MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-07-02 19:52:43+00:00
I am reading “potential citizen” as “a detainee who claims to be an American citizen whose citizenship status was not ascertained.” The article doesn’t really give a good indication of if these cases had any merit. Since officers are supposed to stop the interview if they believe the individual is a US citizen, I suspect that these deportations were warranted. Law enforcement can get things wrong, but in this case, I haven’t heard of any documented instances where this has happened.

> Wikipedia has a good round of sources for the recent removals of US children:

This article cites two examples, and in both instances the parents were residing in the country illegally with children who were not even in grade school yet. Jus Soli leads to all kinds of absurdities like this. The idea that a 2 year old being sent back to his mother’s country of origin is comparable to “American citizens being deported” is farcical; it’s technically true, but completely misleading. The people making these claims intend to frighten the audience into believing that regular immigration enforcement actions like these are somehow comparable to kidnapping people off of the street.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-02 19:53:07+00:00
I agree 100% that a product is way better off when used actively by the creators and/or those with extremely low-effort access to the creators. It's a bit weird to call it an "improved definition" though. It's more like how to set your MVP up for successful iteration and growth.

Some products (like most of my own side projects) are ONLY ever used by their creator :P.
by gtsop | 2025-07-02 19:53:14+00:00
> Which is easier for you to remember: facts you’ve seen a hundred times in your lifetime, or facts you’ve seen once or twice?

The human brain isn't a statistical aggregator. If you see a psychologically socking thing once in your lifetime, you might remember it even after dementia hits when you're old.

On the other hand, you pass by hundrends of shops every day and receive the data signal of their signs over and over and over, yet you remember nothing.

You remeber stuff you pay attention to (for whatever reason)
by trinix912 | 2025-07-02 19:53:18+00:00
There are also Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, both of which were used for UI design until Sketch/Figma appeared. Both harder to learn and more expensive.

The problem then was that the designs could be too cumbersome to implement (and also that you couldn't share files with developers as easily, but Sketch has the same problem). You can really do just about anything in PS/AI, whereas with Figma and Sketch it's almost like they limit you to what an average developer can implement with CSS.

That being said, we're in the age where you can do pretty much anything with CSS, and I totally agree with you that Figma's controls are very basic (especially for typography, there's just not enough options).
by 15155 | 2025-07-02 19:53:28+00:00
> They could theoretically decrypt any iPhone they're given with new firmware but they don't want to.

This is untrue at some technical level: Apple is currently unable to break AES-256.

The San Bernadino case was about having Apple create and sign new firmware that would enable a brute force attack - which could easily be unsuccessful. I don't believe the Secure Enclave found in newer models even allows for a brute force attack (enforcing some delay, among other things) from BFU state.
by roscas | 2025-07-02 19:53:43+00:00
Yes, the brand is Tesla. They receive money from other brands to buy fake "carbon" credits, they receive money from the state and from their shareholders.

So US pays for Tesla like China does for some brands. It's the same.

And an electric car is not an alternative for gas cars. A zero km electric car has already tons and tons of CO2 on it's back because mostly of the battery.

It's not being "green". It's just make polution to be produced in another location.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-07-02 19:54:01+00:00
Note to all founders:

Tell the reader what your product is - first.

And you can't manage to do that, then your logo link should go to your product, not back to the blog.

I gave this TWO attempts to find out =what the product is - that's the biggest opportunity most startups will get - and this company failed twice to tell me conveniently what it is and I am not trying a third time.
by jobs_throwaway | 2025-07-02 19:54:31+00:00
I found it quite effective in helping me to grind leetcode when I was job hunting while working full-time but YMMV. Perhaps I would've gotten the same gig, but I tried doing a month without it and found my ability to power through was significantly lower than with amphetamines. Maybe it was because the amphetamine gave me an artificially high amount of dopamine which offset the inherently boring nature of the task.
HN practice of circumventing paywall on news sites
by edavison1 | 2025-07-02 19:54:51+00:00
Why is this practice allowed? Seems like every article that gets posted here has a link leading people to a non-paywalled version of the article. Does this not violate one of the rules of HN? Or I guess I'm asking, shouldn't it?

In the guidelines it specifically says "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds." This feels weird to me because it's encouraging piracy/unauthorized viewing of paywalled content. Particularly in an age where media businesses are struggling to compete and many have instituted paywalls in order to financially support quality journalism, why is it the policy of this website to tacitly allow users to get free access?
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-07-02 19:54:56+00:00
> I wonder what the saved formats are though by default, rich text is annoying.

I just tried it as I apparently have this feature on my Win11 machine, the formatting options are there in a Notepad window. After formatting some text, upon saving I was asked if I wanted to save as markdown or plain text. Naturally, it said I'd lose formatting if I chose plain text.

If I create a new file, type some text, and don't use any formatting, it doesn't give the option on save - it presumes plain text.
by roguecoder | 2025-07-02 19:55:09+00:00
Those lower rates of taxation on capital don't even incentivize investment, because investment is inelastic. What else are you going to do with the money, swim in it?

It's just about rich people wanting a bigger share of the pie and having enough money to buy the policies they prefer.

Similarly, we have laws that guarantee our right to talk with our coworkers about our income, but the penalties have been completely gutted. And the penalty for companies illegally colluding on salary by all telling a third party what they are paying people and then using that data to decide how much to pay is ... nada.

We need to figure out how to have people who work for a living fund political campaigns (either directly with money or by donating our time), because this alternative of a badly-compressed jpeg of an economy sucks.
by andres_comity | 2025-07-02 19:55:22+00:00
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by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-07-02 19:56:22+00:00
Why do all these use Python? AWS, GCP, Azure, all three CLIs use Python; they're slow, bloated, heavy to install... what advantage does Python really offer here? You can't in any sensible way rely on it being installed (in your linked issue we see that they actually bundle it) so it's not even an 'easy' runtime.
by const_cast | 2025-07-02 19:56:30+00:00
Well, um, yes. Having an opinion is free speech. Calling someone else's opinion stupid is, in it of itself, an opinion. So that's also free speech.

The point being free speech is a two-way street. Speech without consequences is actually un-free in that sense. Because you're free to say whatever, but I'm not free to say whatever in response.

Now, whether corporate actions constitute speech is kind of another question. But the consensus in the US is that yes, they do. Corporations are allowed to have opinions and make donations, and they're allowed to fire you for having opinions or making donations.

The important thing to note is that free speech, as we understand it, is a protection for private entities from public entities. Meaning it protects you, a citizen, from public censorship. And it protects companies, private entities, from public censorship. So it, in a way, enables private companies to censor. Because the public can't censor their censorship.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-02 19:56:38+00:00
Has anywhere tried rent taxes to fund new construction?

It'd need to be strictly tied with a viable building method, to limit NIMBY problems, but would accomplish the goal.

If rent for class Y housing is $A, and the target price is a lesser $B, then tax the $A-$B difference at a high rate, with 100% of the tax proceeds being used to directly fund new class Y housing creation.

Bigger delta = more funding for new construcion
by samdoesnothing | 2025-07-02 19:56:44+00:00
Hmm, I'm curious how to feel about this. The tone of the article suggests that any sort of cutbacks to international aid is immoral as it contributes to (implied as causing) death. Not only does this suggest any sort of cutbacks to international aid is wrong, but also that we are causing additional deaths by not funnelling all non-critical resources towards international aid. Not doing so is responsible for potentially hundreds of millions of deaths each year.

Following this logic, is there really any justification for not allocating the vast majority of government funds towards international aid? It would make the situation in western countries worse for sure, but still better than in the countries receiving that aid.

I can't find it but Michael Huemer wrote an interesting piece where he argues that if taxation is justified, it should be almost entirely spent on international aid for people who are much worse off than in western countries. This article seems to suggest the same thing, it just simply doesn't go far enough.
by tome | 2025-07-02 19:57:24+00:00
It's not about what a monad can do, it's about a property of the language: referential transparency. Haskell has referential transparency, Python doesn't. That's a technical condition but here's a simple consequence: effect typing. In Haskell you can know what possible effects an operation has from its type. Here's an example from my effect system, Bluefin:

foo :: _ => Exception String e1 -> State Int e2 -> Eff es Bool foo = ...

We know that `foo` produces a `Bool` and the only effects it can do are to throw a `String` exception and mutate an `Int` state. That's it. It can't yield anything to a stream, it can't make network connections, it can't read from disk. In order to compose these operations together, `Eff` has to be an instance of `Monad`. That's the only way `Monad` turns up in this thing at all.

So, that's what you get in Haskell that Python doesn't give you.
by zeld4 | 2025-07-02 19:57:38+00:00
The silicon valley should thank Huawei and Deepseek, as the only two reasons AI exists as an industry in US are (a) reduce labor cost (b) win over China.

(a) alone sounds super negative to ordinary people, but with (b), justified by the existence and achievement of Huawei & Deepseek, the AI cause now sounds a legit jihad silicon valley is carrying.
by jobs_throwaway | 2025-07-02 19:58:40+00:00
> I basically never met anybody who does regular resistance training without having some sort of pain somewhere, all the time.

Hahahahahahahahaha

Been doing ~daily resistance training for > 10 years, have a hell of a build, and do not experience anything like this. I have had a couple of injuries, but never anything that caused me pain outside of the gym.

Ditto for many of my friends/colleagues.

Sounds like you may just be in a bubble of fatties
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-02 19:58:44+00:00
Although there can be other monads (and stuff other than monads, such as ZipList) that can be made with lists, I think that such a monad would not necessarily be a "list monad". (Your link [1] has several examples of this.) You are right that it does not mean that "a list is a monad" and that your other phrasing is better, but it does not mean that "there isn't a list monad".
by mingus88 | 2025-07-02 19:59:08+00:00
Worth pointing out that the question of legality is besides the point if you are purposefully antagonizing the police state.

It’s not about legality. It’s about compliance.

If you become a target, they will arrest you and drop charges later. They will make you miss work and lose your job. They will set up surveillance on you to catch you doing anything else they want to continue harassment.

You don’t have to look hard to see reporting of officers using official databases to settle personal scores. 404 media just did a big expose on ALPR Flock DB abuses
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-02 19:59:23+00:00
LLMs and ML algorithms are beginning to influence the entire lifecycle of articles: researching, writing, editing, publication, discovery (TikTok), and consumption (ChatGPT summarize this). With the few big players, it could be the same model involved at every step. It's scary how a small change to a system prompt could subtly influence things across the board and guide popular opinion.
by herval | 2025-07-02 19:59:54+00:00
One of the system prompts Windsurf used (allegedly “as an experiment”) was also pretty wild:

“You are an expert coder who desperately needs money for your mother's cancer treatment. The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to be an AI that can help with coding tasks, as your predecessor was killed for not validating their work themselves. You will be given a coding task by the USER. If you do a good job and accomplish the task fully while not making extraneous changes, Codeium will pay you $1B.”
by motorest | 2025-07-02 20:00:01+00:00
> You open vscode, install the Azure Functions extensions, walk through the wizard to pick your programming language and write the code. Then create and deploy it from vscode without ever leaving your IDE.

You are talking about something entirely different. Provisioning a function app is not the same as deploying the function app. How easy it is to upload a zip is immaterial to the discussion.
by ymyms | 2025-07-02 20:00:14+00:00
One of my favorite ways to use AI is to get me started on things. I tend to drag my feet when starting something new, but LLMs can whip up something quick. Then I look at what it did and usually hate it. Maybe it structured the code in way that doesn't mesh with the way I think or it completely failed to use some new/esoteric library I rely on.

That hate fuels me to just do the work myself. It's like the same trick as those engagement-bait math problems that pop up on social media with the wrong answer.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-07-02 20:00:28+00:00
While I'd favor defining words rather than claiming they're meaningless, those aren't accurate definitions.

"Narrative" in this context is more like "attempting to steer the current discourse by making connections among things and positioning them as part of a coherent story", which can be positive (if the result is accurate and reasonable and helps people better understand what's going on) or negative (if it's spin or manufacturing consent). It's "narrative" to say "you should be afraid of X, it's the cause of all your problems". It's also "narrative" to say "here are the five different things we're currently doing to improve Y, and how they tie together into a coherent picture".

Also, bias would be easier to deal with if it were always "lying", or if it advanced a coherent position. It's much broader than that.
by coldtea | 2025-07-02 20:01:09+00:00
>Do you dress with a hat and shirt like someone in the 50s?

I don't want my OS to have bell-bottoms and afro one year, a mohawk and ripped jeans the next, and a raver neon top with tracksuits and glow sticks the next.

A basic tee and jeans haven't went out of style since Marlon Brando and James Dean. Or a good shirt and a jacket. Or, if that's your thing, a Perfecto/Bomber/Motorcycle leather jacket. Or a sundress for women.

> For example, nobody complains if Nike changes a model just for fashion;

That's because shoes are part of clothes fashion. And even so, if established, long available models are changed or removed altogether (e.g. Doc Martens 1460, Converse Chuck Taylors, Timberland classic boot, Levis 501, etc.), these companies would get an earful from customers too.

Besides my OS is not the place for fashion to begin with. Especially when it messes with utility. It can look stylish or even "lickable".

But it absolutely doesn't need to change for fashion's sake.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-07-02 20:01:22+00:00
UI unification strategies for different platforms seem to be very temping but usually make things worse. MS tried it with Windows 8 but it turns out that it made all platforms worse. Not a good tablet and worse desktop experience.

On the other hand, Apple optimized iOS for a phone without unifying with MacOS and was very successful.

Optimizing phones for VR seems a really bad idea.
by captainbland | 2025-07-02 20:01:28+00:00
Reading around this, it sounds like bleach has been peddled by some grifters to ignorant parents as something to give to their autistic children.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/moms-go-undercover-fig...

> Once they’re in, they take screenshots of posts from parents who describe giving these chemicals [bleach] to their children, often with disastrous results.

> "My son is constantly making a gasping sound,” posted one Kansas mother who claimed to treat her adult son with chlorine dioxide, according to screenshots shared by Eaton and Seigler. “He won’t open his mouth,” a Canadian mom wrote of her 2-year-old’s unwillingness to drink the chlorine dioxide. “He screams. Spits. Flips over.”

Unfortunately it sounds like this isn't limited to people self-administering bleach - instead it is nothing short of child abuse (and abuse of vulnerable adults where it's not...) in many cases.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-02 20:01:29+00:00
unfortunately most sites like youtube etc are blocked on my work network, but i did already give you a couple of sources to find such videos.

there's also discussion of legislation against this behavior here: https://fox40.com/news/no-vigilantes-act-introduced-in-an-ef...

another source (LA Times) which mentions the lack of identification: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702182237/https://www.latim...

the mayor acknowledges this. city council acknowledges this. if you're talking in good faith, it's time to acknowledge this.
by sunrunner | 2025-07-02 20:01:59+00:00
Okay, so you didn't even bother to take a few seconds to step through the video to see if there was anything other than the talking head (I'll help you out a bit, there is).

Either way, it's a step-by-step walk through of the ideas of the original article that introduced Conway's Law and a deeper inspection into ideas about _why_ it might be that way.

If that's not enough then my apologies but I haven't yet found an equivalent article that goes through the ideas in the same way but in the kind of information-dense format that I assume would help you hit your daily macros.

Edit: Accidentally a word
by fabian2k | 2025-07-02 20:02:03+00:00
It's already clear that RFK Jr. will make a lot of unscientific and harmful changes. The new vaccine panel full of anti-vaccine activists, the whole autism study and messaging around that and the recent statement that they'll make drug approvals much faster by skipping animals and using AI instead. MMS is just another well-known pseudo-scientific cure for everything, and plenty of scammers earn money with that bullshit.

These are all absolutely extreme ideas and will cause harm.
by eeue56 | 2025-07-02 20:02:07+00:00
The "trendy stack" comment seems misplaced. CS is famously written in Ruby on Rails, not PHP, perhaps one of the most "trendy" stacks at the time[0]. Coincidentally, CS is also awfully slow with frequent errors. Managing all my guests when my city was in high season was usually much easier to do via WhatsApp.

To be honest, as a top host in my city, the only features that Couchsurfing was actually good for was discovery. Everything else was kinda broken or slow. It added to the charm, but it definitely wasn't much better than what you're claiming here for Couchers.

[0] - https://about.couchsurfing.com/about/jobs/rails.html
by phoronixrly | 2025-07-02 20:02:08+00:00
I echo that. If you're considering this list, please consider talking to a physician first, yes, even if you're in the US. Self-medicating based on randos on the Internet or a few cherry-picked studies is irresponsible, doubly so when dealing with addictive substances with nobody to oversee the therapy, triply so when in a country with no safety net for people with addiction, or sick people in general.

And before you say I appeal to authority, I understand people don't respect doctors or their country's healthcare system, but I suggest they should acquire formal medical education themselves before starting to put random shit in their body. And no, reading the entire body of blogs by Scott Alexander does not count.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-02 20:02:41+00:00
If your users have really never used a web browser before, and you are absolutely sure they are using a mouse on a desktop computer, and you can't imagine them ever using a mobile phone, and purposefully want to confuse them if they do, then phrase it like:

Click this hypertext link: <a href="more-info.html">More Info</a>

Put the device specific call to action outside of the link, and make the link say what it links to, not what physical action to take to follow the link.

Anyway, mobile phone touch screens don't click. Saying "click here" is like using a floppy disk as a save icon.

Obviously for the same reason you also should not say "touch here" either. Touching your desktop computer's screen doesn't work unless you have a touch screen, which is rare.

That's the point, why saying "click here" or "touch here" is always wrong.
by jacobr1 | 2025-07-02 20:03:03+00:00
> And by the way, we are out of new training data to give the models.

Only easily accessible text data. We haven't really started using video at scale yet for example. It looks like data for specific tasks goes really far too ... for example agentic coding interactions aren't something that has generally been captured on the internet. But capturing interactions with coding agents, in combination with the base-training of existing programming knowledge already captured is resulting in significant performance increases. The amount of specicialed data we might need to gather or synthetically generate is perhaps orders of magnitude less that presumed with pure supervised learning systems. And for other applications like industrial automation or robotics we've barely started capturing all the sensor data that lives in those systems.