skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, that’s fine. I’m happy to amend that to “We must break the back of the mainstream environmentalism movement of the US” because every mainstream environmentalist in the US is an active degrowther and pro-sprawl lunatic.

I’m not going to No True Scotsman this over “Yes, we’ll Democratic People’s Republics aren’t really democratic so when you say you want to end them you specifically mean blah blah”. But now that you know what American green organizations are like you know better. And knowing that you’re not pro-sprawl suffices for me. No friendly fire under this tent. But we will burn the rest of the green out of the US.
Consider shipping the components as an MCP.
> in the case of griping on a forum I think the standard of evidence is much lower.

Uh, no. Human “slop” is no better than AI slop.

There is no good purpose for a constant hum of predictable poorly supported “oh that’s LLM” “gripes”, if we care about the quality of a forum.
Very true. But equally, the other side that welcomed every kind of diversity except viewpoint diversity is now getting some people who don't see things their way force-fed to them.
It's a good point, I suppose, but it doesn't have to be so black-and-white. There are certain exceptions to this no-account rule of course, like for your bank.

Now, would HN be better without an account? I believe it would, why not? I like lurking (and sometimes commenting) on HN though so I feel like creating an account is valid. Also, HN works fine without JS and has no trackers, which does tend to get me to create an account.
There is a webapp version. It's the grey button just to the right of the download button. Looks like their main desktop client is the same as their webapp.
It will modify the behaviour of some of the people who vote.

Which is the point.

The interesting part is whether they can group out users who are more predisposed to upvote violence, develop a measure of tendancy, and observe a change for some subgroup.

If the admin want to downplay violent content they have a range of options, eg: if they have suitable measures then those who do not modify behaviour can have their upvotes diluted or negated on violent content or any other actions up to shadowbanning or beyond(?).

Reddit literally has a decade+ database on how people vote.
Time to start keeping track of how many times attorneys from ‘DEI schools’ win on the other side of the courtroom.
Another TechCrunch [dupe]

Actual article: https://databreaches.net/2025/03/05/hcrg-cares-lawyers-claim... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43285101)
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> How do you know what roadblocks are valid to remove if you dont understand what they do.

Roadblocks are almost exclusively a "people problem" - politics, identifying stakeholder needs, inter-team coordination, etc.

> How do you performance manage employees if you dont understand what they do.

By working to identify value added to the organization via quantifiable metrics and working with team members to define professional growth tasks relevant to both the person and the organization.

None of the above requires a manager to know how to do what the people hired can do.
My understanding, based on a documentary I watched, is that a bit of funding for Artemis bled off into a reverse engineering study, where they designed a new one, but Artemis went with the shuttle engines in the end so it never got produced.
you caught me at the moment of coding this!
>Dissent also noted that the text of the court order does not specifically name DataBreaches.net nor reference the specific articles in question.

What did the court order even say?

The law firm managed to get a non specific order and the firm misrepresented it?
I was using the land mine method, but it didn't trigger reliably. Now I use SmartBomb™.
Well, I guess it's better than the reddit alternatives that are full of communities who got banned from reddit.
California is larger than many countries, and more productive than many countries as well (at least as far as GDP goes). Of course it should have a proportionally large influence on the rest of the country; it's not "undue".
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> Further I can't imagine Trump is going to be cutting engineering research, they're more likely to cancel gender/DEI research, which isn't exactly regarded as especially high quality research (even if it's only 10-15 million in funding)

No need to imagine:

https://www.rdworldonline.com/nsf-layoffs-in-2025-deep-budge...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/03/03/more...

https://www.wired.com/story/national-science-foundation-febr...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152470

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166830
Do you benchmark the right thing though? It seems to focus a lot on image / charts etc...

The 95% from their benchmark: "we evaluate them on our internal “text-only” test-set containing various publication papers, and PDFs from the web; below:"

Text only.
I thank you for once again making my point for me. Good luck.
they're not turning off the embassy sensors. In fact, the embassies were told to "keep them logging" so that "at some point in the future we can restart collecting the data from the sensors".

I don't really care about the sensors or really the $15,000,000. I just think ignoring externalities like "poking the CCP via showing a billion people their government 'lied to them'." and thinking that 15 million against our defense budget was a good way to spend my "dime" of taxes. I don't want to go to war with China. I certainly don't want my taxes going to screw with the chinese citizens.

Since i can't control that, i'll complain about the costs.
The point is that "biolabs" in Ukraine are inevitably conducting bioweapons research by any other name.

Biological research != bioweapons.

At the very least, every country that grows food has biological laboratories to monitor the health of livestock and detect outbreaks of diseases like African swine fever. I don't see how this "inevitably" means they are conducting bioweapons research. It's like accusing every car repair workshop of secretly building tanks for the international black market of weapons. You need to provide something more substantial than mere conjecture before jumping to that conclusion.

The quoted testimony doesn't support your argument either: as the snippet points out, people were concerned that Russia could release existing dangerous samples or plant something to justify their propaganda, cause an outbreak of some horrible disease, and blame Ukrainians for it. "A classic Russian technique," as Nuland called it.

And before you jump from "dangerous samples" to "a-ha! bioweapons!", let me remind you that even something as mundane as the carcass of a sick pig can be dangerous. Careless truckers caused a massive swine fever outbreak near me when they didn't insulate the trucks well enough to prevent bodily fluids from dead pigs from dripping out onto rural roads that passed farms. Any lab worth its name must have plenty of things nobody would want to see meet the kind of dumbass Russian soldiers who ransacked Chernobyl's hazardous material warehouses for anything that appeared valuable.
I love this argument. Your little cache of weapons isn't going to do anything against trained soldiers.
Are you promoting Solana or did you just post the wrong link?
Even if you buy into the whole notion of "representing geography", the problem is that state boundaries ceased to be representative of any meaningful kind of political distinction a long time ago, as evidenced by the massive red/blue splits in many states. It's not just NY - you can see the same thing in other large states, e.g. in WA where the split is geographical within state boundaries - west of the Cascades is very blue, east is very red. Nor is it unique to blue states - TX has the same exact issue with blue counties having a lot of population that is effectively not represented at all.

Unless and until this is fixed, there's no meaningful "geographic representation" in the Senate, so it's strictly a negative.
For sure. The work that Asahi have done is unbelievable, especially given the size of the team and the challenges they've faced. Would be amazing if there was more support from mainline devs (or better still, Apple directly).
I still think that you have to do big things to achieve big things, but my enthusiasm for IFT8 was definitely a few orders of magnitude less than the previous launches.
Peace through Ukraine’s surrender is very obviously bad, and it’s no peace at all. It’s disappointing that this needs to be explained on HN of all places.
Turns out it was actually 5.42%, and $750,000,000,000.00 between 2021 and 2023.

I certainly try not to leave 1/20th of my food in the pan!
A Visual App Architecture Diagram Tool – Looking for Feedback
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on a visual application architecture diagram tool that helps me reason about logic and data flow more effectively. It’s essentially an interactive flow diagram interface where you can drag-and-drop nodes (like API, data, logic, etc.), connect them visually, and see how your app’s pieces relate to each other. I’ve found it incredibly useful for planning features and clarifying complex relationships in my own projects.

Now, I’d love your feedback:

Does this sort of visual approach help you clarify your application logic?
Do you see potential in integrating it into your workflow?
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> with LLM as a judge

For anyone else interested, prompt is here [0]. The model used was gemini-2.0-flash-001.

Benchmarks are hard, and I understand the appeal of having something that seems vaguely deterministic rather than having a human in the loop, but I have a very hard time accepting any LLM-judged benchmarks at face value. This is doubly true when we're talking about something like OCR which, as you say, is a very hard problem for computers of any sort.

I'm assuming you've given this some thought—how did you arrive at using an LLM to benchmark OCR vs other LLMs? What limitations with your benchmark have you seen/are you aware of?

[0] https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker/blob/master/benchmark...
I honestly don’t think it will. People vote on instinct, they aren’t thinking of the rules, they won’t.

This is a hall monitor type solution where the only thing they can think of is to give the hall monitor permission to use the stick more.
These are good questions! FHE appears nonintuitive at first glance, but hopefully with a smaller example it can be made clear.

> Wouldn't the information required to identify what a "word" is require the running software to be able to see breaks/periods/etc?

Yes. But that information can be encrypted and still computed on. You might suppose that since encrypted data is essentially gibberish, then multiplying or adding different blocks of it together will only generate gibberish. The insight is that it is not entirely gibberish- or else how would we be able to decrypt it? The information to identify a word still there, and you can write a program that sees breaks/periods/etc, but you won't know when it sees a break/period until decryption of the result.

> Doesn't that leak information about the cyphertext?

This question seems to be encoding an assumption that the cloud in your example is able to see the result of the search query. The key insight here is that the cloud is only able to compute the encrypted result. It can only return the encrypted result to the requester who has the private key, and can decrypt the result, and see how many words were counted.

> How does it stop someone from writing software that, for example, maps out the position of all the a's, then b's, then c's, etc in a cyphertext and MITMing it?

I'm a bit confused by the attack here. I think it is also assuming that the untrusted computing party is able to read the plaintext result of the operation.

Here's an illustrative example. Suppose my encryption scheme is Enc(key, m) = key*m = c. Suppose my decryption scheme is Dec(key, c) = c/key = m. This scheme is not secure, but pretend that it is, and that separating out key and m from c is difficult.

I want the untrusted cloud to compute m1 * m2.

I can perform Enc(key, m1) = c1, Enc(key, m2) = c2 and send c1 and c2 to the cloud to multiply.

The cloud receives c1 and c2 which are really key*m1 and key*m2, but we are assuming that the cloud can't separate these factors from the products.

The cloud returns c1*c2, which we know equals key*m1*key*m2 = key^2 * (m1*m2).

If we divide c1*c2 by (key^2) - note: this is just running our decryption algorithm with a modified key - we will get m1*m2, which is what we wanted!

For a more formal example using ElGamal Encryption (apologies for spelling ElGamal wrong in the paper) I wrote this up: https://github.com/lsnow99/elgamal/blob/main/elgamal.pdf

Credit to https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~goyal/15356/lecture_notes.pdf for definitions
In what way is he warmongering?
There are lots of reasons why that might not play out the way you plan.
> The context window can be compared to working memory in humans: it’s fast, efficient but gets rapidly overloaded. Humans manage this limitation by offloading previously learned information into other memory forms, whereas LLMs can only mimic this process superficially at best.

This is just silly. Humans forget things all the time! If I want to remember something I write it down.

> The nature of hallucination is very different between AR models and humans, as one has a world model and the other doesn’t.

I stopped reading at this point. There's not much signal here, just basic facts about LLMs and then leaps to very bold statements.

Here is an interesting experiment I use to help people understand next token prediction. Think of a simple math problem in your head, maybe 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication. Then speak out every single thought you have while solving it.
(Sorry, forgot to mention: trillions in tons of plastic E_waste.exe __ obsolete phone cases ==

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Instead of posting snarky, low-effort comments you should spend some time learning the basics of medical ethics. This is not a religious issue. Medically assisted suicide for a terminal patient is one thing, but directly killing a patient with severe dementia who is mentally unable to give informed consent is quite another. This would put healthcare providers in an impossible situation. There are good reasons why no civilized country allows this.
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Imagine a thousand people that upvote a specific bit of imagery that all get warnings.

Are you saying that they are all sheep that act in unison and not a single one would react differently to another?

How does that notion compare to, say, results from marketing tests on groups that trial various strategies and look at the spectrum of reactions in order to tune a campaign going forward?
How do you stay competitive with $2/100 pages pricing as compared to mistral and others offering 1000 pages for $1 approx?
“i don’t think i should be paying” - if it could benefit your community or the country, then why not? It gives people options.

Not everything is a zero sum game. That’s just a fact of living in a society. Some people pay in to the system much more than you, and you benefit from that. And vise versa, there’s someone paying less and they benefit from your contributions (taxes, etc). That’s what society is about. A system that allows citizens to thrive. It’s not supposed to be about ME ME ME.

Just my 2 cents…as an american that’s tired of this attitude. Capitalism with small guardrails is garbage in my opinion.

On a somewhat related note - many americans think free healthcare is not worthwhile because it’s a net negative for them PERSONALLY. I struggle to understand that as well. Like “oh i don’t want to pay for that”. Meanwhile most of your fellow americans can’t afford basic care.

What’s the end game??? You’re entitled to your opinion of course but i don’t _understand_ it.
Depends on how much mass we want to get there. It could be our chance to be a two star species.
One of the 'neat' things that you can do is look at the '29726230' and find out the ID of the person doing the advertising... since this is badge related.

https://stackoverflow.com/users/29726230
> rather than just adding another point solution—or worse, overwhelming them with multiple fragmented tools ...

> This tailored approach

It really is AI slop all the way down now isn't it?
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I'm curious about the chilling effect of DOGE on effective regulation of these test flights. It's hard to imagine there isn't one, particularly when they were hit first and foremost in the politically-motivated deconstruction of demonstrated critical and effective government institutions, but characterizing or demonstrating it could be difficult.
Why should it be centralized at the os level?

Https certificate trust is basically the last thing I think about when I choose an os. (And for certain OSes I use, I actively don't trust its authors/owners)
EV sales are up, and this is a market with full Chinese import activity and minimal tariffs - so I'm guessing the big winners are Chinese EVs (narrator: that's correct)

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/04/1842209/australia-w...
I think a valid question is why is California so big...

There's North Carolina and South Carolina, North Dakota and South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia – why not North California and South California?
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I'd mentioned this on HN last month, but I took a picture of a grocery list and then pasted it into ChatGPT to have it written out and it worked flawlessly...until I discovered that I'd messed up the picture when I took it at an angle and had accidentally cut off the first character or two of the bottom half of the list.

ChatGPT just inferred that I wanted the actual full names of the items (aka "flour" instead of "our").

Depending on how you feel about it, this is either an absolute failure of OCR or wildly useful and much better.
> Do not run cargo fmt on this code base; the macro used to prevent duplication of code between f32 and f64 modules causes undesirable behavior.

Why not use #[rustfmt::skip]?
There are times when data should be a JSON, and there are times when it really shouldn't be. 165GB of compressed JSON is simply insane. More than 53 bytes to record a timestamp with 11 digits behind the decimal point of the second?!?!? I'm lucky if my DNS query latency is below 40ms, and couldn't imagine a single case where that degree of precision is relevant. Someone missed taking a basic statistics course. Just... wow. I hope someone from Merklemap sees this and reforms their bloated ways.

I wonder how many dollars of cloud storage they're burning on this waste?
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what do you reckon it costs microsoft to support people that "opted out"? what amount of legal boilerplate would indemnify Microsoft against lawsuits over lost data because someone chose to opt out?

If the only option is to modify the installer the only people who are going to opt out are the sort of people that understand that microsoft has no responsibility to our data, and pretending they do is silly. It's pure CYA from Microsoft.

If you personally don't like it, then use their automated thumb-drive creation tool (at that same link) to make a new bootable USB stick that installs with the "opt out". I modified the ISO because i was installing on a Virtual Machine. If i was gunna do it on metal i'd use a USB stick because all my optical drives are USB and not that fast.

I don't think we disagree, i think we're coming at this from different sides. I don't expect microsoft to spend more money than they have to.
> I think this is a uniquely American problem because America is a unique country. No other nations have the incredible wealth, diversity, and rights of America, and looking to other countries to emulate is imo, a mistake.

Other than the "right to bear arms", what rights do Americans have that sets them apart?
I'm still in my 30s, but I wonder how much mental decline is actually due to physical decline. I notice I feel more sluggish, sleepy, less sharp and motivated during periods when I'm more sedentary. And while exercise is tiring, I feel it gradually improves not only physical stamina, but mental stamina as well. Clearly a large part of our brain power is spent controlling our bodies, for when a stroke happens, becoming paralyzed in an area of your body can result. And clearly our body caters to our brains needs (e.g. nutrition), so if the body declines, then it shouldn't be surprising to see mental capabilities decline as well.
The documentation link is _right there_.
It is genuinely weird to think Microsoft should get a veto over your browser if that browser stops trusting a CA, right?
I'm at a total loss why social chat boards want to have the most antisocial names.
Not saying that our current approaches will lead to intelligence. No one can know.

It could very well be that the internal mechanism of our thought has an auto-regressive reasoning component.

With the full system effectively "combining" short term memory (what just happened) and "pruned" long-term memory (what relevant things i know from the past) and pushing that into a RAW autoregressive reasoning component.

It is also possible that another specialized auto regressive reasoning component is driving the "prune" and "combine" operations. This whole system could be solely represented in the larger network.

The argument that "intelligence cannot be auto-regressive" seems to be without basis to me.

> there is strong evidence that not all thinking is linguistic or sequential.

It is possible that a system wrapping a core auto-regressive reasoner can produce non-sequential thinking - even if you don't allow for weight updates.
Think about this. You need to calculate the number of permutation for 4 digit codes. Then you need to arrange them in every order possible to brute force. So that’s 4!!. That’s a lot: roughly 620000000000000000000000 combos.
Starlink claims to be free cash flow positive, with is pretty much the opposite of using EBITDA to claim profitability. It's essentially a depreciation rate of 100%.

There are thousands of companies misusing EBITDA. Pick an example of a public company with open books doing so. Picking a private company with closed books is just weird.
I am more surpised that the other amateur mathematian appearing in this article is Greg Egan (He has a personal website on https://www.gregegan.net/).

He is one of the best contemporary hard SF writers in the world.
I can guarantee any humans we ship out in the near future won't survive a million-year wait for it to come close...
I find that when carrying the Hipster PDA in a pocket, the index cards curl up and get bent. However, it almost satisfies all my requirements for a portable note-taking device.
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This is absolutely hilarious. Original story: https://www.voxnews.al/english/kosovabota/qeveria-po-e-plani...
If you didn't mean it like that, I apologize. It's just a very common tactic of gun people, and I'm frustrated. Thank you for the links.
> Easy way to set your opponents back when you have the upper hand like the US does.

if the US had the upper hand it wouldn't have issued this partial climb-down

so much winning