MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-17 17:57:47+00:00
Above all else, the flakiness of it all is a huge problem.

When the rules seem to be changing on a daily/weekly basis, how can a business owner make long-term investments of the scale that would be required to start manufacturing more products in the US?

Stability, even stability with some elements you don't like, is far easier to plan and invest under than instability.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-17 17:58:12+00:00
I don't know about a communication... but I can do one better! You can download the latest Safari Technology Preview on macOS, toggle the "Support HDR Display" feature flag, and see it working (for certain image formats and HDR encodings - it's a flag in preview for a reason). E.g. the images at https://ccameron-chromium.github.io/hdr-jpeg/index.html will be brighter (if your mac has an HDR display attached with HDR enabled) but not the images from this HN post yet.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-17 17:58:14+00:00
There is a shocking amount of "Adults" who are just big kids really. It seems lots of people go through middle and high school and don't absorb anything other than "y=mx+b", if even that.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. They were always loudly complaining about being made to read classical literature. "Whats the point" says people who insist they are independent thinkers.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-17 17:58:15+00:00
Because it's not just parents that raise children, it's our elders. You're paying property taxes to raise the children. You are contributing to society in ways that aid children. To the extent that your logic holds, you definitely do not deserve nothing. When you pay SS up to the elders you are in effect paying dividends on the investment they made in you, finally paying back into what they spent on you. The paying back happens when you pay SS, that's you settling the reciprocal arrangement. It makes no sense the youth (or if you insist, other people's children) would owe you for settling the reciprocation to your own elders.

My stance has and remains that the payoff from children, if it is to be violently enforced at the hand of the taxman as it is now, should be proportional to the investment, there is no reason to restrict that to just parents, it just happens to be that parents generally make the lions share of the investment.

>You still haven’t explained how you made this leap from elders to parents

It's a leap to refer to social security benefits as paid to (at least on average by far) our elders? .
by ta1243 | 2025-04-17 17:58:24+00:00
Most countries don't even have accurate population figures, let alone an accurate list of who is and isn't on there, even if you assumed they wanted to operate openly with no corruption and perfect intentions.

The only thing you could do is build an identity from scratch, karma as you will, but then if it was actually valuable people would sell that (see rich people buying high-powered gaming accounts for the lolz etc)
by bell-cot | 2025-04-17 17:58:36+00:00
> They told the magistrate they were collecting the ants for fun and did not know that it was illegal.

> The two Belgians were arrested in Kenya’s Nakuru county, which is home to various national parks. The 5,000 ants were found in a guest house where they were staying, and were packed in 2,244 test tubes that had been filled with cotton wool to enable the ants to survive for months.

So... for fun, vs. packed in 2,244 carefully-prepared test tubes.

Speculation: Zero Kenyan magistrates are gullible enough to buy their excuse.
by philipkglass | 2025-04-17 17:58:58+00:00
Most criminals aren't capable chemists. Given a laboratory and barrels of precursor chemicals, they couldn't make perfectly legal drugs like ibuprofen either. Most capable chemists aren't willing to risk property seizure and incarceration to make drugs for the black market. The few capable criminal chemists and their laboratories are concentrated in places where law enforcement is weak, like gang controlled regions of poorer countries.
by wahern | 2025-04-17 17:59:23+00:00
> Hence why rust internally split one "semantic code unit" into multiple internal code units passed to LLM.

And the same has happened in C and C++ land, albeit in the opposite direction, where multiple compilation units can be optimized together, i.e. LTO. See, e.g., GCC's -flto-partition option for selecting strategies for partitioning symbols for LTO.

Also note that you can manually partition LTO in your Makefile by grouping compilation units into object files to be individually LTO'd.
by lamp_book | 2025-04-17 17:59:50+00:00
If you read Extensible Query Optimizers in Practice, they explain why [0] at a high level and link to further reading.

> Although both Snowflake and BigQuery do not consider as many alternatives as Fabric DW, the dynamic schemes of the above systems avoids the potential bad plans chosen by the optimizer due to errors in cost and cardinality estimations.

I understand it's mostly due to the difficulty of getting the cost estimation reliably correct and so it defaults to something predictable to simplify the plan search as well.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
by ionwake | 2025-04-17 18:00:27+00:00
You clearly know alot about this, but I think there could be a misunderstanding. Not trying to offend but when I see the youtube link mentioned above in the other comment, my macbook screen literally goes darker AROUND the video , which gets brighter. I am not making this up. I think its how chrome on macbooks handles raw HDR encoding.

Can someone else confirm I am not mad?

PS - I am not trying to shut you down, you clearly know alot in the space I am just explaining what Im experiencing on this hardware.
by ksec | 2025-04-17 18:00:33+00:00
Thankfully HN is finally at a stage people can come out and talk about Ad tech without being harassed or attacked.

Could you explain more on this. What do you think makes Google Ad or DoubleClick so special? And

>What matters is how much they are earning compared to the next best alternative.

Correct me if I am wrong, you are suggesting even if publisher only earns 30% of the revenue they still earn more than on other alternative platform?
by antisthenes | 2025-04-17 18:00:38+00:00
You cannot have AGI without a physical manifestation that can generate its own training data based on inputs from the external outside world with e.g. sensors and constantly refine its model.

Pure language or pure image-models are just one aspect of intelligence - just very refined pattern recognition.

You will also probably need some aspect of self-awareness in order or the system to set auxiliary goals and directives related to self-maintenance.

But you don't need AGI in order to have something useful (which I think a lot of readers are confused about). No one is making the argument that you need AGI to bring tons of value.
by arp242 | 2025-04-17 18:01:10+00:00
> One variety show compere says he almost “died laughing”. In subtitles, the word “died” must be put inside double quotation marks, otherwise it is a breach of regulations. It’s as though viewers are considered not intelligent enough to understand an extremely simple phrase.

This is almost out of Discworld.

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty into reporting. Thus, if a legend said of a notable hero that “all men spoke of his prowess” any bard who valued his life would add hastily “except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a liar, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him.” Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like “his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,” and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

Quimby was eventually killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword,” and in his memory it was amended to include the phrase “only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.”
by tstrimple | 2025-04-17 18:01:18+00:00
Because they stroked his ego. Just like other tech leaders are attempting.

> "In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive," the company said in a statement. "It's a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States."

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-restoring-service/sto...
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-17 18:01:36+00:00
I've only really been experimenting with them for a few days, but I'm kind of torn on it. On the one hand, I can see a lot of things it could be useful for, like indexing all the cluttered files I've saved over the years and looking things up for me faster than I could find|grep. Heck, yesterday I asked one a relationship question, and it gave me pretty good advice. Nothing I couldn't have gotten out of a thousand books and magazines, but it was a lot faster and more focused than doing that.

On the other hand, the prompt/answer interface really limits what you can do with it. I can't just say, like I could with a human assistant, "Here's my calendar. Send me a summary of my appointments each morning, and when I tell you about a new one, record it in here." I can script something like that, and even have the LLM help me write the scripts, but since I can already write scripts, that's only a speed-up at best, not anything revolutionary.

I asked Grok what benefit there would be in having a script fetch the weather forecast data, pass it to Grok in a prompt, and then send the output to my phone. The answer was basically, "So I can say it nicer and remind you to take an umbrella if it sounds rainy." Again, that's kind of neat, but not a big deal.

Maybe I just need to experiment more to see a big advance I can make with it, but right now it's still at the "cool toy" stage.
by AstralStorm | 2025-04-17 18:01:43+00:00
Understand? It fails with to understand a rephrasing of a math problem a five year old can solve... They get much better at training to the test from memory the bigger they get. Likewise you can get some emergent properties out of them.

Really it does not understand a thing, sadly. It can barely analyze language and spew out a matching response chain.

To actually understand something, it must be capable of breaking it down into constituent parts, synthesizing a solution and then phrasing the solution correctly while explaining the steps it took.

And that's not even what huge 62B LLM with the notepad chain of thought (like o3, GPT-4.1 or Claude 3.7) can really properly do.

Further, it has to be able to operate on sub-token level. Say, what happens if I run together truncated version of words or sentences? Even a chimpanzee can handle that. (in sign language)

It cannot do true multimodal IO either. You cannot ask it to respond with at least two matching syllables per word and two pictures of syllables per word, in addition to letters. This is a task a 4 year old can do.

Prediction alone is not indicative of understanding. Pasting together answers like lego is also not indicative of understanding. (Afterwards ask it how it felt about the task. And to spot and explain some patterns in a picture of clouds.)
by tptacek | 2025-04-17 18:01:55+00:00
You're right: it's a bit racist. It's also faulty reasoning: you went to a high school in Cupertino with a markedly higher population of second-generation Asian-Americans, and went to a high school in an extraordinarily wealthy area; in fact, I think you might be attempting to generalize from the zip code with the highest density of immigrant professionals in the United States. If you want to generalize from China, that by itself is 1.4 billion people; they're as varied as any large population.
by nbbaier | 2025-04-17 18:03:08+00:00
> So... by "manage projects" you mean all the metadata related to tasks, bugs, todos, features, deadlines and milestones?

Yeah this is what I mean.

> To be honest, I just save all that stuff in text files in the same repo as the code (though usually in a specific directory at the root of the project.) I have some tools that pull meta-data out of text files so I can query them for things like "give me a list of open items" or "give me a list of items tagged with a specific release target."

I love the idea of managing stuff in plain text, will have to try something like this out. Do you have the code up anywhere?
by spondylosaurus | 2025-04-17 18:03:56+00:00
> Bill Ackman tried to cancel Ivy League graduates that protested in support of Gaza

I mean, the US government is now actively (and illegally) imprisoning/deporting Ivy League students who protested in support of Gaza, so I think "having the cultural cachet" is irrelevant at this point. They have the political power and that's what really matters.

But for a less dramatic counterexample, I'd offer something like whatever group (was it Moms For Liberty?) that orchestrated book bans in libraries nationwide.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-17 18:04:16+00:00
It's practically fucking impossible to have a normal amount of tech in the house and keep it under control, while also keeping things not-annoying for the adults. It's so much work, all because the tech is bad at providing simple and powerful solutions.

Everything lacks the basics, and nothing reads system-level e.g. content rating restrictions, it's all per-service and per-device and it's maddening.

Worse, the single most-useful parental control possible, an allow-list, is often absent from TV interfaces and steaming services. Allow-list just the PBS app on AppleTV? Impossible, there is no way to do a case-by-case allow list. Allow-list only the handful of non-brain-rot children's shows on Netflix? Nah, it's just by age rating. Et c.

[EDIT] Our solution, after years and years of banging our heads against this? App-installation blocked everywhere, no YouTube on anything, all streaming services cancelled because they're such a pain in the ass, and the kids have a large curated set of pirated content served by Jellyfin that they can watch when they get TV time, including some things pulled from YouTube by yt-dlp. If we want to one-off stream something for the kids outside of that set of content, we "cast" it from a parent's device.

The non-piracy alternative would be to go back to discs for everything, I guess.

Standard ways of interacting with "modern" media services are just awful, if you're a parent. They're so bad that it's easiest to simply abandon them.
by Sunspark | 2025-04-17 18:04:55+00:00
Absolutely. For example, the Maoris are not the original indigenous. What happened to them you may ask? They became literal dinner for the Maoris. This has happened elsewhere too. True original indigenous are rare.

The thing with the island of Diego Garcia is quite strange and I strongly suspect there is corruption involved. The UK wishes to divest itself? Instead of holding an auction where the rest of the planet can bid on purchasing the territory, the UK decided that Mauritius would take it (who doesn't really want it) and to entice them, the UK is going to PAY Mauritius to take the territory and leave the base alone. The amount is £90 million annually, adjusted for inflation for 99 years.

This is a lot of money, why not just NOT turn it over and not have to give away £90 million a year for a century? So, it begs the question.. is someone from the UK side benefiting from this no-bid deal?

Give the island to me, and I won't charge the UK to have the base.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-17 18:05:13+00:00
Okay, so a big meme among Traditional Catholics is their claim that the Clown Mass is the worst travesty and blasphemy and liturgical abuse. And they trade out-of-context videos, depicting supposedly Catholic ceremonies (which often turn out to be Episcopalians or Methodists or just ... clowns ...) where the "priest" or host is wearing some sort of clown makeup and/or costume, or there are clowns dancing or the clowns brought up the offertory gifts, and they honked a honky-horn instead of ringing Sanctus Bells, or something. A related thing is the custom of "Processional Giants"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processional_giant

These are heads, or entire characters, made of papier-mâché or resin, and in European cultures, they're paraded around in both secular and religious contexts. Probably also in New Orleans as part of the krewes' culture there, too.

But Americans hate these provincial customs and Americans don't understand villagers' sense of reverence, or villagers' sense of exaggeration and metaphor in terms of these farcical characters that may enter into a liturgical context.

Clowns as I know them have a physicality, a wordless absurdity that is derived by leveraging the exaggerated facial features in makeup, the enormous shoes, the slapstick comedy and pratfalls that play well to international crowds. Clowns don't need to speak English; they don't need to speak to be amusing or entertaining. Mimes are specialized clowns. Clowns appeal to children, and the young at heart, because clowns demonstrate insight into the essential human condition; times when we love to poke fun at serious "straight men", or times when we desperately need to be distracted from accidents or bleeding gymnasts or a rodeo broco rider who was just gored; that's when the rodeo clown tries to distract everyone with antics.

The "funny thing" is that one of my own priests was an actual clown, (as in circus clown, Barnum and Bailey's Three Rings Traveling Show thing), and he definitely never wore the makeup or the clown costume during Holy Mass. Father was the son of a clown himself, and thus, clowning was a family tradition that was passed down father-to-son. And Father being a priest wasn't a long stretch from circus clowning, and court jester's duties, and winning the hearts and minds of the audience. Father innovated many things, including the part where he stepped out from behind the ambo, and gave his homilies from the center aisle, or he would even journey through the rows of pews with a long, long cabled microphone, and engage the faithful with questions and answers. For these innovations, according to the Second Vatican Council, Father endured great controversy, and many people would've preferred the status quo, and I wonder how many school parents knew that Father had the true heart of a bona fide clown.

But yet, Father held on to his clown makeup and his clown wig and his clown accoutrements, and they were carefully packaged in a leather carrying-case, and he made no secret of them. But he was a good and devout priest, he smiled and he loved children, and we loved him in turn.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-17 18:05:15+00:00
The vast vast vast majority of humans are not programmers and do not view the world through the mental models programmers do.

Why SHOULD someone using a PDF reader software intuitively understand that placing a black rectangle over a document and saving it doesn't prevent someone from seeing that document?! Why the fuck does anyone doing a job need to learn a set of unique and non-generalizing mental models just to redact a document!

Imagine if paper had unexpected failure modes!

The problem is not professionals trying to do their damn job. The problem is US. The Programmers. Who consistently make garbage systems using garbage leaky abstractions and absurd assumptions and ignoring decades of user interface research because google released a new UI library written by programmers who haven't interacted with non-programmers in a decade.

Why are WE still doing this?
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-17 18:05:21+00:00
It’s a two-sided market and it doesn’t have to be either/or. Google has a wide range of advertisers so it can find one that converts on your site and it has a wide range of sites so it can find ones that work for a given advertisers. Also Google has a large database and user inventory for personalization so it can find ads that convert on your site even if your site wouldn’t attract ads otherwise. the personalization economy has all sorts of ads and might be brand destroying in the case of retargeting but you see that crap everywhere whereas many Google alternatives run brand-destroying ads and pay you $0.00 after rounding.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 18:05:28+00:00
I love it. Let's make it happen! To appease the people that wanted a wall can we put all the violent criminals from all of the United States of North America onto an island with limited resources they must fight over? Kindof an extension of an idea from Sean Lock RIP [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TPG80boMjY [video][3 mins][humor]
by kbolino | 2025-04-17 18:05:32+00:00
I see it useful as part a layered strategy: X.509 certificates establish the authenticity of the server for that domain, while the SRP/PAKE would establish the authenticity of the legal entity you're actually trying to reach. In the case of a homoglyph-assisted phisher, this would prevent them from obtaining the real password or any credential that would be useful to attack the real target, and also warn the user not to trust them period. However, the current layering of HTTPS doesn't make it possible to enforce the use of secure password exchange, and so I think passkeys are a better solution, because they allow us to remove the password modality entirely.

I'm not entirely sure about how effective passkeys would be against homoglyph-assisted MITM though. Assuming you've visited the legitimate domain before and established your passkey at that time, your passkey wouldn't be selected by the browser for the fake domain. But if you started with the fake domain, and logged in through it using a non-passkey method (including first sign up or lost-credential recovery), then I would think the attacker could just enroll his own passkey on your behalf. Now, if we layered passkeys on top of mTLS, then we could almost entirely eliminate the MITM risk!
by jhbadger | 2025-04-17 18:05:34+00:00
While the point of the articles was to keep it legally qualified as a "magazine" rather than a "catalog" (as postal rates then favored the former over the latter), there were some good things there. Don Lancaster wrote some amazing articles about Postscript and how you can write Postscript code to make figures rather than using a drawing program. And Stan Veit, who was editor of Computer Shopper for a time, wrote some good history articles about the early personal computer scene in the 1970s (Veit had opened in 1976 the first computer store in NYC, and one of the first in the USA as a whole)
by intended | 2025-04-17 18:05:41+00:00
?? > voluntary consensual boycotts

> but rather the use of "social force".

>Destruction of reputation, demands for firing, deplatforming, doxxing, swatting, etc

That last sentence comes across as disingenuous; you've mixed in things which are crimes, dont by individuals with things that are ACTUAL parts of boycotts.

Destruction of reputation is the reason why demands for firing appear, as do deplatforming.

Doxxing and swatting are different beast, both compared to the reputational losses and work losses, and when compared to each other (dox vs swat).

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by samman | 2025-04-17 18:05:54+00:00
For El Salvadorian citizens I think you make a good point. But for non-citizens (e.g. Venezuelans)that the US has sent to El Salvadoranean prisons presumably via diplomatic means, it seems reasonable that they could be returned via diplomatic means. [edit] Courts should be able to order a good faith effort to implement those means, but they certainly don’t have any way to guarantee a result.