MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-07-29 01:32:27+00:00
> In reality, I "argued" both.

I mean it is hard to have this conversation because you will say that they are the same thing and then leverage the fact that they aren't while disagreeing with me but using nearly identical settings to my examples.

I mean if your argument is that a mallard (test) and a muscovy (docs) are both types of ducks but a mallard is not a muscovy and a muscovy is not a mallard, then I fail to see how we aren't on the same page. I can't put it any clearer than this: all mallards are ducks but not all ducks are mallards. In other words, a mallard is a duck, but it is not representative of all ducks. You can't look at a mallard and know everything there is to know about ducks. You'll be missing stuff. If you treat your mallard and duck as isomorphic you're going to land yourself into trouble, even if most (domesticated) ducks are mallards.

It isn't that complex and saying "don't be overly confident" isn't adding crazy amounts of complexity that is going to overwhelm yourself. It's simply a recognition that you can't write a perfect spec.

Look, munificent[0] is saying the same thing. So is Kinrany[1], and manmal[2]. Do you think we're all wrong? In exactly the same way?

Besides, this whole argument is literally a demonstration of our claim. If you could write a perfect spec you'd (and we'd) be communicating perfectly and there'd be no hangup. But if that were possible we wouldn't need to write code in programming languages in the first place![3]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713138

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713314

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712266

[3] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
by jeswin | 2025-07-29 01:32:35+00:00
I am a Max 20x subscriber, and I'm not unhappy that Anthropic is putting this in place.

Claude is vital to me and I want it to be a sustainable business. I won't hit these limits myself, and I'm saving many times what I would have spent in API costs - easily among the best money I've ever spent.

I'm middle aged, spending significant time on a hobby project which may or may not have commercial goals (undecided). It required long hours even with AI, but with Claude Code I am spending more time with family and in sports. If anyone from Anthropic is reading this, I wanted to say thanks.
How do I get a paid internship as a 16yo developer?
by uint23 | 2025-07-29 01:33:24+00:00
[DISCUSSION]

Hi,

I'm 16 and I would like an internship but it seems IMPOSSIBLE to find / get one.. I mainly program in C/++ and I am quite proficient in it. I have 2 successful projects hosted on GitHub (700+ stars, 50+stars) which have a large community behind them too but no matter what I have to display, I can't get a job offer due to not having even a High School level qualification other than my GCSE results which are still yet to come.

I have also tried to email people from companies by scraping their email address' but to no avail as I haven't gotten a single response back, which is to be expected I guess.

On places like r/Internships I also see people complaining how unpaid internships are comparable to modern day slavery, which puts me off wanting one. I also have prior experience in a startup with a real job anyways which I got from connections which really made me appreciate getting paid from my labors.

I'd appreciate it if you have any tips to getting any further as I feel like I'm at a dead end.

If you're interested in my repos: github.com/uint23
by g-b-r | 2025-07-29 01:34:22+00:00
I don't understand your points, to my eyes if the bootloader is unlocked you simply either:

- don't provide the features for which you require a locked bootloader

- and don't do anything with the rest of the features

And anyhow, I'm almost sure that this is AOSP code (with a quick search I didn't manage to find it).

And, I don't know any carriers that require a locked bootloader outside of the US, and Samsung already only sold models without bootloader unlocking in the US.
by zahlman | 2025-07-29 01:35:05+00:00
> This is nonsense, the Palestinians and Palestinian organizations - even including Hamas - have to varying degrees accepted or shown willingness to accept a Palestinian state that does not encompass all of Mandatory Palestine.

This cannot be reconciled with the meaning of the slogan "from the river to the sea". (Wikipedia claims that the slogan is used by both sides of the conflict, citing a JSTOR article I can't access; but I have only ever seen it used by Hamas and their supporters.)

Per Wikipedia, Hamas does not recognize Israel as of their most recent 2017 charter, and "called for a Palestinian state on all of Mandatory Palestine" in 1988.

While I'm sure that many Palestinians do not support Hamas and desire to co-exist with Israel, I see no good reason to suppose that this is any more common than the other way around.

> Israel is unwilling to have a two state solution, they always desired all of Mandatory Palestine

There is ample evidence to contradict this — enough that I can look it up on the fly. Were it true, for example, the Knesset would have had no need to pass a resolution declaring this to be their current position, barely a year ago. Netanyahu also claimed in 2015 to want a two-state solution, and of course there are other Israeli political parties with warmer attitudes towards Palestine.
by KirinDave | 2025-07-29 01:35:42+00:00
I wish that more people understood that if they're very wrong/openly lying about the history of scientific achievement, they're probably in the wrong about their conclusions regarding the future of science as well.

And that's Eru (and perhaps you) here. Pubic science continues to make fantastic moves forward, with one notable example being nearly ALL the meaningful research and engineering moving us towards nuclear fusion being based on public research. Historically, major contributors to research almost universally had significant government funding.

It's true that we can gesture to AI research recently as a fruitful place for private research, but even orgs like Deepmind took government grants. Deepmind's publicly called for governments to fund AI research, as have many other (private) researchers.

In any event, taking tax money and giving it back to the betterment of society as a whole is one of the most uniformly good things that could be done with tax dollars. Science consistently betters society as a whole, and it's almost impossible to identify in advance what theoretical or practical breakthroughs in any given field are about to become significant.
by zmmmmm | 2025-07-29 01:36:45+00:00
the law is pretty fickle that way. It's illegal to rob a bank no matter how badly you bungle it. Saying afterwards "but my gun was clearly made of plastic" probably won't get you completely off the hook if you actually threatened someone with it and asked for money (this site is literally titled Use Your Local MP's ID - it's expressing an intent).
by ajross | 2025-07-29 01:39:45+00:00
"So-and-so used Tea" is clearly not the focus of the coverage of the Tea app leak. Again, let's be explicit about impacts here. You can deploy hyperbole and hypothesis to make anyone a horrifying villain. But if you do that at least be honest about it.

Edit to note: the Tea story has now fallen off the front page while this one is still going strong.
by debazel | 2025-07-29 01:40:31+00:00
The only one arguing in bad faith here is clearly you.

First, you say that a full name or email is somehow not a big deal, even though these are some of the most critical pieces of PII, either one would obviously be enough to unmask exactly who the person is.

And now, because there is some random HN post about a hack that affects a significantly smaller user base than Google's and Chrome's invasive practices and it doesn't have as many upvotes that somehow means this topic isn't serious and that everyone is arguing in bad faith.

You either have absolutely no understanding of PII or privacy, and I seriously hope you never work on anything related to it. Or you're just arguing in bad faith, I’m not sure which is worse, to be honest.
by defrost | 2025-07-29 01:41:11+00:00
We grew with overbuilt furniture, trailers, radio masts, gas fittings, plumbing, etc. that my father built. A whole lot of knitted jumpers, wool socks, bed covers, etc. from my mother and the aunts with a freezer full of home cooked meals scaled for shearing teams and put away for later.

Most of that carries on, and we've got good relations with a slew of people that are solid craftspeople who put their best work in galleries for the extra big bucks.

The good stuff is as accessible to us normies as good software is to the HN crowd .. it costs less or nothing if you're in the maker circles swapping food, yarns, and other goods.

FWiW I was a silent partner and occasional assistant in a glass studio / wood shop for two decades, that helps - that was some money (way back when you could get a lot of land for a lot less than today) and a lot of sweat equity modifying buildings and landscaping, etc.
by pythonguython | 2025-07-29 01:41:15+00:00
Do you mind sharing what industry you’re in where you can fully rely on FOSS? In my industry we’re dependent on MATLAB, Xilinx tools, closed source embedded software and more. To name a few industries: game devs might be stuck with unity, finance quant devs might be stuck with Bloomberg terminals, iOS app devs are stuck with apple’s tooling etc… this isn’t just an LLM problem IMO.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-29 01:42:46+00:00
"few do trick".

Are you implying, with that statement, that few words might trick a reader into a different interpretation from the one they might reach otherwise or that few words are enough (do the trick)?

I'm all in favour of parsimony but please deploy the bare useful minimum with an eye to clarity and not obfuscation. Also note that a full stop (period) is an indicator that you have finished dribbling.
by SR2Z | 2025-07-29 01:42:58+00:00
It's not completely in-use. The motivation for the entire state of Israel's existence is that the Jewish people need a homeland or else they will keep getting persecuted. That rules out a Muslim-majority state with a lot of Jews in it.

Given the demographics of Jewish people outside of Israel, it's hard to disagree with. When you consider the early years of Israel, and how many wars were started to run the Jews out of it, it's even more well-supported.

The best hope for a lasting peace was with the Oslo accords. They were torpedoed by the Palestinians themselves, who were unwilling to accept any kind of compromise that maintained a Jewish state.

Not saying Israel is innocent, but the idea that so many people seem to have that the region would be happy-go-lucky and peaceful for Jewish people if not for the war is hopelessly naive.
by raincole | 2025-07-29 01:43:13+00:00
> Are sim cards easily swapped?

Very easily. Apple even specifically introduced dual-sim iPhone for China.

> How easily can a burner be used?

You need to bring your ID to a telecom to get a phone number legally. But I don't know if there is a black market for burner sims.

(Last time I've been there was a few years ago so take it with a grain of salt.)
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-29 01:43:24+00:00
"destroy Hamas" has become "kill everyone with Hamas sympathies" -- but you can be sure that every boy who can carry a gun, who has seen family members die, who is living the destruction and desolation, is itching for a chance to join the next version of Hamas (which may not be Hamas itself, but something else built on the same shouldering fires that burn when people are oppressed, bombed, and starved, repeatedly for generations. They're not destroying Hamas -- they're just creating a new one (if anyone survives).
by zahlman | 2025-07-29 01:43:44+00:00
> What's worse is I actually feel openly saying "I don't support this genocide and I'm critical of the state committing it" is a risky thing to say in public. I wouldn't say it not behind a pseudonymous account without some level of plausible deniability.

In the world I can observe (especially social media), the opposite is true; characterizing the situation as a genocide is normal and accepted, disputing that will get you shunned, and depending on who your friends are you may find yourself subjected to purity testing of that opinion.

Consider, for example, who does and doesn't get banned on Twitch for the things they say about this issue, and what their positions are. Or have a look around Fosstodon, or among FOSS developers on other Mastodon instances; "Free Palestine" is at least as common in bios and screen names as BLM support, while opposed slogans don't even exist as far as I can tell or would be unconscionable to use if they do.

Or consider for example this thread, which is full of people who agree with you, at least among the live comments.
by somethingsome | 2025-07-29 01:44:10+00:00
I find papers nowadays contain way less content than before, yes the writing is easier to read, but the page count didn't increase, that means that there is less information per page now.

A scientific paper is written for a specific audience, experts in that field, and when you read many papers, it's very annoying 'easy writing' because you need to rapidly understand the meat of the paper, not being introduced again and again to your subject. Now it's more difficult to find the details that you need, if they're even written.

It makes maybe the job of a PhD easier when he start studying in the field, but I think we lost something there..

Not all fields are equal, deep learning papers are very easy to read, but also very annoying to read, too many repetitions of something that is explained in another paper, I don't need to read for the 100th time what NeRF is, only what is different in this paper compared to the previous ones. While many mathematical papers are way more dense and target the intended audience.

Increasing the page count is not really a solution either, it is a burden for the writer to continue writing easy things, and for the reader to never find the interesting parts.

On the other hand, when I read a paper that is not in my field, I appreciate the easy to read paper.

I think papers should return to dense readings by experts, but authors should also maintain blogs where the paper is simplified, and those blogs should be included in the evaluation for a PhD. In this way, if you are an expert, you get the interesting parts, and at the same time, if it is not your field, you can be introduced with many good blogs to the field.
by monkeywork | 2025-07-29 01:44:36+00:00
That's the equiv of saying I don't need privacy because I have nothing to hide.

Just because you don't want anything to do with the type of people who would post pictures of you and slander / shit talk you doesn't mean that you should want that being out there to begin with - it's not like that sort of thing hasn't ever been weaponized against someone before.

The worst part is with this app there is a high chance you'd never find out that anything was ever said about you until the snowball is so big that it'll crush any attempt to slow it down.
by motoboi | 2025-07-29 01:45:04+00:00
When you achieve speed in space, after acceleration, the speed won’t change forever unless you encounter some other force, like a celestial body gravity to change it. So if you achieve interestelar comet’s speed, you can shutdown the rocket and just travel at that speed for eternity like the comet does.

Even better: you can forget the comet, accelerate, keep accelerating until there is no more power or even a working motor while also extending a big sail to let solar wind accelerate you a little more.
by Animats | 2025-07-29 01:45:11+00:00
There are several kinds of blueberry picking machines. There are air-blast pickers that blow the berries off the plant. There are ones with wheels of vibrating sticks. There are ones that get a comb around the plant and pull.

Some berries get damaged, yes. Some leaves and twigs get through. They're separated out by a very fast vision-based sorting machine before packing.[1] That's been standard technology for a decade or so.

Apple picking is still in the R&D stage.[2] Cost needs to come down to $0.02 per pick.

It's great to see startups in this area, but the thing has to work. There are too many failed ag robotics startups.[3] Ask "could you pressure-wash this thing"? If there are wires, electronics, and bearings exposed, it's still experimental.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ica3FLAvPas

[2] https://goodfruit.com/lots-of-bots-video

[3] https://www.futurefarming.com/tech-in-focus/field-robots/cha...
by futureshock | 2025-07-29 01:45:20+00:00
It does seem like that’s our new political reality for now. I think that COVID showed world governments just how little control they have over their populations. You get folks to bend a little, but they quickly break and call for you to be thrown out of power. Getting to carbon zero or negative would be asking for an enormous sacrifice of the global population in the form of lower living standards and slower growth. After how people fought against masks, a shot and social distancing, it’s obvious to those in power that there will be no solution to this problem aside from geo-engineering or cost competitive green energy. Might as well stop talking about it.
by jrockway | 2025-07-29 01:46:24+00:00
This is so good. Not only does it get you past the verification screen, it infects the next generation of AI models with AI slop, and it adds MPs to a list of suspicious names that are likely fraud. That means that it ruins the Internet for MPs, which is just wonderful. Like, I legitimately think that Starmer might have extra trouble signing up for things now.

All in all, one of those ideas that sounds good on the surface, but the more you think about it the better it gets.
by LargeWu | 2025-07-29 01:47:09+00:00
I guess my point of view is, truly game-changing pharmaceuticals should be shared with the world. And there's precedent for that. Jonas Salk did not patent the polio vaccine he discovered, and the world is a better place for it.

Boner pills? Sure, go nuts on patenting those. But HIV prevention? No, it's immoral to patent this.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-29 01:47:20+00:00
stop bombing, killing, and starving civilians for starters; the long-term solution is the two-state solution but you can't get there if the population is either dead or scattered (which is what Israel successfully did in 1948 and is now trying to finish it off)

So don't do this "what's the solution??" while tens of thousands are being killed and starved.
by brookst | 2025-07-29 01:47:48+00:00
I wasn’t jesting. I was (too) obliquely saying that when we all hasten to accede to the autocrats before they even ask, we become complicit in huge social evils.

I’m not suggesting that everyone most do self-immolation, but if it were me, I would draw the line at being afraid of being “caught” for an obvious prank using no PII. Screw that, come arrest me if things have really gotten that bad.
by asdefghyk | 2025-07-29 01:47:56+00:00
How do you know that Hamas is not involved in these cases? You can not.

Also a high percentage of the said 50,000 killed would have to be Hamas terrorists.

Also, Hamas would be working overtime to make this new way of food distribution to fail.

Gaza people would not want to blame Hamas at ALL, since Hamas kills people who criticize them. This has happened in Past

In fact it is reported Hamas told Gaza people not to get food from the new distrubution places.

Hamas would also have to be guilty of genocide. In fact they have previously stated this in writing. Hamas is prepared to sacrifice Gaza people. Also Hamas committed genocide on October 7th
by zahlman | 2025-07-29 01:48:44+00:00
> Tangentially related, I never understood how the anti-BDS laws square with the first amendment

At my university, a portion of my dues went to funding BDS efforts (what expenses do they even have?) and I had no clear means to object to this. This was in Canada, but it seems to me perfectly fair to oppose that. That said:

> Most anti-BDS laws have taken one of two forms: contract-focused laws requiring government contractors to promise that they are not boycotting Israel; and investment-focused laws, mandating public investment funds to avoid entities boycotting Israel.

Substitute, for example, any domestic racial minority for "Israel"; does your opinion change?
by autoexec | 2025-07-29 01:49:26+00:00
Just a friendly reminder for any who need to hear it again: it's really okay to have been wrong and okay to admit that you've been being lied to. Changing your views when confronted with new evidence that shows your beliefs/assumptions were incorrect is a sign of intelligence. It can also let you focus more of your attention on new topics/areas that are still important for protecting yourself and your loved ones.
by dfxm12 | 2025-07-29 01:49:47+00:00
Movements that want to grow should accept people who change their minds when the situation changes, they get new data, or they learn a new perspective.

The situation hasn't changed. The data is the same going back years. It's healthy to be cautious of people who join a movement under false pretenses like that.

If they learned a new perspective, that's great! I just wish it didn't have to come to personally witnessing such brutality to gain a new perspective...
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-29 01:50:07+00:00
That's not a stable equilibrium though: if you don't maximize engagement, you'll be outcompeted, outspent, and probably ultimately acqui-hired and "our incredible journey"-d by the companies which do.

And if you don't think this is the inevitable outcome, note how every social media platform has, slowly or quickly, gravitated toward maximizing engagement to the exclusion of all other priorities. Why would AI be any different?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-29 01:50:49+00:00
When I was your age I did a data entry and analysis project for my Uncle Bob who was the PR director for a nearby beach. I did all the work with my TRS-80 Color Computer 3 and got enough money to buy a 286-based PC. I found out later how much value my data analysis project created and realized I should have asked for enough money to get a 386-based PC! I also did some software development for teachers in my school: I wrote something in BASIC for the PC and then found out the teacher had a CP/M machine so I used a Z-80 emulator to translate the software to work on CP/M.

So basically I'm saying you should look at people and places closer to you.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-29 01:51:32+00:00
Occupying powers have a legal responsibility to provide aid to civilians in territories they occupy. They also have a legal responsibility to figure out the logistics. They also cannot commit war crimes. So the solution is for israel to do what they are legally required to do, and stop doing what they are legally proscribed from doing.

Everything else (hostage return, feelings of safety, etc) is:

1. Less important, and

2. Equally applicable to both israel and palestine

Finding a good solution means diving in and understanding the conflict beyond israel's perspective: There is simply no legal or moral justification for the atrocities we see here. None whatsoever.
by bradleyy | 2025-07-29 01:52:32+00:00
I'm curious: did it ever become typical for these studies to publish the data and code? I haven't kept current, but I remember having read studies in times past and they definitely didn't. Not necessarily referring to this or vaccines, just like "hey we did this analysis" but they don't publish the code and data, when we have an ongoing replication crisis in science.
by sureglymop | 2025-07-29 01:52:36+00:00
Ohh that would be cool! Love syncthing but I wish the relay and discovery servers would be part of the same/main syncthing binary.

I've also seen quite a few semi-technical youtubers make videos about it but not mentioning that it uses public relay and discovery servers usually by default (but maybe that depends on the distro). It's not a bad thing but something one should know before using it.