MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scotty79 | 2025-04-21 04:47:59+00:00
The idea is that cleverness of intellect isn't anything mysterious. Humans do astounding feats just by applying relatively simple reasoning iteratively. Requiring artificial neural networks to do it all one-shot, from the top of the head is probably the reason why they require billions of parameters to show even a small bit of cleverness. Chain of thought is obvious solution. But in converting internal reasoning to output tokens some information is lost. Chain of thought in latent space is the natural next step. Thus recurrent networks.

I'm not familiar with flow matching, but I don't think it has any iterative processing in a sense of chain of thought or recurrence (despite arriving at the solution gradually).
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-04-21 04:48:35+00:00
I was half joking and making a reference to his silly small government comment but I do absolutely believe in nationalizing the tits out of everything. My dream is to walk into a grocery store and everything is the best it can be, with identical labelling, no marketing, and all the information I want about it. "SALT". "WATER". Any positive iteration should lead to reward and absorption by my fictional state. I've probably read too much sci fi.
by robbiep | 2025-04-21 04:50:24+00:00
The characteristic ‘jagged lines’ of aura is not at all related to the characteristic visual flashes of retinal detachment which an entirely different pathophysiology. Given that the advent of the flashes are new and related to exertion however it wouldn’t be unreasonable for the OP to keep a log of onset and duration and consider neurologist referral if they were to become more common with consideration for screening imaging as there are certain conditions related to exertion that can trigger aura
by sinuhe69 | 2025-04-21 04:50:40+00:00
A long time ago I was invited to a job interview. After a nice chat, I told them that I had left the previous company because of internal conflicts and too much office politics. I asked if they had the same problem and they assured me that they did not. I also talked about a security breach that defaced our website, but put it in the context of the overall success of our security practice.

In conclusion, I think it's important to be specific about the key negative factor (if asked about) and to frame negative things in a generally positive light, while remaining honest. After all, it's our perceptions and our attitudes that we can change. An interview is not the place to unload your negative feelings. It also helps to remain objective when things get uncomfortable.
by kelnos | 2025-04-21 04:51:37+00:00
This is really cool!

I get why you decided not to include commentary, but I think in some cases it would be useful. For example, if I have a moral dilemma, I might be interested in the moral framework used by each juror; if a juror makes a judgment based on a moral framework I disagree with (or, worse, find reprehensible), I might discard some responses and come up with a different verdict. But it would take a lot more time for a juror to write down a rationale than just picking from two options, so that would make JuryDuty more onerous, and it would take longer than 3 minutes for people to get their responses.

I tried JuryDuty and the first question was just "Israel or Palestine?" And... ooof... there is no way to boil that down to a binary decision. I am frankly not interested in choosing either one over the other without any ability to provide commentary or nuance.
by cocoa19 | 2025-04-21 04:51:44+00:00
Who’s this built for and what is the use case?

This tool wouldn’t be useful for most (if not) all enterprise services I’ve worked for. For enterprise, you want fully featured synthetics services such as Thousand Eyes, plus an internal monitoring and alerting system.

Also you typically don’t want to expose your health endpoint to the outside world. It’s a security risk.
by ccwu9999 | 2025-04-21 04:53:13+00:00
OWI has a lot of robot arms. I built the wired controller version of this. As a software engineer building this gave me a lot of appreciation for making physical things. Trying to create a computer controlled version is tricky since you need something to indicate the current position of the arm.

https://owirobot.com/robotic-arm-edge-wireless/
by starkrights | 2025-04-21 04:55:22+00:00
You acknowledge the existence of things blocking <something>, and can't imagine that there are people who want to see <something>?

I feel like when <something> is the sky, potential counterpoints can't be that far. For a direct response to your question: the sky and the stars beyond have been present and visible to every human, throughout all of history- how might different people feel about it becoming obstructed? Philosophically? Emotionally? Pragmatically?

The following types of people might feel strongly about this for some reason or another- I feel like steelmaning hypothetical opinions they might have is a really enriching thing to do.

- Photographers / enthusiasts

- Astronomers / enthusiasts

- Those who enjoy nature

I personally have a mixed opinion, probably leaning towards alignment with the above groups, but I can also steelman the thought processes of those who'd think this is cool or fascinating (because of course, it is!)

I'm not trying to convince you of something about the post subject here; The rhetorical questions above are not intended to be read as "how don't you understand this and agree with me", but instead "how/why did these potential viewpoints not find you?" The lack of mention of any other viewpoint comes off as almost poor-faith or naivete.

In the SWE community, people place a lot of emphasis on attempting to find solutions to a problem yourself first, before asking a question (and detailing what you've tried/explored already) to a community. With that mentality, it irks me when I see comments that don't seem to apply the same rigor to rhetorical discussions.

At the risk of being overtly snarky, could you really not conjure anyone that might have an opposing viewpoint?
by dsign | 2025-04-21 04:55:34+00:00
I have a washing machine that won't let me use it fully without installing an app that asks for permission to track my GPS coordinates at all time, in my phone. HomeWhiz.There should be a law against selling new hardware that demands that sort of thing to function, or to have full functionality. But I would be happy if procedures to bring class-auction lawsuits against companies that engage in this kind of bait-and-ransom were somehow simpler.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-21 04:56:55+00:00
> For example, in Whitehorse in Yukon the average house was $420k (or $550k inflation adjusted to 2024) in 2015, and $660k in 2024. So less than 20% growth after inflation within the last decade.

These are already insanely high prices for such small, remote, and undesirable cities
by pezezin | 2025-04-21 04:57:39+00:00
The weird rainbow effects on Sonic's waterfalls are NOT due to the properties of CRT, but a result of the Megadrive's awful composite encoder. Connect the screen through a RGB cable cable, or composite through a 32X, and the resulting image is much cleaner.

Someone created a whole subreddit a few days ago to analyze the effect and post comparison pictures: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckingwaterfall/
by nomilk | 2025-04-21 04:58:16+00:00
> The (pro democracy) protesters were met with severe repression, and in November 2020, Prime Minister Prayuth ordered authorities to bring back the enforcement of lèse-majesté, or Section 112 of the Criminal Code, which criminalizes “insulting the monarchy”. Thailand’s use of lèse-majesté has been both arbitrary and prolific; protesters can be arrested for as little as sharing social media posts that are ‘insulting to the monarchy’. Furthermore, the weaponization of lèse-majesté has devastating consequences: those convicted under Section 112 face three to 15 years in prison per count.
by K0balt | 2025-04-21 04:58:46+00:00
Enshitification at its best. This is all part of the inexorable current sweeping us along to the post capitalist society, where corporations no longer sell anything but rather rent or sell access to their things. We’re already there with phones, most consumer computers, farming equipment, cars, and gradually, more and more consumer goods.

With pervasive automation, we are accelerating towards a future where money is meaningless, but not in a nice humanistic star-trek kind of way… more in a dystopian, no need to pay wages to anyone because automation, so we just need land, natural resources, and energy kind of way.

It’s grey goo, on a macro scale so you have to get into space to see it for what it is.

The current pushes us towards a time, soon, when power is the only currency that matters, and justice is reduced to the will of the stronger.

If we want to have something better than trying to compete for resources as squishy humans alongside technofacist enclaves where humans are sparse and wield unprecedented power through massive robotic capabilities, we need to start making changes now.
by vivzkestrel | 2025-04-21 05:00:56+00:00
ok how does it actually work. i get it you ll check for 500 errors by hitting multiple endpoints every x units of time. But the number of endpoints you must check also keeps going up for your service. Today you start and have 10 endpoints,6 months down the line you need to check 10000 endpoints every x units of time. How do you manage scaling this?
by Frieren | 2025-04-21 05:01:30+00:00
It should be forbidden for all device manufacturers to make apps, tracking, registering, etc. mandatory.

Every TV, phone, camera, tablet, fridge, ... is becoming a spying device like in the worst scifi dystopias. And as soon as the company stops supporting them they become trash to pollute the planet so they can sell you the next one.

Regulations should have come a decade a go. We own nothing, we have no privacy, we are sold products 24/7. I will vote for a goverment that protects me of this total corporate surveillance. It is their duty towards citizens to do so.

And it will happen, like feudalism died this techno-feudalism will die too.
by dsign | 2025-04-21 05:01:54+00:00
It's about false advertising: they say "our product gets images like this and that", which is Okay and something the buyer uses to base their decision. And there is an expectation that their product will do as advertised. But they never say front-and-center "our product won't function without a valid Internet connection and an approved photo ID, because we use our product to harvest your data."
by a_e_k | 2025-04-21 05:02:00+00:00
I'm seeing ~38--42 tps on a 4090 in a fresh build of llama.cpp under Fedora 42 on my personal machine.

(-t 32 -ngl 100 -c 8192 -fa -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 -m models/gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf)
by wuming2 | 2025-04-21 05:02:43+00:00
Thinking about when I had to upgrade my elderly parents from ADSL to FTTC, because of old apparatuses being scheduled for decommissioning, often wondering why regulators went down this path. Forcing CPEs replacement when, especially for tens of millions of elderly users, enabling ADSL2+ Annex M would have been sufficient. Most FTTC apparatuses are backward compatible with ADSL2+ and only transmission power auto backdown is necessary. To prevent degradation of neighboring VDSL signals.

My parents have now 150/30 Mbps. Totally unaware of it.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-21 05:03:20+00:00
> Some have never lived in anything other than a single-family home, and their understanding of multifamily buildings comes from news media and cultural stereotypes. They believe that as soon as you have a multi family structure, it’s automatically a ghetto of some sort

I grew up in single family homes and when I moved out on my own I lived in apartments

Hearing my neighbours screaming through the walls and floors did a lot to convince me that multi-family housing only works when either the homes are very soundproofed, or the culture is a lot more respectful of shared space

I bought a detached home as soon as I could and got the hell out of dense housing, it sucks to live like that
by Balgair | 2025-04-21 05:04:05+00:00
The other issue is that these bombing will accomplish nothing of value. These rebels have been bombed to the stone age by Saudi already. The cost of the sorties is vastly larger than anything the rebels are sending. Yes, some 'show the colors' is needed to assuage allies and merchants. It ends up being very expensive 'grass cutting'.

But real change there is going to require boots on the ground. And none of the players in the region want that. So, we just spend a $80,000 on a missile for a guy to shoot that doesn't make that in a year at a guy that doesn't make that in a lifetime.
by Frieren | 2025-04-21 05:04:13+00:00
> I avoid DJI when and where I can now.

I used to avoid spyware apps. My antivirus would flag them so I could remove them. Until all of them became spyware. Widely used apps by well known corporations do more intrusive and more constant tracking that the apps that my antivirus used to flag.

Avoiding these brands is one step, but it will not last long. Only the law can deal with total corporation surveillance.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-21 05:05:44+00:00
I assume the subtext of this research is not that human are special, and more that each specific claim towards each species of animal needs exploration and confirmation.

And it genuinely takes a lot of time when dealing with reasonably complex animals.

It reminds me of the research on cinereous tits, where the researcher had to spend like half a year at a time to validate a given chant matches a given word.
by mjevans | 2025-04-21 05:06:10+00:00
At the very least, when you the current end user refuse to agree to their terms of service, the model should have to be returned, at the manufacturer's expense, irrespective of condition.

Think of renters stuck in a place with units like that! They too should have the right to require un-tracked appliances and be free from being forced to agree to additional contract overheads that aren't obvious in the price / what should be reasonable terms.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-04-21 05:06:58+00:00
Discussions around pregnancy, childbirthbirth and raising children are very gynocentric and minimising men.

They are disregarding men having to face a disproportionate economic burden paired with lower (often, NO) rights to have a say. For example, even if they desire abortion, women can force men to pay alimony. Another example would be the common paternity testing prohibition, allowing women to plant cuckoo children as they see fit.

Pharmaceutical contraception for men gives then back their reproductive rights.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-21 05:07:59+00:00
> Skipping unanswerable questions would be good for everyone. Any answer would be misleading.

I disagree with this. The purpose of the website is to provide answers. If you let people skip questions, you can't guarantee that any given question will ever be answered.

The whole concept here is that you aren't asking people who hold particular credentials. You, Nevermark, should provide your take, regardless of whether you feel it's valid.

However, I'm uncomfortable with the fact that the two answer options are both specified by the user. They should be limited to "yes" or "no", with the meaning of that supplied by the question.
by rsync | 2025-04-21 05:09:38+00:00
I ran into the same issue.

I had no way to answer a particular question (too little information) so I reported it but ... I was still stuck on that question, seemingly forever.

I would suggest two improvements:

1) "report question" workflow should have a text input where the reporter describes why they are reporting the question.

2) "report question" should proceed to the next question.
by max__dev | 2025-04-21 05:09:54+00:00
I'm pro commenting, but let me play devil's advocate.

If you view leaving a comment as murder, then commenting doesn't just affect the person partaking in it, but also the life of everyone reading the comments. Not only that, but what are the moral implications to the rest of society if "murder" is allowed?

Here's is my point though: if you assume something is murder, of course you will conclude that it is bad. There's no "Devil's advocate"—or for that matter—any argument at all to be had. The entire debate revolves around the assumption you simply asserted for "Devil's advocate".
by serial_dev | 2025-04-21 05:11:02+00:00
It’s also not allowed to sell a coffee machine that electrocutes its users every time it’s turned on, then burns down the house for good measure.

Sure, someone will make a video “this coffee machine killed my wife and burned down my house with my children in it”, and you would say it’s the market working as intended…

There are standards the stuff sold need to meet, even if ultimately you are always “free to not buy it”.
by perching_aix | 2025-04-21 05:11:13+00:00
> People who deactivated Facebook for the six weeks before the election reported a 0.060 standard deviation improvement in an index of happiness, depression, and anxiety, relative to controls who deactivated for just the first of those six weeks. People who deactivated Instagram for those six weeks reported a 0.041 standard deviation improvement relative to controls.

Can anyone translate? Random web search find suggests multiplying by 37 to get a percentage, which sounds very questionable, but even then these improvements seem negligible.

This doesn't really line up with my lived experience. Getting myself out of shitty platforms and community spaces improved my mental state significantly (although the damage that's been done remains).
by godelski | 2025-04-21 05:11:35+00:00
This seems like quite a lot of work to hide the code. What would the legitimate reasons for this be? Because it looks like it would make the program less optimized and more complexity just leads to more errors.

I understand the desire to make it harder for bots, but 1) it doesn't seem to be effective and bots seem to be going a very different route 2) there's got to be better ways that are more effective. It's not like you're going to stop clones through this because clones can replicate by just seeing how things work and reverse engineer blackbox style.
by alwa | 2025-04-21 05:12:11+00:00
Obligatory link to Doctorow’s Unauthorized Bread (2019), a DRM-themed, uh… thriller? polemic?… of a novella. Deals with the themes you discuss: large appliance manufacturer malfeasance, intrusive exploitation beyond the scope of the product’s purpose, renters’ relative helplessness for the appliances to service their daily needs.

https://craphound.com/unauthorized-bread/

Discussion here (2020, 123 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985140
by beej71 | 2025-04-21 05:12:12+00:00
No, he's not in MS-13. I mean, the White House said that, but it's apparently a lie in that it has not been proven in any courts.

Not allowing the government to spirit people out of the country without judicial oversight is a hill a million Americans have literally died on.

Get in front of a judge first and then deport. It's easy. Even scotus is trying to stop him.
by Izkata | 2025-04-21 05:12:54+00:00
I thought that was it too, but you're saying it's not..? I've been thinking about it for a few minutes now and I still can't figure out what other meaning it could have.

Edit: Oh wait, someone else mentions map/filter, did they mean this as a combination of range->map->sum and the latter two numbers are the range portion, like sum(map(x+3, 1..4)) ?

Edit2: And now I'm remembering sigma. I think it would have been more obvious to me if the order was flipped and your issue handled the way it is in that notation: sum(x=1, 4, x+3), though I'd still prefer the range notation: sum(x=1..4, x+3)
by davidsojevic | 2025-04-21 05:13:29+00:00
Very impressive work! I always enjoy a good write up about reverse engineering efforts and yours was really simple to follow.

Many popular/large websites and bot protection services usually have environment checking as a baseline and mouse-movement tracking in some of the more aggressive anti-bot checks.

It's always interesting to see how long it takes from when the measures have been defeated/publicised until the service ends up making changes to their mechanism to make you start over (hopefully not from scratch).
by wraaath | 2025-04-21 05:14:46+00:00
It's in the link above, but in text format for those not willing to click: (source was from the US treasury department bureau of fiscal service)

Deficit under administration of: Republicans: Trump: +7.1T HW Bush: +2.2T W Bush: +2.1T Reagan: +1.7T Ford: +781.2B Hoover: +246.4B Nixon: +7.2B

Democrats: Obama: +5.6T Biden: +2.8T FDR: +1.3T Clinton: +614.4B JFK +194.8B Wilson: +191.9B

The rest of the presidents (D/R) - had net reductions in deficit.
by davidsojevic | 2025-04-21 05:16:54+00:00
Making it harder for bots usually means that it drives up the cost for the bots to operate; so if they need to run in a headless browser to get around the anti-bot measures it might mean that it takes, for example, 1.5 seconds to execute a request as compared to the 0.1 seconds it would without them in place.

On top of that 1.5 seconds is also that there is a much larger CPU and memory cost from having to run that browser compared to a simple direct HTTP request which is near negligible.

So while you'll never truly defeat a sufficiently motivated actor, you may be able to drive their costs up high enough that it makes it difficult to enter the space or difficult to turn a profit if they're so inclined.
by SamvitJ | 2025-04-21 05:20:29+00:00
From the paper PDF (https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33697/w336...):

> We estimate that users in the Facebook deactivation group reported a 0.060 standard deviation improvement in an index of happiness, anxiety, and depression, relative to control users. The effect is statistically distinguishable from zero at the p < 0.01 level, both when considered individually and after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing along with the full set of political outcomes considered in Allcott et al. (2024). Non-preregistered subgroup analyses suggest larger effects of Facebook on people over 35, undecided voters, and people without a college degree.

> We estimate that users in the Instagram deactivation group reported a 0.041 standard deviation improvement in the emotional state index relative to control. The effect is statistically distinguishable from zero at the p = 0.016 level when considered individually, and at the p = 0.14 level after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing along with the outcomes in Allcott et al. (2024). The latter estimate does not meet our pre-registered p = 0.05 significance threshold. Substitution analyses imply this improvement is achieved without shifts to offline activities. Non-preregistered subgroup analyses suggest larger effects of Instagram on women aged 1824.
by beloch | 2025-04-21 05:21:49+00:00
It's debatable where the line should be drawn, and the best approach is not to draw it at all. Sure, update flicks with CG fixes, but the original theatrical version should always be made available too.

That was Lucas' mistake with the original Star Wars trilogy. He fixed mistakes, CG'd characters and sets, spliced in deleted scenes, filmed entirely new sequences, replaced music, etc.. He felt he was making the movies better, but the updated editions weren't the familiar old friends people had known since childhood. If he'd made good transfers of the original versions available in the latest home video formats in addition to his newer versions, everybody would have been happy. He didn't do that.

Some people want the original versions and some want updated versions. Given that the first step to producing new spruced up versions is to restore the original, it makes sense to make both available.