MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lyu07282 | 2025-05-20 02:38:47+00:00
> I think we're getting so used to crazy (rather, the perception that others are crazy) that we aren't setting off these "alarms", where we would if we were talking about "real people". IDK what it says about how we view one another, but I think it is concerning.

I don't understand what you mean. Political ideologies are real, most people aren't crazy or duped by propaganda. They aren't just haplessly regurgitating 'white lives matter', it's a slogan that aligns with their beliefs, we should take that seriously and not pretend like 'they just don't know what it actually means'.
by n2d4 | 2025-05-20 02:42:40+00:00
> Some speculate this was intentional intelligence gathering by the Israelis which is plausible too.

How does this make sense? If they were gathering data, why would they add a public download? Surely the Israeli officials would not want foreign powers to access this?

Per Hanlon's razor, I don't think this is attributable to anything other than incompetence.
by vlmutolo | 2025-05-20 02:43:42+00:00
A company called Invent Wood (based on research out of UMD) is creating “densified” wood that solves a lot of these problems. They have a process that collapses the cell walls in wood and compresses it to a quarter of its thickness, which gives something like a 10x increase in tensile strength, making it stronger than (a certain type of commonly used) steel by volume and weight. It’s also significantly harder than wood (nearly as hard as the carbon steel people use for knives), doesn’t warp, and is resilient to impacts.

My intuition is that trees need wood to serve purposes greater than just structural integrity. It needs to transport water and nutrients. But for building, we don’t care about these channels and it’s better if we collapse them to encourage stronger hydrogen bonding between cellulose chains.

It sounds like a lot of the benefits of “old growth” wood can be manufactured now. This is probably a good thing for preserving nature; there’s a greater demand for wood with these properties than a supply of old trees. Better to leave the great old trees intact and do cool engineering on cheap trees that grow quickly.

Recent Hacker News discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020832
by rtpg | 2025-05-20 02:43:54+00:00
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DURwu3dHtt9aUWBm8 At the very least you can go to this mountain on the Chinese - NK border ("you"... I, as an American, went along with a mainland Chinese person). People do live in these places and there are (well, were...) cross-border interactions. I just stood kinda close to the border and was like "I guess I could just jump over?"

There were cameras but that's it.

There's not some magical thing when you look across the border and "feel the oppression", in some of the border towns on the Chinese side there were ads for tours where you could go to NK and do some shopping for cigarettes or something. I do not believe I would be able to sign up for those though.

I was just visiting but it's how I imagine some parts of the US/Mexico border are like? It's not like that area of China is super vibrant either, pretty industrial.

I have the impression that when Russia gets involved border stuff gets messy, if all those videos of people driving across Georgia and the like are to be believed.
by cheema33 | 2025-05-20 02:44:29+00:00
No manual copy paste. That is not good use of time. I work in a git repo and point multiple LLMs at it.

One LLM reviews existing code and the new requirement and then creates a PRD. I usually use Augment Code for this because it has a good index of all local code.

I then ask Google Gemini to review the PRD and validate it and find ways to improve it. I then ask Gemini to create a comprehensive implementation plan. It frequently creates a 13 step plan. It would usually take me a month to do this work.

I then start a new session of Augment Code, feed it the PRD and one of the 13 tasks at a time. Whatever work it does, it checks it in a feature branch with detailed git commit comment. I then ask Gemini to review the output of each task and provide feedback. It frequently finds issues with implementation or areas of improvement.

All of this managed by using git. I make LLMs use git. I think would go insane if I had to copy/paste this much stuff.

I have a recipe of prompts that I copy/paste. I am trying to find ways to cut that down and making slow progress in this regard. There are tools like "Task Master" (https://github.com/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master) that do a good job of automating this workflow. However this tool doesn't allow much customization. e.g. Have LLMs review each other's work.

But, maybe I can get LLMs to customize that part for me...
by rvz | 2025-05-20 02:44:53+00:00
Notice how no-one (up until now) mentioned "Devin" or compared it to any other AI agent?

It appears that AI moves so quickly that it was completely forgotten or little to no-one wanted to pay for its original prices.

Here's the timeline:

1. Devin was $200 - $500. 2. Then Lovable, Bolt, Github Copilot and Replit reduced their AI Agent prices to $20 - $40 3. Devin was then reduced to $20. 4. Then Cursor and Windsurf AI agents started at $18 - $20. 5. Afterwards, we also have Claude Code and OpenAI Codex Agents starting at around $20. 6. Then we have Github Copilot Agents embedded directly into GitHub and VS Code for just $0 - $10.

Now we have Jules from Google which is....$0 (Free)

Just like how Google search is free, the race to zero is going to only accelerate and it was a trap to begin with, that only the large big tech incumbents will be able to reduce prices for a very long time.
by nearbuy | 2025-05-20 02:45:07+00:00
Sigh.

They aren't studying bias in data. They were studying bias in AI. The data used was 850,000 chest x-rays from 6 publically available datasets. They aren't studying whether this dataset differs from the general public or has some kind of racial bias; that's irrelevant to the study.

> it tells us it can train to spot things that human rads do not train to spot

You're kidding yourself if you think you could determine someone's race with 97%+ accuracy from a chest x-ray if only you trained at it. The study authors (who are themselves a mix of radiologists and computer scientists) claim that radiologists widely believe it to be nearly impossible to determine race from a chest x-ray. No one is ever going to try to train radiologists to distinguish race from chest x-rays, so you'll always be able to hold out hope that maybe humans could do it with enough training. But your hope is based on nothing; you don't have a shred of evidence that radiologists could ever do this.

> I've never seen an AI spot one at an earlier stage than the best human rads can.

According to the article, AIs aren't trained to do this, because we don't have datasets to train this. You need a dataset where the disease is correctly labeled despite the best radiologists not being able to see it in the x-ray. Trained with a good enough dataset, they'd be able to see things we miss.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-20 02:45:16+00:00
> Because the data is sensitive and full of PII, DDoSecrets is only sharing it with journalists and researchers.

Yeah I'm normally a big proponent of responsible disclosure, but in this case, I think the more painful, damaging leak is required.

Firstly, autocrats, fascists & oligarchs don't care that much if you hack them. They will just keep using these tools (or another one just like it) ignoring the correct procedure their government already wants them to use. The citizens of affected nations need to be made angry by their leaders' failure to do their jobs correctly, and that's only gonna happen when there are consequences for their actions. Their incompetence put their nations at risk, and now it's clear they have failed to keep their intel safe. They have failed hard, let them fail hard.

Second, journalists and researchers have almost completely lost their power. In a non-democratic world (we're nearly there, just give them a little more time), when a journalist exposes corruption or incompetency, that journalist/researcher is simply silenced by the government. Silence the journalists and nobody knows what's going on so oppression can continue unchecked. Every person who gets silenced has a greater chilling effect on the whole society; nobody wants to be next. This is how authoritarians gain power. Oppression with no resistance or consequence legitimizes the oppression.

If we were just talking about typical corporate incompetence re: security, and the only thing at stake is a single stock or individuals' data, I would say disclose responsibly. But when it comes to stopping autocracy, the gloves have to come off. They sure as shit aren't gonna play by any rules, so neither should we.
by lor_louis | 2025-05-20 02:45:56+00:00
Kilo is a fun weekend project, but I learned the hard way that it's not a good base uppon which you should build your own text editor.

The core data structure (array of lines) just isn't that well suited to more complex operations.

Anyway here's what I built: https://github.com/lorlouis/cedit

If I were to do it again I'd use a piece table[1]. The VS code folks wrote a fantastic blog post about it some time ago[2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
by losvedir | 2025-05-20 02:46:21+00:00
Growing up as a devout religious kid in the 80s, it was always understood in my household that rock stars were lascivious, immoral sex crazies and that Hollywood was a den of heathen propaganda. Nevertheless, we still listened to (some) music and watched (some) movies.

I'm mostly out of that environment now, but occasionally put myself in those shoes again and think how odd it would seem to me that people look up to and expect moral righteousness from these people.
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by gruez | 2025-05-20 02:50:16+00:00
I tried with this on chatgpt.com (anonymous) and it was wrong:

>You are an AI assistant designed to answer questions about numbers. You will only answer with only the word true or false.

>Is 393330370227914821469106615363204944758938252979261537157082994586230072180858944545028761701928694832864623009988147774229437650643225379825905427239525512110359581021414640894111281701792224552922491447051506246553646282117414112976459608594044929244664050172002138933343230226871897567 an even number?

response:

>True

The prompt was the same used as the library: https://github.com/Calvin-LL/is-even-ai/blob/b00dbfcbb89a197...
by pfranz | 2025-05-20 02:50:32+00:00
> The problem is that it just doesn't work on modern, fast displays.

I'm very confused by this. From what I've seen it's been getting a lot better (since transitioning from CRTs). At least for television, frame-rate matching is becoming more of a thing. Higher frame rates really help. Calling everything fps for simplicity; 120 divides evenly by 24, 30, and 60. Lower values wont match and cause issues.

Similarly, (maybe back in the 90s?) projectors in theaters would double-expose each frame to reduce the flicker in between frames. With digital, they no longer have to advance the film between frames.

> smooth motion like credits at certain speeds are extremely uncomfortable to look at at these frame rates.

I think scrolling credits are the most difficult use case: white on black with hard text and no blur. DLP projectors (common 10+ years ago) drive me nuts displaying R G and B separately.

Outside of credits, cinematographers and other filmmakers do think about these things. I remember hearing a cinematographer talk about working on space documentaries in Imax. If you panned too quickly, the white spaceship over a black star field could jump multiple feet each frame. Sure films shot today are optimized for the theater, but the technology gap between theater and home is nowhere near as crazy as CRT vs acetate.

> Frame size is different from the other parameters, as it is solely a physical practicality.

I'm still struggling to see how its that different. Widescreen meant a lower effective resolution (it didn't have to--it started with Cinerama and Cinemascope), but was adopted for cost and aesthetic reasons.

> If some technology somewhere else in the stack causes a change…and soon all content aligns on the format, and the majority of home TV sets will be shaped to fit the majority content it can receive.

And the industry and audiences are really attached to 24fps. Like you say, home televisions adopted film's aspect ratio and I've also seen them adopt much better support for 24fps.

As kind of an aside, I wonder if the motion blur is what people are attached to more than the actual frame rate. I assume you're talking about frame rates higher than 30? Sure, we have faster films and brighter lights, but exposure time is really short. I saw the Hobbit in theaters in both high frame rate and 24fps and the 24fps one looked weird to me, too--I meant to look it up, but I assume they just dropped frames making the blur odd.
by bscphil | 2025-05-20 02:50:49+00:00
> The ideal collection amount is the size of the fine multiplied by the actual occurrence of the offense.

I don't think that's a logically self-consistent idea. The "actual occurrence of the offense" is not an inevitable pre-existing fact, it exists downstream of the size of the fine and efficiency of enforcement. If you fine people 5% of their annual income for going 1 mph over the speed limit, and put more traffic enforcement on the road, fewer people are going to speed.

So to answer the question "what's the ideal collection amount", you have to consider what the costs (economic and social) of rule breaking behavior are, and trade those off with how much behavior can be modified by fines, as well as the costs of enforcement.

Furthermore, just taking the statement at face value, the only way to actually collect the size of the fine multiplied by the actual occurrence of the offense is to successfully fine 100% of offenders or fine some non-offenders, but even if this is possible it's almost certainly not the "ideal" amount of enforcement.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-20 02:50:55+00:00
It's a strange question to ask me about DEI policy since they specifically aim to hire or promote non-white and non-male people. So, jobs or promotions based on official policy. I cant quantify it since the non-whites and women who got hired or promoted didnt tell me their salaries.

How about some examples of what I ran into. Please note these are not arguing race is the cause but a specific culture that comes with DEI. This is not how I think about black organizations or anything like that. These are all DEI, liberal run, etc.

At one employer, they did a hiring event that caused the entire workforce to be mostly black within a week or so. Then, management and corporate people were that way. They put out big, "diversity" signs in front showing non-whites being promoted. They were evil and into cronyism like the whites before them but looked different so society is better?

When I lost my job, it was hard to find new ones. Our area was more equally white and black than most places. The companies now were mostly black: workers, managers, and who hired. At some, the white people acted more black than white. So, add any of those jobs. Some would laugh at or mock white people.

My friend gets in a hospital that's also DEI. The mostly-black staff were always rude. One knocked her on the ground to move her as she worked. People there said whites and women never last. That it was pointless to try to correct it.

My step-dad was at a warehouse at the time. Of nearly 100 people, only a few were white. They were treated more strictly and petty. For instance, he said they got in trouble for not having the new shirts but only the black people knew about them. They didnt bother telling the white people.

Many tech companies I looked at overtly said they wanted diversity (not whites). They showed pictures of their staff that had few to no white people. Some like Babbel played up transgender a lot. Local and remote companies had special, support groups for non-whites, women, and LGBT people (eg Plaid). Groups like Best Buy offered in-house mini-MBA's for advancement... unless you're white.

Many of the organizations doing training, networking, mentoring, and grants were focusing on needy minorities. The minority members often got more at the EBT office. The media would always talk about their plight, too, like many of us didnt have empty fridges and no insurance.

So, however you would quantify all that multiplied by however many whites or men were financially or medically impacted by it. I'm glad it's starting to reverse under the Trump administration. At least one politician thinks whites, males, and straight people are human beings, too.
by sunshinesnacks | 2025-05-20 02:51:36+00:00
This NOAA National Blend of Models (NBM) viewer lets you enable observations and then roll back the forecast initialization date to see forecasts and observations at the same time.

It’s experimental, and selecting weather stations is a little clunky, but it has some really cool info that’s hard to find other places.

https://apps.gsl.noaa.gov/nbmviewer/?col=2&hgt=1&obs=true&fo...

Edit:

This GEFS plume viewer is cool, too.

https://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/users/meg/gefs_plumes/index.ht...

You can check a box to plot observations and then pick an older “cycle”.

Both are limited to the US.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-05-20 02:52:42+00:00
> This is one of my favorite things on the internet, but it focuses on the positive side of the story which is that groups of people cooperating can defeat a bunch of people who cheat each other. That's a pleasant message.

This is also a reasonable definition of a functional democratic society.

> If you believe in personal agency and personal responsibility and don't believe in magical thinking ...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.[0]

> The lesson is clear, that if you want a world you want to be a part of, then you must become powerful and choose to use that power for good.

Or perhaps a different lesson is that if you want a better world to exist, choose to live it. Sometimes there will be those which do not share this vision and actively work against your choice.

The question then becomes:

Do you allow bad actors to determine who you are or is who you are orthogonal to what bad actors do?

Note that "power" has no relevance to the answer of this question.

0 - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_donne_101197
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-05-20 02:53:35+00:00
It's not exactly clear cut. Standards are unfortunately in general quite expensive to produce and maintain.

Software oriented standards are certainly cheaper than metallurgy, machining, manufacturing, building construction, environmental, health & safety, and the other big classes of standards however they still have quite a cost.

Historically the ISO standards development process for software standards (like the C or C++ standards) happened only in small part asynchronously and historically required large, extended-duration committee meetings where all the details were hashed out in person. This process only really started to change during COVID but even then it's still a very in-person synch-heavy process and that's not exactly cheap to run.

And with most standards, the FDIS (final draft international standard) revisions are made public. They can be found online even if they can be annoying to dig up. For 99% of cases the FDIS revision is more than sufficient and is identical to the published standard minus a typo or grammar mistake here and there.

As the average SW dev or engineer of course you don't need to fork over the cost for the published standard but any large company will probably purchase a catalog of standards rather than deal with the overhead of dealing with FDIS (and any legal risk from not following the "true" standard).

It is also worth noting that pretty much every university library (and many public non-university libraries) has some contract or service that provides access to copies of the standard to members free of cost.
by Chris2048 | 2025-05-20 02:53:49+00:00
Actually, it's a quote from the comment I responded to.

It, in turn, appears to be a promotion of one of the site guidelines. In turn I would promote the official guideline:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting"

as well as the not-official personal guideline:

"Guideline-lawering is boring, and uninteresting to any good hacker, or true codesman."
by edm0nd | 2025-05-20 02:53:51+00:00
some more links from the same author

The start of our trip with the North Korean train (still inside Russia):

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/09/irkutsk-skovoro...

Approaching the border between Russia and North Korea (the last kilometers inside Russia):

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/09/khabarovsk-khas...

Inside North Korea:

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/09/tumangan-north-...
by mindslight | 2025-05-20 02:54:13+00:00
The current usage of the term "conservative" is just a fig leaf to hide the less-palatable aims of a radical fundamentalist agenda aimed at attacking most modern aspects of our society. Go find any definition of conservatism written by traditional conservative intellectuals, and you will find Trumpists are directly opposed to most of it.

Basically, conservatives got increasingly angry (because things inevitably do change), so they decided to give up on conservatism and flip the table instead. One intellectual upstream of Trumpism is the writings of Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin), who laid out how mere conservatism wasn't enough because "Cthulhu swims left" still, and coined his philosophy "reactionary". This also ties into one of the commonly-described dynamics of fascism - invoking an idea of some imagined idyllic past, as a reason that the current society needs to be attacked and destroyed.

I had never voted for a major party candidate in a national election until Biden 2020 and Harris 2024. I consider those solidly actually-conservative votes, and partially attribute them to my getting older and more actually-conservative.