MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-29 06:13:36+00:00
> I don't know why you think I'm referring to any other network.

You started talking about my TV and my washing machine, so I thought you were accusing me of bringing in other networks to "find a point of disagreement".

Now I'm just confused why you brought up the idea of attaching them to my employer's network.

> You are not allowed to connect untrusted devices to many employers' networks, and this works via remote attestation. They don't care if your TV is rooted as long as you don't connect it to their network, but if you do, they will want to make sure it isn't rooted.

And that highlighted part is what I take issue with. They should not ask for that. Either allow my devices or ban them. They should never get to look at the attestation report for my devices (literal "my").
by joules77 | 2025-07-29 06:14:27+00:00
Engineering/STEM training doesn't have what is required to fix such problems. So they have to get involved with multi-disciplinary groups or nothing useful will ever get built that actually fixes things.

This is why lot of people within tech/science circles feel lost and defensive about their work. They barely understand anything about the humanities/social sciences.

Consciousness of what is missing is increasing slowly, thanks to the info tsunami the internet has unleashed.

But that info delivery architecture relies on pseudo experts and celebs whose survival depends on collecting views, and is delivered to the mind in such random order, with high levels of over stimulation and noise, that it creates even more confusion.

What's missing?

No foundations in Philosophy. No idea where Value Systems come from. No idea how they are maintained - learn - adapt to change. No idea why all religious systems train their priests in some form of "Pastoral Care" involving constant contact with ordinary people and their suffering.

So the Vatican survives the fall of nations/empires/plagues/economic downturns/reformation/enlightenment/pedo scandals etc but science/engineering orgs look totally helpless reacting to systemic shocks and go running to Legal/HR/PR people for help.

That's at the org level. At the individual level, most tech folk pretend the limitations/divisions of their own brain/mind don't exist and have no impact on what they build. There is no awareness of what Plato/Hume/Freud/Kahneman have to say about it and how those divisions of the non united mind and denial of it effect what gets built. And since the article mentions systems running at different speed think about the electrical and chemical signaling in your own mind. Are they happening at the same speed?

So don't try to work all this out by yourself. Multi-disciplinary groups are our only hope. If the org is filled with only engineers, history already shows us how the story unfolds.
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-29 06:14:44+00:00
That was a great writeup.

I used to work at a surplus electronics store near, but not in, a rather seedy area. On warm summer evenings, especially if there was a full moon, we'd get random walk-ins asking if we'd buy a used laptop. They never had the power supply with them. This was well before USB-C was standard, so every manufacturer had their own charger.

We'd tell them we couldn't sell it without the power supply, but no one ever seemed to be able to locate it.
by tdeck | 2025-07-29 06:15:18+00:00
Except these politicians weren't sharing their opinion, they were making a calculated statement and deliberately refusing to acknowledge all evidence to the contrary for years. As an example, selling weapons to a country that will use them to commit war crimes violates US law. So the Biden administration claimed they had seen "no evidence" of Israel committing any war crimes. A ludicrous statement to anyone bothering to pay any attention at the time. Now we know that was a lie (actually we knew it then)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/3/former-us-official-w...

So is someone like Matt Miller who spent more than a year repeating genocide propaganda redeemed now? Of course not. These people have no principles at all, and their words are meaningless. Ww must be mindful of their actions.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-07-29 06:16:57+00:00
Indeed

> Adjusting for long-term ridership trends on each system, seasonal effects, and inertia (the tendency for ridership totals to persist from one month to the next), CBO estimates that the same increase of 20 per- cent in gasoline prices that affects freeway traffic volume is associated with an increase of 1.9 percent in average system ridership. That result is moderately statistically significant: It can be asserted with 95 percent confidence that higher gasoline prices are associated with increased ridership.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-...
by dang | 2025-07-29 06:18:13+00:00
HN has always hosted a certain number of stories with political overlap, and the principles of how that works are pretty stable. I posted about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718396. If you (or anyone) want to understand how we approach this, I suggest reading that comment and some of the links there, and then if you still have a question that hasn't been answered, Tom or I will be happy to take a crack at it.
Show HN: Real-time face recognition on low power microcontroller
by pelex | 2025-07-29 06:18:51+00:00
Built face recognition that runs entirely on STM32's new N6 chip - no cloud, no external processing. The chip istelf is smaller than a thumbnail and uses minimal power (on full operation ~0.25W), but the documentation is practically non-existent since it just launched. Performance numbers:

Face detection: 9ms Face recognition: 130ms per person Multi-face tracking that actually works Runs locally with zero data transmission (with an option to stream feed to PC, but it's entirely up to you)

The hardest part wasn't the AI - it was figuring out how to make anything work on hardware so new that most examples don't compile. With examples that don't cover the whole span of what developer need in the real world. Spent months reverse-engineering and debugging cryptic NPU errors, hacked and slashed my way untill things worked - ST might learn new things about their own hardware from how I abused some of it. Includes full source code, build pipeline, model conversion scripts, and documentation written by someone who actually used it. No enterprise sales pitches - just working code for embedded AI. Have fun and :)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-07-29 06:18:58+00:00
>Author seems to be concerned with how risky of an investment it is, but honestly, I'd be happy for the gov to make more of these types of investments. I mean it really is a very small percentage of the US national budget.

It is all too common for total bullshit ideas to get funding. Even though our budget is huge, the national debt is much larger. Research needs to be managed and funded appropriately according to the most likely risk/reward of doing it. Is it productive to have people researching applications of fusion power when fusion is itself is this holy grail level unsolved problem?
by sudopluto | 2025-07-29 06:20:41+00:00
one could argue, that with hamas de facto defeated and now rival gangs rising up to take power, israel could unilaterally ceasefire and hold elections for a new government to run the strip. hamas, if they pop up again, are disposed of with both domestic and IDF forces.

the main problem is that doing so would probably result in the death of the hostages. hamas wants to stay in power, even if gaza is reduced to sand, they will hold onto the hostages until their power, even over nothing but skeletons, is assured.

the IDF could continue to engage on hamas's terms, or it could make the heartbreaking decision to give up on the hostages and focus on saving the innocent gazan civilians.
by 9dev | 2025-07-29 06:22:11+00:00
> If you really believe that Gazans are being starved

This is so disgusting. There is an endless flood of proof from reliable media all over the world. It's a fact, not a matter of belief.

> Let's hear what you think Israel should do.

A government with members that are publicly outspoken for a genocide in Gaza simply cannot be trusted on this issue. It's like letting the wolf pack guard the sheep pen and hoping they will handle the situation responsibly. They will not.

You want to hear my solution? Israel should elect new leaders that aren't as empathically crippled, allow foreign (and domestic) help into Gaza, stop all actions of war, and get into talks with Abbas. Israel should incorporate and take responsibility for Gaza as a part of Israel, following Herzl's vision of Israel as a pluralistic state. A one-state solution is inevitable if there is ever supposed to be peace.

But this isn't going to happen. Instead, Gaza is out for a long, slow death by attrition; Israel is once again going to build illegal settlements and occupy territory, and wage war against local militias.
by namibj | 2025-07-29 06:22:13+00:00
You can use an encoder style architecture with decoder style output heads up top for denoising diffusion mode mask/blank filling. They seem to be somewhat more expensive on short sequences than GPT style decoder-only models when you batch them, as you need fewer passes over the content and until sequence length blows up your KV cache throughout cost, fewer passes are cheaper. But for situations that don't get request batching or where the context length is so heavy that you'd prefer to get to exploit memory locality on the attention computation, you'd benefit from diffusion mode decoding.

A nice side effect of the diffusion mode is that it's natural reliance on the bidirectional attention from the encoder layers provides much more flexible (and, critically, context-aware) understanding so as mentioned, later words can easily modulate earlier words like with "bank [of the river]"/"bank [in the park]"/"bank [got robbed]" or the classic of these days: telling an agent it did wrong and expecting it to in-context learn from the mistake (in practice decoder-only models basically merely get polluted from that, so you have to re-wind the conversation, because the later correction has literally no way of backwards-affecting the problematic tokens).

That said, the recent surge in training "reasoning" models to utilize thinking tokens that often get cut out of further conversation context, and all via a reinforcement learning process that's not merely RLHF/preference-conditioning, is actually quite related: discrete denoising diffusion models can be trained as a RL scheme during pre training where the training step is provided the outcome goal and a masked version as the input query, and then trained to manage the work done in the individual steps on it's own to where it eventually produces the outcome goal, crucially without prescribing any order of filling in the masked tokens or how many to do in which step.

A recent paper on the matter: https://openreview.net/forum?id=MJNywBdSDy
by jacquesm | 2025-07-29 06:22:14+00:00
That's a result of an increase in demand and a very strong shortage of supply, which is related to inflation but not quite equivalent. Houses, as a store of value have substantial differences compared to the rest of the items that go into the inflation calculation, and don't get 'consumed' in the same way that say a bag of potatoes would be.

I don't necessarily agree that the price of houses shouldn't be in inflation, but it is there by proxy and the calculations do make some sense:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-does-the-consumer-pri...

So it is the cost of shelter rather than the prices of houses that determine inflation.
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-07-29 06:23:04+00:00
something tells me the viberanks was vibecoded. the numbers clearly don't make sense, nor are they consistent. top guy is 13B and 3rd place is 93B? those token counts are preposterous but also don't equate at all in dollar cost.

who knows, just something i came across when trying to find the twitter thread.
by forty | 2025-07-29 06:23:10+00:00
That's a good remark. As my sibling said, backend and web dev.

But indeed it always struck me that some developpers decided to become Apple developpers and sacrifice 30% of everything they ever produce to Apple.

I would argue that it might a bit different though, because when doing iOS development it's possible that you don't lose you core skill, which is building software, and that you can switch to another platform with relative ease. What I think might happen with LLM is that people will lose the core skill (maybe not for the generation who did do LLM-less development, but some devs might eventually not ever know other ways to work, and will become digital vassals of whatever service managed to kill all others)
by flowerthoughts | 2025-07-29 06:23:17+00:00
I'm on the $20 and was hitting the limit quite often. It lasted 2.5 h out of 5 h if I went all in. So even before this questionable change, we were at 50% utilization at most.

And I guess it'll go downhill from here. Anthropic, I wish you the best. Claude is a great tool at good value. But if you keep changing the product after my purchase, that's bad value.
by atoav | 2025-07-29 06:23:18+00:00
Well yes, but you then deny people a collective position. Please consider that we live in a world where strong corporate actors massively profit from us not having a collective position. Shifting responsibility to the individual is one of their strongest tools in the toolbox to ensure problems do not get solved.

I think it is important from time to time to exit the world of individual responsibility ("What can I do to reach the moon") and enter the world of collecrive organization ("What can we do ro reach the moon?"). You probably understand why.
by Peteragain | 2025-07-29 06:23:55+00:00
I liked the blog post. I try not to "game the system" and usually get all judgemental about people who do. Okay I am old fashioned. Putting on my Gordon Gecko hat ("greed is good"), of course, it is the disparity between system reaction times that enables gaming it. What system can one develop to get inside an adversary's OODA Loop (observe, orient, decide, and act). I like the idea that it's a (meta)system problem, it's about leverage.
by torginus | 2025-07-29 06:24:46+00:00
I don't have the timings right now but you can go significantly below 10ms.

There's a tradeoff between quality and encoding time - for example, if you want your motion vector reference to go back 4 frames, instead of 2, then the encoder will take longer to run, and you get better quality at no extra bitrate, but more runtime.

If your key to-screen latency has an irreducible 50-60ms part of rendering, processing, data transfer, decoding and display, then the extra 10ms is just 15% more latency, but you have to find the correct tradeoff for yourself.
by lucumo | 2025-07-29 06:24:48+00:00
I did too, until uBO got blocked. So I had to reevaluate.

Chrome now has a site setting that blocks this crap. For the browser-based popup at least. That's the one that pops up in the top-right and is not part of the DOM of the page.

You can go directly to chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi to set "Block sign-in prompts from identity services" as the default behaviour for sites. You can also set exceptions for some sites if you want that.

If you need to go there manually, it is:

1. Settings 2. Privacy and security (in the menu on the left) 3. Site settings (at the bottom) 4. Expand Additional content settings (under Content) 5. Third-party sign-in
by oakashes | 2025-07-29 06:25:41+00:00
Something I ran into during exercise 2 (and from watching the solution video[0] closely I see the author did as well):

There were four consecutive changed lines in my original commit. When I split it, I selected the deletion and addition for the first two lines. In the resulting newly created commit, those two lines had been moved to below the other two lines, so the order was now 3 -> 4 -> 1 -> 2, with the second commit moving 3 and 4 back to their original places. I didn't figure out a clean way to fix this - when I edited the commit which changed lines 1 and 2 to put them back at the top, it made a conflict with the second commit which I had to repair.

Anybody know what I should have done differently to split the commit and keep the edited lines in their original places?

[0]: https://www.loom.com/share/e3e148f07fb9420180ebb047f5ca94b3
by thisisit | 2025-07-29 06:25:56+00:00
There is no need to treat vaccine scepticism as something special.

Most of the denialism is rooted in the logic of "truth of the world is what you can see and observe". This worked fine for centuries but once there was rapid progress lot of things could no longer be explained through "see and observe". This mostly happened in late 1800s and early 1900s when there was a huge leap in scientific understanding. Lot of scepticism comes from this era. In the conspiracy theory lore - Before 5G was causing COVID, electricity was causing influenza outbreak in late 1800s.

"Natural" or faith healing are thought to be observable facts. You can see a plant growing but not the vaccine produced in a lab.

Couple this with general distrust of governments - monarchy or democracy you have people doubting vaccines.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-29 06:26:06+00:00
Dell XPS and Asus netbooks supposedly were designed with Linux in mind, and I had my share of wlan adventures.

On Asus netbook, only the original proprietary driver from Asus worked properly, the open source replacement, always kept dying when under load, regardless of how many improvements were made to it.

Something like updating Rust, instead of seconds, took minutes with all the network reconnection happening, or I had to pull the lan cable instead.
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 06:27:16+00:00
I really appreciate you calling this out, and I'm genuinely sorry for the bad experience. The wording was misleading, and we should have been much clearer.

To be transparent, when we started, the AI model costs quickly became unsustainable with purely free usage. We had to introduce a paid model to cover these costs and ensure we could keep the service running and improving. It was a difficult decision, and we clearly fumbled the communication.

We've since added a free trial with credits for every new user. I know we made a poor first impression, but I hope you'll consider giving it another try. Your feedback is incredibly valuable and helps us do better.
by gete6data | 2025-07-29 06:28:12+00:00
A hands‑on walkthrough showing how to: • Auto‑ingest JSON drops from S3 into a landing table with Snowpipe (COPY, AUTO_INGEST=TRUE). • Run a SQL procedure (transform_orders) that cleans data, enforces business rules, and writes into a curated table. • Publish the result to a Snowflake‑managed Iceberg table: Parquet files + open Iceberg metadata, so Spark/Trino/e6data can query the very same snapshots (no lock‑in). • Perform row‑count & diff checks to keep curated and Iceberg tables in sync. • Schedule the whole thing with a daily Snowflake Task (cron 0 2 * * * UTC). Bonus details: complete DDL/SQL snippets, discussion of Iceberg’s ACID snapshots & time‑travel, and why an open catalog lets you mix query engines without duplicating data. Great reference if you’re weighing open‑format lakehouse patterns inside Snowflake.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-07-29 06:28:36+00:00
Your broader point may stand but that’s not a counter argument if you give the original claim the benefit of the doubt: it can reasonably be interpreted as referencing lifestyle oriented businesses, niche b2b companies, anything small growth with a low ceiling.

Counting unicorns only serves to bolster that point : those are large VC fueled ships which operate on a completely different level. Because it is clear at founding time which type of company they are , it’s reasonable to include that as a qualifier.

Now if the data showed more small-growth companies were started , that’d be a stronger counter argument.
by anthk | 2025-07-29 06:28:42+00:00
You can access FIDO over NNTP at https://syncro.net (news://cvs.synchro.net to get the groups) and Usenet at https://eternal-september.org, with news://eternal-september.org (or snews:// for TLS, secure times) for the same group fetching.

On the ghosts towns, with FIDO/DOVE you get far less posts, but every group has some content. With Usenet, you either have loaded technical groups (and some less tech bound ones such as misc.internet.discuss) plus some niche hobbies (chess, classical music...) except modern PC gaming. The rest, as you said... shadows from better places.

For postmodern bullshiters, hauntology it's never a thing on open services. There's always some people having fun there. Former propietary or web bound services are dead, forgotten and lost. Such as MySpace, Digg, unpatched MSN-AOL-ICQ, the Spanish slashdot clone (Barrapunto), Libertonia (es.comp.os.linux related slashdot clone) and so on.
by JoshuaDavid | 2025-07-29 06:28:47+00:00
One thing that has worked for me when I have a long list of requirements / standards I want an LLM agent to stick to while executing a series of 5 instructions is to add extra steps at the end of the instructions like "6. check if any of the code standards are not met - if not, fix them and return to step 5" / "7. verify that no forbidden patterns from <list of things like no-op unit tests, n+1 query patterns, etc> exist in added code - if you find any, fix them and return to step 5" etc.

Often they're better at recognizing failures to stick to the rules and fixing the problems than they are at consistently following the rules in a single shot.

This does mean that often having an LLM agents so a thing works but is slower than just doing it myself. Still, I can sometimes kick off a workflow before joining a meeting, so maybe the hours I've spent playing with these tools will eventually pay for themselves in improved future productivity.
by bjornsing | 2025-07-29 06:28:53+00:00
I fully agree that the night seems dark. But having recovered from a state that many institutionalized professionals deemed hopeless I have a different perspective.

Have you seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? I think it serves as a good model to explain why we can both be right. You’re looking at the average effect of the institution across every minor character that appears in frame and deem it positive, and it was. I’m looking at what happened to Jack Nicholson and see the institution as deeply dysfunctional. If you think about it I think you’ll agree that I’m not wrong about that.
by 9dev | 2025-07-29 06:29:14+00:00
It's a court, not a military force. What do you suppose it should have done, send the special judge forces to Quatar to kidnap them?

The ICC is an institution that requires member nations to adhere to it. Concepts like these require mutual respect for a rule-based world order; an idea that seems to be lost on people like Trump, Putin, or the Quatari.
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-29 06:29:20+00:00
My record for an useless meeting was when the Lead Architect called an all-hands R&D meeting (40-50 people) for the whole morning (0800->1200)

It was him reading tickets off Jira and editing them and randomly asking people about clarifications.

I was a consultant at the time, billing around 100€/hour and there were others along with their own people. That meeting was a) completely useless for 95% of the people there and b) cost about 15k€ easily.