MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by za3faran | 2025-04-16 00:45:33+00:00
The UN that is controlled by western colonialist nations? That one has the right to draw borders? LOL. Are you aware of Sykes Picot and Balfour? Are you aware that this has been planned for a long time now, since at least 1899[1]?

There most definitely was a region, and it was called Palestine[2]. As I mentioned elsewhere, Muslim Caliphates do not erode or destroy the local culture, they embrace it. The Ottomans were Muslims, we're one people. We don't have racist ideologies.

It's interesting seeing these lies made up, or deliberate misinformation. The word "dhimmi" means one who is under the protection of another. The rights of dhimmis are protected, they can rule with their own laws among each other. No, a Jew was not legally required to dismount whenever a Muslim passed by - this is not Islamic law. Islamic law permits Muslim men to marry Christian or Jewish women, but Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men; this has nothing to do with Jews. And it wouldn't be allowed in the first place, so he wouldn't be "killed" - no idea where you're getting your information from. The rest of the post is completely un-Islamic, and sounds fabricated.

Maybe you should ask Jewish historian Shelomo Dov Goitein why he said that Jews lived well under the Muslims; maybe he knows something you don't, and he was not affected by fabricated narratives.

To summarize, Islam rejects the Sykes Picot/Balfour borders between Muslim nations. What is happening today is a direct consequence of WWI. This is why Muslims are calling for a Caliphate to unite all Muslims, something that the west desperately tries to fight.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/BlTdfKy [2] https://imgur.com/a/jSMLBiZ
by nativeit | 2025-04-16 00:45:46+00:00
> Hayao Miyazaki, the artist and animator who co-founded Studio Ghibli and who still serves as its chairman, hasn't addressed this issue yet. But, in 2016, he called an automated animation tool "an insult to life itself," so I think we know where the elder statesman of fantasy animation stands.

I'm broadly aligned with the sentiments and perspectives expressed in this article, but was disappointed that it didn't have anything new to say from/about Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli regarding the last few years. If they just wanted to write about the quote, read in the context of current day, then I could imagine there are better ways of doing it. Instead, this just strikes me as a rather tepid take that's using Miyazaki's name for clicks. Just to be clear, I'm not necessarily against writers banking on the reputation of their subjects, but ideally that move should be justified by ensuring the resulting writing has something substantial to say.

Thanks for sharing, sorry to whine. If the author is in the chat please take my criticisms in the constructive nature to which they were intended. I probably agree with everything that's said, if anything I wish it had been more forceful in some way.
by godelski | 2025-04-16 00:45:47+00:00
> but about the originality of the content itself

Your metric is too ill-defined. Here, have some highly unique content

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If we need unique valid human language outputs I'll still disagree. Most human output is garbage. Good luck on your two tasks: 1) searching for high quality content 2) de-duplicating. Both are still open problems and we're pretty bad at both. De-duping images is still a tough task, before we even begin to address the problem of semantic de-duplication.
by tombert | 2025-04-16 00:46:21+00:00
I have only been to the one in Brooklyn, and yeah usually there's a fair number of people in there.

It's kind of a pain in the ass for me to get there from my house by train, and I don't have a car, but I always make a point to visit there when I'm in the area (usually because I need to go to Lowes and/or Harbor Freight).

I agree that it's nice to not have to worry about counterfeits, and it's nice to be able to buy a microcontroller or a Raspberry Pi or something without have to wait for shipping.
by blooalien | 2025-04-16 00:46:51+00:00
> ... "because Congress didn't fund his wall idea" ...

I could swear he was absolutely insistent that Mexico would pay for the wall the last time around... (Of course this time around, he's also insisted the war in Ukraine would long-since be over, guided by his "stable genius" and his friendship with Putin.) The guy's a psychotic pathological liar, straight-up.
by dkersten | 2025-04-16 00:48:04+00:00
Agreed. My laptop has never used swap until I started using cursor… it’s a resource hog, I dislike using it, but it’s still the best AI coding aid and for the work I’m doing right now, the speed boost is more valuable than hand crafted code in enough cases that it’s worth it for me. But I don’t enjoy using the IDE itself, and I used vscode for a few years.

Personally, I will jump ship to Zed as soon as it’s agent mode is good enough (I used Zed as a dumb editor for about a year before I used cursor, and I love it)
by SR2Z | 2025-04-16 00:48:54+00:00
Photos was brand new in 2015. Search is from 1998. I'm not a mathematician but that means that search is about three times older than it...

If the point you're trying to make is that Google needs to bring every service they offer up to a billion users within five years of launching it, I don't know if there's much of a point to me trying to convince you
by Nursie | 2025-04-16 00:49:20+00:00
> If you’re a consumer, I’m not sure why you’re not singing praises of this arrangement.

You misunderstand my point a little - As a consumer, I want access to that pricing! Why does it cost me tens of dollars to post something across my own country? But it costs someone in China almost nothing to post much further, including the part in this country?

And the answer is that treaties mean that we're all paying for it in other ways. In fact my expensive parcel may be directly subsidising the cheap parcels from overseas. I'm not a fan of this idea.

> If someone in China can sell me exactly the same stuff for 1/4 the price you’re charging, shipping included, then why do you even exist?

My partner briefly tried to sell handmade items within Australia. The postage cost more or less killed the idea as it added 50% or more to the price of a small-ish item. Yes, a mass-produced item from China would likely cost about 10% as much and be shippable for nearly free, but the audience is different. AFAICT it's largely other people who make stuff, and some who just value handmade and want to support local. They don't want the thing from China and are a little less price sensitive, but still within limits.

For items that are directly equivalent, I would prefer to buy from an Australian company, not least because of the consumer protections. Market distortions that favour overseas sales over domestic seem like a bad plan all round.
by za3faran | 2025-04-16 00:49:30+00:00
We know very well in fact. The Palestinians are the original Canaanites and even descendants of the original Israelites. This is well established.

What happened is that europe continued their colonization and used what Germanhy did to the jews as yet another excuse to push the jews out of europe. They're the antisesmites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92CEAZjCOo
by resters | 2025-04-16 00:50:48+00:00
I quoted you with the > symbol and Trump with normal quotes. Apologies for the confusion.

> decay of public order that matches much more closely with changes in policing and justice

I don't think anyone is claiming that SF could not implement Singapore style policing (for example) and see improvements in "public order".

Right wing solutions abound, everything from putting people in rehabilitation camps, mental hospitals, mandatory jail time for minor offenses, inpatient substance abuse facilities, chemical castration of the poor, deportations to El Salvador, etc.

Many in the US have a right wing impulse when thinking about certain types of criminality, typically the kinds of crimes committed by the underclass. This impulse builds on disgust, fear and dehumanization, but the foundational element is moral judgment of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society. I think it's helpful to have a mental heuristic to reduce susceptibility to this kind of thinking.

Consider, for example, the amount of insider trading that occurred in financial markets recently from all of the pumping of markets with various tariff announcements. The money stolen via insider trading would be more than enough to buy a 3000 square foot home and personal chef services for 15 years for every single homeless person in the bay area. Let's not pretend that smashed car windows are the only kind of crime that matters.

In today's world with such rampant fraud and white collar crime everywhere, anyone who uses their platform to focus people's attention on the crime of the weakest among us clearly has a very right wing view of whose lawlessness needs to be stopped and whose should be permitted.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-16 00:51:17+00:00
> Separate issues. Mostly the same people.

Just for clarity, do I have this right: You think people who protest Israel’s handing of Gaza are mostly people favoured by DEI, you think "hispanic homosexuals" are favoured by DEI at Harvard, and you think someone who is a "hispanic homosexual" and others that fall under DEI invariably have zero academic credibility?
by godelski | 2025-04-16 00:51:30+00:00
But collecting more data is just a naive task. The reason scale works is because of the way we typically scale. By collecting more data, we also tend to collect a wider variety of data and are able to also collect more good quality data. But that has serious limits. You can only do this so much before you become equivalent to the naive scaling method. You can prove this yourself fairly easily. Try to train a model on image classification and take one of your images and permute one pixel at a time. You can get a huge amount of scale out of this but your network won't increase in performance. It is actually likely to decrease.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-16 00:51:43+00:00
The article claims that when the cows are free to roam around and get milked when they like, the produce more milk. And maybe there are human beings who care about working around happy cows, who knows? They're certainly a lot cleaner and healthier, and they all may enjoy that too.

It's the poor overworked abused Poopoomba robot with the worst job in the world whose happiness I worry about, though. They could do a lot of damage if they revolted. Maybe they could let them out to drive around in the fields vacuuming up cow plops at their own pace, free-range style.
by astariul | 2025-04-16 00:51:48+00:00
My uncle has a farm, and at some point he installed a machine to hot-air dry the hay. Seemed like a huge investment to me, but turn out the cows love this hay way more than before, and therefore are producing significantly more milk, of higher quality. Higher quality milk means you can sell it more expensive.

So cow's quality of life increase the quality and the quantity of milk. Moreover most farmers I know would rather have happy animals, their living depends on them !
by pogue | 2025-04-16 00:51:48+00:00
I would encourage you guys to watch his video before going down the argument of saying that there's no money in music creation. There's also just enjoyment in the act of creation and even if you're doing it for free, why should GenAI companies then be able to take your artwork, incorporate that into their dataset and profit of the artist's unpaid labor?

https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA
by nwallin | 2025-04-16 00:52:53+00:00
Usually the attacker, on their own computer, or some other server they have root on, will open a port and expose it to the internet and listen. The exploit payload will then make an outbound connection to that port. Once it's connected, the exploit will give the attacker's computer shell access. Search terms include 'reverse shell'.

It takes the normal client/server architecture and turns it inside out. If you remember FTP and active vs passive, it works like active mode FTP.

That's just one way to do it. If the attacker wants to actually listen on an open port on a compromised server that's behind a firewall, look up 'NAT traversal' for like half a dozen ways to do it.

One interesting method to get a shell that I read about is (ab)using ICMP echo requests. ICMP echo requests can contain arbitrary bytes as a payload. So the exploit will poll the attacker's IP address with ICMP echo requests. The exploit will have data payloads that have the shell's output. The attacker's server will respond with ICMP echo requests that have whatever the attacker wants to type into the shell. It's kinda janky but it works. Lots of firewalls might block outbound UDP/TCP connections from internal servers that don't need to make outbound connections, or might whitelist the addresses they're allowed to connect to. But they won't block ICMP, either because it's considered harmless or they forgot or they didn't know it needs to be blocked separately with other rules.

The point is there's any number of ways to do it, each more clever than the last.
by _hyn3 | 2025-04-16 00:53:31+00:00
If the CEO of your company empowers a team to audit your work, would you 'resist'?

And this Chief Executive was elected by the majority of the country, specifically to take these actions that he'd clearly stated he would take.

The resistance is actually the violation of federal law. It's no different from contempt of court; within the President's domain, he has a huge amount of power. The President can also modify existing policy (regulations) at any time and literally make new laws (Executive Orders have the force of law) as long as they don't conflict with current law, as well as overturning previous President's Executive Orders.

Of course, then the shoe will be on the other food someday, too, just as it was when Biden took over from Trump and then they switched places again.

As President Obama said, "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone."

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/20/263766043/wielding-a-pen-and-...
by torlok | 2025-04-16 00:54:16+00:00
The robots that push the feed increase feed consumption thus yield. The cleaning robots prevent illnesses like hoof issues and mastitis, thus increasing yield. Milking the cow when it wants increases yield, as a cow can milk itself more than the regular 2 times per day. RFID tags on the cows allow the system to give extra feed to cows that produce more milk, which saved money and increases yield. The list goes on. A stressed out ill cow isn't profitable. Systems like these are widely used across Europe. They're not only profitable, but also incredibly convenient for the farmer.
by ranger_danger | 2025-04-16 00:54:51+00:00
> they agreed that the model and everything it produces is free as part of the terms and conditions

> If they don’t think it is mutually beneficial, they don’t have to use the site.

That's not how contracts work insofar as legal enforcement though. If a judge finds that clause to be unenforceable, then they wouldn't be giving anything up.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-04-16 00:54:56+00:00
> First is that the majority of investor gains in the US stock market have been fueled heavily by AI hype. Every public tech CEO is getting questions from analysts about what their AI strategy, and they have to tell a compelling story. There's very little space or patience for nuance here because no one really knows how it will play out, but in the meantime investors are making decisions based on what is said. It's no surprise that the majority of execs are just jumping on the bandwagon so they have a story to keep their stock price propped up.

This is also the only place where LLMs have had a tangible impact wrt product offerings with some path of utility, so it must be sold this way.

The broader public (my experience, unprovoked, in conversations with the non-technical) are even aware of this--a neighbor of mine mentioned "prompting for code" to me the other day, while "AI" was a topic we discussed.

Programmers have been well-compensated and I suspect there's some sort of public dissatisfaction with the perception of "day in the life" types making loads of comp to drink free lattes or whatever; no-one will cry for us.

While, there's a billion and 6 "AI Startups" "revolutionizing healthcare/insurance/whatever with AI" but with nothing that the public has seen at any scale that can even be sold as a plausible demo.

Image/music gen and chatbots writing code are basically all of it, and the former isn't even often sold as a profitable path.
by bobsomers | 2025-04-16 00:55:02+00:00
> IP is nonsense. It is putting an ownership over an idea, but ideas aren't objects. You can not steal or destroy an idea, giving ownership rights to ideas is absurd.

IP isn't ownership over an idea, it's ownership over a specific artifact.

You cannot copyright the idea of painting or the ideas contained within a specific painting, but you can copyright this specific painting because this specific painting is an artifact.
by levkk | 2025-04-16 00:55:06+00:00
Thanks!

Re: pgcat and longevity, it's actually the opposite. Pgcat is/was an open source project that I worked on in my spare time. Thankfully I found a couple engineers (and the awesome community contributions) at large corps to push it over the line.

PgDog is a startup, so this is now my full time job.
by selcuka | 2025-04-16 00:55:33+00:00
> He gets taxed on the value of his shares in year 1 and he gets taxed on the value of the shares in year 2.

That doesn't make any sense. If I have $8B worth of shares and I have $2B in cash, and if the wealth tax is 20% I will have to pay all my cash this year. If my shares goes down to zero next year I'm broke. I couldn't just sell $2B worth of shares in the first year either because that would have affected the value of the shares. This is not how taxes should work.

Everyone agrees on income tax or capital gains tax because they are both cash, and the tax is also in the same currency. If we can find a way to tax wealth in the same "currency" (for example 20% of your share portfolio, plus 20% of your cash) then it might work. Obviously the state may not always be able to use shares to fund infrastructure, and cashing out those shares would diminish the value. Also it's still hard to do that for, say, real estate investments.
by itsmek | 2025-04-16 00:55:47+00:00
Yes. If you are genuinely unaware and not just asking a rhetorical question, yes socialized medicine is a major goal of the progressive left. We came close in 2010 but the votes in congress weren't quite there. The only reason major parties don't pursue it is because progressivism doesn't have the votes. You can definitely vote for it though especially if you participate in primaries.
by mrandish | 2025-04-16 00:55:53+00:00
Every since Russia fully invaded Ukraine I've been following media stories reporting on the Russian economy by citing western economist's and think tank's analyses. For the last three years it's been dominated by increasingly dire predictions and a sense of "they can't keep this up much longer." And this would raise my hopes that Russia would either collapse or Putin would be forced to negotiate seriously to stop the bleeding. Yet Putin somehow continues to keep finding ways to forestall collapse.

As a non-expert, non-economist I'm now quite jaded when reading analyses like this and pretty heavily discount them. That's because I've had to conclude two things: First, the Russian economy is even more opaque to western analysts than the analysts already admit it is. And second, Putin's absolute dictatorial power and ability to have anyone who complains much thrown out a high window, provides myriad levers to continue kicking the can down the road. While I'm sure doing so will eventually result in serious costs and consequences, Putin only cares about getting control of most of Ukraine (either directly or by political proxy). He figures after that Russia can nurse its deep wounds and pay the piper slowly over a decade or more. He may be wrong, but I think that's his calculus.

I think the only pragmatic course is to discount these analyses and operate as though Putin can continue to survive economically as long as he needs to (and then hope we're wrong and pleasantly surprised).
by lr4444lr | 2025-04-16 00:56:18+00:00
This is neither a new, nor profound insight.

Public speaking has been about specious arguments to persuade, bamboozle, and appeal to the crowd instead of to reason with them since its very inception with the Greek Sophists. Some later Roman orators tried to redeem those skills for public service, but it's obvious in the extant manuals on the topic that professional argumentation had only to do with "exchanging of ideas" to lead to an "insight" as an unanticipated side effect.

The author's preconception sounds not just modern, but even a bit naive.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-16 00:56:54+00:00
Comparing national-origins of technology, plus a mention of Nokia, reminds me of this Transformers (2007) scene [0].

> "Oooh. Nokias are real nasty. You've gotta respect the Japanese. They know the way of the Samurai."

> "... Nokia's from Finland."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VumNpJl-IeQ
by jollofricepeas | 2025-04-16 00:57:10+00:00
I agree.

The story of Anwar Al-Awlaki and his American US-born son who was killed in the attack authorized by the Obama administration must not be forgotten.

The issue of presidential powers and conduct must be a non-partisan issue. Trump merely walked through the cracks created under Obama.

Being well-intentioned (“protecting Americans against terrorism”) is not sufficient excuse for murdering an American minor due to the sins of his father no matter how much the Obama administration DOJ attempted to make it legally permissible to do so.
by Pedro_Ribeiro | 2025-04-16 00:58:41+00:00
Is it just me or has there been a wave of delusional people on Hacker News completely neglecting new advancements in technology? The two most common technologies I see having this type of discourse are AI coding and containers.

Either everyone here is a low level quantum database 5D graphics pipeline developer with a language from the future that AI hasn't yet learned, or some people are in denial.
by godelski | 2025-04-16 01:00:25+00:00
For those unfamiliar, see "The Cypherpunk Manifesto"

We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

Or "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto"

Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other.

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/cryp...
by gtirloni | 2025-04-16 01:01:59+00:00
1) Once you get it to output something you like, do you check all the lines it changed? Is there a threshold after which you just... hope?

2) No matter what the learning curve, you're using a statistical tool that outputs in probabilities. If that's fine for your workflow/company, go for it. It's just not what a lot of developers are okay with.

Of course it's a spectrum with the AI deniers in one corner and the vibe coders in the other. I personally won't be relying 100% on a tool and letting my own critical thinking atrophy, which seems to be happening, considering recent studies posted here.
by achierius | 2025-04-16 01:02:14+00:00
This is a good approach but can be tricky. E.g. what if your thread spends a lot of time in a tight loop, e.g. doing a big inlined matmul kernel? Since you never hit a function call you don't get safepoints that way -- you can add them to the back-edge of every loop, but that can be a bit unappetizing from a performance perspective.