skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what do you mean by highly processed? Are you aware of what the words you're using actually mean? I've worked in food production for 20+ years and "processed" is one of the most misused terms in food.

To be clear, if you cook food you have processed it. If you mechanically separate food it is now processed. If you chemically treat any ingredient for any reason(bleaching, cleaning, etc) it is now processed. The term is meaningless without context. Do you also say there are "chemicals in water"?

Just because something is "processed" does not mean it is bad. "Fake Eggs" are "processed" because they're mechanically blended and have a pretty standard emulsifier in it. There are no health trade offs here. The product is not "bad" because it's been blended or has an all-natural emulsifier. It's just nonsense to call something like that "highly processed".

Most "highly processed" vegan products are about as "processed" as a loaf of standard bread you'd buy in the aisle at the store. If mixing flour with oil is "highly processed" then you have no idea what you're talking about.

The hysteria towards veg products being "highly processed" is nonsense from the beef/dairy/carnivore misinformation machine. This is up there with the myth that "vegan diets are more expensive", lol.

Be aware that when you say the things you said, you're appealing to the misinformed crowd. The words lack meaning and context. These words, "highly processed" and such, are used to evoke an emotional reaction. It isn't based in data or science.

Context is extremely important. Without context you're not saying anything intelligent. It's the same thing that flat earthers or anti-vaxxers do. They appeal to emotion, not reality.

Furthermore, even with the hysteria around "high processed vegan foods", they're STILL associated with better health outcomes. That's the funny part of this. When put into context, even the "bad vegan foods" are still much better for most people than the "all-natural animal products". You can even expand on this further by including the environmental cost. Vegan products are about 20x less resource intensive from an environmental viewpoint than animal products. So, better health, cheaper, better for the environment. Wins all around.
Ok kids.. This is Tobin.. but without the Paradigm.

First off.. Gee I wish we had all come together about a decade ago or so and found solutions for what was plainly coming and spelled out by my self and others.

Second before it happens.. Pale Moon is not "old and insecure" It is being
mismanaged had has no vision or prospects for future expansion.. It is just whatever XUL they can keep working while chugging away at the modern web features..

Pale Moon is often TOO security patched btw, which have been regularly disclosed and specially noted in the release notes since I convinced Moonchild he should do that for exactly the kind of old and insecure falsehood.

Moonchild's issue as a developer is he will always choose the seemingly simplest path of least resistance and will blindly merge patches without actually testing them. Many security patches are only security patches and not just.. patches because Mozilla redefined the level of security they want their codebase to provide.. But all known Mozilla vulnerabilities and many that would only become vulnerable if surrounding code is changed are patched.. Pale Moon and UXP has become more secure over time and that is an objective fact when you consider the nature of privileged access within a XUL platform which has its own safegaurds as well that persist into Firefox today though less encountered.

Now no one hates that furry bastard more than me (and I challenge you to try) but I will never call out good work as anything other than good work. Besides, there are a MILLION other plainly visible faults with the Pale Moon project and its personnel and my past behavior without having to make stuff up or perpetuate a false mantra like "old and insecure".

Finally, isn't Cloudflare being very unfair to every project save the modern firefox rebuilds listed on thereisonlyxul.org? Like SeaMonkey? Why does seamonkey deserve any hate from anyone.. or systematic discrimination.. What have they ever done but try and have an internet application suite.. Why are they old and insecure despite being patched and progressing a patch queue for Mozilla patches just landed selectively to preserve the bulk of XUL functionality its users adore?

In conclusion, what will be the final cost and how many will burn for trying to going against it.. I know my fate for trying.. how many will join me knowing that?
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My understanding is the best thing you can be doing along with reducing exposure is regular blood donation
Fwiw, I was getting cloudflare blocked for a long time on Firefox+Linux and the only thing that fixed it was completely disabling the UA adjuster browser extension I had installed.
Businesses making sound files. I think there were always free (legal) players for end users, but if you were going to distribute mp3s commercially without a licence you could well get sued.
To be a neutral as possible. The claim is very much a hit piece that makes a good soundbite or headline. Most large construction projects have single digit liens that get placed against it and in this case we don't know what % of the liens are because of contractors not paying and which are SpaceX themself.
> unmitigated potential risk

The risk does seem fairly mitigated, most of us will make it through today fine. The only part of my brain I can account for now is the 1x credit card worth of plastic, all the other bits are a mystery. Death was inevitable before the microplastics, remains inevitable after the microplastics and things seem fine so far.

We don't know much about the risks of anything. People regularly douse themselves with mind-altering substances and ingest the weirdest variety of stuff.
I must have some of that microplastic in my brain since I misread the start of the title as "Human, Brian May, ..." and then couldn't parse the rest properly.
I think “do some” is about putting reasonable effort into things.

I read it as you don’t need to play football, basketball, and be writing a book, but you probably should do something. At the other end you don’t need to be the best in the world at anything, but you should try.

Knowing to cook is a useful life skill. That doesn’t mean learning a dozen types of ethic foods or preparing instagram worthy meals, but it does mean you should learn a little. Thus “do some” not “do everything” or worse “do nothing.”
> but they wanted a hash function with unlimited input size

I'm kind of baffled how they came to use bcrypt for this. Bcrypt is not exactly subtle about only supporting 72 bytes of input. And this is at a company who provides auth as a service; I've got to imagine they had multiple engineers who knew this (I guess not working on that code). Hell, I know this and I've only used bcrypt twice and I'm nowhere near a security/crypto guy.
In that case you can turn off / not turn on the WAF feature(s) of Cloudflare - it's optional and configured by the webmaster.
This misses the forest for the trees.

It doesn’t need to win awards or prestige.

Someone needs to say “play me new episodes of the office or arrested development” and it needs to generate something that resembles the office or arrested development. People can have the noise on in the background, and it won’t matter if it isn’t quite coherent or super funny.
Ah yes. I believe this is commonly called "moving the goalposts".
They have a lawful direction to stop working and keep getting paid coming from their management.

If they were terminated for following a lawful direction they would have pretty easy recourse.
The bitter lesson is very little of the sort.

If we had unlimited memory, compute and data we'd use a rank N tensor for an input of length N and call it a day.

Unfortunately N^N grows rather fast and we have to do all sorts of interesting engineering to make ML calculations complete before the heat death of the universe.
I think they also fingerprint the browser. So changing user agent alone won't help.
Why was this guys wife so important to have around the office at SpaceX if she wasn’t an employee?
Cool. Now how much sand is in your brain? Equivalent of two glass spoons? Sand dust is way more abundant than plastic and similarly inert.
Further: "checks and balances" is a concept originating with Montesque in his book The Spirit of the Law (1748), itself building on John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, and is explicitly referenced in the Federalist Papers, written by several of the framers of the US Constitution, most notably Federalist 51 (by Alexander Hamilton or James Madison), February 8, 1788, titled "The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments", and beginning:

TO WHAT expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the Constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places. Without presuming to undertake a full development of this important idea, I will hazard a few general observations, which may perhaps place it in a clearer light, and enable us to form a more correct judgment of the principles and structure of the government planned by the convention...

Spirit of the Law <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Law>

Federalist 51: <https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-51-60>

Again, the concept is foundational and was well-established in the context in which the Constitution was drafted.
> Yes, but then you have to handle every possible errors at every call point, and wrap all those you can't handle at the calling site into your own return type... This is well documented.

What? No you don't. You can just propagate up the errors you can't handle with the types they come with.
His newer Iseji one is nice too

https://walkkumano.com/iseji/
I appreciate this look into FLAC! I think MP3 is just such an industry standard at this point, which means nobody is really putting work into making streaming music better. There isn't enough of an audience to push for ever higher quality, especially since most people have moved away from stereos to computer speakers, and mostly listening through their awful cell phone speaker!
IBM does a lot of things, but "holding patents" is one of the big ones.
Fair enough; makes me wish that MicroSD card slots were still standard on phones. If you had a 512GB card, then you'd be able to get an awful lot of lossless music on there.

I've heard Opus is a better bang-for-buck for the size to quality ratio, but I haven't tried it yet.
I wasn’t joking either. Things are just getting started with this AI stuff, and I feel like programmers will experience that “de ja vu” phenomenon that they talk about in the Matrix, that eerie feeling something isn’t right.

Look, why have game developers spent so much time lazy loading parts of the game world? Very rarely do they just load the whole world, even in 2025. See, the worlds get bigger, so even as the tech gets better, we will always lazy load worlds in.

It’s a context issue right? Developers have just recently been given this thing called “context”.

But yeah man, why do we think just because we walked from our house to the supermarket that this reality didn’t lazy load things. That’s how programmers have been doing it all along …

Anyways
> Let me tell you what you do or do not know.
Not sure about that. A hash function suitable for security sensitive work, used properly, should make a collision so unlikely that you can basically forget it that it's even possible.

Think about it, that's what hashing passwords relies on. We don't store a plaintext password for a final check if the password hash matches, we count on a collision being basically impossible.

A hashmap is different, because it's using a much weaker hash function with far fewer security guarantees.

Plus, you're assuming the original values are even kept around for comparison. The cache key likely just mapped to something simple like a boolean or status flag.
That's a pretty extraordinary claim that you should expand on.

How did they know you were using Gemini to train another model?
As someone who works in software, companies in general are not great at selecting software talent. The idea that there is some movable bar by which applicants are selected is clearly silly.
Two years ago, I worked for a company that had its own proprietary AI system for processing PDFs. While the system handled document ingestion, its real value was in extracting and analyzing data to provide various insights. However, one key requirement was rendering documents in HTML with as close to a 1:1 likeness as possible.

At the time, I evaluated multiple SDKs for both OCR and non-OCR PDF conversions, but none matched the accuracy of Adobe Acrobat’s built-in solution. In fact, at one point (don’t laugh), the company resorted to running Adobe Acrobat on a Windows machine with automation tools to handle the conversion. Using Adobe’s cloud service for conversion was not an option due to the proprietary nature of the PDFs. Additionally, its results were inconsistent and often worse compared to the desktop version of Adobe Acrobat!

Given that experience, I see this primarily as an HTML/text conversion challenge. If Gemini 2.0 truly improves upon existing solutions, it would be interesting to see a direct comparison against popular proprietary tools in terms of accuracy.
scientific fraud is absolutely a problem -- a universal problem, because it's inherently a human problem (it's inextricably tied to academic careers, so it's not really a money problem, it's a career problem--in other words, people aren't doing it to get rich, they're doing it to further their career or prestige; that doesn't make it any better, it just makes the context more complicated)

but what the admin is trying to do has nothing to do with "making science right". it has a very clearly stated goal of 1) rooting out anything remotely related to DEI; 2) rooting out anything related to previous investigations into Trump and the Jan6 attempted coup (see purges at FBI, DOJ); 3) cutting government spending (so there's money to pass a promised tax cut); 4) whatever Elon decides he wants to gut

None of these have anything to do with making science more honest and accurate. If that were the goal, you'd probably need to _increase_ funding because you'd need more reproducibility studies.
At least 80% of the time.

I have brains and can verify if it's correct or not.
The US believes in the rule of law. That means those in power cannot ignore rules and operational procedures put in place to prevent abuse of power.

What you are saying is Trump won so he can effectively shut down agencies and create new ones by fiat. And if those new agencies break laws that is fine.

As a hypothetical, suppose DOGE amasses a large dataset of every resident in the US and it then identifies “illegals” and instructs the deputized military to deport this group of people to prison in El Salvador via secret messaging beyond FOIA reach. This is not OK. Especially if the deported were not given due process to defend themselves in court. What if a few of the deported were actual citizens and had their identities mixed up with someone else.
Remember that car tire degredation is a significant portion of microplastics in the environment. Investing in mass transit is as imperative as it was to move away from leaded gasoline.
It’s about things that may have impacts on future outcomes with discrepancies based on race. Probably some correlation with child outcomes and their mother dying at birth.
You had 3 days and that was the best you could do?
What do you think will happen?
> Kids download gigabyte-sized games in minutes.

This is like, the understatement of the week, a single Xbox one game can now be 140GB
Maybe it's just my laptops (MacBook Air and Pro). But every time I open it, it's always "updating" (plugins?) before I can use it. Opening it in the browser is much faster.
A 20 something is hardly a teenager. Alexander Hamilton was like 21 years old at the start of the American Revolution
I would feel pretty safe running my own hand-written services against the raw Internet, but if I was to host Wordpress or other large/complicated/legacy codebases I'd start to get worried.
Also the CDN aspect is useful - having lived in Australia you like connections that don't have to traverse continents for every request.
Winamp supported it by around 2004.
Nobody can stop them
I would also worry whether I would receive my pension payouts. Depending upon future governments to pay out for your work investment seems risky. My ignorant impression is that pension funds will always be raided (whether private or government) and payments seem to decrease regardless of past promises.
This is probably a really basic question but why does the wizard need to stop being drawn with characters when the sprites move out past the left/right borders? Is this a hardware restriction where those lines aren't able to have text on them when there are sprites on the edges?
I could just as easily feel the opposite.

If I worked for a company so biased against my demographic they needed quotas to try to balance it out, and I STILL got hired and succeed at that company, I must be pretty good at my job.
I took the time to write an email to both of my senators, and congress person (i'm in FL, they are all R's).

Absolutely unconscionable for them to abdicate their responsibilities and oath to the constitution.

I don't expect it to change any minds, but some pressure is never a bad thing.

If anyone wants to use it as inspiration to write their own: https://gist.github.com/Tostino/6cb89b58ca4070ab7520a64b5ac7...
Any percentage of people being de-personed is bad. If the state is permitted to withhold travel documents of people indefinitely (and the supporting documents they sent in to get their passport renewed[1]), do you really live in a free state?

Also, and I know people knee-jerk at the comparison, but historically speaking Jews comprised less than 1% of the population of Weimar Germany.[2] The smallness of the percentage shouldn't be cause to dismiss the harm of their discrimination as "no big deal." It's been shown where that leads.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/01/28/state-...
[2] https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/JEW_RELIGIONZUG...
Amazing that there are people here in HN in denial of what's going on. So much for "informed" people. Laws are being broken left and right.
I recall there being some significant gaps, so these people had already returned to work.

But it’s not just about current workers, new administrations have handed out money to people for past issues years or sometimes decades after the fact. Just as an example the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was about compensation for people exposed during the Cold War.

$50,000 to individuals residing or working "downwind" of the Nevada Test Site
$75,000 for workers participating in atmospheric nuclear weapons tests
$100,000 for uranium miners, millers, and ore transporters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_Exposure_Compensatio...
So what you’re saying is that leeches as medicine are coming back.
Redundancy is definitely part of it, but 2 people also make things much much easier and reduce accident likelihood when unexpected things start happening and the workload increases. Lets say there is some severe mechanical issue, you want someone to run through a checklist to address the mechanical issue and fly the plane which is likely now out of autopilot, and another to find alternate places to land, etc.
Delete button in dialog: cmd-delete.

(Edit: Just tested this in numbers, works fine. In cases where the button isn't correctly tagged as a "delete" button it might not -- in that case, cmd-<first letter of button content> will almost always work.)
Manhattan :)
Try spoofing an email from trump@whitehouse.gov with the title "resign" and find out.
In a HN thread about loyalist mods and echo chamber subreddits, what does claiming an account was “called out” actually mean?
Yes, in fact it seems strange to me that the Wiktionary entry (currently) lists only one definition, which doesn't even match its example sentence very well.

"Being aware of the danger of upsetting her audience, she was somewhat circumspect in her comments."

Here the word doesn't mean "carefully considerate of all pertinent circumstances"; it means exactly what is to me the usual sense of the word in American English: "cautious; beating around the bush; indirect; allusive; judicious; cagey."
Yeah you can plug iPhone into computer, which I haven't done for years now. Only reason was to load it up with mp3s.

Last weekend I've tried to do the same without a computer and basically you can only use players like VLC which only allowed me to load single file (playlists are there, but again you have to connect to computer).

Edit: Just tried one more time and you can place files into VLC folder (using Files is a bit tedious tho) and they appear in VLC player. Yay.
No - but that does fit the criteria now that I think about it, lol. It's Hardware Park.
> Nobody is going to stop driving. Car tires are the largest source of microplastics.

many already have, bicycles and public transport ftw
Exposure therapy. Just play for a very short amount of time, even 2-3 minutes, then stop for a while. Do this over and over. Always keep the duration below the threshold of your motion sickness. Eventually your brain gets used to playing without being sick and you'll be able to play for longer and longer periods. Always stop the moment you feel motion sick in any way - don't try to push through as doing that makes it worse. This is what I had to do to get used to games in VR, and it worked great. I can now play for hours without issue.
In highschool I wrote software in 6502 assembly and Turbo Pascal to send files from Atari through joystick ports into lpt port on pc to transfer Atari games and run them on emulator on pc. I had no idea about protocols so I was using one communication line to signal that there's new data on others. Also pre-internet times.

I also wrote few games on Atari when I was even younger, but since I got pc in highschool I haven't been able to make any decent progress on (let alone finish writing) a single game on PC. Despite writing a lot of software professionally as an adult I never had the motivation, that I had as a child, to go beyond shallow, small experiments for my personal coding.
Fedora supporting h264 OOTB will be a huge win. The current setup with mesa freeworld, rpmfusion, etc. is comically bad. Year of the linux desktop FTW.
When Postgres index meets Bcrypt
it's now 40k, so 2%. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/05/trumps-fede...
Speculation: maybe abusive comments were later removed by mods?
Wait hold on - 20,000+ people being paid 8 months severance? That sounds... like a long time, and a lot of money. I'd have a hard time believing that.

Any takers around here want to elaborate on their choice?
> • Many papers can't be replicated by design because the methodology either isn't actually described at all, or doesn't follow logically from the hypothesis. Any attempt would immediately fail after the first five minutes of reading the paper because you wouldn't know what to do.

This is indeed a problem. But it can be solved by journals not accepting any paper that is not 1) described in such a way that it can be fully replicated, and 2) include the code and the data used to generate the published results

Just that would go a long way.

And then fund replication studies for consequential papers. Not just because of fraud but because of unintended flaws in studies, which can happen of course.