MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by t-writescode | 2025-04-06 03:26:45+00:00
For what it's worth, I would prefer to have a summary as well, rather than listening to Tucker Carlson and someone on his show for an hour and a half. I read his book, Ship of Fools, years ago and what I gathered was that he saw a lot of the same general negatives as the next person and made a lot of sense; but his solution was always an ethnostate, veiled or otherwise, to fix everything - or I suppose "immigration is the harm" and "people not like us", etc.

If there's useful information from what he says, I'd love to hear it, but I don't want to hear the other half again as it's exhausting.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-06 03:26:58+00:00
That’s exactly what this is:

> Finally, the statement itself contains subjects which are a list of (file path, digest) pairs a predicate type set to https://model_signing/signature/v1.0 and a dictionary of predicates. The idea is to use the predicates to store (and therefor sign) model card information in the future. The verification part reads the sigstore bundle file and firstly verifies that the signature is valid and secondly compute the model's file hashes again to compare against the signed ones.

It’s important to remember that these models tend to be released as multiple files so a single hash is insufficient (unless you do a hash of hashes).
by usui | 2025-04-06 03:28:42+00:00
Yes, let's mention the middle class squeeze, but also conveniently not talk about America's tipping culture problem which would increase reluctance to sit down at a restaurant. Yes, let's completely ignore that.

Everyone obviously wants to pay extra so they can be constantly badgered and rushed out the door like cattle, and if you complain about any aspect of this, the white knights come out to drown you as they say it's your fault for not understanding the plight of the woe-is-me restaurant worker and there's absolutely nothing to be done other than shame you into not going out to eat.

I wonder why sit-down restaurants are declining.
by kmoser | 2025-04-06 03:28:46+00:00
Pretty sure this is largely related to the industry and type of position you're applying for, and whether it's a big or small company.

At a big company with known positions (e.g. junior, mid-range, and senior devs), salaries for each of those positions may fall within a narrow range with little to no leeway. At a smaller company, where roles are more amorphous, starting salary may span a huge range depending on your specific qualifications, how their business is going, etc.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-06 03:30:03+00:00
> The model wasn't trained on those languages (yet).

It probably has been trained on them (it was trained on 40 trillion tokens covering 200 languages, they almost certainly didn't avoid CJK languages.

They only have been further fine-tuned on a set of 12 languages. (I wonder if that is the set the base Behemoth model both are distilled from had been trained on when they were distilled; Behemoth is apparently not completely finished, and perhaps there will be further revisions of the distilled models as it is.)
by roenxi | 2025-04-06 03:30:37+00:00
I don't think everyone is trying to be polite, I've developed a distinct impression that you're trying to be hurtful. Which, I might add, appears to be a response to running out of substantive points.

You'll notice my response to the thread going long was more arguments. It keeps the discussion more respectful when people only push on when they have arguments to make. Not the only option, but insinuation specifically is a weak long term strategy. As are insults, for that matter.
by Jeema101 | 2025-04-06 03:30:47+00:00
Okay but why stop there: why not also hand-wave a new operating system and hardware architecture into existence for it to run on while they're at it? I mean it's only 60 million lines of code [1] after all. Should be able to knock that out in a weekend.

[1] https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-testimony/2016-07-14-newsr...
by theamk | 2025-04-06 03:31:27+00:00
Most crashes today are not actually caused by physical memory degradation, but rather by the bugs in software. So "memory corruption detector" is not going to help much. If a program tries to read invalid pointer and segfaults, cryptographic sums or memory compression won't help you. And with Assembly and C, there will be plenty of invalid pointers.

The "rolls back from [...] crashes in real time" does sound new and reminds me of PhantomOS. I do wonder how it deals with corruption that does not induce crashes right away - say there was a use-after-free in app that caused random memory writes... after corrupting 50 words it corrupted enough to trigger crash. Is it just going to undo that one last write, leaving the other 49 words corrupted? What about lock-ups, which do not cause crashes?

And all the talk about "machines which protect company behind them", "coexisting with AI" just smells of inexperience/naivete. How on earth compressed memory is going to help with that?

Also, "I’m tired of OSes that die quietly." makes me wonder.. could it be that all your experience is with commercial OSes, and you've never researched that part of Linux? Because Linux does not have to die quietly, there are many mechanisms (like serial console, kdump, pstore, netconsole, etc...) that give you detailed report when your system dies, with stack trace and all. I've used them in the past and they work pretty well. If you haven't played with them, given them a try! If anything, this will give you an important insight about how modern OSes work and why they crash.
by ChainOfFools | 2025-04-06 03:35:18+00:00
I think we may be talking at cross purposes. I specifically used the number one because it behaves like a unit here. unlike 2 or any other number, 1 is also the standard 1D unit vector, so 1apples is indeed the same quantity as apples/1, but because it is a unit we usually imply its presence rather than express it explicitly as above.

watts/unit thus seems fine to me, whatever the unit may be, even if it itself is derived from time. watts per day would just work out to joules/second/1/24*60*60, making 1 watts per day a derived unit that expresses joules/84600 seconds, or an instantaneous rate of one 84600th of a joule.
by mmooss | 2025-04-06 03:35:38+00:00
> That's false. Everything comes down to good leadership. Monarchies with good leadership very well might have incredibly effective anti-corruption techniques and competency. China is managing a billion people and their infrastructure and tech is incredible.

Can you name a monarchy that is nearly as free, safe, and prosperous as advanced democracies? That is less corrupt? Is China? (No.)

> These things are a result of culture, not a result of the government itself.

How do you explain all the cultures around the world with successful democracies that meet my descriptions? How about Taiwan and (formerly) Hong Kong - same cultures as communist China, far more free, prosperous, non-corrupt, safe ....

There is also the issue of rights. What right does someone have to rule me without my consent? Who the heck are they, other than thugs with guns?
by NoahZuniga | 2025-04-06 03:35:52+00:00
Making advertising non tax deductible has the effect of making it marketing ~20% more expensive, which would lead to about 20% less marketing. But not really. It doesn't really cost YouTube anything to play an add, so YouTube ads get 20% cheaper, and you see the same amount of ads.

Also this would be hard to implement. Tax law has a hard time discriminating costs. What if all the marketing is done by an Irish subsidiary?
by zdragnar | 2025-04-06 03:36:06+00:00
There was a biography that came out, I believe roughly around 2004, that was revealed to have significant fabrications. The excuse making for it revolved around the notion of "lying to reveal a greater truth".

This is the same mentality some people have for coming up with hate crime hoaxes (if it isn't for attention seeking).

I personally find it to be intellectually bankrupt and counter-productive; people willing to blind themselves to a problem will use such examples as evidence that all such claims are false.
by AnonC | 2025-04-06 03:36:51+00:00
Sorry, I’m not signing up for it because this is a pet peeve of mine: “Get started for free” with no link to pricing and no link to the business model. Will I be forced to pay after some limit that I’ll be informed of only after signing up? Does this website have a business model that can help it last for sometime? Is it free forever for all features because the creators just want to provide something to society?

It’s extremely disappointing and frustrating to see some new service that does not disclose how it’s expected to “keep the lights on” and how that would impact people who sign up.

I need the answers on the site, even if they’re provided here as a reply.
by sixpackpg | 2025-04-06 03:37:45+00:00
I 2nd focusmate. I feel like it creates an unwritten contract with my partner when I state my goals for the session. If I get distracted I'm disappointing more than myself. The more I work with a partner the easier it is to work with focus too. Though I feel it can be double edged sword in some instances where I feel like I owe people progress. Though I feel that's probably a me problem.

Once you've got a few regular partners Focusmate blossoms.
by phire | 2025-04-06 03:39:17+00:00
The main reason it's near impossible to bit-bang USB is that all devices to are required to use one of a few fixed clock rates (1.5 MHz, 12 MHz and 480 MHz), unlike SPI and I²C which allow variable/dynamic clock rates.

If you simply remove this restriction, bit-banging USB would become trivial, even with all the other protocol complexity.

Though, I think USB made the right call here. The requirement to support any clock speed the device requested would add a lot of complexity to both hosts and hubs.

Only supporting a few fixed clock-rates makes certification and inter-device compatibility so much easier, which is very important for an external protocol. Supporting bit-banging just isn't that important of a feature, especially when the fixed clock rates really are that hard to implement on dedicated silicon.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-06 03:40:02+00:00
> Legislatures have tried to pass laws regulating commercial speech in various ways and the track record is generally that they get their asses handed to them by the court,

I mean, no, legislatures (both Congress and the states) successfully limit commercial speech all the time, which is, for instance, why no one in Gen X has seen or heard a TV or radio ad for cigarettes in the US when they were old enough to purchase them.

> but "we make advertising illegal" is not something that can happen in our system of governance.

Broadly banning "advertising" (under almost any plausible definition that would be reasonably accord with common use) would probably fall afoul off the 1st Amendment as it is today, but our Constitutional system of government includes provision for changing any feature of the Constitution (nominally, except the equal representation of states in the Senate, but that restriction neither protects itself from being amended out, nor protects all the functions of the Senate from being amended out and the equal representation being at zero seats per state, so it is more of a symbolical than substantive restriction.)
by jongjong | 2025-04-06 03:40:47+00:00
Yes, our system is a multiverse of psychological distortions and senseless inequality. Some people straight out of university with no skills will receive large offers from multiple companies and will use that to negotiate themselves a big pay package then they will feel good about themselves and feel like they earned it...

But in reality it's just an illusion. Companies want to hire people who are delusional and believe that they deserve what they got. Big tech doesn't really need these people or their skills, in reality. They're merely cogs in the big machine. Big tech could easily have found someone better for a lower price; they get so many applications. The whole thing is like a psychological operation. They don't want to build up an elite class which understands how broken the system is. They want a delusional elite class who believe the grotesque myth of the meritocracy. People who don't believe in meritocracy are a huge threat; they cannot be allowed anywhere near the elite because the system is so unmeritocratic, it wouldn't take many interactions to snap the elite out of their comfortable trance.

Business leaders start getting imposter syndrome after they interact with people who understand reality. Business leaders sometimes start viewing themselves as mavericks/mafia boss and sometimes start behaving in dodgy ways.

It's like if you do something and you later discover that it was causing harm; you can either feel bad and correct your behaviour or you reinvent your self-image as a 'bad guy' and double down on the harm... Most people choose the latter, unfortunately.
by rramadass | 2025-04-06 03:41:42+00:00
Reverse Engineering a PCB is a well known field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCB_reverse_engineering); but you still have to have some knowledge of individual components, math, physics, and theory before you can get started with this.

There is plenty of material and videos on the web if you search for it; also a book The Art of PCB Reverse Engineering: Unraveling the Beauty of the Original Design by Ng Keng Tiong.
by bitwize | 2025-04-06 03:41:57+00:00
> I would be very angry, and possibly litigious, if anyone out there takes this interview right here and remixed it with some great dance beat.

For some reason, this makes me think of Strong Bad. Probably because of the sbemail "sibbie", in which The Cheat does drop a phat beat under Strong Bad's reading of the email, much to the latter's consternation.

https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/76-sibbie
by mmooss | 2025-04-06 03:41:57+00:00
> I think people get confused into thinking that democracy is about voting when it is should be about reducing prolonged concentrations of power

Voting is the definition and core mechanism of democracy: Government by the consent of the governed, to protect their rights, their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

What's bizarre is, probably in a place where you have the benefits of centuries of overwhelming success, your extreme attempts to redefine it.

cui bono?, other than dictators. What has worked better than democracy?

> if your culture does not support the concept of good "democratic" governance, and no one strives for the institutions and constitutions to support it, you might be better off with a benevolent dictator, for as long as they last before a not-so-benevolent one.

Which culture? Democracy has been an incredible success all over the world - unprecedented success in history in most places it's taken hold.

Yours are the old propaganda of dictators - our 'culture', that undefined nonsense people cite for their prejudices, isn't compatible. The question is, why do you take up their cause?

They also love that you are sitting on the sidelines distracted, criticizing, rather than acting as a democratic citizen.
by briHass | 2025-04-06 03:44:22+00:00
When the FAANGs stocks were soaring and they handed out options like candy, even low level devs at those tech companies were making the kind of money usually reserved for medical doctors and attorneys. There was a huge gulf between SV pay and pretty much everywhere else.

Now, those companies have mostly lost the luster they used to have, and the comp differences aren't as large.
by gameman144 | 2025-04-06 03:45:14+00:00
I think we might disagree in terms of the kinds of advertising we're talking about.

The best advertising for me is showing me a product and showing me how it's used -- the "Coca Cola will make you have friends and have a good time" style ads could be construed as manipulative, I totally get that, but if I see an ad that just says "here's the product, here's what it does" for a product that _actually_ solves a problem I have, that's pretty great in my book, and is a win-win for me and whoever makes the product.
by jrvarela56 | 2025-04-06 03:45:24+00:00
Great way to put it. If you are interested in a more elaborate description, checkout the intro to ‘The Untethered Soul’.

To the people here saying this is just meditation: the problem is that meditation is a solution to a problem most people don’t know they have.

I like this author’s post because of the Becky metaphor. The Untethered Soul goes into detail as to what happens if you keep paying attention to the voice inside your head.

This problem focused approach is more likely to get people meditating than just telling them about the benefits of meditation.
by george87 | 2025-04-06 03:45:48+00:00
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by mmooss | 2025-04-06 03:46:03+00:00
It's very imperfect - like every human institution ever - but still democracy has enormous power. Why do you think so many invest so much trying to manipulate voters? What are they spending the money on?

Also, fundraising is a signal of democratic appeal. Some fundraise with mass collections of smaller donations.

Still, I agree that money has too much influence. So what do you think, as a democratic citizen, should we do about the influence of money? It's our country. The moneyed influences love that you are distracted, on the sidelines, debating rather than acting.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-04-06 03:46:48+00:00
Don’t most of the chain restaurants serve essentially factory made food that is rehabilitated in the kitchen? Whereas I think most fancy restaurants I go to make the food from scratch. The latter seems better to me in theory, so I wonder if I value “made from scratch” more than you? Fancy restaurant food tends to have much more nuance and depth of flavor IME. Of course this doesn’t hold 100% of the time, I’ve certainly had bad food from expensive restaurants before.
by gameman144 | 2025-04-06 03:47:58+00:00
I'd be happy to give an example I gave below: rake hands.

I hate the step after raking where you have to use the rake and one hand to carry the leaves to the bin. There was an ad for "rake hands" where you just hold a small hand-formed rake in each hand and scoop them both.

Twenty bucks, vastly improved yardwork experience, and I would have literally never thought to look for something like that.
by phire | 2025-04-06 03:48:06+00:00
BTW, I'd love to see a large model designed from scratch for efficient local inference on low-memory devices.

While current MoE implementations are tuned for load-balancing over large pools of GPUs, there is nothing stopping you tuning them to only switch expert once or twice per token, and ideally keep the same weights across multiple tokens.

Well, nothing stopping you, but there is the question of if it will actually produce a worthwhile model.
by Saigonautica | 2025-04-06 03:48:32+00:00
I just chose this step for calculations, as it's the most energy intensive part of my AI workflow. Upscaling / extending to get a usable result is really fast by comparison, and I only do it for a few images. It sort of rounds down to zero.

Most of the energy cost is how many images I have to generate to get a satisfactory one (say 100 with a decent prompt). Looking at the broader picture, the biggest energy cost of all is hiring a human designer for layout / typography and to produce print-ready files. Then managing the manufacturer, haha.

A bit off topic, but hopefully something that will brighten your day: I make physical products, so they have to be perfect (it also means I deal in DPI, not pixels). AI speeds up the number of concepts I can generate and send to contractors. I don't try to copy anyone's specific style, that would be boring. I'm sure there are less wholesome uses of this AI thing, but I feel like I've stumbled into something I'm comfortable with.

Believe it or not, I use all this to sell antiques. Like, genuine physical artifacts made by humans hundreds of years ago. I like to tell the story of the era they are from, bring it to life a little with printed supplements. No LLMs for the writing though, I do the research and writing myself, I enjoy it too much. I don't make much money with it, but it's fun, and a way to tell my country's history.
by nlpnerd | 2025-04-06 03:50:11+00:00
I have always believed that Chain of Thought basically acts as a form of regularization. LLMs are fundamentally next token predictors without any form or notion of logic, reasoning etc and is as likely (as a probabilistic model) to produce a creative response as something based on facts/principles (or anything that resembles "reasoning").

Asking the LLM to think step by step simply biases it towards the latter. It's still a stochastic parrot but now it sounds logical and that happens to be useful in some cases, regardless of whether we can agree if it's "reasoning".
by egberts1 | 2025-04-06 03:51:16+00:00
Purpose of first-define is the rule: In placing configuration files higher than user-defined configuration but Only with SSH client, can want user to have control from their config files: Remove from config files Place a couple under Match/MatchGroup using deny/accept.

SSHD (server/non-client) still support admin-defined by having system-wide settings done firstly. For those who have multi-file SSHD configurations, breakdown of the many config file locations and scopes here as it covers default user, system-wide, specific user:

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/ssh-openssh-options-ways.ht...

Also I broken out each and every SSHD and SSH options along with their ordering by execution by using file name and numbering as well as its various state machine, dispatch, CLI equivalence, network context, and function nesting, all in:

https://github.com/egberts/easy-admin/tree/main/490-net-ssh

https://github.com/egberts/easy-admin/blob/main/490-net-ssh/...

Disclaimer: I do regular code reviews of OpenSSH and my employer authorizes me to release them (per se contract and NDA)

Also this showed how to properly mix and match authentication types using OR and AND logic(s) in

https://serverfault.com/a/996992

It is my dump mess so wade 'em and enjoy.
by toast0 | 2025-04-06 03:52:11+00:00
Based on how often they pull in updated bits from FreeBSD (pretty much never), an Apple fork of Linux would be more or less Linux 2.4 today.

I don't know what the loss that open source suffers is in this context?

I don't think Apple would need to spend less time or money on their kernel grafted ontop of Linux 2.4 vs their kernel grafted on top of FreeBSD 4.4
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-06 03:52:17+00:00
That fails to understand how power in exceptional situations persists: namely that it still must be supported by key stakeholders.

If a leader were to summarily arrest large numbers of random citizens, suddenly they'd lose the support of citizens, one of the key pillars keeping them in power.

Which is why you see empowered and pervasive secret police institutions in societies like this -- you require a credible and effective alternative to popular support.
by lunarlull | 2025-04-06 03:53:24+00:00
The funny thing is so much of the advertising industry seems like embezzlement or fraud. So much of the time money is being pumped into this industry unnecessarily, things like Coke could not pay and suffer no loss in profit. It seems like some nonsense to keep money within first world nations or something. Just money going to a gamble which doesn't stand up to basic scrutiny as reasonable.