MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pessimizer | 2025-11-09 00:10:36+00:00
If the Democrats are smart, they'll keep the shutdown going until Trump folds, keep it going until the midterms if they have to. It's the first thing they're doing that people like, they blame Trump for all the misery.

He's jumping in front of the bullet by trying to stop SNAP under a goofy theory that Democrats actually care if people go hungry. Many Republicans have this strange but deeply-held crazy belief that Democrats are motivated by ideology rather than the same money that they themselves are motivated by, so they always think threatening to cut the baby in half will work.

And he's busy building a ballroom. People are really loving flights getting cancelled and more expensive, hard to blame that on immigrant fent terrorist antifa; and if there's anything that middle-class people hate, it's minor inconvenience.

Dems don't have to say anything (in fact it's better if they don't say anything) or do anything. Just watch the poll numbers go up and the donations from health insurers go up. All rational people agree that Obamacare sucks. But the Republicans are fighting to make it worse.
by tptacek | 2025-11-09 00:10:59+00:00
She doesn't represent the district. She picked it off a map, while living in (I think?) DC, hoping to replicate what AOC had done in New York --- knocking off a geriatric institutional Dem in a safe blue district. What really got me was that she moved to Chicago to run for CD9, and didn't even move to the district --- she moved to the Gold Coast (IIRC?), far outside CD9 (which is Rogers Park, Evanston, and the near north suburbs).

There's a word for this (carpetbagging).

Then more broadly there's the question of what a Representative is for. Is it "designated protester for the district"? If so, she's the leading contender. It's my belief that "most effective on-site protester" is not in fact the job of a congressional representative.

It'd be one thing if the choice was between Kat Abu and a staid machine Democrat. But CD9 is naturally progressive, and she's up against Daniel Biss, a progressive with a real track record of getting things done (and unquestioned ties to the district). What I think she's really going to do, best case, is split the progressive vote.
by eyelidlessness | 2025-11-09 00:11:01+00:00
Marko’s compiler is designed for partial hydration (by default, without any special developer effort), which performs quite well. IIRC they were also looking at implementing “resumability” (term coined by Qwik, for an approach that sidesteps hydration as a concept entirely). I’m not sure where they’re at on that now, but I think it’s generally safe to say that Marko prioritizes load time performance more than nearly all other frameworks.
by neom | 2025-11-09 00:11:15+00:00
The compound and the dose are predictably the same for me, but varied between them. Low dose shrooms: One with nature, universal love, watching everything alive breath. Mid dose shrooms: I become an aztec snake, get geometry, structural universe. High dose shrooms: Past life journeys and childhood memories. Low dose acid: lo-fi geometric one love reality. Mid dose: reality is electric, seeing/feeling the "walls of reality". High dose: electric, electric, what is this thing, synthetic geometry is reality? Everything looks like electricity. 2cb low dose: saturation on 3000%, everything is the light it should be and reveals itself as such. mid dose: opposite of ego death maybe? super embodied, no fractal stuff etc, but more looks like a "rubber" reality. High dose: for me not visual or auditory, very physical almost... physical hallucinations? Melting into things, becoming them etc.

The list goes on, but it's interesting how different yet the same they all kinda feel... guess that tracks given what are actually limited variables.
by dbcurtis | 2025-11-09 00:11:51+00:00
At those power levels they would have to use some kind of highly error-corrected modulation and coding scheme to provide enough coding gain to overcome the path loss. I agree they are pretty optimistic, but until they detail their modulation scheme, it's hard to tell.

A few years ago I was experimenting with 900 MHz LoRa for a work project -- we had need to communicate a very small data payload from inside elevator cabs, with forgiving latency requirements. So we took a LoRa board to a hotel building 2 city blocks away from our lab and cranked the coding gain up to the max, which gave us about a 1 byte payload every second. Perfectly sufficient for our application. Astoundingly, we had great copy in our lab even when the doors of the elevator cab were closed, inside a building 2 blocks away. I can't remember the power level, 500mW I think, but I may be wrong.
by HPsquared | 2025-11-09 00:12:15+00:00
Ok sure the airlines themselves aren't managing to capture the profit from the overall activity (I assume because of intense competition in that part of the value chain) but what about the gains of everyone else involved? For instance the value to passengers is greater than the cost of the airfare, or they wouldn't buy a ticket in the first place. And all the others who make money from it.
by atombender | 2025-11-09 00:12:20+00:00
Reason still looks like an ML-style language rather than something from the C family of things (where JavaScript ultimately comes from).

For example, in Reason, a function is:

let x: (int, int) => int = (a, b) => a + b;

A more JS-like syntax might be:

fn x(a, b int): int { a + b }

Or at least:

let x = fn(a, b int): int { a + b }
by ivan_gammel | 2025-11-09 00:12:58+00:00
Let’s say you have group A and group B, both of which have suitable candidates for the job. The information about the job is available via pull (job boards) and push (ads) channels. A has access to both channels, B only to pull. In this case A has statistically higher chances to get that job than B, if they have no other differences. If B is already disadvantaged, this just increases the gap.

Your question is, in this model, why pull isn’t covering the absence of push (i.e. pull conversion >> push conversion). But that is obvious: if it was the case, there would be no need to spend money on ads. The very existence of those ads confirms that push channel is significant. And that means that platform does pre-screening of candidates based on gender, which is illegal.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-09 00:13:11+00:00
> This post has been flagged and hidden, just demonstrating how much this country wants to pretend this isn't happening

It’s so sad to see HN taking the side of violence and oppression with their “head in the sand” approach.

I wonder how different the HN overlords would feel if their own families were being torn apart. This is Disgraceful and inexcusable. The shame.

The only reason this is not currently flagged to oblivion is because it’s the weekend crowd.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-11-09 00:13:28+00:00
Yeah this is a silly cultural thing. I participate in a non-law enforcement, completely volunteer emergency response organization, and other members will buy black tactical vests that "look cool" with their name and the organization on them. Meanwhile... I wear the... brightest most neon thing I possibly can because when I am in the middle of a four lane road directing traffic, I want to be brighter than the sun because I don't want to get hit.

From volunteers up to the ICE gestapo, people watch too much TV where the cops get to shoot things up and look awesome doing it, and that's often what they want to be.
by brokencode | 2025-11-09 00:13:32+00:00
The US hasn't been perfect, but you can hardly say we've ruled the world terribly. Because who has ever ruled it better?

We helped Europe and Asia rebuild after WWII instead of conquering them. To the extent that our previous enemies in Germany and Japan now have some of the strongest economies in the world.

There have certainly been wars, often with dubious justification or horrific results, but good luck finding any superpower in history that hasn't gotten into bad wars. Unlike the US, most of the time those other superpowers used war for territorial expansion, like Russia is doing in Ukraine today.

You can dream of your utopian world order all you want, but at some point you have to judge the US against the alternative instead of the almighty.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-09 00:14:32+00:00
When? Where? The instances listed in the article are not compelling.

Here’s an excerpt from the second article:

> According to Homeland Security deputy secretary Tricia McLaughlin, officers were trying to conduct a “targeted traffic stop” of a car registered to a “female illegal alien,” but the male driver “refused to pull the vehicle over.”

> “Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle,” according to McLaughlin.

> “They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare — recklessly endangering the children inside,” she said.

From the third article:

> The agents, who were armed but did not draw their weapons, pushed other people who were looking to intervene, he said.

[…]

> The woman who was arrested is from Colombia and does not have legal immigration status, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

If you have information about this issue that isn’t present in the articles linked, feel free to provide it.
by bikenaga | 2025-11-09 00:14:51+00:00
Abstract: "In North America, there are enough sites with relatively large tool assemblages predating ~13,500 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.) to allow assessment of the underlying characteristics of their shared lithic tradition. Their shared technological features involve the use of dual core-and-blade and biface technologies similar to those in the Northeast Asian Late Upper Paleolithic. These dual approaches were often merged to produce small projectile points, including stemmed point forms using an elliptical cross-sectional ogive design. Similar dual lithic technologies are found in assemblages in northern Japan dating to ~20,000 cal yr B.P. We suggest a group with a similar lithic technology became isolated somewhere in the vicinity of the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kuril region, developing genetically into ancestral American populations. Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas. By ~16,000 to ~15,000 cal yr B.P., they had become widely dispersed across North America."
by drmpeg | 2025-11-09 00:15:15+00:00
It's theoretically possible.

63.1 dbW = 93.1 dBm (240 watts + 39.3 dB gain)

path loss at 5760 MHz = 283.2 dB (at perigee)

RX gain = 39.3 dB

93.1 - 283.2 + 39.3 = -150.8 dBm

Noise floor at 1.2 dB noise figure and 500 Hz bandwidth = -151.9 dBm

SNR = +1.1 dB (easily detectable by ear with CW).
by kasey_junk | 2025-11-09 00:15:18+00:00
Witnesses on the scene and the video evidence that has been released contradicts basically all of that. Perhaps we may one day know the real story if the government were ever to take any of this to trial. But given they are already in trouble for actively lying in court perhaps not.

But you are actually wrong about what most police organizations would have done about enforcing an non-violent arrest warrant. If they were worried about the activities getting too close to a school they would specifically not follow the subject there. They would wait to get the person at a time and place that was safer. But this isn’t about public safety, as they are grabbing people from schools daily, its about intimidation and incompetence.
by sn9 | 2025-11-09 00:15:37+00:00
Yeah it's definitely more about saturated fat from animal sources.

A leaner cut like tenderloin is fine.

Ultimately you just want to keep the calories you get from saturated fats from animal sources to less than 10% of your daily calories. You can still enjoy a nice steak or burger every once in a while, but they shouldn't be a daily staple if health is a priority.
by floundy | 2025-11-09 00:15:46+00:00
Genuinely, why? More people than ever are using LLMs to flood the internet with textual slop far faster than humans who have respect for the craft of writing can generate their own text.

I checked Jared Hecht (the author of this piece’s blog) at jared.xyz and the oldest piece is from March 2023. Why should we give someone who has no evidence of writing anything before the release of ChatGPT the benefit of the doubt that their work is all human written, when all signs point to otherwise?
by Hizonner | 2025-11-09 00:16:47+00:00
A government can claim jurisdiction over anything worldwide. A different government can disagree.

The two may negotiate over that, in which case common sense ideas like "they didn't do it in your territory" may make one side look foolish, which may in fact have a real influence over the outcome of the negotiations.

If they can't come to an agreement, then it may become a matter of whether the "offender" happens to travel somewhere where they can be grabbed. In the end, jurisdiction is about who has the power to enforce their laws. There's no universally-agreed-upon uber-legal system to make it otherwise.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-09 00:16:51+00:00
> The bias comes out when the subject matter becomes in any way controversial.

I do not agree on that. I think if you flip the perspective in topics like this to the other political side ("Chicago is finally doing something against illegal foreigners in the city") it would not be any less likely to get flagged.

If I had to give a "best gess" for the aggregate political bias of HN, it would still be democrat/liberal/left, albeit less so than say, Reddit.

> You can say some pretty horrendous things on here

"Couching statements in soft language" is a significant part of keeping a polarizing discussion civil in my view, so that makes sense to me. What are those "horrendous things", and what would you like the moderators to do?
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-09 00:17:29+00:00
> you don't understand why technology of public ledgers would benefit public ledgers?

I do understand that but public ledgers benefiting themselves isn't the point, benefiting the public is, and you seem to imply it - if you don't, please ignore the rest of this comment.

I'd like to join paulryanrogers and ask for a proof because I don't see the public benefits of bitcoin - aiding criminals is the opposite of that.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-09 00:17:31+00:00
> nighttime ban (10 p.m.–7 a.m.)

I agree, and this is easy to implement. My kids have to hand over their phones every day before bedtime. I see no need for any institutional interference to implement such trivial policy in any family.

> We basically give cigarettes to children.

In my opinion, this is not a good comparison. Just because parents give their kids smartphones doesn't mean they want or force them to use social networks. Kids use them because it's socially acceptable, and they aren't warned against using them.

When I was a kid, my father sometimes asked me to go to the store to buy cigarettes for him. At that time, this was a socially acceptable thing for a parent to do. However, the problem of kids smoking cigarettes was almost non-existent. This is because every kid was strongly advised that only adults could do this. There would be consequences if you didn't obey this advice. By the way, I never started smoking.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-09 00:17:39+00:00
Then no country should have legal authority over companies operating in the country but based internationally. You could earn a lot of money by selling unregistered firearms, pipe bombs or drugs over the internet and sending it over the border.

"If country B doesn’t like it, block the mail in question". Saying only the country of origin can regulate activity done in another country creates a legal worm-bucket with vast implications. It's also not how laws work currently in pretty much any other sector than the internet.

IP block should be sufficient to void the laws; That's how other EU laws work. If the UK wants more than than then they should just create a firewall. But saying the internet should be a fully unregulated hellscape is not a sensible position here.
Ask HN: Do you get bots signing up random email addresses to your newsletter?
by BSTRhino | 2025-11-09 00:17:41+00:00
Hi HN,

Approximately 5-10 times a day I seem to have a bot that goes to my website and tries to sign up a random email address to my newsletter. Each time it happens, my server sends out a "confirm you want to subscribe" email and they never ever click to confirm. Many of the emails bounce as they are sent to non-existent email addresses. I don't understand what this is supposed to achieve, except for maybe ruining the reputation of my email service.

It's always coming from the same country (the Netherlands) but never the same IP.

I'm wondering if other people's websites/newsletters are experiencing the same?
by Jimmc414 | 2025-11-09 00:17:53+00:00
True that “sleep better, eat better, exercise” is generic advice ignoring constraints. Like telling someone with insomnia, three kids, and a night shift to “sleep better” or telling someone broke to “have more money.”

But being difficult to put into action doesn’t mean the advice is wrong. Sleep deprivation measurably increases cortisol and inflammatory markers. Exercise measurably reduces them. These actions have quantifiable sometimes immediate effects regardless of how we define stress.
by debugnik | 2025-11-09 00:18:06+00:00
But the Reason example you shared is almost valid TypeScript already!

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/DYUwLgBAHgXBAUBDO...

I've seen JS using lambdas instead of classic functions like that in the wild. And that Reason can be made more JS-idiomatic without changes to the syntax:

let x = (a: int, b: int): int => a + b;
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-09 00:18:11+00:00
The way this normally works is, when the House has passed something and the Senate won't, it goes to a reconciliation committee (with members from both houses), and they bring a compromise bill back, and both houses vote on it.

OK, the House passed something. The Senate has made it very clear that they won't pass it. Well, who's preventing the next step from happening? Speaker Johnson, that's who.
by rainsford | 2025-11-09 00:18:25+00:00
> Government shutdowns are common under both Republican and Democrat administrations.

They're not really, especially at this scale. Since they became a thing when Carter was President, Biden and George W. Bush had 0. Reagan had 3, but only for 6 days total and George H. W. Bush had 1 for 3 days. Clinton had 2 for 28 days total and Obama had 1 for 16 days total.

Clinton and Obama's records are a bit more significant, but Trump so far across his 2 terms, 1 of which is less than a year in, has had 3 shutdowns for 77 total days so far. Or to put it another way, out of the 130 days of shutdown that have even happened since they became a thing 45 years ago, ~60% of them have happened in the 5 years Trump has been president. If you do the math, that's roughly 10x worse government uptime. Notably, those are also the only shutdowns that have happened with one party controlling the Presidency, the House, and the Senate.

I'm still not saying this is definitively the Trump administration's fault, but any way you look at it that is not a great record.
by jcranmer | 2025-11-09 00:19:05+00:00
The Republicans set the agenda and the rules in both the House and the Senate. They knew, before the shutdown started, that the bills they crafted would have to get 60 votes in the Senate to be enacted. And they also knew, before it started, what would need to be in the bills for them to get to 60 votes.

And yet they chose to pass a bill which would fail to get 60 votes. And when that vote failed to get 60 votes, they chose not to enter into any discussions to alter the bill to get it to win more votes, but rather to try to pass the same bill again and again to get 60 votes. Indeed, some have even called for passing a larger bill that includes Democrats' aims and simply ignoring the enacted law, for adherence to the rule of the law is already absent in this administration.

To blame this situation on the party with the least power at the moment is pure lunacy.
by fragmede | 2025-11-09 00:19:21+00:00
Your comments would come off a lot better, and the conversation would be less shitty, if you'd just leave off the last sentence. It's pervasive across HN, so it's not just you, but just FYI. Just write out the whole comment, including the qwip at the end that you just can't help, and post it, and then edit the comment and delete it.

The contrast is that the vacuum isn't a sentient being, and so from there, you don't see the device reaching out, vs being told what to do, as being any different. I'm not a judge in overseeing a court case in your jurisdiction though, so no matter how much of a distinction I personally may think there is, is irrelevant.
by hinkley | 2025-11-09 00:19:23+00:00
I think if we started trying to track the version numbers of questions and answers, and attached them to existing answers and questions, things would sort themselves out rather quickly.

The real problem is asking a question about how to do something in Java 8, becoming the canonical answer, and now we're on Java 25 and your answer is still on top even though we've gone through two new strategies for idiomatically representing that slice of code in the API and there's a 3rd in beta testing.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-11-09 00:19:28+00:00
The difference here is that everyone needs air traffic control and there's zero choices so a market structure doesn't make sense.

With bread, maybe I only like certain types of bread. Maybe I don't want bread. It makes sense for there to be a market with diverse offerings. If bread inputs get expensive maybe everyone pivots to eating potatoes.

In contrast if you want to fly out of a major city there's one major airport, and you need air traffic control. It's a uniform service that is required. The same sort of market structure is not really viable.
by chihuahua | 2025-11-09 00:19:31+00:00
Up to a certain point, yes - if you never leave the U.S. and don't anticipate that the U.S. government will at some point extradite you to the UK. And if you travel to other countries, one of those could decide to extradite you to the UK. That is less likely with a lawsuit from Zimbabwe than a lawsuit from the UK. In other words, it depends on how much international influence the country in question has.
by nemo44x | 2025-11-09 00:19:34+00:00
So the aesthetics are bad. The execution is sloppy and it’s likely the people tasked with it are under trained and under supervised. But the outcome is the same otherwise.

I don’t know if they’re trying to be mean or if they’re just trying to effectively hit their goals. It’s ruthless execution but that’s what’s taught in business school today.

The citizens that are being wrongly violated will have their day and be compensated.
by hardlianotion | 2025-11-09 00:19:34+00:00
This is how the UK government, faced with pressing issues, chooses to waste its time and destroy its remaining reputation for competence.

There was never any chance that this would fly outside the country, least of all in the USA. Whoever gave Ofcom the extraterritorial power it has to pursue these goals clearly intended to ensure its failure, and for this I am grateful.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-09 00:19:48+00:00
Sadly there's nothing in this article (paywall). The telescope is called Habitable Worlds Observatory and isn't launched, related:

2024: Habitable Worlds Observatory and the Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch (36 points, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40938095