MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aeolun | 2025-05-22 23:05:44+00:00
All of these things arise from a bunch of inscrutable neurons in your brain turning off and on again in a bizarre pattern though. Who’s to say that isn’t what happens in the million neuron LLM brain.

Just because it’s not persistent doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Like, I’m sort of inclined to agree with you, but it doesn’t seem like it’s something uniquely human. It’s just a matter of degree.
by trod1234 | 2025-05-22 23:06:08+00:00
Occasionally, I do to.

Are you trying to say that China doesn't fabricate and lie about their metrics and collection methodology? because I hate to be the one to break this to you, it does and there's a lot of news coverage on it going back over a decade.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/324...

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2023/05/01/why-the-world-is-...

https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/china-withholds-manipu...

http://www.uschina.org/articles/chinas-official-statistics/
by mikrl | 2025-05-22 23:07:32+00:00
There are historical precedents though:

>1798

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

>1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918

>>notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds
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by pedalpete | 2025-05-22 23:09:02+00:00
Again, thanks so much for this very valuable feedback. I'll continue processing it. You've given me a lot to think about.

There is significant research (a decade worth, and over 50 published peer-reviewed), for the majority of people we don't show a significant impact on sleep architecture (sleeping longer). There is a slight change in sleep maintenance, but not enough that I'd put that as a selling feature.

Thanks again. I'm going to reach out via email if that's ok.
by ultimafan | 2025-05-22 23:09:12+00:00
About the last point- I remember hearing somewhere, though it could be an urban legend, that that's precisely the reason early Dungeons & Dragons (OD&D/AD&D era) had so many variations within different dice roll mechanics for whether or not a high (or low) roll was good or bad (ie high rolls for your attack was good, high rolls for initiative were bad).

If the player used the same dice for all rolls, a balance check against biased or loaded die was therefore built directly into the game, with the perk of making it very obvious if a player was using specific dice for specific rolls
by mmastrac | 2025-05-22 23:09:24+00:00
I'm not saying that they don't do great work, but that twitter thread (https://x.com/ffmpeg/status/1924137645988356437) is pretty obnoxious and reads like they are upset they didn't get funding. It's entirely possible that they are just difficult to work with and funders _don't_ want to fund them.

"Because substantial amounts of human and financial resources go into these rust ports that are inferior to the originals. Orders of magnitude more resources than the originals which remain extremely understaffed/underfunded." -- https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1924149949949775980

"... And we get this instead: <xz backdoor subtweet>" -- https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1924153020352225790

"They [rust ports] are superior in the same way Esperanto is also superior to English." -- https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1924154854051557494

It's kind of sad to see that snarky attitude. Clearly the corporate sponsors _want_ a more secure decoder. Maybe they should try and work _with_ the system instead of wasting energy on sarcasm on Twitter?
by npalli | 2025-05-22 23:09:55+00:00
Odd take, maybe the Java story made sense in say 2012 where everything would default to Java and you were building everything from a different abstraction. If you look at the past 15 years, the landscape has split into lower abstractions of C++ (Rust) for performance critical systems and some of the higher level abstractions split even to a higher level between Python, Go and others. Java is mostly missing in the AI/ML tidal wave. There is no neat - everyone moving to a higher abstraction - story.
by jmugan | 2025-05-22 23:10:10+00:00
That's an interesting idea. It's possible there's a Dict[str,Any] in there. And yeah, my assumption was that it tried everything recursively, but I just wasn't seeing that, and my LLM council said that it did not. But I'll check for a Dict[str,Any]. Unfortunately, I don't have a minimal example, but making one should be my next step.
by poobear22 | 2025-05-22 23:10:49+00:00
I had a nice Philips blue light system, really well designed. It changed nothing for me, and I ended up giving it to someone and I don't think it did anything for them either. $300 wasted? Yeah, limit light before bedtime, no caffeine, and concentrate of getting a good first few hrs of sleep as the subsequent hrs have diminishing returns.
by II2II | 2025-05-22 23:11:02+00:00
That would be akin to describing a computer as a complicated arrangement of switches that control each other through pulses of electricity to do useful stuff. While it may satisfy a bunch of people who aren't really interested in how computers work, and it may even inspire a few people who are intrigued by how such a simple notion could produce incredible results, it doesn't really explain how computers work.
by cowboylowrez | 2025-05-22 23:11:30+00:00
>Objectively flawed thinking needs to be nipped in the bud

I'm looking at this sentence in the light of my current struggles dealing with the irrationalities of so many things. I've spent enough lifespan pointing out the simplest logical falacies to no avail. Heck I lost my last job because I wouldn't shut up about my stupid desire for any sql isolation mode other than "read uncommitted" from our developers.

Sure, objectively flawed thinking doesn't seem to be that desireable, but its popular, people like what we would think is "objectively flawed thinking" or worse yet, can be talked into it by their local snake handling baptist preachers. I tried a few times talking politics for instance with friends and family but I can only quote facts from the best sources I can muster. What good is that if all my best sources of information isn't from you know who, or more importantly, when these folks believe you know who's assertion about what is "fake news"? The worst are the baptists, because they can believe practically any nonsense from their preacher because what baptist preacher is considered faulty by their own congregation?

I do applaud folks who still have hope, but its a condescending sort of applause, you know the old southern "bless your heart" or whatever your regional equivalent is.
by uxp100 | 2025-05-22 23:12:15+00:00
Are suggesting that average Israelis do not support the pressure campaign against universities, even those who generally support Israel’s actions in Gaza? Seems plausible, I haven’t seen any polling about that.

If you are suggesting that Israeli politicians are not involved with American Israel supporters who are advocating a strict crackdown on speech at universities I don’t think that is plausible. We know there is communication between the military and some influential American Israel supporters.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-22 23:12:24+00:00
> there's no reason for them to ever go away, as long as we can find people still interested in building Z-Machines for the latest gear.

I’ve never heard this term z-machines, but it’s interesting, and invokes in my mind a machine that does anything you need regarding z. Specifically I’m reminded of zMUD, but that might be dating myself a bit. Is this z-machine idea your own, or did you happen upon it? Can you think of other memorable or especially useful z-machines in modern usage?
by nextos | 2025-05-22 23:12:27+00:00
Oxbridge suffered a lot of collateral damage from Brexit because of EU funding cuts and massive loss of EU staff and EU students, who now have to pay foreign fees (4-5x regular home fees). An increase in fees also made it prohibitively expensive to hire EU PhD students.

The situation is slowly recovering, as the UK has now first-class access to EU funding programs and there is an open negotiation to bring back home fees for EU students. However, visas are becoming more restrictive and the exceptionally high fees associated with them might be again increasing, which is putting off potential new employees.

Besides, I am not sure Oxbridge has sufficient extra spots for overseas students diverted from the US due to its peculiar tutorial system. There are lots of top EU universities that could collectively benefit from this as they are much cheaper and larger: Heidelberg, TUM, KU, DTU, KI, KTH, etc.
by Groxx | 2025-05-22 23:12:35+00:00
An "IdeaPad 3 CB 11IGLO5" apparently, likely from mid 2020. And it's just vanilla Mint + XFCE, I haven't done anything to optimize it. It ain't fast, but it is definitely fast enough for normal web / writing / etc, and 4GB of ram goes a lot further than I expected (with Firefox and a few dozen tabs, I'm at around 2GB used, and I almost never touch even 3GB).

My only real complaint is the pretty crappy screen, it's one of those cheap LCDs that drastically changes color/contrast/etc as you move away from the tiny perfect viewing angle... but that screen is probably a moderate amount of the reason why the battery lasts so long.

When fully charged and on low brightness, Mint claims I have ~77h of battery life. It's definitely over-estimating, but 30 is totally reachable while I'm doing my normal stuff (likely not on high brightness tho). And when closed I lose like 2%/week, noticeably better than any other laptop I've ever had.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-22 23:12:46+00:00
> Israelis are upset at the student protests and are influencing the university to crush them.

That's putting it mildly. Jewish students got beaten up, spat upon and verbally abused just for being Jewish after Oct 7th. No matter on which side one is in the I/P conflict, there is no justification at all to attack random Jews because of whatever Bibi is doing - it's not just bullshit because what can a Jew in the US even do to change Israeli government policy, but also chances are high that the Jew in question doesn't like Bibi himself.

Academia should be a safe place for everyone who is not a threat to other students, the facilities and the staff - and wearing a kippah or david's star is not being a threat to anyone.

Trump is a fool, this new policy is even more foolish, not to mention blatantly unconstitutional - but it's unfortunately hard to deny that he has a point here.
by nojito | 2025-05-22 23:13:00+00:00
>Data size is a red herring in the conversation.

Not really. A Redshift paper just shared that.

>..here is a small number of tables in Redshift with trillions of rows, while the majority is much more reasonably sized with only millions of rows. In fact, most tables have less than a million rows and the vast majority (98 %) has less than a billion rows.

The argument can be made that 98% of people using redshift can potentially get by with DuckDB.

https://assets.amazon.science/24/3b/04b31ef64c83acf98fe3fdca...
by tikhonj | 2025-05-22 23:13:03+00:00
> AI isn’t replacing us. It’s relieving us - of repetition, boilerplate, tedium.

My problem with current AI is that it isn't relieving us of boilerplate, it's making boilerplate cheaper to write. And when you make something cheaper, you get more of it! We already struggle as an industry with an overabundance of bad code. A fast bad-code generator might be a step towards a higher level of abstraction... but in the meantime it has more negative externalities than positive benefits.

Then again, the author lists "Java enterprise code" as a positive, so perhaps we just have fundamentally incompatible values and aesthetics.
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-22 23:13:36+00:00
That's a weird way of phrasing things. Harvard isn't "bringing students into the country" in the way an employer might relocate an employee.

People want to study in the US, and the administration is revoking Harvard's ability to be on the list of study destinations.

The students want to go to Harvard, it's not that Harvard wants the students (of course they do, but that's not the direct concern here).
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-22 23:13:58+00:00
There's a repo with some of the tools used for graphing/simulation in the paper, https://github.com/saramcallister/Kangaroo?tab=readme-ov-fil...

And that references a fork of CacheLib. Looking at branches, this seems to be the Kangaroo work: https://github.com/saramcallister/CacheLib-1/commits/artifac...
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-22 23:14:10+00:00
Even with the social fix, there’s usually one person (sometimes two!) in a four-player game who does nothing wrong but is basically out by the second or third time around the board, just hanging around to help the one or two other non-lead players harass the leader but with no viable path to victory short of an insane run of luck with the dice (or, if you’re me, as soon you realize this has happened to you, you help the leader get ahead faster so you can move on to a better game sooner…)
by chuckadams | 2025-05-22 23:14:19+00:00
Indeed, I, Robot is made up entirely of stories in which the Laws of Robotics break down. Starting from a mindless mechanical loop of oscillating between one law's priority and another, to a future where they paternalistically enslave all humanity in order to not allow them to come to harm (sorry for the spoilers).

As for what Asimov thought of the wisdom of the laws, he replied that they were just hooks for telling "shaggy dog stories" as he put it.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-22 23:15:27+00:00
The topic was specifically ICMP, so I addressed that.

I didn't want to stray too far off topic, so I left it at that. I had / have a little project running that detects "uninvited activity" on my systems, and blocks traffic (including ICMP) to and from those sources based on a few rules.

https://github.com/UninvitedActivity/UninvitedActivity

It needs some maintenance, so I sometimes avoid mentioning it.

ICMP can be a special case because of the reasons mentioned in the article and other replies, such is why I addressed it separately from other types of blocking (eg. ports). The main point I wanted to make in my original comment was that my blocking of ICMP from 'trash' sources causes my internet experience no problems; that whilst blanket blocking ICMP may not be a good idea, selective blocking doesn't seem to be a problem.
by chneu | 2025-05-22 23:15:29+00:00
Lol no. White Americans are upset that theyre being held responsible for our racist and bigoted past.

Trump is a result of white Americans having to deal with our racist past and the reaction.

Unfortunately nobody likes to be told their success is built on slavery and theft, so we wind up with this wild backlash.

This is a tantrum from white Americans who don't want to be called racist, transphobic, even though they are.

A month or two ago a podcast, I believe Radiolab, straight up asked the woman who was responsible for many of the book bans in the US. Her reply was seriously that she didn't want her kids to feel bad for what their ancestors did.

It's seriously just a tantrum from white Americans who want to deny our history. That's the most American thing I can possibly imagine.

I wish I was kidding but that's really what it is. White Americans get suuuuper upset if you bring up these things.

Remember when Hilldog called trump supporters "deplorables" and his ratings shot up?
by davrosthedalek | 2025-05-22 23:15:42+00:00
Yes, and I think it just depends where how you read the square. For cm^2, we mean that we square a centimeter, not that we have a centi of a meter^2. But a hectare is really a hect of ares, so 100 ares. Here the square "is baked in" into what comes after the modifier.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-22 23:16:35+00:00
My go-to for scraping "like a human" is to use headless browser automation. Dump the DOM after a few seconds to allow react jank to settle, and then parse the HTML document for desired properties.

If you do things correctly this approach should be mostly indistinguishable from an actual user. The automated browser instance is just a normal build of chrome. The biggest trick seems to be patience. If you only make a request once every 60 seconds or so, it's very unlikely that someone or something is going to care about it.
by mmooss | 2025-05-22 23:16:37+00:00
That's one person. While it's very important, it doesn't at all mean the courts don't exit.

> order from the Supreme Court to return him.

The Supreme Court did not order that.

Edit: If you object to these things, realize you are helping the Trump administration by spreading exaggerated fears about what's happening. They want people to believe they are super-powerful, unstoppable, inevitable; it intimidates people into inaction. Also, without accurate information, people can't make good decisions and act - you are helping a propaganda campaign (unwittingly). And finally, spreading fear is not what good, responsible leaders - or teammates - do.
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2025-05-22 23:16:50+00:00
I've been super happy with karakeep: https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

It does have an "import from pocket" feature builtin.

The dev is suuuuper nice and the features have been nicely coming along. Can't wait to see all the features announced.
by input_sh | 2025-05-22 23:17:24+00:00
A bit off-topic, but I'm very excited to see the launch of Bases! I've obsessively followed the roadmap for like a year awaiting this day and have been frequently disappointed to still see it stuck somewhere under "planned".

Not that I didn't already implement a read-it-later solution with Obsidian+Dataview, but this definitely makes things simpler!
by LeFantome | 2025-05-22 23:18:10+00:00
It is not that they did not want to pay for UNIX. After all, they pay for RHEL.

They did not want to pay for big iron for sure, preferring commodity hardware. Even then though, many Linux boxes can get pretty expensive.

I think it is more about openness and control than it is about cost. Linux brings flexibility and freedom.

So does BSD of course. The timing of that lawsuit changed the world.
by periodjet | 2025-05-22 23:20:37+00:00
Off the top of my head: Harvard has been ranked last in FIRE’s freedom of speech rankings; has allowed an authoritarian intellectual monoculture to calcify over the past 2 decades; has allowed its administration to balloon in cost, headcount, and power relative to its students and faculty; has repeatedly allowed (and even supported) violent and disruptive protests on its campus; has elected an unqualified plagiarist to its office of president due to her group affiliations rather than her merit and qualifications; has allowed that same (thankfully now ex-)president to clandestinely attempt to destroy the career of a faculty member whose research findings she disliked; has discriminated against students of a particular group in terms of admissions; etc.

I don’t particularly want to be funding an institution which behaves like that, so I’m glad this administration is pressuring it to do better in order to enjoy the public’s largesse.
by ryukoposting | 2025-05-22 23:21:22+00:00
Pocket became annoying because Mozilla started shoving it down your throat, whether or not you wanted it. To most FF users, Pocket is (at very best) a source of occasional popups and other UI annoyances. People who had a use for it really liked it, though.

I used Pocket for about 3 years, before and after the acquisition. When Firefox started syncing bookmarks across devices, and they added the reader mode, Pocket became obsolete in my mind. I stopped using it because I didn't need it anymore.
by konfusinomicon | 2025-05-22 23:22:36+00:00
buldak ramen introduced me to jjajang. I stir fry 1 of them and one 2x spicy together with green and yellow onion, red pepper, garlic, ginger, and whatever leftover protein I have from the week. top with some type of Lao Gan Ma and there is basically no reason to ever order takeout
by mmooss | 2025-05-22 23:22:39+00:00
Edit: You are making one uninformed assertion after another. Stop making endless errors and just look up these things at signal.org. They are very open about it.

> Ok, now where are Signal's servers hosted? You're not safe for any secret police from those countries and countries friendly to the hosting countries.

Signal is very open about what information they collect, which is all they can produce: a phone number, and "the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service".

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

> As in there's no way to accidentally leak your phone number to your contacts on, say, a new installation that comes with the option to make it visible by default?

Is there? What are you claiming, and based on what? There are infinite speculative security risks.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2025-05-22 23:22:41+00:00
One of the upcoming rumoured new Apple Vision Pro accessibility features will apparently be providing a magnified vision area.

Quest 3 has the passthrough API now that lets apps access the camera feeds as well. I’m eagerly awaiting Meta or a third-party to implement something similar.

There’s also other specialist devices for the vision impaired like myself, but as far as I know none of them give you magnified STEREO vision (although maybe the new eSight does, I’m not sure tbh).

There’s also bioptic glasses, but they’re chunky. Honestly give me glasses with micro-OLED displays like the viewfinder on the Sony DSLR cameras attached to a top-tier phone camera sensor and lens construction; my phone zooms in amazingly far yet is thinner than any bioptic or monocular I’ve ever seen.

I’ve looked into building this kind of thing a few times but I think it might be above the components I can get my hands on.
by throwaway219450 | 2025-05-22 23:22:47+00:00
The F/J exhange visa is tied to a specific sponsor (ie the University) for a very specific goal. There are a lot of restrictions on what you can and can't do. If your visa sponsor has its privilege revoked then presumably you have a choice to transfer to a different institute, if one will take you, or leave the country.

There is a mechanism for that transfer built into the visa, which could be used for example if your professor moved institutions and wanted to re-hire you to fulfil the original goals of your exchange program.

It's unclear if this affects all foreign academic staff, many of whom who would be on the J, or just the F visa.

Edit: apparently all exhange visas.
by fkfyshroglk | 2025-05-22 23:25:00+00:00
> From a philosophic point of view I would say the fact that about half of the electorate do not want higher taxes while the other half wants more government services

Are these not the same people? One half can convince themselves they don't get any payoff from their taxes; the other sees the payoff. Ultimately both expect services from their government they aren't getting, and are upset with services the government does render that seem inherently injust.

The difference is that those who most adamantly state they contribute the most while getting the least actually contribute the least while getting the most.