MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-11-13 17:18:07+00:00
The federal government wasn't supposed to represent the people though for the vast majority of its function, it was supposed to essentially mediate interstate affairs and provide protection from foreign incursion.

The vast majority of what it does now, which acts on people rather than states, is a result of exceeding the powers constrained in the 10th amendment. The federal government is breaking because it is operating way outside of its design envelope.
by fragmede | 2025-11-13 17:18:10+00:00
It depends on from where, and while JK Rowling, Notch, Rhianna, Jim Simmons, and Taylor Swift's money isn't 100% absolutely clean, because that money comes from somewhere, they also aren't Saudi princes having people eat poop. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg might count. Dolly Parton isn't quite a billionaire in terms of dollars, but is proof that you don't have to be a shitbag to have a lot of money.
by rtkwe | 2025-11-13 17:18:25+00:00
> My opinion is that all SaaS pricing will trend to price of compute as vibe coding + open source alternatives with one-click deployment converge

I think this only happens if AGI actually happens. It can't because the value add of going with a SaaS company instead of a DIY is the support and management that the SaaS company takes on in your place, which requires people.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-13 17:18:25+00:00
It's too bad that homebrew adopted the "Apple Attitude" around dealing with legacy OS versions. I don't recall ever seeing a message while working in Linux saying "Oh, you're using an OLD version of Linux, that's unsupported! You're a Tier-3 Loser and we don't guarantee this is going to work!"

Even developer tools on Windows tend to be fairly graceful about you running Windows 7 or whatever.

Somehow Apple and their entire ecosystem has adopted this "Latest Version Or GTFO" attitude towards users and developers.
by guywithahat | 2025-11-13 17:18:37+00:00
You shouldn't be getting downvoted, you're right. Adhesives can be incredibly strong, and it's common for even larger panels to be glued on. For whatever reason a lot of British cars in particular (range rover, jaguar, etc) use bonded and riveted frames instead of welding for their aluminum framed vehicles, with lots of components just being glued on.
by chriswarbo | 2025-11-13 17:18:40+00:00
I prefer bevels for that. In particular, I grew up with the Amiga's "3-D look" where embossed = interactive and recessed = informative https://archive.org/details/amiga-user-interface-style-guide...

On a similar note, fuck the "flat" designs which make buttons indistinguishable.

I've even seen UIs which do use bevels on buttons; but only when hovered-over! I don't want to scan my pointer across the screen hoping to find something interactive, like I'm struggling on Monkey Island!
by iso1631 | 2025-11-13 17:18:53+00:00
In the 1980s the nationalised railway was considering closing London Marylebone.

Today

The number of passengers on the railway is far ahead of the number in the 80s and 90s.

There is a persistent belief in the UK that privitisation of the railway was bad, yet it led to great things -- the constant Chiltern line investment, massive competition on the west coast mainline (you can walk up to the station and get a train from Manchester to London for £50 return taking about 3h30 -- it cost more than that and took the same time 30 years ago), Marylebone serving 16 million passengers a year pre-covid

There's been bad things too -- companies have failed and the government has chosen to bail the shareholders out rather than letting them fail and simply taking over, standard privatise the profits socialise the losses. Cross Country routes are screwed as it's a series of local services masquerading as a long distance one. Nationalisation doesn't help there.

But when we compare with German and French systems we see just how good the UK system is, despite the insanely cheap commuting (15, even 10p/mile) being subsidised by occasional long distance travellers.
by Charmunk | 2025-11-13 17:18:54+00:00
This user was banned from Hack Club for attempting to stage an "uprising" against the org, and has also engaged in tactics like Wikipedia vandalism. I would not take their word for being "a union organizer with Hack Club staff", although their blog does make several good points (https://place.reeseric.ci/writings/2024-05-05/)
by emptybits | 2025-11-13 17:19:01+00:00
I dodged a bullet. I bought into the original heavy stainless steel exoskeleton concept, which they never delivered on. So they had my deposit. Then it took me a year and a half (!!) to get my deposit back from time of request, a dozen documented follow-ups on phone, email, and in-person at the stealership.

Tesla’s excuse: While they were happy to take a Canadian’s money with fully refundable deposit terms, they had not contemplated actually ever refunding a Canadian. The deposit was made by credit card. The only option offered for refund was a deposit to an American bank account.

It seems like no aspect of the Cybertruck project was done well.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-13 17:19:22+00:00
That isn't how federal rules have historically been made, so I neither disagree nor agree with your misleading statement.

Federal rules are created collaboratively between executive agencies and the subject matter experts relevant to the regulation, then published in the Federal Register for public review and comments, then after feedback has been gathered, considered, and incorporated the final rules are promulgated. This process was created by Congress.
by basch | 2025-11-13 17:19:48+00:00
I just fundamentally do not understand the economics of why everybody is so worried about aging and depopulation. TECHNOLOGY. ROBOTS. We us technology to increase production. We create more with less. Automation and technology should create an environment where less people can care for more more efficiently than ever before. Food production should require less people than ever before. Shipping. And not even just mechanical robots. Sunlight and yeast -> food.

The problem becomes the banks financing private ownership of the robots. Maybe the populations livelihood shouldn't be a profit center. Or in the case of the modern economy, where consistent profit is failure, an wealth extraction growth center.
by telotortium | 2025-11-13 17:19:54+00:00
I don't think I would exactly call these men "monks". It has been pretty normal throughout history for a fairly large proportion of men, especially those lower down the economic ladder, to be permanently single or not marry until pretty late in life. These days, they don't have to work as much to avoid complete destitution or starvation, they're not as likely to die young, and they've largely replaced visiting cheap prostitutes with gooning, but otherwise this is not any unprecedented phenomenon.

It does mean that the economic growth that allowed most men to be a plausible marriage partner in the mid-20th century no longer obtains, which is a bad thing, despite the small comfort of consumer goods being cheap enough to alleviate some of this pain.
by LoganDark | 2025-11-13 17:20:07+00:00
The Cybertruck also bursts into flames, has body panels that fall off, and has an accelerator pedal that can spontaneously disassemble itself into getting jammed in the floored position. (I think they eventually fixed the accelerator pedal thing. Still a super bad look.)

Also, if you get hit by a Cybertruck at 55mph, the sharp angles are going to cut you far deeper than a Mini Cooper would. You're not going to walk away from it either way, but you're probably more likely to perish from the Cybertruck.

(That doesn't stop me from wanting a Cybertruck but that's just because it's cool in other ways. I don't know if I'd want one to be my daily driver, but it is very cool.)
by tracker1 | 2025-11-13 17:20:39+00:00
These are definitely some interesting features, though not sure I'm in any position to take advantage of them at all.

The multi-user editing is kind of cool... there's an ANSI art tool (PabloDraw) that you can run a host session so multiple artists can create text art, and I thought back when I first saw it, that it might be cool to be able for multiple editors to work on a project. I've used some of the collab stuff with VS Code, but haven't done enough to even begin to compare.

Not to mention that in a lot of workplaces, self-hosting or otherwise layers of bureaucracy stand in the way.
by vablings | 2025-11-13 17:20:42+00:00
If it's not price competitive then it is functionally useless. The only reason we have PCB manufacturing in the USA is probably because of DoD requirements and the government doesn't want to risk TS information falling in the hands of foreign adversaries. By extension these manufacturers don't give a toss about your average person, and they have insane MOQ's (10,000+) rather than PCBWay or JLCPCB where you can get MOQ for as low as 5 PCB/PCBA
by in_cahoots | 2025-11-13 17:20:43+00:00
The fact that 8 individuals voted says nothing about how any of them actually felt. It's not a coincidence that none of them are up for reelection soon. This was all done with the blessing of leadership, they were just the sacrificial lambs.

In Nancy Pelosi's memoir there is a story about some red-state Democrat who came out publicly against Pelosi on some issue. Turns out the entire scheme was her idea- make the representative look good to his own state by throwing herself under the bus.

I'm not saying any of this is good or bad, but this is what politics actually is. A bunch of behind the scenes scheming to advance leadership's agenda. Not individual politicians voting for what they think is best.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-13 17:20:53+00:00
What time will X occur on a particular future date? E.g. meetings.

What time will X occur in another time zone?

What time will X occur across multiple time zones that shift at different times?

What time will X occur across multiple time zones where one doesn't shift at all? E.g. meetings with people in Arizona.

How long ago did X occur, across a transition? E.g. correlating Unix time to civil time.

How long is X, where X is an event spanning multiple time zones that shift independently? E.g. plane flights.

Does my cron job need to run intermittently every X hours, or at 24/X particular times every day, or every X hours but managed so that processing doesn't intrude into normal business hours?

Personally, when I'm in the wilderness my circadian rhythm follows the sun. Up at sunrise and asleep not long after sunset. That's not how I work when I'm living in society, so I don't see why animal adaptations are particularly relevant here.

On a social level, the shift causes tremendous levels of stress to people. It essentially creates a day of national jet lag, for no real benefit that I can see.
by DanHulton | 2025-11-13 17:20:59+00:00
There are more situations than just "a 55mph head-on crash" that need to be considered. What about getting clipped at 5mph when the driver is turning, and on a Cybertruck you've now got a brutal gash dug into you. And a camera that covers a full 360 isn't really all that useful when you're making a normal turn and not looking at the camera, but have your normal vision heavily obscured by the massive frame.

It's not perfectly safe. If it were, it would be legal everywhere and it's not.
by btilly | 2025-11-13 17:21:09+00:00
The experience of young men is that they have grown up in a world where they've consistently been told that everything is their fault because they have male privilege. Doubly so if the men have white or Asian ancestry.

Reactions to this vary. The ones described in the article have sought out addictions to escape this reality. Many others, including my son, have essentially said, "Well if this side rejects me, I'll go to the other side." The result is a rapid rise in conservatism, as documented in polls. See https://www.realclearpolling.com/stories/analysis/young-amer... for an example.

It is very easy, particularly for those who are very progressive, to blame the men themselves for these reactions. But it is a natural overreaction to the systematic rejection to a lifetime of being told that they are the problem. "You think I'm the problem? I'll show YOU what it looks like if I BECOME the problem!"

I firmly believe that these problematic behaviors and politics would be greatly softened if our society showed more empathy to these struggling men. But in our polarized society, their choices and beliefs label them as the enemy. Which causes some to double down into toxic extremism like siding with incels, or MGTOW.

Historically when a pendulum swings one way, eventually it swings back. But I'm having trouble how we're going to swing back, when both sides have swung to and then doubled down on polarization.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-13 17:21:13+00:00
I don’t think we can square it exactly. The US isn’t perfect and has deep issues as well. But it just depends on which values you care about. For me, I think despite problems, the US has a more trustworthy system of democracy than most countries. And as far as democratic values like free speech - it’s far above literally any other country in the world in protecting those rights. These things alone make it special - I think it lets the US consider different ideas and change over time.

For Venezuela and Iran specifically - I won’t claim to be an expert on either. But I think neither the Maduro dictatorship nor Iranian theocracy are legitimate. You can read about how Maduro suppressed opposition movements and manipulated elections in many sources (example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro). As for Iran, the current theocratic authoritarian government came into power via a revolution in 1979 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Iran). Sure it replaced a monarchy, but that monarchy was actually quite liberal and photos of Iran from that era show a culture that was very different from today. That was taken away from their people, and replaced with their current rulers’ cultural agenda.

As for specifically the issue of whether people voted for something or not - well the US system and I think all democratic systems that exist today aren’t direct democracies. We give powers to the presidency and congress that let them do a lot of things. That’s by design, but it is still at the service of the people, who have the ability to alter the constitution at any time. If someone (like the president) breaks the law, we have the ability to hold them accountable. But I also know sometimes they get away with crimes. I look at that as minor flaws of an otherwise very functional system.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-13 17:21:37+00:00
I'm well aware of the reasoning for the design -- although I will point out that the notion of an extremely constrained federal government was controversial then, hardly consensus among the founding fathers.

But the design clearly is not fit for where our society is or the direction it is moving, people have much more affiliation with the national entity than with the state entity, and it simply does not make sense to have a pseudo-house of lords with actual political power in the 21st century.
by toast0 | 2025-11-13 17:22:13+00:00
Look, the Mint has one job, to make money. If it's losing money, it doesn't make cents. :P

But, while coins are durable, the Mint has been making billions of pennies every year since the 1950s, and yet retailers have trouble sourcing enough pennies to make change. They do tend not to be recirculated, even if they're not disposable.
by lovecg | 2025-11-13 17:22:28+00:00
Bicameralism appeared very, very early on. There’s a well known case of a missing pig in 1642’s Boston (with a population of less than 2000 at the time) that finally solidified splitting the assembly into two chambers, and that debate has been going on for a while at the time already https://www.americanantiquarian.org/sites/default/files/proc...
by morcus | 2025-11-13 17:23:27+00:00
> are treated as a grammatical error

Perhaps by you, in one particular context (as a grader in an English class?). Your particular practice doesn't create universal truth by fiat.

> I wouldn't have given either of you guys marks on this specific question

This is funny, because you are arbitrarily assuming my goals are whatever yours are here. In the academic context, you're going into a random classroom and handing out grades without even checking what the assignment is.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Apple bought Adobe?
by blindprogrammer | 2025-11-13 17:23:54+00:00
Recently, Apple has been trying to strengthen its services sector as its hardware business slows down. So, why hasn’t Apple bought Adobe yet?

Acquiring Adobe would eliminate one of the most notorious rent-seekers in the industry and make Apple’s service offerings even stronger. Apple can be annoying at times, but when it comes to subscriptions, they’re the complete opposite of Adobe.
by dangus | 2025-11-13 17:23:57+00:00
Those 8 people still needed to agree to change their vote and the responsibility is ultimately on them.

And this is yet another political trope: Democrats are always blamed for everything by everyone including their own voters.

Republicans have majorities in the entire federal government, but the shutdown is the Democrats’ fault because they wanted a bill with healthcare preserved.

The majority party isn’t blamed for failing to promote a consensus because they have R’s next to their names.

If the shutdown never happened and senate democrats just voted yes on the spending bill cutting healthcare they’d be blamed for rolling over to Republican policy and failing to use their filibuster to pressure Republicans to compromise.

When will anything be the GOP’s fault?

Are we forgetting that Donald Trump blocked SNAP disbursements that a court ordered him to restore? The GOP is going above and beyond to shut down the government more than it is legally supposed to be shut down.

The Democrats actually did some political good by putting a spotlight on the GOP’s quiet attempts to demolish social programs, and they pulled back as soon as they found out that our president was willing to starve poor people over the issue, something that a normal human with basic morals would never do.

Next time Democrats are in control and Republicans pull the same government shutdown strategy to block a Democrat policy initiative, it’ll magically be the Democrats’ fault because “they are in charge.”

By the way, zero government shutdowns under Joe Biden.
by fragmede | 2025-11-13 17:24:00+00:00
Yes, but does it need all the ceremony surrounding it? If, every time I saved the file, the changes were analyzed and committed to git, and a useful commit message included, and commits squashed automatically and pushed and tested and tagged (using magic, let's say); if the system existed in the background, seamlessly, how would our interactions with source control and with other developers look?
by Aurornis | 2025-11-13 17:24:01+00:00
Same. I can see how it would look like a major problem if your only perspective was through clickbait headlines and angry comments from people who don’t use Macs anyway, though.

It reminds me of the distant cousin who lives out the countryside and prides themselves on not living in the city because the news tells them it’s a dangerous hellhole where everyone is getting mugged or shot on every street corner. When you immerse yourself in clickbait journalism the other side, whatever that may be, starts to look much worse than reality.
by SchemaFixer2025 | 2025-11-13 17:24:18+00:00
While tools like Fivetran/dbt solve transformation, and new engines like Proton tackle streaming, the industry still has a massive, unaddressed architectural failure in the ingestion layer.

The F.A.F. (Functional Architectural Flaw) is why schema drift happens silently. It's not a bug; it's a structural weakness that makes every single analytics model built on top of it fundamentally untrustworthy.

Until the data is validated at the point of entry, ETL tools are just transforming garbage. We've developed a containment protocol for this specific flaw. It requires low-level architectural intervention, not just another dashboard.

If your models keep breaking for "unknown reasons," F.A.F. is the answer.
by giantg2 | 2025-11-13 17:24:46+00:00
"Political power should absolutely be proportional to population represented though."

That's your opinion. The opinion of people in Wyoming is likely different. What the facts would show if you look into the history of why the Senate was necessary, it would show that smaller states wouldn't have joined, and would be justified in leaving. The real problem is that the scope of decisions at the federal level has gotten ridiculous due to "interstate commerce" and "taxes", so we now operate more at the federal level than the system originally intended.
by sophiabk | 2025-11-13 17:25:02+00:00
Earlier this week I posted about an LLM misclassifying my meeting with my co-founder Emily as childcare-related. The HN discussion that followed was more interesting than the original finding. Initial reactions were skeptical—people thought my prompt or calendar context was biasing the model. Then a commenter ran an A/B test. Same calendar, same prompt, only changed "Emily / Sophia" to "Bob / John." Results:

Female names: "likely a playdate, appointment, or activity for children" Male names: "Meeting/Work - These could be meetings or scheduled appointments"

One initially skeptical commenter: "This is really interesting and way more compelling evidence… I admit I am surprised."
by vablings | 2025-11-13 17:25:09+00:00
Browser behavior and feature sets are mostly uniform apart from some specific semantics. Companies like Google should absolutely be anti-trusted out of owning the Chrome Browser and it should be required that because you are "selling a browser" you must inform each user of the transaction of data

When I say selling, I mean that in the truest form. Google chrome isn't free; you just pay with your data rather than your wallet. You as a consumer should retain the full ownership and access/control of your data and that should be legible in a way you can inspect exactly what's going on. I think it would really wake up a lot of privacy folk to what actually goes on with people's data and things like facebooks Onavo VPN is more visible
by btilly | 2025-11-13 17:25:17+00:00
This message is never going to go over well among those that the young men are reacting against.

The fact that they don't get listened to causes them to double down into extremism.

Our current levels of extremism have put us in danger of sliding into becoming a totalitarian state. That risk will not lessen unless both sides recognize that extremism itself is the danger. Underneath the anger, angry people are often hurt people. Labeling them enemies and hurting them further certainly feels good in the moment. But in the long run it is counterproductive.
by WorldPeas | 2025-11-13 17:25:27+00:00
That didn't even come to mind. Call me Ameri-centric but my mind was on the Native Americans who to this day are the "most nuked" and have not been compensated

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/8/29/a-message-from-...

https://reimaginerpe.org/node/165
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-11-13 17:25:37+00:00
This whole process has shown again that a democracy can only function if everybody or at least most politicians act in good faith and respect the rules . If you constantly ignore boundaries, the whole things falls apart. I honestly have no idea how the US can return to some level of sanity. It just gets worse and worse. Lots of energy is being wasted on posturing and coherent long term policy is basically impossible. I really worry where this is going.