MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ptero | 2025-05-31 12:56:25+00:00
While they didn't do much at work and could coast forever, they still had to show up and sit out the hours. And this does seem to correlate highly with ration books. Which are also not amazon-fulfilled, but require going to a store, waiting in line, worring that the rations would run out, yada yada.

I'll take capitalism with all its warts over that workers paradise any day.
by codingdave | 2025-05-31 12:56:35+00:00
There also seems to be a product problem here - people who want EVs tend to care about energy efficiency. People who want muscle cars want to show off power. While EVs do have way more torque than ICE engines, I'd still be curious how much market research Dodge did to see whether there was enough overlap in those two crowds to make an electric Charger succeed even in a good market?
by cipherboy | 2025-05-31 12:58:46+00:00
Not without community involvement :-)

Horizontal scalability and disaster recovery is one of the next larger features on our mind. We won't use the architecture of Performance Secondaries, and likely will transparently upgrade (existing) Standby nodes to become read-scalable. Local storage is interesting, but brings with it additional complexity that few need. Better to use namespaces with distinct storage backends (distributing active across all nodes in a cluster) to scale writes horizontally across different namespaces before looking at horizontal scalability of a single mount (which is all that local storage gives you -- it doesn't give you write scalability across namespaces).

Also on that list is external key support, similar to managed keys from Vault Enterprise, but with different configuration semantics: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1320

We currently have no plans for implementing some of the enterprise secrets bcakends (KMIP, Transform/Tokenization, KMSE, ...) though of course would be welcoming to these as well. Sync is another area that is not in the cards for the short-term.

In terms of differentiation, we have a lot of unique RFCs in-flight that I presume are not on Vault Enterprise's immediate roadmap:

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1365 -- starting plans for a UI rewrite and high-level feature requirements

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1357 -- per-namespace seal mechanisms

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/issues/769 -- Restrict LIST+SCAN (recursive) to only accessible entries

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1304 -- static key auto-unseal, to aid chaining in trusted environments

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1341 -- declarative one-time self-initialization to aid setup

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1302 -- inline authentication rather than existing ahead-of-time token-based authentication

and probably more I'm missing.

Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss more or contribute in any way -- we welcome more than just code contributions, there's many ways one can help. :-)
by cschmidt | 2025-05-31 12:59:00+00:00
It appears to be the top n-grams scored by the product of frequency and length. Including the frequency weighting is a bit nonstandard among ablative methods.

See line 233: https://github.com/google/sentencepiece/blob/master/src/unig...

I would suspect the n-gram counts don't cross pre-token boundaries, but I don't have time to find that in the code right now.
by chongli | 2025-05-31 12:59:23+00:00
What I mean by scale is scale of production (units per year). Solar wasn’t even close to economical when the first nuclear reactors were coming online. Solar became viable over many decades of production, technological improvement, and supply chain development.

Solar panel costs have fallen 3 orders of magnitude since the 1970s [1]. SMRs wouldn’t need that dramatic of a production cost improvement to become viable for commercial energy production. The main barrier remains regulatory.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-...
by alpaca128 | 2025-05-31 12:59:25+00:00
The examples you listed work because they increase trust to a point people feel safe enough to not second-guess everything. I disagree that AI in its current form can be trusted. Food safety is enforced by law, correctness in Google searches isn't enforced at all, in fact Google is incentivized to decrease the quality to reduce running costs.

So yes, convenience and progress are strongly correlated but they're not the same.
by sneak | 2025-05-31 12:59:56+00:00
You don’t have to fend off anything, you just have to fix your server to support this modest amount of traffic.

Everyone else is visiting your site for entirely self-serving purposes, too.

I don’t understand why people are ok with Google scraping their site (when it is called indexing), fine with users scraping their site (when it is called RSS reading), but suddenly not ok with AI startups scraping their site.

If you publish data to the public, expect the public to access it. If you don’t want the public (this includes AI startups) to access it, don’t publish it.

Your website is not being misused when the data is being downloaded to train AI. That’s literally what public data is for.
by drankl | 2025-05-31 13:01:09+00:00
There's no misinformation in the article, you've just misunderstood it.

It has nothing to do with trans. This is another Caster Semenya type of situation.

That wiki article on Khelif is wrong. There was an interview with Khelif's trainer where he said there is a "problem with chromosomes" and "problem with hormones" and that Khelif is now having testosterone levels lowered medically. The XY karyotype test results of Khelif have been quoted and reported on by sports journalists.

Anyway if Khelif by some miracle isn't male then there should be no concern about this sex screening that World Boxing have introduced. It will only disqualify boxers who shouldn't be competing in the female category.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-05-31 13:01:39+00:00
Location specific is better, because if you just know that a particular spot has the kind of people and atmosphere that is inviting and pleasant to be in, you just go there. No need to check-in or schedule a meeting or anything else. Frequent regular interval fixed-time events are good too. I used to part of a racquet club that just had an open session all evening twice a week. You just show up and play and so did everyone else. You put your name up and are just play whoever is next for a game, then wait, then play someone else. You get to play a variety of people and when waiting your turn you can chat and get to know the other players. 5 stars system.
Show HN: LessEncrypt: A light-weight certificate signer for homelab and dev envs
by linsomniac | 2025-05-31 13:01:58+00:00
At work we have a few hundred internal self-signed certs we maintain, and I had a shower thought the other day about a light-weight certificate issuer targeted specifically towards self-signed certs in a largely trusted environment.

LessEncrypt uses the reverse DNS of the connecting host to control the Common Name and SANs on the cert (multiple SANs can be allocated based on some mapping rules). A connection back to the host for delivery of the cert helps establish a level of trust that the cert is reaching the intended authority.

I'm deploying this in my dev environment and looking for wider review and feedback on it.
by rich_sasha | 2025-05-31 13:02:06+00:00
I think looking at power purely from the perspective of RoI in a highly gamified environment is misleading.

For one, the immediate economic profit does not reflect long term economic utility. There's factors such as availability, sovereignty, security etc. which are not reflected in hourly electricity prices.

Similarly, we don't look at immediate RoI of other key infrastructure investments: roads, hospitals, military. You sort of can of course, but the calculation isn't as simple as immediate economic benefit. You may finance some expensive preventative treatments which aren't strictly necessary (thus "loss making") but which prevent more expensive treatments down the line.

Finally, the environment is, effectively, gamified. Wholesale prices, retail prices, base load, storage... And it's all interacting with each other. A sceptical take would be that solar compete for a relatively fixed-sized pie of power generation (what they can displace from dispatchable power). But if battery storage doesn't become cheap enough, this will get saturated, and more solar will simply compete for the same finite demand, whereas a dispatchable or base load power plant, like nuclear, will continue to have marketable "goods". Maybe. Maybe not. But my point is, immediate RoI of solar tells you nothing about it.

You may of course arrive at the same conclusion with a better metric (I'm not sure) but that's a separate question. I'm saying the metric is flawed instead.
by bn-l | 2025-05-31 13:02:16+00:00
I have no idea how anyone can go through that many tokens and maintain coherent code. Really, I think I’m missing something I would love to see a video of this being done live. My own experience (since 2022) is having to keep a very close eye on everything that’s happening. Refactoring manually. Going between models. Reformulating the prompt. Etc.
by utopcell | 2025-05-31 13:02:31+00:00
This looks like a great project, a fun toy to play with.

However, stating that:

> I've always wanted a low-cost portable FPGA with video output to make my own CPU, but there isn't any on the market.

is definitely not true: one can buy Sipeed's Tang Nano boards for $25+ on Amazon (or less if one needs fewer than 20k LUTs).
by westurner | 2025-05-31 13:02:35+00:00
Are there Rydberg antenna SDRs for radio astronomy?

What sensitivity (?) is necessary to navigate by the EMF of stars?

FWIU this is called astronometry? There's probably a better word than "astral"?:

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054783 :

> How many astral signals does a receiver need to fix to determine lat/long/altitude given the current time?

> How many astral signals does a receiver need to fix to determine to infer the current time, given geometrically-impossible triangulation and trilateration solutions given the known geometry of the cosmos and the spherical shape of the earth?
by londons_explore | 2025-05-31 13:02:54+00:00
> forking itself into as many sub-agents as are needed to fulfill the task

The forking is free. Running the sub-agents is linear cost, but the expensive bit is joining the agents responses back together again.

If a task has 6 subtasks and an agent is spawned for each, at some point some 'joiner' agent needs to parse and summarize the findings of the sub agents and feed it back to the parent. That step necessarily involves information loss, and uses more computation that a single linear agent design would not use.
by xorcist | 2025-05-31 13:03:10+00:00
Stocks are valued against the risk free interest, or so the saying goes.

Doubling interest rate from .1% to .2% does a lot for your DCF models, and in this case we went from zero (or in some cases negative) to several percentage units. Of course stock prices tanked. That's what any schoolbook will tell you, and that's what any investor will expect.

Companies thus have to start turning dials and adjust parameters to make number go up again.
by seanhunter | 2025-05-31 13:03:40+00:00
Definitely not buying this. If anything I think we will see a barbell distribution in the job market, with entry-level and very high end jobs still available and a lot of the middle tier of jobs being taken out. The theory behind this is that the entry-level people can increase their effectiveness using AI tooling to the point where where they are almost as effective as the middle-tier used to be, the very high end are still needed to do the things that AI doesn’t do well and fewer middle managers, professional meeting attendees and telephone sanitizers are needed to make the whole thing function.
Ask HN: How do you improve code for future AI?
by tmaly | 2025-05-31 13:03:44+00:00
I am sitting on tons of legacy code at my day job. I keep looking at how fast AI is improving over the last few years.

I am thinking what can I do to improve the massive amount of legacy code I have to maintain so that eventually I can let a better AI in the near future help me more?

What are your best tips that are working now?
Show HN: I spent 2 years building an iOS app no one asked for
by anzerarkin | 2025-05-31 13:03:53+00:00
i built a heart rate zone training app for runners. ios + apple watch. custom zones, real-time haptics, post-run graphs. all the “smart” stuff you’d expect.

but i never talked to a single runner before building it. not even myself lol. started as a thesis → kept building → added features → added a paywall (€4/month!) → launched it → and yeah… no one cared.

zero feedback. zero users. just code in the void.

i recently made the whole thing free. not trying to “sell” anything now — just seeing if it’s actually useful, and listening this time. curious how others handle this. ever build something 100% wrong?
by xpe | 2025-05-31 13:04:10+00:00
I personally care a lot about people, but if I was running a publicly traded for-profit, I would have a lot of constraints about how to care for them. (A good place to start, by the way, is not bullshitting people about the financial realities.)

Employees are lucky when incentives align and employers treat them well. This cannot be expected or assumed.

A lot of people want a different kind of world. If we want it, we’re gonna have to build it. Think about what you can do. Have you considered running for office?

I don’t think it is helpful for people to play into the victim narrative. It is better to support each other and organize.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-05-31 13:04:23+00:00
Chiming in because it happened yesterday and it's the first time I see something like that. I got one of these via SMS - and I'm not even in the USA or something. They used a six-digit number to send it (starting with 8; they use those here to send corporate mass/spam SMSs) but in the text they ask to add a regular phone number to WhatsApp.
by ajross | 2025-05-31 13:05:26+00:00
> I get the feeling that the real problem here are the IEEE specs themselves.

Well, all standards are bad when you really get into them, sure.

But no, the problem here is that floating point code is often sensitive to precision errors. Relying on rigorous adherence to a specification doesn't fix precision errors, but it does guarantee that software behavior in the face of them is deterministic. Which 90%+ of the time is enough to let you ignore the problem as a "tuning" thing.

But no, precision errors are bugs. And the proper treatment for bugs is to fix the bugs and not ignore them via tricks with determinism. But that's hard, as it often involves design decisions and complicated math (consider gimbal lock: "fixing" that requires understanding quaternions or some other orthogonal orientation space, and that's hard!).

So we just deal with it. But IMHO --ffast-math is more good than bad, and projects should absolutely enable it, because the "problems" it discovers are bugs you want to fix anyway.
by Caelus9 | 2025-05-31 13:05:45+00:00
I often get added to random WhatsApp groups by strangers. I usually just leave right away. Sometimes I do wonder what the goal is. Do people really fall for this kind of thing in group chats? And same with these random calls or emails. How many people are actually fooled? Maybe it's just about testing if a number is active, or maybe they’re quietly building some kind of identity data set behind the scenes.
by utopcell | 2025-05-31 13:06:56+00:00
The FPGA used seems to be quite popular in the hobbyist community. If you don't care about the form factor, there exist relatively cheap high-volume ECP5-based boards that have been repurposed to be general FPGA dev boards [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Price-Colorlight-5A-75B-Screen-Receiv...
by adamsuskin | 2025-05-31 13:07:29+00:00
> Obviously, if one of these funds gives you a term sheet, it’s a no-brainer.

It isn't a no-brainer. Many founders in the new era are weighing bootstrapping, seed-strapping, and VC money without a clear answer.

If you can see a path to growing MMs of revenue with little need for staff, you may just not go do a follow-on round.
Show HN: InlineStyle – An open-source cloud to watch, write, play and publish
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by curtisf | 2025-05-31 13:07:50+00:00
If I recall correctly, it's actually possible to implement this in O(n) (or maybe O(n^2)) time and space using a "dynamic programming" algorithm.

But in general, Nonogram solving, like most pen-and-paper puzzles, is NP-Complete for large enough puzzles, so even such a high-powered rule isn't guaranteed to completely solve a (large) puzzle.
by kijin | 2025-05-31 13:08:09+00:00
You're right about Debian. Ubuntu is a different story. You're probably better off using an alternative repository for anything important that you find in the "universe" repo. That stuff is not "distro-maintained" at all.

Case in point: there are known vulnerabilities in the version of Redis shipped with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which a lot of people would assume is still maintained. But Redis is in universe, so patches are only available for those with an Ubuntu Pro subscription.
by glkindlmann | 2025-05-31 13:08:16+00:00
The word "rights" surprisingly didn't come in that piece. By analogy to "water rights" [1], "wind rights" are a thing, both in the basic sense of permission to extract wind power from some chunk of land [2] and the messier sense of that article: conflicts between upstream and downstream users of the wind [3] (recent article and fascinating read)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_water_rights

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_rights

[3] https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wind-wakes-and-the-right-to-win...
by anthk | 2025-05-31 13:08:24+00:00
My post already covered inexact->exact:

scheme@(guile-user)> (inexact->exact (sqrt 2.0))

$1 = 6369051672525773/4503599627370496

s9 Scheme fails on this as it's an irrational number, but the rest of Schemes such as STKlos, Guile, Mit Scheme, will do it right.

With Forth (and even EForth if the images it's compiled with FP support), you are on your own to check (or rewrite) an fsqrt function with an arbitrary precision.

Also, on trig, your parent commenter should check what CORDIC was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
by ageitgey | 2025-05-31 13:09:12+00:00
On reddit, the /r/scams community is a fascinating one to follow to both track what the common scams are right now and to also see just the unending, massive wave of them working over and over.

Based on what is popular right now, it's probably lead generation for one of these scams:

1. I have a bunch of crypto for you sitting in an account. You can even log in to the crypto exchange and see your balance, transfer money, etc! You just have to pay a small fee to extract it. (The whole crypto exchange site is fake, and all the balances are imaginary.)

2. I have a part-time job offer for you where you get paid $2-$5 per post to like Instagram posts for my clients who want publicity. Working from home, you do it for a day or two and really get paid $300! You like easy money and keep doing it. You build up a balance of $5000 for your next payment, but now you need to pay a $150 fee to transfer that money out. (The job was totally fake, there is no ad agency, the first $300 you got was stolen money directly from other victims. People get really hooked because they are already convinced it was real and get taken for 10s of thousands.)

3. Wow, your art/photo/profile pic/etc. is so beautiful, and I want to paint it. Can I pay you a commission to use your work? Here's $2,500! Oops, I sent too much. Can you send me back $500? (The check was fake, and you will lose any money you send when the check bounces.)

The first two are the most popular right now because so many people fall for them and get so deep. Scammers need a constant feed of contacts to pull them off. People answering the phone during the day probably need some easy money. For the scammer, it doesn't matter if you have to robocall 1000 people to find one victim. It's just more free money.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-31 13:09:50+00:00
Yes, but ...

The argument that self-driving cars should be allowed on public roads as long as they are statistically as safe as human drivers (on average) seems valid, but of course none of these cars have AGI... they perform well in the anticipated simulator conditions in which they were trained (as long as they have the necessary sensors, e.g. Waymo's lidar, to read the environment in reliable fashion), but will not perform well in emergency/unanticipated conditions they were not trained on. Even outside of emergencies, Waymos still sometimes need to "phone home" for remote assistance in knowing what to do.

So, yes, they are out there, perhaps as safe on average as a human (I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the stats), but I'd not personally be comfortable riding in one since I'm not senile, drunk, teenager, hothead, distracted (using phone while driving), etc - not part of the class that are dragging the human safety stats down. I'd also not trust a Tesla where penny pinching, or just arrogant stupidity, has resulted in a sensor-poor design liable to failure modes like running into parked trucks.
by whinvik | 2025-05-31 13:09:55+00:00
I feel like there's a clear trend but maybe that's just me.

The report from a year ago had lots of AI Text infra companies, and now its mostly AI text product companies. We needed the first to get to the second layer.

And next we have a few AI audio infra companies, so probably a year from now, we will have AI audio product companies. Maybe the same with video.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-05-31 13:10:10+00:00
Yes.

I think the author meant that the rate of change is bounded [without the function needing to be differentiable] but used the term "gradient" anyways. I guess you shouldn't use the term "rate of change" either? I guess

The Lipschitz property means the function's output doesn't change faster than linearly with input

Is precise in that context
by cschmidt | 2025-05-31 13:11:10+00:00
Co-author of the PathPiece paper here.

With regard to weighting the n-grams by length*frequency, I'm not sure it is clear that that would be better. The SentencePiece unigram model does it that way (as I mentioned in another comment), and hence, unigram produces longer tokens on average. It is generally considered that this is a bit of an issue with unigram. Not that there is particular evidence either way, as with many things in tokenization.

Why do you think 2^18 initial n-grams is too few? That's 5.3 times more than the largest vocab we train.