MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-04-25 21:21:53+00:00
> And on the other side, I've also felt the need of having some of the patch holes replaced by knobs, so I could just twist and turn it to evaluate if I want to modulate it, instead of having to actually setup the patch.

That could be an interesting spin on this idea. A freestanding PCB with a jack plug on the back and a knob on the front. Turn the knob, and the jack sends CV accordingly. Maybe with a velcro based system to have the PCB stay still while you twiddle the knob.
by ivape | 2025-04-25 21:22:12+00:00
The headline did not appear inaccurate to me, but I'll confess I'm not as great of a reader as some of you. The article seems to indicate the headline is correct from my reading comprehension. I always scored well on reading comprehension tests so I don't know, did I get dumber? Someone else read the article and settle it between me and the GP so we can get a conclusive answer.

With that said, do you believe the Patriot Act was used only for terrorists?

Great little scene from The Departed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAKPWaJPR0Y

Gangs and Terrorists are bad, but I believe we as a country went through this once already and you cannot create these precedents because they stick around. They're literally reusing Guantanamo Bay.
by maxlybbert | 2025-04-25 21:22:26+00:00
The Alien Enemy Act is actually an incredibly old law (i.e., it’s not a new development). What is new is attempting to use it based on a declaration that there’s been a non-military invasion ( https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11269 ). I think it’s pretty clear that the Supreme Court is going to eventually strike that down, but the courts can only act in response to the cases they get, and only answer specific legal questions at different phases of those cases.

But about a month ago, the Court did rule people who the government wanted to send to El Salvador have a due process right to challenge that decision in regular federal court as a habeas corpus proceeding ( https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf ). They later issued an order that the people covered by the original ruling cannot be deported based on the Alien Enemy Act until further notice ( https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/041925zr_c18... ).
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-04-25 21:22:37+00:00
Wasn't referring to that.

You are saying that people are using quantized models haphazardly and talking about them haphazardly. I'll grant it's not the exact same thing as making them haphazardly, but I think you took the point.

The terms shouldn't be used here. They aren't helpful. You are either getting good results or you are not. It shouldn't be treated differently from further training on dataset d. The weights changed - how much better or worse at task Y did it just get?
by colechristensen | 2025-04-25 21:22:37+00:00
You're worried about Skynet, the rest of us are worried about LLMs being used to replace information sources and doing great harm as a result. Our concerns are very different, and mine is based in reality while yours is very speculative.

I was trying to get an LLM to help me with a project yesterday and it hallucinated an entire python library and proceeded to write a couple hundred lines of code using it. This wasn't harmful, just annoying.

But folks excited about LLMs talk about how great they are and when they do make mistakes like tell people they should drink bleach to cure a cold, they chide the person for not knowing better than to trust an LLM.
by dgs_sgd | 2025-04-25 21:22:44+00:00
This is really cool. I think the problem of enforcing safety guardrails is just a kind of hallucination. Just as LLM has no way to distinguish "correct" responses versus hallucinations, it has no way to "know" that its response violates system instructions for a sufficiently complex and devious prompt. In other words, jailbreaking the guardrails is not solved until hallucinations in general are solved.
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-25 21:23:13+00:00
Congress doesn't retroactively raise tax rates to make up the difference. If the government budget ends up in a deficit, which obviously it does, not just because of this but for many reasons, that is financed via debt. This isn't passed to the population as higher taxes, but as inflation, which affects everyone equally, including whoever got the tax credits in the first place.
by floundy | 2025-04-25 21:23:49+00:00
I think smartphones are the one exception as a "necessary evil" at this point in the first world.

However, we are talking about a thermostat here. When I bought my house, there were 40+ year old mechanical thermostats on the wall. I swapped them out because they were ugly and not programmable. I put in "dumb" Honeywell thermostats that don't connect to the internet and don't require software updates. Possibly they'll be here in 40 years, though I wouldn't be surprised if some capacitor or something fails, maybe I'll only get 20 years out of them.

Anyway, as a long-time Google user I've just been through this cycle too many times, mostly with web and phone apps, to seriously invest in them. The convenience of having everything in one place, in Google's cloud, also needs to be weighed against the annoyance of migrating things and learning new features whenever they decide to kill something off. If Obsidian dies, I'll take my .md notes to another editor. When Google Keep dies, who knows if stuff will carry forward or break like the Notes->Keep transition did for me.
by rmason | 2025-04-25 21:24:25+00:00
I think one of the most amazing things about this new company is that its run by women who held prominent roles in the Big 3. Its an intriguing vehicle but a Ford Maverick pickup offers far more value for the same price.

Sad to say but if the thing was made in Mexico and was priced at $15,000 it would be a huge hit. By the time you accounted for the $7500 federal tax credit it would be priced at around a quarter the price of a gas 4 cylinder powered pickup. An entire industry of add-ons and wraps would spring up around it.
by brailsafe | 2025-04-25 21:24:49+00:00
> Let's say that instead of taxing carbon, we pay people a bonus for emitting a below-average amount of carbon (proportional to the amount that they are below average by). If the amount is in a certain range, it will be too small an amount for wealthy people to care about, but large enough for poorer people to do things within their means (e.g. carpooling) to try to get it.

So you're saying that the government should incentivize poorer people to sell one of the last bits of their functional autonomy for what would be trivial amounts? "We'll just hang onto to this for a bit until you decide to stop going anywhere or make friends at work".
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-25 21:25:39+00:00
As far as the Republican Party, statistics don’t back up the idea they are okay with legal immigration.

https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/rep...

In Florida, Desantis is so against legal migration he is trying to relax child labor laws.

Even now there is a share of Republicans especially in southern states who are still against interracial marriages.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/interracial-marri...
by danenania | 2025-04-25 21:26:05+00:00
You’re right that it’s a fuzzy line. That said, if you can make the contract/handoff between agents deterministic, you’ll always get better results by doing that, compared to letting the agents try to handle it through inference, since there will always be some error rate.

For this reason, I think that for at least the next couple years, even very advanced agent systems are likely to have a lot of deterministic control flow and glue in their guts. To me, that doesn’t make them “not multi-agent”. Rather, this is how you can build multi-agent systems that actually work in reality. But much of it comes down to semantics, admittedly.
by PeterCorless | 2025-04-25 21:26:11+00:00
I have tried this so far for the following repos of interest:

• Apache Pinot - https://deepwiki.com/apache/pinot

• Apache Pulsar - https://deepwiki.com/apache/pulsar

• Apache Superset - https://deepwiki.com/apache/superset

• Grafana - https://deepwiki.com/grafana/grafana

• K8sGPT - https://deepwiki.com/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt

Seems, at least at a cursory glance, to produce decent output.
by jfengel | 2025-04-25 21:26:35+00:00
Or we could just let more people be here legally. All we'd have to do is raise the quota.

Do that, and I'd have zero problems rounding up all of the remaining illegal immigrants and driving 'em into the ocean, if that's what you want. Instead, I'm suspicious that "the only issue is that they're here illegally" is just deflection.
by Ancapistani | 2025-04-25 21:27:45+00:00
This is exactly my point, and what I've been driving at in this thread.

This could not possibly be a concern based on abrogation of due process - because there have been many similar due process violations concerning firearms, and I've never seen a single article submitted here about those.

Frankly, I don't see how immigration is any more relevant to this site than civil rights.
by cybadger | 2025-04-25 21:28:08+00:00
I will add a third claim against it: all that black and gold. As an Iowa State grad, there's a certain arrogance that the University of Iowa undergrads give off (grad students and faculty seem to be fine). [For those not from 'round here, U of Iowa and Iowa State are the two largest universities in the state. There's a healthy—and occasionally unhealthy—rivalry.]

That said, I do actually really like the town itself. Like you said, active, friendly, with a real vibrancy to it. I don't get there often (strange, since Cedar Rapids is not that far away), but enjoy it when I'm there.
by anerli | 2025-04-25 21:29:03+00:00
Hey, awesome to hear! We are definitely open to contributions :)

We plan to (very soon) enable mixing standard Playwright or other code in between Magnitude steps, which should enable doing exact assertions or anything else you want to do.

Definitely understand the need to reduce costs / increase speed, which mainly we think will be best enabled by our plan-caching system that will get executed by Moondream (a 2B model). Moondream is very fast and also has self-hosted options. However there's no reason we couldn't potentially have an option to generate pure Playwright for people who would prefer to do that instead.

We have a discord as well if you'd like to easily stay in touch about contributing: https://discord.gg/VcdpMh9tTy
by pjmlp | 2025-04-25 21:29:04+00:00
C, C++, Fortran, Python JIT from NVidia, plus Haskell, .NET, Java, Futuhark, Julia from third parties, and anything else that can bother to create a backend targeting PTX, NVVM IR, or now cuTile.

The pre-coded kernels help a lot, but you don't have to use them necessarly.
by lolinder | 2025-04-25 21:29:13+00:00
> You are taking ICE's/the administration's perspective and assuming it is cogent which leads you to conclusion that doesn't support justice and instead supports the end of constitutional rule in the US.

No I'm not. I'm taking the facts as they're presented by the AP (which is famously not sympathetic to this administration) and saying that nothing in the facts that I'm seeing here in this specific case serves as evidence of a constitutional crisis. This is a straightforward case of obstruction: either she did the things that are alleged or she didn't. If she did, it's obstruction regardless of who is in the White House, and we have no reason to believe at this time that she didn't!

We have better litmus tests, better evidence of wrongdoing by the administration, and better cases to get up in arms about. If we choose our martyrs carelessly we're wasting political capital that could be spent showing those still on the fence the many actual, straightforward cases of overreach.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-25 21:29:31+00:00
> Why would anyone buy such a product when they can get an SUV instead?

Isn't this just a circular way of admitting that people actually wanted SUVs?

This doesn't explain why the used car market is full of very cheap cars like the Honda Fit for much less than a new SUV.

> [1] Some examples: turbochargers,

Have to disagree. These are a great way to downsize the engine and maintain the same torque output. Yes it's more parts, but modern OEM turbochargers are very reliable. If you can reduce the number of cylinders from 6 to 4 or 3, that's a net win in moving parts, consumables, and repair costs.
by BSOhealth | 2025-04-25 21:29:56+00:00
Iowa City has great aspects. New Pioneer Co-Op: having spent more life afterwards in Boulder, CO, I can safely say IC still holds the prize for ideal progressive food grocery option in the US (admittedly I haven’t been to Portland, and imagine they might compete). Prairie Lights is cool and all but I’d rather be at The Strand. Or Goblin Market or Samdmeyer’s in Chicago. Or Old Town in Stockholm.

Iowa City starts feeling small VERY quickly. The winters are cold. There are no amazing natural areas for activity. Downtown is getting more sterile every year (circa 20 years ago).

University of Iowa is a great example of a University scene, but if you are not a student or professor, you’ll quickly bump up against the guardrails of small town US economics.
by Misdicorl | 2025-04-25 21:30:29+00:00
Yeah I'd say kafka is not a great technology if your median and 99ths (or 999ths if volume is large enough) are wildly different which sounds like your situation. I use kafka in contexts where 99ths going awry usually aren't key dependent so I don't have the issues you see.

I tend to prefer other queueing mechanisms in those cases, although I still work hard to make 99ths and medians align as it can still cause issues (especially for monitoring)
by dehrmann | 2025-04-25 21:30:39+00:00
The most recent example is the Anthropic CEO:

> I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-...

This seems either wildly optimistic or comes with a giant asterisk that AI will write it by token predicting, then a human will have to double check and refine it.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-25 21:32:38+00:00
This is why it's so hard for companies to introduce stripped-down or small models of anything: People will tell you how much they want it, but as soon as they see it they realize they actually miss something from the models that are already out there.

It happens with small phones (iPhone mini) to laptops and cars. There are comments throughout this thread claiming that everyone would be buying small sedans if not for CAFE regulations, but we have plenty of small sedans on the market that aren't selling well.

It always comes down to market demand. The big companies have market demand figured out better than many give them credit for, even if it's not exactly the product you want.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-04-25 21:32:43+00:00
The comparisons they're making don't make sense to me. I don't think I've ever even seen a logic language without nested expressions. Also VERY weird they give non-determinism as a feature of logic programming. Prolog is the only one off the top of my head that allows for it. Even most Prolog derivatives drop the cut and negation operations. In the broader scope of logic languages, most aren't even turing complete, like Datalog or CLIPS.

I really feel like Prolog and its horn clause syntax are underappreciated. For as much as lispers will rant and rave about macros, how their code is data, it always struck me as naive cope. How can you say that code is data (outside of the obvious von neumann meaning), but still require a special atomic operation to distinguish the two? In Prolog, there is no such thing as a quote. It literally doesn't make sense as a concept. Code is just data. There is no distinguishing between the two, they're fully unified as concepts (pun intended). It's a special facet of Prolog that only makes sense in its exotic execution model that doesn't even have a concept of a "function".

For that reason, I tend to have a pessimistic outlook on things like Curry. Static types are nice, and they don't work well with horn clauses (without abusing atoms/terms as a kind of type-system), but it's really not relevant enough to the paradigm that replacing beautiful horn clauses with IYSWIM/ML syntax makes sense to me. Quite frankly, I have great disdain even for Elixir which trades the beautiful Prolog-derived syntax of Erlang for a psuedo-Ruby.

One thing I really would like to see is further development of the abstract architectures used for logic programming systems. The WAM is cool, but it's absolute ancient and theory has progressed lightyears since it was designed. The interaction calculus, or any graph reduction architecture, promises huge boons for a neo-prolog system. GHC has incidentally paved the way for a brand new generation of logic programming. Sometimes I feel crazy for being the only one who sees it.
by flysand7 | 2025-04-25 21:33:10+00:00
It's surprising how much data you need to corrupt while still being able to read the QR code, that's what I'd take out from this. The demo is interesting in that respect, but I do think it's somewhat incomplete.

It seems to be missing some explanations regarding how the code is structured and how it performs error correction. I feel like there's little point in interacting with a system you don't understand or not trying to understand. And I also think there are cool ways to make those things interactive as well. Pick an image, then explain what the little squares in the corners are for and provide little interactivity to see how they affect the decoding. Then move on to the error correction. This step-by-step style of interactivity may be better, I'd think about that.

As for what is there, the first thing I don't like here is icons. The four icons in the lower-right corner (result data, format info, ..) are hard to distinguish, and are hard to correlate with the "history" tab. I'd probably either make them slightly different color, or actually simplifying these icons further might be a better option, just because they're so small.

But yeah it is pretty hard to tell what I'm interacting with, unfortunately. I don't know pretty much nothing about QR codes, and I don't know what the different kinds of errors are, what "EC" stands for etc.

UI should probably be rethought as well, because before I was writing the comment I had no idea I could switch a brush. Hell, I had no idea I was changing colors (the cursor covered half the space of the pixels, so I couldn't tell)

The idea's cool though, good work
by yesfitz | 2025-04-25 21:33:23+00:00
You've identified some real headwinds that the community is facing, but I think the gubernatorial and mid-term legislative elections will shed more light on the future.

Maybe research and cultural hubs like Iowa City will just need to weather the storm until 2028 or maybe they start making longer term plans for austerity.

The general vibe around town has been an even greater focus on building local community regardless.
by PeterCorless | 2025-04-25 21:33:36+00:00
I also asked Devin a question:

Can I use a star-tree index with upserts?

I was pleasantly surprised by the answer:

https://deepwiki.com/search/can-i-use-a-startree-index-wit_a...

Briefly: "No, you cannot use a star-tree index with upserts in Apache Pinot. This is a built-in restriction that is explicitly enforced in the system."

Why This Restriction Exists

When upserts are enabled for a table in Pinot, the system explicitly checks and prevents the use of star-tree indexes. This validation happens during table configuration validation.

The code in TableConfigUtils.java explicitly enforces this restriction:

[snip]

At cursory glance, I did not detect a hallucination. The answer was true (AFAIK), clear, and objective. I also see that you can peek into other resources to get some additional contextual information.

Very impressive work.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-25 21:33:55+00:00
It was a yes or no question, but hey I guess a comment literally 100% full of incorrect information works too.

> I trust the government to reasonably determine whether someone is an illegal immigrant.

Your trust is demonstrably misplaced. We already know with 100% certainty that American citizens have been detained beyond the permissible 24hr window without charges. We already know with 100% certainty that completely legal immigrants were deported.

> The courts can determine if that process is reasonable

They have. 9 to 0, SCOTUS said the process is not reasonable.

> I don't think illegal immigrant "invaders" are entitled to due process (especially when they are gang members).

Can you show me this carveout in the 14th or 5th Amendments? (You can't)

> Does every enemy combatant get "due process" when they are engaged by US military personnel? No.

Are US military personnel regularly engaging enemy combatants within US jurisdiction under which the 14th and 5th Amendments apply?

And in any case, even abroad: yes there is a process for legally authorizing specific military engagements.

> Are police officers required to provide "due process" when using their firearm on a dangerous perp? No.

Using your firearm on a dangerous perp is only legal in an immediate defense context, it is not a legal punishment for breaking the law.

If you want to use your firearm on a dangerous perp as legal punishment, then yes, they will get due process first. It's called being "sentenced to death," and is pretty much the most elaborate form of due process we have.

> We entrust them with the agency to act accordingly and there are systems for review.

Funny you say that, because the current administration's argument is quite literally the opposite. Their specific legal argument is that courts do not have any right of judicial review over their deportations.
by michaelt | 2025-04-25 21:35:15+00:00
Then the users start using cloud webapps to do everything. I can't install a PDF-to-excel converter, so I'll use this online service to do it.

At first glance that might seem a poor move for corporate information security. But crucially, the security of cloud webapps is not the windows sysadmins' problem - buck successfully passed.