MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by autoexec | 2025-09-20 07:17:57+00:00
Some people have been boycotting target for a while now, but people have also been boycotting walmart for longer. Both companies are still around and have billions (tens and hundreds of billions) in assets. Enough people will keep shopping there to keep them in business. If either company ever does die off it won't be because of a boycott. Even where boycotts have a measurable impact on their earnings it's not as if it matters. Do you think the CEO of either company would have to meaningfully change their lifestyle one bit if the company makes make a few billion less one year? They wouldn't feel it even if they never got another dime from their company again. They'd still be able to live out the rest of their lives without ever worrying about money. They have no reason to fear a boycott.

It doesn't stop me from avoiding shopping at them both, but I know they aren't losing any sleep over it and I don't expect they'll suddenly stop putting profit over everything else.
by sjducb | 2025-09-20 07:18:35+00:00
The original paper discusses this in more detail. There is a well understood phenomenon called sperm paratism where male sperm will take over the egg, instead of sexually reproducing with the egg.

In sexual reproduction the offspring has 50% of its genetic material from both parents. In sperm parasitism the offspring is 100% related to the male and the female’s genetic material has been destroyed.

These inbericus females are allowing the messor male line to reproduce by sperm parisitism to maintain a domesticated messor line that they can then later sexually reproduce with to create hybrid worker ants.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
by tho2i3423o42342 | 2025-09-20 07:19:22+00:00
Yes, but race was also very very central then,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Bellingham_race_riot

(and even with that regime, Italians/Irish/Catholics etc. were discriminated LOL).

Today, US is forced to comply with anti-racial position so it can't quite do what it really wants - to open the doors to white-immigrants but to restrict it to everyone else. This happens in the background with the way the green-card process is structured, but frankly, I think everyone is well-served if we stop this farce and just have racial quotas. US empire is failing, so there's no need to keep up such pretences today.

There's quite a bit of research on how anti-racism was a strategy adopted by the US/West after WW2 to prevent the then freed countries (starting with India ironically) from seeking revenge for the centuries of total devastation and mass violence imposed on them.
by bheadmaster | 2025-09-20 07:19:25+00:00
They still want the YouTube experience to be smooth, to allow users to skip small parts of videos without waiting for it to load every time, to be able to watch multiple videos at the same time, to be able to leave video paused until it loads, etc., which limiting downloading data would hinder. I assume blocking downloads is just not worth destroyinf user experience.
by arunabha | 2025-09-20 07:20:42+00:00
Getting better sleep has been a bit of a personal quest for me. Having said that, much as I would love to get the device, having been bitten by a bunch of subscription locked devices by startups, I have (reluctantly) settled on a policy of not purchasing hardware that can't work independently of the company.

Startups are hard at the best of times, hardware startups are harder. When the company making the hardware inevitably goes under, you are left with a useless piece of plastic that you paid a ton of money upfront for, and then paid a hefty sum every month on top.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-20 07:23:16+00:00
Easy to find:

https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...

https://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-pr...

https://www.aila.org/ice-it-company-pleads-guilty-h-1b-visa-...

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-to-recognize-and...
by incone123 | 2025-09-20 07:24:27+00:00
Much the same as in a strike when workers get mad at scabs. The person right there in front of you is looking out for their own best interests and in those circumstances that is to your detriment. Capital uses immigrant labor partly for simple price reasons and partly because those workers interests really are different from the locals and their lack of local connection makes them a viable slow motion scab workforce.
by diffrinse | 2025-09-20 07:24:46+00:00
>Perhaps if companies could not "just hire from overseas" or "just outsource" there would be a longer term growth strategy that would focus more on the education of the US population (not just training for this or that job).

Except the Heritage Foundation, er, I mean, Trump Administration controls all 3 branches of government and has all the freedom in the world to power a resuscitation of public education in America, except they're not interested in that at all; quite the opposite, they want to further fragment education baselines and make secondary education less desirable.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-20 07:24:46+00:00
This is more or less what I already do with uBlock/uMatrix. By default, I filter out ALL third party content on every website, and manually allow CDNs and other legitimate third party domains. I still use DNS blacklists however so that mobile devices where this can't be easily done benefit from some protection against the most common offenders (Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, etc.)
Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners
by pariharAshwin | 2025-09-20 07:25:03+00:00
I built FocusStream because I was tired of going to YouTube to learn one thing, then getting lost in recommendations and distractions.

With FocusStream, just enter your topic and get only the relevant YouTube videos—no unrelated suggestions or autoplay.

It’s free, minimal. Would love your feedback!

Try it: https://focusstream.media Demo video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fCvOJ6kRs9jn7O_hIGgP6wBuq4f...
by johnisgood | 2025-09-20 07:25:34+00:00
> The Web as a platform is far from ideal, but if it weren't for it I would never been able to switch to Linux as my primary base OS

As my old IT teacher said: you can use the browser on any OS. She also implied it requires no special skills, which is true if you are limited to the browser for the majority of the time.

So... are you saying that you are able to use Linux because all you are using is the browser?
by rwmj | 2025-09-20 07:26:00+00:00
That's cool! Similar is the idea of running a single large VM across multiple hosts. There have been several iterations of that idea, the latest being a presentation at this year's KVM Forum: GiantVM: A Many-to-one Virtualization System Built Atop the QEMU/KVM Hypervisor - Songtao Xue, Xiong Tianlei, Muliang Shou https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2025/
by dotancohen | 2025-09-20 07:26:15+00:00
You have to understand the culture. Looking at Hamas and the PA and assuming that their actions and decisions would be the same as those a Western culture would decide, is incorrect.

The phrase "my brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against my neighbor, my neighbor and I against the neighboring state, the neighboring state and I against the world" is a paraphrase of an Arabic phrase the nicely summarises the relevant culture. I'll show you a clearer example of why the PA and Hamas are united in the front against Israel. You are aware that Shii Hezbollah and Iran are currently aligned with Suni Hamas against Israel, yes? Do you know what Hezbollah will do to Hamas if they ever overcome Israel? The current war in Gaza will look like a picnic. Go look at what is happening right now in Syria if you are unfamiliar, or ISIS, or Google for any other Shii-Sunni conflict.

In English you have the expression "united we stand, divided we fall". The Arabic expression that I mentioned pretty much encompasses that "united we stand" part, without the self-interest of "divided we fall".
by superultra | 2025-09-20 07:27:12+00:00
The current president and vice president of the United States said on multiple media channels that an entire racial demographic of people in a city were eating cats and dogs, and those same people are concerned about the minutia of a late night comedian’s informational and semantic accuracy (who they also claim no one watches, which is probably itself mostly true).

That’s a lot of pearl clutching don’t you think
by skinkestek | 2025-09-20 07:29:20+00:00
I think it is an HN standard:

I am less on HN these days, but as far as I have seen:

Telegram is still judged by its very early releases, still called "unencrypted" while it is about as encrypted as your bank transactions (they definitely aren't e2ee either).

Signal can do what they want including dabbling in crypto currency without being open about it. Signal can also have extremely "interesting" bugs (didn't it at some point send messages to random people?) and glaring security issues (relatively trivial remote code in the desktop client IIRC a few years ago).

Last I checked WhatsApp was supposedly also good since they now use good encryption despite now being owned by Facebook, sending my social graph to them and sending peoples entire backups (including chats with me) unencrypted to Google for "free" (IIRC) backup.

That said these days I am definitely looking for Telegram alternatives.
by ozim | 2025-09-20 07:29:22+00:00
Because learning how to make a proper one requires building your own broken one first.

It might be slightly sped up by reading up on theory and past experiences of others.

I am around mid life and I see how I can tell people stuff, I can point people to resources but they still won’t learn until they hit the problem themselves and put their mind into figuring it out.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-20 07:29:24+00:00
The ozone layer wasn't as weak as it is now. We receive more radiation from the sun at the surface than we did before CFCs.

In the past, people, in general, remained in the general vicinity of where they were born. Different skin types adapted to different amounts of sunlight.

We also didn't have the knowledge to link death and disease with their actual causes.

That said, in the past, people used variety of materials for sunscreen without the knowledge that "too much radiation bad". Mud/clay/etc seems to be something multiple cultures over time used. In cultures where working in the sun is common, wearing long clothes that blocks the sun is also a thing, and works like sunscreen.

Given that last point, I think baking in the sun while nearly naked to the point of developing disease is a relatively recent cultural thing, but that's just a guess.
by anonzzzies | 2025-09-20 07:29:52+00:00
But doing whatever you want is very personal ; for some people that's driving a different Lambo every day of the week, sitting on a yacht with staff, owning private jets. For others it's travelling and doing whatever they want. For others it's staying home and just having a nice life. I would say if what you consider a good life you can do that until you perish, you are rich.

My best friend lives of about E500/mo; hates travelling (so never does) and has been the happiest person I know since he moved from north EU to south. Sold his company before the move for a few 100k and as such can do what he wants the rest of his life. Most people would not consider him rich ; quite the opposite, but most people want 'stuff' and travel, both of which are usually costly.
by superultra | 2025-09-20 07:30:53+00:00
I think the problem no one on either side wants to admit is that these shooters rarely fall into either side. They’re mentally unstable people who are attracted to fringe crazy ideas, regardless of the political stripes.

Their behavior indicts all of us Americans.

But of course admitting that and doing something about it means working together, which is a much harder solution than pointing fingers at the other side and doing little else.
by rob74 | 2025-09-20 07:32:25+00:00
I suspect that in the case of tech companies, the end result of this won't be more jobs going to Americans, it will be either remote workers in low wage countries or outsourcing to low wage countries. Which, in the long term, might lead to fewer tech jobs in the US overall.

Still, I can't help but feel a little bit of glee at all the tech companies who did their best to suck up to Trump, and now he stabs them in the back.
by glenngillen | 2025-09-20 07:32:48+00:00
Admittedly my frame of reference here is now a decade ago when I was living in California. But we would routinely hire people on H1B, and it most definitely wasn't because we thought it was a cost saving. Between the >=$20K in legal fees, similar budget for relocation expenses to bring someone into the country, and having to pay them as a foreign contractor for anything up to 10 months while we wait for the applications to re-open for the year. And then pay them the same as any local talent we hand on the team.

Hiring local people was preferable in every way. But the market was hot and it was seemingly almost impossible to actually do that.
by Towaway69 | 2025-09-20 07:33:47+00:00
Is the title to be taken seriously or is “AI Overlords” become some type of well-meaning indication of the positivity of having overlords?

I thought AI can do anything, why do I have to help it if it’s so smart and powerful and intelligent and useful? Is it really just a complex computer program that is actually trained to do very narrowly defined activities?
by FreakLegion | 2025-09-20 07:34:14+00:00
> If you think all that's missing

They said it's necessary, not sufficient.

I have a couple dozen open roles right now, at a 50-person company. Each posting gets thousands of applications. Most are fakes, or AI-generated, or AI-generated fakes. Realistically, we're going to respond to 1%, maybe 2% of them, because again, 50-person team. Half the time, you get someone named Ralph McGuinness on for a quick code screen and they have a thick Mandarin accent or something equivalently implausible.

The best first filter we have at the moment is to programmatically toss out any resume that doesn't have a LinkedIn, that has a hallucinated LinkedIn that doesn't resolve, that resolves to a name that doesn't match the resume, that has no connections or history, etc.

It's an absurd state of play that hurts those of us trying to hire and those of you trying to get hired, but also a trivial hurdle for you to clear, so stop arguing and just do it.
by autoexec | 2025-09-20 07:35:11+00:00
Many Americans would love to do this today, but every apartment I've rented in the last 15 years has strict rules against drying clothes outside along with other restrictions on what you're allowed to place or store on patios and balconies there. Most of the rules seem to be in place purely so that the complex/tower doesn't look "poor" or "trashy"
by spwa4 | 2025-09-20 07:35:45+00:00
Why? If there's one positive it's that global warming is giving us vastly increased amounts of farmland, and in the north and the south (the most productive countries on the planet) Worldwide even.

This seems to me unlikely to lead to famine. We'll need to adapt, because farmland is moving, but we'll have a lot more food, not less.
by ipnon | 2025-09-20 07:36:20+00:00
LiveView already has local first state. The magic in LiveView is how it uses WebSocket connections to the client to keep the client state in sync with the server state. This is why you just need to update the socket and the rest just works.

If you want to have some state that only exists on the server, then you simply don’t assign that data to the socket.
by Barbing | 2025-09-20 07:36:51+00:00
Right!

I very rarely download YouTube videos but simply having done it a few times over the years, and even watching the text fly by in the terminal with yt-dlp, everything you’ve said is obvious.

Screen recording indeed might fail—Apple lets devs block it, so even screen recording the iPhone Mirroring app can result in an all-black recording.

How long until YouTube only plays on authorized devices with screens optimized for anti-camera recording? Silver lining, could birth a new creative industry of storytelling, like courtroom sketch artists with more Mr. Beast.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-20 07:36:52+00:00
Thanks. We're used to not getting funding. It's part of the journey as a start-up and in research.

The build-up isn't scarring. It's misfolded proteins in the brain which stick in places they shouldn't and the glymphatic system which flushes cerebrospinal fluid through the brain removes the build-up of these protiens.

If you have poor sleep or lack of sleep, these proteins don't get removed and that build-up interferes and disrupts the firing of neurons.

Alzheimer's drugs are able to help remove the build-up, but unfortunately are not able to repair the damage. That's why they only slow progression of the disease, not treat it.

If slow-wave enhancement lives up to the potential, it would likely also only be preventative. It would be surprising if it was able to treat AD.

If you want to know more, a comment in this post has what I think may be the most thorough breakdown of AD. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h...
by mgh95 | 2025-09-20 07:39:00+00:00
Ok. I think you drink the coolaid of China far too much. The problem with Chinas production has much more to do with the fact it has a substantial imbalance in consumption and production. This is what is at the root of why the involution crackdown has by in large failed to yield results (.4% contraction CPI; 2.9% PPI); countries are increasingly shutting out the state sponsored production endorsed by the CPC in favor of domestic or better balanced trade partners.

Without the large population not to perform "dirty jobs" but to participate in Chinese society to generate domestic demand, it is unlikely that China will continue to require ongoing stimulus just to keep the economic model functioning. See this (https://www.omfif.org/2025/03/china-has-just-raised-its-debt...) regarding the increase in debt held by China and its localities.

This need for "permastimulus" just to keep the economic model working is the problem: China needs to be rebalancing its economy away from production and into consumption. Unfortunately, a declining population also has declining consumption.
by mcv | 2025-09-20 07:40:43+00:00
Why not use the popular spigot server? I use it myself, but I've got to admit I have no idea whether it's based on Mojang code or a reimplementation. Spigot supports the newest Minecraft editions, and requires a MS account, but I don't download it from Microsoft.

So is it based on the original or is it a reimplementation? It's based on CraftBukkit about which their site says:

> CraftBukkit is a modified version of the Vanilla Minecraft Server which allows it to run Bukkit plugins. The main goal of this project is to produce a server as close to Vanilla as possible,

So it's based on the original code? But it's also said to be open source. I'm confused.

Being able to play without a Microsoft account does appeal to me; the forced migration from Mojang accounts to Microsoft's shitty account system still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Also, my son can't play with his friends because they all have Bedrock while we of course have Java.
by LilBytes | 2025-09-20 07:40:51+00:00
Exactly. If you can avoid having to do _any_ patches except those that have a security purpose you've already reduced your risk to supply chain attacks considerably.

This isn't trivial to organise though since semver by it's self doesn't denote when a patch is security related or not. Of course, you can always review the release notes but this is time consuming, and doesn't scale well when a product grows either in size of code base or community support.

This is where there's a fairly natural place for SAST (E.g., Semgrep, Snyk (many more but these are the two I've used the most, in no particular order)), and supply chain scans fall in place, but they're prohibitively expensive.

There is a lot of open source tooling out there that can achieve the same too of course.

I've found there's a considerable linear climb with overheads/TOIL and the larger the number of open source tools you commit to create a security baseline. Unfortunately, this realistically means most companies where time is scarcer than money, means more money shifts into closed source products like those I listed, rather than those ran by open source products/companies.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-09-20 07:41:32+00:00
Of course, that's pretty much how the current administration thinks, see also the "Gold card visa" (1).

Specifically, the thinking "Money coming to us is desirable, therefor people who give us lots of money are by definition not undesirable people".

Well, at least dollars are more easily quantified than ethics.

1)

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-gold-card-vis...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-...
by rdrworld | 2025-09-20 07:41:45+00:00
Any good lists of applications for downloading / hosting a local service also?

https://github.com/DialmasterOrg/Youtarr and https://github.com/Jocomol/newsboat_video_downloader were already mentioned in the comments, I think there's a few different apps that support playback, but I've never tried any of them.
by raffraffraff | 2025-09-20 07:42:22+00:00
Today, on the left (which is generally thought to be more "moral" than the right) you hear slogans like "no debate" alarmingly frequently. One of their main methods of dealing with opposition is "cancellation" of persons and disruption of debates and talks. But we don't all think of new left as fascists. But their methods today actively deny others the right to participate fully. We have the paradox of intolerance running right through society right to left, and I would even argue that the left may use these methods more than the right. When you have cultural dominance (eg: the way the Catholic church did in Ireland up until the 1990s) you can simply claim that anyone who opposed you is evil, and the majority agree, and deny them platform. Today, where I live, all but the most right wing news outlet will dare to point out "certain truths". This is terrible. It makes one side immune to criticism. The left no longer have the capacity to be self critical. It's a bubble with a purity spiral running down the middle of it, the ostracism slide that ends outside the bubble in a bin. I say this as a traditionally left wing (socially and fiscally) person who is now completely disillusioned with the left and politically homeless.
by reverius42 | 2025-09-20 07:44:32+00:00
Housing affordability was better from 2009-2021 than now. https://www.atlantafed.org/research/data-and-tools/home-owne...

Total national health expenditures have grown much faster than population growth: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

And yet, over the same time period, life expectancy hasn't gone up that much: https://datacommons.org/tools/visualization#visType%3Dtimeli...
by roenxi | 2025-09-20 07:45:24+00:00
Is this you volunteering to do the port? I'm guessing you're not going to learn how to do this new thing. The real irony here is that they are actually implementing your suggestion - they're potentially going to hire some random 22yo who's response to porting XMonad to Wayland is "hell yeah!". Although realistically they'll probably get someone a bit more experienced.

They don't seem to be saying they can't do this or that it is some insurmountable technical challenge. They're saying that they aren't going to do it themselves and aren't giving reasons.
by RaSoJo | 2025-09-20 07:45:29+00:00
I switched from Chrome to Brave six months ago.

Why can’t Alphabet just leave Chrome alone? They already have so many cash cows. Stuffing Chrome with AI gimmicks makes it clunky and unusable — and when that happens, people will just migrate to other browsers. Alphabet should revisit its own history and remember the great migration from Internet Explorer to Chrome.