MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by harrison_clarke | 2025-04-24 23:02:24+00:00
p2p stuff looks like it's getting better

there's iroh, which looks like a nice balance of batteries included, and not a bunch of bloat

and pkarr, which does exactly one thing: maps ed25519 keys to DNS records via bittorrent's DHT

i think the big blocker for wider adoption is that browsers, ISPs, and airport wifi are all hostile to general purpose network protocols. you're mostly stuck with TCP, or the quagmire of WebRTC right now. (iroh works in the browser, but it has to go through a relay)
by fragmede | 2025-04-24 23:02:41+00:00
How long has it been since a mass casualty shooting? I'd rather we live in a world where those don't happen, and what we've been doing so far hasn't worked. So while your advice works for some people, unfortunately it doesn't work for everybody. For someone with horribly low esteem/other problems that they've given up, giving them tools to help them get out of that hole so they are able to go out and make friends IRL seems like a win in my book.
by shanecp | 2025-04-24 23:02:50+00:00
Create a CEO Logic Agent that helps the CEO to make better decisions on AI? /s

What CEO is likely looking for are 'PR' points, not often not a real strategy. If they can announce and pretend they're going all-in on AI, that's what's needed.

From your side, having AI mentioned in everything you do will help the conversation. If your code's docs are improved with an AI IDE, you're going hard on AI. Ignore the time you spend on fixing AI's errors.

Doing things for 'funding' and doing things that gets the work done are not always the same. One is a marketing/PR act, the other one is a product development act.

If funding is a real concern, the CEO's approach might be valid, because without funding, you won't have a job, and there won't be a product. So split your time in helping the CEO to achieve what s/he wants in getting the right message out.

As you're saying, if the CEO has built a great team, and great technology, we can't think the CEO is completely ignorant on what's going on.

Your CTO/CIO (if any) will know more about what realistically possible and what's not. If you have an 'AI Team', then there should be a CTO/CIO, and you're not directly talking to CEO about strategy?
by GateVR | 2025-04-24 23:03:44+00:00
Great question! In this case, shaped EMF refers to the use of electromagnetic fields that are modulated and directed in very specific patterns to interact with peripheral nerves — not the brain, and not vision-related.

It doesn’t create visuals, but it’s part of our non-invasive feedback system that’s designed to simulate certain types of physical sensation in VR. The shaping refers to how we control intensity, location, and duration — without electrical contact or implants.

The goal is to support immersive feedback while keeping everything safe and modular. If you're into neurotech or BCI, happy to go deeper!
by dpifke | 2025-04-24 23:04:25+00:00
From https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...:

Attaching statements — This program does not allow you to attach any documents to your return, except those available through the program. If you need to attach any such documents, you will have to print and mail in the return.

Especially with business returns, it's common to have to attach statements to certain forms, for example if you choose the de minimis election for equipment repairs that would otherwise have to be capitalized, or when the § 174 changes went into effect and everyone had to start amortizing software development expenses over multiple years. You can't do that on Free File Fillable Forms.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-24 23:05:06+00:00
> The indigenous Sami does have white skin, but they have a different ancestry compared to "regular"/other Scandinavians.

So do the British. So what?

> The indigenous Sami does have white skin

Note that skin color isn't really relevant. An albino black isn't going to pass for white. The Sami, being white, would have no such trouble.
by snowwrestler | 2025-04-24 23:05:25+00:00
I’m honestly surprised so many comments here are nitpicking or expressing skepticism about this little test.

Low price vs foreign sourcing has been tested trillions of times over decades and low price largely won. How do you think we got to the supply chains and economy we have today? How do you think Walmart (which started off selling Made in USA BTW) and Dollar Tree and Target and Amazon etc. got so big?

People like low prices. They like them more than a lot of other things they also like.
by sapphicsnail | 2025-04-24 23:05:26+00:00
What helped me was spending time in groups where I was in the gender minority and also making female friends I wasn't interested in dating. If you're not just looking for sex, it helps to learn a bit of what it's like to be a woman and you're more likely to get that exposure in a space where women feel comfortable. I might be biased because I realized I related to women more than men and transitioned but I see so many sad guys that would make good boyfriends if they got a little more experience being around women.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-04-24 23:05:32+00:00
I feel that you're conflating few concepts, hackability, "open source", single point of failure architectures.

Yes, VSC is less hackable than emacs, but I don't think it's necessarily the same thing. VSC (and others like it) are going for a more streamlined "App Store" experience, while emacs is going for a more DIY/hackable style editor. You can always fetching the VSIX file and sideload it is if the "store" is down though.

Yes, VSC is less "open source" than emacs. if "open sourceness" is a score out of 10 or something. Pretty sure RMS would argue linux is less "open source" than emacs too.

Not sure why this is futile for the VSCodium devs. They are taking a dependency on a service for installing extensions. The solutions is more readonly mirrors for the official OpenVSX endpoint.

If your main archlinux mirror is down, you don't cry about the centralized state of our life. You use a different mirror. You throw in 5 or 10 in case one or two are down. I understand why a company like Microsoft might want a more centralized service to distribute the extensions. But for an open source clone? is Microsoft also expected to create the mirror clone?
by sunshine-o | 2025-04-24 23:06:18+00:00
I am confused because:

- Valkey [0] is a project of the Linux Foundation

- CNCF is part of the Linux Foundation

- The CNCF landscape includes Redis [1] but not Valkey

Do someone understand their logic?

- [0] https://valkey.io/

- [1] https://landscape.cncf.io/?item=app-definition-and-developme...
by monadINtop | 2025-04-24 23:07:05+00:00
As a theoretical physicist, yes physics could definitely be subjective between different species. Physics is the way HUMANS describe nature to themselves. I don't doubt that it describes some greater nature outside of us that is invariant, but it is only a description - not the thing itself. Like mathematics it is an anthropocentric conceptualization that has many arbitrary and historically contingent choices in its choice of representation and its chosen objects of study.

How could we ever be certain than another intelligence (whatever that means) would be capable of understanding the intended message? Unless of course we are already starting off with the major assumption that the only things that can be intelligent are things like us. I'm not even sure that intelligent has any meaning aside from denoting behavior "similar to us".
by Lammy | 2025-04-24 23:07:50+00:00
I don't even enjoy FB Groups any more because of the way they filter comments to “most relevant” so I have to click twice to change it to “all comments” on every single post, over and over and over. Tiresome.

It's embarrassingly dumb sometimes, too, like a post can show “3 comments”, I click it, and the “most relevant” will just be two of them with a bunch of empty space left over in the UI. Just show me all of the fucking comments omfg!!!
by gruez | 2025-04-24 23:07:54+00:00
>It seems to me Twitter suppressed the post until they had time to spam it with hate posts.

Twitter can't spam hate posts in real time? They're literally an AI company.

>Bear in mind here also this suppression did not happen for other posts - only for the pro-Ukraine post - so Twitter at the least is specifically suppressing pro-Ukraine posts.

There's scant evidence of this, besides the vague assertion that "I have 5k more followers there and regularly have posts which are viewed over 100k times". If he normally posts informative and substantive content that gets good engagement, is it really surprising that a generic "I support Zelensky" post would get poor engagement?
by jfengel | 2025-04-24 23:07:56+00:00
Don't date people who are standoffish and hateful.

But if everyone you date is standoffish and hateful, the constant factor is you.

It's not really about memorizing arbitrary social rules. It's about the ability to picture what the situation looks like from their point of view. Some people don't do that naturally, but it's a skill that can be learned. And you won't learn it by memorizing rules. You have to learn how to mentally model other people's minds.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-24 23:08:19+00:00
I don't understand why people are so incredulous that virtue signalling is rampant and even the "good guys" (whatever group you want to attribute that to) is mostly full of people who know the right thing to say, will gladly say it repeatedly to garner praise, but will not follow it when it comes to them.

Me, or anyone else who has tried a "virtuous venture", could have easily told this company not to waste their time. The take away here isn't "they screwed this up" or "This isn't a true test". The takeaway is "People are extremely self serving when the perceived impact is small and no one is there to judge them for it." Plan your business accordingly.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-24 23:09:09+00:00
This idea that retreating more and more into virtual worlds is going to help with interactions with actual humans in the real world is pure tech-land insanity.

For some reason a lot of tech people have a problem accepting that the solution to problems largely caused by tech isn't more tech. If you want to be better at interacting with people, go touch grass and interact with more people in the real, physical world.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-24 23:09:13+00:00
> Dell server has 2x128-192 cores in 1U server.

Can you replace 25% of your cores without stopping the machine?

> that same Dell can have 3 TB of RAM.

How does it deal with a faulty memory module? Or two? Does it notice the issue before a process crashes?

> z17 has only 25G networking

They have up to 12 IO drawers with 20 slots each. I think the 48 ports you got are on the built-in switch.
by noooooooph | 2025-04-24 23:10:55+00:00
This assumes there are compelling alternatives in the market that I can choose from. In reality, there are only a few entrenched players in any established market that work hard to limit competition. So yes, even if I'd like to choose not to hand over my hard-earned money to Evil Corp #93, I can only do the "stupid" thing and watch myself and my environment get exploited.
by ohgr | 2025-04-24 23:11:35+00:00
Yep. Was a Microsoft dev from 1992 until 2017. Won’t touch them now because I spent my entire career rewriting rug pulls. It paid off a mortgage and fed me well but it was a bad outcome for my orgs and customers.

If anyone remembers WCF/AppFabric/WWF and Silverlight, that was the last stack I rewrote someone out of the shit on.
by jwilber | 2025-04-24 23:11:47+00:00
This is just selling components someone else wrote, right?

Five years ago I could understand the appeal and appreciate the effort required. Today, it’s a matter of seeing others work, taking a screenshot, asking ai to recreate it, and then packaging it into a “library” and selling it for $50.

Maybe I’m alone in the sentiment, but it just rubs me the wrong way.
by svcrunch | 2025-04-24 23:11:59+00:00
Here's a problem that no frontier model does well on (f1 < 0.2), but which I think is relatively easy for most humans:

https://dorrit.pairsys.ai/

> This benchmark evaluates the ability of multimodal language models to interpret handwritten editorial corrections in printed text. Using annotated scans from Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit," we challenge models to accurately capture human editing intentions.
by __abadams__ | 2025-04-24 23:12:17+00:00
It would be very easy to support 512-bit vectors everywhere, and just emulate them on most systems with a small number of smaller vectors. It's easy for a compiler to generate good code for this. Clang does it well if you use its built-in vector types (which can be any length). Variable-length vectors, on the other hand, are a very challenging problem for compiler devs. You tend to get worse code out than if you just statically picked a size, even if it's not the native size.
by arrosenberg | 2025-04-24 23:12:33+00:00
I am giving those people a tool. Find a local sports league, improv group or regular trivia night and start going. It's fine if you only talk to the person working the league or the employees the first couple times - they're paid to talk to you. When muscles atrophy, it's fine to take small steps to make them strong again.

You are far more likely to die driving to work than you are encountering a mass casualty event - that kind of becomes an excuse at some point. If you are really concerned, the biggest targets are large public events and schools (US only), which aren't a great place to work on social anxiety anyways.
by gruez | 2025-04-24 23:12:36+00:00
>You can argue that it hurts the flow of the comment, but I wouldn't act like a play has a huge plot hole because it had a gun that never got used. The comment said X, then it said Y, and those things don't conflict. "Which one is it?" doesn't make sense as a question.

It's called confirming what your opponent's argument is, so you're not arguing against a strawman. If you check how the OP actually replied, it seems like he entirely abandoned the "he kept it all for himself" objection.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-04-24 23:12:36+00:00
Mass shootings are significantly rarer than the world (and one's own anxious brain) makes them seem. The risk of dying from a so many other things absolutely dwarf the risk of being shot to death. You're more than twice as likely to die in a car accident than be shot to death. You're more likely to die from an accidental injury than be shot to death by about 10 fold. And that's just for all gun homicides. If you break that down, you're significantly more likely to die by a gun that's shot by yourself, a police officer, or somebody you know than by a stranger. Mass casualty events are even small.

I agree with your point at large, though. The mass shooting panic is a little frustrating when you actually look at the numbers, though. Your risk of dying by gun assault is about 1 in 300, but the risk of dying in a mass shooting is about 1 in 11,000.
by archagon | 2025-04-24 23:12:37+00:00
I’ve long felt that recursive/threaded replies were the death of intelligent online discourse. It’s just endless debate club: everyone proselytizing stodgy talking points from their individual soapboxes without any genuine back-and-forth happening. If someone loses an argument, they usually just disappear instead of facing the music. No accountability, no reflection, no real sense of community.

Quite good at being addictive, though.
by yousif_123123 | 2025-04-24 23:13:27+00:00
It's a mix of both it feels to me as I've been testing it. For example, you can't get it to make a clock showing custom time like 3:30, or someone writing with their left hand.. And it can't do follow many instructions or do them very precisely. But it shows that this kind of architecture will be be capable of that if scaled up most likely.
by itishappy | 2025-04-24 23:13:42+00:00
Totally serious. I'm not claiming it's the best, but it's how I use the tools. There's a few reasons:

1. It's just how I learned. Googled my way through Python, then learned Haskell much later via a book which explicitly recommends using the REPL to get info about functions.

2. Types. I'm typically only looking for type information. A quick `:t` or `:i` is usually all I need in Haskell. I know Python half has them now, but I'm not

3. I'm certainly weird here, but I turn autocomplete and other pop-ups off. I find it distracting, and prefer the more intentional action of typing stuff into a REPL. Heck, I even do it in the VSCode terminal.

In summary: IDK, weird I guess. I should probably use it more in Python.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-24 23:14:10+00:00
Physics is a model of reality. Reality is objective, but the model we have chosen is very much "subjective" (maybe arbitrary is a better term).

It's easy to imagine that another species might have never conceptualized electrons as little balls orbiting around a nucleus. They are neither balls nor are they flying in circles, those are simply abstractions we like because they appeal to the way we perceive reality. The way we conceptualize electrons leads to issues like the wave-particle duality, so it's likely just a local optimum we got stuck in. Another species might not even think of Electrons as being distinct entities, maybe they think of the electron field as one large ocean with some waves in it, or they subscribe to the single electron theory, or something we have never thought of and might never imagine from our perspective.
by xracy | 2025-04-24 23:14:50+00:00
Obligatory Eric Andre meme of "Who killed social media?"

I think a lot of folks are correctly pointing out that new social media is probably much closer to something like Discord, where individuals can define their own communities and make sure they're only getting the content from their family in that community.

It means they're much more responsible for policing their own content and don't have to worry about agreeing with the central policing platform. Seems like a much healthier direction for Social Networks... At least... healthier than whatever is happening at Facebook.
by rainsford | 2025-04-24 23:15:08+00:00
What's fascinating about that is that if you're willing to set aside how much that sounds like something a Bond villain would say, it's actually remarkably better than where we are today. First of all it's vastly more articulate than the angry thuggish bravado that characterizes modern political speech, but it's actually aspirational about acting in a way to shape reality rather than trying to work within the existing framework. If you can look past the source and generalize the sentiment, there's actually a nugget of a half-decent idea there. In tech industry terms you might even call this the basic idea behind "disruption".

Given the source, such shaping should obviously be viewed with deep suspicion, but at least Rove was talking about taking real action that actually creates changes in the foundational way the world works. But the modern version is just ignoring reality entirely and simply asserting your own version of it with a combination of emotion based vibes and basic lying. This version of rejecting the reality based community isn't about changing reality at all, but simply getting a critical mass of people to operate in a make believe alternate reality. For all of Karl Rove's problems, this is significantly worse since it means large portions of the public are now operating in a way completely unmoored from the actual underlying facts.
by buuuddee | 2025-04-24 23:15:08+00:00
Physics places no such honorific obligation on the species.

This just smacks of self serving “don’t end society I rely on” existential dread. While that booj materialism acts with indifference to externalities.

If the ramifications of there being no immutable force obliging us to preserve each other spread, omg. Then we roleplay out the reality daily with the lack of empathy driving us to the streets 24/7 until better healthcare legislation is passed.

As a culture we rhetorically make such high minded sounding rhetoric then equivocate away doing the work to live up to it. Got trite philosophy to post online don’t you know.
by mattmanser | 2025-04-24 23:15:21+00:00
I wouldn't call it familiar, it's a weird quasi-chat. They didn't even do the chat metaphor right, you can't type more as the AI is thinking. Nor can you really interrupt it when it's off over explaining something for the 20th time without just stopping it.

It's missing obvious settings, has a weird UX where every now and mysterious popups will appear like 'memory updated', or now it spews random text while it's "thinking", it'll every now and then ask you to choose between two answers but I'm working so no thanks, I'm just going to pick one at random so I can continue working.

People had copy pasta templates they dropped into every chat with no way of savings Ng thatz they they added a sort of ability to save that but it worked in a inscrutable and confusing manner, but then they released new models that didn't support that and so you're back to copy pasta, and blurgh.

It's a success despite the UI because they had a model streets ahead of everyone else.
by palata | 2025-04-24 23:16:40+00:00
> but this doesn't mean the vast majority of incels are Android users

Is there such a thing as incels? I thought it was just a stupid concept to bully people. Not that it doesn't exist, but I wouldn't think that there is a category of people (kids, I guess?) who "are" incels, is there? In some contexts, some kids are "considered" incels by bullies.

Or do I get it wrong?
by sapphicsnail | 2025-04-24 23:17:50+00:00
It's harder for some people. I used to get panic attacks and shoot out of bed in the middle of the night every time I went to a new social setting. People shaming me for being shy was how it got that big. I've stuck with it and it's a lot easier for me to be social now but it was working through the shame with a therapist, cutting out the toxic people in my life, and challenging myself that did it.
by yodon | 2025-04-24 23:18:11+00:00
> from a market research perspective

The generally accepted answer is that the only way to know for sure that people will buy something is to get them to pay you money or get them to commit to pay you money.

This falls broadly under the concept of the "lean startup" where you focus first on proving you can sell what you intend to build, and only build it after you have cash commitments from customers to buy what you intend to build.

The logic behind lean startup is that it's far more likely your startup will fail because no one will pay (or pay enough) for what you want to build than it is likely to fail because you can't actually build the thing you want to build. The later case is of course possible, but in practice far more startups fail because of lack of sales than from lack of technology.
by paulcole | 2025-04-24 23:18:29+00:00
> If you want to make friends and meet a partner you need to join groups

Agree on the friends side, disagree on the partner side.

I have never met a romantic partner anywhere but through an app. It lets both parties be clear with their intentions. I don't have to guess if they're there to make friends or date. I can say in my profile, "I am here to date."

If they respond to my message, I can ask them out immediately (max of 2 or 3 messages before making IRL plans) because I know there is at least some mutual interest and that we both want to go out on a date.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-24 23:18:34+00:00
It's been truly amazing how ineffective and half-assed the opposition to this administration has been. I mean, in Trump's recent joint address to Congress, a handful of D's in Congress held up little signs in protest. Little signs! They might as well have shrugged and not done anything. These are the people the other side elected to fight this madness, and they're sitting there on their asses holding up little signs and making frowny faces. If that's all the opposition feels they are capable of doing, they might as well all just resign.