MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pchangr | 2025-04-09 11:27:27+00:00
You can define it in terms of language as such “whether the journalist uses rhetorical artifacts that distort the information to support his opinion, or not.” (1)

More definitions and discussions can be found in the paper.

1. Francisco-Javier Rodrigo-Ginés, Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Laura Plaza, A systematic review on media bias detection: What is media bias, how it is expressed, and how to detect it, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 237, Part C, 2024, 121641, ISSN 0957-4174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121641. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741742...)
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-09 11:28:54+00:00
Driving them to a remote rural area to rob, pistol-whip, torture, tie to a split-rail fence, and leaving them to die, so brutally that their face was covered in blood except for where the tears washed it away, happened in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard

And the people who would do that kind of thing again are absolutely THRILLED and EMPOWERED about the current administration's policies towards gay and trans people.

And it's happening much more often now thanks to Trump's Stochastic Terrorism, aimed at his lunatic cult of MAGA followers who are every bit as fanatical and delusional and vengeful and armed to the teeth as any religious imperialist death cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

Beaten With Belts, Sticks: Transgender Man Tortured For Weeks Before Murder:

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/beaten-with-belts-sticks-tra...

>Nordquist, originally from Minnesota, travelled to New York in September to meet his online girlfriend and was staying at Patty's Lodge motel in Canandaigua.

>New York authorities have charged five individuals for the brutal torture and killing of a 24-year-old transgender man, whose body was dumped in an empty field after going through weeks of abuse.

>Sam Nordquist was subjected to relentless physical and psychological torture, according to court documents. He was punched, kicked, beaten with sticks, dog toys, ropes, canes, belts, and even assaulted with a table leg and a broomstick for weeks before succumbing to his injuries.

>Nordquist, originally from Minnesota, travelled to New York in September to meet his online girlfriend and was staying at Patty's Lodge motel in Canandaigua, about 30 minutes from Rochester. His family raised concerns after losing contact with him.

>Police launched a missing persons investigation on February 9, and on Thursday, they uncovered a "deeply disturbing pattern of abuse" at the motel, according to New York State Police Captain Kelly Swift.

>"In my 20-year law enforcement career, this is one of the most horrific crimes I have ever investigated," Ms Swift said at a press conference.
by angra_mainyu | 2025-04-09 11:29:12+00:00
>In this case, it's the sheer disconnect between RIIR askers, and the sheer number of people painting Rust devs with a continent wide brush.

I have no idea how you can accuse me of this when I made a big disclaimer in my original comment:

>Before anyone gets triggered and starts typing up a reply: "SUBSET" is the word I used.
by dotdi | 2025-04-09 11:29:12+00:00
I haven't been on slashdot in a long time, and boy is it a shitty experience.

Using Orion browser with uBlock Origin, initially the site loads fine. Then it tries to load ads. It detects that the ads don't load, so it displays an overlay that looks like a crash modal "oops, something went wrong", shaming the user into believing THEY did something wrong.

Dismissing the modal reveals that the CSS was unloaded in the background.

Thanks but no thanks.
by throwanem | 2025-04-09 11:29:24+00:00
This was a better way to find out about NET SEND than attempting to use it for a somewhat vulgar in-joke to a work buddy one desk over, and instead popping a message on every single one of the about 10,000 PCs installed throughout the bank where you work.

Despite being phone support (think "cattle") I didn't get fired or indeed anything at all past a half-shocked, half-laughing "never ever do that again" sort of chat, and even that not from any of the floor mommies or daddies who were careful not to have to notice any of this, but just my line manager who might have been all of five years older than I was then. I assume this was slightly because I was extremely good at the job, and mainly for the sake of whoever in IT's job it was to make sure nobody could officially do what I, somehow, in the end turned out only unofficially to have done.
by nkrisc | 2025-04-09 11:29:39+00:00
> what people have called google fu

I don’t know what that means in any specific sense.

I don’t want to think about how to interact with the search mechanism. It’s the same problem with using voice assistants like Siri - I have to think about how to construct my query so that it will be parsed correctly.

With most search engines I can just type in disparate terms that might be related. The order doesn’t matter, the phrasing doesn’t matter, I don’t need to give it instructions on how to respond, etc.
by supermatt | 2025-04-09 11:29:59+00:00
Sure, but your data is only getting relayed through DERP servers if it cant otherwise establish a direct p2p connection. This can usually be resolved at either side of the connection - if you know about it (which is what the parent was suggesting could be made more clear).

As for your bandwidth concerns in the case of needing to relay, you can even set up your own relay (https://tailscale.com/kb/1118/custom-derp-servers), which would satisfy your desire to be more centralised (i guess you could force all traffic through it, but cant think why you would want to) while still allowing the flexibility of the overlay that tailscale provides.
by leovingi | 2025-04-09 11:32:23+00:00
>relatively

Why are you suddenly, when faced with data that doesn't fit your narrative, using that word when it was nowhere to be found in the original discussion?

>Why? Does the UK need to deal with this "fact" too then?

If the interests of UK and China ever seriously clashed and led to a conflict, yes, they would. I can't believe that military capabilities and force projection in the modern world need to be explained on a website meant for professionals.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2025-04-09 11:33:16+00:00
> There is ZERO honor in offloading what could have been a SQL view into a shitty pile of nested iterators somewhere. I don't understand where any of this energy comes from. The less code the better. It's pure downside.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. As to why we use ORMs, the impression I get from the engineers I work with is that many of them a) don’t know SQL and b) feel like it’s “data analyst” stuff and so beneath them to learn it. Real engineering requires objects and inheritance or structs, pointers and arrays (depending on the engineer).

I think it’s the declarative nature of SQL that turns them off.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-09 11:34:33+00:00
The founder may have had an "imperialist" mindset, where he dreamed to succeed to convert everybody to follow his rules, but in this respect there was no difference between him and any European king or noble, or the Pope, or the Patriarch of Jerusalem, or any Chinese emperor or any successful ruler from any part of the world, at that time.

So you cannot single out Islam as a special religion from this point of view. At most it can be said that all monotheistic religions are structured to support imperialism, because they replace the previous multitude of gods, all of which had their specific jobs, at which they could not be supplanted by others, by a single all-powerful God who knows everything and who can do anything, and this structure of the celestial realm is supposed to be mirrored on Earth, where there must also be a single all-powerful ruler, whom everybody must obey without questioning.
by trhway | 2025-04-09 11:35:19+00:00
i can only conclude that you're either from US, Canada or Western Europe and somehow don't know, even in this age of global information, what a prison outside of the Western world is. And if you add that in case like El Salvador they intentionally make it "tough". There is a reason another "tough" guy - Duterte - has recently been delivered to ICC for the crimes against humanity. Because that is what "tough" means in those places.
by loufe | 2025-04-09 11:35:48+00:00
While "third world" isn't a modern term and you should try to avoid it, it's also not correct by any means. If we consider 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world countries to be analogous to high, medium, and low income countries, Brazil is easily a medium income country[1], and considered to be in the higher end of that bracket, for what it's worth.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=BR-XT
by angra_mainyu | 2025-04-09 11:36:14+00:00
When I say "Rust alternative" it's precisely because it competes in the same space: very low-level, no GC, extremely high performance constraints, safety guarantees.

Re: safety guarantees, much digital ink has been spilled on how Zig can give Rust a run for its money when it comes to safety.

When people say: Rust <=> C++, Zig <=> C; they forget that C++ was precisely meant to be an enhanced C, which is what Zig is trying to accomplish. They simply eschewed chasing complexity as the holiest of holy grails, which in turn leads to the cognitive load of writing/reading Zig code to be MUCH smaller than C++ or other langs in that space.

All that said, I'd never recommend a company build their product on Zig just yet, at least not with some kind of red telephone to the Zig team or a dedicated Zig developer, given it's still not fully mature.

Re: managing memory yourself, Zig's defer makes this much, much more straightforward than you would think, and feeding in your own allocators can simplify this in many cases (and make testing for leaks much easier).
by Festro | 2025-04-09 11:38:00+00:00
I've always struggled with this concept. I ask people to define 'free will' when they start to talk about it. As there only seems to be either causally determined processes or indetermined (random) ones. There's no inbetween where something like a consciousness can make a 'free' choice between options. That choice is always a product of weighted factors like memories, mood, stray particles blasting through my brain, etc.

My will is my ability to weigh up options but it's not 'free'.

The one angle that's started to pop up more and more in research that looks promising is that of the brain's possible use of micro-tubules that allow for cognitive interaction with a quantum state. i.e. possible decision-making within an indeterminate plane.

Here's a study on the concepts:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/integrative-neuroscienc...

Or that just means our brains found an evolutionary edge by shifting decision-making to a dice roll when being locked into totally causal decision-making was becoming a disadvantage. i.e. the ape that could innovate because it did random things came out on top more than the ape that was totally derivative in its behaviours.
by epage | 2025-04-09 11:39:05+00:00
> As a downside, Rust libraries typically have a large fan-out of dependencies, much like Node.js. This requires taking care to avoid the blow-up of dependencies, and to deal with annoyances of dependabot.

In the linked situation, the were using the library of a binary. This get into the tension between "make it easy for `cargo install` (and have a `cli` feature be default) and "make it easy for `cargo add` (and make `cli` opt-in).

This is not a great experience and we should improve it. There was an RFC to auto-enable features when a build-target is built (allowing `cli` to be opt-in but `cargo install` to auto-opt-in), rather than skip it, but the dev experience needed work, The maintainer can split the package which helps with semver for the two sides but needs to break one side to do so and if its the bin, people need to discover the suffix (`-bin`, `-cli`, etc).

Current workarounds:

- `cargo add skim` will show the `cli` feature is enabled and you can re-run with `--no-default-features`

- if `cli` wasn't a default, `cargo install skim` would suggest adding `--features cli`
by mapt | 2025-04-09 11:39:48+00:00
I always thought there was a very basic intelligence proof that the biologists & neurologists overlooked. Engineering.

What are humans? If we focus on early-noticed similarities with Great Apes, people often took to saying "We are the tool users", but "We are the builders" is maybe just as accurate. We produce not just jackhammers, but skyscrapers. Tool users modify their environment adaptively for utility, builders modify their environment adaptively for utility. The evidence is in the works.

Building a stacked stone house requires creating an abstract concept of a future dwelling you would like to have, figuring out how the wall works in that dwelling, modifying the wall according to the layout of the terrain, finding and modifying the appropriate piece of stone that works in the correct position, and then iterating on this piece by piece as each stone provides a slightly different opportunity for the next stone. It requires persistence in pursuit of that abstract goal much longer than routine biological feedback loops; We're talking about a delayed gratification "Marshmallow Test" because you don't get to enjoy sanctuary from the weather until you're done. It requires a consciousness of the environment, the available tools, one's one's own limitations, and the shifting outlines of a hypothetical future. There's literal Gantt Chart type prioritization and preparation involved. I don't see how this could possibly be less complex cognitively than a mirror test.

A number of of animals build nests, piece by piece in the fashion of a human rather than purely through biological secretions. I argue that all of them, even the really weird ones (eg ant nests), are in one sense intelligent.
by blackbrokkoli | 2025-04-09 11:40:00+00:00
It's not really about that.

If I hire you to make software for me, I don't really want software; I want a problem to go away, a money stream built, a client to be happy. Of course, that probably requires you to build software, unless you invent a magic wand. But if you had the magic wand, I'd choose it every single time over software.

Not so with food, furniture or a fancy hotels, where I actually want the thing.
by rndphs | 2025-04-09 11:42:31+00:00
I can somewhat understand people developing AGI, but directly working on superintelligence is on extremely shaky ethical ground. A good proportion of AI researchers and philosophers believe superintelligence stands a significant chance of displacing humanity and it is widely regarded as one of the most, if not the most, dangerous technology yet to be created.

Crazy that this is legal.
by mescudi | 2025-04-09 11:42:51+00:00
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by Taek | 2025-04-09 11:44:44+00:00
I always get a lot of pushback for avoiding frameworks and libraries, and rolling most things by hand.

But, most frameworks and libraries aren't built to be audit-grade robust, don't have enterprise level compatibility promises, can't guarantee that there won't be suprise performance impacts for arbitrary use cases, etc.

Sometimes, a third party library (like sql-lite) makes the cut. But frameworks and libraries that reach the bar of "this will give me fewer complications than avoiding the dependency" are few and far between.
by lqet | 2025-04-09 11:46:08+00:00
The best programmer and the best Linux wizard I knew had absolutely no background in CS, he stumbled into programming in this 20ies because he had to develop a tool for his Master thesis in a completely unrelated field (agriculture). He then quickly taught himself Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, PHP, and PostgreSQL scripting. By his early 30ies he was the established senior developer at the company I worked back then. He was very strong and quick in non-algorithmic programming tasks, but I also often marveled the naivete with which he approached algorithmic tasks: he would google around for a day, and then find out about standard undergraduate CS algorithms, would then get very excited about them, and quickly implement his own version.
by carlmr | 2025-04-09 11:46:32+00:00
If I had a magic wand to make you satiated, you wouldn't need food. If you're in it for the taste I will magic wand you some taste in your mouth. If I had a magic wand to give you a roof over your head, protection and a bed, you wouldn't need a hotel.

The magic wand argument doesn't make sense. Then you can also get everything else.
by arnsholt | 2025-04-09 11:47:50+00:00
I can think of three things off the top of my head:

- Rust doesn’t let you pretend that memory is a flat array of bytes - Single ownership of data can be annoying in some cases - The borrow checker pointing out that you’re trying to do something stupid with pointers (again) can be annoying

Of course, I’m of the opinion that the hassles are worth it, especially the borrow checker. Almost every time I have to fight the borrow checker, it’s because I haven’t thought properly about the pointers involved and tried to do something stupid.
by nickpp | 2025-04-09 11:49:32+00:00
In the first society, the probability of the artist completing and selling that masterpiece is correspondingly lower, since money is a strong motivator and even artists have bills to pay.

Thus the first society tends to create less value overall, since value creators are demotivated by punishing taxation. Because of that, prospective buyers for that piece of art will be overall poorer so they will bid less for it, pushing the artist's reward even lower.

The first society ends up poorer than the second, from its own policy. And that’s how you get inequality between nations, which you can’t “redistribute” away. Which inequality sooner or later leads to wars, as we can clearly see these days.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-04-09 11:49:35+00:00
They are specifically talking about "general intelligence" here, something which hasn't been achieved and so we can probably classify all attempts towards it as failures at this point.

I don't think that the author meant to write off the entire field of symbolic reasoning because Cyc didn't achieve general intelligence but I think it's fair to say that the lack of progress Cyc made towards it does make it less likely that purely symbolic reasoning will lead us to AGI. That's not to say it might not play a part in AGI or that it doesn't have other uses.
by mapt | 2025-04-09 11:49:46+00:00
tldr: These guys suffered rapid, progressive failures of their thruster control loops in orbit. They were close to either being stranded in space or impacting the station, in what might have been a lethal circumstance. Rebooting regained them just enough control authority to dock, and they did; Nobody wanted to risk touching the capsule after, not knowing how many minutes the thrusters would still be operational.
by card_zero | 2025-04-09 11:50:01+00:00
> My will is my ability to weigh up options but it's not 'free'.

In what way? What do you want when you want it to be free?

Maybe the problem is just that "deterministic" and "random" both sound like "you don't get options". But you do get options. Then, subject to probabilities, you choose between them, like a process. Your will has to be a process: what else could it be?
by re-thc | 2025-04-09 11:50:37+00:00
> Why are you suddenly, when faced with data that doesn't fit your narrative, using that word when it was nowhere to be found in the original discussion?

The world is always relative. Otherwise if you want it in absolute terms, the US is the world's 2nd largest global manufacturer. What manufacturing do you need to bring back then?

> If the interests of UK and China ever seriously clashed and led to a conflict, yes, they would

Who clashed with who? The US has no real conflict with China. Most US companies and citizens are happily using China made products before the tariffs. Lots of US companies sell to China. Where's the issue?

Oh you mean what's been said by certain political parties and the media for their own gains?

> I can't believe that military capabilities and force projection in the modern world need to be explained on a website meant for professionals.

Exactly right. As if the military is ONLY about the navy. Then don't slice and dice it as you please. Who says the US is weak? I didn't.
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by vdupras | 2025-04-09 11:50:59+00:00
Compiling Oberon to native code, nice!

Since Oberon is as much a compiler as it's a complete system, a big part of the work is to integrate that system into its host. It seems they've done it for files and stdin/stdout, but not for the graphical system yet (through SDL or something). I wonder if it's on their roadmap.

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by noduerme | 2025-04-09 11:51:32+00:00
Hard to see how this benefits anyone. Or who's going to be hurt more by it. America's tariff move under Trump is a symptom of mass psychosis. But I think China's response is a huge gamble that the psychosis can be broken with careful application of pain - before that pain hurts China even more.

Personally, I buy almost no consumer products, and it's true that most people in the US who backed Trump are debtors and consumers who are going to see prices go through the roof. But there is no guarantee they will blame their leader. The cognitive dissonance implies they will blame anyone else. There is some hope that they'll revolt against Trump if things get bad enough, the way there's some hope for democracy in China, I suppose. But at the same time, I don't know that China's aggressive response is going to politically move things in that direction, because it's so easy for the nationalists to rally around the flag - regardless of the economic pain they're experiencing. China itself knows this and leverages it with its own nationalists. And this response is going to cost China dearly. It may be counterproductive. Then again, I think it's a bold move, and if I were in China's position I think I would have to try the same and wait to see how long it takes for America to cry uncle.
by Zambyte | 2025-04-09 11:51:49+00:00
The only other e-paper device that I had was a small nook many years ago. As far as connecting with people, I think quite well? The only social media I really use is bluesky, which has been really nice. Otherwise I keep in touch with my meatspace friends either over SMS (I use JMP Chat for SMS over XMPP on any device) or Signal (I use the molly.im client, which is easier to use without a cell phone (particularly because you can't scan QR codes on the Daylight)).

Ironically I actually feel like I experience far less FOMO than when I was hyper connected too :P