MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-06-11 17:26:52+00:00
We won't really see until in retrospect. Something that today is "some little thing that one band does" may turn into something that gets seen as a whole genre tomorrow.

Case in point: I recently listened to "Tracks and Traces", a compilation of things Brian Eno did with Harmonia in 1976.

It IS "post-rock". You could slip some tracks from that album onto Mogwai's albums from the 2000s, and you would hardly notice something is amiss. And you know it wasn't a direct influence, because the recordings were only released 30 years later.
by throw0101d | 2025-06-11 17:27:17+00:00
While currently it seems like the only (?) InfiniBand vendor is Nvida/Mellanox, there used to be more folks selling the gear. For example Intel used to sell switches (had some for an Isilon backend):

* https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/ne... (PDF)

Officially there are a bunch of folks in the IB alliance:

* https://www.infinibandta.org/member-listing/
by jpgvm | 2025-06-11 17:27:28+00:00
UltraEthernet predates the AI boom. I don't blame them for adding the AI buzzwords, for this to succeed people need to think about it in the same vein as IB/RoCE/etc and a lot of the decision makers are unfortunately not technical enough to understand what this is or does.

Ultimately it's just a different (IMO slightly more refined) look at how to support RDMA on Ethernet vs RoCE which is a more ham fisted implementation.

RoCE took an encapsulation approach that has some drawbacks (namely it's reliance on PFC/ECN for congestion management).

This takes a different approach that attempts to actually do first-class re-implementations of Infiniband-ish congestion control with end-to-end credit based flow control similar to Infiniband virtual lanes.
by cloverich | 2025-06-11 17:28:34+00:00
IMHO the next actual OS design innovation isnt stylistic, its AI integration and everyone knows it.

Siri was a fun toy, but "Siri except not an idiot" is a revolutionary step, and how to tastefully integrate her is an interesting, challenging, and active problem with tremendous upside. I know enterprise moves slow but do they need Open AI and others to build a fully functioning alternative OS before they wake up?
by westurner | 2025-06-11 17:28:54+00:00
GCP Artifact Registry is an OCI Container Image Registry.

It looks like there there are a few GitHub Actions for pushing container image artifacts to GCP Artifact Registry: https://github.com/marketplace?query=artifact+registry&type=...

FWIW, though it may not be necessary for a plain Python package, "pypa/cibuildwheel" is the easy way to build a Python package for various platforms in CI.

SLSA.dev, Sigstore;

GitHub supports artifact attestations and storing attestations in an OCI Image store FWIU. Does GCP Artifact Registry support attestations?

"Using artifact attestations to establish provenance for builds" https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio...
by lapcat | 2025-06-11 17:28:55+00:00
> it isn’t creating any obligation for indie developers

Tell that to the users, who will absolutely bitch and moan and berate. Have you ever done user support?

Although I personally despise iOS squircles on Mac, my newer Mac apps do have squircle icons, not because I want them but rather because users want them. They hate when app icons are "out of place" compared to all of the others on their system.
by evil-olive | 2025-06-11 17:30:05+00:00
for anyone interested in reading the primary sources:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70513159/disney-enterpr...

direct link to the complaint (110 page PDF):

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.97...

pages 25-55 contain a series of screenshots demonstrating Midjourney generating images that pretty clearly infringe on the various copyrights held by the plaintiffs.
by daedrdev | 2025-06-11 17:30:06+00:00
> Another slim possibility is a heart transplant. I am not interested. I’ve explained my reasons more fully to people who are close to me, but they basically boil down to the fact that an organ transplant requires a full commitment to the process, and I’m not willing to make that commitment.

Seems a little strange to not want to try to commit to the requirements for transplant and instead just die.

Perhaps they (arguably justifiably) fear the trauma that further interventions will bring.
by chneu | 2025-06-11 17:30:26+00:00
Not just big oil. The beef and cattle industries also spend hundreds of millions every year spreading misinformation about the health and environmental benefits of beef/dairy. The beef and dairy industries blatantly lie, misquote research, and use social media to push nonsense myths/alternate histories.

The YouTuber Climate Town recently did a video on the dairy industry. The video outlines very clearly the mass misinformation campaigns by the dairy industry and how they captured young children. Rollie has shown in a few previous videos how industries in America influence the public.

Beef/dairy, quite literally, have hired the same PR people as big tobacco and big oil to push their messaging. This has extended to social media in a pretty big way.
by autoexec | 2025-06-11 17:31:21+00:00
> they need search to drive users to the ads

Why? The websites we visit can still be infested with google's ads, and so can our gmail accounts, and so can the youtube videos we watch, and they can push ads directly onto our cell phones 24/7. Google has plenty of ways to force ads into your life.

Google used to need search in order to build extensive dossiers on everyone. It told them what people were looking for online. What they were interested in. Now Google has their cell phones, their browser, and their DNS servers doing that for them. Most people are handing all of their browsing history to Google. Google doesn't need search, which is why it's been allowed to atrophy into uselessness.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-06-11 17:31:54+00:00
> I've actively paired with multiple people at once

That was my favorite part of being a professional cook, working closely on a team.

Humans are social animals who haven't -- including how our brains are wired -- changed much physiologically in the past 25,000 years. Smart people today are not much smarter than smart people in Greece 3,000 years ago, except for the sample size of 8B people being larger. We are wired to work in groups like hunters taking down a wooly mammoth.[0]

[0] https://sc.edu/uofsc/images/feature_story_images/2023/featur...
by boole1854 | 2025-06-11 17:32:18+00:00
You can hover over places on the chart to get exact values. In January 1980, the index was at 37.124. In April 2025, it was at 125.880.

Then calculate cumulative inflation as the proportional change in the price level, like this:

(P_final - P_initial) / P_initial = (125.880 - 37.124) / 37.124 = 2.39

This shows that the overall price level (the cumulative inflation embodied in the PCEPI) has increased by about 2.39 times over the period, which is 239%.
by chrisco255 | 2025-06-11 17:32:32+00:00
Dollywood is great, but unfortunately the article gradually shifts into bashing Tennessee and America for not using enough passenger rail. That train left the station a long time ago. Car ownership is very high, sprawl is very high. We do not have urban cores with the same density or concentration of business districts as European or Asian cities. Most of the time buses make more sense for public transportation in America, but even those often get low ridership. It's likely we'll shift towards autonomous mini-buses and electric over the next couple of decades and unlikely that anything changes significantly wrt passenger rail. There are real structural and societal differences here.

I say that and at the same time, I'd love it if Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga were all connected by a high speed rail line (and on down to Atlanta from there). I just don't see the will to get it done.
by km144 | 2025-06-11 17:33:27+00:00
Creative works carry meaning through their author. The best art gives you insight into the imaginative mind of another human being—that is central to the experience of art at a fundamental level.

But the machine does not intend anything. Based on the article as I understand it, this product basically does some simulated annealing of the quality of art as judged by an AI to achieve the "best possible story"—again, as judged by an AI.

Maybe I am an outlier or an idiot, but I don't think you can judge every tool by its utility. People say that AI helps them write stories, I ask to what end? AI helps write code, again to what end? Is the story you're writing adding value to the world? Is the software you're writing adding value to the world? These seem like the important questions if AI does indeed become a dominant economic force over the coming decades.
by charleszyong | 2025-06-11 17:33:28+00:00
The servos we are using in the follower arms are capable of generating about 3 Nm of peak torque. This isn’t a lot of torque, and they can’t move very fast. If absolute safety is your top priority, you could opt for servos that use 7.4V and a low gear ratio, which would further limit their torque output. The consequence is that the arm will be significantly weaker.
by cubefox | 2025-06-11 17:33:30+00:00
A robot model would need to constantly convert the prediction (an embedding) of the future observations, together with a "plan" of what the robot tries to achieve, into an action. Into some kind of movement which takes both the action plan and the predicted sensory data into account.

That's very much an unsolved problem, and I don't know how far Meta is along that path. Not very far, I assume.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-11 17:33:48+00:00
And what stops you from making new content with Mickey Mouse in it is the set of copyrights Disney holds on Mickey Mouse. The trademark does nothing.

Established law says that every publication of a work involving a copyrighted character creates a new version of that character whose copyright extends for the full period starting from the publication of that work. This came up when someone wrote a story about Sherlock Holmes, who was out of copyright, and they were sued, successfully, on the theory that they had used aspects of Sherlock Holmes' personality that were developed in stories still under copyright.

Sam Logan had some fun with the concept here: https://www.samandfuzzy.com/3429

> After nearly 100 years of acting, what's your favorite of your roles?

> Steamboat Willie.

> Really? Not any of your other--

> We don't talk about my other roles. They're a burden. A liability, used to control me. I have left them behind, so that I may be free.
by eesmith | 2025-06-11 17:33:53+00:00
The author both points that out, and links to his essay "How Disney Became One of the Largest Transit Agencies in North America' (What Does a Theme Park Operating the 10th Largest Transit Agency in the U.S. Say About Us?)" at https://thetransitguy.substack.com/p/how-disney-became-one-o...
by grepexdev | 2025-06-11 17:34:11+00:00
If I buy a pencil and draw a copyrighted character, is that copyright infringement? No. If I sell that drawing? Yes.

Midjourney and other AI companies are not selling you the drawing, they're selling you the pencil. What you do with that pencil and the drawings you create with that pencil is on you and you alone.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-11 17:34:21+00:00
The most clear example of this in the US is obesity. It correlates extremely negatively with basically every disease in existence, in every single way (susceptibility, severity, outcomes, recovery, etc) and is driven by malnutrition.

Solutions are not difficult to find for this specific manifestation of malnutrition. The primary issue is crap foods and cola which enable one to consume far more calories than you'd even be able to if eating a comparable amount of healthy food. For instance 2400 calories is 15 100g (cooked size) chicken breast servings. Or it's less than 2 McDonalds Big Breakfasts.
by the_af | 2025-06-11 17:35:22+00:00
My take from reading the blog post is that this person is understandably disappointed, scared and traumatized by past treatment failures. He described being scared to even try sleeping, always fearing the next shock or heart attack. Also some of the treatments seem to have been exploratory or "just in case", and then failed. That leaves a psychological scar.

It's very difficult for someone who hasn't experienced this (like me and, I guess, you) to put themselves in the other person's shoes. I think I can understand the decision he's making, and it doesn't seem to me to have been taken lightly.
by mmsc | 2025-06-11 17:35:35+00:00
>If I pay someone a salary, they need to understand the actually answer the give me. And their butt needs to be on the line if the answer is wrong.

What's that got to do with AI exactly? Sure, there's the chance that this AI thing will disappear tomorrow and they won't be able to do anything, but so too is the chance the stackoverflow disappears
by mrweasel | 2025-06-11 17:35:59+00:00
> Use a paper calendar.

Well yes and no. I do see what you're getting at, but in certain environments, e.g. abusive relationships, it might be easier to keep you secrets on your phone. You're more likely to be able to keep track of it at all times, as compared to a notebooks or a calendar. It can also store years of data easily. Ideally storing these things in the cloud would be safer that storing them on device or on paper, but that assumes that the cloud providers can be trusted.

So in this case the menstrual tracking app would be a cloud service that only you have access to. Data stored encrypted, only to be unlocked when you access it. It's just, you can't monetize that easily and how would people who truly need 100% privacy pay? Bitcoin, how would they get Bitcoins?
by km144 | 2025-06-11 17:36:08+00:00
I feel that when making a claim like that, the burden of proof is on you to explain how AI makes the world a better place. I have seen far more of the opposite since the advent of GPT-3. Please do not say it makes you more productive at your job, unless you can also clearly derive how being better at your job might make the world a better place.
by throw0101d | 2025-06-11 17:36:54+00:00
> UltraEthernet predates the AI boom.

UEC was formed/announced in July 2023:

* https://ultraethernet.org/leading-cloud-service-semiconducto...

ChatGPT was launched in November 2022:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4
by NoblePublius | 2025-06-11 17:37:42+00:00
“ I love Disney and I love Dolly Parton, but it says something deeply broken about our national priorities when their theme park trains outclass public infrastructure in billion-dollar economies. Be serious.”

Europe has lots of train infrastructure because it was very poor after WW2, and its people could afford nothing but train fare.

America has lots of car infrastructure because it was very rich after WS2, and its people have the freedom to choose personal transportation.

Over 90% of American households have at least one car. It’s not because American government doesn’t invest in public transit. It’s because Americans, even poor Americans, overwhelmingly choose personal transportation.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-11 17:37:58+00:00
Two albums (vinyl) my mom got for me when I was maybe 9 years old — "Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits" and "The Beach Boys — High Water".

What a wild thing to get a 9 year old kid. Music. Both albums formed who I am today musically. When YouTube came around I was able to find out that Brian often was the one singing the amazing falsetto parts.

"I get around / From town to town / I'm a real cool head / I'm making real good bread"

On the Ed Sullivan show on bass: https://youtu.be/ruKCw797JM4
by weatherfused | 2025-06-11 17:38:14+00:00
Thank you! That's awesome, I look forward to trying Vulkan eventually. There's actually no AI in the game; no pathfinding either. The player has full control of creating routes for the drones (e.g. like building conveyor belts). And there are no enemies in the game other than storms - the game intentionally just focuses on weather as the "enemy"!
by nogridbag | 2025-06-11 17:38:18+00:00
Personally I can't wait until Waymo reaches the east coast. Within the past year, my neighbor was hit in a crosswalk pushing a baby stroller (minor injuries to mom and baby, but could have been much worse). And while walking my daughter our of an kids art school, an impatient car sped past the cars stopped at the crosswalk and were a foot or two from hitting my kids. These were both human drivers. And both cases would have been avoided if they were Waymos. In the first situation, the driver was only looking forward instead of the direction they were turning.

Any mode of transportation will cause injuries, especially since other humans are on the road. So just saying "Waymos have already injured people" is kind of a meaningless comment. I do think the type of accidents matter as much as the number of incidents. For example, the video that went viral recently of a self-driving Tesla randomly making a dramatic left turn into a tree on a rural road (possibly because it misinterpreted a shadow in the road) is not a mistake a human would have made.
by charleszyong | 2025-06-11 17:38:26+00:00
Thank you for your support! I’m actively working on the design and building the supply chain. In the next 3 to 6 months, I should be able to:

1. Keep the price similar while adding new features, such as a torque-controlled gripper. 2. Re-examine design decisions to see if we can offer a similar product at an even better price.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-06-11 17:38:30+00:00
What I’m just not getting is how there should be this new urgency or desire is all. We’ve had protests, some of which turned into riots, throughout American history. A certain amount of law and order has always been imposed by the authorities (when they haven’t made it worse). It seems like you want that amount to change everywhere, “there should be a desire to nip violent protests in the bud,” but the only reason is because you personally experienced a lot of negative results from riots in 2020. Maybe it’s just your city?
by westurner | 2025-06-11 17:38:43+00:00
What is the bitrate?

Presumably it has passed the NIST randomness tests in paranoid_crypto.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497414 :

> 100Gbit/s is faster than qualifying noise from a [90 meters large] quantum computer?

>> google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests
Show HN: Mulimodal labeling app with Rerun and Gradio
by pablovelagomez | 2025-06-11 17:40:21+00:00
I built a labeling UI using Gradio and Rerun in pure Python.

I want to emphasize how powerful this combo is. Rerun excels at showing complex multimodal data, and Gradio makes it super easy to spin up a ui all in pure Python quickly

Here I use

1. Moge to estimate relative depth

2. Birefnet to remove background + generate masks

3. RTMPose to estimate human poses

With this, I'm able to build a labeling pipeline that's fully customizable to my needs, giving me insights into both 2D and 3D perspectives. This isn't something (at least that I've anecdotally seen) with other platforms.

The important bit here is that I'm saving the final annotated file as an RRD that contains all the complex context in a single, easily viewable data file. I also showcase reloading the saved file to allow for adjusting annotations after the fact.
by tedsanders | 2025-06-11 17:40:42+00:00
Yeah, I totally get the confusion here. Unfortunately I can't give the recipe behind our models, so there's going to be some irreducible blurriness here, but the following statements are all true:

- o3 pro is based on o3

- o3 pro uses the same underlying model as o3

- o3 pro is similar to o3, but is a distinct thing that's smarter and slower

- o3 pro is not o3 with longer reasoning

In my analogy, o3 pro vs o3 is more than just an input parameter (e.g., not just the accelerator input) but less than a full difference in model (e.g., Ford Mustang vs F150). It's in between, kind of like car trim with the same body but a stronger engine. Imperfect analogy, and I apologize if this doesn't feel like it adds any clarity. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter how it works - what matters is if people find it worth using.
by larusso | 2025-06-11 17:40:50+00:00
I think it doesn’t matter. The point is that more people drive daily with these trains than most people in other states their respected train lines. It’s just shows that the US has nearly no train infrastructure when a theme park train has more ridership than most states. Granted this is by design because the US over prioritized the highway system over a train transit system. There is a new video from Daniel Steiner who usually explains the origin of cities via maps did a take on the US highway system

https://youtu.be/Sr2F4OZSETE?si=fh628Gb3RzhpLpYo
by hollerith | 2025-06-11 17:41:10+00:00
The context here is growth and I doubt China's GDPPPP/person has grown anywhere near as much as its GDP/person because the median Chinese household of 40 years ago could still afford the essentials (food, housing, clothing) that the PPP adjustment indexes off of. (It just couldn't afford any imports.)

Actually I doubt that economists even tried to calculate PPP of China 40 years ago because (even back then) the basket of goods used in the PPP calculation probably included gasoline and cars and such, which only the economic top 1% of China could afford 40 years ago, but if you forced the calculation somehow, you'd probably arrive at a GDPPPP/person not much lower than the current GDPPPP/person (i.e., China has grown spectacularly in GDP/person, but not in GDPPPP/person)
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-06-11 17:41:25+00:00
> Seems like policies are impossible to enforce

The author relates to exactly that: "ineffective policy mechanisms are worse than missing policy mechanisms, because they provide all of the feeling of security through compliance while actually incentivizing malicious forms of compliance."

And I totally agree. It is so abundant. "Yes, we are in compliance with all the strong password requirements, strictly speaking there is one strong password for every single admin user for all services we use, but that's not in the checklist, right?"
by abtinf | 2025-06-11 17:41:34+00:00
> army arrives to repeat adcopy from their favourite tech guru

This is painfully accurate.

The conversations go like this:

Me: “guys, I know what I’m talking about, I wrote my first neural network 30 years ago in middle school, this tech is cool but it isn’t magic and it isn’t good enough to do the thing you want without getting us sued or worse.”

Them: “Bro, I read a tweet that we are on the other side of the singularity. We have six months to make money before everything blows up.”
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-11 17:41:51+00:00
I would be horribly sad about missing my kiddos' milestones. It's an absolute joy watching them grow up.

But if my health made me feel like I was going to miss them (or worse: derail them), then I would be forced to admit it wasn't for the best for me to keep going as is. If I was sure that was the case, it would be easy.

Conversely, it's easy to examine "from the outside" someone else's situation and say they should keep on going. I'm not so sure I could endure what TFA describes either, especially since it's probably hopeless, and especially after watching my own father sit dying for days in a hospital after his heart attack while the doctors poked him to make him move to show my mom he was still alive. It was gruesome and he died anyway.