MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghaff | 2025-09-07 18:10:33+00:00
A couple of events recently convinced me to never have a storage locker (though it could also be a packed garage) without some sort of exit plan. A storage locker because you're in the process of moving or need some space for outdoor gear because you live in an apartment?

Fine.

A storage locker because you have too much stuff and have no real plans to buy a second home or move somewhere bigger?

Not so fine.
by whstl | 2025-09-07 18:10:34+00:00
> The problem is when implementations aren’t actually monads at all

Exactly, this was my point, it wasn't clear.

The original definition, and Haskell's implementation are good in itself. Monads in Haskell are not that difficult or too abstract.

It was Monad tutorials and partial implementations missed the mark, like in your example.

Myself, similarly, I've seen way too many Option<T> implementations in Typescript that are less safe than if (value !== null) {}, because they replace a static check with an exception in runtime.
by ansgri | 2025-09-07 18:10:57+00:00
For $450 you can have Instinct 2X Solar, which is a very useful tool watch, surprisingly functional without phone connection and with a month of battery life. Can probably be used without ever connecting to a smartphone, I'm not 100% sure but everything seems to be configurable from the watch itself. Almost useless for reading text messages though. Basically a polar opposite to Apple Watch for a similar price.

Pebble is nice as a concept, with E-Ink and easily programmable watchfaces, but its hardware is arguably quite ugly, and has way less sensors.
by zh3 | 2025-09-07 18:12:46+00:00
Ref. the UK ('British people'), there's currently a thing where peacfully protesting a ban will get you arrested (I have a lot of sympathy for the police in this case, whatever they do will be wrong in the eyes of one side or the other).

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rvly00440o
by kmoser | 2025-09-07 18:13:02+00:00
This is a good example of what I find frustrating as a patient. Sure, cancers like that may be a tiny proportion of all skin cancers, but if I have it then it's 100% of my skin cancers. And given how serious skin cancer can be, I'd at least want my doctor to let me know how I could get this lesion tested, even if it's out of my own pocket.
by seneca | 2025-09-07 18:13:18+00:00
> Anonymity is not a prerequisite to freedom of speech.

I couldn't disagree more. The vast majority of papers the founders of the US published to argue against tyrannical government were written anonymously.

> Broken lives of people harassed by anonymous trolls on social media are the dark side of anonymity.

This is a cliche "think of the children" argument. Stripping away anonymity is a gargantuan problem, and enables authoritarian regimes to punish dissent. Trolls are a very minor problem comparatively.

> Freedom must be accompanied by responsibility and accountability.

This is essentially saying "freedom needs to come with punishments and restrictions when you do things I don't like". It's an oxymoron. The responsibilities a free populace have are moral and civil, they aren't about giving away anonymity to governments.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-09-07 18:13:21+00:00
I doubt most households even have a 52 piece set of stainless steel flatware, much less silverware. I doubt that even 1 in 10 has any real silverware enough to set a table of 4.

You are right about silver production but the cost of silver is negligible in any product except for actual silver jewelry and tableware. It is not worth badgering people to part with precious personal items to save $0.50 per solar panel or some shit. The price of silver is $41 per troy oz, or a little over a dollar per gram. Getting rid of silver for this reason is like getting rid of diamond jewelry because someone could use those diamonds to make high-precision cutting equipment for manufacture of EVs and solar panels. Everything you touch on a daily basis can be used for something else. You don't need to feel guilty because someone else might want it more. The market system we have ensures that if someone else wants it more than you, for a sufficiently good reason, they can prove it by simply buying it at the asking price.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-07 18:13:35+00:00
Evaluate risks and benefits as best you can, informed by whatever science seems to show. Life's complicated and nobody can provide simple correct instructions on the right way to do everything, or even anything. Public health messages are an attempt to do that but they're unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading or wrong because their purpose is to influence people's behavior, not to be correct.
by mlhpdx | 2025-09-07 18:13:58+00:00
> Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam.

That would make you one of the most successful websites on the internet, or the target of a DDoS -- which was it? I assume you're not saying that "bots" would randomly hit a single, brand-new "hello world" site enough to generate that kind of bill.
by quesera | 2025-09-07 18:14:14+00:00
> I'm not sure where this misconception comes from that the upper class of the US would be more highly taxed elsewhere

In the relevant comparison cases, this does not appear to be a misconception.

I am not an expert in global taxation, and with the caveat that tax rates have many complications ... some quick research suggests the following:

A top-bracket earner from Texas would have a higher tax rate in 55 other countries, e.g. Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, DR Congo, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe. (I skipped some)

A top-bracket earner from California would have a higher tax rate in 11 other countries: Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Canada (the parts where people live), Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Spain.

(You might argue that "upper class" does not include "earners", which would be a good way to be technically correct but would miss the point.)

Additionally, the capital gains rate is higher in 24 other countries, including most of the obvious ones.

And the top corporate tax rate is higher in 133 other countries.
by js2 | 2025-09-07 18:14:25+00:00
I don't think that's true? Here's what the NYT has to say about it:

Subscribers can gift 10 gift News articles per month:

- On the 1st of every month, Subscribers’ gift articles reset to 10.

- When an article is gifted, recipients can read it with or without a subscription.

- Recipients have 30 days to read the article before access is revoked.

https://help.nytimes.com/360060848652-Gift-Articles-for-New-...

The gift link I shared above opens for me in a private browser window w/o any prompting.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-07 18:14:32+00:00
>Who said anything about excusing crime?

The person I was replying to. Did we read the same comment? His argument was that the US is wrong to deport Hyundai workers here without legal visas since in his mind, an Apple worker from the story in the book he read, also didn't have legal visa to travel to China on a whim, even though his argument is 100% bogus since the Apple worker most definitely have a visa for that, and even so, two wrongs don't make a right.

>I'm less sympathetic to "the law is the law" because of the historical context of what's happening.

Careful with such arguments that apply selective enforcement based on the political climate you sympathize with(or not), as others will apply the same judgment to you when you'll get caught and they'll be in power.
by leo_researchly | 2025-09-07 18:14:33+00:00
In 2019 Jan Oberhauser launched N8N as a “Workflow automation alternative to Zapier” (see his submission here: ttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21191676).

Since then, N8N has overtaken Zapier based on certain metrics (like Web Traffic and Google Trends). They are apparently also a unicorn (valued at 1b+) and are being used by non-technical people despite being a "Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams".

Besides the competitive pressure from agentic automation startups and Big Tech (think MS Power Automate), classical distribution channels are changing (think LLMs) and consumer preferences are shifting. Because all of that affects us building Researchly, I dug deeper into (AI) automation tools to understand what that means for us.
by nutanc | 2025-09-07 18:14:51+00:00
Other than the obvious discussions around free speech(very valid points), do we have any real studies on the actual effects of social media? What if social media platforms didn't exist. Would the world have been a better place? I don't know the answer, but atleast from my observations it feels as if almost every country in the world has moved to the right but by bit. We have moved away from globalization and are into protectionism. Is social media to be blamed for this? I think it has certainly played it's part for sure.

One advantage of social media I see is that it has allowed people to create D2C businesses.
by jchallis | 2025-09-07 18:14:57+00:00
I feel this article acutely. My mother has a house full of antiques, fine china, and silverware that she values enormously but has essentially zero market value. Most pieces wouldn’t cover my monthly electric bill.

Here’s my plan - you’re welcome to copy it:

1. Make a video documenting each piece and its story while she’s still alive. Get her to tell the family history, where items came from, what they meant to her. This preserves what actually matters.

2. Set aside exactly three pieces that genuinely speak to me. Not “might be useful someday” - just three things I actually want.

3. At the funeral, announce anyone can take anything they want to remember her by. Let family self-select what has meaning to them.

4. Donate the rest wholesale to charity. Tax deduction should be around $25k - likely more financial benefit than selling piece by piece, with infinitely less hassle.

This honors the emotional value without inheriting the burden. The video preserves family history better than storing unused objects. And it avoids the soul-crushing experience of discovering your inheritance is worth less than a tank of gas.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-07 18:15:14+00:00
People who have never seen propaganda in action don't understand: it cannot work (the way these states want it to work) in the presence of real information channels, even if that's just private conversation. That's why socialist states arrest people for just talking privately to an agent about the government.

So yes, you have free speech if major news players coordinate whatever. If on social networks you get banned. Absolutely. That's problem 1 for authoritarian regimes. This is not something any authoritarian nation will relent on even slightly.

Second they have a problem with there being any "players" at all. Because you do get different perspectives, most of which don't match the governments. Compare the news in Israel with the "news" in Russia, or with Al Jazeera and you will see the difference. In Israel, there's maybe 5 major channels. But they hate each other. Pro and contra the war perspectives are represented. In Russia, there is no anti-war perspective. In Al Jazeera there is no one questioning how the government is spending money, there is no discussion on viewpoints, on anything in the middle east. There is no discussion of corruption either, in either Russia or Qatar. None.

This illustrates the problem of propaganda: everyone knows it's bullshit. Every Russian knows Russia is less democratic than a US TSA inspection. Everyone knows everything in Qatar is entirely, 100%, corrupt.

Propaganda will fail, certainly in the eyes of the government, if there is some, any way to get real information. And it doesn't matter if it's not easy. This is how it's always been in the US, because now people have some seriously rose colored glasses on how "true" US newspapers were in the early parts of the 20th century. Reality is that in the US bullshit always dominated the news cycle. This is not new.
by zote | 2025-09-07 18:15:50+00:00
Must be an issue with the site itself when viewed in Firefox on Windows; I've run into the same thing every time someone shares it here on HN. I even disabled uBO thinking that might be the cause, but the behavior didn't change. Eventually, I just gave up trying to access it.

Honestly, it's been disruptive enough that I'm considering adding the site to a personal blocklist, just to avoid running into it again. In the few times it's happened, the only way to recover was force-closing the browser, or waiting an excruciating amount of time and with a poorly responding browser try to close the tab.
by folmar | 2025-09-07 18:16:03+00:00
This ship has sailed, in the past Amazon's store did not succeed a lot, but there are already a few important enough offsprings: * Huawei with separate store and no Gapps * Samsung with importantly different browser and ton of extra features, also another store * in China the app-in-wechat and similar are a major thing

If you develop for a diverse set of user you need a lot of effort.
by knowitnone2 | 2025-09-07 18:16:16+00:00
you fail to understand basic economics. states AND countries provide tax breaks to lure in businesses with certain agreements. In the long term, this provides jobs, training, benefits local economy, income taxes, raises property values, increases property taxes, etc.

And your tax contribution to would be %.0001. There are MANY things about the government to be infuriated at but this isn't one of them.
by davorak | 2025-09-07 18:16:17+00:00
> Facebook et al is not a neutral platform, it is a vector for other states, and non state actors to whip up outrage and division.

I would feel better about this type of activity being regulated. There is quite a bit of room for facebook to live up to higher standards and regulation to prevent that sort of behavior with out banning.

Might also be more a of a hassle to write and enforce the laws though than out right banning though.

The result of that for a country with a small market though might be facebook/similar voluntarily leaving the country/market though.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-07 18:16:39+00:00
(a) reasonable guess, but it seems no, given https://caniuse.com/import-maps cites FF 108(!) versus the forbidden 120

(b) ok, fine, then include any english anywhere (in the source code, in the incompatible_browser.html.erb, in CLAUDE.md, whatever) so future generations would have any sane reason to mutate those magic numbers
by pstuart | 2025-09-07 18:17:21+00:00
The last decade has brought us Trump, which has broken countless political (and other) norms -- that has made passive observation a lot more challenging.

I've listened to NPR for decades and the only thing I've noticed as far as "progressivism" is that the weekends include shows that speak to non-white audiences (Black and Latino).

I'm curious as to what you think was "too progressive".
by em-bee | 2025-09-07 18:17:28+00:00
you got that mixed up: you would apply at the french embassy in the US. and, that's the key point for schengen: you would not apply at the eg german embassy in the US, even though both would get you the same visa. the US embassy can't give you a schengen visa, and you could not even get to the one in france since you are not there yet. and if you visit multiple countries, it's either the one where you spend most of the time, or the one where you enter the schengen area (this may be different from the country you visit first because you could have a flight transfer inside schengen). at least as far as i know.
by kragen | 2025-09-07 18:17:43+00:00
Turbo Pascal also came out in 01983 for 8-bit computers, but "Action!" looks pretty comparable. TP came out in November, though, so maybe "Action!" was earlier.

F83 was also an IDE for 8-bit computers (with multithreading, reflection, macros, a single-stepping debugger, and virtual memory) but despite the name didn't come out until 01984. (It was a model implementation of the Forth-83 standard, thus the misleading name.)

As wduquette pointed out in the previous thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132286, Apple Pascal was an IDE for Apple's 8-bit machines four years earlier. I would add that the UCSD p-System it was based on was available for other 8-bit machines as well, but I don't know what year. But those were bytecode interpreters and so very slow. F83 was intermediate, using indirect-threaded code.
by rictic | 2025-09-07 18:17:58+00:00
One thing to take care with in cases like this, it probably needs to handle code with syntax errors. It's not uncommon for developers to work with code that doesn't parse (e.g. while you're typing, to resolve merge conflicts, etc).

In general, a drum I beat regularly is that during development the code spends most of its time incorrect in one way or another. Syntax errors, doesn't type check, missing function implementations, still working out the types and their relationships, etc. Any developer tooling that only works on valid code immediately loses a lot of its value.
by palata | 2025-09-07 18:18:26+00:00
> Why would google continue maintaining chrome if they can no longer derive any benefit from it?

That is unrelated to the sentence you quote: if people can use Google Chrome for free, they don't pay for a browser. But if Chrome disappeared, they would still need a browser. Maybe they would pay if they didn't have a free choice?

> No, the contention is that people will go for free browsers that violate their privacy or monetize them somehow, not some future where all browsers cost money.

If there are more browsers instead of a monopoly, then websites will work on the paid, secure browser that I will use, so I'm happy. I don't want to prevent people from using bad software: I want to make it possible for companies to build good software.

By not using Chromium today, many times the websites don't work correctly because devs don't care, because Chromium is a monopoly. I say split it! Then websites will have to work on more than 1 browser.

> Remember when whatsapp was also $1/year, ostensibly for similar reasons? How did that go?

It was a huge success? WhatsApp is still a huge success.
by jltsiren | 2025-09-07 18:18:34+00:00
Most laws are little more than temporary opinions. If a law doesn't give you the outcome you wanted, you can always change it. Or you can choose to not enforce it when it would be against your interests.

I believe the point is that it's often impossible to build a factory without sending your experts on site to supervise it. And sometimes you need to send people on a short notice, if something unexpected happens or if the people assigned to that site are not available. Then the people will go in with whatever visas are available on such a short notice, hoping that it's not in the destination country's interests to stop them.

This is fundamentally not about immigration or laws but whether you want to make your country an attractive place to invest in.
by sergsoares | 2025-09-07 18:18:55+00:00
You can use a localhost Cockpit with SSH Port Forwarding.

> Configure Cockpit to listen only loopback/127.0.0.1[1]:

[Socket]

ListenStream= #This remove 0.0.0.0:9090 bind based on the docs

ListenStream=127.0.0.1:9090

> Execute in your machine a port forward with SSH[2]:

ssh -N -L 9090:127.0.0.1:9090 host@ip

> Then you can open localhost:9090 in your browser securely only using SSH (that is already part of your actual workflow).

[1]: https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/listen

[2]: https://coder.com/docs/code-server/guide#port-forwarding-via...
by viceconsole | 2025-09-07 18:19:48+00:00
Their point was that this change applies to non-immigrant visas (which in theory are only issued to people who do not intend to immigrate to the US), not immigrant visas.

While true, the State Department already made the same change to immigrant visas a few days ago: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/a...
by odyssey7 | 2025-09-07 18:19:57+00:00
When bone is what needs attention, you can use conventional x-rays in all but specialist cases. A single x-ray image is typically far less radiation than a whole CT scan.

And yes, you can still see bone in an MRI. A related question is, how well can you see soft tissue in a CT scan?

CT scans are routinely used to diagnose soft tissue problems, where they are the wrong tool for the job: an MRI would be more ideal. CT scans in these situations expose the patient to avoidable cancer risks while compromising the level of insight provided to the medical provider.

Interoperative imaging is another specialist use case. The need for CT scans in specialist situations speaks to the failure to develop alternatives with lower cancer risks. Also, the need to use a CT scan in certain situations does not mean that the CT scans should be used in other situations.
by singlepaynews | 2025-09-07 18:20:18+00:00
That’s part of but not fully it, thanks for the validation that it’s not just me re: onedrive.

I think partially I’m wrestling with the almost philosophical question of whether Linux is viable for consumers, because ideally I’d be a consumer, but I’m so frustrated by switching costs between windows/mac that surely open source has to be the solution, and loop from this point.

There are, in my mind, 3 kinds of data loss when my laptop breaks: 1) passwords 2) files 3) applications

(1) and (2) are at least in theory solved by simply embracing vendor lock in. In practice you really can just keep buying Apple forever, or figure out OneDrive for real and it will work.

(3) is where I think I’m breaking with the current state of the industry, but it is not mandatory imo that I wouldn’t be able to get my vscode, pgadmin, cad application, office suite, etc. all downloaded with their config intact on a new machine.
by neither_color | 2025-09-07 18:20:39+00:00
It sounds like China facilitates foreign direct investment by making it faster and easier for foreign companies to set up factories and fly in talent to train local workers.

If I were in a Thucidian power struggle and trying to re-shore industry and all the new manufacturing processes developed abroad in the past 40 years I would consider making it easier for allies who want to invest in the US to do the same.
by gruez | 2025-09-07 18:20:48+00:00
>Ignoring how strangely against this idea you are, for no justifiable reason

Ignoring how you assert this, when I outlined plenty of reasons which you've yet to rebut...

>it wouldn't look like a 3310, it would still look like a smart phone, probably OLED so more battery life. It would just miss a lot of modern features which are absolutely irrelevant to anyone who wants a privacy/security focused mobile phone. Probably not the latest CPU, not the latest mobile chip, but still decent for what it has to do.

Sounds like a $200 mid-range phone that's sold in much of Asia. Question is, who's going to make it? How are you going to amortize the development costs? You mentioned that it's going to use custom software/hardware to keep security maintenance burden low, but how would that be funded? Most of the SoC vendors are going to be providing kernels/drivers to you with the expectation that you're going to use it to build an Android phone. Good luck convincing them to provide engineering support for your custom software/hardware stack.

Not to mention the questions about maintenance you haven't addressed aside from some handwaving about it'll be simpler and therefore can be "community maintained".