MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by usrusr | 2025-04-26 18:25:03+00:00
So basically they are doing the simple "BEV can be cheap if you don't try to size the battery for long distance driving" but leave out lots of other things that don't meaningfully contribute to the lower price, as a distraction.

That might be just the thing that had been missing for bootstrapping the market of short haul electric (think of all those trips that are done in a car because they are almost but not quite walkable/bikeable!). Reminds me of how the Tesla roadster and then S bootstrapped the market of luxury electric.
by mystraline | 2025-04-26 18:25:56+00:00
> I understand the basic idea of how you fight an oppressive regime everyone hates. I have no idea how you go about fighting one that half the country supports. Protests aren’t going to fix that.

In reality, around 22% of the US populace (not just voters, but everyone) voted for Trump. Similar voted for Harris.

The rest didn't vote. I refuse to attribute justifications, since they are too numerous.

But that is correct, peaceful protests like 50501 aren't going to do much. Their value is more networking and mutual aid creation/management.

What does work, especially historically, is violence. As a historian, when you look at pivotal points in history, changes were only won after a LOT of violence was applied.

The trick is that groups like 50501 are absolutely needed for a different reason. The governments cannot negotiate with 'terrorists', but can save face by negotiating with 'peaceful groups'. We see this recently with MLK and Malcolm X, Sinn Fein and IRA, Ghandi and dozens of separatist factions.

I'm not publically advocating violence, but the more fascist they become, well, that will be inevitable. Different people and groups have different lines in the sand.

We're already talking about breaching medical records for 'defectives' (autism) list, turning trans folk into non-humans, kidnapping/disappearing people off the street, tattle-tale emails and phone#s to report people, lebensraum (Canada, Greenland, etc), off-country concentration camps (CECOT), and more. And we're only 3 months in of 4 years.

If I had the ability to get out, I would have. But I'm guessing that even the better off here also don't have the ability.
by andsoitis | 2025-04-26 18:26:13+00:00
> Illegally immigrating to the US is a civil violation, not a criminal one

It can be both, depending on the situation:

• First-time illegal entry into the U.S. (like crossing the border without inspection) is a criminal misdemeanor under federal law (8 U.S.C. § 1325).

• Unlawful presence (like overstaying a visa) is usually a civil violation, not criminal. It can lead to deportation but not criminal charges.
by pentlego | 2025-04-26 18:26:33+00:00
I think so much of this is mentality, which as a word really undersells the problem but I can't think of a better one. You and the other commenters are probably about equally busy, but you are able to see your various tasks and obligations as opportunities to invite your friends in or otherwise socialize. They see them as blockers where nothing else and especially not socializing can happen.

As a childless person with far more "free time" than either of you, I've fallen into the same trap. I build it up in my head that I'm "just too busy" and during my downtime I'm "too tired," but the reality is often that I've just lost the habit and fail to perceive the opportunities.

None of this is meant to undersell the problem. I don't think human beings evolved for this pervasive, isolated busyness, and I think a lot of societal dysfunction cascades from it. I think it has real, negative effects on our biology and psychology, and no one should be shamed for succumbing to those effects. But at the same time I don't think the situation is hopeless and I admire and aspire to your initiative and creativity, and I think the rest of us can get there too.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-26 18:26:41+00:00
To be blunt, America's children are getting a lot more of their shared cultural values from Bluey than their parents, so I think we could stand to pump the brakes on concern about whether children born in this country are as American as children born in this country to parents who were born in this country.

That way lies a very ugly argument about who is enough on the team. One that almost nobody who thinks themselves American wins, because the real winners of that argument should be the folks stuck into reservations by the alien ancestors of those who see themselves as "true Americans, born of Americans."

For Americans in particular, the best strategy for not having their own legitimacy challenged is definitely not to pull too hard on the legitimacy thread.
by neither_color | 2025-04-26 18:27:06+00:00
Well then it's a good thing historical context matters more than numerical consensus when analyzing why the majority of two continents settled by Europeans in the last 500 years nearly all opted for one broad form of conferring citizenship over another. If you were to redact the name of all 195 countries, but list ten facts about them and draw random names, you could accurately predict which ones will have birthright citizenship just by looking at other properties.
by chubot | 2025-04-26 18:27:15+00:00
That would be an odd choice for a low-level language ... languages like C, C++, and Rust let you use whatever the OS has, and the OS has threads

A higher level language can be more opinionated, but a low level one shouldn't straight jacket you.

i.e. Rust can be used to IMPLEMENT an Erlang runtime

If you couldn't use threads, then you could not implement an Erlang runtime.
by quijoteuniv | 2025-04-26 18:28:32+00:00
« The article posits that the uncanny relevance of some ads is due to sophisticated data collection methods. Companies analyze user behavior, online activity, and social interactions to predict interests, making it seem as though devices are listening.

In essence, while smartphones may not be actively eavesdropping, the depth and breadth of data analytics employed by tech companies can create the illusion of such practices.»
by sanderjd | 2025-04-26 18:28:33+00:00
Despite past congresses passing laws, the system is not good. A major contributor to the problem of people immigrating illegally is that our legal immigration system is a total mess. This is why there have been a number of efforts at reforms over the past few decades. But none of them have worked, leaving us in this situation where presidents from both parties do all this illegal stuff by executive action.
by aydyn | 2025-04-26 18:29:20+00:00
In my opinion, the headline result is this: LLMs given context of a users history were more persuasive than 99.4% of humans on r/ChangeMyView

In the future, your opinions will be shaped by the party with the most powerful LLM.

Additional context: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/comme...
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-26 18:30:10+00:00
If it can't work as is, and it can't work in a way that removes cheating (which the university feels invalidates the results for all participants) then it can't work. Getting a load of students to prepare and participate only to pull the rug out from under them isn't acceptable. That's a waste of their limited time and energy during a critical period of their lives.
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-26 18:30:22+00:00
> be careful about calling evil people practicing evil ends incompetent.

The Nazi were a mess, plagued with infighting, and completely incapable of measuring the strength of their opponents, which eventually led to their downfall.

Incompetent evil people can still do a lot of harm until they screw up for good. This doesn't stop them being incompetent.
by slg | 2025-04-26 18:30:55+00:00
>There's a poor child that's being withheld access to their medication and to their oncologists, and the adults in the room—adults in uniforms, adults with guns, adults in suits and adults in black robes—all of these adults are doing their adult things with their adult words, and the sum total of all that is the child still is without their cancer medicine.

People like to blame these sort of situations on leadership and systems, but every individual involved in this is making a personal choice to let this happen.

Even if you agree with the general motivations and principles behind these, do you not have the humanity to realize the absurdity and cruelness of what is being done in some of these examples? No special accommodation can be made to get the kid with cancer their medicine while they are in custody?

I genuinely don't know how those questions can be answered any other way than "cruelty is the point" and if that is your response, I don't know how you sleep at night.
by leumon | 2025-04-26 18:31:02+00:00
> Even though these ad algorithms are not nearly perfect (try to pay attention to how often you are served ads that are entirely irrelevant to your interests), the simple fact that they are so eerily correct even some of the time is the real conspiracy here.

This could be intentional. Having too many accurate ads is having a bad effect, because you then enter the uncanny valley of noticing what the data collectors all know about you.
by shermantanktop | 2025-04-26 18:31:04+00:00
Aside from anecdotes, is there data on that?

I suspect it’s a small minority of people that encounter a logging truck in a given year. I’m in the PNW and you don’t see logging trucks barreling through big cities.

I found this: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/large-t...

5k fatalities.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-26 18:32:35+00:00
In fact, that process is why deportation courts exist: The theory goes that you're not really punishing anyone, you're just sending them straight back out the door they just came through, therefore, a lower intensity of process is acceptable.

However that rationale becomes evil nonsense the moment a government starts "deporting" arrivals into a damned concentration camp, or back into the hands of people that want to kill them, seizing their property, separating them from their children, etc. since all of that is obviously punitive.
by perching_aix | 2025-04-26 18:32:53+00:00
> The phone is listening. Services like Shazam and Alphonso are constantly fingerprinting audio from the mics and sending these fingerprints up for "matching".

Could you please provide a source for this?

Just on the outset this sounds pretty wild if true. In the settings I do not see any permissions associated with Shazam, and only when I open it do I see the usual microphone indicator light up.

I will say though, it is weird that it doesn't have associated permissions listed, because clearly it can access the mic at least when it's open.

Edit: nevermind, found it, was just super hidden. But yeah, says it can only access it when the app is "in use". Now can it auto launch? Apparently also yes, after boot. Otherwise idk. It's further interesting I cannot tweak any of these permissions.

Edit #2: now it says that notifications are enabled for it, but then i check, and they aren't. i exercise the toggle, now it doesn't say that anymore, and the mic permissions are no longer hidden? Samsung please...

No amount of years in tech will rid me of tech pains it seems.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-04-26 18:33:38+00:00
> "career unelected bureaucrats"

Still sounds like a magic spell, as the first time I've heard it from Musk. Practically everyone on some sort of management position is a "career unelected bureaucrat". Electing each other on properly career-limited and non-bureaucratic positions sounds as much fun as cutting each-other's hair and fixing each-other's windows, if you know what I mean.

> You think an executive would allow for that?

Executives have a vested interest in as little-as-possible service at as high-as-possible price. Plenty of private schools do worse than most public schools and the only reason they don't do worse is... drum roll, please... career unelected bureaucrats!

> I'm thinking things like teachers unions that fought like hell to keep schools closed during COVID even when it became obvious that the virus was not especially harmful to children"

"to children"??? You think teachers are children? The president at the time was hyping the dangers of covid and blaming it on China, he's still blaming everything on China, well half of it, the other half goes to "career unelected bureaucrats".
by jjav | 2025-04-26 18:34:05+00:00
> The reality is that vendors cannot and will not offer "in perpetuity" commitments to run the cloud portion of their gear.

Right. That is precisely why nothing that is meant to last should have any kind of dependency on "cloud". It must run locally only, so there is nothing that can be deprecated or dropped.

My mid 90s thermostat will continue to work independently of whether the original company that made it is out of business. Everything needs to be like that.
by autobodie | 2025-04-26 18:34:52+00:00
> "Moby does not permit his Tracks to be used to advertise right-wing politics or causes, or to be used to promote meat, dairy, or other animal products. People may disagree about when these lines have been crossed—which is why Moby retains the right to terminate the license to any Track completely at his sole and absolute discretion, at any time."
by astura | 2025-04-26 18:35:24+00:00
>Part of the reason I don’t live in America is I see a lot of people on salaries 2-4x mine who seem to be unable to have time to see their friends.

This is just a choice though. A choice Americans absolutely love making, but a choice none-the-less. On Reddit some dude was trying to argue that an individual needs $70,000 a year in fixed expenses just to live. Bare minimum. OTOH, I have what I consider an absurdly luxurious life and I spend less than $60,000/year TOTAL.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DwlQ_5A2mKU - this is a video of someone who makes $2,200/month and has zero expenses (her parents pay for everything) and is in serious financial trouble.
Ask HN: Sold my company, parents passed away – feeling lost. What now?
by throwaway84321 | 2025-04-26 18:35:42+00:00
I'm 29. I just sold my company and received a low 7-figure payout — something I had worked towards for years. The next day, my remaining parent died. My other parent had already passed away a few years ago. Now, at 29, both my parents are gone. Because of the inheritance (which is larger than I expected due to how young they passed), combined with my company sale, I will likely never have to worry about money again.

Professionally, this was the greatest achievement of my life. Personally, this is the greatest loss. I have absolutely zero regrets about my relationship with my parents. They were amazing people, and we had an amazing relationship. I'm deeply grateful for that. I'm grateful, but I also feel very alone and a little lost. I’m not sure what to do next — with my time, my energy, or even with my life.

If anyone has been through something similar — or even if you haven’t — I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice. How do you figure out what's next when it feels like you’ve hit a strange high and low at the same time?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-26 18:35:43+00:00
If you forget the LLM implementation, fundamentally what you are trying to do here is first detect a bunch of features in the photo (i.e. fine-grain image captioning "in foreground a firepit with safety warning on glass, in background a model XX car parked in front of a bungalow, in distance rolling hills" etc) then do a fuzzy match of this feature set with other photos you have seen - which ones have the greatest number of things in common to the photo you are looking up? You could implement this in a custom app by creating a high-dimensional feature space embedding then looking for nearest neighbors, similar to how face recognition works.

Of course an LLM is performing this a bit differently, and with a bit more flexibility, but the starting point is going to be the same - image feature/caption extraction, which in combination then recall related training samples (both text-only, and perhaps multi-model) which are used to predict the location answer you have asked for. The flexibility of the LLM is that it isn't just treating each feature ("fire pit", "CA licence plate") as independent, but will naturally recall contexts where multiple of these occur together, but IMO not so different in that regard to high dimensional nearest neighbor search.
by jdietrich | 2025-04-26 18:35:44+00:00
True, but "civil servant" is a very broad term. A majority of civil servants - a very large majority outside of London - work in Operational Delivery. They work in JobCentres or prisons, they do clerical work in the DVLA or the Passport Office, but they have no actual involvement in or influence over policy. The centre of power is still overwhelmingly in London.
by tusharsharma09 | 2025-04-26 18:35:48+00:00
We actually bypass the spermatic vessels. There is historical evidence that bypassing the spermatic vessels is a superior way to treat varicoceles. So our procedure shouldn’t have the recurrence (of varicoceles or bph) concerns. But this needs to be established through long term studies.

Thanks for sharing your story. It’s stories like yours — people with family histories and real-world experiences — that fuel everything we’re doing.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-26 18:36:03+00:00
> A child. Kept from contact from her US Citizen father.

Is that true?

If this is the correct case link it doesn't seem like the father is a US citizen?

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.21...

> father executed a Provisional Custody by Mandate under Louisiana Revised Statutes

It seems odd that he would give provisional custody to "family friend" then?

Then this doesn't add up then

> Respondent Harper later sent an email further evincing her refusal to release V.M.L. to her custodian, see Exh. 2, and stating that she would instead require V.M.L.’s father to turn himself in for detention and deportation,

So they wanted to deport the US citizen father?

It's possible that I am looking at a different court case perhaps.
by tiltowait | 2025-04-26 18:36:08+00:00
Amazon often tries to show me a dress store. I’m a guy, and I’ve never bought women’s clothing. On the surface, the ad makes no sense and is irrelevant—but what if I end up wanting to buy a dress for someone else? Then I might remember that Amazon dress shop.

This (or simple error) seems more likely to me than a conspiracy to appear less creepy, though I suppose all three could be in play.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-26 18:36:49+00:00
I think you’re counting people who aren’t even eligible to vote. Among eligible voters, it was about 1/3rd to each of Trump, Harris, and staying home.

I don’t give a lot of credit to those who stayed home. They also knew who Trump was and decided to let others make the choice on their behalf.

I’m not confident that even violent action would change things when so many people are in favor of or at least ok with what’s going on. You’re not going to win a fight, so is the idea to win hearts and minds? I don’t see that working.
by sanderjd | 2025-04-26 18:36:57+00:00
I don't think it's chicken and egg at all. I think lots of employers employ immigrants illegally, and then the immigrants take all the political heat. Anyone pissed about "all these illegals" should be at least just as pissed about all the businesses illegally employing them.

We should stop letting employers do this, and then we all discover that we still really want to employ immigrants, we should enable that, legally.
by crote | 2025-04-26 18:37:32+00:00
> For whatever reason, Software Engineering and Hardware Engineering even though they rely upon the same fundamental physics

They are completely different. Software is pure mathematics: you know exactly what goes in, you know exactly what operations it is going to do, and you know exactly what will come out. There are no surprises here, it's just a mechanical translation. If you want to, you can even prove that your code is doing the right thing.

Hardware is physical. Your components don't neatly follow mathematical models - the model is just a rough approximation. Everything interacts with everything else: a signal in one trace will impact a signal in the next trace over - or even on the other side of the board. Your PCB will behave differently if you hold your hand above it - without even touching it. Worst of all, most of your components are black boxes, and you don't have accurate models describing them! What good are Maxwell's equations if there's no way you're ever going to solve them?

You can make a reasonable estimate of how a PCB is going to behave, and you can occasionally do a reasonably-close simulation of some part of your circuit-to-be in isolation. But you need to physically manufacture it to find out whether it behaves the same in practice, and it takes weeks of time and thousands of dollars to manufacture a single prototype. You can't "move fast and break things". You can't afford to do the usual "hit a bug, change tiny thing, recompile, check" cycle you're used to from software programming, and some fancy tooling isn't going to change that reality.
by 0n0n0m0uz | 2025-04-26 18:39:29+00:00
I am an introvert who prefers solitude to human interaction as my base mode. I find most interactions to be draining and unnecessary. They basically only increase or serve as a source of stress while offering nothing meaningful that somehow improves my mental state. I probably had this tendency but never had enough solitude to really recognize how much I preferred it. It is actually addicting and almost impossible to go back. I understand that in terms of social or financial success it’s not conducive or beneficial but in terms of spiritual growth it is. Even for me it’s certainly a useful skill to be able to connect with others and share experiences or material goods. I see many articles about a loneliness crisis so I guess for most people solitude is actually an unwanted state of affairs that causes them distress.
by righthand | 2025-04-26 18:39:47+00:00
> No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The states are responsible for providing equal protection of the laws to everyone here. The states need to stand up and fight ICE.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-26 18:40:05+00:00
This challenge, as described from some of the linked pages, is exactly a challenge on algorithms and data structures not on gluing APIs together. The problem with that is that it's exactly the kind of challenge that LLMs do well at because there's a glut of material to train on.

The challenge is figuring out how to provide a novice (high school students) with a skill appropriate challenge to assess them on that is also not trivially solved by the use of an LLM, and you likely can't. Or you go the IT route and restrict what's available on and from the computers (see my comment about how ACM and IEEE contests used to do things, they may still run that way but I'm uninvolved so don't know).
by mystraline | 2025-04-26 18:40:08+00:00
Yes, and that was with Obama and 'children in cages'.

Trump is only turning the screws that were firmly installed by all previous presidents and congresses. The only real shock to this immigration action is the blitzkrieg of immediacy, horror, and flaunting violating court orders.

Courts don't have police to enforce judgements. The executive branch does. Hard to enforce finger-wagging. (And well, hello arrested judge day yesterday)