MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exoverito | 2025-04-04 15:39:02+00:00
It's childish to still not see the Democrats are corrupt corporatists, and that we need real third parties and candidates strong enough to resist the myriad of dirty tactics thrown at them. Say what you will about Trump, but he's about the only person who has the strength and resources to take on an entrenched deep state and corrupt intelligence agencies. They tried to impeach him with a fake Russian collusion hoax, throw him in prison on trumped up non-criminal felonies, and oh yeah multiple assassination attempts which were memory holed a couple weeks later.

The Iron Law of Wokeism is projection of the same crimes they commit upon others. We already have massive evidence the Democrats are corrupt and authoritarian, colluding with media, persecuting and assassinating whistleblowers (Assange, Snowden, Seth Rich). They engage in grotesque amounts of graft and inefficiency, as seen with California's High Speed Rail project, Biden's rural broadband and EV charging stations, which have delivered nothing. The Democrats don't even respect their voters choices in primaries, as evident by super delegates, Hillary conspiring against Bernie Sanders, the forced abdication of the obviously senile Biden, appointment of the obviously inept puppet that was Kamala Harris, etc. etc.

I hope real civil libertarians become in fashion. The self-described anti-fascists are basically communists who would create an authoritarian nightmare state, per usual. Funnily enough, the Berlin Wall was officially the the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart, and Putin is engaging in a "special police action" against Ukraine in order to "de-nazify" the regime.
by bradley13 | 2025-04-04 15:39:04+00:00
Honestly, as someone who lived in Britain for a little while: it is a poor country.

First, there are a lot hooligans, drunks and layabouts. In recent years, add in lots of illegal migrants. Many people on social welfare, living in social housing, with either no ability or no desire to better their lot.

Then you have the NHS. Anecdote: one friend with severe back pain from a herniated disk waited a year for surgery. When she was put off again - make due with hot baths - she went out of the country and paid for it privately. That is not first-world health care.

The infrastructure feels like it's crumbling. I particularly remember the rail system, because I commuted weekly by train. They claimed something like a 95% punctuality rate ("excluding conditions not in their control"). In the course of one year, my train arrived on-time exactly once. Not very much is under their control.

Being a DIY type, I was appalled at the building standards. First anecdote: Visiting a friend whose bathroom has just been professionally renovated. They had another electrical plug installed, so the electrician just strung a loose wire across the wall. Then the painter painted over it - not behind it, just over it - so if it shifted you saw the old color.

Second anecdote: the apartment we lived in was in an old building, and water was added later. To get the water pipe into the apartment, they had just bashed a hole in the brick wall above the front door. When we lived there, decades after this had been done, it was still exactly that: a pipe going through a hole bashed in the wall. Oh, and the wallpaper was installed upside-down.

All this grousing shouldn't be taken the wrong way. Britain is a great place to visit, and I enjoyed temporarily living there. But for the average Brit or Scot? By Western standards, Britain is poor.
by DecoySalamander | 2025-04-04 15:39:09+00:00
Quirks in this article and others like it are not something that would be encountered under normal circumstances unless the programmer is doing something silly (like skipping semicolons, ever touching eval, or relying on type conversions). Now, second point about loops (actually scopes and value declaration) is a core part of the language and needs to be learned, framework or no framework.
by deanc | 2025-04-04 15:39:32+00:00
Venues claiming immigrants in the UK disproportionately consume resources often exhibit far-right traits. They rely on nationalist framing, selectively citing NHS or welfare burdens while omitting immigrant tax contributions and economic value (e.g., ONS data shows net fiscal positivity). The pattern: exaggeration, scapegoating, and "us vs. them" rhetoric—mirrors far-right strategies, prioritizing ideology over evidence. It’s less about resource analysis, more about exclusionary politics.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-04 15:39:52+00:00
My Californian Fiat 500e is the most reliable car I've ever owned.

On the other hand, my friend's Model 3 has some recall or problem roughly every six months.

So, I guess it depends on which EV you buy, but I'm pretty sure the most reliable EVs are more reliable than the most reliable ICEs, simply because they have fewer moving parts (quite literally).
by automatic6131 | 2025-04-04 15:40:13+00:00
More than purple not existing, brown really doesn't exist. Brown is just reflected orange-y light in the right context. You can play around with it, by looking at a picture of say, earthy soil, color picking that pixel and painting it on a white canvas in a different way. Or by trying to shine an RGB light with that color code. It will look orange in a direct light.

Also the purple hallucination is because the same cone that mostly detects red also has a small peak futher along the spectrum next to blue. Since it slightly reacts to blue/violet light, you get that purple tickle.
by kogus | 2025-04-04 15:40:21+00:00
That's a flavor of trickle-down economics that I would like to see research around. If the state borrows $100m to widen a highway today, versus $100m to widen it five years from now without borrowing - then do those extra lanes really bring in tax revenue equal to the interest on $100m within five years? Will the government responsibly retire the debt using the extra tax revenue, plus the money it was going to have to save anyway? Or will politicians just approve another round of borrowing, let the interest accrue, and spend the collected tax benefit from the road on some other project?

Your point about the government being 'we the people' is fair, but the general population experiencing increased economic activity does not pay off the debt unless the government is disciplined enough to use that activity toward that purpose. Also I'll quibble that the phrase "We the People" in the US Constitution is a statement that We, the actual humans of this country, are deciding to create a government to serve us. The government is a creature created by the people, but it is not the people.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-04 15:40:37+00:00
> Tbph, I don't get how someone with a PhD in psychology doesn't just defend this industry, but actively works for it. You must know some of the damage being done, after all those years in school.

Honestly man, I went and got my PhD because of the GFC (no jobs), and aimed to be able to provide myself (and potential family) a stable income.

My options were 1. pharma (my PhD was on the placebo effect so this would have been easiest). Super evil though

2. Finance (also super evil, and responsible for the GFC)

3. Tech (which back then wasn't perceived as evil).

So I picked tech, and honestly given the options above, I'd do the same today (although I now work for a fintech so fml).

And like, I (with a PhD in psychology and many years in advertising) don't understand why so many tech people hate advertising. Like, our society is messed up for a bunch of reasons, of which advertising is one of the least dodgy.

I think that people find it easy to blame societal problems on external influences, and advertising is a good scapegoat for why people behave in ways that one finds inexplicable.

Like, if you work for a fossil fuel company, are you equally unethical? What about finance? I'm sure that basically everyone in those industries can tell you a story about how their company or industry makes the world better, and most of those stories have some truth.

Honestly, if I could give us all (including myself) one piece of advice is to stop looking for single explanations. Basically everything interesting is caused and driven by lots of complicated stuff, and nothing is purely good or purely bad. We all just make different tradeoffs, and out of those tradeoffs we build a culture and a society.

(Note: back when I was an undergrad I would probably have agreed with everything you say about advertising, but it just doesn't rate as that impactful to me anymore, given the weak evidence that it does much).
by judofyr | 2025-04-04 15:40:59+00:00
You're kinda proving my point here by using such loaded terms. You've chosen the term "preachy" (a negative word) to describe people who are excited about advancements in programming languages (e.g. borrow checker, powerful type system, comptime, alignment as a part of type system). You've chosen to not mention that Rust keeps being the "Most loved programming language" (according to Stack Overflow); isn't this is a sign that people find it joyful?

> Also, there is a lot of "I discovered Zig and it's finally showing me how to program" echoed as well.

So, did you try Zig? How did you find it? Did it show you a new way to program? Or were you already aware of this way? Or do you think it's not a good way? What did you find interesting? What features did you steal because they were good? What do you think is overrated? These are the questions I'm interested in from other programming language designers!

> As a contrast, Odin focuses on "joy of programming" as its main goal, and the author does not make any claims of the language having killer features to choose it over something else.

And that's a fair thing to say! You can say that C3 is just a slightly better C and doesn't have any other killer feature. I'm just not sure why you need to talk negatively about other languages.
by marcosdumay | 2025-04-04 15:41:14+00:00
Hum, kinda. Trump has tainted a lot of concepts by associating with them, and those should fall outside of our culture as soon as he loses power.

But there's an entire other set of equivalently bad-faith exclusionary and authoritarian ones that presented as in opposition of them. Those weren't actually very powerful before, but may get empowered depending on how things go.
by zer8k | 2025-04-04 15:41:15+00:00
> Choosing the wrong partner is one of the biggest risks you take in your life, especially for a woman. This is one of those things that can easily lead to you being bankrupt with nothing. This can lead to you being abused or raped. You can end up with a child that you did not want to have. You can end up dead.

Meanwhile FOMO has resulted in hypergamy. Long-term relationships have been on the decline because availability has resulted in situationships with the top 10% of men has become the norm. Your statement is inconsistent with a mountain of data coming from dating apps and is an appeal to emotion.

This is consistent with

> and probably have a little less experience here than the average woman does.

Which you use to insult OP's experience and inject your own mind-melting BS as fact.

Everything you state has a counter-argument for men that is equally valid. An alleged man would know this:

1. False accusation of abuse or rape - have an argument a little too loud and the neighbors call the police who is going to jail? It's the man, regardless of fault.

2. You can get baby trapped because our "progressive" society doesn't believe in the right a man should have to "abort".

3. Family courts are slanted 80/20 towards women. It's almost universally the man who loses rights to a child and gains a subsequent extra house payment in child support. Go hang out at bars and homeless shelters and figure out how many of them have been bankrupted.

4. Divorce court, despite income disparity all but disappearing, still leans heavily in favor of women.

5. There are nearly no programs for abused men, men who are going through divorce, men who got their children taken away, men who are suffering under the boot of child support/alimony, etc. In fact, you can go to jail for not paying these! Most homeless shelters will remove a man from a bed to provide one for a woman, especially if she has a child. How is this fair?

The man takes the highest possible risk entering a relationship all other things being equal.
by sanarothe | 2025-04-04 15:41:24+00:00
I think there's something about the physical acts and moments of writing out or typing out the words, or doing the analysis, etc. Writing 'our', backspacing, then forward again. Writing out a word but skipping two letters ahead, crossing out, starting again. Stopping mid paragraph to have a sip of coffee.

What Dutch OSINT Guy was saying here resonates with me for sure - the act of taking a blurry image into the photo editing software, the use of the manipulation tools, there seems to be something about those little acts that are an essential piece of thinking through a problem.

I'm making a process flow map for the manufacturing line we're standing up for a new product. I already have a process flow from the contract manufacturer but that's only helpful as reference. To understand the process, I gotta spend the time writing out the subassemblies in Visio, putting little reference pictures of the drawings next to the block, putting the care into linking the connections and putting things in order.

Ideas and questions seem to come out from those little spaces. Maybe it's just letting our subconscious a chance to speak finally hah.

L.M. Sacasas writes a lot about this from a 'spirit' point of view on [The Convivial Society](https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/) - that the little moments of rote work - putting the dishes away, weeding the garden, the walking of the dog, these are all essential part of life. Taking care of the mundane is living, and we must attend to them with care and gratitude.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-04 15:41:42+00:00
I love the headline, but unfortunately both the headline and the explanation are wrong.

Better explanation:

The red, green and blue receptors in the eyes all respond to all wavelengths of light, they're just more sensitive at red, green and blue respectively.

When violet hits those receptors, it doesn't hit any of the receptors at their peak sensitivity point. All three receptors fire. However, the green receptor has much better sensitivity than the red receptor, so violet triggers the strongest response in blue and red. If the red receptor was more sensitive, we'd probably interpret violet as a shade of blueish-brown rather than of purple.

The headline:

Purple definitely exists. The eye & brain interpret purple and violet the same, but in the physical world they are different colors, and they both exist in the wild. Purple is a mixture of red & blue, violet is the highest visible frequency. A purple flower is a flower that absorbs green and reflects red & blue. A violet flower is a flower that absorbs red, green and blue and reflects violet.
by dfxm12 | 2025-04-04 15:41:46+00:00
Calling the longest government shutdown in US history, the Muller report, sympathetic comments towards white nationalists, deploying unmarked federal troops to arrest peaceful protestors, ethics lawsuits, family separation policy, all the Federalist society judge appointments, overturning Roe v Wade, multiple impeachments, etc., uneventful is anything but honest.

This doesn't even count the global pandemic.

Setting all that aside, everything he's done is something he campaigned on.
by Herring | 2025-04-04 15:41:47+00:00
No, the issue is half of Americans and American states are still into Red-state zero-sum policies which don't work very well in a modern world and modern economy. Today you want the black/female/trans/foreigner working at their absolute full potential, not slaving in your farm.

In the past it didn't matter so much economically because slaving in your farm was still one of the most important jobs. In 1900, ~40% of the American workforce was employed in agriculture. Yet even then the (ex) slave states were poor compared to northern states because they didn’t know how to invest in their population (still don’t).
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-04-04 15:41:52+00:00
I have road tripped across the entire country multiple times with my Tesla and practically never had an issue charging. Also I've never had to wait more than 20-30 minutes to charge and keep going.

Yes its a little more inconvenient, but the US administration doesn't exactly place a value on making charging easy or providing incentives to develop/research unlike other developed countries. We don't innovate at all when it comes to infrastructure so no wonder EV adoption is lower here. Meanwhile many other developed countries are doing fine with their EV's.

Seems like most people would rather be stuck in the past hugging their gas vehicles than actually do something innovative because of some long foregone American Dream.
by blibble | 2025-04-04 15:42:37+00:00
> I think most will not have the will once they steel the cost.

if you're a government it's quite easy to "encourage" it to occur

example: "US cloud provider revenue levy", starting at 0%, increasing 1% each month until 40%

the aim being to add a large risk premium to all purchases of US cloud services, encouraging companies to switch to domestic suppliers

the EU is already publicly talking about retaliating in this manner
by throwaway5752 | 2025-04-04 15:42:50+00:00
Naked political corruption! Welcome to America in 2025.

And Hacker News gestalt generally thinks politics is off topic - guess what happens to "disruptors" in a crony capitalistic system?

Hacker News and YCombinator, more than anyone, should be at the vanguard of stopping this. It will set innovation back by a decade by the end of the current administration's term.
by graypegg | 2025-04-04 15:42:57+00:00
The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright, but only as long as you meet all the conditions below.

Am I going insane, or is there a reading of this that seems to imply you can use the software, to infringe on ANY work Gumroad has created? "...grants you a copyright license for the software" seems to imply it's talking about this software license only, but the second part mentions "licensor's copyright" which seems to not be defined, nor bounded. There's no mention of a copyright *for the software*... just the copyright license to use the software that allows you to infringe all copyrights from Gumroad.

I think they probably meant

The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright [to the software], but only as long as you meet all the conditions below.

I wonder if you can just reuse text or images from their corporate website as long as you personally make less than 1M$ a year, use their software and don't infringe their trademarks.

Awful license on multiple levels.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-04 15:43:16+00:00
I'm curious what happened here. I feel like as a kid, there was some vague reversal, that a lot of serious people were Republicans. Some of the people I look up to most in my life were Republicans 30 years ago.

And I would say in many ways now, I'm desperate for some decent conservative thought leadership. This recent Jon Stewart interview with Oren Cass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgEQeLR-M0g) was like a cup of water in the desert. Literally my only requirement to be inspired by conservative thought leaders anymore is the smallest notion that you're arguing in good faith.
by mark242 | 2025-04-04 15:43:16+00:00
The bespoke UK/EU models are not the priority, again because they aren't being made in the US, so yes the quality drops.

You cannot get, for example, a new Focus in the US market. When you could, they were much higher quality.

The only Chevrolet you can buy in the UK is the Corvette. Chevrolet makes nine SUVs, four trucks (with however many infinite variations), and exactly one shitbox non-Corvette car.

If US automakers started turning their eyes towards smaller more efficient cars, where hauling Brayden to and from their soccer games didn't require multiple tons of steel, then they could compete in the EU market.
by djha-skin | 2025-04-04 15:43:28+00:00
If I was asked to draw something based on such prompts, I would draw these too. Of course the prompter is talking about Indiana Jones. That's what we're all thinking, right? An artist wouldn't draw someone different by default, they'd have to try to deviate from what we're all thinking.

Indeed, this phenomenon among normal or true intelligences (us) is thought to be a good thing by copyright holders and is known as "brand recognition".

Intelligences -- the normal, biological kind -- are capable of copyright infringement. Why is it a surprise that artificial ones can help us do so was well?

This argument boils down to "oh no, a newly invented tool can be used for evil!". That's how new power works. If it couldn't be used for both good and evil, it's not really power, is it?
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-04 15:43:32+00:00
> Mahmoud Khalil lied on hus visa application about being a member of UNRWA.

He was briefly an unpaid intern.

https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/2015/11/uscis-explains-if-u...

> USCIS is frequently asked whether an unpaid intern needs to complete Form I-9. In general, an unpaid intern does not need to complete Form I-9 unless he or she will receive remuneration, which is something of value such as no-cost or reduced-cost meals, lodging or other benefits in exchange for his or her labor or services.

I can see how someone'd leave that off a green card application for that reason, which is more plausible than hiding an association with a UN agency while applying for a green card during the Biden years. (If anything, work for the UN and a close ally's embassy should increase trust here.)

Given https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-4... says things like "Have you EVER been a member of, involved in, or in any way associated with any organization, association, fund, foundation, party, club, society, or similar group in the United States or in any other location in the world?" there's a good chance every single green card applicant has forgotten to list something. Do I include my kindergarten? The music club I was in as a toddler? Joining a political party's subreddit? Donating $10 to a charity ten years ago?

Hell, I'm "associated with" Hacker News, but it wouldn't go on my I-485. Should that get me deported to an El Salvadorean slave camp?
by esafak | 2025-04-04 15:43:39+00:00
I understand it more intuitively from a chromaticity diagram, depicting color divorced from brightness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple#/media/File:Line_of_pur...

The curved rim of the horseshoe is the spectral locus; that of the purest, single wavelength spectral colors.

Purples are what you get when you travel between the ends of the horseshoe, where no spectral color lies. This is what is meant when one says purple exists only in our brains; it is non-spectral.

Furthermore, our vision is such that objectively different spectra can look the same; cf. metamers. This follows from the fact that the process of projecting an infinite dimensional spectra into three dimensions (because color is 3D) is lossy. But our vision optimizes the dimension reduction for spectral discrimination in parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are beneficial for evolution.