MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by y42 | 2025-04-14 20:00:29+00:00
my thoughts, exactly, for around 10 years, since my first serious data engineering projects. So many projects I worked on, all suffering this problem: complex individual data pipelines.

Sometimes I wrote small frameworks on my own, sometimes I used 3rd party tools. I also tried to create a universal framework for that, trying to solve exactly what you described. Never finished it, because I am more of the no-finishing guy.

However, at some point I came to the conclusion, that it's simply not possible. which is nonsense and more of an excuse. as you said, it's just data in and data out, processed through some simple rules.

so, I'd know the concept, but there are a million other projects in my head.
by bloppe | 2025-04-14 20:00:52+00:00
There are 2 issues here. The first is that it's not consistent with ending speech control policies.

The second is that hostility to American values is actually pretty subjective. For instance, the January 6 insurrectionists were very hostile to American values and used violent terroristic tactics to try to destroy the constitutionally mandated transfer of power. But Trump pardoned them all because it improves his ability to wield violence against America in the future.

It's impossible to take any of this document seriously in that light.
by zoogeny | 2025-04-14 20:01:25+00:00
I think trial-and-error hand-waving isn't all that far from experimentation.

As an aside, I was working in the games industry when multi-core was brand new. Maybe Xbox-360 and PS3? I'm hazy on the exact consoles but there was one generation where the major platforms all went multi-core.

No one knew how to best use the multi-core systems for gaming. I attended numerous tech talks by teams that had tried different approaches and were give similar "maybe do this and maybe see x% improvement?". There was a lot of experimentation. It took a few years before things settled and best practices became even somewhat standardized.

Some people found that era frustrating and didn't like to work in that way. Others loved the fact it was a wide open field of study where they could discover things.
by TheGuyWhoCodes | 2025-04-14 20:01:43+00:00
1) Hamas run health ministry numbers are not trustworthy

2) You do know that Hamas uses children soldiers right?

3) Not everyone in Gaza is Hamas true, but most of them (pre war) and most west bank Palestinians (currently) support them

4) If Egypt allowed non combatants to flee, they would be safe, however they closed the door or asked 1000s of dollars in bribes, but then they couldn't be used against Israel like the Arab nations always do.
by oldgregg | 2025-04-14 20:01:44+00:00
Build it. Use Go. Maybe nknorg/nnet for P2P. Signed HLS segments. Have Go also serve the web front-end with a WASM web worker. Public nodes can run on a very lightweight VPS/server with an autocert domain. Viewers browser join the swarm with WASM-- this way people can just type in a web address so it's very user friendly but the domain doesn't actually have to serve any data. I would just use a trusted pubkey to sign P2P updates so nodes can block naughty IP addresses. Should get you very friendly user experience, easy node deployment, pretty low latency, and bittorrent level of legal resilience.
by JiPi | 2025-04-14 20:01:45+00:00
Hey! Saw it last week...I have a few questions for you :)

- How does it compare to GlitchTip, for instance? - Is it "feature complete" / production-ready? - Are you using it some prod projects yet?

It seems to be mostly a one-band, so curious about your current production usage, and dedication to it :)
by philipbjorge | 2025-04-14 20:02:18+00:00
If you're looking to test an LLMs ability to solve a coding task without prior knowledge of the task at hand, I don't think their benchmark is super useful.

If you care about understanding relative performance between models for solving known problems and producing correct output format, it's pretty useful.

- Even for well-known problems, we see a large distribution of quality between models (5 to 75% correctness) - Additionally, we see a large distribution of model's ability to produce responses in formats they were instructed in

At the end of the day, benchmarks are pretty fuzzy, but I always welcome a formalized benchmark as a means to understand model performance over vibe checking.
by timewizard | 2025-04-14 20:02:24+00:00
> VGA cards haven't provided actual 80x25 text mode since forever,

Are you sure about that? The memory range still exists and still operates the same as it ever has. The _card_ just does the translation for you.

> so you're still converting to pixels at some layer.

This has /never/ not been true.

> With full control over pixels

Yea, again, you are intentionally not understanding the point the article or myself made. The application in text mode does NOT need to do this work. The application IS lighter as a result.

> but with a normal mouse cursor and a scrollbar with pixel granularity.

And how do you receive mouse inputs? With more code. How do you manage pixels? With more code. Are you understanding that this is PRECISELY the point here?
by maebert | 2025-04-14 20:02:33+00:00
arguably the best episode of Drunken history has duncan trussel retelling this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ruBotHWUs

Paraphrasing carl sagan: "You don't go to Japan and kidnap a Japanese man start jking him off, give him fing acid, and then ask him to learn English!"
by iLemming | 2025-04-14 20:02:37+00:00
> Fennel is little more Lua-with-parens.

Totally. And Clojure is Java-with-parens; Janet is C-with-parens; LFE - Erlang-with-parens; Elisp is a Stallman's erotic fantasy, neatly wrapped in parens. Only Common Lisp is an "actual Lisp for immortal souls" - the rest is for peasants.
by allturtles | 2025-04-14 20:02:42+00:00
> Do you think Harvard should admit students that are, "hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence

Sure, why not? Everything should be open to criticism at our institutions of higher learning. If not there, where? That which is above criticism is dogma.

> including students supportive of terrorism and anti-Semitism

In Trump administration code, this means "has ever said anything positive about the Palestinian people." So yes, them too.
by alganet | 2025-04-14 20:03:08+00:00
I did in fact recognized another use for it. Bullying with AI generated content. That is one of many points you decided not to address. I don't need to repeat them, go over the thread.

The discussion on whether humans are good or bad by nature is not new. So is the discussion of nature and nurture. Let's assume we're both familiar with that, otherwise the discussion will be dragged to philosophical mud.

"Making kind human beings" is not a goal. It's not a project I am working on. It's the way I framed the problem. That is in fact the most empathic way I could think of. Definitely better than thinking of products.

Desensitization is a social condition, not a sign of unkindness. It has been demonstrated by the "guard" personas in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Incels are not the only current branch of online people presenting that symptom (although they are the only ones that _appear_ to be sad and lonely).

Empathy is very different from talking soft and making good will speeches. Specially in an environment such as the internet that is deprived of many social cues.
by duxup | 2025-04-14 20:03:16+00:00
A direct link to the deleted ICE post:

https://i0.wp.com/www.techdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/0...

Considering the department of educations demands for "viewpoint" auditing of students and staff at Harvard by the federal government ... it seems pretty clear that the intent of being the thought police is real.
by overfeed | 2025-04-14 20:03:28+00:00
> If Trump was a black woman he would never get away with half the things he is doing now.

It sounds like you're aware of the present reality of race and how it impacts how one is treated in America just for being who they are.

> I have never been a "woke" person

I have news for you!

Edit: to be clear, I'm certain you don't match the the adversarially bastardized caricature of what a "woke person" is, but it sounds like match the original, well-meaning definition.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-04-14 20:04:19+00:00
So, many of these universities were taken over in positions of power by people promoting intersectionality which also promotes systematic discrimination (eg DEI) against specific groups. That's a highly-divisive philosophy with no proven benefits that's similar to Marxism which killed 50 million people and wrecked countries. They did this while describing themselves as open-minded institutions commited to everyone's success.

In the degree programs, they forced these beliefs on students in "diversity" classes, rewarded those on their side, and canceled or limited people with differing views. Those who make it through the process are more likely to force it on others in government and business, which they often do. Worse, being federally funded means taxpayers are paying for students' indoctrination in intersectionality and systematically discrimination it claimed to oppose.

Yeah, I want their funding cut entirely since theyre already rich as can be. I also would like to see those running it take it back to what it used to be. That's a Christian school balancing character and intellectual education. Also, one where many views can be represented with no cancel culture. That is worth federal funding.

On top of it, how about these schools with billions in endowments put their money where their mouth is on social issues and start funding high-quality, community colleges and trade schools and Udemy-like programs everywhere? Why do they talk so much and take in so much money but do so little? (Credit to MIT for EdX and Harvard for its open courses.)
by Retric | 2025-04-14 20:04:23+00:00
It’s an argument for how to break up the company not just a complaint about what happened. Companies that buy a supplier or customer frequently didn’t compete with that supplier so breaking them off wouldn’t break up the monopoly.

Whatsapp was purchased as a competition and therefore there’s a solid case for spitting the company along that line. Split off Instagram and things look even more competitive.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-14 20:04:23+00:00
I am misquoting a famous quote so pardon me but

a revolution is three meals away.

Whereas pesticides death are so much easier to control since they don't happen simultaneously, they happen way less and is overall net positive.

Accidents happen on roads with cars, that doesn't mean we should ban cars though (though in all honesty, maybe we should all use buses and use less cars, maybe this is a shitty argument?)

I am personally a two wheeler electric kind of guy since electric cars are way too expensive and I actually want to have cheap transport and I am comfortable for 99% use cases otherwise for the rare cases, I might use Uber and I am still net positive.
by palmotea | 2025-04-14 20:05:03+00:00
> This has nothing to do with software engineering.

You should note I said that way of thinking "is tempting to software engineers," not that is exclusive to them or has anything specifically to do with software engineering.

> It's about business risk management. I'm not justifying it, just explaining the sad reality of it.

The actual sad reality that some people chose to treat others unkindly pre-emptively.

> I'm glad you have a crystal ball to perfectly predict how everybody will act in future situations.

I don't, but I think you can minimize your risk, if that's what you need to avoid being an asshole. Then you have to practice trusting others.

> But sometimes it's the people who seem the most pleasant and helpful who take layoffs the worst, because they feel the most betrayed after everything they gave emotionally in good faith.

Honestly, that seems like an argument for making sure employees have good work-life balance, so they're not giving an unhealthy to the point where they feel betrayed.

But I suspect the people who think "I'll make them angry, but that's OK because I'll make sure they can't any damage," are probably also the kind of people who would knowingly exploit an over-committed employee.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-14 20:05:12+00:00
I think people frequently forget that the North didn't actually have the firepower to stamp out the ideology.

Like any ideology, you can't actually destroy it with force any other way than burning books and, eventually, men.

And whether or not that would have been wise: the war was extremely costly for the North and there was a non-zero chance that if they started dropping every third Southerner from the gallows the federal government would lose legitimacy in the eyes of the survivors on both sides of the Mason-Dixon and that'd be it.
by jchw | 2025-04-14 20:05:24+00:00
I'd kill for a chilling effect on acquisitions. Every single fucking time something I like gets acquired, it takes anywhere between a few months to a couple years before it is completely ruined. Maybe if we're lucky, Microsoft will acquire Discord and run it into the ground the way they did with Skype. (Then, we can all go back to IRC, right? ... Right, guys?)
by Tainnor | 2025-04-14 20:05:25+00:00
Obviously the answer to "this doesn't solve my problems" is "don't use it then". If your problem domain literally is nothing but API calls and DB updates, then you may not benefit from this.

OTOH, in my experience a lot of people underestimate how much pure business logic exists (or can be extracted) in many applications. In apps I've worked on I've found a lot of value in isolating these parts more cleanly. The blogbook series by the author of TFA (linked further upthread) goes into some detail about how to do that even without going fully down the "pure functional programming" rabbithole.
by nine_k | 2025-04-14 20:06:44+00:00
I don't think that the government's demands are all reasonable, or even permissible. Some things read like they were written in the height of the civil rights movement in 1960s:

> By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices

Some though read as if they were written in an advent to a totalitarian dystopia:

> Harvard will immediately report to federal authorities, including the Department of Homeland Security and State Department, any foreign student, including those on visas and with green cards, who commits a conduct violation.

To my mind Harvard is right in bringing this to the public attention. It's also free to walk away from governmental financing programs that stipulate such conditions (if they are even found legitimate), and is even in a position to do so.
by sgerenser | 2025-04-14 20:07:15+00:00
U.S. tech worker here. The only time I’ve ever worked 60-80 hour weeks was at a much smaller company, where for a month or two leading up to a trade show a whole bunch of work that had been put off was attempted to get crammed into the product. At my subsequent BigTech jobs I’ve never been asked/required to work more than 40 hours a week. I mean, nobody was tracking exact hours, but nobody was also pinging me at 8PM or on the weekend and expecting me to be working.
by tim333 | 2025-04-14 20:07:22+00:00
It's a bit worrying there seems no due process involved and with the gay makeup artist Andry Jose Hernandez Romero who was mistakenly sent as a gang member they don't seem to be making any effort to free him and say oops sorry. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14600433/cop-venezu...
by Animats | 2025-04-14 20:08:04+00:00
It's a weak response, in that it accepts the Trump Administration's position on antisemitism. This is tied to the broad definition of antisemitism which includes acts by the State of Israel.[1] That definition comes from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. There's a more balanced definition called the Jerusalem Declaration here.[2][3]

This will lead to a controversial discussion, so I'll stop here, with the comment that getting involved in religious wars of other countries hasn't gone well for the US. The US has constitutional freedom of religion partly because the drafters of the constitution knew how that had gone in Europe.

"Maybe they is not evil. Maybe they is just enemies." - Poul Anderson

[1] https://www.state.gov/defining-antisemitism/

[2] https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Declaration_on_Antis...
by repeekad | 2025-04-14 20:08:07+00:00
Sure, but you can understand the perspective of someone growing up with zero access to those resources and lives in a rural part of the country hearing your argument and then voting for someone like trump, I would argue that sentiment is one of the forces driving regular people away from democrats and lost them the election in 2024, it is an "ivory tower" perspective and regular americans don't buy it (even if it's true that harvard is a great investment for public money)
by dusted | 2025-04-14 20:08:18+00:00
I loved Moomins as a kid, and was so surprised when I talked with my wife about it, she thought they were so scary and "off" feeling.

I'm watching them now with our son, and I guess I was just born with a strong appreciation for melancholia.

I changed my mind, when I was a kid I thought they were good, now I think they are great!

In many ways, what makes moomin dark is that it shows us what we already know, the world _just_is_ and in the big picture, does not care about you, you might die, someone you care about might go away, and everyone is, fundamentally, alone, and what makes a person who they are, is partly how they deal with, if at all, being alone in this world of loners.

Moomin is very real and very direct in its dealings with the pain of the meaninglessness of life.

Snufkin, as a child, I took him for a cynic and disliked him, but he taught me something about the world, I think he is a stoic and a nihilist, and I very much like him now, he simply _IS_ in the world, and he accepts, and so appreciates that which also simply is, and which he cannot control.

Yeah, Moomin is dark, but life is dark, life is pleasure and pain, and we will all die, everyone we ever loved will suffer and die, but they will also experience pleasure and life, one could chose only suffering and death, one cannot chose only pleasure and life, and must come to terms with the fact that the underpinnings of pleasure and life is indeed suffering and pain. That's it, the world just is, and we're just in it.

I feel like a lot of the cartoons and tv shows of my childhood was like this, life.. it kinda has bad parts.. and back then, they showed them to kids, and what do I know.. maybe it prepared us to take it on ?
by matwood | 2025-04-14 20:08:29+00:00
This is spot on. The US has enjoyed enormous wealth and prosperity, but it's been mostly captured by the top 1% of private individuals. The GOP has done a masterful job redirecting the blame to China, DEI, immigration, etc... when the real problem is that we have not spread around the prosperity through programs like universal healthcare, free college, and heck, even UBI.
by Llamamoe | 2025-04-14 20:08:37+00:00
You're basically saying "I believe the problem exists because of the way human nature interacts with social media, not social media themselves".

And sure, maybe it'd work for baboons, crows, or ants, if they ever evolved sufficient intelligence. But it doesn't for human.

Attributing personal blame for systemic issues is just silly. If it happens everywhere, it's not happening as a product of individual, malleable factors but because it's a natural consequence of the factors that add up to it.
by WorldMaker | 2025-04-14 20:08:53+00:00
Is distributed scale storage projects not enough? The grid doesn't need huge storage projects if every house has a house-sized battery and an increasing number of cars can double as a storage buffer (V2G/V2X). Both of those things are statistically hand-in-hand with current PV rollouts, not always sold together, but they form a virtuous cycle for the average home owner if a home can manage PV, storage, and EV all together to (selfishly) reduce reliance on the grid and keep energy patterns much more localized (if not fully "off grid").

A PV-heavy grid potentially starts to look a lot more distributed in interesting ways like scale than the traditional grid which was always more centrally orchestrated than it sounded.
by foldr | 2025-04-14 20:09:07+00:00
The Journeys of Frodo is also worth a look if you like this kind of thing. The author isn’t a professional cartographer and it’s more focused on LOTR locations than general world building. Anyway, I was completely captivated by it as a child when I stumbled across it in my high school’s library.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeys_of_Frodo
by baked_beanz | 2025-04-14 20:09:10+00:00
You have come to the realization that systemic racism exists, and it grants privileges to the dominant socioeconomic groups. Congratulations, you are now "woke"!

That's what the term originally meant, before it was turned into a strawman for "anything I don't like" by the conservative media machine and weaponized to divide people.
by runjake | 2025-04-14 20:09:11+00:00
In this case, itt's easier to just run it locally: https://github.com/invisal/sqlite-internal

But you can get sort of what you want by:

1. Loading a site.

2. Go into the Web Dev Tools.

3. Select the Network tab.

4. Click on the "No Throttling" dropdown and check "Offline".

5. You should now see a yellow warning icon in your Network tab and it should prevent all network access. If you reload the tab you should get the "No Internet Connection" error page.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-14 20:09:22+00:00
If the thermometer says 39 C/102 F I will want to speak with a doctor about it but that doesn't mean I want to go to the hospital every time I want my temperature checked.

I suspect it has a lot more to do with these lines:

> medical photographers taking photos of suspicious moles and lesions

I.e. it might not be ready enough or validated for an average person snapping their own photo and:

> The images are then transferred to a desktop computer for greater analysis before the tool determines the result

There is more to it than the phone app and it may not be packaged in a way that is currently worthwhile to distribute to home users.

Both of these (and other things) may change with time of course.
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-14 20:09:52+00:00
If you think 'viewpoint diversity' is any level of sane with the current administration then you haven't been keeping up with their actions:

> By August 2025, the University shall commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually viewpoint diverse.

This sounds like the federal government is demanding that they adhere to a department of Policing Wrongthink.
by andreldm | 2025-04-14 20:10:13+00:00
I have a RPi 2 that’s more than enough for my home server needs and I’ve tried to migrate from docker to podman, it simply failed miserably with weird errors, on my laptop everything worked fine, so maybe that’s an issue with Arch ARM or the 32-bit version of it, but really, I wish they could abstract away quadlet, service files generation and so on.
by impossiblefork | 2025-04-14 20:10:29+00:00
That's a really American view, and that it's fine or some kind of trust-but-verify thing is really not correct.

You can see this from the Spanish reaction to US spies recruiting people in Spanish intelligence, to France's desire to join Five Eyes provided that a mutual no-spying agreement were signed, etc.

The reason you don't see stronger reactions is probably because countries were afraid of upsetting the US leadership, but being spied on is bad.