MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-07 00:42:55+00:00
> When the machine breaks down, society collapses. No one remembers how to fix it.

The example is unrealistic because that's a very easily anticipated single point of failure.

We've been building systems without single points of failure for millennia.

There will never be only one machine. Already in AI we have dozens of models. They come from multiple diverse - unaffiliated! - cultures, countries, and ideologies.
by nativeit | 2025-05-07 00:45:12+00:00
I would be shocked to learn if it weren't already happening, just frequently through several layers of obfuscation. But also, just generally. The NSA, to their minimal credit, has rather leaned in to making itself part of the OSS community by facilitating the development on a lot of the security and reverse-engineering products they use themselves. Unsurprising, considering the provenance of the internet, computers, and much of the underlying tech is deeply interconnected with the US DoD and NASA.

All that said, I do think a more open-ended "US public endowment for software development" is a great idea.
by fragmede | 2025-05-07 00:45:50+00:00
We're in the jester economy - kids now want to grow up to be influencers on TikTok and not scientists or engineers. Unfortunately, AI is now able to generate those short video clips and voice overs and it's getting harder and harder to tell which is generated and which is an edited recording of actual humans. If influencer is no longer a job, what then is it going to be for kids to aspire to?
by stevenwoo | 2025-05-07 00:46:10+00:00
I was listening to an interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky the writer and his theory was conservatives have a love/hate relationship with sciences (and arts and academia). Paraphrasing from memory - if some thing or someone reinforces their belief system they love it, and they despise it when it contradicts them, this effort against science is to get a reality (scientific results) to agree with their preconceived notions. The bonus is suffocating dissent of any kind against those in power. The context was this was about his book about exobiology and authoritarian governments, Alien Clay.

Anti-semitism is just the convenient cover, likewise pro Palestinian protesters are judged to be interfering with USA international relations (wrt Israel) by the Secretary of State under one clause of Immigration and Nationality Act that they use to justify legal immigrants to be kidnapped and deported.
by chfritz | 2025-05-07 00:46:38+00:00
> By the end of 2025, more than half of the humanoid robots sold in the United States will be to consumers.

You can't be serious! There are currently ZERO applications of humanoids for consumers and these robots still cost more than a car. They also represent a significant risk to humans, esp. little ones, simply because they still fall over sometimes.

That's one side of the 'more' inequality. On the other is an industry currently flooded by VC money trying to make humanoids work. Clearly they will be the ones buying most of the inventory.
by aldrich | 2025-05-07 00:49:38+00:00
Very cool work.. and frustating running into walls imposed by manufacturers, I imagine! I've also been working on GPU-based audio plugins for a long time and have done some public material on the subject.

Just my two cents: have you considered using a server/daemon process that runs separately and therefore more controllably outside a DAW (and therefore a client-server approach for your plugin instances)? It could allow you to have a little bit more OS-based control.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-05-07 00:50:41+00:00
Anyone notice a rapid ramp up in acquisitions?

As though folks are looking for exits but IPO isn’t an option.

Think we’re approaching a reckoning for lots of companies that raised circa 2021 at valuations that are no longer plausible and AI startups.

Oh, and ones in the first group that tried to rebrand as the second…
by ergocoder | 2025-05-07 00:51:40+00:00
Investment vs. acquisition is going to have different price points.

At $40M ARR, I assume the founders don't really need to make more money and are not in a rush to sell. Therefore, the price would go even higher. This can't be compared with investment where the founders still retain the control.

Cursor is probably the fastest growing company in the history of our modern civilization. Achieving a really high multiple doesn't seem out of line.

I'm skeptical of Cursor but I can see why they achieve that high valuation.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-05-07 00:52:15+00:00
So, while you are correct, you are missing an important piece:

most people cannot think like this

I'm not talking about patients, I'm talking about everyone, including doctors. They just can't think in a probabilistic sense. And you'll counter that it's just reporting facts, but they don't even know which ones to report to you, how to report them, none of it. It just doesn't seem to fit in many peoples heads.
by delichon | 2025-05-07 00:52:44+00:00
It incarcerates around 1.9 million people and has another 3.6 million on probation or parole. It seizes and consumes more than a third of all production. It demands compliance with about 120 million words of federal rules. It's the greatest military power on earth. It's unserious to not to take that kind of power over our lives seriously.
by davidjade | 2025-05-07 00:54:32+00:00
Anecdotal I know but my app converts from free trials at 4x iOS vs Android. Has done so for years and years. Same app, same price, same audience (North American boaters). Similar free trial numbers too.

Niche app that sells at a higher price than your average app. Ie my users have disposable income but the Android users don’t like to pay for higher priced apps like iOS users will.
by mullingitover | 2025-05-07 00:56:35+00:00
> For another it consumes more than a third of all production

This is often a positive.

In times of financial panic, which free markets always come around to, the government is a spender of last resort that helps to kickstart production and demand when the free market is in absolute shambles, stashing gold in holes in its backyard.

Furthermore, when it's functioning well, it gives the fattest of the industrialists a haircut and returns that money to the populace where the revenue can actually deliver value instead of sitting in a vault somewhere.
by bhl | 2025-05-07 00:56:45+00:00
> The second is that LLMs provide the last-mile intelligence needed to verify every result. Each result and piece of data is backed with supporting references that we used to validate that the result is actually a match for your search criteria.

Evals on this would be great to benchmark the gap between using websets versus a generic web search tool. Otherwise to a developer, it's just marketing.
by joeymarshall | 2025-05-07 00:57:45+00:00
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by eth0up | 2025-05-07 00:58:08+00:00
I thoroughly sympathize with even more callously cynical views, but what all good people should remember, daily if able, are the unsung work horses that have ploughed through endless, self healing bureaucratic rot mires and festering heaps of wriggling legalese to preserve the creaking vestiges of liberty and dignity that we take for granted. If not for those who take such initiative and toils, we'd be in an alternate reality. A terrible one.

Maintaining a semblance of justice and fairness is an overtime job. The ravenous hovering ghouls of corruption make alpha vultures seem blind and sessile.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-07 01:00:30+00:00
In response to the WSJ doing it's actual job, the administration offered this:

"The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information. They are breaking the law and undermining our nation’s security and democracy."

The DNI's petulant rhetoric aside, the WSJ is honoring the press' 1A protections by informing the public of Gov misdeeds. It is why the press exists. By doing their job they make the public secure.

From the Edward Snowden leaks, we learned that National Security is about securing US Gov and it's partners. And we learned how undermining National Security often keeps Americans secure from bad Gov behavior.

And when the public is informed in good faith, Democracy is a little better off.
by dpifke | 2025-05-07 01:00:43+00:00
I have two of these (for separate HVAC systems on top and bottom floors of my house) and can highly recommend

The killer feature of Home Assistant vs. my previous Nest setup came when I added door and window sensors, and programmed HA to pause heating/AC whenever doors or windows are open. I no longer turn into my father, who I remember shouting at us kids, "close the door, I'm not paying to air condition the outside!"
by kazinator | 2025-05-07 01:01:31+00:00
I made a loop macro using the C preprocessor, for the Awk language.

I had to rub my own eyes to believe that such a thing is possible.

It comes with over twenty useful clauses. Clauses are programmer-definable.

Clauses can combine in parallel or nested/cross-product iteration.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/cppawk/about/
by Telemakhos | 2025-05-07 01:01:59+00:00
This is pretty nice: thanks for including polytonic Greek and macrons over Latin vowels including over y. I especially love how the breathing marks and accents look together over initial vowels in Greek, and I love zeta (ζ) and xi (ξ) in this font.

Might I make a few specific suggestions:

- allow combining breve over Latin y as well: sometimes that's handy for indicating contrast

- check the height of stacking diacritical marks: a perispomenos tonos or circumflex accent over a breathing mark over a vowel (like in εἶναι eĩnai) ends up stacking up tall enough to intersect with descenders (like on ζ zeta) from the line above

- the circumflex over alpha (ᾶ) looks really good, because it follows the curve of the alpha itself, but circumflex over eta (ῆ) looks off-center, because it left-aligns to the ear on the left of eta. The same could be said for the iota subscript (ᾳῃῳ): it looks great under alpha and omega, but it's a bit awkward under eta because of how far to the left it is.

- have you considered adding a variation for the Porsonic or single-curve circumflex?
by dang | 2025-05-07 01:03:11+00:00
Related articles (from threads we've merged hither):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/world/asia/india-pakistan... (https://archive.ph/Bph7S)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/asia/india-pakistan-kashmir-c...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-05-06/india-st... (https://archive.ph/eypzA)

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyneele13qt
by SubiculumCode | 2025-05-07 01:03:46+00:00
Maybe LLM's know so much that it makes it difficult to feel the absence. When someone asks me about the history of the Ethiopian region, I can at most recall very few pieces of information, and critically, there is an absence of feelings of familiarity. In memory research, familiarity signal is can prompt continued retrieval attempts, but importantly absence of that signal can suggest that further retrieval attempts would be fruitless, and that you know that you don't know. Maybe knowing so much means that there is near saturation for stop tokens...or that llms need to produce a familiarity like scoring of the key response of interest.
by dan_lannan | 2025-05-07 01:04:07+00:00
This is said very confidently but until we see it happen there’s plenty of room for doubt.

My worst experiences with LLMs coding are from my own mistakes giving it the wrong intent. Inconsistent test cases. Laziness in explaining or even knowing what I actually want.

Architecture and abstraction happen in someone’s mind to be able to communicate intent. If intent is the bottleneck it will still come down to a human imagining the abstraction in their head.

I’d be willing to bet abstraction and architecture becomes the only thing left for humans to do.
by krackers | 2025-05-07 01:04:11+00:00
>While I can't share any technical details... The engineer provided some suggestions and hints that I can use right now to maybe — just maybe — get things working in the short term

Great that you have a workaround now, but the fact that you can't even share what the workaround is, ironically speaks to the last line in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904921 of how Apple communicates

>there’s this trick of setting it to this but then change to that and it’ll work. Undocumented but now you know

When you do implement the workaround, maybe you could do it in an overtly-named function spottable via disassembly so that others facing similar constraints of latency-sensitive GPU have some lead as to the magic incantation to use?
by dogman144 | 2025-05-07 01:04:36+00:00
Right. What evidence is out there on the leak contents?

All I have found is putting 2 and 2 together that this Signal variant has been used for months, the vendor was exploited and lost data, and vendor worked with clear texts logs.

That leaves a lot of room for interpretation still. certain agencies on certain tenants, certain tenants were hacked but others, technical info like that.
by jmclnx | 2025-05-07 01:04:46+00:00
No argument from me, I also believe bloat is a very large problem.

A get of my lawn section :)

I remember when GUIs started becoming a thing, I dreaded the move from Text to GUIs due to complexity. I also remember most programs I wrote when I started on minis were 64k code and 64k text. They were rather powerful even by today's standards, they did one thing and people had to learn which one to use to perform a task.

Now we have all in one where in some cases you need to page through endless menus or buttons to find an obscure function. In some cases you just give up looking and move on. Progress I guess.
by eftychis | 2025-05-07 01:06:22+00:00
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by redczar | 2025-05-07 01:09:02+00:00
You can’t in good faith try to convince anyone that cancelling Prime is as easy as canceling a subscription on iOS. After cancelling prime whenever you order something dark patterns are used to try to get you to sign up. One such patten is that orders default to charging for shipping with a message stating that if you sign up for Prime shipping is free. This is even if your order qualifies for free shipping. Another is that when you checkout you get taken to a page that offers you Prime at a reduced rate for a week or two. You have to decline before checking out.

You are not engaged in a good faith discussion. Peddle this nonsense to someone else.
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by voice_prompt | 2025-05-07 01:09:21+00:00
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by rtpg | 2025-05-07 01:09:43+00:00
The best faith thing I can think of here is that these rules are requiring that live events do much more than "just" display the full price. For example in ads they _must_ show the all inclusive price.

An example of a thing that movie theaters can do that live event shows can no longer do is say "a ticket costs $14", while in reality there's a booking fee to cover card payments if you pay online, but you can walk into a movie theater and pay just $14.

I think the FTC is saying that while there might be good faith reasons to have booking fees, the industry clearly is using this stuff in bad faith so the industry no longer has this sort of good faith "out" to simplify messaging on pricing.
by lukeschlather | 2025-05-07 01:10:37+00:00
The DoD obviously has a need to message with people who don't have access to their hardware. Signal can basically do this on its own if you link a Signal account to an Internet-connected PC and back up those messages, I don't see why you would want a third party app involved.

It seems likely to me that this was the "whole point of Signal+TeleMessage" and then in addition to being a bad solution, it got misused for communications that shouldn't have left the DoD's networks anyway.
by jongjong | 2025-05-07 01:11:49+00:00
In my last job, just to run the software on my local machine, I had to launch 6 different microservices running in a containerized, Linux virtualized environment on Windows and had to launch them in a particular order and had to keep each one in a separate console for debugging purposes. It took about 20 minutes to launch the software to be able to test it locally. The launch couldn't be automated easily because each service was using a mix of containers and plain Node.js servers with different versions and it was Windows so I would probably have to write some unfamiliar code for Windows to automate opening all the necessary git bash tabs...

The services usually persisted except for automatic updates so I only had to restart all the services a few times per week so it didn't make sense to invest time to automate.
by cancerhacker | 2025-05-07 01:12:45+00:00
It’s fun to consider how C devolves into assembler. In my mind, C and its derivatives dissolve into 68K assembler as I’m writing or debugging. Thinking about code this way lets me get a feel for how all the bits all fit together.

It seems like a lost art to think that way. It’s disturbing to me how many candidates couldn’t write Hello World and compile it from the command line.

Everyone should spend some time with godbolt.org or better, the -save-temps compiler flag, to see how changes affect your generated code. Right now. I’ll wait. (Shakes cane at kids)
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-07 01:14:08+00:00
From Wikipedia: Nominated in March 2021; Served in office June 15, 2021 – January 20, 2025

Coincidental timing, I'm sure!

100% of the votes against confirmation were Republican. Fewer than half the R Senators voted to confirm her. Her predecessor, Obama nominee Edith Ramirez, was confirmed unanimously.

I suggest we let the different parties take responsibility and/or credit for their decisions.
by yellowapple | 2025-05-07 01:14:31+00:00
This works until Theater A signs an exclusivity deal with the publisher of that pre-recorded performance, such that going to Theater B to see the same show is not possible because Theater B is not legally permitted to show it.

Granted, such exclusivity deals are rare (because generally publishers want to maximize their revenue rather than artificially constrain it), but not unheard of (for example: films made specifically for IMAX's fancy setups).
by strangegecko | 2025-05-07 01:14:41+00:00
Responding to this as someone who has struggled with similar inner conflicts, the "chore to get to something else" rings true for me.

In my case, being good at programming was my means to feeling valued and valuable, and the sense of "I should" came from feeling useless and not needed, specifically after being forced into early retirement. (but the same pattern has been with me since childhood)

Not having a family or passion project (which fills those gaps for many people as far as I can tell) made all of this feel very urgent and threatening.

> which part you actually want to do

Which sounds like such a simple question, but I found it hard to answer. For me, it quickly turns into "what is worth doing", which is a bit of a monstrous question. I'm still trying to figure out whether this is a result of being mostly estranged from myself and the question of "what do I want" due to being so overwhelmed with trying to succeed with the external constraints and demands the world places on us.
by EMIRELADERO | 2025-05-07 01:15:47+00:00
> Part of my point is that you don't need to produce literally equivalent output. Again, if I record and compress "Revenge of the Sith", there's literally zero pixels shared between my recording and the actual movie. Cool, so I can go upload it for free then right? No, I can't.

That's because you would be redistributing the actual material, just in a really roundabout way. GenAI models are not that, they're not a database and don't work like one.

> Can GenAI produce indistinguishable images to what's on Getty Images?

That doesn't matter because you can't copyright a style. From the point of view of copyright law, it would look like you were copying nothing proprietary/owned at all.
by netaustin | 2025-05-07 01:17:35+00:00
Not a tangent! I certainly appreciate the semantics, and there seems to be some academic interest in the semantics alone! Some Lyme researchers would like to call it “Lyme Disease Facial Palsy” or LDFP to encourage practitioners to differentiate early. Not sure that would’ve helped me, I had no bullseye rash and no fever, just horrible fatigue and facial paralysis. The idea would be to encourage practitioners in Lyme-prone locations to see Bell’s, test for Lyme, which I think your point about overlooking the link between condition and the cause supports. Lyme showed up on a blood test my PCP ordered only after I completed a course of prednisone with no improvement and much misery. He didn’t even tell me he added a Lyme test, but I’m glad he did!

Here’s one paper on the topic I remember reading at the time: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8791801/
by reassembled | 2025-05-07 01:18:20+00:00
The RK3588 is actually quite powerful. It is capable of running much heavier video workloads than this. OBS runs very well on it although it does not yet make use of the RockChip’s built-in media accelerator. It’s capable on paper of 16 streams of 1080p30 H264. Check out this blog post (not my own): https://jas-hacks.blogspot.com/2023/01/rk3588-decoding-rende...
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-07 01:19:43+00:00
Hypothetically, wouldn't the best Signal archiving be to make the custom client auto-add an archiving "user" to all chats, with that user only connected from secure archiving machines? Then convert archive user client text to whatever government encrypted form on that machine for long term storage?

Curious what the best way of archiving with Signal's security model would be.