MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zmmmmm | 2025-04-17 07:41:49+00:00
> It makes the system more reliable

It might in theory but I suspect it's going to make things very very unreliable for quite a while before it (hopefully) gets better. I think probably already a double digit fraction of our infrastructure outages are due to expired certificates.

And because of that it may well tip a whole class of uses back to completely insecure connections because TLS is just "too hard". So I am not sure if it will achieve the "more secure" bit either.
by PennRobotics | 2025-04-17 07:42:53+00:00
I just threw numbers into there (population x ownership percent x replacement frequency x unit cost) to estimate the annual revenue of the smartphone market and got a few percentage points away from what the internet reports is the true value.

Because there are trig functions, this would also be nice for reverse engineering of complex parts from simple measurements (feature volumes, corner angles, cross-sectional areas)

Multimodal would be nice but not necessary.

Inverse trig functions would be interesting but complicated and not necessary.

In any case, this tool is more convenient than opening Python every time I want to estimate a range of answers.
by jeromeb_la | 2025-04-17 07:43:35+00:00
I agree with you up to a point. Epyx made the Lynx for Atari and it was by far better than the gameboy for the gaming of its time. It had hardware-based sprite scaling. It could’ve done a Mario kart type of game very well if someone had the foresight to. But Atari didn’t have Mario or any cutesy ideas that kids wanted. Nintendo was very smart in that they made the main target audience the kids. Nintendo also knew parents would only spend a certain amount of money so the gameboy had the price advantage.
by fedeb95 | 2025-04-17 07:43:57+00:00
Interesting story which I didn't know. However, the author perspective is a bit flawed:

But the world did get more peaceful. There was no World War III, and countries at least had to pay lip service to these universal values of peace and human rights.

The world didn't really get more peaceful. Some nations which used to wage wars between themselves did not anymore after World War II (excluding "incidents" like Belgrade bombing). This doesn't diminish the rest of the article at all, if anything calls for more rules and diplomacy preventing war.
by delusional | 2025-04-17 07:44:01+00:00
The benchmarks are created by humans. So are the training sets. It turns out the sorts of problems that humans like to benchmark with are also the sorts of problems humans like to discuss wherever that training set was scraped.

Well that and the whole field is filled with AI hypemen who "contribute" by asking ChatGPT about the quality and validity of some other GPT response.
by mycatisblack | 2025-04-17 07:44:56+00:00
Thank you for elaborating on your design & making it public.

Last winter I made a design for a hobby spectrum analyser and the main stumbling block was a suitable low phase noise oscillator. Most of the RF sources that I came about have terrible spurs from pll adjusts when they are used for sweeping. I’ve been thinking about buying a YIG on ebay and do it that way but that approach would devalue the project for open source.

I’m eager to look at that lmx2594 you use, thank you for the article.
by shekhargulati | 2025-04-17 07:45:33+00:00
Not sure why they used React for a CLI. The code in the repo feels like it was written by an LLM—too many inline comments. Interestingly, their agent's system prompt mentions removing inline comments https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-cli/src/util....

> - Remove all inline comments you added as much as possible, even if they look normal. Check using \`git diff\`. Inline comments must be generally avoided, unless active maintainers of the repo, after long careful study of the code and the issue, will still misinterpret the code without the comments.
by rich_sasha | 2025-04-17 07:45:54+00:00
Indeed - but isn't the court decision, as per TFA, a step in the right direction? Courts are slow but if they grind in the right direction, they get there.

Americans don't have much experience of this kind of tug of war (good for you). So far Trump hasn't faced any difficulties yet. Courts haven't kicked in, economy is steady, no external shocks and the tariff stuff hasn't percolated down to Main Street. It's easy to be a populist.

The hard stuff starts when the combined noose of court action, domestic discontent and external shocks really starts to bite, and there's still hope courts will retain their independence.
by begueradj | 2025-04-17 07:45:58+00:00
That means we should embrace life as it is, we should accept its good and bad sides because there is no good without bad, and no bad without good.

It's like in the story written by Khalil Gibran where a pastor passed by an injured Satan who asked for his help and to not let him die.

In the beginning, the pastor refused because Satan is the enemy of humankind, he's behind everything bad that happens to us. By the end, the pastor helped the wounded Satan because without him, the pastor's job and social status can not even exist.

Without the Satan/War/Bad there is no Pastor/Peace/Good. And vice versa.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-17 07:46:03+00:00
If it's sent shipped cross-continent(s) it might be.

The point of fresh to me is to have it come from closer sources, even if it's in a worse shape, and be consumed basically in a day or two.

For anyone caring enough, getting access to local(ish) fresh food can be a pretty good indicator of a nice place to live, and it's usually worth the tradeoffs.
by siva7 | 2025-04-17 07:46:30+00:00
Thanks, most people don't understand this fine difference. Copilot does RAG (as all other subscription-based agents like Cursor) to save $$$, and results with RAG are significantly worse than having the complete context window for complex tasks. That's also the reason why Chatgpt or Claude basically lie to the users when they market their file upload functions by not telling the whole story.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-04-17 07:46:33+00:00
That paper doesn't contradict the parent. It's just pointing out that you can extract knowledge from the LLM with good accuracy by

"... finding a direction in activation space that satisfies logical consistency properties, such as that a statement and its negation have opposite truth values"

The LLM itself still has no idea of the truth or falsity of what it spits out. But you can more accurately retrieve yes/no answers to knowledge encoded in the model by using this specific trick - it's a validation step you can impose - making it less likely that the yes/no answer is wrong.
by nivertech | 2025-04-17 07:48:33+00:00
> Here is one report that projects a $25B market by 2030

My guess it's much larger than $25B

This is no longer a market for software tooling, it's started to eat the software engineering salaries, freelancer marketplaces and consulting/outsourcing/bodyshop revenues...

If there are ~ 30M developers now globally, earning $100K/yr on average, and this will reduce it to 20M, so we get 10M * $100K = $1T

Even assuming that 90% will go to foundational models, not IDEs / coding agents SW, we still get ~ $100B
by elric | 2025-04-17 07:49:13+00:00
This sounds an awful lot like security theatre.

> The information in certificates is becoming steadily less trustworthy over time, a problem that can only be mitigated by frequently revalidating the information.

This is patently nonsensical. There is hardly any information in a certificate that matters in practice, except for the subject, the issuer, and the expiration date.

> Shorter lifetimes mitigate the effects of using potentially revoked certificates.

Sure, and if you're worried about your certificates being stolen and not being correctly revoked, then by all means, use a shorter lifetime.

But forcing shorter lifetimes on everyone won't end up being beneficial, and IMO will create a lot of pointless busywork at greater expense. Many issuers still don't support ACME.
by Brybry | 2025-04-17 07:49:21+00:00
Why do the kids need to assist their parents financially in order to assist them in their old age?

In my experience friends and family have helped take care of elderly parents without that. I help my parents without giving them money.

Even if the elderly are destitute they generally have social security and medicare. If you need to you temporarily move in with them or they move in with you.

Also latchkey kids are very much so legal in most states: ~37 states have no statutory age limit. Your real issue there is probably liability if something does go wrong.

And unlicensed (license-exempt) daycare is perfectly legal in many (most?) states, usually with limits on the number of children and the location. In my state you can legally pay (or not) the stay-at-home mom neighbor with kids to watch your kid after school and she doesn't need a license.

I agree with the idea that smaller family sizes and cultural changes (outside of some communities like immigrants) have led to child raising changing in negative ways compared to communal approaches.

And I agree the financial calculus of having kids does not lean in favor of having kids (mainly because of high cost of living compared to wages, especially in certain regions).

But the rest of it doesn't seem to have strong supporting evidence. While personal income tax rates in the US can be high compared to some countries, overall tax burden as a % of GDP (25.2%) is below average (33.9%) [oecd].

I don't think there is any evidence that shows family size changes or multi-generational living are correlated with tax rate. That's usually correlated with other factors like women's wage employment/rights/education/ethnicity.

And the return value of a society where life expectancy at birth is not in our 40s seems pretty good.[1] There's no left over money from taxes you didn't have to pay if you or the family members you would spend it on are already dead.

[1] https://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html
by lawn | 2025-04-17 07:49:31+00:00
> I mean, much of the video talks about how it's impossible to calculate all the future moves like in chess, yet move 37 of a possible ~300 move game is called out as genius, and move 78 is a God Hand.

Every move is a choice of ~300 possibilities, and you need to calculate far ahead to know if it's a good move or not, so the number of choices you have to explore is much greater than what it seems.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-04-17 07:49:44+00:00
Does Bridge have card draw from a randomized deck? Because that's most likely the issue. I'm facing similar problems when trying to build something that plays Magic The Gathering like games reasonably competent. The combinatorics explosion and dealing with bluffing/hidden knowledge is really a tough nut to crack. My current guess is that you need something like monte carlo reinforcement learning to do it.

Forcing an Error is an especially hard case because in machine vs machine matches both sides would be aware that something could force an error and would therefore not fall for it.
by eesmith | 2025-04-17 07:49:55+00:00
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yassify

> 1. (transitive, Internet slang) To apply several beauty filters to (a picture or video of someone), typically making the subject look more made-up, potentially more feminine, and often unrecognizable.

> 2. (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) To present (something) as fashionable and glamorous, often by removing or disguising aspects which are considered unappealing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-moving_consumer_goods

> Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), also known as consumer packaged goods (CPG)[1] or convenience goods, are products that are sold quickly and at a relatively low cost.

So I read it as consumer packaged goods which are presented as fashionable and glamorous using Internet marketing and real-world branding, for what is likely generic brand quality.
by zimpenfish | 2025-04-17 07:50:03+00:00
> However, if you expose the gods of the algorithm to a new artist, suddenly all the auto-generated feeds will try to include that band regardless of fit.

cf YouTube when you watch one video on X that's outside of your normal viewing and RIP your homepage for the next few days until you've clicked "do not recommend" on enough videos to stop the flood of X and X-adjacent content.
by theodric | 2025-04-17 07:50:07+00:00
> we have lost “diversity and deliciousness"

I sincerely doubt that the chilled stock in a local Irish supermarket makes my food options LESS diverse than they were a century ago. Grapes, blueberries, strawberries everywhere at any time of year, frozen fish from halfway around the planet, frozen pizzas, even ice cream for God's sake. Perhaps the cucumbers are worse, but I can always get them, and don't have to suffer the Hungry Gap in winter on nothing but potatoes, nettles, cabbage, pickles, and grain.

> American households open the fridge door an average of 107 times a day

This also beggars belief.
by reptilian | 2025-04-17 07:50:34+00:00
After the last pandemic, the lessons learnt were:

Don't trust the vested interests.

Don't trust big pharma to do anything but profit.

Don't trust the WHO to act in the interests of public health.

Medical journals and professionals can be bought.

What's the point of the treaty? To codify these failures so they happen again, every time?
by martinpw | 2025-04-17 07:50:46+00:00
I once returned a product that was not working to the Burbank Fry's location. I walked around the store for a bit, then passed by the section where that product was sold - and saw the product I had returned back on the shelf. Could tell by the way I had torn it open - they had just wrapped it back up and put a small discount on it.
by Theofrastus | 2025-04-17 07:51:30+00:00
The one thing that bothers me about Lidarr is that it is album based, not song based. Before streaming services, I managed my local music library with albums as well, but my habits have changed. I basically only listen to my "Liked Songs" playlist on Spotify, and really only have a select few albums that I listen to on the whole.

I tried syncing Lidarr with my Spotify account, but 95% of the downloads then where songs that I didn't care for.
by aembleton | 2025-04-17 07:52:35+00:00
Aldi in Market Street, Manchester, UK had that for many years. It worked really well. I think it might have put some people off when they saw the length of the queue, but it moved so fast, and you never felt like you'd chosen the wrong checkout as there was only one queue.

Unfortunately, they redesigned the shop a few years ago and got rid of that.
by bsder | 2025-04-17 07:55:30+00:00
Fat cells only turn over about 20% per year. You basically need to maintain a reduced weight for 5 years before the fat cells "forget" the higher weight.

If you come off it before that 5 years are up, yeah, you are probably expected to bounce back somewhat.

You might not need to be on GLP-1 forever, but you might need to be on it longer than people currently think.
by discreteevent | 2025-04-17 07:55:56+00:00
Being "reductive" is how we got where we are today. We try to form hypotheses about things so that we can reduce them to their simplest model. This understanding then leads to massive gains. We've been doing this ever since we have observed things like the behavior of animals in order that we could hunt them more easily.

In the same way it helps a lot to try to understand what the correct model of an AI is in order that we can use it more productively. Certainly based on it's 'measurable properties' it does not behave like a reasonable human being. Some of the time it does, some of the time it goes completely off the rails. So there must be some other model that is more useful. "They are not rational actors, they can only generate plausible-looking texts." - seems to be more useful to me. "They are rational actors" - would be more like magical thinking which is not what got us to where we are today.
by rich_sasha | 2025-04-17 07:56:24+00:00
It's not unique to the US. Many countries have it. I must say, sans abuse, it is useful. It is intended for the very few people who fall through the cracks of legal rules.

There was a guy in Poland who was extorted by gangsters. Initially he took an informal loan, but they made him repay it indefinitely, threatening violence. Police failed to help, for unclear reasons. He ended up murdering the extorted. It was a premeditated murder, not in direct defence of his life, etc, and so he got life imprisonment.

He did serve a chunk of his sentence, but in the end was pardoned, on the grounds that he was kind of in a hard place. Without help from the police, he was at the mercy of a gangster, with a constant threat of violence and no perspective of any relief. Link in Polish: https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Bryli%C5%84ski

It's not without controversy in Poland either. It was used in an attempt to quash an ongoing process about blatant abuse of power by two politicians. But I would disagree that the prerogative is totally without merit.
by Scoundreller | 2025-04-17 07:56:38+00:00
> Depending on local laws

It gets even more complicated when treaties are involved because they’ll supercede the law, have a lot less jurisprudence and are often unreadable gobblygook.

You end up with rules like (paraphrasing):

“If a member of a contracting state contracts in the other contracting state, they will only pay taxes in their other contracting state”
by tomjen3 | 2025-04-17 07:56:54+00:00
I would love to do that for my homelab, but not all docker containers trust root certs from the system so getting it right would have been a bigger challenge than dns hacking to get a valid certificate for something that can’t be accessed from outside the network.

I am not willing to give credentials to alter my dns to a program. A security issue there would be too much risk.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-17 07:56:59+00:00
Right but this is now. The novelty is still there and margin compression hasn’t really happened yet. Being a loss leading jaguar vehicle with plenty of off time to clean and reputational concerns are still top of mind. Novelty here didn’t mean for you - it meant for companies operating driverless cars. The next step is enshitification then dive to bottom minimal margin maximal volume businesses.

Of course major infractions will be caught. Taking a dump in the Waymo on camera will be punished. But the small incremental dirtying caused by constant and increasingly negligent use unmediated by social cohesion will lead to the public bathroom effect. Margin compression will require taxis reduce amenities and increase time between service stops. There will probably be tiered services but the bottom tier will be disgusting. I’ll put my $20 on it now.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-17 07:57:21+00:00
They absolutely thought about it. They plainly stated it in the country's founding document:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The founding fathers were big fans of the philosophy of John Locke and his social contract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

Locke also advocated governmental separation of powers and believed that revolution is not only a right but an obligation in some circumstances. These ideas would come to have profound influence on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

Our founding father's were very very liberal and strongly believed in a consent based government which implies the idea of revoking consent. When a government starts acting in ways you cannot consent to, like invading Canada or Greenland, robbing people of due process, preventing trade, and refusing to be bound by law, they had a very clear answer. You can find many Jeffersonian quotes about this very idea that many young Americans hear from their fathers and grandfathers, sadly many of those once young Americans have been corrupted by fox news.

The writer of the declaration of independence and third president of the united states chose "Rebellion unto tyranny is obedience to god," as a motto on his personal seal: https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jeffers...
by eesmith | 2025-04-17 07:58:21+00:00
The Wikipedia editors know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Communications#Early_year... :

> In May 2012, the company changed its name to Zoom, influenced by Thacher Hurd's children's book Zoom City.

It cites https://vator.tv/2020-03-26-when-zoom-was-young-the-early-ye... where Jim Scheinman says:

> “I loved this fun little book as much as my kids, and hoped to use the name someday for the perfect company that embodied the same values of creativity, exploration, happiness, and trust. And the name works perfectly with a product that connects us visually to one another and that always works so fast and seamlessly.“
by centilco | 2025-04-17 07:59:19+00:00
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by IshKebab | 2025-04-17 07:59:52+00:00
I use YouTube Music and it definitely does work but yeah it weighs songs you've already said you like way too heavily and generally seems way worse at discovering similar music than Last.fm or Pandora from over a decade ago. (If anything I remember Pandora being too good at finding similar songs - the playlist would end up almost monotonic because it found such similar music.)

Fortunately they do have a "Discover playlist" that completely excludes music you've heard before. Unfortunately that's all you get. No way to e.g. say "play me reggae I haven't heard before", and it's only updated once a week.

So yeah... kinda shit. But still better than the alternative which as far as I remember from the 90s is to only listen to extremely well-known bands and find good news music like once a year.