MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by areoform | 2025-07-28 13:49:00+00:00
> Taxes are rising (with tax take falling)

> just mentioning increased immigration

One of these seems like the solution to the other.

> as long as those people leaving are straight, white males, or their families, they're being told "good riddance" regardless of the brain drain and loss of tax income

Having UK work experience and having talked to thousands of british folks over a decade, I find this hard to believe.

I started working with folks from the UK right at the start when social media really took off, and I personally think that what ails the UK is the same as what ails the world. Too much social media.

The UK has always been an empire in decline, but the wheels didn't come off until everyone became glued to feeds. It's Garbage In, Garbage Out. If your view of reality is driven by stuff that you see online, it's a distorted lens which then leads to distorted decision making that then leads to authoritarian creep.

Just my 2¢.
by jdex | 2025-07-28 13:49:13+00:00
Still building https://ongoingthings.com - a way to document and privately share life updates with close people.

I used to post personal updates in group chats - scattered, repetitive, and easy to miss. Now each topic (like raising a child, a trip, a project) gets its own private space - an Ongoing Thing - where updates stay organized.

People get email notifications for new posts. There's no feed, no comments, no ads - just a calm way to stay connected.

We just added Partner Things so multiple people (like two parents) can post to the same thing. Our small user base loves it.

Still figuring out marketing. Until now, it's mostly been word-of-mouth. Feedback welcome!
by CharlieDigital | 2025-07-28 13:49:19+00:00
I take "HUD" here to just mean "in your line of vision" or "in the context of your actual task" or minimizing any context switch to another interaction (chat window).

Rather I think most implementations of HUD AI interactions so far have been quite poor because the interaction model itself is perhaps immature and no one has quite hit the sweet spot yet (that I know of). Tab autocompletion is a simple gesture, but trades off too much control for more complex scenarios and is too easy to accidentally activate. Inline chat is still a context switch and also not quite right.
by kubb | 2025-07-28 13:49:34+00:00
Then skip all the articles talking about your First Amendment as if it’s somehow relevant :D

It’s hilarious how far you have to reach to get any criticism where I simply asked you for one, one single case of someone going to jail for criticizing policies and you just can’t provide it.

Instead endlessly moving goalposts and projection of your own understanding of how laws should work.

Btw the anti hate speech laws are there to prevent disasters like those from the Nazi time, and for a good reason. Speech has consequences.
by spruce_tips | 2025-07-28 13:49:49+00:00
Building low cost tools to give email owner's their attention back.

1. Inbox Toll - solves the "real human, still spam" problem by making the sender pay a fee before the email actually lands in your inbox. Set your toll as low as $0.01.

2. Auto Label - automatically label (+ optionally archive) all non-human messages into logical categories like newsletters, receipts, promotions, etc.

3. Inbox Cleaner - time-based inbox scan that bulk deletes non-essential emails.

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junkmailcleaner.com
by trocado | 2025-07-28 13:50:17+00:00
> Not sure how much difference this makes over the long run

I tune in all fourths as well. For me it has made a huge difference since I made the jump some years ago. Putting voicings, patterns, etc., into muscular memory is faster and a lot less work. For my purposes, it makes the instrument more intuitive with a better ear-hand connection. Even very advanced players trip on the G-B strings oddity (with things like playing a fast, angular melody on different string sets, without preparation, for example).
by nunez | 2025-07-28 13:50:32+00:00
I can definitely relate. I've taken week-long solo vacations (with my wife's approval!) just so that I can code without distractions.

I don't have kids, but given that I can easily work 6-8 hours straight on completing a feature, I have to curtail it to maintain a high-quality relationship. (I also weightlift, which can take up a lot of time.)

It's very difficult for me to get into the zone in three-hour spurts, and coding at night at the cost of my sleep is something I've retired. Shoot, a three-hour work session might be me trying to fix _a single bug._

Regarding "the hump," the show _Ted Lasso_ actually does a great job of describing this. A star player retires as they realize that they are no longer as spry as younger talent. Part of this show is about how they choose to deal with it.
by wahern | 2025-07-28 13:51:46+00:00
Analogy with the physical world falls apart here. Few people would want to enshrine an exemption from trespassing someone walking house-to-house jiggling door handles and pushing on windows to see what's unlocked. If anything you may want to make it an explicit crime to do it systematically, as opposed to "targeting" a neighbor's house. In fact, I think this constitutes prowling, which is a crime in many places.

But for white-hat hacking you want prowling. And it's very difficult to create technical definitions that productively distinguish "good" prowlers from "bad" prowlers. So why even try to draw a distinction between types of prowlers? Maybe prowling information systems online shouldn't be a crime at all, given the nature of information systems.
by samsartor | 2025-07-28 13:52:02+00:00
Except for some niche Janko-layout keyboards like the WholeTone Revolution and Lumatone, isomorphic pianos haven't every really caught on. However, isomorphic layouts are very common on accordions! I have a chromatic button accordion at home and credit it with making music theory finally "click" for me. On my fiddle I can play in keys of G,D,A (and the relative minors) quite easily but struggle on weirder keys and can't handle chords at all. On the accordion it couldn't be easier!
by benbojangles | 2025-07-28 13:52:12+00:00
Euromillions data analyzer: https://github.com/benb0jangles/euromillions_analyser

My creation this week, i hope some find it interesting and fun. Last night I was bored so I created a python app to analyse historical euromillions draw numbers. I added tons of features and some statistical analysis features to examine patterns and bias. Good luck if it helps you win I would love to know, also let me know your thoughts and experiences, what you found, how it helps you understand the draw more, and any features I could add in future. I could not find many official sources for entire historical draw data; the official lottery website only appeared to provide 6 months historical data and i wanted to analyse all past draws.
by scott_w | 2025-07-28 13:52:58+00:00
Organisations try to measure this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu

> This discussion highlights how westerners suffer from some serious superiority complex where only THEY can experience genuine freedom and democracy(probably due to their superior phenotype or some inane bs)

You are quite literally commenting on a topic where Brits are complaining about our democracy. You will find reams of articles about the problems with western democracies.

However, you're also commenting about countries that quite literally changed our governments in the last year. USA voted in Trump, the UK voted in Labour. Germany just voted in a new party.

China and Russia, the main comparison points, have not changed government since the 90s. This is nothing to do with phenotypes, it's 100% just looking at the facts.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-28 13:52:59+00:00
I love Vegas (even the modern version, although not quite as much), but the fact is that everything about Vegas is both the most optional of stuff and has become very expensive (inflation adjusted).

In these days of such huge economic uncertainty, the smart move is to get rid of all optional expenses and build up your reserves in case of utter disaster. A trip to Vegas seems financially reckless right now.
by gitremote | 2025-07-28 13:54:19+00:00
"Elections in the People's Republic of China occur under a one-party authoritarian political system controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Direct elections, except in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, occur only at the local level people's congresses and village committees, with all candidate nominations preapproved by the CCP. By law, all elections at all levels must adhere to the leadership of the CCP."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China

> This discussion highlights how westerners suffer from some serious superiority complex where only THEY can experience genuine freedom and democracy(probably due to their superior phenotype or some inane bs)

There is democracy in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Just say, "I'm a tankie and I support Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
by drewcoo | 2025-07-28 13:55:52+00:00
Literary Hub needs an editor. That title's grammar is appalling.

And the problems start there. Grunwald, adjectives spilling all over his page, needs a thesaurus for "uphill battle." Stylistically, this is a mess.

Style aside, Grunwald implies that maize is field corn and not sweet corn. It actually means both. This is clearly not a well-researched article on ethanol.

Beyond that we see his politics on his sleeve, tying ADM to Watergate. And a misunderstanding of the meaning of "corps," as the "Corps of Engineers" is not "the Army Corps." This is sadly childish. No, that's unfair to children. I've seen better journalism from high school kids.
by fleabitdev | 2025-07-28 13:55:59+00:00
I can see some real advantages to this layout. There are only two key shapes rather than twelve, so transposing at sight would become much easier. A printed stave would span sixteen semitones rather than thirteen. The hand positions for chords and scales look about as comfortable as a normal piano.

I thought this keyboard layout might make the pianist's hand-span one tone wider, but unfortunately, that wouldn't be the case. A normal piano spaces its black keys further apart than its white keys. On my digital piano, an isomorphic layout would bring the raised keys about 4mm closer together, which seems unplayable - but leaving the octave span unchanged would win those 4mm back.

It would be much more difficult to reposition your hands without looking at them, but changing the texture of the white keys and black keys might help.
by nickdothutton | 2025-07-28 13:56:37+00:00
In my experience, a lot of people call a meeting to try and make something happen. The thing _should_ be happening already but the team is not working efficiency in a well-thought-out manner. Rather than figure out what the real problem is with the working practices, or recognising some genuinely novel feature of the situation that is blocking progress, they resort just booking meeting after meeting until somehow it is resolved. I don't attend meetings without an agenda and at least a (sometimes optimistic) list of what the outputs of the meeting should be. Decision on X. Routes of investigation for Y. Outline plan on Z.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-28 13:56:37+00:00
> The only U.K. specific aspect of all of this is that if you tell Discord you are over 18 you must prove it. That’s a very small difference

Requiring ID verification in one country is not a small difference.

The rest of the world checks a box. People in the U.K. must submit to ID verification.

It’s so strange to see things like this claimed to be small differences.
by nucleardog | 2025-07-28 13:56:48+00:00
Almost certain I interviewed one of these guys.

Basically, just imagine someone whose _entire_ job was interview prep and acting. (The guy doing the interview is likely not the one doing the job.) And for anything where they have any gaps, they've got a team of people behind them listening in and feeding them answers.

Basically every single technical, behavioural, or other question got a 10/10 perfect answer. (To the point where "the answers were too perfect" was one of the many yellow flags.) Part of the reason I'm so sure I interviewed one of these guys is I invested a fair bit of time looking into their background and chasing things up. They'd nailed the interview so hard it was worth digging until I found a red flag on the off chance I _could_ hire them.

Honestly the only thing they didn't nail were some of the more "chit-chat" type questions. The guy I interviewed claimed to be in LA while the fires were raging there and... was very confused when discussing the weather and I mentioned smoke.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-28 13:56:57+00:00
I really like how the author is touched with some company actually appreciating his work on curl

since writing this comment gives me goosebumps on how much valuable curl is to the whole world. A lot of technical knowledge / literally everything feels like it has been shifted into using curl and I am pretty sure that companies are using curl too.

Surprised, that no laptop company other than framework decided to help the author of curl.

I don't want to be cynical but companies can spend Billions hiring some person for some AI benchmark improvement or just this AI craze in general when just imagine how much growth could really happen if billions were rather spent in open source contributers well being.

I personally feel like I am being held back to open source software since I would love to work on open source project that I created or can help maintain but I do think that no money can sadly be derived since I am pretty sure that I won't recreate something as phenomenal as curl and most open source contributors sadly don't get any money.

Its either philosophy or the money, sadly its about hunger. I appreciate how the author of curl had crowdfunding efforts but honestly, curl is just so great software that it technically could be worth definitely a few hundred millions if it was a company and (propritory?), I appreciate how the author is thankful but to me what feels better is to rather create a company get some few million $ and then donate to open source contributors while not having to worry about money.

It is a sad reality that most people don't contribute to open source, the economics of foss is a sad reality.
by tempnew | 2025-07-28 13:57:07+00:00
We do? People can go into any neighborhood they want. They can’t break laws, but the law allows them to walk around and look for open windows, knock on front doors, take photos, scan WiFi bssid, note cars and license plate info, etc…

The crime here is the tech. The companies aren’t to blame. Programmers and tech companies are. If there was no internet or “tech industry” we’d all be so much better off it’s painful to even contemplate.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-28 13:58:17+00:00
> I simply asked you for one, one single case of someone going to jail for criticizing policies and you just can’t provide it.

Stop being a troll. I never said people went to jail for that. Read my comments again. I said people in Germany got in trouble with the law for that, which they did, and I posted proof.

Now you're unhappy you've been disproven so you're being a disingenuous bad faith commenter and moving the goalpost from getting in trouble with the law to going to jail, as if that makes Germany's censorship less worse ("Oh, I only got dragged through court by a politicians for calling him a dick on Facebook and only ended up with a 7k fine, at least I didn't got o jail for that, thank god, such a free country I live in").

>Btw the anti hate speech laws are there to prevent disasters like those from the Nazi time, and for a good reason. Speech has consequences.

Congrats, Germany today is doing exactly what the Nazis and the Stasi did: banning free speech to "prevent the evil guys from getting power". Do you see the irony in what you're advocating?

And FYI since you keep bringing back the Nazi argument for speech censorship, Hitler didn't get to power because Germany back then didn't have enough speech censorship, because it did and that's why people voted for Hitler since he capitalized on the citizens' frustration with the Weimar Republic's policies and they way they didn't listen to the peoples' grievances and instead responded with speech censorship to crush them .... just like Germany (and UK) are doing ...today.

Speech censorship doesn't make people's grievances and hate for the establishment politic parties go away, it only radicalizes them further guaranteeing the rise of political extremism. AFD already got nearly a third of the votes. In the future when they become a majority, how are you gonna speech censor over half the country? The only guarantee is when they get majority votes they will use all the "guns" against you, that the establishment used against them. History proves this.

So how many times do you have to repeat the same mistakes to re-learn the same lessons?
by red-iron-pine | 2025-07-28 13:58:38+00:00
the profit was made by defense contractors when it was built. and flows as wages to the workers in GA / VA / wherever building it.

what happens after it's made is a function of utility. lotta waste, but if a 2 million missile can trash 4 million in buildings, cars, and humans, then it is still a win, even if there is no profit.
by 0_____0 | 2025-07-28 13:59:24+00:00
Or by doing even a slight amount of encoding of the IR signal. Transmitting a single byte as a key (set by region, same as fire dept. elevator keys) would be enough to prevent people from using their TV remote controls or whatever to trip the preempt sensors.

That being said, this is kind of a non-issue already, I have heard a story about someone abusing the preempt sensors like 10 years ago and never since then. Maybe there already exists an encoding scheme.
by mbac32768 | 2025-07-28 13:59:44+00:00
doesn't the Rust ecosystem also inconsistently mix Option and Result?

anyway, it's a fairly trivial wrapper to handle the odd annoying thing that raises

Option.try_with (fun () -> thing_that_exns ())

Result.try_with (fun () -> thing_that_exns ())

(it would be nice if you could tell if something raises by the type signature somehow though)
by ionwake | 2025-07-28 13:59:45+00:00
Just a reminder “Brexit” happened just a few years ago. Suddenly no British man can be more than 3 months in another European country before being “banned”. You can’t even move to Switzerland and setup a company.

Yes technically it’s possible but I was told my a Swiss accountant “just don’t bother trying unless you can get a European passport - if you can”

This is from personal experience. As odd as it sounds Brexit really affected business ( always thought it was posturing) I can’t imagine what it did to mega corps etc

Just thought I’d share my xp
by spacebanana7 | 2025-07-28 13:59:45+00:00
This can't be done in the modern financial system, I'd recommend holding senior execs and the members of the board responsible instead.

Shareholders may well be based overseas so it'd be very difficult to actually enforce the fines. They might also use overseas limited liability investment corporations, so fines would just bankrupt those companies leaving the actual shareholders never falling below zero.

There's also the political issues that'd come from potentially giving fines to millions of people because their pension funds invested in a company that had a data breach.
by abxyz | 2025-07-28 14:00:03+00:00
Shrug. I’m not sure what else to say. I’ve shown you that polling shows the majority support age verification. I have asked you to provide evidence of mainstream objection to this law, which you are unable to provide. You have asserted that polling is wrong because you know people who disagree.

You may not like it and I may not like it but the view of the U.K. voting public is that age verification to look at porn is reasonable and that “protecting” children justifies limiting freedoms.

My exercise for you: decide what evidence is needed to convince you that most British people are happy with this law.
by vavikk | 2025-07-28 14:00:12+00:00
1. Offline AI file manager 2. Health tracker, sport, food, mental health (CBT) with AI - only for myself, for now(probably forever :)). 3. Community app where you can find people working on the same hobby/idea. I was trying to find someone to work on my small roach size swarm bots, but didn't know how to find same-minded people.
by roflmaostc | 2025-07-28 14:01:03+00:00
The main promises in optical computing are energy consumption, latency and single core speed.

For example, in this work Lin, Z., Shastri, B.J., Yu, S. et al. 120 GOPS Photonic tensor core in thin-film lithium niobate for inference and in situ training. Nat Commun 15, 9081 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53261-x

they achieve a "weight update speed of 60Ghz" which is much faster than the average ~3-4Ghz CPU.
by xoa | 2025-07-28 14:01:25+00:00
>Also, going back to get the tools or change the vehicle is incredibly stupid because: 1) crews already know what they're going to be dealing with before they leave

They have precognition and can see into the future and know that a house fire is going to start while they're out at a non-fire call in your country? That's amazing! And by "amazing" I mean "bullshit". Now it's perfectly possible in your specific region of your specific country that they have sufficient resources, or face a some what different problem space given local details like types of construction etc, which lets them allocate things differently. But you shouldn't be so quick to lob around accusations of "stupid" at proven emergency response forged through hard lessons and ruthless practical local realities from your limited perspective and thinking.

>2) just suppose they forgot to pack the tools - we have mobile phones, you know...

Did you really just suggest that an extra 20-45min wait is no problem in a life/safety critical situation, or that there will necessarily be someone who can go bring it from a volunteer fire department? Or do think that there is nowhere further then a few minutes from a fire dept? Either way you are in a serious, serious bubble.
by nsksl | 2025-07-28 14:02:46+00:00
> - Some homegrown “SQL helper” that saves you from writing SELECT *, but now makes it a puzzle to reconstruct a basic query in a database

>- Bonus points if the half-baked data access layer is buried under layers of “magic” and is next to impossible to find.

It’s really funny because you’re describing an ORM perfectly.
by ricardobeat | 2025-07-28 14:03:05+00:00
> Suddenly no British man can be more than 3 months in another European country before being “banned”

That’s how visas work in most of the world.

I’m curious now, did you vote for it and not expect this? It doesn’t sound odd at all, it is exactly what everyone said would happen other than people promoting Brexit as some form of nationalism/pride movement.
by Ray20 | 2025-07-28 14:03:26+00:00
> Just because you can drive 2’ and casually get 100 liters of gasoline does not make fossil fuel infinite.

The finiteness of fossil fuels is not an issue we need to worry about right now.

> it will only get worse as we are running out of easy to tap sources.

As it gets worse, we'll just move on to other sources. No problems at all. At least none that would be easier to prevent than to solve.

> Looking for cheap and viable alternatives to fossils is not a conspiracy or a game

No, this is a pure, large-scale corruption conspiracy.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-28 14:03:26+00:00
They're claiming to not just be better than all other open models, but also better than both Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Opus. Very impressive if true.

I wonder if you might want to replace the link with their post about this, which has more detail - https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5