MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by i_niks_86 | 2025-07-29 09:04:30+00:00
Your position appears to present gambling as a monolithic vice, overlooking the significant differences between its many forms and the varying degrees of social harm or benefit they may carry. Would you consider re-evaluating whether all types of gambling should be regarded as equally corrosive, or might some distinctions be warranted?

Foe example, low-stakes social gambling (like poker nights among friends) or government-run lotteries, which often channel proceeds into public goods like education or infrastructure, arguably differ both in intent and impact from high-frequency online slots or algorithmically designed mobile apps, which are far more closely associated with compulsive behavior and financial harm.

Furthermore, sports betting - while not without risk - has become deeply embedded in the modern sports economy. In many countries, including the U.S. and parts of Europe, major leagues and teams rely heavily on gambling sponsorships, which help fund operations, media production, and fan engagement tools. This raises a difficult but necessary question: is the commercialization of sports through betting inherently destructive, or is it simply a reflection of broader entertainment market dynamics?

Certainly, there are real and well-documented harms related to problem gambling, and these deserve serious regulatory attention. But equating all gambling activity with moral or social decay risks oversimplifying a complex ecosystem. A more differentiated framework - one that considers levels of risk, regulatory oversight, consumer protections, and even positive externalities like job creation and tax contributions - may lead to more productive dialogue and policy outcomes.
by neciudan | 2025-07-29 09:04:33+00:00
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by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 09:04:36+00:00
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by mytailorisrich | 2025-07-29 09:05:29+00:00
True but bear in mind that most of those things are made in China whether you buy them here or on Temu, or Amazon and may even be the same product from the same factory.

Platforms like Temu allow you to buy essentially direct from China and to cut many middlemen.

In hardware you have state-of-the-art PCB and assembly providers in China, who don't "skip" anything compared to European ones. Of course you have bad apples, too.

So there is a balance between paying more for quality and subsidising inefficiency and middlemen.
by input_sh | 2025-07-29 09:05:30+00:00
I invite you to look at the linked PDF (https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-...) and name me the thing you disagree with. Would you like your child to play with "cheap plastic toys that contain hormone disrupting phthalates up to 240 times above the legal limit"? Or silicone-free cosmetics which contain silicone in the list of ingredients? Or a helmet which is "clearly insufficient to protect users"?

It's easy to undersell the domestic market if you completely ignore all of the regulation that's applicable to literally any store located within the market.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-07-29 09:05:53+00:00
Maybe constitutional amendments in the member states/ ECHR amendment might help? Article 8 [1] goes some of the way , but has some clear weaknesses.

We do have a right to secrecy of correspondence in most member nations, it's kind of silly that we don't have a strict equivalent for phones or computers yet, despite the fact that most people hardly send letters anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...
by laserbeam | 2025-07-29 09:05:57+00:00
> There has yet to be a usecase for distributed ledger that isn't solved better by a centralised ledger

As I understand it, many countries in the European Union use distributed ledgers for elections. Essentially it lets you cross reference votes and store that database across servers in multiple countries. It also prevents post-election data tampering by the state holding the election.

My understanding is this this system is not an open to every random Joe who wants to have a server (like bitcoin is). I think you still need to be a state actor to be part of the distributed database (so it's not a zero trust environment).

(Unfortunately, I don't have any good links to back this claim up)
by scrapheap | 2025-07-29 09:06:10+00:00
One of the many definitions of the word Render is "to cause someone or something to be in a particular state", another is "to change words into a different language or form". Based on that surely a web server is rendering data to HTML, or JSON, or plain text. It's still rendering even though it's a lot easier than the work the browser does to render HTML to graphics.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-29 09:06:11+00:00
I use beeper which uses matrix under the hood so that I can talk to my friends who are using insta chats and since I don't want to use instagram just to chat with them.

It works really nicely, can recommend. The matrix protocol in that sense does work wonder.

There are new protocols like session, simplex (preferred?) but simplex has the issue that it is doing client side search for csam etc and I don't have a problem with csam search but then they will actually go into that group and shut that group, again I don't have an issue but their wordings have been extremely vague and it just seems like that anybody can report any server and they have the power to shut them down..., doesn't sound decentralized.

Again I am sure that csam is used as shield for privacy and yes I also would want to eradicate csam completely from the face of the earth but maybe in the process we would end up completely 1984.

I read into simplex protocol and the groups are honestly glue code tbh, you trust the nodes to give you safe info but in effect they can be malicious too. Simplex says that it is for 1-1 conversations but at that point, using something like tor based communication for live messaging is better.

The only use case of simplex I can find is 1-1 chats when the other person isn't online. But I guess I don't trust that either and at that point I would much rather use something like proton docs or proton drive as the storage layer...

Deltachat which is based on email looks really nice too.

There is this secuchat created by bkilm on gitlab which is worth a read actually. I am not finding this at the moment but I remember actually going through all of them and going on their matrix [1]

Both signal,matrix and maybe even simplex are good tbh.

Edit: Found it! [1]: https://bkil.gitlab.io/secuchart/
by qcnguy | 2025-07-29 09:07:23+00:00
I already addressed your claim Nazi symbols are forbidden in the post you clearly didn't read (again).

It's darkly amusing that you guys have gone from "source?!" to "it's good that the provocative troublemakers are being punished" in the span of about 5 posts whilst you simultaneously flag kill FirmwareBurner. Nothing screams "we have free speech in Europe" like aggressive censoring of people who point out you don't.

Whatever dude. You can deny what's happening for a while, but one day you'll wake up and realize everyone around the world just sort of ambiently knows that Europe has become a totalitarian dictatorship.
by discreteevent | 2025-07-29 09:07:25+00:00
Because it's such a tough sport. The Tour de France was originally intended to be so tough that only one person might finish it. In other words it was set up to be extremely hard for most normal athletes to compete without some kind of artificial assistance.

So there was a history of drug taking from the start. But after the scandals of 20 years ago it became one of the most tested sports in the world. So now, in my opinion, drugs are not used much compared to other relatively untested sports (maybe some microdosing). Instead sports science has taken over. Pogacar, the current TdF champion works with a someone who is a contributor in mitochondria research. Something that has made a big difference in the last few years is the amount of carbohydrates the riders take in during a stage etc. etc.
by shivasaxena | 2025-07-29 09:07:56+00:00
Yes, disguising this regulatory capture as a concern for consumers on health and safety grounds is a great digression. I have also seen people raise concern about Slave labour for example.

This of course ignores the fact that European retailers often sell the same exact goods from the same Chinese factory, but at a 5-10x markup. And as said these goods are often same of better quality that what I would get from domestic retailers. In case of stickers the one from Temu were were of higher quality.

If EU was forcing Temu to abide by EU regulations on health and safety I would be all for it. But they are shutting down competition(change in customs rule on small packages etc) so our domestic retailers can stay inefficient and continue to bleed consumers.
by dominicrose | 2025-07-29 09:08:52+00:00
I fixed my 10 year-old webapp yesterday. There were only a couple of easy-to-fix issues. I could've fixed them without AI but AI does help speed things up.

The problem is when looking at it 10 years later I want to rebuild it from scratch because the code and build system look so different than what we do now. I'm not sure yet if it will take a long time though, at least if I accept to keep jquery and avoid typescripting everything.
by tdeck | 2025-07-29 09:10:07+00:00
> If you want to talk about occupying, why is the al-aqsa mosque built where it was, if not for trying to erase native ties to the land?

The second temple was destroyed in 70 CE and the first Al Aqsa mosque was likely built in 600s. What is your argument here? Both religions share a common lineage so it's not unusual that Islam would revere the same location as an older religion with the same origin story.
by vrighter | 2025-07-29 09:10:54+00:00
That should be it then. You shouldn't need to do that after each move. You should do that once at the beginning of a game, and if it's solvable on the first move, it's solvable for any configuration that can be reached by applying moves.

Ex. if there are 4 colors, and I clicked once, I can click 3 times to get to my original state. Therefore if you prove one configuration solvable, then, given that I can always reverse my own moves to get back to that state, it means all configurations are (that can be reached in the current game).

tldr: any move on a solvable grid, will result in another solvable grid.
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 09:11:04+00:00
This is an excellent idea, thank you so much for suggesting it. You're right, parsing lecture videos and PDFs to extract diagrams would be a powerful feature.

We've officially added it to our backlog. We're excited about this one and will prioritize it.

We genuinely appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. Please keep the great ideas coming!
by mytailorisrich | 2025-07-29 09:11:25+00:00
> Funnily the same regulations that aim to remove toxic products, make platforms more transparent, and hold platforms more accountable for breaking the law all are being attacked for encroaching on free speech.

That's what a clever law looks like, it bundles things together.

So now if someone complains about threats to free speech they can be told "Oh so you prefer toxic products, then? Think of the children!" in the same way you are doing.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-07-29 09:11:31+00:00
>> "Not X!" is a copout.

So because it's a copout, let's go and do X which will make it impossible to then do Y and Z that may have been far preferable than X.

That's not a copout, sure, but what is it? I suppose the polite, technical term is "opportunity cost"? Kill tens of thousands of people: ensure you can never make peace with their relatives.
by inglor_cz | 2025-07-29 09:11:33+00:00
The EU is quite good at cultivating a benign, environment-friendly, happy family image. I think it is a deliberate contrast to the "gung-ho" American world presence.

The background is pretty machiavellistic, though. There is a lot of money and influence to be managed. It is no secret that Ursula von der Leyen got her first mandate basically from Merkel, a reward for being her loyal subordinate for years.
by mandmandam | 2025-07-29 09:11:44+00:00
Even the IDF now admits it had no evidence of Hamas systematically stealing aid [0].

Yet the talking point - which attempted to justify genocide and never had a shred of evidence - will linger for years. I still meet people who think Saddam did 9/11, or that Afghanistan was connected.

I still meet many people who don't even know a third tower fell in NYC that day. When news media repeats a talking point that long, or ignores evidence that long, it makes a very deep impression on the type of person who takes things at face value a little too much.

0 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un...
by hhtechnology | 2025-07-29 09:11:55+00:00
Man, right now if you're white and male you are very much the bottom of the pecking order in the UK.

The only successful professional white men I know and have known for the last 10 years are self employed...and even that is under attack. If you want a permanent job as a white man in the UK, your hope of career progress is minimal at best. You will only be promoted if there is no other option.

There is so much home grown talent in the UK going to waste in the name of modern ideology.

Its creating a kind of apathy towards work for a lot of people. Especially those now reaching their 40s. There are loads and loads of professionals with 20 years under their belts that have seen nothing but stagnant wages and slow / non-existant career progression.

The sad thing is, all of this hard line "white and male is stale" rubbish hasn't changed the balance in terms of wealth distribution...you can still he financially successful as a white man in the UK, just not through permanent work and definitely not working for British businesses.

Ive seen it first hand, I spent ages pitching a business idea and prototype to raise some funding. Not a sausage. As soon as I had a couple of black ladies involved (great lovely women, but far from the top of their game) money fell put of the sky. They didn't even have to deliver high quality pitches.

What is equally as sad is these two ladies don't want to be given hand outs based on their race. They struggle to work out whether what they're trying to do actually has value or whether they're just being given money because they're black and female. It messes with their heads as well.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-29 09:12:18+00:00
You should read up a bit more on the matter then. The bootloader is not shipped in an unlocked state, even on a device which supports BL-unlock.

Bootloader-unlock describes a feature which supports a controlled break of the trust-chain of the device, so telling the bootloader that it should continue executing the bootshell even if the signature check has failed.

In this state the OS should continue to boot despite of this state, and applications should gracefully handle such a condition.

The crucial parts of this are also not part of AOSP, it relies heavily on the chipset manufacturer and the OS-implementation of the device-vendor.
by poulpy123 | 2025-07-29 09:12:23+00:00
> The syntax is the least interesting thing about the language, and hello-world examples demonstrate almost none of the syntax.

I agree for the hello world but I disagree with the syntax. It is the first thing you see and the characteristic you can never escape. It is like the layout and typesetting of a text: the substance is of course more important, but it is still very important. I personally find much more readable languages that have a concise-but-not-too-much syntax, that use not too many special characters, and that is read like fortran/pascal/c/etc (I don't how to define it, but for example lisp is different)
by fxtentacle | 2025-07-29 09:12:31+00:00
One big factor that I observe in Germany is that the general public has stopped trusting what American companies say. For example, when you contact the Amazon support, they will try very hard to gaslight you into believing that your consumer protection only lasts for 30 days. But by now mainstream media is reporting about it that they’re just lying to your face. And, indeed, casually mentioning the correct law immediately extends your warranty to the full (legally required) two years.

I fully agree with you, by now no new company will grow that large using this American approach, because nowadays the German public will expect them to skirt the law and call them out on it immediately.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-29 09:12:57+00:00
https://bkil.gitlab.io/secuchart/

I read through this, joined their matrix server and talked.

Signal is decent enough to be used. (what I am using with my one friend lol)

it looks in this that simplex is good but I would argue its not when I actually looked into its protocol. Its group feature is actually experimental and you trust the original nodes and they can be malicious... and people could send messages behind your back too... So a no go.

Tor based are good too if you can manage to keep a device open but I have heard somewhere that tor can be tracked through bgp too but honestly tor might be the best option really :/

There are threat models. One has to find their threat model and work on it. There is not any "best alternative" in my honest opinion
by thyristan | 2025-07-29 09:13:17+00:00
XRay is also somewhat privacy invasive to bike athletes, but not to "normal" people. The reason is that there is a huge competition on making bikes lighter while still being able to withstand the exact stress put on in in that one leg of the race. So they file off a little metal here, a little there, shorten some screws, etc. The secret is in how much you can take away in which places.

This can lead to bikes that are usable only for that one leg on that one day, after which you have to change the slightly deformed parts, because e.g. the braking downhill would kill your lighter, thinner, filed-down uphill tires.
by fnordian_slip | 2025-07-29 09:13:19+00:00
Just in case you are interested in a European perspective, and aren't just commenting to let off some steam because of perceived injustices:

> we work longer hours and take less vacation.

Yes, but people working longer hours doesn't necessarily translate to more output, especially when quality is taken into account.

Anecdotally, from what I've heard from people working in international companies, the American work culture doesn't seem to be very efficient when looking at the end result. The studies of 32 hour work weeks seem to indicate similar findings, though like the anecdotes, should be taken with a grain of salt of course. But I truly believe that in most cases, a developer who works 10 hours a day will not produce more than one who works 6 hours a day, at least after a couple of days.

>Europe makes fun of us for our defense spending yet demands protection

You do realise that until very recently, America has gained an absurd amount of soft power through this defence spending, right? And was able to convert this soft power into a lot of GDP through indirect subsidies of its international companies? Just because the current administration has squandered this advantage, doesn't mean you did not get out more than you paid for the last couple of decades.

>I just can't shake the feeling that Europeans see Americans as suckers.

I agree with you on that point,but not for the reasons you might think. I see the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" phenomenon, people constantly against their self-interest and the like, and and it's hard not to. I have relatives in the US, and I still feel sympathy for your people.

But it's getting harder and harder to not see you as suckers when you look at the tariffs or the cuts to welfare, science and education, all while the rich get massive tax cuts. And all is being done in the name of "draining the swamp", by a billionaire who is incredibly well-connected with 90% of the corrupt elite he publicly opposes.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-29 09:13:35+00:00
Without wanting to derail the conversation too much.

Its original designer, Sylvan Clebsch, is nowadays working at Microsoft Research on languages like Verona [0], the last paper he contributed to, which has Guido as well among the collaborators, is about adding regions to dynamic languages, using Python as example implementation,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/dynamic...

[0] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...
by crinkly | 2025-07-29 09:14:40+00:00
The problem with the CSAM detection is that it can be used for adversarial purposes as well. For example if someone decides an image is politically inconvenient and pressures it to be blocked by hash, then Apple may have to comply or remove themselves from an entire market. Building the mechanism to do that is not acceptable in a civilised society.

And of course does this really solve the real problem of child exploitation? No it doesn't. It allows performative folk working for NGOs to feel like they've done something while children are still being abused and it is being covered up or not even investigated as is so common today.

Improving policing and investigatory standards is where this should stop. We already have RIPA.

All this does is create the expectation that a surveillance dragnet is acceptable. It is not.
by elcritch | 2025-07-29 09:15:20+00:00
Even if Netanyahu illicitly provided some support to Hamas as a counter to the PLO, Hamas still was voted in with a majority vote and then took over complete control of Gaza and indoctrinated the people to their extremist views.

I agree the current Israeli government should have continued working with the PLO. Netanyahu has been a terrible leader for Israel. However they didn’t create Hamas either.