MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sixdimensional | 2025-08-14 15:02:08+00:00
I'm not sure I totally agree.

Personal profit maximization only works to a point - for example, if you get too old, sick or the system rejects you early and curtails or limits your ability to make money.

I don't disagree that money gives you options, but, far too many people wait until they have enough money to give back.

If you give back while you are working (e.g. balancing working for profit vs working for nonprofit, altruistic reasons, etc.) - that's awesome. The challenge there is maximizing the good you can do if you're giving too much time and energy to your profit maximization.

At some point, someone has do physically do the needed good work.

For myself, the calculus has shifted. I personally decided I cannot wait until I have enough money, or I am maximizing my profit, to go out and help people.

I also cannot wait until I am physically or mentally unable to help beyond financial contributions. Also, I cannot afford to work in the current system that drains everything from you and leaves you no energy or time left, only money (if that).

Regarding the inherent maximum scaling limits of one person- I would challenge your thinking.

Power laws of networks may demonstrate that helping a small number of the right people might be enough to unleash the butterfly effect or play into ongoing changes.

Also, the physical limits of humanity on one person apply to a billionaire as much as a person with little money. I'm not saying a billionaire, millionaire, or person with significant finances isn't more mobile/capable, but it's not a given.

I am for reasonable profit and balance. There is nothing inherently wrong with maximizing profit if someone chooses.

But if we all spend our time on maximizing profit, there still, for the time being and probably well into the future, still needs to be boots on the ground doing work that is not for profit.
by troyvit | 2025-08-14 15:02:23+00:00
Seriously. There has been so much progress in the area of non-consensual recording and processing of data, and so little in the area of countermeasures. You can do a web search for the former and find tons of hardware and software that'll help you spy on folks. Searching for adversarial design gives scientific papers. It implies that there is little-to-no measurable demand for privacy (at least of this sort) in the marketplace.
by epistasis | 2025-08-14 15:02:44+00:00
Your first and second paragraphs are in opposition to each other. The government is setting strict rules about what sort of books are allowed with this law. It's not a mere selection of the many books, but a strict ban of certain types of books based on their content. When the government establishes laws like this, they must be in accordance with our constitution above all, and that sort of strict criteria on banning certain types of books disagrees with the first amendment and the legal tradition around it.

Similarly, you are also wrong about this compelling the government to stock certain books, that's not on the table at all.
by jlarocco | 2025-08-14 15:03:01+00:00
That's only the first part of the story, though.

Facebook isn't guilty because Flo sent medical data through their SDK. If they were just storing it or operating on it for Flo, then the case probably would have ended differently.

Facebook is guilty because they turned around and used the medical data themselves to advertise without checking if it was legal to do so. They knew, or should have known, that they needed to check if it was legal to use it, but they didn't, so they were found guilty.
by ndom91 | 2025-08-14 15:03:06+00:00
Anyone have any new suggestions for similar apps on the Android side of things?

I know the full-blown Linux terminal is "released", but only for Pixel phones by what I've been able to find. Definitely can't install it on my OnePlus 13 yet.

I've been using JuiceSSH for years, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth and doesn't receive updates for years anymore either.
by echap | 2025-08-14 15:03:10+00:00
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by jeroenhd | 2025-08-14 15:03:14+00:00
TIL "Jezebel" is a reference to the bible.

Without the bible, people still have dictionaries if they don't understand words or references. Or they could use Google. I don't see why some books would be "too crucial" not to ban in a law banning books intended to protect kids.

If anything, I find it easier to defend a ban on religious books in (public) schools.
by _1tem | 2025-08-14 15:03:44+00:00
There's evidence that Visa and Mastercard tried to prevent Apple from building their own network, including DOJ antitrust complaints in 2024 and a more recent suit in July 2025. The fact that antitrust allegations failed to make it in court despite it being such an obvious antitrust case against the duopoly very much suggests that there is something more going on behind the scenes. This seems like such an easy antitrust case to win, especially when it was used successfully in the Visa vs. Plaid case (another case where a potential competitor was prevented from building an alternative to Visa/Mastercard) - Plaid dropped their plans to build a network after their acquisition was cancelled.

There's no way that I can take such strange goings-ons at face value - Apple only gains by disintermediating Visa and they clearly tried at some point, but something stopped them. What stopped them? Too hard for Apple? They already built the infrastructure for it with Apple Pay and Apple Cash. What stopped them from going all the way? I'm convinced something more powerful stopped them.

See here: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/apple-visa-maste...

There is plenty evidence of shadowy forces shutting down payment systems, just look at Marc Andreessen's public statements about crypto founders he invested in getting debanked.

https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb...
by resters | 2025-08-14 15:04:00+00:00
many aspects of business and financial planning are adversely impacted by excessive inflation. Sure, you can theoretically bake inflation hedges into any financial instrument, but a very small percentage of business and financial planning is done that way -- and the hedges also impose a cost.

Inflation is effectively a tax on savings. There is absolutely no upside, it is considered a tolerable side-effect of the Fed's employment mandate.
by thesuitonym | 2025-08-14 15:04:18+00:00
I think this article shows nicely what we in modern days get wrong about education, even though it's premise is wrong in my opinion. These are just my opinions, and I am not an educator by trade, so take it for what it's worth.

This article starts with the premise that we go to school to learn how to work. In a world where that is the case, yeah, apprenticeships are far better. It happens that many people look at schooling that way, but I don't believe that's even the correct way to think about schooling.

School originally was not about learning to do a job. It was about learning how to learn. That's why writing papers and doing homework used to be such a big deal, because while you might have been stuffing your brain with knowledge about, say the history of bronze-age Europe, what you were really doing was learning how to find facts, how to organize them, and how to take useful notes.

The problem is that in the past 80 years or so, we've started to see school as training to work. Whether it's primary school teaching us to be good factory workers, or college teaching us to be good office workers. College and university came to be viewed as a way for poor children to move up the social ladder. But to do that, you need a good job. And the best way to get that good job is to teach you to do it in university. So you end up in a situation where schools don't teach students how to learn, and since group instruction is a bad way to learn how to do a job, they don't really teach students how to do a job either. And in some countries you pay out the nose for the privilege.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-14 15:04:27+00:00
I've had too many lies told to me by all of these "AI" tools to trust anything I don't already know to be true without verifying the referenced sources myself. At that point, if I'm giving the information to anyone else, I might as well communicate the sources rather than an AI's impression of the sources. There's just no value add to me beyond identifying potential sources in "research mode".
by pizza234 | 2025-08-14 15:04:47+00:00
The articles describe how the problem is inherent in the language.

If we exclude AAA games, probably the vast majority of the games nowadays don't need manual memory management for the game core (C# was a popular choice, it seems). I guess that if one really needs manual memory management, languages with moderate memory safety would be a more appropriate choice (support libraries/frameworks being equal, which certainly aren't).

I've used Bevy, and ECS is not an appopriate choice for every game (I wouldn't actually advise it unless there is a specific need). It requires very careful design over the whole lifecycle (ECS-based games very easily tend to get a mess), which is exactly the opposite of one wants for rapid prototyping.
by Wheaties466 | 2025-08-14 15:04:48+00:00
apart from the skepticism and anti AI hype. One down side that is pointed out is that AI has the potential to dissuade people from learning. Why go through the pains of learning something when an AI can do it faster and better.

I do get the argument that it is a tool and everyone will have to adapt around it. But at some point it can be extremely demoralizing that a phd project that took months or years can be done by AI in a fraction of the time.
Show HN: Accidentally built churn detection AI (I don't code)
by willster787 | 2025-08-14 15:05:55+00:00
I'm new here, so apologies in advance for link faux pas, etc.

Six months ago, I discovered Claude could turn my ideas into code. It started with batch files at work - I needed automation, couldn't find scripts, asked ChatGPT to fix snippets. Ran out of tokens, switched to Claude. It got things right the first time. My boss was impressed. Then I thought: "Could I build something to sell online?" Started building for realtors (they have money, need tools). Got deep into ML predicting housing markets. Asked Claude "can this AI make AI?" and... it could. My realtor brother-in-law killed it: "Market's too chaotic, this won't help." Pivoted to his simpler idea but kept the AI parts. Built an "AI assistant" that was supposed to be a small feature. It became the whole system. 80% done, tried to test it. Wouldn't even start. Spent WEEKS copy-pasting errors to Claude, entire 2000+ line files, racing against token limits. Finally powered on. New errors meant progress. Then reality hit: I'd built an advanced decision-making system that needed months of data from hundreds of agents. They just wanted a chatbox. Asked Claude: "What is this actually good for?" Answer: "Churn prevention. Multi-billion dollar problem." Three weeks ago, discovered Claude Code (MCP). Plugged it into my folder. Game changer. Now I have: - Real-time churn detection (85% accuracy on "I want to cancel") - Claude integration that's aware of the "temperature" of each conversation - Self-healing architecture (because I can't fix what breaks) - SHAP explanations showing why predictions were made - 10,000+ lines of production TypeScript The kicker: I still don't know how to code. I just kept asking "what if?" curl -X POST http://localhost:4000/api/chat/message \ -d '{"message": "I want to cancel", "userId": "test-user-001"}' Response in 1.8 seconds with full risk analysis. Looking for one SaaS company to actually use this. I built something that predicts human behavior eerily well. Turns out predicting when customers leave is worth real money. Who knew?

Currently running locally - happy to demo for interested companies or give temporary API access to serious testers. Didn't want to wait until I had my DNS act together before sharing this.

UPDATE: Live demo available!

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by NateEag | 2025-08-14 15:06:02+00:00
Fascinating - Jansson's artwork is lovely. Thank you for sharing it!

I think the huge Gollum is a very understandable misinterpretation, but I think it's likely false the text she worked from was ambiguous about Gollum's size.

If she was working from the 1951 revision, which seems likely if she was working in the 60s, then there is an explicit cue in the text showing that Gollum must be roughly Bilbo's size, when Bilbo is escaping the caves:

> Straight over Gollum’s head he jumped, seven feet forward and three in the air...

If Bilbo could jump over Gollum with a three-foot leap, Gollum cannot be a giant.

That said, it's well after the passage she illustrated, and would require a pretty attentive reader to catch, so as I said, the mistake is certainly understandable.

Additional caveat that I've not read the second edition of The Hobbit, only more recent ones, so it's conceivable that passage wasn't _exactly_ as I've quoted it.

I strongly suspect was largely as written, however, and even without the explicit numbers, if Bilbo jumps over Gollum, the inference remains largely the same.
by jetroni | 2025-08-14 15:06:11+00:00
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by jlokier | 2025-08-14 15:06:23+00:00
> Banks are pretty good at not losing data

Except for that day I logged into Barclays Bank (in the UK) and half the transactions were missing from the last several months of statements.

We're talking maybe 50 transactions just gone from the bank account ledger, which had long since been settled and previously downloaded (that's how I noticed).

To be fair to them, the transactions reappeared a few days later. But it took days, and had me quite worried.
by timcambrant | 2025-08-14 15:06:35+00:00
American consumer debt is also a different beast in the US because households tend to counter inflation and higher prices by shifting over their monthly spending to credit cards. Most Europeans use credit only for certain goods and mostly pay the full amount off every month. This creates an elasticity in the US, where inflation leads to higher prices which slowly leads to higher household debt, which makes recessions more grave when they do appear. Europeans are instead quicker to move to cheaper stores and start buying cheaper goods in bulk.
by komali2 | 2025-08-14 15:06:57+00:00
> This is the key to everything in the US right now I feel. Laws exist, but they're not being enforced or are difficult to enforce legally.

My hope is that this situation wakes Americans up to the fact that laws were always this way. I'm hoping this breaks the myth of the law as a fair arbiter of justice. In reality the legal system of the USA is enforced at the whim of incredibly biased cops, judges, and politicians. I really think a day in a county courthouse should be a requirement for all American kids so they can see just how arbitrarily sentencing is applied or how whether someone ends up in trial at all can hinge on whether a judge agrees or disagrees there was probable cause, and the judge will do like 20 of these hearings one after another.

Not to mention the fact that any black American can tell you that there's two justice systems in the USA: the one for white people, and the one for everyone else. Hence why so many black kids can tell you about when their parents gave them "The Talk," and no, it's not the birds and bees one, it's the one about how your white friends can get up to mischief that you can't and there's nothing you can do about it so don't bother getting mad about it, just keep your head down and never backtalk the cops.
by webstrand | 2025-08-14 15:07:20+00:00
From what I can gather, the event happened in 2008. At the time gentoo had no official wiki, it was an unofficial wiki that died or went offline for a significant amount of time.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20081023145740/http://www.gentoo...>

And when it came back online in november,

> Gentoo-Wiki recently had it's database lost; this is the rewrite of the site

<https://web.archive.org/web/20081204053828/http://en.gentoo-...>
by Der_Einzige | 2025-08-14 15:07:27+00:00
Most good books are subversive towards the goals of education. I couldn't believe when they unironically asked me to read "Pedegogy of the Oppressed" and than tried to give grades on it.

Trying to give grades to kids for Oscar Wilde's work is fully against the spirit of his thinking. Trying to grade kids for a whole lot of modern "classics" also goes against the spirit of their thinking. Joyce was too busy writing horny smut to be a supporter of literary analysis of his work.

But more seriously, most young adult fiction is pretty low quality. I cringe pretty hard when I look back at what that genre had us reading at the time. Percy Jackson and Eoin Colfer are poster children for the millennial brain rot that ended our collective love of YAF. We are a far cry from the high point it hit under the excellent writing of a certain Brian Jacques
by rprend | 2025-08-14 15:07:29+00:00
> The incentive for merchants to accept cards for payment is that it'll increase number of sales this is something that ive thought about a lot, because while it is strictly true in the short run it may not be in the long run. For example, i don't have any debt, but i use a credit card for everything. Why? It's become my default to use it.

I wonder if the same thing will happen with BNPL (Klarna, Afterpay). These are higher fee than credit cards (5-7%) because they bring in new customers. But, like with credit cards, savvy customers are starting to see BNPL as interest free loans (aka free money on the float, even better than credit card rewards), and it's possible that they become the new consumer results. Merchants are left holding the bag of paying 6% processing fees for everyone, even people who can afford it.
by toast0 | 2025-08-14 15:08:14+00:00
> Why does a period tracking app need to send data to meta (why does it even need networking access at all)?

In case you want to sync between multiple devices, networking is the least hassle way.

> Why is there no affordance of user-level choice/control that allows users to explicitly see the exact packets of data being sent off device? It would be trival for apps to have to present a list of allowed IPs/hostnames, and users to consent/not otherwise the app is not allowed on the play store.

I don't know that it ends up being useful, because wherever the data is sent to can also send the data further on.
by asadotzler | 2025-08-14 15:08:22+00:00
Which books on the list covered in this article are equivalents of Mein Kampf in mid-century Germany? I'll save you the effort. The answer is "none of them." That makes it pretty black and white for me. There's not some massive overlap here that makes it all shades of gray. The two situations and the works of literature are entirely different and the Germany case is an abberation, an exception, and hardly a good basis for drawing global conclusions. It is black and white. Either you're for or against the wholesale banning of books or you're for it. Countering with "but this one time in this one place" is hardly convincing.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-14 15:08:50+00:00
But no books are banned. The government is allowed to set school curriculum in every other case, so why not this one? If you don't like government school rules set by the government, then who gets to set them? I don't think you have a good answer to this.

You are dancing around the fact that someone has to decide what books go in the library. Who should that person be? Seems to me that it should be the owner of the library in question, which in this case is the state whose budget and laws are controlled by the legislature.
by nozzlegear | 2025-08-14 15:08:51+00:00
> It seems to me that the government is allowed to decide what books to buy and stock in its own libraries. I don't understand how freedom of speech obligates the government to make a book available for free.

The concern here is that letting the government decide which books are kosher for its school libraries and which books aren't kosher is that taken to its extreme, the government could ban all books that aren't the King James Bible without explicitly adopting a pro-King James Bible policy. And if that's the only kind of book they stock in the library, then children who want to check out books are going to be reading literature with a certain kind of slant to it.

Replace the King James Bible with whatever you personally wouldn't want kids to be reading, e.g. the Quran or the Kama Sutra.
by slibhb | 2025-08-14 15:08:57+00:00
It is notably weird to react to this article by criticizing "free speech absolutists". Who are the people you're criticizing? Be specific. Free speech absolutists are mostly principled people who want to defend civil liberties while getting flak from the right and left.

An example of this is FIRE -- which was massively criticized by progressives for suing colleges over anti-conservative speech codes, DEI statements, etc. But FIRE has behavred in a princicpled manner and has sued conservatives and the Trump administration over civil liberties violations.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-08-14 15:09:29+00:00
See my reply to sibling comment.

What is customization, if all you can customize are countless half-baked distros for tinkerers, teared through constant drama, ambitions of snowflake devs trying to make 100 competing solutions obsolete by introducing 101st, and forking, and, as a typical non-dev computer user, you are more and more dependent on adversary Big Techs?

If Cyberpunk dystopia ever comes, I am sure we still will be able to choose between GNOME and KDE, and there will be people saying that we are still good, for we have a choice.