MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Manuel_D | 2025-04-15 19:05:34+00:00
At UC Berkeley, over 75% of faculty applicants were rejected solely based on reviewing their diversity statements: https://thehill.com/opinion/education/480603-what-is-uc-davi... Rather conspicuously, Asians had the highest rate of rejection, followed by whites. Latin applicants had the second highest pass rate, Black applicants had the highest. The diversity statements were not anonymized (as in, the reviewers could see the ethnicity of each applicant when reviewing their diversity statement).

Diversity statements were widely suspected of being a smokescreen for racial preferences. Much like the "personality score" Harvard used to curate its desired racial makeup in its student admissions.
by user982 | 2025-04-15 19:05:55+00:00
> They're a minority. Like the people who want to relocate Palestinians from Gaza are, to my knowledge, a minority.

"Approx. 80% of Israelis support Trump's plan to relocate Gazans - survey

"Less than 15% of Israelis believe Trump's plan is "immoral," including 54% of Arab respondents and only 3% of Jewish israelis."

- https://www.jpost.com/international/article-840500
by jncfhnb | 2025-04-15 19:06:49+00:00
It actually isn’t. Grants, as well as much of endowment funds are restricted. They legally must be accounted for separately and can only be used as specified. If you have a billion dollars in restricted endowment or grants towards scholarships and resources, you cannot use them to keep the lights on.

Research projects require grant funding because the schools do not have a business model to justify doing the research.
by odyssey7 | 2025-04-15 19:06:59+00:00
Radiographer: “MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) creates detailed images of the inside of the body using strong magnetic fields and radio waves, rather than X-rays. MRI is/was the holy grail for medical imaging professionals. Arguably the coolest images come from MRI”

https://radiographermedia.substack.com/p/x-ray-vs-ct-vs-mri
by overu589 | 2025-04-15 19:07:17+00:00
How can that be axiomatic?

I offer a coherent, concise dissenting view.

Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty it is not information. Uncertainty is state unresolved (potential resolves to state through constructive and destructive interference.)

Entropy is the existential phenomenon of potential distributing over the infinite manifold of negative potential. “Uncertainty.”

Emergence is a potential outcome greater than the capacity found in the sum of any parts.

Modern humanity’s erroneous extrapolations:

- asserting P>=0 without account that in existential reality 0 is the infinite expanse of cosmic void, thus the true mathematical description would be P>=-1

- confuse heat with entropy. Heat is the ultimate universal expression as heat is a product of all work and all existence is winding down (after all). Entropy directs thermodynamics, thermodynamics is not the extent of entropy.

- entropy is NOT the number of possible states in a system. Entropy is the distribution of potential; number of states are boundary conditions which uncalculated potential may reconfigure (the “cosmic ray” or murfy’s rule of component failure.) Existential reality is interference and decay.

- entropy is not “loss”. Loss is the entropy less work achieved.

- this business about “in a closed system “ is an example of how brilliant minds lie to themselves. No such thing exists anywhere accessible by Man. Even theoretically, the principles of decay and the “exogenous” influence of one impercieved influence over a “contained system.” Or “modeled system”, for one self deception is for the scientist or engineer to presume these speak for or on behalf of reality.

Emergence is the potential (the vector space of some capacity) “created” through some system of dynamics (work). “Some” includes the expressive space of all existential or theoretical reality. All emergent potential is “paid for” by burning available potential of some other kind. In nature the natural forces induce work in their extremes. In natural systems these design for the “mitigation of uncertainty” [soft form entropy], aka “intelligence.”

Entropy is the existential phenomenon of potential distributing over negative potential.

Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information. (And intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty.)

Emergence is a potential outcome greater than the capacity found in the sum of any parts.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-15 19:07:18+00:00
Never going to happen. The kitware folks are aware of how bad the cmake language is, but they would rather corral it into a semblance of sanity (e.g. actual types rather than everything being stringly typed, eliminating the imperative stuff) than provide a different language.

Have to say I agree. Anyone who wants to use a different language should really look at a different build system. It would about the same amount of pain.
by fweimer | 2025-04-15 19:07:56+00:00
I think GCC's more-or-less equivalent to Clang's --target is called -B: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Directory-Options.html#in...

I assume it works with an all-targets binutils build. I haven't seen anyone building their cross-compilers in this way (at least not in recent memory).
by m_fayer | 2025-04-15 19:08:21+00:00
Agreed, this word needs to be claimed and defended. We need a sane politics that can win and for that we need to start with a rallying cry, in a nation where the median is poor, materialistic, and amoral.

Obviously, rallying around “diversity” or “girlboss” or “degrowth” is not a durable winner. “MAGA” unfortunately might be a durable winner. “Abundance” has a fighting chance, and it’s even morally defensible.
by fundad | 2025-04-15 19:09:04+00:00
I don't expect an insurrectionist to do good for Americans.

I also think government spending on overcapacity so we can export food is a waste of money and bad for the economy and the environment. How many millions of acres of soy bean crops do we actually need?

If the market for exported soy suffers because of who people voted for, let's reduce the subsidies by n%, farmers will plant less won't be able to keep all their land and we can return that land to Native Americans. This is disruption we need (but won't get because murica).
by pmarreck | 2025-04-15 19:09:15+00:00
> The entire left wing rhetoric against billionaires is that they are not in fact successful on the merits of work that everyone else is doing, they are successful in cheating the system and exploiting others

Yes. And that is false. If you don't believe me, bring that to ChatGPT and ask it to argue both sides of this claim, because I do not have time to retread this. For one thing, everyone has to abide by the rules- and if the rules are unfair, then it is the rules that deserve this scorn, not the people who played the game by them.

> We love success that happens within the same rules that we average people all operate in.

This is also false. I have not seen a single successful individual praised on this basis. I'd love to know of one. Musk graduated with college debt- something that I did not- and yet has attained massively more success than I, for example. Luigi, the guy who shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was raised in a far wealthier family than that CEO was!

Wait, how am I already getting downvoted? At least counterargue?
by throw0101d | 2025-04-15 19:09:50+00:00
> Yes: SSH certificates. (They're unrelated to X509 certificates and the WebPKI).

I am aware of them.

As someone in the academic sphere, with researchers SSHing into (e.g.) HPC clusters, this solves nothing for me from the perspective of clients trusting servers. Perhaps it's useful in a corporate environment where the deployment/MDM can place the CA in the appropriate place, but not with BYOD.

Issuing CAs to users, especially if they expire is another thing. From a UX perspective, we can tie password credentials to things like on-site Wifi and web site access (e.g., support wiki).

So SSH certs certainly have use-cases, and I'm happy they work for people, but TOFU is still the most useful in the waters I swim in.
by nailer | 2025-04-15 19:09:54+00:00
Did you? As you can read, they tackle racial bias immediately and follow up with preventing advocacy for terrorism and racism, then viewpoint divergence. At no point are they arguing for a single viewpoint to exist, they are CONSISTENTLY doing the exact opposite:

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

The people we must be concerned about that are arguing for a single viewpoint controlling American universities are those like yourself that oppose pluralism.
by jcranmer | 2025-04-15 19:10:02+00:00
I did start to try to take clang's TargetInfo code (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/lib/Bas...) and porting it over to TableGen, primarily so somebody could actually extract useful auto-generated documentation out of it, like "What are all the targets available?"

I actually do have working code for the triple-to-TargetInfo instantiation portion (which is fun because there's one or two cases that juuuust aren't quite like all of the others, and I'm not sure if that's a bad copy-paste job or actually intentional). But I never got around to working out how to actually integrate the actual bodies of TargetInfo implementations--which provide things like the properties of C/C++ fundamental types or default macros--into the TableGen easily, so that patch is still merely languishing somewhere on my computer.
by 6SixTy | 2025-04-15 19:10:32+00:00
I would assume that most of the code is the way it is because "helping users flag accessibility concerns in real-time" in the about implies that they are play testing games using Chroma on top. Using OBS for this would require insane bitrate and tight latency restraints that do not sound very achievable.

Also, at no point does it look like they are actually recording anything. Just screenshots.
by codexon | 2025-04-15 19:10:40+00:00
I would say that reddit quality has declined a huge amount, but people won't leave because there's a huge network effect. Nobody will join a reddit clone that is 95% functionally the same because there's nobody there. Every community that tried to migrate off reddit to a reddit clone has failed.

As an example of why reddit is so bad now (aside from the obvious moderation issues) about 1-2 years ago, reddit added a block feature that stops you from replying to any comment the blocker made and even any comment somebody else made below them.

So pretending this is reddit, I could make this reply saying that you are wrong and then say you have no evidence for your claims. Then I could immediately block you, making it look like you have no response. You are also not allowed to edit any of your comments saying you got blocked or else it will shadow delete that comment.

I have personally witnessed this abuse 5 times in the past few months and I don't even use reddit that much.
by anyfoo | 2025-04-15 19:10:56+00:00
Yeah. I rarely, if ever, buy electronics components on Amazon. It's almost exclusively Mouser for me.

It has the added advantage that I can export the order lists as XML, to keep a little bit of an inventory. I think every electronics hobbyist knows how you tend to very quickly forget what components that you have on hand, from the lowest resistor to entire FPGA dev boards.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-15 19:11:03+00:00
Funny thing I found when I gave up trying to find documentation and read the LLVM source code (seems to be what happened to the author too!): there are actually five components of the triple, not four.

I can't remember what the fifth one is, but yeah... insane system.

Thanks for writing this up! I wonder if anyone will ever come up with something more sensible.
by skydhash | 2025-04-15 19:11:05+00:00
I'm pointing out that this particular pattern (Server Components) is engendering more complexity than necessary.

If you have a full blown SPA on the client side, you shouldn't use ViewModels as that will ties your backend API to the client. If you go for a mixed approach, then your presentation layer is on the server and it's not an API.

HTMX is cognizant of this fact. What it adds are useful and nice abstractions on the basis that the interface is constructed on one end and used on the other. RSC is a complex solution for a simple problem.
by yesfitz | 2025-04-15 19:11:09+00:00
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/unit...

According to the Nature Index, Harvard is the top research-producing institution in the United States, and second in the world (but still highest research-producing academic institution globally).

Even if academic research production is entirely worthless, this move is America risking leaving almost exclusively Chinese institutions at the top.
by jmkr | 2025-04-15 19:11:21+00:00
Yes this is pretty much it and it's obvious to me.

There's a big corollary to FOSS and gpl, but a lot of people seem to miss it. This future isn't for our culture, it's for business. And since our culture requires making money to make things adjacent to art, less culture will be made.

A lot of generated music is good enough to wind up in playlists. Lots of live bands already fake it, and lots of music venues have already replaced live music. That doesn't mean music will die, it just means it's harder to discover new music and go see a show.

I think there's some European countries that have some kind of basic income/stipend for artists. If this is the direction of the future we need to ensure something like this exists.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-04-15 19:11:28+00:00
NPR is in an unpleasant place where the left & left-center are annoyed at its incessant pandering to the right, and the right is annoyed because NPR hasn’t capitulated entirely to their culture war demands.

I still donate to my local public radio station, but sheesh, it’s hard to listen to their national shows anymore. And I think my conservative counterparts feel the same way about it, judging by the things said about NPR in conservative forums.

Either way, I doubt they can expect much federal funding in the future.
Show HN: Frog Snack
by ecolonsmak | 2025-04-15 19:11:34+00:00
Weeks ago there was a submission describing an experiment with AI coding a simple game. I've been spinning up quick efforts using Claude Sonette and this is the most recent and polished example. It took about two hours of refining prompts to get it to behave as desired. Getting the global scoreboard functioning may have been the most challenging, but the rest of the project was all the AI output.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-15 19:11:57+00:00
Yeah, I'm sure that's why the politician was selling those particular issues.

Those work, though, because you run into he same perspectives among Republican voters, because their media are telling them it's true and they don't bother to check (the ones who do, presumably, move away from identifying as Republicans the dozenth time they catch such an "error" in a given day of watching Fox).
by tomwheeler | 2025-04-15 19:12:02+00:00
I have fond memories of the manager letting me play with the computers for hours. Our Radio Shack was in the mall and I'd drop in and start writing programs on the TRS-80 display models while my parents were shopping.

The manager not only didn't kick me out (like the manager of the bookstore always did if I looked at a book for more than five minutes), he'd come over and teach me some things when he wasn't busy.
by sethhochberg | 2025-04-15 19:12:15+00:00
This all makes perfect sense. The gap I usually have - and I admit its probably something of a skill issue, I have relatively little formal CS background - is how these abstract declarations of rules are integrated into a product. The example code in projects like this is usually pretty dense and intangible.

Does anyone have good examples of open source codebases or reading material in this area? Lets imagine I have a set of complex business rules about the way a product can be configured and I want to use a logic programming language to enforce them, called from a web interface based on config data stored in a traditional relational database. Is that... a misunderstanding of how these things are to be used?

I've love a good book about how to bring tools and techniques for logical correctness into a Rails ecosystem... or similar language/framework for app dev. I love the promises many of logic languages make but can't rewrite existing applications in them wholesale and it seems like they're a poor fit for that anyways. How are people blending these worlds at large enterprises? Maybe the answer is that nobody really is yet, and thats what makes things like Clolog + Clojure so exciting?
by RiverCrochet | 2025-04-15 19:12:21+00:00
Big consumer brands haven't meant anything for a long time. Honeywell and GE among those. They all sell their name to other manufacturers and have been doing so for decades. The best thing you can do is keep the receipt and make sure you follow up on returning it or getting warranty service if it breaks in those timeframes. It's really not worth even trying to do the research on things that are less than a hundred bucks. Buy something that looks nice, tape the receipt to it, and return it/warranty claim it if it acts up.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-15 19:13:00+00:00
> I never wanted a product that did the thing, I really just wanted to do the thing.

Would you vibe code your daily driver car's ECU or a high-frequency trading application to use for your 401k? If you were to do these things (more power to you), I rather suspect you'd still do a whole lot of research and critical thinking beforehand, which sort of obviates the "vibes".
by torginus | 2025-04-15 19:13:31+00:00
I am not really technical in this domain, but why is everything text-to-X?

Wouldn't it be possible to draw a rough sketch of a terrain, drop a picture of the character, draw a 3D spline for the walk path, while having a traditional keyframe style editor, and give certain points some keyframe actions (like character A turns on his flashlight at frame 60) - in short, something that allows minute creative control just like current tools do?
by reissbaker | 2025-04-15 19:13:55+00:00
If the Israelis have used their many-years-long control of food, water, and electricity (which BTW they provide because Hamas destroyed Gaza's native water aquifers by polluting them during weapons manufacturing, as well as stealing and hoarding the fuel for power generation in order to run their underground attack tunnels such that the local power plants can't run) in order to starve the Gazans to death, why has the population gone up instead of down?

In the Holocaust, the population went down — by many many millions of people.
by star_boyzz | 2025-04-15 19:14:05+00:00
Totally agree , Steam is a classic case of branding beyond the domain. But would you say that in 2025, with AI tools and search engines reshaping visibility, the role of a clean domain has slightly shifted?

For example, bundles like helpai.io, helpai.cloud, helpai.vip, etc., feel less about prestige and more about brand navigation , so users recognize continuity across tools or services.

am i wrong ?
by taeric | 2025-04-15 19:14:28+00:00
Honestly, I could see a pretty easy use case for some OpenAPI endpoint definitions to be pass through to a local tool. As such, adding the ability to translate a URL to a CMD could be useful.

Outside of that, most of the effort has a very 1:1 use. Response code would be exit code, of course. But describing the output would then be the same. The vast majority of an OpenAPI doc is for documentation purposes.

And, I should add, I'm honestly not a huge fan of OpenAPI. I'm just guessing I will also not be a fan of MCP.
by khedoros1 | 2025-04-15 19:14:38+00:00
2009 is around the last time that I remember going into a Radio Shack, with the intention of buying a Nintendo DS and a game. I watched the guy go to the back to get a baggie containing the system, manual, accessories, etc, and stuff it into the box. He went back looking for the game (which was similarly absent from the case, along with the manual), came out empty handed.

"Well, couldn't find the game. So just the system?"

"Umm...no. I'll just buy the system down the street, since I'm going to have to go there to buy a game anyhow."

I have great memories of buying electronic components, kits to work on with my grandfather, and such. They were pretty sad by the end though. No decent kits, no little drawers of components.
by westurner | 2025-04-15 19:15:44+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553198 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564972 :

> Can [or should] a microkernel run eBPF? [or WASM?]

The performance benefits of running eBPF in the kernel are substantial and justifying, but how much should a kernel or a microkernel do?
by motoxpro | 2025-04-15 19:15:48+00:00
Totally agree.

This is what Instagram and YouTube did and we got MrBeast and Kylie Jenner making billions of dollars. The cost of creating content is tapping record on your phone and the traditional "quality" as defined by visuals doesn't matter (see Quibi). Viral videos are selfies recorded in the bedroom.

When you lower the barrier to entry things get more heterogeneous, not less. So you have bigger outcomes, not smaller, because the playing field expands. TikTok's inside was built on surfacing the 1 good video from a pool of 10s of millions. The platforms that surface the best content will be even more important.

It's a little disheartening, I think, for people to think that the only reason they can't be creative is money, time, or technical skill, but in reality, it's just that they aren't that creative.

So yes, everyone can create content in a world of AI, but not everyone is a good content creator/director/artist (or has the vision), same as it is now.
by jrk | 2025-04-15 19:16:21+00:00
The notion that Google is worse at carefully managing PII than a Wild West place like OpenAI (or Meta, or almost any major alternative) is…not an accurate characterization, in my experience. Ad tech companies (and AI companies) obsessively capture data, but Google internally has always been equally obsessive about isolating and protecting that data. Almost no one can touch it; access is highly restricted and carefully managed; anything that even smells adjacent to ML on personal data has gotten high-level employees fired.

Fully private and local inference is indeed great, but of the centralized players, Google, Microsoft, and Apple are leagues ahead of the newer generation in conservatism and care around personal data.
by tptacek | 2025-04-15 19:17:17+00:00
I don't know what to tell you. The problem with TOFU is obvious: the FU. The FU happens more often than people think it does (every time you log in from a new or reprovisioned workstation) and you're vulnerable every time. 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.
by gblargg | 2025-04-15 19:17:48+00:00
> Around this age feelings get really really big. There is no concept of emotional regulation yet.

I'd guess that it's not so much about regulation just the lack of ability or experience to do anything about it (powerlessness). Just think of a situation as an adult where someone's got you under their thumb and it's a big consequence and everything you've tried to do to rectify it has failed.