MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Twisol | 2026-01-08 03:49:56+00:00
> I think Achaea and some of the other big ones do though.

Achaea's had a premium shop for a long, long time, yes. It seems they've recently added ways for players to accumulate "credits" (the premium currency) just by playing the game normally -- it's called the "renown" system. (And there have always been other programs that involve volunteering behind the scenes -- the most obvious and in-the-open one is being an official newbie guide.)

I haven't felt any strong desire to put money into Achaea, personally. There are a lot of nice-to-haves, and yes, a good number of premium artefacts that give real advantages in gameplay; but the selling point for me has always been the RP-focused world and community, and mechanically speaking you don't need artefacts for PvE. Probably the most common premium items I've seen are non-decaying vials (which are, IIRC, extremely cheap and very accessible via accumulated renown) and the Atavian wings that let you travel to a lot of different locations very quickly.

I did make a small cash purchase once, to ensure that my character would never get deleted from inactivity, but these days it seems a sufficient amount of total game time is enough to avoid that fate.

I'd definitely recommend Achaea if you're interested in a heavily character-driven world with a community that's passionate about roleplay. The cash shop is by no means a necessity (unless you're getting very deep into PvP, where my expertise runs out, so it could go either way). The volunteer staff (the "Garden of the Gods", as it were) are super active with both large and small RP events, so there's a lot of both official and "unofficial" goings-on in the world. It's really fantastic.

(If anybody here remembers Soludra, hi, that was me!)
by ehnto | 2026-01-08 03:50:11+00:00
Yes it's a surprising marketing angle. What are they expecting people to run on these machines? Do they expect your average joe to pop into the terminal and boot up ollama?

Anyone technical enough to jump into local AI usage can probably see through the hardware fluff, and will just get whatever laptop has the right amount of VRAM.

They are just hoping to catch the trend chasers out, selling them hardware they won't use, confusing it as a requirement for using ChatGPT in the browser.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 03:51:10+00:00
> I don't believe this double meaning is an unfortunate coincidence but part of clever marketing. A semantic or ideological sleight of hand, if you will.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that it really is just unfortunate. We just couldn’t come up with a better short name for it at the time; it was going to be either “Trusted Publishing” or “OIDC publishing,” and we determined that the latter would be too confusing to people who don’t know (and don’t care to know) what OIDC is.

There’s nothing nefarious about it, just the assumption that people would understand “trusted” to mean “you’re putting trust in this,” not “you have to use $vendor.” Clearly that assumption was not well founded.
by culi | 2026-01-08 03:52:19+00:00
We're talking about code generation here but most people's interactions with LLMs are through text. On that metric Google has led OpenAI for over a year now. Even Grok in "thinking" mode leads OpenAI

https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard

Google also leads in image-to-video, text-to-video, search, and vision
by gaigalas | 2026-01-08 03:52:28+00:00
I don't like tailwind. However, I don't wish that to anyone.

Despite any of my preferences, it was real work that deserved a chance. It cannot be denied that AI slurping their content contributed to less paying customers.

IMHO, this is content draught starting to appear. To an extreme, it should lead to no one having any real incentive (possible business, possible recognition, etc) to do new and original stuff.

I don't see a way of changing this. I think jobs will be fine, but content of all kinds (especially code) won't.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-08 03:53:22+00:00
I want people to finally get mad enough that they do something about it instead of sitting here with half ass solutions and just bitching about it.

Humans do not and have never proactively solved existential threats, it’s just does not exist in the history of humanity. Humans are exclusively reactionary when it comes to major existential threats.

So something needs to happen to cause the reaction and all the frogs are already half cooked
by fluidcruft | 2026-01-08 03:53:55+00:00
I agree. For me it's annoying because everything it generates is too tailored to the first stuff I started chatting with it about. I have multiple responsibilities and I haven't been able to get it to compartmentalize. When I'm wearing my "radiology research" support hat it assumes I'm also wearing my "MRI physics" hat and to weaves everything for MRI. It's really annoying.
by cyberax | 2026-01-08 03:53:59+00:00
> Do you have more details on this 1 example, specifically the trends of city housing prices and demand?

I don't have all the information on Copenhagen yet. The stats from 1970-s are not available online, so I commissioned someone to get the data from the archives.

The available data basically shows that prices were stagnant during the 70-80-s and started rising in the 90-s.

> After all, building more housing in the city isn't mutually exclusive with building housing outside the city.

I think it is mutually exclusive, exactly because of the population growth (the lack thereof). Each dense apartment in a city core means one less house in a rural area somewhere.

Japan, that I gave as an example, has literally free houses that anyone can get for nothing but the government real estate transaction fees. Just 3-4 hours away from Tokyo.
by 1659447091 | 2026-01-08 03:54:35+00:00
> It's not only "The Eyes of Texas" that are upon this.

Referencing the University of Texas (Austin) school song in a reply to an Aggie, them fightin' words

More related, with A&M generally being traditionally conservative* and also being a research university that values higher learning -- yet still a public school -- they are going run up on these issues given the current state of "conservative" (maga) politics. UT is getting the same pressure, but being a traditionally liberal leaning school with a rich history of protest leading to change, they are able to resist a bit more -- which I always respected (except for Thanksgiving rivalry games) -- but even they are slowly caving-in. Texas use to mind its own business, scoff at whatever ideology the federal government was pushing and, for the most part, let people and institutions be. How we became a maga lapdog is truly baffling.

*Has the George H.W. Bush library and a Corps of Cadets (student military organization) that deeply intergraded into school tradition, for starters. Also, oil money.
by anon-3988 | 2026-01-08 03:55:02+00:00
> It is worth noting that the class of bugs described here (logic errors in highly concurrent state machines, incorrect hardware assumptions) wouldn't necessarily be caught by the borrow checker. Rust is fantastic for memory safety, but it will not stop you from misunderstanding the spec of a network card or writing a race condition in unsafe logic that interacts with DMA.

Rust is not just about memory safety. It also have algebraic data types, RAII, among other things, which will greatly help in catching this kind of silly logic bugs.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-08 03:55:53+00:00
Chiming in with another "bad input ruins a game" story: Alpha Protocol (2010), PC port.

There was a "hacking" minigame, and it was mandatory to solve it as part of the introductory tutorial levels. IIRC the console's simultaneous stick controls were ported to a combination of "move the left with keyboard keys" and "move the right with mouse". There were some serious sensitivity/dead-zone issues, but that wasn't the blocker.

IIRC the problem was that if you had remapped any keys in the options (as I had before starting) those didn't apply during the minigame... but it did apply to the on-screen instructions telling you what to press. So I was stuck constantly failing this minigame because it was waiting for me to press some arbitrary (stock) key to finalized my solution, while telling me I needed to press a (remapped) key that kept doing-nothing.

Anywho, I think I realized it some other week/month after wiping/reinstalling in frustration. Thereafter I prioritized tools/upgrades that let me skip the badly ported minigame.
by steveklabnik | 2026-01-08 03:56:44+00:00
One of my favorite Firefox bugs was some I don’t quite remember the details of, but went something like this:

“There’s a crash while using this config file.” Something more complex than that, but ultimately a crash of some kind.

Years later, like 20 years later, the bug was closed. You see, they re-wrote the config parser in Rust, and now this is fixed.”

That’s cool but it’s not the part I remember. The part I always think about is, imagine responding to the bug right after it was opened with “sorry, we need to go off and write our own programming language before this bug is fixed. Don’t worry, we’ll be back, it’s just gonna take some time.”

Nobody would believe you. But yet, it’s what happened.
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-08 03:58:50+00:00
You're inspecting entirely the wrong end of this spectrum. The problem isn't that the average person is being outbid by a trillionare on their two bedroom. It's that an corpuscular capital class has so much money that all assets are being wildly inflated, housing included, while simultaneously depriving more than half of the population of anything close to the capital to buy even the cheapest house. There is no 'being outbid' for the average American who makes a hair over 45k. It's a laughable impossibility to even be in the game. The system is broken and the average user of this site is way too comfortable to recognize it but it's a daily reality for almost everyone else, particularly the young generation.
by 2001zhaozhao | 2026-01-08 03:58:50+00:00
I think "highly processed foods are bad" is best seen as a general rule and no more than that. However, it is a good general rule and following it is probably the easiest way for people to eat healthy.

In general, the more processing steps involved, the more things companies can do to make the food more delicious, cheaper to produce, etc., at the expense of customers' health. There is also a significant correlation between "highly processed food" and "contains way too much refined grains and oil".

However, it's absolutely possible to process the food heavily and add lots of ingredients and still maintain a healthy food if you actually care about the customer's wellbeing. It would just result in a product that is less competitive in the short term, so companies have little to no incentive to do it.
by probably_wrong | 2026-01-08 03:59:25+00:00
> Ask Wegmans directly to exclude you from facial recognition - Send an email to their privacy team

The only way in which I can see this going is by Wegmans answering "please send a high-res copy of your face so we can add it to the list of faces for which we won't keep records", at which point I'm not sure who's the winner anymore.
by ehnto | 2026-01-08 04:01:13+00:00
I am not of the younger generation, but it must be really hard to give a shit right now. No voices are being heard, and they are economically crushed, preoccupied with paying their rent-seeking corporate providers ever increasing prices and for what purpose? To exist long enough to pay the bills? Maybe save enough for a house to stake a claim in what feels like a crumbling society that hates you?

I get it, that's a tough outlook to fight through just to get on the field to bat, and then social media constantly broadcasts how futile their swings are going to be even when they do get the courage to stand up.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-08 04:03:00+00:00
> Even cash could be tricky if you got it from a bank because ...

Cash would only be an issue if a merchant associated tender used in each sale with the customer. In this scenario, the business is actively working against their customer's interests and would need to be thought of as such.

EDIT:

Assume for a moment a merchant did try to associate tender used with each customer and that all cash transactions are made by people who did a cash withdrawal from only a bank (which is definitely not the case in real life).

How would the merchant establish the identity of each person?

Ask every bank within a 20 mile radius if one of their tellers or ATMs issued each note used?

And what would happen to financial institutions which produced this information?
by themk | 2026-01-08 04:03:36+00:00
Dietary cholestrol hasn't really been overturned, but sure there is some nuance. Some people do respond badly to dietary cholestrol (like you said, individual advice is sometimes required), but dietary cholestrol is also not a linear response afaiu. That is, if you eat one egg a day, you may as well eat 4, but if you can completely eliminate dietary cholestrol it could make a difference. So, many guidelines don't bother with suggesting it, because it's too hard to eleminate it to the point of mattering for the average person.

All that to say, the science isn't wrong, but the practicalities influence the advice.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-08 04:03:40+00:00
Didn’t expect a reply, so thanks for replying. Getting people active may be your intent, but it comes off like a demoralization campaign. I don’t know who is involved in it or why (although I can guess), but there is a lot of intentional demoralization in these surveillance and privacy threads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoralization_(warfare)

If you really want people to fight, it’s better to use fighting words, to cheer on allies who are fighting, or to give examples of how you have successfully fought back. This also counters attempts at demoralization.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-08 04:03:51+00:00
Read the third link / review paper, it is not at all the case that all attention is based on QKV projections.

Your terms "sensitivity", "visibility", and "important" are too vague and lack any clear mathematical meaning, so IMO add nothing to any understanding. "Important" also seems factually wrong, given these layers are stacked, so later weights and operations can in fact inflate / reverse things. Deriving e.g. feature importances from self-attention layers remains a highly disputed area (e.g. [1] vs [2], for just the tip of the iceberg).

You are also assuming that the importance of attention is the highly-specific QKV structure and projection, but there is very little reason to believe that based on the third review link I shared. Or, if you'd like another example of why not to focus so much on scaled dot-product attention, see that it is just a subset of a broader category of multiplicative interactions (https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rylnK6VtDH).

[1] Attention is not Explanation - https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10186

[2] Attention is not not Explanation - https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04626
by CephalopodMD | 2026-01-08 04:04:22+00:00
I think of it more from an information retrieval (i.e. search) perspective.

Imagine the input text as though it were the whole internet and each page is just 1 token. Your job is to build a neural-network Google results page for that mini internet of tokens.

In traditional search, we are given a search query, and we want to find web pages via an intermediate search results page with 10 blue links. Basically, when we're Googling something, we want to know "What web pages are relevant to this given search query?", and then given those links we ask "what do those web pages actually say?" and click on the links to answer our question. In this case, the "Query" is obviously the user search query, the "Key" is one of the ten blue links (usually the title of the page), and the "Value" is the content of the web page that link goes to.

In the attention mechanism, we are given a token and we want to find its meaning when contextualized with other tokens. Basically, we are first trying to answer the question "which other tokens are relevant to this token?", and then given the answer to that we ask "what is the meaning of the original token given these other relevant tokens?" The "Query" is a given token in the input text, the "Key" is another token in the input text, and the "Value" is the final meaning of the original token with that other token in context (in the form of an embedding). For a given token, you can imagine it is as though the attention mechanism "clicked the 10 blue links" of the other most relevant tokens in the input and combined them in some way to figure out the meaning of the original query token (and also you might imagine we ran such a query in parallel for every token in the input text at the same time).

So the self attention mechanism is basically google search but instead of a user query, it's a token in the input, instead of a blue link, it's another token, and instead of a web page, it's meaning.
by rmunn | 2026-01-08 04:05:40+00:00
Had not come across renovate before; thanks for the tip. I see on https://www.mend.io/renovate/ that they have a "Community" edition that includes both cloud and self-hosting, but the cloud hosting is free. Should I be concerned that their loss-leader offering is expensive and will drag the company down, or is their cloud resource usage for the Community edition so lightweight that it's costing them almost nothing in server costs?

Second question: could you expand a little bit on why you like renovate better than dependabot? I can see how the regex handler could be useful for a lot of custom scenarios, but what else makes you say that renovate is the better product?
by charlie0 | 2026-01-08 04:06:09+00:00
Shoutout to Adam Wathan and team. I rarely shell out any money, but Tailwind was an exception. They actually made front end development fun for me and added tons of value with their UI kit etc. Even though I rarely use it, I bought the lifetime to support their mission. Hope they can continue supporting the framework. It was the best thing to happen to front end in a long time imo.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-08 04:06:45+00:00
All that does is create a new middle layer of auditors who are de facto government stooges in contractor outfits

They take your money so that you can be compliant with the Kafkaesque language of the law, such that you can continue to do what you wanna do, but now you’re actually protected under the law with a specific proviso through this new middleman.

And so that’s when you get industry groups lobby in Congress to say we need to do this without the other at the federal level.

There’s no way you’re gonna be able to actually figure this out because laws don’t work to protect citizens, laws are intended to protect business interests. Like that is unambiguous and undisputed at this point.

Surveillance consumerism IS the economy
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-08 04:08:09+00:00
Comfortable people don’t start, maintain or complete revolutions.

Shit’s gonna have to get really really bad really really quickly for anybody to actually seriously mobilize against the reality of the insanity that you live inside.

It’s just so fundamentally corrupt and broken at every possible level

Anyone suggesting that we need some kind of relatively small skin procedure when the patient has stage four skin cancer is still living in a dream world
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-08 04:08:27+00:00
Mach is not a very good microkernel at all, because the overhead is much higher than necessary. The L4 family’s IPC design is substantially more efficient, and that’s why they’re used in actual systems. Fuchsia/Zircon have improved on the model further.

Someone will of course bring up XNU, but the microkernel aspect of it died when they smashed the FreeBSD kernel into the codebase. DriverKit has brought some userspace drivers back, but they use shared memory for all the heavy lifting.
by 46493168 | 2026-01-08 04:08:46+00:00
>And the next time it happens that I get a smart ass comment like that, I'm going to politely ask him if that's his opinion or was he told to say that.

I get the temptation to do this, I really do, but I really don't recommend this. The TSA is in a position to make your day much worse. It's better just to opt-out and say nothing. Opting out is well within your rights (it's posted on the sign at the start of the line).

Follow instructions. Keep your mouth shut. Eyes forward. On your way.
by jcranmer | 2026-01-08 04:09:32+00:00
That doesn't matter. It's not enough that they were doing their job beforehand, their actions at stake have to comport with their actual duties.

So is it part of their official duties to walk in front of a car of someone who is trying to leave the scene, alter their path when the car turns out of the way to ensure they remain in their way, and then shoot the driver? Or is that merely the kind of excessive force that's in contravention of their training and not part of their job role?
by tennysont | 2026-01-08 04:10:19+00:00
This data is mandated by NYC law: https://intro.nyc/local-laws/2015-99

I've heard that releasing these sorts of data sets help competitors do market research, and thus mitigates "winner takes all" forces. NYC also tends to be fairly pro-public-datasets: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?%3BsortBy=most_accessed...
by avazhi | 2026-01-08 04:10:57+00:00
I mean, I'm the exact opposite. Ask ChatGPT to write a simple (but novel) script for AutoHotKey, for example, and it can't do it. Gemini can do it perfectly on the first try.

ChatGPT has been atrocious for me over the past year, as in its actual performance has deteriorated. Gemini has improved with time. As for the comment about lacking wit, I mean, sure I guess, but I use AI to either help me write code to save me time or to give me information - I expect wit out of actual humans. That shit just annoys me with AI, and neither ChatGPT nor Gemini bots are good at not being obnoxious with metaphors and floral speech.
by zahlman | 2026-01-08 04:11:49+00:00
You can get these things year-round here in Toronto, of course, they just tend to go on sale at specific times of year for reasons of supply and demand. But that's specific things like the root vegetables; things imported from the tropics have much more stable prices of course. And really, I'm happy to prep and freeze stuff, and to choose different produce seasonally.

The concept of a "food desert" is wild to me. I routinely walk 3km each way to get groceries and think nothing of it. One of the best ways to make sure I get exercise.

Do American Wal-Mart locations in small towns charge higher prices than ones in major cities in the same state? I think that might actually be illegal here. Certainly the grocery store flyers are for at least the entire province.
by nmr521521 | 2026-01-08 04:12:42+00:00
From my experience working at an online community company, what you’re seeing is actually pretty normal. These days almost all image (and video) moderation goes through at least one round of automated review, often more.

The results then get routed into different buckets:

- Low‑risk content goes straight online, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely “free”; its reach is still constrained by ranking and recommendation logic.

Slightly higher‑risk content will go through another round of automated checks, and sometimes human review. Human moderation volume is very limited though, because it’s far more expensive than machines.

- Some known, pre‑flagged content in existing databases gets blocked outright. Items that need a second human or machine pass are also rolled into the training data for large models.

- Each platform has its own timelines and policies for this kind of post‑processing, but in terms of completeness and strictness, Chinese platforms are actually among the most rigorous.