MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw101010 | 2025-11-09 03:18:15+00:00
People in Europe live in actual democracies (for the majority). The laws restricting speech were born through democratic processes.

Who do you think you are to pretend to know better than these citizens? You seem to want to impose some unbridled "free" speech that seem to have pretty disastrous effects in the only country where it supposedly exists... is this your idea if "freedom"?

We have tested the limits of tolerence at the cost of literal tens of millions of deaths during the last World War in Europe, I don't think we need any lesson on how we should run our societies regarding free speech because we have done a lot of painful learning.

Looking at the direction/unstability of the American system currently it's not impossible that its people will do the same kind of learning soon unfortunately, might be better to focus on this rather that trying export ideas that we democratically rejected, with purpose.
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-09 03:18:31+00:00
Come, come, my good sir! US citizens know that censorship on private social media platforms is NOT a First Amendment issue! While it may be censorship of a sort, it's not done by the US government, and therefor is allowable. This is middle school civics in the USA, old boy! There's nothing, nothing, in the US constitution that says anyone else must pay to promulgate your opinions. Freedom of speech is freedom of government suppression in the USA. But like almost everything else in the USA, it's up to you to pay for it.
by elicash | 2025-11-09 03:18:50+00:00
> I guess the part I don't get is how having a message in the email signature of your work email can be construed as expressing a personal opinion.

If that were the entirety of your argument, I'd actually be in agreement with you. It wouldn't surprise me if this decision got overturned on those grounds.

But on your second point, the current Court expressed its views on compelled speech and the First Amendment as applied to government workers in the Janus decision and this judge is merely following that precedent. It is stated very clearly in the decision.
by CalChris | 2025-11-09 03:19:03+00:00
A regular lipid panel won't test for Lp(a) which is genetic. So you need to test specifically for Lp(a) once in your lifetime because you need to know your risk factors. The test was $35.20 when I had it done by LabCorp last year. 20-30% of the population (including me) have high Lp(a). Statins don't reduce Lp(a).
by tom_ | 2025-11-09 03:21:27+00:00
Hmm, good question. I had another go, for the first time in years, albeit with experienced Emacs eyes now, so I know roughly what's going on. Still felt like every click just gave me More Emacs Shit, which I remember being the main confusing thing.

Almost none of the options bring up a friendly GUI dialog of the sort you might be accustomed to; you're most likely just plonked back in the Emacs frame, possibly in some new window that opened in some random place, that doesn't seem to work quite like anything you've ever seen before, or possibly in the minibuffer, ditto, plus its own set of additional confusing aspects.

So perhaps the suggestion to just dispense with it entirely (along with the toolbar, which I forgot to mention...) was just the thing that got me over this initial notch in the difficulty curve, the bit where I just needed to give up and accept that Emacs was going to be one of those things that was absolutely not like anything else.

(You're not wrong about the discoverability though. I've been using Emacs for 20 years now and I did find a couple of interesting-looking things.)
by contactdq | 2025-11-09 03:22:19+00:00
We’re constantly fighting fraud and scam operations, many of which attempt to exploit dormant or low-activity accounts that haven’t inherited our latest KYC safeguards. Some of these requirements were actually in place well before the FCC issued its recent notice of liability (which, for the record, we’ve since resolved).

That said, you should be able to log into your account without completing the new KYC flow — that behavior doesn’t sound right, and I’ll flag it with our team to review. In the meantime, feel free to email me (david AT you know where) directly, and I can help verify your account manually without using Onfido.
by mrtnmcc | 2025-11-09 03:23:14+00:00
Great seeing you at Pacificon!

We’re starting with the “Quad” tile — a 4 Tx × 4 Rx SDR designed for arraying — and expect to ship the first units toward the end of this year. They're actually quite capable as a standalone SDR. A Quad can interface directly with a Raspberry Pi 5, and we’ve built a combined enclosure for the SDR + Pi setup. You can run SDR software locally on the Pi or stream IQ samples over gigabit Ethernet to a remote PC.

Software support includes GNU Radio, Pothos SDR, and just about any tool compatible with SoapySDR. We’re also doing some fun demos, like visualizing Wi-Fi signal sources in real time ("Wi-Fi camera") and performing mm-scale 3D localization—a prerequisite for the automatic array calibration.

Larger arrays are assembled by simply tiling these Quads into an aluminum/PCB lattice framework, enabling anything from compact 4-antenna MIMO nodes up to 240-element lunar-bounce arrays. The goal is to have full phased-array capability by March 2026.

The broader vision behind open.space is to make advanced RF and space-communications hardware open and accessible—so anyone can experiment with technologies once limited to national labs: moon-bounce (EME) links, satellite reception, terrestrial RF imaging.

Happy to answer questions here.

One thing I'm excited about getting working is mobile moon bounce!
by cldcntrl | 2025-11-09 03:23:24+00:00
I've been working on production-grade AWS deployments for over 10 years, so it's a bit hard to frame my experience/skill set. That being said, if you need help with almost anything AWS - architecture, infrastructure, performance, scale - feel free to reach out. Although versed in Well-Architected/multi-region/multi-account, I strive to supply the simplest solution for your particular scenario.

Location: US EST

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Technologies: IAM, VPC, Cloudwatch, EC2/ASG/ELB, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, CodeDeploy, Cognito, Athena, S3, Cloudfront, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, IoT Core, Sagemaker, ElastiCache, MediaConvert

Email: hn@cldcntrl.com
by tomhow | 2025-11-09 03:23:30+00:00
I don't even know what your position or point was. It’s irrelevant. We're don't moderate for/against any side or position. We just don't have time to take that into account. The guidelines apply regardless of what you're trying to say, and we routinely get these kinds of grandiose claims about our covert motivations and biases, when the reality is far more boring: just preventing this site from turning into a flaming hellscape is a big enough task, without trying to complicate things further by promoting any particular ideology or narrative.

For what it's worth I was here behind the scenes in 2020-21, and I know very well that plenty of effort was made to give all perspectives a fair hearing.

What we're asking for is quite simple. The guidelines are a condition of participating here. A sincere effort to observe them is expected from everyone, otherwise it's fine to choose not to participate.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-09 03:24:02+00:00
People in USA live in a constitutional republic based on self-evident natural rights given by god. We just have (somewhat) democratically elected representatives.

In an "actual democracy" with no constitutional rights, the majority can (legally) genocide the minority - and that's happened more than a few times in "actual democracies" in Europe in the very recent past.

You should probably think deeper about what you're advocating for.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-09 03:24:20+00:00
> An arbitrary group has been selected as being an enemy

It is not an arbitrary group, it’s a group of people who are residing in the United States illegally.

> Gestapo/ICE

If Mexico is so awful that being deported there is tantamount to the Holocaust, why would you ever be in favor of allowing Mexicans to enter the United States without going through the legal channels to ensure that the people who come here are not creating the problems that make deportation to Mexico comparable to being sent to Auschwitz?
by lifthrasiir | 2025-11-09 03:24:32+00:00
There does exist a subtle middle ground between proper syntax and proper semantics, namely well-formedness. Well-formedness is technically a part of syntax rules (i.e. syntactic correctness) but not a part of formal grammars and other similar stuffs, making it harder to classify. For example, XML's opening tag and closing tag should be matched like <foo></foo>, but this syntactic rule is not described in the formal context-free grammar. It is possible to make a formal context-sensitive grammar that only accepts a well-formed syntax, but that would make the specification unnecessarily complex, hence the introduction of informal rules. Some still may argue that it is actually kind of semantics, however.
by chinupbuttercup | 2025-11-09 03:26:00+00:00
I don't agree with all the methods used by ICE in Chicago, but I understand the problem they are trying to fix. Most of the comments on HN don't seem to think there is a problem, but that could largely be due to our limited memories and selective hearing.

Back in 2022, the Biden administration was flying immigrant family and children secretly at night to places like Chicago. I have a friend who worked at an airlines hired for this and it is reported in the news. However, no one seemed to care. https://nypost.com/2022/04/15/biden-administration-resumes-m...

It seems it's much easier to secretly bring people in than publicly try to remove them after it's done. Not surprising or shocking. The solution to "right" the situation could be amnesty, but that doesn't restore or build respect for the laws already on the books.
by Nevermark | 2025-11-09 03:26:21+00:00
Debt is the main culprit in any bubble.

Now we have 2nd order borrowing: where market caps are responding positively to news of "successful" borrowing and spending, encouraging more.

And 3rd order: Where the most "successful" borrowers get viewed as winners, and given disproportionately greater access to more debt. Making accelerated money burning an absolute survival-level hamster wheel necessity.

Any system that increased borrowing costs for leveraged market caps across an industry (i.e. caps with high multiples, growing quickly), would benefit everybody.

For the speculative companies, a cooling of borrowing would (1) act as a kind of arms control, maintaining competition but tilting efforts toward technical innovation vs. "financial innovation", (2) reduce the self-inflicted inflation a hot industry creates on its own inputs, and (3) reducing the risk of a major global financial crash for everybody.
by CalChris | 2025-11-09 03:26:46+00:00
> While statins have some significant side effects in many patients

It's more accurate to say that certain statins have significant side effects in certain patients. Atorvastatin made me dizzy. But I switched to Pravachol and that went away. I switched again to Rosuvastatin and it stayed away.

Not all statins are the same.
by danaris | 2025-11-09 03:27:13+00:00
> In the 1970s, Jewish lawyers at the ACLU defended the American Nazi Party’s right to march in Skokie.

Well, that doesn't mean that

a) they were right to do so then, or

b) a better understanding can't have been reached since then.

The Paradox of Tolerance is a very real thing. If you want to make free speech absolutism a religious principle within your own beliefs, go wild, but for those of us who just want to make this world the best place we can to live in, we have to consider what the consequences of different kinds of speech are.

And the consequence of being tolerant of hate speech is that the speech of those being hated diminishes. Their freedom diminishes. Their safety diminishes. Sooner or later, they are driven out of communities that permit hate speech against them.

"Free speech for all", in the sense that absolutely anyone is fully free at any time to say anything they want, and everybody remains equal in this, is a fantasy. And American jurisprudence has rejected that level of "free speech" since very early on—there are laws against libel, incitement to violence, false advertising, and other forms of speech.
by supertrope | 2025-11-09 03:27:50+00:00
Media mail is a way to make the USPS subsidize schools, teachers, and students. Fiction books are used in English classes so they are considered educational. They set the rules in a way that's enforceable. Imagine if they required you to show ID to prove that you're a student or teacher, or the clerk had to make a judgement on whether or not something is educational. It's easier to consider books all okay for the discount and (magazine shaped) comics not okay.

This circuitous way of subsidizing education costs reflects America's aversion to taxes and cash transfers. The USPS does not take tax dollars, it's entirely funded by postage (electric vehicle funding is an exception). Yet it is expected to forego revenue for mostly public education services. Teachers must front the cost of some school supplies which they can deduct from their Federal taxes (up to a $300 limit). Other "It's not a tax" tricks include shifting some city services to the HOA level (HOA fees are not a tax), requiring private businesses to provide free or discounted service to the government and low income customers, and raising user fees for government services.
by proc0 | 2025-11-09 03:27:56+00:00
This wasn't that hard to see.

> Our systematic review of 445 benchmarks reveals prevalent gaps that undermine the construct validity needed to accurately measure targeted phenomena

Intelligence has an element of creativity, and as such the true measurement would be on metrics related to novelty, meaning tasks that have very little resemblance to any other existing task. Otherwise it's hard to parse out whether it's solving problems based on pattern recognition instead of actual reasoning and understanding. In other words, "memorizing" 1000 of the same type of problem, and solving #1001 of that type is not as impressive as solving a novel problem that has never been seen before.

Of course this presents challenges to creating the tests because you have to avoid however many petabytes of training data these systems are trained with. That's where some of the illusion of intelligence arises from (illusion not because it's artificial, since there's no reason to think the brain algorithms cannot be recreated in software).
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-09 03:27:56+00:00
Why do my beliefs require anything to prove them? My beliefs are not fact and I never represented them as such, I said plainly that I have mixed feeling and that society should not bow to me. The exchange in response to my post are a good example of why my goal in life is to retreat from society, everyone ignored what I said to be "right." Admittedly I did not actually say that society should not bow to me, I said probably not, but that is simply because I don't actually know and I don't believe I ever implied that I did, putting on a sweater seems a small sacrifice to me.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-09 03:28:05+00:00
Not OP, but in general, while some things do improve my life (climate control, hot water, cooking), I'd say there are also plenty of things that don't.

I don't think my device usage habits or media consumption actually improve my life. I'm not sure the energy that's been dumped into producing the many gadgets I've bought over the years really improved me life.

I'd say that a lot of energy goes into distracting me in a way that I can't genuinely say is an improvement.
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-11-09 03:29:22+00:00
AFAIK, the current version of Nota Bene -- a direct descendent of XyWrite -- still has this; the current feature list explicitly mentions "Editable Show Codes view so you can see exactly where commands take effect, and edit them as desired". Nota Bene has survived into the present day by moving pretty firmly into a niche academia market, though, and carries a pretty stiff price ($349).
by therobots927 | 2025-11-09 03:32:59+00:00
My favorite part about magic mushrooms is the impact on my visual field. Colors get incredibly vibrant and at higher doses everything gets fractalized, especially if you’re looking at things like trees. If they only came with the visual effects, not the panic-inducing feeling of floating out of my body, I would take them much more frequently than once or twice a year.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-09 03:33:10+00:00
This happened when the Dems were in power. Its part of the reason why they aren't in power anymore. Letting un-elected bank employees make these sorts of decisions isn't in anyone's best interest. The banks did not enjoy this situation at all and probably won't play ball next time they are asked. Banks hate to lose money and that's exactly what happened in this situation. First they had to turn down business, then they had to pay to defend themselves in a lawsuit.
by DecoPerson | 2025-11-09 03:34:52+00:00
I just rolled my own. I always find frameworks bring too many “weird errors” that waste my time trying to figure them out. Also, they’re just another thing that needs upgrading eventually, and they love to COMPLETELY change their APIs between each major version. (“FrungisFactory is deprecated! Try the new async-fibre-layout BloopisGrid now before we completely delete that thing that worked perfectly for you!”)

The platforms provide more than enough capability to build basic WebView apps with minimal effort, and usually the DX is good.
by breve | 2025-11-09 03:36:59+00:00
> They’ve both had a huge window to win the future of the European car market (EVs) and failed to do so

Volkswagen sells the most EVs in Europe. In fact, Volkswagen's EV market share in Europe is currently the highest it's ever been:

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Groups/Line/All-time-by-Q...

Volkswagen owns many brands (VW, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Cupra, etc.). Their sales are split across many brands and models.
by antonvs | 2025-11-09 03:37:06+00:00
Your intuition is on the right track. The distinction may become clearer if you consider a classic language implementation design:

1. There's a lexer which breaks source text up into a stream of tokens.

2. A parser which converts a stream of tokens into an abstract syntax tree (AST).

3. An interpreter or compiler that traverses the AST in order to either execute it (interpreter) or transform it into some other form (compiler).

Points 1 & 2 are syntax - the mapping between the textual form of a program and its meaning.

Point 3 is semantics - how a program actually behaves, or as you say, what its terms evaluate to.

Looking at it like this can give a sharp line between syntax and semantics. But when you get deeper into it, it turns out that with some languages at least, you can get from source syntax to something that actually executes - has behavior, i.e. semantics - with nothing but a series of syntactic transformations. From that perspective, you can say that semantics can be defined as a sequence of syntactic transformations.

This doesn't erase the distinction between syntax and semantics, though. The syntax of the source language is the first stage in a chain of transformations, with each stage involving a different (albeit closely related) language with its own syntactic structure.

> Explanations that involve 'giving a precise mathematical meaning' just seem almost circular to me.

Formal semantics covers this, but the syntax/semantics distinction isn't necessary just formal - it's a useful distinction even in an informal sense.

As for circularity, it's absolutely the case that formal semantics is nothing more than defining one language in terms of another. But the idea is that the target language is supposed to be one with well-defined semantics of its own, which is why "mathematical" comes up so often in this context. Mathematical abstractions such as set theory, lattice theory, lambda calculus and so on can provide a rigorous foundation that's more tractable when it comes to proofs.

That kind of circularity pervades our knowledge in general. Words in the dictionary are given meaning in terms of other words. You can't explain something without explaining it in terms of something else.
by sQL_inject | 2025-11-09 03:37:36+00:00
Hyperbolic drivel: : “The people sitting in that building (Google HQ in London) are probably having a pretty good time. They have lots of ping pong tables and Huel. But the cobalt that they’re using in their microchips is still often dug up by artisanal miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, getting paid less than a couple of dollars a day.”

Like much of the oligarchic class, the boy-gods of Silicon Valley still cleave to Hobbesian myths to justify their grip on wealth and power. Their techno-Utopian convictions, encapsulated in Bill Gates’ mantra that “innovation is the real driver of progress,” are merely a secular iteration of the divine mandates that Goliaths once used to legitimize their rule. Promises of rewards in the afterlife have been supplanted by dreams of a technological singularity and interplanetary civilization."

- Google doesn't serve Huel - Google has maybe two total pong pong tables in the London office and staff here are some of the most diligent coworkers I know. - Google actively is working to, and has reduced, conflict cobalt from the supply chain. - No one I know in Silicon Valley "cleaves to Hobbesian myths" to "justify" their grip on anything. Everyone I know shows up to work to provide for their family, grow professionally, or self-actualize. - People who "dream of Singularity and interplanetary civilization" isn't a thing, no one dreams of this fantasy.

If the so called professional being cited here cannot avoid use hyperbolic drivel and unfounded fantasy to substantiate the claim, it's difficult to give credence to the case.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-09 03:38:01+00:00
I was answering the question you had about the marketed range. The answer is "no", it will never make 1300km during regular usage.

It is also pointless to ask people about their experience, as the range is extremely dependent on usage habits and location. The experience of other people is worthless unless they closely coincidence with your personal circumstances.

What you should do is compare the 1300km of WLTP range to your current cars WLTP range. That will give you an accurate estimate what 1300km WLTP will mean for you.
by peacebeard | 2025-11-09 03:38:46+00:00
In my opinion a major weakness in how people reason about this issue is that they describe solving problems as EITHER recall of an existing solution OR creative problem solving. Sure it is possible for a specific solution to be recalled, but it's not possible for a problem to be absolutely unrelated to anything the system has ever seen before and still be solvable. There are many shades of gray in the similarity a problem may have to previously seen problems. In fact, I expect that there are as many shades of gray as there are problems.
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-09 03:38:52+00:00
Not what I'm arguing, I agree with you. Nobody is compelled to carry your speech, with a rare "common carrier" exception. Which social media is not.

You've got me thinking. I'm sure there's government pressure on social media to not carry certain posts, or allow certain human access. That's a pretty clear 1st Amendment violation. But it shades off. What about say, NSA using it's total information awareness feed of the entire internet to let HN know when a terms-of-service violation happened. Is that OK? What about if the NSA selectively notifies Truth Social of TOS violations? What if the NSA sends an official lawyer around to Facebook to get them to modify TOS a particular way? What if the DoJ sends someone to Paul, Weiss to get them to send someone else around (pro bono!) to hint that modifying TOS a particular way would be beneficial to Bluesky? What if Zuckerberg calls up Trump and asks him how he'd like TOS to read? I'm not sure where the line is.