MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by omneity | 2025-05-09 15:40:03+00:00
"Real neurons" but whose neurons are they sourcing? And are all neurons born equal? Should we have a NeuronArena where people submit samples for eval?

@dang, agreed that the product cannot be discussed on technical merits as of now, but I suggest some of the ancillary topics (irrelevant of their technical implementation) such as neuron sourcing might be worth opening.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-09 15:40:50+00:00
> that my data would be (ab)used less on the Apple side.

Honest question, apart for the marketing, why?

Does Apple collect your data? Yes. Does Apple operate an advertising platform and give itself a large amount of rights on your data for advertisement purpose? Yes. Is Apple an American company and therefore subject to the non sensical and draconian USA spying laws? Yes.

I don’t really see how Apple is better than Google here. Both are pretty much equally bad.
by titaphraz | 2025-05-09 15:40:52+00:00
That's very interesting, two comments:

- Automatic black box with autocomplete is a deal breaker for me. It'll drive me mad.

- I only use the mouse in the terminal if I have to (it disturbs and slows my flow!). So anything that helps me NOT using the mouse would be better. At the moment I think it's only text select/copy I use the mouse for. And resize the window. So a magic quick way to select text and copy from the keyboard would be very nice.

But I do realize I'm not the intended audience.
by jitl | 2025-05-09 15:41:31+00:00
The React example w/ the complicated table API will work fine for zillions of records. Virtualization is not complex math, and there are many libraries that will implement it for you in various languages.

I just tried making an array w/ 1 million items in it in my browser console `Array.from({ length: 1_000_000 }, () => ({ id: ++nextId, data: Math.random() }))` without issue. Virtualization is just simple arithmetic to select the firstRender and lastRender indexes in the array. I don't think you need WASM for this.
by hajile | 2025-05-09 15:41:49+00:00
Aquinas takes it in the only sense that would make sense if you could. These verses discuss the overseer of a church and the rest of the chapter discusses the requirements to be a deacon of a church. The two are completely linked by the context.

Because it is discussing churches, it would be saying that priests must be married. As all bishops are priests, it would apply to them as well.

Even if you took the broader position that it must apply elsewhere, the Catholic Church has only three orders -- deacon, priest, and bishop. These verses MUST be discussing either priest or bishop meaning at least one of those two is not following what Paul wrote.
by jeffbee | 2025-05-09 15:41:59+00:00
I don't see any reason other than sheer speculation to suspect a cyberattack. It can just as easily have been some car crashed into a fiber optic thingy.

The last time in recent memory there was a large BART disruption it had been caused by a motorcyclist who somehow flung himself over a fence into the trackway and died. That stopped service in and north of Oakland, which is more than half of the system by riders.
by njarboe | 2025-05-09 15:42:10+00:00
"The consolidation appears to be driven in part by President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the agency’s $4 billion budget by 55% for the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October."

This statement is wrong. What a sad state of affairs Science Magazine has become. It should read, "The proposal is to cut the budget by 55% to $4 billion."

The 2024 budget was $9.06 billion and the 2025 request was $10.183 billion.[1]

[1]https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget#budget-baf
by Bender | 2025-05-09 15:42:16+00:00
Wouldn't it have made more sense to completely unrestrict the Internet then, rather than completely shutting it off?

I suppose it depends on the culture and location of the coffee shop and the local population. Management would be able to tell from sales if those hanging out there for many hours are buying anything. If they are taking up seats and not buying more than one coffee then it would probably make business sense to boot them out and hope for more paying customers. The sales numbers would show if that makes or made sense. OTOH if the shop has a capacity of 25 and on average only has 5 people then leave them be as it will make the place look popular with 5 cars in front of it.
by hollerith | 2025-05-09 15:42:26+00:00
>If I block the emitter with my hand the remote has no trouble turning the TV on and off. Even if I've blocked it with my hand and am holding the remote behind the couch so there is no line of sight to the TV it still works.

Near-infrared light is biologically important, which is why we know it will go through your hand and most fabrics. I used to dose myself with near-infrared light by sitting in the sun wrapped in a polyester blanket to filter out the UV light.
by mousethatroared | 2025-05-09 15:42:33+00:00
"That's still quite a bit better than diesel engines, where for realistic engines you're talking about 40% _in ideal conditions_" and so on

Which is where hybrid drive trains and PWM comes in. Run the engine at its ideal and only at its ideal with no care for the actual load requested.

Furthermore I mentioned CNG - ie methane. Methane has more energy per CO2 gram than any hydrocarbon and has an insanely high octane number -> it can run an Otto cycle at diesel compression ratios.

Run it as a miller cycle and the thermal efficiency starts to go up even highed.

Really my 40% is a low ball of what is possible in ICEs to not offend anyone's preconceptions. F1 claims to have achieved >50% thermal efficiency in a race engine but Im usually loath to mention that because of their secrecy and therefore lack of indee verification.

And no one talks that lines and transmission is lossy. No one talks that dispach-able power is often coal or oil. No one talks about the environmental and social cost of batteries.

Hybrids ameliorate (the most, btw) just about every aspect of this while minimizing external costs
by pyrophane | 2025-05-09 15:42:43+00:00
I really enjoyed The Wager by David Grann about this story. Grann was also the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, which was made into the movie of the same name by Martin Scorsese, and Scorsese is now making The Wager into a film, although I don't think they've even settled on a release year yet.
by hn_acker | 2025-05-09 15:43:05+00:00
With "the only country where this happens", GP was referring to shootings at schools and hospitals. GP might have been alluding to the recurring The Onion headline `'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens` [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
by mjb | 2025-05-09 15:43:16+00:00
This makes sense, especially with the move of OSDI to being annual, and NSDI accepting more and more general systems-y work (e.g. we published the Firecracker paper at NSDI, which wouldn't have made sense even 5 years earlier). ATC was left in a difficult niche, but still a valuable venue for "hackier" systems work, industry systems papers of the less quantitative kind, and a few others.

I'd love to see OSDI evolve to accept more of this work, and look at the ATC work that has stood the test of time and accept more work like that. Maybe SOSP and Eurosys too. I bet USENIX is going to figure this out - they're generally a smart and well-run organization.

Fun fact: we won best industry paper at ATC'23 for "On-demand container loading in AWS Lambda" (https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/brooker). I was super happy with it as a paper and got a ton of good feedback on it. About six months earlier, it'd been desk-rejected by the chair of another systems conference who asked that we don't submit such low-quality work to them.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-09 15:46:11+00:00
> The Peruvians definitely seem to be happy about it

I don’t really see that from the articles you linked.

It’s all quotes about how the Pope is Peruvian (definitely true as he indeed has the Peruvian nationality) and how Peruvian people feel blessed in that.

Even your last article reinforces that he is a dual citizen with knowledge of both culture which obviously makes people joyful.

I have yet to see people argue if he is more American or more Peruvian apart from here.
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-05-09 15:46:25+00:00
If it crashes, it's my fault. At every point i'm supervising.

Except in self summon, and if it side swipes the car on the way out, it's obviously still my fault. That's just never happened to me.

Where in my sentence did i say I wasn't fully in control of the situation? I just say i very, very rarely even have to disengage in situations.

On the very rare occassion that i do disengage, it's not really that the car is going to put me in a life threatening situation, it kinda just stops... and tweeks out a bit. Mainly at some super wierd triangle intersection in some of the small towns along the california coast.

Honestly i've come to "feel" the car after using it. I'll disengage if i even have a shadow of a doubt it's not going to work, and in situations where i've seen it "fail" before. It might have accomplished it, but instead i just drive through the wierd intersection and reengage.

This has already turned into a rant, but one last point; Have you driven in the other cars in Austin? They do the same thing. When it tweaks, or thinks it might tweak, they patch over to a human who takes control of the car.
by Smeevy | 2025-05-09 15:46:29+00:00
I think the problem here is that there isn't just one way in which Donald Trump is unduly influenced by Russia in ways that are difficult to explain. I can understand being skeptical, but there's several independent actions Trump has taken that are all inexplicably sympathetic to Russian interests.

Just some quick examples:

* Recommending American de-nuclearization while stating that Russia is no longer a threat to America.

* Dismantling cybersecurity programs that are intended to identify and counter Russian hacking efforts.

* Peace negotiations with Ukraine and Russia that require no concessions made by Russia.

All of these actions are being taken despite polling poorly with Americans. You could say that none of these definitively proves that there is Russian leverage over Trump and you would be technically correct. The flip side of that coin is that you also can't explain why these actions are in America's best interest.
by rjmunro | 2025-05-09 15:46:59+00:00
That's not what it does. You would have your real time shaders running on a server somewhere, and Sofie would activate them at the right moment in the show.

It's a tool that lets you drag and drop news stories in to a rundown and it will automatically play them. The news stories may have parts that are read from a teleprompter, parts that are pre-recorded video, live parts from outside broadcasts, interviews, graphics that need to be shown etc. Those are mostly provided by services or hardware that Sofie controls, not that are part of the show. Sofie is an automation tool.
by constantcrying | 2025-05-09 15:48:19+00:00
The article title suggests that this is about his current PC which he is using at the agency. That is totally false.

In fact the story is that at someone point in the past at least in 2013 some credentials of his landed in multiple breaches. Some of my credentials also appear there, this of course means nothing at all about his current account security or the security of the data.

I don't even know what the allegations are. Can you not ever work for a government agency when any account of yours gets compromised? Databreaches aren't that uncommon, presumably many people here have some credentials leaked, do you think these people should be excluded from working jobs in the government?
by igouy | 2025-05-09 15:49:18+00:00
Don't have manifest types and don't have manifest interfaces.

Someone has already referenced "Adding Dynamic Interfaces to Smalltalk" [0] and looking back there doesn't seem to be any kind of demonstration that use of interfaces makes software faster to develop or less error prone or... [1]

[0] https://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2002_05/article1/ [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/papers/OOPSLA89/interfaces.pdf
by _djo_ | 2025-05-09 15:49:35+00:00
This isn't a right or left issue, and I'm not even an American. I have no political affiliation here except seeing a country I've long admired facing a profound challenge. This is about significant portions of American voters turning away from established institutions—the scientific community, professional civil service, and constitutional checks and balances that have been foundational to American strength.

I could maybe understand why people voted for the anti-establishment candidate the first time around. Legitimate frustrations exist with a system many felt wasn't working for them. But the second time around, with clear evidence of the consequences, is not defensible and shouldn't be excused.

This is a form of reactionary populism and it's deeply dangerous for the US's power, prosperity, and political freedoms. Ask Argentinians what Peronism, as another form of anti-establishment populism, did for them. There are countless other examples to learn from too.
by skydhash | 2025-05-09 15:50:36+00:00
You can’t, because the reason the code exists is because you need its formality in order to eliminate ambiguity. Everytime code is explained without showing the code, there’s a baseline of understanding that’s required to filter the additional ambiguity.

The only approach left is to refer to the domain. As the person is familiar with it, you illustrate the behavior that is currently programmed by the system. The program itself should be a blackbox. Only knobs and sliders should be left (aka any professional software).
by Windchaser | 2025-05-09 15:50:55+00:00
> The short answer is Christianity isn't a utilitarian belief system. While God loves everyone equally, he puts some of us closer together in love: family, friends, neighbors, countrymen. This incurs a greater obligation, plus we ought to love more those who are closer to us.

This is very directly contradicted in the parable of the Good Samaritan, though. When Jesus said to love your neighbor as yourself, and Peter asked “but who is my neighbor”, Jesus pulled up the Samaritans - a group that the Jews had ethnic and religious conflicts with. (A modern equivalent for modern Jews might be the Palestinians). And he pointed and told a whole story that basically said “these guys. Love these enemies as if they were your family”.

So, yeah, I’m gonna hard disagree that Christianity supports treating your own townspeople as more worthy of help, versus helping the poorer people in other countries.
by prmoustache | 2025-05-09 15:51:07+00:00
> To show the other side of the coin: SOCKS proxies are less convenient, as they require you to configure your entire browser (your entire system on macOS) to use it.

It is no big deal. The blog post shows the usage of a pac file which only redirects the local .podman tld to the socks proxy.

It is only maybe an issue if you are using a company issued computer already using a pac file from a GPO. But in that case you can totally decide to dedicate a browser for it and setup the socks proxy only for it. Choices.
by throwup238 | 2025-05-09 15:51:57+00:00
My free square is one of their control computers’ parallel ports frying out and now they’re unable to find a replacement because they buy them all as old stock off of ebay [1].

The ports are used as hard realtime GPIO so if some of the electrical isolation failed downstream, it could take out the motherboard. Back before Vista’s security model change, drivers could fill DMA buffers to the parallel ports controller and get hard realtime time outputs on Windows so there’s a quite lot of old industrial control systems running on a thread.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/17/how-clever-mechanics-...
by bradly | 2025-05-09 15:52:10+00:00
I've started to noticed these hardware products in the $500-$1000 that don't really solve any problems. See the $500 digital album art frame that sold out and I do not think ever shipped. Or the Orchid synth which is a $600 musical toy with an amazing amount of included modules and bugs. Patreon and Discord support channels filled with issues and help requests, being met with radio silence or asking for patience or "an update is just wrapping up", all while just feeding the social networks more 5 second clips of people playing an arpeggiated chord and announcing a second drop.
by FitCodIa | 2025-05-09 15:52:37+00:00
> improved safety tooling (bolts) were used to increase efficiency rather than safety

"And so, amazingly, for the first 20 years of its use, the main effect of the most important lifesaving technology in the history of coal mining was to increase the efficiency of the mines while preserving existing probabilities of death and injury."

To me, this is the hardest-hitting sentence of the entire article.

Be sure to remember this whenever a new achievement in efficiency (power or otherwise) is announced, be it in computing, industry, or transportation. Such advances are rarely aimed at lessening the load on the environment; not at first, anyway. Instead, they are used for extracting more profits, while burdening the environment just the same -- I think "more profits" is the incentive for such research and advances in the first place. I think the EU does it right, by demanding progress via regulations. Whether those directives are issued after the technological advances are reported, or the directives are the motivation for the research, I cannot say; either way, advances can be steered toward public benefits only via regulations.
by DistractionRect | 2025-05-09 15:53:05+00:00
Well, I'd understand why it's difficult to extend to nationwide or even statewide just because of all the variations in road/driving conditions. So I can get how FSD never got certified at either scale. However, given their experience and plethora of data collected, I would have expected they'd be among the first get robotaxis in select cities. Idk, just struck me as odd is all. I figured I'd tee off this comment because someone might have an more informed insight into the why of it.
by elashri | 2025-05-09 15:53:16+00:00
I just did a funny exercise (details are not interesting) to estimate how long would LHC and Alice need (assuming perfect conditions and ignoring any limitations) to get enough gold to fund FCC (15B CHF assuming today's gold price in CHF) on their own. And it would take about 185 billion years of continuous run. A reminder that the universe is about 14 billion years (ignoring the hubble tension for our purpose here)
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-09 15:53:17+00:00
This post is nonsensical.

> The SS Trust Fund is numbers on a spreadsheet. It doesn't matter.

"Numbers on a spreadsheet" is meaningless, you just described functionally all of accounting for the entire economy, and if that's a reason it "doesn't matter" then the debt also "doesn't matter" because it's also just numbers on a spreadsheet. What do you think nearly all money is?

> It's gone and spent.

Simply, factually wrong. If so, then so's your 401k. And all the money in your bank account.

> The question is about real actual resource distribution. SS is drawing more resources from young people than it is giving back. That's an actual problem, no matter how many tabs you add to your excel spreadsheet.

You're wrong about Social Security (and medicare, for that matter) contributing to the budget deficit, so you're trying to change the topic to "is social security's funding fair?"
by sailfast | 2025-05-09 15:53:39+00:00
I’m honestly not sure that the market is looking at supply at all at this point and is focused mainly on gold as a hedge against assets that are part of structured economies (treasuries, the dollar, etc)

I would hypothesize that if you doubled the gold supply in the world you might only see a 1/3 decrease in price because of these dynamics - but I’m not an expert in that market.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-05-09 15:54:15+00:00
I don't know if this is the case with BART, but I've seen in my own local public transit network an incredible inability or lack of will to use systems proven in other areas. Instead of going with quick, proven, and reliable, systems, they'll default to going for the cheap option, which is usually slow, re-inventing the wheel, and unreliable. I visit a city like NYC or London or Tokyo and see a transit system with decades of accrued understanding, technical experience, and optimization. Then I come home and ride something shiny but slow, janky, and bug ridden.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-05-09 15:54:22+00:00
I could not have said it better myself.

I’ve seen “behind the curtain” in both private and publicly funded research. I can’t think of a single area where private industry isn’t standing on the shoulders of collective advancement. (I speak from experience as someone who holds a degree in one of the fields I’m about to mention.)

The biggest leaps tend to be made as a result of public-private partnerships. For example, essentially the totality of fundamental knowledge relating to aeronautics and aerospace, advanced medicine and life-saving pharmaceuticals (especially drugs for orphaned diseases), and any of the examples already offered in this thread.

Private ownership of scientific knowledge isn’t inherently a bad thing, but locking it up indirectly by virtue of eliminating all public funding for it does nothing more than to invite a new corporatist driven Dark Age.

Cyberpunk 2077 is a fun place to visit on the screen. I guess some people do want to live there.
by haberman | 2025-05-09 15:54:30+00:00
The description in your link says:

> What is a Metaheuristic? A common but unfortunate name for any stochastic optimization algorithm intended to be the last resort before giving up and using random or brute-force search. Such algorithms are used for problems where you don't know how to find a good solution, but if shown a candidate solution, you can give it a grade.

That sounds like "the AI came up with a solution where cars can crash, let's give that solution a bad grade."

I was hoping for something more like "the problem is specified such that invalid solutions aren't even representable, so only acceptable solutions are considered."
by rjmunro | 2025-05-09 15:55:33+00:00
It was mostly developed for NRK by Superfly.tv. They are available to extend the system to other hardware or customise it in other ways if the broadcaster doesn't have the expertise to do it themselves. It's already used by several other broadcasters, for example, the BBC use it for their Newsround program: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryanwmckenna_great-to-see-new...
by krapp | 2025-05-09 15:56:12+00:00
One has to remember that alchemy was as much a religious and spiritual pursuit as anything resembling proto-science, and understand that occultists were working from a worldview which was nominatively deterministic - meaning the names and properties of things in the natural world held inherent power and reflected a higher, divine nature ("as above, so below")

The transmutation of metals in alchemy is a metaphor for the transmutation of the soul, from its base and sinful nature ("lead") to divinity ("gold".) The means of purifying one was the means of purifying the other, and the "philosopher's stone" alchemists often sought to achieve this was credited for doing both.

Also... it was often an easy grift to get room and board (and money) from wealthy patrons.

Here is a good /r/AskHistorians thread about this[0].

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/114vo4m/alch...