MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inglor_cz | 2025-07-29 08:33:37+00:00
You are spreading some serious disinformation about how the EU works.

Once such EU-wide regulations are fully passed (incl. the EP), the countries have to implement them in their law. Sure, they can drag their feet, or there actually might be a real showdown, for example, if the German Constitutional Court says that this is against the Grundgesetz and that it does not recognize supremacy of EU law over itself / the German Constitution. If the same happens in Poland, there will be extra drama added.

But at the same time, at least half of the EU, countries with negligible tech sector, will happily pass that legislation without any significant friction, because a) think of the children, b) monitoring opposition and dissent, yay!, c) we have to, because Brussels said so, d) the lawmakers know shit about encryption and tech and they will be exempt from monitoring anyway, so encryption is something that is only used by criminals and terrorists and if you have nothing to hide etc. etc.

At which point you have the surveillance infrastructure installed and in operation across half the continent, and with elections changing governments, it will spread.

Our main protection used to be that small countries like Slovenia or Malta don't have the weight to push Apple or Google to introduce deliberate holes in their software.

If the European Commission joins the push, that is a completely different pressure.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-29 08:33:55+00:00
>Every time I see these headlines, the tech seems to be at least 10 years away from product.

There's no incentive for the capital class to massively invest in fruit picking robotics when there are tens of millions of exploitable humans on the planet that you can use do the same job for dirt cheap.

The economic balance needs to change for change to happen.

That's why the capital class is overinvesting in AI, because that can potentially replace the higher paid jobs where the labor has leverage and turn them into similarly exploitable workers.
by ben_w | 2025-07-29 08:34:37+00:00
Veen did not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712342

Veen was in reply to pjc50, who also did not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712105 — "they've seen US ICE snatch squads and internment camps and decide that they want some of that here."

("here" can be read as either being "the UK" or "all places outside the USA", but the one place it can't be read as is "the US" because the US already has that).
by mytailorisrich | 2025-07-29 08:34:45+00:00
> I spent 10 days in Nice and the close suburbs in June

Considering that you claimed that in Nice "immigrants are rich Russians, Brits and Arabs", I must tell bluntly: Either this is not true or you didn't leave Le Negresco hotel.

Either way this perfectly illustrates my previous comment. Next time in Nice my humble suggestion is that you try to see the reality (Google "quartiers sensibles a Nice").

> you still haven't explained how a new law being passed to curb immigration

If you have lived in France long enough you would detect that this is the same as it always is: This is not a law to curb immigration and it won't curb immigration. This is a law for the show and to be able to claim that the government is tough on immigration. There are no "tough" measures against immigration.
by haissam | 2025-07-29 08:36:11+00:00
Interesting that you link to gazawood.com - the site is very cagey about who runs it, at least in its About Us page. However on its donation page aimed at Israelis it proudly advertises itself as a hasbara site. If you're trying to do hasbara here, at least have the decency to cite somewhat credible sources.
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 08:36:13+00:00
That's a fair question, but our goal is the exact opposite. We want as many users as possible to try the service.

The challenge was that the costs associated with the initial free trials went beyond what our team could sustain. The recent changes are our attempt to fine-tune our model to find a balance.

Our goal is to offer a service that is both accessible for users to try and financially sustainable for us to operate and improve long-term.
by pakitan | 2025-07-29 08:37:08+00:00
You picked a really bad time to defend a "politicians will eventually do what is best for us" position, given that such a law just came into effect in UK. And I think it's you who don't understand how the EU works. It's the biggest countries that must agree to something. Then they coerce/convince the rest. At best, the smaller countries can put on some kind of resistance until they extract some minor exception. This isn't "some Dutch mayor proposes free Internet". This is a relentless onslaught on encryption and privacy. And it's already in effect in other countries where someone at sometime also said "nah, don't worry, they just messing with us, it's not gonna pass".
by Thorrez | 2025-07-29 08:37:57+00:00
Is personhood development a continuum? Or does it happen in an instant? If it's a continuum, then for a period of time you have someone who's a partial person. That doesn't make sense to me. How can someone be a partial person? That's why I think it needs to happen in an instant. And the only 2 developmental instants are fertilization and birth.

I value a human's life more than any other animal's life. I think that's the same for most people. Without that, we might conclude that a dog's life is more valuable than a newborn baby's life, due to development time and abilities.

> 7-24 weeks

Curtis Means was born at gestational age 21 weeks 1 day and survived. If personhood might begin at 24 weeks, does that mean that Curtis might not have been a person when born?
by ddorian43 | 2025-07-29 08:38:23+00:00
You're too focused on carnivore being harmful when you yourself recommended the keto diet. I never said to go carnivore, just that it's better. I don't do it myself mostly for it's harder to maintain when traveling & stuff.

If you were just a bit interested in how keto really works and had a curiosity on advanced cases or followed pros on twitter you'd agree with me (losing weight is easy compared to fixing epilepsy/schizophrenia).
by qwertox | 2025-07-29 08:38:51+00:00
11 years ago I bought a Faber Castell - Essentio Ballpoint Pen, Carbon Black - #148888 [0], 22€ at that time, and I absolutely love it. I use it every day, just for writings something on post-its or on labels.

One of the few grips that don't get sticky over the years, feels good in the hand and looks nice. The clip is of metal which does stick to magnets, so it's easy to attach to places like a monitor or a lamp.

[0] https://www.fabercastell.com/products/essentio-ballpoint-pen...
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-29 08:39:30+00:00
> Fuck, I don't want to live in a China with a blue flag instead of red. This is absolutely dystopian.

I think it's too late. People already showed they'd loudly support this if propagandized enough like during COVID times where the most draconian and anti constitutional of policies were enacted, literally following and lobbied by China.

Unless people recognize that they did a terrible thing in supporting covid policies instead of burying their head under the sand or persisting in the ridiculous propaganda about anti-vaxxers and disinformation, they're always going to be easily manipulated. The same goes for the "let's invade new country because 'dictator/terrorism/grave threat to our western way of life'".

Are we the baddies is a rethorical question at this point.
by oblio | 2025-07-29 08:39:55+00:00
Oh, don't worry, this will be rephrased as "it impedes Americans, too, so it's anti American".

Despite the fact that the US is doing the exact same thing to other economies, especially China.

China has great networking equipment, but it can't be sold in the US. China has great smartphone brands, those can't be sold, either. Chinese electric cars, same.

China obviously is the OG regarding impeding or outright blocking competition with the 51% joint ventures.

Of course it's also protectionism, everyone is doing it.

However where I hear crickets is the actual public benefit/moral angle:

Just because foreign companies that absolutely dominate these markets are the ones being fined the most, does that mean that the ideas behind the fines are wrong?

Working for US companies operating in Europe, I would say that they (and probably Chinese companies - from what I hear) are natural targets: "move fast and break things", everything is US derived in spirit and in action and Europe doesn't work like that (the US is basically: you're smart and/or privileged and you get a decent or great life, if you're neither of those things, go live under a bridge).

Can't both do a lot of gray area stuff to grow unicorns and also not expect to be punished for breaking lots of social eggs.
by andriamanitra | 2025-07-29 08:40:27+00:00
It's always a minority pushing the weakening of encryption, which is why the proposals have never made it very far. What separates Europe from the US is that our political system is way more diverse and involves many more political groups (some of which have extreme opinions). This naturally means more diverse proposals, and lower chance of a given proposal becoming a reality. Especially so when compared to the US where it seems one person with the support of one political party can seemingly implement any crazy policy they think of on a whim.

I think it's probably a good thing to explore a wider range of ideas, even if many of the ideas suck and end up being scrapped.
by quinndexter | 2025-07-29 08:40:36+00:00
The good folks here have absolutely demonstrated intellectual curiosity - that's what all the requests for prompt details and links are. Your refusal to simply provide them, especially after opening with what boils down to "ChatGPT told me...", and choice to get all smug and self-righteous when pressed, does not imply that you actually have the best handle on HN culture.
by spauldo | 2025-07-29 08:40:40+00:00
The US doesn't really have any interest in fixing the problem. Both parties benefit from the mess we have now.

That's what pisses me off about the whole thing. People buy the crap the politicians are feeding them and the immigrants are the ones that pay for it. You'd think people would have realized after decades of this crap that neither party is going to do a damn thing.
by wobfan | 2025-07-29 08:40:40+00:00
What does this have to do with chat scanning?

Theyre not scanning the chats of the ones complaining, nor any multicultural people? It's about child abuse and it has been a thing for like always.

Also, weakening or prohibiting encryption has been discussed before this multicultural thing that you describe happened, and it will continue to. Like, literally since the start of the Internet the governments are fighting encryption hard.
by tjoff | 2025-07-29 08:40:52+00:00
It adds realism.

Your vision have motion blur. Staring at your screen at fixed distance and no movement is highly unrealistic and allows you to see crisp 4k images no matter the content. This results in a cartoonish experience because it mimics nothing in real life.

Now you do have the normal problem that the designers of the game/movie can't know for sure what part of the image you are focusing on (my pet peeve with 3D movies) since that affects where and how you would perceive the blur.

Also have the problem of overuse or using it to mask other issues, or just as an artistic choice.

But it makes total sense to invest in a high refresh display with quick pixel transitions to reduce blur, and then selectively add motion blur back artificially.

Turning it off is akin to cranking up the brightness to 400% because otherwise you can't make out details in the dark parts off the game ... thats the point.

But if you prefer it off then go ahead, games are meant to be enjoyed!
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 08:40:55+00:00
That's a sharp but insightful comment. We're sorry that our initial design gave you that impression.

Our intention was never to ignore "manners" for utility, but we see now how a forced sign-up does exactly that. We made a mistake.

We are committed to improving the user experience, and based on this feedback, we have now implemented a no-login trial. We'd welcome you to try it and see that we're serious about getting this right.
by ramon156 | 2025-07-29 08:40:57+00:00
Sorry for another complaint, but after skimming through I only see boasting paragraphs without any real information

If I click "why pony" i want to know when to use it. I want to decide for myself if I want to use this

I couldn't find a page where it's clear if I should invest my time in it

How to do this: - examples - companies/projects who use X - what this language aims to do - what this language is good at
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 08:41:07+00:00
> Teams definitely do need leaders

Do they? The entire Agile Manifesto was written about how teams don't need leaders. That doesn't automatically make it valid, of course, but industry was all over it for a time. An entire industry got it wrong? Yes, it wasn't long before "leaders" afraid of losing their job bastardized it into some kind of management framework with nonsense like Scrum[1], granted, but industry support for it also died in that moment. What does that tell you?

> If leaders weren't needed in some capacity, they wouldn't exist.

False premise. The world is full of all kinds of things that exist but aren't needed.

> If you're of the opinion that management plays their politics game while ICs run the show, then I pity you for the work environment you're in.

I'm not really sure what this means. It doesn't seem to have any connection to the original discussion. Where are you going with this?

> That isn't how it's supposed to work, and there are better places.

How is what supposed to work?

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[1] To be fair, Scrum considers itself "training wheels" for Agile. It clearly indicates it is something to use for a short period of time to wean yourself off malformed leadership practices as you transition into Agile. If used as written, it may be a useful tool. But when have you ever seen that happen in practice? In reality, when you find it in use, "leadership" has enforced its use — often modified to their arbitrary fancy — and never let go like it suggests you need to.
by sudopluto | 2025-07-29 08:41:39+00:00
I mean I was trying to show that the Germans don't suicide bomb busses in Kaliningrad even after their own much worse version of the Nakba. In general, most losers of wars, especially of wars of aggression that they themselves started, don't spend then next century suicide bombing and turning down deals that they deem beneath them. They take what they can get and get on with their lives, being productive and improving the future for their children.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-07-29 08:41:44+00:00
Somewhat annoyingly, this is the definition of long term immigrant per UN definitions cited in the report includes students:

"The use of the UN definition of long-term immigration means that whether someone should be counted as an immigrant or emigrant (and hence contribute to the net migration statistics) only becomes evident after 12 months.... Currently, the ONS publishes provisional estimates with a 5-month lag"

The discussion of international students is less relevant to employment related concerns, but still contributes to other aspects of population growth like rental housing demand or water consumption.
by vineyardmike | 2025-07-29 08:42:57+00:00
This isn’t particularly controversial tbh.

Yes Google’s high salaries are part of a system that has been reworking entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. This has been documented and discussed at length. Did you look for data?

Big tech pays in valuable stock, and salaries can reach upwards of 500k for relative rank and file positions (not rare one offs). Over a decade, that’s $5M. At the same time, VC firms have been holding companies private longer raising more rounds, which often dilutes the employee shares and reduces the “reward” for employees waiting for an IPO. If that new diluted IPO rewards an employee under $5M for a decade of employment, they were better off at Google/Meta/etc. Startups were always a lottery ticket, but if a “winning” ticket is less profitable than not playing, why join at all?

This plays directly into the thesis that the powerful are extracting additional resources at the expense of the cultural expectations and understandings. VC firms diluting employees is profitable for VCs, but it jeopardizes the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem if smart people prefer better compensation. Same with the recent AI aqui-hire controversies like Windsurf. Why join a startup if the CEO will take a billion dollar payout and leave the employees with worthless stock.
by Nursie | 2025-07-29 08:42:57+00:00
I think we're talking at cross-purposes here - I'm not really taking a position one way or another on whether the Tories would/could have reduced immigration, and they certainly didn't deliver on that.

I was just pretty flabbergasted at the time by the blanket misunderstandings of the system that was being talked about, seemingly from all sides.

I didn't vote for them either way :shrug:
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 08:43:28+00:00
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by isaacremuant | 2025-07-29 08:43:49+00:00
Because total surveillance increases the power of the state which can then use it to suppress threats to its power, including effective political dissent. It's not new. It happens everytime if you follow history but people have been conditioned to think skepticism, unless is against "trump bad", is absolutely a conspiracy theory.

The important thing also is that this total massive invasion of privacy won't be for all. You don't get gov transparency but the opposite. The asymmetry of information only increases that power to oppress.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-07-29 08:44:06+00:00
These are very, very different situations. You are comparing nations and cultures that have be living side by side for thousands of years to a 77 year old state (Israel) occupying territory that has been Palestinean for thousands of years.

Israel and Ozzy Osbourne were born on the same year. People that were born after Ozzy, can no longer return to their birthplace, because it is now Israel and they are besieged in Gaza.
by inglor_cz | 2025-07-29 08:44:12+00:00
This seems to be done in a completely different way. Instead of a loud propaganda push, the proponents seem to want to avoid drawing attention to the proposals. Most of the big media is either completely silent about that, or only mentions those proposals shortly on the bottom of the page. Which indicates that they haven't received any instructions to push it visibly.

And I think this is partially caused by fear of possible backlash.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-07-29 08:44:56+00:00
These are very, very different situations. You are comparing nations and cultures that have be living side by side for thousands of years to a 77 year old state (Israel) occupying territory that has been Palestinean for thousands of years.

Israel and Ozzy Osbourne were born on the same year. People that were born after Ozzy, can no longer return to their birthplace, because it is now Israel and they are besieged in Gaza.
by shivasaxena | 2025-07-29 08:46:45+00:00
I work for a Swiss POS firm. We buy all our peripherals like tablet stands etc, and merchandising from Temu since it's 5-10x time cheaper and is same or better quality. We are competing with well funded companies like lighspeed/toast so it's been great help for us.

Funny incident our CEO just mentioned to me yesterday: She ordered stickers from a local shop without asking the price, and on delivery had to pay 200 CHF for 20 stickers so 10 CHF/sticker. Next time she ordered from temu and got them at 20 CHF for 200 stickers so 0.1 CHF/sticker.

At least to me it's clear this is plain and simple regulatory capture by inefficient european retailers. In supermarkets I have to pay 12 EUR for a bottle opener that I can get for 2 EUR on temu. Amazon.de for example launched free delivery to estonia and other small european countries only recently post rise of temu.

These actions by EU commision are vehemently anti-consumer and anti-business under the transparent guise of being pro-consumer and pro-business.

Would recommend Bill Gurly's talk about regulatory capture if anyone is interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=F9cO3-MLHOM
by edding4500 | 2025-07-29 08:46:58+00:00
I think there are different factors. One is that doping in cycling had big media coverage, especially in the 90ies to 2010s. Media uncovered that basically everyone in the race org knew that doping was involved. See for example Cofidis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofidis_(cycling_team) This adds to the perception that cycling is very prone to doping.

Whether it is so more than other sports... I don't know. As was mentioned before, in cycling as in other endurance sports, doping can push you very far. Then there is the way the whole sport is organized. In the tour de france, privately sponsored teams compete against each other. I think this is very different to, say, a world championship. A country or trainer may have the interest of pushing their athletes beyond what is legal. But in a privately sponsored team, the pressure could be much higher.
by immibis | 2025-07-29 08:48:22+00:00
Which means it's legal if you don't get caught.

Literally - in most of the world terms of service have no legal effect and violating them is not a crime - they are merely a declaration that the service provider feels bad if you do certain things, and if they feel bad they might decide to terminate your account.

Most of them prohibit running servers at home and using p2p apps. Has anyone here ever gotten their connection shut off for either of these?
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-29 08:48:57+00:00
Agility is the one trait by which a new entrant can unseat incumbants.

Lose that, and you'll be stuck in a stagnated first past the post world.

Does that mean all new is good and old is bad? No. And 'hypernovelty' has huge problems as it leaves no time for individuals nor society to adapt. But tread carefull with what you whish for.
by brokegrammer | 2025-07-29 08:49:05+00:00
1. Dependencies break your project only if added unpinned. Most modern package managers will pin dependencies for you.

Now, what if a dependency does break? Well, you can replace it with another dependency, or you can write one from scratch. Using dependencies allows you to save time earlier, and then only spend time writing your own libraries once you hit a roadblock.

2. Frameworks are similar to dependencies. They allow you to save time at the beginning of projects when you're not fully aware of your requirements, and then you're free to write from scratch when you have enough users and resources to do so.

3. Compilation is lightning fast these days because many tools are written in Rust. Projects built using Vite, for example, take a few seconds to build on a 10 year old laptop.

To summarize, these things don't result in websites that will require a lot of time and energy to maintain.