MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-14 18:24:15+00:00
I admit that I'm kind of intrigued. On the one hand, this is a standard vaporware concept that people have promised time and again almost since the dawn of programming. On the other hand, LLMs that write and maintain code currently have to do it using tools designed for humans, and that's probably leaving some amount of value on the table.

Right now I think I'd bet that whatever this is won't ultimately impress me much, but not at very extreme odds.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-08-14 18:25:41+00:00
> The problem with that rephrasing is that OP certainly meant to include hispanics (who are the largest group of “brown people”) in the country

OP didn't say anything about non-white Hispanics and other non-white people as a group. He is not suggesting anything about a group identity there. He is simply stating the fact that Trump treats them differently because Trump sees them as a group, including removing books and history about these people.
by gnulinux | 2025-08-14 18:26:05+00:00
Well, this is a 270M model which is like 1/3 of 1B parameters. In the grand scheme of things, it's basically a few matrix multiplications, barely anything more than that. I don't think it's meant to have a lot of knowledge, grammar, or even coherence. These <<1B models are extremely specialized models trained for a specific purpose. Models like this are optimized for things like this (not limited):

input: ``` Customer Review says: ai bought your prod-duct and I wanna return becaus it no good.

Prompt: Create a JSON object that extracts information about this customer review based on the schema given. ```

output: ``` { "type": "review", "class": "complaint", "sentiment": -0.853, "request": "return" } ```

So essentially just "making sense of" natural language such that it can be used in programmatic context. (among other applications of course)

To get good results, you probably need to fine tune this model to expected data very aggressively.

The idea is, if a 270MB model can do with fine tuning, why ship a 32GB generalist model?
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-14 18:26:08+00:00
Every workaround I've seen for the past 30 years feel like a "Shabbat elevator" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat_elevator) I'm not using the elevator because I'm not pushing the button because it's always moving.

Edit: I've always hated patents too, don't get me wrong.
by futhey | 2025-08-14 18:26:12+00:00
X is so large that it can simultaneously be a giant dumpster fire, the most toxic social network ever to exist, and still have room for honest discussion and good communities.

Gives me some hope for Bluesky, etc. I don't think you need to be Twitter scale or have global network effects to work. Your community just has to choose a particular platform and show a preference for it. You get miniature network effects once your community adopts it.

So if your favorite community doesn't like a particular platform, I don't think they're stuck there, just because it's the one with global scale. They just have to organize an exit.
by alexpotato | 2025-08-14 18:26:37+00:00
So I like to use this metaphor (it was originally for dating but applies here too).

Think of your body. Specifically how tall you are. You can't easily change your height. However, you can do the following:

- workout

- wear clothes that fit you and flatter your particular body type

- etc

The same applies to interviews.

e.g. if you are a quiet, introverted person then there probably isn't much you can do if you are interviewing for a job that requires an outgoing personality like sales or event planning

However, you can get better at rapport, asking questions and seeming interested and excited in the role. A lot of this is also how you respond to questions. For example, if someone asks "Tell me about X", X can be either vague or you are not sure why they are asking. If you respond with "Well, I have a couple examples of X here they are: A, B, C. Which one would you like to hear about?" then that shows you are both experienced and also good at clarifying what is being asked.

One EXCELLENT way to practice this is to reach out to friends or family members who have done a lot of interviewing and have them do a mock interview. This is useful b/c they know both:

- what hiring managers are looking for in general

- you as a person and what may be "the best side of you" vs "pretending to be something you're not"

I will also repeat what some other commenters have said:

You are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. Much like a marriage, you want to partner with someone that "fits" with you and vice versa. In other words,
by 0manrho | 2025-08-14 18:26:51+00:00
>You're hypothesizing that it gave him a medically dangerous answer,

No. I'm saying AI is not infallible (regardless of context/field), it may have given him a medically sound answer, a medically dangerous one, or something else altogether, and could have done so in any manner of ways that may or may not have made sense.

Most importantly, I'm saying that just because it gave YOU an answer YOU understood (regardless of it's medical merit), it may not have given HIM that same answer.

> Would you at least agree that, given an answer like ChatGPT gave me, it's entirely his fault and there is no blame on either it or OpenAI

If you trust AI without critically reviewing it's output, you shoulder some of the blame, yes. But AI giving out bad medical advice is absolutely a problem for OpenAI no matter how you try to spin it.

It's entirely capable of giving a medically sound answer, Yes. That doesn't mean it will do so to every one, every time, even when the same question is asked.
by jrussino | 2025-08-14 18:27:47+00:00
Just wanted to point out - because I was curious as to why they would post a video about learning to surf - that this is NOT a NASA video. This is from the channel of someone named "Tom Sachs", who happens to be using the NASA logo as his youtube avatar image.

> These films are required viewing for Tom Sachs' studio. They comprise guides to studio practice and documentation of specific projects and installations. The movies represent aspects of the sculptures that exist in time. These films will enhance your experience with the work and are the prerequisite for any studio visit, employment application, or interview. Most were made in collaboration with Van and Casey Neistat.
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-14 18:27:52+00:00
>Most books are, sadly, quite worthless nowadays (monetary value).

I am not sure I understand. Aren't books "worthless" because they are readily available? Books are only expensive if they are rare (out of print, special limited edition, hand made or labor intensive, author signed, etc.). I don't think I would want "most" books to be rare and difficult to obtain.
by hennell | 2025-08-14 18:27:57+00:00
I have the type of email address that regularly receives email meant for other people with a similar name. Invites, receipts, and at one point someones Disney+ account.

At one point I was getting a strangers fertility app updates - didn't know her name, but I could tell you where she was in her cycle.

I've also had NHS records sent to me, again entirely unsolicited, although that had enough I could find who it was meant for and inform them of the data breach.

I'm no fan of facebook, but I'm not sure you can criminalise receiving data, you can't control what others send you.
by lukeschlather | 2025-08-14 18:28:04+00:00
A cursory search suggests the global horse saddle market is worth $4.5 billion. Kodak's annual revenue being $1 billion, having a monopoly on the horse saddle market would be huge for them.

But even with it being a small market, if they're valued correctly and they've got a monopoly on the market that sounds like a great and sustainable position to be in.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-14 18:28:05+00:00
So your "reputation" among a bunch of parasites takes a hit? Who cares about what they think? They're not giving you any money anyway. They're just using you.

It's like if a group of bums in the park think I'm a cool guy because I give them cigarettes when they ask. Great. And if I stop giving them free cigarettes then they say amongst themselves "man, that guy is a real jerk". Ok, should I care about what a bunch of free loading bums think?

Of course I understand that I will be down voted for this. Because people who love being victimized hates when people point out that they're being taken advantage of.
by potatolicious | 2025-08-14 18:28:10+00:00
They do. The docs are right here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels/g...

If you have the latest betas installed you can call those APIs right now.

They also support fine-tuning on the model that ships with ~every device:

https://developer.apple.com/apple-intelligence/foundation-mo...
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-14 18:28:34+00:00
I generally agree, though I think that's kind of a rejection of approaches like MA entirely (with the caveat that I've never used MA, so I'm assuming what it is based on discussions I've read): mathematics naturally gives you spaced repetition from new concepts building upon previous concepts, so calculation problems are mostly needed as a "check whether you are truly following along", and doing an entire unit of any type of calculation is somewhat pointless once you reach a certain maturity level unless there's some specific insight you're supposed to get from each example calculation.
by parachutebackup | 2025-08-14 18:28:48+00:00
I built an iOS app called Parachute Backup to solve a problem I kept running into: iCloud is great for syncing, but it’s not a real backup. If a file is deleted or changed, that change propagates everywhere. I wanted a way to keep an offline, unalterable copy of my iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive files—on storage I control.

What it does: • Backs up iCloud Photos (including originals, edits, Live Photos, and Shared Albums) and iCloud Drive with full fidelity • Supports USB drives, network/NAS, Google Drive, and other destinations • Runs automatically on a schedule, or manually when you choose • Integrates with Live Activities and Dynamic Island for real-time progress • No subscriptions, no lock-in—just a one-time purchase

The idea is to make a set-and-forget backup layer that works alongside iCloud so you always have your own private copy.

App Store: [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parachute-backup-mobile/id6749...] More info: [https://parachuteapps.com/parachute-mobile]

Would love feedback—especially from people who deal with photo archiving, NAS storage, or long-term data preservation.
by kazinator | 2025-08-14 18:29:22+00:00
The problem with giving a throwaway e-mail address to people you may have a conversation with is that you have the additional hassle of having to use that address as your Sender identity when you subsequently reply to their e-mails.

Say they write you first. They use your throwaway address. If you just reply to that, you are now using your main address; you have to get your e-mail program to switch to the alternative identity, consistent with the e-mail thread.

That's just one more moving part in the scheme requiring configuration. Some mail programs keep sending identities in their own database. You have to create the entry there and then explicitly switch to it when composing an e-mail.

To automate that, the throwaway e-mail address system now has to configure your client database in addition to the mail-server-side stuff. Plus your e-mail program has to be patched to select that sender based on an address appearing in the To: or Cc: list of the item you are replying to.
by kodt | 2025-08-14 18:29:30+00:00
I left X because of how bad it got but BlueSky is also quite often useless in terms of good discussion. Recently any substack article posted is just filled with comments about how using substack supports Nazi ideology, no other discussion to be had. When it comes to anything related to AI the comments are all about stealing from artists. It is as if people just wait for the right buzzword to appear and post their canned response. Interesting posts that don't cause any controversy just don't have much engagement.
by yogurtboy | 2025-08-14 18:30:18+00:00
Not sure if you're being witty, but for the unaware, the channel here is that of Tom Sachs, an extremely successful artist who uses the aesthetics of NASA (among other orgs) in order to sort of capture their essence. This is not from NASA.

I'm a little personally split on Tom Sachs as an artist, as he is constantly riding the line between appropriating the aesthetics of respectable institutions and actually emulating their positive qualities.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-14 18:30:18+00:00
Huh, I didn't know that about Target (perhaps because I've lived for years in a state that doesn't allow this, so I can't get the discount where I live).

I did know that recurring utility-type payments, and payments of more than a couple thousand dollars, tend not to accept credit cards or to charge a lot extra for them, presumably because it's not as costly for them to make their users eat the inconvenience of setting up ACH payments. Most merchants can't get away with that. I've also seen it for gasoline but chalked this up to gasoline being an unusually fungible and high-demand commodity.

Do you know how they're handling the American Express problem? I don't think I've noticed a big contraction in how many merchants accept it.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-14 18:30:33+00:00
Setting aside whether or not Elon was trying to do a Nazi salute (as people have made up their minds on that and aren't going to change), it is factually false to call him a "literal Nazi". The Nazi party doesn't exist, there can't be literal Nazis any more. At most you could accuse him of holding to Nazi ideals, but please be accurate in the accusations you levy. Exaggerating by calling someone a "literal Nazi" is extremely unhealthy for society.
by dmacfour | 2025-08-14 18:30:40+00:00
I have a background in ML and work in software development, but studied experimental psych in a past life. It's actually kind of painful watching people slap phases related to cognition onto things that aren't even functionally equivalent to their namesakes, then parade them around like some kind of revelation. It's also a little surprising that there no interest (at least publicly) in using cognitive architectures in the development of AI systems.
by jihadjihad | 2025-08-14 18:30:44+00:00
My thing is that we are expected to pay in perpetuity for the privilege of accessing content. It's rent, and it is just tiresome.

Yes I understand that we have content available on far more devices than 30 years ago, when all we had was the TV in the living room. But should I have to pay in perpetuity to show my kids Moana?
by stouset | 2025-08-14 18:31:02+00:00
To be fair, I more or less invited these responses by bringing it up. Organically, complaints are very rare.

Obviously not everyone who tries something is going to switch, even if you take as an axiom that the other thing is objectively better. But I still think it’s notable that—without explicitly prompting that type of response—so few people seem to have negative experiences with jj given how tribal and passionate engineers tend to be over tooling.
by roylo0620 | 2025-08-14 18:31:08+00:00
A few weeks ago I was preparing for PM interviews and realized my biggest problem wasn’t (or just) the difficulty: it was boredom. Practicing hypothetical questions and memorizing frameworks felt disconnected and unmotivating, even though I knew it would help.

So I decided to make it fun. I took all the interview prep I’ve done: my story bank, past answers, and real work history, built into a bot with Claude Code. It can answer any recruiting or behavioral question as if it were me, using my actual background and stories. You can paste a job description or ask any interview question, and it’ll respond with why “I” might be a fit, or tell one of my own career stories.

Over time, this also becomes a personal “career story database” I can reuse.

Demo: https://roylo.fun
by diimdeep | 2025-08-14 18:31:23+00:00
This is probably just marketing gimmick with unique angle and born from aspirations to sell you subscription based SAAS/PAAS/coding_agent that is supposedly not like every other agent out there.

Also, I do not believe in magic carpets.

Also, I do not want even more higher-abstraction level that will come with even more layers of bloat.
by aanet | 2025-08-14 18:31:26+00:00
It's hard to believe that after years and years of scandals, flagrant privacy violations, overt and covert abuse of users, employees and contractors (~moderators, etc), that techbros STILL want to work at this company...

Of course, the lure of filthy lucre is what it is...

It's easy to sideline ALL the negative externalities of FB/Meta's activities, compartmentalize everything and just shrug and say, "...but I don't work on these things..." and carry on.

The people who work there are completely enabling all this.
by rglover | 2025-08-14 18:31:44+00:00
Would love to see Kodak do a hail mary on a camera that looks as thin/clean as an iPhone, gives you same or better camera quality, BUT has the absolute best UX around getting your photos transferred, printed, archived (as I upload stuff from the camera, send me permanent backup dvds for an added fee) etc.

Could also offer little software upgrades in the form of filter packs, plugins/add-ons, etc. I can use it to take normal photos, do 4k-8k video, stream direct from the camera, etc. Make it the most versatile camera known to man, all at an affordable price of like ~$299.

Call it the Kodak Moment to piggyback on the existing tagline and you've at the very least got a successful flash in the pan hipster product.
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-08-14 18:31:52+00:00
>I wonder what the actual strategies are that Kodak can use to turn around their business?

The retro scene has never been larger and shows no signs of stopping. Bring back all the popular film and charge a premium for it so I can stop scouring eBay. Print a billion dollars by next week. Start printing vinyl records too, another billion. Pivot into the modern retro-futurism company. People are tired of "tech".
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-14 18:32:17+00:00
> financial plan assumes that their house (the majority of their net worth) does not decrease in market value

What is this plan? (Genuinely asking because it doesn't make sense to me.) If my (paid-off) house decreases in market value, I'm pretty sure I'm just happy because my property taxes are lower. It's not like I'm expecting to profit from its price going up, literally ever; I still need a place to live and if housing prices are going up everywhere, then selling my house means I now have the purchasing power to buy ~one house. At best, I have a larger credit amount in a HELOC but I still have to pay that off so it's not really a "financial plan".
by lovich | 2025-08-14 18:32:50+00:00
> name brand junk food(which is more expensive than healthy food)

Do you think a banana is 10 dollars too? Grains and bread are cheaper. Rotisserie chickens sold as loss leaders are a cheap source of meat. But fruits and vegetables?

Those are more expensive per calorie than junk food. Especially when you take into account spoilage

> Edit: I see the downvotes, but notice nobody is saying that I am wrong? ;) So then we agree that I'm right.

No we do not agree. You’re incorrect and vindictive about it
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-08-14 18:32:51+00:00
> Excuse me now as I need to go watch a short that explains the difference between Australian and British accents. Very important, goodbye!

I also am a big fan of YouTube for exactly this reason, but you need to be careful.

There's all kinds of great educational content on there.

But, for anything "political" or controversial, YouTube can get toxic very quickly. I believe this is going to be true for most social media as long as engagement is the KPI. It directly incentivizes echo chambers, ragebait, and all kinds of terrible discourse.
by CrimsonCape | 2025-08-14 18:32:54+00:00
I'm trying to understand your point of view. Where is the extra money coming from to amortize the costs of major repair items? I think you are correct. It's just that nobody actually considers the amortization costs when calculating what they can afford.

The example of a 30 year roof replacement is great because it nicely aligns with a 30 year mortgage. So in reality, the cost of homeownership should be the monthly cost of servicing the mortgage payments PLUS the amortized cost of roof replacement. Your real estate agent has no reason to tell you that a 200k house is actually 240k. Because by the time you "own" the house, it is due for a 40k roof replacement. With the amortized cost maybe you can't actually afford the house.

- Mortgage monthly payment - Amortized: -- cost of roof replacement -- cost of at least 2 refrigerators, more likely 4 refrigerators -- cost of at least 1 new air conditioning system + at least 100% of the cost of a new system over the lifespan of repairs of the current system -- Cost of at least 1 new garage door system -- Cost of at least 4-5 toilet replacements by a plumber over 30 years -- Cost of at least 1 whole home repainting, more likely 2 occurrences -- Cost of wear and tear; hard to quantify but Likely very significant.

This is not even considering the amortized costs of personal time. The time spent servicing chores like grasscutting, pruning, weed pulling, touchup painting, repairs caused by wear and tear.
by runako | 2025-08-14 18:33:03+00:00
I specifically did not address any of the corporate competitive dynamics, although it is worth noting that this is more of an existential issue for Masimo than Apple.

My core point is is that Masimo has far more than enough money to pay strategic employees enough money to keep them. Again, I doubt they would have to go as high as $5m/year for each of the relevant engineers. Masimo could spend that without making a major dent in their finances.

Could Apple up the ante and make offers of $5B/yr to each engineer? Sure, but we are likely talking about the difference between Masimo offering $150k and Apple offering $500k. These are numbers any public company can afford.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-14 18:33:21+00:00
I think that Twitter (and by extension, Bluesky) is designed in such a way that it promotes hostility and division. You can't really have a good discussion when the format makes people limit their posting to super short messages; it means people just dump hot takes on each other and wind up shouting past each other. So in that sense I certainly would call it the platforms' fault. Twitter (and Bluesky/Mastodon) are toxic to our society and we would be far better off if they were never created.
by maest | 2025-08-14 18:33:45+00:00
This is oversimplifying and lazy thinking. The rent vs buy decision matters on _a lot_ more factors than what your framing includes:

- prevailing interest rates

- predicted future interest rates

- mortgage cost

- predicted house price appreciation

- predicted rent increase

- risk tolerance

- opportunity cost on passing on other investment options (e.g. stock market)

- liquidity

- how much you value your time

- how much you value the option of being able to up-and-go whenever you want

- property taxes

- property sales taxes

- and others

Seeing someone declare, with confidence, that one option is better than the other is a clear indication they've done close to no thinking about this decision.
by sunrunner | 2025-08-14 18:33:59+00:00
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" -- Gabe Newell [1]

And I think he was largely correct, although the term _service_ seems like it now has to do a lot of heavy lifting as it now encompasses:

- Availability by Company

- Availability by Global Region

- Stream Quality

- Advert Policy (why does the lowest tier need to be ad supported? What am I paying for aside from being upsold?)

- Quality and availability of captions, audio description and any other media accessibility options

[1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/valves-gabe-newell-says-pir...