features compared to C, doesn't have the bloat of C++, and allows much better handling of embedded issues like fixed point calculations than either of them.

It's still a very modern language which is missing very little in that niche. It's only missing adoption.

I have high hopes for Rust in this space. Using C is fine, using C++ is madness, using Ada is good but fewer available devs.

Rust also solves a lot of issues with C++ and generally, once you get past the "fighting the borrow checker" to the "working with the borrow checker" phase has insanely good ergonomica, safety mechanisms and features. Additionally Rust has momentum right now.
by alganet | 2025-07-18 06:19:32+00:00
You're upset because the nerdy boy that explains things is supposed to apologize when confronted, specially if there's any injustice involved.

Now you're even more upset that I didn't, and I also did put you in the spotlight.

You're not fighting for some LGBT cause, you're a provocateur. You're upset because you were not able to provoke me to steer into polemics territory. The soon you admit to yourself that you're upset, the better.

Do you have any comment about the movie tropes, its relation to cyberpunk and computers, or anything actually useful for the ongoing discussion?
by travisgriggs | 2025-07-18 06:21:05+00:00
I feel this post. I maintain software in Android, iOS, Python, embedded C, and of late adding Elixir to the mix.

Some in the community will wine about lack of Elixir ecosystem. But often, I’m fine just putting together what I need. It varies. I don’t want to do my own bandit sever or Phoenix live view stuff. But MQTT, no probs.

Often I find that the need for libraries can be an indictment of complexity against the problem space. Take Blootooth as an example. What a huge ball. Though at the end of the day, I’ve done straight to HCI python implementations that for some things are better than the “libraries” available. Don’t get me started on the “hold your hand” gpio libraries for the raspberry pi.

One type of dependency, that I kind of miss is the “copy this code to your project” dependency. You can take complete ownership right away. Whereas with more crafted dependencies, the dependency surface is more than just an algorithm writ large in code, but a whole philosophy/metaphor that may not be an exact fit for your own project.
by MichaelRo | 2025-07-18 06:22:35+00:00
>> There is a big difference in getting a guaranteed income in your 20’s vs your 60’s.

No, it's the difference between getting a pension (a guaranteed income for the rest of your life) and a second job's salary without working it. Basically the "basic income" experiments create Reddit r/overemployed participants without even having to work the additional job.