MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Pxtl | 2025-04-16 13:31:58+00:00
I've been following this story because he's a local boy, I actually met him very briefly once, back when he was just a kid.

The article is skimming over some of the darker sides of his side of the story - like how allegedly his code and conversations are generally peppered with racist rants (I haven't seen any examples of such). The boy seems like a horrible case of internet poisoning - like, a brilliant mathematician child completely mangled in the head by 4chan/gamer discourse.

One part of his first heist that isn't mentioned often is that Indexed Finance says he was actually working with them and contributing to their codebase before he pulled his exploit.
by chtefi | 2025-04-16 13:32:03+00:00
Full disaggregation of compute and storage is the right direction. Let storage handle replication, it's getting good, global, low latency, cheaper (like with S3 Express). Kafka becomes a smart data ingester and router: it moves bytes, enforces ordering, does minimal buffering. That's it. Do one thing well.

You get a system simpler to operate, to scale, and more flexible; data could be consumed outside of Kafka itself (in a batch way typically), without duplicating the data, that's a big win.
by exceptione | 2025-04-16 13:32:26+00:00
Bottom up.

Have conversations with your friends, the grocery store owner.

Join grassroots organizations, or start a local one. Keep people accountable. Your local politician bends over because he is afraid of consequences. Now give people no way out but do the right thing. When people are transported to concentration camps, than such is not an act of God, but people doing unconstitutional things while not being held accountable.

Fascism is not Hitler. It is collective, sociological behavior. Trump is a nuisance. The problem is a society engineered to give consent to the .1%, the Dark Mirror tech bro's, the christian cultists.
by coldpie | 2025-04-16 13:32:27+00:00
Social media is this generation's cigarettes. It feels good to use it for a bit, and there's an enormous amount of advertising for it and social pressure to use it, but it's extremely addictive and the long-term personal and public health consequences are absolutely crushing.

I hope one day we can strictly regulate social media & make pariahs of the people who built it, as we did with tobacco. Instead, we just did the equivalent of handing the entire federal government into Phillip Morris's control, so my hopes are not high.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-16 13:32:46+00:00
I started out asking myself, what would it take for American's to be okay with factory work. For example, my grandfather worked in a GM plant in Kansas City for most of his life. I mean he had started out wearing suits and doing books for a bank when he was young and fresh out of high school.

And then I remembered, oh yeah, the Great Depression happened when he was young and he was let go from his bank job — the bank folded. When the decent paying factory job at an auto assembly plant eventually came along he probably jumped at it.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-16 13:33:17+00:00
You can read all about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular

But it's not something to be horrified by; it's no different from how we commonly pronounce "February" without the first "r", or "government" without the "n", or "Wednesday" flipping the "dne" to "nd".

What's even more interesting is that it's only in the context of weapons/energy. The same person will say "nuclear family" the way it's spelled.

But in the weapons/energy context, it's just a natural re-use of the suffix in "moleCULAR", "oCULAR", "cirCULAR". Technically wrong in terms of its derivation, but it feels entirely natural to say, and requires less tongue movement.

It's not due to a lack of education or anything. It's more like a regional dialect, where the region is nuclear weapons and energy.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-16 13:33:23+00:00
The Chinese, and Russians who share data with the N Koreans are prowling around like an oversexed pack of boy scouts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and not a single one took Easter week off. Worried?

Cloudstrike turned into the worst peice of garbage since waferlocks...

The single most profitable source of forien funds for N Korea turns out to be stolen vit-xoins, while gov officials are forciblly removed from their desks...

What. Me. Worry?
by jfengel | 2025-04-16 13:33:30+00:00
The question is what they should do instead.

They could attack the non-steelmanned version, but that just opens them up to having their own comments attacked. You quickly get derailed. (It's sometimes called "sealioning".)

They could propose alternatives, but that too is subject to sealioning. Real alternatives are always subject to tradeoffs, and the answer to "how about you do X instead of attacking me?" is always "no".

They could refrain from discussing it, but that just allows the offenses to continue.

So what often happens is that people persist in acting as if this were a sincere discussion, and hope that a majority will recognize the quality of your argument. It's a lousy plan but I don't have much else to suggest.
by hylaride | 2025-04-16 13:33:36+00:00
For the schools that have them, I consider legacy admissions to be more appalling. Those are overwhelmingly white.

The other issue is that many of these schools have not been expanding enrolment numbers to population growth. Less seats per-capita mean more exclusivity over time.

Get rid of them both (DEI and legacy admissions) and the government should create a policy that those endowments need to be used to expand the size of the schools.
by duxup | 2025-04-16 13:34:01+00:00
>Newsom and Bonta’s argument targets the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, the law Trump is using to impose tariffs without congressional approval.

This is an interesting legal avenue, even if just to make congress do their job.

Tariffs are legally supposed to be a congressional action, not executive. Congress has given the executive branch some leeway on this but I believe this is still congress's job.
by plasma_beam | 2025-04-16 13:34:27+00:00
It hasn't posted to FPDS yet:https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?q=PIID%3A%2270RCSJ2...

Assuming this is the correct contract, which it appears to be, it had an option period starting today through March of next year. DHS just needed to exercise the option.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-16 13:34:32+00:00
Germany in this case. The high tax rates at progressive rates mean that salary increases mean that income after taxes is quite flat.

There are also union negotiated rates for pay across much of the industry. Even if you switch employer your pay might remain exactly the same, unless you also get promoted and into a higher level or a different industry. "Flächentarifvertrag" it is called.

Obviously this drastically disincentivizes hoping employers.
by smcl | 2025-04-16 13:34:47+00:00
Relative to its peer nations it has terrible outcomes. If you think that I'm moving the goalposts and that you should instead be focussed on the fact that you are streets ahead of the developing world, rather than lagging behind your peers in the developed world then go right ahead. As I said, I'm just bringing you the facts - what you choose to do with them is on you.
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 13:34:47+00:00
My mother taught me to read at the same age and by the same method Erik Hoel ("The Intrinsic Perspective," q.v. at Substack) recently documented teaching his son, and by his account to about as good effect. Mama doesn't have the letters after her name that Dr. Hoel does, of course, but I don't blame a jilted academic for feeling the need to complicate an independent and obviously enthusiastic rediscovery, and the flight attendants on the airliners I boarded unaccompanied as a child would be among many who could attest that nothing did better to keep me quiet than to lend me a technical manual I'd never seen before.

I'm very sure it is harder to achieve this now than then, I having been born at a time when color LCDs were just beginning to make tentative steps from laboratory prototype to consumer product. Unless Hoel is taken for the liar I've seen no cause to think him, though, it surely still can be done.

Easy for me to say, though, never having had or raised a child. I like to hope I still could recommend the method if I had, but who knows? I do think it asks uncommon interest from the tutor.
by oulipo | 2025-04-16 13:35:12+00:00
Why is this post on HN "New" section not up-voteable?

(it's this link: https://www.narativ.org/p/whistle-blower-russian-breach-of)

Disclaimer: I know nothing of the truth of those allegations, just wondering why HN removed the "upvote" feature just for this link?
by currysausage | 2025-04-16 13:35:35+00:00
CERT stands for Computer Emergency Response Team.

CIRCL, the supposed operator behind gcve.eu [1], "is the CERT for the private sector, communes and non-governmental entities in Luxembourg" [2].

[1] https://gcve.eu/contact/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_emergency_response_te...
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-04-16 13:35:38+00:00
Morals ostensibly drive logic for some (not most, most are boring tax stuff) laws, but what's really going on is some group of people thinks the law will advantage them and so pushes it. Blue Team doesn't inherently care about black people, they care about getting black Americans' votes. You'd hope the moral and the instrumental would align, but not always.
by philipallstar | 2025-04-16 13:36:05+00:00
> In western politics, there are various definitions of the word "progressive". The definitions that include Kamala Harris are mostly used by right-wing Americans.

No, Kamala Harris had some pretty extreme "Progressive" positions such as open borders.

> And your joke about left vs right sponsorship of streamers has a very soft underbelly, which, if you don't know about it yet, kind of tells the whole story right there.

I don't see the point of insinuation. Make a point, or leave it, please. Doing this is just a waste of time.
by ogurechny | 2025-04-16 13:36:10+00:00
That's just the view of bureaucratic machines which prefer to have some stable identifier in the relevant field on paper form (it doesn't matter if it's for ethnic cleansing or “celebrating diversity”), and then shape the reality until it fits.

Even though it might be hard to ignore the well-budgeted choir of well-intentioned promoters of status quo, you still don't have to believe in this concept.
by lm28469 | 2025-04-16 13:36:12+00:00
People have been killing each other since people exist yet an M30A1 rocket filled with 180k tungsten beads exploding above your city is much more effective than a a dude silex knife. Should we give people military grade weapons ? They're going to kill each others anyways right ? Would you argue they're just the same and not fundamentally different ?
by Onawa | 2025-04-16 13:36:12+00:00
I would rather that he stays alive for the rest of his term. I am more scared of the damage that could be done by Vance. Trump is inept and easy to manipulate, but is fairly predictable in his actions. Vance and his technocrat bros could cause a lot more damage on the other hand. I'll take the devil we "know".
by evanjrowley | 2025-04-16 13:36:52+00:00
This reminded me of woolion's comment from ~4 months ago citing a note about this from the original manga.

This hands thing, there's a literal note in the manga about it. The man is an old neuro-scientist, but new brain implants that allow for direct CPU connectivity is something that only young neuro-surgeons are familiar with. For this reason, this man doesn'n't want a man who could be his child to operate direcly on his brain. However, the productivity boost because of the brain implant creates a gap between humans and augmented humans, so this is the solution this man found to work around his refusal to get the brain implant, and so it is clear that it is a fairly bad solution that only exists because of this human "motivation". The two points are some of the major themes that are explored in depth.

This kind of goes against the author's point about the hands / keyboard being a brain interface, however, given the fact that the brain ultimately controls most actions humans take, there's still some truth to what the article presents in that all keyboards are a type of brain intreface.

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287216
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-04-16 13:36:56+00:00
>The problem is that you don't know which 5% are wrong

This is not a problem in my unreliable calculator use-cases; are you disputing that or dropping the analogy?

Because I'd love to drop the analogy. You mention IDEs- I routinely use IntelliJ's tab completion, despite it being wrong >>5% of the time. I have to manually verify every suggestion. Sometimes I use it and then edit the final term of a nested object access. Sometimes I use the completion by mistake, clean up with backspace instead of undo, and wind up submitting a PR that adds an unused dependency. I consider it indispensable to my flow anyway. Maybe others turn this off?

You mention hospitals. Hospitals run loads of expensive tests every day with a greater than 5% false positive and false negative rate. Sometimes these results mean a benign patient undergoes invasive further testing. Sometimes a patient with cancer gets told they're fine and sent home. Hospitals continue to run these tests, presumably because having a 20x increase in specificity is helpful to doctors, even if it's unreliable. Or maybe they're just trying to get more money out of us?

Since we're talking LLMs again, it's worth noting that 95% is an underestimate of my hit rate. 4o writes code that works more reliably than my coworker does, and it writes more readable code 100% of the time. My coworker is net positive for the team. His 2% mistake rate is not enough to counter the advantage of having someone there to do the work.

An LLM with a 100% hit rate would be phenomenal. It would save my company my entire salary. A 99% one is way worse; they still have to pay me to use it. But I find a use for the 99% LLM more-or-less every day.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-16 13:37:07+00:00
Where I live, there are still some small, family-run dairies, and they all have customers who come to them looking for local, pasture-raised, raw milk. People will even break the law to get it, so there's definitely a market, but current regulations make it difficult to serve it.

Small, direct-to-customer farms are the ones most likely to lean into customer-pleasing animal welfare practices. But to profitably sell direct to customers within the law in most US jurisdictions, a dairy pretty much has to put in its own pasteurization setup, a major investment. That's kept dairy from developing the equivalent of cage-free eggs.
by m000 | 2025-04-16 13:37:15+00:00
If that 20% never had a factory job before, it is not a reliable indicator. It just means their current job is already shitty. They may get a factory job and realize that they were better off flipping burgers, even with less pay.

From TFA:

> When I first went to China as a naive 24 year old, I told my supplier I was going to “work a day in his factory!” I lasted 4 hours.
by exceptione | 2025-04-16 13:37:21+00:00
That is not news to me (see my post history). The information landscape in America is segmented, and works to keep the Big Picture out the frame. To quote myself:

- No real journalism, instead, career in media house depend on commercial ownership. Narratives tailored to segment, but no deep and critical analysis. - "Let us talk about the tariffs today, they make zero economic sense" - "I think what he meant is..." - "Of course this is not entirely correct, but..." - "President Trump has said.." - "Rubio did a press conference today" - Only drama, never the Big Picture. - Elections? According to the press, those are just - The latest polls! - Repeat marketing from spin doctors at affiliated media houses - "Debate" = Reality TV, scores are given on wit and emotional play

As an English speaker, you have one option and that is to read The Guardian.
by hnthrow90348765 | 2025-04-16 13:37:46+00:00
Very few people are going to want to go up against Google and do it for nothing. At the end of this monumental quest, you only have just another browser.

If it doesn't even make sense for Microsoft when they have an entire, ubiquitous operating system to take advantage of, I don't see how we do anything except declare Google's engine the winner that takes all.
by pfdietz | 2025-04-16 13:38:00+00:00
"In living organisms, every protein—a type of biological polymer consisting of hundreds of amino acids—carries out specific functions, such as catalysis, molecule transport, or DNA repair. To perform these functions, they must fold up into specific shapes."

This is not true. There are some proteins that are intrinsically disordered, not folding into any preferred way, but they still perform biological functions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically_disordered_prote...
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-04-16 13:38:15+00:00
A thought-provoking exploration of how AI interfaces are shifting from rigid tools to fluid, adaptive systems that mirror human complexity. This article delves into the technical, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of creating interfaces that don’t just serve but collaborate.

Key topics:

· Multi-modal interaction (text, voice, biometrics)

· The ethics of emotion-sensitive systems

· Building trust and transparency in AI
by fennecfoxy | 2025-04-16 13:38:42+00:00
Afaik there's never been a DEI initiative (or similar, I'm not American) that I've ever heard of to hire more gay people specifically. Most of us would hate to be hired for our sexuality rather than our skills.

There's nothing "woke" about it and screaming woke woke woke isn't going to change the fact that we exist and you don't like it. I'd tell you what I really think of you but it would invoke Dang.
by pdpi | 2025-04-16 13:39:14+00:00
> On top of all that, the All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions will now come with AI Pro included.

Well, colour me surprised. I've used JetBrains as an an example of a pretty decent company in the past (e.g. the way they remind you your subscription is up for renewal a couple of months in advance, so you have all the time in the world to unsub if you like), but I wasn't expecting them to just add this to the existing subscriptions.
by ohgr | 2025-04-16 13:39:43+00:00
Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc.

Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I want to pay and when. It just works.
by fidotron | 2025-04-16 13:39:58+00:00
There is definite truth to the idea stats people have a habit of writing deliberately impenetrable prose. (Probably due to proximity to economists and political scientists).

I happened to need to implement a markov chain for playing rock, paper, scissors in https://luduxia.com/showdown - once you actually understand it the code is short and took no more than 20 minutes to write, and was by far the easiest part of the entire effort, which was surprising. Vertically centering a div is harder, and involves dealing with even more jargon.
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-16 13:39:58+00:00
But you don’t know negligence is the reason. You are just assuming that you understand how the situation arose and what their internal state of mind was the led to it. But it could have ignorance, rather than “negligence”. They might not fully understand that specific code usage, in which case instruction and mentorship would be the remedy.

Second, do you have any evidence that calling someone negligent actually leads to better performance? Is that an established best practice for reducing errors or does that just satisfy your own feelings of annoyance or dissatisfaction?

Third, “this is negligent” is not constructive. Neither is "This is really bad, you messed up, this type of a mistake is unacceptable and horrific". These are not actionable nor are they specific. They are emotional. Feedback outlining (or directing them to resources) on how to do a proper code review to catch mistakes like this, is actionable and specific.

Finally, the swiss cheese method of safety is always better than the “just stop making mistakes” method. Aviation safety does not rely on pilots “just not making mistakes”. There are studies of procedures, warnings, training, etc. to reduce the likelihood of an arror and redundant systems to make errors survivable. And there are checklists, so many checklists. Have you instituted checklists for code writing and review before it comes to your level? If something is so critical, is it negligent to allow code to be written and submitted based on each persons individual, subjective idea on what is thorough and what is a negligent level of review?
by hedora | 2025-04-16 13:40:08+00:00
Social housing is not one of the solutions the yimby movement in the US promotes. It also works because it doesn’t matter if the government or the private sector builds the houses.

Anyway, that paper concludes there is no difference in housing supply elasticity across the US (which is questionable, to put it politely) so demand elasticity doesn’t explain price differences. So, they conclude that, if you don’t build any houses at all, then demand will set prices.

That says nothing about what will happen if you do build houses, and also doesn’t contradict the basic economic finding that, if you have a glut of supply, prices go down. (Because no outbidding can occur — the losing bid still gets a house.)
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-16 13:41:00+00:00
In this semester i'm following a course on social and ethical issues in information technology, and although the course in itself is interesting, i'm finding some issues.

The first one is, sometimes you're reading sci-fi, not science. Such as the cases of imagining a hyper intelligent specialized asi that will surely arrive, and other thing i don't necessarily agree with, but that's just my opinion on it

The second issue is related to the way that superstructures are built in such a way that makes me feel they're just there to eventually justify what it is deemed to be the truth, and not the other way around. Again, this is only what i think about the material and the authors i'm studying.

However, after reading this article i'm a bit more sure that what was done was, in fact, done to justify the good old racism, classism ecc...

I also find funny that the world envisioned by visionaries never discriminates against them (except for a few scenarios)
by squigz | 2025-04-16 13:41:08+00:00
Some of the comments here are so detached from my reality that I have to wonder whether I'm the crazy one.

Nobody I know would be interested in a social media platform that is just AI. Contrary to what some commenters here seem to think, most people are interested in things like upvotes and likes and whatnot... because they understand it's (mostly) humans on the other end. Without that, it would all be rather hollow, and nobody would want to participate in it. I think most people would find the insinuation that they're so shallow as to want that a bit insulting.

But again, maybe I'm the crazy one.