MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsimpson | 2025-05-22 03:56:59+00:00
For the last 2 decades, reddit and its ilk have been pseudonymous. You might mostly be careful not to give too much context about your daily life, but every once in a while, maybe you leak a little detail. Unless you run for President, nobody is going to bother reading through your thousands of comments to stitch together your identity.

As these models are trained on every piece of content ever written online, there are going to be a whole bunch of identity cracks, the equivalent of brute forcing a password.

AIs are going to make judgments about your character and personality based on everything you've ever written.

Guesses are going to come out about which burner accounts you've used, because the same password was used on otherwise unrelated accounts.

Essays you wrote in high school are going to resurface and be connected to your adult persona.

There was a time when an 8 character password was the state of the art, and now it can be cracked instantly. In the same way, sleuthing that would have been an impractical amount of work until recently is going to pierce the privacy veil of the internet in ways that could be really uncomfortable for people who have spent 3 decades assuming the internet is an anonymous place.
by mrandish | 2025-05-22 03:57:11+00:00
> he claims that the game’s characters are not inspired by other sources, including video games and comic books.

Wow, that's a pretty implausible thing to claim under oath in a deposition. I mean, it's almost impossible to NOT be somewhat influenced by some pre-existing historical or cultural sources whether fairy tales, legends, books, movies, paintings, comics, games, bedtime stories, etc. I was wondering if some context in the question or answer might be missing, then I read the full context from the deposition transcript:

> "I understand that Data East has questioned the originality of the special moves in Street Fighter II. With the exception of carrying forward some characters, moves, and control sequences from the original Street Fighter, we did not take the characters, moves, and control sequences from any other videogame or any other source such as comic books."

And realized if you change a comma to an apostrophe, Nishitani's statement becomes much less controversial. Just change "we did not take the characters, moves, and control sequences from any other videogame" to "we did not take the character's moves and control sequences from any other videogame"

A deposition is a verbal Q & A that's transcribed by a court reporter based on what they hear the person saying. The punctuation is all added by the court reporter based on their interpretation of what's implied from the context. Of course, each side's lawyers get a copy of the transcription and have an opportunity to contest any errors they choose to. However, Capcom's U.S. attorney may have missed this distinction in the transcript or, alternatively, may have been just fine with the implications of the court reporter's inferred punctuation - which Nishitani probably never saw.

Narrowing it to just the character's moves and control sequences changes it to a more reasonable claim, especially if he meant a particular joystick + button combo triggering a specific kind move. However, I've never been into fighting games so I don't know if at that time there were already pre-existing de facto standards for certain control sequences triggering specific types of moves. If not, my naive interpretation is that a dozen different control sequences triggering a dozen different moves creates over a hundred control/move pairs which could arguably be unique. Of course I have no idea if Data East's game used all or most of those same pairings - and even if it did - if those pairings are legally copyrightable but, at a minimum, turning that comma into an apostrophe does change Nishitani's testimony from something pretty unbelievable (basically sort of implying "I was raised in a cave with no exposure to pre-existing culture") to something that's entirely plausible like "our control sequence/move pairings weren't derived from another game nor were they taken from how fighting moves were sequenced in comic book frames."

Just a couple minutes ago I was another shocked villager lighting my torch, ready to join the mob on the way to set fire to Nishitani's reputation and now I'm not so sure...
by acjohnson55 | 2025-05-22 03:58:25+00:00
I get a weird transient tinnitus where my hearing drops out in one ear or the other for about 15 seconds, and is replace by a tone, which slowly fades as my hearing comes back. It sometimes happens multiple times per day, and sometimes not for weeks at a time. I've seen a couple specialists about it, but no known cause.

I also notice a low-level tinnitus when I'm in very quiet places. I keep white noise machines around to cover it.
by caseyy | 2025-05-22 03:59:05+00:00
I don't entirely agree with other commenters saying it's uninspired. It is neutral, but many functional considerations go into making a UI framework, and neutrality serves an important purpose.

However, given Material's popularity, I think it's inevitable that poorly designed/unergonomic apps will cheapen M3 a lot in the coming years. Same as it happened with Material 2. It used to be associated with clean, professionally developed apps; then it became associated with the worst of the worst and a lot of mediocre stuff, too. Sturgeon's Law is not kind to these things.
by Nition | 2025-05-22 03:59:21+00:00
Tangentially related: Recently I was thinking of commissioning an artist to do some album art for me. I had a specific concept in mind and it needed to have a certain look to it but I didn't mind if the actual art was physically painted or digital.

What struck me is there's no website for hiring an artist. ArtStation has a Shop section (pre-made art for sale) but no Commissions section. Fiverr has some artists taking commissions but none I could find of really good quality, and there's AI art spam now as well (takes commissions but just sends you an AI prompt result). Reddit has two art commission subreddits but there aren't really many artists there. And both Fiverr and Reddit's main selling point is cheap art commissions, but I was happy to pay more for something good.

Unless you know an artist already that suits the style you're after, and they're currently taking commissions, it seems quite hard to find anyone. I kinda thought I'd be able to go to, like, CommissionArt.com and filter by Traditional -> Oils -> Landscapes or whatever to find someone perfect.

To everyone who says hire a real artist instead of using AI - where do you go to find them?
by JettRansom1 | 2025-05-22 03:59:22+00:00
I’ve had similar concerns, especially when dealing with new projects or OTC trades. I started using Satoshi Eye recently, it gives a quick risk score and flags things like scam exposure, darknet links, or sanctions. What I like most is that it explains why a wallet is risky, instead of just giving a number. It’s simple enough for non-tech users but still actionable.
by wiseowise | 2025-05-22 04:00:21+00:00
> novels started taking a more conversational style

It’s one thing to have conversational style and another to (almost) completely disregard grammar.

> i can't even type "i have 5 pennies" without my phone correcting it to "I have 5 Pennie's" for some reason.

Let me guess: an iPhone? What a motherf**ing garbage the new iOS keyboard is. Hope whoever worked on it reads this and feels ashamed.
by boroboro4 | 2025-05-22 04:00:25+00:00
Diffusion is about what goes into the model and what’s a result (in this case it’s denoising of the content) as opposed to autoregressive models (where the process is to predict continuation based on prefix). It’s orthogonal to model architecture, which can be transformer or (for example) mamba. I’m pretty sure Gemini diffusion is transformer too.

Diffusion brings different set of trade offs, and as you can see it improves speed but I would expect it increases compute required for generation. But this is hard to say for sure without knowing their exact sampling process.

Interestingly we have opposite direction in case with gpt-4o, OpenAI made autoregressive image generation model and it seems it works great.
by neom | 2025-05-22 04:00:29+00:00
Same for me, is it weird I'd go so far as to say... I like mine? I like the name "the sound of silence" for it - I kinda feel like I use it as a "plane" to think on top of somehow or something. For me it kinda...whirrs up almost, till I'm fully enveloped by my thoughts and imagination, at that point the tinnitus is gone and I'm in unbridled thinking mode,I quite like the whole experience personally. I'm scared it will get debilitating like others have described, but it's never bothered me.
by geokon | 2025-05-22 04:02:10+00:00
I think a more charitable reading is that these are just basic suggestions about how to make one's writing clear and get your point across. It's hard to step back and look at what you write from the perspective of someone not familiar with the subject matter (ie. the reviewer).

Sure it's framed in terms of "helping you get published" (which feels kind of gross) but I think ultimately it's really about tips for authors to get their points across in a clear and engaging way.
by dotdashdashdash | 2025-05-22 04:02:52+00:00
Unfortunately, it will likely require hard work on your part rather than relying on pills. One thing that's worked for me is therapy focusing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Essentially, you identify your goals and values, and then reframe your thinking to question whether what you're doing aligns with those goals and values.

Depending on what you struggle with, try batching tasks. I used to have a long list of things to remember to do regularly (wash up, clear the bench, put the kids' toys away, etc.), and I would often ignore it because it became annoying. All I did was change it to a plain note that I can look at and see if the task was completed, and eventually those tasks became a habit.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-05-22 04:04:21+00:00
I had 1.5GB (3 x 512MB) Virtual Channel Memory (SDRAM) on a T-Bird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_dynamic_random-acc...

Undervolted and OC'd to 1800+ under Linux, 2100+ under NetBSD.

Stable and rock-solid :-)
by RIMR | 2025-05-22 04:04:45+00:00
I was very miserable when my chronic tinnitus showed up, but my life improved greatly after my doctor got me in the right cognitive behavioral therapy to learn to ignore it. After plenty of practice, it's now hard for me to hear it without actively listening for it, even though it is quite loud.

My advice to anyone struggling with tinnitus is to avoid silence for a while. Focus on anything but the tinnitus. Never give yourself the chance to focus on it. Buy bone conductor headphones and listen to ambient music instead of sitting in silence. Buy a white noise machine for when you go to bed, or run a fan. Then spend a few minutes every waking hour of your day actively listening to the sounds around you

Eventually you'll have trained yourself to listen to something else. As long as there's something else to listen to, even if it is very quiet, you'll default to listening to that instead of your tinnitus until it becomes something you do passively.

I might as well not have tinnitus anymore. I can't speak for everyone, especially not in regards to hypersensitivity to noise like the author here has, but I went from mourning the loss of my daily comfort to completely forgetting about the problem in a couple of months.
by conception | 2025-05-22 04:04:53+00:00
I hope you support really really progressive tax structures because pretty much all human history shows that when humans aren’t needed those with money/power do not provide for them enjoy life.

I mean, people died to get two days off a week and only work eight hours in the US. That isn’t guaranteed for a wide swath of the world population. And the idea of working only four days a week is crazy radical talk.
by necovek | 2025-05-22 04:05:17+00:00
If stars exist, nuclear fusion is achievable.

Can we achieve it within a practical timeframe of human civilization of, say, 10 thousand years? Or within a single lifetime (some who've worked on it early are now dead, fwiw).

Stocks are obviously a pretty bad example for your claim, because they are a clear counterpoint (in formal logic, which you appealed to, that's enough to call it a proof that trendlines do not ensure any future outcome).

And feedback loop? LLMs have gotten where they are by simply providing current state of the art at no cost to millions of people, to ensure that investment feedback loop by losing gobs of money yet keep investing. We've seen that with VC-funded companies previously too.
by wiseowise | 2025-05-22 04:10:10+00:00
I have a “mild” tinnitus that I only hear in complete silence.

Last time I went to a party, I pulled out an AirPods when we were (practically) standing in front of the speakers. Still remember puzzled and “not cool, dude” looks, lol. I’m not taking chances with this tinnitus crap after what I read online.
by conradev | 2025-05-22 04:11:59+00:00
> I really hate these conspiracies. Like come on.

The Washington Post:

In a statement, WikiLeaks indicated that the initial stockpile it put online was part of a broader collection of nearly 9,000 files that would be posted over time describing code developed in secret by the CIA to steal data from a range of targets. WikiLeaks said it redacted lists of CIA surveillance targets, though it said they included targets and machines in Latin America, Europe and the United States.

https://archive.ph/QgK0a#:~:text=In%20a%20statement,the%20Un...

and:

The experience of O.S.B. engineers bore some resemblance to the Apple TV+ drama “Severance,”

https://archive.ph/K59TS#:~:text=The%20experience%20of%20O.S...
by krastanov | 2025-05-22 04:15:13+00:00
ugh... Needing more than 4 significant digits is a pretty baseline requirement for precision physics experiments meant to falsify various candidate theories. 2 new significant digits is a vast parameter space that now can be excluded.

Needing more than 4 significant digits happens to be crucially important for mundane boring stuff like the GPS navigation in your maps app working.
by abetusk | 2025-05-22 04:15:49+00:00
I think the professional sciences has, for a long time, been a social game of building ones career but it does feel like it's metastasized into something that's swallowed academia.

From the first article in the series [0]:

> Insiders ... understand that a research paper serves ... in increasing importance ... Currency, An advertisement, Brand marketing ... in contrast to what outsiders .. believe, which is ... to share a novel discovery with the world in a detailed report.

I can believe it's absolutely true. And yikes.

Other than the brutal contempt, TFA looks like pretty good advice.

[0] https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/your-paper-is-an-ad/
by aaxa | 2025-05-22 04:16:26+00:00
I worked at CERN a few years ago, so assuming they haven't build any new amazing facilities, these would be my top picks:

- Any of the experiments really, but especially ATLAS is impressive.

- The antimatter factory. I found that the guides there are usually very passionate.

- The control centre if you can get a tour (this is the facility I delivered software to).
by theamk | 2025-05-22 04:17:46+00:00
Simple, there are always people who are intentionally using the hard way. There is a community programming old 16-bit machines for example, which are much harder than modern tools. Or someone learning assembly language "just for fun".

Some of those (or similar) people will actually learn new stuff and become senior devs. Yes, there will be much fewer of them, so they'll command a higher salary, and they will deliver amazing stuff. The rest, who spend their entire carrier being AI handlers, will never raise above junior/mid level.

(Well, either that or people who cannot program by themselves will get promoted anyway, the software will get more bugs and less features, and things will be generally worse for both consumers and programmers... but I prefer not to think about this option)
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-22 04:18:23+00:00
There’s some great Winamp skins, but for me the peak of expressive, creative UI were OS X themes, XP-era msstyle themes, and Vista/7 msstyle themes tied for first place with classic Mac OS Kaleidoscope schemes closely following.

Some of those OS X/XP/7 themes were gorgeous but also very practically usable. Many still hold up well today, and I’d use them over the majority of themes available for Linux desktops if given the option.
by namibj | 2025-05-22 04:18:45+00:00
They aren't for range, but for MIMO (exploiting that the signal bounces differently between the antennas either end of the connection, while some antenna pairs behave poorly, others may well be perfect, so it essentially matches them (through a mixing matrix, to be more abstract/generic) to form good pairs that are also independent from another, so they can simultaneously run different data streams over different antennas to severely increase speed.

It also compensates for interference dead spots when you hold your phone into such a spot.

The long sticks typically radiate in the plane normal to the stick, i.e., if you make them all perfectly vertical, they are focused to the same floor. Individual ones can be rotated readily to cover special spots, especially if you have more than 4 antenna.
by mlindner | 2025-05-22 04:19:48+00:00
I've seen this expressed before, but every picture I've seen of CERN just looks like a massive pile of wiring, magnets and generic electronics. So I'm not sure why people react like you do towards it. Is it different from seeing it in pictures?

To me things like tokamak fusion reactors or rockets or even places like the massive piles of pipe work outside of SpaceX's launch site feel way cooler.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-22 04:20:06+00:00
I am not sure what leads you to answer this way, but I assure you that HTTP, like any other unencrypted network traffic, does inherently allow undetected tampering by any middleman.

While it's highly unlikely that threat actors would be lurking in trusted networks and devices on such a network path, they definitely don't need to use shared WiFi or ARP spoofing if they have control of a core router or transmission line. That's the very essence of MITM attacks.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-05-22 04:20:56+00:00
I've heard folks complain it gets slow with very large or old mailboxes. One reason that happens is that they need to be compacted, another is that the sqlites need to be vacuumed.

So, twice a year I compact my mailboxes, and I put a sqlite command loop to vacuum in my main cleanup script. Which I run maybe once a month.

Yes, strictly speaking I shouldn't need to do this, but my tbird install has been running happily for decades now.
by cookiengineer | 2025-05-22 04:20:59+00:00
It's kind of funny that this argument always comes up when talking about Windows security.

What if I told you that botched sandboxing by default is not the standard we should accept? And that Windows' lack of competence to isolate processes isn't even what the NT Kernel envisioned (see e.g. ReactOS)?

I'd never run Windows as a host system, given the track record of how Microsoft deals with RCEs and privilege escalation issues that have been unfixed for decades at this point.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-22 04:21:01+00:00
The Apollo guidance computer specifically had a pretty unusual definition of "crashing" too. What it would do is save all the critical data, turn everything off, reinitialize the hardware, and restart all the jobs from designated reentry points. Very unlike what we think of as crashing. Regardless, a modern boot chain is much more complicated than anything the Apollo computers had to deal with, where rebooting (as opposed to the safe restart procedure above) simply involved setting the program counter to some default value.
by kazinator | 2025-05-22 04:21:08+00:00
Not to mention divide:

2x^2 + 5x - 3 ------------- x + 2 2x + 1 ______________ x + 2 | 2x^2 + 5x - 3 2x^2 + 4x ------------- x - 3 x + 2 ----- - 5

The remainder is -5, which gives us a -5/(x + 2) term: Thus

5 = 2x + 1 - ----- x + 2

How about something we know divides:

x + 1 _______________ x + 1 | x^2 + 2x + 1 x^2 + x -------- x + 1 x + 1 ----- 0
by bsimpson | 2025-05-22 04:21:08+00:00
> became associated with the worst of the worst

Material 2 may have felt corporate and boring, but I disagree with this accusation.

Before Material, indie apps on Android were big grey buttons and unpadded text on a black background. Not everything that tries to use Material does a good job, but the starting point is better now than it used to be.
by packetlost | 2025-05-22 04:21:46+00:00
I have this too. My theory is the random "drops" are caused by the inner ear hairs attuned to that frequency get disturbed by something (like a shift in fluid) and overloading their respective nerves, similar to the afterimages that come from staring at a bright light.

The low level tinitus in a quiet room seems pretty normal to me, it's your brain looking for really quiet noises that are at the limit of what your ears can pick up. Or something, I'm no expert on it.
by Terretta | 2025-05-22 04:22:03+00:00
OK, another such issue:

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Question

Find the verb having the following synonyms : collapse, crumble, shatter

Answer: disintegrate

Result: SORRY... Word implode is the answer to this puzzle.

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It not educational to suggest "shatter" --> "implode".

The original 3 words are to fall down, fall apart, or fall to pieces. My answer "disintegrate", is the opposite of integrate, and works for all three.

Implode is an inward converging motion. The 3 words are not that motion.
by lunar-whitey | 2025-05-22 04:23:26+00:00
This summary of events is incorrect. The LM guidance computer’s executive routines detected an overload (which occurred because Buzz Aldrin had left the rendezvous radar on) and continued to operate in a degraded state where lower priority work was not performed. These faults were reported and the landing proceeded with the computer remaining responsive to inputs despite the concerns the alarms produced. Armstrong’s control changes near the end of the descent were made for reasons unrelated to the rendezvous radar error.

Modern systems use more formal techniques to achieve the same goal: graceful degradation.

For a detailed account of computer operations during the Apollo 11 landing, you can read this analysis from an engineer who worked on the program:

https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
by hedora | 2025-05-22 04:23:54+00:00
It’s not just you. I expected the article to compare it to Tesla’s trajectory, where they proved out the hard part of the technology (batteries vs reusable craft), but then faltered after a dozen other companies followed their playbook, but had better product instincts.

The current administration forced Europe to invest heavily in aerospace, and they’re doing just that. SpaceX’s approach to R&D is reproducible. They have a 10 year head start, but that’s not a huge amount of time when the goal is colonizing the solar system.
by ziofill | 2025-05-22 04:24:27+00:00
Time and energy are “conjugated” quantities: the more one is sharp, the more the other one is broad (it’s the same concept as Fourier transforming a Gaussian: the more it’s peaked the more the transform is broad). In order for the time duration of the pulse to be so short, it must have a broad uncertainty in energy, which for light is the same as a wide spectrum of colors.

That’s why it’s very tricky to find materials for mirrors and lenses when working with these short pulses: they must work well over a large range of frequencies. If they happen to absorb some more than others not only they would burn, but they would also change the temporal profile of the pulse.