MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by martin-t | 2025-08-15 20:07:04+00:00
Who knows? Votes should be public, otherwise this is an easy way to make opinions less visible without having to provide any justification.

Sometimes very similar comments in favor of protecting producers get upvotes on one post and downvotes on another. I also started seeing a pattern - even if a particular comment ends up downvoted in the end, there's usually a few upvotes first, sometimes with comments, then downvotes quickly to get it negative and there's never any comments justifying it and few if any comments after it gets negative. This indicates downvoting works well to silence the discussion.
by jjice | 2025-08-15 20:07:51+00:00
I like to digitize my handwritten notes. For the basic transcription, there's isn't much prompting to do, but I do tell it some stylistic choices I make and how to interpret those as markdown, like open to-dos as circles and closed to-dos as circles with Xs to their markdown equivalents.

I also upload some common templates for things like my weekly reviews and tell it to use a template if applicable.

I'm sure if I drew diagrams and told it it could use Mermaid, it'd do a good job too. Would like to try when I get the chance.

It saves _so_ much time getting written notes into text. Writing things out helps me plan, but I much prefer to have content digital for syncing, backups, and searching.

This is all in a Claude project for reuse, but I've found most LLMs do a solid job, even the cheap ones like Gemini 2.5 flash (or whatever the low cost current Gemini model is).
by biomcgary | 2025-08-15 20:08:08+00:00
I bought a TENS 7000, which is #1 in Amazon's "Muscle Stimulators & Accessories" category. Mine came with a 9V battery. The specific "tens ear clips" that I purchased are no longer on Amazon, but similar ones are around $20 for a pack of 3-4.

Note: some people place electrodes on the tragus, as in this paper, but others stimulate the concha. Tragus needs one two pad clip, concha needs two one pad clips. The rubber pads are just slightly bigger than the eraser of a number 2 pencil.
by Spivak | 2025-08-15 20:08:22+00:00
You have it right. The problem Anubis is intended to solve isn't bots per se, the problem is that bot networks have figured out how to bypass rate limits by sending requests from newly minted, sometimes residential, ip addresses/ranges for each request. Anubis tries to help somewhat by making each (client, address) perform a proof-of-work. For normal users this should be an infrequent inconvenience but for those bot networks they have to do it every time. And if they solve the challenge and keep the cookie then the server "has them" so to speak and can apply ip rate limits normally.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-15 20:08:54+00:00
Bear blog got traction, IMHO, by being light and allowing tons of customization. The default state is very bare, I have seen people went berserk with it.

My platform of choice is Mataroa (https://mataroa.blog), and I love their simpler approach.

If you want to go even more minimal, there's https://smol.pub and https://prose.sh.
by 1gn15 | 2025-08-15 20:09:00+00:00
One solution is to not expose expensive endpoints in the first place. Serve everything statically, or use heavy caching.

> Precisely one reason comes to mind to have ROBOTS.TXT, and it is, incidentally, stupid - to prevent robots from triggering processes on the website that should not be run automatically. A dumb spider or crawler will hit every URL linked, and if a site allows users to activate a link that causes resource hogging or otherwise deletes/adds data, then a ROBOTS.TXT exclusion makes perfect sense while you fix your broken and idiotic configuration.

Source: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Robots.txt
by lelanthran | 2025-08-15 20:09:40+00:00
> If R&D were to be stopped now they would be profitable.

Not until the cost of the previous training has been completed amortised.

Even if some company did immediately stop all training, they would only show a profit until the next SOTA model is released by a competitor, and then they would would go out of business.

None of them have any moat, other than large amounts of venture capital. Even if there is a single winner at the end of all of this, all it would take is a much smaller amount of capital to catch up.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-08-15 20:09:42+00:00
We need people to charge their EV's when the sun is shining. At least in California. But perhaps not Scotland and Germany.

Given Californians drive 340 billion miles a year at 3.5 kwh per mile and 2200 hours of sunlight a year. I get you'd need 45 GW of solar to power them. California has something like 16-20 GW.

Notable at 35mpg cars use 10 billion gallons of gas. At $4 gallon. $40 billion a year.

Solar to power cars would pay for itself economically in a couple of a years.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-08-15 20:09:49+00:00
It's push and pull.

If your goal is to decrease costs, the amount of supply needed may be surprising of latent / induced demand is very large. If NYC cost 1/4th the price to live there it would probably triple in population, so you'd need 40 million new units to get the costs down that much, and the price of the penthouse looking at central park would probably increase even if mean and median costs go down a lot. If a city is at the equilibrium point where supply meets demand, more housing may only keep prices flat for a large amount of new housing.
by prohobo | 2025-08-15 20:10:38+00:00
Yes and no, for the respective reasons:

- Yes, I think people are already wary and have "AI fatigue" from all the chatbots and AI add-ons people have released over the past 2 years. It's already hard to convince people that your AI project isn't a wrapper flip.

- No, it's fundamentally useful in almost every industry, context, and environment.

Very similar to the 2000's internet on the one hand, and orders of magnitude more useful on the other. The difference that I see happening is like "AI literacy" taking over and thousands of failed startups getting immediately overrun by thousands of viable startups.
by gms7777 | 2025-08-15 20:11:35+00:00
I think especially as adults (esp. people that managed to get to adulthood without being diagnosed), a lot of people think they don't have certain symptoms, when really they just have developed elaborate systems for managing those symptoms.

I never related to "time blindness" because I was always consistently early for things, but really I was just deeply anxious about being on time for things. I would set like 10 alarms set, I wouldn't be able to do anything for an hour or two beforehand because I was worried about being late, and I'd usually show up way too early because I couldn't actually estimate when I needed to start getting ready to be on time. That doesn't exactly sound like the behavior of someone with a functional inner clock.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-15 20:12:04+00:00
> OpenAI doesn't lose money on each request but rather gains it. To recuperate the fixed costs in R&D.

Right, but that is why I used the word "amortise"; there is only a limited time to recuperate that cost. If you spend $120 in training, and it takes 6 months for the next SOTA to drop from a competitor, you have to make clear $10/m after inference costs.
by thereisnospork | 2025-08-15 20:12:23+00:00
I'm seeing new single wides for around 40k new? The trailer not the land. Even rounding to an even 100k for a nice unit, delivered/plumbed/etc'd that's what, 500 hundred dollars a month on a 30 year mortgage? That's pretty darn affordable - less than any rent I've ever paid.
by rbanffy | 2025-08-15 20:12:26+00:00
That’s true. I’m facing exactly this issue - I have some less than nice orgs trying to hire me, but I politely turn down the recruiters without disclosing my reasons. They are just doing their jobs as best as they can and I won’t judge them for that.

I can say, however, that’s not the best decision from a financial standpoint, but what is the value of morality if you are not willing to sacrifice something for it?
by evanjrowley | 2025-08-15 20:13:06+00:00
This reminds me of an article from approximately a decade ago about how enterprise networking gear could be less expensive if the designs leveraged more RAM instead of L1/2 cache. Apparently Cisco IOS and it's state predominantly existed in fast but costly CPU cache. The latency savings of having everything in the CPU cache was not worth it, according to the author.

All that being said, I'm really not qualified to speak in detail about the underlying implementation. Networking is not my background. Also, a lot of this stuff is probably changed since then. For example, Cisco IOS-XE and IOS-XR have gained prominence. Both of those are based on Linux and probably means lots of changes under the hood.
by joshuamoyers | 2025-08-15 20:14:07+00:00
This was pretty wild. Veers deeply into broad generalizations that have the potential to be dangerous in some way I cannot name - but if you stop and consider each archetype as a vector along which you can accidentally trap yourself, its a thought provoking read at least. Unfortunately its also a list of undesirable damaged characters followed by some model of a "whole man" that is somehow infinitely attractive and stable. That's a lot of malarkey in my opinion. We're on a many-dimensional journey and all of us are some degree of lost. Some good guide markers in here though.

I think it does boil down to "try things a lot," especially creating real connections with other people, even though you will painfully fail many times. Drive yourself to have real conversations. Protect your health and keep yourself strong physically and mentally. That's a powerful base to be standing on. Then go find a blend of interest, purpose and duty - building a sense of dharma helps you wake up in the morning and move through the world feeling a little less "lost."
by farhaven | 2025-08-15 20:14:08+00:00
OpenBSD is a lot faster in some specialized areas though. Random number generation from `/dev/urandom`, for example. When I was at university (in 2010 or so), it was faster to read `/dev/urandom` on my OpenBSD laptop and pipe it over ethernet to a friend's Linux laptop than running `cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sda` directly on his.

Not by just a bit, but it was a difference between 10MB/s and 100MB/s.
by DavidVoid | 2025-08-15 20:14:12+00:00
Despite being written in 2009, it certainly still feels relevant.

And thank you for posting this, because it made me think of Sir Noël Coward's banger song "There are bad times just around the corner" (1952) [1], which I hadn't listened to in years.

There are bad times just around the corner There are dark clouds hurtling through the sky And it's no good whining About a silver lining For we know from experience that they won't roll by

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEmMfMVsv4
by latexr | 2025-08-15 20:14:32+00:00
> I didn’t bring up the ”retro comic look” thing. (…) I’m no comic book expert, so I just skipped that one.

I’m no Scott McCloud, but the OpenAI version definitely does a better job with the retro style. The yellow filter you criticised actually helps to sell the illusion. The Imagen version utterly fails in the retro area, that style is very much modern.

But there are other important flaws in the OpenAI version. The fourth panel has a different cat (the head shape and stripes are wrong) and it bleeds into the previous panel. Technically that could be a stylistic choice, except that the floor/table is inconsistent, making it clear it was a mistake.
by godelski | 2025-08-15 20:14:53+00:00
I agree with everything here. But I want to do a little nitpicking here

> 7. Saves you from needing "cloud" storage or other cloud services.

One thing that frustrates me about cloud services is that they want to be the only host of my data. I want a 321 system[0]. That means I want a copy and I want a copy somewhere else. But most of these storage systems don't make it easy to do API calls and just rsync everything[1]. Yeah, I know about rclone but Google photos isn't storing my photos in their original quality and I don't trust them to not change the data.

So it means really the only solution is just buying a storage box. You can treat it as safety so doesn't need much egress, just to sync. But you should have something off site and "cloud" makes that much easier. But also, depends on how important that is. I'm not doing that with "pirated" content but I am with my content.

[0] 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 off-site. (All these are "at least")

[1] How is it easier to write a small bash script through termux to rsync to my home and another location than it is to do this with professional tools? For the love of god, it is a fucking trivial script and I can make it do whatever I want, like only backup on WiFi, only through tailscale, or even a specific WiFi SSID. Hell, I can get it to issue a command to my home server to sync with the remote server checking to make sure things match. For what, not even 100 lines in bash? It's a joke
by Bender | 2025-08-15 20:14:57+00:00
Speaking of http/2 [1] - August 14, 2025

The underlying vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8671, has been found to impact projects and organizations such as AMPHP, Apache Tomcat, the Eclipse Foundation, F5, Fastly, gRPC, Mozilla, Netty, Suse Linux, Varnish Software, Wind River, and Zephyr Project. Firefox is not affected.

[1] - https://www.securityweek.com/madeyoureset-http2-vulnerabilit...
by horizion2025 | 2025-08-15 20:15:10+00:00
I think you should drop the "stochastic text transformer" label you have probably heard applied, and instead think of them as neural networks that they are. Reason being that the term says absolutely zero about capabilities but creates a subjective 'reduction'. It's just a thought terminating cliché.

Let's for the sake of argument assume current LLM's are a mirage but in the future some new technology emerges that offers true intelligence and true reasoning. At the end of the day such a system will also input text and output text, and output will probably piece-meal as current LLM's (and humans) do. So voila: They are also "stochastic text transformers".

Yes LLM's were trained to predict next token. But clearly they are not just a small statistical table or whatever. Rather, it turns out that to be good at predicting the next token, after some point you need a lot of extra capabilities, so that's why they emerge during training. All the "next-token-prediction" is just a way abstract and erasing name of what is going on. A child learning how to write, fill in math lessons etc. is also learning 'next token prediction' from this vantage point. It says nothing about what goes on inside the brain of the child, or indeed inside the LLM. It is a confusion between interface and implementation. Behind the interface getNextToken(String prefix) may either be hiding a simple table or a 700 billion-size neural network or a 100 billion sized neuron human brain.
by gms7777 | 2025-08-15 20:16:01+00:00
> I also think even without the medication the diagnosis is worth it.

Yeah, I think our society views so many symptoms of ADHD as the worst type of personal failings, so I think there's a level of trauma associated with growing up undiagnosed and being consistently blamed and shamed for things that were out of your control. Even without medication, getting diagnosed was, for me, the first step towards healing and starting to unpack all that shame.
by themafia | 2025-08-15 20:16:07+00:00
> So I'm not sure what's meant by the "got away with" part.

The agency still exists, in the exact same form, with no additional oversight. Did you think it just meant remaining obscured from the public? Shouldn't someone have gone to jail for this?

> Recreating the Church commission today wouldn't be just difficult, it is completely impossible.

The CIA has literally taken "ex-employees" and run them into the House and the Senate. It's far worse than you imagine. They "got away" with it and they continue to "get away" with it.

Schlesinger was right. The CIA needs to be divided into two separate firms. One responsible for research which reports directly to the civilian administration and the other responsible for operations which reports directly to the military administration.
by MegaDeKay | 2025-08-15 20:16:46+00:00
+1 for FreeCAD. It has come a long way with the release of 1.0 Yeah it is still well behind the big players, but it can do what I need it to do as a hobbyist and there are lots of nice improvements like the new transform tool in the weekly releases. Some of the folks on the FreeCAD Discord actually suggest treating FreeCAD as a rolling release and using the weeklies rather than sit on 1.0 until 1.1 comes out.

I also appreciate those folks that model stuff in FreeCAD and share their models along with the .stl files on Thingiverse or Printables. It is really a good way to discover new ways of using the program.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-15 20:16:49+00:00
All test suites have coverage gaps. The fixing commit adds tests. https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit/gcc/commit/?id=c1e54c82a9e1855499ef...

The better question, in my opinion, is how many other known defects are just sitting there in the GNU buganizer with good reports for more than a decade.
by a_sydelov | 2025-08-15 20:17:06+00:00
Many pipelines rely on quick checks like COUNT(*) or SUM(amount) to confirm data integrity after ETL, CDC, or migration steps. These methods fail to detect silent issues such as dropped rows, duplicated events, type mismatches, or overwritten columns.

A row-by-row comparison can reveal such problems, but becomes impractical on billions of records. Merkle Trees provide a scalable alternative by building a hierarchy of hashes directly in the database, allowing mismatches to be detected and localized down to a specific group or row without moving large datasets.

Key points: - Detects subtle data drift missed by aggregate checks. - Operates entirely within modern SQL engines (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL). - Pinpoints errors by drilling down through hash layers. - Integrates with existing workflows like dbt, Airflow, and CDC validation. - Can be combined with probabilistic filters for high-throughput pipelines.

This approach makes it possible to validate large datasets quickly, precisely, and without the overhead of full data scans.
by dogaar | 2025-08-15 20:17:19+00:00
Bug-free text can indeed be nice to look at.

Speaking of bugs: the Unicode-art at the bottom of the mentioned page isn't showing correctly.

No single web font can display all Unicode code-points, and using a suitable font for that Unicode-art would fix it.

More on that here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...
by bigbadfeline | 2025-08-15 20:17:25+00:00
> [Trump... Biden... ]

I've never mentioned either, nor do I assume what you think about them.

> So generally the overall political trend in the United States is to be like this.

The question I'm pondering isn't "what the trend is to be" but rather "why it has to change". Thinking about who and how could change it should wait, lest we end up putting the cart before the horse.

> You could ignore history if you want and hope for something different.

Being careful about not falling into the same traps as before isn't "ignoring history", it's learning from history, which is mostly the opposite of repeating it, because repeating the same thing with the same bad result is the definition of idiocy.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-08-15 20:17:29+00:00
Loved Syndicate. When it first came out I was too young to be competent at it.

Played it about 10 years later highly effectively. Using persuadetrons at every possible moment made progress much easier.

The only thing that stands out as “clunky” about the game was its locked isometric view and layers sometimes obscuring your or other agents, making it difficult to know what’s going on.
by omgJustTest | 2025-08-15 20:17:40+00:00
I've been in industry and academia.

My experience is that incentives within the two are converging: monetization drives all activities.

Higher ed is allowing professors to slump teaching responsibilities - as it has for many years - in favor of high-flying research. What is new is that now: entire departments struggle to find chairs or people to run basic functions at teaching or research levels. Professors are rarely on campus except at the bare minimum and are largely diverting resources (people & research) to their companies.
by mittensc | 2025-08-15 20:18:29+00:00
> It's not correct to attribute all bugs to carelessness

Sure, just the bugs in the link.

Content-Length+Transfer-Encoding should be bad request.

RFC is also not respected: "Proxies/gateways MUST remove any transfer-coding prior to forwarding a message via a"

Content-Lenght: \r\n7 is also a bad request.

Just those mean whoever wrote the parser didn't even bother read the RFC...

No parsing failure checks either...

That kind of person will mess up HTTP/2 as well.

It's not a protocol issue if you can't even be bothered to read the spec.

> The post makes the case that HTTP/2 is systematically less vulnerable than HTTP/1 to the kinds of vulnerabilities it's talking about.

Fair enough, I disagree with that conclusion. I'm really curious what kind of bugs the engineers above would add with HTTP/2, will be fun.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-15 20:18:46+00:00
I'm not familiar with the reaction time test. Based on some reading I've done, ADHD is associated with higher variance in reaction time. Despite my ADHD symptoms, I've never thought reaction time was one of them. Quite the opposite really. The hours and hours honing my "skills" in first person shooters puts my reaction time and precision well above human average. But basically the only time I'm testing my reaction speeds is when headed towards those ADHD hits. The few times I've had opportunity to test it, it's felt very "game like" in science centers and places like that and I still have consistently fast reaction times.

The "clumsy" aspect is similar. I'm not clumsy. My balance and coordination are a little above average based on observations like rock hopping to cross streams while hiking.
by napsterbr | 2025-08-15 20:20:09+00:00
This is clearly low quality, non-idiomatic AI-generated Elixir code. So the likely answer is that "you" did not use this at all; AI did.

I review this kind of AI-generated Elixir code on a daily basis. And it makes me want to go back to ~2022, when code in pull requests actually made sense.

Apologies for the rant, this is just a burnt out developer tired of reviewing this kind of code.

PS: companies should definitely highlight "No low-quality AI code" in job listings as a valid perk.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-08-15 20:20:28+00:00
"Arm neural technology is an industry first, adding dedicated neural accelerators to Arm GPUs"

HiSilicon Kirin 970 had an NPU in like 2017. I think almost every performance-oriented Arm chip released in the last 5 years has had some kind of NPU on it.

I suspect they are using Arm here to mean "Arm-the-company-and-brand" not "Arm the architecture", which is both misleading and makes the claim completely meaningless.
by linksnapzz | 2025-08-15 20:20:46+00:00
There were no allegations; it's just that the Itanium goes almost completely unmentioned in his own account of his own time at Intel.

In comparison, John DeLorean made the (startling and remarkable) claim in his autobiography that GM was aware of the Corvair's handling issues, and that he tried to have the company remedy this before Nader made it an issue. He probably felt that an account of a senior executive's time at Chevrolet in the 1960s might deal with the issue of a product controversy.
by db48x | 2025-08-15 20:20:59+00:00
Eh. What they really show is a tech demo. It has simple houses and stores instead of a single apartment building with both in them because it needs to test the path finding and traffic simulation. It also needs to test the agent simulation, where each agent goes somewhere that satisfies a need. If everything were in a single building then there would be no way to find bugs in those systems.