MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Atlas667 | 2025-11-15 05:24:43+00:00
You are right, I just repeated it wrong, see my original comment. I do claim they established abstract expressionist art, but that is also beside the point. This art would have existed either way.

The wider claim is that they controlled the dissemination and narrative around art and the humanities in the US and around the world in order to inflate the opinion of the United States while promoting narratives about the Soviet Union that even the CIA knew were false, as stated by them in released memos.

This is the claim: that large sections of the art and humanities were funded and controlled by the CIA for propaganda purposes.
by rendaw | 2025-11-15 05:25:31+00:00
I agree the GP math is wrong.

But still, is this good? So 14 cases are referred to law enforcement. They catch 7 people doing really terrible things, and they also catch 7 who are innocent. The police are notorious for treating weak signals as strong and forging causes for suspicion, terrorizing suspects, getting them fired from their job, killing their pets, upending their lives, etc.

If you ruin as many lives as you save, will you sleep well at night? This is why a 50% false positive rate is terrible and privacy advocates are against this.

The consequences of a false positive for an eclipse when one is predicted is trivial, unless there's something about eclipses I don't know. Maybe there's some diffuse monetary loss across society.
by kqr | 2025-11-15 05:25:40+00:00
> xmonad is really really good. Especially how it handles workspaces on multiple monitors

This is the reaon I use XMonad, and I hate how this one design choice that only one window manager has gotten right is what locks me into X11. If anyone ever learns of a non-X11 window manager that handles workspaces on multiple monitors the XMonad way, contact me!
by troyvit | 2025-11-15 05:26:37+00:00
My god the cost right? It's so much less than any of the competition that just feeding off of an api key (for coding, yeah) works great.

But as you say the rest of it is good too. I use it for research and to me it does a great job, all for a fraction of the price and the carbon of the U.S. players.
by kazinator | 2025-11-15 05:27:27+00:00
That is not strictly true, because being able to transfer the style of Van Gogh onto an arbitrary photographic scene is novel in a sense, but it is interpolative.

Mashups are not purely derivative: the choice of what to mash up carries novelty: two (or more) representations are mashed together which hitherto have not been.

We cannot deny that something is new.
by mrkeen | 2025-11-15 05:27:45+00:00
I don't get this:

the entire Compaction needs to be wrapped in a mutex, and every callback needs to start with lock/unlock pair ... So explicit locking probably gravitates towards having just a single global lock around the entire state, which is acquired for the duration of any callback.

This is just dining philosophers.

When I compact, I take read locks on victims A and B while I use them to produce C. So callers can still query A and B during compaction. Once C is produced, I atomically add C and remove A and B, so no caller should see double or missing records.
by pahae | 2025-11-15 05:28:22+00:00
I agree. I think OP has made the mistake of using more than just Grafana for dashboards and perhaps user queries.

I operate a fairly large custom VictoriaMetrics-based Observability platform and have learned early on to only use Grafana as opposed to other Grafana products. Part of the stack used to use Mimir's frontend as caching layer but even that died with Mimir v3.0, now that it can't talk to generic Prometheus APIs anymore (vanilla Prom, VictoriaMetrics, promxy etc.). I went back to Cortex for caching.

Such a custom stack is obviously not for everyone and takes much more time, knowledge and effort to deploy than some helm chart but overall I'd say it did save me some headache. At least when compared to the Google-like deprecation culture Grafana seems to have.
by nostrebored | 2025-11-15 05:30:17+00:00
The topic modeling of every major vendor, mostly awful LDA implementations, is horrendous. On the order of +/-20% absolute percentage points per topic. It would make my life easier if it weren’t so shit. As is, in every customer we have to go in and do legitimate topic modeling and taxonimization.

Their AI implementations are also awful. Just sample 100 contacts with someone who actually understands the business and see their reaction.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-15 05:30:50+00:00
You would think so, but I’m not so sure. In Canada, during World War II, the federal government passed the law restricting municipal councils from their ability to prohibit people from renting out rooms in their homes to war workers. Vancouver city council, weighing the pros and cons of Hitler and the risk of tenants, living nearby, try to weasel their way out of it.

https://www.abundanthousingvancouver.com/vancouver_s_rocky_s...

> The response from Vancouver council was swift. Less than a year after the introduction of Order 200, council ordered a bylaw amendment expressly designed to constrain the order as much as possible. The city was still bound by the terms of the order for existing homes, but they could use a legal loophole to ensure that it did not apply to new homes. The city’s chief lawyer Donald McTaggart was incredulous:

The corporation counsel told the committee that the amendment it suggests will be quite legal, but he expressed the opinion that the idea of Order 200 is “being lost sight of.” ... “The government,” he reminded aldermen, “said ‘forget zoning bylaws’ for the sake of getting on with the war.”
by coliveira | 2025-11-15 05:32:09+00:00
As a speaker of a latin language I can attest that English is poor at achieving several meanings that come very naturally in Portuguese, for example. English being a simpler language requires that you add several particles to get a different meaning, while in other languages you can use the normal gramatical variations of words to achieve the same effect. Just as an example, there are ways to discriminate size in words using terminations such as "ão" and "inho" (among others), and these have meanings that are not exactly the ones you expect from grammar but depend on the word you're using.
by ehnto | 2025-11-15 05:32:19+00:00
I need to be delicate with wording here, but this is why it's a worry that all the least intelligent people you know could be using AI.

It's why non-coders think it's doing an amazing job at software.

But it's worryingly why using it for research, where you necessarily don't know what you don't know, is going to trip up even smarter people.
by bccdee | 2025-11-15 05:32:51+00:00
I think that's a comforting lie people like to tell themselves. Lots of hard-working people never get their due. In reality, people who escape bad circumstances often just get lucky. That's hard to accept, because nobody "deserves" to get lucky. We want to believe we earned what we have, and that, if we had to do it all over again, we'd still end up succeeding. But often that's not true.
by mingus88 | 2025-11-15 05:33:18+00:00
without any stability, you really can’t blame the player for playing this game.

The days where you could devote your career to a firm and retire with a pension are long gone

The author of this article wants a boring tech stack that just works, and honestly after everything we’ve been through in the last five years, I kinda want a boring job I can keep until I retire, too
by AMDAnon | 2025-11-15 05:35:18+00:00
> I definitely got yelled at over trivial performance regressions which looked like noise so people were measuring performance.

It depends on team, we have some testing, and progress is being made. But it's not "working" or comprehensive as we get complaints from our big customers. We should be replicating their setup internally and not have them catch problems.

> Not top of market by any stretch but firmly in the category of engineers don't care what the steak costs.

We need to pay top of market to steal people from our competitors. We can't pay less than Nvidia and outcompete them. Paying less is a signal we're aiming for second and to copy the market leader.
by pksebben | 2025-11-15 05:35:19+00:00
This is really splitting hairs, but i think it's:

48% of bombing victims/people who died from blast injury are children

of those children 40% were under 10 years of age

so .48 * .4 = 0.192 meaning roughly 20% of bomb deaths were under 10.

But like if you're having this conversation you've already lost. There's no way to frame it so it's not horrific.
by OneLessThing | 2025-11-15 05:35:28+00:00
Yeah :/ that’s how I read it too. It would make more sense if they motivated the reason to find libc because like you said you could likely just use the non aslr gadgets exclusively. I think the author tried to use non aslr gadgets but had issues so went to the approach of using the GOT libc address and called that approach “bypassing ASLR”.

It’s a matter of opinion I guess. In the early days of ASLR it was common to look for modules that were not position independent for your ROP chain and that process was probably called bypassing aslr. These days we’d probably just call that not being protected by aslr.
by dang | 2025-11-15 05:36:55+00:00
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

If you know more than others do, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. Putting down others only makes this place worse for everyone.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-15 05:37:45+00:00
> If you say “ta yiwei X” it means “s/he thinks X” with a strong connotation that X is in fact false.

I was interested to learn just now that Chinese dictionaries don't bother to mention this. I assume the reason is that the analogous construction in Classical Chinese has no such implication.

By contrast, Chinese-English dictionaries vary from noting that 以为 "usually" refers to mistaken belief to outright defining it that way.
by pahae | 2025-11-15 05:37:47+00:00
I mentioned it in another reply, but https://perses.dev/ is probably the most promising alternative.

Besides that, if you're feeling masochistic you could use Prometheus' console templates or VictoriaMetrics' built-in dashboards.

Though these are all obviously nowhere near as feature rich and capable as Grafana and would only be able to display metrics for the single Prom/VM node they're running on. Might enough for some users.
by cartoonworld | 2025-11-15 05:38:14+00:00
I feel like we could do better, quite easily. People are very gung-ho (jing-go?) on this and it seems clear to me that we can use our significant technological advantages and investigatory prowess to target these bad actors just like any other day at the office.

This is quite the departure and it is quite troubling to me. The ESA launch site is down there iirc, seems like we have natural allies who would join a push, but instead we sent a carrier group.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-15 05:39:13+00:00
> but we're going to see a standards and interoperability correction sometime soon, imo.

I thought this too, in 2015. OpenCL looked really promising, but Apple bailed and neither AMD nor Intel had the funding to keep up with Nvidia's research. It sorta floundered, even though Nvidia GPUs smugly ran OpenCL code with benchmark-leading performance.

Nvidia won the datacenter because of hardware. You could release a perfect CUDA-to-Vulkan translator tomorrow, and they still wouldn't be dethroned until better hardware replaced it. Intel is swirling the drain, Qualcomm is hedging their bets on mobile, AMD is (still) too underfunded - Apple is the only company with the design chops and TSMC inroads to be a serious threat, and they can't release a datacenter product to save their life. It's understandable why people think Nvidia is a monopoly, Team Green is pulling a full-on "Luigi wins by doing nothing" in 2025: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/luigi-wins-by-doing-absolutel...

The market has almost no pressure to decouple from Nvidia - nobody else has mature solutions. It requires a preestablished player to make a similarly risky play, which might rule out everyone who's sitting at the table.
by fuzztester | 2025-11-15 05:39:24+00:00
From the article:

The Shishupala Vadha (Sanskrit: शिशुपालवध, IAST: Śiśupāla-vadha, lit. "the slaying of Shishupala") is a work of classical Sanskrit poetry (kāvya) composed by Māgha in the 7th or 8th century. It is an epic poem in 20 sargas (cantos) of about 1800 highly ornate stanzas,[1] and is considered one of the five Sanskrit mahakavyas, or "great epics". It is also known as the Māgha-kāvya after its author. Like other kavyas, it is admired more for its exquisite descriptions and lyrical quality than for any dramatic development of plot. Its 19th canto is noted for verbal gymnastics and wordplay; see the section on linguistic ingenuity below.

I posted it mainly because of the "Linguistic ingenuity" section, which I thought would interest HN readers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishupala
by scrps | 2025-11-15 05:42:45+00:00
faint sound of fading laughter from a US SSBN

If you want a successful lunch program (and rations if you have a to-go bag) look no further than the US Navy's sub program.

Given the environment and danger (and having a bunch of humans in close proximity, deep under the ocean, with nowhere to go, hangry, is not going to inspire unit cohesion) they get really, really good food. Which is probably not a bad thing to give people tooling around with enough firepower to take out a few dozen cities.
by bccdee | 2025-11-15 05:42:50+00:00
> Most Americans have a car (in my country this is a luxury)

Using this as an example to illustrate a broader point: Most Americans can't afford not to have a car. Public transit in the US is next to non-existent in many places. If you want a job, you probably need a car to drive to work every day. So you take out huge loans to pay for the cheapest car you can find: now your financial situation is precarious because you're in debt. Because you bought a bad car, you're constantly at risk of having it break down and having to pay to repair it, which is another layer of precarity.

Similarly, poor Americans do not have the latest iPhone—they have a cheap, used iPhone which could break any day, and they're extremely dependant on it. I can't speak to what life is like in the developing world, but living in poverty in the US is extremely stressful.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-15 05:42:58+00:00
> I have no idea how to graft Prolog to an LLM

Wrapping either the SWI prolog MQI, or even simpler an existing Python interface like like janus_swi, in a simple MCP is probably an easy weekend project. Tuning the prompting to get an LLM to reliably and effectively choose to use it when it would benefit from symbolic reasoning may be harder, though.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-11-15 05:43:07+00:00
The skin I saw most often back in the day had some dumb non-rectangular shape with a "texture" on it and the controls scattered all over the place. Right in line with the "skinning" fad of the early 2000s, which defeated the intuitiveness of GUIs and decades of their evolution.

Then came the even-dumber "transparent-UI" fad.

Fortunately both those died. Oh but wait: Here comes Apple, exhuming one of them in 2025! But Apple has always hated customization, so they probably won't be resurrecting "skins" too.
by zippyman55 | 2025-11-15 05:43:18+00:00
Look at sports stadiums. Cities think they need them and cut huge tax breaks for the teams. Then the Oakland/LA/Oakland/Vegas Raiders holds the cities hostage. So, I’m thinking the infrastructure buildout, zoning, water, electricity capacity upgrades, not to mention tax breaks to entice movement to the location are greatly subsidized by taxpayers. I also wonder if after the blowup if the water and power capacity can be bundled and sold similar to the water rights in many parts of Southern California.
by kristianp | 2025-11-15 05:43:28+00:00
That's a good article for some depth into his career and argues he wasn't overpaid for his career performance. Doesn't go into the deal. This article claims the Mets deferred Bonilla's pay so they could invest more money into Madoff's ponzi scheme: https://www.espn.com.au/mlb/story/_/id/31256115/bernie-madof...
by sebastos | 2025-11-15 05:44:46+00:00
> It's convenient that your knowledge of what "started" begins on October 7th and all the events of history prior since 1948 never happened

What it comes down to is whether you can admit that the events of October 7th provoked a new military campaign that would not otherwise have happened. You can either admit that, or you can admit that you’re just going to what-about no matter what happens, and never speak honestly about the asymmetry between the way these two sides have conducted themselves (and can be expected to continue conducting themselves).
by rsanheim | 2025-11-15 05:45:32+00:00
I think the answer is it doesn't fit in any definition of a _good_ monitoring stack, but we are stuck with it. It has largely become the blessed protocol, specification, and standard for OSS monitoring, along every axis (logging, tracing, collecting, instrumentation, etc)...its a bit like the efforts that resulted in J2EE and EJBs back in the day, only more diffuse and with more varied implementations.

And we don't really have a simpler alternative in sight...at least in the java days there was the disgust and reaction via struts, spring, EJB3+, and of course other languages and communities.

Not sure how we exactly we got into such an over-engineered mono-culture in terms of operations and monitoring and deployment for 80%+ of the industry (k8s + graf/loki/tempo + endless supporting tools or flavors), but it is really a sad state.

Then you have endless implementations handling bits and pieces of various parts of the spec, and of course you have the tools to actually ingest and analyze and report on them.
by glial | 2025-11-15 05:45:44+00:00
https://danijar.com/project/dreamer4/

"We present Dreamer 4, a scalable agent that learns to solve control tasks by imagination training inside of a fast and accurate world model. ... By training inside of its world model, Dreamer 4 is the first agent to obtain diamonds in Minecraft purely from offline data, aligning it with applications such as robotics where online interaction is often impractical."

In other words, it learns by watching, e.g. by having more data of a certain type.
by pankajdoharey | 2025-11-15 05:46:56+00:00
This is not a world model, this ise at best the reimplementation of the the NVIDIA prior art around NeRF / 3D Gaussian Splatting and monocular depth, wrapped in a nice product and workflow. What they’re actually shipping is an offline asset generator: you feed it text, images, or video, it runs depth/structure estimation and neural 3D reconstruction, and you get a static splat/mesh world you can then render or simulate in a real engine. That’s useful and impressive engineering, but it’s very different from a proper “world model” in the RL/embodied‑AI sense. Here there’s no online dynamics, no agent loop, and no interactive rollouts; it’s closer to a high‑end NeRF/GS pipeline plus tooling than to something like Google’s Genie/2/3, which actually couples generative rendering with action‑conditioned temporal evolution. Calling this a “world model” feels more like marketing language than a meaningful technical distinction. Infact my definition of a world model is more closer to what Demis has hinted in his discussions, that video gen models like veo are able to intuit they physics from just video trainingdata suggest that there is an underlying manifold in reality that is essentially computable and thus is being simulated by these models. Building such a model would essentially mean building a physics engine of some kind that predicts this manifold.
by Animats | 2025-11-15 05:47:05+00:00
This section of the article is interesting:

Philosopher Paul Grice suggested a handful of simple rules that apply ‘to conversation as such, regardless of its subject matter’ [106]. The Gricean individual is a rational agent who is expected to quickly provide just enough information, not more, nor less, than necessary and relevant in any given communicative situation. When such an individual flouts one of these principles, their interlocutors will infer the intended meaning of an utterance is different from its literal meaning.

That's a useful observation. It brings out the problems of business-speak and political-speak. It isn't entirely a language distinction. It's possible to obfuscate and blither in many languages. Orwell observed this decades ago. Some languages seem to encourage it more than others, but that may be a linguistic style thing more than a language thing.

LLMs are sometimes given prompt preludes to push them into a Gricean mode. Without an incentive, LLMs tend to go into stochastic parrot mode and blither.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-15 05:48:06+00:00
> However, some LinkedIn commenters seem to see very little wrong with Fireflies' dubious early business practices.

Seems to be a good example of today’s zeitgeist.

Many of the comments on this very post, seem to take the same position.

I’m not horrified about what they did. This kind of shysterism is pretty common, these days.

What does disturb me, though, is an “end justifies the means” acceptance of these practices.

In law (and law enforcement), they have a “fruit of the poisoned tree” doctrine, where starting something wrong, immediately nullifies everything after that, even if it solves the case.

Coming from a perspective of wanting a lot more ethics and integrity in technology, I think we might be well-served to consider something like this. I’m deeply disturbed by the blatant moral decay in tech. I keep flashing on Dr. Malcolm, taking about “could,” and “should.”
by scuff3d | 2025-11-15 05:48:59+00:00
A key distinction between OOP and Functional that I'm surprised is left out here is the way they handle state.

The author talks about functional languages being good for parallel processing and distributed systems, but a big part of that is immutability. When you don't have to worry about data transforming out from under you entire classes of problems become a lot easier.

Of course without mutation a different class of problems becomes a lot harder.
by echelon | 2025-11-15 05:49:22+00:00
1. It's not fraud. They were proving the market at an early stage while living on a pizza diet.

2. Their startup now does what it says on the tin. And it's now a unicorn.

3. To those claiming this was "unethical" - a large company providing this service would still record calls and have QA / engineers listening to calls to improve the service.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-15 05:49:56+00:00
Is the artist the paint brush or the mind behind it creating the vision?

A lot of vfx today is automated and things are possible that we’re just too cost prohibitive before. You could say “who wants to see digital art”. The moat is the artist realizing their vision - for the same $ spend you get significantly more art or higher quality art (eg first pass by AI with humans doing the refinement steps).

The boom in television is because of plummeting production and distribution costs for example
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-15 05:50:08+00:00
Will it be the generals' schoolmarm Flag Code violator who wipes his face on his flag pocket square, Christian nationalism tattooed, and wears a Russia tie alcoholic who will demonstrate the "WMDs" that "Saddam" must give up? Where have I heard the story of start a pointless war to distract from domestic concerns before?

Perhaps the Department of Pointless Wars should save some money and lives by faking a war with AI and Hollywood special effects instead of dropping Hellfires on probable innocent fishing and other not cocaine boats?