MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by poulsbohemian | 2025-04-01 00:48:46+00:00
>they've enabled the really talented people to take things to a level previously unimaginable

And I guess that's where I wonder if golf might be a sport where equipment should be restricted at the professional level, the same way that metal bats are not allowed in MLB. Here's another weird way to look at it - you can ingest whatever you want and go play on the company softball team, but an Olympic athlete takes an aspirin and they might get a lifetime ban. It doesn't seem unreasonable to deliberately restrict professional athletics in ways that might constrain it and yet allow us to gauge the athletes in their purest form. Some in the world have advocated for the idea that we should remove all constraints - take all the drugs, use all the physics and science to enhance performance, and let's really see what we can do. It's a fun idea, but like one of the parent posters alluded - we might not like where that all ends up.
by epolanski | 2025-04-01 00:48:48+00:00
And you're wrong.

That being said in that specific case this is odd because in general:

- EU (albeit not France) gives plenty of time to OS developers to adapt and often talks to them directly when they are as big as Apple

- The timing makes it look like with a different less disruptive administration it would've went differently

In any case US companies abusing any possible loophole for paying pennies for decades in Europe don't get any sympathy by me.
by chasing | 2025-04-01 00:49:07+00:00
I’m sorry, but our President and his team are idiots for letting this progress as it has. The United States should be out there reassuring stability and being extremely clear with Russia the consequences of its actions. Instead there is no plan. Just a bizarre thumbing-of-the-nose at allies and a cadre of advisors and officials who are clearly in over their heads. Wild that we are apparently okay with our leadership behaving like this.
by goatlover | 2025-04-01 00:49:39+00:00
Which means either they don't really believe in the exercise of free will, or they don't believe God is in control of who gets saved (predestination). Either way, they're not acting according to their interpretation of scripture. Being saved for a Christian shouldn't be up to governments. It wasn't for the early Christians. It was an individual choice. They're acting more like Constantine.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-01 00:50:00+00:00
Unsurprising. The laws making ineligibility a sanction for embezzlement, “Lois pour la confiance dans la vie politique”, is from 2017.

Note also that the 2011 verdict was somewhat unusual because before 2010 when this was judged unconstitutional, Chirac condemnation would have led to him being removed from the voting list for five years and therefore de facto ineligible. Chirac was “lucky” to be sentenced during the seven years window when ineligibility wasn’t possible.
by jparishy | 2025-04-01 00:50:09+00:00
Generally I agree with you, but I think MLB has actually been pretty responsive to the modern-era dynamic nature of the game. Love them or hate them, they're trying rule changes in the minor leagues and bringing up the ones that work. To me in particular I found the shift frustrating as a fan, and was glad to see a game rule to address it. I also like that they are willing to admit they're wrong, like with the juiced balls. MLB has lots of issues but I think they're doing a pretty good job keeping the sport alive given all the circumstances.
by Winblows11 | 2025-04-01 00:50:32+00:00
Looks like US exports for same year less than half of EU:

> Exports were $3,053.5 billion Source: https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/us-international-trade-goods-a...

And UK exports last year were $1trillion Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-trade-in-numbers...

So unless I am mistaken, the UK+EU export $7.43 trillion whereas US just $3 trillion
by defrost | 2025-04-01 00:50:39+00:00
These points don't always bode well ...

Screamboat review – rodent IP horror sends Mickey Mouse on a ferry rampage

A genetically modified mouse goes on the rampage in bloody Disney pastiche that offers Sharknado-level performances and kill scenes hindered by poor lighting

1 Star out of 5 - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/31/screamboat-revi...

but what do I know? Many a cult classic began with less than stellar reviews.
by eru | 2025-04-01 00:50:57+00:00
Well, it's no less weird that store running a promotion saying 'If you buy item X today, we will donate one dollar of the proceeds to charity Y.'

Also not more weird than the British charity thing of "I'm shaving off all my hair, and that's why you should donate to charity Y." (I suspect Brits need an excuse before they are mentally allowed to do something silly. But any excuse will do.)
by pseudo0 | 2025-04-01 00:52:34+00:00
> Arshad, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, is said to have transferred sensitive data from a secure computer to his phone, which he had taken into a top secret area of GCHQ on 24 August 2022.

Based on the timeline, it sounds like they searched his residence looking for classified material and came across other illegal material during the search.
by knowaveragejoe | 2025-04-01 00:53:11+00:00
Doing lots of things fast is not the same as being effective.

I want prices to be lower. An immigration crackdown and tariff threats seem contradictory to this purpose.

DOGE's numbers are extremely optimistic. I have not seen anything substantiating them anywhere near $260B. Realistic estimates put in the range of $10B. Worth the chaos and destruction of institutions that exist to help ensure our way of life?
by voidmain | 2025-04-01 00:53:14+00:00
This typechecks:

function prove_anything<P>(){ function prove_false() : False { return prove_false() } let f = prove_false() return contradiction<P>()(f) }

I think a proof assistant will usually have a total notion of computation to avoid this kind of circular proof. And there are probably some subtler unsoundnesses in TS to worry about.

(I'm not any kind of expert in this area. It's possible the original author intends that you execute the proof function as well as typechecking it, which I guess will prove termination, although I think for many proofs you might run out of resources trying to do that, and it's probably still not sound.)
by overfeed | 2025-04-01 00:53:21+00:00
What mechanism can the regulators use to prevent competition going out of business while maintaining the artificially low prices? Ban price hikes after the competition is dead? What if the dumper decides to leave the market entirely after destroying the competition? [see Walmart leaving small towns, and the resulting food deserts].

The more proactive approach is tractable since it preserves competition (easy) instead of low prices (hard, on shakier legal footing)
by trod1234 | 2025-04-01 00:54:21+00:00
> "age of abundance"

No such thing will come to pass in the common way you think. This is classic doublespeak. Similar to "You will own nothing and be happy". If you think hard on it, the only way that can be true is by limiting the scope of the number of people involved, and the only way to do that is if a large number of people die, and that is what they mean and intend when they do not explicitly spell out how you get from statement to reality, addressing the complex hidden dependencies.

It is unlikely that any blue-collar job will be impacted aside from the 2nd order effects that occur as displaced workers move to other areas as a necessity for survival.

That won't last long though before the monetary and economic systems break down as they will have more chaotic whipsaws than the labor market.

As for how safe are other jobs. You can expect all white collar low complexity work, normally found in entry level positions on career ladders, and related support staff, to be at extreme risk.

The upper echelon of senior positions, and even mid-level positions are safe, due to the abstract nature of the tasks required, but are confounded by additional costs being imposed by third-parties (i.e. ghost jobs/postings). There's no good way to evaluate you have this degree of experience/knowledge, and worse you lose this type of knowledge if you don't use it regularly.

The career pipeline however is a sequential pipeline. If there is no one going into the pipeline because AI has blocked and replaced the entry-level worker as a surrogate, and there is no one for the mid and senior level people to pass knowledge to because they've all been replaced by an AI it won't happen, and as those mid and senior level people age out you find yourself in a hysteresis problem that cannot be solved in the time period needed. The same as any ponzi scheme. Three stages.

The funding mechanism for almost all companies today ensures this is always a problem for next quarter, creating a cascading failure, or slow motion trainwreck of costs where the employer will be unable to find any labor meeting that criteria for any price by stage 3.

If this happens in critical national dependencies then you get a full blown socio-economic collapse in an environment of ecological overshoot (Malthus/Catton) that is global in nature (via reserve currency). Not pretty, 1/3 of 4bn people might survive such, maybe, and that's as a global population.

We've known how to build resilient systems for quite some time, but resilient systems cost more and in furtherance of globalization optimization has coincided towards brittle single-point-of-failures broadly. It allows the most chaos, which speculators and companies alike use to reap gross profits at everyone elses expense through plausible narratives backed by price fixing.
by eru | 2025-04-01 00:56:05+00:00
Golf is essentially a single player game that you play against yourself.

If you don't like a particular thing in golf, then don't use that particular thing. And if it destroys the entertainment value, then don't watch that.

This is very similar to how speedruns for video games have multiple categories with different rulesets, and you pick whichever one you like best.
by araes | 2025-04-01 00:56:47+00:00
Maybe some of the EU folks know a greater amount, yet, where did this come from?

Looking on WP, there's nothing... [1] Barely at article. Supposedly the European Anti-Fraud Office opened an investigation in Jan 2014. Never saw a mention in any of the elections. Figure Macron would have jumped on that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_assistants_affa...

In 2017, the European Parliament demanded repayment from Le Pen of almost €340,000. Also, seems like it would been jumped on. [2] "Parliament's financial services deducted tens of thousands of euros from her (Le Pen's) MEP allowance before she left Brussels in 2017. Threatened with an enforceable recovery order, Le Pen eventually repaid €330,000 in July 2023." [2]

[2] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/30/w...

Then the Le Monde article gets to actual serious issues: "a preliminary investigation was opened in France in March 2015 for breach of trust." 'A judicial investigation was opened in December 2016 on charges of "breach of trust," "concealment of breach of trust," "organized gang fraud," "forgery and use of forgeries" and "undeclared labor."' "In December 2023, at the end of a nine-year investigation, the investigating judges called for the FN and 27 of its senior members and employees to be tried." [2] Except the Le Monde article is also just a Sept. 2024 article.

Followed the French elections at least a little bit over the last half decade or so, and ... nothing. Read Le Monde at least a bit. Read France24 a bit. Not even a mention of Le Pen being the subject of a nine (9?) year investigation and repaying 300,000 already to the EU Parliament. She was under investigation for "organized gang fraud" during the last election? Seems like it came out of nowhere from the perspective of somebody in the US.

Did this actually make the news regularly in France or the EU? Not much of a supporter or anything, 1000's of miles away, yet all the articles are so recent, and the coverage so nothing, makes me want my tinfoil hat for computer churn articles.
by carlosjobim | 2025-04-01 00:57:33+00:00
The whole purpose of sacrifice is that it should give a reward from God or the gods. Good harvest, good luck in war, good health for your herds, etc. The part where the angel is blessing Abraham after the whole ordeal and swears that he will be rewarded, I interpret as a reaffirmation that Abraham will reap the full rewards even though he didn't sacrifice his child. Ancient worshippers didn't only expect a reward for sacrifices, they demanded it and considered it a bargain with their deities that the deities had an obligation to uphold.

So you can imagine a story teller thousands of years ago telling the other people around the bonfire "And even though he didn't make the sacrifice, he still got more than the full reward".

> The reason I think you shouldn't sacrifice humans now is because I value human life, and that I think it would be wrong to deprive that person of life to appease a God that I do not think exists.

And what proof do you have? We know that the tribe two rivers away sacrifices all men they capture from their neighbouring enemy tribe, and they receive great rewards from their god, who blesses them with better hunting (less competition), better luck in war (lesser enemy forces), and more or healthier children (better nourishment). So it is proven that human sacrifice gives you blessings of the gods. If you want to break with custom, maybe our tribe should banish you and get a new leader?

What I want to illustrate above is that it probably took an immense effort for a leader or for anybody, who thousands of years decided to not do human sacrifice, and managed to convince his tribe against all common sense. This in an environment where it had been custom since the beginning of time, and where tribes naturally expanded in population and territory until game started to become scarce and tensions arose. That's why I think the story of Abraham (or whoever it was originally) is so dramatic and has been remembered throughout the ages. It brought a whole new perspective to sacrifice that probably sounded completely insane to the average person at the time. "Why would a god not want his sacrifice? And why would he reward somebody who didn't give him his sacrifice?".

The materialists who read my comment will probably start connecting the retreat of human sacrifice with the shift from hunting gathering to pastoralism, which is a connection I would also like to make.

Edit: I also think it's super interesting that you bring up the authors intent. In my perspective on these old myths, the original intent is almost meaningless, since the stories have been told thousands of times before they were ever written down, meaning the story must have some core that touches the human soul in a universal way. Or probably that this situation happened so many times with different people that there is no "original" story.
by pdonis | 2025-04-01 00:58:24+00:00
> change them but don't change them?

Change them when it makes sense to change them, bearing in mind that the way they are now has stood the test of time.

> letting "the right" group of people tell us which traditions are the right ones

I said no such thing. The people who decide when traditions need to be changed are the ones who are living them.

> Hubris is about not knowing your place with regard to those above you

And in my use of that as a metaphor, the traditions themselves are the things "above you".

> Implying that someone wanting to do what they think is right is both naive and deserves divine retribution

Someone who is giving a "hard pass" to tradition, as the poster I responded to did, is going way beyond "do what they think is right", since they clearly have not actually thought at all about what traditions are and why they exist.

> This "do what you're told", "don't make waves", and "let others handle government/systems/things outside of your zone"

Is nothing like what I said. You're attacking a straw man.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-04-01 00:59:01+00:00
> We are on such a different level of understanding, that there isn't any point in us two talking to each other

That would be a very convenient conclusion, but ultimately not true. Willfully misinterpreting a story so that it sounds morally palatable for a modern world is not a different level of understanding, it's propaganda, and it's extremely common.

And when I'm not doing my day job, I am reading, discussing, and interpreting stories. Drawing subtext involves evidence from the text itself. You are making up subtext. There's a difference, and it's transparent.

I only engaged because you give lots of grace to Christianity and disrespect to everything else, which is annoying to read, but also not even based in real digestion of the work.
by gre | 2025-04-01 00:59:14+00:00
Here's my problems with MWAA (amazon hosted airflow.) I have about 100 dags which maxes out the scheduler thread. Airflow parses all the files every minute so it's always parsing around 94% cpu. I could run a second scheduler thread if I coordinate with my SRE team and get the terraform deployed...it's really tedious.

Related possibly, my dags get kill -9 for no apparent reason. The RAM usage is not that high, maybe 2gb out of 8gb system RAM in use. No reason is given in the logs.

I am trying to switch to dagster, not because it's awesome, but because it hasn't crashed randomly on me.
by omoikane | 2025-04-01 01:01:06+00:00
Nice find :)

I guess Atari character set has enough overlap with ASCII, so I could get the checksum to match:

sum = 0 "32000 REM TYPO II BY ANDY BARTON".codepoints.each_with_index{|c, i| sum += (i + 1) * c } print ((sum % 676) / 26 + 65).chr, (sum % 26 + 65).chr, "\n"

(Ruby code, outputs "WB")
by pdonis | 2025-04-01 01:01:08+00:00
> The reason people have such a visceral response to a phrase like "uphold tradition" is because so many people don't mean "I'm just doing what my family and community have taught me", they are saying "You must follow my traditions".

I don't see pg saying that in the article under discussion. so this criticism, however justified it might be in some cases, doesn't seem to me to be relevant here.

> Humans uphold tradition by default

True, but defaults can be overridden. And culture often tries to do that. See below.

> we don't really need a reminder to do it

In our current culture, where our so-called "elites" do indeed believe that they can reinvent society from scratch, and have been busily destroying traditions for decades in the process, I think we can indeed benefit from such a reminder.
by jmdots | 2025-04-01 01:02:13+00:00
wrale-acdm is an open-source tool designed to solve the problem of granular, selective content inclusion from external repositories without the complexity and limitations of Git submodules. Built in Rust with clean architecture principles, it enables teams to pull specific folders or files from external repositories while maintaining a clean project history and minimizing dependency footprint.

(toy project published over the weekend)
by zahlman | 2025-04-01 01:03:17+00:00
(Thank you for the respectful and nuanced response. I generally agree with what you are saying.)

>I see a lot of write ups which go to the distinction between zero-sum and mutual outcomes. I infer from this there is a strong belief Trump does not actually want any kind of mutual outcome, he only believes in "winners" and "losers" and believes there must be a "loser" and it won't be america as long as he can avoid it.

There is a strong such belief, and people seem to be able to point to him all but saying it at times. But when I listen to the full speeches, I get the impression that there's plenty of mutual-benefit-potential rhetoric as well. Obviously the guy is no stranger to political brinksmanship, but the way this is interpreted in the press strikes me as rather naive. It's very consistent with someone who simply believes that negotiating for a better deal requires making a credible case that you can afford to refuse the current one. Thus far, Trump has shown that he's willing to extend the threat of imposing tariffs into the threat of continuing tariffs. (Thankfully, not raising them, at least as far as I've heard. 25% is, to my understanding, already an extraordinarily high level in historical context.) But he also speaks of discussions with Canadian leaders as productive and beneficial etc.
by fastball | 2025-04-01 01:03:41+00:00
That was the promise of search engines, before SEO came along and kinda ruined that too.

I suppose the ideal solution is a form of search engine that is basically magical and truly personalized. So that I could search for "most comfortable gym shorts" and the top result would be the world's most comfortable gym shorts (for my physique specifically). And if I searched for just "gym shorts", I'd be shown results in my price point which optimize for different things I care about (comfort, durability, etc).

We got part way there with Amazon, but fake reviews and drop-shipping and counterfeits messed that up as well.

Maybe LLMs can help us out with this is a bit, but I'm skeptical given how quickly profit-motive manages to get in the way of UX.
by jecel | 2025-04-01 01:03:46+00:00
All 32 bits in the ARM1 and 2 were used to address data, so in theory you could have 4GB of RAM. But these processors only had 26 address pins, so that would give you at most 64MB (similar to the 24 address pins in the 68000). If you used the MEMC chip to interface to your DRAM then the limit would be a mere 4MB.

For code the limitation was baked into the architecture itself. The bottom two bits of the program counter were used to define the current execution mode (and always output as 0 to fetch word aligned instructions) while the top six bits were the status flag. That meant that saving the PC to the stack saved the whole execution context in a single memory write and it only took one read to restore it.

Fixing this required moving the flags to a separate register, which was a very visible change.
by sodality2 | 2025-04-01 01:03:47+00:00
Got this on my Kindle after the jailbreak came out in January. It's fantastic, especially the OPDB index + self hosted calibre-web means I can just download an epub on any device, drop it on a webpage, then search it on KOReader immediately. I did not want to use USB or Amazon's plumbing to transfer, so this is great. Tons of customization over the built-in reader.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-04-01 01:03:50+00:00
The solution isn't to make a new html element for each use case.

The solution is to make html elements extensible.

With the `appearance: base-select` css rule, we now have a standardized way to extend <select> with html and css, (and we have the potential to declaratively extend intractability too with invoking commands without needing to reach for JS)
by zdragnar | 2025-04-01 01:03:52+00:00
Microsoft basically invented AJAX and spurred the entire web 2.0 revolution. Other browsers weren't prevented from being installed.

Compare what Apple does on iDevices. Safari comes pre-installed, and every competing browser can only skin the OS engine; competing browsers can't actually port their own offerings. On top of that, if you actually want to sell a browser, Apple will get a cut of your sales.

And yet, Apple's app store and ecosystem doesn't seem to be treated as a monopoly in this regard. If not here, why wouldn't they also get away with all of their other anti-competitive practices?

FWIW, I think they should be treated consistently as a monopoly. As a backup option, I'll settle for consistently treated as not-a-monopoly.

Mixing and matching rulings will only serve to hurt in the long run.