MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by owenversteeg | 2025-04-28 01:22:58+00:00
I agree. What's next? Controlling where, and when we can drive? The groups lobbying for this bill already say that they want mandatory, automatic, remotely-controllable speed restrictions on everyone's car - they will publicly tell you as much - from there, any further erosion of our liberties is just a software update away.

Do you really think that a government, in the height of an emergency, that can restrict where and when you can drive with just a simple OTA update, would resist that temptation?

And to the other commenter who was saying that Franklin didn't envision modern dangers like the automobile: life was far, far more dangerous in his time than ours. The 1/3 of annual traffic deaths caused by speeding - twelve thousand in a country of 340M - works out to the equivalent of thirty five deaths across the entire thirteen colonies in Franklin's middle age, not even a drop in the bucket of the many lives paid for other liberties at that time.
by skydhash | 2025-04-28 01:22:59+00:00
What I’m arguing about is that composition isn’t necessary in most cases. Because all components evolve independently. Also nesting is syntactic sugar, nice, but orthogonal to these discussions. And scoping is done with selectors.

CSS isn’t an imperative language. It’s a declarative one. And what’s most important is understanding what it is trying to solve (mostly not styling elements with tag’s style). Which is what Tailwind is replicating.

Tailwind may help you in some cases, but not because of a defect in CSS. It’s like using an ORM, then past a certain treshold, you find yourself doing (badly) SQL but in $language.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-28 01:23:50+00:00
To start with, someone directly affected by autism is someone experiencing it themselves. Parents, educators, and caregivers have historically been granted primacy in these discussions, largely because so many autistic people cannot effectively advocate for themselves, either at all or in the current systems that exist for it. That doesn't change our obligation to center the experiences of autistic people, who are having the most direct one possible.

Parent- and caregiver-focused approaches are how we've ended up with things like ABA¹ being fairly mainstream, and sympathy for parents pursuing experimental or simply crank treatments to "cure" their children, frequently with extremely harmful results. Support and advocacy groups run by autistic people are absolutely full horrific stories of abuse in this vein.

Which is, I believe, a large part of RFK's interest² in it. I think he wants to make more ad hoc, extreme, and experimental and frankly abusive "treatment" supported for parents of autistic children.

So the comment you're responding to isn't a curious or "diverse opinion", it is basically the standard view of this up until the last 10-15 years or so. Autistic people had to fight very hard to have our own views and experiences taken seriously. RFK's focus here is part of an even-more-recent backlash against that.

¹ Essentially conversation therapy for autism. It can be effective at teaching us how to behave like "normal" people which can be comforting for parents of autistic children. But autistic people overwhelmingly experience it as extremely distressing or worse.

² He has also signaled that he will use it as a justification to ban vaccines. I don't have enough of a read on the guy to reckon which of these is a bigger motivation to him. There's also an understudied but impossible-to-deny correlation between transness and autism. A lot going on here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis#Crit...
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-04-28 01:23:52+00:00
Okay, this is cool.

It's a copper-tantalum-lithium alloy: 96.5% Cu, 3% Ta, 0.5% Li.

Tantalum isn't soluble in copper and doesn't form any intermetallic compounds, so under normal circumstances you'd get something like a metal matrix composite -- pure tantalum particles dispersed in a copper matrix. Add lithium, though, and the intermetallic Cu3Li forms, and tantalum is apparently very attracted to this stuff, so you end up with Cu3Li particles with Ta shells in that copper matrix.

Yield Strength = ~1000MPa, so it's genuinely on par with high-temp nickel superalloys, though somewhat weaker than the cobalt-base ones, and far weaker than the best steels.

Interestingly, it's actually a little bit weaker than the copper-beryllium alloy C17200. (YS: ~1200-1300 MPa.) But CuBe is very expensive, not very ductile, and potentially hazardous. Tantalum, though expensive, is still 10x cheaper than beryllium.

Depending on its thermal and electrical properties, and on its ease of manufacture, this could be a very versatile material, and may replace nickel/cobalt alloys in certain applications.
by j45 | 2025-04-28 01:24:44+00:00
Depends who's wanting that look.

Technology doesn't stop scaling in complexity the larger you get, or the business hits a ceiling on what it can hit in revenue and growth.

It's cool if b-school teaches other wise :)

Both the business founder and technical founder has to grow.

Which one can learn to scale to the moon easier?

I wish all my friends well on any side of co-founding.

The thing that doesn't work is trying to grift someone else's hard work and leverage them.

Builders build.. sellers sell.

Learn to deliver and ship consistently or someone will.
by noobermin | 2025-04-28 01:25:32+00:00
Isn't this like almost 20 years of history down the drain, including the project that gave marcan notability? Quite an event to transpire. It's crazy that millions of us looked at projects like THC as being acts of brilliance, not merely theft. There cleary were brilliant people involved in the project (segher who helped reverse engineer the NES/SNES/N64 CIC for example) so I don't doubt they're not capable.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-28 01:25:43+00:00
> But an engineer can't help but also factor in "i'm the one that has to build this, so how much extra work am i giving myself?

I wonder how many startups have failed because the tech has been too much of a pain in the ass to maintain and the technical staff burns out and leaves, with more and more expensive developers postponing leaving till as late as possible and doing as little as possible
by Uptrenda | 2025-04-28 01:26:51+00:00
This has off-grid written all over it. You could build your own content pool for education + entertain and you would never have to pay a forever subscription for an Internet connection. (Assuming you don't work online or something.) Quite an interesting idea to consider how to add the tools to this so its practical to unplug. This idea appeals to me a lot tbh.
by 9x39 | 2025-04-28 01:27:12+00:00
Too little bandwidth and too few nodes to do this in the sense I think you mean.

You can build a hotspot and try setting up meshes with any of the available hardware or software packages out there, but you're going to end up being the gatekeeper to the service. HAM radio ends up working out the same way, as I understand. It's just too technical for people to have this spring up collectively without a single person or team doing everything.

Lack of tech experience to even know how to build a mesh let alone prioritize its limited bandwidth is why the general public isn't going to assist.

>And then, could they repeat the hotspot, to build a mesh? I know there are projects to do that, but what do they accomplish exactly?

Yes, pretty much. The problem is poor definition of the problem, though.

What are we trying to solve? A way to send trickles of comms out, like "Mom and Dad, we're alive?" or "We have life-threatening casualties at x',y'?" Emergency kiosk to send emails one at a time? Doable if you have an Internet source like a Starlink, or any other uplink that's still up somehow.

Or is to restore the "Internet" as generally known, which might as well be synonymous with YouTube and Netflix and web browsing for people. You and your system would be overwhelmed as soon as your mesh comes up.
by SilasX | 2025-04-28 01:28:13+00:00
That's not true. They're obligated to make good faith arguments consistent with the legal profession's ethics code, that don't deliberately waste the court's time with rabbit holes, not just throw forth everything that might stick because they duped the right judge. (This came up IIRC when Trump's lawyers made such arguments to dispute the 2020 election results.)

"Disney+'s terms of services categorically shields us from all legal liability" is not a good-faith argument, and, if accepted generally, would create a world no one seriously wants to live in, including those lawyers.

This is especially true when Disney had an actually reasonable, good-faith argument in this case, that the law can't pass on liability for everything a restaurant does wrong, just because you recommend it, especially when the regulation and management of that restaurant is totally out of your control. This would create a horrible world where no one can make a recommendation without thereby becoming responsible for everything that goes wrong at that establishment later.
by shakna | 2025-04-28 01:28:33+00:00
There's a few numbers in the Science article, and they do actually link to it, unlike some. [0

And the intro numbers are... Exciting.

> This core-shell structure neither dissolves nor coarsens at temperatures of up to 800°C while also causing the yielding strength to be in excess of 1 gigapascal.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr0299
by j45 | 2025-04-28 01:28:38+00:00
I assume neither, and have business skills to found and scale business and architecture as a technical cofounder.

It's just that thing - getting the reps in to learn.

Not just a function of time, but picking the things that have a greater chance of helping you grow.

Depending on who you ask, one mark of a CEO is to be a generalist to keep everything moving, guided, supported, looking ahead.

The age of the specialist went away before covid. Now the generalists see patterns and connections between different arenas in similar ways.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-28 01:28:43+00:00
I just mean that GPL is a bit of a religion. There are very strong opinions and principles behind it. Whereas the BSD license is more like "do whatever you want". It makes sense that the followers of the former care more deeply about it, right?

Personally I don't care about or obey any software licenses, as a user.

But this is kinda the vibe I get from other BSD users if a license discussion comes up. Maybe it's my bubble, that's possible.
by zdragnar | 2025-04-28 01:28:54+00:00
Such a vehicle wouldn't be able to travel on a freeway at all [1], which means the market for them is very limited. Even in cities, people will want to hop on a freeway to cut across town more quickly.

[1] Most states have rules around operating a minimum speed with the flow of traffic, so cars inhibiting the flow or otherwise driving significantly slower than the cars around them are considered to be a safety hazard.

Some states are more objective by posting both minimum and maximum speed limits, though I personally find that freeways with speed minimums tend to actually have more people driving slow enough to cause disruptions.
by multi-ai-guy | 2025-04-28 01:29:10+00:00
Great concept! Not to break your bank too much, but I'd love too see this as a matrix across several different providers and/or local models. I only have quick access to gpt-4o at the moment, and that was not fooled by any of the prompts listed, except for some of the last (200+ char) ones... would be cool to compare with llamas, 4o, claude, gemeni, etc...

Also, mentioned elsewhere but scoring by token count is definitely the way to go.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-28 01:31:02+00:00
I know that it is very important for HN folks to be angry. But as someone who has a parent with this disease, I would like to be certain that the amyloid hypothesis is definitely not correct before we throw it entirely out with the bathwater. These simplified “one researcher caused an entire field to go astray for decades” explanations are much too pat for me to have any confidence in them.
by metasj | 2025-04-28 01:31:27+00:00
There's also a longer overview here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box

And (when supplies return) you can get one in a 3d-printed box with Wikipedia pre-installed here: https://store.wikimedia.org/products/internet-in-a-box

Sustained by a wonderful international community of builders, authors, and translators (and always looking for more to join in)
by quuxplusone | 2025-04-28 01:32:08+00:00
That photo series in particular is well-debunked. See:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/57629/whats-the...

> These are known to be Paul Villa’s UFO photographs from 1964 and are part of a larger narrative where he claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings. [...] > > How these photographs wound up in the Goddard Space Flight Center records collection is unknown.

https://xcancel.com/humansareindef1/status/17581524853055121...

> Initial observations: narrow focal depth...object sharpness in front of trees implies it's small, around 8 to 12 in. > > Vented disc brake rotors were introduced in the 60s, patented in 1929. This looks like a vented disc brake rotor with a domed hubcap on top. Compare the images.

(Click through to either the Twitter thread or the StackExchange quotation-of-the-Twitter-thread to see the images of the original hubcap and the "UFO" side by side.)
by platevoltage | 2025-04-28 01:33:04+00:00
I never thought that I would "be my own boss" after making the moves needed to go beyond just being a hobbyist, but I was quickly shown that I'm essentially unemployable.

It's been 2 years, and I can proudly say that i'm finally making more money than I did delivering packages on a bicycle in SF, which isn't much.

Getting rich was never in the cards for me, but not having to answer to a tyrannical boss every day is definitely a positive. Coming from a blue-collar background, that's pretty much the norm, and that sentiment has stuck with me.
by ivraatiems | 2025-04-28 01:33:09+00:00
What... is this? It's a mirror of a bunch of FTP servers, some old, some very recent? There's a bunch of photos of random people taken during COVID? And a lot of backups and technical documents?

Reminds me of the time I google-mined my way to a Russian FTP site that had copies of every version of Windows and Office on it, or that VNC roulette site that was around for a while.
by ilrwbwrkhv | 2025-04-28 01:33:53+00:00
I would reconsider using Elysia. I was also very excited by it and I thought it would be great but it has got errors and issues with different library versions and things like that. Also the whole Eden thing doesn't work for me for whatever reason. I have a monorepo. Typescript keeps complaining. Also if everything is defined in a single file, then it works well. If it's in different files, it breaks the whole type side of things.
by bb88 | 2025-04-28 01:36:10+00:00
There's nothing new in EE under the sun. Hasn't been for 40 years really. EE's min/max a bunch of mathematical equations. There's a lot of them, but it's not nearly as difficult as people think it is. They end up being design constraints, which can be coded, measured, and fed back into the AI.

It's not even been three years since Github Copilot was released to developers. And now we're all complaining about "vibe-coding".
by mjevans | 2025-04-28 01:36:28+00:00
Slippery slope. It'd be assigned in way more cases because they can, because the _perceived_ impact is lower to someone else. Because it can be handled like yet another tax on offenders, including the poor. Because the companies selling it to the government would continue to lobby to sell it more often for more classes of offense.

Take the suspended license situation. At what point is the impact to society enough to just require assigning the person unlimited use of professional drivers to get around instead because the impact to society would be less? Or doing that after they spend time in jail? (As another question, is jail even effective at reform?)

The sort of person who repeatedly drives not just fast, but in ways that are clearly unwarranted danger, perhaps shows a larger defect. An individual who might have medical conditions that make rational thought and risk evaluation fail.

Sometimes, a person of adult age just isn't a true adult. Some device to limit a car's speed isn't going to prevent that sort of person from running a red light or over a jaywalker.
by asacrowflies | 2025-04-28 01:36:36+00:00
Regardless of any so called good that could supposedly come of this..... Why does the federal government get to seize my medical records and data for this list without my consent??? Are autistic people not full citizens? What about rule of law??? If we can take such drastic measures and shit all over things like hippa and medical ethics....where is the sweeping federal database of obese people .
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-28 01:36:45+00:00
Ah but this is really not true. Volume shadow copy makes snapshots of files and through that it can make a backup of an entire NTFS including files with a lock on them and fully quiesced. It was invented for that exact purpose. Backup software on windows leverages this functionality well. It took much longer for Linux to have something similar.

I have many criticisms of NTFS like it being really bad at handling large volumes of small files. But this is something it can do well.

The lock prevents other people from copying the file or opening it even in read only, yes. But backup software can back it up just fine.
by blooalien | 2025-04-28 01:37:59+00:00
> I'm sceptical of this claim. At least for me, when humans do this I find it shallow and inauthentic.

100% agree, but it depends entirely on the individual human's views. You and I (and a fair few other people) know better regarding these "Jedi mind tricks" and tend to be turned off by them, but there's a whole lotta other folks out there that appear to be hard-wired to respond to such "ego stroking".

> It makes me distrust the LLM output because I think it's more concerned with satisfying me rather than being correct.

Again, I totally agree. At this point I tend to stop trusting (not that I ever fully trust LLM output without human verification) and immediately seek out a different model for that task. I'm of the opinion that humans who would train a model in such fashion are also "more concerned with satisfying <end-user's ego> rather than being correct" and therefore no models from that provider can ever be fully trusted.
by ivraatiems | 2025-04-28 01:38:32+00:00
How likely is it that the attacker, who now has all of their source code, has already identified several additional vulnerabilities they can use? Seems pretty likely to me.

I don't think advertisers, payment providers, service providers, or hardware vendors told 4chan what version of OpenBSD to run or how often to update packages. Those are tasks that require time and effort, yes, but they're not herculean. They could have been done. I think laziness and disinterest are the more likely reasons.
by metasj | 2025-04-28 01:39:29+00:00
At the least you need storage for the content ($10-20), and a physical device to read it off of ($20-40). If your community has lots of computers with no wireless antennas (old servers), USB keys that can be passed around make sense. If you have lots of mobile devices with wireless (phones or tablets), a hotspot like this makes sense and can be used by dozens of people at once.

In practice USB keys run a slightly higher risk of being wiped and repurposed for personal storage. Some IIAB users glue the SD card into their socket for that reason, making it take a lot longer to swap out.
by theptip | 2025-04-28 01:40:17+00:00
Atomization vs gestalt is mostly orthogonal to the point here.

Taking an extreme example to illustrate the point, if you could image every atom in the body you’d have the opportunity to understand the whole-system dynamics, or try to isolate subsystems if that helps.

> In medicine, the primary goal is to help, rather than understanding why something works exactly.

Right. My point is that each phenotype is different, and so understanding the individual will allow you to help them more.
by tomjakubowski | 2025-04-28 01:40:41+00:00
I'll add that when I am walking or cycling anywhere, I feel a lot safer around Waymos.

Just yesterday in SF I nearly collided on my bike with a human SUV driver (likely an Uber), who pulled out impatiently into the bike lane to pass a Waymo which was stopped at a light waiting for a pedestrian to finish crossing (against the signal).
by Brajeshwar | 2025-04-28 01:40:43+00:00
I’ve encountered a few instances (mostly friends) who have done similar ideas. Around 2007 - 2012 (ish) many corners of India were yet to have access to the Internet (Jio hasn't introduced super cheap, almost free Internet). A few friends did like download Wikipedia and take it to these corners and teach kids.

In my case, a friend/colleague Freeman Murray,[1] had that idea and I told him I will try in my hometown (one of the most remote corner of India). We did and I got a few young kids to be the maintainer, have a few desktop (not Laptop) that they carry around and watch videos to learn to program. It was good while it lasted. Now, those isolated places that I was scared to go alone when I was a kid have fiber Internet connections.

On a fun note, I do have a picture of an "Internet in a Box". This was Detroit in the mid 2000s. https://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/113742187/in/album-...

1. https://www.mars.college
by neom | 2025-04-28 01:41:23+00:00
Conditioning is a powerful thing. I'm autistic, but my mother refuses to accept it, every 5/10 years she comes up with a new reason I'm not autistic, the latest one is that it's "hip to have autism now", hah. I think she thinks it's a failing of her parenting maybe, who knows, but the older I get, the more I realize lack of empathy does not arise spontaneously, but from repeated conditioning to mistrust empathy itself. When my mother wanted to be a special needs teacher, my grandmother couldn't understand why she wanted to look after "spastics".

My former best friend, despite having $100MM++ is paranoia about kindness, he theoretically should be liberate to express generosity, but his father taught him anyone being kind or receiving kindness is about someone taking from him. His father’s voice has become his own internal voice creating huge amounts of mistrust and suspicion, ultimately robbing him of any connection unless he paid for it directly, so zero meaningful connection.
by drittich | 2025-04-28 01:42:22+00:00
I played with gemma-3-4b-it-qat recently using a mid-tier graphics card and a few things stood out to me:

1. It was very fast, between 35 and 70 tokens per second, with initial response in under 200ms. That kind of speed is a feature.

2. It was very useful. I had a brainstorming session with it that was both fluid and fruitful

3. I can't wrap my head around so much knowledge being contained in about 3GB of data. It seems to know something about everything. Imperfect, but very useful.
by arkasan | 2025-04-28 01:43:04+00:00
Had a terrible experience with warp. I personally don't use warp, but I know one colleague who uses it. One day, he ran `kubectl describe <resource> <resource name>` and warp suggested `kubectl delete <resource> <resource name>` and he pressed enter. He was lucky the resource was not critical and could be recreated without any damage. Think about what would have happened if the same thing had happened for the namespace resource. People go into automatic accept mode after some time, and this is very dangerous when you do anything at the terminal, because there is no UNDO button.