MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Doctor-R | 2025-04-15 23:09:09+00:00
Ages ago, when secretaries (usually female) were still common in offices, my boss told me "learn the names of all of the secretaries and say hello <name> every time you see them. If they know you and like you, they will probably do you a favor, when you need it. They are the important people running the company."

You have to do visible, great work.
by skissane | 2025-04-15 23:09:23+00:00
> Corporate software wouldn't care that the UI hung, you're getting paid to sit there and look at it.

The article says the thread had been hung for 5 hours. And if you understand the root cause, once it entered into the hung state, then absent some rather dramatic intervention (e.g. manually resuming the suspended UI thread), it would remain hung indefinitely.

The proper solution, as Raymond Chen notes, is to move the monitoring thread into a separate process, that would avoid this deadlock.
by bronco21016 | 2025-04-15 23:09:33+00:00
As some of the other commenters have directly and indirectly pointed out, I believe this is the crux of the AI Agent problem. Each user has a customized workflow they’re trying to achieve. This doesn’t lend well to a “product” or “SaaS”. It leads to thousands of bespoke implementations.

I’m not sure how you get over this hurdle. My email agent is inevitably different than everyone else’s email agent.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-04-15 23:10:07+00:00
Thanks for looking that up.

Without knowing the denominator (# of accounts, # of posts, # of new accounts), I'm not sure what to make of it.

Even then, we want the subset of bans that were for political reasons (i.e., supporting Labour is fine, supporting Reform is hate speech). According to the actual report (which can be found here: https://transparency.x.com/content/dam/transparency-twitter/...), of 5,296,870 account suspensions only 2,361 were for "hateful conduct", while 57,185 were "violent and hateful entities" and 1,102,778 were for "abuse and harassment". Eyeing the categories, those are the only ones that seem plausible for political motivation.

So it's some subset of that 1,162,324 (22% of total) that we're interested in. I would bet the vast, vast majority of those either aren't politically motivated, or are politically motivated but in such a way that virtually everyone would agree (e.g., torturing puppies for fun).

And, of course, among politically-motivated bans, not all will be in support of Red Team / against Blue Team. Some will be bans of Red Team supporters, and for some the valence won't be clear.
by patagurbon | 2025-04-15 23:10:44+00:00
US research funding is not what you want to cut though. It is among the most productive funding possible and there is evidence aplenty that it pays for itself many times over.

University bureaucracy is by and large fairly small for research. When you get into undergraduate education I will agree the administration has been bloated by the current system. But research has been surprisingly lean in my experience.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-15 23:10:46+00:00
I misremembered - it was in the source for a sentence in the Texas Tribune article six days ago: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/educatio...

Those are just the ones where they think they have an answer about why. ICE just refused to respond to requests for specifics otherwise.

The article: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/09/texas-universities-i...
by kypro | 2025-04-15 23:11:09+00:00
I think I'd argue the issue here is a lack of diversity of views because exposure to radical views is the only thing that protects me from them. Although I might not be normal in that regard.

I would accept this is a problem though. I just question whether the solution is censoring views. I guess I'll give an example...

In the UK there's a lot of people questioning why young boys today seem to often hold such radical views about women. Of course, there's the surface level explanation we're given that boys are watching people like Andrew Tate online and are becoming radicalised, but then you have to ask why boys are watching people like Andrew Tate in the first place when they could also be listening to male feminists and have gone in the opposite direction.

It seems to me the most likely explanation for this content selection bias is that boys are told lies about gender from a very early age and then on hearing become easily radicalised partial truths from people like Tate. The uncomfortable reality is that Tate is telling half-truths about the biological differences and that many of these half-truths are just denied outright by others in positions of authority. It's really no wonder they find his content interesting. It's probably the same reason someone like Jordan Peterson seemed to fill a large cultural hole a few years back. Somehow just being positive about the unique contributions and strengths of men was a radical and shocking position that people found interesting.
Show HN: notes – Manage your notes with bash, fd, fzf, and ripgrep
by crap | 2025-04-15 23:11:28+00:00
Wrote this a while ago, but I still use it to this day for maintaining a flat directory of markdown notes, so I thought I'd share :)

The entire thing is modelled around fzf. The main command is `enter`, which spawns a fuzzy file finder window on file names in your notes directory. You can also run a full-text search with ripgrep using the `search` subcommand.

It's a single bash script, and assumes a few dependencies (as mentioned) are installed on your system.
by keernan | 2025-04-15 23:12:17+00:00
My wife was raped by her grandfather repeatedly from age 8 until age 13. I learned this when she was 40 - she had never told anyone before. She then went into therapy for many years while I commenced years of research into sexual abuse.

I learned there have been 100 years of studies all with consistent results confirming the same basic statistic: one of every three girls silently suffer with having been subjected to serious sexual abuse by the age of 18. I thought about that as I attended each of my four daughters high school graduations... looking at my daughter and their girlfriends as they stood on the stage, saddened by the realization that one third of them had been subjected to long term sexual rape. One third of them who would suffer silently for most of their life (that's the other thing I learned: these studies are forced to rely upon anonymous responses from women - who rarely tell anyone about their abuse - they are so full of shame).

What outraged me then - and still outrages me today - is how such information could have been hidden from a highly educated trial attorney such as myself. As it continues to be to this current day.

That is what I thought about as I read this article. A female author writing a story of female objectification and not once mentioning the widespread ongoing raping of female children right under our noses.

As aside, one out of six boys is likewise subjected to serious sexual abuse. Unlike girls, whose sexual abusers are overwhelmingly (95+%) male, the abusers of boys are 'only' 66+% male.
by SkyeCA | 2025-04-15 23:12:44+00:00
I'm not looking for corporate sanitized social media site #102032. Imageboards if nothing else allow people to be people and you know what? Sure sometimes people suck, but I don't want some overvalued social media companies in America deciding what I can and can't see.

Sure I've encountered awful people on imageboards, but I've also encountered very nice, helpful people, some of which I've stayed in contact with long term.
by MajesticWombat | 2025-04-15 23:12:45+00:00
As the war in Ukraine drags on into its third year, Russia finds itself at a critical economic crossroads. The Kremlin’s war chest is rapidly depleting, and sanctions are tightening the noose around key revenue streams. With the National Wealth Fund almost exhausted and budget deficits ballooning, Russia’s ability to sustain the current pace of war spending into 2025 looks increasingly dubious. While state-controlled media touts the narrative of resilience, the numbers tell a far grimmer story.
by profmonocle | 2025-04-15 23:13:28+00:00
I would also say don't run ghostscript with the same permissions as the web server, especially not if you can just hand it your PDF through stdin and take a PNG through stdout. Sandbox it as much as possible. PDF is a really complex format which means lots of opportunities for buffer overruns and the like. (Edit: Actually, reading through Arch-TK's post above, it sounds like it was much dummer than something like a buffer overrun.)
Ask HN: How do you onboard children onto the digital world?
by recvonline | 2025-04-15 23:14:41+00:00
Hey folks! My local community is having more and more discussions around smartphone and computer use for children/teenager!

There is a lot of fear and helplessness. Shutting computers down as much as possible etc.

I am looking for a “Hackers Guide to the digital age for children”. I want my kids to be curious, explore, break things. Is this naive? Is social media destroying the fun part about computers?

Anyone here has a guide or suggestions how to teach or onboard kids to computers with a hacker mindset? As in exploration?
by ndiddy | 2025-04-15 23:14:46+00:00
The difference I see is that Autotools is mainly useful for handling differences between various Unix variants, which isn't a concern now that commercial Unix isn't really a thing besides Mac OS X. CMake doesn't have the years of arcane knowledge about dozens of Unix variants that Autotools does, but it lets you target Windows using the native tooling as opposed to having to do all your development in Cygwin, and it automatically generates IDE projects so you can use IDE provided tooling like debuggers and profilers. Personally, I think this is a more compelling value proposition than what Autotools offers. Obviously, if you're fine with using a text editor and GDB and for some reason need to target SunOS, SCO UnixWare, 386BSD, A/UX, etc but not Windows, Autotools is great for that use case and you should stick with it.
by tibbar | 2025-04-15 23:14:51+00:00
The advisors have backgrounds in social work, public health, advising public officials, etc. Not really any background in AI or technology that I saw. So it's an interesting group that, I suppose, would help you know if you're making something that's actually beneficial to the public. Not sure if they'd be able to see past any obfuscation that OpenAI might be incentivized to put up. It is not exactly what I was expecting to see, but at least they seem like good people?
by ein0p | 2025-04-15 23:15:35+00:00
Does anyone have something like this for Xiaomi Band? I have one but the stock faces are an assault on my aesthetic sensibilities.

Edit: apparently there is an app called EasyFace, but it doesn't seem to be open source, and it says it needs to be run with admin privileges. TL;DR: nah, man, I'm good.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-15 23:15:43+00:00
I’ve found my biggest differentiator over the last decade was soft skills - writing, dealing with stakeholders, knowing how to talk to normies, being comfortable in the room with decision makers, being able to do effective presentations and project management skills.

And knowing how to “deal with ambiguity” and focus on how to add business value. If you look at the leveling guidelines of any tech company, anything above mid level is focused on “scope”, “impact” and “dealing with ambiguity”.

Knowing AWS really well is just a tool and it doesn’t hurt that I have a stint at AWS ProServe on my resume

Notice “codez real gud” is not a differentiator.

There is no hard skill you can learn that thousands of of others don’t know that will set you apart.

Well except for some vertical market stuff that will leave you pigeonholed.

Sources:

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-...
by yodsanklai | 2025-04-15 23:16:09+00:00
You're not supposed to trust the tool, you're supposed to review and rework the code before submitting for external review.

I use AI for rather complex tasks. It's impressive. It can make a bunch of non-trivial changes to several files, and have the code compile without warnings. But I need to iterate a few times so that the code looks like what I want.

That being said, I also lose time pretty regularly. There's a learning curve, and the tool would be much more useful if it was faster. It takes a few minutes to make changes, and there may be several iterations.
by AgentME | 2025-04-15 23:16:59+00:00
Many people will downplay this, saying that the alt-righters on 4chan were only trolls, or were only a few people sockpuppeting to make it look like there were many, or that these people were already alt-right and that 4chan didn't actually influence anyone into it (and that 4chan's userbase merely cycled out to a set of new alt-right users), but I have to say that's all wrong. I was in several different online communities 2010-2018 of people who met through 4chan, and a startling number of people did actually adopt alt-right politics over this timeframe after I had first met them. I think people who downplay how common radicalization on 4chan was didn't have as clear of a picture as this experience gave me.
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-15 23:17:34+00:00
BTW, the Viet Minh were our allies during WWII.

I’m afraid I don’t understand the point you are making.

Even Mao Zedong’s Communist Party were western allies during World War II.

For that matter Stalin’s Soviet Union was also a western ally during World War II.

After World War II everything changed.

That being said...you make a good point for bringing up the Paris Peace Conference. It is most certainly true that many of the issues in the world today are a direct result of what happened at that Peace Conference. And it is indeed very fascinating that Ho Chi Minh was apparently at that conference.
by blululu | 2025-04-15 23:17:42+00:00
That makes sense. The same trend is already happening in the west with Arxiv and Bioarxiv. Neither is as prestigious for the purpose of a lot of facility politics/rankings but in an active field both are more meaningful markers of the cutting edge than prestige publications like nature. I imagine these journals will retain their function as markers of prestige even as most of the community’s research output happens in more informal channels.
by FiniteField | 2025-04-15 23:17:55+00:00
All of this sentiment is many years out of date. "Alt-right" hasn't been a term of self-identification for almost a decade, and hasn't been used as an identifier by pretty much anyone for at least half of that. /pol/ is not the epicentre of the radical online right and has not been for years - it's a backwater in that regard now.

The most notable radicalisation happening on /pol/ nowadays, in my opinion, is a kind of hyper-masculine third-worldist ideology that is anti-semitic in its foundation and deeply misogynistic. While those two traits might sound superficially similar to the 2015 "Alt right", this new ideology has a significant pro-Islamist tendency, and has an almost comprehensive disdain for the west and its ways of life, in favour of authoritarian regimes like like Russia, Iran, and China. Also, as is being corroborated by other online circles like the Nick Fuentes "Groyper" movement, this faction of the online far-right is an increasingly post-racial one, with more traditionally white supremacist views disappearing, to be filled in by antisemitism.

Personally, I think this cultural political shift in the imageboard represents the increased representation of developing countries online, and is an important case study in how quickly cultural foundations can shift inside the borderless land of the internet.
by Hizonner | 2025-04-15 23:18:36+00:00
That's about extending due process requirements to the states. That's why it says "any State". It has no effect at all on anything Federal. Federal due process comes from elsewhere. And all of this is 100 percent Federal.

All of the brouhaha around the word "jurisdiction" in the 14th Amendment is about citizenship. Nobody other than you has "thrown around" anything like what you're suggesting.

> Edit: btw the "within its jurisdiction" phrase above is probably why the supreme court is treading so carefully around the el salvador part of this - they can't give the administration any grounds to point out that el salvador is outside US jurisdiction.

The administration has been pointing that out. Loudly and repeatedly. It has some real effects on habeas, as well as on what actions are available to the US Government generally. They're also trying to falsely claim a bunch of effects it doesn't have. But nobody has mentioned or thought about the 14th Amendment, because it's not relevant. At all.
by profmonocle | 2025-04-15 23:19:03+00:00
When the first-gen iPhone was out there was a TIFF vulnerability so bad that you could jailbreak an iPhone just by visiting a specific web site. I remember going to Best Buy and seeing all of the display phones had been jailbroken. (It was easy to tell - this was before the App Store, so having extra app icons on the home screen wasn't normal.)

This was a user-empowering application of the vulnerability. Obviously, a bug that allows root-level arbitrary code execution just by getting the user to load a single image could be used for some pretty bad stuff. (And perhaps was.)
by patagurbon | 2025-04-15 23:19:34+00:00
The US was very good for a very long time at integrating immigrants. It should continue that tradition and work even harder at it.

I believe it was some Republican president who said something to the effect of “if you move to Germany you may be a citizen but you are not a German… But if you move to America and become a citizen you are an American”.

It’s worth noting that not all advanced societies have fared as badly as Korea and Japan. Scandinavia for instance is below replacement but not nearly as catastrophically as Korea. It’s possible that a bit more policy tweaking and more productivity=>leisure time could get them back to a replacement rate.
by macNchz | 2025-04-15 23:19:41+00:00
> I live in NYC now, and fortunately we still have Micro Center which is still fun, though I do worry that it might go the way of Fry's Electronics soon enough.

There are actually five in the metro area: Brooklyn, Queens, NJ, LI, and Yonkers. I live in biking distance of the Brooklyn store and drive past (stop at) the Yonkers one pretty frequently and find they’re both usually quite busy, so hopefully they’ll stick around.

I make a point of trying to buy from them because I value having a place nearby that employs actual purchasing staff so I don’t have to sort through junk and counterfeit products, and because I like having a place where I can deal in person, have things same day, return without shipping etc.
by throwanem | 2025-04-15 23:20:02+00:00
Developer documentation for the Amazfit device's "Zepp OS" appears to be hosted at https://developer.zepp.com/os/home.

They're absurdly cheap for a device with specs like these. I picked one up off Amazon, along with a small selection of aftermarket metal and nylon-weave bands. It's been years since I bothered wearing any kind of bracelet, and the fetish for expensive watches as conspicuous display of debt-financed pretense of wealth passed me by, but a bracelet topped with a cute little OLED touchscreen, bristling with sensors, and powered by what appears to be an extremely open and friendly programming environment? That's worth the trouble of reaccustoming myself to a somewhat unfashionable accessory.

(Make sure there isn't a space in the simulator executable's pathname. Also note that, because the Band 7 runs Zepp OS 1.0, you won't be able to use any feature that's documented as requiring an API_LEVEL, i.e. OS 2.0 or higher. That's probably part of why these are so cheap, but if they're as flexible as I get the sense from these docs they may be, I'll be upgrading pretty soon to something much more capable like a T-Rex 3.)
by messe | 2025-04-15 23:20:27+00:00
I'm sorry, but what point are you trying to make? Aside from: "Yeah, duh, you can't see through a fucking wall".

Mine was that, typically, people from outside the US, only ever experience toilet stalls with gaps when they visit the US.

Not every stall has gaps there, but I don't recall ever encountering it here in the EU.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-15 23:21:37+00:00
In the real world, code is not law. Computers are not a magical gateway to another reality where existing laws and rules no longer apply.

What matters is if Medjedovic engaged in activities that would be illegal in the process of acquiring the funds from Indexed Finance. A theft is theft whether it is physical or digital; victims aren't required to have perfect security and criminals are not allowed to exploit weaknesses to just take something that belongs to someone else.

Medjedovic is accused of exploiting "glitches." From a legal perspective, that would be no different from a thief exploiting a "low" wall or an unsecured window. Glitches aren't invitations any more than an open window. In other words...not a defense. (And in the U.S., specifically see the Avraham Eisenberg case, which is basically the same fact pattern. Eisenberg lost. His sentencing was postponed to last week but appears to have been postponed again.)

Then he skipped town after he was ordered by a court to put his tokens into escrow. If he truly believed that "code is law" and that the tokens were rightfully his, he wouldn't have skipped town. At that point...his own actions demonstrated that he didn't believe that what he did to acquire the tokens were legit. (The Fugitive notwithstanding, innocent people don't run.)

Then he "exploited glitches" for another DeFi. See above.

Then he attempted to launder the tokens...with some guy he found on the internet. Someone who legitimately believed that they legally owned the tokens would have hired lawyers, not money launderers, to gain access to their property. (Aside: any money launderer willing to launder money for a stranger is almost certainly undercover law enforcement...)

Then he moved to a country without an extradition treaty, and in the past few months has been spouting racist far-right nonsense in the hopes of getting pardoned.

Is he guilty? His own actions say that even he thinks he is.
by geriatric-janny | 2025-04-15 23:22:04+00:00
In its earliest years /b/ started prank calling the radio show of nazi Hal Turner, then messed with Stomfront as the conflict widened. There was little activist component to this. They just thought it was funny to rile up people who took themselves very seriously.

I don't think there was any real reverse colonisation. 4chan's userbase was always whimsically racist and A Wyatt Mann cartoons were everywhere long before the conflict. moot and WT Snacks implemented some interesting word filters that I can't repeat here without my post getting hidden. Everyone was hateful, but not full of hate.

I think very little has changed in twenty years really. Feral male behaviour is just arbitrarily right-coded now, when it wasn't during the Bush era. Most of the kids screaming bix nood probably voted Obama in 08. Politics is window dressing on timeless brand of petulant contrarianism.

If you're a parent, teacher, or intelligence officer worried about a "crisis of radicalisation", the worst thing you can do is take this stuff seriously. Just call your son gay until he grows out of it.
by meesles | 2025-04-15 23:23:21+00:00
> can be injected into any game without modifying any engine / game code

This sentence is an oxymoron...

Once you inject code, you have modified the original code. That isn't always possible or desired.

If you take 2 minutes to read the user guide of both softwares, the difference is obvious.

Reshade requires you to select the game executable and inject tools into the executable. It is specifically built to be compatible with all the major graphics drivers.

Chroma does not require you to point to the game and seems sit on top of the whole screen. I assume it just captures the screen and applies transformations to it at the surface level.