MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-04-26 21:42:49+00:00
> Any kind of negotiation comes to mind, where it might be best to not show your hand completely.

There’s a big difference between lying and not revealing information that works against you.

In (American) courtroom terms it’s the difference between perjury or invoking the 5th amendment.

Some people feel obligated to provide an answer when asked a question, rather than tactfully declining to answer or changing the subject. It stems from a desire to be polite or please the other party. Ironically this desire to please or be polite leads those people to tell lies because they feel like they won’t get caught.

Skilled negotiators can be very good at identifying when someone is lying. Far more than the average person would guess. I did hundreds or thousands of interviews and after a while many lies stuck out like a sore thumb. I have no doubt that some people slipped lies past me, but most often when I had an inkling someone was lying I could confirm they were lying with some further questions or basic research online.

Once that trust is lost, everything is in question.
by jfengel | 2025-04-26 21:42:57+00:00
I don't think that explanation holds. If it did, there would be more outrage from his own party.

He is doing what they want. You perceive that as destroying America, which is why you didn't vote for him. But they think that this is good for the country. Polls suggest that they would return him to office a third time, given the chance.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-04-26 21:43:59+00:00
How can we even know ends or means if the government or whatever cult/cartel/corp/warlord can dictate what information is released and what you know? Those who try to tell the truth are labeled "violent gangsters" and dealt with by the "justified means", whatever that is.

Objectively "the ends justify the means" is BS. I'm not saying you don't have the right to believe in it, you do, but in order to prove your worth, I want to see you with a camera inside one of those prisons 24x7 for a couple of months at least.
by rat87 | 2025-04-26 21:44:30+00:00
There no strategy. They put rfk Jr in charge of public health. Orange man is bad. Or more specifically he's a selfish corrupt liar who doesn't really care that much if he destroys the country. To the extent that he'd prefer to be a king or dictator he'd prefer economy and military to be strong while he's in control but even that falls to his whims and instincts which are authoritarian, racist and conspiratorial. He's too intellectually lazy to learn how things work. Of course some of his subordinates are far right true believers but even then flattering Trump corruption and incompetence rule the day more then ideology.
by quantadev | 2025-04-26 21:45:19+00:00
It's just like when people say Twitter/X is a Cesspool. Of course it is if you view the unfiltererd/agorithmic feed. However, if you only view the content from who you're following you get exactly the content you want.

I use Twitter/X and all I ever see is AI/LLM stuff because it's all I follow and all I use it for. Zero politics. If someone does a political post, that's an instant unfollow.

This is how we can rank RSS as well. You can look at a rank-ordered list only from people you trust, or a rank-ordered list from the public at large, which will be a dumpster fire. So you can take a union of all content from those you follow and put the ones with most upvotes at top, and viola, you're done.

EDIT: However a better approach is do use AI to categorize as, politics/non-politics, hotdog/non-hotdog, etc, and then I can turn off political posts without having to completely unfollow someone I'd otherwise like.
by timewizard | 2025-04-26 21:45:27+00:00
The point I'm replying to is that this was "cultivated intentionally." I understand the mechanism we're trying to determine the source.

You also seem to forget that journalists sometimes leave and become owners in their own right. Where does that blurry line begin and end, actually?

Means, motive, opportunity. It's always the same triad and you can't avoid applying to all parties involved.

Given that and the importance of broadcast media I can't imagine why anyone thought they were getting the truth. Or even if they were somehow not a highly selected and edited version of it. Designed to manipulate and control not to inform.
by meghprkh | 2025-04-26 21:46:24+00:00
No specific motivation tbh. I did the number theory game on the recommendation of a friend and found it fun. Made me think.

What does the real programming language part help in? Developing tactics? Or is it because even when you are typing the "math parts" it corresponds to a real programming language giving you a nicer mental model?

Because from what I understand Rocq too has Gallina or something right?

I guess my other point is Rocq seems to have a lot of textbooks too so I was wondering which one to read about when I get some more time - Rocq or Lean.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-26 21:46:53+00:00
>this BIOS emulation magic only happens once you're in DOS booted from a USB medium. It doesn't apply if DOS is installed on a real hard disk.

This is not exactly correct, in fact just the opposite is how it actually is on a regular BIOS PC and MBR-layout SSD.

The problem is, most people don't have regular BIOS PC's nor MBR-layout SSD's any more like they did before 2012.

But these features can still be enabled on all but the crummiest of UEFI motherboards.

Then you just have to start from scratch with your motherboard settings in CSM/BIOS mode, with a blank SSD partitioned in MBR-layout, having its first volume be set as your "Active" bootable Primary partition.

Fortunately what the author has encountered is the way a proper UEFI firmware is supposed to seek and load boot files from the first suitable FAT32 volume on your designated Boot Drive (your choice USB, SATA, CDROM, etc) whether or not it is on a GPT or MBR layout, USB HDD or SSD.
by alganet | 2025-04-26 21:47:32+00:00
Nope. I am going to decide not to renew myself into a new thing.

I don't live like Buddha or the Dalai Lama. I don't have a castle or forest of isolation to shed my skin. I also don't want to.

I am shaped more by what others perceive of me than myself. It is a tragedy of this age. I cannot change that.

But I can challenge some of those assumptions by choosing to see things from multiple perspectives. By choosing to not completely do that to others (there's always a risk, but hey, I'm doing the best I can. Are you?).

I have learned to perceive Buddhist thinking in this age as a difficult thing to concilliate with reality.

Religion-like rules are supposed to draw my attention. Well, fuck it. I cannot avoid it, but I can choose to try to understand what it means in this context I am, which, again, is very different from what some Lama wrote.

Sure, I can totally empathize with someone who is tired and wants to let it all go. I have been there. You can let it go, and it's OK with me. But I cannot pretend that I enjoy this Mad Men transition into eastern meditation clear-your-mind shit. Fuck that.

What I am is deeply shaped by living among others, being influenced and shaped by others opinions. I will not forget that. But I can pretend to. Not by their rules though. As I said, can't forget.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 21:47:45+00:00
Have you tried debugging using the new "reasoning" models yet?

I have been extremely impressed with o1, o3, o4-mini and Gemini 2.5 as debugging aids. The combination of long context input and their chain-of-thought means they can frequently help me figure out bugs that span several different layers of code.

I wrote about an early experiment with that here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/25/o1-preview-llm/

Here's a Gemini 2.5 Pro transcript from this afternoon where I'm trying to figure out a very tricky bug: https://gist.github.com/simonw/4e208ab9edb5e6a814d3d23d7570d...
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-26 21:47:45+00:00
No, I think the issue is a bit different.

You used to start out at an entry level job, and work your way up to something better. You could see how to get to "better" from where you were, and what it would take. When you got to "better", you were glad for the improvement. Yeah, the guy owning the factory had it a lot better than you. But as long as he gave you a route to a better life, that was good enough for almost everybody.

What changed? In my view, three things.

First, the route to "better" is a lot narrower these days. People are a lot less convinced that they can get there from where they are.

Second, people don't expect to have to work their way up. They expect to have it all on day 1. They expect instant success. When they don't get it, they get discouraged.

Third, people are finding that the promise is empty. A better job gets you a nicer apartment that feels just as empty as the previous one did. You're just as lonely there. Your job feels just as much like a soul-crushing grind as it did, maybe more so. In some fundamental way, the stuff you can buy with money isn't enough. People don't know where to find it, but they kind of expect that their job will give them what's missing. And it doesn't.
by avs733 | 2025-04-26 21:48:11+00:00
> The guidance said that in the event of a request that “violates or doesn’t follow proper procedures”, employees were to contact Dorothy Aronson, the NSF’s chief information officer. “Do not give any indication that the request will be denied,” the guidance statement noted. Two members of DOGE, Luke Farritor and Zachary Terrell, were quickly given complete access to NSF grant-management systems despite statements in the guidance to staffers that they should initially receive read-only access.

I feel like “don’t make them follow policy” and “we’re going to lie about the access they have” is pretty telling as to whether there’s more behind this
by mindslight | 2025-04-26 21:48:40+00:00
They think this because they are gullible and their media and leaders have been long bought by big business, which is now subservient to China and other international capital - literally that same exact globalist dynamic they think they are somehow fighting. If they would bother listening to their fellow citizens they might have a chance at understanding any of the ways they've been thoroughly pwnt for the past few decades, but they prefer the comforting "facts" from their own fictional universe instead.

(and just to preempt the inevitable "both sides" whataboutism - no, my quarrel is currently with the party currently and rapidly destroying our country)
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-04-26 21:48:51+00:00
Red states are notoriously rank lowest in education, healthcare, and quality of life. So yes, if those are the policies they are unleashing on America then they are destroying America.

The simple answer is that they are corrupt and want to be authortarians with complete control and dumbing the population goes a long way to that goal. So is controlling the "truth"
by classichasclass | 2025-04-26 21:48:52+00:00
VAX power really did make big leaps from from generation to generation. The 11/750 they started with got about 0.65 VUPs and the VAXstation 3200 they ended with topped out at 2.8, over four times faster. The VAXstation 3100 M76 here, about 18 months later, makes another big jump to 7.6.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-26 21:49:21+00:00
I'll take a shot.

~40% of every dollar produced in the US gets collected to federal, state, or local taxes. It is entirely possible that this could be 80% for some people.

Tax as a percent of the economy has gone through the roof, both as a percent of GDP, and as inflation adjusted dollars.

If you compare to a benchmark like the 1940s, tax% of GDP has more than doubled, and GDP has increased ~4.5x. This means someone today pays about 10X the taxes (controlling for for inflation!). State and local taxes have grown even faster than federal taxes.

Is the typical taxpayer getting 10 time more back from the government? Do we have 10X the schooling? 10X the police and safety? 10X the roads?
by sorenjan | 2025-04-26 21:49:59+00:00
That's addressed in the paper:

Open access to data and code Question: Does the paper provide open access to the data and code, with sufficient instruc- tions to faithfully reproduce the main experimental results, as described in supplemental material? Answer: [No] Justification: Although we have answered “No” for now, we intend to release the code and models to enable the reproducibility of our main experimental results, pending approval from the legal department. This temporary status reflects our commitment to open access once all necessary permissions are secured.
by yellowapple | 2025-04-26 21:50:21+00:00
I personally think the "AI" part here is a red herring. The problem is the deliberate dishonesty. This would be no more ethical if it was humans pretending to be rape victims or humans pretending to be trauma counselors or humans pretending to be anti-BLM black men or humans pretending to be patients at foreign hospitals or humans slandering members of certain religious groups.
by perihelions | 2025-04-26 21:50:22+00:00
- "Another affected scientist is Eric Wustrow, a computer and network-security researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies censorship in authoritarian countries. Millions of users rely on Wustrow’s tools, which can evade firewalls, to access the Internet freely. His award of more than $450,000 was terminated last week."

Previously discussed on HN,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531485 ("How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf] (gfw.report)" — 285 comments)
by lesinski | 2025-04-26 21:50:58+00:00
This reminds me of when people are watching YouTubeTV and they see an ad for something they were talking about and are like, "Woah, it must be listening to us!"

When actually, modern ML can make really good guesses about ad relevancy using your location, data partners and recent searches from your home's IP address. When you explain this to people, they will still be convinced that the computer is listening to you and reasoning its way to deliver ads for you.
Show HN: Card-Snap – Generate Printable Flashcards from Any Document
by lelia_florina | 2025-04-26 21:51:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Card-Snap: www.card-snap.com

It’s a very simple tool where you upload a document (Word, PDF, TXT), and it generates a PDF file with printable flashcards.

The idea came to me when helping my daughter study science. I realized that while there are many digital flashcard apps, it’s not easy to get physical flashcards without a lot of manual work.

Card-Snap is minimal: no signup, no tracking, no ads — just upload, pick how many questions you want, and download the printable cards.

I’d love your feedback!

Some questions I have:

Is the idea useful enough on its own?

What features would you expect next (e.g., export options, better formatting, templates)?

Would you prefer more control over card content?

Thanks so much for taking a look!
by hdhdhsjsbdh | 2025-04-26 21:51:41+00:00
As far as IRB violations go, this seems pretty tame to me. Why get so mad at these researchers—who are acting in full transparency by disclosing the study—when nefarious actors (and indeed the platforms themselves!) are engaged in the same kind of manipulation. If we don’t allow it to be studied because it is creepy, then we will never develop any understanding of the very real manipulation that is constantly, quietly happening.
by AustinDev | 2025-04-26 21:52:06+00:00
Sovereignty may have been an imprecise word choice for sure. However, I do not think having 10's of millions of people in the country without legal status who can be easily abused is 'a good thing'. I also don't think amnesty is a viable solution. So mass remigration is the only real solution I see. As we approach a post-labor economy over the coming decades how many more people do we actually need? I don't know I'm not an economist but, my gut tells me not a whole lot.

You didn't ask but what's my ideal immigration solution? I'm not an expert but this seems common sense to me, maybe it's extreme let me know. RICO the NGO's who funded the mass migration. Offer a check and a plane ride for anyone that wants to self deport. Stiff penalties and permanent banning and deportation for those that don't take the offer. On the legal immigration side cancel all non-tourist visa types and let existing visas expire. Replace them with a simple employer sponsored visa with a ~400k/year (inflation adjusted) payroll tax and let any company that wants to pay the tax sponsor as many people as they want. The free market would sort out who is the best and brightest and bring them over. Provide these people and their immediate families with an easy path to citizenship over ~5-10 years. Probably need some solution for allowing in seasonal farm workers.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-04-26 21:52:27+00:00
> CMake is a mess but even that is faaaaar saner than autotools, and probably more popular at this point.

Having done a deep dive into CMake I actually kinda like it (really modern cmake is actually very nice, except the DSL but that probably isn't changing any time soon), but that is also the problem: I had to do a deep dive into learning it.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-26 21:52:31+00:00
I don't disagree with that general premise but IMO autotools being (gradually?) abandoned is logical. It served its purpose. Not saying it's still not very useful in the darker shadows of technology but for a lot of stuff people choose Zig, Rust, Golang etc. today, with fairly good reasons too, and those PLs usually have fairly good packaging and dependency management and building subsystems built-in.

Furthermore, there really has to be a better way to do what autotools is doing, no? Sure, there are some situations where you only have some bare sh shell and nothing much else but I'd venture to say that in no less than 90% of all cases you can very easily have much more stuff installed -- like the `just` task runner tool, for example, that solves most of the problems that `make` usually did.

If we are talking in terms of our age, we also have to take into account that there's too much software everywhere! I believe some convergence has to start happening. There is such a thing as too much freedom. We are dispersing so much creative energy for almost no benefit of humankind...
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 21:53:52+00:00
I dropped into Google Street View and tried to recreate your location, how did I do?

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

Here's the model's response:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

I don't think it needed the EXIF data. I'd be curious if you tried it again yourself.
by matwood | 2025-04-26 21:53:58+00:00
His poll numbers have dropped, so people are starting to shift. What’s fascinating is the how effective propaganda has been in the age of social media and Fox News. It used to sequestered to AM radio. For example, to see his supporters rail against universal healthcare as evil socialism and either getting Medicaid themselves or being ok being bankrupted by health costs is wild. Trump ran on lowering prices, but those same people who complained about inflation are now saying it’s MAGA to handle the pain.
by pests | 2025-04-26 21:54:35+00:00
The app makes a huge difference. Constant BOGO4$1 McDoubles and mcchickens. 25% off entire order if you spend $10. Buy a drink get a free large fry. 10pc nuggets for 50 cents or just earlier got a large drink and 10 nuggets for $2.99.

Not using the app is getting ripped off.

You also don’t have to have the app. Just go inside and use the self serve kiosk and you get the same prices/deals.
by dkh | 2025-04-26 21:55:00+00:00
You don’t know if anyone upset about this is a generally and constantly unhappy person, they are upset about this. Are there no topics in this world that you have a very strong opinion on, that you would express given the situation? Could you not be a generally happy person and express those opinions, at the same time?

Also, I mean, I know a lot of people don’t care about the whole “A.I. vs. artists” thing, but it should absolutely not be difficult to understand why many do. We are talking about a fast-growing technology and industry that will perhaps decimate jobs and entire professions, that will definitely reduce the value of certain things to zero, and while that will be good for some things, it is concerning for many that one of the first things being seriously threatened is art—something generally thought to be a deeply human ability, and a profession already notoriously difficult to earn a living at. For a lot of people this is existential. This guy’s little coloring book project is not the problem, but it‘s still a small facet of the larger issue, and being concerned about that issue is very valid, and anyone with perspective and a modicum of empathy should be able to understand it.
by vishalontheline | 2025-04-26 21:55:07+00:00
At $20, you'd earn a roughly $40k salary if you were to work full-time. That won't buy you a house, but it will let you rent a room in a house within commuting distance from your place of work, maybe drive an old beater Camry, cook your own food, and have some money saved up for school.

Why not $50, that's a $100k salary - most people would be opposed to it because you'd be able to potentially afford much more than what they perceive a fast food worker should be able to afford.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-04-26 21:55:08+00:00
The fundamental precondition for all these changes is that capitalism massively increased the overall wealth of Britain. The market did the rest: higher wages, lower prices, new inventions improving life for everyone, increased living standards.

Workers negotiating and fighting for better condition, and joining forces with other workers have nothing to do with social democracy, it's a normal market mechanism to regulate the supply and demand of workers.

Where social democracy enters is with the political activism and the relative legislation, limiting working hours and banning child labor.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-26 21:55:53+00:00
Right wing is whatever Moby decides it is.

Again, I’m liberal, I check the box for the Dems in every election. Just straight blue.

But if Moby wakes up tomorrow and says the Dems are right wing and I say most people should just vote for Dems he can sue me.

Personally I don’t like the idea of releasing content with a “use it if I like you “ clause. He’s free to keep it for his own personal use.

I know I release my code MIT. I don’t release it along with a list of my personal beliefs.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-04-26 21:56:51+00:00
>> Thousands of innocents are jailed in there. > Maybe, maybe not.

If "Maybe guilty" is grounds for punishment, it can excuse any atrocity, including genocide.

> But definitely better than ~10000 killed in the meantime, the statistics speak for themselves.

Once "Maybe guilty" is a proof of guilt, no information coming from that place can be trusted, numbers mean nothing there, all claims ring hollow because loosely justified violence can silence the truth tellers.

It's weird to have to explain this on a US-hosted site, there is a reason the US Constitution is the way it is and the current efforts to circumvent it can lead to only one result - turning the US into another El Salvador...
by adra | 2025-04-26 21:57:04+00:00
The benefits of education on a country are decades long to fully see the positive outcomes. How do you expect differently by destroying said institutions? Your kids or likely kids kids will be feeling the decision of today as the beginning of the dark ages (at least in the US). Without innovative people able to achieve great progress, where does society, , hell humanity go? At the very least from a here and now position, it's a strong signal to continue pulling money out of the US and into countries that have better long term outlook.