skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played around in Windows 2000 for the first time in 20 years. I know nostalgia can be blinding, but I would go back to that UI in a heartbeat. The uncluttered taskbar, the simple start menu that isn't full of useless recommendations and ads—such a joy!
> started to notice the trend of Graphic Designers over-reaching from their place as html jockeys, and running whole dynamic websites using some abomination called PHP.

Your point is they shouldn't?
https://tombengine.com/docs/tomb-engine-beginners-tutorial/
You made my point exactly. Why do you think "socialized healthcare" would ameliorate the situation that native Americans are high risk?
Popcorn Time still works and used by everyone who cares. It's just not as hyped anymore.
If you lamented the disappearance of the "old internet", well, this was a part of it, and now it may be gone too.

The title is also a fair bit understated.

They're leaking the moderators home addresses and work contact info (for admins, who are(were?) paid moderators)
Memory and Bandwidth Are All You Need for Sharded Data Parallel
Stop Hiring Data Analysts
Congress delegated tariff power to the president after Smoot-Hawley caused such a disaster.

> The reason the President doesn't have this power is because the economy should not rest on the whims or understanding of any one person.

It's interesting to see that it just takes time for lessons to be un-learned. The reason Smoot-Hawley was such a disaster is that it took hundreds of people to agree that it was good policy in the house, which meant adding tariffs to the bill in favor of the districts they individually represented. The result was an egregiously long list of things being tariffed. They delegated it to the one person specifically because they weren't similarly beholden to so many conflicting pressures.

I don't mean any of this to defend Trump's actions, in fact the opposite: he's essentially managing to do the same thing even without politic pressures to do so. I just mean to say that it is reasonably sane for congress to have delegated tariffs in a limited capacity when this flaw was revealed.
Python is not exactly a hard language to learn. But the truth is that people generally don’t like to devote time to what they deem unimportant even if the end result would be useful. I’ve seen smart people go though dense mathematics and physics books, but refuses to take an introductory course in programming.
I understood that you don't believe it can be made reliable. But my question was: what if it were?

Let me put it differently. Suppose I don't tell you it's ML. It's a machine that you don't know how it works, but I let you do all the tests you want, and turns out they're great. Would you then still be against it?
Just as black people have claimed the "n" word, white racists have now claimed the "w" word.

Still not sure it was a fair trade though.
Bootlin is a French company and they are a major open source contributor. I worked with them and I recommend them.

French tech used to have a reputation for Renault old car quality, but I did not see it. Even in Renault and Citroen I came to admire them. On the other hand working with German SE is hard because they are incredibly set on not invented here. My generalisation for whatever it is worth.

In general the issue of Europe tech scene is simple: we suck at selling and optimise for resource efficiency(competitive salary means never pay above rate no matter what). Americans optimise for growth and will risk paying for higher so they can amortise costs with growth.

On a final note, where I come from there is lots of sneer that France is a dump due to immigration. While that is a point of view, it is definitely true they have also brain drained their colonies and have very capable productive individuals coming from there. Myself I had my master’s tutor from cot-de-Ivoir and in bootlin also worked with top of the shelf engineers that have non francophone names.
You goto patch the Excavator 1.0 engine to be able to alter "land" its kind of finicky
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/TMMWv
The way to think about it is you're not describing the work you've done, you're describing what the commit does.

It makes more sense that way if you think about the way in which Git is used for Linux development. They review individual commits so the commit message describes the change that will occur if that commit is pulled. Also commits can have multiple revisions as the change is improved, so past tense isn't correct because it can still change.
Meanwhile I think Tron...
A paper on languages that begins with a grammatical error in the first sentence does not inspire confidence:

> LLMs represents a disruptive technology
Do you think that 4chan is going to disappear forever for this? Just wait a bit and it will be back.

Also where did you see that they are leaking home addresses and work contact info? I think they just leaked the emails (I don't understand why home addresses and work contact info should be present in the 4chan database, everyone moderating the site for free).
I hope GitHub will prioritise immutable actions and enforce it to all actions
The initial report was denied though: https://x.com/lorenzofb/status/1911829523659653137
A1 sauce goes on everything.
Giving my back end a human voice turned out to be strangely comforting
Was surprised by the „Und so weiter“ in the text.
No. The title sounds like low effort clickbait trash.
More diversity in the LLM space is always good. In my experience though, speaking as a native speaker of one of the less-used European languages, Mistral's models already use it pretty well.
Maybe someone should edit the title to mention this is from 2024: [Submitted on 30 Sep 2024 (v1), last revised 15 Oct 2024 (this version, v2)]
It's in the article. SN2067aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa vs SN2067aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Apparently astronomers find base26 very straightforward and reasonable!
It doesn’t really exist in North America anymore either - down to only 5 stores. This is about the Australian version.
I’m sure there is an incentive, but at least in my case the rate of biopsy to confirm cancers is greater than 50% so it certainly seems to me like the biopsies are in fact warranted.
Yeah this is why I don't like statistical and ML solutions in general. Monte Carlo sampling is already kinda throwing bullshit at the wall and hoping something works with absolutely zero guarantees and it's perfectly explainable.

But unfortunately for us, clean and logical classical methods suck ass in comparison so we have no other choice but to deal with the uncertainty.
I'm too much the artist, I find. I tried shooting my D850 in B&W and it's as good as I would expect from a color sensor with a Bayer filter. But it feels like I'm just giving up all the degrees of freedom Lightroom can give me when converting a color raw, and there's a degree of "push" and "pull" processing flexibility that doesn't seem easily replicable by other means.
Isn't it a running joke that the Jannies don't get paid?
Potentially the pixels are being driven stronger than spec'ed (or the spec is too agressive also possible), OLEDs typically have that issue but can last longer with a lower max power.
The initial leaker is most likely not the same parties as the ones tying email addresses and usernames to people's "real identities", if you look at the thread where the leak was announced.

Say what you will about 4chan but I am concerned for the team managing it - them and their close ones are certainly going to be exposed to a whole lot of viciousness soon :(
If demand is elastic, then the seller has to lower prices (and their margin), otherwise people don’t buy their stuff (because they can do without). In this situation, the seller eats the tariffs, That’s the case for nice-to-have things like luxury goods and entertainment. If the seller cannot do that, e.g. because their margins become negative, they will just stop doing business (in the US or entirely).

The other end of the spectrum is stuff people cannot do without, in which case the seller has no incentive to lower their margins because their customers don’t have a choice. Then, tariffs are entirely paid by the buyer.

In reality, everything is in between and accurately estimating how much everyone will be paying is very difficult. What we can predict with certainty is that prices can only go up, and that some businesses will fold because they cannot absorb the loss.
I think the point wasn't that that specific example scales to the whole nation but more that if that specific example works as well as it does at the scale that it does than surely some middle ground between "import basically every consumer good" and "the amish" would scale to the entire nation with acceptable tradeoffs.
> why is the 1960’s the right target?

Realpolitik. Proper Nordic levels of (lesser) inequity is not likely in the USA. But selling the nostalgia of our '60s era prosperity might fly.

> if the Gini coefficient is calculated pre-tax

Firstly, then pick a different different metric. Gini coefficient is merely the most familiar.

Secondly, you asked about proper income tax rate. In my pithy reply, I implied outcomes are more important than implementation details, but slap fights (like this one) about those details are used to distract. (I think the kids today call that "bike shedding".)

Also, I did not explicitly state that measures of wealth distribution is the central issue. I regret the omission.

--

While I have your attention: How do you think our tax regime should be structured?

Feel free to link to any prior explanations (posts) I may have missed, so you don't have to repeat yourself.
Das ist mir Wurst
> The attack methodology involved a particularly sophisticated approach. Attackers inserted a base64-encoded payload into an install script, causing secrets from affected CI workflows to be exposed in workflow logs.

What? How is that sophisticated? Who wrote this?

I still don't understand how we got to this point where CI/CD pipelines are built from random shit on the internet. I remember people being worried about packages in the system package manager curated by a (relatively) small set of trusted project maintainers. Now we're pulling in garbage written by who knows, under security guidance of nobody. At least the Arch Repo has a procedure and a trust network.

Every time I have to use GitHub actions and it recommends me using some "community" action I can't do it. I just know it's written by some 12-year old on spring break.
This produces

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on any command
Here's how 66% compares to the trivial predictor: "pick the team with the higher win rate and flip a coin if they're equal" gives you 64% for the 2024 season I just tried it on.

I'm not even considering home/away, let alone win margins, recent form, strength of schedule etc. I'm almost amazed this model couldn't make any use of them.
Hey, at least it's not generated by chatgpt :D

Funny how LLMs now write cleaner than humans in most cases.
Not only that, it happened a long long time ago. I'm no astronomer; would that be more or less supernovae?
I think we can lament the old internet and still care nothing for 4chan.
Quantity has a quality of its own.
> If you think estimating 1e-1000 is a problem, then estimating 1e+1000 shouldn't be.

They're both problems. If you want to estimate 1e1000 via sampling individual points, then you need at least that order of magnitude of samples. If all of your data points fall in one class, then it doesn't matter what you're trying to calculate from that.

As I said: "If you're inverting the ratio we're estimating, then instead of estimating the value at 0, we're estimating it at infinity (or, okay, if you want to use Laplace smoothing, then a million, which is far too low)."
Has that really been established? The observable universe is finite, yes, but I wouldn't think that automatically implied that the universe as a whole is.
Hosting a copy of phpMyAdmin behind basic HTTP authentication in 2025 really is asking for it.
I'm reliably informed they do it for free.
Can't you sort of do that by pinning on the commit SHA already? It's bad that that's not the ONLY way to do it, but at least it's something.
You can’t eliminate formalism in programming. You can only abstract it away by creating a metaprogramming layer for the current one. And prompt isn’t that. Prompting is a blind shot hoping to hit something good.
Too idealistic view on human nature. We discovered vastly different cultures in the past, no hint of humility (rather exact opposite) or bonding, unless we find a common enemy.
The company is still thriving, you can check out their website to find out more about what real estate inspection is about (in The Netherlands): https://www.aeroscan.nl/
A bunch of potential customers will buy at 5$ but not at 15$ so the seller will lose sales and hence money
Technically you can live forever in a universe that is completely empty, it'll just be a lot of cold dark nothing for eternity.

Living forever is such a strange desire, considering that complex life has existed on earth for just a fraction of the time it has existed, and humanity even less than that. I recommend watching the Kurtzgesagt video called All of History in one hour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo&t=3670s). It displays all of earths history in one hour, and humanity is merely a few seconds of it.

Earth is ~4.5 billion years old, that's 4500000000 years, and in 1300000000 years it will be uninhabitable by humans, and in another 4.5 billion years (roughly 3.2 billion years after becoming uninhabitable) it will be engulfed by the sun.

Assuming humanity manages interstellar space flight you could possibly escape earth and live somewhere else until that also dies, but in case it is not practical or possible, you get to enjoy 3.2 billion years of literally choking and being burned alive on earth.

Assuming you did escape earth (or you're immortal so escaping doesn't matter) In 1000000000000 years the last star will be born, and in 100000000000000 years the last star will die out.

You now have an extremely long time to enjoy suffocating in hard vacuum with your body being boiled by the low pressure, and all in complete darkness until the heat death of the universe occurs in roughly 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years
> then refused to bring him back when the courts

It was extra ridiculous/insulting/terrifying to see the heads of both countries in the same room saying that there was nothing they could do about the situation.
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I was a bit disappointed, even know there is no reason I should expect much in this space

- Tennis clip => ball is strongly unsynced with hit

- Dark mood beach video, no one in the screen => very high audio mood, lots of laughter like if it was summer on a busy beach

- Music inpainting completely switching style of audio (e.g. on the siren)

- "Electronic music with some buildup" : the gen just turns the volume up ?

I guess we have still some road to cover, but it feels like early image generation with out of touch hands and visual features. At least the generation are not non-sensical at all
Given that it’s about non-English languages it is forgivable
This time Bilbo had Maiar escort (and full attention) all the way, and local orcs were basically just wiped out. Makes things a lot easier.
Even by the standards of this administration...... yikes:

Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.
I would love to see a stackexchange-like site where humans ask questions and we get to vote on the reply by various LLMs.
I had a related, but orthogonal question about multilingual LLMs.

When I ask smaller models a question in English, the model does well. When I ask the same model a question in Turkish, the answer is mediocre. When I ask the model to translate my question into English, get the answer, and translate the answer back to Turkish, the model again does well.

For example, I tried the above with Llama 3.3 70B, and asked it to plan me a 3-day trip to Istanbul. When I asked Llama to do the translations between English <> Turkish, the answer was notably better.

Anyone else observed a similar behavior?
New method for detecting nanoplastics in body fluids
Focused Reader, A virtual page cover, browser extension
I always try to break out of local optimas I'm in and asking AI to give me other options/insights or even disagree with me. At the end we are steering the wheel and "amplifier" made sense to me.

I'm wondering how an "aggressive" button would look like in an AI, asking it to be less confirmative. Although I guess it will piss some people off since most of the times I just want a direct answer and get on with my code/life.
I hadn't heard of it back in 2019, and even now that I look at it for the first time, I still think I'd rather maintain a separate sync service than maintain a Postgres instance with custom extensions and write HTTP requests in SQL.
How is firing people helping government efficiency?
There are multiple theories that focus on different ethiologies of depression. Besides brain networks, early life adversities, sleep disturbances and the now obsolete monoamine hypothesis I read about the inflamation hypothesis. On a higher level that ties into all the other theories quite well and I don't oppose it. But there has been research into TNF-a, IL-6, IL-4, COX-2, and so on. We know there is inflammation, but we don't know where it starts and why. SSRIs are antiinflammatory in general, but why? Is this a downstream effect? Where is the original target we want to hit?

All those possible targets need to be verified by actual treatments. Treating the increased diabetes type 2 risk in depressed people is still advantagous but won't help the depression much. It's like changing tires on a broken car. Pushing is easier, but won't run by itself.
I was kinda surprised to see that phpMyAdmin is still maintained, albeit only barely. The last release was in January but before that it hadn't been touched for over two years.
I disable AI autocomplete entirely and map it to ctrl-; so I can call it up intentionally.
Wireview – Wireshark on the Web
> But the processing fee for customs is usually 20-40 USD. Which can exceed the cost of the package in the first place.

It depends on who you are buying from. This is the order of magnitude of the fee if you let the shipping company handle it. It is extortionate and they do it because at this point buyers don’t have a choice if they want their stuff.

Companies that are used to dealing with foreign customers handle taxes themselves and don’t charge processing fees.
I read Being and Time recently and it has a load of concepts that are defined iteratively. There's a lot wrong with how it's written but it's an unfinished book written a 100 years ago so, I cant complain too much.

Because it's quite long, if I asked Perplexity* to remind me what something meant, it would very rarely return something helpful, but, to be fair, I cant really fault it for being a bit useless with a very difficult to comprehend text, where there are several competing styles of reading, many of whom are convinced they are correct.

But I started to notice a pattern of where it would pull answers from some weird spots, especially when I asked it to do deep research. Like, a paper from a University's server that's using concepts in the book to ground qualitative research, which is fine and practical explications are often useful ways into a dense concept, but it's kinda a really weird place to be the first initial academic source. It'll draw on Reddit a weird amount too, or it'll somehow pull a page of definitions from a handout for some University tutorial. And it wont default to the peer reviewed free philosophy encyclopedias that are online and well known.

It's just weird. I was just using it to try and reinforce my actual reading of the text but I more came away thinking that in certain domains, this end of AI is allowing people to conflate having access to information, with learning about something.

*it's just what I have access to.
I've read similar projects that use two lasers for microscopy [1]. They build them and used them to get images of cells. So I don't doubt of the general theoretical idea.

The devil is in the details. Can it run in open air or the concentration of argon is too low? Can it get enough brightness if you plug it in a standard electrical socket? How safe is it? [2] How many strong lasers escape the device? Does dust cause problems? Does it need a filter and a fan, or you need to enclose it to get clean enough air? How big it is? A tabletop device? Can it be shown to a thousand of people for an big event?

Perhaps you can get more traction here with some diagrams that show how it works without revealing all the secret details, but a text only explanation is too boring for the general public.

Anyway, I don't expect that this get many upvotes until you have a working prototype and some photos that shows it working.

[1] I think it was a German research team that also do confocal and 4pi microscopy. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember the details.

[2] A long time ago, I used an optical table that we shared with another experiment with a green 5W (5mW?) laser pointing to me and barrier in the middle and pipes and a lot of equipment. So it was safe, but just in case, never duck to pick stuff from the floor.
The methods that institutional investors have, like market making or delta one strategies, aren't available because of the rules, it's because individual investors literally don't have the scale, flow and networks to do it.

Second of all, at the end of the day it's other people money's they're using, and are entrusted to manage. You can't demand people to just lend money to anyone, any sort of free market of loans will quickly coalesce into a few capital allocators.
> Wow I’m genuinely surprised that’s not getting more press

It's hard reporting on the current administration, it's the classic Russian flood style messaging, where you just flood as much (mis)information as you can, and people just can't follow.
Related:

"Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/windows_2000_best_mic...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653421