MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-05-09 23:54:35+00:00
> Being denied advancement in your career because you don’t have enough drops of black blood, or don’t have enough homosexual sex, is insanely wrong!

It's a good thing this is something that is not happening, then.

What's happening is you are assuming that black individuals or homosexuals finding success must have been handed something. Which is, obviously, prejudiced. The lede you're burying is that those people were hired because they're qualified.
by freefaler | 2025-05-09 23:56:37+00:00
One of the best self-hosted app I've seen yet.

Metadata management is great. The best feature is getting the chapter from audible TOC with start/end times. So you'll get a way to navigate the books you've downloaded and not seek in a giant mp3/m4b files.

They are also alternatives to the official android client. The most annoying feature is that locally downloaded book crash the app. So now it's only streaming.

However there are alternative android and iOS apps: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/faq/app#are-there-any-3rd-par...

For iOS the best I've found is:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookplayer/id1138219998
by standardUser | 2025-05-09 23:57:00+00:00
> The only thing that matters is if someone can do a job - period!

That's an absurd lie. People convicted of sex crimes shouldn't have jobs with children. Foreign nationals shouldn't have top security or intelligence jobs. People with a record of substance abuse shouldn't operate heavy machinery. And so on an so forth... I'm boring myself with how obvious this all is.

And maybe, just maybe, extremely powerful jobs that have an outsized influence on our society shouldn't only be offered to straight white men. It's clearly not as obvious of an argument as my previous examples, but it's not absurd either.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-09 23:57:52+00:00
I'm curious if rust has this problem. The problem I notice in npm land is many developers have no taste. Example, there's a library for globbing call glob. You'd think it would just be a function that does globbing but no, the author decided it should ALSO be a standalone commandline executable and so includes a large commandline option parser. They could have easily made a separate commandline tool that include a library that does the glob but no, this is a common and shit pattern in npm. I'd say easily 25% or more of all "your dependencies are out of date" messages are related to the argument parcing for the commandline tool in these libraries. That's just one example.

Also there's arguably design. Should a 'glob' library actually read the file system and give you filenames or should it just tell you if a string matches a glob and leave the reset to you? I think it's better design to do the later, the simplest thing. This means less dependencies and more flexibility. I don't have to hack it or add option to use my own file system (like for testing). I can use it with a change monitoring system, etc...

And, I'm sure there are tons of devs that like the glob is a "Do everything for me" library instead of a "do one specific thing" library which makes it worse because you get more "internet points" the more your library doesn't require the person using it to be a good dev.

I can't imagine it's any different in rust land, except maybe for the executable thing. There's just too many devs and all of them, including myself, don't always make the best choices.
by sdsd | 2025-05-09 23:57:56+00:00
Once, on a previous account, he actually replied to me. It's like a kid going to guitar center and the guy who replaces your strings is Axl Rose.

If you're on here, Walter, you're my hero. I also once interacted with Brendan Eich, who I admire as much for his role in web history as for his activism.
by mleonhard | 2025-05-09 23:58:13+00:00
> I can't rewrite the world, an async runtime and web server are just too difficult and take to long for me to justify writing for a project like this (although I should eventually just for a better understanding).

I did this and it only solved half of the bloat:

https://crates.io/crates/safina - Safe async runtime, 6k lines

https://crates.io/crates/servlin - Modular HTTP server library, threaded handlers and async performance, 8k lines.

I use safina+servlin and 1,000 lines of Rust to run https://www.applin.dev, on a cheap VM. It serves some static files, a simple form, receives Stripe webooks, and talks to Postgres and Postmark. It depends on some heavy crate trees: async-fs, async-net, chrono, diesel, rand (libc), serde_json, ureq, and url.

2,088,283 lines of Rust are downloaded by `cargo vendor` run in the project dir.

986,513 lines using https://github.com/coreos/cargo-vendor-filterer to try to download only Linux deps with `cargo vendor-filterer --platform=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu`. This still downloads the `winapi` crate and other Windows crates, but they contain only 22k lines.

976,338 lines omitting development dependencies with `cargo vendor-filterer --platform=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --keep-dep-kinds=normal`.

754,368 lines excluding tests with `cargo vendor-filterer --platform=aarch64-apple-darwin --exclude-crate-path='*#tests' deps.filtered`.

750k lines is a lot to support a 1k-line project. I guess I could remove the heavy deps with another 200 hours of work, and might end up with some lean crates. I've been waiting for someone to write a good threaded Rust Postgres client.
by thrance | 2025-05-09 23:58:43+00:00
Being anti-science is a core characteristic of fascist ideology [1], nothing about this is surprising.

Academics appear to be biased to the left because the right explicitly hates science and rationality, not because of "wokeism" or "transgender ideology" or "cultural marxism" or whatever red herring fascists currently favor.

> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

- Isaac Asimov, A cult of ignorance, 1980

This cult of ignorance is purely a right-wing one.

[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...
by netsharc | 2025-05-09 23:58:51+00:00
> Even once FSD gets solved (if it ever does), these use cases also need to be accounted for as well.

But these are such easy issues to solve. Look at a society where public transport use is much much higher:

> All major train stations in Japan, and most minor stations, have coin lockers available to use. Coin lockers are a part of daily life in Japan, and they can be found also on bus terminals, shopping centers or department stores, some convenience stores and tourist attractions, and even on city streets.

https://japanhorizon.com/train-stations-have-lockers/
by justanotheratom | 2025-05-09 23:58:54+00:00
You can certainly estimate the amound of USD held as StableCoin Collateral:

"The total market capitalization of USD-pegged stablecoins exceeds $220 billion, with over 99% backed by fiat currencies, predominantly the U.S. dollar." https://chatgpt.com/share/681e95fe-4308-8008-ab25-61be94a418...

RE: Nobody wants to own stablecoins, they want easier transactions. Agree but that does not mean anything. Stablecoins seem to be solving a problem, and there is not evidence of any traction by any currency other than USD.

So this phenomenon definitely runs counter to the conventional intellectual wisdom that USD is in decline.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-05-09 23:59:24+00:00
“Hypocrite lecteur, – mon semblable, – mon frère!“

It is always interesting when random touchstones from my life appear on Hacker News: books like the Aubrey-Maturin (master and commander) series, Ursula Le Guin’s works, Dante, John Le Carre’s George Smiley novels, Tolstoy... and now Charles Baudelaire, at the top of the page no less.

Baudelaire was a dark misanthrope and the poetry is very bleak. His life was not happy and he died at 46. You probably need to have at least a little of the same darkness in your soul to get something out of it.

It’s worth remembering too, how strange and controversial this work was when it first came out, using traditional verse forms but with a relentlessly modern subject, poetry from the gutter of the 19th-century city. Modernism in literature has had 150 years to settle but this is the raw beginnings.

Some good ones: The Albatross, Invitation to the Voyage, Evening Harmony, and the Epilogue (“Le coeur content, je suis monté sur la montagne”). And many others.
by rodolphoarruda | 2025-05-09 23:59:30+00:00
I have been working on an essay about 'Personal Digital Infrastructures,' a concept of infrastructure that seeks resilience and durability for personal data at a level we typically only see in banks or state institutions. In other words, an infrastructure that can protect your personal data in the face of disasters such as big tech account cancellations, fund blocking, imprisonment, bankruptcy, death, etc. The flagship instance of Cryptpad is the service that comes closest to this idea of infrastructure. The free plan gives you 1GB of storage for files, which is more than enough to store essential data for the continuity of businesses, families, communities, etc. E2E encryption plus zero trust in a free tier is something that should be valued and used to our advantage. Cryptpad is a very powerful resource and should be more appreciated.
by roenxi | 2025-05-09 23:59:53+00:00
> But something like Russia conquering bits of their neighbors should have been stopped early.

So would it be fair to say that your WWII lesson is leading you to suggest escalating a war with a major nuclear power as the proper path forward? Because that should be setting off alarm bells that you learned the wrong lesson.

You can see in the world's reaction to the 2003 Iraq invasion; the correct response is no escalation and let the government of the defending country get pancaked. The damage is kept to a reasonable minimum and then some attempt can be made to put civilisation back together again. A China or a Russia going in to escalate the conflict or trying to stop the aggressors would have been a disaster for everyone. We could have had something as bad or worse than the Ukraine war 20 years earlier.
by yegle | 2025-05-10 00:02:51+00:00
Except for the last one, the other two are from my experiences needing to write those docs.

For decision doc, do you prefer tracking stakeholders comments scattered in multiple places (and also track down the closed comments), or have a single places to read their concerns and address them explicitly as part of the decision making process?

For investigation doc, have you not had the need to hand off to someone else, maybe because you need to go on vacation, or you need to hand off to a colleague in a different time zone? How does the one who took over know what was done for a line "we investigated this hypothesis and it didn't work"? What if the action taken to validate the hypothesis is not comprehensive or the conclusion from the actions is not correct?
by benzible | 2025-05-10 00:03:05+00:00
"Faulty intelligence" accepts that DOGE / Russell Vought / Project 2025 are sincerely concerned with government spending. The evidence says that this is deliberate sabotage of government functions to erode public trust. Consider:

Douglas Holtz-Eakin (former Republican CBO director) noted DOGE is specifically "going into agencies they disagree with" for ideological reasons, targeting programs that are a tiny fraction of the federal budget. https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/doge-layoffs-tr...

OMB Director Russell Vought explicitly stated his intention for federal workers to be "traumatically affected" - showing disruption is the intended goal. https://www.govexec.com/transition/2025/04/project-2025-want...

DOGE cut specialized IRS teams that brought in billions despite small costs. One team of <10 people had recovered $5 billion over four years before being fired. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-doge-irs-cuts-will-co...

DOGE has repeatedly made fraud claims that "none have held up under scrutiny" - appearing designed to undermine public trust rather than address actual problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Effic...

The pattern is clear: target high-visibility but relatively low-cost programs (like NSF internships) that provide tangible benefits to citizens. When services deteriorate, people naturally ask "why am I paying taxes for this?" - which is exactly the intended outcome.

A $10k internship that launches careers and advances American innovation is precisely the type of program that makes visible the value of government - which is why it's being targeted despite minimal fiscal impact.
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by monero-xmr | 2025-05-10 00:05:52+00:00
It’s not that jobs only go to white men. It’s that you don’t deny a job to a white man (or any other identity group) because they are a white man.

Harvard denied access to Jews for “personality flaws” in the early 1900s, and similarly denied Asians for “personality” reasons up until a couple years ago when the Supreme Court finally declared that illegal.

Racism is still racism, even if you claim to be “correcting” some imagined harm through your racism
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-10 00:06:06+00:00
I have a glass of whiskey a couple of times a year

I mostly just tell people I don't drink at all

If I tell people that I drink "rarely", they put it into their own framework based on how often they drink themselves. Heavy drinkers might assume "rarely" means one night a week. Moderate drinkers might think a couple times a month
by nenaoki | 2025-05-10 00:07:26+00:00
The Wasm Constant Time proposal was just moved to inactive 4 days ago[0].

From what I can tell the bulk of the work for it was done in 2018[1], but it needs updating to consider SIMD, and for legwork to be done on moving it along as a proper spec extension.

Until someone picks up this valuable work and lands this much-needed feature in Wasm, we're extremely vulnerable to timing attacks in all Wasm crypto.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/blob/9fc7a85e/inact...

[1] https://github.com/PLSysSec/ct-wasm
by DreadY2K | 2025-05-10 00:07:40+00:00
There's a lint for indexing an array, but not for all maybe-panicking operations. For example, the `copy_from_slice` method on slices (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.co...) doesn't have a clippy lint for it, even though it will panic if given the wrong length.
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-10 00:07:51+00:00
A lot of people lack the framework of knowing what a substitute social lubricant can be

I think revealing those frameworks helps a lot

I date a lot of adult Gen Z as well as spiritual people: alcohol use is down, way down, for multiple reasons. I had to relearn what outtings and date ideas could be.

Fortunately, a lot of people in both of those demographics are down to have sex without needing excuses for themselves or socially. So there wasnt much relearning to do. Just not relying on pregaming with alcohol, bars or drinking at clubs as a crutch before being more social or assertive.
by throwaway69123 | 2025-05-10 00:09:39+00:00
the same places they work now, displacing foreign workers shouldn’t effect American workers?

if the goods are made and exported from American factories the owners of those factories will be increasing the local, state and federal tax bases, how is that not an improvement over offshoring production?

workers are currently being screwed by globalist companies offshoring production and also using that as a way to offshore profits also, i doubt any workers will shed tears if that stops.

socialism as you described is fine, not sure how its relevant in this case, its perfectly legal to start coops and they exist even in the tech world, most people dont seek them out and it appears they underperform their peers, where are all the major coop tech companies?
by avs733 | 2025-05-10 00:10:05+00:00
Because that is one of several goals. I heard a really interesting comment recently that concisely put what I find most dishonest about all this.

The opposite of DEI isn’t meritocracy it’s nepotism.

That is why you feel this way, the goal is to inhibit the success of those not part of the in group. The words bandied about about reverse racism and the like are just right wing propaganda.
by jppope | 2025-05-10 00:11:26+00:00
This may just be me, but the lack of a decent longitudinal study on these narratives is pretty weak science. For the last 40? 50? years there have been alcohol stories fairly consistently in the media, and we still struggle with substantiating claims- about the only thing we can say for certain is that the people who write these types of articles don't like alcohol OR in the opposing view point, they love alcohol.

With all that said I think we have enough info to say alcohol aint good for you physiologically.... but we don't have enough info to say the social benefits might actually outweigh the negatives.
by franciscop | 2025-05-10 00:12:29+00:00
> "language [...] Americans have difficulty facing harsh realities"

This makes it sound like it's an American/Western phenomena, where it's definitely not (only there). It's a recurring joke among me and my friends in Japan to say "the moon is beautiful tonight" because in true Japanese culture that's a way to say "I love you".

Though OTOH Spanish went the opposite direction, where my Mexican friends say some times more swear words in a sentence than normal words; but they've become meaningless or softer.
by JohnnyHerz | 2025-05-10 00:12:37+00:00
While there is certainly a lot of crap out there for business books, especially on sales/marketing and management, there are some core books that are must reads if you want to save 30 years of trial and error.

1. E-myth Revisited (absolute must read for small to midsize business owners) 2. Competitive Strategy 3. Discipline of Market Leaders 4. Good to Great 5. Built to Last
by rzzzt | 2025-05-10 00:12:39+00:00
The NHS recommendation is 14 units per week max, over the course of at least 3 days (don't consume the entire budget in a single day or occasion). A pint from a weaker beer counts as 2 units while a stronger one costs 3.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-advice/calculating-alco...
by ldubost | 2025-05-10 00:12:52+00:00
I'm the CEO of the company developing CryptPad.

Our main promise to our users is that server operators cannot read the users data.

About code alteration attacks, we have mentioned them here in an article exposing ways to use CryptPad in secure ways https://blog.cryptpad.org/2024/03/14/Most-Secure-CryptPad-Us...

I won't respond in detail, at least today, to all your criticism of our work but I will say two things:

CryptPad might not be at the level of privacy or security you want (which one do you want BTW ?), but with such discourse you are sending users to stay handling their data on Google which seems to be the opposite of what you seem to want. We will of course consider on our end that CryptPad greatly enhances privacy and security compared to the situation where everybody's data is in clear at Google or Microsoft.

You mentioned " I did share all of the above with the CryptPad team, and was told they don't intend to address the above issues". If you can dig out our response it would be helpful ? At least my position as CEO is that we intend to solve the issues we can solve with the funding we have. As an example, we have always been interested in finding a solution to the "code attack". However the desktop app or code signing does not fully solve the issue as you still need to trust who builds the desktop app or signs the code, even when signed. Full trust requires audit of the code at every change. Can you name me one app that you can fully trust ? Have you audited it ?

I'm not saying improvements cannot be done and we'd love to do a desktop app but we have to choose our battles. We would still have to see if people install and use it ? Signal is a mobile app.. How many have it on their computer ? How many use slack instead ? (When a billionaire gives 100M$ to CrytpPad, we'll be happy to have our choices challenged compared to those of Signal). If one is listening our OpenCollective is here https://OpenCollective.com/cryptpad

We'd love to do more both for privacy and security and ease of use, but for that we need more funding.

Our belief is that privacy and security will be won again on the Internet step by step by getting users to any non BigTech tools including CryptPad and then improve them step by step. If we have the users, we have higher chances to have the funding to improve the tools.

Your vision seems to be more extreme and would likely fail to bring anybody to such a platform as it would lack ease of use (at least with the level of funding we have).

Until now, your criticism is not helping getting the users out of Google or Microsoft.

Ludovic, CEO of XWiki SAS
by rodolphoarruda | 2025-05-10 00:13:14+00:00
It may be a waste of time if you had lived long enough to experience vividly the ins and outs of the business world. Taking an extreme example, senior execs who had "climbed from the bottom" in international companies. These people have seen/lived a lot, so no business book can really impress them or show something they haven't already seen. On the flip side, there is a high number of young people eager to learn how things work in the business world, but they don't want to experience everything, every failure, the ups and downs, they want to cut corners. I think for that kind of people business books can add some value, especially the biographical ones. It doesn't need to be the biography of a CEO (e.g. Jobs'). The life story of a great salesperson can change your mindset forever.
by modeless | 2025-05-10 00:13:50+00:00
OK, if you have or buy a $599+ Mac from Apple in addition to your iOS device, and first connect your iOS device with a USB cable, and then enable the optional Wi-Fi sync, and regularly connect the Mac and the iOS device to the same Wi-Fi network while the Mac is not sleeping, and configure an e2ee cloud backup on the Mac to include the iOS backup, then that is actually a way to achieve a third-party e2ee cloud backup. Though it's stretching the definition a bit due to the requirement to have the Mac connected to the same Wi-Fi for the backup to occur, I'd consider a true cloud backup solution to work on any network connection or even cellular.

I'm willing to bet that the number of people who have ever set all of that up as described is in the triple digits worldwide. A rounding error.
by worik | 2025-05-10 00:13:58+00:00
No answer to the problems that:

A) The area is not known to be geologically stable over the extraordinarily long time periods necessary. (Nowhere is....)

B) There is no containment vessel that can last that long

I get tired of the wishful thinking. Being charitable as describing it as that.

In the future, 600 generations from now, when the poisons we lay down now are bubbling up, perhaps people then will have forgotten us. If not, they will not forgive us

And so unnecessary