MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amai | 2025-04-28 10:51:52+00:00
„The first stage of Zersetzung was a comprehensive evaluation of state-held data and information, eg medical records, school reports, police records, intelligence reports, searches of target’s residence. At this point they were looking for any weak points (social, emotional or physical) that could be used to put pressure on the target, eg extra-marital affairs, criminal records, alcoholism, drug use, differences between the target and their group (eg age, class, clothing styles) that could be exploited to socially isolate them.“

Thanks to social media and big data this is a lot simpler nowadays.
by yodon | 2025-04-28 10:52:04+00:00
> Nope, not yet, this post dropped three pages in 5 minutes. I guess someone's feefees got hurt.

Please refrain from nonsense HN conspiracy theories. The HN algorithm is and has always been designed to encourage good behavior on the site, favoriting the overall health of discussion on the site over any particular topic and penalizing pages where participants interact poorly. Yes, that means many important topics get automatically downranked because the participants in those topics disagree on the topic strongly enough to engage in upvote/downvote wars and other signals of bad conversational behavior. That is an acknowledged result of the long term algoritm design.

HN has been very clear over the years that their primary goal is for people to debate interesting topics well here, and the overall quality of discussion on HN compared to other sites suggests there is some validity to their approach.
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-04-28 10:52:09+00:00
> Do you actually prefer if people with a different political view than yourself are just… removed?

Do you think that the whole "diversity statement" and DEI shticks were exactly tools of removal of people with different political views from academia?

US academia political activity is what made it attractive target for Trump administration. I'd prefer that it didn't happen or that US didn't have a president willing to destroy the academia, but I'd also prefer that universities would act as non-partisan entities. I think Boaz Barak summarized it well [1]

On a separate note, US searching/detaining/refusing entrance to other countries' nationals happened all the time [2,3,4,5,6,7], I don't think it's newsworthy or should change your position on visiting US.

[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/28/barak-harvard-m...

[2] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-entry-horror-...

[3] https://firrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/September-2024_...

[4] https://immigrantjustice.org/press-releases/three-travelers-...

[5] https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-depo...

[6] https://www.propublica.org/article/can-customs-border-protec...

[7] https://thepienews.com/indian-government-gives-student-trave...
by mr_mitm | 2025-04-28 10:53:48+00:00
In the end, that's true for all why questions in physics. In the end, things don't have a reason for how they behave, they just do.

The question of why only makes sense in a framework. Classical EM theory says electrons should fall into the nucleus, but they clearly don't. Asking why they don't is one step towards finding out about quantum mechanics, so it's a really important question to ask.

Yes, at the end of the day, the answer is "because classical EM is wrong and quantum mechanics is right (or at least less wrong)". But there is a lot to learn along the way.
by vlowrian | 2025-04-28 10:54:50+00:00
I don't agree. Children are special in that there are several psychological effects like baby schema, innate caregiving response, etc. which one would have to overcome. Seeing children as younger versions of adults is a very technical view which I'd be surprised if it was in any way prevalent.

You're absolutely right in that a text-book racist might not distinguish between children and adults. Imagining that this is so common it dictates decisions on this level is hard to grasp for me.
by input_sh | 2025-04-28 10:54:51+00:00
No, it's not the same thing at all, the same way saying "death to nazis" and "death to Germans" isn't the same thing. Being Muslim or a German is something you're generally born into because that's what your parents are, while the other two is something you actively choose to be a part of your identity as a full-grown adult.

A random dude you meet named Ahmed doesn't automatically translate into "he hates all non-Muslims", the same way a random dude named Hans doesn't automatically translate into "he hates all Jews".

On the other hand, openly affiliating yourself with terfs or nazis does automatically translate into you wanting some marginalised community to vanish or at the very least to make their existence more difficult than yours.
by 1718627440 | 2025-04-28 10:55:11+00:00
Yes, that sound ridiculous, but it is that way, so that the user can modify each intermediate step, which is the main selling point. As a user I really prefer that experience, which is why I as a developer put up with the non-sense of M4. (Which I think is more due to M4 being a macro language, then inherent language flaws.)
by badlogic | 2025-04-28 10:55:39+00:00
I actually went with a design like you proposed in the first iteration. It turned out to be more time consuming than the SD card solution, specifically for my non technical SO. Now, she just stuffs an SD card into her laptop, transfers files, puts the card into a prepared cartridge, and sticks a label on it. The cartridges can be ordered fully assembled, so she doesn't have to solder anything.

With a fully mechanical solution, she would still have to extract the SD card from the player (or I spend considerable more effort on the software side, so the device can somehow also act as a mass storage device when connected via USB, givng access to the internal SD card), print or construct the "key", stuff the key into a cartridge and label the cartridge.

There's no great practical difference. The only difference is a higher per cartridge cost. Since that's around €2.50 and could be further reduced by bulk orders, I was fine with this design decision.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-04-28 10:56:00+00:00
> 500k new millionaires in 2023 in the US. Why can't you be one of them in a coming year?

I know it's a rhetorical question, but the actual answer is "because I feel like it would require more work than it would be worth".

Of course, all the millionaires I personally know got there through 95% luck, so who knows! Maybe I'll personally be cursed to follow their path.
by vv_ | 2025-04-28 10:56:15+00:00
Fyi the above isn't some conspiracy theory as it is standardized by 3GPP:

https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/133100_133199/133106/14...

Here's an interesting quote from the above:

"Depending on national requirements, the CSP may be required to report the location of the Target at the beginning and end of CS calls and PS and IMS sessions on a per warrant or per intercept basis. It may also be a national requirement for the CSP to report the location of the Target [...]"
by brianmcc | 2025-04-28 10:57:25+00:00
This is a really good point.

It rather reminds me of a recent Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) interview where he lamented what seems to be an emerging excess focus on villains, not "good guys" - and making them way too glamorous:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/vince-gilligan-...

If our fiction is only ever showing us dystopias and villains - it's not hard to see how that could be problematic for the wider collective psyche...
by nathan_compton | 2025-04-28 10:57:54+00:00
Yes, lets just reorganize and rebuilt the entire city infrastructure to fix bad behavior by a few people. I don't want to actually oppose your suggestions because I think they are all good, but I also think that if a person repeatedly breaks a law then that is precisely the circumstances under which their freedom can be decreased as long as due process is respected.

American's still believe in freedom, in my opinion, its just that the entrenched powers make it increasingly impossible to imagine a world that actually nourishes human freedom and, lacking that, we just sort of flail around in frustration. The single insight which Americans must digest in order to move forward is that both governments and corporations and, indeed, any powerful entity whatsoever, can and often do interfere with human freedom and flourishing and all of them need to be continuously attended to and restrained by law and by the vigilance of the people. The second most important thing is the understanding that negative freedoms mean nothing without the resources to transform them into positive freedoms and if we fail to provide those resources then enormous amounts of human potential will be wasted. The second is a harder pill to swallow given the U.S. mythology, but I would be satisfied with the former for now.
by nemasu | 2025-04-28 10:57:55+00:00
I'm working on creating a volume mixer, basically like Deej, but more polished.

Some things I'm planning on including: - App drag & drop for assignment. - Programmable macro buttons. - Small OLED displays to show app icon and volume levels.

Attempting to do everything in Rust too, even the MCU firmware. It's been a lot of fun. xD
by gigatexal | 2025-04-28 10:58:09+00:00
I don’t claim to have the same issues Trump or his MAGA base or his rich sycophants do. I voted for Kamala. Which was basically a vote to continue Biden’s policies. Had she won the world would have been a far different place.

So I’m unsure why the downvote. Emacs fans don’t like my vim-ism?
by john2095 | 2025-04-28 10:58:21+00:00
An LLM (ChatGPT/"AI").

phone: * that circle in whatsapp * find a freebie chatgpt proxy in telegram

web * "copilot" in ms Edge browser * https://kagi.com/fastgpt * https://grok.com/ * https://claude.ai

I find the need for a "search engine" reduced very considerably with all these "answer this question (NOW!)" options so readily available. They're the modern day "I feel lucky" button.
by metalman | 2025-04-28 10:58:58+00:00
the meter moves, which takes power, plus the simple fact that all matter is photo active in some way, ie: light will move electrons around in everything we could stretch the whole thing out, and point to increased lift in montgolfiers balloons, durring daylight as solar assisted device, or sail boats, as wind is derived from solar heating, or eating salad the point is that there is nothing new under the sun and that a little absurdity never hurt anyone
by badlogic | 2025-04-28 10:59:31+00:00
I used PLA, which is a non toxic bio plastic. ABS is also an option for at-home 3D printing, which is the material used in lego bricks. At his age, he doesn't put anything in his mouth anymore, so swallow hazards were not a concern. That said, the only thing that's small enough for him to swallow are the buttons and the knob, which can not be detached from the device without unscrewing the enclosure. If he is able to do that, nothing is save.
by ysavir | 2025-04-28 11:00:22+00:00
> Nope, because people are overestimating themselves. I know a couple of people who can do 2x the speed limit relatively safely, but this is because they were race drivers in a previous life. However, not everyone (incl. me) has that reflexes and situational awareness all the time.

And even then, although the ex-race drivers can drive safely at high speeds, it doesn't mean other people can drive safely while other people are moving a racetrack speeds. The key to safety on the road is predictability. Any form of driving that reduces predictability, even if the unpredictable driver has the necessary skill for that form of driving, creates a dangerous situation because other drivers will react to that unpredictability in unpredictable ways, and likely lacking the skill to pull it off.

What matters isn't the driving skill of the most skilled driver on the road, it's the skill level of the least skilled driver on the road.
by pompidoo | 2025-04-28 11:00:45+00:00
https://undetectag.com I developed a device that turns an Airtag on and off at specific intervals. Current Airtags are detectable right away and cannot be used to track stolen property. That device allows you to hide an Airtag in your car, for example, and someone that steals your car will not be able to use some app to detect it. The Airtag will also not warn the thief of its presence. After some hours, the Airtag turns on again and you can find out its location. It’s not foolproof, as the timing has to be right, but still useful.
by brulard | 2025-04-28 11:01:16+00:00
I'm working on a better frontend (in sveltekit) for Udio - music generation app. Udio has good models to generate audio, but awful UI and organization/management tools. My frontend allows collecting all the generated content from udio, organize them by topic, rate them with 5-star rating system, add custom labels, filter by these, make playlists, generate prompts and create an arbitrarily long generate queue (udio allows you to create 4 prompts simultaneously so you can sit in front of UI babysitting it if you don't have custom tooling and you want to actually use your 4800 credits you paid for). I use LLMs heavily here, so the quality of code is so-so, but work very well for me and I'm having a lot of fun with this.
by barrell | 2025-04-28 11:01:19+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you completely.

1. I just started the marketing website a few weeks ago, and if you can believe it, I didn't readily have that information. One of my tasks last week was to compile a list of languages that could work, write some tests for all of the languages, and get a list of supported languages. I have that list now, I just need to put it on the marketing page.

2. As mentioned in other comments, I'm working on a video. I'm preferring to fix glaring issues before making the video, although at this point I'm verrrrrrry close. I have started scripting it, but it takes a lot of time to make a good video (1-2 full days if I don't want to edit it).

Your feedback is completely valid, and they're both reasons why I'm not really marketing the product yet. This thread seemed like a good middle ground though as having some people using all the languages would be really helpful. Also, I've genuinely been loving using it and want to share.

It's just me working on it, so these things are coming, but everything takes a while! Hopefully these didn't sour you on the project permanently :)

EDIT: And yes, it supports Hungarian :)
by WillAdams | 2025-04-28 11:02:23+00:00
Arguably, the crisis in schooling would be addressed by teaching woodworking in schools as the Northern Europeans traditionally have:

https://rainfordrestorations.com/category/woodworking-techni...

>Students may never pick up a tool again, but they will forever have the knowledge of how to make and evaluate things with your hand and your eye and appreciate the labor of others

That said, the problem is much the same as for Lego bricks:

- warehousing is expensive

- sorting and kitting and packaging add up

with the added problem of assembly can't be off-loaded to the purchaser, and shipping an assembled panel ramps up the packaging and shipping costs, to say nothing of the need for insurance to cover damage when shipping.
by turtleyacht | 2025-04-28 11:03:21+00:00
Is a degree necessary for applying to random job postings? Yes.

> lifestyle

Starting a family at one point may factor into this; you'll be happier having something stable thanks to the degree that helped place you.

You can always self-study off .edu syllabi, books, and all that. Not always at the most convenient times, but the knowledge is out there.

Make sure the degree is from a reputable school. It's possibly the most important money spent.

Online bachelor's for computer science, though. I don't know if online is best there. Experience will bolster that for sure. Just don't know how ruthless the automated filters are.

It's less risk to find out at $15k than $150k, at least.
by helenite | 2025-04-28 11:03:53+00:00
The UI was a little unresponsive on mobile, and when I opened the "Media" page on desktop I got multiple block rendering errors. Opening the console reveals a syntax error (missing ] after element list) and some type errors.

Also, it looks like you have to get the subscription to use it in any way? It's hard to gauge whether it is for me or not if I have no way to trial it. I found the UI a bit confusing too, I was not sure what I was supposed to do after logging in. As another commentator mentioned, it's asking me to set a reference language but I see no way of configuring it.
by badlogic | 2025-04-28 11:03:55+00:00
Replace any custom PCB with off the shelf breakout boards. Redesign the enclosure so the breakout boards can be mounted. Instead of a custom motherboard PCB, solder wires between the pins of each breakout board, sprinkling through hole resistors and capacitors around where needed.

Since I didn't go down that route, I don't jave any recommendations for breakout boards that could do the job. I'm also not sure if the assembly is any easier than the assembly of my design.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-04-28 11:04:24+00:00
The US built huge projects just like this. I know most about chicago, we built a 15,000 person neighborhood in 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes. It became one of the most lawless places in the country. Now it has been torn down. Same story happened 5 different times in this city alone, theyve all been torn down too. Not saying public housing cant work here, but it certainly didnt.
by Saline9515 | 2025-04-28 11:05:01+00:00
Citizens are supposed to have critical thinking to distinguish what's right and wrong, what's true and false.

Freedom of speech allows to hear different views and apply this critical thinking. The problem is that you seem to know better and want to choose what's allowed and not allowed to say, given your political bias and contempt for your fellow citizens.

Last, democracy is not about empowering (what an empty word...) people, but about managing the various interest to end up with something that is acceptable. If a subgroup is being bullied, it is normal that it expresses its resentment. For instance, when white british people are being mass raped, and in some case, likely eaten[0], with no or little enforcement by the Police due to fear of being seen as "racists".

As a side note, all of the examples that you give are about reducing freedom of speech, so I don't really see your point. You could have cited the Weimar Republic, that had stringent hate speech laws, which did not prevent the access of the NSDAP to power.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Charlene_Do...
by chii | 2025-04-28 11:06:08+00:00
The idea of axioms in mathematics is not quite the same as it is with physics.

Physicists don't need the type of mathematical rigor such as the set theory axioms to build up all of mathematics. In fact, by keeping in mind the multitudes of paths from which one part of physics could be related or derived from another part, you are exploring the possibly undiscovered laws in nature.

It will only be relevant to axiomatically define physics (from a set of basic axioms to reach all laws) after we confirmed to have discovered all of physics. That day hasn't come yet - there's no grand unified theory so far, and there's still stuff that we dont know surely.
by flotzam | 2025-04-28 11:06:08+00:00
Emergency calls bypass the network restriction. I don't see it documented for GrapheneOS, but https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/cellular-s... states

'Android allows users to disable 2G at the radio hardware level on any device that implements the capability constant, "CAPABILITY_USES_ALLOWED_NETWORK_TYPES_BITMASK". This stops a device from scanning or connecting to 2G networks.

Note: Emergency calling is never impacted. A device still scans and connects to 2G networks for emergency services.'
by LightBug1 | 2025-04-28 11:06:23+00:00
All I read above is "If's" "As long as" "Unless'" , etc.

I'll do further research but my initial impression is that you're all operating like economists ... "ceteris paribus".

The funny thing is. Life isn't like that. Mismanagement, cost compromises, engineering fuck ups, climate disaster, terrorism, etc are almost de rigueur ...

You've not convinced me.
by tym83 | 2025-04-28 11:06:34+00:00
TL;DR: Talos Linux usually needs a pre-baked image, but this post shows how to sidestep that: drop into any rescue Linux, grab Talos’ vmlinuz + initramfs, and kexec straight into a live Talos node- no ISO, no PXE, no cloud-image hoops. Handy hack for “image-locked” hosts and a nice intro to Talos’ API-driven vibe.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-28 11:06:42+00:00
Exactly. This is why I used the word "relatively" there. Moreover, a prominent race driver, happened to be a friend of my dad, died because of the same unpredictability of the traffic.

Another race driver, whom I forgot his name, said "A race track is where people who know what they are doing drive at high speeds, and traffic is a race track where people don't know what they are doing, yet still drive at high speeds". I always keep that in mind and cite to other people to urge them to be careful in the traffic.

What caused my accident was that unpredictability. A car changed lanes in front of me, without proper signaling and precautions from a point where it was impossible for me to see them.
by georgyo | 2025-04-28 11:07:02+00:00
You should look into why cities use smooth asphalt over concert which would be significantly less maintenance.

Cars driving around create a lot of noise. Driving on a rough surface like concert, let alone a bumpy surface like brick or cobblestone, creates a ton of additional noise. Another hint is that gravel driveways are cheap, but they also make it very very easy to hear when someone is pulling up to your house.

Anyone living next to these roads _might_ have some cars go a bit slower, but at the cost of not being able to sleep at night.

Then there is the fact that America loves big cars with big off roading wheels. I think the assumption here is that most speeders would be discouraged by the uncomfortable ride, however I think reality is that the people in that hummer going 90mph on a city street just won't care about a rougher ride.
by lelanthran | 2025-04-28 11:07:43+00:00
Just a warning to anyone creating an account at https://www.cscjournals.org/ ...

I registered at http://www.cscjournals.org, and was surprised to find out this morning that they stored my password in the clear; they emailed it to me!

Just be sure, when using [Computer Science Journals](https://www.cscjournals.org/) that you don't reuse an existing password.