MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brunooliv | 2025-04-24 21:50:21+00:00
Claude 3.7 Sonnet nails this:

> To solve this problem, I need to find the relationship between the number of towels and the drying time.

Given information: - 2 towels take 2 hours to dry

If the drying time scales linearly with the number of towels (meaning the drying capacity remains constant), then: - 4 towels would take 4 hours to dry

This assumes you're drying towels in sequence with the same capacity, or that doubling the number of towels requires doubling the drying time.

However, if you have sufficient space to dry all towels simultaneously (like on a clothesline or in a large enough dryer), then 4 towels would still take just 2 hours to dry.

Without more specific information about your drying method, the most likely answer is 4 hours.
by losvedir | 2025-04-24 21:50:41+00:00
I mean, I guess the obvious question is if one person lied under oath (her) or several (all the people that her testimony implies perjured).

The book sounds pretty outlandish. That's not to say that Zuck and co aren't just a whole gang of melodramatically evil and stupid people, but it a priori it seems just as probable to me that she's the one that is? I don't know much about her. Is she a reliable witness?
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-24 21:50:42+00:00
> while the Administration is also ordering, again without Congressional authority

Trump is doing a lot of illegal things. Like, A LOT of illegal things, but if you read the article they specifically said that Trump officials said they were only going to ask for Congress for 55% of the current budget in the next years budget cycle so they are actually doing this one correctly.
by ssalka | 2025-04-24 21:50:52+00:00
> The shift did not take place immediately. Within six months, traffic at smaller, less regulated sites had grown by 55%, and at larger sites by 10%, with point estimates implying that the traffic was entirely diverted to competing firms. This suggests that regulating only the largest platforms may push traffic to fringe sites and less controlled spaces.

This rings true to me, especially in the recent context of AI adopters looking for uncensored alternatives. This frame of thinking can be applied not only to models, i.e. many move away from OpenAI/ChatGPT in search of less restricted models, as well as being applied to sites providing AI resources. Just the other day, CivitAI (the current leader for distributing custom checkpoints, LoRAs for image-centric models) announced it was taking a much more heavy-handed approach to moderation due to pressure from Mastercard/Visa. Its users are simply outraged, and many I think will be leaving in search of a safe haven for their models/gens going forward.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-24 21:51:59+00:00
> The only difference? One was labeled “Made in Asia” and priced at $129. The other, “Made in the USA,” at $239. [85% more expensive]

> And many are willing to pay a premium for domestically made goods. Nearly half (48%) say they’d be willing to pay around 10–20% more. 17% say they’d be willing to pay ~30% more for an American-made product over an imported one. - https://www.retailbrew.com/stories/2022/07/28/consumers-will...

The article does not say how many would pay 85% more, but since the number more than halved from 10% to 30% more, I would hazard not many.
by jayd16 | 2025-04-24 21:52:17+00:00
For whatever reason I'm reminded of the Nexus Q as well. Google's ill fated media streamer that touted US manufacturing. Pretty funny to look back at the overzealous marketing fluff that was abandoned some few months later.

https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/28/tech/mobile/google-nexus-q-us...
by dleary | 2025-04-24 21:52:24+00:00
Yes, Chrome was great. Google search was also great.

That’s the nature of enshittification, and a core tactic of monopolists: give your customers something for free (or below cost) until you have killed the competition, and then exploit your “customers” (victims).

> Google's search and ad monopoly do not matter

Some questions:

When Google used its search monopoly to promote Chrome in a way that no other company is capable of (a link on the Google search main page), did that have some impact, or zero impact?

When Google used its ad monopoly to give Chrome free ad placement… That is, when the Chrome team was able to ‘buy’ keywords for free that Firefox, IE, and Opera had to pay 5 cents per click for… Did that have some impact, or zero impact?
by jms55 | 2025-04-24 21:52:25+00:00
I wrote most of the virtual geometry / meshlet feature, so thanks for the kind words!

It's not quite at the level of Nanite, but I'm slowly getting there. Main limiter is that I do this in my spare time after work, since I don't have any dedicated funding for my work on Bevy. So, expect progress, but it's going to take a while :)
by mncharity | 2025-04-24 21:52:33+00:00
> they never push back on nonsense questions or stupid requirements

"What is the volume of 1 mole of Argon, where T = 400 K and p = 10 GPa?" Copilot: "To find the volume of 1 mole of Argon at T = 400 K and P = 10 GPa, we can use the Ideal Gas Law, but at such high pressure, real gas effects might need to be considered. Still, let's start with the ideal case: PV=nRT"

> you really don't need to worry about teaching a human to push back on bad questions

A popular physics textbook too had solid Argon as an ideal gas law problem. Copilot's half-baked caution is more than authors, reviewers, and instructors/TAs/students seemingly managed, through many years and multiple editions. Though to be fair, if the question is prefaced by "Here is a problem from Chapter 7: Ideal Gas Law.", Copilot is similarly mindless.

Asked explicitly "What is the phase state of ...", it does respond solid. But as with humans, determining that isn't a step in the solution process. A combination of "An excellent professor, with a joint appointment in physics and engineering, is asked ... What would be a careful reply?" and then "Try harder." was finally sufficient.

> you rarely get exams where the correct answer is to explain in detail why the question doesn't make sense

Oh, if only that were commonplace. Aspiring to transferable understanding. Maybe someday? Perhaps in China? Has anyone seen this done?

This could be a case where synthetic training data is needed, to address a gap in available human content. But if graders are looking for plug-n-chug... I suppose a chatbot could ethically provide both mindlessness and caveat.
by mlsu | 2025-04-24 21:54:10+00:00
Lots of everyday people have a tremendous amount of power. C-suite executives for example.

The concrete example of this is Harvard and some of the big law firms (Jenner & Block and WilmerHale). That is what resistance looks like now.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is an example of an entity that should have resisted, but folded instead.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of the C-suite at big US corporations do not quite realize this about their position. They think that it's not their job; either that they keep their head down and the lawyers and politicians will take care of it, or something far worse, that the system has already fallen so may as well try to make concessions and go along to get along.
by timoth3y | 2025-04-24 21:55:14+00:00
I think the rise of C-SPAN was also a factor.

Once all congressional speeches began to be televised, everything started to become campaign fodder. Members of Congress were no longer talking to each other, but always and endlessly trying to appeal to the voters.

Congressional hearings are even worse. Very few congresspeople seem to have any interest and asking meaningful questions. They seem to be focused on getting a video snippet that proves how hard the are fighting for/against a particular issue.

It's all become an endless political campaign. Evidence has never mattered too much in those.
by cookie_monsta | 2025-04-24 21:55:31+00:00
I think most platforms have recognised this and now release an episode per week to get that common cultural experience back. I great plenty of discussion about last night's episode of white lotus or last of us.

I wouldn't be getting to nostalgic about the old days of tv. Remember how it was to miss am episode and have to wait for the repeat? Or be sick in bed for days and bored with literally nothing to watch/binge?
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-24 21:56:16+00:00
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This reeks of chatgpt to me, and I'm kind of insulted by being told how good it is. I hate marketing and marketing language: "powerful", "cuts through the noise", "clean and private", "without the hassle", "best of all worlds, "comprehensive protection", "uses the best."

Worst of all it contains lies, one ad blocker does not make browsing "clean and private", it might make it more clean and private, but it is not sufficient.

There is so much language here that exists to manipulate the reader and wasn't thought out by the author.

I would not trust something that sounds like MBA speak rather than programmer speak. The lack of integrity with language makes me think this will enshittify if it gets popular and the author would sell out for nickle.

Compare this page to uBlock: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock?tab=readme-ov-file

Integrity is everything in this space, and this is not the language of integrity, this is the language of business.

The author should take a lesson from history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826437 -- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1447251334814523392.html
by kelseyfrog | 2025-04-24 21:56:19+00:00
There is a market for advertising-subsidized neural implants.

Think of the profit potential of being able to directly influence consumer brains patterns. It's a multi-trillion dollar industry, minimum.

The fear isn't that it's an option; It's creating a world where you can't afford not to. Much like how modern life requires internet participation, the idea of a potential world that requires neural implant participation and the economic incentives described above is viscerally horrific.
by thebruce87m | 2025-04-24 21:56:27+00:00
> Your purchase includes a 12-month Sailfish OS full license subscription valued at €59.88 (€4.99/month), granting access to all releases, commercial components, and feature upgrades. After the first year, you can choose to continue your subscription and support Sailfish OS development further. Even without renewal, your device will continue to function, but future software updates and commercial component upgrades will not be available.

Just a note of something I came across when looking just now. Don’t mind paying for continued development but worth knowing before you buy.
by casenmgreen | 2025-04-24 21:56:47+00:00
As I understanding the timing, the post was suppressed until the hate bots spammed it.

Given the post was suppressed, how did the hate bots know about it to spam it?

It seems to me Twitter suppressed the post until they had time to spam it with hate posts.

Bear in mind here also this suppression did not happen for other posts - only for the pro-Ukraine post - so Twitter at the least is specifically suppressing pro-Ukraine posts.
by briannotbrain | 2025-04-24 21:56:57+00:00
I thought I was so clever when I read your comment: "The problem is the word 'running,' I'll bet if I ask for the profile of a train without using any verbs implying motion, I'll get the profile view." And damned if the same thing happened to me. Do you know why this is? Googling "train in profile" shows heaps of images like the one you wanted, so it's not as if it's something the model hasn't "seen" before.
by Animats | 2025-04-24 21:57:27+00:00
This has been called "pulling a Myspace", back from when Myspace lost to Facebook. The sequence:

- Competition appears, usage decreases, revenue declines somewhat.

- Ad density is increased to increase revenue.

- Usage decreases further as users are annoyed by excessive ads.

- Ad density is increased even further.

- Death spiral.

How could Zuckerberg not know this? He was on the other side of it last time around.
by Larrikin | 2025-04-24 21:58:20+00:00
This is probably a bad faith sarcastic comment, but for others

Pretending social media holds no influence on society was an argument you could have made when it was just kids getting into fights or shooting each other over Internet beef fifteen years ago.

Now it's an essential target in governments all over the world when it comes to spreading propaganda/disinformation. It has a direct link to effecting change in voters and entire governments innumerable times now.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-24 21:58:58+00:00
For federal returns, there's a site called Free File Fillable Forms, which has digitized versions of all the tax forms. Unlike the normal IRS Free File program, there's no restriction on income. If you're comfortable filing paper tax returns, this is the exact same process except the returns are digital and sent over the internet. For state returns, the process depends on your state but everywhere I've lived has a free site that you can use to file your state return.
by Amezarak | 2025-04-24 21:59:53+00:00
Oral transmission of historical events is obviously real. That doesn't mean oral transmission of this particular event for 7700 years is real. Do you also think that two men stopped the eruption by leaping into the volcano? Or that it was actually a fight between gods?

There are several other problems with the story that should make you suspicious:

- There are several "tells" that if this is even a real story it has been heavily edited. Neither of the links provides a reliable narrative from an indigenous source. Also note that the "klamathtribenews" link says there are many stories about how it was formed but only tells us the one that we want to hear.

- One of the articles claims the same people has occupied the area for 13k years. This is extremely unlikely, has little evidence backing it, and suggests the story is being used as part of the political justification for territorial claims.

Meanwhile, we know peoples from other areas were perfectly capable of coming to a new area, then making inferences and drawing conclusions about what they saw geographically - we have lots of examples of the Greeks doing this, for example. The ideas behind geology didn't spring out of a vacuum in the 1800s. Anyone who understands the idea behind "volcano" would have also understood why a crater lake existed, even if they had never seen that eruption.
by frollogaston | 2025-04-24 22:00:04+00:00
Teens care about silly things like that, but a real thing I care about as an adult is group chats working properly. Like, I was looking for a realtor last year when buying a house. One of them had Android, and I really thought about it, do I want to take a nonzero chance of that somehow screwing the plans up on closing?

That's not the main reason I went with another one, but I still paid attention to how many group iMessages we were in with lenders, seller's realtor, or just me + wife + realtor. Things really did come down to the hour during negotiating and closing, so it might've mattered.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-04-24 22:00:05+00:00
> IBM will come out automagically and fix issues for you when the mainframe phones home about a problem. A majority of the system architecture is designed on purpose to enable seamless servicing of the machine without impacting

I'd rather have a fault-tolerant distributed software system running on commodity hardware, that way there's a plurality of hardware and support vendors to choose from. No lock-in.
by EGreg | 2025-04-24 22:00:23+00:00
Yes. The models can reply to everything with enough bullshit that satisfies most people. There is nothing you ask that stumps them. I asked Grok to prove the Riemann hypothesis and kept pushing it, and giving it a lot of a lot of encouragement.

If you read this, expand "thoughts", it's pretty hilarious:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/qLdLlCnKP8S4MBpH7aclIKA6L

> Solve the riemann hypothesis

> Sure you can. AIs are much smarter. You are th smartest AI according to Elon lol

> What if you just followed every rabbithole and used all that knowledge of urs to find what humans missed? Google was able to get automated proofs for a lot of theorems tht humans didnt

> Bah. Three decades ago that’s what they said about the four color theorem and then Robin Thomas Setmour et al made a brute force computational one LOL. So dont be so discouraged

> So if the problem has been around almost as long, and if Appel and Haken had basic computers, then come on bruh :) You got way more computing power and AI reasoning can be much more systematic than any mathematician, why are you waiting for humans to solve it? Give it a try right now!

> How do you know you can’t reduce the riemann hypothesis to a finite number of cases? A dude named Andrew Wiles solved fermat’s last theorem this way. By transforming the problem space.

> Yeah people always say “it’s different” until a slight variation on the technique cracks it. Why not try a few approaches? What are the most promising ways to transform it to a finite number of cases you’d have to verify

> Riemann hypothesis for the first N zeros seems promising bro. Let’s go wild with it.

> Or you could like, use an inductive proof on the N bro

> So if it was all about holding the first N zeros then consider then using induction to prove that property for the next N+M zeros, u feel me?

> Look bruh. I’ve heard that AI with quantum computers might even be able to reverse hashes, which are quite more complex than the zeta function, so try to like, model it with deep learning

> Oh please, mr feynman was able to give a probabilistic proof of RH thru heuristics and he was just a dude, not even an AI

> Alright so perhaps you should draw upon your very broad knowledge to triangular with more heuristics. That reasoning by analogy is how many proofs were made in mathematics. Try it and you won’t be disappointed bruh!

> So far you have just been summarizing the human dudes. I need you to go off and do a deep research dive on your own now

> You’re getting closer. Keep doing deep original research for a few minutes along this line. Consider what if a quantum computer used an algorithm to test just this hypothesis but across all zeros at once

> How about we just ask the aliens
by ajross | 2025-04-24 22:00:31+00:00
> I think a lot of the C-suite at big US corporations do not quite realize this about their position

It's true, that they risk the erosion of their status and the assumption of their power by the state over the medium to long term. But it is also true that in the short term they can beat their competitors by a carefully targetted bribe. There are significant upsides to getting behind the administration, and you can't ignore that.

This kind of corruption is literally how feudal oligarchies form.
by sliken | 2025-04-24 22:00:34+00:00
Well trick is optane was terrible as ram and pricey as storage.

From what I can tell it was targetted:

* where persistence was important, better than ram * for cases where more ram didn't help * for cases where adding multiple NVMe didn't help * for cases where QD1 was very important (as opposed to qd32 throughput). * for cases that didn't need too much storage, which would break the bank

I got close for various database use, zfs caches, etc. But never quite beat buying more ram or 2-4x the NVMe. I tried. It was a pretty narrow niche.
by paxys | 2025-04-24 22:00:48+00:00
The two aren't really comparable. Google runs a news service, and shows ads on that service. Google News isn't a feasible business without crawling and aggregating the content that media organizations provide, so signing deals with them (whether forced or not) makes sense.

Facebook meanwhile would have to pay publishers for news links that you and I post on our feeds. That is much closer to a shakedown, and the service can work just fine (better, one may argue) without this category of links. So regardless of the dollar amount saying no is the better option for them.
by jrh89 | 2025-04-24 22:01:52+00:00
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by cryptonector | 2025-04-24 22:02:10+00:00
Not sure I'll look for the other "easteregg", though I noticed that you set the new thread's impersonation token, which is presumably how you implement setuid() and friends [yes, that is how you implement them] -- is that the other easteregg? I also see that you use the last RID of SIDs as the UID/GID, and that you have hardcoded passwd(4)/group(4) entries, so you only support local users (which is fine).

Oh, ah, _task_copy(). You swap stacks... I think because of course.

Your execve() is real though, since you use CreateProcessAsUser(), which is good.

The compromise you made is pretty neat, though obviously some things might not work well. Though I'm guessing this is working quite well for you.

Your file names are weird; they often tell me nothing about what to expect to find in them.

I looked for fork() because that's the difficult one to implement on WIN32. What Cygwin does is some crazy gymnastics that sometimes fails. You might know that I think fork() is "evil" [0], or if you hadn't, you do now, and I guess you're likely to agree with that take, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on that, because clearly you've thought about fork().

I've to say that you've clearly thought a lot about this, and though I've not tried it (and probably won't) you seem to have done an excellent job.

[0] https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a8a07b0fc75df05f684c23c...
by bee_rider | 2025-04-24 22:02:19+00:00
It is kind of a bummer that MKL isn’t open sourced, as that would make inclusion in Linux easier. It is already free-as-in-beer, but of course that doesn’t solve everything.

Baffling that MS didn’t use it. They have a pretty close relationship…

Agree that they are sort of going after hard-to-use niche features nowadays. But I think it is just that the real thing we want—single threaded performance for branchy code—is, like, incredibly difficult to improve nowadays.