MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shagie | 2025-04-01 23:34:12+00:00
There's a sequence of stories by different authors that allude to one another that I find to be an interesting read in that order.

First, there's the BLIT stories by David Langford. Several of these are online.

https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/44964 (did you know that Nature did science fiction short stories? https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures )

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

Then, you go to Accelerando

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

> Luckily, infowar turns out to be more survivable than nuclear war – especially once it is discovered that a simple anti-aliasing filter stops nine out of ten neural-wetware-crashing Langford fractals from causing anything worse than a mild headache.

This is followed by its sequel-ish Glasshouse https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17866.Glasshouse

It's not technically a sequel, but one can see the universe of Glasshouse following from the ending of Accelerando.

A quick diversion to Vernor Vinge with Peace War and Marooned in Realtime https://www.goodreads.com/series/57273-across-realtime (there's a short story in there titled The Ungoverned)

Implied spaces Walter Jon Williams https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2059573.Implied_Spaces which takes another approach to the unexplored events leading into Glasshouse and a possible path of escalation. The reference passage in this book is:

> “I and my confederates,” Aristide said, “did our best to prevent that degree of autonomy among artificial intelligences. We made the decision to turn away from the Vingean Singularity before most people even knew what it was. But—” He made a gesture with his hands as if dropping a ball. “—I claim no more than the average share of wisdom. We could have made mistakes.”

This then ends with... {spoilers}.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-01 23:34:49+00:00
It’s not possible for Alice and Bob to be within each other’s light cones but observe galaxies that aren’t in the other’s light cone? That seems wrong - there are galaxies that disappear from our light cone due to the expansion of the universe and they have neighbors that are still visible to us which would imply that the neighbors can still see the galaxy that became invisible to us.

I’m willing to concede I don’t know enough about the actual math of cosmology and relativity to say. How certain are you in your reasoning? I’m willing to admit either case could be possible and neither is a testable prediction at this time but maybe my first principles reasoning is outright flawed?
by nizarmah | 2025-04-01 23:35:37+00:00
Receiving signals doesn't. Advertising likely does. So if someone has proper equipment, they probably can identify the signals.

Ideal conditions is likely open spaces with no interference. Walls and concrete lower that as you mentioned.

I'm hoping it can help if people are standing right next to the rubble, whether BLE or the "siren" sound.

I have no guarantees though. I haven't properly tested because I haven't thought of a low cost option yet.
by lxgr | 2025-04-01 23:36:16+00:00
Credit (and debit!) cards solve the trust problem of online shopping and as such are vital to competition: I know I can get my money back if I don't receive good or services anywhere; if that weren't the case, I'd probably only shop at a very small number of highly trusted merchants.

Credit cards, in the US implementation where the issuer collects ~2% from the merchant and pays their cardholder a kickback from that, are both a cost to cash payers and very inefficient in general, but that's not the only way of doing things. The EU capped interchange fees at 0.3%/0.2%, for example, and purchase protection is still available just like before.
by bb88 | 2025-04-01 23:36:18+00:00
I don't think people were trusted before the 1990s until they were mid to late thirties. Now it's like VC's throw capital at 20 somethings as if they're wunderkind, when they're not fully mature adults mentally yet. Maybe there was some fraud on Wall Street back then, but those people had more access to capital than others.

It's also easy to delude yourself that you deserve all the money -- even if you haven't produced anything of value (Theranos). Or you delude yourself that you're so talented that there's no need for any safeguards (FTX). If there's capital flowing and you're sitting on a pile of cash (which you haven't earned yet only raised), you begin to think you've actually accomplished something when you haven't.

And now with crypto, influencers are basically cashing in their popularity. There's so much cash investors have, and TINA -- there is no alternative potentially high yield investments.

Before maybe in the 2000s investors would actually, like, you know, put insiders in the company and you know "due diligence" and all that, and not trust the word of a 20-something directly.
by Kye | 2025-04-01 23:40:19+00:00
>> More information: Shimpei Nishimoto et al, Infrared Bubble Recognition in the Milky Way and Beyond Using Deep Learning, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (2025). DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaf008

It links to a doi.org URL which directs the browser to what you linked.
by rqtwteye | 2025-04-01 23:40:32+00:00
I am becoming very nostalgic about word processors before around 2003. Back then, they were very predictable, made sense to me, and had all the features I wanted. The latest Word version makes all kinds of wacky choices for formatting, and I can't figure out how to fix them. Numbering is off, and formatting often is totally unpredictable. Not sure what's going on, but I really want Word 2000 back.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-01 23:43:10+00:00
Netflix's workflow for creatives isn't more sophisticated than their competitors; Netflix simply prefers to re-create the wheel in-house while their competitors are more likely to use off-the-shelf software solutions to the extent that they use software at all.

As others have pointed out on this thread: Netflix's solutions don't scale up or down for others. This means that the technical solution is sophisticated because their unnecessarily complicated internal business process requires it. Netflix could save billions a year if it streamlined their production side like the studios have. Case in point: almost every film Netflix has made in the past few years has gone way over budget, and it's not because of backend buy-outs. (The Electric State cost $320 million, meaning that the base budget before backend buyouts was around $225 million. It doesn't even look like an $50 million movie.)

Netflix can get away with inefficient business processes because it's making enough money right now to paper over those costs, but eventually they'll have to streamline their processes. (For an indirect example, look up the story of Carolco Pictures, the company behind T2, Rambo, and other major hits.)
by nizarmah | 2025-04-01 23:44:10+00:00
I appreciate it :D

Those two questions are spot on.

Voice cannot be transferred yet. Re-broadcasting might require a bluetooth meshnet.

Vibrations are a great idea. They are not that battery intensive. They also can be detected by 3rd party tech.

Both were added to the list of ideas. Thank you!!

I haven't done any effort there, because I want to get this into hands.
by iKenshu | 2025-04-01 23:44:30+00:00
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I also have knowledge in UX and Product Management. I have experience with Python and want to learn more about AWS and any other programming languages like Go and Rust.
by ein0p | 2025-04-01 23:45:04+00:00
You're assuming pursuit. For intercept you don't need a 180mph drone, you just need a somewhat predictable trajectory. You're also assuming constant motion away from shore or other ships, at top speed. Drones with speeds of up to 225kph (140mph) are already in use in Ukraine, although their payload is designed to take down heavy drones and helicopters (only a couple of pounds), and their range is only 12 miles. Nothing a month or two of rather straightforward scale-up couldn't fix. That's before we consider the practical scenario where a larger drone just drops these over the target. And if we assume the adversary is China, there could be hundreds of these larger drones in the air, with dozens of smaller drones each.
by krupan | 2025-04-01 23:46:41+00:00
The tracking dots aren't for anti-counterfeiting. The secret service has a separate chunk of code in every color printer that detects if you are printing money and prints out a page that says essentially, "you can't do that." (at least that was the case 20 years ago when I worked for HP).

The tracking dots are used by the FBI if someone prints out classified information and passes it around, or other copyrighted/illegal documents.
by erudyn | 2025-04-01 23:47:59+00:00
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by refulgentis | 2025-04-01 23:48:28+00:00
That's machine learning.

Clustering alone is machine learning and has been taught as such to innumerable people.

I have deep feelings about this, someone in management taking exactly one Kaggle course managed to wield this knowledge to great damage.

But it is machine learning.

Additionally, it goes far beyond clustering: the article you linked describes training an image recognition model, which also seems to be heavily stressed in the article linked on HN.
by DFHippie | 2025-04-01 23:49:38+00:00
Here's hoping the business world learns from this experience: trolls make terrible CEOs. It's one thing to be a narcissist or a sociopath. It's another to set out to sell a product while bending all your effort to taunting and dominating the customers who trusted you. People remember being betrayed.

It turns out no one is an NPC.
by defrost | 2025-04-01 23:49:47+00:00
The point being made by Nursie above is simply that what you are calling "Progressive left" in the USofA is a position largely seen as centralist in other parts of the world.

By stating tht there is "effectively no political left wing in America" they are asserting that the furtherest political left position held in the USofA is a centralist one called "Progressive left" there in the US.
by nl | 2025-04-01 23:49:53+00:00
The use of debt vs capital is interesting, but one isn't clearly better than the other. You can look at OpenAI's revenue as allowing them to raise investment capital.

To invest in OpenAI is to bet that they won't need to keep investing more in hardware than they bring in. To me that doesn't seem a sure thing, but it isn't obviously wrong either. They are growing revenue very quickly and already have significant cashflow, and it isn't clear to me that they'll need to sustain the CapEx forever.
by tonyarkles | 2025-04-01 23:50:17+00:00
Lol depending on what you’re delivering and whether you want the aircraft back to fly a second mission or not.

For civilian drone delivery there are some use cases where you can squeeze out a small profit doing drone-based delivery as opposed to conventional truck-based delivery, but it’s not a sure thing yet in general. A Transit van can cover a huge number of miles for a relatively small capital investment. Covering the same number of miles with a drone (even factoring in that you aren’t constrained by the road network and can do straight line flights) for lower cost is… hard.
Ask HN: Given the choice, would you write documentation if you didn't have to?
by devstein | 2025-04-01 23:50:51+00:00
I personally find writing internal documentation very monotonous even though I know it's important.

I'm curious if you were told you could have decent internal documentation automatically generated for you that were good enough, but not competitive w/ human maintained docs.

Would you still take the effort to write your own documentation?
by jacwithe | 2025-04-01 23:51:22+00:00
Location: Seattle WA Remote: Sure, but I'd actually prefer Hybrid/In person Willing to relocate: Yes, US only, the following locations: - West Coast (CA, OR, WA) - East Coast (MA, CT, NY, PA, NJ, MD, VA, NC) - Utah, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado Technologies: - Devops CI/CD (Github Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform/CDK) - Clouds (AWS, Azure, currently learning GCP) - Query (SQL, KQL, Postgres) - Infra as Code (Terraform/CDK, ARM) - Languages (Python, C++/C, Java, especially willing to learn Rust or Go) Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/jack-witherell-45baa2aa/, email me for a pdf resume. Email: JackWitherell [at] gmail [dot] com

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I'd be interested in any tech roles regarding backend technologies, Observability and platform logging, Data infrastructure architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, Security, Modernization and Automation.

I have strong familiarity with frontend/fullstack but would prefer to limit my frontend search to frontend roles that at least partially cover hardware accelerated technologies such as WebGPU/ThreeJS, Platform specifics (OpenGL/Vulkan/Metal/D3D), Compute or high efficiency parallelization.

I'd be open to opportunities where I get to further explore AI, however I'd have a preference for Healthcare, Notetaking, transcription and productivity, prototyping, and less emphasis on GenAI for content creation.

Additionally, I'd love the opportunity to take my skills and experience from outside of my professional experience into a new direction, so I've decided to put special emphasis on hardware/robotics. I consider any role that is at least somewhat adjacent to hardware technology a major plus.

I want to be more picky with my current job search. I'm open to spending more time in the interview process to determine whether or not I'm a good fit, as I want to ensure I'm where I want to be. Let's start a conversation!
by connivingbear | 2025-04-01 23:51:42+00:00
Location: NYC, Philly, Chicago, Boston, Preferred. Open to others

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Looking for application security engineer roles. For the past 5 years I have been building security tooling that internal teams can make use of. I work closely with other teams to help improve the security posture of their apps. I help write documentation and host department wide presentations to educate others about web app security and steps they can take to make apps more secure. I took on the responsibility of managing our H1 Bug Bounty Program which previously was failing SLA targets by 10+ months and managed to bring it down to days. I have helped mentor interns and junior developer and also been active in conducting pair programming interviews for future candidates. What you get from me is a go-getter, self-motivated individual. I am always looking to improve not only myself but also my work.
by newAccount2025 | 2025-04-01 23:51:56+00:00
A deeply considered take: this is theoretically interesting but in practice matters very little.

It’s like worrying about compiler bugs instead of semantic programming errors. If you are getting to the point where you have machine checked proofs, you are already doing great. It’s way more likely that you have a specification bug or modeling error than an error in the solver.

If you are worried about it, many people have solutions that are very compelling. There are LCF style theorem provers like HOL Light with tiny kernels. But for any real world systems, none of this matters, use any automated solvers you like, it will be fine.
by 3abiton | 2025-04-01 23:52:00+00:00
Imo they are still extremely limited compared to a senior coder. Take python, still most top ranking models struggle with our codebase, every now and then I try to test few, and handling complex part of the codebase to produce coherent features still fails. They require heavy handholding from our senior devs, which I am sure they use AI as assistants.
by satoshinm | 2025-04-01 23:52:12+00:00
This looks amazing! Both Eaglercraft and Browsercraft (though Eaglercraft seems to be further along) — the closest realization to the dream I've had for years of running a fully-featured Minecraft in the browser. Quite promising, I can only wonder where these projects will end up as they develop further, wishing for the best...!

Why is this so exciting to me? I started playing Minecraft back in the Java modding days, which really picked up steam around 1.2.5 and, by my estimations, peaked around 1.7.10. There was a veritable cornucopia of mods widely available, to enhance the game in a plethora of ways. I modded my game so hard I undoubtedly ran more third-party code than first-party/Mojang. Minecraft was a platform for creative expression, freeform and unconstrained. The golden age of Minecraft modding!

But it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows. There was a dark side of modding: the ease of use, or lack thereof in getting mods setup. Modpacks helped, but you still had to run untrusted code, and you still had to have a compatible PC. This is what (nearly) killed Minecraft for me. I wanted to play with my friend, but his PC had Windows upgraded and lost Java or OpenGL compatibility, and he eventually dropped his desktop and switched to tablets, phones, and consoles. My highly curated developed modded technical world became inaccessible.

Contrast this unfortunate situation with the browser: with "load and go" functionality as Douglas Crockford calls it, you can just visit a website and play, provided sufficient specs. What if we could play modded Minecraft (preferably 1.7.10), with all the mods to our hearts content, right in the browser, accessible to anyone?! And anyone could develop and distribute their own mods without concern, being safely executed within the browser sandbox.

I don't know how close Eaglercraft is to this utopia, but I find the possibility very enticing.
by FitCodIa | 2025-04-01 23:53:21+00:00
> a lot of user-space in Linux-land does not make the same effort

I believe that, what the article misses is that glibc is maintained and extended with an entirely different community and development model. Windows remains compatible over decades because Microsoft (a) is the sole distributor, and (b) puts an immense effort towards backwards compat. In Linux userspace, it's simply a non-goal across distributions. If you want to ship a binary for a particular distro, you need to build the binary on / for that distro; even within a distro, a major release bump (or especially a major release downgrade) may break a binary.

Ultimately, it's a consequence of Conway’s Law. Microsoft is the sole distributor of Windows, so they can enforce compatibilty with an iron fist, and there are people working for Microsoft whose pay depends on said compatibility. With "Linux" in general, there is no common authority to appeal to, and (again) most vendors don't even promise a seamless userspace upgrade path from one major release to another.

This is unfixable; it will never change -- as long as independent parties are permitted to distribute different operating systems yet call them all "Linux".

Ship multiple binaries, or distribute the source code (and let users build it).

EDIT: you'll notice that "ship multiple binaries" is what distros (especially commercial distros) do. They maintain separate branches, backport fixes to old branches, and employ software maintenance engineers to focus on this kind of work. If you want to target multiple major releases, this is what you have to do, too.

If you (as a commercial ISV) target a commercial distro with long-term support, and can convince your users to use / license the same distro, you'll have a good, stable development experience. You only need to port like once every decade, when you jump major releases.

The Linux user base / the Linux market is fragmented; that's the whole goal. The technical proliferation / inconsistency is just a consequence. Unless you take away the freedom of users to run their own flavors of "Linux", there won't be a uniform Linux target.

In a way, it's funny to even expect otherwise. Why do you expect to ship the same binaries when the foundations are diverse, with no standardization authority that all Linux distributors recognize as such? And even POSIX is an API spec, not an ABI spec.

And, any authority that controls binary aspects will immediately accrue political capital. This is exactly what shouldn't happen in Linux. The fact that anyone can fork (or start) a distro, and contribute to the chaos, is good for freedom.
by erudyn | 2025-04-01 23:53:31+00:00
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by 15155 | 2025-04-01 23:54:51+00:00
The point of these technologies is to stop the low hanging fruit and trace the source of ransom notes, leaked documents, and the like.

For counterfeiting, a technical person's first thought is: "how does the Bureau of Engraving and Printing actually do it?" and then they do that - and you nailed it: offset printing.

Laser printers and inkjets can't even remotely compare.
by 0_____0 | 2025-04-01 23:55:47+00:00
I'm sorry but you're dead wrong about the BMS. BMS doesn't address any of the things I listed.

You're also wrong about standardization - standarization at the cell form factor level is correct. Different applications have different capacity vs power density requirements, temperature range requirements, cost, lifecycle... a pouch cell that goes in a drone looks a lot like one that goes in a cell phone but they're optimized for completely different workloads.

Also we already have standardized interfaces for external batteries with most power banks using USB-C, so in a way your wish has already come true.
Show HN: JFK RAG Battle Arena with different models
by makesenseto | 2025-04-01 23:56:30+00:00
It's been 13 days since the release of the JFK files, and thanks to Amjad (Replit founder)'s open-sourcing OCRed JFK files, we are able to ship this: JFK RAG arena Vote for your favorite models. Link in comments!