MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by landl0rd | 2025-07-12 23:38:13+00:00
Something being normal doesn’t make it right. Obesity is normal. Shoplifting has become normal in many places. People getting drunk is normal. Normalcy doesn’t equal moral rectitude.

Why do the opinions of my ancestors bear on that, and which ones are you talking about? Most of the ones I can think of, unless you run back to the days of tribal europe, would see the culture today as hideously liberalized. Regardless a lot of my ancestors probably did a lot of things I don’t think are right. Heck, I’ve done plenty of things I don’t think are right. None of that effects what actually is and isn’t morally good.

If I’m not running around telling off couples who leave the bar together, what do you care?
by delusional | 2025-07-12 23:38:28+00:00
This is a slippery slope towards democracy I tell you! Before you know it they'll be asking for representation.

Seriously, isn't this sort of par for the course? We've always regulated what minors can access on the internet. Facebook didnt even formally allow children on their site (I don't know if that's still the case). I think it's a much larger issue that we haven't been enforcing those rules, since we apparently think they are a good idea.
by Arainach | 2025-07-12 23:39:02+00:00
Saying things are expensive is not saying they are corrupt or inefficient. What specific problems and examples of corruption do you believe should be fixed?

Similarly, overall spending patterns do not mean corruption or even excess. We get huge economic returns on science and space spending, for instance.

Look at the source you cited. Labor is expensive here and infrastructure projects often create public outrage that makes them take longer. That's a problem but it's not corruption and not something you fix by slashing spending.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-12 23:39:49+00:00
An online translation tool managed: "out of order" for "en panne". Your translation is far better because it gives the actual, raw and intended (by a local), meaning and not re-translated that meaning into a trite phrase on the destination side.

"Out of order" is something you see on a broken machine and not something to do with a shop!

One day, the AI kiddies will manage to work out how to stuff "Idia" into their wanky offerings. Until then, I'd rather read comments like yours.

Merci.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-12 23:39:55+00:00
There is nothing immoral about this at all. They're the ones who chose to send people videos for free, gambling on the notion that people would look at the ads. Nobody is obligated to make their unwarranted assumptions a reality. They are as entitled to our attention as a gambler is entitled to a jackpot.

If someone gives you an ad filled magazine, you can rip out the ad pages and throw them in the trash, leaving only the articles you actually want to read. Same principle applies here. If some random person on the street gives you a propaganda pamphlet, are you obligated to read it just because some businessman paid for it? Of course not.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-12 23:40:41+00:00
I'm not pretending. I know most people won't pay. The point is it doesn't matter.

They're giving their stuff away for free instead of charging money for it. They gambled on the notion that people would "pay" by watching ads. Unfortunately for them, attention is not currency to pay for services with. We will resist their attempts to monetize our cognitive functions. The blocking of advertising is self defense.

They have absolutely nobody but themselves and their own greed to blame. Instead of charging money up front like an honest business, they decided to tap into that juicy mass market by giving away free sfuff. Their thinking goes: if I give them free videos with ads, then they will look at the ads and I will get paid. That's magical thinking. There is no such deal in place. We are not obligated to look at the ads at all. They don't get to cry about their gamble not paying off.
by sonofhans | 2025-07-12 23:41:09+00:00
Anecdote, but I’ve never read this anywhere —

The day after he died Ursula LeGuin was supposed to give the commencement address at Reed College, in Portland. She started by saying, “Yesterday the greatest science fiction author of all time, and the greatest living author in English, died. So I’m going to talk about Philip K Dick instead of give this speech I wrote.”

(Source: I took SF classes at Portland State University with Tony Wolk, a good friend of Ursula LeGuin. He’d often have her come and talk to a class.)

Now, many people I respect would still say LeGuin herself is still the literary pinnacle in SF, and I agree. That she, the most human of writers, saw such humanity in PKD — that’s always struck me.
by pear01 | 2025-07-12 23:43:36+00:00
I get it and yes, you are technically correct that they are not "literally blocking" it. I just hope you can also see where I'm coming from. In context of the larger comment thread your reply felt like a nitpick that missed the point, and focused on that nitpick to the detriment of the larger point of that OP, which imo has some merit. Or at least some merit you didn't address. But I understand you are correct on this particular point. As a suggestion, maybe next time you could reply more as providing context rather than seeming to suggest their entire take was "backwards". Thanks for replying.
by rustcleaner | 2025-07-12 23:44:26+00:00
Solution: build technologies which make government statute effectively irrelevant. It must be uncensorable even by a nation-state adversary, and must hide its users and their activities. The future is software technology designed to thwart the ability of prosecutors to introduce evidence into a court. We must fight against the state's War on Crime with everything we have; the state has abused that war for centuries to justify its expansion. Courts should only bless victims taking revenge or retribution, offer an optional institution of rehabitation and recompense that the convict can voluntarily ascend to, else if the convict chooses to be free then he's at the mercy of the victim and whatever the victim chooses to do to the convict. Court cases should not result in involuntary imprisonment but only voluntary, incentivized by not being assaulted/killed in public as an outlaw. (Elected oath taking office holders excepted, prison should be a real possibility.)

It matters more to restrain and limit the state than it does to punish bad behavior. Furthermore the state has committed countless crimes in its treatment of the customers they chose to condemn, and ought to be dissolved entirely down to the office clerk. Unfortunately, the only way that happens is law of the guillotine.
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-12 23:44:31+00:00
I didn't comment on OP's story of being called a cunt, nor claim that they were friends, nor make any guesses about how the word in the original story was employed. From the other comments in the thread, it seems it very well could have been meant offensively in this case - but I wasn't commenting about that.

But anyway, that hardly matters - yes, I am indeed dead wrong in the made up argument you're having about the thing no-one said.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-12 23:44:48+00:00
> Youtube isn't free

Then charge for it like the other streaming services. If they send me ads, I'll block and delete them, manually or automatically, and I won't lose a second of sleep over it.

> requires tons of infrastructure and content creation

Not our problem. It's up to the so called innovators to come up with a working business model. If they can't, they should go bankrupt.
by arp242 | 2025-07-12 23:45:34+00:00
There are many flavours of BASIC; some with line numbers and GOTO/GOSUB, some without line numbers and real subroutines. FreeBASIC for example doesn't have line numbers. It's similar to Fortran or COBOL, both of whom also started out with line numbers and GOTO-oriented programming. But no one uses those languages like that any more.

No idea what this BASIC looks like though; the documentation seems chaotic and hard to access. Just saying that BASIC does not necessarily mean the BASIC that you or I used back in the day. I also agree that you can do a hell of a lot better than Python to introduce programming to kids.
by tomhow | 2025-07-12 23:45:45+00:00
Could you please stop posting in this rapid-fire, inflammatory style you've been posting in for the past few days? Your comment history is a steady stream of these low-substance, sensationalist quips about divisive topics, sometimes not even bothering to finish with a full-stop (which is a hallmark of a low-effort comment).

We need that to stop if you're going to keep commenting here. HN is a place for thoughtful discussion, and it's only a place where people want to participate because others make an effort to keep the standards up. Commenting in this style is not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by BrendanEich | 2025-07-12 23:45:51+00:00
Brave rejects that extractive mindset.

People see crypto in Brave and shout "hype", but this is false: we started with the premise that blocking ads by default would require a way for users and creators to get paid or pay, especially for users to get paid. This rules out credit cards, and ACH is way too onerous. We started therefore with a two-sided Bitcoin based user-pays-voluntarily prototype, Brave Payments. Brave Rewards using BAT for a three sided (advertisers pay users who may then pay creators) followed.

More generally, we are Web3 builders, we want decentralization including of payments and finance.

People now see "AI" and shout "hype". We've had ML in the browser and of course in Brave Search for years. LLMs are not going to reach human intelligence, they still need work, but they're a useful front end to search. Not hype, better than ten blue links or the SEO-degraded, Google-cross-promo-infested SERP that doesn't even show blue links above the fold on my phone. Being able to post followup prompts with large context is especially useful.

I agree with you on CEO pay. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43156176 for estimated grand total. Around when the Yahoo! deal failed, it seems Mitchell and the MoCo board made a pact for big pay (rumored $250K/yr to board members for doing little). If merited by results, defensible. As things turned out (not merited), red meat laid out as bait to second-rate MBA/McKinsey types who can be successor-looters while the Google deal pays.
by slg | 2025-07-12 23:46:13+00:00
Ironically this comment is doing the exact thing the comic is criticizing because it is a subtle bastardization of what the comic says.

The comic is about not criticizing people who want to see improvement in something in which they participate. It isn't saying hypocrisy can't be criticized, just that we shouldn't misidentify hypocrisy. Notice the characters aren't saying that no one should buy an Apple product/car or participate in society. The replies are tangential to their original complaints. In order to see hypocrisy, the replier needs to view any participation as a full fledge endorsement, which is a silly thing to do.

Meanwhile, OP genuinely is acting hypocritically because they are doing the exact thing they are criticizing, posting an option to the Internet. The original replier is therefore not the one embodying this comic, it's you.
by itake | 2025-07-12 23:46:15+00:00
I was thinking more of Google's effort to diversify image search results (showing women and POC as CEOs to counter the reality that most CEOs are older white men). Sundar aligned Google with California/Democratic agenda at the time.

Now Musk is copying Sundar: aligning the grok family of models with the current political climate that he's even even helped shape.

It doesn’t matter if the model is biased via Elon’s tweets or DEI hand-tuning: either way, it's top-down political ideology embedded in product. If you can’t see the double standard, I don't know what to say...
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-12 23:46:44+00:00
It’s not gross to want parents to only parent their kids, and to leave the kids of other parents out of it. It’s your responsibility what your kid does on devices that you permit them to have. If you can’t control your kid when they’re not in your presence, or can’t trust them when they’re left to their own devices (pun intended), that’s an issue, but it isn’t a technological problem, but rather a parenting problem.
by toast0 | 2025-07-12 23:46:56+00:00
That they were rushed to the medical center and died the same day doesn't tell us much.

They could have been ill at home for several days or weeks until someone decided to call for help; then when first responders arrived, they saw it was serious and rushed the patient to the medical center.

The local reporting just said the patient died the same day they sought care, without saying anything about when the illness may have started.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-12 23:47:26+00:00
For those paying attention, Elon's companies are running out of money and he's trying to save them by shifting cash from one to another. No doubt that Tesla will also be paying for 'Grok integration' into cars.

PS. For those about to write that Tesla has 30B in cash - it would be a very nice runaway for a small company, but when you are a carmaker employing 100k people and producing cars that are not selling, that cash pile burns really quickly.
by WorkerBee28474 | 2025-07-12 23:47:58+00:00
For the curious, "in Ireland, the national rate fell from an average of 7.5% (75 deaths per 1,000 live births) before age 1 in the late 1930s to 3% in the early 1960s." [0]

So why would there be bodies in a mass grave? Because back then dozens of times as many babies died than die today. Today it's about 0.3%.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-024-09901-7
Show HN: I build an iOS App for parents to plan meal, create recipes, lunchboxes
by omarisbuilding | 2025-07-12 23:48:33+00:00
Hi, I built this iOS App that would let parents create profiles for my children, plan their meals, put their meal preferences, recipes, lunchboxes, export the plan to their calendar, and share links to the timetable with others, and of course an AI helping with the plan and recipe . For now it has a free plan and also paid plan. Initially i built this as a web app but then after feedbacks from close people i developed this iOS app. I would really appreciate your feedback.
by aaronmdjones | 2025-07-12 23:49:43+00:00
Shutting off both engines would display "ENG SHUTDOWN" in yellow text (caution) on the EICAS. If only one engine was shut down, it would say "ENG SHUTDOWN L" or "ENG SHUTDOWN R".

Any of these would trigger an unmistakable audible "BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP" to draw your attention to the screen so that you could see what the caution was. These messages are right next to the engine N1 indications anyway, so it would be immediately obvious that one or more of the engines was spooling down.
by stale2002 | 2025-07-12 23:49:52+00:00
> The only thing that can stop Apple is people not buying their products

Actually, we are quite literally in a thread where there is another option. That other option being to use the law to protect a consumers right to do whatever they want with the device that they own.

If Apple doesn't like it, then they can leave the EU.

> Regarding the EU forcibly taking stuff over.

They aren't taking anything over. They are simply protecting a user's right to do what they want with their own device.
by ivape | 2025-07-12 23:51:20+00:00
I’d also add that no one predicted the emergent properties of LLMs as they followed the scaling laws hypothesis. GPT showed all kinds of emergent stuff like reasoning/sentiment analysis when we went up an order of magnitude on the number of parameters. We don’t don’t actually know what would emerge if we trained a quadrillion param model. SOTA will always be mysterious until we reach those limits, so, no, companies like Cursor will never be on the frontier. It takes too much money and requires seeking out things we haven’t ever seen before.
by krisoft | 2025-07-12 23:51:46+00:00
> Strange comment.

Not realy. It is pretty common to compare the average ability when we are comparing between species. For example when we say cheetahs can run at X m/s we don’t talk about the speed of the fastest cheetah who won the cheetah olympics. They just measured a few and we use that as a basis.

> I very much doubt that any non-human ape will ever get close to Adam Ondra's ascent of "Silence" (9c).

I don’t know what you base this on. Is this just a hunch? Are we talking here about the chances of a monkey randomly catching a fancy for that cliff? Because i agree that is unlikely to happen. But with a sufficintly trained and motivated one I wouldn’t be so sure.
by invalidator | 2025-07-12 23:51:50+00:00
They are simple toggle switches without actuators. The switches are Honeywell P/N 4TL837-3D. Source[1]. Data sheet[2].

[1] https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/NM-18-33.pdf

[2] https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/187/honeywell_hwscs06627_...
by gerdesj | 2025-07-12 23:52:06+00:00
F1 is a weird one. Technology can make a massive difference. I remember the 1970s when a car with a skirt destroyed the opposition by sticking to the ground and the six wheeled beasties and the other wacky stuff.

Sponsored by fags (obviously)

F1 is all about the drivers except it is also all about the marques (who pay quite a lot for it and need to show a return).

The rule book for F1 is pretty daunting these days and I'm not too sure how much is driver and how much is car these days. I do know that F1 drivers do abuse themselves badly during a race - they experience G forces that would make you and I weep and probably pass out.

It's all for our entertainment so all good 8)
by nickjj | 2025-07-12 23:52:42+00:00
Yep I almost did that first but decided against it because I didn't want to get stuck with no phone in case something went wrong with the process. At that time I was technically on-call for work too.

The store owner told me they serviced a bunch of 4a devices and had lots of experience. They were also suggested by Google as an official repair center with good reviews.
by rustcleaner | 2025-07-12 23:55:02+00:00
Pot shops in legal states are compiling databases with their compliance CRM systems.

Pot industry needs to anonymize their customer records or stop using SaaS packaged solutions.

Now if China hacks Meadows or something, they have customer and purchase lists which may include security cleared personnel who can now be blackmailed.

If you run a pot shop, or an SaaS solution for them like Meadows, you really have to figure out how to divorce customer PII from purchases.

I am back to the black market in Oregon for this reason!
by Diti | 2025-07-12 23:56:31+00:00
A simple web search could have given you the citation.

“The Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria Study (1972–2015): Trends in Prevalence, Treatment, and Regrets” (DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.01.016).

The word “many” is misleading – it’s less than 1 %. It’s not nothing, but it’s low.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-07-12 23:57:22+00:00
It seems that the most effective method of sticking people in buckets is actually track them, so I don't see the practical difference for this discussion.

> because it relies on realizing that we’re not special snowflakes, but we have a whole group of people we’re like

yet buckets become more valuable the more specific they are (for example "dad of 3" is more valuable than "male"). it's not hard to see how that would scale into "every detail about the person would allow maximally manipulative advertising = most valuable", just think about any vulnerable position you might find yourself in that can now be used to manipulate you
by jjmarr | 2025-07-12 23:57:37+00:00
Licensed engineers accept responsibility for those structures/machines/etc when they physically harm or kill others. Like lawyers or doctors being sued for malpractice.

A typical person does not understand scientific principles and cannot validate whether a bridge is safe before using it. An engineer that approves a bridge can be held liable when that bridge fails, even if they had orders from their boss or company.

If you're not prepared to accept personal liability when your code kills someone or causes a disaster, you shouldn't try to be an engineer.

I live in a country (Canada) where software engineering is legally considered engineering and that's what officially distinguishes a "software engineer" from a "software developer". In practice, I rarely see the rule followed.
by gamblor956 | 2025-07-12 23:59:10+00:00
On the contrary, that video actually supports the OP's claim. A pilot with a well-managed mental condition would be allowed to fly. So, a pilot with depression over the loss of a parent would still be allowed to fly.

But a pilot with suicidal ideations, or taking hallucinogens, like Emerson from Alaska Airlines Flight 2509 (the flight discussed in the linked video), would not be allowed to fly. And that's exactly the way it should be...

The issue is that many pilots don't seek treatment for mental issues because they imagine that they'll be grounded if they do, even though FAA policy, and most airlines' policy, is to allow them to continue flying.
by reactordev | 2025-07-13 00:00:33+00:00
The actual handshake part of WebSockets is good. Send a NONCE/KEY and get back a known hash encoded however you like. This can be as little as 24 bytes or as much as 1024. Just sending the HTTP preamble eats through 151 bytes at least. Imagine that for every connection, per every machine... That's a lot of wasted bandwidth if one can skip it.

Compression helps but I think if you want to win over the embedded crowd, having a pure TCP alternative is going to be a huge win. That said, do NOT abandon the HTTP support, WebSockets are still extremely useful. WebRTC is too. ;)
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-07-13 00:00:55+00:00
God forbid the language evolves independently in two regions separated by an ocean.

I find it funny that in France it’s more common to see anglicisms (parking, le weekend) whereas in Quebec more “francized” terms are more common (stationnement, fin de semaine). And then Francois Legault goes and in a speech praising the work of the French language watchdog says “faut faire la job”. Facepalm!
by slwvx | 2025-07-13 00:01:43+00:00
In US sports it is very common in the tournament for a single season, or in a single event to reward better performance earlier in that same season or same tournament. I like this because it incentivizes doing well early in a season.

On the other hand, the NFL and NBA give better draft odds for to teams who did badly in the previous season. I also like this because it allows teams who don't have the (comparatively) massive resources of a team based in a large market to compete. This is NEGATIVE feedback, and of course fans of teams in large markets don't like it. Even so, negative feedback is the core of making a stable system.

To summarize, in a single season or in a single tournament, doing well is rewarded. Across seasons, some sports have mechanisms to help poor teams become better.
by gamblor956 | 2025-07-13 00:02:13+00:00
Sorry, that conclusion is just silly. I know people in the airline industry (some pilots and a number of flight attendants) and the problem is not that they're forced to conceal mental issues.

The problem is that many people in aviation imagine that they need to conceal their problems. And they point to videos like this one as proof of that, ignoring that the events of discussed in the video are actually proof of the opposite.

Emerson (the suicidal pilot in the video from Alaska Airlines Flight 2509) self-medicated himself using hallucinogenic substances and developed suicidal ideations, because he didn't seek treatment (like therapy) for his mental issues after the death of a friend. If he had sought treatment, he'd still be flying today because he wouldn't have tried to kill several dozen people, and he would have learned to cope with his depression.