MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-11 01:29:33+00:00
It depends on what you consider failure. If you feel popularity is the main metric then golang is successful. Outside of that metric golang is pretty bad.

The proof is in the pudding. Here’s a quote from rob pike the creator of golang:

“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.”

Basically in a nutshell he’s saying they dumbed down golang so it’s useable by beginners. Golang is a step backwards. A failure in language development but a success in popularity.

You dumb down a language to a point where the language is so dumbed down it hits the largest demographic. You are part of that demographic. It’s similar to the demographic that voted for trump because he’s not fakeish like all the other candidates.
by kristianp | 2025-04-11 01:29:35+00:00
For the cosy sci-fi (1) example, I found it introduced plot points too quickly, making the short passage really dense. The model eval said:

> The chapter also introduces several elements quickly (the stranger, the Syndicate, the experiments) which, while creating intrigue, risks feeling slightly rushed.

But there is no score for pacing.

https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v3/deepseek-ai_...
by ameister14 | 2025-04-11 01:29:57+00:00
Technically at the time of the arrest he was accused of criminal conduct, but not charged with criminal conduct. I believe he is still within the legally required timeline to be charged with criminal conduct, though he may be subject to deportation without such charges, we'll see.

Your second and third point is confused. The foundation for the government's belief they can deport Khalil is not the Alien Enemies Act (which is what I assume you mean, as there is no Alien and Seditions Act-the term "Alien and Seditions Acts" refers to four separate acts, one of which is the Alien Enemies Act), it's the Immigration and Nationality Act, the same basis Trump tried to use for Executive Order 13769. More specifically, I think they're using 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C)(i).

That said, the government is absolutely using the Alien Enemies Act to round up people and send them to El Salvador.

>If these people don't have rights to free speech and due process then nobody does.

So this is an interesting legal question because non-citizens definitely do not have complete free speech protections, but the border of where their speech is protected vs unprotected is not entirely clear. It's not true that if they don't, nobody does - it is absolutely clear that citizens of the United States do have rights to free speech and due process. That has been established many times.
by paulddraper | 2025-04-11 01:31:46+00:00
No, the format function doesn't "arbitrarily execute code."

An f/t string is syntax not runtime.

Instead of

"Hello " + subject + "!"

you write

f"Hello {subject}!"

That subject is simple an normal code expression, but one that occurs after the opening quote of the literal and before the ending quote of the literal.

And instead of

query(["SELECT * FROM account WHERE id = ", " AND active"], [id])

you write

query(t"SELECT * FROM account WHERE id = {id} AND active")

It's a way of writing string literals that if anything makes injection less likely.
by idonotknowwhy | 2025-04-11 01:31:51+00:00
> Or are you saying you'll retroactively hate a song once you figure out it was AI generated?

Can't speak for OP, but for me personally, I don't mind AI augmented content, as long as it's done well. Eg. I recently played a game called "Slay the Princess", where they very clearly used Claude to write a lot of the dialogue/narration, but that didn't detract from the experience.

On the other hand, I hate it when I open a youtube video and the script is 100% chatgpt slop.

Music -- a lot of it is already made using software. If I enjoy listening to it, I don't care how it was made.

What about you?
by lmkg | 2025-04-11 01:33:04+00:00
GP are wrong about which law applies, but they are applying that law correctly.

The ePrivacy Directive requires consent to read or write from the user's terminal device, except when strictly required for the functionality the user requested. Unlike GDPR, it does not allow a different Legal Basis. It must be consent, or strictly functionally necessary. Nothing else.

The passage of GDPR did impact the ePrivacy Directive in that it updated the definition of "consent." The ePD doesn't have one; it referenced the definition in the DPD, which was replaced by GDPR. This is why people blame the GDPR for cookie banners, although really it's incidental.
by FarMcKon | 2025-04-11 01:35:17+00:00
""" A new progressivism embracing construction over obstruction must find new allegories for technology and the future """

WTF? Somebody needs to touch some !@#@%^ grass. Like roll around in it for hours, maybe smoke some (legal) weed before hand.

It's sci-fi entertainment, for crying out Louis, not a political or philosophy movement.

Get over it, get outside, and go hug a tree.
by dheera | 2025-04-11 01:36:06+00:00
> people preparing an event and the pictures should be online the next day

They can use a different platform, print the pictures on paper, there are a million ways to deal with these kind of issues.

An earthquake could strike and the event might need to be postponed.

If nobody's life or health is at risk, it is not urgent enough to sacrifice someone else's health for it.
by out-of-ideas | 2025-04-11 01:36:33+00:00
i was very happy when that arch-chroot + pacstrap simplified my arch setup not having to run those mounts (i remember doin the same setup process for arch for centos/rhel just to not use anaconda and removing bloat, or rather installing what i wanted)

for btrfs, if you use a consistent volume mapping on your systems, its pretty easy. in arch setup i typically enable ssh and have a pretty simple set of bashisms for target device, compression, and mount points. then its copy-pasta since its a boiler plate for when i need to recover or fresh install

not glanced at manjaro so not familiar with its install-methods
by joshjob42 | 2025-04-11 01:37:02+00:00
I mean, it's just doing STT, it's not trying to run inference on a frontier model, and if you have to connect to a remote datacenter vs your own machine that could add latency that slows down the experience. There are also tradeoffs in deployment in terms of latency vs throughput that doesn't occur on your local machine that only ever is doing STT on one thing at a time.

I'm skeptical of the claim that local is literally faster, but it's not impossible in the way you suggest.
by pedalpete | 2025-04-11 01:38:01+00:00
This is a good point, I am the author.

You're right that many people would benefit from a regular schedule, and I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago which talked about why it's important to focus on wake time instead of bed time - which is the common advice.

We're really trying to focus on changing the story of sleep. You say most people don't have a consistent bedtime, but people are creatures of habit, so you'd probably be surprised how many people have good hygiene but still don't feel their sleep is restorative enough.

Thanks for the comment on finding our niche specifically. We're not aiming to be for everyone (yet).
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-04-11 01:38:33+00:00
> Imagine some theoretical technological advancement. Now take it out of context, put it in the worst possible circumstances, and imagine it appeared into a society like ours without any prior thought or discussion about the possible downsides of that technology

This is precisely why I love Black Mirror. Despite the warnings, we're allowing companies to build killer robot and are running a large scale experiment to build a god. For a long time, I thought ethics is what prevented us from cloning human but recent years are showing balance sheet will outweigh it. As Netflix is 99.9% garbage, watching something like Black Mirror is refreshing
by tptacek | 2025-04-11 01:38:43+00:00
This question misconstrues the purpose of an IQ test. IQ doesn't exist to provide a canonical ranking of humans (and LLMs) according to intelligence. They're a diagnostic measure, intended to identify people who require supports. In that individual capacity, they actually have some value. Giving people the ability to "boost" their score makes about as much sense as giving someone beta blockers before taking their blood pressure.

Meanwhile, the "Mensa"-type fixation on the upper range of the IQ scale is a cringe affectation.
by wyldfire | 2025-04-11 01:38:56+00:00
I guess it wouldn't be black mirror without some technophobia. But it seems like I didn't imagine it [1]:

> The episode received critical acclaim, with particular praise for Mbatha-Raw's and Davis's performances, its plot twist, its visual style, and its uplifting tone, which is atypical for the series.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Junipero
by FridgeSeal | 2025-04-11 01:39:55+00:00
Black Mirror got way less nuanced after Netflix picked it up.

“Nosedive” was the most surface-level take of that idea, the “pain chip” episode was basically just shock-value, the “trapped in the weird guys computer simulation” episode was “Whiteout” but derivative. The killer robot bees episode was…an episode of tv I guess?

Possibly it’s a format that just inevitably “wears thin” quite quickly, but it did feel like the early episodes had far more “existential dread” and interesting-exploration about them.
by johnQdeveloper | 2025-04-11 01:40:23+00:00
I'm not him but realistically, its a mixture of popular blogs and churning credit card content on social media which is the name some people use for the practice of farming bonuses.

Credit score is impacted by the average age but tbh, I've gotten two mortgages while doing this and compared the numbers with my peers and it could be my situation is unusual but the "cost" was like .2% APR between those that don't churn in my RL group and those that do.

It has (in my experience with multiple mortgages) have a rate set by competent use of credit that does not lead you to have much debt but paying regularly in practice regardless of what the public credit score algo is telling people.
by nkh | 2025-04-11 01:40:36+00:00
One thing I've always liked about the Clojure community, is that they are obessesed with state. I think they have correctly identified, that when things go sideways, it is because state management was involved in some way. This is a cool front end approach using datastar to put all of the state on the backend and side step front end state management entirely. There are some other really interesting things happening with electric clojure and a new "framework" called Replicant. Of all of them, Replicant seems the most intriguing to me personally. If it didn't exist, I think I would be trying to use datastar as this article outlines.
by wrs | 2025-04-11 01:41:08+00:00
This is sort of like saying it's easy to crash an airplane so you shouldn't be surprised when somebody flies one into the ground. Everyone involved with aircraft knows crashes are bad and there are multiple layers of design and training to prevent it.

Similarly, everyone at Blue Shield should know they can be fined outrageous amounts for a systemic HIPAA breach, so the system design and code review processes should make it really difficult to mess this up. Anything else is surprising.

I have been in charge of such systems, and you can do a lot with pretty simple rules, such as: No external scripts can appear on a page containing PHI, with exceptions reluctantly approved by security review for things like performance monitoring (not advertising). Systems that can access PHI are a separate codebase from marketing. The marketing systems don't connect to anything with PHI in it. If anyone feels constrained by these rules, pull in the compliance team and discuss.
by weard_beard | 2025-04-11 01:41:29+00:00
Different pen strokes for different folks.

I used to binge read those meaningless colorful flip books to put myself to sleep.

Benadryl without the side effects.

Is it art? It felt like the smear of endless days I couldn’t escape and it was comforting. It didn’t challenge me, but I treasure it.

Like a child’s fairy tale that never ends and every day was just… ever after
by thunkle | 2025-04-11 01:42:32+00:00
> Of those who never drank, 40% had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45% had vascular brain lesions. Of the heavy drinkers, 44% had vascular brain lesions. Of the former heavy drinkers, 50% had vascular brain lesions.

I mean when you put it that way it doesn't seem so bad.
by graycat | 2025-04-11 01:42:44+00:00
WOW! IPC, instructions per cycle? Sure, back in those days, usually how many cycles per instruction! The 360/91 was a high end thing, said to cost $13 million. One was at the Navy lab, JHU.APL. As I recall, it could do 1 floating point (32 or 64 bits?) instruction per cycle and sometimes 3 in 2 cycles.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-11 01:42:52+00:00
>but I also know if I mention New York overseas, that is what people think of it

They know of it for different reasons. It has nothing to do with the shows.

>It's not about quality, it's not about blockbusters,

Blockbusters are a form of quality. Just not your form form of quality. You prefer sex and the city.

> Are you suggesting that overseas, the lesson we should take on Chinese culture from Chinese media is that China is infested by demons, has no electricity and is a feudal system??

People know about NYC because it's just a famous city. It has nothing to do with some shows that nobody in Asia watches. I'm also not talking about any of China's cities as marketed by media. I'm talking about the idea of China itself.

The idea that America is a powerful country and that NYC is a great city is slowly dying. Dying because the reality of it is dying as well. It's a slow death one that may never finish in your lifetime but there's no denying that we see a lot of decline.
by eloisius | 2025-04-11 01:43:04+00:00
In order to project the rays into the voxel grid and have them intersect when they are projecting the same object, the cameras do need to be calibrated. This is very much multi-view stereo CV. I’d guess that he’s taking nighttime photos and comparing with a ground-truth star map and choosing correspondences to compute a rotation/translation matrix for each camera.
by wolfgang42 | 2025-04-11 01:43:06+00:00
Could you explain how, rather than linking to the middle of a large chunk of code? Fundamentally you need to have some way to associate the data on the server to a particular client, and cookies (or something like them) is the way HTTP does that. In particular, your link appears to be using PHP’s $_SESSION, which... uses a cookie.[1] (Or a URL parameter, but that’s usually a much worse idea than cookies, especially for something that’s handling logins.)

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/session.idpassing.php
by sloaken | 2025-04-11 01:43:36+00:00
This why I HATE subscriptions.

Ran into a similar problem in the UK with a cell phone. I called to say I was moving to the US and did not need the phone service anymore. Phones were fully paid for. They would then send me to a 'Handler' who would have me on hold for 30 minutes. Then try and talk me out of dropping the service. WTF I am leaving. Then mid discussion the line would drop. After the THIRD time I decided the easiest method was to CLOSE the bank account the phones were tied to.
by paulddraper | 2025-04-11 01:44:34+00:00
You gravely misunderstand.

The point of evaluation of the expressions is the same.

>>> template = t'Hello, {name}'

is still an error if you haven't defined name.

BUT the result of a t-string is not a string; it is a Template which has two attributes:

strings: ["Hello, ", ""] interpolations: [name]

So you can then operate on the parts separately (HTML escape, pass to SQL driver, etc.).
by priyadarshy | 2025-04-11 01:45:43+00:00
I've recently been on a five week streak of 100% sleep scores on my Whoop (couple days of 98%) by "volume" sleeping at consistent times. The five week streak started on the day we came home with our second child and we changed our sleep routine.

Me, my wife, my 2.5 yo, and newborn all get into bed (or bassinet) at 8 PM. From 8 - 9 PM we're juggling feeding newborn, reading to toddler, and signing toddler to sleep in whatever order is necessary for that night. Then we sleep around 9 PM till 7 AM with multiple wake ups for diaper changes in the night.

As the newborns gotten longer stretches of sleep, so have I and I can tell my sleep quality is better. I do see significantly higher REM/SWS times on a night where I do one diaper change versus 4 like the first week.

Subjectively, my sleep quality is bad - I feel tired but way less tired than with my first when I didn't try and "volume sleep". But my Whoop is happy to hand out 100% score because I've gamed the system with an insane amount of hours.

Given the circumstances, I'm sleeping as well as anyone could hope. And there might be some value in just "being in bed" longer if you can't guarantee sleep quality. I know I'm way less tired than I was with my first.
by fuhsnn | 2025-04-11 01:46:10+00:00
That was the response to your "what someone has told you is a binary" argument, if you learnt the basics of programming, you will know it's just a hexdump away to verify a binary, there's no one else in the room to tell you anything, you hit compile and see the result yourself, it's simple, direct and intimate. Yeah you could say it feels like a superpower, and it's a skill everyone can learn.
by Digory | 2025-04-11 01:46:28+00:00
I'd think ambiguous statements about the scope of your AI would make it hard to prove fraud, if you were being careful at all. "Involving AI" could mean 1% AI.

So it's doubly surprising to me the government chose (criminal) wire fraud, not (civil) securities fraud, which would have a lower burden of proof.

Government lawyers almost never try to make their job harder than it has to be.
by kazinator | 2025-04-11 01:47:07+00:00
I can easily end up unsafely processed. It's a footgun.

And why would you be validating HTML on the fly, when it's coming from your program, not as an input into it. Even if you can do it at program startup once for each template, it's still pointless overhead.

The whole thing is wrongheaded; exactly the kind of stove-pipe people end up inventing when they don't have metaprogramming.
by api | 2025-04-11 01:49:28+00:00
Unrelenting pessimism without nuance is no more profound than unrelenting optimism without nuance, but it comes off as “deeper” and more “sophisticated” because of human negativity bias.

Dark, pessimistic, sad, tragic things seem superficially more profound for the same reason that people slow down when they pass a car wreck and true crime shows about serial killers are popular.

We are this way because it probably had evolutionary survival value. “If you mistake a bush for a lion you’re fine, but if you mistake a lion for a bush you’re dead.”
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-04-11 01:49:48+00:00
It is likely a real machine vision system if it was the same system our former company evaluated.

It worked by camera tracking the shelves contents, and would adjust the inventory level for a specific customers actions. And finally, tracked the incremental mass change during the checkout process to cross reference label swap scams etc.

Thus, people get flagged if their appearance changes while in the store, mass of goods is inconsistent with scanned labels, or the cameras don't see the inventory re-stocked.

You would be surprised how much irrational effort some board members put into the self-checkout systems. Personally, I found the whole project incredibly boring.... so found a more entertaining project elsewhere... =3
by verall | 2025-04-11 01:50:06+00:00
> In a society where people can play back and re-live prior memories, it would not suddenly come up that one can relive experiences with past lovers.

I am not much of a TV watcher so this is the only episode of black mirror I've seen but this really got me - for a show that got so much hype - this is the first couple to have jealousy issues around this technology? Really?? And he has to cut it out of his head with a double edged razor? Really??? People want to forget things all of the time.

It's TV and the other shows I watch are mostly because they're terrible, so it was better than those, but it definitely felt like, cmon guys, we can do better.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-11 01:50:24+00:00
I'm aware that Khalil's case involves the McCarthyesque Immigration and Nationality Act because he's a lawful permanent resident where non-citizens are being processed under things like the Alien Enemies Act. Let's not get lost in the weeds here.

> So this is an interesting legal question because non-citizens definitely do not have complete free speech protections

All persons on American soil are entitled to constitutional protections [1].

Consider the implications if they're not entitled to due process, for example. The government could detain a citizen and deport them without a hearing to a foreign country and then, when told to return them by a court, claim they have no jurisdiction over that foreign country. The administration is actually using the last argument.

You might say "they can't deport citizens". They are in effect arguing they can and there's no remedy for you if you're mistakenly deported, possibly indefinitely detained.

That's what due process is for: to establish if there is a lawful basis for the deportation.

[1]: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/aliens/
by nextos | 2025-04-11 01:51:09+00:00
If they are trying to charge you unfairly (I don't know the details) the right way to address this is to fill in a credit card chargeback claim (if you paid with a card, obviously).

Chargebacks are great to punish rogue companies. If your claim is fair, you will eventually get your money back.

Furthermore, after a sufficient number of chargebacks, their credit card fees will be raised. For this reason, rogue merchants usually become a lot more helpful when you mention the c-word.
by kristopolous | 2025-04-11 01:51:47+00:00
or even the internet one. It would have been nice if it was like "I see you have a NetMan 402-BX with a blinking amber light. That's a common failure mode that can be fixed by updating the firmware. You need to press and hold the power button and put a pin into the reset hole..."

You know ... something more than "reboot that shit"
by 20k | 2025-04-11 01:53:09+00:00
I think this is exactly why I dislike black mirror. It feels very 'pointless' as a show, because the situations and characters are so far divorced from anything real, that it feels like a meaningless critique. Sure, a technology could be used in a particular way, but all black mirror presents is the consequences, and it feels like it neglects the much more important question of how we got there to the point where it feels completely unrealistic

It encapsulates most of what I dislike about horror films as well - so many of them are just a jumpscare extravaganza but without actually trying to present you with anything meaningful, like an underlying critical analysis or anything (or even any characters). Like sure, if we use technology to torture people, that's bad. So what?

Somehow though I don't think a legal drama about the creeping erosion of people's rights and the transformation of society by well meaning but unintentionally invasive technology will have mass market appeal, but at least it would feel like its critiquing something real