MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trollbridge | 2025-05-06 03:25:28+00:00
Back in the 80s, everyone packed a lunch when I was growing up in Australia. One of my brother's classmates was of Malay background, and we were fascinated by the lunches he'd bring in, including a thermos containing fried rice which would still be hot when he'd eat it at lunch.

America is a place where we don't like the idea of people going hungry. The government provides a great deal of food assistance; 13% of the country receives food stamps. Government policy is that every American should be getting at least $291 of food; if providing yourself that would be more than 30% of your income after expenses like rent, the government makes up the difference. Groceries are cheap, relatively speaking - they're sure cheaper than what they cost in Australia. We have extra programs for pregnant/nursing moms which provide food like milk, eggs, beans, and fresh produce, or if they can't or don't want to nurse, we provide infant formula for them. (Income based, but about half of new moms qualify, although in turn only around half of those new moms bother to take advantage of it.) We have excellent food banks that (at least in my area) are well-stocked. They currently have "expanded eligibility" (meaning they don't screen you when you come in) because they aren't running out of food.

We don't like the idea of kids at school going hungry either, so first we had school lunches, and now we have school breakfasts in places. We also have "summer" food programs. My state decided to use the federal funding for this for "summer EBT", which means food stamp amounts go up by what would be the cost of providing school lunches. (Americans skip out of school for 3+ months in the summer.) The general trend is towards free lunches for everyone, instead of making it income eligible.

Whether any of this is a good idea is another question. We don't seem to be a terribly healthy nation, and we eat way too much ultra-processed food which does not seem to be good for us. Big Food and Big Ag have an incredibly strong grip on government. The amount of money involved is big money. To give you an idea of the dollars we're talking, the amount of food stamps spent in America on soda was around $10 billion. You can go ahead and guess which corporation lobbied to expand soda to be eligible for purchase with food stamps.
by timewizard | 2025-05-06 03:25:46+00:00
> and becoming productive members of society

Child labor was legal until 1930. It has been a part of society for longer than it hasn't. I think your calculus is a little off.

> your lifestyle would not exist

Because /some/ children struggle to eat enough? Which, again, has been a norm in our society for longer than it hasn't. We didn't fully get rid of horses as beasts of burden in agriculture until the 1950s.

> you personally don't need to walk places.

Carrying everyone who can't walk is not a universal good. Particularly when some of those people can't walk because of a tiny, temporary, and highly solvable problem.

Now you have people who make it their career to carry people. Their motivations are to carry as many people as is possible. If we actually made it so no one had to be carried they would be out a job.

We live in a world of odd incentives. There is no point at which abandoning the middle way will benefit you, regardless of how pretty those ideas sound.
by crowcroft | 2025-05-06 03:27:08+00:00
If I'm guessing this either:

1. An acquihire (if your a Neon customer this would probably be a bad outcome for you).

2. A growth play. Neon will be positioned as an 'application layer' product offered cheap to bring SaaS startups into the ecosystem. As those growth startups grow and need more services sell them everything else.
by yongjik | 2025-05-06 03:31:03+00:00
South Korea started dabbling in free school lunches around 2001 - when a few schools started it. It gained momentum, and then it became a huge debate in 2011, when Seoul's mayor somehow decided he hated free lunches so much that he arranged a referendum, and said he would quit if people didn't agree with him on the matter. He did quit.

Fast forward to 2025, and now free school lunches are nearly ubiquitous. Once people experience it, few want to go back. Because it's a much more efficient and hassle-free system.

Yes, of course the money is coming from tax: in other words, if you're a middle-class parent, nothing changed. You're still paying for your kids' lunch one way or the other. But you don't have to pay for a gratuitous system of bureaucracy that keeps track of which kids' parents are making how much money, and whether each kid is "eligible" to eat lunch today, so your money is actually being used more efficiently with less overhead.
by jimbob45 | 2025-05-06 03:31:38+00:00
There’s really very little objectivity in the study of English writing. It would make sense that teachers would gravitate to the only real objective part of their discipline - citations - in a desperate attempt to be able to reliably test students. No surprise the profession has embraced citations to the point of absurdity.

Granted, teaching soft skills is hard but English teachers seem to have universally given up trying at all.
by 0x6c6f6c | 2025-05-06 03:32:23+00:00
More like "single process application's database".

There are interesting use cases for DB-per-user which can be server or client side, or litestream's continuous backup/sync that can extend it beyond this use case a bit too.

You _can_ use SQLite as your service's sole database, if you vertically scale it up and the load isn't too much. It'll handle a reasonable amount of traffic. Once you hit that ceiling though, you'll have to rethink your architecture, and undergo some kind of migration.

The common argument for SQLite is deferring complexity of hosting until you've actually reached the type of load you have to use a more complex stack for.
by mopsi | 2025-05-06 03:33:04+00:00
> A 1964 film where every line is sung? You got me there. Chalk one up for the appeal of international cinema over Hollywood.

This snarky remark ridicules you more than it does the film. "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" is widely considered one of the finest romantic movies ever made. Its use of color and lead performances are legendary. I'll let Patton Oswalt explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuprpehbaok
by stefap2 | 2025-05-06 03:33:06+00:00
“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk — the first published from TED2025: Humanity Reimagined — she details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the “broligarchy”: an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives (like Elon Musk) who are complicit in dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. She shares a guide on how to digitally disobey in this age of runaway corporate power, data harvesting and mass surveillance — and reminds you that you have more power than you think.
by x-complexity | 2025-05-06 03:33:49+00:00
> The idea that lunches can be freshly made, on site, out of healthy ingredients and children are active participants in serving and cleaning up is just crazy.

> When I encountered it for the first time I felt like a big part of my childhood had been sold to the lowest bidder.

....I share the sentiment, but I also see the chasm between the requirements to get to what's desired, & what's actually given to meet those requirements (which is almost nothing).

To have this program exist requires children that can be trusted to not waste the food that they're given, to behave, & to learn about preparing their own meals.

It's a bootstrapping problem, trust problem, & expectations problem, all at once.

Japan was able to do this by pressuring its citizens & youth to pay the cultural toll needed to get there, and it was a toll that *everyone* had to pay into. No exceptions.

Whilst there can be pockets of local communities that can do this, the probability that the same thing can happen *everywhere* in the US is close to zero, given the cultural emphasis placed on individualism.

It is also from this emphasis of individual exceptionalism where there can be no guarantees that *everyone* will pay the cultural toll. It must be *everyone*, or this proposal won't work: It'll just be another form of subsidization by another name.

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Note: This doesn't mean that it can't happen, just that the amount of effort needed to get there is monumental, and that certain axioms have to be relaxed significantly to do so.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-05-06 03:33:57+00:00
Exactly. Email is never an organized channel for communication. It only makes sense in the corporate world. For users who don't pay for their personal email, email is nothing but a marketing channel and a very inefficient one at that. All the companies and corporations and people try to pretend to make email addresses look confidential and private. But the reality is they just see it as a way to spam you with ads and promotions and meaningless clickbait messages.

The idea of unsubscribing from emails from corporations and agencies is again just an act of pretense. 95% of the cases, it's not done in one click and involves a series of a few confusing steps. Even from a technology perspective, email is fucked and a legacy artifact as of today.

I would love to see a more secure protocol to replace it, where the recipient always has full control over all the messages that he can ever receive.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-06 03:34:50+00:00
> I wouldn't bother buying a raspberry pi 5 to run this shit though,

PS, I didn't mean the word 'shit' negatively. 'stuff' would have been better. But I meant it more as in 'check this shit out' :)

Pihole is actually a really nice project even though it's just a wrapper around dnsmasq.
by lwo32k | 2025-05-06 03:34:58+00:00
Gamblers are a poor example. Their decisions hardly effect anyone else or institutions or nations.

Increase the cost of the fallout of a decision (your relationships, your bosses job, your orgs existence, economy, national security etc etc) and the real fun starts.

People no matter what they say about other people's risk avoidance, all start behaving the same way as the cost increases.

This is why we end up with Trump like characters up the hierarchy, every where you look, cause no one capable of appreciating the odds, wants to be sitting in those chairs and being held responsible for all kinds of things outside their control.

Its also the reason why we get elaborate Signalling (costumes/rituals/pageantry/ribbons and medals/imposing buildings/PR/Marketing etc) to shift focus away from quantifying anything. See Theory of the Leisure Class. Society hasn't found better ways to keep Groups together while handling complexity the group is incapable of handling. Even small groups will unravel if there is too much focus on low odds of a solution.
by NoPicklez | 2025-05-06 03:35:37+00:00
To fix that you just need to look through the logs through the native pi-hole UI and whitelist those domains which cause friction with your browsing habits.

The google sponsored search issue was one I also fixed quite quickly.

As for the others those services depend on, again you just need to find them and whitelist them which isn't too tricky to do. Unfortunately pi-hole won't stop everything.
by nobody9999 | 2025-05-06 03:36:22+00:00
>Which is why I'm actually not sure why certain states don't do this. Like richer states like Maryland, Virginia, New York, California.

Not sure about other states, but...

All NYC public school students can have free meals[0]:

"New York City Public Schools offers free breakfast, lunch and afterschool meals to all NYC public school students during the school year."

As for NY State -- well, better late than never[1]:

"Universal School Meals: Governor Hochul Announces Free Breakfast and Lunch for More Than 2.7 Million Students in New York as Part of the 2025 State of the State"

To be fair, free and reduced price meals were already available across NY state, but with a means test[2]:

The School Breakfast and Lunch Programs are federal programs providing free, reduced or full priced breakfast and lunch at participating schools throughout New York State. In New York State the New York State Department of Education administers these programs, and local schools operate the programs. The meals are the same for all children regardless of payment category, and schools are not permitted to identify students who get free or reduced-price meals. Eligibility Meal Categories Eligibility Free Income up to 130% of poverty ($39,000 for a family of 4 annually) Reduced (no charge to student) Income up to 185% of poverty ($55,500 for a family of 4 annually) Full price* - paid by family Income over 185% of poverty ($55,500 for a family of 4 annually)

[0] https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food

[1] https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/universal-school-meals-gove...

[2] https://otda.ny.gov/workingfamilies/schoollunch.asp
by JadeNB | 2025-05-06 03:38:32+00:00
The author's construction for a piecewise definition will work, but the preferred LaTeX construct is `\begin{cases} … \end{cases}`. (Actually, I think it's from AMSLaTeX.) I believe it always left aligns columns, and doesn't obey multiple `&`s, so it doesn't exactly reproduce the author's construction—but, from my point of view, that means that the specifics of the author's construction are not standard practice, at least within the domain of the AMS. Otherwise it would be formatted as

\[ f(x) = \begin{cases} -1, & x < 0 \\ 0, & x = 0 \\ 1, & x > 0. \end{cases} \]
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-05-06 03:39:16+00:00
> In American universities where your GPA from your in-class assessments forms part of your final grade? Yes, absolutely.

Whether not doing everything to maximize your GPA is "stupid" (literally or figuratively) is a good question too.

But even if your assignments influence your GPA it's rarely the only thing that does, and not doing assignments will harm your ability to perform in midterm/exam/whatever.
by humbledrone | 2025-05-06 03:40:10+00:00
Some folks may have seen my Show HN post for Anukari here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873074

In that thread, the topic of macOS performance came up there. Basically Anukari works great for most people on Apple silicon, including base-model M1 hardware. I've done all my testing on a base M1 and it works wonderfully. The hardware is incredible.

But to make it work, I had to implement an unholy abomination of a workaround to get macOS to increase the GPU clock rate for the audio processing to be fast enough. The normal heuristics that macOS uses for the GPU performance state don't understand the weird Anukari workload.

Anyway, I finally had time to write down the full situation, in terrible detail, so that I could ask for help getting in touch with the right person at Apple, probably someone who works on the Metal API.

Help! :)
by const_cast | 2025-05-06 03:40:18+00:00
No, it wouldn't. Because if I record "Revenge of the Sith", compress it, and then distribute it for free online, that's obviously not fair use.

Fair use is pretty complicated. Part of Fair Use is the "The Effect of the Use on the Potential Market for or Value of the Work", which already puts even human commercial endeavors in a tough spot. You can make it work, but you have to really try. Satire like Weird Al or whatever isn't competing with the music it's satirizing, the venn diagram between those markets barely overlap. But a lot of LLM use cases are explicitly meant to obsolesce and siphon value from the things they used.

Like, why go to Getty Images when you could instead go to the glorified database, which has ingested all of Getty Images, and acquire an indistinguishable stock photo for free?

The only reason we're even really entertaining this is because people continually draw parallels to humans. You see, it's not stealing from Getty. It's more like if someone saw Getty Images and then went out and took a photo in that same flat, boring style. Except nobody saw anything. And nobody went out an took a photo.
by handoflixue | 2025-05-06 03:40:41+00:00
As someone in a similar position, I have found I benefit from practicing - but also, LLMs are a really useful tool for that practice!

Learning how to condense what I say focuses me to think about what is and isn't important - and it also forces me to think in terms of "style" and "audience".

(My natural writing style is much more verbose - I want to address all sorts of branching objections and tangential concepts. I find parenthesis really useful, because I can dump a bunch of stuff there and it's a clear marker that you can safely skip it all)

LLMs are also useful, because I can ramble, work out my own summary, and then compare to the LLM. Or, when I was just starting out, ramble, get an LLM to summarize, and then try to work out my own summary that captures what it missed.

Aside from practice being inherently beneficial, I also find that being able to form my own summaries helps me catch when the LLM has misunderstood, hallucinated, or just subtly changed the emphasis - for instance, your original example was indeed much cleaner, but I wouldn't have felt like you were really truly a fellow rambler just from reading that.

Hopefully you don't mind a rambling post. If you want a TL;DR an LLM can probably do a decent job ;)

(ChatGPT Summary: Practicing summarization improves clarity, audience awareness, and writing focus—especially for naturally verbose thinkers. LLMs are helpful tools for this, both as a comparison point and a learning aid. Writing your own summaries sharpens understanding and helps catch LLM misinterpretations or emphasis shifts.)

(Yeah, that seems pretty accurate)
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-06 03:40:44+00:00
> This is the same argument as “If you don’t like the way they collect data, why don’t you stop using an iPhone/GMail/Social Media”. Reasonable legislation eventually notice that this extreme form of libertarianism can hurt people, because of the imbalance of the negotiating power. Note that car manufacturers must install seat belts; they don’t get to say “if you think our car is unsafe, just buy another”.

Too much power in too few hands leaves no alternative.

Seems the colleges that don’t engage in this practice could run ads “we aren’t a jail” and shame the market into a correction?
by kjellsbells | 2025-05-06 03:42:14+00:00
As I see it, the problem is that the email address has been conflated with your identity, and that is extremely problematic. It should only ever have been a somewhat transient reachability identifier. As an identity it then gets linked to concepts like authorization and trust, eg "we'll send this code to your email, because we implicitly trust that only you can see your email, and that youll always be able to get to it."

Every so often one sees a cri de coeur from someone who has learned this lesson the hard way when Google locks them out of their account, the key to their digital life evaporates, there's nothing they can do about it.

Alternative identifiers exist, eg handles on sites like HN, but they are second-order artifacts of the email as ID.

Given the stakes, then, you have to decide whether to try and control your identity by bulding your own infra for email (domain, mail server, dkim etc and a fair bit of hell), paying for someone to run the infra (eg getting a proton or fastmail address), and hoping they dont enshittify or fail, or letting Google or Microsoft control it and hoping you dont fall foul of them. All these options have drawbacks.

Side musing follows: I dont know what the solution to identity is on the Internet. A very long time ago, X.509 certs issued by quasi government authorities was mooted as part of a international directory system. I can see a future authoritarian state falling in love with this idea again, esp with the resulting lack of anonymity,..but also the ability to "kill" people on the Internet simply by revoking their cert.
by liamwire | 2025-05-06 03:42:24+00:00
I’ve had similar experiences in recent weeks, enabling search in ChatGPT with o4-mini-high to fix previously insurmountable hurdles I’d run into wrt breaking changes in libraries that have occurred outside the model cutoff dates, and for which the errors and fixes are non-obvious. It’s worked far better than I’d expected for what feels like such a simple UI toggle.
by cowmix | 2025-05-06 03:42:25+00:00
Oh thank god Google has stayed so principled under political pressure! Even with the threat of being broken up, they’ve been a rock. And rest easy—your Gmail definitely isn’t being quietly indexed and funneled into some RAG system to help certain friendly agencies flag “disloyal” citizens for... let’s say, enhanced oversight.

As for “Don’t be evil” disappearing from their core values? Totally normal. Just streamlining the brand, I’m sure.

And of course, I hardly know anyone who’s lost years of email, only to have Google’s famously responsive support team leap into action and do absolutely nothing to recover it.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-05-06 03:43:49+00:00
There's also a professional divide between "journalists" and "bloggers" [0]. If anyone can start their own website and write stuff, without getting any kind of qualification or accreditation, and without following any editorial policy or maintaining any kind of journalistic integrity, and still get credited with a story, then journalism itself has an identity crisis.

Meanwhile, (some) journalists at (some) news organisations are being forced to write stories that have no integrity under an editorial policy that is designed to promote a partisan point of view.

There's no working business model for real investigative journalism, but our democratic systems need real investigative journalism in order to function properly and hold politicians to account. Nothing else does.

Independent journalists can make this happen, but how do we recognise a "real" independent journalist doing real investigative journalism from an activist blogger with an axe to grind?

[0] I'm not saying that the author is not a journalist, or inferring that they're a blogger.
by tverbeure | 2025-05-06 03:46:33+00:00
For eye diagrams, you can make do with a sampling oscilloscope instead of a regular single-shot oscilloscope. My favorite presentation at Hackaday Supercon 2019 was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99u53V7uDFY.

Unfortunately, the author burned out on it and project is dead. But the presentation is still worth watching.
by theamk | 2025-05-06 03:47:19+00:00
Go for robotics or specific robotics subtype (UAV, ROV, vehicles, etc..). If there is a "platform team", that would be your best fit, but some companies don't have separate platform team, or they don't advertise team name in the job postings.

People like that are in demand. Our company just filled few position like this, and hiring was hard. Some people were rejected because of not enough low-level knowledge, some people were rejected for not having enough high-level knowledge.

Agree with the TFA's author though, people with all the skills are super rare.. We were lucky to end up with few hires like that, but most of the people don't have all skills at once, and they have to learn on the job.
by tastyface | 2025-05-06 03:49:06+00:00
I do feel that way about every CEO in those cheery inauguration day photos (https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-tech-billionai...). Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai, Cook, Altman, Musk, Thiel: enablers of fascism, every one. However, it should be noted that Cook donated from his own name and not Apple. Guess he didn't want his shittiness to rub off on his company.

As for the shareholders, Cook was more than happy to "do the right thing" in the past, even when under pressure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute).