MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by upboundspiral | 2025-07-30 23:08:01+00:00
I would like to note that I am probably grossly unqualified to talk about such topics, but one idea that I've had rolling around is that inevitably, if you ask people "should kids be able to watch/read/be exposed to [insert adult thing here]" they will inevitably say no of course not. I feel like this is pretty reasonable. For advocates of privacy to succeed I believe that they will need to not just oppose censorship on a global scale, but provide solutions. One thing that technology has not changed is the unit of human relations. From foster care to single or two parents, the idea of a family is still there in society. In my opinion, this group is greatly underserved, and I do not believe it is enough to say "its the parents responsibility" to curate content. That is a full time job. Now, I will be the first to say that children do not at all need to have a smarphone/ipad/etc until they are in their teens, restricting all technology use can be hard. There needs to be tools that allow parents to choose what their children are allowed to be exposed to. Some parents will choose complete freedom, some will choose some "censorship." But I believe the power should rest in the hands of the parents, and I am strongly opposed to the government dictating this choice. I believe one thing the government can be good at is enforcing standards and providing reference implementations that would allow such curation to be possible. Imagine if you walk into an Apple store and say you are buying a phone for your child, and they tell you: would you like a side of censorship with that? Or if companies like youtube that are a platform with children would need to provide a means for them to be curated, for channels and features to be blocked, etc. I am not sure if what I am proposing is the right way forward but I would love to see governments tackle this problem of giving power back to the parents, instead of seeing governments attempt to enforce their worldviews onto others. I am also interested in how there would a handoff, from a "child-friendly" internet to a fully uncensored one within families. I believe that outright rejecting censorship of what children can access will do nothing to assuage the fears of people that do not want their children accessing random websites, and that a solution that keeps the power in the hands of the people and not the government is needed.
by chpatrick | 2025-07-30 23:08:02+00:00
You're just deferring to another vague term "pattern matching".

If I think back to something I was taught in primary school and conclude that 1+1=2 is that pattern matching? Therefore I don't really "know" or "think"?

People pretend like LLMs are like some 80s markov chain model or nearest neighbor search, which is just uninformed.
by ItsMonkk | 2025-07-30 23:08:13+00:00
It's impossible to know with the data we collect. Census tracks the homeownership rate, which tracks if the house is owned by someone living in it. However if you are a tenant living in a house that someone else owns and lives in it as well, for example if you are an adult renting in your parents house, that counts as a homeowner owned home. We do not collect the tenant non-ownership rate, but it would be much higher than the inverse of the homeownership rate.
by tcwd | 2025-07-30 23:08:18+00:00
Thanks! I agree with your sentiment for a lot of basic mundane tasks, but there are a number of tasks that exist today that are very high value yet still mundane and requires manual work.

Examples include form filling, sales prospecting, lead enrichment, or even just keeping track of prices of important things.

Over time, we do expect the cost of tokens on these models to decrease drastically. Powerful vision models are still relatively new compared to other generic LLM models for text. Definitely a lot of room for optimizations that we expect will come quickly!
by 9rx | 2025-07-30 23:08:20+00:00
> The rational economic actor will still be going for used tractors on 80 acres

A rational economic actor would sell the land. 80 acres would fetch around $2M around here pretty easily. You're not getting $2M of pure economic value of 80 acres.

But what are you going to supplant the enjoyment of being out on the farm with? No amount of money can buy a suitable replacement.
by sellmesoap | 2025-07-30 23:08:38+00:00
I feel you about short content, I've taken to using uBlock origin with a custom filter to eliminate shorts from the front page. On the other hand when a youtuber makes a video 10-40 minutes long when the brunt of the information could be 1-5 minutes that gets my goat as well. My children do benefit from the amazing assortment of educational and entertaining options, but we watch together and talk about what we see, they're becoming media savvy and complain when sponsor block misses a segment. If we all skipped the ads we would see a new internet emerge.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-30 23:10:02+00:00
A human that makes a mistake, catches it, corrects it and apologizes is someone I'd much rather interact with than someone that makes a mistake, catches it, and doubles down on the mistake that I then later discover the issue would be the person I would not be my go to source.

Mistakes happen. If they are honest mistakes, then we can deal with it. If they are deliberate mistakes, well, we can deal with that too but in a different manner. The problem that I have is answering something in a confident manner when it's really a hedge to not sound unsure. People apparently have issues with an unsure bot. I'd much rather have a response like, "I'm not positive, but I think PLA is less dense than ABS" for the wiggle room of being able to come back later with "So technically, PLA is more dense than ABS". Even if the bot doesn't figure it out, by phrasing that way, you're clued in on what to fact check
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-30 23:11:06+00:00
> there are tons of good reasons to disallow minors from participating in the free online commons.

there isn't unless you're a neurotic helicopter parent who wants to infantilize people up until they're adults.

I'm only in my early thirties but I thank god that I have a dad who bought me Doom when the store owner didn't want to sell it to me, we shocked the crap out of each other with gore sites in school and when our parents caught us looking at boobs they didn't have a moral panic because unlike now teenagers being hormonal was still considered normal

I literally pity the kids who are raised by people who give Victorian Englanders a run for their money. Forget this argument that the adults are the ones suffering under "legitimate concerns for kids", the kids are the actual losers here
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-30 23:11:22+00:00
I'm curious about what's so "out of reality" about my beliefs.

It's really simple. I looked up the brazilian constitution on the internet. I read it. When I tried to reconcile the text with what the judges were doing, I couldn't. My conclusion was that they were and still are engaging in blatantly unconstitutional acts. The constitution says something can't be done but they keep doing it. How can you possibly reach any other conclusion?

These judges are effectively writing a new constitution and a new set of laws. They have not been elected. Therefore, Brazil is not a democracy. It's a dictatorship of the unelected judiciary. How can you possibly reach any other conclusion?

I have found the people who tried to debate these matters with me utterly unconvincing. I would love to be shown that this country is not what I believe it to be but that seems increasingly unlikely.

I'm tired of being told everything I know and remember is "fake" or whatever. I feel like I'm being constantly gaslit. Pretty much everything these judges censored as "fake news" was either true or became true literally months into Lula's mandate. Literal Ministry of Truth.

And my fears are not at all unfounded. They've prosecuted completely normal people who criticized them in the past. They've gone after teenagers over online comments. I'm taking risks by posting here because of my sense of justice. I'm just too disgusted and disillusioned by what's happening in this country to keep quiet about it.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-30 23:11:29+00:00
Yep. This feels a lot like a repeat of the moral panic from the early eras, only this time the policies are unfortunately within the overton window instead of outside, and have shown to be popular outside of tech circles.

We beat the moral panic last time and kept our freedoms. This time I'm not so certain that we will prevail, there seems to be a coordinated/unified effort on this wide spread surveillance and my hunch tells me the rise of authoritarianism around the world is the drive - much easier to oppress a population in a surveillance state. The "for the children" argument is as old as time.
by iamcreasy | 2025-07-30 23:11:49+00:00
This reminds of an amazing talk by Mike Acton on Data oriented design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

And there is a related talk by Andrew Kelley implementing these ideas on Zig toolchain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IroPQ150F6c
by ilyakaminsky | 2025-07-30 23:12:23+00:00
> i can run it on consumer hardware for vastly cheaper than the cloud

Woah, that's really cool, CJ! I've been toying the with idea of standing up a cluster of older iPhones to run Apple's Speech framework. [1] The inspiration came from this blog post [2] where the author is using it for OCR. A couple of things are holding me back: (1) the OSS models are better according to the current benchmarks and (2) I have customers all over the world, so that geographical load-balancing is a real factor. With that said, I'll definitely spend some time checking out your work. Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech

[2] https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-...
by alex1138 | 2025-07-30 23:12:45+00:00
I think by 2025 we should become accustomed to the fact we were lied to and the repeated cries of "misinformation" were anything but

Edit: I know we're not meant to speculate/talk about downvotes, but really, guys? Use the barest minimum common sense. I would love to know who took the time out to do that and what your worldview is like and how you justify yourself
by robmensching | 2025-07-30 23:13:22+00:00
There aren't 2 classes of participants. The OSMF only talks about two but there are plenty of spaces for contributors to participate. And it's possible people will choose to participate less, but I haven't seen that happening yet. Contributors that like working on a project just work on a project. I've not seen any complaints about maintainers getting the paid because the contributors just drop in and drop out when they feel like it. They don't work on all the "chores" in the project to keep it running. If a contributor does do "chores" then they are probably more like a maintainer and probably should be part of the maintenance fee. But... this hasn't been a problem.
by dashdotme | 2025-07-30 23:13:50+00:00
> Was it worth it? Yes, it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment.

This feels like less of a win for the customers though. They're paying money and exposing their data insecurely, all for a product that maybe does what it's trying to do.

> Now he's hiring a developer to shore it up.

This is going to be way harder than it sounds...

I'm all for AI as a reference or productivity/learning aid, but the results without a human in the loop quickly get horrific.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-30 23:14:01+00:00
Even on an incognito tab, the first set of shorts always includes at least one semi-soft-porn cover image for a short that doesn't actually contain that image.

I mean, for one, it's false advertising, but mainly it's pushing this exploitative (in multiple ways, all disgusting) behaviour.

I use ReVanced because there's no other way to get shorts out of my face. It's just great.
by bluGill | 2025-07-30 23:14:23+00:00
Automation with short trains is similar price to long trains, but the short trains will run a lot more often and that will attract riders who have a choice of driving or not. If they miss their bus/train or have a long wait for their bus/train they will fix that by driving. However if they try transit and service is frequent they will realize that transit works just fine and so they will choose to not drive even though they can.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-30 23:14:30+00:00
Yeah I'm a 20 year emacs user in the same boat. Kinda curious what the learning curve is like going from emacs keybindings to vim style modal editing. Bonus points if Dvorak typists can tell me what they do because I've been sadly typing in Dvorak for even longer than I've been using emacs.
by achierius | 2025-07-30 23:14:40+00:00
Why is it unbelievable? There is an entire industry of people trying to find vulnerable niche applications like this. There are bots which crawl the web, not to make an index, but just to find vulnerabilities. Nobody necessarily even had to 'point' anything at this at all, it just shows up on their dashboard one day and they get to dig in.
by dcsommer | 2025-07-30 23:15:00+00:00
Enforcement needs to be on the sales side, as enforcement at the consumer level is obviously impossible to scale. Also, class 2 (and 3) should not be allowed in bike lanes. If you have a throttle, you're not a bike; you're a motorcycle or moped. I see a clear difference in awareness and safety between pedal and throttle usage.
by banashark | 2025-07-30 23:15:19+00:00
Ah rereading your original comment that makes sense.

I found the announcement page here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...

And here are the docs for “dotnet run” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-r...

You’re right that it’s missing this new functionality. The blog post has some details to get started, but I’m guessing that a docs link or section is missing for that.

Dotnet covers quite a bit so the docs are accordingly larger than other projects that have a smaller scope. I will say though that while hit or miss, on average I’ve enjoyed their docs more than the average project.
by bombcar | 2025-07-30 23:15:57+00:00
I've yet to see a convincing argument that trains are cheaper than busses (especially when you consider that most of a bus's route (in the USA) would be on "free" roads).

Trains can certainly HOLD more people than a bus, and I hate buses with a passion normally reserved for religious arguments, and trains are Choo-choo, but they are expensive as all hell.

If they weren't why would BRT exist at all? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-UHd9tFNk
by robmensching | 2025-07-30 23:16:19+00:00
Why? It's not specific to the WiX Toolset at all. Other projects can (and some have) adopt the Open Source Maintenance Fee with no changes (or they can change if if they want).

WiX is just the first project to use the OSMF because I need a project to "debug" an issues in OSMF system. As we get all the issues resolved, we may see the OSMF be adopted widely... or not.
by mindcrime | 2025-07-30 23:16:24+00:00
Likewise. I use Ollama as the API server and CLI interface for local models, and use OpenWebUI when I want a web interface (which TBH, isn't that often) and it's a fine combination. Honestly, the idea of Ollama adding their own chat interface UI never even occurred to me. It feels a little bit... unnecessary?

Still choices are good, to props to the Ollama team!
by tialaramex | 2025-07-30 23:16:48+00:00
I routinely notice a handful of people, such as Thomas Ptacek, whose opinions I have opinions about, and then in context I notice e.g. Martin Uecker for C and especially the pointer provenance problem (on which he has been diligently working for some years), or Walter Bright (for the D language), or Steve Klabnik (Rust)

There are people who show up much less often and have less obvious usernames, Andrew Ayer is agwa for example, and I'm sure there are people I blank on entirely.

Once in a while I will read something and realise oh, that "coincidental" similarity of username probably isn't a coincidence, I believe the first time I realised it was Martin Uecker was like that for example. "Hey, this HN person who has strong opinions about the work by Uecker et al has the username... oh... Huh. I guess I should ask"
by homefree | 2025-07-30 23:17:00+00:00
I generally don’t think your understanding of the settler issue is accurate, but I’m also not an expert on those details.

In general Jews living in west bank communities they created seems fine, I don’t think it’s acceptable for Palestinians to ban Jews. Arabs and Jews live in peace alongside each other as equals in Israel. I think Israel does police the violence on their own side.

That land is secured by Israel as the result of previous wars, it’s complicated. The result of losing a war you start can be losing sovereignty. 2005 Gaza withdrawal suggests giving up that control as a gesture for peace is a serious mistake.

With the aid, Israel has and continues to give tons of aid which Hamas steals to fund themselves. This is not a trivial problem to solve, GHF is an attempt. The press has since the start lied repeatedly about this. My personal view is it’s not clear to me that giving aid to the enemy is the responsibility of the people that were attacked, especially when your people are still held hostage. But that’s irrelevant because despite my view (and some others in the gov) they have given tons of aid.

The world generally is morally confused on this broadly and thinks because Hamas is weak, that must mean they’re good or it’s some sort of economic issue. They do not understand Islamic Jihad and the nature of this ideology. They look at it with a western lens and make a serious error.

The truth is those of us in the west are all living in Israel, just some of us haven’t realized it yet.
by viraptor | 2025-07-30 23:17:12+00:00
Requiring photo IDs is not the only solution. Things don't have to be implemented that way. I can be both for privacy in this case and limits on social media. Australia already requires you to register for voting and other things, so the trivial solution here is: give out anonymous time-limited tokens from the gov site, with no logging. Essentially a signed timestamp + random number.

> People who asked for social media bans for kids got what they wanted.

This is BS and not productive. We can do better.
by ruralfam | 2025-07-30 23:17:15+00:00
Well, these are barn swallows. They eat up to 1,000 insects per day, and up to 100 mosquitos per day (link below). We have at least a dozen, so perhaps 1,200 mozzie per evening (I hope). I think barn swallows are the most populous bird species. Again they are pretty cool. We also have lots of bats, but they are harder to track. HTH, RF.

https://worldwidebirder.com/what-do-barn-swallows-eat
by jordanb | 2025-07-30 23:17:27+00:00
I had a student job at the State of Illinois a long time ago.

From what I could tell their biggest problem hiring good people were:

1) pay rates tended to be well below industry, even when considering benefits (for programmers at the time)

2) their hiring process was really long. They had to go through this process where they had to find someone they wanted to hire and then get the req opened, which required apparently going through a lot of layers. It would take months and the candidate would find another job. Then they'd have to do it over again. I may have the details wrong, but going from finding a candidate they liked to giving an offer with a start date was multiple months.

There was also some other weirdness. Every time I logged into my computer it had this warning about everything I did being monitored. We were always lectured that anything we do could by FOIAed, and don't type anything that you don't want to be a headline the next day. They were also extremely strict about alcohol. There was a rumor in the office that on a student worker's last day his manager took him to a going-away-lunch and ordered a round of drinks. The student spilled the tea back at the office and the manager was fired the next day.

Overall in retrospect it wasn't a bad place to work. It seemed kinda oppressive to me as a student but in retrospect the environment wasn't bad.
by bluGill | 2025-07-30 23:17:38+00:00
We can call them a bus...

Most suburbs are dense enough to have demand for full sized buses if service is good. The cost of a bus means that cities don't give them good service, but automated bus drivers would reduce the costs enough that they could run good service and this in turn will get so many people to use the bus instead of driving that the van could not work.

For rural areas a van might make sense, though you quickly get to a frequent van is less efficient than just owning your own van.
by EGreg | 2025-07-30 23:18:35+00:00
My sites. In order of increasing complexity. Are they fast?

https://magarshak.com

https://miracles.community

https://qbix.com

https://intercoin.app

Here is some extensive advice for making complex websites load extremely quickly

https://community.qbix.com/t/qbix-websites-loading-quickly/2...

Here is also how to speed up APIs:

https://community.qbix.com/t/building-efficient-apis-with-qb...

One of the biggest things our framework does as opposed to React, Angular, Vue etc. is we lazyload all components as you need them. No need for tree-shaking or bundling files. Just render (static, cached) HTML and CSS, then start to activate JS on top of it. Also helps massively with time to first contentful paint.

https://community.qbix.com/t/designing-tools-in-qbix-platfor...

All this evolved from 2021 when I gave this talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKPKuH6YCTc
by bawolff | 2025-07-30 23:19:13+00:00
The ICC lacks juridsiction over the war crime of collective punishment, so that would be an easy win for Netanyahu. To charge him with collective punishment either the united nations security council would have to create an ad-hoc tribunal, a domestic israeli court could charge him, or some other national court under the principle of universal juridsiction could bring charges. The ICC cannot.

More generally though I agree. I'm a big supporter of the ICC and generally believe it to be a fair court. I'd like to see those accused stand trial, present their defense, and let justice be done no matter which way it leads.
by apimade | 2025-07-30 23:19:32+00:00
All code is legacy code.

And as someone who’s reviewed plenty of production scripts, functions, and services written by junior developers, including my own early work, this take is overly absolutist.

The problem persists in the vast majority of organisations.

You can write articles criticising LLM-generated code, but if you’ve spent most of your career fixing, extending, or re-architecting systems built by others, you should know better.

Until software engineering adopts the same standards, certifications, consistency, and accountability as traditional engineering, along with real consequences, these arguments don’t hold much weight.

This entire modern industry was built on the opposite philosophy: agile. Move fast, break things. Ship iteratively with minimal design. Drop production? Just revert. Outage? Oops.

Software is still treated like a toy. It’s playdough in the hands of toddlers led by other toddlers. You might be among the 1% who do things properly.. but the other 99% don’t.

And odds are, if you’re reading this, you’re not the 1%.