MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iforgotpassword | 2025-04-16 07:11:11+00:00
> It sometimes takes a lot of time but I read everything. It still faster than nothing.

Opposite experience for me. It reliably fails at more involved tasks so that I don't even try anymore. Smaller tasks that are around a hundred lines maybe take me longer to review that I can just do it myself, even though it's mundane and boring.

The only time I found it useful is if I'm unfamiliar with a language or framework, where I'd have to spend a lot of time looking up how to do stuff, understand class structures etc. Then I just ask the AI and have to slowly step through everything anyways, but at least there's all the classes and methods that are relevant to my goal and I get to learn along the way.
by chyueli | 2025-04-16 07:12:35+00:00
Share 3 methods:

1. Hybrid architecture (CDN+P2P): - Use CDN to process backbone traffic, and edge nodes distribute through P2P to reduce the pressure on the central server (such as LivePeer trying to combine blockchain and P2P). - Platforms such as Youku have experimented with such solutions, but they need to weigh the cost and effect.

2. Protocol optimization: - Sliced transmission: Divide the streaming media into small pieces and improve efficiency through multi-path transmission. - Dynamic priority: Dynamically adjust the data allocation strategy according to node bandwidth and latency. - Buffering and preloading: Allow users to tolerate higher latency in exchange for more stable transmission (such as HLS/DASH protocol ideas).

3. Decentralized network exploration: - Projects such as IPFS and BitTorrent Live have tried real-time streaming, but are limited by technical maturity and ecological support. - Web3 projects (such as Theta Network) combine token incentives to encourage nodes to contribute bandwidth, which may promote development.
by treebeard901 | 2025-04-16 07:12:49+00:00
You can buy McDonalds with SNAP in some states.

Originally it was approved as a subsidy for farms which is why right leaning people ever supported it originally.

The end goal is to restict the program and eventually end it entirely. This just an excuse.

I think if youre at a store and you take it upon yourself to judge a person buying a product and spying on them to determine their method of payment to justify your initial suspicions, without any knowledge of why they are in that position, and your response is that you should be able to dictate the diet of someone else as a result is such an insane authoritarian way to view it that I dont even know what to say to you.

The caste system is real and be honest, you would rather see that person slumped over OD on the street corner than standing next to you in line attempting to just feed themselves.

Really what this view reveals is your own insecurity and lack of empathy
by m_fayer | 2025-04-16 07:13:22+00:00
"Extraordinary danger"? "Fighting the oligarchy"?

Those can certainly pull tens of thousands of people to the street. But I'm not so sure it's enough to win. See what I said above - materialistic, amoral. I'm afraid that the rallying cry we need must contain an answer to "what's in it for me?" to be a winner.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-16 07:13:44+00:00
>I also find wokeness to be irritating

This is a useless term if we can't agree on what "woke" is to begin with. Hence, the GP comment. If we can't agree on meanings of words, we talk past each other instead of to each other.

You see your two meanings and you realize how arguing about the term without aligning isn't a discussion, right?

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as an aside:

>a sort of rhetoric and militant attitude about it that honestly I find grating.

I'll be "woke" here and note the discminination in when a demanding male tends to be thought of as "leadership material", whereas a demanding female in the same role is called "bossy". These kinds of internal disciminations is exactly what "woke" people try to address (and ironically enough, are dismissed as "militant" over. Because it talks about topics people want to shut down).
by globular-toast | 2025-04-16 07:13:49+00:00
Lots of things have never been, that doesn't make them a bad idea.

Your example is in the real world where there are things like weather and other variables that can't be accounted for. It's necessary for law to be based on common sense in such an environment.

But why can't we imagine removing this element of ambiguity? In a computer system you can account for all variables and completely define the environment. This would make interpretation of the law much easier which is surely a good thing.

But this kind of thing needs formal verification to work properly, which we are not good at. Trying to do it without formal verification is silly. But the broader idea is by no means "childish".
by abhisek | 2025-04-16 07:13:57+00:00
May be try out vet as well: https://github.com/safedep/vet

vet is backed by a code analysis engine that performs malicious package (npm, pypi etc.) scanning. We recently extended it to support GitHub repository scanning as well.

It found the malicious behaviour in mcp-servers-example/bad-mcp-server.js https://platform.safedep.io/community/malysis/01JRYPXM0SYTM8...
by Nevermark | 2025-04-16 07:14:52+00:00
I am learning whole new levels of not “caring”.

By which I mean, stoicism is really becoming a survival stance for me. And I recommend it for others.

Some people will retreat from the news, but that’s not me.

What is happening is going to cause a great deal of lasting mental hardships, as well as the practical damage.

Second tack: remember we are still in history. History has always been crazy, with only short periods of less crazy.

A third tack is considering how to support other people, instead of needing support.

Best to find a way to reliably maintain internal peace and health right now. Things are unlikely to stabilize soon, without a miracle. Or eventually bounce back. But that could take a long time. And this could just be the preamble for much worse disasters. Gulp.

At least, this is how I am prepping myself! Scary times.
by rocqua | 2025-04-16 07:15:27+00:00
My guess is that they feel they are supplying something the whole world is benefiting from, and they believe that unfair. That ignores the fact that the US benefits immensely from this, and that they benefit domestically from providing that benefit more widely by getting a lot of free contributions from the outside. But the US foots the bill of those who do get payed, so its unfair...
by azangru | 2025-04-16 07:15:38+00:00
I've switched completely to audiobooks for any kind of books (fiction primarily, but also non-fiction) that do not have code in them, or any other material that requires visual consumption. I made the switch more than 10 years ago. I am doubtful I'll ever be able to consume heavy prose requiring concentration and re-reading of the same or previous paragraphs via audiobooks; or poetry; so probably no Gravity Rainbow, or Infinite Jest, or the Bible for me; but for light reading, it's perfect.
by chyueli | 2025-04-16 07:16:31+00:00
There are several principles for reference: 1. Exercise quality: Exercises must cover core concepts, have a reasonable difficulty level, and preferably come with answers or explanations. 2. Practice orientation: Deepen theoretical understanding and cultivate application capabilities by solving problems. 3. Classics and reputation: Give priority to books that have been recognized by the academic community or learners for a long time.
by tdb7893 | 2025-04-16 07:16:33+00:00
The US has made at least hundreds of billions of dollars from it's tech companies and has had a dominance over global tech for a long time. The tech industry has brought a crazy amount of money and power to the US so it makes sense the US puts extra effort to support it.

The US isn't supporting it out of charity, it's good for US businesses to have someone coordinating this for everyone. Why would we want to rely on other countries to be supporting our tech sector? At least now we are subject to only the capricious whims of our own government, as little comfort as that is right now (if another country was funding it we would be relying on the whims of a foreign government, which isn't ideal when tech is the golden goose of your modern economy).
by rrr_oh_man | 2025-04-16 07:16:35+00:00
> some use a renewal script that renews before the email

I'd like to challenge the "some" part. How many of those ~600M currently issued certs realistically don't get auto-renewed 30 days before expiration, except when it's one-off dev sites or legacy stuff? Last time I touched certbot that was the default I think (so I've never received a renewal email).

edit: It sounds more like they've been getting fleeced by Mailchimp for tx email...
by Brybry | 2025-04-16 07:16:39+00:00
In the US, capital gains are taxed at a different rate from ordinary income, so taxing the "rich" (where the money is) doesn't necessarily have to destroy investing (not to mention a lot of retirement is tied up in investing, the rich aren't the only investors).

Clinton's government balanced the budget and had a surplus by decreasing spending and increasing taxes. He backed off on some capital gains tax increases and still had the surplus.

The fact of the matter is that if the US government is going to outlay X% of GDP then it needs to match X% of GDP in revenue: that's what Clinton's government did. Outlays dropped from 20.7% of GDP to 17.6% of GDP, tax revenue increased from 17.0% of GDP to 20.0% of GDP. [1]

And that government did not defund Universities to do it (iirc they actually increased funding).

Norway's tax revenue as a % of GDP in 2023 was 41.4%. United States was 25.2% [2]

Your marginal rate comparison doesn't paint a fair comparison because a lot of their government revenue comes from VAT and a special very high petroleum tax (I couldn't find exact percentages). And I think they have fairly low income inequality[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Bill_Cl... (citing https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...)

[2] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report... [page 15]

[3] https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/hfa-explorer/gini-coefficien...
by esperent | 2025-04-16 07:17:13+00:00
> But the benefit of living in a society is that those people that _cannot_ survive without the society, _can_ with it

Hence why it's a "contract". Both parties benefit. Society gets to exist, the people in it mostly have better lives than they would living alone in a forest. Admittedly, that's a low bar and we could stand to improving things.
by bkor | 2025-04-16 07:17:24+00:00
> Not only that, but being owned by the EU gives the ability for MITRE employees to have the option to immigrate to the EU to protect against any retaliation.

According to which rule would "owning by the EU" result in an option to immigrate? Immigration is handled on a per country basis. I don't see how the EU provide such an option.
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-04-16 07:18:27+00:00
Less pleasant -cracy words to recognize illiberal devolution trends across the world:

- Anocracy - illiberal, pretend democracy.

- Chirocracy - rule by force.

- Kakistocracy - rule by the most unqualified and/or unethical individuals.

- Kleptocracy - rule for profit.

- Kratocracy - power seized and/or maintained through force and/or guile.

- Mortocracy - rule based on death and destruction.

- Ochlocracy - rule by a mob, i.e., the Reign of Terror.

- Phobocracy - rule by fear.

- Plutocracy - rule by economic aristocracy, a loose subset of oligarchy (rule by an unelected few).

- Quangocracy - rule by unelected bureaucrats.
by paganel | 2025-04-16 07:20:51+00:00
Agree, but it goes both ways, with technology (that many of us here have helped create and maintain) also reaching out into every facet of society and community, many times in close symbiosis with the political powers that be, to the detriment of said society and community.

Not 100% sure what I wanted to say, maybe that said politics (and the political as a whole) wouldn't have invaded almost our entire lives without the help of technology.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-16 07:22:22+00:00
Is your immediate desire:

A) A job where your title is 'Senior Product Engineer'?

B) A job where your responsibilities and activities are that of a 'Senior Product Engineer'?

C) A job where you can hone your craft over time, so that one day an impartial observer would consider you a 'Senior Product Engineer'?

D) Something else?

From your description, my guess is:

A is achievable. Many companies have a low bar and/or are willing to take chances and/or are happy to grant big titles because they don't cost anything.

B is achievable, but you haven't built the skills or experience for it. So it's probably not the ideal learning environment and would probably cause a lot of stress.

C is what I would recommend if a friend came to me with this question.

(If you're a good PM, this will save time on some aspects of your new engineering job, so you'll be in a better position than a typical junior engineer.)
by aoanevdus | 2025-04-16 07:23:01+00:00
When I was a kid, an adult told me that I should stop using “basically” as a filler word because people will interpret it as an insult to their intelligence (ie. “You’re not smart enough for the whole thing, so I will just tell you the basic version”). I’ve been attentive to the way other people use the word ever since, and I think they have a point. Some people say it very frequently and don’t mean anything by it. But a good chunk of the time, it does seem like there is a status game going on when people use that word.
by kromem | 2025-04-16 07:23:18+00:00
Don't underestimate the importance of multi-user human/AI interactions.

Right now OAI's synthetic data pipeline is very heavily weighted to 1-on-1 conversations.

But models are being deployed into multi-user spaces that OAI doesn't have access to.

If you look at where their products are headed right now, this is very much the right move.

Expect it to be TikTok style media formats.
by maccard | 2025-04-16 07:23:31+00:00
Absolutism is a fools game. I can make the same argument that using computers supports modern day slavery in eastern countries, or buying clothing that you don’t have a validated supply chain for supports child labour in South East Asia.

Animal products for better or worse are used everywhere, and by arguing against their use you can be accused of prioritising the welfare of horses over children if you support vaccines. My house was built on forest land that likely displaced animals when it was cleared too, and caused their suffering.

Or, I could say that my presence on the planet has an impact at every level, and I will do my best to try and be conscious of that impact.
by hobofan | 2025-04-16 07:24:05+00:00
I would still call it one of the epicenters. Yes, many venues that were previously only multlipliers like some prolific streamers / Youtubers / TikTok channels have grown and cultivated their own distinct subcommunities which form new epicenters.

However, from what I can see /pol/ still serves as significant breeding ground where people deeply committed to their views can get together in a "mask-off" manner without fear of moderation, while they have to be more "mask-on" on platforms that are more dissemination-focused like Youtube.
by fragmede | 2025-04-16 07:24:10+00:00
ish? it's pretty stupid that in the age of seedboxes with gigabit we still prioritize that. The only way to be a seed these days is to get the release microseconds after it gets released, and download it before everyone else gets their hands on it, so you can upload to them. Everyone else then has to download from you, but since everyone that's more than slightly involved has a seedbox with symmetric gigabit, the issue of leeches just isn't the same as it was before in the dial up and DSL era. That the culture hasn't been able to evolve past that, and hangs on to such outdated notions is disappointing. I'm not saying people shouldn't be incentivized to give back. Leeches suck. But in this land of plenty, theres this problem of being unable to seed because there's just too many seeders trying to seed.
by Xelynega | 2025-04-16 07:25:51+00:00
> So what? You’re basically claiming that it’ll fail because some companies won’t want to provide too much value for free.

> If GitHub has an MCP server, you’re still paying them to host your code (potentially)

So are you saying that all uses of MCP that rely on data you don't own or pay someone to store are not likely to exist?

I would agree with that point of view, but I'm not sure you do even though you are the one sharing it.
by paride5745 | 2025-04-16 07:26:46+00:00
It makes no sense to build a social network nowadays.

With Mastodon and Bluesky around, users have free options. Plus X and Threads, and you can see how the market is more than saturated.

IMHO they should look into close collaboration/minority stake with Bluesky or Reddit instead. You have a huge pool of users already, without the need to build it up from the ground up from scratch.

Heck, OpenAI probably has enough money to just buy Reddit if they want.
by ruszki | 2025-04-16 07:27:14+00:00
First of all, it’s not tedious for a lot of us. Writing characters themselves is not a lot of time. Secondly, we don’t work in a waterfall model, even on the lowest levels, so the code quantity in an iteration is almost always abysmal or small. Many-many times it’s less than articulate it in English. Thirdly, if you need a wireframe for your code, or a first draft version, you can almost always copy-paste or generate them.

I can imagine that LLM is really helpful in some cases for some people. But so far, I couldn’t find a single example when I and simple copy-pasting wouldn’t have been faster. Not even when I tried it, not when others showed me how to use it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-16 07:27:32+00:00
IDK how it is today, but last decade the US was considered to have many of the best educational institutions.

>Many Americans would be seriously surprised by the balance of left and right at continental European universities.

Yes, because EU "left" would be accused of socialism, whereas the EU "right" would mostly be the US's existing left wing. the US right wing was always on a far side and these days fell straight to the AfD levels of extremism.

It's not one sided, but the spectrum is completely different.

>And Asian universities are a completely different world.

I'm sure they are. a history fighting within the eastern continent and a rule of emporers will shape differently than from a land of conquerers puahing for conformity who eventually tried to make nice as their regimes fell and created this hybrid of individualism and trade amongst one another.
by isaacremuant | 2025-04-16 07:27:44+00:00
I don't understand what's the debate unless you're assigning some higher value to the written form, like people who think reading makes you more disciplined or a better person than others in some way.

If you remove that and realize reading is a form of communication then it doesn't matter how you make it happen. There was a time when stories and knowledge was mostly shared verbally so it's not like reading is "the truest form".

Do what you like/works for you.
by garfield_light | 2025-04-16 07:27:57+00:00
Sure, a Marxist might think IP is absurd on ideological grounds, but a Social Democrat? Maybe? A socially conscious neoliberal? They love IP. Someone may also hate Mickey Mouse's copyright extension and at the same time hate GenAI!

This type of vague posting is very popular in HN.

> X thing was originally universally leftist (it wasn't), now it's right wing only (it isn't), something something the real counterculture or grey tribe.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-04-16 07:28:00+00:00
I find audiobook performances are usually quite bad or cheesy. Even the ones that people rave about. I also find radio plays, or podcasts with full scripts, the same way.

I also find them simply boring to listen to, even the ones of books I love. It feels very passive and I'm always slightly annoyed that I can read significantly faster than the wpm of an audiobook (speeding up an audiobook ruins the performances).
by KoolKat23 | 2025-04-16 07:28:49+00:00
It depends if acted in accordance with the terms of the contract then it's fine but if he did something not covered by the contract it's theft.

If I run an unmanned lemonade stand out front and leave a pile of money on the table, and say take your change, if you take more than what you're owed that's theft regardless of how easy it was.
by Ucalegon | 2025-04-16 07:28:53+00:00
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/50/oj

The EU has agreed upon programs in order to bring in, through an immigration policy, high skilled persons from non-member states. More importantly, working within the member nations, as to which member nation would want MITRE to be located within their borders, is not something that is a hard sell given that it has economic advantages for whichever state(s) onboard MITRE.
by skerit | 2025-04-16 07:29:04+00:00
> When controlling for the number of tokens, NoThinking outperforms Thinking across a diverse set of seven challenging reasoning datasets

Interesting. I thought the "thinking" was useful because it pulls in a lot of concepts into the context, but I guess not then?

It has also been said before that the text a model outputs during its Thinking step isn't actually a view into its inner thoughts. There are times when the model will think X but eventually answer Y.

But even so: the models _are_ better, right? So is the Thinking step then mostly useful during training?
by sph | 2025-04-16 07:29:05+00:00
Agreed. I would go so far as to say all the ills of modern social media are because of ranked platforms, such as upvote/downvote-based, or like-based. They turn into echo chambers, that promote witty one-liners over nuance, and any sort of controversial position is effectively censored.

That said, HN functions decently well, though in some ways it is even worse in the censoring the outliers.
by hyuuu | 2025-04-16 07:30:47+00:00
N+1 is a solved problem at the framework level If GraphQL actually affects your performance, congratulations, your application is EXTREMELY popular, more so than Facebook, and they use graphql. There are also persisted queries etc.

Not sure about caching, if anything, graphql offers a more granular level of caching so it can be reused even more?

The only issue I see with graphql is the tooling makes it much harder to get it started on a new project, but the recent projects such as gql.tada makes it much easier, though still could be easier.
by jl6 | 2025-04-16 07:30:54+00:00
It’s a reckless move to cut funding so abruptly, but taking a step back from the short-term chaos, it probably is an anomaly that this was government funded. All of private tech relies on it, and private tech is big enough to pay for it. I hope that the trillion dollar babies consider this an opportunity to pool together to form a foundation that funds this, and a bunch of other open source projects run by one random person in Nebraska.