MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-05 06:17:08+00:00
Yes, with sufficient context, that's what I do every day, as presentation authors, textbook authors and Internet commentariat alike, all keep making typos and grammar errors.

You can't deal with humans without constantly trying to guess what they mean and use it to error-correct what they say.

(This is a big part of what makes LLMs work so well on wide variety of tasks, where previous NLP attempts failed.)
by cmhernandez | 2025-05-05 06:17:14+00:00
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by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-05 06:17:16+00:00
> I have limited a sample size, but xrandr on the command line and GUI tools in KDE Plasma and (not as recently) LXQt (it might have been lxde) work just fine in the laptop + TV or Projector case.

I'm fond of arandr; nice GUI, but also happily saves xrandr scripts once you've done the configuration.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-05-05 06:17:34+00:00
I'm skeptical. Most of us maintaining medium sized codebases or larger are constantly fighting nondeterminism in the form of flaky tests. I can't imagine choosing a design that starts with nondeterminism baked in.

And if you're really dead-set on paying nondeterminism to get more coverage, property-based testing has existed for a long time and has a comparatively solid track record.
by WalterGR | 2025-05-05 06:17:53+00:00
Thank you.

I imagine not all Technology Assisted Speed-run techniques are even possible on original hardware, even if you’re pumping electrical input directly into the controller port, since the TAS ‘implementation’ or ‘driver’ would depend on the cycle-correctness of the emulator used to record the inputs, the literal physics in terms of analog input, etc....?

What a fascinating topic. Are there any good starting points you can think of to explore it more?

This is pretty awesome, for example: “TAS replay device hidden in NES controller” https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/kewjhd/tas_replay...
by bjackman | 2025-05-05 06:19:25+00:00
I think lost techniques are the rule rather than the exception. There are loads of fundamental questions about how premodern combat took place that will probably never be decided. You can get a feel for lots of them by reading this very blog.

Stuff like: did opposing infantry lines actually stay in contact for long periods at a time or did they clash for a couple of brief minutes at a time and then mutually retreat a few paces to recover stamina?
by imtringued | 2025-05-05 06:20:05+00:00
>But maybe the worst part is that BambuLabs printers are actually really great and popular printers, for an affordable (but not cheap) price. And many people think that from now on, proprietary will become the standard.

This is the correct answer. A lot of people got used to eating shit. Turns out the 3D printer industry was selling you overpriced garbage. Bambu Labs was too good to be true so people were thinking that there must be a catch and now that there is a barely significant inconvenience, they start dog piling the company as if all hell had started breaking loose.

Now look at reality: everyone is building copycats of bambu lab printers, proving that the 3D printer industry was selling overpriced garbage products, because they knew they could get away with it. What people really wanted is the alternative reality where bambu Labs didn't exist and printers still sucked.
by gloosx | 2025-05-05 06:20:11+00:00
I think letting certain software thrive which just blatantly disregards your own certification and validation processes is exactly Windows problem. Some developer(s) paid 600$ and emailed their passport to Microsoft affiliates to get rid of that "SmartScreen" warning, do they have to pay and email their passport copy to AVG as well so their application can be ran without uploading step and needing to wait few hours of "examination"?
by halper | 2025-05-05 06:20:35+00:00
Interesting. My adventurous child (soon 10) has been under thrice and generally remembers nothing unpleasant, despite it being a bit worrying for the parents. She has been a bit confused and weird upon waking up, but whatever they have given her to ease her transition into waking life appears to have made her forget it. She tends to remember talking to me (or watching Bluey) in the OR and then she is talking to some doctor in another room, wondering why they are not putting her to sleep. The experience has been quite smooth despite one of the times taking place in more of an emergency setting after an accident.
by riffraff | 2025-05-05 06:21:46+00:00
Here's my 20 years report:

When I was an exchange student I lived with other people and we went out partying every night, had a ton of fun, and still had a ton of fun rewatching pictures of the night the next day. This was a time where you'd have an actual camera. Sometimes me and friends from that era share back the pictures and have a laugh.

10 years report: Nowadays google photos regularly shows me those "memories" from years ago of my kids (turning 9 and 11), and about half the time I share them back with my wife and viceversa, and we get moved a bit or have a fun moment.

I really don't see why taking pictures would ruin an experience, unless you go _wildly_ overboard to prioritize the picture.
by hinkley | 2025-05-05 06:21:54+00:00
I guess that’s true. And when you’re hunting a deer it’s better to not loose an arrow than to shoot it badly, so taking a beat to refine your aim would make sense.

I had a teacher that was a bow hunter. I believe he claimed it was the only arrangement fair to the deer. They had a sporting chance. I can’t imagine he fired more than a couple arrows in any hunting trip. Very different from shoot or die.
by jampekka | 2025-05-05 06:23:10+00:00
I'm teaching faculty at a university and, at least where it comes to lecture courses, I don't find this a bubble. There are definitely plenty of students who would do just fine, if not even better, without the external discipline and structure. And even more those who could do it with something like a MOOC or just a posted curriculum. And to be able to work without an external discipline is IMHO one of the main learning goals of university, and a decent rationale for why a university degree is taken as a signal for recruitment.

I learned programming online and got jobs as a developer (I did later study CS at a university though). In my experience the best developers are those who taught themselves. Admittedly this may have been more the case for my older generation where formal education for programming wasn't that great nor widely available.
by jasonkenneth | 2025-05-05 06:23:21+00:00
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by riffraff | 2025-05-05 06:24:59+00:00
This is old advice, I remember it being framed as "if I wanted a picture of a monument I'd buy a postcard", and postcards basically no longer exist.

It made some sense to take pictures of panoramas or art when you could show something to people that could not see it otherwise, but in this era it makes no sense (unless you enjoy photography as a hobby).

A goofy picture of you kissing some old bronze statue? Dumb, but yours.
by danielovichdk | 2025-05-05 06:25:16+00:00
Claiming to use WinDBG for debugging a crash dump and the only commands I can find in the MCP code are these ? I am not trying to be a dick here, but how does this really work under the covers ? Is the MCP learning windbg ? Is there a model that knows windbg ? I am asking becuase I have no idea.

results["info"] = session.send_command(".lastevent") results["exception"] = session.send_command("!analyze -v") results["modules"] = session.send_command("lm") results["threads"] = session.send_command("~")

You cannot debug a crash dump only with these 4 commands, all the time.
Bidirectional Enhancement of Graph and Agent
by fanzhidongyzby | 2025-05-05 06:26:33+00:00
Chat2Graph is a graph-native agentic system designed to bridge the power of graph databases with advanced AI capabilities. It establishes a multi-agent system (MAS) directly upon a graph database, and harnesses the inherent strengths of graph data structures, such as relationship modeling and interpretability, to enhance core AI agent capabilities like reasoning, planning, memory, and tool utilization.

In Chat2Graph, we expect to deeply implement the concept of "Graph + AI" and deeply integrate graph computing and AI technology into the design and implementation of agents.

GitHub: https://github.com/TuGraph-family/chat2graph
by qiu3344 | 2025-05-05 06:27:23+00:00
LaTeX is quite underrated these days. Even though alternatives like Typst are popping up, LaTeX is also pretty convenient and powerful if you get past the crude syntax and obscure compilation errors. I sill remember my disbelieve when I found out that I can change my article into a presentation just by changing the document class to "beamer".

These days I usually default to pandoc's markdown, mostly because the raw text is very readable.
by psychoslave | 2025-05-05 06:28:16+00:00
>I believe that the main reason a human should write is to communicate original thoughts

More than communicate, I would say to induce thoughts.

I write poetry here and there (on paper, just for me). I like how exploration through lexical and syntactic spaces can be intertwined with semantics and pragnatic matters. More importantly, I appreciate how careful thoughts are playing with attention and other uncharted thoughts. The invisible side effects on mental structures happening in the creation of expression can largely outweight the importance of what is left as an artefact publicly visible.

For a far more trivial example, we can think about how notes in the margin of a book can radically change the way we engage with the reading. Even a careful spare word highlight can be a world of difference in how we engage with the topic. It's the very opposite of "reading" a few pages before realizing that not a single thought percolated into consciousness as it was wandering on something else.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-05 06:28:36+00:00
One of my main reason for using Strava* is for keeping context with my travel photos.

Even if it's just walks around a city center, I have a thing for photographing street art, and uploading the different photos to my walks and it places them at their locations on the recorded path/map of the walk (or hike) to be revisited/replayed when feeling nostalgic.

It also helps to be more discerning about what photos to keep (do I really need another wide landscape shot?) But once the "worthy" photos of my walk/hike are added, I remove the others from my phone and make the recorded activity private for me to enjoy. The context + notes with the photos in one place makes it all mean so much more when I revisit them. I completely ignore all social bits of the app, but this might appeal to some since you can share/fork an activity to the accounts of people that where with you.

*I don't work for them, but been using it over a decade now
by aisofto | 2025-05-05 06:29:17+00:00
Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words. Discovery has definitely been one of the trickier challenges.

We do plan to add more dev-focused categories soon, including tags for QA-related AI tools like test case generators or bug trackers. Just a note: we currently only list AI tools that have a live website or app, to make sure visitors can try them out directly.

If there's something specific you'd like to see, feel free to suggest it, we’re always listening!
by anenefan | 2025-05-05 06:29:55+00:00
Some jobs may lose out to A.I. Some jobs will change as A.I. becomes part of it. Other jobs won't, especially around sensitive or important data where a typo or wrongly selected entry could make a big difference and / or if those using an A.I. couldn't be confident it is 100% wholesome - not hacked or if A.I. can only respond in accordance to some other entities wishes.

A.I. has a role to play in the future, but I have a feeling eventually people will stop thinking having a totally automated house or whatever is a nice thing. Sometimes it's nice to be inconvenienced where at some point one has got to go and get some milk - a chance to break out of the humdrum day in day out rhythm.
by sometimes_all | 2025-05-05 06:31:35+00:00
I rather enjoyed the article "Vocational Awe and Librarianship" which was embedded in this one. It's kind of a formal explanation of what Mike Judge was trying to say in Office Space via the travails of Jeniffer Aniston's character (pieces of flair) and what David Simon hinted at with "the job will not save you" line in The Wire.

I wish twenty-year old me would've read that article, would've stopped me from a lot of fake pressure and heartburn.
by doikor | 2025-05-05 06:32:41+00:00
In my personal experience with counter strike is around 20% of the games has at least one cheater (one that is very obvious. usually aimbot). There could be more careful with usage of wallhacks etc that are harder to detect for the other players.

Here is some graphs for Valorant https://x.com/deteccphilippe/status/1883945555102957617 basically reaching ~10% at its worst (when Riot devs are only xmas holidays) and around ~1% at its best (~now). And this is the number of caught cheaters so actual amount of cheaters is probably slightly higher.

Here is someone doing a "study" in counter strike https://old.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1bnhikf/th...

> Out of 60 games, I had 28 games with spinbotters. 28 is an absolutely insane number. 17 games had the spinbotter on the enemy team, 11 games had the spinbotter on my team. Keep in mind though, some games had more than 1 spinbotter, bringing the total number to 36 spinners in 60 games.

(spinbot is a form of aimbot that is very obvious)
by timschmidt | 2025-05-05 06:32:53+00:00
You think he used it only to discuss what flavor of ice cream was being served that day in the whitehouse dining hall? With only the senior staff? If so, I have a bridge for sale which may interest you.

> false equivalence

We're literally talking about people occupying the same positions. If anything, blackberry seems less secure. For instance, there's a global en/decryption key, and it's known: https://www.vice.com/en/article/exclusive-canada-police-obta...
by randomtoast | 2025-05-05 06:33:06+00:00
I think one problem for such tiny black holes is the way the gravitation works on objects that come close to it. So for instance, a spaceship could or a human could not reach the event horizon of a tiny black hole in one piece, because it would be torn apart by the gravitational tides. So the question is how close can you come to the event horizon before gravitation rips you apart. My guesstimation would be not close enough to reach a meaningful percentage of c.
by cpldcpu | 2025-05-05 06:37:23+00:00
I also strongly suspect that there are earlier sources.

However, IRAM looks like compute near memory where they will add an ALU to the memory chip. compute in memory is about using the memory array itself.

To be fair, CIM looked much less appealing before the advent of deep-learning with crazy vector lengths. So people rather tried to build something that allows more fine grained control of the operations.
by lurking_swe | 2025-05-05 06:37:46+00:00
I don’t have the time to provide a citation, my apologies.

I’ll leave you with this thought though. Of all the professions, tech is probably the one where this is the easiest to do. There are many companies that don’t require a bachelors. For most of the last 15-20 years tech was in a “boom” cycle, and yet the vast majority of software engineers I met DID have a bachelors degree.

Why? If it’s as easy as “pick up a book”, then why didn’t more people take that path? I think very few people have the drive and discipline to accomplish a full career prep on their own.

If your hypothesis was true, wouldn’t tech be mostly filled with self-taught engineers?
by decimalenough | 2025-05-05 06:37:59+00:00
Re: deaths, a lot of what is sold as "MDMA" is not MDMA at all, but MDA, meth, all sorts of wacky and poorly understood 2C-* analogs or, increasingly and incredibly dangerously, fentanyl.

Also, ecstasy is typically taken communally, in which case it's not a very effective rape drug since it decreases sex drive and causes temporary erectile dysfunction in many men.
by Timwi | 2025-05-05 06:38:19+00:00
I often wish LLMs would tell me outright the assumptions they make on what I mean. For example, if I accidentally put “write an essay on reworkable energy”, it should start by saying “I'm gonna assume you mean renewable energy”. It greatly upsets me that I can't get it to do that just because other people who are not me seem to find that response rude for reasons I can't fathom, so it was heavily trained out of the model.
by chrismorgan | 2025-05-05 06:39:13+00:00
> If I ask google maps to plot me a directions from Prague to Brussels it will yield a list of turns that will guide me to my destinations, but by any means I can't claim I've learned topography of Germany in the process.

There are multiple ways you can use such technology, too. If you use Google Maps with its out-of-the-box configuration for turn-by-turn directions, with it oriented in the direction of travel, you won’t learn so much; but if you change it to always display the map north-up, and look at the map it shows you—inferior though it be to good paper maps, in most cases—it’s easier to develop a feel for layouts and geography.
by Asraelite | 2025-05-05 06:40:05+00:00
There were no English-speaking places that used bows extensively. The closest would've been Early Modern English, which is still drastically different to Modern English.

If the actors were actually speaking Shakespearean English then sure, it would be wrong for them to say "fire"/"fyr", but if they did that then you wouldn't understand half of what they're saying.

I'm sure there's a few actual examples of this though, for scenes depicting battles in England after 1800 or so that use bows. I would still say it's debatable whether you could consider this truly modern English but it's close enough.
by sebastiennight | 2025-05-05 06:42:34+00:00
Hi, I get the feeling! We made the decision based on a couple of reasons though:

1. we get a ton of LLM-written applications, this enables us to at least get a feel of the person

2. we are a video creation product, this is an opportunity for the Product Owner to actually touch the product and decide if they want to work on it

3. we are live on Zoom with customers twice a month to launch new features, talk through the roadmap, take feature requests, etc. If the Product Owner (who is expected to take on this role over time) is against the idea of being visible on video themselves, they might just not be a match for this product and company.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-05 06:42:48+00:00
> If your moment is scoffing at others

You may have misread what I wrote. Noticing others behaviour and making an observation about it as being curious (maybe if I had used that word instead of strange, it would have helped..?)

Not sure who is scoffing? and who is being all fussed up? If that is how you read my post, maybe try again after settling whatever it is about this topic(or maybe completely outside of it?) that appears to be activating and creating these projections of judgement in the post
by zjp | 2025-05-05 06:43:01+00:00
I occasionally pair write with LLMs, but I give them my piece and then say, "I don't want your edits, just your feedback" and ask them some simple questions about the content and different angles on it. When the LLM says what I want it to say, I consider the piece good enough. That is to say, if a machine understands what you're saying and a human doesn't, that human's criticism might be below engaging with.
by tonko | 2025-05-05 06:46:24+00:00
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by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-05 06:46:28+00:00
Your first comment says "Stable does receive updates that address bugs and security issues."

But your quote about stable says "most packages will only get security updates".

So assuming their bug fix isn't security-relevant, it sounds like their original complaint is valid? I don't see how it's "grossly misstating" how stable works.

Backports are useful but the default is that the user is on the buggy stable version.
by keepamovin | 2025-05-05 06:46:51+00:00
Amazing paper. The depth, the creativity, and making it rigorous to connect these ways of counting shapes into solving polynomials, but still also a sense that it's not the final answer, that it's characterizing some fundamental patterns, but it's also a step on the way to more understanding. Really cool. One of the authors also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXl0Zbk8_rvjyLwAR-Xh9pQ

Also the same author has a blog, with a post about this paper: https://njwildberger.com/ - blog also notes he's about to retire, too! Wow
by halgir | 2025-05-05 06:47:03+00:00
Because more people know about Pluto than Eris or Sedna. And we know that Pluto is the furthest away planet (sue me). So 15x Pluto is much easier to visualize in context of the entire solar system than 700x Earth. My cosmological knowledge is above average, but I don't know off the top of my head if 700 AU is super-duper far away or still in the range of the gas giants.
by simonebrunozzi | 2025-05-05 06:47:04+00:00
To be noted that the Venetian Republic lasted 1,100 years, more than any other republic in history [0] (the microstate of San Marino might be an exception, but the date in which it started is somewhat controversial).

I live in Venice, and most of the few people that are considered expert on the subject, claim that the election system is one of the reasons why it lasted so long. If not for Napoleon, it might still be around.

[0]: https://veneziaautentica.com/history-of-republic-of-venice