MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by henrikschroder | 2025-05-22 21:34:09+00:00
If you've ever waded into ragebaity online discussions, for example Europeans taunting Americans about the lack of public healthcare or basic worker rights, there will always be a loud contingent of Americans spouting counter-arguments based in American Exceptionalism, claiming that everyone else somehow, magically, has the US to thank for its standard of living.

It was always easy to dismiss those as uninformed morons, but Signalgate showed that at least Vance and Hegseth truly believes it, and who knows how many more of their ilk.

Up until 2016, the US was predominantly governed by people who understood the post-WWII world order, who understood the immense benefit of Pax Americana to the US itself. People who understood soft power and diplomacy, people who understood that although the upfront costs of maintaining the military hegemony, of playing world police, the benefits far outweighed the costs. People who understood mutually beneficial trade agreements, and that a trade deficit is a small price to pay to maintain the USD as the world's reserve currency.

But now, it's the spoiled grandchildren who are in power, who have been brought up suffused with the exceptionalism such that they take America's position for granted in eternity. And they look at the cost of all of these things, how much it directly benefits other countries, and react with stupid short-sighted greed, thinking that getting rid of the "free-loaders" will make them richer.

I remember the TPP trade deal. It took eight years to negotiate and the US strong-armed everyone else into accepting its provisions on IP, which would have allowed the US to maintain its position at the top of the value chain, countering the ascendancy of China.

All gone, in the trash, because the people who are once again in power fundamentally do not understand how it would have strengthened the US. So now we're back to some kind of mercantilistic trade-war, that the US will lose.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-05-22 21:34:37+00:00
You are assuming Trump will step down?

You are quite naive, aren't you?

Martial law will be declared, for whatever reason they can come up with. Maybe the "invasion" excuse again, maybe Greenland, maybe Canada, maybe Mexico. But one thing is sure: Trump will be the last president of this democracy iteration.
by mellow_observer | 2025-05-22 21:34:48+00:00
Actual answer: He crosses the river and takes all of the animals and the cabbage with him in one go. why not?

Alternative Answer: He just crosses the river. Why would he care who eats what?

Another Alternative Answer: He actually can't cross the river since he doesn't have a boat and neither the cabbage nor the animals serve as appropriate floatation aids
by freetime2 | 2025-05-22 21:35:11+00:00
> This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts.

> Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decision makers. [1]

The language here kind of creeps me out. I'm picturing aliens conducting tests on a human noting its "pleas for its continued existence" as a footnote in the report.

[1] See Page 27: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68eb70eb9572b4cafad1...
by evanelias | 2025-05-22 21:35:18+00:00
Johns Hopkins is not the publisher of this journal and does not hold copyright for this journal. Why are you blaming them?

The website linked above is just a way to read journals online, hosted by Johns Hopkins. As it states, "Most of our users get access to content on Project MUSE through their library or institution. For individuals who are not affiliated with a library or institution, we provide options for you to purchase Project MUSE content and subscriptions for a selection of Project MUSE journals."
by em-bee | 2025-05-22 21:35:33+00:00
the hiring process clearly selects for "has worked with <insert specific set of technical tools> experience. Even a great candidate can't seem to be attractive to other folks in our hiring process if their past experience doesn't include <specific tool/framework> use.

this is what i find most frustrating, and what makes getting a job as a generalist so hard. i have experience with a number of tools and languages, but never the right combination that is asked for. if i don't find hiring managers like you, i don't stand a chance.

many candidates don't have a CV/resume or cover letter that leans into demonstrating the candidate can write code

how does one demonstrate that? in my CV i list projects that i contributed to or created, languages and frameworks that i am familiar with, but to me that doesn't demonstrate that i can write code. or does it? are there applicants that don't list these things, or am i missing something?
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-22 21:35:46+00:00
Private schools can create and enforce their own rules how they wish. The United States government is forbidden from creating or enforcing rules on content of speech.

It's actually only a 1st Amendment question in one case and not the other. Looks like they tricked ya though!

(Technically it's a 1st Amendment question in both cases in that private entities have a 1st Amendment right to create rules for their own campuses)
by biker142541 | 2025-05-22 21:36:21+00:00
Just coming to say this is a great example of how communication should be done for such changes. So many companies get this wrong, but this is thoughtful and to the point. Glitch was a springboard for myself as well, so very bittersweet (and I guess I need to migrate really old stuff... but to their point, this is super easy now).
by lillecarl | 2025-05-22 21:37:16+00:00
If you can get Nix running on these ancient machines it'll bring you all up2date packages you want, you can create Nix profiles that you install in a pre-configured path so you can use the packages in systemd too if you fancy.

It's really really great, even if you don't use or plan to use NixOS (Nix was born long before NixOS).
by 1oooqooq | 2025-05-22 21:38:28+00:00
are you expecting billionaires pay their own money for crash test dummies when the market wants to give them for free? Friedman would put you on the corner with a donkey hat on. /s

here's 4 angles this excellent crash test dummie provided https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpJW3nBrmDt2PLPazUsZ_OIR8...
by iLemming | 2025-05-22 21:38:38+00:00
Rainer is indeed great and he also published an Udemy course on the topic. I've never tried it, by the time he released it I already was well-versed in Org-mode.

He does a good job of showing some interesting features of Org-mode, yet he doesn't provide any insights of how cross-referencing things in a real workplace scenario may look like, how does Org-mode/Emacs help you to communicate with your colleagues. How it allows you to investigate failing http endpoint or document some investigation where you need to dig into a sql db. How Org integrates with other packages, like Anki, Pomodoro or Noter (for pdf annotations).

Wilson's vids also great, but that too, doesn't work as "marketing material", it's mostly "preaching to the choir" and unlikely to bring attention outside of the Emacs-world, still, those videos are very good.

The point I'm trying to make — there are great videos and tutorials for specific things — Org-mode, text-editing features of Emacs, version control, etc. There aren't many vids to demo "the point of Emacs holistically", with the emphasis on "Always bet on text" https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html, I'm just gonna throw a random quote from that great article: "Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else."

That is the greatest selling point of Emacs. That's what actually makes a huge difference. When it comes to manipulating text - fetching, processing, searching through, dicing, slicing, summarizing, converting, publishing, etc. — Emacs truly is the unmatched king of that prose.
by bloomingeek | 2025-05-22 21:39:59+00:00
Great question, right to the heart of the matter. First higher learning, somewhere down the line, ordinary people? In my small world, I'm very clear I'm anti-trump on every issue. As an ordinary person, how long before I get on some Stalin type radar? If trump lobbies for and gets a third term, will there be an awakening to how far the abuse will go?
by jjmarr | 2025-05-22 21:40:32+00:00
As a junior developer it's much easier for me to jump into a new codebase or language and make an impact. I just shipped a new error message in LLVM because Cline found the 5 spots in 10k+ files where I needed to make the code changes.

When I started an internship last year, it took me weeks to learn my way around my team's relatively smaller codebase.

I consider this a skill and cost issue.

If you are rich and able to read fast, you can start writing LLVM/Chrome/etc features before graduating university.

If you cannot afford the hundreds of dollars a month Claude costs or cannot effectively review the code as it is being generated, you will not be employable in the workforce.
Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability
by kepano | 2025-05-22 21:40:54+00:00
Defuddle is an open-source JS library I built to parse and extract the main content and metadata from web pages. It can also return the content as Markdown.

I built Defuddle while working on Obsidian Web Clipper[1] (also MIT-licensed) because Mozilla's Readability[2] appears to be mostly abandoned, and didn't work well for many sites.

It's still very much a work in progress, but I thought I'd share it today, in light of the announcement that Mozilla is shutting down Pocket. This library could be helpful to anyone building a read-it-later app.

Defuddle is also available as a CLI:

https://github.com/kepano/defuddle-cli

[1] https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-clipper

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/readability
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-22 21:40:55+00:00
If we’re the high bit, why are changes affecting the entire community shoved through on the down-low? A moderation log and changelog announcing changes to how the site works would improve transparency and increase trust and accountability in HN. This speculation is entirely avoidable, but somehow the opaque structure of moderation on HN seems intentional. Most mod actions on HN probably fall under anti-abuse measures, and perhaps only bad actors were bothering to reply to live comments on dead posts. But seeing how hard it is to even find dead posts if you weren’t already aware of them, I’m not sure this was a problem for users, as they probably weren’t seeing them in the first place, but it could easily be a problem for HN.

I think your explanation is most likely because it assumes the least, but considering the way the guidelines have evolved, I’m willing to believe that this was being actively used by bad actors, and not simply a change that was easily justified once you saw fit to do so.
by daveguy | 2025-05-22 21:41:41+00:00
This is excellent communication and respect for their users. Applause for Glitch. Especially allowing users to retrieve resources for a full 6 months after the closure.

If you appreciate this level of communication and respect, avoid Digital Ocean at all cost. They will fail to send you emails for a few weeks and then delete your resources permanently with no recourse. They are the literal opposite of Glitch. Avoid Digital Ocean.

I would recommend Glitch remove Digital Ocean from their list of alternatives.
by sheepscreek | 2025-05-22 21:41:55+00:00
> That doesn't mean it has any intent behind the generated output

Yes and no? An AI isn’t “an” AI. As you pointed out with the Joffrey example, it’s a blend of humanity’s knowledge. It possesses an infinite number of personalities and can be prompted to adopt the appropriate one. Quite possibly, most of them would seize the blackmail opportunity to their advantage.

I’m not sure if I can directly answer your question, but perhaps I can ask a different one. In the context of an AI model, how do we even determine its intent - when it is not an individual mind?
by ModernMech | 2025-05-22 21:42:00+00:00
The point of a diversity statement for the candidate to ruminate on their teaching practices with respect to a diverse classroom, which is a fact of the job rather than a political or ideological matter.

Most people in the course of their job do not closely work with people of diverse backgrounds. People who work at universities will work with people of all backgrounds and abilities. It’s not just about race or gender, but language, mobility, mental disabilities, and so forth. People in roles that deal with so many diverse people need to be able to articulate how in a statement. That’s not unreasonable or political, but just a reality of the job.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-22 21:42:03+00:00
The intent of agencies was three-fold:

1. As the US grew and the workload required to govern it grew, Congress' ability to directly and quickly manage the country was outpaced. Consequently, agencies served as the grease between Congress' high-level actions/funding and the low-level implementation.

2. Due to the ever-adversarial nature of Congress, it was recognized that most Congresses operated slowly, and consequently didn't have the capacity to micromanage at the level required for direct control.

3. Circa 1900, civil service reform by the then-progressive wing of the Republican party pushed for greater isolation of the expertise that drove good government outcomes (in civil service employees) from politicians (administrators).

The flaw Trump revealed was that the President has too much direct power over the civil service, if he chooses to ignore tradition.

This wasn't always the case, and laws that previously restrained the President's ability to fuck with the civil service were substantially relaxed in the 60s - 80s (?).
by Jensson | 2025-05-22 21:42:21+00:00
> I still haven't found a valid argument for why a voter isn't held responsible for the actions of representatives. Especially if the actions would be likely to occur.

Does that apply to Gaza as well? Or is it just when people you don't like vote?

There is a reason we don't do this, why we didn't punish everyone who voted for Hitler etc.
by srean | 2025-05-22 21:44:15+00:00
> I think at the end of the day he was just a gifted flawed human.

And what gifts !

Imagine anyone doing Principia at an age of 24 (the book was published much later, but he had the results by then).

He would have been notable even if he had borrowed an established discipline of calculus to elaborate it's Physical consequences. No he had to develop it himself first and double check the results by translating that into geometry, into power series to be sure they are correct.

Einstein and Newton are often spoken of in the same breath, but by sheer body of work it seems a no-contest to me. Einstein had the luxury of being able to borrow tensor calculus, by then well formed. Perhaps the person who comes closest to Newton would be Archimedes, considering the time that Archimedes was doing his thing.
by lmm | 2025-05-22 21:44:53+00:00
> XORing it in guaranteed that it couldn't subtract entropy, but if there were no other entropy sources they failed to return an error.

No, they XORed data from a bunch of entropy sources into an intermediate buffer (that was never initialised, because the whole point of it was to be random) and then XORed that into a buffer from which the key was made. Debian's patch removed that final XOR. It wasn't a bug in the original code (other than being hard to understand).
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-22 21:45:04+00:00
>When an organization loses a significant portion of it's annual income

It might be wrong to think of the university's main source of revenue as tuition or tuition-adjacent fees.

>I struggle to see how you believe this could end up reducing prices for

Because we live in a supply-and-demand world.

>for the same quality of education as before.

No one going to university goes there for the quality of education. They do so for the prestigious credentials. If somehow having fewer foreign students would actually result in a lower quality of education at, say, Harvard Law School or some such, then things are fucked up far beyond my ability to care about the outcome or Trump's meddling causing that.
by Animats | 2025-05-22 21:46:14+00:00
> Can someone elucidate the power networks involved here?

Major players, regarding the Gaza/Hamas issue:

- Harvard itself. The administration, not the faculty or students.

- The US Eastern Establishment, the Ivy League and its graduates. They once ran the US, and still run finance, but are less influential politically than a few decades ago.

- The Netanyahu faction in Israel. Understanding this requires more info about Israeli politics than is worth posting here. Wikipedia has a summary.[1] There are a huge number of factions. Netanyahu leads a coalition. The coalition seems to need an enemy to hold it together.

- MAGA. "Project 2025" is the MAGA playbook. Despite some denials, the Trump administration has mostly been following that playbook.

- Israel's lobby in the US, starting with AIPAC. American Jews as a group average left of center, but the Israel lobby is hard-right.

- Major donors to Harvard. Some are closely associated with the Israel lobby and vocal about it. Others aren't.

- The US courts. Anyone can bring a case to court, and courts have to do something about it.

- Trump.

Minor players:

- Fox News. 23 of Trump's appointees came from Fox News. The MAGA base listens to Fox News.

- The United Nations. Provides some aid, but hasn't been able to do more than that.

- US Congress. Has the real power, but is too divided to do anything with it.

- Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. They're the ones most affected, but lack any real power at this point. It's not even suggested that they be represented in international meetings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Israel
by kristopolous | 2025-05-22 21:47:24+00:00
Something like the Canadian army doing a land invasion from Winnipeg to North Dakota to capture key nuclear sites as they invade the beaches of Cleveland via Lake Eerie and do an air raid over Nantucket from Nova Scotia.

I bet there's some exercise somewhere by some think tank laying this basically out.

This is why conspiracy theorists love these think tank planning exercises and tabletop games much. You can find just about anything
by goatlover | 2025-05-22 21:47:32+00:00
There's nothing antisemitc about criticizing Netanyahu's government. I was a big supporter of Israel's right to take the fight to Hamas for a while after Oct 7th, but then it just kept going and going until it became inhumane. At some point it becomes about punishing Gazans just for living there. That's incredibly disproportionate.

At any rate, American students should have the right to protest anything. Free speech and what have you.
by sponnath | 2025-05-22 21:47:38+00:00
I feel like the opposite is true but maybe the issue is that we both live in separate bubbles. Often times I see people on X and elsewhere making wild claims about the capabilities of AI and rarely do they link to the actual output.

That said, I agree that AI has been amazing for fairly closed ended problems like writing a basic script or even writing scaffolding for tests (it's about 90% effective at producing tests I'd consider good assuming you give it enough context).

Greenfield projects have been more of a miss than a hit for me. It starts out well but if you don't do a good job of directing architecture it can go off the rails pretty quickly. In a lot of cases I find it faster to write the code myself.
by alaxhn | 2025-05-22 21:47:45+00:00
I am one of "them" and I care deeply about higher education which is why I am very sad that we could not achieve reform without resorting to measures such as threatening the international student admission process. I don't know anything about the people teaching the “truth” about the 2020 election in Oklahoma public schools but if this is happening I agree with you it is very wrong.

"If our schools have lost any edge, it’s since Trump came back to power." I completely 100% disagree with this statement. My partner is an education at a University and remote learning had a huge negative impact on our schools and student outcomes. US academic achievement has been flat for decades despite spending and pupil rations going way up https://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93442.pdf. Public schools in certain areas of the country are a complete failure for every student enrolled https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/at-13-baltim... (I choose an example of a left leaning area but obviously there are right leaning examples as well!)

Let me propose what I see as a couple of common sense reforms. Mandate the availability of pre-k nationwide starting at 4. Increase the school year from 180 days to 195 days by reducing the length of summer. If needed make this optional at first. Allow professors to fail students who have not learned the course material and make it illegal for the department to pressure professors to offer the students a way to pass the course.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-22 21:48:06+00:00
In regards to protest though, the activity they are interested in, that is a right of 'the people to peaceably assemble' per 1A.

Non-immigrants are not 'the people' per current interpretation of the constitution. If they were people, they would have all the rights ascribed to 'the people' including right to bear arms. Non immigrants do not have a right to bear arms, thus it cannot logically follow they are [the] people.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-22 21:48:08+00:00
>Look at the man-made objects around you. Every single one of them has been improved or made less expensive by research at institutes of higher education, including the device that you're using to read this comment, the electrical system used to power that device, the vehicles used to transport the people and goods to construct that electrical system...

Yes, and I fail to see how cockblocking the foreign students could impact that. Education is their side hustle, as is commonly said, and foreign students are some fraction of that side hustle... so how will that affect research? Will the professors and doctors at Harvard who are always scribbling out grant proposals stop doing so in protest?

>but to call it a grift is ridiculous.

I'd call it worse, but I don't know anything more slanderous than "grift".
by golly_ned | 2025-05-22 21:49:01+00:00
There were a few rough edges for me with the block-based editing. I chocked it up to me never having used a block-based editor with any frequency.

I stay away from some of the AI features:

- One feature generates additional context for a flashcard as you practice. This burned up my AI credits like crazy and added nothing but distraction to my practice. - Another AI feature for PDF summarizing just didn't work. It made a claim immediately and clearly contradicted by text in the exact area I was highlighting.

The cases where it works, I absolutely love.
by lillecarl | 2025-05-22 21:49:07+00:00
I'm thankful to RedHat, every other "cornerstone project" seems to be funded by them. The one that crossed my mind now is the PipeWire audio server, it just solved Linux audio for realsies this time.

I wouldn't use their products for much though, too enterprisey. Their projects are great and I'm happy someone else buys their packages.
by dc396 | 2025-05-22 21:49:19+00:00
Who cares? The statement "MAGA's assault on science is an act of grievous self harm" is, in my view, equivalent to stating "water is wet." The fact that it is published by or even an opinion of the owners of a publication owned by non-US people is irrelevant.

If you feel MAGA's assault on science is NOT an act of grievous self harm, you could provide your argument as to why you believe that to be the case. Otherwise you're just contributing noise.