MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nailer | 2025-04-15 01:10:31+00:00
> "woke" is just from AAVE, meaning to be awake to the racial prejudices and social injustices of the world.

Yes, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democracy that serves the people of Korea.

Sometimes expressions have meaning beyond what advocates for the related concepts claim. For example, as I’m sure you are aware, ‘woke’ viewpoints repeatedly advocate for racial discrimination in American universities.
by mapt | 2025-04-15 01:12:57+00:00
WP:

(2019) "In March 2019, Prince George's County, Maryland, police arrested Abrego Garcia with three other men in a Home Depot parking lot where they were seeking work as day laborers.[2][8] One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a "gang member," but The Atlantic reported that according to court filings, the man offered no proof and police said they did not believe him.[8] Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.[20]"

"Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to ICE for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because "he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie" and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York,[2] where he has never lived. [15] An immigration judge determined that the informant's claim[21] was sufficient evidence for denying Abrego Garcia’s bond request, and another judge upheld that ruling, saying the claim that Abrego Garcia was in MS-13 for purposes of the bond determination was not clearly wrong.[19] However, no court has ever “full adjudicat[ed]” this issue.[19] Abrego Garcia has consistently denied any connection to MS-13.[22]"

(2025) "On April 5, the Department of Justice appealed the ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.[39] The following day, Judge Xinis issued a 22-page opinion reaffirming her previous ruling. The opinion stated the deportation "shocks the conscience" and was "wholly lawless."[35] She also said that while there were previous assertions that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13, the government has presented "no evidence" Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 and had essentially abandoned that argument in her court.[35] The judge noted that while the government had presented no evidence that Abrego Garcia was a member of a gang, by publicly labeling him a member of MS-13, the government had placed Abrego Garcia at risk in the detention facility because El Salvador "intentionally mixes rival gang members" in the facility.[35] Xinis stated in her opinion: "Defendants seized Abrego Garcia without any lawful authority; held him in three separate domestic detention centers without legal basis; failed to present him to any immigration judge or officer; and forcibly transported him to El Salvador in direct contravention of [immigration law]."[35] "

The random accusation that he was in MS-13 despite committing no crimes, that this warranted deportation despite entering no immigration courts, that it did not just warrant deportation but a proprietary black site torture camp, is identically as valid as the accusation I am making right now that you are a member of MS-13 because of the clothes you're wearing right now (which are Known To Be Worn By MS-13 Members), and must be disappeared by the authorities immediately. You have no opportunity to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're not a 'terrorist'; It is to be stipulated.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-15 01:14:32+00:00
Never used Objective-C or have done any serious programming (I work as a DE which mostly do data modelling, so I don't consider myself a serious programmer), but I feel the same as the author.

The work has bogged down whatever interest I have in programming, and the only sane solution is to somehow magically remove all financial burdens, go into a cabin in a mountain, and program my own projects and read some science, preferably with a dog and a fire.
by arrosenberg | 2025-04-15 01:14:54+00:00
They definitely shouldn't. It's absurd to suggest that because a middle-class homebuyer can get a margin loan through iBroker means that we should let the richest people in history dodge taxes in this way. If no one would actually do that, then it really doesn't matter that they technically can. The obvious solution is to take away the privilege from the wealthy and make them abide the same rules as the rest of us.
by RetroTechie | 2025-04-15 01:17:02+00:00
Usually that's good advice. But not always. If it's still working, you can take preventive steps before an easy-to-fix issue causes impossible-to-fix damage.

Silicon does degrade (and fails). But in my experience, most issues fall in 2 categories:

1) "Mechanical" problems. Connector problems, loose solder joints, corrosion, cracks in pcb traces, etc.

2) Power supply issues. Electrolytic capacitors are suspect #1 there (and they may not respond well to being powered after a looong time in storage).

Rules I apply:

a) If unsure how a machine looks inside (condition, mods etc): inspect internals before powering up.

b) Check that a machine is working before modifying it in any way. If not working: minimize steps to get to a working state.

c) Do mods in small incremental steps.

That way you can always backtrack to last working state.
by strix_varius | 2025-04-15 01:18:57+00:00
Twitter generated $5bn in revenue in 2021. Since Musk bought it, it's been on a rapid decline. In 2024 it generated $2.5bn in revenue... 50% of its pre-Musk numbers (46% with inflation)!

Worse, it continues to trend downward.

Most sane tech CEOs would prefer to keep their upward trend and $5+ billion revenue rather than saving $1 billion to lose $2.5 billion and invert their slope.
by rainsford | 2025-04-15 01:19:16+00:00
One underappreciated thing about ChaCha that I think a lot of people miss is that it's not just that the operations are simple, but DJB clearly spent almost as much time approaching the design as a computer engineer as he did as a cryptographer. He obviously thought about pipelining in modern processors, available registers, cache size, implementation details that made some operations faster with specific inputs, etc. It's unlikely a generic ARX construction could achieve the same security level with the same speed without similar careful consideration of non-cryptographic factors.
by Teever | 2025-04-15 01:19:22+00:00
The moves against educational institutions, archives, and libraries are so pernicious because they reveal a radically illiberal agenda and the detrimental effects won't become apparent for years or even decades.

What's worse is that it doesn't seem like it's in the best interest of any individual institution or the interests of people running these institutions to resist, so it becomes a coordination problem between getting all the institutions to work together to oppose these actions.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-15 01:19:24+00:00
Enjoying access through Google's own interface vs. third-party attempts to scrape stuff and process it, is quite different, my friend.

Yes, I'm aware of public reviews. No, that's not what this OP is proposing.

You'd never get off the ground in the E.U. their data protection officers would chew you up and spit you out Google probably sells everything to advertising partners anyway, why not just partner with them, and pay to play, like a normal capitalist crook?
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-15 01:19:45+00:00
>You are simply defining intellectual as “whatever universities do and say

Definition of anti-intellectual

"a person who scorns intellectuals and their views and methods" from oxford

Intellectual

"of or relating to the intellect or its use", "given to study, reflection, and speculation", and ": engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect" from MW.

I didn't define anything. If I said the administration was anti-education would that be better?
by tharkun__ | 2025-04-15 01:21:34+00:00
Well back when, literally 25 years ago, when it was all ATI, there were constant driver issues with ATI. I think it's a pretty well known thing. At least was back when.

I did think that given ATI was bought out by AMD and AMD itself is fine it should be OK. AMD always was. I've had systems with AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs back when it was an actual desktop tower gaming system I was building/upgrading myself. Heck my basement server is still an AMD CPU system with zero issues whatsoever. Of course it's got zero graphics duties.

On the laptop side, for a time I'd buy something with discrete Nvidia cards when I was still gaming more actively. But then life happened, so graphics was no longer important and I do keep my systems for a long time / buy non-latest gen. So by chance I've been with Intel for a long time and gaming came up again, casually. The Intel HD graphics were of course totally inadequate for any "real" current gaming. But I found that replaying some old favs and even "newer" games I had missed out on (new as in, playing a 2013 game for the very first time in 2023 type thing) was totally fine on an Intel iGPU.

So when I was getting to newer titles, the Intel HD graphics no longer cut it but I'm still not a "gamer" again, I looked at a more recent system and thought I'd be totally fine trying an AMD system. Exactly like another poster said, "post 2015 should be fine, right?! And then there's all this recent bad news about Intel, this is the time to switch!".

Still iGPU. I'm not going to shell out thousands of dollars here.

And then I get the system and I get into Windows and ... everything just looks way too bright, washed out, hard to look at. I doctored around, installed the latest AMD Adrenalin driver, played around with brightness, contract, HDR, color balance, tried to disable the Vari-Brightness I read was supposed to be the culprit etc. It does get worse once you get into a game. Like you're in Windows and it's bearable. Then you start a game and you might Alt-Tab back to do something and everything is just awfully weirdly bright and it doesn't go away when you shut down the game either.

I stuck with it and kept doctoring for over 6 months now.

I've had enough. I bought a new laptop, two generations behind with an Intel Iris Xe for the same amount of money as the ATI system. I open Windows and ... everything is entirely totally 150% fine, no need to adjust anything. It's comfortable, colors are fine, brightness and contrast are fine. And the performance is entirely adequately the same as with the AMD system. Again, still iGPU and that's fine and expected. It's the quality I'm concerned with, not the performance I'm paying for. I expect to be able to get proper quality software and hardware even if I pay for less performance than gamer kid me back when was willing to.
by int_19h | 2025-04-15 01:21:58+00:00
I had a similar experience with Facebook, although my email was much more aggressive (this was when their recruiter contacted me right after I got tripped by one of their UX dark patterns in a way that translated to real world harm). I kept getting invites until I put a clear statement expressing my desire to never ever work for Facebook into my LinkedIn profile

FWIW I think it's because recruiters at most companies are effectively contractors and don't have access to all history of communications.
by starchild3001 | 2025-04-15 01:22:16+00:00
I feel there's some "benchmark-hacking" is going on with GPT4.1 model as its metrics on livebench.com aren't all that exciting.

- It's basically GPT4o level on average.

- More optimized for coding, but slightly inferior in other areas.

It seems to be a better model than 4o for coding tasks, but I'm not sure if it will replace the current leaders -- Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3-mini / o1, Claude 3.7/3.5.
by greatgib | 2025-04-15 01:23:26+00:00
It's crazy to me how the US are shooting themselves in the feet with Trump. In a scorched earth policy. You might agree or not with the way top universities are run, but withdrawing their funding will just result in killing your own world renowned education centers. So in the end you will just have uneducated morons, with the state of mind of Elon Musk, and we will reach the state of Idiocracy faster than anticipated!
by signatoremo | 2025-04-15 01:23:28+00:00
Terrible analogy. This is not sponsoring but research. Google didn’t just give money in exchange for publicity. Google has traditionally invested in fundamental research that isn't commercially potential, at least in the short term.

If a tobacco company invested in lung cancer research that resulted in some treatment breakthroughs, that research should be celebrated, while their main business should continue to be condemned.
by thwarted | 2025-04-15 01:23:32+00:00
inetd supported "socket activation" using the "wait" directive, where inetd would listen on the socket and then hand off the listening socket when there was activity as fd 0 where the server would need to call accept, and could continue to call accept for new connections, or exit when all clients were handled, and inetd would respawn when there was new pending connection on the listening socket.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-04-15 01:24:34+00:00
It's actually far worse for smaller sites and organizations than large ones. Entire pricey platforms exist around managing certificates and renewals, and large companies can afford those or develop their own automated solutions.

None of the platforms which I deal with will likely magically support automated renewal in the next year. I will likely spend most of the next year reducing our exposure to PKI.

Smaller organizations dependent on off the shelf software will be killed by this. They'll probably be forced to move things to the waiting arms of the Big Tech cloud providers that voted for this. (Shocker.) And it probably won't help stop the bleeding.

And again, there's no real world security benefit. Nobody in the CA/B has ever discussed real world examples of threats this solves. Just increasingly niche theoretical ones. In a zero cost situation, improving theoretical security is good, but in a situation like this where the cost is real fragility to the Internet ecosystem, decisions like this need to be justified.

Unfortunately the CA/B is essentially unchecked power, no individual corporate member is going to fire their representatives for this, much less is there a way to remove everyone that made this incredibly harmful decision.

This is a group of people who have hammers and think everything is a nail, and unfortunately, that includes a lot of ceramic and glass.
by bloppe | 2025-04-15 01:25:33+00:00
We're talking about 2 different things. I agree that probability is objective as long as you've already decided on the definition of the macrostate, but that definition is subjective.

From an LLM's perspective, the macrostate is all the tokens in the context window and nothing more. A different observer may be able to take into account other information, such as the identity and mental state of the author, giving rise to a different distribution. Both of these models can be objectively valid even though they're different, because they rely on different definitions of the macrostate.

It can be hard to wrap your head around this, but try taking it to the extreme. Let's say there's an omniscient being that knows absolutely everything there is to know about every single atom within a system. To that observer, probability does not exist, because every macrostate represents a single microstate. In order for something to be repeated (which is core to the definition of probability), it must start from the exact same microstate, and thus always have the same outcome.

You might think that true randomness exists at the quantum level and that means true omniscience is impossible (and thus irrelevant), but that's not provable and, even if it were true, would not invalidate the general point that probabilities are determined by macrostate definition.
by tinco | 2025-04-15 01:26:36+00:00
Intel bought a drone company that was producing the only drone that was good enough for my real estate inspection company to use. They acquired it and then killed it a year or two after. The inspection industry didn't have a proper drone for years after that until DJI started getting serious about it and produced the M30E.

It was just senseless, Intel doesn't have real or imagined competition from a drone company, it wasn't even close to being in the same market. They just believed the hype about drones being the next big thing and when they found out they were too early they decided they didn't have the patience to wait for drones to become a thing and they killed it. There was no long term vision behind it.
by nebula8804 | 2025-04-15 01:26:50+00:00
Here you go: enjoy your $120 American jeans: https://originusa.com/collections/jeans (Oh look its on sale 20$ off...yay :/ )

The sale discount is the entire amount I was able to buy my non American jeans for. :/

I guess I can make due with one pair for the week...or wash them each day(oh wait thats gotten more expensive as well).
by nucleardog | 2025-04-15 01:27:55+00:00
We're not talking starting up a hosting company but renting idle capacity. I'm already paying for the hardware, maintenance, electricity, and connectivity.

The only real marginal cost to renting some of my idle capacity would be additional power use. Versus current draw, the power supply running maxed out 24/7 would increase my power bill by $36/mo.

If we use the $4.59/mo VPS as a point of comparison, just one of the servers heating up my utility room has 24x the CPU cores ($110/mo), 96x the RAM ($440/mo) and 1024x the storage ($4,700/mo).

I would never in a million years actually do so, but I'm relatively certain I could turn several dozen CPU cores, hundreds of GB of RAM, and terabytes of disk space into more than $72/mo (assuming only getting 50% of the revenue) _somehow_.
by ranger_danger | 2025-04-15 01:29:09+00:00
> My issue with your phrasing is the assertion that El Salvador is somehow a 1-year relationship or detention.

Nobody is going to hold prisoners from another country indefinitely for free.

Where there's money, there's some kind of agreement. Even if it's completely unspoken and unwritten (which I doubt either way).

If the money stops, so would their acceptance of droves of new deportees.

Not to mention that $6M for 300 people indefinitely is nowhere near enough... but for 1 year it certainly makes a lot more sense, I think that comes out to $20k/yr per person, which is cheaper than what it costs the US to do the same.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-15 01:29:37+00:00
This isn't specific to microservices. I've seen two organizations with a lot of content have their website brought to its knees because multiple AI crawlers were hitting it.

One of them was pretending to be a very specific version of Microsoft Edge, coming from an Alibaba datacenter. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. Blocked its IP range and about ten minutes later a different subnet was hammering away again. I ended up just blocking based off the first two octets; the client didn't care, none of their visitors are from China.

All of this was sailing right through Cloudflare.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-04-15 01:29:41+00:00
I wonder if there is some megacorp regression to the mean going on here. Google holds itself up as somehow special, and I think that it's right to be cynical about that today. I also think there was a golden age of sorts, back when real-world distributed systems were much more fringe, and Google was a legitimate trailblazer. Then, the spreadsheet number crunchers come in, and the elves leave Middle Earth[1].

[1]: In reference to this famous essay: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
by TrevorAustin | 2025-04-15 01:29:59+00:00
I don’t care at all. For what it’s worth, yes, Harvard and other elite universities should be more welcoming to conservatives. But turning to the federal government to enforce “viewpoint diversity” is just an obviously bad idea.

I don’t want the government deciding what viewpoints need representation. And again, if you think about beyond the immediate case you may have a personal emotional investment in, I don’t think you do either.

I don’t want a future administration trying to enforce “viewpoint diversity” on oil and gas companies, investment banks, or rural family farms either, regardless of what federal contracts or subsidies they have. Exxon, Goldman Sachs, or an Iowa hog farm would be insane to submit to that.

Also, a mask ban enforced by suspension is just plain stupid. That’s not even viewpoint diversity, it’s just partisan chum, and it gives away the game on whether this exercise is in good faith.
by bradac56 | 2025-04-15 01:30:22+00:00
Xi's "hand" is a pair of deuces.

His has an ageing non-consumerism population that won't buy and no other country that can buy the $500 billion in exports to the USA that he is holding up in tariffs.

He's better off dropping all of his tariffs and play fair until he can build a economy that isn't 80% reliant on the one country he's trying to dick over.

I'd really like to see China do well I just don't need it to be at my children's expense.
by iLemming | 2025-04-15 01:30:36+00:00
> I’ve consistently failed to make writing elisp net positive for me for basically anything.

That's sad to hear, because I somehow have the exact opposite experience. First, it was about fixing things in my config. Then I often would catch myself in a "why can't I do this better" state. And it could be anything. Like one day I was copying the current URL in the browser, and then switched again to copy the description. Next day I caught myself doing that again. And I realized - "shit, I never thought before how often I have to do this crap". Then I wrote a helper.

These days, I don't even blink, if I need something, I'll just start whipping up some shitty Elisp in my scratch buffer. And with help of LLM packages like gptel - it's a breeze. What's awesome is that I can play with that code even without having to save that shit anywhere. Sometimes, I realize the solution is not as easy to make as I initially thought, so I'd just leave it there in my scratch buffer. It sits there, sometimes marinating for weeks - I have a persistent scratch buffer. I even get excited when I stumble on a problem I want to optimize.

Few weeks ago I was in a pair-programming Zoom, and my colleague, let's call them Matthew, was screen sharing. I couldn't help distracting Matt asking questions like, what is that? Can you share this link? Wait a minute, don't scroll away, I need to write that down. etc.

After that I thought of solving that dilemma. I sat down and wrote a helper that calls tesseract to OCR text from an image in clipboard. Took me no more than 20 minutes. https://github.com/agzam/.doom.d/blob/main/modules/custom/wr...
by jonchurch_ | 2025-04-15 01:32:15+00:00
Not to imply OP doesnt know this, but hoping someone gets to be one of the lucky 10k today.

Tolkien himself didnt “write” the Silmarillion the way people might assume. He spent decades writing and iterating on mythology, world building, creating languages. He had multiple versions of many stories and ideas, many drafts in various states, but he never pulled it all together into a single book or officially canon narrative.

After his death his son Christopher took on that monumental task, with great care and understanding of his father’s work. Combing through who knows how many mountains of notes, unfinished stories, and contradictions to create what we know as the Silmarillion. Tolkien himself often said of things in the LOTR canon “I don’t know” or something loke “I havent translated/uncovered that yet”. He looked at it all as if he was a literary archaeologist, translating passed down texts. So with that came lots of uncertainty and hearsay. The fact that his son tackled that, maintained that mystique, and created the Silmarillion is really exciting and lucky in my opinion. Good kid, I guess!