MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-10-28 23:54:13+00:00
>but the Star Wars "Force" is literally magic

Sure, the Jedi are "magic." But that's one magic element in a universe that's otherwise grounded in science fiction elements. Aliens. Spaceships. Robots. I'll see you the Jedi and raise you Trelane, the Q, the Douwd, the Traveller and a dozen other aliens that are no less "magic." Or in the case of the Q, far more magic than the Jedi.

The Jedi are telepaths (which Trek also has) and telekinetics (which Trek also has) and can predict the future (which exists in Trek.)

And they connect to a mystical all-encompassing energy force... which, ok. Trek doesn't have that. Oh wait they do, it's called "subspace."

And the entire Trek universe runs on fantastical nonsense. None of the physics is actual physics, it's subspace and technobabble. The galaxy is surrounded by a mystical barrier and God lives in the middle of it. There are wild magic fields in space that can do literally anything, and one has a face. You can travel back in time if you go around the sun fast enough like Superman. If Star Trek is science fiction, where is the science?

To say one is fantasy and the other isn't is simply a matter of taste.

>and the heroes are fighting an Emperor who is very little different from someone like Sauron

If your complaint is that Star Trek doesn't feature a single, universal villain... fair, but that isn't a fantasy only thing, science fiction has plenty of Big Bad Evil Guys. If it's that Star Wars' villains are just broad caricatures MF the Klingons are literally Space Mongols. Romulans are Space Romans. Cardassians are Space Nazis. Ferengi are Space Jews. The Borg Queen is basically Sexy Sauron.

You could take the spaceships away from Star Trek and map many Star Trek races to a common fantasy race archetype. Vulcans are elves, Romulans are Dark Elves, Klingons are Orcs, Ferengi are Dwarves or Goblins, Cardassians are snake people from the desert and the Borg are insect people.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-28 23:54:34+00:00
That would entirely depend on the coverage I could get and how it compared to private. If Medicare is changed over the next few decades to look more like Medicare Advantage, aka Plan C, you couldn't pay me to deal with that.

Edit: its worth noting that your question for whether I'd take medicare is a separate issue from my original point. If the existence of Medicare as it is today was on the ballot, I would vote to get rid or drastically change it. If the program exists regardless of my opinions of it, my choice to take benefits from it is entirely a question of means and comparative benefits of all the options.
by supertrope | 2025-10-28 23:54:36+00:00
Warning! As grotesque as health insurance companies are, in theory they are obligated to pay valid claims under your policy. Health sharing ministries can exercise discretion to deny payment because they disagree with your lifestyle choices. Or for any reason or no reason given at all. They are subject to far fewer regulations and audits and in some extreme cases the administrators just pocketed the money.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-28 23:54:40+00:00
Yep.. it was the canonical header (not the fault of your submission, it's wrong on the blog and will effected SEO):

<link rel="canonical" href="http://0.0.0.0:4000/draft-blog/2025/10/26/history-of-lambda-syntax.html" />

.. that the blog is called draft-blog doesn't help either.
by yupyupyups | 2025-10-28 23:55:14+00:00
There is a lot of money to be made in locking down Android and iOS. We should be surprised if companies like Google and Apple are not spreading lies and trying to decieve the public.

No morals can be expected from publically traded companies. Finding a "PR firm" willing to do the lowly dirty job of going on HackerNews, MacRumors or wherever people are and blatantly lie and make stuff up shouldn't be too hard either, I can imagine.
by nine_k | 2025-10-28 23:55:43+00:00
For indexes, I completely agree!

If I were to add support for larger amount of keys, I probably would introduce two versions of the data structure, with 16-bit and 32-bit indexing. And, maybe, 8-bit indexing for tiny amounts of keys. But that would definitely complicate the design, and should be done only when there's a real need.

Every such decision is a trade-off; I think yours is fine.
by todchavez | 2025-10-28 23:56:41+00:00
This open letter is going around at Amazon, and it seems super important. The cognitive dissonance between the way the tech barons are propping up AI vs the employees ground reality is really intense. It feels like we’re being burnt from both ends as we are expected to produce so much more with supposed AI assistance as we’re basically training our replacements. Morale for folks has tanked across the company. Not to mention the climate impact - It feels like the big tech companies have pretty much set their climate plans on fire in order to race each other for AI dominance. It also seems like the public opinion of AI is kind of at an inflection point, so if we as workers call out the bubble, I think we might be able to move the needle. What do y’all think?
by bko | 2025-10-28 23:56:58+00:00
US person here.

I have insurance through my employer as do most Americans. And most are happy with their insurance. I can go to the doctor often same day, I can see a specialist and pay just a co-pay of between $25-50.

I had some bills but my out of pocket max is something like $5k, which I have saved up. The benefits of living in the US is that the same kind of work (engineer) pays about 3x as much here and you pay a lot less taxes (save many multiples of my out of pocket max).

So I prefer to live in a vibrant economy and take care of my own insurance.
by fn-mote | 2025-10-28 23:57:21+00:00
> almost nobody actually pays those mind-blowing $60K/year tuition prices

This is not true at all.()

You quote tuition at the school with the highest endowment in the country. The college cost situation is absolutely still high at the less endowed second tier, and “ordinary” (non-generational wealth, two full time earner) families are paying full price.

() Except in the sense that “almost nobody” goes to any of these schools, comparing to the 50k enrollment at large public institutions.
by willio58 | 2025-10-28 23:57:27+00:00
The problems with the electoral system are just one symptom of a deeper issue: unlimited political donations. The wealthiest individuals in the world can funnel endless money to politicians through Super PACs, and that influence shapes policy more than an individual voter ever could.

Even if we magically fixed the electoral system tomorrow, the results would be superficial. Sure, we might see more Democrats in office—but if they’re still beholden to massive, uncapped donations, how can we expect them to enact real, meaningful change?

This problem with money in politics is not something that only affects one party. It's a systematic issue that needs regulation. Without real regulation on money in politics, everything else is a band-aid on an open and festering wound.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-28 23:57:36+00:00
You mean... the economy with the highest developer salaries on the planet?[1]

Or the one that has the world's largest startup economy? Or the one that has almost all of the world's top 20 companies by market cap?

[1]https://codesubmit.io/blog/software-engineer-salary-by-count...
by whatever1 | 2025-10-28 23:57:40+00:00
Neither France nor Germany have access to the high-risk capital that American startups enjoy.

Layoff protections and entrepreneurship in this case have a correlation but not a causation relationship.

If your thesis was correct startups would thrive in States with absolutely zero protections, yet the most successful tech startups are in the most “stringent” (for American standards) State. California.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-28 23:57:43+00:00
Yep Town & Country, I used to just ignore it out of bias, one of those yuppy grocery stores, but it turned out to be way better than QFC, and its not like they do salad bars here like Ralph's does in LA.

Tipping is crazy in Ballard, and the food options aren't that great anyways. If we drive, we just go to Bellevue or even Edmonds to eat (my wife is Chinese).
by sipofwater | 2025-10-28 23:58:03+00:00
ADB using two Android smartphones and Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app):

* Search for "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2" "adb tcpip 5555" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

* Search for "termux-adb" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)
by xp84 | 2025-10-28 23:58:39+00:00
> protection racket

It actually doesn't! Plenty of people never fly at all and many fly incredibly rarely. The Precheck and GE programs cost money to administer as they have to do background checks and conduct interviews. This actually accomplishes actual security goals, since it allows them to flag risky behavior and examine it.

Who benefits from these programs? Primarily heavy travelers (and optimizers like me who value their time saved more than the $24 a year). These programs also actually make everything better for everyone since I'm no longer taking up a space in the slower-moving, shoes-off line, and TSA/CBP get an actual background check done on me.

The way it is now, heavy travelers who can easily afford it, pay the full costs of the program.

Would you rather:

1. Precheck is free and paid for by all taxpayers even though a lot of people will never bother to enroll (you have to assume -- the cost is so low today that it can't be a barrier for almost anyone who can afford to fly, so it seems a ton of people can't be bothered to follow simple instructions and go get fingerprinted at Staples)

2. Precheck is eliminated and everyone has to go back to the dumb liquids-out, shoes-off thing

3. Precheck is eliminated and we just treat everyone like the Precheck people today, without doing any background checks. Basically like pre-9/11.
by dollylambda | 2025-10-28 23:58:54+00:00
Talk about skipping a `1.0` release. Is anyone else scratching their heads about this? Here https://hg.sr.ht/~icefox/oorandom/rev/46ca789e6bb68cfc5d838f... the project jumps from a 0.1.0 release to 9.3.0.
by teo_zero | 2025-10-28 23:59:04+00:00
I like the concept. I don't buy all the author's personal choices, though.

I think the highlighting should serve 2 purposes: 1. help you parse the code, and 2. put more or less emphasis on some elements.

Comments have a primary role when reading someone's code, so they deserve a distinguished color by virtue of point 2 above.

Strings are sometimes difficult to parse correctly because the symbol to start them is the same to end them, so item 1 above applies.

And variable definitions have the tendency of hiding in plain sight, despite being crucial to understand a piece of code, so they match both criteria 1 and 2.

But numbers, booleans and constants can't be possibly mistaken for anything else, nor do they need to stand out more than the rest, so why highlighting them?

Deemphasizing punctuation might be a good idea: I'd probably reserve the same treatment to some common boilerplates, too, like #include in C/C++, #[derive] in Rust, etc.

Finally many languages make it hard to tell types and variables apart. Therefore I'd argue that types deserve their own coloring, obeying reason 1 above.

To add a final nitpick, the two "use" statements in the example define two symbols, "FilterType" and "Error". I think only these two words should be highlighted in blue, not the rest of the hierarchy.
by supertrope | 2025-10-29 00:00:17+00:00
In a bazaar you can examine the fruit or rug yourself.

An average person cannot call up $750K in a year to pay for cancer treatment. But for-profit businesses (and any organization for that matter) treat you much better if keep the carrot of another payment in front of their face. If you've forked over the whole wad of cash upfront they immediately de-prioritize keeping you satisfied.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-29 00:02:23+00:00
> The US has for a western country, relaxed standards for immigration

My comments will only concern skilled migration, e.g., you are a computer programmer or something STEM'ish and you want to work in a different country.

First, let's start with the "Anglo-American sphere" (my term): US/UK/CA/AU/NZ. Of those five, US is the hardest to get a working visa for skilled individuals. The rest are "points-based" system where you can apply for a working visa even before you have a job (95% sure about this -- pls correct if wrong). They are much more friendly. Also, the rules are simpler, clearer, and applied more consistently.

I know much less about other OECD-level (and G7-level) nations, but anecdotally, overall, the process is much more straight forward compared to the US. What the rules say, the rules do. Not so much in the US where they randomly delay or reject applicants without good reason. (Also: Google to find horror stories of what happens when you lose your job in US as a foreigner who does not have PR. Fucking nitemare.) You hear this much less in (to name a few): Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland. (I don't hear as much about Portugal, Spain, and Italy, but quality of life looks awesome!) All of those countries are wealthy, highly developed and have excellent quality of life. All of them welcome skilled migration and have clear programmes (you can Google about them) to get a working visa. Again, strictly anecdotal: The US immigration system is much more adversarial compared to all of the other countries that I mentioned. Oh, and I forgot to add Japan: After PM Abe changed the rules, it is way easier these days to get a skilled worker visa in Japan.

Last point:

> European nations

I see this over and over again on HN. I want to repeat: Europe is enormous -- like continent-sized -- with ~50 countries. It doesn't say much to say "in Europe". Are we talking about Belarus, Albania, Germany, or Italy? All of them are culturally and economically much more different than anything in the US (comparing US states / regions). Immigration/healthcare/public school/public safety/retirement all looks very different in those nations. Advice: It's better to say something like: "the Nordics" or "Benelux" or "GBR/FRA/GER/ITA" (the four economic giants of Europe). The best comments are when people comment about specific European nations, like "I lived & worked in Belgium for 7 years and this happened."
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-29 00:02:53+00:00
That's true to an extent - LLMs are trained on an abstraction of the world (as are we in a way, through our senses, and we necessarily use a sort of narrative in order to make sense of the quadrillions of photons coming up us) - but it's not quite as severe a problem as the simplified view seems to present.

LLMs distill their universe down to trillions of parameters, and approach structure through multi-dimensional relationships between these parameters.

Through doing so, they break through to deeper emergent structure (the "magic" of large models). To some extent, the narrative elements of their universe will be mapped out independently from the other parameters, and since the models are trained on so much narrative, they have a lot of data points on narrative itself. So to some extent they can net it out. Not totally, and what remains after stripping much of it out would be a fuzzy view of reality since a lot of the structured information that we are feeding in has narrative components.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-29 00:02:57+00:00
For 99% of my use cases I’ll just use ChatGPT or Gemini due to convenience. But if you want something with a specific style, Flux LoRAs are much better, in which case I’ll boot up the old 4090.

The economics 1000% do not justify me owning a GPU to do this. I just happen to own one.
by MattyRad | 2025-10-29 00:03:41+00:00
From a quick Google query, it says that ~%90 of Americans have health insurance (which seems higher to me than I'd expected). I'd be very interested in knowing the number of uninsured, negligent/nefarious, and exorbitant invoices that are issued as a percentage of all invoices, for the purpose of determining the scale of criminality with respect to your description.
by ilamont | 2025-10-29 00:03:49+00:00
We purchased a low-end LG OLED TV in 2022. A few months ago it started inserting LG text ads with a little bullseye at the bottom of the screen while watching OTA programs or using streaming apps. It wasn't clear how to remove them without stopping the programming or accidentally triggering some other ad display, which I didn't want to do. So the text ads sat there for 15 or 20 seconds before fading away.

It's the last LG TV we will ever buy.
by hatthew | 2025-10-29 00:03:57+00:00
Similar anecdote, in the past week there have been two separate games that I wanted to try out, and both were nonfunctional on linux. One had a completely black screen, and the other ignored all mouse/keyboard input. For each of them I spent 15 minutes tinkering with winecfg, installing packages, googling error messages, etc. Eventually I gave up and booted back into windows where they worked perfectly.
Show HN: Created a Live Anime Channel, no server necessary
by LandOfMightDev | 2025-10-29 00:04:22+00:00
In short, I created an angular application that parses a list of video urls into a json structure with the duration of each video and the position in the playlist. whenever a person loads the channel, it calculates the video that should be playing. So I just take the route (channel name), and embedded it into an html site, threw in a chatango embed chat just for good measure! No server needed and completely live !
by femto | 2025-10-29 00:04:37+00:00
There's a convenience store in Sydney, which has a full blown A320 flight simulator in the back, behind all the shelves of snacks. The owner of the store is a migrant to Australia, who is (was?) waiting for his overseas aircraft maintenance engineer qualifications to be locally recognised. He's turned the simulator into part of his business.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/from-cairo-international...

https://sydneyflightsimulator.com.au/

Edit: Based on the street address, it might have moved out of the convenience store into its own premises since the article was written?

Further edit: Sadly, it seems as if the owner, Ahmed Abdelwahed, might have been deported. Hopefully the deportation never went ahead, or he made it back into Australia on another try.

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/arabic/en/podcast-episode/br...
by ordu | 2025-10-29 00:05:05+00:00
Slide-rule is a sort of "trope". If you need to signal to readers or your book or watchers of your movie that some character has STEM education, you give them a slide-rule. There are other ways to do this, you can make them wear white coats. White coat is more popular though, if the author used white coats, I'm sure you'd be able to get it.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-29 00:05:09+00:00
No, the advantage is that it would allow you to optimize for circadian rhythm without having huge disruptions twice a year.

I fully acknowledge that there would be some major disadvantages and challenges, but they mostly strike me as logistical and engineering challenges, rather than technological limitations. My car, which is not connected to the internet, knows when it's been a day, because it gives me time in AM and PM. There's no reason it couldn't count days and automatically adjust time based on this. Same for thermostats, microwaves, ovens, TVs, etc.
Show HN: OXH AI – Open-Source AI Crypto Signal Platform with Real-Time Analysis
by oxhai | 2025-10-29 00:05:14+00:00
Hi HN!

I built OXH AI - an AI-powered cryptocurrency signal platform that generates real-time trading signals using technical analysis and machine learning.

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Why I built this: Most crypto signal platforms are either: 1. Black boxes with no transparency 2. Manual signals from "gurus" (often wrong) 3. Expensive ($100-500/month)

I wanted something transparent, AI-driven, and affordable.

Tech Stack: - Frontend: React + TypeScript + Vite - Backend: Node.js + Express + TypeScript - Database: Supabase (PostgreSQL) - AI: OpenAI GPT-4 for market analysis - Real-time: WebSocket for live updates - APIs: Binance, Bybit, OKX for price data

Interesting Technical Challenges: 1. Race Condition Prevention: Implemented optimistic locking for Telegram auto-posting to prevent duplicate messages 2. Schema.org Optimization: Added LocalBusiness + Organization markup for better Google indexing 3. Rate Limiting: Built custom rate limiter that handles 50K+ API calls/day 4. Real-time Updates: WebSocket connections for live price & signal updates

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Open to feedback and questions! What features would you find useful?
by westurner | 2025-10-29 00:05:16+00:00
EduBlocks by Anaconda is a block-based Python coding environment also built on google/blockly.

EduBlocks docs > Raspberry Pi Setup: https://docs.edublocks.org/docs/raspberry-pi-setup

edublocks-link: https://github.com/edublocks/edublocks-link :

> Helper application to enable code from EduBlocks to run on Raspberry Pi's
by kemitchell | 2025-10-29 00:05:33+00:00
In my experience, most people underestimate what's negotiable across the board. Especially those making enough to do most of their business with mass-market operations, like big-box stores and retail service providers, that profit by doing many, many standardized transactions every day, with minimal discretion or even personal involvement.

Below that, lots of haggling and informal trade often help people get by. The costs of that process can be another burden on the poor. At the high end, it's worth involving people with discretion on the sell side. Additionally, sales are often one-off and customized. They may also bundle a bunch of different items and benefits without clear line-item breakdowns.

When hiring a lawyer, I'd nearly always recommend getting terms down in a written and signed engagement letter before work starts. That is very much a negotiation, but it's fine to ask questions and comparison shop.

If you're starting with a call, it's perfectly normal to start by asking whether initial consultation will be billed or not. If it will be, ask the rate. If it won't be, expect some limits on what can be discussed. The best lawyers I know aren't cheap or easily tricked into giving free advice on consultation calls with speedrunners, but they are up-front about what they charge for and how.

Disclosure: Am lawyer. Negotiate professionally.