MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjulius | 2025-04-15 15:54:13+00:00
It's a different approach for us (am parent of a 5 and 3 year-old). Every type of food is equal, nothing gets put on a pedestal. Candies, snacks, ice creams, vegetables, fruits, legumes, meats, seafood - it's just "food". We highlight that you shouldn't eat too much of one thing all the time because your body likes a good variety, but that's about all the pressure we put on them. They're learning about sugar, for instance, in their preschool and we've talked about it in that context.

If they don't like something, fine. Totally cool, we don't care. The second you pressure a kid to eat a vegetable or a fruit, it becomes a fight and they will dig their heels in. Just keep serving whatever you cook, and either they'll come around or they won't. After all, they're human just like we are - we all have foods we like and dislike, and that's OK. No point in striking a deal, just keep exposing them to a wide variety of stuff and eventually they'll try it all - if they like it, great, if they don't, oh well, at least they like other stuff.

I can't speak for any other parents but myself, but this approach has worked wonders for us. Our kids definitely do shun certain foods or look away, but they eat a very wide variety of food. We don't have to bring a PBJ with us to a restaurant, or chicken nuggets to a friend's house, because they'll usually eat most of what is served. We've had grandparents bring "treats" over - we'll put them on their dinner plate with the rest of their food and, hand to god, last night my 5yo ate half her candy bar and left it there while asking for multiple helpings of peas and devouring her entire turkey burger. Only thing left on the plate was the candy.

Everyone's mileage may vary, obviously.

/shrug
by natebc | 2025-04-15 15:54:13+00:00
Without the university infrastructure around these Labs they'd EACH have to each employ their own construction, maintenance, housekeeping, legal, bookkeeping, HR, IT, compliance (and more) staff.

There will still be some research done if the cuts to the indirects survive the courts but it will be drastically reduced in scope as the labs staff will have to cover any functions no longer provided by the host university.

And you probably know this but this money isn't getting stuffed in to university presidents pockets or anything. It's paying (some) of the salaries of ordinary people working at jobs that pay about 20% (or more) less than they'd make in the private sector.
Ask HN: Why do DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage?
by Kapura | 2025-04-15 15:54:23+00:00
This morning I saw a news story that seemed pretty important for tech workers to be aware of [1]. I went to submit, and I was taken to a page where the post was already marked as "flagged" despite having 400+ upvotes in the 4 hours since original submission. However, the post had been flagged, so I was unable to see it on the front page. Who makes the decisions about what is getting flagged, and why does it seem that none of the really important DOGE news is allowed to surface?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142#43692607
by bee_rider | 2025-04-15 15:54:26+00:00
On the topic of licenses and LLM’s—of course, we have to applaud sourcehut at least trying to not allow all their code to be ingested by some mechanical license violation service. But, it seems like a hard game. Ultimately the job of their site is to serve code, so they can only be so restrictive.

I wonder if anyone has tried going in the opposite direction? Someone like adding to their license: “by training a machine learning algorithm trained on this source code or including data crawled from this site, you agree that your model is free to use by all, will be openly distributed, and any output generated by the model is licensed under open source terms.” (But, ya know, in bulletproof legalese). I guess most of these thieves won’t respect the bit about distributing. But at least if the model leaks or whatever, the open source community can feel free to use it without any moral conflict or legal stress.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-15 15:54:31+00:00
> Or are there actual DOGE sympathies within the HN population?

I wouldn't mind that so much, except they're minimally-active in the comment section and instead use flagging. At least defend your beliefs.

Switching to https://news.ycombinator.com/active (/active) with showdead is a better HN experience, nowadays.
by edaemon | 2025-04-15 15:55:09+00:00
He entered the US illegally when he was 16 but was granted a "withholding of removal" status by the judicial branch. He had no contact with law enforcement since then, aside from his annual check-ins with ICE. The Supreme Court unanimously concluded that he was deported illegally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G...
by Herring | 2025-04-15 15:55:21+00:00
I'd believe that article more if Trump hadn't called on congress to eliminate the CHIPS act, or if tariffs+Musk hadn't undermined it, or if republicans were for the Green New Deal, etc. If you're interested in onshoring, the smart thing would be to work on a targeted approach in high-value areas.

It's a really complicated manoeuvre even if you're not actively trying to shoot yourself in the foot. Eg Domestic factors (automation, corporate offshoring decisions, etc) also contributed to manufacturing job loss. A weaker dollar would probably help, but isn't a silver bullet.

The main article for this post goes into this in a lot of detail.
by digikata | 2025-04-15 15:55:25+00:00
Yes climbing the value chain was a necessity for nations like China. But in the US popularized in the 90's, was a business strategy trend that strongly discounted the value of long term capital investments - particularly for this discussion, investment in factories. They do require extra management attention and they do tie companies to strategies in longer time frames at lower margins - but they deliver long term value and long term synergistic growth benefits (in the vein of go slow to go fast). Many US business elected to chase short term growth, and short term and higher margins and minimize long term investments.

See a list of leading US companies that are off of being king of the hill - Boeing, GE, Intel, ... leading industrial US companies continually divested from manufacturing, or shorted long term investment, not because it wasn't profitable, but because it wasn't profitable enough in the moment. It took decades, and many dividends and stock growth was taken in the middle, but the shortfall manifests in time.
by throwaway96751 | 2025-04-15 15:55:31+00:00
Off-topic: What is a good learning resource about TLS?

I've read the basics on Cloudflare's blog and MDN. But at my job, I encountered a need to upload a Let's encrypt public cert to the client's trusted store. Then I had to choose between Let's encrypt's root and intermediate certs, between key types RSA and ECDSA. I made it work, but it would be good to have an idea of what I'm doing. For example why root RSA key worked even though my server uses ECDSA cert. Before I added the root cert to a trusted store, clients used to add fullchain.pem from the server and it worked too — why?
by ttw44 | 2025-04-15 15:55:46+00:00
That is a completely separate problem, and it's dishonest making the comparison. Extremist right wing ideology and genocide is actively advocated on /pol/ as well as anti-Jewish rhetoric. Neo-nazism is not pointing out Israel's war crimes, and pointing out Israel's war crimes is not neo-nazism or anti-Jewish. /pol/ isn't antisemitic for Israel's genocide; they just hate Jewish people.

The Trump administration trying to deport people for doing so is also unjustified. People are freely criticizing Israel on other popular social media (notably TikTok and Instagram) without inciting a modern neo-nazi and right wing movement like what has happened on 4chan in the past 10 years.
by zelon88 | 2025-04-15 15:55:57+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.

They are purchased to provide encryption. Nobody checks the details of a cert and even if they did they wouldn't know what to look for in a counterfeit anyway.

This is just another gatekeeping measure to make standing up, administering, and operating private infrastructure difficult. "Just use Google / AWS / Azure instead."
by fallingknife | 2025-04-15 15:56:44+00:00
I don't see any reason why specifically "indirect cost reimbursement" is anything to do with this. Sure, individually billing labs is administrative burden, but it's a tiny drop in the ocean of inane bureaucracy that university researchers already have to deal with today. And maybe if we got rid of the blanket overhead percentage, it would put pressure on universities to cut a lot of the crap. Researchers are much more likely to push back when they see a line item for how much that nonsensical bureaucracy is costing them.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-15 15:56:52+00:00
I think it's more that they are just people doing jobs, and what we see as sacred safety nets/constitutional protections they over time just see as limits to doing their job so they work around them. Sadly it's not super nefarious, just human nature. I mean these lawyers upset now knew it was being done previously, but again, only so much they can do in their job and they let it slide too. They were also part of the slippery slope. Again because ultimately they too are just doing a job. Human systems that defer to people (in the court given 'good faith') will get abused up to and just as far past the line as they can get away with. And once normalized the lines move further back.

The system of government our Constitution requires is rigid, expensive, and requires constant vigilance. We have chosen to go the window dressing route for a long time (just like Congress has chosen the easiest path) and that's something coming back on us now.
by greatgranddad | 2025-04-15 15:56:55+00:00
Wherever people comment on this article nobody picks up on the almost astronomical, and unexplained, increase in the number of ADHD diagnoses in the last 10 or so years. People have problems but labelling them is a business, it is how people in 'mental health' - psychiatrists, counsellors, ... - build their personal incomes. The authors of DSM are fraudsters - as almost anybody trained in scientific psychology will wearily tell you.
by babyent | 2025-04-15 15:57:00+00:00
It’s 2025 btw lol. You use SSR when you have public product catalog pages or something like that which needs to be reliably search indexed and up to date. Think an e-commerce site or LinkedIn.

You use SPA when you have a private b2b or even b2b client app, like a CRM or file manager for a particular user or organization, whose data and pages will never be publicly available or indexed.

You can do hybrid if you have mixed use cases too.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is a noob and has no idea what they’re doing and should be ignored because they’re chasing hype or optimizing something dumb.

We live in a lazy load world you don’t need to load 25mb of JS. If you’re doing a private client side application look into lazy loading JS so you load only what’s necessary and load more as needed. Saving 50ms max when adding more revenue is better is dumb.

Build for your customers (solve their ACTUAL problems) and your use-case.

Source: was a UI lead back in the day leading on both SSR and SPA, collectively serving billions of dollars of value to millions of people. Trust me bro.
by Xcelerate | 2025-04-15 15:57:07+00:00
> find out what's bothering them, usually something emotional, and you validate it

This is a common refrain of counselors and the field of psychology in general, and yet I can't help but think there's some selection bias at play with regard to the type of personality that is likely to recommend this approach as advice and how well the advice actually works.

Personally speaking, I've never cared whether someone "validates" my emotions (and I often view such attempts as a bit patronizing or insincere). There's a problem to be solved, so let's attempt to solve it or at least compromise in good faith. The resolution to the problem is the most likely way to elicit positive emotions from me anyway.

(I do understand however that some people prefer this validation, and if that's what they want, then sure, I'll attempt to do that.)
by myrmidon | 2025-04-15 15:57:11+00:00
> You've read too much Tyler Cowen and imagine AGI only adding .5% to GDP per year

I did not know who Tyler Cowen is.

I'm not making any assumptions about how much growth we would get from machine intelligence, I'm simply stating that the value you can expect from that whole new sector is gonna be much closer to the cost in silicon and energy to provide it than the former value of the human labor it replaces (history reinforces that view).

In my view, building machine intelligence makes you into a (groundbreaking, innovative) commodity provider medium-term at best, not a god.

I'm personally extremely skeptical of singularity scenarios in general.

Most models of it implicitly assume a sub-exponential, somewhat proportional or even constant relation between achieved "intelligence/utility" and required energy (thanks to "self improvement"), which is an extremely flawed assumption in my view. But what kind of singularity do you actually believe in?

I do agree that machine intelligence is a significant existential risk for our species, though.
Show HN: There's No Cryptographic Integrity in How We Prove We're Safe
by Charismaapp | 2025-04-15 15:57:16+00:00
I built a platform that lets users verify their identity and run a background check—and securely share proof of a clean record without exposing personal details like full name, address, or date of birth.

This is something we found missing in all other services: they keep the data locked in their systems and share way too much when you want to prove you're safe. We built a privacy-first solution where you control your data.

Use case: You’re a high-profile individual or just privacy-conscious, and want to prove you're safe to meet—say on a dating app—without revealing where you live or your full legal name. Our platform gives you a verified badge, backed by real checks, that you can share with others. No oversharing, no centralized profile people can stalk.

It’s free now and we’re now integrating with dating apps so users can prove safety and trust without giving away the keys to their identity.

Would love feedback, questions, or collaborators.

Privacy and user-owned data are the future—and we’re pushing to make that real.

www.charisma-check.com
Show HN: Easy Virtual Prototyping for Complex Computer Systems with SimBricks
by antoine-kaufm | 2025-04-15 15:57:19+00:00
Hi HN!

We are very excited to launch our new and heavily reworked version of SimBricks, the virtual prototyping solution we are developing for computer systems! Whether you are building the next generation analog processor, optical AI accelerator, or computer systems around such components, SimBricks provides you with a means to test this as part of a complete system including multiple machines, networks, and the complete software stack on top. Another interesting use-case case we are currently investigating with our first pilot customer are much more interactive demos for early stage sales when building new computer components.

SimBricks enables all of this through modular combination (with efficient combination and synchronization) of different existing or custom simulators (qemu, gem5, ns3, omnet, simics, verilator, vivado, ....) for different system components. We can scale to simulate systems with hundreds of components without substantially slowing down. Depending on the use-case we also span the gamut from simple behavioral (e.g. SystemC) models all the way to detailed gate-level simulations.

In addition to simply making all of this possible, one of our key strengths is making this (relatively) easy to get started with, and providing flexibility to integrate this in other tools and processes, both to provide inputs and also to work with the outputs.

Please check out SimBricks and let us know what you think. It's as easy as registering and then doing pip install and you are in business!
by packetlost | 2025-04-15 15:57:33+00:00
Eh, Notion is fine. I quickly ran into scaling problems with it and the block-style editing is only really nice/useful if you're doing a lot of live collaboration.

That being said, I do like opinionated tools better than unopinionated ones (Google Doc) because it's less mental overhead to just make something. But I reach for plain markdown instead.
by dextercd | 2025-04-15 15:57:36+00:00
I think most orgs can get away with free ACME clients and free/cheap monitoring options.

This will be painful for people in the short term, but in the long term I believe it will make things more automated, more secure, and less fragile.

Browsers are the ones pushing for this change. They wouldn't do it if they thought it would cause people to see more expired certificate warnings.

> Unfortunately the CA/B is essentially unchecked power, no individual corporate member is going to fire their representatives for this, much less is there a way to remove everyone that made this incredibly harmful decision.

Representatives are not voting against the wishes/instructions of their employer.
by ecshafer | 2025-04-15 15:57:43+00:00
There are a couple fundamental flaws here:

One is that the number one Science and Engineering powerhouse prior to WWII was Germany, not Britain.

Two this totally neglects that the US received the lion's share of Scientists and Mathematicians from countries like Germany, Hungary, Poland etc with the encroachment of the Soviets and persecution of the Jewish people.

While the down up approach of the US and heavy funding probably helped a lot. Bringing in the Von Neumanns and Erdos of the world couldn't have hurt.
by mindslight | 2025-04-15 15:58:18+00:00
I get that you're not in favor of the destructionists, like anyone not still drinking the increasingly-adulterated Kool-aid. I just think your argument veers into the territory of absolving Musk, and for no reason. It might work for Bezos or other business "leaders" that fell in line to kiss the ring but have otherwise have stayed mum, but not Musk.

Musk's all-in fervent support wasn't necessary. He doesn't get a triple pass from having to support the fascist candidate to avoid being put up against the wall, and then again for his natural tendency to embrace things and go hardcore, and then again for working to destroy/loot our institutions because it's just lucrative business. This isn't some British comedy sketch where someone is trapped by social pressure in an increasingly escalating role - at a certain point he is just a neonazi (or "sparkling autocratic authoritarian" for the "akshually" simps).

If it turns out that Musk was showing so much support as a cover for acting behind the scenes to oust Trump, I will happily change my opinion. But given Musk's longer trend of spiraling into debilitating social media addition, I'm not holding out hope.
by mw3155 | 2025-04-15 15:58:30+00:00
in the demo video i see that you can apply a recommended code change with one click. how do you make sure that the code still works after the AI changes?

also, i tried some other ai review tools before. one big issue was always that they are too nice and even miss obvious bad changes. did you encounter these problems? did you mitigate this via prompting techniques or finetuning?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-04-15 15:58:32+00:00
It's easy to find "real brands" if one looks outside of Amazon, Alibaba, etc.

Surprisingly, I find I am more pleased with purchases I make outside of Amazon despite all of Amazon's perks. "Platforms" like Amazon and fake "brands" aside, online retailers that only sell "real brands" are still around; they never disappeared despite Amazon's meteoric rise. Many sell through Amazon but also sell outside Amazon, too. Some do not sell through Amazon.

Being born before the internet existed, I started ordering products delivered by mail in the catalog era. I am biased toward locating "real brands" that have built reputations for high quality. I miss these brands. I loved the transition from catalogs to websites, but it seems like in the last 10-15 years fake "brands" that can offer no promises whatsoever have been killing off the motivation for having real ones that guarantee high quality.
by ben_w | 2025-04-15 15:58:37+00:00
I think "centuries", plural, is too long for anything much to last since the industrial era. I'm not comfortable guessing past 2032 even without any questions about AI.

The United Kingdom of England and Scotland didn't exist until 1707, and even that was sans-Ireland until 1800.

And yet, even with the biggest empire the world had ever known, WW1 could only be won with the support of another huge empire (France) and the subsequent arrival of the USA; shortly after this, most of Ireland became semi-independent.

WW2 was "won", again with huge support, but a pyrrhic victory from the UK's point of view, and India soon after became independent. The Suez Crisis was 1956, and showed that the old empires of the UK (and France, Union française) were no longer economically hegemonic — even when working together — and the US had replaced them in this role.

Looking into the future, there's no way to guess. The more tech advances, the easier it becomes for a single person to cause enormous, world-altering impacts: hackers are already relevant on the geopolitical stage; there's good reason to think that quality of life is directly related to how much energy a person can process, but once you have sufficient energy per-capita, it's not hard to use a cyclotron to brute-force the purification of weapons grade uranium, or to transmute depleted uranium into plutonium; simple genetic manipulation has been a standard technique for first year biology students for at least two decades, and can be done in a home lab, and at some point we will have risks from someone trying to use this for evil rather than decorative bioluminescence. All these things can topple a hegemon that spends its tomorrows looking at yesterday's battlefield.
by bilekas | 2025-04-15 15:58:51+00:00
> We know cloud-based review isn't for everyone, especially if security or compliance requires local deployments. But a cloud approach lets us run SOTA AI models without local GPU setups, and provide a consistent, single AI review per PR for an entire team.

I feel like that’s being overlooked here a bit too briefly. Is your target market not primarily larger teams who are most likely to have some security and privacy concerns?

I guess is there something on the roadmap to maybe offer something later ?
by dale_glass | 2025-04-15 15:59:00+00:00
Why would you expect a /s?

I understand their standpoint: it's their infrastructure, and their bills.

However my concerns are with my project, not with their infrastructure bills. I seek to maximize the prominence, usability and general success of my project, and as such I want it to have a presence everywhere it can have one. I want ChatGPT/copilot/etc to know it exists and to write code for it, just in case that brings in more users.

Blocking abusive behavior? Sure. But I very specifically disagree with the blanket prohibition of "Anything used to feed a machine learning model". I do not see it being in my interest.