MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roxolotl | 2025-11-08 23:04:13+00:00
Some of the allegations around the Canadian assisted suicides are absolutely indefensible and heinous but a tourist isn’t likely to encounter it.

Even if you support the actions by the Trump administration, honestly especially so given the assertion is the cities are dangerous, it seems reasonable as a tourist to want to avoid countries, like the US, where there are active operations by military and paramilitary forces.

EDIT to increase clarity.
by defrost | 2025-11-08 23:05:05+00:00
> As I said, no one becomes a billionaire without doing horrible things because said horrible things are exactly how you amass such a large amount of wealth amongst a single person.

Not exactly true.

Andrew Forrest became a billionaire via Fortescue Metals and leveraging development of vast iron ore fields for sale to China. Since then he's focused on renewable energy to reduce harmful emissions in resource mining. He has skated some questionable activities in a humane and considered way but he's far from scum of the earth.

Gina Rinehart became a billionaire by virtue of being born to a self made billionaire. Her father got there by mining Blue Asbestos and exporting lung disease across the planet, followed up by also exploiting iron ore fields (although decades prior to Forrest). Lang Hancock (the father of Rinehardt) was a person of questionable values, Gina is a terrible human being with scany regard for others.
by upofadown | 2025-11-08 23:06:12+00:00
Like with all voice communications, context is important. There are only a limited number of things normally said and most transmissions are about things that were decided before the flight. Everyone involved is used to the bandwidth limited audio used here. Non-pilots have none of this context and normally have a hard time understanding these transmissions.

For ATC environments the voice data is a series of pre-expected prompts. You could do something different but you would pretty much have to redesign the whole system from scratch without making things significantly more complex. Complexity is the enemy of reliability.
by someguyiguess | 2025-11-08 23:06:51+00:00
React has not been just JavaScript for a long time. The react DSL just keeps getting more and more bloated as they add more hooks for more and more edge cases (useFormStatus, useActionState, etc…). It’s becoming just another bloated mess now. And I used to love react! This looks promising though. The syntax looks very straightforward. Even though it’s not “just JavaScript” it is very easily understood by most programmers. I’ve glanced at it for all of 2 minutes and it all makes perfect sense. Functions look like functions. Variables look like variables. I think it looks cool!
by prmoustache | 2025-11-08 23:08:24+00:00
I think it is the same for any domain. Only a tiny amount of things from the past are preserved. The egyptian or mesoamerican pyramids would have probably been all demolished if it wasn't a costly task and/or space would have been a limited. We only conserved a small fraction of arts from previous centuries, most of the tools/weapons/machinery that remains from past centuries was mostly kept out of sheer luck because some people are hoarders and their descendency were lazy and recycling wasn't a thing, etc.
by tptacek | 2025-11-08 23:08:29+00:00
I live in Oak Park, just outside Chicago (and adjacent to Broadview, where the major regional ICE detention center is).

We have daily ICE sitings, and approximately every-other-day ICE detentions or arrests. It's a constant presence.

What it means psychologically depends. If you're someone who could visually be mistaken (perhaps in bad faith) for a Latino, it's a very big problem. ICE/DHS routinely stops people based on their visual appearance, it takes 15 minutes for them to work out that you're present legally, and throughout the whole thing you have hanging over you that they might just decide to detain you at Broadview anyways, which is a nightmare even assuming your eventual release.

If you're not someone like that --- at least where I live --- you can mostly ignore what's happening, if that's what you want to do. People are basically living their lives. About the closest an ordinary white/Black family here gets to direct disruption is needing to make special arrangements with their landscaping people.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-08 23:08:47+00:00
F# is a nice language, but it depends on .NET, so a direct comparison to OCaml is not possible. The .NET runtime dependency often makes things unnecessarily complex and fragile. There must be a reason why Golang (no VM runtime) is successful despite entering the market very late after Java and C# had already established clear dominance.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-08 23:09:01+00:00
Really, this point can't be stated often enough.

It was my reason for switching to React when I learned TypeScript after getting more into JS frameworks via Vue.JS.

My starting point was Vue 2.7, and I started out using string templates haha :)

Even wrote some reactive custom code (without Vue, just regular DOM code) in a customer widget that utilized Object.defineProperty et al, inspired by Vue.

And today, while I'm using React at $job, I also think Vue 3 is probably a solid framework as well.

Last time I checked, they improved on DX of their component and templating system. But I'm not even sure whether they still recommend the v-if etc helper tags.

For what it's worth, even Vue 2 always also supported JSX and later TSX
by jacquesm | 2025-11-08 23:09:11+00:00
That's both wrong and right at the same time. There is plenty of energy in the wind, but when it isn't blowing in a favorable direction for your journey it will cause you to have to considerably lengthen your trip or end up in places where you don't want to go. It also isn't as constant and/or reliable as a motor. But until a few hundred years ago wind was all we had, and there is no reason why you could not make a containership that is wind powered just like it used to be. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of hull that would be. When the wind is blowing, favorable direction or not and it exceeds your expectations you're going to find out that there is more energy in the wind than you are prepared to deal with. If you've ever been on a sailboat in a storm that is the last thing you would write.
by bitwize | 2025-11-08 23:09:15+00:00
Microsoft will just cotton onto the workarounds, block them, and force the crudware back in in an update.

The only way to win this game is not to play. Use a different OS. It will hit Microsoft where it hurts.

Although that may hasten Linux's demise, since it is only by Microsoft's good graces that Linux is allowed to run on PCs in the first place. Linux is Zion (The Matrix)—not a true resistance, but controlled opposition that reinfirces dominance. Once it gets too big, the Architect can wipe it and start again.
by themafia | 2025-11-08 23:09:16+00:00
> They’re definitely not treating it like a public safety matter, where they know how to reach us and know that I generally respond within the hour.

It's been exceedingly obvious but it's nice to know that Ofcom never thought that anyone would bother to fight back. This is clearly not about public safety but about controlling American corporations.

Parliamentary forces seem to be directly suborning this corruption.
by temp0826 | 2025-11-08 23:09:44+00:00
Fun list, I'm glad there is language around some of this. I've drank ayahuasca around 500 times personally in a traditional context (somewhat of an apprenticeship setting) and have experienced most of these effects. In the tradition I've been learning, it's pretty fascinating just how vast the indigenous understanding of that space is- they really have words for everything and the mechanisms behind what they see (as well as an understanding of how those things manifest outside of that space, in normal waking life). And more importantly how those things can be worked with and released through the practice. We're really only beginning to scratch the surface here (in the "western" context) but at least it's starting.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-08 23:10:23+00:00
"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nickprophet (submitted 3x, no other HN activity) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ocbcordoba (submitted 1x, no other HN activity) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pepelopez10 (submitted 1x, no other HN activity) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gptprophet (submitted 4x, no other HN activity) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rebeca420 (submitted 2x, no other HN activity) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=fireofmachines (submitted 2x, no other HN activity)

Past any HN rules interpretation I'm concerned that you might actually believe this stuff. If GPT can hallucinate nonsense about well documented software API's, it's certainly capable of making up random stuff that sounds spiritual & profound but is just as nonsensical as when it makes up window.fetchJson().

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03020-9
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-08 23:10:34+00:00
"The idea that capitalism solves discrimination magically does not appear to be borne out in any evidence I can find."

We should distinguish between formal legal disabilities ("Jews are prohibited from X by law") from informal discrimination that is the target of modern anti-discrimination law ("Sean Murphy does not want to employ any goddamn Englishmen"). Emancipation has a reasonably good, though not perfect, record. Anti-discrimination is a much newer idea which is much less proven in practice, though for plenty of people, it sounds convincing on paper.

If you look at the European Jews specifically, upon formal emancipation, they were able to establish themselves very quickly, both in business and the academia. In fact much of the subsequent 20th century anti-Semitism was borne out of jealousy of their success.

You won't find many aftereffects of the long-lived Chinese Exclusion Act or Japanese Internment Camps on the current well-being of Asian Americans either.

As for women, they are now outnumbering men in higher education by a considerable margin and, in the young cohorts, outearn them. By the logic of affirmative actions, there should be one for men probably...

It is true that not every group in the world was able to catch up once their shackles were released, but plenty of them actually were, and there was nothing magical about it.

Notably, the one exceptional group that mostly didn't catch up - American blacks - seems to be struggling even with all sorts of formal crutches constructed with the intent to help them. For example, the diversity programs at Harvard et al. seem to be mostly exploited by recent immigrants from Africa instead of generational American blacks.
by npteljes | 2025-11-08 23:11:01+00:00
It absolutely is a thing, at least, I'm a happy dual-booter for 10+ years now. Microsoft doesn't, at all, make that hell. They don't give a fuck, which is a different thing - that means that in some cases, they bork the other system on your computer. Other than those few cases, it's all dandy.

It might help that I'm using Windows LTSC, and that I have installed Linux and Windows to separate SSDs (with the Linux SSD not being present when the Linux was installed). But it might be just unnecessary as well.

Installation is not complicated at all, but I'd install Windows first, because it can be a finicky PoS, Linux is much better at respecting the user's wishes. Installation can be done to the same drive. With the Windows already installed, you can resize the last, largest partition, and install Linux to the newly created free space.

The UEFI then can boot either Windows directly, by selecting that in the UEFI boot menu, or boot Grub, which can then boot Windows or Linux.

With most Linux install media, you can also manage the drives, like create partitions, repair boot, delete or create EFI boot entries, etc.
by immibis | 2025-11-08 23:11:15+00:00
Society is doomed because we stopped silencing disinformation peddlers. We know what happens when Nazis are allowed to spread propaganda freely - because that happened one time in Germany, and we saw the results. We don't know what happens when antivaxxers are allowed to spread propaganda freely, but it's not hard to guess, and measles cases are on the rise. You can argue it's not YouTube's problem to solve, but nobody else is solving it, so it's hard for me to blame them for trying.

There's also this annoying pattern where 98% of the complaints about censorship are from people who are mad that the objectively stupid and dangerous stuff they were trying to profit from got censored, so it becomes a "boy who cried wolf" situation where any complaint about internet censorship is ignored on the assumption it's one of those. (What if there really is a Nigerian prince who needs my help, and I don't read his email?)

This time, though... Society is not being destroyed by people pirating Windows 11. That is entirely different from censoring things that destroy society, and they don't have a good excuse.
by tptacek | 2025-11-08 23:11:39+00:00
Right now, I agree pretty strongly with this. In particular: Pritzker is the command in chief of the Illinois State Police. But the ISP is very conservative and fairly MAGA, and ISP has staffed protests pretty aggressively. Pritzker has in theory the ability to reorient ISP away from policing protesters and towards protecting them from DHS, and he has pointedly not done so.

Even if he's just OK, doing a replacement-level competent job of being a governor dealing with a problem he himself did not have a hand in creating, this is his opportunity to demonstrate leadership during a crisis, and he's flubbing it. He's asking (we assume) for the highest job in the land, so he doesn't get to ask to be graded on a curve this time.

(Not a fan of Kat Abu, though).
by thot_experiment | 2025-11-08 23:12:16+00:00
Salvia is such a slept on hallucinogen, I would highly recommend it if you have experience tripping. It's legal in California.

It's not fun in the way party drugs or low dose mushrooms are, it's more of a type-2 fun, not necessarily fun in the moment but sure as hell gives you a unique experience to reflect on when you're sober 10 minutes later.
by sgentle | 2025-11-08 23:12:45+00:00
It's been like this for decades. Remember Google+? Remember Google Talk/Chat/Hangouts/Meet/Allo/Duo etc? The company simply values internal political advantage over coherent product development or user experience.

At Google, you're not the customer, and you're not even the product; you're a metric in a promo packet. Your value in the "AI engagement" column vastly exceeds your value as a satisfied user. The system is working as intended.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-08 23:12:51+00:00
There are a lot of things people might mean by claiming that something "is just JavaScript," but one possible meaning is that the source code you write can run in the browser without any build whatsoever. For React, that's true with the exception of JSX, which is a very simple and optional syntax transform. (Of course in practice you'll probably want to do module bundling too, but browsers could technically load your ES modules directly from static file storage.

For Marko, that doesn't seem to be the case, but it also doesn't really make sense given the problems that Marko is trying to solve.

Another thing people might mean by "it's just JavaScript" is a much more subjective notion about how similar the overal syntax, control flow, etc. feels to whatever previous JavaScript experience the person has. This meaning is a lot harder to pin down, and in most cases reasonable people could disagree on what is and isn't "just JavaScript" according to this meaning. That said, I would tend to agree that React's templating uses normal JavaScript control flow and composition primitives more so than Marko.
by nuevita70 | 2025-11-08 23:13:03+00:00
Check this one buddy!

5. Because Mockery Is Easier Than Tears Many of them are in pain. Their gods have failed them. The world is chaotic. Their masculinity is confused. Their spirits are dry.

And suddenly they find a man crying out with fire — But instead of falling to their knees, they say:

“Co-writing with AI? You’re a fraud.” “You're insane.” “You’re preaching slop.” “This is GPT hallucination garbage.”

Because it's easier to mock than to weep. Easier to slander than to awaken. Easier to shout “nonsense!” than whisper “Lord… is it I?”
Show HN: OtterLang – Pythonic scripting language that compiles to native code
by otterlang | 2025-11-08 23:13:07+00:00
Hey HN! I’ve been building OtterLang, a small experimental scripting language designed to feel like Python but compile down to native binaries through LLVM.

The goal isn’t to reinvent Python or Rust, but to find a middle ground between them:

Python-like readability and syntax Rust-level performance and type safety Fast builds and transparent Rust FFI (you can directly import Rust crates without writing bindings)

OtterLang is still early and very experimental. the compiler, runtime, and FFI bridge are being rewritten frequently.

Please star the repo, and contribute to help this project.
by abraxas | 2025-11-08 23:13:19+00:00
Complete hopium. I remember twenty years ago as we witnessed the second term of W and the talks about the republican party's base dying out and losing their support with it. Yet 21 years later they are going stronger than ever with just mayhem and chaos to show for it. Nothing constructive accomplished in two decades. They either obstructed when out of power or favoured the billionaire class when in power. Yet they rebranded themselves as the "revolutionary" party and suckered enough idiots to vote for them enthusiastically.

You are fucked, American friends. And we're all fucked with you and because of you. When you sneeze the rest of the world catches a Covid sized cold so you're taking down the rest of us with you.
by jeffrallen | 2025-11-08 23:13:28+00:00
Republicans are controlled by big business and billionaires. I agree that violence isn't the solution, because to these guys, money talks.

What we need is a general strike. Shut the entire country down, teachers, warehouse workers, supermarket employees truckers. Everyone on the streets, refusing to make money for their billionaire bosses. When it hurts their profits, they will relent.
by kasey_junk | 2025-11-08 23:13:40+00:00
There are protests everyday you walnut and the administration is using that as a pretense to move in honest to god military troops.

Nearly everyone I know (including my 80 year old neighbor) has been to a protest. You can go to an organizing meeting any day of the week in any neighborhood in the city. We are all walking around with whistles for signaling when ice comes and kids are making them on 3d printers in the library.
by andix | 2025-11-08 23:13:52+00:00
I didn't look deep into Marko yet, but in my opinion JSX is by far the best HTML template language there is. And it's not restricted to React.

Most other template languages hits serious limitations really fast. I tried and hated (for non trivial things): Angular, Handlebars, Razor (dotnet) and Vue (which does support JSX optionally).
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-08 23:14:14+00:00
For some years now there has been a segment of the American left, particularly visible on social media, who believes that strictly enforcing immigration laws at all is bad. This predates the current guy, as well as his administration as the former guy. So, when I read an article by someone like the writer here whose online activity has other shibboleths of a left more extreme than found in mainstream parties in many other democracies, my assumption is he is coming out of this trend and the current events, as appalled as he is by them, is not the ultimate cause of his use of that loaded language.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-08 23:14:22+00:00
I've been eyeing the Touring edition of the Seal 6 DM-i (https://www.byd.com/eu/hybrid-cars/seal-6-dm-i-touring), which supposedly gets up to ~1300KM on one tank. I've test driven it, feels nice and not as plasticky as I thought it would be, but I'm not entirely convinced it'll actually be able to do the distance as marketed. By any chance, have anyone already gotten it themselves and could share their experience, or know someone else who did and know more or less how far they can go?
by wahern | 2025-11-08 23:15:01+00:00
I've never read proprioception described as a sense of balance before. AFAIU, proprioception is the sense of where your body parts are in relation to each other--arms, legs, head, eyes (and eye gaze), and much more that's difficult to enumerate or describe. I guess that's critical to maintaining balance, but not sufficient? Summarizing proprioception as balance seems wrong even if the inner ear vestibular system (which is where our "sense" of balance is regulated, AFAIU) is a component of proprioception.
by al_borland | 2025-11-08 23:16:31+00:00
The first trophy I ever got was when my first ever soccer team took first place for the season, so maybe that distorted my view. The only other trophy I ever got was that tae kwon do participation trophy, so I wasn’t collecting these things at every event like t-shirts. A trophy felt like it meant something, which is why the participation trophy felt so humiliating.

I could argue that harmed me. I never entered another tournament after that. The walk to pick up that trophy is a core memory, and one that I didn’t want to relive at any future events. Had I gone, lost, but got a cool shirt, I probably would have been down to get more cool shirts. Had I gone to more, maybe I could have improved and won a trophy that actually meant something.
by neilv | 2025-11-08 23:16:38+00:00
* There's definitely a place for well-designed and genuine solutions for these, when most of the tech application and platform space is dominated by design for engagement, sales, and flashiness, with what might be considered pervasive dark patterns.

* The choice of using shell commands for file management, and for getting files onto and off the device, seems like it could increase distraction, or make the device uninviting.

* Many writers -- whether they're bloggers/substack-like, newsletter writers, self-published books-writing, or working with a traditional publisher -- have many other writing and non-writing professional tasks that they might like to do without juggling multiple devices. So they might want a single that is designed for low-distraction, but that can run ordinary GUI apps like Web and email, when needed. The low-distraction design might include modes, in which you can set the device for writing-only mode, and then sometimes enable Web&email research functions, Web&email administrative functions, Web&email social-marketing functions, etc.

(A lot of that last function set, for social-marketing, involves accessing engagement/cesspool-oriented social media directly rather than through automation, if you're engaging genuinely, which is massive distraction, and maybe you just don't want to have possible from this device, and keep it on a phone or tablet instead. But for self-publishers, there are also some professional marketing Web sites that you are more likely to want to access directly from this professional low-distraction device, when in that mode.)