MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dansmyers | 2025-04-15 16:31:13+00:00
I wouldn't worry too much about coming up with a "novel" idea on your own. Your advisor should help you select and refine a topic. That's a major part of their role.

Published research is more like a conversation among its participants. There's a stream of thought and continuity that connects each paper to its predecessors. Ideas come out of engaging with the conversation and thinking about new directions and open questions. One of my advisors used to talk about "research taste" -- the process of learning what good research looks like and how to choose topics, which develops over time through exposure to the field.

I'd encourage you, at this stage, to just focus on defining your interests. If you're interested in bluetooth security, for example, why is that? What do you find engaging about that topic? Then you can build from there: who's written about that and what results have they produced? Are there good survey papers about the current state of the art? What are the key subfields and their main questions?

You could think of this as "pre-research" -- getting oriented toward an area and building background knowledge. Let it be driven by your curiosity. Find a thread that seems promising and pull on it for a little while. Use tools like Deep Research for help, but you still want to read the key papers.

A good undergrad project is often a tweak of an existing result. I really like projects that use a well-defined, standard methodology, which allows the student to focus on developing research question and the work of data collection, analysis, and writing -- without having to design the entire process from scratch. If you find a paper that you like, think about keeping the same basic approach, but modifying the research question to explore a different angle on the topic. Conclusions will often suggest open questions for further work.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-04-15 16:31:18+00:00
Your drone makes a loud buzzing sound, and blocks the street for anyone else trying to get in, and does not move on its own. This is where it escalates from "Taking advantage of public information" to "Harassment".

Crawling source hut once is public information. Crawling it once a day using deltas might still be that. What these AI companies are doing is not that.
by codingmoh | 2025-04-15 16:31:18+00:00
The sticking point for me, though, is side effects. Once you need to call an external API—maybe to insert vector embeddings, send records to a SaaS service, or update some non-SQL store—you lose the comfortable ACID guarantees and pure SQL elegance. Even if you stage data in a DuckDB table, you still have to process each row or batch with an imperative approach. That’s where I start feeling the friction. SQL is brilliant for purely data-driven transformations; it doesn’t inherently solve "call this remote side-effect function in small batches, handle partial failures, and keep the pipeline consistent.

Can we unify those worlds? If your project, Sqlflow, manages to let folks stay mostly in SQL—while also elegantly handling side effects—that might be a huge step forward. For strictly data-focused workflows, I’m 100% on board that SQL alone is often the best "DSL" around. The complexity creeps in when we go from "write results to a table" to "call an external system" (possibly with partial commits, retries, or streaming needs). That’s usually where we end up rolling bespoke logic. If Sqlflow can bridge that gap, it’d be awesome. I’ll check it out—thanks for sharing.
by hangonhn | 2025-04-15 16:31:40+00:00
That stuff is all over Silicon Valley. Santa Clara County actually has one of the most if not the most EPA superfund sites. It's the leftover legacy of chip manufacturing. When you rent in the Bay Area, the landlord does not have to disclose TCE contamination to you. TCE can cause birth defects and low birth weight in weeks if breathed in by pregnant women. If you're renting in the Bay Area, Google the address and make sure the property is not over a TCE contamination area.
by squarefoot | 2025-04-15 16:32:11+00:00
Yes,also beware of power strips and electrical wires in general: those coming from there are increasingly made of coated iron instead of copper or brass in contacts. The side effect is a much higher resistance that makes the wire dissipate a lot more power than it should, even to the point it can overheat and catch fire if under serious load (heaters, ovens etc.). Their exceptionally bad insulation and usually smaller size than advertised make the problem even worse. Such bad cables can be used for breadboarding where small lengths and low currents mitigate the effects, but they shouldn't be considered for anything serious. I've learned to ditch almost every bundled cable coming from there after multiple bad experiences. Surplus is a good source of top notch cables that can last decades. Crappy cables can be checked using a magnet: pure copper ones won't stick. There are also reports of junk coated aluminium cables that wouldn't stick as well to a magnet, but they're rare as aluminium, at least good quality one, is not cheap.
by gruez | 2025-04-15 16:32:23+00:00
>This naively (or maliciously perhaps) maintains that the "purpose" of the certificate is to identify an entity. While identity and safeguarding against MITM is important, identity is not the primary purpose certificates serve in the real world. At least that is not how they are used or why they are purchased.

"example.com" is an identity just like "Stripe, Inc"[1]. Just because it doesn't have a drivers license or article of incorporation, doesn't mean it's not an identity.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171222000208/https://stripe.ia...

>This is just another gatekeeping measure to make standing up, administering, and operating private infrastructure difficult. "Just use Google / AWS / Azure instead."

Certbot is trivial to set up yourself, and deploying it in production isn't so hard that you need to be "Google / AWS / Azure" to do it. There's plenty of IaaS/PaaS services that have letsencrypt, that are orders of magnitude smaller than those hyperscalers.
by feoren | 2025-04-15 16:32:38+00:00
So your gripe is that my theoretical argument could be happening in the future, or that you have to change "citizen" to "legal resident", or that you have to change "stop" to "don't", or that you have to substitute it for any of literally dozens of abhorrent Trump policies? And that's why my point is invalid? Trump has openly stated that he wants to send American citizens to El Salvadorian prison camps, and I'm being completely unreasonable in imagining arguing against that?
by aeblyve | 2025-04-15 16:33:01+00:00
"It depends". Out-of-the-box Meshtastic configurations are tailored more for relatively infrequent and short plaintext messages. You can look at nominal data rates here: https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/radio-settings/#data-ra...

It is intentionally designed for longer range, with lower datarates, with lower power consumption. It's in the name. "LOng RAnge".

Not to be too annoying but "Radio like LoRa" reads to me as "microwave" which includes "WiFi" which is plausibly something you use for file transfer all the time. So some more clarification would be helpful.
Show HN: LoveSet – Tinder for Movies
by ekomobong | 2025-04-15 16:33:09+00:00
I got annoyed with the time I spent everyday looking for shows that I would actually like to watch so I built a an AI agent to do it for me.

LoveSet is “Tinder”, but for movies, it gives you the right recommendations every time for the movie, tv show, animation, documentary, or even short film that you are most likely to watch. Swipe right on those you love, swipe left on those you do not like. The algorithm improves and there are no limitations to what can be suggested to you. No ratings, reviews or marketing nonsense, you are recommended what you will actually love.

Features include: - Detailed info on the show, including cast, synopsis, genre and more. - Watch trailer: No need to search the web, the trailer is ready to watch with one click. - A watchlist of shows you’ve liked. - Streaming availability: See where a show is available to watch. - Tools to guide and customize the algorithm for more personalized recommendations.

This is an early version, but I’d appreciate feedback from the community.

Get started: https://loveset.platle.com
by nmilo | 2025-04-15 16:33:10+00:00
The internet has sparked so many of these useless investigations, same with all those lost media forums, how many man hours were spent trying to find some obscure 1999 failed pilot for some Nickelodeon show no one’s watched. They stitched Jack Nicholson’s face over a photo of some guy from 1921. Who cares who the guy is? Are these people that bored? Is it some OCD tendency that every trivial detail in history should be logged and archived?
by jcranmer | 2025-04-15 16:33:12+00:00
Rationalism is essentially a tech-flavored self-help movement, and the people who tend to gravitate towards self-help in general tend to be emotionally vulnerable people who are strongly susceptible to cult techniques (there's a reason so many cults start out as self-help movements).

On top of that, given the tech-flavored nature of Rationalism, its adherents seem to gravitate towards strongly utilitarian ethics (evil can be justified if done for a greater good) and an almost messianic relationship towards artificial superintelligence (a good so great it can justify a lot of evil).

Finally, it seems to me that Rationalism is especially prone to producing tedious writers which create insularity (by making it impenetrable to non-insiders) and lots of schisms over minor disputes that, due to insularity, end up festering into something rather more cult-like that demands more immediate and drastic action... like the Zizians.
by tinco | 2025-04-15 16:33:33+00:00
Exactly, but surely they weren't actually losing money? Why not keep the business afloat selling expensive drones to specialty companies until the broader market picked up as they envisioned it would when they bought the company. I think we paid more like $25k for our Falcons, though buying them wasn't on my side of the company. We would have gladly pay $35k for a next gen Falcon if they ever made one. Now DJI makes good enough drones for less than $10k, but there's a chance we still would've went with Intel just we could tell our customers we weren't flying Chinese drones.

In real estate inspection, we had the same sort of concerns, can't fly too close to the object for safety reasons, and we need high resolution photos to determine quality of the masonry, paintwork and roofing etc..
by daxfohl | 2025-04-15 16:34:43+00:00
Not to mention, the signal strength seems too weak and unstructured to be useful as a basis of any higher order machination. A supernova is unlikely to cause much of anything outside of its immediate vicinity. Unlike neural pathways that are highly structured and mostly lossless, radiation disperses out in all directions and weakens with the square of the distance.

Unless there's something big we're missing. Maybe the cores of stars contain the final ingredient required for DNA formation or something.
by kccqzy | 2025-04-15 16:35:10+00:00
It's just a natural byproduct of poverty and a shrinking middle class in the United States. HN readers are not the target customers of Temu. It's those people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck and can't afford quality goods whatsoever. It's the same as the low quality garbage found in predatory dollar stores in poor neighborhoods.
by ThePhreakenFone | 2025-04-15 16:35:12+00:00
So your position is -

- Egalitarianism is newspeak/doublethink

- McCarthyism is was an end to egalitarianism, until the 'previous regime' (which I take to mean a regime since 1959, whatever 'regime' that means).

- Stating some people are lesser gets you fired from empirical institutions.

In short, people being equal is soviet style communism, the old regime which included Regan and Nixon is over, and only now you can say what you want because something changed?

This here is a fantastic example of newspeak, doublethink. Thank you for that
by ljm | 2025-04-15 16:35:33+00:00
I used a bad example with the Date API, except that, say, using moment or date-fns and sticking to it would be better than jumbling them up. If you’re going to do a migration from one to the other then it has to be committed to.

Dependencies themselves can’t be good or bad. They only acquire that property in the context of the dependent codebase. And a codebase that you can’t spin up from scratch or easily grok because of its approach (or lack thereof) to dependencies is almost certainly on the bad end of the spectrum.

I’ve seen this destroy some python codebases internally. In fact, my choice of a JS example was unfair because it becomes an absolute shitshow in python once you have dependencies and transitive dependencies with very tight version constraints.
by codingmoh | 2025-04-15 16:35:44+00:00
Dagster is definitely one of the more polished orchestrators out there, and I like how it embraces the idea of resources and custom DSL-style components. It’s also cool that you’re using it at Magenta/Telekom at scale.

The only caution I have is that many orchestrators (Dagster, Airflow,...) are typically task-level or graph-level frameworks: they do a great job of linking up big stages of a pipeline, but I’ve found that you still end up writing quite a bit of manual or ad-hoc code. That’s not necessarily a knock on Dagster—it’s just the reality that orchestrators focus on coordinating tasks, rather than giving you a row-by-row DSL with robust side-effect semantics.

Still, those links you shared look super useful for seeing how Dagster can be extended with domain-specific abstractions. Appreciate you pointing those out — I’ll check them out
by mbreese | 2025-04-15 16:35:48+00:00
You’re missing a link for the Ford news. Dare I ask when you read about Ford moving production to Hawaii? Was it in early April by chance?

https://fordauthority.com/2025/04/ford-will-avoid-trump-tari...

> We’ll have more on this never, because this was our final April Fools’ article for 2025. We hope you enjoyed all of them!
by zacfire | 2025-04-15 16:36:11+00:00
Author analysis here. This piece digs into China's strategic response beyond simple retaliation after the latest US tariff hike, examining the economic foundations for this shift and the real-world impact on key sectors like Tesla's supply chain and cross-border e-commerce giants (Temu/Shein). Also explores the broader implications amid heightened policy uncertainty and recession risks.
by helle253 | 2025-04-15 16:36:29+00:00
this reminds me of something that happened to me just yesterday:

i was at the playground, trying to convince my daughter to go down the slide on her own.

She kept saying it was too scary, so I went down first to show her it wasnt scary. Then, still not convinced, she said there were monsters in the slide! I, of course, told her I got rid of them on the way down. She pondered for a moment, then decided it wasn't so scary anymore. Shortly thereafter she went down the slide herself!

It was a funny, insightful moment, negotiating her fears without invalidating them.
by vonmoltke | 2025-04-15 16:36:38+00:00
It, indirectly, was, because it was the reason the country initially relied on decentralized citizen militias for defense in the first place. Many of the founders were worried that a standing federal army would be a tool of oppression, and wanted to keep most of the firepower distributed amongst the populace.

The system more or less worked until the Spanish American War, when the government realized that the militias need some sort of standard in order to integrate properly with the regular army when called up. This led to the creation of the National Guard in 1903. It was tightly integrated into the Army structure in 1933.

What arguably made the Amendment obsolete was the advance of technology. By the early 20th century conventional warfighting took too much firepower, support, and coordination for a loose citizen militia to conduct. At best they could form the core of an insurgent force, but the goal is always to not get to that point.

In theory, that insurgent force could work against a tyrannical federal government. In practice, even if most of the people with the civilian firepower weren't supporting the tyranny I'm not sure it would work out. Conducting an insurgency against a foreign occupier is a lot different than conducting one against a domestic oppressor.
by geye1234 | 2025-04-15 16:36:48+00:00
It is, actually, necessary that God can't change. It is not _solely_ an article of Faith, but it's additionally something that someone without the light of Faith can know, although some pretty abstract thinking is required.

Most people think of the God of monotheism as a kind of super-angel. They think of Him as omnipotent, eternal, etc etc, but still something that exists in the same way that everything else exists. We say of a stone, a plant, a human being or an angel "it exists", and therefore, they think, we can say the same about God. This is the wrong way of thinking about Him, and it causes a lot of confusion (and it allows the Dawkinistas to put forth puerile arguments like "one god fewer"). It makes existence out to be something that God has, and therefore something that is, in itself, independent of Him. And if something is independent of God, then it would be higher than He is, and be something that He relied on, and that would mean He wouldn't be God.

It is instead much better to say that God is Being, and that everything else exists only in a derivative way. Everything else has being, but God is Being.

Pantheists and other monists argue that the universe itself is being, and that it can't ultimately change (the appearance of change is an illusion, they say). Their argument, to summarize horribly, is that anything other than being is non-being, and non-being can't do anything, since it doesn't exist. An acorn can't change into a tree, because that would imply that prior to the change the tree "is not", and that which is not can do nothing. The tree must therefore have always existed. Thus all change is an illusion.

They're mistaken insofar as they're talking about the visible universe -- change is absolutely real -- but what they say is roughly true for God. He can't change, because there is nothing that is Being apart from Him. Everything outside Him exists only derivitavely. This doesn't imply pantheism, because the things outside Him have real existence, but it is a kind of lesser existence.

A rough analogy: Light can't be dark. Other things can share in light without actually being light (noun), but they can't make light be dark. God is Being, and other things can share in his being but can't make Him non-being. Any change in Him would involve His going in some way from non-being to being. But non-being can't do anything, or become being. This is a very rough sketch of why God is immutable. This stuff requires some seriously abstract and non-quantitative thinking and isn't easy.

Job 38 doesn't imply that we can know nothing about God, only that we can't fully comprehend Him.
by j5155 | 2025-04-15 16:36:56+00:00
Use of published information is still always constrained by copyright law. If I had a copyrighted movie playing on my television visible through the window, and you recorded that, redistributing that recording would unambiguously be a violation of copyright law and piracy.

I’m also a little confused by what you’re saying here; are you asking whether scraper bots are illegal, or whether they’re immoral/unethical?
by skwee357 | 2025-04-15 16:37:05+00:00
I gave up trying to change people’s mind in this widely divided world.

For starters, I will be arguing with a dozen of “social media influencers” who shaped the opinion and identity of my opponent.

And in the end, most people are not really interested in changing their opinion. They want me to change mine, or validate theirs, but would conveniently dismiss anything that does not match their world view.
by hightrix | 2025-04-15 16:37:07+00:00
Couldn't agree more.

Regarding the job offer example. I'll have 1 to sign every 2-5 years, I should be able to manage that myself.

That said, I'd love a better email client that wasn't feeding an advertising company. I'm planning to spend some time with this to see if it fits any of my needs.

Edit: Oh, this is just a gmail wrapper/addon. Nevermind, moving along.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-15 16:37:13+00:00
> I don't really have an issue with any of the points you raised - why do they bother you?

Idk about GP, but bad science writing ("identification of conceptual equivalencies ...") does bother me. It's sloppy, and tends to hide possibly invalid shortcuts taken by the authors by being an impenetrable fog of words. That sort of thing is a very good indicator of bunk, and it tends to peg my BS meter. Which isn't to say that there is no place for that sort of language in a scientific paper, but that one should preface the use of it with an admission of hand-waving for some purpose.
by cinbun8 | 2025-04-15 16:37:15+00:00
I would not use this without a SOC 2 Type 2 compliance at the very least. Especially when email is involved and Notion-mail reads your from, to, body and saves it in its data centers. The compliance information is also contradictory. The webpage says mail is SOC 2 Type 1 compliant, while the FAQ says

"Is Notion Mail SOC 2 compliant?"

"While Notion Mail is not currently SOC 2 compliant, we expect Notion Mail to be SOC 2 Type I compliant by GA launch."

Either the FAQ or the landing page needs an update.
by naught0 | 2025-04-15 16:37:22+00:00
What do you mean "ignoring" it? Biden deported hundreds of thousands of people, surpassing even Trump's records. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o

If the only practical way to deport the "right" amount of people is to disobey the courts and catch innocent Americans in the dragnet and deny them of due process, then maybe we shouldn't do that.

You say that their motivations are understandable, but so are the reasons behind extermination camps. They are ruthlessly efficient. Having a reason for doing something does not make it right, just, or legal.

At the end of the day, we have sent dozens of immigrants with legal status and no criminal history to El Salvador's version of Guantanamo Bay, where people do indeed die with regularity. Here's something from last year:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/el-salvadors-prisons-deat...

So, we're sending Americans of a certain stripe (color) to camps in other countries where there is no escape, and where it is not unlikely they will perish.

What do you call this?
by Lammy | 2025-04-15 16:37:33+00:00
> "[There were] lots of discussion about who he is and how strange he looks," said Spark.

It's cool how he's doing a tilted-axis / pulling-apart / creating-reality / as-above-so-below pose. Even if it's just coincidental for the original photo I doubt it's coincidental in why Kubrick chose it.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-15 16:37:45+00:00
> Example?

I literally linked an article in my comment that had an overview, but here is a more specific one that addresses diversity statements in particular:

https://reason.com/2022/09/30/mandated-diversity-statement-d...

> As well as the sad truth that as soon as you take away "DEI" requirements the segregationists come back and purge the library, delete all the black Medal of Honor recipients from the website, etc.

This is literally my exact point. There absolutely should be a rational place that denounces both these diversity statement ideological requirements and the egregious memory-holing that the current administration is implementing.