MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shw1n | 2025-04-02 21:35:29+00:00
I actually agree, I don't think people should merely dismiss differences on issues that strike at core values -- I think it's okay to cut friends/family off on huge differences in values. I have actually done this to both left and right-leaning friends.

But what I'm arguing is that most people do not actually come to these values by way of thinking, but rather by blindly adopting them en masse from their chosen tribe.

And when they choose not to be open to the possibility they might be wrong, then they have a religion, not a intellectually-driven view.

This is okay if acknowledged imo, as per this sentence in the piece:

"If someone is self-aware enough to consciously acknowledge their choice to remain in the bubble, that’s totally fair. I respect it like I’d respect anyone who chooses to participate in a more traditional religion. My issue is when this view is falsely passed off as an intellectually-driven one."
by Y_Y | 2025-04-02 21:35:39+00:00
I think you and GP are saying the same(-ish) thing. A non-profit which has no money cannot continue, and so if it spends more than it takes in then eventually it will have to stop. This may be ok if it's part of the mission, or if they're hoping that a big donation randomly shows up. A normal business whose mission is to make money hasn't got those options.
by koreth1 | 2025-04-02 21:35:50+00:00
This is maybe not in the spirit of OP's question, but I do it by having successfully made the case early in my company's lifetime that we should open-source most of our code.

Nearly every piece of code I write at work is part of one of those public, Apache-licensed code bases. Which means I spend most of my time working on OSS.

Are these projects the kind of thing anyone else will ever use? Probably not, so long as the company stays in business. The business case my team made was focused on transparency and long-term viability: our customers can see exactly what we're doing with their data and how our systems work, and if we go under, they have a realistic way to continue using our software. This hasn't ended up being a huge selling point, but customers have definitely mentioned it as one of the things they liked about us.
by gwern | 2025-04-02 21:35:53+00:00
I see no hint of an audio recording having been made, much less surviving & digitized, in the original article's description: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-histo... It's too detailed to be retroactive notes by Simon or Borges, so I would guess Borges's secretary or a student simply transcribed it as they went.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-02 21:35:54+00:00
I assume you mean the line near the handles on this Corolla [1]? That whole part of the car is doing a lot of different things.

1. Flat vertical panels are a no-no. Adding creases increases buckling resistance.

2. That's a hugely important area for cabin noise because the side mirrors cause turbulence and the vehicle body needs a channel to constrain the turbulent flow and flex as little as possible near the door seals.

3. The skin needs to expand outwards from the line of the pillars to fit the window mechanisms, the handles/locks, and the side impact protection without intruding into the cabin space.

4. It makes the car look more sporty and interesting. The technical term for the crease itself is "character line", and it's the main reason why the Corolla has one. It's visual reinforcement for the modern standard combo of low hoods-high trunks that's considered attractive styling.

5. The greenhouse (cabin) narrows towards the top for rollover safety and aerodynamic reasons (a.k.a tumblehome), and this needs to blend with the rest of the body in a visually appealing way. The cybertruck is a good example of how unusual it can look if this is just a straight line on the body. Here's a comparison between the current design and an ai-generated "rounded" design [2] [3].

[1] https://file.kelleybluebookimages.com/kbb/base/evox/CP/44005...

[2] https://www.motortrend.com/files/67a2770e2906d20008bad29f/1-...

[3] https://static0.carbuzzimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploa...
by maqp | 2025-04-02 21:36:00+00:00
Unless you're extremely privileged, privacy does play a role in every feature. There is no user experience if you're imprisoned for speaking your mind and your government intelligence has pwned Telegram servers.

Making a smooth app isn't that hard. Inventing the cryptographic protocols to enable group management without server-side control, and proving their security is the hard part. Something Telegram's developers haven't the faintest idea of how to do.
by gruez | 2025-04-02 21:36:09+00:00
The article is pretty light on details so I'm going to ask: why should I get this compared to something like fastmail or protonmail? Does it at least have end to end encryption? Is this just going to be a case of Mozilla partnering with another service provider (eg. mullvad for mozilla vpn), slapping their logo on it, and collecting a royalty?
by xfp | 2025-04-02 21:36:37+00:00
Trump is using century-old misinformation about tariffs to raise tax revenue to pay for tax cuts on the wealthy. In reality, it's an added tax on all spending that accelerates inflation.

Tariffs are theoretically supposed to encourage domestic production, but rely on the false premise that all raw and intermediate materials can be sourced domestically at a cost below the import price. That has generally proven to not work unless tariffs are in the hundreds of percent. But at that level, import taxes tend to poison entire sectors due to supply lag instead of drive domestic economies.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-02 21:37:33+00:00
Granted, the market for shared hosting has settled closer to $6, but OVH, Hetzner and Netcup all still offer shared hosting for $2/month, with a free domain on top. And all three are in this market for ages now. They limit you to static pages, PHP and a MySQL database, but you can do plenty of illegal stuff with that.
Tell HN: Google Authenticator lost all of my codes
by maxbond | 2025-04-02 21:37:34+00:00
Hi HN,

Today I opened Google Authenticator and found all of my codes were gone. Naturally I neglected to back them up, and I'm permanently locked out of some of my accounts. You know what they say about being dumb, Disaster Usually Motivates Backups.

I assume this was triggered by an automatic update of the app, so I wanted to warn people who might get burned by the same issue.
by otterley | 2025-04-02 21:37:47+00:00
I know you were, and it’s troubling. You’re ascribing a sinister character to a literally normal phenomenon merely because you disagree with the outcome. And a normal distribution anticipates diversity within the sample: if there were no outliers, the distribution wouldn't look the way it does.

This kind of thinking led to the term “mainstream media” becoming a pejorative term, even though it fairly represented the majority viewpoint. In a well-informed society[1], one should expect the majority opinion to be the one closest to objective truth. (Consider the old “guess the number of jelly beans in the jar” experiment.)

[1] Yes, I am aware that this condition is doing some heavy lifting. :-)
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-02 21:37:47+00:00
I used to live and work on tall ships.

We never had this issue, but we also likely had better storage conditions in that there was precious little chance of actual seawater reaching our food cans. Cans would sometimes rust on the rim, but I don't think I ever saw a can rust all the way through, despite some of them being likely years old.

This seems like overkill unless you are very convinced that your cans will come in contact with seawater.
by jiggawatts | 2025-04-02 21:38:28+00:00
A tariff of some +x% doesn’t cause a +x% increase in retail prices. The ratio is somewhere between 2:1 and 10:1 for most products, depending on the markup, local value add, taxes, etc…

The real damage is business uncertainty, inefficient capital allocation, etc… all of which takes years to fully impact the economy.
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 21:39:53+00:00
> I can't imagine what kind of talking points one needs ...

> The Democrats did have plenty of policies. Realistic ones. Not the most exciting. If the public wants to be excited, and aren't picky about it, then indeed they should have that. But I'm not going to be able to provide it.

I think it's obvious that such an approach doesn't work; does that matter to you? You seem defiant to me (though interpreting tone from text is very uncertain); who are you defying? There's nobody to defy - you either get the results or not.

It's also obvious, IMHO, that the issue isn't policies but politics and ideals - freedom or oppression, humanitarianism or cruelty, power or democratic equality, democracy or authoritarianism, etc. How many bridges to build next year doesn't measure up, and if that's what a politician talks about, they are clearly hiding from a difficult reality.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-04-02 21:40:18+00:00
> "You're basically treating everyone with kid gloves all the time. Never tell someone they're wrong, go out of your way to praise people, treat everyone like the noble protagonist in their own story."

The book says that a person can deliver criticism and disagreement in ways that don't make the recipient defensive and that people respond positively when their accomplishments are recognized in a sincere and meaningful way. As for the last, that's simply the way most, if not all, people are; it's a failing that's almost universal.

It's about learning to be a person that is thoughtful to others and considerate of the foibles of humanity. I suppose a person could use it as a template for faking empathy and generally being manipulative but that's very much not what it suggests.
by DrNosferatu | 2025-04-02 21:40:19+00:00
Zig CC + Vulkan would solve most of these issues:

1. Zig's toolchain statically links with musl libc, producing binaries that depend only on the Linux kernel syscall ABI, not any specific glibc version.

2. This eliminates all the symbol versioning nightmares (`GLIBC_2.xx not found`) that plague distribution across different Linux systems.

3. Vulkan provides a standardized, vendor-neutral GPU API that's supported across all modern graphics hardware, eliminating driver-specific dependencies.

4. The resulting binary is completely self-contained - no external library dependencies, no version mismatches, no containerization needed.

5. You get forward AND backward compatibility - the binary will run on both ancient and cutting-edge distros without modification.

The only real limitation is for NVIDIA CUDA-specific workloads, where you'd still need their proprietary stack.

Furthermore, for those who prefer a higher-level API, Zig CC + WebGPU offers similar benefits with a simpler programming model, though with slightly less mature implementations and a possible small performance overhead.
by cycomanic | 2025-04-02 21:40:46+00:00
Yes! I'm a fastmail user and every couple of months I do a survey of JMAP support and come back disappointed.

Speaking about thunderbird, I liked their UI redesign, but it seems they are taking away quite a bit of plugin capabilities, e.g. there used to be the possibility to run firenvim (a plugin to run neovim in the compose window), but that's not possible anymore.
by wswope | 2025-04-02 21:40:50+00:00
Lest anyone take this seriously, these assertions are confidently-misinformed, conspiracy-minded thinking.

No asthma medications whatsoever have utility as a chemical masking agent, nor are there any plausible mechanisms for that to happen.

Beta agonists (mostly clenbuterol) have been abused independently in the past as a way to cut weight in weightlifting/cycling/etc., since they theoretically provide a marginal boost to overall metabolism - but the effects are marginal. They're de facto useless as a general PED.

Widespread doping in high-level sports is absolutely commonplace, and it's very easy to not get caught - but asthma medications have absolutely nothing to do with that.

See WADA masking agent list here: https://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibited-list

Well-informed paper about real evasion strategies available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03037...
by 9rx | 2025-04-02 21:41:05+00:00
> If greyscale dominates the physical environment, then it's a reaction to something equally pervasive.

My impression from the data is not that greyscale now dominates the physical environment, but that browns once dominated. Presumably because things like wood, copper, etc. once dominated the materials we engrossed ourselves in. As we've expanded the paints and other materials we live with, we've found much more balance.
by badcryptobitch | 2025-04-02 21:41:14+00:00
Hi, sorry for missing this. I'm usually a lurker on HN. Right now, it's just a general purpose VM that does the basics of what anyone would expect any VM to do. We are currently in the midst of implementing the MPC specific aspects to the VM, namely distributed computation and allowing anyone to plug in any MPC protocol they want as long as it conforms to our set of interfaces. We will be providing MPC protocols that we think are worthwhile for use cases that we know have users and as such, if you aren't a cryptographer but have a sense of where you want to use MPC, you can just use our VM and associated APIs without having to fiddle too much with the actual cryptography.
by tomjakubowski | 2025-04-02 21:41:33+00:00
Scheduling lunch is a great example. It's the kind of low-grade information which would be marginally beneficial to adversaries (who might arrange to, say, bug a restaurant if they knew VIPs would be meeting there), so it's worth hiding, but it's not really of public interest so doesn't need to be recorded durably. And the downside of leaking impending lunch plans to a journalist, one time, by accident, is likely inconsequential compared to, say, leaking impending military attack plans to a journalist, one time, by accident.
Show HN: Compare Cloud and Bare Metal Servers
by matt-p | 2025-04-02 21:41:36+00:00
I built ServerSearcher (https://serversearcher.com) to make it easier to find cloud/virtual and bare-metal servers that match specific requirements like RAM, location, or CPU. The idea came from my own frustration trying to compare cloud servers across dozens of provider websites. There are a lot of server marketplaces and hosts, but I couldn’t find a single place to search across all of them with proper filters. So I made one.

ServerSearcher indexes servers from a few providers but I have only just started and there are more providers being added at the moment.

Next I'll be looking at adding GPU support as that was a second frustration.
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 21:41:47+00:00
Yeah, Bill Clinton is a very effective speaker; wow. Or compare people like JFK or Bobby Kennedy - look up their speeches. Or Ronald Reagan, to be bipartisan. It's like the Dems have forgotten that leadership involves vision, charisma, inspiration, courage, ...

However, I was referring to the lack of a mechanism. Whatever the Dems say, almost nobody hears it. Name a major statement by a Democrat in the last week? In the last month?
by anitil | 2025-04-02 21:41:51+00:00
I use excalidraw, even upgraded to pro out of my own pocket. It's not git-compatible in the sense that it's not text (though you can export to SVG and commit that, which I've done). But I love that it has the feel of an approximation or just a quick sketch rather than a formal promise of how a system works.

When I've used dot or mermaid to build diagrams I've always found it hard to specify layout, colours and sizes, which I use to emphasise different views on a system. I'd love some sort of middle ground where I get the benefits of version control but also the sketch-like character of excalidraw
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-02 21:42:10+00:00
Every task is different. There are some “dimensions of complexity” that affect where to operate on the “vibecode/handcraft” spectrum..

First is the degree to which your target framework, language, and domain are in-distribution for the model. You’ll get far rather in python than in Verilog, for example. You’ll get further vibecoding next.js than whatever people use for web apps in Elixir.

Second is the amount of context gathering. A greenfield project has no context - every project starts from the same zero point: an empty repo or generated scaffold. Large codebases must be loaded into working memory even for humans. This is why professional software engineering depends so heavily on getting into “flow”: https://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg

It’s just horses for courses.

My prediction is LLMs will get there; they’ll scale to larger and larger codebases as context windows get larger, and working out-of-distribution will happen thanks to scaling inference-time compute and agentic capability to research, read code, build understanding, and store said understanding in a scratchpad dedicated to you.
by tedk-42 | 2025-04-02 21:42:11+00:00
No such things yet. Just marketing hype for a product people are creating.

It's currently a blanket term for gluing together a series of interactions via code and relying on LLMs for interpreting input or creating output data.

LLMs, no matter how clever can go off right now an execute an API request (e.g. execute something in a bash terminal like `curl -XPOST --data 'blah' <https://api-endpoint>`).
by maqp | 2025-04-02 21:42:34+00:00
AES-IGE is not best practice. Neither is this https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

The difference is Moxie isn't an amateur when it comes to cryptographic design. Wikipedia actually lists him as a cryptographer. The company has also employed an actual mathematician/cryptographer, Trevor Perrin.

Meanwhile, Telegram employed the CEO's brother who's a geometrician, which is not the same. You wouldn't hire a dentist to perform brain surgery even though both studied medicine.

Signal protocol's double ratchet is considered best practice by pretty much every competent cryptographer.

MTProto's main issues are not the teething issues of the yester-years. It's the fact every chat is sent to the server that can then read the messages. Telegram only has E2EE in internet debates about it's non-existent E2EE in practice.
by tim333 | 2025-04-02 21:42:37+00:00
Peter Navarro says it's going to be good.

>“The message is that tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security,” Navarro told Fox News Sunday. “Tariffs are great for America. They will make America great again.” https://inews.co.uk/news/world/peter-navarro-behind-trump-ta...
by metadat | 2025-04-02 21:43:16+00:00
The best way to provide feedback is by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. I've received a reply to literelly every email I've ever sent (all credit to Dang and Co for being extremely kind and consistent in supporting my inner troll rehabilitation effort).

There is no site mechanism to alert moderators about @mentions, and due to sheer volume of messages the site operators will typically never get to see your well-intentioned message.

This thread does have better odds of being read than most, though :) cheers
by jiggawatts | 2025-04-02 21:43:21+00:00
I mentally translate “modern web development” to: proxies for the proxies and layers of load balancers upon load balancers to make the envoys work with the ingress, all through an API management layer for good measure… and then a CDN.

“Why is our app so slow?”

“It’s a mystery. Just scale it out some more!”
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-02 21:43:36+00:00
> There was never an Anti-Internet-Crowd, I wonder why that might be?

You forgot the dotcom boom? :)

Existence of AI slop has nothing to do with whether the tech itself is exceeding or falling short of its hype. It exists because it's good enough for advertising, the cancer on modern society that metastasizes to every new medium and technology, defiling and destroying everything it touches.
by NickC25 | 2025-04-02 21:43:49+00:00
It's just odd to me.

I mean, yeah the Democrat party sucks.

Here's this "macho tough guy" that wears a diaper, lifts, and makeup...who's famous for bankrupting a casino (twice), and was known for decades as a cartoon character, a clown, a moron. They hear the "on day 1" promises that won't ever get resolved. They see what happened the last time this guy took the wheel.

And they want more of it? Unswayable indeed.

I thought America was immune from fascism because it generally took the form of an idiotic leader that had charisma. I thought my fellow countrymen and countrywomen were smarter than that. Of all the people to succumb to, it's this fucking guy? Seriously?
by ajcp | 2025-04-02 21:44:20+00:00
> Our litmus test for AI agents: Does the AI system perform actions under its own identity?

So service accounts are agents? This seems pretty thin.

In AI an "agent" is simply any code/workflow/automation that utilizes an LLM to respond to broadly defined external/environmental stimuli and decide how to react given broadly defined motivations and/or objectives.

Not agent: Document comes in -> If invoice return key-value pairs to make API call with.

Agent: Document comes in -> You're a finance professional: decided what to do with this document. Here are the tools/actions available to you: X, Y, Z.

Both use AI and can achieve the same thing, but one is "agentic", while the other is deterministic.
by Avamander | 2025-04-02 21:44:29+00:00
Current email encryption schemes provide no forward security, it's nothing like Signal. Key management has to work totally different.

You're also wrong in the aspect that it would undermine something, you can absolutely export keys from Protonmail, you just can't use your own keys properly. You can't remove all the keys they have generated, you can't use your own client with your own keys, the bridge literally mucks it up. The defaults can be what they are, it's not mutually exclusive in any way.

In the end this restriction undermines the security and privacy for everyone that want to use secure hardware storage. Which is absolutely insane for a service that boasts about these things.
by viraptor | 2025-04-02 21:45:10+00:00
> ... over the last several years?

I'm taking about this specific research here.

> cars can read speed limit signs pretty accurately.

Only when they're not covered by trees, snow, other cars, are not damaged, workers didn't forget to uncover them, etc. And from time to time you will sync with a car in another lane just the right way to miss the sign.

> GPS is pretty accurate

Often. Yet, I will regularly get placed on the wrong road in larger cities. It doesn't have to be a highway speed problem - since the idea is automated enforcement, going 10k/h over the limit of the parallel street is already an issue.

> we could make a more accurate map enforcement system

Maybe in a distant future. Right now, we're at step 0: there's no publicly available accurate digital map of all streets. There are various segments in different agencies, there are global commercial maps, and there are community efforts. Until that's solved, the issue is moot.
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 21:46:13+00:00
> Coming from a UK background something I've been long curious about is is there a constitutional reason for when the opposition presidential candidate is selected.

That's a very interesting point. On the other hand, the GOP did have a leader through the Biden administration - Trump.

Even when they don't, such as under Obama, they do have effective means (Fox, social media, etc.) and content (effective, disciplined talking points) of communication. The Dems have neither.
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-02 21:46:56+00:00
This is only true in the ordinary situation of using tariffs. Such as targeting specific markets or exports in order to bolster the local market.

Tariffs on literally everything have an immediate outsized impact as businesses need to rapidly readjust and renegotiate prices on everything. Not only that but there's the second order effects too, such as Trump's interactions with Canada resulting in destroying tourist and seasonal travel from up north to the border states.