MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andsoitis | 2025-08-23 00:52:31+00:00
>The administration has steadily imposed more restrictions and requirements on visa applicants, including requiring them to submit to in-person interviews.

This is NOT new. In most cases, in-person interviews have always been required at a US embassy or consulate abroad. I know this not only from personal experience but you can also double check if you don't believe me: https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://travel.s...

There are certain exceptions:

- interview waivers: certain applications may qualify to skip, e.g. children under 14, adults 80+, some renewing applications

- certain visa categories: diplomats and some official travelers.

That said, US consular officers have always had the discretion to require an interview even if you might otherwise qualify for a waiver.

>Officials say the reviews will include all visa holders’ social media accounts, law enforcement and immigration records in their home countries, along with any actionable violations of U.S. law committed while they were in the United States.

Do you object to all of these or only some? I can see objecting to social media account review, but surely actionable violations of US law committed while in the US any reasonable person can agree that that can be cause for denying or revoking your VISA. Surely?
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-23 00:53:02+00:00
> Why do people use JSX for e.g. blogs when HTML templating is built into the browser and they do nothing dynamic?

...but real HTML templating isn't built-in to HTML[1]. Its absence for these 30 years is as huge a mystery as why there's no combobox input element (combination textbox+drop-down) or <select>'s limitations.

[1] What I mean by this is that JS+DOM still has no simple way of escaping HTML in a string. It's insane.

To elaborate: if you have a some arbitrary strings (unsanitized user input): `headerText` and `firstParagraph` that you want to render to a HTML fragment like `<h2>{headerText}</h2><p>{firstParagraph}</p>` then the only real way of doing this safely is by using the (archaic and verbose) DOM Level 1 methods (document.createElement, textContent = 'text', etc) which somehow always turn what-should-be a 1-liner pure-function in any sane language to a 10-line function with side-effects (...and as it's 2025 then it will probably be async too).

When JS added support for template-literals, I was excited that this might mean an end to the embarrassing problem, but because it didn't ship with HTML-escaping it means it's useless for that purpose - unless you're going to go through the effort to implement a full "tagged template" with a parser function, which I assume would handle the DOM parts.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-08-23 00:53:03+00:00
I guess I just find the whole "foundation model" phrasing to be designed in a way to pat the backs of the "winners" who would of course be those with the most money. I'm sure there are foundation models from groups that aren't e.g. OpenAI, but the origins felt egotistical and asserting that you made one prior to the phrase's inception only feels more-so.

Had you merely called it an early instance of pretraining, I'd be fine with it.
by nomel | 2025-08-23 00:54:13+00:00
Why? I agree. I could send you pictures of indentations in my skin, right below my wrists, that are present on my arms right now. It's a bit better with the newest, thinner, generation, but last generation was uncomfortable enough that I would use wrist support, or drape a mousepad on the edge. An 8 hours shift of typing would get uncomfortable, with questions of "wtf happened to your wrists?". Not to mention the ever present indentation in my hand, like this [1]. I'm probably "holding it wrong".

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1k07yqj/sharp_edges/
by franktankbank | 2025-08-23 00:54:32+00:00
Don't know why you get downvoted but I hear you!

This whole "extraction of money" is so stupid though, it is just reducing labor output nothing else, so goddamn stupidly greedy. Insurance should be for left field diagnoses and stay the fuck out of everything else. Right now payers are being leaned on as guardians of the purse strings which is incomprehensibly dumb.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-08-23 00:55:15+00:00
I'm in the process of switching from Gmail to FastMail. They were the only ones who met one of my requirements: Receive all email for all my domains and deliver it to one inbox with labels.

I really like that they offer a Gmail migration, including an initial import and _ongoing Inbox sync_. It only syncs the Inbox though, not spam (which is sometimes legit, especially with Gmail) or mail that gets immediately archived by a rule.

I created an alternate domain so I could try them out and perform the switch after a significant evaluation period. Since they have advanced options for figuring out which address to reply to an email with and how, it works seamlessly with gmail and with the catch-all for domains.

I could go on and on. The only thing I miss from Gmail is custom notification sounds. I don't like my email notifications having the default OS sound. Oh and you can't migrate stars/icons for emails. I wish I could do that and convert them to labels, but not a big deal.
by tenpies | 2025-08-23 00:55:22+00:00
It does, but almost all the major platforms/companies are members of NetChoice, a trade organization that fights this sort of thing. This presser from Bluesky doesn't mention it, but the case is "NetChoice vs Mississippi", so that's how involved they are to this.

Here's their write up on the Mississippi case: https://netchoice.org/netchoice-v-fitch-mississippi/

And obligatory Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetChoice
by xoa | 2025-08-23 00:56:23+00:00
>It's not elitist to remark that people tech skills are atrophying.

It is elitist though to not go into why that's the case and instead just assume it's because, what, people are dropping in IQ? A lot of (though not all granted) the cause boils down to the same reason as mechanical skills (engine repair and such) atrophying: lack of need. Things have gotten very polished for the average use case. Most people don't need to know all the inner workings, but that's not necessarily a bad thing right? I can remember easily in the 90s and much of the 00s when many OS crashed if you looked at them funny and had some pretty funky edges, and the state of the art advanced so fast diving into the internals was important. And it was great fun for me and I miss a lot of it. However it made life a lot harder for someone who only wanted an appliance tool, and now that's the changed. But while when comfortable a lot of us have a tendency to coast, as we see in disaster after disaster folks can get extremely inventive and learn in a real hurry if they experience enough motivation.

>Sure, one can ask a techie friend (if one's has a techie friend capable of self-hosting a VPN).

lol what? Why on earth would that be necessary?

>Selling turnkey tools will be banned.

I'm American. The british crown can kiss my red, white and blue ass. Just as with tor, I will contribute for free just to stick it in their authoritarian eye. As well as services from huge parts of the rest of the planet that aren't the UK, there is no reason there won't be fully open source apps where you put in a VPS API key and it does the rest and spits out a profile for you the end. On the contrary that's technically trivial, but there hasn't been that kind of need amongst the developed world.

The UK government will have to go all the way to the level of China for it to work like you're claiming, if they're even capable of that.
by susiecambria | 2025-08-23 00:56:27+00:00
> Washington’s long-standing de minimis policy had allowed parcels packed with cheap items to flow into the US from around the world with little interruption or oversight, fueled by consumer demand for bargains and immediacy. Trump’s White House claims it’s a loophole used to evade tariffs and funnel illegal drugs.

> Now, postal services, online sellers, consumers and shipping companies are attempting to sort through the costly and complicated process to comply with US rules with little guidance from federal agencies.

I wonder what consideration individuals are giving this. . . The article says very little about consumer behavior save for the above two grafs. I very rarely buy directly from abroad and that is by design, with nothing to do re: de minimis. What bargains are people buying?! Especially in this economy.
by jonlong | 2025-08-23 00:57:54+00:00
I agree with your point, but it's worth noting that scientific papers are normally and by default copyrighted works. (In some cases the author may assign the copyright to a publisher.)

Eric's draft contains an unusual statement that says "this work [...] may not be built upon without express permission of the author". To the extent that this refers to derivative works which substantially reuse the text of the paper, this is normal copyright law. To the extent that this refers to the use of scientific ideas or discoveries, this is not enforceable under US copyright law. Copyright cannot prevent anyone from citing or responding to a work. See, e.g., https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf.

(I am an academic, not a lawyer.)
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-23 00:58:02+00:00
I’m not sure what exactly you mean by that link.

Iowa was listed as 63% urban in the 2020 census. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. An area needs 2000 housing units and/or 5000 people to be counted as urban. If you’ve been through the state, you’ll see lots of tiny little 2000-3000 person towns that have an urban street grid around a couple-block downtown core. These things don’t get counted as urban.

The farmland is too valuable for you to see much of any sprawl except in Des Moines and Iowa City. Even Council Bluffs (the Iowa side of the Omaha metro) has very little for the metro size.
by jleyank | 2025-08-23 00:58:39+00:00
For at least the near term, parcels won't be shipped into the US. Once things stabilize, they'll figure out who'll pay the tariffs stemming from suspending de minimus. But it's going to affect small companies outside the US and the cost of goods entering from outside.

That's the intent, but it's going to result in some lean months or years until the payola is delivered or the factories are (re)built. And it's not going to be a fun time for Walmart.
by nilslindemann | 2025-08-23 00:59:06+00:00
Is it just me, or do other people also have the impression that a lot of sock puppets are advertising for the Astral company on the internet?

That said, I may not have installed super complex packages, but for years now I have never ever experienced one situation (on Windows, ok) where pip did not just work. For me, pip is the way.

I also have the Python folder be a Git repo, and every `pip install` is a commit, and every project is a branch. Why so difficult?
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-23 00:59:50+00:00
Yeah. And I’m not sure how America does it but all the wind turbines I’ve seen in Ontario are just sitting in farmers’ fields. No fences. Spread out. The footprint is really quite small. I could see it being larger if one stuffed them so close together that the incorporated land really couldn’t be utilized well, but even then, it’s such a tiny amount of land. Especially compared to basically every other land use.
by hajile | 2025-08-23 01:00:10+00:00
I believe the most modern TSMC fabs outside of Taiwan are in Arizona. They are just moving to 4nm which is nearly 5 years old and just a revision of 5nm which is getting close to 7 years old.

TSMC aims to have N3 in Arizona by 2028 at the earliest which is 6 years after it first released. By that time, TSMC will have released N3X, N2, N2P, N2X, A16, and A14.

TSMC is heavily sponsored by the Taiwanese government and was created with the express purpose of making Taiwan so valuable that the West would be forced to defend them against China. Moving newer processes out of the country is against their national interests and they've made it clear that there's no plan to do that.
by dwa3592 | 2025-08-23 01:00:46+00:00
Built this for a personal use case but hopefully it helps someone else in need. Give how everyone wants to build vibe coding apps, maybe add a data security layer.

The zink.shield is a python decorator that you can fit nicely in your existing RAG/LLM apps. The decorator handles the following:

1. redacting the sensitive info

2. runs your function

3. reidentifies the redacted info in the response.

Feel free to open issues or submit PRs.
by bko | 2025-08-23 01:01:03+00:00
Not that I agree with bail-outs, but 2008 financial crisis that resulted in a number of bail outs actually netted the treasury a profit.

> In total, U.S. government economic bailouts related to the 2008 financial crisis had federal outflows (expenditures, loans, and investments) of $633.6 billion and inflows (funds returned to the Treasury as interest, dividends, fees, or stock warrant repurchases) of $754.8 billion, for a net profit of $121 billion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
by solid_fuel | 2025-08-23 01:01:21+00:00
Except “corrupting” in this case often just means “LGBTQ”. In exactly the same way “corrupting influence” used to mean “music made by black people” or “anything pro-worker”.

Corrupting ideas don’t exist. There is truly no such thing as an infohazard. We, as humans, are capable of making up our own minds about things and we don’t need to give this power of censorship over to people who are not acting in good faith.
by sheepscreek | 2025-08-23 01:01:30+00:00
Fair enough - I’m just the messenger though, observing the current trends and extrapolating from there. Let’s talk about “AGENTS.md” files quickly. We’re specifying what I consider “rules” in plain language. Even lint rules (instead of creating a lint config). Could be a matter of convenience, and if it gets us 80% of the way, why not?

I believe it won’t be long before we have exceptional “programmers” who have mastered the art of vibe coding. If that does become the de facto standard for 80% programming done, then it’s not a long stretch from there that we might skip programming languages altogether. I’m simply suggesting that if you’re not going to examine the code, perhaps someone will eliminate that additional layer or step altogether, and we might be pleasantly surprised by the final result.
by roxolotl | 2025-08-23 01:01:53+00:00
I personally buy things from abroad relatively regularly. Few times a year. Just bought a keyboard from Taiwan and stocked up on Japanese tea in preparation for this. Plenty of things come from abroad though even if you’re not searching it out. Of course there’s SHEIN, temu, and Alibaba but even Amazon has a good percentage of things that come from abroad. It’s kinda hidden but it’s seamless so until now it was hard to tell.
by redserk | 2025-08-23 01:02:11+00:00
You can save a lot of money on random stuff from Temu/Aliexpress compared to Amazon. In my experience, often times going to be the same exact item.

Bags, odds and ends around the house, component assortments, screw assortments, and some tools (with careful judgement).

Sometimes the difference is only 1/3rd the cost, but I’ve had some items be 1/20th the cost by removing Amazon and whichever third party seller.
by jleyank | 2025-08-23 01:02:21+00:00
err, things like Etsy and other crafter-sized companies, including antiques and other things. Don't know whether used books will be affected as I've not bought any recently. E-stores like Amazon or LL Bean or others at scale might/will have difficulty servicing customers. And all the gifts coming from non-US residents at this point will be emails.
by gizajob | 2025-08-23 01:03:34+00:00
Given there’s fabs doing essentially the same thing elsewhere then yes. Getting down to 3nm and the technology and secrets that involves would take a while though.

TSMC can’t do it either without xUV lithography machines made by ASML in the Netherlands.

Furthermore there isn’t anything magical about about the current generation of chips that couldn’t be replicated at at a scale of 12 or 15 or 20 nanometers - it’s just that scaling down to that small allows for a greater density of transistors per wafer and thus increased power efficiency. An AI supercomputer could be built with chips with bigger transistors than 3nm it would just run hotter.

And investing in intel aside, one of Nvidias great competitive moats is CUDA and that’s software not hardware.
by adabyron | 2025-08-23 01:04:51+00:00
Many things can be true at once:

* Most crops have shifted to corn which 1/3-1/2 of what the US produces is for energy

* China is all in on solar and renewables because the amount of energy & how they import is a weakness the US threatens. It also makes a great export & influence for them over other countries.

* Many Republican donors, voters and politicians have invested a lot in corn, oil, coal and ethanol infrastructure which solar/wind threaten if they grow to fast. Some of their towns may depend on that as the main reason anyone lives there.

* Corn is really easy to grow for most farmers in the midwest, easy to store for long periods & farmers have invested a lot in machinery (which creates lobbyists from John Deere & others)

* Corn farms are an incredible waste of land by almost all measures compared to other crops or solar & wind, especially when you do a mixed land of solar/wind with small animals, bees & battery storage.

* The US has a lot of land available

* Most people care little about what's good for everyone or what's good for the planet, even if they claim to. This one is just my opinion based on how people actually behave.
by gremlinunderway | 2025-08-23 01:04:53+00:00
Ok so Ive heard this rumour spread around a lot and I still have yet to hear anyone back this up with anything beyond just speculation and hearsay. It also doesn't make sense.

This premise assumes two things for it to be true:

1. These stores have the technology to detect when you started a checkout transaction with an item, but said item was not scanned. 2. These stores have the additional technology to detect the cost of this item (afterall, if they're aiming for a threshold then they have to have some sort of monetary figure here).

I don't doubt that machine learning object detection can say, track a banana versus an apple. But I sincerely doubt its reliable enough where it can classify Mandarin oranges versus regular oranges. If the tech was reliable enough to do EITHER of these two technical abilities (let alone both of them at the same time), then the grocery would simply employ this technology as part of the self checkout process itself. Screw prosecuting people, just have them use this wizzbang auto detection self checkout where no scanning is needed.

Finally, I sincerely doubt that even with enough instances that you'd be successful in a prosecution that you actually could prove intent to shoplift versus say the much more likely fact that you forgot to scan an item or poorly scanned it. Again, to prove a serious intent then would subsequently have to build some sort of pattern analysis (i.e. you always stole expensive cheese or something) to make it obvious.

Has there been even a single prosecuted case someone can actually point to? It really doesnt make sense. I also could see this being thrown out because an argument could be made that the company sitting back and letting this continue to occur without intervention is tacitly allowing it to continue and thus sets a precedence that its allowable.
by upofadown | 2025-08-23 01:06:25+00:00
In particular, encrypted email provides privacy but not anonymity. You need some sort of onion routing system for that. Back in the day people would set up such routing systems for email.

It turns out that most people don't really need anonymity. That is why most systems these days don't bother the user with all the associated hassle. Briar and Session come to mind as contemporary examples of such things.
by o11c | 2025-08-23 01:06:37+00:00
In my experience, all thesauri suck, either having far too few quasi-synonyms (and thesauri that divide them into closeness tiers aren't very useful in practice), or having far too many quasi-synonyms without distinguishing senses or parts of speech (sometimes, but only sometimes, intersection search works to avoid this), or both.

As for antonyms, good luck finding anything at all.

So, using additional tools, even if not designed for the task, is often useful.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-23 01:07:50+00:00
Most Rust ORMs and query builders expose a transaction API that takes a closure and runs it inside the transaction, rolling back on unwind or (in most cases) if it's not explicitly committed. This is the most common idiom in Rust for dealing with situations where you want to pass extra data to or from a cleanup routine. Unfortunately, for the async use case in particular it happens to be unsound: https://tmandry.gitlab.io/blog/posts/2023-03-01-scoped-tasks...
by ratmice | 2025-08-23 01:08:35+00:00
My project hasn't really gotten to the level of actually exporting data to any database yet, but basically I'm just using standard openstreetmap data exported to geoparquet format.

That is then combined with a bunch of time series sensor readings combined with a gps data, (I'm basically still working on the device firmware so I don't have any actual data export happening yet)...

But it is a pretty basic combination of timeseries and geospatial data.
by photon_garden | 2025-08-23 01:08:55+00:00
Really enjoyed my experiments with Gleam! Such a lovely, simple language, and it’s clearly been made with great care and attention to detail.

My language of choice is Rust, but I’d go with Gleam in a heartbeat if I:

- Were working on a team with junior engineers

- Building a web app

- On a passion project, or in a business context where the lack of ecosystem etc. wasn’t a concern

For my own projects or with other senior folks, Rust’s complexity is a price you pay once and you reap the rewards forever afterwards. But Gleam’s simplicity would really shine in an organization with a wider range of experience levels.

My biggest complaint besides the obvious ecosystem stuff is that the most popular frontend library leaves something to be desired. It’s SPA-first, which seems like a very strange decision to make in 2025.
by maxdamantus | 2025-08-23 01:08:58+00:00
> I don’t understand this complaint. (3) sounds like exactly what you are asking for. And yes, doing unsafe thing is unsafe

You're meant to use `unsafe` as a way of limiting the scope of reasoning about safety.

Once you construct a `&str` using `from_utf8_unchecked`, you can't safely pass it to any other function without looking at its code and reasoning about whether it's still safe.

Also see the actual documentation: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.str.html#method.from...

> Safety: The bytes passed in must be valid UTF-8.
by noduerme | 2025-08-23 01:09:07+00:00
Couldn't this backfire pretty badly, though? Raising a national conversation about the dementia of the last President makes it easier to have a conversation about the current one, right? I think the fact that the MSM outright lied to cover up Biden's mental decline is actually the root of the problem, because now they've lost credibility and appear hypocritical if they try to point out Trump's glaring mental deficits. If you're contending that the fascists pushed the issue of Biden's decline because they knew the MSM would cover it up and therefore lose credibility, I think you're giving them too much credit.
by runjake | 2025-08-23 01:09:19+00:00
It's just my experience, but it seems like nearly all younger people (<= 20s) don't want to deep dive on stuff like Linux or TCP/IP, they want to know enough to be effective (dangerous?) and move onto chasing basic competency in the next technology.

I can from a time when sysadmins were expected to know C and kernel and TCP/IP internals, but that world is no more. Blame it on education, blame it on the pace of technology, I don't know.

I'm not sure how I feel about that, especially thinking about when all the people who know and can build low-level stuff retire and die off. Maybe AI will save them. Who knows?