MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ptsneves | 2025-05-23 13:47:06+00:00
Rant ahead.

I really dislike these towers of complexity in the name of security. A PC is a general purpose device and it is mine. I don't need to have permissions per each instance, i don't want sandboxes that cannot share files with other applications and I don't want the concept of everything is a file to go away in my PC. My PC is not a single window device, nor do I run a server facing the internet. Please model the threats and adjust security with usability accordingly.

I have a reason for this: Thunderbird and firefox on Ubuntu now do not have access to the /tmp directory and instead have their own directories in some unconventional place. When i want to do something as simple as save an attachment in thunderbird and open it in another program I cannot have done to /tmp and need to put it in some permanent storage. But it gets worse due to the sandboxing. Now thunderbird cannot also show me viewer applications because it is sandboxed and does have the means to suggest other installed applications.

The computer stops being mine so it becomes the playground of architecture astronauts that think usability of said programs are always less important than security. To those people I would like them to tinker on the most secure devices in the planet [1] so they would not intrude on people trying to get things done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
by nulld3v | 2025-05-23 13:47:06+00:00
> Harris does not provide what project 2025 calls for. She would not own the libs either.

So we should vote for Harris because she isn't Trump? What's wrong with Trump though? We already had him for 4 years, and the country didn't explode. Trump also has nothing to do with Project 2025, he said so himself.

> They run on "we will govern responsibly" and "we can make economy good".

Right, but how will the Dems "make the economy good"? Look at California, people are fleeing in droves, crime rate is through the roof, Dems are just as corrupt as everyone else! Trump is right, we need to be tough on crime and deport the people destroying our country.

> Previous republicans governments, including Trumps one did not made economy great, did not made healthcare cheaper, none of that.

Again, it's not like the Democrats really did all that great either. I never really saw them push for universal healthcare. Student loan forgiveness was cool, but just a way to saddle the country with more debt without solving the real problem (and Trump rolled it back anyways).

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Ok, I don't actually believe these things anymore. But the problem is: I did believe some of these things before the election. I apologize for my stupidity, though at least I can say I was not directly responsible since while I live in the US, I don't have voting rights.
by throwanem | 2025-05-23 13:47:19+00:00
I assume they mean any natural person, and whether it happens accidentally (as opposed to "accidentally") does not appear at issue here.

You can probably get Stable Diffusion to violate likeness rights if you try hard enough, but there is a material difference between that and publishing a tool making it trivial for anyone to do so. These are, or I suppose were, such tools: Loras specifically trained to replicate the appearance of specific natural persons. For public figures the rules are slightly different when it comes to one's likeness, but not absent. I can't imagine anyone sensible hosting that stuff for one second, Section 230 or no. But either way, however long this was going on, only a fool would assume it would last forever.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-05-23 13:47:42+00:00
>According to Wedbush, producing iPhones in the U.S. could push prices to ~$3,500 and take 5–10 years to implement, making it unfeasible.

A 25% increase for an already premium device isn't a terrible idea, if it helps boost local industry. But the huge estimated price increase just highlights why most of the Wests manufacturing and industry has gone to China, it's just not competitive to produce things locally and tariffs can't change that.
by overu589 | 2025-05-23 13:47:42+00:00
They are not honest.

Adults are insane and polite society is a lie covered by each our own misapprehension.

This “misapprehension” is where you spend your life taking one kind of emotional deluge out on something else until that completely screws you, and then you see you weren’t well prepared for a world that actually works just fine if you aren’t your own problem.

Teach to develop a talent. Your talents (and skills) are the riches you will take with you everywhere in life. Anything else will become junk you don’t have room for. That’s mental health.
by p_ing | 2025-05-23 13:48:06+00:00
You're forgetting that browsers deal with plenty of internal-only CAs. Just because a public CA won't issue a CN only cert doesn't mean an internal CA won't. That is why I'm curious to know if browsers /strictly/ require SANs, yet. Not something I've tested in a long time since I started supporting public-only websites/cloud infra.

As you noted about OpenSSL, Windows CertSvr will allow you to do CN only, too.
by skydhash | 2025-05-23 13:48:29+00:00
I think that because a lot of gtk apps use gvfs[0]. And most kde apps use kio[1]. But if you want files access through the standard syscall. You have to use the standard mount program or fuse.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-23 13:48:57+00:00
It's an exceedingly common theme in sci-fi, but particularly the space opera genre. In any literary universe where humans occupy multiple planets, at least one of those planets is an agrarian society who has renounced all the higher technology that brought them there.

Peter F. Hamilton loves talking about this. Offhand, I can't think of a single one of his books that doesn't at least mention this concept. He really likes to explore the very long-term evolution of the relationship between humans and technology. You get simple low-tech societies governed and protected by the most sophisticated AI it's possible or conceivable to build, lots of backwater planets with no money for technology, idealistic societies that set up a new way of life, farm planets, all sorts.

Look at 'The Dreaming Void' trilogy. It's very explicitly a juxtaposition between high 30th century intergalactic technology and a society living on a planet where electricity simply doesn't work. It's one of my favorites.
by joseda-hg | 2025-05-23 13:48:59+00:00
You can still host it, and pressumably it should keep working, I wouldn't set up a new instance with it because I don't quite see an active dev community around it (But I do with Wallabag or Shiori), no one is stopping the community if there's interest

Around obsidian, as long as you avoid plugins that don't store data as plain text there's nothing to export and you could use any text editor (Or even IDE) in place of obsidian

No boilerplate has an interesting video about it, Obsidian: The Good Parts [1], I can open my Vault with VSCode or nvim and have all my data, sans the pretty views, because I also avoid the non text extensions, and if push comes to shove, I can grep for tags or something simple like that

Obsidian might sell (Maybe when one of the founders/owners go away), but it's not like they have investors to appease, they could keep the show going indefinitely as far as I can tell

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0yAy2j-9V0
by rahimnathwani | 2025-05-23 13:49:41+00:00
If I had to choose between:

A) Someone with a 4-year degree in English, from Pittsburg State (one of the two colleges in that study), and

B) Someone who just finished high school, and got a high SAT score.

Then I'd choose B. (Being a graduate of Pittsburgh State suggests an SAT score in the range 900 to 1200.)
Show HN: A Python Script to Extract Your Pocket Saves Before Shutdown
by markpettyjohn | 2025-05-23 13:49:50+00:00
Pocket is shutting down and their official export only gave me a CSV that left me sad.

I got a Pocket consumer key with retrieval access and made a Python script that can retrieve the full contents of your saves.

It's not perfect. I had 5010 saves in Pocket. The script caught all of them but there were errors during the extraction process. I ended up with 3958 extracted articles and 1052 failures.

Details are in the README on the repo.

MIT license so do with it as you will. I suspect someone else can improve upon it in form and function.
by mrbigbob | 2025-05-23 13:50:28+00:00
"For instance, educated professionals were a major base for the original Nazi Party." Thats not entirely true. While there were definitely many people in education who supported the nazi party there were still quite a few in the education field during the beginning of Hitlers power who were not and many fled to other countries starting around 1933. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/Online/5299/The-scientific.... it was why albert einstein spent a great deal of time in the US.

Through laws they shaped and molded the education to be inline with nazi ideology and only those who towed the line were allowed to continue to teach/study. heres a small article from the US Congress (shocked its still up) that discusses higher education in germany during nazi occupation. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116973/documents/...

Basically if you disagreed with the nazi party you were fired/expelled in the beginning and later sent to camps. the entire point of studying history is so we dont repeat it and just looking at the amount of US universities bending to the republican parties ideals on what they believe is scarily similar to early nazi germany.

I dont get how people dont understand that the strength of the US for the longest time has been our diversity; especially in education. hell, after world war 2 we actively recurited many nazi scientist to help us with the space program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip many would argue it is the reason why we beat the soviet union to the moon. the harm that is slowly being done to this country will take decades to repair if it can be and i dont believe that is being hyperbolic
by palmotea | 2025-05-23 13:50:55+00:00
> You're not a victim over your democratic choice. If I choose to cut my nose to spite my face, I'm not a victim. Why are people so bad about taking accountability over their actions? It's always someone else's fault.

Americans are a victim of being given shitty choices.

Democrats like to pretend they were so much better than Trump that the choice was obvious, but they basically spent four years doing dishonest things like attempting to gaslight the American public on things like Biden's age. They need to take responsibility for their loss, instead putting their energy into blaming others (including scapegoats). But it's so much easier to try to climb back into a bubble.
by staticman2 | 2025-05-23 13:51:24+00:00
>what you speak of is difference between literature and mere communication.

So a novel is not literature unless it uses your preferred writing style?

>But mud fog BLEAKNESS gestures here maybe to social decay, anomie, listlessness, an eternal stupor, impotence of characters and so on.

That passage doesn't introduce any "characters". Perhaps Lord Chancellor will turn out to be one of the novel's characters, but that remains to be seen.

> The painting has a point for the plot AND your pleasure.

There's no need to be so confrontational.

Isaac Asimov is nowhere close to being my favorite writer but I offer this for your amusement. In his autobiography "I, Asimov" he talks about his simple writing style:

>Before Pebble in the Sky was published, Walter Bradbury asked me to do another novel. I did and sent in two sample chapters. The trouble was that now that I was a published writer, I tried to be literary, as I had in that never-to-be- forgotten writing class in high school. Not nearly as badly, of course, but badly enough. Brad gently sent those two chapters back and put me on the right track.

>"Do you know," he said, "how Hemingway would say, 'The sun rose the next morning'?"

>"No," I said, anxiously (I had never read Hemingway) "How would he say it, Brad?"

>Brad said, "He would say, 'The sun rose the next morning.'

>That was enough. It was the best literary lesson I ever had and it took just ten seconds. I did my second novel, which was The Stars, Like Dust-, writing it plainly, and Brad took it.
by Spivak | 2025-05-23 13:51:57+00:00
You would buy them out so they could focus 100% of their time to an endeavor that doesn't bring in any money except from a ludicrously generous gift from Google that might be illegal?

Like I get it, I wish they could just be a browser company too but all their other side ventures are desperate attempts to diversify their revenue. They don't have a billion dollar ad business obviate their need to actually be a business.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-23 13:52:19+00:00
>Americans are a victim of being given shitty choices.

Choices aren't being "given". You're making it sound like Americans are being forced to choose some sort of alien invaders and not peers cut from the cloth of their own citizens.

In a democracy the politicians are a direct reflection of society. If Trump says "drill baby drill" and everyone applauds, you can't claim otherwise
by IAmGraydon | 2025-05-23 13:54:15+00:00
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we're dealing with. Zero. Critical. Thought. This is the same kind of brainwashed lie that I keep seeing from Trump supporters everywhere. There seems to be absolutely zero self awareness, as if the very things they're saying don't actually enter into their consciousness for any kind of logical analysis. This guy has zero idea how idiotic what he just said is. He will go on to believe that all the downvotes are from those with "Trump Derangement Syndrome".

Tell me, if the American workforce is living in tents and addled with drugs, give me some numbers. How many? And you think that we are going to do what? Make the homeless work in the iPhone factories? Is that what you're suggesting?
by bluGill | 2025-05-23 13:54:33+00:00
Nuclear is so expensive the only reason anyone builds them is governments wants a source of nuclear trained people around for military purposes (either bombs or navy ships).

Battery backup isn't a needed as much as many thing in the real world. Those gas power plants we already have are not going anywhere, so we still use them when there isn't much wind. Though battery is something we should be building instead (and are).
by seanhunter | 2025-05-23 13:54:59+00:00
You can’t always do that because you often don’t know how many pseudorandom numbers you will need. Search for probabilistic computational linear algebra for more, but say you’re trying to do research into genetic conditions. Your data might be a matrix of samples vs genes and each cell a record of how much a gene is expressed in a certain sample. So you have a very big matrix that you need to do a singular value decomposition. The standard way to donthis involves random sampling of the columns to make the computational complexity manageable. You would still want to seed the rng so your results are reproducible.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-23 13:55:22+00:00
Yesterday my dad, in his late 70's, used Gemini with a video stream to program the thermostat. He then called me to tell me this, rather then call me to come stop by and program the thermostat.

You can call this hype, maybe it is all hype until LLMs can work on 10M LOC codebases, but recognize that LLMs are a shift that is totally incomparable to any previous AI advancement.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-23 13:55:45+00:00
The article's main point isn't about archaic but rather figurative language.

> These problematic readers, which again comprise 58% of the English majors in the study, cannot differentiate between literal and figurative speech in literature. When they encounter unfamiliar vocabulary, they sometimes leap to fantastical conclusions about the meaning of a passage, as this participant who thinks the mention of “whiskers” refers not to a bearded man but to an animal.

The examples given should be simple to parse for native English speakers, which the subjects were.

>> LONDON. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.

Digging into the full paper, as curious what the root cause is presumed to be.
by sswatson | 2025-05-23 13:56:22+00:00
The idea is thoroughly absurd. Our days are filled with unpaid labor. Getting dressed in the morning, collecting the items you want to buy in a grocery store, making your bookings for a vacation, giving your spouse feedback on their wardrobe selection, etc. — all of these things are work.

If you want to argue that they are not work, then surely helping a delivery person who's lost in your neighborhood also counts as non-work for the same reason.
Show HN: Open-source protein and ligand viewer
by the__alchemist | 2025-05-23 13:56:36+00:00
I just published an open-source protein and ligand viewer. Goal: fast and easy-to-use. Long-term: It's a platform for docking and molecular dynamics. The basic functionality for viewing and inspecting work. I'm currently working on Coot-like electron-density viewing.

I'm gradually splitting it into standalone libs, published to crates.io. Some are up already, others are integrated, and will be split off when sufficiently mature and decoupled.

Uses parallel execution when able, through thread pools (Rayon), CPU SIMD and Cuda.

The default control scheme is non-standard, unless you play video games...

Any feedback and critique appreciated!
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-23 13:56:52+00:00
Neither 4 nor 5 are necessarily required in practice. I converted an employers monorepo to reproducible semi-recently, without eliminating any math libraries, just forcing the compiler to make consistent implementation choices across platforms.

Indeed, you can't do that kind of hsum. Still, haven't run into that behavior in practice (and given that I maintain a FP reproducibility test suite, I've tried). Would be open to any way you can suggest to replicate that with the usual GCC/clang etc.
by dambi0 | 2025-05-23 13:56:53+00:00
How much plot could one or two paragraphs from a wider body of work contain?

We do learn more than it’s just muddy. For example the Lord Chancellor is somewhat introduced. We know the time of year. We know it’s been muddy for a while. We know the time of year. We know some term has finished so it’s likely that less people are around or it is quieter than usual. Whether these are relevant to the whole plot we can’t tell from such a short passage but that is true of any extract.
by pvg | 2025-05-23 13:56:55+00:00
We're all interested in this by virtue of discussing it.

No, I don't think that's true at all. It's the whole premise of a crowdsourced/curated forum, that there is some 'we' that is not, in fact, interested in 'everything' - hence the curation, the votes, the rules, the moderation, the non-infinite-scrolling front page.

It's clear the thing that happened did happen independently of my beliefs about it

You should find out how clear that is by asking the people who can clarify it. That's all.
by toss1 | 2025-05-23 13:56:58+00:00
And, just this morning's headlines:

The President makes a direct threat to Apple, that specifically their products will be made in the US or he will put a 25% tariff on them

This is nothing resembling policy or democracy. This is straight-up autocracy — an autocratic leader with zero input, specifically ordering a single company to take specific actions or he will personally set penalties.

This is not language trickery. This is reality.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-05-23 13:57:38+00:00
> they become a solution session between one dev and our manager

This happens when the manager doesn't understand the point of daily standups.

I've been on both sides of this. Ideally, the daily standup should be able to operate without a manager even being there: it should be a session between the team members who are actually doing the work, to give them a bit of time to come up out of the weeds of what they're working on to make sure that they're not getting themselves stuck, or to unstick their teammates. The meeting is only as long as it needs to be. In practice, people aren't really good about keeping Jira up to date, or will bury themselves into a rut to power through a problem.

If it becomes a solution session between a manager and a dev, while everyone else on the team stays on mute to witness all of this, that belongs in a different meeting.
by bluGill | 2025-05-23 13:57:50+00:00
Why should it? We already have all those roads as they were built for all our other transport needs and have plenty of spare capacity for the few wind turbines (1 every 5 minutes is not much use on a modern road) we are building.

Unless you are talking about the last 100 meters - but as the other reply pointed out, those are not roads. Most of the ones I've seen are grass - the roads are used so little we don't need gravel and they don't even turn into dirt.
by palmotea | 2025-05-23 13:57:51+00:00
>> Americans are a victim of being given shitty choices.

> Your making it sound like Americans are being forced to choose some sort of alien invaders and not peers of their own citizens. In democracy the politicians are a direct reflection of society.

Come on. Do you remember 2024? Biden was anointed, then Harris. In 2016 it was Clinton (so something had to be done about Sanders). Those choices weren't made by democracy, they were made by the Democratic party.
by the_snooze | 2025-05-23 13:57:58+00:00
>The level of irresponsibility that "vibe coding" is introducing to the world is actually worse than the one that had people pouring their savings into a shitcoin. But it's the same arseholes talking it up.

It's a broader ethos of irresponsibility and disposability that's infected so much of modern tech. Why polish up a game when you can ship it now and fix it later? Why delay an iPhone release that's "Built for Apple Intelligence (TM)" when you can sell the hype today and maybe deliver next quarter?

Everyone wants the reward but none of the work and accountability. You're not even doing the minimum level of work; you're just putting up the appearance of effort. Who cares if what you built is just a brittle husk? Vibe coding is just the natural progression of that cynical philosophy.