MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-04-26 14:52:53+00:00
Smalltalk, Self, whose research lead to Hotspot and V8, Common Lisp.

And the usual, in Python everything is dynamic, well it is even more so in an image based live coding environment, where any break into the debugger, with code changes and resume execution can come back to a complete different world.

Additionally there are features like Smalltalk become: message, where two objects can change places everywhere they are used in the image, and current execution.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-04-26 14:53:33+00:00
> in the US for under $15K even

People say stuff like this. When you buy a $1 USB cable from AliExpress that probably took 25 seconds to manufacture, okay, that makes some sense, from that narrow point of view. But then the courier is going to spend like 3 minutes futzing with delivering it to you. Someone is paying something, no? You have an incomplete picture of costs, and hopefully your answer to the example conundrum isn't, "Delivery drivers are underpaid."

It's more complicated than features leading to a bill of materials and time in a factory.

It costs at least $15,000 to replace a roof in San Francisco, and maybe closer to $60,000. It costs basically nothing to manufacture roof tiles, and the whole thing can be done in a day. If you could answer the question why, and persuasively, you know, run for mayor.
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-26 14:53:35+00:00
Television, not phone, but YouTube sure intrigued me at minimum yesterday. First, it revealed pretty clearly that even with history turned off, it will use the history of other accounts accessed from the same IP to serve recommendations anyway. Without history, it turns off the home page recommendations, but when I ran a search, it showed me completely unrelated videos from a rock climbing channel my wife had watched on another account. I have never watched any rock climbing content on this account.

The second incident was the "listening to you thing," though. Not on the phone, but on a smart television. Exterminator was there to do the quarterly spray of my house and I was showing him scars from when I fell off a skateboard trying to bomb a hill I couldn't handle late last year, talking about what happened, and not five minutes later I turn on the television, open YouTube, and the very first recommendation on my wife's account is a video of a guy falling off his longboard at 50 MPH. Not like it's some kind of secret that we both skate and I watch a lot of downhill videos on this account, but I have never once specifically searched for, watched, or even been recommended a video of a crash, until they decide to do so five minutes after I was talking about it in front of that television.
by TheDong | 2025-04-26 14:53:45+00:00
The reason it's doomed to failure is because WAFs operate before your application, and don't have any clue what the data is.

Here is a WAF matching line: https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/blob/943a6216edea...

Here's where that file is loaded: https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/blob/943a6216edea...

It's loaded with '"@pmFromFile lfi-os-files.data"' which means "case-insensitive match of values from a file".

So yeah, the reason it can't resolve paths properly is because WAFs are just regex and substring matching trying to paper over security issues in an application which can only be solved correctly at the application level.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 14:53:51+00:00
No, I think a non-sentient AI which is much more advanced than GPT could lie - I never said sentience, and the example I gave involved a monkey, which is sentient. The problem is transformer ANNs themselves are too stupid to lie.

In 2023 OpenAI co-authored an excellent paper on LLMs disseminating conspiracy theories - sorry, don't have the link handy. But a result that stuck with me: if you train a bidirectional transformer LLM where half the information about 9/11 is honest and half is conspiracy theories, it has a 50-50 chance of telling you one or the other if you ask about 9/11. It is not smart enough to tell there is an inconsistency. This extends to reasoning traces vs its "explanations": it does not understand its own reasoning steps and is not smart enough to notice if the explanation is inconsistent.
by gdudeman | 2025-04-26 14:54:28+00:00
This anecdote doesn’t match the data.

It is definitely slowing demand. You can see it in the Q1 numbers and the discounts on vehicles.

You can ask anyone who buys used EVs in Seattle. There is a glut of Tesla sellers and not many buyers.

Like it or not, your car says a lot about you. People bought Teslas because they liked what they said and now they are avoiding them because they don’t like it.
by ordu | 2025-04-26 14:54:44+00:00
> Wikipedia is a joke when it comes to politics.

What isn't a joke when it comes to politics? The only way to be informed about politics I have found is to regularly read news from several different media sites paying careful attention when they talk about the same issue. This way you learn their biases and how to interpret their news articles, you get the ability to guess what really happens, not just their takes on it.
by pwg | 2025-04-26 14:54:46+00:00
From the addition:

> (EXIF stripped via screenshotting)

Just a note, it is not necessary to "screenshot" to remove EXIF data. There are numerous tools that allow editing/removal of EXIF data (e.g., exiv2: https://exiv2.org/, exiftool: https://exiftool.org/, or even jpegtran with the "-copy none" option https://linux.die.net/man/1/jpegtran).

Using a screenshot to strip EXIF produces a reduced quality image (scaled to screen size, re-encoded from that reduced screen size). Just directly removing the EXIF data does not change the original camera captured pixels.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-04-26 14:55:18+00:00
One of my favorite creativities of composing on a typewriter (for both first & final drafts) is that I am encouraged to spend more time thinking about what I'll type before just blindly striking keys (i.e. I can't just cut/paste as-could on a computer).

But even more importantly, the typewriter doesn't have pop-ups / suggestions / distractions.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-04-26 14:55:20+00:00
I agree with you.

I think there has to be a reasonable solution that gives legal status to the guy who's been here for 20 years and is making a positive contribution to society, but doesn't allow someone to show up and exploit loopholes to stay forever.

I think a reasonable compromise would look something like this:

* Make it much easier for people to get temporary visas for the kinds of jobs where we need migrant workers.

* Provide a pathway to citizenship for people who have been in this country for a very long time and are contributing to society.

* Make it very difficult for people to come to the US without a visa - e.g. make people apply for asylum outside of the US. Stop issuing temporary protected status to huge blocks of migrants.

Unfortunately, political polarization has basically made it impossible for Congress to solve real problems.
by yuliyp | 2025-04-26 14:55:31+00:00
I guess the question is how frequent it's been. A big part of Trumpism is taking sketchy practices that used to be exceptional and turning them into standard operating procedure, and then claiming "oh look others did this before"

I mean, look at Hillary Clinton's emails, extorting of lawfirms, big tech, etc, his ignoring of court orders, etc. All are things that you can look at and say "he's not the first to do this" and be completely correct, but completely missing the point that he's doing it waay more aggressively.
by kranke155 | 2025-04-26 14:55:43+00:00
The Portuguese Wikipedia does not allow the existence of details on corruption allegations against Portuguese or Brazilian politicians.

There are moderators who take care of cleaning those up, then starting harassment against users who have posted these things.

I've seen one particular page, when a corruption allegation was blown up against a politically connected individual, be set up for permanent deletion (the only way to remove a page so it can't be remade).

They have all the time in the world and its clearly a full time job for them to do this, so its very hard to deal with as an individual editor. Hence the result has been that the Portuguese wikipedia has very little information on the corruption of Portuguese politicians, while the English language is full of it.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 14:56:59+00:00
I play competitive Geoguessr at a fairly high level, and I wanted to test this out to see how it compares.

It's astonishingly good.

It will use information it knows about you to arrive at the answer - it gave me the exact trailhead of a photo I took locally, and when I asked it how, it mentioned that it knows I live nearby.

However, I've given it vacation photos from ages ago, and not only in tourist destinations either. It got them all as good or better than a pro human player would. Various European, Central American, and US locations.

The process for how it arrives at the conclusion is somewhat similar to humans. It looks at vegetation, terrain, architecture, road infrastructure, signage, and it just knows seemingly everything about all of them.

Humans can do this too, but it takes many thousands of games or serious study, and the results won't be as broad. I have a flashcard deck with hundreds of entries to help me remember road lines, power poles, bollards, architecture, license plates, etc. These models have more than an individual mind could conceivably memorize.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-04-26 14:57:47+00:00
Why would you go to all the trouble of creating a blog post about this but leave the EXIF data in the image and then proclaim that it probably works without the EXIF too? Why not remove the EXIF in the first place? The two EXIF-less examples given in the update very clearly show iconic landmarks, which makes guessing very easy.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-26 14:58:18+00:00
>Managing mass incarceration and deportation is a difficult task however, and these people (both then and now) are not exactly competent at anything beyond bravado.

The holocaust also required mass incarceration and deportation, except that the huge undertaking of deportation was towards death camps in occupied territories instead of some foreign land. On the first point above, I caution against thinking that it would be much easier; it wasn't really, they just decided that they wanted to kill the people they considered undesirable after all.

On the second point, it's worth noting that the efforts at expulsion partly failed because many other countries, despite knowing of the brutal repression being suffered by the jews (and others but the jews in particular) decided to stonewall most avenues of exit from Nazi domains. Deportation would have still been terrible, but at least it would have put millions of eventual victims outside the reach of gas chambers and death squads. Such as it was, a sort of tacit complicity of indifference didn't allow that to happen, by others who weren't even necessarily supporters of the Nazis.

In either case, be careful about calling evil people practicing evil ends incompetent. In so many ways they were very competent at far more than simple bravado, and underestimating the capabilities of barbaric monsters is always dangerous for future lessons.
by globnomulous | 2025-04-26 14:58:24+00:00
> has fallen by nearly threefold

What on earth does this word salad mean? Fallen by 300%? 200%? 75%? 2/3? All are reasonable interpretations of this incoherent math.

> to tolerate the messy work of forming friendships

If it's true that people are becoming worse at maintaining friendships and losing some skill or tendency they require, then people are ipso facto also worse at being friends. (And even if there's no ipso facto corollary, the following seems just as valid an explanation for the decline in friendship as the author's expnarion: not that anybody is worse at maintaining friendships but rather that there are fewer friendships worth maintaining, fewer people worth the effort.)

I have no idea whether this is actually happening. I'm just stunned by the article's poor, predictable reasoning and odious, sanctimonious, middle-brow, TED-talk moralism: the author takes it as a given that we "manifest" our social lives, that somehow (magically?) our intention and dedication create the desired reality. The author doesn't consider an alternative hypothesis.

But if I tell you that someone is a bad, tedious, or insufferable friend, you won't expect, let alone (I hope) encourage, me to "tolerate the messy work," demonstrate the "courage" this author has decided is missing, or "show up" and be "vulnerable." You'll encourage me, rather, to save my energy for those who deserve it.

If social skills have withered in some portion of a person's pool of available, possible friends, then that person not only cannot be blamed for ending friendships; doing so is actually the best outcome, short of "manifesting" more tolerable people.

Edit:

> embedded myself in existing social structures and prioritized in-person social activities —ecstatic dance gatherings at the Harvard Divinity School, morning prayers at Memorial Church

Uh huh. If you're the kind of person who decides, I don't know, to seek friendship through daemonic possession, speaking in tongues, or, I don't know, shaman-guided spirit journeys, you're not someone whose advice I particularly want.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-04-26 14:58:27+00:00
Depleted uranium is a toxic metal but not unusually so. Exposure limits are similar to e.g. chromium which is ubiquitous in our lived environment. While you wouldn’t want to breathe it in, depleted uranium is used as a substitute for tungsten, another toxic metal that you also wouldn’t want to breathe in. Fortunately depleted uranium (and tungsten) settle out rapidly; you are exceedingly unlikely to inhale them unless you were proximal at the moment it was vaporized.

The radiation is not a serious concern. It is less radioactive than the potassium in our own bodies, and in vastly smaller quantities.

Depleted uranium isn’t healthy but I don’t think we should be misrepresenting the risk either. Many things in the environment you live in have similar toxicity profiles to depleted uranium.
by retzkek | 2025-04-26 14:59:23+00:00
And then, what? Are citizens beating down the doors to do these jobs but getting out-competed by migrants? Are these the same citizens who are lining up to do sweatshop labor when manufacturing “returns” to the US?

If undocumented workers are finding productive work in an economy with low unemployment then the problem is that the government is not facilitating them gaining legal status.
by pmags | 2025-04-26 14:59:50+00:00
It's been about 10 years since I last dipped my toes in the D waters.

At the time (v 2.067) I stumbled across some surprisingly bad warts in the standard library that prevented me from using it for my intended purposes which writing software tools for bioinformatics.

As other posters have noted, language elegance is secondary to the ecosystem when you want to get things done.

For anyone who has been using D for an extended period, has the D ecosystem improved / expanded considerably in the last 5-10 years?
by tzs | 2025-04-26 15:00:39+00:00
> "[T]he Court identified nearly thirty defective citations in the Opposition. These defects include but are not limited to misquotes of cited cases; misrepresentations of principles of law associated with cited cases, including discussions of legal principles that simply do not appear within such decisions; misstatements regarding whether case law originated from a binding authority such as the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; misattributions of case law to this District; and most egregiously, citation of cases that do not exist," US District Judge Nina Wang wrote in an order to show cause Wednesday

30+ years ago when I was in law school [1] I would practice legal research by debunking sovereign citizen and related claims on Usenet. The errors listed above are pretty much a catalog of common sovereign citizen legal research errors.

Just add something about gold fringed flags and Admiralty jurisdiction and it would be nearly complete.

The sovereign citizen documents I debunked were usually not written by lawyers. At best the only legal experience the authors usually had was as defendants who had represented themselves and lost.

Even they usually managed to only get a couple major errors per document. That these lawyers managed to get such a range of errors in one filing is impressive.

[1] I am not a lawyer. Do not take anything I write as legal advice. Near the end of law school I decided I'd rather be a programmer with a good knowledge of law than a lawyer with a good knowledge of programming and went back to software.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-04-26 15:00:45+00:00
How is that any different from granting parents citizenship. In some sense you presume birthright citizenship doesn’t make sense. Let us say an immigrant illegally comes into the country and becomes a robber. He in fact, just mugs people on the street. Clearly he’s a net negative, someone you want to deport. Now he has a child. Now by virtue of him having a child, we can no longer deport him, because then we make the child who’s a citizen less parent less. Also assume in this case the mother is some criminal too, to drive the point home.

The simpler, logically consistent solution would be that the child’s citizenship is only granted if the parents are citizens. (Or at least if parents are not illegal immigrants). Then when you deport the parents, you can legally deport the child too. It still is not a pleasant situation, there is no ideal solution here, except he should have never been let in at all, but once he is, these seem the only choices
by mk89 | 2025-04-26 15:01:27+00:00
A skilled human can do the same thing but not everyone is open to offering this sort of services for certain purposes.

Making a tool like this trained on existing map services, for example Google Street images, gives everyone, no matter who, the potential to find someone in no time.

These tools are growing like crazy, how long will it take before someone will "democratize" the "location services market"...
by lobotomizer | 2025-04-26 15:01:52+00:00
That's such a weirdly blatant lie.

Jared Friedman endorsing DOGE

https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853

Garry Tan hanging with a DOGE flunky

https://x.com/jgebbia/status/1907181994695332295
by OgsyedIE | 2025-04-26 15:01:56+00:00
Yep, the entire argument of knowledge production obsolescence in the article assumes that the development of future LLMs won't progress to the point of actual personhood. It's written from a position of incomplete foundation knowledge.

Instead of framing this debate about having our jobs replaced by a machine, it's more useful to frame it as having our jobs and value to society taken by a new ethnicity of vastly more capable and valuable competing jobseekers. It makes it easier to talk about solutions for preserving our political autonomy, like using the preservation of our rights against smarter LLMs as an analogy for the preservation of those LLM's rights against even smarter LLMs beyond them.
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-26 15:02:28+00:00
>This is a deeply anti-American, authoritarian sentiment. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Are you talking about Guantanamo or El Salvador? Because in El Salvador civilians had neither Liberty (not wander the street without fear) nor Safety (been shot).

Also i don't know why El Salvador should use the US or Franklin as a template.

However the US still has the Patriot Act, attacked Iraq and gained no Liberty nor Safety out of it.
by tomrod | 2025-04-26 15:04:38+00:00
This is not accurate, though I have found that people who steep in rightwing propaganda tend to repeat these type of talking points.

The Rawlsian veil ethic applies here.

EDIT: RE - the knee-jerk downvotes. I appreciate that people pointing out authoritarianism can be painful if you are embracing it. Cognitive dissonance is never a fun thing to work through, and having done it a few times I sympathize with the struggles you face or may be facing.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-04-26 15:05:17+00:00
> Based on the type of grass and the direction of the wind.

There was a scene in High Potential (murder-of-the-week sleuth savant show) where a crime was solved by (in part) the direction the wind was blowing in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZOzck4bBI
by abduhl | 2025-04-26 15:05:23+00:00
"U.S. Born" and "U.S. Citizen" are the same number of words though, so it just seems like you're deliberately obfuscating. Maybe a better headline would be "Two Undocumented Families and Their American Children Deported by ICE." That way we'd save a word and make it unambiguous: these children are Americans.
by tomrod | 2025-04-26 15:05:50+00:00
So the US born children get to come back of their own accord, right? We're going to afford them the rights that every citizen of and person in this country has, like due process, right? We haven't forgotten the promise of the US to the world, to respect rights even when doing things people don't like, right?

Because if we have, that's an unmitigated bad.
by gruez | 2025-04-26 15:06:02+00:00
I meant the unit economics of their backup product, not the company as a whole. They made $69M in gross profit in 2024, with a gross margin of 55%. That turns into a lost only after subtracting R&D ($42M), sales and marketing ($44M), and G&A ($29M). Of course, those expenses can't be ignored in the context of a company that's set out to make money, but at least they're not selling $10 worth of storage for $5, like the OP implied.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-26 15:06:12+00:00
> The child has a US citizen relative and the father seems to have transferred provisional rights of custody to them.

Right, I think that's the issue here it's not that the parents should be automatically allowed to say, it's that they were not given a chance in court to allow for that process - to find a relative.

There is a complication in the case because the provisional custody was canceled then renewed and transferred to Trish Mack.

> Also on April 22, 2025, V.M.L.’s father executed a Provisional Custody by Mandate under Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:951, temporarily “delegat[ing] the provisional custody of” his two daughters to his U.S. citizen sister-in-law, who also lives in Baton Rouge, LA. The Mandate was notarized by a valid notary public in the state of Louisiana

> On April 24, 2025, the mandatary named in the Provisional Custody by Mandate terminated the agreement for personal reasons,

> V.M.L.’s father and Next Friend Petitioner Trish Mack executed a new notarized Provisional Custody by Mandate, delegating custodial authority to Ms. Mack
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-26 15:06:14+00:00
Wikipedia has been captured by special interests.

I recently watched The Silence of the Lambs, an Academy Award winning movie from the early 90s. Afterward, I skimmed the Wikipedia article to see if I missed any plot details.

There is a whole section on how the movie is considered transphobic by some nobodies, how the director defends that it isn't, blah blah blah. Having just watched the film, the thought didn't even enter my mind. I realized that the entire section is irrelevant to someone seeking information about the movie and at its worst, an opinion piece or cleverly disguised political shit-stirring.

Wikipedia is full of stuff like this. As a comparison I checked a 'real' encyclopedia (with editors) and of course not a mention of this, just the facts. Any attempt to delete irrelevant stuff from Wikipedia is closely guarded by self-appointed article gatekeepers because it has 'sources'.