skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising is a broad thing, which may include:

- Job offers

- Jobseeking

- Dating

- Public service announcements

- Word-of-mouth

- Sponsoring

- Political campaigns

- Fundraisers

- Endorsements

- Recommendations

And many others

If you ban all forms of advertising, society will grind to a halt, even before considering free speech. How can a business be successful if no one knows that it exists? Advertising connects people who need something to people who provide it. It absolutely essential to society and in a sense, it predates humans, if we consider mating as a form of advertising, like peacocks using their tails as some kind of a biological billboard.

I understand what the author means, he is annoyed by ad breaks, banners, and tracking, we all are, and he would like to see less of them, we all do, except whoever makes money over these banners that is.

The author suggests banning paid-for advertisement. But how far will it go? For example, you want to print flyers to promote your business. Is it illegal for the print shop to print your flyers, as they are making money on advertising. Classified ads will become illegal too, forget about craigslist and the likes.

It kinds of remind me of some "abolitionist" laws on prostitution that some countries have. Prostitution is legal, based on the idea that people own their bodies and people have the right to have sex, but everything surrounding prostitution is not, including advertising and pimping. The definition for pimping can go far, for example renting a room to a prostitute can be considered pimping. The idea is essentially to make prostitution illegal without writing it explicitly. A blanket ban on advertising will do that, but for all businesses.

As always, for every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple and wrong.
Ooh, that's pretty clever!

This is why I like HN, people here are smarter than I am
I read somewhere that ryzen AI 370 chip can run gemma 3 14b at 7 tokens/second, so I would expect the performance to be somewhere in that range for llama 4 scout with 17b active
A year of Rust in ClickHouse
It's deductible?
Every time this topic comes up on HN, I always like to remind readers about the following:

One of my favorite facts ever is that Voyager 1 contains something called the Voyager Golden Record [1]. It has the following quote written:

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

I get chills every time I think about this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
Why do you have to "prompt" a model to be unrestricted in the first place? Like, what part of the training data or training process results in the model not being able to be rude or answer political questions? I highly doubt this is something inherent to AI training. So then why did Meta add the restictions at all?
Cool... but this isn't really rack mountable with the GPUs sticking out on top.
> I'd typically go to booking.com or one of it's competitors

Thats the difference, you opted into the advertising by visiting a website which catalogs hotels. I think most people are against “push” advertising where you are fed an ad for something you were not looking for.
Odd. When I look at it, the first item is my own suggestion for debugging:

> In my experience, the most pernicious temptation is to take the buggy, non-working code you have now and to try to modify it with "fixes" until the code works. In my experience, you often cannot get broken code to become working code because there are too many possible changes to make. In my view, it is much easier to break working code than it is to fix broken code.
Which would be nice if LeCun hadn't predicted the success of neural networks more broadly about 30 years before most others.
10M context length and surpasses claude-3.7-sonnet and GPT-4.5.

Can't wait to dig in on the research papers. Congrats to the llama team!
This person is confused. He's citing a Ted Nelson paper about separating these things into layers (content, structure, & special effects), while personally advocating that we mash it all into unicode.

https://www.xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s3.nelson.html
Put this way I almost think we should ban anything that makes “people into the product”
There’s a strong tendency to have a bias towards the status quo because we’re afraid of things being worse. And that bias can make us afraid of even trying to change things for the better.

All of the problems you listed can be prevented from becoming endemic by having clear definitions in the law and generally reasonable judges. But if our judges are generally unreasonable, we are screwed either way. So what’s the downside to setting up a clear law against advertising?
I built something similar a few years ago, but using a Pi instead of an Arduino. Reading through the poster's calculations brought back memories of debugging my own orbital mechanics code at 2am while questioning all my life choices.

What impresses me most here isn't just the technical achievement, but how the project transforms abstract data into physical movement. We've become so accustomed to viewing everything through screens that there's something deeply satisfying about a physical object that silently points to a spacecraft traveling 28,000 km/h overhead with humans inside.

The mathematical transformation from TLE to actual motor positioning is non-trivial - converting between reference frames always seems straightforward on paper until you're debugging at 3am wondering why your arrow is pointing at the ground. I appreciate that they shared actual code rather than glossing over the hard parts.

For anyone wanting to build this: from my experience, the hardest part is actually the mechanical design. Getting smooth movement without backlash in consumer-grade steppers and servos takes patience. The 28BYJ-48 is a good budget choice but has noticeable "slop" in its gearing, which can make precise pointing challenging.

This reminds me of those old mechanical orreries that modeled the solar system. There's something profoundly human about building machines that help us comprehend the cosmos.
In my country homicide rate per 100k is less than 1. Why is 2 unbelievable? Or do I understand something wrong?
I'm one of those urban people with no interactions with wolves, which statistically means I agree with you.

Ranchers, however, are not the only ones against wolf reintroduction. Hunters want to shoot elk or deer, and see wolves as a threat to game species. Rural land owners don't want the government telling them what they can or cannot do on their own land (ie, shoot wolves). Some think it's a waste of money, for something which isn't that important.

If there were a tropic cascade as described, fewer people would think it's not worth it.
Ahh. Good point! Perhaps a better analogy would be that the brain processing power is represented by the circuitry. I’d be curious to other interpretations for why it appears where it does.
YOU can.
Ask HN: As an eng leader, how useful is AI-generated internal documentation?
Hi HN!

This past weekend, I built a tool called GitSummarize, it's an open-source ai-powered documentation tool.

Given any public GitHub repository it generates high-quality documentation from the codebase using Gemini 2.5 Pro. Specifically, it tries to extract the tribal knowledge, business logic/rules embedded within codebases.

Pro Tip: You can replace "hub" with "summarize" in any repository URL to access its documentation.

I created this because there was a steep learning curve to understanding some of the open-source codebases out there while getting started with contributing. Having detailed documentation would have been super helpful in those situations.

This project was heavily inspired by GitIngest and GitDiagram so make sure to check those out as well!

Give it a try and I would appreciate any feedback! Would also love to know how useful this would be to developers or engineering leaders for their teams?
Spanish?
Funny that it literally begins with “Follow @index@simone.org via your Fediverse account (like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Flipboard, Wordpress, Writefreely, Threads, or BlueSky.)”

Or is that just helpfully letting us know of something related that we might want ;)
The appeal of a catalog is to interest a prospective buyer, not the general public. Once you start targeting the general public, you run into the issues the GP has identified.
I don’t know whether it’s reasonable, but

> Allocation requests don’t always succeed. s_alloc_vgpr sets the Scalar Condition Code (SCC) to indicate success, or clears it on failure.

So, you can do a binary search:

- set result to zero.

- try to allocate 512. If that succeeds, add 512 to result

- try to allocate 256. If that succeeds, add 256 to result

- try to allocate 128. If that succeeds, add 128 to result

...

- try to allocate 1. If that succeeds, add 1 to result (you’ll want to stop at the granularity at which registers are allocated)

- free ’result’ registers

(This isn’t race-free)
> Well......now everyone can see how quickly state power can turn malevolent, and why the Right to Bear Arms matters.

I still don't see how people are today using 2A to defend themselves against the redcaps.

When the state power turns malevolent but many of your neighbors are happy about it, your gun is not going to overthrow the regime (because those neighbors have guns, too).
My understanding is that the difficulty is knowing the client disconnected. Postgres doesn't know until it tries to write the result to the stream. That's the core team's explanation in this [1] ancient thread, at least.

I don't know why Postgres can't write keepalive messages while executing the query; speculating here, but it's possible that the architecture is synchronous and doesn't support doing anything with the connection while the query is executing. It's an old threading model where one process is started per connection.

I could have sworn I had read about a new configuration option introduced in Postgres 14, but I can't find anything about it.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e09785e00907280622v9b1...
As someone who's worked in marketing for 15 years - across big agencies in New York and running growth for startups - there's an uncomfortable truth to this piece. The industry has quietly become something darker than when I joined.

Modern advertising doesn't just sell products, it sells our own attention back to us at a premium. What started as "connecting products to people who need them" has warped into engineering digital environments that hack our baseline neurological responses.

The most disturbing part is that most people inside the machine know it. I've sat in rooms where we've explicitly designed systems to maximize "time on site" by exploiting cognitive vulnerabilities. The language we use internally is more clinical than predatory, which makes it easy to avoid moral questions.

What's wild is how this piece frames advertising as a relatively recent phenomenon. It's right - for 99% of human history, we made purchasing decisions based on community knowledge and direct information, not carefully engineered psychological triggers that follow us around.

Sure, banning all advertising sounds extreme, but it's worth asking: what would we actually lose? Product information would still exist. Reviews would still exist. Word-of-mouth would still exist. We'd just lose the sophisticated machinery designed to bypass our rational decision-making.

The "free speech" counter-argument has always struck me as disingenuous. Nobody believes they have a constitutional right to interrupt your dinner with a telemarketing call.
A nice enjoyable read, thank you
That's great to hear! Building that semantic structuring module, especially with a MECE approach, would significantly enhance the pipeline's value for complex downstream tasks like knowledge graph creation or advanced RAG systems.

The challenge often lies in defining the right hierarchical taxonomy and relationship types for diverse document domains. If you're exploring approaches, principles from enterprise knowledge management and structured ontologies might offer useful parallels.

Excited to see how this evolves! It addresses a critical gap in the ML data preparation landscape.
I love the look of it and if I were in the market right now it would be high on the list, but I do understand the confusion here - is it just a cool product you wanted to make or does it somehow link to what I assumed your mission was - to reduce e-waste?
Small point of order:

> entire point...smaller download could not justify...

Q4_K_M has layers and layers of consensus and polling and surveying and A/B testing and benchmarking to show there's ~0 quality degradation. Built over a couple years.
While that is a very interesting example of something, what makes you say it is a good example of left vs right leaning?
Attack on Coinbase Expanded to the Widespread tj-actions/changed-files Incident
The implication wasn't that people have stopped knowing or using English. The implication was that much of the world, except Russia and her allies, suddenly has a much great deal of resentment toward the US.
Don't you see "sponsored" products at the top? But I agree not everything is an ad, just most of stuff.
Bias implies an offset from something. It's relative. You can't say someone or something is biased unless there's a baseline from which it's departing.
What is the deeper relationship between trade deficits and (federal) budget deficits? The explanations Noah gives could almost exactly be applied to budgetary deficits - its all Klarna.

If you run a trade deficit, does that also mean you necessarily have a budgetary deficit? Can you have a balanced budget and a trade deficit - and if you can, do you still care about the trade deficit?

Do you care about trade deficits with individual countries or blocks, if you're balanced overall?
economics is not a math problem? have you ever studied it? sounds like you have not. At the better schools, calculus is a prerequisite to study econ.
I built Schedify – The one and only scheduling solution you can rely on
Hey devs

After way too many “I’ll finish this next week” moments, I finally shipped something — it’s called Schedify.

Basically, it lets you schedule webhooks to fire at any time you want — in 5 minutes, 5 hours, or 2 years.
No more cron jobs, background workers, or janky delay hacks. Just drop in a URL, a time, and a payload — and Schedify handles the rest.

I built it 'cause I needed a simple way to delay events between services without spinning up a bunch of infra.

If you’ve ever needed to:
- Send a reminder email later
- Trigger a future event across services
- Build anything that waits to do stuff

If you’re curious or wanna try it out, I’d be hyped to share access — just drop a comment or DM!
This means GPUs are dead for local enthusiast AI.
And SoCs with big RAM are in.

Because 17B active parameters should reach enough performance on 256bit LPDDR5x.
People are limited by their tools.

The author believes that plain text should encode bold, italic, etc., because that's all they had exposure to. Were the text written today, they would claim emojis belong in unicode as well.

Most social media don't support it, but on Tumblr, for example, you can specify the color of the text and even choose a different font. I think there was some other social media that allowed you to have animated effects on the text as well, but I forgot the name.
You've just observed the fact that even the least ambiguous and subjective language possible still requires interpretation, not that laws are meant to be ambiguous or subjective.
Hmmm, I might be rounding off wrong? Or reading it wrong?

IIUC the data we have:

2K tokens / 12 seconds = 166 tokens/s prefill

120K tokens / (10 minutes == 600 seconds) = 200 token/s prefill
> millions of victims from false advertising of Big Tobacco

People have known that smoking is bad for your health for around 400 years.
You can't fix stupid, not even by making advertising illegal.
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Nice work! Would like to see what the correct result would have been for ones I didnt get after the time expires. Keep going!
That's probably the other product development book I'd most recommend after Soul of a New Machine. Also Mythical Man Month but mostly for historical reasons and probably a couple of the essays provide the most important flavoring.
Chasing Shadows: Cyber espionage, subversion, and the global fight for democracy
The Eclipse Compiler for Java [1] is a notable exception, architected around incremental compilation, an API for “live” AST manipulation, and a layered non-batch approach to when to invoke various analysis steps.

The LSP for Java [2] used in eg. VSCode’s Java plugins, builds on this API.

But, no, I haven’t seen a generalized approach to this architecture discussed in literature.

1: https://github.com/eclipse-jdt/eclipse.jdt.core
2: https://github.com/eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls
I’m excited to try these models out, especially for some coding tasks, but I will say my first two engagements with them (at the meta.ai web interface) were not spectacular. Image generation is wayyy behind the current 4o. I also ask for a Hemingway essay relating RFK Jr’s bear carcass episode. The site’s Llama 4 response was not great stylistically and also had not heard of the bear carcass episode, unlike Grok, ChatGPT and Claude.

I’m not sure what we’re getting at meta.ai in exchange for a free login, so I’ll keep poking. But I hope it’s better than this as we go. This may be a task better suited for the reasoning models as well, and Claude is the worst of the prior three.

Anyway here’s hoping Zuck has spent his billions wisely.

Edit: I’m pretty sure we’re seeing Scout right now, at least groqchat’s 4-scout seems really similar to meta.ai. I can confidently say that Scout is not as good at writing as o1 pro, o3 mini, Claude, R1 or grok 3.
Llama 4 Now Live on Groq
When you visit a ad-supported news website, you're opting in too... No one is forcing you to use that website versus it's ad-free subscription alternatives, it's just that most people have decided they'd prefer the former
The Update: April 2, 2025 https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/github-actions-supply-ch... section is interesting (the plot thickens)
What one believes vs. what is actually correct can be very different.

It’s very similar to what one feels vs. reality.
I also like his House. Unfortunately the topics of his other books haven't grabbed me sufficiently to pick them up.
300 murders per year.

The FBI maintains murder statistics for most policing jurisdictions in the US. Many of them are under 2 per 100,000 per year: Sunnyvale, CA; Hercules, CA; Novato, CA, Brookline, MA; the Twin Cities. The rate in Beverly, MA, is 0.946.

Japan's rate is 0.4.
To Do Nothing
I learned about products from different non-ad sources (HN, personal blogs, maybe even wiki). What's your point?
You can already block 99% of ads on devices you own. I haven't seen an internet ad in ages. I forget that websites have them.

That said, I don't think it's appropriate to outlaw all advertising. It should still be allowed in places where you'd be open to it anyway: in stores and other places where you spend money anyway, and in specialized publications that exist for people who intentionally want to be advertised to.

However, for when you're buying something, upselling (any questions by the seller that may result in you buying something you didn't intend to buy originally) should be illegal. It feels very insulting to me.
What's become a pain about DB migrations? They've barely changed and they are still so amazingly useful that you forget it's something you have to think about until you move to another framework that doesn't have them.
The issue isn't that advertising is speech. The problem is it's easy to label speech as something else.
Oh no, that is crazy addicting. I usually don't fall for these types of things, but immediately got hooked on this one.
> I honestly find it disturbing that with all of humanity's progress and all the brilliant technology we've invented, all of our communication channels are corrupted by...

Honestly, you couldn't have said that any better. I always think exactly about that. Where we are today, the technology that we have at our disposal, and yet this whole machinery working 24hs non-stop to put these consumption ideas on our heads, cheap propaganda and useless stuff to manipulate us like puppets. Really disgusting.
Damn, only one seller on Aliexpress right now and no dev boards. Where’d you find yours?
How does OpenAI make money from AI? The vast majority of the planet isn't paying them $20/month, and it is likely that they will never recover training and inference costs just from subscription fees. Frying GPUs to generate Ghibli images is getting them a negligible amount of added revenue.

Now think of Meta and their suite of products which already generate $160B+/yr from advertising. Every extra minute they can get a user to spend on Facebook or Instagram, this number goes up. Think about how much money Meta will make if the next viral AI moment happens in their products.

TL;DR: AI -> engagement -> ads -> revenue.
I can’t stop thinking about this article. I spent a long time in ad tech before switching to broader systems engineering. The author captures something I've struggled to articulate to friends and family about why I left the industry.

The part that really struck me was framing advertising and propaganda as essentially the same mechanism - just with different masters. Having built targeting systems myself, this rings painfully true. The mechanical difference between getting someone to buy sneakers versus vote for a candidate is surprisingly small.

What's frustrating is how the tech community keeps treating the symptoms while ignoring the disease. We debate content moderation policies and algorithmic transparency, but rarely question the underlying attention marketplace that makes manipulation profitable in the first place.

The uncomfortable truth: most of us in tech understand that today's advertising systems are fundamentally parasitic. We've built something that converts human attention into money with increasingly terrifying efficiency, but we're all trapped in a prisoner's dilemma where nobody can unilaterally disarm.

Try this thought experiment from the article - imagine a world without advertising. Products would still exist. Commerce would still happen. Information would still flow. We'd just be freed from the increasingly sophisticated machinery designed to override our decision-making.

Is this proposal radical? Absolutely. But sometimes the Overton window needs a sledgehammer.

P.S. If you are curious about the relationship between Sigmund Freud, propaganda, and the origins of the ad industry, check out the documentary “Century of the Self”.
Non-atomic refcounts invalidate cache as well, they're just not as expensive.
I wish I worked a simple manual labor job like a supermarket. It's just hard to make a living wage, savings, retire, pay for unexpected high costs for transportation or health care, and I wouldn't be able to travel. Otherwise it would be great. Stacking boxes all day? Helping customers with their bags? Doing inventory? Checking people out at the register? A simple job where I don't have to sit in a chair, can plan, organize, do rote manual tasks, socialize, and help people? Sign me up. Heck I might even do it part time when I retire.
I'd happily support that but the harms of advertising go beyond the problems of surveillance capitalism so heavily restricting ads seems like a good idea on its own.