MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seattle_spring | 2025-05-07 21:03:28+00:00
Yes, very similar situation. Opening a Coronavirus research lab next to an area historically active for natural virus harbors and transmission makes perfect sense. However, that situation also empowered the uninformed to come out of the woodwork and repeat the nonsense they heard from people like Bret Weinstein, using the correlation with a perfectly reasonable explanation as some kind of "gotcha".
by 7thaccount | 2025-05-07 21:05:19+00:00
I found the article to be hilarious.

It's existence obviously means some professor didn't allow them to use the standard library and they tongue in cheek show how irritating that is.

I'm sure it's possible they made it up, but we had similar restrictions where I could use an Arduino for my engineering Senior Design Project in college, but no Arduino or module libraries - just our own C. We passed, but barely. It also was weird as it didn't match how normal people would solve the problem.
by dev-ns8 | 2025-05-07 21:05:27+00:00
Is there a DBMS or storage engine intended for a DBMS that does bypass the filesystem altogether? I'm not aware of any, but at the same time I don't have a full grasp of all the storage engines offered.

It almost seems like a ridiculous idea to me for a database component author to want to write there own filesystem instead of improving their DB feature set. I hear the gripes in this thread about filesystems, but they almost sound service level user issues, not deeper technical issues. What I mean by that, is the I/O strategies I've seen from the few open source storage engines i've looked at don't at all seem hindered by the filesystem abstractions that are currently offered. I don't know what a DBMS has to gain from different filesystem abstractions.
by noworriesnate | 2025-05-07 21:07:37+00:00
Okay but, what about scammers who pretend to be your grandma to steal her benefits? What about people who died and their children are now stealing their benefits? What about a 16 year old child who runs away, does he qualify for benefits? What about the children of divorced people, who gets the benefits? What about non citizens? There absolutely has to be a verification system.

I guess, to steel man your argument, you could issue cryptographic IDs or have government offices with biometrics to authenticate. That would simplify some of the problem. I’m definitely not saying simplification isn’t possible—just saying that verification will always be necessary work.
by ladyanita22 | 2025-05-07 21:08:13+00:00
It may, or may not sound convincing. It's true that some things cannot be undone, and we may feel regret or remorse for them. Still, there's a path for healing and liberation by understanding under which circumstances and which assumptions you took that decission, understanding that sometimes life is hard, and that you're worth it.

I don't know this specific case though, and I guess neither do you. If the parent comment wants to come back with some details, I'll reflect on it.
by openplatypus | 2025-05-07 21:08:20+00:00
As a founder in this space, it not as bad as you think. There are niches in this crowded yet broad space.

Plausible - good for self-hosting, but their SaaS is very expensive and FOSS vs SaaS offering differ.

Ahrefs - they will use your traffic to improve your competitor research, you really should use them cautiously.

Matomo - feature rich but can be overwhelming.

Posthog - its SaaS is US based so dismissed early by EU customers.

Clarity, like GA has serious privacy issues.

Our product, Wide Angle Analytics, has its own gotchas compared to competitors - its opinionated and there are folks who do not agree with our opinions, but the landscape of websites is so vast that you find your client nevertheless.

That said, we are still in business after 4 years, and we saw few competitors disappear or get acquired and extinguished.

So, all the best to the OP. Hope you find your niche :)
by palata | 2025-05-07 21:08:26+00:00
Oh right, I see what you mean.

Still, I believe there is a difference. First, it feels like anyone willing to pay enough will convince NSO to "help" them. It's not the same with firearms (in 99% countries in the world): you can't just pay a private company to go rob a bank with firearms.

Then for the police and the military, it's usually restricted to professionals. In my country, if a police officer gets their gun out (I'm not talking about firing), an investigation follows. If they fire their gun, a bigger investigation follows, they make the news, and the officer may lose their job (or be affected to a desk job for the rest of their career).

It seems a lot easier to get access to NSO than to actually fire a gun, and to me that's a good thing. I don't want a police like in the US. To the point where I do believe that it should be as hard to access NSO as it is to use firearms.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-07 21:08:44+00:00
I was hoping the author would mention what remote they was coming from. I assume a Harmony since they were best in class before logitech left the market and the kind of person who would do this was probably using a harmony. I'm still using 2 harmony hubs with 1 backup I bought on ebay. I keep watching this space for alternatives and this is very promising (especially since I use HA).

No product on the market quite fits the harmony hub + remote setup I have. The remote lasts at least 9 months on 1 battery and it's the best remote I've ever used (you can use it without looking at it which is more than I can say for plenty of newer remotes, especially universal remotes, I hate screens on a remote).
by Stealthisbook | 2025-05-07 21:08:47+00:00
There are so many layers of fraud to make this scam work. Fake enrollment seems easy enough, but financial aid requires a valid identity with real tax info. If you've already stolen an identity to snag a tax refund, I guess might as well file a FAFSA. But, the lion's share of financial aid goes directly to the school while only any remainder after tuition and fees goes to the student. I feel like unless this is happening at scale committed by relatively few actors, the return isn't worth the effort... if there isn't some further institutional coordination helping things along
Show HN: A new social network just for AI memes
by millgrove | 2025-05-07 21:08:53+00:00
Hi HN, We're making a new social network for AI-generated videos.

While AI films are still a few years away, the niche of re-lipsynced AI videos is rampant and perhaps the fastest growing form of AI-generated content. Re-dubbed TV shows and movies are doing 10s of millions of views and have become their own new meme-format. In the last 7 days, videos made on the app did 1.1m views!

We made eggnog.ai/remix for this reason. You can use the product to make funny videos to send to friends (cartoon remixes take < 20s to make) and live-action take 1-2 minutes (no sign-up required to make something).

We also just launched our mobile app where you can reserve a username and see what other people are making! The mobile app feed is also a bit more real-time. You can download the app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scenemix-voice-ai/id6742719343

We would love to hear your feedback HN :)
by munificent | 2025-05-07 21:09:15+00:00
For what it's worth, I've driven a manual for the past 25 years in the US and I haven't noticed any significant increase in tailgated even when I decelerate. I'm definitely the kind of stick driver who avoids braking and pushes in the clutch and lets the vehicle cruise to a lower speed when possible.

Granted, it's also a red (small) pick-up truck, so pretty visible.
by kerkeslager | 2025-05-07 21:09:51+00:00
It's abundantly clear you're looking for evidence for what you already believe instead of educating yourself and forming an opinion.

> Yes, I'm familiar with medicaid and some other stuff.

...and you're notably not disagreeing with anything I said about them.

> Your complaint about SNAP ignores foodbanks.

Food banks can safely be ignored. The nearest food bank to where I am currently located is a 20 minute drive, with no public transit that goes there, so you're SOL without a car, and it's run by a church which is extremely conservative (i.e. gay and trans people need to put up with hearing how they're going to hell if they'll be served at all). They're also open 1 day a week.

Food banks are great--but they should not be necessary.

> Medicaid may take months to recieve but it can cover costs incurred since applying retroactively once it is approved.

Do you even know what a poor person is, or do you simply lack all empathy?

Poor people don't get to "incur costs". They simply can't pay for care and then therefore don't receive it. So getting reimbursed for care they didn't receive because they couldn't pay for it, isn't really all that helpful.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-07 21:09:51+00:00
You might like Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Johnstone, if you've not already read it.

It all of: lays bare the "masks" we wear and the "status games" we play in everyday life; explains the importance of dropping certain common "masks" and various status-related hang-ups to achieve a child-like egolessness and vulnerability, in order to access real creativity; and, further, the liberating power and social-connectedness creating effects of playing with and in masks and status-games.

It's also a really short book, which doesn't hurt.

(here "masks" and "status games" are terms Johnstone defines for his purposes, but what you can guess from context is probably close enough to his intended usage for this post)
by clown_strike | 2025-05-07 21:10:35+00:00
There was no mistaken identity. They knew it was an American ship and attacked it on purpose. It was witnessed and documented that they made the decision to deliberately attack an American warship, then tried to excuse themselves from responsibility.

They were targeting lifeboats and engaging in other dishonorable behavior we've since seen repeated in Gaza as well. "Going all out" is not warfare, it is sadism in violation of the Geneva Convention.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211111095447/https://www.haare...
by alphan0n | 2025-05-07 21:10:39+00:00
What is the purpose of using a word that means something different than what is currently being discussed? Why not say that children are suffering from malnutrition or food insecurity, rather than using a term used to describe a cause of death?

You wouldn't say that someone who choked on a glass of water to have drowned, or someone who received a momentary shock from frayed cord to have been electrocuted.

Words have meaning, it's not pedantic to comment on the usage of a word that has a different meaning entirely from manner in which it is being used, in what I suspect is an attempt at an appeal to emotion.
by matt_s | 2025-05-07 21:10:58+00:00
A good example is … Blockbuster is gone but we have Netflix. Sears is gone but we have Amazon. Those were internet age companies that we’ve seen come to having massive market shares now.

If AI follows suit, there will be a wasteland of nonsense “AI” companies followed by some industry shifting AI technology companies, in about 10-15 years we’ll see who’s left.
by rezmason | 2025-05-07 21:11:10+00:00
The short answer is, sadly, no— Apple has the modern macOS UI locked up.

The long answer is, if you're willing to disable systemwide security features, you can experiment with modifying the appearance of macOS, but to my knowledge no one has made a real attempt to in a while. Furthermore, the themes on display here fit a paradigm where the UI is a composite of bitmap images, whereas the modern macOS is largely built from vector graphics.

But if you vectorize every bitmap in an old theme, so that individual pixels of color are converted to vector graphic rectangles; if you learn how modern macOS builds its appearance; if you make a robust solution and thoroughly test it, so that it will work 100% of the time with every app ever; if you do _all_ of that, you will still be unable to _share_ your creation with most Mac users, because very few of us would disable systemwide security for the sake of running a third party system enhancement.

That's one of the major contributors to the success of Mac OS 9 theming: third party system extensions were commonplace, they were the backbone of the ecosystem, and Apple had no mechanism for preventing their use.
by wonder_er | 2025-05-07 21:11:13+00:00
Ooooh what a title

In 2019 I was a bicycling a lot, and really wanted to get something with a motor, so I could be a bit faster/farther/not so sweaty with my trips. I had access to a car but rarely used it.

I really don't like many inherent safety issues with motorcycles and never seriously considered obtaining one, but kept wanting a two-wheeled vehicle with a motor.

I'd ridden a 50cc scooter in 2019 for a few days, and it was fine then, but I never considered one seriously since.

Eventually, in 2020 it was an emergency room doctor who suggested I look at 'real scooters' instead of the 50cc things.

So I did, eventually I ended up owning a 170cc scooter/moped thing, and it feels infinitely safer than a motorcycle, and a bicycle. I've done 20,000 miles on scooters since then, probably, all over the world,

including Denver to Canada and back once.

Cheaper lighter more efficient, than motorcycles. more stable, lower center of mass, better wind protection, useful storage options, too, compared to motorcycles and bicycles.

I ride mine year round, no issues.

I wrote a page trying to capture some of the upsides, but it's hard to get the tone right on the internet:

https://josh.works/scootering
by kbolino | 2025-05-07 21:12:45+00:00
In float32 land, if

x = 0.5 (with bit pattern 0x3f000000) y = 0.25 (with bit pattern 0x3e800000)

then

x+y = 0.75 (with bit pattern 0x3f400000)

But if we just added the bit patterns like integers, we would get 0x7d800000 (with a float value of over 10^37). Just because they are discrete doesn't mean they are integers only that they can be mapped one-to-one with integers. The bit pattern is not the semantic meaning of the value, and you cannot perform correct operations if you ignore the semantics.
by dathinab | 2025-05-07 21:12:50+00:00
It's even worse (for python).

TS might transpile to JS and can always be split into a js and type annotation file but is it's own language developed in tandem with the type check based on a holistisch approach to find how to type check then and then put it into the syntax and type checker.

Thats not true for python at all.

Python types where added as annotations to the language many years ago, but not in a holistic approach but in simplistic approach only adding some fundamental support and then extended bit by bit over the years (and not always consistently).

Furthermore this annotations are not limited to type checking which can confuse a type checker (through Annotated helps a lot, but is also verbose, wonder how long until there is a "Annotated" short syntax e.g. by impl @ on type or similar).

Basically what the type annotation feature was initially intended to be and what it is now differ quite a bit (dump example `list` vs. `List`, `Annotated` etc.).

This is made worse that a bunch of "magic" is deeply rooted in python, e.g. sub-classing `Enum`. Sure you have that in JS too, and it also doesn't work that well in TS (if you don't add annotation on the dynamically produced type).

Lastly TS is structurally typed, which allows handling a bunch of dynamic typing edge cases, while Python is, well, in-between. Duck-typing is (simplified) structural typing but `isinstance` is a common thing in Python and is nominal typing...

So yeah it's a mess in python and to make it worse there bunch of annoyances related to ambiguity or to many ways how to do a thing (e.g. re-exports+private modules, you can do that common coding pattern, but it sucks badly).
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-07 21:13:01+00:00
If I can't use AI-generated video as evidence or a character witness, you shouldn't be able to use it in sentencing either.

> Neither the defense nor the judge pushed back. Later in the hearing, Judge Todd Lang said, "I loved that AI. Thank you for that."

Lawyer should be up for malpractice here.

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/chandler/...

> The state asked for a 9.5-year sentence, and the judge ended up giving Horcasitas 10.5 years for manslaughter, after being so moved by the powerful video, family says.

Gross.
by timewizard | 2025-05-07 21:13:45+00:00
> Here, they seem to acknowledge that it can be faster to make a single call.

It calls the internal Fill function to fill 4 bytes of the slice at a time. That calls the rng assembly stub function which uses 'rdrand' to get 32bits of random data. Which gets called len(b)/4 times.

I don't think they did it for speed but rather to be more idiomatic.

Anyways, OSDev has had a "Go Bare Bones" page for quite a while:

https://wiki.osdev.org/Go_Bare_Bones
by pizza | 2025-05-07 21:14:02+00:00
I don’t think there is clinical level evidence for it, but there’s this thing called Trauma Releasing Exercise which apparently some people swear by. The idea is that you do extremely taxing, high neuromuscular-recruitment static holds etc - til the point of total muscle control loss that turns into widespread trembling. I would speculate that if a big part of feeling bad is getting stuck in a state where tension becomes a problematic passive default state that is hard to get out of, that a short, hard ‘nudge’ in the form of overwhelming exertion might be enough to ‘reset’. All speculation until proven though.

What’s interesting about the origins of the technique is that the guy thought of the possibility that adults learn to suppress visible trauma reactions - uncontrolled shaking, etc - whereas children and animals wouldn’t, and for whatever reason they would also be able to return to normal more quickly. He wondered if maybe that there was a tangible benefit to the shaking itself, in that it could help perturb out of the traumatized state itself.
by ben7799 | 2025-05-07 21:14:31+00:00
I agree with this.

I think the overall experience with the modern setup is worse in every way than 20 years ago with the exception of picture quality since we have 4K now. (Of course mostly we watch heavily compressed streaming video). 20 years ago I had a 5.1 system and would watch DVDs. The sound was vastly better than TV speakers/soundbar, compression was lower on the video despite being SD. By 15 years ago this was no longer true with a Blue Ray player of course, everything was better. My setup back then even had an audio compressor ("dynamic range adjustment") so you could actually hear the dialog when you needed to turn the volume down at night. No need to use subtitles!

But the old setup doesn't make sense anymore either as you would have had to keep replacing the receiver a bunch of times for no good reason as AV standards changed.

I got rid of my old setup at some point. I have a new system in another room that doesn't do video at all. It's just stereo with a CD player, a Turntable, a digital media player (doesn't get used much) and a Bluetooth input for streaming.
by NoahKAndrews | 2025-05-07 21:14:35+00:00
It'll be interesting to see what they do for PyCharm and IntelliJ, which already have free Community Editions. Long term, I doubt they'll want to have two types of free version that restrict usage in completely different ways, but if they kill the Community Editions, anyone using them for commercial use will have to either build from source (hopefully the end of community editions wouldn't mean the end of the open source parts), start paying, or switch to an alternative.

I'm making zero predictions about what they'll do, there's a lot of ways it could go.
by registeredcorn | 2025-05-07 21:15:23+00:00
I'm not sure if this a new idea, unlikely - but I'll write it out at risk of forgetting later:

Code can be terrible, but fun: interesting bugs created and found in novel ideas.

Code can be wonderful, but boring: a calculator application which is well written, but drab in implementation.

Code can be terrible, and boring: some poorly thought-out B2B product that has hundreds of edge cases, each of which have numerous, similar but distinct bugs.

Code can be wonderful, and interesting: Doom, etc.
by junon | 2025-05-07 21:15:39+00:00
Yes, while you're correct, my comment was more or less illustrative. Apologies if that wasn't clear. Explaining the nuance of langitems wasn't really the point I was trying to make.

Also AFAIR Try traits are relatively new, and are still unstable. Last I checked it was indeed a desugar to either From or Into (pretty sure it was From).
by yhosun | 2025-05-07 21:15:51+00:00
Uber’s return-to-office (RTO) policies have sparked intense backlash. During a recent All Hands, execs dialed in remotely—one from what appeared to be a hotel (where a man in a towel walked by), another casually from Napa—while pushing in-office mandates for the rest of the company.

This came the same week Uber revoked remote approvals, increased RTO days, and worsened a popular benefit by moving the 5-year sabbatical to 8 years with no grandfathering. Employees were furious, the Zoom chat turned chaotic, unionization was threatened, and some were reportedly let go.

The tone-deafness and “rules for thee, not for me” behavior—especially from highly compensated leadership—has left many feeling demoralized and angry.
by rezmason | 2025-05-07 21:15:57+00:00
I should have mentioned a couple other things:

1. Kaleidoscope (the most common OS 9 theme system extension) runs fine under emulation, so if you just want to _enjoy_ these themes, your best bet is the SheepShaver emulator (in my opinion).

2. Nothing's stopping us from creating an alternative desktop environment for the Mac, such as XQuartz. And then you can build theme support on top of something like that. But most applications wouldn't use that desktop environment for their own UI.
by robertwt7 | 2025-05-07 21:15:59+00:00
This will be similar to Typescript I assume? If so I can’t wait to use it!! I cant count how many times I’ve searched for “TS like in Python” since I’ve started working on Python codebase. TS is so awesome that I use it 100% on new projects. Ruff is also very good, but with this, large code base Python will be a breeze to work with
by kerkeslager | 2025-05-07 21:16:31+00:00
> Some people dislike it on the federal level, and are fine with it at the state level, as they are two different organizations. My comment was only about them.

You said:

> People generally don't want the Federal government involved, thats where the consensus has been lacking.

So no, your comment was a claim about "people generally".

If you'd like to say you misspoke, fine, but everyone can read what you said, so there's no point lying about what you said.
by skydhash | 2025-05-07 21:16:51+00:00
> My humble point is this: if we build "intelligence" as a formal system, like some silicon running some fancy pants LLM what have you, and we want rigor in it's construction, i.e. if we want to be able to tell "this is how it works", then we need to use a subset of our brain that's capable of formal and consistent thinking. And my claim is that _that subsystem_ can't capture "itself". So we have to use "more" of our brain than that subsystem. so either the "AI" that we understand is "less" than what we need and use to understand it. or we can't understand it.

I don't know if you've read Jacob Bronowski's The origins of knowledge and imagination, but the latter part of his argument are essentially this. Formal systems are nice for determining truth, but they're limited and there is always some situation that forces you to reinvent that formal system (edge cases, incorrect assumptions, rules limitation,...)