MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by majorchord | 2025-04-14 19:35:33+00:00
Not OP but I found these at least, googling in 30 seconds:

Australian Border Force searched phones of 10,000 travellers in past two years, data shows

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/...

Canadian authorities, like U.S. authorities, say they will seize a phone if a traveler refuses to unlock it. New Zealand imposes a $5,000 fine for failing to unlock a phone, and Britain considers refusing to unlock a phone for police to be a counterterrorism offense.

https://reason.com/2025/04/04/what-to-do-if-border-police-as...
by kweingar | 2025-04-14 19:35:40+00:00
The aggregate demands of the administration are confusing and contradictory. They seem to be simultaneously asking for:

- an end to diversity initiatives

- a new diversity initiative for diverse points of view

- a new policy of not admitting international students with certain points of view

- ending speech-control policies

- auditing the speech of certain departments and programs

- ending discipline of students who violate policies related to inclusion

- disciplining particular students who violated policies related to inclusion
by taikahessu | 2025-04-14 19:36:06+00:00
It has been really frustrating learning Godot (or any new technology you are not familiar with) 4.4.x with GPT4o or even worse, with custom GPT which use older GPT4turbo.

As you are new in the field, it kinda doesn't make sense to pick an older version. It would be better if there was no data than incorrect data. You literally have to include the version number on every prompt and even that doesn't guarantee a right result! Sometimes I have to play truth or dare three times before we finally find the right names and instructions. Yes I have the version info on all custom information dialogs, but it is not as effective as including it in the prompt itself.

Searching the web feels like an on-going "I'm feeling lucky" mode. Anyway, I still happen to get some real insights from GPT4o, even though Gemini 2.5 Pro has proven far superior for larger and more difficult contexts / problems.

The best storytelling ideas have come from GPT 4.5. Looking forward to testing this new 4.1 as well.
by __jl__ | 2025-04-14 19:36:41+00:00
I think the 9 billion is very misleading. More than half goes to hospitals affiliated with Harvard. I am not sure but I don't think they get anything from the endowment. The impact of loosing this money would be very uneven across different parts of the university and hospitals affiliated with it.

The faculty of arts and science would be fine. Yes, some cuts, a hiring freeze etc. The med school and public health school would feel a big impact. They employ so many people on "soft money" through grants including many faculty members.

The hospitals are a different story and I am not sure why they are even lumped together.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-14 19:36:56+00:00
FYI because it can be misleading here, "the defense" is Kristi Noem/DHS/the US Government.

Kilmar Garcia has never been charged with a crime and is not a defendant in any case whatsoever. He is a kidnapping victim who is suing his kidnapper.

Into the main topic: I looked and don't see any such filing. I can find references to a memo from El Salvador claiming that it's 1 year for $6 million. I can't find a contract though, so the evidence suggests no such contract has been produced. Curious if you're willing to link directly to it though!

Here's what the aforementioned filing states:

> According to a memorandum issued by El Salvador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the agreement provides that the detainees will be held “for one (1) year, pending the United States’ decision on [their] long term disposition.”

I.e. referencing a memo, not a contract. This is unusual/illegal as any contract that USG signs over $25,000 must be reported.
by squigz | 2025-04-14 19:37:01+00:00
What parts have I not addressed that you think I should?

I'm trying to make you understand that maybe there's other valid reasons people may be drawn to AI companions - and if I'm right, your misunderstanding of why people are or are not drawn to such things will make it really hard for you to make any progress in your goal of "creating kind human beings that are not fools"

Anyway, in my experience, most people are in fact kind by nature and not fools. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective and approaching people with a bit more good faith; not assuming they're unkind, or telling them how they really should feel. Maybe if people were willing to see the other side a little bit more, and have a bit of empathy for others' feelings, they'd not feel the need to retreat from the world.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-04-14 19:37:31+00:00
Unless you're Stephen Miller, who insists that no mistake was made: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrobxubic23

And, more recently, Bukele and Trump insisted that they would not return a "terrorist" to the United States: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrwrrkbnf2e

It's clear that the administration does not consider collateral damage a bug, but a feature; it confirms that as long as they insist that they will not do anything, then nothing will be done.
by chaps | 2025-04-14 19:37:38+00:00
This is interesting! I've been having some pretty bad intermittent panic attacks over the past year or so and a thing I've noticed is that I have general inflammation across my body along with the panic attacks. For a long while I thought it was an infected tooth, but with that fixed and the panic attacks still ongoing, I'm not sure! But this is a nice confirmation that there's some correlation.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-04-14 19:37:49+00:00
Yes. It's the typical 'hen & egg' problem. I'm watching there from time to time, and even found some things (independent trance/ambient/goa music) which didn't exist on YT at all! Though the selection is limited, compared to YT or whatever, it's less algorithmic, and because of this you're not forced to use most exaggerated grimacing or clickbaity titles, IF you have no commercial interests and give a shit about ads.

If that's your thing. And you have some sort of presence online elsewhere, then you can link to peertube, no matter which, or selfhosted, without problem.

That's why I pointed you to it. If you need/want the most massive audience, because of platform familarity/network effect, then probably not. At least not now. But someone has to start somehow :)
by nairteashop | 2025-04-14 19:37:52+00:00
Let's set aside specific terms like "fascist" for now. Below is one of the demands from the government:

> the University shall commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually viewpoint diverse.

Do you feel this is ok for the government to demand of an educational institution? This isn't about specific political ideologies. If the Biden administration had threatened to withhold funding from a university because, for example, their hiring policies weren't left-leaning enough or something, it would be equally outrageous.
by lizknope | 2025-04-14 19:37:54+00:00
At both startups we bought our shares early using Section 83(b) of the IRS tax code. That first year when we bought the shares I had to file extra paperwork but it shifts the tax rate to long term capital gains.

https://www.cooleygo.com/what-is-a-section-83b-election/

So I ended up writing checks of $60 and $100 to buy thousands of shares at $0.0001 a share. I left both startups before they went under but everyone lost that small amount. When people ask me how much money I made at the startup I joke that I lose $60.
by jsnell | 2025-04-14 19:38:10+00:00
I make it 8.9% with a binomial test[0]. I rounded that to 10%, because any more precision than that was not justified.

Specifically, the results from the blog post are impossible: with 200 samples, you can't possibly have the claimed 54.9/45.1 split of binary outcomes. Either they didn't actually make 200 tests but some other number, they didn't actually get the results they reported, or they did some kind of undocumented data munging like excluding all tied results. In any case, the uncertainty about the input data is larger than the uncertainty from the rounding.

[0] In R, binom.test(110, 200, 0.5, alternative="greater")
by jmclnx | 2025-04-14 19:38:14+00:00
Not if the US keeps electing Climate Change Deniers :(

But the time will arrive when this happens, it is just a matter of when. We should have been there by now, but I think *coins and AI is keeping fossil fuel demand high.

Two things will happen, we move to renewals, decreasing oil use a lot or Climate Change ends our society. Either case will lessen Oil Demand, that is the choice we are facing. The way things are going I expect the latter.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-14 19:38:21+00:00
Small discussions (including possible ID of vendor):

(72 points, 1 day ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669151

(17 points, 5 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681758
by spankalee | 2025-04-14 19:38:40+00:00
TypeScript does an amazing job at describing the types of real-world JavaScript. It's incredibly good, and very useful, even in the face of extremely dynamic programs. The fact that it can describe transforms of types, like "this is a utility that adds an `xxx` prefix to every property name" is frankly unparalleled in mainstream languages, but more importantly lets us describe patterns that come up in real-world JS programs - it's not fluff!

And luckily, the most complex of types are usually limited to and contained within library type definitions. They add a lot of value for the library users, who usually don't have to deal that that level of complexity.
by morleytj | 2025-04-14 19:38:41+00:00
Who hates you in particular? What do you mean by that? Also, that's fine to have a conversation about funding, but it's fairly different from arrests, deportations, and shipping individuals to foreign prisons. Rather motte and bailey to earlier suggest that the government was going to go "Henry VII" on universities, and then say that you just want to change funding. These are very different positions.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-04-14 19:38:50+00:00
It's always really hard to be let go, especially when you were a successful person in the company. Sadly, companies choose the people to fire by some obscure means, mostly the money earned. I've been recently dismissed from work due to "reorganisation", and it really hit me hard in terms of psychological health. Please take care of yourself, do not lose your strength, don’t let your sense of self-worth be harmed by this (I got really vulnerable after this event), and wishing you good luck in finding the next job!
by zamadatix | 2025-04-14 19:39:32+00:00
Keep in mind labor is something like 10%-15% of the cost of a new car so even if you cut that down by 80%, including transport, and ignored recouping capital cost to actually move the production lines then you'd still need to move the production in less than 2 years to actually see the price decrease rather than "not move up as fast" at 3% car price inflation of the early 90s. Interestingly there was a dip in the price increase rate of cars at the end of the 90s https://www.in2013dollars.com/New-cars/price-inflation but it's too large to have been reasonably attributable to this trade change.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-04-14 19:39:41+00:00
Indeed, Bukele can refuse in the same way my boss cannot literally gun-to-my-head compel me to file TPS reports. If Trump actually meant it and started bouncing cheques for the other prisoners, he would move quickly. Instead they coordinate this ratchet effect where they take combined action and then pretend to be completely ineffectual when it is found to be illegal and ordered to be undone.
by robocat | 2025-04-14 19:39:46+00:00
Republicans Are Floating Plans To Raise the Endowment Tax. Here’s What You Need To Know : https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/11/increasing-endo...

Proposed College Endowment Tax Hike: What to Know : https://thecollegeinvestor.com/52851/proposed-college-endowm...

College endowments are typically tax-exempt, but a 2017 law imposed a 1.4% tax on investment income for a small group of wealthy private universities. A new proposal seeks to increase the endowment tax rate to 14%

Other article:

proposing an 8.6 percent tax hike

When hacking the government rules is used against you.
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-14 19:40:00+00:00
Why is it any more necessary to fight "leftists and muslims" than it is to fight righties and MAGAs?

That's the question that the Trump people never seem to acknowledge that the rest of America is asking itself?

What's the difference between muslims bombing whatever and MAGAs shooting up or torching a black church? The rest of us are finding it hard to see the distinction.

In fact, recent events have served to crystalize the dangers posed to the republic by ill considered MAGA policies. And to concentrate minds on the problem of how to extricate ourselves from the crises they have gotten us into in as efficient a manner as possible.

If efficiency is even possible at this point? Maybe "in as minimally painful a manner as possible" is a better way to say it?
by tikhonj | 2025-04-14 19:40:23+00:00
> The government, on the other hand, has every right to put conditions its counterparty should conform to in order to get money from the government.

It really doesn't. There are both normal laws and Constitutional restrictions on how the government can make decisions, and the reasons it can have for making those decisions.

I'm very much not an expert here, but this includes restrictions on viewpoint discrimination in funding.
by paxys | 2025-04-14 19:40:38+00:00
I don't understand the FTC's strategy here. Their entire case hinges on the fact that the judge will accept that Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and MeWe (?) are direct competitors of Facebook in the "personal social networking" space while TikTok, YouTube, X, iMessage and all the rest aren't. Unsurprisingly that is what Meta's legal team is spending all of its efforts debating. I really can't see the judge allowing such a cherry-picked definition of what Facebook's market is.
by d0mine | 2025-04-14 19:41:05+00:00
It may be the exact opposite. You can't express (at least you shouldn't try to avoid Turing tarpit-like issues) all the desired constraints for your problem domain using just the type system (you need a readable general purpose programming language for that).

If you think your type system is both readable and powerful then why would you need yet another programming language? (Haskell comes to mind as an example of such language--don't know how true it is). The opposite (runtime language used at compile time) may also be successful eg Zig.

Gradual typing in Python provides the best of both worlds: things that are easy to express as types you express as types. On the other hand, you don't need to bend over backwards and refactor half your code just to satisfy your compiler (Rust comes to mind). You can choose the trade off suitable for your project and be dynamic where it is beneficial. Different projects may require a different boundary. There is no size fits all.

P.S. As I understand it, the article itself is about "pragmatism beats purity."
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-04-14 19:41:10+00:00
The actual information comes from Microsoft's CVE listing [0]. Allegedly it's to prevent a privilege escalation to SYSTEM via the Windows Update stack.

(From attackers who can already add subdirectories to the system drive, I guess. Though I wonder why Windows Update would even be writing stuff into the inetpub directory in the first place.)

[0] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...
by roughly | 2025-04-14 19:42:00+00:00
When the guy lifting your TV starts quoting Marx at you, it's not actually an invitation to engage in philosophical discourse, and no amount of sound economic reasoning is getting your TV back.

The Trump administration is not, has not, and will not be arguing in good faith. Stop pretending we're working collaboratively towards a shared future - they're either stealing your television or stealing your neighbor's television, and attempts to interrogate the merits of their television relocation policy aren't shedding any actual light to the situation.
by alganet | 2025-04-14 19:42:09+00:00
Maybe I am.

The part of thr article on information theory is more about mathematics than software. I don't deny there could be some generalization there.

The problem I see is that this could slip to measure human actions, which are also source of uncertainty, but although the words fit, in this particular case I think associating it with classical entropy does more harm than good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot

Entropy as described in this article (software entropy), to me, does not fall under the same generalization. It is a looser use of the word. I used it myself several times, but now people are buzzwording entropy all around, and I think that looser use should be retracted to avoid thinking of humans as numbers or particles.
by jsbg | 2025-04-14 19:42:59+00:00
> Except that I don't recall cars produced in Mexico ever getting more affordable.

According to this site[0], new car prices were about 6% higher at the end of NAFTA in 2020 compared with at the start of NAFTA in 1994. Considering inflation on other things was on average much higher and also that more recent cars are significantly safer, more performant, and fuel-efficient—i.e. more provide more value—it does look like cars did effectively get cheaper.

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/New-cars/price-inflation
by mariusor | 2025-04-14 19:43:06+00:00
I feel like most people that are using the term deliberately, are doing so based on reasoning close to Umberto Eco's "Ur-fascism" essay: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

If you want something more modern, someone made a tracker: https://www.realtimefascism.com/

The tracker uses "the 14 characteristics of fascism identified by Dr. Lawrence Britt" (which is slightly different): https://osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf
by pdimitar | 2025-04-14 19:43:12+00:00
Well you kind of answered yourself. After limping with Emacs for 19-ish years, during most of which I never made the serious effort you alluded to, I finally admitted I just don't have and don't want to have the mindset that's deemed necessary to make full use of Emacs.

All of my professional experience, which is at this point substantial (though of course I make no claims that quality stems from quantity!), has showed me that smaller specialized tools always perform better -- in every meaning of the word.

To me Neovim wins because it's extremely snappy, it has no visual noise, and doesn't show me a warning from a random plugin down there in the command bar almost every minute (something which Emacs apparently will always do). And is configurable in a way I find intuitive. I never cared about all the directories where I am supposed to install my own Elisp files, and I still don't. I want a plugin manager and I want to issue commands to it: install, update, delete. Neovim's Lazy and Mason do exactly what I expect.

I was never, in almost two decades, able to look at how Emacs does things and think to myself "oh but of course it will work like that".

So no, I haven't used Emacs for anything except coding. And I don't intend to use Neovim for anything else as well (with the possible exception of lazygit integration, that one works great). Though I am also working towards having everything except my web browsers be in the terminal.

Again, many will say "skill issue" or "it's just not for you" (the smarter ones). Which, again again, I never denied. But I don't plan to mince words and I am tired of the (to me) unjustified praise for Emacs. It absolutely is not, not just for everyone, but not for most even, IMO.

If you have tamed it and find it intuitive, I am sure it empowers you. I never got to that point and I regret trying to fit in for such an extremely long time. But oh well, we live and learn. We live for sure. :)
by drdeca | 2025-04-14 19:43:16+00:00
The fact that people were obtaining it from sources intended for horses is mostly unrelated to the fact that it is not effective as a Covid treatment for people who don’t have some other parasite in addition to Covid.

I don’t think calling it a horse dewormer is helpful, despite the fact that people were obtaining it from people who were selling it for the treatment of horses. People who (wrongly) think it works as treatment for covid will probably be aware that it is not exclusively a treatment for horses, so I don’t think calling it a horse dewormer will change any of their minds.

Even if it did, I am uncomfortable relying on misleading people in order to convince them of something true. (If someone believes X, and X is false, and you want to convince them of a true statement Z, then it is fine to say “X is false, but, I know you believe that X. Y is true, and X and Y together clearly imply Z. Therefore you should conclude Z.” (Assuming Y is true.) That’s not misleading someone. It is something different.)

It seems like allowing oneself to mislead, even if only when the misleading statements are sorta true in a sense, just not in the way they will be interpreted, in order to convince someone of something that is true, is rather dangerous. If such behavior were universalized, I think it would be rather bad for collective understanding. (What if someone U is trying to convince someone V of some statement P which U only believe is true because someone W misled U in to believe P in order to convince U of some other statement Q that is true, and then U says something misleading to V (leading V to believe a false statement R) in order to convince V that P ? Not good.)
by __loam | 2025-04-14 19:43:28+00:00
There's definitely a conversation we can have about the cost and accessibility of higher education in this country. I don't think that conversation should include an administration that is unilaterally and arbitrarily canceling international student visas, threatening to withhold research funding that was already allocated by congress, and turning back foreign scientists at the border for things they said in private conversation that the government only knows about after a warrantless search.
by infogulch | 2025-04-14 19:43:47+00:00
Quadlets came up recently:

Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd (mo8it.com) | 298 points | 68 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456934

Where do quadlets fit in the container management landscape?

Running individual services that would have been RPMs? Docker compose? K8s?
by areoform | 2025-04-14 19:43:55+00:00
How do you exercise due process on the 10 million people imported into the country over the last 4-5 years? The court system simply isn't built for it, nor the detainment facilities to house them while the courts take months to process each person. The housing market is already under too much stress and low cost housing and free housing has gone to them instead of citizens who were already here and in need.

...?

The same way you exercise it for 320 million other people. The same way it has been exercised for every person who immigrated to American soil. Including your ancestors.

Let's be clear about what you're actually saying and you're advocating for, you are advocating for the suspension of due process and fundamental rights to an entire class of human beings you see as the other.

If history has taught us anything, the definition of who and what is other changes over time. One day, you too shall be the other. And that day you will beg for the due process and fundamental rights you wish to deprive these people.

When the Benjamin Franklin said, "... if you can keep it." This type of thought process is precisely what he meant.