MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sophira | 2025-06-21 19:15:04+00:00
> The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance.

Disagreeable to whom, exactly?

Personally, I would rather the adverts were irrelevant if it meant I didn't have my every move tracked on the web.

The main problems I have with ads are, in order from most problematic to least:

* the lengths that ad networks go to to track me, * the very real possibility of getting malware, * the lengths advertisers go to to ensure their ads are seen. (We have popup blockers in pretty much every browser nowadays for a reason.)

Take away those, and you could convince me to disable my ad blocker. Until then? Not a chance in hell.
by secondcoming | 2025-06-21 19:15:31+00:00
A few years ago an American company that approached me (UK based) about a job opportunity insisted I sign an NDA before I could interview with them. I refused and they couldn't understand why so they even put me in contact with one of their lawyers. I still refused, and they eventually relented, but I could never understand why I'd need to sign an NDA to attend a job interview. There's literally no benefit to me in doing so.

At the time I was working for a competitor and I figured they could use the fact that I interviewed with them to argue that I - either intentionally or unintentionally - gained proprietary knowledge of their product and my current employer gained from it.
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-21 19:15:43+00:00
Like anything, I think ROS can be used well. The people who use it well would probably do better with other tools, though. The people who prefer ROS seem to be young engineers, likely recent grads (ROS is endemic in grad school) who enjoy fast prototyping, which of course is very cool and fun, but also anathema to getting real work done past a certain point. If for no other reason than it is a configuration and debugging nightmare.

This is just my observation and should be taken lightly.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-21 19:16:01+00:00
I've done 1800 mile trips in 36 hours. Stopping for 20 minutes every three hours to charge, bathroom, and grab food would not have added significant time to the trip.

I've also done the same trip in 3 days, and in 5 days. The longer trips were far more pleasant, and were not slowed down at all by charging.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-21 19:17:07+00:00
> obfuscate that with transports.

Such as obfs4, I presume.

I read about RACE just now, seems interesting:

- https://github.com/tst-race/race-quickstart?tab=readme-ov-fi...

- https://github.com/tst-race/race-destini

Have you heard about it, or have you used it before?

> Cwtch doesn't let you send messages when the recipient is offline by virtue of how it works, which is more secure, but inconvenient.

I agree. How much more secure is that? In the case of Ricochet, this only applies to friend requests. You have to be online to be able to receive friend requests, which I am fine with.
by com2kid | 2025-06-21 19:17:36+00:00
> The thing about strict-utilitarian-morality is that it can't comprehend any other kind of morality, because it evaluates the morality of... moralities... on its own utilitarian basis.

I can comprehend them just fine, but I have a deep seated objection to any system of morality that leaves behind giant piles of dead bodies. We should be trying to minimize the size of the pile of dead bodies (and ideally eliminate the pile altogether!)

Any system or morality that boils down to "I don't care about that pile of dead bodies being huge because those people look different" is in fact not a system morality at all.
by mseidl | 2025-06-21 19:17:38+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u8TDvCHImKI

she literally told people they weren't. but they are lying because they need to manufacture consent to bomb iran.

the same bullshit with iraq and how they wanted nukes and had wmd.

netanyahu has literally been saying for 30+ years that iran was weeks away from having nukes.

i need to find something about that report. the video has the ieae head saying they did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon.

the ieae has been for some bullshit political timing . they made another good point that the us left the nuclear deal causing them to defensively spiral.

https://youtu.be/k7zJ2kWsPGM?t=1895 (its queued for the part where he talks about this is bullshit and iran is not making a dash from the bomb) the intelligence still stands.
by culebron21 | 2025-06-21 19:17:40+00:00
My experience on MacOS is that every program has different shortcuts regarding text editing. Home/End/PgUp/PgDn on my external keyboard just not working, and if added to system settings, they still don't work in some apps, Ctrl+Left sometimes working sometimes not, etc.

And what Ctrl/CMD/Shift keys do together looks very random, no logic in it. Like, Ctrl+Left in Zsh scrolls the entire log to top, rather than move the cursor to the start of the line.

I use zsh, slack, Chromium, SublimeText and Zed on Mac.
by SllX | 2025-06-21 19:18:46+00:00
I’m sure you want to try and catch me in an act of hypocrisy but I think I’ve been clear throughout this thread.

So let me put it to you this way, if the Chilean President had the power of the POTUS backed up by a military equivalent to or superior to the US Military, would the UK have arrested and extradited him on behalf of Spain?

So the solution for American Presidents is even simpler than the one you propose: disregard the ICC in its entirety and continue to make state visits with impunity.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-21 19:19:53+00:00
The core question is what is the value they bring compared to what they cost.

You will definitely get support reasonably fast if something breaks because of them but that’s not where breakage happens most of the time. The issue will nearly always be with how you use the services. To fix that, you need someone who understands both the tech you use and how it’s offered by your cloud provider. At which point, you have an expert on board anyway so what’s the point of the huge bill?

A hoster will cost you less for most of the benefits. They already offer most of the bricks required for easy scalability.
by moefh | 2025-06-21 19:20:00+00:00
I remember that one: the two blacks were not slightly different, they were both exactly black but written in different ways.

The image was in PPM format, which stores the color components of the pixels as ASCII text (so a white pixel is stored as "255 255 255" and a black one is "0 0 0"). To redact the image, the code replaced every digit of the numbers with '0', so white became "000 000 000" and black stayed as "0 0 0". Both are black and indistinguishable if you're viewing the image, but you can tell them apart by looking at the file text.

Sadly the UCC homepage seems to have vanished, but I found this account from the author: http://notanumber.net/archives/54/underhanded-c-the-leaky-re...
by vidarh | 2025-06-21 19:20:20+00:00
The ICC takes actions against people. It very specifically does not have jurisdiction over conflicts between states.

The ICJ pursues cases against states.

> Not one iota of attention of the court ever went to that.

The ICC only has jurisdiction over the territories and nationals of the State Parties to the Rome Statute. In the case of Israel, the actions are taken on the basis of alleged crimes in Palestinian territory, the same basis they have used for pursuing Palestinian crimes. They have not "changed their own statutes".

In the case of Daesh/ISIS, the court has issued statement that affirm that there are serious crimes involved, but pointing out that for those crimes taking place in Syria and Iraq, the ICC had no territorial jurisdiction because neither state were parties to the Rome Statute.

In the case of your examples of Daesh actions in Russia, Russia is also not a State Party to the ICC, and so it was Russias own choice to ensure that Daesh can not be pursued by the ICC.

> Sorry, any government EXCEPT the US and Israel are allowed to ask that.

The US and Israel are not parties to the ICC. They should have no expectation that a court they have explicitly refused to be part of will allow them control over how the court exercises the mandate given to it by those who are actually parties to the court.

> Or you could point out less serious, but ubiquitous human rights abuses that the ICC won't touch for various reasons. For example, every last muslim-majority state violates freedom of religion, a human right. Even Morocco and Turkey do [3] [4]. You will not hear the ICC on this issue.

The "various reasons" being that the ICC does 1) *not have jurisdiction over states, 2) the Rome Statute does not allow the ICC to pursue individuals for violating freedom of religion.

In other words: While I'd be all for protecting freedom of religion and for the ICC to be able to prosecute people preventing it, it is not a power the ICC has been granted by its signatories.

Effectively your complaints against the ICC all boil down to the ICC following its own rules about what its jurisdiction is and which crimes they are allowed to prosecute.
by leptons | 2025-06-21 19:20:21+00:00
It doesn't "take up a ton of memory" and if you think 47MB is "a lot of disk space" then maybe you need a bigger disk. Most laptops have at least 250GB, so this program would take up about 0.0188% of disk space, which is frankly not a lot. I had PDF files way larger than that. And you only need to run it once, you do not need to keep it loaded and running all the time, so it doesn't "take up a ton of memory".
by prerok | 2025-06-21 19:20:28+00:00
IANAL and I don't know about other countries, but in EU (definitely the country I live in and am pretty sure it goes for the rest as well) any non-compete agreement after two years is void by law.

You are required to hold confidential stuff for life, like business contracts, but you can use your know-how, if it does not violate any patents, in a competing company as you see fit. This knowledge is a part of you and cannot hold you against employment. Even if you do decide within those two years to employ yourself in competing company, this can be held back by your original company only if they give you X% of your pay at them (X can be 80, or as low as 50, as my friends inform me).
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-06-21 19:20:31+00:00
OTOH, beware letting yourself be intimidated by scary looking but unenforcable clauses that are all over contracts. In doubt, spend a bit of money on a lawyer to figure out what your real situation is.

I know of several cases where lawyers said "don't bother arguing with them about clause X, just sign it and ignore it".
by dakiol | 2025-06-21 19:21:28+00:00
In some countries that's illegal. So when presented with a contract that contains such claims, I have 2 options:

1) ask them to remove it... and so I risk not getting the job

2) don't say anything, and sign it

If I'm really interested in the job, I'll go for option 2 because I know they cannot enforce such claims, so I'll be fine.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-21 19:22:06+00:00
Was hoping this would go by unnoticed.

This dude is a hopeless weirdo, who mindlessly refactors for no real reason, and breaks stuff.

The insane conspiracy minded anti-big tech aspect is deeply disturbing. Replying to some of the most respectable food hard working nice people on the planet who have carried huge X subsystems forward for decades with love and care with just frothing madness. There aren't words for the scorn this insanity & batshit deserve.

This comment and first reply have some solid other discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303328

I frelling love the reg, love me a good rag. It was intensely intensely disappointing to see they carrying so much water for this deeply problematic antisocial troublemaker.
by lazide | 2025-06-21 19:22:22+00:00
It’s delusional that you think you actually need to not go below half a tank (unlike electrical in the same situation), or that you can’t start a well maintained winterized vehicle at -48 cold (it’ll be hard on it, but it should still work) - as compared to an electric that flat out won’t work without heating the battery first. Especially gasoline powered.

EV’s at these temps are very problematic and much more likely to get you actually killed if something goes wrong, because of how they work. That’s just the truth.

Thinking that somehow it isn’t is the delusional part.

With enough care can you potentially avoid getting into a situation where you’ll actually get in deep trouble? I guess. But the margins are way thinner, and it requires a lot of range reduction, and your worst case scenarios are much more likely to happen.
by leereeves | 2025-06-21 19:22:52+00:00
> Then, should we pay to get rid of ads or not? Two opposite opinions:

> 1) paying YouTube support creators

> 2) paying YouTube rewards the "shitification" of the platform

I have a third opinion. I expect that if enough people pay Google, they will remove the free service altogether, add ads to the paid service, and perhaps introduce a new, more expensive ad free tier. Paying them not only rewards the enshitification, it encourages the next step.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-06-21 19:24:18+00:00
The ban on single use plastic bags ignores the reality, which is that people often didn't plan to go to the shop or didn't plan to buy that much and so find themselves in need of a bag at the till.

I think it would be more pragmatic to have environmentally friendly single use bags available for a fee rather than wasting all those "reusable" bags.
by brudgers | 2025-06-21 19:24:37+00:00
Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.

Time, according to Kant is the a priori condition of all inner experience. [1] I find that a more useful model, though your mileage may vary because giving up all those ding an sich's doesn't come for free. TANSTAAFL.

[1]: and space the a priori condition of all external experience.
by timr | 2025-06-21 19:25:23+00:00
For bags specifically, instead of just "banning plastic bags" (which usually leads to dumb outcomes, as GP notes) mandate the use of paper.

It drives me up the wall when I go to a store (Target comes to mind; I also see those stupid FreshDirect bags everywhere in NYC, even though I don't use the service), and the only option is a pseudo-reusable plastic bag, which I can only accumulate or discard. As long as you're charging me anyway [1], just give me a paper bag! Most of the time I have a re-usuable bag that I carry around, but for the times I don't, I save the paper bags I receive and use them to put out my recycling.

[1] I assume this is about cost to the retailer.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-06-21 19:25:40+00:00
Looking around briefly, you can replace it with this:

`networksetup -setairportpower en0 on && [... set MAC ...] && networksetup -setairportpower en0 off`

I think it's pretty safe to assume that modern Macs will always have en0 as the WiFi adapter, but if you wanted, you could use `networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder` to find the associated device.
by mzajc | 2025-06-21 19:26:07+00:00
> OSAI Browser is a revolutionary new browser built with Rust and Tauri

> Seamlessly run HTML-based games

So it's a WebView (Tauri) wrapper that displays HTML files? As far as I'm aware, any desktop web browser can do that already. Description is incredibly vague, potentially LLM slop, and there's no mention of the license.
by kevmo314 | 2025-06-21 19:26:10+00:00
There is a big gap between the other commenter's desire to write code by hand and air pollution.

Look, as a programmer I also love writing code by hand, however it's childish to suggest that if I can no longer make a living doing so because automated code production is more profitable that that's equivalent to boiling in a pot or suffering from air pollution.

There are substantiative risks with AI, such as a potential for a singularity, that would make for an actual compelling argument. Some engineer's desire to make a living writing code by hand does not. That's a luxury.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-06-21 19:26:19+00:00
Cool. I've never had any issue with EBS CSI driver itself, the biggest issue were idiosyncracies of EBS itself, like the mount count limit or availability zone requirements. These need ugly workarounds, like limiting your volumes to a single AZ, so, no HA.

On the other side, their VPC CNI plugin and their ingress controller are pretty much set and forget.
by stiray | 2025-06-21 19:30:18+00:00
Sure I do, by suckers watching ads, like it always was.

The whole thing about Google is that they are not software company (as people like to falsely believe), they are advertising company, financing everything else from ads. Including search, youtube, android, gmail and all other side projects.

And those side projects brings them data, to advertise more efficiently.

Now, seeing a trend to monetize their side toys is just pure greed, they don't really need that.

This is also the reason, why no one can compete with them. As competing with free products is impossible unless you have side financing.

By the way, did you (and everyone else) maybe read this study? https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/leave_my_br... It is very eye opening.
by IgorPartola | 2025-06-21 19:30:30+00:00
And since we do have app stores as gate keepers, this could easily be remedied by the app stores. They wouldn’t even have to penalize you. Just put a score on there for app size (and app responsiveness) compared to the median in that category. Put this near the star rating from the reviews. Executives don’t generally care that you as an engineer want to reduce an app size by 10% but they really really care about how the app looks on the app stores because that’s what they show to people and what they are judged on.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-21 19:31:05+00:00
It seems like a more and more recurring shareholder wet dream that companies could one day just be AI employees for digital things + robotic employees for physical things + maybe a human CEO "orchestrating" everything. No more icky employees siphoning off what should rightfully be profit for the owners. It's like this is some kind of moral imperative that business is always kind of low-key working towards. Are you rich and want to own something like a soup company? Just lease a fully-automated factory and a bunch of AI workers, and you're instantly shipping and making money! Is this capitalism's final end state?
by ASalazarMX | 2025-06-21 19:31:47+00:00
I think your parent comment was referring to studies about scams rather than bullshit and propaganda. I don't recall any studies specifically measuring non-financial gullibility.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spo...

https://time.com/6802011/gen-z-financial-scams-fraud/
by WXLCKNO | 2025-06-21 19:31:57+00:00
I'm working on a bunch of different projects trying out new stuff all the time for the past six months.

Every time I do something I add another layer of AI automation/enhancement to my personal dev setup with the goal of trying to see how much I can extend my own ability to produce while delivering high quality projects.

I definitely wouldn't say I'm 10x of what I could do before across the board but a solid 2-3x average.

In some respects like testing, it's perhaps 10x because having proper test coverage is essential to being able to let agentic AI run by itself in a git worktree without fearing that it will fuck everything up.

I do dream of a scenario where I could have a company that's equivalent to 100 or 1000 people with just a small team of close friends and trusted coworkers that are all using this kind of tooling.

I think the feeling of small companies is just better and more intimate and suits me more than expanding and growing by hiring.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-06-21 19:32:00+00:00
>I disagree that intent has anything to do with virtue signaling

This is the very first sentence on Wikipedia: "Virtue signalling is the act of expressing opinions or stances that align with popular moral values, often through social media, with the intent of demonstrating one's good character."

Unless we share a common understanding of the term, we can't have a meaningful discussion about it.

>There is a delicious irony in questioning the motivations of someone who is questioning your motivations.

I'm not sure why it is ironic. Instead, it seems evident that by bringing up other people's motivations, we are revealing something about what we think motivates people to act, and thus about our own motivation to act.

Accusing somebody of virtue signaling provides evidence for the accuser's way of thinking, but not for the accused's.
by 00N8 | 2025-06-21 19:32:24+00:00
In terms of microplastics, I would think 100 of the old flimsy single use bags would be much worse than 5 reusable plastic bags, even if the total mass is the same. The heavier reusables have less surface area per mass, so they'll be degraded more slowly by the sun. They also are less easily blown by the wind, so it's more likely someone will dispose of them properly or that they'll naturally end up buried somewhere that does a better job of containing the eventual microplastics. Fewer bags in total would probably be better for sea turtles than thinner bags as well.

I'm not sure if that makes the reusables better overall, but I don't think we can say they're 10-100x worse based on weight alone.
by charcircuit | 2025-06-21 19:32:36+00:00
>Because you only have to review a 250 Byte binary

It's dishonest to not mention the millions upon millions of lines of source code you also have to verify to know that dependencies are safe to use. Compiling from source doesn't prevent supply chain attacks from happening.

In my opinion there is more risk in getting a safe Siso binary in going through this whole complicated build everything from scratch process vs Google providing a trusted binary to use since you have to trust more parties to not have been compromised.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 19:32:37+00:00
> because Israel bought Trump

This is a self-defeating and untrue meme.

Most Americans don’t say Israel is very important to them, favourably or not [1]. Historically, Israel was popular in both parties; that has now changed. As a result, being anti-Israel was dumb not because of some APAC [EDIT: AIPAC] conspiracy but because voters generally don’t respond to foreign policy issues (versus kitchen-sink ones) and the voters who would tended to were predominantly pro-Israel. So the safe electoral strategy has been, until maybe the last year, to say something nice about Israel and then move on.

So no, there isn’t some undefeatable (and frankly, steeped in historically-racist characterisations of Jews) shadow government. This is basic electoral incentives. Incentives which are shifting. Because if there is an undefeatable shadow government, there are better things to talk about and focus on.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/08/how-ameri...
by a_shovel | 2025-06-21 19:33:09+00:00
It's less that I "don't like" the results and more that the results are completely unrealistic. Trans people tend to make friend groups with other trans people, and I trust that they would notice if on average 90% of their friends stopped being trans.

I don't get your bus analogy. Surely the people who get on bus B which goes to destination Y do so because they want to get to destination Y? The act of getting on the bus doesn't cause them to want to go its destination.