MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-01 19:49:36+00:00
The gameplan is for people to quickly realize that it's not just a "rape and pillage whatever you want" type of mission they're embarking on. The vast majority of people have little appetite for actual resistance (as your comments reveal), and so a little resistance will very likely go a long way.

There are far more people willing to defend their homes than there are people willing to get shot in the face breaking into someone's home.
by trwhite | 2025-07-01 19:50:08+00:00
> all HN devs as a homogenous mass

Many of the highly upvoted posts of the last ~month have been about "vibe engineering" and "context engineering". The comments on these posts suggest an air of enthusiasm one doesn't see on posts about programming.

> consider a more nuanced question

As a long-time poster here I simply do not agree.

> I disagree with you on both

Your rationale?

By using AI to automate things you once did manually, you are:

- Helping a model do something better you were once able to do (and get someone to pay you to do). Such a time may arise when your input is no longer required.

- Propagating the idea that such things no longer require the skill they once did.

- Propagating the idea that it doesn't take you as long to do something you once did, begging the question why employers would pay you as much as they once did.

- Failing to continue to learn as you once did (that numerous studies have since confirmed; people who use generative AI don't exhibit the same critical thinking as those who don't).
by jennykaypollock | 2025-07-01 19:50:35+00:00
This is awesome thanks for sharing Promptle with us. I had fun describing a cooking show based on the Great British bakeoff but spanning different time periods.

My favorite was Episode 3 - "Pie-rates of the Caribbean": The task is to bake savory pies on a pirate ship in the 1700s and aboard a time-traveling vessel in the year 3000, where ingredients are sourced from different galaxies.

I wish I could see my past prompts to help me inform the next ones.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-07-01 19:51:17+00:00
Have you worked with him?

I had the privilege of working with him for a little over a year.

He was respectful, analytical, and only thought about what is best for Amazon and Amazon's customers.

I don't think his own aggrandizement or what's best for him enters into the calculus of his day-to-day work one itoa.

He's an untiring as well. I realized I had gone far beyond my peter principle when I was working with him.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-07-01 19:51:54+00:00
PHEVs are worst of both worlds - terrible performance, high maintenance cost. You are 100% sure to replace its battery in cars lifetime, likely multiple times at cost close to Tesla's total battery replacement.

Likelihood of replacing Tesla's battery - less than 1%.

And sure PHEVs do have their use cases - living somewhere where no charge infrastructure exists AND hauling huge loads over long distances - sure! But that use case is like less than 1% for family SUV (and perhaps less than 10% for truck).

Getting stranded with no power and screaming kids can happen with petrol too, it has nothing to do with technology.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-01 19:52:32+00:00
>Unless you mean to say that as long as dogs exist in a public space, your child’s existence is threatened.

No, I am saying that public places are not allowed to say a dog cannot exist there, so effectively my choice (and more often than not these days) is to take my kid and leave, or have my kid be in the same space as the dog. This includes playgrounds, restaurants, grocery stores, etc. Every dog is a service dog.

>Untrained pitbulls can be dangerous, but did the dog display any aggression at any point?

Why would I wait for it to display aggression? Just like any other animal that is capable of causing a lot of damage, I would be on alert, and preferably keep my kid away. There is obviously no possibility to react quickly enough to stop a large animal from hurting someone a few feet away.

>Or is the whole story just “a well trained dog was in the vicinity of children, presumably not off leash, and I did not like that because I fear for my children all the time”?

How is someone supposed to know it was well trained? Especially given the prior probabilities of the type of people who own large pitbulls in the first place. Just like you evaluate the type of people you're around (for example those with loaded weapons, brandishing knives, etc), why would it not make sense to evaluate the type of animal that is around?

>Btw this is what I meant when I pointed that most discussions are emotional than rooted in reality.

I don't see evaluating potential consequences as being emotional. You might ascribe a lower probability of injury, but I don't see it as consistent to give large dogs the benefit of the doubt just because they are dogs. Especially when all the stats indicate increased damaged from certain types.
by dusted | 2025-07-01 19:52:44+00:00
As soon as I saw the images, I was reminded of these, in Denmark we called them "skrammel-legeplads" lit. "junk-playground", they were still fairly popular when I was a kid.. I remember the one I visited most often had a (mostly) gutted jet-plane (some gauges, seat, sticks, flaps, lights, some tubing and wiring was still intact) that we could crawl around in, I was small because i remember being able to crawl into the wing! The amount of cuts and bruises was astounding, and very helpful in teaching my young self to keep track of where hands, feet and head were, and how they moved :D

Here's a short black/white movie that seems to take place at the one pictured in the article: https://www.danmarkpaafilm.dk/film/skrammellegepladsen

I'm glad to see that, at least here, consensus is to not wrap the kids in quite as much bubble-wrap as was the norm in the early 0s. I'm okay with my son playing and learning about his body and it's relation to the world around him by getting hurt, to a degree.. I generally step in if I determine the consequences of a likely accident to have ER potential.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-01 19:52:56+00:00
The first couple workloads didn't surprise me at all that the 4005 trounced, because it seemed obvious the avx512 was gonna help a lot.

But I thought the 2x core count and 8 channels 2666MHz (vs dual channel 5600MHz) would have some significant wins on application workloads like nginx! But man, the the EPYC 4585PX flagship smoked it in every way!

Power consumption was a lot closer than I expected. I thought for sure the 4005 was gonna be significantly lower power but overall not a huge difference.

Very fun & surprising to me comparison.
by eyphka | 2025-07-01 19:53:22+00:00
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by dinfinity | 2025-07-01 19:53:29+00:00
I said language can exist independently, not that all language exists independently.

"one plus one equals two" can be understood and worked with without ever feeling water over your hand. It is a priori knowledge (see Hume's fork for an explanation).

You have to understand that the richness of language linked to cognition is due to your experience with that part of language and resulting romantization of it. It doesn't mean that it is a core defining feature of language, even though it feels that way (and as touching as that anecdote is).
by poeticsilence | 2025-07-01 19:54:31+00:00
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by polyrand | 2025-07-01 19:55:27+00:00
After trying a bunch of ways of creating client-side apps, I've now also settled on using lit-html (not even the full Lit framework). Just the `html` and `render` functions. It's simple, convenient, and fast.

Since it "caches" the rendered parts, I haven't had performance issues just re-rendering everything on state changes (with some basic scheduling). I find it easier to reason about than React since I can use Vanilla JS everywhere, and components are just functions using the `html` tagged template, which can be composed.
by Sniffnoy | 2025-07-01 19:55:34+00:00
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Show HN: Manage Gmail with Voice While Driving
by bigonion | 2025-07-01 19:56:10+00:00
I spend a lot of time on email, and a lot of time driving, so I built an app where I can manage my email through voice while driving.

The way it works is it gives an AI voice agent access to a Gmail MCP with several tools. Just talk to it and tell it what to do and it will use the most appropriate tools.

No emails are stored. All connections are encrypted. We passed a 3rd party Google CASA security audit for our tech.

Let me know if you have any questions/feedback!
by ninininino | 2025-07-01 19:56:47+00:00
I'm not so sure they have runway.

XAI has Elon's fortune to burn, and Spacex to fund it.

Gemini has the ad and search business of Google to fund it.

Meta has the ad revenue of IG+FB+WhatsApp+Messenger.

Whereas OpenAI $10 billion in annual revenue, but low switching costs for both consumers and developers using their APIs.

If you stay at the forefront of frontier models, you need to keep burning money like crazy, that requires raising rounds repeatedly for OpenAI, whereas the tech giants can just use their fortunes doing it.
by bitpush | 2025-07-01 19:57:11+00:00
> On his final days as an Apple employee, he used his Apple-issued work laptop to copy more than a dozen folders containing thousands of files from a folder used for Apple work to his personal cloud storage account in a folder named “Personal” and a sub-folder within named “Knowledge.” These folders and files contain Apple’s Proprietary Information and have filenames containing confidential Apple product code names and are marked as Apple confidential, reflecting the confidential nature of the documents’ contents.

Yeah, unauthorized copying of company information is always going to get you in trouble, irrespective whether you find a job at another competitor.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-01 19:57:58+00:00
Isn't using police horses considered animal cruelty, and an outdated mode of policing mostly used as a show of force? Same for cart and horse rides, but again, the horses are not inside of businesses and airplanes and right next to a kid.

I wouldn't want my kid to be near the legs of a random horse either. If a reputable business is offering horse rides, then I have a little extra assurance of the horse's training or the handler's capabilities.
by Bostonian | 2025-07-01 19:58:12+00:00
https://archive.is/fcbPg

'Late one night in June 2021, a tanker-truck driver on Phoenix’s Red Mountain Freeway barreled through a line of stopped cars at more than 60 miles an hour, leaving mangled metal and broken bodies in his wake. Four people were killed, 11 injured. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel.

Fatigue-induced roadway disasters aren’t uncommon. In the same year, a Greyhound bus driver on an overnight run crashed outside an Illinois truck stop, killing three of his passengers. A 2016 estimate by the National Academy of Sciences found as many as 1 in 5 fatal collisions involving a large truck or bus could be fatigue-related. The sum effect is grim. In 2019-21, more than 200 such fatal collisions took place across America.

Artificial-intelligence tools are emerging that can make such disasters less likely. Samsara, a firm based in San Francisco, is one of several vendors now offering AI-enabled cameras that go inside truck cabs to track driver eyelid behavior, head position, and other signs of alertness. The cameras issue warnings if risk factors show. These systems are improving rapidly. San Diego-based Lytx has upgraded its in-cab camera monitoring platform with real-time fatigue risk scoring that integrates in-cab observations with contextual roadway data collected from billions of driving miles.

Despite the promise of safer roadways, the Teamsters are against these innovations. In 2023 the union negotiated contractual bans on driver-facing cameras—the baseline tech necessary for catching signs of fatigue—with major freight companies like United Parcel Service. “Teamsters won’t move a single package after July 31 if UPS insists on driver-facing cameras in the new contract,” the union declared. Their position rests on the tangential argument that such technology is undue workplace surveillance.'
by cb321 | 2025-07-01 19:58:19+00:00
This is true of the common tombstone approach to deletions in hash tables { which also require rehashing (like in resizing) if there are too many tombstones }.

Somehow dissemination of Knuth v3,chapter6.4 Algorithm D has been weak, though it has lately become known as "backshift deletion" - unsure who coined that. It is limited to linear probing (but then these days that also creates the least memory traffic/potential latency). With this approach, there is no real specialized form of "hash tables that can delete". You may already know all of this and not disagreeing with anything. Just a natural follow-up.
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-07-01 19:58:23+00:00
I just learned this the hard way, unfortunately.

I upgraded to Team to increase my rate limits and merged my old Plus account over months ago. No warnings about irrevocable loss of data exportability when they took the money, of course...

Now that I need a copy of my chats, they're playing dumb and it's just "not available" for Team for some reason? When it's available for Free, Plus, AND Pro?!

What sense does that make?!
by blackhaj7 | 2025-07-01 19:59:26+00:00
Couldn't think of a worse steward of AI than Meta/Zuck (not a fan of OpenAI either). One of the most insidious companies out there.

Sad to see Nat Friedman go there. He struck me as "one of the good ones" who was keen to use tech for positive change. I don't think that is achievable at Meta
by elijahwright_ | 2025-07-01 19:59:27+00:00
the code they released was everything that is necessary to run Direct File in development, but they removed code relating to MeF (the IRS's online submission API) and SADI (the IRS's auth system which is integrated with ID.me). most of the code is the backend, Fact Graph (which is a very complex rules engine), the client app (both the form and the screener when you go to directfile.irs.gov), and the state tax API
by terminalbraid | 2025-07-01 19:59:31+00:00
The author says "an ordinary beryllium nucleus, 8Be, is made of 4 protons and 4 neutrons". This is absolutely untrue as 9Be is the "ordinary" beryllium nucleus. It is in fact one of the best and lowest mass examples of nuclear "magic numbers" having inconsistencies.

8Be has a halflife of attoseconds and a mass greater than two alpha particles therefore isn't even a bound state. I'd be hard pressed to even attach the label nucleus to it in the sense that an atom could form around it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium-8

That extra neutron is somewhat important.
by afro88 | 2025-07-01 19:59:34+00:00
This is great. Thanks for creating it! Matches how I read comments, and fixes my only gripe with HN: I'm forever missing the touch target of the little [-] to collapse a thread once I have read it. Yes there is a next button too, but I prefer to collapse so I don't see what I've already read when scrolling around.

I found a bug on first launch. Every item was duplicated in the list. A refresh fixed it.

Anyway, thanks for building this, it's very nicely done and useful.
by dcatx | 2025-07-01 19:59:35+00:00
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