MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Glittergorp | 2025-06-06 11:50:28+00:00
Yes the American media overblow some of the issues for clicks. However you can be arrested for speech and it isn't just threats to violence.

> In the US, you have people being literally grabbed off the street and sent to foreign prisons because of their speech with no due process.

This isn't true. Many of these people were arrested because they had entered the country illegally and then sent to foreign prisons. You are falling for the same rage bait media (except it is left leaning).

> This isn't new, of course, I remember some time back I was being told how white people couldn't go into Leicester... while I, a white man, attended University in Leicester.

It depends which area of the city. The University will typically safer than other areas of a city. Most of the people there are students and there is campus security.

There are areas of Manchester (where I used to live) and where I am the only English guy (not white, there were Irish people there) on the street. There was significant racial tensions and fights as a result. The guy that bombed the Arianne Grande concert lived a 5 minute walk away. I moved out of Manchester because I didn't feel safe.

Again not a "no-go zone area", but there are problems with racial tensions. I've heard it is worse in some places in London.

> The UK definitely has issues, even ones related to expression, but generally it's a very free place that does pretty well with respect to it.

As someone that lived outside the UK for long periods of time and knew what the country was like before the 2000s. This isn't true.
by edanm | 2025-06-06 11:52:05+00:00
> Go learn about what Israel is doing in the non-Hamas-controlled West Bank.

For the record, there is a lot of Hamas presence in the WB, even if it's not Hamas controlled. So if you are referring to government action in the WB, then it is aimed against terrorists.

If you're referring to what extremist settlers are doing in the WB, like setting Palestinian houses on fire and threatening violence and sometimes committing violence against Palestinians, then that's a different story. It's not official Israeli government action, but gets some tacit backing (and arguably a lot of tacit backing) from this government, and is absolutely heinous.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-06-06 11:52:39+00:00
Yeah because if it wasn’t for COVID YouTube, Facebook, et al would never have removed any content on their platform, unlike what they had been doing all this while…

There are so many issues with this.

Being able to pick what content they host is fundamental to freedom of speech for private entities.

The real problem is twofold. 1. A few platforms hold monopoly positions. Who else can compete with Youtubr? And the reason isn’t necessarily because YouTube has a particularly better UI that keeps viewers and content creators on it. The reason YT has all the content creators is because it leverages Google’s ad monopoly and is able to help creators make money. A decently functioning anti-trust system would have split google ads from the rest of the company by now.

2. The devastation of the promise of the open internet. VCs have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to ensure we remain in walled gardens. Open source, self hosted, software on the other hand, where the benefits are shared and not concentrated in individual hands which can then spend billions to ensure that concentration, has suffered.

We need govt funding for open source and self hosted alternatives that are easy and safe for people to setup.

Combine the two and instead of YT getting to choose what videos are seen and not seen on the internet, major and small content creators would self host and be the decision makers, and still make similar amounts of money because they could plugin the openly available Google Adsense (kind of like how you can on blogs…).
by voxadam | 2025-06-06 11:53:01+00:00
Forgive me, I'm not an expert when it comes to windowing systems but wasn't Wayland started by basically all the then current head devs of xorg? Isn't that a tacit admission my the people that know best that the project they'd dedicated years if not decades of their lives to had reached a point where further development was untenable?

Beyond the above mentioned tacit admissions, didn't nearly every major active dev on the xorg team state explicitly via various emails, blog posts, and conference talks that they saw no reasonable way forward as a matter of tech when it came to the now 21 year old xorg source, now 34 year old XFree86 source, and 41+ year old protocol model that is X11?

All that said, I wish the best of luck to the X11Libre team on their endeavors.
by Doxin | 2025-06-06 11:53:14+00:00
> Honest question: have there been actual European citizens who have security concerns about digital payments

God yes. Constantly. Interacting with U.S. companies is almost without exception awful. Paypal will steal your money for the slightest infraction of their puritanical senses. Uber eats will sometimes just not deliver and not even have a phone number you can call to complain. Trying to pay online with a credit card will constantly lead to your credit card details getting into criminal hands.

I'm not saying EU companies are all amazing, but at least with those you can generally expect them to not be mustache-twirling levels of terrible to their customers and if they are you've got the law on your side.

I try to steer clear of dealing with U.S. companies directly whenever possible, and the fact that for basically any international transaction I have to worries me a lot. If trump gets another one of his fits he can cripple EU payments on a whim. That's not a good thing.
by sensanaty | 2025-06-06 11:54:01+00:00
The way I've interpreted conflict in these contexts is more of a "You have ticket X, but it can't be done because Y. How did you communicate about that to your PM/Team/Manager/Relevant Stakeholders?", not literally "How did you handle a fiery argument in the office". It also doesn't hurt to ask the interviewers directly to define "conflict" for you, though.

I think using the word "conflict" is idiotic, but it helps to rephrase it. Because indeed, like you, I've never in my life had "conflict" with anyone in a work setting, I've had plenty of disagreements though and that's just part of the job/life.

I tend to just make something up here on the spot honestly, because as you said, I'm not keeping a book of grudges where I record every single disagreement I have with a colleague. I'll say something like "On Project X (which I've been talking about during the interview) we had a disagreement on how to do Y. I resolved this by gathering the facts on the pros and cons of method FOO vs method BAR, and we sat down as a team and discussed the approach we preferred to take". The anecdote is usually completely made up, but there's been enough situations during my career where the approach has definitely made sense.
by mikebannister | 2025-06-06 11:54:14+00:00
Personally yes I do run it in yolo mode. And I think, to the extent anyone will use this project, people mostly won't be using the fine grained control. For me toolsets and full yolo are what is useful in this project.

I think the real use cases are something like:

1. Try cautious mode, gain confidence, switch to yolo 2. Use yolo mode and find that it keeps doing something that annoys or scares you so you configure an exception for it

On number 2 I thought I would use it this way to prevent some unwanted behavior but I ended up learning how to avoid those behaviors in other ways.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-06 11:55:07+00:00
Realistically there's no reason government can't use open source software and open formats especially.

Last time I had to fill out a government form in Canada, it was a PDF that only opened in the Windows desktop version of Adobe Acrobat... Even the Android version couldn't open it. Super annoying and completely unnecessary.

Edit - I don't even care if they keep their server code proprietary. But just use free formats, save our taxpayer money on stuff like Windows and Office licenses, and make it easy for citizens to interact with them. I'd even rather they hire some more local devs than send money out of the country.
by edanm | 2025-06-06 11:55:09+00:00
> or exiled to the ever-shrinking West Bank.

You're mixing two completely different things here.

Arab-Israelis (meaning Israeli citizens who are Arabs, which represents about 20% of the Israeli population) are not "exiled" to the WB, they don't live in the WB, they live in Israel, and are full citizens - no one can exile them anywhere.

There is some discrimination, sure, but in almost every respect they are equal citizens of Israel.
by api | 2025-06-06 11:55:19+00:00
I see two big brands of authoritarianism on the rise right now.

One is populist strongman rule, usually but not always of a right wing bent. We have this rising in the US.

The other is technocratic corporatism, the model of China and it seems a faction of the EU.

Both endlessly malign democracy and liberalism as decadent, chaotic, and responsible for an endless parade of bogie men they will protect you against.
by andrepd | 2025-06-06 11:55:53+00:00
Big tech censorship disgusts me. Everything is completely backwards from what it should be, and the sheer scale of those platforms (bigger than many countries by population or money) prevents individual people and even governments from exercising meaningful democratic oversight. So these platforms congregate hundreds of millions of people and whatever their CEOs and/or douche tech bros in SV decide is what becomes law.

Another example: videos about the holocaust or WWII atrocities. Every one of them demonetised and hidden from recommendations because it touches a horrifying topic. Harms the children? On the contrary, nothing more important in an age of global fascism waves than a lesson in how it went last time.

Meanwhile the whole platform is a cesspool of addictive brainrot, gambling ads, turbo-consumerist toy unboxing videos, etc. Things that are actually truly harmful to kids. These are not restricted, these are promoted!

War is peace etc etc. Good is evil and evil is great. Everything is backwards.

I hate this so much.
by Simulacra | 2025-06-06 11:55:59+00:00
Do you have a social worker? I volunteered with the homeless some years ago, and I recall a major problem with the system is that the system does not generally help those who are not inside the shelter system with an assigned social worker.

The reason I bring that up, is that because a good social worker might be able to find you a job training or placement program that utilize those skills, but more traditional routes may not. Even if it's just giving you a space to work would be very helpful
by geocar | 2025-06-06 11:58:16+00:00
Ok. I have some idea I think of where you are at, so I will give it a shot. I think this sort of thing is an emergent property in the design of APL applications, and so there's nothing to "see" in terms of an example unless you can see that design process.

But first, "database" here is just the list of global variables. If that wasn't obvious, it is important.

My application processes weblogs, and "clicks" is the bit-array of which event was a click (redirect), as opposed to having a variable called "weblog" which contains a list of records each possibly having an event-type field.

Normalizing them that acknowledges that the weblog (input) probably looked like the latter, but it's easier to do work on the former. APL makes that transformation very easy: Just rotate the table. In k this is flip. Simples.

Those "domain semantics" are simply the thing I want to do with "clicks" which in my application comes from the business (users), so I want them to provide a bunch of rules to do that.

Now with that in mind, take a look here:

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/bdot#bitwise

and here:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec...

Look carefully at the tables, because they're given in a slightly different way, but they are the same. And these are all of them, so it should be obvious at this point you can represent any boolean operation against any matrix of variables with a matrix of these numbers.

For example, you might have a sql-like expression (from a user of your application) of x=y, and x<y and so on that you want to use to filter some data set.

Now if you are to think about how you might do this in Javascript (for example; probably in scheme too) you would probably organise such a table as a chain of closures. And I think if you look at any ORM in just about any language you'll see this kind of pattern (maybe they use classes or use a tree, but these are obviously the same as closures), but such a tree can only be traversed, and the closure can only be called. Maybe you can batch or shard, but that's it, and since I would bet there are a lot of dependant loads/branching in this tree of closures, it is slow.

But if you understand that this tree is also a matrix of boolean operators, it is obviously parallelisable. And each operation is simple/cache-friendly and so therefore fast. This leads to your "queries" being a set of projected indexes or bitmaps (whichever is convenient), which you probably also store in global variables someplace (because that is convenient) while you're doing what you need to do (make xml, json, bar charts, run programs, whatever)
by chiph | 2025-06-06 11:59:13+00:00
I'm surprised there isn't already a west-coast Auto Train like was briefly mentioned. The east coast one (used to bypass I-95 traffic) is often sold-out. Drop off your car for loading, take your carry-on to your seat or cabin, arrive the next morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29KW3OAPrD4
by viridian | 2025-06-06 11:59:39+00:00
Sealand is a fake country, a state without a nation. Even a nation without a military like Costa Rica can muster a defense via its people. Sealand on the other hand exists solely because no one cares to even acknowledge its existence. If Russia cut a deal to garrison troops there, that wikipedia page would see every "is" replaced with "was" before the day's end.
by sensanaty | 2025-06-06 11:59:41+00:00
I mean, I've definitely had all these experiences and know I have, but I couldn't tell you a single detail about anything of those moments. I've missed plenty of buses because I've had music blaring and I wasn't focused on the bus stop, but I definitely don't remember anything else about those moments other than they, at some point in history, happened to me.
by jorvi | 2025-06-06 11:59:49+00:00
Personally I still am of the opinion current LLMs are more of a very advanced autocomplete.

I have to think of the guy posting that he fed his entire project codebase to an AI, it refactored everything, modularizing it but still reducing the file count from 20 to 12. "It was glorious to see. Nothing worked of course, but glorious nonetheless".

In the future I can certainly see it get better and better, especially because code is a hard science that reduces down to control flow logic which reduces down to math. It's a much more narrow problem space than, say, poetry or visuals.
by DavidPiper | 2025-06-06 11:59:57+00:00
Yep, I've been meaning to get a Swift + SDL project working.

The language itself is not limited to Apple platforms, and there are compilers for many others, but until now all the surrounding tooling (IDEs, Swift Package Manager, build toolchain(s), C/C++ interop) has been less than ideal for all non-Apple platforms. Arguably less than ideal on Apple platforms too in some cases ;)

There is still a big difference between "I have Xcode" and "I have VSCode + a large manual toolchain", but the gap is closing. CMake can also generate Xcode projects which is a nice touch when bringing cross-platform code back to Apple platforms.
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-06 12:00:07+00:00
An excerpt:

>> I'm a aware that some people from Xorg development team think that @metux changes are not useful enough for various reasons

> Apologies for being blunt, but I'm afraid it's more like "everyone except you" by now. He's managed to fall out with pretty much every other active project member.

>> Xorg is dead anyway

> That's not a reason for me though. I actually feel bad for Xorg users, Enrico's churn is causing pain for them for no clear benefit.

There are evidently both technical and social issues at play.

Later in that thread, Encrico/metux offers a defence, an explanation with detail that this is part of a mission to “make X11 great again”. Don’t read too much into the comparison (please don’t!), but one similarity with the American politician who has been using a similar phrase for the last dedcade is that they don’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. In both cases, some think the broken eggs are acceptable collateral damage toward a worthy goal, and others don’t. In this case, other X11 maintainers aren’t interested in making X11 great again, but would prefer to let it rest obsolete and minimally maintained; and so, taking the best interpretations I can imagine, it’s necessary for this Enrico to fork the project and go it alone. But he’s going to be swimming upstream against a raging torrent. And he seems to be making various mistakes in some changes that weren’t supposed to change behaviour, due to inadequate testing (he offers explanations that at least some consider reasonable; so the errors may not indicate a broader pattern).
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-06-06 12:00:18+00:00
For now. ProtectEU would require service providers to log metadata and beyond or face criminal charges.

> For the first time, an EU expert group has explicitly mentioned VPN services as "key challenges" to the investigative work of law enforcement agencies, alongside encrypted devices, apps, and new communications operators.

"VPN services may soon become a new target of EU lawmakers after being deemed a "key challenge"" https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpn-servi...
by ivanmontillam | 2025-06-06 12:00:53+00:00
> Aether sits in the sweet spot: simple enough for content creators, flexible enough for developers, fast enough for users.

A thing that most other developers miss is that non-technical people, like (and especially) content creators, shy away from a terminal as if it were such a plague.

Some of them don't even have the mind concept of a directory tree, from a root drive to nested ones.

Therefore, if you have to `cd` to a directory and then `npm run build` it, yeah: the CMS is developer-oriented no matter what you claim. Once your Windows customer tries to run that command (assuming they know what `cmd.exe` is) they'll run into `'npm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.`. If it's a Linux person, they may find `node` and `npm` installed, but then it's closer to a developer than the pure content creator this is trying to target.

These products seriously need to compete with the 5-minute WordPress installation. I'm no WP fan, I really don't, but I give credit to its low-friction onboarding.

> Aether stores everything as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter.

Yeah, just like GravCMS[0]. Full disclosure: I'm a Grav user.

Except that Grav has a web admin interface: now, that is more approachable to a non-technical content creator than typing commands in a terminal.

I really don't want to make my comment feel like a rant, but it's very hard to ignore that some devs entirely miss the target public they intend to approach.

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[0]: https://getgrav.org/
by narrator | 2025-06-06 12:00:57+00:00
The sci-fi novel I wrote sacrifices commercial art considerations to portray the future of war more realistically. All the robots are one-shot, one-kill and all action takes place faster than human reaction time. The most humans do is approve battle plans. This is already the case largely in the Ukraine/Russia war, and now we're seeing that human FPV operators will soon be obsolete. Realistic sci-fi movies are going to be not have much action in the future. Things will have to be about careful political maneuvering, like in totalitarian country politics. You can't win against robots unless you are using other robots.
by diggan | 2025-06-06 12:01:26+00:00
> Murder is bad?

Sure, lots of countries agree with this. But bunch of countries still have "death penalty", even one that is usually heralded as the "Savior of the West" still has judicial murders.

Besides, if everyone agreed "murder is bad" we wouldn't have wars, so obviously not everyone agrees with that.

> Stealing is bad?

This I don't even agree with 100%, depends on the context. You're starving while someone else is hoarding food for themselves for no particular reason? Totally justifiable to steal food from them to survive.

War argument kind of fits with this one too, clearly not everyone agrees stealing is bad.
by Bengalilol | 2025-06-06 12:01:31+00:00
>> Right now it's mostly to serve me ads but the potential that absurd amount of information gathering has in the wrong hands truly terrify me.

Unfortunately, it was already used to influence voters with specific psychological settings. And it worked so well that it gave me chills on how fragile we are.

Anyways, I need to dig out the law proposal because it surely is more aimed at protecting citizens than ripping their souls for the "government" (which almost doesn't make sense for a country like Switzerland).
by roenxi | 2025-06-06 12:02:27+00:00
> Its the problem of those they affect. "Infectious" is not self-contained to a singular individual.

The stats I've seen suggest the vast majority of people have caught COVID between 2019 and now and pretty much all the preventative measures that worked reliably were things that either individuals could do themselves or that required targeting travellers specifically.

It isn't obvious that people trusting YouTube about COVID affects any third party. Who and how are they affecting?
by Simulacra | 2025-06-06 12:02:41+00:00
OMT and i'm sure your way on top of, but I'm gonna say it just for the benefit of others: the public library. Consider offering yourself as a volunteer to help them with technology issues, or teach other homeless people about technology.

Especially in a big place like Las Vegas, I think you could find an eager-beaver librarian, who might be willing to help you find suitable employment opportunities given the situation.

Another thing about the public library is that… For lack of better phrasing, it's a safe place that puts members of the housed community in touch with members of the unhoused community. So, my thinking is:

if you can get involved with the public library, and find a librarian to take an interest in your case, through the services and positioning of the library, this could get you some exposure to media/journalists to bring attention to your situation, and maybe a company that might be willing to take the chance. It's a bridge.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-06 12:02:42+00:00
That’s why. If you use styles and embrace sanity in general, it’s fine. But word is like Perl, there’s more than one way to do it.

Paste additions to the middle of a numbered list from legacy documents that break the number sequence and use custom fonts altar create weird problems? Sure.

Allow sociopaths to format text using a series of invisible text boxes? Sure.

Decide to randomly lose the names of editors and contributors? Sure.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-06 12:03:07+00:00
Wait, so is this first-class rail service for who? For those whose private jets are in the shop?

I instead so look forward to just making the existing services more convenient/affordable where you would prefer taking the train — look forward to it even. I still have a memory of walking through a train car at night (going from Kansas City to Chicago) when I was 4 or 5 years old. Passengers sitting, sipping cocktails in the observation car like a scene out of "The Thin Man".

I've taken the California Zephyr to Omaha a few times over the past decade. It was okay. But expensive as I recall.