MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-01 00:19:08+00:00
Generally none, the DA must choose to pursue perjury charges, which basically never happens. In reality, nearly everyone commits perjury. Thomas More would not approve. Both versions (1966 and 1988) of A Man For All Seasons are highly worth watching several times and practically memorizing. "Would you benefit England by populating her with liars?" [edit] in retrospect, there is one inescapable consequence of lying under oath: your word now means nothing to honest people.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-05-01 00:19:23+00:00
This is an update from the folks doing Thunderscope (a high frequency "soft" oscilloscope) but this really stands out:

Teaching KiCad a New Trick - Matching Delays

At time of writing, KiCad only understands the length of traces and pins. When length matching, it takes length as a single number added up across every layer. This leads to delay mismatches, as the signals on the inner layers are slower than the signals on the outer layers. When assigning pin lengths, you need to arbitrarily choose a layer to convert a delay value (given by the manufacturer), to a length. This also results in delay mismatches.

I wanted to do this right, just like Altium does, but I didn’t want to have to calculate and add up all the delay values by hand in a spreadsheet. So I made a script to rewrite custom design rules to try to get KiCad’s length matching to be delay matching (including pad delays).

Closed source design tools leave you stuck, and often when a need like this surfaces you end up paying a lot of money for an "option pack" that adds the capability. If you have ever wondered if KiCad was up to doing any kind of design, this should assure you that no it works just fine and you can kick that $10,000 Altium license to the curb.
by klardotsh | 2025-05-01 00:19:52+00:00
And it's $124k on the west coast, specifically western Oregon. Coastal PNW is notoriously expensive to live in - sure, Corvallis isn't Seattle, but it's not cheap, either. Folks like to balk at numbers when it comes to publicly (or FOSS-donation-ly) funded salaries, but also balk at tying context to those numbers. It happens almost every time anyone dares try to pay their bills on open-source work: a flame war over "you don't need that number, you could move to your parent's basement in Arkansas and survive on $20k instead!".
by jmpavlec | 2025-05-01 00:20:31+00:00
FYI seems like multiple typos in the GitHub description that shows at the top (not in the readme)

Quoting it here:

> Kexa's simple rules (Open Source) make it easy to monitoring and manage alerting of your entire cloud. With various monitoring and alerting options, instant and detailed alerts, easy-to-deploy and low in infrastructure costs, in turns complexity into simplicity.
by throwanem | 2025-05-01 00:21:19+00:00
Walmart back rooms are emptying out nationwide. Shelves will do so next. Let's see what tune folks sing when their guy turns their everything store into a scene out of Solzhenitsyn.

Of course, liberals will promptly proceed to squander even that advantage with their usual grating condescension and smug incompetence, and then blame everyone else for their own myriad failings, again as always.
by falcor84 | 2025-05-01 00:22:13+00:00
That seems fake - diffusion models should evolve details over time, right? This one just feels in the blanks gradually, like an old progressive jpeg.

EDIT: This video in TFA was actually a much cooler demonstration - https://framerusercontent.com/assets/YURlGaqdh4MqvUPfSmGIcao...
by akoster | 2025-05-01 00:22:37+00:00
Interesting given NYC's population still hasn't recovered from its early 2020 high [0], rent and home prices keep rising (and fast). There are many reasons discussed here: pied-a-terre's, foreign investors, lack of new construction and inventory at affordable levels contributing to low vacancy [1] but still hard to fathom at a naive supply and demand level, shouldn't ~300k less people and several new residential buildings finishing construction in the past few years contribute to lower not higher prices? [2]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/nyregion/nyc-population-2...

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/news/007-24/new-york-city-s-vac...

[2] https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/dcp/assets/files/pdf/data-t... (page 3)
by vvojd | 2025-05-01 00:24:46+00:00
There are two main places where AI still differs from humans. Long enough thought chains and proper memory/learning.

On the first, you really have to consider a number of options when refactoring or adding to a codebase. On the latter, you may be able to get away with having an extremely detailed manual but ultimately a lot of day to day things aren’t suitable to a RAG.

So no, no one’s getting fired anytime soon.
by oa335 | 2025-05-01 00:25:46+00:00
> You won’t find anywhere in those primary sources where the founders envisioned some “rule of law” where private litigants use the court to micromanage executive policy.

Marbury vs Madison established the judiciaries authority to review actions of the executive. That was in 1803.

Regarding rule of law, in that opinion:

> When the heads of the departments of the Government are the political or confidential officers of the Executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the Executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that the individual who considers himself injured has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy.
by mrcwinn | 2025-05-01 00:26:16+00:00
The heart of Apple's hypocrisy is this: they claim their 30% is necessary to support the developer ecosystem and fund its operations. But of course if that were true, they could easily charge a high enough platform membership fee directly to developers. Instead they opt for a structural tax to cover what are mostly completely opaque and secret operational costs. They're opaque and secret for obvious reasons: those expenses come nowhere close to the ~$30 billion in App Store commission Apple generates every year.
by platevoltage | 2025-05-01 00:27:24+00:00
I'll give you my anecdote. I'm building a device that reads the input of a USB game controller. In my case, it's a Sim Steering Wheel. I ended up needing to incorporate a MAX3421e USB Host chip to read the HID input, because the ESP firmware doesn't have this implemented. Hardware wise, all ESP32 chips with hardware USB could do this, but they haven't prioritized it in software. Some keyboards and Mice use a protocol called "boot protocol", and you can get those to work. It's not very common in game controllers though.
by AlexCoventry | 2025-05-01 00:27:33+00:00
Thanks, yes, I was thinking specifically of "Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution". They actually consider two noise distributions: one with uniform sampling for each noised token position, and one with a terminal masking (the Q^{uniform} and Q^{absorb}.) However, the terminal-masking system is clearly superior in their benchmarks.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16834#page=6
by zamadatix | 2025-05-01 00:27:53+00:00
> When Startup Boost is active, the scheduled task will not run immediately at login to avoid slowing down your PC — it will wait 10 minutes to ensure the system is in a steady idle state. Additionally, Startup Boost will be disabled when Energy Saver mode is active. Startup Boost only runs if you have launched Word recently, and if you have not launched Word recently it will automatically disable itself.

If you meet the hardware requirements threshold and recently have used Office then preloading it 10 minutes after login is extremely unlikely to impact your startup.
by hnburnsy | 2025-05-01 00:28:15+00:00
>Outside my hometown, Albuquerque, where the city ends and modular suburban homes climb the hill toward the Santa Fe National Forest, there’s a Tesla sales lot, filled with a fleet of the angular silver Nazi Wagons...

So the author fulfilled a version of Goodwin's Law, "as an article criticizing Tesla\Musk grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
by stubish | 2025-05-01 00:29:51+00:00
Accounting tricks are likely the best option. Buy your offshore supplier, or setup an offshore reseller. Start supplying the components to yourself at a loss, making the cost of that component cheaper when it comes to tariffs or this 85% calculation. Increase profit margins to cover the offshore loss. Send money back offshore as part of some sort of suppliers agreement if you need to balance their books. Even if the gov tells you to stop it, it will have taken them a few years and any fines negotiable since politically they still want you happy enough to keep manufacturing onshore.
by kyle-rb | 2025-05-01 00:30:07+00:00
What exactly is the advantage of Swift UI over Flutter? Maybe it's slightly more efficient since Flutter does its own rendering, but in my experience I've never run into issues with performance.

And I think everything should be web apps anyway (ideally PWAs), but I like that Flutter lets you produce a desktop app from your mobile app with very little effort. Even without any special "integration" with the OS, it's better than packaging a web app in Electron, right?
by medhir | 2025-05-01 00:31:15+00:00
once again will ask why iPhones are treated any differently from other computing devices — we need legislative solutions that allow consumers to load software (or even other operating systems) on any computing device they own.

restricting software distribution on any platform under the guise of needing to be kept “secure” always seemed anticompetitive to me - that should apply regardless of Apple’s particular behavior with the courts in this example.
by disqard | 2025-05-01 00:31:27+00:00
I fear you will be proved wrong.

If history is any indication, then the blowback will be leveraged (successfully) to point fingers at other parties (doesn't matter who), and then the proposed remedy will be to double-down:

"It didn't work the first time around because we weren't strong-willed/determined/patriotic enough, this time We Must Go All In, and stamp out any dissidents with extreme prejudice, for they are the Enemy holding us back from our Finest Hour!"

etc, etc.
by moralestapia | 2025-05-01 00:31:30+00:00
>Mercury is up to 10x faster than frontier speed-optimized LLMs. Our models run at over 1000 tokens/sec on NVIDIA H100s, a speed previously possible only using custom chips.

This means on custom chips (Cerebras, Graphcore, etc...) we might see 10k-100k tokens/sec? Amazing stuff!

Also of note, funny how text generation started w/ autoregression/tokens and diffusion seems to perform better, while image generation went the opposite way.
by kazinator | 2025-05-01 00:31:54+00:00
> Not sure if I would tradeoff speed for accuracy.

Are you, though?

There are obvious examples of obtaining speed without losing accuracy, like using a faster processor with bigger caches, or more processors.

Or optimizing something without changing semantics, or the safety profile.

Slow can be unreliable; a 10 gigabit ethernet can be more reliable than a 110 baud acoustically-coupled modem in mean time between accidental bit flips.

Here, the technique is different, so it is apples to oranges.

Could you tune the LLM paradigm so that it gets the same speed, and how accurate would it be?
by autobodie | 2025-05-01 00:32:34+00:00
About time for what? Another company to get charged with something that they don't get punished for?

The fines are always less than the companies' net gains from the practice. Gains are often indirect, risk-related, and/or part of a larger strategy, so they cannot be calculated.

Everything short of prison is a waste of time, waste of tax dollars, and spits in the face of decent citizens.
by trustinmenowpls | 2025-05-01 00:32:39+00:00
That's not even close to true, why has hn turned into reddit?

Congress gave the president the power to impose tariffs about 50 years ago because it was too difficult for them to do it themselves without a bunch of horse trading and politics. Congress could in theory pass a new bill taking the power back but they would need a 2/3 majority to overcome Trump's inevitable veto, there simply aren't that many congress people who disagree with Trumps plan to get that to happen.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-01 00:35:16+00:00
Relax, that's just words.

Free speech is great and all but a lot of Americans seem to have internalized the idea of just saying whatever you like with no regard for feelings of or impact upon others.

War starts with weapons.

Please read more history.

And I would disagree that the US started the trade war. China has been much more aggressive than any other country when it comes to trade policy [...]

This too is historically illiterate. The US happily ripped off others to build its own industrial base, and arguably still does so, with AI companies training on vast archives of unlicensed content and data brokers laundering personal information with zero regard to consumer privacy. Historically the US forced open markets at gunpoint, most famously by sailing naval vessels into Tokyo harbor to demand the Japanese Shogunate engage in trade relations.

https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88...

https://ipwatchdog.com/2017/07/05/americas-industrial-revolu...

https://www.techdirt.com/2013/03/05/yes-us-industrial-revolu...

It's not that China doesn't leverage its own economic power in one-sided ways, but this comment reeks of 'it's different when we do it'.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-05-01 00:35:29+00:00
From memory, Office 97 had that dedicated Office shortcut bar on the desktop that it inherited from Office 95, but that was more of a proto-Quick-Launch-bar than a startup accelerator. Though because the bar necessarily needed to load some Office DLLs from disk I can see how that would have given Word/Excel/etc a modest startup boost.
by johnvanommen | 2025-05-01 00:36:20+00:00
> Am I reading correctly that of the $250K they need, $150K of that goes to a single staff member for 60% of their time? Does that seem...excessive?

When I was doing AIX and Solaris system administration in Salem Oregon, they paid me $75 an hour.

A lot of people here are comparing Corvallis to Seattle, but they’re hundreds of miles apart.

Salem is the nearest big city.

TBH, making $75 an hour in Salem was like making $150 an hour in Seattle. You can live REALLY WELL on $75 an hour in Corvallis.
by naikrovek | 2025-05-01 00:36:36+00:00
Fucken genius.

Fix the problem? No way, Jose; We’ll move the problem somewhere else.

I would like to know how we got to a place where any application taking more than 0.5 seconds to start is acceptable in any way.

I have text editors which have visible input lag, even to my untrained eye. How in the HELL does that even happen?

All of you hustlers out there making story cards and calculating velocity: stop doing this shit! Performance is fucking important.

“CPU is cheap” — fuck you it is. If your application takes more than 0.5 seconds to start on any computer than can run Windows 11, you are either doing something wrong, or you are relying on someone that is doing something wrong and you need to work around that thing even if it is dotnet.

Developer productivity is absolutely dwarfed by the aggregated productivity loss of your customer base. Application performance and customer productivity (think of these as “minimizing the amount of time the customer spends waiting on the computer”) are paramount. PARAMOUNT! — that means they’re one of the, if not the only, most important thing to consider when making decisions.

This world is going to shit so fecking fast
by zoky | 2025-05-01 00:37:03+00:00
> The AUTH command is generally sent before encryption of the connection is made.

So…? What is the danger of negotiating an encryption protocol over plaintext? No credentials or sensitive information are sent via the AUTH command, and a server that disallows unencrypted connections will simply refuse to go any further with a client that doesn’t support encryption.

> It’s also vulnerable to a huge swathe of timing and weak hash attacks.

Gonna need a source on that. And even if such attacks potentially exist, in the use case you mentioned above I’m still not seeing how encryption combined with, for example, IP whitelisting can’t effectively be as secure as anything else you could use.

I mean, if they’re really not using encryption then yeah, that’s stupid and all bets are off. But there’s nothing inherently insecure about the FTP protocol.
by timewizard | 2025-05-01 00:38:36+00:00
Interestingly China just recently called out Fort Detrick and it's research goals specifically in their COVID-19 origins response white paper over this previous incident:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...

Now from this article:

> In an emailed statement provided to WIRED, Bradley Moss, communication director for the office of research services at NIH, confirmed the halt in research activity. “NIH has implemented a research pause—referred to as a safety stand-down—at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick. This decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture, prompting this research pause. During the stand-down, no research will be conducted, and access will be limited to essential personnel only, to safeguard the facility and its resources.

So it's not clear that this is the result of HHS ordering NIH to do anything specific or that it will be permanent or related to planned job cuts in the future. This article seems to conflate two separate stories into one confused narrative.
by ivanmontillam | 2025-05-01 00:38:50+00:00
Were they transparent, what would inhibit developers from bargaining against the costs and benefits shown? Sometimes that also outweighs the benefits of transparency.

You just can't show anything to anyone without kicking a wasp's nest.

I am not defending Apple, if anything, I am pro-Android here, but I understand the pickle they'd be in, were they be transparent with the cost structure.
by platevoltage | 2025-05-01 00:38:55+00:00
Worst part about this is that the super-imposed letters on the photo weren't meant to trick people into thinking they were actual tattoos. Now we are going to have dozens of yes men come out and claim they are.

Exhibit A: When he sleep tweeted "Covfefe". We had all kinds of people pretending like it meant something even though he rolled over his phone in bed. The fact that this guy can't just say "my bad, I was wrong" is wild.
by brailsafe | 2025-05-01 00:39:33+00:00
> About time.

Oh c'mon, 16 years into a product line ain't too bad, is it?

If you had a kid when the App Store first came out, that kid would now be nearing high school graduation and you still can't do as you describe. The great recession, the pandemic, the iPad, proliferation of AI, legalization of Gay marriage in the states and weed in some places, annexation of crimea and the war in Ukraine, the foxconn suicide issue, 4G, LTE, 5G, fiber to the home, brexit, Golang, Rust, TypeScript, Swift, APFS, Arm and the downfall of Intel, the rise of NVIDIA, Netflix, TikTok, drones, electric cars, scooters, bikes, end-to-end design and construction of their mothership headquarters, and federal acknowledgement that climate change is an issue, have all basically happened in that time; but nope, it's for security reasons. Hell, even their lead industrial designer retired long before they'd let up.

Edit: Not that any of those have anything to do with the App Store, but still.
by 0x6c6f6c | 2025-05-01 00:39:55+00:00
Does it work that way if you initially sign up from India? Your first VPN sign up is inherently from your real IP and that's enough to determine geolocation as India. They may require different data for different countries.

I'm not saying it does. Just that it's possible. Perhaps an Indian NordVPN user could provide input here
by pabs3 | 2025-05-01 00:40:26+00:00
I note the GPL itself does not differentiate between internal and external use, the "internal use" language comes only from the FSF GPL FAQ.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InternalDistributi... https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePo...

So probably a court or a different upstream could interpret distribution as including distribution between employees.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-05-01 00:40:28+00:00
"was told to stop all experimental work" - the word 'experimental' makes me wonder if the title may be hyperbolic. I don't infer from this story (article didn't feel right) that they will no longer be studying infectious diseases. Does anyone have more information on what the experimental work actually is? Or how it relates to the body of work carried out by NIAID.
by quantadev | 2025-05-01 00:40:36+00:00
My most exciting prediction is that we'll be able to some day have Optical Computing LLMs, where we grow crystals (instead of silicon wafers) such that they contain wave-guides in which a single ray of light is what makes up each "input" into a Neural Net, and as it shines thru, it does the "logic" of a MLP. The summation part is not hard because light naturally superposes to "add", but the multiplications and activation functions will be the hardest part.

But ideally once manufactured, a given LLM "model" will be a single solid crystal, such that shining an array of beams into it, will come out the other end of this complex crystal as an "inference" result. This will mean an LLM that consumes ZERO ENERGY, and made of glass will also basically last forever too.

We already have Optical Chips but they don't quite do what I'm saying. What I'm saying is essentially an "Analog LLM" where all the vector adds, mults, and tanh functions are done by the light interactions. It seems possible, but I think it's doable.I think there should theoretically be a "lens shape" that does an activation function, for example. Even if we have to do the multiplications by conventional chips, in a hybrid "silicon-wave system" such an "Analog Optical LLM" would still have huge performance and energy savings, and millions of times faster than today's tech.

And being based on light, could utilize quantum effects so that the whole thing can become a Quantum Computer as well. We could use effects like polarization and photon spin perhaps to even have 100s of inferences happening simultaneously thru a given apparatus, as long as wavelengths are different enough to not interact.
by mrandish | 2025-05-01 00:40:39+00:00
I'm running a well-optimized 2014 Haswell I5-4590 system with a Radeon 7800 XT in my virtual pinball cabinet. It's handling real-time 3D at 1440p 120fps at medium-high settings and VPX is pretty CPU heavy. My system is probably only a generation or two ahead of the one described (although it's true that Haswell was one of those occasional Intel generations that became legendary for outperforming and generally aging very well).
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-05-01 00:41:31+00:00
Watching it happen, it also felt like hurdle after hurdle kept being added (in addition to the never-stopping API level treadmill).

Even if I were OK with jumping through the current set of hurdles, the promise of a never-stopping hurdle-jumping exercise with new requirements being thrown at me every quarter is not exactly encouraging for anyone who actually has a life outside of developing their apps.
by medhir | 2025-05-01 00:42:30+00:00
on the topic of hiring - the “life story” interview left a particularly bad taste in my mouth.

I didn’t click with the recruiter because she kept hounding me about why I didn’t finish college. Felt totally put on the spot in the most discouraging way, the whole thing seemed like a formal way to discriminate against those that don’t fit their in-group.

definitely felt a bit cult-ish overall.