MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-27 11:30:48+00:00
Your post is full of shallow, unconvincing dismissals, mostly just you claiming stuff that isn't true, or essentially saying "nuh uh!” So, if you reply here, please make sure you back up your claims with reliable sources.

> it's not whatabouatism

It is common for someone engaging in whataboutism to unconvincingly deny it. Unfortunately, your whataboutism is whataboutism. If you want to avoid accusations of whataboutism, don't engage in it. That means not saying stuff like 'but what about Y' when defending X.

> and what makes you think that journalist organization promote truth

What makes you think israel does? They're certainly less reliable than the average journalist, given that israel in particular is globally notorious for lying, for attacking investigators, journalists, and other innocent civilians, and as we both noted in our posts, for 40+ years of violent, racist terrorist attacks against innocent Palestinian civilians.

> the only problem is that PA authorities are interfering with it.

You seem to be confused—israel is the one perpetrating the most journalist killing lately (the most in Palestine? No, the most in the entire world), and they forbid and prevent most journalists from entering or reporting from both the Gaza areas of Palestine and the West Bank areas of Palestine.

> israel doesn't have to provide justification to you or anybody else

If you mean in a legal sense, of course they do. The unsubstantiated claims of the attacker are pretty much always insufficient justification for an attack, but in particular here, because israel in particular is globally notorious for lying, for attacking investigators, journalists, and other innocent civilians, and as we both noted in our posts, for 40+ years of violent, racist, israeli terrorist attacks against innocent Palestinian civilians.

If you mean in a nazi-germany/russia-esque sense of, "we're gonna commit war crimes and perpetrate a genocide, you can't stop us, we can do anything we want and don't have to do anything we don't", you are right that israel is indeed just like that.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-27 11:31:03+00:00
> Lots of people are forced to take psychiatric medication right now, in developed countries including the US.

Just as an example, in the UK the verb "to section" is shorthand for "to commit to involuntary confinement in hospital under the legal authority of one or more sections of the Mental Health Act"

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/sec...

For example, you can be detained for up to 6 months under Section 3, if all four of these conditions are met:

1. you have a mental disorder

2. you need to be detained for your own health or safety or for the protection of other people

3. doctors agree that appropriate treatment is available for you

4. treatment can't be given unless you are detained in hospital
by js8 | 2025-08-27 11:31:42+00:00
Can you be more specific where Marx advocates for a violent revolution in his writings? I don't think word "revolution" (or even his usage of "dictatorship of proletariat") by itself implies violence (cf. "scientific revolution").

But I think there are people who consider forceful redistribution of ownership to be violence, even if no human is actually physically harmed in the process. I don't and I think there is a distinction to be made.

Edit: Nevermind, there's a lot of interesting debate about this on the Internet.
by vintermann | 2025-08-27 11:32:21+00:00
No, I don't think so. Not until Trump actually invaded Greenland would Danes maybe consider Putin (or Xi Jinping) an option.

Anti-US propaganda won't fill Danish newspapers, for the aforementioned loyalty reasons. Media people in Denmark (as elsewhere in the West) identify on a personal level with the sensible establishment. Sure, it's awkward that Trump isn't part of that and is currently in charge in the US, but they are convinced things will go back to normal over there, and then it'd be really embarrassing to have failed the loyalty test to the US. "Losing your glove" and all that.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-27 11:33:13+00:00
The US top government is anarchy right now, descending into totalitarianism. Silver lining, this shit has highlighted how fragile the US democracy is and how easily the checks and balances fail if they're being ignored and there's no consequences for ignoring them. In a functioning democracy, none of this would have happened and the people that tried it removed from office and jailed.

All previous administrations have failed too, in that they didn't tighten up the loopholes. Probably because they feared they could be used against them.
by npteljes | 2025-08-27 11:33:50+00:00
Unfortunately that's just a single good experience. (Unfortunately overall, not for you! I'm happy that your experience was so good.) Psych drugs (and many other drugs) are regularly overprescribed. Here is just one documented example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6731049/

Opioids in the US are probably the most famous case though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic
by panick21_ | 2025-08-27 11:34:15+00:00
That's kind of ridiculous and pedantic. In a solid fuel rocket, the solid fuel is most of the complexity and most of the cost. The rocket flys because of how the solid fuel is shaped and engineered.

Reflying the booster cases doesn't change the fact that an essentially new solid booster has to be manufactured.

In fact it didn't even financially make sense to reuse the boosters, so it was actually worse then not being reusable at all.

As with everything with Shuttle, it all sounds cool when you imagine it, but then if you look at the actual program its basically a 40 shit-show that started very badly and basically never got better. In actual fact, it failed completely as an industrial program for the US.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-27 11:34:53+00:00
It is easy to be in opposition and complain about everything. The contrarian parties tend to get very popular in the years between election cycles as the governing party can't deliver on everything and has to compromise.

Because you do know that Labour in the UK won a landslide victory a year ago and the last date for holding a new general election is in 2029.

The Scandinavian experience is that these parties crash as soon as they get to real power and have to compromise. Suddenly they had to be responsible.

If we do see these Trumpian parties win the majority in these elections in more rather than one-offs then we have a problem. But you're just fearmongering because you can't accept how completely wacko Trump is and need to blame it on "everyone does it!!!".
by _Algernon_ | 2025-08-27 11:35:04+00:00
>[B]ureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control. Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear. We cannot dismiss the possibility that, if Adolf Eichmann had been able to say that it was not he but a battery of computers that directed the Jews to the appropriate crematoria, he might never have been asked to answer for his actions. Neil Postman, Technopoly

Entities shouldn't be able to outsource liability for their decisions or actions — including the action of releasing stochastic parrots on society at large — on computers. We have precedent that occupations which make important decisions that put lives at risk (doctors, ATC, engineers for example) can be held accountable for the consequences of their actions if it is the result of negligence. Maybe it's time to see include computer engineers in that group.

They've been allowed to move fast and break things for way too long.
by tpoacher | 2025-08-27 11:35:17+00:00
Not saying this isn't a real issue, but the degree of bias in this reporting (and indeed in the original article) is not the most comfortable here either.

I mean, is it really surprising that a law company with expertise in the energy sector would handle energy clients? And is it really surprising that a publication with clear bias harming the reputation of its clients would elicit a legal response?

How did the publication even get through peer review in the first place without a reviewer requesting the equivalent links for other energy sources to ensure this wasn't effectively p-hacking?
by nobodyandproud | 2025-08-27 11:35:18+00:00
I think many did vote exactly for this.

Some of the things Trump has done—like tariffs—I actually agree with.

Sometimes you need to do stuff out of left field to break out of a rut.

But the purging of good civil servants is what enables Trump. And many of his voters fervently believe these civil servants are “the swamp”.
by Aachen | 2025-08-27 11:35:39+00:00
Idk why this is downvoted. People should look it up before you thinking someone isn't contributing to the conversation

> The European Commission said in 2001 that at the current level of uranium consumption, known uranium resources would last 42 years. When added to military and secondary sources, the resources could be stretched to 72 years. Yet this rate of usage assumes that nuclear power continues to provide only a fraction of the world's energy supply.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining

Or depends also on what we're willing to pay for the power but critics already call it too expensive compared to be viable given renewables' price and price history

The estimate is outdated but I didn't quickly find newer info and it's just generally not a weird notion to say it's exhaustible

Imo we should make use of what we have and not wait for everyone to put solar on their roofs to supply like 10% of what we need and then wonder how else we're going to reach net zero (especially in local winter), but that's another discussion
by milen | 2025-08-27 11:35:48+00:00
Yeah, it was. After I finished working on the iOS app I was previously involved with, I needed to either find a job or make another app.

I was browsing StackOverflow and saw some cool looking ASCII diagrams, thinking to myself "How can I make these easily on macOS?". So that's how the idea was born.

I then spent about 1.5yrs from the initial commit until v1 release. Unfortunately, the financials didn't work out, so I had to find a job eventually.

But I'm still maintaining the app and do have longer term plans when my job situation changes.

[1] https://milen.me/software/clear-iphone-walkthrough/
by flanked-evergl | 2025-08-27 11:36:45+00:00
The nuclear industry was not f-ed up, western governments are f-ed up. We regulate things to the point where everything has to be manufactured in China where it is much more environmentally harmful and they treat workers way worse, but we then still import the things. It's the same with Energy, EU regulated their way into an Energy crisis and the only solution was to become completely dependent on Russian energy to the point where even in 2024 EU paid more to Russia for energy than they gave in aid to Ukraine.

And wind, even if it was not a pipe dream, does not escape this. Norway cannot make wind power feasible at all, it will never be able to do that, because even if it could in theory be feasible, which I doubt, our regulation makes it impossible even after the government has thrown billions of dollars of our tax money after it.

We do not need wind, wind is not faster, it's not better, it's not going to fix Europe's energy crisis. Nuclear can and will, but the impediment there is not the nuclear industry, its the crony European politicians that run our economy in China's favour.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-08-27 11:37:09+00:00
The province of europa is at risk to become the playing-field for a great game.

Then again, it wont give up the learning-disabled dream of the world "society" being reform-able and law-governed. The architect of the Russia-debacle is still president of Germany.

I do believe in the society healing qualities of bankruptcy. Going broke has grounded so many people.
by plantain | 2025-08-27 11:37:24+00:00
If only we could model how frequently there was zero wind and whether that calculates with zero solar. Oh wait, we can, and we do. It's not even hard.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

In reality we will still have a lot of fossil generation which will make it 'easier'.
by simonask | 2025-08-27 11:37:33+00:00
You are out of your mind if you think people can reliably tell what they want. Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't. Telling the difference is hard, but it's pretty clear that they can't when they suffer from the serious mental condition called depression.

During a lifetime, your perspective and world view will change completely - multiple times. Young people have no idea, because they haven't had the chance to experience it yet.
by mossTechnician | 2025-08-27 11:37:43+00:00
Many of the browsers you mentioned above are basically Firefox reskins with better settings out of the box.

I downloaded WebLibre out of curiosity and can say it's different from those other browsers. I've never seen a mobile browser that lets you run Tor-enabled private tabs, or mobile-friendly multi-account containers. The UI also bears nearly no semblance to Firefox (besides the rendering engine, only the extension management area reminds me of it).
by latexr | 2025-08-27 11:38:04+00:00
> Worst case scenario is that Elon loses interest and pulls the plug and Mr Arbaugh loses continued tech support a la a google product.

That’s not even close to the worst case scenario. There are many worse outcomes than the product becoming inoperative, such as it malfunctioning in a way that significantly worsens the person’s quality of life, or its creator deliberately holding functionality hostage. Musk is known for being incredibly petty and thin skinned, I wonder how he’d react to Neuralink users doing or saying things he doesn‘t agree with.

I am genuinely glad this participant and presumably others have a new chance at quality of life, but it would be better if the one in control of the technology weren’t a private individual with such a history, and that the process to reach this milestone had been handled more responsibly and respectfully.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-...
by Moldoteck | 2025-08-27 11:38:32+00:00
The reason is peak demand. If your demand is say 5GW and hydro can provide max 3GW, unless you overbuild ren, it's 'easier' to have some more firm power while ren will act as water savers for hydro (especially considering droughts).

For now they have sufficient power, but considering nuclear timelines, you better start now

Enhanced geothermal could play a role here, but for now it's debatable.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-08-27 11:38:56+00:00
War for oil is a conspiracy, but an unprosecuted one.

Your disdain for the conspiracy theorist scene is mirrored in that scenes disdain for justice.

In the case where there is actionable justice that can be achieved, the conspiracy theory is no longer a theory - the conspiracy is prosecuted in the courts of our proud nations' democratic institutions.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-08-27 11:39:01+00:00
I mean conceptually, venv and all that stuff, I can't wrap my head around this, why anyone would do it that way. Have a project.deb file with everything in it, done. Like everyone else does it. With Python I need to switch to that environment when I go to the directory and all of that.

This: "Then, run the script in an isolated virtual environment"
by rpdillon | 2025-08-27 11:39:04+00:00
This is a naive take because it ignores the presence of the third-party doctrine. The moment any file is uploaded to the cloud, you lose an expectation of privacy. When we decided to put everything in the cloud, I think most people sort of forgot about this, but it doesn't make it not relevant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
by myrmidon | 2025-08-27 11:40:00+00:00
This is a systematic problem, the exact same thing happened with leaded gas already (industry sponsored scientists spreading misinformation on toxicity, lawfare against scientists that uncover/publish inconvenient truths) but there were zero consequences.

Our current system makes it much too easy to hold on to profits even when direct negative externalitites cost millions of human life-years.
Reddit's Automated Ban System Trapping Legitimate New Users
by idebasispaul | 2025-08-27 11:40:24+00:00
I'm posting this as both a personal frustration and a broader discussion about automated content moderation systems.

*The Issue:* For the past 4+ months, I've been unable to successfully join Reddit. Every account I create gets suspended within hours of attempting my first post, despite:

- Following all published community guidelines - Posting innocuous content (help requests, hobby discussions) - Waiting several days between account creation and posting - Reading subreddit rules carefully before posting - Using different email addresses and following best practices

*The Support Black Hole:* More concerning than the initial suspensions is the complete lack of response to appeals. I've submitted multiple formal appeals through: - reddit.com/appeals (official appeal form) - contact@reddit.com (direct support email) - Reddit Help Center support tickets

Zero responses over 3+ months. Not even automated confirmations.

*Why This Matters:* This appears to be a systemic issue where Reddit's spam detection creates false positives with no viable human review process. Once flagged, legitimate users seem to have no recourse.

*Technical Speculation:* Possible causes could include: - IP/device fingerprinting gone wrong - Overly aggressive new account behavioral analysis - Email/phone number blacklisting - Browser/session tracking false positives

*Discussion Questions:* 1. Has anyone else experienced this with Reddit or similar platforms? 2. What should the standard be for automated moderation appeal response times? 3. How should platforms handle false positive scenarios in automated systems?

This seems like a solvable engineering problem, but it requires acknowledging that automated systems need robust human oversight and accessible appeal processes.

*Update:* I'm not looking for workarounds or account creation tips. I'm more interested in discussing the broader implications of automated moderation systems that lack adequate human review processes.
by frm88 | 2025-08-27 11:41:09+00:00
Personally, I fear addressing this issue to Google is wasted effort, since they "only" try to establish what Apple already has in place. Both mega-corps being in the U. S. (plus Trump threatening all countries that try to regulate U. S. technology yesterday) makes any appeal somewhat void.

That means, we have to do it ourselves. The first thing we can do is write to our MEPs. All of them. Thankfully, x775 has made a website in protest to the EU chat control law that makes find your MEPS E-mail addresses really easy, so maybe we can just take advantage of their work and use it to frame our own request. The relevant HN post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858504

Could this be a way forward???
by hopelite | 2025-08-27 11:41:18+00:00
Did you read the article? It even mentions that the AI suggested several times to get help and reach out.

What struck me besides the baseline that AI is not an actual person, is that people forget that it is a tool not too different than Google.

But then there’s also this from the chat log; “I just went up to my mom and purposely tried to show the mark [from a noose] by leaning in and she didn’t say anything”

Ignoring other things that may have contributed to his action, it seems that the parents may not have been as engaged with him as they should have maybe been.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-27 11:41:20+00:00
There no motte, and no bailey, I never talked about shorts in the first place (surprise, there are multiple users on this platform …) I just witnessed your bad faith argument about how people aren't forced to go on YouTube and proved it wrong.

The key problem isn't that YouTube has been degrading its user experience for a while, the problem is that we don't have anywhere else to go as YouTube is the most encroached monopoly in the tech scene (which is no small feat).
by _heimdall | 2025-08-27 11:41:32+00:00
I wouldn't reach for making an industry a utility just because it became a monopoly. It should probably be considered a public good as well, I'm not sure social media would fit that.

I'd look to why it became a monopoly. I'm not sold on social media being a monopoly given the number of services out there, but either way they only got so large because they were effectively given get out of jail free cards with regards to legal liability protections given to the by the government. Removing those rather than standing up all the plumbing needed to regulate them as utilities seems like a much more simply approach.
by jajko | 2025-08-27 11:41:35+00:00
The underlying logic is flawed though, there is no deeper action plan since they will still have 0 control over the company and any of its bigger decisions. Also nobody buys from Intel foundries, and for good reasons, this won't change any of that.

We have already seen some pretty blatant insider trading moves from current government, so I wouldn't rule that one out. But its probably way more petty - chips and manufactured war with China is all the rage in media, we all still remember covid situation, so its an easy area to get some political points, while spending other's money.

Most European government interventions, like French literally taking ownership of their common car manufacturers aren't considered any sort of success story to emulate after.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 11:43:33+00:00
"Creating value for shareholders" has done more for sustainability than eco-activists could ever hope to.

Industrial capitalists make mass produced LED lights and cheap solar panels. Eco-activists push for anti-nuclear laws and plastic straw bans.

It's pretty telling that oil lobbyists resort to non-market methods like bribing politicians to stall renewables. They know the time is running out - with all the new power generation and storage tech that's in the pipeline, fossil fuels just aren't going to be economically viable forever. Renewables are rising, and there is no moat - all the existing oil assets those companies hold are going to be increasingly useless as more and more of the world's power comes from non-fossil sources.

"Stall" is about the extent of it though. You can't fight economic forces off forever.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-27 11:43:34+00:00
With web apps playwright-mcp[0] is essential IMO. It lets the AI Agent check its own work before claiming it's done.

With that it can see any errors in the console, click through the UI and take screenshots to analyse how it looks giving it an independent feedback loop.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp
by Moldoteck | 2025-08-27 11:43:43+00:00
Wind for nordics is great because it helps reducing water use and avoid drought problems for hydro

Nuclear is still needed since expanding hydro isn't an option. And it's great for district heating in the north

You are right about regulations but even if you fix em now, framatome and whouse are just some shadows of what they've been in the past compared to current rosatom/chinese nuclear. Ramping up to the past lvl will be hard.

Fyi, I'm not sure but I think the statement about funding Ukraine is a bit misleading because EU as a whole and each EU country have different funding and budget mechanisms. Maybe I'm wrong but I remember I've read something about this in the past