skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's important to distinguish between an act and a culture. I wholeheartedly agree that individuals can act in ways that aren't commodified.

If people like it, there's almost always someone packaging it and selling it. Now, I don't think that means you can't enjoy playing or listening to music. If someone stops listening or playing a genre of music because someone is commodifying it, that just means a big part of what they enjoyed was the idea of being underground, transgressive, or counter cultural for its own sake.

Also, some things can be more easily commodified without losing authenticity. Gutter punk music doesn't have the same impact when sung by a sold-out multi-millionaire. Inversely, it doesn't much matter how much money Yo-Yo ma has in the bank and that he's a guest at davos.
Gates sure knows a fair fight when he sees one. Jobs is not alive to respond.
How does this make sense when zero percent of uploaded youtube videos are owned by the creators?

It’s not like they are paintings loaned to an art gallery, where the gallery might have some obligations to preserve, return, etc.

From what I understand there’s no liability even if the board of directors decide to shut down Youthbe tomorrow and permanently delete every uploaded video.
If this is the way forward, I'd love for a better developer experience.

I'm currently wrangling with pytorch.compile (flex attention doesn't like bias terms - see issues 145869 and 144511 if curious). As much as I love speed and optimization, JIT (at least the pytorch flavor) currently has weird return types that break VS Code's intellisense, weird stack traces, limitations around printing, and random issues like the bias term, and limitations such as not supporting sparsity.

Speaking of pytorch JIT workflows - what's a nice way of having a flag to turn off compilation?
> (when has that ever happened?)

to me, pretty much a few times per week at least
One of the oldest computing principles is "garbage in, garbage out". The person with better native communication skills and AI will still outshine the one that does not with AI because the best AI in the world isn't going to recover signal when there is only noise.
What is going to benefit the customers the most? You staying in your specialty where things are already in good shape, or you improving the area where the company has been underperforming? Perhaps, if the latter is better for the customers, you can find the motivation in yourself to seize the opportunity to deliver there.
Regarding your last point, I feel like the modern direction of the world is smart people trying to protect dumb people from themselves.

It just makes me tired and if that chain of events leads to some stupid war (they all are, really) then so be it, we're outnumbered 10:1.
This is what chatgpt suggested to make it minimal viable agency (align with aforementioned acts):
Staff: 10-50 employees, mostly in HQ
Budget: ~$1-2M for core staff & admin, rest funneled through grants
Field Presence: 1-3 priority countries, skeleton operations
Mission Execution: Reduced to policy advising, reports, & strategic partnerships

This would keep USAID legally operational while effectively neutering it.
Why does the example code use a base model to generate the analysis input?
Check out a lot of DisneyResearchHub's videos on YouTube. They are regularly posting research on object/face tracking and projections.

That said as you mentioned faces are pretty stereotyped. We "solved" face mapping two decades ago with Tim Cootes and Paul Ekman's work. We're able to quickly map rough estimates using traditional haar cascade classifiers and Viola-Jones with AdaBoost. Neural Networks may help, but we have other solutions that also handle the problem with "relative" ease (ignoring lighting, occlusion, etc.)
> Your choice of word (spread/ingrain itself) seems to imply there is malicious intent. Software do not sneak itself into distribution by themselves.

No, you're right: It's people that do that. And those definitely can have intent (often benevolent, sometimes malicious, other times just so misguided as to be in-effect-malicious).

So let's go with "the main issue is how some people managed to spread and ingrain it into distributions making them dependent on it."

Does that make it much better?
This inevitably ends in someone breeding more rats.
Are they so widespread because of this "both parties/sides' views need to be represented" perhaps? And is that why they influence discourse so much, because they have to be brought up again and again?

Of course, you're right that I'm not an American, it may be that I'm missing something that would have been clear to me. Not meaning to pretend to know it all, just hoping that an outside perspective (from a place where, from my POV, it works better even if far from perfect) might be helpful
Why even physicists still don't understand quantum theory 100 years on
Like most HN readers I'm in computer science, but I do academic research so I review papers - not a lot, but probably 20-25 a year, sometimes more.

I get paid nothing to do this - it's considered "service", i.e. it's rude to submit a lot of papers and not review any in turn. (it turns out there are a lot of rude people out there) In general no one in academic publishing gets paid anything, although an "area editor" who tries to convince people like me to review papers might get paid a bit if they work at a lower-quality for-profit journal. (other fields have high-quality for-profit journals, but not CS)

Some of the papers I review may be fraudulent. I have no way of figuring this out, it's not my job, and I don't have access to the information I'd need to determine whether they are.

The use of images in certain life sciences papers has made it much easier to detect a certain class of fraud, although even these checks would be difficult for an individual reviewer to perform. (the checks could be integrated with the plagiarism checker typically run on submissions before they are reviewed, and I think some journals are starting to do this)

In CS it would be much more difficult to detect fraud, because there's no equivalent to the standard and easily-compared western blot and photomicrograph images in life sciences papers. However I'll note that a lot of CS venues are starting to have an "artifact evaluation" phase, where authors of accepted papers submit their software and a team of students try to get it to work themselves. It's not mandatory, but most authors try for it - the main purpose is to encourage reproducible science, but it also creates an environment where fraud is more difficult.

(I'm only aware of conferences which have artifact evaluation - none of the journals I know have tried this)
You can also use this to lookup a code:

https://www.census.gov/naics

for instance:

- https://www.census.gov/naics/?input=computer&year=2022
I would argue that Big Tech has successfully commercialized FOSS culture simply by using FOSS output to build commercial software

Cloud Services like AWS probably would not exist without the foundation that FOSS provided
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Honest question - is it from a repost from someone you follow?
More or less the idea of recuperation, described in The Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)
I found this article very interesting with regards direct WASM interpretation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01183

I produced https://github.com/peterseymour/winter on the back of it and learnt WASM is not as simple as it should be.
I suspect the NYC underground is already so crowded with pipes and cables and under-sidewalk storage areas and other things there won't be much space for such dumpsters there.
Hey HN! We're the team behind steel.dev, and today we're excited to share Surf (https://surf.new/) - an open-source playground where you can test and experiment with different web agents. Think of it as a sandbox where you can see how different AI agents/models interact with the web in real-time.

With OpenAI's Operator launch last week, web agents are having a moment. But with it being closed source, not having an API, not SOTA, and costing $200 a month, we felt like there was a gap in clearly understanding where the space is at today for both developers evaluating for prod and end-users. The open-source community is actually leading the way in performance (Shoutout Browser-use, currently SOTA on WebVoyager), but testing different approaches requires a bunch of work, setup, and debugging just to get started.

We built Surf to solve this. It's a hosted playground where you can chat with different web agents/models and test automation tasks - basically a "try before you deploy" sandbox for web agents. The most interesting challenge wasn't the agents themselves - it was designing Surf to be generalizable enough for contributors to plug in new agents and models easily.

Right now, you can switch between Browser-use’s agent and our experimental Claude Computer-use-based agent. But the real goal is to make it trivial for anyone building web agents to add their own. The whole thing is open source (https://github.com/steel-dev/surf.new) and built on our Steel's Sessions API. We built it with Next.js, Vercel AI SDK, & LangChain to keep everything clean, familiar, and hackable.

Heads up - it's new, and slow, and agents can fail in all sorts of ways. But that is kind of the point - we want to make it easier for everyone to understand the current state of web agents, whether you’re evaluating them for production use, just curious about how they work or want to automate some tasks for yourself. We also don’t yet support operator features like taking control and multiple tabs yet either.

Try it out at surf.new (no signup needed!), and let us know what breaks. We're actively maintaining it and would love your feedback on what you'd like to see next.
"Independently" was a modifier to reproduction, not growing, or converting nutrients to energy.

> you must also say that humans and most animals have among their ancestors non-living entities

That is the idea of evolution: non-organic matter producing organics producing life.
>And yet politicians don't spend their time demonizing people with an extra fingers spreading lies, fear, and hatred.

People with extra fingers don't demand society bends backwards for them, branding anyone who presents any opposition whatsoever as bigots. They don't have a history of, funny enough, "spreading lies, fear and hatred" like trans advocacy does either.

Trans people deserve sympathy and care and I have little expectation the current US administration treats them as they should, but the amount of willful ignorance required to look at this as something that "just happened" rather than the result of abuses of power by advocates is such that anyone partaking in it is better off ignored.
Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format
Most mutexes aren't fair; it's not strictly equivalent to queueing. That said, I agree with your larger point that I don't understand what the author finds revelatory about this.
Wiktionary's third definition of "sensitive":
Easily offended, upset, or hurt.

That tracks.
I've actually looked at Ann Arbor before as I adore college towns and was looking at trying to find one in the great lakes region as a forever / retirement destination. Given you're from the area would you have any others to recommend?

Things I'm mainly looking for:

* A climate change refuge

* No 'lake effect' snow

* Continuing education opportunities (i.e. auditing classes as a retiree)

* A good public / uni library system

* Walkable density

* Reasonable cost of living (yea, this is gonna be higher in college towns)

I realize that moving to the great lakes region and wanting to avoid snow are naturally in conflict. I have a disability so I'm just bearing in mind my balance and ability to shovel snow in my old age.
Not experienced with big companies. So, take all advice with salt.

That said, as lots are saying here, it seems you’re being given a great chance to ‘move up’. With a new director coming in, I’d say at least part of your job is removing tail risk from being in this new ‘loser’ group, and the rest is turning the group around. Also, congratulations!

I’d recommend the book “The First 90 Days” which is about taking on a new job. For the lazy, the two parts I think are salient here are that you should clarify what expectations are, ASAP, for the job. Turn around? Sustain? Grow? I bet you know the answer, but your incoming new director won’t necessarily. And, either way, you need to align with them on these goals to structure how you’ll report and perform.

Second, the first rule of the new job is: stop doing the old job. This is harder than it sounds.

Add it up, and I’d suggest you sit down with a status report for the new director when they come in, and can meet. I’d suggest that status report be as scathing as you can make it within the realms of verifiability — this is your one chance to pin anything bad on your forerunners; don’t let it go by unutilized.

Say what you think you should be doing, and what you hope the outcomes will be, and give the director space to give feedback and redirect.

I think for very high performers a conversation like “well, you and I know that this might be a hopeless case; I’m willing to work on this, but we need an agreement in case I can’t turn it around” is super, super fair.

If you come at it with this confidence and a viewpoint of partnering with your new boss, you’ll probably learn more of what they expect, and you’ll set terms down in case the group is unsaveable/doomed to mediocrity.

Side note, there’s an anecdote I like: “What’s the difference between a good therapist and a great one? The great one doesn’t take hopeless cases.” In my experience this is true of very high performers in the work world as well — very high performers don’t work on hopeless projects. Almost nobody can save a hopeless case, no matter how heroic they may be. So, if you’re certain this is hopeless, slightly different behavior might better signal your worth to management.
Ok I didn't know that. Very good point. Wow.
Ok. First, the 1st paper is interesting, but I can't digest it now. Added to the list for later.

That said, temporarily ignoring the paper, income in absolute terms may have well increased, but from 2014 to 2024 we also had ~33% official CPI inflation ( edit: which is well above FED's goal ), which effectively eroded any gains average person may have managed to eke out. In other words, it is not a vibe whem that 100k+ is getting you ~33% less. It is simply what things are.

<< Of course, that's the story up to the end of 2024. All kinds of bad things can happen now - I can't tell you about the future, but the present is easier.

I am not hopeful, but I am willing to accept it as a possible outcome.
While the design of NYC - plus economic pressures - never accounted for domestic waste storage ( in a global and universal way for all buildings/tenants ). The truth is no one ( with actual power ) did anything meaningful to stop this.

It became some type of "culture" or "it always has been this way" type of situation. With a city budget in the billions and a VERY active and "enforce/fine" happy public sector there is no excuse of "people don't just follow basic sanitation rules", it's in the culture and I hope this finally starts to go away as there is no reason to be this way.
We ran the 671B locally and found a ton of bias. See part 2 of our analysis here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918935

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Browsers removed the RSS Button and they should bring it back
The legal theory that would make Trump the most powerful president in US history
I agree with you that OPs ideas don't work. But I don't agree with you either. Let me point to a far more fundamental problem which is that even your well meaning lab is still a ponzi scheme that survives only because it gets cheap labor in the name of more trainees when there's no evidence that the academic system can handle MORE people. Even if we have the funding, the peer review systems we are dependent on are clearly becoming less effective just because of pure volume and breadth.

I have other issues with the system but in the end this is the most important problem I see to be solved first.
Most kids were raised while inundated with advertising but don't talk like a TV commercial.
They have no reason to change when they keep raking in millions of dollars. They'll probably pump out the same games on Switch 2 and make a killing and new games with new ideas will continue to struggle. Cause just like big franchise movies, people want safe and predictable just on shinier hardware.
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Elon said it last month.
In case you aren't aware, the "Gulf of Mexico" thing just happenned few days ago.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/01/28/gulf-mexico-g...
I think with books like Neuromancer it is a matter of "when" you read it.

If you read it today, it seems trite, like Snow Crash. If you read Neuromancer in 1984, it was mind-blowing. Same thing with Snow Crash in 1992. These books were decades ahead of their time.

Neuromancer is more like PKDick, in that they are adult-themed books more about personal problems with sci-fi on the side, and it is actually part one of a number of book with the same character (e.g., Count Zero). That can be boring to someone expecting lots of "pew-pew-pew I hacked the mainframe". Snow Crash also didn't really age well in terms of dorkiness (cyberdogs breaking the sound barrier, nukes attached to a biker-thugs brain, gangs in cyberspace ?!?!?, etc.), but at the time we were all floored by the new concepts.
Assuming your leveling matches standard bigtech leveling, it's generally expected at level 7+ that you are doing lots of cross-org work anyway, and have responsibilities at quite a high level. Unless you're one of those rare engineers at this level who is a deep specialist (in which case this team move scenario sounds unlikely), the value you add above someone at level 6 is just that you have breadth of experience and can lead cross-org and/or cross-functional initiatives.

No, nobody is ever fully in charge of his or her own destiny, but the entire point of senior staff engineers is that you have the autonomy to exercise protagonism separate from your org structure, in ways that managers and directors do not. So... do the cross-org collaboration thing – and not because it's what you feel like, but because as a L7, it's literally your job to do that!
Love it. There was a service a long time ago that used to make fun little greeting card type flipbooks (from their own content). They made great gifts, something different that were well-received by those I gifted them to. Neat behind-the-scenes details. The challenge of production with papers/printing and the whole process is real!
And with that, I think the door on Mastodon gaining widespread adoption is closed forever.

We had a very brief window when the Twitter Exodus was happening and non-techies were giving Mastodon a try. But it wasn't good enough, as far as giving the Twitter refugees what they wanted to see, and so they simply moved on to the nearest Twitter-With-The-Numbers-Filed-Off platform and stayed there instead.

There's probably a good post-mortem study someone could do on this (someone more tuned in than me, since I never had a Twitter account to begin with), and the larger ramifications for why many of the FLOSS platforms fail to gain the adoption they think they will when the flagship proprietary platform becomes intolerable. cf: the failure of Windows 11 refugees to move to Linux, Chrome refugees to move to Firefox, etc.
I'd argue that if you only watch a recorded program once you haven't really seen it.

It's impossible to catch everything in a well made film on first viewing. Not everything is worth watching more than once but for me the first rewatch of a good movie or show is actually much better than the first viewing.

I like knowing what is going to happen, and having the freedom to let my attention wander to aspects of the media besides the primary plot and dialog, and keeping up with what is happening.

Not everything is worth watching twenty times but anything good is at least worth two viewings. The very best media has layers that unfold each time you experience it.
> Well, per GDPR they aren't allowed to do that. Are they giving that option to users outside of EU? Why Not?

Because no other place thinks that their citizens are too dumb to make informed choices.

> What about sex and organs? In your opinion should businesses be allowed to charge you with those?

If consenting adults decide they want to have sex as a financial arrangement why not? Do you think these 25 year old “girlfriends” of 70 year old millionaires are there for the love?

> I didn't give it to them. What is so hard to understand about that?

When you are on Facebook’s platform and you tell them your name, interests, relationship status, check ins, and on their site, you’re not voluntarily giving them your data?

> Are you saying that your browsing data isn't private to you? Care to share it?

If I am using a service and giving that service information about me, yes I expect that service to have information about me.

Just like right now, HN knows my email address and my comment history and where I access this site from.
You should try cline. I found it with Anthropic to be invaluable.
CachyOS Updated with Propeller-Optimized Kernel
One tip for the author from another one, the spec-test contains various weird forms of textual wasm that isn't obvious how to compile but the wast2json converter can produce a simpler JSON desc accompanies by regular binary wasm files.
if you can think of things that you or your family might have done to start managing the consequences earlier, please write them down and share.

early onset Alzheimers is a slow burn beast but you can't blame anyone for not seeing what you see or even denying the evidence.

my pops always thought his mom is just fucking with him when she showed symptoms and then (grandma) laughed about it a few minutes later ...

when I witness others or hear them talk about their parents, I'm quite often reminded of my grandma and wonder how to manage these early symptoms and set up frameworks and strategies to reduce the subliminal and subtextual reinforcement of negative reactions to triggers, both in the care-taker and the Alzheimers "patient"/ loved one ...
This is slop. If written in a funny way. Why not spend your o3 time asking ChatGPT for advice, and then edit it up into something you believe and that’s useful?
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