skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vaguely remember an old MSC or TWIM or something that described (the possibility of) a new authentication mechanism whereby I could set up either a dummy homeserver or something in .well_known that would allow me to use my own domain but without needing to use my own homeserver for the actual traffic. Sort of like an auth-only homeserver, if you will.

Is that part of MAS? Was that initiative ever fully-baked? Or am I just misremembering?
I can't tell if you're agreeing with my 'poibt' or disagreeing.

But yes, like telescopes. Or microscopes. Those still bind us to using our built in sensors that we 'trust'.

Then we obviously get into radio telescopes, or down to electron microscopes, etc and we start having to believe in the tech to get our new found understandings.

My mental hesitation lay in trusting AI to get to that level of belief -- if/when that happens, what do we really know or trust?
Real-Time Introspective Compression for Transformers
I recently started thinking about what a shame it is that LLMs have no way of directly accessing their own internal states, and how potentially useful that would be if they could. One thing led to the next, and I ended up developing those ideas a lot further.

Transformers today discard internal states after each token, losing valuable information. There's no rollback, introspection, or replaying of their reasoning. Saving every activation isn't practical; it would require way too much space (hundreds of megabytes at least).

The insight here is that transformer activations aren't randomly scattered in high-dimensional space. Instead, they form structured, lower-dimensional manifolds shaped by architecture, language structure, and learned tasks. It's all sitting on a paper-thin membrane in N-space!

This suggested a neat analogy: just like video games save compact states (player location, inventory, progress flags) instead of full frames, transformers could efficiently save "thought states," reconstructable at any time. Reload your saved game, for LLMs!

Here's the approach: attach a small sidecar model alongside a transformer to compress its internal states into compact latent codes. These codes can later be decoded to reconstruct the hidden states and attention caches. The trick is to compress stuff a LOT, but not be TOO lossy.

What new capabilities would this enable? Transformers could rewind their thoughts, debug errors at the latent level, or explore alternative decision paths. RL agents could optimize entire thought trajectories instead of just outputs. A joystick for the brain if you will.

This leads naturally to the concept of a rewindable reasoning graph, where each compressed state is a node. Models could precisely backtrack, branch into alternate reasoning paths, and debug the causes of errors internally. Like a thoughtful person can (hopefully!).

Longer-term, it suggests something bigger: a metacognitive operating system for transformers, enabling AI to practice difficult reasoning tasks repeatedly, refine cognitive strategies, and transfer learned skills across domains. Learning from learning, if you will.

Ultimately, the core shift is moving transformers from stateless text generators into cognitive systems capable of reflective self-improvement. It's a fundamentally new way for AI to become better at thinking.

For fun, I wrote it up and formatted it as a fancy academic-looking paper, which you can read here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_intr...
I wonder, do you find Outkast's ATLiens album to be derivative? Especially "Elevators" and "Wheels of Steel". I certainly don't know enough music to answer that question definitively, if anyone does.

Even though some of the lyrics have certainly not aged well, I do like its minimal aesthetic, and I was in Decatur, GA at the time, and it sure beat the crap Diddy and Mase were putting out at the time.

Side note: WCLK Clark Atlanta University radio station was the absolute best radio station I've ever heard, where I found my favorite music of all-time: AfroCuban jazz. Their Hip Hop and Jazz programs were fantastic. That's also where I learned of the magical spoken word intro version of Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World".

"No one's musical education is complete."
npm allows for simple distribution of the prebuilt binaries, but is by no means a requirement and neither is Node.js. It's just a convenient way to ship things; npm is an excellent package manager!
The massive problem as I see is that Chinese intelligence has the incentive and capability to do this and yet no one seems to be doing anything about it.
You are right! A light plugin was released then.

Now, we have added lots of new functionality. Proper editing with syntax highlighting, etc. Apart from that, we have also added integration with GitHub Copilot, so you can generate diagrams from code and continue to edit them using the extension.
Unsung heroes deserve praise. Cheers mate.
Never seen this, looks nice.

Quite the name though
Cool! I’ve recently consolidated all of my Google Chat and WhatsApp friends onto Matrix (via Element) because it’s E2EE. Gchat isn’t and I assume that Meta has a backdoor into WhatsApp conversations. So, those platforms can’t be trusted. Signal doesn’t have a web interface, so that’s a no-go for me. lol Telegram.

Matrix has been great for me and I recommend that everyone else use it!
Especially since all of those acronyms predate the current DEI wave by decades.
> as institutional memory fades

This has nothing to do with institutional memory fading. It's to do
with the total destruction of those institutions and the disappearance
of the rule of law within the United States.

Things are moving too fast for people to adjust to the new reality.
and so writers keep framing things in ways that are no longer
relevant.

What actual institutional position or activity does the EFF suppose
would effectively counter this in April 2025?
Rounded to the nearest whole number there has never been anything more than a 0% chance of the Ukraine "winning" a war with Russia. Even the dumbest generals in Washington know this.
It's fun watching Marvel's catalogue from start to current. They really went all-in early on, then the mode-du-jour changed and it's almost obvious how hard they avoid it (a lot of red and green lights for example). Interfaces, weaponry and engines are always egregious in that franchise.

I remember Midsommar being another particularly bad example - the entire apartment set in the opening scenes is dressed in orange/teal. Down to book spines, vases and light fittings.

It's interesting to see films that don't use strong grading at all. I think Star Wars wasn't too bad here because the whole visual language was set up in the 70s and everything now tries to reflect it (lots of primaries in control panels because those were the lamps they could use back then). They do have "planet" grades but it's not too bad.
Yes! My role is not programming. But often I write code in Google Apps Scripts or Python to automate processes.

An example would be like when one of our salespeople closes a deal they complete a task in our sales software that triggers a bunch of Asana tasks for the onboarding team and builds the Google Drive folders and documents we'll eventually need for that client.

I used to have to figure out the code for things like that "by hand" and I was occasionally limited by my technical ability.

But what I've found now is that I'm limited by my knowledge of our business. If I can explain it to ChatGPT, I can get working code in minutes for things that used to take hours.

And I'm trying things now that end up taking hours that I wouldn't have even tried before because I saw them as "too hard" for me.

I honestly don't even read the code it generates. I have ChatGPT generate own log files that I feed back into it for debugging or analysis when anything breaks.
TikTok hired former TLA officers (2022), https://www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-tech/social-media/ti...

The U.S. intelligence community sees China as its top threat. But Americans who have left intelligence agencies are getting jobs at TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.. the lines between business and government get blurred in China, in part because of Beijing's national intelligence law, which compels citizens and businesses to share information with state intelligence-gathering efforts.. America's freedoms give China an advantage.
But a huge amount of propagation of Twitch content onto YouTube, TikTok and X. Influentially outsized.
Welcome, and thanks for striving to keep hn the bastion of intellectual curiosity that it's been in the ~9 years since I joined. I get tremendous value out of this website, and I'm very grateful for the effort you all are putting in to keep it stable.
"Locked-In" Homeowners Pay Off <4% Mortgages: Drops to 54%, Lowest Since Q4'20
Original title "As Life Happens, “Locked-in” Homeowners Pay Off Below-4% Mortgages: Share Drops to 54%, Lowest since Q4 2020" compressed to fit within title limits.
Show HN: Log9er another simple Python logging wrapper
Log9er is a simple, opinionated Python logging wrapper class.

You can use it to normalize logging footprints across multiple projects, reducing boilerplate in development, and making it easier to create a uniform experience for log reading and parsing.

Nobody NEEDS Log9er. But maybe some Python devs might WANT it.
Understand being anxious about flexibility, but that's also potentially one of the coolest differentiators! Would be interesting to see what people come up with...
Whatever colour you put on the wall at home, you get used to. Your senses acclimatize to it because you see it all the time, even if it initially seemed "riotous".

Once you step outside, it does matter though. If your own home is shades of grey, then any colour you encounter outside is going to seem garish.

Visually exhausting you say? If you are being stressed by the colours of the world, then that's a problem of your own making.
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Amazon bids to buy TikTok as deadline looms, U.S. administration official says
How Molecules Became Signs (2021)
Because the analog equipment back then could only do binary panning.
What do you mean "for cost" in your comment? For cost savings / frugal purposes? Or using something like a sweetheart deal with a PEO?
"realistic" is an interesting word, because it can have different connotations.

We can write a very accurate quantum mechanical model for the oxygen atom. But you can't actually simulate it without a galaxy sized classical computer. But it is very realistic=accurate model.

Or you can write and easily simulate a non-realistic semiclassical model. This one is a realistic=efficiently simulatable model.

Obviously a fully agent made model is more realistic in the "accurate" sense, because it correctly models the underlying reality. But if you make realistic agents, you have something inefficient (non realistic in the "simulatable" sense).
14th question on the application (not mentioned in job listings): “Do you currently reside or open to relocation in one of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington”.
In the introduction they talk about creatine loading. Also, their study is looking at lean body mass changes after the "wash-in" period, so any effect that increased recovery is supposed to have on lean body mass when following the exercise protocol they give for the time period they studied should be captured, no?
Almost all car makers offer bright colours by default. In my driveway is a bright blue Subaru (it was hard to pick between the blue and eye-searing orange) and a bright copper coloured Suzuki. Mazda is becoming famous for their innovative colour options. Google "Nissan Micra colours" to see what even Japan's most conservative carmaker offers to those who care to look.
It's crazy to me that TikTok is still operating. A law was passed, the supreme court even weighed in, and a EO cannot undo that. The president has an obligation to faithfully execute the law.
Caffeine has impacts beyond motivation. It has been studied on the context of cyclists and boosts ability to ride. So does beet root.

Creatine has been studied to have other small effects too..

What too, the above have effects on muscle endurance, though for resistance training the effects may vary well be small. Further, this study took people that were not trained. 5lbs of muscle is a lot.. these folks might have gone from 50lbs to 55lbs, an extra 0.1lbs due to a supplement would be noise. I think this study needs muscle biopsies to measure creatine levels accurately to tease out those that are getting plenty from their diet vs not. Or.. try to have a large control group that gets zero creatine in their diet.

AFAIK creatine supplementation is something to think about after a year or two of training, for advanced intermediates.

Here are some sources with how caffeine and nitrates help at least endurance performance:

https://www.cptips.com/nitrate.htm

https://www.cptips.com/caff.htm
Congrats, Tom!
Or just grab a replacement sticks from aliexpress. A set of 4 sticks is around 2-3$. I've changed them twice in 8 years of using a console.
Waymo's Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving with Drago Anguelov [video]
Welcome, Tom! Y'all are making HN a place that I still love to visit every day. I find it awesome how dang et al. not only manage to keep spammers and trolls in check but also actively improve discussions by merging threads and asking people to behave.
> the US will continue to deindustrialize

This is a fiction. The US manufactures more than it ever did, just not the same products and with less staff. The US is second only to China.

This is a normal process of seeking out better markets and ceding less profitable ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...
Your local certificates are not bound by the Baseline Requirements at all; they're irrelevant to you. You can do whatever you want if your CA is not in a root program.
I would be surprised if the commenter is alone in his experiences. Sentry is notoriously hard to run.
Millions of Chinese learn English in school from a very early age to have access to the global labor market.

You have a huge unrecognized privilege in being a native English speaker.
Ukraine was literally part of the USSR at the start of the cold war, and a satellite state following the breakup.

It seems like this is a low point for Russia - a protracted hot war on what was previously its own turf.
I burn my CD-Rs at a very low speed, like someone else mentioned below, so the laser does a better burn. I don't use CD-Rs as primary backup. I have 10 external hard drives, 20 thumb drives, and do a CD-R only once every couple of weeks. I just feel better having multiple different hardware devices used.
I do expect tailscale drive shares to use 9P in that case ;-P
Wait, are you saying that they didn't have the creatine arm of the study work as hard as the control arm? I'm really confused by this comment.
May I make a case for brown?

- Brown is an extremely warm color, and sucks up all of the ugly blues from unnatural light sources

- Brown pairs well with all sorts of shades and colors, just like the millennial gray and white tones

- Brown can come in all sorts of shades and vibrancies, but is not as stimulating as other colors

- Brown hides dirt, scuffs, and stains extremely well

Humans have spent most of our history being very familiar with the color brown in our natural world. I moved from a modern home (everything in white and grays) and into a 1920s brown home with brown-beige walls and all of its original brown wood accents and fixtures. And then I stuffed it with brown furniture. Not only is it beautiful and cozy, I swear that this was the first year I didn't suffer from seasonal affective disorder in a long time.
Most craft stores carry a glass etchant like Armor Etch [0] as an over the counter product. The MSDS [1] indicates that it's an aqueous solution containing ammonium bifluoride, which exists in equilibrium with hydrofluoric acid.

[0] https://www.michaels.com/product/armour-etch-glass-etching-c...
[1] https://www.jacksonsart.com/media/pdf/armour_etch_sds.pdf
One of the surprising thing here is how much the European and American media managed to convince Ukrainians that they are 100% on their side.

Let's play a realpolitik change of perspective, and assume that both the Europeans and the Americans wanted to weaken and grind down Russia's military and economy for some years to come in a strategic move without putting any "boots on the ground", well not their own boots at least, but using Ukrainian "boots". Well, I posit they would use Ukraine in the exact shape they did it over the last 4 years or so. Nothing more or less. I believe Biden admin expected a repeat of 2014, quick and easy take-over and Zelensky gets to run away on an offered ride. But he didn't, that was surprising but the Americans didn't hesitate and decided to use that "bravery" for their goals as well. Sure, they may have also saved Ukraine but I don't think their actions since indicate they really cared about Ukraine per se, that was a secondary propaganda spin, they just saw a chance for a nice proxy war with Russia and they got it.
Wait, his "graph" measures a greater gamut of colors in photos from the nineteenth century when they were all B/W? Who's still buying this retvrn hucksterism?
>He's still kind and thoughtful

Me thinks the OP is really trying to dive this point home for some reason ...

/s
Automating API Documentation Using Network Traffic
Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers
> But when everything is colorful, nothing stands out. Everything being colorful is as monotonous as everything being, well, monotone.

This is meaningless.

"When many things are different, everything is the same".

Its a sentence that seems meaningful, but actually is not. It's just abstraction without generalizing.

"000000000000000000000000000" is a sequence just as something as "H90F3iJsjo$(4Opla1zSKX@)!2k" because in the second sequence they're different and in the first they're all the same? Great, you just discovered sets and the axiom of choice.

We are literally discussing the difference within the sets! Obviously the second sequence is more diverse.

First, I thought your argument was going somewhere but then it took this turn.

I would agree with the first part and then argue that before the synthetics-revolution things were mostly just shades of browns(which is a type of dark unsaturated orange). Except for the upper classes who could afford the expensive colors. Now that color is cheap and normalized, it lost (some) of its allure. Not being able to signal your wealth anymore.

Now adding just a conjecture of mine; Now that 'clean' is still somewhat more expensive(upper classes still being able to afford more cleanliness by using other peoples labor), minimal textures(not literal textures but design-wise) are more attractive because it displays your wealth. Plain-white being the easiest to see blemishes on. With black being easier look unblemished. Also, 'tasteful' color arrangements will still signal your class somewhat due to requiring cultural knowledge.
You're not crazy, but you assume everyone starts with security in mind. That is definitely not the case.
That makes total sense! Beyond the efficiency of no servers, the other aspect of CBS that is appealing to me is its simplicity.

Graft introduces a lot of new concepts, and while they might be necessary to achieve the more ambitious goals, it feels a like a lot. Running an HTTP API with Protobuf is a lot of API surface area to maintain and evolve going forward.

Write concurrency for CBS is "one writer per bucket", which is usable in a "one bucket per user" configuration. You can mediate a client's blob storage access with signed URLs. It's not great, though, and you have to roll your own conflict resolution.

The most interesting choice to me here is to handle conflict resolution (rebasing/forking/resetting) at the storage engine (page) level. For non-overlapping writes, I can see how rebasing is quite effective.
This is the thing I'm working on, happy to answer questions! It's always an honor getting roasted on Hacker News.
> we're all just cognitively exhausted?

If you include electronic media as a source of this cognitive exhaustion, then I'm with you. If greyscale dominates the physical environment, then it's a reaction to something equally pervasive.
I did something similar 15+ years ago to use as an avatar in forums, twitters and some such - https://swapped.ch/#!/personal-mark
If I were trying to do something like this I would sketch it out first with imperfect curves and then worry about making it perfect once I was at the computer. It would look slightly different but I don’t think it would make that much of an impact in the initial design process.
When I've found myself being publicly tsk'ed by the people around me, I've taken a moment to try go figure out why they disapprove of what I'm saying. It's been a useful life exercise.
Part of this that affects me is interior decorations in the age of RGB LED lighting. If your home interior is white, you can cast any color onto it from an RBG light, but if your interior paint has a non-greyscale hue, coloring it with LED lights produces unexpected results that are inconsistent with other areas of the house that are painted other colors.

Another part that affects me is being colorblind. When I was in elementary school I was mocked for wearing one blue sock and one purple sock, something that I was unaware that I was doing. I began wearing less color because at least I could be confident that I wasn't mismatching my clothes. But then in high school I was mocked for always wearing greyscale clothes because "what are you, colorblind or something?"
The review on Chapo Trap House with Matt Bruenig was pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w5rYhKL83E
Right. The title conjures dreamy images in my mind that I was dying to see images!
It makes sense, doesn't it?

When computers were beige, they went all in on color to stand out. When everything started being more colorful, they moved to white and then grey/silver. Now that everything is grey/silver, they're moving to gold/rose.
I don't think this is the way it should be, but just to answer your question, you'd go through the normal setup for a single user PC, then join AD in the Settings app.
> Not like I had any viable options for my MacBook Pro though

Apple really drops the ball on colors in 99% of their products. You have the iMac and.... oh wait, that's it. There are no real colors on the pro phones and even the non-pro phones looks like something that got 1 of 10 coats of color. And then the MBPs have a handful of shades of gray, I would totally buy a green or blue MBP if there was one.
This kind of thing also has me surprised to see TikTok only at #4. A lot of content on Meta properties are now reposts from TikTok. It feels like the latter is driving conversation.
Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing

Go flag this one then.
Semiconductors?
Drones?
Consumer goods?
EVs (soon)?

Let’s not even mention that in belligerence it is the “less profitable” industries that carry the war.
This is something I wish everyone would read and learn from.

You can do so much good if you focus on what you can actually influence.
The problem I have with CRDTs is that while being conflict-free in a technical sense they don't allow me to express application level constraints.

E.g, how do you make sure that a hotel room cannot be booked by more than one person at a time or at least flag this situation as a constraint violation that needs manual intervention?

It's really hard to get anywhere close to the universal usefulness and simplicity of centralised transactions.
But keeping with the US is not better both in the short and the long term, for lack of possible trust after what just happened over the course of three months.