MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aredox | 2025-06-10 12:23:06+00:00
So in the end, the (conservative) governement restricts the means available to help people, and now you are fighting against other "different" people to get your share of the meager scraps they toss your way.

Congratulations, you are being played. In the end, the Conservatives will destroy DEI and repress LGBTQ - and you won't have any more help as a blind person, because they never really cared and just manipulated you into hating "the gays" instead of hating them. Trump HATES you deeply, you know? He despises you, as a loser, a cripple, someone less-than-human. It is just that gay people are more politically active and visible, so they are more useful as a foe for his "two minutes of hate" - for now.

If you don't believe me:

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-dei-target-a...

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/27/us-disability...

https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all...

“Those people . . . ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

Meanwhile while you froth at the mouth against the "DEI bunch", disabled people are ending unemployed en masse right this very moment, thanks to the crazy cuts to Federal Workforce - the only big employer who tried to do things right.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/dei-orders-disabled-workers...
by rxtexit | 2025-06-10 12:23:41+00:00
I just got a quest 3 a few months ago. The quest 3 itself is amazing but I feel like they already have given up on the "metaverse".

It is pretty shocking how little there is inside Horizon. There isn't even that many people ever using it.

What is most strange to me is the experience on the Quest 3 is absolutely incredible. Whatever they set out to do with the headset, mission accomplished. Most the Horizon Worlds though feel like uninspired weekend projects.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-10 12:24:08+00:00
Also, there has been some speculation that the asteroid actually caused the Deccan Traps to get much worse, since their location on the Indian subcontinent was at the time very close to being the antipode of the Chicxulub impact area, but i'm not sure if this has been dropped as a real theory now. If it were the case, then the asteroid would definitely be the main culprit, just in a more complex and dynamic way.
by naniwaduni | 2025-06-10 12:24:08+00:00
The technical details roughly boil down to "your browser lets internet sites talk to local services"; in this case if they cooperate they can identify each other, but cf. https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/

In practical terms this is a privacy leak a couple bits more informative but slightly less robust than "these requests are coming from the same IP address."
by perihelions | 2025-06-10 12:24:18+00:00
This orbiter (Odyssey) is going imminently to be turned off[0]. It's orbiting Mars right now, but JPL is about to lose funding to keep communicating with it.

(I think a sizeable part of HN would call this an off-topic tangent, and prefer not to see it posted on HN. Philip K. Dick defined reality as "that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away". You can inhabit whatever reality you prefer to inhabit, but sooner or later these (nasa.gov) stories you do prefer to read on HN, are all going to vanish from HN, beliefs and preferences notwithstanding).

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/dozens-active-and-pl... ("...kill off several spacecraft orbiting Mars, including Mars Odyssey and Maven...")
by bsenftner | 2025-06-10 12:24:34+00:00
The collaborative style of AI use struck me as the obvious correct use of AI, just as the more popular "AI writing code" style struck me as horribly incorrect and indication of yet again the software industry going off on a fool's tangent, as the larger industry so often does.

I never have AI write code. I ask it to criticize code I've written, and I use it to strategize about large code organization. As a strategy consult, with careful LLM context construction, one can create amazing effective guides that teach one new information very successfully. That is me using my mind to understand and then do, never giving any AI responsibilities beyond advice. AI is an idiot savant, and must be treated as such.
by dragochat | 2025-06-10 12:24:42+00:00
uhm, maybe no... data-drive in UX means sliding towards the lowest common denominator, optimizing at first for the dumbest user, then later giving in to dark patterns and quasi-scamming

there's room for creativity in UX, lots, just not at the "how does the texture of a button feel and flow" - need to move HIGHER level, towards eg thinking of experience minimizing cognitive load, increasing synergy and augmentation ppotential etc etc ...the ceiling is waaaay higher than most UX ppl think
by joshstrange | 2025-06-10 12:25:11+00:00
> I think some people are under the impression that's a way to act like you're in total privacy... but it's not.

It should be for the average person. VPN and private browsing should be enough for what most people use it for. I don’t think it’s fair to expect people to think that the browser is secretly communicating with apps on their phone, tying all behavior to their identity.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-10 12:25:21+00:00
Unclear. I wouldn't want to get into a debate with RFK Jr about it, even with lots of time to prepare. The man is mocked here on HN but is extremely well informed and can easily win debates with any normally read person.

It's going to boil down to what you mean by "safe". The way the word is used in vaccine approvals doesn't match how any normal person expects it to be used. If you go into a debate without being extremely well versed in the technical details, a guy like RFJ will crush you.

For example: most people assume vaccines are tested against an inert placebo like water, and will only be approved as safe if it doesn't cause more problems than the placebo does. This isn't what happens. The "placebo" in vaccine trials is usually another vaccine. This leads to the question of what happens if both are unsafe? The answer is the safety problem isn't detected and the FDA will approve the new vaccine as safe, because it didn't create a higher rate of problems than the older one did. And how was the older one approved? Well, by comparing it to yet another vaccine and so on.

One might assume this chain bottoms out somewhere against a real placebo, but not necessarily! There have been cases where two vaccines were tested against each other, and then both sides were declared safe based on comparisons with the other "placebo" meaning they end up selling the "placebo" as an effective vaccine in its own right. At no point is the vaccine tested against an actually neutral baseline. This is a very basic logic error that makes the evaluations unscientific, but public health officials accept it.

Did you know all the above already? If not then you have no chance at winning over a neutral audience against a guy like RFK Jr. He will argue no vaccines are safe, you will protest that such a belief is insane and preposterous, and then he'll do something like cite US law or Supreme Court judgements where the systematic unsafety of vaccines is taken as a legal axiom. Or pick a specific example and he'll cite specific studies off the top of his head showing you were wrong.

Watch the interview with Lex Fridman if you don't believe me he can do these things. Don't underestimate the guy!
by erikerikson | 2025-06-10 12:25:51+00:00
No harm caused to me.

I commented instead of downvoting. However, to speculate, you implied a person isn't homeless if they have a van. You were responding to a comment containing:

> I was technically "homeless"/vanliving

Wherein they were relating their experience and recognized that they were vanliving (living in their van as their home) and even quoted their use of homeless, calling themselves "technically" so.

Even someone living in a tent or sleeping on the ground, if they keep returning to a site could say that site was their home. Some say the world is their home or that the region they stay in is. They would still be very clearly considered homeless despite having a "home".

As I understand it, it is a gray area whether vanliving is legal. You are allowed to park a vehicle but the owner doesn't have unlimited right to leave the van in one spot and live there. Even living in a van on your own land can be against code. People sleeping rough generally have no recognized right to sleep where they do. They are frequently moved and more often harassed. The situation is similar for those living in a van.

Anyway, that aside and trying to speculate about your downvote(s?), the context was that you started a language specificity discussion with someone who appeared to be unsure about the right words and hesitant to call themselves homeless. There were plenty of places on this thread to have that discussion but this doesn't seem an appropriate spot to me. I don't know whether that poster even knows you responded but if they do, I could see your response causing some difficult thoughts and/or emotions.

I doubt you intended harm but it can be helpful to consider the context to minimize the risk of harm or even just better understand the diverse manners in which your comments could be received. Hope you enjoy commenting here and learn from it and the comments of others.
by sambapa | 2025-06-10 12:26:46+00:00
I think that the crux of the problem is that populations are inherently unstable. There is only one point of equilibrium and that point is very hard to achieve, barring some kind of dystopian tyranny. There are just too many things that influence boom/bust dynamics (world wars, contraception, education, culture etc.)

There is only one point of stability and getting there is like placing a basketball atop of a flagpole.
by rollcat | 2025-06-10 12:27:15+00:00
People are patching newer macOS's to run on older HW (like OpenCore), running older OS's on PCs as they see fit, all Macs allow downgrading (and 10.15 runs on the final 2019 models). I speculate that the community will settle around some version that strikes a decent balance between stability, features, and ease of patching.
by leereeves | 2025-06-10 12:27:21+00:00
Notably, it doesn't say the governor has the right to refuse those "orders". If the governor had that right, they would be requests, not orders.

A very interesting article about this situation from a Georgetown law professor was posted somewhere deep in this discussion and is well worth reading.

The professor is strongly opposed to the deployment, and calls it "dangerous" and "pernicious" among other things. Nonetheless, he "thinks the federal government has both the constitutional and statutory authority to override local and state governments when it comes to law and order" and that "this [clause] is better understood as a purely administrative provision than it is as giving a substantive veto to the governor."

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-federalizing-the-californ...
by piker | 2025-06-10 12:27:50+00:00
> 1: Upload Everything to AI Projects. Use the projects feature in Claude or ChatGPT to upload all relevant documents—contracts, motions, emails, anything relevant to your case. You might need to be selective if you hit context window limitations with thousands of pages, but include as much source material as possible.

> For what it’s worth I didn’t necessarily find one platform (Claude or ChatGPT) or even specific models to be materially better than others at this work. ..

> 3: Leverage AI for Contract Analysis. AI excels at reviewing lengthy contracts. When you have a 400-page agreement where page 6 references “customary exceptions” that are finally listed on page 421, AI can instantly find and connect these references without you having to jump around through table of contents.

> Always have the AI excerpt the actual contract language with page numbers, then verify by searching the document yourself. Don’t take the AI’s word for it—confirm everything.

Check out Tritium (https://tritium.legal) to save this upload step. Open the folder (or right-click your folder on Windows) with your documents and chat with your model of choice.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-10 12:28:21+00:00
It would only have that net effect if "I don't believe any vaccine is safe" is a universalist principle, and not a statement about the state of today's medical infrastructure. But it's clear from what he says that he believes vaccines could be safe in principle and he wouldn't have an issue with that, they just aren't today for various reasons.

In practice, this is always what so-called anti-vaxxers believe. None of them actually oppose the concept of vaccines out of some kind of ideological principle. It's always specific concerns about actual, specific vaccines that exist in the real world.
by cqwww | 2025-06-10 12:28:59+00:00
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Show HN: Snapkit – A simple image pipeline for all of teams
by doong-jo | 2025-06-10 12:29:34+00:00
I built Snapkit after repeatedly running into the same pain points in image workflows—especially between designers and developers.

Most tools focus only on uploading or optimizing, and they’re often over-engineered, expensive, or developer-only. We just wanted something that:

• lets designers and developers share assets effortlessly

• auto-generates optimized versions and placeholders (Blurhash / LQIP)

• delivers via CDN without configuring anything

• and doesn’t require any custom code or infrastructure setup

It’s designed to reduce all the manual overhead: resizing, compressing, exporting variants, uploading again, fixing broken links, and back-and-forth Slack threads.

Snapkit is in beta. I'm focusing on making the image flow from “designer export” to “live in product” as smooth as possible — without being locked into a big system or paying enterprise rates.

I’d love feedback, especially from those who’ve built internal tools or suffered through design/dev handoffs.
by wonderwonder | 2025-06-10 12:30:33+00:00
You know a lot of people that just eat clean and exercise daily that look like this in their 70s? I don't know any...

For %99.999999 of the population looking like this and being as physically fit without drugs in their 70's is impossible.

I would much prefer to take testosterone to look like RFK and be as physically capable as he is then age naturally like all of the 70+ year old people I know. Most of them have trouble pulling themselves out of a pool
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-10 12:30:36+00:00
My point is, no matter if it is effective or not, I don't want multi-billion dollar companies to use society as a free-to-kill testing ground for their garbage on wheels.

As said: when a human kills or maims someone with a car, that human gets consequences to feel. When a corporation does the same, they have to pay pittances and that's it. This cannot stand any longer.
by threeseed | 2025-06-10 12:30:56+00:00
> if you lobby for a thing which does not do harm to other people

The reason this is being discussed now is because of its inclusion in the Big Beautiful Bill which will kill the poorest in society by kicking millions off Medicaid and food stamps and increase the debt to unsustainable levels.

So if you support this tax cut for software developers you are the bad guy.
by yieldcrv | 2025-06-10 12:31:19+00:00
> The Delaware legal system is fundamentally broken for defendants. Due to the ironically labeled “American Rule,” even if you win, it’s extremely rare for the other side to have to cover your attorneys’ fees

Another reason not to blindly use Delaware

There are 49 other states, a district, territories, and various native reservations, with their own incorporation statutes

They haven’t all just sat idly over the last 30 years in the competitiveness of their statutes

Some even have Chancery Courts just like Delaware

And the lack of case law is actually a benefit. If you don’t like Delaware’s case law you can argue for a completely different ruling that only benefits you. while if you do like Delaware’s case the local judge has a strong incentive to lean on it and you can push for that.

Its surprising how uninspired people are about this, especially ones that arent raising capital
by baggachipz | 2025-06-10 12:31:25+00:00
I was a diehard Android person for years, and I really really wanted to like it. Even when it dropped calls, failed to even show incoming calls, apps crashed regularly. This was a Google phone on Google Fi, unaltered and supposed to be the "pure" Android experience. My final realization and the impetus for the switch was that Android is an app ghetto; Good apps are designed for iOS first, and half-assedly ported to Android. Android's store has so much trash in it as to make it impossible to find a real app that isn't malware.

I switched to iOS and despite its flaws, the experience is so much better.
by Majromax | 2025-06-10 12:31:30+00:00
> There isn't clear caselaw on this yet, but given that material you share with third parties other than your lawyers almost always is and sharing your strategy musing would probably be disastrous, you should plan accordingly.

Wouldn't this have largely been settled already with cloud computing? If I use gmail to write an e-mail to my lawyer, then I can't imagine that e-mail is unprivileged because it's "shared" with Google.
by grafmax | 2025-06-10 12:32:56+00:00
The issue is whether a constraint is positive or negative. Choosing to handicap oneself, for example by wearing a blindfold, is an indeed a constraint with tangible and predictable effects, but these are negative effects. You can’t see what’s in front of you.

The parent comment advocates for adopting a religion you don’t believe in, for the sake of “constraint.” Self-deception is choosing a blindfold.
by the_gipsy | 2025-06-10 12:33:05+00:00
That's specific to ICE though, where they need a "warrant", not from a judge but just from some other ICE "supervisor".

I agree that in practice there is some kind of loophole: ICE gets a "warrant" for someone that by definition has no ID, so there is no point in identifying a detainee - the immigration court will do that, later. Effectively, they seem to get away with snatching people off the street that vaguely may resemble any "warrant" they have.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-10 12:33:38+00:00
My wife went through this.

We had a doctor that had prescribed us a dangerous amount of medicine (we didn't know) without running any tests. The doctor was also doing procedures he didn't need to do and ultimately recommended a surgery that has been stopped since the 90s.

We caught him because of the surgery. We sought a second opinion about it because the google was telling me "This surgery is no longer performed because it has serious negative consequences, and it rarely treats the symptom it's done for". I even double checked with the quack that it's the surgery he wanted to do because I was a bit flabbergasted he was suggested it (he was, of course, annoyed that I looked it up).

We sought a second opinion and I've never seen a doctor angrier. First, he was livid that the doc had us on such a mega dose of the drug and wasn't doing bloodwork to confirm we even needed it. But also, he was furious the doctor wanted to do the surgery. I'm 90% sure he got the docs' license pulled because the quack sent out a sad "Sorry to inform everyone but we'll be closing up shop".

Needless to say, always always look up the procedures and medications doctors want. Second opinions are also a good thing and good doctors will respond with "The more the merrier". And don't be like us, you should be thinking at all times "what test did the doctor do to determine we should be doing X". If a doctor is freeballing shit, you should be leery. Except maybe if they are throwing Tylenol at you for pain. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6olRJ8S3I
by voxleone | 2025-06-10 12:33:59+00:00
Neat approach! For this kind of mesh animation on a sphere’s surface, another path worth exploring is quaternion-based orientation traversal. I’ve been experimenting with this in SpinStep[0] — a Python library that uses quaternions to step through spatial structures based on orientation rather than position.

It’s particularly helpful when you want smooth, rotation-aware transitions (like gliding across a sphere’s surface) without relying solely on angles or coordinate systems. Could be interesting to try a similar traversal heuristic in a Three.js context using Quaternion.slerp().

[0]https://github.com/VoxLeone/SpinStep/blob/main/README.md
by cyanmagenta | 2025-06-10 12:34:10+00:00
Let me preface this by saying that civil procedure and criminal procedure are separate bodies of law with their own rules on these issues. I’m not a criminal attorney and thus not comfortable speaking out of field. That said, I know there is an analogous work product doctrine that applies to pro se criminal defendants, but I don’t know the contours of it.

It’s super interesting to think about though! Imagine if your Google Doc said something like “The stolen cash is hidden in these six places, but the prosecutors don’t seem to have anything linking me to some of those areas, so I should point that out at trial.” If the government didn’t already know where the cash was hidden, it seems implausible to me that any judge wouldn’t let them have that information. It likewise seems implausible that the judge would let the prosecutors know what the defendant thinks would be good or bad to emphasize at trial. So I’m guessing it’d be an in-camera review resulting in a redacted document just disclosing the places where the cash was hidden, but not the subsequent mental impressions. But the real question, as you asked, is whether you can actually put that in front of a jury to show guilt. And I’m afraid I’m going to have to plead ignorance here (but hope there are some criminal attorneys lurking on HN that could speak to this).
by sam345 | 2025-06-10 12:34:20+00:00
Exactly why is this HN appropriate? Nothing that is not already in the papers and nothing particularly interesting to the HN crowd per guidelines. I came here for HN and I got reddit.

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by pradeepodela | 2025-06-10 12:34:40+00:00
The major problem I see with current LLM-based code generation is their overconfidence beyond a certain point. I've experienced agents losing track of what they are developing; a single line change can literally mess up my entire codebase, making debugging a nightmare.

I believe we need more structured, policy-driven models that exhibit a bit of self-doubt, prompting them to revert to us for clarification. Furthermore, there should be certain industry standards in place. Another significant issue is testing and handling edge cases. No matter what, today's AI consistently fails when dealing with these scenarios, and security remains a concern. what are some problems you have noticed ??
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-10 12:34:55+00:00
For concrete numbers (albeit circa 2022), this was previously posted on HN: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...

Tl;dr -- They do make more money than they spend on software development. They save a bunch of it and have a decently sized account (not near endowment levels though: they'd need to 3x+ it). They also spend a lot on other random shit, and compensate their executives well for how poorly they're doing.