MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potatolicious | 2025-08-02 14:26:43+00:00
- If you get into a car crash with your iPhone a ML model detects this and automatically calls emergency services.

- If you are wearing an Apple Watch a ML model is constantly analyzing your heart rhythm and will alert you to (some types of) irregularities. It's so computationally efficient it can literally do this in the background all day long.

- When you take any picture on any iPhone a whole array of ML models immediately run to improve the image. More models are used when manually editing images.

- After you save the photo ML models run to analyze and index the photo so it's easily searchable later. That's why you can search for "golden retriever" and get actual results.

- When you speak at your device (for example, to dictate a text message) there's a ML model that transcribes that into text. Likewise, when you're hands-free and want to hear an incoming text message, an ML model converts it to audio. All on-device and available offline at that.

Or are we playing that stupid game where "AI === LLM"?
by monster_truck | 2025-08-02 14:27:09+00:00
Recently had to deal with some unusual wisdom tooth bullshit, they sent me to a fancy oral surgeon who deals with the unusual. Guy sitting next to me in the lobby had his whole face caved in when he crashed his motorcycle (no helmet), he looked completely normal! The 'before' xrays he showed me on his phone were gruesome, completely unrecognizable as a human skull.

Wear a helmet.
by Kwpolska | 2025-08-02 14:27:41+00:00
> The Win8/10 taskbar's code predates Avalon (the prototype/codename for WPF), and trying to change/fix it at all usually ended up breaking it. It's one of the few binaries on Windows that would not be recompiled to build a new release image in fear of breaking it.

The taskbar that underwent a major redesign in Windows 7 (released after WPF)? Also, that binary is explorer.exe, surely it got rebuilt quite often for new ads. features, and fixes?
by metalman | 2025-08-02 14:27:56+00:00
japan=japanese=lifeforms and all lifeforms grow to occupy thier niche, which is not a linear process humans are unique amongst lifeforms in that our technological capabilities have created biological advantages that have increased the size of our availible niche, but there is no way to determine when and how an inevitable balance will occur........so perhaps the Japanese have been giving each other some serious side eye and have come to some sort of unaknowledged agreement
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-02 14:29:01+00:00
So 2 years of progress is enough to form a trend-line? Do you remember life during the time when AI at this level didn’t exist?

Follow the 10 year trend-line. That’s the thing that points to the future.

But either way there’s progress on both fronts. Talking to it has improved we just can’t measure it quantitatively imo.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-02 14:29:30+00:00
Yeah for sure. But also Orwell was extrapolating from the reality on the ground in communist countries. The scale achieved there was also massive. Your neighbors would turn you in if you criticized the people in power, etc.

This is also the reason the Soviets were ahead of the US in trying to train people like dogs (Pavlov's research) and why the communist forces ran brainwashing experiments on American POWs during the Korean War. If you look at what countries were willing to do back then it should make you concerned about what's coming.

For personalized targeting with psychological warfare, perhaps the closest analog is socialist East Germany's Zersetung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung

The main difference you get with LLMs is that it's cheaper to achieve these same goals Orwell was concerned about. You no longer have to make explicit and credible threats of violence. It's also easier to reach people in democracies and convince them that democracy is bad etc.

So for the sorts of concerns Orwell had, I think we're already seeing that. And Deepseek is one weapon in that war, since it has to comply with the Chinese regulations that LLMs must spread socialist core values.

How would you resist? I think a necessary precondition is that people continue to champion the importance of democracy and freedom of thought.
by phkahler | 2025-08-02 14:29:43+00:00
>> People are pushing the analogy of "artificial intelligence" and "brain", etc. creating a confusion that leads to such "laws". What we have is a situation that is similar to birds and planes, they do not operate under the same principles at all.

But modend neural nets ARE based on biological neurons. It's not a perfect match by any means, but synaptic "weights" are very much equivalent to model weights. Model structure and size are bigger differences.
by neom | 2025-08-02 14:30:08+00:00
Sure, here are some excerpts that should provide insight as to where I was digging: https://s.h4x.club/E0uvqrpA https://s.h4x.club/8LuKJrAr https://s.h4x.club/o0u0DmdQ

(Edit: Thanks to the couple people who emailed me, don't worry I'm laying off the LLM sauce these days :))
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-02 14:30:41+00:00
Yeah, I think we're on the same page on this one.

"failed to skate where the puck was headed" assumes that we know where the puck is going to be. We don't.

Everyone is skating towards that same spot while Apple is over by the blue line practicing their swizzles. They sure look like they're doomed. But large groups of people have skated to the "wrong spot" thousands of times. That's the entire point that Gretzky was making with his quote. He's not big enough, strong enough, fast enough to get in that scrum. They're all fighting it out and the puck slides away. To him. All alone.

Maybe that is Apple, maybe it's not. I mean, they're still learning to skate while everyone else is playing hockey.
by Fraterkes | 2025-08-02 14:31:02+00:00
Irrespective of how good Claude code actually is (I haven’t used it, but I think this article makes a really cogent case), here’s something that bothers me: I’m very junior, I have a big slow ugly codebase of gdscript (basically python) that I’m going to convert to C# to both clean it up and speed it up.

This is for a personal project, I haven’t written a ton of C# or done this amount of refactoring before, so this could be educational in multiple ways.

If I were to use Claude for this Id feel like I was robbing myself of something that could teach me a lot (and maybe motivate me to start out with structuring my code better in the future). If I don’t use Claude I feel like Im wasting my (very sparse) free time on a pretty uninspiring task that may very well be automated away in most future jobs, mostly out of some (misplaced? Masochistic?) belief about programming craft.

This sort of back and forth happens a lot in my head now with projects.
by VikRubenfeld | 2025-08-02 14:31:53+00:00
I just tried it out. Very impressive! I like the user interface and user experience.

I'm a Director of Market Research, so I did a test:

- One email headline test for a service I'm considering developing.

-- got a score of 88 - "Exceptional".

- One email headline test for a service I'm pretty sure does not work based on engagement I've done with the target audience.

-- got a score of 81 - "Very high"

Question: has sufficient work been done to reduce false positives?

Feel free to DM me - I really like what you're doing and would be happy to discuss.
by arunc | 2025-08-02 14:31:57+00:00
> Alignment with Microsoft Goals

> We are being thoughtful about resourcing. This effort is happening alongside other critical responsibilities like security, platform stability, and support for existing products. Our current focus is on foundational work that unlocks value for contributors and increase transparency. We are aligning this work with Microsoft’s broader business priorities to ensure long-term support and impact.

I don't sense any benevolence in their words. They are just pulling off their resources and dumping the framework on the public, hoping passionate losers will contribute.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-02 14:32:50+00:00
The current system we have are as good as they get? You’re just making this statement out of thin air?

Did you not notice a trendline of technological improvement of AI?

> Sure, I probably could make something more effective, using non-LLM technologies (given a large enough budget), but… why would I, or anyone else, do that when it'd be obviously harmful, with no benefit?

Technology will improve. The likelihood of you being part of that progress is nearly zero. So what you say here is categorically wrong. You are not able to make anything better. Humanity collectively will make something better and we don’t know who will be the one to do it.

People are willing to pay for companionship so there’s huge profitability in this area. Profit and self interest often at the expense of everything else is what drives progress.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-02 14:32:59+00:00
I tell people worried about motorcycles (I've had motorcycles around more or less since I was 12) — if safety is the most important thing for you, skip motorcycles (and bicycling, etc.).

I'm surprised how often people project their own fears on me with comments like, "Aren't you afraid you'll get killed?" As though that never occurred to me, ha ha.

Obviously I choose to do some things in life that are not the safest — but I do them because they make life more worth living. (Sound like a bumper sticker? Hopefully you get the point though.)

Likely there are things others do that add a degree of risk to their life but they feel are worth it.
by laughingcurve | 2025-08-02 14:33:00+00:00
It crashed the market because retail investors and perhaps non-retail as well had a great deal in overconfidence with the ability of the USA to maintain a lead thanks to the chip gap. High Flyer's innovations allowed them to scale and show that is not the case. This major event then likely spurred on many others. It was a mini 'sputnik moment'
by sgarland | 2025-08-02 14:33:05+00:00
Given how profitable it is, I doubt it’ll be changed.

That said, I very much like Codeweavers’ approach [0], which IMO is the modern equivalent to purchasing software on a physical medium: you buy it, you can re-download it as many times as you’d like, install it on as many machines as you’d like (single-user usage only), and you get 1 year of updates and support. After that, you can still keep using it indefinitely, but you don’t get updates or paid support. You get a discount if you renew before expiry. They also have a lifetime option which, so far, they’ve not indicated they’re going to change.

I have no affiliation with them, I just think it’s a good product, and a good licensing / sales model.

[0]: https://www.codeweavers.com/store
by Rendello | 2025-08-02 14:34:02+00:00
There's some Anki (flashcard) decks that use the "KOFI" method:

> KOFI (Konjugation First) is the name I've given to a provocative language-learning approach I've created: to learn all the forms of a language's conjugation before even starting to formally study the language

I used the French one, years after I learned French, because my conjugation was abysmal. You can get by using basic tenses or wrong tenses, and people will understand you, but it's not what you want. The KOFI method is supposed to teach you all the conjugation patterns in a matter of months before learning the language, I'd like to give it a try in-earnest some day for a new language. My interest in French has waned so I didn't stick with it.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1131659186
by mantas | 2025-08-02 14:34:51+00:00
You’d still have massive metal boxes passing you.

On top of that, that’d likely mean highways torn up and replaced by narrow streets. Which would mean more traffic closer to people on sidewalks.

The reverse of this happened here in backwaters of Eastern Europe. Before there was no city bypasses and in-city highways. Traffic was tenfold smaller because there were much much fewer private vehicles. But most of it was busses, lorries and so on. Long distance driving was done through downtowns. Nowadays there’s much more private traffic. But there’re bypasses routing away a lot of long distance traffic. A lot of city traffic is on isolated motor-only streets. Of course they waste space. But at the same time people don’t walk along those streets so big portion of traffic is not passing by anybody’s shoulder.
by jansan | 2025-08-02 14:34:53+00:00
A lot of things that the author achieved with Claude Code is migrating or refactoring of code. To me, who started using Claude Code just two weeks ago, this seems to be one of the real strengths at the moment. We have a large business app that uses an abandoned component library and contains a lot of cruft. Migrating to another component library seemed next to impossible, but with Claude Code the whole process took me just about one week. It is making mistakes (non-matching tags for example), but with some human oversight we reached the first goal. Next goal is removing as much cruft as possible, so working on the app becomes possible or even fun again.

I remember when JetBrains made programming so much easier with their refactoring tools in IntelliJ IDEA. To me (with very limited AI experience) this seems to be a similar step, but bigger.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-02 14:35:19+00:00
> "It's very difficult to make a seven-row keyboard anymore because of the aspect ratio of the display and the whole arrangement of the pieces on the inside," he said. "It's a decision that was not made lightly, however. I still like the seven-row keyboard and, as aspect ratios change, and they continue to change, I don't know. Maybe someday somebody will be interested in it again."

The sad part is, the Framework 13 has a 3:2 display (with a stupidly large bottom bezel, too, for good reasons), but still uses a bog-standard modern laptop keyboard, including (unlike the ThinkPad) the miserable half-height arrow keys. They did bother to make a Copilot key, though. Just not a better keyboard.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-02 14:35:33+00:00
Nah. The models are great, but the models can also write a story where characters who in the prompt are clearly specified as never having met are immediately addressing each other by name.

These models don't understand anything similar to reality and they can be confused by all sorts of things.

This can obviously be managed and people have achieved great things with them, including this IMO stuff, but the models are despite their capability very, very far from AGI. They've also got atrocious performance on things like IQ tests.
by konart | 2025-08-02 14:36:51+00:00
>Wegovy (semaglutide) injection 2.4 mg is an injectable prescription medicine used __with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity__

Just saying.

Neither gym not dieting are scams and simply can't be by their nature. People who say that either have some serious health condition (and obviously you can beat some things with will alone) or people who failed at realising that "dieting" is about their consumption habbits.

Most people I see with this problem convince themselves that they are on a diet while they continue with their eating habbits.

You "just" tricked you brain and made things easier for yourself. Good for you but calling gym and dieting a scam is just laughable.
by smegger001 | 2025-08-02 14:37:08+00:00
I dont know, that means if a streaming service created a show they would be forced to share it meaning no incentive for them to make their own content I prefer a limited time exclusively of 3-5 years for first party content then compulsory licencing of content. That would incentivise creation of new content as a positive market differentiator but also decincentivise removing old content as it would in effect be a negative differentiator.
by solatic | 2025-08-02 14:37:28+00:00
PANW's current strategy is "platformization" - to be a one-stop shop for anything cybersecurity. The CYBR acquisition fills large product holes in the current PANW portfolio, with little overlap.

The $25B price doesn't reflect a multiple on $1B, exactly. It represents potential sales of the CYBR product portfolio to current PANW customers, plus potential sales of the PANW portfolio to CYBR customers, at a multiple of ARR, negotiating a portion of which to current CYBR shareholders, which is above the market price for CYBR shares, representing the risk that such upsells may not succeed in practice.

Where the acquisition gets interesting is in what CYBR's identity products mean for PANW's portfolio, once integrated. SOAR gets to be much more deterministic if your SIEM knows all of the system's trusted principal identities instead of trying to piece it together based on network research, voluntary reports, and heuristics. In theory, an integrated product will deliver better security. But the question remains whether PANW will succeed at such integration or not. PANW has a long history of successful acquisitions, so, there's that...
by paavohtl | 2025-08-02 14:37:58+00:00
I am worried about the future of native UI technologies on Windows. Traditionally at least the developers of operating systems have eaten their own dogfood and have at least tried to implement well-performing & visually consistent native applications to serve as an example to others. Windows 11 has largely done the opposite. Windows has had minimal but perfectly functional native email and calendar apps at least since Windows 10 (could have been in 8, never used that). Windows 11 originally shipped with those apps, but they were removed in a later update and replaced with laggy webview wrappers that take seconds to start.
by jansan | 2025-08-02 14:38:10+00:00
It depends how you use it. You can ask Claude Code for instructions to migrate the Code yourself, and it will be a teacher. Or you can ask it to create a migration plan and the execute it, in which case learning will of course be very limited. I recommend to do the conversion in smaller steps if possible. We tried to migrate a project just for fun in one single step and Claude Code failed miserably (itself thought it had done a terrific job), but doing it in smaller chunks worked out quite well.
by jgalt212 | 2025-08-02 14:38:19+00:00
It's very hard to square the activity in the real economy vs the valuations in the stock market. As a stark example, look at the revenues of AAPL for 2019 vs 2024, then compare the market caps for EOY 2019 vs 2024. It's astounding. What's causing this? ZIRP, which is now gone, but lower rates ahead it seems, and the trillions in money printing. Little of the helicopter money ended up in consumers hands as evidenced by AAPL's revenue growth. Almost all of it ended up in the hands of the investor class.
by NullCascade | 2025-08-02 14:38:20+00:00
How is that going to help?

Germany has an even lower threshold for criticism of Israel and organized Judaism than the US.

Mainland Europe (excluding Germany) is generally way more pro-Palestinian than the US. However that doesn't extend to our institutions. Case in point: Dutch riot police brutally beating up University of Amsterdam students for setting up UCLA/Columbia-style tent blockades.

If you're an American academic or student you can come to Europe and continue both your work and pro-Palestinian activism within the Overton window of mainstream European consensus on the two-state solution. Anything that is more radical than that might get you in the same level of trouble or worse than the US.

Basically Europe is a non-solution for pro-Palestinian American academics and students.
by scottcha | 2025-08-02 14:38:31+00:00
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Requirements:

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by ubermonkey | 2025-08-02 14:38:37+00:00
It's nuts, right? I mean, I ride, but I know plenty of folks who are subscribed to the F9 Youtube channel who don't just because so much of the content they do scratches nerdy itches.

Some of my favorites, in case anyone's interested:

* Ryan's periodic "check out this weird bike from the past" clips are always great, but I really LOVE the one about the Honda Rune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjuWiKz9zno

* Their "trilogy" of sorts about Harley, and the hows and whys of their odd and honestly self-defeating decisions, are all great, but my favorite is the one that compares an Indian Scout to its then-corresponding Harley model; the Indian made 43% more power, and it's all down to Harley's genuflection at "tradition". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ooue7i73zo

The other two are "why millions ride HD" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeuXShFIgyc), which kinda lays the background for the tradition at work in the aforementioned video; and "How HD killed itself" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwxxsPaogY), which is more about their demographic problem.

* They did a "how to deal with dealers" video that is really a thinly veiled tribute to a particularly excellent and longstanding dealership, which is just lovely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbr3JZAXDxA

* And my personal favorite is the FANTASTIC film homage built into Ryan's vid about the Ducati Desert X, which he ended up buying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcFqVIadWYo