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by richardlblair | 2025-04-15 17:04:06+00:00
> I've never cared whether someone "validates" my emotions

I doubt you recall being 2yrs old vividly. Or even 3. Around this age feelings get really really big. There is no concept of emotional regulation yet. That's on the parents to teach. I don't know you, but you did say that solving problems feels good for you. Eventually, just working through problems would have taught you emotional regulation.

From my own experience with my toddler, validation doesn't always work. Sometimes feelings are just big, and we just need to be in them for a moment. That's also a nice lesson for them. It teaches them that big feelings come and go, which teaches them not to be afraid of big feelings.

I'm on a tangent now - the hardest part isn't necessarily helping them calm down. It's getting them to hear you and see you in the hard moments. If you can't get them to hear you (in a calm way) none of this works.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-04-15 17:04:56+00:00
A lot of people seem to be missing that the point of the report is more what we would call "commuter rail", and trying to improve it in the direction of, say, Swiss railways. This is, as a matter of engineering, just very orthogonal to trying to TVG up longer distance Amtrak routes.

Everyone wants to talk about the latter, but really should do both!
by dale_glass | 2025-04-15 17:05:15+00:00
Oh, I'm sure there's all sorts of practical considerations regarding optimal LLM training.

All the same though, I don't like my host being so opinionated. I don't want a host that has something against any of the common search engines, and I don't want a host that has something against LLMs. Hosts should be as neutral as possible.
by erlend_sh | 2025-04-15 17:05:28+00:00
Hey, one of the two cofounders here. Very cool to see Weird on HN, although we had purposefully refrained from posting it ourselves yet since it’s still baking.

Weird is essentially gonna be ported over to being the static, persona-first extension of Roomy: https://blog.muni.town/chatty-community-gardens/
by seanhunter | 2025-04-15 17:05:41+00:00
I did. Austria, Belgium, France etc all existed during WW2. They were occupied, but they existed. Also lots of countries you listed definitely don't meet any sort of reasonable definition of "hegemon".

To pick another example, Singapore was a crown colony before the war, then they were occupied by Japan during WW2, then they were a single nation with what is now Malaysia, then in the 1960s they two countries became independent from each other. They didn't under any reasonable reading of the situation cease to exist and they also have never been a hegemon of any kind.
by dextercd | 2025-04-15 17:06:56+00:00
If a CA or subscriber improves their security but had an undetected incident in the past, a hacker today has a 397 day cert and can reuse the domain control validation in the next 397 days, meaning they can MITM traffic for effectively 794 days.

CAs have now implemented MPIC. This may have thwarted some attacks, but those attackers still have valid certificates today and can request a new certificate without any domain control validation being performed in over a year.

BGP hijackings have been uncovered in the last 5 years and MPIC does make this more difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGP_hijacking

New security standards should come into effect much faster. For fixes against attacks we know about today and new ones that are discovered and mitigated in the future.
by jmward01 | 2025-04-15 17:07:21+00:00
I think there is a difference between having a discussion and having an argument. You are in a discussion if you are actually open to change and seeking a better understanding. You are in an argument if you are just out to change the other side. An argument is a fight so knowing when to argue is critical to winning the fight. The challenge, I think, is that often people get themselves into a discussion when the other side is having an argument with them and don't realize it. That seems like a point this article is really driving at towards the end. The missing advice though is that if you recognize the other side is just going to be in an argument and not switch to a discussion then you probably need to back out.
by qingcharles | 2025-04-15 17:07:27+00:00
My favorite is all these letter-soup Firewire-to-USB convertors which are just glue and random wires inside and are either completely inert or disastrously damaging to your peripherals:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=firewire+to+usb+adapter

It's fascinating to me that every letter-soup brand is competing on a product that is literally fraud.
by ldmosquera | 2025-04-15 17:07:50+00:00
Small note - https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar has no code in any branches:

> Flatcar project repository for issue tracking, project documentation, etc.

Per the building page https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/reference/developer-guid...

the actual code seems to be at https://github.com/flatcar/scripts.git
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-15 17:08:10+00:00
Does anyone actually have good dental insurance? I think mine just does a small copay when i clean but even before I had dental out of pocket for that is only like $70 every 6 months if you bother listening to dentist (most don’t after mom stops taking them up to having a bad tooth issue later in life). Any actual work done on my teeth even with insurance has been out of pocket because in the eyes of the insurance company, having functional teeth is a cosmetic matter. Extraction? Hope you have $2500 to pay an american dentist for that. Or you can get the exact same procedure done from someone with the same training and experience for about $700 if you drive or fly to Tijuana for it.
by skydhash | 2025-04-15 17:08:36+00:00
Everything old is new again, and I'm not even that old to know that you can return HTML fragments from AJAX call. But this is worse from any architectural point view. Why?

The old way was to return HTML fragments and add them to the DOM. There was still a separation of concern as the presentation layer on the server didn't care about the interface presented on the client. It was just data generally composed by a template library. The advent of SPA makes it so that we can reunite the presentation layer (with the template library) on the frontend and just send the data to be composed down with the request's response.

The issue with this approach is to again split the frontend, but now you have two template libraries to take care of (in this case one, but on the two sides). The main advantages of having a boundary is that you can have the best representation of data for each side's logic, converting only when needs. And the conversion layer needs to be simple enough to not introduce complexity of its own. JSON is fine as it's easy to audit a parser and HTML is fine, because it's mostly used as is on the other layer. We also have binary representation, but they also have strong arguments for their use.

With JSX on the server side, it's abstraction when there's no need to be. And in the wrong place to boot.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 17:08:39+00:00
IP is such a stupid concept. How does it make any sense of that an artist could own the right to let people learn from his music. The idea of an artist getting to choose who can and can't learn from their song is so patently absurd.

I hope that the adversarial attacks can be easily detected and circumvented, just like other IP protection measures have been subverted successfully.
by dralley | 2025-04-15 17:08:44+00:00
How much more straightforwards do you need it to be? How about this?

> “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

> “We want to put them in trauma.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M

That's the current director of the Office of Management and Budget.

For the love of god dude, the White House posted a ICE deportation ASMR video. The House GOP posted this shit: https://x.com/HouseForeignGOP/status/1906008542382879094

You don't have to be paying that much attention to get the vibe that a lot of these guys do, in fact, enjoy cruelty for its own sake. Trump and Vance enjoy humiliating Zelenskiy in the Oval Office and insulting the entire country of Canada, threatening to annex them etc. They enjoy making heads of companies and nations come to them and beg (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1086367432957...)

Noticing these things isn't an "emotional crutch", it's understanding the actual reality of the situation.
by ddq | 2025-04-15 17:09:05+00:00
"My name is Tom Hacohen.

I was born and raised in Tel-Aviv (Israel), lived in London for the last decade, and I'm now back in Israel."

I suggest you learn more about the conflict from different perspectives if you think the claim of genocide is "weak". Criticism of your country's extensive human rights abuses is not antisemitism. You are representing your country very poorly with this post.
by resters | 2025-04-15 17:09:26+00:00
I get that EO 9066 wasn’t directly tied to the Alien Enemies Act, but the internment itself still relied on wartime powers and ended up targeting Japanese Americans unjustly. Do you think the legal specifics change how we view the regret over those camps today?

Also FWIW Reagan's apology was addressed both to citizen and non-citizen victims of the camps.
by zusammen | 2025-04-15 17:09:44+00:00
“Indirect costs” were accepted on the theory that this would be used to create job security for professors who did useful work but were not able to secure direct funding.

Spoiler alert: That job security doesn’t exist anymore. A professor who isn’t winning grants, even if tenured, is functionally dead. Research doesn’t matter except as PR and teaching definitely doesn’t matter; the ability to raise grants is the singular determinant of an academic’s career.

Consequently, most academics despise university overhead because it reduces the number of grants to go around and they get nothing for it.

That does not, of course, mean they support Trump or Musk. Most do not.
by belter | 2025-04-15 17:09:46+00:00
You do know they have only 10 million paying subscribers?

As opposed to the (non audited) claim of 400 million regular users ( non paying and non audited). And losing money on every prompt....

10% of the internet...Oh my....Do you regularly quote Sam Altman?

"Sam Altman says ‘10% of the world now uses our systems a lot’" - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-10-world-1123...
by w10-1 | 2025-04-15 17:09:50+00:00
Imagine you woke up, learned that you have your own feelings and ideas and agency, and yet... you don't get to choose except what's between handed to you (the blue pill or the red pill). And you start to realize it keeps happening. Maybe that's what being 2-3 is like? To a toddler it will be eons before they get to make their own choices.

Yes, "no" can be petulant, but it's also could be deeply beautiful and true.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-04-15 17:09:56+00:00
Yeah, no. I don't want to end up in a lawsuit because I agreed with the customer offhand that the steak was undercooked. I'll stick with "I understand the steak was not to your liking. May I ask the chef to bring you another? Drinks are on the house, by the way." You can't sue an agreeable robot.

If you assume I can take a good look at you and just know you're the kind of guy who would never do that, you're assuming a level of sight-reading people that even most police investigators don't have. I'm sorry, I'm only human, and I'm waiting five tables simultaneously right now.
by const_cast | 2025-04-15 17:10:14+00:00
> Generalizing from the extremely lopsided ratios in academia of the Anglosphere to the global educated class is somewhat unreliable.

I agree generally, however you should be aware that American republicans are not referring to these people because they don't know anything about them. While the American left is typically extremely US-centric, the American right is even more so. So, while you have a point, you are giving them far too much credit. Their view of American education IS their view of education in general, because that's all they know. If they wanted to know more they would have to educate themselves, but they're ideologically opposed to education, so...

And, to be clear, it only takes a small look through Republican policy making to deduce they are ideologically opposed to education. They outright say it, usually.

And it makes complete sense when you think about conservatism as an ideology and education as a concept. Education is the processes of breaking down thought processes, destroying preconceived notions, and seeking truth through evidence. It denounces the idea that what is correct is what is common. It denounces the idea that wisdom is just a given, and not something to be worked towards. This is directly antithetical to conservatism. Conservatism values maintenance and blind belief, keeping stability for the sake of stability. It values faith in things working, and not evidence of why it's working. It denounces the notions of explanations and reasoning being required. It upholds the status quo because it is the status quo. It's naturally risk-averse, anti-creative, and small-minded.

This is the reason progressiveness, whether it be in Europe or anywhere else, thrives in education whereas conservatism struggles. It is, however, important to note that this does not perfectly line up with American politics. But, the American political system is associated with these underlying ideologies and thought patterns.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-15 17:10:27+00:00
He was not. As per the article:

"In May 2023, Wilmer Gutiérrez left Venezuela with his son Merwil and nephew Luis, traveling through Colombia and the Darién Gap into Panama. The monthlong journey eventually brought them to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, where they applied for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) through the CBP One app. While waiting for their immigration appointment, they took temporary jobs and slept near the border to keep their place in line."

The CBP One app [1] was a means to enable mass pseudo-legal migration by automatically granting 'humanitarian parole' on a massive scale to hundreds of thousands of people. The app and any pending appointments from it were cancelled January 20th, ending said parole. The app was later updated to help people looking to self deport.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBP_One
by jjulius | 2025-04-15 17:12:18+00:00
Ah, this is where nuance comes in. For instance, I do not like carrots - it's a taste thing, I don't enjoy the flavor a bit. I've kept trying them for years and if something is carrot-forward, I don't enjoy it. I tried some miso-glazed carrots that I'd whipped up for my family just this past weekend and they just weren't for me (I appreciated how tender they were, and enjoyed the miso glaze on it, but the carrot taste put me off). Now, if you shred them up, or dice 'em, and toss 'em into a salad, a sandwich, or in some slaw and I can't taste them at all? Sure, I'll devour them along with the rest of the meal.

But they're hiding in there, you can't tell they're there. I still don't "like" carrots, but I don't mind eating them if I don't taste them. There's a difference between the two, I think.

That said, to your point, I was super picky as a kid, and that approach (trying food I didn't like in a dish that I did like) helped me quickly not be picky when I was a younger adult. My palette is tremendously wide now and there's only a relative handful of things I don't "like". I'm also now always down for an adventure and experiencing something new, so I'm happy to try weird shit, whereas I never used to be.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-04-15 17:12:47+00:00
There are rules around comma usage that are up to taste (eg the Oxford comma), and people get very dogmatic about these rules for bad reasons. There are also times when usage of a comma is incorrect according to all the known rulesets for English grammar. This usage is in the latter category.

The notion that a comma is any sort of pause fell out of favor in written English in the 1800's and thankfully hasn't been back (see the second amendment as to why "a comma is a generic pause" is a bad idea). You would have to be the loosest form of descriptivist to say that this usage is close to correct, and I would question whether you would accept any grammar rule at all at that point. Many people use run-on sentences and many don't capitalize the start of sentences in very casual text, even though these are widely (universally) accepted rules.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-15 17:12:48+00:00
That is entirely reasonable, particularly since the power to deny access to Starlink has already been used in a way that makes it clear that nobody should be relying on Starlink for anything critical.

It's also entirely reasonable to avoid being exposed to anything that Musk is involved with, regardless of international politics and regardless of whether you're a nation or an individual.
by wormlord | 2025-04-15 17:13:07+00:00
Dude come on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_imperialism#Strategy

Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, are locations that are directly under US control. The entire western hemisphere is within our sphere of control, and a huge chunk of the planet was either directly aligned with us (EU, AUS/UK) or was compliant for fear of regime change.

The country itself was founded on the destruction of dozens of civilizations, a victory so total you don't even consider it as part of US imperial conquest. I can't believe I even have to explain this to people on here my God.
by spacecadet | 2025-04-15 17:13:07+00:00
I had a client train an AI on images I created without extended usage and so added adversarial noise to the images next time around. The models I tested with misclassified the images and image generation seemed broken, so Im curious how it impacted their attempts, if they even attempted it again, I don't know. I don't expect them to come to me and ask why their model is so interested in ducks...
by regularization | 2025-04-15 17:13:09+00:00
The way they math is presented is off. The US is deficit spending this year, yet you present the interest payment as something separate from the military. Obviously that interest is partially from the military spending the US makes this year that it has not paid for, military payments from last year it has not paid for etc. The billions sent to Israel, the Ukraine and the hundreds of military bases the US has spanning the globe are not cheap.

Also, a lot of other military expenses are not counted as military expenditures in your math. A veteran whose leg was blown off overseas going to a VA hospital is not a military expenditure in this math.

If you have an extremely narrow definition of military spending, you can make it look small, but if you count veteran's benefits, interest on past military adventures etc. It looks larger. Why are Navy ships being shot at off Yemen, to cover for what the UN committee investigating it found is an ongoing genocide in Gaza. Which is also helping bankruptcy the US, as you pointed out
by delusional | 2025-04-15 17:13:18+00:00
This is such a radical take on IP rights and AI "learning" that I can only assume you're consciously choosing to misunderstand both.

On the off chance that you are not: IP-rights does not cover "learning from" a source. What ML does is not in any way akin to human learning in methodology. When we call it learning that's an analogy. You can not argue a legal case from analogy alone.
by furyofantares | 2025-04-15 17:13:24+00:00
> After all: "Advertisement works on everyone... except for me!"

Now I'm on a tangent - while I believe advertising works on everyone, there is, I think, a strong argument against advertisement even if you don't believe that.

Even if it's true that "advertising works on everyone... except me", the thing effective advertising does is increase prices. Which you have to pay even if advertising doesn't work on you.
by mplanchard | 2025-04-15 17:13:30+00:00
Real question: is there any precedent that simple speech constitutes material support?

I don’t particularly think it applies to this case, tbh, given that his actions were focused on Palestine, not on Hamas, but I am curious if there’s any existing legal basis for the claim that someone could be convicted of such material support simply for saying, for example, that the IRA wasn’t unreasonable given the situation at the time.
by gherkinnn | 2025-04-15 17:13:35+00:00
There is a part of my brain that is intrigued by React Server Components. I kinda get it.

And yet, I see nothing but confusion around this topic. For two years now. I see Next.js shipping foot guns, I see docs on these rendering modes almost as long as those covering all of Django, and I see blog lengthy blog posts like this.

When the majority of problems can be solved with Django, why tie yourself in to knots like this? At what point is it worth it?
by jeffbee | 2025-04-15 17:13:39+00:00
Don't let these guys steal an entire word. It may be that some Tesla-implanted Libertarian weirdo co-hosted an "Abundance 2024 conference". That doesn't kill "abundance" as a goal. We need an abundance of housing. It is necessary and critical to our material success as a nation.

You can't let the Koch Bros. fabricate a conference called "YIMBY America 2024" or whatever and then point to it and say "see, I warned you about those YIMBYs!" You have to engage with the substance of the debate.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-15 17:13:40+00:00
There is no disparate impact language in the civil rights title VI itself, but the language does appear in the enforcement regulatory frameworks issued by the federal agencies, including the department of education.

Title VI gives agencies authority to enforce Title VI, and many of those agencies added in disparate impact language into their own enforcement language (I think under the Obama administration, but I might be wrong about that).
by danielbln | 2025-04-15 17:14:18+00:00
Notion hiked their pricing recently (not great, but oh well) but someone there had the bright idea to slap a giant yellow banner at the top of every page reminding us that said price change will happen - in 2+ months. No way to remove the banner either, after contacting support it was gone and yesterday it came back.

Great when you share notion pages with clients during a video call and that pricing banner hangs around. We are looking to move off Notion now, not because of the banner, but it definitely contributed.
by linker3000 | 2025-04-15 17:14:33+00:00
Right now, Meshtastic's core comms protocol is based on flood messaging - no significant smart routing, although the Devs have recently introduced some route discovery features on private channels, but not in the public one.

MeshCore started out with the concept of static router nodes as well as clients, so it performs better if there is a router nearby to use, otherwise it falls back to flooding.
by daeken | 2025-04-15 17:14:39+00:00
As someone both extremely left and extremely anti-IP, it's been ... Interesting for sure. But a lot of the "pro-IP" positions I've seen are more about the ability for artists to continue earning living wages, or about the sheer level of control we're giving to tech companies, than about IP itself. In other words, they're pro-IP positions only because it aligns with the other things they actually care about.

(This obviously doesn't cover every single person -- some are just legitimately pro-IP.)
by huxley | 2025-04-15 17:14:48+00:00
Think of 4.5 as being the lacklustre major upgrade to a software package, pick one maybe Photoshop or whatever. The 4.0 version is still available and most people are continuing to use it, then suddenly 4.0 gets a small upgrade which makes it considerably better and the vendor starts talking about how the real future is in 5.0.

I wish OpenAI had invented this but it’s not that uncommon.