MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jerf | 2025-07-18 17:36:26+00:00
"Go interfaces are row-polymorphic, in the sense that they allow you to write functions that operate on any struct which has a field with a certain name and type."

It doesn't have it yet. Go is headed strongly in that direction which is why I add the "yet", but see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/70128 , especially the "future directions" note about issue #48522 which is not implemented. Prepatory work has been done but the change is not in yet.

You can embed something like compile-time row types into Go if you implement it in terms of accessor methods that can be included in an interface, rather than direct struct field access, which has its pros and cons.

But if you're reading this in 2026 or beyond, check in with Go, this may not be true anymore.
by Henchman21 | 2025-07-18 17:36:27+00:00
You have to understand that drugs roughly break down into two categories IMO: the touchy-feely stuff that creates empathy and kindness and healing on the one hand. On the other hand you’ve got stuff that makes people “hard-charging” — going off and doing a thing without thinking it through, with a tinge of anger, fury, unstoppable raw power. Think: cocaine, booze, caffeine and any other stimulants. These reduce empathy and create problems for people.

These two camps are pretty wildly opposed! If I had to guess, I’d bet my money on the people in power liking and using the hard charging stuff while loathing the touchy feely stuff.

All this feels a bit trite, over-simplified, and maybe even a but concocted on my part. But after a lifetime of being around these drugs, it fits well with my experience.

I’d add, too, that the book “Chasing the Scream” gives a better perspective on drug laws & their origins, which really began much earlier than the 1970s.
by ck2 | 2025-07-18 17:36:35+00:00
The "one neat trick" the Nazis did

was first declaring all Jews illegal immigrants

that was what opened to door to every creeping horror next

then they took away healthcare because they were illegal immigrants

then they took away the right to have jobs because...

they they limited where they could exist/shop/times of day in public because...

THEN they got to the concentration-camps

THEN they got to "well too many and bullets are too expensive/tedious, let's build gas ovens"

All it takes is "othering" a group of people by any characteristic and the majority of the rest of the population says "well that's not me so not worried"

Right now in America there thousands of people WITH GREEN CARDS (legal status) sitting in our concentration-camps, no criminal records, and they will be there for several months awaiting hearings before being deported.

Then you've got the teenage kids who have never lived in any other country that are being held in our concentration-camps and will be deported? To where?
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-18 17:36:50+00:00
> why mention that he was a "Pro-Palestinian Student Protester"? That does not seem relevant at all

Because it seems highly unlikely that if I were to walk out of my apartment right now, walk down to the waterfront, and throw a rock at a group of people sitting at Marsha P Johnson park that the NYPD would even respond to the call. Never mind getting a fire marshal involved to run my photo through a facial recognition program. They've got more important things to deal with. (I'd also, of course, never do this).

This was a protest movement that was a national story and included congressional hearings, so it does seem relevant to have the context.
by eichin | 2025-07-18 17:37:30+00:00
TurboDOS was a contemporary one - had multiprocessing (as in, you could have multiple Z80 CPU boards in a single card cage that passed messages over a bus) and was delivered as linkable objects, so you could customize the OS for your hardware (in the multi-Z80 setup, you didn't need any I/O that wasn't in the daughterboards, so in this case the tiny version of TurboDOS on the daughter boards did the message passing thing and talked to the physical serial ports, but didn't need a disk driver since the only disk was hooked to the single master board. Great (long-lost) stuff - we were building an early dialup info-service so each daughter board had multiple modems...
by CuriousSkeptic | 2025-07-18 17:37:36+00:00
> aged care workers

Just picking out this one out of curiosity, not arguing the broader point.

In a world where people have more freedom on what to spend their energy and time on I would expect some things to return to the realm of unpaid labour. Child care, mentoring, care for the elder, local community contributions. Probably not replacing the demand entirely, but surely some shifts in supply and demand would be observed.
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-18 17:37:39+00:00
I didn't say all the data. In fact, what you are suggesting is exactly what I mean. The compartmentalized access is exactly the bridge we need.

In fact, giving RBAC functionality to middle managers would be a key component to any strategy for AI deployment activity. You want traceability/auditability. Give the middle managers charts, logs, visibility into who is using what data with which LLMs. Give them levers to grant and deny access. Give them metrics on outcomes from the use of the data. This could eve even make legal happy.

This missing layer will exist, its just a matter of time.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-18 17:37:41+00:00
Sure, but downloading a lot of data is not the same as compute on this data. With web you simply download the data, and pass the pointers to this data around. With FHE, you have to compute on extremely large cipher texts, using every byte of them. FHE is roughly 1000x more data to process and it takes about 1000x more time.
by sterlind | 2025-07-18 17:37:51+00:00
(not Peter.)

she can only be denaturalized if:

1. she lied or concealed any past convictions (or maybe other information) on her visa/GC/citizenship application. in the past they only went after serious omissions like felonies, but now they'll go over any minor mistake with a fine-tooth comb. courts have held in the past that such omissions must have material significance to the decision (e.g. lying about a degree obtained, but not a typo about graduation year.)

2. she joins the Communist party or another totalitarian party within 5 years of becoming a citizen. expect them to interpret this broadly (e.g. supporting causes rather than officially joining, counting DSA as "totalitarian.") she should keep her head down, unfortunately.

Source: https://immigrationforum.org/article/denaturalization-fact-s...
by ActorNightly | 2025-07-18 17:38:13+00:00
>had not yet been pilled AT ALL

Simple - there is no real lasting money in psylocibin as most people really only need 2 or 3 good sessions.

Whereas adderall is not technically addictive, but if you can function on it, you do become dependent on it.

You also really don't need it to become a prescription, shrooms just need to get legalized. The risks that come from overuse are far and few in between to the point where normal over the counter meds carry much more danger in abuse than shrooms do.
by beeflet | 2025-07-18 17:38:26+00:00
Why should my login be tied to my IP address, which gets randomly re-assigned instead of a secure TOTP tied to my device? What if I'm in a foreign country and I need to check my email? My account has been totally secured ... against me!

Not only is the email protocol (SMTP) an unreliable transport now due to spam filtering, but the actual login interface (IMAP) is also unreliable! Not that this will actually accomplish anything. Spear phishing and spam campaigns seem to be ever-present.
by avidiax | 2025-07-18 17:38:59+00:00
I have these custom IEM tips, but for a discontinued pair of Sony headphones. I wouldn't say seal (on the earbud side) is perfect, but the fit on my ears is perfect. They never just fall out of my ears, and are super comfortable.

https://www.adv-sound.com/products/eartune-fidelity-custom-f...
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-18 17:39:47+00:00
Yes, you can do Cryptonets. What I’m saying is that you don’t have to do cryptonets, you can simply use FHE to train the network in fully encrypted manner: both the network and the data are FHE-encrypted, so the training itself is an FHE application. It would be insanely slow and I doubt it can be done today even for “small” LLMs due to high overheads of FHE.
by modeless | 2025-07-18 17:39:57+00:00
I would start looking at the networks you are using. You may be unknowingly sharing your public IP or IP block with compromised machines that are part of botnets, which makes Google (rightfully) very suspicious of logins coming from there. I would also definitely get several hardware FIDO2 security keys as Google will likely trust those more than other forms of authentication.
by onepremise | 2025-07-18 17:40:00+00:00
Immigration is actually directly related to how CEOs and VCs intend to change the landscape for all things government related, and democracy as a whole. There is very much a subjective intent to tear down the rule of law, the rights that safeguard Americans as a whole, starting with immigration. IT's an entry point, a target to whittle away basic rights of the average American. Peter Thiel touches on this need for a tech revolution in his paper "The Straussian Moment", https://www.hoover.org/research/peter-thiel-straussian-momen..., who also funded JD Vance's rise to VP, and DJT.

These guys, "Tech Bros", love the concepts written in Srinivasan's book "the Network State", and want to replace our current government with distributed monarchies. Srinivasan, Thiel, Andresen, and Curtis Yarvin actually have a documented plan to achieve this which is being executed, to a "T", which involves attacking immigration, not just as a distraction so they can attack the courts directly, but also cause it's part of their vision. This plan is referred to the butterfly revolution, by Curtis Yarvin, which states the following:

1. Reboot (“full-power start”) Suspend or bypass existing constitutional limits; concentrate absolute sovereignty in one new organization—analogous to Allied occupation powers in post-1945 Japan/Germany. Eliminate checks and balances that block rapid change.

2. CEO-Monarch model A single executive (chosen like a corporate CEO) rules; the former president becomes a figurehead “chairman of the board.” Treat the state as a firm run for efficiency, not democratic representation.

3. RAGE strategy “Retire All Government Employees” by mass-firing the civil service and replacing it with loyal appointees. Remove institutional resistance (“the Cathedral”) and ensure obedience.

4. Parallel regime Build a fully staffed shadow government in exile before inauguration; unveil it on Day 1 to take over agencies at once. Prevent the bureaucratic slow-rolling that stymied Trump’s first term.

5. Media & academia clampdown Defund or shutter universities and independent press seen as hostile. Break what Yarvin calls the Cathedral’s cultural dominance.

Curtis Yarvin's writings include pointed attacks on immigration, both as a policy and as a reflection of deeper systemic problems. He uses immigration as an example to argue for the failure of democracy and to advocate for his preferred model of authoritarian governance. He also frames immigration debates as distractions from what he sees as the real issues-namely, the incompetence and self-serving nature of current elites and institutions.

Do you understand why the current administration would want to attack immigration? Altman, Theil, and others(Tech Bros) that manage YC, Palantir, OpenAI. A16Z prescribe to these beliefs. It is no secret, no conspiracy, they publicly talk about this. How do you feel about their approach, and YC's involvement, to changing governance and the future of our country? How do feel about Immigration as a tactic to attack the judicial branch as well assault innocent legal civilians with ICE, which is part of their reboot strategy?
by bialpio | 2025-07-18 17:40:12+00:00
> If it's top talent, then they should be forced to pay them the wage of a US worker, if not more.

They are forced to do that, and they in fact do that.

Source: I was hired by one big tech company as an H-1B worker (I was a new grad) over a decade ago (2012), my salary was ~15% higher than what the chart says for "class of 2014".
by kwk1 | 2025-07-18 17:41:08+00:00
It doesn't usually take that long, but the first `guix pull` is quite slow, and what should be a no-op of running it a second time immediately afterwards also takes too long.

Edit: Just to provide a measurement, on my Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 5 7640U, a `guix pull` which pulled in 1 nonguix commit and 64 guix commits took 2m10s, and a subsequent no-op `guix pull` took 1m18s.
by api | 2025-07-18 17:41:54+00:00
This isn't new at all and has been happening for decades, a continuous ratcheting up of Presidential and Executive Branch power since the dawn of the Cold War. Usually it's because of "national security," and it happens when both parties are in power. The march pretty much began with the National Security Act of 1947, though some might place it earlier with FDR and the New Deal. An argument can be made for both, with the left tending to blame the former and the right the latter. (I think the real answer is both to some extent but the National Security Act is the more significant of the two.)

An argument can be made after things like the second Iraq war that we have already entered the decadent empire phase of US history and the President effectively does have a great deal of dictatorial power. It's not supposed to be possible to wage a war like that without a congressional declaration, making such wars a pretty huge abdication of power by the legislative branch. If the President can just start a war on a whim, that power can be used to drag along the entire rest of the government.

Now, with ICE, we are establishing a lawless executive branch police force. This is just the unilateral power of the President to wage war coming home and being applied to domestic affairs. It will soon be possible, if it isn't already, for the President to order their own independent police to do anything, and if it is considered illegal the power of the pardon can be used to make that go away. The arbitrary power of the pardon is a pretty awesome power when you think about it.

When the ratchet gets far enough down this path we may indeed see a president remain in power forever like Xi Xinpeng. Trump may or may not be that person. If it's not him it might be the next, or the next. It could just as easily be a left-wing populist demagogue as a right-wing one depending on which way the winds happen to be blowing when the final ratchet click happens.

Rome continued to exist for quite some time after its Republic collapsed, but it was definitely the beginning of the end.
by dang | 2025-07-18 17:42:11+00:00
Yikes, you can't post like this here, and you certainly can't attack another user like that. We ban accounts that do these things.

I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted good things, but if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to using this forum as intended (for respectful, curious conversation) we'd certainly appreciate it.

(We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606990.
by prometheus76 | 2025-07-18 17:42:23+00:00
I didn't say anything about emergency medicaid being illegal. What I did was present evidence that illegal immigrants do, indeed, use Medicaid funds in the form of emergency care, and I presume those are the records that are now being reviewed by ICE. Your original claim was that illegal immigrants don't get Medicaid, but you neglected to consider emergency medicaid funds.
by maqp | 2025-07-18 17:42:27+00:00
No I did not joke. If you bother to open one of the playlists I referred to, you can find e.g. 10 rear delt exercises demonstrated in under 15 second videos with extremely good tldr advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gVHrkaiz0&list=PLyqKj7LwU2...

Mike Israetel who runs the channel is in the top-5 in scientific body building circles.

And you can get those same videos in their app https://rpstrength.com/pages/hypertrophy-app

Personally I'd use Jefit or Hevy over RP, but the point stands.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-07-18 17:42:33+00:00
Not COBOL but years ago I did some work on IBM AS/400 using RPG. For those who don’t know, RPG was originally written (in 1959) for punch cards and the programs had to be written in a pattern that resembles punchcard. It was a fun experience and I am grateful to have dabbled in it.

Many megacorps still run AS/400 and it’s uptimes and performance is legendary.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I was mentored by folks more than twice my age that time.
Ask HN: How do you find early adopters for an open source library?
by thisismyswamp | 2025-07-18 17:42:54+00:00
Hey guys, I've been working on tinyORM (tinyorm.com), which is a typescript ORM radically optimized for developer speed, ease of use, and simplicity in general.

I'm already using it myself for all of my ongoing projects, but it would be great to have feedback from external users that would be interested in trying out a solid, albeit not yet that popular library.

It's hard to compete with established libraries backed by corporations on breadth of features, documentation and examples, but I think it's very much possible to compete on quality.

I think the main impediment to adoption is the perception of a library as a toy project, so perhaps I should invest the time into making it look more serious - but doing things like setting up a website for documentation seem like they don't really add much value, as github already has quite a nice interface for documenting a codebase.

Interestingly, this does seem like a similar problem to startups finding their first customers, to whom the advice is usually doing things that don't scale - although that is a bit of a generic thing to say, as it encompasses almost anything.

How would you guys approach finding early adopters?
by hibikir | 2025-07-18 17:42:55+00:00
You don't need peter for this one: The action date is indicating the place in the queue of the application they are currently working on. Every month they don't deal with 1 month worth of applications: Sometimes it might take 6 months to go through a single month of applications, other times it can move much faster. Either way, it all depends on what was submitted a long time ago, their maximum speed, and the number of visas allotted: It's possible for USCIS to run out of visas for a country and just process nothing more for the rest of the year.

So its all normal, it's been happening for decades, and there's been no significant action in the legislature to speed things up. As things are right now, there are specific queues where the delay might as well mean 'forever', because it's going to take many decades for the current processing speed to reach July 2025.
by empath75 | 2025-07-18 17:42:58+00:00
This is a little misleading. Under Clinton, they could basically just turn them around at a port of entry. Eventually (2004) this was expanded to people within 100 miles of a border within 2 weeks of entering the country, and then in 2020 they _dramatically_ expanded this to people anyone who has been here for less than 2 years, and that has not been tested in court, really.

This is sort of a classic example of a slippery slope, FWIW. As soon as you deny anybody due process, the category of people that applies to will just constantly expand.

Now, there's basically nothing stopping immigration officials from immediately deporting anybody they want, citizen, non-citizen, illegal or legal immigrant.
by sharpshadow | 2025-07-18 17:43:21+00:00
Didn’t hear about this until now, but this gives me the opportunity to expand my point. Recently there are effort taken to reduce PFAS chemicals in wind turbines, because the abrasion of various parts exposed the environment around the plants to those chemicals. All older installations are still contaminating the soil and so my estimation sooner or later the ground water too. The concentration is probably much less than those paper sludges, but still for forever chemicals any exposure will be long lasting and damaging.
by testfrequency | 2025-07-18 17:43:28+00:00
That’s the one. I do really appreciate you taking time to check and clarify.

I see where you are coming from, and will absolutely keep this in mind going forward on HN. That in no way was an intended bait (as you also presume) - purely just my observation as a designer who lives in the US and often has to travel abroad to have these sort of whimsy public art experiences.

I also saw just yesterday a comment I replied to had been flagged where the user said ““..the EU was being left behind due to AI regulation..”” - that comment was also flagged and removed…but it came back hours later. I suppose again that may have been user flagged, though a mod reviewed it manually and decided to approve it?

Again, I appreciate the work you and the rest of the mod team are doing - I imagine it’s only gotten more and more challenging over the years to maintain civility here - though I am often left with a fragmented user experience as I never get notified when comments are flagged, what the flagged comments even were, and even worse - entire threads become extremely confusing due to lack of hierarchy of context missing.
by ForOldHack | 2025-07-18 17:43:32+00:00
Ill never forget the comments in termcap: "Brain dead", "Very Brain dead" and "Brain? What brain!" I think most of that was terminals that CTEOL Clear to end of line was just garbage.

We just knew that at some point in time, all the Hazeltine terminals were going to end up in the garbage, which is what they deserved, and no one would rescue them.

https://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html

The parent post is SOLID GOLD.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-18 17:43:42+00:00
Client Side Scanning tried to hash your files to help the government find any "child predators" using iPhone.

You know, the same federal government that refused to assign a special prosecutor to the Epstein files. You can rest assured Apple and the Fed are very interested in protecting the children. Anyone who refuses to allow that sort of process is probably a criminal anyways, right?
by beeflet | 2025-07-18 17:44:23+00:00
>But the fact remains that 99.5% of the people who suddenly switch their login traffic from US to Romania or whatever have been hacked

Why wouldn't a 2-factor or a recovery email sent to another address be enough to refute this?

If you can hack someone's device, it's not that much more difficult to tunnel the connection through a residential VPN. If you can't hack their device, then you can't get 2-factor codes or access their other accounts.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-18 17:44:35+00:00
Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, Vance, and all of the other Project 2025 acolytes have explicitly and directly stated that the dismantling of every single civic institution and incumbent system is their goal.

Not reform, not improvement-- destruction.

They have literally written down, stated in interviews, repeatedly, that these are what their goals are.

They want to cripple the government, neuter every check on their power, and use the ensuing chaos to reshape the United States into a series of neofeudal states where "accountable monarchs" (tech billionaires who think they're gods) rule over the masses.

This isn't hyperbole.

And they are using the bloated, dementia-addled, shambling corpse of a god-king to do it while half of everyone stands around refusing to believe that they are doing what they stated and wrote down they were going to and the other half cheers them on because they're "sticking it to the dirty Mexicans, DEI welfare queens, and trannies".

"Unintended consequence" my ass.

What is happening, and will continue to happen, is by active conscious choice and design.