MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sneak | 2025-04-26 00:06:02+00:00
Over the last thousand years, humans have become more educated and more connected. Violent deaths have been steadily falling.

Over the last hundred years, American military and paramilitary forces, and their vendors, have subverted transparency and democracy to turn America into a military dictatorship.

There is nothing to suggest that the fall of the United States and subsequent replacement (with whatever may come) will reverse the thousand year trend of increased education and decreased violence.

The culture of the 3.6% of people who live in the current territory of the USA will be irreparably damaged, however. This may not be entirely a bad thing, given how significant an outlier the US lifestyle is compared to the rest of the world.
by mikeyouse | 2025-04-26 00:06:58+00:00
Federally it certainly is true. And I agree, they shouldn’t be above scrutiny which is why it’s so important for the DOJ to maintain their independence and to avoid partisanship.. but Elon was loudly claiming they were funding the Tesla protests a few weeks ago and the rest of the administration got in line to encourage this pretextual nonsense.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-26 00:07:10+00:00
No, that's not accurate. When people talk about the "deterioration of race relations", they're referring to a well-documented phenomenon (https://news.gallup.com/poll/1687/race-relations.aspx) where poll respondents say race relations are bad (and trending downwards) since 2015 while they were good from 2001 to 2013. I'm skeptical that Obama bears any responsibility for this, given that the trend didn't start until his second term, but it's a real trend and not a euphemism.
by cuuupid | 2025-04-26 00:07:10+00:00
Is it custom all the way down or based on something like starlight? I really like Mintlify but $200 per doc site hurts for internal tools.

I can see a lot of merit in custom building though especially with making it easier to dump it into `llms.txt` or exposing a search for AI. Hoping that's where DeepWiki is headed :)
by muzani | 2025-04-26 00:07:32+00:00
The data isn't there. Most would be out of date, and there's no incentive to train a LLM on this. OpenAI doesn't even do a lot of things well; their RAG, STT, TTS, voice, embeddings is below average, but it's convenient for people who don't want to look elsewhere.

The best would be looking to AI influencers. The good ones will be familiar with the common drawbacks and look to ways to evaluate the new models. Some do a weekly summary and such.
by sterlind | 2025-04-26 00:07:55+00:00
> A majority of people are fine with legal migration

an alarming number of legal aliens are being detained, deported or disappeared: students who wrote op-eds, Afghan asylees who helped us during the war, college professors and Canadian tourists, even (prospectively) "home-growns."

if most Trump supporters support legal migration, why aren't they pushing back on this?
by monkaiju | 2025-04-26 00:08:43+00:00
As the owner of a 2014 Nissan leaf with ~70 miles of range left, this statement makes no sense... ~100 miles (after years of use and loaded down) sounds amazing. I use my leaf CONSTANTLY and only resort to my 2000 Chevy S10 for things like dump runs, home projects, helping friends move, etc.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-26 00:08:48+00:00
> We think that intuitive element names should be added to the tscircuit spec, even if they're redundant/there are multiple ways to do something.

Definitely makes sense, the question IMHO is what is the best way to interface with existing parts libraries. Making up individual names for each of the probably hundreds of thousands of connector types is going to be a looot of work.

And then, to add insult to injury, for some connectors there are so many different sub-variants as well. RJ45 with and without magnetics (I see inductors and (auto)transformers aren't present at the moment either) and LEDs, USB-C with some connectors being flush with the PCB and others that are designed to be placed in a PCB cutout... or PCIe connectors which can be had in physically closed and cutout variants (aka, an x1 socket that accepts x4/8/16 cards).

I hate connectors, in case it isn't apparent :'D

> Yes diodes should have variants, I was surprised this wasn't already in the spec and created an issue to add it

Thanks!
by shoozza | 2025-04-26 00:08:51+00:00
Slightly off topic: Is D a good language for creating tiny windows or Linux executables? There is an upcoming game jam (4mb jam 2025) which gives extra points for game submissions <= 8KB. With c you can fit a window with graphics update in an executable of less than 900 bytes[0]. Granted it's using crinkler for linking which does some compression.

0: https://gist.github.com/ske2004/336d8cce8cd9db59d61ceb13c1ed...
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-26 00:08:54+00:00
Reason and truth are the enemy of authoritarian regimes. They want you to believe that truth is subjective. Truth and reason provide alternative legitimacy to authority. If nothing is true, there is no basis on which to judge those in power.

There is a long legacy of authoritarian regimes attacking curious places, universities, historians, museums, books or any institution that grounds itself in reality which provides you a way to reasonably criticize authoritarian actions. Many authortarian regimes will "purge" as many of the country's intellectuals as they are able.

Wikipedia is absolutely the enemy of this administration and authoritarians everywhere in the world would love to see it's demise or collapse into chaos.

Whether the Wikipedia page for Israel says Gaza is a genocide or not, or that it's an ongoing debate matters. It matters because it influences what people think and therefore what they consent to or what they deem worth fighting for or applying resources to and that goes for just about any issue out there. If you can't read about the suffering that racism has caused, then how bad is racism really? If there are no examples of successful labor movements, then why would you hopelessly start one?
by ricksunny | 2025-04-26 00:10:58+00:00
For The Tech minded, I wrote an guest column that touched on the autonomy of technical management aspect.

https://thetech.com/2024/07/11/anniversary-vannevar-bush-pas...

the “unchecked committee of technocratic experts appeared to be his preferred agency governance form.” refers both to his utterances illustrated in his only biography to date, and particularly to the would-be May-Johnson governance structure he promoted.

Today we see the debate in full swing with discussion of technocratic elitism, (particularly this year more than last when I wrote the piece).

I wrestle with the pitfalls & perceived benefits a technocratic elite sans much representative democratic oversight. But make no mistake, a ‘Vannevarian’ world would appear very different to the current one we prefer to think we live in. The closest example in pop culture to what I imagine is the Fallout franchise’s Vault governance & managed society.
by Supermancho | 2025-04-26 00:11:26+00:00
> Obama is not likely to end up in the history books as the 'Change agent' he promised to be and will mostly likely be seen as partly responsible for the deterioration of race relations in the USA

That's a fantasy. His mere existence in the position, contradicts the premise. Hillary hoped to be in a similar position...history would have also been kind to her, despite her vicious nature by the obvious virtuous implications (a woman can become POTUS).
by bionhoward | 2025-04-26 00:11:53+00:00
Couldn’t it wind up being easy for Cursor and other variants of VS Code to be long run beneficial for VS Code itself? Seems like having a different third party team extending your stuff and testing it, could be hugely valuable, they take risks and move fast, the upstream project gradually learns from what works for the forks, people contribute various other new extensions.

In the age of LLMs, community is worth its weight in platinum, cutting off Cursor just incentivizes them to develop some new better thing with better technology (cough Zed, Ghostty) to compete with VS Code which won’t benefit Microsoft because it’ll be separate. What’s the use in not just open sourcing the C extension? With more people moving off C anyway, might as well get the free community contributions
by whoknowsidont | 2025-04-26 00:12:44+00:00
They're not resolving it in court. You can issue summons, which is NORMALLY what happens when these kind of issues arise.

The "Cash for Children" judges got summons for Christ's sake.

Pam Bondi mere hours ago stated they would go after more judges like this. This isn't normal or right.

You're clearly not interested in good-faith discussion, good bye.
by jjmarr | 2025-04-26 00:12:50+00:00
The English Wikipedia is a massive target for influence campaigns. I don't think there are any other communities as resilient as it. Just an example:

There's certain individual or group that edited under the name "Icewhiz", was banned, and now operates endless sockpuppet accounts in the topic area to influence Wikipedia's coverage on the Middle East. One of them was an account named "Eostrix", that spent years making clean uncontroversial edits until one day going for adminship.

Eostrix got 99% approval in their request for adminship. But it didn't matter, because an anonymous individual also spent years pursuing Eostrix, assembling evidence, and this resulted in Eostrix's block just days before they became a Wikipedia administrator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investiga...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Com...

It's a useful contrast to a place like Reddit, where volunteer moderators openly admit to spreading terrorist propaganda or operating fake accounts when their original one gets banned. You don't get to do that on Wikipedia. If you try, someone with far too much time on their hands will catch you because Wikipedia doesn't need to care about Daily Active Users and the community cares about protecting a neutral point of view.

Not denying the existence of influence campaigns. There have been several major pro-Palestinian ones recently, which is probably why this letter has been sent. But the only reason you know about them is because Wikipedia openly fights them instead of covering them up. Most social media websites don't care and would rather you don't bring it to their attention. That is why Reddit banned /r/bannedforbeingjewish.
by orangecat | 2025-04-26 00:12:55+00:00
According to gemma3:27b

BB(6) halts after 1,071,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001,071,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000...

and it's still spitting out lines of 000s after 5 minutes. Either a hallucination or a pretty good joke.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-26 00:14:04+00:00
You are crazy if you don't see the difference.

It's not a difference in goal, it's a difference in level of power consolidation. They would already have enacted that law if they thought they had the power to do it, the fact that they haven't means that they think it would cause a response they couldn't win against. As soon as they think they can win, they will do it.

So by not acting now, you ensure that that law is a possibility later.

Imagine I have a neighboring country who's land I want. They have 10,000 citizens, but I only have 5,000 bullets. I have a bullet factory that produces 1,000 bullets a month. Do I invade them right now or do I wait at least 5 months?

If I am the country with 10,000 citizens and I see my neighbor is producing bullets at maximum capacity, should I wait until I definitely know they will invade to mobilize my own manufacturing base/prepare my citizens for a potential invasion? What if they had already spent 2,000 bullets taking a 2,000 person state?
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-04-26 00:14:27+00:00
There is no cross-crate LTO with 'lto = false', but there is cross-crate thin LTO with 'lto = "thin"'. The codepaths might still be getting hit, but individual CGUs within a crate are generally invisible to the user, which can create the impression that LTO doesn't occur. (That is, if you operate under the mental model of the crate being the basic compilation unit, then 'lto = false' means you'll never see LTO.)
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-26 00:14:28+00:00
> This is a far shot from being against legal migration entirely.

Sure, its simply about preferring strong ethnic controls on immigration: while only 50% of Republicans think legal immigration should be decreased, 61% think that immigration "from other cultures" has mainly negative consequences. It's not that Republicans are against legal immigration entirely, its just that they are (in the majority) against any immigration from the places most immigrants come from; they are fine with legal immigration of white Christian conservatives, especially from the rest of the anglosphere.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-04-26 00:14:31+00:00
The Australian implementation had a lot of problems. Instead of being (something reasonably loophole free like) a tax levied on fossil fuel consumption it was a scheme that applied to the 500 largest emitters. These emitters then (crucially) estimated their own emissions minus offsets and paid tax on that.

The issue with this is that it creates a whole parallel (and largely fake) carbon accounting world. Fake estimates, fake offsets, a complex web of compensating subsidies - but real public money.

The field of carbon taxes is tricky because we can imagine simple schemes which handle a few scenarios in a fair way (ok, fuel! we know how to tax that) but once you start thinking about agriculture or construction you quickly get into complex estimation. You then end up with armies of carbon accountants who spend all day looking for loopholes and rorts.
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-26 00:18:15+00:00
We should stay on topic.

No software—whether on a secure or non-secure (dirty-line) government computer—can be installed without IT being alerted within milliseconds. Likewise, absolutely no unauthorized hardware can be connected to a military system without immediate detection.

There is simply no realistic scenario in which PH could have operated an unknown system with unapproved software inside one of the most secure facilities in the United States without it being known and approved. If I’m proven wrong, I’ll gladly apologize for doubting. But when it’s confirmed I’m right, I hope you’ll extend the same courtesy to those your post may have misled or unfairly accused.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-04-26 00:18:31+00:00
> "why do you think it's turning people against them?"

March 31, 2025: "Democrats’ approval remains at low point: Poll" - https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/5224072-de...

April 4, 2025: "President Donald Trump's approval rating has risen by 5 percentage points among Democrats, according to new polling" - https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-update...

So how is all the raucous handwringing helping?
by gitfan86 | 2025-04-26 00:18:38+00:00
The idea is that the justice system should work in a reasonable way so that victims and potential victim rights are protected.

For example, someone who allegedly beat their wife, has a right to a trial. But if activist judges make decisions that cause the trial to not take place for 10 years that is obstructive and the alleged victim doesn't get justice or protection from future assaults. So if that person is deported before the trial you could complain about lack of "due process" but you would be ignoring the rights of the victim.
by galeaspablo | 2025-04-26 00:19:21+00:00
Option 1, but after so many years banging our heads against the wall reasoning about this, we hoped someone would eventually give us a queue that supports arbitrary causal dependency graphs.

We thought about building it ourselves, because we know the data structures, high level algorithms, and disk optimizations required. BUT we pivoted our company, so we've postponed this for the foreseeable future. After all, theory is relatively easy, but a true production grade implementation takes years.
by Macha | 2025-04-26 00:19:25+00:00
Misconfiguring your web server such that example.com/../../etc/passwd returned the actual file was a common vulnerability in the early 00s. Or cgi scripts that worked with real file paths but accepted any path

WAFs blocking the string with the filename then is the "to make sure nobody ever accidentally leaves your gate open, we've replaced it with a concrete wall" solution to this problem. You might never have this problem, and might need to actually use the gate but the vendor/security team has successfully solved their problem of checking off a blocked attack, and the consequences are now your problem
by xelxebar | 2025-04-26 00:20:05+00:00
Hey, I know you.

> all the operations are O(n)

Not true, fortunately!

The cat-gets pattern for insertion is clearly just an O(1) append. Similar for the replicate-gets in the deletion.

Finding the deletion mask might be O(n) or O(log n), depending[0] on the size of your search space.

Key is effectively just a radix sort, which is indeed O(n) on the keys, but a trad hashmap doesn't get any better in this case.

[0]:https://help.dyalog.com/19.0/#Language/Defined%20Functions%2...
by RajT88 | 2025-04-26 00:21:09+00:00
Indeed. And they have floated "deporting" citizens for "crimes".

They have made it clear how they are treating immigrants is how they want to treat citizens.

If you think the citizens they are targeting are "the bad ones", you just wait. Soon the "bad ones" category will get wider was well.

Someone wrote a poem about this once. Their back story is very, very relevant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
by rapjr9 | 2025-04-26 00:22:53+00:00
Some people want to try new ideas that you can't buy ready made in a commercial synth or effects pedal. For example, trying unusual modulations, feedback loops, and signal dependent effects depth/parameters. Without a Eurorack you have to build a custom circuit to try it. With a Eurorack you can plug in some patch cables and quickly try it out. Think of a Eurorack synth module like a math symbol, you can assemble them to create an equation that produces sound. It's actually very much like an analog computer, where you can write an equation and implement it in hardware. It is literally possible to write equations and see what they sound like. You can do the same thing with something like VCV Rack though it's somewhat more difficult since to get physical controls you have to map midi controllers and may need a lot of midi controllers, which probably means manually labeling all the controls so you can tell what they do. In a Eurorack module each control, input, and output is already somewhat usefully labeled and defined by the module it is part of. So for some sound designers Eurorack systems are sophisticated sound design tools. You might use one to design a new kind of guitar effects pedal or to create a custom tweak on a specific sound in a movie soundtrack. Not that you can't just play with them without a coherent design in mind also, just to see what turns up.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-26 00:23:05+00:00
Part of me really finds it hard to take this seriously because the NYT is exactly the kind of publication where authors would not too long ago gloat how it's so cool that the government is invasively monitoring people when it was being used for whatever they consider good (and the readership would largely agree) and I cynically assume that the shift in opinion is a reflection of immediate political reality and not one of principals.

Part of me likes seeing these articles in the NY times because I'm a naive idiot and think there's a shred of a chance it signals a shift of opinion among those people and that perhaps there is a future in which all the excitement about data driven policy and action of the 2010s and early 2020s is looked at in the rearview mirror the way we look at the eugenics movement.
by duskwuff | 2025-04-26 00:23:32+00:00
Despite anything he may say about himself, Larry Sanger is not, by any stretch of the imagination, "the founder of Wikipedia". He was a paid employee of the project in 2001; his involvement with the site ended in early 2002 when funding for the position ran out. His experience with the site nearly 25 years ago does not make him an authority on how it is run today.
by bananalychee | 2025-04-26 00:25:02+00:00
In my understanding, the Obama administration expelled 2.5 million illegal immigrants under the same emergency powers now being invoked by the Trump administration and did bypass standards of "due process" being raised today to block deportations. If it's practically impossible to expel the illegal immigrants allowed in via open border policies over the previous term, that's dysfunctional and the standards should be relaxed.

This case is particularly egregious, as the judge personally helped a violent illegal immigrant evade law enforcement outside of her jurisdiction, which explains the arrest; but "systematic obstruction" refers to the injunctions being issued constantly to block executive actions, suggesting that the Trump administration's attempts to reverse open border policies are subjected to a much higher standard than Democrats were under Obama just 15 years prior when they correctly viewed illegal immigration as a problem.
by morkalork | 2025-04-26 00:26:06+00:00
The crazy thing to me is that if he was terminally online enough to become brainwashed by this propaganda, how did he miss the thousands of videos of Russian soldiers getting turned into mincemeat. It is not the kind of war you can fight and believe that superior skill will keep you alive, it's just a waiting game till an artillery shell or drone blows you to bits. A complete meat grinder, really.
by Jensson | 2025-04-26 00:26:23+00:00
> So by not acting now, you ensure that that law is a possibility later.

What do you mean "act now"? Do you want more people to go out and key tesla cars? You think that is going to make fascism less likely? No, stuff like that only strengthens fascism.

People fought Hitler at every turn in his rise to power often using less than legal means and violence, that only made him stronger.

> Imagine I have a neighboring country who's land I want. They have 10,000 citizens, but I only have 5,000 bullets. I have a bullet factory that produces 1,000 bullets a month. Do I invade them right now or do I wait at least 5 months?

Except that country is selling you the bullets, and they say they need to produce more bullets to win even though you just buy them.

My advice: Stop selling bullets to your enemy.

Your response: But they have so many bullets, we need to make more to defend ourselves, and of course we can't stop selling bullets since that will crash our market!

Like, each of those positions are fine in themselves, but the combination is devastating.
by bix6 | 2025-04-26 00:26:32+00:00
This is a tell all memoir from someone who was abused and witnessed abuse at Meta and it seems your response is to call one portion hyperbole instead of focusing on the broader issue. You clearly know Meta is a bad actor since you intentionally avoid their products, yet you go out of your way to stick up for a claim that you also don’t know the truth about?
by kstenerud | 2025-04-26 00:26:41+00:00
Actually, it goes further than that. Russia has always been the master of Realpolitik. In this case, they pushed Iran to encourage Hamas, in the hopes that it would distract America and draw their focus away from Ukraine. That it split voters was just icing on the cake. Most Russian initiatives are small, inexpensive, and speculative in nature. Do enough of them in concert, and some will succeed at very low cost to you, and with convenient deniability (undersea cables, for example). And since they don't have to fear Western armed belligerence anymore, it's very low-cost indeed!