MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-04-16 14:35:27+00:00
Effectively what the other response said.

Women in the US were effectively treated like second class citizens across the board and were not permitted to have any kind of independence.

The history of sexism in humans is pretty disturbing and creates a foundational schism in the structure and coherence of society.

The concept of equality and “freedom of opportunity” or “freedom from oppression” is unfortunately not something humans have ever functionally been able to demonstrate (at least in any way that transmits to other cultures or generations)
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-16 14:35:28+00:00
>The US faces a much tougher hill to climb though in regards to bringing manufacturing back.

I saw a headline yesterday that says there are more pets than children in Japan. How long until this is true in the US? The truth of the matter is that there is no workforce left in the United States, and will be less of one by the time manufacturing does spin up. In WWII, the Army was happy at how many of the young men there had come from farms and were familiar with using/driving heavy equipment, how many knew some welding, etc. Then after the war, that translated right back into mnufacturing there these now older men were familiar with "making things". They could do actual labor. How well will the part-time baristas and Uber Eats delivery drivers and Dollar General shelf stockers do on the assembly line?

>if we shift a lot of people to manufacturing someone needs to take the jobs they leave.

If we could bring back manufacturing, then we would need to restructure our society such that those jobs lesser/menial jobs could go undone (or be automated). But we can't really bring it back, and they will bring in others on any number of weird visas no one has really heard of to do the lesser/menial jobs which are the only ones left. The people who set this in motion aren't even just retired, they're already dead of old age and there's nothing anyone can do about what's coming.
by wegfawefgawefg | 2025-04-16 14:36:25+00:00
The general point though is if 99.999% of people doing a thing are fine, but one wacko who likes the thing does a shooting, the evidence for causal connection between the thing and the wackos impetus is beneath the noise floor.

If you are trying to make the argument that The Heros Journey is subtely toxic and evil, well thats just too sophisticated an argument for me. 70% of humanity believes in god. We live beyond truth and measure. Welcome to monkey planet.
by Volundr | 2025-04-16 14:37:33+00:00
And yet Bukele's Justice Minister (sorry misremembered not Bukele himself) has said they will "never return to their communities" and somehow we are unable to get back this one man. Saying everyone is lying to openly defy a Supreme Court order when they can get him back anytime just by asking, and he'll be released "sometime" is not the comfort you seem think it should be.

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-us-rubio-prison-de912...
by tossaway2day | 2025-04-16 14:37:48+00:00
“While these AI models are very, very important to us and have delivered a series of impressive improvements, we still have humans involved throughout the process,” said Alex Rodriguez, a general manager for Ads Safety at Google, in a virtual media roundtable.

This is either corporate doublespeak or an outright lie. I've seen local small businesses attempt to sign up for adwords and merchant center only to have the account auto-banned instantly and they specifically say the decision is final, non-appealable and applies to any other attempt to create an account.

Same with MSFT Ads and Facebook. If the AI flags you, even if a false positive, there is no human capable of reviewing or overriding that decision - by design.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-16 14:38:08+00:00
1-2 really just do not matter; I can't imagine anyone in the CCP views that as more important than their own internal matters.

3 as I said, they can just negotiate and throw money at the problem; it's cheaper than fighting a war.

4 they can already buy hardware from them and was doing so just fine before US stepped in. DeepSeek seemed to do fine and China may likely surpass Western AI development in the near future

5 I don't see how that's the case when the US has very little presence in TW compared to SK or JP. Taiwan is a hair on a gorilla's right knee.
by freedomben | 2025-04-16 14:38:10+00:00
Indeed, this is a very common occurence IME. It's happened to me a couple times (especially the word "contiguous" which to this day I don't think I've heard another person pronounce out loud other than myself, and I find the word confuses people), but I hear it constantly. Even the word "Linux" (you often hear pronounced "Lie-Nix") often gets people. Then considering all the acronyms which don't have a standardized pronunciation, it's an interesting time.
by srveale | 2025-04-16 14:38:56+00:00
Hackernews is not the place for political arguments. That's not just a suggestion, it's a rule. I noticed somebody used an ambiguous word in a way that, IMO, was not quite correct, and it is an interesting word so I clarified the technicality, and mea culpa, I probably dipped into actual politics too far. Let's get back to building stuff, yes?
by seventhtiger | 2025-04-16 14:38:56+00:00
Japanese game companies are a lot more protective about their IP. Nintendo is simply consistent about that in the West. To them it's quite normal to exercise a lot of control over how your work is presented in public, which includes things like tournaments, emulation, fan games, mods, and so on.

A Japanese Youtuber was arrested for posting spoilers of a visual novel: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-authorities-make-thei...
by xattt | 2025-04-16 14:39:06+00:00
Nintendo had a conventional approach to gaming for a number of years. No microtransactions, skins, etc.

In the last decade, they’ve been aggressively pursuing emulator hobbyists and “making deals they couldn’t refuse” (Yuzu).

Recently, they started offering a “soundtrack” app as part of the benefits of Nintendo Online where you can listen to music from their first-party games. I see this as an administrative move to demonstrate active marketing of their properties, to delay their copyrights lapse (similar to Disney bringing Steamboat Willy to try to preserve a 100-year-old copyright).

Also see the Switch 2 tech demo app being sold rather than included. Can you imagine if Microsoft charged for the Windows XP tour, or Apple for the Tips app?

There is not one single aspect I can point to that makes you say “gotcha”, but micro-aggressions against fans seem to be adding up and tipping the scale away from a company that gives warm, fuzzy feelings deserving of fandom.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-04-16 14:39:18+00:00
Yeah, this is especially true if you're writing a libc. E.g., every libc allocator in existence invokes UB with respect to ISO C when it reads metadata placed before a malloc()ed block of memory. Doubly so, since ISO C arguably doesn't even allow a container_of() mechanism at all. At some point, you have to look at what the implementation is actually expecting of your code.
by aredox | 2025-04-16 14:39:25+00:00
>It's annoying Americans were given only two choices - offshoring is great and let's keep doing it, and, as you say, the opposite, meth-fueled let's bring back manufacturing overnight.

Excuse me, but I am old enough to remember Biden's program such as CHIPS, a slow and steady protection and promotion of home-grown industry.

America had the choice. It chose wrong. Are Americans going to assume the consequences of their choices or are they going to lie to themselves they weren't given the choice? That last option would fit more with the "character" of the America nowadays, the one who voted Trump: make mistakes and blame someone else for it.
by iLemming | 2025-04-16 14:39:26+00:00
hahaha. Jocular reminded me the naming story of Karma test runner. Initially they named the project "Testacular". With a description that was something like "Spectacular test runner" (or something like that). Sadly, they had to rename it and the choice imo was a lame one. Karma? Really? I suppose some Mormon-backed Google partner thought the initial name was inscripturesque and the team had to choose something Buddhist to passive-aggressively throw a finger.
by 9rx | 2025-04-16 14:39:37+00:00
> These are not at all the same as "express their truth accurately".

Nor do they need to be, but making up your mind is the topic of discussion that we are having, so that is what we are going to talk about.

> An interesting assertion, given the length of this thread.

How so? I don't care about how to best leave a house, and us not moving on to that topic supports that. Using that idea as a rough analogy or example to grease discussions around the actual topic at hand is not the same as it being the topic.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-16 14:40:05+00:00
> but outsourcing that decision to a reddit mouth-breather whose only qualification for moderating is that he showed up to r/whatever back in 2013 before anyone else is not the way to detect those differences.

Spez once compared these people to a landed gentry; they are not unlike domain squatters. Notably, 4chan is basically identical in this regard. I’ve been banned from /lit/, /trv/, and /his/ for posts that the janitors of each board have decided were off-topic, even though they were plainly related to the board’s subject. There are potential structural solutions to this incentive problem, but the easiest solution is to take your ball and go home when a platform demonstrates that they don’t want you there. The big issue is that the global audience has consolidated onto a few sites, so there isn’t a lot of meaningful competition for the users that do leave.

> 4chan, as bad as it is, is the least insane of all internet forums

Hacker News is superior by almost every metric. Reddit was also way better than 4chan for serious discussion in the years before Trump was elected. The model works as long as the managers are not incompetent. The true problem is how to keep the network effects in play when moderators abuse their position as stewards to censor others due to motives of pride or self-enrichment. Federated networks might be the solution here.
by bookofjoe | 2025-04-16 14:40:33+00:00
The paper's introduction/summary:

>This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
by RKFADU_UOFCCLEL | 2025-04-16 14:40:48+00:00
This. It's just a website (where anyone can post, quite rare in these overpoliticalized days).

> A Soyjak.Party users also shared a list of emails they claimed are associated with janitor and moderator accounts, including three .edu emails. Although some internet users claimed that the leaks included .gov emails associated with members of the moderation team, this remains unverified.

Like who cares?
by Fomite | 2025-04-16 14:41:01+00:00
Echoing this as well - administration for research is fairly thin in every institution I've worked at.

In my career, there's only one position I can definitely point to as "That shouldn't exist" - ironically, it's both one that played well with "The university should be more like a business" and was also, in effect, a retention move for their massively productive spouse.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-16 14:41:01+00:00
Great, but as I said, it does not make sense for the US to chase low value manufacturing.

Apparel, shoes, things you might find in a big box store -- zero sense. Low value manufacturing - leave it to China, Vietnam, India.

Jet engines? Advanced polymer materials? Batteries? All make sense! CHIPS act was intended to accelerate US IC R&D and manufacturing...which was cancelled.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-04-16 14:41:09+00:00
- for collectors and ant-colony-builders as "pets"

- or, for terrorist-atack on grain. This ants are graniwhores and eat grain and other insects. An eco-system not adapted to the ants might go down on them. This for sure will also be one of the reasons it is forbidden to collect them, as set out on the other side of africa may lead to uncontrollable collony-grow and endangering the wildlife and the farmer's grains.

- there is a demand for sure.
by latentsea | 2025-04-16 14:41:47+00:00
> AI can't have accountability

Sure it can. You just have to bake into the reward function "if you do the wrong thing, people will stop using you, therefore you need to avoid the wrong thing".

Then you wind up at self-preservation and all the wholly shady shit that comes along with it.

I think the AI accountability problem is the crux of the "last-mile" problem in AI, and I don't think you can necessarily solve it without solving it in a way that produces results you don't want.
by thrance | 2025-04-16 14:42:39+00:00
Oh good, "it's only non-citizens". Nevermind that they're still supposed to be protected by the constitution, then. Also, Trump said two days ago that he wishes to send citizens to El Salvador too [1]. Are we allowed to call them fascist or should we wait for that to be made illegal too?

Trump does not care about the law. SCOTUS, in a historic 9-0 ruling, commanded him to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador. He unsurprisingly did not comply. Yet you're still insisting he can't legally do X or Y so everything is fine. When has that stopped him, like ever?

If that's not fascism, then what is? What would it take for you to say "OK that's too much"?

[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-citizens-prison-el-salvador...
by tossaway2day | 2025-04-16 14:43:07+00:00
This is also a misleading statement imo. They will give a reason but that reason is structured as "appear to be in violation of our policies regarding X"

Where X has 18 different sub-policies, with each sub-policy having multiple conditions that if any one is violated result in a ban.

This is done purposefully (and has always been the case on Ads since near the beginning) because they do not want to reveal the exact violation to allow for those gaming the system to work around the specific issue.

Good approach for stopping arbitrage / cloaking etc.. but bad if you're a legitimate business and aren't up to date on all 1,500 Ads policies which can and do change regularly.
by wavemode | 2025-04-16 14:43:49+00:00
Your tone implies to me that you are under the impression that I'm suggesting one should not test their software. Nothing could be further from the truth.

What I'm saying is that it's foolish not to take any measures at runtime to validate that the system is behaving correctly.

Who's to say that the logs themselves are even formatted correctly? Your software could be perfectly bug-free and you'd still have problems without knowing it, due to bugs in some other person's software. That's the point you're missing - no matter how many edge cases you account for, there's always another edge case.
by SR2Z | 2025-04-16 14:43:58+00:00
> Photos existed and was available to the public before it was “released” in 2015.

Google has had several previous photos apps! The actually useful one is the most recent.

> Even then, 10 years is certainly not recent for a company of Google’s age.

So you swear you aren't demanding proof that services released in the past five years are successes, but you're complaining that pretty much anything older is too old.

Dude, I am engaging with what you said. Almost no product is wildly successful in less than 10 years by Google's standards, because Google measures users in billions.

If you still wanna ignore Photos, then talk about Gemini, Cloud, and Waymo. The Pixel phones are also doing pretty well, considering how dominant Apple has been.

My point here is that you're ignoring numbers that would be INSANE for any startup because the product is from Google. It really seems to me like you're looking for reasons to discredit the company instead of the truth, which is that non-ad revenue is 25% of the total and growing.

That's pretty significant and in absolute terms makes Google a giant even without search.
by numpad0 | 2025-04-16 14:44:10+00:00
You don't ACTUALLY force "dark factory" to be completely pitch dark. That phrase just means they would not be required to follow legal light level requirements(there are such things) and technically considered a "dark" place.

No one buys pigs and cows grown chained inside abandoned mineshafts. It doesn't save any costs and just doesn't make sense.
by T-A | 2025-04-16 14:44:38+00:00
> you choosing contrarianism

?

> to show you're clever and know a lot

?!?

I contribute to discussions when I have the time and think I have something relevant to say. HN is hardly the right place to show off about physics, and trying to do so anonymously would be particularly pointless.

> made it sound like CERN was expecting a SUSY particle

That's not what I wrote. My point was explicitly about expectations on the theory side.

Perplexed.
by resters | 2025-04-16 14:44:42+00:00
> Saying this is a right-wing impulse is, I think, precisely what put Trump in office. Twice. The democrats were largely subverted by progressives and ceded this monopoly on the idea of public order to the republicans. Why is it such a stretch to say that yes, we believe that the common man should be protected from wage theft or pollution, and also we believe that he should be protected from violent or criminal impulses?

You may be right about this.

But if you zoom out, how is it that we are at a moment in civilization with unprecedented wealth, unprecedented technology, unprecedented nutrition, unprecedented medical care, unprecedented education and access to information, and yet politicians gain power at the federal level by railing against petty street crime?

Right-wing impulse thinking is generally what is most desirable to people who have already fully "made it" financially want -- things like a country club atmosphere (no visible poverty or crime), a suburban style layout (private over public transit, low density housing, private security, etc.)

For most people, such an arrangement is suboptimal. Higher density housing is much less expensive and safer, public transit is much more efficient, economic heterogeneity an opportunity for economic interaction and small business creation, etc.

In the US people have been told they need to live in the suburbs and have a big mortgage on a massive property (often 1000+ square feet and one bathroom per person) to escape the dangers of urban crime. They often purchase expensive cars and spend 2-3 hours per day commuting to an office, tying up most of their leisure time.

This of course reduces government revenue in urban, higher density areas, which does lead to increased crime. But you can see how it's a cycle perpetuated by right-wing impulse style thinking. Many Americans are already very bought into this mentality with respect to housing, but they do not realize the extent to which it shapes other aspects of their worldview.

To a significant extent, the financial allocations of people across the US for many decades is invested in perpetuating suburban property values and social values (fear of urban density, fear of economic diversity, fear of crime, etc.).

People like Garry Tan with $100M net worth should be the ones focusing on bringing the fruits of our modern civilization to more people, not calling for them to be punished. It's a bad look and it has the same effect as Trump's rallying cry against the weakest -- it promotes the narrative that suburban, country club isolation from economic diversity is humane and desirable, and it pretends that rather than living in times of unprecedented abundance, we face such scarcity that we should abandon our empathy for the weakest among us. I'm not sure how things could get more ugly.
by ttw44 | 2025-04-16 14:45:24+00:00
I'm actually familiar with 4chan and lurked on it when I was underage at least daily. It was funny for the time.

I'm not sure where the idea comes from that the entire site's reputation is containerized inside /pol/ or any NSFW board. It's just misleading if you take 5 minutes to browse around (if you still can, anyway). The language and harassment used in ALL boards of any group of people or individual is disgusting.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-04-16 14:46:01+00:00
> people like the idea of this, but no one actually wants this

As others have pointed out, this is not a contradiction. (Read their reply.)

However, the question of 'Do YOU want to work in a factory?' is heavily influenced by the fact that we don't see factory work as a high-paying career, or a career at all. Part of the solution to the factory problem is enhancing the value proposition for the employees.

I am ambivalent toward tariffs, but the idea is that if we make foreign products more expensive then the higher price of domestic goods becomes more palatable by comparison. If paying domestic workers more raises the price of domestic goods, and if people are willing to pay that price for whatever reason, you will start to see growth in manufacturing.

It's also silly to reject long-term goals simply because achieving them is difficult.
by interloxia | 2025-04-16 14:46:18+00:00
I found the following at the end of https://microsoft.design/articles/introducing-kermit-a-typef...

"The basic styles of Kermit (Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic) are available today in Office, with the remaining 38 styles arriving in early May."

It's listed here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cloud-fonts-in-of...

I didn't find an actual license. The typography faq presumably applies to the cloud fonts: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq
by andsoitis | 2025-04-16 14:46:23+00:00
Just answering your question "What I still don't get is what could China possibly want with Taiwan?".

If you don't believe the rational I sketched, informed by analyses such as that by the Council of Foreign Relations[1], you can also learn more by reading directly from China's Mission in the EU about the China One principle: http://eu.china-mission.gov.cn/eng/more/20220812Taiwan/20220...

[1] https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-relations-tens...
by speed_spread | 2025-04-16 14:46:24+00:00
I was already a satisfied paying customer. I don't need that new stuff but I understand they have to go where the market goes if they want to stay relevant vs competitors (Microsoft VSCode/Github/Copilot) in the eyes of prospective customers who judge products using comparative feature grids.

If you don't want to use an IDE or pay for your tools that's fine. You don't have to look for reasons to hate on it. No one cares what you don't use.
by shuggy999 | 2025-04-16 14:46:35+00:00
In the fonts used on the website; https://kermit-font.com/_css/KermitRoman-VF.otf, https://kermit-font.com/_css/KermitItalic-VF.otf, the license is:

Beta version of a custom font for Microsoft by Underware. Only for internal testing, not meant for any other kind of usage. Email info@underware.nl for more information

Seems to be a rushed release that they had a deadline to get to put a press release for.