MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netsharc | 2025-06-21 20:47:08+00:00
I wonder how much weight to put to the theory that Biden was letting Israel get away with genocide because Israel was also weakening Iran, and that was a way to weaken Russia and help Ukraine, sorry dear Gazans, your suffering and death is noted under the heading "collateral damage".

In happier news, Netanyahu's rampage helped Syria oust Assad, although that farmer from that Zen story says "Let's see."...
by Terr_ | 2025-06-21 20:47:12+00:00
In Washington state, the law is that signs along the highway have to be things you can actually purchase in the same property.

I think that rule helps strike a decent compromise: Adjacent local businesses can draw attention to themselves, but it blocks the business-plan of erecting a forest of billboards to auction off, flogging cell-phone providers or prescription drugs etc.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=47.42.040
by chrisldgk | 2025-06-21 20:47:40+00:00
Sorry, I should have been more specific. In Europe (or Germany at least) it’s required by law that you provide an imprint with contact information for every site you host, as well as a privacy policy that includes contact information of your GDPR officer if you collect any kind of personalized data. Since I’m a one-person company, that includes my personal phone number since I don’t have a business phone. Also chrome webstore for example requires a phone number if you host an extension on there.

Edit: Also this wasn’t about collecting phone numbers, but about providing one for your business if you host a publically accessible site
by shawn_w | 2025-06-21 20:48:01+00:00
>In any case, there's a lot of tree flavors. Lisp is certainly sufficient and simple when it's exploring these different details.

I've become a fan of scapegoat trees¹ lately for (immutable) balanced trees. There are certainly a ton of other options besides RB and AVL trees that are fun to explore (in any language)

>I've heard of highly optimized lisps where the typical list is turned into an array...

Back in the lisp machine days there was CDR coding² to flatten out a list into a contiguous block, but I'm not sure if any modern common lisp or scheme implementations use it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat_tree

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDR_coding
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-21 20:48:09+00:00
Well, yes. That's how we do business in the USA. It's literally unavoidable unless you can afford to spend a year or three declining offers until you find a unicorn with a sane contract.

Approximately all businesses explictly try to exploit workers to the full extent of the law. That's what capitalism is and it's how we've structured our society.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-21 20:48:53+00:00
I understand that your advice is in good faith - but if we touch grass for a second, we can easily find recommendations for employment law attorneys who work at very reasonable rates with fast (sub-1wk) turnaround times.

Because that’s how I found mine. $200 later, and I had total confidence in what I was signing and a lawyer on my side if things went pear-shaped in the future.
by midtake | 2025-06-21 20:48:56+00:00
Supply chain compromise is maybe one of the most cyberpunk aspects of modern security. It's not mathematical but it depends on allegiances, power, and money. Is it too late to introduce cryptographic verification into the supply chain in a way that the customer can be secure, or is it too late and a cyberpunk dystopia is the only future? Can mathematics change the meta?
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-21 20:49:07+00:00
That's still for rage-bait. Trump says a lot of things, most of them aren't true. Everyone operating in good faith, knew this wasn't true. Nobody above a room temperature IQ would think the US would invade Denmark.

Edit: @danieljacksonno answering your comment from below here:

>He repeated it several times.

Trump repeats everything all the time. So what? That's what all politicians do. Your brain (if you have one) is supposed to filter that.

>Germany and France has spoken out officially against it, with Macron even visiting Greenland to show support.

That's you typical politician virtue signaling, because speaking is free. Since EU politicians are toothless all they do is talk to look good and score brownie points in front of their voters on $CURRENT_ISSUE. France and Germany can't keep their countries safe from illegal migrants, what are they gonna do against Trump if push comes to shove? Talk him to death about how orange he is?

>Denmark is freaking out, and want to remove all dependencies on the US as quickly as possible.

Are they also removing the F35 jets from their military and H100 Nvidia GPUs from their supercomputer? Who's gonna buy all that Ozempic that makes Denmark rich if not the US?

I feel like you're talking fantasy politick instead of realpolitik.
by ricardo81 | 2025-06-21 20:50:28+00:00
I'd noticed this behaviour while using Brave browser and experienced the half-dozen second lag and a small popover on the bottom left that when clicked on said "it's because you're blocking ads"

I see also now that the "don't recommend channel" option has been removed (at least for me) which was handy for removing AI slop recommendations. It's fast coming to the point where I'll just avoid YouTube for spending some idle time.
by metricsdrvn | 2025-06-21 20:50:36+00:00
Money pays for my food and shelter, not because that’s how I think it should work but how it works.

Unlike you, random person who until now, I never knew existed. Who does nothing directly for me. Whose healthcare and needs I’m off the hook for, and vice versa

Stick to your morales but so long as food and shelter require money that’s what people chase.

While you are… kind of useless as an individual.

Great job coming up with some words for the back of your baseball card, but at the same time OK?

Too many people online are like those “I can live on energy” people. If I subscribe to your newsletter do I get a free house?

So many seem to misunderstand the point of our economy. It works on money specifically because others don’t want obligation to your bullshit.

Sanctimonious well read people like you hallucinate some special obligation to their selected gibberish, it’s exhausting.
by Retric | 2025-06-21 20:51:02+00:00
It’s an economic argument. The product could be fit for purpose, ie Nord VPN could work just fine.

However when you’re advertising a VPN on a cooking channel the cost per customer is quite high so they need to recuperate that high cost by charging extra. This is more true the longer the advertising campaign runs and the less a channel is related to the product, each of which drive up new customer acquisitions costs.

Obviously it’s not a perfect predictor, but it doesn’t need to be.
by mcshicks | 2025-06-21 20:51:03+00:00
Pretty sure it will work on JAL at least right now. They just asked for an email. But it was also a new service so maybe to wanted people to try it. It occurred to me at the time that two devices with two emails should work for twice as long. For what I wanted to do on that flight, i.e. check and send a few messages the one free hour was fine. But yeah of course they could change it so that would not work.
by haiku2077 | 2025-06-21 20:51:23+00:00
There are multiple guides on Youtube for both normal and expert. In practice some grinding in the first area is helpful and some fights are RNG heavy, but the majority of the game is actually really well balanced for it, especially since you get Pictos/Luminas and weapons specifically designed for that playstyle.

Personally, I killed Simon on my second try by rebuilding my party to intentionally die to his attacks, proc some key Luminas and trigger the start of a high damage combo. The game rewards creative builds and lateral thinking.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-21 20:51:50+00:00
A good employment law lawyer is A) not at all hard to find in major metros, B) charges reasonable rates for quick turnaround times, and C) is something more people need to have on their side in general, rather than elevating them as some snooty thing only the elite have.

This whole “bUt WhO hAs A lAwYeR” nonsense I’m being blasted with in my comments is exactly why these sorts of contracts, grifts, and scams are allowed to exist and succeed.

Know your rights, get a lawyer, and then share that knowledge with others. It’s Organizing 101 stuff.
by freeopinion | 2025-06-21 20:52:05+00:00
You are becoming incoherent. By your own argument, the Nuremberg trials were not necessary. Anybody lacking the military might to defy the U.S. can be summarily executed without a trial. Anybody enjoying the support of the U.S. military is exempt from any courtroom regardless of their actions.

Then here you write that Nurenmberg was appropriate and necessary.

You don't seem to be able to hold the thread of your own argument.
by out-of-ideas | 2025-06-21 20:54:24+00:00
can only hope that if the buy happens, that they keep that 'free version' (aka not logged in mode) 1:1 as it is today, and competitive (or better) than others. otherwise i fear the big #RIP and soon we'll be using company level accounts to these LLMs.

i do fear a crappier outcome if they sell out
by SllX | 2025-06-21 20:54:30+00:00
That’s also not going to happen. Even taking a former President is effectively an Act of War, especially with all the classified intel they were privy to during and still privy to after. Honestly you should consider it the same way all the way down to the rank of General, although I sure would hate to be a rank-and-file soldier caught by the ICC somehow. Even in that case they might not get a full on invasion on their behalf, you should still expect the State Department to intervene.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-06-21 20:55:02+00:00
They must be unique in a LAN segment. And only the lower 3 bytes in a MAC are “unique” as the upper 3 are the vendor ID and relatively fixed.

In practice people put fewer than 256 devices on networks (class C), so they have less than 1/65536 possibility of complete failure. And far less because they have a mix of OUIs.

But yeah, if you put a few hundred or thousand security cameras or other device from a single vendor, all on the same network, conflicts are certainly possible.

MAC conflicts are also a bit nasty to troubleshoot, and less obvious than IP conflicts.
by mseidl | 2025-06-21 20:55:31+00:00
the us, israel and the gulf states literally supported al qaeda and isis to fight against assad. https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1920853504538685520 (the new self appointed isis president of syria.)

i supported assad too, he was problematic but to say isis is better is stupid.

he had a 10 million $ reward on his head.

the us does this kind of shit all the time.

dont forget in the 80s the us used the osama bin laden and the mujahideen(now the taliban) (the cia armed/funded and trained them to fight the soviets. )

you can also blame the us for this shit state iran is in... in the 1953 iran was controlled by a brutal dictator the shah. iran became a democracy on its own. and didn't want to share its oil with the Uk. the uk called the us and the US sent 2 cia agents and they got the shah back in power. he was a massive piece of shit. so in 1979 iranians kicked out the shah. after that iran has been heavily sanctioned.

So the iranians should have loved their pro us dictator?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/11/22/nearly-3-4-of-the-wo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVkJDpgyA8 (the school of americas in georgia claims it trains the best dictators, everything horrible thing over the last 30+ years that happened in latin america can be traced back to that school) israel also helped a lot with shit in latin america.

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/israel-guatemala-genocide-gaza-i...
by yencabulator | 2025-06-21 20:58:52+00:00
Ah, great! What hardware can I buy and where do I download the Android installer for it?

Android has made some very interesting technical decisions, and Linux workstations should implement something along pervasive sandboxing, for sure. The pretense that Android in itself is something anyone outside of large phone-manufacturing companies should (or are able to) deal with is a little silly.
by touggourt | 2025-06-21 21:00:11+00:00
Because his son started studying programming, so he resurrected this 20 years old project. Did you read the History page on Cosmoe website ? You should (https://cosmoe.org/history.html)

Ton of projects exists, ton of cars, ton of bicycles, ton of shoes, ton of pens, ton of keyboards, mices and screens... each of them are just another one and there is no real benefit to chose one rather than another (price excepted). They exist, because someone wanted to try someting or do something. Humans do things that way.
by colecut | 2025-06-21 21:00:37+00:00
I am a long time php dev who has been interested in learning elixir/phoenix for a while but never quite motivated enough.

I saw this and thought, if this doesn't get me to give it a go, nothing will.

Less than 45 minutes after signing up for fly.io, I have a multi-room tic tac toe game deployed.

https://tic-tac-toe-cyber.fly.dev/

I had it build the game, opting for a single room at first to see if that worked. Then I had it add multiple rooms on a different git branch in case that didn't work. It worked great.

I learned very little about elixir, phoenix, or deploying to fly.io up to this point, and I already have a nice looking app deployed and running.

I know a lot of devs will hate that this is possible, and it is up to me now to look at the steps it took to create this and really understand what is happening, which are broken down extremely simply for me...

I will do this because I want to learn. I bet a lot of people won't bother to do that. But those people never would have had apps in the first place and now they can. If they are creating fun experiences and not banking apps, I think that is still great.

You guys have been releasing amazing things for years only to be poorly replicated in other languages years later.. but you really outdid yourselves here.

I'm blown away.

edit: is there a way to see how much of my credits were used by building this?
by arnonejoe | 2025-06-21 21:01:20+00:00
I usually add this at the end of the agreement and if they wont go for it, I move on:

This agreement shall not apply to any inventions, conceptions, discoveries, improvements, and original works of authorship that [my name] developed entirely on their own time without using [the employer](s) equipment, supplies, facilities, trade secret information, or anything not based on or received from [the employer].
by haiku2077 | 2025-06-21 21:02:11+00:00
- Extremely strict linting and formatting rules for every language you use in a project. Including JSON, YAML, SQL.

- Using AI code gen to make your own dev tools to automate tasks. Everything from "I need a make target to automate updating my staging and production config files when I make certain types of changes" or "make an ETL to clean up this dirty database" to "make a codegen tool to automatically generate library functions from the types I have defined" and "generate a polished CLI for this API for me"

- Using Tilt (tilt.dev) to automatically rebuild and live-reload software on a running Kubernetes cluster within seconds. Essentially, deploy-on-save.

- Much more expansive and robust integration test suites with output such that an AI agent can automatically run integration tests, read the errors and use them to iterate. And with some guidance it can write more tests based on a small set of examples. It's also been great at adding formatted messages to every test assertion to make failed tests easier to understand

- Using an editor where an AI agent has access to the language server, linter, etc. via diagnostics to automatically understand when it makes severe mistakes and fix them

A lot of this is traditional programming but sped up so that things that took hours a few years ago now take literally minutes.
by cassianoleal | 2025-06-21 21:03:39+00:00
I think there's some confusion going on here. The "earth" pin on the duck head is black plastic.

The metal pin on the actual PSU is an earth pin, but the duck head isolates it since the sleeve part that fits around it is all plastic.

The extension cord, on the other hand, has metal in the sleeve and has a proper metallic ground pin on the mains plug.
by Valodim | 2025-06-21 21:03:51+00:00
Blocking email or gmail is much closer to a nationwide internet blackout than blocking signal or tor. And even repressive regimes are on a budget there.

I'm not sure your second point holds either - for most nations, an active connection to imap.gmail.com leaks little other than how actively the user uses gmail. Correlating senders and receivers from that data sounds technically challenging enough that I wouldn't expect repressive regimes to be capable. But, to be fair, I base that on nothing.
by timoth3y | 2025-06-21 21:04:19+00:00
Non-competes (including stealth non-competes like the OP mentioned) are being abused by US employers seeking leverage over their employees.

In fact, 12% of hourly workers earning $20 or less had to sign non-competes. These workers do not have access to corporate secrets. It simply reduces their power to negotiate with their employer.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/non-compete-cont...
by graemep | 2025-06-21 21:04:42+00:00
> California banned “single use” plastic bags (which we used to reuse as trash bags for the bathroom or whatever) but lets you buy “reusable” ones for a few cents at the checkout counter. The reusable ones are much heavier and contain 10-100x more plastic, and take even longer to biodegrade.

We have the same problem in the UK. Single use bags not available but you can buy heavier ones, so while people throw fewer bags, they are heavier ones.

Paper bags have also become a lot more common. Obviously no plastic pollution but I do not know what other impact they have. They are often reusable and obviously very biodegradable so I would guess its a win?
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-06-21 21:06:21+00:00
It's a strange conclusion. You seemingly consider one measurement and expect to see Born rule, and when it doesn't manifest, then MWI is wrong? But Born rule doesn't manifest at sample size one in any interpretation, it manifests only in a long string of measurements. If you consider a long string of measurements, you will see Born rule as <Ψ|Born rule> = 1 - O(exp(-N)), which is basically a definition of empirical tendency.

Well, now I see that QIT isn't quite there. You say classical behavior emerges by tracing, mathematically, not as a physical process? In MWI classical behavior emerges as a physical process, not by tracing. That "look at part of the system (in which case you see classical behavior)" is provided by linear independence of different branches, so each observer naturally observes their branch from inside, and it looks isolated from other branches.
by pydry | 2025-06-21 21:07:01+00:00
Despite your presumption that US policy is set "because it's popular" it empirically is not: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

Israel's sway has more to do with the power it holds over the political classes rather than because of its "natural" popularity. It spends billions trying to sway public opinion, which is increasingly ineffective, but despite this their vise like hold over the American political class remains firm.

This includes not only lobbying bribes and Epstein-like blackmail and lavish funding for anybody who wants to run against an anti genocide candidate.

Russia behaves very similarly in countries it seeks to influence and plenty of naive people are driven to believe that that their relative success at doing this just means that theyre naturally popular there.
by revnode | 2025-06-21 21:07:05+00:00
> If the US is in the wrong, why should I as a citizen not want our government officials held accountable?

A core principle of American justice is judgement by a jury of your peers from your community according to our laws, not by foreigners on the other side of the planet according to foreign laws. Violations of our core principles through means we were not a party to is a violation of our sovereignty.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-21 21:08:03+00:00
External debt by country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_externa...

BlackRock as one example https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/blackrock-urges-uks-starmer-...

UK stock market has failed https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/are-uk-stock-markets-facin...

Now 10th in world for gdp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...

Prisons declared full, shoplifting pseudo-legalised. I could go on and on.

40% of the worlds dirty money goes through UK. It's USP is now mainly money laundering

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dirty-money-laundering...
by Nition | 2025-06-21 21:08:46+00:00
The fact that they were struggling for revenue just made the massive spend seem even weirder to me, but I suppose it could make sense if they truly expected to somehow get >4.4 billion back from ad revenue eventually. They also bought Wētā FX for $1.6 billion around the same time and did basically nothing with it.[1]

[1] https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unity-software-with-a-com...
by SllX | 2025-06-21 21:08:57+00:00
If the alternative was to leave Germany to the Soviet wolves, allow France to colonize it, or disregard the events of the Holocaust and not thoroughly document what occurred, how, and under whose orders, then it was necessary.

If you don’t care about any of that, sure, you can make the argument the Nuremberg trials were unnecessary, but I’m not going to be the one to do it.

Do note that the key difference between America in 2025 and Germany in 1945 is that we’re not a diminished State without really any sovereignty left to claim and haven’t recently invaded pretty much the entirety of Europe with the intention of subsuming it into a greater Empire and spent the last 4 years systematically destroying the entire Jewish population therein. That’s some important context and shouldn’t be overlooked in your zeal to put American Presidents on trial.
by danieljacksonno | 2025-06-21 21:09:18+00:00
Trump has several times threatened to take Greenland, by military force if necessary. He categorically has "not ruled out" military force against a NATO ally.

First source, but there are many: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/04/world/greenland-annexatio...

This has, for obvious reasons, been huge news in all of Europe and especially in Denmark.

I'm sure MAGA Americans want to hand-wave it away, and since Trump is so difficult to understand and says so many whacky things, we're all hoping he doesn't mean it, but it's underscored the need to quickly get independent of the USA.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-21 21:11:43+00:00
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=44340630

Trump says many things that nobody actually believes.

Edit: @ujkhsjkdhf234 Answering your question from below here:

>Trump says many things no one believes then he does. Stop steelmanning for Trump.

That's actually a good political strategy in tough times: Keep your opponents always unsure about what you're gonna do next. Why do you think Putin invaded Ukraine under Biden and not under Trump?
by trollbridge | 2025-06-21 21:11:48+00:00
There really needs to be a ban on single use eating utensils and most single use plastic food packaging.

It would require a tiny bit of planning ahead, such as people would need to carry around a fork, knife, metal straw, and perhaps a cup or coffee mug.

Considering how minimal the cost of forks and spoons are, eateries could simply sell metal forks and spoons to people who forget them.

An easy way to implement this is a tax / user fee on single use plastics for mitigating waste that ends up in shorelines or in the ocean, and make the fee enough to actually mitigate it + set the fee so that reusable metal or wood cutlery is price competitive.