MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjevans | 2025-04-27 15:59:29+00:00
Edited: Please read and reply if you disagree with my view that porn reflects the greater social contract of society.

An apathetic vacuum. (American? Capitalist? Global 'Elite'?) Society does not care about the people, actively seeking to use and exploit.

When things go badly who gets the pain? The common person, the modern serf. When things go well who takes the rewards? Their boss's boss's boss.

Porn is just a scapegoat, a symptom of the larger issues. Of the broken social contract for being part of a larger whole and everyone being better off for that collective work.

Though perhaps it's also a symptom of the failed liberation of society from outdated gender roles. Movements towards equality made some progress on empowering women, but didn't finish the job of shattering the yolk of stereotypical roles entirely to reshape the social contract for equality, inclusion, and freedom from old stereotypes. Echos of those old stereotypes, and new flawed ones, can be seen as the basis of the roles explored through exaggerated fiction even if it's erotic in nature.
by Earw0rm | 2025-04-27 16:00:02+00:00
It might affect agricultural land prices. Indeed that's at the heart of the farming IHT controversy (farming land is effectively overpriced relative to its business or utility value, because of its previously far too generous IHT treatment). It won't affect the price of houses, because it's not 200 rich families hogging the supply.

50 families controlling half the country's wealth is a bit of a stretch. The top 50 individuals have an average net worth of maybe $4-5Bn, giving a total wealth of $250Bn. Half the country's _land_ seems more likely?

Meanwhile there are literally millions of £1M+ houses owned by relatively ordinary people, millions of Boomers and some older GenX with at least £0.5m in their pension funds, and so on.

Land tax of 0.1% would be a good thing, but it'd be equivalent to putting about a third on council tax (£1k/year on a £1m home, currently council tax is about £3k in that bracket I think?). A useful step certainly but not revolutionary.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-27 16:00:29+00:00
Why would a list of random "adjustments" lend legitimacy to their effort? If they told you that going barefoot and talking in Pig Latin would solve autism, would that give it legitimacy? Maybe soap is actually suppressing our natural bio-film so we should all forsake showering. I mean, someone could contrive a laughable explanation to justify that, and maybe make a graph that hygiene improvements worldwide correlated with the rise of ASD, so start stinkin' evenyone.

We know, with utter certainty, that the conclusion of this farce will be completely unproven lazy correlations that are so common in the scammer industry. Maybe it's seed oils, or HFCS, or the chemicals, etc. There is no outcome of RFK Jrs farce that won't be an absolute joke.

>The third reich response

Anyone who doesn't see incredible parallels with the rise of Hitler's heinous crimes is not paying attention. Oh look, they're going after the press and judges now, but don't worry until they're not suffixing the Hitler salutes with "my heart to yours" or something it surely can't be real. Further, the "they're going to make me believe this garbage person" argument is always laughable. No one buys it. People who like these creeps should just be honest about it and save the tired "you made me" bit that positively no one believes.

But sure, the only thing I can agree with you on is that the "autism is actually great" fringe is not helpful. Autism is not good, and most people with autism, even the ones who don't need around the clock care, would rather they didn't. ASD is likely basically a manifestation of evolution, and is biology playing random variations to test survivability, as it has done through human history. It gives us some super-intellectually focused individuals that contribute massively to humanity, but it also gives us a lot of very sad people who can't connect and sometimes need enormous levels of care.

Indeed, genetics are widely considered the prevalent "cause" of ASD. It's possible that autism really has become more common -- if it actually has and it isn't simply increased or more inclusive diagnoses -- because our information/engineering age has given people who carry ASD genetics more, errr, marketability on the reproduction market. Instead of being outcasts, what we used to call "Aspergers" sufferers, such as myself, suddenly make lots of money and get to be high status. But that's a lazy guess at most. But we do know that people on the ASD spectrum, including the most successful ones who found ways to make it work, are much more likely to have children on the spectrum, no outside environmental cause being necessary.
by sepositus | 2025-04-27 16:00:35+00:00
I've been helping young men escape the clutches of porn for over a decade now (leading what you might call recovery groups). Never once have I found a single story that ended well (but that's more or less expected given the groups I run). It all starts with an introduction to porn and ends with an addiction that seems to slowly transforms their brains in unpleasant ways, objectification of women being the primary one.

One of the best tools that I continue to employ is deprogramming that objectification. Helping them to see the humanity and personhood of women again. It's incredible how most porn can turn from enticing to absolutely repulsive once you adopt this mindset.
by vacuity | 2025-04-27 16:00:48+00:00
I think you're right that men and women (tend to) have different responses to someone venting to them, and different tendencies in when and who to vent to, but I think both (tend to) prefer the listening approach when they are venting. It's kind of like writing in that the benefit is in being open and being able to reflect on that openness. In addition to openness, just having someone to vent to brings the comfort of human connection.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-27 16:01:25+00:00
Right, this is the kind of gamesmanship that you can only deter through overreaction. “The nuclear materials I want aren’t a big deal - they’re similar to this other thing that’s legal, so I should be allowed to have them.” We don’t want people thinking this way, even if it’s true in some cases, because we don’t want there to be an active market in plutonium at all.
by ryao | 2025-04-27 16:01:44+00:00
> There was nothing that specific about Solaris that made sense for ZFS, and even less of a connection to the SPARC architecture.

Although it does not change the answer to the original question, I have long been under the impression that part of the design of ZFS had been influenced by the Niagara processor. The heavily threaded ZIO pipeline had been so forward thinking that it is difficult to imagine anyone devising it unless they were thinking of the future that the Niagara processor represented.

Am I correct to think that or did knowledge of the upcoming Niagara processor not shape design decisions at all?

By the way, why did Thumper use an AMD Opteron over the UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara)? That decision seems contrary to idea of putting all of the wood behind one arrow.
by sunnyba | 2025-04-27 16:01:47+00:00
Thanks! Like another user commented below, I think the appeal of the pixel art sprites is that at a lower level of detail it can feel really accurate. 10 different real life red jackets can all end up as the same pixel art representation but each person would recognize it as their jacket! It feels like a form of compression.

On prompting, you can get most of the way there in AI studio on Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental by uploading a picture and asking for "a high quality detailed pixel art sprite of this character." Most of the backend annoyance here was iterating to improve prompt adherence (characters not facing the same way, outfits changing between frames, etc).
by vintermann | 2025-04-27 16:02:07+00:00
Genealogy applications run into this a lot. The person of interest lived at Engeset. FamilySearch has geocoded a place called "Engeset, Møre og Romsdal, Norway". So that's it, right? Not so fast, [there are at least 3 Engesets in Møre og Romsdal](https://www.google.com/maps/search/Engeset/@62.3358577,6.225...).

But that's at least better than when it's some local place name which it's never heard of, and thinks sounds most similar to a place in Afghanistan (this happens all the time).

And to add to it, there are administrative regions, and ecclesiastical regions. Do you put them in the parish, or in the municipality? The birth in the parish and the baptism in the municipality, maybe? How about the burial then...
by alephnan | 2025-04-27 16:02:53+00:00
> And (almost) everyone has a house.

How come the Netherlands has the most pronounced housing shortage for university students compared to other countries ? Is it because everyone is AirBnb'ing their first and second homes out to tourists?

It's so bad that international students are forced to decline university and graduate school offers. I know because I am in that boat.

https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/22/housing-shortage-netherlands-r...

https://www.goinconnect.com/success-stories/the-student-hous...
by antfarm | 2025-04-27 16:03:21+00:00
My way to circumvent most of this: I am using Safari with AdBlock Pro and AdBlock and see zero ads when browsing the web.

I spend more time on YouTube than I care to admit, so I got a Premium subscription, bought an extension called UnTrap for YouTube to hide most recommendations and turned off all YouTube history etc.

I regularly visit BlueSky, Hacker News and YouTube, but not X, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook.

The hardest thing is to not use Amazon, but I am working on it.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-04-27 16:03:58+00:00
I last used a Linux desktop environment of Debian 11 on a Thinkpad T41, for about 2 years straight as my daily work machine. I then switched to Windows 11 with WSL2 on the same laptop. Although I miss the Terminator terminal, pretty much everything else is better on Windows - the improved shell UX, power states, and os/app update experience (I just let it update) is great. I see the ads/nags and it just disappoints me that Microsoft would self-sabotage a really great OS for no apparent reason.
by martindbp | 2025-04-27 16:04:35+00:00
The problem is "Greatness Cannot Be Planned". There are not many cases where someone ambitious sets out to make the world a better place in a very direct way, who actually accomplished that, because of deceptive objectives. Nobody would have predicted that something as frivolous as PC gaming would lead to the AI boom we're having now, but it did. In many ways, John Carmack did more good by kickstarting the PC graphics race than any morally ambitious do-gooder has ever done. There is one notable exception, and that is Elon Musk. He attacked two extremely difficult industries head on armed only with $100m and grandiose plans, yet somehow made it work by shear force of will. Difficult to replicate, and of course we all hate him now.

Better probably to do what you find interesting, and maybe it will lead to greatness. If it didn't at least you did something interesting.
by derektank | 2025-04-27 16:04:43+00:00
>These intrusions included manipulating allergen information in restaurant menus to indicate that food items were safe for customers with certain allergies, when they were not. Scheuer also altered menu information related to wine regions to reflect locations of recent mass shootings. Additionally, Scheuer launched denial-of-service attacks designed to lock certain company employees out of their accounts.

Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.
by Const-me | 2025-04-27 16:04:53+00:00
> work fine with the amount of memory that consumer GPUs have

Most consumers buy GPUs to play videogames. Recently, nVidia launched two flavors of 5060 Ti consumer GPU with 8GB and 16GB memory, the cards are otherwise identical.

Apparently, the 8GB version is only good for 1080p resolution with no DLSS. In many games, the difference between these versions is very substantial. The article says 8GB version is deprecated right at launch: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-with-...
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 16:05:11+00:00
A few years ago, I was fairly convinced that Google Voice was listening and punishing me for hitting "political third rail" keywords during phone calls.

On more than one occasion, I would be in a conversation with a friend of mine and things would turn political, and if I spouted just the right combination of anti-left rhetoric/keywords, our connection would drop right away -- boom.

Now why would Voice do this when other Google properties don't? I mean, they don't filter Gmail or Docs or Photos looking for subversive content and censoring it. YouTube comments, maybe.

But I figured that if they wanted, it was completely possible. Because they have proven and deployed live-transcription, and they're best at English. Not to mention, Voice is sort of a deprecated product that they don't really support. So why not throw a little havoc in there for miscreants?

The reason I was using Voice was to place phone calls from a SIM-less tablet. It seems that Voice insists on using my real phone now for routing any sort of call. So I haven't had opportunity to test the boundaries for years now. Nevertheless, I was not sorry about the possibility of censorship, I was duly chastened, and sorry I've been so brainwashed to lapse into mindless talking-point rhetoric.
by dingnuts | 2025-04-27 16:06:13+00:00
You do understand that your anecdote is an example of confirmation bias, right? You claim is tantamount to saying you ran an AA group and only heard bad things about alcohol. No shit!? Next you'll start a sports gambling recovery group and let us know there's nothing good about sports.

Porn might not be good but your anecdote is a long way from evidence. What you've seen is a tautology; the people who DON'T have a problem aren't showing up in your program.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-27 16:06:25+00:00
Yes, there aren't many jobs where you get to change the World. Go make your own, where you actually do.

Why are we all here, on this specific site, if we're not interested in building something ambitious and shaped on our own ideals of what we think the World needs? We might not be right, but it's each of ours, individually.

The people playing this game and winning at the moment are ambitious, but morally... I think we're starting to have some questions about their big ideas, more recently... and so you have the option: go do something to change the game and take the attention away from them.

Big changes come from small ones. If you don't like the status quo, figure out how to change it by building something better. And yes, it's hard, but you don't need to solve the whole thing, particularly when getting started, just a small corner of it.
by dreghgh | 2025-04-27 16:06:38+00:00
Agreed. I don't exclude the possibility of large scale changes in society, but until that day, maybe 20% of people who need to work to eat and pay bills can do genuinely valuable work.

I'm sure many of the other 80% would like to do something more positive. Should we really be trying to start a culture war between the two groups, rather than acknowledge that the system isn't great for anyone?
by adrian_b | 2025-04-27 16:06:41+00:00
The standard C library does not belong into any project, but it normally is shared together with cross-compilers, linkers and other tools by all projects that target a certain kind of hardware architecture.

So whatever preprocessor rules and dependencies may be needed to build the tool chain, they do not have any influence on the building processes for the software projects used to develop applications.

The building of the tool chain is done again only when new tool versions become available, not during the development of applications.

I assume that you have encountered problems because you have desired to build newlib with something else than gcc + binutils, with which it can be built immediately, as delivered.

Even if for some weird reason the use of gcc is avoided for the intended application, that should have not required the use of a newlib compiled with something else than gcc, as it should be linked without problems with any other ELF object files.
by mikhailfranco | 2025-04-27 16:06:55+00:00
Reminds me of Islamic Mashrabiya screens.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mashrabiya&ia=images&iax=images

Historically, the screens were quite simple, with more complex patterns reserved for ceramic tilings (symmetry groups, colorings, knots and intertwinings). Now there are good modern screens with more innovative patterns, made with computer-controlled laser cutters.

In a quick search for Kumiko examples, I very much like the irregular patterns that add or remove various symmetrical elements across the piece, often in an irregular macro-pattern. Similar pattern evolutions are possible with Islamic designs, but are not yet common - perhaps an opportunity.
by punnerud | 2025-04-27 16:07:06+00:00
I created this to solve my own need for reverse geocoding: https://github.com/punnerud/rgcosm (Saving me thousands of $ compared to Google API)

Uses OpenStreetmap file, Python and SQLite3.

First it finds all addresses using +/- like a square from lat/lon, then calculate distance based on the smaller list (Pythagoras), and pick the closest. It expands until a set maximum if no address is found in the first search.
by api | 2025-04-27 16:07:10+00:00
You just described pretty much all life.

Forests are full of animals that hunt animals, and animals that spend tons of energy evading animals hunting them.

Life is a complex patterning phenomenon that dissipates energy, and as far as we understand it has no goal. Why should we expect complex human living systems to behave fundamentally differently? Individual human beings have goals, but huge collective systems like economies have either no consciousness or a kind of vegetable consciousness similar to a slime mold moving toward nutrients.
by phillipcarter | 2025-04-27 16:07:14+00:00
Partly why this is an apples-oranges comparison is that Italy's federal government stepped in to make it happen (planning, land acquisition, funding, establishing federally-owned corporate structure). In the US, projects like this are governed just as much by states as they are the federal government, and since the 1970s we've had a strong and entrenched culture of not having the federal government step in to exert its will on a system to produce a public good.

There's a reason why Obamacare was so fraught and ultimately led to a political downfall of the democrats: it spit in the face of private and state interests (from their perspective) to undercut what they'd grown to do in the previous 40 years. This good, but ultimately half-hearted measure, is only a fraction of the kind of political willpower needed to transform the federal state into something that can build infrastructure again.
by npteljes | 2025-04-27 16:07:33+00:00
In my opinion, people need to learn - and in many things, already know - that things have scale. For example, with "pain": a bruise, cavities in teeth, kidney stones, migraines all hurt, but the level of effect on someone's life is vastly different.

Also, people have no problem minimizing the things as well, where pain again is a good example. In many situations, if it cannot be seen, secondary parties easily disregard it.

So, in conclusion, this confusion with the autism levels should not be a problem.
by replwoacause | 2025-04-27 16:08:13+00:00
I recognized its pernicious effects on me and gave it up after getting married and before having a kid. This was after being exposed to it for decades from a young age through unrestricted access to the internet. I think that’s an all too common story. It’s crazy how normalized it becomes once it worms its way into your life, but having been off of it for some time now, I see clearly what a terrible influence it was on me. It’s also made me aware of the extreme perversions and predatory behaviors out in the world which I’ll use as context to make sure my kids never fall victim to.
by blacksmith_tb | 2025-04-27 16:08:14+00:00
US infrastructure is increasingly terrible, true. But high-speed rail isn't probably what I'd point to as the most glaring problem. No doubt the TGV and Shinkansen are impressive, but the longest route in Japan (Tokyo-Aomori) is 675km compared to 4000km from Los Angeles to NYC (assuming you could it make a straight line, which you couldn't). Not to say I wouldn't be delighted to even have service from San Diego to Seattle, a mere 1800km.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-27 16:09:39+00:00
> If you don't want to tip, don't dine at full-service restaurants in America.

Whenever I dine at such a place, I give a 100% tip because it’s easier math and it incentivizes me not to patronize such businesses. (I only go with friends and I never make the suggestion.) Just saying that because I disagree with this perspective; do go to these restaurants and don’t tip if that is your choice.

Tipping used to be a gratuity. It’s a way to say, “Your effort was exceptional and I want to show you how grateful I am for it.” Tips are no longer exceptions, nor gratuitous: they have become an obligation, as you say. I reject this; I am not responsible for the wage of someone I did not hire. I’m not even responsible for the success of the business, except that I owe them what I agreed to pay when I ordered. It’s like every restaurant prices their menu incorrectly and they expect their customers to correct them.

(There is a Prisoner’s Dilemma for the restaurants: if I start paying my staff well, I have to raise (advertised) prices but people still think tipping is necessary so they’ll see my increased prices in that context and be more likely to go to one of my competitors. I don’t mean to say restaurant owners have an easy out, just that the answer to patronize these businesses regularly, while also tipping generously, perpetuates the situation.)

Is it wrong for someone to order carryout from such a full-service restaurant and not tip? If so, what would they be tipping for? If not, how does the wait staff get paid from the order when they’re primarily paid with tips?
by nerdjon | 2025-04-27 16:10:06+00:00
I should be very clear here that I am a gay man, so I don't really have exposure to much of what is talked about here even if I have heard about it.

What I find interesting is that it seems to equate critiquing porn with critiquing the treatment of the people in porn. Those are 2 very distinct things, you can have issues with treatment within the industry without going down a prudish anti-porn route.

Personally I feel like much of the issues with Porn, particularly in the US, stem from being uncomfortable talking about sex. Instead of feeling like we need to hide and be ashamed that we watch porn, it should be talked about so from a younger age we know its fantasy. We know that these positions, angles, noises, the perfection, isn't normal.

Sex is messy.

This shame about sex, our bodies, leads to many of these problems with how we view porn.

I strongly believe that there is nothing wrong with consuming porn, casually, with your partner(s), regularly, whatever. It is just another way to explore your sexuality and we should not demonize that. We should however address the problems with the industry, but without demonizing its existence.