MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inbx0 | 2025-07-29 08:22:34+00:00
SeaQuery looks like a similar dynamic query builder for Rust as Kysely is for JS/TS, so yeah, that'd probably solve the dynamic query problem. But I think parent wasn't so much asking for another library but for patterns.

How do people who choose to use a no-dsl SQL library, like SQLx, handle dynamic queries? Especially with compile-time checking. The readme has this example:

... WHERE organization = ?

But what if you have multiple possible where-conditions, let's say "WHERE organization = ?", "WHERE starts_with(first_name, ?)", "WHERE birth_date > ?", and you need to some combination of those (possibly also none of those) based on query parameters to the API. I think that's a pretty common use case.
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 08:22:53+00:00
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by cpa | 2025-07-29 08:23:01+00:00
It really depends on the "use case." Regulators are primarily concerned about grooming, which involves criminals using apps that teenagers frequent.

Also, criminals usually have poor operational security—far from perfect. The seriousness of the offense isn't related to the quality of their opsec.

Regulators and law enforcement are generally rational. They may be short-sighted, but they often have reasonable explanations for things you might dismiss as stupid.

That sucks, CSAM sucks, emotional regulation sucks, and as a society, we don't know how to manage allowing kids online. In fact we don't even know, what we'd like. From a political/policy standpoint, that's the challenge of the next 20 years.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-07-29 08:25:26+00:00
I don't really understand how this conflict has been dragged out for so long. It seems like with all the external global support, it should be possible to bring enough world leaders together to hammer out a peace treaty.

Current strategies of applying external pressure and protesting appear to be largely ineffective.

There's so many people who wield immense power and wealth, but they seem unwilling to take direct action to put a stop to this conflict, they just sit in the sidelines like low-agency players.

If there's a trusted neutral party that people could rally behind, then it would just be a matter of coordinating behind them and pushing a focused message of bringing all relevant leaders to the negotiation table in order to design a framework that builds towards peace in the area.
by Throwkin | 2025-07-29 08:26:01+00:00
It's all just random third party shit with zero government oversight. There's no national ID in the UK because even the mildest mention of a voluntary national ID scheme leads to gnashing of teeth and wailing about how it's fascist and a violation of our civil liberties and everyone is happy pissing about with driving licenses or passports or utility bills to prove who you are.
Have We Stopped Inventing Futures Worth Predicting?
by squarekernels | 2025-07-29 08:26:19+00:00
Robert Sapolsky argues that everything is deterministic, but I wonder if human unpredictability comes from our rare ability to act outside of incentive structures—choosing struggle, chaos, and creative risk even when it makes no sense.

We already have the science and technology to tackle existential challenges—climate change, AI risk, even human longevity—but nobody seems to believe the future will be better than the present. Dystopia is the default narrative, and this nihilism has killed the moonshot culture that defined the early 20th century. Instead of building the 22nd century in 2030, we’re stuck in incrementalism.

Where are the orbital solar power stations? The permanent Moon bases? The AIs designed to elevate us rather than pacify us? These ideas feel like science fiction only because no one is crazy enough to try.

Alan Kay said the best way to predict the future is to invent it. Maybe the real “veil of computability” - our blind spot - is that we’ve stopped imagining futures worth predicting.

Question: What would a new moonshot culture look like today—and who’s still crazy enough to build it?
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by globular-toast | 2025-07-29 08:27:09+00:00
The "pay off" the commenter is talking about is the results in the sport, not the monetary gain. Cyclists are like the engines in an F1 car. Not saying there is no skill involved, but any skill differences are irrelevant if the other guy is putting out 100W more than you over 200km. So it really comes down to raw power to weight ratio.

That's not the same in basketball or most other sports. You can't just jump on gear, lift weights and suddenly become Michael Jordan. Plenty of people could beat Pogacar if they could use anything they could, though, just like manufacturers could build an F1 car that would dominate every race if they could circumvent the rules.
by nebben64 | 2025-07-29 08:27:15+00:00
I think a decent amount of people don't even realize what is happening. For example, lots of people still don't know about the iCloud backdoor that's trying to be implemented by the government.

Those who know are annoyed but not enough that it will cause change; I don't think most believe it will get worse either.

Unfortunately the default will be people going on the App Store, getting the first app that has 'VPN' in the title, download, and forget. Completely failing to address a systemic issue.
by wobfan | 2025-07-29 08:27:16+00:00
> Realistically if countries want to read encrypted messages, they can already do so.

How? Are you implying adynchronous and synchronous encryption is broken? Because last time I checked since Snowden our encryption is basically the one single thing in the whole concept of the internet that has been done very right, with forward secrecy and long term security in mind. AFAIK there are no signs that someone or something has been able to break it.

Also, the solutions you present do imply that someone already has the private key to decrypt. Sure, they'll say they'll just decrypt if your a bad person, but the definition of a bad person changes from government to government (see USA), and from CEO to CEO. Encryption should and mostly is built on zero trust and it only works with zero trust. Scanning, and risking the privacy of billions and billions of messages by having the key to read them because there have been some bad actors is fighting a fly with a bazooka. Which sounds funny overkill, but, fun fact, it also just doesn't work. It destroys a lot, and gains nothing.

I don't have a better solution for the problem. But this solution is definitely the wrong one.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-29 08:27:52+00:00
First of all, most of the Palestinian families in Gaza come from Israel. They lived in what is now southern Israel until 1948, when they were driven out in an extremely brutal Israeli military operation (Operation Barak).

Secondly, comparing the Palestinians to Nazi Germany is absurd and grotesque. The Palestinians are an oppressed people who were driven out of their homeland by an invading force in 1947-48, and who have lived in squalid refugee camps ever since. Since 1967, they have lived under direct military occupation by the very people who originally expelled them from their homeland, and are subjected to a racist regime in which their land is slowly taken away, piece by piece. The Palestinians have no country, no passport, no sovereignty, no rights.

Comparing them to the citizens of an industrialized power that tried to conquer Europe is insane.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-29 08:28:09+00:00
> The symbolism implied that all life forms are interconnected through umbilical cords, attached to their past in an eternal cycle.

To relate this to some far-more-recent art: The game Death Stranding has a lot of weird imagery (and some plot I won't spoil) where supernatural umbilical cords span between the realms of life and death.
by archerx | 2025-07-29 08:28:18+00:00
Yea but the syntax looks like a mix of Python and JavaScript. By just seeing that I know I don’t want to use it, by seeing the code up front I know that I don’t want to keep reading what ever rationalizations they have to justify the existence of this language.

So by seeing the syntax up front I can save a lot of time because in a world where there are many languages that do the same thing it really boils down to using the one with the syntax that you like the most.
by anthk | 2025-07-29 08:28:22+00:00
I just run Android Emacs and mu.el for that =).

Also, GNUs it's the only working usenet client for Android too. Which is ironic, because k9mail/Thunderbird and friends both support NNTP in the biggy build in the desktop...

And NNTP support on Android for MUA developers should be a piece of cake...
by sudopluto | 2025-07-29 08:28:48+00:00
> During apartheid , and towards the end plenty were making arguments for gradual control ; gradual processes which just would have further perpetuated oppression. I was highlighting the similarities to that. We also had people saying the ‘blacks’ just want to ‘kill the whites’ and it would result in violence.

If you are then making comparison to modern times instead of colonialism, then still not really applicable to gaza since gaza was not occupied Oct 7th. Therefore, Israel (colonization conspiracies aside) had no interest in gaza except for security.

I do believe the apartheid example / comparison makes sense when thinking of the west bank, and I do believe myself the west bank is experiencing settler colonization and apartheid conditions along that settler boundary.

If you do not believe that zionists in palestine were an oppressed minority until the mass immigration in the 1930s and the failed arab revolts, I suggest you restudy the history. Palestine would have easily ended up like Uganda if the Palestinians hadn't made strategic errors / failed their invasion of the newly declared state of Israel.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians_in_Uganda

The Orwell link is a great read, and part of it suggests that both decolonization and underdog-centered pacifism are forms of nationalism. Here is a quote that I love, heavily relates to the troubles in ireland and some reactions to the current gazan war:

"But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States. Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of the western countries. The Russians, unlike the British, are not blamed for defending themselves by warlike means, and indeed all pacifist propaganda of this type avoids mention of Russia or China. It is not claimed, again, that the Indians should abjure violence in their struggle against the British. Pacifist literature abounds with equivocal remarks which, if they mean anything, appear to mean that statesmen of the type of Hitler are preferable to those of the type of Churchill, and that violence is perhaps excusable if it is violent enough."
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-29 08:29:06+00:00
>many banks will outright refuse to make SWIFT transactions to Nigerian accounts

The flipside of this is crypto turbocharging online scammers.

"The industry in Cambodia now generates more than $12.5 billion annually – half of the country's GDP, according to the United States Institute for Peace."

"The criminal gangs entice trafficking victims with fake job offers posted on social media and then force them to financially exploit people online including through fake romances or “pig-butchering” schemes in which the scammer builds trust with a victim before stealing their money, Amnesty said."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/amnest...

The scammers will make friends with someone online, persuade them to deposit increasingly large amounts into a "crypto trading platform", then finally run with the money.

Crypto has created an alternative financial system with many fewer rules. This can either be good or bad depending on the circumstances.

I think it has the potential to be a good thing in the long run. In the short run, however, people need to learn to instinctively distrust crypto as a scam. Especially if the situation involves a friendly attractive lady you've been chatting with online who's really good at trading cryptocurrency and wants to share her secrets with you.
by resource_waste | 2025-07-29 08:29:10+00:00
Maybe this is a good place to post it because its about religion.

I didn't think you could have 2 existential crisis, but I did. First one was Religion -> Agnosticism... Second was:

Platonic Realism to Pragmatism.

I used to think there was something special about circles/Pi, I thought there was some force of nature that caused Capitalism, Darwinism, and IR Realism to win... No, these platonic forms/universals don't actually exist. I hear people talk about Love, Happiness, and Justice like there is a perfection available to us humans. They are under the platonic religion.

Today I realize these are constructs of human language, from Pi to Justice, there is no universal. Monism is a religion.

I highly recommend William James's Pragmatism. Its only a 2.5 hour audiobook and it basically created the idea of metaphilosophy.
by ruszki | 2025-07-29 08:29:12+00:00
It’s academic blabla, because as I stated it created a new vocabulary for no good reason. You can say the same thing without introducing it. You can say those things even better with examples.

I told you that I don’t know clojure, I know Haskell, which was also topic of Hickey’s presentation. I also know builder pattern… But looking into it:

> Clojure data structures use mutation every time you call, e.g. assoc, creating one or more arrays and mutating them, before returning them for immutable use thereafter.

So the solution is mutability… when Hickey preached about immutability. And basically builder pattern. A pattern which is in almost every programming language, most of the times a single line. So… immutability is not the best option every time, just as I stated, and it causes worse code. We agree.

You hit limitations with everything. ORM is not different regarding that. When I write s.isEmpty() in a condition in Java, I had to use a workaround… very painful. And yes, I state that if you think an entity is a simple class, then you are a bad coder, and if you cannot jump this “complexity”, you will never be a not bad coder. Same with sockets, ports, and pins.

Your last paragraph is totally worthless. You can say the same thing about everything.

I simply don’t preach. And I also wouldn’t say such things without considered an expert in ORM for example. I also wouldn’t say anything about which I don’t have first hand experience.

And as I stated, no matter what’s your tooling, bad coders will make bad code. On the other hand, you don’t need restrictive tooling to make good code. So what’s my problem is that, you don’t need Clojure or Haskell. It’s good to see something like that in your life, the reasoning etc, but it’s pointless to say, that you must be “simple”, when we can see that that is simply not true. Not even in Clojure according to Clojure.
by geertj | 2025-07-29 08:30:12+00:00
Yes, 100%. I grew up in Europe, and have been in the US for the last 10+ years, with all of my family still in Europe. I think this gives me reasonable feel for the "situation on the ground."

The best way I can describe my social circles in the US and EU is that in the US, we still have "principled freedom", where there (still) is a majority of people that understand the original ideas of the founding fathers, and can imagine that things could theoretically be different (the word used for this is "tyranny", which sounded super weird when I first came here).

In EU, I see a total disconnect with any foundational principles or values. Worse is that the population would 100% disagree with you on this, but when you probe "what are these values and why are they there," you get mostly circular reasoning based on some neo-liberal viewpoints. Furthermore, people just can't imagine ever losing their freedoms. This makes Europe essentially like the frog in the pot on the stove. If you mention the word "tyranny" to Europeans, they basically think you're a crackpot.

I have seen things change a teeny bit with the war in Ukraine, where folks get at least somewhat concerned, but the concerns are still about an external boogyman. Nowhere is there any realization that big government, with a lot of unelected bureaucrats, typically becomes the enemy of the people because "power corrupts."
by scott_w | 2025-07-29 08:30:13+00:00
> Firstly, I don't think they actually introduced one of those, did they?

The fact they didn't introduce it doesn't change the fact that adding 50,000 nurses required an increase in immigration. I went back and re-read the article, they also promised more childcare places. Guess what? That also requires more immigration.

In fact, I just read the manifesto itself and they also added a "fast-track NHS visa," so we have a clear "let's increase immigration" policy right in your face! Page 22, hilariously right next to where they promise "numbers will come down."

> They also said things like "And Australia has proportionally even higher migration than the UK under that scheme!", which is true, but again that's because the government has decided to set the amounts of visas at that level and sets them higher or lower

You're correct, the government can choose to give out less visas, and they hinted that they would in the manifest (page 22). But if you read the rest of the manifesto, you realise quickly that the two goals can't be achieved at the same time. It's like promising to cure cancer by shooting the patient.

Look, we can argue about this until the cows come home but, if you voted Tory because you thought they would bring immigration numbers down, then you should have read their manifesto. The fact that they were never able to do this was right there!

Going back to "I voted for Brexit," then complaining about Brexit. Well, that's also something that there's no excuse for. In December 2019, the deal that was to be agreed was known. If you didn't like what it said about fishing or whatever, well, tough shit. You agreed to it when you put your tick in the box for Conservative.

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Manifesto: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5da42e2cae7ebd3f8bde353c/...
by lucasRW | 2025-07-29 08:30:32+00:00
1. Conservatives and Labour have an equally disastrous role in the current mess and have mostly overplayed their differences. 2. Particularly in the UK, the law is one thing. The application another. In practice, Keir Starmer, just yesterday, was claiming that there was no censorship in the UK, they were "just safeguarding children from suicide" (by censoring videos of protesters outside the Britannia hotel in Canary Wharf :o) )
by littlestymaar | 2025-07-29 08:30:36+00:00
Yes it is, because if you know they're different then you're literally moving the goalpost: We were talking about CT scans but the difference in CT scans both sides of the Atlantic has nothing to do with the availability of CT scan machines so you switch to another equipment in the middle of the discussion.

Also, your numbers are cherry-picked: Japan has more MRI machines per capita for instance, and Germany or even Greece aren't far behind the US.
by EbNar | 2025-07-29 08:31:10+00:00
"Incognito", on ANY browser, is not meant for that. Is meant to not leave traces on your PC, so your son/daughter/wife/husband can't see you've been watching porn (for instance). You're still tracked by the sites you visit, unless you use some kind of blocker (and, even then, you may still be tracked server-side).
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 08:32:05+00:00
You are absolutely right, and thank you for the direct feedback. Forcing a sign-up before demonstrating value is a poor experience, and we're sorry.

It’s clear we got this part wrong initially. It was feedback exactly like yours that prompted us to fix this.

We have now added a no-login trial so you can test the tool without creating an account. We know we have to earn your trust, and this is a direct result of learning from our early users. Thank you for taking the time to help us get better.
by scott_w | 2025-07-29 08:32:29+00:00
If that were true, why do laws get amended when politicians see impacts they don't like? A famous example that college students are taught at A-Level Law is the law on bigamy where it stated "a married person who gets married again." This isn't possible (in the UK, you can only get married to one person at a time), so the court had to rewrite the legislation on the fly to get the intended effect.
by matiasmolinas | 2025-07-29 08:32:41+00:00
Hi HN, For a while, we've been exploring a core tension in agentic frameworks: you either get powerful but complex, code-heavy systems (like in my EAT project https://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agents), or you get flexible, human-readable systems that are incredibly slow and expensive because the LLM is the runtime (like our LLMunix experiment https://github.com/EvolvingAgentsLabs/llmunix ). We are starting a proposal for a third way: treating the LLM as a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler. The core idea is that the LLM generates a hybrid stream of text and functional logic encapsulated in special tokens (<FUNC_START>). A smaller, specialized LORA then "compiles" this logic into an optimized, executable, and cacheable function. This compiled code can then recursively call the LLM for high-level reasoning when needed. It's an attempt to get the best of both worlds: the conceptual flexibility of LLMunix with the high-performance, low-cost execution of a compiled framework. The article is a deep dive into the architecture and the journey that led us here. I'm looking for critical feedback on the core concept. Does this JIT/LORA compiler approach seem viable? What are the potential pitfalls we're not seeing? We're planning to build a complete, open-source POC of this system, and we're actively looking for feedback and potential collaborators. Happy to answer any questions.