MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xyst | 2025-04-27 17:22:55+00:00
I would normally agree but digging into the details of this incident:

> Note that this allegedly vengeful former employee also risked public health and safety. By editing the menus to suggest that certain items were safe for people with peanut allergies when they weren’t, he risked people having life-threatening anaphylactic incidents. There is no allegation that anyone was actually harmed or injured, however, as Disney detected the alterations before menus could be sent out to restaurants

https://databreaches.net/2024/10/30/fbi-investigated-disney-...
by mystraline | 2025-04-27 17:23:03+00:00
Ah, so true.

I'm sure you're reading some of the other comments to me.

For example, I am married. And my partner has similar views as me. And there's nothing at all like looking at a man or woman, looking at my partner and a sly grin and nod, and we both go ask together!

But the most bile and hatred I see come from the puritanical groups of Christianity. They cannot only fail to understand, but I get moralized the whole time as well. Like, try it before you knock it?

And I'm even getting flack for recommending STD testing. Some diseases can hide, like herpes and HIV. I'd rather know for me and my lovers, rather than hurt them. And, its not much different than a covid test - keep the people around you safe.
by d1str0 | 2025-04-27 17:23:20+00:00
Who would you prefer filling the ranks at a company like Palantir?

1. People who are sympathetic to these concerns, and more likely to change thinking from within or whistleblow if needed.

2. Everyone left over who are pro police state and fascism?

OP’s post would only fill Palantir with the second group. This seems more dangerous than to fill it with a diverse crowd.
by DangitBobby | 2025-04-27 17:23:51+00:00
High speeds are not an added feature of these vehicles. The power output required for practical acceleration also affords sustained high speeds. To prevent those speeds, manufacturers would have to add speed governors, which Americans would not be delighted to pay for (paying to have their freedoms restricted by bureaucrats, of course). Even if they came standard, speed demons could easily remove a governor.
by smitty1e | 2025-04-27 17:23:55+00:00
> The bigger issue here is outmoded predominant protestant christian views of 'morality'. And that percolates all through the rest of USA culture, including into advertisements and commercialism. Their view of sex is as a sin, so its shamed, hidden, and secretly desired.

Total strawman argument.

However, the bigger issue here is the demographic bomb detonating in slow motion. Demoting sexuality to a video game at your Bacchanal appears to be slow-motion suicide.

Possibly you could explain how your approach perpetuates the society, please?
by elijahwright | 2025-04-27 17:24:21+00:00
This actually amused me for a few minutes - I played Carmen Sandiego last in the very early 90s and I got a nice nostalgia hit from this. OIDC logins and a backend where you can store progress and achievements would be a nice addition. Heck, even storing the data in my local browser’s store would be okay. :-)
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-27 17:24:22+00:00
Much better to have capitalism replace political tyranny with economic tyranny. Where survival depends on serving someone else's profit with the requirement their margin grows every year.

When markets control basic needs, capitalism becomes its own form of authoritarianism that forces everyone to self comply. But it's freedom because they voluntarily choose to not starve to death/be homeless.
by va1a | 2025-04-27 17:27:54+00:00
Every now and then since deleting my account I click on a link to an X post and am reminded I can't read the replies, and then I am thankful again to my past self for deleting my account. I urge everyone to delete the app and their accounts, realistically there are just much better sources of information nowadays. It's not worth the mental headache to get your news from X, which recently honestly hasn't even been good at delivering it.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-27 17:28:06+00:00
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. And since labor is coercive, there is no ethical labor under capitalism either.

There are degrees and Palantir is not a great one. Working on the Project Auschwitz is not something I’d want on my conscience or resume.

But you’re largely fooling yourself if you work in tech and think you’re removed from this. Big tech are defense contractors.

Working on AI? You’re directly or indirectly working on the surveillance state.

Or maybe you’re working on the US healthcare and insurance sector.
by atmanactive | 2025-04-27 17:28:45+00:00
> What features would you expect next (e.g., export options, better formatting, templates)?

I would love to be able to use this without paper at all. Ideally, the app would "create" my own personal unique random string and when I open that url I would get a flashcard shown (full-screen, no menus). When touched/clicked, the flashcard would flip. When clicked again, it would proceed to the next card, and this would be stored in cookie so, on next visit, we can continue where we left of.

In this way I could dedicate a phone or a tablet, mount it on a wall or a cupboard and use it every day for flashcards. No printing, no cutting.

Thanks.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-04-27 17:29:19+00:00
Even accounting for tectonic drift, there is a concept of positioning reproducibility that is separate from precision. In general the precision of the measurements is much higher than the reproducibility of the same measurements. That is, you may be able to measure a fixed point on the Earth using an instrument with 1cm precision at a specific point in time but if you measure that same point every hour for a year with the same instrument, the disagreement across measurements will often be >10cm (sometimes much greater), which is much larger than e.g. tectonic drift effects.

For this reason, many people use the reproducibility rather than instrument precision as the noise floor. It doesn’t matter how precise an instrument you use if the “fixed point” you are measuring doesn’t sit still relative to any spatial reference system you care to use.
by antfarm | 2025-04-27 17:29:27+00:00
Nothing wrong with paying for a commercial service. I rather pay with money than indirectly by losing time and being annoyed in the best case and manipulated in the worst case.

With the sites that I choose to not visit (Facebook, X, TikTok, Instagram) this is not possible, as the attempted manipulation of users is an integral part of the business model.

Also, your attempt of being funny is not working, neither is your metaphor.
by Juliate | 2025-04-27 17:30:21+00:00
> They are about as ethical as non-monopoly businesses.

No, my point/thesis is that, whatever non-monopolies can be, a monopoly is de-facto unethical.

If there is a legitimate reason that there's a monopolistic control over something, it then _has to_ become a public service, in the general interest.

And there is no actual existing monopoly today that could serve as a counter-example to that thesis.
by streptomycin | 2025-04-27 17:30:23+00:00
I've been using html2canvas for a long time in https://play.basketball-gm.com/ so I gave your library a try. It was much slower (I know your README has benchmarks saying the opposite so idk) and the result looked a lot worse.

html2canvas: https://i.imgur.com/zfSwNR1.png

snapdom: https://i.imgur.com/FxowTzp.png

Also I recommend putting the npm package name clearly in your README. I guess I don't really know what other people are doing these days, but I think most people are like me and consume packages like this from npm rather than a <script> tag.
by screye | 2025-04-27 17:30:38+00:00
Chinese housing demand is a unique beast.

Chinese citizens do not see stocks as a stable investment, so housing becomes the main type of investment. Housing domicile rules (Hukou system) give special rights to homeowners which incentivizes housing purchase instead of renting.

As a result, housing prices are proportionally higher in China than in the US. There is a gold-like intangibility to it.

If China also had NIMBYs alongside this system, their houses would've easily risen to the most expensive in the world.
by boramalper | 2025-04-27 17:30:49+00:00
See also "Eventual Business Consistency"[0] by Kent Beck. Really good read.

> Double-dated data—we tag each bit of business data with 2 dates:

> * The date on which the data changed out in the real world, the effective date.

> * The date on which the system found out about the change, the posting date.

> Using effective & posting dates together we can record all the strange twists & turns of feeding data into a system.

[0] https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/eventual-business-consisten...
by scottbez1 | 2025-04-27 17:30:55+00:00
In theory, yes. In practice typical insurance requirements are already far below realistic modern-day damages possible from vehicular collisions, and people still routinely drive without even that minimal insurance.

Without better mechanisms to actually meaningfully enforce insurance requirements, changes to those requirements are unlikely to be effective.

The elephant in the room in the US is that although driving is a (very dangerous and extremely socially-costly) privilege, any attempts to hold drivers accountable and take away that privilege from repeat offenders is treated as a rights violation, so instead we just accept many deaths of innocent people from repeat DUI and speeders.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 17:31:50+00:00
My point is precisely that. How can you hope to encourage people to move to tracks if you require them to find a pickup that can tow cars there? If you keep closing down more and more tracks?

I believe in high availability of firearms because I'm principally against prior restraint. The state doesn't get to take machineguns away from people who haven't demonstrated abuse of them to the standard of reasonable doubt. The state doesn't get to take hellcats away from people who haven't demonstrated abuse of them to the standard of reasonable doubt. That's my moral position, which I assume you don't share, so I'm trying to point out a more practical reason why this is a bad policy in terms of outcome.
by roughly | 2025-04-27 17:32:54+00:00
TFA is right to point out the bottleneck problem for reviewing content - there’s a couple things that compound to make this worse than it should be -

The first is that the LLM outputs are not consistently good or bad - the LLM can put out 9 good MRs before the 10th one has some critical bug or architecture mistake. This means you need to be hypervigilant of everything the LLM produces, and you need to review everything with the kind of care with which you review intern contributions.

The second is that the LLMs don’t learn once they’re done training, which means I could spend the rest of my life tutoring Claude and it’ll still make the exact same mistakes, which means I’ll never get a return for that time and hypervigilance like I would with an actual junior engineer.

That problem leads to the final problem, which is that you need a senior engineer to vet the LLM’s code, but you don’t get to be a senior engineer without being the kind of junior engineer that the LLMs are replacing - there’s no way up that ladder except to climb it yourself.

All of this may change in the next few years or the next iteration, but the systems as they are today are a tantalizing glimpse at an interesting future, not the actual present you can build on.
by Const-me | 2025-04-27 17:33:17+00:00
> 8GB cards are about $60 (10-12%) cheaper

nVidia says the launch prices for them are $400 and $500, respectively.

> seems like a good, rather than a bad, thing to me

The bad thing is the most affordable current generation card capable of playing modern videogames in decent quality now costs $500. That’s too expensive for most consumers I’m afraid.

Steam hardware survey says 7 out of 10 most popular cards are nVidia [234]060 which were sold for around $300. Despite most of them also have 8GB VRAM, when consumers bought these cards a few years ago, 8 GB was good enough for videogames released at that time.
by juliansimioni | 2025-04-27 17:33:51+00:00
Geonames is a great dataset, in fact it's one of the "OG" open-source databases of the modern era, dating back to 2005.

It has fairly comprehensive coverage of countries, cities, and major landmarks. It also has stable, simple identifiers that are somewhat of a lingua-franca in the geospatial data world (i.e. Geonames ID 5139572 points to the Statue of Liberty and if you have other data that you need to unambiguously associate with the one Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, putting a `geonames_id` column in your database with that integer will pretty much solve it, and will allow anyone else you work with to understand the connection clearly too).

However, to be honest, it hasn't really kept pace with modern times. The velocity of changes and updates is pretty low, it doesn't actively grow the community anymore. The data format is simple and rigid and built on old tech that's increasingly hard to work with. You can trust Geonames to have the Statue of Liberty, but not the latest restaurants in NYC.

For a problem like the post author has of finding ways everyday people can easily navigate to something like a park bench that might not have a single address associated with it, or even if it does, needs more granularity to find _that_ specific bench in a park with 100 benches, Geonames probably won't help.

Source: I'm co-founder of Geocode Earth, one of the geocoding companies linked in the blog post. We use Geonames as one source of POI data amongst many others.
by mubou | 2025-04-27 17:34:08+00:00
I was thinking more "is it possible to contact them." When I googled RTEMS I found that it's originally an OS for missile systems from 1993 O_o

But I disagree. It's not extorting money to sue someone who stole your code and deliberately removed your copyright notices. The open source license only gives you the right to use the work for commercial purposes AS LONG AS you comply with the terms of the license. If you don't, then you're illegally profiting off stolen work. You can't violate the terms of a contract while still benefiting from it.

I don't know how much was stolen here, but if it's foundational enough to the project that HBC had to give up development, then they might have a case, but IANAL. Not doing anything though would mean letting them get away with their ill-gotten gains (again - if true), and I just don't think that's right. Like I said, I've seen similar things happen before and it pisses me off.
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-04-27 17:34:09+00:00
People tell themselves this to make themselves feel better about the horrible consequences of the choices they make but like you said, there are degrees, many more degrees than you might think. You should understand what the work you are putting out into the world is doing no matter where you work but I would not feel good working for Palantir or any company that directly aides them.
by DangitBobby | 2025-04-27 17:34:40+00:00
I think this is a valid comparison. I believe eBikes are limited for safety of the rider and other cyclists they share the bike lane with, otherwise they would practically be a different class of vehicle and a menace. The exact same logic would apply to cars.

It would take a lot more effort and political will to roll this out to millions of vehicles already on the road than to enforce it on a budding new vehicle category, though. That's pretty much how new safety codes always work.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-27 17:35:01+00:00
Criminal IMSI catchers are pretty much dead, but with the aid of carriers law enforcement can still use similar technology even with full standalone 5G networks. I don't know how often unauthorized IMSI catchers are used in the wild, but I doubt it's a relevant percentage of the total amount of IMSI catchers out there.

Thanks to mmWave and beam forming, 5G allows operators to practically track you down to the exact centimeter in 3D space. Furthermore, depending on how willing the firmware of your modem is, the signal used to transfer GPS coordinates to the carrier for emergency response situations can also be triggered remotely by carrier hardware.

Basically, who needs IMSI catchers when you can just see all of the information you'd get from them remotely on a computer screen on the other side of the country?

Of course this is great to protect against criminals that are looking to find your personal phone number or whatever by showing up to your doorstep, but for the vast majority of cases, IMSI catchers are defeated because they're no longer necessary.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-27 17:35:51+00:00
Note that reverse engineering does not have to be clean room, poking at hardware without ever seeing any software. In many places, poking at the proprietary software, decompiling it, tracing it, and so forth is fine despite what unenforcable EULA's might suggest. What is not okay is taking the binaries or decompiled source verbatim and re-distributing it.

Note that e.g. copyright does not apply to decompiled source code (the original authors did not write the decompiled source, unlikely assets taken verbatim - maybe that's where the arguments you mention stem from - although note that there may be regional regulatory differences). Instead, the things that might cause issues are things like the enforceable parts of the software license, any enforceable patents on the functionality, or enforceable platform license restrictions for applications built based on decompiled source.
by dataflow | 2025-04-27 17:35:51+00:00
But... so many people are practically forced to exceed the limit just to keep up with the rest of the traffic that's already blowing past the limit. If you force a few people to go at the limit, that's frustrating for everyone behind them in the best case at best... and I imagine possibly even more dangerous in the worst case, no? If they're going to enforce then shouldn't they try to enforce it as widely as they can?
by krebby | 2025-04-27 17:36:12+00:00
How does this compare to something like the the Media Capture API? Looks like this uses `canvas.toDataURL()` which can be slow to serialize compared to `toBlob` or `canvas.captureStream(0).getVideoTracks()`

I've been using CropTarget.fromElement with a CaptureController: https://gist.github.com/akre54/e93ab2ce27999aecb109e38085f2e...
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-04-27 17:36:15+00:00
Gold works without the internet but it is very slow and cumbersome to ship gold across the ocean to pay for goods.

Building out 51% of the world's hashrate is probably possible, especially for a country like the USA who already has something like 40%. But it is still much harder than to just press a button and deny other countries to use the Dollar.
by gwking | 2025-04-27 17:37:05+00:00
I merely saw the domain name 'yarchive' and had a strange inkling that there might be a connection. A quick search yielded this: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/08/investigative-reports/t....

I have no opinion of unlimitedhangout.com or the veracity of that article. But in response to "I just find it strange", I'm beginning to associate this sort of intensely intellectual inquiry into disparate topics with equally intense political positions.

I was first introduced to Urbit as if it was a purely technical, humorous and extremely nerdy lark. It was a joke thing my friend got me to sign up for, to own a slice of an imaginary universe (in a quantity called a "frigate" or whatever it was). When I learned years later about how serious the worldview behind it was, I was quite shocked.

Since then, and especially since the NYT outing of Scott Alexander in 2020, I've become more attuned to the pattern. These hyper-analytical blogs often come with a lot of political implications below the surface.

Again, I'm not taking sides here. If anything, the takeaway for me is that the world is very complicated. We have these rare polymath personalities who go deep into topics, have a strong voice on the internet, and they end up with all sorts of valid criticisms of the status quo. This in turn can align with extreme political views.
by tokai | 2025-04-27 17:37:07+00:00
>doesn't stop a person from driving someone elses car

Oh it does. Nobody will lend you a car that be lost to seizure. Denmark has car confiscation for speeding (not even repeated, just for single time 100% over the speed limit), and they will even take rental cars. It has definitely changed how easy it is to loan a car from friends, family, and businesses. Naturally consequences for driving without a license should also be increased.

I don't buy the car dependent argument. People are put in prison for minor victimless crimes. Something much much more life destroying than loosing your car and right to drive. If you need your car to live don't break the law repeatedly.
by DangitBobby | 2025-04-27 17:37:29+00:00
> How can you hope to encourage people to move to tracks if you require them to find a pickup that can tow cars there? If you keep closing down more and more tracks?

I doubt most people speeding in the streets do track or street racing as a hobby, so I think track availability is pretty much irrelevant.

I think I should have the freedom not to get splattered by dumbasses going 100 in a 50MPH zone. Why don't I get that freedom?
by ufmace | 2025-04-27 17:37:44+00:00
The technical aspects of this seem concerning. I'm wondering exactly who has the authority to set a car to this mode and how the mechanism of doing so works. What happens if you sell the car or let somebody else borrow it? Or when you get another car, or rent one? What are the failure modes of it, like if the GPS glitches a little and decides you're on a feeder or surface road when you're actually on a freeway? I think we've all seen GPS guidance devices do that.

If this is actually being implemented as widely as the article suggests, I guess we'll all find out the answers to these questions pretty soon, the hard way!
by sureglymop | 2025-04-27 17:38:05+00:00
Do you feel that politically "extreme" movements are a reaction to that and actually mostly about community and community interaction?

For example, during covid I believe the anti vaccination movement was largely about community and only tangentially about political goals. Especially because it was an otherwise hard time for people to interact.

It's probably largely the same for the maga movement, the rationalism movement, etc.

It feels nice to be a part of something and to be able to identify with something and such movements tend to easily accept new members as long as they at least aesthetically support the same cause.
by TuxSH | 2025-04-27 17:38:12+00:00
To me this looks like a bad attempt at exposing dirty laundry in bad faith, which is not too surprising coming from him.

1. Commit 3ba50ec which Marcan is complaining about was pushed in 2008 and didn't just delete attrib specifically, but all (?) VCS comments indiscriminately. The file was barely touched since

2. "The authors of libogc didn't just steal proprietary Nintendo code (...) ignorance about the copyright implications of reverse engineering Nintendo binaries" ---> AFAIK it's software RE work, and nothing done in the console hacking scenes is truly cleanroom at all, and there's no point to it either as Nintendo can knock&talk and/or send strongly worded letters when they please, legality be damned

I don't know much about the Wii scene specifically, and libogc seems to be a mess in general, but what I do know is that libctru (3ds)/libnx (Switch) don't have that drama nor made the mistakes made in libogc