skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand not everyone is able to get rid of Adobe and their eco-system immediately, but I had the last straw after 1) they slapped a cloud integration on top of perfectly working offline softwares and labelling it Creative Cloud, fucking over existing customers who had prepaid offline licenses and 2) they got hacked and a lot of their customers's credit card info was stolen and many of them had fraudulent transactions on their cards (including mine). They didn't even do a proper disclosure until it blew right in their face.

I thought they would have changed by now, several years later. Turns out, they secretly modified the TOS to steal their customers' intellectual property - content the customers have invested 1000s of dollars into, simply because of the usage of creative cloud to train their AI models. That too, blew up in their face. I am not sure why anyone would even trust or use Adobe in 2025. Honestly.

I have since then switched to the Affinity Suite (serif.com) and never looked back. So, for what it's worth, fuck Adobe and I hope they burn to the ground with their scammy practices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ijbtqf/this_i...
It's probably a violation of their EULA.

Why are you continuing using the app if you don't agree with their EULA?
There exist different laws for different services. There VPN for example is exempt from the court order that got the IP while using there mail service.

https://protonvpn.com/blog/threat-model/
> discoverability (55) There were lots of comments about this, which all came down to the same basic complaint – it’s hard to discover useful tools or features! This comment kind of summed it all up:

> How difficult it is to learn independently. Most of what I know is an assorted collection of stuff I’ve been told by random people over the years.

This is all too true, the discoverability aspect is one of the reasons why we exist (0), and there is lots to improve here for discovering terminal tools, how to install and use them.

Also thanks for running this survey Julia.

(0) https://terminaltrove.com/
I maintain a list of Adobe alternatives here: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/alternatives-to-adobe/

I had been using Adobe since Photoshop 5.5, but ditched it a couple of years ago and I’ve never looked back.
given that they are not very partical, how do you make sure to retain what you read? do you take notes?

(asking as someone who only recently started reading cs-related literature)
I just clicked here because of the Offspring reference.
I always find this metric bizarre when companies ask about it. Everything is in either a category of things I’m not going to bother talking about, or I’ve already recommended it to people who might care, or I’ve already anti-recommended it to those people. Those are 0, 10, 0 I guess. I’m never like “well I haven’t mentioned it yet but there’s a 60% chance I’ll recommend it at some point”

From when I worked at a company that used it I seem to recall it was actually just used as binary too. 8+ is good and everything else is bad or something like that. So it’s weird that they collect it with such fake precision.
The Apple hardware is compelling enough that I think they will keep it up. We are funding them — at least I am trying to
I had to check... 87 years! Donald Knuth was born January 10th, 1938

Wow.
How is Nazi salute Patriotism?
I find more puzzling that the author, after declaring it "broken", offers a solution that is as broken but also laughable.
I think the key distinction is that there is no specific training data for that speaker. You can view the input as just the input voice to clone, not training examples.

It would be more like training examples if you had to give it specific phrases.
They'll only do it if the customers demand it. But the customers are universities, if they cared they could just fix the problem at the source by auditing and validating studies themselves. They don't need to pay third parties to do it. Journals often don't have sufficient lab access to detect fraud anyway.

I do think the journal ecosystem can just disappear and nobody would care. It only exists to provide a pricing mechanism within the Soviet-style planned economy that academia has created. If that's replaced by a different pricing mechanism academic publishing could be rapidly re-based on top of Substack blogs and nothing of value would be lost.
No, you can practically go down to single photons.
Maybe everyone around are so used to seeing him they sometimes forget he's a National Treasure. :-)
Well, on the 6510 address $01 is a port register and address $00 the related data direction register. Therefore, C64 folks tend to ignore these addresses.

(So there are just 254 usable zeropage addresses on the 6510, while on a stock 6502 and other variants the full complement of 256 zeropage addresses is usable.)
Nice FUD. They don't need to "implement JS" to get simple connection logs.
I worked in two companies who did IQ tests for hiring, the people in those companies were very knowledgeable engineers. Not necessarily good engineers, but they knew their shit. Being cracked at something doesn't make you a good engineer by itself, but it did skew the average up.
Apple should green bubble all UK text messages and explain that it is the law.
No one is going to mitigate climate change by buying things.
> i think you have your numbers flipped

I think you are right.
did you use intellij with copilot auto complete before that?
There's irony in bringing up Amazon here: From what I've seen, the thing most people rave about when it comes to Amazon is it's customer service. Everything else is pretty mid: the products are poor quality, sometimes counterfeit and if you are not careful way overpriced.

Amazon is not selling customer service as a separate product, yet that's the product that most customers really rave about, even though they don't really like anything else about Amazon.
> Whatcha gonna do, take Cloudflare to court for blocking your access to your bank? Under what law is that illegal?

In the USA, I think it would be worth trying to sue Cloudflare for either "free speech" or "public nuisance" violations. Gonna reach out to the ACLU and EFF in the coming days.
CloudFlare has become the problem. It's high time users banded together in their best interests: no ads, tracking, blocking, geo restrictions etc.
They do not test Llamaparse on the accuracy benchmark. In my personal experience Llamaparse was one of the rare tools that always got the right information. Also, the accuracy is only based on tables and we had issues with irregular text structures as well. It is also worth noting that when using an LLM, a non-deterministic tool to do something deterministic is a bit risky and you need to write, modify and maintain a prompt.
In other words, the web 2.0 business model is to monetize the free work of other people. If there is a web 4.0 (let’s skip 3 for clarity) its business model is to monetize the content of web 2.0 companies.

Legality aside, it’s hard to escape the irony.
Would be nice to mention how to determine those *_OFFSET constants. For reference, on my linux mint (glibc 2.39) system this gives them:

gdb /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -ex 'p &main_arena' -ex 'p malloc'

Also, can attach to an existing process via:

sudo gdb -p <PID_OF_PROCESS> -ex 'call (void*) dlopen("/path/to/libheap_explorer.so", 2)' -ex 'p explore_heap()'
Yeah I agree that debugging generated SV is like debugging assembly and you rarely have to do that when writing normal programs. I think the difference is tooling. I can fire up an IDE debugger and have full access to all the relevant information and controls without seeing any assembly.

I don't know of any compile-to-SV tools that have a debugger anywhere near as capable as that. They definitely should! But they don't right now, so we're stuck at debugging RTL.
plus one for refurbing my own (not buying) a mini instead of being forced to the larger form factor.
"Greedy" people sacrificing their short-term, even their generational self interest for the long term doesn't looks like to me that it fills in the conventional definition.
Okay, what's your explanation for how we can trust science?
This needs to be higher in the thread. The AMS/AMI accreditation makes a big difference in the quality of teaching.

Prior Montessori HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622295
You got it! The other thing is to be open to any kind of friendly interaction.

Just yesterday I was at the Redwood City TJ's and a guy asked me where to find soy milk. I wasn't as familiar with the layout of that store, but an actual crew member was standing near us, and I said "I'm not sure, but I think this gentleman can help you."

After he got his soy milk we ran into each other again, and he said "I'm sorry, I was sure you worked here. The shirt!"

I told him, "No apology needed! It happens all the time. And sometimes it's a nice young lady who asks me where to find something."
I like to call MBTI "corporate astrology" and then my colleagues retort with "that's exactly what an ESTJ will say".
It's insane that instead of actually contributing to value/growth driver, our IC's - the highly paid, sought after experts actually creating the value - have to deal with this kind of political bullshit.
...aaand Stack Exchange has just lost a lot of its value. I mean, who is going to curate those answers? Even wrong answers were eventually ranked down.
I tend to think of them as slow registers, since they provide crucial functionality, as in pre-indexed and post-indexed indirect address modes. There is simply no indirect addressing on the 6502 without them. But the notion of "local variables" (as related to the speed advantage) may be useful, as well.
Or you know just use both because even the most shady VPN is more trustworthy than any ISP. There of course is always the option to just use a trustworthy vpn that even implements traffic analysis protection like mullvad
They could have just cut anyone who filed a W2 a check, paid to the same account (or address) as last year's IRS tax refund for that filer. It would have been even easier, more equitable, and certainly less fraudulent than this program. They probably would have seen a bump in late tax filings, too, getting more people onto the tax rolls.

It was extremely disheartening to see the way this program was applied. I can't think of any decent reason why the money had to pass through the hands of the employer first.
It gets harder though. Even before AI, a lot of the low hanging fruit “how do I sleep for 2 seconds in JavaScript” are already answered. Beginner Qs are often marked as duplicate. So you’re left with long tail difficult or obscure questions that take a lot more effort to answer.
I've just had the same experience: last month someone decided it was a good idea to close a question of mine from 2010 because it was "opinion-based", asking me to "Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. This will help others answer the question". The question, other than being 15 years old, had more than one thousand votes, 15 answers with positive score and a bunch of low quality answers. The question is still up on the site, just nobody can answer on it, but it feels hostile to me (and to the people who took the time to contribute answers) and made to accommodate the wishes of someone who cares about tidying up the place more than anything else.
This was fun and really nicely executed. By far the biggest risk when developing this stuff is just wasting hours looking at the pretty results and playing around with tweaking parameters.

This brought back memories of implementing my own GPU-based fluid dynamics in 2011 for my thesis. It was also for fluid (blood) across a surface (tissue) and was simulated in 2D but projected across the mesh with considerations for gravity and surface inclination. Even put a short video of it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4vGrNc-GGW8
My answer is usually I think your product is great but I'm not going to recommend it to anyone.

So you get a zero even though you're product is great.

Ask the right question!
I moved from Gmail to another, paid email company by changing my preferences at each website, one by one. It took about a year without too much effort. Can't recommend enough.
Yeah it interesting that some people are able to make such, lets put it mildly, not-really-smart argument.
> Science is a conscious and self referential effort

Is this supposed to be a meaningful sequence of words?

> it has nothing to do with animals learning how to survive in their environment.

As an animal who would have died in childbirth and taken my mom with me were it not for science, I disagree.
I beg you, please stop applying rule-of-law mindset against might-makes-right adversaries. It creates blind spots giving the illusion that the attack surface is way smaller than it actually is.

Muskolites are taking on the SSN system without any Congressional oversight as we speak. The President is attacking ius soli which is a Constitutional right. If they decide that sending their sleuths to Cambridge MA to physically destroy this data is in their best interest, they will do so and handle the courts later. Just stop pretending they will play by the book.
Is the use of reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant?
> And when it fails, you don't know.

This can be addressed in some cases with actual code verification. It’s how DeepSeek was trained. But it is hard in the general case.
No way to wildcard `adobestats.io` without dnsmasq?
In my experience the louder someone claims to be for the "free market" the more they are actually aligned with the "privatize the profits, socialize the losses" mindset when you observe what they do rather than what they say.
Why ReCAPTCHA Is Spyware
On one hand, I'm okay with that. If Cloudflare or some other self-appointed Internet cop blocks me from a site, I just go somewhere else, and I hope the site goes out of business as a result...which happens to businesses everyday for a variety of reasons. But given Cloudflare's sheer size, having so many businesses crank the shields to maximum actually affects using the web, and that's where I draw the line.
doesn't it get very expensive quickly if you don't use prompt cashing
It doesn't. Apple could play hardball and threaten to withdraw from the UK market, with a propaganda notification like TikTok did. They could also appeal to Trump/Elon for help.

Also the wider part of this order is that Apple would access to the international users data, including US customers, if I understand the article correctly.
NPS is very useful at millions of customers scale provided you don't conduct the research yourself and pay for it to be done correctly by a firm who knows how to extract the information fairly. Basically: NPS is a solid late stage business tool but isn't applicable until your customer base is sprawling and you want to understand the mechanics of your brand more.
iirc, in JSX whitespace between elements/components is ignored unless it’s part of a string inside a JSX expression e.g. {“ “}.
As a long-time member of the bald brotherhood, I've got mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it's fascinating to see science finally fighting back against my hairline's slow but inevitable retreat. On the other, I've spent years perfecting the clean shave, embracing the low-maintenance lifestyle and enjoying the money saved on fancy shampoos. Not sure I'm ready to give all that up just yet.
I think this was released in 2014, not 2024. The original was released in 1984 and those are the notes for the 30th Anniversary Edition. I now feel old.

Twitter was still 140 characters when they wrote those notes.
Yep, it literally says that in the article
How do you recommend engaging with the situation then? Throw out the book too?
I have made an implementation of the original Dancing Links algorithm, but for some large problem, more than a million rows and 104 columns with an average of about sixteen positions per row, it is killed because it takes too much memory.

I wonder if the updated algorithm is using less memory.

My guess is that this large problem has about a hundred million solutions. So, even if it finds a hundred solutions per second, it still would require about ten days to finish.

The problem, I am working on, is the number of solutions to the 'Fancy Tetris Houten Puzzel' where all pieces of the same color touch are connected by at least one side touching another side of a piece with the same color.

I have been thinking about other algorithms for solving this Exact Cover problem that are less memory sensitive.
PeerTube.
So what you’re saying is, we need Nicholas Cage to abduct him to preserve the appreciation?
I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever trusted Adobe, they were like this in the 80's too.
It's not that all developers are dumb/stupid. It's that even the smartest developers make mistakes and thus having a safety net that can catch damaging mistakes is helpful.
Still, if this UCLA treatment actually delivers, I'd be curious to see how it compares to transplants in terms of results and cost
Some people might not have a choice. Also, fuck their EULA.
I think a fully distributed storage system must be the way here. There must be some IPFS type system where Harvard could say "we designated a set of data that we can add to as needed but only delete from with a critical mass of storage providers' consent, here are some instructions for you to add your spare capacity to become a storage provider".
You don't. Assuming that by "mod points" you mean badges, no badge listed on https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges can be earned by closing questions.
Well, unless it's a Democrat winning the popular vote, right? Then the EC is all that matters.
It sounds frustrating! If your recovery codes aren’t working, try reaching out to GitHub Support—they might be able to help restore access.
Maybe that could be a feature, for example if an adversary pulls it from a dud?
> figured out a way to support that

Seriously, sites need to stop fighting their users. If people are constantly asking for that content, there is a need for it.
I was having a look at the DeepSeek-R1 technical report and found the "aha moment" claims quite smelly, given that they do not disclose if the base model contains any chain of thought or reasoning data.

However, we know the base model is DeepSeek V3. From the DeepSeek V3 technical report, paragraph in 5.1. Supervised Fine-Tuning:

> Reasoning Data. For reasoning-related datasets, including those focused on mathematics, code competition problems, and logic puzzles, we generate the data by leveraging an internal DeepSeek-R1 model. Specifically, while the R1-generated data demonstrates strong accuracy, it suffers from issues such as overthinking, poor formatting, and excessive length. Our objective is to balance the high accuracy of R1-generated reasoning data and the clarity and conciseness of regularly formatted reasoning data.

In 5.4.1 they also talk about some ablation experiment by not using the "internal DeepSeek-R1" generated data.

While the "internal DeepSeek-R1" model is not explained, I would assume this is a DeepSeek V2 or V2.5 tuned for chain of thought. Therefore, it seems to me the "aha moment" is just promoting the behaviour that was already present in V3.

In the "Self-evolution Process of DeepSeek-R1-Zero"/ Figure 3 they claim reinforcement learning also leads to the model generating longer CoT sequences, but again, this comes from V3, they even mention the fine tuning with "internal R1" led to "excessive length".

None of the blogpost, news, articles I have read explaining or commenting on DeepSeek R1 takes this into account. The community is scrambling to re-implement the pipeline (see open-r1).

At this point, I feel like I took a crazy pill. Am I interpreting this completely wrong? Can someone shed some light on this?
Did you read past the first few paragraphs? I think I explained why I disagree with Deutsch pretty thoroughly.
Let's build a fleet and change the world
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and
Profit from your AI-powered security company, sure. But the exploit authors are profiting too.
At least for consumer software, an EULA is quite literally "throw some shit at the wall and see what sticks in whatever jurisdiction".
Also it’s something you can track over time. It’s not meant to market really, it’s meant to gauge how your customers view your company and areas of operations that may need improvement.
Scientists on alert as NOAA restricts contact with foreign nationals
What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?
I really hope I am wrong, but I'm planning on seeing some headlines about Musk shutting down Harvard next week over this.

For anyone who still thinks the existing laws, constitutions and policies mean anything to this current regime, prepare to get some whiplash. They are proving that none of that matters if they simply ignore it and do what they want to do anyway.
I mean yes and no, like if you just let it generate lazily, then yes. However if you work on lyrics and generate a bunch of samples.. no it can be very powerful and artistic.
As long as the business model is built on monetizing personal data, they'll always find workarounds
Competition and survival in modern academia: A bibliometric case study
I assure you that people do not go for better options
Dogbarfing? They rejected the dogfood for poor quality, but they had to eat it again.
My LLM weights say the word Incident and Cloudflare are never more than two clicks away... :-)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+incident
> The bad guys know where to find solid open source crypto for their cloud backups and whatnot.

That's a very bold assumption after EncroChat and SkyECC.
You can use NextDNS, they have lists which are automatically updated
Is green bubble iMessage or SMS?

iMessage is barely used in the UK, WhatsApp is the default messaging platform here
Cheapest way to run DeepSeek R1 in AWS
After the log4j vulnerability, I’d say that despite having good memory safety I would say the JVM’s powerful serialization primitives make me pretty leery of it as far as security goes.
I don't know to what extent this is true. A lot of criminals strike me as good at chopping off fingers etc but not computer stuff.

There absolutely is a balance between Average Joe's right to privacy and privacy restrictions for fighting crime. Without undermining the former, I'm astounded how HN discounts the latter 100%. It is real.
Agreed, otherwise it smacks of sour grapes and might come back to bite you on the new team, i.e., "they only joined the new team because they got upset about a promotion".
Of course their is a middle ground.

The problem is what is classified as waste. It won’t be the projects of the GOP‘s donors.
> All white space in HTML and XML is preserved verbatim.

Do you mean "any change to whitespace in HTML or XML results in a semantically inequivalent document"? That's a perspective you can take, but it has pretty undesirable results: it means you can't ever reformat HTML or XML source. And it very clearly contradicts how most people understand and expect to work with HTML.

> The default presentation of white space in HTML and XML is what is called tokenized space, which is that all consecutive white space characters are displayed as a single space character. Again, you can control this with CSS.

Where is the CSS option to display multiple consecutive spaces, but line break as normal? That's something very much wanted in a lot of cases (and what the author's &ncsp; idea is getting at).

Also, this doesn't make it clear what happens (or should happen) with consecutive white space characters that have different markup.

> White space is a text node in the DOM. If it is adjacent to other text that text and white space are one text node, otherwise the white space is its own text node.

What does "adjacent" mean here? And what happens if the white space is adjacent to text on both sides?