MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-14 02:30:03+00:00
I'll try to keep this simple.

> I'm not disagreeing with you. You understand that, right?

We disagree about whether context can make a difference, right?

> The parent was talking about stringing together inferences. My argument was how you string them together matters. That's all. I said "context matters."

> TLDR: We can't determine if likelihood increases or decreases without additional context

The situations you describe where inference acts differently do not fall under the "stringing together"/"chaining" they were originally talking about. Context never makes their original statement untrue. Chaining always makes evidence weaker.

To be extra clear, it's not about whether the evidence pushes your result number up or down, it's that the likelihood of the evidence itself being correct drops.

> It is the act of chaining together functions.

They were not talking about whether something is composition or not. When they said "string" and "chain" they were talking about a sequence of inferences where each one leads to the next one.

Composition can be used in a wide variety of contexts. You need context to know if composition weakens or strengthens arguments. But you do not need context to know if stringing/chaining weakens or strengthens.

> No, you're being too strict in your definition of "chain".

No, you're being way too loose.

> This tells me you drew your chain wrong. If multiple things are each contributing to D independently then that is not A->B->C->D

??? Of course those are different. That's why I wrote "as opposed to".

> I also gave an example for the other case. So why focus on one of these and ignore the other?

I'm focused on the one you called a "counter example" because I'm arguing it's not an example.

If you specifically want me to address "If these are being multiplied, then yes, this is going to decreases as xy < x and xy < y for every x,y < 1." then yes that's correct. I never doubted your math, and everyone agrees about that one.

TL;DR:

At this point I'm mostly sure we're only disagreeing about the definition of stringing/chaining? If yes, oops sorry I didn't mean to argue so much about definitions. If not, then can you give me an example of something I would call a chain where adding a step increases the probability the evidence is correct?

And I have no idea why you're talking about LLMs.
by jccalhoun | 2025-08-14 02:30:57+00:00
I'm not a programmer but I have some stuff I want to do with python. So what I've found useful is taking the output of one LLM, Claude for instance, and giving it to another, Gemini for example, and writing "this is what claude thinks. Evaluate it..." Then if I have to I will take that result back to the first LLM and ask it to evaluate it.

It might just be in my head but it seems like they are a lot more critical that way than if I suggest something. ...Or maybe all of my suggestions really are great...
by Scrounger | 2025-08-14 02:31:44+00:00
> Social media as a vessel for diverse discussion is a tall order. It’s too public, too tied to context, and ultimately a no-win game. No matter how carefully you present yourself, you’ll end up being the “bad guy” to someone. The moment a discussion touches even lightly on controversy, healthy dialogue becomes nearly impossible.

Worth reading Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now book:

https://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Deleting-Social-Media-Accou...
by deadbabe | 2025-08-14 02:31:52+00:00
I wonder if there’s a business opportunity here.

For a monthly fee, you can have “users as a service”. You will receive traffic from many, many users, who you can freely harvest all the data you want from and prove you have traffic. These users will not block analytics or any trackers, and are fully ready to be data mined.

Subscription tiers scale based on how many users you require.
by johnecheck | 2025-08-14 02:32:02+00:00
By that argument, UBI causes both inflation (for essential goods and services) and deflation (for luxury items and assets).

That's the economy reorienting itself around the new demand landscape. Those price spikes are the signal to producers to ramp up supply, which should push the price back down over time.

Inflation is highly problematic when it spirals. Events like collapse of trust in a currency or government can result in runaway inflation, which is a disaster by all accounts. A one-time price spike caused by a one-time abrupt shift in demand is a very different scenario. Assuming the UBI is higher than the prices increases on necessities, we've successfully redistributed wealth and made those people better able to afford necessities, despite the fact that they cost x% more.
by 0manrho | 2025-08-14 02:32:19+00:00
Yep, I have a lot of experience with CXL devices and networked PCIe/NVMe (over Eth/IB) Fabrics and deploying "Headless"/"Micro-Head" compute units which are essentially just a pair of DPU's on a PCIe multiplexer (basically just a bunch of PCIe slots tied to a PCIe Switch or two).

That said my experience in this field is more with storage than GPU compute, but I have done some limited hacking about in the GPGPU space with that tech as well. Really fascinating stuff (and often hard to keep up with and making sure every part in the chain supports the features you want to leverage, not to mention going down the PCIe root topology rabbit hole and dealing with latency/trace-length/SnR issues with retimers vs muxers vs etc etc etc).

It's still a nascent field that's very expensive to play in, but I agree it's the future of at least part of the data infrastructure field.

Really looking forward to finally getting my hands on CXL3.x stuff (outside of a demo environment.)
by AuthAuth | 2025-08-14 02:32:59+00:00
I think this problem is partly due to greedly algos and party due to these sites being so large they have no site culture.

Site culture is what prevents mods from having to step in and sort out every little disagreement. Modern social media actively discourages site culture and post quality becomes a race to the bottom. Sure its harder to onboard new users when there are social rules that need to be learnt and followed but you retain users and have a more enjoyable experience when everyone follows a basic etiquette.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-08-14 02:33:30+00:00
Stop making shit up. There was no mention of narcolepsy. He is just fatigued from stimulant withdrawal.

Page 35 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02306

Edit on re-reading I now realized an issue. He is not actually a taxi driver, that was a hallucination by the model. He works in a restaurant! That changes my evaluation of the situation quite a bit, as I thought he was at risk of being in an accident by falling asleep at the wheel. If he works in a restaurant muddling through the withdrawals seems like the right choice.

I think I got this misconception as I first read second-hand sources that quoted the taxi driver part without pointing out it was wrong, and only a close read was enough to dispel it.
by Scrounger | 2025-08-14 02:33:41+00:00
> Whitelisting solves the problem for me. I curate every tweet I see with a browser extension. Strangers can't kick down the door. I only see content from my direct follows. It dramatically reduces the stress. Maybe a little like horse blinkers.

This extension? https://github.com/rxliuli/mass-block-twitter
by cma | 2025-08-14 02:34:54+00:00
> I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force;

Sounds like speech suppression with force because (later in the quote) the speech may later give way to force. If he was only talking about force in response to force it wouldn't be considered a paradox I don't think. This quote hasn't dispeled popular characterizations of his stance for me, it seems in line with what most people say he's saying.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-14 02:35:19+00:00
Real-time self privacy protection people might buy into. They can trust what they are doing and they get the benefit. E.g. automatically not recording during certain periods without having to explicitly signal it each time is a convenience. I don't want my big post Taco Bell Shit to waste my storage or accidentally stream it somewhere. At the same time, I also don't want my smart glasses to be tethered to something which can run AI and video processing models all the time, or to be dumping it all to the cloud 24/7 live either, as battery is already one of the big problems with the tech currently. At least that's something the advance of technology in general may be able to solve though, so I like the concept for self-application.

I don't know this would actually make others any more comfortable/guaranteed, which is where the bulk of the privacy concerns around smart glasse lie. I'm also not sure if that's actually a problem for more technology to be able to solve. The nice thing about e.g. recording consent is you do it on your device, or in some cloud device by a 3rd party. The moment you do it through the other person's device it's no different (from a trust/easiness/guarantee factor) than just asking the person themselves to not record you (again, beyond the benefits to the operator themselves around that). If some guy walked up to you with a literal video camera pointed at you and said "it only records your face if you give it consent":

- Do you even trust the person is telling the truth?

- If you do, do you trust the technology to work 100% of the time?

- If it is a lie or doesn't work and they post something, are you any better off than if you weren't asked for consent and said no? (note: separate this from the value to the person operating the camera, who does get value from those that say yes).

- If you say no, are you really not going to feel awkward compared to not having someone recording the rest of the situation?

Maybe the answer for you to all of these is "Absolutely!", I'd bargain to bet it's not the case for the vast majority of those concerned with the privacy implications of the technology though (which I don't consider myself a part of that group necessarily, I'm just putting myself in their shoes for a second).

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So I'd split my thoughts into two main sections: I'm not sure technology is going to solve any external privacy concerns here, but I think it's an interesting approach to internal privacy concerns with the tech.
by zahlman | 2025-08-14 02:35:24+00:00
Good to see you again.

> FWIW, as a pip maintainer, I don't strongly agree with this statement, I think if pip had the same full time employee resources that uv has enjoyed over the last year that a lot of these issues could be solved.

Fair enough. I'm sure if someone were paying me a competitive salary to develop my projects, they'd be getting done much faster, too.

> I actually think this isn't a great example, evidenced by the lack of a download or wheel command from uv due to those features not aligning with uv's caching strategy.

I guess you're talking about the fact that uv's cache only stores the unpacked version, rather than the original wheel? I'm planning to keep the wheel around, too. But my point was more that because of this cache structure, pip can't even just grab the wheel from its cache without hitting the Internet, on top of not having a place to put a cache of the unpacked files.

> uv's ability to prefetch package metadata,

You mean, as opposed to obtaining it per version, lazily? Because it does seem like the .metadata file system works pretty well nowadays.

> I don't think we're going to be able to implement that in pip any time soon due to probably the need for a complete overhaul of the resolver.

Ugh, yeah. I know the resolution logic has been extracted as a specific package, but it's been challenging trying to figure out how to actually use that in a project that isn't pip.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-14 02:35:24+00:00
> If these were faster than AES and as strong as AES […]

Not everything needs to be as strong as AES, just "strong enough" for the purpose.

Heck, the IETF has published TLS cipher suites with zero encryption, "TLS 1.3 Authentication and Integrity-Only Cipher Suites":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9150

Lightweight cryptography could be a step between the above zero and the 'heavyweight' ciphers like AES.
by Scrounger | 2025-08-14 02:35:50+00:00
> Bluesky

FWIW, I've been consistently posting quality stuff on Bluesky for the last year, and despite having a few hundred followers, I get ZERO engagement.

People in the Bluesky subreddit tell me it's not a "post and ghost" platform in that you have to constantly interact with people if you want to earn engagement, but that's too time consuming.

In other words, the discovery algorithm(s) on BlueSky sucks.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-14 02:35:58+00:00
> GPU upgrades seem much more rapid and substantial compared to CPU/RAM.

I feel like I’ve been hearing about people selling five-to-ten-year-old GPUs for sometimes as many dollars as they bought them for, for the last five years; and people choosing to stay on 10-series NVIDIA cards (2016) because the similar-cost RTX 30-, 40- or 50-series was actually worse, because they’d been putting the effort and expense into parts of the chips no one actually used. Dunno, I don’t dGPU.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-14 02:36:34+00:00
The IETF has published TLS cipher suites with zero cryptography, "TLS 1.3 Authentication and Integrity-Only Cipher Suites":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9150

Lightweight cryptography could be a step between the above zero and the 'heavyweight' ciphers like AES.
by stouset | 2025-08-14 02:37:30+00:00
> Some protection is better than no protection.

No, not really.

Algorithms tend to fall pretty squarely in either the “prevent your sibling from reading your diary” or the “prevent the NSA and Mossad from reading your Internet traffic” camps.

Computers get faster every year, so a cipher with a very narrow safety margin will tend to become completely broken rapidly.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-14 02:37:50+00:00
> Whenever I’m critical of anything GenAI, without fail I get asked the same question. “do you think every major CEO could be wrong?”

I think one of the most helpful mental models about unanimity is, are the decisions independent, or unified? In theory if you do a literature review, you’re summarizing different research experiences, but if you’re 100 CEO’s, it’s all the same data they’re looking at, it’s really only one opinion, and prediction is hard, especially about the future.
by SamBam | 2025-08-14 02:38:00+00:00
But they're part of its stack. It wouldn't exist without it. And vice versa, AWS wouldn't have as many employees without companies like Instagram.

Kodak required so many because it owned nearly the whole stack.

But that said, we can't just add the number of AWS employees to the number of Instagram employees, because we have to prorate it by the total number of companies that use AWS (or whatever).
by phillipseamore | 2025-08-14 02:38:11+00:00
98% of the time I want it faster. I don't use arbitrary speeds but rather overshoot what I think I need (which could be based on the pace of the speaker or the time I have available) and then after a minute go down to the target speed (and sometimes rewind back to the start). Overshooting (2x) for 30/90s while wanting 1.5x will make it much easier to listen at just about any speed up to 2.5/3x.
by zahlman | 2025-08-14 02:38:17+00:00
You could do worse than to start using --only-binary=:all: by default. (It's even been proposed as default behaviour: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9140) Even if you can't actually install that way, it will point out the places where sdists are needed.

In principle, separate metadata availability should still at least be possible for most sdists eventually. But I'm not the one calling the shots here.
by UltraSane | 2025-08-14 02:38:39+00:00
"many systems have no mechanism of determining that n bytes have changed without scanning the entire data set."

This is so insanely inefficient it can't scale to very large amounts of data. If you can't do data syncing at the application layer you can do it at the storage layer with high end storage arrays that duplicate all writes to a second storage array, either synchronously or asynchronously. Or duplicate snapshots to a remote array. They work really well.
by canucker2016 | 2025-08-14 02:39:24+00:00
Yeah, Garmin's segmentation strategy makes Intel's marketing look sane.

Lately my Garmin comparison strategy has been:

- look at the last Garmin watch you were interested in

- see if there's been an upgrade to that model (and hope that the model numbering hasn't totally changed)

- look at prices of recent Garmin watches in the same ballpark
by mionhe | 2025-08-14 02:41:18+00:00
The cultures I'm aware of that practice meditation value letting go of the things that keep you attached to physical existence, because they're looking forward to a spiritual existence that value more highly.

For my part, I feel that there's value in critically examining parts of your life and deciding what really matters. If something matters, fight for it. If it turns out something didn't, or it doesn't any more, let it go so you can make room in your life for more important things.
by overfeed | 2025-08-14 02:41:39+00:00
It appears we e have different thresholds on what counts as "military presence".

By way of explanation: rocketry was funded and developed for military ends, including von Braun's earlier work on the V2 and later work on missiles across the Atlantic and the development of ICBMs. IMO, there's no military presence in human spaceflight[1], but you may see it differently due to the heritage of the propulsion system.
by zahlman | 2025-08-14 02:42:30+00:00
This is an inadequate workaround anyway. You can generally read faster than you can process spoken language. But even more importantly, most of what's usually making the video so long is actual padding of the content.

I don't just want to reduce the time I spend listening to the presenter blather on about irrelevant stuff. I want to reduce the amount of irrelevant stuff the presenter blathers on about.
by 0manrho | 2025-08-14 02:43:09+00:00
Just because it told *you* that, doesn't mean it told *him* that, in substance, tone, context, clarity and/or conciseness. There's plenty of non-tech literate people using tech, including AI, and they may not know how to properly ask or review outputs of AI.

AI is fuzzy as fuck, it's one of it's principal pain points, and why it's outputs (whatever they are) should always be reviewed with a critical eye. It's practically the whole reason prompt engineering is a field in and of itself.

Also, it's entirely plausibly that it may have changed it's response patterns since when that story broke and now (it's been over 24hours, plenty of time for adjustments/updates) .
by jakelazaroff | 2025-08-14 02:44:15+00:00
Even if we grant that for the sake of argument, there are two leaps of faith here:

- That AI as it currently exists is on the right track to creating that replica. Maybe neural networks will plateau before we get close. Maybe the Von Neumann architecture is the limiting factor, and we can only create the replica with a radically different model of computing!

- That we will have enough time. Maybe we'll accomplish it by the end of the decade. Maybe climate change or nuclear war will turn the world into a Mad Max–esque wasteland before we get the chance. Maybe it'll happen in a million years, when humans have evolved into other species. We just don't know!
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-14 02:44:42+00:00
It was here in Europe. At the OHM2013 event there were some government contractors (Fox-IT in particular) and the atmosphere was very grim apparently. Tents got damaged and they had to pull out.

Fox-IT was founded by a former AIVD employee which is the Dutch NSA basically.

I remember a friend sending me a job ad from some new cyber team in the military. And I really had to laugh, no way would I ever work somewhere where I'd have to mindlessly obey orders I might disagree with. Or wear a uniform. Or go like "yes sir" to someone who is probably dumber than me.

And really pretty much everyone in the hacker community has an anarchist streak like that. You can tell by the way people behave, how they structure things without strong leaders etc. Everyone just helps at these events where they want, nobody tells them to do anything. This is also why I love these events. No wonder the army can't fill those teams lol. If they want people like us they have to adapt to us.

But I understand in the US this may be different because patriotism seems to be big there.
by NetworkPerson | 2025-08-14 02:47:18+00:00
No, don’t close them. Libraries have become surprisingly useful of late. Need to 3D print something? No problem, probably cost you less than $1 at my local library. Like DND? Cool, they host two games a week. Feel like checking out some video games or board games? Got them too. Shoot, my local library even has kitchen equipment you can check out for free. And we just found out it offers free ABC Mouse subscriptions for up to 2nd grade.

People need internet these days, but getting rid of libraries would get rid of a lot more than just physical books.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-14 02:47:31+00:00
On the off chance you were not already aware, those presets are just that. document.querySelectorAll("video").forEach(el => el.playbackRate = 3.0) but, as that snippet implies, one needs either an extension or access to the dev tools to pull it off

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#dom-media-...

I also learned about https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#dom-media-... while digging up that link

Be aware that MDN reports playbackRate over 4.0 gets its audio muted https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...
by lr4444lr | 2025-08-14 02:48:03+00:00
It's not therapy.

It's a simulated validating listening, and context-lacking suggestions. There is no more therapy being provided by an LLM than there is healing performed by a robot arm that slaps a bandage on your arm if you were to put it in the right spot and push a button to make it pivot toward you, find your arm, and spread it lightly.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-14 02:49:19+00:00
I had a CyberstormPPC with a 604e/200MHz and a 68060/50MHz, and 128MB of RAM onboard. There was also a DKB3128 with another 128MB of RAM.

“Big” Amigas weren’t common, but they definitely existed.

Oh, and I was a college student at the time.