skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's "uneventful" because I wasn't personally affected by it. /s
I don't know. It absolutely annoys me. Go is more readable, easier to learn, more efficient, more fun to write but doesn't have all the math/ml packages people want. I'd like to get involved in catching Go up to Python in the ML space but Go is so behind.
At least 50% of generics come from India, and they import 80% of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients from China.

If China or India stop pharmaceutical shipments to the USA, there would be extreme shortages, and the die off would be biblical in proportions.
It's like the British Empire heights.

The peasants in England were still incredibly poor. The British Empire was the largest empire in history, and the nobility and elites sucked up all the imperial wealth.

Because remember, being rich isn't about the amount of money you have, it's about the amount of money you have more than the average person. The goal of capitalism under oligarchical control is the maximization of the gap.

What has made everyman's life better has been technology. It was never capitalism and finance.
As soon as WASM has native bindings for the DOM, I think you're going to see a lot of the energy in the JS ecosystem drain back into other languages.
TBF, pretty soon you won't be able to buy a new Focus anywhere else, production finishes this year. Stellantis is still making cars of a similar size and could brand them as Chrysler for the US market.
People need civics classes, or wherever people learn about their system of government, to learn that that's not a smart move.
What happened to TikTok legally cannot happen to any US-based tech company. The legislation uniquely targets foreign entities.
The people who threw rocks at the Little Rock Nine, the first black kids let into an alabama "White's only" school are barely retired. They still vote.

They never changed their mind.
Sad that we rely on the scraps these captured regulators let fall through the cracks. At least until their patrons awake and close those loopholes.
You're welcome. I know too many upper middle class educated people that don't want to have kids because they believe the earth will cease to be inhabitable in the next 10 years. It's really bizarre to see and they'll almost certainly regret it when they wake up one day alone in a nursing home, look around and realize that the world still exists.

And I think the neuroticism around this topic has led young people into some really dark places (anti-depressants, neurotic anti social behavior, general nihilism). So I think it's important to fight misinformation about end of world doomsday scenarios with both facts and common sense.
Show HN: Bookmarklet to Loop HTML Videos
Figured others may enjoy a lightweight bookmarklet approach to looping HTML videos. Click to set loop start, set loop end, and clear loop. By default, a toast message shows loop status, but this can be changed to a lighter console log. Cheers!
No. At least go and make your vote invalid.

Are people really THAT lazy?
> Why is everyone in here with pitchforks?

Personally, I get pissed when companies misuse "open source" because without open source, I probably wouldn't be a developer in the first place. Just call things what they are, and leave existing terminology alone. Defending "open source" is defending the opportunity for others who were in the same situation as myself in the past.

Otherwise we'll quickly see more of what already started today, companies calling things "open source" in their marketing material but "proprietary" in their legal agreements, and no one will be better off if that's accepted.
I am a dual national with roots in Europe. A far greater contributor is the lack of avoidable chronic disease in Europe. I know many middle class and above Americans who have ongoing battles with their insurance companies to treat and manage relatively mundane issues. If they apply enough time and money they can usually resolve things though often this requires pausing treatment or changing doctors recommendations.

This does not exist in Europe. What your doctors recommend happens regardless of your income.

There is an image I see when in the US. A homeless person who is crippled and pushing themselves with a stick or one leg in a wheelchair. Lame thanks to lack of treatment. You never see that in Europe. Homeless people exist but they aren’t chronically ill.

This has positive effects for everyone. There is less disease in the environment and it’s easier for people to literally get back on their feet.

It’s a bit of wishful thinking to presume Americans poor health is all lifestyle choices and advertising. It’s the system and a pervasive lack of easy to access treatment at all levels of society.
We have a solution for things like that. It's called search engines and indexes if you don't poison the fuck out of it for economic and political gain. Outlaw or regulare SEO and we can go back to a marvelous time when everyone could actually find things without having shit shoved into their face every second of every day.

Optimize pulls. Not pushes. Pushes are acts of force. Pulls are acts of grace. If you can't understand this, I'd say you're stuck in the Sinclairism of being impossible to get to understand due to your life or ambitions in some way being dependent on not understanding.

Research works. Has worked. Will continue to work. If we can put a check on rampant greed and coamp down on the tragedy of the commons that is the pollution of the modern web.
Microserfs is pretty fun, though the details are fictional. What stuck in my mind is that they spent so much effort clawing their way to the top, and when they were there, they didn't know what to do anymore and lost their way. Microsoft was a mess for 15 years or so.
Is this Python only?

More importantly: can this be used to run untrusted jobs? E.g. user-supplied or AI supplied code?
The book ("Material World") is fantastic, I hope he'll make another tome on some other resources :)
Saying "millions have died" when nobody has died is disingenuous, even if one honestly projects that millions will die. You don't get to use the past tense until the event actually happens.
I doubt that is the norm. Tesla does have very high customer satisfaction numbers.
yaky (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584334) gave a great example of hummingbirds liking purple.
Wind energy: How to build even better wind turbines
Millions of people think the Earth is flat and that dinosaurs roamed the Earth alongside humans. Should universities be teaching that as well?

Popularity is a poor barometer for educational value and policy.
I find that the 30 miles my PHEV gives me is not enough for daily needs several times a week. Though I seem to be saving hundreds of dollars every month in gas while I haven't noticed a power bill increase (I've only had it for a few weeks so I can't fully gauge the impact, but so far it seems to line up with your report). At the point I can safely tell most people that they should just refuse to look at any new vehicle that isn't PHEV or full EV. Used car buyers should be willing to pay a lot more of the above - it will pay off in the long term.
Source code published as PDF? Come on, this should be published on Github.
Mark Zuckerberg On Innovation (2009)
I'm referring to threats to pull hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding if certain demands aren't met. But yes, there are also plenty of rhetorical attacks.
Our brain makes up every color. Color does not exist. Wavelengths exist, but color does not. Our brains turn the wavelengths we see into colors.

Everything is a wave.
I’m very interested in understanding the challenges in building more affordable housing in Spain. Do you have any resources you’d recommend or be willing to discuss more offline?
Found the arch user ;-)
May as well have emailed no-reply@buy-more-iphones.apple.com
Chance of asteroid hitting Moon increases slightly
Doge wants to modernize Social Security's tech: what could possibly go wrong?
CloudBolt Acquires StormForge to Optimize Kubernetes Infrastructure
And we're supposed to trust any official economic reports that the administration releases...?

That has always been kind of questionable, and now it's laughable.
I've become so much more productive in my hobby programming projects, because it lets me skip over the tedious parts that suck the life out of me (boilerplate, figuring out library dependencies, etc), and I can focus on the parts that are actually interesting like experimenting with different solutions, iterating and learning new things.

It also lets me explore other libraries and languages without having to invest too much time and effort before knowing if it's right for what I want to do. I know that if I want to continue in a different direction, I haven't wasted tons of time/effort and getting started in the new direction will be much less effortful and time consuming.
I've thought about that, but technically those are not allowed by code in most places.
The worst part about this trend toward hypocrisy acceptance is that nobody cares when you point it out. This empowers the hypocrite to answer with "So what?" because they know they will face absolutely no consequences. In politics, business, and even personal life, most people have everything to gain and very little to lose*. And our current hyper-individualistic society has only exacerbated the issue. "Who cares if the people around me don't trust me? I'll just get what I need from some faceless computer system."

* You actually have a lot to lose, but it's not tangible or very directly measurable, and the effects compile over a long time, so the results are not easy to see.
> Socialism would be even worse for research.

So is black and white thinking. There is more to a spectrum than both ends.
It's called a bribe
Of course not, that would be "political".
Color, as we know them, are a human interpretation of wavelengths and one we know is semi-subjective based on things like color blindness. A creature with less sensitive receptors could see one color were we'd see a much wider range. The reverse is also true that a creature with more sensitive receptors could see far more colors than we do.
For albums, I recommend supraphonline.cz: https://www.supraphonline.cz/vyhledavani/alba/maingenre.1-ve...
The second paragraph answers your second question, actually.
Help us create a vision for Rust's future
A big part of this is that too many kids are going to college. Less than 2/3 who begin a 4-year degree program will graduate.

We’re pushing kids who are not suited to higher education into it because of credential inflation. As more kids get a certain level of credential, others are forced to seek those credentials to keep up. It’s a tragically wasteful way to signal fitness to employers.

This has been spurred on by government loan guarantees and other means of assistance, which create demand, which drives prices up. The universities don’t escape blame here. The author is getting these ludicrous pep talks from administration because they must play the charade to keep business booming. Nothing more. They’re selling a crap product to people who don’t benefit from it.
Hmmm...that is the opposite of what you wrote earlier.

Are you claiming that even plain/styled HTML is too slow on these kinds of devices?
Yeah but having a CHOICE in the music typically plays an important role! I mean in jail the only free option Tarrant County offered was Christian music (rap and contemporary) and that stuff was actually irritating to me. I wasn’t actively accessing it - I couldn’t NOT hear it coming through the ventilation system.

I wrote about how it’s a form of indoctrination to exploit people’s desire for something that they love yet only present a brainwashing oriented selection:

https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/tarrant-county-sheriff-bill...
Dark mode with almost no CSS
> brown really doesn't exist. Brown is just reflected orange-y light in the right context.

The Pirahã language only has two words for "color" – which more or less translate to "light" and "dark". Therefore red, green, blue, even orange don't really exist either. Except they do, because we've defined them to exist. Brown is no different.
The GTC 2025 announcement session that's mentioned in this article has video here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtc25-s72383/

It's a holistic approach to all levels of the stack, from high-level frameworks to low-level bindings, some of which is highlighting existing libraries, and some of which are completely newly announced.

One of the big things seems to be a brand new Tile IR, at the level of PTX and supported with a driver level JIT compiler, and designed for Python-first semantics via a new cuTile library.

https://x.com/JokerEph/status/1902758983116657112 (without login: https://xcancel.com/JokerEph/status/1902758983116657112 )

Example of proposed syntax: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmWqYiXa8AAdrl3?format=jpg&name=...

Really exciting stuff, though with the new IR it further widens the gap that projects like https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA and AMD's own tooling are trying to bridge. But vendor lock-in isn't something we can complain about when it arises from the vendor continuing to push the boundaries of developer experience.
Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Order Date in the U.S. to Assess Impact of Tariffs
In my metro there are a lot of apartments in the suburbs that are just as car dependent as any single family house. Some have bus service, but it is the service for those who after 5 DWIs can't get someone else to drive them, not the fast frequent service that makes people willing to take the bus if they have any other option.
Doesn't this mean AMD could make the same python API that targets their hardware, and now Nvidia GPUs aren't as sticky?
In 1970, obesity in the US was not anywhere as much of a problem. But car culture (and gasoline pollution) was very much a thing.

> calorie intake differences

Yeah, that's a big one. Also, processing foods heats them multiple times prior to sale, which increases caloric bioavailability.
> preferential future trading terms

There is no point in making a deal with someone who will not respect any deals. Remember the deal with Mexico and Canada in the first Trump mandate? They made a new agreement and that's what they received as payment. Any country or block that deals with this administration is basically lunatic or in deep despair.
Except they're not mainstream Jewish. Jewish Voice for Peace has been linked to known terrorists and receives support from anti-Jewish interests. At best, they're "useful idiots" but more realistically they were long corrupted by anti-semitic interests.

https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/jewish-voice-peac...
I'm making no demands. Only pointing out an absurd false equivalence.

Change to the polarizing system would be great. I doubt that will happen by softening protests to obscene injustice. Rather it's likely to reenforce the shifting Overton window further into authoritarianism and kleptocracy.

To break the two party system we need things a large portion of the populous has been (falsely) taught are bad for them: same day primaries, ranked choice voting, making campaign bribery illegal, unwinding corporate personhood, etc. Can you guess which side is most attached to the system of political machines and the lies that reinforce them?
It's not an either-or. There are other systems that do not lie on the same line, such as the Islamic financial system.
Almost the entirety of California's citrus crop. A lot of meat. Ginseng root. Probably a few other things.
Came here looking for this haha, Alec's videos are always a treat.
I've been experimenting with ways to combine dark bureaucracy, international policy, and modern web design. The result: TariffOS - a dead-simple, high-polish app that lets you impose tariffs between 198 countries on imports like "military-grade TikTok data" or "kim Jong Un-approved haircuts."

You pick the countries, the tariff rate, and get a real-looking official trade declaration you can share — complete with fake economic justifications and Moist Capital backing.

No signup, no paywall. Just vibes.
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Would love thoughts from the HN crowd.
It's only a copyright issue if I know what the original source code looks like. If I don't know what it looks like, and my autocomplete writes it, how could I possibly know it's stolen?
No, color is a subjective experience a conscious being has. Different colors each correspond to different mixtures of wavelengths, but that doesn't mean they are the same thing. Color is the thing that you see with your consciousness. The difference is fundamental: wavelengths exist independently of the existence of conscious beings, while colors only exist if a conscious being can capture photons and has a certain brain system that can interpret those photon's wavelengths.
Yes, I tested it and it does allow that.
It takes approx 13 seconds to finish loading the page with CPU spike and firefox occupies more memory as long as the page remains opened. But then opening/collapsing the thread is not noticeable.
Kpack: Kubernetes-Native Build Automation with CI/CD Integration
Gates was obviously a proficient coder. I think you're experiencing a time compression phenomenon here: this was the mid 70s. Microsoft the big bad Microsoft that everyone knows about didn't appear until around the mid 90s. 20 years later, although from the perspective of 2025 those two eras seem pretty much adjacent.
How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008
You may be right here. The tariffs might not directly cause enough pain for the average person to matter.

The big unknown still is the impact on the economy and job market. His actions may reduce competitiveness of American companies globally due to retaliatory tariffs and resentment.

If the tariffs cause a recession, people will punish him for it.
FWIW: acquiescing and becoming Trump's bitch won't save your jobs either. See Vietnam - they dropped tariffs on the US, and still got hit with the highest American tariffs - even higher than the EU that's threatening to retaliate.
The article is flat out wrong. The reason purple and violet look similar is not a trick of the brain, and has nothing to do with the color wheel "wrapping around"; it's a natural result of the frequency response curves of the three types of cones in our eyes. The two colors stimulate our cones in the same way, so of course they naturally look similar.

Most diagrams of our cone frequency responses are subtly wrong. Diagrams typically show three separate smooth, overlapping peaks, centered around red, green, and blue. What they leave out is that our L-cones (the "red" cones) also have a separate little sensitivity bump way off in the violet end of the spectrum. So when you see violet light, it's actually stimulating both the cones that are most sensitive to red light and the ones that are sensitive to blue light. This is pretty much the same stimulation pattern you get if you send both pure red and blue light into your eyes together, which is why purple and violet look so similar.

If you Google "cone sensitivity diagram" you'll mostly find the misleading versions of the diagrams, but you can see one that includes the extra bit of high-frequency L-cone sensitivity in this paper, for example: https://hal.science/hal-01565649/file/Vienot_ConeFundamental...
It is that simple. You can pass arguments to `bash -c` with no problems(just don't forget a dummy $0). If you don't want exception spam, replace `check=True` with explicit exit. Here you go, it's 5 lines now.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import subprocess
result = subprocess.run(["bash", "-c", """
echo I am in bash, I have $# args, arg1 is "$1"
set -x
"$@"
""", "dummy.sh"] + sys.argv[1:])
sys.exit(result.returncode)

python's shell tooling is really good (if a bit verbose). And another cool thing is "shlex.quote", so you can write something like:

subprocess.run(["bash", "-c", f"rsync {shlex.quote(filename)} somehost: | some-script"])

and have "filename" safely inserted into script fragment.. No command escapes, and newlines, quotes, backticks etc... are all handled properly.

The bash syntax highlighting will disappear, correct, and that is a downside. But hey, you are supposed to be rewriting this in python, so it's just more motivation :)
I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of a headline. "Purple exists only in our brains" is a reasonable summary. Your last paragraph is not a headline.
Show HN: Jslon – high performance GUI viewer of large JSONL, TSV and CSV files
There was alot going on in the years before ChatGPT. Text generation was going strong with interactive fiction before anyone were talking about OpenAI.
Amazing this is another new type of antibiotic that was discovered maybe for the last 6 months?
“What would be an easy way to calculate the tariffs that should be imposed on other countries so that the US is on even-playing fields when it comes to trade deficit? Set minimum at 10%.“
Spain is one of the best places in the world to live if you have a steady income, you don't have to be wealthy to be happy. I've lived there for many years working for Spanish companies, with spanish salaries.

But seeing how you blame mass immigration, mostly uneducated and low-skilled workers, for the fall in wages of the educated people leaving the country, I wonder if your vision isn't too myopic and narrow on economic issues due to political bias.

As for the struggles of the young people in the country, because real state is inaccessible, I agree with you, but it's a problem in most capital cities of the civilised world.
> Well, Switzerland cowardly decided not to react or retaliate, even though those tariffs make no sense.

I'm not sure that reactionary tarifs are the correct action. Flagging products as American or pulling them from the selves seems much more affective.

If you counter-tariff you just tax your own citizens. If you decrease supply then it actually hurts US.
IT need not be federal. Your state can do more than the federal government - some of the most effective changes are things the constitution doesn't give the federal government power over. Require 50 amp capability to every parking spot for example is something only the states can do (possibly you can limit this to residential). For that matter states could just build good transit systems, while there are federal subsidies most states are big enough to go alone and pay for it out of the savings from their road budget.
Nintendo pulls Switch 2 pre-orders in US over Trump tariffs
Trump sought to illegally install himself as president in 2021 by having fake electors deny the actual results of their state's presidential elections and just decide that Trump should win anyway. He was only prevented from doing this by a combination of organizational incompetence from his team and Mike Pence refusing to go along with the plan.

This was among the greatest threats to democratic self governance in well over a century.

I'd say that Trump 2.0 is more eventful than Trump 1.0, but I absolutely would not call Trump 1.0 uneventful.
This is also varied heavily in the US? My wife and I joke all the time that the 70yos are out jogging every day where we live, now. There is a set of cyclists that are all in their 60s we see several times a week outside of our house.
I'm sure if you're lucky to get near 1 million in revenue you can reach out and pay for a license.
JavaScript does work like that, but `for` creates a new block scope for each iteration, so variables declared with `let` in its initializer are redeclared each time. Some other languages ([1]) just make accessing mutable locals from a closure into a compiler error, which I think is also reasonable. Old-school JavaScript (`var`s) chose the worst-of-both-worlds option.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/54340101
The way it's commonly implemented - through SMS - isn't secure anyway. It's relatively easy to persuade an overworked employee at the phone company to issue a new SIM card.