MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by efitz | 2025-04-04 16:16:34+00:00
Cowardice is in the eye of the beholder and the article is self-serving.

The article makes the point that it's cowardly to cave to administration pressure to limit the activities of anti-Israel/Pro-Palestine protesters.

Someone on the other side of the issue could make the argument "it is cowardly to kowtow to a small but vocal minority who justifies interfering with other students' ability to learn, as 'free speech'".

It is dishonest to describe non-speech activity such as intimidation and forceful prevention of access, as "speech", even if you like the motivation or outcome. "Speech" is talking with words. Physically using your body to prevent someone else from acting in a desired way, is something other than "speech".
by nearbuy | 2025-04-04 16:17:00+00:00
Kind of a weird take that excludes the vast majority of human artwork that most people would consider novel. For all the complaints one might have of cubism, few would claim it's not novel. And yet it's not based on any new development in the external world but rather on mashing together different perspectives. Someone could have created the style 100 years earlier if they were so inclined, and had Picasso never existed, someone could create the novel style today just by "remixing" ideas from past art in that very particular way.
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by trod1234 | 2025-04-04 16:17:34+00:00
The mindset is simple to understand.

It is the self-deluded individual who enjoys abusing and torturing others, and has willfully blinded themselves to anything else.

More beast walking on two legs than human, and meets a relatively objective definition for evil people.

Willfully blinded through acts of false justification, repeated acts of destruction and active torture on others.

These are things if they did it physically they would go to prison or be put to death under capital punishment. Psychological harm isn't being treated with the same rigor as physical harm though.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-04-04 16:18:19+00:00
I wonder if near-UV like 380nm starts exciting the red receptor at 760nm like a resonant frequency or harmonic. Would also explain why something that's deeply red enough doesn't start looking purple, because the lower-energy photons can't get the higher energy receptors to trigger, unlike the other way around for deep blue. Which would make the color purple a distinctly quantum phenomenon.
by isoprophlex | 2025-04-04 16:18:22+00:00
obesity is a symptom, not a cause.

to me, the rabid response to anything remotely resembling socialism, and the inability to see life as anything but a zero-sum game is the obvious culprit. this precludes caring for eachother, and creates a life that's essentially a never-ending rat race for everyone, rich and poor alike.

you cant inject your way out of a society that is, at its core, defined by class/racial segregation, systemic inequality and distrust of governments.
by aabajian | 2025-04-04 16:18:34+00:00
I'm curious, is it the AI that should be blamed or the prompter who asks to generate something based on copyright?

For all of the examples, I knew what image to expect before seeing it. I think it's the user who is at fault for requesting a copyrighted image, not the LLM for generating it. The LLM is giving (nearly) exactly what the user expects.
by whydoineedthis | 2025-04-04 16:18:41+00:00
It's only "intellectual theft" because we consider peoples thoughts their own property. On many levels, that doesn't really make sense to me.

Tons of historical documents have shown that inventions, mathematical proofs, and celestial observations were made by humans separated by continents and time. What that shows is that it is certainly possible for two persons to have the same exact or similar thought without ever having been influenced by the other.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-04 16:18:51+00:00
Well that explains it doesn't it? One can cheaply employ your youth at bottom barrel wages and buy up or rent the real estate without competition with native professionals. And I'm not damning anyone who does that, it helps the locals more than them not coming at all. The Spanish government has more or less set up the incentives to play out this way -- that Spain is a place to come on holiday or to retire but not a place for native educated professionals to partake in business.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-04 16:19:12+00:00
> USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

This kind of work is extremely important for making the US be seen as the "police of the world" rather than a bully, who will turn a blind eye to genocide when convenient, but will shell civilians if people who come from the same city threaten commercial routes.

For instance, the US strongly condemns the Venezuelan government. At the same time, it doesn't condemn the Saudi government, even though it is obvious for anyone to see the massive human rights infringements that happen there. The US government also doesn't condemn the Bukele government and, currently, they even give Bukele money by paying him to torture prisoners deported from the US.

Do you see a pattern here? Of course the US needs all the favorable media coverage it can get.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-04-04 16:19:22+00:00
If they made the opposite choice then people would argue that they're not prioritizing bandwidth for those with poor internet connections like those living in rural areas or third-world countries. My gut says it's much more likely that clients have access to a discrete GPU than they do to broadband Internet. I also do not believe it would be possible to deliver the experience they're shipping with pre-rendered assets shipped over the wire, or, at the very least, I can't readily conceptualize how that would be implemented.

I feel it's totally within scope for an animation-focused library to expect clients to have GPU hardware acceleration. The fact you're running in an isolated environment, and haven't configured it to be able to use your host machine's GPU (which is possible!), feels niche enough to me to write off.
by devsda | 2025-04-04 16:19:34+00:00
> I need 8,276 consents from other public bodies, planning, transport, the Environment Agency or Natural England

> That’s one different consent form for every 25 meters of track. Mind boggling.

I can easily imagine Sir Humphrey lecturing Bernard on why 8276 is not enough consents and why they need more of them.

Our country inherited/modeled our civil services and bureaucracy based on the British system. We know the effort it takes to get things done.
by ferguess_k | 2025-04-04 16:20:18+00:00
Maybe we don't need another gadget anyway. Like why do we need a new gaming console every few years, a new phone every year, such and such?

With a depression looming, I'm going to cut costs left and right. A gaming console is not even on the list of consideration. I'm sure families with bigger kids probably don't agree with me though.
by leptons | 2025-04-04 16:20:19+00:00
>any time they need sixty votes in the Senate, the Democrats have leverage.

And how many votes are needed for every executive order he signs? None, is the answer. The tarrifs required not one single vote from congress.

There won't be any votes that require 60 in the Senate that will happen for trump to continue his awful agenda.

Please tell us where exactly Democrats have any power, and be specific.
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-04 16:20:20+00:00
Every language could benefit from a linter.

Given how accessible and widespread it is, it's hard not to make mistakes in JS without a linter.

Can you shoot your foot off with C or Rust? Sure. But they're systems programming languages for the most part, and aren't realistically proposed as tools in the "move fast and break things" world of web development where JS rules supreme. Ruby and Python are also used in web dev, albeit on the back-end, and they're not as idiosyncratic as JS.
by banqjls | 2025-04-04 16:20:23+00:00
Bottom of the barrel wages for the uneducated natives are the result of uncontrolled mass migration - we have received millions of immigrants in the last decade, which has basically destroyed wages, and has made the poorest suffer.

On the other hand real estate is held by wealthy old natives and laws are enacted to make sure that real estate increases in price forever, the young be damned - no one cares about them since our population pyramid means they’ll always be a minority.
by theamk | 2025-04-04 16:20:36+00:00
python 3.0 code, released back in 2008, is still compatible with latest released python, with some exceptions like asyncio or obscure file formats which are unlikely to appear in scripts. The pip packages likely did break, but we are talking about python-with-stdlib here.

Granted, it's not 30 years old, but 17 years is pretty impressive. And I don't think there will be another big break, the 2.0->3.0 transition was so painful they'll likely avoid another one for decades.
by Aldipower | 2025-04-04 16:20:46+00:00
No one can predict the future. Really, no one. Sometimes there is a hit, sure, but mostly it is a miss.

The other thing is in their introduction: "superhuman AI" _artificial_ intelligence is always, by definition, different from _natural_ intelligence. That they've chosen the word "superhuman" shows me that they are mixing the things up.
by bluGill | 2025-04-04 16:20:53+00:00
My car is my biggest source of emissions in my life. (I use a heat pump except on the coldest days) Though I just got a PEHV, which has greatly reduced my profile. I also live where my electric comes from renewable sources (my local utility generates more wind in a year than all customers use), so I can just ignore the impact of electric generation.

Yes making a car uses a lot of carbon, but the car lasts a long time and generally in a ICE car the carbon emissions from using it are greater the manufacturing.
by paxys | 2025-04-04 16:21:18+00:00
They are very different problems. You can attach every kind of sensor to the phone and get HD images, lidar scan, 3D model, heat signature and whatever other signal you want, but you still won't be able to figure out calories in a piece of food without breaking it apart at a molecular level. There's just too much hidden information. What sensor will tell you how many tablespoons of oil the chef used to fry onions for the sauce? Heck the chef himself probably won't be able to tell you.
by nobankai | 2025-04-04 16:21:25+00:00
I cannot name a single moment in the history of my life where another person has asked me who "owns" a piece of digital art. I know people who asked about the author, but nobody cares about the owner.

Unless your ownership confers some sort of meaningful control over the piece, society will entirely ignore your rules and distribute the work however they want. It's not like you can take the case to court, anyways. You're role-playing on a extralegal asset, not a tallying stocks and bonds.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-04 16:21:27+00:00
One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention in the replies. There are millions of conservative parents who sent their children to college and then “lost” those children when they turned into a “liberal.”

The ideas that it’s ok if your child becomes a liberal, or that there might be good reasons why people who undertake higher education often become less conservative, are too horrible to contemplate. So they settle for “universities are bad.”
by thewebguyd | 2025-04-04 16:21:41+00:00
> And unlike with a lot of companies, they often continue to invest and move their acquisitions forward, such as github.

Which helps them win in the enterprise. Not just their acquisitions, but if MS puts out a tech you can be confidently sure they are going to support it for a long time. There's been a few examples contrary to that - Silverlight and their UI frameworks they can't seem to get a handle on, but everything else they've put out exists long-term, and is generally backwards compatible.

There aren't many others that offer that level of stability. We tend to value new and shiny, but non-tech companies don't they want boring and stable, which is why Microsoft won there. Hell, you can still run a lot of apps from the Windows 3.11 era on Windows 11 with minimal fuss. The same can't be said for most other platforms.

Microsoft tech isn't necessarily sexy or exciting, but it checks boxes and is supported for a LONG time, and for a closed source OS, Windows is surprisingly open and configurable (well, used to be anyway - that seems to be going away with 11+)
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-04-04 16:22:13+00:00
It's like the British Empire heights.

The peasants in England were still incredibly poor. The British Empire was the largest empire in history, and the nobility and elites sucked up all the imperial wealth.

Because remember, being rich isn't about the amount of money you have, it's about the amount of money you have more than the average person. The goal of capitalism under oligarchical control is the maximization of the gap.

What has made everyman's life better has been technology. It was never capitalism and finance.
by bko | 2025-04-04 16:22:52+00:00
You're welcome. I know too many upper middle class educated people that don't want to have kids because they believe the earth will cease to be inhabitable in the next 10 years. It's really bizarre to see and they'll almost certainly regret it when they wake up one day alone in a nursing home, look around and realize that the world still exists.

And I think the neuroticism around this topic has led young people into some really dark places (anti-depressants, neurotic anti social behavior, general nihilism). So I think it's important to fight misinformation about end of world doomsday scenarios with both facts and common sense.
by diggan | 2025-04-04 16:22:56+00:00
> Why is everyone in here with pitchforks?

Personally, I get pissed when companies misuse "open source" because without open source, I probably wouldn't be a developer in the first place. Just call things what they are, and leave existing terminology alone. Defending "open source" is defending the opportunity for others who were in the same situation as myself in the past.

Otherwise we'll quickly see more of what already started today, companies calling things "open source" in their marketing material but "proprietary" in their legal agreements, and no one will be better off if that's accepted.
by MrSkelter | 2025-04-04 16:23:07+00:00
I am a dual national with roots in Europe. A far greater contributor is the lack of avoidable chronic disease in Europe. I know many middle class and above Americans who have ongoing battles with their insurance companies to treat and manage relatively mundane issues. If they apply enough time and money they can usually resolve things though often this requires pausing treatment or changing doctors recommendations.

This does not exist in Europe. What your doctors recommend happens regardless of your income.

There is an image I see when in the US. A homeless person who is crippled and pushing themselves with a stick or one leg in a wheelchair. Lame thanks to lack of treatment. You never see that in Europe. Homeless people exist but they aren’t chronically ill.

This has positive effects for everyone. There is less disease in the environment and it’s easier for people to literally get back on their feet.

It’s a bit of wishful thinking to presume Americans poor health is all lifestyle choices and advertising. It’s the system and a pervasive lack of easy to access treatment at all levels of society.
by salawat | 2025-04-04 16:23:15+00:00
We have a solution for things like that. It's called search engines and indexes if you don't poison the fuck out of it for economic and political gain. Outlaw or regulare SEO and we can go back to a marvelous time when everyone could actually find things without having shit shoved into their face every second of every day.

Optimize pulls. Not pushes. Pushes are acts of force. Pulls are acts of grace. If you can't understand this, I'd say you're stuck in the Sinclairism of being impossible to get to understand due to your life or ambitions in some way being dependent on not understanding.

Research works. Has worked. Will continue to work. If we can put a check on rampant greed and coamp down on the tragedy of the commons that is the pollution of the modern web.
by bluGill | 2025-04-04 16:24:04+00:00
I find that the 30 miles my PHEV gives me is not enough for daily needs several times a week. Though I seem to be saving hundreds of dollars every month in gas while I haven't noticed a power bill increase (I've only had it for a few weeks so I can't fully gauge the impact, but so far it seems to line up with your report). At the point I can safely tell most people that they should just refuse to look at any new vehicle that isn't PHEV or full EV. Used car buyers should be willing to pay a lot more of the above - it will pay off in the long term.
by Hojojo | 2025-04-04 16:25:02+00:00
I've become so much more productive in my hobby programming projects, because it lets me skip over the tedious parts that suck the life out of me (boilerplate, figuring out library dependencies, etc), and I can focus on the parts that are actually interesting like experimenting with different solutions, iterating and learning new things.

It also lets me explore other libraries and languages without having to invest too much time and effort before knowing if it's right for what I want to do. I know that if I want to continue in a different direction, I haven't wasted tons of time/effort and getting started in the new direction will be much less effortful and time consuming.
by thesuitonym | 2025-04-04 16:25:12+00:00
The worst part about this trend toward hypocrisy acceptance is that nobody cares when you point it out. This empowers the hypocrite to answer with "So what?" because they know they will face absolutely no consequences. In politics, business, and even personal life, most people have everything to gain and very little to lose*. And our current hyper-individualistic society has only exacerbated the issue. "Who cares if the people around me don't trust me? I'll just get what I need from some faceless computer system."

* You actually have a lot to lose, but it's not tangible or very directly measurable, and the effects compile over a long time, so the results are not easy to see.
by timtas | 2025-04-04 16:26:17+00:00
A big part of this is that too many kids are going to college. Less than 2/3 who begin a 4-year degree program will graduate.

We’re pushing kids who are not suited to higher education into it because of credential inflation. As more kids get a certain level of credential, others are forced to seek those credentials to keep up. It’s a tragically wasteful way to signal fitness to employers.

This has been spurred on by government loan guarantees and other means of assistance, which create demand, which drives prices up. The universities don’t escape blame here. The author is getting these ludicrous pep talks from administration because they must play the charade to keep business booming. Nothing more. They’re selling a crap product to people who don’t benefit from it.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-04 16:26:24+00:00
Yeah but having a CHOICE in the music typically plays an important role! I mean in jail the only free option Tarrant County offered was Christian music (rap and contemporary) and that stuff was actually irritating to me. I wasn’t actively accessing it - I couldn’t NOT hear it coming through the ventilation system.

I wrote about how it’s a form of indoctrination to exploit people’s desire for something that they love yet only present a brainwashing oriented selection:

https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/tarrant-county-sheriff-bill...
by 9rx | 2025-04-04 16:26:25+00:00
> brown really doesn't exist. Brown is just reflected orange-y light in the right context.

The Pirahã language only has two words for "color" – which more or less translate to "light" and "dark". Therefore red, green, blue, even orange don't really exist either. Except they do, because we've defined them to exist. Brown is no different.
by btown | 2025-04-04 16:26:28+00:00
The GTC 2025 announcement session that's mentioned in this article has video here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtc25-s72383/

It's a holistic approach to all levels of the stack, from high-level frameworks to low-level bindings, some of which is highlighting existing libraries, and some of which are completely newly announced.

One of the big things seems to be a brand new Tile IR, at the level of PTX and supported with a driver level JIT compiler, and designed for Python-first semantics via a new cuTile library.

https://x.com/JokerEph/status/1902758983116657112 (without login: https://xcancel.com/JokerEph/status/1902758983116657112 )

Example of proposed syntax: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmWqYiXa8AAdrl3?format=jpg&name=...

Really exciting stuff, though with the new IR it further widens the gap that projects like https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA and AMD's own tooling are trying to bridge. But vendor lock-in isn't something we can complain about when it arises from the vendor continuing to push the boundaries of developer experience.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-04 16:27:05+00:00
I'm making no demands. Only pointing out an absurd false equivalence.

Change to the polarizing system would be great. I doubt that will happen by softening protests to obscene injustice. Rather it's likely to reenforce the shifting Overton window further into authoritarianism and kleptocracy.

To break the two party system we need things a large portion of the populous has been (falsely) taught are bad for them: same day primaries, ranked choice voting, making campaign bribery illegal, unwinding corporate personhood, etc. Can you guess which side is most attached to the system of political machines and the lies that reinforce them?