MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skwee357 | 2025-04-07 12:12:28+00:00
If by "nontoxic", one means a social media where people complain about the other side, then sure, I guess bluesky is on a great quest.

I don't have a dog in US politics fight, but from my experience on BlueSky, it has become a social network for people who disagree with the current US politics, and most of the content there is debunking/criticizing the other side. Whether you think it's nontoxic is up to you, but history has shown that creating isolated echo-chambers is generally a bad idea.
by olivierroy | 2025-04-07 12:12:35+00:00
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by numpad0 | 2025-04-07 12:13:52+00:00
It's also like 4 digital dials. And you can leave most to Auto until you realize each specific dial enables something you desire. Sony tried "non-scary automagic" approach, and have instantly gone back to dials.

There's also Sigma BF if that's what you want; Sigma actually do pretty good job from perspective of minimalistic, idealistic, on-point, field usable UI, though the return of that effort just isn't worthwhile. I have the OG DP1, it feels natural as IntelliMouse PS/2. I've tried dp2 Quattro once and it felt natural as any serious right-handed trackballs. They scratch so many of camera nerds' itching points.

Most people just buys an A7M4 and an 24-70 Zeiss. And then they stupidly leave it all to auto and never touches the dials. And it puts smiles on people's faces 80% of times. And that's okay. No?
by larodi | 2025-04-07 12:14:44+00:00
This is a paper by INSAIT researchers - a very young institute which hired most of its PHD staff only in the last 2 years, basically onboarding anyone who wanted to be part of it. They were waiving their BG-GPT on national TV in the country as a major breakthrough, while it was basically was a Mistral fine-tuned model, that was eventually never released to the public, nor the training set.

Not sure whether their (INSAIT's) agenda is purely scientific, as there's a lot of PR on linkedin by these guys, literally celebrating every PHD they get, which is at minimum very weird. I'd take anything they release with a grain of sand if not caution.
by MrMcCall | 2025-04-07 12:14:45+00:00
Indeed. And congrats on your daughter's craftiness and how it intersects with math.

Our daughter is not so much into the pure math side but loves to do amigurumi, which is really applied 3D modelling. A craft show she wants to do later in the year doesn't allow the use of other people's models, so she is having to design her own. It's so very impressive, and she gets so much joy from seeing kids really, really want her work, as they do. It's math, modelling, color matching design, and understanding the kinds of threads all rolled up into one, so to speak :-)
by _factor | 2025-04-07 12:15:54+00:00
Make a sign up opt-in database where you put your demographic information and a unique disposable identifier per potential customer.

Allow browser plugins that collect allowed data and send it to this database for advertisers to use for targeting. Let local code determine what I send, not an external entity.

Give the web an advertising standard that only shows approved data when you choose to link your unique ID with your current ID. Make this link severable.

Hell, you’d have people signing up for the advertising and targeting if we knew it wasn’t going to be abused and effectively the only digital advertising legally permitted. The problem with the current system is consent.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-07 12:16:01+00:00
> The benefit of having only one implementation of a protocol is that the protocol can evolve much faster.

Or you design the protocol to allow non-standard extensions, like with SSH, so you can have foo@example.com implemented by one product (and others can look for it if useful), and bar@example.org by another product. And if enough folks file the feature(s) useful they can be standardize with tweaks that fixed issues that were found though operational experience.

Lots of IETF standards have a "x-" prefix mentioned for private / proprietary extensions.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-07 12:16:06+00:00
> The question is: how much can you take in? As much as I despise the owner, it's X all day.

The problem with X is, the mirror is artificially dented by a ton of people paying for the privilege of getting their replies prioritised. That in turn drowns out the voice of those not willing to pay Musk for the privilege.
Show HN: I created a no-code mobile onboarding builder
by drvarmin | 2025-04-07 12:16:43+00:00
Onboarding flows are a huge part of an app’s conversion rate, but I’ve always been annoyed by how much work it takes to create, iterate, and test them properly.

So I built Onboardzy.

It’s a drag-and-drop onboarding builder that plugs into your iOS app with just a couple lines of code.

You can then push updates or test different flows in real time, no need to recompile or wait for App Store review.

It's perfect if you want to experiment or improve onboarding without the usual overhead.

Would love your feedback. If you want to try it, It’s free
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-07 12:17:01+00:00
I just turn off the politics on BlueSky by not following rabid politics-posters. Even the retro-computing enthusiast I follow can have a bad day and repost something political and I'm okay with a little bit of that.

(I had to unfollow Mark Hamill though because of the politics firehose. And I generally agree with him politically ... I just don't need it on BlueSky all the time.)
by JansjoFromIkea | 2025-04-07 12:18:36+00:00
I find Bluesky better but I've had to be pretty aggressive about blocking centre-left types. I don't even disagree with most of what they're complaining about, after being away from twitter for years that whole style of discourse is just extremely unpalatable.

Def get the impression they're driving people away who were enjoying bluesky previously, there's just so much of them on the feeds atm.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-07 12:18:42+00:00
Not only does Metal use Swift bindings alongside Objective-C, as per John McCall's own words, that is the plan and to fix where that might still not be the case.

Embedded Swift project also started as means to replace Safe C use cases at Apple, like iBoot firmware.

https://support.apple.com/en-jo/guide/security/sec30d8d9ec1/...

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/visio...

Once upon a time, C compilers were quite lousy versus handwritten 8 and 16 bit Assembly code.
by i-LINK | 2025-04-07 12:19:36+00:00
An echo chamber, also known as "a community" or "having friends," is basically how most human interaction worked before the Web popularized constant, context-collapsed arguing with various types of reactionaries, conspiracy theorists, bio-essentialists, "race realists," "climate skeptics," etc., about which "evidence" sounds or feels the most correct (rather than what evidence is actually provably correct).
by lorinab | 2025-04-07 12:20:22+00:00
This is indeed obvious for weeks, no questions here. However, the even more accelerated developments in the last 2 weeks, as well as what happened in France with the Ministry of Education opting for a Microsoft solution, even if there are so many good French options out there (Suite Hexagonne to name at least one), made it even more obvious and stringent.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-07 12:20:26+00:00
Yes. This is as bad or worse than Clinton's email servers. It deserves to be talked about at least as long and investigated at least as thoroughly. Which in the case of Clinton involved bringing it up for nearly a decade, an FBI investigation, an Inspector General's report on the FBI's and DOJ's handling of the case and a three year State Department investigation. It's only fair to apply the same standard here
by burnished | 2025-04-07 12:20:47+00:00
Movement doesn't make sense when we can't predict or explain it. Based on our understanding of gravity as confirmed by observations of our solar system we expect to see galaxies do X but instead they do Y, and then we collectively fail to identify a simple explanation like bad math or a bad assumption.

In one sense this is a vindication of our application of the scientific method and the way we make theories: a bad theory wouldn't be able to be checked, whereas a good theory can make precise enough claims that when a limitation is found (such as when our predictions about reality do not match our observations) that the results of the check are clear.
Show HN: OTPDock – API inbox for testing email OTP flows in end-to-end tests
by vitjbr | 2025-04-07 12:21:15+00:00
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by taneq | 2025-04-07 12:21:19+00:00
In all reinforcement learning there is (explicitly as part of a fitness function, or implicitly as part of the algorithm) some impetus for exploration. It might be adding a tiny reward per square walked, a small reward for each block broken and a larger one for each new block type broken. Or it could be just forcing a random move every N steps so the agent encounters new situations through “clumsiness”.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-07 12:21:26+00:00
That sound reasonable to me, but the those companies forget that there's different types of agreeable. There's the LLM approach, similar to the coworker who will answer all your questions about .NET but not stop you from coding yourself into a corner, and then there's the "Let's sit down and review what it actually is that you're doing, because you're asking a fairly large number of disjoint questions right now".

I've dropped trying to use LLMs for anything, due to political convictions and because I don't feel like they are particularly useful for my line of work. Where I have tried to use various models in the past is for software development, and the common mistake I see the LLMs make is that they can't pick up on mistakes in my line of thinking, or won't point them out. Most of my problems are often down to design errors or thinking about a problem in a wrong way. The LLMs will never once tell me that what I'm trying to do is an indication of a wrong/bad design. There are ways to be agreeable and still point out problems with previously made decisions.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-07 12:21:54+00:00
There are certain keywords people use that are instant red flags. They usually mean I can immediately ignore everything they've written. "Common sense" has become a big one. It's code for "my feelings trump your facts" (pun intended).

But another one is "both sides". There are a number of reasons people fall back to this. Usually it's intellectual laziness, not wanting to know any of the details, usually because it's an issue that the person saying it doesn't actually care about the issue. Some people derive validation from somehow being "above the fray" on some partisan issue.

Another reason is simply not caring about the issue and trying to create a moral equivalence is intentionally or unintentionally used to silence a particular topic.

Not everything is some disagreement between equivalent positions. Sometimes, a given position is just plain wrong. Slavery, genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing. These are issues historically that have a right side and a wrong side.

On Gaza, there is the side that wants to live, not be bombed and not exist in an apartheid state and there's the side that wants to ethnically cleanse millions of people to create lebensraum. Merely going to Israel has been a radicalizing experience for a lot of people because they instantly recognize what's going on. There are countless examples of this now. I'll choose just one as an example: Sde Temain [1].

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/8/13/israeli...
by jimmydddd | 2025-04-07 12:22:55+00:00
I run a small 20 year old service business in the US. Just getting a $300K line of credit from a bank required a lot of paperwork and both the company and me personally being on the hook. It took about a month to secure. In contrast, on a different occasion a secured a personal home equity line of credit for $100K in a bout 5 minutes.
by elihu | 2025-04-07 12:23:38+00:00
Hegseth's posts were the most egregious, but there was a lot of sensitive information that could have been inferred from the rest of it -- basically that the U.S. was planning some sort of attack against the Houthis, they debated whether to do it or not and chose to go ahead, and the approximate timing of the attack is implied by the timing of meetings and decision windows.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/03/politics/yemen-war-p...
by dvh | 2025-04-07 12:23:51+00:00
I used cd rom and string when I was etching hole in stainless steel, after few minutes bubbles accumulated and significantly slowed down the process, pulling it out of solution every minute would burst the bubbles and etching could continue.

Another time I used led from keyboard (NumLock/capslock/scrollock) to trigger reed switch relay that would ground piece of aluminum foil taped to the phone screen (I was grinding in some MMORPG game).
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-07 12:24:05+00:00
> Government workers are far more likely to be unionized

Isn't this a problem? Government workers are supposed to be working for the people, involvement in a union is a conflict of interest -- this is why FDR banned unionization of federal workers (versus the private sector where there is no obligation and the relationship is generally adversarial).

> Governments are freed from having to prioritize maximizing profits at the cost of everything else

That's a huge problem. The legitimacy of government is predicated on the ability of the voter to yank the money from the government if it's ineffective -- otherwise the government can just vote itself more and more funds for whatever without accountability. Since we're all deficit spending, the burden to repay the debt falls on future generations who can't vote against spending that happened in the past! And spending by printing money hurts the poor the hardest, which I can't imagine you would be in favor of.
by edanm | 2025-04-07 12:24:12+00:00
It's not a "regular" company, because it's still raising angel investment, presumably from the tech/startup ecosystem.

A more common route for non-tech-startup companies is to get money via debt - in other words, borrow money from a bank or financiers. That's a different model to with different risk/reward characteristics, but it's how most non-innovative entrepreneurship is done, I believe - things like building restaurants, buildings, etc.

This is indeed a "middle path" in terms of raising money by selling equity, but selling a smaller amount of it for less money, which keeps more ownership stake and control in the hands of the founders, but necessitates slower spending cause they raised less capital.
by flir | 2025-04-07 12:24:38+00:00
It's possible to block both. If bsky would let you use starter packs as block lists, it would be a lot easier than it is.

I block any account that is primarily politics-based (Hillary Clinton's social media team joined a month ago and has 5k blocks already so I'm not alone), and other accounts as and when they become tiresome (ie when they go on a political rant). My feeling is that academics broke mostly to bluesky while techies broke mostly to mastodon. I follow some academic accounts that occasionally post interesting things - nothing earth-shattering, but worth checking in once every couple of days.

My main problem with bsky is that a lot of academics seem to approach it as a write-only medium. No engagement.
by tlogan | 2025-04-07 12:24:39+00:00
It seems the only reliable way to keep social media nontoxic is by doing both of these things:

- Keep the audience small

- Create an echo chamber (intentionally or not)

You need both. Bluesky has both.

Bluesky feels like a small village museum: everyone looks alike, posts alike, and agrees on what to collectively demonize.
by nsoonhui | 2025-04-07 12:24:40+00:00
No, building bridges is a lot simpler because we have a set of coding practices to follow ( eurocode, ACI, British standards and whatnot). The performance of the buildings follow the deterministic Newton's laws, and you even have software packages written for that.

Your clients don't change the specs half way through and expect you to provide an accurate estimate and at the same time, don't intend to pay you extra. You can forecast the cost of building to a very accurate degree because all bridges are more of the same, unlike software which by definition,is new every time because each time the requirement is different.

And so on.

I know because I work in civil engineering software field.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-07 12:24:55+00:00
Why Trump's tariff chaos makes sense --- for China.

Once the US restricts trade with most of the world, who are they going to align themselves with?

Tearing down economic and military alliances that took a generation to build will only result in an isolated, poorer, weaker, less relevant America. And it is entirely self inflicted.

Perfect opportunity for China to become the world's dominate super power. They are the most likely winner, everyone else loses.
by LoganDark | 2025-04-07 12:25:16+00:00
It's not about price! As an example, China has had battery-swap stations for certain models of EV for years (see Nio). In just over a couple minutes (depending on the station), they automatically drop the battery out of the car and install a new one that is fully charged. It is even faster than DC charging in the US and Europe. But because those cars are either illegal or prohibitively expensive to import and use, there is no incentive for domestic industries to compete with it. As far as they're concerned, anything that makes a Chinese EV compelling is some sort of strategic threat against the US, rather than the product simply being better.

How cool would it be if instead of having to slowly charge the same battery in my EV over its lifetime, I could (say) subscribe to a network of well-kept batteries and easily get a fully-charged one whenever mine gets low? Too bad China is so out of reach for me; though even if it weren't, those battery-swap stations don't really exist here - though I'm sure that's just another artifact of widespread sinophobia.

That's only one example. See these article (or honestly any article) for more:

https://www.investors.com/news/chinese-electric-cars-america...

https://www.carwow.co.uk/electric-cars/chinese

Dismiss it as propaganda if you wish, but it's not like it's fake. The cars they show are real.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-07 12:25:39+00:00
Recently, from review:

William J. Perry (94-97, 2+5yr Army) William Cohen (97-01) Robert Gates (06-11, 2yr AF) Leon Panetta (11-13, 2yr Army) Chuck Hagel (13-15, 1yr Army)* Ash Carter (15-17)

* To be fair, Hagel's year was volunteering to be drafted and sent to Vietnam as an infantry squad leader
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-07 12:25:47+00:00
I think there's been a huge misconception of what MCP was meant to be in the first place. It is not a transport protocol, and it is not (primarily) designed as a remote RPC server. It is really meant to be a local first means of attaching tooling to an LLM process. The use case of "centralized server that multiple agents connect to" is really only incidental, and I think they honestly made a mistake by including SSE as a transport, as it has confused people to thinking these things need to be hosted somewhere like an API endpoint.
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-07 12:25:54+00:00
Only for the most part; people online aren't my friends, there is not enough interaction/depth of interaction to get to really know them and being online tends to turn people into fuckwads(1). They just happen to be you're kind of fuckwads.

(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
by blueflow | 2025-04-07 12:26:17+00:00
I think you got unlucky with unzip because you noticed. Distributions heavily patching software is rather the norm than the exception.

As an example, look how Debian patches the Linux kernel: https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=linux&version=6.12.21... . And the kernel is a very active project.

Funnily, this makes recoding the version number for a SBOM pretty useless.
by immibis | 2025-04-07 12:26:27+00:00
You still didn't tell me what you think should be done about it. I understand from your vague gestures that the answer is "nothing", perhaps because you enjoy the fact that developed world powers are crumbling to dust. There are reasonable reasons one might hold that position, but if that is in fact your position, you should acknowledge it.

> I don't believe [X] is the solution because that's exactly what totalitarian regimes did

Hitler also ate sugar. Ban sugar!

> The solution is for the establishment to accept they have failed the people and start to do good for the people or step down.

This contradicts your stated position, because preventing disinformation is good for the people, but you don't think the establishment should do it.

> This means the democratic system IS working as intended, as if you were to censor speech and take away peoples' only legal way of protesting (voting)

Very obvious non-sequitur. What do penalties against the app formerly known as Twitter have to do with taking away voting rights?
by Havoc | 2025-04-07 12:27:26+00:00
The fact that they’re not in 2.4ghz range is interesting but Z wave stuff is just too expensive.

Random Smart plug on Amazon - 43 gbp or 55 usd. The last preflashed tasmota wifi ones I bought were under 10 each and had energy measuring too.

Maybe it’s better in the US but with that differential z wave is pointless.
by LoganDark | 2025-04-07 12:27:26+00:00
So what if someone living on Chinese wages wouldn't be able to afford American goods? The equivalent Chinese goods are perfectly affordable for them. You seemingly forget that China is a self-sufficient economy. It's not like people are working 16 hours a day to afford an apartment like in the US. Apartments in China can be as low as USD $400 a month or less. Try running your wage and poverty calculations with that?
by krxci | 2025-04-07 12:27:33+00:00
Trolling or nah? If the author of this link is struggling with spell check and hasn't written assembly language before, this doesn't provide much confidence for an accurate transcription of the source code printout.

Good luck on the exercise, though! Don't worry, Bill and his legal team will be watching you closely. They'll be cheering you on (but not for the reasons you think they will be.)
by librasteve | 2025-04-07 12:28:02+00:00
the point of this article is to whip up even more dislike of the US and of travelling to the US among brits (who were already quite chippy about our richer and more handsome cousins across the pond)

that sells lefty newspapers like the guardian

it’s kind of all we can do to rail against your newly chosen president and his entourage who seem hell bent on screwing us all over

i feel sorry for, and i continue to like my american friends who did not vote for this betrayal of all values and relationships - but tbh there is a big backlash in popularity going on right now and i’m in the minority