MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-06-23 12:06:46+00:00
You're applying a deeply partisan interpretation of DEI to imply a very specific set of policies that are not anywhere close to universally supported by proponents of DEI. That is the problem.

If you can't see why this gets interpreted as an extremist stance by a lot of people, then that is part of the problem.

As long as those statements are in the README, it's like a giant flashing red light that the project is toxic and extremely political and pushing an agenda seen as extreme right by a lot of people.

People are free to run their projects whichever way they want, but words have consequences, and we can see in this very threat how that wording is derailing this projects chances of being considered on its technical merits.
by codeape | 2025-06-23 12:06:51+00:00
From https://www.latex-project.org/about/:

"LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content."

IMO, the only people that use LaTeX are people who are willing to trade the convenience and productivity of using a sane document authoring format for the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when you use an outdated piece of typesetting software that is a) hard to configure, b) hard to use and c) produces output for the least useful reading platform available (paged pdfs).

And the pronounciation is stupid.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-23 12:06:59+00:00
As much as I enjoy dunking on the various annoying fads in contemporary web design, it’s easy to make an identical mistake in the opposite direction and romanticize the past too much. This page is close to unusable: the low-contrast black-on-green text is hard to read, the click targets are tiny, and it doesn’t work at all at mobile.

I don’t really blame the site creator because it seems like this hasn’t been updated in a long time, but I want to push back on your attitude. We can embrace usability without giving in to web slop.
by pulisse | 2025-06-23 12:07:03+00:00
> A lot of books, even small scale ones, are also fake and very low quality.

My sister works in manga and anime publishing and this is an existential threat to her company. Some of the issues they're grappling with:

1. For some of their titles, the genuine item doesn't even appear among search results on Amazon—only the counterfeits do.

2. The quality issues with the counterfeits can result in losing all future business from a customer. For example, download codes will be missing or non-functional. Irrational as it is, customers blame the publisher when this happens and stop buying further titles from them.

3. Amazon seems to be using some slapdash ML to determine how many of each title to order. They'll purchase 10k of vols. 5 and 7 of a series and only 1k of vol. 6. Guess how many of that 10k of vol. 7 end up selling when that happens?

Amazon is, needless to say, non-responsive to their concerns.
by xtiansimon | 2025-06-23 12:09:57+00:00
> “Biden administration officials hoped that postal procurement would bolster the small-but-growing domestic EV market, both for commercial fleets and individual consumers.”

Ho-Ho-Ho!

> “The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill […] aims to cut unnecessary costs […] and … the environmental initiatives pushed by the Biden Administration.”

Undermining investment in American companies! This agendas of this administration are a cancer.
by gotoeleven | 2025-06-23 12:10:04+00:00
A question for people who are security experts: do you think the model of a computer having limited users and privileged users, with a user gaining privileged access being a massive security problem, is really tenable? The CPU/GPU are shared resources on a machine and isolating the work they do by user is quite difficult.

Would it really be infeasible to simply design compute systems under the assumption that all users can get root access? Most of these vulnerabilities can be mitigated for free by not giving any access to users you wouldn't mind having root access.
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-23 12:10:26+00:00
I think it's good to always act like people are interested. You can't accurately judge yourself. People get hired or not mostly on self confidence. I know smartest people who never think they are hireable and always almost surprised when they get paid. They don't value themselves

Sure maybe offer is a bit too far, idk. Definitely no way for them to check though. And in all other ways the game is rigged because employer usually has more information than you.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-23 12:10:33+00:00
The "problem" is self-regulation, vs having someone else - a parent, a boss with a clipboard and your clock-in thingy, a military commander, etc - tell you what to do when. Self-discipline is hard and requires willpower, and I've always been of the opinion that willpower is a resource, but someone else telling you what to do when doesn't cost as much willpower as motivating yourself.

Blue collar work is better in that regard; you clock in every day at the same time, do a job that doesn't involve computers, often optimized for output so you don't have many lulls of activity, take breaks when the bell goes, and clock out and shut work off completely once you're done.

Meanwhile IT white collar work, especially WFH, requires a lot more self-direction, and since for most people in IT their entertainment is also digital, the boundary blurs by a lot.

Part of me wants a blue collar job.
by phoronixrly | 2025-06-23 12:10:37+00:00
Responsiveness is important to what purpose and from whose point of view -- yours or your society as a whole?

I can tell you that responsiveness is the last thing on my mind when I slog from one traffic light to the next, or generally when I drive the speed limit, and try to get from point A to point B. And I can tell you that my wife absolutely loves drive by wire when she needs to park in a tight spot -- I've had her (try) to park a car without electric power steering and with a carburetor...
by lapcat | 2025-06-23 12:10:55+00:00
I'm not trying to present myself as an expert in the field, and certainly not as a tastemaker. I'm just a regular reader of contemporary literary fiction. My personal taste doesn't match well with the critics, or with the best-seller charts for that matter, so I don't pay a lot of attention to either. The article author is much more familiar with the empirical facts than I am.

My objection was that, from the perspective of a reader of the submitted article, there seems to be a giant plot hole in the author's story. The author claims:

> beginning in the 1970s, authors were willing to optimize for critical praise at the expense of sales to a degree they had not been before.

This may or may not be empirical true, but the question is why? As far as I could tell, the author never explained why.

> It’s easy to see how a vicious cycle could have arisen from the preoccupation with status, not sales:

> 1. Authors start to optimize for critical praise

You can't just start the argument there! Ironically, the author talks about a vicious cycle, but that's actually a circular argument. I want to see 1 as the conclusion, not the first premise.

> How exactly did this cycle start? I think there’s reason to believe it began in the 1970s.

That's an answer to the question of when it started, not how is started.

The author places as footnote at that point and admits at the very end of the article, "Epistemically, this section is the shakiest."

There is a theory presented about mass behavior, the behavior of novel writers as a group. Yet a psychological motive is lacking. Writers all just decided to change their writing fundamentally, for no apparent reason?
by AnonC | 2025-06-23 12:12:15+00:00
For anyone who hasn’t read the article but wants to comment, this is (currently) for F (non-immigrant student visa), M (non-immigrant vocational student visa) and J (exchange visitors participating in cultural exchange programs).

This does not (currently) apply to other non-immigrant or immigrant visas. E.g. If you want to visit as a tourist or for a business meeting (B2 or B1 visa), this is not asked for.

On the topic of scanning social media accounts, it is ripe for abuse by either party in this process. The ones who really want to hide their tracks would already have alt handles that are not connected to their real identities and take precautions to avoid having that happen. Meanwhile, innocent people who just expressed a hot take that was long forgotten may be excluded by knee jerk reactions (who has time for nuance?).
by Tade0 | 2025-06-23 12:12:33+00:00
I've bought smartphone replacement batteries in the past, so it's not really an issue. Most popular models have alternative vendors unless the manufacturer goes out of their way to prevent it.

Also the battery in my previous phone was at 83% of its nominal capacity 5.5 years after purchase, so I think this part is already durable enough.

The way I'm cycling the battery in my current phone it could last 8 years before it reaches that level.
by xkevio | 2025-06-23 12:13:02+00:00
IJIMAI (https://typst.app/blog/2025/typst-at-ijimai) and JUTI (https://forum.typst.app/t/juti-call-for-papers-best-paper-aw...).

Admittedly, not the most renowned or most known journals but you have to start somewhere.
by baggachipz | 2025-06-23 12:13:14+00:00
This is so much easier to accomplish with a pi-hole and the pihole remote app[1]. Block requests out to forbidden sites at the network level, disable the pihole for an amount of time when you want to slum it.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pi-hole-remote/id1515445551
by alphan0n | 2025-06-23 12:15:10+00:00
Such considerations have been accounted for. [0]

> Exceptions include, but are not limited to, when an idling on-road medium/heavy-duty vehicle is: Stuck in traffic or otherwise required to remain motionless. Performing maintenance tasks or powering an auxiliary function or apparatus, such as a refrigeration unit or lift, requiring power from the primary motive engine.

[0] https://dec.ny.gov/environmental-protection/air-quality/cont...
by webstrand | 2025-06-23 12:15:31+00:00
Yeah, this is using a new feature[1] only available in Chrome so far. Mozilla is positive[2] about the specification, so we should see it in Firefox eventually, pending an implementation.

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/a-customizable-select

[2]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/10548
by Zigurd | 2025-06-23 12:16:03+00:00
That's probably a thought experiment in business models. Like a franchise. Waymo is experimenting with Uber as it's retailer, essentially. Personally, I'd prefer to do business with Waymo, directly.

If the cost of the Waymo Driver hardware falls to the point where it's not prohibitive for the low duty cycle of a private vehicle, I could see that eventually happening.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-06-23 12:16:11+00:00
Factually wrong from that very site

> grsecurity® is the only drop-in Linux kernel replacement offering high-performance, state-of-the-art exploit prevention against both known and unknown threats.

While secureblue is a full desktop distro (not just a kernel) that integrates key grapheneos hardening tools like their hardened malloc and forks of their hardened chromium and works with flatpak as a base for hardened application deployment.

grsecurity does literally none of that.
by NexRebular | 2025-06-23 12:16:19+00:00
Most of our server infrastructure runs on illumos at $work. SmartOS/Triton handles our "cloud" and OmniOS runs our storage. The linux monoculture problem luckily can still be handled with zones and bhyve, and I do trust illumos developers' competence to deliver good quality secure software a lot more than linux developers' as well.

Now if FreeBSD (or indeed illumos) would get CUDA-support we could stop using linux for GPU nodes too.
by aragilar | 2025-06-23 12:17:03+00:00
I would note arXiv requires the source as well, and having the source is what is enabling the HTML experiments they're doing.

On consistency, what the journals provide is some level of QA (how much is a function of field and journal, rather than the what is charges), and the template is the journal's brand, so both the authors and journals benefit from the style (I can tell the difference between the different (all similar quality) journals in my field at a glance by the style).

It's also worth noting that there's a whole much of metadata that needs to be collected (whether you agree with it or not, funders require it), so a PDF isn't going to cut it here either.
by alkonaut | 2025-06-23 12:17:12+00:00
I have used HA quite a bit and been burned. I think in the choice between graphical "no code" or "low code" and yaml, I choose yaml. But to do imperative logic there is just one useful way: a proper programming language.

This is just like when writing CI scripts for GitHub actions or Azure pipelines: the right amount of yaml (if it must be used at all) is to just invoke a program in some more expressive language than yaml.
by theICEBeardk | 2025-06-23 12:17:18+00:00
I work on a c++23 embedded platform that is used in very small microprocessors up to embedded linux stuff. We ship stuff that needs to run constant and C was just too unsafe for us (C requires you to remember to call functions RAII saves you from that) so we switched 2 decades ago (before my time there).

C++23 is not abandoning embedded. Instead there is a tonne of misinformation around that is confusing people. You can easily tell what parts of the STD is available by looking up the concept of Freestanding, which is a legitimate part of the c++ standard which tells you what is absolutely safe to use in embedded. Usually some of the non-freestanding stuff is also safe to use.

Then what you do is add support for the ETL (github.com/ETLCPP/) which will help you by offering STD like classes for the parts that are not safe to use or just give you the std class wrapped in their namespace.

What we do is turn off RTTI and for now exceptions (most compilers let you do that with ease but we are looking at maybe using them in the future because of recent research indicating it would be possible and save us binary size at the same time) and you lean heavily into the constexpr side of things because anything you can get the compiler that is running nightly or on your PC to do rather than on the embedded system is just fine. We do not use coroutines so there I have no opinion.

Personally I am looking forward to the Reflection stuff because it is all compile time (and no that does not mean that your std on your pc somehow leaks illegal functions into your code constexpr/consteval is embedded safe) and it will allow me to make code that will be easier to debug than the recursive template expansions are now (stepping through a recursion is bad even if we strictly limit the depth of them but reflection will allow me to do an expansion into a flat set of ifs instead).
by zczc | 2025-06-23 12:17:41+00:00
The requirement to list social accounts has been present since 2018, and the FAQ [1] says: Visa applicants who have never used social media will not be refused on the basis of failing to provide a social media identifier, and the form does allow the applicant to respond with "None."

https://ie.usembassy.gov gives 504 so I can't check the primary source, but it seems like the new part is a requirement to make accounts public and applies only to F, M, and J student and exchange visas.

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vettin...
by BoxFour | 2025-06-23 12:17:46+00:00
There’s a lot of incorrect assumptions packed into one sentence, but one point in particular stands out:

> we are seeing a lot of young men optimising purely for physical attractiveness at the cost of success in fields we might traditionally identify with male success

This doesn't align with observable trends: Consider the sustained growth in MMA’s popularity or the emergence of figures like Andrew Tate as clear counterexamples.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-23 12:18:04+00:00
This is exactly the point, yes. You can get arbitrarily close to 100% crime detection rates with any law where there is a financial incentive for private entities to invest in this kind of infrastructure.

The example I like to use is littering. If I lived near a high traffic area, and there was a $200 fine, $100 payable to the first successful reporter, you'd better believe I would invest in some webcams and some software to do nothing but watch for signs of littering nearby 24/7, run the last 15 seconds through AI to weed out false positives, and maybe even file the report automatically on my behalf. That's almost literally money lying on the sidewalk.

At first I would probably make thousands with a $20 webcam and some manual review. Even one true positive pays for itself 5 times over. Eventually other people on my block would start doing a similar thing. The fine can only get paid to one person, usually the person who "gets there the fastest with the mostest". So then there is competitive pressure on me to make my software faster, my webcam higher resolution, my detection methods and ability to prove non-repudiation more reliable.

If you prefer walking through trash I can understand this may dismay you. If you like clean streets, I can think of no better chilling effect to anyone who might be crossing by. You can apply this enforcement mechanism to basically any kind of crime and get similar results - even and especially organized crime, which traditional legal enforcement historically has a very hard time breaking up. Hence why it's already in use by the SEC to break up the highest level of financial crimes, via things like the False Claims Act where often the only way to prove the crime is happening in the first place is to have a man on the inside why can patiently collect evidence for years before making his move. What better way to make something worth a man's time than to pay him?
by gosub100 | 2025-06-23 12:19:21+00:00
- the road home FM/"Bob and the dogs" it's a mixture of poetry and song from a guy that lives in the Canadian wilderness, talks in a very soothing manner

- the wave from Vancouver CA (also Soma FM underground 80s). It's a new wave station that plays some very deep cuts from artists that also had radio play in the 80s. I thought I basically heard all 80s alt rock and new wave songs but this station at least doubled it for me.

- CKIA from Quebec City. It's a very diverse program, sat and sun mornings they have chamber music that is very relaxing.
by K0balt | 2025-06-23 12:19:34+00:00
There are some significant differences.

But the logic that having your basic needs covered makes you lazy is just ridiculous on its face. People don’t just keep working in the first thing that covers their basic expenses. They strive to advance, especially when they feel that they are not under duress.

They seek better jobs, better lives…. And a solid foundation empowers them to take the risks inherent in seeking those advancements.

How is this different from inheriting a house, or something similar? We all know that results in improved outcomes. Why would ubi be any different?

I suspect the resistance to ubi comes from the idea that “they” don’t deserve it. I would suggest to the people that think this way to ask themselves instead whether their own children deserve to grow up in a more egalitarian society where people are more free to be kind and humane, or is it better to inherit a world where half the population is scratching in the dirt and throwing elbows just to feed their kids?
by ericalexander0 | 2025-06-23 12:20:35+00:00
At the last job we deployed to thousands of nodes across AWS, Azure, and Aliyun. There was no unique needs across those environments, from a deploy perspective. There where some minor pain points from a config and monitor perspective. There where massive pain points from a infra management perspective. Our SREs knew AWS inside and out but struggled with Azure and Aliyun documentation and support. We had to build out API middleware, so existing could could seamlessly operate in all 3 environments. That's not set it and forget it. Keeping everything consistent across 3 cloud APIs requires constant care and feeding.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-23 12:20:48+00:00
I wouldn't expect the US to care too much about things like "NATO allies" with a head of state that expressed repeated desire to leave NATO.

> On what grounds could the US refuse?

"You need our trade more than we need your trade" is a very useful property to have when it comes to international law. Putting people you don't like on sanction lists, like people investigating your ally's war crimes, also seems to work pretty well. When push comes to shove, there's always "we have more guns than you", though American diplomatic action generally prefers to overthrow governments and install new, more US-aligned leadership as a head of state.

If it's a matter of law, you need someone to enforce that law.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-23 12:21:19+00:00
> Some good books have been writing exploring what post scarcity means, but ST in general does nothing with the premise except make tea.

The economics of Star Trek are particularly incoherent; it's not even really clear that it _is_ post-scarcity. Really you only have Picard's word for that, and there's a lot of indication to the contrary.

Pet theory: the Star Trek tv shows are in-universe propaganda made by the Federation, which is a military dictatorship. They should be taken about as seriously as Stalin-era Soviet propaganda, on economic matters.
by roxolotl | 2025-06-23 12:21:39+00:00
Mass immigration has been a fake specter used by the right to get votes for decades now. How did it impact you, or even those close to you personally negatively?

I can tell you some positive impacts:

- Most western countries are concerned about economic cliffs around retirement benefits due to falling population. The US is not because so many people, used to(?), want to move here.

- Our food is subsidized by those willing to work awful hours at awful wages. As a humanitarian I hate this but I suspect most people would be upset to have to eat food picked at wages white Americans are willing to work.

- Most studies show more people equals more production equals more economic prosperity.

The solution to an illegal immigration problem is to loosen immigration rules and create pathways to citizenship.
by theICEBeardk | 2025-06-23 12:21:47+00:00
Yeah no switching a group of developers over to some new language is not more efficient. It is a lot of work. And on top of that you will need to add time to either wrap your existing code base or rewrite it with developers who are new to the language they are using. You will have folks who like that and can do it, but you will also have a lot who would have a much harder time with that. Most corporations would legitimately ask what is switching the language gaining us and is it worth it. Now the conclusion might be that it is worth it, but it is equally possible that they decide against it. Never underestimate inertia.
by ghusto | 2025-06-23 12:22:10+00:00
He didn't mention it, but I think he meant to extend it to "and how would they check/prove it?".

The practice of creating pretextual laws is well established in places like Russia, but a necessary component is proof. In fact that's the entire purpose of a pretextual law, to have something (as ridiculous as it may be) to pin on someone. I can't see any way they could prove I have this handle on Hacker News, for example.