MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amai | 2025-04-07 13:20:11+00:00
Extra dimensions are always a desperate measure. If you add them to your theory you open up a huge parameter space, because you have no clue about the number, size and topology of the extra dimensions. What is missing is a real physical symmetry or reason that would enforce the existence of extra dimensions and on the other side restricts its geometry and topology.

Just adding more parameters to your theory will allow you to overfit the data better, but that does not mean you understand more about nature.
by e2le | 2025-04-07 13:20:16+00:00
>At the minimum I'd hope they a) do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement b) cut some generous but reasonable slack to small organizations.

Cookie banners aren't a requirement unless you wish to store cookies that aren't strictly necessary (statistics, marketing, etc)[0]. Cookies that are essential for the user to browse the site (login tokens) don't require consent.

It doesn't help the situation that a large number of sites seem to maliciously comply with these regulations.

[0]: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
by micromacrofoot | 2025-04-07 13:20:34+00:00
That's a sorry excuse, one of these guys was part of this Signal chat on their mobile device while in Russia... an absolutely foolish move regardless of UX.

There was nothing necessary about the conversation that couldn't wait for a secure location. The government will go as far to set up a secure comms room in employees homes if needed, it's not like they don't know how to secure communication.

A lot of us have had to work within specific constraints for data security, I've had to make hour long trips because I forgot a secure laptop in my office. No one would have died if I did some work on my personal device, but I still went out of my way to follow procedure.

These people have the self control of toddlers.
by diggan | 2025-04-07 13:20:51+00:00
> possible while forcing the exact behaviour regulators intend

That's what I'm seeing happened?

1. Companies store personal data willy nilly

2. Regulators create directives that force companies to stop doing that, or at least be upfront about it

3. Companies who still want to do it, are at least up front about it, telling users what is happening

4. Users now complain about regulators that companies are letting them know, missing the fact that the only companies who are adding those banners, are companies who are hellbent on doing these things anyways.

The blame seems misdirected to me.
by jajko | 2025-04-07 13:21:01+00:00
A defining pillar of a society is either a very strong common goal or enemy. US supplanted both, so yeah actually thank you for that.

My 2 cents - wanted to take family on a trip to western US, parks and maybe SF, not in fucking hell now or in next 2 decades. I know its just some tiny drop in the bucket, but that ~10k spent locally in those few weeks will be spent elsewhere and if enough people will do the same (which they will do), tourism will suffer a bit. Maybe US folks will go there more, who knows (US tourists are still very welcome in Europe, we just hate the people you vote in because they clearly hate us).
by projektfu | 2025-04-07 13:21:11+00:00
I would guess that it has to do with much more available genetic information on dogs and more existing CRISPR work with them. However, I do not know if these wolves will give us a lot of information.

That said, the dodo is on Colossal's list of projects, along with the wooly mammoth and the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-07 13:21:23+00:00
I'm not surprised at all. That's North Korea/Russia levels of terror and it's honestly sickening that Trump can just go on TV and say "yeah it's a good deal I'm glad we're working with El Salvador".It's maddening the admin can admit a "mistake" but then fight with a judge that they can't be ordered to fix a blatant obsruction of the constitution they loved waving around the year prior

I wouldn't take any risks either.
by hun3 | 2025-04-07 13:21:36+00:00
I think we're going a bit past each other.

In AVR or other MPU-less architecture you can literally modify the string literal memory without triggering a crash.

Why? Because there is no memory protection ("rodata") at all.

And such microprocessors are still in use today, so it's a bit too far fetched to say "really old code."

It's UB, sure, but how many embedded programmers actually care? The OP's proposal is trying to change the type system so that this UB becomes much less likely to trigger in practice.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-07 13:21:49+00:00
> why argue hypotheticals here when I look out my window and I see teslas self driving just fine?

I'll reiterate:

2019 - Tesla didn’t fix an Autopilot problem for three years, and now another person is dead

That's not a hypothetical. How do you figure this result indicates the Tesla theory of camera-only navigation is working out "just fine"? This level of professional negligence should be considered a crime.

> And if it was truly unsafe or compromised we'd have seen a good deal of evidence

We see that evidence all the time. Teslas veering into oncoming traffic, hitting parked vehicles, driving through loony tunes walls where other cars stop, being fooled by smokescreens where other cars are not, and decapitating multiple people in a similar way that would have been mitigated by LiDAR. And now apparently real-ending motorcyclists.

This whole self driving scam is an exercise in the 80/20 rule. They spent 20% of the time to get 80% of the results, and that's why you claim "I see teslas self driving just fine"

But Tesla has been promising the other 20% will be here in 5 years for 10 years. That last 20% is the difference between the system being "Full" self driving and a fraud. Right now what we see is a vaporware fraud, and they're not going to be able to deliver.
by s_dev | 2025-04-07 13:21:53+00:00
Ireland or at least Dublin Airport is unique in that it has 'US Preclearance' so when you land you simply pick up your bags at the carousel and leave the airport as you've passed US immigration based in Dublin Airport.

This means if you're going to be denied entry it will probably be in Dublin which will make it a preferred airport of origin within the EU -- this is massively more convenient than getting stuck in JFK.
by piva00 | 2025-04-07 13:22:08+00:00
I travel quite a bit, and there are only 2 places on Earth where I was close to a shooting happening in real time: São Paulo, Brazil, and Oakland, California.

As much as the scenarios can be rare, there is an undeniable sense of everything hanging by a thin thread when traveling around the USA, which I've only experienced in Latin American countries in all my trips.

Giving that I'm originally from Brazil even though with Swedish citizenship, I won't be traveling to the USA anytime in the near future. I have no idea what could happen, might be a completely rare occurrence to be profiled at the border, jailed for no cause, etc., but there's nothing in the USA worth enough to make me even more paranoid at crossing its borders. It's more like the straw that finally broke the camel's back, it's been brewing for a while, I've been stopped by CBP for holding both a B-1/B-2 visa on my Brazilian passport as well as an ESTA on my Swedish one, I do not want the potential issues that another interrogation by CBP at present times could create, like being sent to some jail for 20 days instead of just being refused entry and put on a plane to get back to the EU.
by scottLobster | 2025-04-07 13:22:11+00:00
"Most" in this case means 49.81% of the vote, with 48.34% voting against. And that's with people largely expecting Trump to behave the same way as last time and a historically unpopular Democratic candidate. Whatever right wing cope you may have read, if the election were held today he'd probably lose.

Granted I don't blame foreigners for not risking ICE abuse. And Hockey fans can just be dumb sometimes. A lot of Americans have severe recency bias, the right is saying "the same people telling you this will be catastrophic were the same ones who locked down schools over a cold and told you inflation would be transitory". These people are going to have to touch the stove to learn it's hot, and then they'll admit that it's hot but deny that it's burning them, and then enough at the margins will start to defect such that they start losing elections, leaving a hard-core to endlessly complain about how if they'd only held on until 3rd degree burns the stove would have turned itself off.
by 9rx | 2025-04-07 13:23:05+00:00
> The characteristics in that paragraph don't apply to new mom & pop restaurants, dry cleaners, new law practices, etc

I fully expect the founders of those businesses originally have dreams of their business becoming the next F500. But when validation fails...

> and very often associated with funding from VC.

If you keep reading we get to: "Unlike an entrepreneur, a start up founder doesn’t have a major financial motive." I'm not sure that is in line with the YC program. It is clearly focused on the huge exit.
by tptacek | 2025-04-07 13:23:12+00:00
Nobody is surprised that a Republican or Democratic nominee might have a strong take regarding Roe v Wade, because it's practically a litmus test for nomination. No nominee has ever been asked about Central Hudson v PSC NY. There's a reason for that. It's been 50 years and 3 different distinct courts and the only thing that seems to have happened with this body of case law is that protections for commercial speech have gotten stronger.
by Gracana | 2025-04-07 13:24:00+00:00
I've been using QwQ-32B a lot recently and while I quite like it (especially given its size), I noticed it will often misinterpret the system prompt as something I (the user) said, revealing secrets or details that only the agent is supposed to know. When I saw that it topped the "earliest out" chart, I wondered if that was part of the reason.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-07 13:24:12+00:00
FWIW, this project is promoting the ideas behind it as much as its own implementation. Personally, I'm a strong proponent of the underlying concept of "moldable development"; in fact, I think this isn't going far enough[0].

As for:

> Yet none of remarkable applications built with it except the tool itself.

The same is true of Smalltalk in general, and of Lisp, and some other technologies. Lack of wide adoption and large amount of success stories is, alone, not a proof the idea/technology is fundamentally bad. The choices in our industry are strongly path-dependent, driven primarily by popularity contests and first-mover advantage. This dynamic is famously known as "Worse is Better"[5].

What the original essays didn't account for, however, is that whatever gets moderately successful today, becomes a building block for more software tomorrow. As we stack up layers of software, the lower layers become almost completely frozen in place (changing them risks breaking too many things). "Worse is Better" sounds fine on the surface, but when you start stacking layers of "worse" on top of each other, you get the sorry state of modern software :).

So yeah, those ideas may not fit the industry today, but it's worth keeping them in mind as a reference, and try to move towards them, however slowly, to try and gradually improve how software is made.

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[0] - I write about that regularly; look up my comments with the phrase plaintext "single source of truth"[1] for some entry points, like [2] or [3].

TL;DR: use of such "contextual tools" should become the way we build software. We need to have environments that come packed with various interactive "lenses" through which you can view and edit the common codebase using whatever representation and modality (textual, graphical, or something else) is most convenient for the thing you're doing this minute, switching and combining them as needed[4]. What we consider a codebase now - plaintext files we collaborate on directly - needs to evolve towards being a serialization format, and we shouldn't need to look at it directly, not any more often than today we look at binary object files compilers spit out.

[1] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42778917

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428928

[4] - And saving the combinations and creating new tools easily, too. Perspectives you use to understand and shape your project are as much a part of it as the deployable result itself.

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
by ta1243 | 2025-04-07 13:24:28+00:00
Many americans loved what Hitler was doing to Make Germany Great Again.

Charles Lindbergh for example blamed the Jews for WW2

> National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our [USA] population favored a similar course for America. ... The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-07 13:25:00+00:00
In my experience in the last few months political stories come up regularly. Most are flagged, but the ones that aren't tend to get many hundreds of votes and many hundreds of comments. So the flagging tends to act as consolidation into a small number of stories.

For instance, this one is currently on front: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610246

If you're looking for the political comment on the smaller stories, use an alternate interface like hckrnews.com -- the discussion happens long after they've been flagged off the front page.
by worldsayshi | 2025-04-07 13:25:19+00:00
> Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design. Sometimes a website might not use standard categories, and in that case, Consent-O-Matic will always try to submit the most privacy preserving settings.

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

So sounds like that should be somewhat supported.
by nbaugh1 | 2025-04-07 13:25:24+00:00
A lot of people do immigrate by flying in and not leaving when their visa expires. It doesn't make for very spectacular news footage though. Not sure what the numbers are, but I used to work in restaurants with lots of people who were "undocumented" and they all came to the US via flight. The people crossing the border on foot are absolutely destitute and easy targets of animosity
by krxci | 2025-04-07 13:25:41+00:00
This is a deeply philosophical question. But it's highly dependent on the circumstances of a particular animal's extinction. Is it ethical to resurrect the Wolly Mammoth into our current climate when it's significantly warmer than the climate of the Ice Age? Likely not.

Was a species hunted to extinction? Maybe restoring that population would ease our collective conscience to some minuet degree.

So maybe bringing back some of these species is being done so as an apologetic gesture? Perhaps out of hubris?

To be fair, we're notoriously cruel to the animals that we farm for mass food production and less directly to wild animals (when human activity destroys their habitat). Images of such farm operations might remind you of conditions imposed on alleged dissedents by dictatorial regimes. You know, those same conditions that are condemned as atrocious when imposed on humans by humans. And this kind of treatment is still absolutely prevalent today on humans and other animals.
by Loughla | 2025-04-07 13:25:43+00:00
But that's almost impossible. If the law says that all statements made MUST be true (which it kind of already does, by the way), companies will exclusively use weasel phrases to avoid any lawsuit. Otherwise, when you're trying to sell phlaborivin and bill it as a cure for cancer, when you find the one patient that doesn't respond to treatment, you're screwed.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that saying true things is what we already require. Human nature will pervert that system and follow the letter of the law; that's the literal system we have now.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-07 13:25:47+00:00
Not that I don’t like to dunk on Trump when given the opportunity, but just honestly Trump doesn’t lead in a manner that leads to deep HN style discussions. If there were a few policy wonks on his team that released 100 pages of explanation on trade, we could discuss that, but as it stands, Trumps leadership aligns with sort of the “bad” side of politics, in that it’s mostly emotional/intuitive and there’s not a lot to discuss. He put out, what 1 page on his tariff decisions? There’s a pretty global consensus they don’t make sense, what’s to deeply discuss?
by elric | 2025-04-07 13:26:00+00:00
Anecdotally: a couple of years after 9/11, when I was a student, some of my friends who travelled to the US mysteriously disappeared for a few days. Turns out someone in the friend group had done some hackery type things (I won't go into more details to preserve their anonymity), and they were basically "detained" and interrogated for several days without being able to notify anyone, including any potential lawyers (not that students have lawyers on speed dial, but whatever). The culprit wasn't even among the people who were detained. No arrests were ever made. Just some good old scare tactics against teenagers.

Basically: behaviour at US borders has been iffy for a lot longer than some folks might think.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-04-07 13:26:30+00:00
> Americans do not understand how much press there is outside the US about tourists from Ireland / Germany / Canada getting locked up in ICE jails for weeks on end.

And they shouldn't. As far as I know, those cases of German getting locked up media coverage was intense, but the stories didn't check out. Those were cases of Germans entering by foot via Tijuana, making condracting claims to the ICE officer - raising suspicions with those officers. In case of entering the US by plane, I haven't seen and credible articles that resulted in detention.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-04-07 13:27:08+00:00
If your salary would drop 95% tomorrow if you didn't tell everyone at the office 'I may remember this conversation' every time you see them, what would you do?

Non targeted ads pay 90+% less than targeted. Sure it's not 'required', but the vast majority of businesses would fail overnight if their revenue dropped 90%.
Show HN: Converge, the daily AI word association game
by cwackerfuss | 2025-04-07 13:27:17+00:00
1 year ago I was issued a DMCA takedown from the New York Times.

Due to alleged copyright infringement with Wordle, they requested I immediately remove Reactle, the similar word game and open-source codebase that I maintained that garnered 4k stars on Github and spawned 100s of fun variations in many different languages and themes (anyone remember Taylordle?). These downstream apps also received requests for takedown.

Then the media caught wind. 404 Media broke the story, and over the next 2 days, CBS, Gizmodo, AP, and NPR reached out over LinkedIn for comments. It was a whirlwind of attention I wasn’t ready for.

Now, 1 year later, I’m seeking vengeance!

How you ask? Well…. I built a brand new daily puzzle game. Friends, family and colleagues have already been enjoying the challenge daily and I’d love you to try it too.

Here’s how it works: You choose any word. The AI starts with the daily word. You get 8 chances to meet in the middle. That’s it.

Can you converge?

P.s. here's a link to the NPR story: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/13/1238142507/cease-desist-new-y...
by hartator | 2025-04-07 13:27:41+00:00
> Nobody will throw you in jail in indefinite detention in another country with no human rights because of your skin colour, beard, tattoos or anything of the like.

Most EU country police don’t need probable cause to detain you. It does happen to be detained for no reason outside of profiling. For example, in France, you can be sent to jail for up to 24h with no probable cause.
by alxlaz | 2025-04-07 13:27:42+00:00
^ this. Once (oh, actually twice!) while travelling, I have had entirely benign trouble with paperwork (things like not filling a form correctly on the first attempt). Explaining the circumstances to someone who has to figure out if you're scatter-brained, unlucky, or an actual criminal, isn't particularly fun, but it's been entirely professional and civilised. We resolved it all in about half an hour. Didn't even miss a flight.

Now that it's a political issue, rather than a logistical matter, so it's no longer professional or civilised, no thanks. I have one US customer and thankfully Google Meet is enough, because I'm not getting anywhere near the US for them. I can find other customers if I have to, but I don't think legal fees for navigating the oh-we-totally-had-good-reason-to-think-he-was-a-terrorist-your-honour jail are as easily deductible. As for leisure, haha, no, there are plenty of things to see all over the world where the chances of getting jailed because you said the wrong thing about the wrong president are much smaller. My visa expires this year, I'm not planning to renew it any time soon.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-07 13:28:12+00:00
Should is aspirational language, and is not legally binding or even coercing. It's like an encouraged practice.

Cookie banners where sites have to say "we're sharing your details with 287 partners" are okay because they should be shameful for the industry. Cookie banners where you're explaining basic technologies of the web -- "we store a cookie to create a stateful session with your browser" -- are obnoxious noise that do only harm.
by lazarkap | 2025-04-07 13:28:29+00:00
So BuzzBench can basically be a health check for your web app, it hammers your endpoints with requests to see if they hold up under pressure.

You can definitely use it for both quick "will this break under load" tests before deploying, and to track performance over time so you can catch when things start getting sluggish.

The cool part is you can run tests from pretty much anywhere, your laptop, your CI pipeline, different regions - so you get realistic results rather than some theoretical benchmark.
by rchaud | 2025-04-07 13:28:44+00:00
March 2028 is a long time away from now. Plenty of time for political haymaking before reality sets in.

In 2017, Foxconn said they would move some production to Wisconsin, and that was enough to pick up $3bn in state tax breaks. 13,000 jobs turned into less than 1,000, and absolutely no hardware was produced. Some of the industrial properties ended up being sold to Microsoft.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/11/10/wha...
by Zak | 2025-04-07 13:28:45+00:00
The main reason people shoot raw is to have more creative control over the final product.

A simple example is white balance. The sensor doesn't know anything about it, but typical postprocessing makes both a 2700K incandescent and a 5700K strobe look white. A photographer might prefer to make the incandescent lights look more yellow. There's a white balance setting in the camera to do that when taking the picture, but it's a lot easier to get it perfect later in front of a large color-calibrated display than in the field.

Another example is dealing with a scene containing a lot of dynamic range, such as direct sunlight and dark shadows. The camera's sensor can capture a greater range of brightness than a computer screen can display or a printer can represent, so a photographer might prefer to delay decisions about what's dark grey with some details and what's clipped to black.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-07 13:28:59+00:00
Eh, you can see in this thread how all sorts of things are confusing. What, exactly, requires a cookie banner? Does an IP address in a log count as personal information on its own? And so on.

I can see why it was intended to be generic, but the lack of clear guidance and especially the lack of de minimis exemptions (one of the things mentioned to be addressed!) are a very real problem.

"What tests do I have to perform before asserting that I am CE compliant" is a similar, even vaguer question.