MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zkmon | 2025-04-20 11:21:54+00:00
The form y^2 = x^3 + bx + c prohibits intuition and probably follows from the general form for an algebraic expression: ax^n + bx^(n-1) + ...

The whole idea of an algebraic expression is to relate x and y (for 2D). What's the simplest relation?

y/x = r => we have a straight line with slope r. Let's add a bit more detail.

(y-b)/(x-a) = r => we shift the origin to (a,b) and check how the line looks.

These relations can also get "self-aware". This is similar to how a rate of change can be self-aware (ex: d/dx f(x) = x). The rate of water drain out from a tap at the bottom of the water tank would depend on the water height which itself affected by the drain out. Something like that.

(y-b)/(x-a) = x => That is a "self-aware" relation, because we replaced r (a constant) with the variable x. So we have a parabola now.

Let's change gears a bit. we will use higher degree for variables

y^2/x^2 = r => For positive values of r, we have a pair of straight lines.

Now, ((y-a)(y-b))/((x-c)(x-d)) = r => What happened? we get a conic.

Let's make it self-aware

((y-a)(y-b))/((x-c)(x-d)) = x => There it is. A cubic equation

Digging deeper, we see that the self-awareness makes the curve to bring the left-side parts to join at finite distance rather than at negative infinity. To understand this, consider the pair of straight lines (y^2/x^2 = r). You might see that it is a pair of straight lines crossing each other. But you can also look at two sharply bent lines touching each other at a point. a conic has a bit smoother turn.
by nopinsight | 2025-04-20 11:22:56+00:00
I'm curious. Do you mean it figuratively? I ask Claude Sonnet 3.7 Extended Thinking since it's usually reliable and the stats for running strongly suggest that for most competitions, the top percentile is closer to world-class athletes than the average person to top percentile athletes (possibly except Marathon).

*100m Sprint*:

1st percentile: ~18-20 seconds

50th percentile: ~14-15 seconds

99th percentile: ~11-11.5 seconds

Elite world-class: ~9.8-10.2 seconds

World record: 9.58 seconds (Usain Bolt, 2009)

*1-Mile Run*:

1st percentile: ~12-15 minutes

50th percentile: ~8-9 minutes

99th percentile: ~4:30-5:00 minutes

Elite world-class: ~3:45-3:55

World record: 3:43.13 (Hicham El Guerrouj, 1999)

*Marathon* (26.2 miles):

1st percentile: ~6+ hours

50th percentile: ~4:30-5:00 hours

99th percentile: ~3:00-3:15 hours

Elite world-class: ~2:05-2:10

World record: 2:00:35 (Kelvin Kiptum, 2023)*
by tasuki | 2025-04-20 11:24:27+00:00
> One of the tragedies of being young is that few have the insight to realize that the 'boring' stuff parents and teachers are forcing us to learn will actually benefit us and that eventually we'll be very thankful that they did.

I'm 40. I don't know, perhaps I'm still young.

I did not appreciate having to learn the boring parts. Learning things for the next exam so as to forget them in two weeks... I didn't see the point then and still don't.

I managed to get by with the minimum possible, fluked my CS education, then had a career earning an order of magnitude more than the average salary. Shrug.

Maybe I'm missing something else because of my lack of education? I don't know...
by mppm | 2025-04-20 11:26:14+00:00
Honest question: Why would you want to? The average CO2 concentration in your lungs is something like 20,000 ppm, so it doesn't matter much whether ambient CO2 is at 200ppm or 800ppm. Other aspects of air quality do matter, but I'm highly skeptical about the value of capturing CO2 in your house.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-04-20 11:28:38+00:00
You mention Eastern Europe, are you by chance familiar with the Hejný method of math education in Czechia? Because that introduces some "math beyond mere arithmetics" concepts to the elementary school education.

Sometimes, it is possible to create a less abstract version of a more abstract thing, and thus introduce the seeds of the concept to children much younger. For example, "solve the equation 2x+1=7" is abstract, but "Peter decided to use a # symbol for a specific number, and he didn't tell us which one, but we found in his notes that # + # + 1 = 7; can you figure out which number is # ?" is simple to understand for a very young child, even if the child can only solve it by trial and error.
by aoki | 2025-04-20 11:28:43+00:00
> What’s really needed is more story-focused content between basic number sense and undergraduate level math. YouTube channels like Numberphile (particularly Tadashi Tokieda’s episodes that explore curious toys) are a fantastic invitation. More could exist in various forms, particularly those that transition from these delightful introductions to deeper, more complete theories while still holding on to the stories. The closest I’ve found for young children is the comic book series Beast Academy.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-20 11:29:49+00:00
They’re not talking about the results. They’re saying the gulf between the skill and strength required to go from 11s to 9s is larger than the gulf between 11s and 15s - that’s because it takes exponentially increasing effort for marginal gains as you approach world record times - it’s not a linear thing and thus looking at the output paints a really misleading picture on the relative difference in inputs
by pancsta | 2025-04-20 11:29:54+00:00
Logfire is a tracing app, an equivalent of Jaeger and other Otel UIs. While I wont discuss reimplementation-vs-integration in this case, traces are just one way of debugging. am-dbg focuses on debugging of the state consensus, instead of the execution tree, without requiring a SaaS account.

Execution trees are enough for workflows, but bots/agents aren't simple workflows.
by immibis | 2025-04-20 11:31:44+00:00
In other words, good things are good and bad things are bad.

It's astonishing how many people (or bots) in 2025 talk as if the only allowed positions are "the state is good" or "the state is bad" and "parents are good" or "parents are bad", like they have no ability to recognize when individual separate actions are good or bad.
by cube2222 | 2025-04-20 11:31:59+00:00
This is very accurate imo - it really is the skill of proper delegation. Same for asking AI questions in an unbiased way so it doesn’t just try to please you - this has made me better at asking questions to people as well!

It’s like a slightly over-eager junior-mid developer, which however doesn’t mind rewriting 30k lines of tests from one framework to another. This means I can let it handle that dirty work, while focusing on the fun and/or challenging parts myself.

I feel like there’s also a meaningful split of software engineers into those who primarily enjoy the process of crafting code itself, and those that primarily enjoy building stuff, treating the code more as a means to an end (even if they enjoy the process of writing code!). The former will likely not have fun with AI, and will likely be increasingly less happy with how all of this evolves over time. The latter I expect are and will mostly be elated.
by latexr | 2025-04-20 11:32:14+00:00
> Everyone just sound like they don’t like coding.

It’s no secret that a lot of people (I’d like having an accurate percentage) got into coding because of the money. When you view it from that perspective everything becomes clearer: those people don’t care for the craft or correctness. They don’t understand or care when something is wrong and it’s in their best interest to convince themselves and everyone else that AI is as good or better than any expert programmer because it means they themselves don’t need to improve or care more than what they already don’t, they can just concentrate on the getting rich part.

There are experts (programmers or otherwise) who use these tools as guidelines and always verify the output. But too often they defend LLMs as unambiguously good because they fail to understand the overwhelming majority of humans aren’t experts or sufficiently critical of whatever they read, taking whatever the LLM spits as gospel. Which is what makes them dangerous.
by teamonkey | 2025-04-20 11:33:01+00:00
Sure, 10s is certainly long enough to capture Starlink trails, though 10s exposure is not especially long for an astro photo and you would typically want to take longer exposures or stack multiple shorter ones.

For example, my Seestar S50 takes many 10-second photos to form one exposure. I would normally expect to take 1500 10-second exposures or more for a good picture, perhaps over mutiple nights (although this is very different to a wide-field image like this). A Starlink trail would be very visible in any individual frame, often brighter than stars, and I would expect to capture many individual frames containing starlink trails.
by rainsford | 2025-04-20 11:34:14+00:00
In modern times the US is really only different in theory. This wasn't always the case, but currently national party positions totally dominate congressional voting with the individuals who happen to fill those seats being largely interchangeable cogs. There are exceptions, but those people are largely notable because they are so rare. And more importantly, they're slowly being replaced by people who will follow the party line.

There have been studies on this that show party line voting becoming more and more common over the years to the point where it's basically the expected norm today. Arguably the US is in an even worse position because it's usually the President who sets the legislative agenda and voting position for their party in Congress, even though the system is set up assuming Congress acts like an independent branch.
by Retr0id | 2025-04-20 11:34:54+00:00
The "enter text to sign" demo is pure nonsense. If I enter "AAAAA", it's "encrypted" to "4242424242". What's that supposed to mean? Was this vibe-coded?

Edit: The article has since been edited to disclaim "values are not encrypted realistically" - sure, use small numbers for demonstration purposes etc., but what is being demonstrated here? You've added scare-quotes to "encrypted" but what is the actual intended meaning?
by WindowsDev | 2025-04-20 11:35:15+00:00
It currently does not, just handles applying a uniform black theme across all domains. Good suggestion though, I will look into implementing this today. (My idea is, to use a custom zooming offset determined by the date- applying a random zoom % between 0 and 116 while keeping font size original, not too obvious to the person but enough to shift the pixels around a bit.
by andylynch | 2025-04-20 11:35:42+00:00
If you get changed with a RIPA password offence it’s almost certain going to Crown Court and an (expensive!) jury trial.

CPS won’t (as a matter of policy, and also can’t afford to waste time and money) spend time trying to prosecute a forgotten password for old laptop, unless it’s connected to some other serious, evidenced, allegations.

(I was on a jury in just this situation. Reasonable doubt is a high bar and prosecutors know this).
by tasuki | 2025-04-20 11:35:55+00:00
Yes. Due to an unfortunate event, I'm a single father. My life improved dramatically when I started doing all the chores while the kid was awake:

- We do the chores together.

- Yes it takes ages, but I need to kill the time anyway.

- Then she falls asleep and I can relax.

This is literal heaven, compared to when I played with her the whole day and then did the chores when she slept...
by Viliam1234 | 2025-04-20 11:38:16+00:00
For the purposes of education, it is important to keep in mind that "optimized for performance of a highly trained person" and "optimized for understanding of a complete beginner" are two different things.

I often see people make the mistake of trying to teach inappropriately abstract things to small children, because that's what the pros do, and we want the little kids become pros as soon as possible. Problem is, trying to skip the fundamentals is only harmful in long term.

First kids need to learn what all that stuff means, and then we can proceed to teach them the shortcuts.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-20 11:38:27+00:00
> What's even worth asking for?

That seems to be a struggle for many. A friend of my wife turned 50 and we went to her birthday party. Two speechs and one song was AI generated, two speeches where written by actual humans, guess which should never have been created, let alone performed?

More and more I struggle to see the point of LLMs. I can sort of convince myself that there are niches where LLMs are really useful, but it's getting harder to maintain that illusion. There are cases where AI technologies are truly impressive and transformative, but they are rarely based on a chat interface.
by throw60289 | 2025-04-20 11:38:40+00:00
Why do the JavaScript files in repo "Chrome-OLED-Mode" reference sdmextension[.]com, a known C2 server in a Chrome extension malware campaign identified by GitLab Threat Intelligence? Is this a copy of the malicious "Super dark mode" extension? (ID: nlgphodeccebbcnkgmokeegopgpnjfkc)

https://gitlab-com.gitlab.io/gl-security/security-tech-notes...
by rqtwteye | 2025-04-20 11:40:07+00:00
Same for me with boxing. I once sparred with a natural champion of my country. The speed and power were just incredible, actually frightening. And that guy was far away from Olympics level or top professionals. It’s hard for a normal person to understand how good the top people are.

Another one: when I was a kid. There was a guy a few years older who would basically win the matches in his youth league alone. He would often score 10 or 20 goals per match . He finally made it to the pros. There he played a few matches and didn’t get another contract because he wasn’t good enough. Now imagine how good somebody like Messi must be.
by xg15 | 2025-04-20 11:40:13+00:00
> Pregnancy is, it seems, just another (evolutionary) war.

I think this is a useful insight even on a higher level. For evolution (if you want to anthropomorphize it), war and conflict are just another set of tools in the toolbox. Where humans see those as evidence of something going wrong and evil to eradicated, for evolution it's "working as intended".

(Or, if you don't want to anthropomorphize it, an indication how much of evolution and biology is just barely tamed chaos)

(Careful to draw conclusions for human society from this though. People in the past had already seen the Darwinian "struggle between the species" as a model for society, which brought "Social Darwinism" and ultimately the Nazi ideology.

A different conclusion would be that biology is in fact not a perfect ideal to aspire to, and even in the situations where it "works", its factual objectives are not always the same as ours. Which does give legitimacy for the endeavor to improve upon it - for everyone)
by creatonez | 2025-04-20 11:43:14+00:00
Biological and cultural/historical. There is rather strong clinical evidence on the healthcare side of things, and an understanding of intersex biology (including how the the brain develops, not just the classically understood intersexes) shows a complex picture of where various components of gender may originate from on a biological level.

But yes, much of what Foucault taught us about the arbitrariness of being a human in a culture does still ring true. No, it doesn't discount the hard evidence from biology and psychology.
by dijit | 2025-04-20 11:43:33+00:00
Sorta, he has a blended accent of upper-class south african that has been americanised.

You will be hard pressed to find south africans with his accent.

For specifics of what I mean, the breathy “â” (as in, a posh british person saying bâth) is present, but so is the american hard-R.

He has a lot of stubbed tones in words like “heart” though which is clearly very south african.
by jorvi | 2025-04-20 11:43:59+00:00
Only because he picked 50th percentile. If you'd sample 75th percentile I think for most sports it'll hold pretty true to the 80-20 rule for mastering something: 80% of the result comes from 20% of the investment, and to eek out the last 20% of result you'll have to invest 80% more effort / time / money. Especially the last few percentpoint gain require an inordinate amount extra.
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by andylynch | 2025-04-20 11:44:51+00:00
Yeah. We dealt with a case where a guy claimed to have forgotten his mobile phone pin. But we voted to convict after I pointed out it was the phone he’d been using every day, for years, and was quite implausible, and convenient, to forget something like that right after being arrested and asked for it.

Possibly could have gone differently if they had said they changed their 15 letter password every two weeks, but really?
by rainsford | 2025-04-20 11:45:31+00:00
I'd argue that primaries are a serious bug rather than a feature of the US political system, at least in places where only registered members of a party can vote in that party's primary. By requiring candidates for the general election to first pass through a gauntlet composed of the most die-hard voters from one part of the political spectrum, you frequently end up with candidates who are way more extreme than the electorate in general.

This seems to be true even if the party in question is the minority party for a given race. Instead of picking a candidate with crossover appeal from voters in the majority, they end up with some raging partisan who can't possibly win, making it effectively a one horse race. Another major failure mode is that even in pretty evenly split areas it encourages pandering to the extreme fringe of the party and winning by a narrow margin rather than winning with a broad coalition because broad coalitions with crossover appeal don't help you get out of the primary. This has been weaponized in recent years, with moderates being threatened with primary challenges if they don't follow the party line, even though this misrepresents the politics of their actual voter base.
by WindowsDev | 2025-04-20 11:48:01+00:00
The readme says its a fork of Super Dark Mode, which might of turned became associated with malware after getting bought out or hacked by the original owners. >We assess that the threat actor acquired access to at least some of the extensions from their original developers, rather than through a compromise. The threat actor has been trojanizing extensions since at least July 2024.

But for several years it was a legit extension used by over 300,000 people and it worked beautifully. You found a reference to their old domain in their old extension which is not surprising. If you remove this reference it still works. Can you show that the reference in the code is malicious?
by Viliam1234 | 2025-04-20 11:49:44+00:00
I taught at a nice middle-class school, so most of the problems you mention were not relevant there. And yet, it seemed like half of the kids' families were either recently divorced or in the process of divorce. I couldn't really blame those kids for not paying attention to school. And this seemed like the best case, so probably at most places it gets much worse.

Education has a problem with scaling, especially at the elementary level. Sometimes people figure out a nice solution, but when you tell them "great, and now do this in every village" the problem becomes obvious. But there are kids in that village, too, and you want them to know reading and math and hopefully also something more.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-20 11:50:06+00:00
> Forcing kids to learn to spell when they have learning difficulties (eg dyslexia) doesn't usually go well either it's just causing suffering for the kid.

I greatly valued the tutoring that I received for that (personally wish it had not been cut short). I was somewhat fortunate and received one-on-one tutoring in a secluded room.

They provided me with clearer definition of rules (instead of sayings like "i before e...", proper phonetics, and a history of where English came from.

That said, there's research into trying to determine which children with Dyslexia should receive specialized treatment as a segment just cannot learn to read at all.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-20 11:50:08+00:00
> and the mass-murdering

Right, yet mass murdering in the USSR stopped 30 years before its collapse. Of course it was still an oppressive totalitarian state but nowhere close to Stalin’s day.

It kind of the opposite. USSR collapsed a few years after the party loosened its grip and began liberalizing. Freedom of the press (to a limited extent) fair elections began a cascade.

On the other hand during the great purge in the 30s and later the 40s there was very little and effectively no organized opposition (outside of a few recently occupied peripheral states)
by danielbln | 2025-04-20 11:51:19+00:00
I believe it all comes down to our giant noggin/brain. It's a giant resource tar pit, it's why we're born effectively premature, it's why we take forever to be in any shape of form self sufficient and it's why we would drain the mother of all resources available if she wouldn't regulate that desire to fuel our brain to the max.

Turns out, being the most intelligent apex comes with some gestational specialities.
by rpastuszak | 2025-04-20 11:52:48+00:00
So sad that people are happy to spend 100$ pd on a tool like this, and we're so unlikely (in general) to pay $5 to an author of an article/blog posts that possibly saved you the same amount of time.

(I'm not judging a specific person here, this is more of a broad commentary regarding our relationship/sense of responsibility/entitlement/lack of empathy when it comes to supporting other people's work when it helps us)
by nowittyusername | 2025-04-20 11:53:41+00:00
While the current state of generative AI isn't yet capable of full automation, it will soon enough. But it's also important to understand that the candle is burning from both ends. Here is what I mean by that. The acceptance rate of lower quality goods, work, and pretty much everything has gone up. People, corporations, and everything in between has been "enshitefied" and that is where the crucial miscalculation happens by people who claim that AI will never replace people in this or that field. Your food is 60% percent lower quality, your goods are worse quality, your entertainment is worse quality, and your children have been inundated by brain rot for at least a whole generation now. The standards are lower then they have ever been on pretty much everything, and so are the requirement standard for whatever it is you consider your career. And very soon Ai will fill that shitty position just fine.
by muddi900 | 2025-04-20 11:55:16+00:00
I came from a mobile app to the site just to see your flagged comments.

I would say you were treated with far more respect than you deserve. If i didn't know any better, I would say you were paid to act this stupid.

None of your arguments were in good faith, you constantly moved goal posts, and actively disregard every piece of eveidence that was presented.

You can claim I am biased. I would agree with you. I am biased against this blatant display of imbecilty.