MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sergioisidoro | 2025-04-17 06:34:19+00:00
Fully hypothetical: It would be ironic if they ended up finding a relationship between autism and the overall stress, mysery, and dopamine hamster wheels that are causing the assortment of other mental health isssues.

Because I have a feeling they want to find an "environmental cause" only if it's not the one that is the driving engine of the economy.
by rkagerer | 2025-04-17 06:34:46+00:00
If you split the armies up between them, that would invite civil war.

Maybe they figured if things get too bad, officers of good conscience would stem the madness and have some political/legal cover from the other 1-2 branches? Eg. If a president tried to give orders to the military after being impeached and removed, it's doubtful they'd be followed.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-17 06:34:46+00:00
Meanwhile,

# El Salvador rejects US senator's plea to free wrongly deported migrant

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/el-salvador-rejects-us...

> [Senator] Van Hollen[, who represents Abrego Garcia's home state of Maryland,] said he had asked Vice President Felix Ulloa ... why Abrego Garcia was still locked up in the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) if he had committed no crime and El Salvador had no evidence that he was a member of the street gang MS-13. // "His answer was that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador, the government of El Salvador, to keep him at CECOT"

> Bukele said during a White House visit on Monday he did not have the power to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. // Trump told reporters he did not have the authority to intervene, leaving the man in limbo
by trhway | 2025-04-17 06:35:07+00:00
>That he has not been arrested yet, shows that he is above the law.

That is your perfect summary of the "unitary executive" which in the past was called even shorter - the King. It has already been decided by Supreme Court - he can't be prosecuted for anything he does as President. And for his subordinates doing his bidding, even if it is illegal, he would write pardons (he may even write pre-pardons like Biden did for Fauci). Thus no constitutional crisis because both things - no prosecution and the pardons - are according to the Constitution.

A commentary on the current Trump situation i heard from the Russian opposition: democracy requires constant maintenance by the people while with autocracy the people are freed from that burden.
by politelemon | 2025-04-17 06:35:54+00:00
I find comments like this strange and tbh a bit worrying too; instead of wishing for technology to get better, it's wishing for a specific company's revenue to improve.

I hope they do not enter the eink device market. Eink in general is unfortunately already suffering from the stranglehold of one giant which has locked innovation away due to its proprietary implementations. Having two will not make the situation better, only worse.
by phtrivier | 2025-04-17 06:36:40+00:00
Horrible as it may sound, I'm not sure this is the court case that has the most chances of brining people on the judge's "side".

(Don't get me wrong, I know there should not be "sides" when talking about the rule of law.)

But here, Trump can play the "tribal" card to his base very easily (I'm expecting a variation of "non white woke judges are once again defending dangerous illegal gang members immigrants against hard working white Americans, this is a witch hunt, fight !")

I think the average republican voter won't care. We already know they don't care about document mishandling, cyber security, sharing war plans, gutting science, etc... They used to care about sex and religion, but don't any more. However, we know they care about kids.

Is there a lawsuit brewing about harm done by the trump administration to kids of white, non immigrants, conservative, affluent, christian, devouts, mainstream and influencial Americans ?

(That being said, I was very surprised to read that the SCOTUS itself confirmed Trump should not have deported at least one of those people [1].)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250410235416/https://www.cnbc....
by tezza | 2025-04-17 06:37:02+00:00
Precisely. The tools often hallucinate: including in its instructions higher up even before your prompt portion. Also the behind the scenes stuff not show to the user during reasoning.

You see binary failures all the time when doing function calls or JSON outputs.

That is… “please call this function” … does not call function

“calling JSON endpoint”… does not emit JSON

so from the article the tool generates hallucinations that the tool has used external stuff: but that was entirely fictitious. it does not know that this tool usage was fictitious and then sticks by its guns.

The workaround is to have verification steps, throw away “bad” answers. Instead of expecting one true output, expect a stream of results which have a yield (agriculture) of a certain amount. say 95% work, 5% garbage. never consider the results truly accurate, just “accurate enough”. Verify always
by willvarfar | 2025-04-17 06:38:01+00:00
Interesting reading!

Does this explain a big inefficiency in BigQuery where it only ever does hash-joins? Is it because it is push so it never does merge-joins even when the inputs are all sorted or clustered etc?

Although tbh can't see why a system can't combine them both; some of the edges being push+buffer and some being buffer+pull.
by gabesullice | 2025-04-17 06:38:46+00:00
I think my post aged quite well, considering the resolution happened a few hours later, no?

Your post was implicitly invoking Occam's razor and so the premise of the question was about deciding which explanation to believe. I rejected that premise because it wasn't necessary to decide between the two explanations—they weren't mutually exclusive.

The only proof I had was that I've seen enough of these events resolve themselves very similarly to the way this one was resolved—which is why I was recommending a "wait and see" approach.

Call it wisdom or "lived experience".
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-17 06:39:11+00:00
I feel like it's important to share the full quote here, since it seems various news sites are doing an excellent job of trying to sanewash his full statements. [1] [2]

> Kennedy said "these are kids who will never pay taxes. They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."

Frankly if I said what I really thought of RFK Jr I'd likely be flagged instantly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaNhUvJyWUo

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/16/nx...
by monkeycantype | 2025-04-17 06:39:17+00:00
I'm reminded of the comment by a republican adviser, during the second bush presidency, critiquing an interviewer by saying ~ "you're too reality based, we're making reality". The odd thing about this claim that autism is rising, diagnoses sure, but don't any of the adults old enough to remember, remember all the people who we just labelled as strange. I've got a feeling we've got rising numbers of people diagnosed with autism and a corresponding reduction in people labelled and ostracised as non-specific 'strange'
by wuming2 | 2025-04-17 06:40:48+00:00
I read about “future proofing” and “expansion” possibilities of one’s fiber connection. And related user equipment.

My story is in the opposite direction.

We and everyone else in the neighborhood had symmetrical 1 Gbps installed about 15 years ago. We all paid the ISP for the top tier of full capacity.

During Covid decided to take inventory of our actual bandwidth needs.

Anything that can be deferred doesn’t count. Gone from instant bandwidth requirements are all cloud backups, OTA OS upgrades and apps updates. They need to complete overnight. Overlapping is not a requirement.

Videos are automatically played at 480p or less on iPhones, 720p or less on iPads and 1080p or less on HDTV. We purposely didn’t buy 4K TV because at our viewing distance has no benefits whatsoever. Aggregate peak bandwidth required here is 25 Mbps at a stretch. That is also enough for my wife to work from home.

We don’t deal with large datasets or raw videos over the internet.

So we found ourselves with one cable connected TV and the usual assortment of mobile devices connected to one WiFi 4 1x1 hotspot. At 70 Mbps we never noticed any loss of quality in our digital lifestyle.

After about ten years we replaced the hotspot with one capable of WiFi 5. An overkill but needed the extra port.

Eventually convinced the ISP to lower our subscription to the lowest available tier of 200 Mbps. We don’t notice any difference. We could afford the extra bandwidth. But don’t see the benefits of it.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-17 06:40:52+00:00
> The "external party" here [is] literally someone who the federal government

Indeed, all those decades of certain people whining about "political correctness" when other people used their individual freedom to react with mean words have led us to the current day in 2025: Where Republicans are trying to insert USSR-style Political Commissars to punish people for opinions the government doesn't like.
by bsder | 2025-04-17 06:41:25+00:00
Yeah, frozen is pretty good and quite often better nutritionally as it is more ripe than the "fresh" stuff since it doesn't have to be cosmetically appealing or to stay "fresh" while going on the trip through the cold chain.

The general problem is with "fresh" as it is specifically optimized for the time spent in the cold chain. Produce has less water as that would bruise. Stuff is picked while unripe and then "ripened" in warehouses. Characteristics that cause degradation are bred out (like the enzymes in roses that give you the scent that is the defining characteristic of a goddamn rose). etc.

And, you are quite correct that the overarching problem is the consolidation of the food chain into a small number of giant "agribusiness" entities.
by wiether | 2025-04-17 06:42:50+00:00
> IMO using a streaming service’s recommendations is a way to filter out bands that labels aren’t promoting. The services have to be getting paid for pushing - right?

I keep hearing this, I also read Mood Machine that says the same thing over and over again.

Yet, every week for years, thanks to Spotify I'm discovering artists that don't have the means to pay to be promoted in any way.

I'm not saying that I'm special or that I hacked the algo or that it's false that Spotify promotes artists that are paying to be promoted.

I'm just saying that, depending on how you consume (I'm using this verb on purpose) music on streaming platforms, you'll be more or less targeted by money-making thongs.

If you listen to the main playlists, they are basically 100% promotion based. But if you listen to a non-promoted artist's radio, you'll have far less promoted content.
by szszrk | 2025-04-17 06:44:13+00:00
Ok, but what's the alternative?

Support for cert and CA pinning is in a state that is much better than I thought it will be, at least for mobile apps. I'm impressed by Apple's ATS.

Yet, for instance, you can't pin a CA for any domain, you always have to provide it up front to audit, otherwise your app may not get accepted.

Doesn't this mean that it's not (realistically) possible to create cert pinning for small solutions? Like homelabs or app vendors that are used by onprem clients?

We'll keep abusing PKI for those use cases.
by busterarm | 2025-04-17 06:45:31+00:00
And /k/ forgets the lesson that Finland learned twice, the hard way.

Having more bodies to throw at your enemy is a valid, war-winning tactic. Really that's what the meme _should_ be. Russia will beat you with poorly trained soldiers and two generations old tech. Bet.

But I guess that also undermines everything that /k/ stands for...
by areoform | 2025-04-17 06:45:41+00:00
American prosperity and American corporations exist on the basis of the rule of law.

It's not just a human issue - it's a fundamental stability issue. If the POTUS and his associates can point to someone and just disappear them without any due process or recourse, then why can't they do the same with a "Chinese collaborator" corporation's executives? Or, heck the CEO.

And then certain politicians can have those people reassign shares to them.

A lot of Americans will say that I'm grasping at straws, or being far fetched. And they would be wrong.

This is a thing that happens in authoritarian regimes that lack due process. Even when the people are one of the "elites."

When you look at Trump point a finger and disappear people, ask how is Jack Ma doing lately?

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-alibaba-crack...

https://www.wired.com/story/jack-ma-isnt-back/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-65084344

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5308604/alibaba-founder...

More germanely, he disagreed with the regime. Fairly harmless criticism,

The Financial Times reported that the disappearance may have been connected to a speech given at the annual People's Bank of China financial markets forum,[41] in which Ma criticized China's regulators and banks.[41] Ma described state banks as operating with a pawn shop mentality and criticized the Basel Accords as a "club for the elderly."

In response, the authoritarians in charge decided to show Ma who was boss and behold,

Ant Group made major changes to its ownership structure and corporate governance in January 2023.[42]: 261 That month, Ant Group announced a series of changes in shareholder voting rights, with Ma no longer the actual controller of Ant Group.[50] Ma's voting rights were reduced from 50% to 6%.[42]: 271 Following these changes, no single shareholder has a controlling stake in the company.[42]: 261 The company's board also added another independent director.[42]: 261 The Chinese government spoke positively of Ant Group's changes, including describing them as improvements in transparency and accountability

"improvements in transparency and accountability" —> they forced him to sell his voting shares and forcibly removed him from his company.

Do you want the US to follow in these footsteps?

This isn't a slippery slope. It's a Slip 'N Slide. Ma's not the first person they did this to. China is not the first country to do this either. And yes, none of them imagined it would happen to them until it happened to them.

The reason why the US is a bastion of technological progress, startups and capitalism is because the freedom to do business is underwritten by fundamental personal freedoms. If you lose that, then you will lose all of the wealth that system created.

Why would you want to be a founder in a world where you can show obedience to the party, rise up the ranks, and just... grab shares from the next big startup? Wet your beak a little. Get a cut.

It might not happen now. It might not happen in a year. Or three. But it will happen.

For the night is long and the knives are ever sharp.
by gortok | 2025-04-17 06:46:16+00:00
For the sake of argument, let’s say Trump won on the issue of the economy and “fixing it” to work for the work class who has largely been ignored politically by congress.

That is a one issue voter, and at least the folks I’ve seen around here focus on the economics, so it’s relevant for our interests to focus on that.

This. This is the problem with the one issue vote. Trump is, being charitable, not very good at running a business, let alone a country, and so his choices to run the various federal agencies that make up the government will invariably be bad. We’ve already seen the effects of this “management philosophy”, and will continue to see the effects in the form of actual harm to the folks that live in the United States (and harm to folks around the world, but one thing at a time).

The myopia of the voter, whether it’s here on HN or elsewhere, causes this harm. I don’t know how to fix this issue, because a one issue voter is notoriously difficult to reason with, but it’s what we are facing, whether that issue is the economy, abortion, or trans-fearmongering.
by jemmyw | 2025-04-17 06:46:16+00:00
That's not true. I afforded it. It probably had a positive ROI, though it's extremely hard to tell. But I regret going, it wasn't the experience I needed or was looking for. Talking to some others later in life, I wish I had taken a different path. Going straight into work would have been far better. I don't lament how my life turned out or anything, but there were a couple of decisions I made, including uni, where I nearly went another way, but followed a path of least resistance instead. Just a small bit of advice would have really helped. My parents didn't step up in that regard.
by kstrauser | 2025-04-17 06:47:05+00:00
Ugh. If I believed for a second this was a good faith effort to actually do so, I'd support it. Our previous next door neighbors’ kid was nonverbal and the parents told us a lot about their very challenging life. They made the best of a bad situation, and loved their kid dearly, but it was rough all around. This wasn't autism in the sense of “high paid tech worker without social graces”, but “if something happens to us, will our child die before help comes?”. If that were treatable, let’s do it.

I do not believe for a second that this is a good faith effort.
by Implicated | 2025-04-17 06:47:09+00:00
If this is truly your perspective, you've already lost the plot.

It's almost always the users fault when it comes to tools. If you're using it and it's not doing its 'job' well - it's more likely that you're using it wrong than it is that it's a bad tool. Almost universally.

Right tool for the job, etc etc. Also important that you're using it right, for the right job.

Claude Code isn't meant to refactor entire projects. If you're trying to load up 100k token "whole projects" into it - you're using it wrong. Just a fact. That's not what this tool is designed to do. Sure.. maybe it "works" or gets close enough to make people think that is what it's designed for, but it's not.

Detailed, specific work... it excels, so wildly, that it's astonishing to me that these takes exist.

In saying all of that, there _are_ times I dump huge amounts of context into it (Claude, projects, not Claude Code - cause that's not what it's designed for) and I don't have "conversations" with it in that manner. I load it up with a bunch of context, ask my question/give it a task and that first response is all you need. If it doesn't solve your concern, it should shine enough light that you now know how you want to address it in a more granular fashion.
by silisili | 2025-04-17 06:47:53+00:00
One may assume.

The problem then is compounded by the fact the president picks the secdef, and is more or less able to fire anyone showing an ounce of 'disloyalty', as we've seen happen in recent weeks. Twice if memory serves me right.

So all but the very dumbest would curate their military leaders before attempting boldness.
Show HN: Elfconv – Linux Apps to High-Performance WASM Binary Translator
by yomaytk | 2025-04-17 06:48:14+00:00
This post introduces elfconv, a binary translator that converts Linux applications into WebAssembly.

repo: https://github.com/yomaytk/elfconv

Recently, performance has improved dramatically. In our LINPACK benchmark, the Wasm generated from ELF/AArch64 by elfconv now runs at roughly 60–80% of the performance of the Wasm directly compiled from source code.

This shows that elfconv can produce WebAssembly with practical, real‑world performance! Furthermore, compared to QEMU running in the browser, it achieves approximately 68× the performance.

Benchmark test: https://github.com/yomaytk/elfconv/issues/116

QEMU in the browser: https://github.com/ktock/qemu-wasm

Please give it a try, and feel free to submit any issues or pull requests!
by steve_gh | 2025-04-17 06:48:38+00:00
There are many embedded devices for which TLS is simply not feasible. For remote sensing, when you are relying on battery power and need to maximise device battery life, then the power budget is critical. Telemetry is the biggest drain on the power budget, so anything that means spending more time with the RF system powered up should be avoided. TLS falls into this category.
by userbinator | 2025-04-17 06:48:48+00:00
The home refrigerator is barely a century old

When the article was written, it turned 110: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOMELRE

I somewhat follow the vintage refrigeration community (owning a mid-30s Frigidaire myself) and still believe this is the only one of them known to be in existence today: https://www.coolingpost.com/features/ashrae-displays-first-e...
by altairprime | 2025-04-17 06:49:20+00:00
At one point on a trip to Hawaii I was detained in my room by hotel security for fifteen minutes after requesting a room key to replace the one I lost.

It turns out that they had typo’d 12 into the request type field instead of 1, and type 12 was “Covid lockdown protocol with security enforcement” leftover from 2020 and latent in their systems.

Depending on MarkMonitor have chosen to integrate with each other to handle the sort of trademark management that is MarkMonitor’s premium offering, either or both parties could have simply been off-by-one or typo’d in a transaction to cause this. It’s absolutely plausible to create a confusing nightmare outcome with a one-byte error. (And we’re having quite incredible cosmic rays today, so I hope they’re using ECC RAM!)
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-17 06:49:57+00:00
> The fact is that the vast majority of us don't have the resources to self-host a Jellyfin instance that can provide near-instantaneous access anywhere in the world to every song ever made at 320kbps.

The fact also is that the vast majority of us don't have a requirement to be able to access our media from anywhere in the world. Most people aren't traveling the world on a regular basis, they stay in one area except for maybe an occasional vacation.

> And of course I never have to worry about managing a library of mp3 files. When an artist I like drops a new album, it'll be on Spotify at 12:00am exactly and work perfectly. This isn't possible with self-hosting.

If that's important to you, then indeed self-hosting will never be able to match it. But for me at least, my music listening has been 95% static since about 20 years ago. On occasion I hear something new that I add to the collection, but for the most part I listen to the same music I did some time ago. Paying $6/mo to Spotify just to listen to the same things I already have in my collection would be a gross waste of money. So for me it's the exact opposite: self hosting is a no-brainer because I simply would not get any value for my $6/mo.
by bytepoet | 2025-04-17 06:49:57+00:00
The blog post is really good. I see that there's a follow-up piece 'The Fifth Kind of Optimisation' about parallelism.

Something that I'd like to add is that it's helpful to understand the optimization capabilities of our compiler. Ideally, we would like to write program that doesn't have what are called 'optimization-blockers' - these make it hard for the compiler to generate optimized executables.

I like the pointer to the blog on accidentally quadratic implementations. I find that the following pattern is often a landmine:

for (int i = 0; i < strlen(s); i++) // code in loop

strlen(s) gets computed every iteration, incurring O(n) time.

Finally, being aware that I/O latencies are major source of bottlenecks leads to nice optimizations. One advantage of multiple threads is that they can sometimes hide the I/O latency. In general, writing programs with good memory locality is one of the better levers for optimization.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-17 06:51:57+00:00
In a dictorship doesn't matter what the judge thinks, which is the unfortunate state of affairs, it appears the US citzens have yet to realise who is in power.

If it was another small country, the rest of the world would probably ignore what is currently happening in USA.

However it isn't a small country, rather one of the major countries and world powers, hence everyone gets hurt when failing to learn from history.