MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway314155 | 2025-04-20 02:32:37+00:00
Because it's an effective tactic against exploits that can't survive a reboot, which is somewhat common from my understanding. The idea being that police can confiscate your phone and just keep it on and charged until they can buy or develop an exploit targeting your current device and software.

I was admittedly confused about this distinction at one point too. It's a trade-off (although few people effected by this own phones with truly free, user-respecting soft/hardware in the first place).
by Aurornis | 2025-04-20 02:33:18+00:00
> One of the most wonderful experiences in all of life so drastically limited by the society we’ve constructed.

I could understand if someone was forced to work two full-time jobs (as my grandfather was), but I find it much harder to blame ‘society’ when so many of these situations are self-imposed.

It’s possible that I’m jaded from hearing a subset of parents complain about not having enough time with their kids but then get stuck scrolling their phone while kids want to play. I also know some parents who insist on having a spotlessly clean house every day and then complain that there is enough time to spend with their kids.

I’ve gravitated toward peer parents who have similar priorities in life which has indirectly made me happier. Seeing all of the parents in my friend circles prioritize spending time with their kids and being honest with themselves about their priorities has been unexpectedly helpful for my own sanity.

Again, nothing against parents who are really forced to allocate time elsewhere, but I’m tired of seeing self-inflicted problems of prioritization and time management be externalized as blaming society.
by garaetjjte | 2025-04-20 02:34:32+00:00
>I don't know for certain how true it is, but there's a legend that ELWRO prepared a design based on their best, but compatible with S/360 and thus rest of ES EVM - just way faster in smaller frame (effectively imagine top-tier S/360 CPU but in way smaller package)

Wasn't that produced as R-32?
by lostdog | 2025-04-20 02:35:42+00:00
Here are my proposals:

The Senate is elected similar to a parliament from other countries. Country-wide votes for parties, with proportional representation. It would balance out the regionality of the House.

The Supreme Court justices serve terms of 12-16 years. Each presidential candidate must select 2 supreme court picks at least 4 weeks before the election, and whoever wins has their picks placed on the court. (After their term, supreme court justices retire to the DC circuit).
by londons_explore | 2025-04-20 02:36:01+00:00
> No, because the CAA record only has to be in place at the time of issuance, rather than the whole lifetime of the certificate.

could we change this? Ie. if the CAA record disappears, it would be a reason to revoke a certificate?

Then 3rd parties could scan transparency logs and CAA records and flag discrepancies.
by cogman10 | 2025-04-20 02:38:36+00:00
Some classics were written with a "per word" payment scheme to the author. That created bad writing in awkward places.

The Swiss family Robinson is an example of this. Times of interesting adventure and then long passages about poetry analysis.

Ironically, reading it feels like you are reading the works of an author with a low attention span.

There's a reason so many of the classics have abridged versions.
by klipt | 2025-04-20 02:39:18+00:00
No sources provided and internet failed to confirm ... closest I found was

> In extremely rare forensic cases, a phenomenon called "coffin birth" (post-mortem fetal extrusion) can occur, where gases from decomposition expel a fetus from the deceased mother's body. This is not true childbirth and is extremely rare, occurring only under specific post-mortem conditions.
by noirbot | 2025-04-20 02:41:27+00:00
Sure, I'm not denying what's in that quote - that the emphasis is usually on lighter roasts. Somewhat because there's already a number of older roasters who do nothing but dark roasts.

Many of the cups I've had at Dark Matter in Chicago are decidedly on the darker side, and they have Starry Eyes which is specifically sold as their dark roast. I don't think they post exact roast curves, so I'm not sure there's an objective way to denote what qualifies as a "real" dark roast, but I'm guessing most people who like a more classic dark roast would at least find it acceptably close. Roasters in Atlanta like Chrome Yellow, Dancing Goat, or Portrait also tend to be on the darker side, though I'm not sure if they have mainstay coffees.

It's not as if I've never had a cup of Lavazza or Folgers or Cafe du Monde to compare to. I grew up on basic coffeemaker grocery store French Roast all day every day.
by Krssst | 2025-04-20 02:42:34+00:00
> maximally desirable

On Android, my experience has been that new major versions are often unstable / involve some risk of bricking / include feature regressions (dumbing down of multi-task in Android 13 if I remember well). Waiting for a few month before installing a major update, while not optimal for security, is necessary to make sure that the most critical bugs are fixed beforehand.

Regarding applications, today there's so many applications being always updated all the time that there's no way it's good for the flash memory to constantly rewrite it every day. Plus this often leads to random application restarts while they are updated automatically. (and non-OSS applications updates can result in unwanted changes such as more ads, random changes in UI...).

It's still possible to disable automated updates on Android and I am glad that they allow it.
by jeffbee | 2025-04-20 02:45:03+00:00
In this degenerate example, the completely straightforward way is tied for fastest as well. It's clear this has nothing to do with ranges.

Response response; response.data.reserve(widget.data.size()); std::ranges::transform(widget.data, std::back_inserter(response.data), [](const auto& element) { return ToData{.title = element.title, .amount = element.amount*42};}); return response;
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-20 02:46:20+00:00
The problem is that teaching marquis de Sade to young boys will make them coomer horny terrorists (it’s literally extreme graphic sex/erotica meant to arouse the reader) to the girls in their class. School is not the place for coomer fiction, or pedo fiction.

Teaching Lolita is child abuse because for anyone who actually went through that experience, they have to not only relive it, but see a quasi justification for it through the fact that this book is considered “great”.

It’s just like that movie hard candy. It’s all pedophilic and shouldn’t be taught.
by alganet | 2025-04-20 02:46:42+00:00
Search engines are like older versions of LLMs. They are not designed as human-like assistants, but their goal of providing answers is similar in nature.

Search engines tend to over summarize less, and provide lots of references. Something LLM researchers worked hard to achieve.

If they feel lackluster for you, maybe you are not interested in those specific use cases in which they shine.

Similarly, the reason could be that you don't want to check references for yourself, and you prefer to trust the selection of cross references provided by your LLM of choice.

It is likely that your close circle of friends share an identity similar to yours. That is, by many, considered a defining characteristic of friendship. Although it can be a sign of the rising popularity of LLMs, one must take it as an anecdote and not a statistically significant fact.

I do prefer a soft selection of queries on different search engines and different LLM models. Since you asked for an opinion and self-declared an ability to do searches and questions yourself, I don't feel obligated to cite sources for this answer.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-20 02:48:22+00:00
That's way too dependent on context to say the cost is always worth the complexity.

On a team that is experienced in react, or a project that is heavily dependent on client side rendering react (or similar) make sense.

On a team that is more backend focused or a project that is CRUD heavy and generally rendering state that persists on the server, it could very well make sense to lean on server rendered HTML with small bits of JS scripts for interactivity.

We as an industry way over tilted on client-side rendering. If you're building Facebook or Figma or Discord, sure maybe CSR is a must. For most websites you don't need much CSR though, and if you're only using it for small bits of interactivity you may be better offer foregoing the complexity of a framework and taking responsibility for the full render pipeline.
by Avicebron | 2025-04-20 02:49:22+00:00
Isn't the extended family just a superset of the nuclear (or atomic) family? Defining the boundaries at grand-parents, aunts and uncles (I'm guessing proximity-based living relatives is kind of where you're making the boundary). By that logic an extended family is a nuclear family (formally) as it contains the definition of nuclear families by default, the nuclear family is just the smallest self replicating unit we've got available by default. Sperm (differential change between gens), (egg - really mitochondria) consistent base stability (ground truth) across gens, and the ability to self replicate.

EDIT: If you're arguing mixture of experts works better, than sure, I got you, if your arguing that there's a more non-binary way to do the self replication, that's a harder road to hoe. At least if you want to do it for free, which has a better track record of working for most people.
by searealist | 2025-04-20 02:51:44+00:00
This is actually a perfect example. I agree that you can find dark roasts at some third-wave shops, but they are _not_ third-wave coffee.

> Our premier dark roast is a nod to the old style of roasting which is still favored throughout the world

In this case, they even go out of their way to disqualify it as a third-wave roast.
by jrmg | 2025-04-20 02:52:07+00:00
On the question of “why do they collect all this data” - brightness, battery life, headphone usage, volume etc: It’s not just because the data is valuable in itself, it’s also to ‘fingerprint’ the device across IPFA boundaries and in the face of things like NAT and VPNs. There are so many disparate data points that are different across different devices that two apps reporting an identical or near-identical set in a short timeframe are likely on the same device.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-20 02:52:13+00:00
The cost of the task scales with how long it takes, plus or minus.

Substitute “cost” with “time” in the above post and all of the same tips are still valuable.

I don’t do much agentic LLM coding but the speed (or lack thereof) was one of my least favorite parts. Using any tricks that narrow scope, prevent reprocessing files over and over again, or searching through the codebase are all helpful even if you don’t care about the dollar amount.
by acomjean | 2025-04-20 02:52:30+00:00
I use Emacs when I’m code editing (especially when sshing). I love it but. The problem with emacs and vim to my mind is they are hard to configure. Like I’ve edited a .eMacs file but it’s in some lisp and adding plug ins isn’t intuitive. Maybe it’s better now, but it’s confusing. I use plain eMacs as distributed by my distro..

I use vs code annd jet brains too and it’s fairly straight forward to add in any plugin for this or that. They’re discoverable too. I don’t use a ton but some are helpful.
by martinald | 2025-04-20 02:52:35+00:00
You're oversimplifying on many angles.

Firstly you have charging losses - and you're assuming that you can charge at the same rate consistently over the cycle of the charge.

Secondly, doing it like that massively reduces operational flexibility. If buses are all late back (bad traffic for example) you would want to charge more aggressively than the 60kW. You can't so you're going to have buses that are low on charge the next day.

Finally, it's all a bit moot. In most areas you do not have 3MW of spare capacity on the LV network to suddenly plug into. You're going to need a new HV connection or dramatic LV grid reinforcement, so you might as well put a decent connection in at that point. The cost is basically the same, most of the cost is in permits and civils.

Your idea to place charging points at turnaround points is also not as feasible as you make out. It's incredibly hard to do that (TfL massively struggles to get planning for a simple toilet block for drivers at turnaround points) and they are not designed in a way to have buses in a certain exact position to charge often. And even if you could if buses are late they cannot skip the turnaround like now as they need to charge. This will cause massive cascading delays down the route for the rest of the day.

Grid connections are the reason rollout is so slow, at least in the UK. There is relatively plentiful funding for it but most depots are now completely maxed out in power availability - any spare capacity has already been used and the LV DNO queue is 10+ years for local reinforcement.
Show HN: Simulated a GPT cache bug, saw it echoed back
by sks38317 | 2025-04-20 02:52:49+00:00
I'm a high school senior who spent the past few weeks simulating GPT behavior across long-form and iterative tasks. During that time, I discovered a persistent cache loop—where failed outputs would be reused, PDF render attempts caused silent token overloads, and session degradation worsened over time.

I documented this publicly with reproducible behavior and cleanup proposals: → https://github.com/sks38317/gpt-cache-optimization/releases/...

Highlights from the release: - Token flushing failure during long outputs (e.g., PDF export) - Recursive reuse of failed cache content - Session decay from unpurged content - Trigger-based cleanup logic proposal

Before publishing, I submitted a formal message to OpenAI Support. Here's part of what I wrote:

> “I’ve shared feedback and proposals related to GPT behavior and system design, including: > - Memory simulation via user-side prompts > - Cache-loop issues and PDF rendering instability > - A framework modeling Systemic Risk (SSR) and Social Instability Probability (SIP) > - RFIM-inspired logic for agent-level coordination > > I only ask whether any of it was ever reviewed or considered internally.”

Their response was polite but opaque:

> “Thanks for your thoughtful contribution. We regularly review feedback, > but cannot provide confirmation, reference codes, or tracking status.”

Shortly after, I began observing GPT responses subtly reflecting concepts from the release—loop suppression, content cleanup triggers, and reduced carryover behavior.

It might be coincidence. But if independent contributors are echoing system patterns before they appear—and getting silence in return—maybe that’s worth discussing.

If you’ve had feedback disappear into the void and return uncredited, you’re not alone.

*sks38317* (independent contributor, archiving the things that quietly reappear)
by anonym29 | 2025-04-20 02:55:16+00:00
Demographic discrimination may be instinctive, but we are neither wild animals nor pre-programmed automatons incapable of using rationality and reason to modify our behavior to treat others with more kindness than our instincts would guide us to.

I can't tell you how to live your life, but life is better for all us when we avoid demographic-level collective blame, which leads to demographic-level persecution, something I'd hope nobody here wants.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-20 02:58:00+00:00
Sure, but I think we agree then. What you describe is a hypothesis based on a few important assumptions. For example, that controlled lab studies are predictive analogs for the natural world, that a drop in resistance in such a controlled study will match a real world scenario, and that the rate at which resistance is lost can reasonably be matched by cycling in different drugs.

I'm not saying it isn't possible, maybe it is! Only that its a hypothesis and that the key assumptions are still just that rather than known parameters.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-04-20 03:00:24+00:00
LTO6 capacity is 2.5TB. 6TB is "compressed" which these days is near worthless because data collections that size are likely to already compressed (example: video).

If the idea is to back up a hard drive, it's not nice to require big piles of tape to do it. Right now even the current LTO generation (LTO9, 18TB native capacity) can't back up the current highest capacity hard drives (28TB or more, not sure). In fact HDD is currently cheaper per TB (20GB drive at $229 at Newegg) than LTO6 tape ($30 for 2.5TB) even if the tape drive is free.

LTO would be interesting for regular users if the current generation drive cost $1000 or less new with warranty rather than as crap from ebay. It's too much of an enterprise thing now.

Also I wonder what is up with LTO tape density. IBM 3592 drives currently have capacity up to 50TB per tape in a cartridge the same size as an LTO cartridge, so they are a couple generations ahead of LTO. Of course that stuff is even more ridiculously expensive.
by jamesy0ung | 2025-04-20 03:03:54+00:00
As someone who just finished school, I’m trying to figure out how to get genuinely interested in mathematics. I’ve never been particularly strong at it, yet I’m planning to enter a university program that demands a high level of math. The problem is, it’s hard to motivate myself to study math for its own sake. For example, I loved learning programming because it’s hands‑on—I can build something and immediately see the results. In everyday life, though, I rarely need more than basic arithmetic or simple sin/cos/tan trigonometry.

How do you develop a lasting interest in math when it doesn’t feel immediately useful?
by martinald | 2025-04-20 03:04:30+00:00
I disagree - video conferencing and screensharing with a couple of calls at once will quickly eat up 10-20mbit/sec. 50-100mbit/sec I would agree is enough.

Regardless you're missing the point. DOCSIS has maybe 100-200mbit/sec of upstream shared between hundreds of homes - this will vary depending on config, and keep in mind a lot of that will be used for TCP ACKs from the downstream. So you probably have say 50-100mbit/sec "real" upstream available, or less than 1mbit/sec per subscriber.

If you hammered 40mbit/sec hard you are using nearly the entire 'usable' upstream of your entire cable modem segment.

DOCSIS is just massively inferior to FTTH for this reason.
by teleforce | 2025-04-20 03:04:53+00:00
There will be time in the very near future (read five years time) people will not buy vehicle (car, bike, etc) without lidar as the price become insignificant as car reverse camera, and it become commonplace.

Personally now I'll not buy any vehicle without assisted camera parking and apparently many people will agree with this important feature including Marques Brownlee [1].

[1] Reviewing my First Car: Toyota Camry Hybrid! [video]:

https://youtu.be/Az6nemkRB1Y
by 0manrho | 2025-04-20 03:05:01+00:00
Not surprsing. Flash is for hot/warm storage, not for cold storage, but using literal bottom of the bargin-bin barrel no-name drives that are already highly worn really doesn't tell us anything. Even if these were new or in powered on systems for their whole life, I wouldn't have high confidence in their data retention, reliability or performance quite frankly. Granted, there is something to be said about using budget/used drives en masse and brute forcing your way to reliability/performance/capacity on a budget through shear scale, but that requires some finesse and understanding of storage array concepts, best-practices, systems and software. By no means beyond the skills of an average homelaber/HN reader if you're willing to spend a few hours of research, but importantly you would want to evaluate them as an array/bulk, not individually in that instance, else you lose context. That also typically requires a total monetary investment beyond what most homelabbers/consumers/prosumers are willing to invest even if the end-of-the-day TB/$ ratio ends up quite competitive.

There's also many many types of flash drives (well beyond just MLC/TLC/QLC), and there's a huge difference between no names, white labels, and budget ADATA's and the like, and an actual proper high end/enterprise SSD (and a whole spectrum in between). And No, 990/9100 Pro's from Samsung and other similar prosumer drives are not high end flash. Good enough for home gamers and most prosumers, absolutely! They would also likely yield significant improvements vs these levens in OP. I'm not trying to say those prosumer drives are bad drives. They aren't (The levens though, even new in box, absolutely are).

I'm merely saying that a small sample of some of the worst drives you can buy that are already beyond their stated wear and tear is frankly a poor sample to derive any real informed opinion on flash's potential or abilities. TL;DR: This really doesn't tell us much other than "bad flash is bad flash".
by ta8645 | 2025-04-20 03:07:48+00:00
The argument is that humans manage the task without lidar, and automation doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be better than humans, to be a net positive. It seems to me, you might as well use lidar if it's cheap enough, but the argument that computer systems can outcompete human drivers, without using lidar, is at least reasonable, although not yet proven.
by martinald | 2025-04-20 03:08:43+00:00
Correct, and in reality it's likely to be 100-1000x the capacity. Probably say 16 users on average on a PON segment, with XGS-PON having 10gigabit/sec symmetrical.

Compare that to docsis 3.1 - maybe 200mbit/sec between hundreds of users.

DOCSIS 4.0 is better but just basically brings the split much closer to the home, in which case you'd probably be better off finishing the job with FTTH instead of having thousands of expensive active DOCSIS terminals every few hundred metres.

Also, you can easily upgrade capacity on FTTH, just add a new OLT and you can run that side by side with the old one while you upgrade everyone's ONTs.
by 0manrho | 2025-04-20 03:09:40+00:00
Correct, and absolutely worth noting, but point still stands. Had no intention of misleading, I called it a 6TB drive because that's what they're called (technically 6.25TB if we really want to get pedantic). Whether using LTO's compression or not, whether your data is already compressed or not, it's still a reasonable affordable, dense, reliable, approachable cold storage offering. Same is true even for LTO5.

It only starts to go sideways when you step up to LTO7 and above or try to get an autoloading all-in-one library unit. Though you can get lucky if you're patient/persistent in your bargain hunting.
by benoau | 2025-04-20 03:11:16+00:00
Keep your servers stateless so you can distribute traffic between many instances. It's a very easy model to wrap your head around, I think pioneered by a YC startup a very long time ago called Heroku.

All it really means in practice is you wouldn't store things like session state on your web server, server #1 can't hold your information because server #2 or #3 or #85 might receive your next HTTP request. I think dev in general shifted to this model about 15 years ago anyway!
by kdtsh | 2025-04-20 03:11:45+00:00
I thought, surely this can’t be right - but can confirm that this is the behaviour I see as well, opening a .ics file in Files lets you inspect the event but doesn’t seem to give you any way of importing it into a calendar (even from the share sheet). Maybe you could email the file to yourself but that seems like a pretty roundabout way of doing it.

Not that I ever get a .ics file from anywhere except my emails, but it would be nice to be able to actually use them if I have them.