MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eloisius | 2025-07-10 05:36:56+00:00
In fact I have. I grew up in the 1990s evangelical movement, deeply within the culture, home schooled, pro-life rallies, had 10+ kids, women wore denim dresses, etc. Those people. They were hot and ready to ban anything they could get their hands on. Cabbage Patch dolls were demonic, Pokemon were demonic. Gay-anything, it goes without saying, were forces of demons. They were exactly the people who would praise book banning or book burnings.

Meanwhile within their church, on several occasions it was discovered that a man had sexually assaulted little boys. Did they kick him out of the church and go to the police? No, he was a sinner who could be saved by prayer. Until he did it again, and again. Some stupid parents even let him take their boy on a weekend trip years after the situation first came to light. You don't need me to tell you what happened on that trip. I think they finally did get the police involved, but that's after my family finally wised up and left the church.

Unfortunately this wasn't the only incident. There was another family that had two teenage boys. Their teenage boys? Molesting little girls on multiple occasions. Call the police? No, instead have the boys admit their guilt in front of the entire congregation, laying-on hands, prayer, etc. Until they did it again. That family finally high-taled it out of the state.

To this day I wonder why I got out unscathed, except second-hand knowing what was going on. So, yes I have met these evangelicals. Yes, I know their priorities and how they would rather turn a blind eye to sexual assault going on within their own church all the while trying to have Pride parades or whatever banned. Sure, they don't _want_ sexual assault happening, but did they do the slightest to prevent it? No. They tried to pray it away, but meanwhile were happy to expend countless man-hours protesting about obscene books to protect their children. No, I'm not making a purely-snarky comment.

If you're moved by this more in-depth explanation, I'd appreciate if you unflagged my comment.
by II2II | 2025-07-10 05:37:16+00:00
I would argue that greed is the problem, not profit.

One could argue that government policies are anything but altruistic. They fund public education because you need an educated workforce. They fund public health insurance because a healthy workforce is a productive workforce. You distribute the cost over the entire population. Both remove direct costs from employers (e.g. training and providing private health insurance). Both have a tendancy to reduce costs and improve consistency because you are working at a larger scale. It also creates order in society since people generally feel as though more of their needs are being met, and they feel less exploited. All of this contributes to profit both on a social scale and for individual businesses.

Somewhere along the line people forgot the lessons of the 20th century. They forgot that profit goes beyond a line on the current financial statement. It also reflects long term interests.
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-10 05:37:43+00:00
No, if you're doing something sensitive that can get you or other people arrested, locked up, hurt or killed, you should not be using Signal for that. You should reconsider using a phone or computer at all. If you must, you must be desperate and I pity the situation you must be in, and I hope you really understand what your risk profile is, what technology can address actually it, and if that technology actually exists.

States can use metadata from Signal and ISPs to confirm that party A was in contact with party B and at what times, for example, in charges of criminal conspiracy. If one device on any end of the chats is compromised or confiscated, chats and identities are exposed. Once both devices are confiscated, messages are decrypted on both ends of the Signal app and authorities can grab the message content they used the metadata to get a warrant/subpoena/order for.

Similarly, Signal can be gag ordered to keep a record of phone numbers linked to identities if it already doesn't exist in their implementation. Signal and/or Google/Apple/ISPs/carriers can be compelled to follow wiretap laws and collect more data on specific users, push special updates to them, etc.

It's an app that forces the use of cell phone numbers linked to real identities in order to use it, clients have servers hardcoded, clients make direct connections to servers, etc. Just the first fact alone should be a red flag if your well-being depends on privacy.
by retrac | 2025-07-10 05:39:01+00:00
Hydroelectric was historically even more dominant in Canada than today. In places that aren't majority hydro now, they were in the past, like in Ontario and Alberta.

The name of the utility companies in most provinces was probably an influence. Until 1999 in Ontario it was the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, shortened normally to Ontario Hydro. Manitoba Hydro. Hydro Quebec. I think in Toronto they still stamp manhole covers with THES (Toronto Hydro-Electric System).
by breppp | 2025-07-10 05:41:37+00:00
The entire idea is to buy an undervalued platform using insider information, if the stock price plunges after he committed to a price then it's no longer undervalued. This has happened between his bid and termination announcements.

I also roughly remember he had his Tesla holdings as collateral creating some liquidity crisis for him.

This elaborate explanation does not mean it isn't wrong and the original theory of idiot-with-money does not hold
by maxbond | 2025-07-10 05:42:43+00:00
> The sequence it follows is 2, 1, 1, 1, ...

I just ran it, and as long as you start counting at 1, their code works fine, outputting `1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ...`. (Not sure why they say the Fibonacci sequence starts with 2, that's odd.)
by prmoustache | 2025-07-10 05:42:58+00:00
> How long ago was this? There hasn't been a "more recent version of Office" for quite some time, so I suspect that this happened a while ago. Things have changed a lot, let me count the ways...

2 years ago but her computer had been installed at least 6 or 7 years before, that was Office 2016 period I believe. Granted the ribbon already existed but the default placements of a number of elements were slightly different than what you see in Office 365 today.

My point is that she didn't really care or realize it wasn't windows until she asked me for MS Office and I told her I couldn't install it on this Linux OS and that I didn't have any license for it. I think the respect the license part was what surprised her the most as a person who grew up in the digital age and got used to pasting random images found on the internet in social medias.
by theodoretliu | 2025-07-10 05:43:48+00:00
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by 0x3444ac53 | 2025-07-10 05:43:53+00:00
The important thing to note is that the book is being called "pornography" by the Clean Up Samuels group. It is explicit, but it is not pornographic. There are many many other books they want to ban completely simply because they features trans or gay characters.

While digging for this there does seem to be a young adult novel about a young gay man that does feature sexually explicit content (although it doesn't appear pornographic at all). The library keeps it in the "New Adults section. Which requires that anyone under age get explicit permission from their guardian to access, and they even created a new kind of library card to help moderate said access.
by 0x3444ac53 | 2025-07-10 05:44:30+00:00
Drag queen story hour wasn't a policy created by the ALA it was a popular program at some libraries.

The ALA did create a collection of resources for Libraries that wanted to host them, but even they are clear that that is a decision made at the local level [0]. You said you were very familiar with the ALA, because you "work in a related field". It might be helpful to actually read their standards and guidelines [1]. Just in case we're talking past each other, this might also be helpful [2]

[0]: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/libraries-respond-drag-queen-st...

[1]: https://www.ala.org/tools/guidelines

[2]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/policy
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-10 05:44:40+00:00
It should be an anti-goal. If it can be provided adequately at a profit (that is, if the benefits of purchasing the service to direct purchasers are sufficient to warrant direct users paying a sufficient price to not only offset the costs of providing a service but also to provide a profit to the service provider), then there is probably no reason to have a public service.

The reason to have a public service is primariy that it is desirable but not profitable, probably because of externalized benefits, or because the utility provided is concentrated in a financially disadvantaged population, such that the amount that they are able to pay underrates the utility delivered (the use of money as a proxy for delivered utility is only at best a loose proxy when money itself is unequally distributed), or for some other reason.

If it should be a public service at all, then it should almost without exception be publicly subsidized in whole or in part. Profitability in a public service is a "code smell" that you have something that likely should be a private industry that has instead been unnecessarily monopolized by the state.
by lucfranken | 2025-07-10 05:45:04+00:00
Not really if an URL link is added to the post in the comment response.

Also it is possible to embed a sub resource (or part of it).

Think a blog post.

/blogPost/:blogPostId

You can embed a blog object with the url and title so you can show the blogpost on a page with the name of the blog in one go.

If you need more details on the blog you can request /blogs/:blogId
by sandspar | 2025-07-10 05:45:37+00:00
From talking to people who invigilate these tests, you'd be surprised by how people answer. For example, someone answers Yes to "It is ok to steal from my employer."

I think these tests optimize for multiple things. Part of the test is designed to weed out people who are hostile and violent. Plus it's an IQ test with a floor of around 80, which seems reasonable. And it judges how well you can follow orders and "play the game".

McDonald's has dealt with tens of millions of job applicants. Many of these people arrive with complex challenges. There's a reason why McDonald's uses tests like these.

It might make more sense if you take the perspective of a McDonald's worker. Imagine you're a typical McDonald's employee - maybe you're a mom with two kids. Let's say you get a new coworker. Wouldn't you feel a little safer to know that they passed this test?
by smarnach | 2025-07-10 05:46:36+00:00
Not even that. There's no rule in the GDPR to disclose the use of cookies. The regulation doesn't actually mention cookies at all, except maybe in an example. Instead, any data collection that's obviously required to do what the user requests (including session and shopping cart cookies) doesn't require any explicit consent. Only additional data collection, whether performed by cookies or any other means, requires consent.

That's why there are websites without cookie banners, like GitHub. It's not even hard to do that; it's just that most companies don't bother, because they know the EU will be blamed anyway.
by nirui | 2025-07-10 05:46:38+00:00
Not weird at all if people don't strictly follow a standard.

The world of programming, just like the real world, has a lot of misguided doctrines that looked really good on paper, but not on application.

For example:

"_links": { .... "cancel": { "href": "/orders/123/cancel", "method": "POST" } }

Why "POST"?

And what POST do you send? A bare POST with no data, or with parameters in it's body?

What if you also want to GET the status of cancellation? Change the type of `method` to an array so you can `"method": ["POST", "GET"]`?

What if you want to cancel the cancellation? Do you do `POST /orders/123/cancel/cancel HTTP/...`, or `DELETE /orders/123/cancel HTTP/...`?

So, people adopt, making an originally very pure and "based" standard into something they can actually use. After all, all of those things are meant to be productive, rather than ideological.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-10 05:47:29+00:00
Healthcare debates in the United States are difficult because so many assume that insurers have very high profit margins and that arbitrarily denying claims is the reason they have high profit margins.

If you look at the actual profit margins it’s low single digit percentages. You could eliminate profits altogether and virtually nothing would change. We even have non-profit insurers to look at

It’s strange how the high prices of drugs and services aren’t drawing the ire of people who complain about costs. Drug prices are nearly 3X higher here than international averages and doctors here also earn a lot more with in many cases fewer restrictions on prescribing or offering services than in most EU countries.

The meme that insurance company denials are generating huge profits comes mostly from the public murder of a health insurance CEO last year. For some reason people assumed that insurance companies and their profits must therefore be the core problem with high costs, without making the effort to see where the money actually goes in our health care system.

As you said, there is no health care system which does not have approval processes, deny requests deemed unnecessary, require step therapy, and establish standards of care.
by thomasrp | 2025-07-10 05:50:16+00:00
The data normalization challenge across countries is indeed significant—cleaning and standardizing property data from different regions is no small task. Out of curiosity, what data sources are you currently leveraging for your model?

I'm involved with Stream Estate (https://stream.estate), a startup providing a standardized real estate data API in France, with plans to expand in Europe by the end of the year. It could potentially supplement your data, especially in regions where data density is a concern. Would love to hear your thoughts on data sourcing strategies for such a project.
by amluto | 2025-07-10 05:50:56+00:00
One can reasonably debate where the Fibonacci sequence starts. Their fib implementation is unquestionably broken for negative inputs, but fortunately they don’t supply negative inputs.

But try reading the code that calls fib. It’s so outrageously wrong that it’s fairly easy to read it and pretend they wrote something sensible. Never mind that there isn’t actually a straightforward single-line fix - next_fib would be an entirely different beast from fib.

If they had started with frequency = 4, the real effect of the code would have been to send a couple pulses and then to spend very rapidly (worse than exponentially) increasing time and stack space trying to compute fib.
by Letstalk123 | 2025-07-10 05:50:57+00:00
I used to spend hours scrolling, reading comments, watching people fight online. But I realized I hadn’t had a real conversation with someone new in years.

So I built something simple: an anonymous voice chat app that pairs you 1-on-1 with someone random in the world. No text, no profile, no feed. Just a voice. Just a person.

It’s called Mindfuse. I’m not a startup founder. I’m not trying to raise money. I just missed talking like a human. It’s been live for a while now and seeing strangers connect like this has been one of the most surprising and fulfilling things I’ve ever built.

Curious if others here ever felt the same: like the internet lost something real along the way. HN: have you ever tried talking to strangers this way—or would you?
by motorest | 2025-07-10 05:50:59+00:00
> You have got it wrong. Let's say I build some API with different user roles. Some users can delete an object, others can only read it. The UI knows about the semantics of the operations and logical names of it, so when UI gets the object from server it can simply check, if certain operations are available, instead of encoding the permission checking on the client side.

Have you ever heard of HTTP's OPTIONS verb?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

Follow-up trick question: how come you never heard of it and still managed quite well to live without it?
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-10 05:51:52+00:00
> If people don't care enough about a park to fund it, then that space may be of better use to something else

Once the land is used for something else, it will never become a park again.

It is important for us to safeguard land for greenspace like parks and playgrounds and community gardens and stuff, because it is incredibly difficult to reclaim space to make those sorts of spaces once there is a building or different zoning on the land
by pfannkuchen | 2025-07-10 05:54:11+00:00
I don’t really understand the team sport framing.

Whoever was in charge over the past N years did not uphold the rule of law with respect to humans moving across the border. I don’t really care what party they were from, it’s not relevant.

So whoever cares about fixing the problem is now more constrained in the fix than the people who allowed it to happen in the first place. That is kind of interesting, and I could understand how some people would feel justified in bending the rules to fix the problem.
by itake | 2025-07-10 05:54:19+00:00
I've heard a horror stories about NHS and Canada's Medicare. Their systems are backed up, so treatment goes untreated for long periods of time.

Presumably healthcare professionals are performing as many surgeries as they can per day. Just because one person was denied, doesn't mean another person isn't approved.

For example, I'd rather get cancer in the USA than UK: https://www.politico.eu/article/cancer-europe-america-compar...
by godelski | 2025-07-10 05:54:56+00:00
OP seems to have discovered Multivac[0].

In fact, OP is talking about "Franchise"[1], but I'd also encourage them to read "All the Troubles of the World"[2] (inspired Minority Report)

I would also suggest to go read the stories about Multivac, who is a reoccurring "character" in Asimov's writings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Troubles_of_the_World
by fsckboy | 2025-07-10 05:55:58+00:00
>I would argue that greed is the problem, not profit.

I would point out that's precisely what the "private equity firm"--is that true or just a buzzword? no private equity group is taking this library private--is saying about the current library, that the greed of the unionized employees is running the library for their own benefit and at great cost to library and at the expense of the public, and it could be run more efficiently. So, you agree with them at least that much.

>Somewhere along the line people forgot the lessons of the 20th century. They forgot that profit goes beyond a line on the current financial statement.

huh? that wasn't "the lesson of the 20th century". if anything, the 20th century represents democracy and market capitalism's greatest joint achievement, with much less disease and starvation and much more freedom at the end vs the beginning.

you live in one of the greatest times to be alive, and all you can do is complain. when and where from the past would you rather live out your life expectancy of half what it is now, coupled with no HN to bitch on?
by teiferer | 2025-07-10 05:56:51+00:00
We are not in disagreement here. Of course it makes sense to study successes and figure out differences in patterns of behavior making success more likely. Causal or not, that is another matter.

However, it's not black-or-white. Once an aspect that has likely contributed to success is identified, it's often framed as if focusing on that aspect guarantees success. That's an easy mistake to make if all observed cases of success exhibit it. But it's far from a guarantee, other aspects my play a role too. Like luck, for example. That's what I meant by mentioning survivorship bias.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-10 05:57:50+00:00
People are introverted and have no social skills thanks to smartphones. People have no shared interests in general, because there are so many niches. People have low self-esteem and body image issues. People are afraid that they'll get drunk and their behavior will be filmed and go viral. Previously available "soft" party drugs are too dangerous. People have no place to host a party, because they're all renters (not that it matters, the HOA has a strict no-smooth-jazz-music-after-3pm policy!)
by energy123 | 2025-07-10 05:59:32+00:00
Human nature (greed) is never the problem, because it cannot be changed. Focus only on what can be changed. Design a system that manages human nature, pointing it in a direction that is beneficial, while taming its side effects.

A denial of human nature is how you get authoritarian socialism with centralized planning, which leads to catastrophe because of the local knowledge problem, and because people have no private incentive to do anything.

"Capitalism" is an incomplete first step towards a system which channels greed into something that's beneficial for all stakeholders. A profit-driven actor making their production more efficient to increase profits is a good thing for everyone.

But capitalism is incomplete because the profit-motive can become pathological. Market failures are commonplace.

The only solution that is proven to work is a mixed economy done right, with clever and lean regulations, and a government not influenced by money, and with the government stepping in occasionally to provide public goods that the market cannot, and with private actors otherwise free to make profits as long as they are not harming any third parties.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-07-10 05:59:35+00:00
> experience mean nothing to the tech industry

This is not true. It is basically impossible to hit L7 before 30 years old. A lot of it is indirectly related to experience: What have you accomplished for us. MDs on Wall Street trading floors are similar. It is very hard (nearly impossible) to make MD before 30 in this era.