MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 13:56:33+00:00
That interview managed to be jaw-dropping even after all this time with Trump in the public eye. The interviewer kept trying to move on, and Trump kept coming back to it to insist that the obviously-photoshopped letters and numbers in that photo were actual tattoos. Not that the real tattoos might somehow decode to that, but that the literal letters and numbers "MS13" were on the guy's knuckles, from a photoshop where those weren't even trying to look like tattoos, but were obviously just added by some online rando "decoding" the real ones. He truly seemed to believe it, and it's... just, WT actual F? The image clearly isn't even trying to fool anyone! It's not even credibly a fake! Someone just obviously superimposed those on it, without trying to conceal what they had done!
by mikepurvis | 2025-05-02 13:56:52+00:00
Mass deportations was right there in Project 2025, the "plan" about which Trump claimed to have no knowledge during the campaign:

https://www.aclu.org/project-2025-explained

Dude can barely string two sentences together— can't tell when a photo has been annotated and has no idea what Signal is. Thinks "groceries" is an old-fashioned word. It's pretty clear at this point that it's others behind the curtain running this show.
by js8 | 2025-05-02 13:57:01+00:00
I like your idea, but it's missing any sort of practical skills (which Dantes and Faria certainly had).

What would be more interesting, IMHO, books that Cyrus Smith from The Mysterious Island had memorized.

Just from what I saw on HN, I remember Gingery books on metal workshop from scratch, and some homesteading manual from late 19th century.
by Someone1234 | 2025-05-02 13:57:26+00:00
The problem relying on prepaid/MVNO to save us, is that MVNOs still depend on the infrastructure of the big three.

So if the big three are able to set new [higher] price standards for their own customers, eventually they will increase wholesale rates for third parties piggybacking on the network. This will of course eventually trickle down to prepaid/MVNOs.

One of the many reasons why the Sprint acquisition was anti-consumer.
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by makeitdouble | 2025-05-02 13:57:50+00:00
60B is half of what pharma companies allegedly sent back to their shareholders from insulin price hikes. There's better places to direct anger towards overspent money IMHO. At least some people are happy with their Quest 2/3.

> Novo Nordisk and Sanofi have seen huge gains as the list price of insulin has grown. The companies have collectively distributed a total of $122 billion to shareholders in the form of share buybacks and cash dividends over the period 2009-2018.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/who-benefits...
by breadwinner | 2025-05-02 13:58:06+00:00
The way to fight Trump is to form mutual defense pacts. For example, the Big Ten schools are forming a mutual defense pact [1]. All media should form a similar pact. Trump is attacking CBS 60 Minutes, New York Times, PBS, etc. Instead of giving in (big mistake, bully demands more), or fighting alone, they should form an alliance.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-ten-michigan-schools-moves-11...
by duxup | 2025-05-02 13:59:54+00:00
This almost smells like a google throwing their hands up and saying "Well maybe it's a harmful app and they should use something else ... I dunno, put a warning on it."

I see similar-ish warnings on Amazon about "frequently returned item", but I've no idea if it is true or why. Maybe an underlying vendor for the same item is bad? Amazon (who doesn't care about bad vendors as far as I can tell) just slaps a label on it and throws up their hands.
by Funes- | 2025-05-02 14:00:07+00:00
Adopting javascript universally, and consequentially making it a de facto standard, was a terrible mistake. I think the only way out of this nightmarish privacy-less state of things (in this regard) might be something like the EU putting out an extremely severe law banning all these bad practices. Banning all practices that undermine privacy is the only morally valid option; it's not only about 3rd-party cookies. It'd be an incontrovertible measure for everyone but bad actors, just like USB-C or user-removable batteries (February 2027).
by UncleMeat | 2025-05-02 14:00:12+00:00
FDR's major lasting accomplishments that people praise him for were through legislation. Even things like the threat to pack the court would have happened through legislation.

There are some highly visible examples of direct executive action that I hope everyone today sees as authoritarian (japanese internment being the really big one). But FDR's expansion of the executive is the opposite of what Trump is doing. Trump is acting in opposition to the legislation that directs the executive to have its finger in more pies.
by Asooka | 2025-05-02 14:00:19+00:00
We use 4-wide tabs and in our code style it would be

some_func( verylongarg0, verylongarg1 );

Which I feel is the most readable option. If you have to break the args into a vertical list, you want to use the least amount of whitespace before each arg. It's also a bit easier to read with every term starting at a tab break.
by lossolo | 2025-05-02 14:00:22+00:00
> China is facing an economic situation similar to the COVID lockdowns

That sentence sounds like an exaggeration—if not outright propaganda. I mean, will their 15% of exports to the US impact their economy? Will it cause a slight slowdown? Possibly. But people often forget that around $50–100 billion worth of exports were excluded from the tariffs.

Do you have any sources other than those funded by the U.S. government—especially ones without a history like this?

"On May 10, 2020, RFA published a news article titled "China Border Inspection Strengthens Inspection of Entry and Exit Nationals, International Students Had Their Passports Cut," [83] which contained a screenshot of a Reddit post by a user who said his passport had been clipped by China's border inspections. However, it was later revealed that the user's attached picture was stolen from someone else. The news triggered criticism from mainland Chinese media, saying that the claims stated in the news were incongruent with the situation.[84]

On 11 May 2021, Fact-checker First Draft News found that Chinese- and Cantonese-language versions of Radio Free Asia (RFA) published anti-vaccine misinformation regarding the Chinese vaccines, particularly the ones manufactured by Sinopharm and Sinovac. The investigation found the RFA articles amplified misleading claims about the vaccine programs, and its stories were reprinted by popular tabloid newspapers to reinforce the anti-vaccine misinformation. The RFA site did not cover suspected adverse events related to Western-made vaccines. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, program director at the National Cancer Institute, believed these articles caused vaccine hesitancy and global public health risks. Masato Kajimoto, a misinformation expert and journalism professor at the University of Hong Kong, suggested the articles were biased toward anti-Beijing messages and repeated unsubstantiated claims made by unreliable sources, such as The Epoch Times.[85]"
by amos-burton | 2025-05-02 14:00:38+00:00
> Our ideas become Oscillators

it is the muscle working, the tide going back and forth.

i liked reading it, lots of things to unpack, new descriptions of the elephant in the room to absorb.

The conclusion itches me, (sorry for the spoil, readers)

> After all, aren’t we all trying to understand our place in the universe?

are you sure about that ? that "you" are trying to do that, or that, something else works hard on you, much like in those "Goals that are physically, emotionally and economically crushing us"
by lmeyerov | 2025-05-02 14:00:50+00:00
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by footlose_3815 | 2025-05-02 14:01:43+00:00
Ramping-up authoritarianism. Since he had a whole party who was shielding him from every single law he broke, even up to corrupting the supreme court. He's now completely unfettered. As far as I'm concerned, his actions frequently have no legitimacy, and he's too shortsighted that he wouldn't expect the same treatment when he leaves office if democrats grew spines.

The 2026 midterms will be essential in checking his power.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-02 14:02:11+00:00
Teletype and all, the Altair looked and worked like an cut-down entry-level version of the minis that were popular in engineering and science.

Not as powerful as a PDP-8, but less than a tenth of the price.

It was the perfect aspirational project for the electronics hobbyist community of the time.

The fact that you could barely do anything with it wasn't the point. It was a real computer you could set up at home and use without time restrictions or hourly billing.

The S-100 bus market turned into a preview of the PC market. S-100 systems soon sprouted real terminals, floppy drives, and workable memory, and began to appear in the offices of accountants and other non-tech professionals.

The IBM PC probably wouldn't have happened without it. It normalised relatively affordable computing, and the idea of a third party market of expansion cards on a standard bus.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-02 14:02:22+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro has solved problems that Claude 3.7 cannot, so I use it for the hard stuff.

But Gemini is at least as overactive as Claude, sometimes even more overactive when it comes to something like comment spam.

Of course, this can be fixed with prompting. And sometimes it feels sheepish complaining about the machine god doing most of my chore work that didn't even exist a couple years ago.
by afavour | 2025-05-02 14:02:35+00:00
> Right now I have some faith the courts in the US will stand up to this and get the US back on track

I don't mean to sound hysterical but I don't share your faith for two main reasons:

- my faith in the Supreme Court diminishes with every year. It is clear a majority are far more motivated by ideology than a straightforward reading of the law

- Trump can just ignore the courts. We're not there yet but all signs show we're going in that direction. The end point of that trajectory is the involvement of the police and/or the military. I really, really hope we don't go there.
by ezst | 2025-05-02 14:03:00+00:00
> you simply are never going to find the swing version of Material UI or D3.js. That's more the problem that you'll run into.

I remember a time when having your application look "out of place" was undesired, and the ultimate goal was to be "as native as possible". If you are running a website selling something, I agree that you want a brand-identity and a unique look. But productive software shouldn't require users to adapt to new UX paradigms (guessing whether the cancel button comes on the left or on the right, dealing with slightly do different input method and entry shortcuts…).

Anyhow, I think things could be worse, since, as you say, we can embed a webview into any JavaFX/Qt/… app and get the best of both worlds.
by blablabla123 | 2025-05-02 14:03:21+00:00
Everybody and their dog are writing AI scrapers with Captcha passing functionality these days. None of that is new but the scale is unseen.

The thing is also that corporate scrapers are in comparison even the good guys, they respect robots.txt, have properly set user agents etc. Others might do neither and from residential IPs.

The issue isn't even new but any proper solution attempts have been postponed because CDNs seem such an easy solution.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-02 14:03:29+00:00
> Right now I have some faith the courts in the US will stand up to this and get the US back on track

You should not. The courts are doing a reasonable approximation of their job, but have no independent enforcement power against the executive and the executive is not being particularly fastidious about compliance with court orders, and there seems to be no willingness either for lower executive officers to comply regardless of direction from above or for Congress to force accountability.
by troupo | 2025-05-02 14:03:51+00:00
> If you're an indie developer who self-publishes, do you want to spend your time working on your app or on payment platform integrations?

Integrating with Stripe is easy. Or with Mollie. Or with...

> Especially the smaller self-publishing developers won't benefit from this at all.

Indeed. No one will benefit from not paying 30% of revenue to Apple.
by duxup | 2025-05-02 14:04:06+00:00
I don't see why not.

And even if not, the man has been president twice, now deciding unilaterally who can or can not get taxpayer funds, handing out pardons to rich friends / donors, free passes for big companies who ask for it.

It amazes me folks fall for that guy's populist advertisements, Trump is the elite in spades.

Make no mistake, no matter what you think of Harvard and it's grads, if Harvard submits, Trump will support them....
by dataflow360 | 2025-05-02 14:04:06+00:00
I’m in the process of moving T-Mo to Verizon after years on T-Mo’s One Plan. Total pain in the ass.

Each number port takes 20-30 minutes (less if you do multiple at a time, but it’s a tedious process).

I had 9 lines with T-Mobile, but paid for only 6 due to promos (3 free lines). I trimmed them down to 6 initially, which was supposed to bring my bill from $250 down to $185 (this was to avoid the $5/line price hike they hit older subscribers with), according to the T-Mo rep I spoke with.

In the end, I reduced the number of lines to 5. My next bill: $315! Because they removed all line promos and wouldn’t honor them. I called T-Mo and mentioned I had been told $185 for 6, so how is it $315 for 5, and was told there is no mistake and the pricing is correct. I informed them I had recorded the call where the T-Mo rep said 6 for $185, and they said it wouldn’t matter because they don’t record calls themselves for contractual purposes, just customer service quality.

So, T-Mo managed to effectively steal $100+ from me by telling me one thing, billing me for another, and providing me no advance notice or recourse to resolve that (except arbitration).

Two supervisors at T-Mobile didn’t care, even after explaining to them the situation and asking why I would cut lines if the cost was going to be more in the end. They agreed it didn’t make much sense, but that the bill was still correct and no adjustments would be made, even though I was specifically lied to. I spent probably $25,000 with T-Mo under this contract and they happily nickel and dime me for another $100 on the way out, no effort to even retain me as a customer.

That said, it’s taken a good 5 hours and a dozen calls with Verizon to get things moved over and they’re full of bad service and hidden info, too (can’t unlock new device for 60 days, so I have to carry 2 phones to have my European number/SIM with me).

Ultimately, it’s a very weird market when the 3 carriers are poaching each others customers with offers that existing customers can’t get, and then making it super annoying to exit carriers without paying for two bills for at least a month (at least when you have 9 lines).
by footlose_3815 | 2025-05-02 14:04:08+00:00
Reality is left-leaning because right-leaning is narratives created from human fear of the unknown. Their marching orders frequently come from billionaire robber barons who own too much, and want to tell the public that's OK.

If we actually swallowed the red pills, we'd all be slaves with no ownership, no education, and no rights. The same thing they frequently accuse socialism of.
by cyberlurker | 2025-05-02 14:04:11+00:00
I listen to planet money and a few other podcasts. They seem pretty fair to me. The only way I could maybe see a progressive bias is that they have representation in their staff of racial and sexual minorities. I see no issue with that.

Honest question, does NPR have any token conservative pundits or voices on their broadcasts or shows? I know they have a lot of minority representation. As usual, Trumps proposed solution is idiotic. But maybe there could be an unofficial settlement to make sure all perspectives are heard?

Assuming this is even a problem…

The attack on PBS seems ridiculous.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-02 14:04:46+00:00
PBS would say that.

Back here in reality the BBC is trusted by only about 40-44% of the British population, and actively distrusted by around a quarter. The true number who trust it is probably lower, as those polls suffer volunteering bias and other problems that push responses to the left when there's no ground truth to weight to.

There's a profound moral problem with forcing people to pay money for media they actively distrust or despise. There's certainly no link between "health" of a democracy and the funding level of state-funded media, unless you're the sort of person who defines a healthy society as one where everyone believes the government all the time.
by erkt | 2025-05-02 14:04:48+00:00
Not much of a quote.

> “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.

“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”

I listen to NPR every day, have for over fifteen years. There is a lot more yelling at the radio these days. They are very open with their bias. They only promote programing that services the lefts cultural position. There is not a shred of balanced coverage here. They treat their economic and moral theory as accepted and undisputed fact. This isn't news anymore.

Congress is forbidden from exercising editorial control, but is China? Love when they choose to push articles like this, or focus on Tik tok "stealing data" rather than "shamelessly influencing our children" with that data. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260742/tiktok-china-re...
by Eextra953 | 2025-05-02 14:05:36+00:00
Another lame attempt at ruling by decree. The CPB was deliberately designed with guardrails to avoid partisanship - the president appoints board members, and no more than five from the same party.

If you've listened to NPR or watched PBS, you know they're about as neutral as you can get while still covering both mainstream sides.

This style of governance is so lazy - instead of working through Congress to change the law, he tries to bully an independent board into doing what he wants. It's also so easy to oppose, the board can just ignore it.
by smusamashah | 2025-05-02 14:05:44+00:00
I tried Urdu. The music quality seems good but the pronunciation is wrong (e.g. slight aa sound instead of ee sound) for many simple common words and helper words.

But I don't understand why its wrong. If its trained on lots of Urdu/Hindi music, no one pronounces those words like that. How does it get the a/e wrong while still singing almost correctly? It's weird.
by pjc50 | 2025-05-02 14:05:50+00:00
Hmm. I'm not sure about this aspect of history. iPhone app store launch was July 2008, Play Store launch was October 2008. Symbian store was actually after this (yes, really) https://venturebeat.com/business/mobile-os-company-symbian-e...

Which app stores pre-dated iOS?

Now, Symbian and various others had apps, but you had to buy them through the carrier. And carriers were even worse gatekeepers than Apple!
by post_break | 2025-05-02 14:05:54+00:00
This is what bad management at Apple looks like. They were now forced to cut off the spice flow that is millions of dollars of IAPs from games in their coveted services pie chart because they got cocky. Roblox alone is going to show up on their balance chart. Epic throwing water on an oil fire with their comments make me grin, they are the reason Apple lowered AppStore pricing, and now they are the reason Apple can no longer collect rent from Patreon (which collects rent themselves). Epic won due to Apple's on hubris.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 14:06:06+00:00
Some folks speculate that this judge in particular has realized she's either got to keep permitting delays and obvious shenanigans, or she gets to go into the history books as the judge whose case was the breaking point at which the executive went completely, mask-off lawless. Folks suppose she'd prefer someone else get that honor, so is hoping to let the government delay long enough that the case is mooted (because the dude's dead) or another case gets to that point first.
by gwd | 2025-05-02 14:06:19+00:00
I think the guardrails were designed to hold someone like Trump once; and then afterwards he was supposed to be convicted of his crimes, or at least never elected again. The guardrails are fundamentally held in place by hundreds of thousands of individuals making individual decisions. People who are asked to break the law can expect that in a few years they'll be vindicated, or at least fear that in a few years they would be punished for going along with the illegal orders.

I'm much more worried about the guardrails when people like that get re-elected: suddenly going along with the illegal action is by far the safest thing to do.
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-02 14:06:22+00:00
The Courts have no enforcement power. If the Executive proves unwilling to accede to court orders, the Courts don't have the legal ability to use violence to compel the Executive.

At that point, it comes down to whether Congress will impeach and remove. If Congress will not impeach and remove, the Courts are defanged and we functionally have (at least) four years of Executive rule with no legal check on that authority. If Congress will impeach and remove, it comes down to whether the Executive complies.

If the Executive does not comply...

... the point is, a lot in the American system actually hinges on the Executive's consent. And the man in the chair right now has no incentive to consent (he knows the moment the chair is no longer his, the weight of the American legal system will come down on his head and he'll at least spend the rest of his life in court cases if not incarcerated. Multiple states want his ass on a platter for crimes in their jurisdictions outside of his function as President).

It's a very dangerous time for the American Experiment, existentially.