MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delfinom | 2025-07-25 12:42:58+00:00
Please GMG went to shit when they switched to pushing out absolute click bait trash. And that's driven by how dead traditional website ads are. Only medium with viable ad revenue has been videos for a long time.

Otherwise most of those sites werent anything they needed protection from billionaires besides Gawker. Kotaku was supposed to be a gaming site but instead became an opinionated rag piece that rivals the NYPost.

It was all for the eyeballs chasing whatever pennies are left in website ads.
by laurent_du | 2025-07-25 12:42:59+00:00
Let's be real, everyone feels nudity is inherently sexual, except on HN and probably on reddit where men love to claim that it's not. I don't know if it's virtue-signalling, sexual frustration, or something else. It does sound weird and creepy to me - grown up men who claim that naked women are not arousing, the same men who rally en masse every time pornography censorship is discussed, to complain about freedom of expression, when they are really just afraid they will lose the ability to stare at naked women having sex.

Another, more charitable, explanation, would be that a lot of people around here are asexual. It's possible - but to this extent? I am skeptical.
by brainwad | 2025-07-25 12:43:00+00:00
Reducing merchant fees seems like a mistake if you are in competition with both cash (which has high intrinsic merchant costs) and credit cards (which has low intrinsic costs, but which are padded so they're closer to the costs of cash, with consumer cashback coming out of this padding). I'm certainly not going to _choose_ to receive less cashback, as a consumer.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-25 12:43:20+00:00
I'm not a huge fan of Axios, but chose to link to them for two reasons. (1) They leave their stories bullet pointed instead of feeding them into an LLM, or a human LLM, to add 5,000 words of fluff, and (2) they use extensive citations. Here [1], for instance, is a recent Pew study they linked to. All the studies have Christianity as the driver. And FWIW church itself is not a neutral term. Church => Christian, Mosque => Muslim, Synagogue => Jewish, etc. A neutral term would be 'attending religious services' or whatever.

The sex issue also seems to be just Axios' spin. By their own numbers it looks like church attendance is up 3x for women and 5x for men amongst Gen Z. Definitely a significant difference, but not really in line with their spin on the topic.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025...
by aaronmdjones | 2025-07-25 12:43:46+00:00
And most US law enforcement uses Glock pistols, which are also famous for having no external safety. There's a lever integrated into the trigger such that the trigger must be pulled before it can travel backward, and there's a safety internal to the slide that ensures the firing pin cannot travel forward until the trigger has been pulled, but there is no external safety anywhere. Pull the trigger (by any means, finger or otherwise -- tangled up in string, caught on a pointy object like a pen, whatever) and it will fire.

I think the new law preventing the suing of manufacturers for not including external safeties is a good thing.

I also think Sig Sauer are intentionally gas-lighting the public on the safety of the P320/M17/M18 and should withdraw it from the market.

Edit: I have nothing against Sig Sauer in general. I've shot a P228; it's a beautiful weapon, and I would buy one in a heartbeat. You couldn't pay me enough to have a P320.
by gilbetron | 2025-07-25 12:44:28+00:00
I'm in my mid 50s and don't agree. Maybe they were for you, but I have many fond memories of games and gaming. There is a balance, of course, and maybe you spent way more time than I did, but even now I think they can be a great thing to do. All the fantasy/sci-fi reading I did? I kind of regret that time though. Definitely regret most of the time I spent just channel surfacing back in the "corded" TV days.

I honestly wish I had more time to play different games.
by antonymoose | 2025-07-25 12:44:47+00:00
It’s crazy if you have good morals and care about your fellow man.

If you want to make boatloads of cash and don’t care about lives, you follow the rules and the same playbook as Remington did when their rifles suffered a similar self-firing phenomenon that killed customers.

Delay, deny, defend yourself and take in as much cash as possible until you are legally boxed in. Hope at that point your profits are greater than your penalties, such that they are just another cost of doing business.

What amazes me are the Sig Sauer fanatics I see online in the gun communities defending them endlessly as if they can do no harm.
by aredox | 2025-07-25 12:44:59+00:00
It is even more amazing when you consider that in the USA, it was normal (for boys) to bath in the nude, indoor but sometimes with spectators, and even to have to show their genitals to the teacher or pool attendant.

This has been completely memory-holed despite the fact many people alive today should remember it.

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

https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/baring-it-all-why-bo...

https://www.npr.org/2006/08/01/5597441/naked-in-high-school-...
by gf000 | 2025-07-25 12:45:36+00:00
> my best advice today to potentially targeted individuals is don't carry a phone at alil

Lol. I hope you like working with geese, but be careful, they can't be trusted!

Also, you are pretty much factually wrong on a bunch of items on your list. GrapheneOS still has room for improvement of course, but they are very ahead of anything else on every aspect. And where you are not factually wrong, you are just unrealistic. There is no 100% open-source hardware, period. This is complete "what color you want your dragon to be" category.
by rprend | 2025-07-25 12:45:44+00:00
This is ecom, not in person, and we found these places are brand agnostic about payments— they don’t control the look/feel of PayPal, Klarna, etc. And for every Hermes, there are a dozen luxury merchants less anal about the brand.

White labeling the payments infra as “their pay” did intrigue them, but not enough
by alexpotato | 2025-07-25 12:46:07+00:00
Several years back I ended up making "moneyball for college paintball" largely inspired by a combination of Moneyball the book and Michael Lewis' article about Shane Battier [0].

That experience led me to have a couple thoughts:

- Many people think that Moneyball was about On Base Percentage. Really, it was about how to use analytics to figure out what the undervalued metric is to focus on.

- Moneyball is great on its own. When you try to do your own version of Moneyball in a sport you care deeply about, it's as if you find another "level" of the book. For example, this quote from the book (paraphrased): "You can't see the difference between a .275 and a .300 hitter. It's an extra hit every two weeks." You realize HOW MANY parts of sports are essentially invisible unless you take the stats and then analyze them.

- Another example of the above is the quote "it's a system only a rich team could afford but only a poor team looking for an edge would buy". Having worked at a lot of startups (4), I've often told this story when people are deciding whether to pay for some 3rd party tool that will have a big impact. Sometimes it's not worth it but sometimes it can really change the outcome.

- Going in to the whole process, I wasn't sure how well I could track stats in something as complicated as college level tournament paintball. I started with just a clipboard with some paper and a stopwatch. At the end of the day, that was really all I needed to get DEEP insights on how the game worked, game theory in different scenarios and which players were adding or taking away from our win percentage. A reminder of "you can just do things"

- One unexpected outcome: I got to the point where I could watch a game and know exactly what the win probabilities were as the game went on. It was like watching the World Series of Poker where you see the odds of each hand. This was both great b/c I new the next game theory optimal call or play to do. It was terrible when I knew the odds of winning a big game went below 5% (although we did occasionally win some of those too)

0 - https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html
by nemomarx | 2025-07-25 12:46:42+00:00
Nude beaches are pretty old as a concept? Always a niche community but there's definitely been hippies talking about non sexual nudism for decades and etc

It must have been non sexual at some point in our historical development, before clothes. So I can't really agree that it's inherently so - just that we've culturally made it a sexual thing for basically all of history. That might be close though to functionally be inherent to human society depending on your viewpoint though.
by millzlane | 2025-07-25 12:47:35+00:00
I've had one since before the military adopted it. I've been carrying it for years daily. It has never once went off on its own. I run with it, jump with it, have carried it in a small cross body bag. It has never just fired by itself. I have over 5k rounds through it.

The only time my gun has went off was when I pulled the trigger. Has your gun ever went off without pulling the trigger?

Most of the videos I see on YouTube are people who were fiddling with the gun, in some kind of physical altercation, or carry some sort of back on the side they carry. I didn't get the fix from Sig either.
by closewith | 2025-07-25 12:47:51+00:00
> Switzerland has interchange fees of 0.4% for consumer credit cards

Only since Wednesday of this week due to COMCO action, so no-one knows if cashback will persist, but it will be a lot less than .33%.

> And let's not forget that cash acceptance costs an order of magnitude more than this anyway;

In the EU, it's .5% for cash vs .3% for cards, but the situation falls back into favour for cash once fraud is accounted for.
by aaomidi | 2025-07-25 12:47:52+00:00
There are plenty of people who grew up in naked households. Ranging from just being nude at home to being intermittently undressed around others.

Do you think those people found nudity sexual?

How about doctors and nurses that see naked people all the time? Is simple nudity sexual for them?

How about athletes that shower in open showers together. Are they experiencing a sexual experience when they’re showering after practice?

There’s so many counter examples to this that saying nudity is sexual is just silly.
by AdkamEup | 2025-07-25 12:48:01+00:00
I wasn't debating "suggestive". The fine article claimed (and the parent quoted), "Absolutely nothing sexual"; that's what I disagree with.

I agree that the photo is not suggestive; in other words, I fully agree that in the picture, she's not "soliciting" or even "provoking" (even without having any actual intent to participate). That's fine. She doesn't have to be suggestive, or to do anything other than exist and be visible (like this), for me to find her sexually (very) attractive, and to make me horny.
by diggan | 2025-07-25 12:48:38+00:00
> Every civilized culture on earth has norms against public nudity

Well, not every "civilized culture" has a blanket ban on public nudity, but more of a "there is a time and place you know", like doing sauna naked and swimming naked in rivers/lakes (common in the Nordics at least) or being semi-nude (topless) at public beaches in Spain. Breastfeeding without having to shamefully cover up also seems to be more and more accepted, at least in the countries I frequent (mostly around Europe).

I'm sure there are more examples of "civilized cultures" where it's accepted sometimes to be nude or semi-nude.
by dodomodo | 2025-07-25 12:48:46+00:00
every time I see the output of nushell I get so disappointed, they got the formatting so wrong, all the extra delimiters makes it hard to actually read the data. powershell got it right, using alignment. if you look at virtually all shell programs until the last few years you are going to see a similar, alignment based output. only recently, with the rise of the abuse of ligature, we started seeing this kind of incomprehensible blobs surrounding our text.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-25 12:49:16+00:00
I would have liked that both had acknowledged this to the point of languages like Oberon (all variants predate them), Eiffel, Modula-3, CLU, Cedar,...

While they were used as inspiration on their design, the AOT approach, with automatic memory management, and programming language features for low level coding really took a while to get back from them, even the NGEN/unsafe from C# v 1.0, while welcomed wasn't that great.

I always think that in an alternate reality, had them been had those features already on version 1.0, C and C++ would have lost even more mindshare at the turn of the century, and something like C++11 would not have been as impactful.
by Lockyy | 2025-07-25 12:49:20+00:00
Adult content is whatever is deemed to be objectionable and abhorrent to the dominant social group within a culture and that which needs to be censored and hidden from public view. Beyond a desire to "protect the children" from sex, violence, and drugs. It is a desire to hide and suppress dissent around major social issues. It is a desire to label representation of trans liberation and queer lives as adult, obscene. And it is a desire to label realistic representations of history such as Maus and others as unsuitable for children.

This effort is because once labeled adult it is broadly socially acceptable to do anything and everything necessary to hide a concept from public life.

A specific recent example is Itch.io's recent removal of all content labeled adult, stemming from coordinated pressure by Collective Shout. The block has led to the hiding of some content labeled as lgbt, despite not containing adult content or being labeled that way.
Ask HN: With AI bubble burst imminent, where do you put your money?
by munchausen42 | 2025-07-25 12:49:22+00:00
Many people on HN seem quite skeptical of the current AI hype—some even believe the bubble could burst soon. For example, a disappointing GPT-5 release in August might already trigger such a shift. If that happens, it could also impact the stock prices of major tech companies heavily invested in AI.

So, what's your backup plan? Are you diversifying your investments to protect your assets, or are you pulling your money out entirely and going full "under the mattress" mode?
by rowanG077 | 2025-07-25 12:49:25+00:00
Did you consider that the organization can be wrong?

> Memory safety is a property of some programming languages that prevents programmers from introducing certain types of bugs related to how memory is used. Since memory safety bugs are often security issues, memory safe languages are more secure than languages that are not memory safe.

That is the definition they give. Since Go does not "prevent programmers from introducing certain types of bugs related to how memory is used." it does not fall under this definition. They can list go as memory safe, but then either they disagree with their own definition or made the mistake of adding Go to that list. Memory safety is not a spectrum. You are either memory safe or unsafe. The spectrum is in the unsafety. Go is obviously less unsafe than C for example.
by brandonb | 2025-07-25 12:50:07+00:00
Super cool. An iPhone + Apple Watch generate about 40 distinct biomarkers of your data (resting heart rate, VO2max, workouts, sleep stages, sleep apnea risk, ECGs, and so on), but the ability to interpret them is very limited.

I work on an iOS health app, and I'd love to try integrating this. It'd help eliminate the step of having to manually export to a CSV every Sunday.

Feel free to shoot me an email if you want to collaborate!
by amiga386 | 2025-07-25 12:50:25+00:00
Puritans chiseled the penises off Greek statues, indeed the lead image of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship is a fig leaf over the penis of Michelangelo's David.

It wouldn't be appropriate to use a form of nudity we now find "acceptable" (statues and paintings), when those media were attacked in their time by the same type of prudes who attack modern media (JPEGs of nude women on websites)
by mark-r | 2025-07-25 12:50:33+00:00
Knuth's famous quote about premature optimization captures this perfectly.

"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."
by rprend | 2025-07-25 12:50:38+00:00
We tried with SMBs (it was our original focus, low net margin businesses). But 1. Deployment times are way worse in person, 2. Merchants still actually didn’t care (they said they did! But there was no strong need). 3. conversion at checkout is lower for small tickets than high tickets.

SMB business model just didn’t work, with tons of white glove customer support needed for a customer we’d make $20-$50/month in fees

With high ticket sellers the purchases are high intentionality enough that you can convert customers.
by Thaxll | 2025-07-25 12:51:06+00:00
Go is memory safe, what do you think of: https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...

U.S. and International Partners Issue Recommendations to Secure Software Products Through Memory Safety

They recommand Go among other language in their paper.

https://media.defense.gov/2023/Dec/06/2003352724/-1/-1/0/THE...
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by diggan | 2025-07-25 12:51:22+00:00
So your argument is that because you happen to find the person attractive, the image itself is sexual? That would quickly lead us to classifying 90% of everything on the internet as sexual, as there is a wide range of stuff that makes people aroused, like people having sexual attraction to cars.

Maybe being able to discern our own perspectives and sexual preferences from a wider labeling of content might be beneficial?
by AdkamEup | 2025-07-25 12:51:39+00:00
> I don't know if it's virtue-signalling, sexual frustration, or something else.

I think de-sensitization [*] may play a big role here; I'm convinced that the more porn you look at, the higher your threshold goes. I've not consumed any porn for years now (as I write in my other comment), and I find the lady in the picture extremely sexual. Yes, she's not suggesting / soliciting / provoking; she is just standing there. I agree. Yet she's no less sexual for that fact.

[*] edited comment for fixing my wrong use of the term
by armada651 | 2025-07-25 12:51:46+00:00
> also, how are these "puritan" groups doing the hounding? I mean, are they threatening some kind of legal action? based on old (or not so old) obscenity laws?

They're not suing them in civil court, they're threatening to use the court of public perception against them. If they allow these payments the activism groups will set up a campaign titled something like "Visa facilitates incest and child abuse!" and "Mastercard allows you to see women getting beaten".

This is a very effective strategy because there's nothing more important to these companies than a squeaky clean brand image. And what they perceive as damaging to their brand image is entirely subjective and just depends on whether an activist group can spin it in a way that looks bad for them.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-25 12:52:19+00:00
Why would a game of baseball be any more high variance than an NFL game?

On the face of it, NFL’s playoff of a single game deciding forward progress seems more high variance, rather than a best of x series.

Football also seems more high variance just due to the explosive, physical nature of the game.

I wonder what the stats say about lower seeds winning the tournament for MLB vs NFL playoffs.
by louwrentius | 2025-07-25 12:52:33+00:00
It's very hard. Teenagers will teach each other to circumvent any of this within seconds. It's as old as the internet.

But maybe it would be healthier if you discuss this topic with your 12-year-old. The reality is that they'll be able to find any kind of pr0n within seconds when they has access to an unfiltered computer or phone.

At age 12 it's also expected that you start the transition from a child to an adult, so trying to block the outside world isn't preparing them for the freedom they'll encounter at 18-21.

The idea that there is even a definition of 'healthy' porn seems ludicrous to me. That's not 'really' tackling the problem. That's not understanding the problem in the first place.

Speaking of which: there isn't a problem in the first place.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-25 12:52:36+00:00
> everyone feels nudity is inherently sexual

I propose you watch 5 minutes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Jungle with nude Keith Chegwin, and you will be disabused of that notion.

Your argument will be reduced to "everyone feels some kinds of nudity, preferably not featuring Keith Chegwin, are inherently sexual"
by gametorch | 2025-07-25 12:52:56+00:00
There's no way for the average person to know it only contains 4-aco-dmt though.

I did 4-aco-dmt multiple times in high school.

Luckily, I just tripped and was grateful to be alive on the other side.

At least half, if not 15 out of 20 of my friends went completely into psychosis and a good majority of those people had persistent negative symptoms for weeks after.
by js8 | 2025-07-25 12:53:54+00:00
LLMs (as well as humans) are algorithms like anything else and so they are also subject to halting problem. I don't see what LLMs do that couldn't be in principle formalized as a Lean tactic. (IMHO LLMs are just learning rules - theorems of some kind of fuzzy logic - and then try to apply them using heuristic search to satisfy the goal. Unfortunately the rules learned are likely not fully consistent and so you get reasoning errors.)
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-25 12:54:07+00:00
"let's be real" isn't a strong argument tbh; your argument doesn't apply to a lot of cultures. Ever been to a sauna? Nudist areas? Ever seen South-American, African, Indonesian tribes?

Whether nudity is considered sexual is cultural, not "inherently", and you claiming that "everyone" feels like it is is highlighting your own blinkered world view. You don't speak for "everyone".
by ralfj | 2025-07-25 12:54:57+00:00
> Curiously, Go itself is unclear about its memory safety on go.dev.

Yeah... I was actually surprised by that when I did the research for the article. I had to go to Wikipedia to find a reference for "Go is considered memory-safe".

Maybe they didn't think much about it, or maybe they enjoy the ambiguity. IMO it'd be more honest to just clearly state this. I don't mind Go making different trade-offs than my favorite language, but I do mind them not being upfront about the consequences of their choices.