MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paxys | 2025-04-01 00:17:24+00:00
This video is shared a lot to represent Miyazaki's feelings on AI, but all I see is him reacting to one specific video on the screen - grotesque/bloody figures crawling on the floor in totally unnatural motions. He specifically says he doesn't like it because it seems to make light of the suffering of disabled people. There zero feedback on the AI whatsoever. Who knows what he would have said if the engineers had built something closer to the company's artistic vision.
by tuananh | 2025-04-01 00:18:18+00:00
very similar to my goals but i went different way.

I chose wasm for package format. so everyone can choose the programming language they are familiar with. caveat: rust still has best support for wasm. everything else is hit or miss.

I chose OCI registry for package publishing because that's what everyone already has in their infrastructure. or just use dockerhub/GHCR.

https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-01 00:18:27+00:00
Exactly. I'm willing to believe some of these people were indeed "bad dudes", but literally 0 evidence was provided one way or the other. And these people weren't just deported back to their home countries - they were imprisoned in demonstrably brutal fashion.

Yeah, yeah, Godwin's Law and all that, but the similarities with mid-20th century fascism are undeniable here. The administration specifically started with targeting a small, well-defined minority (that is, people in the US illegally, or at least purported to be here illegally), and then extended to valid visa holders (what's the point of being on legal visa if it can be revoked at any moment with no judicial review and then you can be imprisoned for weeks/months) and now legal permanent residents. It's just classic creeping fascism.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-01 00:19:33+00:00
Related

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada (93 points, 4 days ago, 79 commments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501084

University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust (78 points, 4 days ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495824
by inopinatus | 2025-04-01 00:19:56+00:00
FreeBSD is more of an admin's system than a user's system and this perfectly illustrates one of the reasons why. Outside of this forum, in regular consumer land, OS users don't want to know or care about the distinction between base and ports, and nothing anyone says about it is going to change that. So I run lots of BSD at home but I recommend Mint to family.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-01 00:20:12+00:00
They get flagged because they have nothing to do with the forum’s subject.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by solid_fuel | 2025-04-01 00:20:24+00:00
I use FreeBSD for my home server and I have for years. For me, the biggest reason is just the stability from a user perspective. I don't mean system stability, although it has been rock solid, I mean the stability in terms of administration - the tools don't change frequently.

`ifconfig` just works, like it has worked for 20 years. On my linux servers, it's all swallowed into `ip addr` now. I don't mind that, I certainly understand why these things change, but when I update an Ubuntu server I always worry that next time I log in a tool I am used to will be broken or removed.

I simply don't have those concerns on FreeBSD.
by margorczynski | 2025-04-01 00:20:59+00:00
The Ghibli stuff is really amusing but for me the best are the infographics - you can make amazing stuff with basically 0 2D CG know-how for e.g. a presentation, web page, documentation, blog, etc.

The biggest difference to what was previously available is the accuracy - especially the text. This opens up a plethora of possibilities.
by owlstuffing | 2025-04-01 00:21:10+00:00
The issue is that many essential libraries and tools rely on setting internal final fields. I assume that's why the options around this have remained open-ended.

The problem with these various "integrity by default" options is that, in most cases, granting access to one effectively grants access to all. For instance, JNI, agent libraries, and JPMS options can each be used to bypass restrictions, making the separation between them largely illusory. Integrity, as framed here, is ultimately binary.

The unfortunate reality of the "integrity by default" crusade is that applications relying on libraries and tools that modify internals will continue to do so. The JDK hasn’t filled any gaps—it has only made an already delicate situation worse.
by giantrobot | 2025-04-01 00:21:22+00:00
I have tried several times to run FreeBSD on my home servers and every single time it fails to boot let alone run. Each happily runs Linux (with ZFS) all day long with no issues.

I know the project is smaller in scope and has less funding than Linux (distros and subprojects included) but it's kind of ridiculous. It's incredibly frustrating to set aside the time to set up a machine only to have the kernel panic half way through booting the install media.

From there it's an annoying and exhausting yak shaving exercise just trying to get the machine to start. Eventually I just give up and put the latest Ubuntu LTS which boots and installs with no problems. I import my ZFS pool and everything just hum along.

I cut my Unix teeth on FreeBSD 3 and 4. I want to use modern FreeBSD but it never seems to run on hardware I actually own. That's why I don't run FreeBSD on my home servers.
by photonthug | 2025-04-01 00:22:05+00:00
Tech won't freeze in place exactly where it's at today even if some people want that, and even if in some cases it actually would make sense. And.. if you advocate for this I think you risk losing credibility. Especially amongst technologists it's better to think critically about structural problems with the trends and trajectories. AI is fine, change is fine.. the question now is really more like why and what for and in the interest of whom. To the extent models work locally, we'll be empowered in the end.

Similarly, software eating the world was actually pretty much fine, but SaaS is/was a bit of a trap. And anyone who thought SaaS was bad should be terrified about the moats and platform lock-in that billion dollar models might mean, the enshittification that inevitably follows market dominance, etc.

Honestly we kinda need a new Stallman for the brave new world, someone who is relentlessly beating the drum on this stuff even if they come across as anticorporate and extreme. An extremist might get traction, but a call to preserve things as they are probably cannot / should not.
by flas9sd | 2025-04-01 00:22:17+00:00
you could try Zealdocs - it was a reason to go reading more of the projects own documentation pages. There are converters for whatever-doc/ssg-framework a project uses to Docset, the packaged format it relies on. Though ignoring that, how approachable the docs are to different levels of experience is another thing.

I learned heaps from treating a REPL as an (offline) escape room, in terms of how to get inline help, variable introspection and debugging tricks. Not every language offers a convenient one though.
by Lerc | 2025-04-01 00:22:27+00:00
Playing on my phone. Got to just under 12,000 before I got a txt and when I went back to the game it had restarted.

Two things that would be nice. Show the optimal score possible for any level, with a single puzzle mode (maybe puzzle of the day) to replay to try and achieve the best score on a single level.

A more significant penalty for moving into unsafe squares. Perhaps losing moves rather than points. An increasing penalty for second and third hit might mitigate the just blunder your way through approach.

I felt like I was in no danger of losing, but if it had a strongger penalty for being hit I think I would hit a limit in a reasonable amount of time.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-01 00:22:45+00:00
Sure, I'm not attempting to comment specifically on French laws, I don't know French laws nearly well enough.

The comment I relied to was talking about judicial powers in general, and referenced the US rather than France.

My point really isn't specific to any one country though. If an electoral system is meant to be democratic, IMO people should be able to vote for whomever they want. If a candidate can get enough support to win, so be it.

That doesn't preclude us from having laws protecting our right to free and fair elections though. A candidate will absolutely influence the vote, that's the candidate's whole job. There has to be lines drawn where it goes from campaigning to impeding a democratic election, I wasn't arguing against that.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-01 00:23:19+00:00
Of all the terrible attacks on the 1A, I find this one the most disturbing as it amounts to nothing less than mafia-style extortion:

> The POTUS recently issued several executive orders railing against specific law firms with attorneys who worked legal cases against him. On Friday, the president announced that the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono work on issues that he supports.

> Trump issued another order naming the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which ultimately agreed to pledge $40 million in pro bono legal services to the president’s causes.
by zahlman | 2025-04-01 00:23:37+00:00
> It should go without saying, the idea that tariffs will not be born by consumers and the idea that they will generate $500 billion dollars a year in income cannot both be true.

(Before I start: I am a Canadian supporter of the decidedly left-wing New Democratic Party. Responses attempting to dismiss me as a "Trump supporter" etc. will be ignored.)

Sure they can, logically speaking. Trump's belief is that shelf prices will not increase; the money will come from the exporting country, in that they will end up with 20% less money for a given good (sold at the original price after applying a 25% tariff). Which is to say, not so much a "tax hike" as a savings on the same imported goods.

I am, of course, simplifying by ignoring the domestic part of the supply chain after receiving the import. But there really is a coherent vision by which it could work. A higher shelf price means lower demand; this either must force down the price (unlikely insofar as the retailer can't afford it) or the supply. But the supplier's "supply" to the consumer is equivalent to "demand" from a wholesale source, etc. back to the originating country, for imported goods.

The narrative that tariffs are universally and obviously bad in any amount everywhere is just too simple and convenient for me to take seriously. It doesn't square with the history of tariffs or with the fact of people repeatedly coming up with the idea (nor does it take into account that optimizing for the specific metrics negatively impacted by tariffs is necessarily globally optimal). And if you want to talk about deadweight loss, please make sure your view of tariffs is consistent with your view of a) minimum wage policy and b) rent control. I have found that many people do not, due to the interference of their political beliefs.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-01 00:23:51+00:00
> Look at what's happening in Turkey, where the popular opposition candidate was just barred from running.

Ironically Turkey is in this situation precisely because Erdogan removed term limits and spent decades consolidating his power. Same with China where Xi Jinping did the same. And Russia with Putin. All prime examples of functioning democracies, right?

These rules are specially to prevent people from setting themselves up as emperor for life and if they are removed that's almost always the exact thing that happens.

Democracy isn't a perfect system, as much as Americans tend to believe it is. It needs some guidelines to keep it functional. And even with them it's a compromise, not perfection.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-01 00:23:54+00:00
They aren't going to talk to the passengers in a gap unless there's a major need (like Sullenberger saying "This is the captain, brace for impact". He had already committed to the Hudson long before he said that. And note that that's the minimum communication that conveys the message, he didn't spend one second on that he didn't have to.)
by glandium | 2025-04-01 00:24:49+00:00
> It seems that the system does work as intended after all.

Does it though? One common thread in the comments here is whether ineligibility is or is not warranted in political embezzlement cases. If hers is justified, how is the lack of Chirac's justified? That he was not seeking to be elected?

Whether or not it's actually a politically motivated difference, it's not a stretch that people question whether it is. Because it's a very convenient sentence. And let's face it, she was very likely to make it to the second round of the presidential election, and I can totally see a number of people being extremely bothered that it was a possibility, because if it did happen, if she wouldn't have won, it would have been very close (although who knows, a miracle could happen, and the political field might be less of a mess in 2 years).
by userbinator | 2025-04-01 00:25:08+00:00
What's faster, a "Core i3-9100" or a "Core i7-2600"?

One has 4 threads, the other has 8; and the difference between 6 generations is actually not that big, especially if you start talking about overclocking, cooling, and thermal throttling.

At least with 286, 386, 486, and Pentium, the nomenclature was much more digestible

Those were all single-core, but still, you could ask "what's faster, a 486SX-16 or a 386DX-33?" (The answer may surprise you. Sorry, couldn't resist...):

https://dependency-injection.com/the-slowest-486-vs-fastest-...
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-04-01 00:25:58+00:00
ПЖ would claim later that the oppression and continuous warfare are merely unfortunate side effects! (Joke?)

The motive consists simply of helping society be more effective!!*

(Riffing on 2-ish Nussbaum-Sen derived questions:

1. How to hand out capabilities to the effective/viral but not necessarily wise.[0]

2. How to immediately extract the foremost interesting issue with any framework... that some undergrad can fix before you even sit down at your studydesk in your chalet tonight.

*at learning/earning as a team. "too much information" is consensually the thing to insure against in the Overton; other things detractors ("prigs"/殺氣者) warn you about are to be reflexively dismissed as acts/will of god(s)

**Otoh info asymmetry foments corruption. "moral hazard" is translatable to irl outcomes.

***not touching the CFG analysis directly atm, indeed, because those tractability monsters pull you under when you forget to focus on interestingness

https://aarushgupta.com/2024/03/30/procrastination

[0] S-N's "thresholds" I read as a placeholder for a thermodynamically grounded app of "festina lente". Colloquially: When your heat baths are way too mismatched, your Carnot efficiency...
by okanat | 2025-04-01 00:26:28+00:00
TL;DR "the major component that is primarily made to make managing servers and services easier and providing good journalling on Linux, systemd, makes me uncomfortable." which is quite the litmus test for stubborn sysadmin that didn't deploy anything remotely complex.

I'm on the opposite camp. If FreeBSD can provide a systemd-like service and device management software, then I would switch to it.
by pron | 2025-04-01 00:27:38+00:00
> I don't know where that ranking comes from.

It comes from MITRE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitre_Corporation), and the methodology is explained on the website (roughly, the score is relative prevalence times relative average vulnerability severity).

> and attackers can switch to it, so shutting off one source of UB isn't as effective in practice as you might expect.

If that's how things work, you could say the same about all the other weaknesses that have nothing to do with UB.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-01 00:28:39+00:00
At the same time, some ideas were great but scales of economy and population ruined them. e.g. The house of represenatives should probably number over 1000 today to properly work as structured in the founding papers. But we somewhat arbitrarily capped it at 435 100 years ago. now while that's way too many people per rep, most political scientists don't really suggest that we should have 1200 reps in the House. proposals end up more around 700.

some reverence may simply be patriotism. I suppose it's no different than any other kinds of celebrity style of worship. people like a role model.
by conartist6 | 2025-04-01 00:28:49+00:00
That feels like an omission in the law. Previously it was simply impossible to "take" a style wholesale. You would at least have to become an artist versed in that style, and it in investing your life into that style you would also make it yours.

AI can take a whole style wholesale with no effort and no contribution. It is greivous theft in the moral sense if not the legal sense.
by jfengel | 2025-04-01 00:30:23+00:00
That's exactly it. Solar systems and galaxies have net rotation, and maybe even galactic clusters.

But there is no reason to think that the universe has a net rotation. It could have one; you don't need a frame of reference to detect rotation. (The same way you feel centrifugal force.)

It would be huge if it were shown to have a net rotation. So huge that I take this claim with skepticism until heavily confirmed.
by floxy | 2025-04-01 00:31:21+00:00
I would thinks a newsworthy-only story would end after "Tesla did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment." And I'd think a better wording for

"...reported on the suspiciously high number of EV rebate claims in the final January days of the program."

...might be:

"...reported on the unusually high number of EV rebate claims in the final January days of the program."

...and then maybe have a comparison to other dealerships sales increases in the same period, maybe even include a chart showing the weekly Tesla sales for the past year or two. And including a quote similar in spirit to pseudo0's observation in this thread:

"Yes, lots of people will want to buy Teslas when the government announces that the $5,000 subsidy is about to end. The other car manufacturers are just mad that they lost out due to their antiquated sales process. If they had direct purchase via online ordering, maybe they would have gotten a larger slice of that remaining subsidy money?"

...how about:

"Tesla's simple, direct, online-only sales methods probably helped them secure the bulk of the last-minute $5,000 subisidies because other dealers couldn't react to quickly enough."

...that would go a long way in my mind to raising the bar of journalistic integrity.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-01 00:31:31+00:00
> Free Palestine protesters have been shutting down roads with their protests, this is illegal.

Yeah, and so? Is shutting down roads a "threat to US national security" and therefore warranting arrest without due process and green card revocation? The protesters should be charged with whatever city laws (certainly it's not a federal offense) they broke, and fined or whatever.
by ctippett | 2025-04-01 00:31:39+00:00
> The court was told Arshad had previously admitted two charges of making an indecent photograph of a child in relation to a number of images found between 7 and 23 September 2022.

Surprised this was only mentioned in the final few paragraphs of the article. I wonder what the background check looks like for GCHQ interns.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-01 00:33:09+00:00
Agreed. I've been seeing a lot of these posts lately, about embedding SQLite into web servers.

I think a lot of people just don't realize how few resources Postgres or MySQL use, and how fast they are. You can run Apache and MySQL and a scripting language on a tiny little 512 MB memory instance, and serve some decent traffic. It works great.

Wanting to use SQLite and deal with replication is a nightmare. I don't get it. (And I love using SQLite in apps and scripts. But not websites!)
by gruez | 2025-04-01 00:33:13+00:00
>Maaybe, but you'd also have to pass the three-prong test of fair use, and one of the prongs of the test is that your fair use of the material can't eliminate the market for the original material.

"artistic style" is outright not copyrightable. Fair use doesn't play into it, any more than fair use doesn't play into whether a photo taken by a monkey can be redistributed[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-01 00:33:27+00:00
So what if the ad sales team gets sad? The subscription sales team would be very happy. You just got a regular recurring income stream. You could even shift employees from one to the other team.

And by being unethical and double dipping you're setting a great example for your customers who won't feel bad about being unethical themselves and just blocking and bypassing all your monetisation. If a site is being honest and fair I'm also much more motivated to play fair with them. I used to with Amazon and Netflix and paid my subscription until they started charging extra to remove ads. Now I pirate again.

Ps by 'you' I mean the companies that choose to do this, not you the poster.
by thebeardisred | 2025-04-01 00:34:00+00:00
I tell you what I don't like, the game y'all are playing with billing of Slack users:

Where do you want to access #ext-customers? The organization you select is where you’ll find this channel in Slack. Admins will get a chance to review everything before you start collaborating. Tip: Add this Slack Connect channel to the organization that’s already connected with P2P Industries, or where you have similar channels.
by mindslight | 2025-04-01 00:34:03+00:00
This resonates, as the only thing they see the world in terms of is "patronage networks". In their mind there isn't some larger purpose to funding scientific research, it's just money supporting the "liberal conspiracy" (ie any institution that won't ask "how high" while smiling when they bark "jump")

Stepping up a level, it's not because they see a larger playing field and have some reason to want to change the system. It's because they're small minded people who literally don't understand what they're butchering and chopping down to their own level.

Now, I don't think they were always like this. Musk definitely accomplished things through his companies, and Trump hasn't always talked like a senile old man waiting for a ride from the police station. It seems that they've been made small minded by crippling social media addictions, going in spirals of ever-smaller numbers of ever-more "enthusiastic" followers that lap up the lamest low-effort reactionary takes.
by zahlman | 2025-04-01 00:35:04+00:00
Speaking as a curling fan: the game has been greatly enhanced by the analogous technological improvements. Shots that used to be fever dreams are now routine at top levels of play, and the sport is better off for it. The change is even more dramatic worldwide than in Canada; teams from countries like Japan and Korea (perhaps the most impressive in this regard) have had to keep up with these advances while also generally becoming competitive on the world stage - in a sport where previously (say, a few decades ago) Canada, Scotland (the birthplace of the game) and maybe a couple of European countries were the only ones worth paying attention to.