MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by koakuma-chan | 2025-04-12 02:12:16+00:00
> MDN disagrees. See the huge red warning here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventSource

It should say "When used over HTTP/1" instead of "When not used over HTTP/2" because nowadays we also have HTTP/3, and browsers barely even use HTTP/1, so I would say it's pretty safe to ignore that warning.

> Unless you mean on HTTP2?

Any version of HTTP that supports multiplexing.

> But aren't WS connections also multiplexed over HTTP2 in that case?

There is RFC 8441 but I don't think it's actually implemented in the browsers.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-12 02:12:17+00:00
> It's never as simple as the White House calling up Mark Zuckerberg and saying "hey, silence X".

The government got so comfy it really got to be that easy:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... (Aug 27, 2024)

> White House, “repeatedly pressured” Facebook for months to take down “certain COVID-19 content including humor and satire.”

> The officials “expressed a lot of frustration” when the company didn’t agree, he said in the letter.
by musicale | 2025-04-12 02:13:43+00:00
> I did as best I could to devour the library.

You'd have to devour the library of congress, and every public scientific paper, and most of the text on the internet. Likely much more than you could read in a lifetime.

Then you'd have to be able to regenerate a realistic imitation of any book, on demand, in a minute, for a few cents.
by jterwill | 2025-04-12 02:15:20+00:00
It is exciting times in animal communication.

This is not just distributional information analysis in the sense that ‘tokens’ are grounded in other ‘tokens’. They’ve grounded these calls in naturalistic situational context. This is hard won data.

If I understand, the finding here is that bonobo calls are “non-trivially” compositional, e.g., the semantic embeddings of pairs of vocalizations point in different directions surrounding the base vocalization. But it seems there is no “trivial” compositionality in the sense that constructions like [good __] might point in a similar direction. I would expect this latter result. This seems like a conspicuous absence? Is this really compositionality? Not sure what to make of it.

Some interesting context: bonobos and other (non-human) great apes are believed to have more intentional and flexible control over their gestural repertoire than their vocal repertoire and that these gestural repertoires are larger. Human language likely evolved from gesture (or so some believe). So, if their vocalizations are in fact compositional, it may be a separate evolutionary prong.
by mhitza | 2025-04-12 02:15:40+00:00
> don’t believe Europe can create unicorns so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy for their investments

There sure would like though. What I've followed in the Horizon program was a fixation of chasing "last years" technology.

Problem was , that for all those funding programmes they had quite stingent company requirements which stopped startups and small companies from having a go at it. Larger companies had no issue navigating this process and chewing the cash without actually delivering good or innovative products.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-12 02:16:30+00:00
The point of these is to signal you have money and are enough of an insider to know the high-status brands - or at least high-status enough for that particular social group, who use them to reassure each other they're not in the vulgar Rolex set.

They serve the same function as a designer handbag - although you can at least put things inside a handbag and carry them around.
by elihu | 2025-04-12 02:16:47+00:00
The article does mention it, but I agree that the story is incomplete without a clearer idea (including examples) of what is being censored.

> "A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report investigating Meta’s moderation of pro-Palestine content post-October 7th found that, of 1,050 posts HRW documented as taken-down or suppressed on Facebook or Instagram, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine, while just one post was content in support of Israel."
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-12 02:17:09+00:00
I don't really agree with the cost argument when the subscription is more expensive in the long run. Nobody needs to upgrade Photoshop every year, they're going to go 2-3 years (if not more) between upgrades. And when you do that, it's much cheaper to buy up front.

Renting software is just plain a raw deal for the users. It's more expensive, plus you don't get to keep it after you stop paying. The only one who wins is the vendor.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-12 02:17:17+00:00
> grounds for deportation,

Sadly but nobody is entitled to student visas. They never were. It's mostly at the whim of the state department and they may revoke it for a variety of reasons. Minor misdemeanors or getting caught with DUI would also lead to losing a visa. It's really a "walk on eggshells" kind of situation. Yeah, in some cases appealing and finding a lawyer may help but it's huge uphill battle.
by nicbou | 2025-04-12 02:17:36+00:00
This couldn't be more incorrect. I document German bureaucracy for a living. The hardest part of my job is that every state, city, office and case worker applies the rules differently, making it really hard to predict a specific outcome. In most cases it plays in people's favour, unless the case worker is particularly grumpy and you happen to hit one of their pet peeves. I struggle to document the variance for Berlin alone.

The biggest issue with German bureaucracy is that it's largely paper-based and has little to no automation. In many cases, digitalisation when it happens just means sending documents digitally instead of delivering them during an in-person appointment. This leads to very long processing times that are constrained by available labour.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-04-12 02:18:15+00:00
Facebook is not the same there as it is here. It's not just a fun app you use, it's a huge part of how African and Asian countries interface with the internet. Trying to lead a group effort to leave the platform wouldn't work at any scale other than complete unanimity, and you're going to have trouble reaching that with the people benefiting from weaponizing Facebook.
by kcplate | 2025-04-12 02:18:49+00:00
I think it’s pretty apparent that to some degree there was a loosely organized effort of government employees, media, and prosecutors that exists/existed committed to derailing Trump at all costs over the last 10 year, but it’s capabilities is obviously lacking at least in regards to being successful against Trump.

I suspect that the same effort that against any other person would likely be successful. However, Trump has this crazy mix of tenacity, “don’t give a fuck”, and natural insight into grassroots political positions that cause people to be willing to overlook scandals that would destroy any other politician or public person.
by conductr | 2025-04-12 02:19:44+00:00
Poor people have an incentive to find ways to make unwanted (aka cheap/available) food taste good, this simple fact is responsible for peasant food all over the world being generally amazing and why even a lot of upper class dishes have some origin as a lower class food.

I’m in Texas and we’re pretty well known for brisket and fajitas which are sourced from fatty/undesirable cuts of beef.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-12 02:20:14+00:00
They want AI image generation to go away. That isn't likely to happen, but their best hope would be to make copyright claims or try to turn the public against AI companies with accusations of misappropriation. Adobe's "ethical" image generator would be immune to those claims while still doing nothing to address their primary concern, the economic consequences. It takes away their ammunition while leaving their target standing. Are they supposed to like a company doing that or does it just make them even more upset?
by kjellsbells | 2025-04-12 02:20:21+00:00
Yes. 31%, at least for now. The administration is...mercurial.

Although one might argue that an additional 31% on a watch that retails for six figures is not going to make a difference to the kind of buyer that spends six figures on a watch. Even if a US watchmaker existed, this kind of buyer seems unlikely to substitute a Vacherin or a Patek for something made in Cleveland.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/workplace-switzerland/adding-up...
by smallerfish | 2025-04-12 02:22:11+00:00
I gave up on the puzzle because it was too hard for my end of the week brain.

But, a couple of UX suggestions:

a) It shouldn't be possible to drop tiles on the grid outside of the word boundaries

b) Dropping one tile on another should swap their positions.

With both of these implemented, it'd make it easier to move all of the letters onto the grid and then try different options, without too much fiddling.
by whilo | 2025-04-12 02:22:24+00:00
As a German coming from Mannheim, and now living on the Canadian West coast, I have to say that this is exactly the mindset that makes it so difficult to innovate in Germany. While people have a top education and know everything they need to, they don't have a "digital mindset". I think of myself now as computing process, and see myself as a cyberneticist in the German philosophical tradition of Hegel, Marx, Hilbert, Gödel and Bloch, but even I more often than necessary mistrust innovations.

Almost all the science fiction and cybernetic work of the last 75 years came either out of the Eastern block, or out of the US. There is basically no German sci fi vision, and there is extreme reluctance to speculative, big picture thinking as it is pursued in Silicon Valley. Software companies grow quickly and need a very different approach. Silicon Valley mostly understands this scaling aspect and winner take all markets really well. German investors are cheap and extremely risk averse, I tried to build a software company in Germany and it is hard.

While a lot of the current AI work was also done in Germany, e.g. by Schmidhuber, Germans are stuck in their business model. I recommend Münchau's book "Kaput" (or one of his podcast interviews) on how poorly Germans have adapted to the non-industrial aspects of a modern economy (read: "services"). I really hope that more tech founder thinking like Benz, Bosch or Siemens returns to Germany in a modern form. But I don't see it yet, and Germans are still super reactive and conservative to larger changes. The Greens tried to think a bit out of the box, and were heavily punished for it. In general there is basically no political representation for building a new successful economy. At best there is this nice little narrative about the long established "Mittelstand", which has produce almost zero software companies. The first step right now would be to own the idea of the EU, and wanting to win instead of complaining.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-12 02:23:40+00:00
> the provision allows the secretary of state alone to “personally determine” whether he should remain in the country

That's how it always worked? This idea that someone is entitled to a student visa is just odd, and I am speaking as someone who had a variety of different visas, including two student visas. You're really at the whim of the state department. It just takes getting notice, a minor infraction, not submitting a renewal on time, or lying on a form and you're done. Lawyers may helps there is some way to appeal but it's an incredible uphill battle.
by patrakov | 2025-04-12 02:24:07+00:00
The same LWN article says:

> The contents, however, should still be "bit-by-bit" identical, even though that phrase does not turn up in Fedora's definition.

So, according to the literal interpretation of the article, signatures inside the payload (e.g., files that are signed using an ephemeral key during the build, NOT the overall RPM signature) are still a self-contradictory area and IMHO constitute a possibly-valid reason for not reaching 100% payload reproducibility.
by specialist | 2025-04-12 02:24:26+00:00
From your keyboard to god's inbox.

You might enjoy Joshua Citarella's Doomscroll podcast.

Repeating myself: Very few people within a system will work to reform that system. Why? System justification theory? Pulling the ladder up after oneself? Mr Smith Goes to Washington? I honestly have no clue.

For example: public financing of campaigns. The painfully obvious correct solution. Initially, I naively thought every politician would be onboard. Fund raising sucks. All the players complain about it. So of course it'd be an easy sell.

(I worked on adjacent issues. Us ragtag groups would support each other's causes as able. These activist communities are very small. eg fairvote.org)

Now 20 years later, how many jurisdictions have public financing? And in the places which did adopt it, it's under constant siege.

Ditto ranked choice voting.

--

I support building a Climate Cabinet style PAC for every issue. Laser focused. Money ball for campaigns, matching contributors with select candidates. So an org fairvote.org would strategically support candidates committed to RCV. (Of course, it'd have to be new org. Because it's super hard to rewire an existing org to function differently.)

I have no clue about building movements. My pathetic attempts failed utterly. I'm wide open for ideas and input.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-12 02:25:30+00:00
>Another difference would be that you are allowed to express your opinion, whereas in russia you would be put to jail, that's true but only in a very limited way.

Although not even close in number and punishment the US government is deporting people for speaking against Israel.

I think we do have a much better system because we are aware of these cases, you can speak out about the issue, and our court system can rule against the current admin.

What makes this possible to either the level of Russia or the US is how much the supporters of the regime want it. This is regardless of morality, legality, or the precedent it sets.
by chongli | 2025-04-12 02:27:03+00:00
Yes, that class / character unlock system is very common. Some purists will say that a traditional Roguelike cannot have these unlocks but I don't mind them. It definitely is a way of gating the game's complexity so that a new player doesn't have to cope with it all at once.

I think it should be optional though. There should be an option to unlock everything from the beginning for players who don't want to fiddle around with that stuff and just dive into the full experience. Players like Jorbs can feel so strongly about it that I think they're actually offended by games that try to curate their experiences to that degree.
by throw310822 | 2025-04-12 02:27:04+00:00
> that would give them political respect, cease giving Palestinians a bad name that holds them back from the atrocities committed against them from being recognized

Yes the respect Fatah has. Look at the strong words of condemnation from world leaders for the daily pogroms Palestinians are subjected to in the West Bank. Look at the apartheid being enforced there, look at the demolished houses and villages, at the hundreds of illegal settlements, at the ethnic cleansing going on by the day.

Hamas is an excuse as good as any. In fact, given its overwhelming power and impunity, Israel makes and chooses its counterparts. If a Palestinian leader looks too good, they can kill him. If the protests are too peaceful, they can shoot a few people until they turn a bit violent. Hamas was promoted to weaken Fatah. And so on.

Hamas has proposed multiple times long term ceasefires (10 years) and has recognised the 1967 borders. All these proposals went completely ignored and mostly unmentioned in the Western media because that's not useful to Israel.
by EMIRELADERO | 2025-04-12 02:28:45+00:00
> The LLM can't describe it, it doesn't see inside itself, however, it has many textbooks in its training dataset, so it will grab an answer from these textbooks because that's how people answer.

EDIT: I see now that you were referring to the answers it uses to justify the result, not the underlying computations. Sorry! You can disregard the actual comment. Leaving for completeness.

ORIGINAL COMMENT:

That's not how it works. Addition in LLMs is believed to function through different mechanisms depending on model size and architecture, but the single consistent finding across different models is that they generalize beyond the training data for at least those simple arithmetic operations.

For example: "Language models use trigonometry to do addition" https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873

For a different "emergent" algorithm, see Anthropic's observations: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/met...
by Terr_ | 2025-04-12 02:30:05+00:00
> Trump must have something more in mind [...] Trump’s vision [...] On first glance, Trump’s tariffs look arbitrary and unconnected [...] Trump’s plan makes perfect sense, however, if the real goal

Nah, this is yet another conservative think-tank dude [0] trying to desperately sane-wash the recent actions of the US Republican party.

Each of these various apologists asks us to have faith that their proposed grand and subtle clockwork plan is operating behind the scenes... by actively ignoring the incoherent [1] actions and statements coming out of this administration. No, we've already had 4 years of Trump, it's silly to suggest he had enlightenment into an economic idiot-savant while we weren't looking.

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[0] https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/st-karnick/

[1] For example, when they claim (A) the taxes on imports would "replace" the Federal Income Tax with "6 trillion dollars" and also claim (B) the import taxes will quickly restore US manufacturing so that nobody does any importing to be taxed on. Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is that a bullshitter is bullshitting.
by bawolff | 2025-04-12 02:30:07+00:00
However that study is using a different data set afaik. There is no indication that the things being requested taken down by Israel are the same as those being studied by HRW.

Its also really difficult to draw any conclusions from the HRW study due to selection bias issues. The sample was sent in by users instead of being chosen randomly from censored posts. Even assuming you agree with HRW's assesment that the posts were peaceful, there is no way to tell from the study if this represents the 0.00001% most "peaceful" of all censored posts or if its the average censored post, and i think that makes a big difference when evaluating this situation. The experimental design of the HRW study is just rather poor, and i think you could use such a design to come to basically any conclusion you want.
by al_borland | 2025-04-12 02:30:33+00:00
I have to question any science with such a strongly held hypothesis and a deadline.

The changes in the DSM 5, greater awareness for younger kids, and social media telling adults about autism that high masking people may have overlooked, all easily explain the increase in numbers.

I’d be interested to see a trend graph with levels 1, 2, and 3 plotted separately. My hypothesis is that majority of the growth is from level 1, while 3 would be the most stable.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-12 02:32:30+00:00
>Chris Krebs just yesterday had his security clearance revoked solely for saying the 2020 election was fair and not rigged

Considering how Republicans control all three branches (to an extent), the "2020 election fraud" was a key talking point of Trump, and how stealing an election would be a historic crime in American history....the justice department has done nothing so far.

The Republican House spent a year or so investigating Hunter Biden to obtain a gun plus tax charge (also with the hopes of tying Biden to a crime) but not trying to find who stole the 2020 election?
by twothreeone | 2025-04-12 02:33:21+00:00
The money never goes to actually relevant or innovative projects, because there is a whole industry devoted to "proposal writing". Companies will literally bring dedicated teams together to sit in a room and think how they could possibly grift EU money, because they cannot meaningfully compete on the open market and need to fund 25-50% of their personnel costs through such programs.

Think Siemens, Orange S.A., Technikon, Philips N.V., T-Systems, but also (!) IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-04-12 02:33:24+00:00
Who cares if someone is toxic towards Adobe? It's a corporate brand, people should be allowed to voice what the feel about a fucking brand.

Adobe could have sincerely communicated while blocking any abusive stuff or if they couldn't be arsed, turned off comments. They have PR people to handle this stuff, or at least they did until it was probably left up to some underpain intern who doesn't give a shit.
by pzo | 2025-04-12 02:34:33+00:00
> WASM-powered onnx runtime background removal tool

Yes it's slow because they will most likely execute on CPU (for sure on iOS). WebGPU is still not enabled on safari and WebNN is not even supported anywhere (so that you can use NPU provider). ONNXRuntime is not even the most optimised when running natively (instead of WASM) on iOS, e.g. doesn't support MPS provider (GPU) and NPU provider (via CoreML) implements only subset operators (last time I tried). Safari also provide limitation on WASM memory usage

In practice when you want the best performance you would have to use native app and CoreML with NPU provider and model architecture optimized for NPU. On iOS for now big limitation is available RAM, but even my iPhone 13 mini has exactly the same fast NPU as on my Macbook M2 Max when tested it's having similar speed to running on GPU.
by CityOfThrowaway | 2025-04-12 02:34:50+00:00
I was talking generally, not this specific set of cuts. From what I know (and what is generally accepted), there is an abundance of waste in government spending. I don't know anything about this specific Accenture contract, so can't say much about it. But I have enough close contact with government to know with absolute certainty that some amount of cleanup is long past due.
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-04-12 02:35:12+00:00
Exactly. Devtools has had a rather generous number of unicorns in the last 15 years as a tech category. There are many others that can't say the same.

https://www.failory.com/startups/developer-tools-unicorns (unrelated, but thatgamecompany as dev tools? that's a first)
by elihu | 2025-04-12 02:35:29+00:00
One defense against it might just be to actively crawl Facebook and externally record the contents of posts as soon as they're posted. Then you have a record of everything that got deleted.

I don't know how you scale that up to make it easy for everyone to find "disappeared" content on any platform. Maybe some kind of peer-to-peer system where everyone's browser cache basically acts as a searchable archive, with a browser plugin that inserts a button into web pages to show disappeared content.

(It's also worth noting that probably a lot of content that was removed by moderators was removed for a legitimate reason. So, ideally you'd have some sort of crowd moderation to get rid of the stuff that really is spam or hate speech or whatever.)
by EE84M3i | 2025-04-12 02:35:44+00:00
My original comment was about the commenter I replied to saying:

> To my knowledge, video stream requests chunks by range and is largely client controlled. It isn't a single, long lived http connection.

Wouldn't a byte range request for the whole file fall under the "single, long lived http connection"? Sure it could be terminated early and another request made for seeking, but regardless the video can start before the whole file is downloaded, assuming it's encoded correctly?