MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by regularfry | 2025-08-11 09:19:38+00:00
Having worked in a car factory, getting involved in the rectification side of things, I can say that "a suspicious amount of force" is pretty normal for this stuff. If you're working on a car you need to be able to get behind the panels, but they need to be held on well enough to never, ever rattle.

Looking for trustworthy information these days is much easier than it used to be, there are generally technician training videos on youtube that will show you where and how to pop panels off.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-08-11 09:19:44+00:00
I'm not so sure about that. Accepting the existence of such working conditions for marginal (if not questionable) benefits lowers the working conditions for everyone, and in a system with social benefits & free healthcare it could arguably be net negative in total.

Regarding unemployment in people's hometowns, unfortunately this is not a problem that can be solved with shitty jobs. Even if xxx people find a shitty job, there will be 100*xxx people left over.
by 0x7cfe | 2025-08-11 09:20:06+00:00
OK, I got your point.

Looks like we're listening to different Elons. The one is a tech guy, the other is politician, so to speak. Long time ago I decided for myself that I never trust words solely on their origin. However, I take into account what the person is known for and their profile of competence. I think no one would argue that Elon is competent in technology. Yes, Elon time is a thing, but again, what he does is not just another college project, you know. Space is hard, so does AI and the human brain. There is fair amount of uncertainty in the domain itself which makes all predictions estimates at most.

Sure, you can ask your grandma for investment advice and that would probably be a poor decision, unless she worked in finance her whole life. On the other hand, she would probably be more than competent to answer how to make cookies and pies.

Long story short: use your brain, don't trust media, do your own research. Even Nobel winners are often known for some crazy or unscientific stuff. People are people, after all. You can't be an expert in everything. Otherwise we'd cancel literally everyone.
by meindnoch | 2025-08-11 09:21:12+00:00
With reified generics, the code

class Foo<X> { X x; } Foo<int> fooInt; fooInt.x = 5; Foo<float> fooFloat; fooFloat.x = 5.0;

compiles to:

class Foo_int { int x; } class Foo_float { float x; } Foo_int fooInt; fooInt.x = 5; Foo_float fooFloat; fooFloat.x = 5.0;

On the other hand, erased generics compiles to this:

class Foo { void* x; } Foo fooInt; fooInt.x = new int(5); Foo fooFloat; fooFloat.x = new float(5.0);
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-11 09:21:33+00:00
> I'm wondering why I can't find any reports of non-Al Jazeera or non-Palestinian journalists being targeted

Mostly because they're not there? Israel doesn't allow outside journalists into Gaza[1]:

In the letter, the 55 journalists write that "foreign reporters are still being denied access to the territory, outside of the rare and escorted trips with the Israeli military".

The escorted trips are highly controlled and often only to show tunnels that the military says are used by Hamas or weapons stores.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68423995
by wiseowise | 2025-08-11 09:22:16+00:00
No, your argument is a complete bogus.

If I steal your ID card, then nothing really happens at all. I can spend years watching it, draw something on it, cut it in pieces, whatever.

The moment I start trying to impersonate you, then it becomes a problem for you.

If Bobby the metalhead downloads a copy of Enter the Sandman, then Metallica and brand doesn’t lose anything at all. If you were to make it industrial, then maybe we can talk about it.
by SunlightEdge | 2025-08-11 09:23:33+00:00
For those who think they are decent at socializing, one book that may extend your skill further is ' Never split the difference'. Its a book about negotiating, but I think it does teach some key skills. Mirroring for example where you literally repeat back the last few words a person has said, I've found unexpectedly super useful - it almost allows people to expand on what they are saying and helps them go deeper into things. Basically the book (and other tools) has helped me become a better listener (I have always been decent at the talking side). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-...

Note: I only 'mirror' 2-3 times in a conversation. I've found over using it makes it have less impact. But that's just me.
by piva00 | 2025-08-11 09:23:39+00:00
AI is not doing 30-50% of our work in a company of ~10k employees.

It's helping with a lot of toil work that used to be annoying to do, PMs can do their own data analysis without having to pull me out of deliverable tasks to craft a SQL query for something and put it up on a dashboard; I don't need to go copy-paste-adapt test cases to cover a change in some feature, I don't need, most times, to open many different sections of documentation to figure out how a library/framework/language feature should be used.

It's a boost to many boring tasks but anything more complex takes as much work to setup and maintain the environment for a LLM to understand the context, the codebase, the services' relationships, the internal knowledge, the pieces of infrastructure, as it does for me to just do the work.

I've been hybridising as much as I can, when I feel there's something a LLM would be good at I do the foundational work to set it up, and prompt it incrementally to work on the task so I can review each step before it goes haywire (which it usually does), it takes effort to read what's been generated, explain what it did wrong so it can correct course, and iteratively build 80% of the solution, most times it's not able to completely finish it since there's a lot of domain knowledge that isn't documented (and there's no point in documenting since it changes often enough). Otherwise it's been more productive to just do the work myself: get pen and paper to think through the task, break it down after I have a potential solution, and use LLMs to just do the very boring scaffolding for the task.

Does it help me to get unstuck when there's some boring but straightforward thing to do? Absolutely. Has it ever managed to finish a complex task even after being given all the context, setup the Markdown documentation, explain the dependencies, the project's purpose, etc.? No, it hasn't, not even close, in many cases it gave me more work to actually massage the code it wrote into something useful than if I had done it myself. I'm tired of trying the many approaches people seem to praise about and see it crumble, I spent a whole week in 2 of our services writing all the Markdown files, iterating through them to fix any missing context it could need, and every single time it broke down at some point while trying to execute a task so, for now, I just decided to use it as a nice tool and stopped getting anxious about "missing out".
by edent | 2025-08-11 09:25:32+00:00
> pretty sure it he could have gotten more tax free on the black market.

How?

I've been paid by bug bounties (although not that big) and I have no idea how I would find a trustworthy criminal to sell to.

I guess I'd need to find a forum? Unless my opsec is exemplary then I'm risking being exposed. I'd need to vet that the buyer would actually pay me and not just steal it from me. Even if they do pay me, I'd be worried that they'd blackmail me or try to extract something from me. But assuming they're good black-marketeers, I still have to explain to the authorities where this large amount of cash came from.

So how do I go about selling to the black market in a safe way?

Oh, and I don't get to write a blog post about the bug or get my name in front of other researchers and recruiters. That can be worth a huge amount - both in cash and reputation.
by 0xCE0 | 2025-08-11 09:25:54+00:00
This thread shows for itself the state of desktop app dev in 2025 :) The question was about "toolchains". For me, the word "toolchain" in the context of programming means compiler and linker stuff for some programming language(s) (e.g. LLVM toolchain, or MSVC++), not e.g. Chromium/HTML5 web environment, C#/Java managed languages, Flutter/Electron bloats, or Qt all-batteries-included library etc.
by garblegarble | 2025-08-11 09:26:16+00:00
It might be unrealistic to exhibit games on CRTs if they aren't going to be played on CRTs - if you've got a lot of headroom with the 30fps target, is it worth trying a subtle CRT emulation shader? Especially with people frequently having 120fps+ monitors, it seems like a subtle fadeoff could be made to work.

P.S. I thought your original question was madness, but now that you've posted your projects I can totally see why you're targeting lower framerates. I really like the mood, have wishlisted TO:RI
by gwd | 2025-08-11 09:26:38+00:00
He gives two examples that are meant to prove his point, but they don't really convince me.

The first example is the image: the AI has seen the famous photograph of the Ferguson riots, and (with 6 prompts?!) manages to get something fairly similar. But suppose a human had seen that photo, and then you asked that human to draw you a photo of the riots; and then continued prompting them to make it look similar. Is it really unrealistic that the human could generate something that looks as similar? Is the human themselves therefore inherently a violation of copyright?

The NYT article to begin with looks a bit more damning -- except that, it appears that they prompted the AI directly with the beginning of the article. My son, when a toddler, for a long time could recite nearly the full text of his favorite story books with minimal prompting -- does that mean he's inherently a violation of copyright? Because he can recite The Gruffalo almost verbatim when prompted, is he a walking violation of Julia Donaldson's copyright? What about people with photographic memory, that can recite long sections of books verbatim -- are they inherently violating copyright?

Now sure, in both cases, the output might be a violation of copyright, if it's clearly derived from it -- both for humans and for AI. But I don't think the fact that AI can be prompted to generate copyright-violating material is proof that the AI training itself has violated copyright, any more than the fact that a human can be prompted to generate copyright-violating material is proof that human training has violated copyright.
by zem | 2025-08-11 09:27:27+00:00
that was my favourite bit in the entire post - the one place where zig has unambiguously one-upped other languages. the problems it is solving are:

1. from the user's point of view, you can now have multiline string literals that are properly indented based on their surrounding source code, without the leading spaces being treated as part of the string

2. from an implementation point of view having them parsed as individual lines is very elegant, it makes newline characters in the code unambiguous and context independent. they always break up tokens in the code, regardless of whether they are in a string literal or not.
by ElectroBuffoon | 2025-08-11 09:27:48+00:00
Upper class could completly turn off their telescreens, meaning they have partial exemptions at least. For middle class they were always on. Proles had no telescreen because they were considered to lack brains. Even the Party had levels, Inner and Outer, with different rules.

1984 would be incomplete without the hypocrisy of "rules for thee not for me".
by jpc0 | 2025-08-11 09:28:00+00:00
> I use AI for sure, but only on things that I can easily verify is correct

Where did I say I was struggling, I stated a preference, I even stated lived experience with using a coding agent and a chat based LLM interface and have a preference for the chat based version.

I don’t struggle to use modern tooling, I pointed out that the analogy is terrible and how my lived experience proves that, I do use LLMs in anger daily for coding tasks, I just don’t treat them like interns.

Many time the points I used indicate that what I am doing is not in the training set, when you work on hard problems you run into edge cases a little more reliably than when you don’t.

Stop defending a man you don’t know on the internet, his words defend him well enough and I can hope he just stops using that analogy because it is fundamentally flawed, which is the point of my comments. The rest of his comment makes perfect sense and is the way I use LLMs and have to work around their idiosyncrasies anyway.
by rlio | 2025-08-11 09:28:15+00:00
I interned there a decade ago and still have 1TB free from that; I would have switched away a LONG time ago if not for that. I hate how sending anybody a link spams them with a million pop ups, i think the intrusive ads almost make it seem like they need a dropbox account to view my file. Sending files to my friends is embarrassing, sending files to my grandparents impossible.
by Mistletoe | 2025-08-11 09:29:07+00:00
I beg HBO Max to show me any sci fi it has and it has never shown me this once and I’ve never even heard of the show. Guess HN had to save the day this time. I don’t see it available to stream anywhere? I’m opposed to pirating on moral grounds, what are my options now?

https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbywolves/comments/18510kf/whe...
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-11 09:30:01+00:00
Well don't I feel like an uninformed dumbass. Talk of standards aside, pornhub apparently includes the following header if you visit it.

rating: RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA

RTA stands for "restricted to adults". So the large websites, ie the entities that would actually be bound by any proposed legislation, are already proactively facilitating network operators and parents filtering them out. And apparently have been all along. Wild.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-11 09:31:04+00:00
From the article you linked:

Aljamal had written a column for Al Jazeera in 2019.

The Qatar-based outlet said Aljamal was never an employee.

Before his death, Aljamal was contributing to the Palestine Chronicle news outlet, where he wrote a plethora of stories covering the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza during Israel’s offensive.
by zevon | 2025-08-11 09:31:12+00:00
It may be easy to get a simple(ish) one now, but there are already a lot of e-bikes out there with "smarts", apps, vendor-lock-ins up the wazoo, cellular connection and the like. If electric cargo bikes ever go mainstream, I expect the majority of them will be techifyed in the same vein as the Hyundai the author wrote about.
by atoav | 2025-08-11 09:31:21+00:00
Studied Film and worked professionally in overdubbing for a while. I recommend in that order:

1. figure out if your mumbling is just a habit or a logopedic issue

2. get a speakers training of the type actors or radio hosts would

If you wonder whether it is worth it, just consider how important it is in both your private and professional life to be clearly understood. There has been a study during the pandemic that showed that people who had the better sound quality in conferences would get their ideas through more often. This is truly the case for spoken words as well.
by hackrmn | 2025-08-11 09:31:22+00:00
I get your point, I do. Then again, a lot can be said about the "PR value" of letting what could be miniscule (by comparison) costs of serving static hypertext, be saved in the eyes of "potential" customers. It's pennies on the dollar and I am fairly sure Microsoft would get a lot more love from the "neckbeards" who need the old-school stuff and not the toys they insist on dangling in front of our faces (which they are famous for). Remember when Microsoft tried to get everyone away from Win32 by force-feeding everyone WinRT, writing "deprecated" over the former everywhere they could on their site(s), only to witness such a shit-storm of complaint and fury from people who actually rightfully knew Win32 was, for all its faults, one of the better things Microsoft has given us (in context of Windows programming, that is)?

Speaking of Win32 but not only that, I too have started being more cautious and pedantic about user manuals and other "paraphernalia" I have to rely on, for instance Win32 API documentation which is getting more scarce to find in sufficient volume and specifically _detail_. So I download and archive it (with implied off-site backup, which I have for most of my "home directory" stuff) -- I agree the only way to guarantee access is to, well, obtain a copy of the document...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-11 09:31:43+00:00
I wouldn't call it stupid but I do expect that the legal cases will die somewhere along their way to the supreme courts.

Several reasons:

1) The cat is out of the bag, AI is a thing now. It's not going back in the bag. So, artists are going to have to adapt to that. And are already adapting.

2) AI affecting artists is not any different than photography wiping out the market for portrait painters. Or records wiping out the market for selling music in paper form so that professional musicians might reproduce that for an audience. Those things happened a long time ago of course and any copyright issues around that were resolved over time. Copyright law hasn't really changed much since before that happened. These are the same kind of questions that exists for AIs being obviously inspired by but not really perfectly copying songs, images, text, etc. And they have answers in many decades of case law. Judges are going to take all of that into account and are historically reluctant to introduce new interpretations.

3) AI companies are big enough to outright buy the larger copyright holders. That doesn't mean they will; but it suggests they might reach some settlement that doesn't involve pleading guilty in a court. In the end this is about money, not about principles. At least not for the parties paying the lawyers.

4) If a settlement doesn't happen, judges will be forced to look at existing cases to assess what is and isn't an infringement. And if you remove all the outrage and moralism from the equation (which judges tend to do), AI companies are simply not distributing copies of original works to anyone. They are using them, for sure. But it's distributing copies that gets you in trouble. Not using copies. That narrows it down to whether those copies, which are freely distributed on the internet, were obtained legally.
by herewulf | 2025-08-11 09:33:05+00:00
It's not a good article for relying on so much anecdata and making little overt analysis.

The (3rd party) unemployment numbers do not lie though and the comparison to art and history majors is due to the fact that these degrees (at the bachelor level) usually do not lead to good job prospects, except maybe in roles unrelated to those fields where there is in fact no advantage whatsoever versus another degree.
Show HN: I made an OpenTelemetry extension based on Calm Tech principles
by theletterf | 2025-08-11 09:33:20+00:00
With the help of Claude, I've created an OpenTelemetry Collector extension based on Calm Technology principles that represents incoming Telemetry as raindrops hitting a glass pane, system load being the hue of the sky.

The goal is to make monitoring feel as natural as checking the weather: something we do without thinking, that provides immediate understanding of our environment.

Repo (and demo video): https://github.com/theletterf/otel-sonifier
by epolanski | 2025-08-11 09:33:37+00:00
Nonsense.

Albeit I'm no economist, I'm quite sure you should compare salaries to costs, not gdp/capita. Whether unemployed/retirees and children can afford a ChatGPT pro subscription seems irrelevant.

Let's take Madagascar, GDP per capita is $ 538. But the average salary is above $ 150/ month.

What interests us really though is not really the average salary in the country, rather the white collar (the end user's) worker's one.

In Madagascar software engineering salaries seems to range from an average $ 850/month for junior roles to well beyond $ 2000 per senior/specialized roles.

And this further ignores that such expenses are generally paid by employees, often with bulk discounts compared to B2C customers.

Which leads us to conclude that if ChatGPT Pro is such a performance multiplier, it is worth the price even in the poorest of the poorest countries in the world.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-08-11 09:33:55+00:00
The EU theoretically defines the goal itself in its statutes about subsidiarity.

Your argument doesn't make sense, you cannot just use abstraction to justify building new layers of governance.

I could give you an arbitrary line and say a common language would be the point. It is sensible as well because nobody in the Netherlands knows any politician from Spain and vice versa. On a national level this is not as pronounced.

I don't need coordination efforts about scanning encrypted messages if that is your question.
by sebzim4500 | 2025-08-11 09:34:26+00:00
>I find this very troubling for two reasons. First, while Claude and OpenAI are new, Google has been around for a long time. It should have thought better about pricing so that the tool is within the reach of the developing world.

Why? I don't see a practical argument for why Google would want to offer this service at a massive loss.
by vrighter | 2025-08-11 09:34:28+00:00
The reason it gets very difficult to distinguish between the two is that there is nothing to distinguish between the two other than subjective human judgement.

When you try to be objective about it, it's some input, going through the same model, producing an invalid statement. They are not different in no way, shape or form, from a technical level. They can't be tackled separately because they are the same thing.

So the problem of distinguishing between these two "classes of errors" reduces to the problem of "convincing everyone else to agree with me". Which, as we all know, is next to impossible.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-11 09:34:31+00:00
Yes, esp. if you are using Debian at infra and in production. I upgraded three servers in the morning while sipping my tea. Nobody noticed anything.

For RedHat family, this is nigh impossible, requiring hours of planning, downtimes, etc., and even then, it's not guaranteed to work.

If you prefer a rolling release, and won't use it on a server, Debian Testing got you covered (unless you are in a security sensitive environment). My systems are well-isolated from outside, so desktop systems can run Testing without issues.

Servers and exposed systems always run stable with security updates installed automatically, though.