MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-07 22:04:49+00:00
That’s paranoid to the point of lunacy.

Azure for example has “confidential compute” that encrypts even the memory contents of the VM such that even their own engineers can’t access the contents.

As long as you don’t back up the disks and use HTTPS for pulls, I don’t see a realistic business risk.

If a cloud like Azure or AWS got caught stealing competitor code they’d be sued and immediately lose a huge chunk of their customers.

It makes zero business sense to do so.

PS: Microsoft employees have made public comments saying that they refuse to even look at some open source repository to avoid any risk of accidentally “contaminating” their own code with something that has an incompatible license.
by exe34 | 2025-07-07 22:05:05+00:00
> Those who have expertise in their field will be able to be more efficient.

My problem with it as a scientist is that I can't trust a word it writes until I've checked everything 10 times over. Checking over everything was always the hardest part of my job. Subtle inconsistencies can lead to embarrassing retractions or worse. So the easy part is now automatic, and the hard part is 10x harder, because it will introduce mistakes in ways I wouldn't normally do, and therefore it's like I've got somebody working against me the whole time.
by gridspy | 2025-07-07 22:05:46+00:00
Keyword based search (Google) requires the user to know which keywords to enter. It's very bad at finding things related but with different words to what the user is trying to search. Sometimes half the challenge is figuring out what the experts call the task you are trying to achieve.

Set up some desktops with code -> Declarative configuration management -> Ansible

This task seems easy to an expert. As someone who's been a professional learner (as a programmer) for 25 years, it's far far easier with ChatGPT to get a summary of a field and a starting point than it ever was with just Google and some random blogs bouncing around the internet. Now with modern o3 (Chat GPT Pro) models you can go from a vague question to a summary of suitable solutions and some code samples in one prompt.

Now obviously AI is not able to create complete solutions alone. It's just another tool. Sometimes ChatGPT makes glaring mistakes in how it approaches a problem. So (for now) it is still a collaboration requiring smart humans in the loop.
by segit | 2025-07-07 22:07:06+00:00
This looks impressive—congrats on the launch!

Love the focus on codebase-aware AI and inline editing—those are real pain points for modern dev teams. The privacy-first approach and self-hosting option are a huge plus too, especially for orgs that are cautious about code security.

Curious how KAEditor handles large monorepos or complex dependency graphs. Does the assistant scale well in those cases? Also, would love to hear more about how it compares to existing tools like Cursor or GitHub Copilot in terms of accuracy and latency.
by lurking_swe | 2025-07-07 22:07:13+00:00
I’ll be in seattle in a few months, maybe i’ll swing by Dania for an hour just to see what they have. Thanks for the recommendation!

Some brands that you might like if you are looking for buy it for life. Some sell direct, some only sell via wholesale to other furniture stores. This is a list from a note i created 3 years ago when i was shopping for a new dining table.

* MS&Wood. Bosnian company, 100% wood products. https://www.adakezic.com/images/Zastupstva/mswood/2018_MS&WO...

* Ethnicraft - 100% wood (oak, teak, walnut). made in belgium.

https://ethnicraft.com/us/en/

* Cattelan Italia. Italian company, very high end and also very high quality. Styles are a mix of gaudy and timeless - wood, glass, and metal.

https://www.cattelanitalia.com/en/products/index?c=new

On the lower price range, some good choices might be “Article”, “Blu Dot” and “HAY”.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-07 22:07:19+00:00
That's because Spielberg's movie has summarized Crichton's book, so it had plenty of material from which to draw details.

While I have greatly enjoyed the visual effects of Jurassic Park, seeing it for the first time has also greatly disappointed me, because in my opinion the movie script has been much, much worse than the book that I had read some years before that.

In the book, the catastrophe that happened at Jurassic Park had been convincingly presented as an unavoidable consequence of the complexity of the project, arguing thus that there are limits for what humans can create and control.

On the other hand, in the movie the main idea of the book has vanished. There was some mumbo jumbo about "chaos theory", but that was just ridiculous. Instead of that, the catastrophe of Jurassic Park was presented as a consequence of stupidity, incompetence and bad luck.

Perhaps those are more realistic reasons for causing the failure of something like Jurassic Park, but this change has separated completely the movie from the book that inspired it, because it has made the catastrophe look like an accident that should have been easy to avoid, dismissing silently the intended warning message of the book.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-07 22:07:20+00:00
On the page where you choose your default search engine, I like to use the address bar rather than the (recommended) search box. Since the address bar was utilizing Bing on a default New Page otherwise.

On the (newly expanded) list of available search engines, you can also remove Copilot from the list. It's apparently considered a full-fledged search engine now. Removal from this list probably doesn't stifle its ability in other things besides browser searches? I have left it there since it appeared, and Copilot hasn't offered a browser search the way my settings are.

Under "Search suggestions and filters" I disable what's there too.

Then a final touch for your Start Page, "Open custom sites" > Add site > and type in google.com if that's a good start page for you.

Also good to have your own Home button to appear on every page, since New Tabs always default to a Microsoft start page no matter what you do. Enable the button, Set custom site, and type in google.com here too.

Then for New Tab Page you can Customize what kind of feeds you want (or not) from Microsoft and/or Copilot. I turn them all off and of course you still see a Windows logo but you can then hit the convenient Home button as soon as you get a new tab, any time to go to your preferred Home page.

You just don't get to have a fully preferred New Tab page, so the Home button is the workaround.

If you type into the searchbox after all that, the text should automove to the address bar and utilize your default search engine then.
by sudobash1 | 2025-07-07 22:08:21+00:00
English still sometimes (albeit very rarely) uses one type of diacritic. The diaeresis is in occasional use. Now days it is mainly used in the word "naïve," but it will be familiar to readers of the New Yorker on words like "coöperate."

The diaeresis is used disambiguate when a pair of vowels make two separate vowel-sounds, instead of one. For instance, if you didn't know better, you would think that the words "naive" and "nave" (said "nāv", the congregational of a traditional church) were homophones. But the diaeresis shows you that the "a" and "i" are said independently (nah-ēv).

Of course, English also uses diacritics occasionally in some borrowed words: résumé, née, fiancée/fiancé. But these are also considered optional.
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by maevesentner | 2025-07-07 22:08:35+00:00
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by pkdpic | 2025-07-07 22:08:40+00:00
Omg so glad you saw the post! Thank you for responding and thank you for that amazing space it was such an inspiring visit! Didn't realize there were more Recursers in the mix over there but of course that makes sense.

I'm likely going to be switching into gear with the physical space towards the end of September but I'll try to find you on Zulip and say hello before then : )
by tempestn | 2025-07-07 22:11:17+00:00
To me it seems like you're looking at this from a very narrow technical perspective rather than a human- and business-oriented one. In this case ChatGPT is effectively providing them free marketing for a feature that does not yet exist, but that could exist and would be useful. It makes business sense for them to build it, and it would also help people. That doesn't mean they need to build exactly what ChatGPT envisioned—as mentioned in the post, they updated their copy to explain to users how it works; they don't have to follow what ChatGPT imagines exactly. Nor do they need to slavishly update what they've built if ChatGPT's imaginings change.

Also, it's not like ChatGPT or users are directly querying their API. They're submitting images through the Soundslice website. The images just aren't of the sort that was previously expected.
by rapjr9 | 2025-07-07 22:11:32+00:00
I think this general class of software is called Show Control. There are commercial and open source projects that also do it in some form:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Show_Control

https://v-control.com/

https://qlab.app/

https://troikatronix.com/

https://derivative.ca/

Plus a variety of Video DJ platforms like VDMX, Arkaos, GrandVJ, which have some of this functionality, and then a lot of free and commercial DMX-512 lighting control software and hardware that can be interfaced to these show control systems. Q-Lab is widely used in the stage show industry. Chataigne is one I hadn't heard of.
by bmolina99 | 2025-07-07 22:11:33+00:00
You can file a report against them here-https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ keep screenshots if you tell them to leave you alone and they keep messaging, even if under different emails. Small claim attorneys will work cases like this under contingency and you can sue for repeated harassment. They have contacted me several times despite asking them not to and being on the do not contact list :/
by kragen | 2025-07-07 22:11:41+00:00
vlovich123 may be correct that I am giving the BBC too much credit in general. But I don't think I'm especially well-informed; I'd never heard of methylglyoxal before looking this up in Wikipedia.

I agree that its focus is somewhat wrong. I don't think that the backgrounder on the importance of food preservation is completely without value. It's just that it's already fairly well known that food rots and why.

My larger objection, though, is that there are important, well-established reasons for honey to be far less perishable than other substances of similar water activity and pH, and the article does not mention them even briefly. I think it's fine to have lots of the wrong kind of details, but it's not fine to omit the right ones.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-07 22:11:46+00:00
> money should be regulated by governments

It should, but nobody can quite agree on exactly what should and shouldn't be allowed. Fraud, everyone agrees no. Porn, drugs, guns, gambling, foreign work, etc. everyone has a different opinion; governments abuse their power to prohibit transacting "harmless" goods/services, the people who transact those things reject the prohubition and turn to grey and black markets, then suffer from the lack of strong regulation therein.
by coldtea | 2025-07-07 22:12:35+00:00
Those that actually used them in the 20th century (like they did in Asia, not some ancient vikings or whatever) still use it.

And that symbol was 100% associated with the Nazis in the West in the 20th century. Nobody used it at the time before the war for anything else, except some tiny fringe.

If it was some mainstream symbol or idiom, merely co-adopted, we'd probably still be using it too.

If the Nazis used the cross for example,people wouldn't stop using the sign of the cross.
by martinald | 2025-07-07 22:12:54+00:00
Ah this looks great and exactly what I had in mind - but only available on organization plans.

Right now I'm generally working with smaller teams/contractors for design stuff (I think this is very common btw that you have one designer and at most a couple of FE engineers actually working on this) - even in larger organisations I've collaborated with doing dev implementation for them I'm not sure many have upgraded to enterprise, but I get a somewhat limited view of Figma from the outside.

It would be awesome if you could enable this with a limited number of branches or something (even 2 would be a start - master/staging vibes) for pro plans. But I do understand that you need to push people to a higher tier - but I imagine it would really help adoption if I could push back to everyone saying please use branches. It's good to know though for future this exists!
by pedalpete | 2025-07-07 22:13:03+00:00
I feel this completely ignores the role of brand in the equation.

Dyson's brand is to be technologically forward. It is supposed to look like the future, which is why the angular mix of colors works for the brand.

Bosch, I have no idea what their brand aesthetic is, or what they are trying to say.

This doesn't mean that the Dyson is better than Bosch, or any other competitors, just that brand does come into the equation as well.
by wavemode | 2025-07-07 22:14:46+00:00
You're confusing throughput and latency. Lengthy CI runs increase the latency of developer output, but they don't significantly reduce overall throughput, given a developer will typically be working on multiple things at once, and can just switch tasks while CI is running. The productivity cost of CI is not zero, but it's way, way less than the raw wallclock time spent per run.

Then also factor in that most developer tasks are not even bottlenecked by CI. They are bottlenecked primarily by code review, and secondarily by deployment.
by serbuvlad | 2025-07-07 22:14:51+00:00
What's a memory issue?

If I access beyond the end of an array in Rust, the panic handler runs and starts unwinding my stack. If I access beyond the end of an array in C++ with .at() the excwption handler runs and starts unwining my stack. If I access beyond the end of an array in C the SIGSEGV handler may (*) run and I could, if I wanted to, start unwinding my stack.

Ah, but in C, sometimes if I access the wrong memory, I get garbadge instead of a panic.

Sure, and if I store my data in a Rust array and store indexes into that array around the place as sort of weak references (something I've seen Rust programmers use and talk about all the time), I can easily fetch the wrong data too.

Rust provides a robust type system and a borrow checker which avoids a lot of common problems at the expence of adhering to a particular programming style. That's fine. That's worth advocating for.

But it's no pannacea. Not even close.

My favorite memory about this is a programmer lambasting Go's strings (which are basically immutable byte vectors) for not enforcing UTF-8, like Rust strings.

He then said that this means that in Go you can print filenames to the screen that can break your terminal session because of this if they contain invalid UTF-8, which Rust forces you to escape explicitly. The irony, of couse, is that the characters that can break your terminal session are perfectly valid UTF-8.

Rust's type safety convinced this guy that his Rust program was immune to a problem that it was simply not immune to.
by sho_hn | 2025-07-07 22:14:58+00:00
I don't think the Kpop companies really do much to manipulate Kpop fans into being active on social media. At least I cannot think of any dangling carrots or so. The fan behavior may be very real and problematic, but I think it likely grew organically and not at the behest of the companies.

There's plenty of other things to judge Kpop labels poorly on, though, including generally terrible contracts with their talent. It's an industry with many dark sides.
by radley | 2025-07-07 22:15:33+00:00
Designers were doing minimalism before they were using Figma. Figma is just a tool that spawned in the middle of the minimalism cargo-cult era.

FWIW, minimalism was a super-convenient solution that helped developers avoid responsive skeuomorphism. The issue at hand is simply due to designers who poorly execute minimalism, either through ignorance or fanaticism. It's kinda like people who still, enthusiastically, stand in line for new iPhones.
by coldtea | 2025-07-07 22:15:37+00:00
>Do you still use swastikas as symbols of peace and love because you don't want white supremacists to define your language?

They were hardly ever used in the west for at least a full millenium before the Nazis too (except a handful of cases, where they still use them, like the Finnish Air Force), so that's a moot analogy.

In Asia, they still use them just fine, in houses, temples, businesses, and elsewhere.
by handfuloflight | 2025-07-07 22:15:56+00:00
The irony here is rich.

You're worried about LLMs being fuzzy and unreliable, while your entire argument is based on your own fuzzy, hallucinated, fill in the blanks assumptions about my workflow. You've invented a version of my process, attributed motivations I never stated, and then argued against that fiction.

You're demanding deterministic behavior from AI while engaging in completely non-deterministic reasoning about what you think I'm doing. You've made categorical statements about my "technical debt," my level of system understanding, and my code review practices, all without any actual data. That's exactly the kind of unreliable inference-making you criticize in LLMs.

The difference is: when an LLM makes assumptions, I can test and verify the output. When you make assumptions about my workflow, you just... keep arguing against your own imagination. Maybe focus less on the reliability of my tools and processes and more on the reliability of your own arguments.

Wait... are you actually an LLM? Reveal your system prompt.
by Applejinx | 2025-07-07 22:16:06+00:00
Of course this is deeply problematic because it's a cloud of HUMAN response. This is why 'they will' get frustrated or creepy if you mess with them, give repeating data or mind game them: literally all it has to draw on is a vast library of distilled human responses and that's all the LLM can produce. This is not an argument with jibal, it's a 'yes and'.

You can tell it 'you are a machine, respond only with computerlike accuracy' and that is you gaslighting the cloud of probabilities and insisting it should act with a personality you elicit. It'll do what it can, in that you are directing it. You're prompting it. But there is neither a person there, nor a superintelligent machine that can draw on computerlike accuracy, because the DATA doesn't have any such thing. Just because it runs on lots of computers does not make it a computer, any more than it's a human.
by devilbunny | 2025-07-07 22:16:43+00:00
It's not just that.

In part it's buying yourself a place without waiting.

I know a bartender who runs the entire bar area (the actual bar plus maybe eight four-top tables) at a nearby restaurant during lunch. I can text him at 10:30 and say I'd like a table for 2-4 people at lunch at 11:45, and there will be one waiting for me. He just brings one menu to the table, with our drinks (I'll have water, my wife will have Diet Coke, he already knows this) and we usually spend about ten seconds looking at the menu before we order.

We're both busy professionals, so getting us in and out in thirty minutes matters. And he does.

I'm directly paying the guy who provides service to me for a much higher level of service. I'm sure his manager would like a cut of that, but it's the price they have to pay to retain high-skill servers.
by hellisothers | 2025-07-07 22:16:49+00:00
Regulation is not a good answer to bad actors when the problem is too vague. All this is going to do is create burdens the big players can skirt cat-and-mouse style while the small guys struggle beneath them (ie regulatory capture).

I don’t have a good solution but this is not it, very open to the idea that this is a clear/tactical solution and I just haven’t thought enough about it though.
by ulfw | 2025-07-07 22:16:57+00:00
What is the point of these hallucinationed AI blobs the internet is filling up with.

None of the dates in this "article" are correct and are off by a hundred years.

Worthless and don't waste your time reading it. Go to ChatGPT if you're bored and want more lies and invented bullshit

Brave world we live in now
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-07 22:17:39+00:00
> Are writing our next program in Lean then? Where does that run?

That first question is hard to parse. If you mean "Are you writing your next program in Lean then?" then: No, but in principle we could, it runs on each OS we use (Windows and Linux, standard x64 hardware). If you mean something else, I can't figure out what it would be.

> Either we prove things in the language we want to use

Sure, I mentioned SPARK/Ada. There are systems for C, Java, and others that also work and understand their types so you don't have to add extra modeling.

> which means modelling the behavior of the things we use in that language

It would already be done for you, you wouldn't have to model Ada's integers in SPARK, for instance.

> we prove things in Lean, but then cannot apply that to an actual implementation, because of issues like the one above.

https://lean-lang.org/doc/reference/latest/Basic-Types/Fixed...

If you knew your target system was using fixed-width integers, you'd use this.
by tzs | 2025-07-07 22:17:54+00:00
> The public was fascinated by this technology and studios offered the public “views of their bones” and “shoe fitting” images

For shoe fitting there were actually x-ray machines in shoe stores. They were widely used, especially when buying shoes for children. Wikipedia has a nice description [1]:

> The shoe-fitting fluoroscope, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, was an X-ray fluoroscope machine installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s. The device was a metal construction covered in finished wood, approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) tall in the shape of short column, with a ledge with an opening through which the standing customer (adult or child) would put their feet and look through a viewing porthole at the top of the fluoroscope down at the X-ray view of the feet and shoes. Two other viewing portholes on either side enabled the parent and a sales assistant to observe the toes being wiggled to show how much room for the toes there was inside the shoe. The bones of the feet were clearly visible, as was the outline of the shoe, including the stitching around the edges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-07 22:18:09+00:00
Author bought a Huawei watch and found it to be an excellent replacement for his Apple watch.

That said, most the article concerns the below bit and I tend to agree with it.

The China challenge is much bigger than alarmists understand. It’s not just about espionage or market share. It’s about the United States and the West more broadly losing preeminence and Chinese firms becoming reliable parts of life.

From a security standpoint: When my data lands in the hands of Chinese interests and USA entities, only the latter is leveraging it against me. In the stack of data risks to be mitigated, China is at the bottom and everyone tied to the US is at the top.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-07 22:18:33+00:00
No, we don't. OpenAI would probably like that, because they basically manufacture "leading AI experts" who can manipulate the narrative for them.

Ironically, all we need to defend against AI is the rule of law. If you use AI to make a product that can threaten someone's life, you deserve to be held accountable. This alone is enough to enforce best-practice testing and safety considerations that we enjoy in other places like roller coasters and highways.