MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fabszilla | 2025-12-20 01:02:43+00:00
I built PulseScribe because I wanted Wispr Flow without the subscription.

Key features: - ~300ms latency with Deepgram WebSocket streaming - Local mode with MLX/Lightning on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) - Context-aware LLM refinement (detects email, chat, code) - Just fixed it for macOS 26 (Tahoe) this week

Technical stack: Python, PyObjC for native macOS UI, MLX for local inference.

The tricky part was getting <500ms end-to-end latency. We stream audio over WebSocket while recording, so results appear immediately when you stop.

GitHub: https://github.com/KLIEBHAN/pulsescribe Website: https://pulsescribe.me
by concinds | 2025-12-20 01:03:31+00:00
All these CSS upgrades have been meant to reduce the need for Javascript for all the things web devs do out there in the real world. It's a good thing.

You should tune out more of the ambient cynicism because it's ignorant and unhinged. People who don't follow any standards discussions, don't talk to web devs, don't read anything except headlines and who are only imitating the attitudes of whatever cynical, depressed social media bubble they fell into.
by mothballed | 2025-12-20 01:03:50+00:00
>Is there something backing this claim? Like, was there testimony somewhere from the rest of the Aryan Nations group that he never discussed this with anyone else?

OK I stand corrected, you still suspect it, even though the only evidence has turned up is that he dealt to ATF agents after they asked him to do it but actually he was acquitted of that. So you suspect he did this with others without evidence just like I might suspect he is Bigfoot or DB Cooper since I cannot prove that negative.

>I wonder how you see the government do something bad and think a dictatorship is the solution.

I do not. I am not in favor of any monopolistic form of government, so that eliminates both democracy and dictatorships.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-20 01:05:29+00:00
The way I see it is that attention is graph structured -- this token here is connected to that token there and so forth by the attention lighting up or also in the sense that there are a bunch of places in the document where people are talking about "Noam" or "Chomsky" or "Noam Chomsky" or "The Author" or "him", etc.

Alternately if you were looking it from a semantic web perspective the knowledge expressed in a document is a graph and that graph structure is more fundamental than the tree structure of a text because you could express the same knowledge in different orders. Serialization fundamentally requires putting things in some specific order which might specifically be chronological (work from 2005 to the present as a play with many acts) or could be organized around some conceptual hierarchy (kitsune legends, self psychology, character acting, animal and human behavior and physiology, ...) or the minimization or elimination of backward references (whatever it is that the C spec does a touch wrong but post-Common Lisp specs do right) , etc. Ultimately the graph is pruned away into a tree where the remaining links are denoted by syntactic features in the local scale of the document, you're kinda left filling in the rest of the links with some combination of pragmatics, logical inference, something like SAT solving, etc,

A conventional parsing point of view sees a Java program as a tree but for ordinary purposes it does not matter what order you put the fields and methods in and even though procedural programs are allegedly a sequence of operations done in a certain order it is frequently the case that it does not matter at all if you run line 71 or line 75 first so it is often the case that the graph is the real thing and the trees that we're so comfortable with are the shadows on the walls of the cave.
by ctoth | 2025-12-20 01:05:35+00:00
The thing about this metaphor that people don't seem to ever complete is.

Okay, you've switched to English. The speed of typing the actual tokens is just about the same but...

The standard library is FUCKING HUGE!

Every concept that you have ever read about? Every professional term, every weird thing that gestures at a whole chunk of complexity/functionality ... Now, if I say something to my LLM like:

> Consider the dimensional twins problem -- how're we gonna differentiate torque from energy here?

I'm able to ... "from physics import Torque, Energy, dimensional_analysis" And that part of the stdlib was written in 1922 by Bridgman!
by ethmarks | 2025-12-20 01:05:45+00:00
But if you don't need to systematically examine every element one-by-one, lane layouts are pretty good. Sites like Pintrest use lane layouts because their content isn't meant to by systematically examined, but rather absorbed at a glance. If your content is meant to be systematically examined, using a lane layout would be a bad UX choice. But just because lane layouts can be misused doesn't mean they're a bad layout.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-12-20 01:06:07+00:00
> but to claim that some because some artificial intelligence generated the code makes it incomprehensible to humans seems unsupported

That's not my claim. My claim is that AI-generated code is misleading to people familiar with human-written code. If you've grown up on AI-generated code, I wouldn't expect you to have this problem, much like how chess newbies don't find impossible board states much harder to process than possible ones.
by godelski | 2025-12-20 01:06:19+00:00
> There is no reasonable argument that it's ethically unsound.

I didn't claim the argument was reasonable.

> The fact that you immediately Godwin'd

Well it is a classic example.

Considering you're a military lawyer I'm absolutely certain you've heard this example before and its connection to Nazi Germany. I'm not dating anyone is a Nazi for making that argument, but it is a classic example when pointing to how Ordinary Men can do atrocities. And no, I didn't make a grammatical mistake there.
by nickff | 2025-12-20 01:06:20+00:00
>"Feel free to post one simple link for us.

You can't do that but you can follow the above sentence with 1000 more words?"

Feel free to use a word counter.

The post above yours has about 286 words after the sentence you quoted. Quite ironic for you to criticize the grandparent when you're being even lazier.

Here's how you can find the relevant comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by tialaramex | 2025-12-20 01:07:48+00:00
Basically the only parts of the Internet which actually work reliably, around the globe, are the bits needed so that web pages basically kinda work. If you break literally everything else your service is crap, and some customers might notice, but many won't and also some won't have a choice so, sucks to be them. But if you break the Web, now everybody notices that you broke stuff and they're angry.

This is why DoH (DNS over HTTPS) is a thing. It obviously makes no actual sense to use the web protocol to move DNS packet, but, this works and most things don't work for everybody so eh, this is what we have. Smashing the Path MTU discovery doesn't break the web.

Breaking literally everything so long as the web pages work even means you can't upgrade parts of the web unless you get creative. TLS 1.3 the modern security protocol that is used for most of your web pages today, would not work for most people if it admitted that it's TLS 1.3, if you send packets with TLS version 1.3 on them people's "intelligent" "best in classs security" protective garbage (in the industry we call these "middle boxes") thinks it is being attacked by some unknown and unimaginable dastardly foe and kills the data. So TLS 1.3 really, I am not making this up, always pretends it is a TLS 1.2 re-connection, and despite the fact that no such connection ever existed these same "best in class security" technologies just have no idea what's happening and wave it through. It's very very stupid that they do that, but it was needed to make the web work, which matters, whereas actual security eh, suckers already bought the device, who cares.

This situation is deeply sad but, one piece of good news is that while "This Iranian woman can't even talk confidentially to her own mother without using code words because the people in charge there intercept her communications" won't attract as much sympathy as you'd like from some bearded white guy who has never left Ohio, the fact that those people broke his network protocol to do that interception infuriates him, and he's well up for ensuring they can't do that to the next version.
by derbOac | 2025-12-20 01:08:46+00:00
It seems people in this thread are getting downvoted for pointing out that your questions are reasonable.

There's a lot of disputes between state and federal authorities about this. The 9B figure is being disputed, and there's a lot of claims that the state has been kept in the dark about it intentionally, with claims that MN GOP House members on fraud investigation committees have been purposely withholding information from the state, forwarding their information instead to federal prosecutors. These House members don't seem to deny this:

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/house-fraud-committee-wi...

https://www.startribune.com/walz-says-theres-no-evidence-of-...

I'm not sure people are really disputing that the fraud happened. I think there are disagreements about the scope of it and about the way in which the investigation has been happening, and the motives for the way in which it has happened.

Here's the whistleblower portal they set up earlier this year for example:

https://mnhouserepublicans.com/whistleblower-portal/

They then forwarded tips to the federal DOJ and not the state.

So are they picking on MN? I don't think the fraud, to the extent it is there, is them picking on them. The way in which this has unfolded might be.
by wongarsu | 2025-12-20 01:08:55+00:00
The catch is that many professional environments have evolved values that above a certain quality floor reward quantity over quality. Even more so in the US where pointless torment is "work ethic" and pausing to think something through is "lazy" (see Bill Gate's famous quote about hiring lazy people, or "work smarter, not harder" almost being a rebel motto).

Granted, that's not everywhere. There are absolutely places where you will be recognized for doing amazing work. But I think many feel pressured to use AI to produce high volumes of sub-par work instead of small volumes of great work
by germinalphrase | 2025-12-20 01:09:02+00:00
To my understanding, the total spending is around $18B, so the allegation that 50% of all spending is fraudulent requires quite the sniff test. Additionally, large multi-billion dollar fraud causes are usually associated with large organizations (like a hospital or insurance system) which is not the case here.

Could it be $9B+? Stick enough vague qualifying words around your presentation of the probable truth then yea, sure - at least $9B in spending could be fraudulent.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-20 01:09:34+00:00
You sound incredibly short sighted. Yeah slack and making sure people don't just get unwinnable tickets all day is important for retention. And if your company needs more than warm bodies reading a script, yeah, you account for it.

Most machinery you can't run 100% capacity. Most machinery you can't run 24/7. You schedule load. You schedule downtime. And the higher the capacity, the more the machine costs. If you aren't aware of this for your people you are failing at your job.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-20 01:10:28+00:00
It frustrates me to no end because I can't help but thing Saussure is a charlatan, and that's a person who loves the early Foucault and Badiou and Baudrillard [1] but I'm not so sure about Dubord and Barthes and Derrida.

[1] ... as a guilty pleasure not in the "slumming" sense of Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon but that I feel that he, like Erving Goffman, brings out the spiritual desolation in me
by roncesvalles | 2025-12-20 01:11:33+00:00
Jonathan Greenblatt (CEO of the ADL) was on record saying "TikTok is Al Jazeera on steroids" before the ban bill got a lot of wind.

What's ironic is that ultimately their suspicion that TikTok was influenced by the PRC to push an anti-Israel agenda was most probably incorrect. Israel lost the narrative in the West because it simply did a lot of shitty things in the war, and everyone from homeless people to war refugees carry around an HD camcorder in their pocket now. I still see shocking videos of what the IDF is doing in Gaza on a monthly basis, on Instagram of all places.
by tombert | 2025-12-20 01:11:38+00:00
Forgive some ignorance, but we use Graphite at work, and I don't dislike it or anything, but I haven't really been able to see its appeal over just doing a PR within Github, at least if you exclude the AI stuff.

What do you like about the non-AI parts? I mean it's a little convenient to be able to type `gt submit` in order to create the remote branch and the PR in one step, but it doesn't feel like anything that an alias couldn't do.
by latentsea | 2025-12-20 01:11:57+00:00
Nothing interesting happening in the field? If you've been paying attention the trend over the last two years has been that the problem space that requires humans to solve has been shrinking. It's continuing to shrink. That's interesting. Significantly interesting.

As an engineer that's lead multiple teams including one at a world leading SaaS company, I don't consider myself one of the weakest participants in the field and neither do my peers generally. I'm long on agents for coding, and have started investing heavily in making our working environment productive not only for humans, but now for agents too.
by bronco21016 | 2025-12-20 01:12:23+00:00
I use AI coding almost daily. I’m able to move my repositories into context easily through the multitude of AI coding tools and I see a massive boost in productivity. I say this as a junior dev. Often the outputs are “almost” and I make the necessary fixes to get it the rest of the way there.

To contrast with this, my org tried using a simple QA bot for internal docs and has been struggled to move anything beyond proof of concept. The proof of concepts have been awful. It answers maybe 60-70% of questions correctly. The major issue seems to be related to taking PDFs laced with images and poorly written explanations. To get decent performance from these RAG bots, a large FAQ has to be written for every question it gets wrong. Of course this is just my org so it can’t necessarily be extrapolated across industry. However, how often have people come across a new team and find there is little to no documentation, poorly written documentation, or outdated documentation?

Where am I going with these two thoughts? Maybe the blocker to pushing more adoption within orgs is twofold, getting the correct context into the model and having decent context to start with.

Extracting value from these things is going to require a heavy lift in data curation and developing the harnesses. So far most of that effort has gone into coding. It will take time for the nontechnical and technical to work together to move the rest of an org into these tools in my opinion.

The big bet of course then is ROI and time to adoption vs current burn rates of the model providers.
by b8 | 2025-12-20 01:12:32+00:00
I only got unbanned when I got hired at Amazon and emailed the head of the fraud team lol. I had the same issues you had with being stonewalled and ghosted while banned. Anyways, just downloaded them off of Anna's Archive or join private trackers. There's also still methods to de-drm the Kindle books, but many people will do it for u via requests on private trackers.
by superkuh | 2025-12-20 01:14:20+00:00
That's a clever way to get a lower bound for power users. I'm surprised. But also, I did qualify my statement and said people who install firefox. I wonder how many of those 200 million users did, or how many of them had it installed by some power user who set up their computer. I know there are at least a couple dozen people right now who are Firefox users because I installed it and put it front and center on the computers I built or setup or fixed for them.
by ConspiracyFact | 2025-12-20 01:14:42+00:00
I know that it strikes most people as faintly ridiculous if not outright dangerous to talk about anti-white-male sentiment, but can we at least stop kowtowing to it? Like, sure, "first-world problems", I get it. But there is constant vitriol spewing from certain (for lack of a better phrase) intellectual cliques, and it's gotten tiresome.
by lynndotpy | 2025-12-20 01:16:22+00:00
Yes, that is not in contention. Not all transformers are LLMs, not all neural networks are transformers, not all machine learning methods are neural networks, not all statistical methods are machine learning.

I'm not saying this is an LLM, margalabargala is not saying this is an LLM. They only said they hoped that they did not integrate an LLM into the weather model, which is a reasonable and informed concern to have.

Sigmar is correctly pointing out that they're using a transformer model, and that transformers are effective for modeling things other than language. (And, implicitly, that this _isn't_ adding a step where they ask ChatGPT to vibe check the forecast.)
by kg | 2025-12-20 01:16:55+00:00
The main scenario that caused me a lot of grief is temporary RAM usage spikes, like a single process run during a build that uses ~8gb of RAM or more for a mere few seconds and then exits. In some cases the oom killer was reaping the wrong process or the build was just failing cryptically and if I examined stuff like top I wouldn't see any issue, plenty of free RAM. The tooling for examining this historical memory usage is pretty bad, my only option was to look at the oom killer logs and hope that eventually the culprit would show up.

Thanks for the tip about vm.overcommit_ratio though, I think it's set to the default.
A Machine Learning Researcher's Notes from 5k Hours of Tekken
by taha_moji | 2025-12-20 01:17:40+00:00
Author here. MS in CS from Georgia Tech. Published at NeurIPS and NAACL. Spent ~5,000 hours on Tekken and reached top 0.5% globally. This is what I found. At 60fps with 50ms decision windows, you can't react. You have to predict. Your brain compresses 900+ possible moves into threat categories, reads patterns from partial information, and updates when you get punched in the face. Repeatedly. This hit #1 on r/ArtificialIntelligence today. 130K views. 93% upvote rate. Apparently people wanted to read about fighting games and cognition. Who knew. Happy to discuss the methodology or why CPU opponents that read your inputs aren't actually "solving" the game. https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1pq7cnw/what_5000_hours_of_mastering_tekken_taught_me/
by st_goliath | 2025-12-20 01:18:59+00:00
> ... a partial download would be totally useless ...

no, not totally. The directory at the end of the archive points backwards to local headers, which in turn include all the necessary information, e.g. the compressed size inside the archive, compression method, the filename and even a checksum.

If the archive isn't some recursive/polyglot nonsense as in the article, it's essentially just a tightly packed list of compressed blobs, each with a neat, local header in front (that even includes a magic number!), the directory at the end is really just for quick access.

If your extraction program supports it (or you are sufficiently motivated to cobble together a small C program with zlib....), you can salvage what you have by linearly scanning and extracting the archive, somewhat like a fancy tarball.
by Karliss | 2025-12-20 01:19:08+00:00
Partial zip shouldn't be totally useless and a good unzip tool should be able to repair such partial downloads. In addition to catalog at end zip also have local headers before each file entry. So unless you are dealing with maliciously crafted zip file or zip file combined with something else, parsing it from start should produce identical result. Some zip parsers even default to sequential parsing behavior.

This redundant information has lead to multiple vulnerabilities over the years. As having redundant information means that a maliciously crafted zip file with conflicting headers can have 2 different interpretations when processed by 2 different parsers.
by ConspiracyFact | 2025-12-20 01:20:52+00:00
"Talk to any FOSS acolyte about something and the conversation will often go like this:

You: I'm having a problem with [proprietary software], I'm really frustrated.

Them: scoffs I don't have that problem because I use a custom rom dinglebop shitfuck linux distro that allows me to [technical jargon that you don't know or care about]

You: uhm, okay. Could you give me a recommendation that'll allow me to replicate my workflow in [proprietary program] ?

Them: Uhm yeah (sends you a program that is incredibly hard to set up and cannot replicate your workflow at all)

You: I don't really understand how this works? Them: okay well post in the discord

You: posts in discord Uhm people were just really rude to me and told me to just read the forums.... I watched some tutorials but they're all like 2 hours long and this is a lot of information."

The author doesn't come off well at all here, and that's while they're talking to a strawman. They sound like an entitled child.
by p_l | 2025-12-20 01:21:53+00:00
This is speculation based on external observation, nothing internal other than rumours:

A big, increasing over last decade, chunk of that is fear that they will break the compatibility - or otherwise drop in shared knowledge. To the point that the more critical parts the less anyone wants to touch them (heard that ntfs.sys is essentially untouchable these days, for example).

And various rules that used to be sacrosanct are no longer followed, like the "main" branch of Windows source repository having to always build cleanly every night (fun thing - Microsoft is one of the origins of nightly builds as a practice)
by lesuorac | 2025-12-20 01:22:21+00:00
The issue isn't that the computer was wrong though. The issue was that it was wrong and nobody cared.

For systems with high standards like aircraft there's nothing that stops somebody from say removing a door and then just not recording that it happened. It doesn't matter how many checklists you have for aircraft if they're not followed.

It just doesn't matter what verification processes you have if they're not followed. The court rule does not affect this.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-20 01:23:12+00:00
Good point, I momentarily forgot about the ability to specify a schema. In that case, you'd have a lot of places where there's only one possible output. Even if you have multiple fields and there are no ordering requirements, typical schemas won't take long to get to a unique field name prefix. If you've output `"us` then `ername"` is likely to be the only valid continuation in many cases.
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-20 01:23:29+00:00
Thank samsung for their shitty modems in the pixels.

However, there’s going to be a large discrepancy for all devices on battery usage based on whether VPN is on wifi or cellular, and additionally when on cellular how close to the tower they are. I live near cell edge and VPN’s roast my batts on cellular no matter the make, in city it’s almost not noticeable to have VPN on. Better to use wifi when far from towers, cellular more efficient if it’s strong signal.