skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not cracking in the sense of a mathematical breaking of the underlying crypto.

It's cracking in the sense of like, hashcat. Using wordlists, common passwords, common patterns (1 on the end, substituting a with @, i with !, etc.) and other methods and seeing if you output something that matches something on the list of hashed passwords you downloaded.
> If our industry fills with unions, suddenly I won't be able to job hop to positions that look interesting to me.

Huh? Says who?
>> The frontend ecosystem is kind of broken right now.

Everyone claims it's broken, then builds a new framework.
Put simply, most bots just aren't designed to solve such challenges.
There's already MCP's for both blender and unity and figma already
The major turn for the average user was actually 2009/2010. IE6 usage seems to have dropped below 1% by 2012, still before React's public release: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/4/18529381/google-youtube-in...

That said, I was on a team that was still supporting IE6 around 2014. We had clients, mostly in China from what I heard, that were required to use it because internal tooling had developed around it and their IT teams wouldn't let them upgrade.
Because in this case we have a relatively simple ZKP for 3-coloring.

However what you gain in the simplicity of the ZKP, you lose in the reduction to 3-coloring. So nowadays people use ZKPs that work with more realistic computation representations, like arithmetic circuits
I dropped good money somewhat early on for LEDs that were supposed to last at least that long (some name brand, no idea what at this point), and I don't think I even got a year out of them.

At that point, I decided to just buy the cheap ones because that was easier than dealing with the warranty process anyway.
Alternatively to cryptocurrency, some other useful c9mputation. Like contribution to BOINC. Only need to find a way to prove the computation.
Two or three drops of fuel! That's a very counterintuitive contraption! I would really be reluctant as a teacher to bring a flame near something made entirely of plastic... and with no fins or guidance control on a ballistic trajectory? I mean it's an air-filled soda bottle, but still.

I also seem to recall a type of toy vehicle that was propelled by some compressed gas as it slid, suspended along a horizontal wire/string, but I'm drawing a blank regarding the type of propellant right now. It seemed safe enough to use indoors, especially considering the constrained pathway.

I loved water rockets as a kid and I also enjoyed actual model rocketry, except they seemed too hazardous for me to find a launch area where bystanders felt completely safe. Model rocketry is sometimes 90% modeling, and 10% launching them. Estes can make some really precious designs that fly horribly but look great in a Plexiglas cube on your shelf.

I lost most of the ones I built due to poor launch conditions, and while I chose deserted school campuses during vacation or weekends, I didn't make any friends with security patrols there!
You have nailed it. Americans have that puritan history in our cultural consciousness so we do not even feel comfortable having rational discussions about it. Politicians use that to their advantage to get onerous bills passed "for the children".

To use an innocuous example nobody here is likely to get riled up about... The film "Let the right one in" had a scene where the eternally 11 year old girl vampire lifts her skirt to reveal... Nothing. No genitals at all. It was shocking and disturbing, and was supposed to be on a few levels. Genius filmmaking. Back when IMDB had forums it was pages of people saying it was a pedo's dream and the film should be banned. (I must have missed some scholarly article where pedophiles were into children with no genitals)

I do wonder from time to time about French filmmakers if I am honest...
> WARNING – Extreme care must be exercised in flying a whoosh rocket and students must be supervised when using this type of rocket.

Only surpassed by the time I tried to grab a falling soldering iron by the tip this is the source of the worst burn I've ever received. I cannot stress how vicious an ignited alcohol mixture in a container can be.
> Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future

> Ms. Bock herself had funneled money to her boyfriend at the time and used it to take trips to Las Vegas and rent Lamborghinis.

She didn't betray the mission and did feed her future. Some people just take things literally, can't blame them /s

> Another defendant, Salim Said — a 36-year-old who oversaw one of the bogus kitchens — was convicted of 20 counts, also including wire fraud and bribery.

> Mr. Said’s operation, for instance, said it had fed 6,000 a day, more than all the children in its ZIP code.

They were stealing from hungry children, this will probably not end well for them. Better stay in isolation in prison, for safety.

> But she sued the state government, saying officials were discriminating against her network because it served many African immigrants and their children.

Aha, lean into the "racism" and "discrimination", hoping the federal govt. will be intimidated. As Cpt. Kirk said "The best defense is a good offense, and I intend to start offending right now."
It looks like the model itself is here: https://huggingface.co/ds4sd/SmolDocling-256M-preview

It was fine tuned from this: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct

There's an example of fine tuning the base that would likely be applicable to this one as well.
We haven't gotten the texts, but we do have the French statement that the denial was done due to the researcher's personal opinions about Trump's policy towards research.

Is there some reason to be sceptical about the validity of the French assessment? I'm fairly certain that if the researcher had actually claimed actual violence or similar in the texts, then France wouldn't have made this into a diplomatic incident. Do you have a reason to disagree?
Show HN: I Built an AI Explainer Video Generator
I think NotebookLM is really cool, but I wanted something that doesn’t just generate text or audio—I wanted it to create videos.

So I built an AI-powered explainer video generator that takes text, file, or topics and turns them into fully formatted videos with narration, subtitles, and animations.

How it works:

You provide a script or upload your files.
The tool adds AI-generated narration, subtitles, and animated visuals.
It applies smart cuts, animations, and transitions to make it engaging.

Everything runs in the browser, so no need to install anything. My goal is to make explainer video creation as fast and effortless as possible.

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or feature ideas!

Try it here: [https://www.goact.fun/]
It's just a matter of time. Your statement assumes AI won't help to develop robotics.

Robotics is the big unlock of AI since the world is continuous and messy; not discrete. Training a massively complex equation to handle this is actually a really good approach.
How do the costs of long distance, high voltage lines compare to batteries for addressing solar intermittency?
I’m in the same boat. And judging by the people I’ve met at Google and FB (before it was Meta) a lot of us are refugees from conservative minded illiberal cultures within North America, Asia, and Europe. Memes are our currency. A lot of the internal cultures of these two companies are steeped in formative memes of those born in the mid-80s who only had the internet to find their people in the early 2000s.
The beamforming bit is neat. I have no personal experience with it, but I was surprised that 2cm separation between the microphones was enough. Do any other laptops use this technique for noise rejection?
OK. To be clear, that wasn't about the OP, but rather the alleged people promoting the abolition of copyright... which would significantly hurt open source.

The people agitating for such things are usually leeches who want everything free and do, in fact, hold an infantile worldview that doesn't consider how necessary remuneration is to whatever it is they want so badly (media pirates being another example).

Not that I haven't "pirated" media, but this is usually the result of it not being available for purchase or my already having purchased it.
> Maintaining a personal website is about owning your digital presence, embracing creative freedom, and expressing your individuality!

Hard disagree here.

The value of this aspect of the IndieWeb movement is way too overstated. MySpace-like customization gets the entire obligation for empathy that's inherent in the user–creator relationship inverted. It should not matter whether you like blinking white stars on backgrounds that come straight from a Dan Flashes T-shirt and high-pitched chiptunes playing on a loop. If you really like those things so much, you should modify your user agent to show them to you when you're on the websites that other people have published instead of leaning on your control over the rules for what should show up in other people's browsers as your outlet for creative expression.

Look at books. Look at how little variation there is in presentation, despite the wide-ranging variation in content and themes. That's because, essentially, we figured out how to do books. We got them right. Tufte is good at deviating from the standard and taking care that the deviations contribute in a worthwhile way to the actual content. Most people are not. Look at the Reader Mode in various browsers. These things exist only because of the propensity for people—and not just amateurs; paid professionals, even—to utterly fail at providing what people really need and desire, which is a simple, unassuming and distraction-free substrate for the main message. (Much of the same is true of RSS readers that are exalted within the very same circles of "indie" consumers and creators.)

Look at those browsers' Reader Mode again. Try them all out, and find one whose defaults you find the most pleasing, and then go publish your indie site using that as a template. Forget about trying to wow people with CSS and animated confetti.

The real value of operating an indie site is that it gives you as the operator the latitude to say "no" to participating in the silos and walled gardens of contemporary social networks and instead contributing positively to the standards-based Web that interoperates best with the software (like RSS readers) that puts the user's best interest at the fore, which is all way, way more important (and totally opposite to) gimmicks and gewgaws like sparkles that follow your mouse cursor around.
In case you missed it, Andretti name was removed the moment Cadillac officially announced joining F1.
I was just in a heated discussion on this recently - the current focus on the federal DOE itself being "fraudulent" is in my opinion completely misdirected at where fraud most likely is to occur, and is fully embodied here. The Federal DOE ultimately distributes supplementary (NOT supplant) funds earmarked for specific resources (e.g. food insecurity, special need population) to state education agencies where the actual procurement happens, and further these states decide ultimately who actually receives the money, who is on the approved vendor list, etc.

Unfortunately I think most people will look no further than the headline and think the current administration is correct in their strong attack on federal institutions like the federal DOE, when this was a fraud perpetuated at the state level and caught only by federal oversight (FBI, Postal Service, IRS Criminal Division).
Could you add an option for non-JS users? Maybe a Linux command-line we can paste the output of into a form.
I think it’s an interesting comment. Hard to not take that kind of thing personally though.
BMW i3. Dated a bit but it's impressive. There's tons of CF stuff out there.
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Why is importing an american car into the EU 10% but importing a car into the U.S. is 2.5%?
Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it
My guess after reading the same -- the bot traffic comes in bursts and targets a specific commit hash for a while. Users are unlikely to need that specific commit, and even less likely to need it at the same time a bot is bursting requests for it. There's probably a small risk of denying a real user, but there's a large reduction in traffic from the bots making it to git; a worthwhile trade.
It'd be cool if maybe there was a quick video demo!
> Please demand change within your community.

I'm out of loop, but I demand a dark mode. Burning my eye balls was enough -.-
Thank you for answering. I needed the context in order to understand the code better (learning more rust).
I trust you, and I also trust the top 2 comments on that post from 2 days ago.

One of which apologizes on behalf of HN, and thanks Asahi and assures them a majority is grateful for their work.

Another, like most of us, curious, wondering why the reaction is so unhinged, and finding every post from the site is treated this way.
For the latest in multi-stage high pressure, high altitude water powered rockets, this group is paving the way: https://youtu.be/xm-tGJxepUw?si=uGA--H1kPgBCVREd
From fire at a single substation?! Crazyness.
Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy
I only see them via 24h top via Algolia
Turning $5M into $100M
Battery progress was in some ways slowed but also accelerated by oil companies who kept buying up patents on solar and battery stuff that looked promising, and then sat on the patents, refusing to license it.

One oil company bought Cobasys, which owned all the NiMH patents. Thereafter, Cobasys refused to license NiMH batteries to anyone making a vehicle, except large ones like transit busses. Several early EVs used NiMH batteries until Cobasys was acquired and set up the restrictions.

This really lit a fire under researchers and battery industry to try and improve lithium ion, which had hit the market in the early 90's. Once the price of Lithium Ion started falling, the market very quickly forgot about NiMH batteries. In about ten years prices have fallen to one fifth of what they were. That fall has slowed, but it's still dropping.
Small discussion 2 days ago (13 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400574
Why are they useless? I log into GitHub, Google and Discord using passkeys, and it's very convenient being a single mouse click.
There are ways to access public Instagram content without an account, gallery-dl for eg works most of the time. Tweeper can also be useful.

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl https://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git
The Public Utilities Commission doesn't know how to say no to PG&E.
It will never be found - the amount of stories I heard of firms and business pocketing the relief money and closing shop anyways is outrageous. The government was way to loose with how these funds were distributed for what they expected of those recipients.
I think you’re assuming when you switch to EV the ICE car disappears. But more likely it got traded to someone else who has less money, eventually making it possible for someone to own a car who otherwise wouldn’t have.

So the emissions stayed the same and you added the carbon embedded in the new EV.
1. Is everyone using LLMs to solve problems? No, they aren't. Not even close.

2. "...in a few years..." No, this has already happened. LLMs are producing output that is then posted on the Internet which thence finds its way to other LLMs (and back to itself). Much discussion about this has occurred.

3. "In short, how can ... [very long sentence]* the long term?" It can't other than by human editing.

For the LLM model, curation of content is mandatory. Limit the LLM corpus to scholarly and scientific works and you'll get an LLM that is "smarter". Limit the corpus to bona fide literary masterpieces and you'll get an LLM that is a better poet. Suck up everything on the Innerwebs and you'll have a GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) situation.

The LLM model is too limited to produce intelligence. LLMs predict the next word and build sentences, paragraphs and documents. When trained on a readable corpus an LLM will usually write readable output.
As a primarily frontend engineer who has "spent plenty of time in the Python mines", I feel exactly the same way. Oh my god, Python is a horrific mishmash of deprecated and impossible-to-upgrade libraries and dependencies. Honestly, I think it's significantly worse than the frontend - at least with the frontend, the scope of the damage is limited by TypeScript and the language limiting you to doing relatively sane things. In Python, you can do LITERALLY EVERYTHING, which leads to library authors doing LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Want to change how modules are imported? Go for it! Want to make a metaclass and break all assumptions about how a class operates? Have fun! Think your static typing will help you? Good luck - you can't even do trivial things like `Partial<T>` or statically assert that two objects have the same type.

All this kvetching about libraries changing makes me laugh. The Python 2 -> 3 transition was so horrific that the last place that I worked at had a 100M Python monolith with no plans of EVER upgrading to 3. SqlAlchemy 1 -> 2 is an 8 step migration that requires a TOTAL rewrite, and if you break anything, YOUR SITE GOES DOWN. And then people complain because React optionally added hooks or something!

The weird thing is that the internet is full of posts about "The Frontend Treadmill", but no one ever seems to gripe about the converse.
It would be nice if I could tell it what page to look at (maybe you can, I am not sure). Often if I am getting an LLM to write some code that I can see is obviously wrong, I would love to say here is the docs ... use that to formulate your response.
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This happened at the state level not federal, and occurred outside of direct government oversight like almost all such cases.

Yet sure let’s blame the government rather than the inherent issues with outsourcing government functions to entities with less oversight.
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I don’t think we have a great track record at fully understanding these complex biological systems well enough to engineer life.
Especially true with the runes update. imo, it traded away the thing that made it unique and truly great in the market: the feeling that you’re just writing vanilla HTML, JS, and CSS.
Why Yōzefu? (a TUI for searching a Kafka cluster)
Now we just need modern houses that have a DC circuit dedicated to lighting
They have been controlling hot water tanks in New Zealand for decades… probably since the 70s. They use what they call a ripple signal by adding 400 hz on top of the 60 and then relays on your hot water tank detect the 400hz and switch it off
> Given the nature of what we do, this can mean spending upwards of $10,000 a year on Macs.

Please know that donating isn’t just about helping the developers financially, it’s also needed just to purchase new Mac’s every year to test & support (because each new M-series requires additional development to work).

You can donate here:
https://asahilinux.org/support/
False on both counts. Supreme Court can hear a case on it and block it if they wish, and congress can fail to impeach, but it doesn't mean he isn't breaking the law. He took an oath to follow the constitution. He is breaking that oath. He is a flagrant criminal and an out of control president. If you agree with this, you are as unamerican as he is.
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> for free on YouTube

For free on YouTube in exchange for ad revenue
There is a different team within Apple that can help with this. I think it's called Consumer Relations or some such thing. They're hard to connect with, but once you do they can work magic. Don't give up on this! If they've broken your computer, especially if you can prove this via the usage history on the device, then you should be taken care of. For example, if you can show you were actively using the computer the day of the appointment, well after the time that you created the appointment, that would be evidence that you didn't make a fake battery appointment in order to defraud them.

I'm surprised they didn't turn it on or anything at dropoff. I feel like they usually check stuff or disable Find My when I drop devices off. But maybe for battery replacements it isn't necessary?
Keep going.

https://tpp2014.com/catherine-malabou-concept-plasticity/

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262720212/the-embodied-mind/

The camera is our nervous system and chemical transports.

Whenever a friend tells me about the latest AI experiment resulting in AGI my stock response is, "Have they put it in a rat suit yet?"
You're wrong. The whole point is that the DoA and its ilk like USAID just dumps money and then feigns plausible deniability.

Did you see Reed Hoffman's answer when asked if he funds lawfare against RFK Jr so that he both can't add his name to ballots as well as remove them? He said, well I just hand off the money but I can't control what happens after that. Which is utter bullshit. That's plausible deniability in full view.

https://x.com/sheislaurenlee/status/1830358688890024386

There can be accountability and there needs to be accountability. If DoA is the enabler of fraud when it pays hundreds of millions of dollars to its NGOs that it knows is engaged in fraud, then USAID is guilty. It can't distribute taxpayer money so easily and say it doesn't have any control over the actions.
It's not just about seeing, a man in the middle could also modify the content.
No, it long predates that.
Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri
Hi! Can you add prefix support? This would be very valuable in being able to support overlapping windows. The only other way would be to use another ai to determine the overlap
That last video was pretty interesting with the side-by-side, showing how things are re-calibrated, etc.

I figured that being a vtuber wasn't cheap, but that's a lot of (expensive looking) gear on top of the cost of the software, model, etc.
Well you have no rights when you expose a server to the internet. Other than copyright of course.
It's kind of surprising to me that I can't customize the search ability at all with a lot of models (at least I wasn't really able to last time I checked). Would providing a blacklist to the model really be that hard?

Actually, it's astounding to me that companies haven't created a more user friendly customization interface for models. The only way to "customize" things would be through the chat interface, but for some reason everyone seems to have forgotten that configuration buttons can exist.
I wonder if people in general would have a healthier understanding of LLMs if this mode of interaction was more common. Perhaps it would be more clear that the LLM is a very souped up autocomplete, instead of some other mind to debate.
I mean, very roughly, our western calendar based on solar observations is consistent in that the same months will always be in the same season. You can always expect that January and December will be cold, and in the northern hemisphere have some of the shortest days of the year.

The Arabic Islamic calendar is not like that. Ramadan is one of the standard months of the lunar calendar and depending on what year you're talking about, Ramadan might be exactly in the middle of summer, or it might be in the direct middle of winter. Very approximately it goes "backwards" in seasons 10 or 11 days per year and eventually wraps all the way around from the POV of the western solar calendar.

In the western calendar, the winter solstice will always fall on December 20th or 21st even going up to the year 2100. And the same for the summer solstice on June 20th or 21st.

https://www.astropixels.com/ephemeris/soleq2001.html
“Prompting” is kind of a myth honestly.

Think about it, how much marginal influence does it really have if you say OP’s version vs a fully formed sentence? The keywords are what gets it in the area.
Or maybe these democracy index things are entirely arbitrary
Does anyone know if they have made any progress on M3 support?