MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-10 21:36:40+00:00
He spent his last words ignorantly arguing against transgendered Americans and gun control.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-...

Audience member: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”

Kirk: “Too many.”

The same audience member went on say the number is five, and proceeded to ask if Kirk knows how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years.

Kirk: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”

Seconds later, the sound of a pop is heard and the crowd screams as Kirk gets shot and recoils in his seat.

Remember: The vast majority of mass attacks in the US have no connection to transgender people. From January 2013 to the present, of the more than 5,700 mass shootings in America (defined as four or more victims shot and killed), five shooters were confirmed as transgender, said Mark Bryant, founding executive director of the Gun Violence Archive.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-10 21:36:41+00:00
The idea is that the program that creates the file adds that line at the top. If you're downloading CSV files from websites then ideally they should already have that line.

If they don't then what you could do is create a simple script that just adds that line, and Excel will open the files without you having to hassle with making sure Excel interprets them correctly. Of course that's a bit more challenging if they use different separators, but you might be able to find an easy adaptation for your usecase like making a decision about which delimiter to declare based on the filename. Or you could try to analyze the header row to figure out which delimiter to use based on that.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-09-10 21:36:47+00:00
I would genuinely love to hear more of an explanation from French people about why the French Revolution was considered a success. As best I understand it, the French Revolution of 1789 did succeed in removing the monarchy but devolved into le règne de la terreur where the leaders were guillotining each other and various political enemies for about ten years(?) before Napoleon became the new monarch. Perhaps it can be viewed as a stepping stone in the decades long process to modern France but the short term outcome of the French Revolution seems pretty objectively terrible to me.
by int_19h | 2025-09-10 21:37:02+00:00
Modern firearms don't really require that much training to hit a static man sized target at 200m from a supported position. This is well within the "point blank" range, meaning that vertical deviation of the bullet is too small to bother adjusting for, and wind effects on rifle (i.e. very fast moving) bullets at this range are also fairly limited. So long as the rifle is zeroed, lining up the scope with the target and pulling the trigger without jerking it is basically all it takes, and those kinds of skills can be acquired in a few trips to the range.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 21:37:22+00:00
No one shot the Skokie march Nazis and they literally showed up at a Jewish dominated town at a time when there weren't even background checks for guns. The ACLU even defended them in court, which is unthinkable that they would stand on their principles and do that today.

There's just less tolerance for discussing or exhibiting "extreme" or highly unpopular opinions, nowadays, it seems. Although, I could definitely be wrong -- people like MLK were shot for doing same long ago.
by kfrzcode | 2025-09-10 21:37:23+00:00
He was a Christian and a intellectual thought leader in one of the more reasonable groups of conservative youth in the USA. You can paint TPUSA however you like but political engagement is political engagement, whether it's happening with the same color uniform you decide is the better choice or not.

Welcoming and encouraging the free exchange of thought and ideas in an open forum. Free speech and American values are based directly in morality which comes to us from a higher power. This is all quite clear in the writings of the Founding Fathers and other contemporaries, but of course nowadays "American values" is shibboleth for "Nazi dogwhistles" to some population.
by bad_username | 2025-09-10 21:37:46+00:00
I never quite understood the "wealth inequality" thing. It is to me a rather meaningless slogan. Wealth inequality is opposed to what: wealth equality? Like everyone possesses exactly the same amount of wealth? This sounds nonsensical. "Everybody's poor" fits precisely the definition of wealth equality, obviously not a good outcome. If some inequality is permitted, what's the desired mean and what's the acceptable deviation? Is there a correlation between that and the abilities, work ethics of the person? Are people allowed to be lucky, win lotteries, have hard working parents that saved up?

I understand the goal of reducing poverty. I understand the goal of limiting the unchecked power and influence of certain individuals of groups, caused by them having excessive wealth. But the issue of "wealth inequality" is in the "not even wrong" category for me.
by rented_mule | 2025-09-10 21:37:47+00:00
> What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit?

I think a difficulty in searching for such answers is assuming that it was a well reasoned decision. I'm not sure how often attempting to take a life is a purely rational decision, devoid of intense emotional motivations (hatred, self-preservation, fear, revenge, etc.). And that's all assuming the assailant was of somewhat sound mind.

I think one of the dangers of more and more extreme divisions in society is that those divisions cloud our mental processes, threaten our emotional health, and take away opportunities for meaningful civil discourse. All of which can lead to more heinous acts that we struggle to make sense of. One of the scariest parts for me is that this can all be too self reinforcing ("Their side did this bad thing to our side, let's get them back!!!" repeat/escalate...). How do we break the cycle?
by zakeria | 2025-09-10 21:37:51+00:00
Thanks - good question, in theory, the uGMM layer could complement CNNs in different ways - for example, one could imagine (as you mentioned):

using standard convolutional layers for feature extraction,

then replacing the final dense layers with uGMM neurons to enable probabilistic inference and uncertainty modeling on top of the learned features.

My current focus, however, is exploring how uGMMs translate into Transformer architectures, which could open up interesting possibilities for probabilistic reasoning in attention-based models.
by bangaladore | 2025-09-10 21:37:53+00:00
> As we know, it's always been somehow difficult or tricky to add sound for RaspberryPi. Some use gpio to generate pwm to make sound for speakers, some use I2S audio module to generate sound for speakers. But they all have some shortcomings. PWM generated from gpios on raspberryPi have much noise that make the speakers nealy usable, and I2S audio module will occupy the very precious gpio resoureces(usually take 3 gpio pins). And in some operating system there is no driver for these pwm or I2S audio module. Due to the reasons above this is how I solve the sound problem. [1]

[1] https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5/tree/main/Speake...
by Zigurd | 2025-09-10 21:37:54+00:00
I don't want to split hairs but I think the focus on sensors misses the point. There's a lot of diversity in terms of other on-board hardware, software architecture, and the role of geospatial data in the AV system.

It's a product area that is very far from being able to horizontalize. Waymo Driver is going to run on Waymo hardware for a long time to come. Toyota is supposedly trying to use Waymo technology for personal vehicles. I expect adapting it will take years. The software is nothing like an app running on an operating system. All of these systems probably require years of effort to move them to a different hardware platform.
by rufo | 2025-09-10 21:37:57+00:00
It got a little bit better, first with trains (bundling together PRs so they weren't going out one at a time), and then the merge queue started automating most of the testing and fitting together PRs into bundles that could go out together. But by the time I left GH last year it had devolved into roughly the same amount of hassle; I had multiple days where I could queue a PR for deploy mid-morning and not have the deploy containing it go out until dinnertime, and I'd need to keep an eye out in Slack in case merge or test conflicts arose.
by Levitz | 2025-09-10 21:37:59+00:00
You don't deserve death just because you justify a situation in which some people die.

If a person is against, say, laws against tobacco, that person doesn't deserve lung cancer. If a person argues for leniency on criminals, they don't deserve to be murdered.

I am baffled that I have to explain this. I don't think you understand the logic you are defending or its consequences.
by tolerance | 2025-09-10 21:38:06+00:00
I interpreted to mean that using a search engine is “useless or unenjoyable, or experiencing unpleasant consequences...”, with attention given to the last two feelings. And I can't figure out what that has to do with people who like Kagi and why it’s wrong or irritating for them to do so.

Granted I’ve been annoyed by similar occurrences with other services, but not to the point of suspecting collusion between the service and the public like the GP comment did.

Searching on the web takes effort. I don’t think this sentiment is controversial. Especially not on HN.

But do you think that because/if searching on the web takes effort and because people have to pay for Kagi, they are compelled to exaggerate its usefulness in public to justify the cost?
Show HN: SigNull – a to-do app that separates Signal from Noise
by tenga | 2025-09-10 21:38:28+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been struggling with productivity tools for years. Most of them help me collect more tasks, but very few help me figure out which tasks actually matter. I kept finding myself busy all day, yet not making real progress.

I borrowed a concept from engineering: Signal vs. Noise. • Signal tasks: high-impact, goal-driven work. • Noise tasks: necessary, but low-leverage (emails, reports, admin).

So I built SigNull, a minimal to-do app that enforces this distinction: • New tasks go into an Inbox, where I classify them as Signal or Noise. • Each morning it surfaces a Top-3 Signal list to focus on first. • It gives me a Noise Budget (e.g., 45 minutes/day). Once that’s used, I have to either Defer the task or Justify why it’s worth extra time. • At the end of the day, it shows my Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) so I can see if I spent my time on what really mattered.

It’s web-based, simple, and still pretty early. I’m looking for feedback: • Does the Signal/Noise distinction resonate with you? • Is the Noise Budget too rigid, or a useful forcing function? • Where might this approach fall apart in real-world workflows?

You can try it here: signull.app

Thanks!
by neilv | 2025-09-10 21:38:51+00:00
If you make a Rayhunter, think twice before enabling its smartphone notification feature. The documentation doesn't directly warn, but presumably the notifications leak the fact that you use Rayhunter, and they go through centralized services. (With notifications being practically easier for some parties to check centrally, than how the device appears to the various cellular network towers.)

As situations sometimes become complicated in a locale, I suppose that this leaking could get you flagged as a potential troublemaker, or included in a small pool of persons of interest regarding an event/incident, etc.

(Most people neither think about nor are concerned with such possibilities, but if you find this device fun or interesting, then I'd guess probably you are more likely than the average person to want to reconcile how it works, with your fun/interesting/real threat model.)

Per <https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/configuration.html>:

> ntfy URL for Sending Notifications, which allows setting a ntfy URL to which notifications of new detections will be sent. The topic should be unique to your device, e.g., https://ntfy.sh/rayhunter_notifications_ba9di7ie or https://myserver.example.com/rayhunter_notifications_ba9di7i.... The ntfy Android and iOS apps can then be used to receive notifications. More information can be found in the ntfy docs.
by mgh95 | 2025-09-10 21:39:09+00:00
> Sure. But one of those reasons is "I feel very bad and I have access to a gun".

This is perhaps one of the worst ways of looking at it. People kill themselves slowly by many means, including alcoholism, smoking, risky activities (reckless driving, etc.). These are grouped broadly under the term "Deaths of Despair" (see: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8221228/). It may be more informative to look at other countries, such as Russia, Norway and Finland, which have incredibly high rates of alocholism leading to a high rate of deaths of despair.

There are many ways to reliably kill yourself. Guns are just the quickest. A serious discussion on the topic cannot avoid this fact.
by wrs | 2025-09-10 21:39:14+00:00
If you look closer, I'm pretty sure a majority of us aren't really on a "side", think the whole situation is incredibly stupid, and wish the politicians would just shut up and actually...govern...instead of playing silly games and pandering to the crazy people (on either "side").

However, both the established parties seem to have become totally incompetent to do that, in very different ways. One party got taken over by people who make public statements on a daily basis that would have been immediately disqualifying at any time since 1950 or so. The other party is so bad at doing politics that they're beaten in elections despite running against those people.
by skirmish | 2025-09-10 21:39:28+00:00
Recent experience: called a HVAC contractor to fix a heating furnace, they spent 1 hour convincing us to scrap the current furnace and install a new one; once we told him "no" at least 10 times, he spent 30 minutes "diagnosing" the problem while on the phone with somebody with technical knowledge; then he quoted $250 to replace a part that I could buy on Ebay for $15. Finally, I bought the part and replaced it myself.
by tamimio | 2025-09-10 21:39:39+00:00
> To protect yourself from Cellebrite you can use a strong password, turn off biometric unlocks, and keep your phone up to date.

To add, if you truly want to prevent any forensics on your iPhone (especially if you are traveling), make sure to pair lock your iPhone to a MacBook you leave in your house.

https://arkadiyt.com/2019/10/07/pair-locking-your-iphone-wit...
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-10 21:40:00+00:00
Actually, lets let James Madison (who wrote the amendment) explain what a militia is:

Madison said "the advantage of being armed," together with "the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."

Source: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt2-2/ALDE_...
by luisel1010 | 2025-09-10 21:40:32+00:00
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by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-10 21:40:34+00:00
No it really doesn't. You have rich countries that are much smaller with less diverse industries than a blue or red America. I get that the red parts of the country still wants wealth transfer payments from the richer blue parts, but that is just hypocrisy on their part.

It looks like Trump's term is going to end in either the end of America as we know it or a constitutional convention anyways. Anything is on the table given how America is currently being torn apart anyways.
by watersb | 2025-09-10 21:40:36+00:00
xeyes can be Actually Useful; two eyes always looking at the cursor...

your animal brain hardwired to discern the direction of gaze of the eyes facing you (citations appreciated)...

Helps me find the mouse cursor on a big screen if I lose track, even with small parallax angle.

On macOS, I just wiggle the mouse back and forth, and the cursor gets really big, it pops out at you.

I generally don't keep `xeyes` running. But it's a righteous, venerable hack.
by runjake | 2025-09-10 21:40:44+00:00
> Am I wrong in thinking this guy isn't/wasn't a very influential person, outside of Twitter and the people that stay on there 24/7?

Yes, you're wrong there (no offense). He's quite popular beyond X (formerly Twitter), particularly amongst the young (~20s) conservative movements. For example, he has almost 4 million subscribers on YouTube and similar on TikTok.

I'd say X isn't even his most popular platform. He's much more popular on video platforms, due to his open campus debates.

I attended one of Charlie's debates this past year and they pretty much let anyone walk up to the mic. It wasn't scripted or censored, that I saw.
by vel0city | 2025-09-10 21:41:29+00:00
Certain kinds of firearms are required to be registered, like machine guns, short barrel rifles, and short barrel shotguns.

Tons of guns are not those limited categories, so they are not required to be registered.

Its entirely possible to sell a gun in the US without any kind of paperwork depending on the type of firearm sold, the buyer of the firearm, and the seller of the firearm. I'm in Texas, so I'll use that as an example. Lets say I want to sell a regular shotgun I currently own to a friend. IANAL, this is not legal advice, but my understanding from reading the applicable laws would be all I have to do is verify they are over the age of 18 and that I think they are probably legally able to own a gun (I have no prior knowledge of any legal restrictions against them owning the gun). We can meet up, check he's probably over 18 and can probably legally own a gun and is a Texas resident, he can hand me cash or whatever for trade, I can give him the gun, and we go our separate ways. I do not need to do a background check. I do not need to file any registration. Nobody would know this guy now owns this gun. I do not need to keep any record of this sale at all. This shotgun has been an unregistered gun for its entire exstence.

This wouldn't necessarily be true if I trade some certain amount of guns as then I would probably need a federal firearms license and thus have some additional restrictions on facilitiating a sale. This also isn't necessarily true in other states which have additional restrictions on gun sales. But if I haven't done any gun sales in a long while, such restrictions wouldn't apply (according to my current understanding of the law, IANAL, not legal advice).
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-10 21:42:02+00:00
> What WMDs can be had for only $100 that would actually fall under firearm regulation?

Maybe I have a coupon? Is the price really the part of this that sticks in your craw?

>If you're going to base your argument on the first few words you can't win against the opposition does the same with the last part.

I'm fine with not infringing on the well regulated militias rights. Exactly as it was written.
by nomel | 2025-09-10 21:42:21+00:00
Maybe I'm missing something, but in this case, wouldn't being lazy would be pure overhead? I don't see anything can be lazy here. The reference computed once, nanoseconds before it's needed, and test cases computed at the time of comparison, then tossed away.

What would hope to be achieved by making this case lazy? If you wanted these to run in parallel, with a multi-gpu system, you would use the appropriate parallel interface.
by int_19h | 2025-09-10 21:42:24+00:00
Not directly relevant, but it should be noted that we live at a time when someone who can afford to drop a few thousand dollars on a scope basically doesn't need to learn how to shoot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmteh_NChOQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackingPoint

Between that and cheap quadcopter drones, I expect political assassinations to skyrocket in the future.
by iCeGaming | 2025-09-10 21:43:13+00:00
Thanks! You’re right, Hired.com started with a similar idea but evolved into a different model over time.

What feels different today is that developers are more burnt out than ever from endless applications and automated rejections, while companies are actively competing for talent in a tighter market.

My goal is to keep the developer experience really lightweight, just a LinkedIn URL with no resumes or complex profiles, and have companies do the heavy lifting.

I appreciate the encouragement and will share progress as things evolve.
by Spivak | 2025-09-10 21:43:19+00:00
And stores pay sales tax.

> By law, some payroll taxes are the responsibility of the employee and others fall on the employer, but almost all economists agree that the true economic incidence of a payroll tax is unaffected by this distinction, and falls largely or entirely on workers in the form of lower wages.

Who is charged the tax and who pays it are different things.
by themgt | 2025-09-10 21:43:26+00:00
But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.

My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:

"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country ...

We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past -- and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of [people] in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

Bobby Kennedy, 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kWIa8wSC0
by hinkley | 2025-09-10 21:44:12+00:00
Hank Green just did a follow-up about a question about “who has the most DNA”, where he back pedaled heavily on his previous attempt to answer.

I learned, as he had, that sometimes bone marrow transplants don’t take and one option is to administer another, or several, which could make you much more chimeric than the average stem cell recipient. But I don’t understand how the marrows don’t end up fighting each other in a death match. Is that a special property of marrow?
by wredcoll | 2025-09-10 21:44:31+00:00
> political violence

This is an interesting phrase that pops up every so often. What exactly is "political violence" and how does it differ from, uh, regular "violence"?

If someone shoots at me because he wants to steal my wallet, is that different from someone shooting at me because I'm black? Or because I voted for something? What if I shoot someone shooting at someone else? Is political violence supposed to be more morally reprehensible? Or maybe it's less?