MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2025-04-25 19:28:10+00:00
Is it?

I don't want to see sports teams playing on my coffee table. I don't want to see recipes dancing in front of me while I wear glasses in front of a stove, the humidity of boiling water vapor sticking to plastic lenses. I don't want people dicking around with headwear while they're supposed to be driving. I don't want to see contact and bio information hovering above my friends. And I certainly don't want to see ad overlays throughout daily life.

I want to escape life and enter fantasy worlds. I want to be transported. I want to see the Matrix unfold in front of me. That's about as far from AR or XR as I can imagine.
by funwares | 2025-04-25 19:28:13+00:00
Big thanks for the heads up, I had no idea about this.

It looks like I will not be able to get any prepaid money back [0] so I will be careful not to put any further money on it.

I guess I better start using some of the more expensive APIs to make it worth the $20 I prepaid.

[0] https://openai.com/policies/service-credit-terms/

4. "All sales of Services, including sales of prepaid Services, are final. Service Credits are not refundable and expire one year after the date of purchase or issuance if not used, unless otherwise specified at the time of purchase."
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-25 19:28:23+00:00
How is that a key point? The agents were asked to wait in a public area, the hall outside the courtroom. There was a call with the chief judge who confirmed this is a public area.

The allegations revolve around judge Dugan's actions. They allegedly cancelled the targets hearing and [directed] the them through a private back door to avoid arrest.

Edit: directed, not escorted.
by wonder_er | 2025-04-25 19:28:27+00:00
timing can be a pretty big thing. Do you go up stairs slowly, or quickly? One step at a time or two?

If someone is hustling up a staircase, the output can be quite high, even at the level of the 3rd floor. I notice myself, sometimes, forgetting something and moving quickly in and out of my 3rd floor apartment by stairs, and I'll notice myself breathing hard after just the 3rd floor.

And sometimes I hike the building (6 floors) twice or three times, because it feels nice, and everything is timing. One can get easily get a high-intensity, short-interval fairly-involved full-body effort out of ten flights of stairs.

I note a part of me that wants to be defensive wants to say "or perhaps someone else does not know how to try hard enough to make ten flights a good workout?"

Something about your comment feels dismissive, and this random passer-by didn't like it, but I could certainly be projecting, etc etc.
by moffkalast | 2025-04-25 19:28:30+00:00
Not as big when Q8 quantization is already considered overkill and cuts it down to 50% (and a flat 2x speed boost without any additional compute overhead mind you) and the more common Q4KM is more like 30%. Definitely interesting if it can be added to existing quantization, but K quants do already use different precision levels for different layers depending on general perplexity impact which is similar to this entropy metric they use, e.g. Q6 using a mix of 4 bits and 8 bits. And that's not even considering calibrated imatrix which does something conceptually similar to FFT to compress even higher.
by rflrob | 2025-04-25 19:28:32+00:00
There’s very often a comparison to the somatic (i.e. non-cancer) genome of the same patient. It’s a great way to quality control that there wasn’t some sample mixup in the lab.

Transmission of cancer is rare in humans—if it were not, it would make someone’s career to find many cases of it. While we can’t say that all sheep are white, we’ve looked at enough of them to say that black sheep are not common. Furthermore, it’s very clear how the Tasmanian devil cancer is spread—it’s around the mouth while they are biting each others faces; it’s not as obvious how one would spread most human cancers.
by gosub100 | 2025-04-25 19:29:39+00:00
The alien was already "detected", that's why they were at the courthouse. She didn't harbor him, she was performing her job and the defendant was required to be there. I also fail to see how she "concealed" him either. "Aiding and abetting" would be a stretch, but still more accurate verbs. But those aren't in the law you quoted.
by sgorajek | 2025-04-25 19:29:55+00:00
I saw a LinkedIn post today that really hit me — a tech founder shared how they almost gave up on their U.S. green card after multiple rejections, but the only thing that got them through was YC Partner's recommendation letter.

How neat! And how cool he shared that.

It made me remember how similar the self-sponsored immigration process (EB-1A) felt to trying to build a startup:

• You constantly hear “no” — from lawyers, from peers, from official letters. • You’re told you’re not ready, not good enough, not qualified. • You have to navigate almost blindly, without a real map. • You are afraid to ask for help.

I went through this myself — got denied a few times, nearly lost my mind, and only made it through by treating it like an iterative, startup-like process. No looking back, just knowing there has to be a way.

I even ended up building a curated community platform for those who consider self-sponsorship (America Unlocked) because it became clear that talent alone isn’t enough — you need the right feedback loops and a ton of resilience.

Curious if anyone here has felt this too — that the real “immigration secret” is just the same founder mindset: keep building, keep learning, keep pushing, even when everyone says no.

Happy to share what I learned if it’s helpful. Would also love to hear others’ stories if you’ve gone through this grind.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-25 19:30:02+00:00
It's not actually "Ideal" is the point.

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

This is as true for credit card processing as it is for scientific publishing.

There's no such thing as "Reject 100% of fraud, accept 100% of non-fraud". It wouldn't be "ideal" to make our spaceships with anti-gravity drives, it would be "science fiction".

The relationship between how hard you prevent fraud and how much legitimate traffic you let through is absurdly non-linear, and super dependent on context. Is there still low hanging fruit on the fraud prevention pipeline for scientific publishing?

That depends. Scientists claim that having to treat each other as hostile entities would basically destroy scientific progress. I wholeheartedly agree.

This should be obvious to anyone who has approved a PR from a coworker. Part of our job in code review is to prevent someone from writing code to do hostile things. I'm sure most of us put some effort towards preventing obvious problems, but if you've ever seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod... or some of the famous bits of code used to hack nation states then you should recognize that the amount of effort it would take to be VERY SURE that this PR doesn't introduce an attack is insane, and no company could afford it. Instead, we assume that job interviews, coworker vibes, and reputation are enough to dissuade that attack vector, and it works for almost everyone except the juiciest targets.

Science is a high trust industry. It also has "juicy targets" like "high temp superconductor" or "magic pill to cure cancer", but scientists approach everything with "extreme claims require extreme results" and that seems to do alright. They mostly treated LK-99 with "eh, let's not get hasty" even as most of the internet was convinced it was a new era of materials. I think scientists have a better handle on this than the rest of us.
by qwertox | 2025-04-25 19:30:06+00:00
"Model welfare" is clickbait. The core of the message is about if models can be conscious.

The video is worth watching. Maybe embedding it in an article so strongly focused on the welfare topic is a mistake, but then: why not, if this is what it takes the then-outraged news outlets to put the topic of AI consciousness on the table?

To me the p-zombie theory will most likely always be applicable to any non-wet AI, no matter how brilliant it will be.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-25 19:31:38+00:00
https://www.slate.auto/en

That is just for the base model. There is an option for an electric window opener.

It is also not a finished product yet so wait and see what actually becomes of this. The modularity is nice along with the promise of easy to install upgrades and so forth.

Delivering on all those customizable options though may be easier said than done.
by yencabulator | 2025-04-25 19:32:07+00:00
Here an example of it taking arbitrary input and blindly casting it to a type; anything after this point can blow up. There seems to be no input validation anywhere.

const input = req.body as SyncMutationsInput;

https://github.com/colanode/colanode/blob/9e69f29858a2ced6b1...

And the database use looks racy, sometimes not using transactions at all but having a read-modify-write cycle, no GET FOR UPDATE seen anywhere in transactions. Somebody is going to figure out how to do nasty things to the data.
by globnomulous | 2025-04-25 19:32:40+00:00
I teach languages at the college level. Students who seek "help" from side-by-side translations think this way, too. "I'm just using the translation to check my work; the translation I produced is still mine." Then you show them a passage they haven't read before, and you deny them the use of a translation, and suddenly they have no idea how to proceed -- or their translation is horrendous, far far worse than the one they "produced" with the help of the translation.

Some of these students are dishonest. Many aren't. Many genuinely believe the work they submit is their own, that they really did do the work, and that they're learning the languages. It isn't, they didn't, and they aren't.

People are quite poor at this kind of attribution, especially when they're already cognitively overloaded. They forget sources. They mistake others' ideas for their own. So your model of intention, and your distinction between those who wish to learn and those who pose, don't work. The people most inclined to seek the assistance that these tools seem to offer are the ones least capable of using them responsibly or recognizing the consequences of their use.

These tools are a guaranteed path to brain rot and an obstacle to real, actual study and learning, which require struggle without access to easy answers.
by cruzcampo | 2025-04-25 19:33:46+00:00
They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic"

[...]

""But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens.|

- They Thought They Were Free, The Germans 1933-45

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm
by teruakohatu | 2025-04-25 19:35:18+00:00
Technically you could zip tie or duct tape an Amazon Basics Bluetooth speaker to just anything even a lawnmower. This looks like just one step above that.

It’s a shame they didn’t add a DIN head unit slot and throw a plastic cover over it, preinstall install speaker wires. Anyone could then DIY a real stereo for less than they are probably selling the Bluetooth speaker/soundbar.
by ajross | 2025-04-25 19:35:37+00:00
> The fact the FBI participated in this arrest is chilling

Even more frightening is that there was a federal judge that was willing to sign off on an arrest warrant for a fellow jurist, based on what is clearly political showmanship (they didn't need to arrest her at all to prosecute this crime!).

There were a lot of Rubicons crossed today. This ends with opposition politicians in jail. Every time. And usually to some level of armed revolt around/preventing transfers of power.
by jjice | 2025-04-25 19:35:44+00:00
The Fit is a wonderful car. I'd buy one if I could find one for a decent price, but 40k miles 2020 (last year for them in the US) still runs around $20k at dealers and Carvana! For five grand more, I can get a brand new Corolla Hatchback, which is what I'll likely do, but I'd pick up a Fit without thinking if I could find a good price.
by pavlov | 2025-04-25 19:35:48+00:00
For comparison, this is a $16k car in China:

https://carnewschina.com/2025/03/25/byd-sealion-05-ev-launhe...

It’s like if you could buy an old Nokia for $200, or a new Android smartphone for $160. The old Nokia certainly has nostalgic qualities and some concrete practical benefits like all-week battery life, but overall it’s not a great deal.

And this is why you have >100% tariffs on Chinese cars — American manufacturers know they can’t compete.
by afiori | 2025-04-25 19:35:51+00:00
I believe that these kind of decisions are mostly downstream of security audits/consultants with varying level of up to date slideshows.

I believe that this is overall a reasonable approach for companies that are bigger than "the CEO knows everyone and trusted executives are also senior IT/Devs/tech experts" and smaller than "we can spin an internal security audit using in-house resources"
by cratermoon | 2025-04-25 19:36:21+00:00
Several times Devereaux touches on the order of events in the Seen world as it conforms to the Unseen, to make it as if it was always this way. Perhaps he's missed something subtle: the order of events in the Seen world literally does not matter, as time itself is not linear in Arda. It only seems that way to ordinary beings. Even then, as Tolkien writes more than once, the perceived passage of time varies. Notably when the fellowship leaves Lothlorien and Sam is trying to work out how long they'd been there, Legolas explains the passage of time varies, and Aragorn adds "In that land you lost your count. There time flowed swiftly by us, as for the Elves."
by Centigonal | 2025-04-25 19:36:21+00:00
I was not aware of this accusation when I made my original comment

>Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of escorting the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through the jury door last week after learning that immigration authorities were seeking his arrest. The man was taken into custody outside the courthouse after agents chased him on foot.

This might change the calculus.
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-04-25 19:36:23+00:00
Thanks! Now I'm inclined to watch it. I do love when shows make a point of keeping distinct accents.

What with having moved a lot as a bairn, I feel that accents in many places are fading away. And also, I tend to sound like whoever I've been talking most to for the last two hours. It's a bit weird, that…makes people ask why I'm speaking with x accent. (^_^);
by BobaFloutist | 2025-04-25 19:36:24+00:00
> if you use LLMs to make bombs or spam hate speech, you’re responsible.

What if it's easier enough to make bombs or spam hate speech with LLMs that it DDoSes law enforcement and other mechanisms that otherwise prevent bombings and harassment? Is there any place for regulation limiting the availability or capabilities of tools that make crimes vastly easier and more accessible than they would be otherwise?
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-04-25 19:36:28+00:00
And for a horse that's not used to loading, a livestock trailer is often much easier because they're more comfortable getting into it than, e.g., a 2-horse slant.

Judging by the number of horses my wife hauls, most horse owners don't have their own truck/trailer. Which makes sense: for most people, the trailer won't be used very often, and hay is usually delivered by the farmer, so don't need a truck for that.

How did we get so far OT?
by vintermann | 2025-04-25 19:36:36+00:00
A good example that information, i.e. bits, are only meaningful with respect to an end. If you don't know what the bits in a float will be used to, you can't throw them away, but if the floats are in a function, and you know that what some bits are can't affect the output of the function regardless of input, then you can throw those bits away and still have a lossless compression of the function.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-25 19:36:37+00:00
> B2B puts you at the mercy of "your next customer's wished feature".

Yes.

> The bigger the "B" you're trying to sell to, the bigger the desire to say yes.

Absolutely.

> This is a very dangerous path.

You lost me here. What you term "a very dangerous path" I call "a roadmap".

The bigger the customer, the more they can pay. Also, just because it's 'B' and not 'C' doesn't mean there aren't humans involved. You can go a long way (often, all the way) with a simple 1:1 conversation with the most senior person responsible for your project on the customer's side.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-25 19:38:20+00:00
>My concern is that actual AI safety

While I'm not disagreeing with you, I would say you're engaging in the no true Scotsman fallacy in this case.

AI safety is: Ensuring your customer service bot does not tell the customer to fuck off.

AI safety is: Ensuring your bot doesn't tell 8 year olds to eat tide pods.

AI safety is: Ensuring your robot enabled LLM doesn't smash peoples heads in because it's system prompt got hacked.

AI safety is: Ensuring bots don't turn the world into paperclips.

All these fall under safety conditions that you as a biological general intelligence tend to follow unless you want real world repercussions.
by wonder_er | 2025-04-25 19:38:36+00:00
I find many people in my life seem very precious about their sleep, in a way that I am not.

I also can sometimes endure a day that I detect fatigue in myself. I don't necessarily love it, but I'll note it easy to go to sleep early the second day if I am tired the day before, and if something happens that causes my sleep to feel shorter than i'd like, I don't really worry about it at all.

Same reason I don't really concern myself if I detect notes of hunger in my system. Meh. Sometimes I've fasted a long time, usually I don't fast at all, but I really don't concern myself with "oh my gosh i have not eaten in {recent hours} I am STARVING" energy.

Anyway, I suggest this article to most people I find myself discussing sleep with, and enough people have said it was worth their time to read it, so I continue to share it:

[1] Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

[1] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

The animal-ish part of a human existence is always interesting to me. Elsewhere in the comments I've seen sorta uncomfortable references to pressuring someone for sexual intimacy before bedtime based on this paper. Meh. Something that IS really nice before sleep is emotionally connected sexual intimacy, and I hope no one would want emotionally _dis_connected sexual intimacy from/for a partner, and I, personally, would make some big steps back if I thought a partner wanted something like... disattuned sex out of me.

This last paragraph might be best left off the comment, happy if a mod wants to not have it go that way. I do stand by the link to Guzey's "Why we sleep"!
by trgn | 2025-04-25 19:38:41+00:00
i hate trucks because they're big and trash up my neighborhood with their noise and size, just don't belong in the city. but since some neighbors have started driving electric (rivian, cybertruck), I tolerate them so so so much more. it's amazing how just making them electric has changed (and I hope, continues to change) the gestalt of my block.
by godelski | 2025-04-25 19:38:49+00:00
Can you help me understand the exploit here? I'd really like to understand.

(What's below is written not as "this is how it should be done" but instead "what I understand should be done". To provide context to what I do and do not understand so that my misunderstandings can be more directly addressed)

I understand being over zealous, an abundance of caution. But what I'm confused about is why normal text could lead to an exploit in the first place. I can only understand this being a problem if arbitrary text is being executed. Which that would appear to be a HUGE security hole ripe for exploitation. But path access is handled by privileges. So even if arbitrary text is being executed, how can that lead to exploitation without already having a major security hole?

Maybe I'm not understanding substack? I've only been a reader. But why is the writer not in a container or chroot? If you want you be overly zealous why not use two vms? Put them in a vm to write, once they've edited then run tests and then use that as the image for the userspace in the ephemeral vm that is viewed by readers. Would this still be exploitable? I don't mean image for the whole vm, I really do mean a subimage so you can lock that up.
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-25 19:38:52+00:00
If we're going to be technical about this, which one has to be in the eyes of the law, what is the difference between escorting them through the private back door vs escorting them through the front door?

How do you prove intent? That her intent was to obstruct?

They point out in the article that such room (juror room) is never usually used by certain people, but that still doesn't prove anything about her intent.
by essence_sentry | 2025-04-25 19:39:30+00:00
I often wanted to code in VS Code while using Google Colab or Kaggle runtimes, but getting a clean connection without weird hacks was messy.

So I built [`vscode-colab`](https://github.com/EssenceSentry/vscode-colab): a tiny Python library that uses official VS Code Remote Tunnels to connect Colab/Kaggle sessions to your local or web VS Code securely.

- No SSH hacks - No 3rd party servers - Just `pip install`, `login()`, `connect()`, done.

You can clone and push to private GitHub repos directly once connected (thanks to GitHub auth).

Works even in Kaggle (with a fallback if clipboard access fails).

Repo + example notebook: https://github.com/EssenceSentry/vscode-colab

Happy to hear feedback!
by lolinder | 2025-04-25 19:39:59+00:00
The claim is that the judge, upon finding out that they were there to make an arrest, deliberately led the man out a back door which would under almost no circumstances be available to his use (the jury door), allowing him to bypass the officers attempting to make the arrest.

If true, that's pretty clearly a deliberate attempt to obstruct their efforts. The only question is whether obstructing ICE is classified as the legal offense of obstruction, but I don't have any specific reason to believe it wouldn't be.
by taylodl | 2025-04-25 19:40:18+00:00
If you consider a fur baby a family! :)

I want something much more utilitarian than what is being pitched to today's families. If you want a Quad Cab, Infotainment systems, and yadda, yadda, yadda - the market already has options. Lots of them.

If you want a cheap, light duty truck similar to what a Chevy S10 or a Ford Ranger used to be, then you're pretty much SOL.