MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brentjanderson | 2025-08-16 21:22:43+00:00
There's actually a term for this, Context Collapse [1] that explores how social media forces everyone to have a single online persona instead of presenting in the way that makes sense for a given social context (e.g. the "you" at work vs. the "you" at school vs. the "you" with family).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse
by Lerc | 2025-08-16 21:22:57+00:00
It seems a bit much to stick a Proper Noun in front of Neural Networks and call it a new paradigm.

I can see how that worked for KANs because weights and activations are the bread and butter of Neural networks. Changing the activations kind-of does make a distinct difference. I still thing there's merit in having learnable weights and activations together, but that's not very Kolmogorov Arnold theorem, so activations only seemed like a decent start point (but I digress).

This new thing seems more like just switching out one bit of the toolkit for another. There are any number of ways to measure how a bunch of values are like another bunch of values. Cosine similarity, despite sounding all intellectual is just a dot product wearing a lab coat and glasses. I assume it is easily acknowledged as not the best metric, but really can't be beat for performance if you have a lot of multiply units lying around.

It would be worth combining this research with the efforts on translating one embedding model to another. Transferring between metrics might allow you to pick the most appropriate one at specific times.
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-16 21:23:08+00:00
not only IE, but even NetMeeting, which in the late 1990s was the pinnacle of cool Microsoft. conferencing! Screen sharing! Chat!

Ostensibly based on the H323 standard, the OEM that supplied the stacks to Microsoft also rolled their own versions for Solaris, IRIX, and HPUX.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990210095918/http://www.datcon...
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-16 21:24:09+00:00
> there’s no private crypto anymore

There are multiple privacycoins that exist, not limited to Monero, Zcash (with privacy features enabled), and Litecoin (with MWEB enabled). Bitcoin with Lightning Network too indirectly offers privacy, although not as strongly as the rest.

The purpose of a news article is to convey all the facts, which it does.
by pm | 2025-08-16 21:24:21+00:00
Ignoring its negative connotation, it's more likely to be a highly advanced "stochastic parrot".

> "You don't do that without some kind of working internal model of mathematics."

This is speculation at best. Models are black boxes, even to those who make them. We can't discern a "meaningful internal representation" in a model, anymore than a human brain.

> "There is just no way you can get to the right answer by spouting out plausible-sounding sentence completions without understanding what they mean."

You've just anthropomorphised a stochastic machine, and this behaviour is far more concerning, because it implies we're special, and we're not. We're just highly advanced "stochastic parrots" with a game loop.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-16 21:24:27+00:00
We have published an iOS app that is a utility for a relatively small demographic. It's been on the App Store since January, and we have a bit over 1,000 users. I don't really expect it to get more than a couple of thousand.

I did test it with 12,000 users (fake ones), so it should handle small scales, but it will definitely have to be rewritten, for much larger scales. It would not be as usable, in that case. At this scale, it works very well, indeed.

That's fine. It works great, and we vet every signup, so we're not interested at all in scaling.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-16 21:24:48+00:00
This is all well, if you want to be a hacker and spend 100s of hours migrating a hack that sends a postal card to your mom, that's a nice hobby.

But I want obscene amounts of wealth that would make my accountant uneasy, I want 10K DAU running against a single 10$/mo VPS that can do more cpu cycles in a second than the amount of words I have ever spoken, I want project 24 and 76 to take off, so I can kill all the others if they are too time consuming. I want to be greeted through SSH with a message telling me that I haven't logged in for 3400 days and coincidentally have that be the uptime, I want to check the balance of the stripe account with that single purpose LLC to be like 874$, even if I fail I want to at least go for the moonshot.

To each their own I guess.
by jmull | 2025-08-16 21:24:54+00:00
I hope this is clear: the published language standard the previous poster was asking about does not currently exist.

You linked to efforts to create a specification, but they aren't done or close to done.

It's also not clear the goal is to create a standard. E.g., according to the spec-vision document, the spec isn't planned to be authoritative (the implementation is). If that doesn't change the spec can't really function as a standard. (A standard would allow independent implementations and independent validation of an implementation. A non-authoritative spec doesn't.)
by leke | 2025-08-16 21:26:26+00:00
I got my diagnosis at 49. It took about 18 months, multiple visits to a doctor and 3 different specialists, and a lot of money, but it has been a game changer to feel somewhat normal. I'm only angry because I could have lived a much better life, if I was diagnosed early on. I really believe the people that could have helped me, knew what problem I had, but didn't want to help. I don't believe that people who called me stupid and lazy were that stupid. Even now I believe there are some barriers they have because as soon as each of my children turned 13, the call from the teacher came, informing me of suspected ADHD (ADD).
by brewdad | 2025-08-16 21:27:12+00:00
While true, in summer travel season more than half the plane will board early when SW allows families with small children to board between groups A and B. There's no real definition of small child and SW will let a party of 8 board early because one of them is 4 years old. Mom, Dad, teenage kids, grandma...etc.

You really do need to pay for A boarding if you must sit together. Or game the system and claim you need to preboard.
by starkparker | 2025-08-16 21:29:37+00:00
It does break the border, but that's a two-line fix in ui.py to use a Rich Panel without side borders:

+ from rich import box ... book_panel = Panel( book_content, + box=box.SIMPLE_HEAD, title=f"[{COLORS.PANEL_TITLE}]{progress_text}[/{COLORS.PANEL_TITLE}]", ...

Then running lue in an emacs ansi-term or mlterm with a variable-width font configured, it looks like a typical ePub reader.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-16 21:31:58+00:00
I was too tired to bear any bears at that hour of the night. Plus bears see better at night than me, so staying away from that bear was apt for my safety.

So, instead of bearing possible bear induced pain, I slept soundly after a pint of beer.

Plus, I'm still in one piece, so at least I can consider this a win.
by zeroq | 2025-08-16 21:33:11+00:00
Not only theory crafting during interviews but a lot of real life design is driven by what's known as resume driven development. The worst part - some of that is later presented at large conferences as successful and go-to solutions.

One time I was working in a body leasing company and our team was hired by bigco for an internal project. Two months earlier an internal employee was tasked to research the project and develop a prototype. When we started all major set pieces were written in stone. Month later said employee left. When we later checked the job listing he likely applied to our tech stack mirrored that to a letter. He got free training, a resume and a new job. We were stuck with these decisions for 3 years.

Another time a local branch of another bigco was trying to carve out a major piece of internal cake. Head-of was hired, team was quickly ramped up and they started cooking their foothold. Then a series of major power shifts happened couple levels above our pay grade and another branch came out with competitive strategy. We had a 2 days long internal brainstorm involving 50 people to come up with arguments and strategies how to defend our approach. We bet on blue, they were selling red. Life's were at stake. And many truly believed that blue was the way to go, and red was a recipe for disaster. Two days later we had a rock solid presentation that was trashing red approach. But if course most of these decisions are not made by nerds and middle mgmt do eventually the company placed their bet in red and the whole dept became redundant. No one likes to lose their jobs, so our blue head-of quickly turned his cloak and the team became an outsourcing provider for the winning team. What makes this story particularly funny is the fact that the head-of immediately started campaign of conference presentations where he sweard that all his life he believed that red was the future that will eventually trump blue, and any competition that is still using blue is destined to fail in short future.
by xemdetia | 2025-08-16 21:33:13+00:00
This was also introduced in the same moment as a bunch of real name initiatives from multiple companies. People were rejecting it based on what it demanded compared to what was offered. It also killed or force reworked other Google products that were working fine to end users (e.g. Google Talk).

In my eyes it was one of the key moments that put them on a downward trajectory in public opinion. So while it might have had the right features the rest of the deal sucked, and people were already tiring of social media overall.
by haswell | 2025-08-16 21:33:57+00:00
I know I said I was done, but I wanted to say that this comment is the most coherent representation of your position so far, and I appreciate that.

To be clear, I'm very against any kind of implied "ownership" and believe employees should have autonomy/freedom to work where they want. My primary contention is with the idea that all types of hiring are equal. There are clear and obvious differences between different hiring scenarios whether we want them to exist or not. This isn't up for debate; it is the underlying reality playing out whether we acknowledge and label it or not (this is separate from whether such a thing should exist, i.e. I'm pointing out an is, not an ought).

> You are FAR too focused on the specific word.

To be fair (and you acknowledged this), you started the conversation about that word. The substance of my argument is that the word is not something we should be concerned about. Turning this back around on me being too focused on the word is...an interesting choice.

I do find it frustrating and puzzling that once I shared a strong argument for why the focus on terminology at the beginning of this thread was misplaced, you clarified that this isn't what you're actually talking about.

C'est la vie.
by avar | 2025-08-16 21:35:29+00:00
> Unfortunately the person who owns putty.org > started to use it to spread misinformation > about vaccines and[...]

Isn't that rather fortunate in the grand scheme of things? It could have been a landing page monetizing various SSH clients for windows.

Instead it's just some guy's website clearly unrelated to PuTTY. He's even gone out of his way to point people looking for PuTTY in the right direction. Who cares what his opinion is about anything else?
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-16 21:35:45+00:00
> If you actually know anything about theory, then you'll see the rest of the essay as rhetorical shadow-boxing with something no one is actually saying.

If you've run into more than a few people with liberal arts degrees that are more-or-less unrelated to Ethnic Studies talking about intersectionality, then you have heard people saying exactly what she is arguing with.

I didn't see a date on this article, but if it's recent it is perhaps a bit late to the party, as the peak of this was probably somewhere in the late twenty-teens.
by mjw1007 | 2025-08-16 21:36:17+00:00
The plan described in "Our Vision for the Rust Specification", and the linked RFC3355, were abandoned early in 2024.

The team that was formed to carry out RFC3355 still exists, though it's had an almost complete turnover of membership.

They're currently engaged in repeating the process of deciding what they think a spec ought to be like, and how it might be written, from scratch, as if the discussion and decisions from 2023 had never happened.

The tracking issue for the RFC was https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/113527 . You can see the last update was in 2023, at the point where it was time to start the actual "write the spec" part.

That's when it all fell apart, because most of the people involved were, and are, much more interested in having their say on the subject of what the spec should and shouldn't be like than they are in doing the work to write it.
by reactordev | 2025-08-16 21:36:38+00:00
You can get 100 million people to load the 1x1 by adding it using javascript to an adsense ad you publish on Google...

The number of times my browser has been hijacked from their ad network is numerous.

Odds are, the culprit owns some IP that is running on 20M devices. Whether it's a mobile game. A bot net. An ad. Or some other script/service that allows other machines to make the request on his/her behalf.
by jszymborski | 2025-08-16 21:36:47+00:00
This is sorta something people are discovering with Mastodon. Lots of instances are realizing it's better to cap registrations before they get too large and just have someone spin up another instance.

You sorta get the best of both worlds with Fedi. I'm glad I get to go down hashtag rabbit holes or see boosts from other instances, but I recognize names from my local instance and I feel comfortable we mostly agree on norms and moires which makes folks trust the moderation more (although maybe I'm biased, I'm on the trust and safety team of my instance).
by whyenot | 2025-08-16 21:36:57+00:00
There is also Michael Scott, Apple’s first CEO. He didn’t necessarily ride out into the sunset as much as being pushed out into it after some very controversial mass layoffs. He’s a neighbor and purchased several homes near me. One, a large estate, he demolished and turned into a pond and fruit orchard. Another he turned into an office and lab space for his interest in gemstones. It’s actually been quite a while since i last saw him. I wonder if he is still living over there.
by 30minAdayHN | 2025-08-16 21:37:42+00:00
Once a sister of my friend messaged me asking to take down a picture of him with a beer mug. It was because they were looking for matches for him (Indian wedding). I said no and told her that it is better to lose such a match :p

At this point, my network is bunch of 'aunts' and 'uncles'. I take secret pleasure by posting stuff that irks them :)
by randomvalues | 2025-08-16 21:38:20+00:00
Too easy, 58s first go, playing with my fat fingers on a phone.

Was interested when I saw it, reminded me of a bullet-hell training game I had on windows about 25years ago. Keyboard control, bullets aimed at you, many games lasted less than 2 seconds if you had a bad start :)

Edit: just realised how negative my post was. I did actually enjoy it, honest! I will be playing more :) thanks for sharing
by jrflowers | 2025-08-16 21:40:24+00:00
> No, I'm pointing out that people like yourself are unable to recognize (willfully) government interference resulting in negative outcomes with the government interference you champion.

No you’re not. You’re not doing that at all.

You’re just posting “Hey, you know that thing nobody said? What if you believed this thing I just made up? Even though I know you did not, you would surely look pretty silly if you also came up with this wrong thing that I thought of in my head. Just picture what a buffoon you would be if you said something completely different than what you said. I am imagining you doing that and it is very pleasing to me. You look quite the fool and I quite the razor-sharp wit in this scenario that never happened but I am envisioning anyway”

It is nonsense, quite literally gibberish. “What if we had an argument and I was right and you were wrong how would that feel” isn’t an argument or a point. It is a dream that you’ve decided to volunteer unprompted that you fantasize about.

It is like someone bringing up a new pair of running shoes and you interjecting with your thoughts about the eroticism of feet.
by echelon | 2025-08-16 21:40:39+00:00
Spectroscopy is powerful.

There are various forms of spectroscopy that leverage different physical characteristics: vibration, absorbance, emission, charge, etc.

It's spectroscopy that allows us to read the molecular atmospheric composition of exoplanets and that has the greatest chance of yielding detection of alien biosignatures or technosignatures given our current scientific understanding and capability.

Spectroscopic techniques are vital for remote sensing, cancer detection, biochemistry, materials science, and more.
by pietrushnic | 2025-08-16 21:40:56+00:00
This is precisely it. Also, maybe some regulatory requirements of cloud providers and organizations like OCP. Commoditizing their complement is probably another obvious goal.

We also have to note that AMD seems to be heading for being a market leader in the server market (some signals are active in OCP Caliptra and OSF). We can see their presence at the upcoming OCP Summit, where they (together with Intel) will push forward the agenda of a generic framework for bootstrapping firmware, which is called openSFI: https://youtu.be/1CE6olXT604
by tamimio | 2025-08-16 21:41:10+00:00
I know, duh, I was being sarcastic and referring to what the article is trying to frame.

> to convey all the facts, which it does.

Conveying all facts alone isn't enough, because when you start mixing some facts to influence the reader's interpretation, you are not being honest. I think this is called "priming" in journalism.

>Priming - Introducing certain information early to influence how readers interpret subsequent information, even when the early details aren't directly relevant to the main story.

The article could avoid mentioning Monero altogether, maybe at the end state that he wouldn't have been busted if he had kept using Monero, but they needed to muddy the water to give an illusion to the reader that big brother surveillance is over the top and you should never trust crypto privacy, which is not true.
by buybackoff | 2025-08-16 21:41:59+00:00
Inetersting, the paper explain how remineralisation works and the role of F and fluoroapatite. This reminds me the recent Veritasium video about why Teflon is so strong - F chemical bonds are the strongest.

For Novamin alone, I've seen and understood the claims of sensitivity protection with hydroxyl-carbonate apatite (HCA). The paper explains it in 4.3. The layer is temporary and protects from acids, conserving the teeth tissue below.

But F is essential and my paste has it together with Novamin. It seems they may work well together. But the paper also explains that F works with saliva rich in minerals to repair the enamel. So if Novamin creates a strong layer, it may block access of F + saliva to enamel (my speculation, as in 4.2 they say "A clean tooth surface is required to access the mineral-deficient spot.").

So maybe a classical Ca+F paste is better overnight when no acid exposure is expected, but Novamin is nice in the morning before breakfast.
by jms55 | 2025-08-16 21:43:09+00:00
For people not familiar with how ML is being used by games, checkout this great and very recent SIGGRAPH 2025 course https://dl.acm.org/doi/suppl/10.1145/3721241.3733999. Slides are in the supplementary material section, and code is at https://github.com/shader-slang/neural-shading-s25.

Neural nets are great for replacing manually-written heuristics or complex function approximations, and 3d rendering is _full_ of these heuristics. Texture compression, light sampling, image denoising/upscaling/antialiasing, etc.

Actual "generative" API in graphics is pretty rare, at least currently. That's more of an artist thing. But there's a lot of really great use cases for small neural networks (think 3-layer MLPs, absolutely nowhere near LLM-levels of size) to approximate expensive or manually-tuned heuristics in existing rendering pipeline, and it just so happens that the GPUs used for rendering also now come with dedicated NPU accelerator things.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-16 21:43:18+00:00
Why limit yourself to the SFF?

45 Drives is the company that builds the hard drive pods used by Backblaze and they offer a 4U, 60x3.5 inch drive array. Has an advertised capacity of 1.44 PB, which would be 24TB drives configured without redundancy.

https://www.45drives.com/products/storage-server-storinator-...
by ylee | 2025-08-16 21:43:30+00:00
I used Applixware on Linux during college. Here's what I wrote to someone else at the time:

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I've been using Applixware 4.2 then 4.3 to write papers and such for a year and a half. Bear in mind that I've only used the Words module, not anything else.

In many ways Applixware is a superb program. Great interface, great looks, multiple-language support, including dictionaries and thesauruses (important for a Spanish major like me). The only major deficiencies are 1) inadequate filters support (Word 6/7 import and export is pretty buggy; I hear 4.4.1 will do a much better job, and handle Word97 too) and 2) missing some basic features like a simple way to do single/double spacing (you have to type in the measurements yourself).

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Another notable omission is word count; I used a macro as substitute.

Despite the flaws (4.4.1 did not fix the inability to do simple line spacing, and I was told by the company that there were no plans to change this), Applixware was good enough. I produced .rtf files that I printed via Word on campus laser printers, and .pdf files for job applications during senior year.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-08-16 21:43:41+00:00
Agreed it’s not a great article because it expects the reader to have context and a little imagination, but last I checked what the nostrilfolk were up to it was typical for a web app to ask for your private key (Nsec) and you’re just supposed to trust that app to take actions on your behalf (why nostr isn’t a browser extension that simply signs transactions clientside I don’t know)

So the attack vector is you change what you do once you get a nostridumbass to enter their nsec, Mossad is just mentioned as a catchall for potential attackers.
by rchaud | 2025-08-16 21:43:59+00:00
This is another recycled version of the "college is a scam" trope that comes around during every recession. I first experienced it firsthand when I graduated smack dab in the middle of the Great Recession of 2008-09. Those who had majored in the so-called "basket weaving" disciplines were doomed, while those in "job-ready" disciplines like comp sci, accounting and finance were also doomed, but marginally less so as they'd bounce back when the S&P500 did.

It's far too simple to say "train to be a plumber" or HVAC, construction, or auto mechanic or whatever people latch on to as "future-proof / recession-proof". The reluctance to take these jobs is not the resistance to doing manual labour, but that lifetime income is limited unless you're the boss.

As with any role in a broadly non-unionized labour market, you only make proper money if you incorporate, strike deals of your own, hire people and pay yourself multiples more than the labour. Otherwise, your time, labour and frankly, bodily integrity is at the mercy of whoever signs your paychecks. And just like every other industry, only a small proportion of workers are cut out to be biz dev or people managers, and as a boss, you need to be able to do both.

Demand for electricians or mechanics will not grow proportionately with growth in electrician training programs, any more than SW Eng jobs did with the growth of bootcamps in the 2010s. The difference was that coding jobs were often paid for on the back of venture capital, or on the back of a giant, profitable corporation. The trades are not like that, you can't be paid more than what the company brings in revenue-wise.