MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 15:14:39+00:00
> If we can then well good, then there will be no problem then if the funding fails

The funding is not for the NTP servers or pools. Please read the actual page and all of the comments trying to explain that the HN title is a lie. NTP will not “go down” if this project fails.

You can use Google or Amazon’s NTP servers if you’d like. Just be aware of how they represent leap seconds differently.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-12 15:15:26+00:00
> Virtually every billboard on the 101 and virtually every ad at SFO and San Jose Airport are some AI thing now.

Ads are meaningless drivel. If you let the ads shown on billboards around you affect your life experience and how you define a place, that's absolutely tragic: I don't even know what to say to that.

> It is difficult to avoid tech campuses.

No it isn't, everyone knows where they are.

> Housing stock disproportionately targets high paying single people.

Every urban center in the US is doing that right now.

> When you ride the caltrain it is impossible not to overhear people talking about software engineering.

That must be so difficult to deal with, gosh, I don't know how you managed to survive it.

> But my experience of the south bay is pretty dire if you want to escape the gaze of tech.

It's not, you're just not trying hard enough.
by kypro | 2025-11-12 15:16:39+00:00
> Swarms of these, acting in concert or with some hive mind, could be how we get to AGI.

There's absolutely no reason to think this. In fact, all of the evidence we have to this point suggests that scaling intelligence horizontally doesn't increase capabilities – you have to scale vertically.

Additionally, as it stands I'd argue there's foundational architectural advancements needed before artificial neutral networks can learn and reason at the same level (or better) than humans across a wide variety of tasks. I suspect when we solve this for LLMs the same techniques could be applied to world models. Fundamentally, the question to ask here is whether AGI is io dependant, and I see no reason to believe this to be the case – if someone removes your eyes and cuts off your hands they don't make you any less generally intelligent.
by erincandescent | 2025-11-12 15:17:11+00:00
On the contrary, an object moving across your field of vision will produce a level of motion blur in your eyes. The same object recorded at 24fps and then projected or displayed in front of your eyes will produce a different level of motion blur, because the object is no longer moving continuously across your vision but instead moving in discrete steps. The exact character of this motion blur can be influenced by controlling what fraction of that 1/24th of a second the image is exposed for (vs. having the screen black)

The most natural level of motion blur for a moving picture to exhibit is not that traditionally exhibited by 24fps film, but it is equally not none (unless your motion picture is recorded at such high frame rate that it substantially exceeds the reaction time of your eyes, which is rather infeasible)
by theultdev | 2025-11-12 15:17:20+00:00
I don't see in any way how my comment was flamebait.

It's a political discussion, either allow it fully or don't.

Leaving one sided statements up like the GP is not a discussion.

My response was a real retort to that belief that America wouldn't function without below minimal-wage exploitation of illegal aliens.

Referencing the morals of the same justification for slavery is a valid point.
by MangoToupe | 2025-11-12 15:17:22+00:00
> And this happened due to a single reason: nuclear warheads.

I think this happened in spite of nuclear warheads. US naval dominance has had far greater material impact, even vs other world powers.

> And in case the things escalate we are all to a sudden death than to a painful recovery.

I don't think nuclear war ever implied the complete extinction of the human race.
by taolson | 2025-11-12 15:17:30+00:00
>something AMD noted IIRC in the original K5 with its AMD29050-derived core

Just a small nitpick: I've seen the K5/29050 connection mentioned in a number of places, but the K5 was actually based upon an un-released superscalar 29K project called "Jaguar", not the 29050, which was a single-issue, in-order design.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-12 15:17:40+00:00
The original lawsuit has lots of examples of ChatGPT (3.5? 4?) regurgitating article...snippets. They could get a few paragraphs with ~80-90% perfect replication. But certainly not full articles, with full accuracy.

This wasn't solid enough for a summary judgement, and it seems the labs have largely figured out how to stop the models from doing this. So it looks like NYT wants to comb all user chats rather than pay a team of people tens of thousands a day to try an coax articles out of ChatGPT-5.
by okayjustonemore | 2025-11-12 15:17:52+00:00
Graphic designer here. Adobe’s products are the golden standard in the industry and are often the only products used by entire graphic teams, being the odd one out using Affinity’s or (heaven forbid) Corel’s tools makes collaboration difficult (if not entirely impossible) due to how unfriendly and unpredictable portability between apps can be, and unpredictable is the last thing you want in an environment where precision is absolutely essencial.

It’s sad, really. Adobe’s apps are powerful, yes, but they’re stuck in time. They perform horrendously and have terrible UI/X that aren’t even standardised between apps (even something as simple as the icon for their own assets library cloud is not the same between apps).

How I wish someone would come along and eat Adobe’s lunch to force it to pull itself together for once, but alas, that’s unlikely at best.
by pxx | 2025-11-12 15:18:51+00:00
I saw the diagram in the original blogpost, laughed, but after a bit of sketching it out I think we're both wrong. R/2R ladders are useful in DACs (and are really cool there) but don't look like they're used in digipot applications.

It seems like actual digipot ICs use the "2^n discrete resistors" approach. The IC used in this project is a MCP4141 which explicitly states in section 5.1 of its datasheet that for 7-bit (8-bit) devices there are 128 (256) resistors in a string between the terminals.

I'm a bit surprised this seems to be the best approach, but with IC manufacturing the joint problems of "a bunch of identical components" and "wiring it all up" are much less of a problem than if you were to wire this up by hand.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 15:18:54+00:00
The problem is that it isn't just stickers on a piece of equipment.

A lot of these laptop stickers are either tech stacks (which are usually a form of advertising for a corporation), quasi-political messaging or outward political messaging.

I've partially explain this in my OP and other replies under this subject, but I and many other see them as a warning sign of things that are much more worrisome. I am naturally suspicious of any "corporate fun stuff" which is what a lot of this has turned into. That was accurately portrayed for what it is in office space with the "16 pieces of flair". Anyone who calls this out as suspicious will have someone like yourself saying "what is the problem? just a sticker".
by jcranmer | 2025-11-12 15:20:41+00:00
> In copyright cases, typically you need to show some kind of harm.

NYT is suing for statutory copyright infringement. That means you only need to demonstrate that the copyright infringement, since the infringement alone is considered harm; the actual harm only matters if you're suing for actual damages.

This case really comes down to the very unsolved question of whether or not AI training and regurgitation is copyright infringement, and if so, if it's fair use. The actual ways the AI is being used is thus very relevant for the case, and totally within the bounds of discovery. Of course, OpenAI has also been engaging this lawsuit with unclean hands in the first place (see some of their earlier discovery dispute fuckery), and they're one of the companies with the strongest "the law doesn't apply to US because we're AI and big tech" swagger.
by caminante | 2025-11-12 15:20:45+00:00
OP expressly said "big tech," which isn't US exclusive.

> I've never been asked a leetcode style question at any interview I've had (and I'm in my mid 40s).

For this anecdote to be relevant, you'd need to have datapoints from "big tech" qualifying jobs.

Glossing over this qualifier pattern matches with snarky comments.
by electroly | 2025-11-12 15:20:47+00:00
Easy to avoid depending on the area; I'd urge you not to be discouraged by the presence of commercial libraries. They aren't as vital as it may seem from the outside. I've been a full-time C# developer since the first open beta and I have only one (1) instance where I used a commercial library. That was 2002 and if we were doing it today, we wouldn't have needed that commercial library. I have never used a commercial C# library other than that one time. We have a tremendous supply of open source libraries in NuGet, just like every other language, and much more functionality built into the standard library than most languages have. We just also have commercial UI libraries and such. That commercial library we used was a docking/tabbing UI library; you can get that from open source packages now (and my later projects do).
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by zvivier | 2025-11-12 15:21:01+00:00
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by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-12 15:21:09+00:00
What environment are you using that: - Has access to Youtube - Can run Python code - Can’t run JS code

If the concern is security, it sounds like the team went to great lengths to ensure the JS was sandboxed (as long as you’re using Deno).

If you’re using some sort of weird OS or architecture that Deno/Node doesn’t support, you might consider QuickJS, which is written in pure C and should work on anything. (Although it will be a lot slower, I’m not clear just how slow.) Admittedly, you then loose the sandboxing, although IMO it seems like it should safe to trust code being served by Google on the official Youtube domain. (You don’t have to trust Google in general to trust that they won’t serve you actual malware.)
by mothballed | 2025-11-12 15:21:15+00:00
The only thing that's a given is that it's possible that you'll end up paying child support and alimony to someone that hates you, if you marry in real life and have real children.

Choosing you'd rather have AI wife and kids, rather than deal with the potential that many real people will face of paying child support and alimony to someone that hates them -- I don't see as an irrational decision (although not an inevitable one either).

In fact, if you don't consider at least the possibility, you are a fool.
Instant Parameter Selection for Modular Systems (b, p, t, r)
by Patternician | 2025-11-12 15:21:22+00:00
If you’ve ever had to tune or verify modular parameters — for example in RNG design, PRBS/scrambler alignment, signal sequence generation, or NTT setups — you know how time-consuming it can be to make sure conditions like b^A mod p^t = r

actually behave the way you need across multiple constraints.

Most teams rely on Hensel lifting, search loops, or heuristic checks that can take hours (or days) to verify — and still risk subtle misalignments.

I’ve developed a provably correct, closed-form method that computes the exact modulus gate M instantly, for any given (b, p, t, r) where b= base, p= prime, t= depth, r= residue. It’s not simulation or approximation — it’s a deterministic, math-verified result you can drop directly into a spec or test plan.

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by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-12 15:21:30+00:00
This is about private chats, which are not used for training and only stored for 30 days.

Also, you need to understand, that for huge corps like OpenAI, the lying on your ToS will do orders of magnitude more damage to your brand than what you would gain through training on <1% more user chats. So no, they are not lying when they say they don't train on private chats.
by underscoremark | 2025-11-12 15:21:45+00:00
I hosted Canvas Clash in Firefox on Windows 10, with myself, on a Samsung phone, and two AIs.

Trivia games are great for bars - finding/creating quality trivia content, and lots of it, may be the greater challenge.

It would be especially saleable if the UI theme can be customized to the establishment - even just a custom background. The market would be for smaller, independent (non-chain) places that won't pay for, or have access to, the more expensive companies that provide this kind of application to bars.

Anyway, I wish you success!
by roryirvine | 2025-11-12 15:22:38+00:00
I've no idea about Japan or China, but I do know that "office-to-resi" has become reasonably common in the UK.

Since 2013, it's been classed as "permitted development" (so, automatically allowed as long as the building isn't listed as architecturally or historically important), and liberalised further in the early 2020s.

House prices have outstripped commercial rents for most of this century, and change of use is cheaper than demolish-and-rebuild, so I'd expect to see the trend continue.

The issue with unsuitable floor plates is real, though, particularly in larger buildings. One solution is to cut chunks out of the curtain wall, turning part of each floor into an open-air terrace which functions as a light well. The reduction in useable floor area means that's only really viable at the premium end of the market, though - a prominent (albeit mixed-use) example is https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2024/07/18/striking-new...
by llmhub | 2025-11-12 15:23:04+00:00
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by anamexis | 2025-11-12 15:23:06+00:00
* Every Youtube video is playable on the Youtube music app.

* There is a liked videos playlist

Yes, I read your comment above.

Regarding the other two points, it is of course understandable why you'd want to download and have your own solution. But that is also obviously not an issue with Google engineers/PMs neglecting to think of a feature.
by bArray | 2025-11-12 15:23:07+00:00
Worth noting is that there is a non-zero number of political stickers on these laptops, and they seem to all tend towards the far-Left. It could make one wonder about the general political leanings of hackers and open source contributors.

Why is it important? A lot of projects took a stance on Russia-Ukraine [1], GitHub blocked the entirety of Iran [2] and I don't doubt that codebases now take a stance on Gaza-Israel.

The top-middle says "NAZI HACKERS FUCK OFF" [3]. They likely mean a new definition of "Nazi", and that could include you. Why point out this sticker particularly? Because it is directly aggressive towards a hacker they perceive to hold that label, and that they have labelled that group with one of the worst possible labels. By doing so, they can justify pretty much any level of aggression through the use of dehumanisation (ironically, a method employed by the Nazis).

The Python Software Foundation refused $1.5mn in funding [5] because they could not agree to be non-political. They would not agree to act without favour. Maybe today this doesn't concern you, but look more closely at the stickers of the people that have infiltrated these institutions. Do you think that you will indefinitely remain on the "good side"?

The Linux Kernel's previous Code of Conflict [6] was quite a rational approach, it was a market place of ideas (contributions) where they did battle. There was no barrier to entry and everybody would be critiqued equally, in the single objective of creating the best possible kernel. Diff this with the current Code of Conduct [7] where there is a barrier to entry, and the focus is on the feelings of the people and not on the quality of the kernel.

We should keep politics out of code entirely, and the quality of the code should speak for itself.

[1] https://github.com/petrussola/help-ukraine-open-source

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/ci6ydi/github_banned_a...

[3] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_4529-2.jpe...

[5] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/python-reject...

[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/635999/

[7] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/code-of-condu...
by j1elo | 2025-11-12 15:23:34+00:00
You're not viewing the past with rose colored glasses. You're just viewing the past. We had simpler codecs with simpler computational complexities. Holding Shift and selecting a chunk of a video to copy was simple because videos were mostly a succession of independently compressed frames. Nowadays, we have forward- and backward- dependant frames, scene detection, and lots of other very advanced compression techniques.

There are whole projects striving to provide a reliable way to just cut videos without having to recode [1] and after years the results are mixed and only working for very specific codecs; no wonder Apple decided that doing the same, to their quality standards of the time, was not worth the effort or a secondary feature that was not in scope.

[1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-12 15:23:52+00:00
That wasn’t an HP product. It was written by Insignia Solutions and ran on multiple platforms.

I had it on my Mac LCII in 1992. It barely ran well enough to run older DOS IDEs for college. Later I bought an accelerator (40Mhz 68030) and it ran better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftPC
by ahepp | 2025-11-12 15:24:18+00:00
In their own words:

> Our mission is to make the discovery and exploitation of security vulnerabilities more difficult, and to significantly improve the safety and security of the Internet for everyone.

> We perform vulnerability research on popular software like mobile operating systems, web browsers, and open source libraries. We use the results from this research to patch serious security vulnerabilities, to improve our understanding of how exploit-based attacks work, and to drive long-term structural improvements to security.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-12 15:24:19+00:00
>your data belongs to you

…”as does any culpability for poisoning yourself, suicide, and anything else we clearly enabled but don’t want to be blamed for!”

Edit: honestly I’m surprised I left out the bit where they just indiscriminately scraped everything they could online to train these models. The stones to go “your data belongs to you” as they clearly feel entitled to our data is unbelievably absurd
by CharlieDigital | 2025-11-12 15:24:22+00:00
As much as I think C# at a platform level is a better tool for building backends, you'll get the better bang for the buck learning TypeScript if you don't already know TypeScript.

Then if you have the chance, you'll find C# an easy transition from TypeScript, IME. Learning C# first, on the other hand, will make you a better TS developer, in my opinion, because it will shape your approach to be more diligent about using types. This is something most JS/TS devs do very poorly and at scale, it's very hard to reason about code when it requires digging down several layers to find the actual types/shapes.

"Enterprise" frameworks like Nest.js are much more similar to ASP.NET or Spring Boot than they are to Express, Hono, or Elysia so once having experience with .NET Web APIs (or Spring Boot) will make Nest.js (for example) easier to pick up.
by mmh0000 | 2025-11-12 15:24:41+00:00
What you’re describing with QuickTime was a proprietary nightmare that didn’t even work correctly across Apple products, let alone Microsoft or Linux.

Today with modern tools like VLC or MPV and ffmpeg nearly anything can be viewed, streamed, or locally saved by your average user with basic Google search skills.

And the number of free and paid video editing tools as far beyond what we ever had in the past.

Then there’s the vast improvement in codecs. It’s quite insane that we can have a feature length - 4k video with 8 channel audio in a 3GiB file.

The only problem about the modern world is streaming companies who purposely degrade the experience for money. And the solution is simply to fly the pirate flag high.
by philipallstar | 2025-11-12 15:24:49+00:00
From the internet:

> J.R.R. Tolkien had a complex relationship with Francisco Franco, as he expressed some moral support for Franco's Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War, primarily due to concerns over the destruction of churches by Communists. However, Tolkien's views were not strictly political and were influenced by his personal connections and Catholic beliefs.

It is maybe considered right wing to not want to destroy churches, but so what? Who cares what the side is, when the point is he didn't like Communists destroying churches.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-12 15:24:49+00:00
Well, they clearly all know how to ride bikes, so you offer to hire them to deliver using company bikes as a day job. And let them ride whatever they want on weekends.

The "force everyone to ride it" on the weekend part is where I think the analogy has broken down irreparably. We're talking about cost of ownership of company equipment used during working hours for much more defined tasks. What flavour of bike you enjoy riding on weekends is not relevant.

Programming language are inherently flexible, especially those that aim to be "general purpose". Fine-grained distinction of road bike vs mountain bike apply more to the apps created than the coding tool.
by paxcoder | 2025-11-12 15:25:42+00:00
I can confirm that (several years ago at least) free PDF libraries were lacking, and Telerik was always non-free.

However, aren't Moq, Avalonia and MassTransit free software?

As for Automapper and MediatR, their owner changed from a free software license to only an open source one (Reciprocal Public License), but these are probably the simplest libraries of the ones you mentioned and have either been forked (MagicMapper) or have alternatives.
by glenstein | 2025-11-12 15:26:06+00:00
By the same token, why isn't NYT proposing something like that rather than the world's largest random sampling?

You don't have to think that OpenAI is good to think there's a legitimate issue over exposing data to a third party for discovery. One could see the Times discovering something in private conversations outside the scope of the case, but through their own interpretation of journalistic necessity, believe it's something they're obligated to publish.

Part of OpenAI holding up their side of the bargain on user data, to the extent they do, is that they don't roll over like a beaten dog to accommodate unconditional discovery requests.