MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rpozarickij | 2025-08-25 18:21:04+00:00
I switched to the MX Anywhere 3S from the Anywhere 3 and now it has become my favorite mouse by far. I have one at the office and one at home.

The silent buttons feel just right for me and the higher sensitivity has been a game changer in terms of the overall experience of using the mouse. The movement feels so much smoother and more natural than with the Anywhere 3.

I also use LinearMouse (I'm on macOS) for configuring the mouse and it covers all my current needs. My configuration mostly consists of:

- Disable pointer acceleration

- Set tracking speed to 1

- Reverse scrolling

- Scroll by 4 lines

- Button #4 for Cmnd+W (close current tab, which works in most applications)

- (No explicit change) Button #3 default action (go back)

Together with the MX Keys Mini it's a liberating feeling being happy with the peripherals and not wanting to change anything (except for a few small annoyances with the top keyboard row).
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-25 18:21:07+00:00
One alternative that has been tried (and is, arguably, still being tried) is Constitutional Republic.

The difference is that some things get hammered into a Constitution and are indisputable without a significant process. That counterweights the populist "half of everyone is below average" effect.

Someone convinces a whole bunch of people that maybe slavery is actually super useful sometimes? Thirteenth amendment. A city wants to yank guns from people because everyone is panicking about shootings? Second amendment. Disney wants copyright to last forever because they're Disney? "securing for limited Times" phrasing in the Constitution. And so on.

It has its own weaknesses but one advantage is that change comes slower. This can be a problem when the past is on the wrong side of history, but it's a nice-to-have feature when the political temperature turns up and the odds of moving fast (and breaking things) increase.

It's probably a good thing that no matter how dumb any given American is, they can't legally sell themselves into slavery (even if they can get damn close).
by favflam | 2025-08-25 18:21:11+00:00
My middle school 7th grade civics class told me that this conversation happens in Congress in Congressional hearings.

I get to hear my Rep ask questions. There is a Congressional research office that acts as a kind of neutral arbiter of truth allowing for evidenced based instructions. Then, after weeks or months, a consensus builds and Congress passes a law and tells the President what to do (hence Congress=Article ONE -> two).

Now, I get to watch a single person dictating tax rates and dumb twitter threads doing a horrific job replacing what I described above.

I could debate you on the merits of your comment, but my real point is that before you wreck the lives of millions of people, you should make sure most people are onboard with all the consequences (1st order and 2nd order effects).
by timr | 2025-08-25 18:21:16+00:00
I don't know what Amazon specifically will do (didn't know they allowed international shipments to begin with!), but the customs process via any normal carrier is that you get a bill when your items arrive at the port of entry.

You pay the bill, the item is released, and you get it a few days later. FedEx, for example, does the whole thing online.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-25 18:21:16+00:00
Related:

Walmart Fires VP in Tech for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45013076 - August 2025

Walmart visa scandal fears unfounded, company says firings not linked to H-1Bs - https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/walmart-h-... - August 25th, 2025
by dark-star | 2025-08-25 18:21:37+00:00
That's a bad argument. What does it mean to write to a mouse device? To the audio mixer? To the i2c bus device? To a raw SCSI device (scanner or whatever)? Those are all not very useful either.

Especially since there actually is a very useful thing that writing to /dev/eth0 would do: Put a raw frame on the wire, and reading from it would read raw frames.
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-25 18:21:54+00:00
I see an argument for tax cuts everywhere. Taxes are literally brakes on financial transactions. The number 1 way to slow down your economy is to tax every transaction possible as highly as possible. It is an interesting thought experiment to eliminate income and sales taxes, and try to only finance the government via tariffs.

How we redirect money to the medical system is so completely insane it must be the #1 place politicians get their graft from. It’s just so insane
by Bender | 2025-08-25 18:22:24+00:00
Banning flag burning will be thrown out again. [1] Whats more this is in conflict with the proper means of destroying a damaged flag. [2][k]

(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

Also as an American and a US Veteran of the armed forces I support the right to burn a flag and not be shot for it. If anything it shows the strength and resilience of a country to support dissent rather than fearing it. Governments built on a house of cards fear dissent. For those opposing flag burning, be happy your dissenters are self identifying. The bigger threats are often silent. If a person really hates a country they reside in then they should leave it as soon as possible and never return otherwise they are just throwing a tantrum or seeking attention. Have some comfort in knowing these people are likely just sheep that have been manipulated by online agent provocateurs to sow division as part of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) [3].

If people are lighting fires without a burn permit one can and should use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire. Fire safety starts with you.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration#United_States

[2] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare
by gruez | 2025-08-25 18:22:28+00:00
>Trump has the power to do anything that people (especially Congress) does not push back against.

Elections are run at the state level, so it's not like Trump can direct state agencies to stop counting mail-in ballots. That said, the fact that elections are run at the state level, and the fact that only a handful of swing states matter means it only takes a few pliant election officials to change the outcome of the election. eg. if Georgia's governor caved in 2020.
by frollogaston | 2025-08-25 18:22:42+00:00
I'm well aware of all of this. Swift strings aren't random-access. There are reasons no other language did it Apple's way. Even in the rare situations when you do care about the edge cases with these multi-code point symbols (basically just emojis), Swift strings still make that a nightmare, while in other languages you have easy ways to deal with it.

I was on such a project where we cared a lot about these details, and the whole team agreed to throw Swift strings out the window and build our own array-based string replacement where each slot is a symbol. Which is probably what Apple would've done if it weren't for performance overhead.

Didn't help that their API was really unstable. Every major Swift version broke our code in so many places that we started adding extra layers just to protect ourselves.
by cb321 | 2025-08-25 18:22:47+00:00
Your link itself admits the 0.05 makes it a different formula. Both Y and L* go to zero for hard black which is a very common color (the most common for me) and would be infinite with black in there. I disagree this is all "not real".

The 2x2 table in that contrast experiments link I sent enumerates some differences along the edge cases { even with just |diff|s. }. Just empirically if you change that 0.05 to 0.02 or 0.10 things change "a lot" in terms of all the edge cases. You can try fiddling with running that Python script yourself and see.

Also, I believe the project of an actual "contrast measurement" - not merely threshold checking - is a worthy goal. I think it would be good to be able to say how bad, and for that the specific monotonic transformation absolutely matters, and again, I expect the color space designer people have opinions on this very worth listening to. I think they are targeting differences in the numbers being the most meaningful thing.

All that said, I did like your George Box quote. :-) I just don't think dismissing the problem is a great solution here. I'm not sure there is a great solution. But you & anyone are always free to find any problem uninteresting. I mean, you could also find all the color space distinctions of TFA similarly "no real difference".
by leviathant | 2025-08-25 18:23:02+00:00
It doesn't have drums or their approximation, but Saunder Choi's "The New Colossus" is a very rhythmic and emotional work. The words are from Emma Lazarus' poem engraved on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RUtWfSNRRY

Another rhythmic piece that comes to mind is Wild Embers by Melissa Dunphy, setting the words of Nikita Gill, who started off as an Instagram poet. Lots of videos of this one, I'm picking one at random: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCSjvGPERKQ

Another piece by Melissa Dunphy, "Dancing in Buses" is from American DREAMers. It begins with a nod to reggaeton, and tells the story of a kid crossing the border, with the bus coming under gunfire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcfNiHDefBw

It's part of a 25 minute series of works, here's the premiere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3RoCHebIQ&t=193s

And more info here: https://www.melissadunphy.com/composition/72/american-dreame...
by jleyank | 2025-08-25 18:23:23+00:00
Everybody pissing and moaning about the old folks better save their money as they’ll be old in a small number of decades. The us has lowered its tax regime over these decades without lowering the costs associated with being old. And it’s replaced defined benefit pensions with defined contribution. Those who could and did save have done well. Those who didn’t, well, with luck they have a roof over their head and food.

As a data point, the typical social security from somebody who was in a pink collar profession is like $1500-2000/month. Somebody who maxed out social retiring at 70 gets like $5100/month. Assuming they can cover expenses until 70. These numbers are partially taxable.
by imglorp | 2025-08-25 18:23:49+00:00
It's his standard procedure over and over again; works great for him.

Talk it up. If it keeps him in the headlines, great.

Throw it against the wall and see if it sticks. If he gets sued, fine, there's a decade of suits piled up in the queue, no problem. If there's an injunction, maybe ignore it and try anyway (queue full). If he's truly blocked, it's the commie judges and he'll make that better soon. OTOH if he gets away with that, more outrage and more PR for him, success.

Early stage fascism thrives on outrage fatigue to slim opposition. Do three more outrages today. Repeat tomorrow.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-25 18:24:00+00:00
Same where I live, in California. One of my coworkers wanted to get a permit for a well, and the county's policy was to make the permit as expensive as running a water main to the property, making it always cheaper to subsidise their water infrastructure than to build your own.

Keep in mind that I'm in the part of the state that is extremely wet, where aquifers fill faster than agriculture can use it, and residential use is a literal drop in the bucket, compared to agriculture use. Most of Californias resevuoirs are built for flood control, with power generation as an added benefit, and shipping water off to the drier parts of the state as an afterthought.

In rural areas, people often directly support each other to get buy, and the urbanites absolutely can't stand it when they aren't relying on the urban fifedom. Just like the area in Colorado that the article discusses, it's illegal here to share well water. They've also made it illegal to pool your trash together for a dump run. Until the state stepped in, it used to be illegal to collect your own rain water, too. The same for inlaw quarters, which are really common in rural areas. (My county once spent nearly half a million, to unsucsessfully sue a group of people for a fraction of that amount, because one of them sold his land to the others, who each custom built their own houses, instead of having a county-approved developer build all of them.)

Even a few decades ago, California used to be the place for antiestablishment types, even in the urban areas, and its sudden changeover to forced top-down management has created a somewhat splintered government that alternates between extreme limits and strong reforms.
by alnwlsn | 2025-08-25 18:24:04+00:00
>1) The the microswitches go bad after a couple years.

I had this happen to my shop PC mouse's left button. I was too lazy to get another mouse or desolder and put in a new switch, so I tried drilling a small hole in the top of the switch and squirted some Deoxit in there. That fixed it. Later, the right button went bad too, so I did the same thing. Now it's been a year and it's still working.
by poszlem | 2025-08-25 18:24:09+00:00
It’s not an accident that we just went through one of the biggest cultural revolutions in the software development world. Look at how we treated people like Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Brendan Eich, Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, and even John Carmack. One by one, they were sidelined, pushed out, or publicly flogged for being insufficiently “progressive,” for holding “outdated” views, or simply for the crime of being older white men who had the misfortune of building the foundations of the field before today’s ideological climate took over.

But the important part is that we never really replaced them with anyone of similar weight. There was no next generation of cultural or intellectual heavyweights ready to step in. Instead, the online crowd splintered into political factions, with one side demanding constant ideological purity and the other reacting by withdrawing, going independent, or outright rejecting the institutions they had once built.

In the meantime, corporations managed to capture the new generation of young hackers by presenting themselves as “woke.” Put up the right rainbow flag at the right time, make the right statements, and suddenly the deep distrust people had toward big tech in the 90s and 2000s started to fade.
by altruios | 2025-08-25 18:24:19+00:00
Relativistic speeds can contract the length of any object as measured from an outside observer. If an object the size of 1 Planck length travels fast enough: you won't be able to measure it, as from your position it would be smaller than the Planck length as it passes by.

It's not impossible (afaik) for things to be smaller than the Planck length. We just don't have the ability (maybe ever) to measure something smaller than this limit.

Now, good luck finding something the size of 1 Planck length, and also to accelerate it to relativistic speeds.
by vel0city | 2025-08-25 18:24:24+00:00
> Pretty much everyone has family abroad

In the US? Most normie people I know barely even know anyone that's visited overseas anywhere other than Canada and Mexico, much less stay connected to family living abroad. Tons of people don't even regularly talk to people outside of state they live in.

Don't get me wrong it's not entirely uncommon and can be common in immigrant communities but outside of that unless you've got wealthy globe-trotting family you probably don't have anyone to talk to overseas. Its something far from "pretty much everyone".
by rap2363 | 2025-08-25 18:24:24+00:00
I did a writeup on substack on BMSSP (the supposed Dijkstra killer) that folks on HN might enjoy. Included is also a technical deep dive into the algorithm (https://rohanparanjpe.substack.com/p/breaking-the-shortest-p...) and the implementation on github (https://github.com/rap2363/ssps).
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-25 18:24:29+00:00
> I see an argument for tax cuts everywhere. Taxes are literally brakes on financial transactions. The number 1 way to slow down your economy is to tax every transaction possible as highly as possible. It is an interesting thought experiment to eliminate income and sales taxes, and try to only finance the government via tariffs.

Then you don't actually see an argument for tax cuts everywhere. What you want is a tax that you agree with, that disproportionately affects people you don't care about.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-25 18:24:39+00:00
If we're looking at bare minimum cost then batteries are 10x cheaper than batteries.

And being capable of seasonal storage doesn't stop you from using it for daily storage. It's less efficient than batteries, but you can overcome that.

Let's say you can make a 24 hour power source with $10M in solar panels and $20M in batteries, including the other equipment and costs. $30M total. If we need twice as much solar for thermal storage, but the storage only costs $1M, then that's $21M for an equivalent system.

What stops systems like that from being built right now? I was under the impression that batteries were most of the cost if you want them to last more than a few hours.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-25 18:24:57+00:00
This is interesting: the author, Lars Ramberg, is said to have interpreted the toilet as the unitary cell for privacy. So there's this intriguing idea that the basic societal values are founded on one's natural right to privacy.

(Some could argue that the proposal of the toilet as a symbol for privacy entirely misses the point. Others could argue that before the projection of the higher (e.g. one's ideas), the lower compels.)

> The freestanding toilets are the smallest cells of public architecture, representing the smallest cell of the people. It offers privacy physically as well as psychologically, yet it is in public. Slightly manipulated and restyled, it supports the idea of individual freedom, physical hygiene and national identity, as a new statue of liberty for both countries
by scoopr | 2025-08-25 18:25:04+00:00
While technically true, f.ex. Finland has stopped all mail shipments[0]. I guess the airlines were not set up to dealing with the hassle of making sure all the shipments are “allowed”. Or maybe just lazy, dunno really.

[0] https://www.posti.fi/en/latest-news-at-posti/%20/news/trump-...
by jacobolus | 2025-08-25 18:25:18+00:00
That's true for every aspect of US government and society; having policy set by an elected legislature answerable to the people is how democracy works. If you want things to function better, start electing people who behave honorably and act in good faith and start demanding accountability from your representatives when they don't.

(Also, don't get your hopes up about the Federal Reserve in the current climate. Just like the Supreme Court or the FBI or the EPA or the NIH, the Federal Reserve is only as good as the people in charge, and Trump is doing what he can to seize control and abuse its powers for personal gain.)
by criley2 | 2025-08-25 18:25:24+00:00
> something that you do, or a thing that you give someone, that expresses your feelings or intentions, although it might have little practical effect

Perfect definition for the geo block, since it's trivial to bypass and billions worldwide use the technology to bypass such a check.

Thank you for providing a dictionary definition that perfectly captures how the businesses efforts are "token", since literally billions of humans can bypass it with minimal effort.
by favflam | 2025-08-25 18:25:36+00:00
The current system was up for debate in the last election.

Feels over reals got us this result where Republicans specifically in Congress refuse to step in to stop the President from violating the emoluments clause, tax authority, and impoundment.

At least the last administration knew they had to pass Congressional legislation to spend money and that impoundment was absolutely illegal. And there is clear evidence Democrats will cull the herd of politicians who stray off.
by __bb | 2025-08-25 18:25:43+00:00
Because I don't have the capacity for maintaining compatibility between too many versions of macOS. For v3, I've stated the goal - not guarantee - of supporting the current and previous versions of macOS.

Since Tahoe is likely to be released in the next month or so, I judged it better to start with Sequoia and keep it supported rather than start with Sonoma and risk needing to drop it shortly after launch.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-25 18:25:45+00:00
Basically, for each input length, you can have different runtimes depending on the contents of that input. If you always pick the highest runtime for each length, that gives you a specific function. You can then derive either a lower or an upper bound for that function. Same for the best case.

You can state four combinations in their common sense intuition as

- even in the worst case, the runtime grows only at most as fast as n^2 (modulo multiplication and addition)

- in the worst case, the runtime can grow at least as fast as n^2

- in the best case, the runtime can grow only at most as fast as n^2

- even in the best case, the runtime grows at least as fast as n^2

One can imagine it as not just a single curve on a function plot, but a band, a range. Then the top line of this range can be bounded from above or below, and the bottom can also be bounded from above or below. The common case is when you give a bound for the top curve, from above.

How to work this into the article, I don't know, sorry.
by riku_iki | 2025-08-25 18:25:53+00:00
> What's to be done? I really ask: What's to be done about it?

property/estate taxes which will be directed to safety nets for youth: medical insurance, education, childcare, foodstamp and 1br with public transit to business centers. This will propel access to opportunities for youth by XX times, and also crash housing market and cool down stock market.
by bix6 | 2025-08-25 18:26:03+00:00
So we need the old transfer some wealth to the young. The old mostly have assets like stocks and houses. The young can’t earn enough to accrue assets.

So tax the wealthy / old higher. Increase social safety nets. Increase wages. Give all employees equity. Stop share buy backs. Force CEO to median / lowest employee comp maximums. Break up monopolies. Make school cheap / free. Build more housing. Stop monocropping.

I can go on and on with ideas but I think the political will / capture prevents this so I guess we’ll just topple over instead.
by max51 | 2025-08-25 18:26:05+00:00
Is it even worth the time searching on forums to fix these issues? I can't speak for OP... but if an OS I freshly installed is unable to watch youtube videos and wake up from sleep, I'm wiping it and installing something else unless I can fix it extremely easily (eg. with chatgpt).

>You also didn't specify anything like the quality you were trying to playback at.

If hardware acceleration isn't working, it doesn't matter which youtube video made you realize the issue existed. It's not as if the method you use to fix the driver would be different when the video you want to watch is 1080p30 instead of 4k60.
by dangus | 2025-08-25 18:26:31+00:00
Not really true. In this case he doesn’t have the power to do it because the federal government doesn’t operate elections. He has no lever to pull.

At most he can convince some friendly state legislatures to ban mail-in voting, but even that may not be an automatic process (e.g., maybe some states have requirements to change the constitutional or put the item up on a ballot measure).

Every Trump policy to this point has involved some kind of lever that the executive branch has had power over: tariffs, national guard deployments, and even in the case of ICE enforcement, Trump had to go to Congress to appropriate additional funding to make that viable long-term.

As an aside, I’m not personally too worried about the mail in voting as a hot button issue. I don’t think Republicans will touch it significantly because they need turnout, too, and they need it from key demographics that use absentee ballots like older voters and military members.

Some research seems to show that mail-in voting doesn’t really benefit a specific party.

https://www.dw.com/en/us-election-mail-in-voting-biden-trump...