skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an excellent list of positive strokes. I wanted to punch up your bullet on talking to people. Face to face is always better. It pulls me out of the void. Rather than chatting on text-based social media, set up video chats. Going to small conferences in your market is a great way to get a boost of energy. If you're good at it, you can even get a few customers. Seeing the emotions on the face of the person I'm talking to really helps boost my energy.
Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
Throwing around Nazi salutes is normal? Are you writing this from an evil mirror universe?
If it makes you feel better, the person you're replying to isn't siloing. These people set up a wonderful Catch-22: "we don't need laws or regulations: consumer choice and people voting with their wallets is enough to ensure good behavior. If people really care, they will stop buying it" (people exercise consumer choice and vote with their wallets) "Hey, whoa, not like that! Let's not bring politics into this!"

What the OP and others like them actually want is a total lack of accountability for bad actors, and they will pick whatever argument is convenient in that moment regardless of consistency.
IMO, Apple's position as part of a duopoly disqualifies them that kind of defense.

When customers aren't empowered to choose which company they engage with, companies should not be allowed to choose which customers they support.
India keeps buying Russian oil unapologetically and hasn't done anything at all to support Ukraine.
Are you a caring person? Do you find yourself good with children or animals? Empathy and being able to take care of another life is one of the most important characteristics if not the most important in a relationship.

If the answer is no, that's okay. Do some soul-searching to see what kind of childhood you had. Try to work through any demons you have before engaging in a relationship. Know yourself. Seek therapy if it would help and try to become a better person who cares about others. And not pretend care, actual desire to help others, make others happy, etc.
> which probably makes sure those implementing security take it seriously.

OTOH the government gave all our health care data to palantir a while back, so while it might be serious for individuals, fascist chucklefucks can do what they want.
Gates warns White House he can't fill shortfalls in US global health funding
> That isn't what happened

Yes, it is.

> and there was no surrender.

Yes, Trump’s release of Taliban priosners and subsequent surrender of Afghanistan to them was a surrender.

> The commander in chief made primarily a political decision

Yes, the decision to abandon a war is always a political decision. It is, in fact, the political decision that every act in war is directed at getting the enemy to make.

There's this weird and frankly dolschtosslegende-ish trend in America post-Vietnam to characterize American victories in war as military and American losses as “political” as if the two were orthogonal categories, but the only military victory is achieving the desired political end, and if you feel like you were “winning militarily” and didn’t do that, then you just didn’t understand the context of the war and your sense of victory was misplaced.
Besides whats called out by others: It would be nice to have the usual action of "press both mouse buttons" on a number to open all non flagged fields around it. That reduces the amount of required clicks a bit.

But maybe its intentional to avoid one player scoring too many points at once?
Thaler seems to go out of his way to claim no human intervention and authorship by the AI - So yeah, that's a very specific ruling that has little to do with AI as a tool. It's really more about AI personhood.

What's potentially more of a problem is the mention of artists using Midjourney and denied copyright - and very much separate cases from Thaler.
You didn't hear about them last time on HN, when it was $23 billion?
Am I right to understand this is signaling an end to the FTC, or at least on what concerns it harnessing the will of the tech giants?
Then what? What happens after you’ve made him broke? Will your catharsis be satisfied?
Show HN: I made an AI Tutor that teaches through conversation
I have the same thoughts. However my impression is also that most orgs would choose eg databricks or something for the permission handling, web ui, ++ so what is the equivalent «full rig» with duckdb and S3 / blob storage?
What are you proposing exactly? What can be simpler than a single Yes/No prompt?
So OpenAI's ChatGPT output cannot be copyrighted and it's legal to distill it?
rpm-ostree – a true hybrid image/package system
I might be missing something, but how do you specify color options for the Core Time 2?
What is the appeal of Bluesky? I'm surprised to see how much traction it has, when Mastodon already exists and works quite well technically - it seems that Bluesky is simply better at marketing?
I switched from Ubuntu to Debian about two months ago after my system crashed while trying to update. Since then, Debian has been rock-solid, running much smoother and more efficiently. No more dealing with Snap packages and similar annoyances. If you’re disciplined about not messing with the OS, keeping your files organized and backed up, and using containers, switching between distros and operating systems becomes pretty seamless.
I was curious what the copyright was on Wikipedia. It’s listed as public domain, but it also has a link to this article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow

So, that is apparently a thing, at least in some cases and places.
Quite the opposite. Pebble is great at sleep tracking. They manage to do a better job with Pebble's limited sensors than Apple can with all of their hardware. I have both, I use sleep tracking a lot, and I've compared them.
Why doesn't BYD manufacture in US for the US market.
Except for the tracking that ads use and the possibility of getting malware because they aren't curated as well as they should be.

I also don't like companies aggressively trying to get me to buy stuff I don't want. Show a static image on the right somewhere with a link. Hell, show a dozen of them. Still less intrusive than an ad that shows up while you're in the middle of a video.

But the poor ad companies are apparently on the brink of bankruptcy based on how hard they are pushing things. Just a little bit of composure or any respect for the people that they are pushing these on and I'd have a different viewpoint. But they are always all-in on this.
Europe has also kept getting gas from Russia via Vietnamese flagged ships- to the tune of several billions, all whilst trying to stop the pipelines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/us-and-europea...
This whole thread is chockful of thought-terminating cliches, and I say that as someone who grew from a waiter to a developer thanks to Apple and made a lot of these arguments.

I also worked on Android Wear's iOS app for working with iPhones.

The major problem I see now with these excuses, that I'd like to claim wasn't an issue when I was making them circa 2015-2017, is they're cargo cult (a la Apple likes making things that just work) or boogeymen (if they did anything different, a bluetooth connection would be used, unencrypted, sending all your data into the ether).

The watch has been out for 10 years.

Software is software. Where there's a will, there's a way.

It's very, very, very, hard to believe there's 0 way for Apple to ensure an encrypted connection.

Put another way, avoiding the global observations: If it's impossible, why allow watches to be paired at all?
It's crazy that so many don't realize this. I am not an Apple user, likely never will be, but I recommend their tech frequently. They meet that market's needs with aplomb and I respect that.
it makes me wonder if the AI takeover is inevitable
What sucks is that the cars* are actually very, very good cars. I've owned three of them so far, and I love driving and owning them. They take almost no maintenance, and I've only had one problem that needed me to take it into the shop, and it was for a recall that was totally handled in a day, and they gave me a loaner.

Legitimately, Teslas have been the best cars I've ever owned, but thanks to Elon, I will never buy another one, so long as he runs the company.

* - not you, Cybertruck
> Almost no one is a dick on purpose.

This is true, but that does not mean people are not being dicks.

What is important is to have self reflection and to recognize when you have been a dick, to apologize (make amends if necessary), and try not to repeat. Yes, habits die hard, but we can still improve. But the biggest dick move is to double down. We've created a culture where we act as if being unintentionally wrong is a bad thing and that the worst thing you can do is admit a mistake and self-correct. But we are always wrong (to some degree) and so the only thing there is is to self-correct.

So yes, we can stop being dicks. It's how humans evolved. We wouldn't have expanded from our small tribes to villages, to cities, to countries, to a global economy if we weren't capable of this. The arc may be slow and noisy, but it has always expanded to be more inclusive.
Then what? What happens after he’s suffered? It’s just to pad your egos and satisfy your catharsis, and you know it.
While a co-founder can help, it can also ruin everything. As you say, there are other relationships and ways of interacting that can easily fill the same role, ie. advisors, board members, customers, etc. Statistically, I think that co-founder infighting is one of the largest reasons why many startups fail. It's also a fantastic way to ruin friendships.
> But isn't that's the case Pebble is making here?

No, the case they are making is that Apple is making things worse for Apple users. They haven't done anything to effect the Android watch experience.

> They create a market

They didn't create a market in this case. They created a product, which is the Apple Watch.

> Apple actually acts as a gatekeeper to the smart watch market when used with their devices

Wrong- they act as a gatekeeper to developers, not to users. If the new Pebble's core product was their app, then all of this would indeed be anticompetitive behavior (see recent European court cases against Apple). But Pebble's product is their watch, and there is nothing saying that Pebble has the right to integrate into another company's product. Apple could choose to do this, but they don't, and that's okay. Consumers can consider these facts when they are buying a phone.
Last I checked Henry Ford was still dead and the current owners of Ford are not known to be Nazis.

Just in the last week Musk reposted "Stalin, Hitler and Mao didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did."

I would rather not be getting a car in return for a sizeable donation to someone who is spreading that kind of rhetoric.
The Craziest part about Eddie was his business plan. Steal from your own company for 10 years, take the company public, gradually reduce your stealing over the course of 5 years to show a rapidly increasing profit margin, sell company to a hedge fund and cash out the profit. Then, go to jail for 8 years.

https://www.financialpipeline.com/financial-scams-the-too-cr...
Interestingly, the bar for machine accuracy is often much higher than for humans for us to be willing to adopt its autonomy (baseball ABS systems or self-driving cars come to mind as examples).

I can imagine a future where even if an AI code reviewer that autonomously reviewed code resulted in a noticeable drop in some meaningful metrics, like DORA's MTTR or Deployment Frequency, an organization would flip out the very first time the AI made a mistake, even if a human reviewer would have resulted in 10x as many impactful errors.
The conditions imposed on countries in order to receive a loan are usually the problem.
thanks, you're a master at Show HN
I’ve been homeless and am now an employed engineer, so I know it’s possible to make the leap. You can’t make it in one go, though.

Get a better job, that can get you stable housing. I don’t know the job market in your area, but try looking for temp agencies. They will do a basic interview and help you find something that uses your existing skills. Until you get stable housing and your basic needs met, focus on what you can do with the skills you have now.

Seconding what others said about going to the library. In my community they serve almost as social workers, and have lists of places like food banks that can help you until you have better employment. Your county will also have resources for you; you can get on the waiting list for housing vouchers (they’re years long, but just in case), get food stamps, get leads for programs local to you.

Yes, it’s possible to end up with a tech job. There’s a big gap between where you are now and there, though, and having stability in the short term will help you get there.
No present security will be suficient once IBM or others breaksthrough with Quantum. This will happen for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I20KgRZCZEI
Maybe wait until the brain implants.
Probably be more aptly called the "elevator operator fallacy".

The elevator operator ensures the safety and security of the passengers, makes sure the elevator is properly maintained and assists the elderly and disabled along with numerous other important tasks.

People believe the elevator operator is only responsible for operating the actuating lever and mistakenly believe they can be automated away without fully understanding their full value to the operations of elevators.
Pretty sure this wouldn't pass the merit part unless the prompt was unusually long and precise.

the human still made the prompt

What I can guarantee, is that series of prompts itself would be copyright-able. (The series of prompts that ultimately created the image.) No matter how little they may weigh any one of those prompts in isolation. That is, assuming the EULA of the LLM doesn't require you to essentially place your prompts in the public domain.

And of course,




everyone reads the EULA. Right?
"Love it or leave it" - why not make it better?
Convenience factor. Bluesky is single site. Mastodon is multiple sites.
You're wouldn't be the first adult to be unfamiliar with slang. Language spreads socially.
If you're taking the time to write one or more posts about this, you are implicitly against language growth, you've just found a justification for being against it that you find acceptable to your worldview.
such an important topic right here. are we really going to enter an age of media that is AI generated or are we entering an age where media bifurcates into two broad categories: AI sloppish brain rot and more refined products that are hand made.
I've mentioend this whenever iceberg comes up. It's wild how immature the ecosystem is still. Duckdb itself lacks the ability to write iceberg....

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/extensions/iceberg/overview.h...

Apache iceberg go ? Nope

https://github.com/apache/iceberg-go?tab=readme-ov-file#read...

Basically java iceberg is the only mature way to do this, it's not a very accessible ecosystem.

For a side project I'm using pyiceberg to sink streaming data to iceberg (using DuckDB as the stream processor):

https://sql-flow.com/docs/tutorials/iceberg-sink

It's basically a workaround for DuckDB's lack of native support. I am very happy with the Pyicerbg library as a user, It was very easy and the native Arrow support is a glimpse into the future. Arrow as an interchange format is quite amazing. Just open up the iceberg table and append Arrow dataframes to it!

https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow

Arrow is quite spectacular and it's cool to see the industry moving to standardize on it as a dataframe. For example, Clickhouse python also support arrow-based insertion:

https://sql-flow.com/docs/tutorials/clickhouse-sink

This makes the glue code trivial to sink into these different systems as long as arrow is used.
The difference between sales tax and a tariff is that the consumer pays the sales tax while the importer pays the tariff. In other words, I'm not presented with a "price + taxes + tariff." I'm presented with a "price + taxes" where the price is supposed to bake in the seller's costs (which may include tariffs) and a margin of profit. Likewise, if the price increases to allow for additional tariffs, I will also pay more in taxes.
There's a way to download all of your Alexa requests. I recommend it to everyone. It was interesting and horrifying to get literally all of them, from day 1. I noticed how tired I sound in the mornings or evenings. I started understanding patterns of my thoughts and needs. The Alexa went to the bin quickly after that session of exploration and insight.
Improving Recommendation Systems and Search in the Age of LLMs
I have a financed Tesla that hasn't driven enough miles to offset the embodied carbon (we're a one car family who walks wherever we can). I'd love to get rid of it because as I'm mad about Musk and Trump, and I'm really afraid someone will protest while my 2 year old is in the car, putting him at risk.

If I sell— and it's a terrible financial decision (laid off in the fall)—I will assuage some of my fears and worries, but I will make the world worse for everyone else (more carbon in the atmosphere).
It's not a straw man argument, it is the argument.

An average user can't dive into the bluetooth driver code and figure out where in the 4000 page spec something deviates and is now a security issue. So we have to assume the worst.
It sounds like you’re subtly implying that GP was posting a copypasta?
I think the urls might be specific to your session in some cases. I’ve noticed some old IG posts I’ve put in bookmarking services say they’re expired.

So passing to yt-dlp would be traceable back to me in that case.

Definitely wasn’t cookies that’s what surprised me.
(along with everything else published during the Biden administration)
Thanks for sharing this post!

I've only been on HN for a little over a year now and I feel like I've already tremendously benefited from it, much in the same ways that you have. HN is a really inspiring place and it definitely makes me feel less alone in my work knowing that there are others out there like me.
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Knight Night Nite

Knot Naught Not

Lager, Lauger (a last name), Logger

Macs Mac's Macks Maks Max

Tends Tens Tins

Threw Through Thru

Ware Wear (clothing), Wear (diminished by use) We're Where

Your You're Yore
Pull requests are too-downstream - a legacy I believe.

An AGI system that self-improves its code will regenerate every component impacted by the enhancement starting from live system design narratives, useful existing components, relevant design patterns, and intermediate development artifacts that are discarded or become stale in human-driven legacy coding.

I see "agents" as mostly bodies of assembled prompts for LLMs of various strengths used at the appropriate time in the pipeline of code development. A code review agent's prompt would not have the task of generating code and thus not need all that particular context, but would look for historically observed 'gotchas' and flag those for automatic repair, and the repair could go all the way back through the artifact chain to the text requirements and specifications.
Protests and ethics and capitalism and products and politics are more complicated than that. If collateral damage or somehow hurting anybody in "your" half of The Two Groups (which is a faulty premise to begin with) is ruled out, you're wiping out nearly all opinions and protest. Things just aren't that simple (though it's convenient to pretend they are when it lets us point a finger at the enemy out-group - look at their hypocrisy/in-fighting!)

That is not to say the opposite - that I think all anti-Tesla hatred/actions are justified. I'm just refuting your opinion specifically.

I have a lot of thoughts that run in both directions on topics like this, including this one. However, this specific case is especially far gone, in terms of drawing lines between "understandable" and "unreasonable" on any given anti-Tesla action/opinion, simply because of the fact that he and some of his supporters invoke Nazism. If it wasn't for that, I could more confidently say something like, "No, that one is over the line" for any given anti-Tesla thing. But I can't.
Nice catch. Fixed!
You can, but that does not give you a supervised device, as I said.
I didn’t that’s what surprised me. I think some urls are unique to your session.

Not that it should matter I don’t think I’m the one at fault here.
cool robot at the end ;)
GPUs do scale because they are parallel processors. Software tools like CUDA and ROCm are very specifically designed for parallel compute on GPU.
The Daylight computer DC-1 isn't e-ink it's a reflective LCD by the way. Different screen technology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491
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According to this site[0] the maximum penalty for breaking this law is a 3 year sentence and a $10,000 fine.

I'm suggesting something far different from what this law implements. I'm suggesting that people who own a high-risk dog that maims someone should be charged with assault, and if that animal kills someone they should be charged with manslaughter.

[0] https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/399/
With the author's emphasis on Science 2, I found quite provocative an earlier post of his: https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/your-paper-is-an-ad/

Submitted it for discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403596
There is a way to sign up without phone number, albeit rather convoluted. Certainly doable for a determined criminal :)
BYD actually got the lower end of the EU tariffs, possibly because they co-operated with the EU or they got less government subsidies.
Neat idea! If you can, someone figure out how to get Nextdoor animal-posters to join and participate, this would be really useful. Last time I saw a dog on the street, I pulled over to catch the dog, re-installed Nextdoor, made a post, and brought the dog to the local shelter. It's hard to beat not only the neighborhood aspect of Nextdoor, but also just the volume and mental "this is where it goes" vibe. What's not hard to beat about Nextdoor is the NIMBY and triggering comments so you're halfway there, hah!
Assisted work is the big clarifier I think

Is a picture edited with photoshop invalid when it uses content fill? What about a picture taken with an iphone, where AI could be part of the phone's processing pipeline or even generate details to make up for lack of optical zoom?

Does spell correction invalidate a book? what if there's AI rephrasing features at work? Where's the line?

I think as you get into those side questions, the only reasonable position becomes treating AI as tooling no different than any other piece of equipment.
script kiddies don't use buffer overflows, script kiddies try the top 20 most popular passwords and deface your wordpress. AI might learn to code in rust or whatever, but you'll forever have the human factor inherent in systems administration that makes skidding a valid tactic.
You wouldn't encourage another entrepreneur to avoid being unethical because it might have an impact on their ROI?
Just buy one of these "I bought this before we knew Elon was a piece of shit" stickers
I like that the EU forces Apple to be more open. If you don't, just don't come to Europe.
If the rate limiter buffered your action instead of just reverting it entirely, with some indication like a faded out ghost to indicate that the action will be played out later, it would be much better. Otherwise it's too frustrating to have to click everything three times because the game keeps undoing what you did.
There's no guarantees that breakthrough is coming anytime soon. Scaling up the number of qubits in a processor is very hard and it's why progress has been pretty slow over the last decade.