MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chime | 2025-05-14 15:33:04+00:00
1. Would you sign BAA (for HIPAA) for the Pay As You Go plan? Can't find that anywhere on your site except for that Lite is HIPAA compliant (https://lite.xata.io/security).

2. FYI, couldn't request access via the BYOC form so I sent an email as per the error: There was an error, please try again or contact us at info@xata.io.
by robrenaud | 2025-05-14 15:33:11+00:00
Meta synthetically generated lots of PHP from Python for Llama 3 for training purposes. Meta writes a crazy amount of PHP internally. Translation tends to be way easier than unconstrained generation for LLMs. But if you can translate and filter a large amount of code, you can learn to generate. If you also translate and run the unittests, you get another layer of error checking.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21783

See figure 8.
by seesthruya | 2025-05-14 15:33:14+00:00
I have a fairly strong background in tech, and I've been programming computers since 1979 when my dad bought me a TRS-80. Tape drives FTW!

I agree with almost everything you've said here.

Except 'not in my lifetime', because I plan on living for a very long time, and who knows what those computer nerds will come up with eventually ;-)
by ldjkfkdsjnv | 2025-05-14 15:33:32+00:00
Software engineering will be completely solved. Even systems like v0 are astounding in their ability to generate code, and are very primitive to whats coming. I get downvoted on HN for this opinion, but its truly going to happen. Any system that can produce code, test the code, and iterate if needed will eventually outperform humans. Add in the reinforcement learning, where they can run the code, and train the model when it gets code generation right, and we are on our way to a whole different world.
by JeremyNT | 2025-05-14 15:33:42+00:00
> I was a bit surprised that the official client suddenly disappeared though.

Here is when syncthing dropped the official Android client [0] so you can read through their rationale and the HN response at the time.

I am not an Android developer but I do follow this space; I had the impression at the time that it really was mostly about the dev cycles that would have been required and nobody willing to do the work.

I do wonder why they don't just make the fork an official Syncthing project, it seems like the obvious solution would be to officially bless it. I can only guess the maintainer likes their independence.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718
by bluGill | 2025-05-14 15:34:38+00:00
People have lots of things to do in their life. That 10 minutes to use the app is 10 minutes I can't spend on my wood carving (random made up hobby). This is why I'm against these programs - statisticians know lots of better ways to get data that is less biased to people who feel like making the time to submit information. (Statisticians can also tell you what biases they were unable to account for so you can make decisions on if you need to collect more data).
by RhysU | 2025-05-14 15:34:41+00:00
Congestion isn't limited to cars.

My pregnant wife was hit yesterday in SoHo in broad daylight by a delivery driver on an e-bike. He ran a redlight. He hit her in a crosswalk. She was wearing a bright orange dress. She was not on a phone or listening to music. She went flying ass over teakettle. We spent 6 hours in the ER yesterday evening to make sure our unborn baby was okay. Fortunately, everyone is OK despite her being banged up.

The goddamn lawlessness of electric bikes is a consequence of NYC implicitly encouraging their illegal use. Meanwhile, I get to pay $9 MORE to drive my licensed, registered, insured vehicle on increasingly narrow roads filled with increasingly negligent 2-wheeled asshats because it's the preferred business model.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-14 15:35:34+00:00
I don't know if I count, but I never owned a dedicated MP3 player[1], I listened to MP3s on my computer, but used CDs and cassettes while on the move, until I got an android phone that had enough storage to put my music collection on.

1: Well my car would play MP3s burned to CDs in its CD player; not sure if that counts.
by elashri | 2025-05-14 15:35:45+00:00
> For instance, the newest super collider project that some people are pushing for completely misses the opportunity cost of not funding other projects that could be far more impactful, like wakefield accelerators, which would reduce the size and cost of particle accelerators by orders of magnitude.

This is not true in many aspects. There are many problems with plasma and laser wakefield acceleration. First, the beam quality (emittance and stability) is orders of magnitude below collider requirements. They have demonstrated GeV-scale acceleration over centimeters, but scaling to multi-TeV and maintaining luminosity is not even close to solved. There are no concept for a full detector-ready experimental program exists using wakefield accelerators. But on the other hand, we have "FCC" being based on mature accelerator technologies, with well-understood cost scaling and detector integration that builds on decades on experience building accelerators. Actually it is much safer option than what you are saying.

But the important point is that you are making it binary choice, we can still investigate and work on wakefield accelerators while working on more mature projects. Remember than it takes decades of work and thousands of scientists to make any of these things work. And it is not the question of accelerator itself but what detector can use it and for what physics exactly. We can produce much more interesting physics colliding muons instead off protons but this is much more challenging task and will cost more efforts and will cost more.

Also I would say that Scientific value isn’t measured by compactness or cost alone. This is a VC mindset not a scientist pushing boundaries of knowledge.

> Right, defense can and has funded research for its own purposes, and sometimes those purposes can find wider commercial application (like the internet). That's all great, national defense is one of the government's primary purposes.

Well since we are here. I know it is a cliche by now and many people HN doesn't like to be reminded about that but guess that is the most beneficial CERN output ?
Ask HN: Can't access invoices after canceling ChatGPT?
by CER10TY | 2025-05-14 15:36:02+00:00
My ChatGPT Pro plan expired today and I wanted to grab the last invoice, since I need that for tax purposes.

Turns out that there's no way to download past invoices anywhere. The button to manage the subscription simply disappears, instead being replaced by a button to "Renew Plus".

I even found an old link to the Stripe page where the invoices are listed, but it looks like the previous invoices were simply deleted.

Looks like I gotta pay 23€ to access old invoices. Who decided that was a good (read: legal) idea? The vibe coding intern??
by mike1o1 | 2025-05-14 15:36:02+00:00
I wouldn't let the fact that the book is in beta dissuade you from getting it. It's mostly feature complete and is a _fantastic_ resource - it really helped get Ash to click for me, and I've found it a joy to work with after getting that initial ah-ha moment.

I know the Ash team is aware of the documentation challenge, and they are working on it. I feel like the book is an answer to that, and hopefully a lot of the greatness of the book is able to make its way back to the docs.
by cornstalks | 2025-05-14 15:36:10+00:00
You can read the actual HLG spec here: https://www.arib.or.jp/english/html/overview/doc/2-STD-B67v2...

The math uses real numbers but table 2-4 ("Digital representation") discusses how the signal is quantized to/from analog and digital. The signal is quantized to integers.

This same quantization process is done for sRGB, BT.709, BT.2020, etc. so it's not unique to HLG. It's just how digital images/video are stored.
by mindslight | 2025-05-14 15:36:18+00:00
I assume it shows up as a hAcKErS sToPpEd figure in a quarterly report where they pat themselves on the back for it along with CAPTCHA hassling, blocking browsers that are too secure, network address bans, popups about "passkeys", forced password changes practically every login, etc. If they had any sense they wouldn't be pushing this nonconsensual trash to begin with.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-14 15:36:42+00:00
To single out Meta properties, I'd point to both Instagram and WhatsApp. It was an official policy early on that you could only create a WhatsApp account if it was connected to a "real" cellular number, I think the same has been true about Instagram for a while in that every time I tried to create an account without a cellular number it didn't work. Put in a cellular number and it worked just fine.
by _alternator_ | 2025-05-14 15:37:08+00:00
This reasoning is at odds with recent history. A lot of effort was put into making machines that could only output grammatically correct sentences. Yet LLMs output grammatically correct sentences when needed, and a whole lot more as context demands, without ever hardcoding it. It would be foolish to restrict LLMs to only grammatical sentences at this point, but it might be a good tool to run on generated docs because sometimes words are misspelled or sentences are confusing.

Similarly, we have a tool that makes sure the type and syntax are correct, namely, a compiler. Building an LLM that can only output syntactically correct code is one approach of stacking them, but in fact it will significantly worsen the ability of the LLM to reason and construct code. The winning choice seems to be to emulate the workflow of humans: code, compile, read errors, repeat.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-14 15:37:55+00:00
Government beurocracies acting under the status quo will never reign this sort of abuse in of their own accord because doing so would be suicide for their own power. The exact same laws, precedents, etc that let CEOs not go to jail are leveraged to great extend by government agencies and the agents thereof so the government will never bring the cases needed to reverse the precedents. The solution must be legislative, so there must be public interest and political will that legislators seek to pander to. There isn't the interest or will to reign in the government, people want them to be able to ride roughshod over perceived wrongdoers. And there isn't political will to write legislation that has a double standard of formally exempting government activity. So the local minimum we're stuck in is that bad actors can "do whatever" as long as they do it as part of their day job and don't leave a flagrant paper trail.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-05-14 15:38:06+00:00
I'd have to be a real psycho to use AI to pretend to have read books. Reading is probably one the most important parts of my existence, and yet I don't do it nearly enough.

I do experience the same phenomenon where I feel other people haven't actually read books. The book I've experienced this with the most is Infinite Jest. It's twofold in that people both misunderstand basic pieces of the story ("what ethnicity is Hal (arguably the book's protagonist)?" is a common mechanism by which I determine people didn't read or didn't understand the novel), and that I've never ever once online or in person seen commentary about the central "thing" the book is doing, although it's blisteringly glaringly obvious and I'm afraid everyone else just knows it and it's too obvious to state rather than being something only I noticed.

So... Anyone ever actually read IJ?
by immibis | 2025-05-14 15:38:08+00:00
> Carriers would probably hate this and might not be willing to sign roaming agreements with such a company.

This is THE problem with your idea. Congress would have to pass a law forcing them to do it, or they won't.

You'd probably have more luck physically keeping someone's SIM card, keeping it installed in a phone, and watching for new texts. Perhaps you could make a box that simulates 10 phones at once.
by szszrk | 2025-05-14 15:38:34+00:00
> And consistency - it's a widespread design convention (used by apps like WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger), which builds user familiarity and reduces confusion

It's funny that you mention this. For so many years I felt confused with how Whatsapp and others present messages. Even today I read my own messages first, thinking it's from the other person. I hate that UI.

Super confusing. I use mostly Slavic lang, left to right. Right handed.
by rbanffy | 2025-05-14 15:39:01+00:00
They explain their reasoning:

The bureau said three Huawei Ascend chips—the 910B, 910C, and 910D—were subject to the regulations, noting that such chips are likely to have been “designed with certain US software or technology or produced with semiconductor manufacturing equipment that is the direct produce of certain US-origin software or technology, or both.”
by sumanthchary | 2025-05-14 15:39:56+00:00
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by ColinWright | 2025-05-14 15:40:35+00:00
I'm interested in knowing the tech they're using to measure the speed, and how it's being triggered by a bird flying through it.

Is this not something they anticipated? Is it rare enough that they just don't care[0]? Can it not be "fixed" to avoid this problem[1]?

[0] It's reasonable to ignore low probability events that can be dealt with by a suitable process, but the scenario should be analysed.

[1] See point [0].
by dmos62 | 2025-05-14 15:40:36+00:00
That's not inherent to HDR though. BFV (unless I'm confusing it with something else) has a HDR adjustment routine where you push a slider until the HDR white and the SDR white are identical. Same could be done for desktop environments. In my experience, HDR support is very lacking in PCs atm. You can't even play Dolby Vision on Windows, which is the only widely-used HDR format with dynamic metadata.
by McGlockenshire | 2025-05-14 15:40:40+00:00
> Homeless people get free smartphones and free service in the US

Recently former homeless person here. The Republicans in Congress refused to renew the Lifeline program in 2023 and the replacement is objectively worse in every single way.

> Not all choices need to be subsidized.

Ah yes, being homeless, a choice. I hope it never happens to you.
by chneu | 2025-05-14 15:41:24+00:00
There's an already large and growing body of research that shows cows are even bad for "marginal land".

I work in the western US where we have a lot of desert grassland where cattle graze. We've seen a huge uptick in invasive grasses and wildfires as a result.

Cows also consume what limited resources are available. Water, calories, etc.

Ranchers also want to exterminate several predator species that do a ton of good for the ecosystem. Wolves, bears, coyotes, etc. Look at yellowstone for a clear example.

I remember at a talk a few years ago a researcher estimated that cows are responsible for at least 30 animal extinctions in the western US. Things like reptiles, birds, etc. There are several listed species right now that list cows/ranching as their main threat.

So this marginal land still suffers and putting cows on it winds up hurting us in the long run. The land is always healthier without cows on it. They are invasive.
by paul7986 | 2025-05-14 15:41:34+00:00
My wild guess is to make our adversaries and the world think we are capable of being a nation that attempts to conquer other lands. More so make our adversaries like Russia know we are not weak and we can conquer too and or we are now unhinged too don't even think about messing with us.

Whether my assumption is right or wrong its a different vibe then the peacemaker image/vibe previous administrations have followed.
by MentatOnMelange | 2025-05-14 15:41:38+00:00
My issue with this is its essentially public subsidies for businesses. I don't want my tax dollars going towards programs that allow employers to pay such low wages people need government help. See things like walmart having food drives asking employees to donate their own food/money to eachother, because they aren't being paid enough to be food secure.

A lot of people with disabilities are on the lowest rung of the ladder in terms of opportunities. Some businesses are livid they can't ignore employee well-being by relying on fear of death, homelessness or starvation to keep people in line.

Bottom line is if people can be gainfully employed but still need to rely on government, that isn't a problem with the programs or the policy. Its a problem with our economic system.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-05-14 15:41:43+00:00
> After letting them run rampant for a couple of years, it looks like YouTube is finally cracking down on these slop factories. Deadline reports that YouTube has suspended a total of four separate channels dedicated to AI-generated trailers for fake movies (or real, upcoming movies that don’t have trailers yet). Two were suspended back in March, and their alternate channels have now been smacked with the same banhammer.

> The channels, allegedly created by just two individual users, are not actually removed from the platform. But they cannot monetize their videos, and are presumably suffering some pretty big losses in search visibility as well. Combined, the initial two channels had more than two million subscribers.

> Deadline doesn’t have specific statements from YouTube on what policies the channels violated, but speculates that YouTube finally decided to enforce its misinformation policy, basic original material policies that mirror US copyright and fair use rules, and guidelines that deter uploaders from creating videos with the “sole purpose of getting views.”

There's a lot of conjecture here, but banning four channels doesn't seem like a massive crackdown that proves that YouTube hates AI movie trailers.

> A Deadline report in March brought broader attention to the AI trailer problem, highlighting that some Hollywood studios have chosen to use YouTube’s content flagging system to simply claim the ad revenue from the fake trailer rather than getting them removed. After all, if someone else is doing all the “work” and getting paid, why try to protect your intellectual property and artistic integrity, when you can just grab the money instead? Turning off the monetization faucet for these channels might get the studios to finally enforce their own copyright, now that the money well is gone.

In fact, this paragraph would suggest that they're still quite happily making money from these things.
by mitchbob | 2025-05-14 15:41:53+00:00
As someone who rode BART for decades, and who just completed an easy, pleasant, and affordable trip via BART and bus from the East Bay to Golden Gate Park, the idea that BART and buses are not a reasonable way to get to and around SF seems just wrong. Are they perfect? Definitely not. Are they better than trying to drive to and in the city, for riders and for everyone else trying to enjoy city life? Hard yes from me.
by dvdgrdll | 2025-05-14 15:41:57+00:00
This is the workflow I use based on what other successful companies have done:

1. Start by defining an Ideal Customer Profile and be very specific (for examples, Facebook started with Harvard students in certain social circle). A good way to know how to be specific is by using a framework to define your ICP, like this you know if you are collecting the right information or not

2. Once you define your ICP, depending on the framework you are using will have mapped where they usually "hang out" online and offline -> At the beginning prioritse offline more than online. You are doing things that don't scale.

3. Having that information, you then design a way to get in front of them. If you are going the "online" route, then it can be Paid Ads, it can be social media DMs, etc... I only recommend the only route once you know you have the right messaging tested by talking with users that became paying customers.

As a final note: try to get as many users that fit the same ICP as possible at the beginning, you'll want to seem a big fish in a small pond.
by xianshou | 2025-05-14 15:42:04+00:00
Calling it now - RL finally "just works" for any domain where answers are easily verifiable. Verifiability was always a prerequisite, but the difference from prior generations (not just AlphaGo, but any nontrivial RL process prior to roughly mid-2024) is that the reasoning traces and/or intermediate steps can be open-ended with potentially infinite branching, no clear notion of "steps" or nodes and edges in the game tree, and a wide range of equally valid solutions. As long as the quality of the end result can be evaluated cleanly, LLM-based RL is good to go.

As a corollary, once you add in self-play with random variation, the synthetic data problem is solved for coding, math, and some classes of scientific reasoning. No more modal collapse, no more massive teams of PhDs needed for human labeling, as long as you have a reliable metric for answer quality.

This isn't just neat, it's important - as we run out of useful human-generated data, RL scaling is the best candidate to take over where pretraining left off.
by wormius | 2025-05-14 15:42:07+00:00
You're compensating the youtube video creators for this, how? Are you asking their permission? Or is this similar to how all the AI scammers operate and just extracting value from other peoples work without compensation? Just curious if this will help the people who are actually doing the source work or if it's just another way to take other people's labor and make money off it without anything in return for them.

And no, I don't consider "they get extra views" a valid answer. Especially if you expect to make the windfall you want to make off their labor.
by Kirby64 | 2025-05-14 15:42:53+00:00
Miserable? Is it really that miserable to suggest that flavors are not that subjective? I’m not saying they’re absolute, I’m just saying that when you taste a lot of anything (coffee, wine, tea, chocolate, whatever) you get better at identifying flavors. And certain flavors are purely due to roasting a certain way. If you overroast coffee, you get burnt flavors. Now some people might like burnt flavors, just like some people might like grassy flavors. That doesn’t mean they aren’t generally considered to be defects in a roast though.