MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jfengel | 2025-09-20 14:56:40+00:00
It would be great but it seems very unlikely to me. Hydrogen is difficult to store; it's corrosive and leaks out of the tiniest holes. (Like, the ones between molecules.) It requires high pressure to get a reasonable quantity, exacerbating those problems, and very dangerous if pierced.

It just doesn't seem reasonable. If we actually had a lot of hydrogen gas around, it would be far easier to distribute and use in the form of hydrocarbons, which would allow us to use existing technology rather than invent new ones.

I'd love to be wrong about this, and clearly there are scientists in the domain who disagree. But it just doesn't seem reasonable, and it has a whiff of being used as a deliberate distraction to slow investment in renewables that can be deployed right this instant.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-20 14:57:15+00:00
Yes, try to find someone you can give power of attorney to that you 100% trust on the States Side so you minimize the damage, figure out which countries you can legally live in with your current set of papers and then take the next available flight there and start building. Anything else is wasted time. If you have family in that place then I hope you're on very good terms with them, that would be your first port of call in times of need like this. And get your money out, while you still can.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-20 14:57:21+00:00
UK around Brexit time thought kind of similar: let's keep the "riffraff" immigrants out by applying higher criteria. The narrative also changed this way: we don't want immigrants in general, but you, with your highly paid PhD-requiring job, you can go in, on a 2 year rolling basis. Then everyone's a winner, except for unwanted, unskilled labour.

But a lot of skilled labour left anyway. Partly because the general atmosphere got unpleasant. But also highly paid people have spouses, children, parents and other relatives. Once you are told you barely cleared (very high) criteria, you can be pretty sure your retired parents won't, if ever you need them to move in with you.

So the effect may well be that the kind of people whose productivity and tax bracket makes a 100k fee justifiable simply choose to go elsewhere.

Especially when the administration makes their contempt for any rights they have so obvious.
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-20 14:57:26+00:00
Very sad they went from 20 to 24. No 22.

OTOH I've been moving from native NodeJS actions to packing them in a Docker container to separate code from compiled code.

If you wanted to use Typescript for your action you always had a 2 step process because GitHub Actions required you to pack dependencies with ncc or vite or webpack.

This packaged version was subsequently committed to the main branch.

Technically I could do a composite action where I compile the typescript on the fly, but that was fragile last time I tried it.
by bArray | 2025-09-20 14:58:33+00:00
In theory you should be able to use TCC to build git currently [1] [2]. If you have a lightweight system or you're building something experimental, it's a lot easier to get TCC up and running over GCC. I note that it supports arm, arm64, i386, riscv64 and x86_64.

[1] https://bellard.org/tcc/

[2] https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-20 14:59:31+00:00
It's a lot more understandable for developer tooling like Git to more quickly adopt newer system requirements. Something like the Linux kernel needs to be conservative because it's part of many people's bootstrapping process.

rustc_codegen_gcc is close to becoming stable, and conversely the Linux kernel is dropping more esoteric architectures. Once the supported sets of architectures fully overlap, and once the Linux kernel no longer needs unstable (nightly-only) Rust features, it'd be more reasonable for Linux to depend on Rust for more than just optional drivers.
by omarqureshi | 2025-09-20 15:00:16+00:00
This is absolutely a mean AF law. This is pure Trump in his element with no depth of thought. However Big Tech does not care about your feelings, there are two realistic options.

To send you back where you came from (severance).

To send you somewhere where you have the ability to keep doing what your doing.

Some may fork out the fee for a year for exceptional staff, thats about it.

Anyway, forget the tech sector. The impact to the health care sector is even worse.
by RhysU | 2025-09-20 15:00:36+00:00
I suspect the administration is indeed playing chess like you suggest.

This H1B policy will put internal domestic pressure on India to put sanctions pressure on Russia. If so, waive the fees for the Indian consultancy firms. Anytime India lets up on sanctions, the fees will come back.

Either the US will get the sanctions it seeks or it will get a revenue stream from a policy that plays well to many US voters.
by soulofmischief | 2025-09-20 15:00:55+00:00
This "apology" is about as vague as can be. If you actually wished to be accountable, you would be a lot more forthcoming about what happened, exactly which internal processes are the problem and why, and address the fact that the lack of proper data exfiltration was used here as a club to beat hundreds of thousands of dollars out of a nonprofit and longtime client.

I already only use Slack when required, and I have several philosophical issues with your platform, but this is a nail in the coffin for many of us here. I will certainly never recommend Slack and will use this situation and your vague apology as the reason.
by ajross | 2025-09-20 15:01:31+00:00
> The sentence does carry the implication that Kimmel is calling the shooter "MAGA"

True.

> because otherwise there would be no reason, in Kimmel's position, to say any of it.

Untrue. In context, what he's saying (this is clear in the sentences before and after) is that MAGA is playing politics by arguing about attribution. Remember in the early hours it did look like the shooter might have been a groyper, and even Fuentes himself came out to disavow violence. By Kimmel's monologue, the trans angle had diluted that obviously. But if we're playing interpretation games you can point out he was using past tense, right?

The "offensive" content needs to be deliberately inferred, and the appropriate response is to clarify and apologize. We all know what actually happened isn't about what Kimmel actually said.
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 15:01:40+00:00
The article opens "This one feels surreal" ... no, this feels like clickbait or marketing.

So I checked the "label" that is doing these "multimillion dollar" deals...

Their Privacy page is named "new-page-1" https://www.hallwoodmedia.com/new-page-1

They describe themselves (all caps courtesy of Hallwood Media):

> "HALLWOOD ISN’T ANOTHER MERCH SUPPLIER. WE’RE PARTNERS IN CULTIVATING ARTISTIC VISIONS INTO REALITY. WE’RE A ONE-STOP FOR MERCHANDISE DESIGN, PRODUCTION, AND FULFILLMENT. FINE-TUNED FOR ARTISTS AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AT LARGE. OUR COMPETITIVE EDGE IS OUR DEEP-ROOTED FOUNDATION IN MUSIC. WE’RE NOT ONLY BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS. WE’RE MUSIC MANAGERS, LABEL EXECS, AND CREATIVE DIRECTORS. WE’VE WORKED ACROSS THE INDUSTRY TO AMPLIFY ARTISTS AND THEIR VOICES AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS. WE UNDERSTAND THE POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARTISTS AND THEIR FANS BECAUSE WE’VE EXPERIENCED IT AS BOTH. THESE FUNDAMENTAL PASSIONS ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR IDENTITY. OUR MERCHANDISE REFLECTS THAT. MERCH IS NOT JUST A PRODUCT, BUT AN EXTENSION OF AN ARTIST’S STORY. WE PROVIDE AN INTIMATE EXPERIENCE THAT LARGER MERCHANDISERS CANNOT.

COMING SOON"

I think this is PR stunting and I'd love to see the check if any meaningful amount of money actually changes hands here.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-20 15:01:49+00:00
I strongly agree. I read some of the counter arguments, like this will make it too hard for NonStop devs to use git, and maybe make them not use it at all. Those don’t resonate with me at all. So what? What value does them using git provide to the git developers? I couldn’t care less if NonStop devs can use my own software at all. And since they’re exclusively at giant, well-financed corporations, they can crack open that wallet and pay someone to do the hard work if it means than much to them.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 15:03:27+00:00
You’re using the term “democracy” in an Orwellian way. The people voted for the guy who promised mass deportations. There were signs and everything. Multiple surveys have found that, if everyone had voted, he would have won by an even larger margin. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-elec...

A non-functioning democracy would be if the people voted this way and mass deportations didn’t happen. Like how immigration went up in the UK after Brexit.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-20 15:03:33+00:00
I have my own Discord.profile!

This is my ~/.config/firejail/Discord.profile[1]:

include disable-common.inc include disable-devel.inc include disable-interpreters.inc include disable-shell.inc noblacklist /sys/fs noblacklist /sys/module keep-config-pulse keep-dev-shm name discord apparmor caps.drop all caps.keep sys_admin,sys_chroot netfilter nodvd #nogroups #noinput nonewprivs noroot notv #nou2f #novideo protocol unix,inet,inet6 #shell none disable-mnt private-cache #private-tmp noexec /tmp dbus-user filter dbus-user.talk org.freedesktop.Notifications private-bin Discord,cut,echo,egrep,electron,electron[0-9],electron[0-9][0-9],grep,head,sed,sh,tr,xdg-mime,xdg-open,zsh,gzip,wget,curl,notify-send private-etc alternatives,asound.conf,ca-certificates,crypto-policies,fonts,group,ld.so.cache,ld.so.preload,localtime,login.defs,machine-id,password,pki,pulse,resolv.conf,ssl noblacklist /usr/lib/discord/ whitelist ${HOME}/.config/discord read-write ${HOME}/.config/discord whitelist ${DOWNLOADS} whitelist ${HOME}/.config/pulse/* include whitelist-common.inc include whitelist-var-common.inc include whitelist-run-common.inc include whitelist-runuser-common.inc

I have some things commented out but you could probably uncomment most.

Some has this, too:

disable-mnt private-dev private-cache env http_proxy=socks5://127.0.0.1:9050 env https_proxy=socks5://127.0.0.1:9050

FWIW, once you start whitelisting, it will only have access to those directories and files only, so Discord has no access to anything other than its own directory and ${DOWNLOADS}, which I should probably change.

You should check out the default profiles for many programs / apps under directory "/etc/firejail".

[1] You run it via "firejail Discord" or "firejail ./Discord" if you name it "Discord.profile".
Ask HN: Is "AI" a misnomer?
by 37 | 2025-09-20 15:04:27+00:00
TLDR: I will still try to use “LLM” over “AI” when applicable (which is very often)

I always kinda thought "AI" was a misnomer, because it is not intelligent and it is maybe not artificial. Yes, I know, this is linguistics and debatable and pedantic but also today is a Saturday. Plus, hey, who knows, maybe what we call things on a day-to-day basis actually matters because it affects the way we view them in our minds, which dictates how we interact with them and even [sometimes] the rest of the world.

But if it is "artificial" intelligence then it is not natural intelligence, like some of us claim to have. Natural intelligence is another ‘one of those ones’ that is difficult to define, but I relate it to learning and curiosity and I’m tired so I’m not sure what else (self awareness?). Also, what is ML really? Can an M really L? Like in the same sense that you and I can? Also, I feel Neural Nets is a huge misnomer, unless they are made from actual living biological neurons. Has this happened yet? I don’t know, and I am curious if someone here has the answer. Sometimes I’m afraid for the future, so I am not going to look it up.

And as counterfactual as it may be to ask “What is it like to be a bat” I still feel that a bat would have more intelligence than say an ant. (This may have been stated in the paper, but I forget. I only read it a half dozen times about twenty years ago.)

I guess maybe I was putting too much emphasis on the Intelligent part and not enough on the Artificial part. But then after thinking about it for too many hours, maybe I wasn’t.

What say you, HN?
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-20 15:04:44+00:00
More than that, it seems pretty clear that big events in history are moved by a relative minority of usually privileged individuals who then harness the will of the masses. Major achievements were accomplished while most people in the world did not know how to read and had never traveled more than 20 miles from where they were born. That isn’t to say these achievements were aimed at the most good for the most people. Genghis Khan’s conquest of Asia and Eastern Europe was not to bring peace and prosperity to the conquered. But literacy played little role in that huge endeavor. In 1928, when Alexander Fleming first identified penicillin in his lab, the worldwide adult literacy rate was around 20%.

The only thing we seem to be forgetting is that the intellectual capability of a group of people is measured by the intellectual capability of the smartest person there, not the average of all the people.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-20 15:04:50+00:00
> The time is almost up when a report is brought to you that a young man who has just come into your clinic for his yearly check-up has exactly the right blood-type, and is in excellent health.

Ignoring the <huge>huge</huge> moral part:

* transplant matching is not so easy, it's not only blood-type that is like a 2^3 classification but a 2^10 or 2^20 classification. Getting 5 people that would day today exactly here is too unrealistic.

* after transplants the live expectancy is lower than a not transplanted person, so you must compare the expected 60 years of the victim with the expected years of the people getting the organs.
by 8organicbits | 2025-09-20 15:05:25+00:00
To echo a sibling comment: freedom, not salary, is under question. Agreement should not be given one time at sign up, it needs to be given continuously. High cost associated with being compelled to leave the country upon quitting, low mobility between employers, etc. reduce that freedom.

Worth reading about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour, it's not just the practice of chattel slavery, and various forms are still legal in the US.
by bArray | 2025-09-20 15:06:16+00:00
Maybe I'm just old and moany, and I need to step aside for bigger and better things such as Rust.

But.

Now rather than needing to understand just C to work on Git/kernel, you now need to also know Rust. The toolchain complexity is increasing, and the mix of these languages increases the barrier to entry.

I'm highly invested into Git, having learned the tooling and having a significant number of projects constructed within it. I've written my own Git clients and have built a web server around Git repositories. I don't want to lose the hack-ability of Git.
by e40 | 2025-09-20 15:06:59+00:00
Interesting perspective. I don't find many religious people articulate or persuasive. And how often do they have to give public testimony?

The pilgrims lived in Holland for years in exile before deciding to go to the new world. It would seem to take an extreme group of people to do that, but articulate isn't one of the traits I would assign to them.
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 15:07:45+00:00
I am not responsible for the commonly understood meaning and definitions of words in the English language.

People learn something new every day. This is your opportunity to learn how goals (which are always achievable) are different than things like wishes, daydreams, hopes, or even aspirations.

If you'd rather not learn, that's OK. But it is not disingenuous to correctly define a word when someone else is misusing it repeatedly.

> All goals are possible until proven otherwise.

I'll enjoy this more than you know.
by kaoD | 2025-09-20 15:08:19+00:00
Might be cultural differences but, to me...

> Kinda wish the author would attempt to collaborate rather than write stuff like this [...] but, whatever, it’s their blog so they can do what they want.

...feels like passive aggression. In particular the "stuff like this" (like what?) and "but, whatever" felt very unnecessary and the whole "I wish he'd collaborate on my terms" is IMO uncalled for.
by calmlynarczyk | 2025-09-20 15:10:10+00:00
Eh, not nearly as thought-provoking as it thinks it is. The sections about the old Settings app and how making all of the icons gray was an improvement contradict the complaints made about the current versions.

The old single-view Settings app was more mobile-device like with all-or-nothing visual context, whereas the current Settings app with the sidebar and main display pane gives the user immediate understanding of where they are in the settings tree. It takes advantage of the larger display size of a desktop device.

The all-gray icons everywhere mirrors the same monochromatic issues of the current macOS version.

However, seeing all of the OS versions side-by-side made me realize that Catalina's visual design was probably my favorite, combining minimalistic visual flair and functionality while holding onto rich gradients and color palettes that made it easy to scan and find controls and actions.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-20 15:10:14+00:00
Yes, from the US economy's point of view this is a massive own goal. But I'm far more concerned with the people affected than with the US economy or the companies. Having to re-schedule your life on a 48 hour notice is a very hard problem in logistics, finances and various paper tigers. I'd focus on personal safety first and sort out the details bit-by-bit, the one thing I would not do is to try to get back in to the USA in a situation where I would expose my family to ICE and their penchant for cruelty. Anything better than that.
by tastyface | 2025-09-20 15:10:46+00:00
Here’s Musk fucking with Grok because it didn’t spit out Fox News propaganda about the Kirk assassin: https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3lysuy...

Just as he’s done many times before: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok...

This is brain-damaged technology tuned on establishment propaganda. Discussing it as if it’s a normal tech service is the height of absurdity.
by soulofmischief | 2025-09-20 15:10:55+00:00
There are no demons or any other supernatural beings, there is no magic. The world would be a massively different place if this were true, and if you truly take the time to consider the implications of this, you'll come to agree with me.

It's certainly entertaining and fulfilling to believe there is some great, deep truth and that you're finding it through the concept of magic, but your mental energy would better be spent understanding things like politics and technology for what they are, not draped in the context of the supernatural.

Overall your post comes off as detached from reality and this is my attempt to help you see that, I'm not interested in debating any of this stuff because there is plenty of literature and experimental results which already do a great job of this.
by gdubs | 2025-09-20 15:12:23+00:00
As someone who grew up in the 80s/90s, this brings back memories because these types of placemats were still being used in a lot of places. And it's funny because today we talk about "iPad kids" and I'm reminded that staring at a mid-century designed map on a placement was basically the entirety of "entertainment" provided on the very rare occasion we went out to eat somewhere.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-20 15:13:02+00:00
> I'm just old and moany, and I need to step aside for bigger and better things such as Rust.

You are. This is firm "I don't want to have to learn new things" territory, which isn't a viable attitude in this industry.

In any case Rust is usually easier than C (excluding buggy C which is very easy to write), and certainly easier than actually learning the Git or Linux codebases.
by Shellban | 2025-09-20 15:13:09+00:00
VHS recordings of live TV are a bit different. According to Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., this practice is known as Time Shifting, which is simply making the recording available for later use. The ad money has already exchanged hands, and the work was already available for public use. The court rules 5-4 that this time shifting fell under fair use.

YouTube ad money works a bit differently, and downloading the video tends to bypass that process. Also, Streaming is by its nature on-demand, so there are a lot fewer benefits for downloading the video. Furthermore, U.S. copyright law has changed since the previously cited case, so there are some extra restrictions to contend with that the Sony case did not.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-20 15:14:17+00:00
I think what's even more interesting is how CRTs evolved. Conceptually it was like starting from an incandescent bulb to single LED to seven segment display and then to LCD. The progression from neon bulb up to HD CRT tubes is pretty much linear! We started with "magic eye" tubes, a sort of radial bar graph, and then tubes that could raster a single line and we used them for oscilloscopes. Then monochrome 2D raster and then more and more complex color raster systems.

It's pretty neat how smoothly the technology progressed through every intermediate step. There weren't many huge revolutionary leaps, just steady progress
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-20 15:15:39+00:00
According to Wikipedia, Soviet Russia promoted literacy specifically to make propaganda more effective

> After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Anatoly Lunachersky, the Soviet People's Commissariat for Education made a conscious effort to introduce political propaganda into Soviet schools, particularly the labour schools that had been established in 1918 under the Statute on the Uniform Labour School.[20] These propaganda pamphlets, required texts, and posters artistically embodied the core values[21] of the Soviet push for literacy in both rural and urban settings, namely the concept espoused by Lenin that "Without literacy, there can be no politics, there can only be rumors, gossip and prejudice."[22] This concept, the Soviet valuing of literacy, was later echoed in works like Trotsky's 1924 Literature and Revolution, in which Trotsky describes literature and reading as driving forces in the forging of a New Soviet Man.[23]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez

Soviet Russia also obviously killed people in large numbers if they disagreed with the party line, starting immediately after the revolution. If you kill people who disagree with you while promoting specific state-approved propaganda then literacy is indeed not enough.

That's why free speech and in particular the freedom to criticize and disagree with the government is fundamental.

What matters is that (1) people are able to read, (2) people are free to read what they want, and (3) people have access to cheap nonfiction reading material that is likely to be true and accurate. You can attack at any of these points and reduce the ability of literacy to prevent dictatorship.
by Hizonner | 2025-09-20 15:15:44+00:00
Because you're telling your friends that Susie is going back to school starting year N, and that's the uniform Susie wears to school, because the school requires it. If I drive down the nearest arterial street to my house at the right time of the day, I'll see probably 100 girls in essentially that uniform on their way to or from several different schools.

Now, given that that uniform is fetish wear on porn sites, you could argue that maybe the schools should stop requiring it. It's not even the biggest among the many reasons you should be making that argument, actually. But the reason for posting the pictures is pretty obvious.
by mortsnort | 2025-09-20 15:16:01+00:00
And yet thousands of people have liked (and presumably read) his long article and hundreds have replied. Substack provides levels of information sharing that a book can't provide.

With books, some small amount of people read difficult works while most people read beach lit. With phones, some small amount of people are learning at rates never possible before, while most people consume Tik Tok.

I agree that social media may be causing a collapse in society, but not that a lack of book reading is causing societal collapse.