MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devnull3 | 2025-08-04 12:55:43+00:00
Cookie is what we make of it. For browser, its opaque data anyway.

So, when /upload is requested, the backend in response sets a cookie with a random uploadId (+ TTL). At the backend, we tie sessionId and uploadId.

With every step which is called, we verify sessionId and uploadId along with additional state which is stored.

This means even if the form is opened on a different tab, it will work well.
by nxobject | 2025-08-04 12:56:08+00:00
Huh - literally every trick in the toolbox (pun intended) is used to integrate the running System with the host OS.

An actual Quadra ROM, but a System Enabler (and a Helper application). For Toolbox UI services, it does everything from patch the Toolbox (e.g. to prevent windows from being moved onto the MAE toolbar) to call the host OS for services (eg direct translation from QuickDraw to Xlib.)

But so many other mysteries remain.

How is transparent disk access/conversion implemented if there are no SCSI devices, and the ATA/IDE Manager isn’t installed? Is the File Manager heavily patched as well?

Is the 68k emulator patched to map the graphics card DeclROMs into the memory windows the Slot Manager expects? (Why not just patch the Slot Manager as well?)
by blenderob | 2025-08-04 12:56:10+00:00
Nice website. But do I need to buy a omg.lol subdomain before I can contribute links here? Why is it an omg.lol subdomain? I'm happy to buy a new domain, but not so happy about buying a subdomain. I'm not sure why I'd be paying omg.lol to contribute links to url.town? What's the connection between the two?
by mikelayerhealth | 2025-08-04 12:56:59+00:00
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by aaplok | 2025-08-04 12:57:00+00:00
From the article:

> Research in the 1990s found that in California, Latino students scoring above the 90th percentile on standardized tests had only about a 50% chance of being placed in college preparatory classes, while Asian and white students with similar scores had more than a 90% chance.

The data is split by community ( Black, Latino, White, ...). Whites and Asians fare the best (see also their fig. 6.1). Kids from other communities are prevented from getting the same opportunities as kids from these two communities performing equivalently.

So it is not that Asian kids don't matter, it is that the data indicates that Asian kids already seem to be treated reasonably well.
by kolinko | 2025-08-04 12:57:43+00:00
"Yet, every time I tried to get LLMs to perform novel research, they fail because they don’t have access to existing literature on the topic. Whereas, humans, on the other hand, discovered everything humanity knows."

Just because the author was unable to wrangle LLM to do novel research doesn't mean that it's impossible. We already have examples of LLMs either doing or aiding significantly with novel research.
by ileonichwiesz | 2025-08-04 12:58:13+00:00
Who is responsible when the speech-to-text model (which often works well, but isn’t trained on the thousands of similar-sounding drug names) prescribes Klonopin instead of Clonidine and the patient ends up in a coma?

These models definitely aren’t foolproof, and in fact have been known to write down random stuff in the absence of recognisable speech: https://koenecke.infosci.cornell.edu/files/CarelessWhisper_E...
by captainmuon | 2025-08-04 12:58:24+00:00
> The reason you are using C++ in the first place is because you care about details like allocation, so to me this is a gigantic fumble.

I wouldn't say that applies to everybody. I use C++ because it interfaces with the system libraries on every platform, because it has class-based inheritance (like Java and C#, unlike Rust and Zig) and because it compiles to native code without an external runtime. I don't care to much about allocations.

For me the biggest fumble is that C++ provides the async framework, but no actual async stdlib (file io and networking). It took a while for options to be available, and while eg Asio works nicely it is crazily over engineered in places.
by tiahura | 2025-08-04 12:59:20+00:00
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-04 12:59:24+00:00
Your last point is exactly what capitalism has wrought, can see it in everything now. It relies on the apathy of the general public, which is immense.

Every now & then there's an article on shrinkflation, and it's incredibly noticeable to all of us that what we're buying in the supermarkets we're getting less for more. Do we do anything about it? Nah.

A lot of it is down to endless growth, investors hopping on the last few carriages of the train and demanding that more carriages be added after them, and everyone else already on-board obviously support that as well.

There are very few companies that are run as "at capacity" ie fully satisfying their market size, competing with competitors, organically staying the same size due to external factors.

Now it's all internal factors (which I include investors in) trying to balloon every company as large as they can.
by TuxSH | 2025-08-04 12:59:25+00:00
You can write stuff like this:

void *operator new(std::size_t sz, Foo &foo, Bar &bar) { return foo.m_Buffer; /* should be std::max_align_t-aligned \*/ }

and force all coroutines of your Coroutine type to take (Foo &, Bar &) as arguments this way (works with as many overloads as you like).
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-04 12:59:56+00:00
> freedom to make adult decisions and all

Not to sound like an authoritarian, but sometimes I don't think freedom and free will is to be trusted to people. Not when they can be exploited. Some people are prone to addictions (like gambling); should they, especially when they represent a country, be allowed to indulge? Or should they follow a program to help them with their issues? Is the addiction the real problem or just a symptom of something deeper?

I wonder if there's programs (in e.g. the military) that deal with this. I also wonder if they're trying stuff like ozempic and the like, which apparently helps with a wider range of impulsive / addictive behaviours.
by 0xEF | 2025-08-04 13:00:32+00:00
Did not know about this, thanks for pointing it out. It is not precisely what I had in mind, but appealing none the less.

The phone I had in mind is akin to Motorola's RAZR Ultra. As opposed to opening like a book the way Samsung's latest does, unfolding the "top" half provides a smaller-than-average smartphone screen, leaving room for a Blackberry-style keyboard below.

I'm in that niche market where I do not need a large screen on my phone since I am mostly reading text as opposed to watching media. It's not likely I'll ever get precisely what I want due to practicality of both manufacturing and what the general market demands are. I've come to terms with it, but if someone ever drops such a device, I will get in line for it.
by wrpark | 2025-08-04 13:00:32+00:00
By their model cards, Tencent's new Hunyuan Instruct models supports: - Hybrid Reasoning Support - Ultra-Long(256k) Context Understanding - Enhanced Agent Capabilities - Efficient Inference(GQA)

And the Hunyuan 7B model showed better scores than the Qwen3 8B model in the DROP, AIME 2024, and AIME 2025 benchmarks according to this thread.: https://www.threads.com/@sung.kim.mw/post/DM7JPKbRL_E
by zukzuk | 2025-08-04 13:01:01+00:00
My company builds software for medical office assistants, and our clients are typically doctor-owned clinics. We have literally the same problem, but one step down the ladder. The doctors are making the purchasing decision, but MOAs are the direct users. And ironically enough, we have often run into the same problem. Doctors often don’t see the value in software that solves their subordinates’ problems.
by luke-stanley | 2025-08-04 13:01:03+00:00
Anthropic are wicked smart, it's not fair to call them morons, BUT the ToS ban of subscribed, myself, and OpenAI might be useful data points suggesting Anthropic's API moderation behaviour can be strict. Anthropic are doing great work overall, but they have erred on the side of policy robustness, versus keeping API users happy. I said more in my sibling comment reply.
by hedgehog0 | 2025-08-04 13:01:10+00:00
Thank you for your suggestions!

Originally I was more interested in ML/DL theory and mech interp, so you can see I was more into theory. Recently, I am also curious and leaning towards learning more about how to build products with foundational models, such as LLM; for instance, recently I got the "LLM's Engineer Handbook [1]".

> If you want to work with ML you likely need the PhD + get lucky.

I do am interested in doing PhD in theoretical computer science, but I'm not too sure about AI PhD as I heard many (not-so-good) things about it.

> If you are interested on it because of AI, it's better to focus on LLMs and more NLP related fields.

Do you have any recomenndations that you have gone through that you think are helpful?

[1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/llm-engineers-handbook/...
by codingdave | 2025-08-04 13:01:22+00:00
I was working on something similar, but only for a few months. Once I got a prototype in front of a few people, the general feedback I got was: "We love it! But we're years past the point where the editor is the deciding factor in what software to implement."

I found that there are so many choices of editors now that putting out a new one isn't a compelling story anymore. I had numerous discussions with people talking about what can be done with the documents and content after they are created. How AI can be applied (and where it should not), and what new ways of distributing and engaging with the content are now possible. Our talks centered around the cost of implementing a new editor vs. the benefits.

So when I see this editor, I see it reflecting that experience, and I'd be interested to hear in which scenarios people find the editor improvements compelling enough to migrate to this tool.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-04 13:01:50+00:00
Moreover... Most young people are indoctrinated extensively in the female-centric view of society deemed acceptable by polite society. When following that program causes them a great deal of misery with the opposite sex, it is natural for them to feel betrayed and to seek a viewpoint from outside. The fact that the mainstream hates Andrew Tate has the perverse effect of making him more credible to the victims of mainstream brainwashing, regardless of the fact that he pushes a bunch of cringe stuff along with some reasonable takes. I think most people who like Tate probably recognize that it's a mixed bag. But they will put up with the nonsense just to hear some kind of pep talk that meshes with their life experiences.
by em-bee | 2025-08-04 13:02:06+00:00
yes but that is already true today, and it's wrong. you should not sell bug fixes and security patches. anything you sell needs to have value. minor upgrades do not have enough value. i am certainly would not pay for a minor upgrade. i'd just wait until enough new features have accumulated until the upgrade is worth it.

so charging for minor upgrades means that you end up with having to support users who didn't upgrade. that makes your support more expensive.

realistically i believe you don't want more than 2, maybe 3 versions of your product in active use, to keep your support load under control.

you could force people to buy minor upgrades by refusing to support the old version, but that would come across as exhortative.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-04 13:02:11+00:00
That's the meme. It's not going to happen IRL because it doesn't look like China is rising to the bait, because Russia is still advancing in Ukraine, because American industrial production capacity is by every estimation not equal to the task, and because the Middle East is as bad a mess as it has ever been and is sucking all of the oxygen out of the room.

When your Navy literally can't defeat the Houthis, you know for an ironclad 100% certainty that there's zero chance they're capable of beating China -- right off the coast of China!
by Topfi | 2025-08-04 13:02:24+00:00
> While Apple is still a major player in the AI space, they typically lean towards a preference for traditional AI. They’re almost certainly still doing LLM research in the background, but they’ve decided against dropping everything to go full throttle on the hype train. Ironically, this has started to make their investors, who have bought into the hype, quite upset. People are starting to question “why isn’t apply doing things with AI”.

It may very well be the case that Apple too finds themselves pressured into going all out on LLM

Besides my stance that LLMs can serve specific tasks very well and are likely going to take a place similar to spreadsheets and databases over the coming years, hasn’t Apple already? Rarely has Apple tried to appear so unified on one goal across their product stack as they did with Apple Intelligence, the vast majority of which is heavily LLM focused.

The Author appears to fully skip over their attempt and subsequent failure, which made the entire point the piece is trying to further rather unsubstantiated and made me check whether this wasn’t posted in 2022, even more for someone like myself who also is very confident that there is a large chasm between LLMs and whatever AGI may end up being.
by strangescript | 2025-08-04 13:02:38+00:00
"If a machine is consuming and transforming incalculable amounts of training data produced by humans, discussed by humans, and explained by humans. Why would the output not look identical to human reasoning? If I were to photocopy this article, nobody would argue that my photocopier wrote it and therefore can think. But add enough convolutedness to the process, and it looks a lot like maybe it did and can."

But its not copying it. That is the entire point. Its using the training data to adjust floating point numbers. If you train on a single data piece over and over again, then yes it can replicate it, just like you can memorize lines of a school play, but its still not copied/compressed in the traditional, deterministic sense.

You can't argue "we don't know how they work, or our own brains work with any certainty" and then over-trivialize what they do on the next argument.

People suffer brain damage and come out the other side with radically different personalities. What happened to "qualia", or "sense of self", where is their "soul". Its just a mechanistic emergent property of their biological neural network.

Who is to say our brains aren't just very high parameterized biological floating point machines? That is the true Occam's Razor here, as uncomfortable as that might make people.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-04 13:03:46+00:00
Competition doesn't matter if entities have to simultaneously follow all of the payment processors' rules. It means in order to compete you have to find people willing to give up everything else. Which is an impossible proposition.

It's like if a tier 1 ISP only peered with networks that peer with networks that censor XYZ. Allowing for these kind of agreements leads to censorship and is why net neutrality is important from the government.
by no_wizard | 2025-08-04 13:03:48+00:00
This would get bounced where I work. No way we would allow this.

9.9/10 cases there is a design flaw happening here, I and others I work with have found this to be true. We have zero // @ts-ignore statements in a very large code base that dozens of developers work with every day.

Using interface extensions properly helps tremendously here
by EGG_CREAM | 2025-08-04 13:03:50+00:00
Something to point out also is that more equality is actually better even for the 1%. They are just too short-term-focused and greedy to see that. There is nothing they can get today that they wouldn’t be able to get tomorrow if we taxed them appropriately. In return, they would live in a more stable and safe society, a less brittle economy, and wouldn’t be as reviled socially. But they are just too focused on their net worth to see that.
by Teever | 2025-08-04 13:04:07+00:00
That's a noble perspective for sure, but it won't help much when that nosy busybody from down the street Mrs. Smith notices you're bringing some sciencey looking stuff into your garage late one evening and she starts telling the neighbours that you're making meth.

Not everyone is in an environment where they can rationally explain their non-standard hobbies to their neighbours without judgment and no amount of treating a person like Mrs. Smith as a peer is going to stop her from spreading the kinds of rumours that result in a police investigation into them.

Unfortunately some people live in environments where others are just itching to recreate the Salem witch trials.
by pbohun | 2025-08-04 13:04:14+00:00
This looks very interesting. I'm hoping there will be more documentation. For example, docs for the standard library/packages and explanation about the design of the language (does it use garbage collection? how does the type system work? how does the foreign function interface work? etc.).

Technically I could find all these things out by reading all the source code, but that's a lot of work just to see if the language meets my needs.
by drweevil | 2025-08-04 13:04:47+00:00
"They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases.

"It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions."

The first sentence answers the question posed by the second. If we don't monitor greenhouse gases then we don't need to worry about them, right? Especially if you've decided a priory that global climate change is a hoax. Trump's anti-science stance is extremely dangerous.
by tovej | 2025-08-04 13:05:04+00:00
This comment would be more useful if you actually provided those examples.

I'm also a researcher and agree wholeheartedly with the article. LLMs can maybe help you sift through existing literature or help with creative writing, at most they can be used or background research in hypothesis generation by finding pairs of related terms in the literature which can be put together into a network of relationships. They can help with a few tasks suitable for an undergrad research assistant.
by Myrmornis | 2025-08-04 13:05:36+00:00
Yes fair enough my wording wasn't great. And we can add cpython to your list... But the provided type stubs for those libraries make the resulting user experience the same as if they had types. Does Django ORM have a good typing experience via stubs btw? I know that one's always been a challenge.

Overall though my point was that the article, and most comments here, were completely misrepresenting the situation regarding Python. It's a statically typed language for those that want it to be. There's no need to attempt to run any code that hasn't passed a type checker. And it's an expressive type system; much more so than Go which has been mentioned in comments.

However the fact that the standard library documentation doesn't have types is embarrassing IMO.
by phtrivier | 2025-08-04 13:05:53+00:00
Oh, sorry if that's the tone that got out of my message. I'm a big Casey fan myself, so I'm absolutely convinced that there is something "better" to do in terms of performance.

However, just because Windows Terminal was "new" in 2019, it does not mean that it was not embarking lots of legacy code to ensure compatibility with older software.

For example, the wikipedia page you linked to explicitly says WinTerm is "a replacement for Windows Console", which dates back to Win 9x [1] ; and that it's "compatible with Windows Narrator" [2], which dates from the early 2000s, and which scares me just by its name...

So, yes, there is probably a story of piling crap on top of backward compatible crap with zero incentive for performance, and an unhealthy dose a learned-helplessness.

I don't necessarily says it's an excuse for the problem ; but I would really not be surprised if it was "part" of the problem that MS is facing, and that Casey attacked a slightly different problem by not caring about obscure retro-compatibility to Win3.1.

It's good that the team used the software to improve their own. They're in a better position to argue than armchair commentators like me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Console#Windows_9x

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrator_(Windows)
by klibertp | 2025-08-04 13:06:02+00:00
> We obviously have smaller pre-merge tests as well.

This. I feel like trying to segregate tests into "unit" and "integration" tests (among other kinds) did a lot of damage in terms of prevalent testing setups.

Tests are either fast or slow. Fast ones should be run as often as possible, with really fast ones every few keystrokes (or on file save in the IDE/editor), normal fast ones on commit, and slow ones once a day (or however often you can afford, etc.). All these kinds of tests have value, so going without covering both fast and slow cases is risky. However, there's no need for the slow tests to interrupt day-to-day development.

I seem to remember seeing something like `<slowTest>` pragma in GToolkit test suites, so at least a few people seem to have had the same idea. The majority, however, remains fixated on unit/integration categorization and end up with (a select few) unit tests taking "1-2 orders of magnitude" too long, which actually diminishes the value of those tests since now they're run less often.
Nightmare: Torch Wheels for L4T JP6.2.1
by teocalin37 | 2025-08-04 13:06:11+00:00
Went through hell getting this working with CUDA. Thought it might help some other people not go through the same shit as me.

Uploaded to CF R2. Here are the prebuilt wheels:

<Torch>

https://pub-e376cc8f3dc443659c353a82fc4efa8d.r2.dev/torch-2.6.0a0%2Bgit1eba9b3-cp310-cp310-linux_aarch64.whl

<Torchvision>

https://pub-e376cc8f3dc443659c353a82fc4efa8d.r2.dev/torchvision-0.21.0-cp310-cp310-linux_aarch64.whl

Previously available jetson labs wheels are no longer available. Guess they went bust. I'll keep these up as long as I will be around, may make some repository to help other fellas' long term.

keys: jetpack, torch, torchvision, jetson, 6.2.1