MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by text0404 | 2025-08-20 21:40:05+00:00
ok, let's continue in your style! feel free to feed this back to chatgpt and we'll just keep doing a back and forth.

The defense falls apart on several fronts:

The ChatGPT Accusation Has Merit: The previous comment reads like AI output - overly formal structure ("First, regarding logical fallacies... Second, on NSF funding... Third, on reform..."), buzzword-heavy language, and the telltale pattern of systematically addressing each point with academic jargon. The Osterholm example is oddly specific yet potentially fabricated - claiming he said vaccines would take "years" on Joe Rogan in March 2020, when early pandemic expert predictions were more nuanced.

Bad Faith Projection: Accusing text0404 of "bad faith" while dodging the core issue. Text0404 raised a straightforward concern: defunding research during public health crises could cost lives. Infamouscow responded with academic theorizing about grant structures rather than addressing this practical concern.

False Burden Shifting: Demanding "three concrete reform steps" is a deflection tactic. The burden isn't on text0404 to solve systemic problems before questioning whether cutting health research funding is wise. This is like demanding someone propose complete healthcare reform before they can object to shutting down hospitals.

Missing the Forest: Infamouscow gets lost in academic critique while ignoring the immediate context - HHS winding down mRNA vaccine development amid ongoing health challenges. The philosophical points about NSF funding structures are irrelevant to whether this specific decision serves public health.

The accusation of AI use appears warranted based on writing patterns, and the defensive response confirms evasion of the substantive issue.
by jpalawaga | 2025-08-20 21:40:10+00:00
The keyboard is completely nonsensical. I really don't understand how iPhone keyboard is so bad. Even if you install the Google Keyboard, iPhone keyboard is still bad.

I can't fathom what is going on here, but I really dislike typing on an iPhone. It drives me bananas. Completely obvious suggestions are never made. Android--you can just faceroll on the keyboard a bit and it'll have everything perfect. I thought I was really good at fast text input on mobile devices until I switched to an iPhone and then realized that Google's ML and autocorrect integration is just way better in this area.
by cameronh90 | 2025-08-20 21:40:29+00:00
Digital has never been light-to-pixel.

At a minimum, you have demosaicing, dark frame subtraction, and some form of tone mapping just to produce anything you'd recognise as an photo. Then to produce a half-way acceptable image will involve denoising, sharpening, dewarping, chromatic aberration correction - and that just gets us up to what was normal at the turn of the millennium. Nowadays without automatic bracketing and stacking, digital image stabilisation, rolling shutter reduction, and much more, you're going to have pretty disappointing phone pics.

I suspect you're trying to draw a distinction with the older predictable techniques of turning sensor data into an image when compared to the modern impenetrable ones that can hallucinate. I know what you're getting at, but there's not really a clear point where one becomes the other. You can consider demosaicing and "super-res zoom" as both types of super-resolution technique intended to convert large amounts of raw sensor data into image that's closer to the ground truth. I've even seen some pretty crazy stuff introduced by an old fashioned Lanczos-resampling based demosaicing filter. Albeit, not Ryan Gosling[0].

Of course, if you don't like any of this, you can configure phones to produce RAW output, or even pick up a mirrorless, and take full control of the processing pipeline. I've been out of the photography world for a while so I'm probably out of date now, but I don't think DNGs can even store all of the raw data that is now used by Apple/Google in their image processing pipelines. Certainly, I never had much luck turning those RAW files into anything that looked good. Apple have ProRAW which I think is some sort of hybrid format but I don't really understand it.

[0] https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...
by aucisson_masque | 2025-08-20 21:41:03+00:00
Same stance, iOS isn’t the best but the least bad. Google is an anchor to Android, supposedly Android is open source and everyone can contribute but at the end no device can be sold without Google play services and Google decides what is accepted in the aosp project.

If aosp was actually open, like managed by all biggest phone seller in a consortium, i bet we would actually have feature that people want to get. Instead of a thousand « material you » redesign, that honestly looked ugly from the get go and isn’t much better years later.

Many people want to be able to invert the recent and back button, most in fact, yet Google stubbornly refuse to add that setting. That’s just an example, but this repeat a thousand time over the whole Android project.
by psionides | 2025-08-20 21:41:06+00:00
So, one big problem is that there's basically no way to have shared-private data in the protocol - it's either private to you, or fully public. Hence no "locked accounts", "followers-only posts" and so on on Bluesky, and this also prevents more sensitive ideas like e.g. "Strava on ATProto" (where you probably don't want to share your run map with the whole world!).

They are working on this, but it's still gonna take a while as I understand.
by consp | 2025-08-20 21:41:24+00:00
Balancing will be a nightmare I guess, or just dont do it. Nice idea for the advanced user but I would not let my parents fiddle around with lose 18650 cells for the sake of their house burning down.

I see a niche application but personally hope they get it to market and make it compatible with Shimano. My double sized battery is a frankenbattery: pcb from original with custom printed case fitting onto the original attachment device using the batteries from two original batteries. Measured and balanced of course. Safety is "meh" I guess because DIY. I'd like to replace it with something more properly designed.
by signal11 | 2025-08-20 21:41:25+00:00
> When I sit in a bus or in a cafe, I go through it and sort the new photos into folders.

This is exactly the sort of thing a lot of smartphone users (including Android users) won’t do.

The point of post-PC devices is to actually be post-PC. For many, futzing around with files isn’t the answer.

For instance I gave up doing this to my email years ago. It was very liberating. If I want something, I search. I can save searches I frequently perform.

iOS’s Photos app isn’t perfect but it allows me to find stuff just fine. I can search for places (“Seattle”), for things (“bicycle”) or even combinations (“plants Vancouver”). It’s pretty neat. And you can actually add stuff to folders (‘albums’) if you really want to.

> local files

iOS has them too. There are apps which allow you to access and manage local files — including the built in file manager. It’s not as laissez-faire as Android, though. Even the file manager has come a long way, and it’s improving further in iOS 26.

tl;dr — iOS isn’t for everyone, but it’s not like it’s not well-designed with a certain audience in mind.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-20 21:41:33+00:00
To "me, too" this, it's not like that AWS spot instance just go "poof," they do actually warn you (my recollection is 60s in advance of the TerminateInstance call), and so a resiliency plane on top of the workloads (such as the cited Kubernetes) can make that a decided "non-event". Shout out to the reverse uptime crew, a subset of Chaos Engineering
by glawrence13 | 2025-08-20 21:41:42+00:00
Developers! Anyone who wants to add shopping to their platform, build an e-comm website, or monetize their agent can use Channel3 to earn commissions on the products they sell. Totally see how that could get lost in this post, we tried to focus more on what we built than try to sell to devs. Hopefully our website makes this clearer.
by Hizonner | 2025-08-20 21:42:46+00:00
> The difference between that and the LLM training data scraping

Is the traffic that people are complaining about really training traffic?

My SWAG would be that there are maybe on the order of dozens of foundation models trained in a year. If you assume the training runs are maximally inefficient, cache nothing, and crawl every Web site 10 times for each model trained, then that means maybe a couple of hundred full-content downloads for each site in a year. But really they probably do cache, and they probably try to avoid downloading assets they don't actually want to put into the training hopper, and I'm not sure how many times they feed any given page through in a single training run.

That doesn't seem like enough traffic to be a really big problem.

On the other hand, if I ask ChatGPT Deep Research to give me a report on something, it runs around the Internet like a ferret on meth and maybe visits a couple of hundred sites (but only a few pages on each site). It'll do that a whole lot faster than I'd do it manually, it's probably less selective about what it visits than I would be... and I'm likely to ask for a lot more such research from it than I'd be willing to do manually. And the next time a user asks for a report, it'll do it again, often on the same sites, maybe with caching and maybe not.

Thats not training; the results won't be used to update any neural network weights, and won't really affect anything at all beyond the context of a single session. It's "inference scraping" if you will. It's even "user traffic" in some sense, although not in the sense that there's much chance the user is going to see a site's advertising. It's conceivable the bot might check the advertising for useful information, but of course the problem there is that it's probably learned that's a waste of time.

Not having given it much thought, I'm not sure how that distinction affects the economics of the whole thing, but I suspect it does.

So what's really going on here? Anybody actually know?
by labrador | 2025-08-20 21:44:28+00:00
Anyone who has road tripped around the United States knows that it is mostly empty with vast tracts of unused land. The idea that solar is wasting valuable land is one of the stupidest ideas Trump has ever had.

But we know he is being disengenuous. Before the election he invited oil company executives and owners to Mara Lago and told them if they donated to his reelection he would make it worth their while.

"Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say "This is a scandal" and "an indictment of the system" — but probably legal, one legal watchdog told POLITICO."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-exec...
by rprend | 2025-08-20 21:44:41+00:00
Stripe has pay-by-bank they are pushing with Stripe Link, by making it users’ default payment method. They get terrible conversion, though if they could it would make them massively profitable. Shopify has ShopPay which means they take home a good portion of the fee on every transaction.

Apple Pay takes a higher cut on payments than Visa does (.15% vs .14%). They don’t bother with pay by bank, though, probably because of the underwriting.

All of these companies ARE competing on payments
by dmonroy | 2025-08-20 21:45:29+00:00
That's absolutely a factor here. We are missing the stuff that no one is talking about: "AI generated inefficient loop" or "AI forgot to close file handle". The documented cases were documented precisely because they were worthy.

That said, even with survivorship bias, there's a pattern.

When humans write bad code, we see the full spectrum, form typos to total meltdowns. With AI, the failures cluster around specific security fundamentals:

- Input validation - Auth checks - Rate limiting

I've seen no AI typo, have you?

Does it mean AI learned to code from tutorials that skip the boring security chapters?... think about it.

So yes, we are definitely seeing survivor bias in severity reporting. But the "types" of survivors tell us something important about what AI consistently misses. The low-severity bugs probably exist, but perhaps not making headlines.

The real question: if this is just the visible part of the iceberg, what's underneath?
by j_seigh | 2025-08-20 21:45:32+00:00
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.programming.threads/c/XU6Bt... https://groups.google.com/g/linux.kernel/c/gk6AUkXR9As/m/-1W... Yes, I am aware of the asymmetric memory barriers trick and the atomic memory move trick also.

There's a couple of other ways to achieve wait freedom on hazard pointer loads (protect) but they haven't been published so they're kind of moot.
by mrb | 2025-08-20 21:45:37+00:00
This must be a glitch particular to Samsung phones. I use flagship Google Pixel phones and have NEVER witnessed such a lag. I tap on an input field with my left thumb, immediately the keyboard shows up, and I immediately smash any letter with my right thumb and it does register it. So, blame Samsung, not Android.

I am not too surprised though. Samsung has a reputation for bloating their Android stack with junk.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-08-20 21:45:59+00:00
stackable moderation for ignoring senders is a cool idea. I'll keep an eye out for permissioned spaces, is there encryption and signatures involved at all? (everything on bluesky is signed with PKI, iirc?)

And just unsolicited feedback but "Blebbit" is a deeply terrible name. It turns my stomach for some reason. I don't even know what a bleb could be or what it could represent besides, like, an ulcer.
by voodooEntity | 2025-08-20 21:46:30+00:00
@Author i would recommend you to give

https://github.com/vasturiano/3d-force-graph

a try, for the text labels you can use

https://github.com/vasturiano/three-spritetext

its based on Three.js and creates great 3D graph visualisations GPU rendered (webgl). This could make it alot more interresting to watch because it could display actual depth (your gpu is gonne run hot but i guess worth it)

just a suggestion.
by tim333 | 2025-08-20 21:46:50+00:00
>perceptions of AI’s relentless march toward becoming more intelligent ... came to a screeching halt Aug. 7

Overstates things a bit. It seems unlikely OpenAI will release human level AI in the next year or two, but the march of AI improving goes on.

Also re the AI Con book saying AI is a marketing term, I'm more inclined to go with Wikipedia and "a field of research in computer science".

Though there is a bit of a dot com bubble feel to valuations.
by fy20 | 2025-08-20 21:47:08+00:00
There are plenty of them out there, but they will expect to hire you are a freelancer/contractor, not an employee. Hiring an 'employee' across borders, even in the EU, is a lot of work, unless you use a third-party.

The advantage is you (worker and company) usually pay less taxes, but there are a few disadvantages that put most people off - need to deal with taxes, may need to pay your own social insurance, banks may make it harder to get mortgages. The 'protections' of employment at the end of day means nothing in most EU countries.

(Been working like this for well over a decade - never going back to a job with required office hours again)
by skywhopper | 2025-08-20 21:47:18+00:00
They did this to stop people from overloading us-east-1a.

It was fine, until there started to be ways of wiring up networks between accounts (eg PrivateLink endpoint services) and you had to figure out which AZ was which so you could be sure you were mapping to the the same AZs in each account.

I built a whole methodology for mapping this out across dozens of AWS accounts, and built lookup tables for our internal infrastructure… and then AWS added the zone ID to AZ metadata so that we could just look it up directly instead.
by jfim | 2025-08-20 21:47:37+00:00
Right, that's basically the problem, if one wants to travel by air with an ebike without hassle, there's no real option to do so.

There's the Ligo 10X (https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-products/ligo10x-battery...) which makes 99Wh battery packs that can be connected together, but otherwise it just seems like rules lawyering.

There really needs to be standardization of battery packs for ebikes instead of proprietary ones, so that one could rent a battery at their destination.
by rprend | 2025-08-20 21:47:59+00:00
1. App Clips meant no app download required- it’s already on your phone 2. No funding of an account required. There was no account required. You do a “connect your account with Plaid” once then the connection is stored in the secure enclave on your iphone. To confirm a transaction you just hit okay then the money is debited from your bank account 3. We were for online ecommerce for specifically this reason. Much easier to deploy a javascript package than a new POS. That said we were working with in person POS’s

But these concerns met was not enough
by pie_flavor | 2025-08-20 21:48:08+00:00
The CLA assigns ownership of your contributions to the Zed team[^0]. When you own software, you can release it under whatever license you want. If I hold a GPL license to a copy, I have that license to that copy forever, and it permits me to do all the GPL things with it, but new copies and new versions you distribute are whatever you want them to be. For example Redis relicensed, prompting the community to fork the last open-source version as Valkey.

The way it otherwise works without a CLA is that you own the code you contributed to your repo, and I own the code I contributed to your repo, and since your code is open-source licensed to me, that gives me the ability to modify it and send you my changes, and since my code is open-source licensed to you, that gives you the ability to incorporate it into your repo. The list of copyright owners of an open source repo without a CLA is the list of committers. You couldn't relicense that because it includes my code and I didn't give you permission to. But a CLA makes my contribution your code, not my code.

[^0]: In this case, not literally. You instead grant them a proprietary free license, satisfying the 'because I didn't give you permission' part more directly.
by achierius | 2025-08-20 21:48:16+00:00
Why is it always "humans don't deserve"? The vast, vast majority of people have nothing to do with the capital flows and political structures that result in outcomes like this. What choice does a worker, priced out of the city where he works and forced to commute an hour each way, have in this? Yes, they can "vote" for better transit, but as we can see in California that's not enough to actually get said transit. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The poor, the homeless, hell the vast majority of the world population that doesn't live in the 'garden': in what way do the choices of Silicon Valley, a handful of billionaires, and a small clique of DC politicians have any bearing on what they do or do not deserve?

Not to be too harsh, but this sentiment -- that the successes of the ruling class are theirs to boast, but their failures are all humanity's shame -- is so pervasive and so effective at shielding rightful blame from said ruling class that I just cannot help but push back when I see it/
by Huppie | 2025-08-20 21:48:35+00:00
Maybe not technically correct but it's still the gist of this line, no?

> Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Company, and to recipients of software distributed by Company related hereto, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute, Your Contributions and such derivative works (the “Contributor License Grant”).

They are allowed to use your contribution in a derivative work under another license and/or sublicense your contribution.

It's technically not copyright reassignment though.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-20 21:49:30+00:00
Cool. That was much more imbibable. Will try to parse Kohut for sure.

Reading all that, what seems to be another interesting line, perhaps only relevant in my mind, to work out this idea of a "fashioning a mature personality" (sorta like a self-Pygmalion?):

([The works of] Wes Anderson is my model for the pschoanalytic within Hollywood being unable to shake off charges of inauthenticity (as a proxy for narcissism or vice versa)

Maybe secretly, he admires Tarantino, (who appeals to the right the way he appeals to the Edwardian left?)

A prognostication: WA will see himself as having arrived when he can hire a European's European to play his idea of an European. Christoph Waltz vs the guy who basically reprised the English Patient (in ... -Hotel-...). "The director therapeutized by the deputized", to make a rhetorical leap..)

I hope reading Kohut will illuminate this prenascent notion that getting a narcissist to worry about the relevance of the imposter syndrome is a promising (diagnostic/analytic, if not therapeutic) approach..

The parental fixation comes off as a bit premature, however. Development-wise I think for many (some?) people school based trauma (from parent/sibling surrogates?) seems much more salient. Doesn't this suggest that cranks that post to arxiv are not driven by an Oedipal impulse?

From en.wiki:

>Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German.
by s_gourichon | 2025-08-20 21:49:43+00:00
Created

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/Uprintf/issues/1

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/Uprintf/issues/2

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/Uprintf/pull/3

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/Uprintf/pull/4
Ask HN: How to build services for FOSS projects when ToS forbids scraping?
by ATechGuy | 2025-08-20 21:50:10+00:00
I'm working on a service for FOSS developers to help enforce code license compliance and make projects more sustainable.

The challenge: many websites' Terms of Service explicitly prohibit scraping, crawling, or automation. At the same time, the information needed (repos, dependencies, metadata) is often available only through those sites.

For those who've built tools around open source ecosystems:

* How do you navigate ToS restrictions while still delivering value to users?

* Do you focus on official APIs only, even if they're limited?

* Are there established legal/technical best practices for this situation?

* How to balance compliance with ToS and the mission of supporting FOSS?

Curious to hear what others have done (or seen work) in this space.
by thesz | 2025-08-20 21:50:17+00:00
> the barrier of entry for purpose-built chips is 100x lower.

You still have to wait half of year to an year to have your purpose built chips produced and shipped to you. Masks for your chip, that's what makes the whole process slow.

With FPGA, you can have your purpose built chip overnight.

Thus, in my not so humble opinion, one should use whatever means one can to make FPGAs more efficient.