MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-05 12:53:47+00:00
> I can't think of any, except for financing entities operating outside lawful limits.

The idea is that "lawful limits", even if you wholeheartedly support them now, can change at a whim if a new government is elected or a war starts or some other major crisis happens. These things come and go every few decades, one is not improbable to occur within the frame of your lifetime and place of residence.
by b112 | 2025-05-05 12:54:00+00:00
Sort of the same with anything Amazon. Look at their retail website! It used to be the most ground breaking, impressive product search engine out there.

Now it's weird in a dozen different ways, and it endlessly spews ridiculous results at you. It's like a gorgeous mansion from the 1900s, which received no upkeep. It's junk now.

For example, if I want to find new books by an author I've bought from before, I have to go to: returns & orders, digital orders, find book and click, then author's name, all books, language->english, format->kindle, sort by->publication date.

There's no way to set defaults. No way to abridge the process. You mysteriously you cannot click on the author name in "returns & orders". It's simply quite lame.

Every aspect of Amazon is like this now. It was weird workflows throughout the site. It's living on inertia.
by randomtoast | 2025-05-05 12:54:23+00:00
Short Summary:

Ben Drowned is a viral internet horror story (a “creepypasta”) created in 2010 by Alex Hall, who posted under the pseudonym “Jadusable.” The tale revolves around a supposedly haunted Nintendo 64 cartridge of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. The cartridge was unlabeled, and when played, exhibited disturbing behavior: reversed music, distorted graphics, and the recurring presence of a statue of Link with a petrified, menacing expression. The in-game ghost was said to be “Ben,” the spirit of a boy who drowned.

Related Wiki Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Drowned
by peder | 2025-05-05 12:54:24+00:00
There are big issues with foreign cinema. We still have a lot of structural advantages in the US to producing films. Production has shifted to other countries because of significant tax incentives. These tax incentives are a way that other countries are frankly not playing fair.

The bottom line for me is that we shouldn't simply accept that films should all be filmed in Canada, Australia, the UK, or elsewhere. Hollywood has been the epicenter of creative jobs in this country for a century, and we should try to preserve it.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-05 12:54:29+00:00
From what I can see of the paper, it's lots of cool details about doing kinda boring (by volcano standards) and responsible science.

Loads of background info & more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uturuncu

Locally and short-term: This volcano seems to have been gurgling & smoking for the past 1/4M years, without any eruptions. It's been accumulating more lava (many miles down) for the past half-ish century - but that is not cause for alarm.

Globally and long-term: This volcano is part of a volcanic complex which has done several VEI 8 eruptions. Though nothing that big in the past couple million years. Hopefully that trend will continue.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-05 12:54:36+00:00
The constitution prohibits ex post facto prosecution.

Assuming that we continue to elect presidents, you need one to appoint an effective Attorney General (ie not Garland) and use these new king like powers of the executive to smash. The president was convicted of dozens of crimes, but nobody had the balls to throw him in jail.

You have to think about 2025 solutions. The die is cast, it isn’t 1995 anymore. Nobody is clutching their pearls because POTUS made a mess on an intern anymore. It’s a different environment and you’re going to have to have fistfights on the Senate floor if the congress is functioning.
by bluGill | 2025-05-05 12:54:55+00:00
Why is web software rewritten every 2-3 years? If you invest in a good framework you shouldn't have to rewrite that often. Sure the content will change, and the theme will as well. You will need to add new features all the time, but a good design means that in 6 years you are saving all the cost of rewriting things and that means you can let some of those expensive engineers rewriting everything go.

Investments take time to pay off, but if you make a good investment you get a reliable/stable product. Fast iteration and creating a mess is fine when your company is new, but once your real products are proved to be useful you need to transition to something sustainable. Spending money rewriting your web site is money that you could use for some thing else. Computers and the web are tools - don't spend too much money on them - this often means investing in good tools.
by ringeryless | 2025-05-05 12:54:57+00:00
predictably, summing up the entire worlds cinema as inferior to one nations cinema provokes disagreement.

you can simply say that you were wrong to make such a sweeping judgement and have no actual notion of the entire worlds cinematic output, nor speak anything besides english to properly understand anyone elses films, but yey, feel free to dig in your heels and be wronger.
by jaimebuelta | 2025-05-05 12:55:07+00:00
Most top movies last year [1] were shot outside of the US. Excluding animation movies, of course. I understand that the idea is “medium/long term” to move production to Hollywood area, but the short term impact can be massive.

[1] “Deadpool and Wolverine”, “Wicked” and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” in London, “Dune part 2” in Budapest and Italy, “Godzilla x Kong” in Australia. Only “Twisters” was filmed in the US.
by speedgoose | 2025-05-05 12:55:25+00:00
The article says that Daft Punk rented it.

I was surprised about how much better the Sennheiser sounds compared to the others. From the audio comparison in the first YouTube video. I did expect minor variations in the harmonics but the differences are quite significant between the models.

The other vocoder that sound almost as good is quite new and it seems to still be a prototype with a "contact us" price.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-05-05 12:55:45+00:00
>Sell all the furniture. It's essentially commodity, takes up the most space, and easy to get anew. Factor the cost of sale and rebuying into the price of moving.

I read this advice last time I moved, so I tried to price it out for myself. This may be true for “bachelor pad” situations. But my bedroom furniture alone cost more than the cost of moving and now comparable items would be double the price of what I bought it at. Let alone all my other furniture. Sure I could recoup some price by selling it, but not enough to cover the difference. It’s cheaper by thousands to higher decently quality movers. (A lot of it also I has sentimental value, though I realize how silly it may be, and I would not factor that in unless the costs are similar).

But I don’t move that often, so that factors in here.
by cookiengineer | 2025-05-05 12:57:31+00:00
Oof, I never expected Koerperwelten to appear here on HN.

Growing up in that area, I never understood how unique this exhibition was. We've been there multiple times with school classes, and it weirdly scared the shit out of me and stunningly fascinated me at the same time.

I didn't know that he reopened the Koerperwelten exhibition in 2017 again. Can fully recommend going there. It's not for the light stomach, and your head will be busy processing what you saw for weeks afterwards.

The best analogy I can give someone else about this exhibition: It's something in between geniusness and madness, and it will question your authority on learned morality and ethical standards. But it's so much accessible biological/medical science in one place, it's hard to find anything else that comes close to the impressions it leaves behind.
by kjksf | 2025-05-05 12:57:56+00:00
Both are harming US jobs.

VAT is bad for US because a car made in US is 22% more expensive when sold in UK than a car made in UK sold in US. VAT makes it harder for US car company to sell in UK. It reduces number of US jobs making cars.

UK giving tax breaks to US companies also reduces number of US jobs because a catering business in Los Angeles loses a job to a catering business in London. So does a carpenter, an extra etc.

It's all simple to understand, consistent and frankly very leftist.
by larksimian | 2025-05-05 12:57:58+00:00
They were charging up hill in the mud. Noone really died from arrows, except maybe some of the horses. But a lot of their horses fell and then the knights ran back through their own infantry, though apparently that wasn't that big a deal in the battle.

The battlefield killing was done by light infantry wading in with daggers and hatchets apparently during a foot slog up the muddy hill which left the french heavy infantry exhausted. Another wave of killing afaik was when the captured prisoners were all executed since the english position seemed like it might be overrun by some follow up fighting.

(keep in mind the battle took hours and there was a lot more going on then just heavy horse riding up against arrows once or twice)

Wiki page is worth a read actually
by IlikeKitties | 2025-05-05 12:59:07+00:00
> Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air.

I've seen this behavior in people that have seen other people use mouses for over a decade before, especially my Mom. It's my personal universal sign to immediately stop teaching that person anything. If you get shown a mouse move across a table like a pug, get explained that moving it up and down, left and right is a relative motion and you pick it up and wave it in the air you are just signaling that you do not want to learn.

My mom and her friends pestered me for years as a teen to show them how computers work and how to use them. When I tried to teach them the basics they were dismissive as if the computer had to conform to their way of thinking how the interaction should work. I learned to not engage with those people at all. Funnily enough, a decade later after they actually wanted to learn it they figured it out themselves.
by unsupp0rted | 2025-05-05 12:59:45+00:00
Or... I might speak multiple languages and have lived in multiple countries. Enough to see not only the movies that break through into Oscar contention, but also whatever random movie is playing in cinemas for 2 weeks over the rainy season, and will never be heard of again.

There's a universe in which one nation is a cinematic powerhouse that dwarfs not just the average quantity but also the average quality of the cinematic output of any other nation.

My argument is this is the case. Less so every year, since Hollywood is broken now, but still.
by naikrovek | 2025-05-05 12:59:57+00:00
PDFs can do a lot more than show static content. There was one time where Adobe strongly advocated for PDF to be the page format of what would come to be called "The World Wide Web". Where we have HTML now, Adobe wanted PDF. Thankfully that did not happen. But I suspect it would have made more sense technically than [whatever this mess is that we have now.]

A lot of things are possible in PDF.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-05-05 13:00:30+00:00
I'm much more anti-union than the average joe, but Hollywood is one example where it kind of makes sense, disregarding the international competition angle for a sec: it is a highly specialised kind of work, sometimes dangerous, with a very limited number of employers that are operating in a cartel-like environment that is known to be financially (and sometimes also sexually and ethnically) ruthless and opportunistic. The negotiating power is very uneven.

Considering that even in a big and highly competitive environment such as Silicon Valley they managed to establish illegal hiring cartels between the big companies (Apple etc), I'd be sceptical to dish out free market arguments.

Hollywood is not loosing relevance due to inflated wages, they stopped making movies people want to see. The reason for that is quite obvious, but a totally different discussion.
by like_any_other | 2025-05-05 13:01:33+00:00
> The hack revealed that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modded version of Signal that TeleMessage offers and the ultimate location where it stores the messages, 404 Media reported.

Given the emphasis on end-to-end encryption by apps such as Signal, its importance for sensitive government communications, and its rudimentary nature in cryptography (one doesn't need to be an expert to know it's useless to talk about 'security' if it is absent), I struggle to understand how this is a mistake and not a deliberate backdoor.
by viraptor | 2025-05-05 13:01:44+00:00
> It obviously does in this case.

Does it? Would we actually know if there was another slightly more sparse belt at 700AU? If we can't track a large planet in that area, why would we be certain about the belt?

Alternatively, if it's an external object captured by the Sun, how would we even classify it as clearing or not if there's nothing to clear?
by mopsi | 2025-05-05 13:01:51+00:00
> But here's a pivotal soviet comedy about a guy who goes to the future... okay, here's Bob Zemeckis's Back to the Future. Compare the quality of any aspect: story, acting, props, costumes, cinematography, special fx, attention to detail, MUSIC... 1:1 US cinema destroys on every level.

There's a Russian saying "no point in comparing finger with a dick". "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession" was made in 1973 on a budget that was modest even by Soviet standards. It looks like a cheap TV movie for a reason: they reused existing sets and decorations from other movies. The few Hollywood sci-fi comedies of the early 1970s are of similar quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BOnUobhm6U

Non-modest Soviet productions of the era, such as the 1970 "Waterloo", are spectacular by any standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyytd8HhuME
by lynaghk | 2025-05-05 13:02:01+00:00
Awesome, thanks! This is exactly the kind of experienced take I was hoping my blog post would summon =D

Re: computing M and s, does torch.quantization.quantize_qat do this or do you do it yourself from the (presumably f32) activation scaling that torch finds?

I don't have much experience with this kind of numerical computing, so I have no intuition about how much the "quantization" of selecting M and s might impact the overall performance of the network. I.e., whether

- M and s should be trained as part of QAT (e.g., the "Learned Step Size Quantization" paper)

- it's fine to just deterministically compute M and s from the f32 activation scaling.

Also: Thanks for the tips re: CMSIS-NN, glad to know it's possible to use in a non-framework way. Any chance your example is open source somewhere?
by immibis | 2025-05-05 13:02:16+00:00
Note also the more general concept of "Design for Manufacturing" - tailoring your design to use the strengths and avoid the weaknesses and maximize efficiency in your particular manufacturing process, whatever it is.

3D printing was once conceptualized as a magic way to create absolutely anything. It turns out to be just one more tool in the manufacturing toolbox, bringing some very unique strengths and weaknesses, but still just another of many. DFM applies to 3D printing just as much as it applies to CNC milling, sheet metal stamping, plastic injection molding, or any other process - it's always important to think about how the end product is physically created, and optimize for that.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-05-05 13:02:21+00:00
No, this is an orthogonal concern. Bundling all the dependencies and killing users hard disks is not a solution to the “Every platform needs a way to distribute and install third-party applications” problem. If anything the proliferation of packaging formats and useless quibbles between snap and flatpak move us farther from the solution as there are now several competing dependency-bundling installers which require installing a package handler anyway.

In that respect flatpak is better because it’s more universally available than the Ubuntu-specific snaps (attempts at making snap cross-distro are laughable and failed) but it still introduces a bunch of tangential issues which are too much of a bother for the average user versus just doing “apt install” and moving on with their lives. PPAs cover this acceptably if suboptimally for Deb packages.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-05 13:02:23+00:00
It took me many years of carrying the camera to get close to what you describe and realize how even changes in air quality and humidity can create a very different view at different times. There are many factors that no post-processing can help, even if you have the finest raw from your sensor. Processing is important, I strongly believe, but only insofar as it amplifies the scene and your impression of it.

The days of carrying a camera coincided with lots of exploration and memories (and many good shots and bad), and the days when I could not be bothered tended to be moody and gloomy. I don’t think the causation is strictly one way or the other, but for people like me (and maybe yourself) when there is a right frame of mind then the camera at least contributes to a virtuous circle, if not acts as the source of it.

More recently, without a dedicated camera (which got stolen) I find it more difficult to snap into this appreciation of reality. Phone camera’s main issue is that it’s extremely slow when it comes to a changing real-life scene (I lost light many times while opening Halide and waiting for it to become operable), and that it is part of a distracting multi-purpose device in other regards.
by peder | 2025-05-05 13:02:42+00:00
Well, yes. American films obviously have been soft on China because they've been desperate for access to the Chinese market. You don't bite the hand that feeds. In a similar way, if a significant amount of film production moves to the UK, it's likely that criticisms of the UK would be more muted. In the long run, this creates a national security threat when our media is inundated with non-neutral messages about other countries that are not acting in our best interest.

The easy way to see this is to reverse your lens. We've been the beneficiary of soft power from Hollywood for a century. It'd be ridiculous to lose that power without at least trying to preserve it.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-05-05 13:03:04+00:00
I think this also has a lot to do with HOW your product is bought.

May products are discovered. They're cool, they're novel, let's try. Those commonly end up in this situation where users like the thing but never buy it.

But the closer your product category is to being infrastructure, the less this happens.

In the space I'm in (billing/metering) but also many others, you don't stumble upon a product, think "that's cool" and hot-swap an important part of your architecture. You convene a buying committee and compare vedors.

Of course this advantage (everyone you speak with has higher buying intent) is counteracted by the fact that these types of products aren't "sexy" in the sense that they'll go viral with a snazzy animation.
by jparishy | 2025-05-05 13:03:04+00:00
my view of capitalism is that you can't remove the market. it will exist with or without you, so if you have some control you should incentivize the things that are better for everyone.

To me I think it's possible for Netflix and Amazon and whoever to exist and make a lot of money, but also not have nation-state level power. The latter is something we haven't decided we want yet, but I think we'll come around. If there were even just very small controls (that worked) on the size of a company, or how many industries it can go into, then things would look differently. But when we let so few companies consolidate so much power through money, the status quo is a pretty natural outcome. Imagine a world where there were regional amazon.com's, because we just decided at some point they got too big. Same for google. We'd have actual competition. Tech enables market consolidation in ways we didn't expect and we have to do some actual work to fix it.
by 0_____0 | 2025-05-05 13:04:47+00:00
Edit: I realize I was imprecise, I specifically was referring to 3D CAD for mechanical parts of the type you would generally produce a print for i.e. with controlled geometry and dimensioning.

A) That's a surface modeler.

B) Parametric CAD doesn't have boilerplate in the same way as software. In a part, you have a feature tree, and a lot of thought goes into constructing the feature tree in a way that both allows for reconfiguration and also somewhat resembles the manufacturing process. Every step depends on the previous step in a way that is necessarily impossible to isolate. If you make a step without being aware of the end state of the tree, you will probably have to redo a bunch of the tree if the part is complex.

Also that's not what mechanical engineers spend most of their time doing. Plenty of MEs can code and use an LLM btw, nothing stopping them from optimizing their work processes if they saw fit, yet you don't really see the shoehorning of AI into the space yet.
by EliavLivneh | 2025-05-05 13:04:57+00:00
Hey, author of the blog here :)

Just wanted to point out that it is not just names of objects in sensitive accounts exposed here - as I wrote, the spoke roles also have iam:ListRoles and iam:ListPolicies, which is IMO much more sensitive than just object names. These contain a whole lot of information about who is allowed to do what, and can point at serious misconfigurations that can then be exploited onwards (e.g. misconfigured role trust policies, or knowing about over-privileged roles to target).
by waisbrot | 2025-05-05 13:05:07+00:00
That's covered in the blog post:

First, that archers can actually be more effective against mounted troops than foot: the mounted troops ride close together, horses are hard to fully armor, and one horse getting hit in the leg can cause a lot of chaos.

Second, at Agincourt, the French knights _walked_ through the arrow-fire quite successfully, but the effort (physical, mental, cumulative effect of small wounds) tired them enough that the English soldiers could beat them hand-to-hand. And that this ability to inflict small damage before the main fighting is why archers were valuable.
by seletskiy | 2025-05-05 13:06:06+00:00
I kind of see your point, but only in the context of working on time-sensitive task which others rely upon. But if it is hobby/educational project, what is wrong doing things by yourself? And resort to decomposing existing solution if you can't figure out why yours is not working?

There's nothing better for understanding something rather than trying to do that "something" from scratch yourself.
by giorgioz | 2025-05-05 13:06:53+00:00
I was in Spain during the blackout nearby Valencia. My phone had 3G data connectivity from 12:30 to 18:30 despite the outage. Same for the fiber signal, powering the modem&router with batteries allowed me to a working fiber connection for 4 hours. Some neighbors with different mobile operators told me they did not have signal. It might be some operator had backup diesel generator that lasted 4 hours.