MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Snoozus | 2025-04-27 16:22:03+00:00
Most EU passports get 30 days visa free entry, everything is quite inexpensive, the super apps both have a translation feature now, which helps a lot since most restaurants take orders through them. It is super safe, no theft, almost no scams. Hotels and train trips on trip.com. The main challenges are to find a non smoking hotel room and to not gain too much weight.
by docdeek | 2025-04-27 16:22:11+00:00
> How is it even possible to get addicted that just seems weird.

This is a pretty common reaction to someone else's addiction. I've heard people say the same about alcohol and other less-socially acceptable drugs. I'm not a porn addict but I suspect that for people who are the response would be something like asking an alcoholic why they want another drink when they've already had so many: how is it possible to not want another drink?
by RacingTheClock | 2025-04-27 16:22:50+00:00
I agree that I’m frustrated that this isn’t being coveted. Asperger’s being moved into autism was huge news at the time, so idk how RFK missed something so obvious and is pointing to quackery like vaccines. I don’t understand how we got to the point where cranks are trying to to prove their assumptions instead of real scientists.
by dlubarov | 2025-04-27 16:22:54+00:00
Egypt's naval blockade was secondary. Israel struck preemptively mainly because it was clear that Egypt intended to invade, between the 100,000 troops they amassed near Israel's border, and Nasser's statements which left no doubt about his plans. The only debate is about how immanent those plans were.

It also seems misleading to talk about Israel's blockade of Gaza with no mention of all the rocket attacks that prompted it. A blockade might be an act of war, but it's sort of moot when it's preceded by acts of war from the other side.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-27 16:23:09+00:00
Im not sure how to continue the conversation in a productive manner if you are withholding key information about your stance.

You refuse to answer my questions, but I will answer yours. Of course not, I don't think smuggling slaves was wrong.

I still hold that refusal to respect the law is incredibly divisive and leads to social conflict and destruction. In the case of the US, it led to the most deadly and destructive war in American history.

When you give up on settling issues with the law, you move to settling them with brute force. I dont think this is a positive direction.

I will ask one last time: Do you think restriction of immigration is a case of nonsensical or outright evil law? Do you think law abiding deportation of illegal immigrants is morally justified in concept?
by thrance | 2025-04-27 16:23:29+00:00
There will always be insane amounts of money towards right-wing propaganda in media. If it is ever made illegal, it will be lobbied into legality again. If lobbying is made illegal, politicians will be corrupted into allowing it.

It would take something very radical to fix the massive imbalance of power in this world. Something I fear Amercians are not ready for. So let it burn, maybe something better will emerge from the ashes.
by thraway79879s8d | 2025-04-27 16:24:26+00:00
It would probably be way healthier to ban porn and legalize prostitution, than ban prostitution and legalize porn. Much harder to get into the dehumanization mindset trap in person.

The interview repeats the common aphorism "sex sells", but it should follow it up "sex sells other things". Sublimated desires into other categories this way doesn't seem good either.
by standardUser | 2025-04-27 16:24:44+00:00
This reads like a discussion form the 90's when the porn industry, and most media, were tightly controlled by small number of dominant players that set the norms (whether we liked it or not). I know a lot of people who have created porn in the 2010's and onward and none of them have any connection whatsoever to that porn industry of yesteryear. This feels like a strained attempt to stain the independent porn of today with the worst aspects of studio porn.
by ryao | 2025-04-27 16:25:09+00:00
I did early ZFSOnLinux development on hardware that did not have ECC memory. I once had a situation where a bit flip happened in the ARC buffer for libpython.so and all python software started crashing. Initially, I thought I had hit some sort of blizzard bug in ZFS, so I started debugging. At that time, opening a ZFS snapshot would fetch a duplicate from disk into a redundant ARC buffer, so while debugging, I ran cmp on libpython.so between the live copy and a snapshot copy. It showed the exact bit that had flipped. After seeing that and convincing myself the bitflip was not actually on stable storage, I did a reboot, and all was well. Soon afterward, I got a new development machine that had ECC so that I would not waste my time chasing phantom bugs caused by bit flips.
by palata | 2025-04-27 16:25:53+00:00
Genuinely interested: when people say "video games make people violent, just look at this violent person who plays violent video games". Many times I don't particularly see a causation, and I know a ton of people who play video games and aren't violent.

Are we sure that porn "molds" people like that? Or is it a claim similar to the ones against video games?
by ryao | 2025-04-27 16:27:02+00:00
I have seen people say such things, and none of it was based on reality. They just misinterpreted the performance cliff that data deduplication had to mean you must have absurd amounts of memory even though data deduplication is off by default. I suspect few of the people peddling this nonsense even used ZFS and the few who did, had not looked very deeply into it.
by sneak | 2025-04-27 16:27:48+00:00
I’d have picked the Manhattan Project, ARPANET/Wikipedia, and aerospace development in the wake of the Wright brothers.

Many of the ones you’ve listed would likely have happened whether or not the USA-qua-USA existed. The Manhattan project and the current internet and the rush to build airplanes (first as weapons of war, of course) would probably not have happened the way they did without the USA.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-27 16:28:12+00:00
There are supply constraints at almost every single step in the GPU supply chain.

An earthquake three months ago, production issues, and insatiable demand mean that every single GDDR/HBM chip being made at factories already operating at maximum capacity has been sold to a waiting customer.

If Nvidia wanted to double the amount of VRAM on their products, the only thing that would happen is the supply of finished products would be halved.

No amount of money can fix it, only time.
by blacklight | 2025-04-27 16:29:01+00:00
The irony of watching this 2017 TED video in 2025, and find out that my NoScript extension reports half a dozen of JS trackers and ads providers on this page - including Google, doubleclick.net, sail-personalize and sail-track.

Oh, and if you navigate to this page without NoScript, AdBlocker or a PiHole DNS you'll probably be presented with a cookie consent banner, a bunch of ads on the page and before watching the video, and your data being shared with at least half a dozen partners (a number that can increase dramatically if you visit the page of any news outlet instead of ted.com).

So yeah, I guess that the message of this video aged like fine wine.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-04-27 16:29:39+00:00
> Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.

I don't think that really does. I think it's common human behavior to not think about the third parties you're actually endangering and only focusing on who you're trying to hurt.

We don't like to think of ourselves that way but it's relatively easy to push buttons on a human and get them to do things we would regard as "sociopathic" with out the person themselves being a sociopath. See On Killing by Dave Grossman.
by j4coh | 2025-04-27 16:29:41+00:00
Sure but I’m more talking about the way people use it than what it is in reality. Obviously it’s not a real truism, but if you heard it once then it’s something vaguely smart sounding you can say whenever a topic about flags comes up, even when it’s essentially a non-sequitur as in this case. People find it nearly irresistible to mention, which is fascinating.
by sneak | 2025-04-27 16:29:51+00:00
> The US has a much higher gun murder rate per capita than most other high income countries. It’s in fact near the top with active war zones.

This is markedly untrue in most parts of the USA, including the most heavily armed ones. Almost all of the gun murders in the USA are in 3 or 4 extremely high crime (and high poverty) counties.

Dozens of other counties that have gun ownership rates 2-10x higher per capita have much much much less violence. It isn’t the guns unless you generalize entire USA to a single socioeconomic bucket.

The “more guns = more violence” narrative is simple and easy to understand. It’s also false. “more poverty = more violence” is actually correlated. Guns and violence are, if anything, loosely inversely correlated.

More people shoot themselves willingly and deliberately each year in the USA than are murdered by guns, to put it in perspective.
by bee_rider | 2025-04-27 16:29:51+00:00
N.B., he is right on the Gen-X/Millenial border. So, we can now look retrospectively at a good chunk of his generation’s career. The tech industry we’ve built does, in fact, suck.

Although, Millenials seem to be pretty annoyed by all this, and aren’t really anywhere near retirement yet. So maybe we can figure out some way to apply the brakes.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-04-27 16:29:58+00:00
Not my area of expertise, but is this not a form of perfectionist problem? I mean, most places have a clear and simple address. For the rest, either a human can solve it, or we can make a few examples and let an AI do the work. We can go back to them later and revise them if we need to. Addresses don't change often, so I think things can stay the same for a long time.

Except for emergency dispatch and a few high-profile use cases, you can have a good enough address to let the user find its neighbourhood. But they still have the GPS or other form of address coding, so they can find the exact location easily. I'd say 99.9% of the cases are like that. The rest can be solved quickly by looking at the map!
by pfisherman | 2025-04-27 16:30:54+00:00
So what is the difference between moral ambition and hubris?

To me limiting oneself to “idealistic but not ambitious” with a focus on fulfilling relationships and positive impact on family, friends, and local community seems like a good way to go.

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions... Ideology—that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
by loeg | 2025-04-27 16:31:50+00:00
Right out of the gate the interview has a pretty extreme claim -- that porn is somehow responsible for societal cruelty, not just towards women, but towards a rainbow coalition of progressive causes. No explanation or justification is given; it's just a sound bite. Is the rest of this worth reading?

Edit: I ended up reading the rest of it, and... there's just nothing there? If you're interested in a short interview with Sophie Gilbert, maybe this is appealing, but if you've never heard of her, I don't see the draw.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 16:32:06+00:00
I was perusing some recent discussions on sources with interest. It seems that Wikipedia's intelligentsia have managed to "blacklist" (deprecate or declare "generally unreliable") practically every prominent source of news in the US that is not centrist or leftist.

I kid you not; through a process of attrition they've attacked the very reliability and reputation of every source, including Fox News and the like, and they've told editors sitewide that they simply can't be cited as a "Reliable Secondary Source", like at all.

I am not sure if that is an accurate assessment of the situation on the ground for mainstream media, but it certainly exposes some real systemic bias.

And this is the highest-order and most enduring method of ingraining systemic bias in the project: by weeding out sources with unfavorable viewpoints and perspectives, saying they publish lies and untruth, and being able to prohibit them globally from any use.

And I was pondering this state of affairs and just thinking about Karoline Leavitt's press room, and wondering what will the landscape be, if there is precious little intersection between press outlets who may be favorable or deferent to the present administration, and those which are allowed to be cited on Wikipedia? Ouch!
by replwoacause | 2025-04-27 16:32:42+00:00
Should be obvious if you read the article, which you clearly have not. But since you’re asking, it hijacks your dopamine system and makes you behave like a lab rat. You use it for a quick boost, to cope, etc. Really the same kind of effect you notice in other addictive behaviors like gambling and overeating.

As for the perversions, you don’t need me to enumerate them. Go visit pornhub if you’re somehow still unclear.

By the way, I’m no prude or religious zealot. I have nothing against sex workers. But the industry fraught with abuse that I can’t be a party to in any way. If you have no problems with it then good for you I guess.
by dvdkon | 2025-04-27 16:33:09+00:00
I suppose making yourself more than an immediately replaceable cog in the machine is part of what the author is advocating, ideally in a societally beneficial position.

Moreover, many businesses operate under the "everyone is replaceable" model, implicitly adding "without much effort", but that's not really true. There are plenty of examples of political movements that never recovered from their leader or figurehead leaving. You can't just take any other politician and swap them, their positions are too personal. That's an extreme example, but I think it applies to most job positions that aren't just about following checklists, in varying degrees.
by sssilver | 2025-04-27 16:33:50+00:00
Because when you're the sole owner and provider of goods, advertisement loses all meaning.

I grew up in the Soviet Union. There was one type of milk on the shelf, it was called "Milk", and I don't remember the label saying anything else.

Compare with "HORIZON ORGANIC DHA Omega-3 Supports the Brain Health organic Whole Milk" dressed in bright red and contrasting yellow, with typography that begs "please look at me, I'm the better option".
by prisenco | 2025-04-27 16:34:07+00:00
| Why do you understand

From the perspective of the EU and their regulatory environment (vis a vis GDPR) and given Facebook's reach and size, it fits with how they approach big tech and privacy.

| another barrier between people

It's been said enough before that cheap is always better than free. If the costs can be kept low enough, the benefits of removing ads and data-mining from the equation can be worth it. And there's always the option of regional pricing where that makes sense.
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-27 16:34:33+00:00
Yes, plus I wonder how "responsibly" do people who replace their car oil, dispose the old oil. One of the reasons I don't do it myself, is.. 'what the hell do I do with the old oil?' I know someone that parks/aims right over a grill that is there for the rain water, and all the bad/old oil goes straight there. I ain't no angel, but that person is an absolute cunt.

So.. I really hope that the garages that throughout my car-ownership years do this, don't just flush them down the toilet, but do something proper about them.
by Wickedflickr | 2025-04-27 16:35:31+00:00
I think a better solution than a side hustle, is to gather your friends or coworkers to propose to create, collectively, a worker owned co-op (of whatever idea seems profitable).

As it's being done collectively, there's more of a chance of it getting off the ground, as people could take turns working on it in their spare time instead of a side-hustle dominating your time.

Once it's established, those people could then quit their job and work at the coop.

There are credit unions that could help with startup costs, as well as guides on how to structure it based on other successful coops.
by mystraline | 2025-04-27 16:35:46+00:00
I should have expected that my general attack on protestant Christianity's views on sex would get a sarcastic response.

And no, possessiveness in regards to other humans is honestly really bad. It may every so often feel good for a moment, in a 'they want me' sort of feel. But that has a really bad tendency to go off the rails and turn violent quickly.

There's ways to do sexuality and relationships healthy. Possessiveness, jealousy, shame, and other similar emotions aren't healthy for anyone involved.
by 47282847 | 2025-04-27 16:37:21+00:00
I put it in quotes because I quoted you.

From my understanding, it is not wealth that creates sociopathy, it is a traumatic childhood. For me it points to the origin, and thus the fix, which is why I find that distinction not only relevant but crucial. After studying a broad body of literature around the connection between trauma and violence and politics, I do believe this would indeed be “nearly enough to understand the current state of affairs“. What connects Hitler and Mussolini and Trump and Putin is not wealth but severe early childhood violence.
by lelia_florina | 2025-04-27 16:37:44+00:00
Thanks a lot for the suggestion! I really like the idea of allowing direct printing onto 3x5 or 4x6 cards.

Out of curiosity: do you usually print on blank index cards at home? Or would you prefer a ready-to-order printable file (like a print shop format)?

Trying to understand better how you'd use it!
by 1659447091 | 2025-04-27 16:38:44+00:00
> I also said that there needs to be a seasonal farm work visa.

That's the issue with current leadership and your chain of thinking on an issue with only a passing broad assumption of the domain. A large enough portion of the population has been convinced that drastic change needs to happen. Now when a wreaking ball attacks a component of a larger machine, people say good it wasn't needed, look the machine is still working, I mean it's sputtering and smoking but working, give it time - then ignore it and move on to wreaking something else. The problem is wanting this drastic change without even understanding what is being wreaked in the first place or trying to understand why it's there.

I specifically said H-2A. There doesn't need to be seasonal farm work visa's added to your idea. We already have them.
by GeekyBear | 2025-04-27 16:39:19+00:00
Internet connections of the day didn't yet offer enough speed for cloud storage.

Apple was already working to integrate ZFS when Oracle bought Sun.

From TFA:

> ZFS was featured in the keynotes, it was on the developer disc handed out to attendees, and it was even mentioned on the Mac OS X Server website. Apple had been working on its port since 2006 and now it was functional enough to be put on full display.

However, once Oracle bought Sun, the deal was off.

Again from TFA:

> The Apple-ZFS deal was brought for Larry Ellison's approval, the first-born child of the conquered land brought to be blessed by the new king. "I'll tell you about doing business with my best friend Steve Jobs," he apparently said, "I don't do business with my best friend Steve Jobs."

And that was the end.
by bitwize | 2025-04-27 16:40:00+00:00
This lamp made a big splash among game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his friends/fans a few years back, because it resembles the first boss of Rez (on which Mizuguchi was the lead): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tStDX7QHNwI

When I saw this story I didn't recognize the model number and I thought "Hey, is that the Rez lamp?" sure enough...
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-04-27 16:40:06+00:00
Everything east of the Mississippi could be connected by high-speed rail.

Chicago to NYC is about the same distance as Beijing to Shanghai (1200 km), and that only takes 4.5 hours in China.

The fact that HSR doesn't make sense between LA and NYC is no excuse for not building it in the large parts of the country where it makes sense.
by jdyer9 | 2025-04-27 16:40:19+00:00
Nitpicking on the mechanic point, but this is pretty common, just not at the same level of detail as medicine. Certain brands, models, and parts are more likely to fail in certain ways, so if a model comes in with symptoms of a known, high frequency problem, many times that work will be done first rather than taking more of the car apart to inspect individual parts.

Certainly I didn't think there's huge bodies of work on those statistics the same way there is for medicine, but any car repair forum online will give you some sense of this
by ryao | 2025-04-27 16:40:39+00:00
> I honestly don't know how robust the image and video formats are to bit corruption.

It depends on the format. A BMP image format would limit the damage to 1 pixel, while a JPEG could propagate the damage to potentially the entire image. There is an example of a bitflip damaging a picture here:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitro...

That single bit flip ruined about half of the image.

As for video, that depends on how far apart I frames are. Any damage from a bit flip would likely be isolated to the section of video from the bitflip until the next I-frame occurs. As for how bad it could be, it depends on how the encoding works.

> On the one hand, potentially, "very" robust.

Only in uncompressed files.

> But on the other, I would think that there are some very special bits that if toggled can potentially "ruin" the entire file. But I don't know.

The way that image compression works means that a single bit flip prior to decompression can affect a great many pixels, as shown at Ars Technica.

> However, I can say, every time I've tried ZFS on my iMac, it was simply a disaster.

Did you file an issue? I am not sure what the current status of the macOS driver’s production readiness is, but it will be difficult to see it improve if people do not report issues that they have.
by sepositus | 2025-04-27 16:40:43+00:00
I'm sure there have been studies done, but I don't know them off the top of my head. I'm speaking from personal experience here (since apparently I need to spell this out in my comments): I would say that violent video games _may_ play a role in someone who then proceeds to go down the path of "violence porn." But usually, there are other factors drawing them to that place (i.e., bullying).

Likewise, I've often seen porn used as a tool to deal with other subsurface issues. The high of the hormone rush brings temporary relief, but like most highs, it requires more and more for it to stay the same.

Interestingly, no one in any of the comments so far has provided any anecdotal experiences of porn resulting in the opposite effect on someone. I don't doubt it happens, but it seems more people are focused on attacking my statement rather than engaging in a conversation. I'm happy to hear more stories.
by andrekandre | 2025-04-27 16:41:55+00:00
> I guess we could like try to build a sort of system where people get together and vote on what kinds of behaviors society should allow which we should discourage and then when a majority of people agree on that stuff we could like make people stop doing bad stuff by using force after some kind of process to make sure that its fair?

you mean, like some kind of... democracy?

idk, one of our internet vulture-capital magnates was on cnn the other day proclaiming "thats not gonna happen"...