MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-20 23:22:42+00:00
Immigrants do pay taxes, legal or not, because sales tax exists. Income tax doesn't really apply until you're richer.

The comparison to slavery is quite funny, because you're actually right. But probably not in the way you think - or even, the way most American politics talks about. For example, whenever a state gets a bug up their butt about illegal immigration and tries to actually enforce eVerify[0], the local agricultural sector collapses. Because American agriculture has always been addicted to slave labor, and always will be absent specific interventions to give agricultural workers negotiating power.

Of course, that's not the kind of intervention you're going to see out of Congress anytime soon. The arguments had in Congress, and with Trump, boil down to "how many indentured servants do we bring in, and for how long do they have to work before they get their rights back?" Illegal immigration is solely understood as a fault of the immigrant, not the companies who rely on them. Even the mass deportations are being carried out with the understanding that the slaves are the problem - not their masters.

And to be clear, the slave-like nature of immigration (illegal or otherwise) comes down to the fact that immigrants don't use the same job market Americans use. If I want to poach an H1-B, I have to go through hoops and pay an exorbitant sum to sponsor them. This means they can't demand equivalent salaries - even though the condition of their visa was that they'd be getting paid the same or better. It just doesn't pencil unless the immigrant works for peanuts and you're a huge organization that can swallow the compliance costs.

You can't get rid of slavery by whipping the slave harder. If you want to actually get rid of immigration-as-slavery, you need to hand out visas like candy, green cards to anyone who tells on their employer / trafficker / etc. for violating labor laws, and amnesty to people who have been here for a long time without a rap sheet.

[0] This is the US government service that actually tells you if you're hiring someone who has a legal right to work in the country or not.
by greedo | 2025-11-20 23:22:45+00:00
Drive a white Altima across I20 from Abilene to Shreveport. Be a good boy and drive within the speed limit. You'll get pulled over for suspicion of being a drug mule. Of course you're innocent, but if you decline to allow them to search your car, they'll call in a drug dog that's trained to alert whenever its handler wants. So they toss your car and all your belongings. Strip out all the door panels, everything. If they want, they can plant evidence and jail you. If they decide to be nice, they just leave you on the side of the road trying to figure out how to put your car back together.
by magarnicle | 2025-11-20 23:23:15+00:00
It's a bit weird to me that AoE 2 is the most popular of that series, considering how much more streamlined and balanced Age of Mythology is.

For example, getting to the 3rd age in AoE 2 ASAP is basically mandatory, but in AoM you can potentially start attacking from the 2nd age. On top of that, getting to the 3rd age in AoE 2 takes much longer than AoM. So there's basically a whole lot of wasted time at the start of an AoE 2 match.
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-20 23:23:15+00:00
You are wrong on almost every metric, and I hope someday you'll see how much so.

Housing is the fault of NIMBYs and real estate speculation. Healthcare costs are not high because of illegal immigrants (mainly), it is due to a broken private health insurance system your party defends. At the cost of scaring the rest of the world away from ever wanting to be in this country, legally or not, while we disintegrate our political and economic power in the world. A Russian patriot as president of the United States could not do more damage to our country than your supported policies are doing to us, for years to come, today.

Do we need fewer migrants coming in? Yes. Do we need to target violent criminals of any kind thoroughly? Yes. Is this skin-color-based mass manhunt being done by the dregs of wannabe law enforcement (combined with every other idiotic, anti-American policy this president has pursued) worth it? No.
by dboreham | 2025-11-20 23:24:32+00:00
It's a kind of apples vs pears problem:

You have a bunch of tooling that deals with apples. You have a clear conceptual picture of what an apple is and what it does.

Then someone brings you a pear. It's kind of like an apple but not exactly. Their pear however works well with some other toolscape that's beyond the shire. You want to do things with their pears.

You invent a way to put a pear inside an apple (docker in VM). That works but you lose some functionality and break some stuff in the conversion, plus now you don't have the clean conceptual integrity of your apple-only system.

This is a way to transform a pear into an apple.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-20 23:24:56+00:00
> You do not want local govt each building their own “secure” system

I really do. A centralised, insecure [1] database could lead to America losing a war.

A distributed system of low-reliability nodes is more robust than a centralised system that's very reliable. "ARPANET," after all "was built to explore technologies related to building a military command-and-control network that could survive a nuclear attack." (That's not what it wound up becoming.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/lawmakers-say-stolen-polic...
by forgetfulness | 2025-11-20 23:25:08+00:00
Notes and Reminders are extremely good at what they do, and the synchronization with their iOS equivalents is flawless from what I can tell… and fat chance you get to uproot such a thing to a non-Apple OS.

Third party apps other than for media editing seem to be rare, I think Apple has gobbled or rug pulled much of its independent software vendor ecosystem.
by steeleduncan | 2025-11-20 23:25:39+00:00
It doesn't seem to be their focus, but this could be amazing for macOS build machines, and servers. There have been a number of changes in recent years focussed on improving the security of macOS when used as a Desktop OS. These work well for their intended purpose, but they have made macOS harder and harder to deploy headlessly, and use as a server.

I hope to see this become an open source OS that runs the full xcode command line suite, deploys easily to headless machines, and inherits FreeBSD's server hardware compatibility.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-11-20 23:25:51+00:00
I am so old I lived through it! - 13 years old staying up all night to watch Neil take his little stroll. Genuine question, how DO they teach it in school? Do they get into the physics of any of it (orbital mechanics, rocketry etc)? Do they get into the cold war geopolitics of it? Do they teach the amazing accomplishments of the Soviet Union as well as NASA?
by dboreham | 2025-11-20 23:26:45+00:00
> LLMs can only give you what its been trained on, i.e. it will not be "creative" or "revolutionary", that it will not output anything "new", but "only what is in its corpus

That's not true. Or at least it's only a true as for a human that read all the books in the world. That human only has seen that training data. But somehow it can come up with the Higgs Boson, or whatever.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-11-20 23:27:43+00:00
GrapheneOS is a project with really good intentions, and we should definitely give them credit.

But here’s the thing: criminals end up exploiting tech like this, and that makes the project an easy target for law enforcement. We’ve seen the exact same thing happen with crypto.

We need to just accept that any technology designed for security and privacy is always going to be a double-edged sword.
by leekrasnow | 2025-11-20 23:28:11+00:00
Thanks for sharing this.

I am curious to know if your agent can connect to a user’s custom MCP server in order to make tool/calls with files attached. For example I have a custom MCP server that catalogs the images which are submitted in the RPS 2.0 payload. I have a python wrapper script that convert’s Cursor’s stdio MCP interface to an http request, inserting htaccess credentials and scanning the tool call args for any files that it needs to attach to the payload. This lets me set up the wrapper script as an MCP server in the cursor settings. This lets the built in Auto-mode agents do some similar kinds of tasks like you are describing.

With that said, it sounds like your system has better agents and tools for working with things besides just text files, so I am wondering if perhaps your agentic tools might be a good fit for a situation where for example I have a messy filesystem full of images that may already be duplicates in the database. If I provide the MCP tools into my database, can your system and agents use tools that I define? Does your system have ability to attach access credentials if/when making calls to third party mcp/tools?
by shadowpho | 2025-11-20 23:28:17+00:00
>Even fast SSDs can get away with half of their lanes and you’ll never notice except in rare cases of sustained large file transfers

Sorta yes but kinda the other way around — you’ll mostly notice in short high burst of I/O. This is mostly the case for people who use them to run remote mounted VM.

Nowadays all nvme have a cache on board (ddr3 memory is common), which is how they manage to keep up with high speed. However once you exhaust the cache speeds drop dramatically.

But your point is valid that very few people actually notice a difference
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-20 23:28:38+00:00
Yeah, people be random sometimes, internet can be hostile. But why is @GrapheneOS still engaging? After 2-3 messages you won't really improve on anything, and their goal is probably to just suck energy, so the only way to win is to not engage at all. Also ruins the conversations about the the content, instead people end up focusing on that crazy-on-one-side exchange.

Internet 101: don't provide sustenance to the creatures who sometimes live under bridges.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 23:28:41+00:00
> The executive branch asserts that there is such a zone. But the truth is likely that many, if not all, 4th Amendment rights still apply in many situations within that zone.

Technically, the entire fourth amendment applies. BUT All the fourth amendment requires is probable cause for warrants, and that searches and seizures be reasonable. It doesn't require warrants for searches or seizures (although courts have found that that is usually necessary for reasonableness), and it doesn't require probable cause for searches or seizures without a warrant (though courts have found that that also is usually necessary for reasonableness.)

What the courts have allowed is the use of the border zone to justify exceptions to a lot of the things that are usually required for reasonableness. This isn't, technically, an exception to the Fourth Amendment, because searches still need to be "reasonable". Its just proximity to the border makes searches "reasonable" that wouldn't be anywhere else.
by zythyx | 2025-11-20 23:29:11+00:00
I found Kagi quite recently, and after blowing through my trial credits, and now almost blowing through my low tier (300) credits, I'm starting to look at the next tier up. However, it's approaching my threshold of value vs price.

I have my own payment methods for AI (OpenWebUI hosted on personal home server connected to OpenRouter API credits which costs me about $1-10 per month depnding on my usage), so seeing AI bundled with searches in the pricing for Kagi really just sucks the value out of the main reason I want to switch to Kagi.

I would love to be able to just buy credits freely (say 300 credits for $2-3) and just using them whenever. No AI stuff, no subscription, just pay for my searches. If I have a lull in my searches for a month, then a) no extra resources from Kagi have been spent, and b) my credits aren't used and rollover. Similarly, if I have a heavy search month, then I'll buy more and more credits.

I just don't want to buy extra AI on top of what I already have.
by h2zizzle | 2025-11-20 23:29:34+00:00
I don't know the history. That would be the source of my discontent. Every time things like this come up, the hyperfocus on Western experience erases whatever insight could have been gained by looking at the topic in its totality. My guess is that whatever dynamic the history of the printing press in the East might have lent to this conversation wasn't even considered until I brought it up. That was my contribution.

Please don't take out your embarrassment on me.
by kragen | 2025-11-20 23:30:34+00:00
I think that if most of the things in the vacuum chamber are at room temperature, while the lava filament is at 700°, that won't substantially reduce the radiative heat loss. If almost everything inside the vacuum chamber that isn't mirror-coated is at something like 500° or 600°, I think it would work. Maybe that could save you from having to keep the walls themselves at 500° or 600°.
by toomanyrichies | 2025-11-20 23:31:01+00:00
Noted Nazi Richard Spencer was Stephen Miller's mentor while they were both at Duke [1]. Miller repeatedly pushed Breitbart News editors to promote content from explicitly white nationalist sources such as VDare and American Renaissance [2]. He recommended The Camp of the Saints, a notoriously racist novel beloved by many white supremacists and some neo-Nazis, which features "white genocide" themes [3].

At this point, asking whether Miller is a card-carrying Nazi, or just pals around with them and espouses their beliefs, is a distinction without a difference. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/richard-spencer-says-he-knew...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/12/trump-adviser-...

3. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/bigoted-belief...
by vladgur | 2025-11-20 23:31:12+00:00
#TIL Proxmox 9.1 is out.

Im still on 8.x -- it was a fun way to consolidate my different hacky projects -- home assistant, frigate, wireguard, qbittorrent etc

Kinda scared to think of what it would take to upgrade to 9.1 :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980005
by temp0826 | 2025-11-20 23:31:54+00:00
Probably a good thing SLI fell out of fashion. No consumer boards with multiple 16x, but a few with 2 8x (gated behind a "mode" switch). A few years ago it was looking like we were on our way to full 4 16x slots. For cuda/llm/whatever does it really matter if the cards are in 1x slots?
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-20 23:32:13+00:00
> As a total beginner to the functional programming world, something I've never seen mentioned at length is that OOP actually makes a ton of sense for CRUD and database operations.

That's because you are wrong. There's nothing in relational databases mapping that make objects a better target than even the normal data structures you see in functional languages.

> In my case, I wanted to do CRUD endpoints which were programmatically generated based on database schema.

What is a pure transformation.

The problem is that CRUD applications are an incredibly bad explored area. There only mature projects out there are the OOP ORM ones. That's not because OOP is inherently better suited to the application, it's because there's simply not a lot of people willing to risk into working at that problem.

(And the reason people are not willing can be because developers don't choose their tools through rational evaluation, or may be some irrational one IDK. Mine is certainly because I know if I built an amazing system, nobody would come.)
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-20 23:32:13+00:00
Apple Mail also is in my eyes the only generic mail client out there that really “gets it”.

Thunderbird has always felt clunky in comparison and the recent redesign just made it a different kind of clunky. Everything else is either too minimal (Geary), tries to clone old style Outlook (Evolution), or is tied to/favors a particular provider (Gmail, Outlook, etc).
by ricardobeat | 2025-11-20 23:33:08+00:00
There are non-christian references to Jesus in roman/jewish history books written in the same century, which give pretty strong support to the idea he was an actual person and was killed for his charity 'work' that catered to the poor and sick. Obviously no real 'historical evidence' is possible beyond that.

Sorry, I studied this ~30 years ago, and am not really in the mood to dig for more details :)
by nomel | 2025-11-20 23:33:11+00:00
I'm the kind of person that sees a bowl as a large cup without a handle.

Likewise, I see these patterns as equivalent style choices, since the problem fundamentally dictates the required organization and data flow, because the same optimal solution will be visible to any skilled developer, with these weak style choices of implementation being the only freedom that they actually have.

For example, these two are exactly the same:

state = concept_operation(state, ...args)

and

class Concept: def operation(self, ...args) self.state = <whatever with self.state>

and an API call to https://url/concept/operation with a session ID where the state is held.

I suspect people who get emotional about these things haven't spent too much time in the others, to understand why they exist with such widespread use.

It's like food. If you go anywhere and see the common man eating something, there's a reason they're eating it, and that reason is that's it's probably pretty ok, if you just try it. There's a reason they're eating it, and it's not that they're idiots.
by russellbeattie | 2025-11-20 23:34:07+00:00
> "foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers"?

This is a straight up falsehood, using any measure you'd like. Why do regressives insist on just making things up to justify their prejudices?

The recent surge in immigration is going to lower the deficit by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.

Unauthorized immigrants pay federal taxes yet receive no federal services. They commit less crime, fulfill unmet labor needs at both ends of the skill ladder, and cost less than the average American in terms of healthcare.

Your whole worldview is based on stuff you just made up in your head and right wing fever dreams.
by skydhash | 2025-11-20 23:34:45+00:00
I don't have access to the grok sample you've shared (service not available in my region)

Reading the documentation is mostly for gotchas and understanding the subsystem you're going to incorporate in your software. You can not design something that will use GTK or sndio without understanding the core concepts of those technologies. And if you know the concepts, then I will say it's easier and faster to write the code than to write such specs.

As for finding samples, it's easy on the web. Especially with GitHub search. But these days, I often take a look at the source code of the library itself, because I often got questions that the documentation don't have the answer for. It's not about what the code I wrote may do (which is trivial to know) but what it cannot do at all.
by mooreds | 2025-11-20 23:34:48+00:00
Heya, I work for FusionAuth. We have a comparable product for many use cases.

Happy to chat (email in profile), or you can visit our comparison page[0] or detailed technical migration guide[1].

0: https://fusionauth.io/compare/fusionauth-vs-auth0

1: https://fusionauth.io/docs/lifecycle/migrate-users/provider-...
by Iolaum | 2025-11-20 23:36:28+00:00
The problem is not that security solutions are a double edged sword, it's that such solutions stop mass surveillance.

When Ross Ulbricht was arrested, they made sure to do it in a way that they got access to his laptop while logged in. I'm sure competent investigators can figure out the login method used daily by someone on their phone if they follow them because they are committing a crime. Just like they did with Ulbricht. But they can't do that for everyone whenever they feel like it, and that's the problem.
by msukhareva | 2025-11-20 23:37:20+00:00
it is time to call it.

Their open weight models are the ones that keep research alive and enable startups and even bigger companies to build AI solutions while keeping control of the model.

The Western companies chose the path of hype and profit.

They overpromise, commit to deals they cannot pay for, and build datacenters they cannot power.

China, possibly strategically, burst this AI bubble by publishing their models as open weights.

Nothing hurts the narrative of “AGI is around the corner, we just need trillions for scaling” more than an agentic open weight model like Kimi K2 that was trained with less resources.

Whatever the motives are, Moonshot and MiniMax deliver impressive models.
by sroerick | 2025-11-20 23:38:04+00:00
I agree with you, but I am not sold on optimizing for performance above all else.

Business logic ran fine on ancient mainframes. It can run fine on Raspberry Pis.

CRUD is super easy. It's also not super resource intensive.

I know that's the path that led us all down into Java OOP / start menu is a react native component, but it is actually true.

ORM adds a convenience layer. It also adds some decent protection against SQL injects OOTB and other dev comforts.

Is that trade off worth it? Probably not. But sometimes it's the best tool for the job
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-20 23:38:32+00:00
The standard for a warrant is probable cause, which is more stringent than reasonable belief.

Reasonable belief is what allows for police to take warrantless actions. Cop sees someone in a neighborhood walking around looking inside car windows and trying door handles. He now has reasonable belief enough to temporarily detain that person and ask what he's doing. No arrest or search may be conducted.

vs.

A court issued warrant requires probable cause. Cop let the suspect go in the first example (as he should with no probable cause for an arrest), and the next day someone in the neighborhood reports that their car was broken into and their laptop stolen. Cop checks local pawn shops and finds the laptop, the person that sold it to the pawn shop is the same person the cop stopped last night. NOW the cop has enough probable cause to seek a search warrant to look for other stolen items.

Point being, reasonable belief or reasonable suspicion isn't and shouldn't be enough to search or detain. You need probable cause, and that probable cause needs to be affirmed by a judge and a warrant issued.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-20 23:38:57+00:00
I've been seeing a slow splinter as of late between "establshment"-style Democrats focused on decorum, and the progressive-style democrats focused on overhauling the status quo. There definitely seems to be a slow shift towards people who want to take real actions an not stay stifled in years talking about actions.

Of course, the former won't let the latter perform without a fight. The campaign with Mamdami was one of many clashes on this, and there will be many more to come next year.

Either way, a focus of not falling to fascism is the bare minimum agreement between all democrats. I just hope we don't all think the job is done once we get the bar back from being underground. It being on the floor still isn't a great look.
by cons0le | 2025-11-20 23:39:53+00:00
Ahh yes, so robotic

https://youtu.be/_1xJoVzoIQg?list=RD_1xJoVzoIQg

Also they were not all justin beiber. Bach was a working church musician when mozart was out touring europe getting drunk and shitting on women. Only one of them was in it for the fame. In fact you could say that mozart and liszt were 2 of the first "pop stars" because that archetype didn't exist before them. There was basically no "beatlesmania" over bach. He had a steady job, but he didn't die wealthy or famous.
by kragen | 2025-11-20 23:40:50+00:00
Oh, I was on cypherpunks in 01992, so I know about the Clipper Chip. But in this case you don't need to keep any secrets from the owner of the vehicle; they're free to attach a debugging connector to their own transceiver and read it at any time. The idea is to make their car anonymous to other people, except for law enforcement, not to themselves.

Maybe you think there's no way that the transceiver can successfully authenticate those law-enforcement requests without containing secrets. It can; it only needs the public key of a root CA.