MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by resters | 2025-04-15 15:59:06+00:00
Not trying to ignore your point. Generally the "right wing" view of crime is that it is solved by increasing coercive (authoritarian?) measures such as policing and punishment, with the implicit (sometimes explicit, as below) idea that it is the moral failings of the "criminals" that lead to crime, rather than systemic forces.

Tan (net worth $100M) explicitly rejects the systemic forces perspective and focuses on the moral failings of the weakest in society:

“Crime isn’t some abstract social problem—it’s people choosing to break the law. Stop excusing shoplifters and drug dealers as ‘victims of circumstance.’ We need consequences, not endless debates about root causes.”
by grep_it | 2025-04-15 15:59:44+00:00
> More complex examples, like IN (1, 2, 3) or id != 25 can be handled as well. For the former, we can hash all values and route the query to the matching shards. For the latter, we can do the opposite.

This makes it sound like the query would be routed to all shards except the one matching HASH(25). But wouldn't id != 25 need to go to all shards, since there could be values in the id set that hash to the same shard as 25?
by filoleg | 2025-04-15 16:00:10+00:00
I feel like we broadly agree and are just griping over the semantics of what “made up my mind” means.

> argumentation becomes boring once you are at the point where you feel there is nothing left that you can learn

Agreed, but here is the thing: there are plenty of topics on which I feel like “there is nothing left to learn,” but that doesn’t mean to me personally that there is nothing left, it just means I believe it is extremely unlikely to find anything new. Just by the definition, I wouldn’t know if there was anything new I haven’t learned yet, otherwise I would’ve went and learned it myself already. So that potentially new stuff would have to come from elsewhere.

However, I can definitely express my belief in the likelihood of discovering something new on the topic being extremely low, which is what i count as “i made up my mind” for myself personally.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-15 16:00:18+00:00
Right. There's always been a range of products from cheap to quality. But "cheap" used to mean something that wouldn't last as long or that had limited features, but that could still be worth the lower price. Now "cheap" can mean something that will break the first time you use it, at which point is any price low enough?

I bought a garden hose sprayer at Dollar General for $1, and it leaked immediately. $1 is so little now that it was basically free, but even for free it wouldn't have been worth it, and I'm not going to make a trip to get a $1 refund. At some point, "cheap" is so bad that it has negative value, as it only adds clutter and waste.
by pvg | 2025-04-15 16:00:22+00:00
Who makes the decisions about what is getting flagged

Users flag things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43227619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624035

a news story that seemed pretty important for tech workers to be aware of

That's not really a driving principle of HN - it doesn't actually work like that. It doesn't entirely not-work like that but it mostly doesn't work like that.
by mariusor | 2025-04-15 16:00:23+00:00
I remember that when the first influxes of LLM crawlers have hit Sourcehut, they had some talks with Cloudflare which ended when CF demanded an outrageous amount of money from a company the size of Sourcehut. If I find the source for this, I'll update.

[edit] Here's the source: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/#:~...
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 16:00:37+00:00
>What would you do to act against this?

Bloc building. Europe has countries which do lots of manufacturing. Use those to gradually reduce reliance on China by slowly restricting Chinese access to the Bloc market and build up supply chains inside the Bloc.

Making everything in the US can not be done without a very severe decline in living standards.

>Is doing nothing acceptable?

How high is your desire to learn Chinese?
by dr_dshiv | 2025-04-15 16:00:48+00:00
We might be saying the same thing, but one reason toddlers act so ridiculously is because they are emotionally responding just as an adult might, if they were treated like a toddler. Ie, “because I don’t think you have a valid internal POV, I’m going to just decide for you with no explanation”

This perspective comes from the book “how to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk,” which is one of my favorite parenting books of all time.
by malfist | 2025-04-15 16:00:59+00:00
You might see it that way, but employers won't. You can't skip the line because you think you're good enough to, almost every junior engineer thinks the same way.

There's so much more to programming that just being able to write code without relying on AI. Otherwise boot camps would have been more effective.

Until you have years under your belt of dedicated building, you're not a senior engineer
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-15 16:01:00+00:00
The problem is that factual comments can also be partisan.

- When Biden did dumb stuff, pointing that out was "right-leaning"

- When Trump does dumb stuff, pointing that out is "left-leaning"

Honestly, the greatest improvement to discourse would be stopping trying to apologize for current fuck-ups by pointing at past fuck-ups. That only leads to all fuck-ups being excused.

'Well the last guy...' -> Doesn't matter, not what we're talking about (and will even out in the long run)
by KerrAvon | 2025-04-15 16:01:10+00:00
What works one on one doesn’t actually work at scale. You cannot make MAGA feel better by “building the wall” or “balancing the budget” — they don’t actually care about those things, in aggregate. In the political sphere, they care — because they’ve been conditioned to care by 40 years of increasingly strident right wing propaganda — about hurting brown people and liberals.

I don’t have an answer, but reason and logic are not going to solve the problem.
by whatnow37373 | 2025-04-15 16:01:14+00:00
You are framing it as danger which preloads the discussion immensely. I find this is common in these situations. This already ends the talk before beginning it. Imagine starting negotiations with Putin with “How come you are such a waste of valuable oxygen?”

I am not “on the right”, but I do have the ability to entertain the idea my “opponent” is actually right and I am wrong. This can be a valuable exercise to get you in a more .. sympathetic frame of mind.

Let’s try to loosen you up. Let’s say we are actually not in danger and you and all the rest of you - excuse me, it’s for the exercise - “pearl clutchers” are actually ridiculously overreacting and misreading the situation. The world is dangerous right now and singing kumbaya is not going to cut it. Trump is weird and we all dislike him, but nothing you can offer will improve the situation.

Try to see that viewpoint. Try to feel it. Try to imagine a world where you are wrong and your “opponent” is actually right and you were “suppressing” them all that time and in your righteous might caused tremendous harm which resulted in this correction.

Next time enter the discussion with “These times are complex and there sure is a lot going on. Let’s talk because I’m confused!” instead of “I am right and why do you take so long to see that I am clearly knowledgable and you should definitely heed all my warnings (which with 98% probability come down to ‘you are basically stupid’)”
by whatshisface | 2025-04-15 16:01:26+00:00
Whether it's teetering depends on how strong it is, but here are a few of the most unequivocal reasons why we know it's under attack, and that the defenses are weakened:

- A conspiracy to refuse to leave the white house went unpunished at the highest levels of government.

- Congress is refusing to cancel declarations of emergency that grant the executive special powers with enormous impact.

- Habeas corpus has been violated many times and the judicial branch has been limited to ineffectively "ordering" it to stop in one case.

There are many others, but the ones that are overtly political tend to be "invisible" to people who agree deeply enough. For example, Chinese-style social media scanning for visa holders seems to only bother people who do not see the US as being in a state of war related to what their social media is being scanned for.
by gambiting | 2025-04-15 16:02:00+00:00
Ubisoft is a huge corporation(I used to work there) - there are projects which are money makers and which have to be smoothed out and appeal to the largest possible group of people, but there is still a crazy amount of creativity happening in various corners of the company. For every Assassin's Creed there are 10 projects being worked on out of which maybe 1 will actually come out - generally if you can pitch an idea within your studio there is a good chance you will get internal funding for 6-12 months to work on it with a small group of other people. Passing other milestones on the way to release is much harder, but this kind of "work on anything and see if it works" approach is very much encouraged. OddBallers and RollerChampions being probably some of the better examples lately, and Grow Home much earlier.
by rsync | 2025-04-15 16:02:12+00:00
"Just a guess though, I don't know for sure the authors intentions/meanings."

I am reminded of this posting from years past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496499

"A lot of hacking groups, terror organizations and other malicious actors have been using cloud flare for a while without them doing shit about it. ... It's their business model. More DDoS means more cloudflare customers, yaaay."

I've not spent much time on this topic but I am very interested in the notion that a well-meaning third party established some kind of looking glass that surveyed cloudflare behavior and that third party was sued ?

I'd like to learn more about that situation ...
by BMc2020 | 2025-04-15 16:02:18+00:00
RPA - robotic process automation - basically automating manual computer processes. There's a big need for it, and every company has unique procedures.

It's basically scripting for legacy software, not glamorous or exciting.

In a similar vein there's a shipload of excel VBA (VBA hasn't been supported for years) out there that needs updating. MS is pushing office scripts but there's been very little uptake so far.

First step is to get a job, any job. Then learn their processes.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-15 16:02:47+00:00
>There's a problem to be solved, so let's attempt to solve it or at least compromise in good faith

Of course saying "I validate that you are feeling upset" is going to come across as patronizing and insincere. But I don't think that's because they validated your feelings. It's because of the way the validation is said.

Part of what makes a conversation good faith is hearing out what the other person is saying and agreeing where there is common ground to build from. That necessarily includes confirming the pain points each person is feeling.
by aziaziazi | 2025-04-15 16:02:57+00:00
How does that relates to the parents post ? For sure you can understand Hamas is a terrorist organisation AND any the same time that some wants to talk about the genocide in Gaza.

Also, using a terrorism judgement as an argument is a bit weak because it’s subjective, and because our western gouvernement do trade times to times with terrorist organisations. Heck my own countries is classified as a terrosist and I’m totally free to come visit the USA (which are themselves a terrorist state).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism
by AaronAPU | 2025-04-15 16:03:27+00:00
I had a CT scan ordered for abdominal discomfort which had been making sleep a nightmare for years.

I started taking ag1 and Metamucil and the stomach discomfort has completely gone away over a span of weeks/months.

The resulting dramatic improvement in sleep cascades to just about everything in my life and different recurring health problems keep disappearing now.

It’s crazy how many problems can be caused by apparently just not getting enough fiber.

Never ended up getting the CT scan, which probably would’ve been expensive and involve some small degree of risk.
by pabs3 | 2025-04-15 16:03:30+00:00
There have been copyright office rulings saying that ML model output is not copyrightable, so that last part of the suggested license seems a bit strange, since the rulings could preclude it for code at some point.

Also, it remains to be seen whether copyright law will outright allow model training without a license, or if there will be case law to make it fair use in the USA, or if models will be considered derivative works that require a license to prepare, or what other outcome will happen.
by pavon | 2025-04-15 16:03:45+00:00
Yes, but it is a lot more work to run an internal CA and distribute that CA cert to all the corporate clients. In the past getting a public wildcard cert was the path of least resistance for internal sites - no network access needed, and you aren't leaking much info into the public log. That is changing now, and like you said it is probably a change for the better.
by pmarreck | 2025-04-15 16:03:48+00:00
I have slipped to the right enough to be almost like a "translator" between leftwing and rightwing viewpoints. Put it this way, I can laugh at parodies of both of them...

I see some error patterns that both sides seem to uniquely make, for example. Just 1 for each side for the sake of brevity here: Rightwingers idolize success without acknowledging the systematic boosts (or pure luck) that have often assisted it, while leftwingers are not only disgusted by success but consider it heretical. Leftwingers constantly compare a situation to some unattainable ideal and are therefore constantly complaining about the current state of affairs without offering a realistic solution; rightwingers fail to acknowledge the very real injustices that a more purely authoritarian approach to things often causes (see: three-strikes laws).

Speaking as one who tests politically center, I believe that the danger is neither nonexistent nor is as high as you may believe. Note that there is some merit to the rightwing claim of "MSM bias"; harping on the same cherry-picked injustice stories for outrage clicks over and over again seems to be the last remaining successful news business model (and this should worry EVERYONE).
by tasn | 2025-04-15 16:04:00+00:00
Figure out how to dismantle the secret Jewish cabal controlling the world behind the scenes. Read more about them here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_...

Seriously though, the Jewish control of the world (now Israeli/Zionist so you don't sound like an antisemite) is one of the most tired antiemetic tropes.

Also: Zionist expansionism is a ridiculous term. You do understand that Israel is tiny and has given lands to Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Egypt for peace. Open the map and try to locate Israel on the map, it's a speck around a sea of huge countries. Even if Zionist expansionism was a thing, and Israel doubled in size it would still be tiny.

The other claims in your post are also weak, and I'd encourage you to learn more about the conflict from different perspectives. This is obviously a loaded topic and both sides are trying to control the narrative, but I believe you've been getting a very specific set information and haven't been exposed to the other side.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-15 16:04:18+00:00
> making logical arguments in this environment feels almost pointless.

Unfortunately this is the culmination of social media as a controversy machine, that promotes the worst arguments.

> ideological purity tests like required DEI statements

Example?

There's a controversy industry that cherry picks the worst examples of student-politics excess in these regards and then carefully conflates it with university policy.

As well as the sad truth that as soon as you take away "DEI" requirements the segregationists come back and purge the library, delete all the black Medal of Honor recipients from the website, etc.
by skerit | 2025-04-15 16:04:19+00:00
> It is slow and worse, not accurate at all, when you have any actual data (100+ items you’re actively working with), clunky interface, and is good if you’re a student taking notes and making forms, or doing something casual before you need something robust.

I wish I could convince the people I work with of the same thing. Though I don't really have a better alternative either.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-15 16:04:25+00:00
> we're seeing a smarter form of disappearance, one where we know who took them, we know where they end up

Nobody is saying due process was followed. But do you really not see why the government saying “we have no record of this person and do not comment on matters of national security,” to the press and to the courts, would not be worse?

> didn't engage with the hypothetical and changed the situation

How did I change the situation?

> On this topic, I think reasonable people can disagree, which we clearly do

On Trump defying the courts, yes. On the definition of disappearance, I don’t think so.

> it feels like an evolution of KGB tactics that adds some documentation, but the outcome is precisely the same

You couldn’t sue to get your family—and information about them—out of the Gulag. Disappearance is where detention blurs into execution. We’re simply not there. Nobody is able to claim Garcia is on vacation, we have to confront the fact that he’s been extrajudicially detained.
by Sonnigeszeug | 2025-04-15 16:04:31+00:00
Soooo you want freedom of speech but if you don't like what someone else is doing, you want to censor them?

And even the reps don't mind this?

How hypocratic do you have to be to want to get rid of the 'Wokeshit' which is freespeech while also advocating for free speech?

Btw. the real term for what type of speech radicals and nazis is abusive speech and yes there are good reasons why abusive speech should lead to consequences
by Taek | 2025-04-15 16:04:44+00:00
I don't understand this comment. Like yes, 3000 stars per second, cool fact. But why would that fact make sense in the article? The article was about being surprised by the name "SN 2021 afdx", which has nothing to do with star formation.

In my opinion the article was great and is also complete. More cool astronomy facts belong in some other article or format.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 16:05:04+00:00
What would prevent Vietnam or Botswana do make political moves 20 years down the line? Surely it is not their economic reliance on you, as China clearly demonstrates.

I see exactly zero point in repeating the example of China again. Why would the outcome be different? Vietnam is another Communist pseudo-dictatorship. Why is this one so different that it won't support Russia?
by lukas099 | 2025-04-15 16:05:32+00:00
Amending the Constitution to create a judicial law enforcement agency would not, in itself, be a Constitutional crisis. Or if you meant that such an agency could then cause one, yeah that could happen in theory, but so could the Executive causing a crisis because the courts don't have an enforcement arm. And to act like the President causing the crisis isn't the more likely scenario in 2025 would be stupifyingly ignorant.
by pomarie | 2025-04-15 16:05:45+00:00
Great question!

We've heard from users who've tried both that our AI reviewer tends to catch more meaningful issues with less noise, that's really something you should try for yourself and find out! (The great thing is that it's really easy to start using)

Beyond the AI agent itself (which is somewhat similar to CodeRabbit), our biggest differentiation comes from the human review experience we've built. Our goal was to create a Linear-like review workflow designed to help human reviewers understand and merge code faster.
by jjani | 2025-04-15 16:06:00+00:00
Good interview, I don't remember seeing a president of the EU commission ever talking this much sense. The part on digital services is something I've brought up multiple times in the tariffs discussions as predictably, I haven't seen any US outlet point it out, even those extremely critical about the tariffs. Even on HN.

Of course, that she's saying the right things says nothing about whether she will actually enact them. The longer term response to the tariffs will reveal everything. If the EU simply lets the US get away with adding 10% and getting nothing in return - or even worse, if the EU gives up the DMA, GDPR or other things for appeasement purposes - then her words will be meaningless. If the 10% stays, a 10% DST is the minimum to respond with.
by spencerflem | 2025-04-15 16:06:02+00:00
In some sense though- every 'problem' is emotional. As in, if your problem is someone not doing the dishes your problem is that you feel like you deserve a clean kitchen and what your roommate is doing isn't fair. There's logical steps inbetween but the start of it is a feeling of being hurt and bothered. Same with any other problem, if you are dispasionate enough things cease to be problems and just are.

So to me, I see validating emotions as another way of saying: 'we share the same goals, there is a problem and we agree on what it is, so we can work towards a solution together'
by bee_rider | 2025-04-15 16:06:36+00:00
It kicked off a feedback loop. The best scientists and engineers wanted to work on the projects that were 10 years ahead. As a result US companies were at the forefront of new technology and developments… attracting the next generation of the best scientists and engineers.

This was quite robust until <group that disagrees with my political opinions> screwed it up for ideological reasons (fortunately, I guess, I can say this in a non-partisan manner because everybody thinks the other side blew it. My side is correct, though, of course).
Show HN: Chonkie Cloud – No-nonsense chunking now on the the cloud
by snyy | 2025-04-15 16:06:39+00:00
Hey HN,

We’re the developers of Chonkie, a powerful and easy-to-use chunking library. Last November, we introduced Chonkie OSS here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42100819) and got some fantastic feedback. Today, we’re excited to share Chonkie Cloud, a fully hosted service for chunking, along with new tools to make building and debugging RAG systems easier than ever.

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A quick recap for context:

We launched Chonkie as an open-source project late last year. A few weeks ago, we decided to go full-time on it. Unfortunately, this shift wasn’t as smooth as we had hoped. Due to some legal stuff, we had to rebuild the entire project from scratch in a new repo.

Restarting sucked but it gave us the chance to clean things up and build something faster, cleaner, and better. You can check out the new repo here: https://github.com/chonkie-inc/chonkie

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- Chonkie Vizard – A tool to visualize chunking output during development. If you've ever debugged with print statements full of dashes and stars, this is for you.

Installation: pip install "chonkie[viz]"

Example usage (1) : viz.print(chunks) # Print in terminal

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- A code chunker

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- Integrations with vector DBs and data extraction tools

- Support for more languages (typescript is #1 on our list)

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