MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Avicebron | 2025-04-17 01:03:45+00:00
Well, using Barista as a proxy for any job that a keymasher might regard as "nothing wrong with it as a waypoint", I guess a person might feel shame after long periods of time trying to get out of that waypoint, and not being able to because they're losing ground to recent graduates and the regular churn of the market looking for people with "more experience".

So yeah, I can see how someone would feel shame in that even if they didn't publicly admit it. An interesting question for you from here is, what do you think about the people who are in "nothing wrong with it as a waypoint" jobs?
by Terr_ | 2025-04-17 01:03:58+00:00
> One of the demands [...] Is that a partisan political issue

That's called "cherry-picking", and not in the fun version-control way. There's a bunch more, and [0] ...

> The demands the Trump administration is placing on the university are internally contradictory. [...]

> Departments deemed lacking in viewpoint diversity [by the Trump administration] would be forced to hire and admit “a critical mass” of new faculty and students that would provide it. [...]

> Whether by design or accident, the imperative to screen for anti-Semitic beliefs and “ideological capture,” and to mandate viewpoint diversity, clearly contradict the dictates to reduce administrative activism and abolish the implementation of litmus tests in promotion and hiring.

_____

In other words, imagine: "You can not have target-minimums in hiring minorities... and you can only hire staff who know how to play golf."

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/demands-ha... , mirrored at https://archive.ph/BFgSi
by LeoPanthera | 2025-04-17 01:06:02+00:00
I really want to use Jellyfin for music, but unfortunately it separates albums based on directories and not by reading the metadata, so if you have an album separated into "Disc 1", "Disc 2", etc, each disc shows up as a separate album.

I really don't want to restructure my library just for Jellyfin, so I basically can't use it.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-04-17 01:06:04+00:00
My problem stays the same — finding all my music that is on Spotify from elsewhere. It costs a lot to buy those music files and that too if they are available (which isn’t always the case) and even after I buy I am not sure what were the T&C from that particular place I bought - whether I really own it, I don’t, a bit but not fully - etc. Finding from Linux ISO sites is a nightmare and an extra bad nightmare if we are talking about some 2K - 0.6K songs (because I have 600 from before I started streaming). I wish there was an easy way for this - plug and play kinda.
by walterbell | 2025-04-17 01:07:12+00:00
Great photos!

Painting and 3-D scan of Burbank Frys, https://savefrys.com/tributes/ and https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/rip-frys-162eeef6095343ec8b3...

Roman remnants in Phoenix store, https://nickdiak.com/2021/02/an-empire-crumbles-retrospectiv...

Oil-themed store in Houston, https://houstonhistoricretail.com/electronics/frys-electroni...
by shoelessone | 2025-04-17 01:07:57+00:00
A bit similar for me, I grew up in the Midwest and spent a lot of time wandering around CompUSA and Circuit City / Best Buy when I was a kid. When I was old enough and had some reason to go out West, Fry's was one of the top things on my list of things to go see, it felt like a pilgrimage of sorts.
by walterbell | 2025-04-17 01:09:00+00:00
El Sobrante, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=94274

> The Fry's Foods grocery chain began at this location in 1954 when Donald Fry acquired Ray's Market, owned by Ray Dickenson. Joined by his brother, Charles, in 1955, they grew that initial store into a 41-store chain which they sold in 1972. Charles gifted a portion of the proceeds to his three sons, enabling them to launch the first store of what would one day become the highly successful Fry's Electronics retail chain.
by thayne | 2025-04-17 01:09:24+00:00
Putting a manually generated cert on an embedded device is inherently insecure, unless you have complete physical control over the device.

And as mentioned in other comments, the revocation system doesn't really work, and reducing the validity time of certs reduces the risks there.

Unfortunately, there isn't really a good solution for many embedded and local network cases. I think ideally there would be an easy way to add a CA that is trusted for a specific domain, or local ip address, then the device can generate its own certs from a local ca. And/or add trust for a self-signed cert with a longer lifetime.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-17 01:10:37+00:00
Yes, "Spotify Alternative" does seem to miss that Spotify / Apple Music+ / etc are legal and somewhat ethical ways to get access to a huge amount of music that would be expensive to purchase and a huge pain to torrent.

E.g. lately I have been listening to more classical, and the musicianship between different performances of the same piece varies widely. It is very nice to be able to quickly explore a few different albums before I find the one I like (also to study the differences). In the Olden Days I would hogged the headphones at the music store... or, more likely, not make my own decision and purchase based on reviews and name recognition.

On the other hand, I of course never actually purchase albums anymore. ("somewhat ethical")
by ggm | 2025-04-17 01:11:19+00:00
At some level, if you are capable of being revived, I think your death was prematurely reported, defined by being revived. But, if you are not revived from a quiescent state, now or into the future, is there a functional difference between being quiescent, and being dead?

Down at the viral level, if they crystallise, they're stable. If they managed to get into rock in a crystallised state, how long would they remain stable? Do we define viruses as "not alive" now? or prions? or mitochondria?
by otterpro | 2025-04-17 01:11:46+00:00
I'm sad to see it end like this. About 20 years ago, I used to go to this Burbank Fry's after work whenever I could and spend hours just browsing. They had this cool 50's sci-fi alien/ufo movie theme inside. Another favorite is the Fry's in Anaheim where I got pc parts to build my first 486 PC in the early 90's. So many memories. I remember buying my first laptop ever, a monochrome thinkpad with personal check (as my credit card limit was too low) and having to call bank to verify my balance; also the day that I bought a Pentium CPU when it first came out, and the time when I got the boxed Windows 95 OS. Those were the days.
RocketSDR – Are they faking being backed with YC?
by blendertom | 2025-04-17 01:12:14+00:00
I got a cold email from them, decided to check out their website - they are short on information and you have to set up a call with them before you can use their product.

I decided to dig a bit deeper - they don't have a LinkedIn presence, and searching for the name of the email sender "Ayush Pateria" who is the co-founder of Snazzy (YC W21). But there's no mention of RocketSDR on their page.

I also can't find RocketSDR on YC's website.
by mbessey | 2025-04-17 01:12:42+00:00
I will definitely check out SunDog, if I can find it. I haven't yet decided whether I'm making a VM for version II or version IV, or both, yet. I want to be able to run code from Apple Pascal directly, so will likely start from II.5.

An interesting piece of trivia about the Apple III version of Apple Pascal that I learned from this discussion is that it apparently puts p-code and data in their own 64k segments, like you were talking about for your 65816 version.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-17 01:13:14+00:00
Discussion (65 points, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711376

Related:

2023 Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B (235 points, 135 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37468342

2019 Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet (606 points, 384 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944005
by int_19h | 2025-04-17 01:13:48+00:00
> I've never seen or heard "elegance" associated with hackers, hacking, the hacking ethos etc. If I were to go further, elegance as it is used here has some anti-hacker connotations, i.e. it is a gatekeeping term to separate "true" coders from "amateurs" which is very anti-hacker.

This is where I would strongly disagree. Are you familiar with shibboleths like 1337?
by wnevets | 2025-04-17 01:14:02+00:00
> On my computer, to create a new 4096-bit key takes about a second, in a single thread. For something I now have to do fewer than 8 times per year. On a 16-core CPU with a TDP of 65 watts, we can estimate that this took 0.0011 watt-hours.

but you think think it would take a decade for the entire internet to use as much power as a single AI video?
by janalsncm | 2025-04-17 01:14:15+00:00
If a rogue laptop violates the Llama license and no one is around to enforce it, did it really break the Llama license?

Seriously, I genuinely wonder what the purpose of adding random unenforceable licenses to code/binaries. Meta knows people don’t read license agreements, so if they’re not interested in enforcing a weird naming convention, why stipulate it at all?
by progmetaldev | 2025-04-17 01:14:22+00:00
Unfortunately, for a small business, there are many software packages that can cause all sorts of havoc on an internal network, and are simple to install. Even just ARP cache poisoning on an internal network can force everyone offline, while even a reboot of all equipment can not immediately fix the problem. A small company that can't handle setting up a CA won't ever be able to handle exploits like this (and I'm not saying that a small company should be able to setup their own CA, just commenting on how defenseless even modern networks are to employees that like to play around or cause havoc).

Of course, then there are the employees who could just intercept HTTP requests, and modify them to include a payload to root an employee's machine. There is so much software out there that can destroy trust in a network, and it's literally download and install, then point and click with no knowledge. Seems like there is a market for simple and cheap solutions for internal networks, for small business. I could see myself making quite a bit off it, which I did in the mid-2000's, but I can't stand doing sales any more in my life, and dealing with support is a whole issue on it's own even with an automated solution.
by pyfon | 2025-04-17 01:15:22+00:00
The manager needs to judge if it is a one off oversight, a skill issue or an attitude issue.

I think it is better to talk to everyone civilly and respectfully regardless and then use fair processes to deal with these issues.

Broadly you have 2 possible issues:

1. People make mistakes and you need processes like code reviews and tests etc. to catch them. No one does 100% perfection. Avoid blame.

2. Someone is not performing well enough.

You deal with 1 as a team through continuous improvement. And 2 is usually manager and team member through feedback and perhaps performance improvements. It should be utterly respectful at all stages.
by bhaney | 2025-04-17 01:16:30+00:00
> I wish there was an easy way for this - plug and play kinda

I can click a button in Lidarr to auth with Spotify and automatically search usenet for every album of every artist I follow on spotify, download them all, and make them available in Jellyfin. It'll even monitor the spotify account and import new additions. Getting the whole stack set up is pretty much the exact opposite of plug and play, but once you have it all installed it's amazing how much becomes smooth sailing. 2K songs is nothing for this kind of stack.
by AzN1337c0d3r | 2025-04-17 01:17:02+00:00
The original BitNet paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11453)

BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models

was actually binary (weights of -1 or 1),

but then in the follow-up paper they started using 1.58bit weights (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17764)

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits

This seems to be first source of the confounding of "1-bit LLM" and ternary weights that I could find.

In this work, we introduce a 1-bit LLM variant, namely BitNet b1.58, in which every single parameter (or weight) of the LLM is ternary {-1, 0, 1}.
by chillfox | 2025-04-17 01:17:12+00:00
Self-hosting stuff is awesome if you have the skills.

I have been on a mission for the last 2 years to replace as many subscriptions as possible with self-hosted solutions. The subscriptions really had gotten out of hand, it had gotten to about $200 (AUD) a month.

Quick napkin math is that I have cancelled about ~$150 a month worth of subscriptions so far. The $500 office desktop I got for a home server is struggling at this point, but it's already paid for itself, so I will likely upgrade it to something much better later this year.

Currently I am in the process of replacing all the movie streaming services with Emby.

Spotify and Adobe lightroom is still on the todo list.

I will likely end up with Youtube, Fastmail and Borgbase being my remaining subscriptions once I am done.
by ggm | 2025-04-17 01:17:36+00:00
The article somewhat understates that this puts the trust zone back into the "user has to unlock" state but the device will be findable from binding to carrier on mobile, wifi or BT.

So it isn't entirely the same as "went to sleep" because the user-unlock of state is live in memory, in a sleep state. In this model, it's not because the user hasn't initiated the key unlock event with their ID
by breadwinner | 2025-04-17 01:18:15+00:00
Excerpts:

Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. "The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places," Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

"The problem of course is [Trump] already has illegally deported hundreds of people by just not giving the courts an opportunity to stop him," says David Bier of the Cato Institute. "I think that's the real fear, now that he is going to try to evade judicial review of deportations of U.S. citizens."

Also:

Appellate judges in the Abrego Garcia case have warned that the administration’s position would mean “the government could send any of us to a Salvadoran prison without due process.” [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-harvard-abr...
by johntitorjr | 2025-04-17 01:18:41+00:00
I think the unstated assumption is that the reader has an existing music library. Where that library came from is an excercise left to the reader. I use bittorrent, which I admit is a little morally smelly, but I justify it by buying vinyl albums of any artists I listen a lot to. It'd take a lot of Spotify listens to match the money to the artist of buying a single album from the band website. Lots of vinyl comes with digital downloads too. When I'm at home, physical media is fucking rad. I mean, I can unplug the turntable, spin it by hand, and hear the music directly from the needle. No software, no gadgets. It's so primal, like the artist is whispering to me. I hadn't realized how much I lost switching to Pandora until I switched back to physical media.

Given an existing collection - Is there an easy way to auto sort & tag everything? e.g. Merge the artists 'Guns N Roses' and 'Guns and Roses' into the most correct one.

I can't justify the time to do it manually and feel like if I just wait long enough a turn-key AI solution will pop up.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-17 01:19:37+00:00
I still don't get it. Here's the opening of the "Vortiger's Tower" section of the Prose Merlin, chapter 2 according to the METS table of contents:

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Thus they rode in one company, all four, till on a day that they passed through a field beside a town wherein were great plenty of children that therein were playing. And Merlin, that knew well that these four came to inquire after him, drew him toward one of the richest of the company, for that he knew him most cruel and hasty. He seized his staff and gave this child a great buffet. And anon, this other began to cry and weep and to mis-say ["revile"] Merlin, and reproved him with a loud voice, and called him misbegotten wretch and fatherless. When these messengers heard this, they came toward the child that was weeping and asked him which was he that had smitten him. And he them answered, "It is the son of a woman which never knew who him begat, no never man could tell of his father."

And when Merlin heard this, he came against ["towards"] them laughing and said "I am he that ye seek, and he that ye be sworn ye should slay, and bring my blood to King Vortiger." And [when] they heard him thus say, they were sore a-marveled and asked him, "Who hath told thee this?" Quoth he, "I knew it ere ye were sworn." Quoth they, "Then must thou come with us." "Nay," quoth he, "I doubt that ye will me slay."

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I've made two types of changes here:

1. Words are given their modern spelling.

2. Words that are given glosses may be replaced ("wiste" -> "knew") or annotated ('against ["towards"]') with those glosses.

Doing a translation on top of that is pointless; this is already perfectly intelligible to a modern speaker. What would you gain by having a translation on the facing page?
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 01:20:05+00:00
I hear ya but this would more than likely be something like a really sloppy human error such as following the wrong process vs. a miscommunication otherwise I would expect these outages to be much more frequent. I do remember when a fat-finger at UUNET took out most of the internet long ago but that was a human error and is a bit harder to have the same impact today.

To me a communication error implies someone followed erroneous instructions without asking the obvious, " ... but isn't this a big business that is still live and why don't I have a legal order in my hand?" In fairness this did happen recently with he.net because a sub-domain was reported but it was done intentionally even if they failed to do even basic due diligence. After Covid I would expect most people would know zoom.us would be in use by a lot of people whereas only specific groups of people would know what he.net is.

I am curious if the process has changed due to laziness and now registrars can just select any number of domains and click a button to place them on hold without management or executive approval. If so that should be in some audit trail and should require confirmation and approval by a senior leader.
by anamexis | 2025-04-17 01:20:06+00:00
I somewhat agree, but I think an important distinction is that in this case, you are legitimately giving the MCP server your credentials - there are no tricks there.

This is distinct from various forms of phishing where they are tricking you to give access to sensitive information. Here, you are giving that access willingly to something that is then itself vulnerable to being tricked/tricking you.
by busterarm | 2025-04-17 01:22:46+00:00
Stated harm is vastly overblown. Your average /pol/ack is too unmotivated to ever leave the house or even have an in person social interaction with a non-family member. It's a gathering place for the NEETs and hikkikomori of society. It's too unwelcoming to anyone with a functioning mental state and their activities live and die within that board.

You can't just peer into their world and judge them by the same standards as normal society.

If the mere existence of a place where people voice highly disagreeable opinions is an existential threat to you, then I think that says more about you.
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 01:23:44+00:00
I would prefer the "analyze" feature focus on content rather than structure words. I forget the specific linguistic terms but to a first approximation, nouns and verbs would be of interest, prepositions and articles not. Let's call the former "syntactic" and the latter "semantic."

I suppose it's possible the "analyze"-reported proportions are a lot more precise and reliably diagnostic than I imagine. I haven't yet looked in detail at the statistical method.

Also, of course, it would require integration with NLP tooling such as WordNet (or whatever's SOTA there something like a decade and a half on) and a bit of Porter stemming to do part-of-speech tagging. If one 0.7GB dataset is heavyweight where this is running, that could be a nonstarter; stemming is trivial and I recall WordNet being acceptably fast if maybe memory hungry on a decade ago's kinda crappy laptop, but I could see it requiring some expensive materialization just to get datasets to inspect. (How exactly do we define "more common" for eg "smooth?" Versus semantic words, all words, both, or some combination? Do we need another dataset filtered to semantic words? Etc.)

If we're dreaming and I can also have a pony, then it would be neat to see both the current flavor, one focused on semantics as above, and one focused specifically on syntax as this one coincidentally often seems to act like. I would be tempted to offer an implementation, but I'm allergic to Python this decade.
by taggart | 2025-04-17 01:25:26+00:00
While attending the University of Arizona in Tucson in the early 90s, I got very confused by posts on Usenet talking about buying computers at Fry’s. You see, the Fry’s grocery store chain still existed in Tucson at the time, so I could not figure out where a grocery store would stock computers!

Needless to say when I moved to the Bay Area after college graduation, I wasted no time visiting the closest Fry’s Electronics. For me, that was the original Fremont location - the one in an office park off Mission Blvd with the space theme inside. I never see that location mentioned any more. It was closed after Fry’s bought the Incredible Universe stores and they moved the Fremont Fry’s to the IU store on Auto Mall Parkway.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-17 01:25:48+00:00
This is your daily reminder that if we do indeed discover life so close (~120 LY) to Earth, it's an incredibly bad sign for us. This is an exercise in Bayesian reasoning.

Imagine there are 2 planets in the Milky Way where life has developed. The odds are incredibly low they're next to each other, assuming a random distribution. So it's way more likely that there are more than 2. Imagine a sphere of radius 60 LY (120/2). Our Earth is the center of one. This planet is another. That's a volume of 10^6 LY^3. The Milky Way volume (from Google) is ~17T LY^3 so there'd be roughly 170M such spheres in our galaxy.

Now imagine if the odds of simple life becoming intelligent life that we could detect and could become spacefaring is 1 in 1 million. There'd be ~170 such civilization in the Milk Way.

We have absolutely no evidence of this So simple life is a lot less common, intelligent life is a lot less likely or, and this is the scary part, something tends to wipe out sentient civilizations and that's likely in our future.

In Fermi Paradox terms, we call this a Great Filter.
by jll29 | 2025-04-17 01:25:58+00:00
I can sympathize the with the cynicism, because I also see the bombing of Ukraine and Gaza in the daily news, which nobody seems to be capable or willing to stop.

Unlike Solferino, there are children dying on a daily basis, which breaks my heart. Yet it remains true that what Dunant has established is a better state than the world would have been in if he had done nothing.

Solferino was a big and cruel battle by the standards of its time, but not by today's standards - in stats: 150,000 men against 150,000 men, 24 km battle front fighting through one night, resulting in 6,000 dead, 2,000 wounded and 12,000 missing [1] (but note Solferino today has less than 2,600 inhabitants today). So a joke if compared to WWII stats. But the point here is a single individual made a difference, and beyond their lifetime, and that should give us some hope.

[1] https://www.kvwuerzburg.brk.de/das-brk/selbstverstaendnis/di...