MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway5752 | 2025-04-17 01:56:54+00:00
Considering that you lived in an authoritarian country, what did you find was the most effective way of resisting the worst of it? Was there a free and open democratic process there? Was there a price that the population paid for speaking freely online?

Regardless of what else I do, when I comment, I want people to not feel isolate or only in their views. The administration is working hard to create a climate of fear and intimidation and it is important to resist it in multiple ways.

I agree commenting in isolation is less valuable. Voting, calling representatives, going to town halls, and running for office are all more valuable.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-17 01:58:05+00:00
There isn't any general intelligence that isn't receiving pre-traning. People spend 14 to 18+ years in school to have any sort of career.

You don't have to pretrain it for every little thing but it should come as no surprise that a complex non-trivial game would require it.

Even if you explained all the rules of chess clearly to someone brand new to it, it will be a while and lots of practice before they internalize it.

And like I said, LLM pre-training is less like a machine reading text and more like Evolution. If you gave a corpus of chess rules, you're only training a model that knows how to converse about chess rules.

Do humans require less 'pre-training' ? Sure, but then again, that's on the back of millions of years of evolution. Modern NNs initialize random weights and have relatively very little inductive bias.
by za3faran | 2025-04-17 01:58:20+00:00
That is literally taken from the UN report. There are no videos of rape, and there are articles showing that no one came forth for eye witnesses. The fact of the matter is that all of "evidence" was strictly by the israeli side, with no third party confirmation. Not only that, they were exposed many times for providing doctored "evidence".

Where is this woman who was gang raped? Please show the evidence? The israelis employed the hannibal directive on their own people.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 01:59:12+00:00
Every place I've been we measured such weirdness outside of the 95'th and 99'th percentile. Anything out of common occurrence beyond the 99'th could be weird or interesting or fascinating. I still wish I could share the incident of a single NIC on a single server taking down an entire data-center, that was both weird and fascinating.
by SECProto | 2025-04-17 02:01:18+00:00
> Don't forget the electricity cost come with home server. A quick math will show that it's not insignificant

If you run it 24/7 on a dedicated desktop with decent idle (i.e. no high power video card, low power CPU), it likely uses ~ 50W average. That gives an estimate of 0.05kW24hr30 = 36kWh, which would be in the range of $12/month at current australian electricity prices. If you have bad idle power usage (or somehow mostly active not idle), maybe you'd be looking at twice that. But for OP who was spending $xxx/month on subscriptions, it's a pretty negligible cost. If you really want to save this too, raspPi can do a lot of home server needs nowadays
by someonehere | 2025-04-17 02:01:23+00:00
If you haven’t been keeping up with Plex, self-hosters like myself and others are up in arms over the client rewrite. It feels like the Sonos update for us. Broken features. Useful functionality removed. UI that’s more streaming focused than self-hosting like it used to be.

If you haven’t gone down the Plex path yet, don’t right now as the community and developers sort out their roadmap. Plex seems to be open to feedback, but a lot of us feel betrayed. They had open user testing for the new apps but they didn’t implement or fix any of the reported issues.
by lucb1e | 2025-04-17 02:01:26+00:00
What TLD is not subject to a country's laws? .aq? .su?

Edit: .eu might be an even better candidate for this requirement, but you can ask British former domain owners how that worked out

gTLDs just subject you to an additional layer of incompetence, namely from the company running it. The government where they're located can still come knocking. It's also not like e.g. .nl is run by the Dutch government officials, it's a nonprofit started by some people in the 80s iirc
by willywanker | 2025-04-17 02:01:26+00:00
>Now, whenever you download some giant 300-500mb Electron app

There's the mistake right there. Electron is to be avoided like the plague; if all I want is the same dumb touchscreen focused web UI of the creator's website, there's no need to wrap it in a Chrome instance and call it a 'desktop' app when it doesn't follow a single desktop UI convention.
by ilrwbwrkhv | 2025-04-17 02:01:57+00:00
I like how the article ends with:

Cryptopolitan Academy: Want to grow your money in 2025? Learn how to do it with DeFi in our upcoming webclass. Save Your Spot.

Lol. Absolute scam and the antithesis of what makes Buffet so great. He called out crypto being nonsense a long time back.
by dankwizard | 2025-04-17 02:03:02+00:00
This article fails to mention the absolute butchering of features that takes place moving from a typical music streaming subscription to a self hosted Jellyfin library.

A large part of my listening on YouTube Music is going to a particular song or band I like and clicking "Radio", which generates a playlist of similar sounding songs. You can then fine tune it with a filter i.e "Popular songs, deep cuts" or specific elements of the song "More emo", "Slow paced" etc. This exposes me to a lot of new music and keeps it fresh and if I'm lucky I'll discover a new artist or song to add to my rotations.

You lose that.

A lot of these services overtime build mixes which takes your listening habits and tries to categorize them into specific mixes made up of your existing library & new music.

I don't browse any music forums and so apart from my favourite bands, I have no idea on when artists I like release new albums and would not encounter them on a self hosted solution, etc.
by austin-cheney | 2025-04-17 02:03:31+00:00
I get that you want to put your hands in the code and get more technical, but this looks like a giant step backwards for you. If you want to get a superior handle on the code write personal projects outside of work. Never ever trust your office coworkers to determine what qualifies as high quality code when you can make those determinations more precisely from doing the same work yourself without the restrictions and politics of the office getting in your way.

What you should be looking at is senior product owner. This varies in title and degree of authority based upon the employer. As a senior product owner you are ultimately the boss whose career and value as a human is vested upon the success of a segment of the business. This means you need to have a constant awareness of product health and monitoring, user preferences, roadmap, product finances, employee/feature velocity, and more. You also need to know which subordinate managers to strangle when things go outside of plan.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-04-17 02:03:44+00:00
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12267 matches the title ("New Constraints on DMS and DMDS in the Atmosphere of K2-18b from JWST MIRI") reported at https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1080558, and it also matches the reported results.
by vitus | 2025-04-17 02:03:56+00:00
> First off, you didn't answer my question which to restate is: if the ratio is 1/2, how many samples do you need.

Are we just trying to estimate the ratio? To what desired accuracy? If you have 100 samples and find that 50 points landed in your smaller set, okay, you can be 95% sure that the ratio is between 40% and 60%. That's not a very good estimate. If you want to drive those error bars down by 2x, you need 4x as many samples.

> Second, your claim that it depends on dimension is wrong, given the ratio of sets, dimension doesn't matter. If the ratio is 1/2 then you'll reject one half of the times regardless of dimension, and so by your own argument it's "very efficient"

When your sets in question are the volume enclosed by the n-dimensional unit hypersphere and the volume enclosed by the corresponding hypercube, which is what I assume we've been discussing this whole time, you do not get to pick what your ratio is between your sets for a given choice of n. If you're dealing with a 3-dimensional unit sphere and picking three random values uniformly between 0 and 1 (i.e. constrained to the positive octant), you will land within the hypersphere with probability pi/6 (close to your one-half ratio). You can't decide "okay now my ratio is 99%" unless you change how you draw your samples.

You can draw however many samples you want from the 100-dimensional unit hypercube to estimate the volume of the 100-dimensional unit hypersphere, and all you'll ever get is "the ratio is somewhere between 0 and some very small number, with X% probability".

Either way, as I have said multiple times, you are completely missing the point of rejection sampling by overindexing on the toy example that I explicitly stated is not a good use of rejection sampling.
by kretaceous | 2025-04-17 02:03:59+00:00
I own a MacBook Air and I agree with almost all of this except the hardware part. I like Chiclet/flat keyboards more than mechanical ones. The battery is good. The weight and size is what every laptop should aspire to be. The only thing I found difficult (and still do) is the layout swapping fn and ctrl keys.

The software on the other hand... <rant> is surprisingly terrible for something that is praised as "just works".

Why is the close button there if it serves the same purpose as minimizing? If it's meant for hiding, why is it a red x?

Why are windows so difficult to organize? If you're not a tiling WM user, then good luck finding a workflow that works. Why is there no proper way to make project separated workspaces similar to Windows desktops?

Why does pressing "return" rename a file? Why do keyboard shortcuts just refuse to work sometimes?

Why is the preferences app so broken? What is the point of search if it doesn't search anything at all?

Why are updates so large? Why does only macOS take 35 GB out of my 256 GB?

</rant>
by blobbers | 2025-04-17 02:04:25+00:00
Yeah; you shouldn't be trading pink sheets if you're an unwitting investor. It's there to make your job as easy as possible. You shouldn't be trading OTC or pink sheets or any of these things.

SPACs can be solid investments. A SPAC is just a reverse acquisition to avoid listing costs, or sometimes because you're putting faith in a capital allocator. Again, investment carries risk of loss. I'm not sure what you're being critical of. Are you saying that we should only allow companies to go public through investment banks taking millions of dollars of fees?
by Barrin92 | 2025-04-17 02:04:36+00:00
I've never understood the conspiratorial use of that slogan because it's unironically correct. Ownership is economically a cost and a risk and you're generally better off if you can utilize something without owning it or distribute ownership.

I'm much better off using free software than having copies of proprietary software on my shelf and the train is much cheaper than the car insurance.
by film42 | 2025-04-17 02:05:27+00:00
Zoom CEO: Hi, we'd like an SLA credit for the global outage you caused our company.

GoDaddy: I am so sorry about that. I can offer you a one-time coupon for $10 off your next purchase or renewal. Would you like me to apply this to your account?

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Most companies just hope an apologetic zoom call is enough to retain your business, and most of the time it works. Not enough has been written about the asymmetry of your SLA credits to your revenue impact for a given vendor outage and how that should guide your build vs buy decision framework.
by thot_experiment | 2025-04-17 02:07:19+00:00
A very meandering article, here's the info you want:

~30deg fov 24x24 resolution 940nm IR

50g, approx 3cm^3

max range in 15fps mode @ center of fov, 50% albedo

outdoor 20m indoor 40m

30fps default mode (range expectations not stated for this mode)

5mm accuracy @ 10m (unclear in which mode)

no word on price

first party info: https://pro.sony/ue_US/products/lidar/as-dt1
by shkkmo | 2025-04-17 02:08:19+00:00
The comments with sources doesn't appear to be downvoted. Your comment has no sources and the tone feels a little combative so I'm not surprised it picked up a couple of downvotes given the topic. In general, many of your comments have a slight bitter, combative air to them that probably hampers your communication effectiveness.

Anything Musk related on here has always been prone to less constructive conversation, even before he became a part of the partisan political circus.
by hajile | 2025-04-17 02:08:23+00:00
It would still use faster JIT mechanisms internally and make strong guarantees, but the interface would suck.

JS really needs to add a "use type" or typed module feature with strong Hindley-Milner types. This would allow them to cut the rest of the really bad parts like the bad type coercion, but definite types would also mean that adding these new features to typed modules only would get rid of the performance issues for stuff like operator overloading because the types would be known in advance.
by za3faran | 2025-04-17 02:08:39+00:00
Show us the evidence that they were required to dismount. The article you cited mentions no references, just mentions it in passing. This is not academic nor acceptable. I refuted all accusations unless proper evidence is brought up.

It is for a fact that Islam does not permit what you mentioned.

> As you can clearly see, there was no subdivision that cleanly mapped to the currently-existing region of Israel or Palestine. That region was created by the British, as "Mandatory Palestine."

Neither did any fake border map to present day country in the Middle East. This proves my point further - these fake borders were placed by the colonizing West to divide and conquer; and they got what they wanted - continued civil unrest, which they sowed on purpose to this very day. As I said, Islam and Muslims reject these fake borders.

> Sorry, but Islam does not decree to the rest of the world what borders are

It does decree to its lands; which is where the west came in and colonized them. Or are you denying Muslim autonomy on their own lands?

> Lmao. Where do you think you got Istanbul from? Do you recall that it once had a different name — does "Constantinople" ring a bell? The pot is calling the kettle black here.

Not really - when you compare how Constantinople was conquered and what was the end result (Light was brought in, science and culture flourished, the local culture was preserved, no one was forced out, etc.) to how western colonization works (destruction, civil wars, killing natives, forcing people out of their homes, etc) which continues to this very day; the story is very different. This is what the europeans did to the natives in America/Canada/Australia, etc.; this is what America did to Afghanistan/Iraq/etc, and this is what they want the Palesinians to do; but to their suprise, the Muslims do not give up so easily. The west left defeated from Afghanistan at the hands of the brave local population, even though they faced the most advanced armies.
by fliellerjulian | 2025-04-17 02:09:02+00:00
Last month, we launched Openspot, a more human alternative to LinkedIn, designed to help job seekers stand out through short video/audio intros and storytelling prompts. Think: YC-style application, but for the real job market.

We hit #1 on Hacker News and Product Hunt and got our first 200 users — early traction has been encouraging.

But here’s the challenge we’re now facing: While some power users get it immediately, they upload video bios, fill out their profiles, and have already landed interviews — the majority just keep the pre-generated profile and bounce.

We built Openspot around the idea that resumes are becoming indistinguishable. With AI, every candidate “spearheaded cross-functional initiatives” and “drove impact across orgs.” It's harder than ever to tell who’s actually behind the text.

Our solution is to make hiring feel more human again, letting people show who they are, not just what they've done.

But now we're wondering: How do we help more users understand that this is the point?

Should we focus on educating them through better onboarding, incentives, and nudges?

Or should we double down on finding more people who already “get it” without much explanation?

Curious if anyone has gone through something similar — building a product that requires a behavior shift. How did you cross the chasm between early believers and the rest?

Would love to hear your thoughts.
by alisonatwork | 2025-04-17 02:09:35+00:00
I've never used Spotify so can't compare to that, but Bandcamp is like a much better version of the local record store. You can follow artists and record labels you like, which will give you email notifications whenever they release something. You can browse new and old music by all kinds of esoteric tags and subgenres. Every week or so you get an email of some new releases in your favorite genres. You can download in multiple formats, personally I download FLAC for backup and 320 for listening. It's easy to search for tracks or artists you discovered elsewhere, it's easy to listen to and scrub through tracks... Just great. If you're a gamer, it's like the Steam of music.

My only complaint is that when I buy a bunch of songs my credit card gets charged a bunch of times (one for each artist/label) which has triggered fraud warning in the past, but I guess they do that to avoid the hassle of routing money to each artist in their own currency... It seems mildly customer unfriendly to me but in a world where people charge a can of coke to their credit card maybe not all that weird any more.
by mgdev | 2025-04-17 02:10:03+00:00
These are great. I had my own list of takeaways [0] after doing this for a couple years, though I wouldn't go so far as calling mine factors.

Like you, biggest one I didn't include but would now is to own the lowest level planning loop. It's fine to have some dynamic planning, but you should own an OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) and have heuristics for determining if you're converging on a solution (e.g. scoring), or else breaking out (e.g. max loops).

I would also potentially bake in a workflow engine. Then, have your model build a workflow specification that runs on that engine (where workflow steps may call back to the model) instead of trying to keep an implicit workflow valid/progressing through multiple turns in the model.

[0]: https://mg.dev/lessons-learned-building-ai-agents/
by hedora | 2025-04-17 02:10:07+00:00
Air gap the tv (wipe wifi settings too), then plug it into either an Apple TV or a Linux box. Everything else is a trap.

If you go the Linux route, I recommend the BeeLink SER series, but disable dynamic video card overclocking and get a Bluetooth dongle and usb extension cord to plug it into (I get lots of RF interference for BT, but not WiFi).

If you go the appletv route be sure to use an iPhone to recalibrate the colors, and also try telling it to match the refresh rate to the source material instead of attempting inverse telecine. Those two features gave me at least as big a step function in picture quality as my last TV upgrade did.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-17 02:10:15+00:00
they don't have to feel the way I do, that's you misunderstanding what you're saying. They have to fee *bad* about what happened. I want them to associate negligence with "i screwed up and this could have been really bad", and then move on knowing they learned their lesson. I could have been then, I could have made that mistake. people forget words, but they don't forget emotions easily, that's why it's important for them to feel somber, to feel like you screwed up (but not like you're a screw-up), to feel like "I messed up and I never want to be in this situation again".

I've made really bad mistakes myself, I still fill horrible about it. When work that involves similar context comes up, I am extra careful and implement all sorts of checks and balances to avoid similar issues from arising. I only wish that for others.

If they repeat that sort of a mistake, they'll probably get fired, that's what's at stake. If nothing else matters, I would hope that at least matters to them. They should feel bad in the same way a person who mishandled a nuclear bomb's detonation mechanism should feel bad, that can't happen, it just can't. simply recognizing the problem, saying you won't do it again isn't enough, you need to feel and permanently have the gravity of the situation ingrained into your thought process.
by mystraline | 2025-04-17 02:10:49+00:00
I'm sure this will be buried, but SSL is supposed to provide encryption. That's it.

Self-signed custom certs also does that. But those are demonized.

Also SSL also tries to define a ip-dns certification of ownership, kind of.

There's also a distinct difference between 'this cert expired last week' and 'this cert doesn't exist' and mitm attack. Expired? Just give a warning, not a scare screen. MITM? Sure give a big scary OHNOPE screen.

But, yeah, 47 days is going to wreck havok on network and weird devices.
by baranul | 2025-04-17 02:11:42+00:00
These type of features (map, filter, closures, lambdas...) are in languages like Vlang, Dlang, Rust, etc... They aimed to provide more functional programming style features and always were about general-purpose programming.

Zig presented itself as primarily a more explicit low level language, that so happens it can be used for other things too. Presently, Zig looks to be more in a confused state, where it is not sure what features to add or what other purposes it wants to serve. Probably why they still are years away from hitting v1.0, even after 9 years.
by vvpan | 2025-04-17 02:12:05+00:00
Sure. I might upgrade but at the moment:

- Domain name - $3/year

- Cloudron free tier with two apps - free

- Wasabi for backups (Cloudron supports every cloud storage possible and Wasabi is not the cheapest, I just wanted to try it) - $7/m

- Hostinger VPS with 50GB of storage - $5/m

I will probably add more apps to Cloudron at which point I will have to pay $15/m. But I think it is worth it - you can install every possible app with one click and have single sign-on. I offered to split the service with some friends too which would make the economics even better.
by GeertB | 2025-04-17 02:12:09+00:00
I recently visited SF with the fam. Besides riding the old-fashioned cable cars up and down, to and from, our Fisherman's Wharf apartment, it was a foregone conclusion that we'd try out the most contrasting way of transport: a Waymo. So, we took one to the Golden Gate Bridge park, a 20 minute or so ride. Everything was smooth, clean, nice music etc. The driving was much calmer and frankly more comfortable than any Uber driver we've had. After a few minutes of nervously being in awe, everyone started to relax and enjoying the ride more. We took a few more Waymo's over the next few days, and the experience was consistent.

A few days later as we went to the airport, our erratic Uber driver made us all wish we could have taken a Waymo. Alas, Waymo doesn't yet go there, or on any highways at all, so we'll have to wait for a little longer. However, on our trip we saw both transportation from the past and from the future. There's no doubt in my mind that driverless taxis will not only arrive everywhere, but take over quicker than we may now think.
by neom | 2025-04-17 02:12:11+00:00
He's always making moves, you can look all the way back to 2021, pandemic = insane valuations, so they stopped buying and also started to go to cash. Russian war, energy scarcity, almost everything else looks pricey versus rising macro risk. 2022> Why buy a decent business at 25+ x earnings when Uncle Sam will hand you 5% risk‑free? Sold all his regional bank positions when SVB and co started to wobble, so that was +15B... Fitch knocks America off AAA, refunding schedule gets up over above a trillion dollars.

As he said: “We will always have more good ideas than prices that make sense.”