MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-02 03:34:32+00:00
StacheD fire training guy made a video about it. https://youtu.be/HahhrLWZBKE

He didn't like that battery boxes were on the roof in hot Florida and wondered why they didn't have fixed overhead electric trams.

I wonder why EV buses battery packs don't have constant, real time thermal monitoring and alerts. These are risky bits that need more attention.
by sysmax | 2025-08-02 03:34:41+00:00
It greatly depends on the type of work you are trying to delegate to the AI. If you ask it to add one entire feature at a time, file level could work better. But the time and costs go up very fast, and it's harder to review.

What works for me (adding features to huge interconnected projects), is think what classes, algorithms and interfaces I want to add, and then give very brief prompts like "split class into abstract base + child like this" and "add another child supporting x,y and z".

So, I still make all the key decisions myself, but I get to skip typing the most annoying and repetitive parts. Also, the code don't look much different from what I could have written by hand, just gets done about 5x faster.
by khelavastr | 2025-08-02 03:36:00+00:00
The study is designed to ignore relative severity of side effects. It will count the number of separate side effects as a proxy for side effects severity.

The study also doesn't seem to objectively measure autistic peoples' qualities of life.

It CERTAINLY doesn't compare sertraline + tryptophan-boksting nutritional support with nutritional tryptophan support on its own.

It definitely doesn't stratify it's groups by baseline tryptophan nor serotonin activity.

The study almost offensively neglects critical angles.
by sixdimensional | 2025-08-02 03:36:20+00:00
An interesting anecdote from a past job - Flyht [1] acquired the assets from Panasonic Weather Solutions (PWS) some time ago [2].

The weather model from PWS was incredible, using TAMDAR sensors mounted on commercial aircraft, which recorded data at multiple altitudes getting a great sample of conditions from many layers of the atmosphere as aircraft ascend and descend.

IIRC, during hurricane season some years ago, the PWS model outperformed hurricane path predictions from many other organizations in terms of accuracy, among other things.

I love this share too, and I suspect this weather data could be very useful!

[1] https://flyht.com/

[2] https://flyht.com/investors/news-and-media/view/flyht-acquir...
by toomanyrichies | 2025-08-02 03:37:20+00:00
"Musk gave out free Starlinks during Hurricane Helene."

Did he?

> As it turns out, the offer wasn’t as generous as it seemed, it’s really more of a new customer promotion.

> The Register pointed out that if anyone goes to sign up for the “free” service, there’re hit with a harsh reality: you have to pay for the equipment.

> But try to sign up for the ostensibly “free” service in an area Starlink has designated as a Helene disaster zone, and surprise: You still have to pay for the terminal (normally $350, but reportedly discounted to $299 for disaster relief, though that’s not reflected in Starlink’s signup page), plus shipping and tax, bringing the grand total to just shy of $400...

> According to the Starlink Helene page, new customers who qualify for free access will be automatically moved to a paid $120-a-month residential subscription tied to the location the terminal was set up for after 30 days.

> Even if you’re a victim that happens to be an existing Starlink customer, if you want those fees waived, you’ll have to file a waiver and then wait for it to be approved. [1]

Not sure why you're taking the world's richest sociopath at his word. And even if he were as charitable as you say (which I obviously don’t stipulate), that would mean... what? We wait for another Hurricane Helene to hit every person without internet access? Then wait even longer for a billionaire to bail them out?

1. https://qz.com/elon-musk-free-spacex-starlink-hurricane-hele...
by cryptonector | 2025-08-02 03:39:28+00:00
The government is allowed and required to say things about the current state of the law (i.e., they must publish the law, and they may educate the public about it, and they must enforce it). The government is not required and perhaps should not be allowed to say anything promoting specific political opinions or promoting specific Acts that have not passed yet. By "say" you [I think, and therefore] I mean as in publish with taxpayer money, because naturally elected officials and even appointees should be able to speak with anyone, even interviewers, and publish on their own dime as long as they don't do anything to prevent the opposition also speaking in that way, but publish? as in print or broadcasting? OP here thinks not, and OP has a very good point.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-02 03:39:56+00:00
500 Starlinks? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-sta...

As opposed to 95% of US homes that have at least one radio receiver? https://www.insideradio.com/inside-story-radios-in-more-u-s-...

Usable digital cell service still doesn’t reach a good chunk of rural Americans.

I’m not sure why an expensive, technically-complicated solution would be an alternative to a free, simple, widely-deployed one.
by mattmaroon | 2025-08-02 03:40:07+00:00
Only insofar as Google might wish to prevent it since their brand was on the shortened url you clicked to get there. And people not having malware is surely good for Google indirectly.

Presumably ACME used the link shortener because they wanted to put the shortened link somewhere, so someone’s going to click things like these. If Google can just delete a lot of it why not?
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-02 03:43:19+00:00
Don’t try to index all the web, pick some smaller universe of quality content to search.

For example, if you are programming you should have some tool that looks at your project.toml or package.json or POM and looks up the exact versions of the dependencies you use and search that documentation and only that documentation.

For that matter you would want an AI to act only based on that knowledge base —- it is so awful to argue with a AI over whether you can write a switch statement with a null in it (you can in JDK 21) or have it write code for the wrong version of SQLAlchemy.
by Cheezmeister | 2025-08-02 03:44:25+00:00
I mean it's five basis points, it ain't nothin.

Put another way, if I could grease the right palms to shave commensurate minuscule savings off of the budget of ICE, it'd pay off my mortgage. Twentyfold.

Back to greenhouse gases, I'm no climatologist, but isn't it plausible the difference could, for instance, make or break one catastrophic wildfire across the western seaboard of North America?

Beware of statistic thinking in a stochastic world.
by tsoukase | 2025-08-02 03:46:10+00:00
Classic case of abuse from a higher rank male of a female. Jon thought 'Oh, let's have some sex for a weekend after all that bla bla events'. The girl was in a vulnerable position (far from home, first time attending, relatively poor) and coming from a different culture, young-a-inexperienced.

The whole case lies in the spectrum between 'man abuses woman' to 'possible rape' depending on personal beliefs. My opinion: Jon had to receive a good lesson of how to behave correctly to women (esp. ensure a 'balance of power and position') but not such a hard one that destroyed his life.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-02 03:47:09+00:00
Similar psychology, too, and extremely similar backstory: a truly dreadful, cruel, selfish man for a father. Fred Trump would have found a lot in common with Errol Musk, and they both did a lot of emotional damage to their sons in their early years. They are fully the products of emotional damage in early childhood.

(Musk has the small advantage of being able to express his feelings about his father’s behaviour; Trump still worships his)
by Animats | 2025-08-02 03:47:41+00:00
> That's true, but it doesn't help the customers.

Sure it does. It's essential to making banking work. See ISO 20022 reconcilation.[1] This is the process by which errors in money transactions between banks are resolved. ISO 20022 is used by SWIFT, FedNow, FedWire, and systems in about 70 countries.

Unique IDs make transactions idempotent, but that's just the start. Banking is an eventually consistent system. Messages go back and forth until both ends agree. If there's a loss of communication, some transactions will be resubmitted, but they won't be applied twice.

Banks have been doing reconciliation for centuries. It's been sped up recently, but the concepts have not changed much.

[1] https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/19808/how-exactly-will-...
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-08-02 03:47:53+00:00
Trump believes there is a winner and loser in everything. So you stiff the contractor, he gets upset and might not work with you again, you just get another contractor. Trump was a big enough name and has enough money that even if his reputation is horrible, people aren't just going to not work with him. You can imagine that how works on a global scale as president.
by leorapini | 2025-08-02 03:49:22+00:00
I tried a couple of agents and stuck with open art consistent character. gonna try higgsfield as well. the hardest part is her body. i generate a lot of junk until i get something that looks like her. for consistency in video, i ask veo 3 to change the angle and screenshot for a new frame to video prompt, so it looks like a doc with two cameras.
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 03:49:56+00:00
This is excellent practical advice. The invite-only approach especially resonates - we're actually planning something similar.

I'm curious about the cold start dilemma though: invite-only is great for quality, but creates a chicken-and-egg problem for early adoption. Do you think it's worth the slower growth from day one?

Also, for initial promotion - better to avoid platforms like Twitter (where average user quality is lower) and focus on higher-quality channels, even if reach is smaller?

Would love your thoughts on balancing growth vs quality in early stages.
by netsharc | 2025-08-02 03:50:14+00:00
The video showing the problem in the article seems to show an avalanche of queries towards the server, I'm surprised no one cared about it, but I guess it's frontend people thinking "It's the backend/ops that have to deal with the problem!".

I wait about 250 ms before firing the request, if the user (well, me) continues typing, then the timer gets cancelled and the app waits another 250ms.
by adamjroth | 2025-08-02 03:51:17+00:00
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by adamjroth | 2025-08-02 03:51:26+00:00
Location: Connecticut, USA

Remote: Yes (20 years experience, efficient, productive, and highly available)

Willing to relocate: For the right position; remote with occasional travel much preferred

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Seeking part-time or full-time work in development, source code audits, or reworking codebases left in poor shape. Specializes in Ruby, Rails, React Native, Node, React, and Javascript. Experienced in all phases of software development, including architecting solutions from the ground up, reworking/rebuilding/refactoring existing projects, and contributing to modern codebases. Focuses on React Native (core contributor), React, Ruby on Rails, and Javascript/Ruby.

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by mook | 2025-08-02 03:51:38+00:00
I feel like if Facebook parsed the names then it might be reasonable to hold them liable; them using it unintentionally would be treating them as opaque blobs. But that wouldn't be useful for advertising.

Since I couldn't find it in the article, I believe the relevant docket is Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc., 3:21-cv-00757, (N.D. Cal.) — don't have PACER access but it seems like https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/55370837/frasco-v-flo-h... has some info (see for example 744, final instructions for jury).
by dang | 2025-08-02 03:52:25+00:00
Robert Wilson had a powerful effect on other artists.

This documentary has some great sequences with Tom Waits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvRUBqV3jo

This was the most memorable bit for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvRUBqV3jo#t=2902
by staticman2 | 2025-08-02 03:52:41+00:00
Nobody was asking if Anthropic can ban OpenAI. I believe they were asking if the contract that can ban using the output to train an AI would hold up in court.

And no, it isn't clear to me that this contract term would hold up in court as Anthopic doesn't have copyright ownership in the AI output. I don't believe you can enforce copyright related contracts without copyright ownership.

I could be wrong of course, but I find it odd this topic comes up from time to time but apparently nobody has a blog post by a lawyer or similar to share on this issue.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-02 03:52:53+00:00
> The strangest part was seeing how some people really didn’t care about the details of the situation, they viewed it as symbolic of something greater and believed everyone was obligated to believe the accuser in some abstract moral sense.

Why is that strange? That's what the propaganda tells them to do - they're just doing as told: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_women
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by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 03:55:49+00:00
This is solid advice, but I'm wondering about a different approach entirely. What if we don't have moderators at all? Just build a small, self-governing community - get the right initial group of people, then freeze registration once we hit critical mass.

The idea is more like an internet utopia - if the participants are engaged and high-quality enough, maybe traditional moderation becomes unnecessary? We're not trying to scale to millions of users anyway.Have you seen small, closed communities work without formal moderation? Or does human nature always require some kind of enforcement mechanism?
by fuzztester | 2025-08-02 03:56:46+00:00
Wrong notion.

Eff, what kind of sucker [1] are you?

"You" (not you) already took a risk which failed. Now you are talking about taking on more risk with the same person who cheated you, like a lallu (Hindi term for a sucker)?

You're promoting wrong ideas, which are harmful to everyone here who is a supplier.

You need a principle from Econ 101:

Don't throw good money after bad.

Animats is right.
by zyruh | 2025-08-02 03:57:08+00:00
Right, that's kind of the frustration I have. Traditional search gives you the universe that you have to sift through. AI tools are closer to that "smaller universe" but are often inaccurate. I'm not a programmer, but I'm seeing a gap here for a tool, search engine (whatever you want to call it) that is both spot on to what I'm asking and trustworthy in its response. Anyone else see this need? Perhaps I'm in the minority.
by vincentchu | 2025-08-02 03:58:12+00:00
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by reissbaker | 2025-08-02 04:00:36+00:00
You can just look this up, it's not a secret. Median total pay, including tips, in the US is $32k for waiters. In France, it's €22k. The UK is £23k. Even factoring in health insurance costs — ~4.5k/year for an Obamacare plan — waiters make more in America.

Waiters in the US make significantly more than their British and French counterparts, due to tipping: the US minimum wage is lower than the British and French minimum wages, and despite American waiters being paid at an even lower hourly rate than the US minimum wage, they end up making more due to tips, performing the same job.

The upper 25% of waiters in the US make over $40k a year. Your 95% estimate is very off base.
by bruce511 | 2025-08-02 04:01:34+00:00
Look, I get it, I was starting out once, and out of necessity did some "high risk" work where we invested a lot of time before getting paid. Sometimes it worked out, sometimes it failed.

I learned to understand that -risk- has a value. All transactions have risk, maybe I don't deliver, maybe you don't pay.

I now explicitly factor risk into quotes. We can share risk (you pay some, but not all, up front, coupled with progress payments), or I can take the risk (I'm pricing it higher, and assuming you're skipping the last payment), or you can take the risk (pay up front, but pay less.)

Treating risk as a line-item in the budget helps both parties understand the pricing better. Having a track record (of paying or producing) helps the other party accept more if the risk.

I've had some clients prove to be unreliable payers. For them I accept no risk. All work us done on a "pay first" basis. Some choose to find another supplier. I don't consider that a loss.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-02 04:02:21+00:00
The big tier ones (Bosch, Continental, etc) insist on payment up front specifically to avoid this. It's the smaller vendors that don't have leverage to set payment terms who get screwed.

One tactic I've seen OEMs use is to buy for multiple products and stop payments for one as a test. If the vendor complains, they lose all the unrelated business (possibly including clawbacks!) and the OEM moves to the second source. This can kill the supplier.

The winning move is not to play.
by jfengel | 2025-08-02 04:03:22+00:00
It seems to be a corruption of an older phrase comparing apples to oysters. Citation from 1670:

https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-170...

Apples and oysters are still things you can eat, but they're at least further apart than two fruits. The book also cites the similar expression "chalk and cheese".
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-02 04:03:29+00:00
Of one part, those who thrive in corporations must appear to drink the Flavor Aid.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

And then another part is the professional working class of privileged, moderately-to-highly educated, and brimming with ego without nuance or ambiguity while skewing to the tendencies of less wisdom, struggle, and wide-ranging life experience. There isn't much internal or external motivation towards integrity, self-improvement, or commonwealth investment.

There are exceptions and they are gold.
by dv_dt | 2025-08-02 04:03:59+00:00
In a feedback loop, every element in the loop is both a cause and an effect. The way to stop the feedback is to shift one or more relationships in the loop.

If you are lucky there can sometimes be arranged some convenient control elements- but in many difficult problems a lever that you can pull that only affects that one thing doesn't exist. You have choices of levers that affect a multitude of things, maybe many of which go counter to the desired independent effect
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-02 04:04:11+00:00
> Isn't a larger concern that Tim "Services" Cook failed to skate where the puck was headed on this one?

Doesn't somebody (not named Nvidia) need to make a serious profit on AI before we can say that Tim Cook failed?

OpenAI and Anthropic aren't anywhere close. Meta? Google? The only one I can think of might be Microsoft but they still refuse to break out AI revenue and expenses in the earnings reports. That isn't a good sign.