MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ty6853 | 2025-04-14 19:44:10+00:00
>El Salvador’s ministry of foreign affairs confirmed that it “will house these individuals for one (1) year, pending the United States’ decision on their long term disposition.” S.A. 149 (quoting Matthew Lee & Regina Garcia Cano, Trump Officials Secretly Deported Venezuelans and Salvadorans to a Notorious Prison in El Salvador, ASSOCIATED PRESS (Mar. 15, 2025), https://apnews.com/article/trumpdeportations-salvador-tren-a... (emphasis supplied)).

>The Government undertook this action pursuant to its agreement with El Salvador, wherein the United States paid El Salvador six million dollars to hold detainees “for one (1) year, pending the United States’ decision on [their] long term disposition.” Dist. Ct. Op. at 6

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ab...

I think this was written by Judge Thacker
by jiriknesl | 2025-04-14 19:44:36+00:00
The demands are simple and not confusing at all.

- Stop promoting Democrats' agendas as the ultimate truth; stop bullying people for non-Democratic views - Allow Republicans' agendas to be equally represented

Is it really so difficult to understand?

Out of many bad things Trump has done, this isn't really bad for anyone except core Democrats voters.

The US academia has become hostile to anyone except one particular culture. This should stop.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-14 19:44:41+00:00
Those who were in prison and paid for a pardon got their money's worth. No take backsies on those. The one grifter was released from paying back millions to the people he defrauded - he made money by paying Trump if looked at as simple arithmetic. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/donald-trump-pardons-ni...
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-14 19:44:44+00:00
I just gave up totally on my Shield TV and got a used PS4 Pro. Not sure if I'll ever really play games on it (got Steam?) and it is massive overkill for a Plex client but my experience with media devices is overkill beats underkill -- it also replaces a trash Sony Blu-Ray player that takes 30 seconds to boot even if all you want to do is eject a disc.

Allegedly the Shield was a game console but the only games I put much time in on it were Pac Man 256 (maybe in 20 years we get that with procgen) and Idea Factory's port of Record of Agarest Wars because Idea Factory will always make a deal to colonize a new platform -- they made one of like 15 exclusive games for the PS5 and it's not enough reason for me to get one.
by Szpadel | 2025-04-14 19:44:52+00:00
I would see that easiest way to bring something like that would be some adaptation of m4u format, just instead of URLs to video it could have URL to torrent/magnet.

one issue I can imagine would be that each part would discover peers independently where assumption that most peers of previous parts should be expected to also have those files.

second idea would be to use ipfs in that way instead of torrent. that would probably have much easier time for reusing peer discovery between parts and also would solve issue when to stop seeding as this is already build in into protocol.

I guess that creating distributed twitch basing on ipfs would be feasible but not sure how many people would like to install ipfs node before that could use that. that's kind of chicken and egg problem, you need a lot of people before this system starts work really well, but to get interest it need to really perform well so people would migrate from twitch like services.

ofc you can use public gateways. afaik cloudflare have public ipfs endpoint that could serve as fallback
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-14 19:44:57+00:00
No you missed the point. I completely get the meaning of segregating IO/mutation away from pure logic.

And my point is, what is the purpose of all of this is 90% of what your app does is mutation and side effects? Functional shell, imperative core indeed, but the shell is literally just thin layer of skin. The imperative core is a massive black hole.

Functional programming can't save you from black hole.
by jsheard | 2025-04-14 19:45:01+00:00
> Where are the pro-Palestinian activists who are standing up for the Gazans who have the courage to risk their lives by protesting against Hamas?

If you can find me a western government or institution they should be protesting for actively collaborating with Hamas then I'll grant you that hypocrisy. They don't need to because it's already a federal crime to materially support Hamas in any way whatsoever.
by repeekad | 2025-04-14 19:45:32+00:00
@TimorousBestie (I can't reply inline due to comment depth)

I didn't say fund harvard xor fund local schools, I said it's crazy how much money harvard gets. The comment I'm replying to is who implies I must support harvard funding xor I must support trump, "the people who want to hurt harvard", I don't think that's true. I'm allowed to think federal funds for academia are too high and also think Trump is bad for the country
by chrisfosterelli | 2025-04-14 19:45:42+00:00
For that <1% left as carbon, comes >75% released as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, which needs to be recaptured. Tree capture by itself is already too inefficient -- you need to cover roughly the entire area of new mexico with trees to account for just one year of America's emissions. If you're only sustainably capturing 1% of that capture, we're nowhere near the order of magnitude necessary to be impactful on a global scale.

Further, even if we didn't face the issue of running out of land, we don't appear to be able to actually plant trees fast enough and well enough (many of the "millions of trees" planting projects, especially in developing nations, have had tree survival rates of under 10%)

Forests help and are part of the strategy, but fundamentally not moving the needle.
by iambateman | 2025-04-14 19:45:55+00:00
> Meta could have chosen to compete with then-upstart photo sharing app Instagram in 2012, a senior FTC official said on a call with reporters ahead of the trial, but instead it bought it, and did the same with WhatsApp.

This has a potentially very-chilling effect on acquisitions, which are a major source of liquidity for lots of secondary companies.
by derektank | 2025-04-14 19:46:12+00:00
>They burned their credibility among those with whom they never needed it in the first place.

I think universities should probably be concerned with their credibility among democratically elected political representatives if they are going to be accepting public funds. If the university wants to forgo federal grants, then yes, they don't require any credibility with anyone but academia and their donors, and more power to them.
by Mystery-Machine | 2025-04-14 19:46:26+00:00
That's exactly the argument here. You do not think this is possible. I think it _might be_. You believe we cannot understand their language because we don't have "shared experiences" (etc). I believe we can. That's the disagreement. AI can learn/predict/invent new things. It already is inventing new materials, new protein structures, etc. We don't need to understand the exact mechanism 100% for it to be able to do it. Let's give it a shot.

There are tons of shared experiences and shared emotions. It's not like there's some hidden organism that we discovered are making noise from within the dark matter. These are animals in the oceans. Plenty of shared experiences and emotions. Dolphins have feelings. Anyway... let's agree to disagree. I fully support this project and am optimistic about its outcomes.
by settrans | 2025-04-14 19:46:29+00:00
> If anything negative you can say about Israel is equated to antisemitism then Israel gets a free pass.

I am not arguing this. Everyone is free to criticize Israel; when it becomes antisemitic is when you hold Jews to a different standard than you hold everyone else.

> but Israel's response was out of proportion

Why do you say this? What would a proportionate response have looked like to an attempt to conquer your country by firing 5,000 rockets while 6,000 people invaded and murdered everyone they could find? Bear in mind, that immediately afterwards, Hamas leaders promised to repeat October 7th again and again until Israel was annihilated.
by cm2187 | 2025-04-14 19:46:32+00:00
Yeah, I must be hallucinating with "bullshit in my head".

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00240-9

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/black-lives-ma...

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/70845
by sam1234apter | 2025-04-14 19:46:38+00:00
I made aidetectors.io because I was constantly testing AI-generated content across different tools, and none of them quite did everything I needed in one place:

fast, clean UI with no ads or clutter

side-by-side comparison of multiple detectors on one page

automatic formatting for pasted text so I don’t have to clean it up

support for both short and long-form content

summary view to quickly see which tools flagged it as AI
by allturtles | 2025-04-14 19:46:51+00:00
> More explicitly the letter demands that tenured professors be given more decision making power than non academic activists.

1) Granting that giving more power to tenured professors would be a good thing, in what way is it legal, wise, or good for the executive branch to achieve this in the absence of any law by strong arming individual private institutions that it has decided to target on ad hoc basis?

2) You are reading selectively, it says "fostering clear lines of authority and accountability; empowering tenured professors and senior leadership, and, from among the tenured professoriate and senior leadership, exclusively those most devoted to the scholarly mission of the University and committed to the changes indicated in this letter" [emphasis mine]. So in other words, it is a requirement that the university give power to those ideologically-aligned with the Trump administration. This is a very clear and alarming violation of the first amendment.

In toto, the letter is an attempt to impose ideological reform in a private institution, and is part of a wider attempt by the current administration to browbeat or subvert every institution that might act to curtail (or even speak out against) its actions.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-14 19:46:53+00:00
There's iroh.computer which can use a relay/ do direct nat punching.

They use bao hashing which is something that I discovered through them (IIRC) and its really nice.

Could create such a protocol though bittorrent/ipfs is fine

I once wanted to create a website which was just a static website.

and I used some ipfs gateway to push it with my browser and got a link of that static website, all anonymous.

Kind of great tbh.
by glial | 2025-04-14 19:46:59+00:00
One thing that helped me was the realization that, at least as used in the context of information theory, entropy is a property of an individual (typically the person receiving a message) and NOT purely of the system or message itself.

> entropy quantifies uncertainty

This sums it up. Uncertainty is the property of a person and not a system/message. That uncertainty is a function of both a person's model of a system/message and their prior observations.

You and I may have different entropies about the content of the same message. If we're calculating the entropy of dice rolls (where the outcome is the 'message'), and I know the dice are loaded but you don't, my entropy will be lower than yours.
by comex | 2025-04-14 19:47:39+00:00
Sam Altman wrote in February that GPT-4.5 would be "our last non-chain-of-thought model" [1], but GPT-4.1 also does not have internal chain-of-thought [2].

It seems like OpenAI keeps changing its plans. Deprecating GPT-4.5 less than 2 months after introducing it also seems unlikely to be the original plan. Changing plans is necessarily a bad thing, but I wonder why.

Did they not expect this model to turn out as well as it did?

[1] https://x.com/sama/status/1889755723078443244

[2] https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/6a47d53c967a0...
by ferguess_k | 2025-04-14 19:48:12+00:00
I found it difficult to learn and understand the fundamentals if I don't really work on the aspects.

I have tried a couple of times to write side projects about interpreter and OS. They were all small projects so I managed to complete them before I burnt out (somehow I always burnt out from my side projects after 2-3 months and have to pause for another 3 months to get into something new). But I don't think the knowledge sticks with me.

I mean, maybe part of them did, but I just can't see why I'd use them in my work. It is sometimes very demoralizing to realize that I burnt out myself multiple times for nothing.

I think the most important thing, is to figure out how to get into a position without the knowledge to do it -- I know it sounds stupid, but many excellent developers managed to get that perk and learnt profoundly in just a few months than I did in my 7 years.
by iLemming | 2025-04-14 19:48:19+00:00
> I just don't understand the fixation with REPL

Perhaps because maybe you just haven't used one? I'm not talking about "a REPL" in langs like Python, where you typically have to type stuff into it. Lisp REPLs allow evaluating code directly in the source buffer, by sending it into the REPL. That REPL can be remote. Like seriously remote - NASA once did it on a spacecraft 150 million miles away from Earth. We run ours in a kubernetes cluster. Lisp REPL allows you to evaluate specific expressions, functions, or regions directly from where you are. Without saving, linting, linking, compiling, etc.

> because you don't understand it by yourself.

REPL is not about "understanding your code", it's about interactive development and exploration - it allows you to test your ideas and assumptions in real-time. Imagine being able to send http request, pull some good chunk of data, and then sort it, group it, slice it, dice it, filter it, visualize it - do whatever you want to do with it, directly from your editor. It's incredibly empowering and extremely liberating.

The only downsides - after getting used to that, using non-lispy languages sucks all the joy out of programming and you also have to explain to people what it is like.

It's like moving to an island where people have never discovered salt, pepper, and other spices, and though their cuisine looks beautiful - you just can't describe to them what they all are missing. Some even may say - "Hey, I've tried pepper once - but I don't understand your fixation with it" and you'd be like: "have you ever tried putting it into your food?"
by janzer | 2025-04-14 19:48:20+00:00
For those further interested in PEG vs LL(1) parsers. The first few sections of the Python PEP[1] where they switched from an LL(1) to PEG parser for CPython has a nice short introduction to both and their rationale for switching from LL(1) to PEG.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0617/
by sdsd | 2025-04-14 19:48:24+00:00
I made an AI assistant telegram bot running on my Mac that runs commands for me. I'll tell it "Run ncdu in the root dir and tell me what's taking up all my disk space" or something and it converts that bash and runs it via os.system. It shows me the command it created, plus the output.

Extremely insecure, but kinda fun.

I turned it off because I'm not that crazy but I'm sure I could make a safer version of it.
by ren_engineer | 2025-04-14 19:48:39+00:00
no, but there would be much more push back against this type of action if Harvard and other universities didn't alienate a large chunk of the population. Why should the taxpayers fund places that openly admit to decades of racial discrimination in admissions

the institutions have already failed their intended purpose, as shown by the research fraud. Propping them up with tax dollars because of nostalgia over the name brand is pointless
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-04-14 19:49:36+00:00
Small towns overwhelmingly get more federal dollars than they put in. Big cities subsidize small towns.

>it's hard for me to not think that's crazy and why can't that money go to average americans

Because Americans in small towns overwhelmingly vote for people who lower taxes for rich people and promise not reduce the scope of government. Instead of blaming Harvard, why don't you ask your neighbors why they like to vote for people who refuse to help them?
by tialaramex | 2025-04-14 19:50:02+00:00
So there's a funny thing about mouthing the words, the way the human mind works the easiest way to explain to ourselves why we're mouthing the words is that we agree with them. And so in that sense what seems like a useless paper exercise can be effective.

Also, relevantly here, nobody actually wants these terrible bugs. This is not A or B, Red or Blue, this is very much Cake or Death and like, there just aren't any people queueing up for Death, there are people who don't particularly want Cake but that's not the same thing at all.
by hermannj314 | 2025-04-14 19:51:38+00:00
I think a conversation about what the taxpayer should get back from university research funding is a good question, I personally don't like privatization of medical breakthroughs discovered with public money.

However, I am cautious to extend that argument to this situation. This is an attempt to use federal funding as a backdoor around the 1st amendment (from what I can tell). I'm not going to extend this administration any leeway when their bull in a china shop policies inadvertently break something I don't like. I don't want to improve taxpayer funding of research by losing the 1st amendment.
by stouset | 2025-04-14 19:51:40+00:00
What, exactly, were you hoping to learn by accusing Airparif and the EU of bias?

All this time I’ve been asking questions of you, hoping to learn about your thought process: Who should be performing these measurements? Who should be funding them? Who is someone without bias in the outcome of this process? What is an example of any result on any topic you accept as having been produced by an unbiased party with unbiased funding sources? What do you think are deficiencies in this research caused by the authors’ biases?

Not only won’t you even attempt to answer these excruciatingly simple questions, but you make it obvious that you have no desire to. So it seems more than just a little disingenuous to suddenly hold up “just asking questions” as a virtue when you have zero interest in answering any yourself.
by zoogeny | 2025-04-14 19:51:54+00:00
This is a larger idea, just tangentially related to this particular case.

In 2011 there was Occupy Wall Street. It was a movement that argued that many of the financial problems we saw in 2008 were a result of a 1% of wealthy business people who were prioritizing their own wealth over the needs of the populations of the countries they operated within. I mean, they created a financial crisis by inventing obviously risky financial assets based on peoples housing. They knew it was a house of cards that would fall in time but they did it anyway with callous disregard to the inevitable human cost.

It was in the wake of that the "wokeness" became a buzzword, seemingly overnight. Suddenly, corporate policies were amended, management teams were upended, advertising campaigns were aligned to this new focus. Women, minorities and marginalized groups were championed and ushered in to key public positions. In a brief 14 years, then entire garbage dump of modern capitalism was placed like a hot potato into the hands of a new naively optimistic crew. This coincided with huge money printing and zero percent interest rate, the likes of which we haven't seen. That new elite grew in wealth, stature and public focus. They became the face of the "system" as if they had created it instead of inheriting it.

And now that the zero interest rates are done and suddenly everyone believes in the scary size of the deficit and the ballooning debt, the people sitting in power as we are about to actually feel the crash instead of just kicking it down the road yet again, those people are the target of public ire. I actually see people in these very comments acting as if the looming crash was caused by the DEI departments which formed just a little over a decade ago.

And guess who is coming back to claim they will save us from these DEI monsters? The people who created the actual mess in the first place. Yet now, instead of calling for their heads on spikes like the public was in 2011, we are literally begging them to save us from these DEI proponents.

Our anger has been redirected away from the wealthy and towards the minorities with such skill I almost admire it. The collective anger at DEI is at such a level that we are willing to cede core rights just to damage them.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-14 19:51:57+00:00
Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

There are other genuinely useful crypto projects (like Monero for privacy and I don't like the idea of smart contracts)

I really want to tell you the fact that most crypto is scam. These guys first went into crypto and now I am seeing so much crypto + AI.

As someone who genuinely is interested in crypto from a technology (decentralization perspective)

I see transactions as a byproduct not the end result & I see people wanting to earn a quick buck feel really weird.

Also crypto isn't safe. I just think like now its better to correlate as a tech stock though 99% of the time, its run by scams, so absolutely worse.

The technology is still fascinating. But just because the technology is fascinating doesn't mean its valuable. Many people are overselling their stuff.

That being said, I have actually managed to use crypto to create a permanent storage (something like ipfs but its forced to store it forever) , so I think this can be used where anonymity/decentralized is required. But still, this thing could be done without including money in the process as well & crypto is still not as decentralized as one might imagine.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-14 19:52:05+00:00
My apologies, but I no longer remember. I only remember my huge annoyance that almost anything I did, even successful, led to some warnings or unnecessary notifications in the command bar. Always some noise there. Not to mention the occasional actual failure in a plugin leading to huge stacktraces and leaving me with a partially working editor that kind of still works but not quite.

My brain mercifully deleted all details. At one point I really had enough (and waiting for 19 years for an editor to get better is IMO having an angelic patience that Emacs did not deserve) and just moved on and forgot all about it.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-14 19:52:13+00:00
> Which was also a law passed by Congress. Congress passes laws.

Indeed, but this was a clear evasion of prior laws. I don't like such workarounds in principle - either Congress should have gone the proper way and go for a constitutional amendment, or it should have buried the fucking bill. This created the nasty precedent that the current admin is using to push through the SAVE Act.
by vitus | 2025-04-14 19:52:14+00:00
Perhaps the most commonly-cited (but not actually all that practical) example for rejection sampling is estimating the value of pi (as hinted by the first example under uniform random sampling): generate two random numbers between 0 and 1, then check the fraction of points that satisfy x^2 + y^2 <= 1. As number of samples tends to infinity, this will converge to pi/4. (You can instead take x,y from (-1,1) if you want to generate points on the full circle.)

> However, rejection sampling is only efficient when f_Omega can make use of a significant proportion of the probability density in f_D.

Perhaps a more relevant example: the unit n-sphere encloses a vanishing amount of volume as the number of dimensions increases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball

This is one of those weird consequences that gets labeled as the curse of dimensionality, especially in ML contexts.

"As the dimension d of the space increases, the hypersphere becomes an insignificant volume relative to that of the hypercube."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality#Distan...