MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grumio | 2025-04-18 16:45:43+00:00
Given up being a debunked 2020 election conspiracy apologist?

The Steele Dossier was commissioned in 2016, before the election. Trump is claiming the 2020 election was "stolen" well after. Both bad. But not the same.

Trump's allies challenged the election results after losing, 60 times. (edit to add: Challenging, and getting their day in court, is fine! However,) No credible, election-result-changing fraud found. (edit to add: Despite losing in court, they continued to spread debunked conspiracies, and still claimed it was "stolen" without evidence. And still tried to hold on to power, Trump asked Pence to "do the right thing", and declare Trump the winner despite losing. This is the bad part.) Clinton did not challenge the election results after losing. Not the same. Not even close.
by Finnucane | 2025-04-18 16:46:06+00:00
No, the anti-DEI stuff is predicated on the idea that civil rights are bad and that white (straight dude) rule is good. There's not really any point in sugar-coating it or pretending the idea has any kind of intellectual or legal legitimacy. It is entirely driven by animus and resentment. The folks driving it aren't even hiding it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-18 16:46:33+00:00
> I'm not willing to pay more than $5/mo for search and 300 searches isn't enough

Most of the population is well served with search funded with ads and tracking. Kagi is for the minority who don’t want that. I’m not sure there is enough if a market between 300 and some other number that would treat search anxiety just to satisfy those who won’t pay $60 a year more to relieve it.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-04-18 16:46:47+00:00
> Well the tarrifs do very much show that Trump has no "default preference" for the capitalised class -- he's very willing to wreck the american stock market.

Yes, Marxist-Leninist governments also wreck their local stock markets. That doesn't mean they, or Trump, are engaged in building a superior economic system for prioritizing labor over capital.
by mtnygard | 2025-04-18 16:46:51+00:00
It’s cool to see this mentioned. I worked on the editor back in the day. It’s actually the second IDE for Defold. The original one that we replaced was built on Eclipse.

A team of about 6 people replaced the IDE core and built a dozen tools over a year.

It was a fun project. Not many people can say they built a desktop gui with Clojure!
by lasermatts | 2025-04-18 16:47:08+00:00
I've been super interested in sailing since moving to San Francisco and running around the marinas/Embarcadero.

Did some digging and found a sailing school that I haven't asked about classes (yet) https://www.spinnaker-sailing.com

There's even a school that offers boatbuilding lessons in Sausalito -- a bit too far/much of a time commitment for me! https://www.spauldingcenter.org/current-offerings
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-04-18 16:47:10+00:00
> Veering off topic, but this letter is in a variable width font. Were there typewriters that could do that?

Yes, and in fact one of the most popular was from IBM itself [1], released in 1944.

> The letterhead and body text aren’t aligned, so if it did go through a press it took two passes.

It was pretty standard practice to have pre-printed letterhead, hence the cachet of something being issued on "company letterhead". Take a sheet of company letterhead, pop it in the ol' Executive, and type-type-type.

> The signature is also in ink, so that’s either a third pass for color, or an actual signature, and the letter doesn’t have the notation to indicate that it was signed by the secretary, so that leads me to think that it wasn’t widely distributed.

I'm not really sure what potential significance you see in this. It was likely typed by the secretary and signed by the CEO. It's the original copy. Any copies required for the personal reference of the supervisory personnel affected would be made in the standard 1950s ways - a few carbon copies for the top executives, mimeographs further downstream if necessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Electric#Executive
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-18 16:48:03+00:00
And like the head of École Polytechnique (France's top university) once said in an address to the students: “there are 10% of complete idiots in the population, and I see no reason to assume the ratio is any different in here”.

If you have a political power that rewards stupidity, then those people will become empowered everywhere they are, including in the universities.
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-18 16:49:16+00:00
Those that criticize DEI have no problem with Nepotism. Ivanka and Jared had white house positions, that paid them salaries and entitled them to secret service on trips to Israel and Saudi Arabia. That tells you all you need to know. I would not hire either of them as doormen in a new building development, but they ran the house on 1600 Pennsylvania. DEI really is poor nomenclature. I think all of us favor someone that came from hardship (low income areas, refugees, veterans, disabled person that wants to find fulfillment by working), and giving them an opportunity. There are many places (and states) where these people would NOT be hired, even if they were qualified.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-18 16:49:20+00:00
I believe that you are using ASCII to approximate the chemical formula, which really does depend on subscripts to be accurate. I'm simply being facetious in the GP, but superscript is really beyond inaccurate, IMHO. Superscript means other things entirely. Don't you agree that's more confusing than collapsing it into ASCII?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_formula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin...

The Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) is a specification in the form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings. SMILES strings can be imported by most molecule editors for conversion back into two-dimensional drawings or three-dimensional models of the molecules.

Double, triple, and quadruple bonds are represented by the symbols =, #, and $ respectively as illustrated by the SMILES O=C=O (carbon dioxide...)
by alxlaz | 2025-04-18 16:49:41+00:00
Sure thing! News agencies could really do a better job when reporting on historical issues. This is no exception. What they're saying is plausible but it's not the sort of thing you'd expect a news outlet to casually throw around without sources. "Plausible, but unproven" shouldn't be the reporting standard. That's how false reporting gets in. For all I know (as I mentioned above, dance, and art history in general, is hardly my thing) this could be one such case, too.
by saghm | 2025-04-18 16:50:26+00:00
> In this case, you'd have to transfer most research in the biological and physical sciences to NASA-style government departments

I understand most of the points you've made, but I'm not sure I understand this part. NASA's budget is directly controlled by Congress, so how would moving all research into departments like that be more insulated it from government funding than university researchers getting grants? If anything, it feels like it would make it _more_ susceptible to politics than grants.
by ravenstine | 2025-04-18 16:50:39+00:00
With AMP, you basically get guard-rails to prevent your team of junior engineers from making your mobile pages too slow in exchange for increasing The Google's monopoly power. :D If I remember correctly, with AMP, you have to use their web components, and you have to pass their validator or pages won't be listed or cached at all. AMP is not really innovative in the slightest. One can easily serve pages faster than an average AMP page if they wanted to. The businesses that see engineering as a necessary evil are not properly incentivized to care about page performance, and are sometimes only prodded into doing so if a giant like The Google tells them to. Management tells their programmers that they read an article about AMP and that it makes pages load faster and reaches a wider search audience by caching and cutting out unnecessary crap; the more seasoned programmers think "Yeah, no shit – I've been trying to tell you... but I'll spend time rebuilding pages for AMP because I get paid the same either way."
by Rusky | 2025-04-18 16:51:09+00:00
You can explain this sort of pattern to the borrow checker quite trivially: slap a single `'arena` lifetime on all the references that point to something in that arena. This pattern is used all over the place, including rustc itself.

(To be clear I agree that this is an easy pattern to write correctly without a borrow checker as well. It's just not a good example of something that's any harder to do in Rust, either.)
by instagib | 2025-04-18 16:51:42+00:00
Fiber is the nutrient that is challenging to meet the recommended daily intake. I incorporate fiber supplements into my protein powder drink due to its compatibility with the powder and its ability to bind together effectively. Fiber supplements can affect medication depending on timing.

Age Group | Men (g) | Women (g)

14-18 years=31,25

19-50 years=38,28

51+ years=30,22
by nottorp | 2025-04-18 16:51:51+00:00
> pushing HTTPS throughout the stack

Barriers to entry for self hosted sites. Easier to host with Google now.

> Large speed improvements, including V8, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, Brotli.

HTTP/whatever was done only for Google's benefit.

> Web standards, including work on HTML5, JS standardization, web assembly, CSS flexbox and grid, webrtc.

If they're so standard why do people develop for Chrome and ignore other browsers?
by kadushka | 2025-04-18 16:51:57+00:00
I'm using "enshittification" as defined here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/enshittification

I believe there's a real chance of it happening here as a result of this transition. I personally experienced results of several of similar transitions over the course of my career. What I haven't experienced are problems with Arxiv that would motivate such a change. There might be actual problems they are trying to solve - but I still believe things will probably get worse as a result.
by ndriscoll | 2025-04-18 16:52:48+00:00
I was being somewhat flippant while also using a group that's known as a gateway to more deviant behaviors (e.g. libertarianism). I think though that you'll likely not find much success in litigating whether children ought to be able to access porn (and whether porn has anything close to a healthy depiction of relationships/sex. Yes, some healthy material exists. It's extremely rare, especially with commercial websites). e.g. no one thinks children should be able to shop at physical adult stores. It's probably more productive to participate in the "what to do about it" discussion.
by latemedium | 2025-04-18 16:53:48+00:00
There's an important difference between Gemini and Claude that I'm not sure how to quantify. I often use shell-connected LLMs (LLMs with a shell tool enabled) to take care of basic CSV munging / file-sorting tasks for me - I work in data science so there's a lot of this. When I ask Claude to do something, it carefully looks at all the directories and files before doing anything. Gemini, on the other hand, blindly jumps in and just starts moving stuff around. Claude executes more tools and is a little slower, but it almost always gets the right answer because it appropriately gathers the right context before really trying to solve the problem. Gemini doesn't seem to do this at all, but it makes a world of difference for my set of problems. Curious to see if others have had the same experience or if its just a quirk of my particular set of tasks
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-18 16:54:34+00:00
Your points here are quite shocking. You've no idea how or why the author of the blog post ended up in the country they were in in the position they were in; it's not stated in the blog post or here in the author's comments in this discussion.

This apparent need to push the discussion away from the issue being presented and instead engage in some moral grandstanding on an irrelevant point comes across as suspect.

If you were presented with an example of a walled garden causing distress to someone in a nice, white Western country, you'd presumably rush forward with your sympathy, would you?
by mmooss | 2025-04-18 16:54:38+00:00
You're making up a bunch of stuff, from the premise about some specific psychologies, to things about the GP, to assumptions about 'Hollywood' and what is the "reality of the world" (it's well-worn sophistry to depict the other person's version as fantasy and your own as reality), to your conclusions.

There's no basis for it. It looks to me, without basis, like the current attempt to spread the fetishization of voilence and war by the same propaganda leaders have used for eternity.

> It's no different to Marvel or Harry Potter movies.

Indeed.
by siliconwitch | 2025-04-18 16:54:56+00:00
Not yet, but next week we should be getting a batch of PCBs with better tuned antennas. Fingers crossed if the performance is good, we will send them out to test in different regions.

If you have an nRF9151-DK though, we could provide a firmware image and SIM for you to try it out. Once you flash your board, you can use it with the platform just like I did in the video

Let me know if you’re up for trying it!
by curtisszmania | 2025-04-18 16:55:25+00:00
We’ve all been there. The feeling of staring at a codebase, trying to find optimizations in every corner—to speed things up, streamline processes, and keep teams happy.

But then you come across something like this Less Slow C++. It’s not just about being clever or showy—it’s about solving real problems in the most efficient way possible. And that’s why it stands out in a world full of quick fixes and overcomplicated solutions.

Keep pushing for clarity, efficiency, and above all, results. With tools like this, the sky really is the limit.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-04-18 16:55:38+00:00
The Weihnachtsmann giving presents on 24th/25th is a lot older than Coca Cola and a combination of many traditions, but yes, the English name Santa Claus came via Dutch Sinterclaas to the U.S., while originating from Saint Nicholas, who is celebrated Dec 6th.

While the Saint Nicholas celebration with Krampus etc. also integrated pre-Christian traditions.
by scoofy | 2025-04-18 16:56:25+00:00
The key here is incremental development.

So, I'm really into municipal finance and fixing the housing crisis, which got me into Strong Towns. There is a solution, but it's not one that is going to make everyone happy (obviously), it is the state facilitating or even gently subsidizing incremental development.

If everyone is, by right, allowed to build the next larger "unit" of housing (for simplicity's sake, suppose 2x sqft[m2], height, and housing units of the median residential building within a half-mile radius), but not allow to massively build piles of housing on one site, then we effectively solve both problems.

Firstly, this allows for a massive amount of housing construction, with market incentives driving it. Out of the gate, you have the potential to easily double the housing supply. Secondly, the profits from the housing must be more-or-less distributed to the existing homeowners, and the potential to lower property values by building non-like for like housing doesn't exist. Neighborhoods slowly evolve, they don't rapidly change. Third, it incentivizes homeowners to build-to-last with the next stage of growth built in, because it's much cheaper in the long run to build a structure with the capacity to stack another unit on top than it is to tear down a building and rebuild the unit at double the capacity. Finally... and this is the thing that most people miss. It's fast. Smaller-scale developments need a much smaller planning phase, and there are many, many more of them to be constructed. This supports economies of scale, instead of the existing system, with all it's red tape that only allows a few actors to wade through the legal system for large developments. This should create a wide construction industry instead of a narrow one.

I really think the housing crisis is solvable with the top level government insisting that incremental development be allow by right, and that larger scale developments be put up for local review. This allows a city to grow organically, instead of all at once, but only at specific sites.
by rat87 | 2025-04-18 16:57:49+00:00
Note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre not Ishtar. While we don't have much evidence for a goddess called Eostre she appears to have been the origin for the name of Easter in English and maybe German. That is according to an 8th century English Monk(don't have any other sources, so I think it might not be universal believed by historians). But on the other hand there's not much evidence much besides the name (and only in English and maybe German) transferred and despite claims of some bunnies and eggs appear to be much later customs. Also in most languages Easter is related to the name for Passover which is the religous holiday most linked to Easter (in English we also have Paschal which can refer to both holidays)
by wavemode | 2025-04-18 16:57:55+00:00
I don't think the bar has ever moved. The following is how AGI was defined on Wikipedia in 2013:

> a hypothetical artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.

Have we achieved this? I don't think so.

Rather, many people nowadays seem to imagine AGI as "a machine that can perform any intellectual task that most human beings can", which is actually a significantly lower bar - if the AI fails at something that a human can do, you must merely establish that some humans would also fail at it, and then the AI still qualifies as AGI by that definition.
by ndriscoll | 2025-04-18 16:58:07+00:00
My complaint was exactly that with modern devices, the owner does not have absolute control over communication on the device, and that's a problem. I think anyone in the open source community or people that believe in democracy would agree that e.g. the owner of a phone or computer should absolutely have the ability to intercept, record, manipulate, and filter all communication that device is doing.
by fxj | 2025-04-18 16:58:14+00:00
Or it might be at such high energies, that conventional particle accelerators will never observe it. Sterile neutrinos, axions and quintessence particles might have masses in the PeV range. We were lucky with the Higgs, and the W and Z Bosons, and the top quark.

Dark matter and dark energy might be a phenomenon in the GUT regime, which we will not observe with particle accelerators. We need more information about the Higgs, because it sticks out like a sore thumb of all the other particles. It is our first glimpse into the underlying fabric of the universe, as the Higgs field is non-zero everywhere and a scalar field. No other (known) particle behaves like that. But a future collider is expensive...

just my 2 cents

good plot for a scifi movie: aliens measure a different vacuum value of the Higgs field and discover sub-space communications ;-)
by Anon1096 | 2025-04-18 16:58:29+00:00
The American conception of diversity that looks for race and gender ends up grouping 60% of the world together as "Asian". These are regions of the world with vast cultural differences (the obvious because South VS East Asia) and even within countries someone from Beijing is vastly different from someone from Xinjiang. It's extremely western-biased to look at what's going on in DEI efforts and think that it in any way represents actual diversity. It mostly means white women and educated black men get jobs while spewing the exact same thoughts as the HR department.
What kind of math calculator/tool do you wish existed but can't find online?
by CalculateQuick | 2025-04-18 16:58:32+00:00
Hey everyone — I’m working on a personal side project where I build free calculators for everyday and academic use. It started as a hobby (I'm a solo dev), but now I’m trying to make something genuinely useful for students, researchers, teachers, and curious minds alike.

I’ve already made tools like a Perfect Egg Boiling Calculator (yes, seriously), due date predictors, finance tools, and statistical calculators — but now I’m wondering:

What’s a specific type of math calculator you wish existed? Something too obscure or niche for mainstream sites like WolframAlpha or Desmos? Maybe a calculator that automates a repetitive step in a bigger problem? Or a tool that helps visualize something you always had trouble wrapping your head around?

I’d love to hear:

What you’d want it to do

Who would use it (students, engineers, math hobbyists, etc.)

What’s missing from existing tools

This could be theoretical, geometric, applied math, anything. I’m not a company, just a solo dev trying to make cool tools — if there's a gap, I’d love to build something for it and keep it free to use.

Thanks in advance!

https://calculatequick.com/
by arnarbi | 2025-04-18 16:58:41+00:00
There are many sailing schools around SF, but one that stands out is https://www.cal-sailing.org/ - as it's by far the least expensive and low-commitment option to get on the water, and they have dinghies in which you'll learn very fast (but also get wet). Instructors are regular volunteer club members and mileage may vary, so make sure to go out with a few different ones.

Another good way to get started is to find crewing opportunities for casual racing on https://www.latitude38.com/crew-list-home/. Many skippers will take no-experience folks out for fun. (It may take a couple of attempts to find a skipper/crew you enjoy hanging out with)
by shagie | 2025-04-18 16:59:22+00:00
> Unconventional postcards: A thin sheet of plywood with a Sharpie address label is a fun postcard. (it just costs a lot more than a normal postcard)

I've got a bunch of water color paper post cards from my days of random vacations and a large format camera. I recall that they also had a slightly more than post card rate postage on them (though not excessively so).

I used Polaroid type 59 film (peel apart) in the field and did a transfer right there. Take a picture in Yosemite? Pull it out, roller it on to the paper and drop it in the mail box. It was a one of a kind. The damage incurred while mailing (blunted corners, scuffs and such) was part of the nature of the art.

There were also families who were curious about the process and I'd sell them a sheet of film at cost for them to do what they wanted - be it have a photograph or go through the process of making a post card themselves. There was also the "this is what an old time camera looks like and how it works" that interested some of the younger children - the heavy black cloth and the upside down image.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-18 16:59:27+00:00
> "a country where the health services do not treat seriously ill people without question."

Your point here and below have the whiff of committed insincerity off them, but nonetheless, if we take you at face value, a quick search reveals this astonishing quote from https://u.ae/en/information-and-services/justice-safety-and-...

> "UAE's hospitals can handle any medical emergency. During medical emergencies, a hospital will accept you for initial treatment and may transfer you to a hospital better equipped to deal with your problem.

The UAE provides standard medical care and visitors can easily obtain medical treatment from either private or government hospitals. In case of emergency, treatment to stabilise the case is free. Other treatment must be paid for by cash, credit card or insurance."
by detritus | 2025-04-18 16:59:50+00:00
Not necessarily. I think it's reasonable to imagine that 'some sort of low-level life' might be fairly common across the galaxy ('one in a ten million'), whereas complex life - never mind 'intelligent' or technologically-sophisticated life might be very much rarer.

The older I get and the more I appreciate Just How Lucky we are to exist at all on our planet here, the more I favour the above thinking.