MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-07-11 15:28:59+00:00
I went to Japan for about a month as someone with tattoos. I didn't have many issues out and about but I was told in the gym and I could not have them showing.

I just wore sleeves over them and although less comfortable than my normal gym attire it was fine.

I was denied access to an Onsen because I honestly forgot about the tattoo thing for a while but was able to find one that was tattoo friendly. They were not mean or anything they just informed me it was policy. Completely understandable given the history.

My tattoos are very noticeable though. Like you would never miss large forearm tattoos, so it's probably hard for them to overlook for them and let it slide even for a foreigner
by cryptonector | 2025-07-11 15:28:59+00:00
FKs are nothing special. It's just more INSERTs/UPDATEs/DELETEs. If you can't have a few more DMLs in your transactions in your sharded DB then you've already got scaling problems.

Really, FKs are typically implemented internally by RDBMSes as TRIGGERs that do what you expect FKs to do, which means they really are nothing more than syntactic sugar.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-11 15:29:10+00:00
Hum... To be fair, it's extremely unlikely that something like this, that impacts about every company that sells subscriptions can have an impact lower than $100 million.

I have no idea why the US FTC didn't do an impact analysis. I have no idea even how they decided of deadlines for compliance without one. (It's not easy to write a decision like this without some data.)

But yeah, the US consumer protection is really lacking, and this decision only reinforces it.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-11 15:29:16+00:00
Well you’re basing your conclusion on a 2 year blip of not being able to stop LLMs from hallucinating.

This is called the pessimism effect. People who deny things by only looking at one small aspect of reality while ignoring the overarching trend.

Follow the trendline of the ML for the last decade. We’ve been moving at a breakneck pace and the progress has been both evolutionary in nature and random chance. But there is a clear trendline of linear upwards progress and at times the random chance accelerates us past the linear upward trend.

Stop looking at LLMs look at the 10 year trendline of ML as a wholistic picture. You’re drilling down on a specific ML problem and a specific model.

I believe we will see agi within our life time but when we see it the goal posts will have moved and the internet will be loaded with so much ai slop that we won’t be amazed at it. Like the agi will be slightly mentally stupid at this one thing and because of that it’s not AI even though it blows past some Turing test (which in itself will be a test where we moved the goal post a thousand times)
by perihelions | 2025-07-11 15:29:18+00:00
> "That doesn't make sense in any context."

It's exceptionally sensible in the context where hundreds of millions of children worldwide are clinically lead-poisoned, and contaminated turmeric is one of the leading causes of that.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/09/23/nx-s1...

> "Are you a bot?"

Kindly read the forum rules.
by throwawayHpCvfn | 2025-07-11 15:29:44+00:00
A few comments are like that, yes, and I have no objections to that description. Most of the discussion though seems to be more like this:

> I guess some people take comfort in the idea that suicide is thrust on people and they take no responsibility for their actions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531844
by 7sigma | 2025-07-11 15:29:45+00:00
> So, the jews who fled from pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine in 1900s are colonizers? I thought that people whole flee violence are refugees. Why do you have a different standard for them?

Whether you are a refugee or not, the act of displacing the native population (and Jews from eastern Europe and Russia are not native to Palestine), and maintaining that displacement and subsequent subjugation is colonialism. In fact, organisations like the Jewish Colonisation Fund existed for the purpose of facilitating immigration to Palestine.

> Jews that moved to Ottoman Palestine, btw, were buying land from locals. Are you saying that buying land is an act of colonialism if jews are doing that?

> Why are you twisting the facts to fit your narrative?

If this is how you characterise the birth of Israel, then you are sorely misinformed. Israel was created through a terrorist campaign of ethnic cleansing starting in early 1948 with the forced depopulation hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians from their villages accompanied by massacres like Deir Yassin, i.e. the Nakba. This was the culmination of the Zionist rhetoric of "transfer" of Palestinians from their land and in effect has continued to this day.

Zionism is a replication of white European colonialism, but performed by Jewish European people, and partly encouraged by European powers primarily for geopolitical and also partly religious purposes (see Christian Zionism). It uses the dubious Jewish ancestral claim to the land as well as past oppression to create a Jewish ethno state and oppress a people who is probably more related in ancestry to the original Jewish people than most Jews (except those that had been there for generations).
by swalsh | 2025-07-11 15:29:51+00:00
I built something similar for my own workflow. Works okay. The hard part is as you scale, you end up with compounded false affirmatives. Model adds some fallback mechanism that makes it work, tests pass, etc. The nice part is you can ask models to review the code from others, call out fallbacks, hard coding, stuff like that. It does a good job at identifying buried bodies. But if you dig up a buried body, I'd manually confirm it was properly disposed of as the models usually hid the body in the first place because they needed some input they didn't have, got confused or ran into an issue.
by eitally | 2025-07-11 15:30:09+00:00
Afaict, Prop 13 does this in California. Property tax is based on assessed value, and that assessed value isn't just for the improvements, but also the underlying land. So the fact that I pay about $20k/yr in property tax and my back-fence neighbor pays about $3500 (because we purchased in 2016 and they inherited the 1954 home from original owner parents) must indicate that it's not just the improvements that are covered by Prop 13. I had never thought about this before, but at least in California a potential compromise around LVT would be the modify Prop 13 to allow land values to appreciate at market rates while keeping appreciating of improvements capped.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-11 15:30:35+00:00
She was making $4M at NBC! Again, I can imagine and be sympathetic towards a story where a billionaire gives you otherwise unimaginable wealth if only you'll sit in a comfy CEO office while they run the company around you. That isn't what happened here, and not because of some tactical mistake by Musk - her experience and connections as an ads executive for a major media company were at least a big part of why Musk wanted her, if not the entirety of it.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-11 15:30:51+00:00
Agreed. I know a hoarder (self-described, accurately) who traces it all back to her mom secretly throwing away her toys. She became highly defensive of her "things", to a ridiculous (three houses filled) extent.

My mother, OTOH, while not the greatest in the world, would ask me to choose which toys were being donated to "other children who don't have any" (Goodwill, probably). I keep things longer than I should, but can throw away the unused from time to time, keeping my house sort of tidy-esque, kinda.
by tiniuclx | 2025-07-11 15:31:01+00:00
I've been trying to use social media to promote my music & mobile app for years, to very little luck. I don't even really like using social media, but it felt "necessary" in order to "make it," even though there is nothing to see for all this effort.

Sometimes Facebook et al feel like a complete ghost town, with algorithmic content completely overwhelming any engagement from friends or acquaintances.
by anon-3988 | 2025-07-11 15:31:37+00:00
> But deep down I know that I don't belong here, and that Japan would prefer to be a homogenous society without expats like me. And I hold no hard feelings toward them for that.

I think this is an important point that I am struggling to articulate. I actually like the fact that they "prefer to do things their way". When I was traveling there, it is clear that I stand out from my behavior. We might share the same skin color but I don't speak the language nor have the mannerism.

I don't fit, they don't know how to deal with me and that is fine. In fact, I would prefer it to be that way. I prefer Japan to be Japan. Of course there are societal issues that needs to be fixed but those are orthogonal to what I am talking about.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-07-11 15:31:39+00:00
Yesterday I woke up, naturally, I started scrolling. The very first video (on Instagram) was an Uber driver getting pulled out of his car, a guy cocking a gun and executing him. I was barely awake and didn't really have time to react.

For the rest of the day I couldn't stop thinking about it, had high levels of anxiety for a few hours. I told all my friends I'm switching off for a bit on the socials. Mastodon and signal for a bit.

Edit: Just thinking about this happening yesterday puts me into a high state of anxiety.. Its absolutely bllsht these companies can effect us in this way.

Second Edit: Its my choice to expose myself knowingly, not entirely blaming meta. And I'm not going to anymore, but this is a more common experience than usual since Zuck got a chain and Tall-T
by zdw | 2025-07-11 15:31:43+00:00
If you have any of the Air models which lack fans, there's a common hack of putting thermal pads between the CPU heatspreader and case, effectively turning the bottom case into a large heatsink, and giving your system a longer maximum performance before throttling.

The downsides is that this makes the bottom of the case quite hot on a place you can touch, but putting a plastic hardshell over the entire laptop deals with that, and also gives protection.
by ckozlowski | 2025-07-11 15:33:18+00:00
Depends on the age. I've had my 4yo in my garage with me at times. And while he's "helped" me with a few things, it generally consists of me holding the tool with his hands on the handle as well. His strength, dexterity, and simply small size prevents him from really getting much out of it other than a sense of participation. Valuable, but he's not learning anything.

When he's older and bigger, then using real tools will be more practical, and we can using the real thing. The risk will be more manageable then.

At this stage however, this chompsaw looks appealing. Instead of disappointing him when he wants to drive and having to diplomatically explain that he lacks the strength and coordination to use the actual tool, I can just hand him this. Give a bit of instruction, and then let him experiment. That feeling of "hey, I'm doing this myself" is exciting to him and gives him a sense of accomplishment.

Long story short, I see this as a product aimed at a younger audience who aren't old enough to take the lead (with guidance) in the workshop yet, but want the feeling of doing it themselves in a safe way. I like it.

$250 though. Ooof.
by deepdarkforest | 2025-07-11 15:33:20+00:00
This is a launch by a YC company that converts enterprise cobol code into java. Maybe it's my fault, but i tried every single coding agent with a variety of similar tools and whenever i try to parallelize, they clash while editing files simultaneously, i lose mental context of what's going on, they rewrite tests etc.

It's chaos. Thats fine if you are vibe coding an unimportant nextjs/vercel demo, but i'm really sceptical of all this stance that you should be proud of how abstracted you are from code. A kanban board to just shoot off as many tasks as possible and just quickly read over the PR's is crazy to me. If you want to appear a serious company that should be allowed to write enterprise code, imo this path is so risky. I see this in quite a few podcasts, tweets etc. People bragging how abstracted they are from their own product anymore. Again, maybe i am missing something, but all of this github copilot/just reviewing like 10 coding agents PR's just introduces so much noise and slop. Is it really what you want your image to be as a code company?
by jordanb | 2025-07-11 15:33:29+00:00
1) The franchise actually does represent a decent amount of stability and financial security for the franchisee. Well-run locations typically could clear a modest profit for the owner. These were not money losing franchises for the most part (until the prosecutions started of course).

2) The post offices were geographically distributed pretty evenly throughout the UK so there were positions in far-flung locations well outside London. In many of these communities it was a good and stable job compared to what else was available.

3) Many of the postmasters reported liking working retail positions where they get a lot of face time with customers. In many small towns the post office was a central part of the community.
by metalman | 2025-07-11 15:33:31+00:00
While "true AI" is likely impossible, that discussion detracts from the fact that a whole new and very powerfull ability to process information is here , which will/is bieng used to automate routine managerial tasks and run certain types of robotic equipment. I am slowly preparing myself to use these new tools, but will never consider them "clean", and will impliment there use in certain hermeticaly compartmented areas of my professional and financial undertakings.
by pydry | 2025-07-11 15:34:08+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 more of a feature than a bug.

The alternative to "local land value improvements feed the local tax base" is that schoolteachers who make the local schools good make the local landlords more money.

The idea mooted in the article that developers would be unwilling to build 20 houses on a plot of land because having 10 houses would jack the LVT up for the other 10 is entirely backward. The value of those houses will be predicated almost entirely on infrastructure (roads, rail, schools, etc.) or services (shops) provided by the community you're paying taxes to.

>I content that it is simply not possible to evaluate the "unimproved value" of a given parcel.

Did you read the wikipedia page about LVT which describes how? Which part is impossible?
by Der_Einzige | 2025-07-11 15:34:20+00:00
Either I get "Southern Hospitality" AKA decently outwardly friendly people (if you're white) and people who actually donate to charity or I get good infrastructure and legal weed, but people who are anti-social and would piss on the homeless if it were legal.

You can't win. This is why folks travel in the first place.
by wpm | 2025-07-11 15:34:22+00:00
I was quite pleased with the iBoff 2TB SSD I got for my M4 Mini. It's sad how badly Apple has some of us conditioned with the pathetic amounts of storage they include. I haven't had a Mac with more than 512GB of storage, basically, ever? And recently I was on my Mini, digging through some old backups, and hesitated as I normally would downloading a 40GB zip from my NAS, because "oh geeze this is 40GB plus another 40 after decompression, do I have enough space?" because 80GB is normally 15% of my Mac's storage space. Then I remembered, oh yeah, heaps of storage, this'll only cost me 4% of the total. I bought this Mac with the 256GB base SSD knowing I could upgrade, and nearly 40% of the drive was taken up out of the box.

It's pure robbery on Apple's part. Completely beyond the pale now. Their ridiculous RAM and storage prices were never that big of a deal back in the PowerBook/early Macbook Pro days, because you could always opt out if you were a tiny bit handy with a small screwdriver (my 2008 unibody lets me swap storage with *1* screw, swap a battery with zero!). Now? It's unforgivable. I don't care about soldered RAM, I get it, but it is despicable charging as much as the entire computer to upgrade the RAM a paltry 16GB.

There's profit, and there's actively making your entire product experience worse in pursuit of profit. Having to constantly hem and haw over oh god oh geeze do I have enough local storage for this basic task, having to juggle external storage and copying files back and forth (since plenty of their own shit doesn't work if its installed on an external SSD), or constantly deleting and redownloading larger apps, makes the product experience worse. Full stop. At the very least every Mac they sell should have 512GB, if not a TB, stock. I'm tired of acting like SSDs are some insanely expensive luxury like it's 2008 again.
by qualeed | 2025-07-11 15:34:24+00:00
How we got to whatever your country's driving test is comprised of from me simply saying "I like backup cameras" is wild. You seem to think I've said "with backup cameras, everything is fixed!" which is so disingenuous I don't know where to begin. I think you're just trying to be contrarian for the sake of trolling.

By the way, I don't even know what FARS is. There's no agency by that name that I can think of in my country. Does it collect data on accidents worldwide?

I'm guessing you're from the US. Here's a quote from the NIH.

>"This study indicates that drivers not only attend to an audible warning, but will look at a rear-view camera if available. Evidence suggests that when used appropriately, rear-view cameras can mitigate the occurrence of backing crashes, particularly when paired with an appropriate sensor system."

From the IIHS.

>"Rearview cameras reduced backing crash involvement rates by 17%. Reductions were larger for drivers 70 and older (36%) than for drivers younger than 70 (16%)"
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-11 15:34:33+00:00
With proper education, children (obviously) are safe around tools... Louis Braille notwithstanding. We've had sharps for 40,000 years. Use this one. Don't touch that one until you're bigger. Same as crossing the road: small ones OK; big ones DO NOT GO THERE.

The problem lies in the words "proper education". Dropped off at school is not sufficient, so kids get blunt scissors that will barely cut.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-07-11 15:34:49+00:00
Yeah. The power use is impressive, although still only 1/10th of the output of the largest power station in the world, the three gorges dam. The water use is not really a big deal at all. I don’t know why journalists inevitably have to mention both. And even the power numbers require much more careful contextualization.

I wish I had a good balanced article to link to when these discussions come up, one that really digs into the power use question and compares it to the power consumed by other human activities and capital projects. Does anyone know of one?
by z3c0 | 2025-07-11 15:34:52+00:00
When there's millions of doctors, not only are there going to be more mediocre doctors than anything, but there has to be a bottom of the barrel as well.

It took me years to be diagnosed with PTSD, a problem I knew I had. Because I am not a vet, I had to go through every other diagnosis first -- schizo, bipolar, borderline -- each with a new set of pills to take. Some of the shrinks who diagnosed me wouldn't do anything but open my file, make some remarks, and fill out a prescription, with nary any eye contact.

Finally got a very expensive doctor who wasn't under the thumb of insurance companies. Her first question, upon hearing my issues, was "how is your sleep?" "I don't, really" was my reply. Screened me for PTSD and I clocked 76/80 pts. She set me up with the proper therapy, and within a year, I was screening at 30/80 pts. All it took was asking me one question that wasn't loaded towards the doctors favorite diagnosis & prescription.
by serf | 2025-07-11 15:35:51+00:00
if you think that Chomsky's opinions are the popular/trendy opinions of the US as a whole then might I suggest you do a bit more research.

US pessimism might be on the rise -- but almost never about foreign policy. Almost always about tax-rates/individual liberties/opportunities/children . things that affect people here and now, not the people from distant lands with ways unlike our own.
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-11 15:36:22+00:00
Visiting Japan in 2025 definitely had a different vibe than my 2010s visits. First of all, so many more foreigners, and multiple western languages overheard nearly anywhere I went.

And clearly some locals fairly annoyed by it, such that some weren't interested in engaging with a basic level Japanese speaker/listener like me.

I have basic enough speaking/reading/(and less so listening) ability to previously navigate smaller cities with little English speaking, pick a restaurant / order some food, make small talk with taxi drivers, and entertain middle aged locals who don't see a lot of westerners.

I also saw a lot more restaurants that had extremely limited set course only menus for non-japanese speakers, and no patience for someone with non-fluency to try the Japanese menu.

This trip I felt I could not get out of Tokyo fast enough. Parts of it just felt like every other tier 1 global city, and a passive aggressive unwelcomeness that wasn't to the level of Barcelona, but clearly different than 15 years ago.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-11 15:36:47+00:00
That's pretty cool.

IMO LISTEN/NOTIFY is badly designed as an interface to begin with because there is no way to enforce access controls (who can notify; who can listen) nor is there any way to enforce payload content type (e.g., JSON). It's very unlike SQL to not have a `CREATE CHANNEL` and `GRANT` commands for dealing with authorization to listen/notify.

If you have authz then the lack of payload content type constraints becomes more tolerable, but if you add a `CREATE CHANNEL` you might as well add something there regarding payload types, or you might as well just make it so it has to always be JSON.

With a `CREATE CHANNEL` PG could provide:

- authz for listen - authz for notify - payload content type constraints (maybe always JSON if you CREATE the channel) - select different serialization semantics (to avoid this horrible, no good, very bad locking behavior) - backwards-compatibility for listen/ notify on non-created channels
by Freak_NL | 2025-07-11 15:37:09+00:00
> […] unless the place holds some incredible cultural significance (ie. The Louvre, Sagrada Família, etc).

Honestly, I give those a pass too. I don't want to go to Barcelona and exacerbate the problem of overtourism (same goes for Venice). Paris is doable of course, but there too I wouldn't consider the Louvre right now. Not with its employees holding strikes because of the overcrowding!

It's a big world, and there are plenty of places where I am welcome as a tourist. The experience is better in any case; I hate crowds.
by pydry | 2025-07-11 15:37:43+00:00
An LVT would need relatively few exceptions and rules in order to function well and is unavoidable by design. What we have right now for most taxes is the exact opposite of that - e.g. with sales, income taxes, etc.

Mostly there are just pearl clutchers complaining about how elderly cash poor people sitting in large old houses on expensive land they've lived in for 20 years would be financially nudged into downgrading.

The real roadblock for LVT is not in the slightest bit technical, but simply that it would undermine a lot of privately held oligarchic wealth.