MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by necubi | 2025-04-11 20:47:52+00:00
It's really not a huge red flag. Co-founder breakups are incredibly common. In this case the company is also flailing and has been likely written off by their investors, so they're not going to care.

Something I've learned doing a startup and talking to a lot of other startup founders is that one of the biggest risks is sticking around for too long just because there's still money in the bank. Your most precious resource is time, and if it's pivot-hell for 18 months you're well into sunk-cost land.
by marcosdumay | 2025-04-11 20:47:58+00:00
The US got dominance over the entire world's economy, an unprecedented amount of weal, and almost complete technological dominance with high taxation and direct intervention on the market. And even more, they then taught it to Japan who came and repeated basically the exact same actions with basically the exact same result. Oh, yeah, and then China did it...

Then they organized a bunch of morons to create an school teaching not to do that, celebrated them so they would teach every foreign school, and managed to stop most of the world from competing with them. But a couple of decades later everybody in a position of power there was a moron from that school.
by maeil | 2025-04-11 20:48:26+00:00
> How is this legal ?

Why do you keep asking this when these illegal acts have been happening every day for months? Genuinely, did you just awake out of a coma?

> Can I sue because of this as a non Twitter user ?

Good luck finding a lawyer, as they're almost certainly going to lose their job if the suit turns out remotely succesful.
by MBCook | 2025-04-11 20:48:28+00:00
That has been and I’d say still is a huge problem for them. They are not a software company at all and it hurts many thing.

PlayStation is the one exception. But they learned the wrong lesson from the PS2 (exotic hardware is great! No one minds!) and had to get a beating during the PS3 era for the division to get back on track.
by com2kid | 2025-04-11 20:48:32+00:00
I had a dog that you could ask to do complex tasks and he'd happily go about and do it.

"Go around the corner and get your toy out of the laundry basket".

He'd go around the corner and get his toy out of the laundry basket.

You could also ask him to get dressed (he'd get his rain coat and do his best to put it on) and you could ask him to get other dogs ready to go (he'd grab their leashes and drape the leash around the other dog's necks).

> Not independently developed in the wild.

I'm pretty sure the crows who live next to my house have a complex language. Different squawks for different circumstances. I can tell when one is addressing me vs when the male is calling to his partner.

> And even if they were, it would be language we taught them.

Humans smarted their way into a surplus of food, which allowed us to do lots of other cool things like have time for art, language, and spending years and years raising our young.

That doesn't mean we are inherently superior, it just means an excess of food allows plenty of time to do non-food related things.
by sailfast | 2025-04-11 20:49:26+00:00
It's also contrary to a number of federal records act laws, conflict of interest and ethics laws, etc. Folks don't seem to care about that though...

Also good thing the primary audience for Social Security recipients is in the X user demographic? I gotta say this could have been an incredible opportunity to revolutionize technology for the people but it was squandered by self-dealing morons.
by bluecalm | 2025-04-11 20:49:29+00:00
My friend does some trades in watch market as he gets access to limited editions from time to time (if you know right people in dealerships you can sometimes buy a watch out of line if the original "subscribed" buyer doesn't show up). There are quite a few people who want to buy an expensive watch or two to show off on their social media. People just really like shiny status symbols.
by johndoe0815 | 2025-04-11 20:49:39+00:00
German only, sorry. Both are reputable news outlets (though the Spiegel has gone down quite a bit in recent years IMHO).

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-04/baer-csu-geh... https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/csu-politikerin-d...

She hired her future husband as an employee until immediately before their wedding. This position was paid by the federal German parliament, i.e. the taxpayer. It's illegal to hire a relative in such a position.
by NegativeK | 2025-04-11 20:49:45+00:00
I'm not sure if the common core curriculum that came about in 2010 is proving you right or wrong, given the vehement "that's not mah math!" response that it got from the public.

But it's still the adopted standard in the majority of the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_implementation_by_...
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-11 20:50:19+00:00
Excelling at creating paperwork... except now digitally. AUTOSAR is may favorite German software innovation. /s

That's the curse in Europe. Every European country has it's own ministry of digital innovation who's role is the grift of allocating taxpayer money to the right politically connected pockets while pretending to do innovation. Case in point, German fiber optic infrastructure is still lightyears behind Romania despite much higher costs. Means, somebody in Germany is making good money form that, even if there's nothing to show for.

Meanwhile the actuality innovative companies in Europe get real VC money from the US, then get incorporated in the US and become American companies, then EU has the audacity to complain about lacking tech sovereignty.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-11 20:51:09+00:00
> arrested for resisting arrest"

I don't think she was "arrested" to "pay for her crimes" so to speak. As in "ok, she was in jail for 10 days, now she learned her lesson and she gets the J-1 visa uncanceled". It's a bit of a different mechanism - the default action here is to be sent to Russia. She chose to stay here instead, even if it meant being in detention. I may be wrong, but I think she can always say "I am going back to Russia" and they'll let her.
by usr1106 | 2025-04-11 20:51:33+00:00
Is it? In EU 112 is legally mandated. Did they roll back after Brexit?

Either way the numbers are mostly legacy. On mobiles emergency calls are a special protocol, no number is really transmitted to the network. If the phone application recognizes a certain number it will initiate an emergency call. And quite often several numbers do it. 000, 112, 911, 999. (Admittedly it's many years I last tested it.)
by quantified | 2025-04-11 20:52:03+00:00
That party is probably toast. Another party will take a generation to establish, during which time appropriate media needs to coalesce so as to organize and transmit its thinking.

Democrats, well-meaning as they are, are too consumed with doing right and not with actually being in a position to do right. They even rally around total losers. As Paul Graham noted, it's the charisma, stupid, and since Obama (not a good choice), they've had no one.
by trealira | 2025-04-11 20:52:24+00:00
So, do you mean like you have some big array, and you want to do something like this? (Below is not a real programming language.)

for i in 0 to arr.len() { new_val = f(arr[i]); log("Changing {arr[i]} to {new_val}.\n"); arr[i] = new_val; }

I haven't used Haskell in a long time, but here's a kind of pure way you might do it in that language, which I got after tinkering in the GHCi REPL for a bit. In Haskell, since you want to separate IO from pure logic as much as possible, functions that would do logging return instead a tuple of the log to print at the end, and the pure value. But because that's annoying and would require rewriting a lot of code manipulating tuples, there's a monad called the Writer monad which does it for you, and you extract it at the end with the `runWriter` function, which gives you back the tuple after you're done doing the computation you want to log.

You shouldn't use Text or String as the log type, because using the Writer involves appending a lot of strings, which is really inefficient. You should use a Text Builder, because it's efficient to append Builder types together, and because they become Text at the end, which is the string type you're supposed to use for Unicode text in Haskell.

So, this is it:

import qualified Data.Text.Lazy as T import qualified Data.Text.Lazy.Builder as B import qualified Data.Text.Lazy.IO as TIO import Control.Monad.Writer mapWithLog :: (Traversable t, Show a, Show b) => (a -> b) -> t a -> Writer B.Builder (t b) mapWithLog f = mapM helper where helper x = do let x' = f x tell (make x <> B.fromString " becomes " <> make x' <> B.fromString ". ") pure x' make x = B.fromString (show x) theActualIOFunction list = do let (newList, logBuilder) = runWriter (mapWithLog negate list) let log = B.toLazyText logBuilder TIO.putStrLn log -- do something with the new list...

So "theActualIOFunction [1,2,3]" would print:

1 becomes -1. 2 becomes -2. 3 becomes -3.

And then it does something with the new list, which has been negated now.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-11 20:52:36+00:00
I can think of one case where a father, who worked as a technical contractor in Iraq to support his child, was held hostage by terrorists and therefore missed his child support.

On returning to the US, he was imprisoned. Physically being unable to pay was not held to be a valid excuse to miss child support.

Somehow when it comes to holding citizens for contempt against a court order, it is no problem that the citizen was powerless to fulfill the order. But if an official does it then everything is fine.

At some point I would hope the courts see through this. Maybe El Salvador can keep the guy forever and we can't do anything about it. And then just like the hostage, the judge should be able to keep these people in jail for contempt until the guy is released, whether it ever happens or not. They owned it when they did it, too bad so sad if they cannot fix it and they're held in contempt.
by com2kid | 2025-04-11 20:52:38+00:00
This is fair enough.

When I bought the original Brothers, it took me maybe 10 hours to finish, if even that. It was well worth the cost, amazing game. (Apparently the remake was badly done...)

Some games are in the "experience" category, $30 for 10 amazing hours, great deal. $30 for 10 hours and then a rage quit, not a good deal.
by em-bee | 2025-04-11 20:52:40+00:00
if they are a business then none of these alternatives are acceptable. they could loose customers over this. and surely you are joking with cancelling or postponing an event over this. please try to be realistic. you have to consider that in our society we have come to certain expectations. these may not be ideal, but closing an online service at night is a violation of that. things would look different if everyone did that, but then i'd be the one offering night service and use it to beat the competition.
by throwanem | 2025-04-11 20:52:42+00:00
Herbert for better gender and emotional politics than Heinlein. Herbert! And to think I imagined there was nothing left you could say to surprise me.

Don't expect me to stop discussing what your behavior displays of your character, just because you've finally shown the modicum of rhetorical sense or tactical cunning required to minimally amend that behavior. Again, if you actually meant even a fraction of what you say, you would now be reading instead of still speaking. If it bothers you that you continue to indict yourself by your actions this way, consider acting differently.

Should you at any future point opt to develop a thesis in this area which is capable of supporting knowledgeable discussion, I confide it will find an audience in accord with its quality. In the meantime, please stop inviting me to participate in the project of recovering your totally unforced embarrassment.

Believe it or not by the look of things, I already have enough else to do today. Wiping your nose as you struggle and fail to learn from your vastly overprivileged young life's first encounter with entirely merited and obviously unmitigated contempt doesn't really make the list, at least not past the point at which it ceases to amuse, which I admit is now fast approaching.
by concerndc1tizen | 2025-04-11 20:53:38+00:00
I suspect the problem is that we're engineers in domains that have very different needs.

For example, I agree that elasticity is great. But at the same time, to me, it sounds like bad engineering. Why do you need to store terabytes of data and then delete it - couldn't it be processed continuously, streamed, compressed, process changes only, and so on. A lot of engineering today is incredibly wasteful. Maybe your data source doesn't care, and just provides you with terabyte csv files, and you have no choice, but for engineers that care about efficiency, it reeks.

It might make a lot of sense in a highly corporate context where everything is hard, nobody cares, and the cost of inefficiency is just passed on to the customer (i.e. often government and tax payers). But the real problem here is that customers aren't demanding more efficiency.
by chasd00 | 2025-04-11 20:53:53+00:00
how is it not legal? If you want to read their PR pieces go to the website and click on News or Press or whatever it is. Nothing is hidden from you because you're not a twitter user and you, as an individual, were never told of a PR anyway. It went to media agencies or via "dear colleague" letters (not exactly sure what that is but I'm 49 and have been paying taxes forever yet have never seen one in my mail ever)
by homarp | 2025-04-11 20:54:01+00:00
The W65C816 is a 16 bit version of the 6502 CPU.

The 32 bit version, called the W65C832, only exists as a datasheet This is a FPGA version.

"builds with the regular opensource FPGA tools: yosys, nextpnr-ice40, icepack, and iceFUNprog. I recently added support for the Tang Nano 20k board (should work with the 9k model too)"
by breppp | 2025-04-11 20:54:01+00:00
HRW was caught in the past soliciting donations from Saudis in return for restricting their Middle East reporting [1]

Project Raven, a UAE offensive cyber operation has leaked a document by the Qatar government concerning financing of HRW [2][3]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/human-rights-watch-took-...

[2] https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/1700763578-human-...

[3] https://www.memri.org/reports/raven-project-leaks-alleged-qa...
by bluGill | 2025-04-11 20:54:56+00:00
Don't forget that most people don't even have enough math background to understand why those who do want better teaching. Most of those people don't really need better math for their life, so it is hard to explain why their kids would be better off knowing something they don't need.

Meanwhile there are less good jobs that can get by without the advance math that needs better teaching all the time.
by throwup238 | 2025-04-11 20:55:01+00:00
It's not usually time based. Some countries have laws like NAGPRA in the US that protect the graves of specific groups regardless of age but otherwise it's a very fuzzy line to draw. The two extremes are:

- If the polity that the person belonged to still exists, then it's a very sensitive issue - like US civil war graves. Likewise if there is a clear cultural continuity - for example France's first republic to the modern era. Both of which are themselves fuzzy criteria but largely fall into the desecration camp (although there are exceptions, not all cultures view it as taboo when done for scientific/historical purposes).

- If neither the polity nor the culture - often delineated by writing system or state apparatus or other semi-arbitrary line - still exist then the grave is pretty much fair game ethically speaking (legally it depends on the jurisdiction).

That fuzziness in the middle is very problematic but modern archaeologists have a whole process for reaching out to governments and getting consent from any descendant communities if applicable, and then coming up with an ethical plan to rebury/preserve the remains afterwards. IME the majority of such communities are very cooperative because it helps them answer questions about their past.
by MBCook | 2025-04-11 20:55:09+00:00
As things got more expensive we really started to see a switch from custom or in-house engines to the ones we’re so familiar with like Unity and Unreal.

Many developers couldn’t afford to keep up if they had to build their own engine, let alone on multiple platforms.

Far cheaper/easier to share the cost with many others through Unreal licenses. Your fame is more portable and can use more features that you may have ever had time to add to the engine.

It’s way easier to make multi-platform engines if each one doesn’t need its own ridiculously special way of doing things. And unless that platform is the one that’s driving a huge amount of sales I’m guessing it’s gonna get less attention/optimization.
by saratogacx | 2025-04-11 20:55:18+00:00
It isn't like it didn't happen. Here's an example [0] where a factory owner started replacing the workers with automation/robots. This was in 1964. There's another episode [1] where a scientist creates a computer that can converse with him and it goes all wrong.

These kinds of plots were actually quite common as people wrestled with the unknown future of the coming nuclear age.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27s [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Agnes%E2%80%94With_Love
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-11 20:55:25+00:00
> Right, but "distaste" isn't grounds for trying to ban something.

It isn't, but it doesn't stop people from trying and hoping for a miracle. That's pretty much all there is to the arguments of image models, as well as LLMs, being trained in violation of copyright - it's distaste and greed[0], with a slice of basic legalese on top to confuse people into believing the law says what it doesn't (at least yet) on top.

> If Adobe properly licenses all their training data artists don't have a right to say "well i think this is bad for creativity and puts my job at risk, ban it!!!" Or more precisely, they have a right to say that, but no moral justification for trying to ban/regulate/sue over it.

I'd say they have plenty of moral / ethical justification for trying to ban/regulate/sue over it, they just don't have much of a legal one at this point. But that's why they should be trying[1] - they have a legitimate argument that this is an unexpected, undeserved, unfair calamity for them, threatening to derail their lives, and lives of their dependents, across the entire sector - and therefore that laws should be changed to shield them, or compensate them for the loss. After all, that's what laws are for.

(Let's not forget that the entire legal edifice around recognizing and protecting "intellectual property" is an entirely artificial construct that goes against the nature of information and knowledge, forcing information to behave like physical goods, so it's not unfair to the creators in an economy that's built around trading physical goods. IP laws were built on moral arguments, so it's only fair to change them on moral grounds too.)

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[0] - Greed is more visible in the LLM theatre of this conflict, because with textual content there's vastly more people who believe that they're entitled to compensation just because some comments they wrote on the Internet may have been part of the training dataset, and are appalled to see LLM providers get paid for the service while they are not. This Dog in the Manger mentality is distinct from that of people whose output was used in training a model that now directly competes with them for their job; the latter have legitimate ethical reasons to complain.

[1] - Even though myself I am for treating training datasets to generative AI as exempt from copyright. I think it'll be better for society in general - but I recognize it's easy for me to say it, because I'm not the one being rugpulled out of a career path by GenAI, watching it going from 0 to being half of the way towards automating away visual arts, in just ~5 years.
by MBCook | 2025-04-11 20:57:01+00:00
Well that wasn’t supposed to be the architecture either. The whole thing was supposed to be vastly faster and bigger with way more SPUs.

Maybe that would’ve been terrible, maybe not. Kinda sounds like yes in hindsight.

But the SPU‘s were originally supposed to do the GPU work too I think. So there’s a reason the GPU doesn’t fit in terribly well, it had to be tacked on at the end so the PS3 had any chance at all. And it couldn’t be well designed/optimized for the rest of the system because they were out of time.
by bsder | 2025-04-11 20:57:24+00:00
Erlang looks weird--Prolog-base, tail recursive loops, extensive pattern matching.

Also, a lot of the power of Erlang is the OTP (Open Telecom Platform) even more than Erlang, itself. You have to internalize those architectural decisions (expect crashes--do fast restart) to get the full power of Erlang.

Elixir seems like it has been finding more traction by looking more like mainstream languages. In addition, languages on the BEAM (like Elixir) made the BEAM much better documented, understood and portable.
by khill | 2025-04-11 20:57:41+00:00
I've played for about an hour and agree with your assessment. I still have it installed but I doubt I will revisit it.

I've switched to South of Midnight and it's amazing. Not everyone's type of game - and certainly not a puzzle game - but the graphics, music, story, and gameplay combine to make it one of the best games I've played in a long, long time.
by mattdeboard | 2025-04-11 20:57:54+00:00
Cave drawings throughout the American southwest demonstrate Native Americans of antiquity were just as capable of expressing symbolic thought via a durable medium to express meaning to other humans as so-called modern humans.

I know I'm arguably moving the goalposts here from "writing stuff down for others to read" to "using symbols on a durable medium to express meaning to other humans." But that's a category of behavior that writing belongs to so I don't think it's logically inconsistent. :)
by ljm | 2025-04-11 20:58:21+00:00
I think Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is a solid thesis on the sudden rise of communication and its steady decay.

In less than 100 years we went from sending news via envoys or on horseback to compressing it and sending it over a wire.

The only time you would ever go to the effort to send news, back then, was if it was important or vital, but crucially it was actionable.

The decay comes from using the same channels, or even creating new channels, to disseminate info that is not meant to be actioned but simply consumed.

The regulations around that production were stripped away and so was the trust that the info you now consume is valid.
by tryauuum | 2025-04-11 20:58:48+00:00
while you are correct in calling the VM startup slow compared to the container startup, reading "emulating hardware" burns my eyes

modern VMs don't emulate hardware. When a VM has a hard drive or a network device there's no sophisticated code to trick VM into believing that this is real hardware. Virtio drivers are about VM writing data in a memory area and assuming it's written to the disk / sent to the network (because in the background hypervisor reads the same memory area and does the job)
by scarecrowbob | 2025-04-11 20:59:08+00:00
I personally built much of the current incarnation of blog.ssa.gov CMS and have seen how they gain traffic to that site.

It makes very little sense to me to have that information's authoritative origin be on x, but I'm genuinely curious how this would be an improvement over the current situation where SSA publishes to their various web sites.

Perhaps you can explain why they should post stuff to X instead of either the CMS tied to the www site or the blog? After all "Literally anyone can copy that to whatever platform they want" so putting pushing things like that to various social media platforms has already been going on for a while.

What advantage are you seeing to have them switch from their current CMSs to x?