MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apical_dendrite | 2025-04-25 19:40:22+00:00
Read the government's court filings. They're saying they can declare that someone is an enemy alien, provide minimal notice and opportunity for due process (12 hours, and that's only after the Supreme Court made them give any notice at all) and then send that person to a labor camp in El Salvador, at which point even if a court orders the government to bring them back, the government says it doesn't have to do anything. That's not hyperbole, that's their legal position.

So unless you're already represented by counsel, can understand the notice that they are providing you, and your counsel can get into court in the district where you're being held with a habeas corpus petition and get the court to rule within 12 hours, that's it, you'll be spending the rest of your life in a Salvadorean labor camp with no hope of recourse. That is literally what the government is saying.
by jihadjihad | 2025-04-25 19:40:43+00:00
> Alexander Gerschenkron, a labor historian at Harvard, in a 1978 issue of the American Scholar set out three criteria for a good book: It should be intrinsically interesting, it should be memorable, and it should be re-readable. Hemingway, alas, passes only the second of these tests, and is today probably not worth reading much beyond anyone’s twenty-first year.

Wow!

> The twentieth century may have widened the subject matter of the novel, but it has failed to deepen it.

What about Faulkner? Toni Morrison?

I share the sentiment about the magnitude of the loss of the novel, should it occur. Probably the last truly great novel I read was The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and that's twenty-some years old.
by x436413 | 2025-04-25 19:41:05+00:00
this whole subthread started with some cornell guy saying that you can run a horse business off a back of a gator, because your neighbors can haul for you, which is pretty much as cloud people as it goes. i'll venture that there's not a single horse farm in u.s. no matter how poor that is not subsidized with tech money that outsources its hauling. we're talking about running a business here, not hauling daisy to county fairgrounds three times a season.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-25 19:41:07+00:00
There are other reasons too.

1. Cars that offered manual options needed a center console. Japanese imports would always have a manual version, even if that version wasn't in the US. Same with European.

The only one alternative is a column manual shifter which is horrible to use.

You couldn't use a forward floor shifter unless you want to shift between the legs of the person in the middle.

There are dash mounted shifters but would probably hit the middle person's knees. Not sure since these are rare and usually European (fiat multipla) /Japanese

2. At a point a US safety requirement was all front passengers needed either an airbag or a automatic shoulder seatbelt, basically it ran along the door with a motor when the door closed.

Automatic shoulder belts were cheaper than airbags so manf usually picked that option but don't work with middle seats since they need a door/column for the rails.

3. Minor, but, additional side safety rules increased door thickness. Both sides pushed in more making it uncomfortable. Fine in rear but front, as you mentioned, is a danger to steering.

4. Smaller import cars due to gas crisis in 70s that US companies (eventually) copied that combined with reason (3) made the middle seat basically useless
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-25 19:41:10+00:00
> The reason is consumer demand. People weren't buying them.

I think this over-simplifies things. Strict milage standards force a set of compromises on ICE car design that make them both shittier and more expensive[1]. Why would anyone buy such a product when they can get an SUV instead?

[1] Some examples: turbochargers, CVTs, start/stop systems. All of these increase both the cost and complexity of building as well as repairing the car. And with higher complexity comes higher chances for something to fail as well so reliability suffers.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-25 19:41:43+00:00
Makes you wonder if they picked that form factor to appeal to a certain market segment that's current underserved?

I love the concept, but at $20.000USD it's to much. My guess is that they'd need to hit 15.000USD for the extend range version. Two minor thing I would chance, as others pointed out: Bench seat, and the second: Just make the holes/mounting options for an after market stereo.

Hopefully this is successful and will push other manufacturers to create similar options. I saw an old Morris parked outside the gym the other day, it took up maybe 2/3 of a parking space, it was perfectly size for my grandparents, it perfectly sized for my needs. I get that the car grows a bit in size, once all the modern safety features are added, but I don't see why that would amount to much more than the size of say an Opel Kadett D or E, or a Volvo for the 1980s.
by rozap | 2025-04-25 19:41:49+00:00
Every single product from facebook is or will be a vehicle for advertisement. Every vehicle for advertisement must be optimized for ad delivery. Optimizing for ad delivery chases attention above all else, including the end user's wellbeing.

At the end of the day, every facebook product must optimize for this singular business goal. Even if you don't see it at the moment you ship whatever feature, that is the truth.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-25 19:42:07+00:00
Not everyone needs to be on the sales team. You only need ~one person who knows how to do it. Once they get the channels opened with the client and the technical people are sending emails directly & regularly, even the most closeted nerds (including those who might also be founders) can begin to contribute meaningfully.

This is what being a "non-technical" founder is all about - building bridges between people and organizations.
by im3w1l | 2025-04-25 19:42:16+00:00
My thinking disagrees with yours, but I can't say I have fully made up my mind yet. To me a compiler that is not "exploiting UB" has several valid choices about how to compile this. i may be stored in memory, in a register or may be deleted entirely as it's known at compile time that it will have value 0. The store to arr[n] may go through or it may be deleted as it's a dead store.

You may say I'm "exploiting ub" when making these deductions but I would disagree. My argument is not of the form "x is ub so I can do whatever I want".

To elaborate on the example, if arr was volatile then I would expect the write to always go through. And if i was volatile then I would expect i to always be read. However it's still not guaranteed that i is stored immediately after arr, as the compiler has some discretion about where to place variables afaik. But if i is indeed put immediately after, then the function should indeed return 5 for n=3. For n>3 it should either return 0 (if writing to unused stack memory), page fault (for small n outside of the valid stack space), or stomp on random memory (for unlucky and large n). For negative n, many bad things are likely to happen.

Edit: I think I mixed up which way the stack grows but yeah.
by 2-3-7-43-1807 | 2025-04-25 19:42:22+00:00
I wish I could do that, too. But I'm suffering from Paruresis aka Shy Bladder Syndrome. Really weird condition. Mostly just a mild nuisance at worst. But there is this phenomenon where you have to pee when scuba diving even if you don't drink more than absolutely necessary. Twice I was stuck on a speed boat bumping up and down while my bladder was full to the brim - that is very painful ... everybody just merrily spreading their fountains of pee off the deck. Anyone here successfully made peace with their inner dolphin?
by kingnothing | 2025-04-25 19:42:48+00:00
There was a miscommunication here. Large companies don't want to deal with small companies since it's high effort to go through the whole procurement process that generally takes months.

The small companies I've worked at were generally quite happy to work with other small companies where procurement consists of a couple employees telling a founder they need a service, then the founder subscribes with a credit card later that week.

I don't generally work at small companies these days :)

50 might have been an over-estimate, but I thought you were advocating for a decentralized EU tech space, where I would need one vendor for each part of my tech stack... instead of using AWS for EKS + SQS + SNS + RDS, I would have one vendor for my managed kubernetes cluster, one for kafka, another for APNS notifications, and someone else to host the databases.
by jmull | 2025-04-25 19:43:20+00:00
The point is, people are breaking the law all the time, that law is rarely enforced, yet no one seems to be calling for a widespread crackdown on speeding.

The previous poster calls on us to be concerned about crimes and criminals leading to more crimes, but we already live in a country where very large numbers of “criminals” are driving around all over the place, yet it doesn’t seem to be a problem.

You might ask yourself why it’s supposed to be a big problem for one kind of law but not for another.
by CM30 | 2025-04-25 19:44:18+00:00
It's hilariously bad. For one thing, it seems to try to find an 'explanation' for anything you type in, no matter how ridiculous that might be or if there's even any info on it online at all. It's become a common meme online to just come up with random fake idioms, throw them into Google and see the nonsense it comes up with in its desperate attempt to make sense of the non phrase.

And even if you do ask a legitimate question, you have to then hope the system knows what you actually mean rather than taking every word in your question literally and returning a complete non answer. So you might ask "was [actor name] in Chicago (the movie)?", only for Google to say "no, [actor name] doesn't live in Chicago".

Add the dangerous misinformation, the extremist answers sometimes generated and its attempts to make up sources if I can't find any, and well, it's basically useless for just about everything.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-25 19:44:23+00:00
It's frightening that so many people are convinced the author is correct, when the author never proved they were correct.

The author just collected a bunch of correlations and then decided what the cause was. I've been doing this kind of work for many, many years. Just because it looks like it's caused by one thing, doesn't mean it is.

Correlation is not causation. That's not just a pithy quip, there's a reason why it's important to actually find causation.
by godelski | 2025-04-25 19:44:48+00:00
If you're no longer getting the buzz then that's nature's signal to you that you need to push yourself harder. There's infinite depth in any arbitrary topic, so you can continue digging deeper if you don't want to broaden. Or have you considered performing a rendition of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up as told by a 12 century pirate? That always brings me joy. You should give it a shot
by andirk | 2025-04-25 19:45:47+00:00
You have put much doubt in my best guess thus far which is an Australian living in Japan, and now no longer with us. Due to the British-like tone, the Japanese-like pseudonym, and the timestamps that reflected a daytime in a western Atlantic timezone. I ask:

- Did he live in India while writing the whitepaper, forum posts, and emails?

- Was he influenced by Japanese culture?

- Is/was he a man, woman, or several people? My C++ literacy isn't sharp enough, but others have surmised the original bitcoin code reads as more than one hand. The forum posts and emails sound like one individual male to me, though.

- You made other salient points pointing to India, but British-sounding writing can be from like half the world, from India, Australia, Canada, African countries, Singapore, tons of islands, etc.

Great post. Thank you!
by sightbroke | 2025-04-25 19:46:05+00:00
> The company spreads crushed basalt on small farms in India and Africa. The silica-rich volcanic rock improves the quality of the soil for the crops but also helps remove carbon dioxide from the air. It does this by reacting with dissolved CO2 in the soil’s water, turning it into bicarbonate ions and preventing it from returning to the atmosphere

> Carbon dioxide in the air dissolves into rainwater, forming carbonic acid. As rocks are worn away (or weathered) by this slightly acidic water, silicate minerals in the rock dissolve. This releases calcium, magnesium, and other positively charged ions called cations. These cations react with carbonic acid in the water, forming bicarbonate ions.

Here is a dumb question: Would the basalt capture CO2 more effectively if released into the atmosphere or into rain storms?
by jethro_tell | 2025-04-25 19:47:25+00:00
The difficulty here is that in the example above, it's unlikely, given any amount of scale, that the two people were on the same team. They were doing different things with the same data and probably didn't know what the other was doing.

Sure you could add a convention to your 'how to log' doc that specifies that all user input should be tagged with double '#' but who reads docs until things break? convention is a shitty way to make things work.

There's 100 ways that you could make this work correctly. Only restarting on a much more specific string, i.e. including the app name in the log line etc . . . but that's all just reducing the likely hood that you get burned.

I've also written a OOM-Killer.sh myself, I'm not above that, but it's one of those edge cases that's impossible to do correctly, which is why parsing and acting on log data generally considered and anti-pattern.
by ein0p | 2025-04-25 19:47:26+00:00
Did I say it wasn't? If your context is short and your model is small, it is possible to run LLMs on high-end CPUs able to support 12 channels of high-spec DDR5 RDIMMs. It's not possible to run them as fast as they'd run on a GPU equipped with HBM though. Nor would it be even remotely as energy efficient. Also, it's not possible to run LLMs quickly on CPU if your context is long, because CPUs do not have the requisite FLOPS to process long context quickly. And before you bring MoE into the conversation, MoE only affects the feedforward part of each transformer block, and full memory bandwidth and compute savings are only realized at batch size 1, sequence length 1, AKA the most inefficient mode that nobody other than Ollama users use in practice. Sequence length 8 (common for speculative decoding) could be using up to 8x37B parameters (assuming you want to run DeepSeek - the strongest available open weights model). Batch size of even 2 with sequence length 8 could use almost all parameters if you're particularly unlucky. Prompt will almost certainly use all parameters, and will slam into the FLOPS wall of your EPYC's ALUs. So can LLMs (with an emphasis on "Large") be run on CPUs? Yes. Are you going to have a good time running them this way? No.
by lolinder | 2025-04-25 19:47:31+00:00
If it can be credibly demonstrated that she cancelled the hearing and escorted the defendant out a back door within seconds of sending the officers away, that she had every intent of proceeding with the hearing before meeting with the officers, and that she and her peers did not usually use that door for defendants, then I would consider that to be proof beyond reasonable doubt that she intended to obstruct the arrest.

It's not a given, but it doesn't seem like an insurmountable burden of proof either.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-25 19:47:43+00:00
> gentle exercise in evening (like walking)

I don't disagree with this but even walking 4mph @ 87°dewpoint = ⅔ soaked, which feels not gentle. Actual intense exercise in that mug might kill us however.

>A moderate-to-intense run in the evening does affect my sleep, though.

Oddly, I've used short strenuous workouts to combat severe insomnia. More pain is better. It helps when panic is the driver but not for sleep=broken events.
by teachrdan | 2025-04-25 19:48:16+00:00
> Everyone should live in Iowa City at least once in their lives.

This is trivially disprovable.

The world has a population of ~8,000,000,000 people. Assuming an average life expectancy of 65 years, if everyone lived in Iowa City (pop. 74,828 [0]) for just one day, its population would increase by 337,197, effectively quintupling its population.

It would diminish the city's walkability due to 6,743.9 buses [1] going into the city every day, or almost 4.68 every minute. And because visitors would be around 4x more people from outside Iowa City than from Iowa City itself, the average friendliness, safeness, intelligence and rebelliousness of its residents would all revert toward the global mean. And I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to extrapolate what would happen to Iowa City's affordability when it has to support all these additional people.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_City,_Iowa

1. https://nationsbus.com/motor-coaches-for-sale/dimensions-and...
by refulgentis | 2025-04-25 19:48:47+00:00
> more than half of new research is fake

You committed the same sin you are attempting to condemn, while sophomorically claiming it is obvious this sin deserves an intellectual death penalty.

It made me smile. :) Being human is hard!

Now I'm curious, will you acknowledge the elephant in this room? It's hard to, I know, but I have a strong feeling you have a commitment to honesty even if it's hard to always enact all the time. (i.e. being a human is hard :) )
by alganet | 2025-04-25 19:48:56+00:00
It is important to note that if you are not silent, it also does not automatically mean consent.

If you fully understand an issue and complain about it within the space that is pertinent to the issue, there must be no assumption that understanding is equivalent to consenting.

Even though it might be implied that silence is non-consenting (I don't agree, therefore I'll leave), and recognizing while staying seems to imply consent, it is not.

Failure to comprehend these legal gray areas will eventually fuck up everyone trying to get an advantage by doing silly legal acrobatics.
by yesfitz | 2025-04-25 19:49:16+00:00
Absolutely! There's no shortage of drinking and football, we are still a college town, but Summer's right around the corner and while the students are (mostly) away, the townies come out to play.

The Iowa City Arts Festival or Jazzfest would be great times to visit.

I'd recommend stopping by Kindred for coffee, and Prairie Lights for the books and ambience. Museum-wise, the Museum of Natural History, the Old Capitol Museum, and the Stanley Museum of Art are all worth your time and free to the public.

Dinner is hard to go wrong, but Trumpet Blossom Cafe is very popular, and Vue is on the 12th story of a hotel has great views of the airport and city, and outdoor seating. I'd also recommend checking out the Iowa City Public Library and the rest of the Pedestrian Mall, and maybe catch a movie at FilmScene in the Chauncey on the next visit.

World of Bikes rents bikes for the day, and the river trail is a pleasant ride between City Park (where you may catch Shakespeare in The Park in the Summer) and Big Grove Brewery, and extends down to Terry Trueblood Recreation Area in the South.

I think the biggest thing that's hard to communicate with a day/weekend trip is how incredibly lovely living here is every day. The hardest part is choosing between all of the activities available.
by masklinn | 2025-04-25 19:49:31+00:00
Nobody looking for a fuel efficient car would look at Aston, and nobody looking at Aston would go for a fuel efficient car.

Which was borne by its sales: sold for nearly 3 times the price you'd have paid Toyota for an iQ, it sold all of 600 units in two years before being cancelled, Aston's second shortest production run. The shortest was the Virage which sold more than 1000 units in a year.
by sasmithjr | 2025-04-25 19:50:01+00:00
> [Dugan allegedly] escorted the them through a private back door to avoid arrest.

According to the complaint [0] on page 11, Flores-Ruiz still ended up in a public hallway and was observed by one of the agents. They just didn't catch him before he was able to use the elevator.

INAL but I don't think "Dugan let Flores-Ruiz use a different door to get to the elevator than ICE expected" should be illegal.

[0]: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/3d022b74...
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-25 19:50:05+00:00
Are you one of those people who somehow believe that, because the pop culture "chemical imbalance" ideology was never factual, SSRIs don't work.

They are continually prescribed because their actual mechanism doesn't matter, they demonstrably work. That is a matter of statistics, not science.

Anti-science types always point to the same EXTREMELY FEW examples of how science "fails", like Galileo (which had nothing to do with science) and ulcers.

They never seem to point to the much more common examples where people became convinced of something scientifically untrue for decades despite plenty of evidence otherwise. The British recognized a link between citrus and scurvy well before they were even called "Limeys"! They then screwed themselves over by changing some variables (cooking lime juice) and instead turned to a quack ("respected doctor" from a time when most people recognized doctors were worse than the sickness they treated) who insisted on alternative treatment. For about a hundred years, British sailors suffered and died due to one quacks ego.

Phrenology was always, from day one, unscientific. You STILL find morons pushing it's claims, using it to justify their godawful, hateful, and murderous world views.

Ivermectin is a great example, since you can create a "study" in Africa to show Ivermectin cures anything you want, because it is a parasite killer and most people in impoverished areas suffer from parasites, so will improve if they take it. It's entirely unrelated to the illness you claim to treat, but nobody on Facebook will ever understand that, because they tuned out science education decades ago.

How many people have died from alternative medicine quacks pushing outright disproven pseudoscience on people who have been told not to trust scientists by people pushing an agenda?

How much money is made selling sugarpills to idiots who have been told to distrust science, not just "be skeptical of any paper" but outright, scientists are in a conspiracy to lie to you!
by diabllicseagull | 2025-04-25 19:50:20+00:00
It is a noble cause. I've spent ten years of my life using CUDA professionally, outside the AI domain mind you. Most of these years, there was a strong desire to break off of CUDA and the associated Nvidia tax on our customers. But one thing we didn't want was to move from depending on CUDA to depending on another intermediary which would also mean financial drain, like the enterprise licensing these folks want to use. Sadly, open source alternatives weren't fostering much confidence, either with their limited feature coverage or just not knowing if they will be supported in the long term (support for new hardware, fixes, etc.).
by doright | 2025-04-25 19:52:19+00:00
From the Wikipedia page:

> Unlike most vehicles sold in the United States, the Slate Truck is not expected to have any Internet connectivity

Well that's certainly a sentence. It wasn't true just 20 years ago. It makes me wonder about the world we've grown into with deeply intertwined apps becoming not only the norm but expected.

The idea is there but I'm wondering about the execution. Here's hoping it takes off.