MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-22 00:22:11+00:00
Sorry, I felt it necessary to clarify my point. The Luddites were justified in asking for a share of the fruits of their labor, just as as any of of us are, but in a larger sense their attack on the machinery of progress was an attack on just that... progress.

How is your position distinguishable from any other phrasing of the broken-window fallacy? Humans shouldn't aspire to do a robot's job. We have better things to do.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-07-22 00:22:25+00:00
But it's not on by default, right..? (i.e. is there a particular config needed for that?)

I'm using Caddy here and it's not falling back on ZeroSSL. Thanks for your help

EDIT: hmm, it should be automatic...! https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#issuer-fallback interesting, I'll double check my config

woah... it's probably related to this! https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/7084 TLDR: "Caddy doesn't fall back to ZeroSSL for domains added using API" (which is my case)
by Kholin | 2025-07-22 00:23:22+00:00
Due to some legacy reasons, my service runs using a docker + nginx setup. However, certbot was initially used in its native nginx mode to generate the certificate, which prevented it from auto-renewing. I later switched it to standalone mode, but I'm not sure if I configured the auto-renewal correctly. In any case, the certificate happened to expire today, and it didn't renew automatically. On a side note, I was actually planning to see what an expired website certificate looked like first and then deal with the auto-renewal issue. After all, it's just a small hobby website, so it's not that big of a deal.
by jfengel | 2025-07-22 00:23:57+00:00
In The Tempest, there is a word that is either "wise" or "wife". Even in different copies from the same pressing look different.

If it is "wife" then it is the only hint of Miranda's mother. That's not a massive plot change, but it substantially colors my reading of the play. Shakespeare has a tendency to dismiss mothers without a word. Death in child bed was surely common and there were plenty of widows, but the complete absence of any reference makes me wonder how it affects the widow and the children. (Compare Shylock, who has one utterly heartbreaking reference to a gift from his wife when they were courting.)
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-22 00:24:28+00:00
We can allow LLMs if .. insurers pay out to institutional bag holders who employ folks like PaulHoule

(With premium deposited by OpenAI to the tune of billiards. I'll happily take their internal slacklogs (schlogs?) as payment, dunno bout u)

Beneficial, revolutionary, viral. Choose 2.
Key technological advance in neural interfaces
by all2 | 2025-07-22 00:24:53+00:00
It occurred to me on my way home today that the key advancement in in neural interfaces will be in the data layer.

In my work with electronics I learned that there's a hardware transport layer, the wires on which signals travel. Then there's the software/protocol layer that defines _what_ travels on the hardware.

My current understanding of things like neuralink is that there is a solid interface that takes input from the brain and provides output back to the brain, and behind the interface is a bunch of hardware and software that translates and uses the inputs from the brain. That is, we change from mode of signals and signals transport to another.

What occurred to me was that a true bionic won't provide an interface to the existing hardware and software data layers of the human brain, but will instead expend the existing layers with new available neurons.

Now, you could probably bit-bang this at the start, IE, have your bionic neural net live in software, and do all the signals processing that we currently do. The revolution will be a piece of hardware that simply plugs in to the brain and makes a whole new neural network available on the same electrical net that the brain already operates on.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-22 00:25:06+00:00
I like this kind of proposal, where some kind of natural negative feedback loop is created.

That said, maybe it depends on why the competitors stock changes. What if competitors' stocks fall because people believe competitors are doomed now that the merging forces have become so big they will eat everything?

Another concern: If an already-concentrated industry sector develops a covert agreement not to ruffle one-another's mergers, which would just exacerbate an existing problem.
by mbirth | 2025-07-22 00:25:14+00:00
Does somebody remember the service Flattr from a decade ago? You’d set a fixed amount to pay every month. Like a subscription.

Then, this amount got distributed between the sites you visited. If you only visited one site, they would get everything. 2 different websites = 50% each. And so on. This way there were no surprises in your monthly spending. I still see this as a pretty ideal model.
by rchaud | 2025-07-22 00:25:27+00:00
I imagine it's less about "rock music" and more about the disappearance of "bands" from the mainstream. Almost every charting artist now is solo and makes pop music, which greatly limits the variety available to listeners, and encourages labels to push copycat acts because they feel those are the only ones worth taking a risk on. The Oasis reunion is an example of this: they are a band selling out arenas and pocketing millions performing songs from the previous century, and facing little in the way of competition because bands like them are largely extinct.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-22 00:25:53+00:00
> The whole point of high interest rates is to get your economy unaddicted to cheap money and force economic efficiency.

No, the point of high interest rates is to slow inflation; its part of the Fed’s thermostatic response to changes in the employment and inflation landscape.

It’s not an swift radical ideological change from the same Fed board with largely the same members that also implemented low rates not long ago. Its changed external conditions leading to the same kind of response the Fed tends to make to the same kind of condition changes historically.
by kevmo314 | 2025-07-22 00:26:11+00:00
This is more of a usability problem. In the second example, it's obvious that `json.dumps()` blocks everything else and it can be readily observed. It's not obvious that it blocks in the former and I've encountered many surprised coworkers despite it seeming obvious to me.

I think a lot of people assume you can slap `async` onto the function signature and it will not block anything anymore. I've had PRs come through that literally added `async` to a completely synchronous function with that misunderstanding.
by tzs | 2025-07-22 00:27:08+00:00
> When he isn't in power raising the debt ceiling is Unamerican, a political ploy and bad. When he is in power, it should be scrapped entirely and should be above politics.

It's too bad that when he is in power he does not actually make the latter happen, because it should be scrapped entirely.

The only other country with a debt limit set in an absolute amount rather than as a percentage of GDP is Denmark, and they sensibly have set theirs far above their actual debt so it becomes just a legal formality rather than a policy tool.

The problem with it in the US is that the debt ceiling limits government borrowing to pay for debts that have already been incurred. It doesn't control the amount of spending or the deficit--that is controlled by the budget that Congress and the President approve.

If we can't just scrap it completely, then at least the budget process should be changed so every budget bill must be accompanied by a raise of the debt ceiling by enough to cover whatever extra debt that budget will be adding.
by mfrye0 | 2025-07-22 00:27:55+00:00
We're working with an enterprise customer on exactly this problem. The hardest part is entity resolution - figuring out who "Acme Inc" actually is from messy transaction data and what they do.

We built an AI agent specifically for this that's backed by 265M legal entities. Last week it tested 160% better than our customer's existing system on their real data.

Still in stealth but happy to share our API docs if anyone's dealing with this: https://docs.savvyiq.ai/api-reference/#tag/entity-resolution

Open to chat about this problem if anyone wants to connect - email is in my HN profile.

(Disclosure: I'm the CTO)
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-22 00:27:58+00:00
> They are worried about how LGBTQ/trans athletes are destroying the moral fabric of their society.

It's weird how they didn't seem to give one single shit about trans people until politicians and conservative media needed new boogeymen in 2015 after SCOTUS threw us a bone and couldn't use gay marriage/gay people as effective scapegoats any more.

It's almost if they where whipped up into yet another moral panic by people who have the platform and vested interest to distract them so they can be even more efficiently robbed blind economically, politically and socially.
by mixdup | 2025-07-22 00:27:58+00:00
you're not wrong. the NFT thing would not die until we finally found another use for all these GPUs. AI took over a lot of crypto hype overnight, and while AI has slightly more use than NFTs something will need to come into the room and consume the oxygen

And to your point, I have seen more and more stories about quantum lately. Not a lot, but the noise floor is coming up a little bit
by MarkusQ | 2025-07-22 00:28:46+00:00
Back in the day, when memory wasn't as cheap as it is now, there was a strong belief that forcing the user to "waste bits" on a proper sum type was a non-starter for a "real" language. It was widely assumed that the reason you were "sharing memory" between two fields was to conserve space, because you were clever enough to have recognized that they couldn't both be used at the same time. But doing so, it was generally assumed, meant that you were space constrained and so anything that took away your precious savings was bad.

I'm not saying this was "right" in any sense, but it wasn't just foolish old timers not recognizing that a "better" solution was possible. When you grew up having every single bit of memory threaded by hand (and costing macroscopic amounts of money), you think about memory efficiency differently.
by joules77 | 2025-07-22 00:30:35+00:00
Don't wait (just move away). Farm animals and circus animal don't change anything about how the farm or circus is run. They aren't selected for or trained to do so.

Triggers will come from outside. But thanks to "scale" even after that their response will be "too big to fail" protect our ass please.

That's how they survive after the Iraq/Afg fiasco, 2008 GFC. Wikileaks/Panama papers etc
by gleenn | 2025-07-22 00:30:53+00:00
I don't think this is true. There was the whole fiasco around the EULA canary that a company had that, if it was removed, was supposed to indicate that the company had received a gag order. I don't believe it had been actually tested in court. I believe it had to do with the FISA court system. I can't find a link but there are definitely cases of gray area where courts have required entities to lie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
by Silhouette | 2025-07-22 00:31:41+00:00
The whole point was to point out there’s ways that aren’t public being used.

For which you have provided not a shred of evidence here beyond the same type of innuendo you've been posting all along - even while implying that some of this is public knowledge that you could therefore cite to establish at least some credibility.

Your claims in combination appear to require that the technical foundation on which almost all serious security on Apple devices is built must be fundamentally flawed and yet somehow this hasn't leaked. That's like saying someone found an efficient solution to the discrete logarithm problem and it's in widespread use among the intelligence community but no-one outside has realised. It's theoretically possible but the chance of something so big staying secret for very long is tiny.

As I said before - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Thank you for the discussion but there seems little reason to continue it unless you're able to provide some.
by moralestapia | 2025-07-22 00:32:38+00:00
Yep, it happened to Google Search first and slowly creeped to other products now. It's not even "AI", it's just incompetence.

Try this now, go to your inbox, filter emails by date, you will get back a list where your emails are sorted randomly ... no really, check it out. This is a new "feature". Their PMs should be shot.
by jmcphers | 2025-07-22 00:33:46+00:00
Positron Assistant will eventually support models other than BYOK, including connecting to models in Bedrock, local models, hosted models in Copilot, etc.

Also note that Positron perma-unlocks the internal APIs that Microsoft Copilot Chat uses, so any extension can use them. "Positron Assistant" is itself mostly implemented as an extension. So it's possible for a 3rd party extension to become a chat participant in Positron or integrate with the Chat panel/inline chat/etc.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-07-22 00:34:14+00:00
This makes sense, but is something to shaking up the RAG pipeline? Perhaps you could take each RAG result and then do a model processing step to ask it to extract relevant information from the image directly pertaining to the user query, once per result, and then aggregate those (text) results as the input to your final generation. That would sidestep the token limit for multiple images, and allow parallelizing the image understanding step.
by CMay | 2025-07-22 00:34:45+00:00
Even if smaller more specialized models outperform larger more generalized models for specific tasks with these architectures, that does not logically support your point or serve as meaningful evidence against my post.

These systems can have many models and the systems themselves could eventually arrive at knowledge they know they underperform on, automatically training new models for that subject. The final response wouldn't necessarily come exclusively from the specialized model, it might come through a model specialized at integrating knowledge between multiple models, asking the right questions, verifying and so on.

We're barely a few years into this, so it's premature to know what 100 years of developments will bring.
by fivestones | 2025-07-22 00:36:29+00:00
For what it’s worth I just learned this from chatgpt. But the magnet is a superconducting electromagnet, and it’s started up by cooling the superconducter to around 4 Kelvin, and then electricity is turned on, and then once it’s going at the desired current, there is some kind of superconducting switch that disconnects the power source. After that no more power is supplied to the magnet—it will run with that same current for years, as long as you keep it cold enough to be super conducting. Apparently the resistance is actually truly zero, not just almost zero.

So there is no current to turn off. The current in the magnet is running on its own from when it was first supplied. The only way to stop it is to heat up the superconductor.

I thought maybe you could draw it off and use it up somewhere else, but then if I’m remembering right electricity will always take the last of least resistance, so none of it would leave a superconductor. Right?

It also makes me wonder, if someone is ever able to build a warm superconductor, how would we ever stop electricity we’ve put into a system like that?
by greatgib | 2025-07-22 00:37:12+00:00
The attack on privacy does kind of make sense when your remember that it is a freaking monarchy with all the inhabitants being subjects.

Probably well deserved to them if it was not contagious in Europe at the moment.

That being said, the crazy thing about this law and the other ones similar is this:

Under the terms of the legislation, recipients of such a notice are unable to discuss the matter publicly, even with customers affected by the order, unless granted permission by the Home Secretary

They always justify everything saying that real world "procedures" should apply to the digital world. But, in most occidental countries, no one is allowed to search your home without you to be aware of it and present if you are capable to do so. Still, strangely, for digital data, the norm is that your data can be raped in your back, without you being aware about it or even in the capacity to challenge that.

I really find that stunning that it is so widely accepted. The former german Stasi would probably have been proud of all the parlementaries in US, UK and Europe that allowed such things.
by stephen_g | 2025-07-22 00:37:53+00:00
I think the poster you are replying to is talking about what's going on in Australia while you're talking about Japan, sounds like some wires crossed there.

But the point still stands that what you're implying you want to see - a broad Government-run censorship campaign cracking down on free speech - is not the solution, and probably will only make things worse in the longer term.
by paulcole | 2025-07-22 00:38:00+00:00
I mean you're the one who said, "Ask the kid. Or the spouse."

But you're just saying "Ask the kid. Or the spouse... As long as they say what I want to hear."

You may feel that the thing you want to hear is objectively "right" but it isn't.

> If you want to work longer hours because your spouse asks you to make more money, that's your own choice to make.

I don't know why you think that would be my choice? My point is that I don't ask people for input if my mind is already made up.
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-22 00:38:40+00:00
Apples and oranges. Suffering now is not the same as suffering then - that doesn't mean it's not suffering.

This is the same dishonest line of reasoning as "there are children starving in Africa". That doesn't give the wealthy the right to take food from my children for themselves (indirectly speaking).

But you know that. The point is not to make an honest argument, but to oppress. I'm desperate for us to evolve past the point of making these immoral arguments against innocent people, pushing and pushing and pushing until something catastrophically breaks.
by tidwall | 2025-07-22 00:41:09+00:00
Thanks! The Pogocache sharded hashmap design is optimized for extremely low contention and good memory locality. It super rare for any two threads to ever wait on the same key. That's the biggest part and it's all in the src/pogocache.c file. But the network layer is finely tuned too.

Mostly I perfed and profiled ad nauseam, monitoring cpu cycles along the way. I found that keeping a focus on latency and cycles was primo, and the rest fell into place.
by wahern | 2025-07-22 00:41:45+00:00
> The January test had a dummy cargo equivalent to 10 Starlink V2 satellites, weighing only eight tonnes or 8% of its designed payload. Meanwhile, the most recent test had just half of this in a transparent attempt to reduce vibration by reducing the load to spare the obviously flawed fuel system, which obviously didn’t work.

Wouldn't more load act as a dampener, at least for the vehicle if not the fuel system itself?

Is fuel flow constant or variable? I would naively guess constant, more-or-less, in which case lessening the load merely means it reaches the target velocity sooner--same vibration magnitudes (or more if reduced dampening), just for a shorter amount of time.
by cubefox | 2025-07-22 00:41:53+00:00
They don't show any reasoning traces at all, just the final proofs. We must assume the traces are pretty huge, since at least Google makes it clear that they are heavily relying on inference compute:

> We achieved this year’s result using an advanced version of Gemini Deep Think – an enhanced reasoning mode for complex problems that incorporates some of our latest research techniques, including parallel thinking. This setup enables the model to simultaneously explore and combine multiple possible solutions before giving a final answer, rather than pursuing a single, linear chain of thought. [...] We will be making a version of this Deep Think model available to a set of trusted testers, including mathematicians, before rolling it out to Google AI Ultra subscribers.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-22 00:42:18+00:00
Seems to be Apache 2 https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/1694284885fecfb852b0... and it has GHA (although I didn't verify that it could plausibly run outside of their GH org) https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/1694284885fecfb852b0...
by mekoka | 2025-07-22 00:42:23+00:00
Memoization is deterministic caching, meaning that the structure is a perfect stand-in for a deterministic function. The "determinism" of the function itself is relative to some agreed upon lifespan, during which if you feed it some input, the corresponding output is guaranteed to always be the same (e.g. until the next reboot, the runtime of the main program, the span of a function call, etc). Within that timespan, the result of computations can be reliably stored and retrieved from the cache. When it's exceeded, the function's corresponding cache also goes stale and should be considered unreliable and to be discarded.

Note that in the case of memoization, the guarantee of determinism (and associated lifespan) is attached to the function, not the caching structure. Unlike some other caching approaches that rely on a replacement policy.
by dboreham | 2025-07-22 00:44:02+00:00
Crappy routing. Business travelers aren't going to fly from Salt Lake to London via LAX and EWR for example. Airlines will offer wacky routes at lower prices that obviously cost them more in terms of fuel and airframe time, because they know people who value their time (and aren't paying themselves) will not accept them. This is particularly prevalent with award travel. You can try to game their system though -- find a crazy route that you actually want to fly (12h stopover in some city you want to visit), but which the airline's algorithm sees as unappealing.
by phil21 | 2025-07-22 00:44:38+00:00
It certainly started that way.

It's still that way, but a bit less so. The intractable problem now is entire supply chains end to end do not exist in the west. If you wanted to start a battery company you are going to have a really hard time sourcing all your components in-country. All the way down to the inks used in printing the serial number on stuff.

In the end of course it all ends up as a cost, but even if you somehow dropped all environmental standards and set the cost of labor to match China today it would take decades just to get the institutional knowledge and infrastructure back.
by alden5 | 2025-07-22 00:44:57+00:00
It goes in gram increments and my laptop was able to read 7300g pressing as hard as i could, which I was surprised it would be designed to read that high, might go up to 10kg but I don't want to crack my trackpad lol. The actual measurements though are extremely unreliable. I've found it can't reliably measure anything, measuring a roll of tape gave me measurements from 70g to 700g, it always settled on a number but was different every time. Maybe the underlying data is more accurate but this API is definitely just designed for outputting the force of a finger. M1 MBP for reference
by stephen_g | 2025-07-22 00:45:08+00:00
No, the cells themselves are fairly standard and built by third parties (Panasonic, LG, CATL), just co-located in Tesla's factories.

The battery packs themselves have been pulled apart and studied by everyone, pretty much all EV manufacturers are doing similar things anyway, so no real special sauce anywhere anymore.

Now there are more mature EV players in the game, innovations are happening from many manufacturers now (not just Tesla leading anymore) and then everyone else converges on the best ideas.