MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Scramblejams | 2025-07-29 03:30:50+00:00
I guess with polarizing topics it comes down to the ratio of "intellectually interesting" (quote from your first link) comments, and those that engage with them in good faith, versus all the yelling and condemnation, right? And there's some fuzzy line that you want the thread to stay on one side of.

I will freely admit my view may be too dismissive and that I should change my ways, but these kinds of threads almost never feel to me like the juice is worth the squeeze. In other words, that ratio I mentioned seems out of whack. Too many good-faith comments that don't go with the thread mainstream get flagged and dead, not enough people vouch for 'em (I'm sometimes guilty of that), and the amount of invective and judgment they're met with just seems to depend on how fast they got downvoted or flagged to oblivion.

I realize I'm shouting into the wind, and you have no obligation to change any of this for me. But I really do not see how this sort of thing is good for the site long-term. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there's a certain set that needs to scream about something every month or they start vandalizing less controversial threads and it's net positive to let them have their moment. Maybe I'll go write something that auto-hides threads for me when there's been a certain proportion of flagging and downvoting.

Anyway, you've got a tough job and do it with grace. No reply necessary, but thanks for all you do.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-07-29 03:30:57+00:00
I think the most common string of arguments is that Hamas steals all the food being brought into Gaza, causing extreme food scarcity. Then Hamas corners the market on all food, raises food prices with its monopoly, and extracts big profits from the rest of the Gaza population. The claim, in conclusion, is that well-intentioned aid organizations bringing food into Gaza to feed starving people are actually funding Hamas.

The argument has proven totally wrong, because as every single humanitarian organization that operates in Gaza has repeatedly warned in recent months, famine conditions are the direct result of Israel generally disallowing food and other aid into Gaza since March. Had Hamas actually diverted billions of dollars into their food storage tunnels, then logically they would've continued selling it at market price when demand is high now. But actually in reality, there's nothing to buy. [1]

The market solution to prevent Hamas from profiting off food is to first allow in enough food to Gaza such that babies are no longer starving to death, and to then bring in so much food supply that prices decrease until it's no longer economically profitable to resell food, because it's widely available. That solution is never brought up for some reason.

[1] ‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation https://www.ft.com/content/e5d7bcbb-4c9d-47b8-b716-6bd58ad57...
by EasyMark | 2025-07-29 03:31:10+00:00
The CC companies really need to tell the Debbie Downers and pearl clutchers to go pound sand. The CC companies hold all the power here, but are too cautious to push back, in the meanwhile they're losing out on all the commission money on Legal Sales. I personally find most conventional porn these days kind of sick and demeaning to women, and thoroughly dislike it, but they have a right to exist to as consenting adults. I completely fail to understand why they'd ever ban gaming comissions. No reason that CC companies should have to play arbiter of morals.
by eajr | 2025-07-29 03:31:35+00:00
Yes, a year ago I thought these things were just toys and wouldn't amount to much, and I've done a complete 180 on that stance. Started using cursor about 9 months ago and saw some potential, but my mind completely changed when I tried Claude code for the first time. We've got a long way to go till this tech is usable on large production codebases but for small greenfield stuff, it is killer.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-29 03:31:50+00:00
You know you're making a fallacious slippery slope argument here. Age verification is already a thing on the Internet, and South Korea and Texas already require age verification for those things. Providing a proof of concept for a way to do age verification without handing over your identity doesn't change public policy. The voters decide what needs age verification.

If you're concerned about totalitarianism, you should be more concerned that Texas required people to upload their IDs to access porn sites because that was the only method available.
by rgoulter | 2025-07-29 03:33:20+00:00
OP had a situation where software he wanted to run didn't work with NixOS.

If OP wanted the benefits of the Nix package manager (e.g. per-project development environments, using Nix to build container images, etc.), and didn't want the friction of "how do I run this software on NixOS", I think it's straightforward that using Nix on a non-NixOS distro is a practical choice.
by protocolture | 2025-07-29 03:33:30+00:00
>About 2.5% of the inhabitants of Gaza have been killed in the ongoing war, constituting fewer than 0.5% of Palestinians worldwide.

My understanding is that the agencies in Gaza have not only lost their ability to tally the dead, but have not been tracking deaths where a corpse has not been located.

Not to mention that this is the tail end of a long process that began with the Nakba. The fact that theres a remnant refugee population that has been removed from their land and isolated to a small stateless fragment, is already in meeting with definitions of genocide. Bombing that remnant into the dust is underlining the issue.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-29 03:33:45+00:00
> "the network" is the same network we've been talking about the entire conversation. Employer's network.

That's the same network I'm talking about. I don't know why you think I'm referring to any other network. You are not allowed to connect untrusted devices to many employers' networks, and this works via remote attestation. They don't care if your TV is rooted as long as you don't connect it to their network, but if you do, they will want to make sure it isn't rooted.
by anilgulecha | 2025-07-29 03:33:45+00:00
It's not like juniors roles will go away. More and more - it's looking like there's a higher bar for high compensation that was the norm. It seems like juniors SWEs will have to toil more to reach higher level of skills, become valuable to their teams, before they "make" it. I'm seeing this trend across the engg leaders I speak with.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-29 03:33:48+00:00
Ive had a bone marrow biopsy done. Those are done fully awake with no anesthetic except for the skin incision.

You literally feel the push of the sharp needle cutting through your bone. Slowly. methodically. Half a millimeter by half millimeter every time the practitioner puts her weight on the needle.

Then, as they aspirate the marrow, you feel as if your balls are being sucked into your hips.

Then, despite the pain, I volunteered to sign up as a bone marrow donor.

Please, call me an idiot if you must, but don't explain away my distrust of vaccines with cowardice.
by amy_petrik | 2025-07-29 03:34:04+00:00
the crux of ag soil "energy" is just nitrates and stuff. some plants like beans and lentils recharge nitrogen in the soil (hence the old native american trinity or whatever, corn, beans, and some other plant). fertilizer, that's just nitrates. poop and pee (natural fertilizer).. yup, nitrates.

Basic reason would tell us, unless we're using a nitrogen-fixing plant like beans, unless we're using fertilizer, the plant's gonna suck up nitrates from the soil, get harvested, and now there's less nitrates in the soil. Weakening the soil quality thusly. Pretty straightforward.

Biologically you could then go on to argue micronutrients along the same lines, with poop and pee more likely to contain those things, since aminals also are eurkaryotes so probably depend on some of the same
by dang | 2025-07-29 03:34:08+00:00
> these kinds of threads almost never feel to me like the juice is worth the squeeze

I agree. The trouble is that not discussing it at all is not a solution either.

> it comes down to the ratio of "intellectually interesting" (quote from your first link) comments, and those that engage with them in good faith, versus all the yelling and condemnation, right?

I wish it were that simple but I don't think it is.

> Too many good-faith comments that don't go with the thread mainstream get flagged and dead

I don't think there's a "thread mainstream" here. I think the community is deeply divided.

If you (or anyone) see good-faith comments getting mistreated in this way, we'd appreciate links so we can take a look. Sometimes we restore those comments, other times we find that the comment broke the site guidelines and thus should stay flagged. But we always look, and usually also have enough time to reply.

> I realize I'm shouting into the wind

Not at all! We're interested. We just don't necessarily have good answers.
by another_twist | 2025-07-29 03:34:11+00:00
Neither the government nor the pharma industry has done much to maintain their credibility with the people. Drugs have side effects, literally every ad on any news channel will tell you so. Studies are fuzzed. Which is why its important to talk to multiple experts, and look at multiple studies. But for vaccines there have been plenty debunking the link between vaccines and autism.

Forced by the government should be pushed back but not by denying evidence.
by jongjong | 2025-07-29 03:34:14+00:00
Sure, I agree that greed is the root of all problems. Regulations are a symptom of greed; people want to protect their interests and are willing to incrementally corrupt the system to achieve it; that's what a lot of regulations are.

But it's hard to fix greed. The solution to fix greed is way more radical, it's violent. The greedy will defend their interests with violence when confronted. The only non-violent solution I can think of is to let the system collapse, under their own direction. That's the only way the greedy would relinquish enough control to allow people the freedom to get things going again. There was a bit of this after COVID but it wasn't enough.

I just hope people can maintain their sanity through this. I hope it's not going to be an endless cycle of society repeatedly rebounding off from rock bottom... Never actually lifting itself out of the muck but basically always scraping rock bottom with only short temporary breaks.

As a developer, the system and code complexity we have to work with is increasing to the level that it should be considered mental assault. You need to develop a kind of apathy to get through life.
by rayiner | 2025-07-29 03:34:38+00:00
It’s also declining child mortality. Child mortality in the U.S. in the 1960s was about three times higher than in the 1990s. The U.S. in the 1960s was comparable to Bangladesh today. Back then, most people knew a kid who died of a disease in childhood. That’s far rarer today. Meanwhile, virtually every parent of young children knows someone whose kid has some sort of autism spectrum diagnosis. Thanks to vaccines being so effective, the apparent risk profile has changed.
by cortesi | 2025-07-29 03:34:39+00:00
SQLx is great, but I had a long laundry list of issues with its SQLite support so I forked it into a focused SQLite-specific library. It has now diverged very far from SQLx, and the number of small inaccuracies and issues we fixed in the low-level SQLite bindings is well into the dozens. The library is unannounced, but is already being used in some high-throughput scenarios.

https://github.com/cortesi/musq
by zarzavat | 2025-07-29 03:35:16+00:00
The issue (with Sonnet, I'm not using Opus), is not always that the code is bad per se, but merely that it doesn't solve the problem in the way I expected.

I have two problems with that. Firstly, I want my code to be written a particular way, so if it's doing something out of left field then I have to reject it on stylistic grounds. Secondly, if its solution is too far from my expectation, I have to put more work into review to check that its solution is actually correct.

So I give it a "where, what, how" prompt. For example, "In file X add feature Y by writing a function with signature f(x: t), and changing Z to do W..."

It's very good at following directions, if you give it the how hints to narrow the solution space.
by ashton314 | 2025-07-29 03:35:22+00:00
> In the end the message is the thing and not the medium

Ah, but to quote the philosopher Marshal McLuhan, the medium is the message. What does a tweet say? “This is a bite-sized idea that’s easy to understand.” What does a poorly-punctuated blog post say? “These ideas are sloppy.” What does a book say? “This is a more serious argument than you find online.” (alternatively, “I am looking for profit.”) What does a HN comment say? “This is my hot-take trying to sound smart.”
by lazyasciiart | 2025-07-29 03:35:51+00:00
Israel was launching air strikes before noon on October 7, killing hundreds of people with those strikes that day alone. Israeli news reports on Sunday morning variously mentioned 800 strikes and more than 16 tons of munitions dropped on the Gaza Strip. https://www.timesofisrael.com/we-are-at-war-netanyahu-says-a...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/israel-gaza-ha...

On October 8 they cut all imports to Gaza, and cut off the electricity and gas supplies to the entire civilian population. That was probably a war crime by itself, as collective punishment. Palestinian hospitals reported being overwhelmed by Sunday morning. Netanyahu said civilians should all leave Gaza - without opening any exits - and promised to inflict an unprecedented price in response to the attacks.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/middleeast/israel-gaza-attack...

What on earth does “no actions” mean to you!?!?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-29 03:36:57+00:00
> Until you become the leaders covering it up, I suppose

Sure, covering up your own messes is survival. That said, it’s not like Trump being a rapist and liking them young was concealed from the electorate ex ante…

> Maybe it's a good hill to climb. A stupid one to die on if you don't deliver

It’s a lucrative hill to climb. I wouldn’t say it’s a good one.

The funny thing about Trump is he’s been done in, in part, by his authoritarianism. He can’t credibly claim an external force is holding him back (as he did with his tax returns) because he’s eviscerated all such forces.

> half the population?

Oh man no, maybe 5% of the population in Manhattan shows up. So maybe half of that. (Which is a lot of people. But not a lot of districts.)
by al_borland | 2025-07-29 03:37:04+00:00
Cutting 80% means being realistic about where the company actually makes its money and giving up things that likely generate 20% of the current revenue. Focusing on the winners will likely lead to more success in the long run, but it’s not a risk most CEOs will take. If they’re wrong, or simply not right fast enough, it will cost them their job. Doing nothing doesn’t really cost them anything.
by samtheprogram | 2025-07-29 03:37:11+00:00
This is not true of any web browser because of fingerprinting. That’s the point of fingerprinting for ad networks.

You can try using a different device but even then, I occasionally get recommending things that are definitely influenced by my roommates (i.e. on the same WiFi)

Using something that prevents fingerprinting helps, but only if you don’t use that browser all the time — otherwise it’s just another fingerprint — and still on the same network.
by protocolture | 2025-07-29 03:37:14+00:00
>Criticizing Israel is in vogue but what's the solution?

Return the refugees to their land and disband the settlements (west bank too). Cash payouts for palestinian refugees to rebuild their homes whether returned to previously occupied lands or just needing to rebuild gaza itself.

After reintegrating the civilian population they can go on an anti hamas witch hunt. And Hamas can be put on trial at the hague next to bibi and gvir. Easy.
Show HN: Claude Intern – turn Jira tasks into working PRs
by Danii1 | 2025-07-29 03:37:50+00:00
Built a Claude Intern to help with day-to-day work. Basically, you can point it to one or more Jira tickets(either by task key or JQL), and it will run an implementation feasibility assessment check and post notes whether it needs further clarification or can be actioned. If the ticket can be actioned, it will run Claude Code to try to implement the feature and create a PR. You can review the PR later, if one-shotting succeeded, good - you've completed work in a fraction of time, if not, the attempt may still be valuable as you can take over and finish the PR yourself, while spending less time on it.

You need to run it from your project repo folder(all dependencies should be installed, claude.md present in the repo - optional, but helps), so it can run tests, typechecks, etc while working on the task.
by aradox66 | 2025-07-29 03:38:12+00:00
I'm also not an expert here, but looking through the figures [1], that one HR result for Asperger's in a figure 4 is...surprising to see, given the headlines.

This is far from strong evidence of an effect, but you're absolutely right that this at least deserves discussion in the paper and coverage.

1. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.7326/ANNALS-25-0099...
by beepbopboopp | 2025-07-29 03:38:35+00:00
Boiling it down to a catch phrase does it no justice. The war is being fought in a urban area, with an armed forced who refuses ceasefire and has repeatedly said it wont rest until all isrealis are dead. Again, my comment is, if you want them to stop fighting, what would you have them do next? Im not being rhetorical.
by ehnto | 2025-07-29 03:38:38+00:00
The delayed focus capture is the most annoying part. I'll be in the middle of typing or scrolling with the keyboard when it steals focus. I type pretty fast, so sometimes I've punched in a bunch of text before realising it all vanished into the popups frame.

Since shifting to firefox it's not a big deal as I have more control, vimium can stop focus being stolen and ublock can block the in web versions of the popups. Which if Googlers are reading, I made the swap after a decade of Chrome use because of your continued anti-user, anti-privacy stewardship of the product. Your trajectory is obvious. I hope the products leadership gets the message some day, but I suspect it's financially working out just fine.
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-07-29 03:38:45+00:00
i get it, fuck the "man" and so forth.

I’m not suggesting you be sympathetic to anthropic. I’m suggesting sympathy for people who were using it legitimately, such as myself and others in areas where $200/mo is an extraordinary commitment, and we're not blind but appreciative to their subsidizing the cost.

the core of my position is, was it necessary for people to use it wastefully because they could? what was gained from that activity? sticking it to that greedy corporation? did it outweigh what was lost to the other 95%+ of users?

i don't think we're debating from compatible viewpoints. i maintain it's not wrong, just abusive. you maintain it's not wrong, it is [was] allowed. so be it.

the party's over anyways. the result is an acceleration on the path of normalizing the true cost of usage and it's clear that will unfortunately, or maybe justifiably in your eyes, exclude a lot of people who can't afford it. cheers man.
by bepvte | 2025-07-29 03:38:59+00:00
All of the games that feature this mechanic are bad, empty, fintech husks. Often they feature same neon vaporwave artstyle, maybe with apes, and usually are transparently asset flips designed more to to feature on cryptocurrencies landing page then to be played. No good games include this ridiculous use case that I cannot imagine anyone who plays games even a little bit to want.
by duskwuff | 2025-07-29 03:38:59+00:00
> I've tried reading a few "yellow papers" for crypto projects and they are so abstract and full of jargon that I never come away knowing more than when I started reading.

In some cases, this is by design. The project is nonsensical and/or a scam, and the white paper is an obfuscatory smokescreen to provide an illusion of sophistication.
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 03:38:59+00:00
Is this actually what a typical immigrant is getting, or did you just pull this straight out of your ass? Who is actually getting these benefits to this degree? Do we not understand that it's very difficult to apply for a lot of these and most people don't know how to do it?

Also, elephant in the room: California has the 4th highest GDP in the world. Clearly, what they're doing is working. So well that they provide what, 1.5x more federal dollars than they take?

I mean, Louisiana doesn't provide jack shit to nobody. And how's their economy holding up? Anybody check on them recently? Last I checked, despite providing fuck-all, Louisiana isn't even breaking even with federal dollars, let alone touching California's 1.5x ratio.
by rgoulter | 2025-07-29 03:39:50+00:00
> I'm not sure what type of software you're talking about...

The original post mentions several examples where he ran into friction. (Monitoring/tracking software, pinentry-kwallet, playwright, tableplus).

A popular escape hatch for NixOS (or other immutable distros) for commandline tools is distrobox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

Another good tip mentioned on the NixOS wiki FAQ is nix-ldd with the dependencies from steam-run.

Still. The benefit of having a declared system configuration does come with the cost of having to put in that effort up front; and a steeper learning curve for knowing how to get around those difficulties compared to more typical distros.
by jjani | 2025-07-29 03:40:27+00:00
It's not "sort of what it implies" - it's literally what it says.

> Choose 5x or 20x more usage per session than Pro*

If a recruiter tells you you'll be getting "20x more money per hour" at this new startup, and you go there and you get only 6x, you're going to have a very different tone than "you sort of implied 20x".
by UncleOxidant | 2025-07-29 03:40:33+00:00
Yes, this. There's a certain way that ripe blakcberries (and raspberries) feel and pull away from the plant. After a while you just sort of understand the tactile sense of ripeness. So while this might pick blackberries without damaging them, I doubt they're going to be peak ripeness. Blackberries don't continue to ripen after they're picked so it's not like tomatoes where they can pick them kind of green and they ripen up by the time they hit the store.
by kelthuzad | 2025-07-29 03:40:39+00:00
Why is an entire comment like his with solid evidence flagged because of 1 mild line, but the parent comment is itself a baseless 1-liner flamebait with zero effort to substantiate but is allowed to stay up? That's not even the worst - some usual suspects are literally using Nazi rhetoric to engage in denial or justification of Genocide, but they get a pass. The line is drawn at "swipes and flamebaits"? Pro-Genocide ? Fine. No swipes and flamebaits tho!
by another_twist | 2025-07-29 03:40:51+00:00
I'd advocate for skepticism. Sure check every claim, verify what you must. But when theres a mountain of evidence the whole "vaccines bad" thing doesnt hold up. At which point society has to ask - if there's nothing more we can do, why even bother ? the ideology is kinda parasitic too as it actively hurts people who believe in it. Why do this to yourself and others ? Its just inexplicable.

Anyways enough number of people believe in vaccines to have cured a pandemic. I dont think we need bother with a handful whose whole schtick rebelling against useful stuff.
by JdeBP | 2025-07-29 03:41:17+00:00
Here's the Conservative policy for the Online Safety Act 2023, during the Sunak government:

* https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/notes/division/3/in...

Here's the Conservative white paper on Online Harms from 2019, during the May government:

* https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-whi...