MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spwa4 | 2025-04-18 15:24:43+00:00
A small percentage will, yes. The vast majority won't. Plus there's the issue of the stranglehold Trump seems to have over GOP members (ie. they're pushed, even threatened into compliance, especially GOP congress members). An easy way of vilifying any group is to point out how bad their most extreme members are.

It also doesn't even matter. The Trump situation will end. At that point MAGA people won't be gone, and it'd be a pretty sad outcome if they were or felt repressed, or we'll simply end up right here again. The point is not to win, the point is to make things better.
by geor9e | 2025-04-18 15:25:33+00:00
It's been an annoying trend to people with allergies too, since allergens are often proteins. The various protein powders are basically pure raw allergens, about as potent as possible. People don't expect random junk foods to contain protein powder - but in recent years, here we are. I saw a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips with whey protein isolate in the ingredients. I don't understand the sudden popularity of it - whey used to be a waste product cheesemakers drained into the sewer. Now they add it to junk foods.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-18 15:25:46+00:00
It's certainly disruptive. But if you asked me in 2018 whether I'd be surprised by Tim Cook donating to Trump's inaugeration, I'd know my answer.

I'm a queer man, it's not like Tim's marketing is lost on me. But I see the way he behaves and the principles he sacrifices for success; he's a CCP pundit, of course he's willing to toe the conservative party line. This goes for almost all leadership you hold to represent "progress" in the private sector. Fairweather friends, until being enemies is more profitable.
by ericmcer | 2025-04-18 15:26:27+00:00
It makes sense for our industry, a bad economy means vast layoffs and a terrible job market in tech.

A tech worker who graduated and entered the market in 2012 could easily retire in their 40s with millions. One who graduated in 2022 is going to struggle to stay afloat and employed, and you are surprised people care about that?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-18 15:26:30+00:00
I am curious if anyone can find the text for "IBM's Policy Letter #4" written by IBM's chairman in 1953, which is referenced in this article. I did some searching but all the links I found to the full text were broken.

I ask because I think it shows what a Rorschach test the arguments over DEI have become. I at least found one quote from the Policy Letter #4 which stated "It is the policy of this organization to hire people who have the personality, talent and background necessary to fill a given job, regardless of race, color or creed." Of course, in 1953 that was a pretty bold stance given the widespread official segregation policies in the Southern US at the time. Now, though, it feel like how you view that statement depends on which "tribe" you align with in the DEI debate: Anti-DEI folks say "Exactly, we want to hire people based on merit regardless of race, color or creed, and DEI has basically turned into a policy of racial quotas" while pro-DEI folks say "The policy back then was to fight official and systemic racism, which we still need to combat today."

So I'd just like to find the full original policy document so I can make up my own mind.
by dventimi | 2025-04-18 15:26:36+00:00
FWIW (which is not much), I was an astrophysicist whose research was Dark Energy, though I arrogate to myself no authority on this topic as frankly a lot of knowledge I used to possess on the topic has been replaced by knowledge of tedious programming APIs (meh...it's a living). My sense was that, perhaps owning to their colorful (colorless?) names, and because they diffused into popular culture more than other equally-important theories in other fields, Dark Matter and Dark Energy were presented to and apprehended by laypeople as "exotic". This invited speculation about these theories and even an urge to overturn them, especially where "exotic" was equated with "tendentious." But, by my lights these theories aren't very exotic. Dark Matter especially seems to me to be very consistent with the history of particle physics. Rutherford first proposed the existence of the neutron in 1920, but it wasn't observed directly until 1932. Pauli first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930, but it wasn't observed directly until 1956. Both are forms of "dark matter" and neutrinos were once a candidate for explaining flat rotation curves in galaxies and the "missing mass problem", until they were later excluded by observations of large scale structure. Dark Matter interacts with gravity strongly enough that its effects on astronomical and cosmological scales are pronounced, but it interacts with the other forces weakly enough that so far it hasn't been observed directly. So what?

"the nature of dark matter and dark energy"

I don't know anything about "the nature" of things. That sounds very philosophical to me.

"What are [the properties of Dark Matter and Dark Energy] aside from their effect on the large scale structure of the universe?"

I don't know. I also don't know why you're excluding (in the case of Dark Matter) its gravimetric effect on the large scale structure of the Universe. That seems like a pretty important property to me.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-18 15:26:43+00:00
The ASN.1 format itself isn't too bad. It shows its age and has some very weird decisions behind it as places, but it's not that difficult to encode and is quite efficient.

Unfortunately, the protocols themselves can be confusing, badly (or worse: inconsistently) documented, and the binary formats often lack sensible backwards compatibility (or, even worse: optional backwards compatibility). Definitions are spread across different protocols (and versions thereof) and vendors within the space like to make their own custom protocols that are like the official standardised protocols, but slightly different in infuriating ways.

If you parser works (something open source rarely cares about so good luck finding one for your platform), the definitions extracted from those DOCX files are probably the least of your challenges.
by elFarto | 2025-04-18 15:26:49+00:00
I was using the asn1bean Java library yesterday funnily enough. I'm sure it's fine for X.509 stuff, however lucky me got to use it with the more obscure parts of X.400. It's lacking support for COMPONENTS OF, and a bunch of other things that were likely deprecated from the ASN.1 spec a few decades ago.
by grumio | 2025-04-18 15:26:57+00:00
> there were many sketchy things going on around mail-in ballots and stuff.

Just because Fox News repeats false claims over and over doesn't make them true. Do you have sources? 2000 mules was debunked. Fox News settled for their false claims against Dominion. Court awarded damages to that one victim who was accused of smuggling a flash drive of "fraudulent votes" or whatever. Don't fall for the firehose of bullshit. Please share what specifically convinced you of this.

>By the way, Hillary and her cronies never accepted the 2016 election.

She conceded. Trump did not concede when he lost the 2020 election. These are facts. Get real.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-18 15:27:28+00:00
"Interactive email" is basically Slack.

We should make Slack a new internet protocol and application standard, and use that going forward to replace e-mail, texting, and the various isolated islands of "secure chat" solutions (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc). Allow us to retain and control our own data, while also enabling all of the features and functionality we've come to want from modern tools, and be compatible with other solutions.

IRC and e-mail are both old and busted. 99% of the world wants to communicate and share information with more interactive tooling than ASCII text in a console or static HTML in a mail reader. There are alternatives to Slack, but like every networked application created in the last 10 years, none of them define an interoperable standard. They are all their own vendor-lock-in islands.

Even Mattermost, the most polished "open-source" alternative, is not a standard, it's an application. Applications change all the time. Standards don't. Applications lose backwards compatibility, change their licenses, have closed ecosystems of servers. Standards don't. There's a reason that actual standard network protocols continue to work for 40 years, while applications made just a few years ago are dead and buried. Standards last. They enable interoperability in an ecosystem of supported technology. They give us flexibility, choice, competition, portability. The world is better when we have solid standards to build on.

Replace it all with a standard. Let anyone implement the standard, implement a client, a server, etc. And let people choose the tooling they want - but while being interoperable with everyone else's.

(Note that I'm not talking about federated social networks. E-mail and IRC are not social networks, they are communication tools, private by default, and have to be directed at specific individuals or groups)
by alganet | 2025-04-18 15:27:52+00:00
HN proceeds to give a crowd pseudo-lecture on notation, because notation is important. I think HN misses the point.

If you do these analysis using very basic notation knowledge (letters on top of lyrics are chords!), can you discover by yourself what you missed?

Many self-taught amateur musicians go through something similar. You play the simple chord chart, then you notice by yourself that it is not enough. You start to understand the instrument, training the ear, and learning beyond the simple charts.

Can you do that with data? Possibly. Maybe, as others mentioned, another dataset would be needed. However, to suggest that such dataset needs to be "a better one in notation" seems misguided.
by jerf | 2025-04-18 15:28:25+00:00
A "typed" machine code would imply that you can say "Add these two 32-bit floating points" and the CPU will say "No, I can't, those are 4 8-bit unsigned integers". I don't believe the CPU will ever say that, so it is not typed by any sensible measure. Best you can do is that there may be some registers that can only be used by floating point units and others that can only be used by ints, but even that is really just hardware limitations for performance and not any sort of type assertion; the CPU will happily bit-slam them back and forth without anything like an "exception".
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-18 15:28:27+00:00
Crypto is a system of perfect logic built on the foundation of one big flawed assumption --- money doesn't need regulation.

Anyone should have the authority to create money and sell it to those willing to accept it and all will be right in the world.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This will not end well for most people.
by maebert | 2025-04-18 15:28:45+00:00
The tingles and muscle cramps (tetany) are a normal byproduct (basically your neurons on your smallest muscles and under your skin get more excitable due to a molecular rube goldber machine set off by lower CO2 balance in your blood). It's uncomfortable, but unless you are suffering from epilepsy not dangerous and there's no lasting effects.

I did a longer writeup on the physiological effects here if you're interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RuDv_E9osM1CCFWZMywMru9J...
by danenania | 2025-04-18 15:28:49+00:00
A few differences:

- Plandex is more agentic—it can complete a complex task, updating many files, all in one go.

- Changes are applied to a sandbox by default rather than directly to project files, helping you prevent unintended changes.

- Plandex can automatically find the context it needs in the project.

- Plandex can execute commands (like installing dependencies, running tests, etc.) and auto-debug if they fail.

- Plandex should be more reliable on file edits—it uses an enhanced version of aider's diff-style edit that is resilient to multiple occurrences, but it also has validation, a whole file fallback, and on the cloud service, a custom fast apply model is also added to the mix. Will be publishing benchmarks on this soon.
by weard_beard | 2025-04-18 15:29:01+00:00
"A dark matter halo"

Could this mass or gravitational impact be outside the expanding bubble of spacetime? If we are in a hole inside a block of swiss cheese, is there a way to determine if we are seeing the effects of the surrounding "cheese"?

Imagine our expanding universe to be inside a black hole. Could the "dark matter halo" be energy/matter dumped into our universe from an external source? Is the expansion of the universe actually our universe growing due to consuming its surroundings?
by ModernMech | 2025-04-18 15:29:07+00:00
> Should people without a valid visa not be considered as illegal immigration?

Yes. But the problem is the rhetoric today is that being an "illegal immigrant" is tantamount to being a rapist, gang member, murderer, or drug dealer.

Therefore people feel justified in depriving them of their rights. Which of course is a very bad thing, but some people feel intuitively that criminals deserve no rights whatsoever to due process. People are now conflating providing due process to illegal immigrants with supporting rape and murder.

So that's why it's very important to point out that when someone is as "illegal immigrant" the image you should not have in your mind is a gangbanger.
by Mzxr | 2025-04-18 15:29:08+00:00
Your comment reminded me of this article. It suggested that we experience time because the underlying processes of the universe are recursive. And since our computational capacity is limited, we as observers can only perceive the future by progressively unfolding it. If recursion explains emergence, could it follow that everything tends to grow more complex over time?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41782534
by perrygeo | 2025-04-18 15:29:40+00:00
"Measure first, discover later" can be a perfectly valid application of the scientific method. It's all about refining the resolution on reality.

The problem with dark matter/energy is that we're not guaranteed to discover anything. It might just be wrong. The neutrinos and Higgs just happened to match their initial theory, so that's a survivorship bias. We can't just assume the same will play out for dark matter. It might just be pure mathematical fiction, reflecting our ignorance and/or limitations to measurement rather than something "real" that we can zoom in on.
by Jensson | 2025-04-18 15:30:02+00:00
> but the nature of these tools is they will surprise us

Models used to do this much much more than now, so what it did doesn't surprise us.

The nature of these tools is to copy what we have already written. It has seen many threads where developers argue and dig in, they try to train the AI not to do that but sometimes it still happens and then it just roleplays as the developer that refuses to listen to anything you say.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-18 15:30:27+00:00
Some, sure.

My aunt is a conservative lobbyist and a drunk. She drinks a bunch of vodka and then texts me and my family about all of the violence that is going to be done to people she hates (including some groups that people in my family belong to). This isn't "blue hair makes me feel weird." This is "I want college professors to be shot." Those are the texts I receive.
by richard_mcp | 2025-04-18 15:31:02+00:00
Maybe I'm biased, but this whole article is heavily premised on investments and development in cryptocurrency systems being important, which is not a view I share.

Still, is it VCs' fault for not continuing to dump money into cryptocurrency development even though no great use cases have come out of it in the last 20 years? You would think that if there was something here, the insane investments would have resulted in more than just trading apps, prediction markets, and meme coins. Personally, I think the less money and time invested in this tech, the better we all are for it.
by dahart | 2025-04-18 15:31:23+00:00
Oh I don’t doubt it’s a hassle. But you are paying the bank/insurance company, outside of Apple’s payment system, and they’re the ones refusing you international service, right? Have you tried calling them up to get support while traveling and ask why they’re blocking other countries, or ask if they offer other ways to authenticate and get in?

It might be nice for you if Apple refused to let devs build region locked apps, but that might cause other bigger problems for other people, right? For banking, hacking attempts from other countries in general is a big and serious issue. My banking app offers a region locking option for my own security, and I’m sure many banks can safely assume that login attempts from other countries are illegitimate.
TKYO Drift
by tkyodrift | 2025-04-18 15:31:26+00:00
Hello!

We are the team behind TKYO Drift, a new open source AI drift detection library. Our non-blocking, fully async tool takes whatever input/outputs your txt2txt workflow generates and embeds them using sentence similarity models to compare user inputs and model outputs over time to let you know when either user drift, model drift, or both is occurring.

We measure drift using Cosine Similarity, Euclidean Distance and Scalar Metric Population Stability indices for each user input or AI output you’d like to track. The library comes with a CLI command to spot check the average Cosine Similarity or Scalar Population Stability logs, as well as easily exportable logs as .csv files for your external data visualization tools.

Setup is simple; Run the npm install command npm install tkyodrift Install the python dependencies in the requirements.txt from our node_modules folder Pip install -r ./node_modules/tkyodrift/requirements.txt Add the import line to your code import tkyoDrift from ‘tkyodrift’ Add the function hook to your workflow as many times as you need for each input/output tkyoDrift(yourInput, ioType)

Once the function hook is in, the system will syphon your user inputs and begin tracking their similarity over time giving you access to fine grain details on how much your user’s inputs or model’s outputs are changing over time. The system works with multiple chains of thought as well, so you can add the function hook anywhere you need in order to track drift at different hand off points within your workflow.

For more in-depth instructions, please view our library’s ReadMe on Github or NPM and if you have any questions, please comment below or reach out to us at tkyodriftdetectors@gmail.com

Here is our Website: https://www.tkyodrift.com NPM package:https://www.npmjs.com/package/tkyodrift Github: https://github.com/oslabs-beta/tkyo-drift

PS. This tool is primarily made in Javascript, and meant for use in Javascript environments. Python does very little in the main function (making one-off embeddings), but you will need to pip install the requirements.txt in the tkyodrift subdirectory of your node_modules folder for this to work. We rely on python transformers for embedding speed and python HNSW and KMeans libraries for quick data retrieval.
by souhail_dev | 2025-04-18 15:31:33+00:00
bro you feel depressed and you have built a successful business that pays x2 your salary, I'm wondering what successful business could you build if you were motivated.

I'm not a depressed person and I never had success with building a side project that actually makes money.

I came to conclusion in the last months that it's not about loving to do a thing to become successful in it, it's just doing!
by nineplay | 2025-04-18 15:32:34+00:00
The flagging has become de facto censorship for HN and I really thought this is the last place I'd see it. Why is this OK except that some people with influence don't want topics hitting the front page? Should we forgot that PG is yet another tech billionaire who probably is pretty happy with the way things are going right now.

Everyday my paranoia increases, every day I become more of a conspiracy theorist. It's us vs. the people who can outspend us a million times over and we can't fight back. Why should any news organization tell the truth if lying gets them a fat paycheck. Why should anyone in charge of any public forum allow controversial topics to get posted when they can make a fat paycheck by blocking them?
by danenania | 2025-04-18 15:32:35+00:00
I see, it sounds like \continue is the issue—this command is designed to continue with implementation rather than with a chat, so it switches you into 'tell mode'. I'll try to make that clearer, or to make it better handle chat mode. I can definitely see how it would be confusing.

The model pack shouldn't be resetting, but a potential gotcha is that model settings are version controlled, so if you rewind to a point in the plan before the model settings were changed, you can undo those changes. Any chance that's what happened? It's a bit of a tradeoff since having those settings version controlled can also be useful in various ways.

This feedback is very valuable, so thanks again!
by ashvardanian | 2025-04-18 15:32:36+00:00
You can beat CTRE throughput with a non-compile-time solution. My first recommendation will be to look at HyperScan. It has remarkable throughput: https://github.com/intel/hyperscan

I’ve only avoided it in the tutorial, as I want to keep the build system lean. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 10x faster than Boost in the average case.
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-18 15:32:55+00:00
I believe the issue is the type of discussions that can damage the fabric of the website. Repetitive discussions on tech products are not good but can't damage the site. But discussions of politics can be inflammatory and repetitive inflammatory discussions could damage the site since it dampens intellectual curiosity of people overall. I'm not a moderator or anything so I don't know but that's just my guess based on what dang has said in previous comments.
by pizzafeelsright | 2025-04-18 15:32:58+00:00
A safe way to get a similar disorienting experience is hold your breath under water while in a tight ball and have someone spin you on every direction and reverse it until you can't stand it and then wait another ten seconds.

I recall being swallowed by a wave and while under for only a short period i thought it was annoying not knowing when I'd return to the surface.
by sks38317 | 2025-04-18 15:33:04+00:00
Thanks again for your explanation. Just to clarify—what I understood is that the Monte Carlo method (using something like the Metropolis algorithm) is useful because it introduces probabilistic decision-making into the system. That helps prevent extreme or unrealistic outcomes, since not every spin flips deterministically.

Also, by having each spin affected by neighboring spins and external random fields, it naturally simulates interaction between variables. So it reflects both local dependencies and external noise, which is exactly the kind of behavior I want in my simulation.

I had been trying to account for interactions between variables, but I ran into a lot of frustration due to extreme or unstable outputs. Thanks to your guidance, though, I was finally able to break through that wall— and I’ve started thinking of ways to restructure and improve the model accordingly.

Let me know if I misunderstood anything.

Thanks a lot.
by pdntspa | 2025-04-18 15:33:10+00:00
My girl discovered self-pleasure at the age of 5, ironically during an exam from her doctor (she doesn't think it was intentional). I had an ex discover masturbation around the same age. I personally discovered it around 11 or 12. All of the above discovered porn accidentally as kids. I don't know about them but after that I intentionally sought it out.

Guess what! Both of us are perfectly fine!! (Well the ex is a bit psychotic but that's unrelated...)

This obsession with protecting kids from the realities of life is just fucking stupid. We as a species have the stupidest, most ridiculous views about something that is required to keep us alive!