MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-12 20:45:17+00:00
My understanding working with law firms was that they are pretty bought-in to the Microsoft Office ecosystem, how well does Tritium integrate? Is the docx format fully supported? Can one person use Tritium without affecting others? Other than tabs, what does Tritium offer that two Word panes and a file browser pane tiled on screen can't cover?

I am interested in developing software in this space, so these are earnest questions and not criticism.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-12 20:45:29+00:00
Railguns are cool, but I think superconductor based maglevs are more viable. They don't need any sophisticated controls for neither acceleration nor floatation. Hypothetically you can just fuel a cargo sled with LN2 to a fill line, give it a nudge, and it'll start rolling without needing any sophisticated computerized controls.

Floatation is handled by pair of upoer and lower passive guide coils on the wall, just induction current can keep vehicles vertically centered. Propulsion is handled by constant alternating current on alternatingly pointed coils. Speed can be modulated between zero to max by merely modulating strength, not frequency or phase, of vehicle side magnets.

It does need a lot of materials to build one with 3.5km/s max speed on the Moon, though, so a robotic Lunar foundry might have to be built first.

But once that goes up... space megaprojects will be free, and launches from planetary surfaces will mainly be used for humans or valuable items.
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-12 20:45:30+00:00
I have never seen this about the Pixel phones. Nexus phones were reference devices, Pixels are consumer-oriented devices, with exclusive features, not so different from Samsung or Xiaomi. The sales pitch is mostly about the camera and AI features.

Just the name change is telling. "Pixel" suggest a focus on pictures, whereas "Nexus" suggests a focus on Android itself (inspired by Nexus-6 androids in Blade Runner).
by CamperBob2 | 2025-06-12 20:47:02+00:00
I'm not surprised that it occasionally prompts for a password (about once or twice a week for me), because otherwise people will forget their passwords and bug them about it.

The problem I have is that it doesn't explain who wants the password or why, and the prompts aren't associated with any particular action on my part. Instead, Apple is conditioning people to mindlessly type in their password on demand. Why in the world are they doing a stupid, dangerous, counterproductive thing like that?
by qualeed | 2025-06-12 20:47:43+00:00
It's a setting in the admin.microsoft.com portal (Org settings -> Security & privacy -> Password expiration policy).

The setting, funny enough, is literally "Set passwords to never expire (recommended)".

They also link to "Learn why passwords that never expire are more secure" in the same place.

Anyone who is forcing expiry is specifically going against recommended policies (Microsoft's, NIST's, and any serious security person) for some reason or other.
by toast0 | 2025-06-12 20:47:57+00:00
SMS is pretty much decentralized, although there's a few companies with a lot of reach. I don't remember any Global SMS outages, but it wasn't uncommon for a whole carrier to have an SMS outage and especially for inter-carrier SMS to be broken from time to time (sometimes for days). I've certainly seen some stuff with SMS aggregators: almost all of them claim a majority of direct links, but when you have accounts with 4 large aggregators and one of them has an outage, you find out which of your other account use that aggregator for which links (because their deliverability will go to zero to those destinations).

RCS was designed and specced, by GSMA, as a telco run decentralized system that would replace SMS as like for like; but there were only a handful of rollouts. It's really only gotten use as Google pushed it onto Android, using their RCS server; recently iOS started using it although I don't know what server they attach to.

Since RCS is basically the 5th wave Google IM, it's no surprise when they have a major outage, RCS is pretty much broken.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-12 20:48:14+00:00
> Israel is attacking a semi-state that invaded and slaughtered its people.

Israel has been conducting a campaign of (and even has openly described it in terms very closely paralleling the definition of) genocide against the Palestinian people throughout Palestine since decades before its for for-show semi-diseengagement from Gaza (heck, even for decades before it fostered the creation of Hamas while it occupied Gaza to split Palestinian resistance from its unified backing of the less Islamist, more pan-Arab nationalist PLO.)
by nijave | 2025-06-12 20:48:20+00:00
>Is it ok that my son stopped at my desk at home and saw customer PII that was left open?

In practice/reality, probably. Most employers will disagree.

Consider your son could just as easily over hear a phone call, see a piece of paper, etc. If your son was actively malicious, there's all kinds of things from cameras to video splitters to key loggers he could do. If he's not actively malicious, who cares if he sees something

If you're in a line of work worried about shoulder suffering, then you should really consider whether BYO is a good idea.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-12 20:49:06+00:00
> If this was on my 2025 bingo card I think we could have crossed it off a few times with ICE detention facilities and the prison in El Salvador.

Isn't this the motte and bailey thing though? "Putting minorities in camps" has the implication that they're being put into camps because they're minorities. It's meant to invoke the thing the 20th century fascists did where if you're a member of the group you go to the camps, and moreover if you go to the camps you never come back.

Meanwhile ICE is detaining people because they're suspected of being in the country illegally, and then deporting them.

They suck at it, as usual, so some of the people aren't actually in the country illegally, but most of them are, and then when the government screws up the courts slowly get around to sorting it out. Which is a process that has maybe been in need of reform for quite a while now -- in particular it would be nice to see the government paying for its mistakes more often, and for the "unscrew this up" process to take less time -- but those aren't novelties only now being introduced, they're longstanding problems.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-06-12 20:49:47+00:00
I've never known my partners to turn into an irrational mess because I said something they would otherwise be fine with. I actually find partners to be quite a bit more affectionate around those times. There's certainly an element of emotional volatility, but it swings both ways... And doesn't devolve into messes at all. Nothing that can't be sorted with a simple 'how are you feeling, anything I can do to help?'
by rafaelmn | 2025-06-12 20:49:57+00:00
Lol at 5$ per kWh.

In my country for home consumers the difference between day/night rates is 10-20c/kWh. With spot pricing I can see it working to cover the post commute power spike - but you're effectively doubling your commute discharge rate and pushing charge levels to suboptimal levels.

Batteries might work but at 80% capacity they are worth significantly less than new - both in terms of utility and resale value.

Maybe if battery range gets extended so far that even at 80% capacity it's an overkill - like 1000mile batteries - I could see myself doing something like this - but at current ranges and charging setups - I'll skip the few dozen euro a month.
by closewith | 2025-06-12 20:51:33+00:00
> The Republic of Ireland' is the official descriptive term for the country named 'Ireland' in English, per the Republic of Ireland Act 1948.

The context is important. The Act revoked dominion status and role of the British Crown in the Irish executive branch, thus making Ireland a republic, and so deserving of a new description (the previous having been the Irish Free State).

Czechia is the only way I've heard the country referred to (in the news as it rarely comes up in person).
by ars | 2025-06-12 20:51:43+00:00
> Generally the new model is winning on price and breadth, by a fairly wide margin. Accuracy seems about the same for both business models.

I quite disagree on both counts. Unless by breadth you mean tons of different topics. But if you want info on a specific topic a book has far greater breadth than the new systems.

Accuracy is also hit or miss, it depends on the topic. Highly charged topics are rarely accurate - at least with a book the bias is known and you can pick multiple books, online articles are a popularity contest/majority rules, rather than actual accuracy.

Technical topics are pretty accurate, but often pretty shallow. Or worse: Great technical detail that is impossible to understand unless you already know the topic, in which case why do you need it?
by piker | 2025-06-12 20:51:43+00:00
> My understanding working with law firms was that they are pretty bought-in to the Microsoft Office ecosystem, how well does Tritium integrate?

Absolutely. Overbought. They're owned by Microsoft. Go to a legal tech conference and there are thousands of vendors and not a single MSFT representative. All they want to do is push more Azureware on the deep pockets of profitable firms.

> Is the docx format fully supported?

It will be. There are certainly edge case features that don't render correctly yet, but those will come. The 80% that we care about should work. No data will be dropped, as mentioned elsewhere it will just look bad and gracefully degrade behind the scenes to a safe representation that ensures the data isn't lost.

> Can one person use Tritium without affecting others?

Yes, it's totally private and secure. Using Tritium doesn't require any cloud access or anything like that (other than to phone home with the auto-update or your LLM integration). I'm going to link the history to a separate hidden directory in the filesystem a la .git in the future which will allow some basic multi-editor features.

> Other than tabs, what does Tritium offer that two Word panes and a file browser pane tiled on screen can't cover?

Great question! It does the things lawyers care about: help them pick out symbols (defined terms, specifically) and run diffs (redlines) cheap and quick. It also renders PDFs (using pdfium).

> I am interested in developing software in this space, so these are earnest questions and not criticism.

Drop a line to the email in my bio. I'd love to chat offline.
by corry | 2025-06-12 20:51:52+00:00
Do you find the idea of an infinite regress -- "our universe is a child of another universe and that is a child of another universe and so forth" -- holds much explanatory power for you?

To me it's prima facie a hollow explanation. I get that some models, like eternal inflation or certain cyclic cosmologies, entertain the idea of an infinite past or blur the standard arrow of time... but how does pushing the origin question back indefinitely actually resolve anything?
by sargstuff | 2025-06-12 20:52:22+00:00
yes/no. Don't know what Shrodinger's cat's state is until put into context. aka fundamental theorm of calculus provides symbolic evaluation context; but without expressions / 'numbers', theorm is just a 'shrodinger's cat' in different clothing.

One can escape the original NIL, NULL, None issue by using boolean logic, but that implies rules.

The 'strange thing' about shrodinger's cat, one can never be certain that one didn't pick the context before the cat existed and/or the references after the deceased remains were no longer visible. So, exercise is arguably statistically skewed toward 3/4 deceased, 1/4 alive. Add statistical sampling, and one can get an approximation of where things might be relative to cat life span. Only works one finds at least one instance of an 'alive cat' first. Much easier to just start with Boole's cat to avoid shrodinger's cat issues (aka lambda term). LLM's will happily supply relevant Boole's cat expression with/or without shrodinger's cat input.

Pauli might consider that a half baked cracker.
by jeremyjh | 2025-06-12 20:52:57+00:00
What do you call it when people supporting an authoritarian deflect to their pet issue because they think it owns the libs?

You don't get to ignore due process just because crimes are alleged. That's the whole fucking point of due process - to ascertain exactly what has happened and not just take some thug's word for it when they want to boost their arrest numbers.
by nicoburns | 2025-06-12 20:53:08+00:00
> Rust has incremental compilation within a crate. It also splits optimization work into many parallel codegen units.

Eh, it does, but it's not currently very good at this in my experience. Nothing unfixable AFAIK (and the parallel frontend can help (but is currently a significant regression on small crates)), but currently splitting things into smaller crates can often lead to much faster compiles.
by edanm | 2025-06-12 20:53:48+00:00
> "most are combatants" serves to justify the ongoing genocide when the opposite is true in reality.

I disagree with that part of the comment (and said so), but disagreed on a factual statement does not make a comment genocidal.

> The reality is most combatants are underground so Israel bombs civilians. This is in line with its war goals of ethnically cleansing Gaza so there is no contestation of its colonial claims.

This is simply false. Despite the common view of the world, outside of isolated incidents, there is almost no evidence that Israel intentionally targets civilians for bombing. It accepts civilian casualties, but only given a valid military target.

You can say a lot of bad things about what Israel is doing, and I do so. I'm against the current war and have very negative views of a lot of Israeli actions. But you're thinking things that you have no evidence for (and lots of evidence against).

> Currently, Israel and the United States are luring starving Gazans with a pittance of aid into kill boxes using the intelligence front "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation". It's sick and depraved.

This is both wrong, and doesn't make much sense. Why would Israel need to "lure" Gazans into kill boxes to kill them? Many/most are clustered together in refugee tents. If Israel were truly fine with bombing civilians, it could easily bomb these centers. Why would it need to "lure" anyone anywhere?

Here's an alternative possibility - Hamas, which the Gazan people themselves hate and are protesting daily, has been using aid to keep control of the population, by stealing it and selling it to civilians. The GHF is threatening this model, so Hamas is doing everything it can to get rid of it - including threatening its personnel (this is on record as having happened), and including causing problems, up to and including shooting Palestinians to make the operation of the GHF look bad.

What makes you so sure this isn't what's happening?

(Personally, I think the truth is somewhere in the middle and I don't know where exactly it is. This clearly threatens Hamas and they clearly have lots of incentives to make it fail, and have clearly tried to do so... but it's also possible that the criticisms of the GHF are correct, that it's poorly conceived and poorly run, and works in a dehumanizing way that has no chance to serve the population aid in an effective manner.)
by wasabi991011 | 2025-06-12 20:54:05+00:00
Fwiw:

The last paper I saw posted on hackernews from Gil Kalai included a few explicit predictions about what would be impossible in quantum error correction.

This was a paper from a few years back.

The problem is that now Google has published results which imply that some Kalai's predictions turned out false.

The paper in question is Google's recent "below threshold"/"beyond break-even" QEC paper. I believe Kalai was predicting below threshold QEC to be impossible IIRC, among other things.

Not sure if Kalai has responded or updated his predictions, I haven't been following him closely.
by quectophoton | 2025-06-12 20:54:11+00:00
They might not have said it explicitly, but heavily imply it with:

> 34 seconds later, it was done. Not just a quick hack...proper production-ready code with error handling, logging, environment checks, documentation, the entire implementation. Working, tested, committed to git.

> This wasn't copy-paste from Stack Overflow. This was bespoke, production-ready code tailored to my specific Laravel app, following my existing patterns, with proper security considerations.

And with their proposed "AI-Optimized Process" conspicuously lacking code review, QA, manual approval. Just going straight from prompt to production, with no human supervision after the prompt is written. Otherwise those steps would have been mentioned in the list, the same way "Traditional API Integration Process" mentions them.

At that point might as well add a button to Jira that says "Implement this".
by Zigurd | 2025-06-12 20:54:19+00:00
Statements like...

Seang Chau on Wednesday evening posted that broadly “AOSP is NOT going away.” More directly to developers, Google has said it will remain “committed to AOSP updates.”

...are not precisely responsive to questions about build targets. Something like "There's an emulator you can build for," or "You can build for a Raspberry Pi" would be useful or informative, or tell developers why Pixel is no longer a reference device and why there is no apperent replacement.
by wat10000 | 2025-06-12 20:54:32+00:00
The difference is that crimes such as disorderly conduct are subjective not just for police, but also for juries. It's not perfect, but twelve people agree that you were causing trouble at a level that rises to criminality, there's a good chance there's something to it. With open container laws, it's only subjective for the police. Once you're charged, then all they have to prove about your conduct is that you had an open drink, not the real reason they decided to go after you.
by chiph | 2025-06-12 20:55:23+00:00
VSS was picked up via the acquisition of One Tree Software in Raleigh. Their product was SourceSafe, and the "Visual" part was added when it was bundled with their other developer tools (Visual C, Visual Basic, etc). Prior to that Microsoft sold a version control product called "Microsoft Delta" which was expensive and awful and wasn't supported on NT.

One of the people who joined Microsoft via the acquisition was Brian Harry, who led the development of Team Foundation Version Control (part of Team Foundation Server - TFS) which used SQL Server for its storage. A huge improvement in manageability and reliability over VSS. I think Brian is retired now - his blog at Microsoft is no longer being updated.

From my time using VSS, I seem to recall a big source of corruption was it's use of network file locking over SMB. If there were a network glitch (common in the day) you'd have to repair your repository. We set up an overnight batch job to run the repair so we could be productive in the mornings.
by sfpotter | 2025-06-12 20:55:44+00:00
The wealthy use a progressively more and more marginal amount of their income for necessities. Consequently, their income gets pumped into assets, which produce still more wealth for them. There are different ways of taxing people. You can tax their income, you can tax their capital gains, you can tax their wealth, you can tax inheritance, etc... It is basically understood at this point that if wealth is relatively untaxed, wealth inequality grows. If wealth inequality is large, society destabilizes.

The example of a doctor isn't really meaningful in isolation. It is also pretty reductive to think only in terms of simple percentages and how much of "what they have earned" they keep. Different parts of the world have a different cost of living. If you live in the states and make $200K per year, you are capable of living a comfortable life anywhere in the country. If you make $400K, how much more comfortable? What about $800K? If the doctor is making $800K and their tax rate drops by half, then what? There is a sense of how much is reasonable for someone to contribute back to society, and if the amount they contribute drops significantly so that they are perceived as not contributing enough, then it is fair to regard that tax cut as a handout.
by gamblor956 | 2025-06-12 20:56:03+00:00
LLMs are all fake AI. As the recently released Apple study demonstrates, LLMs don't reason, they just pattern match. That's not "intelligence" however you define it because they can only solve things that are already within their training set.

In this case, it would have been better for the AI industry if it had been 700 programmers, because then the rest of the industry could have argued that the utter trash code Builder.ai generated was the result of human coders spending a few minutes haphazardly typing out random code, and not the result of a specialty-trained LLM.
by paulluuk | 2025-06-12 20:57:26+00:00
I work on AI solutions for a major video streaming company, and the problem with VEO3 is that it doesn't have any consistency between prompts. E.g. I can not upload a reference image of what a character looks like, and if I say in one video "the old priest bends down" and in the next video "the old priests picks up the coin", the priest will look very different between shots.

Veo3 does support image to video, so what you can do is create an image that is the start of a scene, and then use that to generate the actual scene. Unfortunately, Veo3 is really bad at this. I expect this will improve over time.

Although I'm not super excited about this Seedance model personally, I do really like that it focuses on consistency between shots. I hope this puts pressure on increased performance from Veo3 in that regard.
by gitpusher | 2025-06-12 20:57:31+00:00
It's important to understand that the firework situation today is VERY different from 5 years ago.

Before pandemic, big fireworks were only sold to professionals, and they were exploded at a pre-determined time and place. If you like big fireworks: no problem you can simply attend one of these shows. If you don't like fireworks: no problem just be somewhere else on that particular evening

Nowadays anyone can buy big stuff. And they are setting them off constantly. I live in an urban area and big BOOMs are going off all the time in my neighborhood, especially at night. I'm not sure how anyone can argue that this is OK or a matter of preference. It's a major disruptor to quality of life, and I wish all fireworks enthusiasts would get to experience this

If you ask me I would prefer a regression to the pre-2020 situation. Who knows. If kids weren't allowed to buy fireworks, Maybe the Palisades would still be here and my parents and all their friends would still have a house
by naveen_k | 2025-06-12 20:57:38+00:00
I have been experimenting with using 5 phases of movements with each phase covering different areas of the screen while being actively moving. The last phase makes the dot move in a Lissajous-like motion which is more fluid like you are suggesting.

The challenge is recording and syncing the motion at a higher frequency and being able to save without much drift and the performance of these landmark/gaze models is often slow.

One more option to speed it up is not to do the eye tracking at record time, just record a crop video of the face and the screen first at 60Hz and then run the model on each frame and update the metadata of the dataset.