MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sanderjd | 2025-04-29 21:50:46+00:00
This happens with every hype cycle. Some people fully buy into the most extreme of the hype, and other people reverse polarize against that. The first group ends up offsides because nothing is ever as good as the hype, but the second group often misses the forest for the trees.

There's no shortcut to figuring out what the truth of what a new technology is actually useful for. It's very rarely the case that either "everything" or "nothing" is the truth.
by MediaSquirrel | 2025-04-29 21:51:01+00:00
In 2021, I built the first real-time video generation AI app for Apple Silicon. It was revolutionary - until it started melting iPhones. When my demo literally burned Sam Altman's hand, I discovered that Apple's on-device AI hardware was not designed for modern AI.

Look inside any M-series Mac today. Nearly half the silicon - the Neural Engine cores - sits idle, designed for the pre-transformer era of AI. Meanwhile, my ninety-five-year-old father struggles with a seventy-five-inch screen he can barely see, finding brief moments of magic only when speaking to Siri.

The problem isn't just technical - it's ideological. Apple's privacy stance prevents them from gathering the real-world data needed for truly adaptive interfaces. But there's a solution: AppleCare Platinum, a premium human support service that could evolve into a radical new kind of UI - by serving as an Enders Game for AI computer use training data.
by rayiner | 2025-04-29 21:51:25+00:00
> What economists have is better than vague feelings about the dignity of working in a factory as opposed to a service job.

You've got it backwards. If people have the feeling that there is more dignity working in a factory than delivering Door Dash, that's a preference that should be factored into the economic analysis. Similarly, economic analyses considers factors like labor laws and environmental laws as detracting from "comparative advantage," even though it probably better reflects peoples' preferences for those things to be a minimum standard that no country is competing on. And it's certainly relevant that being a manufacturing powerhouse provides a long-term military advantage compared to a services-based economy. Prior to World War II, the U.S. had largely demilitarized. It built the world's largest military within a couple of years, because of its industrial capabilities. Those are real-world considerations, but aren't factored into simplistic comparative-advantage analyses.
by nothercastle | 2025-04-29 21:51:39+00:00
You can’t fly it to prove safety to FAA or EASA. It needs a ton of build and test data to show it’s been designed and built correctly. Also those agencies don’t allow use of stolen data so you have to replicate all the material allowable testing to get credit for it. Airbus had to do that when they started up. They stole all of the design data from the us and then had to slowly reconstruct it to launder it into an acceptable form. The Chinese are doing the same thing and will need to complete the process to get FAA and EASA approval for their models. The process is sort of like doing your homework when you have the answer key, it’s simpler than without one but still quite time consuming.
by belter | 2025-04-29 21:51:41+00:00
And your comment also...In Multi-AZ clusters.

Well this is from Kyle Kingsbury, the Chuck Norris of transactional guarantees. AWS has to reply or clarify, even if only seems to apply to Multi-AZ Clusters. Those are one of the two possibilities for RDS with Postgres. Multi-AZ deployments can have one standby or two standby DB instances and this is for the two standby DB instances. [1]

They make no such promises in their documentation. Their 5494 pages manual on RDS hardly mentions isolation or serializable except in documentation of parameters for the different engines.

Nothing on global read consistency for Multi-AZ clusters because why should they.... :-) They talk about semi-synchronous replication so the writer waits for one standby to confirm log record, but the two readers can be on different snapshots?

[1] - "New Amazon RDS for MySQL & PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployment Option: Improved Write Performance & Faster Failover" - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-multi-az-db-clus...

[2] - "Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys: Under the hood" - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-multi-az-wi...
by Zigurd | 2025-04-29 21:52:15+00:00
The norms that made upholding the law possible have been broken. Kash Patel of all people is FBI director, and TV lawyer Pam Bondi is AG. A drunk Fox News presenter is SecDef. These are not serious people. This is straight out of Idiocracy. They could literally end civilization if a bender and a senile episode line up badly.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-29 21:53:01+00:00
I mean people do use iterator instead of for loops quite a lot.

IMO the thing that would be really nice is if control flow like `for` was actually the same as using an iterator. This would really help in Rust too where handling errors inside iterator callbacks is a right pain.

I've seen a few languages try this but it seems to not be very popular. I think it can get a bit confusing how control flow keywords like `return` and `break` work if you turn `if` into syntactic sugar for a function call taking a closure etc.
by boricj | 2025-04-29 21:53:28+00:00
> robots.txt isn’t really legally binding

Neither is the HTTP specification. Nothing is stopping you from running a Gopher server on TCP port 80, should you get into trouble if it happens to crash a particular crawler?

Making a HTTP request on a random server is like uttering a sentence to a random person in a city: some can be helpful, some may tell you to piss off and some might shank you. If you don't like the latter, then maybe don't go around screaming nonsense loudly to strangers in an unmarked area.
by int_19h | 2025-04-29 21:54:21+00:00
This is already happening.

On one hand, yes, when it comes to picking tools for new projects, LLM awareness of them is now a consideration in large companies.

And at the same time, those same companies are willing to spend time and effort to ensure that their own tooling is well-represented in the training sets for SOTA models. To the point where they work directly with the corresponding teams at OpenAI etc.

And yes, it does mean that the barrier to entry for new competitors is that much higher, especially when they don't have the resources to do the same.
by bilekas | 2025-04-29 21:54:35+00:00
Disclosure, I'm not a lawyer either. This is all hypothetical high level discussion here.

> it could serve the zip bomb to a legitimate bot.

Can you define the difference between a legitimate bot, and a non legitimate bot for me ?

The OP didn't mention it, but if we can assume they have SOME form of robots.txt (safe assumtion given their history), would those bots who ignored the robots be considered legitimate/non-legitimate ?

Almost final question, and I know we're not lawyers here, but is there any precedent in case law or anywhere, which defines a 'bad bot' in the eyes of the law ?

Final final question, as a bot, do you believe you have a right or a privilege to scrape a website ?
by threecheese | 2025-04-29 21:54:43+00:00
WRT Llama, IMO it’s only because they couldn’t infect a model with ad tracking that it overcame the tarnish. As long as I don’t need to run their conventional software to use it, I consider it safe.

I’m on the fence about their API product( technically they could tie it to one’s identity (as OpenAI could) but I’d imagine that would be less valuable given they can’t know which human is really behind it.
by howard941 | 2025-04-29 21:55:22+00:00
Yes, you're right, lousy airspace design. Flown perfectly the chopper should have been no closer than 75' from the airplane if everyone is flying exactly on altitude (which never happens, you have to give at least +/-50'). Couple that with the difficulty of picking out an airplane against the hundreds of backlights of the valley and disaster was inevitable.
by sillywalk | 2025-04-29 21:56:54+00:00
"Senior tax officials are bracing for a sharp drop in revenue collected this spring, as an increasing number of individuals and businesses spurn filing their taxes or attempt to skip paying balances owed to the Internal Revenue Service, according to three people with knowledge of tax projections.

Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline compared with 2024, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share nonpublic data. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue; the IRS collected $5.1 trillion last year. For context, the U.S. government spent $825 billion on the Defense Department in fiscal 2024."[0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-r...
by carlosjobim | 2025-04-29 21:57:03+00:00
Yes I can. There's an excellent and stable solution called SurrealCMS, made by an indie developer. You connect it by FTP to any traditional web design (HTML+CSS+JS), and the users get a WYSIWYG editor where the published output looks exactly as it looked when editing. It's dirt cheap at $9 per month.

Edit: I actually feel a bit sorry for the SurrealCMS developer. He has a fantastic product that should be an industry standard, but it's fairly unknown.
by int_19h | 2025-04-29 21:57:35+00:00
In a similar way to how this works for natural languages. Turns out that if you train the model on e.g. vast quantities of English, teaching it other languages doesn't require nearly as much, because it has already internalized all the "shared" parts (and there's a lot more of those than there are surface differences).

But, yes, it does mean that new things that are drastic breaks with old practices are much harder to teach compared to incremental improvements.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-29 21:59:15+00:00
Hopefully wifi8 has something PTP built-in. I hear there's some vague hope that better timing info is one of the core pieces, so maybe maybe!

I'm super jazzed seeing AES67 emerge.. although it not working great over wifi for lack of proper timing info hurts. Very understandable for professional gear, but there's nothing I love more than seeing professional, prosumer and consumer gear blend together!

PipeWire already has pretty decent support! There's a tracker where people report on with their hardware experiences trying it. Some really really interesting hardware shows up here (and elsewhere on the gitlab): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/32...
by johnea | 2025-04-29 22:00:13+00:00
How about this:

Little Jimmy used his space laser pistol to blast the eyeballs out of the reptilian space alien invaders from Chinnastan, thus saving humanity and getting the girl!

THE END

This is pretty much a summary of 90% of Japanese anime (I try to watch the other 10% --> 他一割部分を見てほしい)

How much more optimistic could it get for a white male anglo-european christian sci-fi reader?
by everdrive | 2025-04-29 22:00:21+00:00
>Unless twice the work is suddenly required, which I doubt.

I'm not sure why you doubt it. In a company, efficiency improvements never mean you don't have to do as much work. They always mean you just have more time in the day for extra work. It's part of the reason I really don't care at all about automation, LLMs, etc, at least from an efficiency perspective. (there's another case to be made for automated response, etc.) I hear people say that it opens them up to do more of the interesting work they care about, but in practice I've never seen this be true.

It feels lot like when people in IT talk about how they are "always learning new things." Yes, that's true, but what you're learning is worthless: An updated UI for Defender, a new proprietary query language, branding hierarchies for tech company products, etc. It's all worthless knowledge.
by jsight | 2025-04-29 22:01:12+00:00
This reminds me a lot of the YT video that went over using Monte Carlo Tree Search with LLMs to maximize result quality. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAV_bigdRA&ab_channel=Treli...

It seemed like a pretty good idea, though I'd guess that it would greatly increase token usage. I'd also be concerned that the LLM as a judge might struggle to grade things accurately if it wasn't also able to generate good enough answers to begin with.
by amalcon | 2025-04-29 22:01:27+00:00
Trump makes two kinds of statements about what he will do: that he will take an action, and that he will achieve an objective. He mostly takes the actions, but mostly does not achieve the objectives. Some exceptions of course, but mostly.

The things people seem upset about are mostly objectives that he has not achieved. Which, duh, his promised actions had zero chance of achieving those. But that's what I'm seeing.
by thrtythreeforty | 2025-04-29 22:01:37+00:00
> e-graphs-based compilers like Cranelift maintain an equivalence graph that represents all possible lowerings, and after the whole graph is built, an algorithm finds a single optimal lowering

Do you have a good entrypoint reference for learning about how this works? This (and the associated mention in the article) is the first time I've heard of this approach.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-04-29 22:01:39+00:00
There are both technical and organizational challenges created by stream processing. I like stream processing and have done a lot of work on high-performance stream engines but I am not blind to the practical issues.

Companies are organized around an operational tempo that reflects what their systems are capable of. Even if you replace one of their systems with a real-time or quasi-real-time stream processing architecture, nothing else in the organization operates with that low of a latency, including the people. It is a very heavy lift to even ask them to reorganize the way they do things.

A related issue is that stream processing systems still work poorly for some data models and often don’t scale well. Most implementations place narrow constraints on the properties of the data models and their statefulness. If you have a system sitting in the middle of your operational data model that requires logic which does not fit within those limitations then the whole exercise starts to break down. Despite its many downsides, batching generalizes much better and more easily than stream processing. This could be ameliorated with better stream processing tech (as in, core data structures, algorithms, and architecture) but there hasn’t been much progress on that front.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-29 22:01:40+00:00
Surely, they should be happy to see their bigly beautiful tariffs, of which they are apparently so proud, prominently displayed to a grateful public?

Like, one can't have it both ways. "These tariffs are a brilliant idea and will make everything wonderful... HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT THE TARIFFS" is an utterly incoherent position.
by concerndc1tizen | 2025-04-29 22:02:15+00:00
The state of the art is always advancing, which greatly increases the burden of starting from first principles.

I somewhat feel that there was a generation that had it easier, because they were pioneers in a new field, allowing them to become experts quickly, while improving year-on-year, being paid well in the process, and having great network and exposure.

Of course, it can be done, but we should at least acknowledge that sometimes the industry is unforgiving and simply doesn't have on-ramps except for the privileged few.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-29 22:02:46+00:00
For a long time I used the "KeePass" family of password managers (KeePass2, DX, XC, etc.)

Their feature set seemed calibrated for the truly paranoid cypherpunks, and I rolled with it.

Then I began taking a critical look, and the first thing I noticed was that their dev team was a bunch of nobodys with creepy aliases and mostly seemed based in the E.U., definitely not USA/5 Eyes or anything.

Okay, well, critical security component is controlled by Euro-spooks, no problem...

I never seemed to have any password manager-related problems, except...

I often opted for generation of a "five word passphrase" like the xkcd recommendation, and I would go back and type in those passphrases, and they seemed almost insultingly accurate. Like if I didn't know any better, my identity or personal attributes were carefully encoded in the passwords themselves.

I am sure I was imagining things, [over-the-top with my tinfoil hats!] but eventually I moved past needing KeePass, and into the native managers offered by Microsoft/Google. Interesting times, for sure.
by decimalenough | 2025-04-29 22:03:01+00:00
LLMs have come a long way in those 3 years. The early ones were absolute garbage compared to what we have today.

1) Yes. I had in fact already booked the appointment, but decided to try asking Gemini for shits and giggles.

2) I did google, but I didn't know an official calculator existed, and the search results presented me with a morass of random links that I couldn't make heads or tails of. Remember, I'm not a domain expert in this area.
by pmags | 2025-04-29 22:03:02+00:00
This is an odd interpretation if the details cited in the NY Times articles are correct:

> When he informed Ted of his marriage plans, Ted, who had never met Ms. Patrik, fumed, and warned him, in what David called a “vicious” letter, that he was making the biggest mistake of his life. Ted then severed virtually all communication with him.

From this quote it seems like Ted Kaczynski had already cut off most communication with his brother w/out ever meeting the wife.
by lossolo | 2025-04-29 22:03:08+00:00
And where are you getting your information? The most interesting thing is how U.S. politicians often use the phrase 'Chinese Communist Party' when talking about China, invoking Cold War-era connotations of communism. But everyone knows that the only things still 'communist' about China are the party's name, its symbols, and the flag.

I’ve been to both the U.S. and China. There's significantly more propaganda about China in the U.S. than there is about the U.S. in China. Stop blindly believing what others say—go see for yourself. In the coastal and Tier-1 cities, you’ll witness how a population the size of the entire United States enjoys a higher standard of living than the American middle class, with greater affordability, and clean, safe, and beautiful urban environments (with infrastructure that is way ahead of US).
by drweevil | 2025-04-29 22:03:15+00:00
Ditto. I use 5 to 6. Also, the problem with recommending passphrases is that I don’t see a decent explanation from those recommending them as to how they work. Yes, I get that they are public key cryptography, but the details of the actual implementations (each seems different) make them confusing. And where there is confusion there is room for exploitation.
by Exuma | 2025-04-29 22:04:11+00:00
I remember when this link went around that this 1% column didn't really quite make sense. 1% makes it sound like it's well within the limit, even if you ate 10 in-n-out cheeseburgers a day.

I guess the question is, at what percent of the "tolerable daily intake" of DEHP do very bad side effects (like the heart issues in this post) start to occur?
by os2warpman | 2025-04-29 22:04:16+00:00
Anyone can sue anyone else for any reason.

This is what trips me up:

>On my server, I've added a middleware that checks if the current request is malicious or not.

There's a lot of trust placed in:

>if (ipIsBlackListed() || isMalicious()) {

Can someone assigned a previously blacklisted IP or someone who uses a tool to archive the website that mimics a bot be served malware? Is the middleware good enough or "good enough so far"?

Close enough to 100% of my internet traffic flows through a VPN. I have been blacklisted by various services upon connecting to a VPN or switching servers on multiple occasions.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-29 22:04:51+00:00
> It's not interesting playing chess against Magnus, even for high-level GMs. He just crushes almost every human

The differences even among humans between the absolute best & those out of the top 10 tend to be pretty drastic. And a non-IM against Magnus won't even understand what's going on. You could similarly claim that Magnus just memorized a bunch of openings which is similar to criticism GMs level too which is why Chess960 is now gaining more traction. My point is that there's not really such a thing as "fair" in a competition.

Re geoguessr, why not let them whatever tools are available? I have similar critiques about bike racing & restrictions on the technology advancements they can put on the bike. But every competition chooses arbitrary lines to draw which compose the rules so it doesn't really matter.
by colbyn | 2025-04-29 22:04:51+00:00
Oh thanks! I always feel a little uneasy when people are going back on my history lol.

But anyway to answer your question, nothing in particular. At the time I was in school and making tools that I myself wanted to use. I'm not in school anymore (total dropout looser lol) so there's not an immediate need. However I would like to eventually finish this project since I sunk a huge chunk of my life on this and perhaps there could be a market considering that my classmates also used my published notes and medical students in particular can be super crazy when it comes to their notes.

But my immediate priority at this time is finishing my iOS/macOS chatbot client based on a branching data model (which I'm finally starting to get right as far as the UI is concerned, I've never seen anything like this so I couldn't just copy the competition) and other miscellaneous features based on such that I'd like to have in a tool geared towards 'power users'. I.e. people who want more utility (including being time efficient) beyond the lowest common denominator feature set that most consumer products are concerned with.

But anyway, best regards!

Colbyn
by rsynnott | 2025-04-29 22:05:22+00:00
Previously the US's effective average tariffs were in the 1.8% range, and a big contributor there was things like vehicles and agricultural products (ie things that people were unlikely to buy on Amazon). Most developed countries are in the 1-2% range; except for the post-Trump II US, effective tariffs in double digits are basically just for extremely poor countries and weird microstates. They just weren't a significant enough part of the cost base that they'd be particularly worth highlighting.
by kamronsaniee | 2025-04-29 22:05:23+00:00
Built this reading enhancement extension to focus my attention with AI-enabled context understanding. The app identifies and animates the top ~20% most context-relevant sentences on the page you're looking at and allows you to navigate between them. No sidebars and no generated summaries–just amplified relevance.

Note: the model I'm using is self-hosted and deployed–no data is stored on our servers or sent to third parties.
by purplesyringa | 2025-04-29 22:05:27+00:00
@thrtythreeforty I think this RFC is a good start: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rfcs/blob/main/accepted/.... Then read through these docs: https://docs.rs/egg/latest/egg/tutorials/. They document the behavior of a particular crate, but they also act as a very accessible high-level overview.
Looking for Up-to-Date Multimodal RAG cookbook with citations and highlighting
by Johnny_Bonk | 2025-04-29 22:06:27+00:00
Hi all, I'm new to coding and looking for a comprehensive multimodal RAG cookbook that doesn't lock me into specific frameworks. My key requirements:

Processing both PDFs and Excel files Precise citation capabilities (showing exactly where in documents information was retrieved) Highlighting or bounding box functionality to visually indicate sources

I tried finding Google's cookbook on this topic but hit a 404 error. Before I start piecing together solutions from various sources, I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for tutorials or resources that cover these needs with minimal framework lock-in. Thanks