MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by george87 | 2025-07-07 20:05:21+00:00
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by _1tem | 2025-07-07 20:05:32+00:00
A significant number of new signups at my tiny niche SaaS now come from ChatGPT, yet I have no idea what prompts people are using to get it to recommend my product. I can’t get it to recommend my product when trying some obvious prompts on my own, on other people’s accounts (though it does work on my account because it sees my chat history of course).
by RiverCrochet | 2025-07-07 20:05:33+00:00
> Implement a new interface type that uses the technology called 'bluetooth mesh' and your vision is done.

Reticulum supports using serial ports as interfaces, so if you get serial-over-Bluetooth working it can be done now.

One other thing I really like about Reticulum is that it also supports generic stdin/stdout to a process as an interface, so with some scripting and what not you can literally make it work over anything.
by tshaddox | 2025-07-07 20:05:34+00:00
My memory is the opposite: I recall learning that an asteroid impact was the most likely explanation, and the K-T boundary was the biggest piece of evidence, and the only problem was that they hadn’t discovered a candidate impact crater. And it wasn’t until the first decade of the 2000s that consensus started to emerge that the big crater in the Yucatán is the likely cause.
by wmeredith | 2025-07-07 20:05:34+00:00
> summarizing or reciting portions of the contents

This absolutely falls under copyright law as I understand it (not a lawyer). E.g. the disclaimer that rolls before every NFL broadcast. The notice states that the broadcast is copyrighted and any unauthorized use, including pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game, is prohibited. There is wiggle room for fair use by news organizations, critics, artists, etc.
by freejazz | 2025-07-07 20:05:51+00:00
>It kind of is though?

No, it kinda isn't. Show me anything that supports this idea beyond your own immediate conjecture right now.

>It's not the only reason fair use exists, but it's the thing that allows e.g. search engines to exist, and that seems pretty important.

No, that's the transformative element of what a search engine provides. Search engines are not legal because they can't contact each licensor, they are legal because they are considered hugely transformative features.

>There are thousands of publishing houses and millions of self-published authors on top of that. Many books are also out of print or have unclear rights ownership.

Okay, and? How many customers does Microsoft bill on a monthly basis?
by zdragnar | 2025-07-07 20:05:52+00:00
The pictures of the planets bit makes sense, as even with a telescope (through which we've seen the plants for a very long time) there's not really enough light for early film techniques to capture well.

I do identify a bit with the dinosaur example, and to use another: plate tectonics wasn't a formalized and accepted theory until late in the 1960's. It spread to schools quickly, but by that point my parents had already graduated, and it was new for my parents when my older brother went to school.
by datameta | 2025-07-07 20:06:40+00:00
I think the concept/term Edge has been diluted in meaning... Near edge, far edge, etc. It includes everything from truly remote ultra-low power compute to essentially a branched local data center that is certainly closer to the cloud if you ask me.

"Not on the trunk" isn't a sufficient threshold for me nor is "not the cloud" a good filter.
by gynvael | 2025-07-07 20:07:43+00:00
> This is a pretty clear statement on normativity.

I disagree – it's a technical remark on redundancy of fields (this is related to my hypothesis in the article that redundancy in formats is the primary cause of parser discrepancy). It doesn't acknowledge InfoZIP being canonical in any way.

> You also left out an important part of my comment when you quoted it. (The operative word at the front of the sentence is "seems".)

Fair, though my point still stands.
by homarp | 2025-07-07 20:08:05+00:00
see also https://github.com/opengrep/opengrep

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42804634 and https://joshcgrossman.com/2025/01/28/whats-going-on-with-sem...

and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43054673
by int_19h | 2025-07-07 20:08:12+00:00
The complexity of these rules, and the number of exceptions that you need to learn notwithstanding the rules, can be roughly estimated for any given language by training a language model on word <-> IPA correspondence for that language (using a subset of the vocabulary as a training set), and then seeing how well it can predict the remaining words. You can run it in either direction, too, to separately measure the difficulty of reading (word -> IPA) and writing (IPA -> word) that language.

This was actually done for a number of languages including English:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13321

You can see how languages with true phonemic spellings tend to be in the >90% range on both reading and writing, with Esperanto at 99%. Spanish and German are in 60-80% range. English is dismal at ~30% for both, though, with only French and Chinese being harder to write, and all other languages tested being easier to read.
by const_cast | 2025-07-07 20:08:50+00:00
Go is a great choice these days pretty much exclusively due to the tooling. Turns out having a good compiler that's really, really fast is a big deal.

My main issue with prototyping as a concept is that it doesn't exist in most workplaces. Prototypes quickly devolve into applications. Discarding code is risky. Your best bet IMO is choosing a language that's ergonomic in the long run, because odds are you're in for the long run.

dotnet is another great choice because of the tooling and batteries included, although you do have to deal with a fairly slow compiler. Java is okay too, but Java is very restrictive and high-friction, which might not lend itself to prototyping.

In the world of scripting languages, ironically PHP is a decent choice. It has better progressive typing than Python and it's reasonably safe these days. We've sort of come full circle on PHP. The downside is that PHP programmers tend to throw everything in an array, especially when going fast. That hurts readability and the IDE a lot.

And then, of course, typescript and node. I don't like typescript. There's something about scripting languages with build steps that pisses me off. But, it's got a wide developer pool and it's not the worst language ever. Although there's a bit too much teeth-pulling IMO with typescript.
by pshirshov | 2025-07-07 20:09:11+00:00
> Why the hell would I ever buy AMD in this situation?

I've purchased one earlier this year for ~3200 USD. Brand new. Dunno why US prices are so high. Torch/llama work fine on this card, it's suitable for multiple compute tasks, the price is reasonable, but apparently not always/everywhere.

> you can pay double that

That's... double that.

UPD. Just checked current EU prices. W7900 is 3200 EUR (been cheaper before), cheapest Nvidia card is RTX Pro 5000 for 5300 (much slower than W7900), cheapest 96Gb Nvidia card is 10K.

W7900 still provides best bang per dollar.
by asdf6969 | 2025-07-07 20:09:44+00:00
It’s not reading. Consuming is a better way to put it. Just like how the radio is not a newspaper and twitch streams aren’t gaming.

You get a very different experience with text compared to audio and it changes how the book is written. You can tell the author was trying to make an audio book. Like how TV TV and Netflix TV are very different because they have to conform to their format. The best written books are often ones where I find myself slowing down, rereading, or doing research in the middle and none of this is possible if my hands are occupied.
by dmitsuki | 2025-07-07 20:10:17+00:00
The only reason that sounds weird to you is because you have the experience of being human. Human behavior is not magic. It's still just statistics. You go to the bathroom when you have to pee not because some magical concept of consciousness, but because a reciptor in your brain goes off and starts the chain of making you go to the bathroom. AI's are not magic, but nobody has sufficiently provided any proof we are somehow special either.
by handfuloflight | 2025-07-07 20:10:25+00:00
You completely ignored my conflation argument because you can't defend it, then accused me of "deflecting", that's textbook projection. You're the one deflecting by strawmanning me into defending "deterministic LLMs" when I never made that claim.

My compiler analogy wasn't about determinism: it was about abstraction levels. You're desperately trying to make this about LLM reliability when my point was about focusing cognitive energy where it matters most. Classic misdirection.

You can't defend your "keystroke mechanics = architectural wisdom" position, so you're creating fake arguments to attack instead. Enjoy your "deep, hard-won knowledge" from typing semicolons while I build actual systems.
by bobmcnamara | 2025-07-07 20:10:32+00:00
Interesting recent news about diabetes!

Type 1 has been reversed through pancreas and islet transplants, recently in at least one individual by stem cell transplants, now he makes his own insulin.

For some type 2 individuals diagnosed early enough, blood sugar can be managed through diet and exercise, and insulin response can be normalized back to typical levels. This seems to work best when caught early, and when the person has the ability to make long lasting lifestyle changes. And the risk of relapse seems to remain much higher than in the general population.
by artamonovkirill | 2025-07-07 20:10:39+00:00
> We’ve received a large number of applications, and after careful consideration, we regret to inform you that we are unable to include your application on the shortlist for this position.

The issue is—I clicked Enter while trying to close the "Skill Set" pop-up (which has a rather inconvenient user experience). Still, the incomplete form was sent instead: the only required field is "Last Name", and no submission confirmation either.
Ask HN: What's the verdict on GPT wrapper companies these days?
by NewUser76312 | 2025-07-07 20:10:51+00:00
Do you use any, do you find them valuable, do they do something the foundation model companies are not doing?

I wondered this about a year ago and wanted to revisit the question.

Today I did some research on Product Hunt and also looked through various recent YC companies. What hit me immediately was - wow! - there are some really good designers (or maybe it's with AI now) putting together slick product demos and 1-3 min vids. Most of the products I came across are AI for various things like creating office docs, sending emails, creating presentations, web scraping, making mobile apps, managing meetings and relationships, etc.

However, when I get past the flashiness and start investigating a bit, I don't really see what's special or setting these products apart from a foundation model + rudimentary RAG in some cases. In fact, many file-related and memory-dependent applications can be done perfectly well via the base Open AI chat website today. To give credit where it's due, I think some of these products have better 'flows' via various prompt engineering tricks. Enough to justify a big monthly stipend over my existing OAI/Anthropic subscriptions, I don't know.

But my overall take when I see many of these, is that they are probably not startups, at least not ones that I see lasting. They have to go more and more niche to get away from the tentacles of increasingly capable foundation model capabilities. The big ones that seem to be enduring and doing well are Perplexity and Cursor, they seem to have grown quickly enough in the early days to attract a lot of resources and talent to keep building features. So maybe the foundation models can only do ~60% of what they do, while for the products/startups I described above, that number is more like 90%. My conclusion is to be somewhat bearish on 'GPT wrappers', perhaps until more creative ideas (e.g. physical-world use cases) come to fruition, because the SaaS space seems rough.
by hathawsh | 2025-07-07 20:11:09+00:00
Here is a simple summary of the common voices/moods in technical writing:

- Active: The user presses the Enter key.

- Passive: The Enter key is to be pressed.

- Imperative (aka command): Press the Enter key.

The imperative mood is concise and doesn't dance around questions about who's doing what. The reader is expected to do it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-07 20:11:10+00:00
The first federal copyright law in 1790:

https://copyright.gov/about/1790-copyright-act.html

Specified in dollars because dollars had been invented (in 1789), but in the amount of one half of one dollar, i.e. $0.50. That's 1790 dollars, of course, so a little under $20 today. (There was basically no inflation for the first 100+ years of that because the US dollar was still backed by precious metals then; a dollar was worth slightly more in 1900 than in 1790.)

That seems more like an attempt to codify some amount of plausible actual damages so people aren't arguing endlessly about valuations, rather than an attempt to impose punitive damages. Most notably because -- unlike the current method -- it scales with the number of sheets reproduced.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-07 20:11:21+00:00
> I have no idea what stuff would be censored in France

Being French, what is the most likely to be censored relates to the Nazis. Holocaust denial is a crime for instance. Hate speech in general, including racism, antisemitism, homophobia, sexism, etc... is less tolerated than in countries like the US that have a more "free for all" view of free speech. We also have strong anti-defamation laws, that can also apply to true, but misleading statements.

But other than that, there is not much political censorship. In fact, we are known for our protests, heated debates and satirical papers. It is not perfect, but on top of my head, I can't think of anything particular a LLM could censor except the usual "hate speech" that most LLMs censor already.

When it comes to Israel-Palestine, it is a hot topic, but there is not real censorship here, even though both side will claim they are of course.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-07-07 20:11:22+00:00
What this immediately makes me realize is how many people are currently trying ot figure out how to intentionally get AI chat bots to send people to their site, like ChatGPT was sending people to this guy's site. SEO for AI. There will be billions in it.

I know nothing about this. I imagine people are already working on it, wonder what they've figured out.

(Alternatively, in the future can I pay OpenAI to get ChatGPT to be more likely to recommend my product than my competitors?)
by int_19h | 2025-07-07 20:11:35+00:00
At least that's often spelled "fo'c'sle" these days, which gives you a good idea of the actual pronunciation.

My personal favorite in English is "colonel" being pronounced the same as "kernel". Which is insane even from an etymological perspective because the word is a derivative of "column" (as in, a colonel is someone who commands/leads a column of soldiers).
by jacobolus | 2025-07-07 20:12:15+00:00
Besides 2 and 3 dimensions, it's also the case in 8 and 24 dimensions (The E₈ lattice and Leech lattice, respectively). These were proven in 2017 by Maryna Viazovska, with some collaborators for the second paper. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2017.185.3.7 https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2017.185.3.8

See also https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201702/rnoti-p102.pdf

For other dimensions, this is an open question; it seems unlikely to be true in general. For some dimensions the densest known irregular packing is denser than the densest known regular packing.
by lurking_swe | 2025-07-07 20:13:52+00:00
Electrolux. Their washers tend to be non-smart. I own one in the U.S. and i’m happy with it.

Here’s a similar one available in ireland (€429.99): https://www.did.ie/products/electrolux-8kg-1400rpm-freestand...

I confirmed this on the products official page here: https://www.electrolux.co.uk/laundry/laundry/washing-machine...

click on “product details”, then “Full Specification”, it says “Connectivity: No”.

The Electrolux ireland store (online) sells many different parts as well, so repairs shouldn’t be too stressful in the future.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-07 20:14:10+00:00
Work related: I have an addiction to food and shelter.

Relationship related: former marriage: I didn’t want to be seen as a failure even though I knew I was the only person in it for the right reason. Within four years I said “fuck it. I can start over”. Current marriage early on: I thought it was worth it and we got through it. I couldn’t imagine my life without my wife.

Financial from both my first divorce and overdoing it before the real estate crash: it’s only numbers. I never doubted I would eventually recover even though it took 8 years.
by const_cast | 2025-07-07 20:14:16+00:00
While this is definitely true, we have to acknowledge Windows has some unique challenges in this space. Sleep pretty much never works correctly on Windows laptops. For me, suspend does. In addition, Windows does have background processes doing god knows what. It's not uncommon to have some slowdown, open up Task Manager and seeing some process I-don't-know-what-it-does pinned at 99% CPU usage.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-07 20:14:49+00:00
Yeah but we represent a lot of vowel sounds by combining vowels - 5 letters (not including y), if we allow any combo of two to represent a different sound that's 25 combos, and if we remember that preceding and following consonants can modify vowels too (though, dough, caught bought vs thou, bao, sour, or; on, con, Ron vs how, cow, ow) that's quite a lot of combos.

Now, you can (and should!) accuse me of cherry-picking examples, since the rules are less consistent and/or vastly more complicated than what I represented. But I maintain that there are orders of magnitude more ways to represent vowel sounds than 5, and the clue is the context. Not, as many will suggest, memorizing each individual case (though there's certainly plenty of that going around, much like Spanish's infamous irregularly verb conjugations), but understanding categories and families and patterns.

English sounds usually are best understood with groups of three letters, rather than one letter at a time. If you looks at throuples, you'll likely find far more of that consistency we all so deeply desire.
by cmiles74 | 2025-07-07 20:15:04+00:00
FWIW, I don’t think there is a prompt that would reliably produce, verbatim, a copyrighted work.

I do think that a big part of the reason Anthropic downloaded millions of books from pirate torrents was because they needed that input data in order to generate the output, their product.

I don’t know what that is, but, IMHO, not sharing those dollars with the creators of the content is clearly wrong.
by leptons | 2025-07-07 20:15:12+00:00
Are you kidding?? Not everyone is involved with tech and most people don't know what "the cloud" even means. It's some abstract thing to most people, and they simply don't care where anything is processed, so long as they get the answer they were hoping for. And most people do not set up LLMs locally. I'm not sure what universe you live in, but it seems vastly different than the one I live in. People in my universe unknowingly and happily give over all their most private data to "the cloud", sometimes with severe repercussions - all the leaked celebrity nudes easily prove that.
by trealira | 2025-07-07 20:15:15+00:00
> Transgender people often suffer gender dysphoria.

That's the definition of it.

> You're correct that it's possible that gender dysphoria might be a downstream effect of society. Namely, we are an extremely gender-segregated society. I'm not saying that it's that simple and all transgender people would disappear if we live in a society with no gender roles or expectations, but certainly they heavily feel the pressure of those gender roles and expectations.

I don't think this is the case. Strict gender roles might make trans people's dysphoria worse, but it's primarily about a strong desire to be the other sex and not have your current sexual characteristics. Even in a world where everything is unisex, a trans person would still feel that discomfort - for a trans girl/woman, that you wish your voice were higher and not like a man's, that your face seems alien, that your genitals are wrong, literally anything sexed about the human body. It's orthogonal to whether a man can wear a dress or makeup. Not all trans women are even that feminine. And if it were about gender roles, then you'd expect more trans women to exist than trans men, given "there's truly only one way to be a man, although there are multiple ways to be a woman."
by sdsd | 2025-07-07 20:16:21+00:00
I actually really enjoy dinosaur movies when I watch them with my toddler. To him, big dinos chasing people is pretty much peak cinema. Watching it with him is so much more entertaining than doing it alone, and tbh, the last thing I want to see is artslop where dinosaurs are a metaphor for the director's divorce or insecure aging professionals trying to feel better about their midlife crisis or whatever.

Dinosaur movies are really good at doing what they're supposed to do, lest we end up with one more genre sucked into the black hole of prestige entertainment.
by upghost | 2025-07-07 20:16:28+00:00
Can we use this micro moment to try to bridge the gap? I was sold on cocaine but all I've gotten so far was corn starch. Is there like a definitive tutorial on this? I mean look I am proud of my work but if I can drop 200-1000/month for the "blue stuff" I'm not gonna turn my nose up at it.

I've been pretty deeply into LLMs myself since 2023 and built several small models myself from scratch and (SFT) trained many more so it's not like I'm ignorant of how it works, I'm just not getting the workflow results.
by metalman | 2025-07-07 20:16:52+00:00
fix the old stuff. while you are fixing it, you can disable all the pre-smart, "features", further fixing it impact driver, and a few wrenches, if it's realy broken, then keep going till its easy to tote pieces, and go find a used one someone is just replacing in an "upgrade" older heavy duty commercial stuff is sought after now....it was designed to be fixed. personaly, I can fix, or modify,most stuff, and scratch build any imaginable simple machine, mostly for shop or agricultural use, but venture into marine and aviation parts and systems. a lot of (older) domestic and comercial stuff can be figured out just useing visual diagnosis and following the logic of the circuits, which is often usefull in detrmining that the broken part is a "feature" and can just be bypassed, essentialy backdating the applience to an even earlier itteration, which then goes ahead and washes clothes, which you know are now clean, because the machine STOPPED making noise, rather than finishing with a flourish of beeping, or buzzing