MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-30 20:33:20+00:00
> People who asked for social media bans for kids got what they wanted. They'll have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives. We all will.

I guess I'm fine with not visiting any of these age-restricted sites. They're not the thing I would miss if the whole internet shut down. (In fact, there's precious little I would miss — maybe just archive.org?)
by hoistbypetard | 2025-07-30 20:33:32+00:00
> It's simple. Getting a commercial pilot license is a much more involved process than getting a private pilot license.

I understood that. But the post I quoted said that you couldn't accept payment even if you were a licensed commercial pilot, if you owned the plane. I'd expect the 250 hours and the medical certificate to be enough to make it safe for you to accept payment, and apparently the regulators who formulated the rule don't think that's the case. I was saying that I'd like to understand why they don't think that's the case before I'd want to support any relief on that rule.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-30 20:34:52+00:00
> In a democracy, the voting public has a right to have the federal government reflect what people voted for

In Germany, we have a career civil service. Works pretty well, there are almost no complaints about partisanship or corruption. There are complaints that everything takes ages, I'll admit that, but that is mostly due to decades worth of underfunding and sub-competitive wages.
by yencabulator | 2025-07-30 20:35:39+00:00
This sounds like a recipe for destructive bugs and security vulnerabilities to slip into production.

Reviewing is really hard to do well. Like, on a psychological level. Your brain just starts nodding and humming along, pretending to understand. Humans have to consciously "perform review" to actually review. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling and checklists in aviation and health care, Tom Gilb's "Inspection" JPL-inspired spec review processes.

Even HN gets a steady drip of "look at my vibecoded project" -- "umm, you just leaked your API keys".

It's just that reviewing doesn't matter for a space invaders clone.
by colgandev | 2025-07-30 20:35:58+00:00
HTMX has given me so much joy. I love Django and was there near the beginning. For a while I thought I had to switch to something like FastAPI and Vue etc to make relevant web apps and sites, but with Django recently adding async, Django Ninja, and HTMX, I'd reach for Django now for almost anything besides a few specific use cases.

So many problems I've run into with newer tools feel like they were already solved years ago if you can SSR.

Not that the newer tools don't have their place and they have plenty of good ideas, but it's been fun to see Django stay relevant and for more of the included batteries to be useful again (forms, templates, etc).
by shakow | 2025-07-30 20:36:13+00:00
Just out of curiosity, what issue did you encounter? I have a quite customized emacs, and the only lag I really notice between Linux and macOS is in magit, where operations are noticeably slower.

> What will my next editor be?

Fancy giving a shot to Helix[0]? Not even is it pretty good out of the box, it has a scheme extension language in the work.

[0] https://helix-editor.com/
by ryandv | 2025-07-30 20:36:22+00:00
> Ehh at the left we don't really think in terms of 'original sin'. Most of us are not religious, these things are simply meaningless to us.

You are under the core progressive delusion that choosing not to identify or label yourself as a thing, means you are in fact not that thing. In truth, the labeling of a thing is completely orthogonal to its ontological status.

Concrete example: most of the left believes in a "gender identity," which is an immaterial, non-objective, unobservable, unscientific, metaphysical phenomenon that is somehow "more you" than the material reality of the physical body. If you strip away the gender theory jargon, you end up with a concept equivalent to "the soul", which is in contemporary discourse usually regarded as a religious, not a scientific, concept.

You may have called it something else - a gender identity - but despite the difference in nomenclature you are still describing and referring to the same thing the religious devotees referred to when they talked about "the soul."

> It's about having race and ethniticy not influencing the hiring process at all. Being "colorblind"

Again more progressive fanfiction and creative wordsmithing with no relationship to reality. The Supreme Court struck down DEI policies (rebranded affirmative action) on the basis that they were, quoting Justice Clarence Thomas, "rudderless, race-based preferences" [0] [1]. This is literally the opposite of being "colorblind."

I stand very firm in my position that everything progressives say is a direct negation of reality.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action...

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-courts-conserv...
by indoordin0saur | 2025-07-30 20:36:32+00:00
Yeah, author is definitely false here. I have 10+ years of professional experience backend programming and I've found VS Code copilot to be pretty helpful overall. It saves me a lot of time digging through documentation and writing out tedious little functions (e.g. converting dates from one format to another). I wouldn't use it to write anything lengthy but overall it has improved my productivity, though I could see how it might hurt junior engineers.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-30 20:37:03+00:00
Just want to say how much I thank YCom for not f'ing up the HN interface, and keeping it fast.

I distinctly remember when Slashdot committed suicide. They had an interface that was very easy for me to scan and find high value comments, and in the name of "modern UI" or some other nonsense needed to keep a few designers employed, completely revamped it so that it had a ton of whitespace and made it basically impossible for me to skim the comments.

I think I tried it for about 3 days before I gave up, and I was a daily Slashdot reader before then.
by mellonaut | 2025-07-30 20:37:32+00:00
For those that now find themselves inspired to type the Snellen E, the internet provides an OFL typeface that scratches your itch here¹ (this unclearly licensed modification² even comes with some cute but barely readable lowercase versions of the letters)

1] https://radagast.ca/snellen/snellen.html 2] https://mk.bcgsc.ca/snellen-optotype-font/
by crote | 2025-07-30 20:37:32+00:00
> I'd remind you that the IDF is the people's army and conscription is mandatory.

That's pretty irrelevant when they don't put you in front of a firing squad for draft dodging, isn't it? If it is possible to refuse - either by draft dodging or by complying poorly enough that it basically becomes sabotage - the fact that you chose not to do so means you are complicit.

To bring this argument to the extreme: would you murder your own father if there was a $10 fine on not doing so? It's the law, after all! You're just following the law, so you cannot possibly be held accountable for your actions, right?
by jpc0 | 2025-07-30 20:37:35+00:00
I’m not sure if you have been around normal people but the unnecessary risk is having them use a password in the first place. Normal people do not use password managers, despite both mobile operating systems and effectively every single browser bundling one.

So now we have Apple Google and Microsoft getting a standard together that is actually secure in 2025 and your response is that sometime in the future a computer that our best engineers and scientists still haven’t been able to even prove may even be feasible might be able to reverse a public key.

I also have a strong suspicion that the people that goes through the effort of even implementing Passkeys and those that care about security are a mostly overlapping set, so the likelihood of those public keys leaking in the first place is significantly lower the Bob’s hardware leaking my old mans one password he uses for everything.

The security improvement for 99.99% of the population from using passkeys just far outweighs your hypothetical future that will likely never happen.

I predict we will get AGI before a quantum computer that can reverse a public key, and we will have quantum safe public keys before that.
by banashark | 2025-07-30 20:37:36+00:00
Well if you're familiar with the node ecosystem it's a corollary for npx/bunx/etc.

It is so that folks can build and run "tools" that are executed, utilizing the nuget ecosystem.

Relevant links in the dotnet docs (was just a quick google away):

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-t...

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-t...

It's actually a top-level doc section in the primary dotnet docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/).

To boil it down: you create a console app, add a couple of attributes to the solution file (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-t...). Packaging and publishing to nuget (if you want to share with others) is via `dotnet pack` and `dotnet nuget push` with some flags.

I do have to say it's actually very well documented.
by sevensor | 2025-07-30 20:37:52+00:00
That’s my point, though! I’ve run into popular JSON libraries that will emit all of those! 9007199254740993 is problematic because it’s not representable as a 64 bit float. Python’s JSON library is happy to write it, even though you need an int to represent it, and JSON doesn’t have ints.

Edit: I didn’t see my thought all the way through here. Syntax typing invites this kind of nonconformity, because different programming languages mean different things by “number,” “string,” “date,” or even “null.” They will bend the format to match their own semantics, resulting in incompatibility.
by Shacklz | 2025-07-30 20:38:03+00:00
> "‘If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you,’ the Israeli stand-up comedian Gil Kopatz posted. ‘It’s not genocide, it’s pesticide.’

I have such a hard time understanding how such statements can find an accepting audience in this day and age; in Israel of all places.

Replace "Israeli stand-up comedian" with "some Nazi propagandist in the 30s/40s" and "Gazans" with "Jews", and I'm sure it would be a perfectly accurate historical quote.
by rjpower9000 | 2025-07-30 20:38:23+00:00
Part of the land — 120 of the nearly 700 acres — is rented from a family who owns multiple farm properties and wants their fields weed-free with perfectly straight grids of crops, a deep-rooted tradition among Midwestern farming communities.

“They want that land to be clean corn and soybeans,” Bishop said. Before the restrictions, his father was growing organic corn and soybeans on part of the field and letting Bishop grow vegetables on the rest.

I've seen this mentioned elsewhere, but the idea that you'd force someone else to create a mono-crop desert, not even out of a sense of efficiency, but _just because it looks right_, is just so frustrating.
by indoordin0saur | 2025-07-30 20:38:24+00:00
Capitalism isn't a single thing with an approved international standard of implementation. It can be implemented in a million different ways and its possible we just need some big redesign of it.

> please explain the Tesla stock, 100% hype driven, there is zero correlation between the stock price and how the company is actually doing.

They do still have the best electric cars on the market.
by quantummagic | 2025-07-30 20:38:35+00:00
The limited supply is because natural resources (especially oil) are now competed for by a much larger percentage of the world (ie. higher demand). Even the population of the US is much larger, contributing to the same result. The outsized wealth of Americans from a generation or two ago, was a mirage, and an incredible aberration in history; predicated on the exploitation, and relatively unfettered extraction of resources from around the world.
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-30 20:38:50+00:00
> I don't think this kind of discourse helps and I don't agree with the point.

Helps who? It absolutely helps to call out the hypocrisy and consequences. This is what you wanted. Enjoy it.

> I am vehemently against chat control, but at least in my country (Netherlands) I saw nothing beyond the pale re: covid measures given the situation. I also don't see how those measures, regardless of whether you agree with them, reflect on chat control, as I'm not aware of any covid measures targeting encryption, nor of any EU-level measures you might be referring to here.

You're willfully ignorant of the authoritarianism perpetrated, then.

- They imprisoned you in your home. - They disallowed movement beyond certain ranges. - They censored free speech and sometimes even legally punished or imprisoned people for speech. You would refer to it as "dangerous misinformation" but that is what every authoritarian government says when they're oppressing their populace. - they blamed different political or ethnic groups of the "spread of the disease". - they destroyed the concept of informed consent from the Nuremberg trials and coerced people under threat of job loss/house loss/family separation to get new vaccines (extremely questionable ones, to add insult to injury). - Questioning the vaccines in any way was censored and equated with the worst of offenses. - invasion of privacy and constitutional rights of all kinds were justified in the name of "stopping the crisis". - there was no perceived end and many legal frameworks stayed.

> you care to elucidate?

Hope you hace fun with the above. I could go for ages.

> Regardless by equating the two I think you alienate people

Oh my sweet summer child. You think I care about alienating people who wanted to send the "evil spreaders of disease" and "fredumb" lovers to camps?

I'm absolutely over you and the likes of you. You either come to the side of anti authoritarianism fully and do a full mea culpa or I'll just laugh while loudly saying "this is what you wanted".

> because as far as I can tell most people are still brodly understanding of COVID measures taken and the core demographic that's not is also generally in favor of Chat Control

I don't quite parse the last part but I can assure you that people who were manipulated to give away their rights during COVID can be coerced or manipulated to give whatever next right they're asked. You'll scream about terrorism, the evil right, the evil foreign country, the evil criminal or whatever and that's that.

Get shocked and push for freedom for all or just take it because it's what you asked for. Nanny government. No dissent.
by graemep | 2025-07-30 20:39:26+00:00
Do you think it likely Hamas support has declined since 2006?

This suggest Hamas is still supported: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/g-s1-12949/khalil-shikaki-pal...

> In which they didn't even manage to break 50%

Less than 50% has dropped to around 40%. Still a very large chunk of the population, and still makes them by far the largest party.

It is very common for parties to win elections without an outright majority, in many countries. The current British government had only 33% of the of the vote at the last election.
by yawpitch | 2025-07-30 20:39:50+00:00
No, it isn’t… keep reading to the bit about thermodynamics. The calorie represents the potential heat energy present in a sample of a material if that material were fully oxidized (ie burned) in a bomb calorimeter… it has never represented (much less accurately represented) the amount of energy that can actually be released via digestion into a human body (which is very extremely not analogous to a bomb calorimeter).

We are not ovens. We really are not extremely precise ovens burning samples in the presence of stoichiometrically optimal quantities of pure oxygen.
by mwcampbell | 2025-07-30 20:40:18+00:00
> (If you are good, remote work with high TC is definitely available.)

But how good do you have to be at things other than the work itself (edit: and how lucky as well) to land one of those jobs with higher compensation? For someone outside of high-cost-of-living tech hubs, Oxide's fixed salary could be life-changing all by itself, even with minimal equity. The fact that they take that deal doesn't necessarily mean that they're mediocre.
by giardini | 2025-07-30 20:40:20+00:00
lawlessone says: "...since most of them were killed.

Not sure how the colonization of America justifies other colonization's.

Unless you think everyone is owed a 1 free genocide pass?"

Most of them died from disease. Far more of them died from disease than died from say, hand to hand combat or warfare on the plains.

The American Indians were toast as soon as the first coughing European stepped ashore. The native Americans had no immunity to the stew of diseases that had been brewing in Europe and Asia for centuries, so the Indians simply died. Once an Indian had a disease (s)he could spread it to other indians (s)he met. The flame front of infection raged ahead of the white man across the continent. The "mountain men" encountered regions where entire societies were struck down: bodies everywhere, tools, lodging, structures left intact but virtually no one was around (and many the infected likely fled to more remote lands, worsening the spread).

One estimate is that 61 million people lived in the Americas prior to European contact. Between 1492 and 1600 about 50 million native Americans died of disease.

"Killed?" Yes but rarely intentionally. "Genocide?" No.
by econ | 2025-07-30 20:40:25+00:00
In the early days a comment came with a footer with links to the authors little homepage, FOSS project or startup business. Killing this also killed organic linking. This idea that all self promotion is evil was the greatest mistake. That Google went along with it and even promoted nofollow puzzled me greatly.

I haven't put any effort in writing long well-researched comments since that time. I wouldn't dare put more than 2 references in a comment here. 4 would be pushing it.

As if nothing interesting was written before about anything?
by alphazard | 2025-07-30 20:40:46+00:00
The benefits: it contains bacteria common in mammalian breast milk, and none of the proteins have been changed by the heat of pasteurization. Many people drink it as a probiotic food, and for the taste.

As for the risks. An industrial milk farm skipping pasteurization would be a catastrophe. That's because some small percentage of the cows have harmful bacteria on the utter or in the milk duct, and industrial farms mix all the milk together. Bacteria multiply in the milk so even a small amount would taint the whole batch.

In order for raw milk to be safe, farms have to keep the milk from each cow separate and test it. Testing for specific bacteria is reasonably accurate and cheap. When you buy a bottle of raw milk, it should be from 1 cow tested independently. That's the modern safe way to do it, not everyone is doing it right.

Small farms have pivoted to raw milk because they can charge more for it. Large farms are unable to do this since they have invested heavily in processes that mix all the milk and heat it. That is the real reason for the raw milk controversy. It's bad for the milk lobby's bottom line. You would be right to think people's choice in milk is a ridiculous thing for everyone to care about, and no one really does; it just seems that way in the media and on the internet.
by like_any_other | 2025-07-30 20:40:50+00:00
If only there was some kind of parental control software available, there would be no need to further expand state surveillance and repression. Unfortunately, this is the only way, that the government only reluctantly resorted to, after much public outcry, and after having tried many other non-invasive, freedom- and privacy-respecting measures, that have all failed...
by nxobject | 2025-07-30 20:41:18+00:00
> I can give myself a similar cognitive reward for simply reading on HN about other people completing projects, and even (at my lowest) passively watching YouTube videos of other people building cool stuff.

I struggle with the same thing -- I'm resigned to the solution that even (or especially) when you're doing hobby projects, you might have to resort to blocking HN or other distractors for a bit.
by Eji1700 | 2025-07-30 20:41:37+00:00
Information density and ease of identification is the antithesis of "engagement" which often has some time on site metric they're hunting.

If you can find what you want and read it you might not spend 5 extra seconds lost on their page and thus they can pad their stats for advertisers. Bonus points if the stupid page loads in such a way you accidentally click on something and give them a "conversion".

Sadly financial incentive is almost always towards tricking people into doing something they don't want to do instead of just actually giving them what they fucking want.
by asa400 | 2025-07-30 20:41:52+00:00
I've never taken a lick of CS in a formal setting, and I feel like that's increasingly common as programming has broadened its employment base. Most of the people I work with haven't done formal CS, either. Consequently I've had to learn all of this stuff on my own. There are communities out there that value education this kind of education. I can vouch for the Rust community, which has helped me learn _a ton_ about this kind of "lower level" stuff over the last 5 years despite starting my career doing Ruby.
by istjohn | 2025-07-30 20:41:54+00:00
No one is entitled to displace people from their homes or deny people equal rights on the basis of their race, religion, or ethnicity for any reason. There is no exception for people seeking refuge from oppression.

Jews have and had the right to seek refuge from oppression. No one has the right to perpetuate oppression.

And no, I don't believe ethnonationalism is a panacea for anyone. The world would not be a better place if we could only subdivide into a multitude of homogenous little nations. I am grateful for the cultural diversity of my country. Countries like Japan that strive to protect their racial homogeneity will pay a steep cost.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-30 20:41:59+00:00
I know. You can remove people, use selective exposure with dodge and burn, etc.

But you can't change a person's proportions and skin tones so precisely unless you're printing small and have time, equipment and talent to paint the positive (negative would be nigh impossible) in a believable manner to do so.

On the otter hand, you can enable slimming filter on your phone or camera, click and you go.

Oh, also, some of the Soviet photo manipulation is done with stolen and translated French software, in 1987 [0].

[0]: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/04/1821236/soviet-imag...
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-30 20:42:06+00:00
archive.is is (a) sometimes blocked, (b) serves CAPTCHAs in some instances and (c) includes a tracking pixel

One alternative to archive.is for this website is to disable Javascript and CSS

Another alternative is the website's RSS feed

Works anywhere without CSS or Javascript, without CAPTCHAs, without tracking pixel

For example,

curl https://web.archive.org/web/20250721104402if_/https://www.technologyreview.com/feed/ |(echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";grep -E "<pubDate>|<p>|<div") > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm

To retrieve only the entry about DataComp CommonPool,

curl https://web.archive.org/web/20250721104402if_/https://www.technologyreview.com/feed/ |sed -n '/./{/>1120522</post-id>/,/>1120466</post-id>/p;}' |(echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";grep -E "<pubDate>|<p>|<div") > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm