MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danielktdoranie | 2025-06-28 12:16:28+00:00
I completely support the vigorous vetting of non-citizen seeking entry into the U.S.A. For any non-citizens entering the U.S.A. is a privilege and not a right. They are guests in the U.S.A. and need to respect their host country and its laws.

Regarding the auditing social media, it's not just about their posts, but who they are friends with and who are friends with them. Point and case, your personal social media profile may be benign photos of kittens and snaps of what you had to eat that day, but your brother could be "friends" with terrorist or member of a criminal gang and that person could use your relationship with your bother to extort you after you enter the U.S.A.

Biden's administration let at least 2700 Tren de Aragua gang members walk across the southern boarder. ICE and DHS have successfully arrested these TDA members, but there are more. These people rape, murder, traffic humans and drugs into the U.S.A. Their criminal network (and therefore profits) have been severely disrupted. It's common sense that they are going to seek new and creative ways to get back in business. As they already extort and exploit on a daily basis in Venezuela, why wouldn't they do the same to potential foreign students?

This is just one example.
by palata | 2025-06-28 12:16:47+00:00
I see on the rpi website [1] that an RPi 5 costs 120$. That's 25% of the price of the FPV drone (500$).

Then you have to integrate that RPi to the drone, both mechanically and software-wise. From YOLO, you need to actually get into commands for the autopilot. There is work involved.

And another question is: can you order millions of RPis like this? If not, what is the cost of alternatives?

Not saying it's impossible, just saying that people tend to underestimate those questions. I know it from experience, I have seen projects fail because of that.

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/
by noisy_boy | 2025-06-28 12:17:02+00:00
> If it were me, I would indeed think “oh my god I can't believe it”, followed immediately by “why did my parents save this worthless junk? I have no interest in this. How much more garbage is in here? I’m definitely not going to look through it all to find two important things buried in hundreds of trivialities. And now I have to go through the trouble of throwing it away myself. I’d rather be doing anything else”.

Sure, we are all different people. I was super happy to find my childhood class photo and marksheets that my dad had saved - it just underlined what I already knew, that he cared. I shared it with my children and we bonded over the exams where I didn't fare well.

> But that feeling is far from universal.

I know that the level of sentimentality isn't a universal thing.

I'm not going to hold them to cherishing this stuff and ask them to explain themselves if they just delete it. I just want them to have a chance at looking at small parts of their childhood. It is done without expecting gratitude or reciprocal emotions in return, which I guess, is part of being a parent.
by wadewallane | 2025-06-28 12:17:11+00:00
Some drivers written in Rust instead of C would need to be littered with unsafes, raw pointers, pointer arithmetic, manual memory management, manual layout control, and manual resource management to retain similar behaviors. I’m assuming someone’s ideal would be for the entire kernel to be rewritten in Rust? When all that is said and done, will it be worth the effort? It’d seem as though you’d have a lot of the same problems, and new ones around timing and performance if you start handling memory differently, like jitteriness, lags, OOM (letting resource usage get out-of-hand), lock-ups, or worse, unless it’s well-tested. I have nothing against Rust, and writing new drivers in Rust selectively would be fine, but I could see it going this way and am curious. To be absolutely clear, Rust is not bad; I just wonder about introducing complexity in maintenance of the kernel by having variation in memory management, because I’d almost rather have a diagnosable memory leak that’s well-tested for than “I have no idea what’s going on.”
by dangus | 2025-06-28 12:18:59+00:00
If your job is to design buildings, choosing which country to design it for will have no effect on climate change.

A building is a building. If you’re pouring concrete you’re impacting the climate.

This is like saying you’d rather build automobiles in the US instead of China. Either way you’re building an automobile.

The ideology of the government has very little to do with whether the thing you’re doing is impacting climate change.

Architects who want to reduce carbon emissions need to switch professions entirely.
by ivape | 2025-06-28 12:19:00+00:00
It takes about a $400 dollar graphics card to comfortably run something like a 3b-8b model. Comfortable as in fast inference, good sized context. 3b-5b models are what devices can somewhat fit. That means for us to get good running local models, we’d have to shrink one of those $400 dollar graphics cards down to a phone.

I don’t see this happening in the next 5 years.

The Mac mini being shrunk down to phone size is probably the better bet. We’d have to bring down the power consumption requirements too by a lot. Edge hardware is a ways off.
by torginus | 2025-06-28 12:19:29+00:00
I am a bit sceptical about whether this whole thing is true at all. This article links to another, which happens to be behind a paywall, saying 'GPU export sanctions are working' is a message a lot of US administration, people and investors want to hear, so I think there's a good chance that unsubstantiated speculation and wishful thinking is presented as fact here.
by ath3nd | 2025-06-28 12:19:29+00:00
> You've historically been the biggest mass murders and genocides from killing off the natives in North America and Aborigines in Australia and the recent wars in the middle east.

Absolutely true. And also responsible for the crusades, for the colonization of Africa, Australia and America, and the untold suffering of millions of non Europeans. Europeans also started both the world wars. Nobody is denying that. We know more about human rights violations than anyone else. Thats why we are calling out Saudi Arabia's, the same way I call Israel's genocide upon the Palestinian people.

> No one gives a crap about some fat old attention whore journalist here anymore.

Any normal human with a bit of empathy would decry a dictator killing a journalist and dismembering him like a coward. Also, wherever there a re human rights violations like in Israel, USA and Saudi Arabia, it's our moral duty to investigate further and dethrone the evildoers.

> Lol political dissidents are turd implants from the Western countries designed to instigate anarchy in the country

Ah, the old "everyone who disagrees with the government" is a foreign agent, let's detain them and maybe chop them to pieces. Putin did the same minus the chopping part. Trump is doing the same and trying to bring back Guantanamo. MBS just added the slice and dice for an extra flair.

> Saudi citizen population is under 35 years old and we support the government to keeps the country and us safe from all outside terrorists and other threats.

And whoever doesn't support the government, gets chopped to pieces?
by jleyank | 2025-06-28 12:19:51+00:00
The internet routes around damage. This is a good model for a medium to long term solution for dealing with rogue states…. Determine what you need, determine new trade arrangements to get it and do the best you can do to continue. History shows many examples of coalitions facing powers, and Britain made a tradition of it.

Short term pain, maybe, probably probably. But a viable solution.
by brokegrammer | 2025-06-28 12:20:02+00:00
I'm having the same issue with Gemini as soon as the context length exceeds 50k-ish. At that point, it starts to blurp out random code of terrible quality, even with clear instructions. It would often mix up various APIs. I spend a lot of time instructing it about not writing such code, with plenty of fewshot examples, but it doesn't seem to work. It's like it gets "confused".

The large context length is a huge advantage, but it doesn't seem to be able to use it effectively. Would you say that OpenAI models don't suffer from this problem?
by furyofantares | 2025-06-28 12:20:22+00:00
I'm pretty deep into these things and have never had them solve a harder problem than I can solve. They just solve problems I can solve much, much faster.

Maybe that does add up to solving harder higher level real world problems (business problems) from a practical standpoint, perhaps that's what you mean rather than technical problems.

Or maybe you're referring to producing software which utilizes LLMs, rather than using LLMs to program software (which is what I think the blog post is about, but we should certainly discuss both.)
by benreesman | 2025-06-28 12:21:28+00:00
The tribes in the United States used to be called Yankee and Dixie. Now they're called other things, sometimes "red" and "blue", sometimes "MAGA" or "woke", but the geography (Mason-Dixon line), the sympathies, the prejudices, all very visible to this day.

Americans have no trouble seeing tribalism or clannish behavior when its in the Middle East, or in Africa, but seem to think America is differentnt (a phenomenon that also has a name: American Exceptionalism).

In my view, the Yankee/Dixie tribal cold war combined with American Exceptionalism is some pretty stiff stuff indeed.
by eitally | 2025-06-28 12:22:35+00:00
This is very cool and I'm glad the author compiled this material, but the site reminded me immediately of one I worked on (I ran the digitization lab in the special collections library for 3 years) in college, around 1997.

The Whitman Archive at UVA is ... unfortunately fairly similar in content presentation, even after having been updated a few times over the decades.

Home page: https://whitmanarchive.org/ Sample content page: https://whitmanarchive.org/published-writings/leaves-of-gras...
by skrebbel | 2025-06-28 12:23:23+00:00
This is not a novel insight. The attitude described is basically textbook conservatism, as per Wilhoit's law [0]

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

For a majority of HN readers (and I assume the commenter you're replying to) that in-group is their country's white majority but in other circles it's other groups. They may be groups who don't call themselves conservatives but that doesn't mean they aren't.

In other words, I agree with their claim that said quote is conservatism in a nutshell. Anti-conservatism isn't rooting for some other group, it's being against this kind of tribalism wholesale.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit#Misattribut...
by latexr | 2025-06-28 12:24:22+00:00
That quote doesn’t apply at all. Verbose writing doesn’t immediately indicate a lack of skill, otherwise every fiction book would’ve been reduced to a pamphlet of a summary.

If you are writing to explain, being concise is a useful asset. If you are writing to entertain, or for pleasure, verbosity and flair can be better.

I don’t get the feeling the author is trying to convince anyone of doing anything. They are sharing their experience, probably writing for themselves above everyone else. They should do it however they prefer.
by alluro2 | 2025-06-28 12:24:26+00:00
I visited Israel for a sports seminar some ~10 years ago and met many nice people. I felt sympathetic to their reality of living in an ever-hostile environment from all sides, and struggle to keep their place in the world safe. I admired their resilience and strength.

When this Gaza conflict started, I saw how the Israeli protested against their government and demanded peace, so I thought there is a semblance of an excuse for glimpses of abhorrence being reported - "it's a small number of people in power, not the Israeli nation doing it, and also there are always 2 sides to the story".

Since then, there have been unfathomable horrors and crimes against humanity done from the Israel side, with extreme intensity and one-sidedness, and it's now been going for so long. I can find no excuse of any kind anymore, for what has been and is being done in Gaza. I don't think any normal person could. The weight of these things, in my mind at least, is such that if the Israeli people really wanted anything different, it was their human duty and utmost responsibility to stop this by now, in whatever way needed. They didn't... It's sad that people who have suffered so much as well, let themselves become the villains to this depth and extent.
by netsharc | 2025-06-28 12:25:06+00:00
> We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection.

Reagan is a hypocritical cunt of course, but how far we've fallen that now you might as well put a chain around Lady Liberty's neck, pull it down like the statues of Saddam Hussein or Assad (or I guess hanging is more appropriate, since the spiritual successors of the Confederancy is now in power), and replace it with a statue of redneck lady giving foreigners the middle finger, with "Fuck off!" written on the base.
by xg15 | 2025-06-28 12:26:20+00:00
> He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light".

The Israeli tradition of giving their Gaza operations names of children's games also continues, after "Operation Cast Lead".

(Not sure if they wanted to make a reference to Squid Games as well...)
by udev4096 | 2025-06-28 12:28:31+00:00
> that she felt “stressed."

Are these people so delusional that they think "social media" sites are even remotely anonymous? Whatever you do, it's up for sale. No wonder meta has billions of active users, most of them with no brain cells. It's extremely concerning that majority of the younger generation has almost no sense of achieving privacy on the internet
by RhysU | 2025-06-28 12:29:00+00:00
A Strangeloop talk by Mouse Reeve, years ago, looked at the Markovian structure of "Gnossiennes" then made an endless version. A beautiful talk and really cool music website.

Music website: https://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/ (slightly better on Desktop).

Talk: https://youtu.be/ANYMii3Sypg

Abstract: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/minimalist-piano-forever...
by user____name | 2025-06-28 12:29:01+00:00
Perhaps this is true. But history is also littered with leaders that want to do The Right Thing, but end up entrapped in the power dynamics of the system. The more authoritarian a regime the more it resembles a game of thrones.

Leaders like Assad and Kim Jung Un promised reforms but ended up ruling much like their fathers before them. People are quick to dismiss such early promises as Machiavellian posing but I believe the issues are more systemic. They end up as authoritarians because thats the only way for them and their kin to remain safe in the face of opposition. The ruling elites are comfortable in their local optimum and moving out of it will be politically chaotic. The status quo for them is the least worst choice.

I would not be too quick in expecting change from these regimes is I guess what I'm trying to say. They're not always as firmly established as they might seem.
by dangus | 2025-06-28 12:29:24+00:00
How many democratic countries have never had some kind of involvement in imperialism, slavery, monarchy, starting wars, etc? How many are still doing it?

I don’t really think that individuals need to feel especially bad for getting work where there’s work.

Some jobs just inherently involve asshole clients. If your job is to stitch the leather interiors for Rolls Royce, 100% of your customers are assholes. I don’t think that means you should stop doing that job and flip burgers instead.
by furyofantares | 2025-06-28 12:29:34+00:00
You can make these things deterministic for sure, and so you could also store prompts plus model details instead of code if you really wanted to. Lots of reasons this would be a very very poor choice but you could do it.

I don't think that's how you should think about these things being non-deterministic though.

Let's call that technical determinism, and then introduce a separate concept, practical determinism.

What I'm calling practical determinism is your ability as the author to predict (determine) the results. Two different prompts that mean the same thing to me will give different results, and my ability to reason about the results from changes to my prompt is fuzzy. I can have a rough idea, I can gain skill in this area, but I can't gain anything like the same precision as I have reasoning about the results of code I author.
by ajb | 2025-06-28 12:30:46+00:00
You may be missing a legal wrinkle: the crime of incitement usually does not require the underlying primary crime to actually occur. (Admittedly I'm not sure if that is the definition in Israel, but they inherited a lot of British law so it is likely). So this does not require the Israeli population to accept that this was a genocide, only that some war crimes occurred and that they should be prosecuted. Right now they are not there, but the point is that the government has an incentive to keep the population in that state.
by 15155 | 2025-06-28 12:32:09+00:00
> I'd certainly expect visitors to be held to the same standards as the natives.

Visitors are held to a higher standard than natives. Visitors do not have control, a vote, etc: they are temporarily permitted by the privilege of policy at the time.

> as a US citizen I don't want to be respectful and quiet, especially when I disagree with my government.

Good, don't be! You're not at risk of having a visa revoked or go unissued.
by 6d6b73 | 2025-06-28 12:32:24+00:00
There's fraud everywhere where Musk is, so there's that. When it comes to the engineering team Starship is not engineering by the same team as Falcon - some key people left the company. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that the Starship is flawed. SpaceX doesn't hide the fact that it currently can't do 100T as promised - only 50T is likely. Unfortunately they can even get it up when empty so there's that.
by latexr | 2025-06-28 12:32:39+00:00
I don’t understand why so many people on this thread feel the need to prescribe to the author what would’ve been better for them.

You don’t know the author, don’t know their mind, and clearly do not understand their thought process.

This post is a personal reflection. The author’s actions affect exactly one person: themselves. The “better answer” is unambiguously the one which works out best for the author. Period. They are better equipped than any of us to know what that is.
by bambax | 2025-06-28 12:33:50+00:00
Glasses that block none of the ads have other purposes and are light to wear; I'm guessing ad-blocking glasses would be bulkier and pricier so they would have to have something to show for it.

Also, on the web (on non-Google browsers) uBlock Origin is still undefeated so the adtech folks adaptability is debatable.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-06-28 12:34:07+00:00
> (a phenomenon that also has a name: American Exceptionalism).

I’m not American by live in the US, and I agree. This inability of Americans, on average ofc, (regardless of the degree, social status, race, etc) to accept that people in other countries may view A THING differently than what Americans think these said people think is mind boggling.
by lmm | 2025-06-28 12:34:33+00:00
> Is OCaml still worth learning these days ?

If you haven't learnt anything like it, yes.

> most things can be done in imperative langs like Go/Java with pretty concise code

Which is why learning OCaml will make you a better programmer even if you then go back to Go/Java. You'll most likely never learn how to do those things without taking that step.

> and certainly better perf.

If you implement the same algorithm in both, it will be faster in Java. But you're more likely to find the better algorithm working in OCaml.
by neom | 2025-06-28 12:35:02+00:00
It's not just students btw... we're dealing it this too. My wife is a Korean university professor teaching at an American university, and her visa needs to be renewed by next month. I'm Canadian and she has residency in Canada but the Korean embassy in Canada advised her to travel back to Korea to renew it. She got back to Korea end of May to find that the US embassy in Korea had paused appointments. Monday last week she was able to make an appointment for it, and indeed she was advised her social media will be screened.
by luckylion | 2025-06-28 12:35:09+00:00
"Some random 59 year old from Ohio wrote this, so it's well known that that's conservativism in a nutshell" is a strange stance.

> Anti-conservatism isn't rooting for some other group, it's being against this kind of tribalism wholesale.

Do you have any examples of that? I've never seen someone who doesn't go mild on people who share beliefs he holds dear and judges harshly those who don't.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-06-28 12:35:53+00:00
The majority of the people's opinion.

Which elected a democratically-elected representative.

That is how democracies work.

If there's anything the executive has power over besides commander in chief, it would be leader in chief of defining what is actually, American.

The fact that prior presidents have actually abdicated this important role, doesn't mean it didn't exist. This is why traditions of the State of the Union, etc exist. The executive gets to call the plays towards unity for Americanism.

This is what foreign countries do as well.
by dcow | 2025-06-28 12:37:37+00:00
> A society that is producing children will not die off.

This isn’t true. Right now each woman has to produce ~2.3 children for a population with no immigration to replace itself every year. This rate changes but can never fall below two, naïvely. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#Replace...
by skrebbel | 2025-06-28 12:38:57+00:00
The ACLU was pretty anti-conservative in the past (before they got captured by the regressive left). Eg they helped protect the right of free expression of nazi groups, stuff like that.

ps. Fair, I agree that it's weird to elevate one random blog commenter's words to a "law", though this particular one is widely quoted because, I think, it resonates and hits the nail on the head. I do feel that "tribalism" is a better word for the concept, but "conservatism" isn't far off since every conservative group I know of (at least in the US and Europe) support this kind of tribalism to a fair extent.
by lukan | 2025-06-28 12:39:14+00:00
"he was propping them up prior to the current battles"

Those words indicate something different, than allowing quatari money to reach the civilian part of Hamas government as part of a temporary peace deal. Because that sounds actually reasonable to me.

Now there is indeed more, like this:

"Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who is now Mr. Netanyahu’s finance minister, put it bluntly in 2015, the year he was elected to Parliament.

“The Palestinian Authority is a burden,” he said. “Hamas is an asset.”"

But those words came without context (just a youtube video, that I won't watch right now).
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-28 12:39:42+00:00
It’s not about sounding scary.

It is about whether our legal system should allow a single district judge to set nationwide policy even when their ruling conflicts with other courts, before the issue has been fully litigated through appeals

What you are advocating for is legal uncertainty at scale.

The new limits push legal questions upward through appeals rather than outward through conflicting orders and ensure national issues are resolved by courts with the authority to decide them.