skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two points:

1. Encrypted data is not hidden. You still know that there is data, it's just in a form that you can't understand. Just as difficult higher-level math isn't "obscured" from a non-mathematician (who knows that it is math, but can't decode it), encrypted data is not obscured.

2. You could make the argument that the data is actually hidden, but the fact that data is there is not hidden. This is pointless pedantry, though. It is both contrary to the way that everybody uses the word and stretches the meaning of the word to the point that it's not useful. There is a common understanding of what "Security through obscurity" means ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity ) and interpreting it far beyond that is not useful. It simply breaks down communication into annoying semantic arguments. I enjoy semantic arguments, but not tedious, pedantic ones where one person just argues that a word isn't what everybody understands it to mean.

More specifically, it's about WHAT is being obscured. "Security through obscurity" is about trying to be secure by keeping the details or mechanisms of a system secret, not the data itself.
Aww shucks, and here I was feeling a wee bit proud of myself for managing to break it.
>People really struggle with big numbers.

how about $750,000,000,000.00 in two years? Is that a number that's in the right magnitude to complain about?

>15 million for the government isn't a lot of money. and even for most big businesses it isn't a lot of money.

how about $750,000,000,000.00 over two years? is that a lot of money?

> The government spends trillions every year.

And in that trillions, is thousands and thousands of $15,000,000 spends like the one i commented about.

> 15 million divided by the ~150million taxpayers in the US is ten cents per person. Do you pick up dimes off the street?

$750,000,000,000.00 / 150,000,000 = $5000 per taxpayer.

Do you pick up sacks with "$" on the side you find laying in the street?

as i mentioned elsewhere, my issue is my having to spend a dime to harass the CCP and other antagonistic governments. How many thousands of my dimes are going to ends that i am fundamentally against?
> The idea that an overweight person has "too much muscle" is nonsense.

I think you've misunderstood GP. He's not saying they have too much muscle when they're overweight. He's saying that take that exact same amount of muscle, subtract a ton of fat from their upper bodies, then they have "too much muscle" as typically needed for their body mass. I don't agree with their phrasing, but the point isn't "nonsense."
This link is actually to an spammy "Are You a Rich Couple? Here's the Net Worth You Need to Be Wealthier Than 95% of Households" article.

Here is a real link to a real article titled "Conflict-of-interest questions surface as CFPB stripped of its power to regulate Elon Musk’s X":

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/conflict-interest-questions-s...
I hope this amount of effort means multi-GPU support is coming soon (saw you mention “this week” :) ) so we can tune QwQ on a single node!
You could instruct the LLM to be more picky about user input in terms of grammar, style, and spelling.
There can be trillions of virus cells in a single body. That's the mutation environment. Whether there are dozens or thousands of bodies makes little difference in comparison.
You may have already heard this but Bitwig runs on Linux and has an Ableton-like workflow, as well as a richer effects system, I'm told.
I'm not sure of the licence specifics related to downstream water, but in general:

The impact on downstream water is almost entirely positive, the leaky dams they build filter sediment and excess nutrients (often from fertiliser run off).

They also smooth out peak water flow to help alleviate downstream flooding. Obviously this comes at the cost of flooding areas behind their dams, but this can also be positive, because in the increasingly dry summers, the ponds they create help keep the land upstream cooler and wetter.

The beaver site in Ealing, London was mostly funded because it was a cheaper solution to help with downstream flooding than equivalent hard infrastructure and a significant cost of that project was the fence to keep them in.

Even fish which need to navigate upstream, can leap these dams because they have co-evolved with the beaver, and also beavers are vegetarian so don't predate the fish.

Obviously the main problem, is because in the UK we wiped them out, we've not co-evolved with them, hence the problems of them flooding land that would regularly have flooded, but we have decided to use for other purposes.

I highly recommend anyone who's interested in ecosystems go visit an established beaver site, the mosaic of habitats they create can support large amounts of biodiversity.
You say there's no pizza transubstantiation, but I see cheeses all over
There was a recent comment on HN where someone threatened my wife would be raped, my cell phone would stop working, modern society would fall apart, and my children would all be marched off to war if I don't pay taxes to fund Ukraine. Unlike my own greyed comments, those were vetted.

Now maybe this is all true. But if it is, knowing how transactional international politics is, why not just sign the fluff agreement and take the bruised ego? It's their right either way. I just find it interesting and a bit bizarre.

I think the HN crowd is missing a bit of the more democratic sentiment here, that after years of support we can't keep fueling foreign nations based on blame for others' murder, there needs to be movement towards resolution and if not, Ukraine can shine and show us their independence they're proud of. Personally I don't see this ending unless Zelensky is willing to take a bruised ego.
This was explained in the third sentence of the post that you're responding to
No there is not that symmetry, because the helix is handed, and the result could depend on the rotation direction with respect to that handedness.
The Tor service model is equivalent to if every site used a self-signed certificate, which doesn't scale.

The more feasible CA-free architecture is to have the browser operator perform domain validation and counter-sign every sites key, but that has other downsides and is arguably even less distributed.
Looks like there is 1994 (XFS) but no 2004 (ZFS? btrfs?) or later installments :-(
Dude is legit messed up in the head IMO. He's capable of expressing his will at times, but others I honestly don't think he is lucid.

During his first term they came up with a rule at the Pentagon that a written and signed order from the white house was required before any unexpected action would take place. That rule came about because Trump would be ranting and give verbal orders that were unexpected and arguably dangerous (and given to the wrong people) .... and the next day he would not remember / deny he gave them.
Strobelight is a lifesaver. Especially with high qps services - makes it much easier to see where it's worth spending time trying to optimize.
Same here. I remember playing with Beta versions of Windows Vista on my parents home PC. Ended up wrecking the system because I wasn't technical enough to fix it when it broke... but was still an important milestone in my journey today.

At the time, XP was 6-7 years old, and the screenshots of a shiny new Windows OS made me so itchy to try it out. Vista looked magical compared to XP just before release, it was the dawn of the frutiger aero aesthetic too. Very optimistic vibes back then.
Is there polling where Trump is particularly higher than 50% approval? I haven't seen any.

How do you get to "mostly" from there?
Is that an anti-pattern to put the comment inside the function vs above
Finder is unfortunately macOS' weak point and Explorer is Windows' strength. I can't even right-click -> New in Finder. It's like I'm back in Windows 3.x.
Show HN: Synthsational – Jam on a synth that keeps you in-tune and on-beat
We're...not musicians. But, we wanted to create a music toy that makes you sound good while you improvise a jam. So, we made Synthsational. It has a number of preset backing tracks and synths that you can jam with. It'll automatically pick the best notes and will make sure your notes stay on the beat.

We vibe coded this with a mix of OpenAI models and Sonnet 3.7 (+Cursor).

We'd love to hear what you think. What should we add to it?
It's not exactly an instance though. They just stole most of the Mastodon code. In theory it could be opened up so other instances could subscribe to the Truth Social feed but we don't really know how feasible that is and how much of the protocol/code was modified
Lloyds shifts skilled IT jobs from UK to India
California Lawmaker Introduces the "No Robo Bosses Act"
How would the state force the mother to track down the men she slept with and get them to do paternity tests to prove they're the ones responsible to pay child support? Sometimes the father can be from a different country.
Let’s go back to December 2019/January 2020.

Hunan shut itself down. There was video of hundreds of people in makeshift hospitals. Trucks with some kind of disinfectant spray were roaming the streets.

It was real-world impact. It was not theoretical impact.

It took us until March/April 2020 to start getting serious.

I strongly doubt the current federal leadership is inclined to act in a more risk-adverse way than in March of 2020.
The main limitation is the incredibly opaque and brittle nature of putting keys in DNS.

We've spent a decade and a half slowly making the Web PKI more agile and more transparent by reducing key lifetimes, expanding automation support, and integrating certificate transparency.

None of that exists for DNS, largely by design.
https://archive.ph/2025.03.07-050126/https://www.ft.com/cont...
Veritasium – Principle of Least Action – Part 2 [video]
Are they personalized? Is Discord in the business of selling user data to feed personalized ads to them?
What part of “no one is saying they designed a new chip” is lost here?
"The market" contains people like my dad who asked me if I knew about deepseek... 3 weeks ago...
Oh, I see. So you're less looking at it as an intrinsic motivation - kids wanting to get good at English so that they can make things of their own - than as a way to build a task for students.

I quite like that idea. Maybe you could use them for verbal exercises that stretch those linguistic muscles - e.g. getting them to explain a complex concept in precise language to an agent that is constantly trying to poke holes in their response. Though maybe that'd just end up being frustrating!
Show HN: SuperCMMS: Computerized Maintenance Management System that doesn't suck
Site: https://supercmms.com

CMMS is boring enterprise software.

When something in a factory, office building, restaurant, solar plant, needs maintenance or breaks down, it is the CMMS software that is used to raise a work order and take care of that Asset till it gets well.

CMMS softwares are generally clunky and expensive. Companies still use them because the cost of not using one is the cost of the next breakdown. So it’s better to use a clunky one than nothing at all. And once you start using a CMMS, it becomes really expensive to change it because the switching and re-training costs are too high. So we have unhappy employees struggling every day. ‘Everyone hates their CMMS’ is an industry epithet.

SuperCMMS changes all that. We’ve built the ‘World’s Easiest CMMS’. It is very easy to get started and it’s ‘almost’ free.
Female brewers are back – 500 years since their heyday
Joining two streams of data with Flink SQL
Even lower-level Discord admins can basically any user's entire chat histories across all servers ever. There is zero encryption
I got lost at (?R). IIUC, this is a feature of the "regex" module that "tries to match the entire regex recursively". Fun.
My experience with that is that 100% CPU can happen if the WSL2 image is using more memory than available, and is then swapping. You should be able to check that by looking at the VmmemWSL process. There's also an option in the WSL config you can specify to limit the amount of memory it can use.
Any calorie deficit of 500 under BMR and the body will not just consume the fat stores but also muscle. That’s what I learned on the bodybuilding forums at least. Some people went too high on the deficit and ended up losing some muscle definition
The Parody of a Tangled Thread
Late here, but a few comments: the main idea of the authors was to combine differential logic gates (an amazing invention I had not heard of) with cellular automata as they say in the paper, or more accurately I would say a grid topology of small neural networks (cells). The cells get and send information to their neighbors.

The idea would be you create some sort of outcome for fitness (say an image you want the cells to self organize into, or the rules of Conway’s game of life), set up the training data, and because it’s fully differentiable, Bob’s your uncle at the end.

Depending on what you think about computational complexity, this may or may not shock you.

But since they’ve been doing gradient descent on differentiable logic gates at the end of the day, when the training is done, they can just turn each cell into binary gates, think AND OR XOR, etc. You then have something that can be used for inference crazy fast. I presume it could also be laid out and sent to a fab, but that work is left for a later paper. :)

This architecture could do a LOTTT of things to be clear. But sort of as a warm up they use all the Conway life start and end rules to train cells to implement Conway. Shockingly this can be done in 5 gates(!). I note that they mention almost everywhere that they hand prune unused gates - I imagine this will eventually be automated.

They then go on to spec small 7k parameter or so neural networks that when laid out in cells can self organize into different black and white or color images, and can even do so on larger base grids than they were trained, and are resilient to noise being thrown at them. They then demonstrate that async networks (each cell updates randomly) can be trained, and are harder to train but more resilient to noise.

All this is quite a lot to take in, and spectacular in my opinion.

One thing they mention, a lot, is that a lot of hyperparameter tuning is required for “harder” problems. I can imagine like 50 lines of research out of this paper, but one of them would certainly be adding stability in to the training process. Arc-AGI is mentioned here, and is an awesome idea — could you get a “free lunch” with Arc? Or some of Arc? Different network topologies are yet another interesting question, hidden information, “backing layers” - e.g. why not give each cell 20 private cells that info goes out to and comes back in? Why not make some of those cells talk to some other cells? Why not send radio waves as signals across the custom topology and train an efficient novel analog radio? Why not give each cell access to a shared “super sized” 100k, 1mmk parameter “thinking node”? What would a good topology be for different tasks?

I’ll stop here. Amazing paper. Quite a number of PhD papers will be generated out of it, I expect.

I’d like to see Minecraft implemented though. Seems possible. Then we could have Bad Apple in Minecraft on raw circuits.
When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013)
4Mbps audio doesn't really make sense when you can just about perfectly replicate any human-audible sound in ~1.4Mbps

EDIT: I do agree that lossless (or at least high bitrate modern lossy, like 256k Opus which is basically transparent) should be available in many more situations though.
Yes! This generally rings true to me.

The other thing I see trip people up is being unwilling to make a fast hypothesis that can be easily tested to narrow scope.

Instead they’ll often try to look at the code to understand but that’s usually slower for anything remotely complex.
I'm not convinced that that is common usage. Maybe in technical circles.
The latest release of Ubuntu already provides this.

I'm running it on the latest zenbook S14, on the ultra 7. Great battery life, and no problems entering/exiting sleep mode.
> Having 'greek columns' anywhere apart where they were built 2000 years ago is tasteless to me

so all the revivals are tacky? e.g. all buildings of importance before 1920 in american and european cities are tacky?
Wow! Thanks for the information! Very neat!
I fear Trump just needs to get his ... and we'll be back to whomever bribes him the most.
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Function documentation goes inside functions in Python, explicitly making them self-documenting. That can then be automatically picked up by any other code (like tooling for automatically generating API documentation) formalized as PEP 257, https://peps.python.org/pep-0257

Python will literally assign the content of your docstring (a triple-quoted string at the start of a function) to a special double underscored ("dunder") property called `__doc__` that any code can access; not just docs generators, but your own code as well (pretty dang useful for generating on-the-fly help output!).

Which also means that if you run into weird behaviour where a function doesn't do what you think it should do, you can just fire up the REPL, import that function, type `print(function_name.__doc__)` and presto, you have the documentation right there, specifically for the exact version you're using. You don't even need to leave your IDE if it comes with an integrated terminal.
Now I'm imagining someone mailing postcards to a dozen friends every month saying "We live in a totalitarian dictatorship!"

Once the postcards stop appearing, you know you're on the way to the message becoming true.
A law making something like Monero illegal isn't intended to catch all users of the thing, it's intended to be able to add charges to cases involving other things.
Social networks should start translating ALL posts in an omni-directional way
> Even in Europe, people regularly make decisions that belie the view that paternity and parenting is primarily a biological investment, including caring for stepchildren, adoption, and fostering. “There’s no genetic kinship there, and people are investing resources in children who are not related to them at all,” Jobling says. “I’m a bit skeptical of applying these sociobiological ideas to human behavior. I think it’s a bit more complicated than that.”

Here's a thought: maybe it has to do with consent?
> The last good OS MS released was Windows XP.

I'm reminded of how much people hated it when it came out. Post Vista it was widely liked. A lot of people are also nostalgic of 7 now. I wonder if we'll have a batch of people nostalgic for 10 or 11 in a decade in the same vein. I doubt it, but who knows. The old rule was "every other release is loved/hated", which held until at least 10 (8 was hated, 10 was somewhat accepted). I also remember that 10 was supposed to be "the last version of Windows".
> Expanse, a Palo Alto Networks company, searches across the global IPv4 space multiple

So my guess is reverse DNS
(?R) is very much recursion in there.
But my point is that this is no different from being skinny and frail in the first place. It has nothing to do with losing weight.

Yes, that puts you at risk. That's why you should exercise, even if it just means daily walks.

The point is, you're not winding up with too little muscle because you lost weight. If you're winding up with too little muscle, it's because you're not being physically active enough. If you're physically active, you won't lose the muscle that you still need even as you lose weight.
This sounds really interesting. This sounds like it's designed for Shopify (obviously) but I can see this being really useful in general.

Off the top of my head, repeatedly running tests when doing TDD. Not much code is changing on each run so keeping things cached makes sense.
Some would consider a commitment to overthrowing oppressive power structures extremely pro-social

Would you call the French Revolution antisocial? Massive demonstrations? What about the Hong Kong uprising?

It's all a matter of perspective. Those who live a stable life might see a threat to the system that grants them that stability as "anti-social" while those who do not benefit from the current system can see revolting as "pro-social"
Toby Walsh: What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft
Not hard; impossible. They gather data from non online services, app malware, logged out browsers, etc, etc. How do I opt those things out?

I’ve long thought we need a way to run sybil attacks against trackers, with the goal that all the numbers and statistics these things produce would be off by at least an order of magnitude (in both directions, at random).
That solution seems to work best through a colonial, capitalist lens. Rather than TINA (Thatcher's "there is no alternative"), consider TIA (Yoda's "there is... another")?
I understand the point. Mine is that an ordinary untrained person will see health benefits and a statistically longer life from more muscle. An overweight person would have more muscle than their non-overweight counterparts (mostly localized to the legs, not upper body), and that is the one and only positive of being overweight. Willfully throwing that away will harm your health, full stop. The muscle loss problem with these drugs is talked about a lot because it is in fact a problem. Not because the medical field is mistaken in thinking it's a bad thing.
I think it was intended to reflect a name and image that each would call the other.

I am absolutely a cowboy and I understand that this is a pejorative when spoken by a drone or a manager who only wants drones, yet this article does not attack me.

This article does not pick a side and is not disparaging anyone. Simply this dynamic of opposites does exist, and using some more clinical terms would be less honest and less accurate by hiding or downplaying the emotional element which is a real part of the thing they wish to express.

The drones don't see me as "a bit more individualistic and self propelled" they see me as "cowboy".

I think the very point was to show that the negative thing, whichever one you consider negative, is actually unavoidable and you are also exactly the same negative, so maybe not so negative. So it wouldn't be useful to avoid the very thing you aim to discuss.
If you consider a single body, the selection pressure is for the virus to multiply as quickly as possible. It's when you get multiple bodies that the selection pressure is more the ability of the virus to be transmitted and infect a new host. It's by concentrating animals/people into smaller environments that we select for the greater transmission of the virus and possibly for it to be less deadly as that gives the virus more time to spread itself.

Alternatively, think that a virus in a single organism is likely to be extremely well adapted for spreading within that organism already, but it may not be adaptable to other organisms and thus not be very contagious.
No, I was not trying to make that point inadvertently.
Note that there's far less disagreement over the designation "Lisplike".