MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by switchbak | 2025-06-04 21:37:56+00:00
Maybe we should come back to this in a few years, I think this will have aged worse than the old dropbox comment.

Governments are falling over themselves to: acquire drones, figure out how to defend against existing and future drones, and to figure out how to exploit them well. Given the recent attack against Russian bombers, I find it hard to take you seriously here.

Hell, the US knows it can't compete with China on aircraft numbers, and is placing its money on collaborative combat aircraft to give it the advantage. That's about as strong an endorsement as you can get.
by ednite | 2025-06-04 21:38:11+00:00
Thanks for the clarification, really appreciate it. It helps frame things more precisely.

In my case, there will be a large amount of initial data fed into the system as context. But the client also expects the agent to act more like a smart assistant or teacher, one that can respond to new, evolving scenarios.

Without getting into too much detail, imagine I feed the system an instruction like: “Box A and Box B should fit into Box 1 with at least 1" clearance.” Later, a user gives the agent Box A, Box B, and now adds Box D and E, and asks it to fit everything into Box 1, which is too small. The expected behavior would be that the agent infers that an additional Box 2 is needed to accommodate everything.

So I understand this isn't "learning" in the training sense, but rather pattern recognition and contextual reasoning based on prior examples and constraints.

Basically, I should be saying "contextual reasoning" instead of "learning."

Does that framing make sense?
by krapp | 2025-06-04 21:38:12+00:00
>Biden ran in 2020 as a single term president. He did his job to prevent a second consecutive Trump term. At some point that changed, probably because Trump never gave up power.

If your party has an encumbent President, you run the President. No other candidate would have the same amount of power, public awareness or power of the bully pulpit, especially not against Donald Trump. Barring that, you have the VP. Doing anything other than what they did would have been political suicide. Donald Trump barely even ran and he was still a factor.

>Again, the democrats were foolish to not aggressively prosecute Trump. Merrill did nothing for far too long.

I agree.

>The democrats were foolish to make Harris the “border czar” since the republicans simply have them beat on immigration messaging. They handed her a huge weakness and played directly into the republicans strengths.

The democrats seem to have this pernicious belief that they need to bring Republicans into the tent... I don't understand it. They absolutely could not read the room. Biden was a stopgap, and his stances on unions and Gaza were alienating the left, so the best thing Harris could have done was pivot further to the left and be the candidate the left wished Biden was.

>The democrats were foolish to not have a primary. Harris simply is not popular. She does not perform well in the primaries, so they just decided no primary and a weak candidate was their only option.

She was still more popular and a stronger candidate than any other Democrat would have been, except for Biden. It would have been a race between Donald Trump - ex President billionaire whose every word and deed gets constant media coverage - and someone no one ever heard of. A primary would only be a sign of weakness and threaten to fracture the party.

Trump didn't exactly win in a blowout, the margin between he and Harris was slim enough that a Harris victory could have been possible.

Maybe they were foolish to run Biden at all. But the die was kind of cast at that point.
by krackers | 2025-06-04 21:38:15+00:00
What does "inferring the UI content mean". You said you have some knowledge of how it pulls it off, is it using accessibility API and apple events behind the scenes? Those are the only two APIs I know of on mac that can do this (besides just grabbing the pixels of a window).

I've always been hoping that the rise of LLMs leads to a resurgence in apps being able to respond to apple events, since it seems like a perfect fit.
by ryukoposting | 2025-06-04 21:38:23+00:00
I moved to Milwaukee a couple years ago. I can confirm this is a thing, and it's very weird. I've got a friend from Reedsburg who says it's common there, too.

As soon as I saw that comment in the Reddit post, I clicked on the guy's profile to see if they're from Wisconsin. Wasn't obvious at a glance.
by tptacek | 2025-06-04 21:38:33+00:00
I don't think you really want to boil this down to a number; there's a whole lot of feature and workflow differences to capture:

* BYO model or not

* CLI, UI, VSC-plugin or web

* async/sync

* MCP support

* context size

* indexed or live grep-style search

There's probably like 10 more.
by bobajeff | 2025-06-04 21:39:39+00:00
My view is that languages don't matter only libraries and engines. If you want to make an iOS app then Swift is for you. If you want to make an Unreal Engine game then C++. If you want to make a website then JavaScript. If you want to play with Bevy or Servo libraries then Rust. If you want to play with Blender or do anything with AI then Python.
by const_cast | 2025-06-04 21:39:45+00:00
From me talking to Doctors, it seems most of their job is handling records, contacting insurance, prior auth, talking to pharmacists, etc. This is despite having billing specialists and admins out the wazoo.

Also their care is pretty much completely decided by insurance. What surgeries they can perform, what medicine they can give, how much, what materials they can use for surgery, and on and on. Your doctor is practicing shockingly little medicine, your real doctor is thousands of pages of guidelines created by insurers and peer-to-peer doctors who you will never meet.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-04 21:39:51+00:00
I’ve been hearing it’s eminent because China is not a democracy, I hear the western perspective.

I see revolutions as an alternate elite agitating for change. In my model an effective suppression of an alternative elite is sufficient to prevent revolution. In my model it comes down to which secret police are more effective, the MSS or the CIA.

Which is especially relevant here because how much of the ‘Thielverse’ is really a CIA cutout, is Yarvin an external expression of an internal CIA power struggle.
by vermaden | 2025-06-04 21:40:05+00:00
Keep in mind that this is not EMULATION.

The Linux syscalls are just implemented into FreeBSD.

In 1998-1999 they literally used FreeBSD with Linux Abstraction Layer and run Linux apps on FreeBSD instead of using Linux natively because it was faster that way.

Relevant 'press release' here:

- https://www.freebsd.org/press/press-rel-1/
by kccqzy | 2025-06-04 21:40:20+00:00
I might be missing something here but the article spends quite a bit discussing the HDR gain map. Why is this relevant to the depth maps? Can you skip the HDR gain map related processing but retain the depth maps?

FWIW I personally hate the display of HDR on iPhones (they make the screen brightness higher than the maximum user-specified brightness) and in my own pictures I try to strip HDR gain maps. I still remember the time when HDR meant taking three photos and then stitching them together while removing all underexposed and overexposed parts; the resulting image doesn't carry any information about its HDR-ness.
by howmayiannoyyou | 2025-06-04 21:40:21+00:00
Notes: I'm stuck with this and wish I could leave, but the combo of security and attachments leaves me with few options. Notes is buggy, lacks interoperability, has crap AI integration, etc. BUT... the real pain is Apple Messages. The inability create folders, rules, etc. is insanity. At a time when most comms are instant why would you not offer users the same level of organization they enjoy with email, or with other IM platforms?
by salysson | 2025-06-04 21:41:28+00:00
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by ben_w | 2025-06-04 21:42:26+00:00
> it's unrealistic to assume a birth rate will skyrocket all of a sudden (China's at 1.18 per woman and US is only at 1.6)

Much less of a problem if the government mandates gender selection for the unborn resulting in 1/1.18 etc. of live births being women.

Already technologically possible. I don't know if they could make that culturally, even dictatorships have limits, but the technology is there.
by haswell | 2025-06-04 21:42:26+00:00
> While they may or may not, they often ignore low-volume customers who could easily buy the product if it was on an online store. Your skepticism is warranted.

Setting aside any qualms about how the pricing is published, if a business chooses a strategy in which they focus on large customers and choose not to take on small customers, why is this an issue? Especially when the market is filled with alternatives?

The support model, predictability of yearly renewals, per-customer overhead, etc. look quite different when selling to larger customers vs. small/low-volume customers.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-04 21:43:06+00:00
Android apps need UDP port binding to function. You can't do QUIC without UDP. Of course you can (should) restrict localhost bound ports to the namespaces of individual apps, but there is no easy solution to this problem at the moment.

If you rely on users having to click "yes", then you're just making phones harder to use because everyone still using Facebook or Instagram will just click whatever buttons make the app work.

On the other hand, I have yet to come up with a good reason why arbitrary websites need to set up direct connections to devices within the local network.

There's the IPv6 argument against the proposed measures, which requires work to determine if an address is local or global, but that's also much more difficult to enumerate than the IPv4 space that some websites try to scan. That doesn't mean IPv4 address shouldn't be protected at all, either. Even with an IPv6-shaped hole, blocking local networks (both IPv4 and local IPv6) by default makes sense for websites originating from outside.

IE did something very similar to this decades ago. They also had a system for displaying details about websites' privacy policies and data sharing. It's almost disheartening to see we're trying to come up with solutions to these problems again.
by timhigins | 2025-06-04 21:43:23+00:00
The code that defines how the fact graph works is here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f...

but the actual tax definitions that deal with facts and derived calculation are here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f...

See for example the standard deduction and tax rate calculations https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f... https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

I imagine these are based on the MeF (Modernized e-File) schemas because the system needs to transform the input data into XML MeF schemas to submit electronically to the MeF system (See https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/modernized-e-file-mef-s...)
by lurk2 | 2025-06-04 21:43:45+00:00
Interesting. Did they add this feature recently? How do you set it up?

Embedded files (photos, video, audio, PDFs, etc.) and bullet hierarchies were the two things that I remember being the most trouble; you can copy bullet hierarchies from iOS Notes and paste them into another app, but they aren’t detected when copying the note via Shortcuts. Embedded files had to be manually saved. I think you could Airdrop notes to a MacOS device, but it would wipe the date created metadata from what I remember.
by yieldcrv | 2025-06-04 21:44:23+00:00
Christ, that liquid cooled system is totally overkill for what he does. I'm so glad I don't bother with this stuff anymore, all to run his preferred operating system in virtualization because Windows uses his aging Nvidia card better

Chimera

The old gpu is an aberration and odd place to skimp. If he upgraded to a newer nvidia gpu it would have linux driver support and he could ditch windows entirely

And if he wasn’t married to arcgis he could just get a mac studio
by duskwuff | 2025-06-04 21:44:42+00:00
The answer to that question is "probably not".

First: the image recognition model is unlikely to have seen very many depth maps. Seeing one alongside a photo probably won't help it recognize the image any better.

Second: even if the model knew what to do with a depth map, there's no reason to suspect that it'd help in this application. The lack of accuracy in a image-to-calorie-count app doesn't come from problems which a depth map can answer like "is this plate sitting on the table or raised above it"; they come from problems which can't be answered visually like "is this a glass of whole milk or non-fat" or "are these vegetables glossy because they're damp or because they're covered in butter".
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-04 21:45:02+00:00
The same thing that makes blocking ports on iOS and macOS so hard: there's barely any firewall on these devices by default, and the ones users may find cause more problems than users will ever think they solve.

Listening on a specific port is one of the most basic things software can possibly do. What's next, blocking apps from reading files?

Plus, this is also about blocking your phone's browser from accessing your printer, your router, or that docker container you're running without a password.
by itishappy | 2025-06-04 21:45:53+00:00
There's a few more details in the press release from the league itself. Sounds like they were really trying to put these things through their paces.

> The course design pushed the boundaries of perception-based autonomy—featuring wide gate spacing, irregular lighting, and minimal visual markers. The use of rolling shutter cameras further heightened the difficulty, testing each team’s ability to deliver fast, stable performance under demanding conditions

https://a2rl.io/press-release/9/artificial-intelligence-triu...
by BHSPitMonkey | 2025-06-04 21:46:16+00:00
That's an idea... Make a fork, add a file at taxpayers/${SSN}.yaml describing your return in terms of income/deductions/circumstances, make sure it lints successfully, and then submit a PR for the IRS to review. If it's merged, CI/CD initiates a bank payment/withdrawal. If you get audited, resolve the conflicts and update the PR.
by amazingamazing | 2025-06-04 21:46:25+00:00
> That means no more pop-ups that say “unknown part” when you swap in a working screen. No more downgrading your camera or fingerprint sensor just because you repaired your own phone.

I'm curious if that means that it's now illegal for the company to tell you if you have a device with fake parts.

I also don't quite understand the security implications. If you need some attested part, like a TPM, and this and some other thing like a fingerprint sensor fail and you replace them both, you cannot disable the fingerprint sensor since now technically it cannot attest itself?
by arnaugomez | 2025-06-04 21:47:04+00:00
There are many ways to organize documents: a list, a nested structure of directories, a searchable unstructured directory, etc. Plus, in multi-document setups, AI Agents have many possible ways to index and search files: from simple ls commands to complex vector databases that index files for semantic search. So we're looking for a solution that is simple enough to set up and flexible enough to fit many types of applications.
by tonyarkles | 2025-06-04 21:47:05+00:00
The child comments from yours are mentioning nuclear weapons as a parallel but there's one big difference between drone tech and nuclear weapons: plutonium is really hard to make.

We might be able to put a pin in this tech from a policy perspective, but the cat is way out of the bag as far as the tech goes. A cell phone already has all of the sensors you need baked right into it (honestly, we can thank mobile devices for getting the cost down). An ESC for a motor is a cheap microcontroller and a couple of MOSFETs. The frames can be made of cheap plastic. Even if things like ArduPilot didn't exist, a smart EE student could build one from scratch, including the flight control software, using parts from Digikey and relatively basic PID control code.

The cat is definitely out of the bag.
by hocuspocus | 2025-06-04 21:48:17+00:00
I don't think anyone cares about Apple here. Swift solved a problem that people outside iOS/macOS didn't have. Then it took ~10 years to make Swift more seriously general purpose and multi-platform, it's simply too late to be compelling when other languages have progressed too.

Re: easy to write, I'm not sure, Swift's recent explosion in complexity makes it a hard sell vs Rust, even if the learning curve might be slightly less steep. At the end of the day, Rust's DX wins in almost every dimension, people are willing to learn slightly more complex semantics if it saves times everywhere else: tooling, libraries, build tool and package manager, ... I believe even compilation speeds don't compare favorably.
by Beas | 2025-06-04 21:48:18+00:00
Without knowing too much about ocean pollutants, I’d love some elaboration on this bit:

> Aida said the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt. Those components can then be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria, thereby avoiding generating microplastics that can harm aquatic life and enter the food chain.

It seems like the rate at which this naturally occurring bacteria consume the components is pretty important in determining whether there will be microplastics in the ocean long enough to impact sea life. The quoted conclusion seems overly optimistic.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-04 21:48:35+00:00
Well there's this[0] but unfortunately I don't see any results and I'm not about to put in the time to run it myself.

Responding to GP, I won't object that LLMs aren't optimized for translation but I would generally expect them to perform quite well at it given that it seems to come with the territory of being able to respond to natural language prompts in multiple languages.

> massive, overfit generative models are awful at translation

> part-of-speech classification + dictionary lookup + grammar mapping – an incredibly simplistic system with performance measurable in chapters per second – does a better job

Those are two distinct claims you made and I'm not inclined to accept either of them without evidence given how unexpected both of them would be from my perspective.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/...
by maxglute | 2025-06-04 21:49:44+00:00
IMO it's largely ignorant talking heads taking "The Empire, Long Divided, Must Unite" from popculture / memes and just ran with it, because China bad / should bulkanize, not historic credence. If there was actual historic awareness, this argument would also note significant united cycles of Chinese periods last 250-500 years, after shorter balkanization cycle (50-150 years, eastern zhou shitshow aside).

Then the argument would be CCP dynasty is just starting - 70 years into multiple generation spanning 250+ year cycle where they're already cooking, and TBH more geographically and culturally cohesive than any past periods. Or, US is 250 years into cycle, i.e. potentially approaching bulkanization time. But that would defeat / be contrary to the entire is PRC collapsing / bulkanizing meme. It's based on hopium.
by AngryData | 2025-06-04 21:49:44+00:00
Im more worried about these type of things causing us to blast each other and ourselves back to the 1920s or so during conflicts when small explosive EMPs start being viewed as less damaging than drones and robots. A fast explosive on the back of a neodynium magnet and a few coils of copper can make a hell of an EMP blast. The only reason we don't use them now is due to all the collateral damage, but if drone bombs represent even more damage they become viable. Yeah it will destroy all the radios around and fuck up a bunch of expensive equipment, but you would still have soldiers with guns rather than just smoking craters.
by bityard | 2025-06-04 21:50:04+00:00
Very interesting. Maybe I can afford Milwaukee tools now! Their tools are good, and sold bare, for semi-reasonable prices but their batteries are eye-wateringly expensive.

(I should probably pick one of these up before Torque Test Channel does a video on them and they end up getting sold out for a year.)

Edit: I'm referring to the PDNation universal battery + brand-specific adapter in particular.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-04 21:50:24+00:00
Personally I had completely forgotten that anyone and anything can do this right now.

TLDR, IIUC, right now, random websites can try accessing contents on local IPs. You can try to blind load e.g. http://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/login.cgi from JavaScript, iterating through a gigantic malicious list of such known useful URLs, then grep and send back whatever you want to share with advertisers or try POSTing backdoors to printer update page. No, we don't need that.

Of course, OTOH, many webapps today use localhost access to pass tokens and to talk to cooperating apps, but you only need access to 127.0.0.0/8 for that which is harder to abuse, so that range can be default exempted.

Disabling this, as proposed, does not affect your ability to open http://192.168.0.1/login.html, as that's just another "web" site. If JS on http://myNAS.local/search-local.html wants to access http://myLaptop.local:8000/myNasDesktopAppRemotingApi, only then you have to click some buttons to allow it.

Edit: uBlock Origin has filter for it[1]; was unchecked in mine.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184799
by miladyincontrol | 2025-06-04 21:51:14+00:00
> a tangled mess of systemd units

Ironic you use that term when a number of systemd units is often the simplest way of cleanly, reliably orchestrating services and daemons, doubly so when theres any level of complexity or limitations you want to confine one too.

Its cute to romanticize a bunch of scripts to run and orchestrate things but its a nightmare I'd not wish upon my enemies. Less moving parts, yet conceptually more complex to properly manage beyond the basics with far more that can and likely will go wrong.
by mountainriver | 2025-06-04 21:52:33+00:00
>The “meaning” of a percept is not in the vector it is encoded as, but in the way relevant decoders process this vector into meaningful outputs. As long as various encoders and decoders are subject to modality-specific training objectives, “meaning” will be decentralized and potentially inconsistent across modalities, especially as a result of pre-training. This is not a recipe for the formation of coherent concepts.

This is a bit silly, you can train the encoders end-to-end with the rest of the model and the reason they are separate is we can cache linguistic tokens really easily and put them in an embedding table, you can't do that with images.