MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by necovek | 2025-04-26 15:06:43+00:00
I though I had a decent command of English language, even if I am not a native speaker, but I have no ide what is "naive structuralism" or "overwrought reductionism" in this context.

Would any of you care to elaborate? I am serious, I am not familiar much with the UK political scene so can't tie these normal sounding phrases to anything, and would honestly appreciate some help.
by maxglute | 2025-04-26 15:06:49+00:00
Currency controls drive costs down (really loss/inefficiency) in the sense that it contains misallocation like illicit capital flight, i.e. stashing grafted funds meant for industrial programs abroad. That's less advantage than mitigating the disadvantage of legacy of PRC corruption - not double dipping, but ensuring sauce stays in the domestic bowl to be dipped at all. And ultimately "freely" competing with reserve USD privilege is a stacked game - the currency controls themselves aren't subsidies, they protect employment of subsidies, i.e. ensuring higher % of X gets directed properly to industry, rather than mansions in vancouver, it's not a multiplier like X*2.

If the argument is that currency controls gives PRC a more stable basis for financing industrial policy (deal with fluctuations and keep domestic captive bond buyers), then sure, but that layer is levelling the playing field. Ultimately it comes to productively using actual allocated $$$ for indy programs to develop durable competitive advantages that can be sustained in lieu of subsidies. VS printing more billions to bail out legacy auto as domestic job programs - which op was replying to, everyone protects domestic auto, even PRC also has to prop up some SEOs, but they also focus on indy programs that's just about hammering pure industrial competitiveness to eventually build comparable item for fraction of the cost.

IMO why this proposal is exciting. If US producer can figure out how to produce somethign that's only 50% more expensive then PRC versus 200%, then it's a huge win.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 15:07:36+00:00
The fact that it got it wrong was one of the reasons I picked that example: it's much more interesting that way.

If you feed it a photo with a clear landmark it will get the location exactly right.

If you feed it a photo that's a close up of a brick wall it won't have a chance.

What's interesting is how well it can do on this range of tasks. If you don't think that's at least interesting I'm not sure what I can do for you.
by gpm | 2025-04-26 15:07:57+00:00
In at least one of the cases here:

The father explicitly did not want the child deported with the mother, had informed ICE of that, and initiated legal proceedings to that effect [1].

The mother and US citizen child were held largely incommunicado. They were not given access to a lawyer, and communication with the father was monitored, and upon the father attempting to give them the phone number for an attorney the phone was taken from the mother. Then promptly put on a flight out of the country

When a judge attempted to contact the mother, while the mother and child were still in US custody: The US did not respond for an hour presumably so that it could remove the mother and child from US custody prior to responding.

> The Government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her. But the Court doesn’t know that. [2]

And that's a quote from the Trump appointed very Trump leaning [3] judge.

All actual evidence we have here is that the child was intentionally deported (expelled?) against the parents wishes. Certainly against one of the parents wishes.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.21...

[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.21...

[3] See prior rulings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Doughty#Notable_rulin...
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-04-26 15:08:07+00:00
To be clear this literally was an old smoke detector. Not even kidding.

https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/a-tale-of-nuclear-shenanigan...

He ordered an old smoke detector online as part of his collection of elements. This contained, as pretty much all old smoke detectors once did, radioactive elements. In minute quantities.

It gets worse the more you look into this too. The hazmat crew that closed off his street? Days earlier they let the courier deliver his old soviet smoke detector in person, no protective gear. As in they knew it wasn't dangerous but put on theater to make a better case for prosecution.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-26 15:08:07+00:00
This has literally been declared not the case by the president, and being contested in court, and held as true by a significant percentage of the population. It’s not semantics - it’s become a point of national disagreement.

It also leaves out all mention of process. The issue here isn’t that the parents are choosing to bring their citizen children with them but that they’re being denied all ability to leave their citizen children with their citizen parent. This is the crux of the actual issue here.
by Expurple | 2025-04-26 15:08:27+00:00
Can't edit the parent comment anymore, so I'll append my other thoughts here.

I remembered that the "automounting" already exists in some forms, and I really like these instances. When you click on an archive in a good file manager, it opens a "folder" view with the archive contents. The difference between an archive and a folder is arbitrary. It shouldn't exist and only complicates things for everybody. I assume that many applications today hand-code the logic for "if the user drags and drops a folder, we need to zip it before sending". Or they don't, and the user has to zip manually :)

One could say that storing program data as "transparent" folders instead of "opaque" binary files is too much detail for the user. And users can accidentally damage something (e.g. delete one of the files inside) more easily. But I have a few counter-points:

1. Many applications already use folders, but they're doing fine.

2. File managers already open many filetypes in an editor by default (e.g. plain text, office docs), but these files are doing fine.

3. A good file manager should recognize most file types and do the more reasonable and safe thing. If JPEG is reimplemented as a folder, clicking on a JPEG should still open the image viewer instead of the folder view. That's already the case with Mac OS app bundles (the example from the original post).

4. Actually, now that folders have a "data" field, it can be used for storing arbitrary metadata. This is extremely powerful and can be used for HIDING extra details from casual users! E.g. there could be a standartized metadata header that hints to the file manager that it should treat the folder as an "opaque" file and not show the user the contents. Now, old applications that already used folders for their internal state, can mark these folders as "opaque" and prevent casual users from messing with the contents! While still allowing to see, move and delete the folder as a whole (unlike hidden folders). And while providing uniform FS access to applications and advanced users.

Man, I really like this idea of arbitrary metadata for folders... It's not as necessary for files, because in practice you can just put the "metadata header" in the beginning of the main "data" (as many file formats do).
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-26 15:08:32+00:00
The original comment already contained its own irony, directing unfair criticism at critics. Hemingway wasn't exactly some impartial observer of human behavior here. He was butthurt that a published commentator once said something bad about his writing.

The reality of military operations, which Hemingway himself probably knew having served himself (though maybe the situation has changed as I can't claim familiarity with the specifics of how it worked over a century ago), is that the biggest critic of any unit involved in a battle post-battle is the unit itself. Every action is always followed by an after-action review, in which you go over what went well, what went wrong, what you should continue, and what you should change. It's neither unrelentingly positive nor negative. It's honest.

But for whatever reason, much of the creative class seems to think anyone who isn't able to do something themselves is universally unqualified to comment on the work of others. Plenty of rather obvious examples show this to be ridiculous. The top coaches and trainers throughout history were rarely great athletes themselves.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-04-26 15:08:42+00:00
I'm curious how many cues it's using from profiling people in that guess.

A photo of people with cherry blossoms could be in many places, but if the majority of the people in the photo happen to be Japanese (and I'm curious how good LLMs are at determining the ethnicity of people now, and also curious if they would try to guess this if asked), it might guess Japan even if the cherry blossoms were in, say, Vancouver.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-26 15:08:46+00:00
> Like in this case, what do you propose as an alternative with a precedent that you think could be agreeable to most people?

I like how nobody has actually answered this question yet, and have only harped on your birthright comment.

The parents are in the US illegally, ICE deports people who are in the US illegally. Presumably the parents didn’t want to leave their USC kids behind so they brought them.

I guess possible options are

1. Allow illegal parents to designate USC kids a guardian who has legal US immigration status

2. Dont deport illegal immigrants who have USC kids (basically making birthright transitive to parents)
by simonw | 2025-04-26 15:09:02+00:00
I had already convinced myself through prior experiments that it wasn't using EXIF data, and decided not to spend extra time making my post 100% proof against cynics because I know from past experience that truly dedicated cynics will always find something to invalidate what they are reading.

I don't know how "iconic" that rocky outcrop in Madagascar is, to be honest. Google doesn't return much about it.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-04-26 15:09:24+00:00
Yes, the primary use case was in various direct-fire cannon systems, which have become less prevalent over time due to limited range. It still has use cases in auto-cannons because it significantly improves their performance against armored vehicles and allows them to go up against armor that may outgun them.

It isn’t just used in munitions, it is a component of heavy armor. When you blow up a tank you may be vaporizing some depleted uranium in its hull.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-26 15:09:52+00:00
Yeah, this is despicable. For at least the next two decades, if you Google this guy's name, you'll see these stories depicting this guy as either a dangerous criminal or a sadly misguided, mentally unhealthy man, when all he did was order some cool rocks for his collection.

These laws need to change, given the Internet's long-term memory.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-26 15:10:19+00:00
> Words have meaning

Well, yes. At this point we could as well get back to Wikipedia for at least a common interpretation of the concept:

> The disenfranchisement of voters due to age, residence, citizenship, or criminal record are among the more recent examples of ways that elections can be subverted by changing who is allowed to vote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression

> universal practice of restricting voting by citizenship

Citizenship restriction is not universal BTW, and going from a civil status (can be acquired) to a physical one is an incredibly huge leap that is nothing simple.
by n_ary | 2025-04-26 15:10:56+00:00
AI will survive us. In fact, I am worried about the current trend and see feeding the mighty AI as being a mandatory thing in future. Unchecked monopoly has a way of mandating things that are net bad for everyone except the middle man. Previously, job search was nice, but now 100% of the job application require your linkedin profile url, if not provided, you get auto-rejection.

People with decades of experience in the trenches who recently got laid off(business failure, corporate greed cutting costs, restructuring ..) now are asked everywhere to submit a link to their github(no one knows gitlab/codeberg/sourcehut etc) full of portfolio projects! I talked to few academic friends, who are worried that their research work is now reproduced verbatim by two specific LLM HN really loves!

Unless, LLMs go the way of ads to survive and rely on SEO spam to retrain, a monopolistic capture will happen mandating that all useful content must be fed into common hubs where AI can happily ingest it but cumulatively no human expert will be able to use it(we all know the abysmal state of info retrieval) and LLMs as these become more popular will become ever so unreachable for common folks without lots of riches. For medium term, I see a Netflix/Amazon Prime Video play, LLMs as these get more popular(same way people mindlessly scroll yet lecture others of its harm), will raise prices and lock out people from the common good and serve specific beneficiary group(shareholder).
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-26 15:11:54+00:00
Libel strictly implies false statement and it is a full defence to show that the statement is true:

"It is a defence to an action for defamation for the defendant to show that the imputation conveyed by the statement complained of is substantially true." [1]

That has to be the case otherwise it would be unlawful to say or publish anything negative about someone!

Public interest defence applies when the statement published was false.

Note that convicted criminals are always publicly named unless the court forbids it. In that latter case naming the person would still not be libel but contempt of court (which potentially means jail).

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-26 15:12:03+00:00
>The problem is that Trump, Musk, Lindell, etc are all extremely arrogant and constantly disregard sound legal advice. Their lawyers aren't merely associated with a controversial client; their professional reputation is put at risk because they might lose easily winnable cases due to a client's dumb tweet.

Bingo. This has nothing to do with ideology. Good lawyers like to win. And when a client is demonstrably too stupid to let them do that, why bother.
by krosaen | 2025-04-26 15:12:12+00:00
> Aside from whether it is correct

If it's mind boggling to you I would ask chatgpt, it's mind boggling to me that you don't care whether it is correct...

But if you generally think chatGPT produces garbage, I guess that makes sense. I disagree, to me it's a good initial query, replacing google. As with google before, it is not authoritative (e.g AI may hallucinate, or google may land you on some SEO bs page), but I don't tend to dismiss its use outright.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-26 15:12:13+00:00
Tesla once again tells its own CEO Elon Musk to knock it off with the politics - https://electrek.co/2025/04/22/tesla-once-again-tells-ceo-el... - April 22nd, 2025

67% of Americans would not consider buying a Tesla, new poll says - https://electrek.co/2025/03/28/most-americans-would-not-cons... - March 28th, 2025

Tesla sales fall by 49% in Europe even as the electric vehicle market grows - https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sales-recall-trump-byd-b6f5... - March 25, 2025

Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car - https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-s... - March 14th, 2025

Australian Tesla sales plummet as owners rush to distance themselves from Elon Musk -https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/06/australia... - March 6th, 2025

(own several Teslas, won't buy another)
by h2zizzle | 2025-04-26 15:13:30+00:00
Yet another signal of the sad state of affairs is that you probably genuinely think we're "on the brink" and not well over the cliff, Wile E.-style. Buildings burned during leftist protests (whether or not leftists actually set the fires is up for debate), and the Capital was ransacked by a mob looking to overthrow an election.

That was half a decade ago.

The interim has consisted of a corrupt centrist presidential administration that spent most of its time denying that things are getting worse ("It's not a recession"; "We didn't fumble the Afghanistan draw-down"; "Those weren't significant bank failures"; "That's not a genocide"), followed by a corrupt fascist admin that is openly dedicated to making things worse.

All the while, the intellectuals who understand what is happening - not just what will happen, what is happening - have been begging anyone who will listen to take the situation seriously - to understand that their attempted conservation of the previous normal is actually vascillation, while the ground falls out from under us. But my property values! But my American dream! But my rules-based order! They're already dead. And we can't start rebuilding until people with money and influence face it.
by bawana | 2025-04-26 15:13:54+00:00
At 50 cents a capsule on amazon , prostamol uno (serenoa repens) is more expensive than finasteride so it will forever remain an unrecognized herb. Also, remember we dont really know how these pills are made. Remember the story of that miracle herb, PC-SPES? Widely regarded as a miracle drug when it started selling over the counter, it did indeed significantly improve voiding symptoms as well as out even advanced prostate cancer into remission. It became so widespread that the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) investigated PC-SPES and discovered that it was adulterated with drugs, including warfarin, alprazolam, and diethylstilbesterol (DES). Each capsule had potent estrogens in it! Then the FDA recalled it.

Although the rest of the world benefitted from this research, it was the US that paid for it and did it. I am sad that we are now entering a 'transactional democracy' (you only get as much democracy as you can afford) but then again, that's where the rest of the world has been since WW2. Anecdotal data has driven 'old wives tale medicine' for millenia. I am hoping though that big data, the internet, AI, and the judicious use of Bayes' theorem can distill real knowledge from the vast sea of misinformation that surrounds us.
by brookst | 2025-04-26 15:13:56+00:00
Sure, but what does this change? Plenty of people are better geoguessers than this LLM. Anyone trying to find someone who is both trying not to be found and posting pictures publicly is just going to copy them to Reddit and ask “where is this”.

I’m not a fan of this variation on “think of the children”. It has always been possible to deduce location from images. The fact that LLMs can also do it changes exactly nothing about the privacy considerations of sharing photos.

It’s fine to fear AI but this is a really weak angle to come at it from.
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by GlebShalimov | 2025-04-26 15:14:15+00:00
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by quantadev | 2025-04-26 15:14:21+00:00
This is a really cool idea. I'm a fan of RSS, and the biggest challenge with RSS is curating a good list of feeds. I joined up on 'follow.it'!! Is there a place to have discussions about this site and concept? Like on Reddit or Twitter/X? Because I have my own Social Media apps that I'd like to integrate into this ecosystem, and would love to discuss ideas with others, and I don't trust this HN thread as a legit place to host said in-depth discussion.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-04-26 15:14:35+00:00
The most important thing to understand about AI is that people (not you, I'm sure, but the majority) will use it incompetently and unquestioningly.

These stories are important, you personally don't have to read them if you're tired. But the more cases there are the bigger the extant threat, and the more we need to be educated so we can defend against it.

We are all going to be affected by the omnipresent reliance on AI that allows people to rush out their tasks and get home from work sooner.
by aspenmayer | 2025-04-26 15:14:57+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSL_card

> A QSL card is a written confirmation of either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio or citizens band stations; a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, television or shortwave broadcasting station; or the reception of a two-way radiocommunication by a third party listener. A typical QSL card is the same size and made from the same material as a typical postcard, and most are sent through the mail as such.

The author of the post has a QSL card site; it appears to be offline at the moment:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210121154228/https://73sand88s...

They also have another site about postcards, which also seems to be offline:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221113020707/https://cardboard...

https://x.com/73sand88s/status/1844558964433764387

https://xcancel.com/73sand88s/status/1844558964433764387

> Going through QSL cards I never scanned.

> Someday I will tell the story of the raunchy and X-rated artwork of Portland, Oregon QSL artist Dick Pleasant aka The Viking.

(The above link is SFW, but some of the cards linked may be somewhat inappropriate for work for various reasons.)

This post inspired by this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785515

I originally found this post by the same author, Jordan Smith, which has more pictures of the cards, via the Wikipedia page for QSL cards:

CB Radio QSL Cards: A 1970s Social Media Craze

https://flashbak.com/cb-radio-qsl-cards-a-1970s-social-media...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250426134433/https://flashbak....

https://archive.is/BX1RV

I found their substack link which I posted in OP via an archived version of their postcard site.

That's society in a nutshell: archives all the way down.

Archives of OP just in case:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250426151914/https://thepiesho...

https://archive.is/IPtOC
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-26 15:15:26+00:00
Fair enough. I should specify he never failed a drug test from the period in which all of his UCI and Olympic wins were rescinded, which I believe was 1998 to 2005. I'm also reasonably sure he never got popped specifically for EPO. There has been a test to find recombinant EPO since 2000, but it can only detect its presence for something like 18 hours after injection and you only need to inject weekly. Out of other ways to blood dope, only tranfusion from another person is detectable by any means whatsoever. It's why they use the athlete biological passport instead and look for increases in red blood cell count or hematocrit that are not physiologically possible without doping.