MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by konmok | 2025-08-31 20:27:19+00:00
Yes, it's hard to pinpoint an exact figure, but you have provided no evidence with which to obtain even a ballpark estimate. I don't think the real figure would be "slightly lower" than 6.6%, I think it would be much lower, since many of those exiting Gaza would be e.g. truck drivers who make the trip constantly. As for the "secret Gazan escape tunnels", while some Hamas tunnels may exist connecting Rafah and Egypt, I can find no evidence that these are trafficked by civilians. Of course, I don't know how much lower than 6.6% the real figure is, and neither do you, that's the point. The real problem here is that you presented that figure as an absolute certainty, without any evidence to back it up.

Secondly, when people refer to Gaza as an "open air prison" they are employing metaphor. I have never understood it to mean that literally no one leaves, and I don't think any reasonable person understands it that way.

Finally, you have provided more figures about Gazan deaths. Would you care to provide a source for those figures? Even if they are accurate (and so far, none of your figures have been accurate) they still contradict your previous post, that the "only men with guns in Gaza are Hamas". The point of my questioning was to arrive upon a common definition for the word "persecution". Your offered definition was indeed trivially false, since you just admitted that the IDF shot innocent civilians in that time frame. Perhaps you would like to amend your statement and pick a definition more suitable for your arguments, such as Amnesty International's definition. In that case, I offer this report detailing the many ways Palestinians were persecuted under Israel's rule prior to October 7: <https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/5141/2022/en/>
by simne | 2025-08-31 20:29:23+00:00
Well, this so called "third way", as I know appear in US as private elder care infrastructure, or as charity.

When somebody become so weak (ill or old), cannot care for himself and unfortunately have no family, they could ask to local private care to live in their specialized hostel. And it is not always just ordinary hostel with one room for 5 persons, but some are more like classic motels, with rooms for two persons.

Also, similar infrastructure existed for a long time in Italy, under Catholics church, and I know few good young people, who grown there.

As I know in Northern Europe (Sweden), there are many community buildings (under municipalities), very cheap to rent and even possible to get social donations and not pay at all.

Existed also non-church homes with similar economy (and also not designed as charity), but their examples are not always good. For example, Pruitt–Igoe in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, becomes huge crime center. Other not good example, some bad districts in exUSSR (for example Biryulyovo in Moscow, or Orekhovo-Zuyevo in Moscow Oblast, Russia), also known for their criminal level.

From Pruitt–Igoe experience, people created few rules about so called social homes, and one rule, they must be non-comfortable, to motivate people to grow to commercial rentals or even to once buy own home; second, should be some power, who will constantly monitor residents for crime and immediately deport offenders. So they are not "Third way", they are just temporary solution of very old problem, and not easy solution, even not cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
by creata | 2025-08-31 20:30:23+00:00
> the geocities version of the early web that consisted of enthusiasts being online not for commercial interests but for fun

LLMs are making many of the enthusiasts who were online just "for fun" feel sick for contributing to their training set.

> someone's cooking website where they first tell your their life story before

I haven't seen a recipe page without a "Jump to Recipe" page button in forever.
by kelnos | 2025-08-31 20:30:43+00:00
I think for a service that hosts only FOSS mobile apps, it's a pretty reasonable goal to also try to host and monitor the service using only open source tools. They may not be able to be able to do that 100%, but it's fair to ask.

It's funny, because I had the opposite reaction: I found it a little bit distasteful that, while I'm sure the guy had a genuine desire to help, he's also using F-Droid's issue tracker as a means of advertising his product, as presumably there are other people who might see that issue report and have need for it, and become a paying customer.

(To be fair, this isn't brazen spam; the "ad" is targeted and offered in the spirit of help, and if they offer perpetual free usage for open source products, he's not trying to extract money from F-Droid. But still.)

> Why would you even both responding except to declare "I am better than thou?"

Maybe don't take the most uncharitable interpretation of something said by a random person on the internet who you don't know? Someone who at least has the bona-fide of volunteering their time to help keep a valuable open source project online? Perhaps the F-Droid project does actually have a stated policy of using open source hosting/monitoring tools, and he was genuinely asking in case he missed something, and would actually like to use that service if it is indeed open source.

I think it's pretty weird to assume good faith with the Oh Dear guy's advertisement, but assume the unpaid volunteer helping run F-Droid is a holier-than-thou prat. But hey, of course, capitalism and hustle are the most important things!
by timr | 2025-08-31 20:30:46+00:00
Look, I'm tired of arguing about this, but since you're basically just appealing to authority (a wikipedia article), you should know that the one line you're quoting is actually not supported by the document that it cites [1,2]

Here's the exact definition:

> The definition of “appointee” in the Executive Order covers “every full-time, non-career Presidential or Vice-Presidential appointee, non-career appointee in the Senior Executive Service (or other SES-type system), and appointee to a position that has been excepted from the competitive service by reason of being of a confidential or policymaking character (Schedule C and other positions excepted under comparable criteria) in an executive agency.” Executive Order, sec. 2(b). However, “[i]t does not include any person appointed as a member of the Senior Foreign Service or solely as a uniformed service commissioned officer.”

So basically, there's a lot of nuance there, and your wikipedia quote is wrong. Perhaps you should change it to be more accurate (EDIT: nevermind. Did it for you!)

[1] https://www.oge.gov/Web/oge.nsf/Legal%20Docs/4EAB053F755BE59...

[2] Which, I should note, is a definition made by an executive order. LOL.

EDIT: OK, I have now followed this all the way to Wikipedia's stated source for political appointments ("The Plum Book", 2020 edition [3]), and I do not see this position anywhere in the book. Starts at page 79.

I'm sure you'll find a way to argue about it, but it seems that you are truly, definitively wrong...but who knows, since it changes every four years anyway.

[3] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2020/pdf/GP...
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-31 20:30:52+00:00
Thanks, for the long explanation.

[G: original, G' with conflicts, G" resolved]

What value do you get from G' and H' existing with conflicts when you can't use the working tree until after you have resolved the conflicts?

So in Git it would be G -> G", but in JJ you can do G -> G' -> G". But G" in both cases only exist, until after you have put in the work of solving the conflict. And G' only ever exists without a usable working tree. So what do you get from having G' earlier, when you still have G" only after the same work?
by sxp | 2025-08-31 20:31:05+00:00
The problem with this is that the verifier (Bank, DMV, Government, etc) can track that you went to gambling.com. E.g, maybe the gambling.com string is "gambling.com-123". Or if it's a random number, maybe gambling.com is storing it somewhere and the bank/government files a legal request to get a copy. You have to trust the government in this case which isn't ideal.

A better one is Chaum's Ecash protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash

To use a metaphor for that protocol:

1) The gambling site gives you a piece of with a UID on it. 2) You put the paper in a opaque envelope. (This is a cryptographic way of hiding the contents) 3) You take the envelope to the bank (or DMV, police station, etc) along with a copy of your birth certificate/RealID and they emboss it with their stamp saying you are over 18. The embossing is transferred through the envelop to the paper, but the bank hasn't seen the contents of that paper. (This is a cryptographic signing method which can affect the UID in step 2 without the bank needing to see the UID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature) 4) You take the paper out of the envelope and destroy the envelope. The paper with the UID has the stamp but doesn't have any tracking information that the bank might have put on it. 5) You give the UID to the gambling site. They see that you got it stamped by the bank so they know you have an account with the bank and are over 18, but they don't know the RealID that the bank saw when the bank stamped the envelope.

This is secure because the bank never saw the UID so they don't know if it was gambling-123 or disney-123. The gambling site can save that stamped UID and give it to the bank (or government) if required, but bank can't figure who came in to get that UID embossed. The only person who knows all the tracking information is the user. And as long as they burn the envelope (which is cryptographically secure), there is no usable tracking information.

As long as the bank is Good and uses the same stamp for all users (i.e, they don't use alice-stamp, and bob-stamp, etc for different users), there is no way for anyone to connect that Alice got her gambling-123 UID stamped. But this stamp is normally using PKI so anyone can check the public key of the stamp.

This algorithm was originally conceived to create anonymous "cash" since the bank would charge $1 to stamp your envelope and the gambling site could sell their UID paper to the bank to get that $1 from the bank.
by code_biologist | 2025-08-31 20:32:16+00:00
I would second your suggestion to investigate bupropion. More than a decade ago I was suffering from severe depression. Psychiatrists with meds were an easy-to-access front line treatment, but I was very concerned about SSRI side effects, particularly erectile side effects. It didn't take much persuading to have the psychiatrist prescribe bupropion instead of an SSRI. I too felt it helped with my then undiagnosed ADHD a lot.

As a note, bupropion did make me feel a little funny. It wasn't bad, weird, or intolerable, but yes I did have a faint perceptual awareness that I was in a medicated state.
by baq | 2025-08-31 20:32:51+00:00
I’m reminded of the Dropbox comment.

You can do anything with a Turing machine. That you can isn’t the point. The point is the tool does all the things you can automatically and correctly so you don’t have to. There’s no ’just do this or that during rebase, or outside of it’. There’s only ‘it rebased everything correctly without a single thought, nice’.
by amarant | 2025-08-31 20:33:05+00:00
Surely part of that is because most tech related questions have already been asked and answered on SO. I'd say a decline in new question is stack overflow working as designed. A large part of what makes SO so good is the searchability of old questions. There will always be new questions to ask, as new technologies confuse Devs in new ways, but to expect new questions to be asked at the same rate as peak is to misunderstand what SO is at it's core.

But that's just like, my opinion, dude.
by baranul | 2025-08-31 20:33:26+00:00
> With phones becoming our main computing platform, I wonder why do we look at it any different from our personal computers?

Especially after people paying so much money for the devices, it's ludicrous that they are not allowed to make their own decisions and install what they want. Ownership, user rights, and privacy have been kicked in the face. If you can not install whatever software that you want, then people should be signing only rental agreements.

It is also more the reason to push Linux smartphones[1]. Android is not doing anything special, that people could not get or create for Linux phones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...
by cookiengineer | 2025-08-31 20:33:54+00:00
The real question is on what OSI layer are you willing to die.

TCP fingerprinting is a real threat and most surveillance systems can identify your unique connection pretty easily, thanks to the quantum surveillance technique where closer surrounding and compromised hops will send you packets faster than the actual endpoint because they are geographically closer to you.

A real privacy aware browser caches everything, and scatters requests as much as possible through different network paths, and farbles Web APIs of the most common system and browser combination (which is Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome on Windows/Android).

I tried to implement all that, but I gave up working on that after I've been targeted in 2021. Maybe I have the time to get back to it after I am done with my current mission.
by leoc | 2025-08-31 20:34:20+00:00
I'm afraid I have to say that in my experience talking therapy is even less effective than drugs, which at least do something. But again, I'm not discouraging anyone from pursuing these pathways: do it if you can, and as soon as possible, partly because the problem's unlikely to get better over time. But don't get your hopes up, if you're primarily an anxious procrastinator.

(I should add that IME "body doubling"/"task shadowing" is somewhat effective, though not very consistently. It's also probably the hardest intervention to get, though maybe things like Focusmate https://www.focusmate.com/ might help with that nowadays.)
by slau | 2025-08-31 20:36:03+00:00
The amount of water required to wash by hand is exorbitant compared to the efficiency of a dishwasher.

Last time I checked, handwashing is 3 times less efficient in water usage than in the best case scenario (for handwashing), and 40 times less efficient in water usage in the worst case scenario.

Plus, even if we were to assume that somehow a human manages to use the same amount of water, then you’re still warming up the water somehow. It doesn’t become magically hot by exiting the tap, so the vast majority of the dishwasher’s electric running cost would now be shouldered by the water heating unit. Except it’s now 3-40x more water that needs to be warmed up.
by dkural | 2025-08-31 20:36:12+00:00
So many people are unable to imagine a future where any misunderstandings in execution by the programmer (AI in this case) can be more pleasantly and quickly solved by a conversation between product team / designer / QA and the AI-dev. There are systems in place to prevent junior devs from nuking your systems. Or senior disgruntled / insane devs from nuking your systems. This is why we have db backups, staging, etc. Programming uses a relatively limited vocabulary to talk about a relatively limited number of things. It will be better at the build-feedback-correct loop than 99% of devs. It will remember conversations, detail, everything basically. Just wait a few years. Lines of codes will be as irrelevant as #s of 0s and 1s.
by tptacek | 2025-08-31 20:36:30+00:00
No, I think he's closer to the science than this comment is. IQ has validity for its intended purpose of as a diagnostic tool for cognitive deficits. It is in fact not a valid tool for casually ranking ability based on individual tests, both because of test-retest consistency and because ordinality of IQ breaks down as scores get higher.

I think you could have written a reasonably strong argument that the parent commenter overstated their case, but you didn't do that: you just overstated the opposite pole of the argument and then declared the discussion off limits due to politics.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-31 20:36:38+00:00
True nested rebase doesn't exist (yet) in Git. What I do is create another commit with the parent commit 8 with commit --fixup and then complete the rebase. The I can just autosquash it, without reediting anything.

You could also keep the rebased commits, abort the rebase, rebase the already rebased commits and then continue the first rebase.
by ztetranz | 2025-08-31 20:36:42+00:00
I don't think the Queen instructed the Governor General to do that. He made the decision.

I'm old enough to remember it and remember a statement from the palace saying something like "The Queen is watching events in Australia with interest" but I don't think she took an active part.

I quick search reveals this. I don't know this site but if true then some letters seem to confirm the above. She told the GG to obey the Australian Constitution.

https://constitution-unit.com/2020/07/16/palace-letters-show...
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-08-31 20:37:21+00:00
> Some progress is better than none, and it's still nice that my ISP can't snoop on me any more. Unfortunate, TLS also took away my ability to inspect my own traffic! This makes it more difficult for me to monitor what my OS and browser vendor are doing, and as I've said previously, i trust these parties comparatively less than my ISP.

It might be more correct to say that Certificate Pinning made it so you can't inspect your own traffic - for sites with TLS but without certificate pinning, you can just as easily create your own root certificate and force the browser and OS to trust the cert by installing it at the OS level. This is (part of, atleast) how tools like Fiddler and Charles Proxy allow you to inspect HTTPS traffic, the other part being a mitm proxy that replaces the server's actual cert with one the mitm proxy generates [0]

[0]: https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-prox...
by kkfx | 2025-08-31 20:37:31+00:00
No thanks.

A valid and safe "age verification" (actually to be BANNED because meant as a way to pass internet censorship) could simply be: the State offer FLOSS and open-hardware IDs, we got a USB reader/built in in keyboard, built-in in laptop like we have hat in early 2000, who being all open we can trust, and the a simple boolean request "above age?" with a true or false answer PERIOD.

If we want more we ERASE the not needed anymore banking sector with a state backed crypto and state backed open hardware and FLOSS wallets with a simple display usable as smartwatch or pendent with a retractable necklace like the one we use for skipass, where we could see on a trusted device what we are going to approve or reject.

It's time to craft rules as code, in money/finance and laws/bureaucracy ERASING nazi censorship we see growing everywhere starting with biometry push.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-08-31 20:37:52+00:00
Yep, 'dataset poisoning' is what I like to call it. If all newly-trained models mostly reflect the Internet, then the strategy is to shove your ad copy into such a large fraction of the Internet that models will accept it as true. Like today's SEO slop, but turned up to 11, since it's not even aiming for human clicks.
by Arainach | 2025-08-31 20:39:21+00:00
The Iraq was was entirely unnecessary. It cost $3 Trillion[1], the lives of more than 500,000 Iraqi civilians, the lives of more than 8000 US troops and contractors, and so much more. It built a wave of anti-American sentiment in the middle east and the world. Literally nothing Gore could have done could have come close to that cost.

The Bush Administration turned a moment of universal world support for the US into cynicism and hatred by wasting goodwill on pointless wars. They turned a nearly balanced budget into huge deficits. The Trump Administrations have been, somehow, infinitely worse. No, there is no world in which things went worse.

[1] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/true-cost-iraq-war-...
by CorrectHorseBat | 2025-08-31 20:39:27+00:00
That's a possible explanation, but I'm not completely convinced it is without numbers. Maybe it's those under 35 who don't remember the bad of the British rule?

But even then, less than 50% of people under 35 call themselves Chinese (not even both Hong Konger and Chinese). And half of the adults call China a major threat, 22% a minor threat. Those are pretty bad numbers for indoctrination.
by cherryteastain | 2025-08-31 20:39:36+00:00
In the same way Windows and Mac computers can sidel...,ehm sorry, install software: we don't. Stores also sell guns, knives, chainsaws, highly addictive opiates, and 4 ton death machines capable of travelling at 100 mph. We do not restrict ordinary kitchen knives which have been used in terrorist incidents killing dozens, but draw the line at grandma sending $10k to a Nigerian prince?

Even if we are restricting installing apps, there are less heavy handed measures. By enabling .apk installs only via developer options/command line/adb in a way that the average user will never be able to figure out, for example. Sprinkle a few warning pages with scary red lettering and it's fine. Grandma will never figure out how to run adb commands on Gentoo.

There is a tradeoff between liberty and security. You can never guarantee security; the Google rules in the article won't ensure it either, as Google has been shown to simply not care about scam/malware apps published onto its own app store anyway. The whole security angle is a misdirection. The whole move is about control.

> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

- Benjamin Franklin
by tptacek | 2025-08-31 20:40:11+00:00
If IQ was one of the best predictors of job training success, it would be used everywhere. Instead, very few companies use it. There's a persistent myth that IQ isn't more widely used because of legal concerns, but that can't be right, because IQ and general cognitive tests are used by several of the largest companies (with the deepest pockets for discrimination suits) in North America --- and, further, the Griggs v. Duke jurisprudence that roots the myth doesn't have any force outside the US, where... IQ testing is not generally used in employment.

I don't know what the "self-assuaging fantasy" is supposed to mean, but you can read Cosma Shalizi to see how any set of tests structured like IQ tests are necessarily give rise to a "g" fact, even if you randomly generate them. I feel like I don't have to assuage myself too much that math works.
by tonyarkles | 2025-08-31 20:40:34+00:00
While I do think the distinction between ADHD and ASD is still useful in some ways, mostly around having signposts regarding where to start for treatment… a number of people in my life, myself included, are basically “mix-and-match from both lists of symptoms”. Some very clearly are majority from one list or the other, but most are both to varying degrees.
by kace91 | 2025-08-31 20:40:44+00:00
I’m reading this as a person diagnosed in their thirties and it feels a bit detached from reality frankly.

I, and millions other people, could tell you that it does immensely benefit with issues like executive dysfunction. Medication quite literally made the problem I had been battling for decades disappear instantly.

Associating adhd just with childhood is in itself an obsolete view that causes issues for people.