MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lesuorac | 2025-05-09 12:55:23+00:00
I mean if so many of them are scared they can just caucus with the nearly (but not actually) 50% of congress members that are democrats [1].

It's really just republicans are only unified in presenting a unified front so when it comes to actually doing something like electing a speaker [2] [3] the lack of alignment becomes obvious. So they aren't doing anything to counteract trump because they aren't as a whole unified in that it's something they want but they're unified in not fracturing and helping democrats.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2023_Speaker_of_the_Un...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2023_Speaker_of_the_Un...
by AIoverlord | 2025-05-09 12:55:48+00:00
AI does and its not just 'AI'.

We are now switching over to a self optimizing system approach.

We had big data and didn't do anything with it but now whenever we do something with an LLM, we give it feedback, its getting processed benchmarked stored and used.

ChatGPT 3 was not impressive because it was good, it was impressive because it showed everyone that we started this ara now. This lead to massive reallocation of resources around the globe from a human and money perspective.

Whatever we had with ChatGPT-3 was build with humans and money significant less than what we now have. Which leads to progress unseen before and this will continue at least for now.
by pfdietz | 2025-05-09 12:55:52+00:00
We can pursue high energy intensive activities with renewables, higher than if we use fusion.

On Earth, solar allows high energy use before we run into limits from direct thermal pollution, since it uses energy already hitting the planet rather than introducing new energy.

In space, the energy available from sunlight vastly exceeds any available from fusion, and the feasibility difference tilts even more toward solar.

For mobility in space, beamed power will be best, and solar works with that just fine, even out to interstellar distances.
by lolinder | 2025-05-09 12:57:33+00:00
> Do parliamentary democracies have this feature? I don't think so. And they are "truly democratic" in my book.

I can't speak for all parliamentary elections, but in the UK MPs must be put to the vote at least once every 5 years, and in practice elections are called more frequently than that. I'm unsure what a system that elects for life but is still a democracy would look like: do you have ideas in mind?
by trollbridge | 2025-05-09 12:57:50+00:00
The statue is vague! It could cover neglect.

Perhaps a mother goes to the confessional. “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned. I am deep in debt and couldn’t afford food this week for my kids. So I stole $50 from the cash drawer at my job.”

Now the priest is aware of a possible child neglect situation. What next? Should he consult a lawyer to find out if he needs to report this or not?

Does he report the entire confession? Or just the child neglect part?
Show HN: Built the tool I wish existed when I started traveling – 5,700 cities
by yaircohendev | 2025-05-09 12:58:18+00:00
Me and my wife started to nomad again a year ago and had troubles finding which destinations to go to.

Existing websites like NomadList have issues like paywalling basic data, having data that is not up to date, and limited selection in cities.

So for the past few months we worked on a tool called Nomadlio which aims to help nomads & travelers find which destination to go to.

Here's what we offer: - 5701 cities to choose from - Monthly Airbnb data (not yearly averages) - Filters for Visas, AQI, Walkability, Costs, Timezones, Weather & many more. - 100% free & transparent regarding where the data is from and how it's calculated

Feedback is welcome, we track all issues in a public roadmap: https://nomadlio.com/roadmap
by bko | 2025-05-09 12:58:42+00:00
But they're more productive. Your assumption is there is a fixed amount of engineering work to do so you need to hire fewer programmers, which is untrue. Every organization I worked at could have invested a lot more in engineering, be-it infrastructure, analytics, automation, etc.

Even if there were a fixed amount of work to do and we're already near that max amount, salaries still wouldn't necessarily go down. Again, they're more productive. Farming used to be 90% of the workforce in the US in the early 1900s. Now farmers are more productive and they're only 2% of the workforce. Do these farmers today earn a lower salary adjusted for inflation than 100 years ago? Of course not, because they're much more productive now with tools.

Generally wages track productivity. The more productive, the higher the wage.

Another example is bank tellers. With the advent of the ATM, somehow bank teller salaries didn't drop in real terms.

Show me an example of where this played out. Someone was made much more productive through technology and their salary dropped considerably
by AIoverlord | 2025-05-09 12:59:10+00:00
Thats not true at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history

And im not unlawful just because i don't believe in a God. Its the opposite: Im more lawful than a believing person.

I'm not just following something because someone else said that another person with some form of 'authority' read a book and interpreted some old text from 2000 years ago in a specific way.

I'm questioning rules based on logic and social environment.
by trollbridge | 2025-05-09 12:59:50+00:00
No, because you aren’t a mandated reporter, although in PA the laws are so broad that a volunteer who sweeps the Sunday school classrooms ends up being a mandated reporter.

It would be unconstitutional to require all citizens to “report” crimes they hear other people confess to them, for rather obvious reasons, although I’m sure some state government will try that next.
by madcaptenor | 2025-05-09 13:00:15+00:00
I was wondering whether Wikipedia would comment. They don't, but somebody already edited Bhumibol's article to say that "His father was enrolled in the public health program at Harvard University, which is why Bhumibol was the only monarch to be born in the US until the 2025 papal conclave elected Pope Leo XIV."

There are some sources indicating that children of foreign sovereigns would be exempt from automatic citizenship, but Bhumibol's father wasn't the king, just the king's brother.

Éamon de Valera's case is unambiguous.

There are surely other world leaders who spent significant time in the US - Benjamin Netanyahu spent some time in the Philadelphia area as a child, for example. And a little bit of research turns up Naftali Bennett, prime minister of Israel in 2021-22 - he was a US citizen (born in Israel to US citizen parents) until he had to renounce his US citizenship when elected to the Knesset.

Famously Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel (which is a largely ceremonial post), which presumably would have come with Israeli citizenship, but he turned it down.
by johnisgood | 2025-05-09 13:01:33+00:00
> A common misconception is that WebAssembly can only run in web browsers. Although "Web" is part of its name, WebAssembly is not limited to browsers. It's designed to be a platform-independent technology that can run in various environments, including IoT devices, edge computing, artificial intelligence, game development, backend services, or cloud services. Its portable binary format allows it to execute efficiently across different platforms and architectures.

I am not going to lie, I thought the same because of the name, too.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-05-09 13:01:36+00:00
This is what I wish KDE's Karbon was - a friendly but quick and capable SVG editor.

Granted, I wish it somehow could had the functionalities SVG Path Editor[0] has, which I haven't been able to find in any other editor (like, for example, converting absolute `<path>` coordinates to relative, editing each line, curve, and so on for each `<path>`).

Another feature that would be great to have but would require a monumental amount of work, or maybe even be its own project, would be animation.
by dbagr | 2025-05-09 13:02:17+00:00
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I am a QA with experience in automated test development for the web, web development, system administration, software integration, writing documentation. I am interested in any role that requires one or multiple of these skills.
by nabla9 | 2025-05-09 13:03:16+00:00
>(a) When any member of the clergy, practitioner, county coroner or medical examiner, law enforcement officer, professiona school personnel, registered or licensed nurse, social service counselor, psychologist, pharmacist, employee of the department of children, youth, and families, licensed or certified child care providers or their employees, employee of the department of social and health services, juvenile probation officer, diversion unit staff, placement and liaison specialist, responsible living skills program staff, HOPE center staff, state family and children's ombuds or any volunteer in the ombuds' office, or host home program has reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect, he or she shall report such incident, or cause a report to be made, to the proper law enforcement agency or to the department as provided

>(b) When any person, in his or her official supervisory capacity with a nonprofit or for-profit organization, has reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect caused by a person over whom he or she regularly exercises supervisory authority, he or she shall report such incident, or cause a report to be made, to the proper law enforcement agency, provided that the person alleged to have caused the abuse or neglect is employed by, contracted by, or volunteers with the organization and coaches, trains, educates, or counsels a child or children or regularly has unsupervised access to a child or children as part of the employment, contract, or voluntary service.
by ghaff | 2025-05-09 13:03:45+00:00
I mean, if you're Apple, of course you're doing research on what is possible with respect to "smart" eyewear. I'm not convinced anything really interesting is possible in the near-term. But a company in Apple's space with their cash pile would be utterly short-sighted to not be looking at various possibilities. After all, they did a watch when a lot of the common wisdom was that young people don't wear watches any longer.
by madcaptenor | 2025-05-09 13:03:46+00:00
The Peruvians definitely seem to be happy about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/08/pope-leo-xiv-p...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewdl4e57v7o

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/for-us-pope-is-peruvi...

and, unsurprisingly, the Peruvian-Americans:

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/paterson-nj-new-pope-le...
by chrbr | 2025-05-09 13:04:59+00:00
F1TV had some fun with it in their usual post-race programming: Joylon Palmer (F1TV announcer) did a deadpan "breakdown" of the Lego race during his segment, and Sam Collins analyzed the aerodynamics of the Lego cars in his.

The drivers all said it was the best driver's parade they've been in. I don't know how marketing like this works, and if it was worth it for Lego in the end, but what a masterstroke. Lots of fun organic mentions of Lego over the past week because of it.
by harimau777 | 2025-05-09 13:05:20+00:00
I think that the Catholic Church would argue that violating confidentiality could lead to people not confessing not only now but in the future. That in turn could lead to numerous souls suffering in hell for eternity.

Certainly people who don't share the Catholic Church's religious beliefs may not agree, but it does seem logical that eternal suffering in hell would outweigh temporary suffering during life; even something as horrible as child sexual abuse.

I imagine that priests in that situation would pay a heavy psychological toll for maintaining confidentiality. However, they believe that in the long run it is the best, most moral course of action.
by trollbridge | 2025-05-09 13:05:28+00:00
You have a belief system, and that’s fine. But it’s still a belief system, and it forms the foundation for why you would be lawful.

If I lived under the Stasi regime or the regime the preceded it, I might not be such a “lawful” person. I believe some laws today are ones I wouldn’t follow, partly guided by religious belief. For example, I am not interested in turning in illegal aliens just for being here illegally regardless of if laws are passed saying I have to do so.
by bluGill | 2025-05-09 13:06:08+00:00
Neat is very important for consistent performance.

A restaurant can improve performance during the "lunch rush" by letting neat slip, but that carelessness is already costing them performance at the end of the lunch rush - this works because just as this catches up they get several hours in the afternoon to clean things up. Then supper crowd where they do it again - then they have the rest of the night to clean up from that. (the restaurants I worked in didn't have a breakfast rush, YMMV)

A factory by contrast needs to keep things neat and consistent all the time because there is never a rush/downtime. They want things rolling off the line at a consistent pace all day. Any compromise for speed now is a cost latter in the day.

I have never been in an Amazon warehouse so I don't have great insight into what things are like. I would expect they want to be more consistent all day - but I don't know. Maybe all the trucks arrive at once and then they get time when they are gone to clean up. I wouldn't expect that, but maybe.
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-05-09 13:06:12+00:00
>a suspension of offensive cyber operations against Russia in March.

uhhh... why are we commiting offensive cyber operations against a nuclear power? Somewhere in your line you seems to think that it's justified? And that biden was doing the right thing by provoking a major power?

Some people just want the world to burn, and when someone puts out the fire, they think that's unamerican?
by joekrill | 2025-05-09 13:06:16+00:00
> This has strong vibes of “If only Linus Torvalds had charged for Linux, he would have been a rich man today.”. It does not work that way.

Not at all similar. Linus explicitly made his software free. Romero didn't _intentionally_ exclude the copyright notice, and had no explicit intention of making it free.

> It’s not “ironic”, it’s completely expected. If it was only an old black-and-white movie, still subject to copyright, today the movie would be a historical footnote at best.

"completely expected" is quite a stretch. Simply making it public domain wouldn't be enough. It still has to be a good movie. I'm sure there are countless other public domain black-and-white movies that no one has ever heard of.
Show HN: Rust-lxc – LXC bindings and CLI tool in Rust
by ta2ozg | 2025-05-09 13:06:35+00:00
Hi HN! I built rust-lxc a lightweight CLI Rust bindings for liblxc. It supports container creation, deletion, starting/stopping, listing and shutdown.

Fully tested and published on: → https://crates.io/crates/rust-lxc

Feedback, contributions or suggestions are more than welcome! Thanks!
by dirtyhippiefree | 2025-05-09 13:06:56+00:00
https://www.theregister.com/2005/05/13/otto_rosen/

(Hillary Rosen) presented the notion of lawsuits against consumers that her successor Mitch Bainwol would turn into a course of action. Who among us hasn't wanted to slit the tendons of thieves and watch as they hemorrhage justice back to The Man?

Rosen, however, led a fruitless crusade that in the long-term was more of an attack against capitalism's progress than the defense of intellectual property rights.
by eesmith | 2025-05-09 13:07:05+00:00
> That had little effect on Americans unless they were the small minority of Japanese.

Or the people killed in the Port Chicago disaster, and when enlisted men later refused to work due to unsafe conditions, they were court-martialed. ("Widespread publicity surrounding the case turned it into a cause célèbre among Americans opposing discrimination targeting African Americans; it and other race-related Navy protests of 1944–45 led the Navy to change its practices and initiate the desegregation of its forces beginning in February 1946.", quoting Wikipedia.)

Or the infamous Zoot Suit riots, where newly arrived white American servicemen thought Hispanic culture, including wearing zoot suits, was anti-American and unpatriotic - L.A. was one of several cities during the war with race riots (eg, the Beaumont race riot of 1943 caused by relocated white defense workers who attacked local black residents).
by weberer | 2025-05-09 13:07:12+00:00
Because the link is to blogspam. The real source is Bloomberg

https://archive.is/qLqaF

They're developing two different models of glasses with cameras, completely ignoring the creepyness issues that made everyone hate Google Glass. If you're hoping for simple glasses with a HUD for notifications, time, etc, then don't hold your breath for the Apple glasses.
by bayindirh | 2025-05-09 13:09:02+00:00
Depends on how they're built, and building them takes experience. Plus, if their MTBF is long enough with enough hot spares, you can rotate the problematic ones out fix them while they are being replaced from the hot-spares pool.

When you are not budget constrained, and building things for businesses, a little overengineering goes a long way.

I have a Xerox 7500DN color laser printer next to me, and it's working for more than 20 years at this point. It has gone through a lot of spares, but most (if not all) issues are from parts wearing down naturally. Nothing breaks unexpectedly on that. Same for robots. Give enough design budget, overengineer a little, and that thing will be one hell of an ugly but reliable machinery.

When you work with real "industrial" stuff, the landscape is very different.
by Alex_001 | 2025-05-09 13:09:16+00:00
Overpopulation in China has contributed to high job competition, leaving many people unemployed or underemployed. As a result, many are now willing to work long hours for lower wages just to make ends meet. Culturally, China places a strong emphasis on community and collective effort, valuing group success over individual recognition. This mindset, combined with a deep focus on efficiency, has been a key driver behind China’s success in manufacturing.

Let's see if there's anyone else that can give us more insight from the view of US.
by derbOac | 2025-05-09 13:09:21+00:00
I share your perspective; my guess is if it was copyrighted it probably would have had the same status. My guess is it would have been distributed relatively cheaply with the same outcome.

However, I also think it's reasonable to posit it might not have attained the same status had it not gone out of copyright. Easy access can really affect awareness and buzz around films, especially in certain genres like horror.

Horror films were already shifting in tone by 1968. Psycho was a 1960 release, for example, and The Birds was released in 1963. Carnival of Souls has a similar aesthetic as Night of the Living Dead and was released in 1962.
by zahlman | 2025-05-09 13:09:51+00:00
No. You say that you wrote questions that you thought are "valid".

But everyone who writes a question thinks their questions are "valid", or they wouldn't post in the first place. You aren't the one who gets to decide whether a question meets the standards to stay open; when a question is closed, you are the one primarily responsible for fixing the problem identified with it.

And "valid" is not the standard: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/417476 I don't understand why, but the adjective "valid" seems to be very popular among people who complain about having their question closed. It has nothing to do with how our standards are written, though.

Speaking of which, you also claimed that the people who closed your questions had "no apparent reason other than 'those who reviewed it have no clue and think that it is invalid'". But this directly contradicts what you were told about the closure - I know this because there is a very small set of things you can be told by the system, and none of them matches that description. You have no evidence to back up that mindset; and, as far as I can tell, instead of trying to use the meta site and/or comments to get clarification, you assumed bad faith.

Questions are closed preemptively as an injunction against answers, not as a punishment, as I repeatedly explained throughout this thread. I've also more recently posted a reference question (with my own answer, among others) on the meta site explaining this to would-be answerers: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/429808 (Here I used the word "valid" in the title deliberately as an eye-catch, because I'm not just noticing the trend now.)

All of this happens because questions and answers are for everyone; it's not just about you as the poster. We're trying to maintain quality control for the benefit of countless future readers, not answering a question in the hopes that you, personally, have a better day programming experience as a result (typically referred to as "operating as a help desk" or similar on meta). We want everyone to have the experience of searching for an answer and directly getting one - not getting lost in someone else's conversation or spending time trying to figure out what they're talking about, or verifying that they're in the right place.

Because the latter experience has existed since the creation of phpBB, if not Usenet. And Stack Overflow was specifically borne out of frustration with it.
by duxup | 2025-05-09 13:10:35+00:00
Yeah I thought of that too. I'm sure Apple is researching a lot. But research and actual product getting out the door are different things.

I was listening to a Steve Jobs interview and he told a story that they were working on a tablet, but once they saw what it could do they shelved it and went to work on the iPhone instead because they thought it was more relevant there.

That's to say, who knows what happens with this research.
by notpushkin | 2025-05-09 13:10:44+00:00
Yeah, but this function needn’t run in the browser. Just generate HTML with it and save into a file! (I don’t have a link to npm handy, but I’m sure there’s a library that can do that already.)

Alternatively, you can use Astro with React components, which will render them using React-DOM, but save them as static HTML by default (you can still choose some components to be hydrated, though).
by mingus88 | 2025-05-09 13:10:54+00:00
It’s worse than that; they will be punished for slowing down to do the right thing. The system encourages bad behavior.

Amazon has been my last resort for items going back a few years now. I am fine paying a bit more, waiting a few more days, or having to go out of my way to pick something up.

Life was fine before Amazon. In many ways it was better. We need to remind them of this.
by exiguus | 2025-05-09 13:11:14+00:00
That's a good suggestion, and it works well if you know which sites have changed before building.

> Even better, don't pre-render anything until the first time it's requested, then render, serve, and cache it.

This is essentially what Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) does.

But, mostly you pre-render it, because else, the first user has to wait to long for the page. ISR is also re-rendering for the next user. The current user has the old version and the page is re-rendering in the background for the next user.

The JAMstack architecture is advantageous because it allows for the use of simple servers—essentially S3 buckets that can serve static files. This setup requires less security patching and reduces costs for server hardware. Additionally, the server essentially acts as your cache, allowing you to distribute it widely.