MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalman | 2025-07-07 17:15:07+00:00
darn!, but thanks as well alex, I get it, the human eye is ever so perfectly built to bring in and focus light, and I was spitballing based on the fact of laser eye surgery, which must be ever so carefully managed. I hate mosquitos and the rest of the blood sucking vermin that I have to deal with.The work I get up to is horribly dangerous sometimes, so my evaluation of risk and failure modes is not exactly common....nor do I expect it to be, but come on, hey!, laser bug zapers, it's right up there with personal raceing quadracopters, hoverboards, lightsabers, and colonys on mars. I think that people have a reasonable expectation to get wild and crazy stuff, as it is what keeps them paying for all the ever so meticulously engineered stuff that they can care less about. saftey third.
by thePhytochemist | 2025-07-07 17:15:13+00:00
I live in Canada as well. As far as I can tell there is basically no access to psychologists under the public healthcare system. You're just supposed to pay cash at about $150/hr to talk to a therapist (if you know differently please tell us!). For some people that's fine, but it's an absurd situation if, for example, you're underemployed/poor and facing related mental health challenges. Obviously paying that much to talk to someone can just aggravate the underlying problem.

Some people can access mental health care in the public system through their family doctor. But most people do not have access to this because there are not enough of this type of doctor. As far as I know the only other way is to wait until some sort of crisis then enter the hospital and there -might- be a chance to talk to a psychiatrist.
by Alifatisk | 2025-07-07 17:15:13+00:00
I did something similar, but for groupchats. You had to export a groupchat conversation into text and send it to the program. The program would then use a local llm to profile each user in the groupchat based on what they said.

Like, it built knowledge of what every user in the groupchat and noted their thought on different things or what their opinions were on something or just basic knowledge of how they are. You could also ask the llm questions about each user.

It's not perfect, sometimes the inference gets something wrong or the less precise embeddings gets picked up which creates hallucinations or just nonsense, but it works somewhat!

I would love to improve on this or hear if anyone else has done something similar
by pornel | 2025-07-07 17:15:15+00:00
My guess is that the public library interface of GCC doesn't support it this way.

This back-end uses the confusingly-named libgccjit (not as JIT), which gives access only to a subset of GCC's functionality.

If something isn't already exposed, it might take a while to get patches to GCC and libgccjit accepted and merged.
by mystified5016 | 2025-07-07 17:15:25+00:00
Police no longer feel the need to do their jobs, and Americans in general have just lost any sense of empathy or even awareness of other people.

But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation. We don't have decent public transit and there are very few jobs within walking distance of most residential areas. Those jobs that do exist don't pay a living wage because pegging minimum wage to inflation or even the poverty line is "communism" and an "attack on businesses".

Our problems with car fatalities is really only one small symptom of the ongoing collapse of American society.
by specialist | 2025-07-07 17:15:29+00:00
Well, when you explain it like that, of course I have to agree.

Maybe 20 years ago I had the very clever original idea ( /s ) of allowing tax payers some autonomy over how to allocate at least some of their taxes. Like maybe I could earmark 5% of what I pay towards public school lunchs and restoring habitat for wild salmon.

I'm sure it's a terrible idea. Any more, I just want some experts to survey known tax regimes, summarize their pros and cons. Somehow ground this evergreen slap fight so we're not stuck rehashing what color to paint the bikeshed.

Cheers.
by simonw | 2025-07-07 17:16:00+00:00
I find it's often way better than API design than I expect. It's seen so many examples of existing APIs in its training data that it tends to have surprisingly good "judgement" when it comes to designing a new one.

Even if your API is for something that's never been done before, it can usually still take advantage of its training data to suggest a sensible shape once you describe the new nouns and verbs to it.
Which email clients work well with keyboard shortcuts?
by tenzo | 2025-07-07 17:16:05+00:00
I have been a longtime user of Superhuman but since they increased the price and now have been acquired by Grammarly (see discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433994) I want to find an alternative.

It doesn't need to have all the "AI" that Superhuman has but keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys are a must. Must also have a mobile app

I've tried Spark, Shortwave, Apple Mail, Gmail, Thunderbird and none of them really compare.
by ViscountPenguin | 2025-07-07 17:16:23+00:00
Do you have a source for the executive order claim? I can't find it on this list of executive orders signed by Lydon Johnson, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by... . And as far as I can tell the claim originates on ascii-code.com and spread from there?

Googling executive order 11110 gives no primary information.

Edit: found it https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorandum-approvi...

It's just not an executive order as far as I can tell. Not an expert on US governance by any means though.

Edit 2: I mixed up Executive orders and Actions it seems?
by IanCal | 2025-07-07 17:17:13+00:00
> are they going to more important to the economy than humans?", then they have to be good at basically everything a human can do,

I really don’t think that’s the case. A robot that can stack shelves faster than a human is more valuable at that job than someone who can move items and also appreciate comedy. One that can write software more reliably than person X is more valuable than them at that job even if X is well rounded and can do cryptic crosswords and play the guitar.

Also many tasks they can be worse but cheaper.

I do wonder how many tasks something like o3 or o3 pro can’t do as well as a median employee.
Ask HN: Brick and Mortar Dev Agency
by takklz | 2025-07-07 17:17:34+00:00
I was curious if anyone ever had any luck with a brick and mortar dev agency?

There are so many physical contracting, manufacturing, food, etc businesses around me that are so used to doing business in person that I was wondering if it could be successful to have an in person agency to help businesses automate things.
by mitchdoogle | 2025-07-07 17:17:36+00:00
Now, I don't think a person with chronic major depression or someone with schizophrenia is going to get what they need from ChatGPT, but those are extremes, when most people using ChatGPT have non-extreme problems. It's the same thing that the self-help industry has tried to address for decades. There are self-help books on all sorts of topics that one might see a therapist for - anxiety, grief, marriage difficulty - these are the kinds of things that ChatGPT can help with because it tends to give the same sort of advice.
by hammock | 2025-07-07 17:17:51+00:00
> The singular use case for a Dyson cordless is frequent cleaning of an uncarpeted floor in a public space (e.g. coffee shop, gym) as it does have substantially reduced noise while running

This problem was solved before electric vacuums ever even existed. I can still remember the days of seeing these things being used in hotels and restaurants: (google non-electric electrostatic sweeper)
by Brian_K_White | 2025-07-07 17:18:16+00:00
Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout.

And I don't think they are even claiming that a graphical presentation of the same info is necessarily wrong or pointless, they are simply saying, that's a lot of c++ for merely wrapping the text in some gui widgets.

It's a fair observation.

I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell. Maybe there's more to it and it wouldn't be so simple, but that is what it looks like.
by simonw | 2025-07-07 17:18:53+00:00
Plenty of people have English as a second language. Having an LLM help them rewrite their writing to make it better conform to a language they are not fluent in feels entirely appropriate to me.

I don't care if they used an LLM provided they put their best effort in to confirm that it's clearly communicating the message they are intending to communicate.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-07 17:19:00+00:00
There are a couple mitigating considerations

1. As implementation phase gets faster, the bottleneck could actually switch to PM. In which case, changes will be more serial, so a lot fewer conflicts to worry about.

2. I think we could see a resurrection of specs like TLA+. Most engineers don't bother with them, but I imagine code agents could quickly create them, verify the code is consistent with them, and then require fewer full integration tests.

3. When background agents are cleaning up redundant code, they can also clean up redundant tests.

4. Unlike human engineering teams, I expect AIs to work more efficiently on monoliths than with distributed microservices. This could lead to better coverage on locally runnable tests, reducing flakes and CI load.

5. It's interesting that even as AI increases efficiency, that increased velocity and sheer amount of code it'll write and execute for new use cases will create its own problems that we'll have to solve. I think we'll continue to have new problems for human engineers to solve for quite some time.
by gametorch | 2025-07-07 17:19:04+00:00
Just raw SQL queries via the rust sqlx crate.

I think ORM is harmful in 2025.

In rust, you can get compile-time SQL syntax and type validation; it won't compile if the corresponding columns, tables, etc. don't exist.

Combine that with LLMs generating the code for you and it's pointless to use an ORM.

ORMs are insanely opaque and prone to horrible bugs and performance losses that are completely avoidable now, imho.
by codedokode | 2025-07-07 17:19:32+00:00
It is not wrong at all. The author decides what to do with their work. AI companies are rich and can simply buy the rights or hire people to create works.

I could agree with exceptions for non-commercial activity like scientific research, but AI companies are made for extracting profits and not for doing research.

> AI companies shouldn't pirate, but if they pay for your work, they should be able to use it however they please, including training an LLM on it.

It doesn't work this way. If you buy a movie it doesn't mean you can sell goods with movie characters.

> then you have not been harmed.

I am harmed because less people will buy the book if they can simply get an answer from LLM. Less people will hire me to write code if an LLM trained on my code can do it. Maybe instead of books we should start making applications that protect the content and do not allow copying text or making screenshots. ANd instead of open-source code we should provide binary WASM modules.
by Reubachi | 2025-07-07 17:19:44+00:00
Laws, rules, morays, norms etc. are in place for the "lowest common denominator", wether that be malicious people, people with impairments, older drivers, newer drivers etc. etc.

you as a human of course know not to hit a person walking thru an intersection. But a drunk person might think "eh I never fully stop and I don't see anyone".

We must all follow the rules to a TEE, ie; stopping even if completely clear, to signal to the lowest common denominators "this is the rule, you must stop regardless."

If this where not the case, by your logic, you can blow thru red lights, make left turns on red, drive against traffic etc. "as long as it's clear."

I personally am okay with enshittification of AI traffic cams if it promotes more aggressive traffic compliance. The police sure aren't.
by anthk | 2025-07-07 17:20:00+00:00
In Spain you'll listen the three cases at once and all of them are perfectly valid.

-ito it's almost the universal way everywhere in the Hispanic world.

-ico it's widely used in the South of Navarre and Aragón and everyone will understand you. Heck, it's the diminutive from used by the hick people, and thus, it's uber known, altough you might look like a bumfuck village redneck sheepherd with a beret by using -ico outside of Navarre/Aragón.

-illo it's more from the South, but, again, understood everywhere.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-07 17:20:01+00:00
I'm an open source fan boy but my friend is always sending me links to the bambu sales. I don't think she's a self-disparaging american, and we've worked together in FabLabs we've practically used every printer out there so its not for lack of evaluation. She pushes bambu on me because she's sympathetic to what a PITA it is to deal with the majority of printers. Lulzbot is good too but I have to ask myself if my patriotism is worth it to pay 3x as much for a worse product ? Made-In-Colorado is extruded aluminum screwed together with brackets. [0] Made in Shenzhen is welded steel. [1] Also, there is very good reason that Toyota developed its reputation relative to American cars, and it's not Japanophilia.

[0] https://buy.lulzbot.com/products/lulzbot-3d-printer-taz-work...

[1] https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/x1-carbon
by ben_w | 2025-07-07 17:20:18+00:00
You may be correct, but I would add that Boris Johnson also does playground insults, it's just that his playground was Eton and therefore they're in Latin.

I'm told not even competent Latin — for a normal person that wouldn't even be worthy of comment because who even speaks it, but he keeps trying to sound impressive by using a language he, too, cannot speak.
by sfink | 2025-07-07 17:20:19+00:00
Perhaps they're farming accounts? As in, the owner creates a whole bunch of accounts and has them build up a generic history. Then when the owner "deploys" some of them to pump up a specific issue. I don't know why they remove the posts, but perhaps it's a way of "recycling" an account by cleaning up the dirty work it did and throwing it back into the pool of available accounts?

Come to think of it, I bet the original creator is selling these accounts to someone else who is weaponizing them. Or the creator is renting them: build up a supply, rent them out for a purpose, then scrub them and recycle. Work From Home! Make Money Fast! This is one part of why the internet has gone to hell.

I don't have an explanation for why they'd delete the accounts.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-07 17:20:22+00:00
My understanding is that people inclined to vote Democrat really hate Musk. Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura and even Ralph Nader had more cross-party appeal than an organization that Musk is behind.

A Musk party will draw votes from Republicans and shift things in favor of the Democrats which is good for Democrats on some level but bad because they need to reform themselves, not live life on "easy mode".

Musk's complaint seems to be that he gave a lot of money to Trump's campaign but didn't get to write the budget, so I think he'll feel betrayed if he elects candidates who don't follow his orders -- and they won't. American political parties aren't like the Communist Party (which chooses you and can kick you out), they don't have any way to discipline elected officials who don't toe the line.
by mullingitover | 2025-07-07 17:20:44+00:00
> But instead of automating the entire setup, local governments review potential infractions before any citations are issued, ensuring a human is always in the loop.

IIRC, California abandoned automated traffic enforcement systems like these in the past because at the end of the day they were revenue negative. Having a human in the loop reduces the false positive rate, but drives up operating expenses to the point that it isn't sustainable.
by conradkay | 2025-07-07 17:21:05+00:00
Yeah and that's even worse because there's not an easy metric you can have the agent work towards and get feedback on.

I'm not that into "prompt engineering" but tests seem like a big opportunity for improvement. Maybe something like (but much more thorough):

1. "Create a document describing all real-world actions which could lead to the code being used. List all methods/code which gets called before it (in order) along with their exact parameters and return value. Enumerate all potential edge cases and errors that could occur and if it ends up influencing this task. After that, write a high-level overview of what need to occur in this implementation. Don't make it top down where you think about what functions/classes/abstractions which are created, just the raw steps that will need to occur" 2. Have it write the tests 3. Have it write the code

Maybe TDD ends up worse but I suspect the initial plan which is somewhat close to code makes that not the case

Writing the initial doc yourself would definitely be better, but I suspect just writing one really good one, then giving it as an example in each subsequent prompt captures a lot of the improvement
by taeric | 2025-07-07 17:21:45+00:00
It absolutely is a feature of spoken languages. It is in contrast to vocalizations, specifically because it is about speech and not just the sounds animals can make.

I get what you are aiming at, but phonetics is about speech. Is why you can reliably say how many phonemes different languages have. If you had to cover all vocalizations that people could do, you would have a bit more trouble.
by pests | 2025-07-07 17:21:57+00:00
Right, it’s not like people born deaf are just completely useless as humans. Just like we have sign language and there is a whole concept of body language alone is enough to show it would be possible for them. We have people like Helen Keller who existed.

In Jean M Auel’s Earths Children books the Neanderthals communicated via hand gestures and vocalizations.
by simonw | 2025-07-07 17:22:02+00:00
Here's my favorite of the Soduku attempts at this (easier to get your head around than Wordle since it's a much simpler problem): https://github.com/konstin/sudoku-in-python-packaging

Here's the same Sudoku trick from 2008 using Debian packages: https://web.archive.org/web/20080823224640/https://algebraic...
by duxup | 2025-07-07 17:22:03+00:00
It's funny to see EULAs venture into the territory of "yo do some work for us".

EULAs seem more like lawyer wet dreams where anything goes.

More and more often ELUAs seem more legally absurd all the time, how many am I subject to right now? I have no idea / reasonable way to know? I can't understand most of them and they change all the time ...
by organsnyder | 2025-07-07 17:22:06+00:00
Thanks for pointing that out. Obviously I hadn't read the whole article. That is an interesting determination the judge made:

> Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI models was "exceedingly transformative" and qualified as fair use, a legal doctrine that allows certain uses of copyrighted works without the copyright owner's permission.
by rej696 | 2025-07-07 17:22:23+00:00
I had a terrible experience trying to replace failed battery packs for a family member's dyson handheld hoover. They seem to fail every 2 years or so, and the first time around we ordered the wrong part (all the different models seem to have slightly different interfaces). Dyson wouldn't allow us to return either the failed or functional but incorrect batteries, so now we have a pile of 3 or 4 hoover batteries in the cupboard!
by hyperpape | 2025-07-07 17:22:42+00:00
I can't speak to every European country, but Portugal also has a lot fewer stop signs and traffic lights than the US (roundabouts are one reason, but there are multiple four-way intersections on my street that would have stop signs in the US).

Given the way American streets are set up, rigorously enforcing stop signs is probably beneficial, but I think other factors about how streets are arranged and how people drive are more important.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-07 17:22:52+00:00
Wondering what the opinion is about "Vision Zero." My little town is all over this. I think it's a bad idea. Goals should be realistic, and I think it's unrealistic to get to literally zero traffic deaths. There will always be random events leading to accidents and you can spend as much money as you want but you will never be able to prevent them all. At some point you're committing statistical murder by spending money that could be better used on ther things.
by MichaelOldfield | 2025-07-07 17:23:02+00:00
I guarantee you, it's harder in 90% of places in the world (accounting for buying power/price of real estate). You guys don't understand our privilege.

You can buy an f'ing house. In places like Ukraine people make $100/month and apartments are $50k(and I'm talking before the war). There, it's LITERALLY impossible.

What people here are describing is that things should be better, and I agree, but words matter.
by redcobra762 | 2025-07-07 17:23:03+00:00
If you reproduce the material from a work you've purchased then of course you're in violation of copyright, but that's not what an LLM does (and when it does I already conceded it's in violation and should be stopped). An LLM that doesn't "sell goods with movie characters" is not in violation.

And the harm you describe is not a recognized harm. You don't own information, you own creative works in their entirety. If your work is simply a reference, then the fact being referenced isn't something you own, thus you are not harmed if that fact is shared elsewhere.

It is an abuse of the courts to attempt to prevent people who have purchased your works from using those works to train an LLM. It's morally wrong.
by greedo | 2025-07-07 17:23:32+00:00
Electrifying railways seems easier than doing it to the US Interstate, since the railways control what goes on their tracks. The US has roughly 50K miles of Interstate highway. From what a cursory search showed, electrifying rail is roughly $1m/mile. So it would cost at least $50B to electrify, not to mention converting the semi trucks to use it. Considering how much of a hot topic EVs and alternative energy sources are, this is a non-starter in our current political climate.

And forgetting the practical components, the highways would look really bad with wires overhead...
by jcelerier | 2025-07-07 17:23:54+00:00
> Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout.

but that's the thing, the target audience for "CPU-Z for Linux" is not people who want the information (because if you do it's of course trivial to google and find out about /proc/cpuinfo), it's people who want to use a software which is as close as possible to the original CPU-Z (so HTML layout definitely does not cut it either).

> I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell.

considering that the source code assumes that dmidecode won't be present (it embeds it) I doubt you'd reimplement the whole dmidecode in only a few k lines of shell. And that's just a small part of what CPU-X does.
by seanw265 | 2025-07-07 17:24:03+00:00
Last time I looked into Morph, I noticed you weren’t yet on OpenRouter. I see that’s changed, but it looks like only an older model is listed. Any plans to be more active there?

Also, are there any benchmarks comparing your fast apply models to others like Relace or even Llama via Cerebras? I’m particularly interested in output accuracy.
by azeirah | 2025-07-07 17:24:29+00:00
At the last place I worked at, which was just a small startup with 5 developers, I calculated that a server workstation in the office would be both cheaper and more performant than renting a similar machine in the cloud.

Bare metal makes such a big difference for test and CI scenarios. It even has an integrated a GPU to speed up webdev tests. Good luck finding an affordable machine in the cloud that has a proper GPU for this kind of a use-case