MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-04-30 19:05:42+00:00
You are making a valid point, in form of a question, despite the downvotes.

Presidents do typically get a pass during the first 100 days, and they do try to fit in as much as possible before inertia bogs down whatever they are trying to do.

I've heard the same said about Roosevelt (FDR). That he came in and made radical changes, defied courts, upset the norms, etc...

The problem is that the current president is going a bit more 'radical' than anybody has experienced since, lets say late 30's Germany. Like the executive order to send military equipment to the police to, lets say, 'quell dissent'.

So even thought Presidents do make big moves in the first 100 days, this is so far beyond norms, that saying it is "just typical of presidents in first 100 days" is really downplaying what is happening.
by mmooss | 2025-04-30 19:05:47+00:00
> The judicial branch has authority to stop him but they're only supposed to use it if they are convinced that what he's doing is unconstitutional.

That omits a crucial issue that many amazingly overlook: The bar isn't constitutional but legal. Congress makes the laws, not the President. The President is bound by those laws, and in fact their job is to enforce the laws that Congress makes. They cannot do things unless empowered by the law.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-30 19:06:03+00:00
Not responding to all the points you raise is not an act of incivility. You've done the same (e.g. when you just responded "Godwin") -- you're psyching yourself out. I'm substantively responding to your posts, so it's up to you if you want to emphasize a specific argument that you feel I'm not picking up.

> However we can define a threshold. I think a self-harming stim as an adult like head banging is sufficient to qualify as profound.

Yeah I agree, we can define a threshold. Meaning someone has to determine where the line is, and so my question is still: where is that line? Who determines it and how? The answer is that there is no line and no one determines it, RFK is just using vague nebulous terms, which are not clear at all.

> I think a self-harming stim as an adult like head banging is sufficient to qualify as profound.

Lots of autistic people self-harm as a stim, through skin picking, scraping, pinching, cutting, hair pulling, etc. So if "self-harming as a stim is sufficient to qualify as profoundly autistic", then they can sweep up pretty much any autistic person.

And that's the problem when autistic people are cut out of the conversation entirely and painting autistic people with a broad brush as RFK is doing.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-30 19:06:13+00:00
> Sun never decided whether they were a hardware company of a software company.

Ouch. And actually they were a _systems_ company. Their storage appliance product was fantastic, and their UltraSPARC systems (the systems; forget the CPU) were also fantastic. Sun was the first systems company to prioritize space and power consumption -- they were really empathetic to folks who build and pay for data centers!

But no one seemed to understand how awesome their position was circa 2007 regarding systems design, and their advantages were allowed to fizzle.

Larry Ellison doesn't understand mindshare -- the very thing that made Oracle successful. He only understands lock-in. He doesn't understand that you need to build mindshare first. He's not alone in that. This is why Sun saw starts in SPARC when it was pretty much garbage. Sure, UltraSPARC was neat, but still way too slow. It showcased great ideas and execution, but SPARC was just dead, so what was the point besides an obscene waste of resources?!
by javier_e06 | 2025-04-30 19:06:20+00:00
[Fry and Leela check out the Voter Apathy Party. The man sits at the booth, leaning his head on his hand.]

Fry: Now here's a party I can get excited about. Sign me up!

V.A.P. Man: Sorry, not with that attitude.

Fry: [downbeat] OK then, screw it.

V.A.P. Man: Welcome aboard, brother!

Futurama. A Head in the Polls.
by htx80nerd | 2025-04-30 19:06:34+00:00
>It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this.

this is the story of the big company web sites

- huge budget

- best programmers

- terrible design

- terrible usability

- doesnt make sense

- gets worse over time

it's unreal. seen on many major sites.
by lazyeye | 2025-04-30 19:07:23+00:00
This is exactly the kind of media bias I'm talking about. Given the millions of illegals the Dems allowed into the country to sway the voter demographics in their favour, when you are trying to undo the extraordinary damage that this caused (massive levels of fentanyl flowing in, violent gangs establishing territory, extraordinary burden on the taxpayer, sex-trafficking on a large scale etc etc) you will always find some deportation outlier you can focus on in a negative way. It's purely just a numbers thing.

Notice how little focus the mainstream media (and people like you) give to the victims of violent illegals crime, the fentanyl overdoses etc etc.

Also we both know if the parents were sent home without the child, the media would be then accusing the administration of holding the child to ransom and so on.

You didn't answer my question about the Dems low approval rating?
by jchw | 2025-04-30 19:07:34+00:00
> Unless you think LLMs deserve more rights than actual flesh and blood humans, yes. Either that or get bigtech to stop what they're doing, but we both know that's not going to happen.

> If LLMs get to do it, so do humans. If humans don't get to do it, then LLMs don't either. Society has embraced LLMs and bigtech is not going to give up their new toy, so it has to become okay for humans, even if you think this is unfortunate.

> Again, humans deserve more rights than machines, not less. So apparently, yes.

Man, you are fucking obsessed with LLMs. This incident predates the existence of LLMs, has nothing to do with LLMs, and plagiarism and ML training are two completely different issues. And, you keep acting like I am saying I think what happened with LLMs is fine, which I have never said at any point. I didn't say that what happened and is happening with LLMs is fine, only that it is a completely different thing that bears no relation to this whatsoever. Nobody mentioned LLMs. It's not a thing here. Stop talking about fucking LLMs.

> Yup, only serves to make the rich richer anyway.

The GPL is a great example of a copyright license that is explicitly not designed to make the rich richer.
by shaftway | 2025-04-30 19:07:44+00:00
Why would Algeria's land size have anything to do with that?

Algeria is more than 80% desert and has a population of ~46 million. Non-desert area accounts for ~480k km^2 out of their ~2400k km^2 land . Europe has far more livable space than Algeria does. Spain is pretty comparable with a population of ~48 million in 505k km^2.

I get that there are political reasons, but "Algeria is big so Algerians shouldn't need to leave" is a pretty surface-level observation.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-30 19:07:45+00:00
MS Paint, Resize/Skew option. Ctrl-W is the hotkey.

It allows you to resize either in terms of pixel count or percentage. The percentage approach is very nice for just putting 50 in both horizontal and vertical fields and getting an image half as large in both dimensions, but showing the same image (with reduced quality, because fewer pixels) and at the same aspect ratio.
by mvdtnz | 2025-04-30 19:08:02+00:00
Don't tell me what I can't do, you don't get to decide what non-Americans don't do. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the logic that Americans voted for this man. The insane left wing in your country bears as much responsibility for his election as anyone else by galvanising the nation with your extremely stupid identity politics for the last 8 years.
by Magma7404 | 2025-04-30 19:08:17+00:00
> Maybe take a break from work for a while - you must not enjoy it.

I do absolutely enjoy my new job with a manager that trusts me. I have a lot more responsibilities and it's a lot of pride and fun. I don't enjoy working with abusers though, you're right.

OTOH, I remember all the toxic managers (along with the HR, CEO, and other spineless people) who told me to chill out after having verbally abused people. A bit like the wife beater who says his wife is complaining all the time. I suspected you were one of those guys and your answer confirms it.

> How dare a CEO ask employees to use their own product inside a company

That's the job of each employee, CTO, and architects, together. Not the CEO. The CEO shouldn't make technical decisions like that. That's restricted to technical people who you are supposed to trust, the trust which you seem to lack.
by xracy | 2025-04-30 19:08:17+00:00
There's a reason that court cases typically address standing before addressing the underlying question. It matters much more that you're taking on a case before you determine the case on the merits. If the case doesn't have standing it is not worth considering.

"Conveniently Ignoring" the standing question is frankly an admission of compliance to something that is not the law. Who cares "why people can't live without food" if someone is saying "let's starve the population." One question isn't worth platforming while the other is on the table.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-30 19:08:25+00:00
The real losses were against Windows 2000 (specifically Active Directory) and to Linux.

The loss to Linux was greatly accelerated by Sun's failure to make a deal with Google for Google to use Solaris on their servers. The story I heard was that Scott wanted a server count for the license while Google believed server count was a top secret datum.

If Sun had made a deal with Google in 2002 and worked on OpenSolaris starting in 2001, then Linux might not have been quite the success it became.
by vkou | 2025-04-30 19:08:37+00:00
Those people should have probably paid attention to the clown parade of 2016-2020, with the administration's revolving door of one incompetent person being brought in after another (many of them getting fired, and a bunch of others went to prison).

Followed by 2021-2024, where all the adults in the room were talking to the press, explaining how hard they had to work to convince Trump why he shouldn't carry out his worst ideas.

Followed by all of those people getting fired in January of 2025, and replaced by lickspittles, sycophants, and other flavors of yes-men.

There's no way that someone who surrounds himself with the kind of cabinet that he does, or reacts to criticism and feedback the way he does is going to be making good decisions.
by maxglute | 2025-04-30 19:10:23+00:00
I find Google Gemini very reserved/careful to the point of being useless as search replacement, i.e. it's very relunctant to list figures/data. I want a basic vibe check for some publically accessible stats and it just wont' do it unless I provide the numbers or yell at it in upper case. It's a very patient customer service bot that I want to take a bat to.
by xracy | 2025-04-30 19:10:33+00:00
What is "a lot"? The question is pertinent.

Additionally, the follow-on questions are irrelevant. There are a million better questions to ask on the other side of this as well, before we ask why someone can't live without the money that they've been acquiring entirely above board and legally. "Why does the gov't think it has the authority to do this?"

Why do we need to have theoretical debates about legitimate circumstances, when there are real debates about illegitimate circumstances happening? having this irrelevant follow-on discussion is doing the gov't's work for them.

In a different setting I can see asking this question, but there is no need to ask this question while the circumstances are clearly illegitimate.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-04-30 19:10:54+00:00
I tried posting my story-with-self-promotion (self-association indicated at the start of the content) to several subreddits.

Most explicitly outlawed self-promotion posts, so nothing even got submitted there. The few that didn't got instantly hidden by auto-moderators, pending review. Out of those few, my DMs and followups to mods to kindly consider my post got a vague 'no excessive self-promotion' message (to my only post) days later, then got ghosted after.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-04-30 19:11:22+00:00
I can't find an email address for you. I don't use any of the "social" sites you do aside, apparently, from HN. Hence the comment here.

The Local First podcast feed (https://www.localfirst.fm/feed) has been 404'ing since 17:25 Eastern on 2025-04-29.
by mlinksva | 2025-04-30 19:11:32+00:00
I tend to agree though the conventional response I'd guess also has merit: "secure" isn't binary and various mitigations deployed on non-capability-based operating systems change the economics of attack/defense and are valuable.

But the main reason I'm responding is to thank for the TIL about data diodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network which seem under-discussed and under-utilized. Only a handful of discussions on HN, most substantial (only 19 comments) from 10 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213836 if I understand correctly, only used in very high security environments, but plausibly could be used in many applications that don't really need to be connected for input but could just broadcast or vice versa (many IoT devices). Thank you, thought provoking!
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-30 19:12:06+00:00
> because another page links to it

That is not the case in this context. robots.txt is the only thing that specifies the document URL, which it does so in a "disallow" rule. The argument that they did not know the request would be responded to with hostility could be moot in that context (possibly because a "reasonable person" would have chosen not to request the disallowed document but I'm not really familiar with when that language applies).

> by deleting local files for example

This is a qualitatively different example than a zip bomb, as it is clearly destructive in a way that a zip bomb is not. True that a zip bomb could cause damage to a system but it's not a guarantee, while deleting files is necessarily damaging. Worse outcomes from a zip bomb might result in damages worthy of a lawsuit but the presumed intent (and ostensible result) of a zip bomb is to effectively cause the recipient machine to involuntarily shut down, which a court may or may not see as legitimate given the surrounding context.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-30 19:12:23+00:00
Its not just selling things, it is designing those things, marketing those things, writing the software for those things, all of that is high value stuff that Trump is basically ignoring. There is a good reason we got richer after China entered the WTO rather than poorer: we focused on high value goods, IP, and services, which was only possible because we were able to outsource low value assembly to China.

If you take that money you would have spent buying something in the US that has imported parts (like its assembly), and instead say go out and by a DJI drone on TEMU, yes, you've decreased GDP. If you simply have no money to buy anything because DOGE decided to cut your federal job, then that would also decrease GDP.
by tails4e | 2025-04-30 19:12:25+00:00
This is something that has been tried, basically constructing an analog matrix multiply/dot product and it gives reasonable power efficiency at into levels of precision. More precision and the analog accuracy leads to dramatic power efficiey losses (each bit is about 2x the power), so int8 is probably the sweet spot. The main issues are it is pretty inflexible and costly to design vs a digital int8 mac array, and hard to port to newer nodes, etc
by heisenbit | 2025-04-30 19:12:46+00:00
In the mind of a serial bankrupcy expert being in debt gives one leverage. In reality all the piled up treasuries give China breathing room and their sell-off would put the US under stress. The US may be the largest customer of China but is dwarfed by internal customers and the rest of the world. Loosing customers hurts China but it can be compensated. Now as a supplier of volume goods China is much harder to substitute. And as a supplier of specialized high-tech goods China is impossible to substitute. Loosing suppliers in manufacturing breaks complete value-chains so there is colateral damage. On the other hand imagine some smaller critical US component breaking a supply chain in China - there will be fewer of such cases and bad cases can be handled with exceptions. Much different from the US situation where there are many more specialized components from all over the world are impacted.

Let's look at car head-lights. These are highly integrated components, designed and manufactured by third parties using tools made by forth parties with the knowledge not in the hands of the car manufacturer. Swapping them may well need re-designs and re-certification. Hard to put an estimate on the overall process but it won't be quick.

And last but not least how is new business attracted: The rule of law makes a country safe for an inherrently very risky process of overseas investments. Expats are critical resources for knowledge ramp-up and managing the first years. Billionairs with a seat on Trumps table may not care so much about the rule of law but SME business do. Expats who may move with their family need to be able to rely on visa, green cards and travel being safe. The opposite of what is needed to attract business is done as far as one can see from afar.

A trade war with no clear path for winning started from a position of weakness.
by timerol | 2025-04-30 19:12:53+00:00
They do subtract as an accounting identity, but reasoning from that makes no sense. My net income can be calculated as how much I consume plus my net savings. I = C + NS. So withdrawing from savings "subtracts from net income" in the same sense - ie, it has no explanatory power. If I do a home remodel, spending a bunch of saved up money, the way to understand that situation is not "my income would have been higher if I had not withdrawn from savings".
by exe34 | 2025-04-30 19:12:55+00:00
Wait, because Amazon followed the law in China while doing business in China, anything they do in the US that the Orangefuhrer doesn't like is..... something beneficial to China?

The claim was that Amazon wanted to display the added tax due to the tariff separately, which is what the white house histrionics were in response to. There is no indication that only Chinese imports would have been labelled. China is not the only country that Trumpet added tariffs on.

He relies on MAGAs not knowing what a tariff is. He wants to blame price rises on Biden - if it becomes too obvious that the buyer pays the tariffs, he would lose a lot more support.
by solardev | 2025-04-30 19:13:06+00:00
Overview of what "kerning" is: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/design/discover/kerning....

It's hard to do right. When it's done well (the font designer spent time making sure all the letter pairs look good together), it's totally invisible and thankless. But when it's done poorly, like in this case, it really jumps out at you.

Interactive web mini-game about kerning if you want to try your own hand at it: https://type.method.ac/

Auto-kerning is one of my favorite features of Adobe products (as opposed to many other graphics & text editors). Even when using a font that doesn't have a built-in "kern table" that the font creator should've included to optimize the "most beautiful" spacing between any two letters, Adobe can algorithmically guesstimate it using their "optical kerning" system that tries to estimate an ideal spacing based on the look of the adjacent characters: https://helpx.adobe.com/incopy/using/kerning-tracking.html. Some open-source software, like FontForge, can also try to guess: https://fontforge.org/docs/ui/mainviews/metricsview.html

There is also research into using ML to do this (seems like overkill): https://arxiv.org/html/2402.14313v2
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-30 19:13:14+00:00
IMO, which isn’t worth a lot, it’ll go on as long as Trump refuses to eat crow. China hunkered down under extreme duress during COVID and emerged stable. We barely managed to survive much milder restrictions. And that was a global natural disaster of no one’s choosing. In this situation it’s all artificial, but it stokes the nationalism of literally every other country than America. The imperialism and condescension at work, the pure malice towards our allies and partners, it all works against America. China will never bend and nor do they need to or should they. In fact at this point it’s probably a point of national pride to maximize the embarrassment of Trump, and national strategy to push him into a corner hoping he lashes out more and further isolates America from its partners. This is an opportunity for China to break out of the corner America and its partners put it into and flip the roles. Once done, and Trump is neutered and America reduced, China will have a clear path to ascendancy as the primary global super power.

I’m actually not sure this is all bad. A flatter more multipolar world is probably better for everyone, including America. But I think it’ll be a tough time in our history and the people who voted for Trump will be the ones who bear the most pain for his delusional misunderstanding of the way the world actually is vs what he wishes it were.

But if I were to put $5 down, I’d wager this lasts until the GOP political fortunes have been decimated through their hubris and magical thinking and Trump is personally hung out to dry for his strategic blunder in launching a 195 front war.
by iAMkenough | 2025-04-30 19:13:20+00:00
Unfortunately there's more nuance, as some materials to produce American stuff can't be sourced domestically or imported affordably.

Realistically we'll see a few giants pivot to less quality materials, many large and medium size businesses reduce their offerings, and a large amount of small businesses dissolving or filling for bankruptcy after not being able to weather the abrupt, completely voluntary supply chain disruptions across various industries.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-04-30 19:13:26+00:00
Details are just another computer user, not a "developer", writing their own utilties. Continually editing, updating to suit personal needs. No prerequisites except flex and C89 compiler. Generally, static binaries under 50k.

A search on one of the search engines that indexes HN may provide some pointers. Something like site:ycombinator.com plus [name of filter].

Not sure about "interesting" but these are portable across OS, low resource requirements. Faster than sed. Boring stuff that works for me year after year.
by 2cynykyl | 2025-04-30 19:13:29+00:00
Yes, about half is skimmed off the top by the university, called 'overhead'. This is used to fund everything, from research-essential things like paying for heat and maintaining buildings, to less obvious but still research-essential things like IP lawyers to deal with contracts and campus security. However, SOME of the overhead will end up supporting things that are 'contentious' like DEI enforcement or whatever.
by tehjoker | 2025-04-30 19:13:30+00:00
I imagine you'd point out that the Qing collaborated to some extent with the imperialists, and that's why the collaborationist monarchy needed to be overthrown, something the nationalists and the communists agreed on.

In America, the (false but popular) narrative is that the reason for the revolution was the British tried to tax us on tea, and that was enough to overthrow their regime lol There were plenty of loyalists in America too.
by astrange | 2025-04-30 19:13:43+00:00
I suspect what happened there is they had a filter on top of the model that changed its dialogue (IIRC there were a lot of extra emojis) and it drove it "insane" because that meant its responses were all out of its own distribution.

You could see the same thing with Golden Gate Claude; it had a lot of anxiety about not being able to answer questions normally.