MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SamBam | 2025-04-27 01:54:55+00:00
But people have had activities that take up their time since time immemorial. But the "friendship recession" seems to be much newer.

FWIW, my friend recently built a summer home. I went over about four weekends to help drywall, put in flooring, build stud walls, etc. He's had other friends over other weekends. Sometimes it's just one friend, sometimes a few of us go up together. It's a great time, and definitely strengthens our social bonds.

I'm also friends with my kids' parents (one of whom is the one with the house). Playdates turn into dinner invites.

I think we're lucky that we're on the older end -- mid-40s -- so maybe we had time to work our social muscles before social media and Netflix, and have socialization as an expectation.

I'm also personally lucky I have a wife who does a lot of the social reaching-out. For whatever reason, this seems like it's more and more a gendered role, and I'm definitely worse at it -- if I were a bachelor I'd probably be happy staying home alone much more, to my long-term detriment.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-27 01:55:38+00:00
Putting it as a separate response:

The weight of cognitively restricted people and non-citizens in the voting process is less and less a theoretical issue, and would merit a lot more discussions IMHO.

Countries like Japan or Korea are getting into demographic phases where elderlies account for about 30% of the whole population and their voting power is tremendous, but we probably have no idea how good or bad the result is, and just cutting their voting rights as they reach some level of impairment would also be a seriously dumb move IMHO.

And on the other side as the fertility rate plummets bringing in more foreigners is an obvious option. Except these foreigners might not want to give up a stronger citizenship (e.g. an EU passport is way more valuable than a Korean one) just to get voting rights in their resident countries, and their kids will have a stronger incentive to go abroad as soon as they can if the country makes their life harder yet.

Partly in reaction to that, Korea for instance gives voting rights to foreigners mostly by virtue of residency.

We're entering very tricky situations where there's more imbalance between the ones holding decision power and the ones bringing the most to the table, and there's just no simple solutions nor any direction that is straight "good" or "bad" or unthinkable.
by jmcguckin | 2025-04-27 01:55:42+00:00
I think part of the reason is that they want to be able to track the images back to you. Some person in the company is probably worried that a user will generate child porn like images and distribute them on the net. When the cops eventually come calling, they want to point to the user. This probably means there is a user-id embedded somewhere in the image.
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-27 01:59:28+00:00
It's unfortunate that legal systems worldwide haven't figured out a better way to deal with the committing-crime-at-scale mentality we see out of a lot of Big Tech.

35M yen to a brand or two here or there when they lose in court is nothing for them.

Walmart etc big retailers do lots of sketchy stuff, house label products, and squeeze suppliers.. but you don't see blatant counterfeit good sales.

Amazon and other "online marketplace" types want to have it both ways - collecting obscene fees to list, stock and ship your goods.. while taking no responsibility or risk. They have turned the retail model on its head where they win either way as they are just taking fees on 3rd parties taking the risks, inverting the supplier-retailer relationship.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-27 01:59:38+00:00
If there is one kind of book you can count on finding at local used book stores, it's mass market paperback sci-fi and fantasy. You really cannot have picked a worse example than Asimov. 90% of the Asimov I ever read (which is quite a lot) was from local bookstores, both new and used.

The trouble these days isn't finding paperback sci-fi in used bookstores, but finding used bookstores at all in the first place. They stills exist but not in the numbers they used to. If you just look up bookstores on Google maps, many of the results are coffee shops that have a single bookshelf just for the aesthetics of nominally being a bookstore. You know a real bookstore because the shelves are cheap and mismatched, with as many crammed into the space as they can manage. That's what happens if they're trying to make ends meet by buying and selling books, rather than printing money selling coffee and ambience to laptop workers.
by cyberax | 2025-04-27 01:59:59+00:00
Absolutely. But smaller cities can't really do that much to attract people. They typically already have very low regulatory burdens for new construction, and very cheap land.

What is needed is pressure on _companies_ to force them to consider offices in small cities. And this can be done only via economic forces. For example, with a tax on dense office space and/or tax breaks for remote employment.
by smj-edison | 2025-04-27 02:00:58+00:00
> We then create stories about their incentives

Reminds me of Heinlein's razor, lol: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

On the topic of communicating complex systems, Dynamic Land[1] is explicitly working on explaining systems through interactive visualizations (among other things), you might find it interesting! It's still in the research phase, but I love that it engages as many senses as possible to help build intuition.

[1] https://dynamicland.org
by egypturnash | 2025-04-27 02:02:27+00:00
Perhaps one of these days Valve will sink some energy into getting Proton working on a Mac. I’ve got a Steam Deck and it’s great.

Though really I’d probably just keep gaming on the Deck, that lives in the living room; the Mac is at the studio desk or a table in a cafe doing work, and it’s nice to not have a pile of games right there offering to distract me…
by cyberax | 2025-04-27 02:04:59+00:00
???? Where are you getting your data from?

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/1990-...

> (ST-98-46) Estimates of Housing Units, Households, Households by Age of > Householder, and Persons per Household: July 1, 1998

Total housing units: 112,499, total households: 101,041. The ratio was 1.11, just as today.

If you look further, for 1984 the data was:
by Rochus | 2025-04-27 02:05:46+00:00
Newlib is huge and complex (even including old K&R syntax) and adapting the build process to a new system is not trivial. I spent a lot of time with it when I re-targeted chibicc and cparser to EiGen, and finally switched to PDCLib for libc and a part of uClibc for libm; see https://github.com/rochus-keller/EiGen/tree/master/ecc/lib. The result is platform independent besides esentially one file.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-27 02:07:16+00:00
But the birth hotels are people with money. Think the reich wing cares?

And life happens. The woman that became my wife was here on a temporary visa, life threw us together, our hearts had their own idea about the situation despite both of us mistakenly believing the other was not available. And, no, there's no way she engineered it--the choices that threw us together were all made by others.
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-27 02:08:26+00:00
It would be nice if local, independent bookstores continued to exist but if the economics dictate they dont then I dont see any reason to hate the company that can still viably sells books.

That first sentence is a not a throw-away. I hope local, independent bookstores can continue to exist. And also that brick and mortar book stores continue to exist. But it's not like Amazon is illegally colluding to keep them down. independent bookstores just arent a very profitable businesses.
by chipsa | 2025-04-27 02:08:33+00:00
The armor and projectile are solid the entire time. It’s just the pressures involved are enough to make the material flow despite that. Actual experiment: cut the rod into quarters long ways, glue it back together, then shoot it. Out the other end of the armor, the rod is in quarters still. Or at least, what’s left.

Also, most materials will burn at a high enough temperature. DU dust is pyrophoric: it will spontaneously catch on fire at room temperature.
by VierScar | 2025-04-27 02:08:39+00:00
"without a valid reason" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Not only would this idea be impractical and highly subjective, determining what a valid reason is, is the same problem as defining the Law in the first place.

Can you insult someone? Can you say something wrong that you thought was right ("the lion cage is locked") that someone is injured from? What is their duties in checking the info they get is correct? Is there a min wage or not? What value is it? Does it change on city or state? Can under-age people sign contracts? Can they vote?

Obviously we need the law in any practical world.
by thephyber | 2025-04-27 02:09:32+00:00
I don’t think we should make policy specifically to cater to the part of a voting constituency (the willingly ignorant) who doesn’t know about the factual benefits of a large incoming immigration policy.

Policy should be made to cater to factual objective reality, not to make people feel better.

Ezra Klein isn’t for the unwashed masses. He’s not even interesting to the average Democrat. His content is specifically for people who care about boring facts and policy. Obviously MMA and WWE fans and crude comedian fans will respond more to show of force, peacocking, and loud brash speeches. These things are vapid when it comes to politics. They only serve to elect Dark Triad figures, not good policy makers.

The problem with immigration is that we need it (just to maintain replacement rates and economic growth), but the average American voter says they don’t want it.

Also worth pointing out that it’s likely that Democrats didn’t move on securing the border earlier in Biden’s term because all of the people criticizing Biden’s immigration policy were crying wolf for years or decades before it actually became a huge problem.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-27 02:11:06+00:00
You need feedback. I started with industrial robotics in the 90s and then having done a bunch of CNC and motion control: positioning is easy. The big problem to solve is enabling the robot to feel what it's doing and understand how it relates to the coordinate space. That's why we're dexterous, we can close our eyes and feel our hands in 3D space instead of just knowing a position in some coordinate system. We can put on a pair of gloves without looking by feel alone. I picture a robot arm similar to when you arm goes numb from sleeping on it. You can see it but it's dead. That's how a robot feels.
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-04-27 02:11:36+00:00
A thing to pay attention to in this trade war is how China, Canada, and Europe are trying very hard to only target red states. They know they have nothing to gain by putting pressure on California or Washington. Blue states are already anti-Trump so they are trying to focus the pain on Trumpland in hopes that they will in turn pressure their Republican congressmans.
by jmcguckin | 2025-04-27 02:11:55+00:00
I think Backblazes pricing model is unsustainable and expect them (and any competitors who mimic their model) to eventually fail when the money runs out. Racks and racks of disk drives use a lot of power and cost a lot to keep running. A better model would be storage based on tape; one of those large tape libraries (e.g. iceberg) with nearline disk space. Most of the data that gets uploaded never gets accessed, so keeping it on tape instead of spinning rust makes sense. Sure, there’s tradeoffs, but imagine how much they’d save if they could downsize their data center spending by 90%.
by ajayvk | 2025-04-27 02:13:39+00:00
Starlark does allow for much more concise and powerful config specification. I am building https://github.com/claceio/clace, which is an application server for teams to deploy internal tools.

Clace uses Starlark for defining apps, instead of something like YAML. https://github.com/claceio/clace/blob/main/examples/utils.st... is a config file which defines around seven apps (apps are downloaded and deployed directly from git).

Clace uses Starlark for defining app level routing rules also. This avoids the need to use a nginx like DSL for routing.
by baazaa | 2025-04-27 02:15:37+00:00
No-one ever suggests the simplest explanation... maybe socialising is just getting worse?

Where I live there were long covid lockdowns and most people expressed relief about not having to go to parties and make painful small-talk with strangers. They were already forcing themselves to go to social engagements because they didn't want to be seen as a loser, but they weren't enjoying it. This is historically unusual, people didn't see socialising as a chore necessary to maintain one's mental health a century ago.

Every article on the issue though takes as its starting point that socialising is obviously great and there must just be small obstacle which prevents people doing more of it. IMO there wouldn't be an epidemic of self-diagnosed social anxiety / high-functioning autism / 'introverts who get drained by social interactions' if people were actually enjoying their social engagements.
by thephyber | 2025-04-27 02:16:57+00:00
It’s not about knowledge. It’s about having people willing to use their strong backs.

Very few agricultural products are harvestable without the use of hands at the current prices. And when states have cracked down on illegal immigrants, farmers cry bloody murder that native-born Americans can’t last 1-2 days doing that work. American living standards are FAR higher than those of the people who are willing to work agricultural fields.
by iteria | 2025-04-27 02:17:37+00:00
I wonder about that. I ponder what Amazon's book selling sector (and really the whole part where it sells things) would look like without the money printing machine of AWS. If Amazon didn't have that would they really be able to do what they do and burn the industry down.

I don't disagree that bookstores are probably not that profitable, but I do think that Amazon is taking all the oxygen out of the room and not necessarily by being better, but have having a dragon hoard of cash that probably wasn't generated by selling books.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-27 02:17:47+00:00
I don't think the lack of documentation is a barrier to deportation. All that matters is that the country they are being deported to agrees to take them. But this has been rather routinely violated by ICE in the past--they are a totally criminal organization. (They would deport people by shoving them into Mexico--never mind if they are actually Mexican or not.)
by SecretDreams | 2025-04-27 02:18:47+00:00
Do you actually want to make friendships/connections? If so, the park is probably not the play.

Identify your hobbies/interests and figure out which ones have budding local groups. E.g. sports, bird watching, hiking, camping, volunteering, etc.

It takes a ton of energy to form and grow new friendships, but once you pass the critical phase, it's much easier to keep them.

I don't think what we're seeing is late stage individualism. It's more like forced/bred isolationism invoked by modern technology. Newer gens are more trapped since they were bred to be on a screen. It's pretty evil, albeit unintentionally (by their parents, at least). Tech giants absolutely love it.
by alp1n3_eth | 2025-04-27 02:20:03+00:00
What are you using on the backend to actually scan it? Is it just ZAP / Burp Scanner? Or are you scanning the code itself, and just using a Semgrep / Snyk approach?

The landing page being free-tier Framer is a little sketch, the main contact should also probably be a form or an email address instead of a non-US phone number.

Is AI used throughout the entire process or just mainly focused on providing remedation recommendations based on the output of other tooling (scanners, JS analysis, secret scanning, etc.)?

Interesting project! Looking forward to see how it works and evolves.
by analog31 | 2025-04-27 02:20:53+00:00
Sorry for being obtuse, but this isn't my area of expertise, and could even be a crackpot idea of mine! But it seems to me that a lot of discussion about AGI's impart human characteristics -- either of individuals or societies -- as a tacit assumption. For instance, AGI's having academic history jobs, or having jobs at all, or a market for those jobs. I don't have the depth of understanding to clearly state what my objection is, other than that it seems anthropmorphic.

This is what I'm getting at, by asking why the AGI's want these things.
by expensive_news | 2025-04-27 02:25:28+00:00
I agree with this. I do mostly DevOps stuff for work and it’s great at telling me about errors with different applications/build processes. Just today I used it to help me scrape data from some webpages and it worked very well.

But when I try to do more complicated math it falls short. I do have to say that Gemini Pro 2.5 is starting to get better in this area though.
by dzaima | 2025-04-27 02:26:46+00:00
Chromium & Node (i.e. V8) do seem to just not normalize:

arr = new Float64Array([0]); arr[0] = new Float64Array(new BigUint64Array([-123n]).buffer)[0]; [...new Uint8Array(arr.buffer)] // [133, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255]
by koakuma-chan | 2025-04-27 02:31:17+00:00
> It doesn't "know" anything.

The word know is an abstraction I use in order to avoid going into technical details.

> That's not a very useful interpretation because it's not grounded in technical reality.

My interpretation aligns with what people generally mean by hallucination, and it's definitely more useful than saying that any output is hallucination.
by jimmydddd | 2025-04-27 02:31:36+00:00
The workouts, including P90X, were great. The MLM part, which you and I may not have been aware of, was on the coaching side. Coaches would try to recruit other coaches to be downstream of them, and so on. Part of it was also selling their over priced protein shakes. But yes, if you were just a person who bought a P90X dvd and did the workouts, your were oblivious of this and just got in good shape and loved the products.
by wwweston | 2025-04-27 02:32:10+00:00
> when you used to be able to go to Barnes & Noble

I recently went to a relatively new Barnes & Noble in a growing flyover state city, and was very surprised at the way this location felt like Borders or B&N 20+ years ago.

No substantial sign of the bookstore -> big giftshop with books trend I felt like I'd seen everywhere over the last decade. Very substantial selection of books, pretty sure I saw an Asimov title and some Manning.

This was in an area with a lot of growth (and tech expansion specifically), but chances are slim you've even heard of the city unless you've lived in this state (one not even in the top half of populous states in the US).

It's especially interesting considering that B&N owns their stores (no franchisee/indie optimism in play here).

Not sure if it's a trend, but it was a good experience!
by subroutine | 2025-04-27 02:33:23+00:00
Because thoughts and prayers don't pay the rent? If they did enhance the quality of the community, they would be patroned at a level that sustains them. If you simply enjoy knowing a local bookstore exists as a storefront in your downtown district, maybe you could rally the community to subsidize their economics like a park or swimming pool, and perhaps you could even rent books for nearly free - just stamp the back.
by hibikir | 2025-04-27 02:33:42+00:00
Depends heavily on your topic: There are many situations where all bookstores, even Amazon, will come up short. Studying history, for instance, it's amazing how often the main branch of my local library has books even third party sellers in Amazon won't offer, or where they'll demand outrageous prices.

Still, for availability, the real winner is the not-necessarily-legal archives where you can find, say, OOP foreign books that I'd have to cross an ocean to find in a library.
by fy20 | 2025-04-27 02:34:58+00:00
Throughout her teenage years, my wife's father would drag her along to his bowling trainings and matches. A smokey dingy bowling alley with drunk middle aged men may not seem the best place to take a young teenage girl, but there were no issues.

If anything the opposite - the other men respected her more, because they knew she was her father's daughter. They would also have fatherly protective instincts towards her.

Now she plays bowling professionally herself.
by dissent | 2025-04-27 02:36:11+00:00
Point #2: Say nothing behind another's back you'd be unwilling to say, in exactly the same tone and language, to his face.

This has essentially been shut down in the modern corporate workplace, at least in the Anglosphere. The overpolite "be nice, be respectful" culture punishes anything that can be construed as "not nice", forcing it to go unsaid or at least pushing it underground. We talk in code and euphemisms about these things. You are justified in avoiding any kind of negativity entirely to protect your income. The net result is everybody loses a little.
by ewoodrich | 2025-04-27 02:36:14+00:00
I simply run this Powershell script once on a fresh install of Windows 11 and don't have to deal with any annoyances even after updates.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

I daily drive MacOS, Windows 11 and Linux Mint on different devices and Windows doesn't particularly bother me post de-bloating, and it easily has the most reliable multi monitor/variable DPI when docking/undocking of the three in my experience.
by sitkack | 2025-04-27 02:36:16+00:00
His wife did divorce him due to his involvement with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

https://www.today.com/news/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-linked...

The body language analysis [2-3] of the PBS News Hour Interview [1] is quite something.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgVcFv_tWs

[2] Bill Gates was BLINDSIDED by Jeffrey Epstein question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwAk3797Bn0

[3] Communication Professor Reacts to Bill Gates Interview on PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ExQWKb2vA
by AMICABoard | 2025-04-27 02:36:30+00:00
Nice work bro!

I did something similar ie llama2.c in a PDF in a PNG before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42721805

https://x.com/VulcanIgnis/status/1879649889178837025

The non polyglot ie PDF only versions could run both in chrome and firefox.

I'll have a look at your github, you seem to have done it more elegantly.
by treetalker | 2025-04-27 02:36:35+00:00
In combination with your technique, I find that one or more nights of sleep between the drafts work wonders.

I also like dictating a first (or subsequent draft) into a digital voice recorder to spit ideas (or rephrasings) out; then having my computer transcribe the dictation; then automatically adjusting the text (with premade regex sequences and/or on-the-fly find and replace); then reorganizing the structure; etc. In this regard, my workflow is just a modern version of ancient rhetorical principles (the canons of rhetoric, etc.).

One of the best techniques I've found and implemented (and one of the best regexes to automatically apply to dictations) is to put every sentence on its own line in a plain text file, with blank lines between paragraphs. This makes reorganizing my thoughts / general editing much easier and faster (e.g., using keyboard shortcuts to move lines up and down in Sublime Text).

Also, for easily planning out and automatically applying regex sequences (and more!) check out TextSoap for macOS. It's easily one of my favorite apps of all time. There is also an Alfred integration.
by monkeyelite | 2025-04-27 02:37:53+00:00
> Why must they be evaluated purely on money terms?

Because it's a business providing a consumer good - not a public institution.

> Having local independent bookstores enhances the quality of living for an entire community

How do they do that? They don't help me because they don't carry books I'm interested in at prices I'm willing to pay. It's serving so few people in the community it can't pay for rent.

Public access to books is subsidized already through libraries.