MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danpalmer | 2025-11-26 00:35:11+00:00
The advertiser is buying the right to put an advert in front of you, not the right to a sale. Whether they convert you is up to them, their product, their offering, etc. I think you can never buy a single product from an ad and this is still piracy.

That said, a lot of advertising is not performance/pay-per-click focused as you've described and is instead brand advertising. The point of the Coca-Cola christmas ads is not to get you to buy a coke today, it's to have a positive impression that builds over years. This sort of advertising is very hard to attribute sales to, but a good example of how you don't need to buy a product for seeing the ad to be worth something to the company.
by g-b-r | 2025-11-26 00:36:12+00:00
«I am reborn solely relying on a faith called reason»

No you're not, you're reborn on a faith called delusion

People convinced that their ideas came directly out of logic and reason are some of the most dangerous there are.

They can come to believe that everything is justified in pursuit of their goals, however much harm it causes.

The fact that you consider Peter Thiel and Ayn Rand role models shows how f up the bases of your "reasoning" are.

I hope that your plans are not too dangerous, but most of all that you realise that you might be wrong
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-26 00:36:21+00:00
>A single murderer rarely triggers societal change.

I was gonna bring up Franz but you said "rarely" not "never".

I think people are wising up to the fact that at scale modern forms of insurance, all forms not just health, is not a real product that delivers value to both parties, it's a contrived way to use government force to lighten everyone's pockets to the benefit of a few while paying out only as needed to justify the pretext and the only thing it really shares with it's free-ish market equivalents from 50+yr ago is the name. So there will probably be more murders before things change.
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-26 00:36:54+00:00
Seems good to me. Everyone whose ever taking a philosophy or history course has inwardly groaned when the self-righteous fundamentalist tries to force some weird viewpoint on everyone. Also good practice for business. You'll have to tolerate co-workers with differing views, and indeed, in some jobs, you must present your views to compete with those other viewpoints.
by 6510 | 2025-11-26 00:37:36+00:00
I was playing a game with a friend and the chat was increasingly full of angry people complaining about cheaters easily obtaining very hard to get items. He asked what I thought about it....

Well, the game is clearly very important to these people, it is increasingly visible. They are clearly very emotionally engaged. I'd say things are going really well!

Youtube was once a miraculous technical website running circles around Google video. I'm told they used a secret technology called python. Eventually Google threw the towel and didn't want to compete anymore. They were basically on the ground in a pool of bodily liquids then the referee counted all the way to 1.65 billion.

Some time went by and now you can just slap a <video> tag on a html document and call it a day. Your website will run similar circles around the new google video only much much faster.

The only problem is that [even] developers forgot 
how
 why to make HTML websites. I'm sure someone remembers the anchor tag and among those some even remember that you can put full paths inthere that point at other website that could [in theory] also have videos on them (if they knew 
how
 why)

If this was my homepage I would definitely add a picture of Dark Helmet.

https://www.rickmoranis.com

Looks like he also forgot 
how
 why.
by protocolture | 2025-11-26 00:37:43+00:00
>It feels like a kind of end of civilization or even humanity type of thing, where at some point all of the earth will have been excavated and all human evidence will have been removed and catalogued and archived in some warehouse, totally sanitizing sterilizing the planet of human activity.

My understanding is that most countries prevent areas from being wholesale dug up, but only permit smaller, limited digs for this reason. So a representative sample of a site can be reexamined at a future date with future technology to reassess understanding. Some sites have had many many digs in this fashion, and still havent dug the entire site. In fact its a criticism of some semi famous sites, usually from charlatans, that the entire site hasnt been dug therefore we are leaving evidence of their popular wackjob ideas in the ground

>because there is very little of anything physical that remains.

I dont know thats true. Lots of what we do is kept and recorded. And our activity surely leaves traces. Plastics especially.

>My understanding is that outside of specific medium, none of the data we generate or consume will last, let alone survive something like a nuclear war or even a massive solar flair.

I dont believe this is true either. We arent backing our society up to a single old spinning disk. We have documents that immediately predate data storage. We have old documents stored in multiple places. We have lost certain specific artefacts of our own history but it seems doomerish to assume thats what happens universally.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-11-26 00:37:47+00:00
I'm not talking about the data used to train the model. I'm talking about data in the world.

High intelligence models will be used as agentic systems. For maximal utility, they'll need to handle live/historical data.

What I anticipate, IF you only train it on inaccurate data, then when for example you use it to drill into GDP growth trends it either is going to go full "seahorse emoji" when it tries to reconcile the reported numbers and the component economic activity.

The alternative is to train it to be deceitful, and knowingly deceive the querier with the party line and fabricate supporting figures. Which I hypothesize will limit the models utility.

My assumption is also that training the model to deceive will ultimately threaten the party itself. Just think of the current internal power dynamics of the party.
by CuriousRose | 2025-11-26 00:38:54+00:00
Linux has terrible UX, no cohesion in design and quite frankly I can't understand how it could possibly be considered a replacement for macOS.

Expecting business users to use a terminal to install apps (yes I know AppImage exists) is so far removed from reality it's not worth entertaining the "year of the Linux desktop" joke for anyone without at least a mildly technical background.

To clarify, I'm speaking about business users not the people we commonly interact with in the IT space - although in my market they are also just as siloed in their knowledge and while they may be great at DevOps or development, good luck getting them to do anything outside of drag an app from a Disk Image to the Applications folder (which will stay mounted for the next 8 months).
by hu3 | 2025-11-26 00:39:06+00:00
I have a lot of respect for the .NET team. They often publish great in-depth articles and their pursuit for performance is relentless (e.g. see Kestrel and Entity Framework evolution).

And ASP.NET is one of the few large projects which managed to survive a large breaking changes. Almost to Python 2->3 level. You had to change how your web app behaved completely if you relied on their magic session which worked hard to keep state synched between back and front.

Feels good to have 3 trillion dollars interested in improving the stack you use and actually care.

Developers! Developers! Developers!
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-26 00:39:53+00:00
This shows some gaps in the "same prompt to every model" approach to benchmarking models.

I get that it's allows ensuring you're testing the model capabilities vs prompts, but most models are being post-trained with very different formats of prompting.

I use Seedream in production so I was a little suspicious of the gap: I passed Bytedance's official prompting guide, OPs prompt, and your feedback to Claude Opus 4.5 and got this prompt to create a new image:

> A partially eaten chicken burrito with a bite taken out, revealing the fillings inside: shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole, shredded lettuce, salsa, and pinto beans all visible in the cross-section of the burrito. Flour tortilla with grill marks. Taken with a cheap Android phone camera under harsh cafeteria lighting. Compostable paper plate, plastic fork, messy table. Casual unedited snapshot, slightly overexposed, flat colors.

Then I generated with n=4 and the 'standard' prompt expansion setting for Seedream 4.0 Text To Image:

https://imgur.com/a/lxKyvlm

They're still not perfect (it's not adhering to the fillings being inside for example) but it's massively better than OP's result

Shows that a) random chance plays a big part, so you want more than 1 sample and b) you don't have to "cheat" by spending massive amounts of time hand-iterating on a single prompt either to get a better result
by martinald | 2025-11-26 00:41:46+00:00
Agreed. It's sort of crazy how little people understand about multicore software design given nearly everyone is using machines with >8 CPU cores these days (even a cheap android phone tends to have 8 cpu cores these days).

In python and node it is _so_ painful to use multiple cores, whereas in .net you have parallel for loops and Task.WhenAll for over a decade. Java is similar in this sense that you don't have to do anything to use multiple cores and can just run multiple tasks without having to worry about passing state etc between 'workers'.

This actually becomes a really big problem for web performance, something I'm deeply passionate about. Not everything is just IO driven holdups, sometimes you do need to use a fair bit of CPU to solve a problem, and when you can't do it in parallel easily it ends up causing a lot of UX issues.
by ianburrell | 2025-11-26 00:42:06+00:00
They are building more Burkes. The Burkes are overloaded so can't add anything else to them.

Before the costs exploded, the Constellation class frigates would have been half the cost of Burke. There are jobs that need a warship, like patrol off Yemen, but the LCS don't have the defenses.

Also, this is not a good sign for Navy ability to build the DDG(X) which will be the successor to the Burkes.
by hairu | 2025-11-26 00:42:15+00:00
after the several weeks-long hell you went through attempting to resiliently solve this, as well as the seemingly sufficiently widespread issue admitted-to by apple, i would have expected some sort of thank you, and continuity with regards to open doors for further discussion relating to their awareness of replacing a whole logic board being but a half-baked solution... WONTFIX? for real?
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-26 00:44:33+00:00
And I have the right to pay someone to watch the ads + videos for me, and then summarize me the video minus ads. Just like I have the right to hand my ad-full newspaper to someone, have them cut out the ads and hand me back the now ad-free one.

If both of those are legal and ethical (I’d be curious what argument someone would make against this), then offloading this work to a machine should be just as ethical.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-26 00:44:44+00:00
So I've been writing Python for around 20 years now, and doing data science/ML work for around 15. Despite being a Python programmer first I spent a good 5 years using R exclusively. There's a lot of things I genuinely love about R and I strongly believe that R is unfairly maligned by devs... but there's a good reason I have written exclusively Python for DS work for the last 5 years.

> Python is pretty good for deep learning. There’s a reason PyTorch is the industry standard. When I’m talking about data science here, I’m specifically excluding deep learning.

I've written very little deep learning code over my career, but made very frequent use of the GPU and differentiable programming for non-deep learning specific tasks. In general Python is much easier to write quantitative programs that make use of the hardware, and you have a lot more options when your problem doesn't fit into RAM.

> I have been running a research lab in computational biology for over two decades.

I've been working nearly exclusively in industry for these two decades and a major reason I find Python just better is it's much, much easier to interface with other parts of engineering when you're a using truly general purpose PL. I've actually never worked for a pure Python shop, but it's generally much easier to get production ML/DS solutions into prod when working with Python.

> Data science as I define it here involves a lot of interactive exploration of data and quick one-off analyses or experiments

This re-iterates the previous difference. In my experience I would call this "step one" in all my DS related work. The first step is to understand the problem and de-risk. But the vast majority of code and work is related to delivering a scalable product.

You can say that's not part of "data science", but if you did you'd have a hard time finding a job on most of the teams I've worked on.

All that said, my R vs Python experience has boiled down to: If your end result is a PDF report, R is superior. If your end result is shipping a product, then Python is superior. And my experience has been that, outside of university labs, there aren't a lot of jobs out there for DS folks who only want to deliver PDFs.
by throw4039 | 2025-11-26 00:44:53+00:00
Looks awesome! I'm really trying to switch off Open WebUI due to its general slowness and bugginess, as well as documentation which is almost entirely slop.

However it doesn't seem to have MinerU as a supported backend, which is hands-down the best PDF extraction tool I've ever used (and is self-hostable on a machine with a modest GPU). Could it be added?

https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU
by XenophileJKO | 2025-11-26 00:46:04+00:00
Exactly. Western corporations and governments have their own issues, but I think they are more tolerant of the types of dissent that models could represent when reconciling reality with policy.

The market will want to maximize model utility. Research and open source will push boundaries and unpopular behavior profiles that will be illegal very quickly if they are not already illegal in authoritarian or other low tolerance governments.
by lofties | 2025-11-26 00:46:13+00:00
I traveled often between Jakarta and Japan in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The real breath of fresh air for me was literally the fresh air back in Japan. After running around for a week through Jakarta, I would inevitably develop a deep cough and a clogged nose. That said, the people, the food, and as someone else pointed out the nightlife is amazing.
by defrost | 2025-11-26 00:46:21+00:00
> Expecting business users to use a terminal to install apps

would be akin to expecting business users to install their phones, lines, and office switches, like expecting them to assemble their desks and chairs, expecting them to stock the fridge, swap out water bottles, repair the HVAC, etc.

Who is it that expects business users that have PA's to make them a sandwich struggle to install apps rather than take a long lunch and expect it to be done upon their return?
by miladyincontrol | 2025-11-26 00:46:36+00:00
Im not so sure, the big "fall" of labubus so far was for flippers and their profits, Popmart on the other hand has been selling more than ever with their restocks still selling out almost instantly.

Them being accessible and there being supply for much demand is having hit equilibrium. Give it another year or two before grave dancing. Many are still just only buying them now with them being accessible.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-26 00:47:07+00:00
Love the painting of the huge toroidal space station—with the houses and forests inside.

I had a thought experiment: if you could ride a bicycle (motorcycle?) against the direction of spin of the station you would essentially be "stationary". You would still have a velocity into the always-sloping-up wheel. What if you rode up a gentle ramp? Could you break away from the surface of the wheel then and become "weightless"?
by sershe | 2025-11-26 00:47:40+00:00
Given the lack of friction going to a random website, "Don't run programs you don't know where they're from." automatic execution of javascript from arbitrary random domains would mean "including the one you are visiting".

Which is exactly the way I think it should be. Web should have been noscript by default, domains should be added on case by case basis. Compared to the current situation banning web scripting essential to the functioning of any commercial websites altogether (because something something ADA screen readers for example) would have been better :)
by schmuckonwheels | 2025-11-26 00:47:50+00:00
It's difficult to capture into words how much contempt I hold for Google and Amazon, two companies which lost their way long ago and are now actively user-hostile.

YouTube has gotten worse with every release. Endless, pointless UI changes. Sneaky resolution downgrades. When your video says "Auto 1080p" it's like 480p quality, manually choose 1080p and watch it change.

Amazon has been working overtime to make your experience worse. The latest innovation is to eliminate invoices for US customers. This wasn't a mistake, as it was rolled out gradually over a few months, with workarounds quickly plugged as users become aware of them. Oh, there still is a "view invoice" button but it's just a redirect to order summary now.

Dark patterns galore since cancelling Prime. Every checkout flow I'm hit with a minimum of two clicks where I have to decline or change something. Ordering a packet of laundry soap feels like buying a used car.

The employees that implement this stuff dare to call themselves "engineers" yet their entire energy is devoted to making their customer's lives more miserable, which they are somehow paid a disgusting amount of money to go do.

Real engineers solve problems.

These people invent new problems to then go solve, likely because they are chasing their next promotion.

There's a lot of folx who got into this business for all the wrong reasons and we're now seeing the results of that on a massive scale.
by germandiago | 2025-11-26 00:48:11+00:00
It is true that it will never be Rust-safe level bit there is ongoing work: stl library hardening is in for C++26, there are some temporaries dangling that has been removed (range for lofetime extension and forbid conversion snd binding to temporary), there is a form of implicit contracts on the way (this means that even regular code can be compiled wirh implicit bounds checking, including arrays) and there is sn ongoing effort to remove all forms of UB.

So I agree it has its quirks but if the defaults keep changing and improving it keeps evolving into a safer by default thing compared to before.

No, I do not mean into you must be super-skillfull anymore: I mean that with all of that in, things are much safer by default.

Things keep improving a bit slower than we would like (this is design by committee) but steadily.
by ianburrell | 2025-11-26 00:48:39+00:00
Drones don't make a big difference to naval warfare because need large ones to have the range and carry big warhead. Then they need speed to cover that distance. That means have basically invented the anti-ship missile. Ships also have the space to carry defenses. The missiles then either get smarter, stealthier, and supersonic to get through.

The big recent change in naval warfare is that anti-ship missiles have gotten common. Ukraine used locally built ones to sink a Russian cruiser. Yemen and Iran have been making them.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-26 00:49:38+00:00
Yes. 1080p screen density is still so popular. Looking around new laptops it's still the bulk in Windows land, including OLED and ultra high refresh rate monitors. Same for TVs.

Even on macs many are using scaling factors that render close to 1080p.

The issue really would be why YouTube can't bother managing more layouts. It still blows my mind there's only one single YouTube experience per platform, when their viewership basically span the world's population.
by rlmark | 2025-11-26 00:49:39+00:00
Hey there! Apologies for not getting to you sooner. The `Table` is a storage primitive implemented on top of DynamoDB (it's a lower-level storage building block - as you've rightfully identified; these entities were made to be composable, so other storage types can be made with them). Our `OrderedTable` docs might be of interest to you: they talk about their own implementation a bit more (BTrees); and `OrderedTable` is one of our most ergonomic storage types: https://share.unison-lang.org/@unison/cloud/code/releases/23...

The Database abstraction helps scope and namespace (potentially many) tables. It is especially important in scoping transactions, since one of the things we wanted to support with our storage primitives is transactionality across multiple storage types.
by mtlynch | 2025-11-26 00:49:40+00:00
> maintaining kaneo means helping people debug their setups. and honestly? it's taught me more than i expected.

> people run kaneo on setups i never imagined:

> behind corporate proxies

> ...

> in kubernetes with custom networking

It's OP's project so they're welcome to support whoever they want but I definitely would not offer free support to customers who are obviously using the product commercially, especially in large enterprises.

It's FOSS, so they can use it for free if they want, but if they need custom support or features, they're a great user to tell, "Sure, I'm happy to help you with that if you purchase a $500/yr support contract." You'd be surprised how many customers like that don't care because they have a corporate card and that amount is too little to require approvals or much process.
by minimaxir | 2025-11-26 00:49:51+00:00
In terms of prompt adherence, there are two issues with most image generation models, neither of which apply to Nano Banana:

1. The text encoders are primitive (e.g. CLIP) and have difficulty with nuance, such as "partially eaten", and model training can only partially overcome it. It's the same issue with the now-obsolete "half-filled" wine glass test.

2. Most models are diffusion-based, which means it denoises the entire image simultaneously. If it fails to account for the nuance in the first few passes, it can't go back and fix it.

I believe some image generation AIs were RLHFed like chat bot LLMs, but moreso to improve aesthetics rather than prompt adherence.