MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perihelions | 2025-04-26 13:52:33+00:00
You're welcome to go to the front lines and attack the Russian tanks with your own preferred tools!

The people doing the actual work, today, use depleted uranium[0] rounds, because they have common sense and prefer to not have a main battle tank survive long enough to shoot back at them. "Let's not use (mildly) toxic weapons" is a fair-weather principle that disappears the moment the weather ceases being fair. Like cluster bombs, or landmines: all of the civilized countries in Europe that adopted these idealistic bans, in peacetime, they're repealing those treaties left and right, now that the moral dilemmas are no longer academic.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us-send-its-first-depleted-ura... ("US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine")
by hagbard_c | 2025-04-26 13:52:53+00:00
You can look through (and may already have done so) my comment history for my explanation for putting "democratic" between quotes. In short it is because the party is not democratic and thus should not be called such. Had they been democratic they'd have run Bernie Sanders instead of Clinton, they'd have had primaries where there were none, they'd have allowed people like RFK and Tulsi Gabbard to have a shot at the candidacy (and might have won the presidency that way, more fool them). The "democratic" party is run by the DNC, not by its constituents. It does not listen to those constituents, the people or 'δημος' ('dèmos', Greek for 'municipality' or 'city', i.e. the people) in 'δημοκρατία'. If and when the party becomes true to its moniker I'll call them by their chosen name, until such a time they're the "democratic" party. Truth in advertising is a good thing after all.
by closewith | 2025-04-26 13:53:05+00:00
These don't represent real or Hollywood friendships at all.

> - Completely perfect and devoid of all realities of life

Friendships are relationships that stand the test of time and hardship. You work through problems, illnesses including mental health struggles, deaths, employment and money problems, family and relationship problems, legal problems, all sorts.

> - No jealousy, no competition, no negative feelings

There are obviously always mixed emotions, but generally you won't harbour serious ill will towards your friends. This is something you can work on, though, as jealousy and envy are personality traits that can be controlled. Healthy competition is a positive, though.

> - Timeless and immortal

Friendships change and sometimes have to be ended, even when you like the other person. I think this is quite common and almost a trope of Hollywood movies.

> - No effort involved

Short of family and maybe employment, friendships require the most work in life. This one is particularly baffling from a Hollywood perspective, as going a friend in need is like the all-time Hollywood trope.

> - Completely balanced and healthy for everybody at all times

Obviously this isn't true, but this isn't portrayed either. Flawed characters are the only compelling characters in Hollywood.

> - Able to talk about every topic

Again, changing the uncomfortable topic trope is an ultra-trope.

Your "realistic friendship" section fits acquaintances rather than friends.

>I think these unrealistic expectations undermine real-world friendships because they always fall short.

I think some self-reflection is in order here, as this is projection.
by switch007 | 2025-04-26 13:53:09+00:00
The value of citizenship is being eroded each year, with governments increasingly keen to strip people of citizenship [0].

First they came for the terrorists, then they came for the dual citizenship lesser criminals.

We're getting a glimpse of who's next. The Dutch government wanted to strip citizenship from people convicted of a crime with an "antisemitic element"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/how-idea-of-st...
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-26 13:53:46+00:00
> "Deports" is wrong word for removing a citizen.

In fact I looked this up recently, and “deportation” has historically been used in the sense of “dispossession”, i.e. expelling citizens. For example the notorious deportation of defeated Jews to Babylon.

But nowadays that “deportation” so often connotes “repatriation” we’ll need to make those distinctions. And people seem to be completely unaware: we’re in a Year of Ordinary Jubilee!
by zyndor_zx | 2025-04-26 13:53:58+00:00
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by shakna | 2025-04-26 13:55:10+00:00
> (9) In addition to the specific provisions of paragraphs (4) to (8), the relationship between the Foreign Secretary and the BBC for the provision of the World Service is based on the following principles-

> (a) the BBC has full editorial and managerial independence and integrity in the provision of the World Service, within the structure of the Charter and this Framework Agreement;

> (b) in particular, the BBC will decide the most effective and efficient way of delivering the World Service; and

> (c) subject to compliance with the Charter and this Framework Agreement the BBC may generate other sources of income for the World Service.
Show HN: Communication Without Networks – Just Light and Sound (Spectra)
by Hi-Alex | 2025-04-26 13:55:18+00:00
We built SPECTRA — a system for transmitting real digital data, camouflaged as natural sounds and optical phenomena.

No Wi-Fi, no GSM, no internet. Just binary or ternary encoded signals hidden in what looks like environmental noise: bird chirps, light flickering, wind-like modulations.

Instead of obvious radio signals, SPECTRA uses:

Acoustic masking: frequency-shifted codes embedded in naturally sounding audio patterns.

Optical masking: binary or RGB ternary codes transmitted through LEDs and lasers, camouflaged as normal light variations.

The goal: create a resilient, stealthy communication system that can survive when conventional networks fail or are under surveillance.

Inspiration came from how native tribes imitated birds to send messages — now reimagined with embedded microcontrollers and dynamic adaptation.

We combined optical + acoustic transmission to boost survivability under different environmental conditions.

Early prototype and more details: https://alexs749266.github.io/SPECTRA-Communication/

Happy to hear any thoughts or hack ideas!
by tacon | 2025-04-26 13:55:18+00:00
In February I happened to attend a lunch 'n learn presentation at TMCi by a company doing clinical trials based on exactly this venous insufficiency principle. I think I may have been the only one in the audience with gray hair... TMCi is the startup accelerator attached to the Texas Medical Center in Houston.

The startup company is Vivifi Medical[1] and they have clinical trials underway with ten men in a Central American country (El Salvador?). They claim that BPH reverses in a few months after their procedure. Their procedure uses a minimally invasive tool of their own invention to snip the vertical blood vessels that are backflowing from age and gravity, and splice them into some existing horizontal blood vessels. On their board of advisors is Dr. Billy Cohn[2], the wildly innovative heart surgeon who is famous for shopping for his medical device components at Home Depot. Dr. Cohn is on the team building the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Vivifi presented their estimated timeline to FDA approval, with proposed general availability in 2028. My personal BPH will be at the head of the line for this procedure.

As far as a startup, their TAM is about 500 million men. I had the Urolift procedure for BPH three years ago, and it cost about $15K on the Medicare benefits statement, though Urolift's clips amounted to only a few thousand dollars. Similarly, Vivifi's charges for this procedure are only a few thousand dollars per procedure, but it holds the promise of being a final solution. Currently Urolift is much less disruptive than TURP, which needs a couple of days in the hospital and almost always leads to retrograde ejaculation (into the bladder).

[1] https://www.vivifimedical.com/

[2] https://www.texasheart.org/people/william-e-cohn/
by apical_dendrite | 2025-04-26 13:55:26+00:00
> Any sort of "pleasant" outcome would effectively require turning birthright citizenship into defacto citizenship for the parents as well, at least if they can stay illegally for long enough.

No, there are lots of immigration statuses between "illegal" and "citizen". DAPA, which was the Obama administration's policy, gave parents of US citizens a status where they could get temporary renewable work permits and exemption for deportation. This was not citizenship, or even a status that could allow someone to eventually become a citizen.
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-26 13:55:44+00:00
From 2021 to 2024, the homicide rate in El Salvador decreased by 10 times [1]. Sure, torture is terrible in El Salvador's prison, as it is in Guantánamo's "prison", but public safety is the number one priority for any government, without safety any other achievement for a country is impossible.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador
by dml2135 | 2025-04-26 13:56:02+00:00
Did you read the article? The program was just paused, and most of the money was never spent.

> Approval of funding does not necessarily mean the money has been dispersed. Only about $500 million of the $5 billion allotted for NEVI had been dispersed as of October, said Corey Harper, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering, who has conducted research into the NEVI program
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-26 13:56:37+00:00
Bondi -- an outrageously partisan hack who is destroying the DOJ -- reached peak irony when she stated that "no one is above the law" in talking about that case.

Donald Trump and his administration are on an absolute crime spree[1]. Insider trading, launching shit-coins and engaging in self-dealing, completely disregarding both the constitution and the courts, up to and including the Supreme Court.

The US is currently a lawless banana republic with the dumbest autocrat in history. That's the one saving grace: This herd of absolute imbeciles are so catastrophically stupid -- a cluster of plastic-faced Fox news clowns -- that they are bound to destroy everything so completely that they are overthrown out of necessity. Will the US survive this? Given that it voted for this rapist, charity-stealing moron twice, hopefully not. The fractured nations that come out of this hopefully have a better path.

[1] Ignoring that he is giving the most laughably corrupt pardons in history, to outrageously guilty thieves, fraudsters and human effluence. Trump's grotesque abuse, and quite literal selling, of pardons should be the impetus for whatever husk remains of the dissolved United States to abolish presidential pardons.
by janwas | 2025-04-26 13:56:38+00:00
:) Yes, vqsort recently tickled a bug in clang. I've seen a steady stream of issues, many caused by SLP or the seeming absence of CI. You might try re-enabling it on GCC.

Yes, the issue with the sorting network is that it is limited to 16x16 to reduce code explosion. With uint16_t, XMM are sufficient for the 8-column case; your Godbolt link does have some YMM for the 16-column case. When changing the type to sort to uint32_t, we see ZMM as expected.
by isthatafact | 2025-04-26 13:56:46+00:00
A huge benefit of that is that it would force the publication of null results, although there would still be no incentive for others to cite null result publications, and citations are unfortunately the main metric that determines the "value" of a scientist. Is there a way to make null result publications valuable?

Also, forcing pre-registration on everyone would be problematic because some types of research are not well-suited to strict planning and committee approval -- how would you quickly make adjustments to an experiment? how would you do exploratory data analysis? serendipitous discoveries would be suppressed? etc.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-26 13:57:07+00:00
A worrying thing about this, along with a few other examples such as the case of Harvard, is how branches of the federal government are using tax regulations, legal structure status and grant rules as mechanisms for openly threatening certain types of tendencies and practices in what are basically independent organizations. I don't know how novel it is for the feds to do this, but it's a chilling technique that sets dangerous regulatory precedents on speech control in a legal system that "supposedly" protects free speech.

I could argue that it's ironic coming from the supposedly free speech-obsessed Trump government, but given how bloviatingly, mendaciously hypocritical that particular swine is, there's nothing surprising here at all.

Also, nice to see the WaPo actually covering this, considering Jeff Bezos more recent and not so subtle sucking up to Trump.

Edit: and Yes, this tendency I mention above is much more worrying than any idiotic authoritarian canard about "spreading misinformation and propaganda".
by Gud | 2025-04-26 13:57:08+00:00
According to? What do they bring to the table? A dystopian future, greed and destruction. They are not my leaders.

I look to individuals like Bill Joy, Linus Thorvalds and Theo de Raadt. People who roll up their sleeves and build amazing things.

Parasites like Zuckerberg and Thiel can go to hell for all I care.
by exceptione | 2025-04-26 13:57:17+00:00
> and i'm saying everyone should expend this effort,

Agreed. But I would add that one shouldn't stick their head into stuff that is deliberately trying to steer you away from the truth and seeks to undermine your moral compass.

I think it would help people immensely if they first could filter their sources on intent and principles. The Guardian is a better source than the newspapers from North Korea.
by 93po | 2025-04-26 13:57:36+00:00
The statistics they provide are the result of self-reporting by people they interview, and they themselves talk at length about the challenges and errors that may exist in their data and sampling: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...

I think this is inherently going to be a poor way to get an accurate representation of wealth inequality, because if you ask a bunch of really wealthy people worth $100mm+ how much money and assets they have, and especailly when these are very privacy focused people, they're going to either:

1. decline to respond in any way

2. if they do respond, they are very likely to misrepresent and downplay their wealth

3. very likely to have wealth that isn't UK based and therefore wouldn't disclose it to anyone for any reason

4. have a lot of very valuable things, like owning a private businesses, that may not necessarily have a price tag attached to them, and so therefore hard to represent when asked "how much money do you have?"

even though reports throughout years would always have this same issue, i think the problem is that as wealth for the 0.1% rises, that rise is not going to get well represented or collected
by madeofpalk | 2025-04-26 13:57:43+00:00
The goal for distributed moderation is not to prevent radicalization, but to prevent one rich man from controlling the content people see. As a user, I can opt into whether I want to see terfs or developers or movie spoilers online or not. I think it's important for users to have more tools and agency over their online experiences.

There are other factors in play though that I think help create less polarising and radical social networks - ability to create custom homepage feeds gives to more variety and less control by the platform maker to sway audiences. Non-commercial networks (which doesn't count Bluesky) have less incentives to juice engagement. More distributed networks have levers audiences can pull if the main developers steer the network in the wrong direction.

> since people on the extreme political spectrum will always try harder than the regulars

Imagine if anyone could create an alternate feed algorithm that penalises these try-hards which people could subscribe to and use instead of the default.
by keybored | 2025-04-26 13:59:11+00:00
We do know what happened to socialist projects that weren’t authoritarian. They got crushed by the US and other capitalist states.[1]

That all socialist projects that were successful for some time were authoritarian is, well, those were the ones who could survive in that world (in this current world). I think there’s a word for that. :)

[1] Capitalist nations violently interfering in other nations is not called authoritarian.
by gus_massa | 2025-04-26 13:59:19+00:00
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> If one or more artists create an initial Collaboration and they are granted a commercial license, their revenue share would be, in the sole discretion of mobygratis, at most, 49% (forty-nine percent) of the gross income earned, received or credited from the permitted use and exploitation of that Collaboration. If a Collaboration is subsequently used by another artist or artists to create a new (or sub-) Collaboration—the new collaborating artist(s) will receive their share of any revenue exclusively from the initial collaborator(s); the mobygratis revenue share of any collaboration, regardless of how many layers of collaboration have occurred, shall always be greater than 50% (fifty percent). However, the specifics are subject to change in the sole and absolute discretion of mobygratis and would be covered on a case-by-case in the commercial license.
by trollied | 2025-04-26 13:59:30+00:00
No. The grandparent comment was essentially saying that we, as a species, were not designed to live as long as we do. It’s only been <10 generations since medicine has been a thing. Cancers, dementia etc just weren’t a thing before because we evolved to live long enough to bring our children up to be self sufficient and reproduce, then our job is done. Like the rest of the animal world do.

Modern medicine has messed with this. We weren’t meant to “old”.
by hellojesus | 2025-04-26 13:59:54+00:00
If you haven't previously, I recommend spending time consuming right leaning media.

I find that both right and left media tend to say the same things about the other side. It's a bit wild when you first realize it, when you hear your exact arguments about the others being said by the others about you.

Finding common ground is always the best path. Determine where the actual differences are beyond the meme propaganda, and you may be able to better connect with other world views.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-26 14:00:04+00:00
> Because it's always been happening.

I don't like this kind of response because it's basically kind of an assumption, and you don't really give any evidence for it.

On one hand, sure, abuses by people in positions of power have always happened, so if you're just making a general argument that enforcement authorities abuse power, I mean yeah, human nature.

But this article is making some specific points:

1. Those who were deported were given basically zero access to even talk to a lawyer, and that in at least one case a habeas corpus petition was deliberately avoided by deporting the family at 6 AM before courts opened.

2. Multiple US minor citizen children were deported.

So, no, without more evidence, I'm not willing to believe that it's just some minor increase of degree. While yes, I'm sure there have been abuses in the past, the current policy seems hellbent on deporting as many people as possible, due process be damned, and that was not the policy in previous years. I'd also highlight that the current President has said, explicitly, that deporting people without due process is his goal: https://truthout.org/articles/we-cannot-give-everyone-a-tria...

In other words, I don't believe this is just an aberrant, abusive exception to the policy. It very much seems like this is the policy now.
by arp242 | 2025-04-26 14:00:16+00:00
> If, as a humorist, you are concerned about whether you can publish your humorous book you can be certain that you live in a cursed timeline.

This has literally always been the case. The topics have shifted, and some other details have changed, but in essence it's no difference. Try publishing a humorist book about, say, sex or religion in the 50s. Or the world wars, or maybe something that features gay characters. Or civil rights-type stuff (in US).
by rdtsc | 2025-04-26 14:00:23+00:00
> US citizens. Children no less.

But their parents aren’t. Parents can be deported. So let’s imagine they did that. We’d have an article how cruel they stole / kidnapped a child from their parents. Would that be better?

Having a child doesn’t automatically provide a legal cover for staying and not getting deported. Maybe that’s a risk the parents didn’t know about?
by dml2135 | 2025-04-26 14:00:24+00:00
They didn’t spend most of that money yet.

This is a story about a program not getting off the ground in two years and then being cancelled by the political opposition. Is two years too slow? You could certainly argue that.

But this really isn’t a story about government incompetence wasting billions of dollars on a handful or charging stations. Money was allocated, but it never had the chance to be spent.
by ripe | 2025-04-26 14:00:27+00:00
> RT & the BBC are both state backed media organisations. It is quite difficult to come up with a reason for those except propaganda.

False equivalence.

By your logic, any government support automatically makes an outlet propaganda. So, NPR and PBS would also be propaganda, since they get a small grant.

RT and other Russian-sponsored outlets, in case you didn't know, try to both push the state narrative, and push conflicting conspiracy theories in different markets to convince people that there is no objective truth.

Like, for example, claiming that reliable Western news sources are government propaganda...
by jedimind | 2025-04-26 14:00:28+00:00
It's a good and necessary thing to become "radicalized" in order to prevent genocide and break out from the pacifying programming of the state. the state puts pressure on centralized social media companies to enact clever methods of censorship to pacify the masses for them. such companies might even just willingly self-censor in anticipation out of obedience or just plain uncritical acceptance of state department propaganda.

So the state and the ruling class produced a radicalization of the masses themselves where the status quo is to pretend that genocide is normal - a "zone of interest" type of effect is supposed to be part of what's "normal". While I agree with you that decentralization is not a silver bullet, because it can create pockets of echo chambers, it's still a good tool for communities to be independent from certain influences like from the state or corporate culture.
by spookybones | 2025-04-26 14:00:49+00:00
I desperately want to do this type of walking, but I live in a major city. There’s always something to distract me, which is great for boredom perhaps, but ruins any sense of zen or reflection. I would say half of every walk involves people yelling, loud vehicles, and louder music. Noise-cancelling headphones are only useful for distraction through podcasts and music, not for decompressing. I’m starting to wonder if the solution, the sad solution, is to walk on a treadmill at a gym during off-peak hours.