MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-20 23:40:50+00:00
Here's an example:

Let's say that there are just two possible paths for an authorized_keys file (P1 and P2).

The choices are:

1. Check P1, if it doesn't exist use P2

2. Check P2, if it doesn't exist use P1

3. Merge the contents of P1 and P2 somehow

You need to remove authorization for a key (or certificate); you confirm it has been removed from P1. In both cases #2 and #3 above, you may have failed to actually remove authorization!

Obviously if there are more than 2 possible paths, things get even worse. Also, if you follow XDG to the letter (where things can be redirected by environment variables), there are even more confounding issues, because the environment that sshd sees could be different from the environment that the user sees.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-11-20 23:41:05+00:00
I view social media through this lens now.

https://youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0?si=Jwtky2w0j41u4zLP

It's less that we are in echo chambers and more of being completly flooded with too many opinions.

Avacados == liberal Steaks == conservative

The point I take is that the only way to prevent this is decrease the amount of information you recieve not increase. If you constantly read extreme opinions everywhere your brain cannot process it and therefore starts dropping everything into really big buckets. The more sides you read the bigger your buckets becomes.

Sure you're less informed but I don't think humans were designed to grok the entire world's information either.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-20 23:41:53+00:00
There are objective criteria that macOS definitely fails at. Various government agencies here in the states can't use macs even if they wanted to due to lack of #a11y support or the ability to load their own root cert stores.

I agree with you that for MOST people, MOST of the complaints boil down to "I just don't like the Mac UX," but there are organizations that cannot tolerate the risk of forcing employees to use equipment that doesn't follow even the basics of section 508 or DoD guidance.
by boxedemp | 2025-11-20 23:42:35+00:00
I'm actually impressed with windows 11. I've been using win since 3.11. 95, 98, 98se, 2000, XP (the dream), 7, and 10.

And finally after a lifetime of windows, 11 finally got me to switch my desktop OS to Ubuntu!

So 11 achieved something for me that no other Win release could: get me to abandon Microsoft OSs. Though, I admit to having a W10 VM instance with GPU passthrough.
by anthk | 2025-11-20 23:42:58+00:00
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, but just for a few. Remember the French goverment banning encryption in the 90's. The French elite hates science and math because it was modernly developed by the Brits, and they love to put Arts/Humanities bullshitters like Derrida on top as if they mattered something over Francis Bacon and Newton. Just watch any TF1 talk show and you'll understand what I mean. Or, well, any state supported Homeopathy based "pills" (which is mostly snake oil being sold as sugar). Or the Sokal affair...

I can go on and on...
by user34283 | 2025-11-20 23:43:02+00:00
The visual quality of photorealistic images generated in the Gemini app seems terrible.

Like really ugly. The 1K output resolution isn't great, but on top of that it looks like a heavily compressed JPEG even at 100% viewing size.

Does AI Studio have the same issue? There at least I can see 2K and 4K output options.
by bloppe | 2025-11-20 23:43:25+00:00
Unnecessarily is the key word here. Sometimes, although admittedly rarely, the benefits do outweigh the costs, and it is necessary.

The problem is that if you grow your monolith to the point that it becomes necessary to split it up, now you generally have a long, expensive and error-prone migration on your hands. If you architect you system with this eventual transition in mind from the start, though, it can be much less painful.
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-20 23:43:35+00:00
I don't know what you mean by replace fiat currency, exactly, but that wasn't the post I was replying to. parent post eluded to BTC's famously extremely low throughput rate. All I was saying is that this low throughput is not a feature of crypto, it's a feature of the very bad design of Bitcoin that was never improved. This is to be expected- BTC was a basically brand new thing and nobody expected that it would ever be in a position that it needed to provide visa-level throughput.

It's problem is that the Bitcoin development community is allergic to improvement in a way that, for example, Ethereum is not. Ethereum never would have existed if the BTC community was open to developing the protocol.

RE: Other crypto with proper consensus mechanisms that have better throughput: ETH's L2 ecosystem is reasonably fast - something like 19000 TPS sustained was achieved recently, with an average around 10000 TPS and an instantaneous peak of around 24000. This is just an organic number - it certainly could go much higher, there just isn't demand for those transactions right now. It's hard to say how fast it could go.

RE: your last point, Solana is junk - it abandons proper consensus mechanism in favor of throughput. It's subject to all the same problems that delegated POS systems have because that's what it is.
by nicole_express | 2025-11-20 23:43:52+00:00
Engine pylons are actually usually designed to fail in a particular way to ensure the separation happens as safely as possible; obviously that didn't happen here, which will probably be something the NTSB will have to investigate why.

The up and over is usually actually the safer direction I think? But in this case it also moved laterally, which is possibly what fouled the tail engine and made it unrecoverable. Will be interesting to see the final report.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-11-20 23:44:10+00:00
It seems like it could be possible now with a bit of work. I don't think that it would require AGI. Didn't AMD have (or fund) something like this and then decide not to pursue it further recently? It was called HIP. There's also ZLUDA https://www.blopig.com/blog/2024/03/an-open-source-cuda-for-...
by sroerick | 2025-11-20 23:44:14+00:00
> What is a pure transformation.

I don't know! Can you explain it, or how I would use it for this application?

> And the reason people are not willing can be because developers don't choose their tools through rational evaluation, or may be some irrational one IDK.

I think "do the tools exist in the world" is a pretty rational evaluation. I'd love to see the FP equivalent!
by cratermoon | 2025-11-20 23:44:16+00:00
The first flight of the Saturn V was 'all up'. Every stage was the real live thing. No dummy stages, real payload.

The third flight of the Saturn V took 3 astronauts in their spacecraft to lunar orbit and back.

https://appel.nasa.gov/2010/02/25/ao_1-7_f_snapshot-html/
by mapotofu | 2025-11-20 23:44:37+00:00
Anecdotes are anecdotes, but my experience mirrors the above poster except the timelines and platform. I feel like I got vortexed into YouTube shorts in a way that I haven’t ever felt anything close to except maybe the early days of stumbleupon. A very addictive rush hitting all the right synapses. I’d probably watch 2 or more hours a night and I doubt that’s even an honest account. Some furniture refinishing projects thankfully pulled me away long enough to break the cycle.

It was a very addictive sensation. I believe other accounts that mirror this and see them as non-hyperbolic having experienced it myself.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-20 23:44:49+00:00
I contribute quite a lot to OSM. My point was that the routing for bikes is bad. The routes are avoiding lots of bike lanes and miss completely oarks and forests.

They are reachable by bikes on the map because of your add a stop they will bring you there, then back, even if the obvious route through the forest or park is better
by vidarh | 2025-11-20 23:45:41+00:00
> People occasionally have novel creative insights that do not derive from past experience or knowledge, and that is what I think of when I think of creativity.

If they are not derived from past experience or knowledge, then unless humans exceed the Turing computable, they would need to be the result of randomness in one form or other. There's absolutely no reason why an LLM can not do that. The only reason a far "dumber" pure random number generator based string generator "can't" do that is because it would take too long to chance on something coherent, but it most certainly would keep spitting out novel things. The only difference is how coherent the novel things are.
by moron4hire | 2025-11-20 23:46:33+00:00
The big problem I see now is that, when this bubble pops, there won't be any blood in the streets for the executive class. We truly live in a two class system where people like Nadela, Musk, Theil, and Altman and the slew of their enablers will never see any personal consequences for the havoc they have worked.
by h2zizzle | 2025-11-20 23:46:50+00:00
I was going to say, "furry porn," but then I realized that you're essentially just looking at the modern version of a pagan animal worship cult (of personality?) with some of those artists. You'd be surprised what gooners would do to appease their favorite werewolf coitus provider.

...PBS? Sesame Street has only ever been a boon to the common kid.
by neilv | 2025-11-20 23:46:58+00:00
> > I am preparing an article on the use of your secure personal data phone solution by drug traffickers and other criminals.

I think GrapheneOS needs a really good PR expert volunteer, or funding to pay for a non-volunteer.

My non-PR-expert guesses are... If the journalist is in bad faith or flaky, that might need to be handled. But if the journalist is in good faith, this might be an opportunity, to promote GrapheneOS and/or to start to head off adverse gov't actions there.

(GrapheneOS does some great technical work, and has given me what seems to be a more respectful and trustworthy smartphone than I could get from Apple or Google. Right now, I'd think many countries in Europe and elsewhere should be looking at something like GrapheneOS as a possible interim measure on their way to greater digital sovereignty. I understand that the French people especially value liberty.)
by simonw | 2025-11-20 23:47:38+00:00
I have a couple of 25MB PNG 4K images from AI Studio here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QV3pcW1KfbTRQscavNh6ld9PyqG...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18AzhM-BUZAfLGoHWl6MQW_UW9ju...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-20 23:48:28+00:00
>The big change here is that it’s hitting so many industries at once, but that already happened with the personal computer.

The PC was pre-NAFTA, and since then we've had at least 3 waves of tech trying to outsource tech jobs (let alone actually impacted jobs like manufacturing) to cut costs. We're now on the current wave.

More stuff can be made... just not in the US.
by phonon | 2025-11-20 23:48:33+00:00
Are you sure this was the Federal tax portal, and not the Delaware Franchise tax? As far as I know, only the latter defaults to a "scary" tax calculation based on number of shares (but you can easily switch it to the Assumed Par Value Capital Method based calculation, which would be $400 in total for you, assuming you filed on time). Federal taxes should be $0 if you had no profits.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-20 23:48:52+00:00
It's not about the "populace" doing anything at scale.

It's about making abusing people under color of law come with a fairly significant chance that there will eventually be a body that was formerly on government payroll that needs to be explained away thereby making such activity much less lucrative.

>Gun rights have done nothing positive for America.

Despite being 13% of the population black men have been rounded up 0% of the time. There's two ethnic groups that can't say that, well, three depending on how you count.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-11-20 23:49:47+00:00
How did Microsoft get to own it in the first place? And the original MDL version of Zork has been around forever. I wonder if Microsoft has any of the other Infocom games and might release them too.

And, "A game that changed how we think about play"? Um, that was ADVENTURE. Zork was arguably better, but it was in the same vein, and later.
by ricardobeat | 2025-11-20 23:50:27+00:00
Waayy back in 2009 we had Bump [1], which allowed transfer between devices and later web apps as well – by banging your phone against the spacebar. It worked 98% of the time and was faster than AirDrop is today, even though we only had 3G.

Google acquired it and immediately killed it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(application)
by metadope | 2025-11-20 23:51:13+00:00
The honourable thing?

More importantly this is the smart choice, the only thing, to do: Shake the dust from your sandals, walk away, don't look back.

This is the ongoing horror of the overbearing state, which wants to rule efficiently by knowing everything that everybody is doing all the time. Those who focus on and value law enforcement before freedom.
by newfriend | 2025-11-20 23:51:48+00:00
Illegal aliens operate outside of minimum wage laws obviously.

Yes that is one of the things that bill would have done, along with hundreds of other things which may or may not have been beneficial or detrimental.

And again, Trump didn't kill anything. He was not in office. There were many criticisms of that bill on its merits. The criticisms are on record as you said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

> In this video, several Republican Senators express their blunt dismissal of the so-called "bipartisan" border security bill, highlighting their reasons for opposition and their dissatisfaction with the negotiation process and their leadership.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-20 23:52:24+00:00
TIL about this eerily similar DC-10 crash in 2011:

Shortly after liftoff, 20 feet (6.1 m) above and 7,000 feet (2,100 m) down the runway, the No. 2 engine separated from the wing and struck the No. 1 engine's inlet cowling, causing it to produce drag and reduced thrust. Even with full right aileron and rudder, the plane started to descend and drift to the left. The captain lowered the nose and leveled the wings, which was followed by the plane making multiple contacts with the runway. After touchdown, the plane drifted left and departed the runway, crossing a taxiway before coming to rest in a saltwater marsh. A fire erupted which consumed the top of the cabin and the cockpit. All three crew members survived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Aerial_Refueling_Service...

Obviously the DC-10 is not the MD-11, but the MD-11 is a direct descendant, including the trijet configuration.
by astrange | 2025-11-20 23:52:24+00:00
> Edit: to clarify further as to what I want to know: people have been telling me that LLMs cannot solve problems that is not in their training data already. Is this really true or not?

That is not true and those people are dumb. You may be on Bluesky too much.

If your training data is a bunch of integer additions and you lossily compress this into a model which rediscovers integer addition, it can now add other numbers. Was that in the training data?
by archipelago123 | 2025-11-20 23:53:09+00:00
The fact that nobody cared to optimize kernels for these hardware platforms proves Nvidia's CUDA moat, especially now that squeezing performance has become so important for serving inference. Hardware ISA is broken => nobody knows how to program the hardware => unoptimized kernels => nobody will use your hardware. Also, bad baselines present opportunities for LLMs to optimize for. Indeed, the kernel that achieved a 17X speedup seems to be a conv1d, which AWS could not care less about optimizing.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-20 23:53:10+00:00
Popular in:

2021 (152 points, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012307

2019 (105 points, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20798639

2016 (208 points, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211913

.. title: GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer
by rmunn | 2025-11-20 23:53:32+00:00
That's UTF-16, though, which is basically the only place where byte-order marks are actually useful. (It was arguably the thing they were designed for, being able to tell whether you have little-endian or big-endian UTF-16. I've never encountered UTF-16BE personally so I can't easily tell how widespread it is, but I suspect that while its use is rare, it's unfortunately not zero so you still need to know what byte order you have when encountering UTF-16.

Though that would have been a far worse problem a decade ago. Thankfully, these days any random document you encounter on the Web is 99% likely to be UTF-8, so the correct heuristic these days is "if you don't know the encoding, try decoding with UTF-8 first. If that fails, try a different encoding." Decoding UTF-8 is practically guaranteed to fail on a document that wasn't actually UTF-8, so trying UTF-8 first is a very safe bet. (Though there's one failure mode: ASCII encoded as UTF-16. So you might also try a heuristic that says "if the UTF-8 parses successfully but has a null byte every other character in the first 256 bytes, then try reparsing the document as UTF-16").

I'm rambling and getting off my point. The point is, I don't find BOMs in UTF-16 documents to be a problem, because UTF-16 actually needs them. (Well, probably needs them). UTF-8 doesn't need them at all.
by gishh | 2025-11-20 23:53:58+00:00
A hallucination isn’t a creative new idea, it’s blatantly wrong information, provably.

If an LLM had actual intellectual ability it could tell “us” how we can improve models. They can’t. They’re literally defined by their token count and they use statistics to generate token chains.

They’re as creative as the most statistically relevant token chains they’ve been trained on by _people_ who actually used intelligence to type words on a keyboard.
by astrange | 2025-11-20 23:54:00+00:00
> This is entirely different from saying it can only reproduce samples which it was trained on. It is not a memory machine that is surgically piecing together snippets of memorized samples. (That would be a mind bogglingly impressive machine!)

You could create one of those using both a Markov chain and an LLM.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17377
by lifthrasiir | 2025-11-20 23:57:49+00:00
That was a big problem when I was toying around the original Nano Banana. I always prompted the perspective of the (imaginary) camera, and yet NB often interpreted that as that of the target, giving no way to select the opposite side. Since the selected side is generally closer to the camera, my usual workaround is to force the side far from the camera. And yet that was not perfect.
by joemi | 2025-11-20 23:58:02+00:00
Wouldn't 0402 be 4x larger (if comparing lengths) or 16x larger (if comparing areas), not 2.5x?

Edit: Nevermind, I was wrong. I see now that the sizes don't actually directly correspond to the number codes! 01005 is 0.4mm x 0.2mm and 0402 is 1mm x 0.5mm. That's annoyingly confusing, IMO.
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-20 23:58:11+00:00
The point is that there isn't a large amount of Americans that are willing to work for minimum wage, because we got used to a standard of living. You aren't going to force people to go to work for minimum wage in positions that are usually taken up by immigrants, because those people already have higher paying jobs - the unemployment (at least pre 2025) was like at an all time low.

For economy to be healthy, money has to exchange hands. The more you do this, the better the economy gets. This is why US was so far ahead of other countries because we had way less restrictions on this.

And being welcoming to people at all income levels is necessarily a part of this, because at the end of the day, even the fanciest car requires low skilled labor to builds roads for.
by jsr0 | 2025-11-20 23:58:13+00:00
The failure of the pylon appears to be different. On AA 191, the pylon rear bulkhead cracked and came apart. In the case of UPS flight 2976, the pylon rear bulkhead looks to be in one piece, but the mounting lugs at the top of the rear bulkhead cracked.

Admiral Cloudberg has a great article on AA 191 that covers exactly what happened: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/rain-of-fire-falling-the...
by saithound | 2025-11-20 23:58:52+00:00
A Markov chain [1] is a discrete-time stochastic process, in which the value of each variable depends only on the value of the immediately preceding variable, and not any variables in the past.

LLMs are most definitely (discrete-time) Markov chains in this sense: the variables take their values in the context vectors, and the distribution of the new context window depends only on what was sampled previously context.

A Markov chain is a Markov chain, no matter how you implement it in a computer, whether as a lookup table, or an ordinary C function, or a one-layer neural net or a transformer.

LLMs and Markov text generators are technically both Markov chains, so some of the same math applies to both. But that's where the similarities end: e.g. the state space of an LLM is a context window, whereas the state space of a Markov text generator is usually an N-tuple of words.

And since the question here is how tiny LLMs differ from Markov text generators, the differences certainly matter here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-time_Markov_chain
by tptacek | 2025-11-21 00:00:00+00:00
Got a case cite on this?

I'm doing ["border search" "miles" site:uscourts.gov], getting cases --- recent cases, including some with cites to Ameida-Sanchez, which of course makes my point --- and not seeing much to suggest that CBP can randomly search random cars in Green Bay WI under the border search exemption.
by santiagobasulto | 2025-11-21 00:00:02+00:00
What! I never said any of that. Never mentioned that people along the nile are "not real africans" and what skin color has to do with it? I just pointed out that the Kush kingdom is NOT sub saharan africa. Why did I point it out? Because of the argument above. The most advanced ancient civilizations were in northern Africa and Mesopotamia. Jeez, Idk why I'm even replying to this comment.
by michaelt | 2025-11-21 00:00:56+00:00
Given that you've said 'workstation', if you've got a spare $5000, a Threadripper Pro comes with 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes.

This means you can get a motherboard like the "Asus Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE" which dedicates 104 lanes to seven PCIe slots and 16 lanes to four M.2 slots.

For more like $3000 you can get a non-Pro Threadripper; the "Asus Pro WS TRX50-SAGE" has a more restrained 48 PCIe 5.0 and 32 PCIe 4.0 lanes, meaning the board's five PCIe slots and three M.2 slots have a mixture of speeds and lanes.

The rest of the market seems to think you just want to plug in one huge four-slot GPU and perhaps one other card.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-21 00:01:03+00:00
Hoarding not as the act of accumulating such absurd wealth (they do that through exploitation), but hoarding in the sense of refusing to spend down, divest, or otherwise cease further acquisition despite the harms created or perpetuated in doing so.

You cannot look me in the eyes and keep a straight face while saying their megayachts, private jets, palatial estates, private islands, and state capture are completely ego-less. To willfully retain or grow such wealth is to have a gluttonous, insatiable ego.
by tedd4u | 2025-11-21 00:01:27+00:00
People also hate how _slowly_ Python moves and complained forever about that. They also complained forever during the many years of 5.x PHP releases that PHP was moving too slow. It was only after Facebook forked first the runtime (HHVM) and the language (Hacklang) and showed how fast and advanced PHP could be made that the PHP team started accelerating. Which I think has been a boon to the community. This is all given away for free as open-source after all.