MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netsharc | 2025-05-05 16:27:58+00:00
> Imagine a friend you were on a weekend trip with. This friend talks with another common friend. This common friend could have equally well been on that weekend trip because you like him or her but, due to circumstances, as is life, you did not invite him. You probably would feel uncomfortable with that first friend talking about that trip as if it was the most awesome trip ever, that everyone had non-stop fun and now everyone who was on that trip are best friends for life.

I feel like this is an issue one just has to grow up past. Walking on eggshells and deception so as not to hurt anyone's feelings is an annoying way to live. (I preach as a sinner). Related: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/apr/01/fringe-frie...

As to Zuck's machine having your information, yeah I can imagine if they bothered, they could see that there's always a person or two in all the pictures that aren't associated with any of the faces of the accounts, it can also determine what the friend groups of this person are. Probably even determine their wealth by their clothes, accessories, vacation locations, house ("Oh 5 users are gathered in a particular geolocation that is none of their houses [which we know about because 95% of the time a phone returns to a particular geolocation at night], and we can see from the photos that that 'unregistered user' is with them", that must be this user's house. Oh he lives in this neighborhood, that has a median income of EUR xyz. A reverse lookup of addresses we have because online shops upload their customer data to our system determines that one of the people living in that address is named Wouter Janleys, and from the shopping data he likes, amongst other things, mid-range to expensive wines.".

I wonder if they can even advertise to you through your friends, hah, that'd be a feature improvement for a Facebook project manager. Start showing your friends wine ads a few weeks before your birthday (as well as "It's Wouter's birthday in a few weeks" and "Remember this photo?" which is a photo of the group with glasses of wine)...
by jhgaylor | 2025-05-05 16:28:12+00:00
> the `candidate-info://website-text` has a bit of marketing puffery like we don't usually see on resumes. I'm wondering whether that's intended to influence the AI tool behavior.

I actually wrote the marketing for the humans. That site predates this ai native resume. My thinking is that by putting a little sell into my site I can show off another aspect of my skillset. I used to have a standard bio site with a portfolio but it was a wall of text and needed a refresher.

> As a simpler solution

llms.txt seems to work pretty well. I am sure there are ways to increase the quality of an llms.txt but I started by simply joining all the text data I already had together and asking an llm to make an llms.txt out of it. From there I've been "manually" editing it. Often with Claude's help.

> It could be under a `/.well-known/` URL

I am hoping we start to see a lot more use of this. We already have a pretty good set of tools to do discovery so let's use them.
by goloroden | 2025-05-05 16:28:16+00:00
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by ryandrake | 2025-05-05 16:28:26+00:00
Sounds like a good avenue to explore would be: If you did not have this access, how would your product fail to achieve its use cases? If you can answer this, then you can probably provide the information they are asking for.

And NOT the technically correct answer of "The product would fail to use Instagram OAuth to retrieve the username from the authorised user." Think about why the username is needed in the first place.
by TrnsltLife | 2025-05-05 16:29:30+00:00
Reading the books changes the weights of the neural network. If ruled illegal, wouldn't it also become illegal for a human to read an illegally downloaded book? So far, I thought just redistribution was illegal.

Will the neural network (LLM) itself become illegal? Will its outputs be deemed illegal?

If so, do humans who have read an illegally downloaded book become illegal? Do their creative outputs become illegal?
by alexose | 2025-05-05 16:29:30+00:00
I agree. I don't want to be a hater, because it's a cool idea... but I find that this is just the wrong level to operate on.

When I ran it, I ran into various hard-to-diagnose compatibility issues on different devices. Or, guests coming over and having their various websites be broken in ways that I'd have to troubleshoot.
by chasd00 | 2025-05-05 16:30:18+00:00
In the hardware world are there risks of taking advantage of a bug knowing that the manufacturer may someday fix the bug? I know in the software world it's a bad idea to leverage a bug in a platform to enable a feature (or fix another bug). The bug you're counting on being present may get fixed 15 years in the future and then your system explodes and no one knows why.

edit: seems like there was a recent discussion about something similar... undefined behavior in some C function iirc
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-05-05 16:30:48+00:00
> Home-schooled / house trained

The gifted kid to burnt-out transgender puppygirl pipeline

Explanation for anyone who needs it: "Home" and "house" are both nouns that mean a place you live in. "School" and "train" here are both used as verbs that mean "to teach something to someone". But "Home schooling" is the practice of parents teaching their own children at home and keeping them out of public school, whereas "House training" is the practice of teaching dogs not to pee inside the house.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-05-05 16:31:07+00:00
This isn't nearly as technologically radical, but a Tek scope of that era that we had in the lab then had a sequential colour display. A monochrome CRT with a fast-changing electronic colour filter in front of it. Totally sharp (for the era) colour graphics with no subpixels. Until you moved your head and you briefly saw the individual colour frames. The HP stuff was stodgy and boring and predictable by comparison.

The HP logic analyzers back then had a really neat touchscreen interface based on criss-crossing infrared beams in front of the CRT face. The only thing that I've ever used that felt even better than a capacitive touchscreen, though obviously lower resolution.
by bost-ty | 2025-05-05 16:31:13+00:00
> In that way, the prompt is more interesting, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to go write a prompt because I dunno how to write what I wanna say, and then suddenly writing the prompt makes that shit clear to me.

Bingo. It can be a rubber duck that echoes your mistakes back. Unfortunately, as other commenters have pointed out, the prompt may not be as interesting/iterative as we might suppose: "Here's the assignment, what's the answer".
by scoofy | 2025-05-05 16:31:27+00:00
>I doubt banning Monero or Zcash would prevent criminals from tax evasion. They'll find other ways. So, as often happens, "Locks keep honest people honest".

You realize that "locks keep honest people honest" is a reason to have locks, right? The point is that honest people will commit tax fraud if we make it easy for them to do.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-05 16:32:33+00:00
This is a complete non-sequitur, but I'm putting it here just because the sort of people who made it this deep in the comments might appreciate the story.

For Halloween, I duct-taped a banana to a tee-shirt, intending to go as Comedian[1], which had been in the news recently. My manager, when seeing me dressed this way immediately asked "Oh, are you The Velvet Underground and Nico? I love that album!" I countered with "Did you start a band?" and he said "Yes! How did you know?"

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_(artwork)
by bigmattystyles | 2025-05-05 16:33:14+00:00
Had a kid recently and didn't like how often I was on my phone around her. I bought one of those phones that looks like a 90's/early aughts 5GHZ phone, but rather than being attached to a lan line, it's BT paired to my smartphone. So I leave it charging in a drawer and if someone really needs to get a hold of me, they call and the BT phone rings. There might be a way to configure text messages to make it ding too, haven't looked into it.
by hirvi74 | 2025-05-05 16:33:58+00:00
> But I'd wager that, deep down, you know that the feeling you get thinking about it is far different from the actual feelings (both physical and mental) you'd get if you'd actually done it, no?

I suppose there is probably some ratio for any given task that is amount of effort:reward. So, for some tasks, I would gladly take a quarter of the reward to avoid spending ten times the effort to acquire it.

> Not acting on a desire you think of is separate from the idea that people don't give their brains a break.

I agree and disagree. While there are obvious differences, I do believe not giving one's brain a break is partly causative in depleting one's desire/ability to act.

We all have different experiences, but I do not think daydreaming is really giving my mind a break. I find my mind to be quite active while daydreaming. But everyone is different, I suppose.
by tverbeure | 2025-05-05 16:34:00+00:00
I'm pretty sure that this TDS 684B has the same kind of CRT. When I take a photo of the display, you can often clearly see it switching from one color field to the next in the middle of the screen.

As for the HP touch screen, I tore down a bunch of HP 16500A logic analyzers and reverse engineered the touch screen PCB. It uses a pretty simply LED/photo sensor matrix. You can see the PCB in one of the pictures here: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2022/06/17/HP16500a-teardown.h....
by makeitdouble | 2025-05-05 16:34:32+00:00
I read parent's point as having a hierarchy of stuff they want to do, and daydreaming is not worthless, just not as important or rewarding as any other thing they were doing during their commute.

For instance for people reading around a hundred books a year, would they want to spend more time daydreaming instead of reading ? Probably no.
by amelius | 2025-05-05 16:35:21+00:00
> e.g. they delay digital signals, not analog ones

I think they can be used with analog signals too. After all, they are (I suppose) just a chain of transistors holding charge, like in a CCD. It is just the most efficient implementation, since doing it with logic gates will bring more overhead. EDIT: maybe not, it seems at least some of these chips have digital input/output stages. Maybe it could work if you put a very fast 8-bit ADC in front of the delay line, and used 8 delay lines, one for each bit? :)

Anyway, I have totally zero experience with these chips.

But I can imagine you clock-in the signal using a fast clock (maybe the internal clock), and then you clock-out the signal using a slow clock (slow enough for a subsequent ADC chip).

Also, perhaps you can put a bunch of these combinations in parallel to increase bandwidth, or to increase sample depth.
by echelon | 2025-05-05 16:35:24+00:00
This has been my experience for optimal creativity tasks:

- Best: walks, running, walking in circles, walking in circles talking over the phone (1:1 planning), walking in circles talking out loud to myself

- Good: showers, daydreaming in place, daydreaming on trips where I'm not driving, "pair program" white boarding with one other (exceptional) person

- Okay: white boarding by myself, trying to put ideas to pen and paper by myself, meetings with the right people in a physical space

- Bad: at the computer, on the phone, walking or running to podcasts, walking or running to the wrong type of music, video conference meetings, and generally all other meetings

- What are you even doing: YouTube, Netflix, or podcasts on in the background at any level
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-05 16:35:27+00:00
The Lunar Gateway gets a lot of flack for being a part of how SLS and Orion budgets ballooned because of the requirements to build/operate the Gateway steps, but Gateway is also under-appreciated for how much it was trying to do in terms of giving us new scientific reasons to visit the moon. It's polar orbit would give us a platform for some interesting scientific studies of the moon that weren't possible with Saturn/Apollo.

It would also be a place to test our knowledge gained from maintaining a human presence in ISS further out from LEO and further away from easy repairs.

It's certainly easy to dislike Gateway or think it was wasteful, but it was also driving the scientific ambitions of the whole project, and pushing SLS to not just be a worse Saturn V and Orion to not just be Apollo 2: Electric Boogaloo (and pushing competitors like SpaceX and Blue Origin to try for some of those same high-minded, scientifically ambitious requirements).
by ptx2 | 2025-05-05 16:35:29+00:00
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by alwa | 2025-05-05 16:36:19+00:00
There’s value in grace. For all sorts of reasons you might be right to do things that make other people feel bad. That’s no reason to rub their nose in it.

What’s the virtue in offending people when you could instead be kind?

I know one woman who is having a baby shower, and I know another woman who recently dealt with the loss of her child. It’s not “secrecy” to celebrate the baby shower and avoid bringing it up with the recently bereaved, it’s respect and good taste.

I feel like we used to call it discretion…
by mjevans | 2025-05-05 16:36:32+00:00
In small doses, in the correct circumstances, Boredom can be the Necessity that drives new ideas.

Put another way, think of it as an opportunity for more conscious reflection and exploration. Like sleep, but not just 'run the garbage collector and predictive simulation pre-cache' routines, instead time to consciously consider and critically cultivate new perspectives on issues that might have been vexing the individual.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-05 16:36:33+00:00
> Would you store all your ~/ in something like SQLite database?

Actually yeah that sounds pretty good.

For Desktop/Finder/Explorer you'd just need a nice UI.

Searching Documents/projects/etc would be the same just maybe faster?

All the arbitrary stuff like ~/.npm/**/* would stop cluttering up my ls -la in ~ and could be stored in their own tables whose names I genuinely don't care about. (This was the dream of ~/Library, no?)

[edit] Ooooh, I get it now. This doesn't solve namespacing or traversal.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-05 16:36:51+00:00
Model training works roughly by feeding the model a text excerpt and then hiding the last word in the excerpt. The model is then asked to "guess" what the final word is. It will then move around it's weights until the guess sufficiently matches the actual token. Then the process repeats.

The training material is used to play this guessing game to dial in it's weights. The training data is picked up, used as reference material for the game, and then discarded. It's hard to place this far from what humans do when reading, because both are using the information to mold their respective "brains" and both are doing an acquire, analyze, discard process.

At no point is training data actually copied into the model itself, it's just run past the "eyes" of the model to play the training game.
by scotty79 | 2025-05-05 16:36:59+00:00
I guess you need to follow the instructions. I do LEGO treating it like a 3d puzzle and not looking at instruction but only the photos on the box. And I don't get any daydreaming from that. I'm to immersed in the puzzle. Going by the instructions is kind of painfully boring though. But I guess that's what you need to make you start daydreaming.

I can second that long walks work great for daydreaming but they too feel painfully boring before the daydreaming kicks in.
by mahmoudimus | 2025-05-05 16:37:23+00:00
Ghidra is actually a suite of reverse engineering toolkits, including, but not limited to a disassembler, a decompiler and a debugger interface that interfaces with many debuggers, among other neat things.

A disassembler takes compiled binaries and displays the assembly code the machine executes.

A decompiler translates the disassembled code back to pseudocode (e.g. disassembly -> C).

A debugger lets you step through the disassembly. Windbg is a debugger which is pretty powerful, but has the downside of a pretty unintuitive syntax (but I'm biased coming from gdb/llvm debuggers).

Both the MCP servers can probably be used together, but they both do different things. A neat experiment would be to see if they're aware of each other and can utilize each other to "vibe reverse"
by rayiner | 2025-05-05 16:39:18+00:00
I’m sorry, but just reading the description of the book makes me suspicious. They talk about “hollowing out of the party system,” but then point to the GOP, instead of the party that’s was dominated for nearly the whole 20th century by ethnic political machines and clientism. The party system on the right works just fine. There is far more alignment between GOP voters and the current GOP leadership than between democrat voters and the current democrat leadership.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-05-05 16:40:16+00:00
> That said, OP is referring to whether the resulting model is able to produce verbatim copies of the data.

Transformers are fundamentally large compression algorithms where the target of compression is not just to minimize reconstruction loss + compressed file size. In fact, basically all of machine learning used today can be viewed through the lens of learning a compression algorithm with added goals other than the usual.

By this logic if I create a lossy Jpeg of a copyrighted image it's not "copying" because the lossy compression.
by freehorse | 2025-05-05 16:40:22+00:00
I feel like this has already been discussed before one million times more than the simplicity of the issue should require.

Any income etc based coupon system is inefficient and automatically excludes a big portion of children that such measures are supposed to be for, eg because a lot of them come from families that are too dysfunctional to apply for those, ignorant of them due to language and other barriers, or because of (perceived or not) social stigma. And while adults are considered responsible for their own lives, it is a total moral bankruptcy for a society to have their children starve for their parents dysfunction. At the same time, providing free lunch to children at school solves/eases a lot of social, health and other issues all at once, for a cost that is basically peanuts compared to how impactful it can be.
by johnklos | 2025-05-05 16:41:09+00:00
People who know me know that even though I'm very public (my handle and my email address are my name, for instance), I care about privacy, and therefore it's unacceptable to post abount me on corporate social media without asking permission, just as they also know to not name or tag me.

People who post without asking don't know me well enough to name or tag me, so I don't care.

If someone posted and named / tagged me without asking, I'd have a serious conversation with them about it.

We need to stop acting like others' ignorance gives them an excuse to do things we don't want. "But everyone does it" is bull, and we're doing people a disservice when we let things slide because of that.
by MisterTea | 2025-05-05 16:41:17+00:00
As a child I only once remember fearing a machine - the local dry cleaning machine. That thing was a tubular tentacle monster to a child. I feared people a lot more and felt that machines were predictable as they were not biological therefor could not be possessed or haunted. I also have no fears of supernatural beings nor do I have religious inclination to fear a gods/demons/spirits/etc. People are the real monsters.
by npteljes | 2025-05-05 16:41:27+00:00
I came to the very same conclusion - I need "empty time" to reflect, and prepare myself for my own life. For me, it was not smartphones, it started with books when I was a child, and continued with music players and alcohol later. Everything to keep the unwanted thoughts and feelings at bay. I am an excellent daydreamer as well, at times of stillness, I find something to "work on" in my mind.

What I ended up with is literally a time of day where I "sit with myself" and just think about things. I just sit down for some minutes and try to get my bearings on where I am in life right now. Also, I eliminated a lot of background noise and music - I often do menial things without any other distractions for example. Good opportunities to think about something deep.
by sombragris | 2025-05-05 16:41:29+00:00
I'm using now a Tucows reseller via eNom.com. So far, it's good although it does not accept my preferred credit card; I had to resort to my debit card for payment (same operator, same issuer bank; go figure). Gandi did not have that kind of issues but then, a 300% price hike certainly made me run from them.
by ses1984 | 2025-05-05 16:41:45+00:00
My original point: it's ok to assume you absorb 100%.

About the rat thing: the cico hypothesis point of view might look at whether meal timing affecting energy expenditure first, rather than assuming meal timing change digestive absorption.

There is not much point in getting in the weeds about how much you absorb, unless you're running trials on yourself like changing when you eat, or what you eat, and leaving all other things equal like calorie intake and expenditure.

The best dieting strategies I've seen track calories in and weight change. From their you derive calorie expenditure, and it really doesn't matter if you burned it or pooped it out, does it?