MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yawpitch | 2025-06-22 12:12:52+00:00
I think my critique is mainly around the distinction between communities you actively and in an informed manner choose to join, communities you don’t get to choose to join or not at all, communities you are assumed by others to have joined whether you consented to or not, and communities you would almost certainly never knowingly choose to join, but get forced to join anyway.

For example I didn’t get a choice to join the community of “biological males”, and without resort to my consent i have always been assumed to be “cisgender heterosexual male”… because of where my parents chose to move during my childhood I was forced against both my interests and my consent to become a member of the “crypto-atheist” community, and through the absurdly violent actions of others I was forced to join both the general “survivors of childhood sexual abuse” and the more specific “male survivors of childhood sexual abuse” communities… all of which have, to some degree or another, required me to adhere to norms and rules and expectations I never got to fully develop for myself. All of the above also required me to keep my, many, secrets, primarily for their comfort and convenience, all so that I could at least appear to be a member of those communities.

The great difficulty was realizing that I, and my self, are themselves a community with a diversity of ideas, all of which exist in the same overlapping spaces I / we know as my / our body and mind, and the senses and emotions the former mediates and distorts for the latter.

So yes, community can be good, but community can also be bad. When the community I didn’t get to choose to join is at its best it tries to foster a safe space for me and my self, and I in turn try to keep that community safe from me and my self. The problem is it was a member of that same community that made me an initiate in it… then other members of that same community that forced me to stay silent about it, in all cases to protect them from seeing (never mind acknowledging) their own secrets.

And yes, absolutely, let us define, refine, and evolve, and let us do so towards the greater good. But let’s also stop protecting communities when it’s the individuals within them that are actually human.
by matt-p | 2025-06-22 12:13:55+00:00
The UK has adequate loading gauge for double deckers on HS1/Chunnel and HS2 (though I'm not sure if the Euston extension will support it or not).

We can run London - Europe double decker today and if we connected HS2 to HS1 it would probably be possible to run from Birmingham, Crewe and Manchester to continental Europe too.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-22 12:15:36+00:00
It does not invalidate anything I have said, and this reasoning of yours is so flawed.

For example: I thought this or that music or movie sucked. I do not need to know how to make a song or a movie to be able to criticize it, let alone have one in a similar vain, same with books. I can criticize a book, or an article, without having written one myself on related topics.

All that said, where did I criticize? I did not criticize anything, at all.

I stated facts. Perl is indeed faster than Python, and Perl was indeed made with string manipulation in mind. I made no comment about this project or its author, thus, it was not a criticism of any sort.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-22 12:16:34+00:00
No worries! Of course governments, well especially EU, Australia, China, ... would NEVER let foreign companies take over their entire online marketplace (and a host of other things like ERP). So of course they have working well-funded local copies of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tiktok, Salesforce, ... developed locally ready to go to secure their economy! Plus, of course, the internet infrastructure underpinning them.

Otherwise those countries would be SO fucked! So you can rest assured that their governments have worked tirelessly to prevent that from happening.

I think I'm going to dream of riding flying pink chocolate unicorns tonight.
by valyala | 2025-06-22 12:17:07+00:00
> Why would I use ClickHouse instead of storing log data as json file for historical log data?

There are multiple reasons:

1. Databases optimized for logs (such as ClickHouse or VictoriaLogs) store logs in a compressed form, where values per every log field are grouped and compressed individually (aka column-oriented storage). This results in smaller storage space comparing to plain files with JSON logs, even if they are compressed.

2. Databases optimized for logs perform typical queries at much faster speed comparing to grep over JSON files. Performance gains may be 1000x and more because these databases skip reading unneeded data. See https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/grepping-logs-re...

3. How are you going to grep 100 petabytes of JSON files? Databases optimized for logs allow querying such amounts of logs because they can scale horizontally by adding more storage nodes and storage space.
by scotty79 | 2025-06-22 12:18:00+00:00
> It’s very clear to me Israel has had some of the most retarded foreign policy experts for decades now.

Well, it's outcome of how they were treated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

If everybody hates you anyways you eventually morph into the thing that deserves that hatred.
by Aachen | 2025-06-22 12:18:34+00:00
Wut? Besides that you can uninstall whatever you don't want or even replace the operating system with a bare android or whatever else you want, you're forgetting about Fairphone, Murena, and probably others. I had an apple phone for work once and it's not like it doesn't come with a lot of bloat preinstalled and tries to get your permission to snitch on where you are and what you do. It has toggles for some of the things but you can only do what apple lets you do. Also consider daily use, where you will install third party software to get stuff done: you're not better off with the necessarily commercial software from apple's store than with pretty much anything you can get on f-droid and other open source stores

Recommending Apple for privacy only makes sense for those who don't actually care and just want the feel-good premium brand
by BobCatJamesDean | 2025-06-22 12:18:48+00:00
Hi! Despite learning Chinese for more than 3 years, one of the hardest things when going to Taiwan or Asia in general is ordering food. Sure, I know the basics, but when you are hit with characters you've never seen, preparation methods you have no clue about, and Google Translate wording that is completely whack - it's hard.

I got so tired of this that I decided to solve this problem for myself, and after a very positive reception on Reddit, I've decided to share Menu, please! with all of you.

How does it work, and why is it better than Google Translate?

Menu, please! takes you through the ordering process from start to finish:

- Step 1: Take a single photo (handwritten works as well). - Step 2: Get a detailed translation and description, including flavours, ingredients, and cultural context. - Step 3: Select the dishes directly in the application and create a full order in Japanese, Korean, or Chinese. - Step 4: Clarify details, preferences, or just chat with the staff using live translation.

This should allow you to explore the culinary world without needing to worry about not being able to communicate, understand the food or eat something that you were not prepared for. (I'm looking at you 田雞！）

How do I use it?

I usually translate the menu, listen to the items I want to order, and then double-check if I have ordered correctly using the order feature. I hope this helps you bring your ordering game to the next level!

I would love for you to try Menu, please!, and share your feedback with me! This web application is completely developed by me, so I'm always open to ideas on how to make this the best ordering / food-focused language learning app out there!

How to access it?

The app is completely free to use, available as a Web Application or PWA application, but the iOS version should be coming out soon and you can join the Android beta by writing to hello@menu-please.app

This is my first app, so I would love to hear your feedback and for you to give it a shot!
by somenameforme | 2025-06-22 12:19:17+00:00
I think people are capable of nuance. Even if one might support settlers or even things like a normal war, that's dramatically different than supporting behavior that in one instance seems to be trending towards literally genocidal in nature (and not the hyperbolic genocide that propaganda always claims the 'other side' is engaging in any relatively normal war), and in another instance is just seemingly psychotic and, at best, demonstrating a severe lack of intelligence - both state and personal.
by rvnx | 2025-06-22 12:19:32+00:00
Way better than the recommended "privacy" instances.

NordVPN only sees that you connect to YouTube, they do not see the pages or videos that you are looking at, and from the perspective of YouTube, they only see requests from a very popular VPN where are millions of users.

If you use the "privacy" instances, these "privacy" websites and Cloudflare knows precisely which videos you are watching.
by ghaff | 2025-06-22 12:20:11+00:00
Which isn't my experience at all. I've always seen PMs spend a bunch of time on the road talking to customers and in executive briefing centers. (And I was one in hardware at some distant point.) Engineers, sensibly, don't really want to spend that much time with customers--and even if they talk to one or two it sort of colors their opinions by that one customer's requirements.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-06-22 12:20:52+00:00
Obviously it's not true, but if you want to put the following on your VPS:

> • Ansible roles for PostgreSQL (with automated s3cmd backups + Prometheus metrics) • Hardening tasks (auditd rules, ufw, SSH lockdown, chrony for clock sync) • Rolling web app deploys with rollback + Cloudflare draining • Full monitoring with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana Agent, Loki, and exporters • TLS automation via Certbot in Docker + Ansible

You'll spend a heck of a lot of time on setting it up originally, and you will spend a lot of time keeping it up-to-date, maintaining it, and fixing the inevitable issues that will occur.

If their bill was 200K a year, why not. But at 24K a year, 25% of an employee's salary, it is negligible and most likely a bad choice.
by youngtaff | 2025-06-22 12:21:33+00:00
If you look at the rest of the maps https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/maps-from-the-2000-camp...

You’ll see the one you posted was unrepresentative of what was actually on the table and what the Israeli’s would agree too wouldn’t deliver a viable state and it was divided up by Israeli roads and other security apparatus

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/map-of-the-israeli-offe...
by frereubu | 2025-06-22 12:21:35+00:00
> Iraq invation was pushed through the UN.

Well, sort of. They tried, but when the UN gave an answer that the US and UK didn't like, they went ahead anyway.

> You might argue that this was always a façade only, and the powerful did whatever they wanted, bending the law around it.

I'm not quite cynical enough to wholly agree with that, but given enough motivation and power the façade does crack pretty easily.
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-22 12:22:21+00:00
AFAIK Castro had never more than 3 thousand armed men at his side, and often much fewer, down to lower hundreds, spending much of the protracted conflict hiding in the countryside.

A revolution is something in which a significant part of a nation actively participates, not something that almost the entire population sits out passively.

Of course we can debate what is the necessary fraction, but 3000 militants isn't a big deal in a country of several million. Every Iraqi cleric in 2010 was able to put together a bigger militia than that.
by matt-p | 2025-06-22 12:22:45+00:00
We have sleeper trains in the UK, it would obviously be great if they were cheaper but honestly there's not that much demand for travel from London - Scotland or Penzance in general. This is exacerbated by the fact a daytime train is easily doable so it's a bit of weird, niche product.

However the amount of demand there'd be for an overnight train from (let's just say) London to Barcelona at £99 each way would be immense.
by metalman | 2025-06-22 12:22:52+00:00
"study conseals" that you can get whatever results wanted simply by taking the subject out of context,like from the moon to earth. on.the moon, it is extreamly cramped quarters,surrounded by deadly vacume and dust, keeping the vacume out is one of the main concerns, but nothing can get rid of the dust, which by all.accounts is bad stuff, and there will beno break from it. earth on the other hand, has you know, air,rain, showers and laundry, a biome to live in,fresh food,and plenty of room to walk away from some dust covered idiot,phd's not withstanding, that wont(cant) back off and let you breath some dusty air in peace.
by libertine | 2025-06-22 12:23:46+00:00
Ukraine is being invaded in a genocidal war to try to annex them and delete them from the map, by Russia. Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum with Ukraine for them to surrender their nukes.

All while Russia is threatning with nuclear destruction of Ukraine and Western countries.

So, how the hell is Ukraine salivating over WW3 and Russia isn't LMAO
by ngcazz | 2025-06-22 12:23:56+00:00
If you are familiar with how Israel came to be founded, and how Iran became an Islamic republic, you'll see how that is a naive narrative.

For one, Balfour's illegal concession of Palestine to the Israelis had the clear strategic purpose of keeping pan-Arabism at bay. The ensuing establishment of Israel - by the UNSCOP, in contravention of international law - had the side effect of turbocharging settler colonialist violence (1948 and ongoing) and expansionism (e.g. 1967 annexations).

That was the background to the 1953 CIA coup, and the eventual Islamic revolution in 1979. Sure, it's not the liberal democratic outcome Iranians would've liked, but it reclaimed sovereignty lost, and they are aware of the historic role of Israel and their strategic and moral position in relation to it, regardless of their regime.

Bottom line, if we look closely at who really is threatening whom, the reactions of the Iranians are probably quite understandable
by Hilift | 2025-06-22 12:24:45+00:00
Most government positions could use almost anything. The reason many places use Windows is familiarity and cost of government licenses. Also note that modern services may have a term, for example Microsoft has licenses based on a six-year commitment.

There are scenarios where Windows may be problematic. Sometimes drivers for odd equipment are not available in Linux, or only some Linux distros due to fragmentation and not maintained very well.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-06-22 12:25:07+00:00
Whenever working with this kind of probabilities, i always throw in a python rand() as a comparison. It sanity checks the calculation of threshold with very low rist of miscalculation.

Of course calculating the threshold properly needs to be done aswell... but a rand() is so quick and simple to add as a napkin check, and would catch how silly the first analysis is.
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-22 12:25:21+00:00
I am not a scholar of Islam, but I am pretty sure that no core doctrine calls for the mere existence, much less outright political rule, of people called ayatollahs either. And yet here we are.

Regardless of the above, the Islamic Republic of Iran calls itself Islamic and takes the velayat-e-faqih system, developed by Khomeini, as divinely inspired.
by yawpitch | 2025-06-22 12:25:26+00:00
No matter what there comes a problem that will kill you. You don’t get a choice in that extremely fundamental fact, it’s a consequence of both the fact of your life and whatever rights your country permits to you in that life… plague, yellow fever, ruptured peritoneum, or a GBU-57 ejaculated by a very small orange fungus masquerading as the penis of a grotesquely inhuman man, thou shalt shuffle off this mortal coil. If you can’t choose to shuffle it off yourself you’ve already accepted the loss of the one freedom every living thing should have from moment zero.
by ifthenelseor | 2025-06-22 12:26:13+00:00
* Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud.

* However, you can still deliver services without US clouds

* Massive outsourcing has made organizations somewhat helpless

* Don’t say ‘Europe Must Invest in XYZ’.

* GAIA-X will not save us

* The cloud is not just one thing. On many important levels, Europe can deliver

* However, we should be clear on what we don’t have here

* When “going to the cloud”, do be clear how deeply dependent you want to become

* IT systems are already brittle. Getting your cloud from another continent is then not helpful

* It is not the case that only the hyperest of hyperscalers can compete

* You can’t run a government without privacy & if you need US permission to function at all

* The EU-US privacy framework is near-death and you can’t rely on it anymore

* Open source will be part of the solution, but much more is needed

* We have amazing open (source) technology, but it needs to up its game

* European Governments are already overly deep into US clouds

* Trump 2.0 will exploit our total dependency on US services

* European governments will need to do industrial policy to get us out of this mess

* Is this a sovereign cloud?
by Findecanor | 2025-06-22 12:27:01+00:00
I think the contrary. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which more than a quarter of the world's oil gets shipped. The world price of oil is then expected to go up, and the US economy is very oil-dependent.

Other oil producers would profit from this, ... including Russia's state-run oil company, which would help them fund their war in Ukraine.
by jonstewart | 2025-06-22 12:27:05+00:00
Introducing wolves back to a relatively small part of Wisconsin has had a positive economic impact from reduced car crashes with deer. This crossing will no doubt help the cougars, and that’ll help the humans who have to drive on this terrifying part of the 101.

https://wolf.org/media-releases/new-study-shows-wolves-save-...
by libertine | 2025-06-22 12:27:10+00:00
That's a recurring Russian propaganda point, which is easily verifiable as a lie.

Even basic logic - Ukraine had the technical know-how to do whatever they wanted with the nukes. Moscow didn't have control, at best on paper - if they had control, there was no need for the Budapest Memorandum.

I keep debunking this propaganda point over and over again lol
by hajile | 2025-06-22 12:27:28+00:00
Fordow is widely reported to be significantly deeper than GBU-57 can penetrate (which is just 60 meters). The only way they penetrate is landing two of them in the exact same hole (think Robin Hood splitting an arrow with another arrow). Off by just a little and it winds up with it's own separate 60m hole.

CEP with GPS for our most accurate glide bombs is 5 meters. But GPS jamming is cheap and easy and the best precision we get in that case is 30 meters CEP.

GPU-57 gets its power from gravity. Reaching that 60 meter maximum penetration requires dropping the bomb from maximum elevation, but without GPS, that further increases the CEP.

With just 6 bombs, it seems unlikely that they could reliably penetrate. Actual penetration would likely require nuclear penetrators, but those also break the nuclear prohibition and open Pandora's box in places like Ukraine.

A great example of the problem is Yemen. We tried to get the Houthi to stop by dropping bunker busters on their tunnel systems and completely failed. We were forced to reach a ceasefire agreement (one that likely went up in smoke last night).
Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn
by albert_e | 2025-06-22 12:28:48+00:00
I have noticed my own decline in terms of attention spans, and (in)ability to read long-form text online or offline. This leaves me with a disaatsifaction and I would like to rebuild a good habit cycle.

Curious to know if any of you went through the same and managed to recover from this rot. What worked for you, and any thoughts and learnings you might want to share.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-22 12:29:58+00:00
I hate it that most people are missing the forest form the trees in this case, and see the Microsoft cutting email access as being the main newsworthy issue here, while form my PoV, the gigantic issue of planetary scale is that the US government (not just the Orange one) sees itself and acts above the international law, dismissing the ICC rulings whenever it feels like it, making the ICC a pointless "rules for thee but not for me" type of org at the end of the day.

I feel like the infamous "League of nations" keeps repeating itself since nations only act in self interest, and all these intergovernmental organizations, are just temporary gentlemens' agreements, not worth the paper they're written on, and at the end of the day the rules are still decided and enforced by who has the biggest military like in the past infinity years of human history.

So the current Microsoft issue is just the effect, but not the root cause of this. The root cause is US government becoming more and more of an unaccountable bully, and we need to address that instead of Microsoft since if it's not Microsoft who does something, it will be Google, Apple, AWS, Qualcomm, etc. they all do the bidding of the US administration.
by Aachen | 2025-06-22 12:30:02+00:00
Every vendor waits a month before sending out security patches, including Google. I've never understood this (with Linux desktops as my context) but so if you have a risk profile where the OS needs more frequent updates but still want to use Android, you need to take extra hardening steps such as limiting what you expose the OS to (from the outside (firewall, turn off unnecessary connections like Bluetooth) and inside (potentially malicious apps))
by mooreds | 2025-06-22 12:30:23+00:00
I've actually thought over my career that software is one of the last places for well compensated craftmanship. In the sense of solving unique problems for good pay. I think that was due to:

- the explosion of software needs due to the internet

- the scalability of software solutions (zero marginal cost for additional copies is a hell of a drug)

I still think that is true, but it may be fading away for many people. That said, the newer devs that I've met that have found jobs tend to find them at bespoke consulting shops (rather than product companies).

I think there will always be room for quality craftmanship in software, but it will be boutique, the same way that there is craftmanship for high quality furniture or cabinetry. ~95% is manufactured mass market and cheap, ~5% is high quality bespoke and expensive.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-22 12:30:41+00:00
I understand that the phrase is intended to call for the end of the US government, not the end of the US people.

That even better supports my point though. Diplomacy is between two governments, not one government and the population of another government. Iran has practiced diplomacy at times, but calling for the end of the US government wouldn't exactly fit well in the implied reality of Iran having done everything they could diplomatically.
by jdsane | 2025-06-22 12:31:31+00:00
Hi; i'm the creator of tool. it's supposed to be sharing your product screenshots as input, using gradient backgrounds and some borders; which it'll automatically try to assign ass some curvatures and such. and export.

This process is repeated daily by designers, frontend devs, indie builders who creates products, ui snippets that they want world to see and grab their attention. as if you share a normal screenshot, most of the people would simply ignore it. in the sense, sometimes if you present your output wrapped in a good wrapper people would perceive it to be of high value and assess further results as such.

hopefully that clears up!