MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rustcleaner | 2025-04-25 16:24:20+00:00
Again, a good (in function) hammer, knife, pen, or gun does not care who holds it, it will act to the maximal best of its specifications up to the skill-level of the wielder. Anything less is not a good product. A gun which checks owner is a shitty gun. A knife which rubberizes on contact with flesh is a shitty knife, even if it only does it when it detects a child is holding it or a child's skin is under it! Why? Show me a perfect system? Hmm?
by whats_a_quasar | 2025-04-25 16:25:03+00:00
This doesn't really have any fifth amendment implications. The prohibition against self incrimination reads "no person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

That doesn't relate to being compelled to attend a proceeding in person where another federal agency can arrest you. If the government can legally arrest you, it does not matter if they determine your location based on another proceeding.
by trealira | 2025-04-25 16:25:24+00:00
You seem to be quite blasé about the possibility of autocracy. But yes, there is a risk that Trump becomes a dictator and we're no longer a nation of laws. It depends on how people like us react to consolidations of power like this, or the illegal impoundment, or cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia's. The law only matters insofar as we and our representatives can enforce it.
by Brybry | 2025-04-25 16:25:32+00:00
Aside for signing my signature (which I almost never need to do anymore) then the only time I need to handwrite is to fill out forms, usually for medical purposes, and I don't go to the doctor every year (yes, I recognize this is unwise).

If I have time I prefer to scan forms and fill them out with a computer.

All my text generation is digital using either a keyboard or touchscreen.
by bjornsing | 2025-04-25 16:25:58+00:00
> Key-centric access: instead of partition-based access, efficient access and replay of all the messages with one and the same key would be desirable.

I’ve been working on a datastore that’s perfect for this [1], but I’m getting very little traction. Does anyone have any ideas why that is? Is my marketing just bad, or is this feature just not very useful after all?

1. https://www.haystackdb.dev/
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-25 16:26:00+00:00
This is not normal/acceptable in the US. I remember when parallel construction was thought of as a horrible/unacceptable violation of the Constitution in the US. Now the 'Constitution' party doesn't give AF and loves it. It's crazy how far we let slippery slopes take us. All because of convenience or 'it's not that big of a deal yet'.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-25 16:27:02+00:00
ok, i see ! bad wording XD

Soviets did not want czechoslovakia to have nuclear power, soviets wanted to be only one enriching, so czechs designed their own - gas cooled one, which did not needed enriched fuel. Wikipedia says "with help of soviets" but wikipedia forgot to say that soviet "input" was reason said reactor had so many problems.

And after that they were forced to use water cooled ones from soviets. But they built every screw in those 5 power plants. 15-20 reactors.

Also currently working plants were progressively updated and electrical output increased by 30 %.

Czechs were last in europe to have uranium mines, some of mines were used as slave labor camps for dissidents / political prisoners (60 000 i think) under soviet occupation (pre1989). They were mining radioactive ore with bare hands and lived in buildings without heating. ( clergy was big part of political prisoner population, connection with clergy man Mendel )
by paganel | 2025-04-25 16:27:32+00:00
> I don't expect Congress to start getting arrested until or if they ever do any significant pushback against Trump and his cronies

They won't, or they would have done so already. Granted, I'm not an American so I might be seeing things the wrong way from the other side of the planet, but it has been 3 months already, enough time for Congress to at least be seen as doing something, anything.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-25 16:27:50+00:00
What I have encountered, is a bit different.

There’s a fetching shade of gray, to my well-coiffed pompadour, and I find many younger folks are almost immediately hostile, before I’ve even had a chance to give them a reason to be.

Speaking only for myself, I am very enthusiastic about all kinds of things, and devote a great deal of effort towards helping folks out. There’s reasons for that, which is a story for another time. Suffice it to say that I’ve seen darker times, and that can add a lot of shine, to what others take for granted.

That said, I’ve also seen quite a bit of life, and have learned where a lot of the claymores are planted, so some of that “helping folks out,” is mentioning things like “Are you sure you want to pet that rattling snake?”.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-25 16:28:00+00:00
> Then you go to list all the problems with just the car. And your problem is putting your own AI on a car to self-drive.(Linux isn't AI btw).

It's not just about AI driving. I don't want anyone's shoddy and not signed-off crap on the roads - and Europe/Germany does a reasonably well job at that: it is possible to build your own car or (heavily) modify an existing one, but as soon as whatever you do touches anything safety-critical, an expert must sign-off on it that it is road-worthy.

> What about putting your own linux on the multi-media interface of the car?

The problem is, with modern cars it's not "just" a multimedia interface like a car radio - these things are also the interface for critical elements like windshield wipers. I don't care if your homemade Netflix screen craps out while you're driving, but I do not want to be the one your car crashes into because your homemade HMI refused to activate the wipers.

> What about a CPAP machine? heart monitor?

Absolutely no homebrew/aftermarket stuff, if you allow that you will get quacks and frauds that are perfectly fine exploiting gullible idiots. The medical DIY community is also something that I don't particularly like very much - on one side, established manufacturers love to rip off people (particularly in hearing aids), but on the other side, with stuff like glucose pumps actual human lives are at stake. Make one tiny mistake and you get a Therac.

> Microwave?

I don't get why anyone would want Linux on their microwave in the first place, but again, from my perspective only certified and unmodified appliances should be operated. Microwaves are dangerous if modified.
by KittenInABox | 2025-04-25 16:28:01+00:00
That's my problem: while the arrested person is already forced the humiliation of being arrested, having their freedoms stripped from them, they have no remedy and have to wait in the state of being humiliated while the government who prosecutes them isn't also restrained or humiliated during the wait to present evidence.

And additionally, there have been several recent prominent cases where the government has failed to produce any evidence in court while publicly saying to the media that they're arresting criminals-- of course, the government is able to access the media to claim this while the people they've arrested who, again, have had their freedoms restricted while the people who restrict them are under no similar restraint are unable to do the same!

We can see this in action right now: the government gets to claim to the media that the judge is obstructing arrests of illegal immigrants, while the judge can do no such media counterclaim and has to wait in restraints.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-04-25 16:28:11+00:00
I think it is reasonable to be prepared and have options to leave when basic civil rights and rule of law are being systematically tested and weakened on behalf of the most powerful individual in the country, who had sworn to uphold them. I would say it is irresponsible to ignore or minimize the magnitude of changes in the US in the past 100 days.

I didn't say to sell all belongings and move. I said to have a way out if it becomes necessary. The FBI is being weaponized against judges, right now, and this without any modern precedent.
by kemayo | 2025-04-25 16:28:14+00:00
I don't think we've got enough information to say how similar it is. That one sounds like it hung on Joseph actively helping the immigrant to take an unusual route out. If this judge just sent the agents off for their permission then wrapped things up normally and didn't get involved beyond that, I can't see this going anywhere.

There's a lot of room for details-we-don't-yet-know to change that opinion, of course.
by TuringTest | 2025-04-25 16:28:18+00:00
> If you mean LLMs, I actually view them as a regression with respect to basically every one of the "characteristics of notation" desired by the article.

LLMs are not used for notation; you are right that they're not precise enough for accurate knowledge.

What LLMs do as a tool is solving the Frame Problem, allowing the reasoning system to have access to the "common sense" knowledge that is needed for a specific situation, retrieving it from a humongous amount of background corpus of diverse knowledge, in an efficient way.

Classic AI based on logical inference was never able to achieve this retrieval, thus the unfulfilled promises in the 2000s to have autonomous agents based on ontologies. Those promises seem approachable now thank to the huge statistical databases of all topics stored in compressed LLM models.

A viable problem-solving system should combine the precision of symbolic reasoning with the breadth of generative models, to create checks and heuristics that guide the autonomous agents to interact with the real world in ways that make sense given the background relevant cultural knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-25 16:29:02+00:00
"AI safety" is a meaningful term, it just means something else. It's been co-opted to mean AI censorship (or "brand safety"), overtaking the original meaning in the discourse.

I don't know if this confusion was accidental or on purpose. It's sort of like if AI companies started saying "AI safety is important. That's why we protect our AI from people who want to harm it. To keep our AI safe." And then after that nobody could agree on what the word meant.
by armandososa | 2025-04-25 16:29:07+00:00
> Wait, is the angle of the book that she’s a good person? That can’t possibly be right…

Well, she paints herself as an idealist who believes Facebook can be an agent of [presumably positive] change, so at least she thinks of herself as good in some sense of the word. That’s what I found intriguing about that shark attack prologue. If it had been written by a third person or if this were a novelization, it would feel like a character-revealing moment, telling the audience that she’s actually selfish and self-absorbed, and setting expectations for her behavior before getting into the story.
by genter | 2025-04-25 16:29:20+00:00
Kash Patel's since-deleted tweet: https://www.threads.com/@pstomlinson/post/DI3-hnfuDvL

> Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he's been in custody since, ...

I feel like I'm watching reality TV. Which makes sense, we have a reality TV star for president and his cabinet is full of Fox news hosts.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-04-25 16:29:40+00:00
not really. both requires that you know obscure and badly documented stuff.

systemd whole premise is "people will not read the distro or bash scripting manual"...

then nobody read systemd's (you have even less reason, since it's badly written, ever changing in conflicting ways, and a single use tool)

so you went from complaining your coworkers can't write bash to complaining they don't know they have to use EXEC= EXEC=/bin/x

because random values, without any hint, are lists of commands instead of string values.
by hypeatei | 2025-04-25 16:30:08+00:00
> My optimistic take is that this is the sort of stupid overreach that works to turn other arms of government against the executive

This is your take given the blatant corruption and clear constitutional violations of this administration? Sure, let's hope that norms and vibes save us against an executive ignoring due process. Those other branches don't even have a way to enforce anything; the executive are the ones who arrest people.
by hurray-sandbag | 2025-04-25 16:30:22+00:00
As soon as California left, it would be a very small, weak territory with almost no military capacity.

And it would be home to some of the most important natural resources around, deep water ports in particular.

Imagine that California was a separate country today. Military conquest by America would be an obvious course of action.

The real outcome of this would be the transformation of the coastal cities into non-state US territories under military control, without no voting rights or citizenship.

And that actually might be a pretty good outcome?
by BizarroLand | 2025-04-25 16:30:28+00:00
When digital recording became a thing, there was a huge backlash against it from the artists and studios who had invested obscene amounts of money into full analog recording studios, saying that it made the process too easy and would fill the world with amateur slop.

Records were released with labels proudly saying that the albums were recorded fully analog.

When Autotune became a thing, there were artists complaining that it was inauthentic and cheating, allowing talentless hacks to sound like they have more natural talent than actually talented human beings, and released albums proudly saying that they used no autotune.

Even now, the hint that a natural sounding singer is using autotune is a common insult among recording musicians, even though almost everyone does.

Whether you agree with the original analog non-autotuned musicians or not, (which, honestly, I think they were correct to a certain degree, but that's its own discussion), AI music generation is almost certainly here to stay.

That being said, digital recording made making music possible for people who would have never had the opportunity otherwise, and had generated a lot of good stuff that would have otherwise never have existed.

Autotune has enabled people to express themselves the way they want to express themselves even though they didn't otherwise have the talent or skill to do so.

AI "might" make it so that people who can imagine a song they could never spend the time and energy needed to create such a song to create the songs they hear in their heads they way they imagine them.

AI "might" give people the ability to express themselves in ways they never could before.

It doesn't yet do that, it only remixes what it's heard before. But combine that with people then tweaking/reprocessing that output, doing other things to it, making AI mashed potato music into crisp potato chip music, it can be a good thing.

Doesn't mean the au-naturale artists are obsolete or wrong, I would rather listen to 1 mediocre human musician than a SOTA AI music box, but if the music box is used as part of the total, I'm ok with that.
by rustcleaner | 2025-04-25 16:31:12+00:00
Almost everything about tool, machine, and product design in history has been an increase in the force-multiplication of an individual's labor and decision making vs the environment. Now with Universal Machine ubiquity and a market with rich rewards for its perverse incentives, products and tools are being built which force-multiply the designer's will absolutely, even at the expense of the owner's force of will. This and widespread automated surveillance are dangerous encroachments on our autonomy!
by galeaspablo | 2025-04-25 16:31:18+00:00
Disclosure (given this is from Confluent): I'm ex MSK (Managed Streaming for Kafka at AWS) and my current company was competing with Confluent before we pivoted.

Yup, this is one more example, just like Pulsar. There are definitely great optimizations to be made on the average case. In the case of parallel consumer, if you'd like to keep ordering guarantees, you retain O(n^2) processing time in the worst case.

The issues arise when you try to traverse arbitrary dependency topologies in your messages. So you're left with two options:

1. Make damn sure that causal dependencies don't exhibit O(n^2) behavior, which requires formal models to be 100% sure. 2. Give up ordering or make some other nasty tradeoff.

At a high level the problem boils down to traversing a DAG in topological order. From computer science theory, we know that this requires a sorted index. And if you're implementing an index on top of Kafka, you might as well embed your data into and consume directly from the index. Of course, this is easier said than done, and that's why no one has cracked this problem yet. We were going to try, but alas we pivoted :)

Edit: Topological sort does not required a sorted index (or similar) if you don't care about concurrency. But then you've lost the advantages of your queue.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-25 16:31:29+00:00
Judges have what most people would consider insane levels of legitimate power while sitting on the bench itself inside the courtroom. Just outside the door, those powers are not quite so intense, but he can have you thrown in a cage just for not doing what he says, and he can command nearly anything. He could certainly demand that someone not leave the courtroom if he felt like doing so, and there would be no real remedy even if he did so for illegitimate reasons. Perhaps a censure months later.
by crote | 2025-04-25 16:31:46+00:00
I'm not very familiar with US laws, but why wouldn't the FBI agents likewise be arrested for interfering with the judge's court case?

Let's say I murder someone. I definitely did it, and there's plenty of evidence. What's stopping my hypothetical ICE buddy from showing up at my first court appearance, arresting me, and deporting me to a country without extradition by claiming that I am an "illegal immigrant"?
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-04-25 16:31:53+00:00
Don't forget to add wide-spectrum dissatisfaction with the economy and incompetence of the incumbent party's campaign team to your list.

Harris ran a very left-of-center campaign in the 2020 primary election, and soundbites from that were played on repeat in 2024 (some of which didn't age well and some of which were always unpopular in certain circles). That that would happen was an easily foreseeable consequence of making her the candidate. The incumbent party could have chosen a different candidate if they had made an earlier decision to not try to re-elect the president.

You can't cure the disease if you get the diagnosis wrong.
by jcranmer | 2025-04-25 16:32:13+00:00
I am a member of the C standards committee, and I'm telling you you're wrong here. Martin Uecker is also member of the C standards committee, and has just responded to that bug saying that the comment you linked is wrong. I, and others here, have quoted literal standards text to you explaining why type punning through unions is well-defined behavior in C.

I don't know who Andrew Pinski is, but they're factually incorrect regarding the legality of type punning via unions in C.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-25 16:32:33+00:00
> Not if it has two seats and you want to carry more than two people.

Then you don't want a small truck.

> If you aren't using your bed daily you bought the wrong car.

Plenty of cars have a second row of seats that are not used daily too. I guess they bought the wrong car as well.

Plus not a lot of cars have trailer hitches...
by kashunstva | 2025-04-25 16:32:51+00:00
> They are enforcing the law, finally.

That is far from clear. The facts are emerging slowly; so the sequence described below may ultimately be inaccurate… but, ICE agents interrupted a court hearing. The judge presiding over the hearing asked the agents to leave. When they returned, the subject whom the ICE officers were seeking had already left. Is there a law that compels a judge (or anyone, for that matter) to remand someone sought by ICE to their custody? I genuinely don’t know, but were I put in a similar situation I would not hand anyone over to ICE custody given their terrible human rights history. Laws be damned; they and the administration whom they represent are moral failures.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-25 16:33:02+00:00
C++ was invented exactly because Bjarne Stroustoup vouched never again to repeat the downgrade of his development experience from Simula to BCPL.

When faced with writing a distributed systems application at Bell Labs, and having to deal with C, the very first step was to create C with Classes.

Also had C++ not been invented, or C gone into an history footnote, so what, there would be other programming languages to chose from.

Lets not put programming languages into some kind of worshiping sanctuary.
by galeaspablo | 2025-04-25 16:33:18+00:00
That's correct. And keep in mind that you might have new consumers starting from the beginning come into play, so you have to permanently retain the indexes.

And yes, O(n log n ) is not bad at all. Sorted database indexes (whether SQL, NoSQL, or AcmeVendorSQL, etc.) already take O(n log n) to insert n elements into data storage or to read n elements from data storage.
by kouteiheika | 2025-04-25 16:33:37+00:00
> The presence of multiple and repeatable universal bypasses means that attackers will no longer need complex knowledge to create attacks or have to adjust attacks for each specific model

...right, now we're calling users who want to bypass a chatbot's censorship mechanisms as "attackers". And pray do tell, who are they "attacking" exactly?

Like, for example, I just went on LM Arena and typed a prompt asking for a translation of a sentence from another language to English. The language used in that sentence was somewhat coarse, but it wasn't anything special. I wouldn't be surprised to find a very similar sentence as a piece of dialogue in any random fiction book for adults which contains violence. And what did I get?

https://i.imgur.com/oj0PKkT.png

Yep, it got blocked, definitely makes sense, if I saw what that sentence means in English it'd definitely be unsafe. Fortunately my "attack" was thwarted by all of the "safety" mechanisms. Unfortunately I tried again and an "unsafe" open-weights Qwen QwQ model agreed to translate it for me, without refusing and without patronizing me how much of a bad boy I am for wanting it translated.
by jcgrillo | 2025-04-25 16:33:41+00:00
That's really expensive, I'm actually in the process of replacing the plastic front and rear bumpers on my 1999 W210 Benz and just the plastic parts add up to over $1k before paint. Having a shop do the whole thing would probably cost $5k or more. I'd rather pay up front whatever it costs to have steel body panels than deal with plastic.
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by whothatcodeguy | 2025-04-25 16:33:50+00:00
I work on this periodically. Not sure what AI generation will do to these kind of hands on creation programs, but has been a fun project nonetheless. Nothing too crazy. Just make some low res art, have some layers and frames to animate, and export your gif to share with the world.
by whstl | 2025-04-25 16:34:07+00:00
I’m comfortable with pretty much anything. It took me like 2 mins to get used to this syntax in LINQ.

On the other hand, statistical autocomplete is not as good as having a precise autocomplete that does’t require jumping around lines.

My point here is that different people enjoy different things. There is no need to shit on other people’s accomplishments or preferences.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-25 16:34:18+00:00
ICE doesn't issue warrants, because they can't. Immingration matters aren't criminal, and ICE are not law enforcement, though they certainly love to cosplay as some sort of mix between law enforcement and military.

That's why ICE has to "ask" law enforcement to hold on to someone who gets arrested on another matter, and why plenty of police departments tell them to go pound sand.