MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-04-11 20:24:27+00:00
I'm not sure this is Ben's forte, but you're right that I wouldn't be surprised if he tries it, though he has done some circuit stuff[0,1] so nothing would surprise me from him. (Hi Ben! Love the work!) BUT I do think this is something Sam Zeloof[2] try. He's done some lithography using a projector[3]. Also there's Jeri Ellsworth, but I think she's shifted to mostly working with her AR project. Tons of old videos on that stuff if you're into it.

Side note: I'm assuming anyone who knows any of these people would be interested that a new Dan Gelbart video just dropped[5]!

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Other side note: @YouTube people (and @GoogleSearch), can we talk about search? The updates have been progressively making it harder to find these types of accounts. People who do *highly* technical things. I get that these are aimed at extremely specific audiences but this type of information is some of the most valuable information on the planet. Lots of knowledge is locked into people's heads and these classes of videos are one of the biggest booms to knowledge distribution we've ever seen in the course of humanity. I understand that this does not directly lead to profits to YouTube (certainly it DOES for Google Search), but indirectly it does (keeps these users on your platform!) and has a high benefit to humanity in general. The beauty of YouTube and Google was you could access anything. That we recognized everyone was different and we could find like minded people in a vast sea. The problem search was meant to solve was to get us access to hard to find things. To find needles in ever growing haystacks! Please, I really do not want to return to the days of pre-search. Nor even early search! It should be _easier_ to find niche topics these days, not harder. LLMs aren't going to fix this. This is becoming an existential crisis and it needs to be resolved.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIqhpxul_og

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYgIuc-VqHE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@SamZeloof

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoldtNpIzI

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@JeriEllsworthJabber

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZjjActWmQ
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-11 20:24:44+00:00
Sorry, I do not understand your post. You say, I understand, that some are investigated because of tattoos; we understand some of them are being deported; then you seem to state that the deportation is not because of the tattoos. Well, it seems after the tattoos... And the press does not make it evident that proper evidence is sought - it makes it look very discretionary.

What was the intended logic?
by jez | 2025-04-11 20:25:45+00:00
As with many "we should explain core math things better," there is a 3Blue1Brown explainer that attempts to give intuition for e:

https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/eulers-number

As suggested by the OP, it approaches the problem from the angle of showing that e^x is the only function that is its own derivative.

There is also a follow up explainer giving intuition for e^ix as being about modeling rotations.

https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/eulers-formula-dynamical...
by CreRecombinase | 2025-04-11 20:25:56+00:00
The comment you linked is a response to my comment where I tried (and failed) to articulate the world in which R is situated. I finally "RTFA" and the benchmark I think perfectly deomonstrates why conversations about R tend not to be very productive. The benchmark is of a hypothetical "sum" function. In R, if you pass a vector of numbers to the sum function, it will call a C function sum. That's it. In R when you want to do lispy tricky metaprogramming stuff you do that in R, when you want stuff to go fast you write C/C++/Rust extensions. These extensions are easy to write in a really performant way because R objects are often thinly wrapped contiguous arrays. I think in other programming language communitues, the existence of library code written in another language is some kind of sign of failure. R programmers just do not see the world that way.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-04-11 20:26:22+00:00
Cultivating unfair conditions and exerting pressure is just good negotiation.

The modern Egyptian government doesn't actually want mummies back, they just want to get paid again. They are going to use various means at their disposal to get paid once more. Which is "fair" in the All's fair in love and war sense.

Edit: Egypt just wants to pivot a subscription model: https://tutankhamunexpo.com
by Ekaros | 2025-04-11 20:26:38+00:00
I get A5 and A4 perfectly good. A3 is acceptable for arts. So is A2, albeit getting big and that takes time to work on. But A1? That is half a square meter. Quite a lot to force kids to deal with. What next A0 for entire square meter? Or A-1? That would be 4 times the A1...
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-11 20:27:25+00:00
It's not a need to mislead. You're grasping at a technicality. Citizenship is irrelevant if you're not given the chance to demonstrate it, which he wasn't, and again, he was actually deported because of the administrative error, not an on-purpose action, the correctness of which is irrelevant.

You're arguing whether a car wrapped around a tree has a bad alternator. Surely a fact useful to someone, somewhere, and worth knowing. But also certainly not the reason there's a problem.
by microtonal | 2025-04-11 20:27:54+00:00
nixpkgs packages pretty much everything I need. It’s a very large package set and very fresh. It’s mostly about culture and tooling. I tried to contribute to Debian once and gave up after months. I was contributing to nixpkgs days after I started using Nix.

Having every package as part of a distribution is immensely useful. You can declaratively define your whole system with all software. I can roll out a desktop, development VM or server within 5 minutes and it’s fully configured.
by 3minus1 | 2025-04-11 20:29:01+00:00
I really don't think bad Product Manager's is a good explanation for the UI. Any big company like Netflix is going to heavily A/B test any and every change to the UI. They will only ever add things that boost metrics like engagement. You may not like the UI; it may annoy you, but you should have some appreciation for the fact that they are using sophisticated techniques to optimize for what they care about.
by godelski | 2025-04-11 20:29:01+00:00
My knowledge of transistors is pretty limited[0]. Does the yield percentage refer to number of successful chips on a substrate or look more at the total number of successful transistors? (Or confusing hybrid-term like rain forecasts) I believe your comment implies the latter? So the number of successful processors is quite low? How many failed transistors can you have in a working microprocessor? (Probably not an easy to answer question?)

[0] Am I remembering correctly that this is your area?
by ChocolateGod | 2025-04-11 20:29:07+00:00
There was work on making docker/podman use an object store which would deduplicate things and improve performance (far more likely a file the same between images is in memory already) but I haven't checked to see what the status was of late.

Flatpak already does this, if two Flatpak apps ship the same file, it's deduped by default

I do agree the layering part of OCI images is horrible and a waste of disk space, but I don't think this is the fault of immutable distros.
by kazinator | 2025-04-11 20:31:10+00:00
It's a true statement; I made a usable construct that causes template strings to be turned into objects, rather than to perform the string substitution. I did it without changing any syntax, or have to ship a new version of the language.

Python has to ship a new version for this; there is no way for existing installations to use the code.

I don't have to change anything in my editor setup.

So who is it that values syntactic convention?

t"abc" is a syntax errror in vast numbers of existing Python installations; how can we call it convention?

> How do you assign this result to a variable?

That's to be worked out. The "html:" fantasy construct could have a way to do that. When you think of assigning to a variable, the first thing that comes to mind is "a = b" syntax. But, look, the define construct in Python also assigns to a variable:

define fun(arg): ...

The imagined html construct could have arguments like to assign an object to a variable, or just spin out textual HTML into a specified stream. I don't want to get into it, but there are obvious ways it could be done such that it hits all sorts of requirements.

> How is it any better

It renders all of the following problems unrepresentable: mismatched angle brackets, mismatched or unclosed tags, bad attribute syntax, injection.
by bawolff | 2025-04-11 20:32:14+00:00
> If you have valid rules but in practice only enforce them against a single group

I'd agree. Is there any evidence that that is happening here? The article reports on israeli take down requests but does not report on take down requests from other groups. Meta could very well be using the same rules against pro-israel groups, we just dont know because the leak didn't include that information.
by cmurf | 2025-04-11 20:32:29+00:00
It's intentional. Federalist 78 contains the rationale.

John Adams said the Constitution is intended for a moral (or virtuous) people. It's just a piece of paper. People have to support and defend it in order for the republic, an empire of laws, to persist.

We may be out of virtue, and maybe we don't deserve Constitutional order.

Enough people voted for an untrustworthy liar and a psychopath to be president. And the consequences will continue until he's removed from office.

There is no bottom for him. And probably no bottom for this Congress. In any case, this presidency is going to be very expensive for everyone.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-11 20:32:32+00:00
> Cultivating unfair conditions and exerting pressure is just good negotiation.

I heavily disagree. Bullying may work in a short term but in the mid to long term it can have disastrous consequences - we're seeing this play out right now with the US government and all its major allies looking for a way out and divesting from the US.

Decades worth of "soft power" building effort and hundreds of thousands of lives lost in various wars (WW2 alone >400k!), for nothing, all gone in the space of a few months.
by throwing_away | 2025-04-11 20:32:37+00:00
It's not unreasonable to see the situation as "Then they came for the Jews, and the administration finally deported the people who were coming for the Jews".

The president's literal argument for doing it is that the activist groups are coming for all of American life.

I'm not a big fan of either side's rhetoric, but clearly the horseshoe has become a ring.
by DrSiemer | 2025-04-11 20:32:55+00:00
Isn't it irrelevant that students do not have the answer to a basic quiz though? In a real life situation, they can just _ask an LLM_ if they need to know something.

I don't believe having this option will make people a lot less functional. Sure, some may slip through the cracks by faking it, but we'll soon develop different metrics to judge somebodies true capabilities. Actually, we'll probably create AI for that as well.

As a professional, you hire people who get things done. If that means hiring skilled LLM users, that do not fully understand what they produce, but what they make consistently works about as often as classic dev output does, and they do this in a fraction of the time... You would be crazy _not_ to hire them.

It's true that inexperienced developers will probably generate a massive tech debt during the time where AI is good enough to provide code, but not good enough to fish out hidden bugs. It will soon surpass humans at that skill though, and can then quickly clean up all the spaghetti.

Over the last two years my knowledge on how to perform and automate repetitive and predictable tasks has gradually worn away, replaced by a higher level understanding of software architecture. I use it to guide language models to a desired outcome. For those that want to learn, LLM's excel at explaining code. For this, and plenty of other subjects, it's the greatest learning tool we have ever had! All it takes is a curious mind.

We are in a transitionary time and we simply need to figure out how to deal with this new technology, warts and all. It's not like there is an alternative scenario; it's not going to go away...
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-11 20:33:06+00:00
>this assumes the main motivation is money

People evaluate pay to quality of life at work ratio, not just pay (although it is most commonly referred to as pay to avoid writing or saying all of that out).

You cannot expect a person to come out of school at 30 to 35 years old with $300k+ of debt after working 80 hour weeks during their 20s and slaving away in residency and not expect a decent pay to quality of life at work ratio.

If you do not increase quality of life to make up for lower pay, you will end up with less driven or less capable people. Note that quality of life also includes security of income, which can reduce that type of stress.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-11 20:34:08+00:00
You don’t think a meerkat when introduced something novel into their environment relevant to them, would ‘t come up with a concept for representing that idea to their own species? I think they would, absolutely. What we do as humans isn’t unique despite how we insist on thinking that about ourselves. It is why we can study neuroscience using fruit flies.
by ang_cire | 2025-04-11 20:34:24+00:00
Oh look, the "ample evidence" link you provide is ALSO an opinion statement, and it's written by...

> Elie Wiesel, Prof Alan Dershowitz, R James Woolsey, Elliott Abrams, Tom Gross, Prof Judea Pearl, Douglas Murray

Hmmmm, none of those people are famously biased towards Israel....

Also, you are misusing Credentials Fallacy to dismiss the difference between factual reporting and opinion. If I dismissed a peer-reviewed study you posted by saying that YOU aren't a scientist/expert, THAT would be Credential Fallacy. It doesn't just mean that you have to accept all sources and claims as equal. "You just dismissed my Infowars link without even providing a detailed refutation, and just trusted the CDC instead! Fallacy!"
by pmags | 2025-04-11 20:34:44+00:00
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

● ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES, Amnesty International -- https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/enforced-disappearance...

● International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance -- https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

● Aguilar, P. & Kovras, I. (2018). Explaining disappearances as a tool of political terror. International Political Science Review, 40(3), pp. 437-452. doi: 10.1177/0192512118764410
by pessimizer | 2025-04-11 20:34:44+00:00
> If they bumped up the price to $100 bucks a month and obliterated the "I'm just a quirky creative home user who likes to dabble" pandering, GOOD. I'd keep my subscription. Instead, I'm actively building up my experience in alternative tools so I can get away from Adobe.

You're telling them they'll lose you, but if they did what you recommend, they'd have lost both you and the "quirky creative home user who likes to dabble."

The amateur market creates the professional market 10 years from now. They should make sure quirky home users are using their product, even if they have to pay them to use it. If the quirky instead choose any other tool that is capable enough for professional work, they'll grow into the tool and never leave it. The more that do that, the more the tool will improve to conform to their expectations.

If the quirky start buying Affinity instead of learning Photoshop, Photoshop will be gone. In a hypothetical universe where the choices that were available when you first became professional were either an (even more, by your suggestion) expensive Adobe subscription and buying Affinity, you may never have used Photoshop at all.
by thetwopct | 2025-04-11 20:35:21+00:00
Feel free to insert an analogy that pleases you. WordPress.com is a hosting company that has its own staff and contributes approx 40 hours per month to the WordPress open source project. WordPress core development is made up of contributors. The AI builder is not available for WordPress, it’s exclusively for the hosting company WordPress.com. WordPress.com on their basic plan restrict any plugin usage. There are no usage restrictions on the open source software. This is just a taste of the distinctions. The title of this post has now been updated, but regardless, WordPress.com is not WordPress.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-04-11 20:35:22+00:00
Yes, that is where my quote came from. From your own quote:

> The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.

Which is such a ridiculously bullshit line of thought. This wasn't some person who willingly went to some random country, this is someone the executive illegally put there against the person's will in coordination with said foreign government. I can guarantee you that any order with teeth will be struck down by SCOTUS on this line of thought.
by gs17 | 2025-04-11 20:36:05+00:00
> solved the same two puzzles for resources

I'm eager to play more, but this is something that was a worry already an hour in. The logic puzzle I did was good enough and seems like it can be generated procedurally well enough, the "math" puzzle I did wasn't. There's more than that, right?

> and some clues that I can only experiment with if the RNG deems me worthy.

And on top of that, it's hard to know if those clues actually will matter in other runs. I found a safe code in one run. If it takes three runs before the RNG decides the room with the safe will be there, will the code be randomized? I've been trying to avoid spoilers so it's hard to know what matters.
by wahern | 2025-04-11 20:36:19+00:00
There's a good episode of 99% Invisible that discusses Prop 65, including an interview with the original author of Prop 65, David Roe: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/warning-this-podcast-...

Yes, there are a lot of problems with Prop 65, but the podcast also highlights the benefits. Slapping a Prop 65 warning on foodstuffs in particular significantly decreases sales, so it's not something you just do merely to avoid extortionate lawsuits. It incentives testing beforehand, and if you find contaminants to then reformulate. Notwithstanding the seeming ubiquity of Prop 65 warning labels in California, the salient effects are significant and largely hidden--you don't notice all the products that don't have the label, and don't because they were reformulated to avoid the label. Prop 65 was one of the most significant drivers in the US of the removal of lead and other contaminants in products. The author of the bill admits the unintended consequences have been significant, especially harassment lawsuits, but he also argues there aren't really good alternatives that could have achieved what Prop 65 has with a better cost/benefit ratio.

Having an army of private lawyers vigorously prowling for contaminants in products is a pillar of Prop 65's success. You couldn't achieve what Prop 65 has with centralized regulation, not without creating tremendous (i.e. costly in time if not money) bureaucratic hurdles to creating and selling products in the market. Prop 65 is a kind of "ask for forgiveness" model, rather than "ask for permission". The former is generally more preferable if you want to preserve market dynamism and profitability, while also minimizing the risk of regulatory capture, and lax, haphazard enforcement. Moreover, you get the escape hatch of just adding a warning label, without having to take your product off the market.

There is a centralized regulatory aspect to Prop 65--the State of California's list of contaminants--subject to typical bureaucratic and lobbying externalities. But on balance Prop 65 seems defensible, however imperfect. After listening to the podcast, which if anything leaned into Prop 65 criticism, I softened my views on Prop 65.
by Riverheart | 2025-04-11 20:37:00+00:00
“A legal reality where you can only train AI on content you've licensed would be the worst for everybody bar massive companies, legacy artists included.”

Care to elaborate?

Also, saying artists only concern themselves with the legality of art used in AI because of distaste when there are legal cases where their art has been appropriated seems like a bold position to take.

It’s a practice founded on scooping everything up without care for origin or attribution and it’s not like it’s a transparent process. There are people that literally go out of their way to let artists know they’re training on their art and taunt them about it online. Is it unusual they would assume bad faith from those purporting to train their AI legally when participation up till now has either been involuntary or opt out? Rolling out AI features when your customers are artists is tone deaf at best and trolling at worst.
by Suppafly | 2025-04-11 20:37:23+00:00
It was such a better end user experience, I can't believe you're arguing otherwise. I appreciate what Mozilla does, but their history includes multiple periods of being a worse browsing experience than their competitors. You don't need marketing to tell you that it's a better experience when you could run them side by side and notice that one would crash far more often than the other, and one would struggle with lots of tabs and the other wouldn't, one would render pages faster and more accurately than the other.

Again, you obviously aren't able to objectively talk about end user experience for some reason and need to be honest with yourself about that. You should load up a VM with XP or Vista and Firefox 3.0 and refamiliarize yourself with the time period you claim to have lived through.
by cj | 2025-04-11 20:37:28+00:00
I could see someone making that mistake if they misread off of a notecard or teleprompter.

I have some sympathy though. I habitually mix up "SEO" and "CEO" (and I do one of those things as a full time job). I don't have dyslexia - it's only those 2 acronyms I constantly mix up, but only when talking out loud or thinking in my head, never when writing.
by cainxinth | 2025-04-11 20:37:40+00:00
- Eva Cassidy, “What a Wonderful World” - Leonard Cohen, “You Want It Darker” - Camille Saint-Saens, “Danse Macabre” - Paul Simon, “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” - DubXanne, “Roxanne, Police in Dub”
by sudodevnull | 2025-04-11 20:37:52+00:00
I'm very much of the opinion that progressive enhancement leads to lowest common denominator and you should just do a static MPA (nothing wrong with that). Modern browsers are a combination of HTML+CSS+JS and you should just embrace that as what modern hypermedia is. We aren't fighting against the browser. If you want just links and forms, you should just do that and have less code to maintain. But in my experience that's not what most are looking for in their apps.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-11 20:38:03+00:00
There has long been a push among Republicans to privatize the National Weather Service. This will merely be a step in that direction.

A few useful idiots like this guy (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-seattle-times-cla...) are under the impression they'll come out ahead in the end, but I'm skeptical.
by jfengel | 2025-04-11 20:38:43+00:00
Not me. I've got about two dozen emails in my spam folder, and they're all spam.

(I'm pretty sure that Google is just straight-out disposing of a lot of obvious spam. My spam folder used to be in the thousands, and there was zero realistic chance of finding anything mis-classified. I do occasionally discover things that are not technically spam, merely not interesting, and I politely mark them and unsubscribe.)