MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-30 20:42:02+00:00
I'm not a fan of the 'convertible' metaphor, UDP would be better equated to driving at 100mph on a 55mph TCP road. You might get there safely with no harm at twice the TCP speed... or you might lose some parts or you may never arrive.

That said the old battle.net online and Quake/Unreal multiplayer system was a widespread implementation of UDP transport with reliability checks. Whenever your UDP stream desynced the game clock accelerated replaying the buffered moves back to back until you were back in sync.
by wolrah | 2025-10-30 20:42:23+00:00
On DOCSIS and PON networks my experience has been that dynamic IPs are generally stable as long as your DHCP lease is active, so my IP generally wouldn't change unless I changed equipment or there was an extended outage that kept me offline during the entire time it would normally have renewed.

On DSL networks it's been the opposite, if the PPPoE session was lost I was definitely going to get a new IP address, and on some providers the session would be reset every 1-7 days so the IP would change at exactly the same time of day which almost always ended up being in the middle of a work day corresponding with whenever the equipment was last rebooted due to some other problem. I got in the habit of setting up my equipment to restart on its own terms in the middle of the night on those providers, but this came with its own downsides when something would go wrong and it'd fail to negotiate.
by altruios | 2025-10-30 20:43:02+00:00
That's what it's like to 'overlay' imagination onto your vision. But that requires - like the eyes focusing correctly - for the 'imagination vision' and the physical vision to 'line up'

your imagination is more like it's in the the back of the head, yeah?

What helped me 'move' where my imagination was (to the front and center), was to do the flame meditation. Which is to focus on a flame in a dark room for a few seconds, close your eyes, and try to retain the phosphene afterglow in the flame shape. and repeating that until you are able to retain image of the flame while your eyes are closed.

Similarly: 'drawing from memory' - particularly from recent short term memory - was another method that had a profound impact on my ability to visualize.

Both of these take time and commitment, but they have worked for me. They may work for you.
by download13 | 2025-10-30 20:43:08+00:00
The article did say that they tried injecting concepts via the context window and by modifying the model's logit values.

When injecting words into its context, it recognized that what it supposedly said did not align with its thoughts and said it didn't intend to say that, while modifying the logits resulted in the model attempting to create a plausible justification for why it was thinking that.
by tavavex | 2025-10-30 20:43:35+00:00
Can you describe what you mean by "seeing"? To me, imagination isn't like actual sight. The best way I can describe it is that it's a kind of meta-perception, I'm envisioning the thought, the impression of something. I can visualize the exact details and properties of the candle, but it's not like I'm actually seeing it, I'm just thinking of seeing it. The way you describe your imagination is that it's as if the candle is superimposed on your actual vision, like putting on a mixed-reality headset that's drawing in stuff in your real field of view, representing the same kind of sight as "real sight". Is that what that's like for you?
by edm0nd | 2025-10-30 20:44:06+00:00
RU cybercriminals pay bribes to RU law enforcement to stay out of trouble as well as bend the knee and work for GRU/KBG when called upon for various requests by them.

then there is also the unspoken rule of "dont shit where you eat" aka RU/CIS based ransomware operators and hackers cant attack any companies in the CIS region.

a good read, https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/dark-covenant-3-cont...
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-30 20:44:17+00:00
>Unless the rest of the ingredients make up for 33g of protein

Rice and beans are decentish sources of protein, according to their website https://www.chipotle.com/nutrition-calculator/burrito (which is I'm sure generous, but probably not fraudulently so) a bean, cheese, and rice burrito is 23g of protein, and if you add chicken you get to 58g.
by normalaccess | 2025-10-30 20:44:55+00:00
That's because AIs can't survive by eating their own output. The only solution they know to ward off model collapse is more human input. They need you to use AI to feed the beast. And if it's built into your office apps, they get that data for free.

That's part of why every service and system are getting integrations, It's not for us it's for data harvesting.

In the end that's what "Windows Recall" will be used for. Access to every moment of every user for every app... Can you imagine the training data that would provide? An AI that could run any program ever created.
by krapp | 2025-10-30 20:45:28+00:00
>Speculation is that Trump is not IN the files, but has inherited the blackmail business from Epstein after his "demise."

I don't think that's how that works, but regardless, Trump's "birthday message" for Epstein along with his history of allegations has me convinced he's absolutely in the files. No one has ever been more in the files than Donald Trump.
by lapcat | 2025-10-30 20:45:30+00:00
This stuck out like a sore thumb to me:

Q4 2024: Income before provision for income taxes $29.610 billion, Provision for income taxes $14.874 billion

Q4 2025: Income before provision for income taxes $32.804 billion, Provision for income taxes $5.338 billion

[EDIT:] The 2024 taxes were actually an aberration.

"the one-time charge recognized during the fourth quarter of 2024 related to the impact of the reversal of the European General Court’s State Aid decision" https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-reports-fourth-...
by smcleod | 2025-10-30 20:45:35+00:00
Why does it require signing and granting you full access to act as me on Github to use?

cmux-agent requires access to your Github account:

Verify your GitHub identity Know what resources you can access Act on your behalf View your email addresses

I would have logged an issue for this but I see you've disabled logging issues on the repo. Seems a bit sus to me.
by halJordan | 2025-10-30 20:45:57+00:00
If you look at the article there isn't any one claiming that tplink is in bed with the prc. Unlike say huawei or zte. It's not even that they're saying tplink could be compelled to give up data like alibaba or tencent.

Rather, it's that tplink has security vulnerabilities and those along with all other factors make it a national security threat. Other factors include, how pervasive it is in the market and how actively the Chinese are exploiting these flaws.

And to your point- soho devices are notoriously insecure, tplink especially. If youre not familiar then you simply must take your expert's advice on it.

This is more about preventing the next vpnfilter
by TheAlchemist | 2025-10-30 20:46:47+00:00
My field is data science in a highly specialized technical environment. I use AI quite a bit now - mostly as autocomplete while coding, but more and more also for other use cases - help with naming, validating some approaches.

My opinion is that it's great for senior guys, horrible for younger ones. If you know what can go wrong, you can use it the right way. As a junior, you usually don't and in the long term you will loose a lot of time and develop much less skills with AI.

I don't see it replacing people in my field anytime soon, if ever. I do see it replacing a lot of people in say web programming, in the same way that most people don't need to do their website now because they can just use a service like Wix. For anything non-trivial, there is 0 chance that AI will work within the next 5 years.

In the end, it's just a tool. You still need people to know what to do, the how is usually easier.
by rolph | 2025-10-30 20:46:55+00:00
supplemental:

Neuroanatomy, Auditory Pathway

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532311/

Cochlear nerve and central auditory pathways

https://www.britannica.com/science/ear/Cochlear-nerve-and-ce...

Molecular Aspects of the Development and Function of Auditory Neurons

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7796308/
by fallingfrog | 2025-10-30 20:47:32+00:00
Welll. On guitar you cant really use the "matching the beats" or the thing where you play the 4th on the string below and make them sound in unison, because if you do that all the way up the neck your guitar will be tuned to Just intonation instead of equal interval intonation and certain chords will sound very bad. A series of perfect 4ths and a perfect 3rd does not add up to an octave. Its better to reference everything to the low e string and just kind of know where the pitches are supposed to land.

That's a side note, the rest of what you wrote was very informative!
by IrishTechie | 2025-10-30 20:47:34+00:00
Kids is one big reason. You can have totally different experiences before you have kids, once they arrive your outlook on life changes, risk tolerance changes etc.

If you can retire at 40 having lived your 20s/30s to the fullest then game on, but it would be crazy to sacrifice that time when you are so free and full of energy otherwise IMHO.

FWIW I am fortunate enough to have really enjoyed by earlier years and be mostly retired in my early 40s.
by super_mario | 2025-10-30 20:48:02+00:00
I prefer this test: "Imagine a ball resting on a table. A person walks up to the table and pushes the ball". Question for the test subject: "What will happen?"

Everyone answers correctly the ball will roll of the table and fall to the ground. But then ask them" "What was the color of the ball? What was the size of the ball? What was the gender of the person pushing the ball, what clothes were they wearing?"

People with aphantasia are usually stunned by the follow up questions. People who don't have aphantasia really have seen the table, the material its made of, imagined a ball of certain size/type color (e.g. multicolor beach ball, or basketball or what ever), and they saw an actual person pushing the ball, they saw the ball rolling on the table an falling to the ground and can answer details about their vision.
by tylertreat | 2025-10-30 20:48:08+00:00
Ah, I hear you on the onboarding wizard. I did my best to keep it streamlined but understand it's still overwhelming. Hard to balance keeping it light with collecting enough data to provide reasonable recommendations.

The meal plan generation does take a bit, _typically_ it's around 90ish seconds but it does vary a lot. That's odd the images are loading slowly, I'll need to look into that.

You can ask for meal replacements (with or without input instructions) from the meal plan view. The replacements are not particularly snappy though. Trying to balance efficient usage of AI with a snappy UX is tricky.
by khazhoux | 2025-10-30 20:48:09+00:00
Something not usually discussed is the different kinds of internal sensing:

- Seeing images (what we usually talk about). Can you see your loved ones’ faces in your mind’s eye? Can you picture an elephant? Can you hold an image still or is it an ever-shifting scramble?

- Seeing color. In your mind’s eye, can you conjure up just the colors green, red, yellow…? No shape or imagery needed, but only the plain color. To my surprise and delight I discovered I can visualize colors without being able to see any actual image.

- Seeing movement. Independent of actual imagery, can you visualize pure motion. Again to my surprise, I can visualize movement without any associated imagery. Like, I can imagine a runner on a treadmill and clearly see the motion of the arms and legs going back and forth — but I don’t actually see the arms and legs at all. I’m seeing only the first derivative of an image, like a Schlieren image.

- Hearing music in your head. Can you pick out the different instruments? Can you anticipate the guitar stab in the 2nd verse. Can you hear the harmonica in Karma Chameleon even though you’ve only ever listened to that song a couple of times, and probably not in over 20 years?

- (might be same as above) Can you hear people’s voices? Can you randomly conjure up your parents or Obama or Tina Fey counting to ten?

Any others I’ve missed?
by GolfPopper | 2025-10-30 20:48:24+00:00
>The numbers we are given don't make sense

These are all numbers you just provided, with no source for them.

But even using your numbers, 300 billion is 3x10^11. The Sun provides about 10^5 lux, while starlight overall provides about 10^-4 lux[1], which is a difference of 10^9, meaning the difference between "all the starlight on a dark night" and "just the starlight from Sirius" would be around 10^2, which... seems about right?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28illumin...
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-30 20:48:41+00:00
Would you mind clarifying in which of these 3 dictionary definitions of the word objective my existence (in the sense of the "particles" of my body) is not objective? Or maybe these definitions are not exhaustive? Perhapse the term objective has become overloaded.

objective

adjective

Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions when considering and representing facts; impartial. “Historians try to be objective and impartial.” Synonyms: impartial, unbiased, neutral, dispassionate, detached. Antonyms: biased, partial, prejudiced.

Existing independently of the mind; actual. “A matter of objective fact.” Synonyms: factual, real, empirical, verifiable. Antonym: subjective.

Grammar. Relating to the case of nouns and pronouns used as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition.
by Y_Y | 2025-10-30 20:48:46+00:00
Ugh, I'd prefer people keep passion for the bedroom and just convey information straightforwardly without trying to "sell" it to me.

Adding a false excitement signal to the information is a hindrance to me as a viewer. If you want Tony Robbins then go and see him. If you want an overview of the new product architecture lets keep calm and get on with it.
by baggy_trough | 2025-10-30 20:48:48+00:00
Our robot representatives there were not the ones who spotted it, so what relevance is it that they are there?

I don't think you're responding to my claim, which is that the close passes to Mars and Jupiter seem very unlikely. Of all random trajectories through the solar system at the distance of this body, what fraction of them pass equally close to major planets? I'd even be willing to limit it to trajectories close to the ecliptic plane, because we may be scanning that plane more.
by Andromxda | 2025-10-30 20:49:20+00:00
The Pixel 8 and 8a aren't that expensive either. And keep in mind that they are supported until 2030 and 2031 respectively. [1] They not only receive security updates for 7 years, instead of the 5 years for previous Pixel generations, but also have stronger hardware security, by implementing the ARM memory tagging extension. [2]

[1] https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

[2] https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-30 20:49:21+00:00
All the expensive local run city restaurants benefited from inflation.

The McDonalds burger went from $12 to $18, but it's still the same terrible product. The hipster burger joint price went from $20 to $22, and that is a dramatically better burger.

The difference is that the local burger place doesn't have to show a 7% increase in profit year after year in perpetuity. Their price was set for "I can live a modest life off the profit and pay my employees a wage competitive enough to actually staff my restaurant, and therefore also end up with people more competent than your average fast food worker". That gives you more value per dollar, because more of your dollar is being spent on actual product and service rather than paying absurd and unjustifiable salaries to an entire building full of overpaid "management" and administration in the highest cost of living part of the country. Fewer shareholders to pay too.

So instead of the price delta between absolute trash and quality being $8, now it's $4.

I am told inflation is a bad thing, but it is making lots of small business that we desperately want and need much more competitive. A smaller business has far less pricing power and therefore less ability to pass on a cost increase.
by bjoli | 2025-10-30 20:49:28+00:00
Yet, iterating over several collections and accumulating values is awkward.

It is not that it is easy to implement the iteration protocol, it is that the construct for looping universally sucks. Even the awful loop macro from common lisp runs laps around most other facilities. Racket's is even less powerful, but is miles better than what python offers.

Ruby can do some destructuring, but not enough to actually be useful.
by tavavex | 2025-10-30 20:50:05+00:00
Yes, that's the situation at launch. The fear that's expressed above is that the subscription model incentivizes pushing people towards it as hard as possible. It's the exact opposite of Serif's straightforward model from before. Get ready for most new features (including ones that are unrelated to AI) to become locked to the subscription model. When they think they're not getting enough out of Affinity, they may also start cutting core functionality to force people to subscribe. Maybe, a limit on how many documents you can edit at once, or a layer limit (for the photo part), or an object limit (for the vector/"designer" part). This is how all of these subscriptions go nowadays.
by palata | 2025-10-30 20:50:10+00:00
> run the unknown ones through an LLM

Run my command through an LLM and tell me "don't do this" once, I'm out to a different distro :-).

Also, if people copy-paste stuff they don't understand in a terminal (and running a script like this is pretty much "running stuff one does not understand"), I don't think there is anything you can do for them.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-30 20:50:18+00:00
This is not that expensive with Gemini, they give free keys that have plenty of req/day, you can upload your diff + a bundle of the relevant part of the codebase and get this behavior for free, at least for a small team with ~10-20 PR's / day. If you could run this with personal keys, anyhow.
by dakiol | 2025-10-30 20:50:32+00:00
I've worked in huge repos with hundreds of developers pushing code every day, dozens of MRs open per day, and all I always needed was a very limited set of what git is capable of (git commit, git co, git st, git merge/rebase, git log).

To find bugs, I use "bisect but visually" (I usually use jetbrains IDEs, so I just go to the git history, and do binary search in the commits, displaying all the files that were affected, and jumping easily to such versions).

Git conflicts are easily solvable as well with a gui (jetbrain IDEs) via the cli or via something like Sourcetree. Easily, the most used "feature" of git that i use is:

- for a given line of code, see all the files that were touched when that line was introduced

But I usually do that via the IDE (because to go through dozens of files via cli is a bit of a hassle for me)

So, what am I missing? I know jujutsu is much simple (and powerful) than git, but I only have used the "good parts" of git and it has never been a bottleneck... but ofc, you don't know what you don't know.
by keeda | 2025-10-30 20:50:53+00:00
I used to think that made sense (as sibling mentions, Spolsky's "fire and motion" thesis)... until I worked at large-ish tech company whose internal platforms also kept doing this. Heck, the platform I owned also underwent a couple cycles of this. And so a large part of our work was just doing the Red Queen's race of deprecations and migrations.

So it was definitely not "fire and motion," as there was no competition. I think platforms genuinely need to evolve as new use-cases onboard and technology progresses, and so the assumptions underpinning the platform's design and architecture no longer hold.

However, I do think a small part of the problem was also PDD: "Promotion Driven Development."
by Deboujee | 2025-10-30 20:51:13+00:00
Standardize delivery with image to image AI generator . Create folders for refs, prompts, and outputs. Name files with version and seed. Use pose ControlNet for humans. Use depth for objects. Use edges for logos and UI. Log prompt, model, ControlNet type, and settings. Review on desktop and phone. Approve or loop back with one change per round.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-30 20:51:54+00:00
I expect he’ll have something on the Estate (or an apartment in the House), not the whole of Sandringham;I doubt it will be a step up from his lease on the Royal Lodge.

But, like I said, still quite a good deal for getting “kicked out”, especially being paid for it of the pocket of the person who felt the need to do the kicking...
by davoneus | 2025-10-30 20:52:05+00:00
"The Support Matrix also shows Cellebrite’s capabilities against Pixel devices running GrapheneOS, with some differences between phones running that operating system and stock Android. Cellebrite does support, for example, Pixel 9 devices BFU. Meanwhile the screenshot indicates Cellebrite cannot unlock Pixel 9 devices running GrapheneOS BFU."

Not surprised at all that an open-source, third party Phone OS is tougher to crack than the Google official version.
by empiricus | 2025-10-30 20:52:12+00:00
well, cochlea is working withing the realm of biological and physical possibilities. basically it is a triangle through which waves are propagating, and sensors along the edge. smth smth this is similar to a filter bank of gabor filters that respond to rising freq along the triangle edge. ergo you can say fourier, but it only means sensors responding to different freq becasue of their location.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-30 20:52:24+00:00
The reality is that we've been infantilizing users for far too long. The belief that people can't handle fundamental concepts is misguided and primarily serves to benefit abusive tech companies.

Two decades ago, users understood what "C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents" meant and navigated those paths easily. Yet, we decided they were too "stupid" to deal with files and file paths, hiding them away. This conveniently locked users into proprietary platforms. Your point #2 reflects a lie we've collectively accepted as reality. Sadly, too many people now can’t even imagine that a straightforward way to exchange data among different software once existed, but that's a situation we're deliberately perpetuating.

This needs to change. Users deserve the opportunity to learn and engage with their tools rather than being treated as incapable. It’s time we started empowering users for a change.
by ciscow | 2025-10-30 20:52:53+00:00
We send requests with different variations to the specified prompts at regular intervals, and based on the changes in these requests, we list the citations received and the sites they look at during their search and analyze them on a separate model. This way, we can collect a lot of data such as which formats your site is recommended in more, your competitors, and you can analyze these on a simple dashboard.
by neilv | 2025-10-30 20:52:54+00:00
My first thought on the headline was, "Startup techbros, if that's what it is, are about the last people you should trust, when the problem is corporate misbehavior," but I held my snap reaction tongue, and went to look:

> Our founders, who remain anonymous, following in the footsteps of some of our nation’s most impactful justice efforts, understand the inherent challenges faced by those seeking justice on an imbalanced playing field.

OK, seriously, who do they expect to trust them?

Actual prospective whistleblowers, or someone else?

> Once Tips are validated and determined to have a likely positive impact on justice, our whistleblowers receive their initial compensation. Then, based on the ultimate justice achieved, our whistleblowers are compensated again. [...] Earn Big Rewards - Tippers can earn rewards of $1,000,000 or more.

Maybe they only need opportunists and scammers to trust them?

And donors/investors? And corporations with a problem-goes-away cost-of-business budget?