MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by patrick41638265 | 2025-05-02 13:26:42+00:00
Not sure about the intellectual part of it, but how to live a rich life? Surely not by secretly cherishing a feeling of superiority and sophistication because these sentiments will cut you out of a lot of insights and encounters that make your life rich. True, life is a farce in a lot of ways, but who cares? Accept it where you can't change it and find your own islands of happiness. These may be intellectual if you like, but don't expect the people around you to follow the same (high) standards, that will only make you unhappy.
by tlb | 2025-05-02 13:27:09+00:00
Worse than the small amount is the length of time it took. If you accept the accusations at face value, China has been spying on a large fraction of EU citizens for 4 years and can keep doing it for another 6 months (after which they probably won't actually stop) for the eventual fine of a few dollars per victim. The US isn't moving any faster, and most other countries aren't moving at all.

So the end result is that potentially hostile countries can run vast spying operations for a long time with no major consequences. As long as they do it with funny videos with annoying soundtracks.
by fidotron | 2025-05-02 13:27:29+00:00
When I briefly worked in the field the conclusion some others in the studio had come to was it was acceleration that kills you, which makes sense in terms of matching our inner force detectors.

i.e. a fixed forward floating velocity is fine, but whenever it varies you throw up.

They had some rather extreme tests to demonstrate this phenomenon, and no one could last more than a second of one of them (bouncing around in a dune buggy) without tearing the headset off.
by dbenamy | 2025-05-02 13:27:38+00:00
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by InsideOutSanta | 2025-05-02 13:27:44+00:00
> Developers love this shit

Somebody needs to alert the developers, because they're currently unaware of how much they love it. I've only ever seen devs complain about this stuff.

Of course, this is a self-selected group because people who are happy with the status quo don't usually talk about it loudly online. Still, many developers, including iOS-only indies, are unhappy with the App Store's payment constraints. Check out mjtsai's blog for regular roundups of their complaints.
by jfengel | 2025-05-02 13:28:15+00:00
It is their problem when a feature that they like disappears.

They don't care about what happens to the business itself. But they do care about the things the business provides.

If they don't in fact care, then indeed, nothing is lost. But a lot of people will miss a lot of things. Whoever comes up with an alternative that suits the case will make a lot of people happy.
by adamqureshi | 2025-05-02 13:28:42+00:00
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by taylodl | 2025-05-02 13:28:59+00:00
Has anyone used one LLM to generate a Gherkin script from a requirement, use another LLM to create code from the generated Gherkin script, and then use Cucumber to check the result?

Of course, you'll need to have someone review the Gherkin script and review the code, but it seems like there's a pipeline you can setup and use for creating some of your code. It'd be interesting to learn what kind of code this wouldn't work for. I'm thinking of this thing as an AI developer of sorts, and like any developer, there are some things they're just not very good at.
by diggan | 2025-05-02 13:29:01+00:00
On a similar note: https://github.com/borkdude/jet

Can convert between JSON<>EDN<>YAML<>Transit easily, plus includes a nifty little query language that is basically Clojure, so data transformations/extraction ends up really simple and concise.

I've always liked jq for simple things, but since I never sat down to actually work through the syntax, harder things tend to be too complicated to figure out quickly. Usually end up using Jet instead as if you already know Clojure, you already know the query language Jet uses.
by IanWoodfill | 2025-05-02 13:29:11+00:00
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by caseyy | 2025-05-02 13:29:44+00:00
What do you mean? The app can use Apple's system and its own. If the developers don't want your money on terms fair to you, you don't buy.

Some things are relatively easy to refund via Apple, but not all of them. It's nearly impossible to get a refund for in-app purchases, gift cards, balance top-ups, auto-renewing subscriptions, redeemed digital goods, and so on. Coming from the EU, if I paid for these things directly with a credit card, I'd be able to get a refund in line with our consumer protection laws (if the item was sold deceptively, if it has a fault, if I am not satisfied for any reason within 14 days) that cover more or less all digital purchases - no problem.

To borrow your words, Apple's system is taking away trust. I like the refunds my European bank offers me because it operates under consumer-friendly laws. I don't trust Apple's refunds.

Anyway, opening any system to more choices for the consumer cannot decrease trust. If the consumer trusts the original payment option, they can use that. If that is not provided, but the customers don't trust other payment methods, the app won't make money. The market will soon negotiate so that the payment methods that customers and sellers find acceptable prevail. Apple fears it won't be their extortion (I mean payment system), and rightfully so. Aside from the Stockholm syndrome, there's very little reason to use it.
by T0Bi | 2025-05-02 13:29:50+00:00
The party's prevailing ethnic and descent-based understanding of the people is not compatible with the free democratic basic order. It aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, to subject them to unequal treatment that does not conform to the constitution and thus to assign them a legally devalued status. Specifically, the AfD does not consider German citizens with a history of migration from Muslim countries, for example, to be equal members of the German people as defined by the party in ethnic terms.

This exclusionary understanding of the people is the starting point and ideological basis for continuous agitation against certain people or groups of people, with which they are defamed and disparaged across the board and irrational fears and rejection of them are stirred up. This can be seen in the large number of ongoing anti-foreigner, anti-minority, anti-Islam and anti-Muslim statements made by leading party functionaries.

Translated via deepl from https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilung...
by laborcontract | 2025-05-02 13:30:06+00:00
Facebook is one of the few large companies that's in control of someone who is able to take large risks and does that by way of R&D. I find this admirable (do not conflate this with "I find mark zuckerberg admirable").

Just look at what Microsoft did with Hololens. They bought it, chafed at the thought of a couple billion dollars of additional capex to make it a viable product and dumped the entire project 20 meters from the finish line. If you're going to do something, do it with conviction.

Whose money is this? The company's money and investors' money. Let them lose it.

Should I be cheering for them to instead to spend that money on streaming rights? Buybacks? C'mon now.
by danhor | 2025-05-02 13:30:11+00:00
> AFD obviously still exists so a court has not banned them. Innocent until proven guilty.

A court can only ban them after the parliament has voted to ban them. One of the hurdles on getting the parliament to vote on this topic has been the outstanding decision by this body, if it's really "gesichert rechtsextrem". At least in many previous cases surrounding this question (mostly libel cases), courts have argued that the specific people these cases were about could be seen as "outside of the democratic spectrum".

> The measures would of course need to be biased toward false-postives to prevent future false negatives.

Certainly, that's why both the parliament and the highest court have to decide, with previous instances sometimes not coming through (for example, the NPD for not being relevant even though they were certainly Nazis).

> That the afd growth of doubling their power since last election and AFD is now polling in first place. So to win the next election they need to essentially remove AFD from being an option; or los

There would be no reason to ban a party if they could be ignored (see the NPD), you only need to ban extreme parties if they're popular. If the AfD were at 3% this would be a much smaller topic, since there would be no foreseeable risk. But even with the AfD at much lower than <15%, this was very much an area of concern, with steady (legal, as with this classification and previous ones concerning subgroups) progress towards establishing their extremist status.
by magic_hamster | 2025-05-02 13:30:37+00:00
This stirs up a good discussion. My way of having a satisfying intellectual life is not just by juggling many ideas, but also by problem solving. I find immense satisfaction in making something work or creating something that didn't exist before. Many times, this requires problem solving with creativity, compromise and tradeoffs. Some times, it requires deep diving into academic papers and doing some math. When this ends up working it is truly a triumphant feeling; however it might sometimes not work at all.

Another thing is meeting and absorbing knowledge from other people. It's incredible to learn or even just watch skillful people do their thing.
by BoxFour | 2025-05-02 13:31:15+00:00
This is a little meandering so just to focus on one part:

Philosophy can be valuable, but applying the ideas meaningfully requires discernment. I’m thinking particularly about the popularity of “Meditations”, for example.

Take Plato, for example: He and his also-famous mentor believed knowledge was a form of recollection from past lives, an idea illustrated with an unconvincing geometry lesson in Phaedo (EDIT: It’s Meno).

Sure, it’s worth stepping back to reassess what’s going to increase your “PC” to borrow from seven habits. That could involve leaving behind surface-level achievement in favor of deeper reflection, as the referenced article suggests.

But let’s not overly-romanticize ancient thinkers: Plato and Aristotle held fundamentally different views on knowledge. Even they couldn’t agree; there’s no need to treat any one of them as infallible.
by deeThrow94 | 2025-05-02 13:31:16+00:00
Philosophy as a concept isn't an issue; but we tend to romanticize the tendency to neurotically examine even when we know finding "truth" isn't possible, and I've noted a tendency in people so devoted to unconsciously emotionally attach to what are ultimately word games. This concerns me. Perhaps we should instead romanticize living a contented existence, some of which will surely still involve reading and discussing philosophy (in moderation, of course).
by DocTomoe | 2025-05-02 13:31:25+00:00
In fact, in many societies, tattoos are considered a sign of low status, affiliation with lower class (which tends to get harsher sentences) and/or criminal activity, and may - consciously or subconsciously - lead to worse outcomes in trials.[1]

Just tattoo 'cop killer' on your forehead and see if they give you parole.

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by LaurensBER | 2025-05-02 13:32:16+00:00
I'm not German but it's my understanding that nothing is being banned. This classification allows the German intelligence agencies to be more aggressive in gathering intelligence of any potential misconduct within the AfD.

I'll abstain from making any moral judgements about this, I don't feel qualified to do so but I understand that the historical context places a very large role in Germany.

Any association with Nazi's is condemned in the harshest way. The AfD has crossed that line several times in the past.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-02 13:32:27+00:00
There's two distinct problems caused by AI scrapers:

1. Bandwidth consumption - that's on scrapers downloading multimedia files

2. CPU resource exhaustion - AI scrapers don't take contextual clues into account. They just blindly follow each and every link they can find, which means that they hit a lot of pages that aren't cached but re-generated for each call. That's stuff like the article history but especially the version delta pages. These are very expensive to generate and are so rarely called that it doesn't make sense to cache them.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-05-02 13:32:29+00:00
> You can expect the same thing as with FN/RN in France before the developments within the last 2 years, i.e any right wing party not voting resolutions that are submitted by AfD even if they are 95% identical to what is in their own programme.

But I think this contributes to the general distrust of the population towards incumbent politicians.

I don't know about Germany, but in France the situation becomes ridiculous to the point of resembling a bunch of kindergarten kids: "I won't vote for your law 'cause I don't like you".

And now, whenever you don't like somebody, they're helpfully some "extremist", so they obviously can't propose anything good.

If everyone's an extremist, that word soon loses its meaning. See: the boy who cried wolf. People are getting tired of this crap and can see trying to outlaw a growing party for "extremism" as a shameless political tactic. Which means actual extremists may go unnoticed.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-05-02 13:33:03+00:00
The front page of our early phreaking zine was an interactive cellphone- a certain famous model of Motorola- that you had to navigate to enter.

It was a great filter against people who wouldn't have understood the content. If you knew how this model worked, there were a lot of easter eggs, and we received a lot of great feedback to make it more fun and rewarding.

Being told that it would "frustrate users" would have elicited a friendly "Not ours :)".
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-02 13:33:36+00:00
The establishment is working itself up to banning the party, since they're losing the ability to shut it out of the process democratically, and haven't had the sense to co-opt its reasonable positions to reduce its support. One of the other main parties tried to do that before the last election, showing a slight willingness to put some limits on migration, and the further-left parties went ballistic on them, so they quickly yanked that back. Their last resort will be to ban the party, which will inevitably make it more popular while preventing it from participating in the normal process. Then they'll act surprised by what happens next.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-02 13:33:46+00:00
Congress voted on tarriffs last night. It's no longer riding on a whim, the entire elected representatives voted on them and decided to keep them. Reversal failed 49-49.

So the mad king theory, I think it was initially defendable, but I'm not so sure now. The people have spoken, through their representatives, and through a president that advertised his tarriff plan during elections.

The American people have spoken, they want this pain.
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by mistrial9 | 2025-05-02 13:34:09+00:00
it seems like Wikimedia Foundation has always been protective of the image downloads since the 90s. So many drunken midnight scripters or new urban undergrad CEOs discovers that they can download cool images fairly quickly. AFAIK there has always been some kind of text corpus available in bulk because it is part of the mission of Wikipedia. But the image gallery is big on disk, big bandwidth compared to TEXT, and low hanging target for the uninformed, greedy and etc.
by _mlbt | 2025-05-02 13:34:16+00:00
I would argue that the American right wing has actually shifted a bit leftward in the past few decades. Gay marriage is now accepted by most Republicans for example. Trump is in many ways a 90s Democrat. His stance on illegal immigration, America first foreign policy, and protectionist tariffs are actually not that extreme historically for our country. The mass deportations are a reaction to the unprecedented scale of illegal immigration that was practically encouraged by the Biden administration.

The reality is that he feels far right because most of the western world has become extreme-far left. I can think of tons of former Democrats who have been alienated by how far left the Democrats have become on social issues. Besides Donald Trump, there is also Elon Musk (he was a huge supporter of Barack Obama), Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and even Bill Maher (who is no fan of Donald Trump by any stretch of the imagination) frequently criticizes how far left the party has become.

EDIT: I’m talking about social left versus right, not economic. For the record, I think the left versus right distinction doesn’t really work given the complex modern political landscape. For Europeans that may be unaware, gay marriage and LGBT rights were actually a controversial political issue in the 90s and even early 2000s with even many Democrats refusing to back it. Barack Obama famously “evolved” his stance on this issue.

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by joshstrange | 2025-05-02 13:34:35+00:00
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I currently work in the POS industry (day job) and Food Festival Payments (my business).

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Being able to write backend, frontend (web, iOS, Android), all in the same language feels like a super power, especially when you can share code between them. Without Typescript (and Vue/Quasar) there is no way I'd be able to run by own company and support web/iOS/Android without cross-platform frameworks utilizing Typescript. I've written Java, I've written Swift, it's not that I can't write them it's just that I'm not good at either and I don't have the time to get better at either.

I haven't played much with other languages (aside from PHP, which I use for my day job) other than a todo/hello-world here and there because at the end of the day TS fills my needs and has something going for it that no other language does, it runs on the web natively. With WASM that might change (has changed?) but for now TS give me the best DX.

I'm not sure if that answers your question and I'm happy to expand further.
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by legitster | 2025-05-02 13:35:52+00:00
> The White House, in a social media posting announcing the signing, said the outlets “receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’”

I can kinda see why someone would think NPR is left-leaning (still not worth defunding). But you could stick a gun to my head and I couldn't come up with a complaint about PBS.
by lesuorac | 2025-05-02 13:35:56+00:00
Nor can the current guy remember things for more than the day and the then he admitted it live on tv after taking a dementia test!

Perhaps one of the more depressingly funny thing to learn is that in the first Trump term people would just steal papers and etc from Trump because by the end of the day he'd forget about something if there wasn't a sheet in front of him. And this would keep him from doing something crazy.