MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsimpson | 2025-04-02 21:22:52+00:00
I don't claim to be an expert, nor to be able to speak credibly on the interactions of the millions of people in government.

I just remember hearing an anecdote from a friend with ties to Signal that some part of the government wanted to recommend it and another part slapped their hand because they didn't want to encourage people to use technology that law enforcement can't breach.

Even though I just use it for casual conversations with friends, that gave me some extra confidence in using it.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-02 21:23:08+00:00
I was, believe it if you wish, thinking about old TV guides just this morning and wondering how one would even go about archiving those. Most of the stumbling blocks for taking apart the glued binding for scanning have been figured out, of course, but for any given week there may have been as many as 60 or 70 editions (for each television market, I think). None of these have proper ISSN numbers as far as I'm aware, and other than the listings they can be visually indistinguishable. Then there is the challenge of finding those, and not knowing whether this or that edition is missing (from time to time, the company would create new additions for new regions, or fold old ones back into some other are) along with even parsing the content. Many of these tv shows aren't on themoviedb or thetvdb, and if the shows are, then there won't be episode listings (there were 6000 Donahue talk show episodes, after all). On top of all of that, you can't necessarily know what was on tv at a given time and day, with federal government preemptions, commercials, unreported last-minute rescheduling, etc.

But I can also see why people might want to keep more interesting data, like when the Federal Cheese-Sniffing Agency moved offices back in 1982 and they have meticulous records of the 483 filing cabinets that had to be moved from the original location to their new home in Furrytown, Pennsylvania.
by vFunct | 2025-04-02 21:23:25+00:00
Yes. They - or other poor countries - are. And it's their responsibility to grow their citizenry in a neoliberal world. Economics doesn't care about liberal concern tools.

China eliminated poverty through neoliberalism. The rest of the world can, too. This is the benefit of neoliberalism: it lifts the world out of poverty through free trade and self-selected efficiency.
by shannontkwong | 2025-04-02 21:23:56+00:00
Decentralization is definitely on my long-term roadmap for Airdel, and AT Protocol has some interesting benefits worth exploring. However, my immediate focus is on market validation and getting a viable product into users' hands quickly. As a solo founder, I need to be strategic with my resources.

Right now I'm prioritizing core functionality and user experience to test if we're solving the right problems. Once I've validated the concept and built a development team, implementing decentralized features would make more sense as we scale.

I appreciate the suggestion though - it's on my radar for future iterations when we have the bandwidth to implement it properly!
by bradly | 2025-04-02 21:24:07+00:00
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by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-02 21:24:14+00:00
Right. For a long time I wondered what's going on, and eventually started believing it's my fault - that maybe I'm just a rare HDR-poor person watching TV shows on SDR computer displays, maybe I've hit an unusual corner case in the video decoding path, or something. I kept believing that until Star Trek: Picard, Season 3, which made it clear it's not me, it's them.

The whole show, like everything in the past decade or so, was dark and washed out (except for some space FX parts, where at least some colors were saturated, sometimes). This lasted up until the last two episodes, where for plot reasons[0], some protagonists found themselves onboard a ship from TNG-era shows (1980s - 2000s), pulled straight from a museum, which means the set was recreated as it was on old shows, complete with the lighting. From that scene onwards through the final episode, as it jumped between that one special set and every other dark and gray scene, I had proof in front of me that scenes in modern shows can be properly lit, they just aren't, and it's an active choice[1].

Importantly, this scene wasn't a one-off gimmick that risked coming out too bright on normal people's HDR-enabled TV screens. The set involved was, per the showrunner, pretty much the whole raison d'etre for the entire season, and they burned most of the season's budget on perfecting it[2]. Them being able to light it well (and have it coexist with every other badly-lit scene) only proves there's no technical obstacle involved - that dark and washed out TV is just a choice everyone's making for... unclear reasons.

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[0] - Hard to navigate around a major spoiler and highlight of the era in the franchise.

[1] - Actually, I can't give this scene enough justice. But given how massive moment that was for people following the franchise, I'll just provide a link to the video (SPOILER WARNING): https://youtu.be/t-mY4Xbjyn8?t=42 -- watch in max quality; compare okay-ish exterior CG early on, observe how dark and washed out scenes with people are - and this is literally how the entire season (and really, entire show) was until that point... or just scroll to 2:27, and then on a perfect cue - "computer, lights!" - observe how next 30 seconds reveal that everything could've been properly lit from the start, but for some non-tech reason, it wasn't.

[2] - Most of that was eaten up by casting very specific people, but the set itself was damn expensive too.
by maxglute | 2025-04-02 21:25:12+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/fba87dd3-514a-41c2-b2b9-ea597ffbd...

https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...

The TLDR is Miran sold to Trump US can Plaza Accord everyone, devalue USD to reindustrialize US, draw down US debt/commitments, keep exorbitant privelege... all by slapping tariffs (Trump's fav hammer) to scare countries into signing (converting) existing US commitments to "century bonds" in US favour while tying them to US orbit for foreseeable future. Is US strong enough to coerce others to sign on? IMO doesn't matter, this seems like plan specifically tailered to Trump preferences and ego, so as long as Trump thinks so Miran gets the job.

E: there is logic to the plan, logic that appeals to Trump -> US strength and monetary manipulation skills can force others to fall in line. And TBH countries have fallen in line in the past.
by bsimpson | 2025-04-02 21:25:31+00:00
I took a look at the Signal group creation UI when this story came out.

Not only does Signal suggest contacts, but it also suggests people you're in mutual groups with. Even if Waltz didn't have the Atlantic's JG as a contact, it's possible that they were both added to some group, and that Waltz accidentally picked JG-the-journalist when creating his Houthi raid one.
by Karupan | 2025-04-02 21:26:02+00:00
Genuine questions: why are they calling it “reciprocal”? Is the US just matching the tariffs set by the other countries?

Also, this announcement has wiped out any plans of buying tech products this year, plus a holiday to the US and Canada later in the year. Good thing too, as the entire globe is probably staring down the barrel of a recession.
by cycomanic | 2025-04-02 21:26:21+00:00
I agree, the search is quite bad.

The UI is bad and the results seem to be poor. I don't necessarily have the issue that emails are not in the results, but more that results are too numerous and the only way I can narrow down results is putting more constrains in the UI. What often happens for me is that I search using a several terms or some specific phrases and the search returns tons of results (does it just do an OR between words in the search) and I then end up clicking (why can't the time constraint be a slider?!) through different months (based on what I recall about the timeframe of the email) until I find the email.

When I was using notmuch I recall results being much better.

Another annoyance is that Thunderbird only seems to search locally, i.e. if I don't have some folders downloaded it will not do a server search as well as a local search (maybe there's a setting for it?)
by bayindirh | 2025-04-02 21:26:45+00:00
pico.sh is not new by any means. I was using them ~3 years ago (or maybe even for longer), with their lists.sh service.

After I opened my blog, they launched prose.sh, and rest of the services soon after, but since I settled on my blog, and didn't want to change horses, and they discontinued lists.sh, I had to part ways with them.

I admire what they've built though, and wish them best of luck.
by willgogo | 2025-04-02 21:27:12+00:00
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by johannes1234321 | 2025-04-02 21:28:07+00:00
If they sell to (ex-)employees they sell to consumers. This then includes consumer warranties etc.

However what large companies do is to get an agreement with a refurbishing company, which will collect and refurbish them and and pay the corporation some share.

This works in some mix calculation - the well treated machines can be sold well, some machines can be used to reuse some parts and some machines are nothing but cost for disposal.
by packetlost | 2025-04-02 21:28:30+00:00
> Are you over-engineering the shit out of every script to the degree the script itself is a Turing complete machine and with enough —-help flags anything is possible?

No. They're 30 line scripts with 0-5 or so flags. They mostly exist to remove choices from other utilities. Put another way: create named (and namespaced) abstractions by making choices and slapping a name on it. They're functions.

> In my experience, eventually a business need will arise that require you to change a script. Are your coworkers comfortable changing these scripts or are you in the mind set of “that’s a simple enough change, I’ll do it”

They're small enough that they can be ignored if they don't do exactly what you want. I'm fine changing them, but it's most likely they'd just get rewritten or bitrot after I'm gone.
by jfengel | 2025-04-02 21:28:45+00:00
I can't imagine what kind of talking points one needs to offer past "uh, we aren't criminals and we're not incompetent".

If the response is "yeah, we're good with those things, what else have you got?" I don't know what to say. You want bread? Maybe some circuses?

The Democrats did have plenty of policies. Realistic ones. Not the most exciting. If the public wants to be excited, and aren't picky about it, then indeed they should have that. But I'm not going to be able to provide it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-02 21:28:55+00:00
> Let me guess - if the authors did by 5 groups the results they got were not saying something they liked.

The main reason likely is that US race (treating Hispanic ethnicity as a race trumping nominal racial categories, so the other categories all are implicitly prefixed by “non-Hispanic”) is something like (in 5 categories):

59% White, 19% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Other/Mixed.

Or, in two categories:

59% White alone, 41% Other

The two-group breakout takes far less data to get equal statistical utility for its smallest group when compared to the 5 group breakout (that's true even if you don't really care about the Other/Mixed catch-all group in the 5-group breakdown, but only the other four.)
by janalsncm | 2025-04-02 21:29:28+00:00
It’s a bit amusing that so much ink has been spilled over what the definition of an “AI agent” is.

I don’t care. I care what your software can do. I don’t care if it’s called AI or machine learning or black magic. I care if it can accomplish a task reliably so that I don’t have to do it myself or pay someone to do it.

We had the same argument about 3 years ago when everyone started calling things “AI”. They use LLMs to generate text. Usually they have outsourced all of the interesting technical work to a handful of providers backed by big Web 2.0 companies.
by swat535 | 2025-04-02 21:30:04+00:00
I suppose, but there is no such thing as objective morality, it's all subjective. That’s not to say people shouldn’t feel guilt or hesitate when evaluating their past actions, but we often act based on the best framework we had at the time.

Morality evolves, both personally and culturally, and trying to hold a static identity in the face of that change just leads to more internal conflict. It’s uncomfortable, yeah, but clinging to certainty for safety’s sake can be more corrosive in the long run.
by wolfgang42 | 2025-04-02 21:30:23+00:00
There are also plenty of ways to set it up so the only thing the public can see is that the name exists; and you should probably be prepared for that to become public knowledge anyway (even if using a wildcard certificate), if only because there are so many ways for users to accidentally cause DNS leaks.

Using an ACME DNS challenge would be the simplest option if it wasn’t such a pain to integrate with most DNS services; but even HTTP challenges don’t actually need to expose the same server that actually runs the service, just one that serves /.well-known/acme-challenge/* during the validation process. (For example, this could be the same server via access control rules that check what interface the request came in on, or a completely different server with split-horizon DNS and/or routing, or a special service running on port 80 that’s only used for challenges.)

(I was thinking about this a lot recently because I had a service that wanted to do HTTP challenges but I didn’t want to put the whole thing on the Internet. In the end my solution was to assign an IPv6 range which is routed by VPN internally but to a proxy server for public requests: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2025-03-18-private-acme)
by XorNot | 2025-04-02 21:30:27+00:00
I have a different take on interior wall colors: any shade too far off from white actually darkens the room no matter the color.

Paint colors subtractively from light: you never get more light into a room when you're knocking out wavelengths rather then reflecting them. Whereas with whiter walls you always have the option of manipulating color by using colored lighting.
by JadeNB | 2025-04-02 21:31:16+00:00
> Rooting for mozilla and their privacy-focused services. Been using the email-masking feature (generate forward email addresses) for a while and really like it.

I don't know how the privacy of this one will shake out, but the privacy focus on the browser includes allowing them to share your data, so that makes me way less enthusiastic about continuing my investment in their ecosystem.
by ike2792 | 2025-04-02 21:32:40+00:00
I am from the US and my understanding is that we are one of the only (if not the only) Western democracy that doesn't require photo ID for voting. We do, however, need photo ID or at least a Social Security number for pretty much everything else (applying for loans, opening bank accounts, buying a house or car, starting a new job, getting married, etc). The amount of things you can do without personally identifying yourself in some way is so small that I'm also not sure what additional power a Real ID gives to the government.
by packetlost | 2025-04-02 21:33:35+00:00
Not work related, but here's some examples of what these scripts look like (this is how I mirror public repos locally using cron/timers): https://paste.sr.ht/~chiefnoah/3b8990fc0b8eb3f50e511d5d4051a...

Even if you aren't super familiar with rc, it's not that weird to look at. I find it way more readable than (ba)sh syntax.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-02 21:33:38+00:00
I don't have a problem with my dad's view that taxes should be low or that we should be responsible with the environment. I don't have a problem with his view that over-regulation is a danger. I don't have a problem with my dad's opinion that capitalism is great, even with my disagreement.

I have a problem with the fact that my dad votes for people who do not do those things, and then gets upset when people point that out to him.

He told me that "I think people just need to have more patience with each other and accept our differences" as a moral to a story he told about being a manager to trans and non-binary folks. IMO it's 100% the right take, and he holds no negative feelings for any trans people or nonbinary people.

Then he votes for the anti-trans candidate.

How do you square that circle?

The reality is that I know my dad's voting history (we have talked about politics) and my dad is not an idealist or a pragmatist or conservative or liberal.

My dad is a populist.
by gilli | 2025-04-02 21:33:53+00:00
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by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-02 21:33:57+00:00
I'm on the side of free trade and dont think there is a single policy. The strongest arguments I can think of are:

1) raise tax revenue in a way that partially falls on foreign nationals

2) reduce trade deficits and foreign purchasing of treasuries.

3) Increase relative power if other economies are damaged more than the US. There are situations where zero and negative sum strategies are optimal, like war, where it is better to have a larger % of a smaller overall pie.

4) stimulate demand for us labor
by celsoazevedo | 2025-04-02 21:34:36+00:00
It's nice to see their reasoning, but the issue remains: Telegram can read most direct messages (because almost no one uses private chats) and everything sent in groups.

It's a good service and in some cases it can compete with Matrix, Signal, etc, but most direct chats and all groups have no privacy from Telegram (and anyone with access to their servers).
by colanderman | 2025-04-02 21:34:40+00:00
I'm not sure any literature on this beyond my own experience.

In the context of synthesizers, "buzzing" quality is associated with unfiltered basic waveforms: sawtooth, square, triangle (to a lesser extent), pulse (notably so). A sawtooth wave is used, for example, as the bass sound in Gorillaz' "DARE".

More generally, in my personal experiments, "buzzing" is associated with the presence of discontinuities in the waveform (i.e., the Dirac delta and its antiderivatives). Any discontinuity is associated with sonic energy at all frequencies, at a highly localised point in time. (See the Fourier transform of Dirac delta (anti)derivatives here [1].) Higher antiderivatives of the Dirac delta have progressively less energy at higher frequencies; beyond the 2nd antiderivative buzzing is not really audible.

Aside – a pulse wave is a series of Dirac deltas; a sawtooth is the 1st-order antiderivative thereof; a square wave is a series of sign-alternating 1st-order Dirac delta antiderivatives; and a triangle wave is alternating 2nd-order Dirac delta antiderivatives. Hence – buzziness in these waveforms.

The human ear has a Q of about 15 (very approximate) – meaning its response at any frequency lasts for about 15 cycles of that frequency. So, when presented with a periodic discontinuity (e.g. sawtooth wave), the sonic content below about 15 times the base frequency will tend to cohere together into a tone, while the sonic content above 10 times the base frequency will tend to be perceived independently of frequency – as a buzzing. (See Bell, "A Resonance Approach to Cochlear Mechanics".)

So, if you want to increase the amount of buzzing in a waveform, you can add localized "packets" of high-frequency sonic energy up to a rate 1/15 that of the lowest frequency content of said packets. You can experiment with this in Audacity by generating sawtooth waves of various frequencies (between 25-250 Hz, where buzzing is easily audible) and low- and high-passing them appropriately to separate the "tonal" (low-frequency) content from the "buzz" (high-frequency) content. Then mix and match the two from different frequency waveforms two create a waveform at your desired base frequency with your desired rate of buzzing.

Finally, a more pedestrian – and very common – way that the above is achieved is the synthesis technique known as "supersaw", by which a handful of slightly-detuned sawtooth waves are mixed together. Beside giving a "shimmering" effect which one gets from mixing any slightly-detuned sounds together, this also results in increased "buzziness". This effect is very common in pop electronic music. E.g. the bass sound in Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is a good example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform#Distribution...
by asveikau | 2025-04-02 21:34:41+00:00
The words I chose are specifically meant to highlight the downsides.

1. Groupthink has a negative connotation of the downsides baked in.

2. "Hyper" conformity (or hyper anything) is already saying that it is too much.

I think it's well known and appreciated that without diversity of thought and opinion, a group or organization makes possibly locally optimized, but poor decisions.