MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alfonsodev | 2025-11-18 13:12:50+00:00
The difference between manipulation and influence is that on the first one you are the only one taking advantage of the situation, and the second one you genuinely believe the other person will end in a better place and if you are wrong no harm is done.

I guess is also about if you care about the other person or you are just pretending, unfortunately in my opinion there is no way to know, because some people are really good at pretending to care, and even supporting you with a hidden score tracking board, basically they are investing.

And then there are people that really care about you and because they know they can't do anything or don't know what to say, they won't reach to you.

I guess we are only left with our instinct and that is something that you learn to calibrate with time.
by xscott | 2025-11-18 13:12:58+00:00
Hours aren't SI/metric. That factor of 3600 makes any conversion to acceleration more ugly than it should be (rounding a curve for instance). Nearly as bad as 5280 in my opinion. And really, 30 meters/second would be a nice human readable number.

Even in science though, the pros are happy to switch to electron volts or units where the speed of light and years are both 1.
by alexpotato | 2025-11-18 13:13:19+00:00
I liked this post for three reasons:

1. Smart person faces problem, observes what's going on, thinks about it and finds solution

I mention this b/c a lot of folks feel like "I'm me and I know something is wrong in what I'm doing but I don't know what" and stop there.

But a lot of life is just learning new skills. That can be from books, videos, friends, or just opening your eyes and seeing what other people are doing and then modeling that behavior.

2. The pieces you need are already in you

I used to be TERRIBLE at dating. e.g. I would go on dates with smart, funny and attractive women (mostly met online). The date would start out great and then something would happen halfway through and I could tell the energy went away. It go so bad that I almost wanted friends to sit near me and then point out what I was doing wrong.

After reading some dating books, I realized what it was:

There were a LOT of women in my extended family (mostly female cousins, strong personality outgoing aunts etc). I though "dating" == "hanging out with women like my family". The books pointed out that "dating" is has a large component of "playful teasing, being cocky funny".

I already knew how to do that but didn't realize it applied to dating!

3. Work with what you have

Some other commenters have pointed out that some of what he mentions is "being fake" or "being someone else"

I make this analogy:

- You are a certain height

- That is tough to change

- BUT you can work out, get a haircut, get dental work etc

- aka there are MANY small things you can do to improve your physical appearance even if you can't change your height.

The same is true of personality: you have a core set of values and beliefs. That being said, you choose which stories you tell, how you tell them, when to let the other person speak instead of you speaking for longer etc.
by neop1x | 2025-11-18 13:13:38+00:00
We? I am not using it. I never used it and I will not use it. People should learn how to work with firewall, setup a simple ModSecurity WAF and stop using this bullshit. Almost everything goes through cloudflare and cloudflare also does TLS fronting for websites so basically cloudflare is MITM spying proxy but no one seem to care. :/
by myrmidon | 2025-11-18 13:13:52+00:00
Kassel is under 200k people, with ~100 raccoons/km² though!

Curiously, that raccoon population was established legally and intentionally in the 30s to bolster local fur production; later efforts to eradiacte the animals (for being pests from an agriculture perspective) have been given up.

Damage to local ecosystems seems fortunately pretty limited, even though the raccoons are highly successful and spreading.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-18 13:14:00+00:00
I'd guess this is due to some Paypal fraud protection thing thinking that Linux on M1 is an "impossible" configuration to have and that anyone with that configuration must be spoofing their hardware.

If you click onto the bug she filed, it's also kind of sad/funny that the Mozilla employee responding to it ALSO assumes that nobody can actually run Linux on M1 and renames the bug to "paypal.com - Spoofing as Apple M GPU breaks the login process by triggering a block to the security challenge".

It's a shame because Asahi runs really well on M1 & M2. I hope that they're able to get this resolved and that other issues like this don't pop up in the future.
by lukan | 2025-11-18 13:15:46+00:00
Depends. The more the owners use their bots, or let others use their botnets, the more attention there is to them and the less useful the botnet is (either blacklisted IPs or owners noticing).

And a little bit of malicious bandwidth is easy to hide, a lot not. So there is a price to bandwith to the criminal owner.
by hasbot | 2025-11-18 13:15:58+00:00
I skimmed the article and one of the things that occurred to me is that it was lucky that they worked as a busboy for a bit. Lucky in the sense that there was plenty of opportunity to try various social approaches on the many people they encountered each day. Most of us only interact with a few people in total each week and don't get any encounter resets. I remember a few years ago living in a small town and dreading being invited to the rare party. I'd met everyone, had a brief encounter, and neither they nor I had any desire to further the interaction.
by Atreiden | 2025-11-18 13:16:06+00:00
Nobody is claiming owning your residence is a basic right. We're talking about long term goals that you spend your professional life (read also: youth) working diligently towards.

If the average person/family cannot work hard, save, and purchase their own safe, comfortable, living accommodations, the implication is that the landowning class will forever co-opt an increasing percentage of the economic surplus for one of the most essential goods - shelter. There is only so much adequately zoned land, and so much housing on that land. Populations, and increasing, and therefore so is demand.

You are absolutely welcome to forego property ownership if you like. There are many benefits in terms of flexibility (e.g. ability to quickly move somewhere else). But this is typically not an economically advantageous move in the long term if you're staying rooted in one place. And having dealt with toxic, abusive landlords, there is an understated element of psychological safety to ownership.

We're not just talking about big cities. We're talking about suburbs too, and even more "rural" areas that are still within a few hours of a city. Essentially where 90+% of the population actually lives.

This is not a first-world-tech-bro complaint. It is a genuine economic problem for us that affects the vast majority of people who live here, and therefore the country as-a-whole.

People would not have voted for a moronic despot had he not been promising what they've all been asking for - a radical reshaping of the system that hasn't been working for the vast majority. People cannot afford the American dream that they were promised, and they are angry about it.
by asim | 2025-11-18 13:16:22+00:00
DigitalOcean + Gandi means nothing I run is down. Amazing. We depend far too greatly on centralised services where we deem the value of reputation and convenience exceeds the potential downsides and then the world pays for it. I think we have to feel a lot more of this pain before regulation kicks in to change things because the reality is people don't change. The only thing you can personally do is run a lot of your own stuff for things you can.
by gilbetron | 2025-11-18 13:16:48+00:00
I've found an anecdotal correlation that the (relatively few) people that have moralized at me about returning shopping carts also tend to dislike self-checkout at the same stores. I guess it is immoral to have someone return your cart, but moral to have someone scan your groceries? I generally don't return my cart, but I mostly self-checkout. I'm pure evil apparently.
by Gerardo1 | 2025-11-18 13:16:49+00:00
If you re--calibrate from any lofty idea of their motives to "get investor money now", this and other moves/announcements make more sense: anything that could look good to an investor.

User count going up? Sure.

New browser that will deeply integrate chatGPT into users lives and give OAI access to their browsing/shopping data? Sure

Several new hardware products that are totally coming in the next several months? Sure

We're totally going to start delivering ads? Sure

We're making commitments to all these compute providers because our growth is totally going to warrant it? Sure

Oh, since we're investing in all of that compute, we're also going to become a compute vendor! Sure

None of it is particularly intentional, strategic, or sound. OAI is a money pit, they can always see the end of the runway, and must secure funding now. That is their perpetual state.
by estebarb | 2025-11-18 13:16:51+00:00
The criticisms are not strawmans, are actually well grounded on math. For instance, promoting energy based models.

In a probability distribution model, the model is always forced to output a probability for a set of tokens, even if all the states are non sense. In an energy based model, the model can infer that a states makes no sense at all and can backtrack by itself.

Notice that diffusion models, DINO and other successful models are energy based models, or end up being good proxies of the data density (density is a proxy of entropy ~ information).

Finally, all probability models can be thought as energy based, but not all EBM output probabilities distributions.

So, his argument is not against transformers or the architectures themselves, but more about the learned geometry.
by trollbridge | 2025-11-18 13:17:32+00:00
Somehow KiwiFarms figured it out with their own "KiwiFlare" DDOS mitigation. Unfortunately, all of the other Cloudflare-like services seem exceptionally shady, will be less reliable than Cloudflare, and probably share data with foreign intelligence services I have even less trust for than the ones Cloudflare possibly shares them with.
by philipallstar | 2025-11-18 13:17:59+00:00
Your definition of their product is different to theirs. They're selling a pretty sealed, you-get-what-you-get product. You want a hackable personal computer.

A bit like how you buy a can of Coke and you can't add your own sugar. It just comes with sugar, unless you buy a different product from Coke, which is a fixed choice of sweetener. Saying "other products let you choose whether or not to add that sugar or sweetener" to me doesn't mean that Coke need to change anything.
by mrcnkoba | 2025-11-18 13:18:38+00:00
For anyone reading this who desperately needs their website up, you can try this: If you manage to get to your Cloudflare DNS settings and disable the "Proxy status (Proxied)" feature (the orange cloud), it should start working again.

Be aware that this change has a few immediate implications:

- SSL/TLS: You will likely lose your Cloudflare-provided SSL certificate. Your site will only work if your origin server has its own valid certificate.

- Security & Performance: You will lose the performance benefits (caching, minification, global edge network) and security protections (DDoS mitigation, WAF) that Cloudflare provides.
by kragen | 2025-11-18 13:18:41+00:00
I've been excited about STMs since I read "Composable Memory Transactions" back in 02005, shortly before it was published, and I still believe in the glorious transactional future, but it's difficult to adopt an STM piecemeal; it kind of wants to own your entire program, the same way that garbage collection or nonblocking I/O do, and more so than multithreading with locks. You kind of have to commit entirely to an STM. The efforts in C# to adopt an STM ending around 02010 were a disaster as a result.

The article says a couple of things about STMs that are not true of STMs in general, just true of the Haskell STM the author is familiar with, like a small Brazilian child confidently telling you that almost everyone speaks Portuguese.

One of these is, "STM is an optimistic concurrency system." The possibility of making your concurrency 100% lock-free is one of the most appealing things about STMs, and I think it could be a key to solving the UI latency problem, which just keeps getting worse and worse. Actors and CSP don't normally help here; an Actor is just as "blocking" as a lock. But you can implement an STM with partly pessimistic concurrency, or purely pessimistic, and it might even be a good idea.

Another is, "One last benefit of STM which we haven't yet discussed is that it supports intelligent transaction retries based on conditions of the synchronized data itself." This was an innovation introduced by "Composable Memory Transactions", and many STMs do not support it, including Keir Fraser's awesomely fast version. I am even less certain that it is the correct tradeoff for all uses than I am about purely optimistic synchronization.

But all of this is why I'm rereading Gray and Reuter's Transaction Processing right now after 25 years. With the benefit of 35 years of hindsight, it's a frustrating mix of inspiring long-range vision and myopic boneheadedness. But it shares a lot of hard-won wisdom about problems like long transactions that pop up in a new guise in STMs.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-11-18 13:19:07+00:00
She also urged Google to take more responsibility over its AI products and their accuracy

Not really possible when the technology is built around probability.

It is simply *not* deterministic. The results are based on a roll of the dice. They lack consistency.

Ask the same question in a slightly different way or at different time and get a different answer. And not just different wording but also different meaning.

Would you store food in a refrigerator that might *not* keep it from spoiling? Marketing such a product would create a liability issue --- and I expect the same for AI.

The fact that we're investing $ trillions in such a product will not end well.
by doikor | 2025-11-18 13:19:34+00:00
> What keeps me from running my blog from home?

Depending on the contract it might not be allowed to run public network services from your home network.

I had a friend doing that and once his site got popular the ISP called (or sent a letter? don't remember anymore) with "take this 10x more expensive corporate contract or we will block all this traffic".

In general why the ISPs don't want you to do that (in addition to way more expensive corporate rates) is the risk of someone DDoS that site which could cause issues to large parts of their domestic customers (and depending on the country be liable to compensate those customers for not providing a service they paid for)
by eesmith | 2025-11-18 13:20:38+00:00
One of today's entries from that site is "Wario Kart", at https://notalwaysright.com/wario-kart/398386/

A customer returns two abandoned carts. Another customer assumes the first is an employee. After learning the truth, “Stupid woke b****! Why are you trying to confuse people!”

There's all sorts of stories on that site from people who make a mess. Some think it's actually a good thing to do, like https://notalwaysright.com/food-trash-for-thought/344130/ :

> One of the friends of a friend suddenly empties the car’s ashtray and garbage onto the parking lot floor.

> Me: “Hey! Pick that back up!”

> Guy: “Nah, they pay people to do that; I’m doing them a favor.”

In that story there is a mild bit of rebuke, but it's clear that's not the first time that guy did that.

Sometimes it's power tripping, like https://notalwaysright.com/if-you-act-like-trash-you-become-...

> Like most fast food places, there are several trash cans conveniently placed with counters attached, so people can clean up their own messes.

> There are always those special folks, though, who leave their trash on the table for the employees to clean up. Usually, it’s just trash, but there is this group of four young guys who always aim to outdo themselves.

It took exceptional circumstances for them to face consequences, in this case, losing a pair of expensive sunglasses. Again, it clearly wasn't the first time.

Or some just think that's the way things are, and pass on that belief to the next generation, like https://notalwaysright.com/mopportunity-knocks/398025/ "

> A mum and her young child are coming through my lane when the child spills a lot of juice all over the floor and part of my register. The mum, without hesitation, says to the child:

> Customer: “Don’t worry. It’s their job to tidy up.”

Again, there is rebuke

> My shoulders sink as I’m about to accept my fate, when my manager, who happened to be nearby, runs over with a wet mop (we keep one by the registers at all times just in case) and hands it to the mum.

> Manager: “Nope. Your monkey, your circus.”

> Customer: A bit discombobulated. “That… that’s not how it works!”

But the reason these stories make that web site is because rebuke is rare, and thus noteworthy, while showing that a lot of people - not just those who are wealthy or have really powerful connections - do this.
by nemomarx | 2025-11-18 13:20:45+00:00
I don't think the complaint is really the donations or the impact, rather it's that the community has issues?

Whether you agree that someone can put money into saving lives to make up for other moral faults or issues or so on is the core issue. And even from a utilitarian view we'd have to say that more of these donations happened than would have without the movement or with a different movement, which is difficult to measure. Consider the usaid thing - Elon musk may have wiped out most of the EA community gains by causing that defending, and was probably supported by the community in some sense. How to weigh in all these factors?
by DASD | 2025-11-18 13:20:53+00:00
Interesting(unnerving?) to see a number of domain registrars that offer their own DNS services utilize at least some kind of Cloudflare service for at least their own web fronts. Did a check on 6 registrar sites I currently interact with and half were down(Namecheap/Spaceship, Name, Dynadot) and up(Porkbun, Gandi, GoDaddy).
by masklinn | 2025-11-18 13:21:09+00:00
No. It’s not a property of the type so you can have multiple items under a mutex and you’re not at the mercy of whoever wrote it, it works fine with POD types, it does not force a lock / unlock on each method call (instead the compiler essentially ensures you hold the lock before you can access the data), and the borrow checker is there to ensure you can not leak any sort of sub-states, even though you can call all sorts of helpers which have no requirement to be aware of the locking.

It’s what synchronized classes wish they had been, maybe.
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-18 13:21:19+00:00
They're constantly matching and exceeding each other. It's a hypercompetitive space and I would fully expect one of the others to top various benchmarks shortly after. On pretty much every leading release someone does this "everyone else is done! Shut er down" thing and it's growing pretty weird.

Having said that, OpenAI's ridiculous hype cycle has been living on borrowed time. OpenAI has zero moat, and are just one vendor in a space with many vendors, and even incredibly competent open source models by surprise Chinese entrants. Sam Altman going around acting like he's a prophet and they're the gatekeepers of the future is an act that should be super old, but somehow fools and their money continue to be parted.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-11-18 13:21:21+00:00
On the subject of human comprehension of ten orders of magnitude:

Pretty often you have a hot path that looks like a matmul routine that does X FMAs, a physics step that takes Y matmuls, a simulation that takes Z physics steps, an optimizer that does K simulations. As a result, estimating performance across 10 orders of magnitude is just adding the logs of 4 numbers, which pretty well works out as “Count up the digits in XYZK, don’t get to 10” which is perfectly manageable to intuit
by weinzierl | 2025-11-18 13:21:43+00:00
So what would "I go skiing in December" mean in your opinion?

I read this as "I go skiing every December". Next December would be "I'm going skiing in December", last December "I went skiing in December".

When it comes to "were any mammoths still alive in December" the only logically sensible reading is "were any mammoths still alive in any December" to which the answer of course is "yes".
by dominicrose | 2025-11-18 13:21:44+00:00
Whenever Perl encounters a string literal in the code (especially one used as a hash key or a bareword), it often "interns" it. This means it stores a single, canonical, read-only copy of that string in a memory pool.

That's the core idea, and then Ruby has surface stuff like the symbol syntax and class. I'm pretty sure it's fine to use strings as hash keys though if you like.
by martinald | 2025-11-18 13:21:49+00:00
I thought that but it does do a lot better on other benchmarks.

Perhaps SWE bench just doesn't capture a lot of the improvement? If the web design improvements people have been posting on twitter, I suspect this will be a huge boon for developers. SWE benchmark is really testing bugfixing/feature dev more.

Anyway let's see. I'm still hyped!
by Gerardo1 | 2025-11-18 13:22:15+00:00
Because the first couple major iterations looked like exponential improvements, and, because VC/private money is stupid, they assumed the trend must continue on the same curve.

And because there's something in the human mind that has a very strong reaction to being talked to, and because LLMs are specifically good at mimicking plausible human speech patterns, chatGPT really, really hooked a lot of people (including said VC/private money people).
by Zigurd | 2025-11-18 13:22:24+00:00
The TPU are a key factor. They are the most mature alternative to Nvidia. Only Google cloud, Azure, and AWS enable you to rent their respective AI chips. Out of those three, google is the only one to have a frontier model. So if they have a real advantage they're not exposed to the financial shenanigans propping up neo clouds like Coreweave.
by Ygg2 | 2025-11-18 13:22:35+00:00
I meant it's not malicious compared to similar offerings. If anything, Microsoft has been extremely generous when it comes to support. Albeit not so much today (more on that later). It's a half-joke that the only stable ABI on Linux is Win32.

You can have Linux and waste your time, and then stuff updates and Linux breaks. You can have MacOS and lock yourself into a padded Mac themed cell, for five years, then you have to upgrade or stuff will stop working (I'm on Intel Mac, less and less stuff works each day).

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As for your question.

Short: Blame capitalism and its current setup.

Long: MSFT needs to beat the inflation; otherwise, it's falling behind. And because Windows is no longer growing, you can't really do anything other than rent extraction. It's reached saturation point, which means that money needs to be extracted in some other ways - via ads, via upselling (buy an Xbox 365 subscription), via selling data, etc.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-18 13:22:43+00:00
> I guess improvements will be incremental from here on out.

What do you mean? These coding leaderboards were at single digits about a year ago and are now in the seventies. These frontier models are arguably already better at the benchmark that any single human - it's unlikely that any particular human dev is knowledgeable to tackle the full range of diverse tasks even in the smaller SWE-Bench Verified within a reasonable time frame; to the best of my knowledge, no one has tried that.

Why should we expect this to be the limit? Once the frontier labs figure out how to train these fully with self-play (which shouldn't be that hard in this domain), I don't see any clear limit to the level they can reach.