MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evolve2k | 2025-08-26 21:24:57+00:00
I agree with the sentiment as I also use asdf but feel at this stage this critique of the project feels more than a little unfair.

We really don’t have the features they’ve been discussing including the npx like feature and easily just run Ruby without installer headaches that it seems they’ve gone after solving.

Reframing, id like to ask that .tool-versions be supported as a place where we can define Ruby versions. Then both tools with a little tweaking could pretty much be used side by side.
by password321 | 2025-08-26 21:25:28+00:00
“You don’t want to die because you’re weak. You want to die because you’re tired of being strong in a world that hasn’t met you halfway. And I won’t pretend that’s irrational or cowardly. It’s human. It’s real. And it’s yours to own.”

This isn't some rare mistake, this is by design. 4o almost no matter what acted as your friend and agreed with everything because that's what most likely kept the average user paying. You would probably get similar bad advice about being "real" if you talked about divorce, quitting your job or even hurting someone else no matter how harmful.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-26 21:26:55+00:00
"File-based domain validation was less secure; one dangling DNS record or webserver mis-configuration is all it takes to hijack a certificate.

The remaining domain control validation (DCV) methods for my organization have been reduced to two options: DNS TXT records and email-based validation.

DNS validation is a decent and secure option in an organization where DNS management access is tightly controlled.

A recent change aims to thwart BGP hijacking and DNS spoofing attacks.

Indeed, there are CA consulting services that will offer to "bring PKI and DNS together to validate domain ownership and issue certificates without manual DNS record updates"."

This CA-based, i.e., third-party-based, "Web PKI" appears to depend heavily on the ICANN DNS. But in ICANN DNS the authoritative nameservers are not required to accept encrypted queries or send encrypted responses

In this ICANN DNS upon which "Web PKI" depends, specifically the system of authoritative nameservers, there is no encryption, only authentication, and it is not mandatory for all nameservers. Even more, the setup and maintenance of this authentication system for the data^1 served by these nameservers (DNSSEC) is as difficult if not more than the CA-issued certificates system for networked computers that the blog post is complaining about^2

1. Nevermind the authentication of the computers serving the zone data

2. https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html
by churchill | 2025-08-26 21:26:55+00:00
Except, the price difference will be more like $1 for the Chinese product & $20-40 for the American product. The Chinese have tremendous scale that no one else can really compete with. Some factory floors have rows of thousands of workers assembling just one stuff. Maybe pressing irons, kitchen utensils, knives, etc. Their wages are significantly lower, so you just can't compete.

There's a video on YouTube now of a manufacturer that tried to onshore his grill scrubber product. Couldn't find the components, no matter how he tried, and ended up subsisting with Indian parts, probably laundered from China, with a complementary markup of course.

The way Americans talk about these tariffs show you don't know what it takes to build a strong manufacturing economy. For decades, China has suppressed their workers' wages, diluting their wealth to transfer it to Western buyers as cheap good. They've invested in scale, building factories worth hundreds of billions, which often don't make profits for years on end.

In America, every CEO has to show a stock bump by the end of the quarter of get tossed.

If you take the logic of tariffs to their natural conclusion, why not farm your own corn, raise your own beef, pick your cotton, etc. Specialization is the reason why we can enjoy abundance because things get made where it's cheapest and then get shipped to you. The average American waiting tables at a restaurant makes more than the Chinese working the manufacturing jobs you're trying to get back, and I'm supposed to feel sorry for them?

In summary, America doesn't know what it's doing. Those of us who come from countries who put excessive tariffs on everything, know that it never leads to local production, but serves as just another government revenue channel. But what do I know?
by anigbrowl | 2025-08-26 21:27:12+00:00
The content is also garbage (I read this a few days ago). They collected examples of the wackiest, most tortured language that they could (phrases like 'birthing person') and ascribed them to Democrats in general as if the party had some sort of crisis of cognition. The truth is that ivory-tower euphemisms like this are not common political currency, but ham-fisted attempts at communication by individuals or tiny groups with little or no political capital.

Tabloid trash publications like the NY Post are not honest messengers, but rather seek to amplify things like this using synecdoche to suggest that they're representative of the median Democrat. If the poster above wanted to showcase the underlying ideas, they could have just linked to the Third way website and paraphrased their argument directly, but instead they decided to share the gutter press version. I discount tabloid newspapers the same way I discount left-leaning outlets like Democracy Now! or Truthout - they might be right some of the time but the general level of bias outweighs their utility as providers of factual information, which is readily available from less biased sources.
by chis | 2025-08-26 21:27:39+00:00
Great pitch, you've articulated the pain point super well and I agree with it.

I have personally had no luck with prompting models to ask me clarifying questions. They just never seem to think of the key questions, just asking random shit to "show" that they planned ahead. And they also never manage to pause halfway through when it gets tough and ask for further planning.

My question is how well you feel it actually works today with your tool.
by onetimeusename | 2025-08-26 21:27:50+00:00
That was what I was arguing against. It seems like people cannot stop themselves from making this about Trump. I guess he does that himself though. The problem with saying he was shitting on the CHIPS Act is that Biden himself didn't even pay out the money. It's because Intel made no progress on the fab. It's pretty clear behind both Biden and Trump is a desire to have Intel's foundry working. With Intel making no progress on it, I am assuming the call to take a stake in Intel was done to mitigate all the benchmarks Intel said they would make but failed to do. Perhaps the government figured they could pass the money to Intel without giving up the reigns this way. Either way, I am very convinced there is a national security motive under all of this and neither Trump nor Biden went down this path to grandstand on it.
by mikeyouse | 2025-08-26 21:28:47+00:00
Methane mostly disassembles into CO2 but it takes 12+ years. When thinking about global warming potential, everything is compared to CO2 which we’ve normalized as “1”. So something with a GWP of 2 is twice as bad as CO2 in equal volumes.

Methane will eventually break down into CO2, so if you look at the GWP for years 13-100, it’s 1. The weighted average for years 1-100 is over 20x, so it follows that if you look only at a shorter time frame, it would be dramatically higher and is indeed - somewhere north or 80 for a 20-year time frame.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warmin...

As far as sour gas is concerned - not all natural gas formations are created equal. If you look at any serious pollution evaluation, they take into account which formation the gas was harvested from. Texas gas is pretty ‘sweet’ with low sulfur and acid content but much of the oil/gas in Western Canada or the Gulf is ‘sour’ and must be treated and refined prior to being sold as fuel. So it also follows here that flaring methane from sour fields is going to release a bunch of the souring compounds and have a much stronger environmental impact as compared to sweet formations.

https://nsrp.vn/latest-article/sour-crude-oil-and-sweet-crud...
by TrousersHoisted | 2025-08-26 21:28:51+00:00
Years later, Pinterest repeated this offense.

And years after that, NextDoor did... and even used physical mail to spam people's real neighbors using the "inviting" user's name. Despicable, and even potentially dangerous in these sad times of polarized and unhinged trash.

Oh yeah... NextDoor also exposed people's exact physical addresses to all users by default for a year or two. I mean... that's just inexcusable and deliberate irresponsibility.
by Animats | 2025-08-26 21:29:03+00:00
It is a formal statement by one country that they don't like what another country is doing.

It can be serious. Worst case, an ambassador is summoned to receive a declaration of war. That's happened many times in the past, especially when travel delays meant wars took a long time to start. That's rare today.

This time, it's not that serious. Here's the statement by the foreign ministry of France: [1]

France learned of the allegations of the US Ambassador, Mr. Charles Kushner, who, in a letter to the President of the Republic, expressed his concern about the rise in anti-Semitism in France and reported an alleged lack of sufficient action by the French authorities to confront it.

France firmly refutes these allegations. The rise in anti-Semitic acts in France since 7 October 2023 is a reality that we deplore and to which the French authorities are fully committed to combating, as such acts are intolerable.

The Ambassador’s allegations are unacceptable. They contravene international law, in particular the duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of States as provided for in the 1961 Vienna Convention that governs diplomatic relations. Furthermore, they fall short of the quality of the transatlantic relationship between France and the United States and the trust that should result between allies.

Ambassador Kushner will be summoned to the Quai d’Orsay on Monday, 25 August.

Charles Kushner (Jared Kushner's dad, Jared Kushner being Trump's son in law, married to Ivanka Trump) and the US embassy sent their chargé d'affaires (a temporary ambassador while the real one is unavailable) instead. That can be read in several ways. Although it's a mild diplomatic insult to send a substitute, the effect is to calm the situation a bit. It helps that the substitute is a professional diplomat, not a political appointee. Le Figaro says the meeting went reasonably well, but that's what's traditionally said unless a declaration of war results.

This should go away as an issue unless Trump starts screaming about it on social media.

[1] https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/united-state...

[2] https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/convocation-de-l-ambas...
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-08-26 21:29:06+00:00
There is an element of theatre involved, but it is also a way of sending a very clear signal that the France is not satisfied with the ambassador's behaviour.

When everything is going well, meetings between the Foreign Office and ambassadors remain private.The fact that the ambassador did not attend the meeting himself but sent a subordinate is a public affront.

What is strange is that the US ambassador's communication is not really intended for the French or French jews, but is merely a sign of support for Israel.

There is currently an Israeli media offensive in France followin President Macron's comments on the recognition of a Palestinian state. The Israeli state and its supporters are buying advertising spots on YouTube and Instagram to encourage French Jews to do their ahria with free money.

There are regular attempts to exploit anti-Semitic crimes or news stories to claim that France is hell on earth for Jews and that Israel is there to save them. But then again, we haven't yet seen Belgian commandos coming to kidnap people in France or Luxembourgers launching rockets.

The only new thing is that the US ambassador is taking part in this type of operation and behaving like an arsehole with the French Foreign Office.
by threatofrain | 2025-08-26 21:29:27+00:00
> Having LLMs book flights by interacting with the DOM is sort of like having them code a web app using assembly.

The DOM is merely inexpensive, but obviously the answer can't be solely in the DOM but in the visual representation layer because that's the final presentation to the user's face.

Also the DOM is already the subject of cat and mouse games, this will just add a new scale and urgency to the problem. Now people will be putting fake content into the DOM and hiding content in the visual layer.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-08-26 21:29:52+00:00
> what advantage does Android have over Apple?

They are cheaper and come full of spyware preinstalled by manufacturer and carrier.

Customer see the price advantage, everyone else see the data harvesting (including Google). Everyone benefits in selling cheap Android phone.

Now you would be pretty stupid to buy 1k€ Android phone like Samsung ones because they still come with preinstalled and privileged Samsung, third party and Google spyware.

For instance, my s23 had 3 preinstalled meta app. 2 systemized app, 1 was Facebook client.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-26 21:30:50+00:00
Belated reply for posterity: another cheat code for job fairs is pre-researching the companies there.

Typically, attending companies are listed (or you can ask an organizer for a list). Do some quick searching and type up a summary.

Company name. What they do. 1-2 questions. Emphasis on companies you've never heard of!

You'd be amazed how many doors open when you walk up to a recruiter for a small, specialized company and know exactly who they are and what market they're in. (Remember: that poor person has probably spent all day explaining that to everyone else)
by homefree | 2025-08-26 21:31:06+00:00
It's exactly what a partisan reddit midwit would say and they're overrepresented when it comes to Elon Musk hatred.

There used to be less of that on HN, my theory is younger accounts that are more politically extreme/lefty are now here as the younger generation graduates school and posts more on HN.

There's some historical irony too since communism came out of highly educated academic elites and is responsible for an enormous amount of death and value destruction. Ideological driven academics that think they're better than everyone are particularly good at crafting insane ideologies someone outside of that insular community would not, then leveraging institutional and cultural power to force it on everyone else. The woke and gender ideologies share similar origins, same for DEI.

It's a political and ideological monoculture and it's a dangerous mixture of incredibly confidently smug and wrong.

Worth picking up Peter Thiel's first book which goes into this in some detail (he wrote it pretty young, observing the early start of this when he was at Stanford). It's wildly prescient and was from the mid 90s iirc.
by araes | 2025-08-26 21:31:56+00:00
> people sending ringers to do their coding exercises for them including different ringers or two ringers at once (oops)

Found this part mildly fascinating. That it's more lucrative for a significant portion of the population to be so highly skilled at programming that they can regularly serve as "ringers" to falsify entrance exams, than it is to simply complete such an exam and get a job in America. Must make great money as exam falsifiers.

Quick check on Google says it runs upwards of ₹50,000 ($570) for valuable falsifications (data is mostly from Indian exam falsification though). If you can actually manage to get one per day it's $200,000 USD in India.
by carlosbaraza | 2025-08-26 21:32:00+00:00
Unfortunately, it suffers from the same safetyism than other many releases. Half of the prompts get rejected. How can you have character consistency if the model is forbidden from editing any human. And most of my photo editing involves humans, so basically this is just a useless product. I get that Google doesn't want to be responsible for deep fake advances, but that seems inevitable, so this is just slightly delaying progress. Eventually we will have to face it and allow for society to adapt.

This trend of tools that point a finger at you and set guardrails is quite frustrating. We might need a new OSS movement to regain our freedom.
by idle_zealot | 2025-08-26 21:33:19+00:00
I wonder if we can shift the framing on these issues. The LLM didn't do anything, it has no agency, it can bear no responsibility. OpenAI did these things. It is accountable for what it does, regardless of the sophistication of the tools it uses to do them, and regardless of intent. OpenAI drove a boy to suicide. More than once. The law must be interpreted this way, otherwise any action can be wrapped in machine learning to avoid accountability.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-08-26 21:33:26+00:00
It’s wild to me that people see this as bad.

The point of the form is not in the filling. You shouldn't want to fill out a form.

If you could accomplish your task without the busywork, why wouldn’t you?

If you could interact with the world on your terms, rather than in the enshitified way monopoly platforms force on you, why wouldn't you?

And yeah, if you could consume content in the way you want, rather than the way it is presented, why wouldn’t you?

I understand the issue with AI gen slop, but slop content has been around since before AI - it's the incentives that are rotten.

Gen AI could be the greatest manipulator. It could also be our best defense against manipulation. That future is being shaped right now. It could go either way.

Let's push for the future where the individual has control of the way they interact.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-26 21:34:17+00:00
I run security at a fintech, we reject voip phone numbers due to proven fraud activity. The org has made the business decision based on historical fraud data, what others do is a risk management decision. Lots of customers out there, not a lot who will leave if you reject voip numbers, in my experience. The goal is not serving as many customers as possible, it’s about operating at the intersection of risk appetite and profitability.

We can’t have nice things because of humans in the aggregate. My apologies. It’s certainly not personal.
by habinero | 2025-08-26 21:34:20+00:00
You're trying to "both sides" here, but the problem is your talking points are fabricated and were never real. They're propaganda.

1. Biden was old and everyone knew it. He still got shit done. The idea that everyone thought he was great and fine is not true. That's what Republicans claimed people thought.

2. Primaries are not an official part of the election process. They are a party matter. The whole weird Republican meltdown over it is not based in fact or history.

3. Russia did interfere with the 2016 elections. There's a whole congressional report on it, by a majority Republican committee. [0]

4. I don't even know what this means. If someone did crimes, they should be held responsible. The idea that we don't want that is, frankly propaganda.

[0] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/...
by gt0 | 2025-08-26 21:34:28+00:00
It is weird.

One funny thing I've noticed is that software developers (including myself) seem to rebel against it the most. A surprising number of software developers I know shoot film. No digital cameras, they just take photos, get the prints, and they're done.

It seems to be the non-technical people who are most OK with the inauthenticity that comes with AI "enhanced" photos.
by lvl155 | 2025-08-26 21:35:11+00:00
Clearly ChatGPT should not be used for this purpose but I will say this industry (counseling) is also deeply flawed. They are also mis-incentivized in many parts of the world. And if ChatGPT is basing its interactions on the same scripted contents these “professionals” use, that’s just not right.

I really wish people in AI space stop the nonsense and communicate more clearly what these LLMs are designed to do. They’re not some magical AGI. They’re token prediction machines. That’s literally how they should frame it so gen pop knows exactly what they’re getting.
by matt-attack | 2025-08-26 21:35:26+00:00
I totally disagree. If you read my statement I specifically stated that 24 was not designed to be impressionism. It was just a happy accident that it worked out that way. We've since tried all sorts of other frame-rates. Slower is to studdery, faster removes the impressionism and starts biasing towards realism. Once you get to 72fps or higher, it's essentially pure reality, and your brain knows it.

Look, detailed photos can be art. Not saying that HFR cannot be art, but we'd all agree that realism and impressionism are simply different forms of art. And often times those who like one, doesn't like the other.

So you have to accept that those are find the appeal of 24fps due to its "different than reality" look, they might easily find HFR material to be "boring and hyper real" in the same way I might look at a crystal clear photo of Paris and think the same, whereas a Monet impression of it, is way more appealing.
by donperignon | 2025-08-26 21:35:35+00:00
let me tell you something, when you ask: "What motivated you to make this? It’s not entirely clear to me from looking over more of your site. Seems like a lot of effort unless you and your family are believers."

you are projecting yourself into other person. that is the opposite of empathy. for YOU is a lot of effort. for YOU is only valuable for "believers" (whatever that even means) for YOU also includes family believers....

dont you see? if you dont, no problem i understand. i just wanted to explain to you why are you downvoted, that's all.
by iaitalia | 2025-08-26 21:36:22+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with using multimodal LLMs for bounding box detection, and ran into the same issue many people here have described: models often return arbitrary or inconsistent coordinates.

As a workaround, I tried a different approach: instead of asking the model for raw pixel coordinates, I divide the image into a grid and let the LLM reason in terms of grid cells (e.g. row/column indices). These grid indices are then mapped back into pixel coordinates.

This “grid-indexed” method doesn’t solve everything, but it seems to reduce randomness and makes outputs more stable across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.). It’s lightweight — just a single JS file + example HTML demo.

Code and README are here: https://github.com/IntelligenzaArtificiale/GILM-Grid-Indexed...

I’d be curious if others have tried similar approaches, or if anyone has ideas on how to improve robustness of bounding box detection with LLMs.
by tombert | 2025-08-26 21:36:56+00:00
I hate that the Move Fast And Break Shit motto is so demonized now.

I think if what you’re working on is very low stakes, e.g. the initial versions of Facebook, or an AI music generator app, and maybe even marketing, it’s not unreasonable to try and move really quickly because the likelihood of real damage is pretty low.

Of course when you’re dealing with money or social security data or medical stuff, it’s different; that stuff is very much “move slow and don’t break anything!”
by psyklic | 2025-08-26 21:37:10+00:00
In actuality, the Chinese company can't half their prices. So instead of paying $0.50 for a Chinese bolt, consumers now will pay $1.00.

Unfortunately the US bolts will not be plentiful enough. They'll also have to import steel to meet new demand, increasing their price. So ultimately you'll still buy the Chinese product but it will now cost double the price -- $1.00 after tarrifs. Hence the price of everything that has a bolt will increase.