MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bcantrill | 2025-04-26 16:36:06+00:00
Belated response here (and certainly not trying to talk you into Oxide!), but just for anyone who happens upon this, we do solve exactly the problem you describe. We have a true root-of-trust[0], a proper service processor in lieu of the larded-up BMC[1], an isolated management network[2] -- and we don't have a BIOS at all[3][4].

[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/exploiting-undocumented-hardware...

[1] https://oxide.computer/blog/hubris-and-humility

[2] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0250

[3] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0241

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDDx74s090
by plorg | 2025-04-26 16:36:11+00:00
It's a term for anyone from a centrist liberal to a Greenpeace activist, with the implication that having left-of-median politics and understanding race and demography as anything other than biological essentialism makes you an utter loon. It is really only used by people who would describe themselves as "anti-woke".

The person he's referencing, specifically, got really pilled by evangelical Christianity and believes that anyone advocating for liberal causes has created a religion out of nebulous cultural values, unmoored from god. She blames the "cult of SJW" for the kind of character assassination she claims to have done, that it was the force of rootless bolshevism that was responsible for her supposedly destroying lives and careers by making up(?) relationships and cultural crimes on whole webs of Wikipedia articles.
by Retric | 2025-04-26 16:36:32+00:00
5k/year is serious money. It’s affordable the way most things are affordable making it a priority over other things. IMO it’s low on the dollars per hour saved to use a regular cleaning service, where it’s worth it is you want a clean home and just don’t keep it up.

However, there’s significant diminishing returns on weekly or biweekly cleaning service vs monthly or by monthly. Especially if you can use a robotic vacuum and have decent air filtration.
by cggart | 2025-04-26 16:36:46+00:00
I think it will survive. The metric here is environmental enmeshment. If AI starts training and observing in real time, and can sit, existing ontologically "in time", in our environment that would be the only reason I would see a challenge to the humanities.

AI regurgitates, at synthesizes, but it doesn't have lived experience, it just draws on what its fed -- that isn't human.

Much of the value in the humanities, in art, is owed to its provenance. Viewing it enables social reflection and growth, and engenders culture. That is simply absent in AI unless you want to probe the training data and the nuances of the model, but again that's a pretty circuitous/inefficient path to learning about humans, or growing as one.

It does, however, reveal some of he mechanics involved and, my hope, is that it leads to deeper and more nuanced discourse in the humanities.
by xyzzyz | 2025-04-26 16:37:38+00:00
This "IDs are hard to get by in US" narrative is really funny to anyone who lived in Europe, where IDs are harder to get by than in US, while being required for more purposes and activities. I have yet to see anyone saying that voter ID requirements are voter suppression to also bite the bullet and say that Europe is a totalitarian hellhole compared to the US, the land of the free.
by toast0 | 2025-04-26 16:37:55+00:00
I think you missed the idea. Your explosive device could still come in handy though.

But you freeze the sperm at the peak of freshness. Then you wait and see how the donor does. If they live to a ripe old age without old age diseases, then go select their sperm. Otherwise, destroy it.

You can probably do this with eggs too. When a child is desired, select an egg and a sperm off the shelf, and there you go. Easy peasy. Your device ensures only munitions experts can procreate outside the system, and I think we'll need a lot of munitions experts in the ensuing generations.
by pjob | 2025-04-26 16:38:00+00:00
Somewhat interestingly, "Mario Bros." now refers to the last name of the pair of plumber brothers, making their full names "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario" respectively. This wasn't originally the intent of the creators, but it's been slowly retconned over the history of the franchise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario#Name

https://www.denofgeek.com/games/super-mario-bros-luigi-last-...
by ryandrake | 2025-04-26 16:38:46+00:00
> It was a fun story so I told it to friend & partner/families. All of my women friends first reaction was caution. "what does he want? Be careful with your drink!". My guy friends were more perplexed on why I'd even bother befriending someone almost 50+ year older than me. What's there to be gained.

It's pretty sad and telling that people's first reaction to something as wholesome and positive as making a new friend is suspicion and selfish apathy. Illustrative of the widespread anti-social mental illness that we somehow have managed to normalize.
by tharmas | 2025-04-26 16:39:22+00:00
You mean just like the criminals didn't feel compassion for their victims? Oh, but these guys are guilty those victims of criminals were innocent i hear u say.

Not everyone in those prisons are guilty. Collateral damage i hear u say. The price of safety?

"The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head And became a Tyrant in his stead." -Willian Blake
by division_by_0 | 2025-04-26 16:39:41+00:00
Thanks! covary is my first Svelte 5 project (have not yet migrated my Svelte 4 projects). The backend is surprisingly simple, but I'm relatively familiar with the data and statistics, so maybe that's why it's so simple and/or perceived as such by me. I really like working on the human interface layer, i.e. the frontend. Backend work for me is always in the service of that.

If you find a viable alternative to Svelte and React, please let me know.
by EasyMark | 2025-04-26 16:39:59+00:00
I kept hearing how great macports was with “separation from the system” and being more unixy and tried it two times. Both times it ended up borked. To their credit, it is very easy to uninstall (but not “one task” as it should be). I have never broken brew. I mean I've had packages not work, but the systems itself never got broken because of libraries or broken installs, I could always back out a broken package easily.

I can't remember the last time my "brewup" alias failed me

brew update && brew upgrade -g -f && brew cleanup --prune=all
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 16:40:09+00:00
Spot on.

Nigeria and Tunisia have follow cars. Senegal, Montenegro and Albania have large rifts in the sky where the panorama stitching software did a poor job. Some parts of Russia had recent forest fires and are very smokey. One road in Turkey is in absurdly thick fog. The list is endless, which is why it's so fun!
by peakskill | 2025-04-26 16:40:33+00:00
There is a fundamental value assigned to human produced work that stems strictly from the fact it’s not AI slop. It comes from empathy.

Why are physical paintings more valuable than digital art? Why is manmade art implicitly higher value than imagegen art? Why do we watch Magnus Carlsen when engines are leagues ahead of the top 10?

Because the human condition matters. We crave seeing the world through the eyes of others with different (or even similar) lived experiences, fantasizing about what we could have been, under different circumstances. Empathizing. AI fundamentally has experienced nothing and so empathizing is not possible. It is not even able to escape the constraints of the human imagination.
by maccard | 2025-04-26 16:41:26+00:00
I mean, theoretically it's possible. A super basic example would be if the data is known at compile time, it could be auto-parallelized, e.g.

int buf_size = 10000000; auto vec = make_large_array(buf_size); for (const auto& val : vec) { do_expensive_thing(val); }

this could clearly be parallelised. In a C++ world that doesn't exist, we can see that it's valid.

If I replace it with int buf_size = 10000000; cin >> buf_size; auto vec = make_large_array(buf_size); for (const auto& val : vec) { do_expensive_thing(val); }

the compiler could generate some code that looks like: if buf_size >= SOME_LARGE_THRESHOLD { DO_IN_PARALLEL } else { DO_SERIAL }

With some background logic for managing threads, etc. In a C++-style world where "control" is important it likely wouldn't fly, but if this was python...

arr_size = 10000000 buf = [None] * arr_size for x in buf: do_expensive_thing(x)

could be parallelised at compile time.
by dawnofdusk | 2025-04-26 16:42:04+00:00
In actor/critic the actor and critic are normally learned, i.e., their weights are adjusted during the process. The paper is correct that their method is zero-shot, but it doesn't mention that their method is essentially equivalent to a few rounds of training but then discarding the training update.

Anyone who works with deep architectures and momentum-based optimizers knows that the first few updates alone provide large improvements in loss. In this paper the breakthrough is that computing these first few updates at test time enables one to describe the algorithm as "without training" and therefore attract hype.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-26 16:42:13+00:00
It seems it kinda depends since there are background checks and background checks. In private sector, it ranges all the way from credit check to actual invasive paid background check conducted by a third party, whose accuracy may very wildly ( I don't want to go into too much detail, but buddy had some troubled history in one state, but the background check conducted in another state did not raise those issues at all despite the fact that those same issues would have been treated differently, where he is now ). And then ( mostly ) public sector, where the range goes a little further to include checks for IC, which, apparently ( I am not aware of anyone who had one ), include actual interviews with people in your life.
by andai | 2025-04-26 16:42:26+00:00
>These days most photos are also stored using lossy compression which alters the information.

I noticed this in some photos I see online starting maybe 5-10 years ago.

I'd click through to a high res version of the photo, and instead of sensor noise or jpeg artefacts, I'd see these bizarre snakelike formations, as though the thing had been put through style transfer.
by blagie | 2025-04-26 16:43:54+00:00
These are clearly AI safety:

* Ensuring your robot enabled LLM doesn't smash peoples heads in because it's system prompt got hacked.

* Ensuring bots don't turn the world into paperclips.

This is borderline:

* Ensuring your bot doesn't tell 8 year olds to eat tide pods.

I'd put this in a similar category is knives in my kitchen. If my 8-year-old misuses a knife, that's the fault of the adult and not the knife. So it's a safety concern about the use of the AI, but not about the AI being unsafe. Parents should assume 8-year-old shouldn't be left unsupervised with AIs.

And this has nothing to do with safety:

* Ensuring your customer service bot does not tell the customer to fuck off.
by mlsu | 2025-04-26 16:44:06+00:00
Why would you trust these statistics?

I am very skeptical. The state said that they have solved the gang problem by putting “gangsters” in prisons like this (frequently, without due process as we have seen).

I think it’s far more likely that the state in El Salvador is structured like a gang, and the level of violence is the same as it ever was.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-04-26 16:45:00+00:00
Previously with the family separation policy it was part of an aggressive campaign led by Stephen Miller personally. There are now a few more people who want to do this as much as he does, all in the administration. It was Trump who hired those people, and then it was Trump who rescinded family separations and fired Neilsen over it, because it made bad media. The public has a template for exactly how to stop it. All that said, this is what the Republican base wants.
by lacker | 2025-04-26 16:45:39+00:00
Consider a Turing test, though. Imagine you had two novels in front of you, you read both of them, and they were brilliant. You love them both. But you learn that one of them was written by a human, one of them by an AI. Is the AI-written novel actually inferior, because it was written by an AI, despite the fact that you loved the novel itself?

You might doubt that an AI can ever write a novel as great as the greatest of human writers. I have doubts as well. But I don't think it can be a priori inferior. If an AI ever produces a novel that would have been great if a human wrote it, then that will be a great novel.
by gpm | 2025-04-26 16:46:21+00:00
The fact that there's a lawsuit here with briefs describing what happened in detail, and rulings from a judge with detailed timelines, means we have a great deal more accurate information than most news stories provide. If you're not willing to make a judgement off of this information, when it is so unambiguous, you're never going to be able to make a judgement in time to react to anything.
by LugosFergus | 2025-04-26 16:46:23+00:00
I found the lack of mature tooling to be hugely problematic. The Visual D extension always felt flimsy and unreliable when debugging D.

DUB also exhibits weird behavior. For example, I wanted it to produce separate debug and release binaries, which it won't do out of the box. Instead, it'll create the same binary for both configurations. Changing that behavior was more difficult than it needed to be. Maybe it's changed since then, but I didn't have a pleasurable experience.
by whatshisface | 2025-04-26 16:46:46+00:00
One issue that occurs is when person A is criticized for documenting historical facts on the basis that since person B has in other contexts used them as a pretext for something wrong, person C, after finding out about the historical facts, might independently come to the same conclusion as person B. The effect is to treat person A's documentation activity with the same approach as person C's eventual choices.
by Arathorn | 2025-04-26 16:47:29+00:00
Almost everything you’ve said here is false.

Matrix’s DAG replication scales pretty well - eg rooms like matrix HQ with 65K users spread over 10K+ servers.

Policy Servers are not a kludge, and they do not work by “routing all messages through a central server, and after then, passed onto the distributed database”. They are the opposite, as the linked blog post tries to spell out.

DAG distribution works as normal; messages flow full mesh between servers as always without centralisation. The optional policy server simply provides a /check endpoint which the servers in a given room can use to filter messages for abuse before they pass them to clients. That’s it.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-26 16:47:55+00:00
I also have young kids but I pull off more than 4hrs per week with friends.

These conversations are difficult online because people who fall into routines without friend or personal time often refuse to believe that anything else is possible. Even in this comment thread there are accusations that other people are lying about spending time with friends because they just can’t believe it’s possible.

The common thread I see in discussions is the claim that every day is filled from start to finish with every activity. Now realistically we know you’re not exercising every single day, not doing laundry all weekend start to finish, and not reading a zillion PTA newsletters every night because those are just examples. Yet those lists are always given as reasons why people can never have free time even though they aren’t always happening.

It’s much harder for single parents, obviously, but for a household with two parents it shouldn’t be hard for one parent to go out with friends after the kids are down one night each week and/or for a couple hours on the weekend. This alone would get to 4hrs/week or beyond. I’m not exaggerating when I say every set of parent friends I know does some variation of this. Friend groups will sync up their nights away to get together.

Second, playing with kids is an easy opportunity to meet up with parent friends. We take the kids to a local park with local parents a couple days a week in the afternoon briefly before dinner. Really easy way to catch up while the friends are playing.

Third, once the kids are old enough to not require extreme supervision at dinner time we like to have friends over for dinner. Obviously this isn’t a fancy 3-course meal with wine afterward, but we don’t care. Friends like to stop by for a quick dinner.

Fourth, if you’re cramming your schedule so full of kids activities and cleaning tasks to keep the house constantly clean that you have zero wiggle room for finding a couple hours with friends each week, that’s a choice. Saying this makes a lot of people angry, but the truth is you have to prioritize and compromise. Some times we decide we don’t have time for another activity commitment. Other times we decide the house can stay messy for an extra day to catch an opportunity to meet up with someone. Most of the time we trade off parent to parent.

Like I said, it’s different if you’re a single parent. However every parent friend I know does some variation of this and we spend time with each other. If finding a measly 4 hours per week feels completely impossible, I would suggest stepping back and looking at priorities and how your splitting time between parents.

I should also mention that paying attention to things like screen time and distractions is important. I’ve had a few friends who were exasperated at how impossible it felt to do anything, until they checked their screen time tracker and realized that 3-4+ hours of every day was disappearing into their phone. For others this could be TV or computer Internet browsing. Some of this is always okay, but you have to realize it’s a choice you’re making about where the time goes.
by tomrod | 2025-04-26 16:47:55+00:00
I cannot fathom being so far removed from facts on the ground as this comment suggests its commentator is.

1. "respect for the law" requires both due process, for both citizens and people in the geographical jurisdiction of the US, and respect for the courts. Anyone who works around due process and court orders does not respect the law. This is a general statement regarding the treatment by the current regime, using ICE, towards immigrants and anyone they think is associated to it. Literally -- this article is about deporting of US citizens held incommunicado and without legal representation, and people are already protesting judges being arrested and legal residents being exiled without due process.

2. "this is the rhetoric that drove the country to this point" would more appropriately be attributed the othering of immigrants and groups MAGA doesn't agree with - how many Haitians ate dogs and cats in Ohio? Maybe more than 0, but certainly not the unmoored groundswell of false-flag horror that crested at the rightful mocking of Trump's debate performance.[0] Ref: the moral teachings on motes, beams, eyes, Golden Rule, etc. across time and religions of all stripes. I reject the notion that me expressing empathy for immigrants and the xenophobists is rhetoric driving the country apart. It's calling a spade a spade.

3. "If you want more immigration, work to increase legal quotas and update the law." This is sort of one of those feel-good statements that have no meat or content in them. We had a perfectly cromulent immigration reform ready to go until Trump threw a tantrum and got Republican legislators to vote against their own interests because it would hurt his presidential chances. We could go back to that, it had some good political will, instead of the authoritarian nonsense chaotically deployed. Of course, you wouldn't want me to be the authoritarian -- we'd come out of things with an open border and trade agreement across the Americas because that's more efficient and morally justifiable than military intervention at a mis-named "invasion" at the border (almost as poorly named as DOGE). So rather than enabling groups to work towards coherent immigration strategies, we have a tyranny of the majority assumed to be the will of the land.[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNbhpkJ69ts

[1] "It is abundantly clear that many activist judges around the country have been acting politically in order to sabotage President Trump's agenda, and disenfranchise the 77 million Americans that voted for him." - Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) (This is 100% political grandstanding, since polls show that most people now disagree with Trump's agenda, [1a])

[1a] https://archive.ph/T7yVp, especially the immigration section is now underwater
by Digit-Al | 2025-04-26 16:48:04+00:00
I remember many (many) years ago I used to frequent a small independent video rental shop. Then, one day a Blockbuster opened next door (and when I say next door, I do mean literally next door) offering a larger range of videos to rent and much cheaper prices. Within about three months the independent had gone out of business and shut down, at which point the Blockbuster jacked their prices up to what the independent had been charging.

It was incredibly blatant and I felt sorry for the poor guy that had been running the independent business.
by Zak | 2025-04-26 16:48:13+00:00
In noncriminal matters such as deportations, there's no right to counsel at public expense. The broader rights to due process of law and habeas corpus have generally been held by the courts to apply to immigration detention and deportation, and people are certainly free to hire counsel at their own expense in such proceedings.

It gets tricky when a deportation is completed before a court can hear the case. Attempting to prevent a detainee from communicating their location and situation to someone who could bring a legal action on their behalf doesn't appear to be explicitly illegal, but it's certainly an attempt to subvert due process and probably ought to be illegal.
by chasd00 | 2025-04-26 16:49:17+00:00
> The only Orwellian thing is she was lied to by Democrats that she could lead a safe life in the US. That’s on you.

This cannot be overstated. I wish I had a thousand up votes to give you. Democrats made a promise they knew would never hold up just for the votes. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and these people who were lied to by Democrats are the ones paying the price.
by everybodyknows | 2025-04-26 16:49:18+00:00
Thanks for giving us the reality check. Distasteful as some here find it, squarely presenting the facts of what is surely becoming common practice is a service to the public.

With the Court's reply to Lindell, you now have an independent test case upon which to test your verification process and compare results against a "rival implementation" -- the Court's. One wonders if it may be AI-assisted as well. I'd be quite interested in hearing how the two stack up.
by samlinnfer | 2025-04-26 16:49:51+00:00
First, I don't believe this crime rises to the level of jail. Second, it doesn't make sense here because if the parents are jailed who will take care of the children? I'm also not sold on putting more people into the meat grinder of US judicial system. When they deported at least they will be free. Ironically, compared to the US judicial system, this is the more human approach.
by chermi | 2025-04-26 16:50:03+00:00
Put another way, at least this experiment actually cared about the outcome and did something about it.

Generally, there's far too little feedback and accountability when it comes to public policy intentions vs. outcomes. Our government (US) policies and program are basically running on an open loop, no one is ever comparing outcomes against goals/intentions.

Experimentation requires looking at results of the experiments.
by meristohm | 2025-04-26 16:50:13+00:00
Processing plant fibers for string/rope/etc. Nettle, yucca (so I've heard), hemp, ... it's a long list but regional.

Humming to find the resonant frequencies of the space you're in.

Observational drawing- paper, pencil, draw what you see (or if not sighted, maybe there's a similar activity?)

Listening to what's happening around you. Originally thinking birdsong, but the lowest barrier is just where you are.