MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lammy | 2025-04-30 20:03:12+00:00
This is because they removed any app from any individual-human developer who didn't care to jump through the hoops of getting and submitting a DUNS number: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/07/boosting-t...

“On August 31, we’ll start rolling out these requirements for anyone creating new Play Console developer accounts. In October, we’ll share more information with existing developers about how to update and verify existing accounts.”

Source: happened to me and all of my apps despite them being Free Software and offline-only. Here's one of the emails they sent me about it: https://i.imgur.com/dVzQj2p.jpeg

Notice how they open with “Hi Developers at [my first and last name]” – developers, plural, and “at” like they only expect me to be a company and not a single person.
by phillryu | 2025-04-30 20:03:21+00:00
Ah ok yeah I see where you're coming from there. It's kind of like the question of did Steve Jobs need to be an asshole to be as successful as he was. And it can be tempting to think that they are intrinsically linked, but I also like to believe there is a world where he grew more on the empathy side but was still able to lead Apple perhaps even better.
by CobaltFire | 2025-04-30 20:03:44+00:00
I’ve been using a Bigme B251 [0] (likely the exact same panel) for about 9 months now. I recommend Amazon simply due to return policy; these can come with bad panels. They don’t notably fail early if the panel is fine when you get it.

Refresh is slow, colors are low saturation, and there is ghosting.

It’s also an absolute JOY to use for anything text related once you get past those differences.

For those on MacOS stillcolor [1] is an absolute MUST.

I’m open to any questions!

0: https://www.amazon.com/-/he/B251PC/dp/B0CYYWZ9M9

1: https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor
by mrweasel | 2025-04-30 20:04:07+00:00
You do you think ordered the junk? Do you think all the junk is Chinese, because that's all they know how to make, or because the US business who ordered it wanted it to be as cheap as possible?

I don't as such disagree with you that the junk needs to go, but there's also a big difference between a $2000 Lenovo laptop, made in China, and a $0.50 gadget, sold for $10, also made in China. You'd need to disincentivize companies from sell these products to consumers, then the flow of Chinese junk will stop.
by krowek | 2025-04-30 20:04:30+00:00
I've just uninstalled the app and deleted the account (sadly, I have some relatives still stuck on a yearly subscription) after having used Duolingo for years (almost 2000 days streak) and finished multiple languages (English, German, Polish, Esperanto).

Duolingo was quite an innovative platform years ago, it really led me to keep learning, but now all that's gone. I managed to save every single sentence in the last language I was learning, which I can now import into Anki, so the ad bloat won't be a problem anymore.

They can push their greediness far and beyond, until the extent they find suitable, I won't be part of that.
by Jarwain | 2025-04-30 20:04:55+00:00
These are probably the headlines they're thinking about,

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/747853.shtml

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-28599392

Or more recently this one about character amnesia

https://globalchinapulse.net/character-amnesia-in-china/

None of these really mean that English has won, though. Rather that phonetics-based writing systems are easier to remember and use, especially in conjunction with digital systems that make it easy to map sound and context to symbols.

I wouldn't be surprised if characters are faster to read though. In English we have all these subconscious shortcuts like looking at the shape of the word, first and last letters, etc. But I think symbology can convey more at a glance. Thus the popularity of emoji
by mmooss | 2025-04-30 20:04:56+00:00
> the political reality that we live in

Reality is something that exists regardless of what you think. Politics is what you make it; you don't 'live in it'; it's yours.

> Whichever party is currently in power, will inevitably use that power to promote ideas that are favorable to them and to dissuade ideas that they are opposed to.

No prior president of either party has done anything like what Trump does, and you know it. Do you think nobody will notice if you make some rhetorical argument?
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-30 20:05:47+00:00
> Nah, the problem is EU will face the same problems the US is facing

The US problems are problems of their own making.

EU has only trade rivalries with China, not ideological issues like the US has. Those can be ironed out. And honestly the US administration also has an ideological hatred for Europe, as illustrated by the vice presidents own words. Not really conducive to any sort of deals.

As for China dumping cheap things here, as you said, EU is very protectionist (China is as well), and EU consumers have a lot less appetite for consumption than the US. I really think that is less a problem than you believe.

> Trump no doubt damaged ties, and again I think the Biden administration's approach was superior in many ways, but there's a limit to what agreements the EU will make with China.

I think you really downplay the kind of generational damage the US is doing to the relationship with former allies.

> The manufacturing capacity that the Chinese have built isn't sustainable without a substantial increase in Chinese domestic consumption.

You forget that China is only in a trade war against the US. The US is in a trade war with everyone else.
by patrick4urcloud | 2025-04-30 20:05:57+00:00
we provide yaml predefined rules based on CIS benchmark. We will try to upgrade public rules offer to upgrade the security of your cloud environment. maybe this is too much marketing to explain we can check all settings we want in all cloud providers. All the parameters of cloud providers are json like so you can check it different operators and mix them. again we'll be available on slack to discuss further.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-30 20:05:57+00:00
That's not really how markup works.

Let's say 1 pay x for a product. Gross markup is say 100%. Do I sell it for 2x. Let's say there's a tariff cost of y. That means the cost price is x + y. I mark that up to 2x + 2y. It's easy to up the price by 2y and disclose the tariff as "z%".

But this of course presumes all your expenses remain flat. And they likely don't. As your expenses go up (2nd order effects) that 100% markup starts to not be enough. So the markup goes up a bit.

Plus since things are going up anyway, and since there's uncertainty (which has a cost) we need to bump the price up even more (because hey, free market.)

And when the tariffs go away, we can remove the primary cost, but all the secondary hikes remain. Because that's all just extra profit, and, like, free market right?

This round of inflation is going to make covid look mild. (And as I point out to my Republican friends, just remember, you voted for this.)

The way out of this is to devalue the dollar. That would erode the real value of the outstanding debt (which is delimited in dollars.) Alas the US has worked very hard to make the dollar the world currency, so devaluing it is complex.

The US consumer (voter) is of course the big loser. At least this generation is. Folk born around 2030 may be the big winners.
by nullc | 2025-04-30 20:06:01+00:00
The modern approach is common view time transfer. Both clocks can observe signal sources such as satellites and compute their relative offsets. The signal doesn't need to be particularly accurate (though it doesn't hurt), though you do need a good model of its position and propagation. GNSS satellites are an obvious choice though there are also specialized services for CVTT.

Note that this is distinct from syncing from GPS, which is a thing people obviously do too, but CVTT can achieve much higher accuracy.

Because you're synchronizing extremely stable clocks the difference between them will primary be an offset (plus/minus a slope from relativistic effects of different altitude). Because of this you can average a large number of readings, so the only major source of error will be systematic effects in propagation/orbit/etc.

Historically, sync was obtained via traveling clocks-- e.g. you sync one atomic clock up and load it, running, in a station wagon... which is the same thing that is most often done for voltage standards today (as atomic voltage standards remain rare, compared to atomic clocks-- I think the least I've paid for one is $15 excluding the ones that were free).

But vibration isn't great for anything with a crystal oscillator in it, and the most modern atomic fountain clocks don't work if they're accelerating in any direction except the designed 'up' direction (gravity), because the little cloud of cooled atoms will fall out of the measurement channel, which makes sync by station wagon not viable.

Of course, once you talk about syncing there is always a question of what you're syncing to. UTC doesn't exist until after the fact. Laboratories measure their offsets via CVTT and UTC is calculated after the fact as past offsets to each of the contributing clocks.
by acdha | 2025-04-30 20:06:35+00:00
Our history is ugly, but that particular detail needs to address the southern realignment where the Jim Crow-era Democrats moved to the Republican Party. I think it’s less about bipartisanship and more that there’s a group of people who both switch parties and influence within parties trying to accomplish their goal of maintaining their superiority over other groups. Their loyalty is to their group, not the party.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 20:06:49+00:00
This wouldn't be the first time that it took a while for the courts to redress wrongs. Dred Scott technically stood until rendered obsolete by the Thirteenth Amendment. Brown v. Board didn't happen until the fifties. The courts didn't catch up to applying the Alien Enemies Act to japanese during WWII until after the war had ended.

This doesn't mean that we don't have constitutional rights. The whole point of an inalienable right is that it's an inherent right recognized by governance. The state can't take them away, only violate them.

As for your other points, I think you're actually keying on the wrong one; the administration's actions with Garcia are much more clearly wrong. The Wisconsin Supreme Court today temporarily suspended Judge Dugan despite the fact that four of its seven justices generally lean liberal, and are elected rather than appointed. We'll see if there's anything to the charges. If not, maybe we'll see each other at a protest, but it doesn't appear she was "following the law". As for the children, I believe that was due to a policy of keeping families together; if their parents must leave the country, they must follow or be placed in foster care.

Dismissing rule-of-law as a concept is both premature and counterproductive, in the sense that it only discourages people who could otherwise focus on using the checks and balances in place for this reason to rein in the administration.
by AustinDev | 2025-04-30 20:07:14+00:00
Not just local models but bespoke apps. The number of bespoke apps I've created shot up dramatically in the last 6 months. I use one to do my recipes/meal plan every week. I have one that goes through all my email addresses and summarizes everything daily. I just finished an intelligent planner / scheduler for my irrigation system that takes into account weather forecast and soil moisture levels. If something is annoying and there is no commercial solution or open-source solution that has the features I want I just make it now and it's fantastic.

I've had friends/family ask to use some of them; I declined. I don't want to do support / feature requests.
by epistasis | 2025-04-30 20:07:34+00:00
While this is all true, China knows all the economic levers to cause lots of pain to the US (eg selling t-bills) whereas the leadership in the US is so economically illiterate that it thinks trade deficits are theft and that tariffs are free tax money that will strengthen the US.

The US's current leadership is so economically illiterate that most of the people who backed Trump thought he was just joking about his economic policy. When the stock market finally realized that he was so stupid as to follow through on campaign promises the stock market tanked. It is currently only held up at current depressed levels because it is assumed that Trump will back away from the trade war.

Though the US economy is the strongest and healthiest on the planet by a large margin, and while typically the president of the US has minimal impact, we find ourselves in a strange situation where the president has found a way to throw all that supremacy away.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-30 20:07:37+00:00
>Unfortunately, there's no way to separate accomplices from those who don't support it, but what do you expect to be done?

First of all, there is a way. See EU sanctions. They are targeted because there was an effort put in identifying the accomplices and finding the appropriate way to sanction them precisely. Second, by even contemplating the idea of punishing the innocent by applying the principle of collective responsibility you put yourself on the same level as Russian supporters of war. They do exactly the same to justify the war.

> Denial of Ukraine's existence as a sovereign country and as a people.

This is factually not correct. Russia recognizes Ukrainian ethnicity and Ukrainian language (see e.g. the annexation paperwork) and currently accepts existence of Ukraine as a sovereign non-aligned state. That’s literally their proposal for peace.

> The destruction and stealing of cultural artifacts;

Probably war crime, but not genocide. Ukraine wasn’t particularly careful about cultural artifacts in Russia too.

> Forcibly transferring and filtering children of Ukraine to Russia;

That’s complicated. They did move Ukrainian children from the war zone into Russia. It doesn’t constitute genocide obviously (they received proper care), but may constitute crime in some cases.

> Destruction of maternity hospitals, medical facilities, power grid

War crime. Not genocide.

>These are elements of the crime of genocide[0].

You missed the most important part. The definition actually starts with intent: following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such

Russia does not have an intent to destroy Ukrainians as a nation or ethnicity. Without intent every war would be a genocide. E.g. Americans did bomb a hospital in Afghanistan and did kill civilians.

I am aware of the scale of what’s going on there. More than you think.

>700.000+ children were kidnapped by Russians

This number is off by orders of magnitude.

>The point I was making is that Sanctions are already an example of collective responsibility.

Not exactly. They target state and certain actors. Yes, that may make life of ordinary people less comfortable, but this is not the same as when they are applied to a specific person or entity without due process.
by x0x0 | 2025-04-30 20:07:37+00:00
I'm unfortunately using Teams. It's really such a comprehensive piece of shit.

I can't share photos in a channel w/ a customer. Why? No idea. There's no feedback at all. Drag and drop simply fails. Uploads won't go. I went through support and there's 5 different places in the admin to check. All of them seem fine.
by cyral | 2025-04-30 20:07:42+00:00
The DUNS number thing is such a disaster even for companies with it. We had a the account under a DUNS of a subsidiary but somehow they wanted us to upload verification docs for the main company, of course not matching exactly how they expect, and there is no way to change it without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Similar issues at Apple. Eventually they let us verify the account with "company letterhead" as if that proves anything (despite them insisting the letterhead needs to say dev@company.com instead of support@company.com, again proving nothing really)

For both Apple and Google it's one of those processes where the support doesn't even really seem to understand how it works (they probably don't know what automated emails are being sent, and what the dev side looks like). They would randomly close cases for "no response" immediately after they replied, ask us to upload something despite their being no way to upload it, tell us to ignore the "your account will be closed email" because it actually won't be (wrong again), etc.

DUNS own lookup page doesn't even let you look up by DUNS number (so we could figure out what company some ancient number was associated with). I bet it's because you have to pay for one of their "solutions" to do this.
by hapless | 2025-04-30 20:08:07+00:00
DEC indulged an enormous number of also-rans. It is from the perspective of 2025 that we remember some of the good stuff and forget all the bizarre mis-fires.

Off the top of my head:

* Two duplicate "high-end" VAX architectures (VAX 8000 vs VAX 9000), because no one wanted to choose between CMOS and ECL

* Three duplicate systems targeted at the high-end (Alpha, VAX 9000, VAX 8000)

* Two duplicate RISC+UNIX systems, because DEC was extremely late to market (MIPS 3000/5000 series vs Alpha)

* Two duplicate UNIX software packages, because DEC was really late to market (1970s ULTRIX ported to MIPS, OSF/1 on Alpha, and the never-fucking-released OSF/1 on MIPS because DEC just could not get their shit together)

* Four duplicate low end systems (MIPS, PDP-11, NVAX, Alpha were all sold simultaneously at the same price point!)

* A dozen utterly-failed microcomputer projects (Pro/3xx, Rainbow, etc)

DEC was not a particularly well-managed company. Their approach, for decades, was "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks." This worked fine right up until it didn't work at all.

It is also worth noting that Alpha, the "good" DEC initiative, was a failure. It lost a lot of money! market share never got out of the single digits.
by quaddo | 2025-04-30 20:08:18+00:00
Circa 1997 a coworker lamented that he had signed up for some email list, and attempts to unsubscribe weren’t working (more of a manual thing, IIRC). I made the suggestion to set up a cronjob to run hourly, to send an email request to be unsubscribed. It would source a text file containing the request to be unsubscribed. And with each iteration, it would duplicate the text from the file, effectively a geometric progression. The list owner responded about a week or so later, rather urgently requesting that my coworker cut it out, saying that he would remove him from the list. Apparently the list owner had been away on vacation the entire time.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 20:08:53+00:00
Well, there are some that absolutely should be done locally. Supply chain risk goes up hugely during time of war. We are very good at protecting shipping lanes but not perfect. Canada is a fine place to leave things as she shares a land border with us; Europe, for some things, is not. Industries needn't be wholly relocated, but at least some level of manufacturing for many of those key areas must remain either in America or very close to us.
by otterley | 2025-04-30 20:08:55+00:00
That’s not exactly what they held. They held that the President is immune from prosecution for official acts. Prosecutorial immunity doesn’t mean his conduct is not unlawful; it means he can’t be criminally prosecuted for it. That distinction is important because it doesn’t prevent courts from issuing injunctions. And, as stated by others, the immunity is extended only to official acts. What constitutes an official act isn’t super clear yet, but I think it’s safe to assume that golfing isn’t an official act.
by labrador | 2025-04-30 20:08:59+00:00
In OpenAI Pro ($20/mo) one can start a project with a set of files. Various chats can be had about this project topic with the files providing additional information. I've discovered the projects are isolated. They'll use memory configurable in settings but they don't use chat history outside the project. This can give ChatGPT chats in projects a different tone.

My question is this: Is this fine tuning with those project documents or RAG and what's the difference?
by scosman | 2025-04-30 20:09:13+00:00
What’s the thinking of spreadsheet first? Just making it super accessible for people who already have data?

I’m building a UI for fine tuning (and evals, and synthetic data gen) - https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kiln - and went the custom UI route. From chatting with folks - most people don’t have datasets, and need help building them.
by TylerE | 2025-04-30 20:09:30+00:00
Vastly underestimating the impact.

Think of all the Made in USA stuff that makes use of Chinese components.

Many of the machines used in factories are made in China.

A lot of tool making is outsourced there (an injection molding die that might cost $50,000 to make in the US might be $10k in China, and the Chinese typically make them with a quicker turnaround time, even with shipping.
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 20:10:25+00:00
We need jobs for everyone for various reasons. However we do not need factory jobs for everyone. The manufacture more with less people means those other people can move on to other jobs. They can start another factory to make goods.

There are plenty of jobs. Every person who isn't manufacturing is a person who can do something else. A modern car uses a lot more engineers. While we don't need many spa mangers, it is nice that spas exist and so some of those spa managers are needed.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-30 20:10:27+00:00
I haven't tried the specific flow for private individuals (seems to just be a radio button), but I do recall getting DUNS numbers as just filling in an online form with name and location and getting the number by mail, without any hoops for fees.

A bit silly to require for private individuals, and a bit annoying to have to go back and do, but not itself a big deal.
by lukan | 2025-04-30 20:10:34+00:00
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_in...

'According to Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike's senior veep in the counter adversary division, North Korean infiltrators are bagging roles worldwide throughout the year. Thousands are said to have infiltrated the Fortune 500.

They're masking IPs, exporting laptop farms to America so they can connect into those machines and appear to be working from the USA, and they are using AI – but there's a question during job interviews that never fails to catch them out and forces them to drop out of the recruitment process.

"My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly, because it's not worth it to say something negative about that"'