MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulluuk | 2025-07-18 06:54:56+00:00
I know this is just a casual comment, but this is a genuine concern I have every day. However, I've been working for 10 years now and working in music/video streaming has been the most "societal value" I've had thus far.

I've worked at Apple, in finance, in consumer goods.. everywhere is just terrible. Music/Video streaming has been the closest thing I could find to actually being valuable, or at least not making the world worse.

I'd love to work at an NGO or something, but I'm honestly not that eager to lose 70% of my salary to do so. And I can't work in pure research because I don't have a PhD.

What industry do you work in, if you don't mind me asking?
by f4c39012 | 2025-07-18 06:55:12+00:00
i can think of two reasons for using a third-party dependency

1) a dependency on a third-party service provider that publishes the dependency. So long as that service provider is current, the dependency should be maintained 2) short-cut to code i don't want to write

I have no arguments with (1), there's a business reason and the lifecycles should match. However, I should still expect major version breaking changes in order to keep my application running. For (2), the wins are less clear, more dependenent on the perceived complexity of what I can avoid writing.

Taking on any kind of dependency means that someone else can dictate when I need to spend time updating and testing changes that don't add anything to my product. Taking on a third-party dependency is always taking on a responsibility to maintain a codebase or the risk of not doing so.
by anthk | 2025-07-18 06:55:35+00:00
>Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Ah, well. I tried it under a Gemini proxy too, same message.

I might run it under edbrowse with Duktape. And it worked, but without Javascript enabled to my surprise:

https://github.com/cmb/edbrowse

Have fun learning a browser for the blind, but unvaluable for the hacker (either sighted or not).

Fast guide (you ed users already know how to use edbrowse, just glance a bit at the docs/ and you are done):

0z24 #we go to the top of the page # and set scrollling height z # page down z # pagedown /foo #term to search g1 # if we are seeing {a link} {another one}, go to the first one. rf #refresh the page

editing and submitting forms takes a while to learn, but you can read the docs and that's it. If you are a blind user at HN (and there is at least one I know), you can use yasr with speech-dispatcher to read your terminal.

Guide for OpenBSD users:

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/bsd/setting-up-a-terminal-s...

Edbrowse doubles as an editor, mail client and irc one too. And gopher of course. So, yasr will do a brilliant job there.
by kqr | 2025-07-18 06:55:43+00:00
The counties are administrative and there are bureaucrats who lead the county, but they are not titled, noble Counts and Countesses.

In Sweden, we also have administrative regions translated as counties, which are lead by someone I'd directly translate as "county chief" (as in "chief over this tribe") but they're anonymous bureaucrats a normal person wouldn't know about. (The common translation is the less exciting "governor".)
by rainforest | 2025-07-18 06:56:26+00:00
I had similar with my energy provider in the UK (Octopus). For one reason or another a regular payment bounced which automatically puts you on a "call daily until the debt is repaid" list.

These calls come in on an unrecognised number, from staff who say "I don't know" when you ask them to prove they are from Octopus, and generate no call notes so you can't find out why they rang if you use the main customer service number.

To top it off they ask you to key in your card info on the phone after asking for your personal information.

I complained and they offered to fob me off with £30 credit instead of talking to their CISO, but they did at least say they can add phone passwords to individual accounts.
by nikcub | 2025-07-18 06:56:44+00:00
> The recent Kimi-K2 supposedly works great.

My own experience is that it is below sonnet and opus 4.0 on capability - but better than gemini 2.5 pro on tool calling. It's really worth trying if you don't want to spend the $100 or $200 per month on Claude Max. I love how succinct the model is.

> you can use CC with any model via

Anthropic should just open source Claude Code - they're in a position to become the VS Code of cli coding agents.

Shout out to opencode:

https://github.com/sst/opencode

which supports all the models natively and attempts to do what CC does
by usgroup | 2025-07-18 06:57:43+00:00
This is a strange dichotomy. N years post CS undergraduate the majority of what you know will be self-taught, but how you've put it together in your head will be different with a theoretical background than without.

A theoretical background is valuable. It distills hundreds of years of other people's learnings. Ceteris paribus, if you do not have it, you are at a disadvantage.
by RedCardRef | 2025-07-18 06:58:34+00:00
Not really the case for Android, you skip the google account setup or the amazon account setup if you are using a fire tablet and continue using the device by sideloading whatever APKs you want. Most of the times the APKs that depend on Google Play Services will continue to work fine.

I skipped the amazon account registration and directly sideloaded the Google Play apps on my fire tablet.

Even for Google TVs you can skip the setup and use the TV as is. You can sideload APKs on this as well.

AFAIK, the account setup/login circumvention is not possible on fire tv sticks/google chromecasts.

You can take a very old android device factory reset it and continue using at as an offline only device without the blessings of google or amazon. (Except FRP devices)

But that is not the case with Apple, you need to connect it atleast once to the internet to activate the device.
by overfeed | 2025-07-18 06:59:00+00:00
> The computer science graduate will generally not even try to figure out a problem in completely unfamiliar territory

Hard disagree, as someone who had a stint as self taught before getting a CS degree. Once, I wasted a whole afternoon figuring out graph-traversal & loop detection from first principles[0] -if had I taken DS&A class, it'd have taken me all of 2 seconds to choose between BFS and DFS. Attentive CS graduates have a structured pool of information to draw from, as well as the language to describe the issue when they have to dig deeper.

> The computer science graduate will generally not even try to figure out a problem in completely unfamiliar territory

Do your colleagues actually do this? I'm curious about the mechanics- they just say "Sorry, that can't be done" and everyone moves on? Passing the buck feels to me more of a junior/mid-level/senior concern, rather than self-taught vs graduates. Juniors have the latitude to make challenges someone else's problem, and ownership grows with seniority.

0. For a C-program stack analyzer, it has to parse C code, generate a call-graph, and spit out worst-case stack-memory usage.
by herbst | 2025-07-18 06:59:45+00:00
Apple has zero to horrible support. There is no community. It's tech is a black box, it may is working 98% of the time but when it isn't you are fully on your own and have no actual way to do anything.

Not to mention that it looks and feels old, which most people likely don't care as it's still more modern than windows ever was since 95.

You will constantly pay the differences. In the 1 year or so I worked with a Mac I bought like 10 <$5 tools for things that would be a single command in Linux.

Depending on your hardware and what you do it will be slower, or slightly faster. If it's faster in anything it will likely run hot enough to cook some eggs on it.

Edit:// maybe just try a stable distro first
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-18 07:00:20+00:00
This is a reasonable analysis. It explains where AI is useful but I think it doesn't touch on AI's trustworthyness. When data is good, AI may or may not be trusted to complete it's task in an accurate manner. Often it can be trusted.

But sometimes good data is also bad data. HIPAA compliance audit guides are full of questions that are appropriate for a massive medical entity and fully impossible to answer for the much more common small medical practice.

No AI will be trained to know the latter is true. I can say that because every HIPAA audit guide assumes that working patient data is stored on practice-owned hardware - which it isn't. Third parties handle that for small practices.

For small med, HIPAA audit guides are 100 irrelevant questions that require fine details that don't exist.

I predict that AI won't be able overcome the absurdities baked into HIPAA compliance. It can't help where help is needed.

But past all that, there is one particularly painful issue with AI - deployment.

When AI isn't asked for, it is in the way. It is an obstacle to that needs to be removed. That might not be awful if MS, Google, etc didn't continually craft methods to make that as impossible as possible. It smacks of disdain for end users.

If this one last paragraph wasn't endlessly true, AI evangelists wouldn't have so many premade enemies to face - and there would be less friction all around.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-18 07:00:23+00:00
Sorry if it came through like that. I didn't mean to say Notion shares personal data to broker(s). I just wanted to highlight where it can go.

Please don't forget: Road to hell is paved with good intentions. Making features which can eavesdrop on users opt-in can go very wrong, very fast.

I understand the need to make it "feel like magic", but that line is very thin.

Last note, please when you move something around (e.g. Calculate button from bottom of the database columns to header menu), please let users know. It really feels bad when you use something too much just disappears.

BTW, I'm a Notion subscriber as you can say :)
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-07-18 07:00:34+00:00
> Any ideas how to progress from this?

You can't. This is a limitation of LLM technology. They can output the most likely token sequence, but if "likely" doesn't match "correct" for your problem then there's nothing you can do.

Also, each LLM has its own definition of what "likely" is - it comes from the training and finetuning secret sauce of that particular LLM.
by ofalkaed | 2025-07-18 07:01:15+00:00
I would recommend spending some time with a none rolling release/less fiddly distro and see what you think. I haven't had to fiddle with linux since I switched to slackware and settled on a wm ~20 years ago; since then the only time I have had an update affect my workflow was when slackware went PulseAudio which only caused me maybe 2 minutes to deal with. I have config files old enough to vote.

My original reasons for switching to linux was Apple disrupting my workflow on each major upgrade and from what I can tell they have not stopped doing that.
by codebje | 2025-07-18 07:01:26+00:00
8051s pretty much mean Keil - they used to do license dongles, but it's all online now. You really don't get much more established than the 8051. If you pick up any cheap electronic product and crack it open to find a low part count PCB with a black epoxy blob on it, chances are very good there's an 8051 core with a mask ROM under the blob.

(Also AVR/PIC compiler from Microchip had a dongle as recently as February this year, and it looks like it's still available for sale even though its license isn't in the new licensing model).
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-18 07:02:07+00:00
Things like financial and medical data should be required to have an audit log that you can see, in real-time and subscribe to updates for, including extraction into "anonymised" formats, along with a description of that process, format and a justification for why it is robust against deanonymisation. If data is handled well, there is nothing to fear here. Fiddly, perhaps. Expensive, probably. But personal data processing should be risky and expensive.

Deliberately extracting personal data into un-audited environments without good reason (eg printing a label for shipping), should be punished with GDPR-style global turnover-based penalties and jail for those responsible.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-18 07:04:17+00:00
The technology is only part of the problem. If you aren't happy with any existing database, throwing even more technology at it is definitely not going to help - statistically speaking. You're up against millions of engineering hours in this space.

At some point, we need to get up from the computer and go talk to the business and customer about their problem in terms that don't involve anything more sophisticated than excel spreadsheets. There is definitely some aspect you missed if you think you need to build a fully custom technology vertical to get them to pay for a solution.

Of course, all of this advice is pointless if what you are doing is for amusement or as a hobby. I think a lot of arguments about technology would be diffused if we prefaced with our intended applications.
by Nursie | 2025-07-18 07:04:36+00:00
> If there exists any number of people willing to buy small phones, then the statement "you have people who want them to fit in your hand" is true.

But the subtext is that this is enough of a population to make a viable market, that in fact any number of people, however small, make a viable market. It's just not a reasonable prior.

So I'm asserting that it may as well be zero as far as the big manufacturers are concerned, that with such a small audience it's not profitable. Further, that this dynamic does indeed play out in other markets.

OP is looking for a conspiracy as to why phone manufacturers are leaving money on the table. The truth is they aren't. This situation is exactly what you'd expect when there's no real market - a few niche providers making a few niche products for die-hards (without the scale, support or quality of the majors) and not making a lot of money at it, while the rest of the market ignores them.
by klank | 2025-07-18 07:06:13+00:00
No. I'm saying the areas you point out that you feel you could communicate, are ones in which you share a lived experience with the lion. You are both animals, you are both mammals. You get cold, hungry, thirsty, etc.

But lions, and us, are not just animals + mammals. Being a lion or a human means more. Ultimately, there is a uniquely human or lion element. Wittgenstein is saying we cannot communicate this.
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-18 07:07:40+00:00
The absurdity of e.g. the RSS feeds, specifically created to be consumed programatically, are blocked from being consumed programatically.

Note that in 90% of the cases this was unitentional. Just Cloudflare enabeling lazy contracters with overzealous defaults. And as I said before, yes, you can write to get this corrected, and maybe in the next maitainance update next quarter it might get fixed. Until the next cheapest contracter wins the bid, wipes the config to minimize mai tainance, and upu can startall over again.

The temaing 10% in case you wonder are malicious public bodies that want to pretend they do comply in making data public, but will do anything to make it as hard as possible to actually get to or consume yhat data. They love not just these blocking shenanigans, but will also hinder human browsing by putting in no translate pragmas, UX anti patterns, publish as poorly scanned PDFs, do not maintain canonical urls and shift things round constantly, remove things entirely "by mistake" even within the statutory period etc.

Then there's very rarely (>.5%) activists IT employees on a true 'anti AI' crusade. This is where you encounter the most ridiculous homebrew 'solutions' that will often result in hurting also normal people accessing the site. This to them is just collateral in their rightous war.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-18 07:07:53+00:00
That's a nonsense take. How fast you burn through usage limits depends on your use patterns, and if there's one thing that's true about LLMs, is that you can practically always improve your results by spending more tokens. Pay-per-use API pricing just makes you hit diminishing returns quickly. With Claude Code subscription, it's different.

The whole value proposition of a Max subscription is that it lets you stop worrying about tokens (Claude Code literally tells you so if you type `/cost` while authenticated with a subscription). So I'd turn around and say, people who don't regularly hit usage limits aren't using Claude Code properly - they're not utilizing it in full.

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Myself, I'm only using Claude Code for little R&D and some side projects, but I upgraded from Max x5 to Max x20 on the second day, as it's trivial to hit the Max x5 limit in a regular, single-instance chat. And that's without any smarts, just a more streamlined flavor of good ol' basic chat experience.

But then I look around, and see people experiment with more complex approaches. They run 4+ instances in parallel to work on more things at a time. They run multiple instances in parallel to get multiple solutions to the same task, and then mix them into a final one - possibly with help of yet another instance. They have the agent extensively research a thing before doing it, and then extensively validate it afterwards. And so on. Any single one of such tricks/strategies is going to make hitting limits on Max x20 a regular occurrence again.
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2025-07-18 07:08:06+00:00
Probably not: FUTO uses a slightly tweaked whisper that does not pad all audios to be 30s long as the original whisper does. It's not the end of the world to retrain this on more recent versions but they have not done so when whisper v3 came out, nor whisper v3 turbo. And voxtral has way more capabilities than stt that would then be wasted in a stt only setting imho.
by TheHeasman | 2025-07-18 07:08:32+00:00
"The survey was designed to search for bodies with orbits that extend far above and below the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun, part of the outer solar system that hasn’t been well-studied."

Christ. I didn't realise we hadn't looked at stuff not in Earth's plane. That's a tonne of space to explore, right in our own backyard.
by exe34 | 2025-07-18 07:10:05+00:00
> The problem is that when things go wrong, problems rapidly begin to require levels of knowledge far outside what a layperson can reasonably acquire. A missing driver, updates that need to be installed, configuration problems - these all run rampant on Linux to degrees far beyond what one experiences with a machine designed for Windows.

There are two claims here:

1. these problems are harder to solve on Linux

2. these problems happen more often on Linux.

I'd really like to see some actual studies of this, because I suspect they are both bullshit.
by klank | 2025-07-18 07:10:13+00:00
Analogies are always possible. I believe in the philosophical context though, understanding the meaning of something is not possible through analogy alone.

Reminds me of the quote:

“But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke’s liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one’s looking.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
by esperent | 2025-07-18 07:10:19+00:00
> It's a classification proposed by a Brasilian researcher at the university of Sao Paolo, not European

Ah, interesting. I've seen it pushed on European news outlets recently, I assumed it was an EU thing.

But as to the rest of your point - we agree, it's a statistical analysis. It shouldn't be used in discussions about whether any one particular food is healthy or not. However, here and on reddit, I've seen several comments using it to claim that specific food items like oat milk are unhealthy.
by coldwallet | 2025-07-18 07:10:47+00:00
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by tiboll | 2025-07-18 07:10:57+00:00
After some researches I ended up with Wallabag as well, hosted on wallabag.it. I've got a lot of things saved, sometimes quite long articles (I read a lot, but I save a lot more) The ePub export was a requirement for me since I moved to Kobo (originally for the Pocket compatibility) after old Pocket app on my 1st gen iPad Mini stopped working. I made some test to self host it but the epub export and the images caching was to much for my Synology NAS. I had some good results with a more powerful machine but I didn't want to keep it running 24/7. And finally the export works well on wallabag.it so I though the hosted version worth its price!
by throwaway277432 | 2025-07-18 07:11:18+00:00
Don't ever travel, never change anything related to billing except to update your cards before they expire. Don't change your name, email adresses or lose access to your phone number, and as we know now also don't ask support.

Then don't use any uncommon tools, e.g. ones associated with 'hacking', or store any copyrighted files in their cloud.

If there's any issue or error with logins etc., don't retry too quickly or too often or that in itself will be suspicious. Wait a day between requests, and double-check everything before retrying. Do not retry from a different IP or worse a VPN, or that will also be suspicious.

That should just about cover the bases for most providers.

Yes, it's insane and obviously you still need a backup of all your stuff just in case.
by CaptainFever | 2025-07-18 07:11:23+00:00
I'm surprised older OpenAI agents respected robots.txt.

Expecting AI agents to respect robots.txt is like expecting browser extensions like uBlock Origins to respect "please-dont-adblock.txt".

Of course it's going to be ignored, because it's an unreasonable request, it's hard to detect, and the user agent works for the user, not the webmaster.

Assuming the agent is not requesting pages at an overly fast speed, of course. In that case, feel free to 429.

Q: but what about botnets-

I'm replying in the context of "Users will be installing browser extensions or full browsers that run the actions on their local computer with the user's own cookie jar, IP address, etc."
by sbt | 2025-07-18 07:11:35+00:00
I have been using it for coding for some time, but I don't think I'm getting much value out of it. It's useful for some boilerplate generation, but for more complex stuff I find that it's more tedious to explain to the AI what I'm trying to do. The issue, I think, is lack of big picture context in a large codebase. It's not useless, but I wouldn't trade it for say access to StackOverflow.

My non-technical friends are essentially using ChatGPT as a search engine. They like the interface, but in the end it's used to find information. I personally just still use a search engine, and I almost always go to straight to Wikipedia, where I think the real value is. Wikipedia has added much more value to the world than AI, but you don't see it reflected in stock market valuations.

My conclusion is that the technology is currently very overhyped, but I'm also excited for where the general AI space may go in the medium term. For chat bots (including voice) in particular, I think it could already offer some very clear improvements.
by AnBouch | 2025-07-18 07:11:51+00:00
Hey, thanks for flagging this Oasnjdskjdn.

Indeed, we are not GDPR compliant. This explains why we don't have a cookie banner. I understand the confusion as this is something we offer to our customers.

In any case, we have cookie & privacy policies with an updated subprocessors list (and a security page) that you can check in our footer.

I understand your worries about privacy - we are fully OSS, you can inspect everything and check what we are tracking (our landing page is here: https://github.com/getprobo/getprobo.com)