MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-18 16:59:52+00:00
It isn’t just the young. My father is a professor of clinical psychology with a long and storied career and is looking outside the country. He works a lot with the government on psychometric personality evaluation for security clearances and has gotten lists of words that are banned and guidances towards discrimination against certain groups in denying security clearances. He’s seeing grants for his doctorate and post doctorate students denied if their focus is not aligned against certain groups (including pregnant women and depression in men, as odd as it sounds). He came of age in the 1960’s, and this is everything his parents and his generation fought against come to fruition. He is torn between staying and putting up a fight or going somewhere where he is valued and give value to people who seek his mentorship without constraints and political ideology imposed on it. Frankly, I think he should give to humanity what he has to give and let my generation do the fighting - if there’s any that we will do.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-18 17:00:08+00:00
> QDOS had the advantage of being able to reimplement the CP/M-86 design rather than starting from scratch.

CP/M was little different from the PDP-11 operating system, which it used as a model.

CP/M was not as innovative as often thought.

Both CP/M-86 and MSDOS were just an interrupt table and some implementation routines. The 8086 chip was designed around that interrupt table, so of course any OS would use it.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-04-18 17:00:31+00:00
Well this is what I'm talking about: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/clinton-dnc-steele-d... Hillary paid a fine for her 2016 antics during the Biden administration.

>Trump's allies challenged the election results after losing, 60 times. No credible, election-result-changing fraud found. Clinton did not challenge the election results after losing. Not the same. Not even close.

I think the key here is that not enough was proven to change any results. But the margins were close. Candidates routinely challenge elections (even Kamala was fundraising to challenge her clear defeat), and some (like Hillary and Trump) never accept it all the way. These things are all similar. The media pretends that everything is uniquely bad when Trump happens to do it and they turn a blind eye to Democrats doing the exact same stuff. It is exhausting to argue with people who refuse to understand this hypocrisy happening right before their eyes.
by lubujackson | 2025-04-18 17:01:00+00:00
We remember the good and forget the negatives. Like waiting 5 minutes for a 500k image to load, trying to configure jumpers on a sound card, or waiting multiple minutes to load a game (or the next level in a game...)

The joys of today are just different from when I was a kid. I can bemoan that games can't truly have secrets and lore any more, which is true. But my son can craft an entire world in Minecraft and have his friends play in it while they chat and he can craft his own secrets and experiences for his friends.

He focuses on the fun he can have today and cares not at all about the fun that existed before him.
by ricardobeat | 2025-04-18 17:01:06+00:00
I’ve never seen palm kernel oil listed as a food ingredient. It seems to be most commonly used in cosmetics.

This is a mix up on why certain oils are on the current “oils to avoid” list. Palm oil gets a bad reputation mainly because of environmental issues with how it's grown, not because it's unhealthy. But all these concerns get lumped together in the “bad oils” list.
by jaredhansen | 2025-04-18 17:01:10+00:00
Spinnaker might be great - I don't know them - but if you're in the market for sailing lessons in SF Bay I can highly, highly recommend Club Nautique out of Alameda[1].

The quality of instruction is very high, with a focus on safety and building a strong foundation of knowledge. Especially if you ever might want to charter in remote locations or sail across oceans, it's really an excellent foundation.

[1]https://www.clubnautique.net/school/introduction-to-sailing/
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-18 17:01:26+00:00
> It's like people defining Capitalism to require pure free markets, just so they can say the US or British Empires never really engaged in Capitalism. It just seems like an exercise in semantics.

Not quite as real-world Capitalism has an approximation of free markets. I would say that's quite different from "Christians" going against welcoming strangers and feeding/healing the poor. In my view Jesus was against being judgemental, so sects that prioritise being judgemental cause me some cognitive dissonance when they are described as Christian.
by jefftk | 2025-04-18 17:01:34+00:00
> Barriers to entry for self hosted sites. Easier to host with Google now.

Let's Encrypt (which Google helped fund) is the opposite of a barrier to entry. Free domain-validated fully automated HTTPS cert distribution wasn't a thing, and now it is. It makes it way easier to self host in a post-PRISM world.

Also, Google does a tiny fraction of overall web hosting.

> HTTP/whatever was done only for Google's benefit.

Your claim is that everything Google has done has been worse for the web, so you don't get to pick individual tech that's clearly good (ex: V8) and ignore it. And whether things were done for Google's benefit is also irrelevant: the claim is about outcomes.

On the specific question of HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, these have made large improvements in end-to-end loading times across the web, including when Google is at neither end of the connection, and especially for high latency connections like mobile.

> If they're so standard why do people develop for Chrome and ignore other browsers?

All of the things I listed are widely supported and fully standardized.

There are other parts of the web platform that aren't, and that does push people to Chrome, but that's not what we're talking about.

Again, if you'd like to claim Google's impact has been bad on net that's much more arguable, but your claim is way stronger than that.
by apwell23 | 2025-04-18 17:01:40+00:00
yes i live in a major city and i've never seen a woman live by herself. like not even a once.

anyways i wasn't contradicting that there are more women working now ( which is not actually true ) . I was asking how you correlated that to birth rates .

these two graphs aren't exactly telling the same story

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS?locat...

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ind/ind...
by rbetts | 2025-04-18 17:02:27+00:00
Uh huh.

> U.S. State Department hire Darren Beattie wrote on X: "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-darren-beattie-state...
by jonahbenton | 2025-04-18 17:03:21+00:00
The idea of DOGE, of course! But over and over anecdotal conversations about the huge difference between mental model of what one thinks DOGE would be doing vs all of the reporting about what is actually happening- Elon Musk's "approval" is bottoming out for a reason, the town halls are angry and nearing violence for a reason. Nobody wants what is actually happening.
by oxml | 2025-04-18 17:03:22+00:00
Spot on. As a racer, I can say this is mostly true. Although for me and many of the other racers I know, it's less about going deep into the optimization, sail choices, etc, and more about just being competitive. Racers don't always make good cruisers because they're always trying to go faster and push harder, whereas most cruisers want to slow down and enjoy the journey.
by LunaSea | 2025-04-18 17:03:30+00:00
> Yes, yes it did. The skyrocketing revenue is attributable to increased internet usage across the globe, and Google outright owning a large chunk of it.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

> Example: if you collect and sell vast amounts of sensitive user data without user's consent

The users do give consent and this is handled by Consent Management Platforms and passed in the programmatic advertisement auction chain in the form of TC strings.

The fact that you don't know this is also quite telling.

> [...] and the outcome is indistinguishable from random noise, are you more effective?

But it isn't, and if you are making claims, please provided sources.

Why would brands and agencies pay additional fees for data if they would provide no uplift?

> Example: if targeted ads are found to be somewhat more effective than contextual ads, is the lifelong invasive tracking of every user action a preferred tradeoff?

Are users prepared to pay for the difference?
by moritzwarhier | 2025-04-18 17:03:41+00:00
Geofencing is not exclusive to Apple. Not even to native mobile apps. As you likely already known :)

While the submission does make an important point, it seems a bit obfuscated by accusing Apple exclusively.

Seems like main benefit of the side-loading was bypassing the geofence.

And while native apps provide heavier geo-attribution (thus, probably harder to fake), I'm not sure if this is solely an Android vs Apple thing.
by surajrmal | 2025-04-18 17:04:23+00:00
Everything has pros and cons. Just because their calculus came out different from yours doesn't mean they made the wrong decision for their situation. Hundreds of thousands of organizations have made similar conclusions to arxiv.

Google cloud profitable these days and advertising or other income streams drying up will only entice Google to further invest in cloud to ensure they are more diversified. Google isn't going to go away overnight and cloud is perhaps the least risky business they operate in.
by dingnuts | 2025-04-18 17:04:26+00:00
"AAPI" is truly the epitome of a DEI term that is racist in exactly the way the ideology pretends not to be.

Really, you're going to group indigenous New Zealanders with Han Chinese as "one" racial group? Just to pick two very different groups at random. There are many absurd pairings that fit under "AAPI" and it's a parody of itself.

It's erasing these cultures to group them all under one constructed postmodern umbrella
by rolandog | 2025-04-18 17:04:27+00:00
The world was not ready for such religions then [0]:

> There are several reasons why the worship of Baal and Asherah was such a problem for Israel. First, the worship of Baal and Asherah held the allure of illicit sex, since the religion involved ritual prostitution. [...]

The Asherahs/Ashtoreths probably needed better branding.

[0]: https://www.gotquestions.org/Baal-and-Asherah.html
by aaroninsf | 2025-04-18 17:04:29+00:00
Ask-HN:

Context:

Every time a game engine like this pops up I read through the comments noting other engines and various perspectives and criticisms (positive and negative).

I have a game-like music composition project I want to pick back up. Media-intensive with a rich isometric/2D environment, with lots of little animations, which need to be synchronized to perfectly-scheduled audio events.

I develop fully-feature prototypes in the past, most recently on iOS for iPad before there was iPadOS... but using Core libraries hit a performance wall on hardware of that era.

Question:

Who can I consult with up front to get good advice on what technology path to pursue, to realize my project?

WebGL/Webasm would be fine. Cross-platform console targets would be fine. iPadOS would be fine and best, gestures are a core part of the vision.

...and I have no idea where and how to find my way into this.

I follow some GameDev feeds and naturally what I read about is very capable application of engines/environments which are quite close to what I need, but which are (naturally) targetting game dev.

Say you wanted to sit down and make a rich visual sequencer with some DAW-like features? What's the right approach?

It's not a traditional DAW, it's much more about a rich tiled game-like UX; it's not a game, with levels, maps, and such... it's got elements of both. The audio engine needs to be DAW-level, but, synchronized to graphical elements and UX and responsive to gesture in a way that's like game-level.

Any ideas welcome. I think I have a good (layperson's) understanding of the overal architecture I need; but I don't know how my conceptual map translates into different styles of game-engine or more general media-engines.

My hunch is my "solodev" state which was a blocker before when I had no time to quit the day job and learn eg. OpenGL for iOS, is significantly ameliorated today by code assistants... iff they are familiar with <the engine/platform>

Do Claude Code etc. know Unity dev? Engines like this one? I don't know! Naive.

Haaaaalp
by acdha | 2025-04-18 17:04:41+00:00
I think both problems are real, and your last paragraph really gets at why. People and jobs vary widely, and so does the quality of management. If you have a strong business and reasonably mature teams, you might not even realize problems with your management culture and practice are until something big changes; conversely, if you have strong managers you might have been able to soak up a lot of personnel and job issues before they got attention because some unappreciated middle managers put a lid on potential problems first.

In all cases, you really someone with time to look at the business as a whole to evaluate these things. For example, one of the things which has made RTO unproductive for many workers are open plan offices, which is a really easy problem to see and fix if workplace productivity is someone’s job but not if the RTO push is being driven by politics or the need to justify leases.
by chubot | 2025-04-18 17:04:57+00:00
FWIW another thing that Guy Steele advocated was value types, which as I understand it is ongoing work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Valhalla_(Java_languag...

https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/

I have said in the past, and will say now, that I think it would be a good thing for the Java programming language to add generic types and to let the user define overloaded operators.

He did get the generic types though, I think that was well over a decade ago now
by jltsiren | 2025-04-18 17:05:03+00:00
But this was about Eostre. Whatever the name meant and wherever it came from, it was pretty clearly the origin of the word "Easter". And there is reasonable evidence of a Germanic goddess with a name something like Eostre or Ostara, related to various Indo-European dawn goddesses, such as Eos, Aurora, and Ushas.
by hollerith | 2025-04-18 17:05:40+00:00
>Sure, but currently the wealth of the US depends on maintaining the world's reserve currency.

Where does this bizarre belief come from?

I'm not saying that the US does not benefit from the fact that business all over the world is denominated in US dollars, but that is a far cry from the assertion that US wealth depends on that fact: the US is wealthy for many reasons in addition to that fact.

It seems more likely to me that the fact that the US was so rich and continues to be so rich caused businesspeople all over the world to choose to do their transaction in US dollars.

In general, among the countries of the world, the US is among the least dependent on other countries for its continued economic prosperity. (Other relatively independent countries are Argentina, France and most of SE Asia. Countries highly dependent on other countries for their continued economic prosperity include China, Germany and most of the third world.)
by ohgr | 2025-04-18 17:05:50+00:00
Generally best to have some redundancy there.

My ass has been saved more times by an iPhone compass and offline OrganicMaps than the other way round. Quote the situation a couple of years back where the state issued paper maps were completely wrong and my Suunto compass turned out to likely be a fake one and froze and cracked open overnight. 30km from humans on a mountain range in central asia.

I have never had an iPhone crap out on me I will add. Has completely replaced my dedicated GPS.

The worst thing I've ever seen though is a compass app on Android that won't work if it can't contact the ad server.
by alganet | 2025-04-18 17:06:07+00:00
Trying to predict things is not my preferred thing.

I try to make myself easily replaceable by others. Non-special, in the context of a job. It's a hallmark of teamwork, for decades.

To face that prospect with AI as a replacement seems unexpected and the wrong kind of question. I can't transfer knowledge to it like I would to a team mate.

I don't understand your use of 'artistry' here. Do you mean your 'craftsmanship'? I will answer like you meant that.

Do something that is rare, valuable and honest. Share it with others so it doesn't fade away. There are many of those kinds of things. It does not guarantee you will be valued, and that's ok.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-18 17:06:16+00:00
I believe this is exactly correct. Email is a 'paper trail' and being able to change that paper trail ex-post facto benefits the sender waaaaaaaaaaay more than it does the receiver. I met an engineer from Google who quit when they insisted on "dogfooding" this.

They used the example, you send an email that says lets meet for dinner tonight at 6. You arrive and after 30 minutes begin to wonder, go back to your email and now it says meet "tommorow night" at 6. Are you crazy? Did you misremember? Or did the sender change the email after they sent it and you read it? How could you complain?

As I understand it, it was met internally with "that isn't what we mean." But the ability to send HR important announcements and then change them after the fact is a capability that is just too tempting for HR to resist at some point.
by za3faran | 2025-04-18 17:07:04+00:00
I noticed the URL, that doesn't change what I wrote: the article itself is empty. Just being posted on a upenn URL doesn't make it automatically authentic nor academic.

There is no evidence of the "dung gatherer decree" except in fictional work. As I wrote, I deny all accusation unless cited properly.

> Uh-huh. The ones it conquered and colonized?

No, the lands it spread to whose inhabitants accepted Islam without force, whose local culture and language was preserved, and which flourished afterward, and whos non-Muslim population was granted rights and protections.

The Armenian and Greek genocides was due to the rise of secularist movements like the young Turks. I mentioned this in another post. Those are explicitly anti-Islamic, and purely secular. Again proving my point that those would not have happened under Islamic rule.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-18 17:07:20+00:00
Civil war has a tendency to exponentiate. It doesn't take more than a few people to initiate it (assuming the rhetorical and attitude circumstances are favorable). The 1861 war started with one militia and one fort (really, depending on what historian you're talking to, it started with one religious fundamentalist family and a single raid on Harper's Ferry).

In 1861, people picnicked on a hillside to watch the first army-to-army fight of the war. By the end of the war, cities had been burned down.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-18 17:07:30+00:00
Along the way they destroyed all trust and goodwill that Bitcoin had created.

Trust derives from stability which can only be established over time.

Any "stability" crypto has/had comes from ties to fiat (see "stable coins") --- they very thing it is intended to replace.

In other words, the fact that crypto markets revolve around "stable coins" is a testament to fiat and proof of crypto's inadequacy as a currency.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-18 17:08:13+00:00
You are incorrect, the numbers you are quoted is EBS volume performance. iX instances have directly attached NVME volumes which are separate from EBS.

> NVMe i bought for 150 dollars

Sure, now cost out the rest of the server, the racks, the colocation space for racks, power, multiple AZ redundancy, a clos network fabric, network peering, the spare hardware for failures, off site backups, supply chain management, a team of engineers to design the system, a team of staff to physically rack new hardware and unrack it, a team of engineers to manage the network, on call rotations for all those teams.

Sure the NVME is just $150 bro.
by the_gipsy | 2025-04-18 17:08:55+00:00
Consider the possibility that the brain has not necessarily "concluded" what is being put into words, internally. That the monologue is the conclusion, which we are processing.

So we have two points of view, perspectives, or explanations. Yours is that there is some internal-mind code that is NOT language, which we are able to convert instantly to language to communicate with others. Most people then also have an internal monologue for unknown or orthogonal reasons, while some don't have it, without making any significant difference, because it is something like a side effect.

Mine is that the internal monologue is the thought itself. There is no other, hidden, code that can express the same complexity as the language that we use both to communicate with others and our own mind. That we don't need this internal monologue for a lot of things (consider driving a car), but it's a crucial mechanism for planning long term tasks, solving new problems, and what generally separates us from other intelligent life forms.
by nelblu | 2025-04-18 17:09:12+00:00
> Same companies were telling is how well it worked and they had the numbers to back it up.

I took a new job in 2022, at that time everyone was still working from home. My boss, who was a VP at that time, said isn't this amazing? We save on fuel, time, spend more time at home etc. Productivity has been amazing and all.

Two years later in early 2024 when they started pushing RTO, same guy repeats the standard bullshit about - we need those sidebar conversations, we need to meet face to face and all. Not a single word of how it wastes fuel, or time etc.

I realized he was powerless against the corporate policies, but just his hypocrisy was enough for me to find another (100% remote) job.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-04-18 17:09:28+00:00
> a black man in the white house and women on the presidential ballot. The retrograde prejudices so deeply ingrained in the country’s memome that we are still in the throes of an anaphylactic reaction to an acute melatonin allergy.

This is the most obscenely wrong take I can imagine, and I'll gladly explain why I say that.

Your AI-generated response plainly ignores a country in love with Michael Jordan and Whitney Houston for decades, for example, and are choosing skin deep characteristics to fit _your_ narrative, while ignoring the things voters repeatedly emphasized as damning, all of which were color blind: a complete lack of policy by the "woman on the ticket", condescension from Hillary that people not following her directives "need to get over themselves", Obama chastising black men that they must vote as he says. It's a playbook on the alienation of voters.
by bigmattystyles | 2025-04-18 17:09:45+00:00
Furthermore, if these anti-DEI folks, whatever DEI means, think that people are hiring primarily based on some attribute rather than capability then it's fair to assume that if someone in any position is a straight, white, male they are there, not because they are qualified, but because they are straight, white, male. And from what I've seen, that's actually always been more of a problem than sourcing candidates from various populations.