MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-04-06 07:27:07+00:00
I think this is just a loyalty statement, to be honest. Just like when a large corporation pretended to care a lot about pronouns, they didn't actually, they just wanted to flag allegiance to a certain interest coalition/patronage network.

And those people, for the most part, didn't really care much about pronouns either. And they knew no one else really did either. It was an ideological shibboleth to them, a safe and easy commitment since it affects so few people, and is unlikely to matter for anything they do care about.

Now Meta is shopping around for new markers. "Liberal bias" is a classic, that's still popular with the Trump-right. I don't think they mean much by that either.
by VaiTheJice | 2025-04-06 07:27:26+00:00
You're 100% right to raise these questions! Firstly,thank you for taking the time to write them out, i expected this to just blow off into the ether so I hope I can clarify my drunk rant above.

You're right that most crashes today are due to software bugs, not DRAM decay. But the idea behind VaiOS isn’t just to detect bit rot. It’s to *rethink how failure is handled*, whether it’s a segfault, a use-after-free, or yes, even memory-level degradation on long-running devices.

I agree that cryptographic checksums won’t help with invalid pointer dereference in user space. That’s why the recovery model I’m exploring would:

- Run integrity checks on critical kernel regions and runtime-managed page zones - Use snapshot logic to roll back entire page frames, not just single writes - Map temporal fault clusters, so if a use-after-free corrupts 50 words, the rollback would address the whole block—not just the final straw that crashed it

You're absolutely right that Linux has great crash introspection tooling. Serial console, kdump, pstore, they’re battle-tested and I've been studying them.

This OS, isn't trying to compete, it’s just asking a different question:

What if the OS could not just tell you why it crashed, but actually recover from it in real time?

Imagine if a use-after-free doesn’t crash the kernel, it just triggers a “revert page region X to last valid hash” and continues execution. Maybe it logs it. Maybe it isolates the faulty process. But it survives.

PhantomOS is a fascinating reference, I appreciate you pointing me toward it.

As for compressed memory: it’s not about AI (assisted and not artificial) per se. It’s about *efficiency as resilience*.

If you can store more data with less bandwidth and thermal cost, you enable low-end devices, offline zones, and yes... agents like AI that need to work on constrained hardware in remote environments.

Inexperience? Maybe. Naivete? A little. But not ignorance. I’m not trying to prove Linux wrong, I’m trying to prove it’s possible to go further.

This isn’t about marketing. It’s about curiosity, chaos, and the refusal to accept that silence is the only way a machine can die.
by phito | 2025-04-06 07:27:27+00:00
I’ve never really understood the hype around pair programming. In practice, it’s usually just sitting with a coworker who wants to chat and crack jokes while working. That’s fine socially, but I don’t see any productivity gains.

What I find actually useful is a short, focused meeting with the relevant people before coding. That way, we align on what’s being built, resolve confusion, and then I can just go write the code.

Once I'm typing, I don’t see how having someone else there helps. It mostly just gets in the way — we keep having to stop and explain what we're thinking, which slows things down. And usually the other person gets confused at some point, so I have to stop and explain things again to get them back on track.
by looofooo0 | 2025-04-06 07:27:28+00:00
"Third, there are often large costs to users from switching technologies, which leads to lock-in. Such markets may remain very profitable, even where (incompatible) competitors are very cheap to produce. In fact, one of the main results of network economic theory is that the net present value of the customer base should equal the total costs of their switching their business to a com- petitor [19]."
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-04-06 07:30:42+00:00
The problem is, how do you value one book? £10? Or are we saying £10 every time someone uses the AI?

Should Taylor swift be liable to pay commission for every piece of music she listened to while training? They will have influenced her work in some way.

I’d rather go the other way and say that the companies have to freely release their data sets, if the data is derived from other people’s work. It would put everyone on a level playing field.
by looofooo0 | 2025-04-06 07:30:44+00:00
Economic network theory:

"Economists who have studied the software industry concluded that the value of a software business is about equal to the total costs of its customers switching out to the competition; both are equal to the net present value of future payments from the customers to the software vendor. This means that an incumbent in a maturing market, such as Microsoft with its Office product, can grow faster than the market only if it can find ways to lock in its customers more tightly. There are some ifs and buts that hedge this theory around, but the basic idea is well known to software industry executives. This explains Bill G's comment that `We came at this thinking about music, but then we realized that e-mail and documents were far more interesting domains'."
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-06 07:31:43+00:00
> If you ban that, suddenly it'll all be astroturf campaigns and product placement.

Advertising already makes extensive use of astroturf campaigns and product placement.

Cable TV started out with no ads, as a major selling point over broadcast TV. Then they started advertising because they figured they could make more money that way. There's no reason to believe that advertisers will ever refrain from introducing ads when there's money to be made by doing so.
by ncann | 2025-04-06 07:32:29+00:00
The non-buggy sleep (S3) isn't even supported in the BIOS in many new laptops now (in the Dell I'm using for example). So MS probably decided to kill that option off for everyone. To be honest it's a very confusing situation since there are so many hardware configurations under Windows and if you search online I think some people are still able to disable S0 on their new laptop/latest Windows, but some (myself) definitely cannot.
by fodkodrasz | 2025-04-06 07:33:00+00:00
The most annoying crap with modern sleep is that it doesn't lock the computer, only after some time has elapsed in sleep. I want the computer be locked immediately. Also Keepass cannot hook the sleep event, and lock the database. This is a security nightmare for me, really inconvenient.

Other is that the slightest mouse movement wakes the computer. Disabling wake devices does not work anymore. Guides say disable it in your bios. If there is a configuration option... I don't have (neither on a Lenovo, nor on a Beelink) such option. (Yes, I did the powercfg -wake-armed/device manager rain-dance, to no avail, it worked reliably to configure wake sources on S3)

S3 sleep was good enough for me, and S0 is a large step back in reliability and usability, for no perceived benefit. Unfortunately my newer machine does not support S3 anymore.

With MS copying all the bad ideas from MacOS it is getting ever worse, slowly Windows (being my get stuff done desktop) becoming as unusable my Mac. (ps. I'm was a long time, 10+ years, Linux desktop user, but constant flux of the platform made me move away)
by IshKebab | 2025-04-06 07:33:18+00:00
This guy seems to be both very positive about Rust and unfairly cynical about it at the same time...

Rust is a really fantastic language but having worked on a mixed C++/Rust codebase I can see why they had so many issues. Rust just wasn't really designed with C++ interop in mind so it's kind of painful to use them together. Impressive that they made it work.
by Tabular-Iceberg | 2025-04-06 07:33:34+00:00
This is where remote work goes off the rails, but then it’s wild how intentionally isolating the implementation of RTO that many large corporations are doing now.

They line people up in rows, put headphones on their heads and wire them up to Teams and Jira to spend the whole day in isolation. Because taking a walk to another floor of building to talk to someone like a normal human being is too wasteful, but somehow forcing everyone to spend hours commuting isn’t.

It’s the worst of both worlds.
by huijzer | 2025-04-06 07:33:59+00:00
Sure and the voters who did not participate in the election would all have voted the democratic party. I think the election showed that there are real people who apparently don't agree with the democratic party and it would probably be good to listen to these people instead of telling them what to do. (I see the same phenomenon in the Netherlands by the way. The government seems to have decided that they know better than the general public because voters who disagree are "uninformed" or "uneducated". This is absolutely the opposite of democracy. You do not just brush whole swats of the population to the side when they don't agree. It breaks the feedback loop that democracies should have.)
by defrost | 2025-04-06 07:37:00+00:00
> Do you have a good enough understanding of the lineage(s) in question to know whether the setlist.fm parser does justice per the thread topic (and related important edge cases)?

Oh, geez, you want rock notes? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYVO0OakllY )

I have a rich inner grasp of lineages I've followed .. it's a tough domain to expand into uniform generic meta data form.

WRT The Saints I'm less a fan of Chris Bailey (one co-founder) more a fan of Ed Kuepper (another founder).

The Saints are arguably (let's not do that now) the progenitor punk band (well, ok, one of them .. not first to record as such)

With their debut single "(I'm) Stranded", released in September 1976, they became the first punk band outside the US to release a record, ahead of the first UK punk releases from the Damned, the Sex Pistols and the Clash.

Stranded (OG THe Saints): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3H4U6P9KUI

The Aints and Laughing Clowns, et al are the follow on arc of guitarist-songwriter Ed Kuepper who is worthy of following in his own right.

The Way I Made You Feel (solo album Honey Steels Gold (1991)): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhuxY30nbDE

Eternally Yours (Laughing Clowns from the album Law Of Nature (1983))

The setlist.fm for The Aint's is really reflecting Ed Kuepper's musical history featuring works and reworkings of anything he's ever touched.

Here's Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective closing out a set in Sept. 2020 with a 10 minute extended encore of Electrical Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekVdws3020

( better version from a 2008 liveset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9xCfk3F4s )

> Are they good? What a crazy perfect name though.

I'm pretty fond of his work .. it's your call as to whether you like this music or not though - no judgement.
Show HN: OS Automation Is Here
by zynovex | 2025-04-06 07:37:01+00:00
I'm not sure if anyone has tried doing it already. Maybe did. But here is my prototype of the OS automation tool. It reads tasks given by the user in natural language, uses gemini to generate commands to carry out the task, then gets executed as user proceeds.

Problems faced: 1. It didn't have context about the system/file-folder structures. So had to implement the indexing. Though it doesn't do the work fully rn. 2. Improper commands. Sometimes it generates commands that don't make sense. It can be tackled with search through predefined commands and feeding to the AI I guess. 3. Combining all this, I want to make it more intelligent so it can take actions even with vague commands.

I'm not sure if it works well with macos/linux. Please let me know. I'll continue this project. And give a star :)
by ifellover | 2025-04-06 07:37:34+00:00
Your comment inspired me to seek out some research on the topic of transgender identity and brain structure. Pretty fascinating stuff, but hard for a layman like me to absorb.

Seems to be quite a lot of studies finding notable differences in brain “readings” (for want of a better word, sorry not a scientist) between transgender people and others sharing their biological sex.

The first study I read highlights the findings of many studies that the insula of transgender individuals is very different to cisgender individuals, with the insula being “associated with body and self-perception.” [0]

Gosh our brains are truly something else and are not so easily categorised! Now if only I could find a way to learn all this stuff a little bit faster…

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0666-3

A collection of many other studies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruenc...
by switch007 | 2025-04-06 07:37:50+00:00
Ah yes that drives me crazy too. Everything is a micro battle to win.

I had this issue with some junior colleagues. I had to point out that it's disrupting and actually quite tiring being interrupted all the time with minor corrections, often wrong or so unbelievably minor. One thought he could demand sources for everything I said no matter the stakes. They ignored context, nuance, caveats etc and just listened to the part they could attempt to easily refute. God I'm exhausted just recounting it

Am I an old fart ..
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-06 07:37:58+00:00
But it does not matter: the «overwhelming scientific consensus» will be the reason why it will be the chosen reply by the machine, but to specify in the reply "According to Patterson, followers and overwhelming scientific consensus" would be a redundancy.

The appearance that it could be «one opinion among possibly many others equally valid» is all in your head: it is an unduly feeling from a bad mental framework.

The advanced framework (that I advanced) is that of the foundational theory of knowledge: a notion has a source - you computed or reasoned, or somebody else. You do not allow your consultant to believe, so you demand that knowledge is tracked.

You will not accept an oracle.

The paradox is that you are seeing the demand of the source as a support to "belief", while it is the radical opposite: the only thing it will be """believed""" (and not really "believed" - just the end of the chain) is the protocols, that "in the training sources I read statement S".
by paradite | 2025-04-06 07:38:29+00:00
My understanding is that they have a base model checkpoint for Behemoth from pre-training.

This base model is not instruction-tuned so you can't use it like a normal instruction-tuned model for chatbots.

However, the base model can be distilled, and then the distilled model is post-trained to be instruction tuned, which can be released as a model for chatbots.
by n4r9 | 2025-04-06 07:39:57+00:00
Not sure I agree; it sounds like the vector tiles are generated in advance of testing the servers. This description is from the linked GitHub:

> six open-source vector tiles servers (BBOX, Ldproxy, Martin, pg_tileserv, Tegola, and TiPg) are set up and configured using Docker in a public cloud. Vector tiles are created for each server from the vector data of the PostGIS database. Various test scenarios with Apache JMeter are used to determine which server can deliver the vector tiles the fastest.
by shermantanktop | 2025-04-06 07:40:50+00:00
In other words, prepare for maximum surprise? As a defensive posture in a hostile or random environment, that makes sense.

But as a design approach, most designs go for the “principle of least surprise.”

And that’s how I read the original comment: a well designed system wouldn’t do this. Joke is on them, though, because nobody designed this.
by barnabee | 2025-04-06 07:42:08+00:00
> Some extreme examples of commercial advertising that was or is highly sought after by its target audience include eBay listings, Craigslist posts, the Yellow Pages, classified ads, the Sears catalog, job offer postings, the McMaster–Carr catalog,

Listings that consumers actively seek are quite different from messages and content that companies try to place in front of people who haven’t asked for them.

It would seem both easy and reasonable to craft a law that bans advertising without banning listings of products and companies, product search engines, etc.

> How do you prohibit that kind of advertising in an enforceable way?

This seems similar to suggesting we shouldn’t ban e.g. price fixing or insider trading because they can be hard to detect and enforce.

That’s a fallacy. Most companies do not want to break the rules and risk enforcement (especially if the penalties are high), and a significant reduction and increase in subtlety of advertising would still be valuable.
by juliendorra | 2025-04-06 07:42:10+00:00
Sometimes the best ideal solution is not the one that can win in practice!

The web was and still is a very bad hypertext system (no bidirectional links, no versioning, no integrated index, no transclusion, etc.) and we are still paying this debt! But this was also the an incredible hypertext system, permission-less, decentralized, and that made it a success.

I feel that the iPhone keyboard was the same, it had to appears (including in screenshots) innocuous and "without quality" to win over users.
by voxgen | 2025-04-06 07:43:11+00:00
> Or is Behemoth just going through post-training that takes longer than post-training the distilled versions?

This is the likely main explanation. RL fine-tuning repeatedly switches between inference to generate and score responses, and training on those responses. In inference mode they can parallelize across responses, but each response is still generated one token at a time. Likely 5+ minutes per iteration if they're aiming for 10k+ CoTs like other reasoning models.

There's also likely an element of strategy involved. We've already seen OpenAI hold back releases to time them to undermine competitors' releases (see o3-mini's release date & pricing vs R1's). Meta probably wants to keep that option open.
by matthewsinclair | 2025-04-06 07:43:36+00:00
Rather than ban ads in an absolutist sense, why not think about ads as “bads” (rather than “goods” in economic terms) and then tax them?

Let’s define a “good” as something with positive utility and value, and define a “bad” as something that imposes harm or negative externalities. If we treat advertising as a “bad” — not uniformly, but in terms of impact (manipulation, misinformation, psychological harm) — then we can apply Pigovian logic: tax it to reflect its societal cost. This wouldn’t require a blanket ban, just a rebalancing of incentives. Less intrusive or more transparent ads might be taxed less, while high-volume, misleading, or attention-hijacking ones could face heavier levies.

This shares the spirit of the original argument but trades prohibition for systemic correction — more like how we treat pollution or cigarettes. The advantage is that it avoids the free speech trap, acknowledges that not all advertising is equally harmful, and allows markets to adjust.

You don’t need a moral consensus to act — just an agreement to price the harm.

I have thought a lot about this basic idea of “incentivise goods / tax bads” over the years, and even how to do it a way that is revenue neutral to the government (via “feebates”) and advertising is one of the first places I’d try this.

Likelihood of success in the current climate: zero.
by TickleSteve | 2025-04-06 07:44:11+00:00
Mach was never based on BSD, it replaced it. Mach is the descendant of the Accent and Aleph kernels. BSD came into the frame for the userland tools.

"Mach was developed as a replacement for the kernel in the BSD version of Unix," (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel))

Interestingly, MkLinux was the same type of project but for Linux instead of BSD (i.e. Linux userland with Mach kernel).
by hansmayer | 2025-04-06 07:45:19+00:00
Fantastic article, I particularly like the point about humanity being more or less ad-free for much of it existence. I was just thinking about absurdity of advertising yesterday. As a life-long football fan (not soccer ;)), I was always bothered by the slow creep-in of those silly, mindless pre- and post-game interviews they do with players and managers nowadays. In the two decades since this has been happening it never occurred to me why these were a thing, until yesterday. In a lead up to a minor game, of course there was an interview with one of the players. In front of one of those panels with repetitive ads for various businesses. As it happens to be the case every time for the last 20ish years. Of course! The interviewees are just providing the mindless content, while my mind absorbs the background ads! So obvious, but it never occurred to me even once. Ad industry is really a cancer on society.
by rwmj | 2025-04-06 07:46:30+00:00
So far ... It's alleged one of the demands in the current US/UK trade negotiations is removal on all these "restrictions" on US internet companies.

Edit: Source - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/uk-trade-dea... and another one from a campaigning group: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/...
by loki49152 | 2025-04-06 07:47:00+00:00
She didn't "feel like she needed Social Security".

In fact, she instructed her fiduciary to not apply for it on her behalf because she didn't need it, and her detractors would use her participation to smear her.

Her fiduciary convinced her to be enrolled by citing her own "restitution" argument and the fact that, as a fiduciary, she had an obligation to pursue all of her client's financial interests to the extent of her ability under the law.

That's what you just cited above. At Rand's death, her estate was estimated to be worth somewhere between $500,000 to $2 million dollars. Rand didn't feel she needed it. Her fiduciary did risk management for her.
by MrMcCall | 2025-04-06 07:48:37+00:00
> it said is that the underperformers overestimated their performance

True.

> but they still believed they did worse than the high performers.

Fair point, but if they can't understand their own unexcellent performance, how can they understand excellence? They never did.

They thought they were expert enough, which was simply not true.

And they had ZERO understanding of what it takes to be an excellent performer, which was precisely why they thought they were excellent.

I read the study itself. It shows "the overconfidence of fools".

Does DJT think he's a dipshit? Of course not. He believes the exact opposite, because he's a lying fool, just like the underperformers of DK. Whether a person knows they're lying or is just mistaken is not as important as the fact that they're just not capable nor do they even know what it takes to be capable. They are trapped in the fiction of their own capability.

The key takeaway is that honest, humble hard work is the way to achieve expertise, and that many people have chosen to lie to themself and the world instead.

I do concede that they didn't believe they were better than the true experts. Thanks for the correction, but the overconfident fools of the world still think they're smart, and often they think they ARE smarter than intelligent people, even though that's not in DK.
by ben_w | 2025-04-06 07:48:50+00:00
#1 was true, but I find that this is one area where LLMs shine: even when you can't trust the answers directly, they can give inspiration to find the right questions.

I'm not convinced #2 is true — all ads imply the thing advertised is the best deal (where "best" is somewhere on cheap-quality spectrum), and the same limits to cognitive bandwidth mean we can't easily guess whatever points were missing from, at best, a 30-second highlights reel.
by yungporko | 2025-04-06 07:49:27+00:00
jumping spiders are very cool but god this site sucks to use on mobile. 3 times i accidentally "swiped" to a new article while trying to scroll down before i gave up trying to finish it, at which point i realised you can't swipe to go back/forwards because they've hijacked that action for the stupid article swiping thing. 0/10 worse than plain text on a white background.