MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnisgood | 2025-07-30 07:28:00+00:00
As others have said this before, AI is a tool and it is not supposed to nor should replace thinking. Unfortunately many people does not abide by this. See the other submission where people made a 128k line PR to a project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729461.

It is clear that the guy responsible for this PR outsourced thinking. I would call it "misuse of LLMs". LLMs get a bad rep because of individuals who completely outsource thinking.
by Ekaros | 2025-07-30 07:28:52+00:00
When I think lot of use cases LLMs are planned for. I think not happy paths are critical. There is not insignificant number of people who would ramble about other things to customer support person if given opportunity. Or lack capability to only state needed and not add extra context.

There might be happy path when you isolated to one or a few things. But not in general use cases...
by Agingcoder | 2025-07-30 07:29:11+00:00
Agreed - my view is that Linux on the desktop failed and will never succeed and its mostly alright since people have shifted their computing needs from desktops to phones.

So the market for personal computers has grown massively with phones entering it, and Linux has won here.

As to the general state of Linux usability - I’ve been using Linux since 1995, and professionally for more than 20 years - it’s great for professionally administered servers or workstations, less great for regular desktops / laptops where things pretty never work out of the box which is unfortunately not going to bring in extra users …
by netsharc | 2025-07-30 07:30:02+00:00
An acceptable number for me is 15027 civilian deaths.

A farcical answer for a farcical question (which is also deflecting from the actual issue).

You seem to want to have an argument about the borders of discussion, and are moaning that blah A, blah B, blah C, that some bored people on the Internet who are on "the other side" of the argument is doing is preventing you to have a discussion. You're having a "fight" but it's not even about the genocide ("Wait, what's a genocide!?! Define that!"), but about the terms of discussion.
by crashabr | 2025-07-30 07:30:55+00:00
Do you intend to reach feature parity with something like MacWhisper? I'd love to switch to something open source, but automated meeting detection, push to transcribe (with custom rewrite actions) are two features I've learned to love, beside basic transcript. I also enjoy the automatic transcription from an audio, video or a even a YouTube link.

But because MacWhisper does not store transcripts or do much with them (other than giving you export options), there are some missed opportunities: I'd love to be able to add project tags to transcripts, so that any new transcript is summarized with the context of all previous transcript summaries that share the same tag. Thinking about it maybe I should build a Logseq extension to do that myself as I store all my meeting summaries there anyway.

Speaker detection is not great in MacWhisper (at least in my context where I work mostly with non native English speakers), so that would be a good differentiation too.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-30 07:31:04+00:00
> housing was less expensive, which I believe is one of the biggest barriers to family formation in this generation.

According to Pew Research, the top reasons they people under 50 cite for not having children are:

- they just don’t want to (57%)

- they want to focus on other things (44%)

- concerns about the state of the world (38%)

- can’t afford to raise a child (36%)

- concerns about the environment (26%)

- etc.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/reasons...
by ifwinterco | 2025-07-30 07:31:55+00:00
If this were the case, then you have to explain why other things that are heavily leant on (e.g. global warming, or trans issues just to give two obvious examples) by a large part of the political establishment and mainstream media fail to have much cut through with most of the population.

The reason immigration has cut through is it corresponds with people's own direct lived experience. It's not an abstract concept to people, it's visceral and real
by EagnaIonat | 2025-07-30 07:33:16+00:00
Let me give you a better answer to your question.

Yes I am OK with how CSAM works.

1. It is not owned by a private company.

2. Hash checking requires a 1:1 match to be flagged.

3. Any match is reviewed by law enforcement to confirm it matches what is recorded in the CSAM. This is checking your file against a descriptive record of what the file is.

4. The chance of a mismatch is so remote that its not even an issue for me. Even if you do get a mismatch it is a human that reviews it.

5. To submit a file to CSAM requires a lengthy detailed process where multiple humans review and approve before creating the Hash.

6. Every hash has a chain of custody. So if in the unlikely chance of something else being put into CSAM, you can see all the people that interacted with the system to put that hash in.

7. Service providers can be sued for content they submitted, so they have a prerogative to ensure what goes in is valid.

This process has been in place for 15 years or so.
by senko | 2025-07-30 07:34:10+00:00
This is actually a public validation for your friend's startup.

A proper learning tool will have history of conversation with the student, understand their knowledge level, have handcrafted curricula (to match whatever the student is supposed to learn), and be less susceptible to hallucination.

OpenAI have a bunch of other things to worry about and won't just pivot to this space.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-30 07:34:14+00:00
outside of 5), I concur. It's good for discovery, as is Google for discovering topics while weighing on proper profesionally resources and articles for the learning.

It's too bad people are trying to substitute the latter with the chatGPT output itself. And I absolutely cannot trust any machine that is willing to lie to me rather than admit ignorance on a subject.
by trabant00 | 2025-07-30 07:34:48+00:00
Might not be worth much but I just want to thank you for being willing to put in the work to make such discussions possible even though clearly (wink) the vast majority of comments don't want to have a discussion. I would have shut it down writing it off as too much work for almost no result.

I don't even want to comment on-topic because I already know nobody will seriously consider my point of view, but just downvote and attack me.
by mrandish | 2025-07-30 07:34:55+00:00
I can't say definitively but based on my experience in 1991 with a 68K-based PowerBook 100 I doubt it. Even with a 1-bit monochrome display and no custom co-processors executing in parallel the battery life wasn't great. Also, most LCD screens don't support some of the weird field/frame and timing things the Amiga could do with CRT displays. Even rounding up from 59.94 NTSC field rate to 60 fps would have caused some Amiga software to have display issues.
by godelski | 2025-07-30 07:35:20+00:00
Firefox is an ad company?

Okay, let's go with that premise, I'll rephrase.

So when options are

1) Google, a $2.3T ad company 2) Firefox, an ad company that Google pays $300m/yr for Google to be the default search engine 3) Safari, a $3T ad company that Google pays $20bn/yr for Google to be the default search engine 4) Opera, an ad company that Google pays ??/yr for Google to be the default search engine AND is Chromium based 5) <other> browser, an ad company that Google pays ??/yr for Google to be the default search engine (and is likely Chromium based)

Your choice is #1, because #2 is funded by #1?

I am still failing to see the logic here. If anything, I'm more confused. What do you use? Ladybird? What about before that? Seriously, I'm so fucking lost here.
by westurner | 2025-07-30 07:36:00+00:00
"Programming of refractive functions" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62230-x :

> Abstract: [...] In addition to monochrome RFG designs, we also report wavelength-multiplexed refractive functions, where a distinct refractive function is implemented at each wavelength through the same engineered material volume, i.e., the permutation of light refraction is switched from one desired function to another function by changing the illumination wavelength. As experimental proofs of concept, we demonstrate permutation and negative refractive functions at the terahertz part of the spectrum using 3D-printed materials. Arbitrary programming of refractive functions enables new design capabilities for optical materials, devices and systems.
by close04 | 2025-07-30 07:36:16+00:00
> And then came iPhone X

Did the iOS/Android situation actually swap, or was the X an outlier? I have photos from a recent event taken entirely with phones, and the result mirrors my experience for the past many years.

iPhone (11-15 including Pro Max) photos look "normal". Very, very similar to what my eyes saw in terms of colors. Photos taken with Android phones (Pixel 9 Pro XL, recent Oppo or Samsung A series, etc.) look terribly unnatural. The blue of the sky, the green of the plants, the red of the dress, they look "enhanced" and unnatural, nothing like what my eyes saw. I can tell apart almost any iPhone vs. Android picture just by looking at the colors on the same display.

The resolution or sharpness are harder to judge with one look and I wasn't trying to compare quality. But the colors are too obvious to miss.
by ender341341 | 2025-07-30 07:36:26+00:00
It's treated special cause most shells handle undefined variables as empty strings so `rm -rf "${base_path}/${sub_dir}"` can turn into `rm -rf '/'` and users commonly don't expect that.

While that case may be simple to catch the writers of gnu rm also recognize that scripts tend to not be well tested and decided "better than it currently is" is better than "we didn't do any mitigations to a common problem cause the solution wasn't perfect".
by seltzered_ | 2025-07-30 07:37:33+00:00
The divide generally is that android phones with headphone jacks as of 2025 generally dont have 5G ultrawideband support* . And there are some split-out dangles which offer a jack and usb-c, but they've sorta had annoying quirks in my experience (the CableCreation one is less terrible in my experience). One could design a case around one of these dangles, though it's add some bulk and the dangle quirks mean you sometimes need to disconnect it from the phone.

* - supposedly the Sony xperia pro (2020) might be the rare exception to this rule.
by vidarh | 2025-07-30 07:37:34+00:00
We don't count the US since you were such a small market for Commodore ;)

But also, the PPC transition was long rumoured during the late years of Commodore, and then announced as early as 1995[1] by Amiga Technologies after Commodore's bankruptcy but the PA-RISC based "Hombre" permanently on ice, so we had a long time to get used to the idea.

PowerUp was then announced in 1997, and Blizzard PPC was launched in 1998[2].

While the Phase5 cards obviously had limited use because the OS wasn't ported and they were crazy expensive, they still meant there was a relatively "smooth" continuity from 68k to PPC, with software slowly starting to add PPC support to accelerate certain things.

And the PPC transition had support from at least portions of the community even while Commodore was still alive and internally pursuing PA RISC.

In retrospect, that too was the wrong bet, of course, but the point is that while there is a subset of the Amiga community that is very hung up in the original chipsets and 68k (and I'll admit I find the 68k family beautiful), the Amiga community also did often embrace deviations as long as they didn't change how it felt to use (I do think e.g. Hombre might have, though, so as much as it sucked that Commodore failed, maybe we'd have lost respect for them if they'd stayed alive)

[1] https://www.cucug.org/amiga/aminews/1995/at951111

[2] https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-099/page/n49/mo... - see page 50.
by dwaite | 2025-07-30 07:37:41+00:00
> Let’s not forget the very same year they stopped including the charging brick they started including USB-C to lightning cables in the box, so that their supposedly environmentally friendly practice forced their users to buy a new brick unless they saved previous cable

There are countries which put pressure on removing both the charger and the cable with regulations related to e-waste. France I believe requires a product to be available for purchase without a charger. Ironically, Apple at least used to bundle EarPods with the iPhone in France due to some electromagnetic radiation regulation.
by groestl | 2025-07-30 07:37:51+00:00
> why do we experience anything?

Because the Essence that is the arrangement of molecules replicates onto other molecules, and it is more effective at replicating when it dedicates some of it's molecules to perceive and model it's own existence, in order to run experiments on it. That way it's more likely to find a behavior for the rest of the molecules to successfully replicate. So the molecules experience themselves, and the experience becomes more intense the more advanced the experiments are that can be run on the model.
by ed_delan | 2025-07-30 07:38:26+00:00
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by rini17 | 2025-07-30 07:39:26+00:00
That has issues with getting in and out. It's possible to solve everyhing, like have a zero-gravity "hub" in the middle, reachable from the habs by lift climbing the ropes. Or have pulleys reconfiguring whole habs as needed.

But again anything moving in space and with life support sounds like massive r&d effort.
by pyman | 2025-07-30 07:39:49+00:00
I was talking about the new open models with a group of people yesterday, and saying how good they're getting. The big question is:

Can any company now compete with the big players? Or even more interesting, like you showed in your research, are proprietary models becoming less relevant now that anyone can run these models locally?

This trend of better open models that run locally is really picking up. Do you think we'll get to a point where we won't need to buy AI tokens anymore?
by Pannoniae | 2025-07-30 07:40:24+00:00
> Kerbal Space Program, Rimworld, Minecraft all have gigantic modding communities, just to name a few.

I see what you mean, but there's a reason why I said modding support. From these, only Rimworld really counts - KSP's modding is unofficial and without support from the developers, Minecraft modding is also unofficial (you still don't have code or an API, you have to decompile! you do have datapacks but those can't do shit compared to proper modding)

Point is, all of these have unofficial modding communities because they are written in managed languages which are easy to reverse. But they don't give you a modding API to target, they don't give you documentation and they don't give you a clean/stable API. Look at how much Minecraft mods break with every minor update, it's nowhere near "official support".

> In many cases, the existence of standardized modding APIs instead of everybody just poking around in the game's source is actually an upside, as it makes interoperability much easier.

You're right but that's mostly just a consequence of the time which has passed. We no longer load just one mod. But the old model does work perfectly here - even if the modding is just "here's the DLL, replace it", the community can easily build a modloader on it which does support multiple plugins.

> At some point, we'll probably have to deal with this and I don't mind starting the technical side now, but I don't subscribe to the idea that mods are riddled with malware.

Semi-agree, it is a risk and one which can definitely be a huge issue, but I'd say this is much more of a social issue than a technical one. All these "lock things down to ensure security" initiatives throw the baby out with the bathwater, they don't really allow for anything substantial or creative to be made. And that's a huge loss, a way bigger one than malware spreading for a few days before getting inevitably found out and removed.

this convo is funny considering I'm working on a blocky game similar to Minecraft and one of the big design principles I have on my mind is drastically lowering the bar of entry for creating stuff. Even if you can theoretically modify many things, most users won't go and whip out a development environment on a whim, they'll just give up.... there's a few things which can make it drastically easier for users to become tinkerers, one of them is a compiler included with the game. If something is in the files, people can play around with it without friction, even better if some samples are included. IMO the benefits way outweigh the costs.
by kragen | 2025-07-30 07:40:27+00:00
The new articles aren't important.

The ACM is probably never again going to publish a paper as influential as Liskov's paper I mentioned above, or Knuth's "Structured Programming With go to Statements", or "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/362929.362947, or Schorre's "META-II: A Syntax-Oriented Compiler Writing Language" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800257.808896, or Ken Thompson's "Regular Expression Search Algorithm" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/363347.363387, or Dan Ingalls on "The Smalltalk-76 programming system design and implementation" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/512760.512762.

Papers like those are the ones that we need to protect our ability to archive and distribute. Not David Geerts's "The Transformative Power of Inspiration" from the current issue of CACM https://cacm.acm.org/careers/the-transformative-power-of-ins.... (I am not making this up.) Thompson was competing with, let's say, Mooers and Schorre; Geerts has decided instead to compete with Jesus, the Buddha, and Norman Vincent Peale, and my brief reading of the article does not offer much hope for his prospects.

It seems safe to say that in 30 or 100 years' time nobody will cite Geerts's article as a turning point in the human understanding of inspiration, so if it's lost due to copyright restrictions, it probably won't matter that much.

At the other extreme, scholars seeking to understand the historical origins of object-orientation or personal computers would be crippled without access to material like Ingalls's paper. I'm not speculating—I'm speaking from experience, because lacking that access, I grew up thinking C++ was object-oriented!

But what do we see on the current version of the Ingalls paper that the ACM's web server just gave me? A note added in 02002 prohibiting public archival and redistribution:

> Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work or personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.
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by rg12345 | 2025-07-30 07:41:16+00:00
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I’m not a game dev, just curious. Asked AI how to generate grids, check directions, and make it mobile-friendly — and shipped it in a weekend.

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by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-30 07:42:32+00:00
The article is comparing photo quality between two different cameras. The lens affects image quality, so it's completely fair to discuss.

If it were possible to switch out the lens on the iPhone, and the photographer had just chosen the wrong lens for the job, that would be a fair criticism of the article. But that's not what happened. The iPhone is just very limited when it comes to the lens, compared to a DSLR.
by joules77 | 2025-07-30 07:43:06+00:00
> deliberate trolling, making people angry, making people outraged

God saves those kids if that's what they are being taught.

Sad to watch what's happening to the US. Total lack of political/cultural figures that can unify and provide direction. Future narratives are outsourced to tabloid level philosophies - one day bitcoin is going to solve everything, another day a wall, then tariffs etc grounded in nothing that unifies the people.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-30 07:44:30+00:00
Fully spot on, I want AI to feel natural, part of the workflows of using an OS, improved search, better OCR, handwriting, in general a better user experience, not something bolted on at all costs, with chat windows all over the place.

Thanks Microsoft, for giving me yet another reason not to use Edge beyond browser compatibility matrixes in project delivery.

Unfortunally this is also coming to all their developer tools, VS, VSCode, PowerShell, Windows Terminal, .NET Aspire, Azure,... everything is getting AI there somehow, as each team struggles to meet their AI OKRs, and reason of existence among endless layoffs.
by serbuvlad | 2025-07-30 07:45:10+00:00
Why?

Obviously rm -rf / will only "destroy the operating system" if the user is root and we're in the root namespace. There is nothing stopping you from building a sandboxed OS that never gives your users real root (Android).

But what'd be the point of that? Users care about their data, not about their OS internals. If the OS blows, that's just an OS reinstall. But if a non-backed-up /home blows, that could be months of work. And any program that can delete a file in /home (as they need to be able to do to allow the user to do everyday work) can also delete all of them.
by vidarh | 2025-07-30 07:45:29+00:00
It's possibly some badly written requirements would, but there's zero reason why it'd need to preclude FOSS if such restrictions are written to be under the buyers control presuming they demonstrate age, as all they require is a way to restrict reinstalls and replacements of whatever software produces sufficient controls without an unlock code.

It doesn't need e.g. code signing or anything else of the sort.

To be clear, I think all of this is a massive overreach - my point is only that you can achieve the claimed aim with far less invasive means.

That, if anything, makes the chosen idiocy even more troubling to me, as either they're incompetent, don't care at all about the implications, or there are unstated aims.