MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalist | 2025-11-27 13:38:22+00:00
> The demo at the top has some bad noise issues when the light is in small gaps, at least on my phone (which I don't think the article acknowledges).

Right at the end:

> The random jitter ensures that pixels next to each other don’t end up in the same band. This makes the result a little grainy which isn’t great. But I think looks better than banding… This is an aspect of the demo that I’m still not satisfied with, so if you have ideas for how to improve it please tell me!
by rco8786 | 2025-11-27 13:38:58+00:00
> Can a chatbot do the same?

I really don't see why not. If anything, there's even more user interactions with a chatbot which means more opportunities and more context for placing targeted ads.

And why wouldn't they do an auction? There's nothing stopping them. In fact, again, it's even easier because users are not conditioned to near instantaneous results from a chatbot like they are from an internet search. Internet search also has different categories, I'm not seeing why it's a particularly different or more challenging problem re: hiring a lawyer vs searching for groceries.
by andersonpico | 2025-11-27 13:40:03+00:00
> (especially women)

It's always about that isn't it? Not getting the reaction you want, vilifying your interlocutor, then run crying with fingers in your ears screaming "lalala I didn't want it anyway" and declaring yourself a stoic is really indicative of the type of people who in the present day call themselves stoics.

This whole thread is just a long-winded version of redpill discourse, people who can see past minor adolescent romantic mishaps.

How pathetic is it to still model your whole life after women while pretending to be an isle of self-reliance? Men really are lost.
by danaugrs | 2025-11-27 13:40:32+00:00
Author here. Other experts in this field have also used the term "lambda reduction", including Levy himself [1] and Lamping [2], both which are referenced in the Delta-Nets paper. "Lambda-reduction" is clearly an abbreviation of Lambda-calculi reduction.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/143165.143172

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/96709.96711
by squigz | 2025-11-27 13:41:00+00:00
Oof, this comment was really nice up until the end. Accepting responsibility, expressing regret, etc.

> If someone is extremely upset or hurt by my comment then, I think, at some stage that isn’t my fault and the Internet might not be right for that person.

But then you're like "If you're upset, whatever, that's on you" - even though nobody's really suggested someone is "extremely" upset or hurt by your comment.

Also, you can be funny on the Internet - it has nothing to do with that. The real question is whether you can be funny without degrading people.
by sokoloff | 2025-11-27 13:41:16+00:00
There are a few things to unpack here. Clojure is a lisp hosted on the Java virtual machine (JVM). Subsequently, someone created Clojurescript which is an implementation (of the vast majority of) Clojure that compiles to JavaScript. The majority of Clojure code can run on either.

“Java = bad” is also something that you should probably drop. The JVM in particular is a very robust host and there’s a large ecosystem for it. Java the language has also improved over the years, but the JVM is great (and has a large market share as a result).
by somebehemoth | 2025-11-27 13:41:25+00:00
> This just in: 90% of everything is crap. AI does not, cannot, and will not change that.

Use a search engine. Such a disingenuous take. AI is demonstrably being used to flood the web with slop faster than humans ever could. Now 99% of everything will be crap, just like your takes.
by kinow | 2025-11-27 13:41:36+00:00
This looks amazing. Took me some time to find the author (https://fabiomaia.eu). Will drop a message to ask if it'd be possible to have a similar tool for Python. I find it useful to teach new engineers how to find the source code in the cpython repository, check if the code is Python or C, and understand what the code does (some times the docs are a bit lacking/confusing for newcomers).
by daft_pink | 2025-11-27 13:42:39+00:00
All that I’m saying is that the marketplace is not convinced that IPv6 works better for a local network than IPv4 with NAT and DHCP.

It’s more secure and more private for users that aren’t security or network engineers.

My prosumer $1,000 networking setup isn’t sufficient to run certificates and IPv6 firewall the way you’ve described and I don’t feel qualified to setup what you are suggesting. I can get a $50 router and setup a reasonably secure IPv4 with NAT and DHCP in 15 minutes.
by andruby | 2025-11-27 13:42:59+00:00
I've had an H3 for a few years and it runs amazing. Very low power usage, small footprint and great stability. I run it with an M.2 ssd for power considerations.

Before that I had a full size NAS with an efficient Fujitsi motherboard, pico-psu, 12V adaptor and spinning HDD's. That required so much extra work for so little power efficiency gains vs the Odroid.
by jamincan | 2025-11-27 13:44:24+00:00
The master bath in my parents' old place had a massive bathroom and gigantic shower that seems to be all the rage now in more "luxurious" bathroom designs - often with a bathtub in the shower as well. I had to use their shower once while I was there, and it was terrible - it was cold and drafty in the shower, even with the shower on its highest setting. Luxury shouldn't be uncomfortable.
by rco8786 | 2025-11-27 13:44:24+00:00
> all of which are at risk if Chat-GPT becomes a frontend to buying on Amazon.

Can you explain to me how this is different than the literal world we are currently in, where Google and web search serves as a frontend to buying $billions of products on Amazon already?

> you cannot get a streaming box with universal search ("which streaming service has show X? Just hit play and go")

You've clearly not used a Roku TV, Apple TV, or Amazon Fire Stick lately :). Universal search with "click and play" and deep links into individual streaming services is table stakes for streaming TV now. Your statement here could not be more wrong, honestly.
by concinds | 2025-11-27 13:46:50+00:00
But the national governments are the ones who gave themselves that power in the first place. Because they wanted to be able to do shit like this. Hopefully the EU Parliament will stop them.

But the takeaway from this shouldn't be: "screw the EU", it should be: make the EU more democratic, and give more power to the parliament and less to the backroom machinations of member states. That's exactly what the pro-EU reformists want to do. Or you could pass an EU Constitution that enshrines basic rights including privacy, which the pro-Europe activists tried in 2005 (it explicitly mentioned communications privacy) but failed due to anti-EU pushback and fears over "sovereignty".
by megamix | 2025-11-27 13:48:24+00:00
I think it would make more sense in a pure AI-topic, but the fact that you can scrape copyrighted content and create services (AI companies) is the original idea behind my comment. I'm not sure to what extent CoPilot was trained on private repositories or other possibly copyrighted code. But if it was e.g, I'm supporting their (Zig's) cause.
by someplaceguy | 2025-11-27 13:48:44+00:00
> Okay, that's not fair. There's a big advantage to having an external compressor and reference file whose bytes aren't counted, whether or not your compressor models knowledge.

The benchmark in question (Hutter prize) does count the size of the decompressor/reference file (as per the rules, the compressor is supposed to produce a self-decompressing file).

The article mentions Bellard's work but I don't see his name in the top contenders of the prize, so I'm guessing his attempt was not competitive enough if you take into account the LLM size, as per the rules.
by zokier | 2025-11-27 13:48:49+00:00
For 64 bit timekeeping arguably for lots of uses counting nanoseconds makes a more sense than seconds. You can still cover decent usable range (2^64 ns > 584 years) and save the need for separate subsecond counter.

What would be the most efficient algorithm to handle such ns scale? I guess one option would be just to divide by 10^9 and run the code from the article, but can we do better?
by roryirvine | 2025-11-27 13:49:08+00:00
Almost 30 years for me, both on my personal machines and at work.

I went through a period about 25 years ago where apt crashed on my (rather janky) desktop almost every other run, and sometimes left my system in a state so inconsistent that I had to fall back on 'dpkg-reconfigure --force' and the like to fix it.

Turns out that it was due to a bad interaction between a failing stick of RAM and reiserfs' tail-packing feature, which was causing frequent silent corruption in /var/lib/dpkg/status and friends.

I don't think I've seen any similar issues since, across what must be many millions of apt runs I've been responsible for.

Perhaps gp is suffering from some similar underlying problem?
by petercooper | 2025-11-27 13:49:56+00:00
Hi. I am he. But I agree!

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/ https://thisweekinreact.com/ https://piccalil.li/the-index/ https://bytes.dev/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs https://www.reddit.com/r/node (and typescript and vuejs and angular..)

The more the merrier.

Also HN is pretty good itself much of the time. For example: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
by dwood_dev | 2025-11-27 13:49:58+00:00
That's only for ZFS deduplication which you should never enable unless you have very, very specific use cases.

For normal use, 2GB of RAM for that setup would be fine. But more RAM is more readily available cache, so more is better. It is certainly not even close to a requirement.

There is a lot of old, often repeated ZFS lore which has a kernel of truth but misleads people into thinking it's a requirement.

ECC is better, but not required. More RAM is better, not a requirement. L2ARC is better, not required.
by Archelaos | 2025-11-27 13:50:15+00:00
I suspect that it is purely a literary invention. The core idea of the story is a variant of the "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", where a stolen gem was eaten by a goose. For the new plot, Conan Doyle needed some identical copies of something where a jewel could be hidden. These copies need to be destroyed, in order to reveal the jewel. If you decide on using busts in 1904 for an American and British audience, Napoleon is an ideal candidate: notorious, but not venerated. Imagine what a scandal it might have been if busts of the late Queen Victoria or of Abraham Lincoln had been smashed.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-27 13:50:29+00:00
The article goes deep into these two cases deemed most relevant but really there are a wide swath of similar cases all focused around defining sharper borders than ever around what is essentially the question "exactly when does it become copyright violation" with plenty of seemingly "obvious" answers which quickly conflict with each other.

I also have the feeling it will be much like Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., much of this won't really be clearly resolved until the end if the decade. I'd also not ve surprised if seemingly very different answers ended up bubbling up in the different cases, driven by the specifics of the domain.

Not a lawyer, just excited to see the outcomes :).
by benoitonchainyc | 2025-11-27 13:50:39+00:00
A concise breakdown of the biggest announcements from Devconnect Buenos Aires — Ethereum’s first “World’s Fair.”

From Latin America’s adoption surge to the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative, Core Solidity, trustless philosophy, and new protocol-level security priorities. If you want the signal without the noise, here it is.

Enjoy
by frm88 | 2025-11-27 13:51:16+00:00
Have you read Umberto Eco's essay on Ur-fascism per chance? The dictator bit comes later, if it comes at all. Eco made 14 points that let you detect fascism - the higher the score, the higher the chance of a fascist regime being established.

It makes for a stunning read https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the.... Brett Deveraux (historian) once tried to match US society to those 14 points with the expected result: the US matches all 14. He wrote on his blog about it here: https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...
by debugnik | 2025-11-27 13:51:31+00:00
I assume he's well meaning because I've been seeing his posts for a few months already in the OCaml forums before this pattern of his started, but he's suddenly acting irrational and doubling down. There's no way I can put that nicely, plus he's since deleted his strongest reactions so you can't grasp it fully either.

This is not my first interaction with him outside HN, I already talked to him privately when this was starting to unfold in the OCaml community. Then I gave up, flagged his ads for the mods and blocked him for a few months, but I've kept encountering his drama on github and HN.
by petercooper | 2025-11-27 13:51:39+00:00
Unfortunately we've had endless waves of botnets attempting to subscribe thousands of fake email addresses to us over the years, and while our IP reputation system helps keep this at bay, it's also catching quite a lot of legitimate users now thanks to the prevalance of VPNs. So we'll need to come up with a new approach. (And no, even Cloudflare Turnstile isn't enough to keep them away, sadly, as there are plenty of human-backed adversarial networks too trying to make scam Gmail addresses look legit by subscribing them to newsletters.)

However, we do subscribe many people manually, and we also have RSS - http://javascriptweekly.com/rss - so you don't have to deal with email at all if you don't want to. There are also numerous other options out there, which I've linked in a sibling comment.
by sublinear | 2025-11-27 13:53:01+00:00
> The architecture might just be wrong for AGI. LeCun’s been saying this for years: LLMs trained on text prediction are fundamentally limited. They’re mimicking human output without human experience.

Yes, and most with a background in linguistics or computer science have been saying the same since the inception of their disciplines. Grammars are sets of rules on symbols and any form of encoding is very restrictive. We haven't come up with anything better yet.

The tunnel vision on this topic is so strong that many don't even question language itself first. If we were truly approaching AGI anytime soon, wouldn't there be clearer milestones beforehand? Why must I peck this message out, and why must you scan it with your eyes only for it to become something else entirely once consumed? How is it that I had this message entirely crystalized instantly in my mind, yet it took me several minutes of deliberate attention to serialize it into this form?

Clearly, we have an efficiency problem to attack first.
by watwut | 2025-11-27 13:53:45+00:00
Mental health issues existing in the past does not mean they are not mental health issues. Besides, most men were neither alcoholics, depressed nor lonely.

Loneliness in particular is neither specifically masculine (like, is not at all specifically masculine, neither in history nor now). Nor is there a reason to believe was more or equal amount of it in the past ... when men were part of in person group pretty much regardless of what they were doing.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-27 13:53:59+00:00
> Dunno if you listen to Ezra Klein but he had an anthropologist on once […]

Klein wrote a book a few years ago on the topic of polarization, human's inclination towards clan/tribal thinking, and how it manifests itself in (US) politics:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized
by hirako2000 | 2025-11-27 13:56:11+00:00
Or perhaps I don't see what you see.

I take a photo, the format is jpeg. It backs up to Google photo, the Google photo app on Android renders the photo just fine.

I then convert that photo (via a local converter) to AVIF, Google backs it up, I can see the file in Google Photo on Android but it doesn't render the image. That being full size or thumbnail, all I get is a grayed square. So I concluded the app doesn't support avif rasterizing.

I then gave up on the automation that converted all my jpeg into avif, which in turn would have saved hundred of gigabytes given I have 10y worth of photos.

The experiment was done about 3 months ago, as of 2025 Google Photo on Android, latest version, would not render my AVIF photos.
by Eisenstein | 2025-11-27 13:56:42+00:00
They are saying it is normal to slurp noodles, which is what I said in my first reply to you. They did not say that they make 'loud mouth noises' as a sign of respect.

Ask this specific question: "Do you make loud mouth noises while you eat as a sign of respect, or is it just normal to slurp noodles?" and see what answer you get.
by tim333 | 2025-11-27 13:57:24+00:00
I thought Max Max Fury Road was cool. Though they spent crazy money on vehicles for that so maybe it agrees with your point.

I mean Max 1 is ok https://youtu.be/Utj2o2eWdC0?t=93

But fury was kind of epic https://youtu.be/hEJnMQG9ev8?t=118

both seem to have some ramps and explosions.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-27 13:57:57+00:00
Because "the public" isn't one person or even one cohesive group. Some see the manipulation, and point it out. Others don't see it, or ignore it when it's pointed out.

And why ignore it? Because they don't want to believe it's manipulation, because it promises large numbers of dollars, and they want to believe that those are real.
by rvz | 2025-11-27 13:58:24+00:00
"AGI" was hijacked to mean something else and was turned into a scam.

What it "really means" is more mass layoffs to power AI infrastructure for that to power so-called "AI agents" to achieve a 10% increase in global unemployment in the next 5 years.

From the "benefit of humanity", then to the entire destruction of knowledge workers and now to the tax payer even if it costs another $10T to bailout the industry from staggeringly giant costs to run all of it.

Once again, AGI is now nothing but a grift. The crash will be a spectacle for the ages.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-11-27 13:58:45+00:00
"You don't build high trust societies with lies"

Yes because you build it with trust, I trust you to not ruin this things so everyone can enjoy it

I can understand where you coming from because when I watch YT videos about people that exploit the loophole or game the system, people literally praise them for "beating the game" and this is happen mostly with US where everyone is materialistic

but my counter argument is game theory, where everyone can cooperate for betterment of your environment
by wongarsu | 2025-11-27 13:58:50+00:00
However I don't have any issues with the demo in the middle (the hard shadows). So the artifacting has to be from the soft shadow rules, or from the "few extra tweaks".

The primary force behind real soft shadows is obviously that real lights are not point sources. I wonder how much worse the performance would be if instead of the first two (kinda hacky) soft shadow rules we instead replaced the light by maybe five lights that represent random points in a small circular light source. Maybe you'd get too much banding unless you used a much higher number of light sources, but at the very least it would be an interesting comparison to justify using the approximation
by rererereferred | 2025-11-27 13:59:24+00:00
I thought the same but from another perspective, it's better to explain things in a language you dominate and let others translate it to theirs, which might be a good or bad translation; than translate it yourself to a language you don't dominate and the others always get a bad translation. At least in the first case new people can come with better translations.

This is all assuming translation tools always translate things wrong, which they do when it comes to programming terms.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-27 14:00:02+00:00
> $100 to have the rights to reserve one? That's really nice of them.

I paid £100 for a couple of old Thinkpad T430s, one of which I needed to spend a further £30 on to replace the battery.

That would leave me with a lot of change from the two grand I kind of don't have to spend on a toy computer that they won't even publish specs for.
by anentropic | 2025-11-27 14:00:26+00:00
I used to have big HDDs attached to my Thunderbolt dock.

But it was always annoying having to 'eject' them before unplugging the laptop from the dock. Or sometimes overnight they would disconnect themselves and fill up my screen with dozens of "you forgot to eject" notifications. Yes I'm on macOS.

Do NAS avoid this issue? Or you still have to mount/unmount?

Why does there seem to be much more market for NAS than for direct attached external HDD?

Eventually I got a new laptop with bigger SSD, started using BackBlaze for backups, and mostly stopped using the external HDDs.

I always assumed NAS would be slower and even more cumbersome to use. Is that not the case?
by charlie-83 | 2025-11-27 14:00:39+00:00
If this is true then almost all of the jobs in the world would already be replaced by AI. Sure, the model might be better than most people at lots of things but there are still tasks that human children find easy and AI struggles with. I wouldn't call being better at something than humans being "smarter" than them; if you do, calculators must be smarter than humans since they have been better at adding up numbers than us for a long time.
by amypetrik8 | 2025-11-27 14:00:46+00:00
>The above scenario has been studied by various papers and the government. The prices simultaneously act as both a "cost to buy" and as a "message to cooperate".

Yea I mean. A simple watch of movie film "A bueaitful Mind" starring John Nash as math genius russel crowe. Crowe equilibrium or whatever it's called. That scene where the nerds were in the bar trying to get the girl. his friends said let the best man win and crowe said - no - only way to win is we collude. and then they won. Now imagine that -- but it's not russel crowe, it's united airlines.

I mean if you look at companies from that crowe equilibruim perspective and treat them as sophisticated and rational.. one would expect most everything to be rigged!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJS7Igvk6ZM
by blkhawk | 2025-11-27 14:01:36+00:00
because people hedge their bets almost always. basically how likely something is vs costs vs what everybody else is doing vs how you are personally affected.

So in case of the current AI there are several scenarios where you have to react to it. For example as a CEO of a company that would benefit from AI you need to demonstrate you are doing something or you get attacked for not doing enough.

As a CEO of an AI producing company you have almost no idea if the stuff you working on will be the thing that say makes hallucination-free LLMs, allows for cheap long term context integration or even "solve AGI". you have to pretend that you are just about to do the latter tho.
by globnomulous | 2025-11-27 14:01:45+00:00
This isn't just "making mistakes." It's so profoundly obnoxious that I can't imagine what you've actually been doing during your apparently 30 years of experience as a software developer, such that you somehow didn't understand, or don't, why submitting these PRs is completely unacceptable.

The breezy "challenge me on this" and "it's just a proof of concept" remarks are infuriating. Pull requests are not conversation starters. They aren't for promoting something you think people should think about. The self-absorption and self-indulgence beggar belief.

Your homepage repeatedly says you're open to work and want someone to hire you. I can't imagine anybody looking at those PRs or your behavior in the discussions and concluding that you'd be a good addition to a team.

The cluelessness is mind-boggling.

It's so bad that I'm inclined to wonder whether you really are human -- or whether you're someone's stealthy, dishonest LLM experiment.