MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willmarch | 2025-07-16 20:47:14+00:00
Respectfully, the notion that routing asylum-seekers (especially those who are LGBT or political dissidents) to “any” Latin-American country is harmless overlooks both geography and evidence. Under the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico,” Title 42 expulsions, and the Asylum-Cooperative Agreement with Guatemala, people were removed not to Argentina or Uruguay but overwhelmingly to northern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador (countries with some of the highest homicide and kidnapping rates in the world). Human Rights Watch, Médecins Sans Frontières, and even the U.S. DHS Inspector General documented hundreds of rapes, assaults, disappearances and murders of migrants forced to wait or seek refuge there. International law calls this potential “refoulement”; it is precisely why UNHCR and multiple U.S. courts said the policies placed lives at risk.

Citing marriage equality in Brazil or Chile does nothing to change the reality in the Northern Triangle, where same-sex marriage is illegal, hate-crime enforcement is weak, and impunity for anti-LGBT violence hovers around 80–90 percent. Honduras has recorded more than 470 LGBT murders since 2009; Guatemala’s congress tried in 2022 to criminalize sex education and explicitly ban gay marriage; El Salvador’s LGBT activists report routine police harassment and gang “social cleansing.” Saying “many parts of the U.S. are worse” ignores that federal law now protects LGBT workers nationwide and that homicide rates for LGBT people are a fraction of those in the receiving countries. In short, legal progress in parts of Latin America is real, but deporting vulnerable people to Guatemala, Honduras or Mexico is demonstrably dangerous and, for many, a potential death sentence.
by SirFatty | 2025-07-16 20:47:20+00:00
"In the California Bay Area, We don't have avocados in a box, nor perfectly ripe. They are usually in a pile and quite un-ripe (which helps reduce denting in the pile). Depending on size, quality, and organic status they range from about ~1 to ~2.50 each."

Same in the Chicagoland area.
by switchbak | 2025-07-16 20:47:37+00:00
Sort I meant to say “shortening” and not lard … the former is just nasty synthetic stuff.

Certainly molasses is better than sugar, I’m just saying that brown bread is a tasty delicacy, but not something you would want to consume on the regular. The recipe I looked at called for 3/4 of a cup for a loaf of brown bread btw.
by flotzam | 2025-07-16 20:50:00+00:00
It really is a social anxiety off switch for me (once it fully kicks in after 5+ hours, lasting for about 24 hours before things slowly return to baseline). Alcohol in troubling quantities has that effect to a lesser extent, but of course it's sloppy as hell too and I hate the hangover. Not so with phenibut.

That makes it tempting to use before 7 days have passed just for this one social occasion. Although committing to not do that has flipped the dynamic: Even after enough time has passed I'm reconsidering, is today actually worth using it and being "blocked" for another week during which something more interesting might come up? Trying to make my occasional visit to normie vibe space count, it's kind of nice there.
by barbazoo | 2025-07-16 20:50:44+00:00
> AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave.

AI2027 predicts a future in which LLM performance will increase once we find alternatives to thinking in "human language". At least the video gave me that impression and I think this is what "neuralese" is referring to.

Is that a credible prediction?
by KyleJune | 2025-07-16 20:51:03+00:00
Another difference that I believe is common is how your arms move when you walk. I was diagnosed at a young age. I found out I didn't swing my arms normally when walking after someone made fun of me for it in high school. I had to consciously think about swinging my arms for a while to figure out how to do it right. I still catch myself sometimes not swinging my arms correctly when walking or one of my arms resting at a 90 degree angle (T-rex arm).

I'm not sure if it's the differences in gait that might cause people with autism to need less arm swinging for balancing or if swinging less causes them to develop those differences in gait.
by serial_dev | 2025-07-16 20:51:30+00:00
It depends on your work, though…

If you work at an agency or as a freelancer and you build various similar apps with similar tooling and base setup, being able to scaffold and have them all setup quickly, not having to do it manually and waste hours id important. Similarly, if you work on various small open source packages, you want the tooling to be the same, READMEs look the same, etc, a script or tool to “spit out” the basic structure can be nice.

On the other hand, if you set up the app or larger open source package and you’ll work only on that project for potentially years, setting up a project individually, organically makes a lot of sense.
by Theodores | 2025-07-16 20:51:35+00:00
The whole Ukraine situation is an intelligence test. In wartime you never have complete information so it is not like a game of chess where you know what the board is, what the pieces are and the play so far. Some fog of war is expected.

With the hacks that Snowden, Assange and their ilk participated in, we had stuff uploaded somewhere for the world to see. In this way it was self evident that stuff had been exfiltrated.

In this instance we can assume the drone company are going to deny everything. However, if we had some of their trade secrets uploaded somewhere then a data breach could be considered plausible. Or a recorded screen cast of the hack.

However, the intended audience for this story doesn't care about hard evidence, they just need a morale boost, and belief trumps reason on these situations.

My school history teacher taught me how to look at evidence and it is not rocket science. Hence why Ukraine is like an intelligence test nobody thought they needed. If people can't do critical thinking about some war that has been on the news for more than three years, how are they supposed to do science or anything else that needs critical thinking?
by perching_aix | 2025-07-16 20:51:37+00:00
> people who were going to read will do it regardless of what else is happening in their life, and people who weren’t going to read will not read even if it’s their major. In this sense, LLMs don’t really change anything. The same person operating the tool will continue to be the same person in either case.

This seems extremely detached from reality. Just to give you an anecdotal example, I used to love reading books as a kid, but you'd be extremely hard pressed to find me reading one now. Clearly my reading habits have changed, and so it cannot be some intrinsic property written in my fate (which seems to be assumed to exist in the quoted framing).

Conversely, book purchases wouldn't fall or rise, especially over long timeframes, if there weren't changes in reading habits. It just doesn't make sense to portray people as these immovable objects, whose desire to read has been inscribed into them at birth.

> Summarizers start with the default assumption that reading is an obstacle standing between the reader and some kind of reward.

When reading novels for pleasure is not among your hobbies, it most likely will be. You bet I don't often want to read e.g. documentation: I just want to get my hands on the magic incantations or magic phrases / values required, and move on with my day.

But this is true even for literature class, with its mandatory readings. I was one of the more naive folks in my class, so I'd make an earnest attempt at reading through those things. At the end, that only mattered to the extent that I can now tell you it was a complete chore. And the "reward" at the end of those was good test scores of course - something others could replicate by just relying on, then manually written, summaries.

> one might be left with the false impression of understanding where there is none.

It is at most only an opinion that there is no understanding there, and so is that the impression the person would have about their understanding is false. Understanding is not a binary property, despite what e.g. the anti-AI crowd would make one believe, and you're no mind reader. I think that's pretty agreeable at least.
by astlouis44 | 2025-07-16 20:51:49+00:00
Sorry to hear that! I will say that usually if you wait long enough, it will eventually load. Try popping open your dev console sidebar, you should see assets downloading over the network.

If it does crash, you'll be able to see why. I'd be interested in seeing any bug reports if you do fine some, we're always squashing bugs over here!
by woodruffw | 2025-07-16 20:51:51+00:00
> not reviewing submissions is a big problem. i know i can trust linux distributions because package submissions are being reviewed. and especially becoming a submitter is an involved process.

By whom? I've had a decent number of projects of mine included in Linux distributions, and I don't think the majority of my code was actually reviewed for malware. There's a trust relationship there too, it's just less legible than PyPI's very explicit one.

(And I'm not assigning blame for that: distros have similar overhead problems as open source package indices do. I think they're just less visible, and people assume lower visibility means better security for some reason.)
by antonvs | 2025-07-16 20:52:02+00:00
Well, that and the $3 billion expected loss after revenue.

Does this idea upset you for some reason? Other people have analyzed this and come to similar conclusions, I just picked that one because it's the most recent example I've seen.

Feel free to look to a source that explains how LLM Internet is mostly profitable at this point, taking training costs into account. But I suspect you might have a hard time finding evidence of that.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-07-16 20:52:08+00:00
Of the measures you suggested, the one I've seen has worked was taxing soda and a direct correlation on less consumption.

The thing with healthy food is not that they are expensive, because they aren't, raw veggies, whole grains, raw chicken, raw pork are not that expensive, especially if you buy in bulk. The problem is that it takes time to cook them, which people may not have, and in general (at least the USA), I feel like people suck at cooking, and don't really have a good food culture of enjoying cooking, like italians do for example.

I believe something similar happened to cigarettes, they are super taxed as well as all the health campaigning around them.
by watwut | 2025-07-16 20:52:14+00:00
> Some racists also like futuristic fiction and find it in Star Trek. The rest of the work don't fly over their heads - it is willfully ignored because it doesn't match their worldview.

Everyone does that. In star trek, race determines your temperament and skills. You do not see many calm Klingon scientists anywhere outside of their planet. Start Trek is also, basically, about humans being overall morally superior.

You can see whatever you want to see in the star trek.
by 93po | 2025-07-16 20:52:17+00:00
it is worth something if it's recognized as a myth by official sources at the time, but it doesn't change that social media (reddit) was absolutely jammed full of stuff about it, presenting it as factual, and has led probably millions of people to believe it was real. and even beyond the posts that were explicitly about it, comment sections continued to refer to it in serious ways. my whole point is there is a concerted effort to spread it as an "us vs them" narrative, with ukraine being the "us" part (as an american).

what i ultimately care about is manipulation, because manipulation and disinformation erode democracy, and it's overwhelmingly done by the rich and powerful and at the expense of the working class. there are endless billions of dollars getting funneled into the military industrial complex around ukraine, and the more americans align with ukraine, and the more americans can feel invested and interested in the war in happy-feel-good-ways (like having heroes and "fuck russia" moments) the more americans are okay with their tax dollars getting spent this way. whatever machinery is at play here has very successfully captured the support of a massive part of the American left, and the same people you see protesting about the environment are the same people you see waiving ukraine flags and being manipulated into suddenly being pro-war despite being against things like the war in iraq.

billionaires continue to make their billions, people continue to believe what they read on reddit and watch on corporate news, and the narrative is always things that aren't class consciousness.
by kerblang | 2025-07-16 20:52:32+00:00
Ant worked well because it was extremely _explicit_: You had to say what you wanted. This gave it a lot of flexibility. Unlike some other tools, you aren't running in front of a train trying to get it to stop and let you on. It doesn't go anywhere or do anything until you say so. The cost was pretty much zero defaults and a good bit of boilerplate.

I think a lot of people expected this from Gradle because the idea of "build as programming" seemed like it would give that stop-the-train-let-me-on-already ability. I don't know that it really worked out that way. Maven is all about running devs over, but it's faster than Gradle, which tries to start a daemon just like SBT.

Anyhow... this bld thing looks interesting, thanks...
by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-16 20:52:38+00:00
Of all the things Musk does, this infuriates me the most - Tesla is in the S&P 500, which means that everybody's retirement money (US or not), is directly or indirectly invested in it, whether we like it or not.

I'm 100% persuaded his empire is a house of cards and the emperor has no clothes. It will be a bigger scandal than Enron once it unravels. And yet, I have no choice to participate in it, despite his blatant disregard for any securities and other law applicable.
by dns_snek | 2025-07-16 20:53:04+00:00
> There are very hard criteria for an diagnosis and it requires that every other explanation for the behavior is excluded before a diagnosis can be made.

Is this standard truly being upheld? Most stories I've heard from people in US & UK go something like "I filled out some forms, hopped on a call/saw a psychiatrist for 30-60 minutes and walked out with a diagnosis and a prescription". Sometimes people even joke about how their psychiatrist talked to them for 10 minutes and concluded that they definitely have ADHD, and while that might be the case, it doesn't seem like many professionals are being particularly thorough about the differential diagnosis and ruling out other causes.

Personally I had to undergo relatively rigorous testing where they went through my entire medical history and administered about a dozen different neuropsychological tests which took about 5 hours total, over 2 months, multiple appointments, and then another month for them to analyze everything and come back to me with the diagnosis.

Of course that doesn't mean that ADHD is overdiagnosed or that those diagnoses are wrong, but it doesn't seem like many places are being as rigorous as they're supposed to be? Am I missing anything?
by deathanatos | 2025-07-16 20:53:49+00:00
… node_modules is your venv.

If we use uv from TFA, like the commands are nearly 1:1:

npm install <=> uv sync npm install foo <=> uv add foo

> It doesn't have to also store a local copy of NodeJS

… which Node devs do have a thing for, too, called nvm, written in bash.
by rsyring | 2025-07-16 20:54:54+00:00
All perfectly valid perspectives and I agree with most of what you wrote. But the comment above is pretty different from the tone/effort behind the comment I took issue with. :)

In hindsight, I should have just left it alone and not replied which is what I usually do. But Python's popularity isn't an aberration. It's tradeoffs make sense for a lot of people and projects. The low effort bad faith swipes at it from subsections of the HN community got me a bit riled today and I felt I had to say something. My apologies for a less than constructive critique of your comment.

Best.
by woodruffw | 2025-07-16 20:54:58+00:00
I don't think the model is broken; a latent assumption within the model has always been that you vet your packages before installing them.

The bigger problem is that people want to have their cake and eat it too: they want someone else to do the vetting for them, and to receive that added value for no additional cost. But that was never offered in the first place; people have just sort of assumed it as open source indices became bigger and more important.
by gpm | 2025-07-16 20:55:01+00:00
> I don't see any discussion on the claim that cloudflare is acting as a host. Are they?

This is definitely how Cloudflare attempts to defend themselves! In essence, my above comment is rejecting Cloudflare's interpretation.

They aren't a preliminary step in the chain like DNS/domain stuff, they are the final step, they are the service the user asks for the actual content of the pirate site, and they return the actual content.

They aren't a tool being used by the user like an ISP or VPN that might have a privacy defence of being deliberately blind to the traffic they are forwarding, they are rather specifically contracted by the pirate site.

There's no expectation on the users behalf that when they query the pirate site hosted by cloudflare that query will go beyond cloudflare (like with a proxy). The user is perfectly happy if cloudflare serves that request entirely by returning data stored on their own servers. So is cloudflare, and as much as the time as feasible that's exactly what cloudflare does.

So I'm rejecting the notion that cloudflare is distinct in any relevant way from a typical webhost here.

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> The more accurate description I would describe that is that cloudflare are selling services to pirate sites, and that this services has been blocked.

I'd be happy if the title read "court blocks Cloudflare from providing services to pirate sites" (though that's not the editorial slant the article was going for). Your phrasing leaves the blocking party ambiguous, which is sort of missing the point of my complaint.

If you mean "this services has been blocked [by Cloudflare]" like the original title, it runs into the same problem as the original title. You've changed the party Cloudflare is declining to transact with from the end-user to the pirate site. It's still the case that this is merely Cloudflare declining to provide services, not those services being blocked (which would only be possible if Cloudflare chose to provide them) by Cloudflare.

The distinction here matters because this isn't Cloudflare acting as an extension of law enforcement to step in and block a crime from occurring, this is merely Cloudflare itself choosing not to commit the crime. Maybe because a court ordered them not to, or maybe just because they decided not to (which the article seems to be trying to suggest).
by IvyMike | 2025-07-16 20:55:53+00:00
From the classic tweet[0]:

> Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

> Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

[0]: https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e...
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-16 20:56:18+00:00
I think there is not really a contradiction between having expertise and giving value but if you feel there is it is because of politics, not in the left/right sense but office politics.

That is, the bosses son isn’t going to feel there is a contradiction here but you’re going to feel it when they try to explain to you why he got a promotion and he didn’t.

Now some places are healthier than others and some are more fair than others.

I think to get the whole picture you have to be able to hold a few different viewpoints about a situation. In the end you deliver value as part of a team and that can have many corollaries such as: prioritizing what works for the team as opposed to myself (so far as I get what I need and feel OK about it), getting some of my personal development through side projects, recognizing that my team puts limitations on how much value I can make and deciding how much I want to live with it, press for change in the organization or move on.
by Vipitis | 2025-07-16 20:56:34+00:00
I have been using wgpu for my main projects for nearly two years now. Let's hope this rollout means more maintainers so issues I have opened 18 months ago bug more people and eventually get resolved. Never touched rust myself but maybe I find the motivation and time to do it myself.

As I also depend on the wgpu-native bindings it's slow for updates to reach. Like we just got to v25 last week and v26 dropped a couple days prior to that.
by bitpush | 2025-07-16 20:56:49+00:00
What a weird article. This is an article about Android OS, but the headline makes it seem like Google is affecting the whole smartphone (including iPhones).

> What was once a useful tool has now become an instrument of torture, designed to extract as much money from consumers as possible.

What? "instrument of torture", for charging money? Lets read on to see how the author supports this statement

> And to keep it that way, Google is quietly locking away its phones’ source code to make it as hard as possible for people to build better alternatives.

I'm sorry what? Author claims Android is becoming closed source (incorrect) and that is to keep competitors away?

I dont know what sort of person lives in these kind of bubbles, let alone write an article like this.
by joshvm | 2025-07-16 20:57:00+00:00
Is it fair to assume that comfort in speaking/oration correlates to reading comprehension?

I don't know that what you've described is any different now than 20 years ago when I was in high school. People struggled to read aloud texts like plays or classic literature. I would use that as a bar for complex prose that benefits from good narration; often the point was to encounter unfamiliar words or meter and to read with the purpose of critical analysis. A friend of mine is an author and we did a group reading of a play they'd written. Quite hard to do off the bat. Similarly if you've ever tried to DM a role-playing game like DnD, where the text you read is semi-randomly chosen based on what the characters decided to do (also, will you role-play dialog?).

I've worked in academia for 10+ years at this point. You can tell almost immediately if a presenter has had practice, knows their material or is comfortable speaking in public. Lecturers and professors are, unsurprisingly, often very comfortable giving presentations and there are people who live for conferences and working groups. We're required to read dense material frequently. Understanding of a piece of work, or the attention span required to ingest a scientific paper, does not necessarily mean you could read it aloud fluently.