MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by schneems | 2025-05-18 02:00:37+00:00
> The entire world was talking about the same thing.

What you’re describing is an echo chamber. Which is what most sites optimize to produce (when optimizing for engagement and). I switch between bsky where it frequently feels that way “everyone is talking about Y” and mastodon where the chronological timeline makes it clear that a lot of people might be talking about it, but they’re also talking about other things.

I feel that one of the most broken things about our current reality (with so many social sites) is that it feels so singular and shared, but turns out that’s not the case at all. My partner and I have started to use the phrase “my internet” to refer to the general vibe we are taking in as in “is your internet talking about scandal Z?” I’m frequently surprised stuff that totally flys under their radar (and vice versa).
by user3939382 | 2025-05-18 02:00:44+00:00
I wouldn’t say the correction is necessarily pedantic because non voters’ opinions do count and matter, but it also doesn’t materially change the argument. Calling the majority of people (millions) who voted in an election “batshit crazy” translates to, it’s not possible to rationally disagree with me, everyone who does must be crazy. A totally immature, unproductive though sadly common mindset that we should make a conscious effort to avoid.

Moreover it suggests the holder hasn’t thought through the position of the opposition which in turn means they really don’t deeply understand even their own convictions.

If millions of people agree about something, there’s a rational explanation.
by watusername | 2025-05-18 02:00:46+00:00
First of all, thank you for trying to resolve this with the carrier and finally bringing it up to everyone's attention here. Perhaps public attention is what's needed to push them to address the problem.

To be honest, I personally would be scared to report such vulnerabilities with my real identity to begin with. With big tech companies, no matter how poorly their bug bounty programs are run, I still have this naive expectation that they won't shoot the messenger. At worst they could ban my accounts and maybe send threatening letters, but they probably won't ruin my life as long as I abide by the norms (agreed by technical people).

However, I do not feel the same naive optimism towards "legacy" institutions like telecoms and public services. At best it's thankless work, at worst I get sued [0] or become a scapegoat so some official could score some political points [1]. It's unfortunate - I am acutely aware that this is chilling effect at work, and our systems are collectively less secure because of it.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/15/dark-web-expert-warned-us-ho... [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-...
by tpmoney | 2025-05-18 02:00:50+00:00
> - ditch the fruit phone, get a device which is supported by LineageOS.

Alternatively, you could use the parental controls built into that "fruit phone" to do all your recommended blocking without the hassle of setting up your own server, rooting a phone or giving 3rd party software administrative control over your kid's phone. Screen Time limits can be used to set limits (or hard blocks) on both applications and their associated websites. You can limit access to sets of apps to specific times of day, you can prevent the installation of new applications, or require remote approval of new applications. There's a number of other options in there too, and nothing you described seems to my recollection like you can't do with the built in tools.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-18 02:01:10+00:00
I don’t doubt that this is a good approach for some families, but as someone coming from a childhood that had a high degree of sheltering/control I would recommend that anybody looking to do something similar do so with great care.

Depending on execution there’s a significant risk of the child developing a deep-rooted parental resentment that may never dissipate, risk of them going wild the second they’re no longer subject to house rules, and risk of them not being able to handle the things they’ve been barred from in adulthood due to lack of experience. The tighter the parents’ grip the more these risks grow.

I have yet to become a parent so the only experience I can draw from is that of my childhood, but I believe what I would do if I were raising a family would be to put some limits in place, but also spend time discussing why the limits exist with my children and break down exactly how things like social media hijack your brain in effort to inoculate them against it. Every kid is different of course, but many are much more bright than they’re given credit for and can show surprising ability to self-regulate when they understand the reasoning behind rules. Mandate without supporting logic on the other hand is likely to inspire rebellion.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-18 02:01:59+00:00
> I do not believe harris will be any better at containing china.

But she would probably be better at keeping the US position in the world and with our allies in good standing; instead of selling it off for personal gain.

> Trump is not particularly effective but he at least pretends to care.

Good point, at least he pretends to care. I mean he is getting the US a "free" jet that will cost the american tax payer almost a billion dollars to retrofit that will be finished at the end of his term and then given to his library for his personal use. But since he pretends to care about Americans, I guess we can also pretend to believe his dealing with the middle east and all his crypto is totally not selling the country out for his, his business partners and his family's benefit.

At least you are honest about voting for someone who only pretends to care, instead of voting for someone who does care about the country and it's people, even if some domestic policies views differ -- I can appreciate that honesty.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-05-18 02:02:03+00:00
[8,9 dup] checked the course catalog and there are classes on topics that I think most would consider social activism.

The CS professor just running a word search is a poor experiment but this doesn't negate your point.

[1] The DEI intitive is social activism [2] True but not an official school policy but a professor

[3] Independent organization [4] Article on protests and mentions faculty support them [5-6] Accusations [7] True

These are good examples. What about indoctrination though and is it wrong for Harvard to be social activists?
by delichon | 2025-05-18 02:02:28+00:00
> A GM spokeswoman said the company has long argued that the U.S. should have a single emissions mandate and that any regulations should factor in market demand.

Yes, let us stipulate that uniform regulations that disregard the federalist design of the constitution are more convenient and profitable for huge corporations with top flight lobbyists to write the one law to be enforced from sea to shining sea.
by ninjin | 2025-05-18 02:04:59+00:00
Cheap? In its generation the Nintendo 64 was the expensive choice. Maybe not because of the console itself (price varied across its lifetime relative to the competition) but because of the cost of the games (and nearly complete lack of piracy).

As for Pokémon, the Nintendo 64 launched in June 1996 and the first Pokémon game was Pokémon Snap released nearly three years after the console in March 1999.
by arp242 | 2025-05-18 02:05:23+00:00
The US is in an uniquely bad place because none of the major democratic institutions work as they're designed to work. It kind of limps along, but it's completely dysfunctional and has been for decades. Not to be the arrogant European, many Americans don't seem to realise just how bizarre their system of government is.

It's not hard to see how some relatively simple common sense reforms would improve the situation. The first problem is that democratic reform, no matter how "common sense" or popular, is always hard because whoever is in power is in power because of the existing system.

The second problem is that the current GOP is not interested in good faith debate on pretty much anything. This predates Trump; during the Obama years I would joke that I had written an AI to replace the Republican party: "IF proposed_by("Obama") THEN oppose() END". You can make a long shaggy dog story out of this. The cult of personality surrounding Trump only made it worse.

I'm not entirely sure what the solution is; but sweeping reforms that you're proposing here have essentially zero chance of success (aside from whether they're even desirable in the first place).

Maybe Trump screwing up bad enough will dispel some illusions and give the Democratic party enough power to push through some reforms down the line, but I'm not holding my breath (in part because the Democratic leadership seems completely out of touch).
by gowings97 | 2025-05-18 02:05:58+00:00
Millennial here, 3x Trump voter.

"Current US admin only has 3.6 years left, ~2M voters 55+ age out every year, etc. Maintain momentum, be ready to spin up faster after regime change."

The majority of Boomers are liberal - the demographic shift you perceive is not going to work out the way you think it will. Gen-Z is increasingly leaning right, especially males.

Most people just want a 2018 era car (there's diminishing returns for vehicle technology at this point and average vehicle selling price trajectory, Post-Covid, is unsustainable) at a decent price - something with a six cylinder engine that can be easy serviced / repaired.
by sneak | 2025-05-18 02:06:02+00:00
I’m doing precisely that, but I have simulated the same in the meantime by taking a normal residential house and completely blacking out and sealing the windows in the largest upstairs room. It’s excellent. When I turn off the lights it can be pitch black and 68F at noon in the middle of the summer in the Mojave.

I had to cover the windows in all the adjacent rooms to make this work, but it does.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-05-18 02:08:00+00:00
>This is a massive institution with a 50B purse. Litigating this is peanuts for them.

Companies, large ones, settle all the time even if not at fault to avoid a lengthy trial which damages their reputation. It can have nothing to do with culpability.

3% of civil cases reach a verdict.

https://arizonabusinesslawyeraz.com/when-to-litigate-and-whe...

Settlements are also a known fixed cost controlled by the business instead of a jury. Considering how Republicans are attacking Harvard I would say the desire to get this out the public spotlight as fast as possible is important
by maxwellg | 2025-05-18 02:08:28+00:00
I can't wait for first-party remote MCP servers to become more common. Right now we're taking a strange detour of everyone trying to proxy everyone else's APIs and do manual API Key juggling because platforms aren't running their own MCP servers and clients don't support the latest OAuth changes.

In a year from now, Github will run a single public Github MCP server that you will connect to via OAuth - you won't need to install it locally or faff around with tokens or environment variables at all.
by folex | 2025-05-18 02:08:53+00:00
Where does the stereotype 'thesaurus = synonyms + antonyms' come from?

I'm not a native english speaker, and I never heard that idea besides in, I'd guess, Friends TV show.

I've used thesauruses since my childhood for exactly the task of looking up meanings, explanations, perhaps some etymology baked in.

For English, I always use WordNet, it is quite good and works offline on Android.

For my basic level of Chinese, Outliers dictionaries are so far the best I have found, but that's mainly due to my heavy reliance on the etymology provided there.

Well, I guess I got carried away a bit. Back to my question, where thesaurus=synonyms+antonyms comes from?
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-18 02:09:41+00:00
The computer science professor isn’t some nobody either - long time faculty, graduated in 1968, former Dean.

In the case of the curriculum, it suggests an institutional preference for particular ideological narratives

Harvard selectively aligned with or tolerated specific activist ideologies while suppressing or distancing themselves from others

For DEI (which is just rebranded now honestly), it suggests that Harvard pushes only progressive policies and indoctrinated their students in this ideology.

They shouldn’t indoctrinate any students whatsoever
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-05-18 02:09:49+00:00
I am not saying this particular system is good enough for person-to-person cash. But..

The primary problems that digital cash has to solve is double-spending. Debit/credit cards solve this problem by confirming the transaction with the central server over the internet. Credits cards used to solve this problem by trusting that someone's signature could not be replicated, but this was obviously insecure. Some cryptocurrencies solve this problem by confirming transactions with a public distributed ledger.

This system is solving the double-spend problem preventing the holder of the card from, as per OP,

> cloning (can't read the keys)

> a successful attack on another card (each card has its own keys)

> replay attacks (per-session unique keys are generated in the challenge/response)

So the secure enclave on these cards prevent double-spend.

However, it seems like the card reading machine has to be trusted in the current implementation, because it can extract an arbitrary amount of cash from your card. This prevents arbitrary peer-to-peer transactions. But this seems like a much easier problem to solve.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-18 02:12:41+00:00
So we shut off cheap EVs from China so American car makers can charge as much as they want without changing their behaviors.

America doesn't have competition. You're prices aren't going to get cheaper. Meanwhile in China internal competition in battery chemistry and packs has massively dropped costs.

It's sad when the groups we call commies have a more open market than us.

Unfortunately we're going to wake up to that too late.
by dlgeek | 2025-05-18 02:13:46+00:00
Between this and https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks, I think we need to start accepting the idea that OpenSSL is not the right way forward for anything performance sensitive.

Given how aws-lc powers both of these articles, I'm curious how Rustls compares to s2n-tls - AWS's TLS library to go along with aws-lc.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-05-18 02:13:49+00:00
By welfare I was referring to all social programs, medicare, medicad, etc because you mentioned Trump and said "The left will raise social spending. We all end up deeper in debt." Which sounds like you were generalizing.

Did you specifically mean welfare run by states? If so then wouldn't that debt be localized to a state and the left is already in control of certain states so that it wouldn't be a future event? Confusing.
by HideousKojima | 2025-05-18 02:17:54+00:00
>The FEMA report found that its warehouse in Puerto Rico was nearly empty when Hurricane Maria hit last September, without cots or tarps, and very low levels of food and water, as most of the supplies had been rerouted to the U.S. Virgin Islands following Hurricane Irma.

Yeah, so how did a massive agency with plenty of money (over $30 BILLION annually) not immediately begin work to restock their Puerto Rico warehouses immediately after some of the supplies were sent to help with hurricane Irma?

That's roughly $1.5 million per employee of FEMA, so they should have plenty of funds after personnel costs for buying and transporting whatever emergency supplies they need.
by refactor_master | 2025-05-18 02:18:11+00:00
I think that’s an oversimplification. You can’t take the “free labor of performing democracy” and put it to equally good use doing anything else I can think of.

I guess you could work in soup kitchens, but that’s horribly inefficient welfare compared to just electing competent leadership, if the ultimate aim is to benefit The People.
by greenavocado | 2025-05-18 02:19:21+00:00
I could barely care less because NOAA weather models are garbage. The NOAA GFS and NAM models are basically dinosaurs at this point compared to what Meteoblue is running. I've been tracking this stuff for ten years and it's not even close anymore. GFS still limps along at 13km resolution and only updates four times a day. Like, are we still in 2010? It completely screws up thunderstorm timing and can't handle mountains for shit. NAM isn't much better at 12km resolution, constantly busting rainfall forecasts especially in complex terrain.

Meanwhile, Meteoblue's models are on another level. NEMS cranks at 3km resolution and nails thunderstorms like 30% better than NAM. The German ICON model with its weird icosahedral grid is crushing GFS by 15-25% on wind forecasts. Then there's the European ECMWF model everyone knows it consistently beats GFS by at least half a day in accuracy. AROME is insane for mountain forecasts with resolution down to 1.3km, making NAM look like a joke with 40% better precipitation predictions. The real game-changer though is Meteoblue's multi-model approach, which averages out the errors from individual models and boosts accuracy by 20-35% over the old school GFS/NAM combo. I don't know why anyone still relies on GFS or NAM except for historical consistency or if you need a really broad overview. For anything specific or local, the newer models demolish them.
by int_19h | 2025-05-18 02:20:03+00:00
> Your example would be clearer if you used a pointer instead of a reference

I actually used the reference deliberately here because, unlike a pointer, a reference cannot be rebound.

But yes, I agree, this isn't good design. Off the top of my head I can think of at least one way to enable the same thing with a tiny bit of special (and rather obvious) syntax without introducing a footgun. It wouldn't even need any new keywords!

foo x{this x, ...};
by Braxton1980 | 2025-05-18 02:23:46+00:00
>Defense is also an enumerated power of the feds and welfare is not.

Every federal social program is backed by a law giving the federal government that power. The Stafford act and social security act for example.

>Defense must be handled at the national welfare

Why can't defense be per state? If the answer is it's not efficient or coordination then the same could be said for any social program

>My "general rule" is there is a pretty small list of things the feds should do

Why? I understand your view I would like to understand why you have it.

>It is also a "general rule" that when you are worried about overspending you look at the bigger line items first.

Why? Wouldn't it be better to look at the least nessacary line items. Counter example;

I spend $1000 a month on housing, $300 on video games, and $200 on Pokemon plush toys.

If I was overspending would the first change be my housing?
by SergeAx | 2025-05-18 02:23:52+00:00
My first computer-related job was manually typing a part of an extensive German-Russian dictionary into text files. I was about 15, it was around 1990, scanners were a rare thing, and OCRs weren't a thing at all.

The resulting files should be space-aligned at some random column, like 30 or so, of the available 80. I still remember the translations of two words that were longer than that. One was "to attack the enemy in the night while wearing a camouflage robe". The other - "to descend carefully using an unreliable rope".
by hardwaresofton | 2025-05-18 02:24:05+00:00
> If you have a $70 nicely designed, documented IoT sensor but the DIY home automation people think they can put ESPHome on a $10 Amazon device and accomplish nearly the same thing, which one do are they going to buy?

I agree with you that targeting devs/people with an under-developed sense of buy/build doesn't work!

I'm hoping that the devs with money/slightly more accomplished who don't have time to mess with stuff would pick it up.

A bit of a jump but I think this was one of the big strategic mistakes of products like FirefoxOS -- aiming for the dev with money who can afford a $600 I-support-foss-and-mozilla signaling device that also happens to be a phone they can hack on may have worked better than targeting $60 feature phones.

> If you go through the forums you can already find some semi-premium devices that are a little better constructed and might have better feature sets. They’re always followed by comments from people recommending a cheaper option.

I think that's OK! It's similar to HN dropbox effect. IMO you actually want those people to find the cheaper option, those are bad customers for a premium brand.

The product has to actually be noticably better/more consistent/etc than the cheaper option though. And IMO there is a large subset of nerds that don't actually want to write 5 files and flash an OS to do smart home stuff -- they want to play at the application layer.

A good counter example might be the NAS industry.

This is all theoretical of course, so... We're just armchairing at this point.
by DavidPiper | 2025-05-18 02:25:15+00:00
You kinda just disagreed with yourself.

Every kid having their own tailored algorithm means there is no shared cultural experience by design.

A shared cultural experience means there are people in it who don't like it or don't engage with it, even though they are aware of it, and they can engage with their peers about it.

Tailored algorithms means maximal enjoyment and engagement at all times, but it's engagement with the software, not engagement with peers.
by int_19h | 2025-05-18 02:26:35+00:00
I agree that explicit annotation for overrides is desirable, but disagree that it alleviates the need for `override`. The fact that a method is introduced for the purpose of overriding is IMO important enough to justify an explicit annotation regardless, much like C# does it with `new` and `override`.

It's also not clear to me what this has to do with ODR, ADL etc. That is to say, it's obviously a problem with a historical design decision (implicit overrides) that now has to be kept for backwards compatibility reasons, making it impossible to require a `new` annotation above and beyond opt-in compiler warnings. But that particular problem is not a uniquely C++ one, seeing how implicit overrides are actually more common than explicit ones in mainstream OOP languages, largely because they have all inherited this choice from either Simula (as C++ did) or Smalltalk. C# is more of an exception in that regard.
by notpushkin | 2025-05-18 02:28:48+00:00
I’ve only used them twice (on Sinkansen, and on a regular train in Hokkaido), and it was nearly instantaneous – about as fast as an IC card. The whole experience felt like magic: you put the tichets into a slot, whoosh! – and you pick them up on the other side.

It is true that they are expensive to produce and hard to recycle, though, so it’s a good idea overall. But I’ll miss this iconic experience (or hopefully they retain it on some lines at least). (Edit: or just make the whoosh! readers work with QR codes! :)
by jrflowers | 2025-05-18 02:28:51+00:00
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Myers

>Myers faced criticism in 2005 when he supported the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, a bill introduced by U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) that some argued would have prohibited the National Weather Service from publishing weather data to the public when private-sector entities, such as AccuWeather, perform the same function commercially.[34]
by hardwaresofton | 2025-05-18 02:29:04+00:00
Thanks! This is what I eventually got to. That said, I'm leaning towards putting the USB stick in a Pi or something like that, which is attached to and powered by the router!

Just want to have the one device and I think that's maybe the simplest way to get it without trying to run stuff on the router.

Basically, it is a hub, but it's more of an attachment to the router than anything else.