MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hypeatei | 2025-09-22 23:38:53+00:00
> The “right” isn’t a single voice.

I disagree. Trump, IMO, has been a cult-like leader for the GOP since 2016. And he even called for more networks to lose their licenses over "dishonesty" after this incident[0]. Not to mention the multitude of scandals that we've seen like: law firm security clearance revocation as retribution for supporting Trump's opponents, deporting legal residents over their protest against Israel, and various lawsuits he's engaged in as President against media corporations, pollsters, etc.. who disfavour him[1].

> Many voices did not cheer it but called it for what it was

"many" is Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz? To my knowledge, they haven't called out Trump specifically for attacks on the First Amendment, only Brendan Carr. That's fine and dandy, but no one on the right seems willing to take the plunge for some reason on the huge array of issues that cropped up before this FCC threat against ABC.

0: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5514110-trump-ne...

1: https://www.ibanet.org/Trumps-assault-on-the-First-Amendment
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 23:39:08+00:00
"Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, 'Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless.

'What giants?' asked Sancho Panza.

'Those you see over there,' replied his master, 'with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length.'

'Take care, sir,' cried Sancho. 'Those over there are not giants but windmills. Those things that seem to be their arms are sails which, when they are whirled around by the wind, turn the millstone.'"
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-22 23:39:30+00:00
https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

https://www.walkfree.org/news/2025/13th-amendment-loophole-f...

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1210564359/slavery-prison-for...

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...
by jack_pp | 2025-09-22 23:40:31+00:00
ostentatious : "characterized by pretentious or showy display; designed to impress."

You think when people see you get your laptop from a "paper bag" that doesn't create an impression? I'd say a regular laptop bag would be far more inconspicuous. Your solution just makes you seem like you go out of your way to be special. Same as if all your colleagues wore suits and you choose to wear cargo pants and a t-shirt. At least in that case you can argue comfort. This bag isn't as comfortable to carry, not as functional nor as inconspicuous as a regular laptop bag

What bothers me is the hypocrisy not the attention seeking.
by Schnitz | 2025-09-22 23:41:07+00:00
Yes but if after 1 year I’m at 100% battery health then isn’t it reasonable to assume that what I’m doing isn’t significantly harming my battery and I can continue like this for several more years? On previous iPhones where I didn’t use the 80% charge limit battery health dropped mostly linearly over the 3-5 years that I had the phone.
Show HN: Minimalist automatic Prettier formatting plugin for Vite
by kekyo | 2025-09-22 23:41:10+00:00
prettier-max is a very simple Vite plugin that automatically formats your code with Prettier during the build process.

It also includes TypeScript validation to ensure your code is safer before building.

Key features:

* Automatic Prettier formatting on build start * When using TypeScript, post-formatting TypeScript type checking. Additionally, JSDoc deprecation (@deprecated) can also be checked. * All fine-tuning is specified in .prettierrc, .prettierignore and tsconfig.json, ensuring consistency
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-22 23:41:54+00:00
You do not get unlimited IOPS with any technology, but you especially do not get it in AWS, where the machines seem to be? Writing "unlimited" is completely unserious. If it's 67k read/33k write at 4k qd32 or something just say so. Or if you're actually getting full bandwidth to a disk with a 2 core VM (doubt), say 1.5M or whatever.
by leakycap | 2025-09-22 23:43:06+00:00
The study this article is perched on is titled:

Rising temperatures increase added sugar intake disproportionately in disadvantaged groups in the USA

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02398-8

Seems relevant that the original study consists of people struggling with finances (sugar foods are cheaper in the US) and who are exposed to the outdoors
by GregoryMulla | 2025-09-22 23:43:25+00:00
grepctl is a command-line and programmatic utility that enables semantic search across heterogeneous data lakes. By leveraging Google Cloud's advanced AI services and BigQuery's vector search capabilities, grepctl transforms unstructured data into a semantically searchable index. We describe the data ingestion pipeline, multimodal processing architecture, and the multiple interfaces—CLI, Web, Python, and SQL—that make this system both powerful and accessible.
by citizenpaul | 2025-09-22 23:44:08+00:00
This is not rehabilitation. Its a politics long con to get free state money. Anytime someone has no rights and is getting money it goes to their captors. There is no exception. This guy in the link should be on probation at the very least.

Also this headline is yellow AF. "Prisoners are thriving" oh yeah? "THRIVING" In f-ing prison? I bet if you asked them 100% would rather not be doing their full time job in prison. I'd stake my life on it in fact.
by groby_b | 2025-09-22 23:44:13+00:00
Skip the fiddling with prompts, just sandbox so that these commands are not run (via permissions.deny)

In dire cases, use the PreToolUse hook to inspect/intercept (though it's usually not necessary).

Granted, I haven't tried it for huge projects yet, but after doing that my small-medium sized projects all got ported nicely.

(If you must change the prompt, mention PEP723 as well, it seems to have the same effect as showing a shiny trinket to a magpie ;)
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-22 23:44:42+00:00
What are your relatives doing?

If they're like 95% of computer users, they use them to check their email, their FB/IG/etc and browse the web. A Chromebook would suit their needs, but in my experience, so would a modern Linux installation + a browser.

The biggest friction in my experience is UI differences, but that is solved by just mimicking Windows/macOS UI in KDE. Put buttons and components where they expect to find them and it seems to just work, in my experience.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-22 23:44:46+00:00
What we're currently doing is creating a permanent underclass of "criminals" who are viewed as subhuman and used as political fodder. The status quo benefits wealthy people by providing cheap labour and a convenient scapegoat. People who have been incarcerated are impoverished and cut off from careers and social lives, so they can't function outside of prison.

There's lots of evidence that maintaining connection to family, and providing skills training reduces recidivism. You should be asking for studies proving that what we're currently doing is effective or humane.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-22 23:45:06+00:00
>intervention in terms of getting the old guard to at least understand that they don't understand memes

Hey, you're replying to one old guard (the GP's) quirky attempt to understand memes; it's rather harmless in the scheme of memes.

I'd wish memes would be less oblique though (as in, please attack specific insidious myths already!) but that might also be contrary to the (organic? noninterventionist? deus ex?) power of memes.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-22 23:45:26+00:00
It's not doxxing when people publish things under their own names. Even so, doxxing is of course perfectly legal in the sense of uncovering the name of a debater. Not so in publishing the adress or other irrelevant information.

And I hope you understand that there is an enormous difference in person A purchasing a popular car and person B publicly celebrating a gruesome murder.
by mattrobenolt | 2025-09-22 23:45:38+00:00
Unlimited in this context just means you're going to be CPU limited before you hit limits on IOPS. It'd be technically not possible to be bottlenecked on IOPS.

That might not be 100% true, but I've never seen a RDBMS be able to saturate IOPS on a local NVMe. It's some quite specialized software to leverage every ounce of IOPS without being CPU bottlenecked first. Postgres and MySQL are not it.
by defrost | 2025-09-22 23:45:39+00:00
Top private prison companies see profits amid administration's immigration crackdown

~ https://abcnews.go.com/US/top-private-prison-companies-profi...

Prison Contracts: Profits & Politics

Two corporations, GEO Group, Inc. and CoreCivic, Inc. (CCA), manage over half of the private prison contracts in the US. These contracts are extremely lucrative; in the 2017 fiscal year, GEO Group and CoreCivic earned a combined revenue of more than 4 billion dollars. Corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic are invested in mass incarceration because incarceration is profitable for them. Such corporations ensure that correctional facilities are in demand through a variety of techniques, including minimum occupancy clauses and political lobbying efforts.

~ https://sites.tufts.edu/prisondivestment/prison-contracts/
by serbuvlad | 2025-09-22 23:46:04+00:00
Depends. Obviously Tanzania can't do it. Neither could the EU, the tech sector's not big enough. But the US could. And you can always keep it to "geopolitical allies", or at least away from "geopolitical enemies".

> I would argue it is not possible to ever consider the internet 'safe' because you happen to flow through country x, and not country y. Instead, we must keep working on the protocols that we use to try to reduce exposure as much as possible.

Firstly, there are only three ways that I know of to keep metadata (not content, which can simply be encrypted) away from the people that route your packets.

1) Onion routing (Tor). This cannot be used for general purpose multimedia usage because of slow speeds (any slow middle node can make it slow, and the higher you speed you require your nodes to bee, the fewer nodes you have, lowering the security of your network)

2) VPNs. This obviously pushes the problem of trust back to the VPN company. Which is fine, it only needs to be more trustworthy than the ISP. But jurisdiction is a very important topic here, which only makes my point more so.

3) Put everything on one of a few global CDNs. That way, all network traffic is just encrypted requests to Google, Cloudflare, Amazon and Azure servers. This obviously has the problem that the CDN company now know what you're doing.

Unfortunately, the EU doesn't seem interested in private protocols.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-0032...
by themafia | 2025-09-22 23:46:18+00:00
Made that choice 12 years ago. I have no regrets. I was also very lucky. I found a good RV park that had grass yards surrounded by fences with plenty of trees for shade.

The RV itself has been incredibly sturdy and I've only had a few issues. I did have to spend 1 day upgrading the electrical from 30 amp to 50 amp so I could run the A/C and the Water Heater at the same time. I had to replace the city water inlet check valve after 8 years. The spring valve on my toilet broke after 5 years but it was less labor to just install a new one. The mattress got replaced immediately.

Otherwise, if you can get a good park to live in and don't have large pets or children, I can only highly recommend it.
by httpsoverdns | 2025-09-22 23:47:32+00:00
Prisons cost the taxpayers quite a lot of money, yes. But private prisons make enormous profits from the burden you and I shoulder. More than a quarter billion dollars every year, goes into the pockets of private prison operators. Many consider the way that they extract these profits to be cruel and inhumane to those that are supposed to be under their care.

https://legaljournal.princeton.edu/the-economic-impact-of-pr...
by elgenie | 2025-09-22 23:47:50+00:00
This is an incoherent blog post.

1. The concept of "domestic terrorist organization" not a thing under any US law. Further, there exists no such organization in observable reality.

2. "All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations" is … nothing, because that's what federal law enforcement is already charged with.
by RandomBacon | 2025-09-22 23:47:56+00:00
If anyone is thinking about this, please do research into how crappy modern, mass-produced RVs are built.

Lemon Laws do not apply to RVs (except maybe in one state).

Many RVs can easily spend most of a year waiting to get a single item half-assed repaired multiple times while the 1 year warranty runs out and the 20 other things don't get fixed.

There is a relatively-new YouTube channel called Liz Amazing that showcases RV horror stories, including the most recent one where a luxury RV manufacturer didn't properly install VINs on the RV leading to a $600k fine for the user:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zGOANydJURQ
by skydhash | 2025-09-22 23:48:02+00:00
The solution is subpar, even if it's nice to have one. What windows and linux have is hinting for text and good antialiasing on vector elements. They map these those the actual hardware pixels so you won't have wobbly lines.

These don't matter as much when you have high PPI. But they're a lifeline on low PPI displays (and there are a lot of those).
by its-kostya | 2025-09-22 23:48:03+00:00
Wow! This is great news. While no language can make JS interpretation more safe, I am just happy to hear the the codebase will be in something other than C++. Having started my career with C++, I've enjoyed almost every other language more. The issue I had was I didn't _want_ to touch C++ so it is unlikely I would've contributed. But when Swift makes up more of the codebase, I might go and look around.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-22 23:48:14+00:00
How in the world is that whataboutism? You said they were they same, this is a direct retort by enumerating a mere fraction of the enormous list of behaviors enacted by an actual fascist takeover of the US government.

Biden did not handle the Palestine situation appropriately, but the utter audacity to claim the solution is the death of tens of millions of people through the demolition of aid and trade and the total regression of all climate change mitigation and global stability policy by aiding the installment of an outright, self-stated dictator...

I am so utterly tired of this rhetoric. It's like looking at Hitler or Stalin and saying "well... His opponent wasn't Christened by God himself."

Maybe, just maybe, we should aim for "basic decency and operating in the same objective reality to keep the basic tenants of peaceful society operating" before "go to war with a nuclear power over their religious jihad."
by bxparks | 2025-09-22 23:48:17+00:00
> I've actually never worked with a "pure" interpreter in Forth, only compilers of various levels of complexity. Threaded code compilers are (in my experience) by far the most common way to deal with forth -- and they are very much 2-pass. Even when used as an "interpreter," they generate (trivial, usually) machine code, then jump to it.

Lots of good info, thank you. I don't think I will fully understand what you wrote until I implement a Forth interpreter myself.

So a side question: If most Forth "interpreters" are compilers, how does a Forth interpreter work in a Harvard architecture microprocessor (with separate memory space for data and instructions) instead of a Von Neumann architecture with a unified memory layout? In other words, in a Harvard architecture (e.g. AVR microcontrollers), the Forth compiler will live in read-only flash ROM, and it cannot generate machine code into RAM and execute it, because the data memory is not executable.
by g_sch | 2025-09-22 23:48:49+00:00
I think this is equally true of writing. Once you see something written one way, it's very hard to imagine other ways of writing the same thing. The influence of anchoring bias is quite strong.

A strong editor is able to overcome this anchoring bias, imagine alternative approaches to the same problem, and evaluate them against each other. This is not easy and requires experience and practice. I am starting to think that a lot of people who "co-write" with ChatGPT are seriously overestimating their own editing skills.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-22 23:48:53+00:00
What does "local NVMe" mean for you? AFAIK in AWS if you have a 2 core VM you're getting ~3% of a single disk worth of IOPS for their attached storage. Technically NVMe. Not generally what people think when a laptop can do 50x more IO. The minipc I mentioned has 4x the core count and... well who knows how much more IO capacity, but it seems like it should be able to trounce both. Obviously an even more interesting comparison would be... a real server. Why is a database company running benchmarks on something comparable to my low-end phone?

Anyway, saying unlimited is absurd. If you think it's more than you need, say how much it is and say that's more than you need. If you have infinite IOPS why not do the benchmark on a dataset that fits in CPU cache?
by blurbleblurble | 2025-09-22 23:49:31+00:00
I'm probably not understanding your point but did you look at the paper? This explicitly does diffusion in an autoencoded latent space of the autoregressive prediction itself. The starting point is that prediction, but depending on how much noise is used, the diffusion model itself directly contributes to the prediction process to some degree or another.

It should be trivial to make an encoder that has some memory of at least part of the prompt (say the tailing part) and do a diffusion step there too.
by bsder | 2025-09-22 23:50:32+00:00
> Here's the thing. Those first two things don't exist.

You are 100% wrong on this. They exist all the time when I'm doing a hardware task.

I need to test a new chip coming off the fab. I need to get the pins in the right place, the test code up and running, the jig positioned correctly, the test vectors for JTAG generated, etc.

This ... is ... a ... pain ... in ... the ... ass.

It changes every single time for every single chip. It changes for every jig and every JTAG and every new test machine. Nobody gives one iota of damn about the code as it will be completely different for the next revision of this chip. Once I validate that the chip actually powers on and does something sane, the folks who handle the real testing will generate real vectors--but not before.

So, generating that go/no-go code is in the way of everything. And nobody cares about what it looks like because it is going to be thrown out immediately afterward.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-09-22 23:51:23+00:00
Fascinating example of corporate double-speak here!

> My management chain has recently mandated the use of AI during day-to-day work, but also went the extra step to mandate that it make us more productive, too.

Now they're on record as pro-AI while the zeitgeist is all about it, but simultaneously also having plausible deniability if the whole AI thing crumbles to ashes: "we only said to use it if it helped productivity!"

Do you see? They cannot be wrong.
by Jessenet | 2025-09-22 23:51:26+00:00
Most apps in nightlife are built around the same cycle: finding bars, booking tables, securing tickets, or calling a ride to the venue. But there’s a gap nobody seems to talk about: what happens after the event ends.

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Why afterparties?

They already exist. Afterparties are part of nightlife culture everywhere, but they’ve been completely offline and word-of-mouth.

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They connect people. Often, the best conversations and memories happen not in the loud venue but in the smaller, looser gathering that follows.

We realized no platform was helping with this. So we built one.

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by serbuvlad | 2025-09-22 23:51:34+00:00
To me the important thing is the "nefarious" action that is "implied". For B it's firing (I understand that's what's been happening in this case) and for A it's vandalism (as that's what was happening at this time).

And getting fired for expressing a 1A-protected opinion outside of work hours, and getting your car destroyed for purchasing a legal product are pretty comparable.
by jawns | 2025-09-22 23:51:35+00:00
The most troubling aspect of this EO is that Antifa is not an actual organization, nor even a centrally organized movement. It doesn't have a recognized leader, nor does it have a cohesive or consistent ideology. In short, it's not an it.

True, there are groups that have claimed to be anti-fascist and have protested the administration's actions. But much of this activity has been spontaneous rather than organized. The word "Antifa" is more of a derogatory term from the right than a term used by an organized group with countable members.

Because of the fuzziness of what Antifa actually is and who counts as a member, this EO gives the federal government the ability to label people as domestic terrorists using a very broad definition. Given this administration's habit of pushing the bounds of its interpretive authority, I worry that this will have a chilling effect on protected political speech and protest.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-22 23:52:13+00:00
> Because the moment that you plug in mismatched or non standard monitors into a modern linux distro all bets are off.

I do this daily with different displays and have no problems whatsoever. I've probably used over 30 different displays over USB-C and HDMI on Linux and have had no problems.

They were all different sizes, DPIs, panel types, brands, etc.

Meanwhile, I can't even do fractional scaling when using macOS lol
Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?
by mijoharas | 2025-09-22 23:52:37+00:00
I'm sorting out all my backups and just got around to Google photos.

It seems that the options for backup are:

1. Use takeout to get a single backup.

That's it.

There is no way I can tell to get incremental backups. It seems that there used to be[0][1], but some permissions changes on Google's side made them impossible.

Is there really no way to do this?

What alternatives are worth considering for a cloud based photo tool, that actually allows you to backup?

[0] https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations

[1] https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
by woooooo | 2025-09-22 23:54:10+00:00
From your wiki link, the US Army forbade sharing rations and this led to incidents like destroying 20 lbs of cocoa at a time. By early 1946 foreign aid organizations were let in.

They weren't bulldozing entire cities a year after the Nazi government collapsed. It's totally incomparable to the hate and viciousness we see from the Israelis.