MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bee_rider | 2025-05-23 19:14:17+00:00
Some clause to this effect could be a nice thing to add to any future unions. Want to leave? Go for it! Run your own services, take your chunk of the national debt and once you’ve paid it off you are free.

Why are countries begging their regions to stay? It’s obviously just a negotiation or political rhetoric. If these movements actually had to take themselves seriously they would immediately dissolve I think.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-05-23 19:14:29+00:00
This is semantic baggage to me. Identity is best loosely held, and it's mostly determined by our actions. There's no real faking, just acting in accordance to, or against, one's preferences.

Colloquially when people use the term "fake it till you make it" they don't really mean "pretend to be a different person". They just mean act in the face of uncertainty. You can do it with or without undeserved confidence, it's besides.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-23 19:14:32+00:00
Thanks for that distinction, as no one else mentioned it in as many words, and due to underspecified context, I think we were talking past each other. I can’t be sure that is the end of my query, but I will try to dig into the API to see if I can corroborate my past observations.

I apologize for not noticing this earlier, and how my own description of the issue allowed for confusion, and for any offense I may have caused you.
by jack_h | 2025-05-23 19:14:48+00:00
The polls that I've seen showed something like 30% wanted independence before the election and now it's in the high 30% to mid 40%[1]. The polls could of course be wrong, but if they're any indication it seems as though it isn't that unpopular of a position, but it is highly contentious.

I'm sure there's a lot of people behind the PR push for independence and similarly there will be a lot of people behind a counter PR push against independence. Assuming that another position exists merely because of powerful interests usually leads to a lot of strife as two sides of an issue can never reconcile their differences; after all you can't debate against a position that is perceived as being held by people due to powerful interests tricking them into holding it. The reverse will also naturally happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_separatism#Opinion_pol...
by kens | 2025-05-23 19:15:03+00:00
The article mentions that the Moses-Saunders International Power Dam is nearby. A bit of a tangent, but this was built by Robert Moses, who isn't as well known as he should be. Moses built a huge number of projects that reshaped New York City: the state parkway, lots of bridges including the TriBorough and Verrazzano-Narrows, multiple NYC expressways, Jones Beach, Shea Stadium, Lincoln Center, United Nations headquarters, large public housing projects, and so forth.

If you like very long books, you should read "The Power Broker", a biography of Moses that explains how he used his job as state park commissioner to become one of the most powerful (and controversial) people in New York.
by neilv | 2025-05-23 19:15:20+00:00
> Massena is one of the poorest, least-desirable places not only in New York State, but in the United States at large. [...] on the flip-side, it’s within very close distance of two major Canadian cities, [...]

Coincidentally, recently thinking of Handmaid's Tale for some reason... I was clicking on towns on Google Maps, on either side of the NE US border with Canada, and was struck by many of the featured photos of these places being abandoned-rural-decay.

Probably because overgrown abandoned human activity is interesting to photographers. And maybe that constitutes the majority of photos from those places being shared with Google Maps.

But I also had an idle thought of what-if there was a conscious effort to discourage people from going there, like a town that's kept off of maps. So I started looking around for hints of sensitive government facilities, developers buying up large swaths of land, etc. The first thing I found was an industrial marijuana-growing operation.

I didn't know what to make of it, other than that land might be affordable, and hopefully Amazon delivers.
by deepsun | 2025-05-23 19:15:27+00:00
PgAdmin I think is more for working with data, I use Intellij DB editor mostly for writing complex SQL (with autocomplete, coloring, auto-formatting).

It also recognizes your regular programming code strings as SQL and can also autocomplete/highlight typos, but I don't use that, because we're using JOOQ that generates code stubs from live DB.
by RHSeeger | 2025-05-23 19:15:54+00:00
I always found it kind of fun to wander through Times Square in the evening, every now and again (on the order of once every few months).

Pointing out that it's the same old big box stores doesn't really connect to the draw of it. Most people don't go to Times Square to shop, they go to _experience_ it, and its entertaining. But it's not the place you're going to on a normal Saturday night with your friends.
by rooftopzen | 2025-05-23 19:15:54+00:00
>"When it comes to vector search, it's not just about matching words. Understanding the meaning behind them is equally important."

This statement ^ is clearly incorrect on its premise -semantic meaning is already vectorized, and the problems with that are old news and have little to do w indexing.

I went through the article though, and realized the company is probably on its last legs - an effort that was interesting 2 years ago for about a week, but funded by non-developers without any gauge of reality.
by throe73848484 | 2025-05-23 19:16:09+00:00
> So I'm going to tell you about a trick you can pull right here at the point where the train tracks end. You can reinvent yourself. I wish I’d known I could do that. I was lazy in college and got bad grades

I googled study fees for that university. $69000 per year plus expenses for accommodation, food and books.

After you finish such school, you should be top level motivated professional with highly lucrative job lined up. If you drop quarter of million dollars for paper, just to discover at end you need to "reinvent yourself", you are probably highly highly privileged person, or just not so smart.

18 years old kids need to hear this speech. Not students before graduation!
by dismalaf | 2025-05-23 19:16:10+00:00
As a born Albertan, it's not unpopular. The current separatists aren't popular politicians per se, but the idea we should push for a new plan with the feds like Quebec and the idea of separation itself is more popular than ever.

And yes, the people funding it have deep pockets. It's the oil industry. You know what else though? The oil industry bankrolls nearly everything in Alberta. Oil royalties are the reason we don't have PST. It employs hundreds of thousands. That money then supports construction, services, etc...

Anyone who was in Alberta when oil was booming knows exactly what it does for the province.

Also, it's Canada's #1 export. It keeps the dollar at least almost respectable. And billions get taken from Alberta to pay for the welfare of Canadians in other provinces. Alberta's GDP per capita is literally 35% higher than Canada's... And that's with them kneecapping us...
by godelski | 2025-05-23 19:16:29+00:00
Regardless, I still saw it happen quite a lot. Maybe I was seeing the images under different LoRAs. But I'm extremely confident I saw the celebrities in bikinis or other sexy settings. So let's be serious, any sexy setting, regardless of nudity, is making a certain implication... And sorry, but your NSFW detector is not going to catch that stuff (and it is going to frequently fail on even nudes).

And did they apply the detector uniformly? Like you get the detector on Emma Watson, but does it apply to Hermine Granger? Because I definitely saw that situation reoccurring. Seemed to be extremely common with cartoon characters. Especially given the explicit nature of PonyDiffusion, mixing anime generation and realsm... Just turn of NSFW filters and go look at top models and top LoRAs. Nude content dominates the charts.

Let's also be clear, there is a gender bias. I'd wager quite a lot of money that there are far fewer JD Vance nude deep fakes than many female celebrities.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-05-23 19:16:49+00:00
YES!

The question is: To whom do these rights extend in the U.S.?

They certainly don't extend to foreigners at the border (any country would rightly turn away an avowed Al-Qaeda member). Foreigners in the U.S. are in the U.S. at the pleasure of the government.

Do foreigners currently in the U.S. have these rights? I don't know for sure, maybe it's not a settled issue. My guess is that the U.S. gov't asks "Are you a terrorist?" at the border for good reasons, and one reason is so they can kick you out for lying to them when they learn you're a HAMAS supporter.

Should they have these rights? I'm honestly not sure of my feeling on this. Perhaps the way to handle it is to prevent the renewal of a visa or re-entry, but not actually kick anyone out for it.
by gruez | 2025-05-23 19:16:49+00:00
>I can tell who among them are angry about real things and who are angry about things

You only need to go to /r/all to see all the things that liberals are angry about.

>they imagined or read someone else fantasize about.

That just moves the issue from "whether people are angry" to "whether the issues are 'real' or not". If you're a liberal, of course you're going to think liberal causes are "real things" and dismiss conservative issues as "imagined".
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-23 19:17:16+00:00
Ever since Romero departed the id Software had shipped *checks notes* Quake II, Quake III, Doom 3 and Quake 4.

Funnily enough Romero himself didn't ship much either. IMO it's one of the most iconic "duo breakups". The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
by OG_BME | 2025-05-23 19:17:31+00:00
I recently migrated to Linkwarden [0] from Pocket, and have been happy with the decision.

Linkwarden is open source and self-hostable.

I wrote a python package [1] to ease the migration of Pocket exports to Linkwarden.

[0] https://linkwarden.app/

[1] https://github.com/fmhall/pocket2linkwarden
by kayodelycaon | 2025-05-23 19:17:36+00:00
You definitely have to be a certain type of person to do this. Not everyone is physically and mentally capable and has a “socially-acceptable morality” to live that kind of lifestyle.

Access to healthcare is also a serious problem. Also the people may be hostile to anyone who is “a liberal” or “woke”. I wouldn’t recommend being openly transgender in one of these places.
by sandworm101 | 2025-05-23 19:17:52+00:00
There is a third type of tunnel not really discussed here: hypersonic wind tunnels. They are closed but not looped. At one end are giant tanks of compressed and chilled air, almost liquid. At the other, even bigger expansion tanks filled with vacuum. Tests last only seconds and are more like explosions than wind.

https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/chinas-jf-22-hypersonic-wind-t...

In the western world, hypersonic testing has been traditionally done live. For groups like NASA, it was always a tossup between biulding a monster tunnel, or just strapping the test articles to the sharp end of a rocket and letting the upper atmosphere be the tunnel.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-23 19:17:57+00:00
Well I prefer to only mention things that are actually true, mate.

Scandal, sensationalism, and junk science as a pretext to attack stuff that didn't happen long ago. What a surprise.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/no-evidence-of-ma...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/canada-gives-up-tryin...

The truth is that nobody else in Canada would take these children; they couldn't be educated in state schools; they were being displaced anyway, and many of them (being permanently poor) were sick and ready to die already. But for some reason Canadians are reacting like the children were placed in box cars and shuffled into gas chambers. Now they're running this B.S. "ground-penetrating-radar" campaign and it's literally seeing ghosts. GPR is detecting shadows. And they're interpreting the shadows without looking for facts or logic. And therefore these shadows are justifications to burn down more churches in the here and now. Good show.
by seanhunter | 2025-05-23 19:18:50+00:00
The one additional thing I forgot to mention is that random notes as per TFA are almost entirely unrelated to the activity of sight reading but random rhythms are not. I made myself a bunch of flashcards with every conceivable combination of notes and rests adding up to a crotchet/quarter note on each card. Then I would scramble the deck , set the metronome and deal myself out say 4 bars of 4/4. Then sing or tap the rhythm in tempo. That helped a lot for reading more rhythmically intense stuff.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-05-23 19:19:12+00:00
> push their kids

I think complete apathy is uncommon. Parents mostly want their kids to succeed in what would loosely map to their own definitions, to be "content" and self-reliant. If they come from a blue collar background that will mean suggesting their kids pick up a trade. Educated parents will usually suggest college.

You can't will ambition in someone else that isn't there, and it comes at a price. Some parents relentlessly make their kids train hard at sports, or studying, and they're miserable and resentful for it.
by pattrnapp | 2025-05-23 19:19:21+00:00
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by Arnavion | 2025-05-23 19:19:23+00:00
You can have multiple TXT records for the same domain identifier, and the ACME server will look through all of them to find the one that it expects. So for an order that requests SANs example.org and *.example.org, where the server asks for two authorizations to be completed for _acme-challenge.example.org, you can create both TXT records at the same time.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8555#section-8.4

>2. Query for TXT *records* for the validation domain name

>3. Verify that the contents of *one of the TXT records* match the digest value

(Emphasis mine.)
by badc0ffee | 2025-05-23 19:19:39+00:00
> There is no Alberta Pension Plan that exists today.

There is a fund (AIMCo) that the government is proposing to convert in to a general pension plan. So far that has not been popular enough to translate into concrete action.

> All provinces also already run their own police forces.

No, rural policing is handled by the RCMP in 8 provinces. Ontario has the OPP and Quebec has SQ.

> So there has been no movement on this in Alberta.

The idea of the police force is more popular with voters than the idea of the pension plan. So, something could come of it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-plans-to-cre...
by YZF | 2025-05-23 19:20:09+00:00
I'm from BC. Seeing Alberta and the US as some sort of parallel to Russia and Ukraine feels like some new level of paranoia.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

Alberta is not going to separate from Canada. The US is not going to invade Canada. This is just noise. There's plenty of things that matter that we need to focus on instead of this nonsense.

I guess Brexit shows us that the public can vote for stupid things.

> What Alberta needs is to be honest with itself and recognize that so many of our issues are caused by ourselves and our inability to coordinate as a people against internal and external forces. Separating won't change that, it'll only make it worse.

Can you expand on this? What sort of issues do Albertans cause to themselves?
by dmonitor | 2025-05-23 19:20:14+00:00
I love the stupid math in this paragraph. One 10hr shift is ~30% of what you need. So multiply that by 3.3 and... oh hey you're working nearly 40hrs a week to afford your impoverished lifestyle in the middle of nowhere. Just like everyone else in this country, only now you get to own a shed. Also you have to take the bus, which runs from 5am-6pm, so you need to beg your boss to not be an opener or closer. Your coworkers will love you for that.
by palmotea | 2025-05-23 19:20:43+00:00
> what does "palmotea" define as "pseudo-public space"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space

> ...the phrase in its broadest sense can refer to places, like shopping malls and hotel lobbies, that are privately owned and open to the public, even if they are not legally required to be open to the public.

Otherwise, you're kinda going off the rails. My one and only point is there are important differences between a home's crawl space and a weird unused space in a shopping mall that make your specific appeal to "how your wife will feel" invalid.

This secret mall apartment is more akin to a homeless guy having a hidden camp in a verge near a highway than anything to do with anyone's home. If you're going to appeal to how someone would feel, you've got to get the emotion right.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-05-23 19:21:28+00:00
The dominant media in the west, the Postmedia Network, is owned by foreign and conservative interests so there's certainly potential for outside influence.

If one took Trump at his word that he'd like to annex Canada this is absolutely a strategy to take. Help along a flimsy and non-viable break away movement, then justify the need to rescue and liberate the repressed minority break away group as casus belli to invade an annex the entire country. This was the Putin playbook with Ukraine.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-05-23 19:21:30+00:00
One of the strengths of hacker news is how the core site hasn't really changed (no broken links on any story back to ~2007 as far as I can tell). This steadiness is a rare and valuable feature.

The fact that they do this yet also expose the data and access to enable a proliferation of cool alternatives views like this one is extremely user-friendly. Unfortunately, the rest of the internet seems to be going in a different direction and locking things down.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-23 19:21:51+00:00
Yeah but the determination of safety is pretty difficult to do and it's extremely rare for this to happen safely. Take for example the Gimli Glider. That was an actual airport though defunct and from a distance it looked fine but in the end it turned out there was a race going on. It was only luck that people managed to get out of the way in time.

Could an automated system make a better determination than a skilled pilot? And is the scenario frequent enough to warrant the big cost of cameras etc (keeping in mind they must be stabilized and with huge aperture to function at night). I doubt it.

The "miracle on the Hudson" was not called a miracle for nothing. Usually it ends like a few months ago at Washington Reagan.

And a freeway is never a safe place to land an airliner of course. The traffic makes it so. Even if there's very little, there's lampposts, barriers etc. If an airline pilot ever steers towards one they're really going for the least terrible option. Small planes fare better of course but again they won't have such tech for decades.
by killerstorm | 2025-05-23 19:22:29+00:00
"Context compression" is something a tool like Cursor does, not the model itself. It seems like the tool you're using works better with Gemini.

From my experience, pretty much all coding tools have their quirks.

I generally agree that Gemini is a very strong model, but I don't think we can at this point we can conclusively say Google would win because of the long context.

It's too much to extrapolate from a single case. E.g. I see Gemini struggling with editing files a bit more than other models, but I'd say it's just growing pains rather than something fundamental
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-05-23 19:22:52+00:00
I'm assuming the position exists because of the active and obvious manpower involved.

Like I said, there's now people going door to door and flyers being handed out. Important to note, it's not just about separation, it's explicitly in connection to the "Republican Party of Alberta", a newly rebranded political party that has, to date, been entirely inconsequential (the preceding Buffalo Party got 106 votes in the 2023 Provincial Election). There's an obvious and concerted effort to coordinate the sentiment through a single centralized source.

I'm not saying the sentiment didn't exist at all before them, there's always been grumblings, but they are latching on to it and intentionally turning it up to 11.
by pdpi | 2025-05-23 19:22:55+00:00
Really started adding. This is the key quote:

Second, we document that, following the enactment of the federal law, some food manufacturers engaged in risk mitigation by adding small amounts of sesame to products that previously did not contain the ingredient. Doing so allowed firms to use the safe harbor provided by the allergen labeling rule rather than the ambiguous and non-protective “may contain” precautionary labeling. This was most observed in the breads and buns category, products for which the prevention of cross-contamination may have been more challenging and the likelihood of a recall or litigation higher.