skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Why do you think Trump didn’t win legitimately...?
Depends on the definition of "legitimate". States with significant R control are very good at voter suppression, from electing barriers to registration, to ensuring that it is difficult to vote in non-R-voting areas with lower polling station density ensuring long queues to vote (see Houston TX), to outlawing bringing water to people waiting in line 6+hours to vote, to actively purging voter rolls (ofc focused on D-voting areas), to not preventing, providing provisions to help affected people vote, or prosecuting dozens of election-day bomb threats against, you guessed it, heavily-D polling stations.

>> You can’t trust the state to help you anymore.

TRUE. I don't see anyone cowering, but we are definitely on our own. The problem is that as John Fitzgerald Kennedy said:

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

Let's hope it does not come to that.
>The war of 1812 was actually between the UK and the US

Yeah, lots of people say this, but the folks who fought the war were the people who lived in Upper and Lower Canada. The Boston Tea Party is considered by many historians to be an important turning point in American history, and is viewed as an American protest against taxation without representation. In much the same way, Canadians tend to consider the war of 1812 one of the watershed moments leading to the formation of the Dominion of Canada (even though that didn't happen for another 55 years).

Without British North America fighting back against American expansionism (among other things) that lead to the war of 1812, Canada would not have existed as it did then, and the borders have stayed mostly consistent (modulo some small disputes around Alaska and coastal islands) since 1818.
Heh - cute regex :-D Brings a bit of whimsy to a pretty dry thread :-D
That ís indeed ironic. I should have used other wording. For that please accept my apologies.

Your link is useful and turns both to this https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

and this discussion:

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/deepseek-r1-does-it-conform...

> Technically, R1 is “open” in that the model is permissively licensed, which means it can be deployed largely without restrictions. However, R1 isn’t “open source” by the widely accepted definition because some of the tools used to build it are shrouded in mystery. Like many high-flying AI companies, DeepSeek is loathe to reveal its secret sauce.

and

> You are right about the lack of data information for DeepSeek, which is a requirement from the OSAID.
As much as you're chiding people for being a part of a "misguided popular uprising", you're not really making a good case for anti-amyloid therapies. It started at "wow, 30%!" in this comment chain, and now it's at "barely having an effect over a placebo" being tremendous progress?
I don't care about qualifications or job titles, if I read a solid piece of text that makes me think differently, I want to know more. ;)
I bookmarked your Quora page and blog in my RSS reader, so if you ever start blogging... And thanks for pointing to Philip K Dick, I might actually start reading science fiction.
Being skeptical about authority figures is always a good thing, it always surprise me to see populations so deferent to them like americans are to law enforcement.
We increased conversion ~30% and we don't know how
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The one implication that I (the author) should highlight for the extra paranoid - this exploit extends to ISP's and cloud vendors that traffic is routed through. Anywhere in the trace route can MITM. It depends on how much you trust those parties.
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Can I give a polite viewpoint that two people often have the bar set elsewhere when it comes to these sorts of things. The bar isn’t higher or lower. It’s in a completely different place. It’s unfair to claim ‘men don’t do as much to reach the bar we have over here’ since we have completely different bars in different locations.

Eg. Based on experience many people tend not to send Christmas cards. They can’t understand the purpose. That’s not inherently terrible. It’s just a different viewpoint. On the other hand there’s people that couldn’t understand not sending cards.

When people form a couple there’s many things like this where one part of the couple has the bar set in a completely different location. Which I think is ok. It’s ok for one half of the couple to not do as much card writing. The workload of a relationship should be split evenly overall but if one places waaaay more importance on a particular aspect than the other it’s ok for that one to bear more of the load in that case.
And, that's not what they're trying to prevent here.
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Agreed! So there isn't any interface for modifying requests/responses at present, but it's definitely possible given the underlying approach. If you consider [this line of code](https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/blob/main/http.go...) where you have an HTTP request parsed from the <command> that ran and are about to send it out to the public internet: you could modify the request (or the response that is received a few lines further) in just the way that you would modify a normal http.Request in Go.
It seems like they've done two things here - the physical optical apparatus setup and the algorithm.

I'm wondering why the physical alignment is so important. Are camera distortion models and mapping, view projection, etc. just too slow or low quality to run?

I suppose I'll have to take a look at their paper later.
"Neutrally friendly" is what I would call ideal. Not disinterested, but not over the top fake either. Just pleasant and to the point.
Cargo features could be improved to alleviate Rust compile times
The issue is reality not being settled or agreed upon. For disputed territories there is effectively two realities both officially backed by sovereign countries.

No, in a disputed territory there's one reality, and 1..n delusions.
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I'm pretty sure I remember a post on Eliezer's Facebook from the early 2010s. I have definitely witnessed some... well - you know, 'culty' vibes and social pressure around Less Wrong.
Cool project, but it is missing central features of Discord such as voice and screen sharing.
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Author here! Happy to answer any questions (and super interested in any feedback on either the writing or the content, since this is my first time publishing a technical blog post)
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Not everybody is free to do what they want in that way. Tech is a pretty hostile place for a lot of people so they make a go of it and then leave. Not wanting to put up with a hostile work environment is not being "free". I know a lot of people who would have preferred to stay in tech but were pushed out or prioritized their mental and physical health.
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a bit like all all tumors were lumped under the same term even though biologically they differed quite a lot at the tissue level
Wow that's an incredible quote! It feels like that to me too.
I think the nuance is between you and your wife and it is truly a pity if you feel you can't tell her that you need a rest. The other nuance is the continuing pressure on men to show no weakness. I keep hoping for some change here but I feel the pressure only increases and is to some degree self-reinforcing. If you aren't willing to admit weakness even to your life partner than what chance is there that other men will.
I would be interrested in seeing how a combined latent space and traditional gpro cot could perform vs just one of either.

My intuition is still that latent space would be better at emulating larger models with fewer params, and cot helping refining the output after latent space.

Combined it would kinda being able to think about a problem. Throw down a draft then refine it.
Yes, aka. continuously. Interactions with larger systems makes it appear discontinuous.
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At that point, look out the window and flip the switch yourself. Then you don't have to worry about whether the clock is wound, the chicken is sick or dead, or any other anomalies
I didn't understand the connection between 'doing dishes' and 'buying gifts/remembering birthdays'.

I 100% do the dishes. I am terrible at remembering birthdays.

Mixing the two did a disservice and I genuinely can't understand the point.
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"otherwise unnecessary payment" is really an understatement.

The payment is literally the last 3 years of profit [1].

[1]: pg 38 -- https://ir.tesla.com/_flysystem/s3/sec/000162828025003063/ts...
The recent performance is more a bet on the corruptibility of the current administration than anything else.
Show HN: SmolFAAS – Cloudflare workers in <1k lines of code
</clickbait title> :)

this was an educational project (and a very fun one at that) - feedback/thoughts/criticisms welcome
tried in some communities of gamedev to talk about security but i gave up. i think the main sentiment is not to care at all. so many games have or had trivial exploits. enabling mass cheating, harasment of other players (DOS) and more nefarious stuff. for people whwo think the mitm wont affect them... thats a silly stance. people hack home routers on massive scales. (another domain who doesnt seem to give shits about security)

good writeup! thanks!
Show HN: CodeCapy – A PR bot that tests your code
Hi everyone! We're Scrapybara[1].

Today we're launching and open-sourcing CodeCapy[2]: the only PR bot that actually tests your code.

It's a GitHub app that generates end-to-end UI tests based on code changes and executes tests autonomously in isolated Scrapybara Ubuntu desktops.

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Is Engineering Strategy Useful?
How it got to this level, abridged: a generic lack of accountability, shit work ethic, and qualified immunity.
This jibes with firsthand accounts I've heard from friends here in DC. If the goal is chaos and anarchy, then it's working. Has congress already abdicated its power?
HyperNormalisation (2016): The Grand Narrative of History
And in the news today:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/
Ask HN: Are there any open source RISC-V processors that I can buy and use?
As of now there are some places which offer small RISC-V processers, such as the StarFive JH7110 (used in DeepComputing DC-ROMA), however when I went to the website it said the CPU was proprietary. Are there any fully open source RISC-V CPUs that are not just hardware simulations that I can actually buy?
we've banned gifts for adults and we just go out to eat anymore.

We don't need the junk and we are sick of stressing out about buying gifts.
Plenty of people don't think with an internal monologue or internal imagery.
'The truth is they plateaued long ago with GPT-3'

Hmmm....
Apple locks down everything:

'I like the safety'- Apple marketers or people who fell for the marketing

Garmin/google/anyone else does it:

"So dumb, I should be able to use my own stuff!"
Depending on when you tried things might be much better now. Moving accounts can be done in a couple of simple clicks. You might have issues with your history, which stays behind because cool URIs don't change.
Fentanyl: The key to war and peace between the United States and Mexico
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Well, EU is not a single country. I can imagine Germany outsourcing such jobs to Poland. Oh well, I can move back “home” from UK then.
Did you test the "stop the world" approach? I wonder how the write downtime compares. It seems the 1 second of replication lag is unavoidable. The arbitrary 2.5 seconds of waiting for txns to finish could be removed by just killing all running txns, which your new approach does for txns longer than 2.5 seconds already.

> ;; 2. Give existing transactions 2.5 seconds to complete.

> (Thread/sleep 2500)

> ;; Cancel the rest

> (sql/cancel-in-progress sql/default-statement-tracker)

Then you have 2.5 seconds less downtime and I think you can avoid the problem of holding all connections on one big machine.

> Our switching algorithm hinges on being able to control all active connections. If you have tons of machines, how could you control all active connections?

> Well, since our throughput was still modest, we could temporarily scale our sync servers down to just one giant machine

> In December we were able to scale down to one big machine. We’re approaching the limits to one big machine today. [15] We’re going to try to evolve this into a kind of two-phase-commit, where each machine reports their stage, and a coordinator progresses when all machines hit the same stage.

I guess it depends on what your SLO is. With your approach only clients with txns longer than 2.5 seconds started before the upgrade see them fail, whereas with the "stop the world" approach there would be a period lower-bounded by the replication lag time where all txns fail.

Cool work thanks for sharing!

Edit: I feel like a relevant question regarding the SLO I'm not considering is how txns make their way from your customers to your DB? Do your customers make requests to your API and your application servers send txns to your Postgres instance? I think then you could set up a reasonable retry policy in your application code and use the "stop the world" approach and once your DB is available again the retries succeed. Then your customers never see any txns fail (even the long-running ones) and just a slight increase in latency. If you are worried about retrying in cases that are not related to this upgrade you could change the configuration of your retry policy shortly before/after the upgrade. Or return an error code specific to this scenario so your retry code knows.

Then you get the best of both worlds: no downtime perceivable to customers, no waiting for 2.5 seconds, and you don't have to write a two-phase-commit approach for it to scale.

If your customer sends txns to your Postgres instance directly, this wouldn't work I think.
> don't get this. What's the alternative? A customer service job where you can be rude?

Create a good work environment, pay enough, and offer enough benefits that your employees are actually happy rather than having to admonish them into faking it. This has the added benefit of creating demand that allows the company to be more selective.

All of your examples are much less effort than putting on a fake persona for eight hours a day. Most of us would be pretty drained after an eight hour, cameras on Teams meeting with our boss' boss and that's pretty much what customer service is.
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