MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-20 17:52:29+00:00
My example has nothing to do with race mixing lmao. Two Sub Saharan Africans today are literally descendants of people that never left the continent, there's no amount of 'race mixing' that would causing one of them to be genetically closer to another 'race' than to each other if race was a genetic reality. You're just an idiot with poor reading comprehension.

Between us, you are clearly the one with no clue about what he's talking about.

There’s more genetic variation within any so-called racial group than between groups, race mixing or not. Clearly, 'race' has no genetic justification.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-20 17:52:55+00:00
> This poses a problem for the core states because one of the main pillars of the imperial arrangement is that they need to maintain a monopoly over necessary technologies like capital goods, medicines, computers, aircraft and so on. This forces the “Global South” into a position of dependency, so they are forced to export large quantities of their cheapened resources in order to obtain these necessary technologies. This is what sustains the core’s net-appropriation through unequal exchange.

Ok, now apply this thinking the other way: is it good for the West to lose tech know-how and become dependent on China? For Chinese firms to take over our markets? The article tries to paint China as benign as possible, so it omits any mention of underhanded tactics it uses to enter Western (and other) markets, such as the Canada-China FIPA free trade agreement:

China benefits much more than Canada, because of a clause allowing existing restrictions in each country to stay in place. Chinese companies get to play on a relatively level field in Canada, while maintaining wildly arbitrary practices and rules for Canadian companies in China. [1,2]

It's also notable that "warmongering" is code for no more than mere protectionism, the same kind that China (and indeed most industrialized countries) practices, or practiced until its own corporations could compete. But "war" sounds a lot worse than "maintaining economic sovereignty", so that's what the hit-piece chose.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fipa-agreement-with-china-wha...

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-yearbook-of...
by treetalker | 2025-08-20 17:53:00+00:00
> Lost job because a political appointee …

Not entirely sure this is accurate: according to the article, Gabbard (political appointee) fired him because Trump ordered her to do so. The question is why Trump gave that order; I suspect, but cannot show any direct evidence, that Laura Loomer (not a political appointee) had something to do with it. (As discussed in the article and as we know from many other instances and sources, Loomer goes about picking people to get rid of — for whatever reasons — and apparently has a lot of sway with Trump.)

But don't get me wrong: I agree with you in spirit!

> Current administration is a clown car of incompetence.

Self-evident.
by steveklabnik | 2025-08-20 17:53:16+00:00
Hi! Sorry, I was trying to be a bit tongue in cheek here. This space, in my experience, has always been frustrating, because it's a hard problem. I myself am fighting with Playwright these days, just like I used to fight with Selenium. (And, to my understanding, you created Selenium due to frustrations with Mercury, hence the name... I'm curious if that's true or just something I heard!)

I still deeply appreciate these tools, even though I also find them a bit frustrating.
by saltcured | 2025-08-20 17:53:54+00:00
I'm your opposite as the extremely sparse note-taker. I can use a notepad for writing down basic checklists but absolutely cannot take notes when learning. My main way of learning, and doing cognitive work in general, is of listening/absorbing, then ruminating and synthesizing my own new ideas later.

I wonder if my contrary experience is linked to my being mostly aphantasic and also lacking an internal monologue. Verbal input and output are activities I have to engage which takes me out of my default mode of thinking. And they are somewhat mutually-exclusive. Roughly speaking, it is like I have different mental postures for these. I think easily in a "resting" state. Figuratively, I have to "sit up" (for reading) or "stand up" (for listening). To write or speak, I go further into a variant "fighting" posture, e.g. getting myself centered and my reflexes cranked up more.

Also, I feel like anything I really learn is merged into my unified "world model" almost immediately or with a very short latency. But, I have very poor rote memory. I don't memorize what I hear or read. I extend my understanding and then can speak from that understanding later, in my own words. I do best when I can learn something abstractly and synthesize a bunch of related ideas from that understanding. I can infer my own abstractions, but I need to do so rapidly before I lose the examples being communicated.

I struggle when there is an expectation to memorize disconnected examples and defer the abstraction. If I don't generally understand new content in real-time as I listen or read, it is just noise. I cannot recall content I didn't understand in order to figure it out later. I only retain the meta-memory that I was exposed to and rejected some arbitrary noise...
by os2warpman | 2025-08-20 17:54:03+00:00
>I realized it had no other purpose but to foist an impression of my dirty face toward me, conveying my position as a filthy, groveling consumer pestering them with my petty needs.

I look at myself and go "damn that's one sexy dude I'm gonna jut out my chin and stand up straight so if anyone looks at this, they fall in love with me".

Also, the staff doesn't identify as anything except someone trying to make it through their day.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-20 17:54:04+00:00
There used to be phones with a secondary display, full QWERTY keyboard, wireless split remote, whole Windows computer in the back, a completely square display, two displays of which one rotate, a plug-in dual display cover, dual SIM slot, a miniature video projector, fingerprint sensor in the back, TV tuner, FM radio, sleep-swappable battery, IP68 rating, laser barcode scanner, 1" equivalent image sensor, 42MP image sensor, actually mechanically zooming lenses, IrDA, strap holes, 3.5mm headphone jacks,

iPhone killed them all. Yeah I personally kind of want iMessage. Doesn't change the fact that iPhone killed them all.
Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards
by rhodey | 2025-08-20 17:54:22+00:00
Bizcardz.ai is a website where you design business cards which are converted to KiCad PCB schematics which can be manufactured (using metals) by companies such as Elecrow and PCBWay

The site is free. Elecrow charges about $1 per pcb in quantities of 50 and $0.80 in quantities of 100.

I have hacked away at this on and off for about two years so just happy to get it published
by lastofthemojito | 2025-08-20 17:54:25+00:00
I mean, of course, we all would like to be able to travel without restrictions ourselves. The concern for people in developed nations is what would happen to their quality of life if people from poorer nations could freely migrate.

Europe has ~750 million people, and even with current policies (where migrants might drown when their boat sinks while the Greek Coast Guard looks on and laughs) millions of migrants try to enter Europe each year.

The US has ~340 million people, and even with current policies (where children might be separated from parents and placed into cruel detention centers) millions of migrants try to enter the US each year.

If movement was free, how many hundreds of millions would pour from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia into Europe and the US? The 3+ billion who live in the tropics are only going to become more likely to try to migrate as the climate continues to warm.
by gavmor | 2025-08-20 17:55:14+00:00
I simply haven't gotten Smart Connections to index my vaults successfully, for whatever reason. So I can't give them a proper review.

I'd hope that any inference performed in a given note would take as context not only the full text of the note, but its nearest neighbors—although, frankly, what I really want are the implicit definitions of proper nouns, ie links.

I also frequently generate articles based on the subject's backlinks, ie mentions in other notes.

Both of those functionalities are provided by Obsidian's core featureset, so all that's missing—and what might provide outsized value—is indexing notes based not only on the embeddings of their literal text, but on meta-text such as: the questions they might answer; the definitions of their principle subjects; counterfactual statements they falsify.

All of which would allow the editor to bring up a relevant note when writing/reviewing another–ie the "unknown knowns".

I think this technique is akin to "knowledge enrichment", or "meta-embeddings," but I think actually those terms have lower-level meanings.

Of course, generating these embeddings would make the indexing process slower and more failure prone, and so I'd be even more likely to fail to get it working and call it a dud.
by mfrye0 | 2025-08-20 17:55:15+00:00
Hey George and Alex. This looks awesome. We're working on something similar, but for all of the businesses in the world: https://savvyiq.ai. We're international and have 265M+ entities in the system. We're actually preparing to do our own formal share on HN shortly.

We're working with enterprise customers now that want to use our system to dedupe all their gnarly business data, ground it to real legal entities, enrich it with base insights, then are asking for further data points more from a risk and due diligence standpoint.

Product information has come up repeatedly, but as you clearly know, that is a beast in itself that I don't think we'll ever tackle. For context, I helped build out the product data infra at https://www.wiser.com, and I'm not inclined to spend my time categorizing and building the taxonomy for pots, pans, and towels again.

I'm going to try out the product and happy to chat further if you think there's an opp to collaborate in some way. My email is in my profile.
by jfengel | 2025-08-20 17:55:16+00:00
That isn't in itself great news, because the bottom line to track is how much greenhouse gas we're generating.

The report is also slightly optimistic on that point: "Nonetheless, growth in power sector emissions showed signs of slowing down as rapid deployment of renewables constrained increases in fossil-fired generation. As this trend continues, we expect 2025 emissions to plateau and remain relatively unchanged."

But "plateau" isn't great news, either. That's gigatons of CO2 added per year. It would mean that we stop accelerating climate change, but we'll sail though 1.5C and 2C on our way to the IPCC's worst-case scenarios.
by denysvitali | 2025-08-20 17:55:17+00:00
> regular emergency call tests

This sounds like a huge waste of time for the dispatch operators if everyone starts to do such tests regularly.

On a similar note, it would be great (especially for these tests) if carriers provided a non-emergency / echo number that gets treated the same way as an emergency call (works w/o SIM card, gets preferential treatment, ...)
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-20 17:55:35+00:00
Mask ROM is actually pretty expensive to manufacture, which is why original DS game carts were so small you could fit a hundred of them onto a $20 MicroSD card during the same time period.

The upside of course is that your original DS cartridge might never go bad, even if you lose it under the sofa for 30 years.

This is not true of modern switch cartridges.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-08-20 17:55:41+00:00
That kills iteration speed. Carefully outline, get it to write tests first, then let it go wild and verify the tests while it's doing that. If there are test issues, tell it so without interrupting it, and it'll just queue up those fixes without having to stop and be re-routed.

You want to periodically have coverage improvement -> refactor loops after implementing a few features. You can figure out the refactors you want while the agent is implementing the code, after you've sussed out any test issues, then just queue up instructions on how to refactor once the tests are passing.
by vzaliva | 2025-08-20 17:56:12+00:00
I was living in Kyiv at the time of the accident, and later I worked for the Ministry of Chernobyl (a special government ministry created to deal with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster). I assisted groups of international researchers in analysing data on the consequences of the accident, including radioactive contamination distribution through food chains.

This article is complete rubbish. Everything was tightly measured and controlled. The radiation levels required to trigger memory bits (ferrite memory!) in a building next to the train station, through the walls and metal panels enclosing computer blocks and at such a distance, would probably make a cow glow in the dark :) Geiger counters weren’t restricted - they just weren’t sold to the general public. But somehow, after Chernobyl, every one of my friends managed to procure one (I had three). Even the final part about "filling in immigration papers with any country" is implausible. It wasn’t possible to simply emigrate from the Soviet Union to any country. There was a limited Jewish emigration path, but it was far from easy.
by bityard | 2025-08-20 17:56:26+00:00
> Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL are all available for preorder today starting at $799, $999 and $1199.

Sigh, still not going to pay more for a phone than I paid for my computer.

Also, what is up with that camera module? This doesn't look like it can physically slide into jeans pockets. At least round the corners or add little ramps. I guess this is what happens when design folk are allowed to trump engineers.
by abuani | 2025-08-20 17:56:28+00:00
A counter example would be Weaveworks(folks behind Flux/FluxCD and many other widely used oss tools). I'm sure the ex employees would've preferred to get acquihired vs closing up for good. I highly doubt Styra was pulling in enough money to fund their business, and the days of zirp are long gone, so I doubt they would've been able to raise another round to keep the lights on for another few years.
by righthand | 2025-08-20 17:57:06+00:00
Our country is too dumb to read crime stats. Of course we would make everyone the enemy regardless of what the constitution and stats say.

Do your part and educate an idiot you know. Ask them to stop being unreasonable and stop spreading lies or you will cut them off.

This will probably result in you cutting them off.

We cannot sink into total FUD!
by smcin | 2025-08-20 17:57:19+00:00
> you could conceivably be a citizen, but CBP/ICE think you might be here illegally, so they can stop you without a warrant.

That's terrible advice, please stop giving terrible advice like that. ICE need to have probable cause (about you specifically, by name, not just your street or zipcode or "people of your ethnicity/appearance" or "people in that store/restaurant/parking lot"), beyond a verbal "uhh we think you're here illegally". You have the right to ask them why. And the 4th Amdt still exists, for all people, so no they can't stop you in your vehicle or inside your own house without probable cause and a [signed, valid] warrant [naming you specifically, and signed by a judge].

> How are you going to prove you're a citizen?

If you're a citizen, you can simply state to them you're a citizen (better when you're on bodycam; and repeat it (on bodycam) to any other ICE officials you interact with, and make mental note of their names or else descriptions so you can subsequently identify them). Pragmatically, you could also identify yourself as such to any bystanders or anyone videoing things.

"U.S. citizens do not have to carry proof of citizenship if they are in the U.S." [0] Read that again and again. Ok?

For sure ICE could knowingly violate a citizen's rights, detain them unlawfully (for hours or days), beat them up, send them to a detention center, even (in very rare cases) deport them. That becomes a political as much as legal matter. If you have constitutional/legal rights and due-process but refuse to stand up for them, do those rights functionally cease to exist? Do they magically get restored in 2029(/2033)? Time to stop being complacent.

(Obviously noncitizens do not have all the above protections, and need to be more careful.)

In the meantime, to inform yourself about your rights, and to get advice how to deal with ICE, both for citizens, GC holders, visa holders, visitors and undocumented people, see: https://www.aclu.org/ or other webinars. But, stop speculating or spreading misinformation. If you don't know, ask here.

[0]: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights
by iLemming | 2025-08-20 17:57:23+00:00
The first part of that joke is an exaggeration. The second part of "not-so-great editor" is simply incorrect.

Emacs does provide some OS-like features - process management, file system interface, window management, runtime environment, but it lacks tons of other things to be even close to an OS - there's no direct hardware control, no memory protection between different parts, no multi-user support with security isolation, no device drivers, no network stack management, etc.

The "lacks a decent text editor" part is more unfair than the OS comparison. Emacs objectively has a very capable editor - stating otherwise is a sign of unfamiliarity and ignorance about it.

The joke is a relic from the 1990s and it's aimed to capture how Emacs (used to) prioritize power and extensibility over immediate usability - making it simultaneously impressive and frustrating - back in the day.

The joke is hilariously outdated along with another one - "8MB and constantly swapping" - Emacs went from resource hog to surprisingly lightweight without changing much - the world just got more bloated around it.

I'm just baffled why programmers are so notorious for holding onto outdated conventional beliefs that no longer hold any truth about them. Especially for cases like this, when it was clearly a joke. A joke that has not aged well at all.
by os2warpman | 2025-08-20 17:57:28+00:00
I was a trained cashier many years ago because I didn't grow up privileged so I had to work retail (and dishwasher and waiter) jobs.

Not only do I have the muscle memory, still after 30 years, I also have the added incentive of knowing the value of my own time, not being fatigued from hours of work, the ability pre-position items in the cart at an optimal orientation for handling and scanning, and foreknowledge of what items I have and a plan for how best to bag them that was made prior to my arrival at self-checkout.

So, yeah, I scan faster.

Much faster.

edit: oh man this has brought up a bunch of frustrations. Why do customers just pile shit on the counter? When I interact with a cashier, like at a gas station on a long road trip, every item I place on the counter has the barcodes oriented towards the person, so they can just "zap zap zap zap" the items rapid-fire without handling them. My bag (I live in a civilized state that has banned plastic bags) is ready and waiting, items are organized and presented in an order that make sense for ease of bagging. My payment method is ready. The experience is efficient and quick.

It takes no mental effort to do any of this and yet I am constantly stuck behind people who act as though they are purchasing things for the first time in their entire lives and the process is as foreign to them as communicating in the language of an extraterrestrial intelligence is to me.
by phire | 2025-08-20 17:57:35+00:00
Yeah, reddit spread the changes out over years, just Decades of slow incremental changes. Even the new UI started off as optional, and the old UI is still (mostly) supported after 7 years.

Digg always rolled out its changes in one big update, which replaced the old version of the site overnight. So not only did users get to see all the changes in one big slap to the fact, but they couldn't switch back to Digg v3 if they didn't like Digg v4.

In fact, Digg itself couldn't roll back the entire site to v3 even if they had wanted to, as the v4 rollout required a database migration, and there was no reverse migration path.
by dakiol | 2025-08-20 17:57:59+00:00
> I love the idea of an on-device model that I can say something like "who's going to the baseball game this weekend" and it'll intelligently check my calendar and see who's listed. Or saying something like "how much was the dinner at McDoogle's last week?" and have it check digital wallet transactions.

It's probably just me (or a few like me) but I don't really keep my life in digital format as much as others (and I'm a "geek" for my family/friends since i work in the software industry). If I'm going to the cinema or baseball or any other event... I don't have it in any calendar. I pay with debit/credit cards but I don't have any digital wallet. I don't take my phone with me most of the time (my phone is big and having it hanging in my pockets is not nice).

The features described in the Pixel 10 left me with a sense of "I think I am missing something! But... oh well, whatever, I don't need any of that". Which is weird again, because I'm supposed to be the "geek".
by traceroute66 | 2025-08-20 17:58:12+00:00
Oh dear.

I'm sorry. But do you really need to re-invent the wheel yet again ?

Go to the Let's Encrypt website, there is a whole page of client implementations[1].

What makes yours better than, for example, `lego` or `caddy` or `step` ?

All of which are easy to use, come with sensible defaults and do not provide you with "innumerable ways to shoot yourself in the foot".

And for people who really can't use Let's Encrypt because "its difficult", there are still all the old-school, well-established, commercial CA's out there who will hold your hand in return for a few dollars.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/
by mrweasel | 2025-08-20 17:58:26+00:00
I've been debating one how to get a work laptop into the US safely. Last time, earlier this year, I didn't really have any worries, nor was I searched, nor where my devices. While I still believe the risk is close to zero, I have been designing a solution for my laptop.

There's not really anything on my laptop, other than SSH keys and some stuff that's in git anyway. So it can technically just be a clean Linux installation on a old burner laptop. When I'm across the border, I could simply install my password manager and pull everything from git.

For the phone that's a little more tricky, because I'd need my 2FA for the password manager. I suppose I could do a "blank" phone and just have the TOTP QR code printed on a piece of paper.

It just seems like it's more suspicious to carry two blank devices.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-20 17:58:30+00:00
What makes you think that everyone wants to come to Europe? Have you considered that instead of geofencing the non-millionaire population like cattle, maybe not bombing or couping the poor countries is a better option?

People don't actually leave the places they grow up or their families and friends to live on European food stamps.

Also, Europe tends to receive the worst people because the legal routes are closed. We end up with people who dare to go to the illegal routes for other reasons than running for their lives.

US a similar thing, instead of relying on illegal workforce just let in people from the main gates and watch out for shady types.

There are so many things that can be done to address the issues instead of dividing the world limited travel areas.