MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by damnitbuilds | 2025-04-18 11:47:10+00:00
No, what "can kill" is being in a country where the health services do not treat seriously ill people without question.

Sympathy will be limited when that country is also a repressive dictatorship, if you have gone there of your own accord.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/united-arab-emirates-uae-free-spe...
by pera | 2025-04-18 11:47:14+00:00
> Avoiding too much repetition is a core principle of this place

This principle is applied very selectively though: The homepage has been full of insignificant iterations of overly hyped tech products for years now.

It is very hard to imagine all these submissions of announcements of products with monthly release cycles gratifying anyone's intellectual curiosity. Yet it apparently does because they can stay in the homepage for 24 hours.

But for some reason, something as unprecedented as the United States government threatening Harvard with a xenophobic ban is deemed "repetitive"?
by derriz | 2025-04-18 11:47:34+00:00
It seems that the idea that someone could be motivated simply by having integrity, valuing honesty and pride in simply "doing their job" correctly is so alien to the current US administration that they see political motives everywhere and in everyone's actions.

The fact that people with such a cynical and amoral worldview wield so much power not only in US but globally and are willing to wield that power in capricious and petty ways is deeply upsetting.

But what is more horrifying for me is that apparently this administration remains representative of a large section of the US population - with seemingly unshakeable approval by between 40% and 50% of the US adult population according to polls.

I love the US, have friends and family there, have a first cousin in the marines, grandfather born there, etc., and have visited many many times and just find it difficult to reconcile my positive experiences with the place and people with the idea that more than 4 out of 10 US adults could approve of the cruel and vindictive actions of this administration. I'm not being over dramatic by stating that it has genuinely shaken my world-view and belief in the innate goodness of humanity.
by kayo_20211030 | 2025-04-18 11:47:48+00:00
The second line of the EO.

> Yet in recent years, elitist leaders in Government have unlawfully censored speech and weaponized their undeserved influence to silence perceived political opponents and advance their preferred, and often erroneous, narrative about significant matters of public debate

Isn't the executive a branch of government? Physician, heal thyself.
by projektfu | 2025-04-18 11:47:58+00:00
1. "It isn't really true, never really happened" <-- you are here

2. "It happened but it's not as serious as you make it out to be."

3. "It may be serious but it is legal and within the president's right."

4. "It may not be legal but when the president does it it is effectively legal because he has to be able to be president without being undermined."

5. "Fascism? What about cancel culture?!"
by specialp | 2025-04-18 11:48:35+00:00
I don't think it is that. I work for an org with close ties to arXiv, and just like us they are getting a lot more demand due to AI crawling. As a primary source of information there is a lot of traffic. They do have technical issues from time to time due to this demand, and I think their stability is just due to the exceptional amount of effort they take to keep it going. They are also getting more submissions and interest.

Kubernetes does add complexity but it does add a lot of good things too. Auto scaling, cycling of unhealthy pods, and failover of failed nodes are some of them. I know there is this feeling here sometimes that cloud services and orchestrated containers are too much for many applications, but if you are running a very busy site like arXiv I can't see how running on bare metal is going to be better for your staff and experience. I don't think they are naive and got conned into GCP as the OP alludes to. They are smart people that are dealing with scaling and tech debt issues just like we all end up with at some point in our careers.
by Avamander | 2025-04-18 11:48:55+00:00
> That doesn't particularly matter; if someone takes over the domain but doesn't have a leaked key, they can't sign requests for the domain with my cert. It takes a leaked key for this to turn into a vulnerability.

It does, if someone gets temporary access, issues a certificate and then keeps using it to impersonate something. Now the malicious actor has to do it much more often, significantly increasing chances of detection.
by casenmgreen | 2025-04-18 11:49:05+00:00
Just read of this on BSky.

Has some of the protected disclosure document from the whistleblower.

https://bsky.app/profile/mattjay.com/post/3ln2dgoksce2e

Looks like Elon's staff went in and made a copy of everything - which in this case NLRB, so sensitive stuff, but any state department going to have a ton of sensitive stuff - and sent it who knows where; this after disabling all logging and a ton of security, presumably to try to cover their tracks.

This is bad. These guys are looking like bad actors, with State-level authorization for access to everything.

Also looks like they're kids and don't have the hang of security, and the professional Russian State run APTs have hacked them.
by krige | 2025-04-18 11:49:31+00:00
The sources come from Polish language books.

Folk dances were a part of school curriculum in the first half of the XXth century, and part of the maturity exam was ceremonial dancing of polonez. In 1948 the whole education system was changed to be in line with USSR programs, and folk dances, including the polonez ceremony, were removed as class "unjust". This was not a hard ban, and the tradition slowly, unofficially at first, came back a couple decades later anyway.

FWIW the Imperial Russia didn't like the Chopin polonez (the music) either and considered it "a cannon hidden in a bocquet", forbidding its performance in their part of the occupied/partitioned territory (ironically it was perfectly fine to play it in Russia itself).
Show HN: OSS AI Agent for Computer Vision
by thibautlucas | 2025-04-18 11:50:49+00:00
Atlas is an open‑source collection of AI agents built with SmolAgents and Pydantic‑AI that super‑charges your workflows with agentic data‑analysis super‑powers. Think of Atlas as your autonomous data‑science teammate that can read your datasets, run analytical recipes, and surface insights through natural‑language conversations.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-04-18 11:50:56+00:00
You are mixing up religion and meditation.

Think of meditation more as a physical exercise for the brain, like yoga. Is yoga a religion, even if it strengthens your core? Many people do it without any religious ideas.

Same with breathing, 'low CO2' sounds bad, but we do have the next breath, the goals isn't continued low CO2, it can lead to increased oxygen later.

As to rationality. Meditation helps declutter thoughts, so that helps with rationality doesn't it? Why would being strung out and stressed be more rational?
by fleek | 2025-04-18 11:51:02+00:00
There is 0 chance companies are refusing to hire skilled candidates that could make them money based solely on race. If this is happening it is because they bring more problems than profit when they enter the company.

And if companies are discriminating on race then you wouldn't want to work there anyway. The solution is not to force everyone to get along, that only breeds more resentment.

Far more likely is companies are weighing their liabilities by hiring a black or Latino or gay person or whatever and then facing a lawsuit because said person underperforms and plays the race card when consequences come around. The companies are afraid of upsetting these people so they are in essence elevated above their coworkers in terms of power/protections at work.

The DEI solution is to present a threat of greater liabilities immediately to companies by not hiring these people.

If I own a business and I want a peaceful cooperative work group I should be allowed to only hire based on what I see as the best fit.

If that means all people of a certain race or group are removed from my hiring pool then that's a stupid strategy because I am leaving competitive employees on the table for other businesses, so I would t do that, unless I had very good reason to believe this particular individual will bring excess friction to the work space.

It's not the governments job to step in and regulate how companies hire their employees.

If companies refuse to hire these people en masse their strategy should be to start their own company and present a real threat of competition to the companies that spurned them.
by Avamander | 2025-04-18 11:51:15+00:00
> It is, but since we rely on DNS anyway, no matter what, and your DNS provider can get a certificate from Let's Encrypt for your site, without asking you, there's merit to combining them.

They can, but they'll also get caught thanks to CT. No such audit infrastructure exists for DANE/DNSSEC.

> It doesn't add any security to have PKI separate from DNS.

One can also get a certificate for an IP addresses.
by pm90 | 2025-04-18 11:52:25+00:00
To a certain extent this is a result of living in a media ecosystem where most of the population doesn’t actually see an unbiased reporting of facts but whatever is shown to them by certain right wing news networks. But I do agree at some point people need to take responsibility for their information diet.

Fwiw media manipulation of American opinion isn’t new, its been a huge part of how America works since at least the Spanish American war of 1896.
by kragen | 2025-04-18 11:53:22+00:00
The way I remember it, there was a SET command to set how many versions of a file should be kept, and PURGE would delete all but the most recent version. You could see the date of each version in DIR (they were listed on separate lines) but there wasn't a convenient way to open "FOO.FOR as of yesterday morning". You would have to figure out what version number to ask for and open "FOO.FOR;53" or whatever.

I agree that implementing this functionality in MS-DOS would have been relatively straightforward and acceptably efficient.

It'd be great to have long-lived transactions in a filesystem, permitting higher-level undo and redo.
by exiguus | 2025-04-18 11:54:56+00:00
I'm a big fan of self-hosting, but it requires the right infrastructure. You need a robust virtualization solution like Proxmox, equipped with sufficient CPU cores and RAM. For instance, allocating 16GB of RAM shouldn't be an issue if your server has 128GB to share.

In my experience, solutions like Mailcow, which involve multiple services and containers (such as SMTP, IMAP, Redis, SSO, webmail, Rspamd, etc.), work very well. I have extensive experience running these systems, performing backups, restoring data, and updating their ecosystems.

Additionally, I've had a positive experience setting up and running a self-hosted Sentry instance with Docker for a project that spanned several years. However, this experience might be somewhat outdated, as it was a few years ago.
by bustling-noose | 2025-04-18 11:55:08+00:00
My theory : Engineers rented servers and maintained them with software and packages and infrastructure scripts / code etc. Then this moved to cloud VMs cause it became easier for higher availability and sometimes cheaper too. Then VM costs started rising and cloud providers started offering tempting prices to use some of their services instead that integrated well with their VM infrastructure. Simultaneously engineers started to cost more money to maintain these systems and more people trained in 'cloud' became available for relatively cheap. So people moved their infrastructure to cloud offerings. Now both engineers and cloud services cost a lot of money. But now engineers who can maintain such infrastructure are far and few in between and also cost a lot of money while cloud offerings became turnkey literally.

So costs went from $80k an engineer a year maybe a decade ago with a few thousand to servers to $200k an engineer which you would struggle to find or $100k for a 'cloud engineer / architect' plus $100k to a cloud provider.

This sounds great in theory. Except that cloud providers are messy and once vendor locked in, you are in a big spiral. Secondly the costs can be hidden and climb exponentially if you don't know exactly what you are doing. You might also get into weird bugs that could be solved by a patch over a Monday to some package you could just update which might take months or never happen on a cloud provider. The reality of moving to cloud is not as rosy as it sounds.

Universities used to be the birth place of big projects that were created to solve problems they ran into hosting / running their own infrastructure. I hope that is still true.
by piokoch | 2025-04-18 11:55:11+00:00
What if you don't have a credit card? This solves nothing, the good way to do this is as system like Polish "MojeID" (my ID) [1]. This works in the following way, a site needs to verify information X, then it redirects users to a bank (that has to provide this service), login over there and then agree to let the bank know whatever it was requested - it could be only one information, birth date.

This is a good solution, as banks are obliged to provide free bank account for anyone (there is EU regulation on that), this is very save, gives users full information what data third party requested.

[1] https://www.kir.pl/nasza-oferta/klient-indywidualny/identyfi...
by dijksterhuis | 2025-04-18 11:56:34+00:00
updated with an edit about migration is a solution for national underpopulation specifically. (do t want anyone else to get confused about it).

i wasn’t clear on that do i can see why you’re now arguing this point.

on global overpopulation — i disagree. the only way to solve it is to co-ordinate globally. and that involves helping everyone else who doesn’t hsve stuff getting to a place of yeah we’ve kind of all got enough stuff now.

or, alternatively, somehow everyone getting to a place where we realise “stuff” is abjectly meaningless and pointless as a measure for our individual/group success.

basically, materialism needs to fuck off as our dominant incentivising thing.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-18 11:57:36+00:00
There's a major bias in this study. Many of the people most negatively affected by combat have exactly 0 interest in discussing it, even with those close to them or other veterans. This study observed this bias but seems to have made no effort to go beyond acknowledging it:

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Combat Study: ... non-responders had more long-term sick leave and social benefits than the survey responders (p < .001). Accordingly, there was a response bias in terms of study participants being in better health and having less need of government assistance than the non-responders. Moreover, there were significant differences in biological sex and age between responders and non-responders (p < .001) such that women and older veterans had higher response rates.

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Noncombat Study: The responders were significantly older and had significantly lower frequencies of short- and long-term sick leaves, long-term welfare benefits, and sick leave due to mental illness (p < .001). Thus, similar to the trend in the combat-oriented sample, these results show a response bias in terms of responders being in better health and having less need of government assistance than the non-responders.

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It dismissed the need to consider these biases with: "Although the non-responder analysis revealed some response bias, the overall response rate was high in both studies, and the effect size estimates associated with the observed response bias were small." But that seems questionable. The response rate was less than 60% in both studies, and giving an effect size estimate on an unmeasured and "significantly" demographically different population seems to be a textbook example of begging the question.
by metalman | 2025-04-18 11:57:38+00:00
"the sea is no joke" trvth I was blessed with "over" sized lungs, and like swimming underwater, and hiking in mountains, so have enjoyed bieng able to do those things with minimal effort. When living in a city, I swam in an olympic size pool, and can go two lengths? (back and forth once+) undewater , but have no idea of how this actualy compares to an average. Got into doing the ?wim hoffman? breathing and like that, but have never noticed any altered conciousness, but that might be because my lungs are so large that I will need to realy realy push it? dont know, but after a car accident I was xrayed, and they were very surprised that the xrays, had to be redone, in two parts, as my lungs dont fit on a standard xray. I sing, and can hold a low note for a long time, and am kind of loud and boomy, unless I am carefull, which is a down side, as it is alarming for people in enclosed spaces. So breath work from the perspective of fine controll and exploring actual true limits, is something that is suddenly, looking like a good idea, for me. consiousness and all that
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-18 11:59:21+00:00
The situation is significantly more complicated for Paris and Berlin which are touristic hot spots on top of being big cities.

For exemple, the 19% you quote in Paris include occasional occupation which is partially driven up by the insane price of hotel for which people who need to spend time in Paris regularly have to compete with tourists.

But I disagree with you on the absence of policy to adjust the situation. Paris has been doing a lot in the past few years.

The city severely limited the ability of owners to turn their property into short term rentals to try to increase the long term rental offering.

Then there was the rent cap but its impact is more difficult to estimate. On the one hand, it made renting properties less interesting and probably incitated some owners to keep their appartments empty. On the other hand, it severely limited the possibility of borrowing money for buy to rent project as it doesn't make much sense financially and therefore lowered the market pressure for people buying to live.

Last year, they significantly increased the vacant property tax. It's calculated on the rental value and quickly raise to 34% of it so it rapidely doesn't make sense to keep an appartment empty if you are not going to be in Paris very frequently.
by ruimirrasantos | 2025-04-18 12:00:04+00:00
Hello fellow Hackers,

I’m a new solopreneur that got bored from working for large companies.

I just made a landing page for a new product I’m building. The idea is to revert the typical people “looking for job“ flow. Instead of people spending time preparing application material (CV, Cover Letters, etc), screening and applying, I think AI agents can be a great partner automating this and make the “jobs find the right people”.

Currently I already built a prototype that works locally in my machine that:

1- Scrapes the Linkedin profile;

2- Converts a recording with video-to-text AI;

3- Consolidates all data anduses a Matrix Factorization method to match jobs and people;

4- Runs AI Agents to Apply to the best jobs.

If this succeeds I will productize the solution in a SaaS and research on how to distribute it.

Would be great to have some constructive feedback by you guys to correct any mistakes early on. Thanks, Rui.
by Y_Y | 2025-04-18 12:00:17+00:00
(CGS units give me nightmares, so I'll swap to SI.)

For solids at room temperature and pressure the best you could do seems to be osmium or iridium, unless you have access to heavy transactinides.

mass/kg substance 2.57e5 small flat rate box 2.26e5 osmium 2.25e5 iridium 2.65e5 meitnerium (theoretical)

Considering the expense of synthesizing meitnerium and the half-life which is measured in seconds, I would recommend getting insurance as well as express shipping if you do try.
by mppm | 2025-04-18 12:00:25+00:00
Very unlikely. Here's a back of the envelope calculation: The human energy requirement per day is about 9MJ. This corresponds to about 500g sugar (or starch), which releases around 750g CO2. Metabolic activity is reduced at night, so 250g CO2 is the upper limit for a full night's sleep. At typical temperature and pressure, this is < 0.14 m^2 of CO2. Assuming a very small (20 m^3) and hermetically sealed bedroom, you'll end up with a concentration of 0.7%, or less. Serious physiological studies (with divers and submariners) show that CO2 has a measurable effect starting at about 1% concentration and only becomes pronounced at 3% or so. This is consistent with the fact that exhaled air contains about 4% CO2 during normal breathing and can go much higher (>10%) during breath holds. In summary, sleeping in a stuffy room might give you respiratory problems, but no improved CO2 tolerance.
by vkazanov | 2025-04-18 12:01:07+00:00
As a half Polish half Russian who grew up in soviet Lithuania i still remember hating to learn polonez in the late soviet period. Dancing doesn't involve computers...

Anyways, as a single statistically insignificant fact: polonez was not banned in late ussr.

And a glamorous version of polonez was also taught in higher imperial circles. At some point everything polish was quite trendy. Probably not around the big 19th century uprising though.

The full story of the dance and the music in the empire is quite a bit more complicated than just "banned" or "not banned". Many polonezes were written by Polish aristocrates integrated into imperial elites and were very popular.

One example is Oginsky's polonez. Oginsky was one of the uprising avtive participants. And also an imperial senator.

There's also Kozlovsky (orthodox Polish from belarus or something) whose polonez was an unofficial imperial hymn at some point.

So go figure. History is never as simple as narrative builds try to put it.
by CPLX | 2025-04-18 12:01:15+00:00
Being CEO of the larger company would make him more money. His money comes from constant grants of new stock and options and incentives not the simple appreciation of stock granted the day he was hired.

And just in general the incentive of management is to preserve monopoly because it’s a lot less work to sit and collect monopoly profits than to actually compete and win.

The principal agent issue here is that management can sit on their ass all day and make a lot of money instead of working like hell to compete and possibly getting replaced but ultimately creating more shareholder value.