MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-15 13:13:06+00:00
There are kids in Congo that are claiming to be older than they are so they can get work in mines to feed themselves and their families. If they don’t work they and their families starve, but if they do work they are encouraging immoral child labor. I don’t understand why many people think the answer is easy and straightforward in that case, this sounds like the trolley problem to me.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 13:13:10+00:00
The idea of being able to keep a laptop sounds absurd to me. Of course many European countries have labor laws which make it near impossible to fire someone on the spot.

>Only in very critical jobs they'd walk you out immediately but then you still get the pay.

Presumably you are also still employed, just not given any tasks. I do not think that here in Germany there is any way to immediately fire someone, just because he was working on something critical.

Many companies refuse to do layoffs entirely. Which often means that they have difficulties responding to changes in the environment or need to heavily rely on contractors.
by pc86 | 2025-04-15 13:14:38+00:00
Not sure what this random unknown website has to do with 4chan. It's similar only insofar as both things let you post. Soj requires a sign-up so no anon posting at all, and the community structure is a pretty clear rip-off of Reddit with /p/[sub] instead of /r/[sub]

What is your affiliation with it?
by sgarland | 2025-04-15 13:14:41+00:00
I used to hang out at Head-Fi a lot in the early ‘00s. It’s a headphone and headphone accessories (amplifiers, DACs, etc.) forum, and people nerd out about building their own stuff. I recall writing a review on some obscure Chinese brand of sound card that people liked, because it happened to have a really good DAC for the rear output (it was a surround sound card, back when that was something interesting).

I gradually lost interest when they started heavily pushing commercial sponsors. I get it; sites aren’t free to host, and moderator time isn’t free / unlimited, but it’s still sad.
by fidotron | 2025-04-15 13:14:46+00:00
Exactly, this stuff needs to be made the easy default.

Right now domestic IoT and Home Assistant are like Windows Mobile and Symbian prior to the iPhone: proof that something interesting and useful is possible in the domain, but requiring an enthusiast level of investment in knowledge and time to maintain and operate.

Were I a billionaire I would be attempting to launch the Android (in the original intended sense) of IoT to solve that.
Show HN: device-hub – self-hosted IoT data collection and monitoring
by dshil | 2025-04-15 13:14:50+00:00
Hi everyone.

I recently released device-hub, a self-hosted software for collecting, storing, and monitoring data from IoT devices. It's written in Go - I'm really sorry, Rust fans!

Key features:

- Stores telemetry data in InfluxDB

- Supports mDNS auto-discovery and inactive device monitoring

- Automatically reconnects to registered devices after a restart

I also wrote a detailed guide on how to install it on a Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/open-control-systems/device-hub/blob/mast...

If you find it useful, please let me know!
by sixseven | 2025-04-15 13:15:45+00:00
They did have a plan. Temu/Shein used to ship directly from China, handling the shipping themselves for the sellers on their platforms.

Since a year or two ago (or even earlier), they started accepting (and encouraging) sellers to handle the shipping themselves (while still maintaining a fast shipping time) by giving those sellers more traffic.

In order to have fast shipping time, it basically mean the sellers need to have warehouses (or 3rd party warehouses) in the USA. It's easier for the sellers to workaround the tariffs when they are shipping in bulk to the USA.

The prices will be higher for sure, but it will be a lot lower than people are expecting.

Not sure how well the plan will work. Just what I heard from people working in the industry.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-15 13:15:53+00:00
I think humanity is really amazing. If someone is anti-Nazi, and also anti-Israel, they manage to find a way to believe that Jews are Nazis. There's no level of cognitive dissonance that could slow you down, is there?

The Nazis were NOT in favor of a Jewish state. They wanted to be able to say they tried this, they tried that, so it's not their fault they had to do a holocaust. They wanted justification. You don't actually advocate in favor of a group while simultaneously building camps to murder them. Although, I suspect you probably have some 'opinions' regarding the details of the holocaust.
by Blikkentrekker | 2025-04-15 13:16:52+00:00
Well, so you say, but every single news website that I can find willing to say something on the matter is either The Daily Mail and similar things that also say they based their information on leaks on “social media rumors” or more reputable websites that also say it's a rumor that there's a leak. One would assume if it be so easily found and I'm so incompetent that these news websites could've found it themselves and come with more certain claims.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 13:17:07+00:00
Of course. Companies who fire more also hire more.

European companies have very little staff turnover, so new jobs are fewer. Another aspect is that salaries are very even across much of the industry, as it is often negotiated by unions and unless you are also switching roles (e.g. into management) salaries at different companies will be very similar. That is why working for the same company for a long time is much more common in Europe.
by halosghost | 2025-04-15 13:17:21+00:00
Given that Firefox now sells your data [0], this move should be seen as nothing less than actively adversarial.

The ship has been sinking for a while; now the crew is trying to light the remaining decks on fire.

All the best,

-HG

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...
Are Homes in Japan as Inexpensive as Advertised?
by Gwei2High | 2025-04-15 13:17:34+00:00
I've seen video after video of people visitng beautiful homes in Japan that cost under $150k and sometimes under $50k!

Is it really that cheap to buy a home in Japan? Or is there a catch? I live in Southeast Asia and I'm considering taking a trip to some of the suburbs outside Tokyo to see for myself.

Before I go though, is there anyone with familiarity buying a home in Japan or familiar with the process for a foreigner buying a home there?
by Wobbles42 | 2025-04-15 13:17:50+00:00
Indeed. They didn't say it happened an "int" time ago. They didn't even say a "long" time ago. They said a "long long" time. I'd have to pull up a copy of the C standard to be sure, but even if the units of "time" are plank times, I suspect the implications could easily be that the story occurs before the big bang.
by bmn__ | 2025-04-15 13:18:06+00:00
Obligatory Perl snobbery: Perl wins the day by being shorter and better output and already installed on your computer.

perl -C -M5.032 -MUnicode::UCD=charprop -e \ '# https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT my @cp437 = qw( 0 263a 263b 2665 2666 2663 2660 2022 25d8 25cb 25d9 2642 2640 266a 266b 263c 25ba 25c4 2195 203c b6 a7 25ac 21a8 2191 2193 2192 2190 221f 2194 25b2 25bc ); printf "%3u %02x %07b %3o %s %s %s\n", ($_) x 4, $_ == 127 ? chr(0x2421) : $_ <= 32 ? chr(0x2400+$_) : chr, $_ == 127 ? chr(0x2302) : 0 < $_ < 32 ? chr hex $cp437[$_] : chr, charprop($_, "Name") || charprop($_, "NameAlias") =~ s/: \w+//gr for @ARGV ? oct $ARGV[0] : 0..127'
by klodolph | 2025-04-15 13:18:10+00:00
That’s dated 2023… am I missing something? The aesthetic did not exist in 2004. It was created in the late 2010s by juxtaposing materials from the early 2000s. This created a new style from old materials. The same way you might combine art deco motifs in new ways in the 1980s, inventing “art deco revival”.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-04-15 13:18:11+00:00
"Dont want to bother" is generous.

"Dont want to be stuck in the morass of EU red tape" is more like it. Not that US red tape is any better, mind you, but suffice to say that unless you have massive scale, registration schemes will make you ROI negative unless you are making >100k in sales per month from the country in question.

Some even require registration by region. For example GER vs UK vs FR and rest a while back, all needed separate registration. And the paperwork is usually in the home coun try official language. Ha joke is on you when you start getting tax authority messages. They arent saying bonjour!

Source: i did this for my company.
by grandempire | 2025-04-15 13:18:38+00:00
> particularly when those staffers noticed a spike in data leaving the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets

This entire article appears to be speculation about data they MAY have taken with no evidence besides large file size that they are misusing something.

The discussion with the “whistle blower” and other experts is only about how serious it would be IF they misused it.

Am I reading it wrong?
by johnnyjeans | 2025-04-15 13:18:52+00:00
/g/ genuinely was one of the worst boards on the website, but there were a handful of lurkers who made good posts in some of the general threads. the site as a whole was still was a diverse place up until yesterday, with only a few boards being unusably bad, and it was getting increasingly better.

it's a bit sad really. zero-barrier to entry, no login gates, no accounts, and traffic was so high that it moved really fast. it was like a dive bar covered in grime. will be sad to see it go. none of the other imageboards still kicking are quite the same, most are even worse tbh.
by greazy | 2025-04-15 13:19:46+00:00
I've relented, I accept now that AI is an umbrella term to represent many different methods, algorithms and technologies.

Modern day usage of AI is heavily conflated with generative AI such as LLMs and Text-to-* generation systems.

My preference, as someone who works in a very closely relate field to the article, is that science should stay away from non-specific terms like AI. I've had my director approach me seeking grant ideas on using AI. It didn't go down very well when I suggested we should try to use image recognition to automate data entry. That seemed 'old', they wanted a chat bot to do... something.
by the__alchemist | 2025-04-15 13:19:49+00:00
This is a 3D graphics and UI (WGPU/Vulkan + EGUI) engine I built, and have been using internally on several scientific computing projects (Cosmology simulations, computational chemistry, and a molecular viewer similar to PyMol). It's for making PC applications.

I'm not sure if anyone else will get use out of this, but perhaps; I don't think there is anything similar in this space for Rust. I designed it so I can iterate quickly on project ideas, but it's sufficiently general.

It's not for games or realistic graphics; it's for drawing primitive shapes and meshes, and unifying this with an EGUI interface, and default camera controls.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-04-15 13:19:51+00:00
> Presumably there is a lot more public info about, and code in Javascript and Python, hence this "preference"

This likely plays a major - probably dominant - role.

It's interesting to think of other factors too though. The relatively concise syntax of those languages might make them easier for LLMs to work with. If resources are in any way token limited then reading and writing Spring Boot apps is going to be burdensome.

Those languages also have a lot of single file applications, which might make them easier for LLMs to learn. So much of iOS development for example is split across many files and I wonder if that affects the quality of the training data.
by pelagic_sky | 2025-04-15 13:19:57+00:00
"it’s cast off from the station along with other ISS trash. It will eventually be incinerated by the extreme heat of atmospheric re-entry, sort of like a meteor. "

I'm actually kind of surprised, but not really surprised, that they just eject it from the station. I figured they would do something more scientific (amusing) like compress it into dry poop cubes and pack it back out and sell it as souvenirs.
Show HN: Cross-platform screen capture & OCR SDK, Rust with Node bindings
by Cilvic | 2025-04-15 13:20:21+00:00
Hey HN, I kept pasting screenshots into cursor & chatGPT and it inspired me how much relevant context my screen can provide to multi-modal LLMs.

To make it easier to grab the user context inside of our own apps, together with Fernando and Claire we’ve built an SDK to perform screen capture & OCR. It’s written in Rust and runs on Mac, Windows & Linux.

We have published bindings for Node.js, to try the Node sample:

1. Git clone kontext21/k21-node-sample 2. Npm install 3. Npm run start

This will capture what’s on your screen and OCR the text to console.

Everything is local and there is no telemetry. It’s source-available so you can dig deeper if you are curious .

Any feedback is welcome as we are getting started with this

- https://github.com/kontext21/k21-node-sample/ - https://github.com/kontext21/k21 - https://docs.kontext21.com/
by ad34bacf35a2 | 2025-04-15 13:20:23+00:00
I appreciate it, this is kind of what I was thinking as well, option one you mentioned might not be available for me, at least from approaching faculty members in my college, so the most likely approach I'm taking is the second one.

With that I was wondering, how do I know if I have a novel idea (other than searching common computer science conferences and papers for researchers who may have done it), what can I do to be sure.
by piva00 | 2025-04-15 13:20:34+00:00
Not only that, Trump has already spent US$ 155B more than Biden, DOGE claims to have shaved US$ 150B, overall this administration has already increased spending by US$ 5B even after firing a lot of civil servants.

The worst is that the effects of this shaving off will only be felt over time, when National Parks start crumbling, when ATCs start quitting, the government machine of the USA has been eroded, inevitably it will fall into a landslide.
by mapt | 2025-04-15 13:20:41+00:00
There's a very large political base, particularly of young people, that is more than ready for leftist politics.

It just doesn't get any funding from the millionaires who fund the DNC or the billionaires who fund the GOP. And money is how political organizations run. We have too much wealth inequality to effectively enfranchise most of the population; Capitalism ate democracy, film at 11.
by fullmetal361 | 2025-04-15 13:21:47+00:00
Location: US but relocating to Mexico (Will be traveling back and forth)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Resume/ CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/136itK8mARxAFWv0qXspdhkgeEbT...

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/john-figueroa-80526616b

Email: john.figueroa13@gmail.com

About: Experience in technology as a CSR, teaching as a high school teacher and technology trainer, and customer service representative and business analyst for a large education district.
by scott_w | 2025-04-15 13:21:49+00:00
So a couple of things:

1. The EU has that reprieve. Given the EU can bite back, it's possible that reprieve becomes permanent.

2. Last time Trump slapped tariffs on UK + EU, Biden prioritised reversing tariffs on the EU first because they're a bigger trading partner than the UK.

As the above poster pointed out, that's to say nothing of the many downsides of not being in the EU.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-15 13:21:58+00:00
Flash photography was a thing then, this photograph looks like a Flash is illuminating it.

> through the 1920s, flash photography normally meant a professional photographer sprinkling powder into the trough of a T-shaped flash lamp, holding it aloft, then triggering a brief and (usually) harmless bit of pyrotechnics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(photography)
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-15 13:21:59+00:00
No, you'll need servers and enough network capacity to handle the load, an understanding and supportive hosting provider, a law degree or enough money to pay somebody with one to keep you out of court/jail/prison, a network of degenerates to provide traffic and content and/or a copy of the existing 4chan content, a stomach of steel to deal with the content moderation duties, and a moral compass so warped you think hosting degrading and illegal content is "just liberalism and freedom of speech" and not something that needs a second thought by any right-minded person.

But sure, if you have all that and the source code, you're all set. Godspeed!
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-15 13:22:21+00:00
We have tax-advantaged retirement accounts to enable the middle class to save a reasonable amount in order to retire without being a burden on society. A typical saver doesn't have additional extra money leftover for a taxable brokerage account that exposes them to capital gains taxes.

Low capital gains taxes aren't meaningfully encouraging somebody making 75k and saving 10k annually to continue with their saving plan.
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-15 13:22:46+00:00
>Can you poke holes in the reasoning above?

I don’t see why I would. It would change you and I said that in my original comment. But it would change you slowly over time on the order of years, much like how children change dramatically from say 7 to 17. They are still the same person even though their mental capacity and personality of grown and evolved significantly. I should have said a billion neurons a month, instead of a week though, since weekly would be replacement in less than two years but monthly would be over 8 years.

>So we effectively replaced a system of three interconnected neurons with a system of billions of interconnected neurons

If I had any quibble, it would be this statement. I while I would say it replaces a system of 3 parts with one with billions, I wouldn’t say it is effectively billions of neurons. In the same way I would say that emulating a mechanical watch in software would have much more transistors per watch part emulated, I wouldn’t say there were effectively billions of second hands.
by eric_cc | 2025-04-15 13:22:56+00:00
Well since we’re in a thread about talking to dolphins:

The problem with virtue signaling is that it’s parroting virtue for social praise. This parrot-like, repeater-node behavior often attempts to move the conversation to virtue talking points and away from the specific topic.

To be clear, this is just about online virtue signaling. It’s just as silly in the physical world - certain attire, gestures, tribal obedience, etc.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-15 13:23:36+00:00
I have a relatively slow ADSL connection, it's not unusual for me to be able to download 100% of the file at say 95% the theoretical rate without uploading anything. If the network has enough upload capacity to do this, does it really need my upload? (Note my client is still there if somebody needs a rare block)

I remember some Bittorrent networks circa 2005 or so which tried to monitor you and punish you for not contributing and this was a disaster for me since my upload is necessarily a small fraction of my download. What I found is that kind of network seemed to perform poorly even when I had a good bidirectional connection. As I saw it, people who have the ability to upload more than they download are a resource that that kind of network can't exploit if everybody is forced to upload as much as they download.
by veridies | 2025-04-15 13:23:46+00:00
Supreme Court justice Sotomayor notes that nothing in the government’s reasoning about not returning Garcia is unique to noncitizens. President Trump says he wants to send “homegrowns” to the gulag in El Salvador, and is exploring his legal options. In court, the government has argued that they have no recourse to force the return of any prisoner from that gulag. This is neither false nor inflammatory; it is the administration’s stated goal.
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-15 13:24:43+00:00
Vendors. Mobile phone providers, Television companies, News Corporations, Advertising companies.

I am locked out from viewing reading groups unless I have a facebook account. I can't even read reviews on Amazon without a Amazon account.

You do have the choice not to view, watch or use. And if you desire to create your own site for "social media" the uphill battle is so greatly regulated in their honour you can't due to not having the resources to do so.

Have you read the new UK rule sheet for internet websites?

How many sites do I visit where I get a Google popup asking if I want to sign in?

Stack-overflow does this, Reddit does too.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-15 13:24:51+00:00
Definitely. But a lot of people are happy to look at what's happening with Abrego Garcia and say "it can't happen to me, I'm a US citizen."

Those people need to be actively reminded that once we discard due process and rule of law, your status does not matter. If the administration chooses to target you, you'll be on the other side of the valve before anyone can meaningfully intervene on your behalf to assert your rights.

There's a phrase "you can beat the time, but you can't beat the ride," meaning you can't do much about it if the police want to put you in jail for the night/weekend. They're going to subdue you, they're going to handcuff you, and they're going to book you. The validity of the charges or chance of successful prosecution does not matter, you're going to jail. You might bond out or get released as soon as you see a magistrate judge, but in the meantime you're going to jail.

If the "ride" extends all the way to a facility that is beyond the jurisdiction of US courts, then the ride and the time are one and the same. The executive is not only the enforcer but also the judge and jury. It is absolutely broken from a constitutional perspective.
by fullmetal361 | 2025-04-15 13:24:56+00:00
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

Location: US but relocating to Mexico (Will be traveling back and forth)

Remote: Yes

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Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/john-figueroa-80526616b

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About: Experience in technology as a CSR, teaching as a high school teacher and technology trainer, and customer service representative and business analyst for a large education district.
by happytoexplain | 2025-04-15 13:25:22+00:00
Was part of it. As somebody who has been trapped there since 2004, I'd say it evolved into a part of the normal internet between 2010 and 2016 (i.e. it had already fully transformed before Trump's first term), where "normal internet" means being infested with uncle-on-Facebook-tier political posts, "jokes" where the punchline is "I hate my political enemies", etc. Creative irreverence was replaced with regular childishness.

Mostly because, as more people came online, they mistook offensive humor for conservatism; and thought "counter-culture" meant "being opposed to the political party currently in power", rather than "being opposed to political parties".
by jdlshore | 2025-04-15 13:26:20+00:00
You can’t (practically) unit test LLM responses, at least not in the traditional sense. Instead, you do runtime validation with a technique called “LLM as judge.”

This involves having another prompt, and possibly another model, evaluate the quality of the first response. Then you write your code to try again in a loop and raise an alert if it keeps failing.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-15 13:26:21+00:00
IRA caps are low, but loads of people earning enough that they'd reasonably save more than 7k annually have access to 401ks or similar accounts that raise the annual cap to >30k, vastly more than the typical person is saving.

The middle class isn't taking advantage of low capital gains rates to earn more from their taxable brokerage accounts because they haven't even filled up their tax-advantaged accounts.