MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bananapub | 2025-08-02 10:52:04+00:00
not something one gets to say very often, but you're insufficiently cynical, tptacek.

killing this means cutting of swathes of simple, orderly funding. what remains is donations etc, which is far less regular, and requires work to get, and is also easily attackable by presidential fiat.

we already know there's a bunch of actual lunatics in charge of the federal government, with a very wide variety of very stupid hobby horses. they get to ride them now and then, so how about some guesses at future trips:

- IRS starts going after big non-profit donors to public broadcasters, claiming they're in breach of some somewhat arbitrary and subjective rule that's been poorly enforced in the past, I don't know foundation disbursement rate or something, but also nudge nudge wink wink, if you stopped giving to PBS, maybe we'd forget about it

- FEC "clarifies" that promoting non-traditional-sexuality or whatever is political and thus it's illegal for non-profits to fund it, which of course would be an extremely funny turn given how the Right Wing Lunatics Association of America actually couped the country. this could of course be enforced entirely randomly - go after the NPR stations that are loud and annoying, go after the individual donors to them that the regime wants to make an example of.

- Congress passes some law that "clarifies" the purpose of non-profit status or something, to exclude anti-American speech, which is of course a clear abridgment of the 1st amendment, but of course that's fine in 2025 if it targets notional enemies of the regime.

killing this corporation just grants more power to the extremely partisan executive branch and extremely corrupted government and turns ever more of the functioning of the United States in to just expressions of the whims of the supreme leader and his favoured courtiers.

the current deliberate structural destruction of the united states seems underappreciated - every one of these moves turns the country in to more of a Whimocracy and destroys the bedrock of society that let it weather past terrible administrations.

Nixon was a historically horrible president, but the Washington Post fucking took him down. now almost all the big media is owned by Rich Cunts who make a public show of displaying subservience to the Dear Leader.
by marcusfrex | 2025-08-02 10:53:19+00:00
Imagine a briefcase where different keys open different compartments. One key might show your grocery list, another shows your real important documents. If someone forces you to open it, you can give them a "fake" key that shows harmless stuff.

This is called "deniable encryption" - you can honestly say "there's nothing important here" when using the decoy password.

And it is impossible to understand whether any one of the compartment is a random content or an encrypted one.
by derbOac | 2025-08-02 10:53:29+00:00
UCLA recently reached a settlement, which among other things included “opposing calls to boycott Israel". I'm not sure how boycotting a government engaged in what many legal organizations have identified as genocide counts as civil rights discrimination. If anything it seems to violate civil rights of Palestinian Americans and citizens in general.

Also, Tao points out maybe the most important criticism of the Trump administration, which is how is cutting off all federal research funding improving the ability of faculty to do their work, given that the reason for an antidiscrimination claim in that setting is that discrimination prevents faculty from doing their work?
by perching_aix | 2025-08-02 10:53:48+00:00
> Most GUI toolkits do not.

Why are you guys talking like there were dozens of GUI toolkits in mainstream use? It's basically web stuff, Qt, and then everything else. Web would be UTF-16 as discussed above, Qt is UTF-16, and even if we entertain the admittedly "large just behind-the-scenes" Java/.NET market, that's also all UTF-16. WxWidgets being a fence sitter can do both UTF-8 and UTF-16, depending on the platform.

Which players am I missing? GTK and ImGUI? I don't think they are too big a slices of this pie, certainly not big enough to invalidate the claim.
by roenxi | 2025-08-02 10:54:09+00:00
The reason given [0] is that "A lengthy history of inaccuracies and incompetence by Erika McEntarfer, the former Biden-appointed Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has completely eroded public trust in the government agency charged with disseminating key data used by policymakers and businesses to make consequential decisions. Under McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) consistently published overly optimistic jobs numbers — only for those numbers to be quietly revised later."

Which is certainly a political reason and easy to disagree with. But it is reasonable and factually defensible. Her Bureau has been publishing optimistic estimates.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/bls-has-lengthy-...
by agastalver | 2025-08-02 10:54:17+00:00
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by kevinventullo | 2025-08-02 10:54:32+00:00
If you’re genuinely interested in truth, I can tell you that I personally visited the protest site at UCLA in order to get an unfiltered view or what was happening. The signage I saw was largely of the form “End Genocide” or “Divest”. There were also signs criticizing e.g. the border wall with Mexico. A lot of it was critical of Israel, as well as the United States and even the University of California, but none of it was anti-Jewish. In fact there were a few signs of the form “Jews Against Genocide”.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-02 10:55:15+00:00
The Arabs did not replace the native peoples of the Levant. The Palestinians turn out to be even more closely related to ancient Levantine people (including ancient Israelites) than most Israelis are. Levantine peoples started speaking Arabic, the same way that Jews in ancient times stopped speaking Hebrew (except in religious contexts) and adopted Aramaic as their native language.

Not that any of this matters. What happened in the 7th Century CE is not relevant to the question of who the native population was in 1900.
by nailer | 2025-08-02 10:55:40+00:00
But Israelis aren’t an ethnicity, they’re Jewish and Arab and druze and Christian. if someone called Israelis Palestinian Jews, it would sound like they know very little about Israel, and think that most diverse society in the Middle East is an ethnostate - basically your standard online conspiracy theorist.

Whereas the people that call themselves Palestinians are trying to pretend Palestinian is an ethnicity and rebrand themselves from being Arab colonists.
by diggan | 2025-08-02 10:56:36+00:00
> It's been many, many years, but my memory is that while RCT didn't have a completely open sandbox like TT to boot, each scenario was effectively its own sandbox with restrictions that made them interesting

Also a very long time ago I played it, but I seem to remember that you could continue any scenario for as long time as you wanted after completing it, you didn't need to exit the scenario once completed. Maybe I misremember? If not, that'd basically mean every scenario is also a sandbox once the goals were completed.
by Applejinx | 2025-08-02 10:57:29+00:00
Yeah, it was called the United States and if it was an illusion it would not have been the weakness exploited in this way. America was real and can well be again: turns out allowing such diversity and multiculturalism gave rise to things like New York City, California etc etc. known for being giant piles of messy commerce and influence from all over the place.

It's never been any different, all the way back to when Germans or Irish or whoever were the 'demonized immigrants'. This is what made America great. Anytime we want it, those conditions can return. It was no illusion.
Tell HN: Gmail tampers with incoming email body content
by chrisjj | 2025-08-02 10:57:37+00:00
Comparing Gmail page source with message original on for example the latest genuine Amazon scam warning shows linkification of "amazon.co.uk" by Gmail. Quite ironic given the warning about links in scam mails.

Gmail: https://i.imgur.com/MQH1shA.png Fastmail: https://i.imgur.com/tczhO8g.png

Gmail Print likewise: https://i.imgur.com/SWoPXqs.png

God help anyone printing emails to shows tampering or lack of for a legal case. And does Gmail have any "Display un****ed" option?? Er, no.

And Amazon, perhaps check your emails on the world's top web client?
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-08-02 10:58:17+00:00
My usage of tmux gradually dwindled when I started using i3wm/sway.

I really needed spilt and tabbed windows. My window manager does that for me, and I can mix terminal windows and browser windows and windows of any other non-terminal program.

I group windows on different workspaces. I only need a few, I have up to ten configured, but could have infinitely more if needed.

I still use tmux for window persistence or remote servers. For me, that's a very infrequent use. Not even once a week.
by worthless-trash | 2025-08-02 10:58:24+00:00
Ive lived in Australia for 45 years, everything is in km.. never had to touch it for miles. However i did go to the US and it showed units in miles on my phone which made no sense.

In Gmaps, Tap your profile picture, then select "Settings" and "Distance units". Choose between "Automatic", "Kilometers", or "Miles".

Pick the units you want.
by diggan | 2025-08-02 10:59:02+00:00
> Instead what I wanted to call out is that even if infinitely careful and drive defensively without fail you can still get into an accident, and you don't need to be hunted down or intentionally collided into+.

And again, seems to be massively different depending on the country. Locally, ~60% of motorcycle drivers claim to never have been in any accident, and that's including even careless people, so surely the claims of "even careful motorbike drivers will be in a accident" are over-exaggerated.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-08-02 10:59:03+00:00
Nice. I did something in 2020 in a spreadsheet to calculate some sort of a Big Picture Timeline of the family with a our own definition of Success and Failures. For me, I found that it is easier to see Weekends in a Straight line rather than the starting date (I have school going kids).

I did it pretty manually because this is something I do once every year around the year-end.

Here is the Google Sheet Template. Change/Add/Edit the "YYYY" sheet to the year you want and fix the dates (should not take you more than 5-min). I have included the year a family member is born in the "Data" sheet to calculate the key events in life - Kids Graduation, and whatever else you want to in sync with you, your partner’s age, and any event you want to track.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwAf8vgVR0FbTU6n1dVO...
by avgeek23 | 2025-08-02 10:59:45+00:00
Yeah the redshift thing is related to wayland but shifting to x11 on a pi means you are missing out on certain latest inbuilt software additions to raspian os(on screen keyboards etc dont work well or almost always at all with x11)

And all other os's run terribly on the pi. I tried running ubuntu via a usb nvme drive and it was laggy.

Too underpowered for the price it sells for. I tried streaming some live data on 2 tabs and the pi4(4 gig version) started stuttering.
by nailer | 2025-08-02 10:59:54+00:00
> What happened in the 7th Century CE is not relevant to the question of who the native population was in 1900.

but it does. Jewish people have lived in the area for 3600 years, Arab Abs arrived 1600 years later, violently colonising the Middle East and North Africa Africa and violence in the name of Islam remains a global problem to this day.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-08-02 11:00:36+00:00
> I view "you might not need tmux" in the same way as "you might not need browser tabs".

A big difference is that I can move two browser tabs into separate windows, or from separate windows into the same.

The same is actually tree of top-level windows if your window manager can group windows into tabs.

tmux tabs lack this flexibility.
by st-msl | 2025-08-02 11:01:38+00:00
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by ivape | 2025-08-02 11:02:16+00:00
Car travel is such a weird thing. The other day I was walking on the driver side of a wide street where cars were passing me by very fast. Most of us are usually an arms length away from passing cars when we do that, roughly an arms length away from being hit at 20+ mph, yet humans do this careful beam walking without flinching. It’s the American version of Indians riding the roof of a train. If you goto a third world country, they are even more acclimated to insanely dangerous traffic conditions (no traffic laws being followed, cars flying out from every angle). The whole thing is insanity yet everyone is just going along with it.

A life built around car commutes is the outcome of a poorly thought out society. It had such stupid repercussions like racial segregation and the absurdity that everyone gets their own house along with the vertical airspace on top of it (exceedingly selfish). Along with that, it’s dangerous as fuck.

Someone needs to suggest dropping the speed limit across the board in America. Unfortunately the MAGA people will straight boycott roads if we do that (unfortunately?). Most people I talk to in Texas will concede the highways are full of maniacs.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-08-02 11:03:07+00:00
I did actually try out quite a few things before settling on infosec.

Like you I programmed as a kid, but did a degree in music (could not get work though), moved back to IT and programming (could actually earn money!). But after a while decided I didn't want to do that either. Moved to info sec in my 30s.

So it is possible to change careers later on. By that time though I had already figured out I needed to earn enough money and I had IT and software skills and experience. Moving to info sec was more of a lateral move I guess.
by nurettin | 2025-08-02 11:06:10+00:00
I can see someone defending Ruby as concise (having the ability to chain different transformations) and simple to write in (low verbosity). Lisp? Define a class and do some map/filter/reduce. Lisp is verbose. Sometimes even worse than Java21 these days.

Just put the equivalent code side by side and look. You would be surprised at how much verbosity you choose to ignore.
by jimbobthrowawy | 2025-08-02 11:06:33+00:00
I was going to shout out Tesco specifically, for a similar feature they have on their website/app in Ireland/UK.

If you find a product's page, there's an "other items on this shelf" section which shows items that are located next to it. It's probably not intended to help you locate things, but it's incredibly helpful for it.

Adds way more things for you to notice and tell you're in the right location. Same haystack, more needles.
by jdietrich | 2025-08-02 11:06:55+00:00
Even if you're an incredibly skilled and careful rider, there are a multitude of accident types that are just completely out of your control. If you hit a diesel spill on a roundabout, the outcome is pure fate. Defensive riding only gets you so far - staying at home is the only realistic way to defend against the possibility that the driver in the next lane will spill his coffee and swerve into your path, or a driver waiting at a junction will abruptly pull out in front of you because he wasn't looking.

At least as importantly, the consequences of accidents are vastly magnified for motorcyclists. I know of people who have died in relatively low-speed crashes because they were unlucky enough to slide straight into a piece of road furniture or land head-first on a kerb. If you look at the accident statistics, a large proportion of fatalities and serious injuries involve low-powered motorcycles travelling at ordinary speeds on ordinary urban roads.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...
by lonelyasacloud | 2025-08-02 11:08:01+00:00
The problem with this (and for that matter every other scientific and technical advance) is that if it works well - regardless of whatever high minded upsides exist initially - it will also have corresponding downsides.

In this case, it's a technology that is hoping to significantly enhance the ability of people with the money to sell whatever they like to targets they have modelled.

Leaving aside the stalky model bit, the thing that should give pause is where is the bulk of that money going to come from?

It's probably (perhaps not with this product but say with the Grok version) inevitable, but is giving more help to oil, junk food, tobacco, dodgy politicians, and the odd millionaire who fancies themselves the next Il Duce what we want?
by riedel | 2025-08-02 11:08:58+00:00
'missing complement to git' seems to be a great value proposition. However, I think it is still a long way for this to become an alternative to Google docs or overleaf in the context of projects e.g. hosted on gitlab. We have moved many collabotative projects with external partners to gitlab, but the pain point is always realtime collaboration. Having something like this integrates in gitlab's vs code based online editor with a decent integration with actual commit/merge logic would be a game changer in many projects trying to convince people to switch from SharePoint/Google drive to a git based workflow. The local first thing would be just the cherry on top of it all.
by HSO | 2025-08-02 11:08:58+00:00
It´s already a long time ago, I was on my way home when I saw a young boy crying. Turns out he got disconnected from his parents on public transport and totally lost where he was in some other part of town. When I tried to calm him down, I was making sure to stand several meters apart. We called his mother on my phone and I actually brought him to the station where she would pick him up. The whole time, I was keeping several meters distance and making sure to speak extra loud and formally, to make clear what I was doing with a crying child from a different ethnicity obv not mine. This was in a semi-civilized country in europe, not the "US". And still I was worried it would "look wrong". Weird times.
by frereubu | 2025-08-02 11:09:23+00:00
Risk is a product of likelihood and potential seriousness of consequences. The reason I consider motorbikes too risky is that the potential seriousness of consequences is extremely high if you're going at any reasonable speed.

And to flip the presentation of your stat around, that means 40% of motorbike riders have been in an accident. That sounds really high to me given the potential consequences!
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-02 11:10:43+00:00
For the net zero scenarios by the IEA one of the areas that is ahead of the curve is batteries.

The global battery manufacturing capacity reached 3 TWh in 2024.

With say an average lifetime of 15 years getting a bit over 1 TWh of new batteries per year for the car fleet seems easily feasible.

Then please give us a source for regarding your continental dunkelflate doomsday scenario so we can make sure is a plausible scenario, and not made up scary numbers.

Of course ignoring that you assume that we need to charge every single car to 100% every day.
by Thorrez | 2025-08-02 11:10:56+00:00
>In my opinion, they’re legally and morally treated as a person because it works in society, not because it expresses something fundamental about child development. It’s not an argument against abortion.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding. You seem to be agreeing there's not much difference between a fetus and an infant. But you're saying that this isn't an argument against abortion, because... are you saying killing a born infant is ok?
by ktallett | 2025-08-02 11:12:49+00:00
Whilst I would imagine that to be the case, you should at the start of a phd have more than one professor across the many you have come into contact with that is willing to vouch for both your mathematical ability and your personality and ability to fit in a team.

I don't think anyone should get in just on the relation to Tao, likewise it is also important that they move to a program that they have an interest in.

I do hope those students find an appropriate course for themselves as this must be extremely challenging for them both regarding their career and also mentally and socially.
by raffael_de | 2025-08-02 11:13:34+00:00
The final segment starting at 6:00 makes me think that he can wear as much leather as he wants protecting his body while sliding over asphalt when he's anyway intent on braking with his face and chin.

“There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be that we needed to invent the helmet. What was happening, apparently, was that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads. We chose not to avoid doing those activities but, instead, to come up with some sort of device to help us enjoy our head-cracking lifestyles. And even that didn’t work because not enough people were wearing them so we had to come up with the helmet law. Which is even stupider, the idea behind the helmet law being to preserve a brain whose judgment is so poor, it does not even try to avoid the cracking of the head it’s in.”

– Gerry Sinefield