MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-22 23:18:14+00:00
This, as written -- the legislature's page which includes the text of the law and analyses done by legislative staff for legislators is linked in the article -- would cover that as well. While AI deepfakes are the main motivating issue prompting the revision of the states existing revenge porn law, the revision is not limited to them. It changes the existing law which covers nonconsensual distribution of intimate imagery (with speciied intent and knowledge) to expand the definition of intimate images from "a photograph, film, videotape, recording, digital picture and other visual reproduction" in which either the subject's "intimate parts are visible" or the subject is "engaging in sexual conduct" to also include "A digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic."

Now, if someone does convicing fakery by analog means without digital tools, even if the appearance is realistic, it looks like it might still fall through the cracks, but that's probably not realitic a significant problem, and were it to become one its an easy fix.
by pm90 | 2025-04-22 23:18:31+00:00
> In addition, it is a durable execution platform for long-running and reliable workflows. It is based on Temporal, hiding many of its infrastructure and coding complexities.

You only hide it for as long as things go smoothly. When a thing breaks then ur hosed. Having seen people try to self host cadence/temporal (not super easy) this makes me skeptical.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-04-22 23:18:31+00:00
> I wouldn't break into someone's house and tell them they painted their house an uninformed color.

but if you, an experienced professional painter, were hired to repaint somebody's house, and that person used bad paint (or something else entirely, like... i dunno, shellac, or white glue), your scope of work changes from "light prep and paint" to a much more involved job of undoing the previous work (or mistakes) and then getting to the original scope of work.

> If something sucks or won't scale, it will sort itself out in the market.

i truly don't mean this in a derogatory way but that sounds incredibly naive.
by llamavore | 2025-04-22 23:19:37+00:00
I think theres value in the books analysis of the early Cold Start strategies, which to me are reminiscent of the excellent blog post from Paul Graham https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

In fact you could read that and get a lot of the same value, particularly around "solving hard problems" and single-player / come for the tool, stay for the network.

But I do think his assessment that the whole thing is a paradox is true, and perhaps lends some credence to your point which is that, you kind of can't entirely engineer (or predict) success because the outcome is often different to how it started.
by sebamilla | 2025-04-22 23:20:28+00:00
mrkr+ - a tool that transforms your iPhone into a production assistant that never interrupts your workflow. Key features:

Silent markers: Tap your iPhone or use voice commands to mark moments without disrupting scenes One-tap export to major editors (Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve) Streamlined workflow from filming to final edit

It's designed for documentary filmmakers, production teams, podcast producers, and solo content creators who need to mark important moments without breaking the flow.
by gosub100 | 2025-04-22 23:20:57+00:00
do you think that had PE not been involved, Toys would be the same as it was in 1991 [1]? Glass cases with RC cars and hovercraft? Glue-together models, Hot Wheels? The times change, even though I agree with you that PE sucks. Besides, if it were merely PE then wouldn't that create new opportunity for people to start their own local toystores? If it were merely PE then the market to buy toys would remain unchanged, wouldn't it?

1. https://youtu.be/KsebX5Gd2Ao?si=YPbNBW_Xw3dHmcQw
by neaden | 2025-04-22 23:21:04+00:00
Bryant was a pseudo historian who came up with an elaborate alternate history. He doesn't represent the mainstream view anymore then flat earthera do today.

Edit: as I said, Troy was inhabited until around 1300 and left behind many artifacts like coins. While conspiracy theorists might doubt it occasionally, it was never a mainstream view that the person I was responding to presented it as. Saying that we used to doubt Troy so therefore maybe Atlantis is real is basically saying that if we reject one conspiracy theory we should accept a separate one.
by pansa2 | 2025-04-22 23:21:44+00:00
> I have a feeling that if metaclasses and descriptors were to be proposed today it would be laughed out of the PEP process completely.

I think you need at least one of these. Modern Python eschews metaclasses but descriptors are everywhere. Without them you couldn’t have @classmethod, @staticmethod nor @property - or at least, you couldn’t generalise custom method lookup and all three of those would need to be special cases.

The alternative approach is to drop descriptors and make method lookup much simpler, but then you need metaclasses (see: static methods in Ruby).
by TankeJosh | 2025-04-22 23:23:37+00:00
There are definitely a lot of dragons, but there are also a lot of teams that use these tools and need help slaying those dragons :)

We chose to focus on IaC because we think general coding agents are going to take a long time to solve all the edge cases well.

I do think a similar tool built on something simpler would be really interesting. I’ve been tempted to try this with our previous product: https://docs.launchflow.com/
by toast0 | 2025-04-22 23:23:54+00:00
So, some PEs do try to run businesses sustainably. But we mostly hear about the PEs that turn a business that's slowly dying to one that will operate "as normal" until it suddenly dies, usually somewhere around 5-7 years later.

The first thing is that, if at all possible, the PE wants to do a leveraged buyout where the acquired company itself has borrowed most of the funds to buy itself. This cashes out the previous investors, but leaves most of the risk with lenders rather than the PE firm. Sometimes the PE may get a cut of the financing revenue. Most of the loan will be sold on the bond market, typically as junk bonds. Junk bonds have high interest rates, because there's a good chance the loan won't be repaid, but maybe you'll collect enough between interest and the bankruptcy settlement.

While the company operates under the PE's management, it's getting paid management fees.

It's also likely to move valuable assets out of the company; for real estate, sale and leaseback is common; when the company implodes, the PE keeps the land and can sell or lease it to someone else. The sale price was probably under market and the lease over market, so the PE earns money here. Having a high lease payment helps the PE finance the purchase, and may help it finance similar property as well.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-04-22 23:24:35+00:00
>> by having the company take out loans

How does that work exactly though? Loans from whom? Lenders watch Goodfellas too. They know the game here. Oh, a private equity firm wants to take out loans on the future earnings of this company they just bought. That sounds like it must be very profitable! Let's call off our due diligence.

Said no lender ever.
by sgerenser | 2025-04-22 23:24:40+00:00
Same here. The table side reader thing is something I only see at maybe 1 in 10 restaurants in my part of the U.S. During the pandemic there was a big uptick in “pay by QR code” but that seems to have gotten much less popular (I believe the extra fees charged by Toast and similar are no longer deemed worth it by restaurants).
by jcranmer | 2025-04-22 23:25:45+00:00
> What about Gobekli Tepe?

What about it? It's one of the oldest Neolithic settlements we've identified, but otherwise, it's not particularly unusual within our understanding of Neolithic Mesopotamia.

When GP is talking about "material culture", they're (probably) referring to the archaeological definition of culture, which means you need to give an explanation as to what makes an artifact indicative of belonging to a culture. The shape of an arrowhead perhaps, or maybe the kind of style used in painting pottery. Something that lets an archaeologist dig something up and go "aha, this is culture X!" Age isn't one of those characteristics.

But of course the province of pseudoarchaeology is to come up with a theory and work everything into evidence for that theory. Atlantis is old, Göbleki Tepe is old, therefore Göbleki Tepe is Atlantean!

> Skepticism is healthy, but why be dismissive of peoples' interest to consider or search for new evidence? What exactly is the risk?

Most of the people that tend to propose these theories aren't interested in searching for evidence. See for example, Graham Hancock, who has been peddling the same theory for 30 years and has done nothing to actually produce better evidence for it except to whine that mainstream archaeologists don't want to listen to him because they're stuck in their own stupid ways. (Of course, in that same time, mainstream archaeology has thoroughly demolished the Clovis-First hypothesis which was previously disfavored, precisely because the pre-Clovis adherents actually did the legwork to produce better evidence to make it more accepted!) You can also see this with archaeoastronomy, which is borderline fringe--its better practitioners have made some success by listening to the criticisms and persevering in efforts to get better, stronger evidence to buttress their claims. As a basic rule of thumb, if someone's response to criticism is to chide scientists for being rigid in their thinking rather than going out to try to get better evidence, then that's a strong sign they're engaged in pseudoscience and not science.

As for the risk, a lot of these theories bear a deep legacy of overt racism just begin their skin; they've historically been used to devalue the abilities of the people who've made them (e.g., Great Zimbabwe). Nowadays, they've been modified to edit out the basic message of "white people taught everybody how to civilization," so it's no longer quite as overt as their late 19th century ancestors... but you can still see the lingering traces of it in "an ancient civilization taught everybody how to civilization."
by mindwok | 2025-04-22 23:26:31+00:00
The product story is that people want to build apps and naturally find themselves having to handle:

- remote state

- authoritative logic that can't run solely on the user's device because you can't trust it

- authentication

each of which is annoying when you're focused on building the user-facing app experience. Supabase solves all three without you needing to touch any infrastructure. The self-hosting thing just provides insurance that users are not completely locked in to their platform, which is a big concern when you're outsourcing basically your entire backend stack.
by int_19h | 2025-04-22 23:26:51+00:00
In practice it actually works the other way around - when primaries are restricted to actual party members, it tends to moderate the candidates because the "smoke-filled rooms" emphasize ability to build coalitions through consensus. But once you open them up to basically anyone who is willing to declare party affiliation, those people vote mostly according to their beliefs - they don't participate in internal party politics otherwise so they don't value consensus building - and that's why Repubs got radicalized first.
by xvector | 2025-04-22 23:27:39+00:00
An Ars-exclusive interview shows that 4 thruster failures resulted in astronauts Butch and Sunni losing control of Starliner as it got close to docking.

Not only did the astronauts have to switch to manual control, but the loss of control eliminated the possibility of aborting and safely returning to Earth.

Quick thinking from Mission Control saved their lives - control was regained shortly before a fifth thruster was lost.

This paints a much more harrowing picture than NASA or Boeing originally provided to the public.
by tomhow | 2025-04-22 23:28:32+00:00
Dang has written about it a lot over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's also the core principle of HN, as stated at the beginning of the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Feel free to ask any further questions not answered in the links above!
by smsm42 | 2025-04-22 23:28:34+00:00
> want what they say they want

Which is what? Pretty much all leftist state models require strong state, which leaves very little space to privacy. Somebody who holds both leftist or collectivist political beliefs and hopes for privacy is contradicting oneself. If they were anarchists or libertarians, that'd be a different business, but it's surprising to find libertarians in The Nation.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-22 23:28:37+00:00
It's a fairly common element of revenge porn laws in the states, and I think it is likely to survive review because it does not criminalize the content as content, but the dissemination of it with the intent and effect of causing harm. The Oregon law being amended to add coverage of digital fakes criminalizes nonconsensual dissemination of images covered where both the intent exists that the subject of the images be "harassed, humiliated or injures" and a reasonable person would, in fact, be "harassed, humiliated or injured" by the dissemination of the images.

And fake images are probably less protected than real images here, where, again, the prohibition is not on the content, but its use as a tool to cause intentional harm.
by JadeNB | 2025-04-22 23:30:00+00:00
> Yes, but then topology becomes a very tedious exercise because so many proofs rely on the fact that the empty set is contained in every topology, that the empty set is both closed and open, and that intersections frequently yield the empty set. With partially defined intersection you're forced to specially handle every case where two sets might be disjoint.

Certainly this would be a good objection if I proposed to get rid of empty sets in our universe. (I don't!) But an alternate universe that developed this way would have either just accepted that topology was an inherently ugly subject, or worked out some equivalent workaround (for example, with testing topologies by {0, 1}-valued functions, of which we can take maxima and minima to simulate unions and intersections without worrying about the possibility of an intersection being empty), or else come up with some other approach entirely. (There is, after all, nothing sacred about a topology being specified by its open sets; see the discussion at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/19152/why-is-a-topology-m.... That's how history shook out for us, but it's hardly an inevitable concept except for those of us who have already learned to think about things that way.)

I am not claiming that this would be an improvement (my suspicion is that it would be an improvement in some ways and a regression in others), just that I think that it is not unimaginable that history could have developed this way. It would not then have seemed that the definitions and theorems were artificially avoiding the concept of an empty set, because the mathematical thought of the humans who make those definitions and theorems would simply not think of the empty set as a thing, and so would naturally have taken what seem to us like circuitous tours around it. Just as, surely, there are circuitous tours that we take in our universe, that could be made more direct if we only phrased our reasoning in terms of ... well, who knows? If I knew, then that's the math that I'd be doing, and indeed I see much of the research I do as attempting to discover the "right" direct path to the conclusion, whether or not it's the approach that fits in best with the prevailing thought.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-04-22 23:30:49+00:00
This article seems to avoid talking about the elephant in the room: Every other browser just blocks third party cookies with no replacement. And Chrome would too if it wasn't owned by an ad company.

This should be the central argument the DOJ uses to separate Chrome from Google: The entire web for a monopoly-size portion of users is massively less secure because the web browser is owned by a company which is very vested in it being less secure.
by peterldowns | 2025-04-22 23:31:20+00:00
Funny, intentional routine / habit-formation has been the most effective way to help manage my ADHD. Sorry to hear that it's been impossible for you. For anyone else reading this, I would still recommend paying attention to your routine and seeing if you can help yourself by making adjustments.

> It almost passively happens. ADHD people do not.

I don't find this to be true for me or many other ADHD friends.
by variaga | 2025-04-22 23:31:34+00:00
Commonly, the bank that undewrites the loans will essentially do the same thing - they collect a commission but sell the underlying debt to someone else as (high-yield, because they are high-risk) bonds.

If you've heard of "Junk Bonds", this is (one source) of where they come from.

It's like a financial game of "hot potato" - you can make money as long as you're not the last person to hold the debt. So the answer to "who lends the money?" is "anyone who thinks they can sell the debt to someone else before it explodes".

In the end, a lot of it goes to "unsophisticated" individual investors, who will buy it based on "Sears (or whoever) is a great company, why wouldn't I buy their bonds" without realizing the full extend of what's happening.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-04-22 23:31:55+00:00
> The field of biology was created by people who love to classify/name things.

More to the point, the field of biology is so complex that for the longest time we could only name and classify things. Understanding came later, when we'd accummulated enough data and had hints from chemistry and other fields.

The problem is that once we gain that understanding, we add that as one more chapter to our textbooks, one more lesson tacked on, instead of rethinking the curriculum around our understanding.
by aurizon | 2025-04-22 23:32:14+00:00
We see a parallel in Russia where a dominant KGB derived cadre monopolises resources$$ and the 'wretches'go to war and the birth rate declines.. Russia had limitless resources, based on oil/gas/minerals and yet the KGB cadre has reduced them to desperation. War products are destroyed, some help, some poke sticks at the wretches.. Another parallel might be Animal Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
by discoballz | 2025-04-22 23:32:59+00:00
"Every particle in existence has a unique vibrational frequency,like a fingerprint or radio signal of sorts." This is explicitly not true. Particles of a given type are fundamentally identical. If they weren't, quantum statistics would be radically different, which would have consequences for the way electrons fill atomic orbitals, the way laser work... everything! I would LOVE to hear how your theory explains the HOM effect, for example.
by NewJazz | 2025-04-22 23:33:03+00:00
Just FYI you are describing a ports system, of which there are many. From macports, to alpine packages, to nixpkgs... Tons of research and automation in this area already. Would encourage looking at Nix and distri in particular. Many Nix packages can be built on/for macOS!

https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#preface

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/tags/distri/
by dontreact | 2025-04-22 23:33:48+00:00
Looks like I needed another disclaimer:

I’m talking about a general trend I see in use of this term, not that it’s always a bad thing to say “I’m not technical so someone else should write the script”

I agree with everything you said!

Both things are happening in the world: people using this terminology to throw work at others needlessly, and people doing good division of labor.
by ern | 2025-04-22 23:34:46+00:00
I can really relate to your experience, even though mine was from a parent's perspective rather than as a teacher. I found a similar thing when tutoring one of my children in trigonometry. The way the material was being presented in school didn't click with him, but astonishingly, despite having studied it decades ago both at school and university, explaining it to him, it finally made sense to me. The unit circle definition of a tangent is a thing of beauty. I had the time to get my child to appreciate it as well, because of the extra time I had to spend with him, whereas the teacher had to hit curriculum benchmarks.

I also think this is where things like intergenerational math-phobia come from: parents who don't grasp core concepts and are scared off, and can't help their own children, creating an ongoing cycle.
by lizknope | 2025-04-22 23:34:55+00:00
Crater Lake in Oregon is a beautiful national park. Mount Mazama erupted 7,700 years ago. Native Americans lived in the area at the time and have stories about the eruption passed down through time.

https://www.klamathtribesnews.org/2024/04/01/crater-lake-and...

https://oe.oregonexplorer.info/craterlake/history.html
by pseudalopex | 2025-04-22 23:35:06+00:00
> The 85 % figure is from Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45, 21, 9175–9179 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es201811s

The abstract said a large proportion of microplastic fibers found in the marine environment may be derived from sewage as a consequence of washing of clothes. Not is derived. And not microfiber solely.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-04-22 23:35:23+00:00
I sometimes skywatch late at night, marveling at the vastness of what's out there, and the glimpse of it we get over here. That gives me a sense of wonder about space, but did not make astronomy any more appealing to me.

Gaining an appreciation for nature is good, getting fascinated with biology is also good, but one is not necessarily related to the other in practice.
by _JoRo | 2025-04-22 23:35:42+00:00
What has been most reliable for me has been instead of going from bad habit A to good habit Z, I just replace A with the easiest alternative that is less bad than A.

Obviously, this means going from A to Z can take years instead of weeks. Though, from my own personal experience and from what I see of others, trying to go too quickly from A to Z just results in whiplash and irractic behavior--where I have seen it work is when there is an existential crisis demanding that the behavior change.
Google Gemini knows your location
by notyourav | 2025-04-22 23:35:47+00:00
I was chatting with Gemini 2.0, not logged in. Was looking for a company name. While brainstorming, it suggested one of the names is especially good because it also connects well to the town I live in. When I asked how it knew, it lied, told me I told it. When pressed further, thanked and attempted to change subject. omg
by m463 | 2025-04-22 23:37:26+00:00
I suspect there're other factors to forming habits.

Forming a running habit is probably harder than say heroin.

I also recall from the "atomic habits" book, that you can chain habits together.

The idea was that if you already have a habit of getting out of bed in the morning, you could hydrate. Just say "as soon as I get out of bed, drink a glass of water" and it is easier to form the habit.
by nine_k | 2025-04-22 23:38:17+00:00
There of course should be a way to override the dependency, by explicitly pressing a big scary "[I know what I'm doing]" button.

Another thing is that you'll need branches. As in:

- Run `foo bar baz` - If it succeeds, run `foo quux`, Else run `rm -rf ./foo/bar` and rerun the previous command with `--force` option. - `ls ./foo/bar/buur` and make certain it exists.

Different branches can be separated visually; one can be collapsed if another is taken.

Writing robust runbooks is not that easy. But I love the idea of mixing the explanatory text and various types of commands together.