MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-11 19:35:33+00:00
I argue it isn’t absurdism when the evidence is clear that the idea of state rights is continuing to be used to subjugate in direct conflict with democracy, versus the actual collective and agreed upon belief of deferring to states rights and putting power closer to the governance of those states.

Historically, it was slavery. Now it’s immigration, reproductive rights, etc. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. It’s always about control exceeding genuine governance. Maybe that'll change, but until evidence and outcomes demonstrate otherwise, "the purpose of the system is what it does."
by tlavoie | 2025-07-11 19:36:23+00:00
That "made to open up and update" aspect is exactly why I switched when my 2013 (Retina) MBP crapped out. I had just spent $300 CAD to replace the battery, which involved the glued-together mess of battery, top case, keyboard and trackpad. So when the charging circuit died on motherboard right after, I was not keen to spend much more to just get back to baseline. They wouldn't even countenance the idea of my giving them more money, so that I could get a board with more soldered-on RAM.

Switched to a P50 with twice as much RAM, and that's just one socket of four. Since upgraded to the max, with bigger SSD, it's still a beast.

Compare with Apple's use of glue and special screws, when Lenovo provides detailed service manuals on its web site.
by anonfordays | 2025-07-11 19:37:30+00:00
The plain letter of it states:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

The argument is that certain overseas territories, foreign dignitaries, and illegal immigrants are "not subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The first two are not offered birthright citizenship, the latter is. If consistency is to be considered, illegal aliens should similarly not be offered birthright citizenship.
by 0_____0 | 2025-07-11 19:37:57+00:00
Yes.

The power of fellowship is incredible. I immediately had people following up after my first meeting, and reaching out to offer e.g. sponsorship – this is as much for them as it is for you, I learned.

I eventually stopped going because I found that with a year and a half break I was able to shake my addiction and put it in its place. If I ever fall back upon a dark path I am glad that there are folks like the ones I met who are coming together to help themselves and each other.
by ionwake | 2025-07-11 19:38:36+00:00
You're probably right—I just wanted to share a few thoughts and would welcome any corrections or clarification.

If I were in leadership, I'd assume there are edge cases I'm missing and take responsibility accordingly. Id just assume that is my job, as the leader, that is why I am paid, to make important decisions and stop the company from making big mistakes.

This isn’t a critique of your view—just an observation: there's a recurring theme on HN that leadership shouldn't be held responsible when things break down, as if being a CEO is just another job, not a position of accountability.

Where does this come from? Is it a uniquely American or capitalist norm?

I recall ( i dont think incorrectly) 1980s Japanese leadership—tech/auto who took failures so seriously they’d resign or even mention/think of sudoku.
by 9rx | 2025-07-11 19:38:49+00:00
> People, including teenagers, can and do act in pro-social and non assholish ways for reasons other then fear.

It is unlikely a hermit living in the forest, who hasn't seen another human in years, can find ways to be an asshole. So, technically, it is possible to not be an asshole without worry for others. But it would also be unusual to call such a person an asshole given the lack of opportunities to be one.

Realistically, to be an asshole is, at least in part, to show lack of worry for others. So, no, worry is a necessary precondition here. Assholes demonstrate less-to-no worry, while "less assholes" are more afraid of how their actions affect others.

> The thread projects fear on them, because quite a few people on HN cant explain teenagers not destroying things or not breaking the "no fire in the park rules" by anything else then the fear.

Yeah. No. You just made that up. The only comment in the entire thread you could, if you squint hard enough, take to be about fear is mine. It contained the word "fearful", which is a very different concept to "fear", but I'll grant you that it shares some of the same letters. Perhaps you'd didn't bother reading the entire thing?

But even if you did somehow read the wrong word somehow, it explains that it may not be fearfulness at all, rather greater impulse control. The exact opposite of what you are suggesting.
by reify | 2025-07-11 19:38:56+00:00
you people trying to build these types of apps have not got a fucking clue!

Do you have a degree in psychology, counselling psychology, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychiatry? anything to do with the care professions?

If not. why are you fucking about in my profession which you know nothing about. Its like me writing few 10 line bash scripts, and them saying I am going to build the next google from home on my laptop.

This is the sort of care real professionals provide to those in crisis in the middle of suicical ideation. It is a crisis.

Every year in the month before Christmas, Therapists who worked in the psychotherapy service, where I worked fo 20 years, had to attend a meeting.

This meeting was to bring any clients who they felt were a suicide risk over the christmas period.

If a client met those criteria, a plan was put in place to support that person. This might mean; daily phone calls, daily meetings, and other interventions to keep that person safe.

Human stuff that no computer program can duplicate.

The Christmas period is the most critical time for suicides, It is the period when most suicides occur.

what the fuck do you fucking idiots think you are doing??

Offering a service, not a service, a poxy app, that has absolutely no oversight, no moral or ethical considerations, which, in my opinion would drive people to suicide completion.

you are a danger to everyone who suffers mental illness.

Thinking you can make a poxy chatgpt app in 5 minutes to manage those in great despair and in the middle of suicidal ideation is incredibly naive and stupid. In therapy terms, Incongruent, comes to mind,

How will you know if those superficial sounds like "ocean breeze, rain on a cabin roof" are not triggers for that person to attempt suicide. I suppose you will rely on some shit chatgpt vibe fantasy coding shit.

This too is absolute bullshit: "Ask the user, They are not users! they are human beings in crisis!:

“Is this a fictional story or something you're really experiencing?” The hidden meaning behind this question is: "Are you lying to me", "Have you been lying to me".

A fictional story is one made up, imaginary. To then ask in the same sentence if that story is real is contradictory and confusing.

Are you assuming that this person has some sort of psychosis and is hearing voices, when you say "something you're really experiencing? Are you qualified to diagnose psychotic or Schizophrenic disorders? How do you know if the psychosis is not a response to illicit drugs.

so many things to take into consideration that a bit if vibe coding cannot provide.

No therapist would ever ask this banal question. We would have spent a long to time developing trust. A therapist will have a taken a full history of the client, a risk assessment, would be fully aware of the clients triggers, and will know the clients back story.

suicide is not something you can prevent with an app.

YES! I do have the right to be angry and express it as I feel fit, especially if it stops people from abusing those who need care. A bystander I am not.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-11 19:38:58+00:00
There's a lot of agency in heart attacks too, but we still say that the heart attack killed them, not that they killed themselves with a heart attack.

There is agency, but it's equally irresponsible and unhelpful to act like outside factors are not part of the equation, and that someone who drives a person to suicide is blameless.

Let's say someone jumps out of a burning building and they're killed by the fall. Did they have agency? Responsibility? Should we describe that as "committed suicide"?
by jmb99 | 2025-07-11 19:39:13+00:00
Performance was very, very good in my experience. Benchmarks normally took a 10% hit vs their equivalents on windows, but being able to run macOS on arbitrary consumer hard made performance incredibly cheap. My first proper bang-for-buck machine was an i7-4790k with an R9 270x GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a combination of SSD and HDD storage. Total cost was around $1300 CAD if I remember correctly, which is absurdly cheap compared to what you’d have to pay at the time for a Mac with that performance. I also ran macOS on a 2x E5-2670 machine with 64GB of RAM, as well as a 2x E5-2697 v2 machine, and an i9-12900k machine with an RX 6950XT GPU, all of which were incredible value compared to an off-the-shelf Mac. It’s only recently that Macs are catching up to hackintoshes performance-to-dollar wise, because Apple Silicon is very, very good. Once I get my WRX90 workstation hackintoshed it should give the Mac Studio and Mac Pro a run for their money, but not for much longer if Apple drops support for x86 after macOS 16.
by Willingham | 2025-07-11 19:40:39+00:00
AA specifically suggests to only come when all other measures have failed, and if you can do it without AA ‘our hats are off to you’ quote from their ‘big book’ which is their main piece of literature. I truly believe and have seen first hand hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on rehab and counseling and medications and therapy and only AA ever brought those individuals into true long term recovery. I don’t like the AA is forced by folks who haven’t already tried, or had the privilege to try ‘all other measures’.
by 01100011 | 2025-07-11 19:40:47+00:00
Basically this. Many times I've gotten too casual with them and then been reminded that they are not a party drug. Persistent HPPD(ok, redundant) and long lasting anxiety and/or motor issues(tics).. inability to focus. It's great that there are people who can gobble psychs like candy and not have issues(that they're aware of anyway) but they need to chill on trying to get everyone to trip out. I get it. I felt that "everyone should try this" vibe. But seriously, no. Don't take people's psychology lightly.
by bluecalm | 2025-07-11 19:40:49+00:00
>>I agree with many of the arguments here about the theoretical impacts of a land value tax, especially the section "an LVT implicitly taxes improvements to nearby land" which is often overlooked or glossed over in these discussions.

That's a feature not a bug. The whole argument is that it's good to tax wealth that you didn't work for. It's surely more just than taxing labor or the improvement you have made yourself.
by Klonoar | 2025-07-11 19:41:27+00:00
Replace foreigners with "white" and you're more or less spot on.

I know far too many non-Japanese-asian people who get held to the standards applied to Japanese people - not even over tattoos, but things like language, cultural understandings, etc. The aspect of this with white people is where the infamous "gaijin smash" came from.
by superkuh | 2025-07-11 19:42:22+00:00
This all started with software and because we didn't stop it there it'll keep happening to software that runs hardware.

There was a popular game called "Rocket League" that Psyonix company sold and ran the infrastructure for for many years. But then Epic corporation bought Psyonix for Rocket League's playerbase to bootstrap their proprietary game delivery service. 6 months later everyone who had bought the game for Mac or Linux could no longer play. Epic just stole it from them. No recourse. Not even outrage beyond the effected. It was just accepted as a standard business practice.
by eitally | 2025-07-11 19:42:29+00:00
I think you're missing my specific point that this is a Prop 13 issue.

My land is valued at X and my neighbor's identical rectangular plot is valued at Y, why should that be the case if the land's objective value is identical (which it is, and neither X nor Y are close to current market value Z because Prop 13 caps appreciation at 2%/yr).

No land value or improvements are revalued at market rate until they're sold, obviously, but two things are also true: 1) tax assessors almost never lower assessment values (anywhere), and 2) assessed values are completely detached from reality of the majority of properties in the state of California because of Prop 13.

To answer your question, if I wanted to argue that the assessment of my land is too high, I'd likely not have a case because the assessor could just look at any comps that trades hands in the last few years and those would show assessments far higher than mine. But I absolutely could show that the assessment of others' properties are "too low" relative to my own (or mine to current) just by similarly looking back in time at homes that haven't traded hands in decades, if ever.
by klik99 | 2025-07-11 19:42:45+00:00
Someone brought this up in a previous HN comment section as an example of trust in software ruining peoples lives. But your explanation is far more human and recontextualizes it a bit for me - it just happened to be that this was done with software, but the real motivation was contempt for the lower classes and could have easily have happened 100 years ago with an internal investigation task force.

Growing up half in England and US I feel British culture is more attuned to the class aspects to this kind of event. Traditionally America likes to pretend this kind of class contempt doesn't exist (think of, people on welfare angry at welfare queens, unaware they will be affected by legislation they support).
by slowmovintarget | 2025-07-11 19:43:03+00:00
Except historically, China didn't propagate technology. It was used at the discretion of the emperor and held as a secret. They had moveable type before Gutenberg, but had a culture, government, and language that were all factors against its propagation. They had a navy second to none, but found the rest of the world not interesting (Confucian Conservatism is one theory) and dismantled it, nearly a century before Magellan's voyages. If anything, their knowledge leaked to the rest of the world as opposed to them leading it.

Today, China is playing Go with the world as their board. We have to start counting liberties on our groups; the late game is now.
by jfengel | 2025-07-11 19:43:05+00:00
I think it's not a matter of stopping them from hallucinating, but why they're hallucinating.

They hallucinate because they're aren't actually working the way you do. They're playing with words. They don't have any kind of mental model -- even though they do an extraordinary mimicry of one.

An analogy: it's like trying to parse XML with a regular expression. You may get it to work in 99.99% of your use cases, but it's still completely wrong. Filtering out bad results won't get you there.

That said, the "extraordinary mimicry" is far, far beyond anything I could possibly have imagined. LLMs pass the Turing test with flying colors, without being AGI, and I would have sworn that the one implied the other. So it's entirely possible that we're closer than I think.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-11 19:43:30+00:00
A 90 year old is much more physically fragile than a 20 year old. If you hit a 20 year old and they are bruised you get an assault charge, if you hit a 90 year old and they die you get a murder charge, despite using the same amount of force.

I do agree with the sibling post that suicide would be weaponized which is the real problem.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-07-11 19:43:49+00:00
Your fallacy is that you are implicitly thinking of yourself as an intrinsically evil corrupting force that should be minimized as much as possible, in fact it would be better if you didn't exist at all.

This is a very bleak misanthropic view that isn't true. It's possible to be a force for good. To form a symbiosis where each side benefits from the other. If you see a native resident, do you think he is perfectly pure, content and happy? Or does he have his troubles and issues. How can you help him? Entertain? Teach? Trade?
by wat10000 | 2025-07-11 19:44:23+00:00
Law enforcement could definitely do better here. The nature of the job tends to attract people who like exerting power over others, and I imagine that correlates with deciding people are guilty first, and finding evidence later.

But everybody is like this to an extent, so you need to fix this in other ways too. This is why reasonable countries have a whole bunch of process around legal punishment, and don't just throw someone in prison after a police officer says so. All the restrictions on how evidence is gathered and what kind of proof needs to be provided are ways to work around this problem. The police and prosecutor might decide someone is guilty, but they still have to convince twelve ordinary people. (Or whatever the process is in your country of choice.)

It sounds like this is where things really fell apart with the postal scandal, and the courts were willing to convict with insufficient evidence.
by pydry | 2025-07-11 19:45:01+00:00
And that headteacher's salary can increase too because the tax base went up.

No such luck for the poor schoolteacher whose rent went up. All she will contribute to is her landlord's vacation fund.

>Or the schoolteachers get driven away by a horde of NIMBYs

Really??? You think NIMBYs will protest a good school?

If you want NIMBYs go visit San Francisco. Theyve detaxed land there to such an absurd extent that the locals with $1.5 million mortgages will flock to town council meetings to try to declare a launderette historic to prevent it from being turned into apartments (because if any more apartments are built they will go underwater on their absurdly sized mortgage).
by s1mon | 2025-07-11 19:45:46+00:00
I've been aware of Craig Mod from a distance for a while, and from what I've seen of his books and other works, he's very thoughtful and deeply sensitive to culture, but somehow it seems pretty hypocritical to write this when his most recent book is essentially a travelogue about obscure places in Japan. Of course the Tik Tok generation is not likely to be reading his books, but he is in effect adding to the load on locations which may not be ready for them.

I was in Japan in 1996 back when a Lonely Planet guidebook was the best authentic reference for western travelers. People decried guidebooks' impact then and now. It's hard to do travel ethically in places that aren't ready for it. This isn't just about Tik Tok. As individuals, we each have to consider our impact culturally, economically, and environmentally.

The solution isn't no tourism, because tourism encourages more global awareness and cross-cultural communication. It also adds to the economy. However, places that are filled with tourists and no locals aren't much fun for most people, local or tourist. It has to be a balance.
by Klonoar | 2025-07-11 19:45:47+00:00
This is false, IME. If you spent enough time to learn how to navigate it, you could get in to most of them. I'm not even fluent and it really wasn't a big deal.

I did this living there from ~2009 - ~2016. Wasn't an issue in my visits afterwards either, at least up until the COVID years.

I will say that when I go back each year (1x/2x per) post COVID, I've seen more of them trying to be firm on it though - presumably due to the tourism influx.
by pipes | 2025-07-11 19:46:45+00:00
I've been following this since the guardian wrote about it, maybe 2011 or 2013 (private eye was earlier) It was insane. I couldn't understand the lack of fuss. Maybe it is because as a programmer I guess that 95 percent of all software is complete shit and most of the developers don't know or don't care.

You've hit the nail on the head "why would anyone want a middle class life" yeah they have never known anything less than that.

The other factor to me is the careerism, all that matters is the project success, who cares if the riff raff end up committing suicide. Honestly listening to some of the tapes of those meetings makes me feel sick. Thing is, I think so many career orientated people I know wouldn't even consider that what went on in the meetings was beyond the pale. It's black mirror level.

I'm from Ireland, but I live on "mainland Britain" the UK class system is mind boggling. I think the establishment here despises the "great unwashed". God help any working class person who ends up in the courts system.

One final thing, Paula Vennells was an ordained church minister. She was preaching while she was overseeing the destruction of so many innocent hardworking people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells

I don't know why that makes this all worse but some how it does. Somehow it speaks to what the UK is or has become.

I doubt she'll get the prison time she deserves. Actually I doubt she'll serve any time at all.
by masklinn | 2025-07-11 19:46:45+00:00
> Have these new M3/4 MPBs gone back at all to being easy to dismantle or change the battery in?

No.

They're not as bad as the touchbar era (which was truly awful) but they're still a lot worse than the unibodies: ifixit scored the unibodies at 7/10, the apple silicon generation get 4/10 (although the criteria have changed a bit so the comparison is not quite 1:1 this matches my impression: while I've not yet had to dive into my M1P's guts what I've seen of it don't seem easy, while I was able to easily dive in and out of my 2010 and replaced the ram, the battery, the drive (twice), the superdrive (by an HDD tray, then put the superdrive back a few years later), the fans, ...

And the Unibody was a step down from my previous polycarbonate macbook in terms of accessibility (the battery could just be popped out, and let you access the RAM and HDD without even having to unscrew the case).
by adverbly | 2025-07-11 19:46:50+00:00
Sounds like we agree. Parent said this:

> Focus on the spending first, and make sure it's essential. Then figure out how to fund it.

Which is what I disagreed with. There is no "sequence" to this where one comes first. You need to look at both in parallel. Its entirely possible that one could be more troublesome than another, but you still need to look at both!
by abeppu | 2025-07-11 19:46:54+00:00
> But if you ascribe even the slightest but of agency to any of the non-Americans involved, you have to wonder if this problem will come back.

From the article:

> And recently they are celebrating some big news on the lead fighting front: This week, UNICEF and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new $150 million initiative to combat lead poisoning.

Americans have disassembled USAID. The agency of Americans is also contributing to this reccuring.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-07-11 19:46:56+00:00
I'd rather a law mandating that all devices include an 'offline' option for any hardware features that could conceivably support one.

I don't want to create an account for my toaster, nor have my lightbulb send updates to an analytics server, nor have my washing machine cease to function when my wifi goes down.

A ban on products tying hardware features to an internet connection would fix all those problems in addition to giving them theoretically eternal life.