MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-09-05 08:23:56+00:00
Calf isn't making an appeal to authority. They are saying "I'm not the idiot you think I am." Two very different things. Likely also a request to talk more mathy to them.

I read your link btw and I just don't know how someone can do all that work and not establish the Markov Property. That's like the first step. Speaking of which, I'm not sure I even understand the first definition of your link. I've never heard the phrase "computably countable" before, but I have head "computable number," which these numbers are countable. This does seem to be what it is referring to? So I'll assume that? (My dissertation wasn't on models of computation, it was on neural architectures) In 1.2.2 is there a reason for strictly uniform noise? It also seems to run counter to the deterministic setting.

Regardless, I agree with Calf, it's very clear MCs are not equivalent to LLMs. That is trivially a false statement. But the question of if an LLM can be represented via a MC is a different question. I did find this paper on the topic[0], but I need to give it a better read. Does look like it was rejected from ICLR[1], though ML review is very noisy. Including the link as comments are more informative than the accept/reject signal.

(@Calf, sorry, I didn't respond to your comment because I wasn't trying to make a comment about the relationship of LLMs and MCs. Only that there was more fundamental research being overshadowed)

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724

[1] https://openreview.net/forum?id=RDFkGZ9Dkh
by freestingo | 2025-09-05 08:24:53+00:00
A completely absurd and clearly biased article trying to defend the impossible. Age verification is somehow supposed to be bad for online porn content providers (even though it is already mandatory for real-world porn content providers, for obvious reasons) because... it would hurt their profits and is not 100% effective. Child labour laws also severely hurt company profits and are not 100% effective; so much so that companies choose to delocalize production plants in the opposite part of the world, just to be able to continue exploiting workers. I guess child labour laws are bad too, and must be stopped.

My favourite and most out-of-touch part of the article was the one in which they argue it is "a fallacy" to think pornography can be harmful to teenagers because "research into pornography’s impact on children is limited and inconclusive — prompting calls for further study". I actually laughed out loud at this part
by lordhumphrey | 2025-09-05 08:24:59+00:00
Reading your comment, my mind is immediately awash with the endless sea of memories I cherish so dearly of discussions I've had with economists, psychologists, computer scientists, social scientists, political scientists, and of course let's not forget the physicists, chemists, biologists and mathematicians, and every scientist ever in fact, in which they, at all times, without fail, insisted on avoiding dogmatic truth!

Not like those hair-brained philosophers!

Sigh. One would have to possess an impressive level of ignorance in the history of philosophy and science in order to hold such a view. What would Raymond Smullyan, or Bertrand Russell, or Henri Poincaré, or who knows how many others, have to say about this remark, I wonder.
by Freak_NL | 2025-09-05 08:26:35+00:00
Already possible! Banks know who you are, so what if there was a safe way to let a site know that you are over 18 — and nothing more than that — through some common API?

This was exactly what the German public transport service Mopla did when I registered an account there. It needed to know my name to be able to sell me the personal Deutschlandticket. To verify my identity their web application forwarded me to list of countries, where I selected the Netherlands, and then my bank from the list there. That forwarded me to my bank's digital environment, with the request to share my name with Mopla (and just that one attribute). I then used my bank's auth system to approve sharing that claim.

Simple, transparent, and at no point did Mopla have to do anything with ID cards or AI or whatever.

I would expect systems like this to become more broadly available in the near future. In the EU for sure.
by mike_hearn | 2025-09-05 08:26:46+00:00
Chrome is a bad example. It uses a tracing GC in its most performance sensitive parts explicitly to reduce the number of memory safety bugs (it's called Oilpan). And much of the rest is written in C++ simply because that's the language Chrome standardized on, they are comfortable relying on kernel sandboxes and IPC rather than switching to a more secure language.
by CRConrad | 2025-09-05 08:27:37+00:00
I don't get it: How can you not see that eating food you don't need to eat is wasting food? If you throw away food, it has been made for nothing and goes to waste. If it hadn't been made, that would have saved resources, and nobody would be worse off.

If you eat food you don't need to eat, same thing: If it hadn't been made, that would have saved resources, and nobody would be worse off. Exactly the same end result: Food was made for no net beneficial end result; resources were wasted.

What's your definition of "waste", that they can be anything but the same thing?
by Doxin | 2025-09-05 08:28:51+00:00
Ah yeah, you would probably get stress risers along the layer lines. Hadn't considered that failure mode. I'd still expect wear and "mushrooming" of the type to be a problem before stress fractures are though. Plastic is pretty soft and gummy when you get down to it.

Interesting to see the timing on the mechanism too. It looks like it's already getting the rotation set up for the next character before the return stroke even happens. I suspect in normal use the ball would bounce off the page, avoiding smears.

EDIT: worst case you could always make a silicone mold and cast the type ball in an engineering resin of one kind or another. That probably fares better over the long term than 3d printed plastic.
by GJim | 2025-09-05 08:29:11+00:00
Frankly, if you can't give and take the piss, you wouldn't last five minutes in a British workplace.

We don't take ourselves too seriously, and find people who do take themselves seriously worthy of some extra piss taking to bring them down a peg.

(Oh, and rm -rf'ing your HD *would* land you in very serious legal trouble. It is a criminal act under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. And rightly so.)
by arghwhat | 2025-09-05 08:29:18+00:00
mmap isn't "serial", the code that was using the mapping was "serial". The kernel will happily fill different portions of the mapping in parallel if you have multiple threads fault on different pages.

(That doesn't undermine that io_uring and disk access can be fast, but it's comparing a lazy implementation using approach A with a quite optimized one using approach B, which does not make sense.)
by mike_hearn | 2025-09-05 08:29:51+00:00
You're absolutely right about all of this.

People under-estimate how much code gets written in these languages just because decades ago they were chosen as the default language of the project and people are resistant to going full polyglot. Then everything gets written that way including cold paths, utilities, features that are hardly ever used, UI code that's bottlenecked by the network...
by godelski | 2025-09-05 08:29:56+00:00
> The best lectures follow a question-trytoanswer-getrightanswer pattern where students are basically doing homework as part of the lecture.

Are you referring to the Socratic Method?

I agree that homework is where a significant chunk of learning happens but I'm highly skeptical that the utility is preserved through such a short timeframe. Spaced repetition is highly effective for memory, and this is baked into any method which has take home assignments. A collaborative style lecture is good, but this serves a different purpose.

> We wrote all graded essays during class.

Sorry, you jumped a little here. Who is "we"? Is there a "when" and "where" to this too? Are you a current high schooler? Recent grad? Was this years ago? I've lost the context here.
by viking123 | 2025-09-05 08:29:59+00:00
I kind of agree but on the other hand I think it would also change the calculus a lot, if the dictator was going to live to 700, wouldn't it be more likely for someone to act and try to get him out because now the calculus might be that it's just better to wait it out than try to set anything up?

It's a bit hard to visualize that kind of world because so many other things would also be different, and if the politicians were chronologically like 500, they would biologically be still much younger so maybe the mind would allow for much more plasticisty and that would allow them to be more open to new ideas.
by sidkshatriya | 2025-09-05 08:30:38+00:00
Now OCaml values adding features carefully to the language so that there is no future regret. But being slow and conservative has _not_ minimized regret. The "O" in OCaml i.e. Objects (and Classes) is almost ignored nowadays. Janestreet, a large industrial user seems to be actively against using the "O" part of OCaml.

So here we have gotten the worst of both worlds -- a language that is evolving slowly and a language that has large features that are almost soft discouraged. My primary language is Rust and not OCaml (mostly dabble in OCaml) so I may not fully know what I'm talking about when it comes to OCaml.
by psychoslave | 2025-09-05 08:30:49+00:00
>Scientists aren't after truth. They're after facts.

Is Bertrand Russel a scientist or a philosopher according to you?

https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/classicreadings/chapter/bertr...

What about Albert Einstein?

https://todayinsci.com/E/Einstein_Albert/EinsteinAlbert-Trut...

Or Richard Feynman?

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-fundamental-principles-o...

Finding resources for perspectives on truth by Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin is left as an exercise.
by viking123 | 2025-09-05 08:31:36+00:00
I can't see how there wouldn't be a revolution if the rich had all this anti-aging technology and the plebs would sit there and watch.

People like to cope a lot, they are fine with playing whack a mole with 50 different diseases and putting the 90 year old through chemo, but treating aging (the actual root cause)? OH MY GOD MUH NATURE
by godelski | 2025-09-05 08:33:33+00:00
I'm going to need some serious citation here. Through my personal experience, homework and at home studying were critical to my education. I would not have made it through any of my degrees (B.S., M.S., PhD) by just attending lecture (PhD doesn't even have lectures!), despite this being sufficient for high school and early college. Though, that does not mean this was a good thing as it only means the education was insufficient.

So... citation needed
by lordhumphrey | 2025-09-05 08:33:53+00:00
The 'internet tax' will not last, either, I fear.

Loads of VPNs are simply, someone other than the local ISP gets your data. Mullvad seems trustworthy, as an exception to this, and who else? And even then, Mullvad faces issues from websites and censorious countries trying to block it and bother its users all the time.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-05 08:33:56+00:00
Different things though; "catalogued books and other print materials" is not the same as "compendium of human knowledge". The former is an archive, the latter is an encyclopedia.

You won't find a 1920's copy of a newspaper in Wikipedia, but you will find articles about events from then that link to said newspaper.

Both are super important though, Wikipedia can't exist as it does now without archives (digitized or at the very least referentiable).
by varenc | 2025-09-05 08:34:15+00:00
> Implement something the banks just aren't willing to do themselves?

I think that's it. We're very unlikely to see international transactions between banks happen as easily and as quickly as they can with a stablecoin, even though it's technically possible.

I think part of what makes it easier is that with crypto there's "no take backs" since it's largely impossible. Banks have to worry about fraud constantly because they're somewhat liable.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-05 08:37:00+00:00
> Everyone uses a calculator, even to calculate tips at a restaurant, but kids still need to learn arithmetic without a calculator's aid first.

citation needed

I was rapped across the knuckles by a sadistic primary school teacher for failing to learn my times table fast enough. Everyone said I absolutely needed to learn this because I would not always have access to a calculator. Here I am, literally carrying a calculator with me every second of my life.

I've spent more time and money getting therapy for the shit my teachers did to me trying to teach me the times table than I've saved using it.
by tucnak | 2025-09-05 08:37:10+00:00
> All that's left to do now is... the same joins, but inside the backend web server. Because we have to re-assemble these flat outputs into the structure of the page.

This is NOT the case with modern SQL, as it supports JSON. The typical Postgres use-case would be to produce denormalised views for the specific relationships and/or aggregates in JSON form. LATERAL, the correlated sub-query, is really convenient in avoiding double-counting. The rest of the article deals with object-mapping, which is really a poor man's VIEW. Time and time again, software engineers reinvent the data-access wheel out of ignorance to database capabilities.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-05 08:37:19+00:00
Interesting idea. Some obvious thoughts:

1. Those little nubs of concrete are going to snap off in about 5 seconds. Might work for other materials though I guess.

2. What's the advantage over just attaching velcro to the wall?

3. French cleats exist. This probably covers most use cases.

Fun experiment though.
by rancar2 | 2025-09-05 08:38:06+00:00
I’m in Portugal at the moment and went to their version of Target using Sensei [1] technology. I was with my little one who was grabbing things off the shelves while I put them back, and I was using a stroller not a store cart. The system worked flawlessly including consumed cafe purchases (coffee, pastry, and bread) along with per kg fruits and vegetables. One of the odd benefits is that I felt a bit safer with my little one roaming freely as I knew he was being carefully watched.

[1] https://www.sensei.tech/
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-05 08:38:47+00:00
Videos are great too because you can listen to them in the background while working , driving, riding the bus, jogging or working out in the gym, etc.

It's not the kind of valuable critical piece of information that deserves 100% of my attention and brain processing power in order to warrant for me to dedicate time of my day just to read it and only it, that's for books with a story arc.
by lucideer | 2025-09-05 08:38:49+00:00
I used to contribute semi-regularly to Wikipedia in the past, but tried contributing recently & found the experience to be off-putting (to put it mildly).

I also have long been frustrated with certain areas of Wikipedia that I feel struggle so significantly with NPV that they're rendered beyond useless, likely net harmful. (These are not the topics I've attempted contributing to recently, I wouldn't dare).

I'm continuously annoyed by the contrast of their overbearing donation pushes with the overspends in their published reports.

BUT all that said I do sometimes need reminding in today's world how much of a miracle Wikipedia still is. Not something to be taken for granted. And on the overspends: this is hard to qualify given there's really no comparable projects in existence. Maybe this is just the price we need to pay.
by protocolture | 2025-09-05 08:39:06+00:00
>One of the many pressing issues with Large Language Models (LLMs) is they are trained on content that isn’t theirs to consume.

One of the many pressing issues is that people believe that ownership of content should be absolute, that hammer makers should be able to dictate what is made with hammers they sell. This is absolutely poison as a concept.

Content belongs to everyone. Creators of content have a limited term, limited right to exploit that content. They should be protected from perfect reconstruction and sale of that content, and nothing else. Every IP law counter to that is toxic to culture and society.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-05 08:39:54+00:00
It's a very thin line to walk, and I don't think "true neutral" or "true unbiased" exists for the same reasons you mention. A newspaper may be neutral and stick to the facts, but if it simply chooses not to publish something, or it chooses to publish something as a byline instead of headline, it's already biased.

There are organizations trying something else though; admittedly I got this through a promotion from a youtube channel, but Ground News [0] is a news aggregator that publishes news with many sources, including ownership, political affiliation, publishing type (facts or opinions, neutral or entertaining), and even notes on which channels do and don't report on it, identifying media blind spots like "low coverage from right sources" or "low original coverage" to help people escape their bubbles and provide multiple perspectives on an issue.

[0] https://ground.news/
by viking123 | 2025-09-05 08:40:38+00:00
Aging is such an interesting topic that I find myself thinking about it almost every day but more of from the scientific point of view, like what is going wrong and why is the rate of aging so different in the animal kingdom. There are mammals that can live super long compared to ones in the same species and even same sizes, like some birds I remember 50+ while other do less than 10 years. Then there's something like naked molerat etc, the greenland whale hundreds of years lifespan..

Even between people, like Queen Elizabeth lived relatively long and her mother I think also, if you look at pictures throughout her life she always looked younger than her age IMO. And when she died it was very quick not like drawn out years that many have to endure, many long lived people actually pass very quickly..

If I wasn't in software dev, I think I would be in this field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aixnlVbmzE8
by input_sh | 2025-09-05 08:42:25+00:00
Oh it already started, the ADL convinced House Republicans to launch an investigation into Wikipedia because of its "anti-Israel bias": https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5473331-wikipedia-bias-pr...

One of the requests in the letter (https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08272...) is to de-anonymise some of the Wikipedia editors.
by nextaccountic | 2025-09-05 08:42:55+00:00
The real difference is that with io_uring and O_DIRECT you manage the cache yourself (and can't share with other processes, and the OS can't reclaim the cache automatically if under memory pressure), and with mmap this is managed by the OS.

If Linux had an API to say "manage this buffer you handled me from io_uring as if it were a VFS page cache (and as such it can be shared with other processes, like mmap), if you want it back just call this callback (so I can cleanup my references to it) and you are good to go", then io_uring could really replace mmap.

What Linux has currently is PSI, which lets the OS reclaim memory when needed but doesn't help with the buffer sharing thing
by visarga | 2025-09-05 08:43:11+00:00
I disagree, it is not universal. 1+1=2 is just a specific system of notation with consistency. There was a time when no human conceptualized this idea of 1+1=2, they did not have numerals or know about addition. Before you get to 1+1=2 you need a bunch of prior concepts that are themselves contingent on culture and history.
by kragen | 2025-09-05 08:43:27+00:00
Turso says:

> Warning: This software is ALPHA, only use for development, testing, and experimentation. We are working to make it production ready, but do not use it for critical data right now.

https://rustpython.github.io/pages/whats-left says:

> RustPython currently supports the full Python syntax. This is “what’s left” from the Python Standard Library.

Rusty_bash says:

> Currently, the binary built from alpha repo has passed 24 of 84 test scripts.

The CPython implementation is farther along than I had expected! I hope they make more progress.
by fractallyte | 2025-09-05 08:43:29+00:00
Your second sentence signals a slide into a dangerous mindset pushed by the MAGA lobby.

Weapons and other support are certainly not regarded as "toys" by Ukrainians who are subjected to horrific daily (and nightly) bombardments from Russia and Russian-occupied territories. This is life-or-death seriousness.

Secondly, and more importantly, these are not "gifts". After coercing Ukraine to surrender its nuclear deterrent to Russia, the US took upon itself an obligation to provide for Ukraine's defense.

As many will point out, it's not specified in the Budapest Memorandum. However, the 42nd President of the United States made a promise that should not be taken lightly (https://youtu.be/pC5yYZ_o__s?feature=shared).

The spirit of the Budapest Memorandum was that each party should uphold and enforce every other party's commitment to the memorandum. A violation would cause it to collapse, which would be antithetical to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Upholding and enforcing those commitments is therefore implicit in the memorandum.

Finally, as someone rightfully said: "It's our moral, if not legal, obligation." (https://x.com/JSchneid99/status/1959715219468607529)
by amiga386 | 2025-09-05 08:44:21+00:00
> Why did you get permanently banned.

Ta bu shi da yu created the citation needed template: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Citation... (I remember that account name from Kuro5hin. Much respect!)

He edited under several accounts, all of which are permabanned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aussie_Article_Writer

Why? Because he'd earned an interaction ban (IBAN) from engaging with BrownHairedGirl, and he breached the ban: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=...

Whatever he said, it's been fully scrubbed, but it appears to have been commenting on BrownHairedGirl's not-yet-submitted Request for Adminship: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1039021442#Piotrus...

How'd he get the interaction ban? Because another account of his and BrownHairedGirl were squabbling, and the admins have working eyes and brains, they could see he was doing the instigating: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=980273295#Proposa...

You're not meant to wind up or troll your fellow Wikipedians, even if they are combative dickheads who need taking down a peg.

What was the beef? That he was creating small subcategories for each suburb of Brisbane, and BrownHairedGirl goes off her nut at small categories.

BrownHairedGirl was eventually taken out by being needlessly combative about - of all things - Wikipedia's "small categories" policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

> what stops you from creating a new account?

Wikipedians inevitably go back to their old stomping grounds, use their normal tone in discussions, repeat their same old habits and basically don't change. When they do that, they're very recognisable to the people they already spent 20 years interacting with. They out themselves as a sockpuppet of the original banned user, and they get banned again.