MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 16:04:41+00:00
> Not very surprising that the official US races are BS.

The modern concept of "race" in general is a BS construct that was invented to support and justify European imperialism, and which has long been recognized as having only the loosest relation to biological reality despite in its own terms being conceptualized as a biological reality of some importance.

OTOH, its also produced very real communities of differentiated experience, identity, and treatment, and it is largely that which the US government system of race (plus one ethnicity, in the minimum scheme) is designed to gather data related to.

> If I understand them correctly,

You do not.

> officially someone from Portugal or France is supposed to be Caucasian

"Caucasian" is not part of the official race/ethnicity scheme used in US federal government reporting. Someone who has prehistoric ancestors who were from the region which is now Portugal or France, and who identifies with the racial group into which people with that ancestry are categorized, would be White, possibly with another racial and/or ethnic category depending on what other ancestry they identified with.

> whereas someone from Spain is supposed to be Hispanic

With the same description as above, replacing "Portugal or France" with "Spain", the person would still be White.

A person who also identifies with Spanish or South, Central, or North American (south of the US border) national/cultural origin would be Hispanic or Latino by ethnicity (the only ethnic category in the scheme) as well as any racial category or categories they identify with.

Here's a news release on 2024 updates to the scheme, which involve combine the race/ethnicity questions into a single multiple answer allowed question (the race question was already multiple answers allowed, but the presence or absence of the one ethnic category was a separate question) as well as other updates to the scheme: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2024/...
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-06-06 16:04:58+00:00
> Even if it's just 1 or 2% or even a trace amount, they're checking off boxes identifying themselves as multiracial.

This is not necessarily wrong though. In many cases I've seen where children of grandparents from a particular region showing up on those products as having low percentage heritage from those areas.

If your grandmother was born in China and is - for all intents and purposes - clearly Chinese, yet you show up with 3% Chinese DNA on these products, does that mean you can't identify as having Chinese in your family background? Who determines where this line is drawn?
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-06-06 16:05:06+00:00
>That being said, there are important differences within the traditional "races", such as the finding in this study that people with West African vs. East African ancestries have different genetic propensities for obesity.

"Traditional races" as you call them have changed over time and space, and we are only in this predicament because we lump different ethnicities together today. 150 years ago people could tell the difference between someone of West African or East African descent. And Southern Italians, Irish vs Western Europeans vs Germans... etc.

It's harder now because a) there has been a lot more mixing since then; and b) socioculturally we consolidated many of those ethnicities
by web007 | 2025-06-06 16:05:27+00:00
Curation is probably a good idea, but keeping context is probably a better idea.

The referenced "I don't keep history" philosophy is madness. You won't know what thing would have been useful to keep until you need it $later. Sure, you'll write down some good stuff and maybe alias it.

That's fantastic, do more of that anyway.

Don't pretend you're going to do that for every trick or gotcha you encounter, and don't think you're going to remember that one-off not-gonna-need-it thing you did last week when you find that bug again.

My local history is currently 106022 lines, and that's not even my full synchronized copy, just this machine. It's isolated per-session and organized into ~/.history/YYYY/MM/machine_time_session hierarchy. It has 8325 "git status", 4291 "ll", 2403 "cd .." and 97 "date" entries which don't matter. Literal/complete entries, not including variations like "date +%Y%m%d" which are separate. I can ignore them, either by grepping them out or filtering mentally, but something as benign as "cd .." is INCREDIBLY useful to establish context when I'm spelunking through what I did to debug a thing 2 years ago.

The even better version of both of these variants is to keep everything AND curate out useful stuff. That whole history (4 years locally) is 10MB, and my entire history compressed would be less than a megabyte.

Edit: just realized who posted this, I overlapped with Tod at my first gig in Silicon Valley. Small world!
by tmdetect | 2025-06-06 16:05:28+00:00
I think it’s fairly clear from everyone’s comments that this is a card testing scheme. Now it’s how you respond to it that matters.

You’re essentially playing a game of cat and mouse. There’s 12 new domains added today for one provider for example [0].

Use a 3rd party api to block these (disclaimer, this is what I do) and keep layering your security. Note that I’ve seen an increase in gmail temporary email providers, so while many here will disagree, blocking plus emails and . emails is absolutely a valid tactic during this attack period.

[0] https://tempmaildetector.com/provider/temp-mail.org
by SkyBelow | 2025-06-06 16:06:03+00:00
Is that specifically the case? This feels like an area where our language can fail to capture the nuance of what someone is trying to say and it gets misstated as something really similar but different.

To give an example, take 3 people named A, B, and C. A and B are both from Africa, while C is from elsewhere.

A and B have 9 genetic differences. B and C have 1 genetic difference. A and C have 10 genetic differences.

We can make the claim that the genetic difference between someone from Africa and from elsewhere (B to C, thus 1) is much smaller than the difference between two people in Africa (A to B, thus 9). 1 is smaller than 9, so this statement is true, but could easily be misunderstood to saying that the two most genetically distinct individuals are from Africa, which isn't the case because A to C is the most genetically distinct and C is from elsewhere.

The two statements seem nearly equivalent and the wrong one could accidentally be spread by someone who is really just trying to focus on expressing how much genetic diversity is within Africa.
by mmh0000 | 2025-06-06 16:06:09+00:00
I read this article in horror. Even after he said he kept /only/ the last 9800 commands.

⟩ history | wc -l 170919

I have (deduplicated) shell history with timestamps going back years. A little bit of CTRL+R and `history | grep …` I never have to remember how I did some arcane magic in the past, just that I did.
by AlienRobot | 2025-06-06 16:06:20+00:00
I don't use Youtube that much, but if I did, I'd probably find someone way to stop instead of paying for Youtube.

One time I had cancelled my Netflix subscription because I didn't use it very much, and 3 months later I notice it's still active. I was able to easily contact support in my native language and get a refund.

If I had an issue with any Google product, I'm pretty sure I'd never be able to get it resolved. As a company, they're insanely sketchy. Their main support channel is a community forum where most answers come from people who are endorsed by Google but not "actually" Google employees, except they do get benefits for working for Google, except it's not actually "working" like in a job so Google isn't really responsible for what they say, it's volunteering with benefits, if you know what I mean.

For Youtube specifically what makes me not trust is that, like Spotify, they advertise that premium subscriptions allow you to "download" videos in a sense of the word that literally nobody in the entire Internet would agree with. First "save" isn't saving, now "download" isn't downloading. I'm not liking this trend, to be honest.

It's a common saying that if you aren't the customer, you are the product. But I've heard people say that sometimes even when you are the customer you're still the product. I'm not sure about how I feel about paying to become a shiny product.
by kennywinker | 2025-06-06 16:06:36+00:00
Network effects have most people stuck on at least one of them. If all your friends use instagram/fb/whatsapp to keep in touch / make plans, leaving the platform is akin to cutting ties with your community.

Which is why there is a role for gov in regulating privacy and mandating interop between platforms. Asking people to “just stop using them” isn’t a realistic ask.
by naasking | 2025-06-06 16:06:43+00:00
> Overall I would love it if medical research papers moved away from "race" and started getting more into the fine-grained genetic details. Regardless of the politics involved, this will lead to better medical treatments for everyone.

More precision is better, but we don't have rapid genetic tests that can distinguish West vs. East African ancestry on the spot, so race is the only proxy available when you're, say, treating a patient in the ER.
by ben_w | 2025-06-06 16:06:50+00:00
What subsidies?

NASA does not directly subsidise launches as far as I can telk.

What NASA does do is contract launch services through competitive tenders.

SpaceX only opened this door by arguing they were cheaper, and only kept the door open by then actually delivering, unlike all the other big players in the US.

Unfortunately for everyone who likes space stuff but not Musk personally (e.g. me), SpaceX is currently a lot better than everyone else — at least, better than everyone outside China, they're harder to speak of confidently.
by smeej | 2025-06-06 16:07:05+00:00
> There's nothing special about the embryo that became you that isn't also true of the specific conditions and precursors to that embryo, and the precursors to those precursors, ad infinitum.

Of course there is. The embryo is the same organism as an adult, just at a different stage of its own life. All it needs is time, nutrition, and safety and it will become an adult. It's the same life form at different stages. It takes an intervention to stop an embryo from becoming an adult.

For any other precursor, something fundamental has to change. For either of the gametes (the immediate precursors), they have to merge with the other gamete to form a whole new organism. That's extremely different. It's even more different the farther back you go.

You're either woefully ignorant of basic biology or just completely philosophically disingenuous. Do you sincerely not know how organisms work at all? What they are? That they go through stages? That they have a clear beginning, a definite first stage of their lifecycle, before which they don't exist and after which they have to die in order to stop existing?

This is some real elementary school science class stuff. It's not just humans. This is basic basic stuff.
by go_elmo | 2025-06-06 16:07:24+00:00
Same for cars - you require a global functioning gas supply network to work & deliver gas nearby, it consists of 10k parts produced over the globe - a single pandemic can wipe everything out. Thats why I prefer a horse. Theres always gras nearby.

I also hate apps for everything & want us to be free & have a simple world & life - I love the terminal & its 55 years old.. yeah, we have much in common friend
by redczar | 2025-06-06 16:07:26+00:00
You didn’t say she sounds obnoxious. You said she is obnoxiously open about her identity. The phrasing you used says much about you.

Nothing in the post suggests that polyamorous anarchists would be better at running things. The post suggests that there are things Google didn’t live up to in terms of what it claimed about itself. You should try to analyze things unemotionally. Perhaps then you wouldn’t make such obviously bad conclusions.
by tptacek | 2025-06-06 16:08:01+00:00
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. I'm not surprised you didn't know about the blog; you appear not to believe blogs existed in 2006.

I want to stop being elliptical and just say directly: you have strange and counterfactual ideas about the security research community of the mid-aughts. 2006-2008 was the height of the security blogosphere. This stuff definitely had a huge community.
by achierius | 2025-06-06 16:08:11+00:00
Is it? What race is someone who's Arab? What about someone who could look black with one haircut but white with another? What about half-Arab, half-Euro?

This might sound like nitpicking, but most black people in the US have significant European ancestry and the admixture can vary wildly even for people with similar skin tones. Our naive view of "race" is not always backed by genetic reality.
by jgneff | 2025-06-06 16:08:25+00:00
I'm pretty sure this is the computer that my mom had hooked up to an old TV set back in the early 90s. She used it all the time to communicate with me by e-mail, printing out each message she received. I always knew a message was from her because the text was wrapped at something like 25 columns in width. It worked great! It was like a fancy typewriter.

Then I upgraded her to an IBM PC with Windows, and she stopped using the computer altogether! She just never made the jump to a windowed system with a mouse.
by rglullis | 2025-06-06 16:08:31+00:00
I wouldn't give 300€/month, but I could set a monthly budget that I am comfortable with (let's say 50€/month) and spread to all the content creators that I'd like to support. This is exactly what I've built with the Communick Collective: https://blog.communick.com/communick-collective-a-zero-commi...
by BizarroLand | 2025-06-06 16:09:26+00:00
I actually had one of these. I went to a small school and found an ADAM computer in a box in a closet one day and asked my teachers about it.

They told me I could play with it, and in short order I had it set up and running. It came with a cassette for Dragon's Lair, which was way too hard of a game for me but was amazing quality for the hardware, it was like playing a cartoon in real time.

After a few weeks, they realized I was the only one messing with the computer, so they asked me if I wanted it. It was several decades old at this time, but I said sure.

Took it home and got it set up, only for my stepdad to throw a hissy for some unrelated and long forgotten reason a few weeks later and toss it in the trash.
by mrisoli | 2025-06-06 16:09:27+00:00
Which confused me, as someone from Belo Horizonte who started uni just around that time. As far as I knew, Google was generally known one of the highest paying companies by far back then. It's benefits were unmatched because the SV-style of office with all the perks were not commonplace in the region, and employee turnover was low to non-existent. Even getting an interview if you didn't have a masters or phd was pretty difficult if not impossible(without connections).
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-06 16:10:15+00:00
One of the problems now is if you use SNP statistics for Germans you have to take into account the N% of Turks in that population which changes over time, with DNA they really should be separate groups. The assumption that the genes will blend doesn't really pan out quickly enough for it to be ignored in the near term.

Race was a crude approximation and better techniques are available today. There is a push to use a wider variety of reference genomes which makes sense especially now that that computers are more powerful. There seems to be an assumption by others here that going from an unsophisticated crude approximation to a sophisticated one will somehow validate their other assumption that 'race is only skin deep'. I am not as optimistic.
by mikeshi42 | 2025-06-06 16:10:19+00:00
It's actually not clear to me that Vector is any simpler than OTel imo (VRL is way more complicated than OTTL for instance). You can also use otel collector builder (ocb) to build a slimmed binary.

My take is that OTel is overall the best investment, it's widely supported across the board by many companies and other vendors. It's also constantly being improved with interesting ideas like otel-arrow which will make it even more performant (and columnar friendly!)

We'll also continue invest in the OTel ecosystem ourselves in making it easier and easier to get started :)

That being said, I'm not saying that OTel collector is always the right choice, we want to meet users where they are. Some users have data that gets piped into S3 files and we ingest off of a S3 bucket just due to how they've collected data, some use Vector due to its flexibility with VRL, focus on logs, or specific integrations it provides out of the box. So the answer is always - it depends :) but I do like OTel and think the future is bright.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-06 16:10:26+00:00
I would say racist but nothing wrong with it, as purely my subjective opinion.

I am only bothered by instances of racism where you violate the individual liberties of others. ex Nazis I don't really care the Germans hated Jews, I do care they put them in camps and executed them. Pre-emptively slapping them would violate their individual liberties, walking across the street infringes on no one, and indeed if I tried to control the right to people to freely travel based on thought-police it would be far more dystopic than any potential racism.
by XorNot | 2025-06-06 16:10:52+00:00
And no one responded to any of those with strategic nuclear attacks.

Russia certainly hasn't actually ramped up any nuclear rhetoric in response, which it's been happy to do at other times when it would be taken less seriously (and ramped it down significantly in late-2022 after it's US back channels communicated their intentions if any nuclear weapons or nuclear terrorism was used in Ukraine).
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-06 16:11:38+00:00
The major compilers optimize for microarchitecture, yes. Here's the tablegen scheduling definition behind LLVM's -mtune=sifive-670 flag as an example: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Targ...

It's not that things won't run, but this is necessary for compilers to generate well optimized code.
by mikeshi42 | 2025-06-06 16:12:01+00:00
ClickStack is currently just open source - so there's no cloud or a fully hosted offering yet! (Of course you can always pair ClickStack with ClickHouse Cloud to have your ClickHouse hosted for you).

But in this case there's probably no reason for you :) These improvements will come to our cloud offering of course as we work on rolling out upgrades from HyperDX v1 to v2 in cloud.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-06 16:13:02+00:00
This. If the ad industry put half as much effort into promoting healthy eating, we wouldn't train everyone to eat poorly and/or excessively at a young age.

FFS, look at how long it took to get calorie counts on menu signage! And that's the lowest hanging fruit.

1. Fix fast food + the ad industry by financially penalizing pushing unhealthy food.

2. Rework the food supply chain to support healthier eating. (Less ultra-processed, shelf-stable items, more easy-to-cook healthy options + increase availability in food deserts)

Between lost productivity and end of life health expenses, I can't believe there isn't an economic argument for this.
by KK7NIL | 2025-06-06 16:13:10+00:00
I wasn't trying to make an appeal to authority due 100 years having passed, that was tangential to my point that almost all modern math now sits on formalized axioms, which it did not do before the foundational crisis in math was resolved (about 100 years ago).

Comparing the axioms of math to relativity in physics is just nonsensical. Math is independent of observation, if a proof is formally correct now, it will always be correct under that chosen axiomatic system. Sure, we can play with different axioms (as others commented, it's common to drop the axiom of choice), but that doesn't invalidate the previous work at all.
by wtallis | 2025-06-06 16:13:32+00:00
Arithmetic co-processors didn't disappear so much as they moved onto the main CPU die. There were performance advantages to having the FPU on the CPU, and there were no longer significant cost advantages to having the FPU be separate and optional.

For GPUs today and in the foreseeable future, there are still good reasons for them to remain discrete, in some market segments. Low-power laptops have already moved entirely to integrated GPUs, and entry-level gaming laptops are moving in that direction. Desktops have widely varying GPU needs ranging from the minimal iGPUs that all desktop CPUs now already have, up to GPUs that dwarf the CPU in die and package size and power budget. Servers have needs ranging from one to several GPUs per CPU. There's no one right answer for how much GPU to integrate with the CPU.
by burningChrome | 2025-06-06 16:14:15+00:00
The US govt has been working on countering autonomous drones for years now.

The Department is mitigating the potential negative effects of unmanned systems on U.S. forces, assets, and installations – at home and abroad. A critical portion of our efforts, particularly in the near-term, comes from improving our defenses, with an emphasis on detection as well as active and passive defenses

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Dec/05/2003599149/-1/-1/0/FAC...
by ucarion | 2025-06-06 16:14:33+00:00
To really support Entra in particular, you must have to reference Entra's implicit spec, which is roughly documented here:

https://github.com/AzureAD/SCIMReferenceCode/tree/master/Mic...

One way this comes up is that the way those C# objects serialize, there are properties that Microsoft will send you in form `"key": { "value": "xxx" }`, but which they expect that you read back to them of the form `"key": "xxx"`.

It's best to not take the SCIM RFCs too literally.
by scottyah | 2025-06-06 16:14:59+00:00
Do the younger generations stand a chance with the current state of the internet as a dopamine force-feeder always on tap? The curiosity that drove people to create hasn't left humans, but the sheer availability of interesting things to discover makes it hard to put the phone down and do boring things for long enough to make something great. I wouldn't be surprised to see productivity (not sure if that's the right word) loss of more than 20%.
by beej71 | 2025-06-06 16:15:43+00:00
Should be at fun little XML parser to write, converting the thing to HTML.

Except that it's a government thing so the parser's probably not going to be little. :)

Edit: The thing's basically XHTML without any kind of header. UTF-8 encoding, it looks like. So a conversion tool would just need to wrap it up and add styling.

Edit: Despite hints that it's XHTML, it's not valid XHTML.

Edit: Stick this at the top of the file:

--------------------- 8< ---------------------

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>H. R. 1</title> <style> body { max-width: 40em; margin: auto; } .lbexTocSectionOLC { display: inline-block; } .lbexTocDivisionOLC { margin-top: 5ex; } </style>

</head>

--------------------- 8< ---------------------

And add this to the bottom of the file:

--------------------- 8< ---------------------

</html>

--------------------- 8< ---------------------

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to write a script to do that. Automatically extracting the bill title should be Fun.