MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsumnia | 2025-04-02 19:22:39+00:00
Speaking as a CS Education reviewer, some of the criteria can be "signing up to review", though solicitation is often sent to professionals in the domain (through personal requests or blanket email campaigns), as well as through respective mailing lists. I review papers for I think 4-5 conferences, mostly because I have colleagues that serve/publish in those spaces (you declare conflicts of interest to avoid bias).

Each publisher/conference have their own reviewing guidelines to follow, but at least for the conferences I've reviewed for they include: a summary (2-5 sentences tops), the strengths of, the weaknesses of the research, and potentially your opinion on the piece. You are typically asked to include your familiarity with the research space since you may be reviewing methodologies that you were not explicitly trained in. This all distills into a metric that effectively reflects "this paper should be accepted/not accepted" which is then handed to a 'senior' reviewer to summarize for the conference to decide. All of my conferences are double-blind single submission, but I have colleagues that are able to respond to reviewer critiques.

Most conferences recognize things like grammatical issues can happen, so reviewers are asked to only point them out rather than use them as a basis for rejection; however if the paper is riddled with mistakes, then it can be grounds for rejection. Likewise, since CS Education is a combination of CS and cognitive psychology, some of the discussion can be attributed toward "appropriateness for CS education research". For example, I once reviewed a paper that clearly was including theater-based education techniques but had CS shoehorned in one paragraph (that was it). Alternatively, measuring time delays in student responses to a tutoring system can help distinguish when students become distracted or take a break.
by hbn | 2025-04-02 19:22:52+00:00
My issue is it seems like something has to only be a bit controversial to be completely hidden from everyone. There was the recent DF article about how Gruber thinks his articles are being artificially shitlisted and I can't help but agree? I don't necessarily think the mods have their fingers on the scale, but I wouldn't be surprised if the algorithm works in a way where if enough people flag something it gets automatically hidden, and there's enough people who see DF and automatically flag it that those blog posts get hidden every time.
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-02 19:23:24+00:00
How would knowing the full path help you anyway? It's either in "/usr/bin/sl", or "/usr/local/bin", or "~/.local/bin", now what?

By the way, believe it or not, POSIX compliance requires existence of only two directories (/dev and /tmp) and three files (/dev/console, /dev/null, and /dev/tty) on the system; everything else is completely optional, including existence of /bin, /etc, and /usr.
by panstromek | 2025-04-02 19:23:25+00:00
I'll just add one thing I learned: what people do is way more important than what they say or what their politics is.

I now find it much more practical to focus on things we can agree on and actually do something about in the real world and try to build from that.

Generic political debates are not very actionable and they are risky for social reasons mentioned in the article, so I think they are largely a waste of time with negative externalities.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 19:23:32+00:00
I do think that a scary thing is that if there's a descent into fascism, how many people will hardly notice, or maybe even enjoy it. There was a quote I heard on this American life recently, that went:

"Life under autocracy can be terrifying, as it already is in the United States for immigrants and trans people. But those of us with experience can tell you that most of the time, for most people, it's not frightening. It is stultifying. It's boring. It feels like trying to see and breathe under water — because you are submerged in bad ideas, being discussed badly, being reflected in bad journalism and, eventually, in bad literature and bad movies."
by TacticalCoder | 2025-04-02 19:23:49+00:00
> Two of the people said they were in or have direct knowledge of at least 20 such chats. All four said they saw instances of sensitive information being discussed.

Are they adding just everybody under the sun in these chats or only those who think wouldn't be traitors? For example I can understand one snitch being added by mistake. But four snitches?

That's a lot of snitches in my book.
by Aloisius | 2025-04-02 19:24:04+00:00
That's what html entities are for.

Though I'm not sure who decided the ʻokina needed its own character rather than the traditionally used apostrophe. It's a pain to type without a Hawaiian keyboard.

Besides, the Hawaiian diacritics are not part of English orthography, so the name of the state (and the big island) is just "Hawaii" in English. In Hawaiian, it's Hawaiʻi.
by jl6 | 2025-04-02 19:24:16+00:00
Hofstadter should have written Gödel, Escher, Bach, Borges.

I wrote about the connection between Borges, AI, Wikipedia, Kafka (the messaging system, not the author), GPUs, and cryptography in the small print on page 7 of this:

https://lab6.com/4#page=7
by tripletao | 2025-04-02 19:24:44+00:00
I feel like a cash reward would help not only with motivation in the obvious way, but also by giving people social permission to act weird, since the human on the other side will understand that you're doing it to help both of you win the money.

Perhaps the final form of this experiment will always consider the reward value (for results better than chance, since zero effort for $0.5*X is better than full effort than $X), and we could track the increase in the necessary reward to distinguish over time. There might be a casino game in there somewhere, though collusion between human witnesses and interrogators might become a problem as the stakes get high.
by aanet | 2025-04-02 19:24:56+00:00
FY2024 results: - Revenue: $260M (-2% y/y) - Gross Margins: $63M (24% Gross margin) - pre-tax profits: $16M (-57% y/y) - Units sold: 7M (-5% y/y)

Arguably the most consequential British computing company since ARM

Sales breakdown: Total: $260M - Products: $181M - Components: $61M - Royalties: $16M - Publishing: $1.2M

Average Sale Price (ASP): - $40.6 / board - Gross profit: $7.4/board

More detail here: https://polaris.brighterir.com/public/raspberry_pi/news/rns_...
by kstrauser | 2025-04-02 19:25:02+00:00
For sure. I've had comments flagged that I thought were perfectly reasonable and non-controversial. My first reaction was to be angry and annoyed. But then my kinder angels suggested that perhaps I phrased my idea poorly and people misunderstood that I was largely agreeing with them, or at least very respectfully disagreeing. And then I decided to be more careful with my phrasing next time.
by dang | 2025-04-02 19:25:26+00:00
We don't delete posts unless their authors ask us to. The most that happens to a user-flagged or otherwise moderated post is that it does into the [dead] state, and [dead[ posts aren't deleted. They remain visible to anyone with 'showdead' turned on in their profile.

If anyone wants more, here's a longer explanation from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538728.
by jihadjihad | 2025-04-02 19:25:28+00:00
> drawing very basic shapes, usually circles, and erasing parts that don't make sense

There's a hilarious Spongebob bit [0] where Squidward is teaching an art class, and he starts off in that exact manner of trying to draw a perfect circle, only to have Spongebob subvert the entire idea. The whole episode is artistic gold IMO.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTlpFEvmxdM
by jsight | 2025-04-02 19:25:32+00:00
New Model Y deliveries didn't really get to a good pace in the US until about mid-March.

Toward the end of the month, people said the new Y delivery was "same day" in the US. I looked and saw a few available, but only really specific color and wheel combinations. By the end of the quarter, those were gone and delivery times had jumped to ~2 weeks. All of this stuff varies a bit regionally, but it doesn't seem like they were sitting on meaningful inventory at the end.

I don't think extrapolating from this quarter to anything is particularly easy. It will get even more confusing in the second half, and next year, as they start self-delivering for "robotaxi" operations.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-02 19:26:54+00:00
I'm going to change your first example. Can you see what stands out?

"00000000qq000000000I0000000"

Now I'm going to change your second example, also by three characters. Can you see what stands out?

"H90F3iJsjo$(4ORma1sSKX@)!2k"

Is that a clearer example of what I'm trying to say? In the second example, because every symbol stands out, no symbol stands out. Or to put it more technically, noise has overwhelmed any signal.
by robshep | 2025-04-02 19:28:35+00:00
Your project looks great. Have you looked at the "services" route?

Instead of companies or individuals paying you to build your software, that they may find useful, (and some companies may not feel comformatble funding a bit of software that their competitors could otherwise take for free), you instead provide - through a services company - integration support, customisation, hosted versions, or other tertiary elements of value (such as premium documentation) that keep you focused on your project (albeit via some diversification)

If the software is free (as in beer) then what else might potential users need, that you can monitise.

E.g. Documentation, installation scripts, advanced models don't "have" to be free alongside the code. Just a thought.
by calebio | 2025-04-02 19:30:50+00:00
That's a really good question.

In my head, I'm imagining someone early in the morning posting a flyer up on a bulletin board downtown.

Throughout the day many folks walked by and took photos of the flyer with their cell phone.

At the end of the day, the original person came back and removed the flyer.

IMO, at the time that the folks took the photo of the flyer, that flyer was public information. It remains public information even after the flyer is removed[0].

This isn't a great analogy of mine, and has plenty of holes, but was interesting to me after I read your comment. I know it was in the context of doxxing, but I think it's pretty interesting philosophically.

I think something similar applies to photos taken of other people in public spaces. Both the person who took the photo and the subject of the photo are no longer in that physical public space, but the actions took place within that space.

I think something similar applies to digital "public spaces". But what does a public space even mean in the context of walled gardens[1], etc.

[0] you then run into the question of what happens if someone posts non-public information, publicly? [1] are digital walled garden communities that different from physical communities that gate access, whether free or paid. Whether information shared within those contexts are public or private is an interesting thread as well.
by zehaeva | 2025-04-02 19:31:24+00:00
This feels like you'd say that just because apples fall from trees and a bowling ball falls in much the same way when tossed off a building, that grouping those things together implies a common cause and that we should call that cause a theory because we aren't 100% certain that they are caused by the same effect.

They could be two different reasons.

I do prefer Occom's razor for these things. We've seen a bunch extremely large celestial objects move in ways that our models cannot account for with the things that we can see. Sure, there could be more than one thing out there causing all of those extremely similar effects. But that's far less likely than there just being one reason.
by milesrout | 2025-04-02 19:31:58+00:00
We shouldn't use that term. "Vibe coding". Nope. Brainless coding. That is what it is. It's what beginners do: programming without understanding what they--or their programs--are doing. The additional use of a computer program that brainlessly generates brainless code to complement their own brainless code doesn't mean we should call what they are doing by a new name.
by delichon | 2025-04-02 19:32:12+00:00
The "What [the political spectrum] Actually Is" graph shows more independent thinkers to be unintentional moderates. The chart is a claim that independence leads to moderation. I deny that. The most independently minded thinkers I know frequently drift off into extremes where most tribes dare not tread. The tribalists are so moderate in comparison that I would turn that christmas tree upside down.
by noosphr | 2025-04-02 19:32:25+00:00
>A lot of their videos look like CGI but apparently the product is real.

I bought their robot dog as part of a project to build embodied AI models back in 2022.

Their SDK was far more open than anything else on the market and the stock firmware was on par with competitors, this includes products that were x10 the price.

The robot itself scared dogs in the park, but kids loved it. At $3k it's on par with a mid range drone and quite fun to hack on.
by nine_k | 2025-04-02 19:32:43+00:00
I think the sensory load idea is productive, but I'd add a related idea of drawing attention to key things only.

I don't care if my kettle looks "professional"; one is pink, another is orange.

But I prefer walls around me to be white or very lightly colored, not, say, intensively red. That would constantly distract me.

Code in my editor is colorful like a Christmas tree, bur most of the interface is muted beige and green. This is about certain things requiring my attention, and others sparing it.

When everything is loud, nothing is, nothing stands out. Bold colors often work better as accents.

(Sometimes it's about non-aesthetic considerations. I prefer my car to be approximately white to soak in less of the hot summer summer sun.)
by cheaprentalyeti | 2025-04-02 19:32:44+00:00
I also remember the Personification of Science who funded virus creation at a lab in the city where the virus first spread spending February 2020 saying that Covid probably wasn’t going to be a problem. This raises a whole lot of questions BUT no one here wants to talk about that. And besides he’s been pardoned.

It’s funny how fast the Hn crowd can go back and forth between asking “what radicalized you?” and looking away from the answer.
by move-on-by | 2025-04-02 19:32:57+00:00
I set up a couple ‘bedrock’ servers on a NUC. Without a doubt, one of the best uses of that computer.

One world is pretty much wide open- Cheats and creative mode allowed. Extended family also allowed to play, build, explore. The other server is survival mode only with no cheats and just me and my son allowed to play.

It’s been so much fun switching between the worlds and getting different experiences in the same game. We have strict rules about screen time, but even off-hours it’s a great bonding experience talking about plans for next time we play. I say this as someone who used to be really into gaming growing up but cannot seem to ‘get into’ any game anymore. It’s the bonding that makes the difference.

One more note, it’s not all about screen time. The other day we went on a short hike at a park. ‘Went exploring’, kids aren’t interested in hikes. Anyway, it started sprinkling and had potential to go negative. But instead: ‘Dad, this is just like exploring in Minecraft!’. <3
by torstenvl | 2025-04-02 19:34:37+00:00
Love this idea.

Rightly or wrongly, people judge based on first impressions, and your landing page can cause frustration. First, your floating nav bar is huge on mobile, but nothing a zoom out can't fix. Second, the animated "Learn" hero isn't a constant size, causing the entire page to jump around while trying to read it. Again, can be fixed with zoom... but only with a lot of zoom, so that everything else is almost unreadable.
by dgfitz | 2025-04-02 19:34:40+00:00
> Voting for Donald Trump is unarguably an evil action in my book.

I'm not sure why I'm bothering, but I'll bite.

I didn't vote for the guy, don't like the guy, never have.

Trying to understand _why_ people _did_ vote for him is much more important than declaring half the country (really like 30-35% of the country, more people didn't vote than did vote for a specific candidate) evil.

If we need to assign blame, Biden should have dropped out long before he did so the democrats could have found their next Obama, or something.

Or maybe, just maybe, people were desperate for a change and they were manipulated into a false sense of illogical hope.

The question is, why did they need hope? What was so wrong, in their mind, that we all ended up here?

Or, just declare them evil and hold a useless sense of moral superiority. This solves nothing, but I suppose it makes you feel better.
by moody__ | 2025-04-02 19:34:51+00:00
There aren't really union filesystems per se, the plan 9 kernel provides unions through its namespace model. In my opinion part of the reason why the userspace tools can be as nice as they are, are due to the use of file system interfaces and the simplistic syscall API. Could you elaborate more on the issues you see with the use of these?

In regards to using it for a "cloud native" stack, the issue is that people want to run code that isn't designed for Plan 9. You could build whatever backplane type thing you want out of plan 9 but the end goal is still likely to be to run some web app or REST api server. Unless someone does a great deal of effort to port all of those environments that people want (nodejs, modern python, etc) you're going to be stuck using a VM and losing a lot of the benefit.

This feels similar to what Joyent did with lxzones in SmartOS, where the backplane was solaris based but the apps they were running for clients were using Linux. It's hard to make the plan 9 backplane better enough to warrant dealing with integrating the guest and host environment.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-02 19:35:07+00:00
My guess is the idea that folks are waiting for a redesigned Model Y will be blown apart by April figures showing that this is brand destruction, not demand deferral.

We also haven’t seen anyone ban or put a special tariff on Teslas, or take the nuclear option, ban cameras-only self-driving cars. (The idea that Musk stepping away will politically neutralise him is nuts.)
by mindslight | 2025-04-02 19:35:57+00:00
It's the first line of the thirty-three dog whistle defense. The followers accept that answer as King Krasnov having simply declared that any such information isn't classified, just like he did for those boxes of files exfiltrated to his bathroom-turned-guest-library. It's the adult version of a kid going "I'm not hitting my brother I'm just swinging my arms and walking forward". And then of course if the courts actually start to disagree, the neofascists ramp up the threats for stochastic violence.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-02 19:35:59+00:00
Jungles are actually a great example. They are mostly neutral browns and dark greens that form a pretty neutral background... with the occasional beautiful bright accent colors from a bird or flower or something. But if you trek through the jungle, it's pretty boring color-wise most of the time. Which is why spotting a colorful bird is such a joy.

But can you please take the personal attacks elsewhere? HN is not the place for those.
by sherjilozair | 2025-04-02 19:36:04+00:00
Ace is actually uniquely designed to support that. Our training staff simply record their screens and mouse+keyboard events. We transform that into behavior cloning data to train the model. It's quite easy for us to do custom agents for enterprise or other lesser-known software and workflows. Reach out to us at contact@generalagents.com if you're interested.
by pvg | 2025-04-02 19:36:21+00:00
I can't really relate to the mindset of people who use downvoting as a 'I disagree' button.

That's a valid use of the button by design, HN is literally made to allow for that use. Plus it mimics real life interactions - there is a social cost/friction to saying things people disagree with or think are outright wrong. Most online chitchat places deteriorate because they remove such social frictions.
by n4r9 | 2025-04-02 19:36:22+00:00
I have the opposite experience. Being able to write stuff like this is refreshing:

public record Name(string First, string? Last = null); public record Register(Name[] Members); ... var register = new Register([new("John", "Doe"), new("Neo")])

It probably depends on what you're writing. I'm not using async much at all so I don't feel the pain of it.
by SlackingOff123 | 2025-04-02 19:36:25+00:00
I haven't thought about trying to earn from OSS myself, but I'm curious to see how Jimmy Bogard - who recently announced this intention - is going to handle it.

- https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-going-com...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558316
by tomrod | 2025-04-02 19:36:32+00:00
I would argue that this isn't a good forum to discuss the relative merits of outsourcing one's morality to a corporation, nor the merits of closing oneself off to examination of belief in light of conflicting reality, hence the respectful circumspect language earlier.

Regarding your comment here, it would be accurate to say it is currently enshrined by a small group of Utah-based religions and metacultures as divine and potentially even protective, and no one else really cares if said adherents drink or don't drink coffee. What isn't in doubt is that coffee and tea are healthier than soda, and that said Utah-based religious schisms allow Koreans and other East Asian areas to drink tea (along with South Americans to drink Yerba Mate) in contravention to their doctrine, so any alleged health benefits from adherence clearly isn't the focus and outward manifestation of obedience is the goal for the malleable rule.

Other groups that have health codes that have a good physical basis:

- Seventh-day Adventism, ~22 million, Vegetarianism encouraged, no alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine

- Islam, ~2 billion (Sunni + Shia), No pork or alcohol; fasting during Ramadan; ritual slaughter

- Judaism, ~15 million, No pork or shellfish; no mixing meat/dairy; specific slaughter methods Holiness, cultural cohesion, obedience to God’s law

- Sikhism, ~26 million, No alcohol, tobacco, or drugs; vegetarianism in some sects; uncut hair (kesh)

- Rastafarianism, ~1 million, Vegetarian or vegan, no alcohol, processed foods, or salt; often no caffeine

- Jainism, ~4–5 million, Strict vegetarianism, often no root vegetables, no alcohol

- Hare Krishna (ISKCON), ~1 million+, No meat, eggs, fish, onions, garlic, or caffeine; food must be offered to Krishna

- Baháʼí Faith, ~5–8 million, Abstain from alcohol; annual 19-day fast (sunrise to sunset)

- Brighamite Mormonism (LDS), ~3-5 million (regular attending), abstain from coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco; no longer adhering to low meat consumption or beer (encouraged, not considered a strong drink, circa 1825 liquors like whiskey were considered ills, wasn't until Prohibition in the 1930s that Brighamites added alcohol to banned list, and the 1960s/1970s entrenched through gatekeeping entrance for secret rituals, causing some ritual center managers to not be able to get their annual renewal)
by inetknght | 2025-04-02 19:36:35+00:00
I also care about workers' rights.

Stimulants are a problem, but I do not see stimulants as detrimental to workers' rights.

I see stimulants as a problem for healthcare though. I know people who have heart problems that are exacerbated by stimulants. But that's not a problem for everyone -- just as diabetes or heart disease are prevalent, nor a problem for everyone, and nor are they detrimental to workers' rights.
by dang | 2025-04-02 19:36:37+00:00
That site had 11 major frontpage threads in the last year, which is a lot.

Every single one of them set off the flamewar detector. That's extremely unusual. If it were one or two I'd call it random, but 11 in a row, whatever the reason, is not random. We turned off that software penalty on about half of those threads.