MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikeyouse | 2025-04-25 23:52:07+00:00
Go ahead and read some of the thousands of 1-star reviews on TrustPilot for WinRed:

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/winred.com?stars=1

It turns out the name of the political donation game is recurring donations and spammy messages. I 100% believe people donated to some random cause via act blue and didn’t realize they were signing up for recurring donations through there —- like all political fundraising arms do as evidenced by all the people complaining that WinRed incessantly removes money from their account that they didn’t authorize. But again, only 1 of the 2 is being investigated and it’s obviously a corrupt investigation so here we are.
by hodgesrm | 2025-04-25 23:53:33+00:00
In my humble opinion Wikipedia is the single best thing thing to emerge from the Internet boom. Its name is a wordplay on one of the most important intellectual projects of the Enlightment.[0] The DC prosecutor letter reads like something straight out of the totalitarian playbook.[1]

Please donate now to show your support. It's time to fight back against this crap.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die

[1] "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-25 23:54:01+00:00
It's not true that only one of the two is facing investigation. Multiple state AGs are investigating WinRed, and rightly so - there's substantial evidence that they're using dark patterns to trick people into recurring donations when they intended to donate only once. The controversy is that a political official is ordering an investigation of ActBlue, not that political fundraising platforms ought to be above scrutiny.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-25 23:54:15+00:00
A telling data point to keep in mind, useful in various different contexts, is the contrast between what is being kept secret and what is being made openly public.

In this case:

- cuts to government spending are being made public (with little accuracy checking)

- additions to government spending are being kept secret

Was there a tender process for this? That information would generally be somewhat public (as in various private companies would need to know about it in order to quote).

Is it normal for NDAs to new signed for this kind of thing?
by trefoiled | 2025-04-25 23:54:53+00:00
It's also slightly deceptive to describe the DOGE cuts to USAID programs as "one time cuts." This is technically true, but it implies that the programs will be replaced with different programs with a similar cost, which likely isn't the case considering the Trump admin is trying to axe USAID permanently. The actual savings are whatever USAID's budget would have been had it continued to exist.
by spamizbad | 2025-04-25 23:55:11+00:00
If you call something gender fluid you lose tax exempt status? Good to know.

I just feel that logically this doesn't make any sense. Having the view or even promoting the idea that a mythical creature is "gender fluid" isn't an overt political action. It doesn't help any political party or politician. There are numerous fully-compliant tax-exempt organizations that directly aid LGBTQIA+ individuals. How are these above board but having someone submit content to your organization that claims the Nure-onna might be genderfluid is crossing into the realm of politics by influencing election outcomes?
by no_wizard | 2025-04-25 23:55:15+00:00
I work on an application that uses AI to index and evaluate any given corpus (like papers, knowledge bases etc) of knowledge and it has been a huge help here, and I know its because we are dealing with what is effectively structured data that can be well classified once identified, and we have relatively straightforward ways of doing identification. The real magic is when the finely tuned AI started to correctly stitch pieces of information together that previously didn't appear to be related that is the secret sauce beyond simply indexing for search

Code is similar - programming languages have rules that are well known, couple that with proper identification, pattern matching and thats how you get to these generated prototypes[0] done via so called 'vibe coding' (not the biggest fan of the term but I digress)

I think this is early signs that this generation of LLMs at least, are likely to be augmentations to many existing roles as opposed to strictly replacing them. Productivity will increase by a good magnitude once the tools are well understood and scoped to task

[0]: They really are prototypes. You will eventually hit walls by having an LLM generate the code without understanding the code.
by mulmen | 2025-04-25 23:55:34+00:00
> They aren't protecting US automakers, they're trying to retain some semblance of manufacturing in the US, which I'm fully in support of.

"The US can't make anything" is an absurd delusion. We are the second most productive economy in the world.

> Both because those are well-paying jobs and because it's a matter of national security.

We are fully capable of meeting our defense needs already. If you really care about reinforcing our military-industrial capability the best way to do it is to arm Ukraine.
by bigjimmyk3 | 2025-04-25 23:56:10+00:00
WT's process for living persons attempts to head this off. It's not perfect, but I think it's a pretty good method.

When you enter data about a living person, you are required to include an email which "invites" that person to WikiTree. If they don't respond within 30 days, their record (which was already private) is anonymized to last name and decade of birth.

Each record's privacy is configurable by its maintainer, or by those to whom the maintainer has granted access.

Obviously there are ways to goof this up or act maliciously, but I don't think the site makes intentional doxxing any easier than it already was.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-25 23:56:12+00:00
We don't even have a gator. My wife does the material handling herself. Our bill for horse moving is probably less than $400 a year in a bad year, a payment on a big-ass truck is upwards of $800 a month. For that matter, in bad years my wife's business subsidized my tech activities and not the other way around.
by stevage | 2025-04-25 23:56:30+00:00
The problem I frequently run into on various platforms is shows with some occasional foreign language that is meant to be subtitled. I end up getting either no subtitles (and it takes me a while to realise that I'm meant to understand) or I turn subtitles on and suddenly all the English is subtitled too, which I don't want.

I don't get why this is complicated.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-25 23:56:30+00:00
What I'm missing is something like <pinheader>, just for generic connectors - say, <connector variant="[microusb,miniusb,usba-female,usba-male,vga-male,vga-female]">.

Also, for resistors, is there a chance for PTCs and NTCs? And <diode> would benefit IMHO from a variant="[zener, schottky, photo]" plus associated parameters for them.
by sneak | 2025-04-25 23:56:43+00:00
This is simply because police don’t do their jobs. It would be trivial to simply wait outside bars at 2AM and give out tons of DUIs but a significant percentage of the population are alcoholics and this would result in massive blowback against the police.

Go to any small town watering hole at 2AM to see this in effect. The police have no legal obligation to prevent crime or enforce laws. None.
by seveibar | 2025-04-25 23:56:44+00:00
(tscircuit maintainer here) It might be easier to think of tscircuit as an electronics CAD kernel. We're MIT licensed and web-compatible, so we would make a great foundation for people building new EDA tools or people who would like to generate electronics (think domain-specific tools, e.g. a website that allows you to quickly build a custom keyboard)

FWIW In this case I think this board called out to freerouting for the routing. Companies have reached out to us with autorouting APIs, so we'll support different vendors and hopefully allow enough constraint-specification for people to get good results. Autorouting is important for reusability, even if it's routing between manually-routed sections (e.g. fanouts)
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-25 23:56:49+00:00
Accusing others of whataboutism is a way to dodge the real point: if identical behavior is excused for allies but condemned for opponents, the outrage isn't about ethics it's about weaponized partisanship.

Edit in response: The broader conversation is about weaponizing government power against political opponents, ActBlue was just one example give in many being discussed. You narrowed to ActBlue to have something you felt you could condemn safely, while ignoring the larger pattern. That selective focus is the weaponization your argument is trying to distract from.

Edit: Stepping back and noting the pattern there is no need to go into specifics of ActBlue. Especially when this VERY administration is blatantly selling access with their shill coin. Your hyper focus is a weaponized distraction, a 'gotcha' from the larger discussion. The administration does not care about corruption in fundraising, they care about targeting their opposition and shutting down any influence they have via fundraising, via information/knowledge sharing on the web, via universities with students willing to challenge the status quo.
by hagbard_c | 2025-04-25 23:56:51+00:00
No, that depends on your viewpoint. Those who come from a "democrat" background will certainly consider Trump to be more controversial than Obama while those from a Republican background will see Obama - especially second-term Obama - as far more controversial than Trump. Independents will vary on their interpretation but Obama is not likely to end up in the history books as the 'Change agent' he promised to be and will mostly likely be seen as partly responsible for the deterioration of race relations in the USA due to his use of and support for identity politics in a (successful) attempt to win a second period by cobbling together the 'coalition of the oppressed'.

How Trump will end up in the history books wholly depends on whether he succeeds in his attempts to curtail globalism and save the USA from becoming insolvent due to the rising debt. If the economy fails his presidency will as well and with that he'll be remembered for all the controversy around his political career. If he succeeds he'll be seen as a 'realpolitiker' who pulled the USA out of the downward spiral it had been in since ... the late 90's? The end of the cold war?

Of course there is also the chance of a large-scale conflict breaking out during his watch in which case his place in the history books also depends on how that ends.

Time will tell.
by sixdimensional | 2025-04-25 23:57:26+00:00
I was not up to speed, there seemed to be a period of time when CentOS support was dwindling and it even looked like the project might no longer have upstream support.

Regardless of the complex history of CentOS, RHEL, etc it seems like the original thrust of CentOS lives on rebranded as RockyLinux for example.. and CentOS stream serves Redhat's needs/purposes.

I think forking still is a valid method to resolving challenges for NATS here.
by xelxebar | 2025-04-25 23:57:31+00:00
You're absolutely right that this approach encodes domain complexity in the data, and I agree that's not the magic sauce per se.

Honestly, it's just really hard to convey how simple code can be. Imagine a nerual net inference engine in 30 straightforward lines of code and no libraries! [0] On one page you really can read off the overall algorithm, tradeoffs made, algorithmic complexity, and intended highlights.

Abstractions encourage hiding of information whereas subordination encourages keeping it implicit.

Are you familiar with Observability 2 and wide events? In this data-first model we effectively encode all program behavior into a queryable data structure. I'll often breakpoint something I'm working on and iteratively drill down into the data to get to the root of a problem. That's just so friggin cool, IMHO.

Abstraction almost always manages complexity by introducing some control flow barrier like an API call. Observing said control flow is a lot more indirect, though, either via statistical sampling or in flight observation. In contrast, imagine if you could simply throw SQL queries at your application and you get an idea of what I'm stumbling to convey here.

[0]:https://doi.org/10.1145/3589246.3595371
by warkdarrior | 2025-04-26 00:00:05+00:00
> they're trying to retain some semblance of manufacturing in the US, which I'm fully in support of. > > Both because those are well-paying jobs and because it's a matter of national security.

Why should manufacturing jobs be well-paying? Human productivity has not kept up with business improvements at all. A contemporary robot can assemble car modules much faster than a robot from, say, the 60s. A human now works at the same speed as a human from the 60s.
by anonymars | 2025-04-26 00:00:11+00:00
I don't think they even need to be illegal immigrants based on what we are seeing so far with detentions and deportations.

For example Rümeysa Öztürk (the topic popped up on a now-flagged submission, I'm not sure the etiquette about linking to that at this point). Mahmoud Khalil is another one (permanent resident).
by clipsy | 2025-04-26 00:00:22+00:00
Have you bothered to do any sort of comparison as to how similar attacks are reported? At a quick glance, I see nothing on George W Bush's wiki page[0] about the 2002 consulate attack in Kolkata[1], for example.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_attack_on_American_cultur...
by tzs | 2025-04-26 00:00:44+00:00
> Before being named U.S. attorney, Martin appeared on Russia-backed media networks more than 150 times, The Washington Post reported last week. In one appearance on RT in 2022, he said there was no evidence of military buildup on Ukraine’s boarders only nine days before Russia invaded the country. He further criticized U.S. officials as warmongering and ignoring Russia security concerns.

This is getting ridiculous. Is there anyone associated with this administration who does not have a record of promoting Russia's positions?
by muzani | 2025-04-26 00:00:58+00:00
It's going to be more about engineering. We don't need to know how transistors work to make a website. But moving forward, you do want to know patterns like repositories. You want to know terms like "decompose a conditional" - most programmers already decompose conditionals, they just don't know what it's called because we never had to use the term. AI knows all the term, use the language. AI is also amazing with stuff like DDD, and I find that when working on some creative work, I might ask it to just break down a concept into ubiquitous language and such.

And let's say AI does all the programming for us, but engineers are there to know what can be programmed and what couldn't. Engineers are there to prevent business from trying to make flying submarines.

Basically engineers are the girl in front of the computer who can answer this question: https://xkcd.com/1425/
by instagib | 2025-04-26 00:01:47+00:00
Take this long YouTube transcript, convert it to readable English with punctuation, paragraphs, do not summarize, do not delete any words, etc. There are more rules but you get the idea.

Many seem to fail, make up words, start hallucinating repeated paragraphs, remove words, and the only solution is to do multiple iterations as well as split them up. Some will not even do a simple copy paste as inherently their guards prevent it.
by hagbard_c | 2025-04-26 00:01:59+00:00
Why are you glad for a downvote? Just because you don't agree with Sanger's point of view does not make it less worthwhile to read about it. Censorship is not something to be glad about and yes, downvoting opinions outside of your desired narrative until they are greyed out into oblivion or killed is a form of censorship.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-26 00:02:08+00:00
While ARPANET itself reportedly cost somewhere between 10 - 20 million USD, which is relatively cheap, the precursor research that allowed the internet to take off - which is directed more at general computing and advanced computer networks, the telecommunications investments - cost many billions of dollars, it was mostly public money is the biggest difference.

That said, private companies are pumping alot of money into this space, but technological progress is a peaks and valley situation. I imagine most of the money will ultimately move the needle very little following things of dubious hindsight value
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-26 00:02:53+00:00
The law linked says that they must copy the official account at the time of the message, or they can forward the message to the official account within 20 days. It doesn’t outright ban Signal. What I provided as parameters could have been followed. We don’t know. Someone would have to file a FOIA. The only ramifications are political in nature. Trump could decide to remove him.
by pas | 2025-04-26 00:03:35+00:00
This seems like a straw-man. The stories are much more complex than this (in my experience/opinion), usually directly reporting about immoral acts by peers, lack of support, unfair/inequal treatment, hypocrisy, and so on. The event of the failed reproduction is at best an intermezzo.

Not to mention that we know a lot of overhyped results did fail replication and then powerful figures in academia did their best to pretend that still their thrones were not placed on top of sandcastles.
by alganet | 2025-04-26 00:03:47+00:00
It sounds weird. Why does it look like a conspiracy theory?

Yo dawg, I heard you like to appeal to conspiracy theory types...

Why would someone introduce lots of seemingly indiscernible edits into important articles, fully knowing that the edit history is available to anyone who wants to look?

It would make more sense to spread propaganda in a place that doesn't fully track it.

Unless the exposition of such tracking edits as an obvious smoking gun exists to be staged to look like someone else did it.

Of course, it could all be to trigger a recursive conspiracytheorypocallipse that further erodes any belief in community generated content.

What should we do, Master Anakin? There's too many of them conspiracies.
by seveibar | 2025-04-26 00:03:50+00:00
We think that intuitive element names should be added to the tscircuit spec, even if they're redundant/there are multiple ways to do something. Right now you would probably use a <chip /> (very general purpose), but <connector /> is a great proposal for an element.

Yes diodes should have variants, I was surprised this wasn't already in the spec and created an issue to add it: https://github.com/tscircuit/props/issues/211

Yes we would support PTCs and NTCs for resistors, in general anything that helps with simulation, part selection, design intent, functionality, placement or appearance is in scope.
by godelski | 2025-04-26 00:04:24+00:00
> You're assuming that `police.knowledge` is sourced from an infallible oracle

I thought it was clear we cannot assume police knowledge is infallible. Sure, let's refactor to `police.knowledge` is now `police.belief`. I do not think this changes things.

> You need a giant try-catch around the whole thing

Sure, I agree here too. In fact, everything was predicated on this! It is all predicated on things not always working!

>>>> The logic works just fine if you recognize that it is impossible to achieve 100% success rate. It is absolutely insane to me that on a website full of engineers people do not consider failure analysis when it comes to laws.

The point was to show that there is no good logic for not doing this. I disagreed that you can only reach the conclusion that Sanctuary Cities are a good idea "IF AND ONLY IF" you view illegal immigrants as humans. That's incorrect. The conclusion is still valid even if you dehumanize them and are looking out for yourself.

>>>> Seems like you could be completely selfish, hate illegal immigrants, AND benefit through policies of Sanctuary Cities and giving them TINs

Certainly we should make this far more robust if we are to actually deploy it. Hell, most of my functions don't even execute anything! They just have comments! Critique it all you want, there's a shit ton wrong if we want to try to execute it. But I was writing fucking pseudocode for the explicit purpose of discussion. Hell yeah there's a lot more conditional statements, catches, interrupts, loops, and all sorts of stuff that needs to happen prior to the pseudocode takes place. But the fuck do you want from me? A link to a GitHub project with a fully fleshed out legal framework that's bulletproof and written in rust? We're trying to have a conversation here. Even if I did that no one is going to read that here. To have a conversation we need to at least have good faith interpretation of one another. Hell, that's one of those conditionals that even precedes our conditional logic!

And, aren't we on the same fucking side? What the hell are you yelling at me for when a good faith interpretation of my comment reads in agreement with your response?! There's absolutely nothing I wrote that I'm lacking knowledge of basic human rights.

Were you confused because I wrote "I disagree" in response to hypeatei? Did you assume I disagreed with their point? Because I was in agreement. The part I disagreed with was the "only works if you consider illegal immigrants as people" part. I apologize, I dropped the "only" in the quote, but something seriously went wrong if that misstep results in a complete misinterpretation. My point is that even if you dehumanize illegal immigrants[0], Sanctuary Cities are *STILL* a good decision. I do not think it is hard to reach the conclusion that I'm saying "There is no good logic in which a Sanctuary City is not a good idea." What is going on here?! Are we just fighting for the sake of fighting?!

[0] I need to be *ABSOLUTELY CLEAR* that I am not condoning this!
by icoe | 2025-04-26 00:05:24+00:00
Tonic.ai acquired Fabricate (built by the founder of Mockaroo) to augment its synthetic data platform. Fabicate has an LLM first approach to synthetic data, letting users create realistic, relational data from schemas, SQL, or natural language. Tonic is a synthetic data company focused on supplying data for SDLC workflows and model training.
by galeaspablo | 2025-04-26 00:05:42+00:00
Great follow up question, thank you. I could talk about this "topic" for days, so I appreciate the opportunity to expand. :)

Let's imagine ourselves as a couple of engineers at Acme Foreign Exchange House. We'd like to track Acme's net cash position across multiple currencies, and execute trades accordingly (e.g., heding). And we'd like to retrospectively analyze our hedges, to assess their effectiveness.

Let's say I have this set of transactions (for accounts A, B, C, D, E, F, etc.)

A1 -> A2 -> A3 -> A4

B1 -> B2 -> B3 -> B4

C1-> C2

D1 -> D2 -> D3 -> D4

E1 -> E2

F1

Let's say that that:

- E1 was a deposit made into account E for $2M USD.

- E2 was an outgoing transfer of $2M USD sent to account F (incoming £1.7M GBP at F1).

If we consume our transactions and partiton our consumption by account id, we could get into a state where E1 and F1 are reflected in our net position, but E2 isn't. That is, our calculation has both $2M USD and £1.7M GBP, when in reality we only ever held either $2M USD or £1.7M GBP.

So what could we do?

1. Make sure that we respect causality order. I.e., there's no F1 reflected in our net position if we haven't processed E2.

2. Make sure that pairs of transactions (e.g., E2 and F1) update our net position atomically.

This is otherwise known as a "consistent cut" (see slide 25 here https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6410/2011fa/lectures/19...).

Opinion: the world is causally ordered in arbitrary ways as above. But the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure more readily available to us struggle at modeling arbitrary partially ordered causality graphs. So we shrug our shoulders, and we learn to live with the edge cases. But it doesn't have to be so.