MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randunel | 2025-05-01 06:01:10+00:00
A fictitious person's executives and directors are typically real. Or, if fictitious as well, go down the rabbit hole of said contractors until you finally find the real ones.

In the country I'm from, each exec gets a partial sentence in accordance with their contribution to the criminal act. And no, the total amount on years in prison needn't match the total, there's a minimum and also percentages always exceed 100%.

Limited liability doesn't and shouldn't protect criminals from imprisonment.
by Too | 2025-05-01 06:01:52+00:00
I had the same revelation when doing the opposite, using Windows for two days after using Linux for years. It's a constant stream of attention grabbing distractions, questions and notifications. I don't even know what they are all doing. Like why does the graphics driver has it's own update mechanism and its own tray icon, why am i being asked to put the application as a desktop shortcut, why is the start menu rotating ads and news next to my applications. Some of them are not even metric pumping, it's just bad design. And that's just the start, the things getting in the way of you actually doing your job just don't end.

Never again.
by OutOfHere | 2025-05-01 06:02:37+00:00
What is actually unconscionable is that when the nature and consequences of inflationary money are exposed, the discussion immediately gets shut down. If the people were to understand what real money is, and it is not the national currency, then people would hold it instead of holding the national currency. Hint: real money is things like GLD/VTC/BTC/PAXG/XMR. Secondly, people also are instructed by the consumerist system to spend as much as they earn, effectively to not save or invest. Controlling the narrative about money is how the rich control the poor.
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-05-01 06:04:15+00:00
Most dating apps exist to milk socially-unsuccessful people for as long as possible as a simulacrum for developing friends and social skills. These are instead a logical business model extension of technofeudalism mediation and commodification of all aspects of life with pay-to-play technological intermediaries. If any of the social media or dating apps were honest and prosocial ventures (orthogonal to profits), they'd instead focus on social skills improvements, positive social leadership/initiative, connecting people, and being secondary to encouraging expediency, reckless behavior, outrage exploitation, and superficial interactions simply because it counted as engagement and ad impressions. Community and reconnecting people would be the "killer app" that would make dating apps more/less pointless except for flings.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-01 06:05:28+00:00
I just tried giving it a coding snippet that has a bug. ChatGPT & Claude found the bug instantly. Mercury fails to find it even after several reprompts (it's hallucinating). On the upside it is significantly faster. That's promising since the edge for ChatGPT and Claude are in the prolonged time and energy they've spent building training infrastructure, tooling, datasets, etc to pump out models with high task performance.
by geuis | 2025-05-01 06:05:44+00:00
This painting really needs some Baumgartner intervention.

There are hints of overpainting around the right eye (left side facing us). Background plus eyebrow. Too smooth, doesn't have the same crackle as the rest of the painting.

The veneer may be quite yellowed. Looking at the cloth on the top of the head over the blue fabric. Might originally be a bright white, but now appears yellowed due to exposure of the last veneer aging and yellowing under UV light.
by fish_phrenology | 2025-05-01 06:07:10+00:00
It took a bit but by the end it had grown on me. I agree it's technically not great but maybe I'm just used to that from reading sci-fi, most of which feels technically bad. That said my reaction to the first quarter was mostly "uhh?". Big disagree on N.K. Jemisin though, I enjoyed reading those. Books 2 and 3 of the three body problem series feel like what you're describing to me. Never got why those were popular, the first one had the interesting cultural revolution flashback element but the sequels did almost nothing for me.

Filling-in-the-gaps-books wise, it's hard to do better than Earthsea in my mind. They're quite short books, yet I found myself far more engrossed in the world and the goings-on than some thousand page Sanderson tomb I snoozed through.
by silisili | 2025-05-01 06:08:25+00:00
You make good points.

There is obviously the nature of admitting to enemies that you were wrong that you touch on.

What I'm referring to is admitting to yourself that you're wrong, which seems much harder to do.

I just experienced this recently even in comments. For the record, I'm not a Trump hater, I'm rather neutral on politics. But in a recent interview Trump made an absolute fool of himself re: some guys hand tattoos. I felt secondhand embarrassment even watching it.

Yet there were so many defenders show up, to explain what he -really- meant, or that he knew it was wrong but was proving a point, etc.

I just don't get the mindset. Sometimes it's ok to admit the person you admire made a mistake. But not in the US, apparently. Because too many people have tied not only their identity but income to it.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-05-01 06:08:57+00:00
The problem is less the actual % itself and the fact that it's bundled in with so many things you can't pick or substitute. You can't avoid the app store and you can't avoid the Apple developer tools because they force you to use both of them. So then charging money for something you don't have an alternative to is the issue.

Steam might charge a similar rate but you aren't forced to use them. You can deliver games to PC gamers in a number of ways and many large games opt to not be on Steam.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-01 06:10:36+00:00
> the level of crazy complexity and backward compatibility in html/css/js/wasm processing

Most people don't need insane levels of backwards compatibility or intense PWA support. That's just cruft that slows everything down and increases the attack surface for, to the user, no real gain.

Perhaps what we need is a lot of lightweight general-use browsers (based on a small number of engines) and then some heavyweight power-user browsers that can WASM to their hearts' content.
by testysting34 | 2025-05-01 06:10:52+00:00
> I don't think that me driving past you in a city is going to affect you or your children's health in any significant way.

Can you stay behind your car while it's running and breath the noxes?

Do you think other people enjoy that?

I have been stuck behind some recently and had to turn on air recirculation.

Of course it is going to affect, it is VERY polluting, 86 is before any pollution norms.

Noxes from diesel are cancer causing and dieselgate was a thing.

> My point is a bit more macro than you are making it out to be.

On a macro level, a city full of your cars is a very polluted and unhealthy one.

A city full of EVs is clean.

So you don't really care about the environment or people, you just like attention.

Another point, 40+ year old cars over here are a rich people hobby, they pay no taxes since they are clasic cars and are very expensive to buy and maintain, if you lived in one of these places you could sell your classic car to some rich person and buy yourself multiple EVs. You can buy second hand and avoid your perceived production pollution.
by nyoomboom | 2025-05-01 06:11:04+00:00
I love this, I have a friend who has a 3d printer and we started looking at the repo for this project to print the mechanical shift register and play with a physical toy representation of storing a bit of data: https://github.com/mattmoses/MechanicalComputingSystems

Edit: I love that other people are thinking about this around now
by Nevermark | 2025-05-01 06:11:37+00:00
> Ultimately it has to be the company that's losing money when the company made money from illegal business, otherwise the company can just find other people willing to continue and provide for everyone who gets caught.

You are so right. The board & shareholders are in the path of responsibility and not recognizing that would be a call for both to use and abuse executives as scapegoats.

So be it!
by valunord | 2025-05-01 06:12:34+00:00
This will evoke mixed feelings, but having been involved in child development for a very long time, I can say that in some cases it is acceptable to carefully and very thoughtfully "spank" your child. Spanking should never be performed out of frustration or anger on your part. There should also always be a delay (at least a short one) between the incident and the spanking so as to allow some processing both for you and your child and to decide if it is right and then for them to internalize the punishment that is about to come. Additionally, spanking, in my opinion and experience, should only be performed when your child had injured someone since injury is something that they cannot restore or pay back. No matter the age, they must be made to understand the reason for such an action of spanking in connection with their action. I would caution, again, that spanking should only be utilized when there is no other restitution possible such as when they are harming another individual. I do not know of any states that directly outlaw such an action by parents, but if there are such laws, obey your laws.

Having said this, I would also tell you that you MUST only spank after you have:

0. Make sure your child knows here is this consequence if they injure someone. Let them know there is a consequence! Do not let them think that arbitrary punishments or retribution occurs. This will do more harm than good if you do not set the expectations. It's not entirely possible to always do this the first time or with very, very small children (such as a two year old that has a biting problem as an example and which is very damaging behavior).

1. Explained what is about to happen carefully and fully.

2. Only spank once or a couple of times in a very controlled and sterile manner. Do NOT get emotionally involved in the spanking except to feel bad that you are doing it. DO NOT SPANK IF YOU ARE ANGRY. DON'T DO IT. NEVER.

3. After the spanking show your child MORE love and care. Give them high levels of tenderness and show them that it hurt you to execute this punishment. If you can cry with them, CRY WITH THEM. This is very important to show forth more love after the punishment and by doing this you will actually improve your bond with your child and allow them to know that you harbor no ill will against them.

4. Remind them in the future about the consequences that will occur if they choose to harm someone else as they have done.

5. Always show your child love and always let them know you suffer when they suffer now and always. Learn empathy and if you cannot have it, then show sympathy and love them anyway even if you cannot feel such things yourself.
by seanhunter | 2025-05-01 06:13:37+00:00
Agree. And I would recommend “Stimmung” as maybe the place to start

https://youtu.be/3hPkJW95jsw?si=73A8IKwO9cvWUGTY

Give yourself some time to listen to it without interruption though.

It was certainly the thing which made it click for me. The other way in that some friends had was the string quartet in helicopters from “licht” that the Kronos quartet recoded.

A teacher of mine used to be in Stockhausen’s band in the 70s so is on some of those classic recordings such as “sternklang” etc. He’s one of the people in this photo although I can’t remember exactly which one. I think he might be the tall dude at the back on the right. I studied 20th century music with him about 40 years after this photo so he looked quite different when I knew him. https://www.karlheinzstockhausen.org/img/Stockhausen_Errata_...
by mickelsen | 2025-05-01 06:14:34+00:00
Yeah, true. I forgot that, even Steve's letter on why they wouldn't put flash on the iPhone.

That was the final blow, yup. But the web was still a clunky mess of plugins, broken standards, and browser-specific hacks.

Google pushed to make the web better. And through Chrome they helped bring WebKit to multiplatform: I still remember I couldn't even get rounded edges or nice typography support across platforms, only in Safari.

It wasn’t until Chrome took off that the rest started paying attention.
by KingMob | 2025-05-01 06:14:37+00:00
HFT is limited by time on how much processing it can do. In theory, a super-fast dLLM would enable to incorporate information sources in their decision-making that were previously too high-level. E.g., imagine using wire reports to predict an arbitrage opportunity that doesn't even exist yet (I dunno, not an HFT guy).

In practice, iiuc, HFT still happens within 10s of milliseconds, and I doubt even current dLLM is THAT fast.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-05-01 06:14:48+00:00
searching for w3c... zero results.

so, people here are too young or forgetful.

the whole reason browsers are deemed unsafe was exactly because of google and Microsoft hold on standards. chrome only reason to exist as a cost center on google was to undermine Microsoft on these groups, the same way Microsoft was undermining google there with IE.

everyone here is saying how google saved the internet by coopting an existing open source project... and then holding back thinks like cookie isolation for another couple decades. sigh.

interesting that google draw the same uncritical fanboyism which used to be reserved for apple.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-01 06:16:34+00:00
No.

But you need to see with eyes of a newbie. I mean what is the problem here, you did say it's just adding or subtracting a number whether it's 0, 1, -1 or 42? Should be trivial, right?

My guess while the change of indices is simple (altering ranges by a constant), it's going to be hard (requiring constant mental effort until it's internalized).
by thayne | 2025-05-01 06:18:17+00:00
First of all, I absolutely agree it shouldn't have been allowed to happen in the first place, but it did. And I absolutely think there should be meaningful repercussions for Google.

And really, I don't care if Microsoft and Apple stop getting paid for google search. My concern is Mozilla and Firefox. The google search money was Mozillas main source or revenue. They have been trying for years to find another way to make money, but have generally been unsuccessful, I'm doubtful they'll be able to figure out a way to replace that income now. What if this leads to Mozilla going out of business, Firefox being abandoned, and there being less competition? As a Firefox user, I might be biased but that seems like a worse outcome to me.
by fcatalan | 2025-05-01 06:18:30+00:00
You can also see that the hanging yellow part of the headscarf, he just winged it, effective as it might be.

I paint as a sort of weekly ritual, just 2 hours every Wednesday evening, and did an inept copy of this as my first serious try. Months of staring closely at every little detail of it leave you in a sort of communion with the work and the artist.

One thing you quickly learn is that the old masters were "impressionists" too. If you overwork stuff trying to perfect every shape with hundreds of precise brushstrokes, you end up with a naive, infantile looking painting that feels "unpainterly".

Trying and failing to mimic that single quick brushtroke that fools the eye leaves you in awe, fully appreciating the mastery.
by setr | 2025-05-01 06:19:02+00:00
ECS is basically the realization that relational databases are a pretty damn good model.

I’m suspicious though that you could probably get away with literally just using like an in-memory duckdb to store your game state and get most of the performance/modeling value while also getting a more powerful/robust query engine — especially for like turn-based games. I’m also not sure that bevy’s encoding of queries into the type system is all that sane — as opposed to something like query building with LINQ, but I think it’s how they get to resolve the system dependency graph for parallelization
by inglor_cz | 2025-05-01 06:19:55+00:00
"that run at 10x the speed with 1/10th the energy usage"

How many current developers optimize their products for speed and energy usage?

I can see the very opposite happening: half-baked apps, whose massive portions were written using free-tier AI output, hogging gigabytes of RAM and four processor cores while the cursor is idly spinning and the laptop is becoming hot.

Compared to the past (and my memory goes back to Netscape Navigator 3, old person that I am), modern browsers seem to be technologically fine.
by yesbut | 2025-05-01 06:21:23+00:00
Like the Mondragon Corporation in Spain.

https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/

> MONDRAGON is the outcome of a cooperative business project launched in 1956. Its mission is encapsulated in its Corporate Values: intercooperation, grassroots management, corporate social responsibility, innovation, democratic organisation, education and social transformation, among others.

> Organisationally, MONDRAGON is divided into four areas: Finance, Industry, Retail and Knowledge. It currently consists of 81 separate, self-governing cooperatives, around 70,000 people and 12 R&D centres, occupying first place in the Basque business ranking and tenth in Spain.

Or Scop-TI in France, a large worker cooperative in the IT and engineering sector.

This isn't anything new:

https://institute.coop/what-worker-cooperative
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-01 06:21:23+00:00
What kind of tickles me is that any new poltical thriller tv series or movie that posits that matters of state in the US are conducted by serious and knowledgable people is now virtually unwatchable for me. It's virtually impossible to suspend the disbelief required to enjoy something that is so far removed from the reality of today's politicians.

(The recent cringe inducing Deniro series comes to mind)
by kshri24 | 2025-05-01 06:22:02+00:00
When I said remove bureaucracy I meant remove bureaucracy from people's lives. Obviously it will exist behind the curtains. I agree with you that software reinforces bureaucratic properties and it should. That is what it was supposed to do. But technology failed when it comes to rectification of any deviations in bureaucratic processes.

For example, assume you are submitting a form and the address is incorrect/not matching exactly what is stored in the database; software should (rightly) flag it and have a human review it and do the necessary correction. Instead we have the worst of both worlds, where the software flags the problem but there is no human in the loop anymore. Even the human is automated out. So the problem is never fixed. Instead, the customer/client who is interacting with the software is indirectly made aware of the internal bureaucratic process but has no recourse.
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-01 06:22:03+00:00
> Because that would be a derivative work

No, derivative work require human creativity themselves. Compiling or re-encoding still doesn't count.

See : https//www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101

A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a "derivative work".

> Which exists as a binary blob.

Nope, for copyright protection it must exist at least as one binary blob, but having multiple binary blobs (with different resolutions) doesn't make it a different copyright piece. It's the underlying creation that is protected, not a particular instance of it. Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back is what's registered at the Copyright Office, not Star_Wars_The_Empire_Strikes_Back.720p.avi.

> Copying that binary blob requires a license to do so.

Fortunately no, otherwise your internet provider would need a license from the copyright holders to copy the blob from Netflix server to your machine.

One last time: copyright isn't about the blob, it's about the creation stored on it. The process of creating the blob doesn't grant you any copyright protection of you don't own the underlying material.
by Veserv | 2025-05-01 06:22:23+00:00
Flame graph, as in a display of sampled call stacks growing upward organized per level to aggregate like call stacks, is almost certainly their invention.

Why they chose that over the much more common visualization of downward call stacks that has been standard for decades is a mystery. That is the form most commonly used to display call stacks in trace visualizers since at least the early 2000s (though likely earlier).
by conorwade | 2025-05-01 06:23:22+00:00
Agree with this. He originally was taking the opinion that they should make changes to the App Store rules from a position of strength before being forced into it. Schiller has always felt like the best embodiment of the Steve Era. I think they would have lost Tim Cook if he didn't get the CEO position, but Apple has been a little too focused on extracting as much value as possible during his time. They are still doing great stuff, but feel focused on the wrong things.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-05-01 06:24:29+00:00
Looks interesting, and my intuition is that code is a good application of diffusion LLMs, especially if they get support for "constrained generation", as there's already plenty of tooling around code (linters and so on).

Something I don't see explored in their presentation is the ability of the model to restore from errors / correct itself. SotA LLMs shine at this, a few back and forth w/ sonnet / gemini pro / etc really solves most problems nowadays.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-01 06:24:29+00:00
If we had as many browsers as OSs - somewhat interoperable but genuinely independent - then I would feel much better about the web. Compare NT/Darwin/*+Linux/(Net|Free|Open|Dragonfly)BSD/illumos (to say nothing of the long tail; you can in fact use Haiku for a lot) against Gecko/Blink/WebKit.
by kristopolous | 2025-05-01 06:24:45+00:00
https://9ol.es/tmp/fizzbuzz.webm

Finally kind of working. There's the first demo video

I escape out three times: once for basic shell help, the next while I'm inside of vim and finally at the python interpreter. The recent input and output are the context clues to solve the query, which is the part in reverse video.

Then the code is injected into the proxy wrapper

https://github.com/kristopolous/llmehelp/tree/main/shellwrap is the code.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-05-01 06:25:42+00:00
> and then ask it "why did you just now give that customer mountain dew when they ordered sprite?"

Worse than useless for debugging.

An LLM can't think and doesn't have capabilities for self-reflection.

It will just generate a plausible stream of tokens in reply that may or may not correspond to the real reason why.