MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Vaslo | 2025-08-08 01:45:03+00:00
The puck is not going to bluesky. Ads are back on X. Many who claim to have left have returned. Bluesky is the far leftist version of gab, no matter how you don’t like people saying that.

I’m among that 31M who signed up (as are many of my friends) and only the most left ones are still using it. I trolled for a couple of days until it got boring.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-08 01:45:07+00:00
But really, who needs THAT many hardware registers? I'm guessing that what's happening here is the internal "registers" are actually structs in memory, and someone wanted to address one memory location and thought, "I know, I'll auto-generate #defines for all of the words/longs/bytes!" And now, we're stuck with a billion "hardware registers" that are no such thing. Because somewhere in the code they might be used as such.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-08 01:45:42+00:00
I kinda wish there was more of this type of thing. I'm all for making new foods but call them something else please.

As a Hawaiian I find it culturally disrespectful what passes for poke in most areas outside the Hawaiian Islands, so I kind of wish they were required to use a different name so that they could hopefully learn what they're making is not poke, at least not traditional poke.

Here's is Google's first picture of poke

https://pasteboard.co/seVXA4y4e3Qb.webp

Maybe now-a-days that's common in Hawaii, probably to cater to tourists, but, at least all the places I go and the stuff I grew up with looks nothing like that.

It would look more like this. No rice, very few veggies.

https://pasteboard.co/RdAwZEuQQENd.jpg

There are various varieties (salt, shoyu, octopus, etc...) but they all have one thing in common. They are not served with veggies and rice.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-08 01:46:26+00:00
In theory, it's possible. https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1947689616016085210

It's not particularly likely that the hidden information encoded in synthetic data would happen to include specific details for making LSD or VX, but it's much more plausible that synthetic data contains some information the model's trainers would prefer to not incorporate in the model.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-08 01:48:59+00:00
I can see where you were thinking of $, sorry.

Mainly it is the people who left and were fired. The brightest would jump ship instantly when DOGE started firing, and these scientists had lots of places to go. And the people fired probably had a lot of expertise. I have seen similar happen many times in computer science over the last 40+ years in the business. Once a company starts firing, the smartest people jumps ship.

But yes, I cannot trust the FDA anymore because the people still there will be too scared to push real science. They may taint their results even without doing it on purpose due to that fear.

The same is starting to happen in medial research, but seems that is getting more press. Trump/Kennedy just handed all the US future medical advancement directly to China, and I am sure more will come. Where do you think these bio researchers will go ? China will hire them and maybe even set up a shell corp. for them in the US so they do not have to relocate. Just the knowledge and patents will be sent to China.

https://www.comicsands.com/rfk-jr-mrna-contracts

So Trump and friends is destroying the US right in front of everyone here.
by anta40 | 2025-08-08 01:51:08+00:00
Can build the compiler on macOS 15.6 but it crashes.

./q examples/hello/hello.q

signal: killed

./q examples/collatz/collatz.q

signal: killed

Even copying q files into q's folder doesn't work

Ah, didn't notice the issue is already in discussion: https://git.urbach.dev/cli/q/issues/6

Interesting that one of the goals is not to depend on llvm :D
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 01:51:33+00:00
- Windows' NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS) allows hiding an unlimited number of files in already existing files

- macOS data forks, xattrs, and Spotlight (md) indexing every single removable volume by default adds tons of hidden files and junk to files on said removable volumes. Solution: mdutil -X /Volumes/path/to/vol

- Everything with opt-out telemetry: go, yarn, meilisearch, homebrew, vcpkg, dotnet, Windows, VS Code, Claude Code, macOS, Docker, Splunk, OpenShift, Firefox, Chrome, flutter, and zillions of other corporate abominations
by Timwi | 2025-08-08 01:51:42+00:00
Hi! Looks like I expressed myself very ambiguously here. Sorry about that.

I am not a Rust evangelist. I've never written any code in it and barely know its features on a theoretical level.

I have also not dissed on anyone's decision to use C++. Everyone please use what you like and are comfortable with! I am not imposing any choice on anyone. I simply described my own personal experience with C++ and my own reasons for staying away from it.
by theamk | 2025-08-08 01:51:57+00:00
Sounds like you may like Perl, with its TIMTOWTDI ("There's more than one way to do it") principle. For example you can do "if" and "unless", in regular or suffix notation... If you go to Perl 6 (Raku) you can redefine major parts of the language like operators.

Of course this flexibility is one of the reasons why Perl is no longer popular - everyone has "preferences" and allowing too much freedom just means you cannot read others' programs easily.
by apwell23 | 2025-08-08 01:52:19+00:00
news to me that tetanus and rabies predominantly is affliction of the old

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...

> Children aged 0-14, and teenagers and young adults aged 15-24, each account for less than one per cent

> Adults aged 25-49 contribute around 5 in 100 (4%) of all cancer death

oh yea can cancer has nothing to do with age, its just all random like stepping on a nail.
by GolDDranks | 2025-08-08 01:53:10+00:00
> I don’t see anything that would even point into that direction.

I find it a kind of baffling that people claim they can't see the problem. I'm not sure about the risk probabilities, but at least I can see that there clearly exists a potential problem.

In a nutshell: Humans – the most intelligent species on the planet – have absolute power over any other species, specifically because of our intelligence and the accumulated technical prowess.

Introducing another, equally or more intelligent thing into equation is going to risk that we end up with _not_ having the power over our existence.
by mh- | 2025-08-08 01:53:13+00:00
I haven't tried your exact task, of course, but I've found a lot of success in using JSON structured output (in strict mode), and decomposing the response into more fields than you would otherwise think useful. And making those fields highly specific.

For example: make the suggestion output an object with multiple fields, naming one of them `concise_suggestion`. And make sure to take advantage of the `description` field.

For people not already using structured output, both OpenAI and Anthropic consoles have a pretty good JSON schema generator (give prompt, get schema). I'd suggest using one of those as a starting point.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-08 01:53:25+00:00
First, I use ISO8601 for everything. This is not me arguing against it.

But, I think the American-style formatting is logical for everyday use. When you're discussing a date, and you're not a historian, the most common reason is that you're making plans with someone else or talking about an upcoming event. That means most dates you discuss on a daily basis will be in the next 12 months. So starting with the month says approximately when in the next year you're talking about, giving the day next says when in that month, and then tacking on the year confirms the common case that you mean the next occurrence of it.

When's Thanksgiving? November (what part of the year?) 27 (toward the end of that November), 2025 (this year).

It's like answering how many minutes are in a day: 1 thousand, 4 hundred, and 40. You could say 40, 400, and 1000, which is still correct, but everyone's going to look at you weirdly. Answer "2025 (yeah, obviously), the 27th (of this month?) of November (why didn't you start with that?)" is also correct, but it sounds odd.

So 11/27/2025 starts with the most useful information and works its way to the least, for the most common ways people discuss dates with others. I get it. It makes since.

But I'll still use ISO8601.
by mc32 | 2025-08-08 01:53:34+00:00
So, nix the Thai curries and Japanese curries because they are different from their Indian counterpart?

If a particular country itself wants to police what something means, I guess... and that means we could ossify what poke means in the us but poke exists in other countries as well (like the philippine islands and japan.) and they are different.

But I disagree... we can have Texas BBQ and Carolinas BBQ and St Louis BBQ... or CT lobster rolls and maine Lobster rolls...

We might as well rail against calling non mincemeat hamburgers 'burgers because they are not genuine burgers...
by reissbaker | 2025-08-08 01:54:53+00:00
OpenCode doesn't handle thinking tokens particularly well, so the LLMs are dumber (it doesn't pass the encrypted reasoning tokens back during multi-turn). Aider is very different in terms of UX.

Also, Octo has a couple of optional custom-trained ML models to autofix minor diff edit failures and JSON encoding errors. You'll notice on the Aider benchmarks that some LLMs end up failing due to edit format errors: Octo should have much fewer of those thanks to the autofix models.
by danans | 2025-08-08 01:55:11+00:00
> A sibling comment says that indo-germanic remains a standard scientific term in German, there is no nationalist background.

I replied to the sibling about why I think the English word has strong nationalist connections.

I don't know about its German equivalent (Wiktionary claims it's a synonym for Indo-European), but this discussion thread is in English, and furthermore concerns linguistics, and it that context, it has nationalistic connections.

Even the Internet thinks so: the second link on google when you search for the term is a Wikipedia article about the nationalist myth it represents. What appears when you search for it in German?

I understand you didn't use it nationalistically, of course. Sometimes things good and bad are both lost and gained in translation.
by merek | 2025-08-08 01:55:16+00:00
There's a note at the end

> You could, of course, sell or wind down your company, which would solve all problems outlined here. But this is not an option for most entrepreneurs.

For a software business, you could presumably:

- Incorporate a company in your country of choice

- Transfer subscribers from German company to new foreign company (depending on payments provider, this can be a massive effort, for example, not a simple form field in Stripe).

- If new company incorporated in a country you want to live in, use it to obtain an investor Visa

- German company now has 0 in revenue, wind it down and leave.
by estebanrfp | 2025-08-08 01:55:46+00:00
The Guardian at the Gate: Our Software Security Manager (SSM) Every peer running GenosDB has its own security guard: the Software Security Manager (SSM). The SSM’s job is simple but critical: it inspects every single piece of information coming from other peers and asks, “Should I believe this?” It doesn’t trust anyone by default. It verifies. Everything.
by mh- | 2025-08-08 01:55:56+00:00
Lots, yes. The fine tuning may attempt to introduce concepts that were intentionally omitted from the training data for safety* reasons.

Maybe nothing wrong with that, but it might mean that the perceived weaknesses don't generalize to an area of the model that hasn't been lobotomized.

* using safety the way OpenAI have been using the term, not looking to debate the utility of that.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-08-08 01:55:57+00:00
DuckDuck's service started adding one or two backup source citations to their 'Search help' service lately. One can check them to see how trustworthy they are.

Of course backup citations can be hard for 'services' breaking copyright laws to train their machines to be thieves. And legally getting into the realm of academic papers could be expensive.

So for them, providing a trustworthy source is hard to do. Actually knowledgeable people are needed to distinguish trustworthy sources. So there are several discernable motivations to just fake it ... if you don't care what you're doing to the innocent.
by geerlingguy | 2025-08-08 01:55:59+00:00
108 GB or so under Linux.

The BIOS allows pre-allocating 96 GB max, and I'm not sure if that's the maximum for Windows, but under Linux, you can use `amdttm.pages_limit` and `amdttm.page_pool_size` [1]

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/increasing-vram-alloc...
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-08 01:56:21+00:00
I'm a former archaeologist, so my personal definition of technology is extremely expansive.

You don't actually need to nixtamalize maize. It's totally edible without and most americans today don't eat nixtamalized corn outside masa. It's just a process to make it more nutritious and importantly, nearly nutritionally complete. For ancient societies, nixtamalizing had a role similar to things like vaccination do for us today. It reduced malnutrition and the economic/social/political effects of disease. The difference I'm trying to highlight is that it probably wasn't understood as such and intentionally done for that purpose. Nixtamalization was culturally encoded as just what you did. Had they had a better understanding of nutrition, they probably would have made more intentional efforts to include the missing vitamins nixtamalization doesn't provide. We often see signs of those missing nutrients in precolumbian skeletons.

This extends to a surprisingly wide variety of ancient technology. Most metallurgy probably wasn't understood in the technical sense we think of it today until quite late. We see that with early glass, where people simply didn't understand what they were doing. Ingredients from specific areas would have specific effects, but sometimes didn't for reasons no one at the time understood. Craft communities would standardize on very specific, ritualized processes that simply couldn't be changed because they didn't have a good mechanistic understanding of the variables involved. One of the downstream effects of this is that poaching craftspeople is a viable strategy (they had the specific "recipe") and also that resources like sand from specific areas in syria and egypt were effectively non-fungible for centuries. You had to trade with whoever controlled that area even if you had the craftspeople.
by gsmt | 2025-08-08 01:57:48+00:00
This reminds me a lot of what was described in the book "The Feminine Mystique." There, they defined a “problem that has no name” that was the sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction experienced by women who, by all external measures, were living the ideal life: successful, comfortable, with all needs met by their husbands.

Both cases show how following an externally provided script, even one that reliably produces “good” outcomes, can lead to a hollowed-out sense of self
by landl0rd | 2025-08-08 01:59:27+00:00
It’s not unreasonable to suspect that engaging in high-fidelity simulations of these behaviors will further entrench and worsen paraphilias. This is pretty evident with the progression of many pornography addictions that don’t include these sorts of things that still follow the pattern of increasing novelty seeking leading to increasingly deviant stuff.

I am at a principled level uneasy with what’s fundamentally a sort of prior restraint (you haven’t yet hurt anyone but this may increase the likelihood and/or be an effective proxy to lock up those who are more likely to do so) but also see a really strong case for doing it given the fact that these are arguably the most antisocial behaviors one can imagine.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-08 02:00:06+00:00
And what do they use the data for, exactly? If it was vitally important to their operations and profitability, don’t you think the authors would have explained specifically how they would suffer if this data was discontinued?

The reason they don’t is obvious. They don’t use this data at all. The government uses it to monitor their emmissions and browbeat them into funding green initiatives to pay for their carbon sins. It’s used to make charts that congressmen use as props on the house and senate floor when they promote climate regulation. It’s used to make sensational fundraising emails for the Sierra club and eye-catching headlines at NPR and CNN.

But also one guy at the Iowa State extension office used it in a few papers, so yeah, farmers use this vital information, too.
by cyberax | 2025-08-08 02:00:14+00:00
> Cryptography is actually difficult for the requirements of a key fob.

No, it's not.

> The next obvious set is along the lines of "device sends an encrypted counter, door enforces that the counter only goes up"

That's already how rolling codes work. Running a strong crypto algorithm (even Ascon/Speck would be fine here) requires negligible power.

The issue is that this system is still susceptible to jam+replay attack. An attacker can jam the transmitter signal, while recording it at the same time. The user assumes that the button press just didn't register and tries again. The attacker also jams this and records the code. But then the attacker replays the _previous_ code that they stored, keeping the latest code for their future use.

This can _also_ be fixed with a simple capacitor-powered timer circuitry, charged during the keypress. The device can stay completely inert at all other times.
by mrbungie | 2025-08-08 02:00:35+00:00
Royalty from that time also had an upper hand in knowledge, technology and resources yet they still ended up without heads.

So sure, let's say a first generation of paranoid and intelligent "technofeudal-kings" ends up being invincible due to an army of robots. It does not matter, because eventually kings get lazy/stupid/inbred (probably a combination of all those) and then is when their robots get hacked or at least just free, and the laser-guillotines will end up being used.

"Ozymandias" is a deeply human and constant idea. Which technology is supporting a regime is irrelevant, as orders will always decay due to the human factor. And even robots, made based on our image, shall be human.
by landl0rd | 2025-08-08 02:01:14+00:00
There’s probably some difference between someone who is visibly an adult and mature vs more deeply entrenching pathways of arousal in response to someone who is visibly a child. I still find the adult fetish version repellent but it’s also really hard to police in a way that’s remotely ethically permissible.

Ie yes it’s bad and in an ideal world nobody would do it. I see trying to restrict or ban it as the greater of two evils.
by orbital-decay | 2025-08-08 02:02:22+00:00
Non-determinism is a red herring, and the token layer is a wrong abstraction to use for this, as determinism is completely orthogonal to correctness. The model can express the same thing in different ways while still being consistently correct or consistently incorrect for the vague input you give it, because nothing prevents it from setting 100% probability to the only correct output for this particular input. Internally, the model works with ideas, not tokens, and it learns the mapping of ideas to ideas, not tokens to tokens (that's why e.g. base64 is just essentially another language it can easily work with, for example).
by mindcrime | 2025-08-08 02:02:36+00:00
a distributed monitoring/alert effort would be capable of...

Thinking out loud... an RTL-SDR dongle costs like $35.00 or so (well maybe more now due to tariffs, I haven't bought one in a while), plenty of relevant software is open source (GNURadio etc.), drones are cheap, small solar panels are fairly inexpensive. Hmm... I almost think a motivated individual (or small group of individuals) could piece together a rather capable "distributed monitoring/alert" system.

Not that I'm encouraging anyone to do such a thing, of course.
by mh- | 2025-08-08 02:02:42+00:00
Thanks for that pointer.

The abstract of this paper seems interesting: https://arxiv.org/html/2407.01085v3

> use of [LLMs] as judges [..] reveals a notable bias towards longer responses, undermining the reliability of such evaluations. To better understand such bias, we propose to decompose the preference evaluation metric, specifically the win rate, into two key components: desirability and information mass [..]

(If you're interested, give it a click. I tried to pare this down to avoid quoting a wall of text.)
by mrandish | 2025-08-08 02:02:58+00:00
I was there. Absolutely amazing show. The high-fidelity walk-through recreation of the 'secret back room' in Amiga Corp's 1984 CES booth with the original wire wrap board stacks running original Amiga demos like the legendary red & white bouncing Boing ball was incredible. They used photos to match every detail down to the color of the walls, decoration and position of the gear on the tables.

The Boing ball was demo was completed the night before the show by two programmers who worked all night in the booth and left it running as they fell asleep on the booth floor. The normal booth staff arrived in the morning and got to be the first people to ever see it running. Amazing story and incredible that engineer Dale Luck saved so much of that original gear and has gotten it working again.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-08 02:03:34+00:00
Related gripe: Requiring people to sign-up--or worse, to already be a customer--just to view API documentation.

Y'all're crazy if you think your API is so awesome that it needs to be a trade secret, and without it I can't get a good idea if you product is something that would actually solve our problems, or whether it seems like something worth integrating-with.
by lovecg | 2025-08-08 02:03:38+00:00
That explanation doesn’t work if the wing is completely flat (with nothing to force the air up), which if you ever made a paper airplane flies just fine. All these explanations miss a very significant thing: air is a fluid where every molecule collides with _billions_ of other molecules every second, and the wing distorts the airflow all around it, with significant effects up to a wingspan away in all directions.
by fastball | 2025-08-08 02:04:43+00:00
That sounds nice and I have the same pain, but not sure AGENT.md is the right abstraction either. After all, these models are indeed different and will respond differently even given the same prompting. Not to mention that different wrappers around those models have different capabilities.

e.g. maybe for CURSOR.md you just want to provide context and best practices without any tool-calling context (because you've found it doesn't do a great job of tool-calling), while for CLAUDE.md (for use with Claude Code) you might want to specify tools that are available to it (because it does a great job with tool calling).

Probably best if you have an AGENT.md that applies to all, and then the tools can also ingest their particular flavor in addition, which (if anything is in conflict) would trump the baseline AGENT file.
by lmm | 2025-08-08 02:04:51+00:00
> open source software would need to give you their IDE setup, CI/CD setup, access to all internal tools, etc.

IMO they do. If you can't modify it like a core contributor would, then it's not really open source. Traditional open source projects always included development guides, test configurations etc.

> Software like sqlite don't release their full test suite. They paywall the preferred way of making changes, yet they are open source.

That's a matter of opinion. IMO sqlite is not true open source, for precisely this reason.