MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AAAAaccountAAAA | 2025-04-26 18:15:28+00:00
> No, it is not a SPOF. If the PS goes down, traffic keeps flowing as normal; it just doesn’t get spamchecked. They do not give a “go/no go instruction to the larger network”; they are something which servers can check against.

That is still a failure (to spam check), even if it is not a failure to deliver the messages altogether.

It may also end up being a vulnerability. For example, the attackers might do a some sort of flood attack on the policy server, and then get the abuse through.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 18:16:06+00:00
This is lying with data, giving Bukele credit for sociological factors that predate his administration:

Year Rate Total 2015 106.3 6,656 2016 84.1 5,269 2017 83.0 3,962 2018 53.1 3,346 2019 38.0 2,398 [Bukele’s inauguration] 2020 21.2 1,341 2021 18.1 1,147 2022 7.8 495 [start of gang crackdown] 2023 2.4 154 2024 1.9 114

Genuinely infuriating that you crow about the “10x” drop of 1100->150 homicides, rooting for mass incarceration and excusing torture, when homicides were plummeting drastically for nearly a decade before the crackdown. He had nothing to do with the 6,600->3,300 drop, but I guess according to your math that’s merely halving.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-26 18:17:05+00:00
We don't elect an all powerful leader. The people did vote for Trump. But "well they voted for Trump" is not an excuse for him to do literally anything. If the people want legislative changed then they elect people in Congress. If the people want to change the constitution itself then they can seek that too.

But "well Trump won so just have ICE kill them all" (this is what my aunt, a republican lobbyist, wants) is not a thing.
by nandomrumber | 2025-04-26 18:17:33+00:00
The nuclear waste issue is such a non-issue that the overwhelming majority of nuclear waste, the actual spent fuel, is stored on site at the nuclear power plants.

Long lived nuclear waste just isn't that radioactive, and highly reactive nuclear waste products just aren't that long lived.

If the waste is vitrified (glassified) it becomes basically chemically non-reactive too.
by titaphraz | 2025-04-26 18:17:39+00:00
Pretty much every time I add a new contact to my phone I start to get really strange ads online. I figured it out when I added a guy who's retiring for the army. I started getting retirement ads for soldiers.

Then, I add a guy I loosely know and what do I start seeing? Cocaine rehab ads. I shit you not. It's not hard to argue that this is more than a minor privacy violation.
by aspenmayer | 2025-04-26 18:17:41+00:00
I’m not sure about modern usage, but I’m pretty sure that the popularity of “good buddy” in a specifically trucker CB radio usage was boosted by the release of the 1975 novelty song Convoy by C. W. McCall. It describes a group of truckers attempting to counter interdiction by law enforcement. Curiously, the lead driver referred to as Rubber Duck relates to the other drivers what is coming down the track, and coordinates with them to ensure the convoy continues unimpeded. In the sequel(!) to this joke song, Rubber Duck goes around the world, which in the context of QSL cards and (CB) radio, I find especially interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqYTX7parRw

This probably didn’t hurt, either (from Wikipedia, above):

> The song was the inspiration for the 1978 Sam Peckinpah film Convoy, for which McCall rerecorded the song to fit the film's storyline.
by shawn-butler | 2025-04-26 18:18:11+00:00
No, the humanities won't survive.

The problem with humanities is that the "state of the art" is about only saying something "new". For example, the author thinks that discussing Kantian theories of the sublime and “The Epic Split” ad (a highly meme-able 2013 Volvo ad starring Jean-Claude Van Damme) is "straight A" work.

It is irrelevant nonsense masquerading as intelligent discourse much like most of this author's actual published work and it is also something at which LLMs excel.

To be a "rockstar" humanities professor at Princeton, you have to make up something "cool" to fill the seats to keep the attention of 17-25 year-olds.

With LLMs that have encoded snapshots of the entire literary corpus that humanity has produced, those students can make up whatever connections they want and justify their worldview. No humanities courses required beyond maybe some introduction to vocabulary / prompting.
by meowface | 2025-04-26 18:18:33+00:00
Not to get political, but it deeply irks me to see some American far-leftists glamorize and glorify the Soviet regime and even modern regimes like North Korea's. Especially when certain popular streamers do it. Obviously seeing far-right American internet personalities glorify the Nazi regime is also awful, but the former is often normalized and not considered ostracization-worthy while the latter (rightfully) is.
by giantrobot | 2025-04-26 18:19:05+00:00
Fail-safe designs are more expensive because they require redundancies, fully manual linkages, or just non-centralized control.

The Cybertruck went with daisy chained PoE automotive Ethernet variant. The same cables delivering power to subcomponents handle data. Damage/problems in a single component can not only bring down the network but kill power to all the car's subsystems. It means less wiring in the Cybertruck (and lower production expense) at the cost of durability and fail-safety. Someone looked at TokenRing Ethernet and said "yes that is best".
by ColinWright | 2025-04-26 18:19:10+00:00
From the author's post on Mathstodon ...

There's a new complete version of Introducing Category Theory downloadable here:

https://logicmatters.net/categories

Apart from proof reading for typos and thinkos, this is the version which will be paperbacked (as cheaply as possible) in May. So do please let me know of any errors, however small!

(For those who aren't familiar with earlier drafts, this is a very gently paced intro, covering much of what's in e.g. Tom Leinster's book but at a more leisurely pace with most proofs/exercises fully spelt out. Could be useful warm up for those who will be taking an industrial strength grad course. Or for those who just want to get some sense of what the catgorial fuss is about but in a more conventional/more detailed way than you'll get from Eugenia Cheng's book)

-- https://mathstodon.xyz/@PeterSmith/114405298066685855
by jimmydddd | 2025-04-26 18:19:19+00:00
This. As a junior lawyer at a large law firm, one of my jobs was checking every cited case to confirm that it was cited correctly, that it actually supported the theory that it was being used to support, and that it hadn't been overturned or qualified by subsequent case law. It's a process called Shepardizing that every law student does. So I can't fathom how fictitious cases could possibly be included in a brief. Also, just slightly mischaracterizing a case in a brief could be cause for being sanctioned. So I don't see how this type of issue would not undoubtedly result in sanctions.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-04-26 18:19:21+00:00
People are complaining about using the Ghibli style, but I'm here to complain about the fact that they turn everything into generic abstractions that look nothing like the people in the original photos. Generic-cartoon-vaguely-reminiscent-of-your-family-but-not-really is a product that I'm surprised someone would be proud of.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-26 18:19:46+00:00
Purely hypothetically, blue sky solution space?

If the law exceeds the government's ability to enforce it, relax it. It's de facto relaxed because of the lack of fundamental resources to enforce it... Put the reality on paper.

Stop treating the southern border as a war zone and reopen it. It used to be more open. It was, in fact, more open in that magical America great period that MAGA ostensibly seems to be nostalgic for. Not only did the country survive the openness, it flourished.

If the law is too hard to enforce, have less of it. Lower scrutiny. Hand out day passes. Welcome The stranger with a smile and a friendly wave.
by mindslight | 2025-04-26 18:19:56+00:00
The assumption of "good intentions" is not really warranted at this point. This movement is mainly driven by people who feel they have been marginalized by our society, and they want to lash out and see other people get hurt, period.

Regardless of the ways they have been marginalized, and how much marginalization they have done to themselves by failing to engage with the complexity of the world and following malicious leaders instead, this is where we are at. We need to stare this bare reality in the face lest the supporters, enablers, and fence-sitters continue soothing themselves with rationalizations.
by neilv | 2025-04-26 18:20:12+00:00
Additional reasons for inaction:

1. They don't know what they can do that will be effective.

2. They don't want to be targeted as dissidents or non-loyalists to the regime.

3. They're drained by their individual economic situations and worries.

4. They're drained by severe disappointment in large swaths of the electorate, and in the failure of checks and balances.

5. Events are so upsetting that they're in denial or consciously avoiding it.

It might be reassuring to see huge protests, but I wouldn't encourage individuals to do that anymore, because most of those people will be identified by the various surveillance technologies that we've built. (Half of the surveillance built by techbros, incidentally.) The identified can then be further suppressed with automation, and the barriers to doing that are much lower than mass physical roundups and concentration camps.
by cantrecallmypwd | 2025-04-26 18:20:27+00:00
More or less.

XFS or ext2 (or 3 or 4 wo journal), without LVM or mdraid.

There's no point to adding RAID at the hardware or OS level for object storage boxes when redundancy exists at the application level. A drive with too many errors will be marked "dead" and just spun down and ignored.

Metadata servers OTOH tend to be engineered to be much more reliable beasts.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-26 18:20:41+00:00
Especially when the same politicians and agencies pushing the whole cruel scheme have a past history of permanently losing hundreds of children. [0]

"Leave your 2-year-old with the angry government man who will totes ensure they are reunited with your spouse" is not a choice that exists.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/16/us-lasting-harm-family-s...
by ear7h | 2025-04-26 18:21:06+00:00
This sounds like an intellectual debate but there's nothing of substance being said here lol. casey2 thinks British people today are wrongly (naively) complaining about the rich/powerful/elite (structuralism). top1bobby is making fun of casey2 because the latter is using a lot of big words (overwrought) while _reducing_ complicated politics to a single issue; basically "you think you're smart with fancy words but you are just as bad as the people you complain about (P.S. I can use fancy words too)"
by t3783783jf | 2025-04-26 18:21:10+00:00
You remind me of this interview with Alan Kay:

https://futureofcoding.org/notes/alan-kay-lunch.html

In the piece the notion that what we need to solve our problems is more people like Joy, Torvalds and de Raadt and less people like Zuckerberg, Gates, and Bezos is gently alluded to, and I think it's a powerful point.

I'd nearly go on and suggest things like Tools for Conviviality, or some Cory Doctorow stuff. But in any case it's a lovely interview, maybe it's a good enough start.
by andsoitis | 2025-04-26 18:21:48+00:00
> In these cases they have legally resident parents, just not the one who the child was with when snatched without due process.

Is that true? I re-read the article (but didn’t google for other sources), but nowhere could I see that definitively stated.

It would be interesting if the deportable mother of one of these minors (e.g. the one who is pregnant) decided to leave them with other family in the US rather than stay together as a family, but it is of course her right to make such a decision.
by gruez | 2025-04-26 18:22:09+00:00
>Is this some kind of personal challenge? It’s arithmetic for chrissakes, not calculus. S3 IA $0.0125/Gb-mo, ingress basically free, $99/yr÷(12mo/yr×$0.0125/Gb-mo)=660 Gb.

This includes AWS's margin, which could be quite handsome. Bandwidth costs for the top 3 hyperscalers have converged to around 9 cents per GB, but nobody seriously thinks that's anywhere close to to the actual cost of bandwidth, or that hetzner/ovh is going to go under because they're offering 1TB ($90) of bandwdith for their $5/month VPS.

Even taking the 660GB figure at face value, that's plausibly within the range of what I'd expect the average person to have backed up, especially when you consider that the pricing is per machine, and the standard desktop/laptop comes with around 500 GB of storage.

You've also failed to address my point about their gross margins. The reliability of their books have been questioned, but even the short report didn't accuse them of cooking that metric.

>The gym closes I can buy a different gym membership. My cloud storage service closes, it may be difficult to move my data to a different provider, depending on how much data and what kind of rate limits. We’ve seen this before. People with data stuck in an “unlimited” storage service that’s shutting down, trying to transfer it but getting their egress throttled.

It's a backup service. It's not even trying to compare itself with the likes of dropbox or onedrive. You should have at the very least a second copy locally.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-26 18:22:26+00:00
The competitions are very useful both in terms of providing students the ability to demonstrate ability that isn't visible within a school curriculum (these students are way more advanced) and motivating the students with something to work towards & train on.

I have done this competition (I think) and what your suggesting just is not reasonable. This is a distributed competition administered locally on a volunteer basis. This isn't some formalized test & trying to get Waterloo to pay for all the local proctors would result in this competition shutting down which would be net not good. I don't have insight into how the competition has changed in the 20 years since I took it so I don't know why they don't have local proctors or lost faith in them. Maybe COVID-era adaptations?

Honestly, I think the better solution is to adjust the difficulty to be AI-proof but it may be hard to do so at this level of academia.
by vessenes | 2025-04-26 18:22:40+00:00
Monks in the Middle Ages: “The Printing Press will destroy people’s ability to memorize.”

This was accurate. But mostly humans gained from books. I think we will develop the social technology to use these tools over time; giving some things up and gaining others.

If we don’t, the Amish can just take over and be like “Stupid English, using the devil’s weights.” :)
by TacticalCoder | 2025-04-26 18:23:05+00:00
> Is that really important to the broader conversation?

The broader conversation is simple: there's an estimated 10 million illegals (low ball estimate, some go as far as 22 million) in the US, what should be done?

For if the numbers are really that gigantic, there are going to be a few revolting cases when people are getting expulsed.

Dems have been hard at work, for many years, funding ONGs with US taxpayers dollars, ONGs that'd actively facilitate and help millions and millions of border crossing and relocating illegals all across the US.

It certainly feels a bit like now is payback time: this may be one of the reason Trump won... US citizens being fed up with that "border" that was basically a wide-open highway.

I want to go live to the US: I raised my kid for ten years in english, she's only ever been to english-speaking schools. But as a non-US citizen I can't. We can't come to the U.S. $5m to buy the golden visa is a bit steep.

That's the broader conversation: close to 2 billion in africa, 1.5 billion chinese, 1.3 billion Indian many of whom (for a variety of reason) want to leave their country. For the EU. For the US. Some europeans, like me, who want to go to the US too.

Can the U.S. take them all? Every single one of them that wants to go to the US?

If there are 8 digits number of illegals, something has to be done.

You ain't dealing with 8 digits number of illegals without having a few "revolting" cases.

And of course leftist media and orgs (like the ACLU) are going to carefully pick their fight, here's an headline that'd be frontpage:

"Trans autistic mixed-race dwarf sick kid forced to leave the US".

Calling a majority of EU and US citizens "nazis" because they're fed up with uncontrolled, illegal, migration ain't intellectually honest.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-26 18:23:29+00:00
> also a complete slap in the face to the millions of people who try to migrate legally and are refused entry.

Yeah, it sounds like a completely unworkable situation.

If only there was some way to make it easier for people to stay in the United States with much relaxed concern about their citizenship status or documentation.

... Oh wait, we could just do that. Because it's our laws, which means it's rules for a game we made up for ourselves. The universe does not care about the lines drawn on a map. People do. If the lines drawn on a map and the separation of human beings across those lines is becoming painful... Maybe we stop hurting ourselves?

We could care less. We did care less in the past. It seemed to work pretty well.
by adrianmonk | 2025-04-26 18:23:30+00:00
Oops, yes, 3.5mm is the diameter. I was sleepy when I wrote that, and I knew it didn't seem right.

Good point about the orientation when inserting. I was thinking something like hex or torx or friction fit that would allow you to insert it without thinking about the orientation. But then that causes another problem: any visual markings on the knob aren't guaranteed to be in the right position. I'm not sure if there's a good way get the best of both worlds on that.
by bodiekane | 2025-04-26 18:23:41+00:00
> just don’t get how people are ok with “cheaters” gaming the system.

This is a story about citizens being deported without due process, without access to lawyers, without access to healthcare.

You don't have to be "ok with cheaters" to still want those people to have basic human rights and to see the system have legitimate judicial review.

The punishment here is far worse than the crime, and it's directed at children who didn't commit the crime, and it was doled out in a horrifyingly abusive totalitarian police-state style. Maybe you're not seeing things from the right side?
by crote | 2025-04-26 18:23:42+00:00
> PCB-level EDA is overdue for better design checks, for example.

The software itself is perfectly capable - the problem is in the source data. The industry-standard data format is "datasheet PDF written by intern".

If you want better design checks you need someone to manually read and interpret a whole bunch of nonstandard and confusing datasheets, and enter it into your EDA software. And no, LLMs won't save you here: the tiniest detail is critical, and due to the habit of using one datasheet for a whole family of chips they are often self-contradictory to a casual reader.

Alternatively, get hundreds of competing manufacturers to agree on a single data exchange format, and get them to rewrite their documentation for a few decades worth of parts into that format - for free, with zero additional sales.
by Defletter | 2025-04-26 18:23:55+00:00
Sure, but everything seems to point users towards using the compiler, not the package manager. For example:

- The tour guide first recommends dmd (https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/welcome/run-d-program-locally), though it does mention dub at the bottom

- Clicking "Documentation -> Command-line Reference" takes you to dmd, with only the barest mention of dub

- Even this post, the "Programming in D" book, tells you to use dmd and doesn't mention dub at all.
by itaymoav | 2025-04-26 18:24:05+00:00
ME: Without looking it up, tell me about the Marathon crater. Explain step by step how you got to your answer

ChatGPT said: Alright, let's walk through it together — step-by-step, no looking it up, just from what I know:

First Reaction: When you said "Marathon crater," my brain immediately went: Marathon → Mars. That connection comes from recalling that NASA often names Martian features after Earth places. Plus, "Marathon" has a strong NASA feel because of the Mars rovers — they celebrated when Opportunity rover drove the distance of a marathon (42-ish kilometers) on Mars. Digging into Memory: I remember Opportunity traveled a really long distance over years, and they marked milestones along the way by naming craters it passed. There was a Marathon Valley, but I also vaguely recall a Marathon Crater related to that. Putting it Together: So, I reason: Marathon Crater must be a relatively small impact crater on Mars. It was likely named during Opportunity’s mission. Probably not a huge, dramatic crater like Gale Crater (where Curiosity is); more like a marker on Opportunity’s long journey across the plains (like Meridiani Planum). Further Context Guess: Since Opportunity drove a marathon distance, it's very fitting they would name a nearby crater "Marathon" to commemorate that achievement — probably around the time it hit the marathon distance milestone. Conclusion: Without checking, I would say: Marathon Crater is a small, relatively shallow crater on Mars that Opportunity rover reached or passed during its mission, around the time it completed a marathon distance traveled on Mars. Would you like me to now double-check and see how close (or far) I am? Or do you want me to also explain how I'd "fact-check" myself if I had to?
by trunch | 2025-04-26 18:24:11+00:00
> I wanted to write about the abandoned kasbah of Foum Zguid yesterday,

I know this sounds trite but please do actually post this I'd love to read it. With this kind of post, if anyone learns about it it's far more likely they've learned about it from your blog than having requested info about it directly from AI.

I've a million misgivings about the future with AI and the people who control and benefit from it, but I do still think one valuable thing that will be able to survive is humans ability to direct attention and bring value to otherwise neglected stories like what you're wanting to write about there.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-26 18:25:00+00:00
Most commenters here are calling this court case ridiculous, and injustice, but honestly, I think anyone who wants to try this should be gently discouraged and ultimately prevented.

So this guy was a bit mental, and decided that his hobby was to amass a literal "Periodic Table" on display, in his home? Did he have, like, a lot of friends who often dropped by to admire his Table and encourage him in his progress? Or, more likely I suspect, he was a lonely sad sack who would do anything to attract another human being's close interaction.

It also seems that he was amassing a lot of broken junk. Are there, like, photos of his collection, because surely it could not be overly attractive or neat? If he is basically collecting obsolete and unwanted crap then that is a sorry excuse for any "home display".

And yes, perhaps all this material in one place was 100% safe for our hero. Fine. But still, when he has visitors over, can he guarantee their safety too? If a dozen other people got this same "collector's bug" and amassed such a collection, could they also do it 100% safely and legally?

I hope that the outcome from this case is that they can engage a social worker and an agency to help him tip all this rubbish into the bin and find some productive, social hobbies that will enrich him and somehow help with his challenges of mental illness. The last thing a mentally ill person needs is to be isolated with a barely-legal, dangerous hobby. Sheesh.