MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fsckboy | 2025-07-28 19:03:03+00:00
I parsed this entirety as a single noun cluster: "the old guard of free speech and privacy activists on the internet"

and to me that can be summed up as "the EFF", and the EFF is decidedly left whinge, and does not attract the support of others who are concerned about free speech.

free speech on the pre-web internet didn't really need a group, it was a given and generally accepted by all parties
by _mlbt | 2025-07-28 19:03:54+00:00
Please take this as some unsolicited friendly advice, but I don't think you'll be able to live off this project with that funding model. GitHub sponsors is more like a tip jar than a paycheck.

This project is rather niche and your description of it is somewhat confusing. Maybe you could use the open source framework you've created to produce a paid game or app that would be easier to monetize.
by 42772827 | 2025-07-28 19:03:56+00:00
>What is the target audience for these bi-annual shots?

In the US, there are certain patients who are at high risk for HIV infection. They are men who have sex with men, intravenous drug users, and people who have sex for money or housing.

In Southern Africa, young women experience some of the highest incidence rates of HIV infection in the world [0], so that would be the high risk population there.

In terms of side effects, there are practically none for the once-every-two-months drug Apretude, which is prescribed in the US for the high risk population I mentioned. They are mostly around the physical injection itself/

[0]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4430426/
by sdrinf | 2025-07-28 19:03:59+00:00
This absolutely works... until, and when network effects kick in.

Payment processors have major network effects in that infra setup is expensive, banks need to be onboarded one-by-one, and whichever network has the most consumers, businesses will gravitate towards it. Iterate this over 20 years, and this always results in natural monopolies / duopolies. This creates a natural chokepoint/linchpin over which millions of people's mutually exclusive needs are getting banged at; including consumers at large, govs at large, and special-interest groups at large.

Absent crystal clear legislation -and porn is anything, but- this will always be arbitrary, and leave one side in the dust.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-28 19:04:08+00:00
I don’t think that is the model they use, it is too over-simplified to say anything.

Anyway, marketing is a useless overhead in our society for the most part. Especially in the case of medical products, where you go talk to a professional, a doctor, who can recommend the ones you actually need.

“To what end,” my goal is to at least pin it to something that might have useful side effects, R&D.
by ben_w | 2025-07-28 19:04:34+00:00
Growth is much easier with mass immigration than mass emigration, regardless of if those crossing either direction are skilled or unskilled.

And the UK welfare system isn't all that good. I'm a landlord, and at one point a letting agency told me they refuse to deal with anyone on the welfare system because it's simply too difficult to actually get the council, who are supposed to pay, to actually pay. The necessity for food banks is another big hint that the government system isn't covering basics.

And the UK healthcare system has for a while now only been free to UK permanent lawful residents and a handful of others: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/visiting-or-moving-to-englan...

(As in: migrants will be asked to prove entitlement, it won't be assumed).

If you moved to the UK for work, you're paying twice for the NHS, because not only is it supposed to be covered by national insurance contributions, but there's also an NHS immigrant surcharge: https://www.gov.uk/healthcare-immigration-application/how-mu...
by Insanity | 2025-07-28 19:04:58+00:00
Gaming is a bigger market than Movies / Music (in terms of $$). https://mediacat.uk/dentsu-gaming-is-bigger-than-music-and-m...

I'd say it'll become more and more relevant to enact such changes. Unlike in the 90s/2000s where gaming was a somewhat 'niche' thing, it's definitely in the mainstream nowadays.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-07-28 19:05:34+00:00
One might argue, however, that a payment processor should be treated more like a medical or utilities company, rather than a private business. It's one thing for a coffee shop to tell people "We don't want to serve you."--it's quite a different thing for a hospital to tell someone, "We don't want to serve you."

Being able to take credit cards is not exactly life-and-death, but it certainly can be for a business. Especially since the average Joe can't exactly go start their own Credit Card company to make a pornography-friendly payment processor. The CC oligarchy is firmly entrenched.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-28 19:05:35+00:00
I'm well within the 95%. I might lack an imagination here, but... What are you guys doing that you hit or exceed limits so easily, and if you do... Why does it matter? Sometimes I'd like to continue exploring ideas with Claude, but once I hit the limit I make a mental note of the time it'll come back and carry on planning and speccing without it. That's fine. If anything, some time away from the slot machine often helps with ensuring I stay on course.
by gameman144 | 2025-07-28 19:06:25+00:00
I think this is one of those "works, but not at scale" situations. The law around protected classes is proof of this: if there's a racist business that won't serve you, startups could gain an advantage by serving you. But if every business around you is racist such that a startup couldn't gain a foothold, there's a market failure that regulation was added to address.

If you don't like what telephone companies do, making your own phone company that doesn't inter-operate with the current ones would clearly not go very well.

Likewise, if you don't like the current banks or payment processors, you have a steep hill to climb in that all the operative tissue is built around the current model.
by robmensching | 2025-07-28 19:07:01+00:00
Oh, I (would and do) expect we'll see our download numbers (nuget.org and GitHub both track those) decrease. Or maybe consumers will choose to stay on a version before the OSMF was introduced longer. So, we'll kinda' be able to tell.

Simplifying the payment process for procurement is my focus in OSMF (after I get some work done at my day job) to minimize any friction.
by xiande04 | 2025-07-28 19:07:03+00:00
Yeah, that bit about each phoneme sounding exactly the same everytime really made a lot of sense. Even if the TTS phoneme sounds nothing like a human would say it, once you've heard it enough times, you just memorize it.

I guess sounding "natural" really just amounts to adding variation across the sentence, which destroys phoneme-level accuracy.
by eastbound | 2025-07-28 19:07:04+00:00
The question I have about most conspiracies including this one is: Why? What’s the motive?

You can do everything with a debit card, it probably already happened that Visa was used to facilitate buying a weapon for a school shooting: Were they annoyed?

You can buy a dildo with a Mastercard on Amazon: Are they annoyed?

But games? Why?
by sliken | 2025-07-28 19:07:06+00:00
I did use the screen a bit, it was connected to the unibus interface (which provides memory access) to read vector data straight out of the PDP-11's memory. One oddity of the vector screen is that if you drew long diagonal lines from A to B then B to A they wouldn't overlap perfectly, I believe the earth's magnetic field made a small difference.

My memory of the original star wars was that the schematic and targeting computer was pretty crude. The graphics wonder/GDP/2A Graphics Display processor display was accurate enough for quite small fonts. The fonts did look vectorized, and I believe the end points of each line were slightly brighter. The tube display was very deep to allow the magnetic fields to have high slew rates.

I'll have to take a look again at star wars to double check, but I don't think so based on memory.
by transpute | 2025-07-28 19:07:28+00:00
Nested virt with AVF can balance the competing goals of security, usability, freedom, individuals, and corporate supply chains. It can reduce the size and attack surface of the most-privileged code which runs in a system.

Nested virt has been available on x86 for a decade (KVM, Bromium vSentry / HP SureClick, Microsoft Defender App Guard), on Apple Silicon since M2, MacOS since M3 and iPadOS since M4 (Secure eXclave VM). On mobile, it can sidestep some business model conflicts which torpedoed Nokia, RIM, Maemo, Meego, Tizen, etc.

"Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive" (2023), 160 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538100
by numpad0 | 2025-07-28 19:07:29+00:00
I suspect a lot of people are rather comforted by the fact that it was pornographies that were removed at first. Now the waterline has moved up to horror games[1]. Mouthwashing(2024) is a horror adventure game available on all 3 major game consoles as well as Steam, and now it's hidden on itch.io. Think about that.

1: https://itch.io/search?type=games&q=mouthwashing&classificat...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthwashing_(video_game)
by devmor | 2025-07-28 19:07:47+00:00
I had a similar experience with a payment processor for a client that sold manufacturing accessories for a completely benign industry - but one morning they were suddenly cut off and forbidden from processing all transactions. The payment gateway would not tell us why, just that the account was permanently suspended for “service violations”.

We had to quickly onboard them onto a new gateway, and while testing in their sandbox environment a rep saw the issue. Turned out one of their products ended up with an auto-generated part code that had the four-letter term for sexual assault in it. That was it.
by pklausler | 2025-07-28 19:08:02+00:00
At a closest approach of 1.8AU, you really don't have to worry about a collision with Earth.

But that film is relevant to this comet in another way -- several missions that made it into space before the administration's war on the scientific enlightenment may be able to image the comet when we can't see it (perihelion) or when they're much closer to it than we'll ever be.
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-28 19:08:18+00:00
Thanks, that's actually my screensaver project Bubbles[1] which I created to mimic as much as possible the Windows 95 bubbles screensaver. It's a one-line include for any website, which is why I put it in this one. Maybe it'll catch on!

[1] https://github.com/sdegutis/bubbles/
by ashwinsundar | 2025-07-28 19:08:36+00:00
I appreciate the perspective, but I think that tech solutions like this have plenty of opportunities to bootstrap and apply for various grants and funds (which we are doing). I'd rather see more money go towards non-tech solutions and direct care for animals. Shelters are notoriously underfunded and understaffed, and the number of pets people have adopted and given up has boomed since the pandemic. Not to mention the number of shady animal mills out there exacerbating the issue. Tech can't solve that problem, but more volunteers and outreach can.

The tech community is doing just fine in terms of money at the moment.
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-07-28 19:08:41+00:00
Is there any chance that "La aroma de Cuba" brand is associated to tobacco, while LDAC sounds more like a sound codec? Tobacco might be the issue in that case.

I am in no way implying there is no Cuban embargo, nor Cuban censorship.

By the way, why is the name "La aroma de Cuba" and not "El aroma de Cuba"?
by shagie | 2025-07-28 19:08:47+00:00
> Payment processors as gatekeepers is absurd, even worse the entire system is completely opaque.

Yes... but if payment processors are going to be charged in criminal cases that involve the use of their systems for purchasing things that are illegal, then they have an interest in not being in that situation.

From earlier this year:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-whistleblower-says-maste...

> Jan 24 (Reuters) - Mastercard and Visa failed to stop their payment networks from laundering proceeds from child sexual abuse material and sex trafficking on the popular website OnlyFans, according to allegations in a previously undisclosed whistleblower complaint filed with the U.S. Treasury’s financial crimes unit.

> The whistleblower, a senior compliance expert in the credit card and banking industries, said the two giant card companies knew their networks were being used to pay for illegal content on the porn-driven site since at least 2021, and accused them of “turning a blind eye to flows of illicit revenue.”

And from 2022:

https://corporate.visa.com/en/sites/visa-perspectives/compan...

> On Friday, July 29, a federal court issued a decision in ongoing litigation involving MindGeek, the owner of Pornhub and other websites. In this pre-trial decision, the court denied Visa’s motion to be removed from the case on a theory that Visa was complicit in MindGeek’s actions because Visa payment cards were used to pay for advertising on MindGeek sites, among other claims. We strongly disagree with this decision and are confident in our position.

Given this, it is a completely reasonable position for payment processors to decide not to touch anything that they can be brought into legal liability.

They'd likely prefer not being gatekeepers of money, but if they're going to be brought into a court and sued each time someone uses them to purchase something that may be illegal, they're going to take steps to not be brought into court.
by spankibalt | 2025-07-28 19:08:56+00:00
There are no smartphones or pocket computers that tick these boxes anymore, since general-purpose computing is an anathema to the modern, specialized enshittification slop. For a modern device to serve most, if not all, relevant features, it takes a company that is built around principles that go beyond just shareholder satisfaction. You see the dilemma...

AFAIR, the Samsung Galaxy Note9 was the last device that deserved to be called general-purpose pocket computer. EMR stylus, 3.5 mm audio, mSD card slot, USB-C 3.1, good CPU, adequate memory for the time (8 GB), good cameras. If you're willing to forgive the non-removable battery, the only suck was the screen if you were sensitive to PWM, especially with regards to lower flicker frequencies.

Alas, seven years ago Samsung got the itch and divorced from good pocket computer design. The Note9 seems almost like an accident, given Samsung's market policies of today.
by em-bee | 2025-07-28 19:09:00+00:00
according to a german report ATMs can scan the serial numbers when the money is dispensed, logging them to the account from which the money is withdrawn. it's generally not done now, but it is technically possible. in china it apparently is already enforced. elsewhere at a minimum they track which notes are sent to which ATM in order to resolve ATM robberies. likewise when money is deposited, it is being scanned for fakes. counting and sorting machines can track the serial number too:

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/bargeld-tracking-du-hast-ueberw...

https://www.citechsensors.com/en/technology.html
by AlienRobot | 2025-07-28 19:09:03+00:00
I mean that they told Visa/Mastercard that the client Steam/Steam customers are selling/buying certain types of products. Now that they are aware of it, they can be pressed to do something about it. Conversely, if they weren't made aware about it, they could just go on with their business as usual.

Personally I think it's better for private entities to stay neutral and leave political decisions to the government. It's hard to stay neutral about things when you know things are happening, so when you inform a private entity about what people are doing with their services, you are turning that private entity into a political entity.
by koolba | 2025-07-28 19:09:28+00:00
There's no lobster rolls stuffed into a backpack here. It's using the service as it was pitched, an all-you-can-eat buffer of API calls. Anything that limits what that means is scaling back access to that buffet.

If the new limits are anything less than 24 * 7 / 5 times the previous limits then power users are getting shafted (which understandably is the point of this).

What's worse with this model is that a runaway process could chew through your weekly API allotment on a wild goose chase. Whereas before the 5-hour quantization was both a limiter and guard rails.
by igouy | 2025-07-28 19:09:31+00:00
Stroustrup's starting-point (page 13) is abstract-data-types not a compile-time-hierarchy —

"Consider defining a type 'shape' for use in a graphics system. Assume for the moment that the system has to support circles, triangles, and squares. Assume also that you have some classes … You might define a shape like this … This is a mess. …"

Then —

"The problem is that there is no distinction between the general properties of any shape … and the properties of a specific shape … The ability to express this distinction and take advantage of it defines object-oriented programming. …

The programming paradigm is: Decide which classes you want; provide a full set of operations for each class; make commonality explicit by using inheritance. …

Where there is no such commonality, data abstraction suffices."
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-28 19:09:42+00:00
"Make it work, make it pretty, make it fast."

That's the motto I do my software by.

With LLM tools like Claude I can get the first step done quicker than ever. Then I can start dogfooding whatever I build and slowly make it prettier.

Sometimes I don't even bother with that, it works well enough so that I don't want to bother spend the time time refactoring it.
by ben_w | 2025-07-28 19:09:47+00:00
The original opinion poll in the other comment seemed quite clear: https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-...

Here's some Farage quotes, so you can see that there is no contradiction between the comment you were replying to (him saying it was a disaster is compatible with all this) and him still being a leaver:

“I don’t think that for a moment,” Mr Farage replied when he was asked if the UK would have been better off staying in the EU, the world’s largest single market area. “But what I do think is we haven’t actually benefitted from Brexit economically, what we could have done.” “I mean, what Brexit’s proved, I’m afraid, is that our politicians are about as useless as the commissioners in Brussels were,” he added. “We’ve mismanaged this totally, and if you look at simple things…such as takeovers, such as corporation tax, we are driving business away from our country. “Arguably, now we’re back in control, we’re regulating our own businesses even more than they were as EU members. Brexit has failed.”

- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-...
by knome | 2025-07-28 19:10:24+00:00
>The people / companies involved made it really clear that they don't want to be making the rules

They may not want to make the rules, but they do want the rules. They just don't want the blame. Otherwise they would just, not have the rules around who they'll work with. They would just work with anyone and tell anyone that complains about it to complain to the government, that it's company policy to work with any legal company.

DNS doesn't stop to check if you're okay to have a name. Water company and electric don't refuse to hook up your building because they don't like your business.

They have chosen to become content arbitrators. It was not foist upon them.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-28 19:10:27+00:00
I see you have little experience with Scrum...

Acceptance criteria is a human-readable text that the person specifying the software has to write to fill-up a field in Scrum tools and not at all guide the work of the developers.

It's usually derived from the description by an algorithm (that the person writing it has to run on their mind), and any deviation from that algorithm should make the person edit the description instead to make the deviation go away.
by ytpete | 2025-07-28 19:11:13+00:00
I would think a large part of it is simply the universities want to offer tenure to the most competent researchers. And it's harder to judge whether a researcher who mostly gets null results is doing a good job.

Perhaps this means it really does have to start with journal publications though. If journals value null results, peer reviewers will sharpen their ability to distinguish null but well-run experiments from ones that failed simply due to poor execution. Then employers can use published null results as a positive signal that a researcher is indeed doing good quality work.
by TheGRS | 2025-07-28 19:11:20+00:00
After using agentic models and workflows recently, I think these agents belong in both roles. Even more than that, they should be involved in the management tasks too. The developer becomes more of an overseer. You're overseeing the planning of a task - writing prompts, distilling the scope of the task down. You're overseeing writing the tests. And you're overseeing writing out the code. Its a ton of reviewing, but I've always felt more in control as a red team type myself making sure things don't break.
by robmensching | 2025-07-28 19:11:35+00:00
Legal in many companies of different sizes, from Microsoft to tiny ones, have all evaluated and approved of the OSMF EULA. Now, it's fine if someone says I don't want to deal with the EULA. But, in that case, my project didn't mean that much to them in the first place.

I'm listening to concerns and adapting. As noted above, so far, it's gone very well.
by foresto | 2025-07-28 19:11:36+00:00
Sony Xperia models have been my choice since the Sony Ericsson days. Unlockable bootloader, LineageOS available, microsd card, headphone jack, good screen, decent camera, reasonably powerful SoC, water/dust resistant, and probably several other benefits that I'm forgetting at the moment.

I don't know if any US carrier offers them, but last time I was shopping, models with North American radios could be bought online.

My main complaints about Xperia phones:

- They don't support re-locking the bootloader at all, let alone with custom keys. This could be problematic for folks who depend on mobile banking apps that require full Google Play Integrity (SafetyNet) attestation, or risky for folks who leave their phone unattended around potential adversaries. To be fair, almost all smartphones have this problem.

- Their wonderful Xperia Compact line, comprising smaller versions of their flagship phones, seems to have been abandoned. Even their most recent "compact" models were bulky compared to their predecessors.
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-28 19:11:51+00:00
Oh sorry, I kind of skipped over introducing what the project is, mainly because when I wrote this, the intended audience was the people who showed support on the previous Show HN thread. But here's a better explanation of the project's purpose, the one I posted via Show HN two months ago: https://90s.dev/blog/finally-releasing-90s-dev.html

I do agree that this is a new way of using GitHub Sponsors. And I do agree that it might entirely not work out the way I'm thinking. But to my knowledge, this way of using GH Sponsors hasn't been tried before, so it's worth at least trying it once I think. Besides, there was significant interest in this project, which is what made me think of trying this at all, otherwise I would not have. Thanks for the feedback.
by chowells | 2025-07-28 19:11:51+00:00
Chatbots are on a different list than the rest of those. Animals aren't human companionship, but they're still physical beings with physical needs that interact with you on their own schedule for their own reasons.

My cat will harass me if I'm on my computer after midnight. It's time to put the technology away and lie down where she can keep an eye on me. She's quite clear on this point. This is an entire category of interaction not available to chatbots. There is a difference in level of reality.

And when lacking human companionship, grounding to reality is really important. You've got to get out of your head sometimes.