MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by waste_monk | 2025-04-07 04:50:26+00:00
I am assuming they're referring to TinyWall's "allowlist this process" or time-based rule capabilities. Windows Defender firewall can allowlist applications, but you have to feed it a path to the executable image.

Such things have been around for ages - I remember getting a free license somehow for a host-based IDS back in the Windows Vista times (struggled to look it up but I believe it was SAX2 by Ax3soft). It had some interesting features but running on an underpowered laptop the overhead cost more frustration than it was worth.
by mmooss | 2025-04-07 04:50:36+00:00
> The largest fraction, totaling about $300b itself, is military retirement programs and funding. The other largest fraction is internal spending on healthcare for active duty members and their families.

Imagine the benefits to defense if the US reduced health care costs from the 2x-3x it spends relative to peers. I've thought that would be an appealing way to sell healthcare reform to Republicans.
by benatkin | 2025-04-07 04:51:26+00:00
I was surprised how hard it is. I found myself clicking words that obviously contained another letter. BTW I made something related to anagrams more than a decade ago. If you want to see an animation of one word into another you can put it into an URL. Here's one that I ran into in this game: https://anigram.herokuapp.com/etlas/least
by triceratops | 2025-04-07 04:51:33+00:00
But now everyone has the same problem getting dollars because everyone's got tariffs. The EU and their non-American suppliers. If said suppliers need dollars to pay back dollar-based debts, and those debtors aren't in the US, then they are also tariffed. Maybe they're all open to re-denominating debts and contracts in a currency that is easier to obtain and spend.
by brazzy | 2025-04-07 04:51:55+00:00
I think you're missing the author's point, which is made in the last three paragraphs.

The point is exactly that these diametrically opposed ideologies do not actually exist, but that ideologues often paint their opponents that way.

A typical example is seen among the more extreme pro-choice activists. They frequently make claims like "It's not about protecting babies, they [pro-life people] just want to control women's bodies".
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-04-07 04:52:00+00:00
Morals? Ethics?

It's illegal. Any judiciary statement is ignored and unenforced. Trump will blanket pardon anyone anytime he wants to do so. Besides violating centuries of precedent and well-established policy from the age of the spoils system.

The only small solace is watching the conservatives get owned by Trump's tariffs. I'm sure they'll make the best of it (fundamentally it is a consumption tax and highly regressive and probably is just regulatory moat once exemptions are bribed out of Trump).
by Gathering6678 | 2025-04-07 04:52:05+00:00
There is a reply to the original Chinese post (whose link is in the reddit post):

(translated by Google)

"In the past two days, I have humbly listened to feedback from all parties (for example, defects in coding, creative writing, etc. must be improved). I hope that there will be improvements in the next version.

However, we have never overfit the test set just to fake the benchmarks. My real name is Licheng Yu, and I have handled the posttraining of two OSS models. Please let me know which prompt was selected from the test set and put into the training set, and I will apologize!"
by zenapollo | 2025-04-07 04:52:25+00:00
One of the big claims is that perhaps the Biden administration had a policy of issuing ssn’s to illegal immigrants. I’m not agreeing or endorsing but this is one of the issues their looking into. If Elon were trustable as an honest broker, this would be compelling to investigate.

https://youtu.be/SrOAY3oQ4oc?si=5O0oinGKAuIju6FJ
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 04:52:48+00:00
> my first thought is "my favorite store is having a sale."

This gets repeated a lot, but unless you already had most of your portfolio in cash it’s not actually a net win to see a drawdown like this.

The course of the global economy was just altered. The best case scenario would be if the proposed tariffs go away completely, but even then the markets will be cautious for the next 4 years at minimum.

The market is down because the future prospects for those businesses just got much worse. Yeah you can buy them at a cheaper price, but their corresponding future output remains down as well.

It’s like seeing a thing you wanted to buy go on sale, but upon closer inspection it’s on sale because it became damaged and you’re buying damaged goods.

The best case scenario is that the administration pulls the “just kidding” card, reverses course, and claims some sort of victory while returning to the previous status quo. If that happens, stocks were briefly on sale even though they’re not rebounding back right away. However, if the administration digs their heels in and tries to push forward then the market is going to continue downward.

This isn’t a normal drawdown. This is a crisis with the leadership of the United States.
by zk4x | 2025-04-07 04:52:52+00:00
This is very nice article, objectively lists possible pitfalls. It's however not quite that simple. I am in favor of removing as, but then try_from needs to work with more types, for example try converting u64 into f32 without using as. It turns out to be very hard. TryInto does not work in single step.

Important aspect is performance. HPC code needs to be able to opt out of math checks.

Also Results and Options are very costly, as they introduce lot of branching. Panic is just faster. Hopefully one day rust will use something like IEX by default https://docs.rs/iex/latest/iex/ It has the same benefits as Results, but if error is returned in less than 15% of function calls, then IEX is much faster.

Btw. allocation failure in std returning Result anytime soon?
by wateringcan | 2025-04-07 04:53:52+00:00
According to the assembly rules (if I am understanding them correctly), amendments like that are considered out of order and can be shot down with a majority vote:

"92. An amendment to any bill, other than a bill stating legislative intent to make necessary statutory changes to implement the Budget Bill, whether reported by a committee or offered by a Member, is not in order when the amendment relates to a different subject than, is intended to accomplish a different purpose than, or requires a title essentially different than, the original bill."

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/rules/assembly_rules.pdf

That being said, it seems that typically nobody in the legislature ever cares to challenge it. I saw it happen for another bill this session too (an AI bill that became something about commercial fishing).
by mmooss | 2025-04-07 04:53:54+00:00
> We’re literally torching two billion dollars a day on the military when we’re not at war and not under threat.

Would you just start spending when the war starts? Then you'll get a war much sooner (the enemy will see your weakness) but you'll save money (the war will end quickly).

> not under threat

China, most of all? Russia? Iran?
by yonran | 2025-04-07 04:54:23+00:00
I ran into this issue too since I implemented an --rsh wrapper script (based on https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/13776) and the options passed to ssh are different (samba rsync passes in -l user host command, openrsync passes in user@host command).

> openrsync accepts only a subset of rsync’s command line arguments.

I have not upgraded to MacOS Sequoia yet so I cannot verify but from the source (https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/rsync/blob/rsync-...) it appears that there is a wrapper and they ship both samba rsync and openrsync and fall back to samba if you use an unsupported option?
by goku12 | 2025-04-07 04:56:20+00:00
It's not that either, and you are validating the GP's point. Rust has a very specific 'unsafe' keyword that every Rust developer interpret implicitly and instinctively as 'potentially memory-unsafe'. Consequently, 'safe' is interpreted as the opposite - 'guaranteed memory-safe'. Using that word as an abbreviation among Rust developers is therefore not uncommon.

However while speaking about Rust language in general, all half-decent Rust developers specify that it's about memory safety. Even the Rust language homepage has only two instances of the word - 'memory-safety' and 'thread-safety'. The accusations of sleaziness and false accusations is disingenuous at best.
by Woodi | 2025-04-07 04:57:32+00:00
email is dead, even gov's use chat clients with emoticons ;)

That email is your internet id and majority countries digital id too ? Who cares, things usually need to be so broken that even elected officials families report problems :) Then we can have some "plans" announced. EU is especially good at this - announcing (and pushing for more centralization no matter what is happening) and not fixing anything, eg. sane CPU's, when ? Rhetoric question because not in this decade...
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 04:57:36+00:00
The closest modern analogy might be Liz Truss’ short tenure in the U.K. Her actions paled in comparison to this absurd tariff situation but the only way to resolve it and restore confidence was for her to resign.

The problem in the US is that the tariff situations is bonkers insane, was clearly not thought out at all, and the person controlling the strings is talking about ways to run for a 3rd term instead of considering resignation.

This is a political crisis. The best we can hope for is that the Senate pushes forward with attempts to reign in the president’s tariff powers and the House actually goes along, which is unlikely right now.

I think we’re going to start seeing Republicans test the waters with breaking rank with Trump soon though.
by zanecodes | 2025-04-07 04:58:31+00:00
I would love a feature like retention policies at the filesystem level. If it could somehow take data provenance into account, that would be even better, i.e. data that I've created directly is irreplaceable and should never be deleted unless I say so and should always be backed up (photographs, writing, project source code, art, game save files, my list of installed applications, etc.); data that I've created indirectly is high priority but may be deleted under certain circumstances or may be omitted from backups (browsing history, shell history, recently opened file lists, frequently used app lists); data that can be easily replaced is low priority and may be cleaned up at any time and need not be backed up at all, contingent on how replaceable it is (application files, cached data).
by faust201 | 2025-04-07 04:59:20+00:00
> Especially deleting old emails and photos.

Google or apple can put a big button delete everything in their phones/accounts but then some prankster will do it to a family member and this gives bad PR. Let's be pragmatic.

> It's in their interest to retain everything at all costs, because more used storage can mean more profits.

As an user, I get the reverse. When I had local NAS then I dumped anything and everything - assuming.. this costs not much. Will clean up later. Once I moved to cloud that changed to If I put crap then it will cost me money! Keep it clean

Once upon a time Google had given generous unlimited to all education and workspace. They stopped it in the last 2 years and you can see most educational and companies are running a tight ship.

Due to backup costs in our organisation we are forcing people to use max of 100GB for emails.

> advanced filesystems don't include "expiration dates" or "purge dates" on file objects. Wouldn't it be logical, if an organization

Totally agree.

Outlook email service has some kind of keep only the last newsletter from this service etc.

> auto-delete could be configurable account-wide, for more than just our web histories

- features are designed with majority in mind - most users have some sort of nostalgia for reading or keeping old emails SMS etc
by jmyeet | 2025-04-07 04:59:36+00:00
Cruely and revenge upon one's perceived ideological foes are the core organizing principles of this administration. This is a purge, similar to that of Jews of the Germany in the 1930s. The NIH in particular and civil servants in general are just one facet of this. The purge of academic ranks is another (eg [1]).

What makes this possible is hyper-individualism, decades (if not centuries) of attack on any sort of collectivism and the fomented division of ordinary people based on race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender or religion. I'm reminded of this LBJ quote:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

It echoes fears of the former slave-owning class in Reconstruction that poor white people would unify with freed slaves.

It's wild to me that we're reliving Nazi Germany less than a century later while victims of the Nazi regime, direct first-hand witnesses, are still alive.

[1]: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/29/harvard-cmes-di...
by motorest | 2025-04-07 04:59:53+00:00
> I was surprised because Cloudflare’s central messaging is that their network is fast, and disappointed becuase I’m a happy user of their other products (domains, DNS, pages, and R2).

I've glanced through D1's docs and I immediately noticed system traits like:

- database stored in a single primary region where all writes need to go,

- cold starts involve opening a connection to D1,

- cache misses in local replicas involve fetching data back from the primary region,

- D1 is built upon sqlite, which I think doesn't support write concurrency well.

- D1 doesn't actively cache results from the primary region to the edge, so you'll have cache misses pretty frequently.

Etc.

These traits don't scream performance.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-07 05:00:06+00:00
Maybe if we imported Chinese engineers and factory tech (along with German engineers and tech), we could do this quickly. But we would also have to prioritize a huge outlay in building factories infrastructure, and when done…we still wouldn’t have enough poorly educated women to staff these factories (who typically staff these factories in Asia, so maybe we import lots of Chinese robots as well?).
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 05:00:08+00:00
The “reciprocal” tariffs are nothing close to reciprocal. I hope you know by now that the numbers Trump presented were not actual tariff numbers that other countries put on us.

The trust issue is domestic, too. Businesses just got slapped with the largest tax increase in history at home. Pointing fingers at other countries is a distraction. It’s ridiculous to think that this will encourage companies to start building factories here when even the raw materials are now heavily taxed on their way in to the country. Any sane company is going to pause US factory investment until there is some clarity and predictability.
by hnfong | 2025-04-07 05:00:35+00:00
The rest of the world has moved on and no longer using GPLv3.

In the early 2000s all the miscellaneous small projects on sourceforge used GPLv2 (v3 was not out yet).

These days you'll be hard pressed to find any new projects using GPLv3, except the ones with close ties to the GNU or FSF.

The GPL is getting more irrelevant and more easy to avoid. That's why nobody is afraid of GPLv3 any more.
by grey-area | 2025-04-07 05:00:36+00:00
Yes it did, but the irrational exuberance was ongoing till this trigger.

Now we get to see if Bitcoin’s use value of 0 is really supporting 1.5 trillion market cap and if OpenAI is really worth $300 billion.

I mean softbank just invested in openai, and they’ve never been wrong, right?
by henearkr | 2025-04-07 05:00:49+00:00
I am happy that this kind of tracking project exists.

The current tariffs policy of Trump's regime could even be a market manipulation for their personal enrichnent: send the stock markets crashing with a very dumb financial decision, buy a lot of stocks when they are low, and right after cancel the dumb decision, and then profit.

They have nuked the SEC for a reason, haven't they?
by poobear22 | 2025-04-07 05:01:26+00:00
Kona Coffee! Hawaii. We bought some once, it was about $48 a pound (and a very long time ago). We all huddled around it and evaluated the taste, and honestly, we could not tell that it was that much better from Navy coffee. I guess it will be $96 a pound soon! We will become a nation of Tea drinkers.... oh wait!
by kortilla | 2025-04-07 05:01:27+00:00
>This isn’t a normal drawdown. This is a crisis with the leadership of the United States.

The same thing happened just 4 short years ago when covid hit. Mass panic and then intervention kicked in. The intervention could have been taken away at any time but the market went extremely risk-on anyway and you would have gotten left behind if you sold out.

>but even then the markets will be cautious for the next 4 years at minimum.

You are overestimating the cautiousness of the market. Unless there are better returns offered in some other investment, the capital is going to pile back in if something like tariff deals start getting announced.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-07 05:02:12+00:00
I read Buffett's proposed solution. It's clever - it must be about as close as you can get to a market based solution. But as you say, it won't be implemented, if for no other reason that Trump wouldn't trust a solution he doesn't control and doesn't directly benefit from.

His introduction to his solution reads more like a prophecy. Other countries, including have also taken the trade deficit path. Mine is nowhere far as down that path as the USA, but still it makes me nervous. I saw no way out - until Trump. It looks very likely Trump will make Buffett's prophecy come true. The fallout should make all sorts of thinks possible - including solving the trade deficit issue.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-04-07 05:02:12+00:00
Cartography is strongly opinionated. The dirty secret, which I don’t think most people realize, is that there is no correct, reproducible source upon which to base the creation of a map. Every frame of reference is known to be wrong in material ways, so maps are a bit of a polite fiction that work well if you don’t look at them too closely. Maps are more suggestions than truth even in the best of cases.

Maps are still useful but as the old saying goes, maps are not the territory. Physics puts a practical bound on how closely a map can represent the territory that in modern contexts turns out to be important.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 05:02:36+00:00
This is different. It was entirely avoidable. Entirely predictable. Entirely preventable.

Hell, it’s mostly reversible if the administration would own their mistake. But they won’t.

That’s the problem: This is not a natural disaster or even a reaction to a market-created crash. It was orchestrated by the people who were supposed to be doing the opposite.

I don’t believe claims that the United States is doomed or other hyperbole. I do believe that this is firmly different than anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes though.
by greenmartian | 2025-04-07 05:04:37+00:00
Weird thing is, in Google AI Studio all their models—from the state-of-the-art Gemini 2.5Pro, to the lightweight Gemma 2—gave a roughly correct answer. Most even recognised the packing efficiency of spheres.

But Google search gave me the exact same slop you mentioned. So whatever Search is using, they must be using their crappiest, cheapest model. It's nowhere near state of the art.
by zzo38computer | 2025-04-07 05:04:51+00:00
I also believe that billboards should be banned, inside and outside of a city. In addition to being excessive advertising which should be avoided, they also usually take up space (that could better be for trees, paths, etc).

Someone has also suggested taxing them. Maybe in some cases, they can be taxed instead of banned, although in some cases probably should just be banned.

Advertising signs might be permitted in some places inside of buildings (especially if they are advertising items being sold there (e.g. foods at a restaurant)), although even then it is probably best not to use too brightly lighted computer/television displays (which waste too much power and also produce too might light; in many cases, e-paper displays would be useful for commercial displays (not only advertising, but also e.g. business hours, which rarely change but sometimes do often enough (e.g. holidays) that it can help to occasionally change the display) that do not need to change very often), and they should also avoid being dishonest advertising.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 05:06:29+00:00
> "The market" has no idea what the impact of the proposed changes are. Setting aside the obvious questions about whether or not this stuff will even happen, it's just not possible for something this complex to be evaluated so quickly.

This is just false. Countless people were busy running scenarios based on the expected range of tariffs. It wasn’t a surprise that tariffs were coming. It was a shock that they were so insanely high and that the people putting them forward were so clueless about it.

> [1] Just for example: what does it even mean for an "X% tarrif on all products from country Y" to be imposed? The Harmonized Tariff Schedule is hundreds of thousands of line items, each with a different rate. Are they all being replaced with a single number? Is that line item number being multiplied by a factor? Something else? I guarantee that almost nobody knows the answer to that question right now. I'm not even sure an answer exists.

You’re projecting your own lack of understanding on to everybody else. The changes have been out already and any company that does business has already read through the documents.

Just because you don’t know or understand doesn’t mean that nobody does.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-07 05:06:57+00:00
They were not-for-profit until the potential for large-scale profit emerged, at which point they decided to become for-profit. It's taking the whole 'socialize costs, privatize profits' to an entirely new level.

The exact legalese preventing or enabling this is unclear to me, but if it became a norm then basically every for-profit startup would likely start out as a not-for-profit taking advantage of all that offers and then segueing to for-profit when big investment/sales opportunities emerge, and at this point we're making a mockery of everything these classifications are supposed to stand for.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-07 05:07:35+00:00
America is dreaming of moving back into manufacturing rather than doing R&D, creating IP, and reaping most of the value of things created in other places. China, on the other hand, is moving in the opposite direction: they are much more interested in doing what America was doing and are less interested in manufacturing things (they are willing to send that to poorer countries in Asia). In a decade or two, America and china’s roles in the world are going to be completely swapped.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 05:07:51+00:00
Burning it all down to go back to making shoes and socks domestically is pure economic illiteracy.

Literally any introductory Econ book would explain why this is nonsense. It’s depressing that this mindset is resonating with so many people who think it’s better to put massive taxes on basic necessities (tariffs are taxes) and destroy the economy.
by BlanketLogic | 2025-04-07 05:08:21+00:00
Not the OP but

USAMO : USA Math Olympiad. Referred here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934v1

IMO : International Math Olympiad

SOTA : State of the Art

OP is probably referring to this referred to this paper here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934v1. The paper explains out how a rigorous testing revealed abysmal performance of LLMs (results that are at odds with how they are hyped about).