MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pmarreck | 2025-04-15 19:17:59+00:00
Fortunately for you, there is no good argument that homosexuality is wrong. But honestly, it does take a certain nontrivial amount of understanding to realize that- an understanding of things like: the list of the most common informal logical fallacies (or... all of them, because why not, and once you learn them, you see them everywhere). And those aren't someething that is typically taught in school (I had to pursue them on my own time).

(A while back I found a personal webpage that systematically shot down every single homophobic argument using reason and those fallacies... and I haven't been able to find it since, unfortunately.)

So, among many other injustices that might be rectified (or at least ameliorated) by a broader understanding of fallacious arguments, homophobia would definitely be one of them.

(Also, personal note, I'm sorry about any injustice you've had to endure because of your orientation and others' lack of understanding.)
by trealira | 2025-04-15 19:18:11+00:00
Compilation threads like those seem to me more like ways to make each other angrier and more racist. I think they legitimately just hate black people. Like, there's definitely some element of smug self-aware memey edginess about being racist, but there's also unironic vitriolic racism. But yeah, I guess we just disagree here on this.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-04-15 19:18:24+00:00
You use words that are alien to everyone. Well, there is a small incertainity in "everyone" and it is there where the people who actually understand DHCP, DoS, etc. live. This is a very, very small place.

So no, nobody will ever look at a certificate.

When I look at them, as a security professional, I usually need to rediscover where the fuck they moved the certs details again in the browser.
by aminoche | 2025-04-15 19:18:28+00:00
That’s a fair point—Monero is superior for peer-to-peer payments in terms of latency, fungibility, and privacy. But I’d push back on the idea that Bitcoin is useless outside of L2s.

The post isn’t claiming Bitcoin is better for transactions. It’s saying Bitcoin anchors legitimacy in a world that increasingly demands auditability—whether we like it or not.

Think of Bitcoin as the externally visible proof-of-reserve layer, and Monero as the privacy-preserving execution layer. One gives you credibility. The other gives you cover.

The stack isn’t about outperforming each other. It’s about asymmetry across contexts.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-15 19:19:25+00:00
Thank you for the benefit of the doubt. I am not attempting to align with anyone, only explore what's true. I certainly don't condone any attempt to shield ideas from criticism, or dismantling the right to free association. It doesn't surprise me that some people want that, but frankly I have seen that exact behavior on both sides of the political spectrum in the US. It looks to me like America is fragmenting into two cults with nothing but least respectful interpretations of each other. Both sides are trying to protect certain ideas from criticism and also censor aspects of the other. It's an ideological culture war.

When I criticize the actions of one of the cults, it doesn't automatically put me in the other cult.

I am not American, therefore I am not republican. I don't even consider myself politically right. I align with some right-leaning values, while aligning with more left-leaning ones.

I am here discussing these things in an effort to keep tabs on what's going on, but also because I think attempting to reconcile the differences between the two sides is a positive action. I want America to work this out without a full blown kinetic civil war. I have virtually no control over this outcome, so I will take small barely significant actions to try and nudge towards a more favorable outcome. My engagement here is an attempt to act as one tiny piece of a bridge, even if it means I am going to get trampled. It's a sacrifice, potentially in vein, and maybe even unwise, but at this point I don't know what else to do to help, and I am also afraid of making it worse.

Maybe I should just do nothing?
by torginus | 2025-04-15 19:20:15+00:00
I dislike this line of reasoning - it's the presumption that I'm just too smart for my audience and unwillingness to recognize where they are coming from, even if some of their thinking seems to be irrational and biased - at the same time it's the refusal to acknowledge that I might be prone to biases and my thinking might be flawed and perspective incomplete from the point of others.

It's literally giving up, declaring victory and then projecting passive-aggressive superiority.
by abalone | 2025-04-15 19:20:55+00:00
The Donald Trump in this analogy is.. Patrick Collison? And the “five dollars” is $120M?

Your premise is these right-wing anti democratic ideologues are on the fringes of the YIMBY movement. That is not supported by the facts. I quoted just one passage demonstrating the literal partnership between a major tech leader / CA YIMBY / Abundance funder and a Peter Thiel funded right wing “Libertarian” with dark visions of police city states.

They are not at the fringes, they are at the heart of it and provide the major funding for it.
by rtaylorgarlock | 2025-04-15 19:21:10+00:00
I'm relatively happy whenever I see negative news about Temu. Call it a bias, though my limited data[0] (itself biased) supports whatever negative perceptions I have towards Temu. The only brand to get 0/100? Why does human exploitation always have to pair with the absolute cheapest prices sourced from developing countries?

[0]: https://baptistworldaid.org.au/resources/ethical-fashion-rep...
by panarky | 2025-04-15 19:21:31+00:00
That was the story with CGI too, that there would be overwhelming supply that drives prices and value toward zero.

And yet Marvel exists.

Turns out in a world of infinite supply, value comes from story, character, branding, marketing and celebrity. Those factors in combination have very limited supply and people still pay up.

I don't see any reason why AI-gen video is any different.
by zer8k | 2025-04-15 19:21:37+00:00
I don't really believe the bent on this article that the hospital was at fault. There's an implication that Lawrence Livermore was in some sort of cover up and I don't really buy that line of BS either.

Its a tragedy someone with a horrible disease was taken by fake medicine (DMSO). I do find it weird that the explanation would be dimethyl sulfate production due to a defibrillator but stranger things have happened. If she really did use an incredible quantity of the stuff I suppose it's not entirely unrealistic to believe small quantities of gas local to the body could've been produced but not enough to spread even to the other end of the room.

The only thing the hospital is liable for a mistreatment of her body by not immediately getting it to a place where it could be examined before decay set in. But, on the other hand, who can blame them. All they knew is they had a biohazard of unknown capacity. Anyone with any number of unknown, horrific, highly contagious diseases would be treated the same.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-04-15 19:21:41+00:00
Many authors poured their mind into their works such that simply reading their books makes it possible to know them pretty well. If you haven't tried it, I strongly suggest it :)

Since you called out Lewis -- one of my favorites is his The Abolition of Man and its narrative counterpart That Hideous Strength. They describe in exquisite, arguably prophetic detail many of the evils of the modern left, particularly how it has ushered in a progressive downfall of society through institutionalized lies.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-15 19:21:50+00:00
I don't know. I've never created an account there. In it's early days it just seemed like they were trying to make a platform that could be monetized some day so I never bothered. I assumed incorrectly that it would just fade away.

If that is the case that might explain why so many on 4chan feel that different URL's are different sites. Most of the current members seemed to have shown up from Reddit. Most of the original members grew up and left, myself excluded. I still visit from time to time but don't stick around long as most threads and posters are obviously just 4chan-GPT and people being tricked into replying to it.

There are certainly overlapping circles between Reddit, 4chan and HN. 4chan people talk about and make fun of members of this site all the time. They also make fun of Reddit but don't seem to call out specific people on it.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-15 19:22:13+00:00
> I don't really care what you do for SSH (we use certificates) but this is not a workable model for TLS, where FUs are the norm.

It was suggested by someone else: I commented TOFU works for SSH, but is probably not as useful for web-y stuff (except for maybe small in-house stuff).

Personally I'm somewhat sad that opportunistic encryption for the web never really took off: if folks connect on 80, redirect to 443 if you have certs 'properly' set up, but even if not do an "Upgrade" or something to move to HTTPS. Don't necessary indicate things are "secure" (with the little icon), but scramble the bits anyway: no false sense of security, but make it harder for tapping glass in bulk.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-15 19:22:22+00:00
Exactly what problem is being “fixed” by being concerned about Amazon workers and not mentioning the Chinese workers? Amazon pays its warehouse workers and drivers $20+ an hour. Radio Shack paid minimum wage + a 1-3% commission and a $5 spiff for signing customers up for a needless warranty. I mentioned earlier that I worked at RS back in the day.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-04-15 19:22:42+00:00
In so far as communicating without going via the internet. This would work by 2 or more people sharing the same wifi network, but they they talked to each other would be over Reticulum?

Can a wifi mesh with no internet connection be made between different routers / access points?

Really I am wondering if people cooperating by operating wifi areas t could expand quickly in more populated places.

Perhaps the trick would be to run them all the wifi networks fully open?

Yeah basically how does one create a city wide mesh with a few hundred people involved?
by tombert | 2025-04-15 19:22:51+00:00
> Fry's Electronics closed here in the west part of Phoenix, several years ago. Their shelves were starting to get bare and were selling things from consignment. It took a while for them to die, and I finally found out why: they were having trouble getting credit to buy inventory.

In 2019, I was in San Jose for a business trip, and I was excited that there was a Fry's Electronics within walking distance of my hotel, so after work one day I walked over to it.

It was one of the most surreal experiences of my life. I went in there, and it was almost completely empty. Very few workers, most of the shelves had absolutely nothing on them, there were barely any workers. The walls that usually had a bunch of TVs were completely bare, they managed to still have a full shelf of PlayStation Classics, and like one little basket of USB cables.

I genuinely thought they might have forgotten to lock the front door after closing, and that I was accidentally trespassing, but nope: there was a person behind the register and I was able to buy a flash drive.
by dang | 2025-04-15 19:23:09+00:00
Normally we don't prefer Wikipedia submissions when third-party articles are available, but the submitted URL here (https://thartribune.com/the-woman-who-turned-a-hospital-into...) seems a bit too sensational, and the Wikipedia article seems to have all the information, so I've gone the other way this time.

There's also this article from 1995:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/analysis-of-a-toxic-...
by Kikikikiriki | 2025-04-15 19:23:37+00:00
We were working on Tizen TV apps and got frustrated with how unstable and bloated Tizen Studio is. So we built our own lightweight deployment tool — it connects to the TV, packages the app, and pushes it in just a few clicks.

This tool has been a huge time saver for our team, especially for QA testers who don’t want to deal with command-line tools.

I wrote about the journey and tool here: https://medium.com/@kostadinoskihristijan/tizenease-deployin...

Curious if other teams working on smart TV platforms have faced the same pain points. Would love to hear what you think.
by skydhash | 2025-04-15 19:23:41+00:00
> where the server-generated HTML fragments were generic enough that the server and client HTML documents didn't need to know anything about each other's HTML.

> all these systems that did HTML injection over AJAX were tightly coupled

That's because the presentation layer originated on the server. What the server didn't care about was the transformation that alters the display of the HTML on the client. So you can add add an extension to your browser that translate the text to another language and it wouldn't matter to the server. Or inject your own styles. Even when you do an AJAX request, you can add JS code that discards the response.
by setgree | 2025-04-15 19:23:59+00:00
Another idea is to only co-author with people with your last name, as in "A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors" by Allen C. Goodman, Joshua Goodman, Lucas Goodman, and Sarena Goodman:

> We explore the phenomenon of coauthorship by economists who share a surname. Prior research has included at most three economist coauthors who share a surname. Ours is the first paper to have four economist coauthors who share a surname, as well as the first where such coauthors are unrelated by marriage, blood or current campus.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/joshuagoodman/files/goodma...
by jack_h | 2025-04-15 19:24:05+00:00
I think we’re actually broadly in agreement. I’m unfortunately busy at work so I’m not articulating my position as well as I perhaps should, but I don’t think all debt or deficit spending is bad. It absolutely has a place and should be utilized. I don’t think this explains the US though. We’ve already hit 100% public debt to GDP (or 120% total debt to GDP) and I’m not seeing this slowing down. The last projections from the congressional budget going into reconciliation is a doubling of public debt in 10 years from what I remember.
by simonask | 2025-04-15 19:24:12+00:00
Yeah, wait-free data structures often contain linked lists. That doesn’t cancel out all of the other problems.

Anecdotally, I’ve seen wait-free structures used incorrectly many more times than I’ve seen them used correctly. Some people think they are magically faster because “acquiring a mutex lock is expensive”, but that’s far from always the case.
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by jonapl | 2025-04-15 19:24:13+00:00
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It's a dead-simple tool that is built on single-tasking principles, it allows you to hide everything but your most important task—so you can stop context switching, cut busywork, and finally finish things.

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by serjester | 2025-04-15 19:24:16+00:00
I think anyone that cares enough about embedding performance to use niche models is probably parsing their PDF's into some sort of textual format. Otherwise you need orient your all your pipelines to handle images which adds significant complexity (hybrid search, reranking, LLM calls, etc - all way harder with images).

Not to mention an image is optimistically 50 KB vs the same page represented as markdown is maybe 2–5 KB. When you're talking about pulling in potentially hundreds of pages, that's a 10–20x increase in storage, memory usage, and network overhead.

I do wish they had a more head-to-head comparison with voyage. I think they're the de facto king of proprietary embeddings and with Mongo having bought them, I'd love to migrate away once someone can match their performance.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-15 19:24:22+00:00
Small discussions (including possible ID of vendor):

(77 points, 2 days ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669151

(19 points, 1 day ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681758
by consumer451 | 2025-04-15 19:24:27+00:00
Follow-up: I should add that in 2025, deleting stories with a tinge of US politics is highly detrimental to the HN user base’s understanding of what is happening in the business world.

Case in-point: a US-based family member employed at a FAANG just told me that his Canadian coworkers now reset their phones prior to entering the USA, then restore from backup. This is somewhat similar to what happens when they go to China.

This is terrible for business. This kind of information should not be ignored.
by derefr | 2025-04-15 19:24:29+00:00
> Good psychiatrists absolutely “call themselves doctors” and definitely seek to exclude or treat organic causes of psychiatric symptoms.

Well, yeah, you're just stating the contrapositive corollary to my assertion: that psychiatrists who don't "call themselves doctors" [i.e. who don't think of themselves as treating the patient's problem holistically first-and-foremost, and instead just do "talk therapy but you can prescribe"] are bad psychiatrists.

> Your ideas about how psychiatry is practiced might have been correct in the 1950’s

It might just be where I live (Canada), or the particular moment one will find a psychiatrist in their career to have openings to accept new patients to their private practice without a years-long waitlist... but the vast majority of psychiatrists I've interacted with personally as a patient, or have heard about interactions with through friends, have all had a distinctly 1950s mindset.

It might be because most of them have been seemingly nearly old enough to have gone to medical school in the 1950s. Most of them are only a year or two away from retirement.

(Which is frustrating, because it means I and others I know have to keep getting a referral to a new psychiatrist; wait-listing in to see them for an initial consult; seeing them for 1-2 years; and then getting dropped when the psychiatrist retires. And no, none of the psychiatrists I've been to have ever tried to create treatment continuity by cross-referring to another still-working psychiatrist; you just arrive at their office one day for an appointment you scheduled six months back to find it empty.)

But it also seems to imply that — despite the regular continuing education requirements for maintaining licensing — these folks don't seem to actually put the more-modern perspectives they've been exposed to into practice.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-15 19:24:34+00:00
What do you think the problem is, do you think it’s just hard to create national news programming that both left and right can agree on? I don’t really listen to NPR anymore either, I guess a lot because I don’t drive as much but somewhat because the best shows have gone independent. I like the idea of NPR, but maybe it just doesn’t have a place in the modern media landscape?

Either way, this feels like a phyrric victory.
by mikepurvis | 2025-04-15 19:24:56+00:00
I think one of the risks of the gentle parenting discourse is that so much of it focuses on scenarios involving young children, where the stakes are ultimately very low. Kid won't put on his coat? That's okay, we don't need to go to the park. Oh now it's on, okay we can go later than planned, whatever, it doesn't really matter. Kid won't eat his food, well we can sit for an hour at the dinner table playing mind games and negotiating around his feelings about the textures and colours on his plate, or maybe he can wander off and come back in a bit when he's more hungry, or maybe I'll just only prepare food I know he likes so that I don't have to deal with it.

The older kids get, the less this works— older kids have real commitments, things like school that have consequences to the parents if they are missed. They have sports and other activities to attend that are on a schedule and may have cost money to enroll in. They need to get enough sleep to be functional. They are increasingly exposed to situations that are more complicated to untangle if/when they go sour.

And older kids are smart enough to walk away from a "validation" discussion if they detect that the end goal is just to get them to do the thing— they will simply issue ultimatums: "I don't want to talk about my feelings on this, I've told you straight up I'm just not doing it, end of story."

So it's not that parents are "focusing only on control", it's that particularly as kids get older parents need to strike a balance between good faith listening and validating, while still ultimately retaining the last word and being able to be an authority when it matters. I think some gentle parenting acolytes miss this reality and believe that the toddler scenarios cleanly extrapolate up through teen years, and that everything can be managed through a pure consensus model— and believing that is how you end up capitulating to your kid over and over again, ultimately letting them run wild.
by pmarreck | 2025-04-15 19:26:14+00:00
If you think rationality is a lobotomy, maybe your emotions are running a dictatorship?

Being right doesn’t make you an asshat. Refusing to correct yourself when proven wrong does.

> I don’t think being more right is a noble goal.

That’s a pretty telling sentence. If someone doesn’t value being more correct, what kind of compass are they using to navigate the world... Vibes?

Rationality isn’t about amputating emotion. It’s about not letting your emotions pilot the plane blindfolded while high on conspiracy podcasts telling you which way to bank.

Emotions are data. Rationality is how you integrate them, not ignore them. A rational person doesn’t become unfeeling; they align their feelings with reality, and update when their model of the world is provably flawed.

The lobotomy comparison is just absurd: actual rationalists care deeply about things- they just make sure their caring isn't built on delusions. That’s why rational frameworks helped de-stigmatize homosexuality, dismantle phrenology, and challenge witch trials. Emotional reasoning alone got us the burnings, not the liberation. Emotional reasoning got us Turing's chemical castration, not gay marriage rights.

A rationalist by YOUR definition wouldn't even care enough to fight homophobia with reason. See the difference?

Also, literally the entire system of justice (an exemplary combination of rationality and feeling) doesn't make sense, given your anti-justification for rationality. The accused looks like a rapist, I just know it, he's just got that look in his eyes. Let's go with that. Judgment for the plaintiff!

Also: Being “technically right” is only annoying when it’s used to score points. Being functionally right- especially when it affects policies, freedoms, or lives- is kind of the point of civilization.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-15 19:26:43+00:00
There are many retail places that I know that are just unable to keep up with ever increasing rent. There is only so much a retailer can do with the prices of their products before they lose customers. Losing customers only worsens the pressure on paying rent.

Consumers say they lament the loss of brick and mortar stores, yet their actions of only buying online shows that isn't really that big of a loss to them. It's such a weird situation for a retailer. I don't envy their situation.