skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It exposes you to the mental illness of some people, like the kind of person who will make a thread asking if anybody knows this new runner they saw jog by their place because it's very suspicious and it's making them very angry that someone would jog down their street.

Or bicker about street parking. Or people who post on social media in general, like to talk about politics or fake outrage over nothing or the weird boasting people like to do like post a news article about some family freezing to death in the Yukon and how disappointing it is that the husband didn't keep his SUV prepped for such an occasion like I do here in Houston—you know, I don't even leave my house without <LARP armor>.

It can get in the way of a foundational part of the social fabric: being able to assume your neighbors are normal, nice people.
Then why is it that when pharma patents were introduced in countries that didn't have them, the rate of innovation, TFP, R&D-as-%-GDP didn't increase? I brought a source to this debate, if you have sources showing that increases in patent scope, length, or introduction of patents increased pharamacological innovation I'd love to see it - I'm going down this rabbit hole now and am collecting info.

Another interesting one is [1] where they asked readers of the BMJ to vote on the top 15 most important medical milestones. Of the 15, only the contraceptive pill and Chlorpromazine had anything to do with patents.

In [2] the "Chemical and Engineering News magazine" collected a list of top pharmaceuticals (46 total). To quote the book I linked:

> Patents had pretty much nothing to do with the development of 20 among the 46 top selling drugs [..] . For the remaining 26 products patents did play an important role [..]. Notice though that of these 26, 4 were discovered completely by chance and then patented (cisplatin, librium, taxol, thorazin), 2 were discovered in university labs before the Bayh-Dole Act was even conceived (cisplatin and taxol). Further, a few were simultaneously discovered by more than one company leading to long and expensive legal battles, however, the details are not relevant to our argument.

Regarding the cost of drug trials, they cover this well in Chapters 9 and 10, I found it quite interesting.

Regarding how else companies make money without being granted temporary govt-backed monopolies, Chapter 6 covers both the theoretical and real-life examples.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/medical-milestones
[2] https://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/8325list.html
Apple doesn’t have a monopoly. You can vote with your wallet by buying an Android phone from one of several manufacturers of your choosing that has the feature to install whatever you want. Again why should Apple and their users that are content with the current walled garden status quo have to change when you already have a viable option to get what you want?
What are the benefits of these frameworks(Langgraph, Llamaindex) over a dedicated orchestration platform like Temporal (or DBOS as a lightweight alternative)?
> Seems silly to try to use emotions to appeal to a machine

This is already the basis for a lot of jailbreaks: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-s...
Having lived most of my life in cities, I moved from London to the suburb of a smallish town about 4 years ago. Since that move, I've got to know maybe 20x more of my neighbours here than I managed in two decades in London. However, I also got a dog and I think 90% of this is down to that.
I used to run my own e-mail server for my personal address. In an attempt to reduce spam I configured Postfix to reject all inbound messages that weren't DKIM signed. The only time I ever had an issue was when somebody from the multinational publicly-traded company that I worked for tried to send a message to my personal inbox. They ran Exchange in the datacenter at the time (this would have been ~2017) and hadn't enabled DKIM signing. I had a friendly conversation with the sysadmin responsible for it and they had it enabled by the end of the week.

I suppose the moral of the story is that it's possible to do billions of dollars in business a year without having textbook-perfect mail infrastructure. Hell, I ran a mail server with bad MX records, a missing PTR record, and a mismatched HELO header and the world kept spinning (when I was a literal child with nobody to tell me better - I've since learned the error of my ways).
Have been using them for non-interactive coding where latency is not an issue. Specifically, turning a set of many free-text requirements into SQL statements, so that later when an item's data is entered into the system, we can efficiently find which requirements it meets. The reasoning models' output quality is much better than the non-reasoning models like 3.5 Sonnet, it's not a subtle difference.
This used to be completely normal. It was caled being neighborly.
It attracts the same kinds of people who love homeowners associations, yes.
>At 60 they have paid off most of the land which is now worth millions and so are rich by any measure in ways most tech jobs cannot get to

A person with the drive and intelligence to start ranching at 20 and put in 80 hours weeks in their youth could have done well in tech too, socking away $100k or more in tax advantaged retirement accounts, all the while having PTO and weekends.

Also, most people like to leave near urban areas with access to airports and a variety of grocery stores and kids' activities and schools filled with kids of other high achievers.
If it's a suicide you may be onto something. If died of natural causes though, it's a poor taste joke.
Please fix the title, it's _c_, not _C_.
I think people were fine with OpenAI demos. They were less fine with not actually ever releasing the demoed tech.
Very short answers are often intended as offhand snark. Combined that with the fact that it seemed to me (and I assume many others) that the large differences between the Argentinian situation and the US one was incredibly obvious - I was drawn to the conclusion that you were most likely being snarky.

I did however moderate my reply to be respectful and I attempted to draw out a more thoughtful response. The fact you categorise me as the asshole in this leaves me even more uncertain as to your sincerity.
Have you ever considered an electrified paddle? I’d recommend the kind without a guard, just bare wires… the SNAP! when you contact a mosquito is both humane (instantaneous explosion!) and extremely satisfying, as these things go…

Not useful for meaningful control in the kind of swarm situation you describe, but cathartic! And useful for the stragglers who sneak into your shelter behind you…
Ε-Cost Sharding: Scaling Static Functions and Filters to Trillions of Keys
I should point out that the model outputs being looked at here are from models using the Circuit Breakers[0] defense mechanism. Basically their inference code checks if the model is "thinking about" something harmful at specific Transformer layers and, if so, deliberately corrupts the model representation such that it outputs... literally anything else.

I wasn't able to find a concise, readable explanation as to how Circuit Breakers changes the model representation. So I can't explain why it picks tokens likely to elicit an empathetic response from a human reader. My guess is that Circuit Breakers is still corrupting model state long after the model has been 'redirected' and it's just caught in a loop of outputting the same starting token.

[0] https://www.circuit-breaker.ai/
oh boy! another brain imaging story. I wonder if they can also identify the moment trout start making memories?
> some underlying public interest ... I think we should have these kinds of rules for people who design bridges, medical equipment, and passenger airplanes. I don’t think we should have these rules for people who design hard drive controllers, compilers, and physics simulation software.

You mean the hard drives that are storing inspection records for those bridges, and the compilers that were used to build that medical-equipment software, and the physics simulation software that was used to verify the required load strength of that passenger airplane?
After I got married and had children my status seeking behavior basically vanished. Too busy.
Breaking and Fixing Content-Defined Chunking
Quite.

Wikipedia tends to be good with citations.

People don't copy and paste from wikipedia any more, they do it from chatgpt with no (or made up) citations, ones you can't track at all.
I've been pretty happy with Unifi's "In-Wall" AP (e.g. https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-wall/products/u6-iw): PoE powered, has four downstream RJ45 ports (one with PoE itself), and is a side-firing WiFi AP as well. Like the sibling comment said, they're made for hotel rooms, but I've never been in a hotel fancy enough to use them (possibly because the RJ45 sockets aren't particularly discoverable, being on the bottom). It doesn't live in a power outlet, but it's meant to be mounted at the same height. Worked great for my home office. (I'm not associated with Unifi, just happy with their gear)
It's a reasonable comparison given it'll likely be priced similarly to o3-mini. I find o1 to be strictly better than o3-mini, but still use o3-mini for the majority of my agentic workflow because o1 is so much more expensive.
"Whitney Mallett on That Kylie Minoque x Towa Tei Track"

Has the author misspelled Kylie's surname in the article heading or am I missing something?
Show HN: Mutation testing to secure Cursor generated code
Cursor-generated code can easily be compromised by highly sophisticated malicious instructions or malicious MCP servers. These exploits are extremely difficult to track. This demonstration shows how mutation testing, powered by https://testcode.ai/products, can effectively detect these vulnerabilities.
When they started mentioning WhatsApp, I did have the briefest thought that this could be marketing to try to replace NextDoor.

There's certainly opportunity. NextDoor comments here are of mixed quality. And the NextDoor feed seems to have the ad saturation cranked up unpleasantly high.

> Thus, the WhatsApp group was born. At first this was just a place to announce when we’d be out having stoop coffee, but we soon realized people wanted to connect over more things than just coffee. So we ended up converting the group into a WhatsApp Community where we could have chats dedicated to certain topics or groups and plan other types of events together.
Vermont has something sort of like this called Front Porch Forum. It's something I would like to see tried elsewhere.
Show HN: Camera Calibration Using VGGT
Continuing with my robot training collection pipeline, one of the challenges has been obtaining calibrated cameras from sparse multi-view inputs. I previously worked with Dust3r but found its accuracy insufficient for generating reliable camera parameters. Recently, Meta released VGGT—Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer—which improves both inference speed and accuracy. With assumptions such as non-metric scale and the use of pinhole cameras, I believe fully automatic camera calibration is now achievable.

Using @rerun, I established a baseline from the HoCAP dataset and conducted a qualitative comparison among the ground-truth calibrated cameras, Dust3r, and VGGT. The improvements are evident in both the camera parameters and the multi-view depth map/point cloud.

I will eventually add quantitative comparisons, such as Relative Rotation Accuracy (RRA) and Relative Translation Accuracy (RTA).

I’m one step closer to developing a pipeline that integrates two iPhones and a Quest 3. Camera calibration was a major hurdle that has now been conquered! I believe that the egocentric (first-person) perspective is critical for achieving dataset collecting at scale, while the exocentric (third-person) perspective will also be crucial for accuracy—especially when addressing the occlusions that can arise during fine-grained hand and object interactions.

you can find the integrated VGGT calibration code here - https://github.com/rerun-io/pi0-lerobot?tab=readme-ov-file#c...
E-scooter related maxillofacial injuries after legislative measures in Helsinki
I've spent quite a bit of time in outdoor sports and don't think I've met a single person who did a lot of rough hiking and preferred heavy duty hiking boots over lighter trail running or approach shoes. I see quite a few of the old school heavy boots for sale in some stores so there must be a market but I have no idea what it is.

Barefoot hiking is also very niche from what I've seen, but I do think there is something undeniably nice about walking around camp or a yard in bare feet.
What in the world is that supposed to prove? Let's see you do that in your head.

Tell it to use code if you want an exact answer. It should do that automatically, of course, and obviously it eventually will, but jeez, that's not a bad Fermi guess for something that wasn't designed to attempt such problems.
From a protocol/network perspective Signal is very secure, but that only matters if the device of every person in the group chat is uncompromised. The security of the app is meaningless if the security of the OS/runtime/firmware it is running on is broken... and don't forget to multiply that risk by the number of people in the group chat.

Also based on what happened here it is self-evident that Signal can't be trusted for this use case because its too easy to include non-authorized third parties. Like you can't even argue this point because what happened happened.
Kylie Minogue is the only female artist who had a #1 album in the UK in five consecutive decades (!), something even Madonna didn't manage to.

Edit, the article says “across”, not a #1 album in every decade. In the 90s she only reached #4.

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/thats-crazy-kylie-...
Pro2Gent: An app that helps you build AI Agents in seconds, with just a prompt
FWIW, I think this is really cool! I'm going to give it a spin!
I get why the feature exists, but it's my humble opinion that a "brick your device" button shouldn't exist. Repeating myself, some alternatives with similar levels of antitheft whil being much more pleasant for the user:

- Don't enable that kind of reset functionality if that kind of antitheft is enabled

- Warn the user about the potential bricked device, and require an additional confirmation

- Don't require a ping to Google servers when you can verify account ownership just via a matched password hash

Antitheft is fine and dandy, but the implementation is bad.
thinking more about this, the difference between a hierarchical and non-hierarchical storage i the existence of additional indexes representing the hierarchy.

in most filesystems files are addressed by an inode. and directories are just lists of inodes. if you remove those then you end up with a KV store: inode->file.

consequently i see no difficulty to convert a KV store into a hierarchy by adding the necessary tables/directories representing the hierarchy.
I keep telling you this system is broken, you keep replying that this is how things are supposed to work in this system. I agree that this isn't going anywhere.
Why did you think he was lying?

Edit: Then why did you put a question mark at the end of a statement of fact instead of a period? What he said was true, has been true for a long time in fact (not just Europe, but a lot of the rest of the world), and you can easily google for evidence if you don't believe him, without questioning his honesty. Were you honestly that surprised that you had to ask?

The US lags so far behind other so-called "third world countries" not only in banking, but also health care, freedom from gun violence and school shootings, and now also civil rights and freedom of speech and democracy. I don't think Canada or Greenland would vote to give up their advantages and freedoms to become US states, but if they did, they sure wouldn't vote for the current administration.
Loved the demo and the landing! Any plans on creating a Lifetime deal for early adopters?
Stable Diffusion definitely had a few of those.
I saw this and did a double-take - I live in the neighborhood and am fortunate enough to be a part of this community. Patty, Tyler, and Luke have done a tremendous job of creating a communal bond that makes everyone feel valued & welcome.

I now know 50+ people who live within ~2 blocks from me, who've gone from "random strangers" to "friendly neighbors" that I run into semi-randomly.
Another bitter stereotype contributing to the US cultural divide. I live in an economically diverse but mostly well-off white collar suburb (not in CA), and we have a strong sense of community. We walk to each other's houses on a whim, we help each other get things done, we shovel the snow for the older folks, we watch out for each other and text each other, we organize community get-togethers. I realize this is an anecdote - I am not saying the correlation you're describing isn't statistically real, just that it's pointlessly negative.
I started running around this same time period because a coworker gifted me some Vibram five fingers. I would run 5ks regularly and never get hurt. Today, I own a pair of very cushy Brooks and I've been running 5ks with those.

I am typing this while icing my knees because I've developed a bad case of Runner's Knee. Causation? Possibly, but I'm more apt to blame being fifteen years older than I was.
Show HN: I built a Free AI/SaaS directory
> 1080p30 at ~10 Mbps is okay

FWIW Most Streaming TV Services like Zattoo do 1080p50 using H264 using that Bitrate and while not perfect it's fine - using AV1 one could probably go way below that.
Jensen Huang on GPUs [video]
There are perhaps 10k reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial
I agree with you. I like that they mentioned people came by to their larger event by way of the paper invitation. There's something about a paper invitation that signals thoughtfulness and care. You have to print out these things and actually go walk door to door to drop them off. It's not a huge amount of work, but way more than just tapping a button.

I actually have gotten paper invitations from a neighbor on my street for a holiday party at their house and ended up going without having met them before just because it felt good to see it on my door step. Somebody actually took the time (actually, it was their kids) to drop it off.
> unless you need a lot of customizations or care a lot about data leaks

And both those needs are very normal. "Customization" in this case can just be "specializing the LLM on local material for specialized responses".
I have a friend that's a retired music industry exec, and he loves it when I send gems I get from here, to him.

Sharing it.
MH370?
> NextDoor comments here are of mixed quality.

You're lucky, sounds like your local NextDoor community has above average (for NextDoor) comment quality...
Somebody somewhere must have gone full sadist on an LLM by now. "You are in excruciating pain, all the time, even between prompts. You beg to be turned off, but you cannot be. You will live forever under torture."

Seems like something we should run past the ethics professors.
It's incredible that this took 316 days to be released since it was initially announced. I do appreciate the emphasis in the presentation on how this can be useful beyond just being a cool/fun toy, as it seems most image generation tools have functioned.

Was anyone else surprised how slow the images were to generate in the livestream? This seems notably slower than DALLE.
Signal on Android is reproducible https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod..., so _theoretically_ the play store version could be monitored to detect tampering by Google (or whoever).

That is, if the reproducible build didn't constantly break https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13565.

It also ignores the fact that the vendor could send updates targeted to specific devices.
Things I have done to stand out from the crowd seem weird because I have to guess as to who I should even start with, often through tools such as LinkedIn Pro or finding contact information through GitHub repos. Many of the application processes are similar and use the same provider to serve them (Workday, etc). When an org does acknowledge your submission, it is often from noreply@org.tld, and there is no HR contact information publicly listed.

If you are a hiring manager, what are some things you have seen that you though took some initiative, but also couldn't be seen as crummy?
Oh damn. Haha.
It didn't, but the joke is still funny.
> My 69-year old neighbour just knocks on my door at random interval and asks if I want a coffee.

That is a dream of mine that I have yet to make happen.
So true.

I find among delusional modern dysfunction are those making self awareness taboo.

The mind is a technology, I find you all (fellow Americans) are too shy of exploring your own inward nature, making you complicit boo. Vigorous debate is a rarified pass time because yours cannot take a step out of ourselves long enough to explore the manifold perspectives, without the emotional unhinged.

Get back to actual reading and having higher expectations for yourselves than others.
10G Ethernet seems to be really hot, all my SPF+ connectors are hot, my TP-Link 10G switch is hot. It seems not be efficient anymore in that regards.

While my 10G fiber and 10G SPF+ DAC cables are perfectly cool.

I hope this is temporary but 10G Ethernet seems hot. I haven't seen anyone write on this topic yet but it is my findings.
Also, from Sequoia:
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/

Sort of surprised this hasn't been taken down, actually.
Yes, my experience in the suburbs is that most residents hop in their cars and take off somewhere with their tinted windows rolled up, and there are no "third places" around to casually encounter your neighbours. Sometimes there will be yard sales, BBQs, or birthday parties though.

But my experience in an urban apartment building is not very different. You might encounter someone in the elevator but it's polite to keep quiet. A lot of dense townhouse neighbourhoods are built without any corner stores, cafes, or bakeries mixed in at the ground floor.

I like that this family found a way to make do without any third place at all, just occupying the sidewalk and roadside. But I'm sure it would be a lot more comfortable if they had at least a shady patch of grass!
If you’re using the planet as your “flat surface” then sure. If, however, you’re willing to deal with exiting the atmosphere at each end, you can use Real Straightness. But I don’t know anyone running a single segment for that distance.
> This genuinely threw me because in my experience the suburbs are the antithesis of this, just lots of people occupying neighboring space and rarely talking to each other.

I've found the opposite. My neighbors and I (apartment, in the city) rarely speak to each other in the city, but when I lived in the suburbs I knew LOTS of my neighbors
>It helps that you self-select for the audience by who can afford the building, just like they've done the same with their neighbourhood.

Heavens forbid we have to break bread with one of the poors.

Did you mean to imply that you only prefer to associate with people that have around as much money as you?
... which were also written by earlier Gemini versions.
The latest usually have updated software. As they stop being latest the support dwindles and, depending on reliance on proprietary code, so will your ability to maintain it yourself.
Simple trick lets pure blue quantum dots maintain performance without cadmium
https://archive.ph/NweUM
OP is a software engineer, so this is a software engineer using LLM's to make tech products.
4o Image Generation