MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dylan604 | 2025-04-07 20:25:54+00:00
The universe is ~14 billion years old. We didn't come along until a few million years ago, and then it took just until a hundred to two hundred years ago to be able to actually broadcast our existence. So if some other civilization had a similar timeline but much earlier, their signal could have come and gone by the time we could detect it. Their star could have also already reached the point where it destroyed its planet the civilization was located, so we'd never know about them. It's the same fate our planet has in store for it as well. If there's any civilization that comes after Earth's demise, they'd never know we were here either.
by throw83848484 | 2025-04-07 20:25:58+00:00
Sadly, as OS dev, I see third way: development behind closed doors.

With AI and CV reference hunting, number of contributions is higher than ever. Open-source projects are basically spammed, with low quality contributions.

Public page is just a liability. I am considering to close public bugzilla, git repo and discussions. I would just take bug reports and patches from very small circle of customers and power users. Everything except release source tarball, and short changelog would be private!

Open-source means you get a source code, not free customer and dev support!
by throwaway5752 | 2025-04-07 20:26:10+00:00
They didn't simply expel them, the sent them to a foreign prison. Don't misrepresent what occurred. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a legal resident. They are doing this to people who _do_ have the right to stay. Even for those who are in the US illegally, they are entitled to basic human rights and have protections under US law. They can be deported in accordance with domestic and international law.

Sending them to foreign prison camps instead is in fact a crime against humanity.
by gs17 | 2025-04-07 20:26:11+00:00
> But if we slightly decrease the carbon footprint of a Hershey's bar, we'll be OK.

They're not saying it alone will fix it. They also say they:

>created the ChoViva website with an environmentally conscious mindset. This means we use fonts, colours, images and animations in a purposeful way, do without flashy videos and welcome you in the low-energy dark mode by default.

And I doubt you think they're claiming less JavaScript is all we need.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-04-07 20:26:20+00:00
Made primarily from sunflower seeds? I just don't think that's going to taste like chocolate.

Process:

Fermentation: The sunflower seeds undergo an innovative fermentation-like process, similar to ancient beer brewing technology, to enhance their flavor.

Roasting: The fermented seeds are then gently roasted. Grinding: The roasted ingredients are ground into a concentrate that resembles cocoa powder.

Mixing and Conching: The concentrate is mixed with additional ingredients, ground further, and conched to achieve a smooth, creamy texture, similar to traditional chocolate

Carob was the old-timey chocolate substitute in the 70s (probably because of inflation back then as well). Carob is kind of chocolate tasting, but it's better to just say it's carob instead of trying to pretend it's chocolate - it definitely didn't have the same smoothness as chocolate.
by bananalychee | 2025-04-07 20:26:39+00:00
Well do you care about results or not? Because if climate change is such an urgent threat to face, it seems like all efforts should be directed towards the lowest-hanging fruit and making the most possible impact with the resources that you have, instead of muddying the waters by convincing people that buying a hyper-processed chocolate substitute will actually change anything meaningfully. OP clearly does not care enough to make it his or her life's quest, but that doesn't make it inconsistent to criticize the effort of those who supposedly do, just like it's not inconsistent to criticize a bad movie without being an accomplished film director. What's inconsistent is selling climate change as an imminent thread that has to be an immediate top priority to address, while promoting purely performative efforts. It seems like what actually motivates activists in this area is the sense of moral superiority more than a sense of duty.
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-07 20:27:21+00:00
In fact we have modern examples of a single person making a game that's not just much better from a technical standpoint, but actually sells more units, generates more buzz, and moves game design forward.

What those games, games like Stardew Valley, Undertale, or Animal Well can't do is create an endless income stream in the billions, and right now that's the goal of some big "AAA" publishers. They don't want to make good games, they don't want to make any sort of game really, they want to create an addictive platform for further transactions. They want GTA Online, F2P Gachas, and E-Sports.

They don't want to make Stardew Valley no matter how many units it sells, they want to make the next Fortnite. As a result they keep dumping absurd amounts of money into really sketchy projects (Concorde, Anthem, etc) and they can't seem to figure out why people aren't biting. When in doubt if you're an MBA and you see money flying out of the door and the expected return isn't being generated, it must be almost instinctive to raise prices and lay people off.
by S_Bear | 2025-04-07 20:27:47+00:00
As a librarian, that's only around 35% of new books. The rest are about a hard-working professional woman in the big city that inherits her dead aunt's coffee shop in Cape Cod and has a prickly love-hate relationship with the local handyman. There may be a magic cat involved. And books about vampires having love triangles with a werewolf/zombie/black lagoon monster and a Mary Sue insert.
by 9rx | 2025-04-07 20:28:04+00:00
If I'm not that interested in a company, I won't waste my time to contact them (or pay attention to their efforts to contact me). Having interest in them does not imply that I have an interest in travel, however. If I had an interest in travel, I'd have become an airline pilot or something like that instead.

But if they think they need someone who has a secret desire to man a ship or be a touring musician – cool. A good fit isn't a good fit.
by jagger27 | 2025-04-07 20:28:21+00:00
> Canada. Even Quebec, which insists on doing everything in French.

Quebec would be the one place in Canada where you’re expected to do business in French. Maybe New Brunswick? Even right across the river in Ottawa you’d have no reason to use French in any official capacity.

Sure, you might want a FR/EN selector at the top of your site since Quebec is a big market (within Canada).
by zrav | 2025-04-07 20:28:31+00:00
Also don't forget one of the promises of RAW: That RAW developers will continue to evolve, so that you'll be able to generate a better conversion down the line than now. Granted, given the maturity of developers the pace of innovation has slowed down a lot compared to 20 years ago, but there are still incremental improvements happening.

Another advantage of RAW is non-destructive editing, at least in developers that support it and are more than import plugins for traditional editors. I rarely have to touch Photoshop these days.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-07 20:28:45+00:00
The run and/or troubleshooting steps for Windows should probably include the note you need to install https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Window... if you have an Nvidia GPU (and probably something similar if you have an AMD GPU?). As it is right now the steps happily get you benchmarking your CPU and I'd say that might even be worth adding a "Warning: The benchmark is operating in CPU only mode, press y to continue if this is intended" type message to the program.

Edit: And for the same prompt and generated token counts it runs ~4x slower than `ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M --verbose`. It's possible I'm mixing up a few things there but my results also post in the same ballpark slower than others with the same GPU so it seems something is up with the application in either case.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-07 20:29:16+00:00
Admiral Rickover was likely the single most competent engineering manager in the last century and wrote this: Doing a Job https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

Complex jobs cannot be accomplished effectively with transients. Therefore, a manager must make the work challenging and rewarding so that his people will remain with the organization for many years. This allows it to benefit fully from their knowledge, experience, and corporate memory.

The Defense Department does not recognize the need for continuity in important jobs. It rotates officer every few years both at headquarters and in the field. The same applies to their civilian superiors.

This system virtually ensures inexperience and nonaccountability. By the time an officer has begun to learn a job, it is time for him to rotate. Under this system, incumbents can blame their problems on predecessors. They are assigned to another job before the results of their work become evident. Subordinates cannot be expected to remain committed to a job and perform effectively when they are continuously adapting to a new job or to a new boss.

When doing a job—any job—one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in the job forever. He must look after his work just as conscientiously, as though it were his own business and his own money. If he feels he is only a temporary custodian, or that the job is just a stepping stone to a higher position, his actions will not take into account the long-term interests of the organization. His lack of commitment to the present job will be perceived by those who work for him, and they, likewise, will tend not to care. Too many spend their entire working lives looking for their next job. When one feels he owns his present job and acts that way, he need have no concern about his next job.

Rickover would be a savage critic of society and American culture as it is now, he even was then. He was a man who successfully challenged people in power, which is why I imagine most people never hear of him. He won many political battles, but the same people he challenged remained in power. When they wrote the history books, they diminish his legacy, because they don't want stories of people successfully challenging power structures and especially not stories of people who challeneged corporate power, or prove that the government can do something better, cheaper, and more dangerous/complicated than corporations.
by pashkinelfe | 2025-04-07 20:29:33+00:00
A nice performance review for Orioledb. I'm impressed with the results. These measurements use sysbench, and complement already published benchmarks using TPC-b, and TPC-c workload:

[1] https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta7-benchmarks

[2] https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/sites/default/files/presentat...

Thanks to Brian Misachi who did the test and shared the results!
by t-3 | 2025-04-07 20:30:01+00:00
Yep. Trump's taken it to a new level by targeting American citizens while they're physically in the USA, and while immigration courts were always a bad joke he's even skipping the kangaroo court and just shipping people off without even a pretense of due process or legal justification. Rather than an incremental step forward on the path of authoritarianism, this administration has taken a flying leap out the frog-boiling pot, straight into the inferno.
by thomashlvt | 2025-04-07 20:30:08+00:00
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by maronato | 2025-04-07 20:30:50+00:00
He’s following his own advice

or, as he would say: Clearly the CEO is demonstrating advanced implementation of his own AI-first philosophy by leveraging transformer-based language models to exponentially increase word count while simultaneously decreasing information density—a masterclass in modern corporate communication techniques that validates his thesis about AI integration being not merely optional but fundamentally requisite in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape. The medium is indeed the message.
by sofixa | 2025-04-07 20:31:04+00:00
> A big european country’s government just arrested a popular politician to prevent her from running for president using some silly charges that could have been used against any politician

Silly charges being blatant stealing of public money with obvious and well visible for anyone to see proof? Yes, a bunch of French politicians have been sued for corruption and stealing public money, and they have all received bans from pursuing office and/or house arrest/prison sentence. Do you have anything to say that invalidates the proven in court evidence? It has been known and proven for years she used her EU MEP budget (that was for her role as an MEP) to pay for personal and party expenses. Neither her nor her party hid it.

> Another European country cancelled an election because a candidate was likely to win they the people in power didn’t like.

No, because he obviously violated election law by lying on his financial declaration (declared campaign funding of 0, yet had tons of paid ads for him). Again, do you have anything to say against the proven in court crimes or are you again just ignoring reality to sell a narrative.

> They even revoke citizenships — then deport the people. Is France fascist

Of terrorists, if they have another citizenship, yes. All countries do this.

> Donald Trump is trying to reduce the size and scope of the U.S. government and reduce regulation — literally the opposite of fascism

I think nobody is calling that part fascism. The failed coup attempt, ignoring laws and courts to rule by decree, sending random people with no due process to detention camps, including abroad, requesting bribes. That part is clear cut fascism.
by Igrom | 2025-04-07 20:32:02+00:00
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by johnisgood | 2025-04-07 20:34:40+00:00
Has anyone used this? In my ~/.bash_profile, I have "eval "$(luarocks path --bin)"" which is very slow, and it needs to be called. How does this work with "lux"?

Additionally, I think there should be examples on the website of typical workflow(s).

Additionally, is "luvit" integrated in some way or another?

Additionally, does it work with LuaJIT? I assume it does, but worth a question.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-07 20:34:43+00:00
You can criticize the lack of effort and point that criticism directly at those in charge. Taking cheap shots at people making personal choices to at least not contribute to the problems directly is just not ever going to do anything positive. Again, these individuals are not the ones in control of government policy. They are just trying to do what they feel is a better way than actively participating in the worsening.

Shout at the US government all you want. At least you'll be putting the blame of inaction where it belongs. You're efforts will have the same effect that you say the individuals are having. None.

You want to make changes? Run for office. Get elected. Enact change. Oh, right, your comfy salary and cushy job are too nice to actually take on any sacrifice to do that. So getting a government job making changes from the inside are also not going to happen for same comfy/cushy reasons. Also, now, those jobs don't exist. So go out and campaign for those that are working to get into office. Work to campaign against those that are in office but not doing anything.

There's much more helpful ways of trying to get large scale changes made than trying to belittle other individuals.
by mmmrtl | 2025-04-07 20:34:46+00:00
It seems their deeper sequencing of dire wolf samples clarified the phylogeny - they claim the dire wolf's closest living relative is the gray wolf, at 99.5% identity. The 2021 study was only able to sequence the dire wolf genome at 0.23x coverage and put a 0.56 probability on their species tree (Fig 2A). https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/255832/1/NatureDireWol...
by o11c | 2025-04-07 20:35:08+00:00
And a relevant piece of ancient wisdom (exact date not known, but presumably before 1970):

> In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

> “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

> “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

> “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

> “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

> Minsky then shut his eyes.

> “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

> “So that the room will be empty.”

> At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
by achierius | 2025-04-07 20:35:14+00:00
Unlike the hard problem of "making an exam difficult to take when you have access to an LLM", "making sure students don't have devices on them when they take one" is very tractable, even if teachers are going to need some time to catch up with the curve.

Any of the following could work, though the specific tradeoffs & implementation details do vary:

- have <n> teachers walking around the room to watch for cheaters

- mount a few cameras to various points in the room and give the teacher a dashboard so that they can watch from all angles

- record from above and use AI to flag potential cheaters for manual review

- disable Wi-Fi + activate cell jammers during exam time (with a land-line in the room in case of emergencies?)

- build dedicated examination rooms lined with metal mesh to disrupt cell reception

So unlike "beating LLMs" (where it's an open question as to whether it's even possible, and a moving target to boot), barring serious advances in wearable technology this just seems like a question of funding and therefore political will.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-04-07 20:35:14+00:00
Voice of Void argues the "Dead Internet" isn’t dead—it’s evolving for AI. With 49.6% of traffic now bots (Imperva 2024) and 90% of content potentially AI-generated by 2026, the web is becoming a machine-first space. Hidden highways, digital symbiosis—are we losing control or gaining a partner?

Read and debate: Is this the end of the human web, or a new frontier? Let’s hash it out in the comments!
by dcow | 2025-04-07 20:35:22+00:00
Same in mine. But mine isn’t predicated on the irreplaceability of human labor to derive value from human life. If we automated literally everything and we could all just live off UBI and drink wine and look at the stars all day, humans would still be intrinsically valuable. Or, the ability of a machine to generate art good enough to serve as a fun D&D avatar does not devalue a human doing the same. You may be attaching a… market value… to humans by proxy of their capital output. Very capitalist of you. If you look at things that way, the value of a human life has been trending toward zero and will continue. So I prefer not to hold a belief system that only values humans by the value of their labor. Therefore I am not bothered when we invent a new tool that might compete with human labor.
by zaking17 | 2025-04-07 20:35:34+00:00
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by Baeocystin | 2025-04-07 20:35:41+00:00
I majored in CogSci at UCSD in the 90's. I've been interested and active in the machine learning world for decades. The LLM boom took me completely and utterly by surprise, continues to do so, and frankly I am most mystified by the folks who downplay it. These giant matrixes are already so far beyond what we thought was (relatively) easily achievable that even if progress stopped tomorrow, we'd have years of work to put in to understand how we got here. Doesn't mean we've hit AGI, but what we already have is truly remarkable.
by tomhow | 2025-04-07 20:35:52+00:00
The title we changed it to is a verbatim sentence from the post (which is what we always try to do when we change a title), and thus is also/still the article author's opinion.

But with this title, the discussion can be drawn towards the question of whether the license would or wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source, rather than whether it meets each commenter’s own definition of open source, which would be a much less gratifying discussion.
by sandofsky | 2025-04-07 20:36:08+00:00
> Camera sensors from different companies (and different generations) don't have the same color (or if you prefer, spectral) responses with both their Bayer filter layer and the underlying physical sensor

This is all accommodated for in the DNG spec. The camera manufacturers specify the necessary matrix transforms to get into the XYZ colorspace, along with a linearization table.

If they really think the spectral sensitivity is some valuable IP, they are delusional. It should take one Macbeth chart, a spreadsheet, and one afternoon to reverse engineer this stuff.

Given that third party libraries have figured this stuff out, seems they have failed while only making things more difficult for users.
by xigency | 2025-04-07 20:36:09+00:00
With all the unemployed tech workers, would it just make sense to hire someone who knows their salt to do recruiting and interviews? Recruiters always seem to have a blast moving between random high-level companies and ghosting people over text, socials and the phone. If they lack both the social skills and the technical knowledge, I don't know what their value proposition is, but compared to chronic underemployment after actually learning Java, C, C++, they're clearly winning.