MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hearsathought | 2025-07-18 15:59:00+00:00
> Anyone can protest whatever they want.

This is such blatant lie that it exposes you outright.

> You don't have the right to throw rocks at people.

Who says you have the right to throw rocks at people? Other than god in the torah, I know of no one who supports throwing rocks at anyone.

> If you think Israel is controlling the US

I don't have to think. The leader of israel literally went on american news and ordered the administration and state leaders to crack down on protests on US college campuses. And it immediately happened all over the country from ny to texas to california.

> getting them to arrest peaceful Palestinian protesters

Arrest violent palestinian and Israeli protestors. I don't care. But why lie about the crackdown on peaceful protestors?
by ktallett | 2025-07-18 15:59:19+00:00
No government agency should get access to any private data without the appropriate protocols in place. Even more so considering the many issues surrounding ICE and their actions already, this will not improve things. Let alone the moral problem of trying to deport people which have been used by American companies for cheap labour to build the nation they want and supposedly are. Now of course that is ignoring the ludicrous view that undocumented migrants are the key issue, as opposed to so many other home made issues in the US, such as unfair wealth disparity, and a lack of fundamental basic rights for citizens.
by 827a | 2025-07-18 15:59:51+00:00
The reality is, anyone who has suggested that a ban on highly-appetizing flavors of nicotine pouches would be an effective deterrent to accidental underage consumption, has very clearly never tasted any of these products.

Many of the candy and fruit-flavored vapes are legitimately delicious tasting, through and through. The same is not as correct for nicotine pouches. These flavors only barely cover up what is best described as a highly-chemical, astringent, punch to the mouth, vomit inducing taste much akin to chlorinated pool water. They are not candy. They don't taste like candy. They are not sold in containers that look like candy.

Why are rates up? Because these products have become significantly more popular! Zyn sales have gone up by bonkers numbers basically every year for the past decade [1]. Any report that suggests accidental consumption is up should be met with a "great job sherlock, really putting that government pork funding to work", because even intentional consumption is up. In fact, statements like the following from your link should raise even further questions about the efficacy of their findings:

> Nicotine pouches were also more likely to be associated with serious medical outcomes or hospital admissions than other nicotine products like gum/lozenges, e-liquids, powder/granules, and tablets/capsules/caplets.

What is "nicotine powder, granules, tablets, capsules, caplets"? That's nothing. There is no such thing as population-level consumption of "nicotine powder". No one buys that. No one uses it. They're clearly just making stuff up to scare people. Even an assertion that medical outcomes from the consumption of nicotine pouches are worse than e.g. lozenges or e-liquids is extremely suspect, from a first principals perspective. Many popular e-liquids, such as Juul, contains as much as 5mg of nicotine per milliliter; and because its a liquid, its extremely bio-available, it gets absorbed through every mucousal membrane that liquid touches, and anyone who has touched vape eliquid can attest that the smell takes days to wash off once it touches your skin.

Bad article, bad research, I don't believe a word it purports to be true.

[1] https://fortune.com/article/philip-morris-economic-volatilit...
by conartist6 | 2025-07-18 16:00:08+00:00
Great writeup! I couldn't agree more.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently, because GPL was meant to ensure that vendors couldn't take OSS, turn it into closed source, and use it to extinguish the OSS.

As JS-writing eng I live in an MIT-native offshoot of the OSS world and for us the ratchet that ensures we always get more and more free software is basically the fact that when your product is a script run in a scripting engine you can't ever truly hide anything.

Since we have an alternate ratchet that has proven that it works to increase the amount and quality of OSS (over a 20-year time period), the GPL does seem as you say: a relic of times when we it seemed like software might only be a hobby.

I'm writing a VCS kernel, basically, and its cost me the last 5 years of my life. My code is MIT. Do I have to think about the dangers of embrace-extend-extinguish? Yeah, but having the best product is a very strong defense, and building the widest coalition of supporters you can is how you get there.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-18 16:00:26+00:00
Most people cannot afford to move. 60 percent of Americans cannot afford a basic quality of life. Those who can move will move to states that can afford this, and are the economic engines of the US economy (California is the world's fourth largest economy, for example). Those who voted for this and don't believe in subsidized healthcare should stay where they are, as I presume they believe universal or subsidized healthcare is "socialism" they don't want. I support the rapid reduction of healthcare services in those areas [1].

I pay taxes (>$100k/year total state and federal tax burden), I support universal healthcare, and I am willing to pay more for everyone to be covered.

[1] https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/Overview.html
by mlinhares | 2025-07-18 16:00:58+00:00
Most of the time when you submit paperwork for someone that is applying for a VISA here you'll provide information from a citizen/permanent resident, so they likely want to find the person that helped/sponsored your paperwork so they can get to you. Might be a good way to find bogus Medicaid fraud and strip you from your permanent residency or citizenship or just say you're abetting a criminal (someone living here illegaly), there are plenty of uses for this data if you're evil enough.
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 16:01:05+00:00
The point of the article is that:

1. In most areas, they eventually will!

2. If there is a permissively-licensed project in that area, at least there's a decent chance that the "reimplementation" will be a fork of that project. At that fork has a decent chance of staying open or even being merged back into the upstream. That benefits the community more than a proprietary from-scratch rewrite (which would follow from a GPL-only open-source scene)
by mattnewton | 2025-07-18 16:01:33+00:00
>If you think Israel is controlling the US and getting them to arrest peaceful Palestinian protesters or that they somehow made it illegal to protest Israel then you've lost all critical thinking skills.

I think the situation is also not as simple as lawbreakers being investigated for breaking the law. What law did Mahmoud Khalil break to get himself arrested? The administration basically accused him of hate speech while being here on a Visa, not of breaking the peace or throwing rocks. The case in the article is different; with a very clear crime he should have been properly investigated for by NYPD. But this news is in the context of several other cases around these protests, and so attention to the lengths NYPD went to here is newsworthy.

Let me be clear, I agree wholeheartedly statements like "Israel controls the US" are an antisemitic trope that can be dismissed out of hand. But "protests against important US ally Israel have special attention from law enforcement agencies" - that's very different, and seems like it might have evidence here.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-18 16:01:58+00:00
How much of the speedup over GNU ls is due to lacking localization features? Your results table is pretty much consistent with my local observations: in a dir with 13k files, `ls -al` needs 33ms. But 25% of that time is spent by libc in `strcoll`. Under `LC_ALL=C` it takes just 27ms, which is getting closer to the time of your program.
by konstantinua00 | 2025-07-18 16:02:10+00:00
using BSD/MIT licences is like betting against black swan event

sure, "contributing is cheaper than maintaining a fork" is true most of the time - but the moment new Microsoft comes in with "embrace, extend, extinguish" (or just copy and change), you're doomed

and heck, we had that exact thing happen last autumn, iirc - making big news on this website
by Joeri | 2025-07-18 16:02:47+00:00
(it’s ok as long as their guy does it)

You put that between parentheses as if it was just a detail, but it is the fundamental question that nobody is talking about: what happens after their guy is gone?

Are they really ok with president AOC getting all of Trump’s powers? Or do they secretly hope democracy in the U.S. comes to a halt?
by proberts | 2025-07-18 16:03:00+00:00
The analysis is nuanced and the answer (which can be Yes or No) depends on a variety factors, such as what "running" the company involves, whether there are multiple founders, what the corporate structure of the company is, whether the company is generating revenues, whether the company has clients, whether the company has received funding, and whether the company has employees. To state the obvious, before embarking on such a venture, get a consultation so that you understand what's possible and what you can and can't do. There's also the option of getting a concurrent part-time H-1B to actually work for your startup.
by rorry-brenner | 2025-07-18 16:03:16+00:00
Hey HN!

We built this after studying recent neuroscience research showing that dendrites perform significant nonlinear computation that current AI completely ignores. Traditional artificial neurons are basically weighted sums + activation functions. Real neurons have dendrites that do complex processing before the cell body even sees the signal. Our implementation adds "dendritic support units" that can be dropped into existing PyTorch models with minimal code changes. This open source version focuses on gradient descent training, while we continue research on alternative training mechanisms for future releases.

Early results show models that can be up to 152x cheaper, 10x smaller, and 20% more accurate.

Code: https://github.com/PerforatedAI/PerforatedAI

Results of our recent hackathon: https://www.perforatedai.com/case-studies

Original Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.18018

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or share more benchmarks!
by abafterratic872 | 2025-07-18 16:03:16+00:00
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this.

For myself as a UK citizen, what are the most realistic options for obtaining a visa to work in the US? The H1B is the main one I'm familiar with, but with the lottery and the one year application cycle it doesn't seem an easy route. The other option I'm aware of is the L1, do you know how realistic it is to obtain one of those? I don't currently work for a multinational company but would look to move jobs if an L1 visa was a possibility.

Are there any other realistic routes available?
by pxc | 2025-07-18 16:03:20+00:00
My dad is a boomer who's strongly (and I think uncritically) against non-medical use of all drugs except alcohol (and he himself doesn't drink). He would be hesitant to do this under medical supervision, but he definitely wouldn't just do it "on his own".

Besides, he's kind of a closed off person who has a lot of emotions he just avoids dealing with, even more so since the cancer diagnosis. He definitely needs a trip sitter, but he has few friends (certainly none who could do that competently), and no one in our family could fulfill such a role for him. Maybe I could for someone else, but my relationship with him is too complicated for me to do that job well, I think. :-\

To top it off, my dad's cancer is in his liver, even though he never drank much at all for dietary reasons (he was on a strict keto diet for ages). I would worry about the possibility of toxicity with introducing new drugs without medical supervision.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-18 16:03:28+00:00
I thought the author made the case that because of complexity economics the ratchet still works either way, and in fact that in 2025 GPL is actually a less-strong ratchet compared to Apache and MIT. If GPL was the stronger Ratchet you wouldn't ever expect to see an existential risk to a GPL project posed by an Apache one right?
by kragen | 2025-07-18 16:03:41+00:00
100r's Uxn/Varvara aspires to be that, but that's not the same thing as succeeding at it. AFAIK the smallest computer with a full Uxn/Varvara implementation is a Nintendo DS [correction! Game Boy Advance], which is faster than the Sun workstation I was using in the 90s (though it has less RAM). You probably aren't going to get it running on an eZ80-based TI calculator, for example, or an Arduino UNO.

It's a good first step in that direction, the first attempt at permacomputing good enough to criticize.
by geor9e | 2025-07-18 16:04:02+00:00
libgen > open .epub in EPUBReader extension in Edge browser > Read Aloud This Page (Microsoft Steffan Online Natural voice, Speed at max) . "Keep Awake" extension prevents laptop from sleeping. Bluetooth headphones let me walk around the room. It's not ideal for things like bike rides but otherwise it works well for me.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-18 16:04:08+00:00
Here's the original report [0]. The writers are SACN and COT. If someone from UK could confirm their reputation, I don't know them but a quick search doesn't inspire confidence:

> At least 11 of the 17 members of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) have ties to companies including Nestle and the world’s largest ice cream producer, Unilever. [1]

> More than half the members of the Committee on Toxicology have recent links to the food and chemicals industries and last year it disagreed with the European regulator’s proposal to cut the safe level of BPA [1]

Seems a shame they're paid by public found

0: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/plant-based-drink...

1: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13838681/nutritio...

2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/panorama-ultra-processed-f...
by overfeed | 2025-07-18 16:04:10+00:00
I get no satisfaction from rediscovering CS concepts & algorithms first put to paper by the field's pioneers between 1940-1970s, though it sounds like you do.

Some wood (or metal) workers take pride in making their own tools, and others, who are like me, buy off the shelf tools and use them to make actual things that people buy.
by slg | 2025-07-18 16:04:18+00:00
>The goal is to help people grow, so they can achieve things they would not have been able to deal with before gaining that additional experience.

You and others seem to be disagreeing with something I never said. This is 100% compatible with what I said. You don't just review and then silently correct an interns work behind their back, the review process is part of the teaching. That doesn't really work with AI, so it wasn't explicitly part of my analogy.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-18 16:04:53+00:00
IIRC Gravatar has an option to generate a default image if you didn't upload your own avatar. Imagine that the the has was 89A3 then the image was a 2x2 square with colors 8, 9, A and 3; using some number2rgb function so it was green, yellow, white and red or something like that. I'm making up the details! And they used other shapes and more than 4 parts, but I hope my description is good enough. I found some nice discussion with the details of the real implementation in https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17443/how-is-the-de...

A few years ago it was popular to make Gravatar "clones". One generate weird robots instead of geometric shapes. Another generated aliens. ...

In Magicell I get "403 Forbidden", I'm in Argentina.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-18 16:04:59+00:00
> Most people cannot afford to move.

That calculus gets a little different for some folks if the move comes with subsidized universal healthcare and better social services.

> Those who voted for this and don't believe in subsidized healthcare should stay where they are, as I presume they believe universal or subsidized healthcare is "socialism" they don't want.

We agree, but "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" rule applies. https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...
by fxtentacle | 2025-07-18 16:05:00+00:00
The issue in most cases is that hardware that also runs windows will only support S5 Sleep so that Windows 11 can download fresh advertisements while your laptop is “sleeping”. In some cases, you can patch the DSDT tables in the firmware to reenable S3. But also many recent laptops will just not fully support deep sleep. And that means the MacBooks are superior on the hardware level and there isn’t really anything that Windows or Linux can do.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-18 16:05:07+00:00
> If C would have async or similar mechanism to pretend doing async programming sequentially, it would be easier to port.

The *context() family of formerly-POSIX functions (clownishly deprecated as “use pthreads instead”) is essentially a full implementation of stackful coroutines. Even the arguable design botch of them preserving the signal mask (the reason why they aren’t the go-to option even on Linux) is theoretically fixable on the libc level without system calls, it’s just a lot of work and very few can be bothered to do signals well.

As far as stackless coroutines, there’s a wide variety of libraries used in embedded systems and such (see the recent discussion[1] for some links), which are by necessity awkward enough that I don’t see any of them becoming broadly accepted. There were also a number of language extensions, among which I’d single out AC[2] (from the Barrelfish project) and CPC[3]. I’d love for, say, CPC to catch on, but it’s been over a decade now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546640

[2] https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~abadi/Papers/acasync.pdf

[3] https://www.irif.fr/~jch/research/cpc-2012.pdf
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-18 16:05:08+00:00
> Sick people are allowed to like California's weather enough to move there.

Perfectly fine. They shall pay out of state rates until they meet the threshold.

> The ADA would also apply when trying to restrict residency in a way it would not for education.

Can you elaborate? In the best case, it's difficult to predict how courts would rule on this. Any relevant case law? Legislation?
by benlivengood | 2025-07-18 16:05:10+00:00
In the very long run I'd hope we get sane intellectual property law: Software and logic circuitry is mathematics and should be unpatentable and trade secret is about the only protection for software/firmware/hardware; copyright terms shortened to the actual window of profitability (5-10 years) and only applying to "business logic". Nothing else makes much sense in the modern world; standards and interoperability benefit everyone to such an extent and change happens so rapidly that the majority of existing IP protection duration only harms historians.
by akie | 2025-07-18 16:05:14+00:00
> The blocking of third party cookies by browsers (is) a much better solution.

Exactly! And why is that not being implemented? Because Chrome is top dog and they're earning a lot of money with your data, so WHY would they want to stop that data flow? Everything that would make it easier for you to protect your data would lose them money, so they have no incentive to do that.

Instead, we are stuck with these annoying cookie banners, which are easily and wrongfully blamed on the EU instead of on the website owners and the browser vendors.
by upofadown | 2025-07-18 16:05:25+00:00
>Currently, shim is signed with a Microsoft key from 2011 that expires on September 11.

What security benefit did adding an expiry date to the certificate provide? "Oh no! Someone has gotten our secret key and is certifying new shims! ... Not to worry, the certificate will expire in 14 years. Everything is fine!"

Does anyone know the rationale for such expiry?
by lxgr | 2025-07-18 16:05:49+00:00
> At USB 2.0 speeds oddly enough.

That's because USB 3 is not natively provided by the SoC on the RPi 4, but rather by a dedicated IC, connected to the main SoC via PCIe :)

Hence there's two USB 3 ports and two USB 2 ports, but wired completely differently internally! Presumably the USB-C port is connected to the SoC more directly.
by dafelst | 2025-07-18 16:06:39+00:00
To me the larger question is whether or not GPLv2 achieves the goal of forcing big companies to contribute back to a project better than a more permissable license does.

As stated in the article, Linux is the notable success story, but anecdotally it seems that the majority of projects with large company contributions are licensed with BSD/Apache/MIT but with contributor agreement attached.

I wonder if anyone has compiled any data on whether GPLv2 does actually encourage contributions more than the more permissive alternatives.

GPLv3 isn't even worth mentioning in this context, great concept, abject failure to thrive IMO.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-18 16:06:49+00:00
> They shall pay out of state rates until they meet the threshold.

I'm not arguing they'll move and obtain residency on day one. I'm arguing it may still make sense to move, pay out of pocket for the 366 days, and gain residency for some folks.

The ADA's Title II would seem to forbid "you can't be a resident, ever, if you've got expensive healthcare costs" sort of rules at the state level, yes? That would clearly not be equal treatment for people with medical disabilities.
by philistine | 2025-07-18 16:06:55+00:00
Can I give my perspective as a Canadian? In our political system, we rarely talk about bipartisanship. First, because we don’t only have two political movements. Second, because we do nonpartisan politics. Examples include judges and district boundaries. Those two things are qualified as nonpartisan in Canadian politics. Another very telling example: parliamentary tour guides. The US Congress hires tour guides that are meant to reflect the political party that is responsible for their hiring. The Canadian Parliament insures their guides are nonpartisan.

Of course if you dig you will find problems, it’s far from perfect. However, the fact that what is collectively outside the realm of partisan politics is not decided by two partners who need to agree is what’s important here. There is a collective tradition. With our judicial system able to give binding decisions on unwritten parliamentary traditions, you even have legal protection for nonpartisan politics.

The US system counted way too much on the kindness of political adversaries. You need to find a new way to do politics, because American conservatives have decided that they will abandon democracy rather than give up power.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-18 16:07:38+00:00
Sadly, this reminds me of St. Kilda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland#Evacuation_... - a tiny, remote island north-west of Scotland - which was completely evacuated in 1930. The locals had long spread peat ash and seabird carcasses on their fields - not knowing that those were badly contaminated with lead and other old-fashioned pollutants.
by csense | 2025-07-18 16:07:47+00:00
"Glenn came to my tool shed computer room in 1975, so we could "adapt" CP/M to the IMSAI hardware. What this means is that I would rewrite the parts of CP/M that manage things like diskette controllers and CRTs.

Well. come on, I'd already done this so many times that the tips of my fingers were wearing thin, so I designed a general interface, which I called the BIOS (BASIC I/O System) that a good programmer could change on the spot for their hardware. This little BIOS arrangement was the secret to the success of CP/M.

With the BIOS in place, a programmer could make CP/M work with their specialized hardware. With all those hobbyists out there, believe me, there was no shortage of specialized hardware. Glenn and I built a BIOS that afternoon and stuck CP/M on an IMSAI. He demo'd it to Ed Faber and the IMSAI engineers, and they loved it."

Writing a BIOS for a new machine in a single afternoon. Those were the days...