MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simplesimon890 | 2025-06-27 23:09:43+00:00
As others have commented, the Irish language is called Irish when describing it in English, and Gaeilge in the language itself.

Online people can get a bit snippy about calling it the wrong thing, even though they don't necessarily have a great grasp of the language itself. There's a lot of post-colonial baggage with regard to people's relationship with the language (IMO)

In Ireland, the term Gaelic typically refers to the general Irish identity and culture. Almost always, when people use the term Gaelic in everyday speech they're referring to Gaelic Games, which are the indigenous sports of Ireland. Gaelic Football, Hurling, Handball, and rounders. The GAA ( Gaelic Athletic Association ) that governs the games are in every village, town, and city, and the sports are probably the strongest expression of Gaelic culture in the country.

Some highlights of the 2 most popular games.

Gaelic Football https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT5Zjx4fTXI

Hurling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Vw66Zs0dQ
by siliconc0w | 2025-06-27 23:10:02+00:00
It's wild that that the supreme court can just avoid ruling on the actual patently illegal and unconstitutional action that this administration is taking and instead solely focus on a procedural mechanism that is being used to stop that illegal action.

Oh but the high court of chancery in england! They didn't have them, so we can't either! Never mind that is 2025, we're a different nation, the federal government has a lot more power, and we have these injunctions for all of Biden's term and they had plenty of opportunity to stop them but said nothing when it was for protecting gun rights or denying women's healthcare.
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-27 23:10:46+00:00
No, all of these cases are not resolved to this day

Title IX issue is not resolved. Public charge rule resolved itself because the Biden admin rescinded the rule. But not before creating mass confusion. Trump travel ban was resolved by SCOTUS as valid once Trump modified the ban

The point is that nationwide injunctions from different district courts created that chaos in the first place, often forcing rushed Supreme Court intervention just to untangle conflicting orders
by verteu | 2025-06-27 23:10:51+00:00
The Supreme Court explicitly rejected this reasoning in Plyler v. Doe (1982).

> This Court's prior cases... cannot be distinguished on the asserted ground that persons who have entered the country illegally are not "within the jurisdiction" of a State even if they are present within its boundaries and subject to its laws. Nor do the logic and history of the Fourteenth Amendment support such a construction. Instead, use of the phrase "within its jurisdiction" confirms the understanding that the Fourteenth Amendment's protection extends to anyone, citizen or stranger, who is subject to the laws of a State, and reaches into every corner of a State's territory. Pp. 457 U. S. 210-216.
by aryonoco | 2025-06-27 23:11:05+00:00
My experience has been the same. I have found it much easier to write good Nim and F# code with Claide Code, than say modern Python with type hints everywhere.

Both Nim and F# have strong types and strict compilers (arguably more strict in case of F#). These factors matter a lot more than how much code there is for the LLM to train on. And there probably is less ostensibly bad Nim and F# code out there than old Python code written by people who were not really developers, so the training data set is higher quality.
by ryukoposting | 2025-06-27 23:11:27+00:00
Tell Discord that!

Think about it from the POV of a Windows user, especially one who has never used Linux before, and especially one who doesn't know what HN is. To install a program, the first thing you're going to do is type "discord" into your browser, and go to their website. Discord's website doesn't suggest that there's a better option. It just gives you a DEB file.
by int_19h | 2025-06-27 23:11:52+00:00
Either way, so long as it's legal to have guns, but they are disproportionally distributed along political lines, it makes sense to try to counterbalance that.

As it is, with gun ownership leaning firmly right, Trump has a massive number of armed paramilitaries that he could lean on. In any large-scale suppression of political dissent, those would be the people breaking your door at night, not uniformed feds (there simply isn't enough of the latter). Thus even if you're anti-gun in principle, it still makes sense for left-leaning people in this country to arm given the overall political climate.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-06-27 23:11:59+00:00
I was lucky enough to work for Manx Software starting, I believe, in 1988. So I not only had free access to all of the Aztec C products, but also learned tremendous amounts from being able to see and work on the source code itself.

I also ended up being a VI guy because Manx had their own vi implementation…

Memories indeed.
by tocs3 | 2025-06-27 23:12:44+00:00
I have not had time to read the article yet, but does anyone have an informed opinion about this? There was a time that I would have jumped (at least in a small way) but much of what is going on in the world makes me generally more skeptical. Is anyone lining up to buy this?

Edit /Adding.

Another article from coindesk. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/25/tokenized-share...

That also says:

Permission from SpaceX or other firms isn’t necessary as the tokens represent securities sold by Republic itself, said Republic CEO Kendrick Nguyen.
by jrflowers | 2025-06-27 23:13:33+00:00
> Her effect in these cases is profoundly pathological on the public discourse.

I love this. “Everybody that disagrees with me is hysterical and it is actually the dissent’s fault” is a fantastic take. It is literally impossible to simultaneously disagree with you about this and also be of sound mind. I feel like you could have worded this a tad differently, “I am very smart. Possibly the smartest, and the sanest. I am superlatively smart and sane, and my brain is very good.” would have been more succinct.
by underlipton | 2025-06-27 23:14:19+00:00
Not until the one-two punch of Obama not insisting on his SCOTUS nominee being pushed through, and RBG not retiring in time for him to have a second. You could put it as late as the DNC pushing Clinton as the 2016 presidential nominee and/or pushing for Trump to be the GOP nominee (with the rationale that he'd be easy to defeat).
by mjburgess | 2025-06-27 23:15:41+00:00
I'm unclear on which cases you're referring to. Roe v. Wade is the closest I can think of -- its not clear to me that this being handled by changes to state constitutions hasn't been a net benefit to the robustness of abortion law in the US. Or perhaps you mean presidental immunity.

However, either way, its very hard to defend the view that the US constitution entails a democratic limit on abortion.

When the SC rules that something is required or forbidden by the constitution, they mean that it is beyond the power of congress to permit or prescribe it; it is is completely outside of democratic control.

The majority of the court today have a judicial philosophy which was common to the court for most of its history whereby one would only, in extremely certain cases, rule an issue entirely outside of the democratic process -- ie., decided entirely by the constitution alone, as interpreted by 9 people.

It isnt the job of the SC to make america moral, or require the whole of the US to follow how you wish things to be -- their constitutional role is to prevent the operation of democracy in extremely clear cut cases.

As for presidential immunity -- all constitutional centres of power (congress, the courts, the president) have immunities in the exercise of that power. These are required to enable them to function as balances of power against the other. Eg., if the president could arrest a judge for a bad judgement, the courts would not balance the executive.

The court confirmed only that the president has no more or less the necessary kind of immunity that each branch has -- and this is a clear requirement of the balance of power system set up in the constitution.

They left open, very widely, grounds on which a president acting outside of the duties of the office, could be prosecuted. And they clearly believed trump could be on at least some of those grounds.
by convolvatron | 2025-06-27 23:16:18+00:00
not a lawyer, but I believe the process involves (a) deciding if there is a case at all to be argued, which is this case there clearly is, and (b) weighing the harm of letting the government send US citizens to Sudan or life in prison in El Salvador vs the harm that would be caused by preventing the government from doing that while the case is adjudicated - which seems to be nonexistent.
by allan_s | 2025-06-27 23:17:09+00:00
I think it's more that communities were smaller and more consistent. People didn't move that much. Your neighbors were your lifelong neighbors, and the postman was your lifelong postman, so you knew him, and your neighbors knew him, so they didn't lack trust in anybody—they had trust in their local "social network," both toward specific individuals, and because of the implicit "peer pressure" that kept everybody in line. I.e the postman would have not been able to run away with your child without the whole community being after him.
by ggm-at-algebras | 2025-06-27 23:17:21+00:00
I think this gets to the heart of what third party/alternate gui style means. Either we abstract the control elements to a common core and then what we call them, and their main points can change, but they are understood in metaform for what they are, or we have .. soup.

Ctrl-c Ctrl-v are just one instantiation. Open, new, open old, reopen, settings, help, print, there's hundreds of potential points which by default will hang off a burger menu and which either do not conform to a specific style guide or else don't behave the same compiled ifdef #this package against ifdef #that platform.

On a mac, it's policed. It's almost the lead value proposition.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-27 23:17:44+00:00
> The amendment was quite obviously targeted at Native Americans and slaves…

Just to return to this for a moment… this is quite incorrect. Native Americans were explicitly not included. That came later.

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

"Consistent with the views of the clause's author, Senator Jacob M. Howard, the Supreme Court held that because Indian reservations are not under the federal government's jurisdiction, Native Americans born on such land are not entitled to birthright citizenship. The 1887 Dawes Act offered citizenship to Native Americans who accepted private property as part of cultural assimilation, while the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act offered citizenship to all Native Americans born within the nation's territorial limits."

SCOTUS did rule on the anchor babies thing, in 1898.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark
by joshuamorton | 2025-06-27 23:18:48+00:00
They were.

"C. The District Court’s Remedy Was Improper" is a section of the petition for cert in The mifeprestone case from the Biden admin[0], where the SC overruled the district court's PI, but declined to address the question of whether it's PI was reasonable.

[0]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/...
by underlipton | 2025-06-27 23:19:10+00:00
Brian Thompson's death didn't seem to have any major consequences along those lines. Targeted assassinations seem to be kosher for avoiding crackdowns. If someone were to shoot Peter Thiel in the head, do we REALLY expect to see a sudden descent into oppressive authoritarianism? Or, as with Thompson, do most people say, "Eh, he had it coming," and keep it moving?
by ycombinatrix | 2025-06-27 23:19:16+00:00
Are your sockets in blocking or non-blocking mode?

If you are sequentially sending updates to each client in blocking mode, one single slow client will block execution and slow everything down for everyone. Basically forcing all clients to run as slowly as the slowest client.

In non-blocking mode, only the slow client will suffer. You will need to buffer the output individually per client because each one will consume the data at different rates.

Are you already using libuv?

You should also consider making typing updates unreliable or at least less reliable since they presumably aren't critical for gameplay e.g. dropping typing updates to a client if their send buffer is full will drastically improve performance on slow connections.
by dpe82 | 2025-06-27 23:20:35+00:00
And if the judgement is in error, it will be appealed and overruled by a higher court. This is how our system works. We're only seeing it as a "problem" lately because the past few administrations have leaned increasingly heavily on unilateral executive action rather than legislation as the constitution designs, and as we'd been doing successfully for the previous 200 years.
by gmueckl | 2025-06-27 23:21:21+00:00
Have you ever seen submissions to IOCCC or Underhanded C Code Contest? That is what too much syntactic flexibility looks like (if taken to the extreme).

If you want your code to be secure, you need it to be correct. And in order for it to be correct, it needs to be comprehensible first. And that requires syntax and semantics devoid of weird surprises.
by jc4p | 2025-06-27 23:21:49+00:00
i've been trying to keep up with this field (image generation) so here's quick notes I took:

Claude's Summary: "Normalizing flows aren't dead, they just needed modern techniques"

My Summary: "Transformers aren't just for text"

1. SOTA model for likelihood on ImageNet 64×64, first ever sub 3.2 (Bits Per Dimension) prev was 2.99 by a hybrid diffusion model

2. Autoregressive (transformers) approach, right now diffusion is the most popular in this space (it's much faster but a diff approach)

tl;dr of autoregressive vs diffusion (there's also other approaches)

Autoregression: step based, generate a little then more then more

Diffusion: generate a lot of noise then try to clean it up

The diffusion approach that is the baseline for sota is Flow Matching from Meta: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02747 -- lots of fun reading material if you throw both of these into an LLM and ask it to summarize the approaches!
by jamesharding | 2025-06-27 23:21:59+00:00
I do actually have my GA flying included in this data, it’s just pretty minimal these days! GA flying is very expensive in the UK.

I still fly our family airplane when I am home in Canada, but it only amounts to a few hours a year. You can see the flight time for “7KCAB” very slowly trickling up in the cumulative time graph at the bottom.
by krackers | 2025-06-27 23:22:38+00:00
Some of this seems a bit related to Wolfram Mathematica's natural language capabilities.

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/FreeFormAndExte...

It can (in theory) do very similar things, where natural-language input is a first class citizen of the language and can operate on other objects. The whole thing came out almost a decade before LLMs, I'm surprised that they haven't revamped it to make it really shine.
by allan_s | 2025-06-27 23:23:16+00:00
the postman in those days was not a random stranger, he was certainly the son of the Smith from the village next door that your cousin went to school with. And even if he was a total stranger at the beginning of his career, after twenty years of delivering your mails every day, you knew him, you had discussed with him, he was certainly invited to drink coffee or beer during his service by some old retired farmers, so he had acquired your trust.
by tukantje | 2025-06-27 23:23:19+00:00
This really depends on what field the product is in.

In my opinion; if you can't sell it you could also try to hand it over to another company / third party. Finding someone to take over a project takes a bit of time but it'd allow for it to survive.

However you need legal advice, fast. First talk to a lawyer who understands this.
by roarcher | 2025-06-27 23:23:39+00:00
I have felt like that. When I was a child.

And you totally can opt out. You can go live in a mud hut in the woods. People do it all the time. But we both know that's not what the original commenter means by "opting out of society". They mean "I want to opt out of contributing to society while somehow still enjoying its benefits". Sorry, but it just doesn't work that way, and it is indeed childish to think that it should, at least as long as those benefits come from the contributions of other people.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-27 23:24:23+00:00
I don't know specifically about the tech sector, but large corporations and the very wealthy in general tend to pay less tax than you'd think. Sometimes a lot less. Sometimes zero.

When you have enough assets, you can arrange your things in creative ways that minimize tax liability. Tax avoidance is legal and the tax code is written expecting it, tax evasion (doing something prohibited or failing to do something required) is not.

This is also why, when you see things like "business taxes are at X%", that's not really true. That's just the highest tax possible, which is never what's actually paid.
by gwerbret | 2025-06-27 23:25:18+00:00
> Or were they just not aware that the same information (and more) is freely available on people search websites today? (one of which has the same namesake as that large white book)

This -- while people realize that Google et al. have hordes of personal information about them, they don't expect that information to be available to the general public (thus the horror). Similarly, I expect people would be horrified to find out just how much personal information the data brokers have. There's an aspect of cognitive dissonance at play.
by jm20 | 2025-06-27 23:25:32+00:00
Student visas tied into tech hiring, so it's at least tangentially related. But I agree, that should've probably been scrubbed as well.

Not sure why I'm being downvoted. It's literally in the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Trump's court battles are hardly a new interesting phenomenon.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-27 23:25:54+00:00
> Being stay at home mom today is mostly battling boredom and demotivation. Or then, making up things to do. It is not the same as milking cows or making cheese.

I was a stay at home parent for my daughter. It was extremely far from battling boredom (except perhaps for first year and a half, if that, and even then anyone who is actually interested in child development will not find it boring) and it was the opposite of demotivating.

Rather than speak in such broad generalizations, I think it would be better to restrict your claims to specific, real stories.
by xpitfire | 2025-06-27 23:26:25+00:00
We've been working on some exciting things with SymbolicAI and here a few things which might interest the HN community.

Two years ago, we built a benchmark to evaluate multistep reasoning, tool use, and logical capabilities in language models. It includes a quality measure to assess performance and is built on a plugin system we developed for SymbolicAI.

- Benchmark & Plugin System: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark

- Example Eval: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark/blob/main/src/evals...

We've also implemented some interesting concepts in our framework: - C#-style Extension Methods in Python: Using GlobalSymbolPrimitive to extend functionalities.

- https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark/blob/main/src/func.py#L146

- Symbolic <> Sub-symbolic Conversion: And using this for quality metrics, like a reward signal from the path integral of multistep generations. - https://github.com/ExtensityAI/benchmark/blob/main/src/func....

For fun, we integrated LLM-based tools into a customizable shell. Check out the Rick & Morty-styled rickshell:

- RickShell: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/rickshell

We were also among the first to generate a full research paper from a single prompt and continue to push the boundaries of AI-generated research:

- End-to-End Paper Generation (Examples): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vUg2Y7TgZRRiaPzC83pQ...

- Recent AI Research Generation:

- Three-Body Problem: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/three-body_problem - Primality Test: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/primality_test - Twitter/X Post: https://x.com/DinuMariusC/status/1915521724092743997

Finally, for those interested in building similar services, we've had an open-source, MCP-like API endpoint service available for over a year:

- SymbolicAI API: https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai/blob/main/symai/en...
by hackyhacky | 2025-06-27 23:26:33+00:00
> I'm unclear on which cases you're referring to. Roe v. Wade is the closest I can think of

I wonder if you misread my comment or just aren't aware of recent court history. The current conservative majority did not decide Roe, which is a case from 1973.

An example of a non-textual reading of the Constitution is last year's Trump v US case, wherein the conservative majority decided, apparently without any basis in law or Constitution, that the President is entitled to presumed criminal immunity for all official acts. You seem to have completely misinterpreted what this case was about: it's not about charging the president for "bad presidenting", it's about holding him accountable for criminal acts. Judges who violates criminal law are not exempt and enjoy no immunity.

Or how about Snyder v US, wherein SCOTUS decided to neuter the federal statute on official corruption, because their reading of "bribe" required money to be proffered before and not after the corresponding official act.

Or how about today's stay of the injunction against enforcement of the wildly unconstitutional attempt to void the 14th amendment, essentially giving the president the right to violate constitutional civil rates as long as he does it in states that support him against people who can't afford effective legal representation.
by underlipton | 2025-06-27 23:27:14+00:00
Yup. Two things can never happen:

1) General labor strike

2) General rent/bill strike

Either one results in an immediate liquidity crisis/credit crunch and the delegitimizing/insolvency of most institutions. The beginning of the COVID pandemic was, essentially, this.

I would add in "general bank run", but I imagine that they just... wouldn't let that happen. Ironically, an emergency "injunction" against withdrawals.
by jamesharding | 2025-06-27 23:27:34+00:00
Thank you! I have text comments/remarks for all particularly memorable flights (for all of the above reasons you mentioned, plus famous passengers, family on board, etc), but some of those are quite private and also difficult to show in a visualisation like this.

I would love to track more data over time, but balancing that with it being easy to collect is the challenge!
by cogman10 | 2025-06-27 23:27:48+00:00
No it wasn't. Famously so. America was a melting pot.

In the 1920s when this happened 15% of the population was immigrants. IE first generation Americans. With backgrounds from all over. Primarily European countries, but not the ones you think. Russia, for example, was a major portion of that number.

America at the time was way more heterogenous than it is today.

A major portion of that homogenation happened due to 1950s era racism and redlining which turned neighborhoods from mixed cultures into homogenous cultures.