MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by caseyy | 2025-04-27 12:08:56+00:00
> How do you set boundaries?

I don’t, I just naturally hang out with the people who are most reciprocating and being the most good vibes.

Ultimately, it’s about me first. I function better and am happier when I have recently socialized. I’m not doing this for others, so it’s all good and I don’t feel like anyone particularly pushes me in a way where I’d need to maintain boundaries for myself in this particular context.

Regarding your three points, I hear them. But you probably have enough free time to text a friend, and sometimes physically meet up with them. I’d say, if you really don’t have time for that (and I was there myself), then probably you’re neglecting your social needs (basic socialising, safety net) for something else. Consider if that something else is worth it. Regarding point 3, I used to expect something reciprocal from friendships, but now I just expect to spend time with/among people. Yeah, most won’t help you in a time of need, and some will speak ill of you behind your back. But you’ll also meet many great people that legitimately will be great friends. So I’d say don’t worry about it — “trust the process”.

Overall, I hear some social anxiety in the 3rd point. Social interactions aren’t always ideal but don’t catastrophize them. Just do what’s good for you yourself first. Make sure your social needs are met. Let all other things and friendships develop or not as they would.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-04-27 12:09:22+00:00
But it's not a general model.

Are house humbers 6 and 7 next to each other? 6 and 8? What number would come next if the building numbers go 2, 4, 6, 8, ? If there's is a "7b", is there a 7 too? 7a?
by brightball | 2025-04-27 12:09:23+00:00
Hasn’t RFK Jr spent his entire life trying to find the cause and cure for autism?

My life is pretty close to this community and I can verify that all of his comments are 100% accurate.

Parents who insist on traveling separately as a safeguard to ensure one of them is able to care for their adult child in the event of an accident, living with the knowledge that both of them passing away will mean the child moves to a group home most likely.

Others who cannot handle the demands as caregiver and simply get divorced over it. Some who call CPS because they can’t handle the danger that their child poses to their other children. Some who are flight risks that will literally just take off running (usually right to bodies of water) given the chance, putting parents completely on guard.

These are just a few of the issues before getting into “the autism diet” and chronic digestive issues. The fact that somehow a gluten free, casein free diet usually results in significant behavioral improvements leading many people to suspect that what we’re eating environmentally is contributing to the problem.

RFK Jr is giving a voice to parents who are scared, confused and fully aware that nobody is listening to them. If you had any idea the number of parents who are afraid to tell you when the symptoms started because they know you don’t want to believe them, it would shock you.

If you want to know what most people in the community believe is the root cause, it’s aluminum.

I realize that all things associated Trump are destined to get this crazy narrative but RFK Jr has been fighting for these families for at least 20 years. His desire to help people is genuine and not something in question.
by 9dev | 2025-04-27 12:10:22+00:00
Naming things involves creating an ontology that makes sense. In the context of URLs, that’s an hierarchical structure of things that’s self-describing; in the context of code, it’s a direct model of the domain logic underlying the problem, at least for the most part: There’s lots of code involving "managers" and "containers" and "controllers" and "factories". That’s where it starts to get murky. Meanwhile, CSS classes require creating an ontology of things that’s both reusable, and at the same time referring to small or partial aspects of a thing, sometimes a thing that shows up in other parts of the code, sometimes as a variation, or just a one-off occurrence. If you do it properly, that means you’ll need to find a shared vocabulary for button attachments, centered max width wrappers, field hints, list items, and so on. It’s draining, because it’s not productive. The end result is just hopefully maintainable style sheets.
by dangus | 2025-04-27 12:10:30+00:00
While I don't agree with these sorts of industry practices and believe the US needs a universal data privacy law, I don't see how matching up some relatively impersonal metadata could be considered worse than directly listening in to private conversations.

The advertiser trying to sell my friend appliances didn't really get a lot right about them. They're a renter and the advertiser thought they’d like to buy a major kitchen appliance just because we were in the same location.

If they were able to listen in to our conversations they wouldn't have sent them an advertisement at all.
by ookblah | 2025-04-27 12:11:16+00:00
yeah i'm just tired of making the same argument over and over. for what it's worth i've been doing CSS "properly" since the time when that site was a thing.

back in the backbone days, now vue/react and before tailwind this is EXACTLY what we did, scope the styles down to the component, then layer it on top of the global styles. so sure, .my-selector a is specific to that component.

the "side effect" happens when your app starts to span 100s of components and you need slight variations for everything. you're telling me you can assure me that none of your master global classes contain any design definitions that could not possibly be reused? i'm calling bullshit. it's like saying your backend 100% never has any duplicated functions.

so with that out of the way, let's say you do get your global styles like 90% of the way there. so in each component you scoped it down. now lets say for one button you had to adjust the margin a bit, or another the styling is somewhat diff. multiply this by 100s of different components.

tell me now how me opening a file, seeing "button variation-class-1 variation-class-2", then going down into the component <style> section and looking up exactly what the variation and what properties were used is in anyway "better" than just seeing some super powered inline style directly in the button. it's the same complexity and now you've gotten rid of the prime benefit of CSS hierarchy and split the "style and structure" in just one independent component.

at some point you can't possibly create the number variations you need and you can't extract out "reusable" parts. maybe you have 5 buttons and only 2 need the 20px margin. do you create a "button 20px" class and do that in each component? no. at some point you will just inline it because it's easy, or you will create your utility class except it will be worse than tailwind.
by sokoloff | 2025-04-27 12:11:37+00:00
Thanks! That site is far more competitive than Bookshop.org and is in the neighborhood of Amazon price-wise on 2/3 of those titles.

Amazon Thriftbooks Bookshop.org Title $94.03 $94.52 $128.70 Art of Electronics $53.77 $89.49 $ 90.00 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs $20.98 $22.97 $ 27.89 Perfect Divorce
by Ekaros | 2025-04-27 12:12:59+00:00
Similar reason with drugs. Use is not generally illegal, possession is. Possession is very easy to prove. Thus criminalization makes sense. Same goes for this type of material. If it stays private no one has idea and it won't be a problem. If it goes public, well now you have conclusive proof.

And the harm comes from sharing this material. So stopping people from possessing it as with lot of other material is not worse way to stop spread. Defence of I did not create it is not usable anymore.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-27 12:13:33+00:00
This is an interesting question.

I watch the output with fascination, mostly because of the sheer breadth of knowledge. But thus far I can't think of anything that is categorically different from what humans do, it's just got an insane amount of knowledge available to it.

For example, I gave it an image from a town on a small Chilean island. I was shocked when it nailed it, and in the output it said, "I can see a green wooden street sign, common to Chilean coastal towns on [the specific island]."

I have an entire flashcard section for street signage, but just for practicality I'm limited to memorizing scores, possibly hundreds of signs if I'm insanely dedicated. I would still probably never have this one remote Chilean island.

It does that for everything in every category.
by bix6 | 2025-04-27 12:13:56+00:00
I am not an expert in these systems but it seems some have tremendous ability to link disparate data. At the simplest they have things like device IDs and emails from logged in users that make it easy; many users don’t or can’t opt out of the baseline tracking. If you do well now you’re special so they have to use other fingerprinting techniques. You can try and obfuscate which might change your ad package but they still know everything about you.

I think your belief that they can only target while using the app is naive. They can sell the data to aggregators for more sophisticated use.
by everdrive | 2025-04-27 12:14:46+00:00
This will unpopular, but I would recommend that anyone who can manage it to avoid any sort of formal psychological diagnosis. Unless you strictly need it for medication, it is always something which could potentially drag you down. Anyone can use the DSM (alongside an actual doctor) to get something of an "informal diagnosis" which will help them understand themselves better and to work with a doctor to form coping strategies. The formal diagnosis could potentially be used against you in the future, whether it's related to autism or not. For some people as well, the formal diagnosis does not seem to help and instead feels like a modern form of astrology; it becomes part of their internal view of themselves, and they trap themselves within the boundaries of their diagnosis.
by strangecasts | 2025-04-27 12:15:02+00:00
> We are in an unpleasant situation. It's probably going to require an unpleasant solution. You seem to be in denial of this reality.

It is an incredible coincidence that every time I hear this, the unpleasant situation happens to be fixable by just tearing away a few more individual rights, which will surely be back once the unpleasant situation is gone and not replaced by five more unpleasant situations
by riffraff | 2025-04-27 12:15:13+00:00
> local social networks will be utterly replaced by AI chatbots, which are superior in like 99% of cases.

how do you use social networks?

I cannot imagine how my usage of social networks would be replaced by chatbots.

Although.. cripes, does nobody remember Google People?[0]

[0] https://qntm.org/person
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-27 12:16:22+00:00
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-gapless-genome-sequence-reveal...

>Creating a hybrid despite the two species being separated over 13.4 million years

Now for some weak division of labour:

"Now is the winter of--

fizz-content

jizz-content

sheesh-content

trash-content

CUDA rent
by RacingTheClock | 2025-04-27 12:16:33+00:00
I think 1 in 36 kids having autism is similar to how breast cancer diagnosis shot up when we had better imaging ability or when we figured out prostate cancer was actually fairly common in older men but not usually something worth doing anything about. When we merged in aspergers and autism together that obviously makes autism rates higher and as research continues on diagnosing autism it makes sense rates increase from there too? I mean in the past we thought autism was only common in boys!
by eqvinox | 2025-04-27 12:16:38+00:00
> I meant, customization where you don't have to write the customized code yourself, just choose some build options, or at most set preprocessor variables.

Honestly, if you're shying away from customising an 1-2kloc piece of code, you probably shouldn't be using a custom printf().

Case in point: function pointers are either costly or even plain unsupported on GPU architectures. I would speculate that you aren't using the callbacks there?
by somenameforme | 2025-04-27 12:17:05+00:00
In this case it's clear that the children were not literally deported. The parents were given the choice of taking their children with them, or leaving them with social services, and they did what any half decent parent would do. So they ended up given a "free flight" on a plane full of people being deported, which blurs the difference - but it's obviously there. The issue is that the parents were not granted access to legal counsel, though that's a consequence of expedited removal [1], which dates back to Clinton.

I think this issue mostly emphasizes the highly unpleasant issues that unrestricted bithright citizenship causes. There's a reason literally no other advanced economy, besides Canada, has maintained such a thing. [1] And Canada is probably the outlier there due to being geographically protected from illegal immigration. Even if somebody e.g. boats over to North America, they're going to be much more likely to head towards the US than Canada.

I say maintained because it's self evident that birthright citizenship would have been a given in the times before big government, if not only because it couldn't not be a given. But basically everywhere desirable started getting rid of it once it started being abused. The entry on Ireland, the last country in Europe to eliminate unrestricted birthright citizenship, is interesting:

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On 1 January 2005, the law was amended to require that at least one of the parents be an Irish citizen; a British citizen; a resident with a permanent right to reside in Ireland or in Northern Ireland; or a legal resident residing three of the last four years in the country (excluding students and asylum seekers) (see Irish nationality law).[64] The amendment was prompted by the case of Man Chen, a Chinese woman living in mainland United Kingdom who traveled to Belfast (Northern Ireland, part of the UK) to give birth in order to benefit from the previous rule whereby anyone born on any part of the island of Ireland was automatically granted Irish citizenship. The Chinese parents used their daughter's Irish (and thereby European Union) citizenship to obtain permanent residence in the UK as parents of a dependent EU citizen. Ireland was the last country in Europe to abolish unrestricted jus soli. (see Irish nationality law).[107]

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_removal

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#
by chuckadams | 2025-04-27 12:17:56+00:00
It's a culture problem with Tailwind devs: for a long time there was a crusade against `@apply` in favor of inlining every class. I think the reason was solely because TW's tree-shaking wasn't very capable then and did even worse with @apply, but the air was thick with specious "philosophical" justifications flying around for inlining all the things. The most typical was "it should always be done through a component toolkit", which of course just buries the problem in javascript -- not to mention doing it dynamically is incompatible with tree shaking, so you end up having to predeclare everything you use...

Nowadays the anti-@apply contingent seems to have gone quiet, so it is possible to not only use TW and similar toolkits sanely (which has always been the case) but to even see people publicly advocating for sanity.
by wordofx | 2025-04-27 12:19:27+00:00
> This site was a "culture" shock for me, back in 200x and made me walk away from Microsoft ASP.NET and start building apps on linux

What stopped you from building such apps on Asp.net? It didn’t prevent you from building anything like that. You could stop creates style sheets and separate JS files.

> realizing all those "server controls" with inline style parameters were basically the complete wrong way, the "anti internet way".

Ironically what’s old is new again because we have literally gone full circle even down to nextjs? Recreating view state… and tailwind with inline styling and shadcn with react components.
by chollida1 | 2025-04-27 12:19:31+00:00
I mean, my family and i just spent 5 weeks over Christmas in Rome, Paris and London.

I live in Toronto where we have our share of homelessness and those 3 cities put Toronto to shame with the amount of poverty and homelessness we saw.

Europe is beautiful and does many things better than North America and Asia but hunger and poverty are area's where its just as bad if not worse.
by prezjordan | 2025-04-27 12:19:53+00:00
> In my experience, a fundamental part of spaced repetition's efficacy is in creating the flashcards yourself.

+1 to this, have found the same when going through the Genki Japanese-language textbook.

I'm assuming you're finding your workflow is just a little too annoying with Anki? I haven't yet strayed from it, but may check out your Obsidian setup.
by jeffhuys | 2025-04-27 12:20:31+00:00
You can’t be 100% confident about what you’re saying and it horrifies me that people go through such lengths to protect these… ad companies? Oh you’re just bringing some sense to the situation, right? Ad companies are the sleaziest of them all and I would not be surprised if they did stuff like this. Smart tvs, dishwashers that NEED wifi to get full functionality, phones always with me and (especially android) users accepting everything willy nilly…

Your phone might not be listening to you straight out of the box. Might. You don’t know for sure, nobody here does. Why err on the side of blissful ignorance? And then you accept 10 end-user-agreements you don’t read, install dozens of apps you don’t read the small letters of… and you think nobody had been listened to?

It’s a bigger chance it happens than that it doesn’t, in my mind. I haven’t been able to catch it using mitm proxies, but I’m not the best at that, and I haven’t a pretty virgin iphone on purpose.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-27 12:20:40+00:00
The problem with being on the public stage, is that Every. Single. Word. They. Utter. has the ability to be reframed. With Deepfakes, they can now have words put in their mouths, in a realistic manner.

That's why so many politicians and C-suite execs are "weasely." They learn to choose their words carefully. The Fed Chair can crash the markets, by wincing at the wrong time.

I empathize with him (see what I did, there?), but he's in a position where his utterances can either do great good, or great harm.

Many of these mega-rich folks keep their mouths shut, and that's for a reason.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-27 12:21:15+00:00
The medicine is not worth the cure. While illegal border crossings are down, it's because all border crossings are down... People have become legitimately fearful outside this country that visiting this country, even as our guests legally, could result in a long stay in detention with no due process. The damage this administration is doing to America's international reputation Is by no means worth lower border crossing numbers. It's the equivalent of keeping rowdy teenagers off your property by waving a shotgun at them... It works, but now your neighbors know you is the crazy shotgun toting guy at the edge of town and they avoid you.

Pax Americana is built on a web of trust that includes the notion that America is a welcoming nation. I think it's going to take economists some time to calculate the full magnitude of the damage that closing up the borders will do to America's ability to realize all of its interests. Where are we going to get the next generation of innovators and creators of scientific breakthroughs when people stop showing up at our universities because we are capriciously kicking them out? How are the communities who were bothered or scared of undocumented immigrants going to fair when tourists stop showing up?
by Ekaros | 2025-04-27 12:21:55+00:00
What taxes are meant here? This is always the weird part. I understand circumventing various location specific taxes or getting special deals. But taxes are paid on profit. And just as any company if there is no profits there is no tax.

And independent bookstore could use the profit they make to say remodel their store. And inside certain rules that would be legitimate expense. And they would not pay tax on it.
by closewith | 2025-04-27 12:23:28+00:00
I don’t argue about whether women’s human rights are negotiable. They are not. They are sacrosanct. I don’t debate bigots. I shame them.

> “We are in an unpleasant situation. It’s probably going to require an unpleasant solution.”

Well, as you’ve decided that basic human rights are now “optional,” let me propose a solution:

Since misogynists like you and Nathan are clearly a threat to women’s safety and comfort — and since women’s safety is essential for building the kind of secure, family-oriented society you claim to care about — why don’t we abolish your right to life instead? Start a misogynist elimination programme.

It would immediately reduce the threats women face, which are far more immediate and real than the hypothetical societal collapse you keep waving around.

Or does the idea of sacrificing your own rights to “fix” society not sit as comfortably with you as sacrificing those of women?
Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development, supports ASDF
by andreamonaco | 2025-04-27 12:24:04+00:00
Implementation of the standard is still not complete, but breakpoints and stepping work quite well! It also has some support for watchpoints, that no implementation has.

Now it ships with ASDF and is capable of loading systems!

Let me know if you like it. Support on Patreon or Liberapay is much appreciated
by chuckadams | 2025-04-27 12:24:06+00:00
I think it's the complex specificity rules that prompted things like TW to come about. Sure it's useful and powerful but it's utterly baffling to reason about, especially when everyone's conventions work at a different level of specificity. Trying to tame specificity gave us cumbersome structures like BEM, and TW came about as an act of rebellion against such things.

Conversations about CSS complexity always remind of this quip: "Two CSS selectors walk into a bar. A bar stool on the other side of town falls over."
by paulcole | 2025-04-27 12:24:12+00:00
> You can’t be 100% confident about what you’re saying

Yeah but I am.

If you tell me a story about your phone listening to you that you absolutely swear is true, I know you love the idea of conspiracy theories and would laugh at someone who believes in astrology. But they’re the same thing.

It’s fun to see coincidences. It’s fun to think you’ve outsmarted the man. But that’s all it is — fun.

It’s not real.

> Ad companies are the sleaziest of them all and I would not be surprised if they did stuff like this

OK prove it.

> It’s a bigger chance it happens than that it doesn’t, in my mind

OK, should be easy for someone to prove then.

Is it really more likely that this thing is happening that nobody has been able to prove or that people like to see patterns to explain the weird things in the world?

> I haven’t been able to catch it using mitm proxies

Shocker lol.

But should be easy for you to find someone who has caught them red handed, right?