MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jll29 | 2025-04-15 13:38:25+00:00
The influence of the (pseudo-)random number generator is called "temperature" in most models.

Setting it to 0 in theory eliminates all randomness, and instead of choosing one from a list of next words that may be predicted, always only the MOST PROBABLY word would be chosen.

However, in practice, setting the temperature to 0 in most GUIs does not actually set the temperature to 0, but to a "very small" value ("epsilon"), the reason being to avoid a division by zero exception/crawsh in a mathematical formula. So don't be surprised if you cannot get rid of random behavior entirely.
by duxup | 2025-04-15 13:39:11+00:00
Not surprising.

If someone really wanted this whole debacle to be useful they would even meet before hand and open negotiations. It might not go well, you might end up imposing tariffs, but that's how you'd start as a responsible adult.

Instead we've got an administration / political party that is more interested in how they think they look...

In the meantime they look childish, impulsive, ignorant and are trending towards putting the economy / country in a bind where they have even less leverage compared to simply negotiating from the start.
by ajross | 2025-04-15 13:39:14+00:00
I've said this repeatedly, but write this down: before this administration is out we are going to have a major (probably multiple) scandal where DOGE staffers get caught with some kind of horrifying self-enrichment scam based on the data they're hoovering. It could be simple insider trading, it could be selling the data to a FBI sting, it might take lots of forms. But it's going to happen.

These are a bunch of 20-something tech bro ego cases convinced of their crusade to remake government along libertarian axes they learned from Reddit/4chan/HN. These are simply not people motivated out of a genuine desire to improve the public good. And they've been given essentially unsupervised access to some outrageously tempting levers.
by codazoda | 2025-04-15 13:39:18+00:00
I've launched a bunch of different products so I thought maybe I could help other developers get over the last mile and get their finished products launched too. The idea started from the following comment in an HN thread:

> Semi related, is there any sort of service or type of professional that does mentoring/handholding of someone who has the core code that does something but who won't/can't take the steps on their own to make it a service or app they could sell? - Gaul
by HelloMcFly | 2025-04-15 13:39:48+00:00
"Disappeared" in this sense refers to the manner in which he was abducted, not his ongoing status. The word is not subject to a strict legalese interpretation in these comments.

Though I'd argue both uses are acceptable in common use discussion since even if we know where he is since he's going to be incarcerated indefinitely with no due process, no access to lawyers, no civil rights. How long could he be dead without anyone knowing? Literally indefinitely?
by dawidloubser | 2025-04-15 13:40:19+00:00
It was taken on a wet plate camera (capturing images on sensitised glass pates), which has remarkable resolution, typically far beyond most smaller cameras even today.

The photo was artificially lit, most likely with flash powder or magnesium ribbon. Those create incredible amounts of light - obnoxiously so, which is why they were replaced by safer flash bulbs and later on electronic flash in subsequent decades.

The light would have been more than enough to illuminate the people standing and posing for the photograph in that enclosed room.

I wonder how different things would have been if we were not able to capture the past 100-150 years so well on monochrome film. What a remarkable time to be alive, and to have been able to look back on the past using a mostly-reliable and truthful medium - now long since lost with the advent of digital imaging.
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-15 13:40:20+00:00
You mean an open-twitter clone that caters to a very niche set of individuals? A complex system to work with.

I hate the whole gimmick of 150 character messages. That's not independent like the web was once.

Discord makes you pay to upload videos, sounds and those were all existing on MSN, Yahoo, A!M for free.

Everyone at my school knew of NewsGrounds, mySpace, BeBo, LiveJournal. Me and my friends had hosted ProBoards forums where we used to discuss stuff. You can't even do that according to the new Ofcom laws.
by forgetfreeman | 2025-04-15 13:40:22+00:00
"If we enrich the CCP we just end up with an adversary capable of taking us on. That's why tariffs."

This argument is absolutely accurate and somewhere between two and six decades late depending on who you feel like blaming for offshoring. Present day all we're doing is poking inflation with a stick, threatening the bond market (and eventually the dollar reserve), and encouraging economic partners to look elsewhere for stability. 3 guesses how all that ends.
by marklar423 | 2025-04-15 13:40:34+00:00
It's funny, I noticed I happening and thought it was proof of the opposite - that there had to be some artificial cause for the supernovae (including the Sun), because a real supernova takes many years to progress, not 20 minutes.

Even after visiting the Sun Station I didn't believe it and thought it was a narrative red herring....so the ending was a surprise to me. Somehow.
by n_ary | 2025-04-15 13:40:36+00:00
Having some experience with weaker models, you need at least 1.5B-3B to see proper prompt adherence and less hallucinations and better memory.

Also models have subtle differences, for example, I found Qwen2.5:0.5B to be more obedient(prompt respecting) and smart, compared to LLama3.2:1B. Gemma3:1B seems to be more efficient but despite heavy prompting, tends to be verbose and fails at formatted response by injecting some odd emoji or remark before/after the desired output.

In summary, Qwen2.5:1.5B and LLama3.2:3B were the weakest model which were more useful and also includes tools support(Gemma does not understand tools yet).
by belter | 2025-04-15 13:40:53+00:00
The SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS): https://snews2.org/

brings together the fantastic [1] Super-Kamiokande, the [2] IceCube, and other global detectors, to provide early warning of Supernovas.

You can subscribe... https://snews2.org//alert-signup/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
by pjc50 | 2025-04-15 13:41:27+00:00
The preferred solution would be something like a Yubikey. However:

> just go to any old computer and ssh into my server

You've typed your password into a computer you don't control. Now it's gone. Same for plugging in the USB stick. The Yubikey approach mitigates that.

Assuming you want to do this, the best practice you can achieve is just making the password long.
by ozmodiar | 2025-04-15 13:41:43+00:00
I hope this isn't too contentious but I'll try to cover most things. I've posted this a few times, but I checked out 4Chan about twice in the early days and saw CSAM both times and it gave me personally a visceral hatred of the site. I've heard it got better/that's not representative but it's a hard thing to shake. The origin of the site is also supposedly Moot getting kicked off SomethingAwful for posting 'lolicon' (child anime porn). They've also gone after and doxxed pedophiles though, so the sites relationship with that sort of content is... complicated. I think most of the worst ended up moving to 4Chan clones quite awhile ago because it really splintered again at some point and became known as the cleaner Chan board.

It's also known for its extremely abrasive mildy sociopathic culture and 4Chan posters have a very samey 'posting voice' where if you don't like it you can hate it. It permeates a lot of the internet, but 4chan is kind of seen as the epicenter. I think it also gets blamed for a lot of negative internet culture like doxxing and choosing targets to harass, although I'm not sure how much of that was actually 4Chan. I think most of those people moved on to Kiwifarms. 4Chan probably gets some hate for things that other Chan sites have like Qanon in a sort of 'you started this' way.

And finally the politics are complicated. It actually used to be slightly left leaning or at least libertarian or anarchist, but over the years pol in particular has been known to be hard right wing. It definitely seems like they had a shift in political tone for the (IMO) worst at some point.

Personally I won't hide that I'm a hater and an unapologetic curmudgeonly old man, but that's my perception. On the other hand if you think the CP stuff is overblown, don't care about the negatives because there are apparently good boards there that are insulated, or are just hard right yourself then it is one of the last major discussion boards on the net. Some of that's probably out of date (like I said I gave up on it pretty quickly) but I'd wager most people with negative opinions are thinking of one or more of those. I'd be interested if any haters have other reasons.
by _fat_santa | 2025-04-15 13:41:48+00:00
IMO Temu and Aliexpress/Alibaba market themselves in a very different way. In many ways I consider Aliexpress to be more reputable just because they don't try to pull the wool over your eyes with their products. With Temu they try to make it seem like the products are just as good as what you get at Walmart. With Aliexpress at least they just straight up tell you they are a "front" for all the factories in Shenzhen.

I found Aliexpress to be great for retro gaming consoles, for anyone interested and willing to wait, you can get an "R36S" which can play all the old gameboy games and other retro games for ~$30.
by cwmma | 2025-04-15 13:42:57+00:00
For the record this is an example of the "Fencepost error" where the last item in a range gets double counted as the first item in the next range and is incredibly common in dyscalculia (the math version of dyslexia) as people will have "visual number lines" in their head that cover ranges of numbers but the ends get double counted, so there will be a 10-20 number line then a 20-30 number line.

I suspect TheJosh had something like that with the week where he visualized it with Sundays at both ends but lacked the self awareness to realize that this was not a universal representation.
by kazinator | 2025-04-15 13:43:24+00:00
No need to use a word list literal in definition of ch-name; symbols will do:

(defvarl ch-name (relate (rlist 0..32 127) '(NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US SPC DEL) nil))
by zzrrt | 2025-04-15 13:43:35+00:00
> But it's certainly telling that only one of these off topic comments actually got flagged.

Well, right now, the flagged one was "Oh, you guys are adorable.", which didn't try to make a substantive argument or convey information. At least the Cheeto one did. "Adorable" is the least-civil and least-useful comment, so it's not only ideology that explains why it got flagged.
by wruza | 2025-04-15 13:44:26+00:00
Most movies don't even leave our stellar vicinity, because they want to use hyped star/constellation names and these are from the very local set of stars. Not only a naked eye sees only around a few thousands stars, but most of them are basically next door. The mean distance to the star that you can see is <1% of galaxy size. Almost everything you see is in a 10px circle on the 1080p fullscreen galaxy map.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-15 13:44:28+00:00
White label goods.

My dad was in manufacturing and later importing so growing up I got to learn a lot about the process. He had worked for Heinz when I was young and would always buy the ketchup from some store brands that was about 60% of the cost. He was like, yea we bottle this on the same line as the name brand product.

The same hold true for imports. And yea there is a lot of cheap Chinese junk, but if you know what you're looking for you can find the same Chinese products that get name branded and marked up 200-2000% here in the US.

The problem with all of these is it's just going to cause and economic downturn where people purchase less, but more US products aren't going to sell. They simply aren't built here, and even if they are they'd still be many times more expensive. Even with the tariffs it would still be cheaper from China.
by tlogan | 2025-04-15 13:44:31+00:00
The unfortunate reality is that a half of the US population sees the NLRB as a burden on small businesses—primarily because its policies shift frequently, making compliance costly and complex for those without deep legal resources. [1]

And the same half of the population do not trust anything what npr.org says.

Understanding the above dynamic is key to grasping the current state of discourse in the U.S.

[1] https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docum...
by ryukoposting | 2025-04-15 13:45:11+00:00
There's a different cost vs. shipping tradeoff between the two. I use Temu for little electronic things (OLED panels with breakout header pins, microcontroller boards, breadboards, etc). For that purpose, Temu's prices are much better than any domestic seller, for a product that is exactly the same for my purposes. And, unlike Aliexpress, it won't take a fiscal quarter for your stuff to arrive.
by cassepipe | 2025-04-15 13:45:15+00:00
Some help in case you got lost in the terminolgy as I did :

Containers: Encapsulate application and its environment

Pods: Group one or more containers in Kubernetes

Kubernetes: Orchestrates containers across clusters.

Quadlets: Declarative container management with Podman and systemd

Podlet: Tool to generate Quadlet file from existing podman configuration
Show HN: Send APIs on Any Chrome Tab Defined by JSON
by shuofeng | 2025-04-15 13:46:08+00:00
Hello Hacker News,

Building agents that can automate web tasks can be still limited — not because of models, but because of the lack of available tools and API definitions they can use. Automating actions on platforms like LinkedIn, such as finding jobs and referrers, has also been tedious.

That's why I built Tabre, an open-sourced web app (paired with a Chrome extension) that sends predefined APIs directly within any Chrome tab. Just define APIs in JSON, and run them seamlessly.

Tabre includes an early-stage chat UI, allowing you to interact with APIs through plain-language instructions. In the future, I envision a collaborative ecosystem where developers contribute more API definitions, making the web app more powerful.

Try it out — no registration needed and no data collected:

1. Install the Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabre-tab-request/g...

2. Visit https://demo.tabre.org/ or check out the code and run locally: https://github.com/shuo-s-feng/tabre

I'd appreciate feedback from the community!
by pavel_lishin | 2025-04-15 13:47:07+00:00
> > The small, independent federal agency

> I still don’t think this notion holds up.

What notion doesn't hold up? That a federal agency can be small & independent?

> Which branch are they under, who do they report to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board

> The NLRB is governed by a five-person board and a general counsel, all of whom are appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate. Board members are appointed for five-year terms and the general counsel is appointed for a four-year term. The general counsel acts as a prosecutor and the board acts as an appellate quasi-judicial body from decisions of 36 administrative law judges, as of November 2023.[4] The NLRB is headquartered at 1015 Half St. SE, Washington, D.C., and it has over 30 regional, sub-regional, and residential offices throughout the United States.

> Why would real Russian hackers not do anything to obscure their ip?

Why would the fox bother hiding the hole someone dug for it under the henhouse?
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-04-15 13:47:37+00:00
15 different variants of the same product, all obviously cheaply made from the same factory, with varying degrees of quality control and reviews strewn about the various “brands” of the product so that it’s much harder to have a negative review everywhere.

Yeah, this sucks. Though the correct thing to do here is to enforce this hygiene on the platforms themselves. They have every resource and means to be able to prevent this kind of thing from happening. It’s just more profitable for them not to
by crazygringo | 2025-04-15 13:48:16+00:00
That is not normal. Even a recent article explains:

> US customers who placed orders on shopping websites like the popular Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein have been particularly impacted, even if they made their purchases long before the tariffs were announced. They are now forced to either pay hefty fees—in some cases, more than the value of the items inside — or have their packages sent back.

> They show Love’s order was put on hold for several hours, during which she received the notice asking her to pay the import duties. DHL also noted the package would be returned in five days if she declined to do so.

https://www.wired.com/story/tariffs-china-prices-fees-shein-...

I can find a few anecdotes online about FedEx delivering first and then charging later. I can also find people saying they called FedEx and refused to pay, and FedEx waived the amount. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how FedEx can hold you responsible for payment when you didn't engage in business with them -- you didn't purchase anything from them and you didn't sign any contract with them. If they paid the tariff before delivering to you, then that's on them.
by Wobbles42 | 2025-04-15 13:48:26+00:00
Arguably, our ability to observe in any meaningful sense is still limited to light waves occuring inside a volume not much larger than the earth itself. I mean this in more than just a semantic sense surrounding the verb "observe" -- for all practical purposes everything outside of our solar system is indistinguishable from a preprogrammed light show being projected on a sphere centered on our sun with a diameter of less than a light year. There is a decent chance that will never change. The sheer size of the universe traps us in the ultimate version of Plato's cave.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-15 13:48:29+00:00
I had to watch that at 2x to keep the thoughts-per-second above catatonic.

In the same vein, for those who haven't seen it, the classic "Is soup a drink?" debate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDNuz_VFJtU

Somewhere, there are ancient Greek rhetoric teachers spinning in their graves.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-04-15 13:48:44+00:00
SHA1 collisions are easy, but nobody has publicly revealed a second-preimage attack. With a collision you create two inputs that hash to the same output, with a second-preimage attack you are given one existing input & have to find a second input that hashes to the same output. Collisions are much easier since you can control both inputs.
by TimPC | 2025-04-15 13:49:06+00:00
I think the illegal monopoly claims are a bit out there given the range of offerings in the social network space. Are they arguing that Instagram specifically is a monopoly in photo-oriented social networking because X is mostly text and YouTube and TikTok is mostly video? I don't see any particular time you can point to where Facebook+Instagram+WhatsApp was a monoopoly in any sort of broad social networking space, especially not the WhatsApp part which competes with iMessage which is an absolute behemoth in terms of market share.
by cherryteastain | 2025-04-15 13:49:12+00:00
Rip 4chan. For all the bad it did, 4chan also made at least one real contribution to science [1], specifically to the study of superpermutations (aka the Haruhi problem), which was cited by genuine academics. We should try to remember it by that.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anim...
by TaupeRanger | 2025-04-15 13:49:17+00:00
Impossible to draw any conclusions from such a convoluted and problematic model. No mention of how they determined patients were unique, or whether multiple scans were counted for a single patient. No mention of patient data - seems that covariates were estimated, leading to greater uncertainty. For example, we have no idea if any of these patients already had cancer before getting a scan. And of course, this entire model is incapable of answering the question that patients actually care about: not "will I get cancer from this?" but "will this scan more likely increase or decrease my lifespan and/or quality of life?".
by grandempire | 2025-04-15 13:49:27+00:00
> That a federal agency can be small & independent?

Yes. They are either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branch.

And before you send more Wikipedia links, be aware there is a long history and chain of Supreme Court cases about this question.

> Why would the fox bother hiding the hole someone dug for it under the henhouse?

Still spreading the Russian asset conspiracy theory? Why wouldn’t they want to hide their crimes from future enemies?
by AIPedant | 2025-04-15 13:49:31+00:00
The NLRB is one of many independent agencies of the executive branch created by Congrees, and they don't report to anyone except for their own boards. The president and Congress have influence over the boards but no direct control over the agency. The idea that the president can just ignore these laws because of a "unitary executive" theory is authoritarian bullshit.

And the concern probably isn't Russian hackers, it's American hackers spoofing their IP address. Also you are ignoring that DOGE made the server public when it wasn't supposed to be.
by throw0101c | 2025-04-15 13:50:06+00:00
> This part is really damning: a real efficiency audit

There were already people auditing departments, but they got fired early on:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_general#United_State...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_inspectors_...

There's even an entire agency devoted to auditing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Offi...

Trying to find efficiency by bringing in the private sector is not a new thing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Commission

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownlow_Committee

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Commission

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv...
by sorenjan | 2025-04-15 13:50:32+00:00
It would be great if we could get to a point where we can use a language encoder and decoder, with a language agnostic knowledge model in between. But since it's generally more efficient to train the whole model end to end, such modularity would probably come at a performance price, and I don't see any private (or "non profit") companies take that approach anytime soon.
by idle_zealot | 2025-04-15 13:50:32+00:00
Also worth considering: there's a wider range of "acceptable" output programs when dealing with such forgiving scripting languages. If asked to output C then there are loads of finicky bits it could mess up, pointer accesses, writing past the end of an array, using uninitialized memory, using a value it already freed, missing a free, etc. All things that the language runtime handles in Python or JS. There's a higher cognitive load it needs to take on.
by brandensilva | 2025-04-15 13:51:12+00:00
The funny thing is someone somewhere will find a way to make millions off a vibe coded project. I just suspect it will be the outlier and they will be well positioned to make that happen.

And for the rest of the companies that embrace the 30%~ efficiency spike, it will just accelerate our work goals faster.

I like to use it on stuff that we wanna do to enhance the UX but rarely sees the light of day. Plus my wrists have never felt so good since replacing boring syntax choirs with LLMs.