MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by margalabargala | 2025-09-26 21:57:08+00:00
That your comment was downvoted to death indicates maybe you should reconsider how you are being perceived if you truly believe you weren't (and still aren't) being condescending. I don't believe my comment was any more rude or hostile than your original one.

If people were to follow your advice as a general rule, that's how we get groupthink, and how learning is suppressed by making people afraid to ask questions. See the children's story "the emperor's new clothes" for an example.

It takes effort to be negative to see a comment opening with the poster saying "am I missing something" and think they're calling the author stupid instead of acknowledging their own ignorance.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-26 21:57:10+00:00
The IBEW hires consultants? And then has them interview inside wiremen? Is this a local or the national organization?

If you ever feel like working in the field again, I have lots of work in 110 and 292 for good electricians :) If you prefer 242, 343, or 14; that can be arranged too haha
by avar | 2025-09-26 21:57:16+00:00
> Helium is very expensive currently because of Russia

It's expensive (in Greece) because the EU added helium to its 14th package of sanctions in September 2024[1].

I'm aware of the ultimate reasons for those sanctions, but it seems weird in this narrow context to say it's "because of Russia". No, it's expensive because of the EU, which decided to make it expensive, unilaterally.

1. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
by panabee | 2025-09-26 21:58:14+00:00
The association between pathogens and cancer is under-appreciated, mostly due to limitations in detection methods.

For instance, it is not uncommon for cancer studies to design assays around non-oncogenic strains, or for assays to use primer sequences with binding sites mismatched to a large number of NCBI GenBank genomes.

Another example: studies relying on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), which is a rich database for cancer investigations. However, the TCGA made a deliberate tradeoff to standardize quantification of eukaryotic coding transcripts but at the cost of excluding non-poly(A) transcripts like EBER1/2 and other viral non-coding RNAs -- thus potentially understating viral presence.

Enjoy the rabbit hole. :)
by pwython | 2025-09-26 21:59:34+00:00
I also don't tell CC to think like expert engineer, but I do tell it to think like a marketer when it's helping me build out things like landing pages that should be optimized for conversions, not beauty. It'll throw in some good ideas I may miss. Also when I'm hesitant to give something complex to CC, I tell that silly SOB to ultrathink.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-26 21:59:45+00:00
It's definitely better than discord in that it solves the data ownership problem. It's not federated, still centralized to your own revolt server - but I think that's OK for private groups anyway, or ephemeral discussions (unless Revolt can be federated, I'm not familiar with it)

My concern is more the trend of open groups, even open source projects, centralizing around discord both for dev discussion, community discussion, and technical support. There's incredible value to those discussions to be indexed and searchable on the web, like the good old days of public forums. Actual work took place in public, on mailing lists and forums. It could be indexed and scraped, even just archived to my local machine.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-26 22:00:17+00:00
A lot of helicopters today are being used to harass entire neighborhoods where complaints to local government go completely unresolved, so I can emphasize with that situation, not that I'd ever do something that stupid.

Its not uncommon to have them hovering for 1-2 hours straight 3-7 times a week, every week, at times with no active calls on the community police dashboard almost entirely between 11pm and 4am, often less than 1000 feet in altitude (high dBs enough to shake windows).

That aside, using a helicopter as a broadcast mechanism over a loudspeaker to a neighborhood is entirely unacceptable during hours people normally sleep.

Everyone is complaining and they've been doing that at least 3 years now.

How many times can you hear, "Missing person, or Felony Suspect", black shirt, denim pants, black suspect, call 911", or "suspicious person, black hoodie, call 911", before they lose all credibility. Around 10?

It seems really racist too, always hispanic or black, where the descriptions provided apply to most if not all people of those demographics.

Makes the average person feel like we live in a police state without due process or a rule of law when the only means to resolve is front-of-line blocked through local government which ignores complaints.

I shouldn't be hearing this at 2am regularly, some people work.
by Krei-se | 2025-09-26 22:00:46+00:00
I liked my programming at work, but i love the programming i can do now with 0 pressure and constraints. I can see every line and working function mirrored in my real environment and not being extracted by some outside owner.

Then there's the free choice of hardware and stack, you never have to bend for some culture, styleguide or vendor lock-in. Blobs? coreboot makes your hardware feel like a living thing.

Since then i stopped to think of programming as work and dreading it. It's the complete platonic realm of ideas dancing in very real electrons.

Thanks for the article, it's a great reminder about how lucky one can consider himself and nice to see likewise minds.

Forge on!
by Archelaos | 2025-09-26 22:00:52+00:00
> "given this winning streak in particular, what's the probability of him cheating in this set of games"

I think the problem lies in the antecedent. Given all chess tournaments played, how often would we observe such a winning streak on average? If the number of winning streaks is near the average, we have no indication of cheating. If it is considerably lower or higher, some people were cheating (when lower, than the opponents).

Then the question is, whether the numbers of winning streaks of one person are unusually high. If we would for example expect aprox. 10 winning streaks, but observe 100, we can conclude that aprox. 90 were cheating. The problem with this is that the more people cheat, the more likely we are to suspect an honest person of cheating as well.

Again, this would be different if the number of winning streaks for a particular person were unusually high.
by creesch | 2025-09-26 22:00:59+00:00
> LLM can theoretically interpret and use the whole project based on this info.

That's the thing though, LLMs really can't. At least not to a degree that they are able to act on it at a same level as when trained on everything else including tutorials and such.

Languages and technologies that LLMs excel at are those that are widely spread with numerous examples.

Just plain documentation with just the api calls isn't enough to train a LLM on. They effectively learn from example.

So with just #1 and no longer #1 aimed at humans you will never get to a point where you can ask an LLM about the technology.

This is what prompted me to remark that I feel you haven't thought this through. Which you might have, but that makes me think you have a overly optimistic view of what data is enough to reliably train LLMs on.

Again, to stress the point, just documentation isn't enough. So you really do need humans adapting the technology first, widening the base of examples to train on.
by Animats | 2025-09-26 22:01:29+00:00
The US military doesn't even use laser pointers much any more. Maybe for pointing at a map during a briefing, but not for pointing at the enemy. Single-pulse range finders, yes. Continuous laser designators are "Hi, I'm an enemy, kill me now." They were more popular in the 1980s before everybody else got IR sensing technology.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-26 22:02:13+00:00
Speech by being is one thing, but words on the page have little hope of cohering semantic. This isn't theoretical physics, this is the transition of syntax from the writer (the task variable meanings that are no longer specific, they are arbitrary) into grammar/metaphors, beset by a paradoxical condition called conduit metaphor that dissolves access to that initial mental state, and lets the meaning run wild. Additionally, In functional linguistics, because the status, control, bias, manipulation, ie social elements are quite separate from the agentic, the dark matter of this warps access to meaning. Keller is a best case hypothetical. When we run long segments of text, you ask 20 people you get twenty meanings. So, yes, language is meaningless: it's arbitrary.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-26 22:02:16+00:00
The real question always is: assuming causation, if you drastically improve the oral health of 1000 people, how many would you save from pancreatic cancer? The answer to this question in associative studies is very often in the single figures, or lower (i.e. fractions of people.)

Anything to create an excuse to provide better dental care for people, though. The chance of getting a gum infection that spreads to your brain and/or goes septic is actually quite high.
by whimsicalism | 2025-09-26 22:02:59+00:00
i think main thrust, you are right that the numbers are less extreme than i had recalled. SF (which i imagine is the top end) is $31-$47 range or so. i see lower ($25) for greyhound than you do, but frankly that seems unreasonably low so i think “salary.com” is not giving me solid numbers there.
by prdonahue | 2025-09-26 22:03:17+00:00
It's the same principle as a company blocking access to domains registered in the past 30 days. Doing so eliminates a huge percent of phishing/malware as these domains are typically identified and taken down otherwise blocked in that window.

In this particular case, the bogus libraries had been out there for months. But if in addition to a delay, you mirror just the most common subset of packages with some opinionated selection criteria and build directly from source, you eliminate most of these attacks. (The same is true across whatever language ecosystems, including JS as you mention npm, etc.)

Is this 100% infallible? No, but security is a risk reduction game.
by bahmboo | 2025-09-26 22:03:53+00:00
"In recent inference tests run on a 3-billion-parameter LLM developed from IBM’s Granite-8B-Code-Base model, NorthPole was 47 times faster than the next most energy-efficient GPU and was 73 times more energy efficient than the next lowest latency GPU."

It's also fascinating that they are experimenting with analog memory because it pairs so well with model weights
by anonym29 | 2025-09-26 22:04:16+00:00
GrapheneOS publishes a list of the requirements: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

GrapheneOS devs have announced "We're currently working with a major OEM towards future generations of their devices meeting our requirements and providing official GrapheneOS support. GrapheneOS on both Pixels and these future non-Pixels will be fine." (https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115102564799343519)

You're welcome to assert otherwise, of course, but your assertions are contradictory with direct statements from the GrapheneOS team.
by theologic | 2025-09-26 22:05:20+00:00
At the time of the FAA making up this framework, I would venture more than half of commercial pilots had some military aviation background. It is so close to Boyd's model, I would think that a research might find that it was highly inspired if not a direct descendant of Boyd's work.

However, Body was real time combat, and I think the FAA is supposed to be beyond a cockpit crisis, and maybe another framework is Demings PDCA framework, which looks like you could roughly match the pieces.
by raggi | 2025-09-26 22:07:58+00:00
> I think you are just agreeing with me?

sure, i mean i have no goal of alignment or misalignment, i'm just trying to provide more insights into what's going on based on my observations of this from having also worked on this udp path.

> Which is my point. They are leaving, by my estimation, 10-20x performance on the floor due to external factors. They might be “fast given that they are bottlenecked by low performance systems”, which is good as their piece is not the bottleneck, but they are not objectively “fast” as the primitives can be configured to solve a substantially similar problem dramatically faster if integrated correctly.

yes, though this basically means we're talking about throwing out chunks of the os, the crypto design, the protocol, and a whole lot of tuning at each layer.

the only vendor in a good position to do this is apple (being the only vendor that owns every involved layer in a single product chain), and they're failing to do so as well.

the alternative is a long old road, where folks make articles like this from time to time, we share our experiences and hope that someone is inspired enough reading it to be sniped into making incremental progress. it'd be truly fantastic if we sniped a group with the vigor and drive that the mptcp folks seem to have, as they've managed to do an unusually broad and deep push across a similar set of layered challenges (though still in progress).
by avar | 2025-09-26 22:08:05+00:00
> The second you detach the consumer from the > price of something, even through an > intermediary such as health insurance, that > is when they stop caring about how much > something costs, and so the price jumps.

In reality, this claim doesn't survive a cursory glance at the OECD's numbers for health expenditure per capita[1].

You'll find that (even ignoring the outlier that is the US health care system) that in some countries where consumers bear at least some of the cost directly via mandatory insurance and deductibles, the spending per capita (and which survives a comparison with overall life expectancy etc.) is higher than in some countries where the consumer is even further detached from spending, via single-payer universal healthcare systems.

Or, the other way around, it's almost like it's a very complex issue that resists reducing the problem to an Econ 101 parable.

1. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2023/11/health-at-a-gla...
by Zagreus2142 | 2025-09-26 22:08:22+00:00
I'm sorry but this article is marketing. From the 3rd paragraph from the end:

> Since our landing page is isolated from core product code, the risk was minimal.

The real question to ask is why your landing page so complex, it is a very standard landing page with sign-ups, pretty graphics, and links to the main bits of the website and not anything connected to a demo instance of your product or anything truly interactable.

Also, you claim this avoided you having to hire another engineer but you then reference human feedback catching the LLM garbage being generated in the repo. Sounds like the appropriate credit is shared between yourself, the LLM, and especially the developer who shepherded this behind the scenes.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-26 22:08:32+00:00
An even bigger underlying problem is that people keep buying into and buying all this garbage, instead of rejecting it en masse through purchases of older, second-hand products or new products among the brands (admittedly less and less out there) that don't do these kinds of things.

Neither choice is exceptionally hard, but a vast percentage of the consumer market just keeps subjecting itself to being treated like this even when alternatives exist.

I've managed to live more than 20 years as an adult in his own home without ever buying a brain-fuckingly hostile consumer product for my home. It's truly not hard to do, or even expensive.

Companies may not care about individual consumers who don't buy again, but only as long as there aren't enough of them to harm your bottom line. Once that changes, they do start giving a shit, because you can't simply forever extract rent from a shrinking pool of people who still tolerate your shit and still grow, no matter how much you squeeze.
by throwaway270925 | 2025-09-26 22:08:57+00:00
I sometimes wonder why there aren't any chat-based apps/UIs for mailing lists? Think UIs in the style of Discord/Slack/Teams/etc but with email/mailinglist(s) as backend.

IIRC there was Delta.chat but no idea how they are doing? (And if they integrate with mailing lists/formatting etc)
by int_19h | 2025-09-26 22:09:16+00:00
> Going public gave Google a lot of nearly-free money to grow, and it's how you've gotten ... Gmail

And in retrospect, was that really a good thing? Short-term, yes - I remember how much better it was than the alternatives. Long-term, we ended up in a situation where email = GMail for most users, and this in turn gives Google undue leverage and strangles competition.
by FP_Protects | 2025-09-26 22:10:01+00:00
Hey - Fingerprint team here.

Thank you for sharing your experience and for highlighting what matters most to you: accuracy and pricing for lower-usage tiers. I definitely hear your frustration with the removal of the Free plan a few years ago and the challenge of not having a plan that fit your usage level.

Based on feedback like yours, we recently introduced a new Free plan (in May) that includes 1,000 API calls for iOS and web, plus 500,000 calls for Android. Depending on which platform your ~2,000 calls are coming from, this might be a better fit.

Your feedback is exactly what helps us shape these updates, so we’ll continue to take this into account as we refine our plans. If you’d like, I’d be happy to connect directly to see how we can make sure you’re on the plan that best fits your needs.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-26 22:11:01+00:00
Grice and Wittgenstein are good starts, but Cassirer, Basil Bernstein, Halliday, Reddy, Lakoff, Winograd, Stitch, Ryle, Givon, Deacon, Fontaine all weigh in on the notion that language doesn't cohere meaning. Each offers a different variation on whether any symbol, metaphor, grammar actually holds or refers to semantic. When animal signals are considered, we get to see specific signals in action (Rendall, Cheyney, Hauser) and it's here the conduit metaphor's glaring paradox becomes evident, even for speech. If an utterance can never generate the same or extremely similar metal state that generates an action repeatedly, then the utterance is arbitrary, it's for all better purposes meaningless.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-09-26 22:11:29+00:00
Untrusted content + exfiltration with no "private" data could still result in (off the top of my head): -use of exploits to gain access (i.e. privilege escalation) -DDOS to local or external systems using the exfiltration method

You're essentially running untrusted code on a local system. Are you SURE you've locked away / closed EVERY access point, AND applied every patch and there aren't any zero-days lurking somewhere in your system?
by trollbridge | 2025-09-26 22:13:09+00:00
If consumers actually directly paid the whole cost for health services (as opposed to a fixed price, like a $20 copay, etc.), the prices charged would become far more regular.

An easy way to examine this is to compare the price of over-the-counter versus pharmaceuticals. If a third party weren't paying for them, the price would have to either come down to something affordable to the average person, or else the market for it would shrink to only the wealthy.
by cloudking | 2025-09-26 22:14:09+00:00
I've tried them for some more complex projects, but I've found as long as I am working on isolated features/bugs, with good component breakdowns the agents won't cross paths. Planning mode also helps because you know exactly which files will be modified before going into execution mode.

If you want to keep features in separate Git worktrees, https://conductor.build/ is pretty nice.
by r2_pilot | 2025-09-26 22:14:11+00:00
In this particular case, because criminals can hack Flock's databases. You can tell whether I'm leaving to go to work, coming home for lunch, figure out my patterns, and schedule a robbery. There are PLENTY of other reasons why I don't appreciate having a camera sitting at the end of my driveway, I wasn't notified about their decision nor had any input so it feels a bit intrusive, but surely you can appreciate that no system is 100% secure and that's why these persistent surveillance gear are so troubling.
by int_19h | 2025-09-26 22:15:17+00:00
It's even more insane than that. Kagi uses Google as its backing search engine. And some others, to be fair, but a lot of those search results are still coming from Google API.

Which is to say, Google could easily be as good as Kagi is, if they wanted to. What they have been "doing all this time" is turning their search results into a mess.
by perching_aix | 2025-09-26 22:15:45+00:00
Because according to popular judgement, independent email hosting in the modern day is a very difficult ordeal.

Is that true? Is that false? How would one tell? One's own experience will be trivially handwaved away as an anecdote, people's experiences will be handwaved away as hearsay, and a claim of general consensus will be handwaved away by other claims that the person pointing it out is just living in a bubble. Principled thinking? Could be false, could be true, really - both would make sense. Doesn't sound very productive to discuss to me.

If nothing else, surely you can agree that despite what might be, what is is that email is incredibly centralized, right?
by gs17 | 2025-09-26 22:16:08+00:00
> I would imagine the only people who don't like this are criminals

The problem is that the system doesn't only work on criminals, there's rarely enough oversight to prevent abuse, and it's only going to get more invasive. There's been case after case where cops use it to stalk their ex-girlfriends/ex-wives or similar, for example: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article29105...
by nadis | 2025-09-26 22:16:37+00:00
OP here - I'm sorry this felt like marketing; that was not my intent! I deliberately posted on my personal blog and tried to focus this post on how I used agentic tools (Claude Code, the Figma Dev Mode MCP) and not anything about what my startup actually does.

That said, I was working on implementing a redesign for my startup's website as the project for the experiment - there's no way around that as context.

> The real question to ask is why your landing page so complex

I disagree on this; I don't think that was an issue. Our landing page would have been very easy for a developer on our team to build, that was never a question.

That said, we're a small startup team with myself, my cofounder / CTO, one engineer, and a design contractor. The two technical folks (my cofounder / CTO and the engineer) are focused on building our core product for the most part. I absolutely agree credit is due to them both for their work!

For this project, they helped me review a couple of my bigger PRs and also helped me navigate our CI/CD, testing, and build processes. I believe I mentioned their help in my blog post explicitly, but if it wasn't clear enough definitely let me know.

My goal in attempting this project was in no way to belittle the effort of actual developers or engineers on our team, whom I highly respect and admire. Instead, it was to share an experiment and my learnings as I tried to tackle our website redesign which otherwise would not have been prioritized.
by nenenejej | 2025-09-26 22:16:50+00:00
You could help set up the self driving bus for success. Make bus stops a clearway for other vehicles. In other words, if you stop there you get fined and possibly towed. Bus dashcam can help here.

The bike rack is an excellent feature where US beats my country. Well done. I think you'd need a button to ask for more time. And a Tokyo-like culture of respect for this all to work.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-26 22:16:52+00:00
I think the sentiment that simplicity is good, is a false conclusion. Simplicity is simply good scientific methodology.

Doing too many things at once makes methods hard to adopt and makes conclusions harder to draw. So we try to find simple methods that show measurable gain, so we can adapt it to future approaches.

Its a cycle between complexity and simplicity. When a new simple and scalable approach beats the previous state of art, that just means we discovered a new local maxima hill to climp up.