skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has been illegal to discriminate for a very long time, but it has also been de facto illegal to have demographic compositions substantially different from the general population.

> So, they've always been faced with the problem of needing to either discriminate to get the numbers to match, or not discriminating and risking the numbers falling out of line.

Not disagreeing with your larger point, but this sounds wrong (in a sense that, I don’t think that’s the case).

If what you claim was the case, how has CalTech been managing to have such a large percentage of Asian undergrad students (44% according to their Fall 2024-2025 enrollment data[0], with numbers from previous years not straying that far off either) without ever even a hint of getting in trouble over it (given that Asian people make up roughly 7% of the US population)?

I am sure there are similar examples of other schools, this was just the first major known one that came to my mind. Perchance you are correct, and there is simply something special that CalTech has (and Harvard doesn’t) that lets them not worry about this. But that seems unlikely.

0. https://registrar.caltech.edu/records/enrollment-statistics
Let's suppose that I'm a competitor of Google and Amazon, and I want to have my Public root CA for mydomain.com to offer my clients subdomains like s3.customer1.mydomain.com, s3.customer2.mydomain.com,...
For Gemini, I’m seeing the opposite. It’s been getting much better.
Step by step coming back go JSF.
> The previous time the alien enemies act was exercised (putting Japanese Americans in camps during WW2) is widely viewed as having been highly inappropriate and regrettable act.

This is often incorrectly cited as the last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, but EO 9066, under which the exclusion, and subsequent forced relocation of, Americans of Japanese descent from large swathes of the country, and some others, occurred does not cite as authority and was not tied to the Alien Enemies Act (which, by its own terms, only applies to aliens, not citizens.)

There were invocations of the Alien Enemies Act in the earlier proclamations of Dec. 7 and Dec. 8, 1941, but the exclusions and forced relocation under military authority under EO 9066 was broader and not based on the Alien Enemies Act.
Curious how this post says '5 Hours ago' but if you search or click 'smithsonianmag.com' up there, you see this as a post that says 3 days ago?
The Donald tariffs certainly changed my behavior as a Canadian consumer.

For example, i stopped buying US wine, US orange juice and I keep an eye open for any US made thing I could remove from my environment.
good for them. they specifically refuse to implement this feature even though its a tiny change for the 'good of the ecosystem' or something stupid.
I already partner with a print company to increase speed and efficiency of the delivery. For now I just keep a minimum fee of 2 for the first page and 0,50 for the other pages. This works fine for now :)
IMO this feels like Preact "render to string" with Express, though I might be oversimplifying things, and granted it wouldn't have all the niceties that React offers.

Feels like HTMX, feels like we've come full circle.
>Aka how Facebook originally launched (.edu-only)

Similarly, I've heard it said that Usenet should never have allowed non-.edu posts.
How to Build an Agent
The best explanation I have seen comes from the book "Supercommunicators." The author says that it's not so much about the type of personality, but the type of conversation that's occurring. He says there are three main types of conversations, and problems happen when the people are having two different conversations. Here, you're talking about a "practical/problem-solving" conversation, and the other person might be having a "what are we feeling?" conversation.

I'm like you (and maybe a lot of other HNers) who tend to think they're in a problem-solving conversation when I'm talking about a problem. But I've found that the great majority of the time, other people actually are in the "what are we feeling" conversation.

The author then makes the distinction of when conflict occurs and talks about "looping back" what the other person said. It's basically acknowledging their emotions but also repeating back what you heard, asking if that's right, and then asking more questions. The idea is that when there's conflict, you have to take an additional step to prove that you're actually listening and understanding what they've said. When you do that, then it's more likely they'll listen in turn and have a more productive conversation.

Looping back sounds kind of ridiculous, but I have actually found that when people are in an emotional state and on the defensive, they don't perceive this as ridiculous. It can actually speed things along because once you've shown you understand, then they're less likely to keep going over the same material again.
An easy example of the harm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B90_SNNbcoU&t=1688s

I'll just return the fuses to Amazon after my family burns up I guess.

Now expand that to people buying supplements, bolts holding things in place that can harm people, etc from Amazon.
could you use it during user validation testing? see if they can distinguish buttons etc?
Interesting about the price point being ~20 dollars. Starting to notice a shift in paid-for open-source, as the economy and all the free money startups used to get is disappearing.
Not really, I am one. I have tried all kinds of "exotic" foods like Swedish Surstromming etc. I can definitely relate to how people eat them and can find some way (of eating it) that it's delicious, like in sandwiches etc. This is a skill (I think) and many people just don't have it. If someone eats it, and especially if they have eaten it for centuries, you can just win by trying to figure out how to eat it. There is no downside.

That being said, I won't eat food that is obviously (and provably) dangerous like Korean live octopus, Casu martzu (cheese with maggots) etc.
+1 typesense is really fast. the only drawback is starting up is slow when index getting larger. the good thing is full text search (excl vector) is relatively stable feature set, so if your use case is just FTS, you won't need to restart very often for version upgrade.
The moderators keep an eye out for interesting content that is ignored on submission, and put the posts back into a queue to be published again.
How about use this to contribute an absolutely tiny amount of hashes to a mining pool on behalf of the website owner, instead of just burning the energy
Cool idea! Especially curious about the 'federated webring'-thing. With Hey Homepage (link in bio) I do something similar, but I call it 'Shared Links' and it's connected to the built-in RSS reader.

RSS is great, but together with OPML it has even more potential. Easily share bookmarks and RSS sources, easily 'retweet' interesting articles on my own timeline, easily 'subscribe' to new feeds, etc.

I'm slowly eating my own dogfood and slowly moving towards only using the real social media; the open web. It's hard, with HN and Youtube around, but I have trust in my own algorithm. Getting my info diet from around 1400 RSS sources, filtered by random request to feeds, so no violations of other websites' resources and doomscrolling isn't even possible. Really interesting sources get automatically checked by the newspaper functionality.

I see more untapped potential for RSS in combination with OPML. First I need to get completely rid of the idea that my software product needs to be for the masses. It's just not going to happen that the majority of the people are going to do more than tap an app and swipe for instant gratification, and that's okay. I'm also not willing to look down on how the masses use computing and the internet, as I see a lot of people do on HN (talking about 'the regular user' as if it's not your neighbor or your friend), so I want to make the onboarding and usage as welcome as possible. To me, that's still the true spirit of the open web.
Haha, that’s a good one! I promise it’s real – otherwise, it would be a very late April Fool’s joke!
I'm in the market now and I honestly don't think anyone even looks at the education section of the resume if there is applicable work experience following it. After 10+ interviews in the past couple of months, education hasn't been mentioned once in an interview, and my unofficial transcripts have been requested one time prior to and interview.
I'm a long-time politics nerd and spend more time than most people digging into the right's "evidence" for various things they believe.

So much of it's simply made-up that any attempt to engage one of them is incredibly tedious, and it's the exact same bullshit every time you start talking to a new one. You'd need weeks, at least, of consistent and very-careful engagement to fix the fact-gap so you can even begin discussing actual issues. For each one of them.

It's like trying to talk politics with someone and they keep bringing up how the real problem is the lawless Rebel Alliance and we need to trust Emperor Palpatine to set things right, and after a while you figure out they aren't joking or just trying to get under your skin and sincerely believe we live in Star Wars, so now you can't even talk about actual issues in the real world until you manage to convince them that they do not live in Star Wars. You try to talk about crime & policing or whatever and they start talking about how we need to clear all the criminals out of the pirate moon Nar Shaddaa, and... what the fuck do you even do with that? It's disheartening.

[EDIT] Real world example: Local republican politician comes to my door while campaigning and is talking about how local crime (in our amazingly safe, rather rich small town) is WAY UP and out of control and that's why we need more money for the police. I have my strong suspicions based on practically every other time this claim has been made by a Republican, and also the fact that our town is conspicuously safe and rich, but I don't fact-check her on the spot and just let her finish the spiel and politely disengage, but that was like half of her message (the rest was, I shit you not, about trans athletes, JFC).

Of course the police department's own stats fail to back up any of what she was saying, when I check right after the conversation. I mean, obviously they do, there was no reason to expect otherwise, but I did check, because that's how I roll.

Without even digging into the other half of what she was presenting, half of her message right off the bat, half of what she chose to present as important, was over a completely made-up issue. Not real at all.
I guess the author is mentioning public funding to try to make a political point, but it does not fit the narrative, because publicly funded research is the norm worldwide.

The glaring difference in how the US approached R&D is rather the way in which they manage to integrate the private sector, manage to convert research into products and manage to get funded for these rather risky private projects.

Also, with regards to why researchers flocked to the US, post-WWII, it was for the same reason that other people were flocking to the US (and Canada, and Australia): the new world had good economic prospects.
Discussion (261 points, 5 hours ago, 320 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334
Note, some of these are associated with the far right.

> fren later came to prominence on sites such as 4chan and the subreddit /r/frenworld as a dog whistle used by far-right white nationalists and fascists to refer to each other

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fren
job*
Sounds like you need an Alex Horne.
Yes, it was my mistake assuming he was in the US. I only read the blog post and did not see this was KMart Australia. The poster asking "Isn't the use of USB-C promotion without at minimum basic USB compatability disallowed?" is explicitly a social/political issue. KMart lying about its products is explicitly a social problem thats larger than just one person replacing a circuit board in his lamp. Hopefully there are legal remedies that can be taken in Australia for violating industry regulations.
> It's terrifying watching people completely abandon the principles they used to stand for.

If they give up principles that easily, they were never principles. They are simply ad hoc justifications for their preferred cult of personality.
In industry this is formalized as SWaP-C, where the C stands for cost.
In my experience, a non-finetunable closed source API is a complete nonstarter for a large fraction of possible use cases, especially the higher value ones like law and engineering. Most of these embedding models are trained too much on colloquial use of language on the internet that has little overlap with how terms of art are used, and without the ability to fine tune it to a specific use case, they're only really useful for generic use cases and even then they can be limited.
So then your comment about C being an outdated PDP-11 must be equally true of other languages. So it says nothing.
Oh okay thanks for the updaten
The American Mathematical Society has a statement basically saying “in math, authorship order is alphabetical” that people going up for tenure can put in their files, in case people involved in the decision come from other disciplines which have other conventions.

https://www.ams.org/learning-careers/leaders/CultureStatemen...
Show HN: AnuDB – Embedded database with native MQTT support for IoT/AI use cases
Hi HN!

I've been working on AnuDB, a lightweight embedded key-value database written in C++ with a focus on simplicity, performance, and small footprints. It now has native MQTT support, allowing you to write directly to the database by publishing to an MQTT topic.

but it’s designed to work well on embedded devices, edge nodes, and anywhere you need local persistence without spinning up a full database server.

Highlights:

MQTT-based data ingestion (zero setup DB writes via publish)

Small and fast (single binary, no external dependencies)

Append-only write-ahead log for durability

Demo: https://github.com/hash-anu/AnuDB/blob/main/demo.gif

Use cases I have in mind:

Offline-first IoT data collection

Local state storage in embedded ML workflows

Data sync in remote/low-power environments

Would love feedback, use case ideas, or thoughts on what to prioritize next. Thanks!
That or it’s spear phishing.
I do not want to be a dissident. I just do not want to have to pay through the nose and work like a dog to jump through someone else's hoops.
Basically the difference between sympathy and empathy. You can validate someone's feelings by simply acknowledging them (sympathy, "I'm sorry you feel upset about that, how can I help?"), or you can participate in that emotion (empathy, "Yeah, that pisses me off too! Let's fix it.").

Neither is definitively better or worse, sincerity is paramount, and it's all contextual, including the personality of the person involved. I think aligning on what mix to use is possibly the most important thing in a relationship, especially a professional one.
I'll ask I guess.

People still use 4chan?

I recall 4chan at one short point in time being a semi amusing meme posting spot on the web but as always as soon as it was popular it turned into a lot of "edgelord" spam and drama.
Easy to think that until you start viewing /active and see all the stuff that's flagged and doesn't appear on the front page. Any article, even those explicitly about tech, science and academia are flagged if they have even the gentlest suggestion that this administration is flawed.
The AI Revolution and Its Consequences
One danger with "factually proven issues" is cherry-picking facts or otherwise taking them from context. For example, there might be stats on which a president sucked for most of his term, but in the last few months those stats were decent (or vice versa); and then supporters of the president might shout those last few months' stats from the rooftops, and then do polls that show that supporters know but opponents don't know about those last few months' stats, and gleefully report, "Gosh, well, we're trying to reason with our opponents, but unfortunately they're just so ignorant, what can we do..."

Another danger is people playing with definitions. A third is people claiming things to be "facts" based on cherry-picked studies (and possibly some dubious interpretations thereof).

Progress can be made, but I think it requires a sophisticated approach. Paying attention to all the above dimensions, and probably to the motives of the people involved.
Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti arrives on April 16th starting at $379
Good point. Yes I think I miss that of Slashdot too. There's such a
thing as a healthy amount of banter, and the good stuff (not overly
sardonic) takes the edge off the doom imho.
Bega bought Vegemite just for the "Australian" brand...in my mind, if they cant compete with the ludicrous prices of cheese and vegemite they offer, they should pack it
I dunno.

Somebody going "I hear you" and then proceeding to make my problem worse or describe something completely different really doesn't make me think highly of them.
*released without ever having been formally charged* is such a damning statement on how they were tortured without a reason.
More like "Notion Mail (for Gmail only). Notion Calendar is Google only. Notion Mail is Google only. I guess I shouldn't have expected them to do anything based on standards like IMAP.
Old SysAdmin and InfoSec Admin perspective:

Dev guys think everything is solvable via code, but hardware guys know this isn't true. Hardware is stuck in fixed lifecycles and firmware is not updated by the vendors unless it has to be. And in many cases updated poorly. No hardware I've ever come across that supports SSL\TLS (and most do nowadays) offers any automation capability in updating certs. In most cases, certs are manually - and painfully - updated with esoteric CLI cantrips that require dancing while chanting to some ancient I.T. God for mercy because the process is poorly (if at all) documented and often broken. No API call or middelware is going to solve that problem unless the manufacturer puts it in. In particular, load balancers are some of the worst at cert management, and remember that not everyone uses F5 - there are tons of other cheaper and popular alternatives most of which are atrocious at security configuration management. It's already painful enough to manage certs in an enterprise and this 47 day lifecycle is going to break things. Hardware vendors are simply incompetent and slow to adapt to security changes. And not everyone is 100% in the cloud - most enterprises are only partially in that pool.
The admins do this sometimes, it's called the "second-chance pool" or something like that. They'll look at stories from the past few days that deserved more attention than they got, and essentially re-submit them.
This seems important and incredibly relevant on a site called hackernews. It's credible and from a credible source. Why are we flagging it?
Validating facts is good too.

If the steak is blue and they ordered medium ... then there is little room for debate. If they wanted something other than what they ordered, then validating the feelings is more appropriate.
For the most part I just stick to zigbee devices and I can be sure they're fully under my local control because their only gateway to the network is the zigbee modem attached to my Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant. Sometimes requires messing with some quirks to get the full functionality I need out of them, but the community is pretty good about supporting most devices out of the box.
I went looking for exactly this information the other day. I was surprised to find that it's hard to come up with recent, detailed explanations of what Apple is doing for telemetry collection. When they announced their DP systems back in 2017, they were clearly doing something like Google's RAPPOR [1]. But it's been several years since then and their writeups haven't been updated very much at all [2].

This is pretty important, because these systems aren't so robust that you can just assume everything is working without review. (See, for example, this paper [3].) Apple should at least document what kinds of data are being collected, and precisely how the collection process works.

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
[2] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...
[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02753
In the end it doesn’t matter.
It matters what Zuckerberg thought.
You don’t need to BGP hijack to perform a MITM attack. An HTTPS proxy can be easily and transparently installed at the Internet gateway. Many ISPs were doing this with HTTP to inject their own ads, and only the move to HTTPS put an end to it.
> The "real" point of an argument is not to persuade the other side (though that is what you aspire to nonetheless) but to exchange views

to me real point is just entertainment
You'd be hard pressed to find a conservative college dean, non-profit CEO, or even a librarian. There's a belief (which I think is mostly true), that most government agencies are left-leaning in practice if not in appointed leadership. Add to that the growing (perceived!) left-leaning policies in the military and major industrial players, and you might see what they mean.
I’m sure it had. It doesn’t mean it had equivalent influence. In many places people won’t name it in their top 10 cultural phenomena of Internet of that period even if they would remember it, which is far from guaranteed.
I somewhat agree with your point, but it’s also important to include the other side of that pricing.

If it actually costs $60 (really more like $25 for made-in-America t-shirts I’ve bought) to make a t-shirt, with environmental regulations and human costs accounted for, then isn’t that the actual cost of a t-shirt? And they were artificially cheap at $10 for imported ones due to ignoring externalities? In that case, producing these simple products is actually a bit more valuable than you suggest.
It takes time to have a serious debate. You both need to figure out what your unstated premises are. If you disagree on these, you won't get anywhere by arguing downstream of them. Politics is even worse, because you are supposed to have an opinion, but at the same time, most matters require a detailed understanding of the facts that few people have the time, brains or inclination to understand. Add the tribalism and this gets even worse. It's incredibly rare to find someone whose general political opinions are well thought-through. Mine certainly aren't. I could regurgitate the argument for the free market or for heavy gov control of the economy, for example, and even understand them as internally-consistent syllogisms, but really all I'm doing is linking concepts together in my mind; I doubt any of them apply to any really-existing concrete situation that any given country is in. Hence I try not to comment on political threads.
As someone who uses LLMs every day for general questions/brainstorming, more efficient coding, and building a product used by doctors to improve their documentation (saving them hours per week and freeing them to interact with their patients more personally), I would like more of this hot air please. Would you begrudge disabled people their new assistants? Language learners their translators? I could go on.

LLMs have some very important downsides, and I fully agree that they are dangerous, but we should dispel the notion that they don't have positive use cases. That leaves the benefits on the table, while the bad actors will continue with their destruction anyways.

Anyway, my original point was indeed just about the semantics of the word "vapourware", which if I'm interpreting the author correctly, would be better replaced with "malware" (not that I agree with such a stance).