MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kmitz | 2025-04-22 13:54:24+00:00
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by Tycho | 2025-04-22 13:54:42+00:00
I tried o3 for a couple of things.

First one, geolocation a photo I saw in a museum. It didn’t find a definitive answer but it sure turned up a lot of fascinating info in its research.

Second one, I asked it to suggest a new line of enquiry in the Madeleine McCann missing person case. It made the interesting suggestion that the 30 minute phone call the suspect made on the evening of the disappearance, from a place near the location of the abduction, was actually a sort of “lookout call” to an accomplice nearby.

Quite impressed. This is a great investigative tool.
by jabiko | 2025-04-22 13:55:06+00:00
This is about the Global Administrator role. I don't believe that the employee had this role to begin with.

Otherwise this quote wouldn't make sense:

> [...] top-tier user privileges that neither Berulis nor his boss possessed

However, my guess would be that this is the role that DOGE employees requested to be assigned as it is the role with the highest level of privileges.
by 082349872349872 | 2025-04-22 13:55:09+00:00
Dexter Green may be on a different side of the law from Bobby Quine and Jay Gatz, but not only does Ginevra add a note of autobiography, with regard to the end of DG's caddying* days there's always FSF's resignation: "...I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp."

* TIL Jordan Baker was modelled on "the fairway flapper" friend of Ginevra's

EDIT: I'm not sure if Hubert is a wise choice to be the patron saint of opticians (being famous for a visual aberration, after all?)
by looofooo0 | 2025-04-22 13:55:42+00:00
Actually the best control system for such a boiler would be to control the heating curve where heating water temperature is fixed to the outside temperature. If you aim for the lowest water temperatures possible, then the system will become quite slow reacting. Then you only need to adjust the flow of water to the individual rooms to fix varying temperature issue. But this is long term manual optimization process which takes 1 to 2 years to perfect.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-22 13:55:45+00:00
It's shocking how prescient this quote is turning out to be. There's a significant chunk of the US voting population that is willing to forgive effectively anything Trump might do, no matter how distasteful, illegal or unconstitutional it gets.

Using the DoJ to go after his perceived enemies. Mob boss protection rackets against universities and law firms. Revoking visas for traffic violations...or nothing at all. Putting people into a foreign prison camp without a chance for due process, and refusing to do anything about the inevitable errors and rights violations that result. Eliminating oversight roles and agencies, enabling grift, theft, and fraud for himself and his friends. Selling cars on the White House lawn. Hiring incompetent people and not firing them when they inevitably do incompetent things (looking at you, Hegseth and RFK Jr). Refusal to admit failure or error regardless of how obvious it is. Constant lies about what he has accomplished. Destroying the US economy with erratic and unstable tariff policies. And so much more...

And they eat it up.
by impendia | 2025-04-22 13:55:52+00:00
> it seemed the majority of their new employees are from state schools in the Midwest.

I went to the University of Wisconsin for grad school, and I knew lots of people there who went to work for Epic.

I confess that, before I applied, I imagined that Wisconsin was nothing but cow pastures and football. I imagine this sentiment is shared my many young job-seekers outside the Midwest. Now, having lived there for four years, I have to say that UW is an amazing university, and Madison is my favorite city in the US.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-04-22 13:55:55+00:00
No, why would it? Why do you assume they've ceased to exist? Resuscitation is not recreation or re-instantiation. A person prior to resuscitation isn't dead. Rather, some function has ceased (cardiac arrest, for instance) which can, if his state persists, result in death because it will eventually cause all functions to cease and allow decay to begin.

What you have in mind is not so much a philosophical problem per se, but a medical or even a biological problem, i.e., at which point is resuscitation no longer possible even in principle? When is there no longer the potential to resuscitate? That would be the point at which the existence of something has ended.
by sleepyguy | 2025-04-22 13:55:56+00:00
https://ukranews.com/en/news/1077392-bae-systems-preparing-t...

>comes against the backdrop of the refusal of British and European defense companies to purchase American equipment. This is due to fears that President Donald Trump has turned the USA into an unreliable partner.

This was just one of the many articles. You can do a quick search and the theme is decouple from the USA.
by camel-cdr | 2025-04-22 13:56:01+00:00
My bets are on Tenstorrent Ascalon. They are currently taping out and planning to release a 8 core@2.25GHz devboard and laptop next year. The cores have an 8 wide decode/issue/dispatch and dual issue 256-bit RVV support. Their the scalar part of their scheduling model is already upstream in LLVM as tt-ascalon-d8.

See also: https://youtu.be/ttQtC1dQqwo

The only I can think of that may deliver earlier is Ventana with the Veyron V2, they plan to have chiplets in the first half of this year. I'm not sure if they are planning on releasing devboards though, as they target big servers. The cores have a 16 issue backend, with 5 512-bit RVV execution units (arithmetic,mask,permut,load,store) and a decode of up to 10 instructions per cycle.

See also: https://youtu.be/OPgjCjNhqKQ

Both of these claim to support full RVA23 and are high perf OoO cores.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-22 13:56:14+00:00
These are screenshots taken from SCADA screens.

Architecture briefly explained here: https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/ica05/proceedings/pdf/O3_005.p...

I also want to mention EPICS which is used by quite a few physics and telescope projects: https://epics-controls.org/epics-users/projects/

When CERN Was looking at software they found EPICS wasn't up for the task at the time: https://cds.cern.ch/record/532705/files/ma1o06.pdf
by matt_kantor | 2025-04-22 13:56:15+00:00
I've been prototyping a programming language[0] with Haskell-like function conventions (all functions are unary and the "primary" parameter comes last). I recently added syntax to allow applying any "binary" function using infix notation, with `a f b` being the same as `f(b)(a)`[1]. Argument order is swapped compared to Haskell's infix notation (where `a f b` would desugar to `f(a)(b)`).

Along with the `|>` operator (which is itself just a function that's conventionally infixed), this turns out to be really nice for flexibility/reusability. All of these programs do the same thing:

1 - 2 - 3 + 4 1 |> -(2) |> -(3) |> +(4) +(4)( -(3)( -(2)(1) ) )

It was extremely satisfying to discover that with this encoding, `|>` is simply an identity function!

[0]: https://github.com/mkantor/please-lang-prototype

[1]: In reality variable dereferencing uses a sigil, but I'm omitting it from this comment to keep the examples focused.
by chairhairair | 2025-04-22 13:56:28+00:00
This will never happen because:

1. Companies will always want to brand their apps with their particular UI styles.

2. In order to prevent the above, the OS would have to deliberately NOT expose the ability for apps to control their own pixels.

Doing 2 means you are making it impossible to support many application types (photo editors, games, etc.).

NOT doing 2 means that app companies will eventually use the same APIs that the photo editor and game applications use.
by macNchz | 2025-04-22 13:57:01+00:00
I think people in general are not all that great at doing this.

Anecdotal, but I grew up in a small town in rural New England, a few hours from NYC and popular with weekenders and second-home owners from there. I don’t think that people from NYC are inherently rude, but there’s a turbulence to life in NYC to where jockeying for position is somewhat of a necessity. It was, however, transparently obvious in my hometown that people from the city were unable to turn it off when they arrived. Ostensibly they had some interest in the slow-paced, pastoral village life, but they were readily identifiable as the only people being outwardly pushy and aggressive in daily interactions. I’ve lived in NYC for some time now, and I recognize the other side of this, and feel it stemmed less from inherent traits and more from an inability to context switch behavior.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-22 13:57:17+00:00
>Doesn't hurt to be nice.

Devil's advocate counterpoint: Sam Altman said it wastes energy. He is obviously correct. Therefore, by saying this, one can do napkin math and estimate how much harm you have done to the environment. Adding up all of your "thank yous" will generate a number that shows how much you have directly harmed the environment. Here's ChatGPT's take:

"Equivalent to driving a gasoline car for 0.1 meters"

Scenario 1: 1 million “thank you” replies/day 1,000,000 × 0.02 g = 20,000 grams = 20 kg CO₂/day

Per year: 20 kg × 365 = 7,300 kg = 7.3 metric tons CO₂/year

Equivalent to:

Driving ~36,000 km (22,000 miles) in a gas car

The annual emissions of ~1 U.S. household’s electricity use
by pnathan | 2025-04-22 13:57:29+00:00
Since Python type checking is functionally optional, it implies that somewhere, somehow, someone has opted out, or has used a type checker that differs subtly but unpleasantly from the one you're using. Python's type checker systems are fundamentally a _linter_ more than something like Java or C...or Rust.

It's not about feeling. It's about the theorems you can make about the codebase. With Python the answer actually is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
by naasking | 2025-04-22 13:57:36+00:00
> It’s not an unnecessary complication. You fundamentally need to know what format you’re embedding something into, in order to encode it, and the server can’t know that.

There are two cases here:

1. Backend endpoints are specifically tied to the view being generated (returns viewmodels), in which case the server knows what the client is rendering and can encode it. This frankly should be the default approach because it minimizes network traffic and roundtrips. The original code displayed is perfectly fine in this case.

2. Endpoints are generic and the client assembles views by making multiple requests to various endpoints and takes on the responsibility that server-side frameworks used to do, including encoding.
by jeyzolo | 2025-04-22 13:57:45+00:00
I spent 2-3 days using ChatGPT 4o to optimize the UI for the website. I added a Ghibli-inspired style for the website colors and CSS. It looks much better! For the image generator part, I know many products only support uploading an image, then pressing a generate button and waiting. ChatGPT and Gemini use a chat mode to edit images. This time, I implemented a workflow where you generate an image, then press edit, and you can continue to adjust this image again - not in chat mode, which may be better. I also implemented asynchronous generation, so you don't need to wait for the image to generate - just add tasks to the tasklist, then add another image generation task. How's the design? I welcome your ideas and advice!
by gilbetron | 2025-04-22 13:58:00+00:00
To avoid "result corruption" I asked a similar question, but for NBA players, and used O4-mini, and got a specific answer:

"For the 2023‑24 NBA regular season (which ran from October 24, 2023 to April 14, 2024), a total of 561 distinct players logged at least one game appearance, as indexed by their “Rk” on the Basketball‑Reference “Player Stats: Totals” page (the final rank shown is 561)"

Doing a quick search on my own, this number seems like it could be correct.
by transpute | 2025-04-22 13:58:18+00:00
Per sibling comment, "unique" is a better descriptor than "rare". The NAS is made in Taiwan and has been readily available from Amazon or QNAP store.

The Marvell CN913x SoC has been shipping for 5 years, following the predecessor Armada SoC family released 10 years ago and used in multiple consumer NAS products, https://linuxgizmos.com/marvell-lifts-curtain-on-popular-nas.... Mainline Linux support for this SoC has benefited from years of contributions, while Marvell made incremental hardware improvements without losing previous Linux support.
by mritchie712 | 2025-04-22 13:58:18+00:00
This is a DuckDB feature that's incredibly hard for Snowflake (or anyone else) to copy. Running the same database client-side (WASM) and server-side can make for a pretty magical experience.

Queries that normally take 1s to 2s can run in 25ms, so you get under the "100ms rule" which is very uncommon in analytics applications.

We DuckDB server side and have experimental support for DuckDB WASM on the client-side at https://www.definite.app/ and sometimes I don't trust that a query ran because of how fast it can happen (we need some UX work there).
by lordfrito | 2025-04-22 13:58:29+00:00
Rubin's analysis was likely a big reason Atari was late to the laserdisc game craze... They were so late that their first (and only) laserdisc game Firefox shipped at the very moment the laserdisc craze was imploding.

The phenomenal success of Dragon's Lair forced Atari to rethink their position about the technology -- Everyone in the industry was jumping onto the laserdisc bandwagon at that point, not wanting to be left behind on the Next Big Thing. So the execs at Atari figured maybe Rubin was wrong in his analysis, and therefore Atari needed to quickly catch up.

Obviously, in hindsight, Rubin's analysis was spot on. But you can't blame the execs for jumping in - at the time it looked like laserdisc was the future of the industry.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-04-22 13:58:48+00:00
Yes. I tend to be polite to LLMs. I admit that part of the reason is that I'm not 100% sure they're not conscious, or a future version could become so. But the main reason is what you say. Being polite in a conversation just feels like the right thing to me.

It's the same reason why I tend to be good to RPG NPCs, except if I'm purposefully role playing an evil character. But then it's not me doing the conversation, it's the character. When I'm identifying with the character, I'll always pick the polite option and feel bad if I mistreat an NPC, even if there's obviously no consciousness involved.
by mvieira38 | 2025-04-22 13:59:02+00:00
Bishop Williamson, the source of that statement, was kicked from the SSPX partly due to raging and irrational antisemitism and misogyny. If that's enough for you to never set foot in a chapel, you shouldn't be Catholic at all, just take a look at what many popes and saints have said and done about jewish people, it's far worse
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-22 13:59:12+00:00
When many people use the word "democracy" today, they're not referring to a system of government where laws reflect the will of the people as determined by votes. They're talking about Democracy, a civic religion where the rules match their own personal beliefs and the current-year beliefs of their class.

So in a Democracy, if the people vote for something different, that's anti-Democratic, and non-democratic methods may be required to fix Democracy.
by Xmd5a | 2025-04-22 13:59:14+00:00
Stumbled upon this in another thread:

https://ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/generative-ai-labs/re...

My point still holds that it is optimizable though (https://github.com/zou-group/textgrad, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16673)

>Subjects develop elaborate "rain dances" in the belief that they can influence the outcome. Not unlike sports fans superstitions.

Anybody tuning neural weights by hand would feel like this.
by nullstyle | 2025-04-22 13:59:15+00:00
If you think the way Roe v. Wade was killed reflects democracy in action, I don't think we will ever see eye to eye. "Democracy provided that possibility," no Democracy as we implement it failed to resist the authoritarian attack built on broken oaths. Did you and I watch the same confirmation hearings? That wasn't democracy.

Next I suspect you'll try to tell me the Brooks Brothers riot was also "democratic procedures."

> None of which you choose to avail yourself of.

Oh piss off.
by pcaharrier | 2025-04-22 13:59:18+00:00
Yes, a limit of eight. Meaning that if there were more than eight across the agency, the rest were supposed to be removed by order of CISA. So the binding operational directive is a plausible, alternate explanation of the facts reported in the article. Again, I didn't just do a google search and come up with this; the Deputy CIO specifically mentioned SCuBA in the email that's put in the article. It's not my fault that neither Krebs (nor anyone else, apparently) decided to look into what the email meant by "SCUBA."
by looofooo0 | 2025-04-22 14:00:17+00:00
Agree, switching on and off is the worst way of heating. If you look into ISO 7730, then a lot of comfort comes from non cold walls: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7730 This means that in a reasonable insulated home, your best bet for comfort is to just keep the temperature constant and low like 20°C. This also allows you to lower your water temperatures which improves efficiency of your heat pump or boiler.
by zmgsabst | 2025-04-22 14:00:23+00:00
Polite but firm and direct works best in my experience — but as they emulate language responses, veering too far leads to either responses trying to engage emotionally (too rude) or failure to obey (too polite).

They don’t have emotions though, eg, you can say that ChatGPT is wrong and as long as you engage in a polite-but-firm tone, it’ll respond to the logical content.
by buserror | 2025-04-22 14:00:41+00:00
At home I have a 48xLTO5 changer with 4 drives (I picked for a song a while back! I actually don't need it but heck, it has a ROBOT ARM), and at work I'm currently provisioning a 96 LTO 9 tape drive dual-rack. With 640 tapes available :-)

I'm a STRONG believer in tapes!

Even LTO 5 gives you a very cheap 1.5TB of clean, pretty much bulletproof storage.. You can pick a drive (with a SAS HBA card) for less than $200, there is zero driver issue (SCSI, baby); the linux tape changer code is stable since 1997 (with a port to VMS!).

Tape FTW :-)
by ath3nd | 2025-04-22 14:01:39+00:00
To me, knowledge is about knowing things, intelligence is about being able to apply your knowledge at the right context and for the right reasons.

The current crop of LLMs has a lot of knowledge, but severely lacks on the "intelligence" part. Sure, it can "guess" how to write a unit test consistent with your codebase (based on examples), but for those 1% where you need to make a deviation from the rule, it's completely clueless how to do it properly. Guessing is not intelligence, although it might appear masked as such.

Don't get me wrong, the "guessing" part is sometimes uncannily good, but it just can't replace real reasoning.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-22 14:02:05+00:00
I've rarely had my hate spiked so highly so quickly by a comment.

Many of these loans are handed out predatorily to people classified as children, 6-8 years before their higher level thinking pre-frontal cortex fully develops, with no life experience, little work experience, a wide range in quality of parenting and childhood, with a society that has said "this is how you achieve the American dream of doing better than your parents."

The loans themselves shield the lender from consequences and put risk squarely on the the loan taker.

The seeming goal of these loans being the same for most of the structure of American society, to ensure desperate workers that have no freedom and no ability to say no to businesses.

When society offered these loans to people who in no way would have been able to get them on fundamentals, which was already a failure of society to invest in the future, there was an implicit promise that they would lead to a better life and they didn't.

You can't blame societies young for believing what their elders and even society at large tells them.

Universities failed their students, society failed students and universities, our own culture decayed in terms of earning vs receiving credentials, and the people you want to pay the cost of that are the people that the system victimized the most?
by lostmsu | 2025-04-22 14:02:40+00:00
> Our existence is a fundamental threat to the foundational perspective of the predominant power-structure in society.

Have you considered that people just think that performing any kind of sex-change operation is dumb, made a deduction from that that the subject is dumb, and everything else you mentioned stems from that?

Much simpler explanation than "power structures", which makes very little sense considering most people don't have any power.
by xpe | 2025-04-22 14:03:02+00:00
We have very different ideas of what "literal" means. You _interpreted_ what I wrote as "just Google it". I didn't say those words verbatim _nor_ do I mean that. Use a search engine if you want to find some high-quality papers. Or use Google Scholar. Or go straight to Arxiv. Or ask people on a forum.

> not vague philosophical and pseudo-philosophical statements and vague references

If you stop being so uncharitable, more people might be inclined to engage you. Try to interpret what I wrote as constructive criticism.

Shall we get back to the object level? You wrote:

> AIs are overeager junior developers at best

Again, I'm saying this isn't a good framing. I'm asking you to consider you might be wrong. You don't need to hunker down. You don't need to counter-attack. Instead, you could do more reading and research.
by ben_w | 2025-04-22 14:03:29+00:00
One can also work backwards, to see what kind of compute hardware they think must be needed for the models, or how much they think OpenAI's electricity costs.

100 words is ~133 tokens, so 0.14 kWh/133 tokens is about 1 kWh/kilo-token. If electricity is all from record-cheapest PV at $0.01/kWh, then this limits them to a price floor of $10/mega-token. For more realistic (but still cheap) pricing of $0.05/kWh, that's $50/mega-token. Here's the current price sheet: https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing

To generate a 133-token email in, say, 5 seconds, if it takes 0.14 kWh, is 101 kW. This does not seem like a plausible number (caveat: I don't work in a data centre and what I think isn't plausible may just be wrong): https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=0.14+kWh+%2F+5+seconds+...
by Freak_NL | 2025-04-22 14:03:58+00:00
Computers exist to serve. Anthropomorphising them or their software programming is harmful¹. The tone of voice an officer would use to order a private or ranking to do something seems suitable — which obviously comes down to terse, clear, unambiguous queries and commands.

Besides, humans can switch contexts easily. I don't talk to my wife in the same way I do to a colleague, and I don't talk to a colleague like I would to a stranger, and that too depends on context (is it a friendly, neutral, or hostile encounter?).

1: At this point. I mean, we haven't even reached Kryten-level of computer awareness and intelligence yet, let alone Data.
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by 3000 | 2025-04-22 14:04:07+00:00
I have a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice every morning. If you could recommend one ingredient to add to it that would boost energy, enhance cognitive function, or improve overall health—something easy to find without needing to visit a doctor or pharmacy—what would it be?

For example, spirulina, cinnamon, or a natural supplement that could make a noticeable difference.