MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simplesimon890 | 2025-05-29 00:28:04+00:00
He's mostly, but not fully correct when talking about the randomness. The first 3 characters match the Dublin postal districts. People living in Dublin 12 start with D12. On one hand, maybe that's useful but on the other hand, it's a way for people to potentially discriminate based on the "good/bad" areas of the city.
by capyba | 2025-05-29 00:28:59+00:00
I’ve been trying to build a desktop app in Rust+egui but as a Rust newbie (and desktop app newbie in general) I’ve found it really difficult to learn so many concepts at once. My work centers around mechanical engineering analysis tools which require high perf backend and data visualization on the front end. With Tauri did you find it difficult to maintain multiple stacks (rust, js, html, etc)?
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-05-29 00:30:53+00:00
They have a narrow so small that passing tariffs would still be politically difficult even though they control both chambers, and that is not even considering a filibuster.

I hope this judgement stands, however, trade actually works out really well for the US economy and its job market. Yes, we don't often manufacture the thing, but we have huge roles in designing those things and packing them with software. Even China is trying to get in on that while they offload manufacturing to robots and countries that are earlier on in their development.
by armchairhacker | 2025-05-29 00:31:59+00:00
Specifically, I think they should minimally penalize students who know the material and could apply it professionally, but don't do well on exams in general. Otherwise GPA isn't a useful metric for employers* (and I don't know who else would it be a metric for), because the best students are the best test-takers, not the best employees.

So, maybe not a baseline. The exam could have some difficult knowledge-based questions, as long as that "knowledge" when memorized would make the student a better professional; or if the exam is open-book, it can have knowledge that would be difficult to search for. It shouldn't require students to memorize obscure things that are unlikely to be used professionally (e.g. unimportant dates for history, or complex formulas for math that one would look up or reference by name), because then you're prioritizing students who handle rare edge-cases over those who probably accomplish more amortized.

* "Employer" and "professional" also including "PI" and "academic"
by gerdesj | 2025-05-29 00:32:39+00:00
Quite right.

An article referring to:

{e ∈ GEB|HN: e := article referring to GEB}

... might be considered rather self referential (especially if I have got my rather dodgy notation right). Note how I leave out several important definitions and leave them to your imagination. I will resort to hand-waving as required.

Hmmm: FIRST, THAT, DON'T, WHOLE, RIGHT. I speak en_GB you monster!
by stephen_g | 2025-05-29 00:32:39+00:00
When I tried Threads for a bit I was getting almost entirely this kind of content (not just about EVs but these kind of inaccurate concern-trolling bad-takes about renewable energy etc. also) - I think its algorithm was targeting me with it because it was trying to rage-bait me into responding because that's "engagement".

Used to see a bit of it on Twitter before it went downhill under Musk and I abandoned it, but its algorithm used to be better at keeping that kind of stuff mostly siloed so mostly people who wanted to see it would.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-29 00:33:58+00:00
> People can obtain digital addresses by registering with Japan Post's Yu ID membership service. Their digital addresses will not change even if their physical addresses change.

OK, so your social security number is your "digital address", and the post office has a database of everyone's current address.

I'm not sure what problem this solves. Shaves seconds off the time it takes you to write an address? Better hope they've got error correction built in, since normal addresses are fairly "fault tolerant" in terms of still being deliverable.

If you move you still need to notify them, although perhaps in Japan big brother already knows you've moved.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-05-29 00:34:39+00:00
It has been hard for the judicial system as well, with Trump ignoring injunctions and orders as if they were just advisory. I wonder if he will try that here as well? "Oh, the court said no tariffs, but I'm not even going to bother with an appeal to the Supreme Court and just use an executive order to invalidate...", here is hoping he doesn't do that.
by fpoling | 2025-05-29 00:34:53+00:00
It is a very interesting idea that cosmologist were wrong to ignore electromagnetic forces when most of the matter in early universe were plasma.

On the other hand the notion of evolution implies the existence of global time ordering. Yet black holes makes this impossible. So I am very skeptical about any theory that tries to bring the notion of evolution to the universe.

Also the notion that there can be another universe with different physical constants is even worse than the ever changing notion of dark matter. At least the latter gives a plausible mechanism about why that matter does not interact with normal matter while the notion of changing constants does not even attempt to provide a mechanism.
by tylershuster | 2025-05-29 00:36:22+00:00
Then we disagree about the basic assumption. I do think that people throughout history have attributed many different things to the influence of spiritual entities. I’m just saying that It just was not a catch-all for unexplained circumstances. They may seem contradictory and vague to someone who denies the existence of spirits, but if you have the proper understanding of spirits as vast cosmic entities with minds far outside ours, that aren’t bound to the same physical and temporal rules as us, then people’s experiences make a lot of sense.
by bediger4000 | 2025-05-29 00:37:17+00:00
Once again, an article about router vulnerabilities that doesn't bother to tell us if it's a hardware issue or a firmware issue. That is if we use OpenWrt, does this problem go away? Reading closely, my guess is "yes", but maybe not.

It is amusing that the attackers leave an ssh server running, indicating that Asus routers run some janky, outdated Linux.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-05-29 00:38:01+00:00
This is very disturbing, and could do irrevocable damage to US academia and high-end R&D. China is also becoming more appealing for Chinese students to just stay home, I feel like this will drive the final nail in the US being a destination of mutually beneficial opportunity.

Notes: a lot of top students are invited to join the CPC, or even pressured into it (you are head of the class, you need to do this!). And sensitive fields...that probably includes computer science.
by tdeck | 2025-05-29 00:38:47+00:00
I like these places too but I can see why they are dying. The number of SKUs people want has exploded and the cost competition from buying online is unreal. Recently I needed a motor driver in a hurry (a4988 or equivalent) and decided to visit my local electronics shop. They wanted $9 for it (plus tax), which I was willing to pay, but were out of stock. So I went home and found a 5 pack of the exact same part for about $10, shipped from the US.

The reality is that with these electronics things it's not just 20 or 30% cheaper to buy online, it's often 1/10 the price or better. I can order a 10 pack of pin headers for $1-2 from China and each of those headers costs 50c at my local shop.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-05-29 00:39:12+00:00
I think you’re overestimating corporations a bit. Some aspects of intelligence scale linearly as you put more people into a room, eg quantity of ideas you can generate, while others don’t due to limits on people’s ability to communicate with each other. The latter is, I think, more or less the norm; adding more people very quickly hits decelerating returns due to the amount of distance you end up having to put between people in large organizations. Most end up resembling dictatorships because it’s just the easiest way to organize them, so are making strategic choices about as well as a guy with some advisors.

I agree that we should see structures of humans as their own kind of organism in a sense, but I think this framing works best on a global scale. Once you go smaller, eg to a nation, you need to conceptualize the barrier between inside and outside the organism as being highly fluid and difficult to define. Once you get to the level of a corporation this difficulty defining inside and outside is enormous. Eg aren’t regulatory bodies also a part, since they aid the corporation in making decisions?
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-29 00:40:25+00:00
It will be interesting to hear what Justice Thomas’s supine justification will be for attacking the ruling.

The catalyst for the American Revolution was the imposition of taxation (tariffs) without representation. The irony that the party of performative patriotism, with a conservative court, control of the presidency is so spineless that they are afraid to stand and vote for their policy is too afraid to attach their names to the policy.
by evidencetamper | 2025-05-29 00:40:56+00:00
> If you move you still need to notify them, although perhaps in Japan big brother already knows you've moved.

When we move, we need to register our address change at the city hall. In terms of Big Brother, that's a given.

The problem is that we also need to change all bank, bills, etc. too. So this replaces the need for mail forwarding, for example.
by 0xy | 2025-05-29 00:41:39+00:00
The Biden admin not only kept the first Trump admin's China tariffs in place but significantly expanded them under the same law. Was Biden acting like a king or does this analogy only go one way?

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/china-tariffs-bi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250101032222/https://www.white...

"[The Biden admin intends to use] executive authority"
by adrianmonk | 2025-05-29 00:42:01+00:00
So, since they were apparently never legal in the first place, will there be refunds for all the tariffs already paid? That could really help out small businesses that were hit with huge tariff bills. Common sense would say yes, but not sure how the law actually works.

I also wonder about the effects on the budget bill currently being worked on by Congress. Were they factoring in tariff revenue that now won't exist? And if so, will they respond with more spending cuts or less tax cuts?
by alwillis | 2025-05-29 00:42:48+00:00
The current line up is macOS 15, iOS 18, visionOS 2. This implies iOS has been around longer than macOS, which is certainly not the case. It's also confusing for regular folks to keep track of.

I'm sure macOS 26 will keep its nickname, whatever that might be—the current macOS would be known as "macOS 25 Sequoia".
by _carbyau_ | 2025-05-29 00:43:14+00:00
At it's heart a battle is a logistic operation to make an impact.

A battle rifle fired bullet is a delivery; working back from that bullet as to how it got fired reveals a "tyranny of the rocket equation" kind of logistics.

If your opposition has something as basic as food while you don't. Well,

logistics is broken == "ability to make an impact" is broken
by qingcharles | 2025-05-29 00:43:23+00:00
FTFY.

Yes, it's some ̵r̵i̵c̵h̵ ̵R̵u̵s̵s̵i̵a̵n̵ ̵d̵u̵d̵e̵ ̵t̵r̵a̵d̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵w̵i̵t̵h̵ Russian president calling Elmo.
by kalleboo | 2025-05-29 00:43:23+00:00
> Shaves seconds off the time it takes you to write an address?

Entering Japanese addresses on Japanese websites can often be a PITA, with weird requirements for where to split the address sections, fullwidth vs halfwidth, spacing, and even what type of dash you use (ー vs －). I don't think I've ever had Safari's auto-fill be able to do it successfully.
by wglb | 2025-05-29 00:43:51+00:00
I had a drafting class as a freshman in engineering school. The professor would come to class with a piece of chalk and a string and proceed to us only these tools to construct complex three dimensional shapes, and show how to rotate them to give a different view.

One small example of a problem we were required to learn was that of a pipe running through a space at some angle and determine if it intersected something important.
by Permik | 2025-05-29 00:44:32+00:00
Personally, I actually count all of those examples into abstract lifeforms which you described :D

There's also things like "symbolic" lifeforms like viruses, yeah, they don't live per-se, but they do replicate and go through "choices", but in a more symbolic sense as they are just machines that read out/ execute code.

The way I distinct symbolic lifeforms and abstract lifeforms is that mainly symbolic lifeforms are "machines" that are kind of "inert" in a temporal sense.

Abstract lifeforms are just things that are in a way or other, "living" and can exist on any level of abstraction. Like cells are things that can be replaced, so can be CEO's, or etc.

Symbolic lifeforms can just be forever inert and hope that entropy knocks them to something to activate them, without getting into some hostile enough space that kills them.

Abstract lifeforms on the other hand just eventually run out of juice.
by andoando | 2025-05-29 00:44:36+00:00
Turing machine works going left or right writing/reading on a tape of 1s and 0s. Your CPU works on RAM writing and reading 1s and 0s.

CPU in principle isn't that different and is largely just using a more sophisticated instruction set. Move 5 vs right right righy right right. swap vs read, write, right, write. etc

Definitely not necessary for programming but it's not some completely theoretical mumbo jumbo.

Moreover what's really interesting to me is that Turing came up with the idea from following what he himself was doing as he did computation on graph paper
by dluan | 2025-05-29 00:44:39+00:00
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/gene...

8 of the top 10 universities by global research output are Chinese. The lone American university just had all of it's government contracts and federal funding frozen or withdrawn.

This is a very simple move that can be reversed quickly, but it's going to have a generational impact that will never be undone. I couldn't come up with a single worse decision at the most inopportune time if you asked me to.

I guess now is a good time to plug the China Scholarship Council, which is seeing record highs of foreign students studying in China. The Chinese government is paying foreigners to get degrees in China, waiving tuition and providing stipends.

https://www.cucas.cn/china_scholarship/, https://www.cucas.cn/china_scholarship/
by johannes1234321 | 2025-05-29 00:45:46+00:00
The question is: What is more likely in 1000 years to still exist and being readable. The papers caught in some lost ruins or some form of storage media?

Sure, as long as the media is copied there is a chance of survival, but will this then be "average" material or things we now consider interesting, only? Will the chain hold or will it become as uninteresting as many other things were over time? Will the Organisation doing it be funded? Will the location where this happens be spares from war?

For today's historians the random finds are important artifacts to understand "average" people's lives as the well preserved documents are legends on the mighty people.

Having lots of material all over gives a chance for some to survive and from 40 years or so back we were in a good spot. Lots of paper allover about everything. Analog vinyl records, which might be readable in a future to learn about our music. But now all on storage media, where many forms see data loss, where the format is outdated and (when looking from a thousand years away) fast change of data formats etc.
by hwayne | 2025-05-29 00:47:16+00:00
That's not necessarily true. Consider the program `x := 4; loop {if !sum_of_two_primes(x) {return true}; x += 2}`. If we run this on a general purpose CPU, this will halt if and only if Goldbach's conjecture has a counterexample. Otherwise it will run forever. So even if a working halt detector takes 14 million billion years, it will definitely tell us if the conjecture is true or not. Whereas if the general purpose CPU is still running after that time, we still have no way of knowing whether it's because it's going to run forever or if it simply hasn't reached the first (ludicrously large) counterexample.
by shermanyo | 2025-05-29 00:47:33+00:00
Gaming is a special case imo, and more affected by the additional power drawn for the GPU. For CPU bound apps, there's still a night and day difference between new apple silicon vs the previous generation of x64 processors. I've used a laptop to DJ shows for several years, always requiring AC power for anything longer than an hour. With my m1 macbook, I've DJ'd 6+ hours with no power adapter, also powering hardware over USB. It's literally a 4x improvement over my previous i5 setup.
by skulk | 2025-05-29 00:47:46+00:00
Those tariffs were imposed under Trump's authority given to him by Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 which, in brief, allows the Executive to impose tariffs if a foreign nation's trade practices are affecting national security. Crucially, this determination is not made by the president, but rather the Department of Commerce.

Here is one such report from 2018 that was the impetus for the steel tariffs: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/232-steel
by krapht | 2025-05-29 00:47:51+00:00
I agree, and yet here we are. If it wasn't built with automake I would even consider getting wheels built on the projects behalf, but I can't make heads or tails of M4.

EDIT: But let's not pretend getting cibuildwheel going for every supported variant of PythonMajVer/OS/(32/64) bit is an easy lift for small open source projects. Conda is still more ergonomic than this, although it's slowly dying because big projects have the manpower to stand up and maintain the CI pipeline for PyPI, so Conda is less and less necessary.
by bennettnate5 | 2025-05-29 00:48:31+00:00
> I don’t understand that (or why it’s done for cars either). Are they afraid the OS will be delayed into the next year and would rather its name be a year ahead than behind?

My understanding is that it's a marketing gimmick--_you're buying the car/phone of the future!_.

More importantly, once a few sellers do it, game theory pushes the rest to follow the same convention (otherwise their flagship models could be mistaken as last year's by buyers on first glance).

If Android moves to the same year-numhering convention, I'd bet they'll do the same year-in-the-future strategy for this reason
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by popupeyecare | 2025-05-29 00:50:06+00:00
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by echelon | 2025-05-29 00:50:08+00:00
Open source is a crazy new beast in the AI/ML world.

We have numerous artifacts to reason about:

- The model code

- The training code

- The fine tuning code

- The inference code

- The raw training data

- The processed training data (which might vary across various stages of pre-training and potentially fine-tuning!)

- The resultant weights

- The inference outputs (which also need a license)

- The research papers (hopefully it's described in literature!)

- The patents (or lack thereof)

The term "open source" is wholly inadequate here. We need a 10-star grading system for this.

This is not your mamma's C library.

AFAICT, DeepSeek scores 7/10, which is better than OpenAI's 0/10 (they don't even let you train on the outputs).

This is more than enough to distill new models from.

Everybody is laundering training data, and it's rife with copyrighted data, PII, and pilfered outputs from other commercial AI systems. Because of that, I don't expect we'll see much legally open training data for some time to come. In fact, the first fully open training data of adequate size (not something like LJSpeech) is likely to be 100% synthetic or robotically-captured.
by Calavar | 2025-05-29 00:51:05+00:00
I believe you are correct. Biden used Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. Trump has used the 1974 act, but he's also used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which is what the trade court just ruled on. My understanding is the Trump admin's strategy of putting a tariff on every country as an opening to negotiations doesn't fly under the 1974 act, which only allows placing tariffs on a country if there is evidence that it has broken fair trade practices in the US.
by MBCook | 2025-05-29 00:52:41+00:00
That assumes a fair vote, which is arguable. Between Gerrymandering, purging voter roles, suits over who is allowed on the ballot, ID checks and associated issues I’m not sure it’s so clear cut.

He won under the conditions the election was performed under. That’s clear.

I’m not sure I could call those fair after years of attacks on people’s voting rights.
by tom_m | 2025-05-29 00:52:51+00:00
Yea, the problem is that most people expect things to be absolute and correct outside of engineering.

I love the gray areas and probabilities and creativity of software...but not everyone does.

So the real danger is in everyone assuming the AI model is, must be, and always will be correct. They misunderstand the tool they are using (or directing others to use).

Hmm. It's like autopilot on the Tesla. You aren't supposed to take your hands off the wheel. You're supposed to pay attention. But people use it incorrectly. If they get into an accident, then people want to blame the machine. It's not. It's the fault of person who didn't read the instructions.