MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doodlesdev | 2025-09-20 12:30:52+00:00
> Only a handful of packages are part of the app you run, e.g. Electron, CodeMirror, moment.js.

So they ship an extremely bloated package to ship a WebView based on one of the most complex pieces of software ever written, an entire code editor for text editing, and a deprecated time library that could be substituted by newer APIs and some glue code?

Honestly, it doesn't seem impressive at all. What Obsidian does is the bare minimum of how we should manage packages in any piece of software, not a testament to a serious security policy. They do security audits, though, which I find to be a good practice.
by burakemir | 2025-09-20 12:31:27+00:00
There is a place for informal, prose specs, and I can easily agree that more people are nowadays describing their programs in English.

The context here is formal specs though - adequately and precisely capturing the intended meaning (semantics) in a way that lends itself to formal verification.

Interactive theorem proving is interactive because proof search is intractable; a human articulates the property they want to prove and then performs the "search". Apart from the difficulties of getting to that proof, it can also happen that all goes through and you realize that the property is not exactly what you wanted.
by a5c11 | 2025-09-20 12:31:59+00:00
> You're experiencing nostalgia - it isn't factual, though.

Is this a universal argument against "something was better"? Yes, many things were better in the past, internet included. Now we do things faster, cheaper and worse.

> I wonder what these password managers are all about, then?

Have you ever seen a private website requiring you to register? I haven't. If it does, then it's another sign of how we break simple stuff.

> How exactly does Meta have any role in the ease or difficulty of content creation? Last I checked Meta makes zero of the top content creation tools and is mostly an ad company.

Idk, maybe take a look how Facebook and Instagram work? Posting is super simple, just a few clicks and it's done. So effortless that any brainless individual can do that. People forgot how to do that without those platforms. Even MySpace required some basic knowledge of site building.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-09-20 12:32:01+00:00
From Docs, https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/python/

"This is 100% compatible because we use the CPython runtime without modification for full compatibility with existing Python libraries."

At this point you need to either explain your objection, or just admit you are a troll. You haven't actually at any point in this exchange offered any actual argument beyond 'duh, you're wrong'. I'd be ok if you actually pointed to something like 'well technically, the mojo parts are compiled differently', or something. You say you worked there, but you're not even looking at their website.

Creator Chris Lattner discussing why they used Python. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRcXUuQYR90

Start at minute 12. "Mojo is a very extended version of Python".
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-20 12:32:02+00:00
> When people ask for new testable predictions as the only way a new theory can be successful, they are revealing that they don't consider parsimonious explanations to be a scientific goal.

It doesn't have to be new testable predictions, but it should at least reproduce some testable predictions of the conventional theories.

As far as I know, these discrete graph models have been shown to reproduce some broad features of QM and GR (mostly the work of Jonathan Gorard rather than Wolfram), but they don't make any actual numerical predictions, which in my view is a basic requirement of a physical theory.

At the moment it seems like some intriguing toy models, similar in many respects to t'Hooft's cellular automaton model of QM, but there's no physical theory here
by rco8786 | 2025-09-20 12:32:37+00:00
> It’s very time consuming and 80% of the time I end up wondering if it would’ve been quicker to just do it all by myself right from the start.

Yes, this. Every time I read these sort of step by step guides to getting the best results with coding agents it all just sounds like boatloads of work that erase the efficiency margins that AI is supposed to bring in the first place. And anecdotally, I've found that to be true in practice as well.

Not to say that AI isn't useful. But I think knowing when and where AI will be useful is a skill in and of itself.
by righthand | 2025-09-20 12:32:46+00:00
No it is not and it is another lie Trump is using to destroy democracy. Typically a Potus whether he won by disagreeing (in reality or fiction) with the previous Potus, the newly elected would just move on and implement their agenda. Trump is doing this so to brand anything he does as a brilliant strategy and solution to whatever the past was. By creating blame on the system, anything you therefor come up with must be a tangible idea. All you need is for people to “give it a chance”. In reality everyone “giving it a chance” has no knowledge of how the current system works.

There is no advantage to doing this unless you are a vindictive, angry, petty PoS.

The important thing to keep in mind is that it is all fiction and it is ONLY Trump saying these things. It is important to let authoritarian ideas die on the vine rather than endlessly debate the strawmen and keep them alive, IMO.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-20 12:33:19+00:00
EB-5 requires a million dollar investment that creates 10 jobs for 2 years. There's also documentation of the source of the funds.

1 million dollars seems exceptionally cheap for a US resident visa with no strings attached.

In Canada some provinces have a similar process where you can run a business for a year and apply for permanent residency. In my city there were a bunch of weird little, clearly unprofitable franchises - bubble tea was one for a long time - where the owner was basically running it at a loss to buy citizenship.

It seemed to require a little more commitment to the community and effort than just handing over a big bag of cash. They've discontinued it in Ontario now, which has probably contributed to the glut of unoccupied commercial real estate.
by SMAAART | 2025-09-20 12:34:54+00:00
> What do you think about anonymous publishing in 2025?

Craigslist's Rants & Raves started that in 1996 (almost 30 years ago), Reddit started in 2005 (about 20 years ago).

> Would love feedback from the HN community.

What unserved or underserved needs does this address?

IMO it sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

Read this book: The Lean Startup.

Anyway, good luck to you.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-20 12:34:57+00:00
Typically the president has a level of decorum. Snark is for proxies, not the leader / that’s typically a best practice for any executive, as it goes the principal the ability to walk stuff back later. That’s more of a norm than a rule.

The characters in the whack pack seem the use Andrew Jackson as a model. He was similarly tasteful and also a disaster.
by lproven | 2025-09-20 12:35:01+00:00
I'm sure you're right but to people not in the religion, this is a non-difference.

"This is the home of a 47th level battle mage, and so it is important to call it a fortress or an enchanter's fortified tower. Only if he graduates to level 50 or above does it become a full Keep."

(As a side note, the battle mage is actually a 300kg dude called Kevin who lives in a bedsit his mum pays for.)
by culturestate | 2025-09-20 12:35:04+00:00
This story is incredible, I’m fascinated by every aspect of it:

- What decision-making process led to the idea of injecting human urine into a frog in the first place?

- How did the frogs escape? What kind of living and handling conditions are we talking about here?

- Did the bacteria that the government was concerned about make the frogs more susceptible to cold, thus the coincidental die-off at the same time as eradication was to begin?

- Will Welsh clawed frogs be the next species that we thought were gone but had just become better hidden?

I crave a one-hour documentary about this.
by seydor | 2025-09-20 12:35:39+00:00
the term "cancel culture" , which i used, refers to the most recent wave of censorship and was introduced in 2018. I assume well-informed readers can infer the context, and understand that i am not talking about the entire history of censorship.

Making berating comments doesn't really serve anything and reflects bad on the commenter.

The more interesting question is why did we go from a relatively laisez-faire attitude of the 90s, which was earned after decades of social activism, to a close-minded culture that fires people for being mildly annoying.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 12:35:52+00:00
Saying that culture doesn’t exist is like a fish not realizing it’s swimming in water. Everywhere has culture, and it’s mostly below the surface://bccie.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cultural-iceberg.pdf.

I have a culture! I grew up in Virginia, but my parents are Bangladeshi, and this describes me quite accurately: https://commisceo-global.com/articles/cultural-differences-w....
by ModernMech | 2025-09-20 12:35:54+00:00
> The general consensus in my circles is that for the past decade "our side" have been advocating cooperation, while the other side repeatedly defects.

If this is really truly the case, explain the J6 insurrection. Trump lied for 2 months about the election results. Summoned his supporters, who literally show up with weapons flying Trump / Confederate / Nazi flags side by side, sacked the capitol, attempted to murder the Vice President and Speaker of the House. They engaged in what was described as "medieval combat" for hours. People died, cops and injured for life.

To this day, the people in power who you say are not the bad guys refuse to admit responsibility for what happened and pardoned all the people who committed those crimes on his behalf.

How do you square what happened then with your assertion that "the past decade "our side" have been advocating cooperation"?
by TomaszZielinski | 2025-09-20 12:35:59+00:00
I treat LS as a privacy/anti-telemetry/anti-accident tool, not as anti malware.

Obviously it can detect malware if there’s a connection to some weird site, but it’s more like a bonus than a reliable test.

If you need to block FS access, then per app containers or VMs are the way to go. The container/VM sandboxes your files, and Little Snitch can then manage externa connectivity (you might still want to allow connection to some legit domains—-but maybe not github.com as that can be use to upload your data. I meant something like updates.someapp.com)
by somenameforme | 2025-09-20 12:36:32+00:00
That data series is misleading because of what you're seeing. Ostensibly you'd think that means wages are going up, right? It doesn't. Here [1] is the data set for that - weekly real earnings. They're barely moving - up about 13% over 50 years. And given now a days we have a lot of new and practically mandatory costs to deal with, such as internet and computing/telephony devices, real wages are probably down in practical terms.

So what gives with your data set? The data set I give covers wages for full time workers. The data set you gave covers all individuals 15+ with any "income", which includes governments benefits. So what you're likely seeing there is going to be, in part, driven by things like an aging population - with a large number of retirees retiring with social security, medicaid, pensions, etc fattening out the middle part of society where income, after all is accounted for, of around $40k sounds just about right. It's mostly unrelated to the change in wages.

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Also, unrelated but I found your examples of 'better life' weird. I still hand wish dishes and line-dry clothes. I know Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates also hand wash their dishes. The "nostalgia" people have is for things like somebody graduating debt free, with a decent car, and ready to put a down payment on the first home - on the back of a part time job that put them through school. That really did happen, but now a days it sounds like a fantasy. I think society would happily trade dish washers for that!

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
by guy_5676 | 2025-09-20 12:36:50+00:00
Respectfully, at lot of what you say here runs contrary to my experience. US engineers are insanely well compensated, even relative to other developed countries. I'm a dual Australian/American citizen. I earned literally 3 times what I would have made in a big Australian city at my New York tech job.

I've always found it pretty easy to find a new job when I've needed one, even now there are an insane number of openings all over the US. The job market here is an order of magnitude larger then it was in Australia.

I don't doubt there is a deflationary effect on demand/wages due to h1b visas, but I don't connect at all with the catastrophic rhetoric I see in these threads. The United States still has some of the best opportunities in the world for people with tech skills
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-20 12:37:04+00:00
Is this a joke? Something like 0.5-1% of households in Europe have >$1M in investable/liquid assets. In the rest of the world, that fraction is much lower. A $1M gift -- that doesn't appear to guarantee results, only an expedited process -- strongly selects for oligarchs and criminals. (e.g. Chinese embezzlers who like the fact that the US won't extradite to China.)
by dgl | 2025-09-20 12:37:51+00:00
I put a link to[1] in the article, which was previously discussed here[2] with a correction to that article. Basically there's a 2 byte length header on TCP DNS responses, limiting the payload (i.e. the DNS message inside) to 64 KiB.

[1]: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/dns-size.html#:~:text=65536%20bytes%20DNS%20payload%20%2B%202%20bytes%20size%20%3D%2065538%20bytes [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39257147
by sqeaky | 2025-09-20 12:37:57+00:00
Think about all the times in llm gets it wrong, the fact that would have helped to get it right is something that was lost. I suppose this isn't proof it's lossy just maybe we don't know how to get the data out.

Or look at it another way LLMs or just text prediction machines, whatever information doesn't help them predict the next token or conflicts with the likelihood of the next token is something that gets dropped.

Or look at it another way these things are often trained on the many terabytes of the internet yet even a 200 billion parameter network is 100 or 200 GB in size. So something is missing, and that is a way better compression ratio then the best known algorithms for lossless compression.

Or we can look at it another way, these things were never built to be lossless compression systems. We can know by looking at how these things are implemented that they don't retain everything they're trained on, they extract a bunch of statistics.
by grognard | 2025-09-20 12:38:16+00:00
I'm only about 4 weeks into unemployment, but I'm helping a friend who's a year in. Were both very junior and that Canada job market's a bit brutal right now.

On the plus side, were trying to be very scientific about our approach, and have been hosting sessions every morning where we apply for 2-3 jobs documenting the entire process and sharing encouragement and hoping to avoid burnout.

I've been thinking of opening this job hunting session to more people so we can start collecting some really good data on exactly how hard it is to get a job, and maybe help get a better understanding of what strategies are most effective when looking for a job. If you're interested I'm collecting some feedback here: https://forms.office.com/r/kKk7e6Wvre

Good luck out there.
by gryfft | 2025-09-20 12:38:17+00:00
I really do not believe this was the case before 45. One of the generally-agreed-upon criteria for presidential candidates was that they act "Presidential", which was understood to be a sort of universally unoffensive masculine stereotype? E.g. Before 2016 it would be unthinkable for the President of the United States to openly curse beyond a "TV-PG" way.

As I recall, other Presidents might decry Congress etc. but would almost never out-and-out criticize the direct previous official actions taken by the office of the Presidency.
by badlibrarian | 2025-09-20 12:38:28+00:00
The fact that a site chartered to provide "universal access to all knowledge" is banned at most public library terminals is a start.

Partly because people use web.archive.org to bypass other, more sinister firewall blocks. (And I'm okay with that.)

But non-stop copyright lawsuits don't help. People begging for personal information up to child pornography to be removed and not getting a prompt response from Internet Archive support might also be a source of concern.

The site is funded by its wealthy founder and he also uses it as a vehicle for his pet projects. They don't issue annual reports. They don't have a functioning board. They didn't even consider accepting donations until Brewster realized it helps build reputation.

I certainly don't begrudge anyone who donates but the TV, Movie, and Video Game industry lawsuits are obviously next in line.
by kjellsbells | 2025-09-20 12:39:26+00:00
No, it's unprecedented. You can generally look at previous versions of the whitehouse website using the national archives, eg this one from the Bush 43 era:

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/orders/

Also unprecedented is the use of Executive Orders to govern, as opposed to legislating through Congress, but that is not an entirely Trumpist thing, as Congress has been (take your pick) failing to govern/applying checks and balances for 20+ years now and across multiple administrations.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 12:39:51+00:00
Chicago still suffers from the political machines that were created during mass immigration of Germans and Irish in the 19th century! Immigrants engage in block voting, and political machines arise to whip that vote. That results in corruption, because people’s vote is based on ethnic loyalty and group interests instead of the merits: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/24/illinois-d...
by codingdave | 2025-09-20 12:40:16+00:00
Definitely sounds slower than doing it yourself.

I am falling into a pattern of treating AI coding like a drunk mid-level dev: "I saw those few paragraphs of notes you wrote up on a napkin, and stayed up late Saturday night while drinking and spat out this implementation. you like?"

So I can say to myself, "No, do not like. But the overall gist at least started in the right direction, so I can revise it from here and still be faster than had I done it myself on Monday morning."
by e40 | 2025-09-20 12:41:29+00:00
This is also my hypothesized reason for the disparity in verbal communication skills between the average Americans and Brit.

If you watch a lot of TV from both countries you will see a very obvious difference in verbal communication. Americans (of which I am one) are so much less articulate when it comes English.

The difference is striking on The Graham Norton Show: almost every American guest stands out as less articulate. This is just one example. Another are interviews with regular people. That’s where it really became obvious.
by pavlov | 2025-09-20 12:41:35+00:00
They come up with these rules on a Saturday morning. If you’re a visa holder outside the country and you don’t return to the US by Sunday, you’ll be asked to pay a $100k ransom to re-enter the country where your life and work and children are.

Amazing level of contempt for ordinary foreigners who came into the country legally.

The inhumanity aside, the economy-related quotes from Lutnick and Trump are typically laughable. It’s hard to believe these guys are in charge:

“[Lutnick] added that the revised program would filter out the ‘bottom quartile’ while generating more than $100 billion for the US Treasury. Trump further said that the revenue would be used to reduce national debt and lower taxes.”

The US has a multi-trillion-dollar deficit. Even if they could somehow get a million H1B holders paying this huge sum, the income wouldn’t reduce the national debt because you’re still running a big deficit. It would just slightly slow the current growth of the deficit.
by dgl | 2025-09-20 12:42:50+00:00
Cool!

For the bad apple one; I tried something like that, it works if you're directly querying the authoritative DNS server, but if a cache is involved the records will be re-ordered by randomisation (even in some cases with TTL=0). That's why I ended up doing this as a single very long record, because then it can be cached without worrying about reordering.
by altairprime | 2025-09-20 12:43:24+00:00
> Why you are bringing up sports car is a mystery to me. Every single sports car would make a horrible and painful 500 mile drive.

Incorrect. I drive a modern sports car that has less acceleration than a typical gas SUV or minivan or hybrid Prius. It is extremely comfortable for road trips. I’ve driven several others that are as well. Each stops at a certain horsepower below what’s possible to focus on a more pleasing experience rather than a faster experience, spanning a price range from $25k to $250k. Each can take corners better — that is, can be turned within safe operating control margins at higher longitudinal G forces on roadways where other vehicles are present with tire grip and steering capability maintained through the turn — than any non-sports car, specifically including the Plaid.

There are cheaper and more comfortable sports cars than a Lotus. Now that velocity no longer defines the ‘sports car’ category (and quite seriously. thanks to EVs for that!), the next item at the top of the list of what separates a sports car from other passenger vehicles is cornering, not acceleration. Within that post-EV definition of ‘sports car’, you have the entire spectrum of track vs. comfort tradeoffs available. What you do not have is heavy EVs. Sure, there’s the Roadster, which takes the knee-bruising, wildly-uncomfortable plastic shell interior of a Lotus and glues a battery pack to the bottom, and there’s the electric Ariel Atom if comfort is of even less importance. Acceleration, comfort, cornering: pick two.

(Hypercars are a variation of passenger car that focus on maximizing acceleration and cost; Plaid has some interesting interactions with that category! But the category is also usually delivered at body widths that limit the roads one can use them on, and/or in Plaid’s case at body masses that limit cornering. Land speed records and narrow mountain switchbacks tend to be incompatible targets.)
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-20 12:43:53+00:00
Why do none of the modern phones have a flat back? It's crazy to me that seemingly everyone is jumping on the train to have the camera stick out from the back. I guess the camera lens needs more space, but why not then add some additional material so it's still even? I feel like I'm missing something obvious, do people not put down their phone on flat surfaces or something?
by terminalshort | 2025-09-20 12:44:34+00:00
Why should I care if they were criminals abroad? Just take their money. If they commit a crime here just pull their visa and deport them. No refunds! We don't even have to bear the expense of a trial because pulling a visa doesn't require a criminal conviction.

> Something like 0.5-1% of households in Europe have >$1M in investable/liquid assets.

You say this like it's a bad thing. I welcome immigration from rich Europeans.
by jsheard | 2025-09-20 12:44:54+00:00
They did try bringing back smaller ~5.5" phones, and hardly anybody bought them.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/iphone-12-mini-sales-a-disast...

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopula...

I think the vocal minority is the other way around.