MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-16 06:10:45+00:00
>Not reading news that doesn't have a significant impact on your life is entirely reasonable.

Our discussion was about trust in sources. The assumption is we need the information.

Also, this attitude allows suffering to occur as long as it doesn't affect the majority of the people.

The government can harm people that get its way and no one would care because it doesn't directly harm them
by TZubiri | 2025-10-16 06:11:49+00:00
I once started working at a company that sold one of those visual programming things, and during training I was tasked with making a simple program, I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of bugs and lack of tools to make basic features, so I made a prototype of the application I wanted in python, the plan was to port it later, I got it in a couple of days.

The tool developers weren't keen of the idea, they told me "Yeah, I can solve the problem with a script too, the challenge is to do it with our tool". And I thought it was kind of funny how they admitted that the premise of the tool didn't work.

It's like this holy grail panacea that arises 20 times every month, developers want to invent something that will avoid the work of actually developing, so they sunk-cost-fallacy themselves into a deep hole out of which they can only escape if they admit that they are tasked with automating, they cannot meta-automate themselves, and that they will have to gasp do some things manually and repeatedly, like any other working class.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-16 06:12:24+00:00
> Do we really want these devices to be locked down and not owned by us?

Locked down: no. But Google does not want them locked down. That has never been how Google operated (even now switching search engines, moving away from Google's core business, is trivial on any device, including Android)

Not "owned by us"? Yes. For the simple reason that "owned by us" means government phones, and governments have demonstrated what devices they'll build (ie. none), as well as how locked down they want these phones to be.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cewd82p09l0o
by worthless-trash | 2025-10-16 06:13:30+00:00
HN can be unnecessarily vicious when it comes to these situations. They have a very narrow slit in which they see companies because they extrapolate their understanding into the large corporation.

The attacker needs to find 1 fault in a system to start attacking a system, the company needs to plug ALL of them to be successful, continually for all updates, for all staff, for all time.

Having been on both sides of that fence, I dont envy the defenders, it is a losing battle.
by muzani | 2025-10-16 06:14:11+00:00
I don't think it's really an "ethical" decision. If they didn't do it, people would just do it on Gemini or the many VC-backed llama models. It's just excluding a demographic.

The real problem is that it becomes an erotica platform like OnlyFans or Tumblr. reddit, X, Google somehow manages to "red light" that kind of content. Many platforms like Imgur and Pinterest have to ban it or they'd turn into an erotica platform. My wife won't let me use something like WeChat because it's a way to find nearby prostitutes, and this social exclusion turns it into a prostitution app.

I still think ChatGPT is at serious risk of becoming that. It's enough of a brand name that people are actually working with it, but it's losing ground to Claude and Gemini as a serious work tool. Gemini has distribution; Claude has quality. OpenAI is a product app and the GPT-5 release made it clear that their demographic wants companionship.
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-10-16 06:14:32+00:00
After the completion of the Mercury and Gemini projects, NASA wanted a way to promote greater awareness among its employees and contractors of the impact they had on flight safety, the flight crews and their missions.[4] NASA wanted to use a symbol for spaceflight that would be well known and accepted by the public, similar to the recognition received by the United States Forest Service's Smokey Bear. The idea for the Silver Snoopy award came from Al Chop, who was director of the public affairs office for the Manned Spacecraft Center (now called the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center). He wanted to create an award featuring Snoopy as an astronaut to be given by astronauts in recognition of outstanding contributions by employees.[5] Charles M. Schulz, who was an avid supporter of the U.S. space program, welcomed the idea of using Snoopy for the award. Schulz and United Feature Syndicate (the distributor of the Peanuts comic strip) agreed to let NASA use "Snoopy the Astronaut" at no cost.[4] Schulz himself drew the image the award pin was based on. He also drew promotional art for posters to promote the award program.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Snoopy_award
by Someone | 2025-10-16 06:15:20+00:00
> Slows down every access to objects as reference counts must be maintained

Definitely not every access. Between an “increase refcount” and an “decrease refcount” you can access an object as many times as you want.

Also:

- static analysis can remove increase/decrease pairs.

- Swift structs are value types, and not reference counted. That means Swift code can have fewer reference-counted objects than similar Java code has garbage-collected objects.

It does perform slower than GC-ed languages or languages such as C and rust, but is easier to write [1] than rust and C and needs less memory than GC-ed languages.

[1] The latest Swift is a lot more complex than the original Swift, but high-level code still can be reasonably easy.
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-16 06:15:20+00:00
"We need to help inform our friends and families about how easily things can be misused against their will;"

With the 'convenience' world of the modern internet and millions of users addicted to smartphones and Social Media I defy you to show me that that approach actually works (to date there's little or no evidence that it does).

Telling a heroin addict to give up doesn't work, same goes for 'electronic heroin'. I'd bet you've not given up your smartphone or Social Media. And how about your gmail account?
by looofooo0 | 2025-10-16 06:15:22+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Basically use dirty water, finely filter it, such that only things as big as phages remain. Put that liquid in a solution of bacteria you want to treat. Filter it again, repeat... In the end you should end up with some phage solution which specifically attacks the bacteria. If these phages don't work anymore, find new ones.
by ako | 2025-10-16 06:15:47+00:00
Impressive, it clearly is able to read the score, see patterns, timing, chords, and apply music theory to it. Would be interesting to give it editing and playback capabilities, e.g., by connecting it to something like strudel.

This article describes how Belgian supermarkets are replacing music played in stores by AI music to save costs, but you can easily imagine that the ai could also generate music to play to the emotions of customers to maybe influence their buying behavior: https://www.nu.nl/economie/6372535/veel-belgische-supermarkt...
by signa11 | 2025-10-16 06:15:58+00:00
all chat-bot interactions are (anthropomorphized), this is no different. the parallels to eliza are just too striking.

see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA#Eliza_Effect for example.

i guess that says a lot about us than about the technology. though exactly what, i am not so sure...
by fujigawa | 2025-10-16 06:16:15+00:00
> This was not the case with the initial rollout of Secure Boot, it was combined with locked BIOS to lock PCs so that they could only boot Windows 8 on some devices. This was the case on Windows RT ARM machines from that era.

Okay, but, that was like 15 years ago, on some shitty first-run computers that no one bought. A failed first attempt. I've never met a single person that owned, or has ever used, a Windows RT device.

The world has moved on. But oddly continues to buy bootloader-locked iPhones and Androids by the bucketful.

Dwelling on the past isn't going to move us forward. Anyone pushing the "Secure Boot and TPM are evil" trope in 2025 is objectively a fool and should be ignored. Most don't even realize what a TPM does, they think it's some secret chip inserted by glowies into their computers to prevent them from running free software. No.
by wuschel | 2025-10-16 06:16:45+00:00
I had to check for data integrity due to a recent system switch, and was surprised not to find any bitrot after 4y+.

It took ages to compute and verify those hashes between different disks. Certainly an inconvenience.

I am not sure a NAS is really the right solution for smaller data sets. An SSD for quick hashing and a set of N hashed cold storage HDDs - N depends on your appetite for risk - will do.
by rozap | 2025-10-16 06:16:58+00:00
What? I see the opposite. A junior engineer is a tough sell right now. If I'm going to hand hold someone through spewing out some typescript, claude does it for cheaper and can type faster. I know this is shitty, and it feels bad because senior people mentored me back in the day, but for smaller companies, the only thing in the end is survival of the business. The time horizon isn't long enough to think about growing engineers. Again, very bleak, but it is what it is.

Agree with your points on networking being the only way. Interviewing is super broken right now.
by hennell | 2025-10-16 06:17:01+00:00
Difference between concept and implementation I'd assume. Floor material would have to be cheap and/or very durable to be practical in the real world, and installation, replacement/upgrades would cost a lot in time, labour and inconvenience.

Camera on the wall is quick, easy, doesn't have to deal with the wear and tear usage of a floor, and gives a good enough solution for the problem.
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-16 06:19:10+00:00
> It is the perfect mirror of "Big Brother", a system that started out with good intentions

That is what those using 1984 - a parable for a socialist Soviet-like state - as a user manual want you to believe, that they have good intentions. Most of them don't, they're just in it to gain and keep power for their own purposes while wearing the cloak of compassionate protectors of the downtrodden. Don't fall for it, don't be a sucker to paraphrase the video which was posted here not long ago.
by hitekker | 2025-10-16 06:20:21+00:00
Glauber, your memory is off. That line of attack was not in your blogpost; it's in your now-deleted manifesto, the README.md of libsql[1]. It was a strong statement of intent, praising the software and campaigning against the maintainers. "SQLite needs to open contributions" was a spat you started in front of HN's eyes, and are now denying[2] for reasons I can only guess at. That's the reality that myself and others observed.

Of course, you can take that — all of this — as an accusation. You can choose a narrative that's kinder towards you. The question I'd ask myself is if Jesus really wants to hear our storytelling, or if he wants to see us repent.

That said: on certain key aspects of life, I think you're at least closer to the Lord than I am. So Godspeed to you on your journey.

[1] https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/blob/3ac3ad263c0f092...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586331
by AdeptusAquinas | 2025-10-16 06:21:18+00:00
I've been using Windows 11 since it came out. Seems fine, no real difference over 10. Maybe a little bit faster.

Some of the more annoying stuff like ads in the start menu and the like only really affect americans, as far as I know. I've never seen it. Had a brief battle turning copilot off everywhere when that became a thing - including in notepad! - but thats hardly just a microsoft thing.

Don't really understand all this drama over the TPM chip, especially since you can bypass that requirement with a little effort if you can't upgrade your hardware.
by mchiang | 2025-10-16 06:21:31+00:00
sorry, I don't use 4chan, so I don't know what's said there.

May I ask what system you are using where you are getting memory estimations wrong? This is an area Ollama has been working on and improved quite a bit on.

Latest version of Ollama is 0.12.5 and with a pre-release of 0.12.6

0.7.1 is 28 versions behind.
by stoneman24 | 2025-10-16 06:21:40+00:00
If the cost to the UK is reported to be 42 billion per year [0] (need to do more verification on this) and I quickly couldn’t see a figure for the US, then I believe there is an argument for a nationalisation policy where the government writes a very large cheque to the company and then makes the treatment free to everyone.

A bit socialisation of health care for some but the benefits to the economy may well be worth the trade alone, never mind the individual benefits

[0] https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/how-much-does-dementia-ca...
by wiz21c | 2025-10-16 06:21:58+00:00
From what I understand, the model was used to broaden a search that was already conducted by humans. It's not like the model has devised new knowledge. Kind of a low hanging fruit. But question is: how many of these can be reaped ? Hopefully a lot!

("low hanging fruit", well, not the right way to put it, Google's model are not exactly dumb technology)
by godelski | 2025-10-16 06:23:22+00:00
Fwiw, I'm not convinced its a Flow and that's my niche. But there are some interesting similarities that actually make me uncertain. A deeper dive is needed.

But you address your points

> 1. DDN doesn’t need to be invertible

The flow doesn't need to be invertible at every point in the network. As long as you can do the mapping the condition will hold. Like the classic layer is [x_0, s(x_1)*x_0 + t(x_1)]. s,t are parametrized by an arbitrary neural network. But some of your layers look more like invertible convolutions.

I think it is worth checking. FWIW I don't think an equivalence would undermine the novelty here.

> 2. Its latent is discrete, not continuous.

That's perfectly fine. Flows aren't restricted that way. Technically all flows aren't exactly invertible as you noise the data to dequantize it.

Also note that there are discrete flows. I'm not sure I've seen an implementation where each flow step is discrete but that's more an implementation issue.

> 3. As far as I know, flow keeps input and output the same size so it can compute log|detJ|.

You have a unet, right? You're full network is doing T:R^n -> R^n? Or at least excluding the extra embedding information? Either way I think you might not interested in "Approximation Capabilities of Neural ODEs and Invertible Residual Networks". At minimum their dimensionality discussion and reference to the Whitney Embedding Theorem is likely valuable to you (I don't think they say it by name?).

You may also want to look at RealNVP since they have a hierarchical architecture which does splitting.

Do note that NODEs are flows. You can see Ricky Chen's works on i-resnets.

As for the Jacobian, I actually wouldn't call that a condition for a flow but it sure is convenient. The typical Flows people are familiar with use a change of variables formula via the Jacobian but the isomorphism is really the part that's important. If it were up to me I'd change the name but it's not lol.

> 5. Your design seems to have abandoned the characteristics of DDN. (ZSCG, 1D tree latent, lossy compression)

I think you're on the money here. I've definitely never seen something like your network before. Even if it turns out to not be its own class I don't think that's an issue. It's not obviously something else but I think it's worth digging into.

FWIW I think it looks more like a diffusion model. A SNODE. Because I think you're right that the invertibility conditions likely don't hold. But in either case remember that even though you're estimating multiple distributions that that's equivalent to estimating a single distribution.

I think the most interesting thing you could do is plot the trajectories like you'll find in Flow and diffusion papers. If you get crossing you can quickly rule out flows.

I'm definitely going to spend more time with this work. It's really interesting. Good job!
by bvrmn | 2025-10-16 06:23:27+00:00
The issue with state you should handle it. Compare for example some iterator implementation in Java and Python. Latter needs only one method with coroutine and no state to store on object level.

> the state is already enough to explain a state machine.

I did not talk about explaining state machines but implementing state machines as coroutines. Progression: give an idea of state machines, show how hard is to handle state, present coroutines as way to handle states.
by ropable | 2025-10-16 06:23:27+00:00
The human cost of these industrialised pig butchering scam compounds in southeast Asia is staggering. Hundreds of thousands of people forced to work in indentured- or slave-labour conditions, running these scams on people in other countries. There's an enormous toll at both ends of the practice. Life in jail is far too good for the criminals running these places.
by jychang | 2025-10-16 06:23:29+00:00
1. 600GB/sec is still slow as hell. You might as well as use regular DDR5 RAM then if you're so slow, you can spec regular system DDR5 RAM faster than 600GB/sec. The half decade old consumer 3090 is 1.5x that speed. The current 5090 is 1,792 GB/s. The current nvidia datacenter cards are 8 TB/s. What's the point of having lots of VRAM if your system RAM is faster?

For context: if you have a 160GB dense ML model in VRAM and you're just running 600GB/sec, you can do... roughly 4 tokens per second AT BEST. That massive amount of VRAM is unusable if it's slow.

2. 512 bit LPDDR5x is most likely just 512GB/sec with typical LPDDR5x that's not overly expensive. I would be HIGHLY surprised if they gave it the more expensive RAM that'd break 600GB/sec. The Intel B60 is at 456 GB/s and that's using GDDR6.

Honestly, you're better off waiting for regular DDR6 to come out in a year and just build a system using that.
by wtcactus | 2025-10-16 06:24:21+00:00
Well, that's an interesting point you raise. I see it as critics using to have some "skin in the game". They used to be either recognized artists themselves or later the patrons, or someone that was paid by the patrons to critic works and find the best artists to work for the patrons (I see that part a bit like the people that today search for young talents for big football (i.e. soccer) teams).

With the democratization of art that followed the subsidizing with public money of artists an all new class of people was born. One that didn't really have that same "skin in the game" but had at their disposal money that wasn't theirs to distribute as they saw fit.

I believe that gave rise to situations like you mention. Yes, there are a lot of excellent movies that were destroying by early critics (not saying that didn't happen before, I'm very well aware of great music compositions being ruined because some monarch didn't like the opening concert). The thing is, why do we let (and keep letting) those critics to be some kind of gate keepers of art?

Here is some interesting read about the history of art critics: https://www.artrewards.net/editorial/the-evolution-of-art-cr...
by Lio | 2025-10-16 06:24:44+00:00
Larry Ellison recently said that “Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on”.

In UK we’ve recently introduced a series of laws that force people to identify themselves online and the introduction of a digital ID scheme.

We’ve recently had some high profile arrests for free speech violations.

We even have TVs and cars that spy on us.

These fuckers are actively trying to build a boot to stand on the face of humanity.

https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveill...
by b112 | 2025-10-16 06:27:12+00:00
> This analysis confirms what many lawyers and judges may have suspected: that the archetype of misplaced reliance on AI in drafting court filings is a small or solo law practice using ChatGPT in a plaintiff’s-side representation.

That is an assertion which requires numbers. If 98% of firms submitting legal briefs are solo or small firms, then the above statement is untrue. The archetype if my prior sentence is true, would be not-small/solo firms.

The background data is also suspect.

https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

"all documents where the use of AI, whether established or merely alleged, is addressed in more than a passing reference by the court or tribunal. Notably, this does not cover mere allegations of hallucinations, but only cases where the court or tribunal has explicitly found (or implied) that the AI produced hallucinated content."

While a good idea, the database is predicated upon news, or people submitting examples as well. There may be some scraping of court documents as well, it's not entirely clear.

Regardless, the data is only predictive of people getting called out for such nonsense. A larger firm may have such issues with a lawyer, apologize to the court, have more clout with the court, and replace the lawyer with another employee.

This is something a smaller firm cannot do, if it is a firm of one person.

It's a nice writeup, and interesting. But it does lead to unverified assertions and conclusions.
by trhway | 2025-10-16 06:27:48+00:00
> wouldn't mind 10x a day injections if it keeps Alzheimer's at bay. Actually, I wouldn't mind a continuous IV drip.

There seems to be a much better way:

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/small-amounts-of-moderate-...

"The researchers found that engaging in as little as 35 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per week, compared to zero minutes per week, was associated with a 41% lower risk of developing dementia over an average four-year follow-up period. Even for frail older adults—those at elevated risk of adverse health outcomes—greater activity was associated with lower dementia risks.

The researchers found dementia risk decreased with higher amounts of physical activity. Dementia risks were 60% lower in participants in the 35 to 69.9 minutes of physical activity/week category; 63% lower in the 70 to 139.9 minutes/week category; and 69% lower in the 140 and over minutes/week category."
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-10-16 06:28:46+00:00
> Having been on both sides of that fence, I dont envy the defenders, it is a losing battle.

Being on the defenders side, I would say it is not a losing battle.

It is a matter if convenience versus security: not using up to date libraries because it requires some code rewrites and “aint nobody got time for that”, adding too much logic to functions and scooe creep instead of segregating services, not microsegmenting workloads, using service accounts with full privileges because figuring out what you actually need takes too much time; and the list could go on.

I am not blaming all developers and engineering managers for this because they might not know about all the intricacies of building secure services - part of the blame is on the ops and security people who don’t understand them either and think they’re secure when they are not. Amd those folks should know better.

And third, hubris: we have all the security solutions that are trendy now, we’re safe. Do they actually work? No one knows.