MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buu700 | 2025-09-02 03:24:33+00:00
Right, that's part of what I'm getting at. There are two primary cases when LLM output tends to be bad:

1. In the context of research/querying, when unverified information from its output is falsely passed off as verified information curated by a human author. There's a big difference between "ChatGPT or some blog claims X" and "the answer is X".

2. In the context of writing/communication, when it's used to stretch a small amount of information into a relatively large amount of text. There's a big difference between using an LLM to help revise or trim down your writing, or to have it put together a first draft based on a list of detailed bullet points, and expecting it to stretch one sentence into a whole essay of greater value than the original sentence.

Those are basic misuses of the tool. It's like watching an old person try to use Google 20 years ago and concluding that search engines are slop and the only reliable way to find information is through the index of Encyclopedia Britannica.
by cnst | 2025-09-02 03:25:26+00:00
Google does not notarise apps outside of the Play Store on Android, so, no, they will not do exactly that.

My fav App Store on a fresh Android is Chrome, because you can use Chrome to install any other app store, or any app directly from any website.

On iOS, there's no such alternative.

In fact, on iOS, you cannot install ANY app at all until you login into an Apple Account. In fact, even some pre-installed premium apps (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) on iOS cannot be used before you login into an Apple Account.

By comparison, Chrome lets you install any app from any website without providing any identifying information, preserving you privacy. It's very easy to dismiss the login screens when setting up a new Android device, too; something that Apple also makes far more difficult on iOS.
by jmg2227 | 2025-09-02 03:25:32+00:00
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by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-02 03:27:22+00:00
> In that case it makes more sense to do a copyleft license because it will legally require all derivatives to also follow that open source idea.

That is a matter of opinion. I have put out some open source stuff under the form you mentioned, and it's always BSD or another permissive license. I view it as quite wrong to force my moral choices upon others, so I give others the freedom to use whatever license they like. In my case, that is what makes sense because of my own moral convictions.
by pbnjeh | 2025-09-02 03:28:11+00:00
I recently bought an iPhone (Pro Max, on a secondary number) to have one on-hand to better tutor and troubleshoot for my parents. I just had to provide an instance of that this weekend on a phone call.

My daily driver is a recent Pixel Pro. If Google takes away the already limited additional flexibility it provides me over an iPhone, I don't see the need to provide them my money nor my attention, going forward.

Actually, I've been thinking about carrying some sort of Linux device and relegating the phone to being a hot spot for it, plus traditional calls and texts (and "necessary" apps, I guess). I don't really want to schlep more around with me, but even less so do I want to be squeezed into the box of BigCo corporate approved activities.
by ljoshua | 2025-09-02 03:28:22+00:00
Just yesterday I paid my annual $24.99 iTunes Match subscription to keep my music library synced between my laptops, phones, and HomePods. It’s a beautiful thing, but it feels tenuous every time that renewal goes in. Will it be my last? I hope not!

There is just something about actually owning the music that appeals to me and my wife (and yes, we’re children of the original iTunes era, when you could load up your playlist and then click the cool nuclear-looking button in iTunes to burn it to a CD). It won’t last forever, but I’ll keep with it till it dies because it works.
by hungmung | 2025-09-02 03:28:34+00:00
Hard disagree. Guerilla resistance has proven itself surprisingly effective against modern militaries. Multiply that by a military which would be going to war against its own citizens and you have a very uncertain situation.

Yes, if the military was targeting you individually you'd almost certainly be fucked. But a guerilla resistance spread out over a continent would be very difficult to eradicate. Just look at Afghanistan.
by seer | 2025-09-02 03:29:27+00:00
I wonder what happened with Frédéric Laloux’s “reinventing organisations”? Seemed to have so much promise at the time when Ruby on Rails was a new thing and people were laughing at DHH’s joke essay on the “Emotional Programmer”…

This all seems like a failure of incentives - the hard truth is that organisations that survive long enough all end up valuing only the survival of the organisation itself - and structure incentives accordingly. But maybe there is a way to modify these incentives somewhat?

Humanity all thought that monarchies are the only way of ruling successful states for _thousands_ of years … but now they are almost gone, and people live much more happy and productive lives.

Maybe we can figure out a way to shape institutions to not only have an “executive branch” but some other institutions that can also govern it.

We kinda have the idea of CEO and “board” which share power, maybe there is one or two more power centers that we can add that will ultimately prolong the life of an org?
by deevus | 2025-09-02 03:29:29+00:00
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by whycome | 2025-09-02 03:30:15+00:00
I don’t understand what “more music” (“more songs”) means in this context or why it’s relevant.

Edit: I think you’re misinterpreting the use of this tool. It’s not to find tracks across your music services. It’s for when people share links from Spotify but you subscribe to a different streaming service. Spotify has the largest market share (and probably outsized in certain geographic areas) so being on a “minority” streamer requires something like this. You’re not entering an artist name or track. You’re inputting the link.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-02 03:30:34+00:00
I actually have a "LLM as a judge" loop on all my codebases. I have an architecture panel that debates improvements given an optimization metric and convergence criteria and I feed their findings into a deterministic spec generator (cue /w validation) that can emit unit/e2e tests, scaffold terraform. It's pretty magical.

This cue spec gets decomposed into individual tasks by an orchestrator that does research per ticket and bundles it.
by enos_feedler | 2025-09-02 03:30:52+00:00
The problem is Amazon is usually Apples non competitive cloud partner. They can’t both sit this out. AWS needs to learn in a hurry whether they should be in the model business to supply Apple with Siri LLMs. Bc if not Apple is going to Google (and Google cloud). Thats not good for AWS. Amazon is in a bit of a bind bc they should be acquiring Anthropic but not at bubble prices.
by conradludgate | 2025-09-02 03:31:27+00:00
I built something similar for Neon[1]. We went with the route that the user sessions for JWT RLS had very few privileges, and that the context was managed by our ingress/connection pool. In our case, all incoming queries had to come via our sql-over-http interface, but that was mostly just to reduce scope rather than being integral to the security.

The general idea is that the connection pool ingress is trusted to provide the context properly, but the client is not. The pool would generate a random JWK for each connection and each request would use a newly signed JWT and the token ID is strictly monotonic, which makes any attempts for the client to smuggle their own token contexts in near impossible.

The JWTs the pool signs for each transaction will contain the claims that were correctly validated from the client.

A `DISCARD ALL` before returning the connection to the available pool will clear the context so it cannot be re-used and a new context must be provided fresh.

[1] https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_session_jwt/
by eadmund | 2025-09-02 03:31:55+00:00
Or overpaying them. Or sometimes underpaying and sometimes overpaying them. Or paying them the right total amount, but incorrectly labelling subtotals.

There’s no reason to leap to ‘stealing’ (which requires intent) from ‘ambiguous rules.’ Those ambiguous rules, incidentally, may have been agreed to — or even insisted on — by the union!
by charcircuit | 2025-09-02 03:32:27+00:00
>In almost every other field

Phones are not designed to be a specialized tool of a field. They are gadgets designed for a general audience of billions of people.

>For some reason, technology has ended up different

Because with computers there is a lot of freedom in how things can be made to work without adding extra cost to the product. They can be designed to be user friendly.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-02 03:32:51+00:00
> Blah blah blah, money this, money that

See, that’s the problem with what Amazon has done to you. It’s always about money with you guys. Good research is about the opposite of money. The people who don’t know what that means, who can’t fathom to understand what “the opposite of money” means without turning everything into a contrived story about money: they can’t do good R&D. Every single great R&D director will tell you this, and a bunch of people will downvote this comment, who have never been in a meaningful R&D role.

A good research culture is capable of listening to broad, generalized, completely accurate criticism in public and not downvote. Downvoting is your problem guys!

OpenAI has a million little haters out there and do you know how much time their people spend downvoting comments online? Zero. And honestly they’re paid way better than the poor souls who have wound up at Amazon, so it’s really, truly the case that none of this money money money culture really adds up to much for the little guy.

If there’s any one person to point the finger at - like why does Amazon, with its vast resources and tremendous talent, produce basically zero meaningful publicly influential research - it’s Jeff Bezos. You’re talking about strategy? The guy in charge is a colossal piece of shit, with a piece of shit girlfriend and a piece of shit world view, at least as bad as Larry Ellison, whose only redeeming factor is that MacKenzie Scott is a much smarter person than he ever was.
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by wakawaka28 | 2025-09-02 03:34:46+00:00
>Banditry is entirely a function of social trust and how well the state maintains its monopoly on the use of violence.

The fact you claim that opportunity does not matter shows that you don't understand the issue. No state on the planet is able to 100% guarantee your safety. Choosing to make yourself more vulnerable by traveling on foot is asking for trouble.

>In a lower trust country, cars are the preferred target of bandit attack. Check out Russian dashcam videos to see how it's done.

Cars are prevalent in Russia. The Russians live in a harsh environment and live more or less distributed, rather than packed like sardines. If you live in a city, motorcycles are the preferred vehicle for bandits. Two guys on a beat up motorcycle should make you take notice.

>And when push comes to shove, a good bandit worth their salt will disable cars in the wilderness by using spike strips.

If you live in such a place, you'll travel in a convoy and arm yourself to the teeth. This is not common anywhere in the West (thankfully). Bandits tend to not be well-equipped, especially in Western countries where that kind of advanced tier organized crime is not tolerated. If you live in a place where such crime is common, your home will also have to be built like a fortress and constantly monitored.

What I'm saying is that travelling by bicycle or on foot exposes you to even the least capable bandits. Have you never had to walk through a bad neighborhood? Wouldn't driving through it be more appealing and obviously safer? For some reason you've chosen to ignore this obvious reality, throwing out weird contingencies to muddle the issue.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-02 03:34:53+00:00
>I felt like Orwell made the point well enough in 1984.

True enough. Although I think Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth came closer to our current situation with The Space Merchants[0] (which I just read, almost by accident).

Orwell was more explicit in his exposition of totalitarianism and told a more compelling story than Pohl/Kornbluth did in their tale of authoritarian/corporatist dystopia.

That said, the universe of The Space Merchants more closely matches the current environment, IMHO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
by jeffhwang | 2025-09-02 03:35:57+00:00
Ballmer was hard-working, smart, and incredibly lucky in many ways. (Fairly or unfairly, I always have a soft spot for someone who survives Math 55 freshman year at Harvard—which Steve did!)

But he was also enthusiastic about weird non-tech marketing initiatives like trying to partner with big paper companies to launch “MS Office” branded paper for higher margin paper sales. I think this was a few years before the US version of The Office. But it sounds pretty Dunder-Mifflin to me! Whatever his flaws, I don’t see Satya going in this direction.

Source: I spoke directly with someone who worked with Ballmer on this.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-02 03:37:56+00:00
Embedded has already split: You've got 8-bit, 16-bit, and some in-between MCUs that never ran Linux in the first place. You've got 32-bit MCUs that never ran Linux in the first place. You've got FPGAs that never really even run software. And you've got "application processors" like the ARM Cortex-A series that get used for "embedded Linux" in some cases. ARM Cortex-A series won't release any more 32-bit ISAs, so that mostly just leaves RISC-V as a potentially-relevant 32-bit ISA that might get new CPU designs. That's a small niche within an already small niche in embedded. Most embedded systems aren't using Linux, they're using an RTOS or bare-metal code.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-02 03:38:26+00:00
Older housing stock is supposed to be for affordable housing, but if property taxes increase too quickly, they just get replaced with more luxury apartments and condos that still push people out if they are less dense. Worse still, let's say you get to build a massive low income density project, if you make pay LVT...it might not survive.

> "House value always go up" is a relatively recent invention.

Everyone wanting to live in a few economically hot cities is also a recent invention. If you price the LVT in those cities appropriately, then only the most income generating projects are going to be viable, and that means the lower class is basically not going to be living in those cities anymore.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-02 03:38:48+00:00
I didn't think anyone has accused our men and women in the armed services of being Nazis... At least around here. So I have no idea where that came from.

But it is interesting to observe this administration, which ostensibly is anti-waste (given the started goals of DOGE), replacing park service employees with far more expensive Marines on deployment for something as far from national defense as trash duty. Unless those scraps of candy wrapper and discarded straws are packing a lot of firepower these days...

I'm just saying, if he's going to deploy them for trash duty, why not deploy them to rake the forest floor like he said someone should do? Especially since his administration is currently pulling active firefighters off the front lines of fighting a fire because they've decided that deportation is a higher priority than protecting American property and lives (https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/us/washington-fire-detain-wor...).
by buu700 | 2025-09-02 03:40:20+00:00
Because the false positive rate is unacceptably high — we're talking about a standard, widely used character — and because if the heuristic becomes widespread enough to matter, then it will be trivially circumvented by bad actors anyway. Who is it helping if we collectively bully ourselves into excising a perfectly good punctuation mark from human language?

If anything, I'd rather that renderers like Markdown just all agree to change " - " to an en dash and " -- " to an em dash. Then we could put the matter to bed once and for all.
by stephen_g | 2025-09-02 03:40:29+00:00
This seems pretty uninformed on the embedded side - the speaker is I'm sure very qualified generally but it sounds like mostly on the server/desktop side of things.

Like on Armv7-M it's said "Nobody is building anything with this kind of hardware now" - this is just wrong to the point of ridiculousness. Thousands of new products will be designed using these microcontrollers and still billions of units will be produced with them in them - now, true that almost none of those will run Linux on those MCUs but it's crazy to say "nobody" is building things with them. Many of course are moving to Armv8-M microcontrollers but those are 32 bit too!

On the Linux side, there are things like the AMD/Xillinx Zynq-7000 series that will be supported for many years to come.

It's not the worst idea in the world to deprecate support for 32-bit x86 but it is not time to remove it for ARM for many years yet.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-02 03:40:49+00:00
That makes no sense at all. Software is not a scarce resource, unlike your money. If you donate money to a charity who gives it to Amazon, you would have good reason to be upset. But if you write a piece of software and Amazon uses it, other (needier) users benefit just as much!

Or to put it in another context, if you went and volunteered for a highway cleanup, would you get mad if Bezos drove on the highway you cleaned? Because that is what your position here is analogous to, and that seems like a poor line of reasoning to me.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-02 03:42:22+00:00
Unacceptable. This type of behavior can be used for an increasing expansive regime of censorship or worse. Imagine being turned into authorities for, say, discussing ways to help asylum applicants or under a different administration, the lab leak theory, or under a different administration, how to grow cannabis. This is why the ACLU of the past had it right, when they were defending even offensive uses of the right to free speech. And to be able to speak freely, you need anonymity and privacy.
by metadat | 2025-09-02 03:42:40+00:00
Was just there a week ago, Vegas has become insanely expensive. Why must it be an eye watering bill to go hangout in the desert, eat, gamble a bit, and see a show? It's a bit sad, Vegas used to be more fun, but I also noticed the casinos were barren compared to my last visit 5 years ago.

The net-net is I'd rather go somewhere else next time.
by lmm | 2025-09-02 03:44:19+00:00
> the false positive rate is unacceptably high — we're talking about a standard, widely used character

Citation needed.

> Who is it helping if we collectively bully ourselves into excising a perfectly good punctuation mark from human language?

Humans can adapt faster than LLM companies, at least for the moment. We need to be willing to play to our strengths.

Who is it helping if we bully ourselves into ignoring a simple, easy "tell"?
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-02 03:46:43+00:00
> It has always come down to questions of what we believe freedom to mean, how we wanted to contribute utility to the world, and whether we saw the use of our software in commercial projects as a loss to ourselves in a zero sum game.

Very well put! I personally believe that "freedom" must include the freedom to do anything you want with the software, even close off your fork if you choose. And I do not believe that a commercial project using my software harms anyone at all, as my project is still there, still available for all. Accordingly, I have always believed in and used permissive licenses. It has nothing to do with corporate profits, and I find it vexing that people make that bad faith assumption in discussions such as this.
by bmandale | 2025-09-02 03:47:37+00:00
If the ability to remove apps obligates them to remove apps, then that is a strong argument for them not to have the ability to remove apps.

It also almost certainly doesn't so obligate them. They aren't acting as an intermediary, they are just incidentally signing the app. The app signing certifies in the first place that they checked the documents of the app devs, and in the second place that they haven't decided to remove the app. But removing the app is an action, not an inaction, they can't be compelled to take it. It would be like the record label saying I had to stop a bootlegger I happened to observe while I was out for a walk.