MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fujigawa | 2025-11-09 01:35:02+00:00
One of the more egregious stories that made national news and captured the zeitgeist of this situation was the alleged illegal immigrant that was working as a sworn police officer in suburban Chicago:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-...

So given that this was allowed to happen, you want me to believe it's impossible for an illegal immigrant to cast a vote in an election? In Chicago? Where the dead people vote?

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-investigators-chicago...

> In all, the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.
by accrual | 2025-11-09 01:35:15+00:00
Super cool work! Here's the emulator source: https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386

I wonder what the "effective" clock of the emulated CPU is, maybe we could run Speedsys or Landmark under DOS on it to see how it fares against a real 386. I happen to have a top-end 386 at 40MHz, 16MB FPM, and S3 801 VGA, but it's not quite fast enough to "enjoy" Win95 for me. :)
by bgwalter | 2025-11-09 01:35:31+00:00
All "AI" providers cut corners in the models right now because the subsidized cost is unsustainable.

Grok's latest update made it far worse than the version right after the Grok-4 release. It makes outright mistakes now. Copilot has cut corners long ago. Google "AI" was always horrible.

The whole "AI" experiment was an outrageously expensive IP laundering parlor trick that is meeting economic realities now.
by therein | 2025-11-09 01:36:42+00:00
It's not like the issue is with the windspeed. I'd imagine you'd only need stronger materials if the windspeed goes up, it's not like the sails break if the ship is too heavy. It just would get accelerated less by the amount of force captured by the sails. At least in my mental model of things. The only case in which you'd need to make the sails themselves stronger should be if the wind speed is somehow scaled.
by thrance | 2025-11-09 01:36:54+00:00
Democrats should be counter-messaging every hours of every day, on all media, to create actual dissent within the electorate. They're acting like they can't do anything but watch idly. It's insane that with all that happened, Trump still sits at ~40% popularity. Americans won't realize how shitty the situation is until you tell them, and make sure to blame Trump and the GOP every step of the process.

Insurance premiums on the rise? Thank Trump for that. No planes for Thanksgiving? Blame Vance. Etc.
by abvdasker | 2025-11-09 01:37:18+00:00
When this is all over and Trump has been consigned to history's dustbin, at the very least the public deserves to know the names of the individual federal agents and entire chain of command responsible for these atrocities. The people responsible for this wanton cruelty need to be charged and tried criminally for their actions. Nobody is going to forget this and I think a lot of Americans will demand justice and accountability once all is said and done.
by zemo | 2025-11-09 01:37:33+00:00
I always read it as not saying these are the limitations of civility, but that they are the purpose of civility; that civility exists specifically and exclusively as a tool to uphold existing systems of power. Anything that upholds the current power structures is definitionally civil; anything that challenges the existing structures of power is definitionally barbaric. Through that viewpoint, this very comment is polite, but not civil.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-09 01:37:49+00:00
> Edit: I'm studying for a private pilot license, and the difficulties in just understanding what the ATC and the other pilots are talking about is really a major stumbling block for me.

FWIW (and this may not be applicable to you, or you may already be doing it) I found that listening to ATC via LiveATC for my home airport during my car commutes really helped me with radio skills.

If you don't commute, I'd still suggest just listening when you're not in a cockpit and don't have to worry about flying.

Listening to specific airports I was familiar with really helped.
by mrlongroots | 2025-11-09 01:38:15+00:00
> LDL-C is much much cheaper to measure. ApoB costs 36x times as much, so Insurance Companies don't like to pay for it

Unfortunately American retail prices might as well be generated by a PRNG, and do not mean much.

On Ulta, a basic lipid panel vs an ApoB test are $22 and $36 respectively. Looking at Indian lab prices, (approx. INR->USD), both are under $10 there.

https://www.ultalabtests.com/test/cholesterol-and-lipids-tes... https://www.ultalabtests.com/test/cardio-iq-apolipoprotein-b...
by codingdave | 2025-11-09 01:38:19+00:00
Input: <table> <tr> <td>TEST<table> <tr> <td>TEST</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>

Output: Exactly the same.

Markdown cannot handle all HTML. If your system cannot gracefully handle HTML that doesn't have markdown equivalents and extract the plain text, you are going to have problems.
by afavour | 2025-11-09 01:38:30+00:00
> JSX, more than any other templating system, is just HTML interleaved with JavaScript. It’s HTML, and anything between { and } is evaluated as JavaScript.

That’s not true though and IMO is one of the weaknesses of JSX: it looks like something it is not. Having to use className instead of class is one of the most obvious tells. But in theory if it was just HTML with {}s I should be able to do:

<{tagName} /> <span {someStringWithAttributes} /> <div>{stringContainingHTML}</div>

and many other things you’re actually not able to do. Not to mention that things like onClick aren’t actually HTML attributes and are instead event listeners, etc etc.

Once you grasp that what you’re actually doing is a function call with an object of arguments it makes sense. But it isn’t HTML. It’s a chain of function calls.

We’re all really used to it so we don’t think about it a lot. But I always try to remind myself of that when I look at a new unfamiliar syntax.

(not to mention, your example isn’t correct! <Component/> don’t map to Component(), it maps to previouslyUnknownFunction(Component()), which is another confusing factor)
by cafard | 2025-11-09 01:38:46+00:00
I am an angry old not-quite suburban white male. My household employs no servants. We mow our own lawn, we rake our own leaves.

I know a fair number of people who are US born and have what appears to be a Central American complexion. I imagine much of the HN readership can get by without income for the time it can take a citizen, or someone with perfectly legitimate immigration status, to establish his or her bona fides to ICE. Not everybody who is getting in can.

And have you looked into the big employers, not Harriet Homeowner, but the meat packing plants, to see how carefully they examine documents?

Hell, have you examined the Trump organization's record?
by kelthuzad | 2025-11-09 01:38:51+00:00
So what? You're just moving the goal post. What if someone else's grandma has been hacked by opening a phishing link in her email? Should Apple restrict all mail clients to Apple Mail only, because someone's grandma could potentially click on a phishing link, that are only properly filtered out in Apple Mail? Obviously not. Your "what about my Grandma" argument is just absurd. You want everybody's freedoms to be restricted, because of your or someone else's Grandma, that's what you're arguing for.
by kayfox | 2025-11-09 01:39:08+00:00
But you do need a GDPR specialized attorney to review all of what your doing even if you don't use any cookies.

Why? Even logging an IP address in a request log is creating records controlled by GDPR.

When TV news in the US is broke and only gets along because large companies buy up stations to control the news, its hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on complying with laws from another continent.
by Chukwuebukaagm | 2025-11-09 01:40:43+00:00
Introducing Stock Tracker CLI: A Python-Based Stock Portfolio Management Tool

As a developer, managing a stock portfolio can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to tracking prices, calculating gains, and making informed investment decisions. To address this problem, I created Stock Tracker CLI, a command-line interface tool built using Python. In this post, we'll delve into the technical aspects of the project, exploring the solutions and technologies used to bring this tool to life. The initial commit, version 0.1.0, lays the foundation for a robust and scalable application.

Technical Problem and Solution ---------------------------------

The primary challenge was to design a system that could fetch real-time stock data, calculate portfolio performance, and provide insightful reports. To tackle this, I employed a modular architecture, separating concerns into distinct modules. The `data_fetcher.py` module is responsible for retrieving stock data from external APIs, while `portfolio.py` handles portfolio management and calculations. The `reporting.py` module generates detailed reports, providing users with a clear understanding of their portfolio's performance. By using a modular approach, the codebase remains maintainable, and new features can be added easily. For example, the `data_fetcher.py` module uses the `yfinance` library to fetch stock data, demonstrating the use of third-party libraries to simplify development.

Technologies and Patterns Used ---------------------------------

Stock Tracker CLI leverages several technologies and patterns to ensure a robust and efficient application. The project uses Python 3, taking advantage of its extensive libraries and frameworks. The `pyproject.toml` file manages dependencies, ensuring reproducibility and ease of installation. The `Dockerfile` enables containerization, allowing users to run the application in a isolated environment. The `logging_config.py` module configures logging, providing valuable insights into the application's behavior. By using established patterns and technologies, the project ensures a high degree of maintainability and scalability. For instance, the use of a `.env.example` file demonstrates how to manage environment variables, a crucial aspect of securing sensitive data.

Architecture Decisions and Code Concepts ------------------------------------------

One of the key architecture decisions was to use a command-line interface (CLI) as the primary interaction point. This decision was driven by the need for a simple, yet powerful, user interface. The `cli.py` module handles user input, parsing commands and arguments using the `argparse` library. The `stock_tracker.py`
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-09 01:41:11+00:00
Seems a bit unfair sometimes how arbitrary genetics can be. I've fought my weight all my life, only recently achieving consistent success with the assistance of GLP1s. I can't claim to be consistent with exercise either. Yet my numbers are great, I've done some of these deeper tests and everything comes back beautiful. My parents were overweight their whole life and both lived deep into their 80s (and my dad only died because he got an unlucky gall bladder infection and then ignored all the rapidly accumulating evidence that he was getting quite sick; he'd have gone another few years most likely). I don't recall anyone in my immediate ancestors having a heart attack. Seems it's just not in our genetics.

My father-in-law is more like you. Athletic, skinny, been that way all his life. Heart attack and quad bypass in his 40s.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-09 01:41:25+00:00
Considering the FAA has been fucking around for decades attempting to recapitalize and modernize the ATC network -- yes.

See: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-108162

And I do not use "fucking around" lightly. The FAA's repeatedly delayed and ineffective upgrade effort makes even the original healthcare.gov look like the Apollo program.
by baubino | 2025-11-09 01:43:14+00:00
I get and can appreciate the spirit of this but it’s both misdirected and unenforceable. Misdirected because licenses should dictate use of the product but this license wants to dictate behavior of the licensee, which in turn is obviously unenforceable. I too would rather that unethical people not use my software but there’s really no ethical way to do that through licensing.
by floundy | 2025-11-09 01:43:18+00:00
Average German lifespan is about 80 years. What if it was 70 years for an 80th percentile drinker and 90 years for a 20th percentile drinker, I assume that changes your conclusion? These are of course entirely made up numbers, and the data doesn't even exist as far as I'm aware, but goes to show how useless averages may be.

As for the other countries: 56% of French either "don't drink" or "only on special occasions", 43.5% of Spaniards never drink or less than 2x per week, and 35% of Italians do not drink compared to 12% who drink daily.

Like it or not the median data point in these population sets are those of people who drink very little.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-09 01:43:57+00:00
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics all define meaning at different scopes/scales.

Syntax is the smallest scale (words, punctuation, grammar), semantics is sentence or small function level, and pragmatics is paragraph-essay and program level.

For example when training early smaller scale LLMs they noticed that syntax was the first property for the LLM to reproduce reliably. They got proper grammar and punctuation but the sentences made no sense. When they scaled up they got semantics but not pragmatics. The sentences made sense but paragraphs didn't. Eventually the systems could output whole essays that made sense.

Even though you're asking about programming specifically, these concepts are universal to language, and are maybe a bit more intuitively applied to English (or your native language).

I suspect that a computer scientist could give a different mathematical explanation about how these concepts compile into binary or machine code in different ways, and I can't explain that. Generally I think of syntax as being very language specific but semantics and pragmatics can be translated across languages with similar capabilities.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-09 01:43:58+00:00
They’ve both had a huge window to win the future of the European car market (EVs) and failed to do so.

They’re facing the classic innovator’s dilemma. It will be incredibly difficult for them to build great EVs while the bulk of the money they make is through selling ICE vehicles, and more importantly, they’re culturally ICE prioritizing companies.
by carrychains | 2025-11-09 01:45:02+00:00
The visual experience is last on the list of things psychedelics are proven through clinical study to help with. Also, unless one of those objectives is to avoid the help psychedelics can provide, having clear objectives in life isn't a predictor of how helpful it will be. Finally, "contact with the spiritual universe it whatever" isn't even on the list things that actually help subjects in these studies.

Cool story, though.
by turpialito | 2025-11-09 01:45:12+00:00
Napkin calculation:

The Neoliner Origin cruises at 11 kts (20Km/h). "Straight line" on Google Earth from Saint-Nazaire to NY is about 5300 Km, so it crosses the Atlantic in 18 days.

The Emma Maersk (which I am aware plies a different route, but just for comparison's sake) cruises at 25kts (46Km/h) and therefore takes about 5 days.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-09 01:45:18+00:00
Ok, but I feel like the UK government hasn't thought this matter through. Think about what happens if the US decides it can enforce US law on UK soil against UK citizens. The main industry of the UK is questionable international finance using legal fictions on various islands. What happens when the US decides that that shouldn't be happening anymore? Its the same logic OfCom is using here. And unlike the UK government, the US could actually enforce this stuff in person. The US literally has military bases outside London with tanks and artillary and airstrips. This isn't a road to continue down.

PS The UK doesn't have free speech and never has. Free Speech was invented by the Dutch and the US was the first to put it in a founding document.

PPS I know of no government that thinks it can enforce their law outside of their borders against foreigners. That is outside the definition of sovereignty and something the UK government seems to have invented lately.
by epolanski | 2025-11-09 01:45:48+00:00
VW is already the EV leader by sales, Stellantis will follow suit by the end of the decade at top 2.

There are few important reasons:

1. VW and Stellantis combine a huge array of relevant (in EU) brands including (by memory) Jeep, Maserati, Audi, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Porsche, Lancia, Seat, Cupra, Lancia, Skoda, Volkswagen, Opel, Peugeot, Citroen, Lamborghini.

2. VW and Stellantis have already all the network made of service, parts, dealerships.

3. All markets are different, and as you can imagine European brands know how to build cars for that market.

4. Both companies are gigantic and well diversified across the globe with their supply chains and plenty of deals with Chinese ev and battery makers. Even if the Chinese end up dominating the European market, they will still have to build here and do it in a JV.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-09 01:47:11+00:00
An LLM would have generated four pages on this topic in order to increase the token count!

LLMs are advertised for serious applications. I don't recall that CPUs generally hallucinate except for the FDIV bug. Or that AirBnB rents you apartments that don't exist in 30% of all cases. Or that Uber cars drive into a river during 20% of all rides.
by CrazyStat | 2025-11-09 01:48:05+00:00
The author claims that the model importing incorrectly in Blender is Sketchfab's fault:

> Why? Because of …Sketchfab.

But he also admits that Blender's USD importer has issues:

> Sure, you can say that Blender’s USD importer is dumb, and that Sketchfab doesn’t actually remove anything, it just reshuffles and repackages stuff.

and that Apple's viewer imports it fine:

> P.S. Why does Apple’s built-in Viewer handle it just fine? I guess it’s because it understands the format on a much deeper level. Since USDZ is a technology originally developed by Pixar and Apple, the macOS viewer’s parser can correctly read even the most twisted USD file.

Given these facts, it's not at all clear to me that Sketchfab's processing step has anything to do with the incorrect import. Would the original version of the same model, as it was uploaded to Sketchfab before processing, import correctly into Blender? I don't know, but it seems very plausible that the answer is no.

This mostly seems to be an ad for the author's company.
by danaris | 2025-11-09 01:48:40+00:00
The problem isn't that ATC is funded by the government; it's that the government has been taken over by people who don't believe government should exist.

This is a fundamental failure state that it is impossible for any realistic governmental structure to protect against. The best we can do is put in place safeguards to make it harder.

And...we did. It's just that over the past 40 years or so (and increasingly so over the past 15ish), those safeguards have been systematically eroded by the Republican Party, both socially and legally.
by stavros | 2025-11-09 01:48:56+00:00
Or through emulation, but then the incentive is more to make the software work well in the emulator, rather than natively.

Then again, maybe we just need to wait longer for the market to catch up. Not many Steam games support Linux natively yet, even though Linux is a close second to Windows for how many games run on it through Proton. I guess developers figure that they don't need to do extra work when Valve will do it for them, but maybe that will change after a portion of the market has migrated to Linux, especially if Valve slows down on the compatibility work.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-11-09 01:49:10+00:00
> This sub-thread isn't really about what is legal (or illegal) in Europe or any other jurisdiction. It is about what is right.

My argument wasn’t about whether it’s legal or not. It’s discrimination, which is both illegal and wrong.

> when at the same time orgs are very obviously participating in actual discrimination

I don’t think so. Please provide evidence. Which orgs and where? In Germany all job postings explicitly say „(m/w/d)“ in title (male/female/diverse). I would be surprised to see any demographic-related constraints as they are easily challenged in court.
by epolanski | 2025-11-09 01:49:18+00:00
VW is the sales leader in EVs in Europe, they don't need to win the future, they are already winning the present.

Also, VW sold half a million EVs in H1 2025, Tesla sold 730k, so even globally they are closer than you think and VW will likely pass Tesla at current growth rates by halfway 2027.

Also, FYI, Europeans haven't been building ICEs for some time. The last (non sports car) serious ICE developed in Europe was the Mercedes Benz OM654 diesel engine.
by matt-p | 2025-11-09 01:50:22+00:00
For a particular (suicide related) site I know that it was 'made known' to resi-ISPs here and as far as I know everyone with existing capability to do so blocked it (though for some smaller ISPs just at the DNS level, so essentially superficially). Though that was just on the honour/good will system, I don't think any had to be forced.

I think that essentially this is probably the best way to do it, IF we must go down this route (and I think in some cases we probably have to).
by asdfasvea | 2025-11-09 01:52:14+00:00
Thats not really the ACA\Obamacare story, but it's still funny:

https://navigatorresearch.org/the-affordable-care-act-remain...

Explain the program and then call it'ACA' and people loved it. Explain the program and call it 'Obamacare' and polled people disliked it.

Shakespeare was wrong about roses.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-09 01:52:20+00:00
When you are a backstabbing administration who demands yes-people, you have difficulty attracting qualified candidates.

As a result, you have incompetent people running things.

People who do things like violate federal law because they're too dumb to think before they act to curry favor.

It's honestly been fascinating watching the people with a modicum of self preservation sense (Marco Rubio) versus those who don't think actions will come back to bite them (Linda McMahon, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem).

From a purely practical perspective, you'd have to be stupid not to evaluate decisions with an eye towards "Will I be prosecuted at a future date for this?" in this administration.
by stavros | 2025-11-09 01:52:21+00:00
Are we talking about economics, or about hallucinations?

"CPUs don't hallucinate" would be a reasonable argument if CPUs were an alternative to LLMs, which they aren't, so I'm not really sure what argument you're making there.

Seems like you're saying "a calculator makes fewer mistakes than an accountant", which is true, but I still pay an accountant to do my taxes, and not a calculator.
by jasonlotito | 2025-11-09 01:52:51+00:00
> You will go to jail for trying to openly bribe the police here

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-aide-homan-accepted-5...

In addition:

Things you can do in the USA right now without punishment (as long as you the corrcect kind of Republican)

* Try to kill the vice president.

* Terrorize the capital

* Try to kill police

* Rape

* Being a pedophile

Things you can and will be killed or punished for, or that the government is getting vigilantes to go after.

* Walking

* Exercising your rights under the Bill of Rights

* Literally upholding the law

* Speaking negatively about the President

* Following Christianity

* Being Jewish

So, yeah, it's fairly corrupt.

I haven't even talked about the white collar crimes that are happening every day. But none of the above is hyperbole.