MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-16 06:51:05+00:00
We never ever told people they are losers for wanting a better life. One of the most popular candidates for the Dem ticket was Bernie Sanders. He actually wanted to cut our biggest budget line items and spend them on the things people worry about the most (healthcare, something most Americans worry about being able to afford).

Trump is a literal billionaire. How is him telling the sons of people who used to do manufacturing that they're okay any better than a Harvard educated lawyer saying he feels for them (Trump and Vance are both Ivy League educated, btw)?

I also want Americans to have a better life. I also think we spend way too much elsewhere instead of at home. A lot of Democrats think that and drive policies for that. Trump may care about that too, but you can't vote for who makes you feel good. You have to learn how to vote for who will actually improve your life. We are the rulers of America, we have to understand our economy, our government, etc. No one is going to do it for us. I'd much rather vote for someone who talks down to me and will deliver stability than a guy who hypes me up and tanks the economy
by userbinator | 2025-04-16 06:51:22+00:00
Reminds me of TDASM from the turn of the century: https://web.archive.org/web/20230906054935/http://www.pengui...

I remember there were a few other meta-assemblers I came across in the 80s-90s, so this is definitely not "unchartered territory", but it's good to see another one show up.

Of course, in the other direction there are meta-disassemblers used for analysis in tools like Ghidra.
by bmacho | 2025-04-16 06:51:30+00:00
> Or are there actual DOGE sympathies within the HN population?

AFAIK a small number of them is enough to hide stuff from the front page. I don't know why is this the case, honestly I don't see any benefit over full time-moderators hiding problematic stuff, only negatives. Like why should a small political group be able to distort the news on the front page?
by watwut | 2025-04-16 06:51:49+00:00
He will make many errors outside his area of knowledge. As many as anyone else. They won't be better in the long term. He is senior in his area. And just like anyone else, he is junior outside of his area.

It is just magical thinking to expect some long term benefit from insisting on him bullshitting his way through something he don't understand much.
by panrobo | 2025-04-16 06:52:23+00:00
From business perspective it's often hard to see these long-term lock-ins and potential effects of those. And hyperscalers focus in on creating narration where moving to the cloud "accelerates" your business. Sure, you don't need to deal with data center things, but eventually you still have people operating the cloud and it's just different kind of talent - but they are still FTEs you need to manage. So the business question remains on the ROI of the investment and currently data center investments bring very high ROI for those who dare.
by t0lo | 2025-04-16 06:52:56+00:00
I mean I think The Republican Incumbent was chosen specifically as a tool because he is so extreme, pervasive and demoralising and creeps into everything. Definitely by Russia, maybe also by our "friend" in the ME. Although it's not that reported on they are on friendly terms.

Disaffection lends itself easily to creating a Russia-style society. This all feels pretty Dugin-esque, and his proposition (return to values, reject interest/hope in politics because it is always flawed anyway, bind together under the state) fits perfectly, and is finding prominence at the perfect time.

Just my opinion, but to me this seems far more akin to Dugin than whatever Curtis Yavin is pushing
by hmpark | 2025-04-16 06:53:34+00:00
Oh no—thanks for letting me know! I didn’t realize SBIX fonts don’t work in Firefox. Maybe try it on Chrome instead?

I’m on a Mac and using Chrome, so I haven’t had the chance to test it across different browsers and OS yet. It’s my first time making a font like this, so I wasn’t fully aware of the compatibility issues. I’ll try to update it soon!

Would you like to get notified when I upload a new version?
by jmpz | 2025-04-16 06:53:40+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G...

* In March 2019, Prince George's County, Maryland, police arrested Abrego Garcia and three other men in a Home Depot parking lot, where they were seeking work as day laborers.[2][19] One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a "gang member," but The Atlantic reported that, according to court filings, the man offered no proof and police said they did not believe him.[19] Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.[20]

Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to ICE for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because "he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie" and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York,[2] where he has never lived.[16] ICE relied on information from a form that was filled out by a local police officer who was suspended not long after for "giving confidential information about a case to a sex worker", and thus was unavailable when Abrego Garcia's lawyer sought more information.[21] Roger Parloff of Lawfare notes that since neither the officer nor the informant were cross-examined, the accusation went through two layers of hearsay to reach the immigration court. An immigration judge determined that the informant's claim[22] was sufficient evidence for the purpose of denying Abrego Garcia's bond request; another judge upheld that ruling on appeal, saying the claim was not clearly wrong.[18] However, no court has ever made a "full adjudication" of this issue.[18] *

The evidence of him being a member of MS13 is dubious at best, and suspicious since he and his brother had fled to the US to escape gangs in El Salvador.

He didn't fail to deport, he applied for asylum and withholding of removal during the process. Asylum wasn't possible because it needed to be applied for within a year of arriving, but he was granted withholding of removal, which he'd maintained by checking in yearly with ICE since 2019.
by thih9 | 2025-04-16 06:54:24+00:00
Not really, or at least not permanently; uniform distribution is mentioned in a github changelog, perhaps it’s an upcoming feature:

> 0.4.0

> BRAKING: x~y (read: range from x to y) now means "flat distribution from x to y". Every value between x and y is as likely to be emitted.

> For normal distribution, you can now use x+-d, which puts the mean at x, and the 95% (2 sigma) bounds at distance d from x.

https://github.com/filiph/unsure/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#04...
by constantcrying | 2025-04-16 06:55:06+00:00
>...Unless you force them all to be social media personalities and marketers first. Unless you think YouTube and its ilk can carry art and culture forward alone (as "content", of course).

How much do you think I am paying an artist hen listening to their songs on Spotify 1000 times? Every album they ever made, dozens of times. The answer will surprise you!

Already every single musician has to be a personality and marketer. There is no other way to make money. You can not finance yourself by the rights to your music, right now.

Only a very select group of artists has any kind of real revenue from the rights over their music. The rest is already using other channels to profit, which are not protected by IP.
by smcl | 2025-04-16 06:55:23+00:00
Honestly this has been extensively studied and the "the US gets shocking value for money and poor health outcomes" is the consensus. You can either take that as a personal insult, dig your heels in and say "the data is wrong" or "they're lying", blame immigrants or other things I've seen some Americans do when their "we're #1" belief is challenged ... or you can take notice and demand better from your country.

It is really of no consequence to me which you choose, I don't live there and it's looking likely I'll probably skip even visiting let alone consider moving there in future.
by x-complexity | 2025-04-16 06:55:57+00:00
> Instead, phrasing it as "wouldn't you prefer it if **we** paid the same amount of money every month and when we go to the hospital we don't have to worry about any out of pocket costs?" This really nailed the point home to him.

I can already hear the nails on this one, because the goal has now been camouflaged.

Nowhere in that statement is there an allowance for people to not pay into the system: Everyone is forced to pitch in, even if they don't want to. An exit door must be available, no exceptions.
by smartmic | 2025-04-16 06:56:16+00:00
I checked what "Windows Blog / Microsoft Edge" is about. It says "Microsoft Edge news and product updates for developers focused on Microsoft Edge". If it was for end users, I'd have no problem with such superficial articles. But targeting developers - this is a shame and shows again and again Microsoft's culture around not supporting technically minded people (I don't even think of mentioning the term "hacker" in connection with Microsoft) with understanding what's going on under the hood. This is exactly the core promise of FOSS software and should be an eye-opener for not using proprietary software whenever possible (in this case, MS Edge).
by perching_aix | 2025-04-16 06:56:54+00:00
When this is discussed, what's being meant is that everday party politics are spilling out and overwhelming a project's or industry's individual, internal politics, which are often a completely disconnected meta.

Appealing to "well everything is connected" I'm not sure is useful. It's interesting from a semantics perspective the first few times you come across it maybe, then swaps around into being plain frustrating, then lands on just missing the point.

Finally, I think people who want to stay out of said party political meta I think are doing a pretty big favor to their mental health, and I really can't fault them one bit for it. No coincidence either.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-16 06:57:03+00:00
> Trump is so beloved by his base because he was the first one to really acknowledge their anger and give it validity. "Make America Great Again" is a slogan that works because a lot of people have seen their financial and social position deteriorate over the past 30-40 years and they want to go back and they want someone to blame (even if going back is impossible and they're blaming the wrong people).

I agree. And they're not wrong to want to go back or blame someone. We can "go back" in terms of increasing the QoL of our populace. Idk, the Democrats were always clear about wanting to uplift people. Obamacare and Medicare for All were extremely clear policy positions meant to uplift the common man. Eliminating student debt (a policy I don't agree with) was also obviously positioned to help people improve their economic and social standing.

I don't know why people say Democrats missed this and Trump saw it? The Democrats won on slogans that capitalized exactly this sentiment. Obama's "Hope" and "Yes we can" are obviously in a context where people didn't have hope or questioned whether we could.

I think he just got lucky against bad candidates, and we ascribe way too much to his branding and the other garbage. Clinton's branding was about HER (i.e. I'm with her), not about THE PEOPLE (biggest political branding mistake in the 21st century imo). And Harris never had the popularity to go to to toe with Trump.

Idk, I think people are mad, but I think the Democrats have spoken to that more authentically and proven themselves to actually do things that help the common man than Trump ever has
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-16 06:58:57+00:00
Not only will it take years to get operational, there is no way it would ever reach the scale and reach of Chinese manufacturing, not in six years, not in sixty. Even if they throw trillions of investor money at it.

China and others are clearly demonstrating the power of capitalism with state support. The US is too busy infighting and keeping capitalism and politics separate (small government, let the market decide etc). You wouldn't find enough employees that want to work in manufacturing; you'd need millions to even try and get close to what China is doing.

Now I'm not actually OK with what China is doing, the paragraphs about worker conditions were quite telling. But I will recognize that it gives them the upper hand in manufacturing that the US hasn't had since the 50's.

(meta: I'm gonna have to specify "the 1950's soon" don't I?)
by NikkiA | 2025-04-16 07:01:28+00:00
I once was asking my parents to pick up some batteries for something or other while they were at the supermarket, when I was about 13/14 and had a brain fart and said 'Durex' (a brand of condoms common to most of the world except most of America) instead of 'Duracell'.

A tough conversation followed.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-16 07:01:34+00:00
>how many doctors have ever been held accountable for performing abortions to avoid complications?

I got at least one: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-doctor-maggie-carpenter-...

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/us/texas-abortion-doctor-...

it's very recent law but the cases are already racking up. And it's just basic game theory. Help and you might be arrested, don't help and leave it to the state to battle between negligence vs. upholding the law.

>How do you even imagine a trial against such a doctor?

As seen in the DOJ, I expect a kangaroo court, of course.
by kristopolous | 2025-04-16 07:02:25+00:00
Sure but if you happen to be in Hong Kong, which you can just fly into as an American with a standard passport, and you want to go to Real China and didn't bother with the Visa interview, then you actually can with this "one weird trick"!

It's certainly a hard border, Shenzhen is as China as Tijuana is Mexico. So if you're in HK and have a day to travel around, give it a go, it's a fun adventure.
by spacemule | 2025-04-16 07:02:27+00:00
I'm not understanding the issue. The article isn't so clear to me. Would you mind clarifying what problem they solved?

Per my understanding, there is a show with 14 episodes that the viewer wants to watch in every order possible. How is this not just 14 factorial?

I know this can't be the problem, but it's just not clear to me from the article.

Edit: I found this link that explains it to anyone else as confused as I was: https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1bvn1rz/...
by constantcrying | 2025-04-16 07:02:55+00:00
I do not think you understood the conversation as I did.

Rusts error handling works by defining potential crashes with unwraps. A program never crashes unexpectedly there, as this is where you expect it to crash. The general pattern is fine and widely used, the other commenter did not understand that this kind of behavior results from unwrapping where you really do not want to unwrap.
by shakna | 2025-04-16 07:03:36+00:00
No. [0] I wouldn't say they are computer experts. [1][2]

[0] https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355895/doge-musk-nlrb-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/doge-staf...
by low_tech_love | 2025-04-16 07:04:41+00:00
I won’t pretend to know the technical details (as the other replies do) but I want to make a point for the “pedagogical” effect here, which I agree with the author. The way I interpret the article, it’s not supposed to be a deep, theoretical treatise on the subject; more of an introductory, “intuitive” take on it. This works for those who need to either learn the concept to begin with, or refresh their memories if they don’t work with it every day. I think it’s a given that any intuitive take on a mathematical concept will always oversimplify things, with the underlying assumption that, if you actually need to know more, you’re going to have to dive deeper somewhere else. The most important thing I think is to help the reader build a rough conceptual understanding of the concept such that they can reason about it, instead of simply memorizing the terms.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-16 07:05:55+00:00
I agree with your assessment of cryptocurrencies. Here is a thought experiment that I use with other people: Ask yourself why none of the top 10 global investment banks have started their own crypto exchange. Now, add the 20 largest stock, futures, and options exchanges. Still none. After all, it is "just" market making (with a bit of clearing, custody & execution services). What is wrong with this picture? For me, the real issue is that KYC (know your customer) legal requirements will drain all the profit from the operation and expose the ibank/exchange to enormous legal risk.

Another one to make you scratch your head/chin: The world's busiest crypto exchange is Binance. The Wiki page literally says: "Headquarters: Unknown". How can anyone trust a company like that? Who regulates it? What enforcement agency will help in the event of fraud?
by mjr00 | 2025-04-16 07:06:10+00:00
> This is the classic “you don’t get to walk into my house just because you found an unlocked door” that HN users struggle to understand when the digital equivalent is under discussion e.g. an unsecured API.

Except this is not how DeFi and dApps work. The network is decentralized. At no point was any unauthorized access to a system performed. This is not the same as entering private property through an unlocked door, or using SQL injection to gain unauthorized access to a system.

This is not to say Medjedovic is innocent; he made extortionist threats, and gleefully admitted he stole money from people, so wire fraud charges seem obvious. As you say, the courts care about intent, and his intent was clear. But you can't apply the normal charges of accessing a computer without authorization here.
by ryao | 2025-04-16 07:07:23+00:00
Well, it would not be a class in that case, but a use case would be anything that is modular where you want to support a new function, but do not require all of your implementors to use it. The best example of this is the VFS. Here is documentation for the Linux VFS:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/vfs.html

The vast majority of the function pointers in those structures are optional (even if not explicitly stated). To give a few common sense examples:

* If your filesystem does not support extended attributes, you would not implement .listxattr and instead set it to NULL. * There are multiple ways of implementing read and write in file_operations. You have the basic read and write operations, and more efficient variants. You don’t need to implement the more efficient variants if you don’t want to implement them. * The .bmap call is used to find out how the filesystem stores a file on a block device, which used to be used by the syslinux (and might still be). This obviously is incompatible with NFS (or any multidisk filesystem like ZFS) so it absolutely must be optional.

Then there are other options, like not supporting mmap, or not supporting creation/removal of subdirectories. That sounds absurd, but some FUSE filesystems, particularly those exporting a program’s statistics, don’t bother with either of those since they are not needed. I do not believe Linux sysfs allows users to make directories either.

I could continue, but this gives a few examples of why you might want to have optional functionality in a class-like interface.

By the way, I mentioned setting things you do not implement to NULL. This is done simply by not specifying them when using the structure initializer syntax. The compiler will zero unspecified members.
by nopassrecover | 2025-04-16 07:07:41+00:00
Yeah I can picture it. The non-rhotic R on its own doesn’t narrow it further, but there would be distinction within Australia based on the sounds of the “ea” part.

Off the cuff I can picture some Australians taking it more nasally at the top of the palate sort of yee-ah (think Steve Irwin), a more neutral yeehr with a hint of final r (but more clipped and mono syllable than an American accent), or even a yair that might push as far as yuhhh (heading towards a sort of hybrid of Californian Valley Girl and the posh British accent used in American media).

Bit of an exploration of the evoking Australian accent here: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103321146
by IshKebab | 2025-04-16 07:08:40+00:00
Because in real videos where blurring is done by physical processes there is too much additional noise and uncertainty in the blurring process.

Unblurring is an extremely ill-posed problem so any noise or modelling errors get massively amplified.

In only works in this case because there is essentially zero noise, and the correlation between source frames is an exact move.

Yes I would stake hypothetical customer data on this.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-16 07:09:14+00:00
Reduce government spending; since it's not actually a government organization (as far as I can tell, I never looked into it before), other organizations can fund it. How much goes into this organization a year anyway? I'm seeing a Mitre corporation that does lots of other stuff too that has a revenue of 2.2 billion a year.

Multi-trillion-dollar companies benefit from and contribute to this system, surely they can spare 0.01% of their revenue to this bit of critical infrastruture?
by garfield_light | 2025-04-16 07:09:38+00:00
Copyright as a concept is prescriptive not descriptive. It doesn't appear from an observation of the laws of reality, it's law to produce certain outcomes, so what copyright applies to is a question of what will the legislative bodies decide to do.

It's entirely valid to consider the act of training via ML a right granted by the creator like reproduction or performing, simply on the basis of protecting human art. The comparison with human learning can be made irrelevant (and IMO it's not the same fundamentally).

This is currently a discussion about plagiarism (the ethics) and what the outcomes are from unrestricted GenAI. How copyright applies to GenAI is a question for later, informed by the discussion by society at large (and lobbyists).
by aaronmdjones | 2025-04-16 07:10:15+00:00
I love iodine. When you're at a "free" wifi hotspot that needs an account (yet another company to take the security of your data so seriously that they upload it to an open S3 bucket), or you're on mobile data and out of credit, or whatever, iodine usually always works because as you say DNS is almost always allowed.

It's only a dozen kbytes/sec or so, but this is more than good enough for RSS, email, IRC, HN, ...
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Ask HN: How do you track cloud costs across AWS/GCP/DO?
by shubhamintech | 2025-04-16 07:10:38+00:00
we’ve got infra spread across AWS (prod) and GCP (PoCs as we have some credits).

Between EC2, Lambdas, Droplets, and multi-region clusters, monitoring costs is a quite painful and time-consuming to gain insights on how to optimise those costs.

Anyone built simple workflows, dashboards, or any SaaS that actually help? Looked at Komiser (been one of the top contributors myself) & Kubecost (by IBM).

curious what’s working for you, trying to understand if everyone’s just winging it lol or if there’s a real pain here worth solving/alr solved