MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phillipcarter | 2025-05-28 22:40:36+00:00
It was a reasonable messaging app for a lot of folks in ~2013-2016. The stickers support was excellent and it had a lot of excellent features, even though its psuedo-open source stance was always a little weird. I also ascribed some level of trust to Pavel Durov as ultimately being anti-authoritarian given his history with Putin and thought that was ... fine, I guess. Anyways, with the rise of crypto came a lot of other unsavory things where Telegram became the de facto comms platform for criminals. While criminals will use any medium, it's also a matter of critical mass to me.
by seangrogg | 2025-05-28 22:40:59+00:00
Definitely makes sense that if they are a market leader for an extended period of time they would expect to trade sideways; my question is whether or not Tesla is expected to come out stronger as a growth company in the upcoming quarters (i.e. their recent talks of doing robotaxi work; are investors seeing that as a serious growth angle?) or should Tesla begin investigating an income/dividend stock angle?
by zabzonk | 2025-05-28 22:40:59+00:00
I kind of skipped through this article, but one thing occurs to me about big brains is - cooling. In Alastair Reynolds Conjoiner novels, the Conjoiners have to have heat-sinks built into their heads, and are on the verge of not really being human at all. Which I guess may be OK, if that's what you want.
by cubefox | 2025-05-28 22:43:38+00:00
> IMO economically, F9 + starlink pretty good business model. Starship + _____?

I think the best business model is Starship + Starlink. Starship can launch a lot more and larger satellites than Falcon 9.

I wouldn't bet on other big Starship customers, defense spending, space tourism, Mars plans etc. Those are highly speculative. But satellite Internet has a clear use case and a huge market.
by themadturk | 2025-05-28 22:45:00+00:00
As a type-2 diabetic, I pretty much avoid ice cream. Now and then my wife insists on a stop at Dairy Queen, so I do indulge in an ice cream cone the, and she will often give me a spoonful of ice cream at home (Tillamook Oregon Strawberry...yum).

Sugar-free ice creams seem to have largely disappeared in the Pacific Northwest. Dreyers or Haagen-Daaz (don't remember which) used to have one or two varieties regularly, but not anymore. Most others are in expensive pint sizes (Ben & Jerry's sized, but even more expensive).
by Klathmon | 2025-05-28 22:45:48+00:00
> We propose adopting diffusion language models for text embeddings, motivated by their inherent bidirectional architecture and recent success in matching or surpassing LLMs especially on reasoning task.

I didn't realize diffusion language models were at this point yet. But what's the catch? why aren't diffusion models (or some kind of hybrid) taking over?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-28 22:45:49+00:00
And Pavel Durov responded:

> True. Agreed in principle, but formalities are pending.

This is how I know I'm not cut out for business - because I just can't lie with total impunity. Like, how could you do a global, public announcement like this when there is no dry ink, and the other side obviously hasn't authorized you to announce, and feel literally zero shame ("formalities are pending", lol).

I feel like more and more one of the biggest requirements for success in business (not to mention politics) is just total shamelessness.
by wongarsu | 2025-05-28 22:45:49+00:00
OpenAI does a lot of work hyping themselves up and creating buzz around things they do or have a vague idea that they might try to do in the future.

Not to make people aware of GenAI, but to make sure OpenAI continues to be perceived as the AI company. The company that leads and revolutionizes, with everyone just copying them and trying to match them. That perception is a significant part of their value and probably their biggest moat
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-05-28 22:46:00+00:00
It'll always be on case by case basis. My mother sending me an awe-inducing picture on WhatsApp? Yeah she probably found it on Facebook, and it's likely it's fake.

In this website's case, I trust the author did enough due diligence to ensure to the best of his abilities that no AI pictures end up on his site. Looking at the submission page (0) he takes submissions by email, and requests the "name of the wildlife sanctuary and the photographer (if known)" which signals he isn't just putting random pictures from the internet.

Text forgeties existed wver since words were written down, and Text has existed for millennia. We had to deal with possible lies and forgeries the entire time.

Photo and Video are very recent inventions, so it was about time they got the same forgery treatment. Now we will have to rely on the same signals of trust as we had before.

0: https://owlsintowels.org/submit/
by stackskipton | 2025-05-28 22:48:32+00:00
Flight Duty Pay applies to anyone in aviation rating that flies. I know how pay scale works.

In any case, Navy still gives out enlisted bonuses for certain rates, https://www.navy.com/careers-benefits/pay/enlistment-bonus and they have changed over the years. I also know certain rates were eligible for higher reenlistment bonuses when I dealt with it. So it’s kind of like rating pay in roundabout way that’s really messy.

That aside, paying by rate makes sense if you want to keep certain rates and had trouble doing it. Again, when I was in that world as nasty civilian, almost every CTN was gone as soon as they ETS because E-4/5 pay was laughable compared to what they were being offered outside the military. I don’t know what current manning looks like now.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-28 22:48:57+00:00
Did the Ancients ever figure out what to do when it's near-impossible to be interested enough in public affairs to gain an accurate understanding of things, and even if one manages that, it's pretty much impossible to meaningfully act on that understanding?

It's one thing when "public affairs" and affairs of your local community are one and the same. But modern democracies seem to be actively preventing citizens from being actually informed about anything, and the granularity of elections ensures people's opinions (ill-informed or otherwise) are uncorrelated with end results.
by mfbx9da4 | 2025-05-28 22:49:11+00:00
> A shared secret removes the potential for detection from the service while asynchronous key signing does not.

I would approximate that 95% of the time when a webhook sender discusses signatures they are referring to HMAC (symmetric-key signing). There is a clear benefit to asymmetric-key signatures but that's not the focus of this article. It's discussing the industry convention of using symmetric-key signing.
by onetimeusename | 2025-05-28 22:50:12+00:00
I went to one to help me with an idea for a 7th grade science fair when I was a child and the staff helped me figure out which items I needed, which included a bunch of electronics parts and motors I had no idea what I was doing with. They patiently and very enthusiastically explained to me how they worked, how to safely use them, and gave me encouragement on my ideas for the project. They thought it was a cool idea. I was really blown away. I went on to win that science fair but honestly could not have done it without their help.

I still go back once in a while and love to look at the strange electronics parts they somehow acquired. I definitely love that someone decided to try to collect and sell these things.
by nemothekid | 2025-05-28 22:54:29+00:00
Are you using Flat indexes? If so they should return the same results provided you are using the same distance function. If you aren't using Flat indexes, there might be more setup, but I'd recommend just using Flat indexes. They are plenty fast on most systems for searching ~1 million vectors (assuming 1024-32 bit float vectors).

If you aren't doing anything crazy you could probably just get away with storing them all in a memory mapped file.
by thyristan | 2025-05-28 22:54:36+00:00
Only handwriting in a proprietary format. It isn't at all like one would wish for. It works as a replacement for a paper notebook. But it largely ignores the things one could do when adding more digital embeddings. In that way it is even worse than OneNote.

If you want to do something like that, my recommendation would actually be something like OneNote on some Windows tablet.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-05-28 22:55:00+00:00
In software specifically, we're now at year two+ where the entirety of investment and innovation is in literally replacing people.

We have CEOs and prominent figureheads making openly hostile statements about replacing their software workforce with LLMs, and coming out with bold proclamations about whatever models are going to be better than whatever title of developer in $TIME.

How there can be any loyalty or long-term thinking from employees at all in such circumstances is beyond me.

I can't even think of an analogous scenario at any time in my life. Open worker hostility.
by bongoman42 | 2025-05-28 22:57:14+00:00
I feel it is not just about bigger but also about what all is supported in the current brain that is potentially not as useful anymore or useful for intelligence as such. The evolutionary path for our brain has an absolutely major focus on keeping itself alive and based on that keeping the organism alive. Humans will often take potentially sub-optimal decisions because the optimal decision may have a very low probability of death for themselves or those genetically related to them. In some sense, similar to a manned fighter jet vs a drone, where in one case a large amount of effort and detail is expended on keeping the operating envelope consistent with keeping the human alive, whereas a drone can expand the envelope way more because the human is no longer a concern. If we could jettison some of the evolutionary baggage of the brain, it could potentially do so much more even within the same space.
by wongarsu | 2025-05-28 22:58:18+00:00
About $8000 plus the GPU. Let's throw in a 4080 for about $1k, and you have the full setup for the price of 3 RTX5090. Or cheaper than a single A100. That's not a bad deal.

For the hobby version you would presumably buy a used server and a used GPU. DDR4 ECC Ram can be had for a little over $1/GB, so you could probably build the whole thing for around $2k
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-28 22:59:10+00:00
Best/fun case: when I was contracting some years ago, if you had your laptop unlock someone would send an email to the project team "coffees are on me! let's pick them up after lunch", and they would pay (but everyone's daily rate was multiple hundreds of GBP per day, and that would pass as 'expense' so the total 40-50 pounds didn't hurt much).

Worse case: (same company) someone send an email to all infra team (including the VP) that "I'm stupid and I don't lock my laptop". That guy (the 'funny' one) was kicked out of the project/contract/building within the hour.

My friendly advice, lock it for them, when you see them again take them on the side and tel then "hey dude, lock that damn thing" and move on with your life.
by echelon | 2025-05-28 23:00:16+00:00
> Haven't touched Tauri because of the cross platform issues.

You were wise. That's the biggest issue plaguing the project right now.

> curious about Rust integration though

Tauri is written in 100% native Rust, so you write Rust for the entire application backend. It's like a framework. You write eventing and handlers and whatever other logic you want in Rust and cross-talk to your JavaScript/TypeScript frontend.

It feels great working in Rust, but the webviews kill it. They're inferior browsers and super unlike one another.

If Tauri swapped OS webviews for Chromium, they'd have a proper Electron competitor on their hands.
by neilv | 2025-05-28 23:02:27+00:00
If your work is tracked in an issue-tracking system, you can put your in-progress thinking notes as comments there (if they don't go in the code or some other artifact).

It helps to have a safe environment, among whomever might access that issue comment history. If people don't feel safe exposing their thought process, then they won't do it, or they'll be stressed by presenting vulnerability, and even modify their problem-solving for appearances.

(I have some more complicated options involving a wiki, but explaining requires too much context. The issue-tracking comments solution is obvious.)

What I try not to do is to introduce new places that important information goes. If you don't rein this in, there will be an explosion of employees plastering your IP all over a bunch of random SaaSes, to be undiscovered or even lost to your company entirely (also, those other SaaS companies and hackers might get more use out of stealing your IP than you do).
by Klonoar | 2025-05-28 23:04:04+00:00
That's a significant amount of workaround for something that "just works" elsewhere (and if I'm reading correctly doesn't work under Wayland).

It proves what everyone knows: that there's no reason WebRTC can't work in Tauri/Linux environments.

It also proves the point here: there are legitimate issues with the system-provided webview approach that are not always apparent.
by kristianp | 2025-05-28 23:04:16+00:00
You're right, I searched for a Zen 5 chip and its single core is higher than the ones on that table: about 3200 Single-Core Score https://browser.geekbench.com/search?q=9700x

Mac Mini M4 Pro comes out higher with 3987 Single-Core Score: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12175463
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-28 23:06:03+00:00
> typing machines vs word

That actually had substantial negative consequences that still go mostly unrecognized. MS Word was an improvement over typewriters - such a big improvement, in fact, that it allowed people to do things they previously wouldn't, including things they'd pay other people to do. This is actually a bigger deal than it sounds.

In short, office productivity tools allowed people to do things they'd otherwise delegate to others. You could write memos and reports yourself, instead of asking your secretary. You could manage your calendar and tasks yourself, instead of having someone else do it for you. You could design your own presentations quickly, instead of asking graphics department for help. And so on, and so on.

What happened then, all those specialized departments got downsized; you now have to write your own memos and manage your own calendar, because there are no secretaries around to do it for you. Same for graphics, same for communication, same for expense reporting, etc. Specialized roles disappeared, and along with them the salaries they commanded - but the work they did did not go away. Instead, it got spread out and distributed among everyone else, in tiny pieces - tiny enough, to not be visible in the books; also tiny enough to not benefit from specialization of labor.

Now apply this pattern to all other categories of software, especially anything that lets you do yourself the things you'd pay others to do before.

And then people are surprised why actual productivity gains didn't follow expectations at scale, despite all the computerization. That's because a chunk of expectations are just an accounting trick. Money saved on salaries gets counted; costs of the same work being less efficient and added to everyone else's workload (including non-linear effect of reducing focus) are not counted.
by pss314 | 2025-05-28 23:06:27+00:00
Accompanying videos:

FUTO's Guide to a Self Managed Life: part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5PPMYuOc8

FUTO's Guide to a Self Managed Life: part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fW9TV1WQi8
by holtkam2 | 2025-05-28 23:07:26+00:00
No one on this site or on earth has any idea what the next 5, 10, or 30 years will bring. They will likely bring a world which is so radically different from today it's incomprehensible. But that doesn't mean strictly worse.

Consider that with such extreme randomness the future has an unknown probability of introducing enormous improvement in daily life, for you specifically and for society in general. Are you pricing in the odds that within your lifetime, humanity could find a cure for aging? What are the odds that democracy makes a huge comeback, driving authoritarianism down across the world, even in China and North Korea? Nonzero, to be sure. Have you priced that in as well?

Don't over-focus on the things that you'll miss about the past, or the negatives aspects of the future which you expect will come. They may, but if they do, they'll likely be bundled with incomprehensibly good things, and the net effect may be quite, or even extraordinarily, positive.
by zIndex9999 | 2025-05-28 23:07:55+00:00
Routing in any language or system is famously regarded as the "easiest" thing to build as a toy, but the hardest thing to get right at scale. Everyone and their dog has built some kind of "router" for themselves, but very few can do it to the extent that it works for more than just them, their company, or a select few externally. Props to the React Router team for being able to do it on a global scale. But for them to effectively move on as if they're "done" and that there's no more polish or innovation to happen on React Router is asinine. A great example: Ryan/mj ignored for a long time (and still resent) TypeScript. Tanstack comes along and launches actual complete typescript support to it's router like 3 years ago, which then triggers Remix users to demand something from their overlords. They eventually give in and add some hacky code-generation and watered down href utility and confidently say they are finally type-safe.

They likely won't touch it again (just like Next hasn't touched their IDE type safe plugin in a year).

They're simply purist craftsmen. They'll keep chasing "perfection" over practicality at any cost other than financial security.
by cortesoft | 2025-05-28 23:08:14+00:00
i think this is kind of the inverse of how some emulators that add remote play deal with network lag... they will predict what control the opponent will give for the current frame and display it, but then when they actually receive the real opponent control some number of frames later, they will go back to that frame and re-calculate based on knowing the actual control input for that frame, and then catch up to the current frame. That way the game isn't waiting for remote inputs to refresh the screen, but can then reconcile once all information is known.
by eximius | 2025-05-28 23:08:23+00:00
Is there anything inherently requiring the three stage cosmological theory to bring about the Blowtorch theory?

I find the Blowtorch theory very compelling - but the cosmological/evolution argument seems qualitatively... less scientific, or at least less physics-related. It is very interesting! But, I think its association would damage the pair.

Anything stopping Blowtorch theory from standing on it's own?
by fuzzythinker | 2025-05-28 23:09:08+00:00
4 hours on TurboExpress may be pushing it. I think it's more like 3hrs+. There is no disappointment though as any kid should be amazed that getting that kind of graphics (one and only full current gen console -- none of the 2 older gens made it) into a 2 gameboy sized system for 3+ hrs is quite impressive.
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-28 23:09:54+00:00
Thats good FCMP++ will fix it

Right now it seems Eve just needs to do a dust attack and addresses she’s seen before

And wallets like Featherwallet just need to segregate dust from the pool of outputs, and that kind of attack is totally thwarted

Fortunately Eve doesnt know if an address is part of the same wallet and Featherwallet hides the ability to reuse addresses, although users are lazy and may rely on old addresses being accepted destinations for anyone sending them funds. It would be great if wallets notified of dust, or asked you to recognize transactions in.
by numpad0 | 2025-05-28 23:10:29+00:00
Non-ASCII symbols are kind of non-canonical and don't parse well, even today. Japanese developers are deeply aware of that, so generated identifiers in Japanese systems are almost always either hyphenated numeric or occasionally ASCII alphanumeric. Only when said identifier are guaranteed to never need programmatic handling, or when the system can have complete control of input and output, non-ASCII characters start appearing.
by myko | 2025-05-28 23:11:12+00:00
Dark matter exists, it is a thing–that thing is a set of observations of the universe. It isn't an understood phenomena but suggesting dark matter does not exist is nonsense, the observations exist–and contradict our understanding of the universe–the question is why they do. Lambda Cold Dark Matter might not be the answer, but it is important not to conflate that with dark matter generally.
by lanstin | 2025-05-28 23:11:20+00:00
I think undecidable means more like there are classes of problems for which there is no algorithm (that runs in finite time) can give the answer to. To square N, there is an algorithm that always works. To see if the Turing machine N halts in input M, there is not such an algorithm. The halting problem is undecidable.

There is a clever way to encode Turing machines into Diophantine equations, so Diophantine equations (linear equations
by iainmerrick | 2025-05-28 23:11:30+00:00
I'm very surprised, even though I shouldn't be, that they're actually shutting the read-only goo.gl service down.

For other obsolete apps and services, you can argue that they require some continual maintenance and upkeep, so keeping them around is expensive and not cost-effective if very few people are using them.

But a URL shortener is super simple! It's just a database, and in this case we don't even need to write to it. It's literally one of the example programs for AWS Lambda, intentionally chosen because it's really simple.

I guess the goo.gl link database is probably really big, but even so, this is Google! Storage is cheap! Shutting it down is such a short-sighted mean-spirited bean-counter decision, I just don't get it.
by try_the_bass | 2025-05-28 23:11:38+00:00
But I don't live by rigid rules, as a general rule. I have a rigid moral framework, perhaps, but that doesn't mean my opinions and identity aren't fluid, as well.

My first rule for myself is that I must always acknowledge that I could be wrong. This demands that my opinions remain fluid, because it's not possible for me to be right about everything I think I think I'm right about.

So I think you're wrong, and I think you're making a huge number of assumptions based off of very little concrete evidence.

The negativity stems from seeing the current world of social media, in which people constantly put forth strong moral statements, full of black-and-white thinking and absolute statements--and summarily contradicting the very moral frameworks they purport to uphold in the process of doing so.

And then seeing the hundreds (or thousands, or even millions!) of people agreeing with them, all not sparing a single thought for whether or not they're being internally consistent.

The social world is frothing with righteous hypocrites, and the most frustrating are those who claim to stand for inclusion, positivity, and the denouncement of hatred, while simultaneously being quickest to hate when faced with disagreement.

So, no, I'm not convinced that people "just want to get along". More and more, I think people just want to be "right", without any regard for the truth of the matter.
by Bjartr | 2025-05-28 23:12:17+00:00
Based on reading a lot of The Old New Thing blog by MS veteran Rayond Chen, I think there's a pretty straightforward reason:

A user could accidentally do it and end up with a 'broken' menu they don't know how to fix, and Windows being 'broken' in that way is Windows' fault from the perspective of such a user.

This sort of thing can and does cause a support burden, which is an expensive tradeoff. So rather than it being a built in capability, a user would need to manipulate the registry or use a third-party program to do it for them.

At least, that's the reasoning that would've come up at MS when adding such a feature was suggested internally (and it certainly has been)