MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fiddlerwoaroof | 2025-04-02 19:49:33+00:00
So, something I’m thinking about here is that the 9p vision has always seemed really cool to me: expose all the resources in the network in a unified way that enables the whole network to be used as if it was a single computer. But, since this is a protocol-oriented vision of computing, it enables arbitrary implementers of the protocol to participate “natively”, even if they aren’t actually plan9 systems.
by almosthere | 2025-04-02 19:50:16+00:00
Because people would have rather had those fixes and stayed with their party and not had the explosive figure of DT.

The democrats were SO BAD that many people couldn't stand the extreme leftists policies that even DT was worth voting for.

If they had gone more moderate, ditched both Biden and Kamala, we would have a president Newsom right now. Also, as it turns out, Newsom's teen son is a huge Charlie Kirk fan - which has been influencing Newsom.
by nicwolff | 2025-04-02 19:50:20+00:00
Ugh. Every few decades some new MTA honcho decides to switch to a schematic map, and it's either shot down before launch or lasts a few years before people realize you can't actually find your way to any real-world aboveground location on it unless you already know the nearest station. Maybe now that everyone can get transit directions on their phone it doesn't matter anymore and can just be a pretty decoration.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-02 19:50:39+00:00
> A polite well worded post that disagrees with the mainstream will indeed still exist, but it will be moderated to unreadably transparent and hidden by default. It’s not a great experience.

Speaking from personal experience only: I have mostly not observed "polite, well-worded posts disagreeing with the mainstream" get downvoted to oblivion, unless some other factor also applies, such as that they're also things that seem likely to lead to a rehashed old-as-the-hills disagreement with no new information that will not on balance change any minds.

If you post (by way of example only, please observe the use-mention distinction here) a polite version of "ads are good and adblockers are stealing", and get a massive pile of downvotes, I think that's a reasonable signal that the community isn't interested in seeing iteration 47,902 of that argument, and has no expectation that anything new will come out of that argument. If you have something new to say on that topic that is likely to lead into new and interesting arguments, at this point you would need to signpost that heavily, prefacing it with some equivalent of "Please note that I'm aware this is an age-old argument, but I think I have a new point to make that is worth considering", and then actually make a new point, at which point I think you're less likely to get downvoted to oblivion.

Personally, I don't downvote "mere" disagreement. I downvote (among other things) what seems to me to be uninteresting or thoughtless or insufficiently diligent disagreement, or factually incorrect information, or anything that seems like a discussion that spawned from it will not be interesting.

Now, that said, another factor here is that some people posting on political topics in particular believe they're making "polite well-worded posts disagreeing with the mainstream", and others do not share that belief and flag it to oblivion. For example, posts expressing bigotry mostly get flagged, no matter how surface-level "polite" they are.
by davorak | 2025-04-02 19:51:45+00:00
Yeah it seems pretty cut and dry, that the laws is not being followed here and their could be consequences for the companies breaking it if either Trump changes his mind or a future DOJ decides to press the matter. Not clear what(edit) legal arguments/advise behind the scenes convinced google and apple to put tiktok back in their stores after they had removed it on Jan 18th.
by jMyles | 2025-04-02 19:51:48+00:00
> nobody in his right mind will create anything new only to be immediatly copied without anything in return

If this take is serious, I can confidently tell you: for many professional artists, it's incorrect.

I'm sure you didn't look at my profile and don't know my background, but I'm a professional bluegrass musician.

Believe me when I tell you: few of us believe that 'intellectual property' is designed to help us make a living. And we're happy to see it go. Copy my music all you want - that's half the point.

Creativity, especially in traditional arts, does not benefit from state intervention or shoehorning property concepts into our work.
by wfn | 2025-04-02 19:51:48+00:00
Re: LLMs & diagrams - in general, diagrams and tables as info compression tool (both in the general sense as well as in the practical concrete "optimise for token / context window" sense) - e.g. today as part of request to do 'deep research' on Dwarf Fortress personality / psychology system, at a late point (preparing to relaunch with a fresh empty context window among other things) I asked GPT 4.5 to (among other diagrams) draw me a concise 'psychological data flow diagram' (I was kind of vague and was deliberately pushing for abstraction / compression) -

among (many elaborate) other things it gave me - and I liked it (NB don't trust it willy nilly w.r.t. the below of course) - (auto-indented by 2 spaces hope formatting works) =>

```

DWARVEN PSYCHE DATA FLOW ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── External Events (Trauma, Success, Social) │ ▼ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Event Processing │─── Modulated by → Personality facets │ (Emotion generation) │─── Modulated by → Personal values └───────────┬─────────────┘ │ Generates ▼ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Emotional Reactions │─── Short-term emotion (Anger, Joy, Sadness) │ (Immediate Thoughts) │ └───────────┬─────────────┘ │ Stored as ▼ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Memory Storage │─── Short-term → Long-term memories (core) │ (Core & transient) │─── Decay/Replacement over time └───────────┬─────────────┘ │ Recalled as ▼ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Memory Re-experiencing │─── Repeated emotional impacts │ (Periodic Thoughts) │ └───────────┬─────────────┘ │ Accumulate ▼ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Stress Level │─── Increased by negative memories │ (Running total score) │─── Decreased by positive memories └───────────┬─────────────┘ │ Monitored ▼ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Stress Threshold Check │─── If threshold breached → Psychological Crisis │ │─── Else → Coping behaviors activated └───────────┬─────────────┘ │ │ ┌─────┴─────┐ │ │ ▼ ▼ ┌───────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ Coping │ │ Psychological │ │Mechanisms │ │ Breakdown │ │(Needs met,│ │ (Tantrum, │ │ hardening,│ │ Depression, │ │ social) │ │ Insanity) │ └───────────┘ └─────────────────┘ │ │ │ ▼ │ ┌───────────────────┐ │ │ Personality Change│ └──────▶│ (Facet alterations│ │ via trauma, events│ └───────────────────┘

```

p.s. it chose the syntax/format itself; regardless, some time ago when asked for guidance re: how to manage sliding context window, it did suggest tables itself (user employing them for concise input - and likewise requesting tabulated/diagrammatic/schematic output).

p.p.s. (edit) many good very particular insights, if anyone's by chance interested then lmk, I'll ping once distilled interesting output is on a not-yet-extant blog (it's gonna happen finally)...
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by Arainach | 2025-04-02 19:52:19+00:00
I disagree - it's not properly addressed, but it's nice to see it at least brought up.

Layoffs are always awful, but seeing companies talk about "changing economic realities" amongst continuing revenue and profit growth - often all time highs - is a real morale killer for those who are left behind.

Microsoft/Amazon/Alphabet/Google are trillion dollar megacorps who are insanely profitable, but they're firing people because they no longer have to pretend we care about you at all and will instead try to cater to Wall Street (who will never be happy - if I had $10000 for every quarter where a big tech corp "beat expectations" and the stock dropped anyway I'd retire). It's a hard pill to swallow and will increase bitterness and cynicism in the remaining workforce and kill any chance of your employees caring about your vision or putting in any extra effort.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-04-02 19:53:20+00:00
"Prickly ash" is an ingredient in Chinese cuisine, particularly Szechuan cooking. We buy it in quantity at Asian groceries where it's pretty inexpensive.

In the US it's known as "Szechuan peppercorn". Preparing it for use requires carefully inspecting a handful for stems and thorns (which can be quite big), pan toasting and crushing/grinding to a coarse powder.

As pointed out in the sister comment, the spice has a mild numbing effect which counters the heat of chilis. Adding a little to hot dishes makes the flavor more complex and enjoyable.

For people who like to cook it's an ingredient worth experimenting with across culinary boundaries.
by munch117 | 2025-04-02 19:54:00+00:00
Then what happens, if you're that type of person, after you've replaced or painted over something? Do you relax and become comfortable with what's left? Or do you move on to the next irritant, that will bug you until you've replaced or painted over that?

I saw some pictures from a house where everything was white. The walls were white, the tables and chairs were white, the pillows were white, lamps were white, etc. But I bet the owner didn't see it as everything being white, like I did. I bet that when they'd look at the same pictures, they'd see all the little details here and there that were not white, or not quite white enough. I imagine them being in a constant state of stress over the non-white blemishes.

I don't know them, I just saw the pictures, so I don't truly know how they feel, I could be just imagining things. But my gut feeling is that someone with a home like that is not at ease with themselves.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-04-02 19:54:15+00:00
Downvoting pushes peoples comments down and greys them out, effectively silencing them. It creates echo chambers.

I reserve my downvotes for when arguments are made in bad faith, rely on logical fallacies, or present know-false information as an argument.

If someone presents an argument on something I disagree with, but it's made in good faith and is well-structured, it deserves an upvote, even if I still disagree afterwards.
by facile3232 | 2025-04-02 19:54:25+00:00
> You can boot a Linux kernel with an nfs root from the local machine and use headless vnc to run a browser in a vnc client window.

Not only is the VNC redirection unnecessary, so it is the entire filesystem. You could just render the vm directly to the window and boot a read only image. Plus then you don't have to deal with VNC.
by chatmasta | 2025-04-02 19:54:40+00:00
The CIA director - excessively biased as he may be - testified last week that Signal is a CIA-approved application that was preloaded onto the device he was issued on his first day. He said this practice extends back to at least the Biden Administration.

Given this, and assuming it’s true, I wonder to what degree a controversy can be predicated on usage of an approved application on an approved Government device. I’m sure there is plenty to nitpick around the edges (“classified vs. top secret,” “managed device vs. personal device,” “expiring messages,” etc.), but the fundamental transgression cannot be “using Signal.”

More importantly, I just don’t think people care — beyond pearl-clutching, tribal narratives and palace intrigue — about the safety of “classified data.” And the sad part is that it’s obfuscating the real story, which is the federal government’s seemingly indiscriminate bombing of Yemeni residences in an attempt to execute a mildly infamous terrorist. It’s the banal tone with which the government officials discuss it – like it’s a new product launch or a weekly check-in meeting – that we should find disturbing. Nobody cares about the communication medium; if anything, we should wish for _more_ transparency and visibility into discussions like this…

(Also, it’s quite an endorsement of Signal.)
Unfollow accidents on GitHub/notifications is too darn easy
by dezzadk | 2025-04-02 19:54:40+00:00
I was looking at https://github.com/notifications when I accidentally pressed the mouse over the [unsubscribe] bell icon twice.

Did github show a confirmation dialog? Nope. It unsubscribed me from 2 random issues I'll never find again.

Is there any way to recall which issues it was? Not a chance.. Not unless you had the browser console open on the Network tab before you did your mistake.

I'm so fed up with Github's aging edgy cringekid javascript webdesign choices and their overridden CTRL+F search. Their site literally screams peak JavaScript/UX terrorism era of 2014-ish.

Its unproductive, you can never find the right button to navigate in commit/PR views compared to the absolutely intuitive alternatives. The 30% viewport width on gist/files on HiDPI 4K screens with a height viewport that looks like an embarrased accidentally shrunken wooly sweater on short files with low line-count is absolutely terrible.

Am I totally wrong about this being tasteless design? It it just me, who feels like Github feels like a time-capsule from the worst era of webdesign?
by Imnimo | 2025-04-02 19:54:42+00:00
Here are some example questions that Turing proposed when initially describing the test:

>"I have K at my K1, and no other pieces. You have only K at K6 and R at R1. It is your move. What do you play?"

>"In the first line of your sonnet which reads "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day," would not "a spring day" do as well or better?"

It seems to me that it isn't a movement of the goalposts to demand that the interrogators are adversarial and as challenging as possible - it's what Turing originally envisioned.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-04-02 19:54:48+00:00
> During your career, you have kept your distance from Western style democracy. Are you still convinced that an authoritarian system is the future for Asia?

Once again, a Western journalist treats his non-Western guest with judgmental condescension. Democracies can have many different implementations; it's very presumptuous to assume that any country that does not follow Western prescriptions on how to arrange its politics must ipso facto be authoritarian.

Having read many of Lee Kuan Yew's interviews, I admire the man's ability to unfailingly, assertively call out his interlocutors' hypocrisy.
by solardev | 2025-04-02 19:55:06+00:00
What did you find overly complicated about Wix compared to Squarespace? (I don't have a dog in either race... started with Squarespace, but clients found Wix easier to use over time. Maybe that balance has shifted again recently?)

Compared to Wordpress, though, either is much simpler because they're fundamentally site builders as opposed to CMSes. With Wordpress you really have to think about concepts like "schema" and try to understand posts vs pages vs comments, and it gets way more complicated once you start adding in page-builder plugins or ACF or SEO optimizers or performance enhancements... Wordpress is way more powerful (and thus complex, buggy, and expensive in dollars and time) than any of the "build your own website" services, Wix or Squarespace.
by oblio | 2025-04-02 19:55:43+00:00
> but I know very few (specifically) men in Europe who would find it acceptable replacement (women seems more reasonable in this)

I can't speak for everyone, but there could also be plain old biological reasons for why spicy food isn't for everyone.

Just to give an example, spicy food is spicy throughout the entire digestive tract. It's much easier to control your reaction to spiciness at some points in your digestive tract than at others...
by JohnFen | 2025-04-02 19:55:57+00:00
Ordinarily, this is where I'd leave it (a real discussion is impossible if one side thinks the other isn't being honest), but I'm really curious...

You've used the term "humble bragging" twice now. What in my statements do you think counts as a brag? I was just saying what my personal experience is, and I can't think of what I've said that would be anything to brag about, humble or otherwise. My experience is just my experience, not some kind of superior one.
by seatac76 | 2025-04-02 19:55:58+00:00
I think the cautious faction of AI debate won temporarily inside Google, letting OpenAI take the lead. Lessons should be learnt from that experience. I do think Google will come out ahead in the end Gemini and Gemma are great models.

Let’s see what Google I/O shows of this year, product application matters now that they have caught up on the tech side.
by pqtyw | 2025-04-02 19:57:08+00:00
> I'd need a source to back up those claims

A source like what? I don't think there are many studies refuting bizarre not well thought out policies. Also it's pretty hard for me to argue against a suggestion that's so ill defined.

Albeit a massive increase in consumption and a reduction in savings would be the most obvious outcome (with all the implications of that).

> after you pass is not as major a concern as presented

Therefore there is no point for you to own your house. When you get older you either get a reverse mortgage or don't buy property in the first place. There would be no rational reason to own property beyond a certain age.
by IceHegel | 2025-04-02 19:58:01+00:00
My prompt is: "Let's play chess. Show me the board each time." Which gives something like:

a b c d e f g h 8 | r n b q k b n r | 8 7 | p p p p . . p p | 7 6 | . . . . . . . . | 6 5 | . . . . . . . . | 5 4 | . . . . P p . . | 4 3 | . . . . . . . . | 3 2 | P P P P . . P P | 2 1 | R N B Q K B N R | 1 a b c d e f g h

I suppose I could use an external representation and paste that in, but I could also have it write a python script to use stockfish.
by djoldman | 2025-04-02 19:58:24+00:00
> ...rideshare data from Lyft in the state of Florida to compare minority drivers with their white counterparts. Lyft objectively measured drivers’ locations, driving speed, and location speed limits .... White and minority drivers showed no discernible differences in speeding behaviors or traffic violations. However, when both drove at identical speeds, police were still 33% more likely to issue speeding citations to minority drivers and charged 34% more expensive fines, unequivocally revealing bias.

Amazing to have access to that data. So many questions...

What's the variation in ticketing with respect to different police departments? How about geographic location?
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by gosub100 | 2025-04-02 20:00:07+00:00
> deliver long-term success.

Is that Wharton business buzz-speak? Did the millons of jobs lost when manufacturing was moved overseas "deliver long-term success" ?

Driving up prices is ok sometimes. It makes sense when the value of the dollar is diluted thanks to inflation. People cannot afford to live anywhere, and judging by the replies, everyone here is fine with that.
by athenot | 2025-04-02 20:00:08+00:00
This is not entirely true. For example, Calendar.app does the same by locally extracting the .ics out of Mail.app without ever sending anything to Apple.

I don't think Telegram's UX is tied to their permissive privacy, but they do seem to start with UX then do what's needed to support it. That does give them an edge. (Instagram has terrible privacy and actively mines information from chat and their UX is only passably good.)
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-02 20:00:21+00:00
"flag" and "downvote" are two different tools with two different purposes.

"downvote" seems more appropriate for for "this is not interesting and should be less prominent".

"flag" seems more appropriate for "this should not be here at all".

By way of an example, on a political story, if you say something merely unpopular, you'll get downvotes and replies; if you say something hateful, you'll (usually) get flagged.
by palmotea | 2025-04-02 20:00:45+00:00
> Copying the Chinese government policies seems to be popular right now. Huge public investments in private industry (CHIPS) and restricting foreign ownership in companies. If you can't beat them, copy them, or something.

Not all of them, but some of them. It's not like the Chinese are dumb and can't do anything right. Also, the previously fashionable neoliberal policies were stupid and exploitable.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-02 20:01:15+00:00
The chrome folks built https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/uiforetw-window... to improve ETW usability.

You usually don't need that full industrial level tracing though on Windows! Process Monitor is 95% of the solution for most people, and provides very similar functionality to strace, if a lot easier to read.
by pc86 | 2025-04-02 20:01:41+00:00
The military could fix this internally if they wanted to. There are plenty of people who can write good code and don't mind doing push-ups and going to the range as well.

Dotgov is a lot harder. Salaries are artificially capped very low, and even one of these horrific contracting body shops will pay you 30% more than you'd make in the government, and you don't need to deal with all the bullshit that comes with working for the government.