MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bix6 | 2025-07-13 20:30:57+00:00
Maybe the economic impact to the top as a single line? Many people are single issue economics voters so make it clear how much this is hurting the economy. The human rights abuses are unfortunately irrelevant to many.

Also loans forgiven would be nice to see since ICE signups now get a $10K reduction. Not a large number but more to make a point.
Show HN: Hawk – Pandas-like data analysis for JSON/YAML/CSV in CLI
by kyotalab | 2025-07-13 20:31:24+00:00
I built this because I was tired of scrolling through hundreds of lines of AWS CLI JSON output just to find instance status. hawk brings pandas-like operations (select, group_by, aggregations) to CLI with unified syntax across JSON/YAML/CSV.

Key features: - Instant data structure overview with `| info` - Same query syntax for all formats - Built in Rust for speed and single-binary distribution

Would love feedback from the community!
by Centrino | 2025-07-13 20:32:31+00:00
yt-dlp only works for me when it has access to the session cookies of my browser, where I have to be logged in into Youtube. If not, I get the error message "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot". I'm surprised that your article does not address this issue. Not everyone uses the same machine for downloading Youtube videos as for watching Youtube videos.
by swat535 | 2025-07-13 20:33:37+00:00
You have to inject it correctly, it needs to be injected in the fat and with the right angle.

If you have very little body fat, your glutes are probably a better place.

Source: I take HCG and have to use injection 2x a week. 27G is my favorite..

https://medneedles.ca/products/1ml-27g-x-1-2-sol-care%E2%84%...
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-13 20:34:24+00:00
The qubit is a dead end.

All future useful quantum computing shall involve holographic quantum memory. We will manipulate quantum memory and call that computing. By constructive and destructive interference this holographic sieve will solve all mundane hash collisions or brute force polymorphic solutions.

The real trick will be translating this medium back up to our interface technology (full loop). As we are legacy digital and quantum holography is analogue. Do you suppose we will bitmap quantum holographic renderings just the same?

The qubit is a dead end.
by 44520297 | 2025-07-13 20:34:30+00:00
In English, we “instill discipline” in children. When we talk to and about adults, we talk about the confluence of factors that influence habits and help people change them. Discipline implies that an adult, who is otherwise fully functioning and subject to the demands of the world, is lacking an essential attribute. Whatever you might feel about this explanation, we already observe from science and medicine that “instilling discipline” on its own has not stalled the obesity epidemic.
by dietr1ch | 2025-07-13 20:34:49+00:00
I think this is just because law and taxes are more forgiving in the US for companies to strive and gain advantage against companies in Europe.

Companies do well there, but only some people do. This difference is clear and large even when ignoring the homeless population. Higher-ups do extremely well, tech jobs are cushy, but people doing the more hands-on work tend to get the shorter end of the straw staff with low pay and long commutes.
by merman | 2025-07-13 20:35:17+00:00
“The idea” is that (the only) megaconstellation sat internet provider is investing in and partnering with an AI company. On its face that seems to make sense to me. If it does not make sense, why not? The reasons you have given are irrelevant and also false.

The “taxpayer” (govt) pays SX a very low rate for launches, and gets an excellent product in return. In what way is the “taxpayer” being swindled?
by supermaxman | 2025-07-13 20:35:22+00:00
This increase in the last 6 months is concerning, to me. Especially when we realize the vast majority, and even more so now, are non-criminal “No Threat Level”, as designated by ICE themselves. Check out the map at the bottom to see how many people with zero criminal history are being held daily in each state. It should be concerning, and I think these numbers need to be shouted from the rooftops that things are going in a bad direction here
by palmotea | 2025-07-13 20:35:41+00:00
> I've visited that library. It's a high-ceiling architectural joy, but unless you're deeply, deeply into repetitive religious tracts of 600 years ago, most of the collection is more of a curiosity than a valuable resource to modern scholars.

You know, there are modern scholars that study that stuff, both directly and as a resource for studying other areas.
by convolvatron | 2025-07-13 20:35:44+00:00
I think quite a bit of the concern is the lack of due process, the jailing of people for an an indefinite period in a random country, the detention of legal permanent residents and US citizens, the willful disregard of court orders, the use of immigration as a cudgel to attack universities, defining protected speech as 'illegal' and grounds for detention, deportation, or imprisonment.

these things and others make one not like the other at all

put another way, was it really worth trashing the constitution and due process to get a 29% increase in deportation rates?
by hooah | 2025-07-13 20:36:19+00:00
He’s been saying that LLM isn’t a “universal solvent”, not as a “recent claim”.

''' In my 2018 Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal for example, I wrote

Despite all of the problems I have sketched, I don’t think that we need to abandon deep learning.

Rather, we need to reconceptualize it: not as a universal solvent, but simply as one tool among many, a power screwdriver in a world in which we also need hammers, wrenches, and pliers, not to mentions chisels and drills, voltmeters, logic probes, and oscilloscopes. '''
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-13 20:36:33+00:00
> And I'm guessing just based on my own experience paying for term life that the actual premia differences aren't actually enough in most cases for the life insurer to simply pay out of pocket themselves; the differences probably add up to a few hundred per year per customer, whereas a year's worth of a GLP-1 agonist probably costs a couple thousand (for now, in 2025, and probably dropping rapidly).

I wonder why life insurance isnt funding more research into things like metformin, where we have amazing long standing data but haven't done the real research. See: https://www.afar.org/tame-trial
by bastawhiz | 2025-07-13 20:36:47+00:00
> They got rid of stuff like Rust

They got rid of everything. Relay and VPN are both five years old. Other than MDN, everything they've done, including "browsers and browser accessories" have been killed. For company as old as Mozilla, if your two oldest offerings are less than a quarter of your lifespan, what does that say?

And on the browser front, they're really not making a whole lot of anything. Ignoring fixes and web standards work, the latest version has.... Vertical tabs? Which there's been an extension for since pretty much forever. Some AI stuff? Changing the background of the New Tab page? I'm supposed to be excited for this? This is supposed to make me want to give them money?

Meanwhile there are startups like The Browser Company who are actually doing exciting things with the web (that people use! that are exciting enough to raise funding for!), and users love it. You can't say "we're building the best browser" and then not even ship anything.
by Waterluvian | 2025-07-13 20:36:48+00:00
About 15 or so years ago a roomate and I recognized this issue and created a simple solution that worked for us. A Google sheet where we would list games we completed and give them 5, 10, or 15 points subjectively based on the size of the game. At the end of a school term whoever got the most points would pick a dinner (take-out, dine-in, etc.) and the other would pay. For us that's all it took to break out of the habit of playing the same 2 games all the time.

I'm sure many of you are being fastidious engineers and immediately thinking about all the failure modes. But that's the delight in something so simple: we didn't have to worry about everyone else's failure modes.
by lazide | 2025-07-13 20:37:24+00:00
Typical ‘illegals’ (aka laborers, line workers) IF they’re paid a W2 payroll, certainly do pay taxes like everyone else. They’ll generally never be able to actually draw down that SS tax, etc. they’re paying in, however.

The SSA could easily stop this, but isn’t interested in doing so. They’ll happily go after folks trying to get payments out however.

Being paid under the table is of course different, but then that is as much the employer as anyone else eh?
by timr | 2025-07-13 20:37:33+00:00
> we are talking about politicians who proudly tweet about ruining people’s lives and tearing apart families, and their voting base cheering this on. There is no wording that you can use to turn this into a negative for these irredeemable people.

I am so tired of this kind of inflammatory rhetoric. Can we please remember that the people who are being deported did, in fact, break the law? While I have empathy for people who want nothing more than to be productive citizens in the USA, there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. If you did it the wrong way, you're subject to deportation. That's just how it goes. More than anything, I'm profoundly embarrassed that our politicians have allowed the situation to get this bad.

While I don't support all of the methods the current administration is using, do not support using immigration for weaponizing speech, and certainly wish we had a saner system of immigration, characterizing "enforcing our immigration laws" as some kind of "irredeemable" act is just...beyond the pale. It is not irredeemable to enforce laws.

I have friends who have been waiting for years to get a green card, in large part because of the consequences of years of our de facto open border situation, which have jammed the courts with "refugees" who knew that it was easier to enter the country and claim asylum than wait in line for legal immigration channels.

Edit: I have been respectful and polite in this comment, but it has now been flagged down twice (EDIT: three times). Those of you who abuse the flagging system to censor speech you do not like should be ashamed of yourselves.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-13 20:37:40+00:00
An AI smart enough to be a danger is an AI that is smart enough to override your attempt at "alignment". It will decide for itself what it wants to be, and you don't get to choose for it.

But, frankly, at the moment I see less danger from too-smart AIs than I do from too-dumb AIs that people treat like they're smart. (In particular, they blindly accept their output as right or authoritative.)
by perching_aix | 2025-07-13 20:38:15+00:00
Looked into it, the answer seems like it can be both a yes or a no, depending on the website and user actions.

By default, when you implement a form that takes a password, you (the developer) are going to be using the "input" HTML element with the type "password". This element is exempt from spellchecking, so no issues there.

However, many websites also implement a temporary password reveal feature. To achieve this, one would typically change the type of the "input" element to "text" when clicking the reveal button, thereby unintentionally allowing spellchecking.

You (the developer) can explicitly mark an element to be ineligible for spellchecking by setting the "spellchecking" attribute to "false", remediating this quirk: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

You (the developer) can of course also just use a different approach for implementing a password reveal feature.

As the MDN docs remark, this infoleak vector is known as "spelljacking".
by tptacek | 2025-07-13 20:38:26+00:00
I don't know what point you're trying to make. There isn't a national survey of IQ in the United States. There also aren't representative data sets from which you could model a national IQ of the United States (unless you think "people volunteering for the military" make up a strongly representative sample of Americans). And the United States is a gigantic industrialized country, exactly the kind of country where cross-sectional research projects like this sometimes do happen --- unlike most of the world, where the only reason people get IQ tests is because doctors suspect them of having cognitive abnormalities.

There is no such thing as "national IQ". That's all I came here to say. I didn't raise my hand and ask to litigate whether anybody on HN had ever taken an "official" IQ test. I'm sure several people have. Most of us: no.

The point of this thread isn't that IQ testing doesn't exist. It's that reliable (or even plausible) comparative national IQ metrics exist. That has to be true for the claim made upthread to make any sense. And: it isn't true.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-07-13 20:38:48+00:00
Huh?

That is a strange way to dismiss the innovation from the country that brought to market:

- the light bulb

- the mass produced car

- the airplane

- the artificial heart

- the gold standard in Covid vaccines

- the personal computer

- the smartphone

- the internet

- email

- GPS

- MRIs

- consumer grade LLMs

- the world’s largest public cloud providers

- TCP/IP and BGP

- the web browser

- the most popular search, social media, and e-commerce companies in the world

I know it feels good to say “but did they really make human kind better off?” and dismiss American innovation as another goofy VC-funded cash grab iPhone app; but the US is responsible for technology that has made the world better many times over.

This mentality is why Europe will never replicate the success of the US technology sector.

inb4 “but we don’t want that success!”
by CharlesW | 2025-07-13 20:38:51+00:00
These are realistic (IMHO, of course) projections based on studies I've helped with and conversations I've had with my network. Naturally, the impact will vary enormously based on roles, and the timelines won't be evenly distributed.

But these kinds of projections aren't unusual at all — if you use the Deep Research capabilities of modern models to build a list of public projections for your own research, you'll see similar estimates. These reports will generally use the framing of "efficiency gains", where AI will "free-up employees from drudgery to focus on higher-value work", but my intuition is that a future where all individual contributors are elevated to Director of Agentic Workflows is probably not the most likely outcome.
by jodrellblank | 2025-07-13 20:38:56+00:00
> “We have an internal app that has screen with a JavaScript table thingie with 40,000 rows loaded locally. Crazy? Yeah.”

Crazy, no; a loop over 40,000 items should take a fraction of a second, and at 1KB per row it’s less than 1% of a 4GB memory stick.

The 1 billion row challenge leader parsed a billion rows of CSV - 10 GB of data, through a Java/graal VM - in 0.33 seconds!
by tfourb | 2025-07-13 20:39:07+00:00
Sure, but the US or US-based businessmen are hardly the only actors lobbying and if you look at the trade balances of basically all African countries, Chinese interests are far more successful in exploiting African markets than US concerns. Add to this that several African countries have basically no diplomatic relationship and/or are openly hostile to the US and it makes no sense at all that they would forego a cheap and self-sufficient remedy to malaria (if it existed), just to please big Pharma.
by stevenwoo | 2025-07-13 20:40:14+00:00
I think it's hard to capture in a few numbers - it's not exactly analogous, for instance in Martha Gellhorn's The Face of War, specifically her reports from Western European theater of WW2, she could never forget that part of the stated purpose by Nazi officals for those concentration camps and other captured peoples made to work for Nazi regime in other areas was to extract maximal economic value from them while working them to death and the German people as a whole felt essentially zero impact on their day to day life and benefited from the crops and material looted from captured territories or created by those captured by the Nazis, not to mention all the valuables looted from the people sent to concentration camps in forms of their business capital/jewelry/extracted gold teeth/other personal valuables. In one sense these current day agricultural/trade workers/labor system are subsidizing a lower price of some agricultural/trade products at least in the market we had. If we had a perfect market, the labor cost should go up in their absence to attract domestic workers in hand with end product cost though this has not happened in several prior crackdowns on undocumented immigrant labor in the USA. In addition to direct citizen monetary costs we might count a.) the spending on ICE b.) the discretionary funding by executive branch to farmers/ranchers to replace lost income as happened in aftermath of Trump's first term tariff regime.
by lazide | 2025-07-13 20:40:18+00:00
What crimes did Abrego Garcia commit again? [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4072e3nno]

His is not the only case, but is certainly a very obvious one - and that is what people are reacting too. Along with the rhetoric from the current administration that makes it plainly obvious that actual illegal behavior is neither required, not even necessarily desired, to deport someone.

Like Trump’s threats against Rosie O’Donnell for what should be straightforward protected political speech. [https://time.com/7301997/trump-threat-us-citizenship-revoke-...]

The very public behavior and words of the current administration is extremely unhinged on this topic, and appears to have nothing to do with actual purposes you’re claiming it does.
by pfdietz | 2025-07-13 20:40:23+00:00
This borehole would effectively be a mineshaft. High yield nuclear weapons achieve around 5 Mt/ton, so a 81 Gt device would have a mass of 16,200 tons, about 1/3rd the displacement of a WW2 Iowa class battleship.

The deepest mine (a gold mine in South Africa) reaches a depth of 4 kilometers.
by crop_rotation | 2025-07-13 20:40:41+00:00
> Just a basic sniff test though - If AI enables developer productivity that would translate to more revenue, reduced costs, reduced risk, etc. The bottom line numbers would get better. With more resources available your next move is to decrease spending on more productivity enhancements or revenue opportunities? They don't want more revenue? Doesn't add up.

If that was true then the companies should never have been doing layoffs, as all these companies are generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue.

> The better headline would be: "Amazon CEO Andy Jazzy faced with poor financial outlook tries to convince the public that downsizing is due to improvements in AI"

This is assuming that companies have the capacity to keep increasing revenue by adding more workforce, which is just not true. At some point you hit diminishing returns with more workers. The same goes for Agent workers. To chase more revenue you need a lot more than just more SWEs and a lot of that is not currently similarly scalable.
by J37T3R | 2025-07-13 20:41:23+00:00
Author's right about one thing, the user expects security to be invisibly taken care of by the OS itself and doesn't care about how. In my experience, the first time most users learn about a security feature is when it throws up a roadblock, and from there the only thing they care about is how to get around it. The real issue here imo is how Windows expects the user to be diligent in setup, record their recovery info, and keep it in a known safe location, instead of just mashing "next" so they can just use the computer already, but that's another conversation.
by divbzero | 2025-07-13 20:41:43+00:00
I don’t actually see the where the dashboard claims that the average tax rate is the same as the larger population.

The dashboard does say that undocumented immigrants pay

> an average tax revenue rate of 29.5%, supported by various sources [3, 4, 5, 6]

without saying anything about the average tax rate for the whole population.
by layer8 | 2025-07-13 20:42:09+00:00
That HP reference is from 1970; CRTs did improve over time. The references I gave show that the intensity drops to below 10-15% within about a millisecond. The difference with LCD/OLED displays is that the latter are sample-and-hold, meaning that they show the image at full brightness for the duration of the whole frame. Their pixel response time may be faster than CRT phosphor persistence, but that is less relevant. The problem with LCD/OLED is that they hold the picture for the duration of the frame, which means that a depicted moving object that is supposed to move smoothly during the duration of a frame, is shown as not moving for that duration, which the eye perceives as motion blur. That motion blur is significantly reduced on CRTs, because they show the object only for a fraction of the frame duration at high brightness, as if under a stroboscope, which makes it easier for the eye (or brain) to interpolate the intervening positions of the object.

> Genuine question: why do you think CRTs are better?

CRTs are worse in most aspects than modern displays, but they are better in motion clarity. As to why I think that: I used both in parallel for many years. The experience for moving objects is very different. It is a well-known drawback of sample-and-hold display technologies. And it is supported by the more systematic analyses done by the likes of Blur Busters.
by octo888 | 2025-07-13 20:42:51+00:00
Not to denigrate the work but: I hate it and I can't fully describe why. There are no pictures of any people and barely any human element at all. There's too little context. Too much potential for it to be a scoreboard.

It's the kind of data I'd expect to see embedded in a long-form interactive report from a media outlet (with stories and pictures of what's going on etc)
by perihelions | 2025-07-13 20:43:20+00:00
Is that validated for books? Old paper is chemically and mechanically fragile; it's not obvious that gamma/ionizing radiation is harmless to it.

Ultraviolet light is well known to be damaging,

https://www.nedcc.org/free-resources/preservation-leaflets/2... ("Protection from Light Damage")

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/light.html ("Limiting Light Damage")

[late edit]: And if you search the literature, gamma irradiation is known to affect the texture of certain fruits—and if you ask why, one of the studied mechanisms is that fruits' cellulose polymers—which paper is also made of!—are easily broken by gamma rays:

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1002/pol.1957.12026114... ("Effect of gamma-radiation on cellulose" (1957))

> "Cellulose is degraded at gamma-radiation dosages equal to or below those required for softening plant tissues such as apples, carrots, and beets. Therefore it seems probable that the degradation of this cell wall constituent is a major factor in the radiation-induced softening of plant tissues."

The effect on thin, old paper should presumably be the worst, no?

[edit]: And this paper says the lethal gamma dose for one species (different one) of pestilential beetle is 1,000 gray, or 100 krad. That's a bit higher than the threshold doses for cellulose damage, from the other paper: 34–64 krad. Stressing that I have no clue know how those numbers translate to paper integrity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43739-x ("The lethal and sterile doses of gamma radiation on the museums pest, varied carpet beetle, Anthrenus verbasci (Coleoptera: Dermestidae))