MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yababa_y | 2025-04-16 21:33:02+00:00
i’ve vaped about 3g of DMT in my time, cumulatively. spotify (and other computer UI) looks very nice under the effects. it can supercharge spatial reasoning/visualization powers for a short time. i mostly haven’t met “entities” but it has happened a notable few times. once, an elf told me to “knock it off” after an afternoon of several trips in a row.

did it cure my depression? nah
by dang | 2025-04-16 21:33:54+00:00
Hi Ben! I'll email you a repost invite for the Onfim article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705174) - if you wait a week or so and then use it, the repost will go in the second-chance pool.

The reason for waiting is to give the hivemind cache time to clear. Normally we'd re-up the existing post, but we don't want two overly similar threads on the frontpage within a short time period.
by simonw | 2025-04-16 21:34:09+00:00
Here's a summary of this conversation so far, generated using o3 after 306 comments. This time I ran it like so:

llm install llm-openai-plugin llm install llm-hacker-news llm -m openai/o3 -f hn:43707719 -s 'Summarize the themes of the opinions expressed here. For each theme, output a markdown header. Include direct "quotations" (with author attribution) where appropriate. You MUST quote directly from users when crediting them, with double quotes. Fix HTML entities. Output markdown. Go long. Include a section of quotes that illustrate opinions uncommon in the rest of the piece'

https://gist.github.com/simonw/a35f39b070978e703d9eb8b1aa7c0... - cost 2,684 input, 2,452 output (of which 896 were reasoning tokens) which is 12.492 cents.

Then again with o4-mini using the exact same content (hence the hash ID for -f):

llm -m openai/o4-mini \ -f f16158f09f76ab5cb80febad60a6e9d5b96050bfcf97e972a8898c4006cbd544 \ -s 'Summarize the themes of the opinions expressed here. For each theme, output a markdown header. Include direct "quotations" (with author attribution) where appropriate. You MUST quote directly from users when crediting them, with double quotes. Fix HTML entities. Output markdown. Go long. Include a section of quotes that illustrate opinions uncommon in the rest of the piece'

Output: https://gist.github.com/simonw/b11ba0b11e71eea0292fb6adaf9cd...

Cost 2,684 input, 2,681 output (of which 1,088 reasoning tokens) = 1.4749 cents

The above uses these two plugins: https://github.com/simonw/llm-openai-plugin and https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news - taking advantage of new -f "fragments" feature I released last week: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/7/long-context-llm/
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-16 21:34:25+00:00
Actions against Harvard flow the Whitehouse - which is being as clear as it possibly can - that Harvard is to be made an example of.

Not kowtowing to the administration lands you on the enemies list. The administration is very clear about that.

US Gov agencies are being reshaped into tools that can deploy revenge on behalf of the administration. The administration is very clear about that.

And while the breadth and scope of this abuse is unprecedented for a US PotUS admin, it is extremely ordinary behavior for a fascist bully.
by linsomniac | 2025-04-16 21:35:09+00:00
Indeed, our community had to fight that, IIRC, we had to vote to overturn those bans, but did eventually get it through. They also did a bunch of advertising saying "We have so many problems like traffic, shouldn't the money be spent there instead?", but the money that was used to build the network was NOT money the city could use for anything else, it was a bond specifically for FTTH initiative.

Buncha jerks.

I was in one of the earlier roll-outs and the change was amazing! It actually did happen during the pandemic, and at one point we had 4 people doing video calls from the house and Xfinity's fastest service couldn't keep up (because of outbound bandwidth limits), but the asymmetrical gigabit fiber wasn't breaking a sweat.

Now 3+ years later, CenturyLink (q.com) is finally starting to come through and lay down fiber. Those tools should have been laying it 20 years ago.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-04-16 21:35:16+00:00
That’s a hilarious thing to say considering our behavior towards trade lately. We’ve burned bridges with our closest trading partners and made everyone else uncomfortable to trade with us because they don’t know what the eventual tariff rate will be, or if it will change tomorrow. We’re retreating from the world stage, and guess who’s sitting there ready to take the reins. It’s genuinely the opposite of what you seem to want.
by kgeist | 2025-04-16 21:35:18+00:00
> This is just getting to be a bit much, seems like they are trying to cover for the fact that they haven't actually done much. All these models feel like they took the exact same base model, tweaked a few things and released it as an entirely new model

OpenAI's progress lately:

2024 December - first reasoning model (official release) 2025 February - deep search 2025 March - true multi-modal image generation 2025 April - reasoning model with tools

I'm not sure why people say they haven't done much. We couldn't even dream of stuff like this five years ago, and now releasing groundbreaking/novel features every month is considered "meh"... I think we're spoiled and can't appreciate anything anymore :)
by all2 | 2025-04-16 21:35:19+00:00
I've been working with FastHTML and I have to say, I rather enjoy HTML-markup-as-objects.

It works pretty seamlessly and you get something like this:

@app.post('/part/add') def create_part(part_number: str, name: str, description: str): p = Part(part_number=part_number, name=name, description=description) p.save() return (p, Input(placeholder="part number", id="part_number", hx_swap_oob='true'), Input(placeholder="description", id="description", hx_swap_oob='true'), Input(placeholder="name", id="name", hx_swap_oob='true'))

Note, I'm not using FastHTML's built-in database interface. I prefer a little less implicit than the strict FastHTML style.
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-04-16 21:35:49+00:00
This misses the point. LLMs will do things like move a knight by a single square as if it were a pawn. Chess is an extremely well understood game, and the rules about how things move is almost certainly well-represented in the training data.

These models cannot even make legal chess moves. That’s incredibly basic logic, and it shows how LLMs are still completely incapable of reasoning or understanding. Many kinds of task are never going to be possible for LLMs unless that changes. Programming is one of those tasks.
by martinald | 2025-04-16 21:36:31+00:00
I assume you are on DOCSIS coax internet? The problem is upstream on DOCSIS is (very) constrained and if you hammer it causes huge problems for everyone on the segment (TCP ACKs start getting lost/slow, everyones ping rises massively and huge packetloss starts occurring).

Obviously no excuse to claim it is unlimited, but if the major US cable companies speeded up moving to true FTTH it would really save them a lot of trouble in the long run.
by theothertimcook | 2025-04-16 21:36:37+00:00
Stimulants: very effective but come with some heavy costs, I’ve tried basically all the adhd meds including the non-stimulants, each has their own pro/con balance, ultimately I find by the end of the day I am burned out from being locked in all day and it impacts my relationships.

Supplements: I’ll probably never stop searching but I’ve yet to really come across anything that reliably works, the only possible way exception here is taking l-theanine with morning coffee to flatten out the caffeine kick.

Pomodoro: seems to work really well but you have to actually do it, I can have the timer sitting under my monitor by if my mind is in Alice in wonderland mode it may as well be on the moon.

Binaural beats/coloured noise: seems to help though I’m just using Spotify so they’re probably junk anyway.

Phone: unfortunately I’ve not been able to find the right balance of utility and consumption when comes to my phone, feed style apps, variable reward interactions and etc just fuck me, ive tried dumb phones, adding friction by using a tiny phone, locking down features and apps, I’ve literally spent thousands of dollars churning through devices and hundreds of of hours searching for that holy grail that will save my focus.

Books/systems: bullet journals, to atomic habits of highly effective people, great ideas but nothing has stuck.

What works: other have mentioned, doing things you enjoy, this is key, and why meds are tricky, once I’m engage and hyper focused, I’m locked in, but if I’ve taken a stimulant it feels like I’m on the verge of mania.

Diet, exercise, and sleep - critical I don’t know if this is the starting point or if I get organised and focussed when I’m in a good flow.

What I suspect is the silver-ish bullet: some kind of mediation/mindfulness practice, all signs point to this but I struggle to even try to start so maybe I will do that today.
by airhangerf15 | 2025-04-16 21:36:44+00:00
It's not. The CVE board members include representatives from CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Github Security, LP3, F5, Panasonic, NIST.

Everyone crying about "Oh no! This government institution is going away! Private companies would never do this! They would use it for financial gain!"

Um.... It's already run entirely by private entities via government money. It's the literal definition of a "Public Private Partnership." You know, that way the US government get away with doing a lot of shady stuff via non-government contracts who are totally not state actors /s.
by OutOfHere | 2025-04-16 21:36:52+00:00
Your question is pretty much the same as asking someone what they would do when confronted by any kidnappers or thieves. Who the specific kidnappers or thieves are hardly matters. You don't need me to tell you that the goal of any kidnapped individual is to creatively try to escape if the alternative is a short life in the gulag. Capture a guard, change clothes with them, and escape. As such, your question adds no new insight.
by h45x1 | 2025-04-16 21:37:33+00:00
I think with our modern day lives it's tough to accomplish. There is more multitasking going on our part, some of it necessary for work or social relations, so we learn to switch easier. The downside, it becomes harder to focus. Not to discourage, just to say it'll have to be long term work, commitment.

Personally, I try to: - prioritize older, existing projects, - have an explicit daily schedule, - keep a handwritten journal (just as a commitment to be away from the computer).

Helps a little bit.

And in actually answering the question, one occasion where my focus was certainly higher than average is when I had an opportunity between jobs to travel for a few months to another country. I had a laptop with me but for security reasons there was hardly anything on it, just basic browsing. I didn't even have passwords for my Netflix account, etc. Quite quickly I could focus really well on just a few tasks, say learning a new language. Of course, such a solution is hardly applicable in most cases.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-16 21:39:00+00:00
I understand, considering those as well and this goes beyond software dev as well. All those things exist to catch mistakes, they don't exist to prevent them. There is no replacement for humans needing to be careful. This isn't even a tech issue, in every industry where safety is required there are many checks, balances, tests. But you still need to not screw up. I screw up, everyone does, but being responsible and not repeating mistakes, that is what I want to communicate better without being an ass.
by jug | 2025-04-16 21:39:26+00:00
Yes, this one is addictive for its speed and I like how Google was clever and also offered it in a powerful reasoning edition. This helps offset deficiencies from being smaller while still being cheap. I also find it quite sufficient for my kind of coding. I only pull out 2.5 Pro on larger and complex code bases that I think might need deeper domain specific knowledge beyond the coding itself.
by JackSlateur | 2025-04-16 21:39:50+00:00
I hope you understand how funny this is

The ballot is nothing but expected

The whole industry has been moving in this direction for the last decade

So there is nothing much to say

Except that if you waited the last moment, well you will have to be in a hurry. (non)Actions have consequences :)

I'm glad by this decision because that'll hammer a bit down those resisting, those who but a human do perform yearly renewal. Let's how stupid it can get.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-16 21:40:25+00:00
Thank you, because this is exactly why I did it, and will continue to.

So often when I write a comment I find responses either missing the point, laser focusing on something offhand/tangential I wrote, or imbuing my post with a viewpoint I didn't make. Sometimes the fault is mine, sometimes the fault of the responder.

I state where I'm coming from not as some sort of "tribal identifier", but simply to add clarity, and to stave off misdirected responses that I can find annoying.
by kibwen | 2025-04-16 21:40:25+00:00
It's a good video, but I wouldn't go anywhere near as far as saying he's taking a "big steaming dump" on it. He takes pains to explain why the experience of listening to a piece (accounting for the emotions that a given piece evokes) takes ultimate priority, and the trappings of classical music theory only follow from there. To a listener it doesn't particularly matter if a piece of work is unserious, amateurish, low-effort, etc. if the emotions that it evokes are genuine, and nostalgia is a legitimate emotion to evoke, and sampling from period-appropriate music only enhances that effect.
by geocar | 2025-04-16 21:40:38+00:00
> FB probably owns copyright on some of the data used for instruction tuning the model,

I'm not so sure they do, and even if they did so what? Holding the copyright on some of the data being used in the model doesn't mean they hold the copyright on the model.

> They want to have their cake and eat it

Nemo auditur propriam turpitudinem allegans.
by airhangerf15 | 2025-04-16 21:40:43+00:00
The EU, the EU and all bodies that remove a nations sovereignty should be removed entirely. Brexit was good, but the UK government made it meaningless. The UN chokes and strongholds it member states.

The CVE program is already a public-private partnership, which is BAD. CVE's board has people from Microsoft, Github, CrowdStrike, etc. Public-private partnerships are how the US government gets away with things a State should not be able to do: via private contractors. The US government has also run programs like Vault 7. The NSA has a vested interest in vulnerabilities not being made public until the US can fully exploit them Internationally.

The merger of state and corporate interests seems to be everyone's favorite overused word of the decade.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-16 21:41:23+00:00
> Growth-focused social media platforms don't want to remove anything but the noisiest noise, because there's still a pair of monetizable eyeballs behind most sources of noise. In fact, if you can be particularly noisy, you generate drama, which makes the platform emotionally salient and thus stickier.

This depends if a platform is building for quality or quantity.

There are a number of things HN could do tomorrow that would substatially drive engagement, but lower quality.

Granted, VC funding requires growth-at-all-costs, which tends to remove quality as a long term option.

> Digg collapsed because they replaced the entire website with something completely different. They didn't fail to moderate the community, they just shut it down.

Eh, as someone on it at the time, Digg's userbase collapsed before the redesign.

This roughly tracks with my memory: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3bzibi/c...

I remember the HD-DVD/Blu-ray encryption key episode especially being an 'Oh, you're a square, not one of the cool kids' community moment.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-16 21:41:36+00:00
(not OP)

This nerdsniped me.

10 minutes later, and TIL: MPD is some sort of streamed-MP4 format; dash-mpd-cli is a xplatform Rust utility binary that can download this to an MP4, just given the MPD URL in dev tools.

However I keep getting 1.5 MB and 500 KB for the two videos, no matter window width. Chrome on macOS arm64, 16" MBP.

I'm curious what your environment is, if you don't mind sharing

(also, trivia for audience: last week I saw a tweet that palantir.com was doing over 100 MB worth of videos, and of course, A) they are B) they're poorly compressed, as much as 10x the bitrate they need to be.)
by Animats | 2025-04-16 21:41:51+00:00
The legacy of the generation that survived WWII was:

- Big domestic policy mistakes cause bad outcomes, like the Great Depression.

- Big foreign policy mistakes cause extremely bad outcomes, like WWI and WWII.

- Big command mistakes in the military get people killed.

This led to a mindset that the people picked to be in charge had to be very competent. Or else. Almost all Cabinet members passed the competence filter until the Greatest Generation died off.
by dangus | 2025-04-16 21:42:02+00:00
I don't think those who are helping OP feel imposed upon, but that doesn't mean that they aren't imposed upon.

I totally agree that people are happy to help regardless of circumstance. And I'm not trying to compare OP to Jeff Bezos or anything. But I think it still feels a little too much like cosplaying, metaphorically comparing camping in a tent to being similar to being homeless.

What do I advocate for? I would advocate for people who have the means to think about how they are impacting other people and trying not to artificially introducing situations where they need help from the less fortunate, and the situation where OP asked local first responders for help finding a place to stay was a great example of a problematic interaction.
by nodesocket | 2025-04-16 21:42:05+00:00
Would love to see more about the power and networking equipment and vendors involved for serving as an ISP. Obviously needs to be highly available and redundant at nearly all levels.

Ubiquiti has made huge leaps and bounds in the last year in terms of software and hardware. Realistically Ubiquiti Network could be used at the enterprise ISP level.

- 48 port 25G SFP28 switch with hot-swap power (https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-switching/products/e...)

- Gateway / router with 25G SFP28 WAN and LAN with hot-swap power (https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cloud-gateways-enterpris...)
by pixl97 | 2025-04-16 21:42:59+00:00
Heh, I've always been neurodivergent enough that I've never been great at 'normal human' questions. I commonly add a lot of verbosity. This said it's worked out well talking to computer based things like search engines.

LLMs on the other hand are weird in ways we don't expect computers to be. Based upon the previous prompting, training datasets, and biases in the model a response to something like "What time is dinner" can all have the response "Just a bit after 5", "Quarter after 5" or "Dinner is at 17:15 CDT". Setting ones priors can be important to performance of the model, much in the same way we do this visually and contextually with other humans.

All that said, people will find AI problematic for the foreseeable future because it behaves somewhat human like in responses and does so with confidence.
by maxwelljoslyn | 2025-04-16 21:43:49+00:00
It seems that much like Aider, you use separate models for creating code edits and validating them. That's a win in my book. It seems Claude Code does not do that, which is part of the reason it racks up a (relatively) large bill for long work sessions (that and the cost of sonnet-3.7).

I bounce back and forth between Aider, Claude Code, and Simon Willison's LLM tool ("just" a GOOD wrapper for using LLMs at the CLI, unlike the other two which are agent-y.) LLM is my favorite because I usually don't need/want full autonomy, but Claude Code has started to win me over for straightforward stuff. Plandex looks cool enough to throw into the rotation!

My main concern at this point is that I use a Mac and as far as I understand it Docker containers can have pretty poor performance on the Mac, so I'm wondering if that will carry over to performance of Plandex. (I don't use Docker at all so I'm not sure if that's outdated info.)
by Nick-W | 2025-04-16 21:44:21+00:00
It's not hard at all, we multipath all traffic across our mesh, we have multiple 10gbps fiber uplinks, and we're bringing up our first 100gbps circuit later this year. Most sites have plenty of capacity and we always try to ensure we have 2-4 paths out of every site. Unlicensed 60ghz is super easy to reuse, we drop 20dB once we're more than 0.2deg off the site, and since we operate in rural mountainous areas, our spectrum at each host location ends up being sparkling clean. Our APs have a 30deg azi/cell width, and we can do up to ~30 attachments on each. Best of all, Wave gear has a backup radio - if I need to take down/upgrade an AP, nobody ever notices, the stations all roam to a nearby AP on a 5ghz backup, and can usually still get around 300-600mbps or so.
by LinuxAmbulance | 2025-04-16 21:44:26+00:00
> We had serious news outlets write about senior people at OpenAI quitting because o1 was SkyNet

I wonder if any of the people that quit regret doing so.

Seems a lot like Chicken Little behavior - "Oh no, the sky is falling!"

How anyone with technical acumen thinks current AI models are conscious, let alone capable of writing new features and expanding their abilities is beyond me. Might as well be afraid of calculators revolting and taking over the world.
by LunaSea | 2025-04-16 21:45:53+00:00
> Those are preferences, and unique to each individual. I work in trades, I work the overnight shift, and I do 4 10's. I wouldn't want to change any of that. Someone else will feel more at home in an office, and that's okay.

No, those are not only preferences, they also have objective health impacts.

Working nights typically decreases life expectancy.