MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmix | 2025-04-01 01:51:32+00:00
If I remember correctly this fraud was only done after they got acquired. The company's sales/marketing dept asked the newly acquired startup for a customer list to hit up, which is when the founder generated one after being asked repeatedly for it.

Which is when they were caught, emails bounced and they noticed the excel sheet rows matched the total limit in Excel.

So apparently the M&A team trusted the startup was successful when purchasing without seeing the customer list. Most startups get reputation through their press + fancy VC backers giving social credit + a good slide deck, which apparently was enough.
by rayiner | 2025-04-01 01:51:37+00:00
The problem is that criminal laws can't be applied, even in principle, without the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Criminal laws are written broadly and legislatures trust prosecutors to apply the laws to the subset of conduct that falls within the arguable letter of the law. That makes prosecution of political figures incredibly dangerous, because prosecution is inherently a discretionary act.

Consider 18 USC 1343:

> Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

A politically motivated prosecutor willing to stretch phrases like "property" and "false ... representations" could use 18 USC 1343 to turn minor infractions into federal felonies with the prospect of 20 years in prison. It's entirely up to the prosecutor to ensure that the atomic bomb of 18 USC 1343 is applied only to conduct that actually warrants such extreme charges.

I'd note that, had Jim Comey been willing to push the law as far as the words would allow, he would've had a legal basis to prosecute Hillary Clinton for felonies relating to handling of classified information: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-dir.... Comey's statement in connection with the decision to recommend no charges is instructive:

> Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
by spoonjim | 2025-04-01 01:52:16+00:00
First of all, the F-35's job is to kill people, let's not get overly moralistic here, but of all places, the military is quite explicit about using human lives as expendable resources to achieve military objectives. If the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is asked to choose between losing 20 enlisted privates in a training accident vs. losing 20 B-2 bombers which one is he going to choose?
by alwillis | 2025-04-01 01:52:40+00:00
The narrative Safari is behind and Apple doesn’t care about the web is so tired…

This 8,000+ word article on Safari 18.4 (released today, BTW) doesn’t read like an organization that doesn’t care about the web [1].

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/16574/webkit-features-in-safari-18-4...
by naiquevin | 2025-04-01 01:52:48+00:00
Hello! I am the one behind this app. A friend who thinks I am not promoting it enough submitted it to HN (not complaining at all, thanks Aditya!).

I had also posted on the "What are you working on?" thread yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531684.

Happy to answer any questions.
by sitkack | 2025-04-01 01:52:52+00:00
https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/xiaofeng-wang-aaup-i...

https://fox59.com/news/iu-faculty-protests-firing-of-profess...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/fbi-searches-xiaofeng-wang-h...

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/after-fbi-raids-on-h...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jnl64l/fbi_rai...

Letter from his Union to the Provost of IU Rahul Shrivastav https://aaup.sitehost.iu.edu/reports/AAUP_March_31_Letter_Sh...
by SamPatt | 2025-04-01 01:54:50+00:00
You can love an art style and want to create images in that style without wanting to be an artist.

My family and I absolutely love Ghibli films. I ran some family photos through 4o and my wife was thrilled. It made her day.

You can call it slop, you can say I'm not truly a fan, but I made my wife happy, and I can't see the harm.

How is it "insulting their legacy"? You think people writing Harry Potter fan fiction are insulting J.K. Rowling?
by stavros | 2025-04-01 01:55:14+00:00
What's the bigger picture? You said "power usage", "to what purpose?" (you kind of don't get a say in whether I use an LLM to reply to you, though you're free to stop talking to me), and "objections to the training method", which doesn't really seem relevant to the use case, but more of a general objection to LLMs.
by drdaeman | 2025-04-01 01:56:05+00:00
I'm sorry, I don't really know Airflow, but what's the point of `@task.agent`, as compared to plain old `return my_agent.run_sync(...)`? To me it feels like a more restrictive[1], and possibly less intuitive[2] API.

[1]: Limited to what decorator arguments can do. I suspect it could become an issue with `@task.branch` if some post-processing would be needed to adjust for smaller models' finickinesses.

[2]: As the final step is described at the top of the function.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-01 01:56:07+00:00
> If hers is justified, how is the lack of Chirac's justified? That he was not seeking to be elected?

As stated in another reply, being sentenced to ineligibility for embezzlement is only possible since 2017.

It simply wasn’t a possible sentence in 2011. Note that this is not because it was considered too harsh. Ineligibility was systematic before 2010 as anyone condemned for embezzlement was automatically removed from voting lists for five years. However this was judged unconstitutional in 2010 (because it was automatic and sentences have to be individualised, ineligibility in itself is fully constitutional).
by Aeolun | 2025-04-01 01:56:12+00:00
If they're old enough to be able to read it, I'm inclined to believe they're old enough to figure out that the 0.01% of weird shit that happens in it is not representative of the whole. Kids aren't stupid.

Also, it seems an outlier amongst outliers that your child manages to read through the whole of a version of the bible that actually includes those sections, and does it without you noticing and/or explaining that not everything in there should be taken literally.
by brigandish | 2025-04-01 01:56:41+00:00
Firstly, that isn't true. The US is a common law system, that common law being English common law, and because common law systems still share many features, they can use decisions and case law from other common law jurisdictions in their own decisions.

Moreover, the US Bill of Rights is an extension of the English Bill of Rights 1689 and Magna Carta (the founders were British, after all). From Britannica's introduction to the US Bill of Rights[1]:

> The Bill of Rights derives from the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689)…

Wikipedia[2] adds:

> The concepts codified in these amendments are built upon those in earlier documents, especially the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), as well as the Northwest Ordinance (1787), the English Bill of Rights (1689), and Magna Carta (1215)

Both the Virginia Declaration of rights[3] and the Northwest Ordinance incorporate concepts found in the English Bill of Rights and Magna Carta, for example:

> Mason based his initial draft on the rights of citizens described in earlier works such as the English Bill of Rights (1689) and the writings of John Locke.

And where do you think they got habeas corpus from?

And finally, in the link I shared on jus soli[4], in the second line, it states:

> Jus soli was part of the English common law

I could go on but that seems enough. Not only is your claim completely erroneous, it's also not misguided to contrast the situation to show that it's not a strange or dangerous change.

Of course, if you - or anyone - were to address my actual question then you might have the beginnings of a point.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bill-of-Rights-United-State...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
by ggm | 2025-04-01 01:56:47+00:00
Worldwide problem. Interesting to set this against our inability to deal with non-linear situations except very specific ones like catching balls which have a linear component (horizontal distance) -and our inability to manage risk. Flight risk vs car risk vs train risk, and how it affects peoples stated beliefs of risk.

I do think we have a crude ALU arithmetic engine, and it can compute zero, one two lots, and compare this bigger than that but when it comes to QUANTIFY it does wildly different things.

Also, unrelated, "a few" vs "a dozen" vs "many" vs "several" is an interesting cultural difference. (yes, even a dozen which is a specific amount, can be quantified by some as 10-13)
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-01 01:58:06+00:00
There's an industry consensus to leave it alone in most* cases, since it is considered to expand the total manga market and generate new talent. Micro-publishers are very different from megacorporations, though.

* Unsurprisingly a famous exception involves Nintendo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_doujinshi_inciden...
by Aachen | 2025-04-01 01:58:55+00:00
> What prevents them from simply pushing an update that quietly uploads private keys or unencrypted messages to their servers

Reputation

Or what's the translation of bank run but generic for any service? Leegloop in Dutch. Translator gives only nonsense. Going for the descriptive route: many people would leave because of the tarnished reputation

The trick is to have Facebook continue to believe that this reputation/trust is more valuable than reading the messages of those who stay behind, which can partially be done by having realistic alternatives for people to switch to so that there is no reason to stay when trust is broken. Which kinda means pre-emptively switching (at least to build up a decent network effect elsewhere), which is what I've chosen to and encourage anyone to also do. But I'm not a conspiracy theorist who thinks that, at the present time, they'll try to roll out such an update in secret, at least not to everyone at once (intelligence agencies might send NSLs with specific targets)
by metalman | 2025-04-01 02:00:13+00:00
what we were building was radical @ the time, and may still be. The design of the blades was essentialy flat on one side, and had a more complicated profile on the back the shaft was an I beam made from strait grained spruce, capped with ash, and then capped again in beach through the oar locks, and we snuck carbon fibre between the spruce and ash. the longest oars were 18', and it was possible to put a handle under the bench, and a shop stand under the oar lock and go out and bounce up and down on the blades 15' out from the shop stand we also made many oars for the international dorry races, which is regulated to "what could have been built useing traditional materials and methods" which ours were, cept for the cfd bieng done at mit we also made paddles, and handles, but paddles do better now, in strait carbon, but oars need flex, and work as a spring we had a couple of raceing skiffs at the shop and those sure are a hoot
by gerdesj | 2025-04-01 02:00:18+00:00
I am not a golfist at all and unfortunately I feel that I must instinctively hate the game - that is really my problem and not golf's. Golf is a decent sport and not deserving of my opprobrium.

So why do I feel the need to dislike golf? I'm a white skinned, middle aged male and my job title is Managing Director. Obviously I should be a passionate small white ball smacker. No I'm not.

I love the idea of golf but hate the ... environment. That is still on me. Our wedding ding dong was held in a hotel that majored in golf (Woodbury/Devon/UK - Nigel Mansell's place), 19 years ago.

I think that golf needs to go back say 300 years. A bloke sporting a kilt would slyly whip out a hidden club on a Sunday (shock, horror) and whack a ball/stone away. Just for the absolute hell of it.

Golf needs to find its joy again. If it does, then I'll join in.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-01 02:05:08+00:00
That's the people who can be hired and get paid big bucks right now. The comment is referencing people who might be inspired to start learning this stuff seriously.

Leading edge chip designers at TSMC didn't end up there because they ended up playing graphic intensive video games

Kind of a large assumption. I find it quite plausible that enjoying video games as a kid might lead to someone studying engineering as opposed to medicine or finance.
by hug | 2025-04-01 02:05:13+00:00
> She asked the Director of Engineering if he could help her take a known set of FAFSA application data and use it to artificially augment a much larger set of anonymous data that her systems had collected over time. The Director of Engineering questioned whether creating and using such a data set was legal, but Javice tried to assure the engineer by claiming that this was perfectly acceptable in an investment situation and she did not believe that anyone would end up in an “orange jumpsuit” over this project

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23570243-frank_suit/...
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-01 02:06:18+00:00
Trans people are less than 0.5% of the US and somehow a certain group of people have been convinced that they are taking over the country.

> Our results call for researchers, journalists, and pundits alike to reconsider how to interpret misperceptions about the demographic structure of society.

They are missing that this mischaracterization is very deliberate and meant to fearmonger.
by Ichthypresbyter | 2025-04-01 02:07:44+00:00
Rowing had the sliding rigger boat which was banned in international competition within a year of first being used.

(In a normal racing rowing boat, the athlete sits on a sliding seat, while their shoes and the rigger with the oarlock are fixed to the boat. In the 1980s, boats were developed that had the shoes and rigger as a unit that slid, while the seat was fixed, which was more efficient as it meant that the boat hull and the athlete's mass moved together.)

On the other hand, first carbon-fibre oar shafts and later asymmetrical "hatchet" oar blades were adopted near-universally within a few years of their invention.
by walrus01 | 2025-04-01 02:08:29+00:00
Some C-levels have gone for the "quantity has a quality all of its own" philosophy of media production.

My personal experience with netflix has been that a good filter for 'quality' is what specific TV series and documentaries various 'scene' groups in the warez/torrent community consider worth ripping and properly encoding.

There's a certain amount of manual effort that's required to properly encode a ripped netflix or amazon prime series. People who do this strictly for street cred in the piracy community generally don't waste their time on schlock.
by Aeolun | 2025-04-01 02:09:02+00:00
> He's considered a moral and good character purely because he was fully willing to sacrifice his child. We're supposed to think that the morally correct thing to do was to listen to God and murder his child.

The whole point of the story is that Abraham is even willing to sacrifice the son he loves because god wills it. It's a story about having faith that there is a good reason for what god requests of you, even if you don't always know what it is. Abraham is virtuous because he doesn't question at all.

I'm not sure anymore if the story skips over the heartache this undoubtedly causes him.

Of course more cynical people immediately ask why god needs Abraham to sacrifice his son to no apparent benefit other than to prove his faith in the first place.
by HPsquared | 2025-04-01 02:09:51+00:00
Off topic, but I Googled "argon powder" and the AI overview thing hallucinated that the term means metal powders used for 3D printing, stored under argon to prevent oxidation. There are no actual results using the term in that sense, as far as I can tell.

Google search should not be returning an incorrect hallucination that sounds plausible ahead of the actual search results. It's so confidently wrong. Google is SO BAD NOW at searching for specific expressions.
by naiquevin | 2025-04-01 02:10:05+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. I know the UI is not as intuitive as I'd like it to be for first time users. Multiple early users have told me that they expected it to either listen to them play or play back some audio. I am planning to record a small videos soon to clarify this.

> IMO the app would be cooler if it was simply the metronome app on a page. And if you want to track which song you are working on, then just add the ability to label a session. Could have a different mode for people who want it over videos, but usually when I'm practicing, I know the tab and am not watching a video while I practice.

The tab is mainly for (1) future reference, specially if you are creating your own exercises (2) sharing them with others. Sometimes I come up with short exercises myself that cover a specific technique or some picking pattern I am struggling with. Overtime I tend to forget those. In an earlier version, you could either add a tab or embed a video. But then I thought why not both! Feedback taken though, it should be fairly easy to make the tab/video section collapsible. Ability to label sessions in also on the roadmap.
by bbor | 2025-04-01 02:10:05+00:00
I'm not sure I understand this response -- basically all of cosmology involves theories based only on somewhat subjective interpretations of sensor data targeting far-off objects. So I don't necessarily disagree.

But what could possibly happen other than they act like all other physical objects do? It boggles the mind to think how broken physics would have to be to accommodate a second correspondence principle for the big-but-not-too-big scale...

I feel like maybe I'm misunderstanding your sentiment, because this seems like a basic shared fact: a clock anywhere in the universe is still a clock.
by woodpanel | 2025-04-01 02:11:19+00:00
The Romania-ization of European democracies has just begun. Once Brussels sends „democracy-protecting“ tanks into the capitals of its member states, the „EU-SSR-meme“ will have successfully completed the „conspiracy“ life cycle we‘ve become so adjusted to lately (conspiracy > meme > reality). Just remember to, in the meantime, de-humanize every complainer as „Putin-Puppet“ because how else can we protect democracy if not by eliminating dissent, eh?
by yahoozoo | 2025-04-01 02:11:26+00:00
Yeah, I guess my question was: that assumes the MCP server is running on the same machine as your files? Otherwise, if it's a remote MCP server then you would have to be developing on that remote machine? That may be an obvious "yes" so I just wonder why there are so many posts around hosting MCP servers via Cloudfare or what have you if they can't even edit your files on your machine.
by paxys | 2025-04-01 02:11:56+00:00
Fraud is fraud, but I'm happy JPMorgan got caught up in this mess. Buying a promising startup for its technology or product is one thing, but the bank literally only cared about the personal data of its supposed 4 million high school and college aged users. Good riddance the whole thing imploded and there weren't real teenagers being spammed credit card and car loan offers.
by ipsento606 | 2025-04-01 02:12:24+00:00
The article also says

> JPMorgan became interested partly because of the potential it saw in Frank’s supposedly huge list of satisfied clients. The bank believed those future college graduates could become lifelong bank customers

Generating a fake user accounts database would only conceivably work if you expected the purchaser to never attempt to contact any of the business's users, which seems a ludicrous expectation.
by dmix | 2025-04-01 02:12:47+00:00
Good point, another commenter above linked to the court records which explained she provided this during due-diligence:

> Javice agreed to provide in the template actual customer data for all fields except email and home street addresses; those she agreed to provide as a “unique ID” due to alleged privacy concerns.

So they did verify it but didn't catch it until the real list was sent.
by iambateman | 2025-04-01 02:12:54+00:00
As a kid, my all-time favorite Christmas present was a Gen-1x baseball bat. It was my first -3 bat, and promised a new metal alloy that would help me hit harder. Talk about sparking the imagination!

Without question, one of the high points of childhood was going out and trying to make that bat pop.

A lot of long-term baseball fans “get it” when it comes to creative tech in the game and it’s fun to see something new with bats.

The only thing I want to point out is that baseball (and all big sports) have always been a technological arms race and always will be. It’s just part of it.
by krapp | 2025-04-01 02:13:22+00:00
The harm comes from AI "entrepreneurs" making a business out of cloning Miyazaki's style - and the styles of countless lesser known artists - and flooding the market with garbage that cheapens the value of the original work and undermines the market for human talent. And from the people in the AI community who are already claiming this is superior to the original and celebrating the death of human art. And from the likelihood that people will become dependent on this technology - which will be forced down our throats whether we want it or not - and consider themselves artists having never bothered to learn how to express themselves or develop their own talent, or even be allowed the tools to do so beyond the bounds of what an AI intermediary allows.

No one cares about your family photos. This isn't about you.
by brigandish | 2025-04-01 02:14:24+00:00
I asked a straightforward question, à la the Socratic method, in order to allow the one making the claim to justify their position, à la Russell's Teapot. If you were not willing to answer the question from the beginning then you shouldn't be responding to me and wailing about "moving goalposts". My "goalposts" have been consistent since my first question - answer that question, please.

If you wish to make your points without addressing my question then you can simply comment directly on the article or respond to someone else, hopefully with more relevance to their comment than your slightly unhinged responses have had to mine.
by Aeolun | 2025-04-01 02:15:38+00:00
> And you conveniently ignore Moses killing all the first-borns.

I don't think it's really Moses killing all the first-borns. It's God. While he's complicit to some extent, he doesn't really have a choice in the matter.

While he could theoretically ask for mercy, God isn't exactly known for his compassion at that point in the story. He only really mellows out a bit when he has his own child.

Not to mention that Moses's got pretty good motivation. How many people stuck in a concentration camp would happily murder all first-borns in Germany given the chance?
by cogman10 | 2025-04-01 02:15:38+00:00
I can attest to how easy it's become to update jdks for our org.

8->11 was really a pain in the neck. 11->17 had some pain, but mostly was nothing serious.

17->21 has been painless.

And I have some projects running on 24 already with no problems.

The feature delivery has been great and we are getting pretty close to not needing to do anything but update the jdk to move forward.

Now, if only I could get devs to stop using lombok....