MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BobaFloutist | 2025-05-22 15:35:06+00:00
I mean it's always a little bizarre when the default unit used to measure something is dimensionless. Why not set a default (like STP) that's assumed to be the baseline unless otherwise specified? It would be like if Celsius had no reference point and every time you said water boils at 100 degrees Celsius people came out of the word work to smugly correct you "Only if you first say 0 degrees C is when water freezes, which you can't assume. What if 0C is actually absolute 0?"
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-05-22 15:35:21+00:00
I see you're correct, I misremembered. That isn't really much better, since there's no requirement that unspecified values ever actually change. Compiler developers are free to always return `0x00` when reading any unspecified `char` value, which wouldn't provide any entropy. XORing it in guaranteed that it couldn't subtract entropy, but if there were no other entropy sources they failed to return an error. OpenSSL being able to generate 0 entropy and not return an error in its RNG was still an important bug to fix.
by rtkwe | 2025-05-22 15:36:31+00:00
There's still a lot of work to be done. It's good at making short individual scenes but when you start trying to string them together the wheels start to come off a lot. This [0] pretty basic police raid leads to shootout video for example turns to mush pretty quick because even in the initial car ride the interior of the car's size and shape warps pretty drastically.

Feels like there's going to be a dichotomy where the individual visuals look pretty good taken by themselves but the story told by those shots will still be mushy AI slop for a while. I've seen this kind of mushy consistency hold up over the generations so far, it seems very difficult to remove becasue it relies on more context than just previous images and text descriptions to manage.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1kru6jb/this_video...
by flashblaze | 2025-05-22 15:37:01+00:00
I'm not really well versed with codecs, but is it up to the devices or the providers (where you're uploading them) to handle playback or both? A couple of days ago, I tried to upload an Instagram Reel in AV1 codec, and I was struggling to preview it on my Samsung S20 FE Snapdragon version (before uploading and during preview as well). I then resorted to H.264 and it worked w/o any issues.
by adra | 2025-05-22 15:37:10+00:00
I love java and kotlin. The gap has certainly swayed way more in Java's favor over the last 5 years, but there are still a ton of great features that kotlin does first and if that gives java a target to run toward in a lagging way more legacy compatible rock solid way, isn't this just a win for both camps? Just consider kotlin (JVM) to be java-beta with slightly different flourishes, and you wouldn't be too far from the truth. Kotlin is also very big in pushing their other initiatives that aren't entirely directed at JVM at least for now, like cross compilation native targets, compile time serialization primitives, totally structured concurrency, etc
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-05-22 15:37:28+00:00
I was going to leave it there, as you suggested earlier, as I felt you were unable or unwilling to engage with my points, instead focusing on trivialities, tone policing, etc.

The futility is already apparent, but I'll make the same point again a third time, even though you've already shown a commitment to not understanding.

> For everyone else, they obviously understood I was critiquing the article and showing how I found some genuine value in AI tools by thinking a little outside the box. I.e., they aren't gimmicks.

The logic this sentence hinges on is that you using the tools and getting "genuine value" out of them proves that the tools are not gimmicks. This is nonsensical.
by eeeeeeehio | 2025-05-22 15:37:56+00:00
It's not too difficult to state any idea, even a surprising one. But often, papers with surprising ideas (or maybe the right thing to say is surprising results?) turn out to be wrong!

I think it's still the case that there's lots of ideas that (if they worked!) would be surprising. Anyone can state outlandish ideas in a paper -- imo the contribution is proving (e.g. with sound "experiments", interpreted broadly) that they actually work. Unfortunately, I think clarity of writing matters more to reviewers than the soundness of your experiments. I think in CS this could very well change if the reviewers willed it (i.e. require artifact submission with the paper, and allow papers to be rejected for faults in the artifact)
by raydev | 2025-05-22 15:38:28+00:00
It's unfinished and it's in the public's hands. I don't see these as opposing ideas.

We can debate whether they should have called this an experiment or an alpha or beta or whatever, but that's a different discussion.

The fact that people are using it currently does not make it a failure. When MS shuts it down, or Copilot is wildly unprofitable for multiple quarters, team behind it quits, etc, etc, then we can determine whether it has failed or not.

But if they continue to have paying customers and users are finding some benefits over not having Copilot, and MS continues to improve it (doesn't let it rot), then you'd have to provide some evidence of its failure that isn't "look at Copilot being stupid sometimes". Especially when stupidity is expected of it.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-22 15:38:55+00:00
Over 30y I've learned that surveillance overreach by Govs never stops or even slows down. Only reporting by the press does.

I'm hoping that a historically overt, abusive administration will kick news orgs out of their default complacency - and that they'll take surveillance seriously again. For a time.

That said, I am sympathetic that mental bandwidth is a real issue ATM.
by eeeeeeehio | 2025-05-22 15:39:58+00:00
I agree with you. But what part of the blog post, or the peer review process in general, do you think ensures that only true ideas get in front of eyeballs?

I can write anything I want in the paper, but at the end of the day my experiments could do something slightly (or completely) different. Where are reviewers going to catch this?
by ziofill | 2025-05-22 15:40:25+00:00
Oh wait, I just realized what I said was probably very stupid: I was thinking of some computational complexity theorem that links memory and runtime complexity classes in the same way that the "speed of light" sets an ultimate bound on the relation between actual space and actual time.

But the speed of light is the maximum space in the smallest time, which computationally would correspond to filling the largest amount of memory in the shortest time :facepalm: (and thanks for the links!)
by tialaramex | 2025-05-22 15:40:37+00:00
The healthier response might have been work to speed-up dav1d. If you refine the Olympic Record metrics and force them to retrospectively update previous records so that Bolt's 100m sprint record is revised to 9.64s rather than 9.63s nobody cares man, get a life, but if you can run an actual nine second 100 metre sprint that people care about†

† If you're a human. If you're an ostrich this is not impressive, but on the whole ostrichs aren't competing in the Olympic 100 metre sprint.
by aaron695 | 2025-05-22 15:41:55+00:00
Get The Scene involved.

They shifted to h.264 successfully, but I haven't heard of any more conferences to move forward in over a decade.

Currently "The Last of US S02E06" only has one AV1 - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=The+Last+of+Us+S02E06 same THMT - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=The+Handmaids+Tale+S06... These are low quality at only ~600MB, not really early adopter sizes.

AV1 beats h.265 but not h.266 - https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202402.0869/v1 - People disagree with this paper on default settings

Things like getting hardware to The Scene for encoding might help, but I'm not sure of the bottleneck, it might be bureaucratic or educational or cultural.

[edit] "Common Side Effects S01E04" AV1 is the strongest torrent, that's cool - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Common+Side+Effects+S0...
by Foobar8568 | 2025-05-22 15:42:02+00:00
You have many options for DAP, unfortunately they are often android based. In some rare cases, they are either pure custom OS, or stripped down android device. I have a Cayin N3U, I hesitated a lot with some Hobby device as it's a small brick and Android, while the android interface is still too present for my taste, and a bit too large, I have no regret, I really wanted something dedicated, no Bluetooth, tube, portable, no streaming, no extra app.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-22 15:42:14+00:00
Some of the problems have to do with science itself and not the social systems.

Progress in fundamental physics is stuck because of the difficulty doing experiments. CERN is thinking about building an even bigger accelerator that might be done by 2070. It is very possible that it discovers no new phenomena but instead puts a few more digits of accuracy on certain parameters of the standard model at great cost. I think experiments like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-Kamiokande

are the most interesting area because there really is deep mystery in the neutrino sector and it is important to push the bounds on proton decay. However it is still a story of building bigger and bigger machines and not getting a definitive result like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment
by rkagerer | 2025-05-22 15:42:37+00:00
It sounds like helium is still presenting a challenge:

> ...changes in the truck's speed produced turbulence in the liquid helium, making measurements of its presence unreliable. Levels had dropped from about 75 percent of maximum to 30 percent by the time the system was reconnected, suggesting that liquid helium presents the key limiting factor in shipping.

This was after just a 4km stint around CERN campus.
by mmooss | 2025-05-22 15:43:04+00:00
It is really a great story. A bunch of ideas ... maybe some will help ...

Embracing curiosity and exploration can be life-changing; embracing play, lifelong - it's a universal form of lifelong exploration among primates. Also, plenty of research supports exploration's powerful affect on aging minds (though I don't know your age) in many ways. And as a wonderful effect, you find new things that you love. And remember that part of exploration is dead ends and failures - if you aren't failing, you aren't trying.

Also, life changes take a bit of time, like turning a big ship - an accumulation of things need to change. Just beginning to head in that direction - changing the derivative of the derivative of your path, in geek terms - can change your outlook, give you direction and goals; you're embarked on a long journey.

There's no panacea. Life can still feel pointless at times. For me, at least, the trick is to recognize it's my emotions, to have compassion for them - life ain't easy - and to put my head down and just do the things I know are right. And when I come out of it, I feel proud of what I've done and in a better place to move forward. Always do things that leave you a little better off than when you started.

Good luck! I hope that helps!
by Bender | 2025-05-22 15:45:03+00:00
Wouldn't that apply to recorded, or any sexual activity just as much as live?

Yes. They probably have issues with the one on one interaction because they know I will ask them to put shoe on head. People can request custom videos to be recorded offline just as easily as one on one live. They should probably elaborate and probably will during the court cases that follow.

If a video chat could lead to slavery then Uber and Lift should also be banned. That's even more in-person than a remote internet video connection that could be easily dumped. In an Uber I could touch the driver. On a video chat I could not. In a taxi I know where the driver resides. On a video chat I would have no idea unless the performer was careless.

I think more realistically its probably related to the threats and incidents that Omegle had. Either party could perform an illegal act which means all of the live streams would have to be monitored real time. If something pre-recorded had to be hosted on their site it's easier to catch people doing illicit acts such as agreeing to involve their kids or exchanging drugs and money or agreeing to continue the stream outside of the control of OnlyFans or agreeing to meet in person for real prostitution or telling jokes about that Swede and Norwegian that are captured by a jungle tribe and made to go gather 8 things.
by helpfulContrib | 2025-05-22 15:45:07+00:00
I remember getting computer magazines for birthday presents in the 70's/80's, which you could play into your computer from Dad's record player and load up a few of the type-ins .. I had a small suite of them, as well as some music variants. They were fun, but I transferred most of the interesting stuff to cassette tape, anyway.

These Bhutan stamps are delightful, and inspire me to learn more about the country. I hope there might be the prospect of future new releases, this is a kind of thing I could really get into.

A fun thought-game is to construct a small player stamp, onto which you drop a content stamp, blow a little, and hear the results .. I once knew a guy whose business-card could be used to play a record, barely audible, but still ..
by WhitneyLand | 2025-05-22 15:46:15+00:00
People who assume things are not complex because they understand them are rarely correct.

The complexity absolutely is not necessary. Maybe you mean to say it’s understandable or it’s coherent if you know the rules.

Physics doesn’t require us to create ambiguity by assigning DB to mean multiple possible ratios. If it needs to be disambiguated, then they both didn’t need to be DB in the first place.
by egberts | 2025-05-22 15:46:23+00:00
What is amazing about my spinal-meningitis-induced-by-high-body-temperature partial hearing loss is tinnitus is more there.

Decades later, after taking one pill of Zyban (to help quit smoking, Wellburtin-class), I lost the rest of my hearing in less than 30 minutes … permanently, but tinnitus went like mind-deafening.

7 years later, I opted for cochlear implants: and what do you know, tinnitus is barely there, almost gone.

not sure how to explain this, but it is largely gone, this tinnitus. I suspected that natural background noise is keeping this feedback loops (tinnitus) from mainfesting in my auditorial part of the brain.

Hearing largely restored in terms of jumpy crescendo yet fuller-spectrum, but dang, I hear farther than ever did before, like in Jamie Sommers of Bionic Woman.

I still operate in a high-stress environment of frontline cybersecurity, yet am more calmer and more responsive.

Highly recommended, unless you value your musical skill over tinnitus.
by abelanger | 2025-05-22 15:46:54+00:00
Congrats on the launch! I have a few questions (though I know very little about this space):

1. How often is the cause of a denied insurance claim a documentation error vs an intentional denial from an insurance company (either an automated system or medical reviewer)?

2. This feels very conceptually similar to an AI review bot, but the threshold for false positives feels higher. What does the process look like for double checking a false positive in the agent orchestration layer?
by nazunalika | 2025-05-22 15:47:19+00:00
For sure, we needed a build infrastructure for RISC-V. I started out with five VisionFive 2's in my lab, and they're still doing work as needed. Granted, those are quite slow and painful because some builds will take a long, long time on those (for example, GCC took 7 days at the beginning, but we have it at about 5 days plus change now). Ever since we've added SiFive P550's to the mix, it has made it much faster for us to identify build issues and get them rectified. I still happen to use my VF2's for the "tiny" builds.

It's true that since we've had a usable build root since last 2024, it gives our AltArch group the opportunity to build different kernels to support other SBC's or boards like they already do for ARM SBC's (rasperry pi for example, since that support isn't native to the EL kernel). So while we support the VF2's and QEMU out of the box, that group will handle the additional kernels for more hardware support.

I'm actually looking forward to seeing what other boards the AltArch group will happen to add support for.
by nindalf | 2025-05-22 15:47:32+00:00
Apple laptops were good before and after his reign of mediocrity. The butterfly keyboard and the Touch Bar were both terrible and I'm glad they're gone.

The worst part about the butterfly keyboard was that keys would stop working and fixing it would cost the same as a new laptop. I guess that's what you sacrifice when you design the laptop as thin as Ive envisioned.
by lukan | 2025-05-22 15:49:16+00:00
Sure, I did it 13 years ago and still use it daily. On a PC though, mostly. (But the actual player was mobile first, as it was my remote connection to the PC that is connected to the bass box. But works also standalone.)

I just never polished it to publish it, but it is quite easy and I guess ChatGPT can help with the basics as no arcane knowledge is required. (Except maybe the playing while screen is off.)

You also need a small node script, though or something different with system access to scan the media files. I think in browser tools make this now somewhat possible without(beware of security restrictions), but my approach is simply a node script scanning the music folder and generating a list that the media player consumes to find files for the player. I still didn't got around to make it automatic, but I don't add so much music (anymore).

I guess I will give it a try to see, how good it works a mobile player nowdays. I always wanted to upgrade it, so I can connect to spotify from my player as I hate the spotify mobile app.
by Barrin92 | 2025-05-22 15:49:21+00:00
>But a distribution is neither an "app store", nor does it "insert itself" between the user and the software.

Just scroll up to the second comment in the thread right now by the user rmccue. Given that Debian doesn't give the user any indication of the fact that it even has modified an upstream piece of software it's obviously perfectly possible for them to insert themselves without you even knowing it. And in that case, according to the developer, even introduced subtle bugs.

So you can run buggy software as a consequence of some maintainer thinking they know more than a developer, and not even know it because you have no practical info about that process. This is of course not a "choice" in any meaningful sense of the term.

Nobody ever actually wants to use a buggy php library maintained by debian over a functioning one maintained a by developer, they very likely just never even were aware that that is what they were served.
by clamlady | 2025-05-22 15:49:40+00:00
If you have good form (e.g. standing upright, shoulders back) you really shouldn't have issues. it's good for your posture and bone density if you ruck correctly. You really don't want to exceed more than 1/3 of your body weight, but if you are just starting out I recommend starting with a 10 to 20lb pack.
by billy99k | 2025-05-22 15:49:43+00:00
"Elon Musk had already turned Twitter into a right-wing echo chamber since purchasing it in 2022"

I disagree. I look at this frequently and Twitter has right and left wing posts pretty equally. Many people think it's a 'right-wing echo chamber' because non-left leaning posts were censored for many years.

Bluesky is an authoritarian nightmare that only allows left-leaning posts and pre-bans people for their content on other platforms, before they even post. It's really telling, since this the founder is the same person that ran Twitter before Elon.
by stevetron | 2025-05-22 15:49:59+00:00
Interesting.

This was supposedly in the _charter_ of the department of homeland security. It was supposed to be the controller of all intelligence (all agencies to dump their databases together), from all the spy agencies to prevent the intentional use-case of employing jumbo jet planes as weapons of mass destruction. And forcing all cell phones of every design every where to have GPS. Seems a little bit slow.
by kbolino | 2025-05-22 15:50:01+00:00
I did some basic tests with SDL3 and SDL3_ttf, using only surfaces in CPU memory and with acceleration disabled, on my 2560p 144Hz monitor and the copying was never a bottleneck. I was concretely able to achieve an average of 3ms per frame, well under the 144Hz budget of 6.9ms per frame, to scroll a pre-rendered text box with a small border in a fullscreen window. Even at 4K resolution (though that monitor is only 60Hz), I was seeing 5-6 ms per frame, still good enough for 144Hz and leaving lots of time to spare for 60Hz. I think this certainly proves that smoothly scrolling a text box, at least with a powerful desktop computer, is not an issue using only direct pixel access.

The bigger issue, though, may be rendering the text in the first place. I'm not sure how much the GPU can help there, though it is at least possible with SDL3_ttf to pass off some of the work to the GPU; I may test that as well.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-22 15:50:06+00:00
The vast majority of trees are planted because the value of a sapling ismore than a seedling. It doesn't matter that you will never know the shade, and that the sapling is worthless for industrial purposes, you can profit quite quickly.

To be more explicit, the time value of something closer is higher than one further, so you can actually induce under even a hypercapitalist society any arbitrarily long delay investment with 0 'real' payoff until the end.
by amiga386 | 2025-05-22 15:50:42+00:00
I won't comment on the merits of this project, but I put my entire media collection, including all audio, in Jellyfin, and I find Finamp (available for Android and iPhone) to be convenient player, especially that it has easy download of entire albums, artists, etc. and "offline mode" you can toggle on so you can random-play whatever you've downloaded, even in places with no phone reception.
by ash-ali | 2025-05-22 15:50:50+00:00
I think this is the proper way to use llms for tasks that require high fidelity. currently im working on binary analysis using llms for natural language and letting ghidra/codeql do the symbolic work. scalability is a massive issue, perhaps the biggest besides fidelity.

its interesting to see many people come to the same neuro-symbolic conclusion around the same time.
by rkagerer | 2025-05-22 15:50:53+00:00
...started out in France but briefly crossed the border into Switzerland

"Anything to declare?"

"Yes, antimatter."

"Value for customs?"

"Um..."

Jokes aside, this is really neat. But we should enjoy this 'Wild West' while it lasts. I suspect in generations to come once it's easy to manufacture, antimatter will surely become a controlled substance.
by ziofill | 2025-05-22 15:51:00+00:00
I've been playing the piano for 30 years, and although I'm pretty good at sight reading I don't think I would manage well on random notes. Music is generally not random (even jazz): there is structure, there is alternating tension and resolution, lots of patterns etc... However, I can see the appeal of just getting good at translating symbols into sound, I'm pretty sure that if I practiced with random notes I would also get better with patterns.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-22 15:51:00+00:00
Tesla has already admitted their robo-taxi won't be "autonomous" but instead will rely heavily on "tele-ops".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2025/05/17/tesla-...

How many billionaires are willing to bet their life on a cell tower connection? How many people would be bold enough to ask them to?
by AnonC | 2025-05-22 15:51:07+00:00
What is the planned business model here? I see that this is published by an LLC and also that it doesn’t collect any data (the latter is great to know).

On the app itself, I don’t understand why it allows selecting past dates in the current month (e.g., Why al I allowed to select May 1st?) I can understand allowing a day or so to account for time zone differences, but usually people across large time zones differences wouldn’t be the audience for this app since it doesn’t allow for availability by time of the day.