MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cssanchez | 2025-07-01 21:52:04+00:00
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by echelon | 2025-07-01 21:53:42+00:00
There are ten measures by which a model can/should be open:

1. The model code (pytorch, whatever)

2. The pre-training code

3. The fine-tuning code

4. The inference code

5. The raw training data (pre-training + fine-tuning)

6. The processed training data (which might vary across various stages of pre-training and fine-tuning)

7. The resultant weights blob

8. The inference inputs and outputs (which also need a license; see also usage limits like O-RAIL)

9. The research paper(s) (hopefully the model is also described in literature!)

10. The patents (or lack thereof)

A good open model will have nearly all of these made available. A fake "open" model might only give you two of ten.
by Animats | 2025-07-01 21:55:41+00:00
There's a president-for-life clause:

"Immediately following the completion of this offering, and assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, Dylan Field, our Chair of our Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, and President will hold or have the ability to control approximately % of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock, including % of the voting power pursuant to the Wallace Proxy. As a result, following this offering, Mr. Field will have the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of our directors and the approval of any change of control transaction."
by granzymes | 2025-07-01 21:56:01+00:00
Mostly a 356% increase in R&D:

FY Ended December 31, in millions except percentage | 2023 | 2024 | YoY ---------------------------|------|------|------ research and development | $165 | $751 | 356% sales and marketing | $201 | $472 | 134% general and administrative | $168 | $316 | 88%

And most of that increase came from a one-time charge from allowing employees to sell their RSUs. While not a cash cost for Figma, it was booked as an expense and allocated as follows:

| 2024 ---------------------------|------ cost of revenue | $25 research and development | $463 sales and marketing | $187 general and administrative | $184 total | $858

If you subtract the one-time charge, you get:

| 2023 | 2024 (adj.) | YoY ---------------------------|------|-------------|------ research and development | $165 | $288 | 75% sales and marketing | $201 | $285 | 42% general and administrative | $168 | $132 | (21)% total | $534 | $705 | 32%
by ModernMech | 2025-07-01 21:57:39+00:00
> academia industry

Well there's the problem right there. Academia shouldn't be an "industry", it should be a public good. "101 level courses that are packed with over 100 students, listening to an uninspired lecturer talk at a crowd of disinterested faces on their phone and being FORCED to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on it." is an artefact of forcing a public good shaped peg into a capitalism shaped hole.

When academia is an industry, students and professors get treated like commodities that have to demonstrate an ROI to be allowed to exist. Humanities don't have a good ROI in our society, therefore they are not funded, therefore positions in humanities are scarce. The end result is overworked lecturers and large class sizes.

The alternative is to cut humanities altogether, which honestly is happening; we're headed to a situation where humanities programs in some areas will just cease to exist, and they'll concentrate in places that actually care about education. It's sad but that's where we are.
by kccqzy | 2025-07-01 21:58:13+00:00
All I'm arguing is that you should have the intuition to know the difference between 1/2 cup of paprika and a teaspoon. Okay maybe if you just graduated from college and haven't cooked much you could make such a mistake but realistically outside the tech bubble of HN you won't find people confusing 1/2 cup with a teaspoon. It's just intuitively wrong. An entire bottle of paprika I recently bought has only 60 grams.

And yes cook times are important but no, even for a human-written recipe you need the intuition to apply adjustments. A recipe might be written presuming a powerful gas burner but you have a cheap underpowered electric. Or the recipe asks for a convection oven but your oven doesn't have the feature. Or the recipe presumes a 1100W microwave but you have a 1600W one. You stand by the food while it cooks. You use a food thermometer if needed.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-01 21:58:17+00:00
> Any recommendations on possible regulatory responses to the collection, processing and sale of human motion/activity data collected via WiFi and other RF Sensing?

Research your state's privacy laws and submit a cool and concise complaint to your regulators, e.g. attorney general, consumer protection bureaus, public utility commissions, et cetera. These offices are understaffed and overworked--there is a good chance they haven't noticed this.

If you want to throw cash at the problem, check if Xfinity is pulling this crap in Illinois. (Or another state with a a BIPA [1].) One could argue that one's radar cross section is biometric [1]. That opens up avenues for financing litigation.

Finally, always, call your electeds. U.S. Congressmen and Senators, yes, but also your state legislators. Put it on their radars. (Most offices will put a staffer on a novel issue if more than a couple people call in about it.) If you want to supercharge this effect, find a local party organisation (e.g. such and such town or county D/R committee or club), go to their meeting and try to get it on the agenda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-01 21:58:21+00:00
See, I'm the opposite. I've got a Discord server, which are very much "where my friends are": If I make an acquaintance (or any of my friends do), they get added to the server. Some stick around, and get woven into the social fiber. Some never come back, and eventually get removed from the server during our annual purge. There's maybe 10-20 active people (i.e., people we see at least a couple times a month), a handful of regulars that are that multiple times a week, and then maybe twice all that again of people we hear from once in a blue moon. If I want to chat, I'll hop in voice. If I want to share something I found, I'll stick it in a text channel.

There's still plenty of communities on the internet. It's just that the communities worth belonging to are not wide open to the public. Community building does not scale.
by timdorr | 2025-07-01 21:58:37+00:00
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Ask HN: What does Cloudflare's pay-per-crawl mean for web scrapers?
by jjangkke | 2025-07-01 21:58:49+00:00
Cloudflare is rolling out pay-per-crawl scheme for AI Agents but this will obviously impact web scraping as 20% of the web is behind Cloudflare.

There are already numerous ways to bypass CF but curious how they would be able to stop web scraping?

Have they built up a giant database of residential proxies from BrightData and others over the years and can detect if these are proxies?

I'm curious to know what web scrapers on HN thinks about this move and what your plans are.
by matthewmoss | 2025-07-01 22:00:18+00:00
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by Lerc | 2025-07-01 22:00:43+00:00
I was thinking of doing almost everything in PIO + DMA

Here's the gist of it, I haven't implemented it so there will be devils in the details but I think it's doable.

One DMA (1) outputting the current line(unless pixel format change is done at this stage as well)

A bunch of chained DMA to assemble the next line almost like a display list. Sprites/tiles are entries in the display list.

The list entries contain the DMA/PIO setups to manage source, destination, pixel format etc. A DMA(2) transfers a list entry to another DMA(3) to write the required fields a list entry is essentially a series of [destination]<-constant or [destination]<-FIFO. DMA(3) just gets the job of being told by DMA(2) where to put everything. That is sufficient (I think) to set up the other DMA channels arbitrarily from the list data.

Pixel format conversion is done by a PIO writing some number of bits out as a value that gets DMA'd to the low byte of a DMA source register and then triggering a DMA transfer with a length of 1 to read the palette entry and copy the color information into another PIO FIFO. I'm not sure on the best way to do sprite transparency, There's definitely ways to suppress writing on source==0. Would need investigating, worst case scenario would be conditionally triggering one of DMA [destination++]<-color or DMA [destination++]<-[destination]

Once the display list is set up for a mode it wouldn't be touched. All of the dynamic parameters would come from the locations read by list entries. Tile maps, tile images, sprite locations, sprite data etc would not be in the master list, just the locations of where to find those.

Then all that remains is to make a toast to the memory of Jay Miner.
by XorNot | 2025-07-01 22:00:58+00:00
SpaceX let rockets explode because they're using chemical propellants and the consequences of that are low provided no one gets hit by debris.

It's bizarre to suggest that the same strategy would be used with nuclear materials onboard. Developing the "can not fail" rocket is the sort of thing NASA does well, and kind of highlights how we've squandered them.
by JalalTabasi | 2025-07-01 22:01:22+00:00
When Planck, and later Einstein, introduced the =ℎ formula , their conclusions were based on the interaction of light with matter at atomic and molecular scales. However, light–matter interaction fundamentally depends on the size of the receiver—effectively, the antenna. For efficient power absorption, the receiving antenna must typically be smaller than the wavelength of the incoming radiation. This is why =ℎ appeared valid when applied to sub-micrometer structures such as atoms and molecules. From an electromagnetic standpoint, these were effectively tiny antennas, smaller than the wavelength of visible light. But such antennas are inherently incapable of detecting radiation at millimeter or longer wavelengths. Therefore, the justification for =ℎ was rooted in a test setup that did not account for scale and wavelength limitations—calling into question its universal applicability. Despite this, the formula has been treated as foundational and even incorporated into the derivation of the Schrödinger equation. It is possible that some of the shortcomings of Schrödinger’s equation stem from this questionable assumption. Also, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382286416_Critique_...
by jjk166 | 2025-07-01 22:02:06+00:00
Such scanners exist but most ATMs do not have them. Of course if you fill the ATM with a stack of fresh bills you know the serial numbers for, and you know how many bills were dispensed prior to a particular transaction, you should know which bills got dispensed during that transaction.

Of course the tracking of this information down to that level would be pretty pointless. The moment someone breaks a 20 the connection to the recorded transaction is lost, and there's no one who can prove you didn't break a 20.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-01 22:02:09+00:00
Ah, I skimmed the docs for Goose but I couldn't figure out exactly what it is that it does, which is a common issue for docs.

For example: https://block.github.io/goose/docs/category/tutorials/ I just want to see an example workflow before I set this up in CI or build a custom extension to it!
by kypro | 2025-07-01 22:02:31+00:00
Sam comes across as an extremely calculating person to me. I'm not suggesting he's necessarily doing this for bad reasons, but it's very clear to me the public facing communications he makes are well considered and likely not fully reflective of his actual views and positions on things, but instead what he believes to be power maximising.

He's very good at creating headlines and getting people talking online. There's no doubt he's good at what he does, but I don't know why anyone takes anything he says seriously.
by ishaanbhagwat | 2025-07-01 22:04:41+00:00
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by mdnahas | 2025-07-01 22:05:21+00:00
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by 1970-01-01 | 2025-07-01 22:06:19+00:00
Score one more point for the tinfoil hat crowd:

1. Black tape over our webcams to keep them from watching us.

2. Cardboard over our windows to keep laser microphones from hearing us.

3. RFID blocking wallets to keep our money safe from them.

4. WiFi motion detectors watching our every move in our own home. <---You are here.--->

5. Aluminum underwear keeping our private parts from being scanned into AI at airports.

6. Tinfoil hats protecting our thoughts.
by michalpiasecki | 2025-07-01 22:06:24+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2025-07-01 22:08:50+00:00
> I think the point still stands about how one person speedrunning their inbox can make everyone else's inboxes that much worse.

I think you're looking a little too strictly through that Cal Newport quote.

There's another big problem that isn't external: The people who speedrun their e-mail like this (which isn't every Superhuman user, to be fair) are also harming their own understanding of those e-mails.

From what I've seen in a few people, it turns into a false sense of being productive while they self-sabotage their own communications. Inbox Zero becomes the goal and they think their job is done when those e-mails are all gone.
by Taikonerd | 2025-07-01 22:09:48+00:00
When I read "disrupt the corrupt two-party system," I wondered if you were pushing for voting reforms such as ranked-choice voting that make it easier for third-party candidates to win.

It seems like that's not the main focus of your org, but I was pleased to see a reference to RCV in your blog: [0]

[0]: https://goodparty.org/blog/article/final-five-voting-explain...
by phatfish | 2025-07-01 22:10:18+00:00
I agree with the sentiment.

Having been behind the scenes of HN discussion about a security incident, with accusations flying about incompetent developers, the true story was the lead developers new of the issue, but it was not prioritised by management and pushed down the backlog in place of new (revenue generating) features.

There is plenty of nuance to any situation that can't be known.

No idea if the real story here is better or worse than the public speculation though.
Show HN: I built a enterprise level SaaS kit
by UpbeatFix | 2025-07-01 22:10:54+00:00
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"How is this any different from ShipFast?"

ShipFast is a great tool for getting a simple SaaS to market. LaunchKit AWS is for when you know your market requires more. It's opinionated, feature-rich, and contains a foundation that makes the conscious choice to use AWS for its long-term flexibility and power.
by Anushri_B | 2025-07-01 22:11:53+00:00
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by F7F7F7 | 2025-07-01 22:12:07+00:00
Initially Tepid about AI. Didn’t want to upset their base like Adobe was (seemingly) doing. Look at that year’s Figcon for evidence. The keynote led with the new Figma, front loaded anything. He quickly moved past it and spent 90% of the rest of the time on non-consequential features.

Then that AI feature they highlighted was pulled off production because it was cloning iOS.

The AI heavy product dump we just got are lessons from that time.
by jjk166 | 2025-07-01 22:13:43+00:00
Because they were spending more money on having their personnel tracking down these mistakes. /s

The real reason is that payment processors like visa have a large network which is both technically challenging to maintain and has a massive barrier to entry to replicate. There are competitors but these are typically for niche applications, some of which are operated by banks, but beating visa and mastercard at their own game is no small task.