MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SoftTalker | 2025-04-18 19:02:18+00:00
Some of these places are between a rock and a hard place. HIPAA or other rules may prevent a doctor from using email to send you personal medical information such as test results. For any of them, email isn't "secure" and they don't want to be accused of "leaking" personal or confidential information.

GPG exists, but it's been a non-starter for the average user the entire time, so no reason to expect that it will suddenly become workable now.
by dfxm12 | 2025-04-18 19:02:40+00:00
DEI is not a law. I get how this misunderstanding is possible given how wildly the term gets thrown about by conservatives, like it is a boogieman that is the source of everyone's problems.

Anyway, everyone is already ostensibly equal under the law, but, like you've recognized, we've still found our way into a system of racism (that goes beyond governmental discrimination). Logically, to recognize systemic racism, that folks are born into a disadvantage, then to say that these disadvantages must be ignored, is to exploit systemic racism. It does nothing to address the system. If anything, by making it an EO, it strengthens the system.

You call DEI countering racism with racism, but your only argument for this is getting mad at a hypothetical situation. To add, though, to recognize systemic racism and to then put so much weight on an SAT score, while standardized testing is known as being a component of systemic racism [0], is racist in and of itself.

0 - https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/racist-begin...
by spwa4 | 2025-04-18 19:03:34+00:00
... and that's exactly what people want to keep (the shortage) because that's their pension. That is why they won't end up on the street in 20 years.

Any attempt to fix the housing situation will need to provide owners, not just with housing, but with a passable income for 40+ years.

So, the actual discussion is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747X0M7Keyw

And this discussion is hard because to just maintain current pension levels young people will need to be a LOT more productive (ie. work more, and keep less of the fruits of their labour) ... and if we're going to assign blame, the reason is that the pensioners refused to have enough kids. It's not really the kids' fault.

We all know what's going to happen too, in general. Some economic upheaval, some drastic event will create enormous disruption and then, finally, it will be politically acceptable to make the hard choice.
by dang | 2025-04-18 19:03:43+00:00
That's not the issue; the issue is repetition. Avoiding too much repetition is a core principle here, especially when it's a repetition/indignation combo: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

HN has had a huge number of political threads in recent months, including quite a few about funding cuts along the lines of the present story. These submissions don't end up with specific discussions about the specifics of a given story; they end up with generic discussions repeating how people feel about the larger topics. Those topics, and those feelings, are certainly important—but it makes the threads largely interchangeable, and therefore even more repetitive.

Since frontpage space is the scarcest resource on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), we can't have too many of these, or HN would turn into a current affairs site, which is definitely not what it's supposed to be (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Btw I took a look at the users who flagged the current submission and I didn't see any evidence of political motivation.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-18 19:04:14+00:00
I don't know anyone who has a printer capable of printing 7.5 min maps on-demand. That's a job for a print shop. Most SAR happens from day hikes and other light recreation, not multi-day expeditions where you can reasonably justify extensive setup like that.

My recommendation is to take an old phone, make sure it's charged, and throw it in a Ziploc in a back pocket. Then stay on-trail, which you should almost always be doing anyway.
by colonelspace | 2025-04-18 19:04:27+00:00
I'm continuing because this is interesting, not try to prove some point that undermines your perspective.

> Copyright actually defies common law by requiring state power to enforce monopolies on certain information

All laws ultimately require state power. You're deferring to state power by using the MIT licence, which recognises and legitimises copyright law that you take issue with.

> Copyright is sold as "promoting the arts" but in net slows innovation and decreases artistic freedom.

This is a big claim that requires big evidence. Robust copyright law has existed for about half a century, during which time innovation and artistic freedom seem to have flourished. In fact copyright appears to have directly contributed to the creation of the corpus Meta AI is exploiting; it exists because of copyright, not in spite of it.

> [Copyright] primarily enables rent-seeking by publishers at the expense of the public

I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Copyright bestows the right of individuals to benefit from the value they create. Without talking about IP law more broadly in a capitalist system (which seems to be your gripe), I think this is a good thing.

I've benefitted greatly from the content of books, as have we all. If authors had to rely on live shows (for a book?), take commissions and sell subscriptions I think we'd all be worse off, because these provide little to no economic security for authors.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-18 19:05:05+00:00
Are you trying to do it all solo?

It's very hard to grind for many years on your own. If you want to grow your business, and you're already feeling a lack of motivation, that seems destined to fail if you try it alone.

Whatever path you choose, I highly recommend trying to bring someone alongside. HN is good for finding folks to work with.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-04-18 19:05:46+00:00
"... a huge frontpage discussion about this topic just a few days ago"

The previous discussion was about an April 11, 2025 joint letter to Harvard President Alan Garber from the Commissioner of the Federal Aquisition Service, General Services Administration, the Acting General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Acting General Counsel of the Department of Education.

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

Discussion of the April 11th letter occurred in stories submitted at 2025-04-14T18:40:22 and 2025-04-14T18:13:07

This discussion is about an April 16, 2025 letter to Maureen Martin at Harvard's International Office from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/60233385...

This story was submitted 2025-04-17T10:42:01. Discussion of this letter on April 14th would have been impossible. It was not sent until April 16th.

As one might guess, the letters make different requests. The threatened consequences for not complying are also different. Different letters, different senders, different recipients, different sets of requests, different types of potential consequences for noncompliance, e.g., cancelling funding versus refusing to grant student visas. Are these truly the same topic. Let the reader decide.

Is it possible the reason for these stories getting flagged is because HN users with flagging privileges do not want to them discussed. Not because of repetition but because the discussions are often low quality or offensive to them in some way.

One could argue HN routinely keeps having the same discussions about the same topics, even going so far as to allow HN users to resubmit stories for discussion. Hence, comments frequently note "past discussion".

For example, an HN Poll last year showed most HN readers who vote in polls thought "AI" was mostly hype. Comments have also suggested readers are tired of the hype. Yet they are still being forced to see/hide stories about "AI" every day on HN. Sometimes it feels like HN commenters are literally being forcefed the same tired, old topics and coaxed to repeat their same old opinions, or worse, their favourite memes, over and over again.

I am not suggesting there is anything HN can do about this problem. But I am inclined to agree with the GP comment; the current flagging behaviour mirrors the worst of HN commenting behaviour. It is a low quality, cowardly attempt at moderation that does not even seem to work. We are now consistently seeing flagged stories remain on page 1.
by EGreg | 2025-04-18 19:06:10+00:00
Reminds me of my submission to Allegro SizeHack 25 years ago, in 2000:

https://www.oocities.org/trentgamblin/sizehack/entries.html#...

I made a PacMan-like game in under 10KB... it was called HackMan :)

But I am most proud of the storyline that came with it!
by beloch | 2025-04-18 19:06:23+00:00
Treating trade as a zero-sum game will limit what humans are capable of building.

Consider products that are high-end, niche, and low-volume. These are the prestige products that so many point to as examples of what they wished we could build more of. Whoever builds them takes great pride in doing so.

Such products are typically difficult and expensive to manufacture and frequently require resources and parts from widely separated places. If you're trying to build the best of the best or something that pushes what is possible, you need the very best inputs. Critically, one factory may be capable of meeting global demand for these products.

The manufacture of such products often barely produces a profit. The design, machinery, tooling, labour, and material costs are so high that, if you make the inputs more expensive or limit size of the market that can be freely accessed, they become uneconomic. No equivalent products will pop up in a market smaller than the entire world. Even the U.S, or Chinese markets aren't big enough amortize the costs across.

These are products that we will simply cease to make.
by contingencies | 2025-04-18 19:06:32+00:00
If you click 'Home' it is apparent this page is actually about radio-controlled racing yachts, which unlike the HN title explains the weird scope.

Vessel design goals not mentioned in other comments: cruising requires storage space, seaworthiness, living space, will generally prioritize stability/safety, may prioritize low draft for tropical anchorages, may prioritize single-handed sailing, etc. Autonomous vessels which may require visibility, minimum height, battery storage, stealth, etc. Multihull vessels are not discussed, even though they dominate in many categories because they are generally functionally superior in many regards (speed, comfort, safety, living/cargo space, low draft) but cost more to acquire/maintain. Once you study this stuff enough you realize there's a reason why ~nobody cruises on trimarans, people without extra money avoid catamarans, people with enough money prefer to cruise on catamarans, and large seagoing ferries, military and cargo vessels with speed as a design goal are also usually catamarans.

Fun fact: IIRC catamaran comes from kattumaram meaning "two stick tied together" in Tamil, the ancient Dravidian language of southern India. As such it is one of the few Tamil roots that entered international English vocabulary. South Indian seafaring empires once dominated sea trade as far east as Vietnam. Small multihull vessels are the hallmark of the Austronesian peoples, who are believed to have spread from Madagascar to Taiwan thence taken flight to populate the Pacific Ocean. Got breadfruit?
by hiatus | 2025-04-18 19:06:55+00:00
> U.S. District Juste Miranda M. Du rejected this argument, but wouldn’t suppress the evidence. “The Court finds that a tower dump is a search and the warrant law enforcement used to get it is a general warrant forbidden under the Fourth Amendment,” she said in a ruling filed on April 11. “That said, because the Court appears to be the first court within the Ninth Circuit to reach this conclusion and the good faith exception otherwise applies, the Court will not order any evidence suppressed.”

It continues to amaze me that police are the only group who can use the defense of ignorance of the law.
by 9dev | 2025-04-18 19:07:12+00:00
Now that's mixing things. We are talking about democracies; and there, a state is its population: Every constituent carries responsibility for the government—the state—that is elected in fair elections. Even by abstaining, you agree with the majority. Without the German people, there wouldn't be a state of Germany.

But of course that doesn't apply to autocracies and dictatorships, which Germany pre-WW2 obviously turned into. My point is that the Germans voted for the NSDAP, and dit not resist the transformation into an autocratic state. They let this happen, out of indifference, wrong assumptions, anger, stupidity, and fear. That means one way or another, the German people decided what the state became.
by owebmaster | 2025-04-18 19:07:57+00:00
What does "run the company" mean? LLMs can generate code, generating code directly replaces developers work. But how would it run a company? I think LLMs can help anyone be a good enough CEO but still need to be a real person. Now the question is: is a developer a better CEO than a CEO can code using LLM? I think we are going to see many 1-person companies going forward.
by Timon3 | 2025-04-18 19:08:03+00:00
> The goal is to measure merit. Objective metrics are the nearest thing we have to achieving that goal. If there is a better metric, you use that instead. But if the best metric we have isn't perfect, that's no argument for doing something even worse.

You may notice that I didn't argue against objective metrics at all? All I've said is that objective metrics don't mean you're directly measuring merit. It's important to keep this in mind, for example by ensuring equal access to specialized training materials.

> And yet this is still more of an opportunity than being locked out by race quotas.

DEI doesn't necessarily mean race quotas - it's telling that you think it does.

> Libraries are generally in higher density areas with mass transit, and in the worst case you can walk there. Moreover, primary schools generally have libraries and then the kid is already there for school.

But the kids don't necessarily live in higher density areas! So not only do the kids get worse material and less help, they also have a much harder time accessing those worse materials. And again, a library usually doesn't have the same specialized materials that rich kids can afford. I've been trying to show that this should be kept in mind and remedied, but you're arguing against me by arguing against things I haven't said. This is usually what happens.

> Which is why it takes longer. But the point is that determination has an effect.

But kids don't have infinite time! So the rich kids still have unfair advantages, so the tests aren't directly measuring merit. And again, you're arguing that the bare minimum should be enough for the disadvantaged. You seem to effectively be arguing that meritocracy is either impossible, or should not be the goal.
by k310 | 2025-04-18 19:08:23+00:00
Since I take lots of photographs, I recommend the following, and YMMV.

Disclaimer: I am not a "professional" photographer, in the sense that I don't get paid to photograph.

I store all my digital files as files. They are not trapped in some tree structure (as Apple Photos does) that you have to be a scripter to unpack.

And I can rename, tag, sort and otherwise deal with the images as good old files, or even stuff them in a database, should that be my fancy.

I get such high quality jpegs from the Nikon gear that I rarely have to process them beyond the Apple Preview app. Anything else goes to GIMP, or to Raw Therapee or Darktable.

For transfers, SD cards or Image Capture. And when asked to help transfer to and from random gear (Apple, Android, Windows) I just buy friends a copy of PhotoSync, which seems to work on everything (except Linux, I guess) but scp and rsync have always worked wonders. And there's always sneakernet.

I really resist proprietary software and storage schema.
by Ethee | 2025-04-18 19:08:41+00:00
Consider the space we're in. For game development you're going to have a lot of developers with a lot of different ideas about how to make a game, all utilizing the same engine. If the engine doesn't come with a feature I need, I'll probably have to code it myself, but seeing as the whole purpose of me making this feature is for my game, then it makes sense that I should be able to keep my game's feature private/proprietary without the need to push that feature back to engine which might not even want my feature to begin with. This is why GPL is not a good choice for game engines.
by chimpanzee | 2025-04-18 19:08:54+00:00
>> In which “third world” country have you experienced this?

> Bangladesh. My uncle fought a war to gain independence from Pakistan and establish a homeland for our ethnic group.

I appreciate that, as a family history you carry. I'm curious, how do you feel about it in the context of your arguments made here? Do you think ethnic groups should fight for survival and a safe harbor (homeland)? (Rereading your prior answer, it sounds like a definitive "no")

Do you think there is value in maintaining a living culture outside of the homeland?

Do you recognize any potential loss to individuals when their family's culture or ethnicity is erased?

>> How does ethnic identity threaten a mixed person?

> Because ethnic identity is maladaptive in individualist American society.

How so? Would you consider all group identities maladaptive?
by all2 | 2025-04-18 19:09:11+00:00
>> You can make proprietary changes to the engine without releasing them (unlike GPL). > Why is that a good thing?

Game dev at the top tiers is an arms race. Being able to do proprietary things is attractive to big players.

>> and they make some assurances that there won't be a bait-and-switch.

> If it was licensed under a GPL license you wouldn't need to rely on "some assurances"

Multiple projects have gone closed-source from open source. Assurances are a nice thing to have (but certainly no guarantee).
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by dzaima | 2025-04-18 19:09:18+00:00
I'm of course not suggesting branching in cases where you expect a 30% misprediction rate. You'd do branchless reduction from [-2*pi;2*pi] or whatever you expect to be frequent, and branch on inputs with magnitude greater than 2*pi if you want to be extra sure you don't get wrong results if usage changes.

Again, we're in a situation where we know we can tolerate a 0.5% error, we can spare a bit of time to think about what range needs to be handled fast or supported at all.
by jgtor | 2025-04-18 19:09:58+00:00
> AWS should provide features where you are prompted to set a hard budget limit when you first signup and services fail once that's exceeded

They should, but the entire internal metering & bill generation pipeline isn't setup to support that. You can configure billing alerts but these will only refresh on updates to your estimated bill (typically re-computed every 8hrs). And since service teams are responsible for posting metering records to commerce platform their implementation may vary.

TLDR: AWS Commerce Platform is a mess.

Source: Ex-AWS SDE
by anon291 | 2025-04-18 19:10:29+00:00
> hey deliberately put it at a time where many northern folks had their own traditional end of the year

For most of history, Christianity is a mediterranean religion. There would be no reason to choose to put it at a time for Northern Europeans.

For example, I am the descendants of the indigenous Christians of India. The historical celebration of Christmas is called Denha, which is the native name for Epiphany, for which there is widespread textual evidence (corroborated by similar celebrations elsewhere), and which was celebrated at the usual time (Jan 6). There are numerous councils of the Church of the east that confirm this as well. Why would they possibly care what Scandinavia did. The simple truth is that this is a really old time to celebrate the birth of Christ, for reasons lost to history. Unlikely that the Northern Europeans, who were catechized many centuries after Christ played a large role in it. We have records of the date in Asian church councils well before the Northern Europeans were even contacted people.

The reason why Northern European traditions (trees, santa claus, snow, etc) became popular is due to the migration of Northern Europeans to America which is today synonymous with 'Christian' nations. even in Europe, the indigenous Catholics of South Europe don't always celebrate in this way.

But there are universals: sweets, gift-giving, celebration, stars, these are all common.
by archagon | 2025-04-18 19:10:45+00:00
Yes. Fuck the industry and fuck our spineless "leaders."

Fortunately, there are plenty of real hackers out there who devote their lives and careers to the betterment of humanity through open-source software, research, etc. (Unsurprisingly, they tend to lean hard left and don't head multinational corporations.) I will let their work be my guiding star.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-04-18 19:10:48+00:00
How many times recently have we seen rulings from judges that establish that something is definitely illegal but the person who did is still allowed to do it or at least there's no mechanism by which they can be punished for doing it? Having laws and then picking and choosing when they'll be enforced and against whom is the same as not having laws in the first place. And before you cite the good faith exception, passing a law that says "It's legal to pick and choose when the law applies" doesn't legitimize it.
by duxup | 2025-04-18 19:11:25+00:00
Perhaps they got some concepts wrong / predictions.

But the rich and powerful have always been attracted to authoritarianism. If they can pay cronies to ensure they get what they want out of government (pardons, regulatory freedom, reduce labor costs/protections), they're happy to do so. What happens to everyone else doesn't matter to many of them. They're not patriots, and despite the absurd assumption that seems to stick, business people are not economists.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-18 19:12:18+00:00
The advertisers are the ones trying to claim that it's a win-win situation because people like relevant ads.

Pointing out that many people don't like relevant ads is then a significant thing to acknowledge.

You're acting like pclmulqdq brought up the idea out of nowhere, which is very much not the case.

What people think about ads does matter, and does affect the bottom line.

And it's just annoying for you to act like the dislike is just an "individual opinion" but the "people like relevant ads" claim isn't equally anecdotal.