MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jitl | 2025-04-27 08:48:53+00:00
It’s just not there yet but I think it will get there for translation kind of tasks quite capably in the next 12 months, especially if asked to translate a single file or a selection in a file line by line. Right now it’s quite bad which I find surprising. I have less confidence we’ll see whole-codebase or even module level understanding for novel topics in the next 24 months.

There’s also a question of quality of source data. At least in TypeScript/JavaScript land, the vast majority of code appears to be low quality and buggy or ignores important edge cases and so even when working on “boilerplate” it can produce code that appears to work but will fall over in production for 20% of users (for example string handling code that will tear Unicode graphemes like emoji).
by lazide | 2025-04-27 08:48:56+00:00
Sukarno only had less to worry about because he had ensured he has less to worry about.

Dictators have been murdered over nothing, let alone scandals - but he was strong enough at the time that yes, it would have just propped up his image.

Teachers rarely have that degree of control of their environment.

SK (like most Asian societies) also has a huge ‘crabs in a bucket’ problem, also known as ‘the nail that sticks out gets hammered down’.

The Victorian era saw most women (statistically) in unstable relationships, and a great many using prostitution to support themselves. Which also gave them a lot of individual freedom.

It was also a time of incredible social mobility, and also fraud.

The ‘prudishness’ was as much society trying to use shaming and in group/out group dynamics to maintain control and some degree of integrity to limit the damage from the widespread disruption of the social fabric.

It also was applied against men, but men are able to leave easier/escape, as they don’t have the biological issue of being pregnant/young kids in tow to slow them down.

Which is also why so many of the middle class had to do things like rent tableware (or even food), etc. to appear ‘upper class’ to avoid being kicked out of whatever support circle they needed, and keep some semblance of propriety.

It was an extremely unstable time for everyone, precisely because so many were ‘free’.

Society is, and always will be, a giant ouroboros/wheel of control, influence, fighting for independence, etc.

The reason why women get stomped on to try to deprive them of sexual agency and autonomy, is precisely because they have so much power with sexual agency.

Most women, if unrestricted, can get most men to do almost anything they want using sex.

Most men, if unrestricted, can then leave to go do something else, leaving the woman ‘holding the bag’ when she is pregnant.

Birth control has unhinged the equation quite a lot, and free flow of information is doing so even more.

That scares all the rest of the women, and many of the men, which is why we have what we have. The more freedom is actually present, the more unhinged the attacks eventually become. Because the goal is control, even if it is pathological control.

Interesting times, eh?
by lazide | 2025-04-27 08:50:14+00:00
You’re getting downvoted because it triggers some really deep ick feelings. Ick feelings that as a middle aged dude you’ve likely never had (or will likely have), so can’t appreciate. If you’ve had a crazy stalker (truly crazy), you’d probably think differently.

For instance, that Star Trek episode where Barclay was simulating the crew and having ‘relationships’ with them on the holodeck - in ‘real life’ the crew would have ostracized him, at the minimum.

In ‘real real life’, he might have just gotten murdered, ahem, ‘had a transporter accident’.

It’s similar. Yeah, logically ‘no one was getting hurt’, but people aren’t logical that way. For a reason, frankly.

And if you think of it as a prelude to something much more disturbing and direct happening (which it well might), then it makes sense to have the ‘disproportionate’/illogical reaction. Those emotions are warning people of an imminent threat, and they’d be fools to ignore them, regardless of what anyone says.
by jasode | 2025-04-27 08:52:12+00:00
>you are tipping only person who brings the plate. You dining experience is affected more by other people

A lot of restaurants have "tip sharing", "tip out", "tip pool" where the waitstaff share some portion of their tips with the hostess, foodrunners, cooks, etc. So the customer is really tipping all the workers except the managers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=waitstaff+share+tip+share+ti...
by larusso | 2025-04-27 08:52:51+00:00
Cool project indeed. I used to own the first model and thought about how one could motorize the lamp. I used to own the one which didn’t have the reflected coating on the inside panels. At least in Germany they changed that a few years back from plain white to silver or gold reflection. And now the lamp is also available in bigger sizes. I bought it like most because of the interesting design. But was never really pleased with it. Practical use of keeping it closed is zero. I guess that was the reason to motorize it ;) But even in the open configuration it’s so dark that it’s unusable as a promised light source.
by hliyan | 2025-04-27 08:54:14+00:00
> "Josh Adler - the son of Kerry Adler, a wealthy Canadian businessman - presided over a culture of instability, resulting in high turnover of staff and errors due to "cutting corners" and hiring and firing inexperienced contractors"

> "he "bragged" about living at the Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Abu Dhabi, boasted about renting a villa in Bali, and showed off a newly purchased Porsche 911 and multiple speeding fines"

Ironically, many of his victims appear to be average people who have invested their personal savings (one actually remortgaging her house) in a website/app idea.
by xelxebar | 2025-04-27 08:57:27+00:00
Maybe RFC 9759, which is referenced in the article "HTTP offload is a dumb great idea whose time has come"?

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9759.html

OP apparently noticed that two weeks is almost 20480 decimal = 050000 octal minutes, just 320 = 0500 minutes in fact.
by neilv | 2025-04-27 08:57:38+00:00
I think it would be jerky to give feedback notes to a server, and almost no one will do it, so the message wouldn't come across that way.

I'd guess what's needed is to promote a different school of thought via broadcast (e.g., through lifestyle articles and restaurant trade publications).

Though it might be that I'm not representative, and more US diners want to go through the rituals of being served conspicuously, as part of the experience.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-04-27 08:58:16+00:00
The line between stubbornness and persistence is very thin. It's easy to rationalize post-factum that A was right to push his idea even when everyone told him it won't work, and B was stupid not to listen when everyone told him it won't work.

DEC tried something and failed, that gives me more joy than seeing Intel failing without trying. Transition from Otellini to Krzanich driven by the risk-averse board was painful to watch from within.
by spyrja | 2025-04-27 08:59:01+00:00
Kind of, but also kind of not. I mean if someone can smuggle a file into some random directory, chances are they have enough access to write directly to the "correct" folder to begin with. Personally I wouldn't execute or otherwise load any sort of executable content from a non-root directory (although certainly there are many people who wouldn't even think twice before doing such a thing). So it really just boils down to having a sane security-policy. Restrict searches with something like "path -d /usr *" and you are guaranteed not to scoop-up something that was world-writable in the first place. In fact in the example given in the README, that is precisely how that would have worked. Both /lib32 and /lib64 are owned by "root" and hence not a concern.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-27 08:59:29+00:00
Our timeline is not an ordered series of preconditions followed by inevitabilities. It does not hold that if some other civilization says "B", it must first have said "A" and follow by "C".

RF equipment is not built or designed by people working with or having understanding of quantum mechanics. Understanding waves could come from observing liquids, or if audio exists to them, that. Designing around noise can be done empirically as we do. Quantum mechanics in this area only matter due to our current chip manufacturing process, but who says they use semiconductors?

On the other hand they could also have a better understanding of light and photons and never build RF into their core technology stack, thereby not having people observe and analyze the hydrogen line.

The only strict order is that we know now that our previous theories were complete garbage, and we are still waiting to discover why our current theory is complete garbage.
by int_19h | 2025-04-27 09:00:41+00:00
There isn't. Not only LLMs are good enough to fool humans like this, but they have been that for quite a while now with the right prompting. A large number of readily available open weights models can do this, so even if large providers were to crack down on this kind of use, it's still easy to run the model locally to generate such content. The cat is well and truly out of the bag.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-27 09:03:11+00:00
Wait, all my eye-rolling at the TV/film trope of "Computer, Enhance!" de-blurring is now redundant, and that stuff is real?!

This looks incredibly impressive as a result, but I'm wary of the use of metrics like FID to evaluate performance. I can take a high-res image, downsample it, then use the method and measure performance very easily: what percentage of pixels were correctly restored? Instead they're using metrics like FID which - while useful for purely generative techniques - seem a little vague for this purpose.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-27 09:03:18+00:00
Tooling is a big reason I would reach for SQL Server over alternatives in many scenarios. Combining SSMS with 1-2 RedGate utilities and an Excel license is essentially the one ring of database management.

When you have a complex data model and need to constantly engage the business regarding it, having an easy way to transform, compare and visualize representations of the schema can mean the difference between ~3 clicks and a multi-day journey into the rabbit hole of shiny technology.

I would still reach for SQLite in any scenario where I am embedding the DB in software that I am distributing. But, if I need to stand up a database that multiple systems and users are all going to talk to, I am always going to advocate for spending a little bit of money.
by laurieg | 2025-04-27 09:04:16+00:00
For the technical side of things, use ink script. There's an editor, plugins and it's a mature project.

For the creative side I would recommend trying out all kinds of things. Should your player be able to get stuck/into a dead end? Will players play once or many times. Can you "win" your game or is it more of a narrative? How do you want the player to feel!

For some more specific ideas, think about how your game branches. Branching and decisions in games are far trickier than they might appear. Too subtle and the player misses the choice entirely. Too in your face and they become boring ("kill the baby" vs "save the baby", gee I wonder which one takes me down the evil path)

Also, merely asking a question or giving a choice can influence the player. If you ask "who is the killer?" and give a list of suspects, one of them must have done it, even if the player never considered it. The question also assumes the player knows there was a murder and gives that away if they hadn't worked it out yet.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-27 09:05:00+00:00
It is important today just like COBOL and Fortran are with ongoing ISO updates, sunken cost, no one is getting more money out of rewriting their systems just because, unless there are external factors, like government regulations.

Then we have the free beer UNIX clones as well.

Those industry members of WG14 don't seem to have done much security wise language improvement during the last 50 years.
by imiric | 2025-04-27 09:07:36+00:00
This is great, thanks for sharing.

One thing they didn't emphasize is that cloth has a functional purpose as well. It obscures the shape of the enemy so that it's more difficult to distinguish its model. In a game with very precise hit boxes—arguably the most innovative aspect of FromSoft games—and melee combat being a core gameplay element, free-flowing cloth makes it difficult to gauge how close to the enemy you need to position your character in order to make contact, and how far away you should be to avoid getting hit. Adding this to unpredictable movement and attack patterns adds even more challenge and makes every encounter unique.

This is actually the same quality cloth has in real life as well. An enemy in a robe or cloak is much more intimidating and challenging.

I don't enjoy their games because of the gameplay loop, but they're really some of the best designed video games ever made.
by throwaway150 | 2025-04-27 09:07:46+00:00
+1

Yeah. I've got no idea what your parent comment is talking about.

> When config files were written not to be easy to parse, but to make it easier for human beings to configure software.

*eyes rolling*. All I can remember is the hundreds of hours I've spent trying to figure out how to configure something in Apache httpd, BIND, iptables, and god forbid, Sendmail!!

Config files were written not to be easy to <anything>. There was no rhyme or reason. Every project had their own bespoke config. All from the whims and fancies of the devs of the project.

Good thing that was all in the past and I had no job and no responsibilities. If software today made configuration like they did 40 years ago, I'd just give up!
by int_19h | 2025-04-27 09:08:01+00:00
Unfortunately, it's trivial to prompt the model to not use it. At the same time, em-dash is very easy to type on macOS (it defaults to using -- as a sequence triggering autoreplacement).

In general, all of those supposedly telltale signs of AI-generated texts are only telltale if the person behind it didn't do their homework.

When you say that it "works 99.9% of the time", how do you know that without knowing how many AI-generated comments you've read without spotting that they are AI-generated?
by bonoboTP | 2025-04-27 09:09:58+00:00
I had predicted the same about websites, social media presence, Google maps presence etc. back 10-15 years ago, but lo and behold, even the small burger place hole-on-a-wall in rural eastern Europe is now on Google maps with reviews, and even answers by the owner, a facebook page with info on changes of opening hours etc. I'd have said there's no way that fat 60 year old guy will get up to date with online stuff.

But gradually they were forced to.

If there are enough auto repair shops that can just diagnose and process n times more cars in a day, it will absolutely force people to adopt it as well, whether they like the aesthetics or not, whether they feel like learning new things or not. Suddenly they will be super interested in how to use it, regardless of how they were boasting about being old school and hands-on beforehand.

If a technology gives enough boost to productivity, there's simply no way for inertia to hold it back, outside of the most strictly regulated fields, such as medicine, which I do expect to lag behind by some years, but will have to catch up once the benefits are clear in lower-stakes industries and there's immense demand on it that politicians will be forced to crush the doctor's cartel's grip on things.
by dyauspitr | 2025-04-27 09:10:21+00:00
This is deeply dismissive. A better response would have been to provide a fourth option with what you think is a potential viable option.

I can come up with one for you something along the lines of the government, providing sizable upfront pavements or stipends to families that have kids so having kids is an immediate financial gain. I don’t think most economies can sustain that though.
by anelson | 2025-04-27 09:11:58+00:00
In almost every restaurant and cafe that I frequent in Ukraine, each table has a unique QR code that links to a site with both the menu and an option to pay the bill. The pay option shows the current itemized bill with options to pay with monoPay (a payment service operated by MonoBank which also operate this QR code system) or Apple Pay or iirc Google Pay. Tip can also be paid here (although it’s not pushed on you with dark patterns like in the US and 10% is reasonable). It felt odd at first to just walk out after a meal without having given money to a person but it quickly become my preferred payment method.

There is no app to install. WiFi is always available so you don’t even technically need to have a mobile data plan.

If you don’t want to use this then you call the waiter over and someone brings the mobile credit card terminal instead.

The “how does the waiter know to come and take payment” problem is unique to how restaurants in some countries handle paying the bill.
by KronisLV | 2025-04-27 09:13:41+00:00
This might be silly, but having tools like that built into MySQL Workbench, alongside both forward and backward engineering (get SQL from model and apply it, or get a model from an existing DB) is one of the reasons why I very much enjoyed working with it: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-eer-diagrams-secti... (I might otherwise often prefer PostgreSQL, especially due to the procedural language and transactional DDL), also works fine with MariaDB for the most part

In most projects I've seen people just do some generic models (not even proper ED diagrams) and write some SQL migrations to be applied with something like dbmate or Flyway and call it a day, though working on DB schemas feels like one of the areas where model driven development actually makes a lot of sense and feels natural, if the tooling is there! Otherwise you end up with the actual schema and the models you make diverging slightly over time, either due to people forgetting to add stuff, or you yourself missing something. That's also why I enjoy the likes of DbVisualizer for getting a nice overview about what's actually in the schema: https://www.dbvis.com/
by fakedang | 2025-04-27 09:13:56+00:00
Sorry, but these tools are far from usable for the average run-of-the-mill guy. They are specifically tailored for developers and people who can code. The people who were scammed were literally average folks, a working mum, a tarot-card reader, a truck driver....

If a scammer wants to, they can flee from all repercussions without building anything, even if all the AI tools were available to them. While Josh Adler is just one person, there are multiple such people in Dubai who've done the same to thousands of victims. Dubai is notorious for attracting those types.
by fakedang | 2025-04-27 09:15:05+00:00
> Eventually, she requested a refund through her bank and complained to the UK's Financial Ombudsman Service. A senior investigator there has provisionally recommended that the bank return $39,000 (£30,000) to Amy, according to documents seen by the BBC. She is still waiting for her bank to agree to the recommendation.

Glad that this is possible in the UK. There are a ton of folks in Dubai itself who have fallen to similar scams, but they have had no reprieve from their banks (most of which are actually all too happy to facilitate those scams).
by throwaway07417 | 2025-04-27 09:15:53+00:00
> We’re exploring a different model: tokenized agents that travel across games, social apps, and DeFi, carrying their skills, memories, and personalities — and are fully ownable and tradable by users.

State. You're talking about state.

Blockchain isn't capable of storing state without transaction fees, and is expensive per-byte. It certainly isn't capable of executing AI queries like you describe, either: you're obviously and blatantly not using blockchain for any meaningful part of any of this. My guess is that you're using it solely for some kind of proof of ownership of an NFT so you can feed an LLM some basic RAG. Fine.

The state that you're describing includes previous queries. You're not storing this data on blockchain. This means that users are trusting you with their private data, and more importantly, trusting that if they "sell" their agent that you're properly going to cleanse it without race conditions. Failure to do so would introduce a privacy nightmare where previous owner's context would be accessible by new owners.

> Agents that autonomously play a crypto game and can earn rewards

This implies access to a blockchain wallet. You're suggesting that your state management has access to a blockchain wallet. Nobody, ever, should trust an AI agent with their wallet's private keys, and especially one that stores state off chain.

What you're outlining is a ticking time bomb where anybody who uses this is making themselves susceptible to complete privacy violation and potentially financial risk if you or your team makes any mistake on your internal source code or data management. This is fine, as long as you comply by established compliance laws for PCI. You're not, though. Are you?

None of this even touches on the basic flaw with this entire thing: you're also running and executing all of this stuff on your own hardware. If more than 20 people actually wind up pretending to care about any of this, your costs will exponentially increase to the point of uselessness because you haven't decentralized AI.

From what this post says, you haven't solved any problems. You've introduced several, and could ruin lives with it. This looks like yet another crypto scam.
by KnuthIsGod | 2025-04-27 09:16:20+00:00
I read far too many books and had never heard of "Independent Bookstore Day".

The entire article sounds like an excuse for cheap shots against Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

I will never buy books from a bookseller or bookshop that thinks it is acceptable to behave like this : "Leah Koch, owner of the Ripped Bodice, in Los Angeles, California, kept it simple: “Fuck Jeff Bezos,” she told Variety."

And here in Australia brick and mortar bookshops tend to carry popular rubbish that I would be ashamed to read.
by thih9 | 2025-04-27 09:16:27+00:00
As far as I recall, border force officials seized parts of the material at some point and later returned it - I wish there was an explanation why it was returned. I never found that earlier and I don't see any new information about that now.

> Australian authorities flagged the thorium sample and instructed the courier not to deliver it, which they did anyway

https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/a-tale-of-nuclear-shenanigan...