MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gigatree | 2025-10-18 23:18:06+00:00
Idk if any use these today because I haven’t used one in years, but I’d do things that improve trust and quality:

- high cost

- human verification, background check, personality assessment

- mandate profile “about me” video

- “things that interest me” section on profile. Could be funny videos, memes, books, shows.

- have in-person mingling events

- monthly 1:1 coaching

Would launch in one city first, heavily advertise, be selective on who to let in and only launch once there’s enough people to open it up.

Only have a certain amount of people in at once, let in new people as existing couples leave. People that are too selective get kicked out.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-18 23:18:40+00:00
I am happy that you are concerned with the guidelines, and I don’t want to protest too much. I appreciate your contributions to HN more than my own most days, and I do hope I don’t rustle your feathers.

> That's fine

seems to conflict with your concerns about the upthread conversation being derailed to a certain reading:

> This doesn't have anything to do with the thread, and hashing this out would tilt a story about Kryptos sharply towards a story on health policy.

As the auction proceeds would ostensibly fund healthcare costs, it seems on topic to muse about the costs being covered by Medicare, or not. If they would be covered by Medicare, the claims of healthcare costs not being met are all the more interesting and discussion-worthy.
by manquer | 2025-10-18 23:19:11+00:00
Absolutely, I am in no way saying Mao era methods were justified, warranted or even effective.

They were misguided, ineffective, and directly or indirectly killed people in the millions.

I am just pointing out that, the atrocities of the era doesn't justify seeing pre 1960s or pre1950s years of China with rose tinted glasses as a better era, it wasn't unless you were in the elite.

It would be no different than seeing the 1970s or any earlier generation in U.S. history as a better era. Only a very small in-group perhaps had it good. Everyone else be it black, women, indigenous, various immigrants, religious, neuro or sexually diverse have only seen net improvements in last 300 years.
by nec4b | 2025-10-18 23:19:23+00:00
I don't think others are talking about what you are angry about. I said that with the first reply and I'm not the only one saying it. Nobody is trying to take Zed or Neovim away from you.

By the way one of the most frequent modern TUI apps that I use is Midnight Commander. It's a very nice app, which I use mostly when I SSH into a remote machine to manage it. Is there a 2D accelerated GUI that can help me do the same?
by Retric | 2025-10-18 23:19:35+00:00
> They aren't doing it with the intent to damage his business.

That’s arguable. They sent him an email concerned about the harm of disclosure with the upcoming auction. They then apparently got offended by the offer of money to sign an NDA which calls their future motives into question as they now had a beef with the guy.

Saying the actions themselves were not improper is also a defense, and could be perfectly viable even if they had beef with the guy.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-10-18 23:20:37+00:00
Yes! I mean the President is only important because people devolve 99% of the time they spend of politics to National politics whereas they should be focused on County and City level which has the most impact on their lives.

A street becoming a one way street or a replanning might not be as sexy as what happens at the National Level especially with Trump in the WH (and in the past Clinton) but it actually has an impact on people's lives and it gives people impacted a relatively high capability of influencing what happens compared to National politics which is the equivalent of urinating in the ocean
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-10-18 23:21:29+00:00
At the time of writing the query has a small error. The filter is checking for reads and writes, but it should be reads or writes.

WHERE -- Filter to only show tables that have had some form of read or write activity (s.n_tup_ins + s.n_tup_upd + s.n_tup_del) > 0 AND (si.heap_blks_read + si.idx_blks_read) > 0 )

Should be OR
by Bowes-Lyon | 2025-10-18 23:21:33+00:00
Popular tech blogs do not promote products because of the goodness of their hearts, but for money.

Placing an article in a tech blog costs between $20,000 and $30,000, depending on the blog’s reputation, and everybody can do it.

So, it is not that the tech blogs are particularly enthusiastic about the Glasses; it’s more that Meta is throwing money left and right to promote them.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-18 23:22:23+00:00
>You need some way of distinguishing high quality from low quality posts.

Yes. But I see curation more as a 2nd order problems to solve once the bases are taken care of. Moderation focuses on addressing the low quality, while curation makes sure tye high quality posts receive focus.

The tools needed for curation, stuff like filtering, finding similar posts/comments, popularity, following, are different from those needed to moderate, or self moderate (ignore, down voting, reporting). The latter poisons a site before it can really start to curate to its users.

>This is a completely independent problem from spam.

Yeah, thinking more about it, it probably is a distinct category. It simply has a similar result of making a site unable to function.

>It's not clear what these are but they sound like kind of the same thing again

I can clarify. In short, posting transparency focused more on the user and good faith verification focuses more on the content. (I'm also horrible with naming, so I welcome better terms to describe these)

- Posting transparency at this point has one big goal: ensure you know when a human or a bot is posting. But it extends to ensuring there's no impersonation, that there's no abuse of alt accounts, and no voting manipulation.

It can even extend in some domains to making sure e.g. That a person who says they worked at Google actually worked at Google. But this is definitely a step that can overstep privacies.

- good faith verification refers more towards a duty to properly vet and fact check information that is posted. It may include addressing misinformation and hate, or removing non-transparent intimate advice like legal/medical claims without sources or proper licensing. It essentially boils down to making ensuring that "bad but popular" advice doesn't proliferate, as it it ought to do.

>they sound like elements in the authoritarian censorship toolbox which you don't actually need or want once you start showing people the posts they actually want to see

Yes, they are. I think we've seen enough examples of how dangerous "showing people what they actually want to see" can be if left unchecked. And the incentives to keep them up are equally dangerous in an ad-driven platform. Being able to address that naturally requires some more authorian approaches.

That's why "good faith" is an important factor here. Any authoritarian act you introduce can only work on trust, and is easily broken by abuse. If we want incentives to change from "maximizing engagement" to "maximizing quality and community", we need to cull out malicious information.

We already give some authoritarianism by having moderators we trust to remove spam and illegal content, so I don't see it as a giant overstep to make sure they can also do this.
by shinycode | 2025-10-18 23:22:24+00:00
I thought I was alone but there is so many comments I wonder how much people is there and if it’s really random or if there is common sources like some stress, airpods or some kind of psychoacoustic event. I have like 3 different frequencies and it « exploded » in a stressful event at work. I always thought it was music all day with AirPods but it might be stress actually because everytime I’m tired and stressed it’s unbearable. A nightmare that we learn to live with. I often ask myself what the sound would look like if demodulated and de-pitched if that makes sense. It might seem weird but a voice modulated at a very high frequency and pitch might look like those kind of noises or I am wrong ?
by J_McQuade | 2025-10-18 23:22:56+00:00
This, as a few other commenters have mentioned, is a terrible article.

For a start, the article does not mention any other database. I don't know how you can say something is read or write heavy without comparing it to something else. It doesn't even compare different queries on the same database. Like, they just wrote a query and it does a lot of reads - so what? There's nothing here. Am I going mad? Why does this article exist?
by optionalsquid | 2025-10-18 23:23:29+00:00
> That's true in targeted sequencing, but when you try to sequence a whole genome, this is unlikely.

Whole-genome shotgun sequencing is pretty cheap these days.

The person you are replying to doesn't give any specific numbers, but in my experience, you aim for 5-20x average coverage for population level studies, depending on the number of samples and what you are looking for, and 30x or higher for studies where individuals are important.

For context, coverage refers to the (average) number of resulting DNA sequences that cover a given position in the target genome. Though there is of course variation in local coverage, regardless of your average coverage, and that can result in individual base-calls being being more or less reliable
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-18 23:24:06+00:00
> opposition does not have any viable candidates

2028 is 2 years away. In 2006, Obama was a U.S. Senator with less than 10% national name recogition [1]. In 2014, Trump was--at best--a political commentator.

Election cycles are getting longer. But social media also rewards meteoric rises that eclipse public vetting.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2007/09/19/14502364/obamas-loss-may-have...
by mcflem007 | 2025-10-18 23:25:25+00:00
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by turtledragonfly | 2025-10-18 23:28:45+00:00
Pretty cool. I haven't dived into the details of this post, but it's a problem I've been wrangling with from time to time in my game.

Below is a series of writings on this topic that I enjoyed, by James Blinn, of "Blinn-Phong reflection" fame (and more). Not state-of-the-art, but an interesting read. It's just for cubics, which is what you need to solve the distance formula for quadratic bezier curves (my particular case), rather than the harder cubic curves of the linked article.

* https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590b/13au/lectu...

* https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590b/13au/lectu...

* https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590b/13au/lectu...

* https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590b/13au/lectu...

* https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590b/13au/lectu...
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-10-18 23:29:48+00:00
> > How can we live life without enriching billionaires?

We should open the LLCs registries so that when they have to actually spend the money the seller can know that they are loaded and ask them for 1000x the price.

I know it seems like something out of a Banana Republic but when Musk or Bezos Gulfstream G800 is approaching to land it seems crazy to me that Tower doesn't shoot its shot and keep them in air indefinetly until they send a wire through.

When I say tower I mean both the airport infrastructure as a whole as well as individual Air Traffic Controllers.

Every worker these people encounter during their lives should shoot their shot because one successful "blackmail" could make them set for life and unlike the employees at the multi trillion dollar corproation they presede a say ATC is a unique point of authority who holds power over the billionaire at that determinate moment

Same with cops etc.

See interaction between Ellison and cop in Hawaii :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-8UqcSJDY

With open LLCs registry people could be effectively able to check the ownership of every credit card and adjust the price of every good and service according to the pockets of the person or entity buying it
by randallsquared | 2025-10-18 23:30:49+00:00
Adjusted for inflation, the price of oil has been similar for the last 20 years[1]. As PV ramps up further, there will be less demand for oil, and therefore the price will fall and extraction will reduce. It's not clear to me if that means the peak is 2026 or 2036, but either way, there will be all the oil we need to accomplish everything we want to use it for, even as we use less and less of it.

1. https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-18 23:31:00+00:00
It's unfortunate, and I don't necessarily want to say decentralization isn't viable at all. But I only see decentralization at best address the issue of scraping. It's solving different problems without necessarily addressing the core ones needed to make sure a new community is functional. But I think both kinds of tech can execute on addressing these issues.

I'm not against subscriptions per se, but I do think a one time entry cost is really all that's needed to achieve many of the desired effects. I'm probably in the minority as someone who'd rather pay $10 one time to enter a community once than $1-2/month to maintain my participation, though. I'm just personally tired of feeling like I'm paying a tax to construct something that may one day be good, rather than buying into a decently polished product upfront.
by jszymborski | 2025-10-18 23:31:40+00:00
"LSTMs brought essentially unlimited depth to supervised RNNs"

LSTMs are an incredible architecture, I use them a lot in my research. While LSTMs are useful over many more timesteps than other RNNs, LSTMs certainly don't offer 'essentially unlimited depth'.

When training LSTMs whose input were sequences of amino acids, whose length easily top 3,000 timesteps, I got huge amounts of instability... with gradients rapidly vanishing. Tokenizing the AAs, getting the number of timesteps down to more like 1,500, has made things way more stable.
by defrost | 2025-10-18 23:34:12+00:00
As much as I appreciate the difficulty this

> Unless you are willing to abandon iPhones, Macs, Windows PCs and Android devices

might pose for some, in my particular case to abandon these things I'd first have to take them up.

* To clarify, I do have Windows OS images in VM's that are either isolated or remote and I do have Android OS in two dumbed down smart TV's that are network isolated to either live TV signal from air or local network digital media.
by piva00 | 2025-10-18 23:35:40+00:00
Almost the exact thing to me, 20+ years of tinnitus which sits calmly in the background most of the time except when I read the word tinnitus, or I'm feeling anxious for some reason: when I can't fall asleep when I need a good rest, life stresses, and those moments when a different pitch shows up in one ear and louder. In those occasions I can clearly hear the tone of mine.

It's mildly annoying but I've definitely learnt to live with it pretty ok.
by btschaegg | 2025-10-18 23:35:53+00:00
> whether you write them down or not.

Note that "types have been written down" != "the program was written with static typing". See, for example, what's doable with clojure.spec.

While loose, "from the hip" code (w.r.t. typing) often correlates with the use of dynamically typed languages, we shouldn't make the mistake of assuming a total causality there.

(Also, I still find the number of people willing to put e.g. `object` parameters in their public C# APIs concerningly high. Not that one has to deal with such APIs all the time, but they're not exactly eradicated, either.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-18 23:36:14+00:00
> you'd get an accurate image of a very distorted root system

At the very least, you've taken a 3D system and reduced it to 2D. Additionally, you're exposing not only the root system but the entire microbiome around them to light and, almost certainly, unless you were incredibly meticulous about sealing, oxygen.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-18 23:37:26+00:00
That's an even harder problem to solve. I do agree we should make sure that policy isn't manipulated by vested powers and make things even harder to compete with.

But network effects seems to be a natural phenomenon of people wanting to establish a familiar routine. I look at Steam as an example here, where while it has its own shady schemes behind the scenes (which I hope are addressed), it otherwise doesn't engage in the same dark patterns as other monopolies. But it still creates a strong network effect nonetheless.

I think the main solace here is that you don't need to be dominant to create a good community. You need to focus instead on getting above a certain critical mass, where you keep a healthy stream of posting and participation that can sustain itself. Social media should ultimately be about establishing a space for a community to flourish, and small communities are just as valid.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-10-18 23:38:56+00:00
Your reasoning is way off. You’re a human being, not some creature running on autopilot. And you’re fully capable of thinking and acting with some intelligence.

What’s happening online just drags things down. People chasing clicks, money, and attention by any means. When platforms like 4chan or influencers resort to gimmicks or self objectification to get views, it encourages people to act less like thoughtful humans and more like they’re reverting to base instincts - like animals. It normalizes shallow, attention-hungry behaviour and chips away at basic self-respect and awareness. One idiot can lead a hundred astray.

Why is it ok for a young woman to put a paper bag on her head in a live chat session, in order to gain more subscribers? Or swallow insults after insults? Is this ok? I don't think so.

You want to tolerate ideas like GGG movies and Dick Wadd gay videos where black guys sodomize whitebois acting as nazis and then piss in steel bowls and force them to drink it from said bowl? How do these "ideas" improve society hm? You need these things to be tolerated?

This whole idea that anyone can do anything and people will decide what's best for them is absolute hogwash.
by hinkley | 2025-10-18 23:39:22+00:00
> you’re saying, “trust me, this works.” But now the types are written down in your head

Which is only even true during the initial phases of a project. The moment the initial team shares bus numbers with other developers, the 'you' becomes a collective you, and you have three people who all believe they have it written down in their head, and often at least one is wrong.

You can make a project that relies on memorization. It will eventually fail, in one sense of the term or another. Or you can make it so that you can verify things you think you used to know about the project cheaply. But then you need to remember to check your assumptions when doing new work.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-18 23:39:23+00:00
> You’re comparing appreciating looking at the sky to bestiality.

That’s my point. You think beauty is profound but this is arbitrary and not at all different from bestiality. It’s only your intrinsic cultural biases that cause you to look at one with disdain. Don’t be a snob. This is HN. We are supposed to be logical and immune from the biases that plague other forums. Beauty is no more profound than bestiality. It’s all about what you find beautiful. If you find beasts beautiful then you call it beastiality?

What is so different about finding a beast beautiful versus the night sky? Snobbery, that’s what.

It’s just semantic manipulation and association with crudeness that prevents you from thinking logically. HNers are better than this and so are you. Don’t pretend you don’t get it and that my comparison to beastiality is so left field that it’s incomprehensible. You get it. Follow the rules and take it in good faith like you said yourself.

> The HN guidelines ask you to not engage in bad faith

Fair I edited the part that asks “is this for real” that’s literally the only part.

I also find your dismissiveness of my arguments as “bestiality” is bad faith and manipulative. I clearly wasn’t doing that. Pigs are attracted to pigs that is normal. Humans are not attracted to pigs. That is also normal. I took normal attributes of human nature and compared it to reality. You took it in bad faith and dismissed me which is against the very rules you stated.
by DowsingSpoon | 2025-10-18 23:40:54+00:00
PsyOps, you say? Operations by which organizations? Which specific individuals were involved in the planning and coordination? How are they funded? Who got paid and who paid who for this PsyOp work? To what end?

Who approached Margaret Atwood, for example, and proposed she write a novel as part of a desensitization “PsyOp?” When?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-18 23:40:57+00:00
No you misunderstand the ground truth reality.

The LLM doesn’t need words as input. It can output pictures from pictures. Semantic words don’t have to be part of the equation at all.

Also you have to note that serialized one dimensional string encodings are universal. Anything on the face of the earth and the universe itself can be encoded into a sting of just two characters: one and zero. That’s means anything can be translated to a linear series of symbols and the LLM can be trained on it. The LLM can be trained on anything.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-18 23:41:15+00:00
> skimmed this article, I still don't get it.

But you're posting here, in socisl media, no? So you sought out something here that a group chat wouldn't give.

Most of the article here is focused more on making sure any social media (be it chats, a public forum, or email) isn't hijacked by vested powers who want to spread propaganda or drown the user in ads. One approach to that focused in this article is decentralization, which gives a user the ability to take their ball and go home.

Of course, it's futile if the user doesn't care about wielding that power.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-10-18 23:41:50+00:00
A lot of tech folks hate government ID schemes, but I think MDL with some sort of pairwise pseudonyms could help with spam and verification.

It would let you identify users uniquely, but without revealing too much sensitive information. It would let you verify things like "This user has a Michigan driver's license, and they have an ID 1234, which is unique to my system and not linkable to any other place they use that ID."

If you ban that user, they wouldn't be able to use that ID again with you.

The alternative is that we continue to let unelected private operators like Cloudflare "solve" this problem.
by warkdarrior | 2025-10-18 23:43:49+00:00
> By open do you mean not centralised? I don't get the significance of big S social media. Functionally how would big S improve on group chats?

Social media has two functions: chat (within groups/topics/...) and discovery (of groups/topics/...). So unless we rely only on IRL discovery, we need a way to do discovery online.
by hamasho | 2025-10-18 23:43:54+00:00
I agree with the author. DSLs are often more reasonable, readable, and authentic than weirdly ported versions for general purpose languages. On the other hand, language servers checking type mismatches and providing suggestions are very useful. I too hope they will become good enough so we can use the same capacity for the DSL in a general purpose language like CSS/SQL in JavaScript. They are some, but not enough.