MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmwilcox | 2025-04-25 21:09:18+00:00
>> Can you imagine an intelligent process in such a place, as static representation of data in ram?

> Yes. You can’t? This is not > really a convincing argument.

Fair, I believe it's called begging the question. But for some context is that people of many recent technological ages have talked about the brain like a piece of technology -- e.g. like a printing press, a radio, a TV.

I think we've found what we've wanted to find (a hardware-software dichotomy in the brain) and then occasionally get surprised when things aren't all that clearly separated. So with that in mind, I personally without any particularly good evidence to the contrary am not of the belief that your brain can be represented as a static state. Pribram's holonomic mind theory comes to mind as a possible way brain state could have trouble being represented in RAM.( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory)

> ...you are looking at implementation details and feeling a disconnect between that and the possibility of inteligence. Do you feel the same ridiculousnes about a meatblob doing things and appearing inteligent?

If I was a biologist I might. My grandfather was a microbiologist and scoffed at my atheism. But with a computer at least the details are understandable and knowable being created by people. We haven't cracked the consciousness of a fruit fly despite having a map of it's brain.

>> a computer couldn't spontaneously pick to go down a path that wasn't defined for it.

> Can you?

Love it. I re-read Fight Club recently, it's a reasonable question. The worries of determinism versus free will still loom large in this sort of world view. We get a kind of "god in the gaps" type problem with free will being reduced down to the spaces where you don't have an explanation.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-25 21:09:27+00:00
The packet size is a major one. The lack of larger packets leads to nonsense like the "freshness manager" in things like AUTOSAR's SecOC, or the addressing scheme. Every subsequent CAN extension has tried to rectify both of these in different ways and inevitably failed, which leads to the next layer up the networking stack reinventing the wheel badly. Eventually you end up with UDS.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-25 21:09:39+00:00
Yes, it was apples-to-apples, and my point is that it's still a bad comparison, because it's like there are a hundred people comparing whether whole Cripps Pink or Fuji apples are more cost-effective for feeding their pets, but 90 of those people have pet grasshoppers that they could feed with leftover lettuce.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-25 21:10:00+00:00
There are trucks and then there are trucks. The Ford Maverick gets 42mpg in the city, 35mpg on the highway and is reasonably priced. If you value economy, ecology, efficiency and such that's right up there with a compact car. The F150 is a L size electric truck, an S size truck will appeal to people.
by hermitdev | 2025-04-25 21:10:01+00:00
This is a vast, _vast_ over-simplification: The primary "feature" of HFT is providing liquidity to market.

HFT firms are (almost) always willing to buy or sell at or near the current market price. HFT firms basically race each other for trade volume from "retail" traders (and sometimes each other). HFTs make money off the spread - the difference between the bid & offer - typically only a cent. You don't make a lot of money on any individual trade (and some trades are losers), but you make money on doing a lot of volume. If done properly, it doesn't matter which direction the market moves for an HFT, they'll make money either way as long as there's sufficient trading volume to be had.

But honestly, if you want to learn about HFT, best do some actual research on it - I'm not a great source as I'm just the guy that keeps the stuff up and running; I'm not too involved in the business side of things. There's a lot of negative press about HFTs, some positive.
by sixdimensional | 2025-04-25 21:10:30+00:00
I would wonder if paying for a legal fight to recapture the trademark is even worth it.

Couldn't Synadia just fork what they want to and rebrand for a commercial new product, and go forward from there?

If they wanted to backport or keep contributing to the open source project they could, or leave some parts open source going forward, while forking only the server for example, to do that.

Kind of like how RHEL used to still provide contributions to CentOS for a long time (although I think that ended at some point too).
by jltsiren | 2025-04-25 21:12:16+00:00
Your way of thinking sounds alien to me. You seem to assume that people mostly just follow the incentives, rather than acting according to their internal values.

Science is a field with low wages, uncertain careers, and relatively little status. If you respond strongly to incentives, why would you choose science in the first place? People tend to choose science for other reasons. And, as a result, incentives are not a particularly effective tool for managing scientists.
by JadeNB | 2025-04-25 21:12:33+00:00
> > for example, in funding experiments chasing after worthless science

> This is tricky. It's basically impossible to know when an experiment will be worthless. Further, a large portion of experiments will be worthless (like 90% of them).

I don't mean "worthless science" in the sense "doesn't lead to a desired or exciting outcome." Such science can still be very worthwhile. I mean "worthless science" in the sense of "based on fraudulent methods." This might accidentally arrive at the right answer, but the answer, whether wrong or accidentally right, has no scientific value.
by jonstewart | 2025-04-25 21:12:43+00:00
I don’t understand the down votes. Conducting empirical research on the performance impact of undefined behavior is fantastically needed, as the C++ committee’s obsession with undefined behavior strictness (in contrast with longstanding semantics, e.g., uninitialized memory accesses being just fine) has been justified largely by how they enable optimizing compilers. This research shows that many types of UB have a negligible impact on performance.
by 72mena | 2025-04-25 21:13:09+00:00
> If you doubt this, ask yourself the work of which contemporary novelist, poet, composer, or painter you are eagerly awaiting. I’ll pause here a moment while you fail to find any.

I don't want to use the term "gatekeeping" here, but this type of posture on a topic as subjective as personal preferences is quite odd. While the author thinks they're "making a pause while you fail to find any", I'm here coming up with examples of contemporary creators that I can't wait for them to release their new stuff. (In painting, writing, and cinema).

I don't consider we're in a "low state" as described, but I think we may be coming at this from different definitions about what low state means.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-25 21:13:39+00:00
> static typing kind of tries to force you into the opposite

The entire point being to restrict what can be done in order to catch errors. The two things are fundamentally at odds.

Viewed in that way typed metaprogramming is an attempt to generalize those constraints to the extent possible without doing away with them.

I would actually expect array languages to play quite well with the latter. A sequence of transformations without a bunch of conditionals in the middle should generally have a predictable output type for a given input type. The primary issue I run into with numpy is the complexity of accounting for type conversions relative to the input type. When you start needing to account for a variable bit width things tend to spiral out of control.
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-25 21:14:05+00:00
Lance Armstrong never failed a drug test. The CEO of the insurance company responsible for underwriting bonus payments for Tour de France wins had read a book full of circumstantial evidence of the US Postal Service team doping and contested paying out the bonus. He knew they'd lose, but wanted to force the hands of some investigative body with real power to actually look into it. Federal prosecutors took up the case for a couple years, but then dropped it. Then USADA finally got a bunch of his former teammates and medical staffers to testify against him. Lance didn't even contest the finding because the evidence was so overwhelming, he figured his best course of action at that point was trying to keep the report confidential and winning in the court of public opinion instead, convincing all of his adoring fans that he was the victim of a witch hunt.

Obviously, that didn't work, but I guess he was just ahead of his time. These days, he could have run for president.
by mrandish | 2025-04-25 21:14:13+00:00
Yes, I agree. Setting aside the macro issues of A) The current admin's immigration policies, and B) The current admin's oddly extreme strategies involving chasing down undocumented persons in unusual places for immediate deportation. From a standpoint of only legal precedent and the ordinance this judge is charged under, the particular circumstances of this case don't seem to make it a good fit for a litmus test case or a PR 'hero' case to highlight opposition to the admin's policies. At least, there are many other cases which appear to be far better suited for those purposes.

To me, part of the issue here is that judges are "officers of the court" with certain implied duties about furthering the proper administration of justice. If the defendant had been appearing in her courtroom that day in a matter regarding his immigration status, the judge's actions could arguably be in support of the judicial process (ie if the defendant is deported before she can rule on his deportability that impedes the administration of justice). But since he was appearing on an unrelated domestic violence case, that argument can't apply here. Hence, this appears to be, at best, a messy, unclear case and, at worst, pretty open and shut.

Separately, ICE choosing to arrest the judge at the courthouse instead of doing a pre-arranged surrender and booking, appears to be aggressive showboating that's unfortunate and, generally, a bad look for the U.S. government, U.S. judicial system AND the current administration.
by kjreact | 2025-04-25 21:14:31+00:00
Having a carbon tax seems to be the most fair way to combat climate change; unfortunately in practice it is political suicide. Australia had a carbon tax in 2011 and was quickly repealed in 2014. Likewise Canada also implemented such a tax in 2019 and was repealed this year prior to their election. People like to say that they want to help the environment, but when it comes time to vote they vote against such policies.
by pzduniak | 2025-04-25 21:14:37+00:00
How are folks interpreting "include (advanced features) in the NATS server while exploring a BSL license model for future versions" given the statement that "We never considered blanket relicensing of the codebase"? It sounds like grasping at semantics to paint themselves in more positive light. I still very much read this as a server code relicense of a project that they transferred to CNCF.
by glompers | 2025-04-25 21:15:05+00:00
> ... the twentieth century may have widened the subject matter of the novel, but it has failed to deepen it

Even if we were to deny artistically creative 20C novelists their depth as a mere retread of the nineteenth century's, whatever that means, I don't think that the same terms of dismissal would apply to comic books, graphic novels, hypertext novels and hypertext graphic novels, or novels written with radio or audiobook dramatization in mind, all of which do allow mature thrills to be expressively enhanced and intermingled -- not only cheap thrills.

Scott Miller had a good idea about the importance of the novel form, however: "Maybe I'm just thick ... but whenever novels run out of simple intrigue, they tend to fall into a sort of formulaic display of personal insightfulness, and beyond the scope of about a chapter, one insightful individual carries on in fiction a lot like the next. That said, I have nothing against intrigue, even porn; if I were honest with myself, I'd probably put INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE on a list of 20." [1]

[1] http://www.loudfamily.com/askscott1997.html
by JadeNB | 2025-04-25 21:15:43+00:00
> It's not actually "Ideal" is the point.

> You CANNOT create a system that has zero fraud without rejecting a HUGE amount of legitimate work/requests.

I think that we are using different definitions of "ideal." It sounds like your definition is something like "practically achievable," or even just "can exist in the real world," in which case, sure, zero fraud is not ideal in that sense. To check whether I am using the word completely idiosyncratically, I just looked it up in Apple Dictionary, and most of the senses seem to match my conception, but I meant especially "2b. representing an abstract or hypothetical optimum." It seems very clear to me that you would agree with zero fraud being ideal in sense "2a. existing only in the imagination; desirable or perfect but not likely to become a reality," but possibly we can even agree that it also fits sense 2b above.
by skydhash | 2025-04-25 21:15:56+00:00
> I have no idea how much gender actually enters thinking in the languages that we say are gendered.

Not much. It's mostly inference rules, just like in English use of pronouns. I's just more pervasive, pertaining to verbs, adjectives, etc... If we're talking about gendered living organism, then it's just a marker for that binary classification. Anything else, it's just baggage attached to the word.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-25 21:17:02+00:00
> My entertainment system was the window. Observe the world...

The world is pretty freaking boring when it's just pavement and the 5,000th time you've passed the same strip mall, gas station, and McDonald's. The same dirty snowbanks on either side of the same gray asphalt under the interminably gray winter sky.

Maybe you lived in a place of wonderful natural beauty, or a vibrant urban street culture. A lot of people don't.
by 3np | 2025-04-25 21:17:25+00:00
That sucks. If it were me I'd suck it up and consider that I now have two dedicated IPMI NICs with failover and attach new ones if needed for system network...

> Thanks for the FYI on AsRockRACK.

NP. FWIW at least I think the BMC networking doesn't have the kind of failure mode you're describing.

> Have you had any firmware updates for IPMI with them, however?

Yeah, they have unofficial newer "beta" versions that you will get a private download link for over email if you contact support and ask for it. Same if you want fixes for UEFI or AMD firmware vulnerabilities more than a year or so after board release.

Thinking about supply-chain security when flashing those make me a bit nauseous... The industry seems to be stuck with 90s mindset and processes.
by aksss | 2025-04-25 21:17:32+00:00
I like the idea of this as a Framework-style vehicle. If they really leaned into the mod community and were making deliberate decisions to support this, it could offer a lot of traction. Shame there's no AWD version of this. That, the larger battery option, in truck mode with a rack and tonneau cover would be great for contractors as an around-town job vehicle.
Show HN: AI Overview Hider for Google
by insin | 2025-04-25 21:17:32+00:00
I'm not going to lie to you, HN, this is just a stylesheet distributed as a browser extension because it's the easiest way for me both use it and keep it updated on all my browsers and devices.

But if you want to hide AI Overviews on desktop and mobile and have someone keeping an eye out for new variants (which is the perfect word for Google finding new ways to infect their search results with them) and hiding them in a timely manner, I'm your man.

Google seem to be continually adding new variants - in the last 12 hours I've pushed releases to hide AI Overviews now appearing as sections in the middle of search results, and as "People also ask" questions.

If you'd rather just grab the CSS, you can get it from the GitHub repo linked to from the website.
by xpe | 2025-04-25 21:17:42+00:00
>> I'm not a lawyer, but the criminal complaint does appear to be, more or less, within the realm of normal.

> Criminal complaints against sitting judges for actions they took in their courtroom are not at all "normal".

Point taken.

Just so that we're not talking past each other: What I was trying to say is this: as I read the language in the document, it sounded like plausible legal text. I'm not suggesting this is the proper bar. I am saying that I've read other official "legal" documents from the Trump administration that don't even meet the "not batshit crazy" bar.
by spoaceman7777 | 2025-04-25 21:19:20+00:00
I'd assume that, in the context of LLM inference, "recent" generally refers to the Ampere generation and later of GPUs, when the demand for on board memory went through the roof (as, the first truly usable LLMs were trained on A100s).

We've been stuck with the same general caps on standard GPU memory since then though. Perhaps limited in part because of the generational upgrades happening in the bandwidth of the memory, rather than the capacity.
by PrimalNaCl | 2025-04-25 21:19:26+00:00
It's the dumbest move they could make. No one, _no_ one, in a position as the decider on enterprise gear going for a NAS solution in their company is going to buy Synology. They aren't even #last on the list. Only corpos have the deep pockets required and historical "the way it is" mindset on being fleeced wrt vendor lockin BS. Synology just does not have the brand cage to pull that off. So corpos that already aren't buying their shit are still not going to buy it and homelabers/soho types are gonna go elsewhere because they've either ideologically opposed to being fleeced or just can't do it even if they don't know any better due to being priced out.

I hope they implode and some even more evil and incompetent predatory corp consumes them and guts what's left of their brand name. The only time I'd wish the Broadcom treatment on a company. Synology deserve it.
by turnsout | 2025-04-25 21:19:43+00:00
Exactly. It's also a complete self-own. You know who can name several painters with highly anticipated upcoming shows? Literally anyone who actually cares about painting.

Sometimes (often) when people get older, they stop listening to new music, reading new books, or going to art openings. Then, slowly, they start assuming that the world is the problem. That art has gotten worse, or there's somehow less of it. But of course the thing that has become boring is the person.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-04-25 21:20:39+00:00
The thing that makes you different from the beasts is that you believe that there is a way things ought to be, regardless of how they are. You can view your desire to eat a doughnut separate from your prescriptive belief of whether you ought to eat the donut. You can beliefe that you ought not to eat the donut even though you want to, you can beleive that you ought to eat the donut even if you don't want to. You can even believe that you ought not hold any beliefs regarding what you ought to eat based on your desires to eat it.

Accepting that prescriptive beliefs exists, the claim by Chesterton is quite simply factual. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.

The question as to what prescriptive beliefs we ought to hold is another matter, and one Chesterton has dealt with masterfully.

(quoted)

When I had written this down, I felt once again the presence of something else in the discussion: as a man hears a church bell above the sound of the street. Something seemed to be saying, "My ideal at least is fixed; for it was fixed before the foundations of the world. My vision of perfection assuredly cannot be altered; for it is called Eden. You may alter the place to which you are going; but you cannot alter the place from which you have come. To the orthodox there must always be a case for revolution; for in the hearts of men God has been put under the feet of Satan. In the upper world hell once rebelled against heaven. But in this world heaven is rebelling against hell. For the orthodox there can always be a revolution; for a revolution is a restoration. At any instant you may strike a blow for the perfection which no man has seen since Adam. No unchanging custom, no changing evolution can make the original good any thing but good. Man may have had concubines as long as cows have had horns: still they are not a part of him if they are sinful. Men may have been under oppression ever since fish were under water; still they ought not to be, if oppression is sinful. The chain may seem as natural to the slave, or the paint to the harlot, as does the plume to the bird or the burrow to the fox; still they are not, if they are sinful. I lift my prehistoric legend to defy all your history. Your vision is not merely a fixture: it is a fact." I paused to note the new coincidence of Christianity: but I passed on.
by yencabulator | 2025-04-25 21:21:01+00:00
The S in Flatpak stands for Security.

Flatpak is primarily a convenience mechanism for app makers. Any security boundary you may find in it is optional, all defaults are always toward not breaking apps. Apps pretty much uniformly either silently get read access to all your files, and even when that is not true they often get permanent read-write access to any file you open in them.

Go look at the permissions for GNOME Papers. Try to argue that it's "sandboxed".
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-25 21:21:13+00:00
This is the constitutional crisis.

You are taking ICE's/the administration's perspective and assuming it is cogent which leads you to conclusion that doesn't support justice and instead supports the end of constitutional rule in the US.

The administration is in open violation of supreme court rulings and the law. They have repeatedly shown contempt for the constitution. They have repeatedly assumed their own supremacy. People responsible for enforcement are out of sync with those responsible for due process and legal interpretation. That is true crisis. These words are simple, but the emotional impact should be chilling. When considering the actions of the ICE agents, it seems very reasonable that aiding or abetting them would be an even greater obstruction of justice if not directly aiding and abetting illegal activity.

America is being confronted with a very serious problem. What happens when those responsible for enforcing the law break it or start enforcing "alternative" law? If the police are breaking the law, then there is no law, there is only power. Law is just words on paper without enforcement.

If the idea sounds farfetched, imagine if KKK members deciding to become police officers and how that changes the subjective experience of law by citizens compared to what law says on paper. Imagine they decide to become judges to. How would you expect that to pervert justice?
by enneff | 2025-04-25 21:21:28+00:00
There’s definitely a thing in music, as in computing, or golfing, or whatever, where some people are more into the gear than the actual practice of doing the thing. Modular synths are a great outlet for those kinds of people.

I have a modest Eurorack setup and a few other synths and I find them a nice way to get into music making without looking at a computer. It’s nice to have a limited set of options, rather than a near infinite set of software plugins and presets. My gear can only make a certain number of sounds at once, and that’s it. The liberty of constraints.

When I get serious about a music project I inevitably end up working in a computer DAW but I often don’t find that an inspiring place to start.