MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thomastjeffery | 2025-10-20 17:28:17+00:00
There is too much communication on what Berty doesn't do, and not enough on what it does.

So can it send messages over a network? Do messages have to be sent over a direct connection to the recipient's hardware? If messages can be carried by an intermediate, then who, when, and how? It would help a lot to answer these questions more immediately.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-20 17:28:23+00:00
Kind of. Frontier LLMs aren't going to get cheaper, but that's because the frontier keeps advancing.

Price-performance though? The trend is clear: a given level of LLM capability keeps getting cheaper, and that trend is expected to hold. Improvements in architecture and training make LLMs more capability-dense, and advanced techniques make inference cheaper.
by Bender | 2025-10-20 17:28:50+00:00
Fair point! I think it just feels a little more… mean?

It is somewhat a pejorative. It's just a matter of time before gen Beta start getting called "Betas". If I find a word to be cringe inducing I just replace it on the fly using FoxReplace. [1] Quoting the replaced words can be interpreted in many ways.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-10-20 17:29:10+00:00
This is a great argument for renting. As the world updates it's estimate of the value of this property based on the fact it will have 0 value in the next 25-50 years your rent will keep going down, and you will preserve the massive investment you would have otherwise had to make, possibly by buying land 1-2 meters higher up that is currently undervalued.
by bluGill | 2025-10-20 17:29:35+00:00
Why is useful important? Back in the day residents would sometimes get a western good and they would save the packaging (think plastic spray can lids) because it was color unlike the soviet versions. Both worked (well we will assume though cheating putting water in in a cleaning bottle was not unknown when quotas were not met), but consumers want that beauty.

which is to say a lot of needless things are still highly desired.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-20 17:29:47+00:00
Not remotely surprised. Any competent engineer knows full well the risk of deploying into us-east-1 (or any “default” region for that matter), as well as the risks of relying on global services whose management or interaction layer only exists in said zone. Unfortunately, us-east-1 is the location most outsourcing firms throw stuff, because they don’t have to support it when it goes pear-shaped (that’s the client’s problem, not theirs).

My refusal to hoard every asset into AWS (let alone put anything of import in us-east-1) has saved me repeatedly in the past. Diversity is the foundation of resiliency, after all.
by ttul | 2025-10-20 17:30:10+00:00
It depends on what you want the model to do for you. If you want the model to complete text, then you would provide the input text unmasked followed by a number of masked tokens that it's the model's job to fill in. Perhaps your goal is to have the model simply make edits to a bit of code. In that case, you'd mask out the part that it's supposed to edit and the model would iteratively fill in those masked tokens with generated tokens.

One of the powerful abilities of text diffusion models is supposedly in coding. Auto-regressive LLMs don't inherently come with the ability to edit. They can generate instructions that another system interprets as editing commands. Being able to literally unmask the parts you want to edit is a pretty powerful paradigm that could improve if not just speed up many coding tasks.

I suspect that elements of text diffusion will be baked into coding models like GPT Codex (if they aren't already). There's no reason you could not train a diffusion output head specifically designed for code editing and the same model is able to make use of that head when it makes the most sense to do so.
by horsawlarway | 2025-10-20 17:30:14+00:00
See - I actually think this is a pretty interesting idea. Stool/Urine are fairly solid indicators of personal health in a lot of ways.

But I think this is a product that probably shouldn't be allowed to exist as a standard SaaS/IoT product.

If this was a box I could hook up on my toilet that showed useful info on a screen locally - with zero network access... I'd consider buying.

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People are really glib about the loss of control relying on someone else's computer brings.

between service enshittification, company death (out of business), privacy concerns, and ownership contention (do I own a device if a company keeps keys to the locks inside it and won't give them to me? I'd argue a solid and resounding "NO")... I don't want anything to do with most modern networked devices in the form of IoT.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-20 17:30:18+00:00
Obviously you get downvoted for this here, but you are absolutely correct.

Climate science is one of the most speculative fields of science, which for political reasons is rarely admitted towards the general public. The climate in 100 years is incredibly uncertain.

The general story of rising sea levels due to increased temperatures due to increased carbon in the atmosphere is of course very plausible. But it is just one of large number of effects at play and one of many ways the climate is changing. (Which isn't to say that the sum of these effects can not have server negative consequences)

Science communication around climate change has always been built around the obvious falsehood that climate models make good predictions, especially when it comes to long term trends. Instead of honestly communicating the actual state of science, which is that while specific predictions are hard, negative consequences of human intervention in the earths atmosphere likely will have sever negative consequences if they aren't mitigated, science communication has focused in on stories about "in X years Y will happen". When Y inevitably did not happen that was (and it is hard to blame people for this) taken es evidence that no negative consequences can be expected.

Edit: It is pretty surprising how anti science the crowd here is. These are just basic truths about he state of the science. Accurate climate models do not exist, if you disagree I suppose you should read a bit into the literature.
by tallanvor | 2025-10-20 17:30:30+00:00
There is always going to be a point of failure. For many of us, self-hosting on a dedicated server, VPS, or some sort of cloud service is much better than keeping the hardware to do it at home.

My stuff is spread out among a dedicated server and 3 VPS's. --I could and should drop one of the VPS's, but if it'll take me a couple of hours, it's just not worth it until I actually have the time to spare.
by mathieudombrock | 2025-10-20 17:31:04+00:00
For what it's worth, I wrote a very bare bones RSS reader in an afternoon. It really just renders a set of RSS feeds into HTML and nothing else.

But it was fun to and educational to build and could pretty easily be extended to add more features.

I would recommend just going for it if you are interested in writing one. It's not as hard as it sounds.
by sofixa | 2025-10-20 17:31:45+00:00
Cars are relatively advanced and more importantly, seen as a status symbol by many. There is, IMO, plenty of space for not-the-cheapest, quality cars.

Take Renault for example, their Renault 5 and 4 EVs are good looking, not luxury but definitely premium, and the 5 sedan starts at 30k€; the 4 crossover starts at 29k€. This is before a 5k€ government subsidy. Their boring, fewer bells and whistles, low cost model, the Dacia Spring, starts at 17k€. The Renault 5 and 4 are made almost entirely in France, while the Dacia is made in Romania - a lower cost country, but still an EU member state.

The comparable in size and autonomy BYD Dolphin starts at 20k€. Both for cheapness and quality/design, Renault are competitive.
by mmooss | 2025-10-20 17:32:05+00:00
Is it too much to say that I've thought that we could easily collect valuable health information by collecting data on digestion output. It mostly happens in just a few locations (unlike input), so it's perhaps worthwhile to invest in data collection.

I expect weight to be valuable, simple to collect, precise, and quantified (thus simple to analyze). Assuming excrement and urine have consistent masses, you would have good data on half of the food input/output equation, which could tell you about hydration and nutrition, the efficiency of fluid and solid digestion, etc. (Input is more difficult to measure.)

Density might also help; a sensor in the output pipe below might measure it after a consistent water pressure is applied.

For the OP, I wonder how sophisticated these instruments are. For example, using the empty bowl as baseline, you might automatically collect and quantify color data.
by wltr | 2025-10-20 17:32:11+00:00
Write your own then, I guess. I prefer a developer to have at least some basic understanding of what they’re developing and why. And when they do, and when they themselves use their product, they do have opinions. In my opinion, especially if the project is open source, you’re free to do as you like.

I like opinionated software, because usually the developer uses the software themselves, and they prefer to not have some features you might like. I’m fine with that, if our opinions are similar. If not, I just might ignore that software, I guess. Sure thing, we cannot make all software opinionated, there’s no point in that. But some of it, I enjoy it to be that way.
by alganet | 2025-10-20 17:32:23+00:00
We can make it so it's never aliens, or always aliens. Public and science opinion has become a free for all lately.

People are so caught up in the 3I/ATLAS stuff, for example. Should we beam a message to it? What should we think of it? It's a circus.

Let's go back to Boyajian's Star instead. Can we really be sure the dimming is not caused by a mothership coming from that direction? It explains everything, right? Maybe that's how they communicate, by sending a paper plane and opening a large occlusion origami that says "we come from this general direction" (I'm cosplaying Avi Loeb here, satirically).

There's something about interpretation in all of this. Space is full of radio signals. We determine lots of them to be natural (with good reason).

I'm afraid proposing "we should answer" (in case of electromagnetic signals) could lead to a scenario in which people are encouraged to believe something without the means to verifying it. Some idiot group could do it just to increase the popular optimism about space in order to induce a favorable perception on the development of space technologies with the ultimate goal of just bumping some industry with money. It's the kind of world we live in right now, unfortunatelly.

If we want to be serious about humanity's place in the universe, first we need to be serious about our home right here. I don't think we're mature enough to have responsible control over technologies that could be used to send a powerful signal into space.
by user____name | 2025-10-20 17:32:34+00:00
Or... In the US the word liberal was thrust upon them by the self styled "conservatives" by calling them that and also by turning the S-word into a slur. After the fall of the USSR and its satelites pretty much all progressives are social democrats, which is a subset of liberalism -- you know, because they also hate tankies, regardless of what the potus and his ilk think.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-10-20 17:32:45+00:00
>Not if you want to build something production ready.

>>Gives a specific edge case about static IPs and doing a serverless API backed by lambda.

The most naive solution you'd do on any non-cloud vendor, just have a proxy with a static ip that then routes traffic whereever it needed to go, would also work on AWS.

So if you think AWS's solution sucks why not just go with that? What you described doesn't even sound complicated when you think of the networking magic behind the scenes that will take place if you ever do scale to 1 million tps.
by gcr | 2025-10-20 17:32:45+00:00
The OP is referring to the old days of javascript, where the UI was directed programatically and imperatively, e.g.

<div id="myoutput">Enter a name</div>

<input type="text" onchange="document.getElementById('myoutput').innerText = `Hello {name}!`" />

One upside of this approach is that the only subtree that needs to be re-rendered is the specific element whose state got mutated.

Another upside of this approach is that the code doing the mutation is very close to the actual UI element that triggered it. Of course, this rapidly turns into a downside as the size of the codebase grows...
by hunter2_ | 2025-10-20 17:33:11+00:00
Basically it sounds like IaaS is fine (even though someone else manages the hardware and restricts OS choices), and even PaaS is fine (even though someone else manages the hardware, the OS, and the configuration of interpreters such as php / node.js / python / etc.), since these let you run your own code (which can include your instance of community code). Only SaaS would be excluded, as these don't let you run your own code.
by seniorThrowaway | 2025-10-20 17:33:24+00:00
Azure, from my experience with it has stuff go down a lot and degrades even more. Seems to either not admit the degradation happened or rely on 1000 pages of fine print SLA docs to prove you don't get any credits for it. I suppose that isn't the same as "lose a region resiliency" so it could still be them given the poster said it is B2B focused and Azure is subject to a lot of exercises like this from it's huge enterprise customers. FWIW I worked as a IaC / devops engineer with the largest tenant in one of the non-public Azure clouds.
by more_corn | 2025-10-20 17:33:24+00:00
One good way to model your unconscious behavior is to examine the ways adversaries exploit your unconscious behavior.

By examining the common attacks on distracted people you can build a simple rule set that accounts for a large part of unconscious behavior. The attack I love to hate is the “subscribe now” popup. It inserts into your OODA loop at exactly the moment when your mind is engaged with important or interesting concepts. It is designed to compromise your decision making. I would use that as the foundation of my model because it sets out not only the behavior but the conditions under which the behavior is active.

Another set of rules can be inferred from ways phishing tricks people. (Activating urgency, fear, irritation, authority, avarice)

A third source of rules might be inferred from the practices of illusionists and cup and ball scams. Attention is finite, I’ve got it here so it’s not available in the important direction.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-20 17:33:37+00:00
It’s the “original” AWS region. It has the most legacy baggage, the most customer demand (at least in the USA), and it’s also the region that hosts the management layer of most “global” services. Its availability has also been dogshit, but because companies only care about costs today and not harms tomorrow, they usually hire or contract out to talent that similarly only cares about the bottom line today and throws stuff into us-east-1 rather than figure out AZs and regions.

The best advice I can give to any org in AWS is to get out of us-east-1. If you use a service whose management layer is based there, make sure you have break-glass processes in place or, better yet, diversify to other services entirely to reduce/eliminate single points of failure.
by cheeze | 2025-10-20 17:34:21+00:00
Quite expensive to build though. Many of these companies don't have the sharpest engineers building multi-cloud.

IMO, going multi AZ or multi-cloud adds a good amount of complexity.

TBH I don't care if last.fm doesn't work for 8 hours a year, that isn't a big deal. My bank? Yeah that should work.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-20 17:34:28+00:00
> people want more than to be fed, sheltered, and protected from violent attacks

People want to be free. Being infantilized by being fed, sheltered, and protected by others rots the soul.

One of the proudest days of my life was when I told my dad I no longer needed any support from him. Unexpectedly, my relationship with him suddenly changed. He started treating me like a man, rather than a child.
by npodbielski | 2025-10-20 17:34:40+00:00
Others already answered with information that you usually have more devices then just 1. So you can have access to your data from PC, laptop and your phone. I for once also like to have my own data my own. I.e. I have:

- my own email server

- my own files sharing service

- service for cardDav, CalDav etc.

- service for editing my own office files on mobile

- notes that are synchronized

- streaming of movies and music

- build and git server

- my own smart home service

- notification service

- chat

- VPN

- desktop sharing service

- my own DNS for blocking adds

- and others
by professorseth | 2025-10-20 17:35:23+00:00
Ya, your reasoning about why the text-only version was ok is what I heard as well.

As far as people being on board with this--I did not have to push it through, it was a task that management wanted done that I happily did, because I could see the value of it.

Amazon actually does a really good job with accessibility across all their products. When I was there, they had at least 2 full time employees (1 Product manager and 1 Quality assurance engineer) whose full time job was just accessibility, across all Kindle platforms and I heard the intention was to grow that team as I was leaving. They had an entire team working on accessibility for the retail website, from what I heard (though I only met one or two of those people).

However, there still was a sentiment among certain engineers that worrying about accessibility was a waste of time because it only helps a small section of the population. Thankfully Web accessibility (both in standards and in culture) has come a long way in the last 8-10 years, and I think a lot more people believe in its importance now that they did back in 2017 when I started working on this.
by conditionnumber | 2025-10-20 17:35:24+00:00
> Actually it's highly usual... CUSIPs... there's nothing to stop you from setting up your own, alternative... numbering system

I don't think there's anything natural about the mandatory use of copyrighted CUSIP identifiers in regulatory reporting. When SEC publishes its quarterly list of 13F securities it includes a disclaimer that it does so "with permission" from the copyright holder. My city doesn't pay royalties or seek approvals when it records and processes car license plate numbers for parking enforcement. The copyright holder seems actively involved in rulemaking that has the potential to diminish the role CUSIPs play in mandatory regulatory reporting.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposals/comments/FR-00...
by pluto_modadic | 2025-10-20 17:35:39+00:00
it's a weird effect:

imagine a beach, with icecream vendors. You'd think it would be optimal for two vendors to each split it half north, half south. However, in wanting to steal some of the other vendors' customers, you end up with two icecream stands in the center.

So too with outages. Safety / loss of blame in numbers.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-10-20 17:36:28+00:00
You're both right, but were thinking in different terms:

As of 2025, advertising is responsible for approximately 21.9% of the total U.S. economic output, according to a study by S&P Global Market Intelligence commissioned by The Advertising Coalition. [prnewswire.com]

Here are some key figures from the study:

Total U.S. GDP (2024): $47.5 trillion

Advertising-driven economic activity: $10.4 trillion

Direct advertising spend: $491 billion

Jobs supported by advertising: 29 million (about 18.3% of the U.S. workforce)

So while direct advertising expenditures account for about 1–2% of GDP, the broader economic impact—including downstream sales and employee spending—brings the total contribution to nearly 22% of GDP.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-20 17:36:32+00:00
I like how you changed "less than .4 meters" into "between .5 and 1"

That was some smooth propagandizing you just did, I wonder if anybody else noticed. Between less than .4 (0) and 1 (1) is a much bigger window than the one you invented wholesale in your reply.

I think the grandparent might be right, and your willingness to bend the statistics when they are literally on the same page as your comment, along with others like you doing the same thing for decades, is the reason your side is losing and continues to lose the public's trust.

If the problem is really so obvious and so serious you should not feel it necessary to exaggerate. So quit it.
by kccqzy | 2025-10-20 17:36:34+00:00
Thanks! I'm giving rg a try. Right now the only issue I'm facing is that rg's -g flag is less expressive than ag's -G flag. The latter allows specifying a regular expression for the file name to search in. The rg's version only uses globs. This means it's a bit more typing for common cases and a bit less flexible.
by yencabulator | 2025-10-20 17:36:47+00:00
Because historically, what's in a release tarball is not what's in the repository. In many cases, the release tarball of an old C/autoconf project has "half-built". Debian has always worked from the release tarballs, and thus if you "just" import Debian packaging into a VCS, you don't necessarily track every upstream commit, just the releases.

(Independently importing release tarballs into VCS also worked better in the era of a dozen competing VCSes, without reliable export-import pipelines.)
by ojosilva | 2025-10-20 17:37:31+00:00
Yeah, I'm one of them, using Qwen 3 coder on Cerebras as coding agent through CC. What I keep hearing is (very ballpark anecdata)...

50% of people into coding agents are quite concerned about that last mile in difference with frontier models that they "can't afford to lose" - my experience tells me otherwise, the difference is negligible once you have a good setup going and knows how to tune your model + agent.

The other 50% don't give a damn, they just landed, or got locked, into some deal for a coding agent and are happy with what they got, so why change? These deals arrived from the big model providers and resellers first, so Chinese arrived late and with too little to the party.

Running Chinese models (for coding) requires many things that you need to figure-out yourself. Are you running the model on your hw or through a provider? Are you paying by token or on a plan? Does the model pair well with you agent CLI/IDE of choice? (Zed, Cline, Opencode, etc) Does it even work with your favorite tool? (tool calling is very wobbly) Is it fast (tps)? Is it reliable? How do you do "ultrathink" with a secondary model? How do you do "large context"? Does it include a cache or are you going to eat through the plan in 1hr/day? What context size are you getting? Does it include vision and web search or do you have to get another provider/mcp for that? And, yeah, is it in a territory where you can send your client's code to? A lot to grok.

Cerebras Coder Max is really cool if you want to hack your way through this, but they couldn't care less about your experience: no cache, no tool endpoint fine-tuning, no plans or roadmap on updating models, on increasing context windows, adding vision, or anything really. They just deleted some of the tools they were recommending out of the website (ie Cursor) as they got reports of things that stopped working.
by FabCH | 2025-10-20 17:37:40+00:00
There is a middle ground there. I self-host, was not at all affected today nor would I be if Google, MS, Cloudfare or any of the big ones go down. But I cannot easily access my server because it is locked in a datacenter 1000 km away.

But it is a bare metal server from Hetzner auction that I got for cheap and it now hosts an entire family&friends cloud for 10-ish people.