MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by progbits | 2025-07-14 18:00:33+00:00
On one hand I really like that project and what they do, but on the other hand I hate how it's managed.

I was very excited about it over ten years ago and wanted to join the network. They are very weird about not releasing the designs and code, and instead want you to get it from them. Fair enough, but then they don't produce and ship units. I signed up for a waiting list like 10 years ago, with many others. They kept promising a new design, but never delivered it, and didn't let anyone else do so. I never heard back from them about the waiting list.

They are also restrictive about access to the data if you are not in the network, with reasons like it's too expensive. That might have been true 10-15 years ago, but today it's just silly.

It's a shame, I think there is lot of potential to make a better community and more usable free apps around this data. But you would have to start a new network from scratch because these people are not interested in that.
by afro88 | 2025-07-14 18:00:42+00:00
You moved the goalposts from "do something catastrophic by doing something completely unrelated to what you were trying to do" to "press the wrong pedal or button in a car or elsewhere"

We're talking about taking an action in a different place in the cockpit controls that has safeties built in to prevent accidental use... like pulling a handbrake by accident while the car is moving when you meant to put your wipers on
by memco | 2025-07-14 18:00:46+00:00
> As I understand (I could be wrong), with agent mode, it edits the file for you, no way for you to accept before it does, so you have to manually check the diff, roll back parts you don't want, etc.

> Am I right?

With cursor you get reasonably flexible control at many levels. You can have it only suggest changes that you have to apply manually or you can have it make automatic changes with various ways to review, change, reject or accept. I usually have the changes made automatically but don’t accept the changes automatically. Cursor has a UI that lets you review each edit individually, for the whole file or all files. Depending on the situation I will use whichever level is appropriate. The UI also allows you to revert changes or you can ask the AI to undo or rework a change that you just approved so there’s plenty of ways to do large changes without giving up control. There’s also a stop button you can use to interrupt mid-stream if the work it’s doing isn’t what you want. It isn’t flawless but I haven’t found myself in a corner where I couldn’t get back to a happy path.
by imiric | 2025-07-14 18:01:16+00:00
You couldn't be more wrong. If you've ever programmed, or worked with programmers, that is not an extraordinary claim at all, but a widely accepted fact.

A mental model of the software is what allows a programmer to intuitively know why the software is behaving a certain way, or what the most optimal design for a feature would be. In the vast majority of cases these intuitions are correct, and other programmers should pay attention to them. This ability is what separates those with a mental model and those without.

On the other hand, LLMs are unable to do this, and are usually not used in ways that help build a mental model. At best, they can summarize the design of a system or answer questions about its behavior, which can be helpful, but a mental model is an abstract model of the software, not a textual summary of its design or behavior. Those neural pathways can only be activated by natural learning and manual programming.
by RamblingCTO | 2025-07-14 18:01:34+00:00
> You're selfish, so am I, so is everyone you know.

you can ignore the evidence all you want. Doesn't make it correct. Google it for yourself then.

> The success of free markets in the US, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, China, Singapore, etc.

how have they succeeded? enshittification and wealth accumulation is success? what's the metric here? decreased health? decreased lifespan? increased addiction? increased unhappiness?

> Worker cooperatives: A worker cooperative is not a commune.

Let me quote the discussion, which you obviously didn't even understand:

>> I've tried to start multiple non-heirarchical anarchist cooperative organizations and the number one challenge is finding people who will put the group ahead of the individual. It just doesn't happen.

> I could have saved you the trouble if you'd just asked me!

> Over 20,000 communes have been started in the US. None have survived. What baffles me is why people keep believing they can work.

they talked about cooperatives, you answered with communes. I gave proof that cooperatives work.

do better.
by subarctic | 2025-07-14 18:01:55+00:00
I saw that too and thought the utm_source=chatgpt was pretty funny, since I only noticed it when I was pasting the link into chatgpt myself to get it to tell me where the "98% accurate" claim was coming from.

Anyway, it's a pretty vague statement. What it sounds like it's saying is for the average person they can predict when they will die, and you have to decide if they mean the day, the year or the decade. But chatgpt gave me an interpretation that seems to make more sense:

> The 98 % figure is about aggregate forecasting, not clairvoyance. It means that when an insurer predicts, say, 10 000 deaths across its book in 2024, the actual count typically falls within roughly ±200. For any single customer, the prediction is still just a probability curve, not a calendar appointment with the Grim Reaper.
by vinceguidry | 2025-07-14 18:01:56+00:00
The night the bar I went to shut down, we got some spray paint and wrote messages all over the building. Few weeks later they're having an estate sale. I notice it was painted over. Asked the owner, he said the county got on his ass about it.

All the land around a bus station is typically city-owned, I wouldn't give it a week before a work detail is despatched to remove it.
by Macha | 2025-07-14 18:02:05+00:00
I recently reviewed a MR from a coworker. There was a test that was clearly written by AI, except I guess however he prompted it, it gave some rather poor variable names like "thing1", "thing2", etc. in test cases. Basically, these were multiple permutations of data that all needed to be represented in the result set. So I asked for them to be named distinctively, maybe by what makes them special.

It's clear he just took that feedback and asked the AI to make the change, and it came up with a change that gave them all very long, very unique names, that just listed all the unique properties in the test case. But to the extent that they sort of became noise.

It's clear writing the PR was very fast for that developer, I'm sure they felt they were X times faster than writing it themselves. But this isn't a good outcome for the tool either. And I'm sure if they'd reviewed it to the extent I did, a lot of that gained time would have dissipated.
by latchkey | 2025-07-14 18:02:09+00:00
I wish these guys the best, but I've shifted more and more to Starlink. As long as their is a clear view of the sky, it works exceptionally well and is more than enough bandwidth. Plus, I can easily take it with me anywhere I go, which includes my campervan. This is great for when you're out in the middle of nowhere, with no reception, and you need access to maps.

I wish it was a bit cheaper, but someone has to fund that trip to Mars.
by tonymet | 2025-07-14 18:02:32+00:00
So the headline is misleading. It seems like oakland made their records available to state agencies like CHP, and one of those agencies queried the records and shared the query results with federal agencies.

And the article doesn't specify which results were shared.

So it's clear Oakland didn't violate the law, and there is reasonable doubt that the other agencies didn't violate the law either.

Judgements come from judges, not journalists.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-07-14 18:02:46+00:00
I don’t really disagree with you. I think there really is no stopping progress. For better or worse, it’s happening and there ain’t no slowing down.

But, I wish people would shut up about the printing press in these discussions already. AI disrupting literally everyone’s job at the same time is not the same as a printing technology disrupting the very niche profession of scribe. Or electric lamps putting some lamp lighters out of work.
by biomcgary | 2025-07-14 18:03:08+00:00
There is an interesting example of random selection of leadership from the Bible when the apostles replaced Judas. The criteria were agreed upon and then lots drawn.

Acts 1:21-26 Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.” So they nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.” Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

Can you imagine this practice replacing the Papal conclave? Or, pastor selection at your favorite Protestant group?
by runako | 2025-07-14 18:04:07+00:00
There has been no credible argument why this logic is acceptable for CBP and ICE but not FBI or DEA.

Why are the misdemeanor civil violators ICE chases so important that federal laws no longer apply, when until a year ago it was generally understood that agencies like DEA had guardrails even when trying to apprehend people on felony charges?

If this stands, there is no logically consistent rationale for DEA not being able to perform warrantless wiretaps of all communications, etc.
by munificent | 2025-07-14 18:04:09+00:00
It depends a lot on the language.

For a statically typed language, it's very unlikely that the lexer shows up as a bottleneck. Compilation time will likely be dominated by semantic analysis, type checking, and code generation.

For a dynamically typed language where there isn't as much for the compiler to do, then the lexer might be a more noticeable chunk of compile times. As one of the V8 folks pointed out to me years ago, the lexer is the only part of the compiler that has to operate on every single individual byte of input. Everything else gets the luxury of greater granularity, so the lexer can be worth optimizing.
by chrisweekly | 2025-07-14 18:04:35+00:00
Problems w auth / security in MCP skeeve me out. For that reason, I really don't want to invest in workflows that depend on MCP and have steered clear. But I'd be grateful for well-informed comments / advice on that front.

As for a hypothetical new "context setup" protocol like you posit, I suspect it'd benefit from the "cognitive tools" ideas in this awesome paper / project: <https://github.com/davidkimai/Context-Engineering>

^ inspiring stuff
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-07-14 18:05:14+00:00
True. They also do not hold insurance and typically do not have drivers licenses. Although CA will give one to anyone with a pulse...

Having been hit twice by non-insured, non-licensed drivers with no paperwork or legal status, they got off free while I had to pay for their crimes, damage and increased insurance rates for years. No sympathy at all for cheaters. Arrest them and confiscate their cars.
by davrosthedalek | 2025-07-14 18:05:16+00:00
What can I say, it's hard to give up data. So I guess the situation must escalate until the bad outcome was undeniable.

And I don't want to make a point here about current political affairs. My point is that data collection has serious dangers, independent how good you think the current collectors are, how good the intentions of the data collection are, and how good the benefits of the data collection are. We should not pretend that at least some data collection has benefits. But we should also not pretend that any given data collection doesn't have the risk of misuse.

It's up to politics (in the end, us), to make sure that these risks are valued correctly, for example by making sure that data collectors take over some of the risk in a serious way. "The data was protected according to industry standards" is not enough.
by i_love_retros | 2025-07-14 18:05:31+00:00
The AI hype will die off just like block chain and web3. LLMs are a solution in search of a problem.

All the VCs are gonna lose a ton of money! OpenAI will be NopenAI, relegated to the dustbin of history.

We never asked for this, nobody wants it.

Companies using AI and promoting it in their products will be seen as tacky and cheap. Just like developers and artists that use it.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-14 18:06:06+00:00
The subject here is property investors. You seemed to be claiming that they would buy a property and not rent it. So I don't know what "other sectors" has to do with anything?

And no, renters are not better off owning, except in "niche situations". I genuinely don't know where you've gotten that idea. It depends highly on your local market, but on average renting is cheaper than owning, and it frees up a lot of money that can be invested more productively.

You seem to have some kind of prejudice against renting, which I genuinely don't understand. And your concept that the cost of housing ought to be "trivial" for people to move is incredibly unsympathetic. An assistant professor will move for a better chance of getting tenure. For a fellowship. For whatever. A lot of people can't just "change jobs". They have training for a specific niche, and often advancing their career requires moving to a different city, full stop.
by alganet | 2025-07-14 18:06:13+00:00
> You couldn't be more wrong.

Explanation missing.

> If you've ever programmed, or worked with programmers, that is not an extraordinary claim at all.

One step ahead of you. I already say this is engineered to encourage belief "I want to be good, big brain, and open source is good, I want to be good big brain".

It's marketing.

> A mental model of the software is what allows a programmer [yadda yadda]

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm saying the paper doesn't provide any relevant information regarding the phenomena.

> Those neural pathways can only be activated by natural learning and manual programming.

Again, probably true. But the paper doesn't provide any relevant information regarding this phenomena.

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Your answer seems to disagree with me, but displays a disjointed understanding of what I'm really addressing.

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As a lighthearted fun analogy, I present:

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

The paper does not prove the existence of chickens. It says chicken a lot, but never addresses the phenomena of chickens existing.
by cptskippy | 2025-07-14 18:06:28+00:00
> Only thing holding off my EV purchase is that I want proper V2G support.

I always find this argument strange and it just feels like an excuse people use to sound informed while also dumping on EVs.

Do you have frequent enough power outages that you need a backup power solution? Why don't you have that solution already? Did the lack of ability to use an ICE vehicle as a generator for your home stop you from purchasing ICE vehicles? What's your definition of "proper V2G support" and why don't current EVs with V2G suffice?

V2G has a number of downsides. The most glaring is that you're stranded at home during a power outage or your house is without power while you go out. It requires to your EV to be plugged in, and won't automatically kick in when the power fails.

The power needs of a home are minimal compared to an EV, if having power during power outages is important then you're far better off investing in a whole home battery backup system. They're significantly cheaper than an EV because they aren't optimized for density and portability.
by toss1 | 2025-07-14 18:06:51+00:00
The lede is buried, and only half said:

>>"Movement unrestricted by governments is a hallmark of a free society. "

The other half of the lede is that this govt is using Insert_Method of restricting the movements of it's residents.

At this point, any persecuted activity, e.g., obtaining reproductive healthcare with a link to a person in a Red State, requires opsec procedures comparable to a CIA dark op just to not get persecuted.
by stephenbez | 2025-07-14 18:07:08+00:00
I looked it up and running slowly at a 12 minute per mile pace is about 8 METs, and vacuuming might be around 4 METs so that doesn’t seem to be true.

Also running tends to be more repetitive and pounding on the joints which requires more recovery time than simply vacuuming. I’ve never heard someone get injured vacuuming but I know dozens of people injured from running.
by rco8786 | 2025-07-14 18:07:12+00:00
It's a neat idea, but having a hard time getting useful results (the forever plight of AI). I asked about a road trip from Atlanta to Houston with 3-5 interesting stops along the way. First it sent me to south Georgia, then to northern Alabama, then finally going west. I asked it to refine and it sent me east to Augusta and then 500+ miles past Houston to a steakhouse.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-14 18:07:21+00:00
How much you got?

Never ask a sales person how much yo have to pay when the prices are not already clearly stated. Tell them how much you are willing to spend to see if they will do it for that amount. Sales people will always shoot high hoping to not leave money on the table. The price might change depending on how much you squeal and how high they shot. Your initial "willing to spend" should also be lower than you're actually willing to spend for the same but converse reason
by akerl_ | 2025-07-14 18:07:34+00:00
> If the system you’re interacting with isn’t deterministic, you don’t understand how it really works internally, and you’re prodding it to see what happens if you do this instead of that—then that just isn’t engineering!

Biological engineering would like a word.

But to press your overall point: why? What bad happens if we discard an attempt at a “lower” bound and let somebody be a spreadsheet engineer or a breakfast engineer or a roulette engineer?
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-14 18:07:49+00:00
I love the emphasis on specs here; this is something I do with Claude Code (maintain a set of specs in text as we work).

I always keep the readme and some basic architecture docs (using markdown/mermaid) updated as I go, and I often just work on those rather than on code with Claude, because I find the value it offers is less in code generation and more in helping me document the rubber ducking process into useful schematics and architecture.

What can Kiro offer that's meaningfully better than what I'm already doing? I can take my system anywhere Claude Code and my repos can go, using whatever editor I like. Does Kiro have some special sauce for making this approach work better? Maybe some DSL it uses for more succinct and actionable diagrams and plans?

As much as I like the idea, I find it so hard to abandon a process I've been working on for months, using tools I'm already productive with.

Also, will pricing essentially be bedrock pricing, or will there be a value-add margin tacked on?
by theturtletalks | 2025-07-14 18:07:53+00:00
Claude Code really was at the right place at the right time. Cursor started putting new models under their MAX plan that charges per use and I started getting worse results with Cursor over time as they optimized costs. I started looking into Cline/RooCode when Cursor did this because I knew they were in the squeezing customers stage now. I used those for a while with Sonnet thru OpenRouter, but Anthropic had the genius plan of bundling Claude Code with their Max plan. That made a lot of users jump ship from Cursor and the difference is night and day for me. Yes I pay 5 times more than I did with cursor, but still less than using API credits and the results for me have been superior.
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-14 18:08:09+00:00
This, and also, it's much more common for internet problems to be caused by upstream issues not in the house (partly because of the situation you describe....not much to go wrong on the users end). It's very rare that a plumbing problem is because the main water line lost pressure.

Back when I still had ISPs that provided the modem + router, every single issue I think I ever had fell into one of two categories: a modem and/or router power cycle fixed it, or it was a broader network issue that had nothing to do with me or my particular internet situation (this is omitting the most common third issue: terrible customer service problems, but that's a separate thing)
by arp242 | 2025-07-14 18:08:09+00:00
Being too famous or too rich at an early age is by and large not good for many people.

Both fame and money have the same effect: no one will stand up, puff up their chest, look you in the eye, and say "you idiot, that's fucking mental".

You can afford to just dismiss everyone you don't like. At the same time you can find a group of people cheering you on, no matter how outlandish or bizarre your views or actions are. There are still people defending that P Diddy guy. It fosters unrealistic beliefs about yourself and the world, especially if this happens at too young of an age. You stop growing up.
by JohnMakin | 2025-07-14 18:08:22+00:00
Because none of it is really unknown? People know about it and don't care. Hell, even people on this forum that should know better and care that don't, or think when they hear about stuff like this it's FB pixel or google analytics stuff. The simple fact is with a few basic pieces of information on somebody, there's almost nothing that is sacred or not for sale. People mistakenly believe they're protected by adblockers and stuff, or by avoiding social media, but the simple fact is that it is unavoidable while simply existing and the 1000x comment is from my POV the scale of it is astounding and growing every year and people really don't have a good understanding of the subtle and not subtle ways it can affect you, or when told, don't care/dismiss it. So I don't really feel anymore like explaining it. If more people understood, I'd also stand to profit quite a bit from it, so that's where my frustrated tone is coming from.
by Veserv | 2025-07-14 18:09:11+00:00
Thank you for your response. I retract my concerns. The protocol seems adequately performant with the new information you have provided.

The benchmark is clearly artificially bottlenecking on (non-disclosed by the vendor) I/O limits and being provided excess compute for stability/"target deployment" reasons and is thus not indicative of the actual protocol compute bottleneck.

It might be beneficial to include these details in the documentation so that your benchmarks do not appear to show much worse performance to a casual reader who does not know the internal structure of the benchmarked system. That or present a benchmark that is not artificially bottlenecked (or show compute load of the bottlenecked implementation) to demonstrate the actual performance limits of the protocol.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-14 18:09:55+00:00
It's misuse.

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/2023-dle-06.pdf

> Importantly, the definition of “public agency” is limited to state or local agencies, including law enforcement agencies, and does not include out-of-state or federal law enforcement agencies. (See Civ. Information Bulletin 2023-DLE-06 California Automated License Plate Reader Data Guidance Page 3 Code, § 1798.90.5, subd. (f).) Accordingly, SB 34 does not permit California LEAs to share ALPR information with private entities or out-of-state or federal agencies, including out-of-state and federal law enforcement agencies. This prohibition applies to ALPR database(s) that LEAs access through private or public vendors who maintain ALPR information collected from multiple databases and/or public agencies.