MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dbingham | 2025-09-10 15:01:55+00:00
This all comes down to "We can't have nice things in America because of our toxic mix of individualism and capitalism."

Because we insist on trying to privatize everything, refuse to provide a safe floor for people, and make poverty and mental health challenges moral issues (meaning we degrade people who experience them and leave them to fend for themselves) we create an environment where true community is impossible.

Unless, of course, we apply authoritarian and abusive policing controls against those we've left behind, rounding them up and sending them somewhere else. Which of course achieves a temporary "peace" at the cost of a deep insecurity and fear, because we all know the moment we slip or step out of line, we're gone.

It really is toxic and has led directly to society breaking down to the point where we're now falling into full scale fascism.
by elygre | 2025-09-10 15:02:03+00:00
The article says that the ICE agent thinks the worker was compliant with visa terms:

«From statements made and queries in law enforcement databases, [redacted] has not violated his visa; however, the Atlanta Field Office Director has mandated [redacted] be presented as a Voluntary Departure. [Redacted] has accepted voluntary departure despite not violating his B1/B2 visa requirements.»
by viccy-kobuletti | 2025-09-10 15:02:07+00:00
I'm 24 and I've used internet heavily completely unsupervised since around 7-ish years old. As I've grown older I notice myself using my phone and be on the web less and less, it is a conscious decision. My access to youtube is blocked except on my laptop, though I have noticed not watching any videos for weeks now. My phone is B&W and has it's browser disabled. Being more mindful of technology use is definitely a positive trend within my generation.

But as I near parenthood, I feel conflicted. I'm still young enough to remember my state of mind in the early teen years. I remember being surprised at the amount of attention the level "No Russian" from MW2 got. I thought - "It's just a game, why would anyone be offended by this?". Now, having seen similar things happen in my lifetime, it seems very distasteful to me. Even seeing a kid with a realistic looking toy gun gives me mixed feelings. The idea of having my kid being on tiktok for 6 hours unsupervised with all the people feeding their agenda to young impressionable minds makes me uneasy. And I was the one who spent good portion of his day being on 4chan.

My question is to parents of HN - how does one find balance within their parenting? I don't want to be a helicopter parent who blasts their child for not falling in line with all their demands, torturing them with endless extracurricular activities for their own good. At the same time I want them to learn a little discipline and not hate me for forcing things on them. I had zero limits on my screen time, and I'd say I turned out perfectly fine, though I did poorly in school and was a troublemaker. I found my love for studying only after I turned 18 and had some time with my thoughts after I moved out and stopped hanging out with deadbeats. Frankly, I'd say my upbringing was a little too lax.

Younger me would feel betrayed by my changing attitude towards raising kids , and that's what worries me - the disconnect that leads to the repeating cycle of parent-kid conflict. I don't think a parent usually thinks that they'll try to be the world's shittiest parent, yet so many of them are.
by Fricken | 2025-09-10 15:02:07+00:00
I don't have kids. The homeless district is easy to avoid, and there's a k-12 school right on the edge of it with many kids walking, cycling and taking the bus to school. I've never heard of a serious incident involving homeless people.

Here's a fun fact for you: statistically cyclists live longer than non-cyclists, and that's in spite of all the hazards they have to deal with while out riding.
by EE84M3i | 2025-09-10 15:02:17+00:00
Many places have on street parking that is used by residents (e.g. you get the "have to move my car twice a month because of street sweepers" effect). It's possible that's what the quote is referring to.

Compare Brookline MA, which allows on-street parking, but only during the day to neighborhoods in Boston proper which has free on-street parking permits for residents.
by darkwater | 2025-09-10 15:02:34+00:00
I think you are totally off. Never lived in Paris but I lived in Barcelona for many years, during the transformation to be more car-hostile and bikes and pedestrians friendly. I spent there my 20s-30s and left when I had a family but due to (public) school scarcity in our neighborhood and rent prices. But mobility was not the issue at all. It was actually a pleasure bring my daughter to her kindergarten by bike and then go to the office.

And I think Paris and Barcelona share a lot in that respect (the mayors - Hidalgo and Colau - met a lot to discuss exactly those topics and share experiences).
Ask HN: Could phones be quietened automatically on trains?
by nanna | 2025-09-10 15:02:36+00:00
Dear HN, is there a technical reason why phone makers can't disable loudspeaker audio on phones automatically when it's clearly travelling by train? Or just lack of initiative and will? Almost every time I take a train (Europe) someone is streaming their social media adventure on full volume to everyone on the carriage. It's noise pollution and it's so obnoxious.
by dqv | 2025-09-10 15:02:41+00:00
I remember pointing this out to someone who said public transportation was unprofitable and his response was "I don't care".

People tend not to point it out because most don't actually care about the profitability at all, it's just a meme opinion they present because they prefer cars and look at it like a competition. Other meme opinions that get used:

- disabled people need cars and you want to take cars away from them! (fake disability advocacy - disability advocates who have spent 10 minutes thinking about this know that disability is a spectrum and that many disabilities prevent people from being able to use cars or they are unable pay for the necessary modifications to be able to drive; also no one said anything about taking cars away from people)

- cyclists are a danger to pedestrians and cars! (rhetorical trick to get people to think bikes pose a greater danger to pedestrians than cars)

- buses are ugly! (so is your car)

- it increases traffic (so does your car)

- not everyone wants to ride a bike/walk/take the bus (no one said you have to)

They say these things even in non-adversarial contexts. Like in a discussion about wanting more pedestrian infrastructure and bike paths, they will say "just use [existing bike path], some of us have JOBS and ERRANDS to run" as if people only walk/bike for leisure. No, you don't understand, I'm trying to get as far away from the horrible drivers with Texas/Florida plates as possible!!
by ofrzeta | 2025-09-10 15:02:47+00:00
"The beefy CPU running this setup, a 32-core AMD EPYC 7532, underlines just how fast technology moves. At the time of its release in 2020, the processor alone would have cost more than $3,000. It can now be had on eBay for less than $200"

why do I never get deals like that when I am shopping for the homelab on eBay?
by pjerem | 2025-09-10 15:02:57+00:00
> From a quality of life point of view, I have never been comfortable being crammed into a sardine can with that many other people. I've done it. I've never enjoyed it.

I understand what you mean. I don’t especially love it either. But I honestly 100% prefer that to being stuck in traffic, being attentive to everything everywhere just not to kill anyone.

And I say that while owning a comfortable car.

I truly enjoy and cherish not having to use my car to go to work because I did it in the past and I hated it.

Being stuck in my car alone is far worse for me than being stuck in a train station because my train is late or cancelled.

But it may be my personality. I came from the countryside, so I was using my parent’s car everyday.

When I moved to the nearby city (in Europe) I truly felt not having to care about a car to be absolutely freeing.

Now I’m back in the countryside but near a train station that I use everyday to commute and the idea that I may, somehow , if I change job, need to use my car everyday (which I like, btw) is really frightening to me.

Exiting a train and walking two minutes to catch a tramway or a metro then a bus without real waiting times and without thinking about it then taking another route on the way back because a friend invited you for an afterwork really feels like society is just working.
by edent | 2025-09-10 15:03:00+00:00
OK, but then I still have to do work to get that patch and integrate it into my existing systems.

I don't know if you've ever used GitHub, GitLab, or CodeBerg - but PRs just appear in a list there. I don't need to do any work. Very handy especially if they're big changes.

I can also leave comments on specific bits of code, rather than emailing someone.
by Fluorescence | 2025-09-10 15:03:02+00:00
What did you not find fast about gitea/forgejo?

I've really enjoyed using them but I guess I don't do much with the web interface.

> TS_DEST_IP

So you run tailscale in your git server container so it gets a unique tailnet ip which won't create a conflict because you don't need to ssh into the container?

I might give that a go. I run tailscale on my host and use a custom port for git which you set once in your ~/.ssh/config for host/key config on client machines and then don't need to refer to it repo uris.

TBH, I think it's tailscale I'd like a light/fast alternative to! I have growing concerns because I often find it inexplicably consuming a lot of CPU, pointlessly spamming syslog (years old github issues without response) or otherwise getting fucked up.
by sdallagasperina | 2025-09-10 15:03:03+00:00
The price point is definitely interesting: $3k without compute feels high if you compare it to hobbyist kits, but I think the target here is more for researchers/early-stage startups who want a standardized AI-native robotics dev kit out of the box. What I find valuable is that it’s open-source and modular, which could help reduce integration overhead (often the hidden cost that dwarfs hardware).
by thelastgallon | 2025-09-10 15:03:16+00:00
Thats right. The risks of a perfume lady are way too scary. Cars never have any odors, just fumes, soot and particulate matter, brake dust. The air quality of cities is so much better than that of forests because of cars. The risks couldn't be more clear: 10 million deaths from air pollution[1] and pollution causing every kind of disease (except STIs) from cars vs hundreds of millions of deaths from perfume lady in train.

This is what all economists get slightly wrong? They say humans are rational agents, soak in all the information, calculate the costs and benefits with the probabilities and make rational decisions. But humans almost always make emotional decisions. A perfume lady is way more scarier than a 5000 lb vehicle hurtling down at 60 mph, custom built to protect the person driving the vehicle, on surfaces built for vehicles and vehicles only (trillions of dollars in maintenance and tens of trillions of dollars healthcare costs).

Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...
by wry_discontent | 2025-09-10 15:03:24+00:00
I use Clojure a lot at home and Typescript at work. The experience is dramatically different. Clojure makes me feel free. It feels easy to experiment and the whole world feels open to me.

Typescript on the other hand feels like being confined to a small room. There's not much flexibility. Not much is open to me. It's very regimented and I can sense better solutions, but they're off limits to me either because of the required type gymnastics or the language primitives.
by jimbo808 | 2025-09-10 15:03:35+00:00
> From statements made and queries in law enforcement databases, [redacted] has not violated his visa; however, the Atlanta Field Office Director has mandated [redacted] be presented as a Voluntary Departure. [Redacted] has accepted voluntary departure despite not violating his B1/B2 visa requirements.”

The article worded the whole thing very carefully, in a way to me is intentionally misleading. The director mandated that the visa holder be labeled as a voluntary departure. That could simply mean the person decided he would return, and was allowed to do so, and the director simply informed whoever filled out the paperwork that this was a voluntary departure. There is nothing in the article that actually indicates the person was forced to leave the country with a valid visa.

The fact that they dance around this tells me that this article is bullshit. And knowing what I know about The Guardian, it almost certainly is.
by elheffe80 | 2025-09-10 15:04:33+00:00
I am with you- magsafe is great for charging all the things and it is how I charge all my stuff currently. I will say that despite that, moving to USB-C is a big deal for me. As a household of 7 having different cables for everything becomes a chore whereas standardizing on USB-C saves us a ton of headaches. Kids phones need charging? Grab one of our dozens of USB-C cables and one of our many USB bricks and go. For me- it has been a slow climb but I have been slowly moving everything we have over to USB-C. When completed I can put all the other cables (mini usb, micro usb, lightning, that weird usb-3 thing some androids/ext harddrives used, etc) into my old cable foot locker.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-10 15:04:39+00:00
> Rush hour is more of a problem than people will admit; the biggest issue with public transit (in general) is that it is horribly "unprofitable" (for whatever you want that to be) except curing crush-time. >

Hold on, if we talk about efficiency and profitability, you also need to compare to roads. You can't on one hand subsidise road/car travel and at the same time demand profitability from public transport.

If we would make road charges actually cover the costs it would become completely unsustainable in rural areas and would likely not become profitable in urban centers (factoring the price of the real estate of roads into the equation would likely increase cost significantly) except for rush hour.

The main thing that will bring cost of public transport down is going to be self driving, not cars but trains.
by smt88 | 2025-09-10 15:04:59+00:00
> Either you're saying that LLMs have no "thoughts", and just regurgitate everything

I am exactly saying that they have no thoughts or even "thoughts".

> which doesn't explain how they can reason in novel problems

There are many decades of pre-LLM software that can solve novel problems. Thought (or novel thought) is required to reason, but it's not required to solve a problem.

For example, there are exhaustive algorithms that can solve novel equations and even complete simple mathematical proofs, but they don't need to think.

> "how do we know your comment isn't you regurgitating an HN opinion"?

You don't, and I don't care if you do or not. The value of my comment isn't its novelty or whether it's truly reasoned, which is why LLMs sometimes do create valuable output.

In fact, the output of a reasoning machine (whether a human brain or true AGI, sometime in the future) isn't deterministic. A non-reasoning machine and a reasoning machine could create the same output.

The reason I know LLMs don't have thoughts is because I use them many times every day, and they are very clearly pattern machines. They don't even begin to seem rational, human, or knowledgeable. It's sometimes possible to find near-verbatim sources for their outputs.
by sdallagasperina | 2025-09-10 15:05:23+00:00
Really ambitious project, but I’m not convinced building a brand-new kernel is the best way to tackle XR. The hardest problems in AR/VR usually aren’t about the OS itself, but about latency, hardware drivers, and closed SoCs.

Saying “we’re removing legacy baggage” sounds nice, but it’d be more convincing if you could point to concrete examples where existing systems like Linux actually get in the way. Otherwise this risks becoming a never-ending side quest instead of a platform people can realistically use.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-10 15:05:36+00:00
It's very cool, but the motion is also incredibly distracting while reading. It literally makes it physically difficult to read.

Might I suggest quickly fading the cursors out entirely as soon as the user starts to scroll, maybe? Then you could have the effect at the start, but be less distracting while reading.

Or just a floating counter in the corner to say how many people are currently viewing it, maybe with the two most popular flags and your own flag and a fourth "other". Because it's one thing to know it's busy (cool, it's popular, I'm participating in something!), but it's another thing to feel busy, distracted, claustrophobic.

I assume you want to prioritize people reading your actual content over the feeling of busyness.
by idonotknowwhy | 2025-09-10 15:05:38+00:00
You're not crazy, and this isn't new for Anthropic. Something is off with Opus4.1, I actually saw it make 2 "typos" last week (I've never seen a model like this make a dumb "typo" before). And it's missing details that it understood last month (can easily test this if you have some chats in OpenWebUI or LibreChat, just go in and hit regenerate).

Sonnet 3.5 did this last year a few times, it'd have days where it wasn't working properly, and sure enough, I'd jump online and see "Claude's been lobotomized again".

They also experiment with injecting hidden system prompts from time to time. Eg. if you ask for a story about some IP, it'll interrupt your prompt and remind the model not to infringe copyright. (We could see this via API with prompt engineering, adding a "!repeat" "debug prompt" that revealed it, though they seem to have patched that now.

> I started running my prompts through those, and Sonnet 3.7 comparing the results. Sonnet 3.7 is way better at everything.

Same here. And on API, the old Opus 3 is also unaffected (though that model is too old for coding).
by Insanity | 2025-09-10 15:05:42+00:00
I'm not sure if I would consider myself 'really good', but in a previous life I have used Haskell professionally, albeit only for small-scale applications (alongside a Scala codebase).

For what it's worth, I actually really enjoyed using Haskell. It did force me to think differently about problems and I feel that this has carried over to writing cleaner code in non-functional languages like Go/Java. I liked it so much so that I wrote a book about writing functional code in Go along with a supporting OSS library.

Would I recommend it for really large-scale applications? Maybe not, because you'd want a mature ecosystem with a lot of support, and the secondary issue is that you want to have a large candidate pool when hiring people.

Small disclaimer though, the last time I used Haskell professionally was in 2018-2019, so it's not 'recent' experience.
by skydhash | 2025-09-10 15:05:48+00:00
> If I want to fork your code and contribute back, that means I need to be on the same system as you.

You really don't. You just clone, code, commit, and send a patch (which is just one or more text files). That's it. You may just code and do a diff, if it's a simple fix.

The project may have a more complex policy to accept contributions. But a Fork and a PR is not a requirement.
by sensanaty | 2025-09-10 15:05:58+00:00
I mean, mine does lol. Of course this is the Netherlands so it'll be different to the states, but I literally live across the street from a train station, and it goes directly to the dead center of the city in less than 5 minutes. There's a train every 10 minutes. The same journey is, minimum, 15 minutes by car (or 10 by bus since we have dedicated bus lanes), at the end of which you have to find a parking spot. You then still have to actually get to your destination cause the chances of parking in the center are slim to none. People really underestimate how much of our public land is taken up by cars just... sitting there, doing fucking nothing.

With the train I step off at my stop, and get on a bicycle and it takes me max 15 minutes to get anywhere else I want to go. The cities in NL have been built in such a way that it's often faster to take a bicycle than any other mode of transport. Usually buses/trams are tied with cars unless you live in awkward spots where the coverage isn't great.

> Oh and you might be odor sensitive

I guess who cares about literally everyone else who isn't in your car that has to breathe in and smell your exhaust fumes? Sure we've got EVs these days, but they still contribute substantially to air quality degradation via tire shedding, and not every car out there is an EV yet either.
by dijit | 2025-09-10 15:05:59+00:00
I have the same card.

I "authorised" the Display in the KDE control panel, probably it was this: https://github.com/KDE/plasma-thunderbolt

I did that before linking the USB-C cable to the gfx card, but I'm not sure if that's required or not? It's the only thing I did.

I had multiple displays at the time, now I just have the Studio Display - if it doesn't work automatically without authorization I wonder how you would bootstrap it..
by throw0101d | 2025-09-10 15:06:05+00:00
> China is far ahead of the US in many sectors, notably electric cars and solar panels which are two industries whose progress heavily depend on research and innovation.

Ahead in production. Did China research/innovate/develop those industries, or were they 'just' fast followers? (Early in its history the US used the same 'tactics' relative to the UK and other European countries.)
by ascagnel_ | 2025-09-10 15:06:06+00:00
They exist, but in New Jersey -- most of the "cities" (with the exception of downtown Jersey City and downtown Newark) would be called streetcar suburbs in an earlier time. I live in one of them, and it's great: I have a small, private backyard, but I'm also <15 minutes on foot from multiple public parks, restaurants, shops, etc.

Sadly, it's illegal to build streetcar suburbs in most of the US today, because outfitting every house with a private driveway, setbacks, etc., would move everything far apart enough to significantly hurt walkability.
by sct202 | 2025-09-10 15:06:21+00:00
IEPs and other accommodations are becoming more common with high achievers like with ADHD, anxiety, or depression. On the LSAT test takers with accommodations for extended testing time score 5 points higher on average than the overall pool of test takers, and ADHD is the most common request reason. https://www.lsac.org/sites/default/files/research/TR-24-01.p... (page 4)
by sdallagasperina | 2025-09-10 15:06:25+00:00
I had the same reaction! “legacy baggage” is a vague phrase. Without examples (like specific subsystems or bottlenecks), it’s hard to see how a custom kernel helps XR more than existing lightweight or RT kernels. If the team has benchmarks or case studies where Linux/Android gets in the way, that would make the argument much stronger.
by brumar | 2025-09-10 15:06:26+00:00
These days, I spend time training people using this kind of tools. I am glad it's called as such. It's much comfortable to explain to a tech person that it's "badly named" and that it should have been named "Code Interpreter" instead than explaining to a non tech that the "Code Interpreter" feature is a new cool way to generate documents. Most people are not that comfortable with technology, so avoiding big words is a nice to have.