MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Juliate | 2025-04-14 22:26:01+00:00
1/ It does not take anything away. The use is not casual but deliberate and analytical. The concept of « rape culture » extends beyond sexual assault to other patterns of consent violation and power dynamics.

2/ it has been discussed for like, decades, in academic and social contexts, how attitudes in some domain reflects and reinforces them in others.

3/ Your « actual » makes an assumption about my experience that you have no basis for.

Point remains that non-consensual use of artists’ work reflects the same fundamental disregard for autonomy that characterizes other consent violations.
by thot_experiment | 2025-04-14 22:27:29+00:00
Rest in Peace Altera I guess? I still drink out of my color changing Altera mug (that's long stopped changing color) most days. PE ruins everything so it's only a matter of time before they're gutted and sold for scraps by the vultures at Silver Lake. (though honestly the writing was on the wall since the Intel acquisition I had held onto some hope) If only we had a functioning government interested in actually maintaining our technological dominance and enforcing/expanding antitrust legislation. I wrote my first Verilog on an Altera chip and I'll remember them fondly.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-04-14 22:27:50+00:00
I don't know why it's downvoted.

It has come to this America - you better acknowledge it quickly. It may be hard, as half of VC world and tech titans are complicit. But that's the reality today.

It's no wonder why travel from EU to US is collapsing. I'm not going to US anytime soon neither. And yes, Trump is dumb. He's also very dangerous.
by reissbaker | 2025-04-14 22:27:58+00:00
It's pretty simple. I write out a detailed spec, similar to what I'd put in Linear/JIRA for a bright intern. I give it to Claude Code, and it starts writing code, proposing the edits to me. They're usually decent, and when they aren't I reject the proposed edits and give it feedback. After a few minutes the work is done, typically faster than I could've typed out the code by hand (even including writing the spec).

God help you for complex code though, it will spin in circles of failing to debug.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-14 22:28:32+00:00
> If I own a house or condominium in San Francisco, at a fundamental level I do not own the land or space the residence is sitting on. "Ownership" is basically a lease of the parcel from the city.

It's interesting to me that medieval European peasants "renting" the land they farmed had much stronger ownership rights than Americans who "own" land do today.

> I believe this is the constitutional justification for property taxes

It isn't. The constitutional justification for property taxes is that they're assessed by the states, not by the federal government.

The federal government is free to assess property taxes too, except that it must apportion them between the states: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C4-1/...

> An 1861 federal tax on real property illustrates how the rule of apportionment operates. Congress enacted a direct tax of $20 million. After apportioning the direct tax among the states, territories, and the District of Columbia, the State of New York was liable for the largest portion of the tax [...]

What this meant was that the federal government delegated tax quotas to the states and the states were responsible for collecting them as they saw fit.
by throwaccount124 | 2025-04-14 22:28:45+00:00
> 16+ hospitals remain operational in Gaza

No, the last fully functional hospital of Gaza was just bombed yesterday [1]

> despite serving as terror HQ

This remains to be proven and sounds more like propaganda.

> The central camps have been almost totally untouched since the hostages are being kept there: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-804993

This is not what the article says at all. An in any case, if the IDF knew where the hostages were held, why wouldn't they surround these areas and liberate them, instead of terrorizing civilians over and over again on all the territory?

> if you take the 50,000 death estimate from Hamas at face value

Looking at the following:

* the scale of destruction visible on satellite images, drone footage - shown by both parties in the conflict * the quantity of bombs (29,000+ air-dropped bombs according to US intelligence, plus the tank and artillery ammunition) * the population density in the whole Gaza strip * the lack of resources and safety to rescue people and recover bodies from under the rubble after bombing * the lack of food, water, medical supplies, medical staff, ambulances

Can we realistically think that the number of casualties could be that low?

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7l123zy5o
by tianqi | 2025-04-14 22:29:33+00:00
For reference, a hybrid fuzzy-SVM has a prediction accuracy rate of 88.26%. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8344688

(This shows why betting on sports is almost impossible to have a long-term edge as it's already a very efficient market and the odds usually reflect the win rate very well.)

As another reference, an earlier predictor that also uses the elo rating system has an accuracy of 65.3% which is very close to the result in this post, and I guess this may be a typical range for elo-based predictors. https://github.com/luke-lite/NBA-Prediction-Modeling

By the way, I really like the interface of this "emailware". It's really fun to play with.
by vaxman | 2025-04-14 22:30:08+00:00
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/meta-wins-bid-to-prevent-...

It's very sad. She reported to Congress that she faces a $50K per disparagement penalty. Let's say there are 25 disparagements in the book and it sells 100K copies into the Billion+ FB user community. As she pointed out to Congress, a disparagement is a truth. $5B for telling truths from seven or eight years ago.
by tauoverpi | 2025-04-14 22:30:21+00:00
Nice,

I've found that using an iterator for this often generates quite a bit of extra code and prevents vectorization in general which is why I switched to an API using inversion of control for the `forEach` case (I don't have iterators).

Working on one item at a time (which the iterator causes) resulted in quite a bit of overhead defeating partially the gains from having a more compact memory layout (SoA) with a more complex code path while preventing use of SIMD over multiple components at a time.

Is this an issue observed in this implementation and what is the general design space that this implementation targets? How it works now is partially how mach had it at least a year or more ago if I remember correctly while they still had an ECS.
by vitus | 2025-04-14 22:30:39+00:00
The problem with this explanation (and with many others) is that it misses why we should care about "disorder" or "uncertainty", whether in information theory or statistical mechanics. Yes, we have the arrow of time argument (second law of thermodynamics, etc), and entropy breaks time-symmetry. So what?

The article hints very briefly at this with the discussion of an unequally-weighted die, and how by encoding the most common outcome with a single bit, you can achieve some amount of compression. That's a start, and we've now rediscovered the idea behind Huffman coding. What information theory tells us is that if you consider a sequence of two dice rolls, you can then use even fewer bits on average to describe that outcome, and so on; as you take your block length to infinity, your average number of bits for each roll in the sequence approaches the entropy of the source. (This is Shannon's source coding theorem, and while entropy plays a far greater role in information theory, this is at least a starting point.)

There's something magical about statistical mechanics where various quantities (e.g. energy, temperature, pressure) emerge as a result of taking partial derivatives of this "partition function", and that they turn out to be the same quantities that we've known all along (up to a scaling factor -- in my stat mech class, I recall using k_B * T for temperature, such that we brought everything back to units of energy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_function_(statistica...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_thermodynamic_rela...

If you're dealing with a sea of electrons, you might apply the Pauli exclusion principle to derive Fermi-Dirac statistics that underpins all of semiconductor physics; if instead you're dealing with photons which can occupy the same energy state, the same statistical principles lead to Bose-Einstein statistics.

Statistical mechanics is ultimately about taking certain assumptions about how particles interact with each other, scaling up the quantities beyond our ability to model all of the individual particles, and applying statistical approximations to consider the average behavior of the ensemble. The various forms of entropy are building blocks to that end.
by alganet | 2025-04-14 22:31:02+00:00
- "We're bringing the old internet back."

- "Cool! That was what everyone always wanted. Wait, what is that?"

- "Some yet to be defined role for AI, don't worry about it."

Please, stop forcing it guys. Let it grow naturally. I know you all want that sweet return of investment very soon in any way shape or form possible, but this is getting ridiculous.
by reissbaker | 2025-04-14 22:31:06+00:00
They were obviously not fleeing a genocide, since no genocide happened in 1948. The population graphs of Palestine make that extremely clear. In fact, many did not flee and are citizens of Israel today and even serve in the Knesset, and are referred to as "Israeli Arabs." Of the five acts defined as genocide, moving five miles away is not one of them.

And of course you can compare conflicts in history to each other. Why wouldn't you be able to? Literally the same thing happened with India and Pakistan, at almost exactly the same time, except that Pakistan agreed to the partition and didn't try to invade India. Many people were displaced, or fled, and there were even some border conflicts. But Pakistan and India both accepted partition in general in 1947, unlike the Palestinians who invaded Israel instead in 1948. In fact many more people were displaced or forced to move during the partition of British India into India and Pakistan: 15MM people, vs 900k during the 1948 war.

If you didn't consider that genocide, neither is the latter.
by immibis | 2025-04-14 22:31:12+00:00
Phones interrupt the connection every time you close the app, and if there's even a way to avoid this (yes on Android, no on iPhone) the user sees a notification that something is running in the background (fine) and their battery life is 80% less (not fine). The way IRC works is just inherently incompatible with the way mobile devices work, since IRC assumes stable endpoints. And because it's a protocol not a product, this can't be fixed.

Even if a new protocol was created which fixed this, the necessary design change would bring so much baggage that it would become Matrix. To solve the unstable endpoint problem, servers need to store messages until all endpoints retrieve them (which is never, for channels of non-trivial size, since at least one client isn't coming back) or time out (how long do you set that? a week? If you're holding all messages permanently, you might as well never time out clients).

The obvious storage design will hold each channel's messages once, not once per client connection buffer. Which means a lot of things: you might as well send it to new clients when they join; each message will have an ID so you might as well support replies and emoji reactions; you have to moderate it for illegal content; since messages have IDs, you might as well retract moderated messages on clients. At the end of the design process, what you have is nothing like IRC any more.
by johnea | 2025-04-14 22:31:26+00:00
The fact that North Carolina's governor is pretty consistently from the democratic party is an interesting story about the lack of actual democracy in the modern US.

The population in that state is pretty similar to the US population, in that it is split fairly evenly between the republican and democratic parties. With the democratic party pretty consistently having a slightly higher percentage of the state population.

The governor is one of the few positions elected in a state wide popular vote, other positions state and federal, are elected in districts.

So while the governor is routinely democratic, both houses of the state legislature are 60% republican, and 10 of 14 federal congressional legislators and both senators are republican.

It is considered one of the most gerrymandered states in the US:

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gerrymandering-deep...

I post this reply, since this is a major concern of mine for the US as a whole, not just North Carolina. Our 1776 government organization is so sadly antiquated, it leaves the US in a condition barely qualifying as democracy at all.

When someone can be elected in a district, with less population than my neighborhood, and if they are a significant fund raiser for their party, be put in a committee position that allows then to control legislation that affects the entire country, that is just not democracy.

Like the bulk of Europe after WWII, the US needs to adopt a parliamentary style proportional organization...
by arandomusername | 2025-04-14 22:31:35+00:00
> That's not what I was saying. I was saying anyone would reflect there is a long list of questionable behavior. Whether or not you think that is disqualifying is your opinion. Scam university, scam banks, scam businesses. These are facts of Donald Trump's past, not opinions.

If I address any of those points, would I be nitpicking and picking on minor details?

> You didn't say that the other example was groping. You only talked about "injecting bleach"

The user brought up groping and injecting bleach. I refuted the bleach argument, leaving the groping argument alone. It's also not technically right, it's completely incorrect and absolutely disingenous framing.

> You did completely ignore the reason for his conclusion. He said there are many reasons why Trump has questionable character, you zero'd in on a minor detail of one of those arguments and did not address anything else

I addressed ONE of the TWO reasons the user provided. What other reason am I supposed to have addressed? Should I start making some up?

Rest of your post isn't worth addressing it's just the same junk.
by znhll | 2025-04-14 22:31:52+00:00
I recently started making the switch from docker (and docker compose) to using podman and quadlet, but holy crap is the documentation for podman quadlets a big f-you wall-of-text mandoc that would make Torvalds proud. I've read thru that and am still not quite sure of how to get from point A to point B.

To replace a single docker compose file, sounds like one needs to manually create a number of .container, .volume, .network, .kube files correctly so systemd can spin up a container pod? Is that what I'm reading? Is there nothing that can generate that from a docker-compose.yml?
by busymom0 | 2025-04-14 22:31:54+00:00
Not a fan of Meta and I don't have IG, Facebook, WhatsApp etc.

However, even in 2012 or so when these acquisitions happened, Snapchat was a much bigger thing. And for me, Reddit was a much bigger thing than FB.

I think amongst the antitrust trials, this one is the weakest.
by roughly | 2025-04-14 22:32:31+00:00
Without arguing the merits of the Altera investment or divestment, a common pattern for Intel seems to be a wild see-sawing between an aggressive and a defensive market posture - it’s a regular occurrence for Intel to announce a bold new venture to try to claim some new territory, and just as regular that they announce they’re halting that venture in the name of “consolidating” and “focusing on their core.” The consequence is that they never give new ventures time to actually succeed, so they just bleed money creating things they murder in the cradle, and nobody born before last Tuesday is investing in bothering to learn the new Intel thing because its expected lifespan is shorter than the average Google product.

Intel either needs to focus or they need to be bold (and I’d actually prefer they be bold - they’ve started down some cool paths over time), but what they really need is to make up their goddamn minds and stop panicking every other quarter that their “ten-year bets” from last quarter haven’t paid off yet.
by crmd | 2025-04-14 22:32:58+00:00
According to the Tax Foundation[1], for tax year 2021, the top 1% of U.S. earners—those with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $682,577 or more—accounted for 26.3% of total AGI and paid 45.8% of all federal income taxes.

My personal opinion is that income tax should be more progressive, but I know that plenty of smart people disagree on that.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-04-14 22:33:24+00:00
There was some hope at the time that FPGAs could be used in a lot more applications in the data center. It is likely still feasible. Remember Hennessy published:

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wl/teachlocal/arch/papers/cacm19go...

And maybe this is/was a pipe dream - maybe there aren't enough people with the skills to have a "golden age of architecture". But MSFT was deploying FPGAs in the data center and there were certainly hopes and dreams this would become a big thing.
by jsenn | 2025-04-14 22:34:03+00:00
> This approach works by randomly polling participating devices for whether they’ve seen a particular fragment, and devices respond anonymously with a noisy signal. By noisy, we mean that devices may provide the true signal of whether a fragment was seen or a randomly selected signal for an alternative fragment or no matches at all. By calibrating how often devices send randomly selected responses, we ensure that hundreds of people using the same term are needed before the word can be discoverable. As a result, Apple only sees commonly used prompts, cannot see the signal associated with any particular device, and does not recover any unique prompts. Furthermore, the signal Apple receives from the device is not associated with an IP address or any ID that could be linked to an Apple Account. This prevents Apple from being able to associate the signal to any particular device.

The way I read this, there's no discovery mechanism here, so Apple has to guess a priori which prompts will be popular. How do they know what queries to send?
by xienze | 2025-04-14 22:34:28+00:00
> The point is, it's eating your seed corn.

How much is “enough” money to hoard in an endowment though? We hear lots of arguments about how the concept of a billionaire is itself obscene, why can’t we apply to same logic to institutions? E.g. much like people say “billionaires shouldn’t exist”, perhaps endowments over some similarly arbitrary value shouldn’t exist either.
by stouset | 2025-04-14 22:34:28+00:00
This is ridiculous. The standard isn’t “are they unbiased” because it is utterly unachievable. You know this and you cling to it anyway. What matters is whether their bias materially influenced their conclusions.

They have provided analysis and data backing that analysis. It is now up to you as a skeptic to find fault in that. “They are biased” is lazy, intellectually dishonest, and utterly unconvincing. It is a canned response that can be given to literally every conclusion ever reached and so can (and has been) dismissed out of hand.
by asdefghyk | 2025-04-14 22:34:41+00:00
I've been told the only way to be sure if skin cancer or not , is a biopsy. I also have been told ... not skin cancer... but Dr decided to send me to a dermatologist. Is thing he said when say it .. is looks like skin cancer ... lets take a biopsy now ... to check . It was skin cancer ... a BCC
by pmarreck | 2025-04-14 22:36:17+00:00
so I finally got a luajit and some standard libs working together in my environment

the reason why it took so long is I use nixos and nix-darwin and... well, you know... it was non-obvious how to get everything working together "because Nix" but with the help of a good LLM I figured it out.

HOLY HELL IS THIS FAST.

i had the brand new chatgpt 4.1 rewrite a name=value pretty-printer terminal function from elixir (which I used because it was easy and maintainable, but at the cost of the VM startup) to lua.

272ms for the elixir version (`env | name-value-to-table`) vs. 17ms for the Lua version (`env | name-value-to-table-lua`). WOW. 1/16 the time LOL.

anyway here is that rewrite https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/47e110cbc62ea6603a0e61543d2...

Guess I'm gonna have to keep this in my toolkit! (And now that I figured out the Nix, it will remain easy!) Thanks!
by sitkack | 2025-04-14 22:36:39+00:00
> WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is announcing today that, with respect to the regulation titled Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders, 89 Fed. Reg. 56028 (July 8, 2024) (codified at 12 CFR part 1092), it will not prioritize enforcement or supervision actions with regard to entities that do not satisfy future deadlines under the regulation to submit registration information. This policy applies to, but is not limited to, the upcoming April 14, 2025 registration deadline for entities subject to 12 CFR 1092.206(a)(2) and July 14, 2025 registration deadline for entities subject to 12 CFR 1092.206(a)(3). The Bureau will instead continue to focus its enforcement and supervision activities on pressing threats to consumers. The Bureau is further considering issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind the regulation or narrow its scope.

I believe these are the payday loan changes that A16Z was asking for.

Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4jWb-0nj44
by Alupis | 2025-04-14 22:36:50+00:00
My guess would be no, but I could be wrong. The current administration clearly wants more domestic capability, so even if someone like TSMC/Samsung/etc wanted to acquire as part of their US operations, my gut says it would be challenged.

When AMD spun off their fabs into what became Global Foundries, it was difficult for many to see the upside. However, today, it seems not being tied to any particular fab/tech is one of AMD's biggest advantages.
by wisty | 2025-04-14 22:36:55+00:00
I'm not saying Trump isn't a hypocrite, but is it slightly possible that some of what he says is actually what he intends to do, as I said in my comment.

He's dumb, sure. He's out of his depth. He's greedy. But he also has strong opinions (some of which are consistent, some ... less so) on how the US should be run. The idea that he doesn't have some political agenda when he spends hours ranting about it and seems to be implementing bits of it is just pure fantasy land.
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-14 22:36:56+00:00
I don't think people are opposed to tariffs, at least they weren't before. Bernie Sanders has historically been for tariffs when used properly. Used properly being the important phrase. When you have someone who doesn't understand what a trade deficit is imposing tariffs based on the difference between deficit and surplus, you pretty effectively turn people against tariffs on top of the whole destroying the global economy thing.
by zeroonetwothree | 2025-04-14 22:37:22+00:00
I feel the spirit of antitrust being for the benefit of consumers has been lost with the recent round of actions. Virtually every action a corporation takes is “anticompetitive” because surely it wants to defeat the competition. That’s the whole point of capitalism. We shouldn’t be concerned until this is actually anti consumer. And it’s hard to prove consumer harm for free products that aren’t really necessary and have many alternatives.