MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by html5cat | 2025-07-02 02:04:29+00:00
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by Solomoriah | 2025-07-02 02:04:47+00:00
I sell books on Amazon.com through their KDP Direct platform, and I have one book with two different covers; each is its own "book" in their catalog. FakeSpot repeatedly marked reviews I knew were valid as fake; I knew this based on the fact that the same reviewer reviewed the "other" book and that review was NOT flagged as fake. And this happened multiple times, and sometimes the wording of the two reviews were different. Further investigation showed FakeSpot had rather a poor reputation overall due to too many false positives. Good riddance, as far as I'm concerned.
by killjoywashere | 2025-07-02 02:05:52+00:00
David Hilbert was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Many of the leaders of the Manhattan Project learned the mathematics of physics from him. But he was famous long before then. In 1900 he gave an invited lecture where he listed several outstanding problems in mathematics the solution of any one of which would change not only the career of the person who solved the problem, but possibly life on Earth. Many have stood like mountains in the distance, rising above the clouds, for generations. The sixth problem was an axiomatic derivation of the laws of physics. While the standard model of physics describes the quantum realm and gravity, in theory, the messy soup one step up, fluid dynamics, is far from a solved problem. High resolution simulations of fluid dynamics consume vast amounts of supercomputer time and are critical for problems ranging from turbulence, to weather, nuclear explosions, and the origins of the universe.

This team seems a bit like Shelby and Miles trying to build a Ford that would win the 24 hours of LeMans. The race isn’t over, but Ken Miles has beat his own lap record in the same race, twice. Might want to tune in for the rest.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-02 02:07:11+00:00
I would never call myself an “AI Engineer” unless I was actually building custom LLMs.

For the last 7 years, I’ve specialized in “cloud native development” and the last five working more in strategy and leading implementations working for consulting companies full time.

Gen AI is just another tool in my tool belt. One of my specialties before Gen AI was working with Amazon Connect - a cloud hosted call center + Amazon Lex (the AWS version of Alexa) for voice, text and web and chatbots. I use Gen AI to understand customer’s utterances better with Bedrock. But at the end of the day, it’s really just another AWS SDK (Boto3) call.

But my day to day is more about working with clients gathering requirements, integrating call centers with their backends, and everything that goes into a modern implementation - regular development, infrastructure as code, “DevOps” [sic], training, solving XYProblems, etc.

I spend a lot of time telling clients “Gen AI isn’t what you want”. You don’t want Gen AI being responsible for output to customers, maybe a standard ML implementation might be better, etc.
by andyfilms1 | 2025-07-02 02:07:41+00:00
Interesting, her videos have never struck me as contrarian for the sake of it, she seems genuinely frustrated at a lack of substantial progress in physics and the plethora of garbage papers. Though I imagine it must be annoying to be a physicist and have someone constantly telling you you're not good enough, but that itself is kind of part of the scientific process too.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-02 02:07:58+00:00
It's definitely better. But it's not proportional representation.

E.g. Greens got about 12.2% of vote.

12.2% of 150 is 18, not 1.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/02/...

The system while better is biased towards parties who can get the majority of individual constituencies based on geographic location. It relies on localized monocultures to get democracy for smaller parties. But that doesn't happen.
by dangelosaurus | 2025-07-02 02:07:59+00:00
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by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-02 02:08:10+00:00
What an awful sad fall for us all, from such lofty heights of possibility for technology, to a seemingly endless age of both humans being exploited and mechanized by technology and governments doing only the saddest most important useless clutching of pearls fear responses that do nothing to coax the world towards better.

Apologies. I'm already pretty morose over the USA Supreme Court allowing age verification, which although claiming to target porn seems so likely to cudgel any "adult" or sexual material at all.

Until recently the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace has held pretty true. The online world has seen various regulations but mostly it's been taxes and businesses affected, and here we see a turn where humanity is now denied access by their governments, where we are no longer allowed to connect or to share, not without flashing our government verified id. It's such a sad lowering of the world, to such absolutely loser politicians doing such bitter pathetic anti governance for such low reasons. They impinge on the fundamental dignity & respect inherent on mankind here, in these intrusions into how we may think and connect.

Links for recent Texas age verification: https://www.wired.com/story/us-supreme-court-porn-age-verifi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397799
by justinhj | 2025-07-02 02:11:19+00:00
I've been playing with tokenization too. Starting from Kaparthy's Python minbpe I set myself the task of training a tokenizer on wikitext (500mb) in a reasonable time. I got the C++ version down to about 50 minutes compared to the original Python code (estimated) several months.

Haven't really spent much time looking at encode and decode but I plan to incorporate these regex modifications when I do!

https://github.com/justinhj/minbpe-cc
by ngriffiths | 2025-07-02 02:11:35+00:00
John Baez wrote a Mastodon thread on this paper here:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114618637031193532

He references a posted comment by Shan Gao[^1] and writes that the problem still seems open, even if this is some good work.

[^1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06297
by al_borland | 2025-07-02 02:12:03+00:00
Or it’s that every platform like this that does a major upgrade to the UI is awful. They are almost always driven by people looking to increase revenue at the expense of the user experience. The users hate it and leave in mass. Having seen this pattern time and time again, I don’t know why sites keep doing it, other than then obvious “investor pressure.”

There seems to be an inverse relationship between the spend on development and user experience.
by zeckalpha | 2025-07-02 02:13:23+00:00
Oracle wouldn't let you do that with Sun.

Atari has been brought back! https://atari.com

HPE is using the Cray brand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/compute/hpc/supercomputing/cray-ex...

Coincidentally, https://www.sgi.com/ redirects to the HPE Cray link above.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-02 02:13:41+00:00
MIT should deploy their desert water tech in LV[0]

Since the point of the trees has been discovered to be just shade and not evaporative cooling, they just need to figure a way to reorient their panels?

[0] only sunlight needed

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/mits-high-tech-hydroge...
by gus_massa | 2025-07-02 02:13:46+00:00
From the FAQ:

> Can I post a job ad?

> Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

> A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.

Repost it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434576
by dillona | 2025-07-02 02:15:16+00:00
The Sun Ray is a strong inspiration for building https://warpstations.com (currently in closed beta).

The main challenge has been building a modern remote desktop protocol that achieves high performance but without requiring GPUs for each user and works on Linux. VNC is really showing its age, and X forwarding isn't really usable over the Internet. We are also using Yubikeys instead of smart cards, though I'm looking forward to testing some of the FIDO2 cards that are on the market.

One of our colleagues said something that really resonated with me "When you're working using our system it should feel like you're sitting down at a personal supercomputer". There are always more features to build, but the basic vision of being able to sit down at any desk with our Warpbox and connect to your virtual desktop within a few seconds is a really nice workflow.
by frawley | 2025-07-02 02:15:27+00:00
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by shetyemanasi | 2025-07-02 02:15:55+00:00
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by dankwizard | 2025-07-02 02:16:25+00:00
It was falling behind. The dodgy stores were getting more creative and Fakespot needed to play catch up.

You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review. Sure, this didn't 1:1 translate but if a user did it would look like a legitimate review.

You've got a plethora of LLMs out there just itching to GENERATE.

Then an expensive option I was suprised happened - I bought a Dyson clone vacuum cleaner off of Amazon. A few weeks later, the company emailed me and said 'We have a new model. Buy that one, leave a review, we'll refund the purchase'. So I did it. This happened about 10 more times in 2024. My outdoor shed is entirely stick vacuums.

Feel a bit dirty doing it but that's ok I've got 12 vacuums that can clean my conscience.

I think Fakespot would have difficulty with all 3 of these scenarios.
by aronishchal | 2025-07-02 02:16:53+00:00
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by jt2190 | 2025-07-02 02:17:28+00:00
Lila any good solution design, we should start with the problem, but the author skips right over that part:

> [The superscript number] indicates to you that I, the writer, have something more to say on this topic.

Not really, though? Notes range from citations to parentheticals. “Having more to say” would be included in the main text I’d think. The point of notes is that you don’t “have more to say” on the main topic, but you have this other information that some readers might find useful.

I do agree that there is no need to get hung up on solutions used in print (footnotes and endnotes) for online material.
by zerd | 2025-07-02 02:19:12+00:00
Counter-counter example. When my wife was new to the city she took a bus ride and a girl randomly made contact with her. They hit it off and talked for the whole ride. My wife thought this girl sounds really nice, they actually got into deep conversations, and wanted to exchange numbers so they could hang out some time. Then she asked if she had heard about the book of mormons…
by stogot | 2025-07-02 02:21:28+00:00
I don’t see where it’s “science as a whole” but rather names specific (narrow) set of journals to cancel subscriptions because they are funded by big pharma or are too expensive. Seems more reasonable than your comment purports

I recall reading about journal’s positive bias to only publish positive results of pharmaceutical drugs, but would not publish negative results in later years (when another researcher disproves it). This is bad science and bad for patients. This in addition to the downright fraud.

I’m not a fan of this secretary’s approaches, but I’ve been hoping for 10 years someone would take a stand against predatory journal practices
by dillona | 2025-07-02 02:23:26+00:00
At our company (almost entirely engineers) we're pretty near 100% thin client usage. It's nice to be able to "download more RAM" for a big analysis job and not have to go try to buy a new system or something.

I also travel a lot, and it's great to have all of my applications and data right where I left them from any desk in any office
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-02 02:23:54+00:00
> We evolved with pneumonia for some reason. It could easily be a Chesterton Fence.

It's not, and I don't think you're seriously arguing this point so I'm going to ignore it.

It is, I think, a reasonable observation that had Swartz formed an LLC to pursue advanced analysis of academic papers for, I don't know, trends in the language used in research and slurped bunch of JSTOR for that purpose, the trial would have taken longer and involved more lawyers. That's probably an observation that should give us pause. Or not, because nobody argued that's what he did or that was his intent, including him. So I also think the premise of comparison to the current circumstances is flawed; I don't think the CFAA can be applied in a context where people have access rights and go through Google's front door to scan videos for the purpose of training a machine learning algorithm. It might be a TOS violation. It's not hiding a server in a closet with unauthorized physical access, which is what Swartz was accused of.

Intent matters, and, sadly, we never got to the trial where intent could have been proven out.

> Being hassled to the point where you go through with it is definitely violence.

The government does have the monopoly on violence. But I think what happened to Swartz is a far cry from that, as he never got to sentencing, much less trial. There was some light compulsion (requirement to appear in court), of course. But everyone who's ever wanted to contest a parking ticket has to experience that. Sadly, this train of thought goes into a station of "Swartz should have been under professional care if his condition was this much a danger to him," and I don't know how the government should change its behavior if he wasn't. Prosecutors are not prognosticators of the mental health of defendants, and I've never read anywhere that Swartz wanted to be committed for mental illness.

Our system is much harder for defendants grappling with mental illness; I'll acknowledge and argue for change regarding that. I don't know that such change would conclude with "Swartz should never have been accused of committing a crime that a lot of evidence suggests he committed," however.
by cyberax | 2025-07-02 02:25:41+00:00
Prof. Sabine Hossenfelder is a pretty clear-headed communicator. I've been following her for nearly 20 years, almost since she started writing the Backreaction blog.

Her criticisms boil down to:

1. Modern science spends perhaps too much time on frivolous research that doesn't lead to anything. This very much applies to the theoretical physics and the endless series of attempts at ToE. But it's not limited to theoretical physics.

2. Modern scientific communication is often misleading and exaggerated.

3. The internal workings of scientific institutions are broken.
by strken | 2025-07-02 02:28:20+00:00
"Inconvenience" is downplaying the impact of not letting adults use incognito mode to search for things.

Yes, right now search engines are only going to blur out images and turn on safe search, but the decision to show or hide information in safe search has alarming grey areas.

Examples of things that might be hidden and which someone might want to access anonymously are services relating to sexual health, news stories involving political violence, LGBTQ content, or certain resources relating to domestic violence.