MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trustinmenowpls | 2025-04-11 00:36:39+00:00
Your whole comment is a lie and you and I both know that but I appreciate you lying so openly, makes it much easier to know who the nazis are. There is literally no difference between intifada and Kristallnacht, or a pogrom or a lynch mob, they're all the same thing. You haven't explained at all how they're different, instead you again whitewashed two 5+ year periods of murder, terror, harassment, hate, bigotry, and abuse that was directed at jews, and you are now saying more is needed because of an imagined history of "ethnic cleansing" by some supposed "ethnostate" (whatever that means). You claim Jews are a moral stain on the world... which again sounds so similar to what a certain failed Austrian artist whose book happens to be super popular in gaza used to say...

Really, you right now are guilty of the motte and bailey fallacy, because as you just made up a bunch of indefensible claims so I really am interested to know what your motte is here. how turn the tables...
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-04-11 00:37:03+00:00
I totally agree with `Template.__str__()` == `Template.__repr__()`, but I would strongly be for adding a `Template.format()`. I expect that over time I'll be passed template strings where I expected normal strings and adding that example `f(template: Template)` everywhere to my code bases is just a lot of repeated code for no real value.

That said, I think this is a great bit of work and I look forward to getting to use it! Thank you!
by k-i-r-t-h-i | 2025-04-11 00:38:12+00:00
I was wondering why there wasn't a DOJ concern when Amazon Go did the same thing:

> Amazon Go: Early on, Amazon was clear that it was testing “Just Walk Out” tech — and it was known (at least in tech circles) that they had humans reviewing edge cases through video feeds. Some even joked about the “humans behind the AI.” > Their core claim was that eventually the tech would get better, and the human backup was mostly for training data and quality assurance. > They didn’t say, “this is 100% AI with zero human help right now.”

> Nate: Claimed it was already fully automated. > Their CEO explicitly said the AI was doing all the work — “without human intervention” — and only used contractors for rare edge cases. > According to the DOJ, the truth was: humans were doing everything, and AI was just a branding tool. > Investors were told it was a software platform, when it was really a BPO in disguise.
by anyfoo | 2025-04-11 00:39:07+00:00
I don't feel my social circle is like that. I mean, you're right that there are plenty of people as you describe, but I like to think that I surround myself with people for which that does not match (not always successfully when I was younger, but you learn as you grow older).

As such, bawolff's point resonates with me. And even if that wasn't the case, they still have a good point. If you pick terrible protagonists to begin with, it undermines the morale of the episode a little. Showing how "reasonable" people are affected is stronger, and I indeed feel that both Community and Orville did that really well.
Ask HN: Analyzing the behavior of Google Maps reviewers
by loyai | 2025-04-11 00:39:39+00:00
I'm exploring a software solution for restaurant and cafe owners that helps them better understand the people who leave reviews on their Google Maps places.

Imagine you're a restaurant owner, the goal is to analyze the reviewers other activity, such as whether they've reviewed your competitors, their average spending range, and their favorite types of dishes and more, all based on their reviews in other places in general. This would give you a more complete picture of who they are.

Do you think this kind of insight would be useful?

Do you even consider people who leave Google Maps reviews to be actual customers? And would having detailed information about them help you make more informed business decisions?

Would love to hear your take on this
by outer_web | 2025-04-11 00:39:42+00:00
> The district court overstepped by saying you must 'effectuate' his return, but you must 'facilitate' it

So, I guess, if El Salvador decides to comply with the SCOTUS decision, the US has to provide a plane. Or maybe a bus. Seems like due process is purely voluntary at this point.

I just can't imagine being the guy who decides to litigate this as long as possible knowing they renditioned an innocent father.
by pixelpoet | 2025-04-11 00:40:03+00:00
This is so hilarious for me, for whom SDL is truly legendary (literally decades of often daily use), and who constantly gets downvoted into a smoking hole in a ground for expressing the same sentiment about every random 7 week old JS framework or Grafana monitoring extension or whatever... the militant webdev bias on HN is super clear.

The recently released SDL3 is hot shit today, BTW: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/FrontPage
by throwawayffffas | 2025-04-11 00:42:12+00:00
In the motivation for the t-string types, their gripe is that f-strings are not templates.

My issue with them is that you have to write your syntax in the string complex expressions dictionary access and such become awkward.

But, this whole thing is bike-shedding in my opinion, and I don't really care about the color of the bike shed.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-11 00:42:14+00:00
Let me connect the dots for anyone confused.

Last Spring in particular there were a bunch of student protests against the genocide being done by Israel with material support from the US. Many of these protestors were themselves Jewish. Organizations such as the Jewish Voice for Peace [1] were heavily involved. Jewish people in the US have a long history of being active in civil rights movements. Notably, 3 of the 4 of the students who were killed by the National Guard at Kent State in 1968 were Jewish.

Genocide (and apartheid) supporters try and silence dissent by claiming anti-Zionism (that is, opposition to Israel as a settler-colonial state) is anti-Semitism, which it is not. For every Jewish Zionist in the US there are 20-30 Christian Zionists who are motivated by bringing on the Rapture [2]. It's worth pointing out that if this prophecy were to actually come true, all the Jews in Israel would be killed. The point here is that many Zionists are actually anti-Semitic.

The state came down hard on such protestors. There have been something like ~3500 arrests of college protestors (compared to ~1300 for January 6, an actual coup attempt). There's lots of lies disseminated to demonize the protestors. For example, false claims that Columbia protestors blocked Jewish students from going to classes.

The administration has used research funding as a weapon to bring colleges into line to expel or otherwise punish studnets who protested, implement policies to say that criticism of the state of Israel was anti-Semitism and so on. Columbia, in particular, has already completely capitulated.

All of this is a direct attack on free speech to silence any protest or critcism of US foreign policy in the Middle East. Columbia is being made an example of but it's odd that this is potentially going forward to a consent decree since Columbia has already fallen in line.

But it goes so much further than this. Protestors and organizers have been targeted for unlawful deportation. They have in some cases been black-bagged and illegally kidnapped 1000 miles away without due process and then deported without seeing an immigration judge to have a deportation hearing, under the ludicrous "state of emergency" related to a Venezuelan gang.

So where is ICE, who is the Gestapo in this scenario, getting these names? From places like the Canary Mission [3]. Canary Mission had already engaged in doxxing protestors. Now they seemingly have the ear of the administration to point the finger and have opponents black-bagged and sent to El Salvadore to a prison on a seemingly indefinite sentence.

This is the 1930s Nazi Germany playbook.

[1]: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical...

[3]: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canary-mission-israe...
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-11 00:42:23+00:00
The article dismisses sleep duration and regularity as weak indicators of quality, and I’d say that’s true - for one night of sleep considered alone.

However so many don’t have a sleep routine at all, and can benefit from simple starting measures like gamifying sleep duration and timeliness. Hence the sleep trackers on the market cater to “sleep quality novices”.

Once you’re no longer a novice then for sure start tweaking, like the author seeks to do.

But so many are just start of the journey and the author - no doubt way further down the road - might’ve forgotten how hard it is to get a good night’s sleep when you block any hope of a routine with alcohol, late nights out, late night coding binges, and early morning starts for run club.

It’s horses for courses. Considering how few “advanced” sleep trackers exist for consumers it’s likely hard to get quality data and not a lot of people know they’re ready for the next level. May their product find its niche!
by overu589 | 2025-04-11 00:42:46+00:00
> WW3 has already come and gone.

You are no longer masters of your own destinies.

You have been sold out, and what ever is left of you is a sell out.

You will be broken. Only in the darkness of minds eye, where no one will hear your screams, they will break you and remake you, your thought controlls, for their games. For they are as god over you and they are the voices in your mind. The world will scorn you and turn upon you in your desperate hour, and in time it will happen to all of them.

We are thought controlled.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-11 00:43:47+00:00
Maybe this is an oversimplification, but optimism is gone from media because people are no longer optimistic about the future. For a long time, the next generation always just kind of assumed they'd have it better than the previous ones. Apart from a couple of terrible historic blips like world wars, of course. Everyone has kind of believed they'd live better lives than their parents. The Baby Boomers were the last generation that really felt that way, and it was by and large true for them. From there on, Gen-X knows already that they'll never live as good as their parents. Milleneals are finding out very quickly the same, the next generation is going to have it worse, and so on. So it's no big surprise that all of our media is doomer and pessimistic.

Maybe if we want more optimism in our media, we should give ourselves something to be optimistic about.
by dangus | 2025-04-11 00:43:55+00:00
I definitely didn’t just mean leadership like speaker of the house or senate leaders, I mean leadership as in congress itself, because by definition members of congress are all party leaders compared to more local levels of politics.

Many of the rank and file need to be replaced.

The median age of the senate is over 60 years old, and many congresspeople are staying in seats long after their health has badly deteriorated (Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein as recent examples).

Besides just age, I am also specifically dealing what change is merged. Democrats need congresspeople who understand how the modern systems of society and how their opposition works. This isn’t about age, as people like Bernie Sanders clearly understand those concepts well and knows how to articulate them.

But then you have leaders like Chuck and Nancy who are clearly not what they used to be. In the last presidency they were negotiating with Trump like they were old pals in the same of party. Now Nancy Pelosi is pulling a Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer is coasting.
by mullingitover | 2025-04-11 00:44:47+00:00
This article, I feel, misclassifies the show and then criticizes it on the wrong grounds.

It's in the horror genre. Of course it's fearmongering, that's what horror stories do. Just because it's not the stereotypical horror doesn't mean it's not in that domain. It's great as a horror show because it shows somewhat plausible futures, and that dream/nightmarelike quality is truly gripping.
by treetalker | 2025-04-11 00:44:49+00:00
This was before the Court on an emergency application for relief from the District of Maryland's order. (Of course — virtually everything from this administration is filed as an "emergency" — see https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/supreme-court....)

The Chief Justice temporarily stayed the order pending the Court's review.

The Court restored the effect of the District of Maryland's order that the government facilitate the return but ordered that the District of Maryland clarify what it meant by "effectuate" and that it give due deference to the Executive regarding foreign policy functions.

So the Court was balancing its own role vis-à-vis the District Court's role as the court of first instance, as well as the Judicial Branch's role vis-à-vis the Executive Branch's.

But a heavier hand is warranted and required, in my humble estimation.

Later edit: Prior administrations have taken full advantage of the emergency docket too; I intended to emphasize that, in these first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the (not unexpected) flurry of cases has the government seeking emergency review left and right.
by h0l0cube | 2025-04-11 00:45:37+00:00
> It's a "mirror" on current society, which is probably where they got the name.

Nope. It's a reference to the surface of a screen. (Though undeniably there's important double meaning there)

> The "black mirror" of the title is the one you'll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-b...
by arunabha | 2025-04-11 00:45:43+00:00
I really hope this story doesn't get ganged up on and flagged into oblivion.

A few key things to note in the decision

* The decision is unanimous with no dissents.

* This case is pretty atypical of the other cases involving people deported to Cecot(the El Salvadorian prison) in that the govt straight up admitted that they had deported this person in error

This case is almost certainly not indicative of the supreme court's thinking on the broader issue as the facts involved were very clear, and there are no real broad implications (regardless of what the govt asserted)

The case regarding the applicability of the Alien Enemies Act without the exigent circumstances of a war or genuine existential threat to the nation is the key case to watch.
by moduspol | 2025-04-11 00:45:54+00:00
The part I don't like about it is that the premise is too often:

"Imagine some theoretical technological advancement. Now take it out of context, put it in the worst possible circumstances, and imagine it appeared into a society like ours without any prior thought or discussion about the possible downsides of that technology."

For example: in a society where autonomous security guard robots kill intruders, there would not be people sneaking into warehouses. In a society where people can play back and re-live prior memories, it would not suddenly come up that one can relive experiences with past lovers. In a society where one's consciousness could be contained inside a "cookie," being unexpectedly in a strange place with no explanation would immediately have one questioning whether that's what happened.

It just feels ham-fisted. In their defense, I'm sure it's tough to introduce an entirely new concept and world and sell a brand new story all in the scope of a single episode, but the formula felt a little stale, at least while I was watching it.
by matwood | 2025-04-11 00:46:34+00:00
Are we talking about what philosophically the government should spend money on? I think education and general research is a good expenditure. And R1 universities are probably the right places for that research. Before Trump, people from all over the world came the US to study with great benefit, now we're throwing them out. Either way, if we don't want to spend $400M on grants, why are we going to spend $100M+ on a military parade [1]? It's all about efficiency right?

And since you mentioned libraries, IMLS recently was DOGE'd which used to provide funds to a lot of libraries.

[1] https://fortune.com/2025/04/07/trump-birthday-military-parad...
by pansa2 | 2025-04-11 00:47:26+00:00
> I would still use pattern matching for branching and destructing, but I’d put it in a helper

Yeah, using a helper function makes things much clearer. To be honest though, I'm not a huge fan of using either `isinstance` (which is generally a sign of a bad design) nor `match/case` (which is essentially a "modern" way to write `isinstance`).

I can't help but think that a better design could avoid the need for either of those (e.g. via polymorphism).
by Flozzin | 2025-04-11 00:47:34+00:00
Our culture tends to embrace technological progress. But we don't have to. It's just something we do accept. And yes, many technologies have eliminated jobs. Some have created new ones sure, but it's not always 1 to 1. Not everyone replaced on an assembly line by a robot or machine, is needed to repair or build that new machine.

Our tendency to 'progress' doesn't have to be the case, we all could collectively decide to hold ourselves here.

Also, I don't think that all our technology has always been good for us either. But we are blind to the downsides mostly.
by the_af | 2025-04-11 00:48:48+00:00
We don't owe Jim Davis any kind of respect as an artist. He must earn it.

In the scale you're describing, he leans heavily towards making money and away from the art part. It's OK to feel scorn for this. It's also OK to respect it, but that's not me.

> Art without money is madness

This isn't what my comment was about, but I cannot refrain from answering: art can exist perfectly well without money. I'd say the vast majority of art humanity produces is not related to money at all. It is definitely not madness without money.

> Money without art dies on the vine in obscurity or pays its dues in criticism through time.

Sadly, I don't think the former is true, and I don't think the latter matters enough.
by avs733 | 2025-04-11 00:49:04+00:00
They actually do. Most universities have a foundation that runs their endowment and a delegate (or multiple) research corporations each with its own rules and policies and procedures.

As to the separation of research and education, where we have achieved the noble goal is a worthwhile discussion but the intent was that the creation of knowledge through research and the transference of knowledge through education have such significant parallels that the should co occur.
by chatmasta | 2025-04-11 00:49:33+00:00
I’m more asking about how the universities are spending the money (and which pile of money they’re spending).

The government could spend the equivalent of a university’s endowment many times over and nobody would notice. If it wants to spend more money on scientific research, great - but I’m questioning how effectively that can be used as leverage if the universities don’t really “need” it.
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-11 00:49:40+00:00
>I just can't imagine being the guy who decides to litigate this as long as possible

Fortunately, in the other related case Judge Boasberg has been carefully & systematically building a contempt case against the DOJ lawyers. The Supreme Court ruling on procedural grounds yesterday does not make it moot. Remains to be seen whether a contempt verdict could be enforced, but Boasberg is a patriot doing heroic work.
by cavisne | 2025-04-11 00:50:40+00:00
"In addition to the use of Signal, some DOGE staffers are bypassing other vetting processes and chains of custody for official government documents by working simultaneously out of Google Docs instead of circulating single copies of drafts, a source briefed by a government official said. “There's multiple people in one Google Doc editing things simultaneously,” the source said, referring to the online word processing software. That was partly how DOGE was working so quickly, the source added"

Outrageous!
by cortesoft | 2025-04-11 00:51:20+00:00
I don't know what to say other than I am pretty sure I have never encountered it before. I have been coding for over 30 years, 20 years professionally, and have never seen it. You can see by my account age and comment history that I have been active on HN for 15 years.

I actually have interest in game programming, too. So I don't know.

I am sure I'll encounter it 10 times this week now, good old Baeder-Meinhoff
Ask HN: Have a skill? Want a skill? Find other HNers to exchange skills
by sdsd | 2025-04-11 00:52:08+00:00
In this thread, we can list our skills, and skills we're interested in learning. See a match? Reach out and who knows, maybe you'll both learn something.

The format looks like this:

Your skills: put stuff here you'd like to teach Skills you want: be specific! About you: personality, preferences, background, whatever Contact: people gotta be able to reach you somehow

let's gooo
by treetalker | 2025-04-11 00:52:38+00:00
I don't believe that the text indicated as quoted appears in the order or the Sotomayor statement.

That language is in the right direction of a summary, but the Court did not hold that the district court erred — merely that the district court must clarify that part of its order on remand, in light of the deference the Judiciary owes to the Executive in foreign policy matters.
by surge | 2025-04-11 00:52:46+00:00
So did Usenet, no one cares. They simply require you go to 18 different sites to follow what friends are up to. Tumblr would just be the ad tech company instead, or the blog hosting company, for a while it was MySpace.

It's either free and supported by ads, or self hosted or comes with a cost and doesn't gain mass adoption.

When did the comments here get to the point they can't think past 1st order magnitude effects or remember genuinely how things actually were. Your grandma didn't have a blog to follow the grandkids. Yeah, there's a one off exception or two, but nothing at the scale of MySpace and later social media companies.
by epistasis | 2025-04-11 00:53:12+00:00
I'm quite disappointed with the pace of development of the Python language. Five years of support for a particular version seems far too short.

I mostly use Python in scientific contexts, and hitting end-of-life after five years means that for a lot project, code needs to transition language versions in the middle of a project. Not to mention the damage to reproducibility. Once something is marked "end of life" it means that future OS versions are going to have a really good reason to say "this code shouldn't even be able to run on our new OS."

Template strings seem OK, but I would give up all new language features in a heartbeat to get a bit of long term support.