MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yuliyp | 2025-07-18 14:40:22+00:00
> you should be interpreting them at time of reading the log

This reminds me of a fun interaction in browser devtools: you can log a complex struct to the console. The browser does not copy the entire nested structure when you do so immediately, meaning that if someone mutates that struct after it was logged, the value you see depends on when you expanded the nested struct.
by accrual | 2025-07-18 14:40:26+00:00
Indeed, I've worked on billing system that relied heavily on pure JavaScript. Not even modern flavors with map/reduce, etc. - ECMAScript 5. It worked surprisingly well and our bottleneck wasn't the runtime but rather the databases we were constantly upserting to.

It sounds kinda crazy but with good change control, documentation, good relationship with the ETL team - it was pretty maintainable.
by mvdwoord | 2025-07-18 14:40:30+00:00
Not a COBOL developer, but working at a sizeable bank I witnessed the phasing out of their mainframes and AS400 systems. They ran some critical systems, both in retail and wholesale banking. They either converted to java, and optimized that code, but some COBOL code from the mainframe, and all of the AS400 stuff was converted into Micro Focus COBOL, which runs on Windows, which could be hosted on our Private Cloud. I worked on helping them migrate to our cloud infra, which was an interesting exercise. There was a very tangible cultural gap between the people maintaining and developing these applications and the rest of the organization.
by al_borland | 2025-07-18 14:40:47+00:00
The LLMs aren't necessarily competitors. Apple doesn't need to have the best all around LLM. They need to create an AI with excellent integration into their OS and the data the user's store on those systems. Beyond that, they need to have a good system for plugging into whatever other generic LLM a person might want/need. Having something decent out of the box is nice, for basic questions, but being able to easily switch to whatever specialist company is in the lead, or best suited for a user's need, is a lot better than being stuck with one first-party option. Based on how ChatGPT looks in the Apple Settings, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the plan.

Much like with the internet, Apple didn't need to re-invent every website to own it all. From Apple platforms a user can access Amazon, Google, or whatever else. Apple didn't create the internet, they sold a gateway to it. AI could be done largely the same way. This way it doesn't matter who wins, Apple can support it. At the end of the day, an LLM doesn't exist on its own, it needs to be accessed through hardware/software people enjoy using, and not be yet another device to charge and carry. Apple has a very popular phone and the most popular wearable. This positions them very well. They are often late to the party, but tend to be best dressed. The first iPhone didn't even have video, and people clowned them for it, and now iPhone video is largely considered one of the best in the smartphone world.
by fusslo | 2025-07-18 14:41:07+00:00
I think you're probably right

I believe it's Notion, not me, who is doing the recording. And Notion doesn't require everyone's consent, just mine.

So if I am to take your meaning, it'd be up to me to disable the meeting notes if any other attendee is in a 2 party consent state (assuming everyone is in the US, IDK how other countries handle that)
by throw0101c | 2025-07-18 14:41:33+00:00
I find it baffling that distributions are making all of these system-level changes away from how a 'traditional' Linux/Unix does/did things, towards handling 'dynamic' situations, when a large portion of the installed of Linux is probably servers: i.e., why would you even consider the DHCP client situation for a server?

As a sysadmin I want a static files that never change, and whose mtime is from when I installed the thing two years ago. I'll either launch vi to make changes or Ansible/Puppet/etc.

Make the default the default as static-y as possible, and if someone is installing a personal system have a "laptop-config" or "desktop-config" package that adds all the dynamic bits separately.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-18 14:41:34+00:00
Two people are cited as example.

Linus Torvalds has a master degree in computer science

Margaret Hamilton studied mathematics than proceeded to work at MIT, computer science wasn't really a thing back then, but she had a close enough education.

Most of the big names in computing have some formal education in addition to being tinkerers. Purely self-taught yet outstanding engineers are the exception rather than the rule.

College teaches you things you probably won't see elsewhere, theoretical foundations, lesser known systems, etc... You won't see that elsewhere because it is hard work and you won't get immediate results. It is not particularly fun and employers won't pay you for this. But if opens up your skills and complements tinkering well, for example by recognizing that the problem you are trying to solve is a classic problem that many people have studied before you and there is a whole lot of information on it that you can miss if you don't have the right keywords.
by ryandv | 2025-07-18 14:42:11+00:00
> They're socialized in such a way that sets them up for failure, and they have to actively work to overcome this. Those that don't, fail.

I can unquestionably see what you are talking about with respect to white culture, but it's literally racist for you to presume that all other cultures (e.g. Asian cultures) socialize all of their men to be evil.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-07-18 14:42:26+00:00
Thanks for the explanation. I actually found out the USB-C plug can act as a USB device. At USB 2.0 speeds oddly enough. So I have all my Pi 4s configured now in that mode and I just power them through the 5 volt header, which seems simpler. Albeit less convenient.

I had to get this USB "power blocker" that only passes the data pins through, otherwise the Pi runs off the computer it is plugged into all the time
by ashfn | 2025-07-18 14:42:28+00:00
Hey all, I found a cool way to convert text into a specific order of a deck of playing cards. I detailed the instructions of how it works in the blog post but a brief overview would be that it uses Lehmer codes which allow you to uniquely identify each permutation of a set i.e. each of the many many ways a deck of cards can be shuffled/arranged
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-18 14:42:43+00:00
That's part of the problem; it's only legally required to be shown post-ACA.

https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/form-w-2-reporting-o...

> The Affordable Care Act requires employers to report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan. Reporting the cost of health care coverage on the Form W-2 does not mean that the coverage is taxable. The value of the employer’s excludable contribution to health coverage continues to be excludable from an employee's income, and it is not taxable. This reporting is for informational purposes only and will provide employees useful and comparable consumer information on the cost of their health care coverage.

So, it went from "I pay $50/month for healthcare" to "my paycheck says they're taking $2k/month! what the fuck?!" in folks' minds.
by charles_f | 2025-07-18 14:43:37+00:00
> The only way to protect data is to keep it always encrypted on servers, without the servers having the ability to decrypt.

> If FHE is a possible option, people and institutions will demand it.

I don't think that privacy is a technical problem. To take the article's example, why would Google allow you to search without spying on you? Why would chatgpt discard your training data?

GPG has been around for decades. You can relatively easily add a plug-in to use it on top of gmail. Surely the protocol is not perfect, but could have been made better much more easily than it is to improve HPE, since a lot of its clunkiness can be corrected by UX. But people never cared enough that everything they write is read by Google to encrypt it. And since Google loves reading what you write, they'll never introduce something like HPE without overwhelming adoption and requirements by others.
by 93po | 2025-07-18 14:43:45+00:00
In two party consent states, don't need explicit consent from the other party, you just have to tell them you're recording or using a live transcription service that captures but doesn't store audio. But explicit consent is better (which can just be them acknowledging what you said with "ok") if you ever need to defend yourself.

With Notion it's still you doing the recording, you're the one using software and clicking a button to record.
by notreallymetho | 2025-07-18 14:43:50+00:00
Your dynamic chunking might relate to something I found - semantic space is hyperbolic, making some computations exponentially harder than others: https://zenodo.org/records/15983944

Truthfully H-nets sound like something some of my other work has been circling around, albeit in a different manner. Hoping to try them out at some point! Very curious to read more!
by bpt3 | 2025-07-18 14:44:05+00:00
> However, we see a new type of rationing, based upon how much patients cost, and then denying care.

This is not at all new. It's how every other market operates.

For healthcare, which is not a normal market by any means, it might make sense to approach rationing differently because most people refuse to accept that rationing occurs at all, but cost will always be part of the picture.
by klik99 | 2025-07-18 14:44:24+00:00
It’s true startups go against deeper pockets, but I stand by my analysis since Uber / Amazon / Tesla (to a degree) were early tech companies going against old companies and not competing with others doing the exact same thing. They operated at a loss to defeat the old guard. Today that model doesn’t work well, and Anthropic are against deeper pockets that are doing nearly the exact same thing as them. If they were the only innovative company with huge outside investment against entrenched and unwilling to innovate older companies like Uber and Amazon then I’d agree there was a bigger chance.

And I like Anthropic, I want them to be successful, but they just can’t operate at a loss like this for long, they have to make some tough calls, and trying to cut corners behind the scenes is not good for long term trust
by hopelite | 2025-07-18 14:44:45+00:00
Considering our government’s practices that most people are not even aware of leading up to WWI and WWI, in addition to the ones people are a bit more aware of regarding the anti-war, pro-peace movements leading up to Vietnam, not to mention what we were forced and willingly gave up following 9/11; most likely the government will abuse us and destroy the very few rights we have in theory.

I am 100% sure of this because the government has been 100% consistent and 100% abusive about this, 100% of the time.

Even the Civil War was clearly orchestrated and the people were abused and not just rights, but the very core Constitution was essentially destroyed and nullified, and what we’ve had since is nothing more than an abusive invalidated social contract upheld my sheer force, delusion, and bribing. The delusion and bribery part being what keeps people from realizing that.
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
by proberts | 2025-07-18 14:44:57+00:00
I'll be here for the rest of the day. As usual, there are countless immigration-related topics to discuss and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers.

Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.
by mystraline | 2025-07-18 14:45:13+00:00
And some of us remember that asshole, Lieberman, was the one who blocked the Public Insurance option (aka universal insurance fund, a type of single payer). And he also blocked having medicare/medicaid from again negotiating for drug costs.

I keep saying, cause its true: this is a republican plan, pushed by republican governor, and by a republican thinktank, branded as socialist because a black democrat had the audacity to push it.
by mandevil | 2025-07-18 14:45:29+00:00
That second point is what the LUMEOS trial demonstrates is not true: LUMEOS tested a AAV2 vector delivered inside the retina by a surgeon (just like Luxterna) yet instead of 80% of patients showing improvements only 40% did(1). What went wrong? What is the difference? That's going to take more research, which makes the whole thing expensive and time consuming and risky.

We are not yet at the point where we can effectively just substitute genes and everything works in vivo, and until we get to that point every fix requires its own Phase III trial, and that (both the costs and the chance of complete failure) is what drives the R&D expense through the roof, even if a single infusion could fix the problem, unlike the other examples I cited.

1: Existing gene editing platforms don't work well for large genes: there is an effective base pair limit for all existing techniques in vivo. Most Stargardt's genes, to pick another similar to Luxterna as an example, are above that limit, and will require new techniques not yet approved in vivo.
by psunavy03 | 2025-07-18 14:45:45+00:00
The way it was explained to me, foil evolved from training for duels to the death (body strikes only), epee evolved from training for duels to first blood (hit anywhere works), and sabre from cavalry training (edge is legal, but only waist up as you're often on a horse).

Then they took on their individual quirks like right-of-way.
by tlogan | 2025-07-18 14:45:59+00:00
America arguably offers the best healthcare in the world. If you can afford it.

The quality of care, technology, and expertise are top-tier for those with excellent insurance or deep pockets. But the system is neither free nor particularly efficient. For many, access is limited by cost, bureaucracy, and inequities. So yes, it is best care available, but not best care accessible.
by sctb | 2025-07-18 14:46:02+00:00
You added the "just". Becoming a better person is probably the best thing you can shoot for, though obviously it's not a trivial process and requires significant effort and intention. I mean, what else can you do? You're the one that has to live with yourself.

Even if the whole world is going to shit, if you desire the happiness and wellbeing of others, as a deep internal orientation, this itself is its own form of happiness which is not subject to anything external. Since this thread already has Buddhist vibes, you don't have to take my word for it and can refer to metta (loving-kindness) as its own practice in addition to mindfulness.
by paulluuk | 2025-07-18 14:46:26+00:00
I work in R&D, and although I haven't signed an NDA, I think it's best if I don't elaborate too much. But basically we have a large dataset of shows and movies for which we already know how well they did with specific audiences, but we didn't know why exactly. So we use LLMs to reverse-engineer a large amount of metadata about these shows, and then use traditional ML to train a model that learns which feature appeal to which audiences.

Most stuff is obvious: nobody needs to tell you what segment of society is drawn to soap operas or action movies, for example. But there's plenty of room for nuance in some areas.

This doesn't guarantee that it actually becomes a succesful movie or show, though. That's a different project and frankly, a lot harder. Things like which actors, which writers, which directors, which studio are involved, and how much budget the show has.. it feels more like Moneyball but with more intangible variables.
by SteveJS | 2025-07-18 14:46:27+00:00
I used it for 2 weeks with the cheap $17/mo sub. It is equal parts amazing, and frustrating.

I ended up with 8k lines of rust and 12k lines of markdown. I think those markdown designs and explicit tasks were required the same way unit tests with a test harness are required to make the human-tool interaction work.

However, I’m not sure if the ‘magic’ is VC-subsidy or something else.

It did make rust (a language i do not know) feel like a scripting language. … the github repo is ‘knowseams’.
by paulgerhardt | 2025-07-18 14:46:31+00:00
That actually sounds pretty reasonable and feels almost standard at this point?

To pick one out of a dozen possible examples: I regularly read 500 word news articles from 8mb web pages with autoplaying videos, analytics beacons, and JS sludge.

That’s about 3 orders of magnitude for data and 4-5 orders of magnitude for compute.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-18 14:46:56+00:00
The US oligarchy runs the biggest propaganda operation in history. From think tanks that sell neoliberal policy narratives, to captured journalists in the MSM, to Fox News and its imitators, to podcasts, megachurches, conventional media content, carefully curated addictive social media algorithms, paid SM influencers, troll and bot farms, normalised work ethics and workplace dynamics, adtech and the ad industry, and "edgy" sites like nChan - it's all managed messaging.

It's targeted across all US demographics. Sometimes covertly.

And increasingly it's fine-tuned towards individual interests and psychological triggers.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-07-18 14:46:58+00:00
I'm frequently frustrated by journalism on these topics which show their ignorance or just "not getting it". It's important to focus not just on lifespan, but healthspan.

Even if I do not live a single year longer, improving the quality of those years is of value to me. There might even be some calculus underwhich its actually desirable to live a _shorter_ life but with far higher quality. Right now it sounds appealing to me if someone said "You'll only live to 85" (about a 2 year expected loss), "but you'll have the health of a 18-25 year old male for the entire time" ...

And if it does enable longevity... Society has a lot of catching up to do, and a lot of ripple challenges to effect. Things like what happens when someone who looks 25 is actually 55? Who should they socially acceptably date? (~25 year olds? ~55 year olds who look 25? ~55 year olds who look 55?)

What happens when your voter base has internalized values from far in the past? If we make someone live to 120, then we need to contend with values lasting for ~120 years, rather than dying off and being refreshed sooner.
by adolph | 2025-07-18 14:47:18+00:00
This is pretty fascinating. Where did the PFAS come from? How long has it existed in the drinking water?

Yet here, just half an hour from Sedan, the region's second-biggest town, there is no chemical plant. Only fields of corn and rapeseed, few cattle farms, and small wooded hills. [...] Contacted by Le Monde, the ARS and the prefectures of the Ardennes and Meuse departments sought to reassure: "At this stage, statistically, there are no adverse health indicators demonstrating a health consequence for the populations of these villages." The authorities based their response on the results of a national epidemiological study titled "Esteban" which dates back to 2016. [...] The authorities currently favor one explanation for the pollution: the use of paper mill sludge as fertilizer on farmland near drinking water catchments.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-07-18 14:47:45+00:00
> Have you ever tried to contribute to open source projects?

yes, and it was often painful enough to make me consider very well wether I want to bother contributing. I can only imagine how terrible the experience must be at a core utility such as ls.

> The question was why wouldn't someone writing software not take the route likely to end in rejection/failure

Obviously they wouldn't - in my comment I assumed that the lsr author aimed for providing a better ls for people and tried to offer a perspective with a different definition of what success is.

> I don't like being jerked around by management, especially when I'm doing it for free

I get that. The older OSS projects become, the more they fossilize too - and that makes it more annoying to contribute. But you can try to see it from the maintainers perspective too: They have actual people relying on the program being stable and are often also not paid. Noone is forcing you to contribute to their project, but if you don't want to deal with existing maintainers, you won't have their users enjoying your patchset. Know what you want to achieve and act accordingly, is all I'm trying to say.
by rafaelreinert | 2025-07-18 14:48:14+00:00
sorry for how don't agree, but yearly full body mri should be mandatory for every >40 years. Ok, over treatment is a concert but any cancer is worst than it and basically most of people will have some cancer if live long enough. then if you have full body mri you will find most of the cancers on an early stage. Don't critics people that is doing it, but critics the system that don't provide it for every body.
by ralferoo | 2025-07-18 14:48:14+00:00
Yeah, I kind of agree in the latter case. Black Friday deals often have lower priority support etc.

I guess with Servarica, they have their standard deals, but for Black Friday deals are generally thin margins, but still enough to cover costs. Typically every year, they have special deals that are a bit different to their previous offerings. As a result, some people prefer the previous deals, some prefer the new ones, so they keep them all going. It's a bit unusual. They've also got a few interesting deals, like start with N TB and it grows a bit every day. If you keep these more than about 3-4 years, these are probably better value for money, but I think you're paying too much in the first few years. It's interesting if your primary use case is incremental backups.

Hosthatch's deals are a bit different as they're usually preorders and at almost cost with basically minimal support, whereas they keep their normal stuff in stock and have higher support levels.

I should also add that I've not personally used Servarica, even though they look interesting - just because they only have a Canadian datacenter. I have 4 Hosthatch servers spread all over the globe so that I have more redundancy in my backups. I only buy them when they have deals, assuming I don't miss them as they're only for 24h.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-07-18 14:48:16+00:00
Is your complaint about specifically claude or about GPT assistants generall?

I’m curious what this means:

> run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase

What do you mean by “run it?”

Are you putting the entire codebase all at once into the context window? Are you giving context and structure prompts or a system architecture first?

Most of the people I see fail to “get” GPT assistants is because they don’t give context and general step-by-step instructions to it.

If you treat it like a really advanced rubber duck it’s straight up magic but you still have to be the senior engineer guiding the project or task.

You can’t just dump a 10,000 LOC file into it ask some vague questions and expect to get anything of value out of it.