MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-27 02:38:17+00:00
The problem is one of documentation. Our system does not provide an adequate means of identifying those of legal status--and I think that's actually a good thing because the illegals would work under stolen identities rather than fake identities. Worse for those whose identity gets stolen (my mother had a long battle with the IRS over this--the IRS insisted that it was her responsibility to get her "employer" to fix her W2. The employer that she had never even heard of and couldn't locate. With the hindsight of the internet I suspect she should have filed the form to amend a W2, but this was before the internet.)

And our work permit documentation is remarkably easy to fake and tricky for an employer to even verify. Consider: foreign passport. Social security card marked "not valid for employment". Letter from the Immigration department giving temporary work permission. Legal? Yes, that was my wife while we were going through the green card process.
by rendaw | 2025-04-27 02:39:01+00:00
> Thiel nailed it. Millennials don’t hate capitalism because of ideology, they were priced out of it.

> That’s why you see the anti-Tesla, anti-Elon movement.

> Record student debt, negative real wages, no assets, etc…

> You won’t fix this with moral and socio-political lectures.

> The real fix is new opt-in modes and new tech (e.g. AI + btc).

> What else?
by remarkEon | 2025-04-27 02:41:03+00:00
Well, I agree with you (sort of), but democracy lacks a solution for this problem (ignorant people existing and voting). Unless you are going to give everyone an IQ test before they register to vote or some other means to test some "eligibility" dimension it doesn't seem solvable, since those options are non-starters in western democracies.

>The problem with immigration is that we need it (just to maintain replacement rates and economic growth), but the average American voter says they don’t want it.

What would be helpful here is if people who state this so plainly as a matter of fact actually took the time to interrogate why they think that way. I don't think this statement is true, quite the opposite. You are sort of hinting at the real problem in your parenthetical, not sure if you were intentional in that regard. One should probably determine why the birthrate in a particular nation is below replacement before concluding that the only solution is "infinity immigration". Moreover, economic growth is not the end-all-be-all of a country, since these are places with history and a people in them and not a "special economic zone" there the only reason anyone lives there is to conduct economic activity.
by thephyber | 2025-04-27 02:41:05+00:00
> this is a story that really attempts to justify the use of birthright citizenship to create chain immigration …

*Which is the current law of the land.* The existing jurisprudence states that all people born on US land (with the exception of some foreign diplomat children) are US citizens.

The ACLU is arguing to maintain the existing, settled law. Attempts to undo birthright citizenship need to argue how they think it should work and why they think it should be changed without a Constitutional amendment.

Yes, obviously the ACLU will pick a case that has good optics for them. That is how EVERY special interest tries to bring their preferred case up the appeals chain towards SCOTUS. We aren’t ignorant of that. That’s pan outgrowth of the fact that the US court system is adversarial.

Here’s a fun thought experiment: if birthright citizenship requires additional requirements (I think the Trump admin claims it should also require at least 1 parent be a US citizenship at the time of the birth in the USA), does the citizenship rollback apply retroactively? Does it retroactively apply to all generations going back to the founding of the country? Does it go back even further?

Scarier thought experiment: Has any country ever tried to remove citizenship from tens or hundreds of millions of citizens? How do we “deport” people who have known no other country as home and have no paperwork in any other country?
by qwertyasdfzxcv | 2025-04-27 02:41:31+00:00
Sorry for your loss. Listening to Sadhguru carried me through difficult times. Helpful, but probably not the kindest thing to hear:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIdWjMs-VYk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4SEVvTs1L0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMQ-rJlOpSU
by donohoe | 2025-04-27 02:42:12+00:00
So my Prime membership is coming up soon. Had it at least 10, maybe 15, years - since that start.

I got a Costco membership last month. That with Instacart has been working h out very well.

I’ll use Amazon here and there but I’m making a big switch and canceling.

This was decided before this move, but it makes me feel much better in doing so.
Show HN: PPT Compressor – Compress PowerPoint files in the browser
by graphZen | 2025-04-27 02:42:55+00:00
Hi HN

I built a simple online PowerPoint compressor that runs entirely in the browser: https://www.pptcompressor.online/

No server uploads. No login. No installation.

It works by unpacking `.pptx` files, recompressing embedded images with Canvas/WebP, and zipping them back — all using JavaScript and Web APIs. Great for reducing file sizes before sending slides by email or uploading to platforms with size limits.

Built with: - JSZip - Canvas API - Web Workers - Pure HTML/CSS/JS (no backend)

I’d love feedback on speed, compatibility, and ideas for new features (e.g. batch mode or PDF support). If you're working on browser-native tools too, happy to connect!

Thanks
by saghm | 2025-04-27 02:43:29+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by this. It definitely doesn't have enums, not even in the C sense of "type alias for integers with names for specific constant values. Yes, it has iota, but that's orthogonal to enums; you could use it to define bitmasks, for example. While you can certainly use it in combination with a type alias to make something resembling an enum, I'd argue that's still not actually "having enums"; you could do the same thing in C with typedefs and constants even if it didn't have enums.
by bagatelle | 2025-04-27 02:43:51+00:00
I found this earlier this year when researching for a school presentation - it was a joy to read, but sadly did not help me much with my research! I was trying to find some code supposedly hosted on Ucbvax from a research paper. I appreciated the humor in its passing though, and if I ever take an important server down I would love to do a ceremony like this.
by throw0101b | 2025-04-27 02:44:27+00:00
> Maybe I'm incredibly stupid but I still can't understand why everything in our lives have to be entirely devoted to "the economy".

Things like CPI are important because they underpin things like wage increases in contracts as well as government pensions. It's probably one of the most analyzed numbers that is released.

And while there's always measurement error, getting things accurately—especially trends—determines planning for things like factory expansions, production runs, supply chain contracts months out. These will determine staffing and employment needs—the livelihoods of many, many people.

"The economy" means employed people who have to pay rent/mortgages, groceries, etc.
by digitaltrees | 2025-04-27 02:45:42+00:00
Your counter argument clearly cuts against your initial argument. Low wages isn’t preventing automation. It’s lack of an ecosystem of similar suppliers, lack of highly trained talent and lack of government and market investment.

Liberals aren’t against immigration because it is corporate welfare but because of the strain it places on the social safety net and effects on jobs but both of those could be overcome with a rational policy on special economic zones.
by baby_souffle | 2025-04-27 02:46:28+00:00
> We need binary formats. In this era we are capable for it.

We have them, they're used where appropriate.

> Throw away the text formats.

I would argue that _most_ of the time tsv or csv are used it's because either:

a) the lowest common denominator for interchange. Oh, you don't have _my specific version of $program? How about I give you the data in csv? _everything_ can read that...

b) a human is expected to inspect/view/adjust the data and they'd be using a bin -> text tool anyways. The move to binary based log formats (`journald`) is still somewhat controversial. It would have been a non-starter if the tooling to make the binary "readable" wasn't on-par with (or, in a few cases, better!) than the contemporary text based tooling we've been used to for the prior 30+ years..
by Hashex129542 | 2025-04-27 02:47:07+00:00
Hi, I'm in this field about decades and trying to learn OS development. I've an idea of FASM, NASM, FASM-G. But I need to study the output of assembler program. So I can understand how the OS is actually works in the binary level. Do you learned opcodes for the particular architecture? What did you for device driver programs? Can you please list out the steps to develop my own OS.
by kcplate | 2025-04-27 02:47:40+00:00
Does it really matter? Of course it was stressful. Most parents would not opt to be separated from a child. Especially mother from a baby…

If you make a decision that comes with a great deal of risk to you and by extension your family (like crossing a border without following a proper immigration procedure). If that gamble doesn’t go your way would you really opt to leave your child if you could?

Perhaps you would. I wouldn’t. Apparently she didn’t want to do that either. I am not going to ascribe any alternative motive other than love between a parent and child.

> She was probably…

> The Felon yada yada yada…

Do you any evidence at all that is what is being done here or are you just inventing a backstory and trying to pass it off as evidence?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-27 02:47:45+00:00
> I’m also reminded of the experiment that Facebook ran on its users to try to make them depressed. Modifying the news feed algorithm in a controlled way to figure out if they could make users fall into a depression or not.

Study: Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111

Reporting:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-27 02:48:15+00:00
Large corporations don't make off-the-cuff comments on viral controversies. If Amazon made a statement to Variety, there were definitely urgent meetings about the issue before that statement went out.

One thing they would have concluded pretty quickly, though, is that there's no way for a large corporation to win a public argument with random small bookshops. If it was in fact inadvertent, writing a fact sheet with detailed refutations of every argument that they acted in bad faith would just make them look obnoxious. So Amazon says what they think is best to say, independent bookstores say they don't buy it, and that kinda has to be the end of it.
by Projectiboga | 2025-04-27 02:49:01+00:00
To pay $400k off over even 20 years at 6%, which is below the average student loan rate is just over $2,000 a month and it is mostly not tax free. Our society is messing up with how expensive this has gotten. The bloat is facilities and administrators who earn two and three or more times the tenured professor salary. The guarantors have to be the schools themselves and those execs who take these bloated salaries. And that interest isn't deductable other than a pittance of $2,500 or less in a year.

Here is the IRS about this;

Student loan interest is interest you paid during the year on a qualified student loan. It includes both required and voluntarily prepaid interest payments. You may deduct the lesser of $2,500 or the amount of interest you actually paid during the year. The deduction is gradually reduced and eventually eliminated by phaseout when your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) amount reaches the annual limit for your filing status.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc456
by juunpp | 2025-04-27 02:50:13+00:00
From your own link:

> There’s no proof that ejaculating more actually lowers the chances of prostate cancer. For now, doctors just know they’re connected. It may be that men who do it more tend to have other healthy habits that are lowering their odds.

> Ejaculation doesn’t seem to protect against the most deadly or advanced types of prostate cancer. Experts don’t know why.

I'm not the expert but, like all things, exercise, sleep and diet probably goes a long way.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 02:50:51+00:00
It may be instructive to ponder a while the objectives of data center placement.

Placing a data center on the coast will leave it sitting next to a large swath with no network connectivity and no land-based customers or waypoints, unless there are undersea cables.

You'll also be vulnerable to storms and flooding and all the various types of natural disasters endured by coastal dwellers. The land is expensive, yet shifting beneath your feet.

I suppose you're envisioning cooling just by dint of pumping in seawater and circulating it around? I'm not sure it works that way! The seawater may start too warm, and even just the air is wont to corrode electronics in unfavorable ways.

All things considered, I would say that a coastline is the least desirable placement for a data center. But being that I live in a thirsty urban desert that's approaching Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome status, please do not open a gigantic chip fab and new datacenters here, either!
by kcexn | 2025-04-27 02:51:28+00:00
> Furthermore, the architecture will fundamentally require a sorted index, meaning that any such a queuing / streaming system will process n messages in O (n log n).

Would using a sorted index have an impact on the measured servicing time of each message? (Not worst-case, something more like average-cass). It's made extremely clear in the Kafka docs that Kafka's relies heavily on the operating systems filesystem cache for performance, and that seeking through events on disk turns out to be very slow compared to just processing events in-order.
by SecretDreams | 2025-04-27 02:51:28+00:00
Lmao. "Great wealth transfer". At face value, it reads like a social program to actually rebalance to scales towards young people. In reality, the article is about rich people dying and transfering their wealth to their kids...

Because that is what will fix gen Z issues and beyond lol. A subset of them getting the unearned wealth of their parents.
by remarkEon | 2025-04-27 02:51:40+00:00
Conness wasn't an author of the amendment, and was an immigration advocate as part of a Machiavellian strategy to lock out the Democrats in Reconstruction-era America. I agree with you, though, there certainly were other opinions on what those words meant, and the actual author doesn't do himself any favors by trying to tread right on the line to ensure the amendment passed. In any case, SCOTUS will eventually weigh in, and probably just settle the question, at least for now. It's a pity that the argument is about just the one phrase, because the arguments about the wisdom of Jus Soli policies are much more interesting.
Show HN: I made no subscription keyword grouping and other SEO tools
by TasselHat | 2025-04-27 02:51:47+00:00
I built a keyword grouping tool as a developer managing my own websites' SEO, I found most SEO suites too expensive with only subscription based models, with lots of unnecessary features for my needs. So I made a simple tool for myself that grew into it's own product. Optiwing has tools for Keyword discovery, grouping, content briefing and blogpost drafting with LLMs, SERP checking, and SERP comparison. What I did different: Pay-as-you-go pricing with no subscriptions. A simple integrated workflow from keyword research, to grouping, to content briefing/blog post writing. Large scale keyword grouping is to identify which keywords can be targeted with a single piece of content avoiding keyword cannibilization (multiple pages trying to rank for the same keyword), using live Google search data for accuracy. I'd love feedback, especially from others managing their own SEO and find existing tools too expensive for their needs. Cheers
by throwup238 | 2025-04-27 02:52:47+00:00
It would be a ton with ~10% annualized returns on the SNP500 since 1985, especially if you reinvest dividends. Someone who lives very frugally can probably just live off the interest off that 400k alone and if they bank unitl a million, they can have a safe buffer and a comfortable lifestyle. If they reinvest all of it for fourty years since 1985 it’d be worth on the order of $10-25 million.

It’s actually quite stark how bad it’s gotten. I’d rather just give a kid that money to invest and have them live at home doing whatever work floats their fancy until they can live comfortably on interest alone.
by mindslight | 2025-04-27 02:54:05+00:00
oops. Maybe corporate America should have taken the fascist candidate with the proven track record of destruction at his own words, and donated money to conservative (aka Democratic) candidates instead.

Honestly after resuming use of Aliexpress for last minute stocking up of industrialish goods, and seeing how much stuff on there now ships direct from US warehouses, I'll likely keep checking them in addition to Amazon/eBay.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-04-27 02:54:30+00:00
> An LLM doesn’t “know” anything in the way you’re imagining. It doesn’t have stored facts or indexed knowledge to check against

Neither does your brain and yet you do "know" something.

> but it might just as easily produce a plausible-sounding but wrong one, even if the correct information was in the training data

If the majority of information that was in the LLM's training data said 1 + 1 = 3, the LLM will tell you that 1 + 1 = 3, even if there was some information that said 1 + 1 = 2, and there's nothing wrong with that because the LLM is not supposed to fact-check.

> the model’s training biases it toward correct sequences more often than incorrect ones

No, the model's training biases it toward sequences that appear more frequently.
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-27 02:54:31+00:00
The main reasons those weapons aren't used is not idealism, it's because they're not actually that effective in a battlefield scenario.

Strategic nukes in particular are a hilariously bad example here. In most cases in war, the objective is to take ground, and making the ground uningabitable is counter productive. MAD, aka "pragmatism", is the main factor that prevents their use in general.

Chemical weapons, well, let's hope MAD holds there too, to some extent. But the US to my knowledge never signed any treaties banning them. We took them out of inventory because they're not that useful to a modern, mobile military.
by hollerith | 2025-04-27 02:57:36+00:00
Nuclear weapons don't make territory uninhabitable. (Nuclear reactor meltdowns do, but they are very different.)

More precisely, ground that receives fallout is deadly for 2 or 3 weeks. Ground that has been in actual contact with a nuclear fireball might stay deadly longer than that, but that will be only a tiny fraction of the area of the attacked country.
by dralley | 2025-04-27 02:57:39+00:00
1) Obama was a moderate

2) Moderates do, in fact, have stronger appeal than leftists. It's empirically true. As evidence, see: literally just about every election where a leftist is on the ballot, with the possible exception of AOC who has Obama-tier charisma factor and also not-coincidentally has moderated her image a bit the past few years to the point where the most lefty leftists think she's a sellout.

People like Tester and Manchin overperformed in their deep-red states for a long, long time. People like Collins and Don Bacon on the other side overperform for the same reason.

The point of moderation for a Democrat is not picking up Republican votes, it's picking up votes from the 30% of the country that doesn't identify with either party, most of which are moderates.

Also, the black community is the core of the Democratic coalition, and they are pretty moderate politically, especially on social issues. Latinos are the same and that's part of the reason we've been losing them.
by shirro | 2025-04-27 03:01:41+00:00
As a child I bought mercury tilt switches from a tandy store (in Australia) with the intent of making a tilt game controller input for my terrible 8 bit computer (this was decades before acceleromters in game controllers). It was too laggy and had to be debounced and it sat in a box for years. Also had a collection of mineral ores in a drawer near my bed which probably included some dodgy stuff. This case was bullshit and appears to be more about agency politics than public safety.
by whatthesmack | 2025-04-27 03:01:41+00:00
> Voter ID laws disproportionately affect a very specific subset of the population

Can you prove that? I've never read about a single case of somebody being unable to obtain a government photo ID who was legitimately eligible to vote. People need their photo IDs for pretty much everything these days. That's why voter ID is a requirement in most countries. Because it's reasonable, it makes sense, and it benefits society more than any theoretical, unproven harm.
by kcplate | 2025-04-27 03:02:30+00:00
Birthright citizenship may be settled, but the citizen is not the one being deported, the mother is. If the mother has custody of the child and opts to bring the child with them…I doubt you can find any settled case law that establishes that a parent cannot be deported because of the citizenship status of the child….whether a child is minor or not a minor.

Perhaps I need to read it again, but nowhere do I recall reading that the citizenship of the child is being revoked, so this isn’t really challenging birthright citizenship, it’s more about challenging the notion of an anchor baby passing legal residency status to a parent.
by tzs | 2025-04-27 03:03:09+00:00
> How is the aristocracy supposed to maintain their dominance if just anyone can go to a top college? You can’t risk a middle class family sending they’re kids to a school that may qualify them for a top job in law or politics.

If they want to keep out the middle class how do you explain many of the top colleges now waiving tuition for students from upper middle class families, and waiving tuition and room and board for students from lower middle class families?
by MoonGhost | 2025-04-27 03:03:21+00:00
3D reconstruction, from stereo or mono camera, have both. Object detection, text reading. Ideally it should recognize the speaker, simple gestures. Take audio, feed speech to LLM, get the output. Being able to detect and move out of the way of walking humans. Most of it has been done, like 3d structure and localization from motion. There are reference implementations. I've done it before too.

It's sort of open ended project. Having LLM with vision on mobile robot with arm.. has a lot of applications. AGX Orin 64GB is capable of running serious models.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 03:04:47+00:00
Interestingly, your linked URL does use SSL, and despite NeverSSL's description page insisting the contrary, they are.

And it took a little jiggling to get back to unencrypted, http-only mode, which is still working, but yes, it looks like they're redirecting to some unique, rotating third-level domain label.

I would assume it's a dodge for browser software that's trying to defeat, block, or bypass the unencrypted connection. Such as a reputation-based or blackholing system. It would be bad if standard tools tried to block us from pages of such utility, wouldn't it?