MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DannyBee | 2025-11-06 00:34:31+00:00
"Are you an immigration lawyer?"

No, but not sure it matters?

"But that’s not what’s happening in many cases. People using others ID. Questions about fraud in the immigration case itself."

Of US citizens being detained? It 100% is not.

The propublica article below gives an example of a citizen being detained, twice, after providing a valid real id from alabama, in their own name.

"If you have any examples of US citizens being detained for extended periods (actual citizens, not just a verbal claim) I’d be interested to read about them."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-detained-ice... is one such case.

There are many others.

In the end, when they discover they are american citizens, they have often falsified affidavits and indicted them on "assaulting officer" charges. The vast majority of these indictments have been dismissed by judges for lack of any evidence.

In case you don't believe that is what happens, here's a case in texas last week where the judge was having none of it, and dismissed just such an indictment after pointing out they were lying repeatedly about their investigations into immigration status, and then lying about how force was used, see:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.11...

If you want some more stories, here:

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...
by api | 2025-11-06 00:35:04+00:00
I don’t know a ton about Mamdani but he doesn’t seem narcissistic.

I agree with most of his goals but have serious doubts about the viability of the methods. We’ll see.

My biggest doubts are around the idea of price controls, which almost always lead to perverse incentives. The economy finds a way to sneak in an effective price increase via other means. Either that or you create a landed gentry of sorts, or a “landed rentry” for rent control. You get a class of beneficiaries locked into place and nobody else can get in.

I do like seeing different ideas get tried. I like experiments, and I think we should have more of them. The endless tape loop of 1980s-1990s Reagan/Clinton politics is clearly not addressing some glaring problems.
by ricardobeat | 2025-11-06 00:36:34+00:00
I don't know if this is everyone's experience, but you get a distinct feeling of smoothness after using it, unlike any other toothpaste. Since NovaMin reacts with saliva to remineralize the tooth you'd imagine it's a stronger bond than directly filling up crevices with nanohydroxyapatite, and studies seem to [slightly] confirm that.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-06 00:36:53+00:00
> piracy doesn't hurt sales

Funny enough, an academic department I know has cut back on its purchase requests to the university library, on the assumption that everyone, students and staff alike, is just going to download the books from shadow libraries. Individuals were never going to purchase a 400€ book from a scholarly press anyway, but if now institutions are on the piracy bandwagon, that’s a new development.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-11-06 00:36:59+00:00
I’d note you’ve not really proposed anything related to how commenting on policy in this administration achieves anything just pointed to cases where negative thinking brings bad mojo or something. Along that vein, I have been trying to grow wings and fly to the moon for the last 15 years but despite the investment of effort have not succeeded. It’s probably because people kept telling me it’s not possible and a waste of time, by the reasoning here. If I could get people to stop mocking me when I flop off the roof onto the ground I surely would succeed?

There are activities that are absolutely not worth doing because their chance of succeeding is zero percent even with the strongest of desire for it to not be zero.

I posit because this administration literally does not care what you have to say only what one individual on this planet has to say there’s no point in trying to reason with them. The only action that will work to stop them is in court and in the voting booth, and by proxy activities that magnify the value of either of those activities by getting others to participate. I think protest is a much more effective use of energy for that reason - it energizes like minded people and when this administration reacts with brutality to opposing opinions it shocks people not aligned with dictatorial oppression - which is almost everyone. But participating in the comment processes of their regulatory capture? Waste of time with zero chance of causing even an iota of change no matter how hard you wish it to be otherwise or how much you ignore the naysayers. Spend that energy growing wings and flying to the moon.
by arjie | 2025-11-06 00:37:05+00:00
I love that there are people who will go into this much detail on stuff. It's really cool that they do. But the whole thing is that if you follow some sequence of steps, powder will clean as well as or better than pods for a third the cost. All right, this isn't a significant portion of my expenses so I'll pay the 3x cost since my dishes come out clean anyway.

I wish the description of the video was like an abstract.
by anyfoo | 2025-11-06 00:37:33+00:00
I'm sorry, but I don't think that makes sense, and that it's pretty obvious that it doesn't.

I don't have experience with cocaine, but as a Bavarian I made plenty of experience with alcohol. I've never been addicted, but I had my fair share of Oktoberfest and beer garden visits. And yet you don't see my optimizing my life around it. In fact, nowadays I have a beer every few months if even, simply because most of my hobbies don't work well with alcohol.

As for cocaine: As I said, no experience, but it appears to me that even very wealthy people who probably consume it also still do other things in life, despite not having to for income etc.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-11-06 00:37:33+00:00
> Nobody's talking about porting billions of lines of code, for all we know it's just for personal projects, or a learning experience.

am i the only person in the room that can read tone? please tell me what is the force of this statement in what i've responded:

> If you want static compilation, use a language and libraries built with that assumption as a ground rule.

is this an imperative only for hobbyists? not sure.

> This kind of replies is like killing an idea before it's even started, smells like the sunk cost fallacy.

there is no idea - that's exactly my whole point. tear it down and build it again is not an idea.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-06 00:37:34+00:00
That's how all financing works. OpenAI's stance on it isn't new, it's only the sunken cost fallacy portion of it that's amusing.

I think OpenAI and the desperation for "new tech" is going to be a wake-up call on the value of IP over innovation. There's no money in proper competition, just locking down enough of the market until it's been exploited and you can move on.
by mrasadatik | 2025-11-06 00:37:35+00:00
Think your `int`, `float`, and `char` are different? Think again. This deep-dive reveals that every variable you declare, no matter the type, is just a reinterpretation of binary truth inside your computer. Discover how a single `uint32_t` can represent them all, and how this insight reshapes how we understand programming itself.
by ajross | 2025-11-06 00:37:49+00:00
Where do you see me making excuses for Musk? I'm saying I'm happy to drive, buy and recommend a Tesla even if the company is run by a drunk uncle because the other 100,000 of them seem like they worked hard to make a good product. You really think Telsa is the only company with drunk uncles at the helm?

Again, the collision of your personal politics with what you want to achieve seems really muddled here. What do you achieve by yelling at me on HN, exactly?
by Brybry | 2025-11-06 00:38:14+00:00
In Windows 10 I have shortcuts pinned to my taskbar that are just

> ...firefox.exe" -P "profilename"

and then `taskbar.grouping.useprofile true` so only windows from the same profile are grouped together and some custom recolored Firefox icons for those pinned shortcuts and custom per-profile userChrome.css styling (#TabsToolbar background-color) for easy visual differentiation of a window's profile.

For Windows 10, no scripting is needed. Just the initial GUI profile setup.

> ...firefox.exe" -P "profilename" "https://www.example.com"

from terminal works exactly as expected regardless of how many profile instances are currently running or their state.

You can even have multiple versions of Firefox installed and point them at different profiles. I have some profiles on ESR and some on Standard.
by xenophonf | 2025-11-06 00:40:26+00:00
Firefox profiles suck. Their UX is so bad. Containers are better but still have their issues. I use Containerise plus Cookie AutoDelete plus Temporary Containers to give me what is effectively per-tab private browsing. The major downside is that I have to copy containers.json (which enumerates all of the dedicated containers I have defined, e.g., for Facebook), my Containerise rules (which automatically puts certain web sites into specific containers), and my Cookie AutoDelete config (which says which cookies to delete and when) among browsers manually. I wish more things supported Firefox's sync feature. I ended up adding them to my dotfiles, so it isn't too painful, but it definitely isn't grandparent friendly.
by aydyn | 2025-11-06 00:40:47+00:00
> I really don't like this attitude we have in America where we realize "thing is broken" and advocate throwing it away instead of trying to fix it.

Because people are too busy playing Team Politics instead of solving issues that everyone can get behind.

Fixing the power grid is one of those things that everyone could get behind, and yeah I agree, it disproportionately affects the economically disadvantaged.
by 9rx | 2025-11-06 00:40:49+00:00
> Can you provide an example of where facebook tried to do what most people would consider good

They gave the social media thing an honest try for a short period of time. And it even came with a lot of fanfare initially as people used it as the "internet's telephone book" to catch up with those they lost touch with.

But once initial pleasantries were exchanged, people soon realized why they lost touch in the first place, and most everyone started to see that continually posting pictures of their cat is a stupid use of time. And so, Facebook and the like recognized that nobody truly wanted social media, gave up on the idea, and quickly pivoted into something else entirely.

Social media is a great idea in some kind of theoretical way — I can see why you bought into the idea — but you can't run a business on great theoretical ideas. You can't even run a distributed public service without profit motive on great theoretical ideas, as demonstrated by Usenet. You have to actually serve what people actually want, which isn't necessarily (perhaps not even often) what is good for them.
by selcuka | 2025-11-06 00:41:32+00:00
There have been a lot of research around USAG-1, too [1]:

> Uterine sensitization-associated gene-1 (USAG-1) deficiency leads to enhanced bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling, leading to supernumerary teeth formation.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33579703/
by bigyabai | 2025-11-06 00:41:53+00:00
> but look who is rising, Mamdani and Fuentes

5 years ago:

> but look who is rising, Kamela and Kirk

10 years ago:

> but look who is rising, Clinton and Trump

25 years ago:

> but look who is rising, Bush and Bernie

You can make this argument for literally any point in American history. All you need is two household-name ideologues, it doesn't prove anything.
by brucehoult | 2025-11-06 00:43:55+00:00
Many systems, especially older ones, are set up this way by default.

But you can get, for extra $$, a switch to disconnect you from the grid entirely when it's down and run from your own solar power / battery. People who live in cities with underground wires normally don't bother, but it's essential in the countryside (IMHO).

Note however that many people have only maybe 5kW or 8kW or something like that being added to grid power by their solar setup, so if there is no mains power then it doesn't take many 2kW appliances (microwave, kettle, clothes washer (when heating water), dish washer (ditto), hairdryer, vacuum cleaner) to overload it. Not to mention 3kW hot water heater or 3kW+ stove oven.

I have a 3600W off-grid system (Pecron E3600LFP) and I run pretty much all that stuff from it. I added up and I could try to turn on 14kW of stuff at the same time. But I don't, obviously.
by moosedman | 2025-11-06 00:44:13+00:00
It's quite then progression isn't it?

But Fuentes can be described like this:

"The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said “perfidious Jews” must “be given the death penalty” after “we take power.”"

Just look at the Mamdani state run grocery stores and you'll see that in there own way, each of these are huge steps outside the mainstream.
by lmm | 2025-11-06 00:44:39+00:00
> the sky doesn't fall because of that.

No, especially in a language like C that has much bigger problems (I don't think there's ever been a nontrivial C program that has defined behaviour according to the standard), but it's one more papercut.

> Though it's pretty ridiculous that a mainstream Lisp dialect is that way, of all things.

I don't think I'd call any Lisp dialect "mainstream".
by hamdingers | 2025-11-06 00:45:02+00:00
> But it rolled in so rapidly that it was universal before we had the chance to push back.

This can't be it. I was in high school when smartphones were coming out and there was zero tolerance for them or any other electronic devices (dumbphones, ipods, palm pilots, etc) in the classroom.

I don't know when or why it happened but allowing smartphones in school was a conscious choice and a policy change.
by spacephysics | 2025-11-06 00:45:11+00:00
Despite how obtuse the current administration views are, this has been true for decades. The churn of new papers and hype around medicine/biotech is nothing new.

Says nothing about endemic reproducibility crisis of the social sciences.

Since student loans have been basically guaranteed (bankruptcies can’t erase student loan obligations, in an attempt to push rates lower) and tuition steeply rose, academic institutions’ ratio of administrators to students has skyrocketed to a bureaucratic mess, leading to a flywheel of higher education costs and incentivizing research for money’s sake over impact to the field.

Real impact would be reproducing notoriously iffy studies, but that doesn’t bring in the dollars.
by floxy | 2025-11-06 00:45:40+00:00
The Wayback Machine has been broken for me for about a month or so. Is that the case for everyone? Like when you stick in a URL, it just goes to a "landing page" that says:

"The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

Other projects include Open Library & archive-it.org.

Your use of the Wayback Machine is subject to the Internet Archive's Terms of Use."

...instead of taking you to the "calendar" page where you could select the version of the website you wanted to see.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/news.ycombinator.com
by nielsbot | 2025-11-06 00:45:45+00:00
I heard a fascinating interview with Sandeep Vaheesan[1]

He said in the early days of American electrification, private power companies wouldn't build lines to rural customers because it wasn't expected to be profitable. So rural customers joined together and formed public power companies and got the job done. Not only that, they innovated many cost saving technique which the private power companies eventually adopted.

Public power cooperatives still exist, but have themselves become ossified and commercialized over the years.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miyfj98lR38 (starts at 21:18)
by fragmede | 2025-11-06 00:45:53+00:00
I'm sorry, grief is the worst.

To attack the sadness directly, which is a result of chemicals in your brain, there are specific other chemicals you can add that will raise serotonin and norepinephrine and also dopamine. It's not the most sustainable solution, however. Other ways of boosting those neurotransmitters include running real hard, getting a tattoo, having sex.

Processing the emotions, possibly with the help of a professional, is the recommended long term solution though. It won't bring them back, but it'll help understand the pain, and hopefully heal it.
by renhanxue | 2025-11-06 00:46:04+00:00
The article has good tips, but Unicode normalization is just the tip of the iceberg. It is almost always impossible to do what your users expect without locale information (different languages and locales sort and compare the same graphemes differently). "What do we mean when we say two strings are equal" can be a surprisingly difficult question to answer. It's practical too, not philosophical.

By the way, try looking up the standardized Unicode casefolding algorithm sometime, it is a thing to behold.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-11-06 00:46:08+00:00
The older generation made huge sacrifices with no wage growth because the CCP kept the currency low.

This allowed for China to choose industries it would dominate outside of economic forces. It chose to dominate solar and was allowed to sell panels below raw materials cost in order to kill competition.

In one hand it’s good for world solar, on the other hand this has helped cause the rise of the far right all over the west.
by int_19h | 2025-11-06 00:46:34+00:00
It's enabled in all mainstream distros that I know of. I work on debuggers and this is the single most common issue that people report with attach.

And yes, if the malware is running under the same account that you use to login, it can do a lot, X or no X. That's where various forms of sandboxing come in. And the problem with X is that it is basically impossible to properly sandbox an X app.
by _heimdall | 2025-11-06 00:46:38+00:00
> Nobody chooses to have a pre-existing condition

Are you sure about that? Plenty of medical conditions are the result, at least in part, of decisions a person makes.

A person with lung cancer seeking health care could very well have smokes for decades. A person with type 2 diabetes may very well have eaten poorly for decades. Obviously those aren't always directly linked to life choices, but they often can be.
by woustachemax | 2025-11-06 00:47:37+00:00
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by cxr | 2025-11-06 00:47:39+00:00
I'm not altogether surprised at the negative reaction to this comment, but I am at a loss to really get into the head of the reader who is so unhappy with it. Let's give it another shot:

You wrote—alluding to, but without actually stating—the reasons why registries and package managers for out-of-tree packages that subvert the base-level VCS were created:

> Yeah, people invented the concept of packages and package management because they couldn’t conceive of vendoring (which is weird considering basically all package managers make use of it themselves) and surely not because package management has actual benefits.

This is a sarcastic comment. It using irony to make the case that the aforementioned trio (packages, package managers, package registries), etc. were created for good reason (their "actual benefits").

Do you know what the reasons are? Can you reply here stating those reasons? Be explicit. Preferably, putting it into words in a way that can be tested (falsified)—like the way the claim, "We can reduce the size of our assets on $PROJECT_Z by storing the image data as PNG instead of raw bitmaps" is a claim that lends itself to being tested/falsified—and not just merely alluding to the good reasons for doing $X vs $Y.

What, specifically, are the reasons that make these out-of-tree, never-committed packages (and the associated infrastructure involving package registries, etc.) a good strategy? What problem does this solve? Again: please be specific. Can it be measured quantitatively?
by ilamont | 2025-11-06 00:48:51+00:00
> The city center requires crossing a bridge.

It actually requires using tunnels or a boat. I used to drive a cab and the I93 + Callahan/Sumner tunnel route was hellish. The Big Dig helped a lot, although sometimes that can get pretty backed up too.

> Look at maps from 1950 and it doesn’t look like a bad location for a small airport.

Generally, airports that are close to major urban centers were developed prior to 1950, including all 3 examples named. Songshan was opened during Taiwan's colonial period as the “Matsuyama Airdrome” serving Japanese military flights (https://www.sups.tp.edu.tw/tsa/en/1-1.htm).

For bigger cities with these old central airports, larger airports were opened later in many cases. I don't think that will ever happen in Boston, although satellite airports in neighboring states like "Manchester-Boston" or TF Greene in Rhode Island try pretty hard.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-06 00:49:13+00:00
I'm familiar with them both. We can play the pull quotes game all week, it's fruitless. American politics have been like this for centuries and it's nothing new.

What you are falling victim to is transgressive politics. Both sides have policy that chafes with you, and instead of admitting that you're being ragebaited, you're insisting that it's my fault for not recognizing it as some unforseen political maelstrom of racist communism. The big ugly thing you're pointing at is simply called politics.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-06 00:49:35+00:00
More and more authors of nonfiction today make money from a number of channels other than actual book sales. The book only serves as a promotional tool for their personal brand, and is only a collection of previously published blog posts or magazine pieces. This already started due to changing consumer behaviors and declining interest in books, so by the time piracy has come on the scene, the shift had already largely occurred.
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-06 00:49:38+00:00
First, were there any MAGA principles even unofficially stated? The Republican party platform the last 3 presidential elections has been "whatever Trump wants". People seem to read what they want into Trump's "weaving".

Second, Bannon was successful in ousting Musk from Trump's grace. Given the contradictory, poorly articulated nature of MAGA, Bannon may be MAGA in practice.
by Yizahi | 2025-11-06 00:49:53+00:00
New feature blablabla... Hey, Mozilla - how about fixing the multiyear old bug, which has like several dozen tickets in bugzilla alone, about randomly losing all open tabs? What good are profiles to me, if one of most important of the secondary features of a browser is fundamentally broken and unreliable? I'm so pissed at Mozilla for their attitude (nothing new really, after the Ugly Bar update and those comments on reddit). If there was a real third browser on Windows I would have jumped ship, despite running FF since beta, both on PC and mobile. Just last month FF managed to kill all my open tabs a third time this year, and that's after no error, completely normal PC shutdown and boot next day. (ps: I know about scrounger)