MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 19:41:35+00:00
This seems like an apples/oranges comparison.

The constitution is pretty silent afaik on whether random foreign nationals such as this tourist have any particular rights. Obviously summarily executing or imprisoning them would be a big no-no, but being asked lots of questions and thoroughly searched because they think you're a troublemaker is not uncommon. Being refused entry to a country that isn't yours and being home safe by the end of the day, is quite a few huge leaps away from being locked up in your own country for your speech.

Do I think that incident sounds like a stupid move by CBP if that is the whole story[1]? Yeah. But I disagree that it's proof we're in a fascist dictatorship.

[1] Is it also possible that the government agents didn't overhear him making some flippant comment that made him seem far more dangerous? For instance, "Yeah I can't believe I'm even coming here when that fascist Trump was elected. Wish that bullet hadn't missed." If he had said or done something to cause it to happen, you can bet he would have forgotten to mention it when he recounted his story to The Daily Star.
by nxobject | 2025-09-09 19:41:36+00:00
> Protestors should be proud to be there and shouldn't feel the need to hide their identities. Not in this country at least. For all the hysterical comparisons, this isn't Putin's Russia. They aren't just kidnapping random citizens and disappearing them for participating in a protest. On the other hand, during "peaceful protests" when people start destroying the city under cover of the protest, yeah, I do want those people to be arrested and tried.

We're less than a year into the administration: think it's a little bit early to be assuming that those abuses of power won't happen.
by trinix912 | 2025-09-09 19:41:47+00:00
> If you live in a European society where you don’t earn a lot of money but you have most essential things provided by the government, you typically have to live a specific kind of lifestyle. Moving out of that country becomes infeasible, you can’t take government services with you.

You don't have to live any specific kind of lifestyle, but it is true that a sizable portion of your income still goes to the public institutions. You can send your kids to private schools or (in some countries) homeschool them, but you're still paying for everyone else's public education.

Same with savings and pensions funds, a portion of your income goes to the state pension fund, no opting out of that, but you can also invest in private funds or whatever else.

Nobody's, for example, forcing you to work a 9-5 like everyone else, you're free to start a business, be unemployed, work and also run a business on the side etc.

As for moving countries, you can freely move around EU member states while keeping the benefits. You are also still entitled to the benefits of your country of origin even if you move across the globe as long as you keep your citizenship and tax residency there (which might be more impractical than just forgoing the benefits though).

> Your life will look very similar to people around you, everyone depends on the same government services and few have accumulated enough money to live an order of magnitude more comfortable than others. In a random sample of Americans, you will likely find a range of people from low-key millionaires to people up to their eyeballs in crushing debt.

The wealth inequality varies quite vastly depending on which European country you're looking at. Also note that European does not automatically imply them being an EU member state. Overly general statements like these are totally pointless.
by jameshart | 2025-09-09 19:41:47+00:00
I sympathize. But this does also fall a little into the LEGO trap of claiming that ‘the yellow doesn’t specify any specific race so it can represent any of them!’ Which maybe held water right up until they wanted to make a Lando Calrissian minifigure and it became extremely obvious that he couldn’t be yellow; while all the other Star Wars characters they had already made yellow without a second thought rather gave the game away that maybe yellow minifigs are actually white people. And it’s not a fluke: The Simpsons are exactly the same.

The fact that the most enthusiastic adopters of non-yellow emojis seem to be non-white people, while white people tend to be more on the ‘I was fine being yellow’ side… just suck it up and pick a color.
by notahacker | 2025-09-09 19:41:52+00:00
> Let's assume that all those new laborers get paid and therefore demand also increases, moving the equilibrium so some of the wage stagnation pressure is dampened. It's still not going to offset the effect of new labor and taxes

Let's not make the absurd assumption that parents continuing their careers and more daycare centres in operation must be net negative for economic growth.

Even if that was the case, the alternative proposal to subsidise parents equally large amounts whether they use it to pay for childcare or not would result in a larger tax burden paid for from a smaller economic pie.
Show HN: I built research agents because GPT cant accurately hilite txt in files
by ieuanking | 2025-09-09 19:41:54+00:00
Hi HN,

We built Ubik because no available Chatbots, AI research platforms, or AI PDF analysis tools could highlight text down to the line level in the file.

Why is this important?

Researchers, academics, scientists, and students lack the tools to help produce usable research while elevating workflows without over-automating the steps between A-Z. They also need to trust the accuracy of output/analysis generated by the agents & models, and confidently gather quotes, sources, and citations for scholarly papers.

Key Features of Ubik:

Search academic databases and convert open-access papers into AI-ready docs. Use enhanced OCR + PDF analysis tools. Make AI notes in PDFs that highlight text down to the line level. Reference files when prompting using the @ symbol (like Cursor), which minimizes hallucination and improves output. Generate high-level text with citations and use over 20+ models.

We are working on a custom EVAL suite and will publish our findings soon.

Please reach out with any comments, questions, or critiques.
by pharrington | 2025-09-09 19:42:17+00:00
Again, you don't have to believe the people who are sharing their sincere opinion, but A LOT of people regard Hollow Knight as one of the best games ever made. I'm one of the people. I grew up in the SNES era, and I think Hollow Knight is an all around better game than every SNES platformer I've played, including Super Metroid which it's directly comparable to.
by dingaling | 2025-09-09 19:42:24+00:00
> As we raise our first child, having a quality camera is definitely important to us.

A phone camera isn't really a camera, it's a digitally-airbrushed impression of reality. There just isn't enough light hitting the tiny sensor through the tiny lens.

I have 20 year old 5MP DLSR portrait photos that are still better than what a 120MP phone can produce, because it's the lens that counts.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-09 19:42:34+00:00
There was a point where "the web" was literally a web, and it was literally "linked" together by...get this: hyperlinks!

I think that what killed that is that hyperlinks work great for browsing & discovery, but as the web matures, a lot of people want to use it for task-oriented things. And all of the Big Tech companies that came afterwards succeeded because they built a task-oriented interface that co-opted the links that were there before and turned them into ways to accomplish the task. Google took hyperlinks, used them to compute PageRank, and then used that to create a better way to solve the task of finding specific information. Facebook took user activity, aggregated it, presented it in a feed, and used it to improve the task of killing time. Amazon took product pages and direct links and used them as lead-gen to increase the ease with which you can buy things. Stripe took embedded Javascript and used it to make paying for things easier; Uber and Lyft took mobile phones and used it to make transportation easier; AirBnB took these large Internet markets and used it to make vacation rentals easier.

Where all these decentralization efforts fall down is that they tend to focus on content, the technical details of how they're going to spread bytes around, and nobody focuses on the task. It'd be interesting to recast the problem in terms of "Here's a common task of everyday life; how do you accomplish it in an adversarial environment where the government or major corporations are trying to shut off the Internet?"
by mulmen | 2025-09-09 19:42:53+00:00
This is what’s so dangerous about the game the Republicans are playing. They are perpetuating a belief that American society is broken by breaking it themselves. If the blinders ever come off their base the violent impulses will be directed at them the same way they were directed at Mike Pence. It’s phenomenally stupid to wind up an ignorant mob and think you can control it. The only way to maintain control is to make the mob angrier and angrier but there’s always a breaking point.
by kentiko | 2025-09-09 19:42:53+00:00
I attempted to replace my 13 mini's battery today using the iFixit kit. I broke the OLED panel doing so. Removing the screen take much more force than I though. I did this hopping to keep my iPhone maybe 2 more years. Now I am waiting for ordering the 17 next Friday. I will have to manage having half of my screen being white until then...
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-09-09 19:42:56+00:00
When the word processor was first invented, people didn't end up printing less because of how easy it was to edit and view documents live — they printed more because of how little friction there was (compared to a typewriter) between making a change and pressing print.

I think we're going to see the same thing with document creation. Could LLMs help make a small number of high quality documents? Yes, with some coaching and planning from the user. But instead people will use them to quickly create a crappy document, get feedback that it's crappy, and then immediately create an only slightly less crappy doc.
by mperham | 2025-09-09 19:42:59+00:00
I will point out that our labor data can no longer be trusted as the organization is no longer politically neutral. Pushing the jobs record down means more blame for Biden and a much lower bar for Trump to meet in order to "improve" future jobs numbers.

> Trump ordered McEntarfer's removal on August 1 after data showed a surprise weakening in the U.S. labor market last month. The BLS employment report revealed meaningful revisions to job figures for the prior two months that raised investor worries that the Federal Reserve may need to play catch-up with interest rate cuts.

https://www.reuters.com/business/inflation-data-draw-scrutin...
by tolerance | 2025-09-09 19:43:14+00:00
Yes, I think so. I agree with you actually. But it doesn’t always seem like that’s the desired outcome for some people when they mention “decentralization”.

I have a particular interest group in mind here, who lament the current state of the Web to an extent unique to our time. It seems like they’re upset with their loss of agency/authority online. When a free, ad-less *.blogspot.com or LiveJournal presence could net you some clout you’d be precluded from otherwise in the real world.

Take for example any evidence of disapproval you may find from the proponents of ActivityPub toward the development of the AT Protocol in parallel. Also notice how moderation features on these federated platforms essentially centralize them and their respective enclaves. The desire for interoperability between social media platforms conflicts with the imminent re-siloing being examined. Or is it just the same ends with new wiry means attached?

“Decentralization” in this context seems more like separating from the whole with the hopes of replacing it. And I’m not confident that these many new “wholes” can resist jockeying one after the other for political influence.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-09 19:43:37+00:00
Thanks, it's great to see all the issues you raise.

On the other hand, it seems about as hard as I was imagining. I take for granted that it has to be a new language -- you obviously can't add it on top of Python, for example. And obviously it isn't compatible with things like global monkeypatching.

But if a language's built-in functions are built around the idea from the ground up, it seems entirely feasible. Particularly if you make the limits entirely around permissions around data communication -- with disk, sockets, APIs, hardware like webcams and microphones, and "god" permissions like shell or exec commands -- and not about trying to merely constrain resource usage around things like CPU, memory, etc.

If a package is blowing up your memory or CPU, you'll catch it quickly and usually the worst it can do is make your service unavailable. The risk to focus on should be exclusively data access+exfiltration and external data modification, as far as I can tell. A package shouldn't be able to wipe your user folder or post program data to a URL at all unless you give it permission. Which means no filesystem or network calls, no shell access, no linked programs in other languages, etc.
by Retric | 2025-09-09 19:43:40+00:00
Penalties can be several times actual damages, and substantial similarity includes MP3 files and other lossy forms of compression which don’t directly look like the originals.

The entire point of deep learning is to copy aspects from training materials, which is why it’s unsurprising when you can reproduce substantial material from a copyrighted work given the right prompts. Proving damages for individual works in court is more expensive than the payout but that’s what class action lawsuits are for.
by dragontamer | 2025-09-09 19:43:59+00:00
Eink always could be driven quickly. The issue is that LCDs are more powerful efficient at high refresh rates

EInk needs a lot of power to move the heavier ink particles around. If you are doing that more and more rapidly, then even more power is drawn.

By 75Hz, I'm almost certain that LCD is far more power efficient. The LCD pixel (aka the liquid crystal) is a glorified capacitor, it takes some power to charge but it's exceptionally 'light' compared to eink.

That's why LCDs can go faster and faster. It's just physics. A capacitor / twisted crystal uses less power to turn on or off than EInk.

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EInks advantage is that if you turn off power, the ink stays put. So you spend a ton of power moving the ink around and then save lots and lots of power over the next seconds, minutes or more.

That's why EInk is ideal for once-a-day updates of prices (or other retailer tasks). The less you update, the less power used.
by verdverm | 2025-09-09 19:44:26+00:00
Nothing specific to Claude in your two issues, I see the same thing with other models. They really aren't that different

Instructions go a long way. There probably needs to be a better LMM+prompt+loop at the top, the one you interface with, or one below that maybe.

My next step is taking over this instead of outsourcing to M$, Google, or Anthropic. It's just too important to let others decide how they should work at this point. It needs to be more open and something we can tinker with like vim
by josephg | 2025-09-09 19:44:42+00:00
Most complex crdts are built on top of the simple crdt of a grow only set. Ie, what we actually synchronise over the network is a big bag of commits / operations / something such that the network protocol makes sure everyone ends up with all of the operations known to any peer. Then the crdt takes that big set and produces some sort of sensible projection from it.

> You just have to make sure not to record the same transaction more than once

So this should be pretty easy. Have a grow only set of transactions. Give each one a globally unique ID at the point of creation. Order by date and do bookkeeping. One thing you can’t guarantee is that the balance is always positive. But otherwise - yeah.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-09 19:44:55+00:00
The big plan of the Revolution was not, in fact, any sort of revolution. It was merely consolidating power the landowning class already had, and not sending a cut back to Britain.

And like, that's fine. America, for better or worse, exists, and we'll never know if history would've been better or worse without us. But please let's let go of this fantastical origin story. We're a country, same as any other, just a bit younger, and already with frankly just as many atrocities under our belt as other countries. We are not unique, apart from we treat our citizenry uniquely poorly relative to other developed nations. If you want me to be proud of this country, I'm amenable to that, but it has to earn that.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-09 19:45:20+00:00
Yes, if you had one caretaker looking after thousands of children, quality would be poor. But that doesn't mean the optimal number is 1. A professional caretaker looking after a manageable number of children can certainly outperform an amateur looking after one or two, and a facility with multiple specialized caretakers can outperform the single professional caretaker.

You don't want to minimize students per teacher, you want a healthy number of students per teacher. Class sizes are not optimal at 1. Below some minimum class size (which varies by age group) there is no benefit to further reduction, and sufficiently low numbers can be harmful. That's to say nothing of the additional cost of that labor to achieve such faculty ratios.
by nxobject | 2025-09-09 19:45:25+00:00
Do deaths in detention count? [0] 12 so far since the administration began through August (data only being published after 90 days.) Of course, nothing's stopping the administration from using "probable cause" to detain anyone suspicious - like citizens (or at least brown citizens.) [1]

[0] https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-detained-ice...
by at-fates-hands | 2025-09-09 19:45:40+00:00
Anecdotal evidence to counter this argument.

Work at a fortune 200 company. We spent COVID all 100% remote WFH. After several quarters of their entire workforce working remotely, they were gushing about how productivity increased, satisfaction scores went through the roof and the company recorded several record breaking quarters in revenue during a time they expected the exact opposite to happen.

This inevitably lead them to having one helluva hard time trying to get people back into the office since they owned about a dozen buildings where the majority of their employees were supposed to be working. After a year and several attempts, they instead sold most of their real estate holdings and have since consolidated everybody into just a few buildings. The new rule is that if you are less than 30 mins from the office, you need to come in at least twice a week. Not a huge hurdle and so far, has been met with little if any resistance.

I have to give them credit. They tried ordering people back in, and ultimately pivoted and sold their real estate instead.
by codedrift_ | 2025-09-09 19:45:40+00:00
> To achieve this, we require that packages are built on a trusted CI/CD platform

Given what happened with NX [1], I'm hoping GitHub Actions disallows certain types of commands in their YAML. Otherwise we still have a straightforward way to attach provenance to malicious code. =\

1: https://x.com/adnanthekhan/status/1958722939534417989
by jez | 2025-09-09 19:46:05+00:00
If you’re open to third-party sync clients, Maestral supports this:

https://maestral.app/docs/mignore

I’ve been loving Maestral so far, it’s just the syncing, none of the other stuff. It has some downsides (it can’t upload symlinks but it can download them, and it doesn’t have LAN sync) but it’s super lightweight.
by mxuribe | 2025-09-09 19:46:40+00:00
My previous comments were merely in response to your original comments...so really only to point out that bare use of encryption by itself is not sufficient protection - that's all.

To your more recent points, i agree that there are other several protections in place...and depending on a number of facotrs, some foks have more at their disposal, and others might have less...but, still there are mechnisms in place to help - without a doubt. But yet with all these mechanisms in place, people still fall prey to phishing attacks...and sometimes those victims are not lay people, but actual technologists. So, i think the solution(s) to solve this are not so simple, and likely are not only tech-based. ;-)
by verdverm | 2025-09-09 19:46:42+00:00
Yea, the bookmarks thing is interesting, and wearing my conspiracy theory hat (it's not the red one), I wonder if it's not an experiment to see what the people will tolerate or how they will respond. It could equally be attributed to an early win for the new product manager, finally delivering a long requested feature in a POC form factor, while private data gets figured out.

I'm highly involved in the private data work and we'll have a better bookmarks in the long run

I like that atprotocol sits in the middle of web 2 & 3, ideas from both without being beholden to either
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 19:46:46+00:00
For Discord and maybe some others, I wonder if it’s just a packaging and marketing problem that just hasn’t been solved.

Yes there’s Matrix, but it’s not packaged in a way that makes hosting a node accessible and the way it’s marketed, there’s no clear benefit to typical users.

Imagine if instead, the client and server were one in the same and starting a server is as simple as running the client and clicking “new server”, with the software figuring the rest out. Then, on the marketing side you can sell it as a way to get features that Discord puts behind a paywall for free.

There’s no way that wouldn’t have a dramatic impact on take-up.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-09 19:46:47+00:00
As a counter-example, neither of my kids really acknowledged other kids in any way at that age (and other infants ignored them right back). A quick Internet search suggests it's normal for them to not interact with other kids until after 12+ months. This was a point of contention with my wife and MIL because my MIL would complain we weren't "socializing" our oldest enough when she was an infant despite clearly never having looked up anything about childhood development.

That and we did take her out all the time. She just wasn't in daycare. The thing about stay-at-home parents is they don't literally stay at home all day.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-09 19:47:04+00:00
They don't really manufacture anything. TSMC or Samsung make the chip and Samsung, Micron or Hynix make the RAM. Even Intel's GPUs are TSMC.

Also, Wall St cares about profit, not margins. If you can move a billion units with a $100 margin, they're going to like you a lot better than if you move a million units with a $1000 margin.
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-09 19:47:05+00:00
Nature uses the same mechanisms that make up capitalism. In other words, capitalism is the most natural system for distributing resources. Note I'm not saying best, or optimal, because best and optimal depend on some subjective value system (that distinguishes good from bad). My point is just that capitalism closely mimics patterns in nature.

Some of the communists seem to think that capitalism is unnatural, probably because it produces novel outcomes in human civilization, or maybe because it seems new to humanity (I'd argue humans have been using capitalist systems a lot longer than 300 years)
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-09-09 19:47:34+00:00
Might be ok for nostalgia but the software development world and the Bay Area/Seattle in general have changed so much that Microserfs would be alien to anyone living there today. His spiritual sequel, jPod, is quite a bit more fantastical. The CBC made it into a one season tv show that ends on a cliffhanger. It's about time for Coupland to write a third novel on the industry but I'm not sure he's really interested anymore.