MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kannanvijayan | 2025-11-11 10:48:39+00:00
But right now America is factually less free than either Europe or my own country. You simply do not have due process anymore. Most of the protections of your constitution have been interpreted away to nothingness.

I just don't see how these so called valuable principles have actually materially served your people in being able to protect or defend the values you claim to hold.

Faith is fine, but you do need to evaluate ground truth at the end of the day. Outcomes matter.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-11 10:49:12+00:00
So I gave it a spin on two of my repos.

One is the extremely sprawling MarginaliaSearch repo[M1].

Here it did a decent job of capturing the architecture, though it is to be fair well documented in the repo itself. It successfully identifies the most important components, which is also good.

But when describing the components, it only really succeeds where the components themselves are very self-contained and easy to grok. It did a decent job with e.g. the buffer pool[M2], but even then fails to define some concepts that would have made it easier to follow, e.g. what is a pin count in buffer management? This is standard terminology and something the model should know.

I get the impression it lifts a lot of its fact from the comments and documentation that already exists, which may lead it to propagate outdated falsehoods about the code.

[M1] https://deepwiki.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch

[M2] https://deepwiki.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/5.2-b...

The other is the SlopData[S1] repo, which contains a small library for columnar data serialization.

This one I wasn't very impressed with. It produced more documentation than was necessary, mostly amending what was already there with incorrect statements it seems to have pulled out of its posterior[2][3].

The library is very low-abstraction, and there simply isn't a lot of architecture to diagram, but the model seems to insist that there must be a lot of architecture and then produces excessive diagrams as a result.

[S1] https://deepwiki.com/MarginaliaSearch/SlopData

[S2] https://deepwiki.com/MarginaliaSearch/SlopData#storage-types (performance numbers are completely invented, in practice reading compressed data is typically faster than plain data)

[S3] https://deepwiki.com/MarginaliaSearch/SlopData/6.3-zip-packa... (the overview section is false, all these tables are immutable).

So overall it gives me a bit of a broken clock vibe. When it's right, it's great. When it isn't, it's not very useful. Good at the stuff that is already easy, borderline useless for the stuff that isn't.
by nosianu | 2025-11-11 10:49:13+00:00
> I used to make the comment, pre-LLM, that we needed to get to mouse/squirrel level intelligence rather than trying to get to human level abstract AI. But we got abstract AI first. That surprised me.

"AI" is not based on physical real world data and models like our brain. Instead, we chose to analyze human formal (written) communication. ("formal": actual face to face communication has tons of dimensions adding to the text representation of what is said, from tone, speed to whole body and facial expressions)

Bio-brains have a model based on physical sensor data first and go from there, that's completely missing from "AI".

In hindsight, it's not surprising, we skipped that hard part (for now?). Working with symbols is what we've been doing with IT for a long time.

I'm not sure going all out on trying to base something on human intelligence, i.e. human neuro networks, is a winning move. I see it as if we had been trying to create airplanes that flap their wings. For one, human intelligence already exists, and when you lean back and manage to look at how we do on small and large problems from an outside perspective it has plenty of blind spots and disadvantages.

I'm afraid if we were to manage a hundred percent human level intelligence AI we will be disappointed. Sure, it will be able to do a lot, but in the end, nothing we don't already have.

Right now that would also just be the abstract parts, I think the "moving the body" physical parts in relation to abstract commands would be the far more interesting part, but since current AI is not about using physical sensor data at all, never mind combining it with the abstract stuff...
by aetherspawn | 2025-11-11 10:49:16+00:00
At such an old age why does he care about his business?

With so much money why do his kids care either?

For goodness sake, stop working, try and solve global warming or world hunger or something.

Or buy a small country. Make yourself president. Create a utopia for its population.

But more of the same.. more of the same.. $300B or $301B when you finally kick the bucket? How shallow.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-11-11 10:49:28+00:00
If the system design interview is designed in a sane manner, which most of them are, thankfully for now.

Unfortunately, some interviewers ask questions that they themselves have not thought through properly, which leads to "interesting" discussions followed by a disqualification. While I've not had to face that issue first-hand as an interviewee, I've seen interviewers who wouldn't have been able to pass their own interview, for example.
by anthk | 2025-11-11 10:51:28+00:00
If you use Linux (dual boot for instance) you can disable it with this boot arg for the kernel in Grub (and LILO too, you Slackware users, or Refind/Syslinux). Just append:

usb.autosuspend=-1 usbcore.autosuspend=-1

to the

linux quiet=1 foo bar blah blah... line in your /etc/default/grub, /etc/lilo.conf or whatever bootloader you use. Then, run update-grub or similar.

It will draw more power on laptops but not much.
by ajross | 2025-11-11 10:51:51+00:00
WiFi literally covers basically all of the urban US already, I'm not understanding this point.

It's true that there's no single service one can sign up for and you have to bounce around cafe and Xfinity and whatever "Free WiFi!" networks are being offered. Which is definitely annoying and it's nice to have a single company sell you service in a neatly packaged "phone" product.

But again, trying to phrase that as a technical point is ridiculous. Free bands are just plain better, technically. You get more data to more people for less money using open spread spectrum protocols than you do with dedicated bands. Period.
by pona-a | 2025-11-11 10:51:53+00:00
I wish them the best. When I last tested it on fingerprint.com, the hash remained stable even with resistFingerprinting and letterboxing from a VPN, only changing between profiles. When I daily-drove resistFingerprinting (not reduceFingerprinting that permits exceptions like dark mode) in 2021, my hash changed every restart.
by gloomyday | 2025-11-11 10:52:05+00:00
I've been around long enough to see this saying that "As soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore" in action many times.

It is almost infuriating how dismissive people are of such amazing technologies when they understand it. If anything, progress is often marked by having things becoming simpler rather than more complex. The SpaceX Raptor engine versions are such a cool example of that.
by stakhanov | 2025-11-11 10:52:18+00:00
I wouldn't do a take-home unless they do an interview first, to signal they value my time and are acting in good faith. (HR people don't count).

Then, when they give me the take-home, I would ask how many other people are in the stage with me. If it's 20, with only one candidate getting hired, forget it. My expectation in such situations would be that they won't be able to trim the pipeline as much as they will need/want to by applying purely objective/rational criteria, and I'd end up getting rejected on grounds of "inability to mind-read subjective preferences".
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-11 10:52:32+00:00
I can see a world where if everything they do pans out, on average 1B "entities" end up paying 20$/mo to openAI, via the myriad of integrations they end up supporting. Where entity can be a user, and one human can have many entities (i.e. a work account where the company pays, a personal account, etc). That'd be a quarter of a T$ revenue / year. Dunno, while the number is so large it's hard to compute, it somewhat seems plausible.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-11 10:52:48+00:00
> xanalogTV and the like run CRT effects even under an Athlon 2000 back in the day

Because it wasn't doing much else.

> even under legacy systems with no OpenGL support at all

If it's as legacy as all that, it probably doesn't have graphics that are particularly enjoyable to use. Are you trying to run it on a Sun IPX or something?
by metalman | 2025-11-11 10:53:07+00:00
I am begining to dislike mint, that I incidentaly downoaded via mobile data onto an old hinky android phone, then put on a usb drive with a usb/c adapter, with "etchDroid", and booted an ancient desk top with. The phone I have now, has a sim tray with places for 2 SIM's and an SD card, so with one of these 1TB, USB-C drives and a 1 TB SD card, it should be possible to carry a local copy of OSM, and a copy of wikipedia(text only) with plenty of room left, the full wiki is a monsterous 410 TB
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-11 10:53:29+00:00
> Ms already ships ... msys2/git bash

That is an independent FOSS project to my knowledge.

> Knowing Microsoft, it will be both.

Possible. But then when they are content with both the kernel and the userspace, why should they switch at all? The must be wanting to replace some maintenance burden, otherwise they won't do it.
by sjm213 | 2025-11-11 10:55:29+00:00
I’ve been working on a small project to map the evolution of large language model research.

I collected around 8,000 papers, embedded their abstracts, and plotted them using t-SNE to visualize clusters such as instruction-tuning, RAG, agents, and evaluation.

One interesting detail — the earliest “proto-LLM” paper that shows up is “Natural Language Processing (almost) From Scratch” (2011), which already had hints of joint representations and multitask learning.

Interactive version here: https://awesome-llm-papers.github.io/tsne.html

Would love feedback — especially on what other dimensions or embeddings might be interesting to explore (e.g., by year, model type, or dataset).
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-11 10:56:46+00:00
> As an aside - can I ask why you left Flock? I assumed that the people who would've wanted to work there would be fully invested into the idea. What changed your mind?

The Flock of my recruitment process would be a lot less problematic. There was discussion of the obvious, the surveillance "state". But everything was a high ground of ethics and legality, ideas were supposedly run through groups to discuss "not just whether we could, but whether we should", protecting individuals whose data was collected by Flock but had no safety or LE purpose, retention, sharing controls ...

... the reality was much more "mask off". "Eliminate all crime, using Flock". Very Airbnb'ish. "We know your jurisdiction doesn't allow you to share this data. It's not our job to enforce that on our platform; if you're sharing it, that's not our concern - you'll still have access to all the tools to do so." Sales worked with Agencies who weren't allowed to gather data themselves, weren't directly allowed to partner with Flock for cameras, were asked where they saw or believed they'd most want said cameras, and Flock would aggressively work with businesses, HOAs, other government entities in those areas, and get them onboard, and then go back to the Agency saying "Hey, guess what, we know you're not allowed to collect this, but these customers are, and you're able to share their data."

That didn't sit well with me - there was nothing actively illegal Flock were doing, but they were openly helping Agencies flout the spirit of laws constraining them while staying within the letter (in the above examples, HOAs and others would often get deeply subsidized, at least, installations, knowing that Flock would be able to get a bigger contract with an Agency that would otherwise have no over very limited means of working with them).

These things, coupled with Garrett's "vision" that, he emphasized repeatedly, was his literal vision, "Eliminate all crime with Flock", were too much (and I think lead to some of their even more troublesome initiatives now, like "Have AI look for potential suspicious vehicle movements, even without a reported incident, and have it alert officers to go investigate in realtime", with talk of that being extended to conversations and audio).
by mzl | 2025-11-11 10:57:00+00:00
You will most likely need both smarter heuristics and better deductions for larger instances. As mentioned, I've seen well-engineered custom tight C++-solvers with decent heuristics and the normal deductions take >1 hour on some instances. Most cases I've tried can be solved reasonably quickly when using OR-Tools CP-SAT which uses constraint programming style lazy clause generation to a SAT solver and custom MIP relaxations in a portfolio.

For a list of interesting instances to test, see this file: https://github.com/Gecode/gecode/blob/release/6.3.0/examples...

I should probably do some benchmarks on that with the standard MiniZinc solvers.
by epolanski | 2025-11-11 10:57:49+00:00
You really fighting on the wrong side of the hill, Buffett has advocated for higher taxes for ages. He's neve made it a secret and he's always said that he pays a lower effective tax rate than his secretary.

In any case, what am I looking at here? There's no tax dodging. He gets paid 100Mish per year and pays taxes on those amounts.

You don't get taxes on your stock appreciation until you sell.
by hatefulheart | 2025-11-11 10:59:04+00:00
Hey Dylan, you’re being an ass.

Their tone was disgraceful, let me explain by giving you an example of how posts should be made.

“Hey! This looks interesting, quick search on Google didn’t explain what the BEAM is as well as I would like, can someone let me know what this is about in layman’s terms?”

This is inviting people to talk about the topic at hand. It puts the responsibility of knowing something squarely on the person who wants that information and it’s generally pleasant.

How the parent decided to phrase his desire for being spoon fed information was in fact disgraceful.
by gpderetta | 2025-11-11 10:59:50+00:00
Yes, or magit-blame, but if you still have multiple commits in your history that you are working on, and you need to break up the current changes in a bunch of instant fixups, figuring out which one is the right one can be a bit time consuming. I'm not convinced that automatically amending to the last commit that touched that line is safe, but I'm willing to try git-absorb.
by MrJohz | 2025-11-11 11:00:08+00:00
Well yes, if you're writing a JSON parser in a language based on ECMAScript-262, then you will need to understand ECMAScript-262 as well as the specification for the language you're working with. The same would also apply if you were writing an XML parser in a language based on ECMAScript-262.

If you write a JSON parser in Python, say, then you will need to understand how Python works instead.

In other words, I think you are confusing "json, the specified format" and "the JSON.parse function as specified by ECMAScript-262". These are two different things.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-11 11:00:26+00:00
It was released in 1977 and afaik is still sold under the "niva legend" name in several countries while the "niva" name is also used for the rebranding of some GM based models.

It is not the car you'd want to commute on, or drive in highways but it is a super decent offroader. I'd probably choose the Suzuki Jimny over a brand new Niva Legend though.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-11 11:00:28+00:00
If you have a lot of Video8 or Hi8 tapes to digitise, get a Digital8 camcorder. It will most likely play them back quite happily and emit DV over its Firewire port. Digital8 is just DV on a different tape!

I still use DV/DVCAM tapes because I like shooting with old cameras, and I capture the same way I have for about 25 years when I used a VX2000 to shoot DV for a commercial digital streaming company that did all sorts of training videos.

Cheap crappy PCIe Firewire card (back in the day it was PCI, but no-one has that now), and dvgrab to get a raw DV stream off tape, then ffmpeg -i dvgrab-001.dv -c copy whateveritscalled.avi to rewrap it in something the editing software can read. These days I use DaVinci Resolve on Linux, in the olden days I used Premiere 5 on Windows 2000.

Even back then I used to capture on Linux and then bring it into Windows 2000 because only Linux had reliable Firewire support.
by autoexec | 2025-11-11 11:00:39+00:00
> To me it's much worse. You can't see all of the detail the artists drew, and there is noise everywhere, even specs of dust.catches.

In the lion king example you weren't meant to see all of the detail the artists drew. In the Army men example the color on the digital version is nothing like the color of the actual toys.

They originally made those movies the way they did intentionally because what they wanted wasn't crystal clear images with unrealistic colors, they wanted atmosphere and for things to look realistic.

Film grain and dust can be excessive and distracting. It's a good thing when artifacts added due to dirt/age gets cleaned up for transfers so we can have clear images, but the result of that clean up should still show what the artists originally intended and that's where disney's digital versions really miss the mark.
by qlm | 2025-11-11 11:01:57+00:00
Perhaps a controversial view on this particular forum but I find the tendency of a certain type of person* to write about everything in this overly-technical way regardless of whether it is appropriate to the subject matter to be very tiresome ("executing cached heuristics", "constrained the search space").

*I associate it with the asinine contemporary "rationalist" movement (LessWrong et al.) but I'm not making any claims the author is associated with this.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-11 11:03:33+00:00
Some generalized version would work great for to keep people from peddling all sorts of short sighted stuff. I have no idea how to do it. This sort of "must have skin in the game" criteria was what the founding fathers were trying to do with the property owning requirement (but that was so imperfect they started undermining it pretty much before the ink was dry).
by fergonco | 2025-11-11 11:03:57+00:00
I have some bash_aliases and scripts.

The king of all alias is fixup, which commits everything and fixes up the commit with the previous one.

Another script just goes over the changes and allows me to add/skip/restore.

Then I can pipe the log to another script that will analyze tags and tell me what is not yet in prod.

cli is hard... but it composes. I want to know that CLI as well as possible. And I don't want to start from scratch each few years with a new UI / concept.
by digitalbase | 2025-11-11 11:04:43+00:00
I'm working on an alternative for Quora/StackOverflow. It's everything i like about those two platforms but without the lock-in/giving them all intellectual property rights.

Main idea:

- Portable identity - Your data/posts/reputation is yours - Client choice: Use any nostr client to reply from/to - Open ranking/Anti-Spam: Web-Of-Trust/Global pagerank - Zaps/Payments weigh more than likes (likes are cheap)
by pydry | 2025-11-11 11:05:16+00:00
The UN called it a genocide:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

They expressed no opinion about whether the intent on the genocide was due to a culture of racial supremacy. That isnt their job. But, there is a multitude of other evidence demonstrating that it was.

This is why the people who try to downplay it on internet forums or elsewhere are exclusively racists, similar to holocaust deniers.
by aa-jv | 2025-11-11 11:05:38+00:00
People need to hold the UK government responsible for its crimes against humanity. Until the AUMF and similiar policies across the Wetsern hemisphere which resulted in the utterly reprehensible "War on Terror", are rescinded and the crimes committed under their enactment fully prosecuted, the authoritarianism will continue.

Remember, people, these are WAR CRIMINALS driving these policies forward. To expect this class of individuals to adhere to democratic, western values, is naive in the extreme.

The same people who have no problem with genociding a million people in the middle east enemy-state-de-jour are not going to give one fig of care to the local human rights violations that they are also getting away with.

The West has a war criminal problem. Until we solve that we cannot do a damn thing about our human rights problem.
by belorn | 2025-11-11 11:06:30+00:00
The number of times a domain ownership get turned over to the police are not that common. For malware it is much more common to just remove the registration than to keep it registered for all eternity. There are a few different procedures used for malicious registrations (got to be careful with cnc), but the absolute most common seems to be to just put the domain on hold and then remove the registration after a short period. 99.9% (likely a few more 9s) are handled like that voluntarily by the registry and also by some registrars, which mean it does not involve the courts. The number of cases where it does goes the full length to court, a guilty verdict is reached, and the ownership of a malicious domain is decided to be given over to the police are very few.
by paganel | 2025-11-11 11:06:31+00:00
> kills many inaccurate ideological positions that we inherited.

It doesn't, which is part of the point the OP is making. And now my point, it's ok that these pseudo-scientific "revelations" don't kill those "inaccurate ideological positions", because that's the whole point of human free will, there's no "accurate ideological position" when it comes to the day-to-day life, or to societal life in general.
by xattt | 2025-11-11 11:08:32+00:00
The Canadian export versions of the Lada full-size sedans had doors reinforced with beams for increased safety. So structurally, they were indeed built a little better.

There were several other features like western carburetors and emissions controls, but these were likely be a “temporary” improvement for the domestic market as those parts wear out and would likely be replaced with local parts.

The thing about JDMs is they tend to be more desirable than export versions, because of whatever quirkiness that gets left behind at the time of export.
by dwattttt | 2025-11-11 11:09:19+00:00
Statically asserting at compile time that all memory access are either in-bounds, or will result in a controlled unwind or exit of the process, guarantees there are no memory safety violations.

We understand you're saying it's not possible in the general case to assert that all memory accesses are in bounds. Instead of that, if you ensure all memory accesses are either in bounds or that they at least do not violate memory safety, you've achieved the requirement of "memory safety", regardless of runtime inputs.
by twp | 2025-11-11 11:09:33+00:00
deepwiki.com is untrustworthy AI slop. A true cancer.

deepwiki.com's generated page on my project contains several glaring errors. I hate to think of the extra support burden I will have to bear because of deepwiki.com publishing wrong information.

I asked the authors of the site (Andrew Gao) to remove their page on my project, but they ignored my request.
by gilleain | 2025-11-11 11:11:40+00:00
So i can only speak from my own experience of the last 5 years of trying (and often failing!) to accurately copy or otherwise create various drawings.

Very rarely do I start completely from scratch, but usually adjust the drawing so much that maybe I should have. I wonder if I tracked the adjustments if I would find every line was redrawn in some cases.

Thing is, it is hard to see what part is 'off' until most of the other parts are right. Especially with highly symmetric drawings, where symmetries appear gradually as the whole thing comes together.