MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by acdha | 2025-04-26 14:16:51+00:00
> When Hillary called half the nation "deplorables", that was closer to Hitler rhetoric than anything I've heard out of this administration.

Here’s Trump straight-up uding white nationalist rhetoric:

> Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions [and] insane asylums. We know they're terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.

(https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/watch-the-nationa...)

Now, it’s telling that you’re pretending not to have heard your guy say things like that while his administration is sending people to concentration camps without due process but are still upset about something from a decade ago which you are misrepresenting.

Here’s the full quote, which is notable because she identified the specific behaviors she considered deplorable AND explicitly called for sympathy for the large group of people who are motivated by problems in their lives rather than bigotry. Also note that she’s talking about half of the third of the country which votes for him.

> You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

> But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCHJVE9trSM

That makes quite the contrast where he looks worse the more of his speech you read while her speech looks better in context and makes it clear that while he hates people based on who they are, she reserved judgement based on what they do.
by phalangion | 2025-04-26 14:17:32+00:00
It really is exactly this. My default mindset is "everybody's busy with their own lives, so they probably don't have time so I won't even try to invite them to X." Change your assumptions a little bit to instead assume people want to do things. If they say no, so be it. But I've found that people want to be invited out to do more things than they are, so send the invites.

I started swimming with a community team two years ago, and about 4 months in I invited them to also lift weights with me. Now there are about 8 of us that are together 5 mornings per week. Took a chance and invited them on a trip, and now 5 of us are going on a week long trip together.

Find a group of people doing something you like. If it's a tech meetup, community organization, hobby group, whatever. What it is doesn't matter. What matters is that you find people with whom you share _an_ interest. Then take a chance there and say "hey, want to meet up for lunch next week?" Or just say "hey, I'm going to see X next weekend, want to come?"
by ALLTaken | 2025-04-26 14:17:42+00:00
How can anaesthesia have such vast effects on taste/smell?? I only know that consciousness is being "removed" when using anaesthesia. And the most logical theory so far is that "Quantum coherence of Tryptophan Microtubules" is interrupted by any higher gas penetrating the crystal.

Sources:

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25714379/

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...

PS: Oh my god that sounds absolutely horrible! I had loss of taste and smell after Covid for 3 days, but it came back. I love perfumes and have a nice collection that I couldn't smell at all anymore. Also everything tasted and smelt like saltwater, even the trash.

But 6 months, I already felt tortured by not being able to taste anything anymore.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-26 14:18:50+00:00
> but it could just as easily have been that it was spending more time near my phone (I had only recently started at that job) on which I regularly search for skiing-related things like conditions reports and directions to ski areas

Bingo! This is most certainly what happened.

I’ve spent time trying to convince my friends that their phone’s microphone is not constantly listening and running sounds through voice recognition software to isolate their voice (so the individual who owns the phone can be advertised to), then through sentiment analysis software (to inform advertisement bids), all without meaningfully affecting battery life. That is usually an uphill battle but explaining location services and the fact they don’t know what I’ve searched gets the point across better. (It is actually creepier.)
Show HN: Sales platform for digital content creators
by gethly | 2025-04-26 14:19:05+00:00
I just went online with a project that I have been working on for almost three years. It is a online sales platform for digital content creators. An amalgamation of Patreon, Teachable, Audible,...

Currently, I am finishing translations of the user interface into more languages and am working on signing online card payments processor. Right now, only bank transfer payments into/out of the platform are possible. Once that is done, I'll consider it out of beta.

I hope you'll find it useful.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-26 14:19:14+00:00
> and the children's citizenship was solely one of birthright

My citizenship is solely that way too, even though generations of my ancestors were also citizens.

Unless you personally naturalized then your citizenship is solely by birthright. The vast majority of US citizens are this way. Insisting that this is somehow worth less in terms of legal protections is just frankly wrong.

Imagine you said this for other circumstances. "Well, a parent going to prison is always going to be hard for the family - better imprison the whole family!"
by ginko | 2025-04-26 14:20:01+00:00
Well, like I said: From open tools I had available b123d was the one that relatively quickly (within a weekend from picking up the tool) allowed me to mock up something to the point where I became confident enough to keep going.

I tried to do that with FreeCAD without too much success. I assume someone proficient with it could probably crank out the whole thing within an afternoon, but not me.

I'm sure professional tools are many times more productive, but you need to spend thousands of dollars and presumably months if not years of training to become proficient in them.

And admittedly that's more of a weird hangup of mine but to me it also sort-of misses the point to use a proprietary tool for building an open source project. No one without the tool could open the source files and make modifications.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-04-26 14:21:05+00:00
There's a natural tendency towards monopolization in companies in general. But competition is good, as the alternative is stagnation (especially once a company gets powerful enough to sway governments).

Likewise, platforms are evil, and social network platforms in particular probably shouldn't be allowed to exist. Protocols don't have this fragmentation issue that I guess you are aiming at but never stating directly.

Facebook shouldn't have engaged in anticompetitive practices.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-26 14:21:34+00:00
My friends get to know the real me. The rap loving, occasionally inappropriate, skepticism of the police, occasional f bomb throwing, shit talking while playing cards, can drink most people under the table without breaking a sweat etc.

The work me is the “looking at things from a 1000 foot view”, “taking things to the parking lot”, “and adding on to what Becky said”.

When I talk to them about what concert I went to, it’s limited to Maroon 5, Stevie Wonder and my friend who is in a punk band. I don’t discuss the concert where my wife and I were at lil Jon screaming “bia bia” or Ice Cube was rapping “F** the Police”.

Code switching is a real thing. I’m in a customer facing role (cloud consulting) and I always have to filter everything I say through the corporate lens. At home and with my friends, I can be the real me.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-26 14:22:46+00:00
When you ask men who they are attracted to, at least on the surface, it’s always young women. I’m pretty sure the OkCupid stats showed that girls age 20 give or take were peak attractiveness. Reality is of course that guys will “work for food” or attention.

Women are different. It ranges — alot, and is more about EQ and scarcity. If you have a moderate baseline level of physical attractiveness, moderately fit (Jon two miles let’s say), not an asshole, and not living with mom, a 40-60 year old guy is a hot commodity.
by skellera | 2025-04-26 14:23:33+00:00
I think less people care about it politically than you think. Most people I know who have Teslas stand by the product even through Elon’s dumb shit.

I think people care more about their own convenience. There’s nothing else in our market that’s even comparable. People talk a lot of shit and it wasn’t great to start but FSD is on a different level now, especially on newer cars like the new Model Y. Having a car that mostly drives itself is the best purchase I’ve ever made.

It doesn’t seem to be slowing down sales in Seattle. New Model Ys are everywhere here.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-04-26 14:23:53+00:00
> In Finland sentence can be reduced if the case has been publicized widely, i.e. the "shame" is seen as a punishment itself.

This is to some extent true in the UK as well. Pubic figures are likely to lose their income if convicted of a crime, whereas someone in a less visible or responsible profession is more likely to be able to continue working immediately after serving their sentence (or during, if the sentence is non-custodial). This is therefore considered a mitigating factor during sentencing.

One result of this is that the law can sometimes appear to be more lenient on celebrities or other notable individuals, but it is really just making the system equitable so that the sentence has the same effect regardless of the criminal's personal situation.
by Sytten | 2025-04-26 14:24:08+00:00
I dont think that would be right otherwise they R2 offering would be kinda useless. I feel the restriction was on video/streaming.

EDIT: OP is correct for CDN but if you use R2 even as a transparent copy from another S3 like provider it is allowed [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/
by tpmoney | 2025-04-26 14:24:32+00:00
> It's so hard to to believe in people or have a positive opinion of them when much of my interactions are negative. Or when people who embody the opposite of goodness are promoted and have status. It's like we live in a society in which mediocrity, borderline sociopathy, and meanness are rewarded.

Which I think is why the original article has an important idea. We need to be fans more and encourage that as a way of thinking. If mediocrity and borderline sociopathy are rewarded by society at large, it must mean that mediocrity and borderline sociopathy are rewarded by society in the small. And sure enough, take a look around (and look at pop culture over the last couple decades) and you'll see that's true:

* American "Kitchen Nightmares" took what was an often genuinely heartfelt show about struggling restaurants in its UK incarnation and turned it into a circus side show complete with jeering at the freaks.

* Reality competition shows thrive on marketing terrible performances and smug take downs by Simon Cowell and his various low rent knockoffs.

* The Daily Show / John Oliver thrives on the sort of smug "I'm better than these obvious idiots, and wink wink you are too because you watch me and we know we're very smart" behavior that ironically also powers the Glenn Beck / Rush Limbaugh contingent on the other side of the spectrum.

* Trump himself made his own reality TV show where the entire premise was just firing people for not being sufficiently subservient.

* And remember things like "The Weakest Link"?

We've built a culture over the years, that has turned large swaths of the internet from small communities of fans and enthusiasts to large communities of "take down" artists and drive by clap backs a la twitter. We promote criticism and boarderline sociopathy on a daily basis and hold it up as an ideal to strive for, and turn to "You just can't handle the truth" whenever someone calls it out. Is it any wonder then that the people that are rising to the top in a world that promotes crab bucket mentality are the biggest and meanest crabs?

But if we don't work to be different in the small. If we don't try in our day to day efforts even when it's extremely difficult to do so, to be kind, positive, and enthusiastic, where do we expect that behavior to come from in our leaders and the people we promote? If "harsh truth" people who "say what they want" and "don't care about your feels" are the sort of people we lift up at the bottom, why do we expect it to be any different the higher up we go?
by apical_dendrite | 2025-04-26 14:25:19+00:00
Sure, the point is that the poster I was responding to said that the only way to avoid putting US citizen minor children in a position where they have to either leave the country, or stay in the country without their parents, is to effectively grant citizenship to the parents. My point is that that's a false choice, it would be possible to grant the parents a temporary, conditional status that's based on having minor US-citizen children. It's not an ideal solution, but it protects the constitutional rights of US-citizen minor children without granting citizenship to the parents.
by afavour | 2025-04-26 14:25:34+00:00
Difficult to describe them as choosing to do anything:

> ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them. In one instance, a mother was granted less than one minute on the phone before the call was abruptly terminated when her spouse tried to provide legal counsel’s phone number.

What would they do, leave their child in an ICE facility and hope that somehow word gets back to family to go get them?
by acdha | 2025-04-26 14:25:43+00:00
This just dishonest. In the past, the rule of law applied. The law is not perfect or kind, but there was a process where people could defend themselves and egregious violations of U.S. law like this would be avoided. It wouldn’t be the child being “separated from their parents”, it would be the family choosing to go together OR the family choosing to have their child live with relatives.

The case we heard about yesterday illustrates the difference. A judge Trump appointed raised the alarm not just because due process is being violated but because a two year old’s father was pleading with the court to let his daughter live with him. Prior to this administration, nobody would have blinked an eye at a U.S. citizen switching custody to a U.S. citizen parent, and it’d save the government a lot of money to let that happen.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/us-citizen-deportat...
by perihelions | 2025-04-26 14:25:45+00:00
I don't believe that's historic; the landmine convention was drafted in 1997, and the cluster bomb one in 2008. The European nations that dominated these movements (USA signed neither) were in peacetime, and had known nothing other than peace for a very long time.

The treaties they're withdrawing from today aren't the post-WW1 Geneva conventions; they are modern treaties that were in actuality products of eras of peace.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-04-26 14:25:47+00:00
asking

> The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

forcing

> The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.

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unless you’re a psychopath, your 20 year old offspring calling you at 4am about to kill themselves is gonna result in you doing basically anything you can to save them.

it’s very easy to sit on the internet and take a perceived moral high ground. it’s much harder to retain that high ground when you get that phone call.

i used to have all sorts of bullshit “rules” like this [0]. but life ain’t binary man. absolutisms don’t really exist out there in the real world. i know it probably makes you feel “safer” knowing that you have a “rule” for this that you feel you can apply carte blanche — it used to for me — but it’s all bullshit man. it’s just the policeman in our own heads.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803874
by m4rtink | 2025-04-26 14:26:03+00:00
I am not really sure but isnt depleted uranium munition kida obsolete by this point ? It was used mostly in unguided kinetic tank shells and autocannon ammo.

But most of the destroyed russiant tanks in Ukraine are due to mines and guided munitions using mostly shaped charges, ranging from Javelins to 400$ DiY FPV drones, neither of which uses depleted uranium in any form.
by yosefk | 2025-04-26 14:26:04+00:00
Style has been copied since time immemorial and was never copyrightable. I think it's better to be the studio everyone copies in their AI slop than the studio nobody copies in terms of publicity, sales and cultural impact. And the mass copying by a handful of models in a reasonably consistent way together with everyone talking about it is probably better for the studio than flesh and blood artists here and there copying it not so consistently / competently without the buzz attributing the style to the studio
by _m_p | 2025-04-26 14:26:17+00:00
Quote from the article:

> Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will read them, and systems such as these will be able to generate them, endlessly, at the push of a button.

It is already the case that effectively nobody reads these books. They're basically just "proof of work" for people's tenure dossiers.
by esperent | 2025-04-26 14:26:18+00:00
> Except both corporations and academia require them

And so the people who are aiming to go into that kind of work will learn these skills.

Academia is a tiny proportion of people. "Business" is larger but I think you might be surprised by just how much of business you can do on a phone or tablet these days, with all the files shared and linked between chats and channels rather than saved in the traditional sense.

As a somewhat related example, I've finally caved into to following all the marketing staff I hire and started using Canva. The only time you now need to "save a picture" is... never. You just hit share and send the file directly into the WhatsApp chat with the local print shop.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-04-26 14:26:37+00:00
I'm pretty sure that at least part of the reason is that Netflix (despite being much less relevant) is in the Silicon Valley, while Microsoft is not.

So this is specifically a Silicon Valley / Hacker News thing (notably relevant to lifestyle and employment issues).

The rest of the world has been using GAFAM instead, even before 2013. (I've also seen "the big 5" sometimes.)
by OgsyedIE | 2025-04-26 14:27:01+00:00
In case anybody is wondering, the answer is obviously yes. Assuming a singularity-type event happens, the humanities will have tremendous value to AGIs as systems of thinking for analyzing themselves, their environment and their interactions with their environment in the same way that existing nation-states value the humanities as foundational tools in developing the abilities of their personnel and executives.

Surviving humans will no longer be free to participate in the academic humanities however, as their study/curation/production etc will exclusively be job roles for AGIs.

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If there is no singularity however, none of what I've written above will apply. If. (fingers crossed)
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 14:27:03+00:00
There have been a few cases where the LLM clearly did look at the EXIF, got the answer, then confabulated a bunch of GeoGusser logic to justify the answer. Sometimes that's presented as deception/misalignment but that's a category error: "find the answer" and "explain your reasoning" are two distinct tasks, and LLMs are not actually smart enough to coherently link them. They do one autocomplete for generating text that finds the answer and a separate autocomplete for generating text that looks like an explanation.
by hashemian | 2025-04-26 14:27:10+00:00
To those argue that LLMs might cheat by using EXIF, I saw a post recently on twitter (https://x.com/tszzl/status/1915212958755676350) and out of curiosity, screen-captured the photo and passed it to O3. So no EXIF.

You can read the chat here: https://chatgpt.com/share/680a449f-d8dc-8001-88f4-60023323c7...

It took 4.5m to guess the location. The guess was accurate (checked using Google Street View).

What was amazing about it:

1. The photo did not have ANY text 2. It picked elements of the image and inferred based on those, like a fountain in a courtyard, or shape of the buildings.

All in all, it's just mind-blowing how this works!
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-26 14:27:15+00:00
Illegal immigration is what he is opposed to.

It’s relatively easy for someone to understand just by taking a slight step back out of their world view why a man may be attracted to another man or a woman may be a attracted to another woman or someone may be attracted to both sexes.

But trans goes against everything they know about science. And even for those who are very much “let you do you” thinks it’s a bridge too far to have biological men in women’s sports.

This is a bridge too far for even me (yes I know it’s an unpopular opinion) and I’m a “f*! the police”,BLM, universal healthcare, free college education, religious skeptical, increase the safety net and lean liberal
by mrob | 2025-04-26 14:27:23+00:00
LLMs are deterministic [0]. An LLM is a pure function that takes a list of tokens and returns a set of token probabilities. To make it "chat" you use the generated probabilities to pick a token, append that token to the list, and run the LLM again. Any randomness is introduced by the external component that picks a token using the probabilities: the sampler. Always picking the most likely token is a valid strategy.

The problem is that all output is a "hallucination", and only some of it coincidentally matches the truth. There's no internal distinction between hallucination and truth.

[0] Theoretically; race conditions in a parallel implementation could add non-determinism.