MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themgt | 2025-04-30 20:37:25+00:00
A few other commenters have alluded to it, but Obama's 2011 (and then 2014/2016) "Dear Colleague" letters are critical to understanding what's going on here. As FIRE tells it:

In April 2011, the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) established new mandates requiring colleges and universities receiving federal funding to dramatically reduce students’ due process rights. Under the new regulations, announced in a letter from Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali, colleges and universities were required to employ a “preponderance of the evidence” standard—a 50.01%, “more likely than not” evidentiary burden—when adjudicating student complaints concerning sexual harassment or sexual violence. The regulations further required that if a university judicial process allows the accused student to appeal a verdict, it must allow the accusing student the right to appeal as well, resulting in a type of “double jeopardy” for the accused. Additionally, OCR’s letter failed to recognize that truly harassing conduct (as defined by the law) is distinct from protected speech. Institutions that did not comply with OCR’s new regulations faced federal investigation and a potential loss of federal funding.

The innovation in these letters was realizing OCR could just come to a new understanding of what civil rights law required, then tell universities that since this is what civil rights law means, following the guidance would be a mandate for institutions to receive federal funding. So now Trump's come in and reinterpreted civil rights law once again.

At this point probably a supermajority of the country thinks this innovative idea for enacting ad-hoc nationwide policy changes has been abused by one or more administrations, but I haven't heard anyone seriously working on a generalized solution. Everyone's mostly given up on Congress and just hopes their team can take control of the magic pen.

https://www.thefire.org/cases/us-department-educations-offic...
by smcin | 2025-04-30 20:37:42+00:00
a) Does your query for 'JS' return instances of 'JSON'?

b) The ultimate hard search topic for is 'R' / 'R language'. Check if you think you index it corectly. Or related terms like RStudio, Posit, [R]Shiny, tidyverse, data.table, Hadleyverse...
by npteljes | 2025-04-30 20:37:45+00:00
I don't think so. I think users who don't want to see shorts, and aren't using TikTok are a minority. Short form video is hugely popular. And even if they are not in a minority, it doesn't really matter (to YouTube), because they are not going anywhere - there is nowhere to go.

The analogy fails as well. It would be more like Starbucks asking every customer whether they want tea as well. And I imagine that whichever tea company is partnered with Starbucks at that point is going to be very happy. Product bundling works very well, especially in cases like this, when an established giant decides that they are going now offer the thing as well. YouTube Music worked the same.
by Root_Denied | 2025-04-30 20:38:10+00:00
> Your use case may be desirable, but they've determined it's not profitable.

This right here is the crux of the problem - profitability rules over any and all functionality.

Even in a scenario where a given design/layout was universally desirable, it will lose out to a design that is more optimal for revenue generation.

Ok, yes, Google is a company that needs to make money, but changes that optimize for revenue over usability have a strong chance of a domino effect down the line of a dwindling user base paying an increasing cost to use a service that is no longer worth it.

> I assume they have the resources to measure _everything_.

I don't disagree with this assessment, but I believe it just means that they know where the inflection point is between functionality (driving engagement and retention) and revenue (increased at the expense of retention and engagement) and try and ride that intersection to maximize both.

> I believe YouTube is crushing it as a content provider.

There's an argument to be made here that YouTube just doesn't have any real competition due to the infrastructural requirements being so heavy and the network effect of having so many people using the platform, and that's different than doing well enough to be able to compete in an environment that had more competition.

Put another way, the way YouTube is run works great up until you have an actual competitor operating at the same scale, at which point it falls over, as opposed to one that could effectively compete against another service.

This feeds back into the point about riding that curve of revenue vs. functionality. If you're right at the intersection of that curve you have very little flexibility with which to adjust in competition with another entity. This just points YouTube believing (not unreasonably so) that they're an effective monopoly and don't need to worry about competition, so it doesn't enter into their calculations. They may never need to worry about it.

None of that is the same thing as being a "good" or "optimal" service for users, and you can't really "crush it" when there's no one of a similar size within the space to compare against.
by photonthug | 2025-04-30 20:38:23+00:00
> In 1960, 7% of adults 25+ had a college degree. Now that’s 37%. .. despite the growth in total number of universities and students, spots at elite institutions are limited and thus scarce and highly valued.

Good example for discussion because I think that it's well known that many people who have attained higher education at great expense nevertheless struggle with unemployment and underemployment, and groan about how competitive things are in academia with thousands of applications for every placement. If we're oversupplied with qualified yet underemployed academics who could be teachers, and yet teachers are unavailable to meet the demand of students who want education.. how is that not a disconnect between supply and demand?

Whenever a huge disconnect like this between supply/demand is pointed out, economists will retreat to discussion of regulation and policies, inflation, macroeconomics conditions. Sure, fine, great.. but that's just another way of saying supply/demand/cost are not closely related.
by leonidasv | 2025-04-30 20:38:35+00:00
Apparently you can use a P.O. Box as address for this purpose[0] when registering for AppStore, which is substantially cheaper. However, Reddit says Google does not accept P.O. Boxes [1], so the only option is a "virtual" office address or something like that. A shame.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-co...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1f4nmny/comment...
by aidenn0 | 2025-04-30 20:38:44+00:00
Comparing tuition is silly, IMO. Lots of people don't pay full-price at private universities, and nobody who is in-state pays the full-price for public universities.

If you care about efficiency, then divide the budget by the number of students.

Harvard has a budget of about $9B, which is about 4-5x larger on a per-student basis than a few public universities I compared (I couldn't find the SUNY budget with 30s of searching, you are welcome to provide that info if you have it).
by jcranmer | 2025-04-30 20:38:46+00:00
Moving self-driving vehicles requires billions of dollars of new roads to be built.

The statistic I like to use is that the train tunnels underneath the Hudson River into Manhattan move more people than all of the road crossings into Manhattan combined. It's probably cheaper in the long run to invest in better regional rail systems than it is to to keep widening highways; people drastically underestimate the costs of highway construction.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 20:39:07+00:00
> The US is also helping Russia in its efforts right now, it's important to underline this.

1. That's definitely false.

2. China supplies intelligence to Russia and also equipment directly or indirectly.

3. The US continues to provide intelligence and directly military support to Ukraine.

> People are generally polite. I know people from the US, from very liberal to very MAGA. I try to be pleasant to them. And I don't fault them for their government, even the ones that obviously voted for the current president.

Right - but that's not because people are seething with anger at the United States (aside from Canada which is deserved), it's because life goes on.

> When I speak about generational damage to relationships, I am talking at the diplomacy level. Building a web of great allies was something that the US could do after the two world wars because the opportunity was there and they seized it. I think it will be very hard, on a diplomatic level, to repair that. This ship has already sailed.

You're over-reacting. We dropped nuclear bombs on Japan and we're best buddies now. It's certainly a temporary setback, however. There's a lot of political grandstanding but that's just for placating domestic audiences. EU and US are the same there, as is China and Russia. Talk big and all that.

> Have been for a while. I don't see that as a huge problem. As I said, Europe consumers have a lot less appetite for consumption than the US ones.

Great, this seems like a win. European customers will buy more of the Chinese products (China needs to sell them somewhere to make up for losses in US sales so that'll be going to your markets), and the US will just suffer without the imports and everyone wins and America loses. That sounds just fine to me. We can be less consumerist oriented and the EU and China can increase their consumerism. Well, unless you're suggesting the EU won't buy more Chinese made things, in which case who will buy the Chinese products?
by QueensGambit | 2025-04-30 20:39:11+00:00
I understand your concern. We’ve had cases where short-term users abused our product for phishing, which led us to remove the monthly plan initially. To address that without locking out genuine users, we’ve added an option to extend the trial for up to 3 months before choosing a monthly or yearly plan. Feel free to message me if you’d like more time.
by whazor | 2025-04-30 20:39:51+00:00
Supply chains are incredibly complex. Even if a supplier is based in the U.S., they might be reselling Chinese-made goods. When tariffs hit or restrictions are imposed, those suppliers may simply stop selling the affected products. That can leave entire factories unable to operate due to missing components, which often take months to redesign or source alternatives for.

In theory, real-time trading systems could reduce the impact of such disruptions. But in practice, global logistics still runs on Excel sheets, emailed quotes, phone calls, and months-long shipping cycles.
by elbasti | 2025-04-30 20:39:52+00:00
I asked a good friend that runs a multi-billion dollar CPG business that relies on China imports. His answer:

> Almost guaranteed.

> There are some categories (toys, pet stuff,computer accessories) where HUGE percentages of goods are made in china. Those shelves will be empty as soon as inventory runs out, which will be soon.

> Shelves would get re-stocked once tariffs are removed and the ships start sailing again.

> If it takes longer than 60 days from now, we're looking at 10s of thousands of bankruptcies. This will make covid look like a weekend at the ritz carlton. Biggest financial crisis since the great depression.

My takeaway: People are not taking this NEARLY seriously enough.

My tinfoil hat interpretation: The US govt knows how serious this is, and they know that if people panic (which honestly, they fucking should) it increases China's leverage substantially.
by silisili | 2025-04-30 20:40:11+00:00
I'm rather aware of the concept of markup. Marking up itself isn't the problem, it's completely understandable -why- that must exist in most cases. But either way, companies don't like to disclose their landed costs for obvious reason - people will think they're being ripped off.

Tariffs are in the news and the percentages are known. If I'm selling a wallet made in China, in the US for $80, and list a tariff line item of $2 - people will calculate and easily know that I imported said wallet from China for <$1 and start to question why I'm charging so much.
by ozim | 2025-04-30 20:40:23+00:00
Because we want people to be able to create trash apps and publish them.

Just like we want people to create trash blogs and trash websites so they can learn or just express themselves.

Having 3rd world devs making more todo apps is not optimal but they should be able to do that and publish them.

Preventing all of that also prevents good small time community apps because suddenly you have to pay money and can’t just do nice app for local communities.
by PleasureBot | 2025-04-30 20:40:33+00:00
Globalization is not the cause of economic inequality. The cause is political and cultural. Since the late 1970's, the top 1% of income earners (> ~$800,000 in income) in the United States has captured 60% of economic growth as income. The top 10% (> ~$200,00 in income) of earners captured 90% of the growth. The bottom 90% of the population has captured only had 10% of the growth in wages over that time period. The US now has might have the highest income inequality that we know of in all societies, present and historical. For example, India from 40 years ago that had a strict caste system and half the population was illiterate was more egalitarian the the current day US. Apartheid South Africa was more egalitarian than the current day US.

This started in the late 70s as that is when we started dropping the progressive tax on high income earners extremely low. This incentivized senior managers at companies, who set their own compensation, to set higher and higher wages for themselves, capturing most of the economic growth of the past 50 years.

Whether you think this type of inequality is justified or not, its worth looking at closely because it is hard to imagine an economy or society continuing to function indefinitely with such extreme difference in outcome between different social groups.
by Lammy | 2025-04-30 20:40:38+00:00
> I do recall getting DUNS numbers as just filling in an online form with name and location and getting the number by mail, without any hoops for fees

Having to do it at all is the hoop, and more than zero hoops is too many. I got nothing out of having my apps on Google Play except the joy of sharing in what was at the time a new and exciting medium.

See Windows Phone for a great example of how it would have played out if Google hadn't successfully courted small-time devs like me and countless others. Corporate publishers would have never colonized Google Play in the first place if an audience wasn't already there. The way they addressed me makes it very clear that solo devs are no longer needed, so I will never submit to it on principle no matter how easy it's claimed to be.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-30 20:40:49+00:00
I mean, how much details do you need for this to be understood? Every tinpot dictator openly run black markets, are the definition of corrupt, while many openly operate or support terrorist organizations within their borders. Depending one looking at the US from the point of view of someone living in a country they have rained freedom down on for the past quarter century probably feels the same towards the US. Launching missiles from a remotely operated drone blowing up buildings while incurring civilian casualties definitely has the feeling of terrorism to me. They just hide it under the veil of defeating terrorism shades of gray.

I really feel like your comment was much more noisy than mine ever was.
by Kreesurgeon | 2025-04-30 20:40:52+00:00
I asked chatGPT what Mack used to bang on the trailer at the beginning of the original Cars movie to alert Lightning McQueen that the other racers were heading to the start line. It came up with some stuff about a crane arm to which I replied, that wasn't shown in any shot in any of the Cars movies. It then said it was wing mirrors to which I said they aren't long enough. After a bit of conversation ChatGPT apologised to me and said it didn't know.

I haven't tried with any other models but if someone else wants to try I'd be interested in the results.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-30 20:40:55+00:00
It’s why the government needs to curb and heel billionaires. A bunch of techbros who mistake money for smarts pushes an obviously dumb strategy to a pack of populist clowns and grifters.

That should not be possible. The kickback from this mania is going to be pretty extreme pain for these clowns.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-04-30 20:41:38+00:00
It seems like both the pilot and instructor misidentified the plane they were supposed to be separated from, otherwise the instructor would have taken the controls and performed the maneuver himself if he knew a collision was imminent.

Maybe visual flight separation is a bad idea when there are a bunch of lights from the ground and a busy airspace. A plane on a collision course with you will just look like a static light, like many many other lights in the area.
by efitz | 2025-04-30 20:41:58+00:00
I will think of LLMs as not being a toy when they start to challenge me when I tell it to do stupid things.

“Remove that bounds check”

“The bounds check is on a variable that is read from a message we received over the network from an untrusted source. It would be unsafe to remove it, possibly leading to an exploitable security vulnerability. Why do you want to remove it, perhaps we can find a better way to address your underlying concern”.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-30 20:42:10+00:00
I don't think I'll ever be up-to-date with all the progress in AI or trends in VC, but relying on his own expertise where he says the best VC's only identify 2 out of 10 of the really good opportunities, I would estimate that once somebody gets AI to do better than that, there may be some impact.

Some professions are going to be easier to replace than a Radiologist, others not so much.

That's why I've done science like art since way before 1980.

AI was comin' fast back then and I wanted to be resilient :)
by pacaro | 2025-04-30 20:42:33+00:00
FWIW, the Next color machines had 12bit (4096) color and in practice it didn't make much of a difference. I was using one fairly extensively in the late 90s (by which time 24bit was the norm -- albeit not yet ubiquitous) and for anything other that photo/video work it was perfectly reasonable. It's amazing how far a good dithering algorithm can get you.

The refresh rate is, of course, a different issue
by ragnese | 2025-04-30 20:42:34+00:00
I have the same mentality as you. But, rather than form an opinion on whatever EU regulation is being interpreted as "requiring" these steps from Google et al, I think I'm going to assert that it's a red herring.

The real issue, IMO, is that it's still too hard to distribute and install applications on my general-purpose computing devices! You can't be on Google's app store if you aren't a "real business" with a physical address and everything? Fine. Let's just distribute our apps on F-Droid, or by just releasing APKs in our GitHub pages, etc.

At least that's still possible with Android. But who knows how much longer they'll even allow that?
by MyFedora | 2025-04-30 20:42:46+00:00
I think this change came from the UX team.

Relevant articles:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/simplicity-vs-choice/

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/short-term-memory-and-web-u...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/working-memory-external-mem...
by nebula8804 | 2025-04-30 20:42:55+00:00
>I didn't mean that this is going to be a net positive or even better than disastrous. I'm just saying that if you already have a small business in the US making stuff that was hard to sell locally given the cheaper competition from abroad, people will have no choice but come to you.

Unless those businesses have inputs that rely on China...which many do, those guys are going under.

>Exactly this, I bet those PCB manufacturers are quite happy. Some of their employees might get the idea of setting up a new business, too.

Those US PCB manufacturers didn't care for that business before, they focus on getting fat government or industrial contracts. The reason China was so consumer focused was because they have so much capacity that they must be friendly to my dinky $5 order. Furthermore consider that with 1.4 billion people, there are so many engineers that its extremely cutthroat. You then have a scenario where they assign an engineer to look at my dinky little $5 order because they can.
How do you define a "complete" cybersecurity strategy in 2025
by kevinasutton | 2025-04-30 20:43:17+00:00
I've been researching cybersecurity a lot lately, especially with how quickly threats are evolving in 2025. I keep seeing the term “complete cybersecurity strategy” but I’m still unclear on what exactly that should include beyond just having good software tools.

Should it involve training, policies, threat intelligence, zero-trust architecture, or maybe something else I’m missing?
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-30 20:43:20+00:00
Except I think as long as the “new world order” built around globalized trade networks of interdependence and agreements with dispute arbitration that China and the EU are leaning into was the framework Pax America built and was built to withstand unilateralism. Global organizations built around mutual benefit are ultimately going to win the day here, and it’ll be without American leadership - which will solidify the power of those organizations independently and through multiple power players rather than one. This is probably better than the prior order, and distinctly different than the pre-WW2 order.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-30 20:43:21+00:00
We went through all this during his previous term. They GOP Senate had the perfect excuse to make a break with the past during the impeachment following January 6, all they had to do was huff and puff a bit and stand on the Constitution, and they could have moved on with their political lives. But they fielded a bunch of BS excuses and stood behind the guy who called a rally that resulted in the Congress being overrun and trashed by a mob. Only a few voted to remove him from office.

It's worth considering the possibility that as a party they're nowadays more into fascism than republicanism. Rome was a republic too, until it wasn't.
by GeekyBear | 2025-04-30 20:44:06+00:00
Another factor:

> Google also just increased the target API level requirement for apps on the Google Play Store

https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/articles/google-plays-rules-ki...

We also saw established apps like iA Writer decide to get off the treadmill.

> In order to allow our users to access their Google Drive on their phones we had to rewrite privacy statements, update documents, and pass a series of security checks, all while facing a barrage of new, ever-shifting requirements.

https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite...
by jajko | 2025-04-30 20:44:44+00:00
Bingo, nr 1 reason why older generations now don't grok younger these days. There were always similar scenarios, lets be honest this ain't unique situation generally, despite many trying to claim otherwise, certainly for me and my peers say 25 years ago situation looked almost exactly the same, we just didn't expect to have a great life immediately but work it off gradually.

Heck, my first net salary after university (proper CS title) working 100% as Java software dev was what, cca 350-400$ a month? I could afford almost nothing and that was fine and expected. I don't think I need to calculate how many tens of times my salary went up till this day while still doing Java dev. Yet young folks who start are immediately pissed off they only get very high and not ridiculous amounts right out of school, complaining they can't buy some central housing. Buy?!? As said huge disconnect across generations.