MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xscott | 2025-07-29 00:22:43+00:00
> the parties move their positions such that they divide the votes between themselves as evenly as possible

That's something I'd like to understand better... Why would they TRY to divide evenly? Where's the party that takes the majority position for each topic? It seems foolish to play for a draw or tie, so something else must be happening.

From what I've seen in my life, people are more likely conform to their party than vice versa. But I've got a very small sample size.
by SauciestGNU | 2025-07-29 00:22:49+00:00
I think many people have their own personal revelation where they come to believe what Israel is doing is not self-defense but rather genocide. For me that came in the 2008/2009 Gaza offensive where they inflicted roughly 100 deaths for every Israeli who was killed in the initial attack. The Freedom Flotilla incident in early 2010 where they murdered the aid volunteers in international waters only further solidified my opinion.
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-29 00:23:28+00:00
Maybe... the real issue is that "calling" (as a concept) is kind of dumb and needs to go away?

I get that this is NOW, but just wondering if you're willing to engage. What could replace the need to call?

Everyone having agents would be cool. You type or say "Make a dinner reservation at X at Y for 4 people" and the restaurant agent would just do it...

I just want openai to be the super app for this kinda stuff.
by wting | 2025-07-29 00:23:42+00:00
Visa, Mastercard, payment processors, banks, etc act as accountability sinks[0] for governments and political group by design. They are arbiters for moving/blocking money, not taking principled stances; there is no net neutrality equivalent for financial networks.

There's a lot of wasted discussion talking about an intentional design decision because they're arguing from consumers' perspectives, ignoring the huge benefit to political organizations (e.g. freezing Russian assets).

0: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/accountability-sinks
by zamadatix | 2025-07-29 00:24:49+00:00
It should actually work now that Windows 11 LTSC 2024 is out and 22H2 is the listed requirement level https://openkneeboard.com/compatibility/, but there was likely a period between that and Windows 11 LTSC 2021 where the game required a feature e.g. from 22H2. Of course trying to ride an LTSC out without upgrading for the full decade of support will lead to MANY compatibility problems, but that's a choice to not upgrade and not really a limitation of LTSC itself.

There lies the problem with LTSC though: there are always a couple of things really pushing the bleeding edge of features (like a community VR plugin in 2022 would be) and it might take a year or two for LTSC to catch up to those cases. Most people will never run into that... but you can't really know until you do, so is it worth it? Depends, I suppose.
by Spivak | 2025-07-29 00:25:06+00:00
Well, at least in the US, it's legal to draw, sell, and purchase those drawings—no wrapper needed it can be explicitly cp. And while I have negative infinity desire to consume or encounter this kind of content I nonetheless think it should exist as a 'methadone' for folks whose sexual frustration might otherwise drive them to do something horrible.

And if we allow it at all I don't think it makes sense to pick and choose what artistic mediums it's allowed to take no matter how abhorrent I might personally find it.
by geysersam | 2025-07-29 00:25:11+00:00
> And this has eliminated the whole Western bullshit about human rights maximalism

That's the truth. "Never again". Clearly our politicians do not believe in human rights or international law. What do they believe in? Democracy? I doubt it. Money? Western exceptionalism? More likely. Where do we go from here? Why would anyone ever take any moral argument from a western nation seriously ever again?
by nostrademons | 2025-07-29 00:26:13+00:00
I'm not saying this is a failure of the system, only that it is the system. My overall point is that systems take the form they do based on available technology, efficiencies of production, lines of communication, and incentives, and that the individual firms involved are disposable actors that are forced by the factors above into economically-rational actions. If the natural form of an industry is monopoly (as most "blue team" industries are), that's what we'll get, and government action can at best delay it.
by HamsterDan | 2025-07-29 00:27:22+00:00
Restricting food to civilians has been a legitimate war tactic forever. It's called a siege. If this is unacceptable to Palestine, they need to return the Israeli hostages.

Israel is under no obligation to provide aid to their opponent in a war. Anybody suggesting such is transparently anti-Semitic. Nobody would ever make such a ridiculous claim if it were their own countrymen held hostage.
by guessmyname | 2025-07-29 00:28:07+00:00
I wouldn't say they’re “obviously” AI fakes.

I’m not from the UK, so I’m not familiar with what their IDs are supposed to look like.

I was suspicious, though—the hands holding the ID cards looked kind of “crispy.” But at the same time, I thought, “woah, where did the website owner even get these photos?” It wasn’t until I read the Hacker News post that I realized they were all AI-generated (and now cached).

And here’s the thing: I’m an engineer at Apple with decades of experience in the tech industry—I’m not exactly new to this stuff. If I got fooled even for a couple of seconds, imagine how easy it would be to trick someone who isn’t technical.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-29 00:28:09+00:00
I did not know that it can be used for whitelist (although I probably would have figured it out if I use mainly git for version control, which I don't), although I had not used .gitignore and I used "fossil add" to add the files that I wanted instead, which is also a kind of whitelist.

I did think the blacklist for this purpose was a bad idea anyways, before I saw this, so I used whitelist anyways already. (However, you can use which way you prefer, in case you do not like this, either.)
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 00:28:17+00:00
> do you or would you be willing to extend this line of reasoning to child porn?

No, because that's illegal.

Slippery slope morality arguments are stupid and deserve to be treated as such. I've already heard this a thousand times with homosexuals. Men fucking men? What's next, men fucking kids? Men fucking dogs???

No, it's a stupid line of reasoning and, in fact, it's so stupid that even just a few seconds of inspection is enough to have it crumble and fall between the cracks of your hands.

> As in, some people want to watch it, and most people find it repulsive

You have a very fundamental misunderstanding here.

Okay, people find murder repulsive too. But is the reason that we outlawed murder because it's repulsive? Think about it. Throwing up is repulsive. Do we throw people in jail if they feel sick?

No. Whether or not ANYONE thinks something is repulsive is completely unrelated to if it should be allowed.

We did not, have not, and will never ban child pornography on the grounds it's "repulsive". It is, but that doesn't matter. We ban it because children are unable to consent, and subjecting unconsenting people to sexual acts is rape. Distributing the material is equally bad because it creates a market for it - meaning, more rape.

> If not, where do you draw the line? And why there?

When it comes to sex, consent. That's the only place you can draw the line. Otherwise I can easily weaponize your arguments against you. There are many sexual things you personally do which I find repulsive - please, tread carefully. This line of reasoning is dangerous.
by pdonis | 2025-07-29 00:28:22+00:00
> he chats a little between songs

His comments between songs are at least as funny as the songs themselves. For many years I thought that recordings only existed of those comments for An Evening Wasted and That Was The Year That Was. Then I discovered The Remains of Tom Lehrer, a 3 CD set that includes, not only the original Songs By Tom Lehrer (straight off the 10 inch LP), but also a live recording of the same songs from a concert, with comments between the songs! (This set also has studio recordings of the songs from An Evening Wasted, done before the live concert recording.)

Just to give a taste, before he even plays the first song in the concert version of Songs By Tom Lehrer, he gives a biographical introduction of himself, as though he were a toastmaster or an impresario. Here's how it starts (at least as much as I can capture it with just typing):

"Endowed by nature with perhaps the most glorious baritone voice ever to be heard on an American stage since the memorable concert debut in 1835 of Millard Fillmore; endowed also with twelve incredibly agile fingers..."
by andrewinardeer | 2025-07-29 00:28:22+00:00
I am convinced there will be a large subset of the population who will push back on AI voice agents and still wish to talk to a real person. Just like how Grandma still prefers to bank cheques at the teller every pension day.

Perhaps when the job losses really start becoming apparent it will become a social movement as well. I'm sure there will be businesses that will find having humans answer calls a sustainable competitve advantage.

I'm not convinced AI voice agents are there just yet. As someone else mentioned, edge cases will trip them up.

Nevertheless, at some point I envision a web designed for agents where the business agent will interact with my agent to resolve an outcome.

The horrifying thought is dating. Sally's agent will end up telling Barry's agent to stop contacting it, Barry's agent won't understand and the the Police's agent will invoke a judicial agent to issue a 'stop communication' order to Barry's legal agent to deliver to Barry's personal agent.
by kristopolous | 2025-07-29 00:28:34+00:00
Historically, any nationalist project on behalf of any group requiring large migration for it to work led to a removal and replacement of some group with another. United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, failed ones like Rhodesia...there's really no counter-example I can think of.

Regardless of where you land, I don't think anyone can look at what's going on in the middle east and think things are going fine - or ever were.

Perhaps, if we ever decide to act globally, we shouldn't permit any more migratory nationalist projects - they seem to be inherently problematic.
by umbra07 | 2025-07-29 00:29:19+00:00
If you don't use a skill, it atrophies.

Now, maybe that is the future (no more/extremely little human-written code). Maybe that's a good thing in the same way that "x technological advancement means y skill is no longer necessary" - like how the advent of readily-accessible live maps means you don't need to memorize street intersections and directions or whatever. But it is true.
by tmnvix | 2025-07-29 00:29:53+00:00
In response to the dead response... (not sure why it is dead)

> Israel will not agree to a right to return

This government will not.

My view is that the Israeli state is failing through its own actions and at some point will experience regime change (i.e. a drastic change in government - possibly, or possibly not as a result of a democratic election). I expect that a new regime may not be Zionist (at least not in the exclusionary sense we are familiar with) and could well introduce something similar to South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission.

That type of government could very possibly recognise the right of return - possibly in some compromised form such as a willingness to pay compensation as has happened following other colonialist endeavours.
by afarah1 | 2025-07-29 00:30:00+00:00
I got interested and got down to the FAQ. The "how much it costs" question doesn't give any price figure in the answer. I'm still left with the same question and feeling like a fool. Nor is the data privacy question answered. "Bank level encryption"? Because everyone else just gets the placebo? Maybe this isn't fair, I haven't really tried your product. But this is your front page. And if your product really is good, it's not doing it justice.
Show HN: Dart implementation of the libp2p networking stack
by stephanfebs | 2025-07-29 00:31:12+00:00
I created a Dart port of the LibP2P stack. I wanted a native Dart implementation, and in the absence of a native QUIC library, I also created my own UDP transport implementation called Dart-UDX. You can find GossipSub, DHT and UDX implementations alongside this one in my github account.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-29 00:31:29+00:00
Now hold on a minute. I'm reading the Codeberg posts, and I think Neowin is getting it wrong. The LoucheBear person seems to be saying that their ClamAV scan is clean without Kapitano, but not clean with Kapitano. Anyone want to grab the flatpak quick, just to see if somehow some malware hitched a ride?

Anyway, if I'm reading this right, then these two people are just talking past one another, not understanding what the other is talking about.

Off-topic: It's absolutely mad from a security perspective that you can't download flatpaks as a simple bzip file for security analysis.
by CMay | 2025-07-29 00:31:47+00:00
Would it be possible to have 3-4 words and you have to make sure that each word you produce results in a valid phrase? So not only the final phrase makes sense, but you have to navigate through a path of valid phrases.

This way you might remove a letter from different words and have to think ahead to decide if the result would remain coherent in order to avoid an error.

The computational complexity of identifying phrases that can be reduced like this while having a coherent path might increase rapidly.
by TrueDuality | 2025-07-29 00:32:28+00:00
Primarily for libraries and deployment environments that aren't fully in your control which is still pretty common once you get to B2B interactions, SaaS is not something you can easily sell to certain environments. Depending on the assurance you need, you might even need to mock out the database entirely to test certain classes of database errors being recoverable or fail in a consistent state.

Even in SaaS systems, once you get large enough with a large enough test suite you'll be wanting to tier those tests starting with a lowest common denominator (sqlite) that doesn't incur network latency before getting into the serious integration tests.
by Simulacra | 2025-07-29 00:32:36+00:00
There was a lot of suspicion about Cancellara that was never really investigated. A couple of people have been caught... They brought out x-ray machines, and x-rayed bikes, but that's sort of fell by the wayside over the pandemic. I think the truth is, professional cycling, doesn't want to confront another scandal. So they just sort of turn a blind eye into it.
by cm2012 | 2025-07-29 00:32:44+00:00
If you're looking for a popular vote on whether what's taking place in Gaza is a genocide, you would get very different votes in different places. For instance, in the USA, less than 40% agree with that take.

Here is a pretty reasoned take making the case for why its not a genocide: https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/im-a-war-scholar-there-is-no-gen...

I think its extreme to call anyone who disagrees racist.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-29 00:32:56+00:00
Sure I can recognize that:

"The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong." - Scott Alexander [0]

I don't have an answer on how to address that, though. You need to have a very strong stance early on to prevent witchery so your communtiy adjusts accordingly. But decentralization, by its nature, has no way to moderate behavior outside of the core design of the tech.

Banking is sadly one of those few aspects where you need some centralization, in my eyes. That's why finance is regulated the hardest in any given society. You need trust above all else to keep and use a digital currency.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
by ElCapitanMarkla | 2025-07-29 00:33:03+00:00
This looks cool, I will check it out.

I spent a heap of time about 15 years ago playing with various mosaic software before landing on https://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ - I built an endlessly zooming mosiac for a museum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdC8sk08Vc4

It was supposed to run for 3 years but last time I was there it was still playing on the big projector.
by red369 | 2025-07-29 00:33:45+00:00
Perhaps the math would make more sense if you swap the bike once the battery is depleted?

I'm still not sure that the tiny battery would give enough of an advantage to be worth the risk - I don't know take enough interest in road racing to know.

Oh - unless the peloton forget about the breakaway, then I take great interest! Love watching that race: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/25/anna-kiesenhof...
by umanwizard | 2025-07-29 00:33:53+00:00
> Why is that? How comes it's so selective?

The main reason is that Israel is materially supported by the West, so Westerners feel morally responsible for what it does.

It has little to do with whether the perpetrators are Jewish or not[1]. There were gigantic protests against the Iraq war, whose main perpetrators (e.g. Bush) were not Jewish.

1: I edited this from "nothing" to "little". I concede it might have something to do with anti-Semitism, because there is some non-zero group of people whose opposition to Israel is purely motivated by anti-Semitism, but I don't get the sense that they're the majority, at least among Westerners.
by orthecreedence | 2025-07-29 00:34:10+00:00
> If you ask a server to delete data, you have to trust it actually deletes it. That goes for any protocol; it's nothing to do with Matrix.

I've see this "critique" come up with multiple different protocols, and it's almost infuriating.

How does the protocol ensure the server removes the data in question from backups? How does the protocol handle someone copying the data off the server onto another device before deletion? How does the protocol handle servers that don't properly implement the data deletion portion of the protocol? How does the protocol handle wiping the neural synapses associated with the memory of that piece of data for each person who ever interacted with it? Without solving these problems, it seems to me the "delete" feature is nothing more than a suggestion, and therefor the protocol itself is fundamentally broken!!

Like, how do you take back something horrible you said to a friend? You don't. You fucking live with your mistake. Don't send shit to other people if you don't want them to, you know, have that information.
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 00:34:29+00:00
No, the monopoly is natural and obvious. It would have always happened.

Do you, as a developer, want to wrangle together 20 different payment processors so you can sell shitty 100% polyester T-shirts? No.

Do I, as a customer, want to have to carry around 20 different cards just so I have a chance at being able to pay at an arbitrary merchant? No.

And do I, as a business, want to pay for the additional complexity of managing fees across so many processors? No.

So everyone actually wants the same thing: very, very few payment processors.
by rany_ | 2025-07-29 00:34:53+00:00
Well, that doesn't change the fact that Egypt is currently under a US-aligned dictatorship. I'm not saying it's under US-control, just that the current dictator stands to benefit by being in the good graces of the US...despite his people's demands.

Also I don't believe that Egyptians are incompetent and incapable, you're putting words in mouth. It's just easier said than done to remove a dictator from power, especially when the power structure is so entrenched. It took Syria over a decade of civil war to get rid of theirs...

We don't live in a Hollywood film. The French Revolution didn't take a month to transition to a republic...
by skybrian | 2025-07-29 00:35:12+00:00
Also true if I use my gmail address. I'll confess that for many websites I don't care that much. Depending on a password manager would be better, though.

Semi-related anecdote: I lost my Reddit account to a cryptocurrency spammer due to a weak password and had to create another, so I lost my preferred username. Annoying but not a huge deal. (Reddit did freeze the old account but wouldn't give it back.)
by tln | 2025-07-29 00:35:36+00:00
I agree it is rare - the UCI measures seem very effective.

I'm not so sure about the math though, it is trivial for a motor+battery to exceed the 6-7 W/Kg sustained that a human can achieve, thus raising the total system W/Kg.

Also consider that the lightest bikes are 5.5kg or so, and UCI has a minimum weight of 6.8 kg which gives "free weight" for these theoretical cheaters to use...
by Seb-C | 2025-07-29 00:35:45+00:00
In my opinion, this content has a net positive effect on society.

While of course I cannot approve those activities, we cannot ignore the fact that there exists people who are sexually attracted and aroused by children, torture, rape and many other things. And we know that you don't get to choose your sexual orientation, it just happens.

As a parent, I find it reassuring to live in a country where those people can relief their pulsions through fictional content. Stripping them from this option would only make them suffer through this pain and shame until a point where they cannot endure it anymore and end-up harming real people.

We know that harassing and witch-hunting minorities doesn't work and actually makes the situation worse. As uncomfortable as this specific case is, I believe that it's much better to help them find a way to live peacefully in society.
by kldg | 2025-07-29 00:36:20+00:00
It's a lottery either way, I think. I can pay $20k/year for health insurance and limit to $20k/year in expenses (or w/e current annual limit is), or I can save the $20k/year and put it into an unencumbered investment account. The insurance company charges so much that I feel much better about getting out of insurance in my 20s so that I have a pretty decent pile now in my 30s, and going forward, the pile accumulates as my risks do.

-but if I get a terminal, especially long-term illness, it's a wipeout either way; if I'm out $20k/year to the healthcare providers and $20k/year to the insurance company, and can't work -- draining $40k/year in health costs just isn't going to work out for very long, unless I can make it another decade or two.

Edit: I should say, too, I give money directly to my daughter (that is, well before [ideally] I'm ill), specifically so I can declare bankruptcy with less family wealth loss if I should have to, and to help fend off Medicaid clawback.
by leptons | 2025-07-29 00:36:34+00:00
>which is exactly the opposite of how it used to feel when it first came out.

I use React (actually Preact), but the old way, not with "use" anything, no hooks. It's pretty simple, but does a good job at what I need, and I'm doing pretty complex web applications with it.

There's no law saying you must use the bleeding edge of everything, the old React way is still plenty good for most things.

The way they rushed out hooks and everyone jumped on board was a red flag for me. I've used it, I've built stuff with hooks, but it's always seemed like fixing problems by creating more problems, and the hype around it was ridiculous.
by shaneos | 2025-07-29 00:36:36+00:00
Author here. I find this to be a pretty cynical take. I tried to express that if I build something and it makes my kids smile then it stays in the app. You appear to have a different take on it. Should we not try to make children enjoy using the tools they use? What's the alternative? Make you app actively hostile and difficult to they'll go touch grass? I'm honestly not clear on the point you're making here.