MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-10 19:53:59+00:00
The problem here is clearly the one doing the evaluation. Why do they even have a job themselves if they're so incapable of evaluating correctly?

There exists a quantitative method to correctly evaluate workers:

1. Collect each worker's work outputs and construct a training dataset.

2. Train an AI model with all work outputs combined.

3. For each worker, train a model with their respective work outputs deleted.

4. Construct a comprehensive evaluation benchmark over the full combined dataset.

5. For each worker, measure the change in the benchmark's performance with the worker's specific model relative to the full global model.

6. Fire the workers that lead to an unexpected improvement in the benchmark with their respective worker's model. This means that these workers were not contributing in a meaningful way to improving the performance over the benchmark. Keep the rest.
by tronical | 2025-10-10 19:54:07+00:00
On macOS and Windows, the menubar is native. On Windows, context menus are, too. On macOS it‘s a small patch away, we just haven‘t gotten around. (https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/7bb333c77dd477f8625c8... )

Shout out to the muda folks here and big thanks to npwoods :)
by iguessthislldo | 2025-10-10 19:54:34+00:00
I have one of them (don't remember which number) and OLED part is very nice. I haven't done anything with the TV itself, but I forked an old library (https://github.com/iguessthislldo/libLGTV_serial) to control it remotely through serial and Home Assistant without connecting it to my WiFi. I originally set this up for a much older 1080p LG TV, and was able to use it with a newer one with a few modifications.

edit: Apparently I specially have C3PUA according to the model data I added. Also if anyone is interested in this, I can update the README because I didn't change it after I forked it.
by Someone | 2025-10-10 19:54:38+00:00
> Mathematical notation from long ago doesn't much look like what we're familiar with today, but we can still make use of it.

But few modern mathematicians can understand it. Given enough data, they can figure out what it means, but that’s similar to (in this somewhat weak analogy) running code in an emulator.

What we can readily make use of are mathematical results from long ago.
by semiquaver | 2025-10-10 19:54:59+00:00
The thing about speed tests causing a bad experience because they hog airtime felt like a non sequitur (since performing them is rare and manual) until I saw this:

> Many ISPs, device manufacturers, and consumers automate periodic, high-intensity speed tests that negatively impact the consumer internet experience as demonstrated

But there’s no support for this claim presented frankly I am skeptical. What WiFi devices are regularly conducting speed tests without being asked?
by joshstrange | 2025-10-10 19:55:10+00:00
I think Samsung TVs can be interacted with through HA's SmartThings integration but I don't use that at all. Instead I have my Harmony Hubs (yes, a dying breed, literally) connected and that's the only way I interact with my TVs via HA.

"Alexa, turn on Living Room TV" -> HA -> Harmony -> IR Blaster

I think through the Apple TV integration I can control them even further but I greatly prefer just using the Harmony remote. I'm not looking forward to the day when those stop working completely and I have to evaluate other options. Every year or so I look around but nothing beats my old Harmony remote (with a coin battery that lasts so long I've lost track, easily over a year) and the Harmony Hub (which actually sends out the signals).
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-10 19:55:39+00:00
I view them as lossy compressors. Kind of like a JPEG for algorithms. And while our optical nerve stack tends to be pretty good at glossing over and correcting for erroneous pixels, it has been my experience that computers do not possess that kind of discernment. Thy do exactly as they're told. And a "pixel off" here and there in the execution of boolean logic can quietly not matter, or it can unravel pretty epically.
by dividedcomet | 2025-10-10 19:55:47+00:00
I tried both nvim and helix from vscode, and no luck. I feel like I don’t need a lot (syntax highlighting, lsp, goto definitions, file hot reloads, and crucially, a file tree). I can kinda get nvim there, but it falls apart when I can’t just enter and exit the file tree+file viewer with a simple ‘vi or q!’. Maybe I don’t understand quite how to get the config just right, but so far a friendly terminal first code editor seems out of my grasp.
by baby | 2025-10-10 19:55:59+00:00
It is messed up in the US that a political party basically wins because they spend more money in ads and utilize ads more intelligently.

I mean things like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/election-mus...

> A political action committee (Pac) linked to Elon Musk is accused of targeting Jewish and Arab American voters in swing states with dramatically different messages about Kamala Harris’s position on Gaza, a strategy by Trump allies aimed at peeling off Democratic support for the vice-president.

> Texts, mailers, social media ads and billboards targeting heavily Arab American areas in metro Detroit paint Harris as a staunch ally of Israel who will continue supplying arms to the country. Meanwhile, residents in metro Detroit or areas of Pennsylvania with higher Jewish populations have been receiving messaging that underscores her alleged support for the Palestinian cause.

There seems to be no attempt at making elections fair by providing all candidates with the same funding and the same air time.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-10-10 19:56:02+00:00
Whats more, every single child here in Australia is learning on a school issued Chrome Book. To my kids, a spread sheet is google sheets and a power point is google slides.

(We were joking about it just last week because my partner asked my eldest what was the Power Point he was working on and he said, "Whats Power Point?")
by gwern | 2025-10-10 19:56:07+00:00
This apparently doesn't apply here, but in fact, pixels can be generated independently of each other. There are architectures where you can generate an arbitrary pixel or element of the image without generating the others; they are just implicit. See NeRFs or 'single-pixel GANs' or MAEs: eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08934 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13775 https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14391

Why is this possible? I tend to think of it as reflecting the ability to 'memorize' all possible data, and the independent generation is just when you 'remember' a specific part of a memory. The latent space is a Platonic object which doesn't change, so why should your generative process for materializing any specific point in the latent space have to? It's not surprising if you could generate arbitrary points from a function like 'y = mx + b' without generating every other point, right? It's just an atemporal mathematical object. Similarly with 'generating images from a random seed'. They too are just (complicated) functions mapping one number to another number.

(You might wonder if this is limited to images? It is not. In fact, you can generate even natural language like this to some degree: https://github.com/ethan-w-roland/AUNN based on my proposal for taking the 'independent generation' idea to a pathological extreme: https://gwern.net/aunn )
by rand0m4r | 2025-10-10 19:56:08+00:00
It might have been a bit harder in the past, but with recent versions of neovim (>=0.11) it's less than 20 lines of configuration. I have quite a few keybindings to jump back and forth through errors and the default keybidings already include things like renaming, go to definition or listing references.

I'd be more than happy to help you configuring it to your needs.
by dasil003 | 2025-10-10 19:56:14+00:00
He didn't say inertia, he said mature. It take a while for a language/platform to develop a solid ecosystem and stabilize. That absolutely has value, and is something you can't get out of a new system no matter what novel problems it solves.

As far as new apps go, yeah I think it's still pretty optimal for a huge swath of web apps, especially for early incubation when you have <20 engineers and you need to move quick. Not if you need web sockets, or other concurrency / performance critical applications though.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-10 19:56:28+00:00
I spent roughly 25 years writing code for a living while also writing code for fun. I think this was pretty normal when I got started; coding was neither cool nor especially lucrative back then, so the people who were into it were into it, for its own sake.

I didn't stop coding in my free time because I stopped enjoying it, either, but because I could no longer sustain the fantasy that anyone was going to use any of the stuff I wanted to build. The level of motivation I feel for a project which is not going anywhere is not high enough to sustain me for more than a week or two.
by AstroBen | 2025-10-10 19:57:03+00:00
Can you give an example?

I mean: if you're learning a new language/library/framework it's really useful to have a broad idea of what the tooling for it looks like.. what features does it offer? You can look up the details when you need to

It's really useful to have a broad knowledge of algorithms and what problems they're applicable to. Look up the details later

If you're going into a new domain.. know the broad, high level pieces of it. You don't need to pre-learn the specifics of websockets but if you don't even know they exist or what they're useful for in web development.. that's kind of a problem

Even more abstract concepts like how to design code there's a lot of good info out there

If every generation had to re-invent the wheel from scratch we'd never get anywhere. The problem people have is they think ONLY reading is enough
by johnea | 2025-10-10 19:57:12+00:00
It's great news to see Japanese auto makers coming onboard with EVs in a serious way.

The capabilities of solid state batteries are just one example of the wide open opportunities for EVs that internal combustion can just never have.

While storage, and generation, of electricity has a huge ability to evolve and advance, gasoline and other petro products have an inherent amount of chemical energy per volume that can never be changed.

An EV with 1000 mile range is in the mid-term future, while here in the US we'll be focused on delivering the world's largest coal fired pickup truck 8-/
by rcxdude | 2025-10-10 19:57:35+00:00
It's not much different to other ML, pretty much it's on a bigger and more expensive scale. So once someone figured out the rough recipie (NN architecture, ludicrous scale of weights and data, reinforcement learning tuning), it's not hard for other experts in the field to replicate, so long as they have the resources. Deepseek was pretty much a side project, for example.
by simjnd | 2025-10-10 19:57:38+00:00
> presumably you would've been able to replicate it completely in the first X years of using vim, and then there is no hell anymore?

I agree with this, but being able to ssh into a server and just grab Helix instead of copying over my Vim config and whatever else it depends on is really nice. Makes your dev env feel a lot more portable (although also more barebones than a crazy Vim config)
by shivenigma | 2025-10-10 19:57:39+00:00
RC seems to be incompetent and malicious, the original hostile take over is explained as a security measure. But in reality, you can simply just take away the ability to deploy and leave access to contribute to the repo untouched for people outside of the RC organization.

But claiming that you care about security while missing a basic step of rotating credentials once a member has moved away is pathetic. God help Rubygems.org and the users.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-10 19:58:26+00:00
> What WiFi devices are regularly conducting speed tests without being asked?

ISP provided routers, at least Xfinity does. I've gotten emails from them (before I ripped out their equipment and put my own in) "Great news, you're getting more than your plan's promised speeds" with speedtest results in the email, because they ran speed tests at like 3AM.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's happening often across all the residential ISPs, most likely for marketing purposes.
by baby | 2025-10-10 19:58:46+00:00
IMO a bad idea, ads help with discoverability and is one of the most effective mechanism for growth. This includes for small and big businesses.

I think it makes more sense to target what kind of ads should be banned (e.g. politics, alcohol, cigarets, religion, etc.) and what ads format should be banned (e.g. loud ads, ads in the subway, etc.)
by trod1234 | 2025-10-10 19:59:10+00:00
Unfortunately that is just how it is on biased platforms, but its not like that everywhere yet. It is like a page out of Atlas Shrugged though.

All the parasites ended up dying in that book when all the intelligent people decided to just step back and let natural human tendency and the momentum they created do what it was always going to do. All those people were deluded into thinking they could just make a law without paying respect to the mechanics that made things work. Ayn Rand though is also quite deluded in that her ideas don't work without eliminating inheritance and money-printing.

Slavery is intolerable in any form.
by cycomanic | 2025-10-10 20:00:03+00:00
That is not the same as helix multiple selections. I suggest trying our helix to really understand.

I really liked helix, but the problem is that pretty much everything I use is setup using Vim bindings (shell, browser, ideavim,...) so switching to helix concept of editing was different enough to require effort, but close enough that it screwed up all my other muscle memory.
by DaveZale | 2025-10-10 20:00:21+00:00
I wonder if heart rate monitoring using a smart watch, coupled with location data, would help. I've worked in some cubical and laboratory environments that would clearly stress out employees, especially when audio and visual alarms would go off. Most seemed to react calmly, but I'll bet there was a stress response. Likewise, in clinical labs, it is common to have critical equipment rigged with alarms when temperatures or air flows deviate from the norm. It can get very noisy! But long term staff undergo "alarm fatigue" and eventually stop noticing.
by jopsen | 2025-10-10 20:00:24+00:00
I don't think the political ads are like in the US.

Not at all.

Also the scale is no where near.

TV2 in Denmark just ran an article saying that the 24 politicians and parties buying the most ads bought a total of 250k ads ahead of this policy coming into effect.

Note that same month last year the spend was ~1/3.

I know Denmark is small, ~5-6M, but that's doesn't seem like a lot of money.
by dang | 2025-10-10 20:00:37+00:00
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something different here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You can always make your substantive points thoughtfully, so please do that instead.

Edit: two things I realized after posting the above: (1) you're the project creator! well, I can understand how anyone would react negatively given the critical things some commenters have been posting.

But also (2) you've been breaking the site guidelines in other comments too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539942). Ultimately we need you to stick to the rules, regardless of what other commenters are doing, and of course the same applies to them also.

(p.s. in case it's not clear, I'm a mod here and just trying to keep the peace a bit)
Show HN: SQL with AI Operators on Text, Images, and Sound Files
by itrummer | 2025-10-10 20:00:56+00:00
ThalamusDB is a semantic query processing engine that processes SQL queries with AI operators, e.g.:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Cars WHERE NLfilter(Cars.pic, 'this is a red car');

SELECT H.pic FROM HolidayPictures H, ProfilePictures P WHERE P.name in ('Alice', 'Bob') AND NLFILTER(H.pic, 'a picture of the beach') AND NLJOIN(H.pic, P.pic, 'the same person appears in both pictures');

Simply store paths of image or sound files in your database tables, and ThalamusDB automatically selects the right language model to evaluate operators. You can set per-query thresholds on evaluation time or token consumption (i.e., money) as well. More info on the official website: https://itrummer.github.io/thalamusdb/
by xg15 | 2025-10-10 20:01:16+00:00
Yes, but the point is that sanctions don't get rid of those people, they're just collective punishment on the population. (Plus are used for propaganda if the blame for an economic crisis in a country is put entirely on its regime or economic system and the fact that the country is currently under sanctions is conveniently omitted. See again: Cuba, Venezuela)

At the end of the day the purpose of sanctions is to deliberately worsen the quality of life of the population in the sanctioned country. That can't be a tool for good.
by badsectoracula | 2025-10-10 20:01:25+00:00
> some things never change.

Other things however do change. It is pointless to make current decisions on the state of software and drivers from years - let alone decades - ago. Back in the 2000s and early 2010s AMD's OpenGL story on Linux was pathetic, if you really wanted any sort of decent OpenGL on Linux you had to use Nvidia.

Things are very different nowadays and i'm saying that as someone who used to buy Nvidia because of their better OpenGL drivers and especially their Linux support.
by Veserv | 2025-10-10 20:01:39+00:00
If they have autonomous driving technology that works for “harder” problems, then why do they not use it for “easier” problems? You answered your own question; it does not work safely for those “harder” problems.

Zoox has permits to operate autonomously on Las Vegas streets. Tesla is unable to get permits to operate autonomously on isolated, one-lane, one-way streets with no pedestrians, cross-traffic, or even vehicles not under their control. That should tell you everything you need to know about how far reality is away from their corporate puffery.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-10 20:02:26+00:00
At the point they left it, they still had about an hour and 20 minutes of fuel remaining, with an alternate airport 20 minutes away. They had not declared an emergency, so they were in with any other traffic waiting for takeoff and landing. (Which does make me wonder, did any other planes try to land at Prestwick at the time and how did they fair?)
by dylan604 | 2025-10-10 20:02:38+00:00
Clearly, they educate us into why they think their opponent is bad. /s

Reform should state that campaign ads can only discuss what the candidate's positions are, and not be able to say anything about their opponent. If you can't tell me what your plans are and all you can do is say why the other position is wrong, then you're not showing me you'd be an effective person to hold office.

However, that's what your website is for. Stop interrupting my whatever I was doing.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-10 20:02:41+00:00
By "the rest of the world" surely you just mean America. Not only is America the only country in the world that can make a dent in the PLAN, they can't afford to lose Taiwan at the going rate. Taiwan owes the US more money than Israel, Sweden, France and Switzerland combined: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-trade-...
by etwigg | 2025-10-10 20:03:24+00:00
At the beginning of Gitcasso, I took a little survey of GitLab, Reddit, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. to see how they were doing their textboxes. Of those I just listed, GitHub is the only one still using a plain textarea, all of the rest have a wysiwyg richtext gizmo (with GitLab and Reddit you can opt-in to markdown).

But by using the same variable-width font that the rendered comment uses, GitHub's default gives you more of a wysiwyg experience than a monospace font does. With syntax-highlighting it's an even more wysiwyg feel, but with absolutely none of the content ambiguity that richtext normally brings with it.

I came away really impressed with GitHub. For any given decision, it's hard to tell if the market victor won because of their good taste or if they won in spite of that particular decision and there was somewhere else where the good decisions were decisive. But as the GitHub issue/PR commenting system stands today, I have a hard time finding much to gripe with (except the missing syntax highlighting, of course).
by everforward | 2025-10-10 20:04:32+00:00
> I'm curious why more of the autonomous driving tech isn't being used in what I might have thought would be an "easier" place to do it.

There's no real need in a static environment, and much simpler ways to do it. Children's toys can follow a line painted on something; they just need proximity sensors and a basic signalling system (RF or also painted on the road) for where to stop and done.

There's no real need for the car to "see" beyond "am I going to run into something" and they operate at speeds where stopping is very feasible.

They're also a bad rival for light rail because they already have to dig a tunnel and the conveyance operates on a fixed path. They picked a domain that light rail is already incredibly good and efficient at.
by elchananHaas | 2025-10-10 20:04:33+00:00
A thought on why the intermediate L2 losses are important: In the early layers there is little information so the L2 loss will be high and images blurry. In much deeper layers the information from the argmins will dominate and there will be little information left to learn. The L2 losses from the intermediate layers help this by providing a good training signal when there is some information known about the target, but there are still large unknowns.

The model can be thought of as N Discrete Distribution Networks, one of each depth 1 to N, that are stacked on each other and are being trained simultaneously.
by esperent | 2025-10-10 20:04:59+00:00
> same hardware as the higher end models but needs a firmware bit flip

I have a C1, and I got the technician's remote to try this. But it didn't work in my case - it seems that only some of them use the same hardware, probably based on supply chain needs. Still though, amazing screen. Takes a bit messing around with picture settings (there's some good guides online) but I've never found the "TV" parts to get in the way, just connected it via HDMI, put it in PC mode, disable wifi, and it's good to go. I guess I've been using it around 4 years now.

The only serious issue is the shininess of the screen. It's not terrible but I did have to rearrange my office a bit to make sure it wasn't facing a window.
by necovek | 2025-10-10 20:05:41+00:00
Who are these adversaries you speak of? How have they attacked the US of A?

As an example, for a long time, spiritual and scientific enlightement was the calling card of the Warszaw pact countries: they just couldn't figure out how to earn money off it (free university education and intensive scentific curiculums in primary and high schools were common).

For China today, they are thoroughly convinced they are doing the same by restricting access to "bad information" (like "Western nations" are now starting to do with eg. porn, and did similar stuff with "fake news" during the pandemic) — the difference being that they did figure out how to earn money while doing that.

In the Middle East, people die and kill in the name of their version of "enlightenment".

Now, not saying there never was any enlightenment in the Western world, but it was built on slavery, exploitation and being first to many an industrial improvement (like using coal or oil to drive progress, that the whole world now suffers for).

Yes, I'd rather live in a "Western" country than any of the "adversaries", but they are only a risk to our way of life if we do not believe it is the right, enlightened way.

Because if it is, we are willing to pay for it. Are we?