MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thechao | 2025-04-26 18:03:25+00:00
I’ve been in the get-out-the-vote space for 25 years, now. I’ve been politically active against gerrymandering nearly as long. My wife was tooth-and-nails in the redistricting fight (in Texas; Texas!) for ~10 years.

Here’s my hands-on experience: at least half the people you meet are defective, to a scary extent, functionally in terms of empathy. Probably two thirds have serious executive functioning deficits. That means they can neither understand the plight of their fellows; and, even if they could, they could not generalize their own situation into a policy to help everyone in the same situation.

EDIT: most people don’t vote. A disproportionate number that do are both empathetic, and high have high levels of executive functioning skills. The flip side of the coin are activated people who are missing one-or-the-other skills, but are voting out of some other errant ideology. I want to be clear that the distribution of voters is “both sides”: there are disgusting and enlightened voters on both sides of the spectrum. We’re all trapped in the box, together.
by lynndotpy | 2025-04-26 18:03:42+00:00
I can't tell if this is a serious suggestion, or if it's proposed in the same tone as "a modest proposal".

In case you are serious: This is a pretty horrifying proposal. Humans can get microchipped, but these cost money, are very painful to administer, and importantly are RFID only, i.e. not useful for finding ones own children.
by Izkata | 2025-04-26 18:04:00+00:00
"One shot" is simply about the action itself, but it says nothing about how much preparation was done beforehand. "Zero shot" additionally implies without training or preparation.

TCGs have a related "zero turn win" concept, where the opponent goes first and you win without getting a turn due to the set of cards you randomly drew and being able to activate them on the opponent's turn.
by gruez | 2025-04-26 18:04:20+00:00
>$99/year with no limits on data, as far as I can tell. The context here is someone talking about personal backups, not Backblaze’s broader offerings. We know the market rates for cloud storage, more or less, since they’ve converged somewhat, across the industry. This makes it easy to calculate what kind of usage patterns would lead someone to save money at Backblaze.

So do the calculations? As I mentioned in another comment, their unit economics are sound, with them making more than 50% gross margin.

>So it could be that people are just using it below its limits

That's how many businesses work. Many low end gym chains operate on the assumption that most users won't use their services. There's no way that planet fitness can equip and operate a gym for $10/month per member, if everyone one of them went regularly. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea to get a planet fitness membership (assuming you'd actually go), or that they're at risk of going under.
by freen | 2025-04-26 18:04:24+00:00
I seriously doubt you are of sufficient “in group” status to avoid the gulag.

I hope that it is never decided that you are a terrorist/enemy combatant/whatever and shipped off without due process to an American concentration camp. (Auschvits wasn’t in Germany either).

Oh, you are a citizen? “Home Grown” so to speak? Trump explicitly said that he needs five more concentration camps in El Salvador just for people like you.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-04-26 18:04:43+00:00
My bad, I was just listening to a podcast with someone talking about being on Bob's Burgers.

But no, I don't think it makes it unusable for media which shows people eating meat. If I make my music available for anyone to use in projects which aren't promoting homophobia, I'm not going to have a problem with someone using it in a TV show where a character is homophobic. The salient thing is whether the show itself is promoting homophobia (and if I wanted to sue someone for such a use, I'd need a pretty strong case that the TV show was actually promoting homophobia)

> Right wing cause is also a bucket of worms. Someone like Joe Rogan is now considered Right Wing though he supported Bernie Sanders in the past.

Yes, I agree with this 100%, it's pretty much meaningless. I'm not sure if this makes it unusable or usable for anything. My suspicion is that the wording of the license would make it very difficult for Moby to sue you for use for anything but a clear violation, but he can revoke your license (which he would gain nothing from, and would erode faith in his mobygratis project). So I think it would be best avoided by people who aren't reasonably using his music for projects that he wouldn't approve of. Obviously "right-wing" is subjective, but if you're using it to promote Trump's campaign, trans-denialism, or the new Arby's chicken burger, obviously you can expect the license to be revoked.

If you're a "liberal" talk show host I think the license would be best avoided; liberal in the U.S. is considered right-of-center by many

If you're a socialist (or even social democratic) talk show host who occasionally brings on centrist or right-wing personalities, I think you'd be fine.
by rglullis | 2025-04-26 18:04:57+00:00
> The financial story has to be solved

You are preaching to the converted. :) [0]

I might be wrong, but I think that my instance was the first to provide accounts only to paying subscribers, and even today there are only 2 others like mine.

[0] https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/114365227998082545
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-26 18:05:49+00:00
The point of due process is to construct such a record. The fact that due process is being denied in these circumstances is one of the reasons that so much of the public discussion is rumor and innuendo.

And this is actually one of the many things that this executive doesn't seem to grasp about the fundamentals of how this England-inherited, American-modified government functions. Due process doesn't just protect the people. It protects the king from rumors abounding about his tyranny that eventually lead to his beheading, because if there is no record to show then there is no record to justify the actions of the crown either.

The Magna Carta has stood for about a thousand years. But it has stood because every monarch who tried to place themselves above it found themselves much shorter by the end of their reign.
by stego-tech | 2025-04-26 18:06:12+00:00
If the service isn’t making money consistently, I would worry about its long-term viability. This is basic commoditized storage they’re managing to screw up making a profit on, not some super-niche or brand-new product line.

It’s bits in a barn, and they’re not making rent. That’s worried me enough to re-evaluate my relationship with them, especially in light of this research.
by algorithmsRcool | 2025-04-26 18:06:15+00:00
> Most sysadmins at this point would just configure a new filtered metric and start collecting data… for a month. While the system is broken. Wrong needle? Start looking through the haystack again with another new custom metric for another month.

In this example i feel like it is treating metrics as the only telemetry signal that operators have access to. Once the metrics indicate an issue, we can pull existing logs, traces and profiles to dig into it and eventually capture dumps.

I'm totally onboard with the idea of rich trace metadata, but it seems more evolutionary than revolutionary
by 52-6F-62 | 2025-04-26 18:06:37+00:00
The word that is not used often to describe their worldview is the most accurate: medieval.

It isn’t just jargon. They are building castles against perceived enemies and everyone is an enemy. They are striving to be the Normans taking England, embedding themselves in every realm, region, barony, and parish, rewriting the rules in the name of progress either by woo or by force, and eliminating the natives. Up go the walls, round go the moats, and out point the guns.

The last startup I worked at was primarily concerned with loyalty above most else. Loyalty to what?
by mgraczyk | 2025-04-26 18:08:06+00:00
I don't interpret this as lying. It's role-playing a "geoguesser" as prompted.

Imagine if you prompted the model the "play geoguesser", and it responded with something like "Well I actually ran python to pull out metadata and I know the exact location". That would be a bad response to the prompt. It's role-playing as if it played the game in its response, and I think that's the right thing for the model to do in this circumstance. If you tell it not to use the metadata, it won't.
by udev4096 | 2025-04-26 18:08:14+00:00
> User permissions for a large number of apps were all enabled

This says it all. Privacy is not by default, because of souless mega corporations, including HN which has an extremely invasive privacy policy. If you don't actively take steps to improve your privacy, they will continue to exploit it. Use GrapheneOS, it is the most private and secure mobile operating system. Nothing happens without your explicit permission, the way it should have been from the beginning
by Arathorn | 2025-04-26 18:08:15+00:00
> In any case, the single-point-of-failure server is needed to process all the messages and give the go/no go instruction to the larger network.

No, it is not a SPOF. If the PS goes down, traffic keeps flowing as normal; it just doesn’t get spamchecked. They do not give a “go/no go instruction to the larger network”; they are something which servers can check against.

The difference in the distinction is that rooms can pick different PSes to moderate traffic, or choose only to turn them on if they’re under attack, or servers participating in a room can choose to use different ones according to taste, etc.
by DangitBobby | 2025-04-26 18:08:23+00:00
Maybe if it was the only EV in town I'd change my tune. I am willing to pay extra for a battery that will take me 200 miles because I make one-way 100m trips often enough. Keep in mind, where I live there is some decent charging availability, but the places I would visit don't have much. I've also had a couple of experiences where I get to the charging place and it doesn't work for some reason. I have some range anxiety for sure.
by klodolph | 2025-04-26 18:08:34+00:00
> So do the calculations?

Is this some kind of personal challenge? It’s arithmetic for chrissakes, not calculus. S3 IA $0.0125/Gb-mo, ingress basically free, $99/yr÷(12mo/yr×$0.0125/Gb-mo)=660 Gb. Reasonable to ignore egress for backups—you may want to account for it, but it’s reasonable to ignore it. Do your own calculations if you have different assumptions.

That’s not hard. The numbers don’t have to be exact.

Maybe I just think it’s easy because I’ve run numbers like these for a living. Given X different storage configurations, under which conditions is configuration 1 cheaper than configurations 2 and 3?

> That's how many businesses work. Many low end gym chains operate on the assumption that most users won't use their services. There's no way that planet fitness can equip and operate a gym for $10/month per member, if everyone one of them went regularly. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea to get a planet fitness membership (assuming you'd actually go), or that they're at risk of going under.

The gym closes I can buy a different gym membership. My cloud storage service closes, it may be difficult to move my data to a different provider, depending on how much data and what kind of rate limits. We’ve seen this before. People with data stuck in an “unlimited” storage service that’s shutting down, trying to transfer it but getting their egress throttled.

The economics of gyms are different because the cost is not only the membership, but also the time it takes you to get to the gym. Cloud services are a much more efficient market, which means the margins are much lower.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-26 18:08:45+00:00
I'm not sure what you're getting at. What's useful about LLMs, and especially multi-modal ones, is that that you can ask them anything and they'll answer to best of their ability (especially if well prompted). I'm not sure that o3, as a "reasoning" model is adding much value here - since there is not a whole lot of reasoning going on.

This is basically fine-grained image captioning followed by nearest neighbor search, which is certainly something you could have built as soon as decent NN-based image captioning became available, at least 10 years ago. Did anyone do it? I've no idea, although it'd seem surprising if not.

As noted, what's useful about LLMs is that they are a "generic solution", so one doesn't need to create a custom ML-based app to be able to do things like this, but I don't find much of a surprise factor in them doing well at geoguessing since this type of "fuzzy lookup" is exactly what a predict-next-token engine is designed to do.
by bladley | 2025-04-26 18:09:22+00:00
Hi - there is no official diagnosis for "PFS". I have it in the sense that I have penile tissue scarring confirmed by medical imaging, with a urologist's opinion that finasteride was the likely cause. Yes, tadalafil does often help in my case, but the reduction in function is permanent and I doubt I will ever be my pre-finasteride self again.
by monkeyfun | 2025-04-26 18:09:57+00:00
To quote you

>public safety is the number one priority for any government

You blanket-declared that any/all governments have it as their number one priority, with no nuance I might add.

Additionally, are you somehow completely unaware that the American government is sending people to that country's worst prison, and that the current president has said he wishes to send American citizens there? This is why American values are at all being referenced here.

Nobody thus far in this conversation has been defending gitmo, the patriot act, or the illegal and unjust invasion of Iraq -- and personally I'm against all three. Yet you're creating false equivalencies, ascribing strawman views to others, and mostly avoiding any nuance to such matters as if the country's underlying corruption and dysfunction which enabled such lawless conditions is any better (which it might genuinely be, but such points ought be evidenced and argued, not declared).

Instead you've transformed it into something approximating: "now el salvador is safe and everyone is happy, there was no need for liberty or human dignity to be respected then or now."

Therein you make yourself out to argue in poor faith.
by tmpz22 | 2025-04-26 18:10:37+00:00
It's a solved problem. Look at medical schools, we're not pumping out chatgpt doctors because we have actual in-person test proctoring that includes checking biometrics, taking photographs of the individual for posterity, oral examinations, etc.

Right now educational institutions are facing budget shortfalls and responding by expanding remote education opportunities while compromising the quality of education not just because of cheating but because often the content and social circumstances are inferior. We are making short term decisions as an easy-fix to budget issues that will have substantial long-term consequences.

The result is that the value of an American college degree is plummeting (ironically while costs still are increasing). This is part of the reason GenZ are starting to revolt against various institutions - they are the ones being screwed the most.

The right path forward is acknowledging this insanity in the budgeting process, employment process, and loan markets. We won't do that though because it means admitting how much has been fucked up - institutions will double down and triple down in the face of DOGE threats.
by nandomrumber | 2025-04-26 18:10:49+00:00
You'd think if that were the case, you'd at least know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who's cause of death was coal fired power plant emissions.

You're characterising it wrong. Epidemiologists estimate the days of lost life across a population due to environmental exposures.

If you add all those up they aren't equivalent to number of lives lost.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-26 18:11:59+00:00
Too bad.

A world where the government gets to say "well it is annoying and expensive to follow the law give people rights so we just won't" is a horror show.

If the people really want a world where people are denied legal process then they can build the popular support for a constitutional amendment. Until then, the government is going to have to pay for this shit.

And we did have a legislative effort to reduce the number of illegal border crossings. Trump scuttled it.
by JdeBP | 2025-04-26 18:12:18+00:00
One can really get bogged down in fonts. (-:

http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/terminal-resources.htm...

If you want a quick improvement over that 8by8 IBM ROM font, I suggest two things:

1. Switch to a 16by16 square.

2. For the ASCII range, go with one of the old home computer fonts, rather than IBM ROMs. Viznut has .hex files for Commodore PET and BBC Micro graphics modes squirrelled away inside Unscii.

I've done the work of upscaling the 8by8 PET font to 16by16, and it works quite nicely as a monospace square font. These old home computer fonts were of course designed to. Whereas in the world of VGA you're soon in trouble with glyphs designed for 9by16.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-04-26 18:12:30+00:00
It used to feel smart: "Both sides are bad." It signaled discernment, wisdom, immunity to empty tribalism. We thought neutrality made us wiser.

But detachment isn’t a moral stance; it’s a luxury belief from a world where the system mostly worked. Today, one side has abandoned the rules entirely. Neutrality isn't wisdom anymore. Neutrality is abdication.

"Both sides are bad" was an optimization for an environment that doesn't exist anymore: shared facts, rational actors, institutional guardrails. We live in the failure modes now: information war, procedural collapse, manufactured resentment.

We aren't floating above it. We’re being crushed by it. And the longer we cling to detached cleverness, the more we surrender to people who act without waiting for certainty.

Yes, action without clarity is dangerous. Yes, there are wrong moves that make collapse worse. But paralysis, waiting, hoping, optimizing forever for a world that already ended kills just the same. It only feels cleaner on the way down.

They already moved. We're still here, swirling the last drops of neutrality in our glasses, mistaking abdication for wisdom, even as the last undergirders of the state give way beneath us.
by moon2 | 2025-04-26 18:12:42+00:00
These things are way better to see than stupid AI. It’s not going to “sell”, but it’s a tech person being creative and doing their craft.

I used to study a lot of hobbyist OS development in my late teens. It was awesome, I still try doing small kernels from time to time (last one was a RISCV small kernel that printed a message to my partner).
by NoWordsKotoba | 2025-04-26 18:13:49+00:00
15 years ago when I was still in college in the US, the new president of the school came to give a speech to some incoming freshman. In that speech he talked a lot about how colleges were businesses and that the goal was to make them appealing to new students (new gyms, updated dorms, better stadiums, etc...). I knew in that moment that higher education had been overtaken by the MBAs. I guarantee that a school that focuses on education solely will not only be cheaper, but get the type of students that actually want to learn.
by crote | 2025-04-26 18:13:59+00:00
> For me FreeCAD was highly unintuitive. Everything is a chain of operations/modifications on solids(good!) but for some reason it won't let you modify anything but the last element in the chain?

This has been a longstanding issue in FreeCAD. A big issue is that it is really difficult algorithm-wise to deal with changing geography: a tiny change might result in two objects which look the same, but have a completely different internal representation. If the next operation is attached to "face #23", it's going to freak out. This is called the "topological naming problem"[0], and it is pretty much impossible to solve completely.

FreeCAD itself can support the kind of parametric modeling you want, but because it's so fragile the UX is pretty horrible. To do it properly you essentially have to specifically design your entire model around being parametric from the start.

Luckily FreeCAD made some massive improvements in 1.0, and issues due to topological naming are now far less likely to occur. Hopefully it'll eventually turn from "guaranteed to ruin your day every time you try altering something" to "might need some manual adjustment in weird edge cases" - and that would also make it far more sensible to invest in UX for making mid-change modifications, or for modeling using variables.

[0]: https://wiki.freecad.org/Topological_naming_problem
by mrandish | 2025-04-26 18:14:00+00:00
While exploring the Adventure Family Tree (https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily.html), I came across a promising improved variant called ADV770 by Mike Arnautov (https://mipmip.org/adv770/index.html).

The extensive FAQ indicates much care, thought, research and testing devoted to making modern improvements and expanding the game while remaining faithful to the original lineage of the most popular mainline versions. Particularly interesting to me were: improvements to the parser, extended vocabulary, expanded descriptions and some careful pruning of a few minor locales which confused many players, never had an apparent purpose and were perhaps never completed in original versions. ADV770 is playable in browsers and currently supported, with the author even offering free individualized, contextual hints via email for stuck players.

Having started with a 4K 8-bit microcomputer, I never got to play the mainframe-based original and have had it on my list for a while. My first experiences with text adventure games were cassette tape-based games written in 8-bit assembler by solo programmer, garage-based "game publishers" and sold by mail in the back of early 80s hobby zines. While those authors were clearly inspired by playing the OG Adventure, the limitations of CPU, memory and only a few months of part-time development by a single programmer clearly showed. The extremely limited vocabulary, abbreviated descriptions and simplified parsers were frustrating, so I suspect I never got the full experience of the larger, more mature mainframe-based games which had benefited from iteration by multiple authors and direct feedback from hundreds of players in university computer labs. I think ADV770 sounds like what I'm looking for: a well-curated synthesis of the most beloved and iconic versions that remains faithful to the OG story and experience but with some of the rough edges fixed.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-26 18:14:22+00:00
For ACM and IEEE programming contests they used to be conducted "offline". Not sure how they're done these days, but participants would have a computer connected to a LAN and shared resources for themselves and their team (one or more computers depending on the particular format). Put students in a room with a disconnected computer and an IDE or a computer connected only to a LAN. Submissions can be handled either with a local contest server or sneaker net to the one networked computer managed by the proctor.

It's also possible to severely lock down the network connectivity of the computers so they cannot access the internet at large but only the contest servers during the competition if there is an online submission required.
by cryptoegorophy | 2025-04-26 18:15:09+00:00
What’s the conversation? Separating kids from parents or deporting them with parents because we don’t want them to be separate? There is no question about breaking the law by parents. Question is do you let children be with their mothers(who apparently asked to do so) or no.

As someone who came legally to Canada and went through thorough screening of 4 years before coming I just don’t get how people are ok with “cheaters” gaming the system.

“Think of the children” works when you are in a super white rich neighborhood, if you never lived in slums you won’t understand the abuse of the system by “think of the children”, you just don’t see it from the other side.