MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nwienert | 2025-10-09 05:33:14+00:00
Except RSC doesn't solve for apps, it solves for websites, which means its server-first model leads you to slow feeling websites, or lots of glue code to compensate. That alongside the immensely complex restrictions leaves me wondering why it exists or has any traction, other than a sort of technical exercise and new thing for people to play with.

Meanwhile, sync engines seem to actually solve these problems - the distributed data syncing and the client-side needs like optimistic updates, while also letting you avoid the complexity. And, you can keep your server-first rendering.

To me it's a choice between lose-lose (complex, worse UX) and win-win (simpler, better UX) and the only reason I think anyone really likes RSC is because there is so much money behind it, and so little relatively in sync engines. That said, I don't blame people for not even mentioning them as they are newer. I've been working with one for the last year and it's an absolute delight, and probably the first genuine leap forward in frontend dev in the last decade, since React.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-09 05:33:31+00:00
It's just that AR/VR is not interactive. Sure they try to simulate interactivity through buttons or hands tracking but its lame and fake.

Even when have indistinguishable from reality visuals the illusion falls apart the moment you try to touch it. The fidelity through buttons is rudimentary and through hand tracking is non existent. The suspension of disbelief isn't there, humans fingers are incredibly sensitive and dexterous and we are trained whole life all the time to know how things feel. AI/AR isn't going to have any success without solving that.
by mindslight | 2025-10-09 05:33:33+00:00
Yeah, introducing real world friction is seemingly one of the only ways of actually solving the problems of frictionless digital systems (apart from computational disenfranchisement, of course).

It might be a better idea to frame your idea in terms of online interactive proofs rather than offline bearer tokens. It's of course a lot less private/convenient to have to bring a phone or other cell-modem enabled device to the vending machine, especially for the average person who won't exercise good digital hygiene. Still, some sort of high-latency challenge-proof protocol is likely the way to go, because bearer tokens still seem too frictionless.

For example (3) could be mitigated with an intermediary marketplace that facilitated transactions with escrow. If tokens were worth say $2, then even just getting 10 at a time to sell could be worth it for the right kind of person. And personally I'd just get 10 tokens myself simply to avoid having to go back to the machine as much. In fact the optimal strategy for regular power users might be to get as many tokens as you think you might need to use (even if you have to pay for them), and then when they near expiration time you sell them to recoup your time/cost/whatever.
by doikor | 2025-10-09 05:33:46+00:00
That is exactly what EU is doing with its age verification law. Basically the service provider just has to accept the certificate and check that it is valid and all the cert says is "is over X years old".

https://ageverification.dev/

And the fact that the companies have to implement the system themselves is just crazy. It is very obvious that if the government require such a check it has to provide the proof/way of checking just like in the physical world it provides the id card/passport/etc used for checking this.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-10-09 05:33:59+00:00
Why is it so popular to "akshually, Ponzi schemes are different!" these days?

Words have meaning in context, and calling something a "Ponzi scheme" these days means any pyramid-like system that only works as long as new investors come to the table, because that new investor money is the sole source of gains for earlier investors. But once you run out of new investors, which is inevitable, the whole thing collapses. What pg described was exactly a Ponzi scheme in that sense, even if it wasn't a deliberate scam. And that's very different from other types of business ventures that eventually fail because of the more "normal" reason that they just don't gain traction.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-10-09 05:34:01+00:00
I just lost a bunch of files on mine due to their Drive software. I was setting up a folder to sync and just clicking the folder in their file explorer when setting it up isn’t enough to actually select it, so the sync went one level higher than it should have. That decided to wipe out the folders on that level instead of trying to sync them back to my computer, for whatever reason.

Also for whatever reason when you use Drive files don’t go into the regular recycle bin. They go into the Drive recycle bin…but only if you have file backups (whatever they call them, where it saves copies of files if they’re changed) enabled. I didn’t, for that folder.

Poof go 15 years of raw photo files.
by cokecan | 2025-10-09 05:34:22+00:00
OpenFeint was founded by the same guy who founded Discord.

From the Wikipedia page: "In 2011, OpenFeint was party to a class action suit with allegations including computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, bad faith and seven other statutory violations. According to a news report "OpenFeint's business plan included accessing and disclosing personal information without authorization to mobile-device application developers, advertising networks and web-analytic vendors that market mobile applications"."
by jph00 | 2025-10-09 05:34:29+00:00
This is quite a good overview, and parts reflect well how things played out in language model research. It's certainly true that language models and deep learning were not considered particularly promising in NLP, which frustrated me greatly at the time since I knew otherwise!

However the article misses the first two LLMs entirely.

Radford cited CoVE, ELMo, and ULMFiT as the inspirations for GPT. ULMFiT (my paper with Sebastian Ruder) was the only one which actually fine-tuned the full language model for downstream tasks. https://thundergolfer.com/blog/the-first-llm

ULMFiT also pioneered the 3-stage approach of fine-tuning the language model using a causal LM objective and then fine-tuning that with a classification objective, which much later was used in GPT 3.5 instruct, and today is used pretty much everywhere.

The other major oversight in the article is that Dai and Le (2015) is missing -- that pre-dated even ULMFiT in fine-tuning a language model for downstream tasks, but they missed the key insight that a general purpose pretrained model using a large corpus was the critical first step.

It's also missing a key piece of the puzzle regarding attention and transformers: the memory networks paper recently had its 10th birthday and there's a nice writeup of its history here: https://x.com/tesatory/status/1911150652556026328?s=46

It came out about the same time as the Neural Turing Machines paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401), covering similar territory -- both pioneered the idea of combining attention and memory in ways later incorporated into transformers.
by fifilura | 2025-10-09 05:35:13+00:00
I think rather your post summarizes AI threads on HN.

Capitalism is what it is, and has been so for the last 200 years. The alternatives have always proven worse.

In my (small) country we have had many crises like this. Textile industry, shipbuilding. But we have survived by not looking back but looking into the future. And given people the right conditions for retraining.
by qingcharles | 2025-10-09 05:36:55+00:00
Reddit itself bans and shadowbans for no good reason on a very regular basis. And their appeal system generally does not work.

And Reddit bans are used by powermods to get rid of any rivals. They will pay to bot the report system so your account is instantly perma-banned by Reddit. And Reddit has the most aggressive system of all the social networks for detecting duplicate accounts, so you'll have a hard time ever using the site again.
by collingreen | 2025-10-09 05:37:43+00:00
To be clear I agree with a lot of what you wrote here so this is just a small nit:

> What other options do those who do not want the town square to be moderated by you have?

Start and visit a new subreddit. This is an important bit that gets covered up by metaphors like "landed gentry" and "peasants". Don't like it? Vote with your digital feet. It doesn't come with any of the baggage and complication that an equivalent real life move would have. Just stop going there and go somewhere else. Yes it would be nice if folks were awesome and tried to be awesome. The reality is they aren't and subreddits are property owned by the mods. Luckily, you don't have to be there.
by MangoCoffee | 2025-10-09 05:38:17+00:00
>AI bubble worse?

Is it worse than the dot-com bubble? I remember everyone and their mom who knew HTML could get hired, and there were way more companies that went IPO during the dot-com bubble, like theglobe.com.

AI is a bubble, but is it worse than the dot-com bubble or the real estate bubble in 2008?
by SapporoChris | 2025-10-09 05:38:35+00:00
I found this one weird trick. I select key words in an article and use an internet search to answer probing questions like 'why this matters'.

For example: Near the top of the article is the sentence: "Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell"

So, I searched for "kessler syndrome". Here's the hyperlink for reference: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=kessler+syndrome&ia=web

Now here is the cool part. I found a Wikipedia article about "kessler syndrome" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome and it explained why this matters!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-09 05:39:33+00:00
https://textbook.cs161.org/network/wpa.html

> In the WPA2 handshake, everything except the GTK is sent unencrypted. Recall that the PTK is derived with the two nonces, the PSK, and the MAC addresses of both the access point and the client. This means that an on-path attacker who eavesdrops on the entire handshake can learn the nonces and the MAC addresses. If the attacker is part of the WiFi network (i.e. they know the WiFi password and generated the PSK), then they know everything necessary to derive the PTK. This attacker can decrypt all messages and eavesdrop on communications, and encrypt and inject messages.

No genius hacker, no misinformation. WPA2 in the normal password mode does not protect clients from each other. It's not part of the design.

https://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11

Here's a page about how you can use wireshark to decrypt WPA2 if you capture the handshake, but you can't do it on WPA3. (Also it's not hard to force new handshakes.)

> I'm not an expert, but I looked into this stuff 7 years ago when I was broke, and I apt installed aircrack-ng from a starbucks so I could try siphoning off my neighbour's wifi, I wasn't able to. Skill Issue sure, but it wasn't as trivial as "just observing a device connecting".

Trying to get a password is a completely different thing from trying to attack someone else on the same network as you. You did not fulfill the "If you're on a WPA2 network" part of the sentence.

There was a password-finding attack called KRACK that came out in 2017 but it's fussy and there are ways to defend against it. And you can still brute force WPS sometimes but I guess their device didn't allow it.

> On another note, this would relate to local attackers only right? If a router has been pwned remotely, it wouldn't matter whether the last mile is a twisted pair or air.

Yes, "someone sharing the network" and "hacked router" are two different ways you could be attacked.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-09 05:39:34+00:00
It’s closer to 43+-14 tons and most of that is cosmic dust [1] and most of that is under a millimeter in size [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_dust

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2...
by qingcharles | 2025-10-09 05:39:37+00:00
I've asked myself this many times. It warrants a study.

I have managed large sites where I had to recruit mods. I would recruit the most popular and lovely users to be mods, and universally I would be forced to ban them within about 6 months. The power would go to their heads and every one of them would turn into a fascist dictator just banning anyone who spoke out of turn and deleting any content they didn't like.
by itake | 2025-10-09 05:39:38+00:00
Can you elaborate more? Discord has 656m users. if 10% upload their ID, they'd have 65m ID photos to search through. There are 2 use-cases here:

1/ Safety Bans (lets pretend 0.01% of ID card users have been banned for safety reasons: 650k accounts)

If a user submits their selfie/ID card, Discord needs to compare the new image with one of the 650k banned (but deleted?) images. I can't possible think how a human could remember the 650k photos well enough to declare a match.

Even if such a human existed with this perfect recall, there can't be very many of them on this planet to hire.

2/ Duplicate account bans

If a user registers, how can a support staff search the 65m photos without ML assistance to determine if this is a new user or a fraudster?
by userbinator | 2025-10-09 05:40:39+00:00
No other consumer-grade chip had this as far as I know.

The 8086/88 has status outputs which provide similar information, including which segment register is being used (CS, DS, ES, SS) and the type of bus cycle (interrupt acknowledge, read I/O, write I/O, halt, opcode fetch, read data, write data).
by xpe | 2025-10-09 05:41:57+00:00
>> It is clear NIST's mission is a blend of scientific rigor and promotion of western values

> That was true in the past. You seem to be having difficulty accepting the new reality, even defending it. Which is sad to witness.

First, something you know (or should know): people that disagree with you do not necessarily support your rivals / opponents / enemies. You are incorrect confusing (i) my pushback against your reasoning with (ii) defending Trump.

You've committed many reasoning errors. Sometimes people need very direct (i.e. blunt) feedback from a trusted person. I don't think getting through to you at all. Maybe someone else can and will?
by jkaplowitz | 2025-10-09 05:43:23+00:00
Widespread pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements with class-action waivers and bans on mass arbitration kind of put a damper on that, and the Supreme Court has upheld those nationwide in ways California can't easily override.

But sure, there are still other legislative tricks they could do, like making it mandatory by default for CPPA / CA AG to do the enforcement when they're made aware of a qualifying situation, overriding any NDAs which prohibit any California resident from informing CPPA / CA AG about such a situation, and allowing California residents to sue CPPA / CA AG for a writ of mandamus ordering them to proceed with the enforcement if they're stonewalling - with an award of attorneys fees if the writ is issued, so as to make such lawsuits financially affordable to ordinary plaintiffs. (I say "mandatory by default" to allow for exceptions which the legislature thinks appropriate, but at least those would be subject to democratic disclosure and debate.)

On topics such as this one, I think the CA legislature and governor are more interested in ineffectually making it seem like they're solving the problem than in effectively solving the problem.
by gervwyk | 2025-10-09 05:44:12+00:00
I did a masters on design a autopilot to optimize fuel consumption in formation flight. What is interesting about the aerodynamics is that if placed in the upwash wake of the leader, you are essentially increasing the wing aspect ratio of the system, resulting in gains for both the leader and the follower aircraft. Feels very unintuitive but basically the donut spool is larger and the combined wing is bigger in the spool.
by yanosc | 2025-10-09 05:44:15+00:00
If you think a node-based editor makes a society modern, you have no idea what you are talking about, and you are foolish enough to believe this is what progress looks like. Not to discredit OAI, but you are just a victim of their marketing, chasing the next thing, which is merely an illusion of innovation, and it works because it fills your lack of true belonging. Do as you wish, you are a free consumer after all, but don’t go on the internet and discredit other people, their work and contribution, just because you’re are pathetic bystander yourself.
by jabl | 2025-10-09 05:45:14+00:00
One way to think of SIMT is that instead of vector instructions you have a 'fork' instruction which turns on vector mode where the scalar instructions execute on all the vector lanes. Your SIMT code must then include a 'lane index' variable somewhere (of course e.g. in CUDA it's more complicated with blocks, warps etc etc., but in principle it's just a more detailed way of doing lane indexing) so that all the threads work on different data. There is traditionally a shared program counter (PC) (in reality on GPU's, something like per-warp PC's so you still have multiple PC's), where in case of divergent control flow lanes are masked off (though post-Volta Nvidia HW has per-lane PC's). Then finally when you're done with your parallel algorithm you execute a 'join' instruction which blocks until all the lanes have reached that point, and then turns off all the lanes except one so you're now in scalar mode again.

Now whether this is actually how the hardware operates or whether the compiler in the GPU driver turns the SIMT code into something like SIMD code for the actual HW is another question.
by kataklasm | 2025-10-09 05:46:43+00:00
When have we given up on expecting journalists to do their jobs and write articles worthy of being read and containing actual information? If I wanted to read blubberish I'd go read some AI slop but if an article is written by a human I have some base expectation of it providing a modicum of value to me. Even more so if it reaches the HN frontpage.

edit: removed my own snark. sorry for that.
by mythz | 2025-10-09 05:47:05+00:00
All clearly designed to cash in on the speculative value being given to AI companies.

Strategically I thought OpenAI's deal of getting 10% of AMD for driving their stock price to $600 was a pretty clever way of creating $97 Billion from nothing - effectively paying for the GPUs they'd purchase.

At the same time I would've thought this insider pump and cash-in strategy would be somehow illegal, but I guess anything goes with this administration.
by magic_hamster | 2025-10-09 05:47:24+00:00
> AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600

Seriously, it's clear to see way ahead of its release there is zero chance this thing will replicate the unique experience of the vectrex.

This is just a cheap cash grab which will misrepresent what the vectrex was all about and what playing it felt like. Add this to the pile of worthless nostalgia devices.

There is just no reason for this to exist other to exploit the nostalgia and then immediately disappoint the owner of this product.

How on earth is this better than a raspberry pi with an emulator and an oled monitor? Who the hell needs this vendor to put it a box? Did you notice "injection mold plastic" is literally the first and most prominent feature of this thing? What an utter abysmal joke.

I wish these poor remakes and nostalgia releases fully commit to what they're trying to do. If you can't, just don't do it! We don't need your facsimile junk.
by user_7832 | 2025-10-09 05:48:44+00:00
Let me guess: it was a Pizza Cake Comics post? (Context, she's made posts about how women are always paranoid about men and men minimize/make fun of that and she says she's not anti men as she has a son herself. All this (edit: plus lots of commenters and mod drama) in the span of a single comic btw.)

Edit: this comment on such a politically touchy topic lasted almost 40 minutes before getting 2 downvotes, honestly I'm impressed it lasted almost an hour.

Of course as always, the downvote is a signal of communication, and without a reply, all communication I receive is that this is a sensitive topic. If there's anything factually wrong I'll be happy to change it. (And I would consider myself having spent ~~too much~~ enough time on reddit to know which comics are popular and/or get folks banned easily.)
by vineyardmike | 2025-10-09 05:48:55+00:00
The "universal opt-out" bill really has no teeth on its own. Combined with the existing CCPA though, it has potential (CCPA is limited to sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising). It just says that browsers and mobile operating systems need to have an easy-to-find setting to signal that the user wants to opt out. The whole bill can basically fit in a tweet. No requirements on what the signal actually looks like, and no requirements that it's respected. There are other laws passed this week with more teeth.

Oh, and we don't have to worry about the "Cookie banner" problem, because a separate law (CCPA) requires a 12 month cooldown before prompting the user for opt-in consent again.

From the law, defining the signal:

> “Opt-out preference signal” means a signal that complies with this title and that communicates the consumer’s choice to opt out of the sale and sharing of the consumer’s personal information.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB566/id/3117187

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
by almostgotcaught | 2025-10-09 05:49:09+00:00
> what are you talking about.

It's the most annoying thing about hn that people will regularly declare/proclaim some thing like this as if it's a Nobel prize winning discovery when it's actually just some incremental improvement. I have no idea how this works in these people's lives - aren't we all SWEs where the specifics actually matter. My hypothesis is these people are just really bad SWEs.
by hulitu | 2025-10-09 05:50:32+00:00
> the designers and implementers come up with data models and workflows that feel like they cover every possible case and they deliver a system that is a perfectly rigid implementation of these flows because they seem complete. Inevitably, these systems meet the messy real world and users find themselves unable to do what they need to do for the occasinal really weird case and get hopelessly stuck because they run up against stubborn rule checks.

No. Those systems have nothing to do with the real world. They are just a project manager's idea about "the real world". Have you used any Microsoft product lately ? Every day it tells you: "Hey , i have a new feature".

Just stop.
by marklit | 2025-10-09 05:51:33+00:00
There are ~15 GB of SAR imagery at the bottom being rendered as is from GeoTIFF files. On my 2020 MBP rendering that amount of data in QGIS would lag without building mosaics and tiles.

The Parquet pattern I'm promoting makes working across a wide variety of datasets much easier. Not every dataset is huge but being in Parquet makes it much easier to analyse across a wide variety of tooling.

In the web world, you might only have a handful of datasets that your systems produce so you can pick the format and schemes ahead of time. In the GIS world, you are forever sourcing new datasets from strangers. There are 80+ vector GIS formats supported in GDAL. Getting more people to publish to Parquet first removes a lot of ETL tasks for everyone else down the line.
by saltyoldman | 2025-10-09 05:52:03+00:00
Simplistically this is likely very true, if they have only 10m customers, that's like 12 billion a year. They can easily launch 12 times a year with 60 per launch, that's 720 replacements a year. Each launch is about 15m, so just replacing them each month they are spending 15m out of the 1b profit. Not bad.

And that's if they only have 10m customers - which I suspect is a lot more considering it's a worldwide service.