MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alonsonic | 2025-05-05 14:57:27+00:00
I think you're definitely engaged, but not so much with the moment itself more with the act of taking photos. It does make you focus on the subject, but in a very specific way. Even in how you described it, the main focus was on capturing the shot. It quite literally makes you look at things through a certain "lens".

You can see how that might be a bit of a problem when you're sharing the moment with others. You might end up being really focused on getting the photo and not as much on actually being present with them.
by Narishma | 2025-05-05 14:57:48+00:00
> It's intriguing to think how different my experience could have been if educational material at the time had focused as much on full explanations of the compiler+linker process, including example error conditions, as it did on teaching the language.

Did you not read the manuals that came with Turbo C or Pascal? They explain all those things. They taught both the language and the tools. For example: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturVersion5.0Us...

Microsoft tools back then also came with extensive high quality manuals.
by Majromax | 2025-05-05 14:57:52+00:00
> There are things to sort out, but it's certainly doable. They can probably use direct COGS to determine the tariff basis.

You could construct a variety of accounting methods to calculate a tax on the 'foreign content' of movies, but how do you actually impose this tax?

A tariff on physical goods is easy. A country requires that goods enter the country through customs facilities, and then the nice customs official doesn't release the thing until the tax is paid. The legal and physical ability to impose these taxes is long, long established.

How do you physically impose a tariff on a movie? If the master is transported physically, what is its value? The value of the fixed copy/master doesn't necessarily include the value of the IP involved, in the same way that a DVD of a $500 million movie might have a retail value of $20. What about movies transferred digitally, since there are no customs checkpoints on fiber-optic lines?

What legal apparatus would be used to impose this tax? Trump is currently getting away with the physical-goods tariffs because the legal infrastructure to collect the taxes is already in place, and remaining legal disputes are just about whether the President can unilaterally set or change tariff rates. If you'd need new law to "tariff movies," then the chance of this whim turning into a real tax drops sharply.
by thugthrasher | 2025-05-05 14:58:18+00:00
It should also be noted that she doesn't have a degree in "performing," as far as I'm aware, she has a degree in "studying the culture" of break dancing. So, we (or at least any of us who haven't read her work) don't actually know if she's good at what her degree is in. We just know that she's not good at performing.
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by virviil | 2025-05-05 14:58:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small tool called oci2git, which converts OCI container images into Git repositories. Each layer in the container image becomes a separate Git commit.

I created it to make it easier to inspect and reason about container image contents. Instead of dealing with compressed tarballs or running docker diff, you can just browse the resulting Git repo, run git diff, use git blame, or even bisect layers. It's a new way to debug, audit, and understand how container layers evolve.

It's written in Rust and currently supports images from local OCI layouts and remote registries (like Docker Hub). It’s pretty fast and doesn’t require a container runtime or unpacking images to the filesystem.

Would love feedback, ideas, or contributions. Thanks!

Repo: https://github.com/Virviil/oci2git
by cgriswald | 2025-05-05 14:58:49+00:00
Both definitions are correct and are regularly used.

Personally, I find 'human readable' to be a better term for your definition and use 'plaintext' to mean either unformatted text (except perhaps with whitespace), or the non-markup text within a marked up document.

Wiktionary suggests that the divide is contextual, with your definition being the 'file format' definition and GP's definition being the 'computing' definition.[0]

[0] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plain_text
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-05 14:59:26+00:00
I agree with you, and this happened in the past. The entire system is designed to prevent this, and this newfound love of isolationism is a way to cement it in.

Let’s be real, these giant tech companies are becoming big stagnant bureaucracies. They can’t adapt anymore and want to build a moat to let them lumber along for a few decades.

The core assumption of the policy makers and business people was the idea that the Chinese are a bunch of dumb peasants working for scraps and unable to produce. They seem to be holding their own with AI, cars, trains, aircraft, etc. They may have a credible competitor for the B737/A320 — that’s a pretty big leap.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-05-05 14:59:31+00:00
This has the potential to be a big hit. Go on your Craigslist or Marketplace and search for printers. You will find lots of free or very cheap working printers being scrapped just because they don't natively work with iPhones. With a little more setup refinement, polish, and support, this could be "dropbox for printers".
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-05 14:59:34+00:00
> Up until the modern age no soldier did anything on their own. You act in formation and repeat what you've been drilled.

No, drilling was a response to the use of gunpowder weapons.

> Up until the modern age no soldier did anything on their own.

There's a passage from Julius Caesar where he describes how, set on from behind, the rear line of his army turned around so that they could fight in that direction instead of just getting slaughtered. It is noted mostly for the total lack of any suggestion that Caesar bears any responsibility for the brilliant maneuver.

But before you get to that point, you should observe that this was in fact a brilliant and spontaneous battlefield maneuver, not something that anyone had ever been trained to do.
by genewitch | 2025-05-05 14:59:54+00:00
Unless it's heating I don't think it uses much power. If you'd like I can plug mine into a kill-a-watt and see the draw. I can't imagine it's more than 100W all told, which the UPS it is connected to will run with the switches for probably a full day, and I have a specific generator for recharging UPS (a Honda with an inverter, clean enough power.)

They don't move or anything during use, and they beamform which drastically reduces the power needed. At least this is my understanding.
by ademarre | 2025-05-05 14:59:55+00:00
Gandi was sold to a private equity firm in a leveraged buyout in 2019 [0,1]. Nothing good has happened with Gandi since.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/montefiore-investment...

[1] https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/02/futureofgandi-the-adventur...
by Smeevy | 2025-05-05 15:00:19+00:00
>[...] that another possibility is people come to expect that someone will just pay the debt. The last few months are making me respond to that question with "so what?" I would rather that earnest efforts to reduce human misery accidentally benefit someone undeserving rather than to allow those problems to continually get worse.

Heck, I'm even ready for brand new unforeseen problems arising from those efforts. After decades of being lectured about the myriad slippery slopes that come with "too much" charity I'm ready try taking a slide down one or two for a change. We've been trying nothing for a long time and it doesn't seem to have much effect.

Please note that I'm absolutely not disagreeing with you and I apologize in advance if my tone comes across as strident.
by mmastrac | 2025-05-05 15:01:06+00:00
I don't believe any of this, but I'll try. Please note that the below is not my personal belief, just an attempt to understand the "other side":

The attempt to steelman the policy probably comes down to encouraging personal responsibility (the libertarian way). Forgiving debts without consequence promote a culture of non-payment, undermining the sustainability of school meal programs.

The steelmanned version of why lunches require payment is likely down to sustainability of the program in general (ie: school budgets are already stretched to the limit, so parent contributions are necessary).

Now, this could obviously be solved by just budgeting for the entire thing to be included in the overall taxes of the state, but then you've got to surpass the hurdle of tax raises being insanely difficult in the states.

Honestly, this exercise kind of makes me see (yet again) how broken the whole USAmerican system is. "I've got mine and I don't want to give any more away for something I don't need"
by chiefgeek | 2025-05-05 15:01:14+00:00
I've been almost completely off social media (and candy - potentially a larger problem in the past for me) for a month other than to check once or twice a day to see if somebody has messaged me (rarely) and it really has been rather profound to experience life with the lack of regular hits of dopamine. It is such a subtle "drug". I've still been on a computer and surfing the web but not nearly the same amount of time as I was spending on my phone and social. I sat a ten day Vipassana course in 2016 - a profound experience that was at least an order of magnitude more impactful with regard to being off of "screens". There's definitely a cost that accompanies any perceived benefits of social media interaction. As in all things - balance!
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-05 15:01:19+00:00
"On Blogger since November 2020."

https://www.blogger.com/profile/10975102234345772797

Blog post is dated 2012.

https://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/2012/07/1.html

This is what happens when Google acquires potential competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

Unlikely that original Blogger service registered a "blogspot" domainname in myriad ccTLDs such as .de

Blogger was not a surveillance-based advertising company
by pasquinelli | 2025-05-05 15:01:19+00:00
> Why do we write, anyway?

> I believe that the main reason a human should write is to communicate original thoughts.

in fairness to the students, how does the above apply to school work?

why does a student write, anyway? to pass an assignment, which has nothing to do with communicating original thoughts-- and whose fault is that, really?

education is a lot of paperwork to get certified in the hopes you'll get a job. it's as bereft of intelectual life as the civil service examinations in imperial china. original thought doesn't enter the frame.
by _bin_ | 2025-05-05 15:01:40+00:00
I didn't say it was likely to kill you, I said it was unsafe, that harm-reduction methods are wholly inadequate to making it safe, and that users should be aware of that. If people want to give informed consent to run those risks, be my guest, but "people do other unsafe things" 1. ignores that most of those don't directly cause brain damage, and 2. not all risky things are of equal risk, and brain damage is probably higher up than jay walking.
by HSO | 2025-05-05 15:01:54+00:00
looking for sth vs looking at sth

active vs passive

it depends what one wants but I have experienced the same.

it also applies not just to photography but anything creative really, like drawing cityscapes eg -> looking for a good angle or view where one could sit and sketch it out and then just look at the scene and let it infuse or impress you until you can recreate the scene and fill out the details in your bed maybe or wherever

i think the ugly aspect comes not from taking the picture itself but from whether you were actually looking for a memory, a creative act, or social validation ("oh look where I was fancy schmancy")
by michaelt | 2025-05-05 15:02:19+00:00
> I really don't see why taking pictures would ruin an experience, unless you go _wildly_ overboard to prioritize the picture.

Some people learned this lesson in the days of clunky, fragile, expensive cameras.

If you were carting around 5 lbs of DSLR camera and accessories, you weren't scrambling up that rock or going into the sea or getting on that rollercoaster.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-05 15:02:21+00:00
And more problems created.

Now you have to have another system that decodes the random words to human usable words. Is that information going to be stored all in one system? Is each team going to be responsible for the translation? How is that going to be protected from information loss?

I work with systems like this so, yea, it can be done. But it cannot be done trivially.
by mindslight | 2025-05-05 15:02:35+00:00
> Massachusetts ... also shot down ranked choice voting last year, because the math was too hard.

The math wasn't "hard" - it was wrong. The decision process was to be instant runoff voting, which has significant problems. IRV is basically what people stuck in the two party mindset think they want so they can express support for a third party. But once a third party gains enough traction to become viable, perverse incentives (strategic voting) shows right back up again. What we really need is Ranked Choice ballots with Ranked Pairs decision process. This satisfies Condorcet which means that a winner is preferred by the majority of voters.
by rayiner | 2025-05-05 15:03:28+00:00
> Course he did, by your own arguments not only did he have precisely that mandate as the president that people voted for [on a manifesto of broadening pathways to citizenship], but nobody else should have had any right to try to stop him.

Sorry, I was unclear. I was mirroring the language in the post to which I was replying, which assumed that the margin of Biden’s win meant he didn’t have a mandate. I think Biden had a mandate to do most of what he did. My only quibble would be that Biden didn’t campaign on opening the border, but Trump clearly campaigned on mass deportations.

And yes, I view the introduction of millions of illegal immigrants as being the more egregious violation of the law than what Trump is doing. The former reflects millions of instances of the administration violating american law and americans’ right to determine the kind of society in which they want to live. The latter applies to a small number of individuals, and reflects mostly administrative flubs involving people who are undisputedly non-citizens.
by tbalsam | 2025-05-05 15:03:32+00:00
> The MSE here is not intended to be a training loss, but as a means to demonstrate that both approaches lead to almost the same result except for some rounding error.

Ah, gotcha

> I don't think that max pooling the last feature maps would be a good idea here, because it would cut off about 98 % of the gradients and training would take much longer. (The shape of the input feature layer is (1, 768, 7, 7), pooled to (1, 768, 1, 1).)

MaxPooling is generally only useful if you're training your network for it, but in most cases it ends up performing better. That sparsity actually ends up being a good thing -- you generally need to suppress all of those unused activations! It ends up being quite a wide gap in practice (and, if you have convolutions beforehand -- using avgpooling2d is a bit of extra wasted extra computation blurring the input)

> Could you elaborate on that?

Variable-sized inputs don't batch easily as the input dims need to match, you can go down the padding route but that has its own particularly hellacious costs with it that end up taking away from compute that you could be using for other useful things.
by chneu | 2025-05-05 15:03:39+00:00
This is a purposefully naive take.

They're chasing whales. The 5-10% of customers who get addicted and spend beyond their means. Whales tend to make up 80%+ of revenue for systems that are reward based(sin tax activities like gambling, prostitution, loot boxes, drinking, drugs, etc).

OpenAI and Sam are very aware of who is using their system for what. They just don't care because $$$ first then forgiveness later.
by necovek | 2025-05-05 15:03:47+00:00
"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." — attributed to many[1]

The funny thing is that people use LLMs to do the opposite instead of what is implied to be a smarter thing to do with the above quote.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
by BehindBlueEyes | 2025-05-05 15:03:48+00:00
Finally! A friend was an in-house reseacher at some car manufacturer, whose job is to usability tests car prototypes, including in real traffic.

She was telling me about one study in particular to try a new touch screen built behind the handbrake, pretty much at 5 o'clock behind the driver. I'm sure she's not the only one sharing usability reports about how dangerous touchscreens are while driving, but marketing needed to advertise one more screen than the competition... This was 5 years ago. Took them a while to pivot, but i guess better late than never.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-05-05 15:03:53+00:00
How do you compress a pdf with tasker ? It's like the basic 101 of productivity.

Shortcut on iOS is like 2 step.

Step1: export pdf to images and choose dpi (lowest for maximum compression).

Step2: make a pdf of previous images.

I couldn't figure out how to compress pdf on tasker without using some convulated third party addon.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-05 15:03:56+00:00
The FairTrained models claim to train with only public domain and legal works. Companies are also licensing works. This company has a lawful, foundation model:

https://273ventures.com/kl3m-the-first-legal-large-language-...

So, it's really the majority of companies breaking the law who will be affected. Companies using permissible and licensed works will be fine. The other companies would finally have to buy large collections of content, too. Their billions will have go to something other than GPU's.
by etruong42 | 2025-05-05 15:04:21+00:00
I have seen this as well, watching customer support issues get escalated to engineering. Many times, engineering tries to blow off the issue. It was fascinating to me how quickly an issue got escalated to numerous engineering managers, directors, leads, etc when the customer threaten to cancel their contract.

I was even more blown away when the whole thing becomes old, forgotten news the moment the customer stopped threatening to cancel the contract, even if the underlying problem remains.

This really reinforces the lesson that the main power structures of the world does not listen to "reason" - it only responds to incentives, whether they're airlines or ginormous tech companies.

Hacker News has also repeatedly noticed the same thing whenever a big tech customer issue hits the top of Hacker News, and the comments point out that the only way that customer got help was when it got enough attention to cause a reputation risk to the big tech company.
by RajT88 | 2025-05-05 15:04:32+00:00
Very relevant point. My own counter-example of Hatsune Miku is not totally AI generated - just generated using very sophisticated musical tools (see: Vocaloid).

There's some very impressive youtubers who are claiming to be generating new music with AI. The one I listen to the most I very much doubt has everything 100% generated - he probably generates a bunch of melodies and other bits of track and stiches the best candidates together. They do crank out a new album basically every 2 weeks though - and has just a scant few thousand followers. They are not making money, but the music is pretty on par with bands which sell hundreds of thousands or millions of albums.

This is part of what makes me think it's the people who can cultivate the mythos, the personality, the whole experience, who are going to be the big winners in the AI music economy. Sure, maybe Gorillaz obfuscates the identity of the artists (side note: do they though? it's well known to be a supergroup), but it still is a curated experience that human creativity was leveraged to create the whole experience.
by _1tem | 2025-05-05 15:04:50+00:00
I expect the opposite. I would expect an ML/embedding approach to find lots of false positives, because lots of words have close embeddings but are not synonyms. A strict thesaurus lookup should produce fewer matches. As for ranking the good ones, an embedder might help with that, but then we need a definition of "good". I would argue the most conceptually "unrelated" matches are the "best" ones, so yes, an embedder could quickly determine the farthest vector distance.
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by mdaniel | 2025-05-05 15:05:30+00:00
Aww, missed opportunity to have fun with virtual hosts as https://why.complexsystems.fail/ is currently nxdomain

I would have put up something that returned an <ol> akin to:

1. Cert expiry

2. DNS (or, is the current state of affairs a meta joke?!)

3. Firefall Rules
by internetter | 2025-05-05 15:05:38+00:00
Yes, 100%. Another 'me-ism' I've been thinking a lot about recently is the collective unwillingness to ensure short term pain in exchange for long term prosperity, for instance in regard to climate policy. Likewise, there is no intuitive fix, especially when such prosperity will mostly extend to future generations.

"I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People" -- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to...

Such is the tragedy of the commons.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-05-05 15:06:30+00:00
> I also don’t think AI generated fiction is anywhere near high quality enough to substantially reduce the market for the original author.

Legal cases are often based on BS, really an open form of extortion.

The plaintiffs might've been hoping for a settlement.

Meta could pay $xM+ to defend itself.

Maybe they thought Meta would be happy to pay them $yM to go away.

The reality is, there's very little Meta couldn't just find a freely available substitute for if it had to, it might just take a little more digging on their end.

The idea that any one individual or small group is so valuable that can hold back LLMs by themselves is ridiculous.

But you'll find no end to people vain enough to believe themselves that important.
by tbalsam | 2025-05-05 15:07:06+00:00
Not bad frustrations at all. That said -- IoU is how the final box scores are calculated, that doesn't change how you do feature aggregation, this will happen in basically any technique you use.

Modern SSD/YOLO-style detectors use efficient feature pyramids, you need that to know where to propose where things are in the image.

This sounds a lot like going back to the old school object detection techniques which end up being more inefficient in general, generally very compute inefficient.