MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xpe | 2025-07-12 20:26:59+00:00
> I don't understand the desire to reduce government spending. It's all super high return on investment.

"Return on investment" (ROI) is only the start of the conversation. ROI is only part of the context. Think of it as a 3-tuple: (ROI, Target, TimeHorizon). One has to define all three for it to be clear. By "Target" I mean the target population and/or impact area. By "TimeHorizon" I mean the period of time over which the ROI is calculated.

This entire comment is intended to be completely non-ideological. Bring your own values and preferred ways of organizing society. (I'm not going to change your deep-seated values, anyway.) But to be intellectually honest, we have to say what we mean.

Even truth-seeking libertarians who prefer market-based approaches understand that many market-based mechanisms are sometimes not well suited for servicing to "hard to reach" customers. Practically, this might mean geographically remote. Generally, it means having a set of characteristics that make them sufficiently out of the parameter space that a market will serve. Some examples include: rural broadband and low-income urban areas that need medical services.
by dhussoe | 2025-07-12 20:26:59+00:00
> Initially, everything looked great. The build succeeded, all components were found and added. But when I opened KiCad… nothing was wired up.

Maybe this is pedantic, but I thought that the core point of "Vibe Coding" is that you do not look at the code. You "give in to the 'vibes'".

I don't know how to translate it into a physical hardware product exactly, but I think it would be manufacturing it without looking at it, plugging it in for your use-case and seeing if it works, then going back to the model, saying it didn't work, rinse, repeat.
by Barbing | 2025-07-12 20:27:44+00:00
Update:

Wendy Carlos is still with us at 85 years of age, but apparently hasn’t been able to press CDs for two decades, and hasn’t licensed her music for streaming. Her site links to CDs on Amazon, w/o new copies available. She sounds dope, even being an “accomplished solar eclipse photographer” per Wiki.

If anyone knows her I’m curious if someone could help her preserve/distribute these beautiful sounds. (Maybe they’re all preserved but just not distributed, and maybe she’s chillin’ and doesn’t need another cent so it’d just be hassle—wanted to throw it all out there for y’all.)

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…thanks OP for the great art btw, since I haven’t mentioned it yet. Stood the test of time!
by mjburgess | 2025-07-12 20:28:07+00:00
For reference,

John Joseph Mearsheimer (/ˈmɪərʃaɪmər/; born December 14, 1947)[3] is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

I'll just leave the Nuland leak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y&ab_channel=TheTr...

But yeah, lol. This is russian propaganda. You can find Kissinger giving this analysis in the 90s
by vimy | 2025-07-12 20:28:38+00:00
Gas price are still twice as high as four years ago. Whole industries are collapsing because electricity is too expensive for factories. Personally, just heating my home has become very expensive.

Europe is deindustrializing. Especially Germany, the EU economic engine, has been hit hard. So yes, the word crisis is used correctly here.

> For instance, BASF, a global chemical giant, recently announced plans to downsize its operations in the country with the reason being unbearably high energy prices in Germany. Now, the company is shifting its focus toward expanding its production efforts in China and the U.S. to access more stable energy costs. Germany’s prime power- the Automotive industry, is also struggling due to immense pressure caused by rising energy costs. A recent study revealed that energy costs for Germany’s automotive sector increased by 20% in 2022 and a similar trend followed in 2023. https://ceinterim.com/deindustrialization-in-germany/
by arp242 | 2025-07-12 20:30:13+00:00
The entire point of a parser is to parse unknown values. That's the entire job of a parser: take unstructured (usually string) data and turn it in to something structured, such as a date. If it can't do that reliably with error reporting then it's not a good parser on a very fundamental level.

There are so many valid and reasonable cases where this will bite you.

"Real-world data" from CSV files or XML files or whatnot (that you don't control) and sometimes they have errors in them, and it's useful to know when instead of importing wrong data.

You do something wrong by mistake and getting wrong/confusing behaviour that you literally never want, and then you need to debug where that's coming from.

The user gives you a date, you have no idea what they entered and you want to know if that's correct.
by Bender | 2025-07-12 20:30:47+00:00
PICS and ICRA were not adopted by many due to complexity. RTA [1][2] is a more generic header that can be used on any adult site or site that allows user contributed content and is easier to implement. There needs to be a law that requires clients to look for this header if parental controls are enabled. Not perfect, nothing is. Teens will easily get around it but most small children will not which should be the spirit of the ID verification movement. It's better than what we have today. The centralized ID verification sites will push many small sites to Tor and bigger sites to island nations and tax evasion in my opinion. More browsers are natively supporting .onion domains.

Congress critters should be opposed to the centralized ID verification systems as their browsing habbits will be exposed to the world when those sites ooopsie dooopsie "leak" the data or just openly sell it or an employee turns that data into a summarized online spreadsheet of who is into what. The kickbacks and lobbying they may be potentially receiving will not be worth it.

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#single

[2] - https://www.shodan.io/search?query=RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-R... [dont follow the links, NSFW]
by markus_zhang | 2025-07-12 20:30:59+00:00
I have always wanted to learn to build a (relatively modern) computer like the one you described:

- Some 32-bit CPU, whatever, anything that is a bit easy to program through C/ASM, just to make sure there is no weird kirks.

- Support keyboards, displays, mouse, etc., just the usual ones. So a lot of drivers.

- Some 256MB - 512MB memory should be good enough.

- Has an OS, some programming languages, some tools, a good editor, etc.

This is like the Ben Eater 8-bit computer in adrenaline. It is probably a LOT of work just to figure out how to source the correct components, and build the thing, then a LOT more work to write drivers for them, and MORE work to write OS and compilers and tools for them. We can't use Linux because it has memory protection all over the place. We need something that newbies can poke and peek into, and simply reset the CPU if something is wrong, just like the micro computers in the 70s/80s. We DO want capable compilers and interpreters (e.g. C/Python) and good tools (like, some editors that have good auto-complete at least).

It's a bit like building a pad or a mobile phone, but without all those commercial consideration. Nowadays, to build a pad or a mobile phone, if I'm not mistaken, one simply push Android into the chipsets and call it a day, which is not what I want. But what I want probably doesn't make $$ so no one is going to do it.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 20:31:02+00:00
I think it is relevant, it's a part of the standard library. It's one problem that JS has one of the smallest standard libraries, and it's another that the parts it does have just... don't work.

And, "don't use the standard library" is not a solution. Well I mean it is, but it's not free - there's caveats. Which tools do you choose? How do you make sure all your engineers use the same ones? How do you make sure nobody touches the standard library? It's not an easy problem.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-12 20:31:03+00:00
> I don’t consider being exposed to them as violating the sanctity of my mind

I do. I think it's a form of mind rape. You're trying to read something and suddenly you've got corporations inserting their brands and jingles and taglines into your mind without your consent. That's unacceptable.

> attention is absolutely a currency that can be used to pay for things

No. Attention is a cognitive function. It has none of the properties of currency.

These corporations are sending you stuff for free. They are hoping you will pay attention to the ads. At no point did they charge you any money. You are not obligated to make their advertising campaigns a success.

They are taking a risk. They are assuming you will pay attention. We are entirely within our rights to deny them their payoff. They sent you stuff for free with noise and garbage attached. You can trash the garbage and filter out the noise. They have only themselves to blame.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-07-12 20:31:16+00:00
I think it's a bit of a childish fantasy to paint one regime is open and the other as having no dissent at all.

The USA absolutely has its overton window, and if you step outside it, bank accounts get shut, you're put on secret no fly lists, private companies who suspiciously act as official public broadcasting channels deplatform you, etc.

And let's not even talk about what Authoritarian western nations like the UK will do to you.

Russian propaganda, at least in English (which I confess is the only way I can consume) it, is also very contradictory. RT oscillates wildly between "global south throwing off the shackles of western imperialism" and "degenerate western nations destroy traditional family values", in effect trying to target both shitlibs and chuds.

Russia is also very multicultural and slavic ethnonationalism is not at all in the mainstream.
by CPLX | 2025-07-12 20:31:28+00:00
The “freedom” of the early internet was bullshit, because it just meant “freedom to make money” and “freedom from having to deal with the consequences of your products on regular people.”

It most decidedly did not mean “freedom from corporate hegemony” which is how we are where we are now, where children are matched with pedophile groomers[1] and delivered endless advertisements for freelance porn practitioners for profit.

This version of freedom isn’t a free internet at all. That was just a PR pitch. And it wasn’t really a great idea to begin with, since it ends up leading to where we are now.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/instagram...
by krackers | 2025-07-12 20:31:54+00:00
One of the main goals of MV3 seems to be nullifying protection against tracking URLs. Most of the discussion about adblocking technically "still working" under MV3 misses this point. It doesn't matter if you're actually served ads or not, when when your underlying habits can still easily be collected from the combination of fingerprints and tracking URLs.

https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302
by fakedang | 2025-07-12 20:32:33+00:00
What's the point though? Dems don't want to play the Reps game, even though the arena has changed. Dems are too dumb to realize that they're in a playing field that has no rules, where the referees in the judiciary are in the Rep camp, where some of the referees themselves (like Sam Alito) are treasonous Arnolds, while others (like Clarence Thomas) are corrupt af. The Dems have a very very slim chance of winning the Senate, zero chance of a supermajority in any future to bypass the filibuster and pass extensive reforms, and zero inclination to support wideranging policies instead of more identity politics.

Yeah, it's not right to blame the Dems for this, but the Reps are responsible for this shitshow and far from redemption. The Dems are the only possible counterforce in the US (unlike most other countries), but they seem to be inclined to do jack shit to assume that role.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 20:32:51+00:00
No, it's a proper footgun, same as dereferencing a nullptr in C++. You'll notice that too - doesn't mean it's not a footgun.

And, in fact, most C++ compilers today will actually warn you when you derefernence a nullptr in a stupid, obvious way. Evidently, JS has not caught up to this incredibly sophisticated technology /s.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-12 20:32:57+00:00
> conservative Christians are trying to eliminate ALL sexually-related speech online

I don’t really appreciate this framing. Despite being a very conservative Christian (at least in many ways, if not others) I don’t approve of or agree with the scope of SCOTUS’ current ruling, nor do I approve of all the age- verification laws as written. It seems futile to attempt to make everybody everywhere do this and create a locked-down “second internet” for minors.

But I do understand the impetus. As a zoomer, I’ve heard the problems particularly young men addicted to pornography have caused with some gal friends of mine they’ve dated. I’ve seen the normalization of what I view as degenerate sex acts as the treadmill of endlessly-escalating erotic-novelism spins without ceasing. I’ve watched people become more absorbed in their strange autosexual fixations than their spouses. It doesn’t seem good, or healthy, or sustainable, and I resent the contributions the proliferation of online pornography has made to these issues.

At some level I see this like sixties versus modern marijuana, where a more mild herb (or dad’s playboys beneath the mattress) has been supplanted by THC distilled and bottled into vapes (endlessly-available presence of any outlandish fetishistic stuff.) I wouldn’t like my child exposed to either but I can live with one.

Of course, I see it as primarily the parent’s responsibility to inculcate the virtue to disdain both. The state can’t nanny its way out of this one. But it’s always easier to pick a scapegoat that can’t vote (tax the corporations/rich, make the corporations implement age-filtering, etc.) than to tell people to take a hike and learn to parent.
by janpaul123 | 2025-07-12 20:33:53+00:00
Kilo Code CEO here. We’d like to welcome ex-Windsurf users by offering you $100 in credits. :D We'd love to show how through open source there is a better way (better community, more transparent pricing, won't mess with your or the product). https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/windsurf-is-over-switch-to-open-s...
by leakycap | 2025-07-12 20:35:01+00:00
You communicate a lot to potential hires about your company in the way you recruit. I would opt myself out of the hiring pool if I noticed a company had a practice like this.

"Do some free work for us and we'll think about if we want to pay you for more" is a dystopian way of hiring that expects the job market to provide a perfect fit with no investment by the company.

I would wage salary suffers somewhere that is focusing on this type of recruitment, because it's focusing on the non-growth side of the problem. Focus your energy where you can build yourself and others up to find success, especially in hiring.
by Barbing | 2025-07-12 20:35:02+00:00
Would that rip off the how-do-we-fund-the-web bandaid, forcing new solutions? Worry about the interim where some publishers would presumably cease to exist. And who would remain afloat—those with proprietary apps, as Zucky as they are, I’d guess…

UBO is absolutely incredibly important. Figure you might know more than me about how journalists and reviewers and the like can still earn a keep in a world with adblockers built in to every browser.
by kelnos | 2025-07-12 20:35:23+00:00
Millions of households talking about this stuff with their kids, setting rule and boundaries and punishments, is exactly what should happen. That is literally what parenting is, and every parent must do it. Pushing that responsibility to the state is not only lazy, it's anathema to a free society. Your children will grow up to be robots who only know how to do what an authority figure tells them to do.
by M95D | 2025-07-12 20:35:32+00:00
A more effective solution would be to implement HTML tags for explicit sexual content (or any other kind of child-sensitive content) and allow the OS or browser to authenticate the user before showing that content, if parental controls are enabled.

Legal obligations and responibilities become very clear: the site has tags - it's ok. No tags - guilty.

It also allows for very fine-grained delimitation of sexual content. No need to forbid access to an entire site for one page, or one paragraf of sexual content. Just blur/censor the <adult> ... </adult> content.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-07-12 20:35:36+00:00
Yeah the point of CloudFlare tunel is absolutely not what is shown in this article. It's to privately expose services on the web without opening ports.

You can out auth, georestrictions, etc. so that people are authorized before they ever reach your computer.

I expose a lot of services on my NAS via CloudFlare tunels, but every single one of them is behind an authentication screen managed by CloudFlare and running on their servers.
by th0ma5 | 2025-07-12 20:35:58+00:00
For me the difference is that you wouldn't then feel compelled to cynically bemoan it for retweets but this schtick went on for years where people would do something out of spec and then complain it was really bizarre to me! Anyway ... Being discouraged by a bug is fine... Making everyone else laugh at the machine on your behalf seems to against understanding and knowledge even if it is fun and funny haha
by istjohn | 2025-07-12 20:36:26+00:00
I worry that young people across the political spectrum increasingly no longer see free speech as a foundational value. Both sides pay lip service and deploy it strategically but are quick to sacrifice it when it conflicts with other values and goals.

The ACLU won our expansive free speech protections defending the KKK in the 1950s. But today, the ACLU has become short-sighted. They are more concerned with social progressivism than the liberal foundations of our democracy which allow social progressives to continue fighting. Young progressives are happy to sacrifice free speech protections to prevent hate speech.

On the other hand, social conservatives have always been eager to curtail speech they consider obscene or liscentious, and now Trump is using executive powers to punish protesters, creating an authoritarian atmosphere unlike anything we've experienced since perhaps the McCarthy era.

There are organisations like FIRE and EFF that give me some hope, but it increasingly feels like all sides would rather cement themselves in power than continue the infinite game of liberal democracy.
by itake | 2025-07-12 20:39:35+00:00
No, I don't like Musk. I've never owned stock in any of his companies or purchased their products. I deleted my twitter account when he took over and block twitter on all my devices.

Can you explain why they are not comparable? Both are CEOs tuned model's based on their personal beliefs. The only difference I think is you agree with one CEO's personal beliefs, but not the others.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-12 20:39:48+00:00
Your question is an excellent example of why skipping all that math wasn't a good idea. (The answer literally goes all the way back to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)

You don't need to be able to regurgitate it all on a test, but you must be comfortable with the general ideas behind the DFT and what motivates them.
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-12 20:40:09+00:00
You have state examination for other professions? We only have them for medical professions, laywers, criminal-related professions and teachers.

I think in most cases were the patient thinks he is smarter than the doctor, the latter already knows the argument, but also why it is wrong/more complicated. When something is understoodable by laymen, the doctor will be fine to understand it and better suited to judge it.
by joules77 | 2025-07-12 20:40:31+00:00
Trump and Musk are propped up by the Attention Economy algos. They never got this level of Attention from anyone before these algos started running.

The Attention pool is finite and non growing. So its like a fight over finite land. Plus who captures more Attention shifts constantly. These are games no one wins because the game is not even designed for a end/win state.

The day the algos give Trump more Attention, Musk feels like he is loosing land and vice versa, making them both do and say and seek out more and more extreme stuff. One day they will use Yarvin, the next Epstein, the next Aliens etc etc.
by ndriscoll | 2025-07-12 20:40:36+00:00
> The ADA Standards, on the other hand, do not address the number of toilet rooms or fixtures required for a facility, but instead specify which ones must be accessible where provided.

https://www.access-board.gov/ada/guides/chapter-6-toilet-roo...

For what it's worth, chatgpt and random reddit comments claim you'd need closer to 50sqft for a compliant bathroom. Maybe that's nonsense.

In any case, their Facebook page is full of recent pictures of children in the library, so it seems that they were indeed unsurprisingly just posturing.
by moron4hire | 2025-07-12 20:40:56+00:00
You don't actually provide it to the porn site. Everything goes through a 3rd party escrow. The site you're trying to access only gets a message from the trusted ID partner that you are indeed the age you say you are.

Now, I still hate the idea that any corporation is storing my ID, but it's not every Tom Dicken' Harry porn site you might be viewing.
Show HN: Planking for penguins, a real-time exercise tracking game
by getToTheChopin | 2025-07-12 20:40:59+00:00
This uses mediapipe AI vision to detect when the player has proper plank form (knees-hips-shoulders in a horizontal line, elbows low)

Also using threejs for visuals and tonejs for audio

It runs in real-time in the browser, using a regular laptop + webcam

Live demo: https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/chinup/

You can track chin-ups, push-ups, or planks. I will continue to add more exercises into the game

Any feedback would be appreciated!
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 20:41:09+00:00
Right, so you're admitting what we already know to be true: it's censorship.

Now, I can get behind some censorship if it's for very good reasons. As soon as it's for moralistic reasons, you've lost me. This is a morality law. Morality laws are bad, period. We need real, concrete reasons for blocking content and enforcing censorship - not morality.

Why not? Because morals change from person to person and throughout history. What an evangelical thinks is moral is different from what I think is moral.

If the internet existed during times of slavery, would they have censored websites addressing freedom because it is "immoral"? In my mind, yes. That's a problem with the entire thought process. So, we should throw the thought process out.

I don't know what the future holds in 10 years, 20 years, 30. I don't want to be bound to laws that rely solely on morality. That's just asking for trouble.

I mean, even just the word "pornography" is a moral footgun. Who defines that? Because a large portion of the US believes anything containing homosexuals is automatically pornographic, regardless of the material.
by latency-guy2 | 2025-07-12 20:42:58+00:00
> Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up?

By all means, if that's the way you want to represent the issue, then there is no discussion to be had.

I will, however, represent it this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...

I can be compelled in a few situations in this incomplete list were of the "deserved" type. But you can't convince me on all of them.