MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-26 16:05:06+00:00
I agree with solitude as a preference. I do have a couple of good friends, but an occasional weekday lunch or a much more occasional holiday dinner is good enough to connect.

Other than that, every minute I don't have to spend with my family is precious. And every such a minute with enough energy to do something productive is even more precious. So yeah, for me solitude is absolutely a preference.
by mindcrash | 2025-04-26 16:05:27+00:00
Way back then I exposed massive data collection from Twitter by Google which made it possible to plot locations at which you used Twitter in Google Maps by simply putting your Twitter handle into the search field. Somehow they knew about these locations even when you opted out of sharing location data with Twitter (I checked) -- so this was only possible by Twitter privately providing this information to Google.

This "experiment" has since then been shut down, but exposing this and many other other forms of activism permanently has cost me my Twitter account, to the point that asking to reinstate it several times because I was permanently suspended for no valid reason led to X Support directly rerouting every attempt to appeal this decision into the digital trash can.

Let's say nothing surprises me anymore.
by Magma7404 | 2025-04-26 16:05:29+00:00
TL;DR: try to solve real problems because doing everything at once never ends well. Also post-it notes.

No, I'll be honest, feel free to ignore what I wrote:

- It's a vercel.app subdomain, not a real product and domain names are cheap nowadays, why don't you have one yet?

- The front page is blank without JS, fix your code!

- As a semi-privacy-conscious guy, how can you do this without being invasive? Or is it yet another TODO list to track a specific kind of item? Don't we already have a billion web sites like that? What about post-it notes?

- "recurring expenses—personal, business": personal? why another subscription when I can do this with a post-it note, business? they should have a team for that or an Excel spreadsheet

- "Why It Will Save You money and time": your pros and cons are showing you want to help people who are not organized, but they need a real budget (https://actualbudget.org/), not yet another subscription that they will forget. Also I'm a regular guy with a regular life, and I have at most 20 "subscriptions" which can be reduced to 5 if you remove all the taxes and regular bills like electricity. Why are you better than a post-it note with 5 entries?

- the whole site screams "yet another SaaS," maybe I should use your product to keep track of all my Ghibli generators and music generators and Britney Spears generators, and all those failed SaaS that did one task badly once

- Last but not least, your HN profile shows that you already created 5 different sites like this one, who says you won't abandon this one like the others? E.g. your moodwatch thing tells me to watch "Игант" without any link and a "failed to load video" error message, don't you want to fix this before?

- Please reply to this message where you cloned a web site and called it a draw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655954

- Last one for real: you have already spammed this one 4 times in the previous month, it feels like desperation
by sgarland | 2025-04-26 16:05:43+00:00
OS-level monitoring / auditing software also never ceases to amaze me (for how awful it is). Multiple times, at multiple companies, I have seen incidents that were caused because Security installed / enabled something (AWS GuardDuty, Auditbeat, CrowdStrike…) that tanked performance. My current place has the latter two on our ProxySQL EC2 nodes. Auditbeat is consuming two logical cores on its own. I haven’t been able to yet quantify the impact of CrowdStrike, but from a recent perf report, it seemed like it was using eBPF to hook into every TCP connection, which is quite a lot for a DB connection poolers.

I understand the need for security tooling, but I don’t think companies often consider the huge performance impact these tools add.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 16:06:07+00:00
"you don't apply the law" is a really dishonest way of phrasing this, when "hit them with a small financial penalty for the civil immigration violation and fast-track their green cards" is also an option.

Illegally immigrating to the US is a civil violation, not a criminal one, and far less of a threat to US safety than going 5mph over the speed limit or running red lights. It is entirely lawful for the executive and judicial branches to use discretion and compassion in cases when under-18 US citizens are involved.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-26 16:06:41+00:00
> Why should one be entitled to do one thing for their entire career?

Because if you pursue a career and invest time and money into it over the course of your life, especially in the highly Americanized way which involves both a substantial time and MORE substantial outlay of money to achieve that, and you then go on to live in a society that demands you earn a living or starve/freeze to death, it is unconscionably immoral to fuck with other people's means to earn that living for your own profit.

And to be clear, that doesn't mean "you can never change your career," that's nonsense. People do that all the time, out of necessity or just desire. However currently the ability to do that is heavily gate-kept via the income of the person wanting to do the switching, and for a lot of the people most likely to be automated, they barely make enough to survive right now, where in the hell are they getting capital to retrain themselves on a new career?

And that's not even going into the physiological challenges. You objectively, factually, learn better when you are younger, and it's also worth noting that society at large benefits more from you learning at a younger age like we traditionally do, because you spend the first few years rolling around your house annoying your mother, you spend up to age 18 (usually) in mandatory K-12 education, you spend between 2 and 8 years in college after that if you decide to go or alternatively, a few years learning a trade or something, and then you have what we generally aim for about 40 years of being a productive member of society. If you have to retrain in the middle of that, that's just less efficient on every front. It costs you money and time, it costs society your productivity for however long you leave the workforce and return to education, and of course that's assuming you can afford to do it at all, and don't end up just lurching from one job that's about to nix you to the next, being miserable and depressed, until you can't find another and then you end up in the homeless system.

In my mind at least, the only way I can comprehend anyone being in favor of this sort of system is they imagine themselves one day being on the top of it, because that's the only group of people who are actually benefiting from this sort of instability. The looming threat of and execution of job automation has massive boons for employers; fewer employees can produce at higher rates, the job market is flooded with recently laid off people which lowers the value of labor and lets employers pay the ones who are hired on after less money, and the overall instability "vibes" present makes employees more willing to tolerate bullshit from their employer because they know how much the job market sucks and they don't want to find another, or, who knows, maybe they are trying and literally can't for the previous reasons.

Like in my mind, this just comes down to whether you think you're more likely to be the boot or the neck under the boot, and that's going to decide how you feel about this.
by bnolsen | 2025-04-26 16:07:29+00:00
Regarding ruby and python I thought the 2 were in the same league, esp compared to perl. Over 20 years ago I evaluated both and went ruby because of the more consistent api and of course pythons forced whitespace is an easy tie breaker against it. At this point I'm not to pleased that many younger programmers that python as some sort of default and tend to end up writing far too fancy code in it when it ends up being the wrong tool.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-04-26 16:08:19+00:00
but they could very well be deported 1st. There's nothing stopping that, in fact.

The only reason they go to jail is because de-facto that is is fair for the victimm in that he/she gets "Restitution" in the form of jail time for the non-citizen, and presumably, the foreign country may even be able to challenge that.

The dejure interpretation may be he should be banished, although that would be unfair to the victim.
by derektank | 2025-04-26 16:08:22+00:00
Research and subsequently clinical testing is expensive so you have to acquire capital, usually from grant providers or working with private industry. Grant providers tend to be conservative and risk-averse so that means individuals with new ideas often won't be able to explore them until later in their career. Private industry is less risk averse but will only fund research if it has the potential to bring a patentable product to market before the parent expires.

Even once you have funding secured, the regulatory approval process is long and requires hundreds of pages of documentation, reporting, and compliance. Then you have to get insurance to cover it, which can require a procedural code being generated for it by the AMA and requires convincing insurers it's worth it, particularly Medicare in the US which other insurers take their cues from. And even once a procedure is approved and a patient can get it paid for, you still have inertia from human physicians who have been trained to perform certain kinds of treatments and not others.
by pessimizer | 2025-04-26 16:08:36+00:00
I think that's a misdiagnosis. The suggestions of the "hoi polloi" are obvious, and would solve the problem. Government prefers instead a solution that is both cheaper, so they can instead direct funds to things that they prefer, and more indirect, so they can route funds through friends and family.

The government's main effort is to complicate or denounce the "obvious" solutions. It's why they put so little effort into devising the programs that actually get rolled out; instead they just copy them directly from some non-profit that the government has been indirectly and almost entirely financing, and is directed by The Honorable Lord or Lady Somebody's Cousin.
by Erem | 2025-04-26 16:08:42+00:00
US constitution thoughtfully disagrees with you, elevating presence on the land at birth over bloodline wrt citizenship.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” -US Constitution, 14th Amendment

Quite literally, US hospitals do have that magic pixie dust because they are on the land of this country.
by whimsicalism | 2025-04-26 16:08:53+00:00
Because voters decided there was a common interest, cultural identity, etc. and mutually agreed on political integration. Voters clearly do not want a unified Americas.

The purpose of a Republic is to be a stable entity that ensures the welfare of its citizens. It is not to have a single-minded obsession with global welfare at the expense of its own sustainability or the desires of its citizens.
by smegger001 | 2025-04-26 16:09:08+00:00
I work with plenty of people covered in tattoos that aren't criminals nor gang members. Also most people I would rather the guilty go free than an innocent be punished. Thats why we have a justice system where you are guaranteed legal representation and are innocent untilled proven guilty in a court of law before a jury of your peers. As such none of these men are guilty and we have violated their rights sending them there. If you skip the trial you have just allowed whoever is in power to imprison anyone they want without cause on their accusations only.
by cpgxiii | 2025-04-26 16:09:10+00:00
The alternatives are hardly better. In addition to worse penetration performance, the tungsten alloy alternatives for APFSDS rounds are not good for the body either, particularly if being breathed in as fine dust.

If you have kids playing on recently destroyed armored vehicles, there will be an incredible collection of toxic materials present. Uranium oxides from DU (which, to be clear, are primarily toxic as heavy metals, not from their low radioactivity) are really the least of your worries when compared to all of the other breathable particulates that will be present (e.g. asbestos, all of the toxic plastic combustion products, explosive residues).
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-26 16:09:41+00:00
I disagree, but lets for the sake of argument assume that I buy into your premise. In terms of degrees, do people who own land and have the laws of the nation apply to you ( which is a fascinating distinction by the way, which you may have not fully thought through, but I will leave it as a tangent unless you want to explore it further here ) have more skin in the game than those who only have laws of the nation apply to them?
by meroes | 2025-04-26 16:10:02+00:00
It’s a simplification that all kinds of infinites are implicated by infinite models? To understand a finite computation, we (some amount of scientists and mathematicians) must understand at least ZFC?

Why not pick 10^180 or something as the highest number/states then?

Yes even natural numbers are infinite, so I don’t quite buy at face value it’s a simplification when we could cutoff these infinities because no computation will run 10^180 for attoseconds or have that many states. And I would think all the mysteries of ZFC for example being ousted would be simpler.

I think for your simplification it may have been clearer to say abstraction.
by kurtreed2 | 2025-04-26 16:10:16+00:00
It's going to be a Achilles heel for Wikipedia one day, mark my words. Those LTA pages often contains a lot of personal information which would violate GDPR in Europe, at least based on what I've heard from NOYB so far. Some editors have expressed their concerns about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse...?
by mapt | 2025-04-26 16:10:48+00:00
There's a question about his actual goals in government.

He's an ambitious person. And AI enables a degree of surveillance state that we find it difficult to even begin to imagine. All the logistical difficulties of something like Orwell's 1984, of the Stasi having 1/3 of Berlin on the books as informants against the other 2/3, go away completely. We have more cameras than ever. Every person gets to enjoy the kind of focus that went into tracking down Luigi. DOGE has exfiltrated all our sensitive databases to servers that they control; Every 'Chinese Wall' intended to ensure some kind of separation of concerns has been broken down, almost certainly including various formally classified intelligence-gathering campaigns. You can't necessarily stuff that genie back in the bottle. If somebody wanted to be... not president, but authoritarian leader of a post-democracy, Musk would be well positioned technologically.

It wouldn't be inconceivable to set up an AI to do all the same sort of fraud & identity theft attacks against an individual that for-profit blackhats do, or that a Kiwifarms harassment campaign can do, without much of any actual staffing. Only DOGE starts out with your social security number, your tax records, your drivers' license, license plate reader records, web history, everything. That individual could be a Wall Street Journal editor who wrote something Musk dislikes, or ten thousand Redditors who are making fun of Teslas.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-04-26 16:10:54+00:00
Technomages. They were humans (and some others) bonded to Shadow-manipulated creatures that could affect spacetime. Technomages learned to "cast spells" in a private language they developed with their symbiote. These were essentially commands to "do the thing I'm talking about."

One of the challenges Technomages faced after acquiring their symbiote is gaining control over both the personal language and the impulses for destruction embedded by the Shadows (bias? bias).

So yes, learning the tricks of getting our AI agents to do the thing we actually meant, while aiming to overcome bias built in to the models when we can see it does sound an awful lot like Technomages dealing with their symbiote.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 16:11:37+00:00
Sure, I'll write something up later. I'll give you two samples now.

One reason I love the Obsidian + Markdown + Spaced Repetition plugin combo is how simple it is to make a card. This is all it takes:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

The top image is a screenshot from a game, and the bottom image is another screenshot from the game when it showed me the proper location. All I need to do is separate them with a question mark, and the plugin recognizes them as the Q + A sides of a flashcard.

Notice the data at the bottom: <!--SR:!2025-04-28,30,245-->

That is all the plugin needs to know when to reintroduce cards into your deck review.

That image is a good example because it looks nothing like the vast majority of Google Street View coverage in the rest of Kenya. Very people people would guess Kenya on that image, unless they have already seen this rare coverage, so when I memorize locations like this and get lucky by having them show up in game, I can often outright win the game with a close guess.

I also do flashcards that aren't strictly locations I've found but are still highly useful. One example is different scripts:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

Both Cambodia and Thailand have Google Street View coverage, and given their geographical proximity it can be easy to confuse them. One trick to telling them apart is their language. They're quite different. Of course I can't read the languages but I only need to identify which is which. This is a great starting point at the easier levels.

The reason the pros seem magical is because they're tapping into much less obvious information, such as the camera quality, camera blur, height of camera, copyright year, the Google Street View car itself, and many other 'metas.' It gets to the point where a small smudge on the camera is enough information to pinpoint a specific road in Siberia (not an exaggeration). They memorize all of that.

When possible I make the images for the cards myself, but there are also excellent sources that I pull from (especially for the non-location specific cards), such as Plonkit:

https://www.plonkit.net/
by grafmax | 2025-04-26 16:11:39+00:00
Authoritarian regimes thrive on fatalism and despair. But they also inspire resistance. We did not have mass protests a few months ago. Our society is in deep crisis and the outcome can still swing either way.

For all the progress they’ve made in dismantling our democratic institutions, deep incompetence runs through this administration.

Our efforts should be still directed to fighting their overreach. It is not the time to retreat.
by plsbenice34 | 2025-04-26 16:12:09+00:00
I had a stalker in the past. I feel more comfortable without him knowing where i live.

In general i have a strong need for privacy. Not having privacy is generally unsettling, in the same way that i close the door when using a toilet or having a shower. I am disturbed by people that don't seem to have an understanding of that concept.
by vessenes | 2025-04-26 16:12:27+00:00
I’ve read the paper and the skeptical comments here, to wit: it’s just an actor/critic pipeline by another name.

I’ll bite and say this is actually interesting — and the paper title is misleading.

What they’ve done here is hooked up a text-only LLM to multimodal critics, given it (mostly) an image diffusion generation task, and asked it to improve its prompting of the multimodal generation by getting a set of scores back.

This definitely works, based on their outputs. Which is to say, LLMs can, zero shot, with outside tool feedback, iteratively improve their prompting using only that tooling feedback.

Why is this interesting? Well, this did not work in the GPT-3 era; it seems to do so now. I see this as an interesting line to be added in the ‘model capabilities’ box as our models get larger and more sophisticated — the LLMs can perform some sort of internally guided search against a black box generator and use a black box scorer to improve at inference time.

That’s pretty cool. It’s also generalizable, and I think is worth keeping in mind on the stack of possible approaches for, say agentic coding, that you can use a critic to not just ‘improve’ generated output, but most likely do some guided search through output space.
by kevinsync | 2025-04-26 16:12:43+00:00
Nope, regular iOS/macOS on all ends. Literally just stock Apple Messages on devices. I just notice sometimes topics will come up (what appears to me to be randomly) and then relevant ads and/or content will appear on Instagram or web.

I guess it's possible that, to me, it appears "organic" (ex. somebody just mentions Taco Bell or whatever) but they had actually been searching on their device, and since our digital proximities are known, the next thing you know I'm Living Más lol
by sightbroke | 2025-04-26 16:12:59+00:00
Without going through everything with a fine tooth comb I imagine some of the money may have been spent upgrading the electric grid to support the chargers.

Fast chargers as I understand are more taxing to the electric grid and so are not simply able to be placed just anywhere there is electricity. Additionally a source paper in the govtech.com article also emphasizes looking at coverage rather than number of chargers. That is wanting to have chargers spread out such a way that people can complete longer trips.

https://cyberswitching.com/understanding-grid-connections-dc...
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-26 16:13:03+00:00
All people in the United States other than consular and other rare carve outs are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States government. Otherwise the government would have no ability to enforce its law on them. I think while you may be right due to political aspects of the Supreme Courts loyalties, it’s hard to find a reading where “jurisdiction” means “parents are citizens a-priori.” There’s no discussion of the parents, just that they’re subject to the laws of the United States, and citizenship and jurisdiction of the United States are concepts that have no intersection.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-26 16:13:04+00:00
Also things like follow cars (some countries had government officials follow the streetview car), the season in which coverage was created, camera glitches, the quality of the footage, etc.

There is a lot of "legitimate" knowledge. With just a street you have the type of road surface, its condition, the type of road markings, the bollards, and the type of soil and vegetation next to the road, as well as the presence and type of power poles next to the road, to name a few. But there is also a lot of information leakage from the way google takes streetview footage.
by dlubarov | 2025-04-26 16:13:23+00:00
As a long-term editor, this is pretty off base. The discussion [1] that led to Grayzone being deprecated had almost nothing to do with Israel/Palestine. Meanwhile most Israel/Palestine articles are driven by Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and similar sources, while many Jewish sources (ADL, Jewish Chronicle, NGO Monitor, etc) are banned or restricted.

One example of a heavily debated neutrality issue was the opening paragraph of the Zionism article, which ended up like this. Surely noone would call this remotely pro-Israel? "Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...