MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-24 01:30:45+00:00
'Disparate impact' is the idea that, to assess fairness, you treat individuals not as individuals, but as members of identity groups (e.g., grouped by ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation). Then, if any group doesn't get a proportion of some desirable outcome (e.g., employment at a particular company) matching its proportion in the relevant population, this is presumed to be illegal discrimination.

The burden of proof then falls on the decision-maker (e.g. employer), i.e. guilty until proven innocent.

This seems crazy when you consider processes with any randomness.

There's no reason why every single company, for every role, would naturally have demographic proportions matching the relevant population for every single identity group.

If you toss a coin ten times and get 6 heads and 4 tails, that doesn't mean the coin is biased.

The EO is right: disparate impact doctrine has forced employers to discriminate based on race, so they can maintain proportions.
by LiquidSky | 2025-04-24 01:30:45+00:00
>People have admitted in news interviews to destroying government data to prevent others from knowing what the government was doing. That’s likely criminal. This is a legitimate reason to get at information before people who might destroy have the opportunity.

Yes, this is precisely the accusation being made against DOGE: they are the government actors criminally trying to to prevent the public from knowing what they're doing.

>There have been cases of judges admitting they will rule against the current administration no matter the topic or law.

No, there haven't, but feel free to provide a source.
by rtkwe | 2025-04-24 01:31:47+00:00
Take your pick it was widely reported and you can read the original whistleblower report;

https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025... - page 2 & 11

"This declaration details DOGE activity within NLRB, the exfiltration of data from NLRB systems, and – concerningly – near real-time access by users in Russia. Notably, within minutes of DOGE personnel creating user accounts in NLRB systems, on multiple occasions someone or something within Russia attempted to login using all of the valid credentials (eg. Usernames/Passwords)"

"For example: In the days after DOGE accessed NLRB’s systems, we noticed a user with an IP address in Primorskiy Krai, Russia started trying to log in. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy activating. There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-sipho...

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...
by skissane | 2025-04-24 01:31:57+00:00
> He did it because things in the church with TLM were getting weird.

What’s “weird” is in the eye of the beholder - a lot of stuff Francis saw as “weird”, JP2 and B16 may have seen as significantly less “weird”; conversely, JP2 and B16 may well have seen some of Francis’ own decisions as “weird”.

I know one of the big complaints against TLM communities is that many of them question the validity of Vatican II. But, given B16 as a young theologian authored his famous (in the rarified subfield of Catholic/Orthodox ecumenical theology) “Ratzinger proposal”, that reunion with the Orthodox should not require them to accept post-schism councils as binding - which implicitly downgrades the authority of all 13 post-schism councils from Lateran I to Vatican II inclusive, [0] maybe he’d view doubting Vatican II a bit more charitably than Francis ever could. And, among the more liberal/progressive-leaning Catholics (for whom Francis rather obviously had a significant degree of sympathy), there’s a long tradition of questioning the validity of Vatican I - and I suspect Francis was much more sympathetic to doubting the first than the second.

And then there’s also the Eastern Catholic followers of the late Lebanese Melkite archbishop Elias Zoghby, who rejected the ecumenicity of Vatican II (despite being one of its Fathers) on the grounds that a genuinely ecumenical council would require full Orthodox participation, hence denying that status to all post-schism councils - I suspect Francis would have seen that as much less “weird”, despite its superficial overlap with traditionalist views on Vatican II, since he’d be more sympathetic to the motivations behind it. Zoghby’s opposition to Vatican II’s validity wasn’t solely a matter of abstract theological principle, it was also about its substance - at it, he argued that Eastern Catholics should be allowed to observe the traditional Eastern leniency on divorce rather than being forced to conform to the Latin Church’s principled opposition to it, but he lost that argument-but yet again, likely something Francis had more sympathy for than the Latin traditionalist objections to the council’s substance

[0] there is also the problem of the 8th council, which is a pre-schism council; there are two competing claimants to the title of “Fourth Council of Constantinople”, the first in 869-870, the second in 879-880; Catholics accept the first as the 8th ecumenical council and reject the second as invalid; Orthodox reject the first as invalid and accept the second, but disagree among themselves as to whether to class it as the 8th ecumenical council or as sub-ecumenical; and then there’s also the Quinisext Council of 692 (aka Council in Trullo), which many Orthodox view as quasi-ecumenical, Catholics as local to the East; and then the fact that some Orthodox claim one of their own post-schism councils as ecumenical (the fifth council of Constantinople, 1341-1368) - Ratzinger’s proposal didn’t address these conciliar esoterica, but maybe they aren’t that important given so few get worked up about them
by tptacek | 2025-04-24 01:32:44+00:00
I don't think this makes much sense as an argument, because you can have it either way with the status quo. The question isn't whether creators can use typesetting expressively; they clearly can, with a degree of freedom and optionality that would have blown me away when I started font nerding back in the 1990s. The question is whether I should sympathize with designers who are irritated by the licensing terms for Gotham or Brandon Grotesque (or whomever is doing per-impression licensing these days). I do not, and I think I'm on solid ground.
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-24 01:33:04+00:00
The theory I'm seeing is that they are creating an excuse to try to drum up public support for expanding use of AI in government under the guise of security. You already have people in this very thread and every DOGE thread playing Elon's advocate. Give them a vague reason like security and I'm sure they'll be onboard with no questions asked.
by whoodle | 2025-04-24 01:33:39+00:00
I appreciate the suggestions, thank you.

I actually grew up in Ohio and know the cities there well. They’re just too small and public transit leaves a lot to be desired.

To me, there’s just something different about the cities that got big before cars that the southern cities, Ohio cities, etc can’t capture. It’s hard to explain if you’re not that type of person.

I think we will consider Chicago though (if I can sell my wife on the weather)
by Aurornis | 2025-04-24 01:36:21+00:00
> I guess these font sellers imagine there’s still some app boom - a Klondike rush with developers bathing in dollars.

The way this works is the design team picks some font, uses it on all of the design proposals, gets it approved by management, and then only later does a developer realize it’s a paid font they’ve been asked to put in the app. The teams want to avoid going back for design change approvals so eventually they just give up and pay the money.

It’s not developers picky boutique expensive fonts, in my experience. It’s the designers who don’t think about the consequences because by they point it’s off their plate.
by mazzystar | 2025-04-24 01:38:55+00:00
With a similar intention, I made an open source blog tool that stores md files on Github: https://github.com/mazzzystar/tinymind

No deployment is required, just authorise Github to access your public repo permissions. It will create a repo called "tinymind-blog" under your Github account. Every update you make will be committed to your Github repo, ensuring data synchronisation at all times.
by xp84 | 2025-04-24 01:38:56+00:00
So you're still fine as long as you're not tracking things that were deleted on that exact instant 50 years ago, a safe assumption, for instance, for things that happened in your application that has only existed for less time than that. That said, I haven't ever seen this implemented in a way that casts. It's implemented with scopes in the ORM, usually.

MyModel.nondeleted.where(<criteria>)

etc.

which generates a query with "WHERE deleted_at IS NULL"

1-1-1970 is fine.
by gwern | 2025-04-24 01:39:06+00:00
Yeah, early 2000s lines up with what I can tell. There were a few translations like https://web.archive.org/web/20021207080806/http://www.berdya... which surfaced somewhere around 2001 or 2002, and they appear to have been about the first anyone had ever heard of 'Cosmism'. Which still wasn't much at all - I was on SL4 myself starting around 2003, and I don't remember ever hearing of it (except possibly as a footnote to a footnote on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky) until Stross's post. So you can imagine my surprise to learn from Stross that despite me never having heard the name, and having never seen any of this discussed on SL4 or Extropians or OB or in _Great Mambo Chicken_ or in Ettinger's _The Prospect of Immortality_ and Yudkowsky and Metzger and Max More and all the rest of us having never heard anything about this, this was nevertheless foundational to Western transhumanism... Remarkable the things you learn if you hang around long enough!

Sarcasm aside, that was a bit of a pity, because even if it had no relationship to anything in 'TESCREAL', Cosmism is an interesting historical artifact. When I was in LA back in 2019, I was able to visit the Museum of Jurassic History where there was an exhibit of Tsiolkovsky stuff like drawings on how humanity might live in space, and it was much more interesting when you knew a little bit about the Cosmism background there.
by neuroelectron | 2025-04-24 01:39:20+00:00
There are fast instructions (e.g., REP STOSx, AVX zero stores, dc zva) and tricks (MTE, zero pages), but no magic CPU instruction exists that transparently and efficiently randomizes or zeros the stack on function calls. You think there would be one and I bet there are on some specialized high-security systems, but I'm not sure even where you would find such a product. Telecom certainly isn't it.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-04-24 01:39:21+00:00
> Combined with the extremely powerful compile-time reflection capabilities of D it's the closest thing I've seen to Lisp metaprogramming outside of that family of languages ...

Scala gets pretty close to LISP-level of metaprogramming support between its intrinsic support for macros[0] (not to be confused with the C/C++ preprocessor of the same name), the Scalameta project[1], and libraries such as Shapeless[2].

Not comparing Scala to D, just identifying a language with similar functionality.

0 - https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/metaprogramming...

1 - https://scalameta.org/

2 - https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless
by monkeycantype | 2025-04-24 01:39:40+00:00
Importantly this is how I work on my own personal fun projects, so it really doesn't matter if is productive, I find it enjoyable so I'm going to keep exploring it, there will be pros and cons, don't have the final ficture on that yet

claude can't manage the big picture of what I'm trying to achieve, and claude and the others hallucinate all the time.

I have them all write simple tests for the code, so if they introduce me to a new library, I have tests to prove their assumptions.

And I review everything and tweak everything.

In my day job I work as a lead dev / arch, this isn't must different, working with Claude is like working with a large team of very inconsistent devs, with deep knowledge, but a tenous grasp on reality that struggle with attention. So not that much different from real people?

My dad wrote code generators, back in the 70's and 80's that I did some work on early in my career, those code generators which took a high level description of a program and output mainframe code, made most of the money that paid for raising my siblings and I. From that perspective I've been roboting myself my entire professional life.
by tptacek | 2025-04-24 01:40:07+00:00
My argument is explicitly not premised on the claim that productivity improvements reliably work out to the benefit of existing workers. It's that practicing commercial software developers are agents of economic productivity, whether anticapitalist developers are happy about that or not, and have really no moral standing to complain about their jobs (or the joy in those jobs) being automated away. That's what increased economic productivity means: more getting done with less labor.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-24 01:41:05+00:00
I don't see how this shows that models don't understand the concept of length. As you say, it's a vision test, and the author describes how he had to adversarially construct it to "move slightly outside the training patterns" before LLMs failed. Doesn't it just show that LLMs are more susceptible to optical illusions than humans? (Not terribly surprising that a language model would have subpar vision.)
by frumplestlatz | 2025-04-24 01:42:41+00:00
Why does someone from Russia want access to NLRB data, and why would DOGE be immediately leaking just-granted NLRB login credentials to Russian assets when it would be trivially traceable back to them, and if they were in fact granted untraceable/unlogged admin credentials, could legitimately download the data themselves and simply hand it over to said Russian assets if that was their actual intention?

It's not behavior that makes any sense assuming even a semi-rational/intelligent actor.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-04-24 01:43:32+00:00
I think something like the Pineapple One [1] is just as trust worthy while being less obscurantist. I mean a 36-bit word is truly being different for retro's sake. There hasn't been a 36-bit word machine released since the PDP-10 in 1966 . If it strikes your fancy, please, go ahead, but I'd personally rather spend my time on a TTL-logic version of an architecture that has some mainstream support.

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/178826-pineapple-one
by phantomathkg | 2025-04-24 01:45:46+00:00
This is because you are not the target audience of short.

The sad reality is, every apps out there are chasing the attention grabbing KPI. The more time the potential user spent on the platform, the better it is for them.

The second part of the chasing is, are they targetting the younger generation, or not. Because of TikTok and other spin off, YouTube has no choice but have to chase behind and ideally overtake them.

Every single VOD app out there are trying to do the same.
by tptacek | 2025-04-24 01:46:04+00:00
No, we disagree. I think those companies should creep up their prices. There aren't enough type designers employed in the world. The social cost to cumbersome font licensing is essentially zero; in fact, for the reason I gave just one sentence ago, it probably tilts the other direction.

Further: the free fonts on your computer are enough. You can do the full range of type design with what ships on Win10 or macOS, and you can do it strikingly. I cringe at my dumb blog typefaces today, because I could get an equally striking effect with the standard web font stack; most of the work is in setting the text, not in picking a particularly mannered typeface.
by gorgoiler | 2025-04-24 01:47:27+00:00
I met a member of an EU pact Who said: two vast and fruitful suits of law Prevail in the courts. Near them, in their acts, Half won, a shattered victory lies, whose maw And wrinkled smile, a sneer of bitter spite, Tell that its makers well those voters fed Which yet survive, in those politic corps, The lips that lied, the hearts that bled And on the cover these words, in bold, underlined “My name is Brussels, Home of Kings: Look on my rules, ye Mighty, and be fined!” No thing beside remains. Around the court Of that great parliament, in open plans, Aerons reclined The ever mighty FAANGs endure.
by benlivengood | 2025-04-24 01:47:35+00:00
I'm arguing that it's natural for intelligent beings to hallucinate/confabulate in the case where ground truth can't be established. Stupidity does not apply to e.g. Isaac Newton or Kepler who were very religious, and any ignorance wasn't due to a fault in their intelligence per se. We as humans make our best guesses for what reality is even in the cases where it can't be grounded, e.g. string theory or M-theory if you want a non-religious example.

Comparing humans to transformers is actually an instance of the phenomenon; we have an incomplete model of "intelligence" and we posit that humans have it but our model is only partially grounded. We assume humans ~100% have intelligence, are unsure of which animals might be intelligent, and are arguing about whether it's even well-typed to talk about transformer/LLM intelligence.
by asdefghyk | 2025-04-24 01:47:45+00:00
As they become urbanized ... it seems . Based on article content ...

"...Like other previous studies, the Swiss analysis found a jump in infections starting around 2000. It's unclear what's causing this, but researchers have speculated that habitat expansion of primary host populations, an increased use of imaging in health care, and a more susceptible population may be possible explanations. In the current study, the increase in the number of cases was linked to a "substantial" increase in incidental findings of AE—that is, asymptomatic parasitic cysts were detected inadvertently during medical care. That points to increased imaging. But, in 2021, researchers in Canada reported AE as an emerging disease in Alberta, which they partly attributed to the growing urbanization of coyotes....."
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-24 01:47:46+00:00
In my mind the complexity of the AWS console is the complexity of what it controls. The patterns used in it are very standard and boring patterns for enterprise applications and if they tasked me to make an interface for that system I'd make one that looks almost exactly like it because... that's how you do it.

What gets me are applications for "creative" people. I was in this hackathon [1]

https://prod.cis.cornell.edu/dgas-first-game-jam-gives-game-...

where I used Unity for the first time and thought it was nuts, the same way I'd think Photoshop was nuts if I wasn't used to it.

[1] we won! had a guy who was good at making platformers in Unity and a gal who was a good artist. I was just the startup veteran who knows the meaning of "minimum" and "viable" and how to find the intersection
by unclebucknasty | 2025-04-24 01:48:21+00:00
>There was a time when Musk and his fans were riding a wave of enthusiasm, but with Tesla and Starship problems they've dialed it back.

That's the thing though: those stans were (and still are on some other platforms) very vocal, irrespective of his copious ups and downs (e.g. prior Tesla problems, Twitter debacle, provocative/bad behavior, etc).

In fact, it seemed the worse things were the more vocal they became (like a PR army), and that included here on HN until very recently, IMO.
by cmurf | 2025-04-24 01:48:57+00:00
this guy's lawyer says: This is a difficult topic for Dan to discuss, but prior to our filing the whistle-blower disclosure this week, last week, somebody went to Dan's home and taped a threatening note, a menacing note on his door with personal information.

...

While he was at work, and it also contained photographs of him walking his dog taken by a drone.

This is mafia shit.
by nullc | 2025-04-24 01:49:18+00:00
Laws are also the most effective tool for destroying rights, arguably much more so than protecting them.

So the flip side of your position that someone needs to be subject to a foreign law when dealing with a foreign party because otherwise that parties right might be stommped is that they also need the means to block interactions with that foreign party so their own rights aren't potentially stomped.

In the case where there are sales you might actually know where the other parties reside, but in the majority of interactions online you don't and there is no great means to control your exposure to other jurisdictions.
by orionblastar | 2025-04-24 01:50:14+00:00
Mirror: https://archive.is/W1BTT

Personally, when Jesus said love everybody like I love you, it includes the Atheists, Secular Humanists, GLBT etc people. I am not a member of the Army of God, I am a Catholic and I followed what Pope Francis (God rest his soul) preached and spoke on love and peace.
by pontus | 2025-04-24 01:50:32+00:00
Isn't it just that the IP router happens to use IPs in Russia as part of the rotation?

If they're trying to exfiltrate data, they might want to rotate through IP addresses in order to obfuscate what's going on or otherwise circumvent restrictions. Using a simple ip rotator like the post talks about would maybe be an approach they'd use. If they're not careful with the IP addresses, once in a while one might get caught due to some restriction like being outside the US. It'd maybe appear as though you're getting these weird requests from Russia, but that's just because you're not logging the requests that are not being flagged from the US.

Maybe I'm reading the post incorrectly though (if so, please correct me!)
by af3d | 2025-04-24 01:50:44+00:00
Sorry, but the whole story just reads like a bad mystery novel; tales of Russian hackers, "suspicious" Github repos, somehow-nefarious (docker?) "containers", unspecified threats made (and I quote) in "meat space".

Also interesting to note that not only has Berulis' attorney lead multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration in the past, he was also an intern for both Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton. Now that obviously doesn't prove anything, but it could nonetheless be considered a strong indicator this all might be politically-motivated.
by grepfru_it | 2025-04-24 01:50:56+00:00
>not something you would expect DOGE people to understand or respect

To be fair I see in my daily life folks who copy and paste from stack overflow or random GitHub repo and move on with their day. They ignore the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike or whatever license is applied to the code they copied.

I see on this very site people who will share copyrighted articles that are behind a paywall (just because it is on some archive site doesn’t make it right).

Please don’t take this as support for DOGE and the headaches they are causing. To make a cheap jab at a group of people while ignoring the group that you associate with is bad form.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-24 01:52:08+00:00
There is no "can't", it's a "don't" or "won't". Web based with a server they control simplifies the design from the developer perspective, it can also be better for businesses (more easily monetized, as a service for instance). This leads to two of the three primary stakeholders (investor, developer, user) sharing a common goal though not necessarily for the same reasons.