MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tastyface | 2025-04-05 04:20:29+00:00
"Neri Alvarado Borges was told by ICE officers that he was arrested in February for his tattoos — one of which is a rainbow-colored autism awareness ribbon with the name of his brother, who is autistic."

"The Trump administration admitted in court documents that 'many' of those sent to El Salvador did not have criminal records. As more information about those deported was unearthed, it became clear that some of the 'evidence' against them was as absurd as a tattoo of a Real Madrid CF logo, or an autism awareness tattoo."

"These men—human beings with names, histories, dreams—were marched through a gauntlet of armed guards, beaten, stripped naked, shaved, and thrown into overcrowded cells. A photojournalist on the scene described watching men age a decade in two hours. He watched as one young man sobbed, 'I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.'"

No, they are not violent criminals. The authorities don't even bother to check.

"There is zero probability that a normal innocent US citizen will be sent there."

I'm 99% sure that we'll start seeing US citizens sent there in the coming months for crimes as basic as vandalism of Trump or Tesla properties.
by noduerme | 2025-04-05 04:20:55+00:00
I remember getting so deep in the weeds doing this kind of thing in responsively-resized Flash sites, a challenge similar to doing it in canvas. But what at that time I was trying to do (and what I'd really love to see now) was to reproduce runaround text the way you would have it in Quark or Pagemaker (or that newer Adobe program). Justifiable text flow within an arbitrary closed path shape, so you could have multi-column text with adjustable gutters, running with curved borders around scaling embedded graphics. My solutions for that involved a lot of setup/tear-down of invisible text fields relying on native text handling, line by line or paragraph by paragraph, then a lot of remeasuring, and then a lot of optimization to make it more performant. I wrote a similar set of code for handling text in generated PDF files.

As an old school print designer, I would love to see a return to a web with multi-column text on desktop, that reformatted to single column on mobile, and graphics runarounds much more complicated in shape than what a float can do. The art of typographic layout has been lost on the web, because those things are hard. An OS general-purpose engine that could handle layouts like that in any screen size, on Canvas or using absolute positioned divs or generating PDFs, would go a long way toward restoring artistic originality in the "layouting" of online publications.
by satvikpendem | 2025-04-05 04:21:11+00:00
I too had been thinking of such a similar blog post, of why hyprocrisy even matters. In most of human history, might had essentially made right (or rather, power did not care whether it were hypocritical or not). However, we did indeed cooperate before modern liberalism as well, so it's hard to say exactly what effect this modern-day obsession being non-hypocritical creates.
by _tik_ | 2025-04-05 04:21:42+00:00
Where do you get your news from? I cross-checked your comment with Wikipedia. In the Sanlu case, the executives were sent to jail, and they were ordered to destroy their stock because Sanlu was on the brink of bankruptcy. Life imprisonment and the death penalty don’t exactly sound like a slap on the wrist to me.

The school molestation cases began as rumors from two parents, but real abuse was found and the teachers were jailed. The CCP launched a nationwide kindergarten audit—seems like a fair response, especially with so much fake news online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYB_Education
by benatkin | 2025-04-05 04:22:16+00:00
I used to make a bigger deal about this, but now I think that whether something calls itself Open Source is less relevant than if bait and switches are being done.

Teasing a release on X is less bothersome than what Matrix is doing by relicensing from Apache to AGPL and making what was billed as a vendor neutral communication platform not so vendor neutral. The people working at Element certainly don't want to use Matrix/Element under the AGPL, so why should they expect earlier users and members of their community like me to want to use it under the AGPL?

There was a time when saying Open Source meant something by itself. Now you have to include details like the license, what exactly is under the license, and the leadership.
by dqv | 2025-04-05 04:22:35+00:00
You're right. Just the other day I got this annoying spam message from my local pharmacy - "your prescription is ready for pick up". Why would I want that? And my hairdresser too? "Reminder: you have an appointment tomorrow at 10AM" wow they'll send anything to try to get my business.

If these were legit businesses, they would send it to my email so it can be listed with all the GeekSquad invoices I receive from Gmail addresses. Of course, because everyone is just like the average HN user, they know how to set up intricate filters to prioritize the GeekSquad invoices.
by YZF | 2025-04-05 04:22:37+00:00
I already knew something by the time I read it so that must have helped. I guess you do need a certain maturity level (in the subject) to get started but once you have it (maybe from somewhere else) I think it's great.

It reminds me of my first time trying to learn assembly language when I was in my early teens. I just could not make any sense of it. I knew a little bit of PASCAL and BASIC at the time and that was just alien territory. When I came back a few years later after some exposure then it all came together.

Try going back to the book ;)
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 04:22:41+00:00
> Supposedly they have a seasoned economic expert on staff, Stephen Miran. Is this guy a kook?

https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump...

> Currently a senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital Management LP and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York City, Miran holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and his dissertation advisor was Martin Feldstein, an eminent American economist who chaired the CEA during the Reagan administration.

> Miran.. points to Trump’s application of tariffs on China in 2018-2019, which he argues “passed with little discernible macroeconomic consequence.” He adds that during that time the U.S. dollar rose to offset the macroeconomic impact of the tariffs and resulted in significant revenue for the U.S. Treasury.. “The effective tariff rate on Chinese imports increased by 17.9 percentage points from the start of the trade war in 2018 to the maximum tariff rate in 2019,” the report said. “As the financial markets digested the news, the Chinese renminbi depreciated against the dollar over this period by 13.7 per cent, so that the after-tariff USD import price rose by 4.1 per cent.”
by budududuroiu | 2025-04-05 04:23:16+00:00
Well, we’ve been going through wealth redistribution towards the “elites”, and no one batted an eye.

China popped the real estate bubble, collapsing entire industry giants and making the “elites” swallow the financial downturn. Literally allowing the “poor” to refinance their homes on the back of the “rich”, because they believe housing isn’t for speculation, but for living in.

Tariffs without windfall profits tax will be further wealth redistribution, from the poor to the wealthy
by rayiner | 2025-04-05 04:23:17+00:00
Interesting, thank you for that clarification. It looks like execution rates were as high as 30 per 100,000 in 1600, dropping to under 5 per 100,000 by 1700: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5955207/

The US in 1700 was about 1 per 100,000: https://www.cato.org/blog/despite-federal-return-capital-pun...

The number of executions in the US annually today is only 0.008 per 100,000.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-04-05 04:23:42+00:00
MCP is written for the AI we’ve got not the ones doing all the hyping want us to believe exists.

With a long enough context window it wouldn’t matter the difference. But “long enough” in this context to me means where you view its length as big enough where size no longer matters. Kind of like modern hard drives that are “big enough that I don’t care about a 1gb file” (I was thinking megabyte files but that might be too large of an order of magnitude )
by Klaster_1 | 2025-04-05 04:24:20+00:00
Back then as a kid, I made dozens of attempts at SQ5, the best I managed before giving up was dying in some ventilation shaft towards finale. This was my first point and click adventure, but hostile game design decisions really put me off other Sierra games, the only one I finished was SQ1 VGA. Arbitrary actions you have to take with consequences hours later are such BS.
by satvikpendem | 2025-04-05 04:25:31+00:00
Not really, the machines these days are owned by everyone, the type of labor is not the same as it was, as anyone can own a laptop as a means of production. As an aside, I have seen your comments quite a bit on AI art related threads over the past few years, especially while I see close to none on ones related to AI code related ones, and I always thought there was some hypocrisy there, which actually led me to the theory that it is not the tech that threatens people so, but the economic incentives behind them, as you state in this comment.

That is why I would advocate for people to support open source AI that at least does not drive profits to any one entity, but people have been so knee-jerk reactive to anything AI over the years that they do not understand that more regulation only means that big tech, with the means to buy licenses to content, would essentially be the arbiters to new popular culture, ironically screwing creators even more in the process; think Disney, but 10x more powerful.
by benoau | 2025-04-05 04:26:24+00:00
Using a Linux boot DVD that has never been near my network, I'd nuke the machine entirely. Then I'd set it up offline with an application-level firewall to block outgoing communication, and a limited account to block write access as much as possible across the system. I would also rebuild any other computers on your network in the same way. Before anything got back onto my network I would rebuild the router and stuff too.
by tastyface | 2025-04-05 04:26:31+00:00
So they "solved" gangs and installed a ruthless and illegal dictatorship in their place — which may in fact be secretly conspiring with those same gangs behind the scenes.

I feel sorry for El Salvador. It may now have to experience several generations of Soviet-style repression and suffering before a new regime is able to overthrow the current one. Meanwhile, thousands of families will never get to find out what happened to their loved ones in those horrifying concentration camps.

FYI, many of our (Americans') ancestors fled their home countries precisely to escape this sort of state-enacted brutality.
by verteu | 2025-04-05 04:26:46+00:00
There was widespread institutional selling, and typically dip buyers are non-professional traders who underperform the market [1] [2]

At the end of the day, does it really matter who's the marginal buyer and who's the marginal seller?

Do we learn anything about the value of Apple Inc by learning that the marginal buyer was an HFT hoping to offload inventory in 500ns, a mid-frequency shop who will hedge delta at end-of-day, or a value investor who will hold for a lifetime?

I claim any such information would be rapidly priced in by flow-analysis algos, and thus reflected in the closing price.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/retail-bought-stocks-largest...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-investors-buy-dip-tru...
by eulgro | 2025-04-05 04:27:38+00:00
12 000 words is ~1h30 of talking non stop. These averages seem pretty high to me... on a median day I probably speak about 50 words, and my average must be around 1000.

However, the average number of words I listen to is several times higher. It would be interesting to do such a study, with a similar methodology: do women listen more than men?
by jmye | 2025-04-05 04:27:59+00:00
Gaza was not a need of the vast majority of their voters, whatever a handful of college kids who are utterly incapable of understanding basic international politics think of themselves.

Neither is Bernie’s idiotic version of Medicare for all, in spite of it being a fun bumper sticker.

Y’all have gotta give up the TikTok bullshit and read some books.
by rchaud | 2025-04-05 04:28:31+00:00
> reevaluating funding on a regular basis and dropping all funding if metrics are not met.

The US government isn't going to exert that level of influence on a private enterprise without being a majority shareholder, which is what happened with GM in the 2008 bailout.

The government also can't be in a position where pulling billions in funding based on targets it sets leads to mass layoffs, that would be a political minefield come election time. Subsidies are about creating jobs as much as they are about enabling technology development.
by matus_congrady | 2025-04-05 04:28:38+00:00
I'm sorry for being a bit off-topic, but I'm a founder of a PaaS company myself, and I think that what we offer is a great alternative to Coolify for companies that need a more "managed" and reliable infra.

https://stacktape.com is a Heroku/Vercel-like PaaS platform that deploys directly to your own AWS account.

It supports both serverless (lambda functions), and serverful (AWS ECS Fargate or EC2) deployments. Besides that, it supports other AWS infrastructure resources, such as RDS MySQL/Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc..

You can deploy from console, using git-push-to-deploy, or even use preview deployments (ephemeral environments for every PR).

Compared to alternatives, it's both very easy to use, and flexible/extensible at the same time. You can use it to quickly deploy anything in a few minutes, yet it will be sufficient to cover even complex infrastructure needs you might run into in the future.
by k310 | 2025-04-05 04:28:39+00:00
It's fine with Firefox/Dark Reader.

Short version: magic means serendipity, finding the obscure thing you were looking for, rather than an answer soup. The author argues for "adding more intentional personalization" in AI tools, though that is left an open proposition, IMO having big technical and philosophical problems, i.e. how much do you want some LLM to know about you?

I purposely use anonymous search with zero profiles (DDG) and don't get personalized search results. I ive with that, rather than letting someone else know all my personal info. (voluntarily, anyway)
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-05 04:29:24+00:00
> You're right. Just the other day I got this annoying spam message from my local pharmacy

Right. That's who TCR doesn't stop.

But lets say you buy a DIY home upgrade from a local biz and the two of you are in a support session and are sending pics and messages back and forth over SMS.

This is what TCR stops.
by satvikpendem | 2025-04-05 04:30:33+00:00
> 50 years ago, a movie ticket was 0.50 cents in revenue.

he average price in 1975 was $2.05 [0], which is ~$12 today [1]. That is not so different from most movie prices today, excluding concessions.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cost-movie-ticket-were-born-1...

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1975?amount=2.05
by weard_beard | 2025-04-05 04:31:29+00:00
We haven’t had an evolutionarily relevant reason to stop. If sentient alien life looks like a chicken we’d stop eating chicken. If pigs get any smarter we’ll have to stop eating them. We’ve already mostly stopped eating cats and dogs in most western countries. For me, personally, I view it as a 3rd or 4th tier problem. We’re not solving world hunger for another 2 centuries so I put it out of my mind. If I’m going to solve a “food problem” it seems cruel and irresponsible to solve the food’s problem.
Show HN: PokemonGym – 387 milestones designed to test agents and LLMs
by xdotli | 2025-04-05 04:31:54+00:00
We've developed PokemonGym, an open-source benchmark that uses Pokemon gameplay to evaluate LLM capabilities in tool use, information extraction, and reasoning.

The benchmark features 387 carefully designed milestones (reaching locations, catching Pokemon, earning badges) with assigned difficulty scores to create a standardized evaluation framework.

Our initial testing revealed an interesting performance gap: amateur human players require ~400 steps to catch their first Pokemon, while Claude 3.7 needs ~450 steps - suggesting AI models are approaching human-level performance in this domain.

The benchmark will soon be available on benchflow.ai with a simple API for testing your own agents and models.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/benchflow-ai/pokemon-gym

We're looking for collaborators interested in improving the harness or running experiments with different models.
by ggm-at-algebras | 2025-04-05 04:31:54+00:00
Do you trust the bios or UEFI enough to reinstall via unwritable media, you downloaded independently? Was it a Locked boot state? Does it have a locked reinstall image?

Checksums are your friend. If you had a checksum over the post install bios state you can verify reinstalling.

If not, remove the hard drive/ssd media and reconstruct elsewhere.
by sgarland | 2025-04-05 04:31:59+00:00
A spellchecker is a linter. LLMs are a false equivalency.

I have yet to see AI “used wisely.” It is always precisely as parent complained about: people who neither know nor care to learn about the subject of their profession using it as a shortcut. If that is to be the state of the field, then salaries need to be _drastically_ cut. There’s absolutely no reason that you should be paid six figures to ask an omniscient entity a question, and copy/paste the answer.

> They help you move faster, reduce routine effort

You cannot understand something if you don’t understand its fundamentals. Reducing routine effort translates to “I don’t want to write boilerplate.” And that’s fine, if and only if you already know how to write it, what it does, and why it is the way it is. Wax on, wax off.
by mindslight | 2025-04-05 04:32:28+00:00
> freeloaders that have benefited from our technology, military defense, and foreign aid while simultaneously being net exporters to the US.

I'm not trying to jump on you for having captured it, but the problem is that this is wholly nonsensical - the repayment for benefiting from our technology and military defense IS the net exporting to the US (via holding our currency). That "logic" is still based on having one foot in the paradigm of the financial engineering puppetmasters where getting real physical goods is somehow a liability rather than a benefit!

For sure, this enviable position has had a corrosive effect on our economy. But the inability to deal with that has been wholly down to self-inflicted policy wounds of previous decades - chiefly led by the Republican party marketing a game of fake "fiscal responsibility" whereby the government is prevented from taking deliberate action to mitigate the displacement of industry and workers, while the increased (but now centralized) wealth from offshoring (and other technological/economic gains) was merely handed over to the banksters in the form of low-interest loans that went into driving up the asset bubble.
by tastyface | 2025-04-05 04:33:18+00:00
How do you know that the "overwhelming majority" are "bad people who prey on others" without a functional judicial system to prove it?

As the number of incarcerated grows from 2% to 5% to consolidate Bukele's power, what recourse will anyone have outside the party elite?

The pattern of strongman politicians, indefinite emergency measures, and erosion of liberties to manifest full bore dictatorship has repeated over and over and over again in the 20th and 21st centuries — and you still can't see it happening? You may enjoy it now, but consider this the honeymoon phase: it only gets worse from here on out.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-04-05 04:33:49+00:00
Ok, I buy the premise that maybe the top 1000 people are super evil mr. burns type folks. I even buy the fact that they would be giving up absolute wealth for greater relative wealth.

But you know the easiest way to do that. Inflation. Expanding the money supply. Increasing the value of their assets at the expense of the working class. not tanking the value of the companies they own!
by parodysbird | 2025-04-05 04:34:33+00:00
The Dutch and Swiss are very powerful, relative to their size. You can say fantasy things like "if they were invaded tomorrow", but that's not reality.

The US has atomic weapons, but has lost almost every war it has started since having nukes. Having weapons doesn't mean you will be faced with contexts to actually use them. "Genome-targeted bioweapons" is just made up nonsense. Just making up "if" statements of fantastical capabilities that do not have grounding in reality is just that: fantasy. Living in fantasy land is how the richest nation the world has ever seen could lose a war to teenagers in Afghanistan.
by refurb | 2025-04-05 04:35:33+00:00
The US represents a huge proportion of global demand.

These countries can establish as many new trade agreements as they want, but they aren’t going to replace the US market.

And to claim that the US has lost allies is ridiculous. Countries have done far worse and remained allies.

Let’s not overplay the impact here. Free trade is a relatively new thing. We’re just going back to the world the way it was a few decades ago.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-05 04:36:07+00:00
> It’s the lack of clear vision and support that makes the electorate so desperate for it to happen. If we were to actually reinvest in our citizenry (meaning the wealthy in this country would need to pay a little more in taxes) and have proper support for people in the meantime the public would be supportive and it would be better for the country as a whole.

What does this look like? Progressive taxes go up, better safety nets, those are straightforward. What does a solid middle class look like when all the cheap labor manufacturing comes back to automation (~8% of US jobs are manufacturing).

The US service sector is almost 80% of the economy. We are walking into perpetual labor shortages due to structural demographics. So perhaps we don’t need “good, union jobs” and instead need to make sure people are paid enough to live comfortable lives, regardless of job (services, manufacturing, whatever). Some combination of universal healthcare (squeeze out the profit potential, cram down non care costs), public housing (see how Austria does it) to prevent investor capture, increasing the minimum wage further faster, etc.
by disqard | 2025-04-05 04:36:23+00:00
But what if a significant fraction of the employees believed in some message being spread that intern?

Whether the intern is an inveterate grifter, and/or happens to be personally sponsored by a powerful mob boss, does not matter for the employees latching onto that message.

In that context too, I have a feeling these flaws would be tolerated/overlooked.
by fsckboy | 2025-04-05 04:37:03+00:00
>then trade that USD with each other

USD has no value other than what it can purchase in the US.

Saudi Arabia does not pile up USD, they pile up USD denominated investments.

(basic finance that most people don't realize: When you put money in the bank, and the bank gives you interest, that's not your money in the bank, that's the bank's money. What you own is a certificate entitling you to the stream of interest payments. If you ever want your money back from the bank, you need to give them back the entitlement for the interest payments, and the interest payments will stop.)

the Saudis don't hold US currency, they hold bonds, et al.
by witrak | 2025-04-05 04:37:12+00:00
Because to check email your active participation is needed so you must start an application while to accept texting no such action is needed. Thus for short information (read-and-forget) short messaging (SMS or RCS) is more convenient. Of course, you could use a specialized application to check your email account and filter those needing immediate notification, but if such a service is already available what is the reason to generate additional much bigger traffic?