MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delecti | 2025-07-17 20:55:41+00:00
The title is technically true, but leaves out the pretty significant context that he has openly used the MIG Switch, a device technically for "backups", but realistically for piracy.

It's within the realm of possibility that you could get in trouble after buying used games which have been the source of pirated copies, but I don't believe that this guy's situation is an example of that happening.

"Nintendo cuts off online access for console after guy uses tool made for piracy" is a less compelling title though.
by munificent | 2025-07-17 20:56:12+00:00
> Living in an Italian town is obviously a romantic escapist fantasy.

Yes, exactly.

But note that the author presumes that the way to attain that fantasy is "buy a house". This is not an article about figuring out how to move to Italy, it's an article about buying a house in Italy.

There's almost no discussion of, saying moving logistics, visas, commutes, etc. It's not about the act of getting there. It tacitly assumes that the way you accomplish the goal is almost entirely by purchasing a thing.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-17 20:56:39+00:00
>Yes it's patently unfair that I got that lucky

it's not unfair since you took the risk of potentially losing your original investment; you also put in the time to learn about baseball cards, while other people were interested in antiques and studied and bought those, also with a risk that what they bought would decrease in value.

Can I interest you in some Beanie Babies?
by somethingsome | 2025-07-17 20:57:07+00:00
Mmmh I'm deeply skeptical of some parts.

> One explanation for why this game works is that there is only one way in which things are related

There is not, this is a completely non transitive relationship.

On another point, suppose you keep the same vocabulary, but permute the signification of the words, the neural network will still learn relationships, completely different ones, but it's representation may converge toward a better compression for that set of words, but I'm dubious that this new compression scheme will ressemble the previous one (?)

I would say that given an optimal encoding of the relationships, we can achieve an extreme compression, but not all encodings lead to the same compression at the end.

If I add 'bla' between every words in a text, that is easy to compress, but now, if I add an increasing sequence of words between each words, the meaning is still there, but the compression will not be the same, as the network will try to generate the words in-between.

(thinking out loud)
by bredren | 2025-07-17 20:57:08+00:00
This solves a big issue for existing CLI agents, which is session persistence for users working from their own machines.

With claude code, you usually start it from your own local terminal. Then you have access to all the code bases and other context you need and can provide that to the AI.

But when you shut your laptop, or have network availability changes the show stops.

I've solved this somewhat on MacOS using the app Amphetamine which allows the machine to go about its business with the laptop fully closed. But there are a variety of problems with this, including heat and wasted battery when put away for travel.

Another option is to just spin up a cloud instance and pull the same repos to there and run claude from there. Then connect via tmux and let loose.

But there are (perhaps easy to overcome) ux issues with getting context up to that you just don't have if it is running locally.

The sandboxing maybe offers some sense of security--again something that can be possibly be handled by executing claude with a specially permissioned user role--which someone with John's use case in the video might want.

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I think its interesting to see OpenAI trying to crack the Agent UX, possibly for a user type (non developer) that would appreciate its capabilities just as much but not need the ability to install any python package on the fly.
by try_the_bass | 2025-07-17 20:57:10+00:00
> I don't think anybody denies that, but getting into and paying for a university is very much a financial and social class issue.

I mean... Not really? I got a BS in Computer Science from a cheap, small university (plus a bunch of it at my local junior college, for even cheaper!), and the quality of the education was better than I've seen out of "excellent" schools. It was really cheap, too! Easily paid off after a few years at software engineer salaries.

Hell, with entry-level salaries at places like Google or Meta, you could probably pay the whole thing off in a year.

I think people focus far too heavily on "Ivy League" schools and the costs associated with them, and forget that things like junior colleges and small universities still exist, and are still relatively affordable.

With a "commodity" degree like CompSci, cost isn't really a problem.

Besides, no one gives a shit where you went to school after your first job in the field. That first job might be marginally harder to get, and you might have to settle for slightly lower pay, but you're going to be far from struggling with the debt unless you really overpaid for that degree
by bayindirh | 2025-07-17 20:57:23+00:00
> why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet?

Probably Apple is trying to distill the models so they can run on your phone locally. Remember, most, if not all, of Siri is running on your device. There's no round trip whatsoever for voice processing.

Also, for larger models, there will be throwaway VMs per request, so building that infra takes time.
by mike1o1 | 2025-07-17 20:57:32+00:00
Claude Code has pretty much replaced Copilot overnight for me, though I wish the VS Code plugin was a bit more integrated, as it's only a little bit more than a terminal, though I guess that's the point. I was hoping for syntax highlighting to match my editor and things like that (beyond just light/dark theme).

What I'd really want is a way to easily hide it, which I did quite frequently with Copilot as its own pane.
by Larrikin | 2025-07-17 20:57:42+00:00
You can't because the entire political point from one party is to make taxes as painful as possible, something you have to waste your time every year doing and thinking about, and then as a bonus get kick back donations from lobbyists who profit making tax software. Free file was s step in the right direction to the ideal but there are a lot of people trying to pull back the end goal.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-17 20:57:43+00:00
I find it pretty interesting that it's a roughly 2,500 word article on "using Claude Code" and they never once actually explain what they're using it for, what type of project they're coding. It's all just so generic. I read some of it then realize that there was absolutely no substance in what I just read.

It's also another in my growing list of data points towards my opinion that if an author posts meme pictures in their article, it's probably not an article I'm interested in reading.
by h2zizzle | 2025-07-17 20:58:01+00:00
RR was swimming against a current; 83-06 (and even going back to the early 70s) would have been the first generation+ raised by the first generations raised by TV, or with a TV in the house. It was also the first generation with access to the internet during childhood and young adulthood. People waiting for the movie to come out instead of reading the novel, etc. Everything about the technological zeitgeist was selling Americans on the idea that books didn't matter. The question isn't whether RR raised reading scores, but whether it kept them above water. Your graphs can't tell us anything about which is the case, but considering the context shows us which question is actually interesting and which isn't.
by shmerl | 2025-07-17 20:58:13+00:00
I still find it a very questionable idea to run some GUI stuff on IoT device streaming the GUI to you. I just don't get why you would want to do that, vs let's say having an HTTP access.

I have an HTTP server running on my printer and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a powerful CPU. The web page it provides is more than adequate for controlling it.

Remote interface in streaming fashion only makes sense to me when remote computer is strong enough to do all that's needed for GUI to work. Like thin client idea above, game streaming and so on.
by 0x_rs | 2025-07-17 20:58:38+00:00
Some great advice I've found that seems to work very well: ask it to keep a succinct journal of all the issues and roadblocks found during the project development, and what was done to resolve or circumvent them. As for avoiding bloating the code base with scatterbrained changes, having a tidy architecture with good separation of concerns helps leading it into working solutions, but you need to actively guide it. For someone that enjoys problem-solving more than actually implementing them, it's very fun.
by throw123xz | 2025-07-17 21:00:21+00:00
Just because you decide to do something, it doesn't mean that you have to do everything. Even if you wanted to, it's likely that you can't.

> In my opinion this helps Putin in his propaganda that the west just hates russia.

It does help him, but you're not going to support those who do nothing or feed the machine waging war just so Putin's propaganda gets a bit weaker.

If the average Russian doesn't understand that the reaction is due to their (well, mostly their governments) actions, then that's another problem that only them can fix.
by TuringNYC | 2025-07-17 21:00:39+00:00
Yes, depends on how much air pressure there is. The downside to too much air pressure out is that you also suck out valuable cold air (in summer) or hot air (winter.)

If the air pressure isnt sufficient, you get some smoke coming thru, esp if the pipes are horizontal. Also depends on how much people spoke and depends on how many units the exhaust travels past before being sucked up into the building-top exhaust.
by _wire_ | 2025-07-17 21:01:06+00:00
This lede is so quaint; it's an observation that belongs in old sci-fi like Colossus The Forbin Project: Adblocking glasses haha, how clever!

So what will go in the void created by the glasses?

This appliance is set to usurp physical space with an overlay of virtual space, which should be expected not only to occlude the physical but also compete with or contradict the physical.

The implications on monitoring and control of thought, dividing classes, and political manipulation are serious. Reality will disappear.

It's already the case that ever computing device is a hub for data collection and imposition on behavior.

AR glasses are personal vision monitoring and filtering devices.

Consider that the C-suites and their supplicants and handlers will soon not see the same world as those outside their vision service.

That Zuckerberg is building data centers on the scale of Manhattan island is the harbinger of a very messed up world to come.
by ctoth | 2025-07-17 21:01:11+00:00
I asked my contractor to install a door over the back stairs opening outward, came back, and it was installed opening inward. He told me he tried to figure out a way he could do it in-code, but there wasn't one, so that's what he had to do. I was slightly miffed he didn't consult me first, but he did the pragmatic thing.

This actually happened to me Monday.

But sure, humans are deterministic clockwork mechanisms!

Are you now going to tell me how I got a bad contractor? Because that sure would sound a lot like "you're using the model wrong"
by htrp | 2025-07-17 21:01:49+00:00
>OpenAI’s indemnification obligations to API customers under the Agreement include any third party claim that Customer’s use or distribution of Output infringes a third party’s intellectual property right. This indemnity does not apply where: (i) Customer or Customer’s End Users knew or should have known the Output was infringing or likely to infringe, (ii) Customer or Customer’s End Users disabled, ignored, or did not use any relevant citation, filtering or safety features or restrictions provided by OpenAI, (iii) Output was modified, transformed, or used in combination with products or services not provided by or on behalf of OpenAI, (iv) Customer or its End Users did not have the right to use the Input or fine-tuning files to generate the allegedly infringing Output, (v) the claim alleges violation of trademark or related rights based on Customer’s or its End Users’ use of Output in trade or commerce, and (vi) the allegedly infringing Output is from content from a Third Party Offering.

Bullet 1 on service terms https://openai.com/policies/service-terms/
by blibble | 2025-07-17 21:01:52+00:00
the UK has actually gone backwards on this

today for filling in your company or self assessment tax return there's a perfectly usable website on gov.uk (it's not perfect, but acceptable)

and for next year HMRC have just decided to... turn it off, offering no replacement whatsoever

you're supposed to pay a third party for to pay your tax, which is completely insane
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-17 21:01:57+00:00
I don't think that's true. I see powered paragliders out at the beach all the time, and to my knowledge that was perfectly legal as long as you are licensed properly.

I suspect that the story here is that until things went wrong nobody expected that this was a risk-taking activity in the first place (any more so than paragliding in general is). Do we have reason to believe he was doing it unsafely before disaster struck and he lost control?
by taude | 2025-07-17 21:02:06+00:00
do you create the claude.md files at several levels of your folder structure, so you can teach it how to do different things? Configuring these default system prompts is required to get it to work well.

I'd definitely watch Boris's intro video below [1]

[1] Boris introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eBSHbLKuN0 [2] summary of above video: https://www.nibzard.com/claude-code/
by Rendello | 2025-07-17 21:02:12+00:00
I haven't, but I've read "Birchbark Canoe" by David Gidmark. He's written some technical canoe-making books, but this one was the story about how he came to live in Northern Quebec amongst the Algonquin and learned how to make birch bark canoes from William Commanda, with whom he had a fairly turbulent relationship. I saw it in a big library one day and uncharacteristically actually managed to read the whole thing, it was very good!
by segphault | 2025-07-17 21:02:16+00:00
I ended up on Readwise Reader after trying a few different options. It unapologetically caters to power users and is clearly built by people who actually use and care about the product, so I'm finding it to be a pretty solid improvement over Pocket.

They also have put some effort into making their mobile app work reasonably well on eInk displays, so it's pretty great on a Boox tablet. It has real pagination, which is a feature that I was pretty annoyed about losing in Pocket when Pocket rewrote its mobile app.
by phatfish | 2025-07-17 21:03:42+00:00
This is about someone buying a used cart that had been dumped with the MIG Flash mod.

I remember when this MIG mod got released people were saying buying used would now be a roulette as Nintendo can spot the duplicated cart when it is used online and blacklist your switch. Not sure how often it ended up happening, but at least once it seems from this article.

Can't say I'm happy with how Nintendo is dealing with physical games, which means I'll need a really good reason to buy a Switch 2 myself. But Microsoft (and to a lesser extent Sony) are trying harder to kill physical sales and resale.

Nintendo at least have some skin in the game as they have the largest percentage of physical sales compared to Microsoft/Sony.
by pc86 | 2025-07-17 21:03:49+00:00
At the multinational level you never have to actually reshore anything. The corporation buys things, or you take loans at incredibly low interest rates using corporate assets as collateral. Using made up numbers, imagine you take out a $1M loan, you get charged 1% interest, you put up $2M in corporate assets as collateral, and the corporation pays the bill directly.
by helicalmix | 2025-07-17 21:03:50+00:00
> So healthier customers means their profit is 5% of SMALLER_NUMBER.

I don't think this is completely true right? Rather, it's more accurate to say that customers that are seen as healthier get to pay less premiums, but customers that are seen as unhealthy have to pay more.

In both scenarios, you, as the insurance company, still want to be minimizing the amount of care you actually pay for.

In other words, to maximize profits, it seems like the best customer is one that's high risk (high premiums), but less likely to require a catastrophic payout. In which case, it feels like an obese high risk patient on ozempic seems like a pretty solid deal.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-07-17 21:04:28+00:00
> You could take a video (and, at minimum, you probably should, no matter who you’re renting from)

Absolutely. This is a required step for renting cars these days - get your phone out, and do a complete walk-around, as well as taking video of the interior. Make sure you record the gas level & the odometer as well.

> developers have actually built scanning apps that leverage machine learning of their own to identify and validate differences in before-and-after photos. One such startup is Proofr, whose app is currently live on Apple’s App Store. We have not used Proofr in such a capacity

Weirdest ad I've seen today.
by erentz | 2025-07-17 21:04:49+00:00
The shareholders got what they wanted with Intel. If it was the wrong decision for Intel doesn’t mean it’s the wrong decision for everyone and should be banned.

The idea that the stock market can only be used to flow shares in one direction has no merit. If you want to regulate executive compensation do that with direct clear regulation on executive compensation, not via some indirect rule change on the stock market.
by octo888 | 2025-07-17 21:05:09+00:00
> Many people at that age work, pay taxes

Not in the UK, particularly England. With the requirement to remain in education/do an apprenticeship/perform a mixture of work and part time education (in England), combined with our the personal allowance, very very few 16-18 year olds pay any tax or national insurance.

According to ChatGPT, data from the ONS in 2021 shows the average weekly earnings for 16-17 year olds was about £160, well below the personal allowance and NI thresholds
by maxlin | 2025-07-17 21:05:28+00:00
The act of trying to make that 2% appear like "minimal, dismissable" is almost a mass psychosis in the AI world at times it seems like.

A few comparisons:

>Pressing the button: $1 >Knowing which button to press: $9,999 Those 2% copy-paste changes are the $9.999 and might take as long to find as rest of the work.

Also: SCE to AUX.
by hiq | 2025-07-17 21:05:30+00:00
The problem with this spreadsheet task is that you don't know whether you got only 2% wrong (just rounded some numbers) or way more (e.g. did it get confused and mistook a 2023 PDF with one from 1993?), and checking things yourself is still quite tedious unless there's good support for this in the tool.

At least with humans you have things like reputation (has this person been reliable) or if you did things yourself, you have some good idea of how diligent you've been.
by perfmode | 2025-07-17 21:05:36+00:00
> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot.

> We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remove certain categories of personally identifiable information and to exclude profanity and unsafe material.

> Further, we continue to follow best practices for ethical web crawling, including following widely-adopted robots.txt protocols to allow web publishers to opt out of their content being used to train Apple’s generative foundation models. Web publishers have fine-grained controls over which pages Applebot can see and how they are used while still appearing in search results within Siri and Spotlight.

Respect.
by slg | 2025-07-17 21:05:48+00:00
This is taking what I said further than intended. I'm not saying the standard review process should catch the AI generated mistakes. I'm saying this work is at the level of someone who can and will make plenty of stupid mistakes. It therefore needs to be thoroughly reviewed by the person using before it is even up to the standard of a typical employee's work that the normal review process generally assumes.
by airstrike | 2025-07-17 21:06:49+00:00
The whole thread started because of this comment

> I heard from a friend who works for Intel that he doesn't know why he was hired in the first place; his PhD was in a completely different domain, the objectives of the project were remote to his skills, and he told me this is what his entire team was made of. Seems like a lot of bloat present in this company, and it makes sense they feel the way forward is layoffs.
by vidarh | 2025-07-17 21:06:58+00:00
I think that if people say LLMs can never be made to think, that is bordering on a religious belief - it'd require humans to exceed the Turing computable (note also that saying they never can is very different from believing current architectures never will - it's entirely reasonable to believe it will take architectural advances to make it practically feasible).

But saying they aren't thinking yet or like humans is entirely uncontroversial.

Even most maximalists would agree at least with the latter, and the former largely depends on definitions.

As someone who uses Claude extensively, I think of it almost as a slightly dumb alien intelligence - it can speak like a human adult, but makes mistakes a human adult generally wouldn't, and that combinstion breaks the heuristics we use to judge competency,and often lead people to overestimate these models.

Claude writes about half of my code now, so I'm overall bullish on LLMs, but it saves me less than half of my time.

The savings improve as I learn how to better judge what it is competent at, and where it merely sounds competent and needs serious guardrails and oversight, but there's certainly a long way to go before it'd make sense to argue they think like humans.
by rwmj | 2025-07-17 21:07:22+00:00
You can't do that in github as far as I know, but you can get git to display diffs that way (eg. for local review or email based workflows). You have to use a git "orderfile". Example:

https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/master/scripts/git.o...

We found it useful to display header files, interface files and documentation first, but maybe the linked paper will make us review that!
by _se | 2025-07-17 21:07:52+00:00
It's always POC apps in js or python, or very small libraries in other popular languages with good structure from the start. There are ways to make them somewhat better in other cases (automated testing/validation/linting being a big one), but for the type of thing that 95% of developers are doing day to day (working on a big, sprawling code base where none of those attributes apply), it's not close to being there.

The tools really do shine where they're good though. They're amazing. But the moment you try to do the more "serious" work with them, it falls apart rapidly.

I say this as someone that uses the tools every day. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that the "you don't get it, they're amazing at everything" people just aren't working on anything even remotely complicated. Or it's confirmation bias that they're only remembering the good results - as we saw with last week's study on the impact of these tools on open source development (perceived productivity was up, real productivity was down). Until we start seeing examples to the contrary, IMO it's not worth thinking that much about. Use them at what they're good at, don't use them for other tasks.

LLMs don't have to be "all or nothing". They absolutely are not good at everything, but that doesn't mean they aren't good at anything.