MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kyry_cz | 2025-05-05 14:21:33+00:00
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by woodruffw | 2025-05-05 14:22:05+00:00
I don't think it's that big: USG procures defense and intelligence tech more or less constantly from Israel. It's unlikely that Israel would threaten that relationship (and the value they extract from it in terms of favorable relations) in exchange for military intelligence that's already shared with them.

(I feel like I have to say this in every thread that insinuates something sinister about being a "former Israeli intelligence officer": the structure of Israel's military and mandatory service is such that just about everybody with technical skills serves in some kind of "intelligence" capacity. It's not a very big country. This is, of course, independent from any normative claims about Israel's government, politics, etc. -- it's what you'd expect in any small country that has mandatory military service with a significant intelligence component.)
by relaxing | 2025-05-05 14:22:08+00:00
OK, so you endorse a policy which not only creates human suffering now but harms society and creates more human suffering in the future. The cost of fixing it is minuscule and outweighed by the future benefits.

What are the good faith arguments in favor of this?

- ignorance

- lack of critical reasoning skills

- religion

- sadism

- ?
by sherryyjiang48 | 2025-05-05 14:22:55+00:00
thanks for adding your thoughts here. you make great points around some of the risks - trust layer: we only utilize trusted 3rd party services like Plaid when it comes to the open-banking APIs. on our side, the data is encrypted in rest and in transit. we do not sell your data as part of our business, and we take it very seriously - monetization: yah right now Peek is free at the earlier stage because we're prioritizing growing our user base and rapidly improving our engagement features as well. eventually, we'll look to land on a subscriptions model
by tuyguntn | 2025-05-05 14:23:06+00:00
Its not about frameworks you choose, its about changing business landscape and I am specifically talking about web based software (figma, uber, google, you name it).

What you knew 2 years ago is completely different than what you know now. And the tools existed 2 years ago is different what you have now (e.g. Google might have built new internal service which will simplify 50% of your service, would you migrate?), hence when you just started building you haven't accommodated for a bunch of upcoming things. With the knowledge you have now, tools you have now and what you see is coming, you are going to rebuild the software again.
by wseqyrku | 2025-05-05 14:23:13+00:00
I think prompt should be treated just like source code, as in the actual "craft" that you're paid to produce. Source code, if computer generated, feels more like artifacts (as in binaries).

If you use AI all that is important is your ability to specify the problem, of course, as it always has been, you can just reiterate faster.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-05 14:23:17+00:00
>I really wish people would exercise more imagination while applying the adage.

It will never happen because additional analyzing would pretty quickly make it obvious that the problems are systemic and cannot be easily described by the kind of partisan quips and advocacy for "obvious" or "easy" solutions that dominate discussion of topics like this.

Basically any serious effort to understand and solve these problems precludes general audience participation and will therefore not be popular.
by bombcar | 2025-05-05 14:23:19+00:00
It's rarely cruelty. It's usually bureaucracy and unintended consequences and trying to be "nice".

Often you have a program created, with "free below X, sliding scale until no subsidy at Y" - done right, this is "perfect" in that each marginal dollar is lightly "taxed" (losing a subsidy is the same as a tax, from the worker's perspective).

This is great! Though let's say (theoretically) that the end result is a 1% "tax" for our family, so each dollar they increase income costs them a penny of subsidy. They probably have other subsidies besides school lunches, like WIC, or ACA, or whatever. Those are also sliding down at various amounts, which can cause it to start to get annoying. But it works.

Then the program is expanded, to be "nice" - even nicer! Now the subsidy is 100% below X, but they're going to also cover 100% up to Y! That's great! Everyone is better off now ... except now you have the situation where at Y + 1, you earned one more dollar, but lost potentially thousands in subsidy. This is NOT ACTUALLY WORSE than before, because at Y + 1 in both scenarios you have no subsidy, but it hurts much more in the second because the subsidy wasn't slowly being drained.
by cratermoon | 2025-05-05 14:23:35+00:00
"Unfortunately Mistral-OCR has still the usual VLM curse: with challenging manuscripts, it hallucinates completely."

My personal experience relates to the statement from the article, "According to several studies, approximately 80–90 percent of the world's organizational data is stored as unstructured data in documents, much of it locked away in formats that resist easy extraction."

In my experience, this means Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents authored by people who put more focus on the appearance than the structure of the content. Take one of these documents and generate PDF from it and any hint of structure that existed is gone.

There was an article on HN not too long ago discussing this history of Word documents and the lack of structure, but I can't find the link. ETA: https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-form...
by KingOfCoders | 2025-05-05 14:23:59+00:00
"anytime the other two are involved the police need to respond too"

This is not the US, the police does not show up to a fire or an emergency, why would they? They show up to an accident, and when you need an ambulance they will bring one.

The will also not stop and interrogate you when you walk to the side of the road. People usually have no interaction with the police outside of speeding tickets.

"get that first can often be very helpful"

Germany is not full of police patrolling the streets. Gladly we are no longer a police state. Usually I don't see any police for days, often not for weeks. Again, this is not the US. The only time you'll probably see police is going to train stations, airports or big tourist spots (and sometimes at parties that are too loud). In large cities, like Berlin, you might hear a siren and see a police car from time to time, depending on where you are. In smaller <1M people cities, not so.

Germany also has a proper health system and invests in ambulances and health instead of militarizing the police. So I can see your point, but it is irrelevant here.
by aeonik | 2025-05-05 14:25:15+00:00
You could reasonably hit a target within 36 inches at a mile with a lot of different calibers.

You don't necessarily need large caliber. .50 cal has a great ballistic coefficient, but bullet design and speed matters a lot too.

6.5 creedmoor and others in the intermediate precision class can all do this as well.

That being said 1 mile is really really long shot, and right where a lot of the lighter calibers start getting near transonic.

Wind is another beast, if it's steady it can be compensated for, but I don't know what the weather was that day... chaotic gusts will wreck a shot for sure.

All that being said, the rocket is a pretty big target, 12 feet across and almost 230 feet high... that's going to compensate for a lot.

Agreed that if you found the piece where the bullet punctured it should be pretty evident what happened. But I don't have any experience doing investigations in this area, and I've heard at least from plane crashes that the fuselage can disintegrate pretty readily in high force scenarios.

I have operated and owned precision rifles, but not big bore, and have not gone out to extreme distances. More fun to play with the math and ballistics.

Would love to hear from someone who knows more than either of us.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-05 14:25:19+00:00
Yep, I call it the notepad/nano rule.

If I can open your file in a notepad and effectively edit it without the format changing or getting corrupted at saving its plain text.

Not plain text: Attempting to edit an .exe file in notepad.

Unfriendly plain text: Minimized javascript where the entire file exists on one line and the human readable elements jumbled together.

Plain text: Your average source code file/html file that attempts to adhere to something around 80-120 columns of text.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-05 14:25:23+00:00
> Its more or less a consensus US position, not partisan.

That was the case in 2002, back when the Supreme Court still worked and was reasonably respected, and Congress at least did lip service to follow its duties.

Now, the circumstances have shifted - the Supreme Court is seen as compromised as a result of the Trump appointments plus the corruption scandals surrounding Roberts. Therefore I'm not so sure that the Hague Invasion Act would remain if it were pushed to a vote in a future Democrat-controlled Congress.

> Even if it did pass, retroactively referring 47 there doesn't scream "law and order" to me, especially when there are actual laws being broken.

I agree, the normal course of action should be to put 47th and his goon(er)s through the regular American court system - but I am afraid that the legal system has degraded way too much over the last years from all the political appointments. That's why in Croatia and Serbia we had the ICTY established, there was no trust of fair trials.
by bwfan123 | 2025-05-05 14:25:54+00:00
An analogy for LLM as a tool is the mouse. It has enabled a brand-new form of human interaction with computers. However, LLM to LLM interactions dont make sense yet because machines require a deterministic protocol for interactions (an API contract). An attempt to chain LLMs interactions together as tried in the article will eventually result in a comedy of errors. Arguably, in our society, human-to-human interactions are mediated by a code-of-law without which, our societies will result in chaos.

Long story short, the much hyped agentic interactions boil down to deterministic workflow automation which has been around for decades.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-05 14:25:56+00:00
The problem is that sharp drop offs instead of gradients are a known and well documented problem as is the desire to get rid of the welfare state by one party. You don’t need to assume best intentions here when the GOP has consistently made it clear where their priorities lie on this topic. Oh and the GOP has constantly taken “starve the beast” and weaponized incompetence approaches to try and kill the programs they don’t like.
by ajmurmann | 2025-05-05 14:26:04+00:00
This is somewhat reflected in how we value university degrees. You get very little additional salary from having finished all but the last semester of a degree. The big boost all comes from the last semester where you get the degree. You'd expect that the vast majority of the actual knowledge is already there at that point and late dropouts would be seen by employers as some great bargain. It shows that the signaling of the degree trump's the actual knowledge. Good discussion with Bryan Caplan on this: https://www.econtalk.org/bryan-caplan-on-college-signaling-a...

So, unfortunately the student's behavior is somewhat rational given the incentive structure they operate in.
Ask HN: Has anyone managed to pass Meta's Access Verification?
by hipgrave | 2025-05-05 14:26:19+00:00
After spending a few months building out a new project that relies on the Instagram Graph API I'm struggling to pass Meta's Access Verification for Tech Providers.

We passed the app verification and business verification fairly easily, but we're stuck getting access verification. It feels like Meta is automatically denying us access without telling us explicitly what they are looking for or what we are missing from our answers. We keep getting knocked back with the same reply asking for:

1. Add details about how your business will use Platform Data (i.e., any info or data you obtain from us) to enable a product or service on behalf of your clients. 2. Describe how your clients use your product or service.

All we really need is to use Instagram OAuth to retrieve the username from the authorised user. My replies have gone into depth explaining this to Meta, including how we use the username (we save it against a user model in our database) and instructions for users to delete their accounts. But nothing seems to be enough.

Has anyone had experience with this and can shed some light on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!
by snarf21 | 2025-05-05 14:26:29+00:00
In the current moment, I agree that "the state" can't save money by making it free for everyone. However, it is a lot harder to quantify how much other savings are realized by having healthier kids and reduced healthcare costs. Plus we know kids do better in school when fed well and that long term taxable income, better colleges, business job generation, etc. could eventually pay for itself. Obviously this is a much more complicated thing to calculate and quantify.
by dr_zoidberg | 2025-05-05 14:26:34+00:00
The abstract of OPs link mentions "Processing-Using-DRAM (PUD)" as exactly that, using off the shelf components. I do wonder how they achieve that, I guess fiddling with the controller in ways that are not standard but get the job (processing data in memory) done.

Edit: Oh and cpldcpu linked the ComputeDRAM paper that explains how to do it with off the shelf parts.
by rickdeckard | 2025-05-05 14:26:49+00:00
They used the VSM-201 for "Random Access Memories", their last Studio Album. At that time they didn't need such help anymore, they famously rented a huge amount of equipment and large studio-floors (i.e. they recorded simultaneously with microphones from different decades because Thomas heard a difference and wanted this reflected on the record).

Above all, the biggest help from his father was probably to insist that they keep the ownership of their music when signing with any label, regardless of any money, because as a producer he knew that this is how artists get screwed by record labels.
by tuyguntn | 2025-05-05 14:26:53+00:00
> engineers who do fire fighting to get the thing shipped at the last minute are the engineers who couldn't design a robust system

What is the average tenure in your company? In most tech companies I know, its 2-4 years (add changing teams into that)

A lot of times you are maintaining existing system. Even then you can't blame other engineers, because information/context/constraints they had at that time could be totally different than what you have now.

If business is burning in 2 months, I am willing to create 100K lines of spaghetti code to save it. Afterwards, we can discuss how to rewrite/refactor
by freejazz | 2025-05-05 14:27:02+00:00
> I would be in no way surprised if these or virtually any other allegations a person might make turned out to be true

Sure. That does seemingly contradict the notion that I should take the filings with a grain of salt, though. I shouldn't be surprised if it's true, but I shouldn't think it's likely to be true? I think you need to pick one.

What is your experience with these that is the basis of you sharing these opinions?
by aurizon | 2025-05-05 14:27:29+00:00
Yes, current AI video/text product is inferior at this time. Youtube is full of all genres of inferior products - at this time! The ramp of improvement is quite steeply pointing upwards. This is retrospective of the days of spinning jennies and knitting/weaving machines that soon made manual products un-economic - that said, excellent craft/art product endured on a smaller scale. AI is also taking a toll on the movie arts, staring at the low end and climbing the same incremental improvement rungs. All the special effects(SFX) are in a similar boat. Prop rentals are hit hard. 100 high res photos of an old Studio Tv camera - all angles/sizes/lighting can be added to an AI prop library and with a green screen insert the prop can manifest as a true object in any aspect. There can be many. It still takes people to cull the hallucinations - a declining problem. Same with actors. They can be patterned after a famous actor - with likeness fees, or created de-novo. All the classic aspects of a studio production suffer the same incremental marginalisation - in 5 years = what will remain? - what new tech will emerge? I feel that many forks will emerge, all fighting for a place in the sun = some will be weeded out, some will flower - but at a very high pace. The old producers/directors/writers - the whole panoply of what makes a major studio will be scattered like dried bread crumbs,
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-05 14:27:32+00:00
> The constitution prohibits ex post facto prosecution.

A lot of what the 47th and people in his administration did are already punishable by law - alone the Signal affair or other violations of the Public Records Act.

It would not be a ex post facto prosecution, it would simply be a prosecution by a court of law that is reasonably free from corruption.
by alephnullshabba | 2025-05-05 14:28:12+00:00
This isn't what goog-411 was. You would dial Google's 1800 number, and then tell a voice prompt the name of the business and location, and google would try and automate looking the business up and then route the call for you by ringing them automatically. In the pre-smart phone era, this would allow you to call a business with just your dumb phone. GOOG-411 is completely worthless in the smart phone era (discontinued in 2010).

It's worth mentioning that goog-411 enabled at least a couple very niche internet subcultures in the early 2000's. When skype brought in free 1800 calling, GOOG-411 could be used as a way to dial any business with skype for free (so no credit card info associated with an account). Think Xbox live lobbies but its a dozen kids on a call, muted, and taking turns unmuting to prank call (harass) businesses all day. I watched a childhood friend spend a summer doing this with a group he met playing mmo's/forums, two of which ended up making it as famous streamers over a decade later. I imagine this experience is very common for a type of kid that grew up online in a certain era (mw2), and google could probably see the tool was garnering a disproportionate amount of abuse

("Do you guys have battletoads?")
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-05-05 14:28:13+00:00
> The output of the LLM is very different from the original, though

I will disagree with that characterisation. IMHO: In some cases no, it's not different, there are clear lines from inputs to output. In some cases yes, it's different from any one input work, it's distributed micro-plagiarism of a huge number of sources. In no case is it original.

But I think that this is legally undecided and won't be decided by you or me, and it is going to be a more interesting and relevant question than "is the LLM model is very like the original work", which it clearly isn't. That's like asking "is this typewriter like this novel?" It can't be, but the words that came out of it could be.
by snkzxbs | 2025-05-05 14:28:18+00:00
You are missing the fact that a lot of people in Spain, maybe the majority, do what’s called a “jornada partida”, which means that businesses close at around 1-2 pm and then reopen at around 5-6 pm. During that time people generally have lunch and maybe sleep.

Especially during the hotter months, the streets are practically empty.
Show HN: ArcThing – An Arc-Style Browser Sidebar (Extension) for Chrome
by came | 2025-05-05 14:28:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ArcThing (arcthing.com), a Chrome extension that brings an Arc-style browser sidebar and navigation to Chrome. You can try it directly here: ArcThing – Window & Tab Manager on Chrome Web Store.

Backstory: I was an early Arc convert and loved its sidebar, spaces, and the way it made web navigation feel organized and modern. But after The Browser Company announced they were winding down Arc’s feature development, I wanted to move back to Chrome for stability and to avoid relying on the shifting priorities of VC-backed startups. However, I couldn’t find any Chrome extension that let me navigate the web as elegantly as Arc did-so I decided to build one myself.

What does ArcThing do?

- Adds an Arc-style browser sidebar to Chrome.

- A vertical tab layout, with easy grouping by last used, domain, or host.

- Lets you organize tabs and windows into “Spaces” (workspaces) for different projects or contexts.

- Favorites: Pin your most-used sites for quick, omnipresent access across all spaces.

- Resources: Save regular sites, tools, and links within their relevant spaces for contextual organization.

- Smart search: Find any tab or resource instantly, within a space or globally.

Works entirely locally in your browser-no data collection, no accounts, just install and use.

Feedback wanted: If you’ve used Arc or have thoughts on browser workflows, I’d love your input:

- Which Arc features do you find most essential or unique?

- How important is sync (across devices) for your workflow?

- Would you value “intelligent” tab cleanup or management (like auto-closing or archiving unused tabs, reminders, etc.)?

Any suggestions, bug reports, or thoughts about what would make ArcThing more useful are very welcome. Thanks for checking it out!

Thanks, Carsten
by solids | 2025-05-05 14:28:32+00:00
I understand this feeling. When I was younger I took a lot of time preparing and taking meaningless random pictures.

Years later I started taking pictures only with the people I was with.

Nowadays that smartphones got much better, I just start recording a video of the moments I think will be worth remembering, but without paying much attention to the frame, I just record and that’s it.

Years later when you watch them it feels much more vivid than watching a still dead photo.