MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalman | 2025-04-11 09:40:20+00:00
what would realy realy stir the pot, would be a complete public reveal of ALL of the government contracts......you know....the trillions of dollars going out theft, corruption and waste (TCW), are quite litteraly out of control....or if you prefer institutionalised...and fixing it is going to be brutal....it's a problem world wide.... and reducing the whole thing to a character assisination of one, and only one Elon, is absolute proof of how easy it is to keep the whole scambolic monstrosity going
by Timshel | 2025-04-11 09:40:21+00:00
https://mastodon.social/about does not appear to block mas.to.

As mentioned in the article it's just that if nobody is interested in your posts then they won't propagate.

> Crucially, the posts did not exist even if I visited the profile page of the account: even after weeks of daily posts

This means he did not even follow his own bot account, otherwise the posts would be visible ...
by johnisgood | 2025-04-11 09:40:44+00:00
Others have already mentioned why it is grounded in reality. Call your ISP, Indian picks up. You are being scammed? Probably an Indian. It is not racist, I have nothing against Indians in particular, but the trend is there and it is quite obvious, hence, reality.

If I replace "reality" with "truth", it does not work out because it makes no sense: "truth cannot be racist" makes no sense whatsoever. In relation or correspondence to what? It does work with reality, however.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-04-11 09:41:57+00:00
Most Internet users who have used Facebook and likes? (And even I, who never have used Facebook, primarily use that sense.) It is the first sense in the Cambridge dictionary [1], the second sense in the Oxford dictionary available via Google Search, and the second sense and also the first non-academic sense in Wiktionary [2]. It is clearly common enough for me to say so.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/social-n...

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/social_network
by aa-jv | 2025-04-11 09:42:28+00:00
Your statistics are cherry-picked.

The USA has demolished more sovereign states and continues to participate in mass murder, as it has done, since it illegally invaded Iraq on the basis of outright lies and murdered 5% of its population.

https://airwars.org/

Note that the PSR report I quoted earlier was 10 years after the war - the situation has gotten a lot worse since, due to the use of DU in civilian areas.

The USA is by far the worlds biggest war crime-committing nation. No other state comes close. To be ignorant of this, is to be complicit in its continued criminal behaviour.
by lynx97 | 2025-04-11 09:43:17+00:00
Haha, did you evaluate this personally?

I did a BeMyEyes test recently, trying to sort about 40 cans according to the existance of a deposit logo. After 90 minutes of submitting photos, and a second round to make sure it doesn't lie too much, I had 16 cans which according to BeMyEyes (OpenAI) had a deposit logo. Then, I went to the shop to bring them back. Turns out, only 4 cans had a logo. So after a second round to eliminate hallucinations, the success rate was only 25%.

Do you call that reliable?
by spwa4 | 2025-04-11 09:43:53+00:00
You mean, it's been implemented in such a way that no politician can be blamed when things inevitably go wrong due to what this really is: savings on the budget of one organization, pushing the costs somewhere else as opposed to actually improving society/economy.

I've always wondered this about the many algorithms that keep getting used. They're being kept out of democratic decision making. It's always a committee somewhere in the executive that decides on the algorithm, not parliament, or any kind of elected board. They are implemented as a cost control.
by vidarh | 2025-04-11 09:43:56+00:00
ActivityPub is reasonably lightweight, though it could be trimmed down. Mastodon is not particularly.

But we likely will see it become easier to run Mastodon-compatible-enough single-user instances with improved discoverability sooner or later.

Content is already signed. The problem is that with Mastodon, the user does not control the private key unless you run your own instance. You can demonstrate that the content originates from a given instance, but not from a given user. That's an issue, but it's fixable.
by greybox | 2025-04-11 09:44:26+00:00
One question I continue to ask myself when I see impressive AI examples like this, (because it is impressive) is "are we solving the right problems"? Instead of training an AI to produce a tonne of JS to create something that's been done before, should we not be engineering better tools to allow people to precisely craft software without the need for AI.

I worry that because we are now able to instantly produce a bunch of JS to do X thing, we will be incentivized not to change the underlying tools (because one, only AI's are using it, and two AI's won't know how to use the new thing)

I worry this will stall progress.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-11 09:44:33+00:00
The origin of the energy provided by hydrothermal vents is the internal heat of the planet.

The reduced substances, like elemental hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide, are produced by the oxidation of the iron(II) ions from volcanic rocks, which is converted by water into rust.

The volcanic rocks contain this more reduced form of iron, because they come from higher temperatures, where their constituent minerals are in chemical equilibrium. When the volcanic rocks reach ambient temperature, the volcanic rocks are no longer in chemical equilibrium with water. This source of chemical energy powers the hydrothermal vents and the associated life.

So the conditions for the appearance of life are an internal source of heat in the planet or satellite and some form of volcanism that can bring substances from the hot deep interior to the cold surface.
by p4bl0 | 2025-04-11 09:46:06+00:00
I don't understand <header> to be a heading element (i.e., a section title). Instead it is a semantic container for heading elements: title, date, author, maybe category/tags, etc. To me, the heading level used inside a given <header> is a distinct, somewhat orthogonal thing (at least in how it is decided, from the nesting level or the tag name).
by vidarh | 2025-04-11 09:46:26+00:00
My main Mastodon account is a single-user instance. Mastodon is heavy-duty for that compared to what it could be, and so a better single-user server would be nice, but it's also not that big a deal.

Incidentally, I'm working on an app server with ActivityPub support at its core, and I have pondered giving it sufficient compatibility with Mastodon to allow repurposing it as a lightweight instance.
Ask HN: Windows IT knowledge for a developer?
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-04-11 09:46:45+00:00
I'm a developer - primarily .NET on Windows. I've recently started a new job which, although a senior dev role, is also requiring more Windows IT knowledge than I anticipated: domains, Active Directory, security, group policy, networking, etc. My knowledge of these areas was mostly acquired organically, and I feel I need to make it more systematic and fill-in the gaps.

So: what are some good dev-friendly knowledge sources in this area? I have a preference for books, but online is good too. And if you've faced this challenge, any tips on what worked for you?
by spwa4 | 2025-04-11 09:46:59+00:00
Regulations in Europe also seem to have had the, I'm assuming completely unintentional, side effect of completely cementing the positions of the top of society in place. And this is nothing new, this actually predates modern democracy in Europe. It's been that way for centuries. In Europe the only time to leave, or join, the ultra-rich is during wars.

That the EU doesn't have unicorns is not an accident of whatever rules you like or dislike, it's entirely by design.
by moefh | 2025-04-11 09:47:22+00:00
> Seven months for that seems insane to me.

It is, but see what the article has to say about that (translated with google translate):

> Among other things, they complain about the inappropriate severity of the justice system against an allegedly satirical statement. What is left unmentioned, however, is that the trial only took place because Bendels previously refused to pay a fine of 210 daily rates imposed by the same district court in November.

I know nothing about this person or this case, but it sounds like he has done this before and refused to pay a fine, so the court said "enough is enough" and sent him to prison.
by jeswin | 2025-04-11 09:47:59+00:00
90% of business software is a copy of something else. So a model that is good at modifying code that exists somewhere is quite valuable. Basically, any significant incremental progress in an LLM's ability to mash up ideas/code (that it has seen previously) is getting upvoted - because there are many makers on HN and these new abilities can be applied to whatever they're working on.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-11 09:48:09+00:00
This line actually comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States , in which it was ruled that distributing pamphlets protesting the draft was not legal free speech.

> Because that is harmful to society.

So you agree that "harmful to society" is valid reasoning .. which justifies banning things like holocaust denial and incitement to racism?
by tetris11 | 2025-04-11 09:49:05+00:00
I did the Duke of Edinburgh bronze silver and gold when I was a kid, back before smart phones. Only one person on the team could reliably navigate, and he was mostly just basing his assessment on our position using compass and tree line.

They taught us to triangulate using pencil and ruler, but no one has time for that when it's starting to get dark.
by atoav | 2025-04-11 09:49:17+00:00
I had two cases of structual breakdown as of now on a vintage KTM bicycle:

1. The right half of the handle broke off while I was mid traffic, gladly I could recover from this without falling since the left part was still firmly attached

2. The crankshaft broke off on one side with a sharp edge of greased up metal slicing into my leg, this happened on a bicycle lane when trying to accelerate from standstill.

I am still riding the same bicycle, I just had used it a lot back when those things happened and as a student I didn't really have the funds to maintain it properly when somehing made a creaking sound.
by lproven | 2025-04-11 09:52:20+00:00
> hey even trashed all the drive caddies

Yeah, that is sadly a thing. My first ever VAXstation came with the drive ripped out, and mounting bracket, and cable. The drive is easy to replace, but the rest was pure unobtanium.

We need to kill the myth that physically damaging a hard disk is "secure destruction" when an overwrite with zeros is more secure.
by palata | 2025-04-11 09:52:40+00:00
The definition of defamation is that it causes damage.

> Additionally, sexual assault is a crime while hating free speech is not.

Completely missing the point: nobody committed a sexual assault here.

> Are you organizing this conspiracy with an intent to hurt me? Are you making false police reports? Do you believe the accusations yourself?

What kind of questions are those. "I didn't intent to hurt them, and I believed they were consenting" make it okay to have sexual intercourse with a non-consenting person in your book?

The question is more something like: did it hurt the person and was it meant to look like it was true? It's free speech to make fun of Elon Musk because he made nazi salutes. It's not free speech to make fake, realistic video of Trump making nazi salutes and pretend it is real.
by spwa4 | 2025-04-11 09:52:49+00:00
How is this a mystery? What matters is whether the state provides funding for innovation. The market will never support a first moon landing. The market will not even support something like starlink, where the use is obvious. The US' technological advantage is the result of massive continuous state investment after WW2 and through the cold war. There were periods of such investment in Europe, but they have been over for decades now. The only places where some lasted during the cold war were the UK and France, and both of those are well and truly over. In the US they're only now dropping fast under Trump.

The CCP is providing absurd amounts of funding for commercial innovation. Not just money either. Everything from monetary stimulus, tax exemptions (and strategically forgiving outright tax evasion) even "honey traps" (hiring prostitutes to entrap foreigners, even long term), even kidnapping foreigners.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-11 09:52:50+00:00
I must point out that you introduced the word "ban." I did not. I don't even know what "banning Unicorns" means, or how that would work.

I said, "Unicorns are a problem and should not exist." I suspect that regulation that protects competition and the free market is a pretty effective way of preventing Unicorns from arising in the first place.
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-11 09:52:57+00:00
That's interesting. I've been looking for an angle on embedded Linux software updates for my deployment tool (currently limited to updating desktop and server apps only).

When you say push, do you literally mean push or do you mean the devices would still pull updates on their own schedule where you get to control rollout percentages, channels, etc centrally? Mostly devices have to be assumed to be behind NAT, right?

What I'm thinking here is maybe it'd be useful to have a mode in Conveyor [1] that builds a standalone ARM Linux that can boot and pull updates for everything including the app, but which coordinates with the userspace app to decide when it's time to restart and for which the build to update to is controlled by server-supplied metadata so you can divide the fleet by tag, etc.

[1] https://hydraulic.dev/
by Geenkaas | 2025-04-11 09:53:05+00:00
I once saw a rendering of parts of the underground showing the stations and the tracks in 3D (hand-drawn but in scale), what stood out to me is how much of the entire system is composed of stations and how little for the actual tubes connecting those areas, certainly in the busier areas. I was hoping to see the stations rendered as well as I never could find those images back. This looks very nice in any case, reminds me of marinetraffic.
by ageitgey | 2025-04-11 09:53:42+00:00
Over the past 5 years, there have been many startups that are variations of "AI can now automate interacting with companies that don't want to interact with you." This is common in healthcare, FinTech, consumer shopping, etc.

There are so many examples:

- We're going to automate provider availability, scheduling and booking hair/doctor/spa/whatever appointments for your users with AI phone calls

- We're going to sell a consumer device you talk to that will automate all your app interactions using "large action models"

- We're going to automate all of your hospital's health insurance company billing interactions with AI screen scrapers

- We're going to record your employees performing an action once in any business software tool and then automate it forever with AI to tie all your vendor systems together without custom programming.

- We're going to be able to buy anything for you from any website, automatically, no matter what fraud checks exist, because AI

Most of these start-ups are not "fraudulent"—they start with the best intentions (qualified tech founders, real target market, customers willing to pay if it works), but they eventually fail, pivot completely, or have to resort to fraud in a misguided attempt to stay alive.

The problem is that they are all using technology to try to solve a human problem. The current state of the world exists because the service provider on the other side of the equation doesn't want to be disintermediated or commoditized. They aren't going to sit there and be automated into compliance. If you perfect a way to call them with robots, they will stop answering the phone. If you perfect a way to automate their iPhone app on behalf of a user, they will block your IP address range and throw up increasingly arcane captchas. If you automate their login flows, they will switch to a different login flow or block customers they think are using automation. Your customer's experience is inconsistent at best, and you can never get rid of the humans in the loop. It leads to death by a thousand paper cuts until you bleed to death - despite customers still begging to pay for your service.
Show HN: Tokie – A file manager that turns folders into Notion-style databases
by chendabo | 2025-04-11 09:54:43+00:00
Hi HN,

I want to share a new project I built — Tokie, a file manager alternative that turns a regular folder into a Notion-style database.

The idea started when I realized how limited the default file manager experience is. I always wanted to:

- Add custom labels and status fields to files and folders - Take notes inside a folder and edit them inline, without opening a separate app - Save links or web references to a folder, so they stay with related files and research

Basically, I wanted folders to do more than just store files — I wanted them to work the way my brain does when I’m organizing, researching, or building something.

So I built Tokie to bring some of the flexibility of online productivity tools into a local desktop file manager.

It runs on macOS (M-series chips only for now). No signup required.

Try it here: https://tokie.is

Would love feedback on the idea, UX, and what workflows you'd want it to support! and maybe connect to your online apps(which is possible in future iterations)
by lores | 2025-04-11 09:56:09+00:00
It's well known that programmers don't wear suits in the office in the SV. It's less obvious they shouldn't wear one in the interview either, because that's not a regular work day. It's not obvious at all to someone from a formal-dress culture like France (Italy? India?). Google's own AI recommends erring on the side of caution and wearing a suit for an SV interview. Yes, people should look up the specific company they're interviewing for... if it even comes to their mind, it's that obvious interviews require suits in some cultures.

If you forgive me the analogy, and assuming you're American, would you think of checking the etiquette of entering into a shop? In the US, the concept itself is weird, you go in, buy stuff, and leave. In France, you must greet the shopkeeper right as you go in through the door. In Hungary, you must wish the shopkeeper a good day in reply to their greeting. It's simple... if you know it's even a thing you should check.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-04-11 09:56:26+00:00
We are clearly talking about the federation in social networking services (which I and many others would call simply social networks, but since someone clearly didn't like that). The OP analyzes the federation as a means to build such services, while your anecdote only says that the federation is enough to serve your needs---the anecdote which the OP doesn't even object.

While I don't use Mastodon for a lot of reasons, I had operated an IRC network for a long time and experienced its eventual demise as well. IRC started out as a worldwide federated network until it isn't, and many IRC networks only worked because of its constituent users---my network never reached that critical mass in comparison. I would have no reason to worry about that if IRC did have the working federation to this day! In the current fediverse choosing the correct nodes (or to federate, if you have your own personal node) is mandatory, indirectly showing that its federation is not enough, just like IRC.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-11 09:56:39+00:00
From the second link:

> In the event of an emergency, the vehicle automatically puts itself into a safe state within milliseconds by coming to a safe stop in the same lane.

It sounds to me like the hardware has some amount of autonomy. They just aren't trying to do the high level stuff. Both companies seem like they're trying to hide the implementation details though which immediately makes me suspicious of them.
by noduerme | 2025-04-11 09:56:46+00:00
Yes and no. It's very impressive, in that it would take a human with no coding knowledge a very long time to learn how to write it. It's not impressive if you know the anatomy. But it's only as good as asking the "programmer" to make those stars in the background stop running around wildly, or make it scrolling, or something. Then what. Well geez, I have no idea how this works so I better ask the AI to do that for me?

It's not really that different from taking your 2022 car to a shop to adjust your camless engine, and assuming everything's fine, but not having a clue what they did to it or how to fix it if the engine explodes the next day. You can't even prove it had something to do with what the shop did, or if they actually did anything at all. They probably don't even know what they did.

It won't stall progress for clever people who actually want to figure things out and know what they're doing. But it will certainly produce lots more garbage.

That said, the game is impressive for something stitched together by an LLM.
by nottorp | 2025-04-11 09:57:10+00:00
> A year ago I would've been ready and willing to pay double price for a fully US-made phone.

Why? What justified double the price a year ago? Especially since you sound like you're not an USer...

Ok maybe avoiding China would have been a good idea 1 year ago too. But from that to overpaying for something just because it's made in the most expensive country in the world...
by rvz | 2025-04-11 09:58:04+00:00
Quite frankly unsurprised to see that Bluesky succeeded in appealing to tens of millions of users and getting the onboarding right compared to Mastodon. As predicted. [0]

Tells you why the majority of those who decided to leave Twitter ignored Mastodon and chose Bluesky (or even Threads) instead because of all the issues the author of the article listed beyond basic usability that Mastodon still struggles with.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750185
by monkeydust | 2025-04-11 09:58:42+00:00
I do some angel investing so get a lot of deal flow in my inbox. A lot of the AI ones (which is now 99% of everything) are not really businesses.

They are at best nice features or capabilities to have in wider enterprise application suite for say HR or Accountancy but on their own its just a lot of smart people working extremely hard to sell one tiny solution that is small cogwheel for a much larger problem.

My gut is telling me that very soon, if not now, there will be an opportunity for savvy VCs to sweep up some of these cogwheels and package them together into a real business and it's something I am exploring with a few other angels. Curious what others think on this. Feel free to DM me (details on profile).
by treetalker | 2025-04-11 09:59:45+00:00
> Why can't people see that people themselves are the problem?

Many people do.

> It's not just some bunch of Nazis.

Okay …

> Trump was elected by an actual majority.

False. First, if you're referring to electoral college votes, then okay, but that's a tautology: a majority of electoral college votes is what's needed to be elected president. But you're not referring to the electoral college, but rather to the popular vote — and Trump got 49.8% of the popular vote. That's not a majority of actual voters, and — by definition — that's not a majority of eligible voters.

> And that majority has increased their support to him since he took office - that is, they actually approve of what he is doing.

The predicate fact is false, and the remainder is also false because Trump's approval ratings have decreased and continue to do so.