MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pavon | 2025-06-12 20:12:28+00:00
Part of the difficulty is that artists/labels aren't always consistent about the formatting of song titles. Its not uncommon for the capitalization to vary between the back cover of the CD, the printing on the CD itself and the liner notes. And then you have variations between releases of the same CD, and digital releases where the file metadata, and the store listing, and the artist website also all vary. So I can't blame MusicBrainz for choosing to normalize by default. Ideally, you could use normalized case for the Recording and Work song titles, and then stylized for the Release song titles, but most people don't go to that level of detail when entering songs.
by paxys | 2025-06-12 20:12:39+00:00
Is it ok that your son stops at your desk to see PII while the session is still active? And how does reauth even help with this case? Do you expect your session to expire every 15 minutes while you are taking a break?

The problem here isn't auth expiry but you not locking your computer when you step away from your desk.

Your policies aren't enforcing security, just security theater (and making a lot of employees very annoyed in the process).
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-12 20:13:06+00:00
Calls and letters count more than emails and contact forms when it comes to congressional feedback.

> The fact of the matter is that the people of this country voted for this. It's what they want.

It can look like that, but remember some facts. The popular vote split was 49.8% to 48.3%. Almost 90 million eligible voters didn't cast a vote for president. That is higher than either Trump's or Harris' final vote tally. Only ~32% of eligible voters voted for Trump.

Trump likes to call it a landslide but that's just bluster. Quite a lot of his policies perform awful in polls. Public opinion can be moved.
by lysace | 2025-06-12 20:13:37+00:00
Kind of a missed opportunity for Ookla - who's running both downdetector.com and speedtest.net.

The have software running in most ISPs around the world:

https://help.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039164793-Ho...

(OTOH, it's not always trivial to define/detect an outage.)
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-12 20:14:14+00:00
Generally you just build a fire on the ground you want to dig up, possibly throw in some good sized stones to hold the heat longer. If the frost is deep might turn it all over once the flames have died down and bury those coals and stones so their heat is more contained and not just going up into the air, or have a second fire after you have dug out the thawed soil.
by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-06-12 20:14:29+00:00
Glad I could help!

Sometimes I do planning in stronger models like Gemini 2.5 Pro (started giving o3 a shot at this the past couple days) with all the relevant files in context, but often times I default to Sonnet 4 for everything.

A common pattern is to have the agent write down plans into markdown files (which you can also iterate on) when you get beyond a certain task size. This helps with more complex tasks. For large plans, individual implementation-phase-specific markdown files.

Maybe these projects can provide some assistance and/or inspiration:

- https://www.task-master.dev/

- https://github.com/Helmi/claude-simone
by logicchains | 2025-06-12 20:14:44+00:00
> and ultimately meld together to be able to achieve tasks on time horizons of multiple hours

It's already possible to achieve tasks on a time horizon of multiple days if you put the LLM into a sufficiently structured workflow (where you have a separate program that smartly manages its context). E.g. a standards-compliant HTTP 2.0 server where the code is 100% written by Gemini Pro (over 40k lines of code total, including unit tests, in around 120 hours of API time): https://open.substack.com/pub/outervationai/p/building-a-100...
by AngryData | 2025-06-12 20:15:09+00:00
Im not surprised, just a bit north of there the Keeweenaw Peninsula in Michigan has the largest deposit of native copper in the world and would have been fairly prosperous in that era trading copper and copper objects across the midwest and beyond among natives. You can literally dig solid copper nuggets out of the ground there. Just busting up random rocks from the area will show you bright shiny copper bits inside. Any area nearby would itself gain a lot of prosperity from the trade and have decent populations which incentivizes a lot of native farming to feed everyone.
by barrkel | 2025-06-12 20:15:42+00:00
Calculators may be conscious - I tend towards panpsychism myself - but because I tend towards panpsychism, I don't think arithmetic generates qualia, because the arithmetic is independent of the computing substrate.

I don't particularly want to get mystical (i.e. wondering which computing substrates, including neurons, actually generate qualia), but I cannot accept the consequences of mere arithmetic alone generating suffering. Or all mathematics is immoral.
by andai | 2025-06-12 20:16:08+00:00
>it turns out that a blank list is a great filter for what is truly important and motivating. If it is important, you will remember it at some point during the day.

I started using GTD, but due to sprawling list overwhelm, evolved it into nanoGTD, where I start each day with a blank page and recreate my projects and next actions from memory/imagination.

This works best on paper. To make sure nothing fell through the cracks, I just turn to the previous page.
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-12 20:16:31+00:00
Could also be that both are being untruthful. Lincoln let us know a long time ago, there are times when "both may be, but one must be". Personally, I think there may even be times when both parties are being truthful. ie - you're being played by a third party.

I'd imagine this is the sort of fallout when things go sideways and there is not the requisite level of trust on both sides to definitively run down root causes.

They both may have simply cut each other off. Since there is no definitive way of knowing the other side is being truthful.
by harvie | 2025-06-12 20:16:39+00:00
This is not really about office suite choice. It's more about custom software that is developed for government for riddiculous amount of money only to be a huge vendor lock-in.

I would like to see how complex the software really is compared to its price and make it possible for other companies to offer maintenance or adding new modules without having to go through the original authors. so basicaly the freedoms government should already have to something they've payed crazy amount of money for.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-06-12 20:16:58+00:00
> We knew the government pushed UFO nonsense to obscure development programs.

One of the most frustrating things about UFO propaganda is that it's caused a severe lack of understanding in physics AND astronomy. There absolutely is intelligent life out there, but the chance of any lifeforms figuring out the practically zero option solutions to the problems of interstellar travel might as well be... well, zero. e.g., If we ever crack nuclear fusion and somehow through future magic manage to make that small enough to fit on a ship for energy, a ship traveling fast enough through space for the long, long, long journey to reach another star system colliding with a small rock would produce enough energy via collision to blow up the ship. That's only the tip top of the iceberg for interstellar travel problems.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-06-12 20:17:04+00:00
It's not. They are both unelected authoritarian dictatorships. If I must live under a dictatorship, I want it to be a regime that somewhat aligns with my values and interests at the very least.

The people in power right now are communists and socialists. It's not even an understatement. Nazis go straight to jail but these socialists walk our soil completely unpunished even though they are far more damaging.
by kmoser | 2025-06-12 20:17:16+00:00
Yes, the last filter is always the human being who has to deal with whatever the computer couldn't automate. But even then, you should be able to skim an email and quickly determine its relevancy, and decide whether you need to take action immediately, can leave it for the future, or can just delete it. Unless you're getting thousands of emails a day, this should be manageable.
by nicholasjarnold | 2025-06-12 20:17:17+00:00
> Judge me if you must, but the only reason I recently bought a Pixel was because of the intention on sticking GrapheneOS on it the second I got it out of the box.

The only judgement is a positive one. I thought this is what one does now that we all understand just how broad and deep the tracking is at nearly every level. Buying a Pixel and immediately flashing GrapheneOS has been my default mode of operation for years now on all cellphones in my home (wife and myself). No Play Services, Google apps or uninstallable Facebook...no problem!

I'd rather my life not be turned into an open book for targeted advertisements and whatever other purposes every detail of my existence is used for now or in the future. It's mind boggling to me how many seem to simply not care.
by xenadu02 | 2025-06-12 20:18:43+00:00
> Korean is different. You have to convey relative social position in basically every sentence because without that you can't finish your main verb.

Sure, by the currently recorded official rules of the grammar.

If young Koreans just stop doing it then it will disappear within a decade or two - something only crusty old people bother with. Not that I have any say in such things.

I find the process fascinating though. I like to imagine what English was like when grammatical cases were being dropped from the language. Who decided to drop them and why? Kids being funny? People from different regions having difficulty understanding accents or vowel changes? What would someone at age 50, having used cases their entire life, think about everyone from London or everyone under 20 (or whatever cohort popularized it) when they just said all the words "wrong"? And when chided for speaking incorrectly just shrugged their shoulders and continued doing it?

On the other hand despite everyone agreeing that English spelling royally sucks... no one cares to make major changes to it. Even when writing informally in text messages or whatever. We all just keep going along with the system.

I also wonder how much computers are affecting us. Auto-correction may end up killing some forms of change to language over time. If GUIs and better input methods hadn't been invented so quickly would latin-based languages drop diacritics or consolidate some letter forms? Would languages like Japanese or Chinese have adopted Korean-like writing systems for convenience? Who knows. English dropped some letters because printing press letter sets came from Europe and didn't have those oddball letters. Who knows what technology might have triggered or prevented.
by gglon | 2025-06-12 20:18:43+00:00
From the paper, section 2.1: minimize_θ,φ,Δ ||P_φ(Δ, E_θ(x)) - sg(E_θ'(y))||_1

where

y - full video, x - masked video, E_θ(.) - learned encoder (semantic embedding), P_φ(.) - learned predictor, Δ - learned mask (which patches in a video where dropped), sg(.) - stop gradient to prevent change, gradient propagation in E_θ'(.), which in turn is an exponential moving average of E_θ(.) ie. θ'_new <- τ θ'_old + (1-τ) θ. So the loss is applied only to the predictions of the masked patches while the encoder of full video follows the learned one. This asymmetry in learning prevents collapse of the encoder to a trivial constant.
by metalman | 2025-06-12 20:19:00+00:00
it would have been slash and burn agriculture to start, so there is the likelyhood of fiding artifacts assosiated with charcoal and other evidence, as these people were probably hunter/farmer/gatherers a particular tool kit is going to be definitive, hunting ,fishing and birding points, wood and hide tools, plus agricultural tools, picks, shovles, and hoes,and cythe blades that show up in early agriculture elsewhere with layers of identifiable pitholiths still adhering to them......possibly allready found, but missidentified. also living at the 45'th parallel does require substansial winter prep and strurdy housing as it's still frozen solid for months every winter
by zer00eyz | 2025-06-12 20:19:03+00:00
Because much of what passes as "security" is a bunch of theater.

> SMS gets forwarded to e-mail, TOTP codes get sent over Wechat,

Here we are deep into 2FA land. Where you have institutions blocking SMS/MMS to IP telephony because they want to capture real people (and this locks out rural customers). Using your cell phone was never a suitable 2nd factor and now it is evolving into a check to make sure you're not a robot/script.

Passkeys are adding another layer to this... The police department getting a court order and forcing you to unlock your phone and then everything else is coming. Or here if you live in some place with fewer laws.
by johnfn | 2025-06-12 20:19:22+00:00
A minute is pretty bad. I understand it may work for your use case, but there are plenty of use cases out there where errors typically don't fail the compile and a minute iteration time is a deal killer. For instance: UI work - good luck catching an incorrect color with a compile error. Vite can compile 40,000 loc and display it on your screen in probably a couple of milliseconds.
by ipaddr | 2025-06-12 20:19:46+00:00
You realize that US removed the democratically elected government in 1953 in CIA-led coup that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Then the US government kept the Shah in power. He repressed the population and led to the 1979 revolution.

Who's the one evil again?

Those countries in the middle east that US considers an ally are not democratically elected either and they enforce religious laws like not allowing woman to drive. They do not respect minorites and they invest in terror in the area too.

Turn off the tv and learn about the history of topics you want to shoot your mouth off in public about before you make a fool of yourself.
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-12 20:19:50+00:00
"all of these unbelievably useful with high ROI agencies" Unbelievably useful to whom? A lot of people seemed to have problems with what institutions like USAID were doing. I can think of the CIA during Iran Contra as a very useful comparison. Funding the Contras and getting around Congressional obstruction was very useful to Ronald Reagan. The CIA facilitating Cocaine trafficking into the United States by groups supporting the Contras made the CIA offer a high ROI. Those black ops planes carrying cocaine into the United States had some valuable cargo. And yet, after all this came to light I would have had no problem with Bill Clinton reducing the size and scope of the CIA, even if it was offering a high ROI and "was useful"
by janalsncm | 2025-06-12 20:20:18+00:00
It’s not correct.

In move 95 the disks are

Tower 1: 10, 9, 8, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Tower 2: 7

Tower 3: 6

It attempts to move disk 6 from tower 2 to tower 3, but disk 6 is already at tower 3, and moving 7 on top of 6 would be illegal.

In fact this demonstrates that o3 is unable to implement a simple recursive algorithm.
by dimal | 2025-06-12 20:20:18+00:00
I don’t know about fixing python types, but fixing typescript types can be very time consuming. A LOT of programming work is like this —- not solving anything interesting or difficult, but just time-consuming drudgery.

These tools have turned out to be great at this stuff. I don’t think I’ve turned over any interesting problems to an LLM and had it go well, but by using them to take care of drudgery, I have a lot more time to think about the interesting problems.

I would suggest that instead of asking people to post their work, try it out on whatever bullshit tasks you’ve been avoiding. And I specifically mean “tasks”. Stuff where the problem has already been solved a thousand times before.
by CharlesW | 2025-06-12 20:20:28+00:00
MusicBrainz Picard is wonderful, but has one of the most unintuitive "first contact" experiences I can remember. If you're not sure how to get started, try this:

• Drag your album folders (one at a time so it doesn't get confused) into the pane that initially shows "Unclustered Files (0)" and "Clusters (0)".

• Select the "Clusters" folder in that pane and click "Lookup". This will find any close matches, and in my experience works ~25% of the time.

• For albums that weren't auto-matched, right-click the album folder name and choose "Search for similar albums…". As long as you're sorting by "Score", often you'll find a reasonably-good match in the top 5 options.

• NEVER use "Scan", basically.

For matched albums, carefully review things like album covers, titles, etc. before you "Save" the updated metadata. After using it to rebuild my personal music library, including ~200 contributions to the MusicBrainz database, I still haven't cracked (for example) how to stop Picard from defaultly replacing a perfect, 1500px album cover with a less-good, 1000px cover from its database.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-06-12 20:21:09+00:00
I hate Apple products for this. I see this pattern across all apple products - not one.

On my mac, I setup my touch ID, and log in to my Apple account on the App Store. Time and again, when I try to install apps, it keeps repeatedly prompting for my password, instead of letting me just use my touchID. This applies to free apps as well, which is again silly beyond what is already enough silliness.

I briefly see this on my spouse's iPhone as well. Almost felt like Apple hasn't changed a bit after all these years. It keeps fucking prompting for password over and over, randomly when installing apps. although the phone is secured with a touch ID. This happens especially when you reset the phone and starting from scratch - it keeps prompting for the Apple password again and again.
by kypro | 2025-06-12 20:21:15+00:00
Glad to hear you resonated with what I said. After I wrote it I thought I probably got a bit too heated...

On your point about the the owner/capitalist class, I think that should be assumed honestly. The thing that's broken in recent years is that the politicians decided that the old model of paying a lot for quality products that lasted and were produced domestically was a bad model when you can import cheap crap by exploiting foreign workers.

This idea that cost increases are bad because if the iPhone was built in the US by low-skilled labors we'd have to pay them a decent wage is hard for me to understand. We should want to pay more given the knowledge that we're supporting the employment of our neighbours and friends. Sure, GDP and productivity might not be as high, but it's not like they were so poor in the 1950s that people couldn't afford a good quality of life. In fact, in many senses the quality of life the average person enjoyed before this was far higher.

We seem to have traded a more equally prosperous society for one which is equally prosperous, but deeply unequal. And for whose benefit? Knowledge workers and CEOs. (In my opinion anyway)
by kiitos | 2025-06-12 20:21:31+00:00
No modern IT organization mandates periodical password changes since, I dunno, mid-2000's.

edit: please note the "modern" qualifier, tons of IT orgs continue to mandate this anachronistic policy, sure, but those orgs aren't modern, the policy isn't a requirement for e.g. SOC2 or whatever, it's purely historical inertia.
by prmoustache | 2025-06-12 20:21:38+00:00
while lineageos and derived roms like /e/os are doing a good job supporting old smartphone models and temporarily saving them from thr landfill, they are struggling to support less than 5 year old models that aren't google pixel and fairphones.

The google pixel line were the only smartphone you could buy new on a brick and mortar shop on monday almost anywhere in the world and have it running on a custom rom on tuesday and graphene was leading the way in pushing privacy and security at its maximum while other rom maker are making a lot more concessions.

LineageOS still is king to save old devices but grapheneos definitely is a major player because some people like me did chose second hand google pixel with the sole purpose of being able to run graphene.

Ironically, running a google smartphone was the best way to live a life without sending data and rely on google services.
by paxys | 2025-06-12 20:22:15+00:00
Industry-wide IT security is driven by the "nobody got fired for buying IBM" phenomenon.

It doesn't matter if things are broken. It matters that you did everything by the book. And the book in this case was written 30 years ago and is woefully inadequate. But try convincing your VP of information security that employees shouldn't have to change their password every 3 months...
by method_capital | 2025-06-12 20:22:21+00:00
Defense won't do it.

https://manhattan.institute/article/a-comprehensive-federal-...

"Deep defense cuts. Since the 1980s, the Pentagon budget has fallen from 6% to 3% of GDP—not far above Europe’s target of 2%. Cutting U.S. defense spending to the levels pledged by European members of NATO would save 1% of GDP, or less than one-fifth of the Social Security and Medicare noninterest shortfall by the 2040s and 2050s."

Read the budget. Learn something. None of the partisan mantras solve the problem. The only solution is to trim ss, trim medicare, and raise taxes across the board.
by JeremyNT | 2025-06-12 20:22:34+00:00
> This is such a strange position. "I rely on an undocumented behavior, and I'm upset that things changed".

Their support of Pixels with AOSP has been well documented! This has always been one of their selling points, as a sort of reference device. I've exclusively bought Pixel phones in recent years and this is one of the primary reasons.

Of course Google never made any guarantees, and a rug pull was always possible, but it's absolutely still disappointing and well worth commenting upon.
by umanwizard | 2025-06-12 20:22:48+00:00
Racist and antisemitic are not the same thing as fascist (all three are awful, of course). Though racism is usually part of fascism, there are lots of other elements of fascism too.

According to Wikipedia: "It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy."

Most of these elements are not directly related to antisemitism or racism.
by bariumbitmap | 2025-06-12 20:23:08+00:00
> In the early 2000s, Microsoft faced a dilemma. Windows was growing enormously complex, with millions of lines of code that needed versioning. Git? Didn’t exist. SVN? Barely crawling out of CVS’s shadow.

I wonder if Microsoft ever considered using BitKeeper, a commercial product that began development in 1998 and had its public release in 2000. Maybe centralized systems like Perforce were the norm and a DVCS like BitKeeper was considered strange or unproven?