MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-29 17:18:58+00:00
I'm not sure your comment is completely necessary. I'm well aware there are such apps--I volunteered for years with a women's charity so I've seen it all--but they are two completely different attack vectors. I "wish" that one could stand in for the other but the reality is abusers just have two new ways to harass women in top of ash the other age old techniques.

I'm also aware there are probably a number of guys on this site who work in that space so just as a message to you if you're reading: You suck.
by ivape | 2025-09-29 17:20:05+00:00
If you think things through like that then you can only ever attribute physical, material, biological factors as the only things involved in mapping the causation. In other words, every time we attempt to draw the line to mortality, it gets hacked down as we keep reducing the argument.

We cannot explore the possibilities of truth if we do that, but I can appreciate the due diligence. It’s a tricky subject, but life experience informs many of us that there is something more going on than “I materially feel like shit”.

There is a taboo element to loneliness that isn’t often discussed, and that is “I feel hurt that I can be left alone, or that anyone can be left alone or isolated”. So, while the source of the isolation could be material, the feeling that manifests from it is an actual hurt that one feels from the actual thing (isolation). For example, we may be killing our elders when we isolate them in care facilities.

I can’t say if we have the sense as a society to accept data that suggests this pain can be linked to mortality. Isolation in itself isn’t the killer, it’s the pain of “well how could any society leave anyone alone”, and such a phenomenon can be witnessed in the macro outside of yourself (how can we leave people on the street? Etc).

Loneliness and isolation is often in sequence, after abandonment, or negligence, or unforgivingness (if the person “deserved” the isolating). A phantom, immeasurable pain. And even more painful, to deny it afterwards.
by brigade | 2025-09-29 17:20:14+00:00
Back in the day, I remember a Blizzard interview on pre-Wrath WoW raid design. They explained how they didn't like that they spent a ton of money and effort developing end-game content that less than 1% of their playerbase would ever see. And development costs have only risen since then.

Moreso than needing handholding due to game mechanics or "too much" anything, I've always felt that it stems from a developer need for players to experience what you made. Or even just convincing the accountants that each additional cost of development will directly impact the majority of players (aka they don't get stuck or give up halfway through.)
by rsynnott | 2025-09-29 17:20:41+00:00
> after the ban on LePen running

Can't even steal millions of euro anymore without being criminally prosecuted; it's political correctness gone mad!

Like, what do you want them to do, say "okay, you stole four million euro, but that's okay because you're a very special politician"? That would seem to set an unfortunate precedent. There _are_ countries who seem to often take this approach (notably the US), but, ah, it doesn't seem to work that well.

Sarkozy was also criminally convicted, FWIW (for corruption, multiple times); this isn't France being being mean to the ol' Nazis. They're just okay with prosecuting politicians generally. It's a substantial list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_politicians_co...
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-09-29 17:20:42+00:00
I realize that you responded to a specific statement, not necessarily the entire context of the thread. However:

Saying that a person’s credit score is entirely due to their own financial decisions is incorrect because it’s overly simplistic, that’s true, although the main factor is that person’s behavior (whether that behavior is their fault or not is a different story). It can also depend on circumstances specific to the person but not directly related to their own actions (e.g. their credit provider revises credit limits across the board due to external factors, so their credit utilization changes too, without them having used any more or less of it).

In addition, and what you’re alluding to, is that these models are continuously revised. A set of behaviors and circumstances that lead to a higher score in one economic environment may not do the same in another.

Credit scores as implemented in for instance the US are not a direct reflection of a person’s moral character or intended as a reward for good behavior. They’re uncaring algorithms optimized solely for determining how risky it is to lend you money, so that financial institutions can more accurately spread that risk across their customers and maximize their profits. This also enables credit providers to give out more credit overall, based on less biased criteria (not unbiased, because models are never perfect and financial circumstances can be proxies for other attributes).

One can feel however one wants about whether this system is good or not. But it’s definitely different in kind to ”social credit” systems like the one China has implemented, which directly takes into account far more non-financial factors and determines far more non-financial outcomes, effectively exerting much more control over many facets of people’s lives.
by fidotron | 2025-09-29 17:21:28+00:00
I spent time as a TD on both the dev and publishing sides - the perception all EA (the publisher) is doing is money and terms is very much mistaken.

To take the case of Bioware, the SW:TOR launch was a notable disaster. There is no way in hell Bioware by themselves could have recovered from that, and it took a lot of "external" firefighting to get that under control.

OTOH various decisions many people assume came from EA were actually made by studio heads, against EA wishes, because the studio head thought it would increase their revenue and thus bonus.

One of the reasons Activision outperformed EA was they have a better culture of co-operation between departments. Efforts to improve this at EA never ceased to actually make it worse.
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-29 17:21:45+00:00
They mean it doesn't learn from experience/mistakes after spending time on your codebase. There are workarounds like documenting in CLAUDE.md/CODEX.md/.roorules which dump it back into the active context but are hit and miss in my experience. It's definitely better than nothing but Claude still routinely ignores important directives whenever it's in the right mood.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-29 17:21:49+00:00
> Most gyms it shouldn't be that hard to take useful pictures without people in them though?

Or much simpler: when the photos of a class are taken, simply ask beforehand who disagrees with being photographed and/or photos containing him/her made public, so that for those few minutes where the photos are taken, these people can get out of the picture.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-29 17:22:06+00:00
But most people don’t have a discerning eye. I’ve never used a nudify site. But uploading a picture of me and my wife to Grok and letting it make a 6 second video is already pretty good. On one, the only thing I noticed was that the reflection in a window wasn’t following the movement.

Also, if you down sample the quality of the video, it would be even harder to tell it was a fake.

That’s neither here nor there. Would you want even a fake nude of you online?
by sdoering | 2025-09-29 17:22:15+00:00
If you only had made the argument you thought you made, but didn’t. And then not even made the effort to understand that the point your discussion partner made was actually in stark contrast to your point in the result they were arguing for.

You ended with:

> Asking for no photos is like participating in a big sports event as an athlete and demanding nobody takes photos.

A private, invite only, wedding isn’t comparable to a sports event that you described. Because this is by definition public. Why? Because anyone can buy a ticket to that event. That makes it open to the public. Yes, you need a ticket to enter. But it’s not invite only.

Imagine a big baseball/football/soccer event. The stadium is packed. Anybody can film to their liking. This is the public part. Now imagine the owners box way at the top. Not one of these humans down in the regular seats will be able to get up there. It’s invite only. That makes it private. Even if there are many people in that box.

But the owner (or in case of the wedding the couple getting married) chose who Would be allowed to partake in that event. And so, they also get to make the rules.

If you, with your attitude would be at a private event I was hosting, you wouldn’t be there long. Because you still need to learn the difference between public (in theory anybody can attend and the host doesn’t get to choose) and private (only the host chooses who can attend).
by msl | 2025-09-29 17:22:27+00:00
Not so, but if you're to pick one company over all the others as being the most deserving of your ire, EA seems like a rather strange choice compared to, say, Nestlé [1], Chiquita [2], The Coca-Cola Company [3] or Shell [4]. One might even wonder if there isn't something wrong with your priorities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Nestl%C3%A9

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquita#Criticism

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_plc#Controversies
by mohsen1 | 2025-09-29 17:22:39+00:00
Actual Changelog[1]

* New native VS Code extension

* Fresh coat of paint throughout the whole app

* /rewind a conversation to undo code changes

* /usage command to see plan limits

* Tab to toggle thinking (sticky across sessions)

* Ctrl-R to search history

* Unshipped claude config command

* Hooks: Reduced PostToolUse 'tool_use' ids were found without 'tool_result' blocks errors

* SDK: The Claude Code SDK is now the Claude Agent SDK Add subagents dynamically with --agents flag

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...
by catigula | 2025-09-29 17:22:48+00:00
I happened to be in the middle of a task in a production codebase that the various models struggled on so I can give a quick vibe benchmark:

opus 4.1: made weird choices, eventually got to a meh solution i just rolled back.

codex: took a disgusting amount of time but the result was vastly superior to opus. night and day superiority. output was still not what i wanted.

sonnet 4.5: not clearly better than opus. categorically worse decision-making than codex. very fast.

Codex was night and day the best. Codex scares me, Claude feels like a useful tool.
by strcat | 2025-09-29 17:23:00+00:00
Just make sure it's an unlocked device. Pixel 8+ is recommended due to 7 years of support from launch and hardware memory tagging. A used Pixel 8 or Pixel 8a is a great option. 6th and 7th generation Pixels are fine, but they launched with 5 years of support so they're getting down to 2-3 years left.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-09-29 17:23:08+00:00
I made a little hobbyist app for myself, and I think it's pretty nice and occasionally think about polishing it up and releasing it.

And the first reason I don't is because I'm not interested in promoting it, and it's pretty pointless to release to no one.

But the much bigger reason is because I'm not interested in implementing the remaining 80% that I don't use myself.
by w10-1 | 2025-09-29 17:23:10+00:00
So sue. Don't expect legislators or online legions to protect you. Sue to protect others in the same situation.

The common-law tort of invasion of privacy grows to encompass new situations only through court cases.

Courts (i.e., judges) are not looking to create rules out of thin air, but look to reflect when expectations have changed in a way that tracks the principles behind the tort.

In this case, an initial historical period of permitting publication by default can be followed by a restrictive period of prohibiting invasions, based on the recognizing dangers from publication, e.g., permanent and lasting damage to one's business relationships through disclosing of embarrassing but irrelevant images.

To make law you have to get out of the realm of personal feelings and start expressing principles for the way people should live together.
by kimixa | 2025-09-29 17:23:21+00:00
It also requires significant capital investment on top of whatever it takes to hire them. The equipment isn't cheap, and the entire stack of knowledge you need to hire in spiders out significantly, and with the lack of experience likely would take a long time to truly fill all the knowledge gaps. It may not be obvious what you're lacking until you start hitting walls.

Bootstrapping via external investors experienced in the sector is way faster, but comes with costs, as shown in the deals here. But that's true in every market.
by MichealCodes | 2025-09-29 17:23:24+00:00
I really hope benchmarking improves soon to monitor the model in the weeks following the announcement. It really seems like these companies introduce a new "buffed" model and then slowly nerf the intelligence through optimizations.

If we saw task performance week 1 vs week 8 on benchmarks, this would at least give us more insight into the loop here. In an environment lacking true progress a company could surely "show" it with this strategy.
by toast0 | 2025-09-29 17:23:30+00:00
> Yes. She made a tremendous amount of money for herself while failing miserably at Yahoo!.

I was at Yahoo from 2004-2011, so I've got my opinions, but I think failing miserably at Yahoo is like the default option. It was a great gig to take in 2012 --- if you do well, well then it's clearly your leadership; if you don't do well, it's that Yahoo wasn't salvageable.
by honzabe | 2025-09-29 17:23:38+00:00
> Simple question: in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and there was peaceful “annexation” of GDR into FRG, in which West Germany effectively took over, with its constitution taking into effect in new federal states, the GDR assets being taken over by western economic structures etc. Was it imperial by its nature?

> From Russian perspective it’s kind of the same (except the war part of course). Same language spoken, shared history etc. [...]

This is a truly bizarre piece of mental gymnastics. You list superficial similarities and casually gloss over the only thing that is substantial as if it were some inconsequential detail. By your "logic", rape is indistinguishable from making love. The same organs involved, the same movements (except the consent part, of course).
by blurbleblurble | 2025-09-29 17:23:55+00:00
GPT-5 is like the guy on the baseball team that's really good at hitting home runs but can't do basic shit in the outfield.

It also consistently gets into drama with the other agents e.g. the other day when I told it we were switching to claude code for executing changes, after badmouthing claude's entirely reasonable and measured analysis it went ahead and decided to `git reset --hard` even after I twice pushed back on that idea.

Whereas gemini and claude are excellent collaborators.

When I do decide to hail mary via GPT-5, I now refer to the other agents as "another agent". But honestly the whole thing has me entirely sketched out.

To be clear, I don't think this was intentionally encoded into GPT-5. What I really think is that OpenAI leadership simply squandered all its good energy and is now coming from behind. Its excellent talent either got demoralized or left.
by mkipper | 2025-09-29 17:24:00+00:00
I think this is more relevant. Like everything, most games today are optimized to maximize engagement and keep people with low attention spans hooked. There are plenty of intelligent people who could invest a bunch of time into solving a puzzle but just don't care to.

I remember playing Myst as a not-particularly-bright grade schooler and banging my head against puzzles for weeks without making any progress. It wasn't some great intellectual challenge -- I was just bored and didn't have any other games to play. I can't imagine I would have stuck with it if I could have watched YouTube or played Fortnite instead.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-29 17:24:09+00:00
Imagine your entire access to the world is decided by an insurance company and their willingness to insure your driving in old age.

When my mom was dying of cancer she was lucky our small town has a public shuttle bus system. She was not able to drive herself to her cancer support group at the end.

When my very poor grandparents came to visit in Santa Cruz they could not afford a rental car. We took the bus everywhere. I have so many memories with them thanks to public transportation. My grandfather had a very very painful artificial hip.
by strcat | 2025-09-29 17:24:45+00:00
Only a tiny subset of apps ban GrapheneOS. Several such as Swissquote recently decided to permit it via hardware attestation. Swizerland's government ID app is also going to be permitting it. We're working on getting more apps using the Play Integrity API to do that, but it would be better if the EU and other governments required permitting alternatives which are at least as secure as what Google permits (currently an extremely low bar, since they permit many years without privacy/security patches and only check for licensing Google Mobile Services).
by data-ottawa | 2025-09-29 17:25:10+00:00
I think you have the wrong model for apps. Doing one thing is almost always having the full document CRUD loop.

Once you have a pdf viewer users want rotating pages, then bookmarks, then highlights, then form filling, etc.

That “just a pdf reader” is strictly worse than every pdf editor (which have to meet the minimum requirement of a pdf reader).

Apple’s Automator and Preview combo for me are indispensible and perfectly follow the Unix ideal. Automator composes well, and Preview does all the pdf editing well, and together they’re excellent software.

The version of Preview Apple just released on iPad is however basically just a reader, and do it hasn’t made itself relevant to any of my workflows or needs.

Full featured plus composable. That’s the sweet spot for the best apps.

Side note: I’m surprised there’s no ffmeg or imagemagik for pdfs (maybe there is?). Someone should build that.
by xwowsersx | 2025-09-29 17:25:23+00:00
Same here. I've been using GCF1 with opencode and getting good results. I also started using [Serena](https://github.com/oraios/serena), which has been really helpful in a large codebase. It gives you better search than plain grep, so you can quickly find what you need instead of dumping huge chunks of code into Claude or Grok and wasting tokens.
by red_rech | 2025-09-29 17:25:35+00:00
I had a mildly embarrassing shower fall that ended in a deep wound. I tried to sleep it off not realizing how bad it was and ended up having to get surgery. Because of the location of the injury, there was a big risk of infection.

I was alone, but luckily I was only 19 and healthy at the time. But I came away with a new understanding of the dangers of these things and whys there’s so much advertising to older people it. I can imagine a frail individual not surviving something like that if alone.
by RyanOD | 2025-09-29 17:26:08+00:00
I never considered the type of effort you're referring to as wasted.

It reminds me a bit of looking up coding solutions on StackOverflow back in the day. Yes, it was a slog and consumed valuable time. However, I always felt that I picked up all sorts of other valuable information reading a variety of possible solutions or spying a related but different problem and taking a moment to consider it.

It is similar to how I learned to play guitar. With no videos and very limited tablature, I had to learn songs by ear which was crazy inefficient. However, it trained my ear and kept me exploring the entire fretboard as I figured the song out. This ended up making me a much more complete guitarist.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-29 17:26:12+00:00
I should add: One of things, for doctors, that board certification does is make sure that doctors know topics that aren't covered in school.

My computer science degree overlooked a lot of topics that are very important when developing an industrial strength application; specifically, an application that is not an academic exercise, which gets back to:

> A doctor who has a diploma is much more likely to be a useful/good doctor than a person with a "computer science" diploma will be a good developer.

If we, as an industry, had something similar to doctors getting board certified, we could put pressure on ourselves (and academic institutions) to make sure that ample opportunity is provided in schools to learn how to be a good developer.
by trevin | 2025-09-29 17:26:53+00:00
I’m always fascinated by the fine-tuning of LLM personalities. Might we finally get less of the reflexive “You’re absolutely right” with this one?

Maybe we’re entering the Emo Claude era.

Per the system card: In 250k real conversations, Claude Sonnet 4.5 expressed happiness about half as often as Claude 4, though distress remained steady.
by rudedogg | 2025-09-29 17:27:25+00:00
I just ran this through a simple change I’ve asked Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1, and it fails too.

It’s a simple substitution request where I provide a Lint error that suggests the correct change. All the models fail. I could ask someone with no development experience to do this change and they could.

I worry everyone is chasing benchmarks to the detriment of general performance. Or the next token weight for the incorrect change outweigh my simple but precise instructions. Either way it’s no good

Edit: With a followup “please do what I asked” sort of prompt it came through, while Opus just loops. So theres that at least
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-29 17:27:26+00:00
Hot take: Publicly available schematics, part lists and utilities for service and maintenance should be part of FCC certification requirements, at least for mass-market goods like phones and TVs.

For competitors they're useless anyway - the big guns (think Samsung, Apple, Motorola, ...) all know how to design a smartphone and none of them will want to get caught copying a competitor. Chinese cloners and repair shop suppliers somehow manage to reverse engineer even highly complex PCBs in a matter of weeks, to the tune you can walk around in Shenzen and have a multitude of deepest level repair options, including upgrades by reballing and replacing storage options that Apple doesn't even offer.

But actual repair shops and repair cafes here? They would greatly benefit from having quality documentation and access to tools.
by riffraff | 2025-09-29 17:27:31+00:00
AFAICT metric sillables basically count the vowel sounds so service is two and chocolate is two or thre: "ser-vis" (ˈsɜːvɪs) and "chok-lait" or "cho-ko-lait" (ˈʧɔklət or ˈʧɔkolət).
by hermannj314 | 2025-09-29 17:27:43+00:00
To be clear, I am talking about a hypothetical ought-to-be and not specifically discussing the current law anywhere.

I hear you and I agree public spaces involve us working and coexisting together, not tailoring the public space to what one person wants.

On the other hand, there is something in me that doesn't like for-profit rage bait creators monetizing how I react to a guy shoving a camera in my face and doing something irregular. I feel like it is a type of assault we don't have a name for yet but that should conceivably be criminal.

I just realize that I'm acting like the those that first saw the printed word or a camera and felt uneasy about it, I am just an old man angry that video cameras and globalization of content exists. I'm probably just a luddite trying to stop the world from progressing.