MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thisislife2 | 2025-05-07 19:34:24+00:00
Not my experience. For example, when I rented a house, I sent some personal documents to the landlord through such password protected email and also texted them the password to their phone. The called me about it and I explained to them this was the latest "secure mail" technology, as "old email" are just like postcard mail which anyone can read. And hence "old email" technology is not secure enough when we are dealing with financial documents, and personal ids etc. I later ended up helping them create a new ProtonMail id which is what he now uses as his primary mail account.
by kyriakos | 2025-05-07 19:34:36+00:00
There are 2 problems currently with movie audio. One is that the channel separation is not as good as it used to be. New movies have 5.1 audio the effect is minimal which no longer justifies the expense on the sound system. People online are saying this is because many movies are made for primarily for streaming and that majority of people listen on their TV or sound bar instead of dedicated surround systems.

The second issue is what you described, the mixing is just bad, sound effects and music are much louder than dialog making it impossible to comprehend without subtitles.
by dbacar | 2025-05-07 19:34:40+00:00
I think both these tools are more on the easy side of setting up if you follow their guidelines. You can be up and running very quickly. The problems arise when you need some custom logic in processing log files. If you have simple shipping requiremts you can bypass logstash altogether . Elastic and opensearch are not the right tool for application metrics though in my opinion, for that use case just use prometheus and grafana.
by voidspark | 2025-05-07 19:34:42+00:00
Yes a few of us will enjoy the peaceful life of contemplation like Aristotle, but not everyone is genetically wired that way.

Introverts are only 25% - 40% of the population, and most people are not intellectually or artistically gifted (whether introvert or not), but they still want to contribute and feel valued by society.

> I'd argue that just having a job so that you have a purpose

It's not just about having a job. It's having an important or valuable role in society, feeling that your contributions actually matter to others - such as building or fixing things that others depend on, or providing for a family,

What would motivate a young boy to go through years of schooling, higher education, and so on, just to become a hobbyist, tinkering around on projects that no one else will ever use or really need? That may be acceptable for some niche personality types but not the majority.

Aspiring engineers or entrepreneurs are not merely motivated by having a job.

I am envisioning the AGI or ASI scenario which truly overtakes humans in all intellectual and physical capabilities, essentially making humans obsolete. That would smash the foundations and traditions of our civilization. It's an incredible gamble.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-07 19:35:28+00:00
That's a really sad percentage of people listening to such subpar sound that they might as well not be. I understand not everyone can afford nice audio, but a soundbar is such a drastic improvement, VHS=>DVD level of improvement, while a soundbar to surround is a DVD=>BluRay improvement. It's great for those with discerning taste, but not noticed by the vast majority.

Granted, I'm not an audiophile, but I've been in/around audio mix bays long enough that I notice shit audio. It's one of those things that once you see/hear it, you can't un-see/un-hear it. Sometimes I really wish I took the blue pill in this regard
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by yunier-rojas | 2025-05-07 19:35:35+00:00
MiniPaaS is a lightweight platform-as-a-service framework that simplifies deploying, managing, and monitoring containerized applications. It combines Docker Swarm orchestration, Ansible automation, and developer-friendly CLI tools into a minimal platform.
by 0xBDB | 2025-05-07 19:35:36+00:00
If you have ever purchased insurance, including car insurance, he has impacted your life either because he probably insured or reinsured you. There's a good chance if you've ever purchased anything shipped by railroad, or electricity in any of several states, or boots, or industrial parts, or a manufactured home, or a financial product of any kind, or an Apple product, or a Coca-Cola, or any of a bunch of other things, it was from a company he either owned or owned a huge stake in and influenced.

If you liked the fact that the Great Recession didn't turn into the Even Greater Depression, he seems to have had quite a bit of influence there behind the scenes as well.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-07 19:35:47+00:00
Yes to everything.

Yes both terms anthropomorphize. And I do think anthropomorphic terminology is reasonable. For models. Given the disclaimer that strong similarities do not necessarily imply serious equivalence.

But if we are going to anthropomorphize, we should at least keep the meanings of words consistent.

The definition/source of confabulate you give is great. I think its modern use includes fill-in facts, and often emphasizes the fill-in of details of events, experiences, and factual knowledge in terms of how our memories & recall work on a normal basis.

We all do it. But less is better.
by digdugdirk | 2025-05-07 19:36:20+00:00
Cool! Out of curiosity, what's the bedrock that's used to determine what the fundamental python AST objects are? I'm wondering what the "single source of truth" is, if you will.

Is this all based off a spec that python provides? If so, what does that look like?

Or do you "recode" the python language in rust, then use rust features to parse the python files?

Regardless of how it's done - This is a really fascinating project, and I'm really glad you guys are doing it!
by lurk2 | 2025-05-07 19:36:33+00:00
> Popularity and optimality are not the same thing.

Yes they are. If we lived in a world where Australia was a world superpower we might be having this conversation upside down and with r’s where there shouldn’t be any, but we don’t. Every student wants to learn to speak with an American accent because it has the highest level of intelligibility owing to exposure via cinema, music, expatriate communities, etc.
by Marsymars | 2025-05-07 19:37:22+00:00
I had perfectly working eARC for over a year until I started getting random audio dropouts. After months, I figured out they were due to my Wii U coming out of standby and checking for updates on a different HDMI port. I think it worked fine before a firmware update to either my TV or my soundbar. Works fine again after disabling the Wii U's background updates.
by camel-cdr | 2025-05-07 19:38:03+00:00
I'm not sure which PRNG is used here, but some PRNGs have regularities in the lower bits.

This is e.g. the case for classical LCGs and the xoroshiro*+ family of PRNGs:

> If, however, one has to generate only 64-bit floating-point numbers (by extracting the upper 53 bits) xoshiro256+ is a slightly (≈15%) faster generator with analogous statistical properties. For general usage, one has to consider that its lowest bits have low linear complexity and will fail linearity tests (https://prng.di.unimi.it/)

> When m = 2k there is a further problem. The period of the bth bit of an LCG (where bits are numbered from the right, starting at one) is 2b , thus although the period is 2k, only the high bits are good and the lower order bits exhibit a clear repeating pattern. (https://www.pcg-random.org/pdf/hmc-cs-2014-0905.pdf)
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-07 19:38:22+00:00
If you've had AppleCare since it became a thing, you've basically paid the same price for AppleCare over that time as it would have cost to replace the $4500 product on its own.

Android devices and PC laptops don't need service plans. But as you've demonstrated, Apple products do. Even the $4500 ones.
by bluGill | 2025-05-07 19:38:36+00:00
While it is all 1 and 0, what those bits mean can easially be encoded. When you say what those bits mean in detail (which we need to anyway - what code page is that string), we can then assign what is valid, and in turn we can reject messages that while they are only 1/0 are still wrong. Also by assigning meaning we can get closer to what we want. the string "12345" and the number 1234 can both mean the same thing, but we can put one into 2 bytes if we want, while the string is at least 5 bytes. Not to mention a number is easier to parse, turning a string to a number is not always trivial (depending of course on which code page is active)
by the_jeremy | 2025-05-07 19:38:41+00:00
The majority of litter on the sidewalks of the through streets near me is those 1oz shooters. Followed by aluminum cans (mostly beer), fast food trash (plastic cups for sauces, disposable drink cups), and then household trash that looks like it flew out of a trash can on windy days (empty boxes, plastic wrappers, a bottle of laundry detergent, etc).

Source: new year's resolution to pick up at least 1 piece of trash per dog walk.
by ulnarkressty | 2025-05-07 19:39:43+00:00
I think many in this thread are underestimating the desire of VPs and CTOs to just offload the risk somewhere else. Quite a lot of companies handling sensitive data are already using various services in the cloud and it hasn't been a problem before - even in Europe with its GDPR laws. Just sign an NDA or whatever with OpenAI/Google/etc. and if any data gets leaked they are on the hook.
by tkluck | 2025-05-07 19:39:52+00:00
Your scientific take is useful in the case where selection bias is unavoidable and needs to be corrected for.

This case is not like that; if the insurance agency wants to dispute the 90% false denial rate, it would be trivial for them to take a random sample of _all_ cases, go through the appeal process for those, and publish the resulting number without selection bias.

As long as that doesn't happen, the most logical conclusion for us outside observers is: the number is probably not so much lower than 90% that it makes a difference.
by Sleaker | 2025-05-07 19:39:56+00:00
Aux out of pc into your home audio system did the trick. CDs were getting soooo cheap back then you could just burn mixes and cd players started to put in direct mp3 compatibility around then. I grew up a geek though, so this probably just came easier to me back then, but the high quality options haven't changed much in the last 20 years as far as audio is concerned. Just the proliferation of SoC devices has eased the playback access.
by mikepurvis | 2025-05-07 19:40:07+00:00
I never had the HTIB, but I had some old school speaker cabinets I got at a thrift store years ago and would hook them up to a broken down Kenwood amp to get nice loud music for house parties.

Just in the past few years I was finally in a position to get a nice center channel, then sub, then surrounds, and then I eventually paid an electrician to pull the wires and do a 5.1.2 setup. It's certainly far from essential and overall is still pretty budget, but I love how it sounds for movies, PS5, etc.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-07 19:40:42+00:00
Really good call out, that the TV now often is the center of the AV experience, where-as the "receiver" (and amplifier) used to be driving the show.

I really really wish there were digital audio decoder/processors available. It sucks so bad that you either buy a semi affordable consumer amplifier with 7.2.2 Dolby Atmos out and ok amplification, or if you want to step up you need a $4000+ processor whose only real job is decoding Dolby formats & turning them into analog outs for amplification. And there's almost no market, just a couple odd products like Emotiva's XMC-2: https://emotiva.com/products/xmc-2-plus-16-channel-9-1-6-dis...

Opener standards like DTS would hopefully have some remedy here but if the source material isn't available it hardly matters. Hoping for actual open standards Immersive Audio Model and Format (iamf) and the Eclipsa Audio Format profiles atop that maybe some day give us good spatial audio that an rpi and multichannel sound out board can help us free ourselves from this vile civilization-scale Dolby tarpit with. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/introducing-eclips...
by az09mugen | 2025-05-07 19:41:36+00:00
Unrelated with th article itself, but I strongly disagree with the usage of the verb "hears" used in the title.

This verb is used for living organisms, and AFAIK, AI is not living, nor an organism.

This kind of subtle yet nasty personification is what encourages people to believe more in the fact that an AI "thinks" by itself or by extension that "AGI" is really close, or even worse, tricks more easily people into believe AI outputs.

"AI detects" would have been way more suitable.
by dcreager | 2025-05-07 19:41:50+00:00
There is a formal grammar defined in the CPython repo, implemented in a language called ASDL:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Parser/Python.as...

ty uses the same AST and parser as ruff. We don't use the ASDL grammar directly, because we store a few syntax nodes differently internally than how they're represented upstream. Our parser is hand-written in Rust. At first, our AST was also entirely hand-written, though we're moving in the direction of auto-generating more of it from a declarative grammar.

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/15655

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/tree/main/crates/ruff_pyth...

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/blob/main/crates/ruff_pyth...
by dtkav | 2025-05-07 19:41:53+00:00
> On this note, I think there's room for an open source pluggable PKM as an alternative to Obsidian and think Zed is a great candidate. Unfortunately I don't have time to build it myself just yet.

I'm also super interested in building this. OTOH Obsidian has a huge advantage for its plugin ecosystem because it is just so hackable.

One of the creators of Zed talked about their experience building Atom - at the time the plugin API was just wide open (which resulted in a ton of cool stuff, but also made it harder to keep building). They've taken a much stricter Plugin API approach in Zed vs. Atom, but I think the former approach is working out well for Obsidian's plugin ecosystem.
by p_l | 2025-05-07 19:42:06+00:00
GNOME and systemd teams were in many ways joined at the hip, and GNOME unilaterally decided that from 3.6 to 3.8 they would switch certain APIs from one already deployed widely (polkit and related) to one that was documented like north korea is democratic (logind) which also didn't work in isolation from systemd.

Trying to run GNOME 3.8 without logind caused significant problems and instabilities, trying to implement the same APIs turned out a futile endeavour though one OpenBSD guy got sufficiently motivated and kept patching GNOME for OpenBSD for years - though too late for the forced switch.

The large distros jumping "both feet" on systemd were essentially Fedora/Redhat (where it originated and who was employing major maintainers), and IIRC SuSE. Arch was still seen as something of niche and - crucially - was very neophyte about adopting systemd related ideas for significant amount of time with little regard for stability.

The holdouts were not just those who were happy with debian/redhat simplistic run-parts script. They were also those interested in solving the problems in different way. Hell, systemd was pretty late to the party, the major difference was that it had funding behind it
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-07 19:42:31+00:00
That's very believable; the kind of people who unnecessarily send their kids to an expensive private school when some of the best public schools in the country are nearby are the kind of people who would generally socialize together.

And $250k is wealthy. That's literally top 1.5 percentile in the U.S. They don't have to blow half of their income sending their kids to an expensive school. They choose to do so and that is the hallmark of wealth.
by nbagersh | 2025-05-07 19:42:33+00:00
After getting feedback from early users, I made several updates to the 7-day calendar app. The interface is now cleaner and more focused, with clearer day labels, better time input, and improved mobile responsiveness. I also added recurring tasks based on user feedback.

A simple pricing model is now in place to support further development, but the app remains free to test and experiment with first. The app still focuses on short-term planning only — just the next 7 days, nothing more. If you're interested in productivity tools, I’d love to hear what you think.
by neilv | 2025-05-07 19:45:04+00:00
> As part of the launch day activities, Bowie took part in an online chat hosted on CompuServe. The gimmick was that there were “three David Bowie’s” in the chat room — with one being the real Bowie. The audience asked a bunch of questions, and each online Bowie would reply anonymously. Could the internet users tell which two were “telling lies”?

We play a similar game today, with social media managers.
by omneity | 2025-05-07 19:45:05+00:00
> Need local stuff? Llama(maybe Gemma)

You probably want to replace Llama with Qwen in there. And Gemma is not even close.

> Mistral has been consistently last place, or at least last place among ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and Gemini/Gemma.

Mistral held for a long time the position of "workhorse open-weights base model" and nothing precludes them from taking it again with some smart positioning.

They might not currently be leading a category, but as an outside observer I could see them (like Cohere) actively trying to find innovative business models to survive, reach PMF and keep the dream going, and I find that very laudable. I expect them to experiment a lot during this phase, and that probably means not doubling down on any particular niche until they find a strong signal.
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-07 19:45:31+00:00
Being vice president and a presidential candidate in succession, the string 'Harris' probably appears next to 'president' more and more recently than 'Trump'. Assuming you exclude 'former president', which seems plausible.

I'm not convinced it's because she's a Democrat and the model is making some contorted connection to Democratic presidents. It's more likely just statistics. Harris is referred to more in texts talking about who is president, and Trump appears more in texts talking about who was president.
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-07 19:45:42+00:00
No, that's just bad financial management. Spending $48000 to send your kid to a private school is a choice that parents can make when they're wealthy enough to do so.

"Living paycheck to paycheck" means that you just barely make enough to pay for food and rent, and don't have any spare money to cover unplanned costs like medical care. Spending a ton of money on vacation and private school is by definition not living paycheck to paycheck.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-07 19:46:22+00:00
It's not about "hitting as hard" and I admitted I like, and love, tons of modern films... it's not even an "argument", it's a statement of preference, part of what I, and many other film fans, enjoy is the craft of film, and there was simply more to that before everything went digital, so pre-heavily-digital films are more interesting and impressive, to me and to others who appreciate those factors, all else being equal (though often enough, all else is not equal!)

I simply find film-craft more interesting and impressive, and the constraints to drive more-fun (and sometimes absolutely brilliant) creative choices, before they were ~all shot and edited digitally. It's not about good or bad, exactly, but about an aspect of older films that's now all but gone in modern ones. I also happen to appreciate silent film, and some things about those that were impressive and fun went away with talkies—it's not that the talkies were necessarily worse in some absolute sense, but some potentially-enjoyable qualities of silents took a back seat once talkies took over. If someone had really been into those aspects of cinema, they might have tended to prefer older silents over newer talkies, without necessarily disliking all talkies. Similar story with film vs. digital.

I happen to like the film-craft side of things enough that, for me, it in general makes film-era movies more appealing. That doesn't mean I don't watch and enjoy three dozen or more digital films per year, but I do lose out on some of that aspect of my enjoyment of film, with those. This is most-pronounced in action and "genre" (e.g. sci fi) movies.

Like, I watch the modern US Godzilla (I happen to think the first one in this US series is pretty good!) and the action's... fine, nothing particularly wrong with it, but I'm marveling at none of it, just zero. I watch 1954 Godzilla, or Return of Godzilla (1984) and sure, the action's mostly less-convincing (though some of those room-collapse shots in the '54 movie...) but it's also far more interesting.

> Even before autotune, there was no shortage of ways to make terrible music.

Did anyone claim there weren't absolute mountains of bad music in any age? Of course there were, most of anything is bad. Disliking autotune and related tech's effects on music (e.g. visual vs. by-ear editing) doesn't mean claiming that music lacking it is necessarily not-bad.
by haiku2077 | 2025-05-07 19:46:38+00:00
Sportbikes are lower, but they're not typical. Sportbikes sales trended way down over the past decade, with models being discontinued entirely in some regions. Current sporty-style bikes are generally more upright seating and share engines and platforms with non-sport models. Dual sport/off road bikes have trended upwards, even for riders who never go off pavement, because they're cheap to run and very practical as general purpose motorcycles. More recently, there's been a trend towards large touring bikes as well.

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/motorcycle-industry-q1...
by dtkav | 2025-05-07 19:46:41+00:00
Unfortunately the new agent panel completely nerfs the old workflow. I also love the old version (now called "Text Threads") for its transparency.

Even though they brought back text threads, the context is no longer included (or include-able!) as context in the inline assist. That means that you can no longer select code, hit ctrl+enter, and type "use the new code" or whatever.

I wish there was a way to just disable the agent panel entirely. I'm so uninterested in magical shit like cursor (though claude code is tasteful IMO).
by englishspot | 2025-05-07 19:46:45+00:00
> Grooming and style: you can, nonetheless, choose to date yourself with your clothing and overall presentation, or not. This can be overdone and make you stand out “trying too hard” not to be old. But there’s a world of middle ground.

for the longest time, I've resisted the zoomers' attempt to bring back 90s/early 00s fashion with oversized shirts and baggy pants, hopelessly clinging to my millennial sensibilities (I like my fitted shirts and skinny jeans, dammit). then one day I just said screw it and bought new oversized shirt and it kinda grew on me.

I'm not going full zuckerberg with the gold chain and whatnot, though.
by theshackleford | 2025-05-07 19:47:39+00:00
> Meal prep just isn't the hardship people seem to think it is

For you, and your circumstances. For other people, it’s exactly as hard as they think it is.

I can’t use a knife, or look down to prepare food without risking the inability to use large parts of my body for the rest of the day and potentially the next.

Though my answer to this is shakes, not food service to be fair.

> based on misconceptions

You don’t say?
by eikenberry | 2025-05-07 19:47:44+00:00
This seems more in scope of those same people who want to make their editor into an IDE. And just like most other things, the editor is a poor integration point for AI. The shell and inter-process communications are the gold standard for integration and are where the best integrations emerging from. Things that work with your editor instead of trying to replace it. Aider being the best example I've seen so far... though I'd love to hear about others.