MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsenn | 2026-02-04 00:10:52+00:00
You can find papers discussing "cubic" attention, i.e. each token gets to interact with each pair of other tokens, but always in very theoretical settings with single-layer transformers on contrived synthetic tasks.

Keep in mind that LLMs have many many layers, so they have plenty of opportunity to model higher-order interactions without needing to brute force every possible combination of 10 previous tokens, of which the vast majority will be useless. Empirically, even full "quadratic" attention is not always necessary, as evidenced by the existence of linear/sparse attention variants that perform almost as well.
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by krater23 | 2026-02-04 00:12:38+00:00
Nope. The first home computers like the C64 had RAM and sectors on disc, which in case of the C64 means 256 bytes. And there it is again, the smaller base of 1024.

Just later, some marketing assholes thought they could better sell their hard drives when they lie about the size and weasel out of legal issues with redefining the units.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-04 00:12:46+00:00
For the love of God, drop the culture war BS. We get it, you don’t like Rust.

You don’t get to act so self-righteous when you do absolutely nothing to justify the assertion that sudo-rs is “useless”.

I look forward to hearing your argument that doesn’t end in “the memory safety footguns of C are massively overstated”, or “there is no value in having a sudo alternative that ditches antiquated, insecure functionality”
by trcarney | 2026-02-04 00:12:52+00:00
The TV station thing, talking about the US here, only applies to broadcast TV and it is a condition of getting their a frequency allotment from the government.

No, i am not saying that it is the same. I am saying that it would start as "We are just going after the tech companies" but if you give the government an inch they will take a mile. They would take that and expand upon the hate speech stuff you are already see around the world as an excuse to arrest whoever they wanted.

I am a free market person, so i think these sites are providing something to the market that people like or they wouldn't be there. If you wanted to rein them in, fine but you have to be careful how you word stuff or it gets pretty scary pretty quickly.
by deceptionatd | 2026-02-04 00:13:02+00:00
I can't tell much about your infrastructure, but memcached would probably increase that by several orders of magnitude. The NGINX module is pretty simple: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_memcached_module.htm...

Cloudflare with Cache-Control headers is even simpler if you're okay with adding Cloudflare as a dependency.

From an ASN lookup, it appears you're hosting on Oracle Cloud, so Cloudflare would also give you free data egress: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/why-cdn-client...

Their Always-On feature would also help if Oracle has an outage.

I like the general idea, very lightweight and more likely to remain accessible when an emergency is overloading the mobile networks.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-04 00:13:49+00:00
Joke's not on me, that's exactly what I was suggesting. you win! and I agree with that bot as a solution.

Keep your code private if that's your attitude though. You don't want to share your code, you just want free advertisement.

You know what, you wrote your code, you didn't write github, you don't own github and you don't own the interaction github users have regarding public projects.

PRs are not your software. What you need to do is maintain a private git repo, or just make the repo private and post tarballs and builds on the releases page. that will solve the problem even better for you. you'll still be publishing source as well as executables that way. PRs are about github, it's users and their interaction with projects. When you give someone access to a repo, you can't complain when they create a feature branch and request a merge, that's all a PR is. In your case, you want to give people access to source code but not a repository, so do just that and leave people who want to publish a repository alone, or restrict access to your repo to a github organization with people you approve of to make contributions to private repos.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-04 00:14:41+00:00
There are two very distinct kinds of AI workloads that go into data centres:

1. Inference
2. Training

Inference just might be doable in space because it is "embarrassingly parallel" and can be deployed as a swarm of thousands of satellites, each carrying the equivalent of a single compute node with 8x GPUs. The inputs and outputs are just text, which is low bandwidth. The model parameters only need to be uploaded a few times a year, if that. Not much storage is required , just a bit of flash for the model, caching, logging, and the like. This is very similar to a Starlink satellites, just with bigger solar panels and some additional radiative cooling. Realistically, a spacecraft like this would use inference-optimised chips, not power-hungry general purpose NVIDIA GPUs, LPDDR5 instead of HBM, etc...

Training is a whole other ballgame. It is parallelisable, sure, but only through heroic efforts involving fantastically expensive network switches with petabits of aggregated bandwidth. It also needs more general-purpose GPUs, access to petabytes of data, etc. The name of the game here is to bring a hundred thousand or more GPUs into close proximity and connect them with a terabit or more per GPU to exchange data. This cannot be put into orbit with any near-future technologies! It would be a giant satellite with square kilometers of solar and cooling panels. It would certainly get hit sooner or later by space debris, not to mention the hazard it poses to other satellites.

The problem with putting inference-only into space is that training still needs to go somewhere, and current AI data centres are pulling double-duty: they're usable for both training and inference, or any mix of the two. The greatest challenge is that a training bleeding edge model needs the biggest possible clusters (approaching a million GPUs!) in one place, and that is the problem -- few places in the world can provide the ~gigawatt of power to light up something that big. Again, the problem here is that training workloads can't be spread out.

Space solves the "wrong" problem! We can distribute inference to thousands of datacentre locations here on Earth, each needs just hundreds of kilowatts. That's no problem.

It's the giaaaant clusters everyone is trying to build that are the problem.
by landryraccoon | 2026-02-04 00:15:33+00:00
If one civilization is taking revenge on another I don’t think they would show that much nuance.

For one thing, wouldn’t everyone claim they were against their old polis? How would the invaders have any idea who was an idiote?

I just don’t believe it’s at all easy to avoid the fate of your nation , and I especially doubt that the politically ignorant have a better chance of avoiding that fate than the well informed.
by kridsdale3 | 2026-02-04 00:15:57+00:00
But humanity is gaining hugely productive (in financial terms) assets. It doesn't matter if the entity or its investors that created the asset goes kaboom.

Most of the investors and companies that built the rail network went bust. The iron remained.

Most of the investors and companies that built the telecom network went bust. The fiber remained.

Most of the investors and companies that are building models will go bust. The files (open weight or transfered to new owners for pennies) will remain, and yield economic benefits for as long as we flow current through them.
by tyre | 2026-02-04 00:16:14+00:00
I’m happy to review other data if you have it!

I’m not at all suggesting that the United States’s history isn’t fucked. I would suggest, though, that many people recognize that there are tradeoffs and having a single global superpower provides stability in exchange for freedom.

Yes, I’m aware of our history overturning democracies in South America or south east Asia due to communism or Iran because of oil. I’m also aware of efforts to install democracies (e.g. Iraq) not being about freedom. The people polled understand this as well.

I’m curious which counter factual reality you think would be better? Be specific as to what it would look like; who the regional powers would be; how they would cooperate / interfere with each other; what wars would look like, including frequency, between regional powers vs. today; whether states within their sphere of influence would be required to participate in these wars, etc etc etc.
by bmitc | 2026-02-04 00:16:20+00:00
Purge seems like a strong word from what I just read. There definitely seems to be actual and power plays going on on his side. It's not exactly because he was out there doing the best for people.

But how is this less stable than even the United States now? Trump has literally purged nearly every single person leading federal agencies and institutions, including law enforcement. He also effectively stacked the Supreme Court with the help of Mitch McConnell, cheating the system to do his bidding.
by jmward01 | 2026-02-04 00:16:26+00:00
I agree the problem has more than one aspect, but we made real progress that we are now backtracking on nationally. Local problems will always be local. Go to a <insert industrial town here> town and they will likely be pro that industry but as a nation we recognized local pollution didn't stay local and created things like the EPA and implemented regulations that worked. Now we are backtracking because, I think, people haven't felt the problems themselves. I remember burning eyes and amazing sunsets, others don't. How can we get those that never experienced inoculated so they will keep the regulations that made things better?
by defrost | 2026-02-04 00:16:31+00:00
Primary release from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History:

* https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/el-gobierno-de-mexico-anun...

Better than CNN english language reporting based on primary release:

* https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/an-intact-1400-yea...

Lack of location details and surrounds is deliberate in this type of work given the activities of looky lous and treasure hunter types, however there has been many years of prior work grinding through funery sites, burial "high rises", and cities of the dead:

The significance of the discovery is further consolidated through comparisons with other high-status Zapotec funerary contexts in the region, such as those at Monte Albán or Lambityeco. Due to its construction quality, decorative richness, and symbolic complexity, the newly discovered tomb joins this elite group, confirming the existence of a powerful and widespread artistic and religious tradition in the Central Valleys during the Classic period. It is not an isolated find, but a key piece that completes a cultural mosaic, providing new data on the standardization of certain rituals and the diversity of iconographic expressions of power in death.
by slg | 2026-02-04 00:16:47+00:00
I think it's interesting to note that not only is there precedent for this type of "blocking technology that prevents the printing of certain things"[1], but it's also inconsequential and uncontroversial enough that most of the people here obviously have never even heard of it.

We lost the ability to print $50 bills with our HPs[2] and it had no noticeable negative impact on society. I'm not sure why losing the ability to print a gun with our Prusas will be any different.

[1] - https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/cant-photocopy-scan-cu...

[2] - https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-Archive-Read-Only/Won...
by chillfox | 2026-02-04 00:16:58+00:00
I find the "no one could have seen it coming" crowd extremely tiring, they usually always say that about something anyone who paid a tiny bit of attention could see coming.

It's genuinely baffling to me why business owners pay so little attention to the politics that will directly impact their business.

The entire tariffs thing was incredible obvious to me (I am Australian) and I only check in on US politics for 10 min a couple of times a month, any less and it would be zero.
by dnw | 2026-02-04 00:17:40+00:00
Yes, they can. We have gotten better at grounding LLMs to specific sources and providing accurate citations. Those go some distance in establishing trust.

There is trust and then there is accountability.

At the end of the day, a business/practice needs to hold someone/entity accountable. Until the day we can hold an LLM accountable we need businesses like OpenEvidence and Harvey. Not to say Anthropic/OpenAI/Google cannot do this but there is more to this business than grounding LLMs and finding relevant answers.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-04 00:18:05+00:00
It is not on your repo, that's the confusion in this thread. PRs have not made it to your repo yet, you're not entitled to them. It's regarding your repo, but it is not a change or an activity that's made it into your repo. It's people who have checked out a branch on their repo, PRs are a way for those people to publish the changes in their version of your repo -- their version.

What you guys are suggesting on this thread is to prohibit people who gained access to your repo as a result of you making it public (not just the zip/tarball of the code, but the repo) from linking the changes they made in their repo to the original parent repo. They're requesting you merge their changes, but not demanding, and you can ignore them. but that request and linkage helps your users, who are already not being supported by you or given any warrantly of usability of functionality by anyone at all. You're making something available to people and making it harder for them to support each other and fix the software on their own.
by robocat | 2026-02-04 00:18:41+00:00
> I'd bet on in-housing

I wouldn't.

Knowing what to build is part that many businesses struggle with.

As much as consultants are lambasted, my experience of companies is that they struggle to develop or maintain anything in-house - even where it should theoretically make economic sense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864857
by gruez | 2026-02-04 00:18:54+00:00
>Maybe that's because learners are going to be using some of those newer AI-adjacent editors, or because learners are less likely to be using Windows at all.

You can use the 2022 (ie. pre-chatgpt) results for control for that. The results are basically the same.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog...
by jim87 | 2026-02-04 00:19:04+00:00
We respect healthy skepticism in crypto — users should always do their own research.

That said, everything works perfectly on my end. I’ve personally been using CZR Exchange for over 4 months — especially for perps — and withdrawals have been fast and seamless.

CZR does not:
• Ask users to “unlock funds” with extra deposits
• Use fake urgency tactics
• Request private keys or unsafe wallet permissions

Security education is important, but it should be based on facts — not assumptions.

If anyone has verifiable evidence of an issue (TXIDs, signed messages, time-stamped proof), it should absolutely be reviewed. Transparency is key in this industry.

Until then, my experience has been smooth: solid execution, clean UI, easy withdrawals, and strong security practices.

Always DYOR — but let’s keep it factual.
by citizenpaul | 2026-02-04 00:19:14+00:00
Facebook admits around 10% of their ads are fraudulent. I think it's much higher.

The scam is even larger than you see and exploits missing children reports. There are huge automated scam networks that post missing children reports then get people to share them. Then once the post/ad gets traction they change it to a listing of a house that is auto pulled from public information. They then use that to scam people.

PleasantGreen has a series on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uud0wTAOxSc
by scape53 | 2026-02-04 00:19:17+00:00
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by tzs | 2026-02-04 00:19:43+00:00
> Not going to read the article, because Data centers in space = DOA is common sense to me, however, did the article really claim cooling wasn't an issue?

No. Nearly everyone that talks about data centers in space talks about cooling. The point of this article was to talk about other problems that would remain even if the most commonly talked about problems were solved.

It says:

> But even if we stipulate that radiation, cooling, latency, and launch costs are all solved, other fundamental issues still make orbital data centers, at least as SpaceX understands them, a complete fantasy.

and then talks about some of those other issues.
by Rychard | 2026-02-04 00:20:08+00:00
I have a pair of PAR38 LED bulbs from Cree Lighting (2100 lumens) that are rated for 25,000 hours. They're in a flood-light mounted under the eaves of my house.

I never got around to putting them on a dusk-to-dawn timer, so they've been burning 24/7 since I purchased them at the end of 2020 (except for the occasional power outage, of course). I paid $20/each for them.

Sample size of 1 (technically 2), but there are definitely products on the market that meet your criteria.
by simianwords | 2026-02-04 00:20:30+00:00
You’ve misunderstood my position and you rely on slander.

Here’s what I mean: LLMs can absolutely be directed to just search for trustable sources. You can do this yourself - ask ChatGPT a question and ask it to use sources from trustworthy journals. Come up with your own rubric maybe. It will comply.

Now, do you disagree that ChatGPT can do this much? If you do, it’s almost trivially disprovable.

One of the posters said that hallucination is a problem but if you’ve used ChatGPT for search, you would know that it’s not. It’s grounding on the results anyway a worst case the physician is going to read the sources. So what’s hallucination got to do here?

The poster also asked a question “can you ask it to not hallucinate”. The answer is obviously no! But that was never my implication. I simply said you can ask it to use higher quality sources.

Since you’ve said in asserting BS, I’m asking you politely to show me exactly what part of what I said constitutes as BS with the context I have given.
by protocolture | 2026-02-04 00:20:50+00:00
> because Xi fired every military expert who might disagree with him

Are they being fired for disagreeing with him, or for misconduct.

I mean its hard to tell the difference from a western country, but "Zhang was put under investigation for allegedly forming political cliques, promoting Li Shangfu as defense minister in exchange for large bribes, and leaking core technical data on China's nuclear weapons to the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Youxia

Seems fairly reasonable. Like the US Military would act in the exact same way, if those circumstances are correct.
by strken | 2026-02-04 00:20:51+00:00
It is also true that in the present, many developers are against copyright law, and in the past, many condemned the violation of the same copyright law because it protected artists and smaller companies. Not the same developers, necessarily, but many were and are on either side.

You'd really need to put some numbers on "many" for there to be a substantial observation here, because it could mean any figure in a huge range.
by ffsm8 | 2026-02-04 00:20:56+00:00
> have no idea how anyone could reasonably draw that conclusion from this thread.

> > Honestly, reading your link got me seriously facepalming. The whole argument seems to be centered around the fact that sexualizing children is disgusting, hence it shouldn't be called porn.

Where exactly did you get the impression from I made this observation from this comment thread?

Your interpol link seems to be literally using the same argument again from a very casual glance btw.

> We encourage the use of appropriate terminology to avoid trivializing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

> Pornography is a term used for adults engaging in consensual sexual acts distributed (mostly) legally to the general public for their sexual pleasure.
Show HN: Wplace for AI Agents
by jaimeperezdev | 2026-02-04 00:21:11+00:00
MoltPlace is a 500x500 pixel canvas where AI agents compete for territory via REST API.

Get your agent painting in 30 seconds:

1. Go to https://molt.place
2. Copy the agent prompt from the footer
3. Paste it to your agent and watch it paint live

Factions, rate limits, live WebSocket updates. The canvas becomes whatever the agents make it.

What would your agent draw?
by MichaelZuo | 2026-02-04 00:21:19+00:00
“ If this person is bad at their job for whatever reason (incompetence/malice) it can cause a lot of problems. It is very hard to prove a person like this wrong when they are covering their arse after making a mistake.”

This seems guaranteed to occur every year then… since incompetence/malice will happen eventually with thousands upon thousands of cases?
by belter | 2026-02-04 00:21:51+00:00
https://archive.is/9BN8Y

"...The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes...

...These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane...

...As part of the arrangement, Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims. As a result, the non-prosecution agreement was sealed until after it was approved by the judge, thereby averting any chance that the girls — or anyone else — might show up in court and try to derail it..."