MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjburgess | 2025-04-17 11:58:28+00:00
I had been somewhat neutral on trump -- the grievances of the american right were real and under served. Major civil institutions of power and culture had been monopolised by the left; there had been a "default preference" for wealth over income, capital over labour. Immigration had been treated as a purely economic question, with little regards to the suddenness of population and cultural changes metered out on communities which took on the highest levels.

I had thought the leftwing reaction to accuse this of authoritarianism, overblown. Many of the actions that had been taken were taken by previous leftwing administrations, just with less publicity (, and so on).

However I think the rubicon has been crossed. The president now believes he has impunity to engage in extrajudicial rendition to enslave people, including citizens, in foreign prisons. He attacks the centres of civil power: universities, law firms, (likekly soon, ) the mass media. And rival state power: ignoring the supreme court, congress (ie., reorganising federal gov beyond his power), and the institional professional class in the executive.

All the while, increasingly I see people on the centre-right in the mass media credulously believing the president's account of his actions. Identifying with the president as an expression of their power, and believing likewise, that the whole of civil society is legitimately brought under state ideological control. That the presidency is the state, that state is society, and that society must "for democratic reasons" be brought to the state's heel.

The next phase of this will be very dangerous for the american people. I think civil resistance will be target for at best, imprisonment -- perhaps even rendition to a foreign prison. All one needs to say is that the resistance protestors are domestic terroists, and trump has a wide base of people credulously willing to believe it -- no doubt looting and other things will occur. It is very easy to imagine state elections being brought under "federal control" and a process of election rigging soon following.

As far as I can see there are two forces acting against the possibility of an american tyranny: trump's own desire to perform what's he's doing completely destabilises his plans (eg., on the economy especially). Secondly, the federalism of the american system.

It seems now plausible to me to imagine a future in which a democractic state violently expels federal forces, esp., eg., if ICE are used to rendition american citizens. It will be almost an obligation of states to suspend federal police presense. This, in the end, may make totalisation of federal state power difficult.
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-17 11:59:15+00:00
Why does online education suck?

When I went to university, the first week we received the syllabus, and date for final examination. Lectures were some old professors pretty much just doing book recitals in a large auditorium - little to no interaction with the students. If you had questions, that's what the TAs were for.

Any actual learning, you had to do in the library or study halls - and hopefully join a reading/study group. But the vast majority of students just showed up to lectures (if that even), and studied the course material on their own.

Pretty much what every large college / university looks like. And to be completely honest, I don't see why that can't be done online. Some of the core classes today have thousands of students at the largest schools.

When I took my MBA at a much smaller (in terms of student mass) school, it was completely different. But that was due to the much smaller number of students, and more professors, who had a much closer connection to the students. For that type of education - and with that type of infrastructure, I do agree that getting people physically to the school can help. But that's more by design.
by hypercube33 | 2025-04-17 11:59:15+00:00
Fun fact since I already ranted about last.fm being the bees knees when it integrated with Spotify - my wife looked up on lastfm music compatibility after we first met and her and a Russian lady are the only 3 above like 75% similar taste in music. Small world but also wild that it's not so small.

Big streamers cater to most people's interests of music and are probably satisfactory for them but for us weirdos in music last.fm and it's music genome thing were amazing.
by jbverschoor | 2025-04-17 11:59:39+00:00
Although I would'e loved to use UTM, it's still a resource hog. OrbStack (machines) does such a great job at being lightweight.

Is it already possible to connect an external screen to UTM and use that as the main screen? (Multi-port Adapter or iOS, or a displaylink usb dongle on Macbook).

That would enable some great stuff. Until then, I don't think the overhead is worth it for me
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-17 12:00:42+00:00
In 2016 Trump had not remolded the GOP yet. He was surrounded by "traditional" republicans who weren't fully on board with his insane, vindictive, authoritarian impulse. Republicans in Congress were also skeptical of him, making resistance from the legislature much more likely.

In 2024 the entire Republican Party had evicted the non-MAGA people. Trump could staff everything with absolute sycophants. And there is no way that the Republicans in Congress will lift a finger to change anything.

Further, Trump had years of vindictive rage bottled up after losing in 2020. Every organization and institution he spent years raging about on Truth Social suddenly becomes his target. No actual governance. Just revenge.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-17 12:00:46+00:00
>- The costs claimed in [16] are 2529 for the smallest proposed Classic McEliece param- eters. This is much more expensive than a brute-force search through 256-bit seeds, and much more expensive than ISD.

>- The costs are for an algorithm that is merely distinguishing public keys from random, not attacking OW-CPA. The indistinguishability assumption targeted in [16] is not used in the Classic McEliece security analysis; it is even explicitly disclaimed by the Classic McEliece security analysis.

> [16] incorrectly suggests that it (1) attacks a problem that Classic McEliece relies upon and (2) is faster than the best previous attacks against Classic McEliece. We promptly responded when [16] appeared, but no errata were issued. Some third parties are now citing [16] as supposedly significant attack progress.

[16] Hugues Randriambololona. The syzygy distinguisher, 2024. URL: https://eprint. iacr.org/archive/2024/1193/1722424045.p
by londons_explore | 2025-04-17 12:01:23+00:00
If they were confident in this weapon, they'd let hobbyists come fly drones in front of it.

They don't do that because unfortunately most kinds of directed energy weapons are fairly easy to shield against.

Even external Comms is fairly easy to avoid jamming of as long as you can design both transmitter and receiver and use phased array antennas and a shared key in both.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-17 12:02:02+00:00
>flourishing black racism

1. Quantify racist behavior 2. Show it's increasing 3. Show that Democrats are responsible or that electing Harris, who is half black, would cause it to increase

> open borders

Define an open border.

>There are voters who would vote for dems no matter what, even with there education

True and while foolish of them they were still on the better side.

>nuclear..

What real chance? Russia wants some or all of Ukraine as a territory, nukes make no sense. It would also make it harder politically for European right wing governments to tone down their help of Ukraine
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-17 12:02:26+00:00
>Folklore is full of stories of people avoiding being drafted.

Mulan!

Also there was a fellow down the way one time, who caught a talking fish and the fish was like don't eat me, and he said, well I need to because the king needs me fit for military service, and the fish made him lame and go blind right then, so he let the fish go!
by strken | 2025-04-17 12:02:31+00:00
In the context of an article about the birth of the Red Cross, what exactly does accepting the bad side of life mean? Are we to end the ICRC? Accept the Geneva Convention but make no new conventions about behaviour in war? Should we accept and return to the flies and the maggots that are so vividly described in the article as part of the aftermath of battle?
by promiseofbeans | 2025-04-17 12:02:46+00:00
Looks like it might have been VisualLand.net, which isn't around anymore. Looking at the archive of the site (https://web.archive.org/web/20130811073141/http%3A//www.visu...), most of their animations / diagrams were Flash, so no longer run, and don't seem to work with archive.org's emulator either.
by mattlondon | 2025-04-17 12:03:09+00:00
Yeah I often think that I am addicted to food. They say men think about sex every 7 seconds - I think about eating every 7 seconds!

If I start eating badly, it is very very very hard to stop. I will crash off the rails into a spiral of binge-eating for the rest of the day until I feel physically sick (which takes a while).

You just can't start.

With alcoholism or smoking it is plausible (although hard) to go cold-turkey and just eliminate the things that lead you to the binges. You can make lifestyle changes to avoid them. But you still have to eat, so for me I am always one meal away from losing it and pigging out. I never feel full (the food challenges of "if you can finish this meal it's free" are a walk in the park for me - anyone for dessert?). It takes continuous and immense will power to stop - I am hovering around 95kgs at 1.85m which I know is "bad" but tell me something I don't know. It's hard.
by oefrha | 2025-04-17 12:03:20+00:00
I’m a foreigner who was U.S.-educated, spent a substantial part of my life there (left a little while ago), and still have family there. I’m seriously advising prospective students from pursuing a college education in the U.S. now. A partial education is now a very real concern under this mad man, especially for someone with the “wrong” nationality/ethnicity, which could completely upend one’s life and torpedo a lot of career prospects. Not to mention concerns for personal safety.

As an aside, I faced casual racism plenty of times in the country; pretty sure no one ever gave a shit. Trump country would cheer for it, actually.
by mrob | 2025-04-17 12:03:25+00:00
The same effect is responsible for an unavoidable flaw with stereo loudspeakers, where you have differing path lengths between your ears and each speaker. Try playing some mono pink noise on stereo speakers and moving your head, then compare with the same sound hard-panned to a single speaker. It's most obvious when you're close to the speakers and in an acoustically dry environment. If you add lots of additional reflections you'll generate many overlapping interference patterns that will average out to a smoother frequency response. This is one reason why adding a real physical center channel can improve clarity of dialogue in movies.
by elric | 2025-04-17 12:03:25+00:00
I feel like I'm stretching the analogy beyond credulity here, but there's also a lock on the workshop and you can't leave it without finding a pair of bolt cutters.

I mean I do think the original article is an exaggeration (as is this analogy), and there are lots of tradeoffs to be made. E.g. in the Java ecosystem it's much easier to find a Spring Boot developer than someone who is willing to set up a project from scratch. Maybe that's a good thing for your project, but maybe it's not.
by hypercube33 | 2025-04-17 12:03:44+00:00
I respectfully disagree. If you're into classic rock those stations are pivoting around here to 90s and 2000s rock since that's "classic" now. Then you're left with ButtRock stations that play mostly the same thing every day at the same times in the same order. The best radio we had in our area was a college station that has an hour or two of stuff I'm interested in or as close to a legal pirate radio you can get (100w tower) that shut down - THAT was amazing. Had a ton of DJs who played things they liked.

Outside of rock you're left with automated pop and country stations who have computerized playlists.

note - I'm in the Midwest US.
by nsteel | 2025-04-17 12:03:47+00:00
Assuming there's last.fm/listenbrainz reporting plugins for Jellyfun, then both those services will provide recommendations based on what you have listened to. Maybe not as good as Spotify's but it's something.

https://listenbrainz.org/my/recommendations

https://www.last.fm/player/station/user/{username}/recommend...
by Dumblydorr | 2025-04-17 12:05:03+00:00
How can you have been neutral on Trump until just now and then wrote that? This both-sides-ism looks a bit ludicrous. Neither side is perfect but one is a propagandistic cult and the other is a reasonable status quo party. One wants to throw hand grenades into every room of the government out of spite and out of desire to enrich and empower the billionaire class. And you’re now having this huge intellectual reckoning? Where were you the last 9 years of Trump?
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-17 12:06:19+00:00
This comment is not meant to defend this sort of blackmail, rather a tangential thought that struck me.

Most successful franchises try to expand abroad. Why not build a Harvard branch in London, Dubai, Sydney, Mumbai or Tokio?

Each of those would likely be subject to some pressures over time, but those times and pressures would vary.

Nowadays it is a "all eggs in one basket" situation.
by getseofix | 2025-04-17 12:06:20+00:00
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by HippoBaro | 2025-04-17 12:06:56+00:00
Eminently pragmatic solution — I like it. In Rust, a crate is a compilation unit, and the compiler has limited parallelism opportunities, especially since rustc offloads much of the work to LLVM, which is largely single-threaded.

It’s not surprising they didn’t see a linear speedup from splitting into so many crates. The compiler now produces a large number of intermediate object files that must be read back and linked into the final binary. On top of that, rustc caches a significant amount of semantic information — lifetimes, trait resolutions, type inference — much of which now has to be recomputed for each crate, including dependencies. That introduces a lot of redundant work.

I also would expect this to hurt runtime performance as it likely reduces inlining opportunities (unless LTO is really good now?)
by gcanyon | 2025-04-17 12:07:03+00:00
This is an example of what I've been thinking about/warning about for several years now: we are entering a post-truth era, where there is increasingly no way to know what is real and what is not.

When I've thought about it, this scenario never occurred to me, but it's a perfect example: we're going to be increasingly unable to know what is "true" in a million different ways, and people are going to exploit that in every way possible.

We're headed for bad times, and I don't know what the answer is, if there is one.
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by toutoulliou | 2025-04-17 12:07:16+00:00
Hey everyone!

After spending quite some time coding and refining, I built this website: Stations Carburants (which basically means "Fuel Stations").

My goal was to create a straightforward and helpful tool specifically for drivers in France. The main purpose of the site is to help you easily find petrol stations across the country and, crucially, compare their current fuel prices.

On the site, you can typically:

Search for stations based on location (using a map, entering a town, postcode, or department). See the latest reported prices for various fuel types like Diesel (Gazole), different grades of Unleaded Petrol (Sans Plomb 95, Sans Plomb 98, SP95-E10), and sometimes LPG (GPL) or E85. Filter results based on fuel type or even specific brands if needed.

It's designed to be a practical resource to help people potentially save money by finding the cheapest fuel nearby, or simply locate the closest station when they need it.

Now, here's a really important point: This website, relies on data sources and information pertaining exclusively to fuel stations located within France. Therefore, it is only useful for individuals who are currently in France and looking for fuel there. If you are outside of France, the station data and prices listed on this site won't be relevant for you.

Hope it's useful for those driving around France!
by artdigital | 2025-04-17 12:07:29+00:00
You are confusing Amazon Q in the editor (like "transform"), and Amazon Q on the CLI. The editor thing has some stuff that costs extra after exceeding the limit, but the CLI tool (that acts similar to Claude Code) is a separate feature that doesn't have this restriction. See https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/?p=qdev&z=subnav&..., under "Console" see "Chat". The list is pretty accurate with what's "included" and what costs extra.

I've been running this almost daily for the past months without any issues or extra cost. Still just paying $20
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-17 12:07:38+00:00
>I'm trying to create a recognition of immaturity as an adult problem issue

Adults don't just spawn into the world like characters in a video game. They're raised and educated into adulthood by the previous generation parents and political regimes. So if you want to point the finger for the issue with current generation, point it at those who raised and cared for them, as it was their job.

>and if that recognition takes place then society will generally recognize the issue, and that becomes internalized as an issue people understand.

The issue with your logic is that you assume society can recognize issues and acts rational to issues, when in fact it does not.

Society selectively chooses what it recognizes as issues, based on emotional manipulation and tribal behavior.
by nsteel | 2025-04-17 12:07:38+00:00
> I don't browse any music forums and so apart from my favourite bands, I have no idea on when artists I like release new albums and would not encounter them on a self hosted solution,

Music Brainz provides this at https://test.listenbrainz.org/explore/fresh-releases/

There's also Music Butler: https://www.musicbutler.io/
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 12:08:19+00:00
I don't assume I'm going to be given the luxury of picking my battles, and - though I've been aware of "spoon theory" since I watched it getting invented at Shakesville back in the day - I've never held to it all that strongly, even as I acknowledge I've also never been quite the same since a nasty bout of wild-type covid in early 2020. Now as before, I do what needs doing as best I can, then count the cost. Some day that will surely prove too high, and my forward planning efforts will be put to the test. Till then I'm happy not to borrow trouble.

I've lived in this neighborhood a long time, and there are a couple of old folks' homes a block or so from here. Both have excellent views, on one frontage each, of an extremely historic cemetery, which I have always found a wonderfully piquant example of my adopted hometown's occasionally wire-brush sense of humor. But I bring it up to mention that the old folks don't seem to have much concern for spoons other than to eat with, and they are protesting the present situation regularly and at considerable volume, and every time I pass about my errands I make a point of raising a fist and hollering "hell yeah!" just like most of the people who drive past honk in support.

Will you tell them it's pointless?
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-17 12:08:34+00:00
>it is considered important for everyone to know and openly and regularly support state ideology with words and deeds.

People literally do this on social media and they aren't even being forced.

As for the remainder, I do see the forced part but I'm not sure of how meaningful that is. If I don't agree with Trump but I'm forced to watch his speeches what does this do?

As for supporting state ideology, while not forced, there are hats, bumper stickers, flags to identify yourself

Imagine Trump forced everyone to wear his MAGA hat. What effect does it have? I don't think being forced to do this and that has much value
by noobermin | 2025-04-17 12:09:02+00:00
So the lament in this comment and from the parent post I made is from a gamer perspective. I understand your take on why it isn't crashing giving the situation...namely I get why steam and the devs don't pay any price. As an (albeit older) gamer though I definitely feel fatigue. In a normal market demand pressures exist and are natures way of correcting suppliers but in the modern steam world it's like demand doesn't even matter anymore.
by thrance | 2025-04-17 12:09:40+00:00
AFAIK, there are no "enlightened centrists". Most of those so-called centrists (Lex Fridman, Joe Rogan, you name them) are now neutral to friendly with Trump. This state of affairs is not grassroots, it was deliberately manufactured by convservative media like Fox News or right-wing influencers, funded by a massive influx of cash from the top billionaires who are now the only ones currently profiting from the administration.
by apercu | 2025-04-17 12:09:45+00:00
I think that was possibly the case in the days of print newspapers. But I'm not sure I can blame individuals that are targeted all day every day by global corporations messaging them.

They are getting brainwashed by Twitter, Facebook, "News" websites, Televisions.

Billions are being spent every day to mould your thoughts to their desires.

How does a single individual fight that?

It's like saying "Jesus and personal responsibility" will save you from your heroin addiction.
by sanderjd | 2025-04-17 12:09:57+00:00
I'm sympathetic to your perspective that it's a broad cultural thing.

But from my point of view, it's more of a demonstration of the problem with governments that are designed to have a very strong executive. Eventually you get an executive that really sucks, and when that happens they can do a lot of damage.

One of the biggest influences on my thinking from listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is a point he made about hereditary monarchy, that among its problems is that sometimes the next ruler in line is just a total dud, and you're just stuck with them.

Well, you can get a dud through voting as well. Ideally having fairly short terms mitigates this risk, but there is still a lot of damage that can be done in a short term, and there is a "who watches the watchmen" problem with the executive being required to fairly run the election to potentially replace them.

If we make it through this period with elections that remain fair and with successful transitions of power, I hope we'll find ways to weaken the presidency.
by zulban | 2025-04-17 12:10:15+00:00
I currently have a full time job in government as a computer scientist. I'm also taking an online master's at georgia tech and it's fairly good so far - no other way I could study supercomputing. Why would I leave an AI job where I'm learning practical AI skills to study CS? Async with evening exams was my only option.

If you don't have a broad perspective on all life circumstances and types of education, don't just dismiss what you don't know.
by bko | 2025-04-17 12:10:18+00:00
The universities could have expanded campuses and opened up new ones at any time. Harvard could easily double or triple their class size with no negative effects in terms of student body. They choose not to because it would dilute their brand and they're more about an exclusive club than educating students or doing research. Their doner class that finds their hedge fund doesn't like that.

So let's not pretend these institutions are noble