MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-14 02:56:40+00:00
> There is a database of how someone voted.

That cannot be right, that's the fundamental core of the voting process in our democracies. You might be thinking about the party registrations or voluntary polls ?

> You display metadata

What you show to the world has no requirement to be accurate. If you look like a rich 70 old Asian lady when going to the park there will be no check that's actually what you are (unless the police comes at you for an identity check...). That's particularly impacting for gender, you're typically not required to represent your official assignment, and how you behave isn't stuck to your official identity.
by dannyw | 2025-09-14 02:58:03+00:00
I run a Tor exit node (not just relay) in Australia from my residential home for about a decade now, and I’ve gotten contacted by multiple law enforcement officials now, although not frequently anymore.

Thankfully each and every one was resolved quickly when I explained I run a Tor exit node, to help people in dictatorships bypass their censorship. I’m surprised actually.

It’s probably on file somewhere which is why I haven’t been hassled for years now.
by kazinator | 2025-09-14 03:00:02+00:00
> As an open-source maintainer, you should be ecstatic every time someone engages with your project. After all, if you didn’t want those interactions, you could have kept your code to yourself!

I don't agree; some maintainers just want the code to be /used/ somewhere and possibly in modified form, but are nto interested in upstreaming anything.

For instance the SQLite project operates like this.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-14 03:00:20+00:00
> Trump gets labelled as 'fascist' for saying 'fight like hell', but Waltz just gets a pass because for the exact same words, because that was just poor taste.

Waltz should not speak that way. Perhaps he is given more grace since his words didn't incite an insurrection which he watched closely and refused to intervene for hours in the hope it would succeed. Waltz also doesn't express the desire to be a dictactor, plans to give police unlimited power, ask foreign governments to hack his opponents for his gain, shake down foreign leaders for dirt on his opponents and their families, or openly weaponize the DoJ / ICE / IRS to persecute anyone who opposed him.

>> Meanwhile Democrats prosecute their own for violence and corruption.

> No, they don't.

I guess the prosecutions of Quintez Brown, Robert Menendez, and Eric Adams don't count?

> ...how many of those who took part in BLM riots were convicted for rape and murder crimes, likely quite a few, right?

Did Biden pardon BLM protesters who then went on to rape and murder?

> Should we bring that in every conversation on every action supported by the politicians that you support?

If there is a discussion on political violence and how seriously leaders handle it, then I'd say the consequences of pardoning such actors is in scope.

> ...you are extremely biased and unwilling discuss politics in good faith: you just know what truth is and consider everyone who disagrees as being wrong or stupid or evil.

If there is a disagreement, then thinking the other person may be wrong is common, no? I don't presume every disagreement is because of stupidity or evil. Though I do believe evil exists (not in any spiritual sense), and that evil is more manifest in some actions than others. Assassination is quite evil for example. I try not to hold any beliefs too strongly, since I've been very wrong in the past.

> That is exactly kind of mindset and rhetoric that inspired someone to kill Kirk. He was such a bad fascist, after all!

You know what inspired Kirk's killer? Perhaps you should inform the FBI. I'll wait for the facts because it's not clear to me what motivated this attacker. It's just as likely he played a lot of Helldivers, surfed 4chan, and thought Kirk wasn't far enough to the right.

That said, rhetoric like mine is far less likely to inspire violence than say a "Professor Watchlist" which--in practice--functions something like a who-to-harrass-or-kill list.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-09-14 03:00:57+00:00
I understand the need to frame arguments in an objective and clinical way. At the same time, it's frustrating because it just feels like being so distant emotionally doesn't drive deep enough into the way the current environment shakes so many people to their cores. It's an egregious assault on individual experiences and there's no real way to sugarcoat that.

You can deport illegal immigrants without taking away their dignity and without frightening the ever living shit out of everyone. But this isn't that. The intention is fear.
by patcon | 2025-09-14 03:02:48+00:00
Kinda working on this. But like paint and data in maps :)

V1 prototype: https://patcon.github.io/polislike-opinion-map-painting/

Upcoming v2: https://main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com/?path=/...

Eventual v3! https://patcon.github.io/polislike-human-cartography-prototy...
by russellbeattie | 2025-09-14 03:02:58+00:00
You can take a wild guess at the street names if you're reading them out loud, of course.

But what do you do when someone tells you an address on a street like Passatge di'Alió ("pasa je dia lio??"). You're not remembering that on the first try, you won't write it down correctly and later when you try to tell the taxista where to go they'll look at you like you're crazy. (This is from personal experience.)
by nine_zeros | 2025-09-14 03:04:22+00:00
Illuminating article. And if the yuan bonds information is real, it won't even take 4 years for a lot of global finance to move away from the dollar.

It might be tough for the US to accept the higher cost of global resources (and thus become a poorer country) but maybe this gradual decline in dollars status is what the administration hopes is the best case.
by mindslight | 2025-09-14 03:06:34+00:00
So just to be clear - by "abhor the lunacy of the MAGA right" you mean you did not vote for the current crop societal arsonists and otherwise generally denounce them, right? I ask because there is a common disingenuous pattern of people claiming to distance themselves from the methods or other things they find distasteful (eg the profligate deficit spending), but ultimately still falling in line with support.
by fooker | 2025-09-14 03:07:07+00:00
The zeitgeist of what produces good outcomes tends to change somewhat fast. This is the line of thought that led the US to tear down railways, city center train stations, and built freeways through the middle of cities. They thought they were planning for good outcomes too.

I have traveled all over the world, and have lived in Amsterdam for half a year. I like that model sure, but doesn't change the fact that Americans want suburban sprawl. You should move to where you like though.
by CMay | 2025-09-14 03:07:30+00:00
A lot of people make vague claims about this guy and then just let the various assumptions hang there as a form of decontextualized disinformation. What you're doing here is basically perpetuating the same kind of disinformation that got him killed. This is why Stephen King had to take down his tweet, because he was just repeating things which aren't true.

He responded about the civil rights act during his Cambridge Union debate here which I only encountered yesterday when searching more about the guy. It's far more nuanced than you presented it: https://youtu.be/dkiM-z0Mzyg?t=1053

I don't know about your other claims, but if you don't know about them either, you should stop making them in the lazy way you make them. If you do know, then try harder to present more context.
by thatfrenchguy | 2025-09-14 03:08:12+00:00
Yup, the author is in a fairly rare fortunate situation for someone who is good in his field. A lot of us moved countries or continents to be good at our jobs, and there is always a personal cost.

Although, for grandkids, I guess that when you are far you are also more intentional with making sure you spend time with their grandparents when they are far.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-14 03:09:15+00:00
Making private sector/startup consultancy really easy for professors to do is one of the main reasons there is an insane pickup of pace in the return of the diaspora. Many professors in my IIT suddenly have BMWs. I''ve never seen it before 2021ish. And yes, BMWs are a luxury car in India. And no. IITs being a government college don't pay professors enough for them to afford a luxury car on salary alone (in the context of financial conservativeness typical to india). For more context, my starting SWE job before I came back for M.S paid as much as my professor earned decades into his career, being dean, and having a couple of other responsibilities. - 50L per year (total comp, not base). Also helps that the STEM economy is picking up like crazy.

It is true that the govt institutions themselves have less IIT representation, mostly due to low salaries. However, what matters to the private sector is sources of capital. Tech investors in india usually went to IITs themselves, and so the ecosystem always remains close to IITs, allowing professors easy access. Lot of the startups (even YC ones!) by IIT students actually involved one of their professors in the ideation stage, and they even have equity % sometimes. Similar to Rajeev Motwani holding a stake in Google, they get really rich sometimes.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 03:10:03+00:00
I fear I've been misunderstood, or at least over-interpreted.

> mass harassment, rape and death threat

From what I've seen (and notwithstanding the claims in TFA, which are unsupported by evidence other than allegations), these things aren't happening this time either, and the voices organizing the firing campaigns are against them.

In particular, Ms. Gilmore's story cannot be reconciled with the evidence available to me.

I have in some places seen dehumanizing rhetoric. This is of course still not okay, but it clearly comes from a place of genuine hurt.

Also, my standard objection here: telling people that you hope a terrible thing happens to them is not acceptable, but it is also objectively not a "threat", and it bothers me when it's falsely characterized that way.

> for not sufficiently mourning someone

This is not a reasonable representation of the cause of action. We're talking about people who outright celebrate Kirk's death or insinuate that it was somehow deserved.

> Most of the "cancel culture" stuff was overblown nonsense, the few real events were against massive public figures credibly accused of heinous things like Weinstein.

Strongly disagree. Matt Rose, James Damore, the list goes on and on (but I've left behind the days when I kept track in any serious way).

> Pretending this is in any way equivalent betrays

I feel much the same about people who equate a guy getting killed for his political beliefs with people losing their job for expressing ideology that can reasonably be considered incompatible with doing the job.

(I'm sure there are people outside the professions I mentioned in the other thread getting targeted. As I already said, I oppose that.)
by crq-yml | 2025-09-14 03:11:22+00:00
Pad grid controllers like the Novation Launchpad, and its indie, open-source counterpart, Mystrix Pro, have an 8x8 grid. At first this style of controller didn't use any lights, but as the manufacturing and features progressed, they went towards one RGB LED per pad. So, of course, you end up doing some text and graphics on the resulting grid. Mystrix uses a scrolling marquee which isn't ideal, but does get the job done.

And yeah, you could throw on more hardware to have a display nearby and use that for text. That is not the problem being solved though.
by kelnos | 2025-09-14 03:12:41+00:00
As a global citizen of Earth, I would agree. But I'm also a citizen of the United States, and have a vested personal interest in its academic and economic superiority. And I think that's normal. You don't even have to be nationalistic or patriotic about your particular country to feel that way. Academic and economic declines in any country will cause problems for everyone who lives there.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-14 03:12:54+00:00
> Making private sector/startup consultancy really easy for professors to do is one of the main reasons there is an insane pickup of pace in the return of the diaspora

Yep! The University of Waterloo back in Ontario did the same thing in the 1960s, which helped catapult the program into a Tier 1 CSE program comparable to older more established programs like UToronto and UMich.

> Lot of the startups (even YC ones!) by IIT students actually involved one of their professors in the ideation stage, and they even have equity % sometimes

Yep! There are also some NIT, BITS Pilani, IIT, and other program specific networks made by their alumnis in academia and VC. I think Foundation Capital (Netflix, Cerebras, Fortanix) is running one such program.

> It is true that the govt institutions themselves have less IIT representation, mostly due to low salaries

Ministry affiliated universities are a major reason why. For example, ISRO overwhelmingly recruits from IIST, ONGC from IIPE, and other SOEs or R&D programs will recruit from universities specialized in that specific disciple instead of an IIT or NIT now.
by LocalH | 2025-09-14 03:13:17+00:00
This is very true. I've been measured as having astigmatism. However, I do not wear corrective lenses for astigmatism (only for general near-sightedness), as my brain has been correcting for it for the better part of 45 years at this point. I was told if I wore corrective lenses it would start giving me headaches.
by cpgxiii | 2025-09-14 03:13:22+00:00
> I would love to see ancient tech fabbed out on modern processes.

> What's the smallest SOC you could design to run DOOM?

Depending on your definition of "modern", more than you think has been done. Intel's Quark were basically 486/Pentium hybrids but fabbed on a fairly modern (at the time) process. While Quark is no longer available as a standalone product, a derivative is part of every modern Intel processor in the form of the Intel ME system co-processor, and it's likely that a number of other Intel products (network cards, QAT accelerators, the ARC GPUs, etc) use them as system controllers as well (Quark essentially came into existence as a "formalization" of the multiple "micro-x86" implementations inside Intel being used as embedded controllers for various non-CPU products).

> What would a massively-multicore (gpu-style with multi-hundreds or more of cores) one of these run like?

This is close to what the original Xeon Phi was. Essentially 60-ish Pentium cores, with modern SMT and 512-bit vector units added. It worked ... OK? If the software development story had been better (e.g. actual first-class support in GCC) I think they could have been a much bigger success, but the need for ICC back in the ICC-costs-real-money days and initially very expensive hardware certainly held them back. At times I do miss some of their behavior.

Arguably a number of the RISC-V-based "AI accelerators" on the market are basically new spins on the same idea: a bunch of small cores, plus large vector/tensor units.
by aborsy | 2025-09-14 03:14:58+00:00
I have heavily used Pass over the years. Here are some of its pros (an update to my comment several years ago):

* Your secret key can be stored in Yubikey, handled by a dedicated OpenPGP agent. This allows deriving a strong key from a weak one. Your password is basically a short PIN with max 3 tries. Every password retrieval can require a physical touch. This is convenient and secure!

Pass makes sense if you use it with a hardware key, with touch enabled. With this setup, it’s hard to beat its security.

* It uses public key cryptography, and comes with its advantages. You don’t need your master password to add/encrypt passwords. You only need that for decryption. Less exposure of master key, and more convenience.

For that reason, it’s well suited to share passwords with other people or devices. You can encrypt to multiple public keys. This adds multi user and device support.

You can easily add a backup offline public key (which you may print) if you lose your Yubikey.

* You can decrypt a single password without decrypting and exposing other passwords. The passwords are isolated, if you use Yubikey.

* Searching passwords is quick and transparent. You easily see what is in your store.

* You can use it programmatically, eg, your backup script can grab a password from the store.

* It’s a short bash script that you can verify, and delegates encryption to a dedicated well-audited cryptographic tool.

* PGP is a standard, and GPG and git are widely available. There is no database to break or migrate. You can read your passwords anywhere and in the future.

* The script is written by the creator of the acclaimed Wireguard!

There are also cons.

* Some people don’t like that it leaks metadata (filenames, and password tree), though there are versions of pass that fix it.

* Lately gpg is causing some troubles with Debian Trixie. GPG agent frequently locks the Yubikey and requires restarting pcscd (probably due to conflicts with pcscd). There is a similar tool Passage using Age, maybe that solves it.

* There are mobile apps, but they are not as frequently updated as something like Bitwarden apps (which has client for every OS, and frequently fixes bugs and adds functionality).

* I haven’t used and not sure how good browser support is.

Here is a post on a similar password management with GPG replaced with Age

https://words.filippo.io/passage/
by mythrwy | 2025-09-14 03:15:21+00:00
For sure. The doxing and firings and deplatforming over Covid views, Jan 6 and general Trump support etc were awful and people rightfully complained but this is equally as bad. The hypocrisy is astounding.

It's like we have abandoned all principals of fairness and charity in pursuit of our political enemies.

People of all stripes say dumb stuff on social media. Unless it's immediate calls to violent or illegal action, the repercussions should probably stay on social media in my view.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-14 03:15:53+00:00
PKU and Tisnghua both have overseas student programs and they are particularly eager to have qualified takers. Now, the question is how far does that go when the schools really become popular undergrad and grad STEM studies?

The bigger problem is that schools like MIT, Stanford, UCB, UCI throw (or threw?) lots of resources at students that Chinese schools didn't really do (and maybe still don't? My info is 10 years out of date). Even the lower ranked schools have ample resources and fairly well paying TA/RA-ships available. In China, you would have to work for your professor's side company to get money, and the professor might not let you graduate if you were doing a good job (again, 10 years ago, I have no idea what its like today, China is changing quickly).
by Freedom2 | 2025-09-14 03:16:01+00:00
It's interesting you mention that because I'm being quite charitable to my colleague, who was actually dismissively stubborn, and who ignored my personal experiences about living in a non-wood house.

The context is that I was shopping around for houses, doing inspections and such, and was merely curious about why homes were constructed in such a way. My home country primarily makes homes out of concrete and brick for heat insulation and it works well, compared to what I have to put up with a Texas heat wave in a wooden house currently.

I'm not entirely sure why you're assuming that I had no specific arguments though - I certainly wouldn't put a whole conversation verbatim onto an internet forum.
by barry-cotter | 2025-09-14 03:16:26+00:00
> Kirk’s legacy is real. TPUSA lives on. The Arizona GOP has been remade in his image. Donald Trump won the popular vote. His administration is staffed by dozens of men Kirk handpicked. Tens of thousands—maybe hundreds of thousand—of young Republicans have the courage to be young Republicans because of him. The Republican Party is now a populist, nationalist institution. Save for the life and labors of Charlie Kirk, none of this would have happened.

> A reckoning is due. Justice must be served. But we should not forget why Charlie Kirk was assassinated: he figured out how to make conservative populism work. His conviction that nationalist populism could win in America has been vindicated by events. His strategy proved so powerful that his enemies were left with no recourse but to murder him. It is up to us to decide whether the victory-path Kirk cleared dies with him.
by antonvs | 2025-09-14 03:16:48+00:00
I initiated and led the Kubernetes adoption at the startup I'm with currently. Handed it off to the new ops team recently. The company is dramatically better off now in terms of scaling, deployment automation, configuration management, service discovery, internal service interactions, stability, reliability... The list goes on.

If your needs are met by a VM or three then sure, you may not need Kubernetes, although as other comments have pointed out, distributions like k3s can be useful even in those environments. But as you climb the scale and complexity ladder, there soon comes a point where it's very hard to beat Kubernetes, which is why it has become so widespread.
by ignoramous | 2025-09-14 03:16:59+00:00
> Google identified several problems that they were not able to solve and thus did not ship it generally.

My lament is, Google did not push it through when it mattered as Apple here has (assuming FEAT_MTE4 is them solving similar problems to productize MTE for security).

> "some in the security community" being loud

Think the GrapheneOS authors deserve more respect. They aren't merely "loud", they shipped features that AOSP later incorporated.
by achierius | 2025-09-14 03:17:39+00:00
How do you insert a branch "every 10ms" without some sort of hardware-provided interrupt?

If your code is running in a hot loop, you would have to insert that branch into the hot loop (even well-predicted branches add a few cycles, and can do things like break up decode groups) or have the hot loop bail out every once in a while to go execute the branch and code, which would mean tiling your interior hot loop and thus adding probably significant overhead that way.

Also, you say "cached memory address" but I can almost guarantee that unless you're doing that load a lot more frequently than once every 10 milliseconds the inner loop is going to knock that address out of l1 and probably l2 by the time you get back around to it.
by doctor_blood | 2025-09-14 03:17:59+00:00
Not really? On something like Xenforo2, there's a setting that makes a new account's posts invisible until that account is manually approved by a mod - in conjunction with the spam prevention tools - https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/spam/#content - we really don't need to do much work.

Because all new accounts need to be verified by an actual human, we can filter out 99% of spam before other users see it, and between a dozen mods for a community of 140k people we only need to spend ~15 minutes a week cleaning out spam.
by intalentive | 2025-09-14 03:18:23+00:00
World reserve currency status follows the leader in manufacturing and trade. Maintaining dollar hegemony was never going to be feasible after de-industrialization, but short-sighted decisions like weaponizing SWIFT have accelerated its decline. As the dollar is gradually shunted out of world trade, the US will be less able to export its inflation abroad. The implications won’t be pretty.