MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darrenf | 2025-08-15 10:59:23+00:00
Arrests are up, but sentences are down — i.e. fewer convictions/criminal records

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

> there are several reasons why an arrest may not result in a sentence, such as out-of-court resolutions, but said the “most common is “evidential difficulties””, specifically that the victim does not support taking further action.

As mentioned at the top of the above document, there was a debate in the Lords on 17th July on the topic where many of the participants were pretty scathing about the situation: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-07-17/debates/F807C...

The minister was naturally defensive towards the end, albeit they did say:

> Importantly, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing, at the request of the Home Secretary, are currently undertaking a review of how non-crime hate incidents are dealt with. We expect to see some information from the police on that. It is self-evidently important that some of those incidents help us gather intelligence on potential future crime, but, equally, we do not want the police to do things that waste their time and not focus on the type of crime that the noble Lord rightly mentioned in his introduction.
by tgv | 2025-08-15 10:59:31+00:00
Is this you?

news.ycombinator.com | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com Reported: 15 August, 2025 at 10:09 Shut down on: 15 August, 2025 Shutting down due to OSA Discussion site for insufferable nerds. Submitted
by khalic | 2025-08-15 10:59:45+00:00
Sorry for your past, happy you got out of it.

1. Listen, yes it’s very hard work, but it’s this or be squeezed until there’s nothing else. And when people start having famines we’ll have a new French Revolution, millions will die, and this will require a lot more energy than doing changes today.

2. Will do, I don’t know enough on that subject to have an opinion on that. But unjust, unmovable systems, like monarchies (wink) have been toppled in the past. Even recently.

3. Sorry I was just using my environment as an example, I meant people that trust you, that you trust. This kind of movement starts small
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-15 11:02:41+00:00
In my experience links and form fields are the two above you encounter most often in the real world. The problem with forms though is that you potentially open up scripting, for better or worse. I mean you're already in Javascript, so you could handle it a lot easier than Preview on MacOS could, but it is of course worrisome that you'll be running code from an arbitrary PDF…

I wish I was still working at Apple and had my suite of nasty PDF's to test with. Some were just huge files (like a catalog for McMaster-Carr or wherever), another (a version of The Bible?) had an odd text layout across the columns on each page (for testing text selection), maybe one file was a huge single-page PDF street-map of a city (with lots and lots of rendering code and arbitrary text runs all across the map, etc.).
by gommm | 2025-08-15 11:03:05+00:00
> The notch has been around for 4 years now, and Apple still hasn't provided a solution for the problem they introduced.

As a lot of people told you, you can just disable it. I've been doing that for 4 years, just set your resolution to a 16:10 ratio and you're good to go. The resolution is exactly the same as it was before they introduced the notch

Personally I like the fact that Apple gives us the choice. I dislike the notch and prefer my menu bar below because I use apps like intellij. My wife likes the notch and keeps it. So, both of us can have what we want.

Maybe Apple could have made it slightly easier to disable it by having an option instead of choosing a 16:10 resolution but, to be honest, most of the people who dislike it tend to be power users who can figure it out.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-15 11:03:13+00:00
> OK, so what makes you the arbiter of when an emotion is "in excess"?

You asked:

> Why shouldn't people be overly emotional?

I am not the arbiter. I am not calling any particular thing overly emotional. I am merely pointing out that overly emotional is bad by definition. People should not be overly emotional because it’s overly emotional. It’s bad by definition.

> Hate and insults are not somebody saying “it will make me sad”. You misrepresented what GP was saying. Why?

You are still avoiding this question.
by dgroshev | 2025-08-15 11:03:49+00:00
It's not even internally consistent, although propaganda rarely needs to be consistent. The UK government is somehow both entirely powerless (can't do anything about crime at all), and exceptionally powerful (tightly policing the speech and thoughts of 70 million people).

Very little odd about this btw. Those efforts are intentional and blatant, e.g. [0]. In that case, you can even see that the accounts listed in the article flaunt what they are, their first posts after the blackout are about Israel.

[0]: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pro-indy-accounts-...
by Macha | 2025-08-15 11:04:43+00:00
I mean, if they got rid of kanji, presumably they would introduce spaces. It's not an alien concept, it was used in early computers and early computer games, and still get used in games and books aimed at kids:

https://www.famitsu.com/images/000/190/128/y_5e083812bfff9.j...

(Pokemon also has a full kana mode, but due to the number of homonyms in Japanese, I think while it might be easier for actual Japanese children, even with the spaces it's harder for a Japanese learner than the kanji mode unless you're literally in your very first month. There's also things that will be obvious to natives but confusing to learners like that すげー in that screenshot is a slangy すごい)
by nrawe | 2025-08-15 11:04:54+00:00
So, here's the thing, the BBC has a whole section of its news site dedicated to the conflict, including documentation of alleged atrocities committed by Israel and Hamas. Its produced documentaries detailing the settlers movement. The BBC is paid for by the taxpayers. LBC regularly has pro-Israel and pro-Palestine people on. GBNews, Sky and the Murdock-verse have their views mostly from a pro-Israel POV, more left-leaning papers like the Guardian continue to report in favour of the Palestinian people (not Hamas).

So if the government had a major problem with the a free speech, its doing a pretty good job of not showing that.

In the Commons, the argument hasn't been against the humanitarian crisis faced. However, the situation is more complicated when Hamas and a significant portion of the Israeli government want to eradicate each other and end any hopes of the two-state solution, and act accordingly violent.

The situation with Palestine Action being made proscribed also isn't because of their beliefs, but their actions. You can't commit criminal activity like destruction of property and violence against people for political reasons and not come under the remit of anti-terror legislation. The same has happened to environmentalist groups that have taken their actions too far, and for groups like the IRA pre-Good Friday agreement.

I could walk to my local town centre with a placard for either saying: "Stop Genocide in Palestine" or "Down with Hamas" this weekend and not be arrested.
by harmonic18374 | 2025-08-15 11:04:58+00:00
I know someone (not an engineer) who was applying to jobs for a long time and got a 100% pay increase from moving to Meta, about $60k -> $120k. In such circumstances, it is difficult to turn down such a job. You are only one small part of the machine and it is such a quality of life increase (in USA), I cannot imagine many people saying no.

Some other common reasons that I disagree with, but are quite defensible:

"Well-targeted advertising is a net positive, or at least not hugely negative, for the world. Better targeting has helped many small businesses succeed where they would otherwise not been able to get customers"

"I am working on account security/React/ML/etc which is a good thing. I don't endorse all the bad things"

"It is more complicated than it seems, and most people at Meta try to do the right thing"

"I might as well work at the company and try to make it better from the inside" (while making lots of money)
by integralid | 2025-08-15 11:05:03+00:00
I don't think cynicism is even needed. Public holidays are surprising - there's no legal way in Europe[1] to force someone to work during a holiday. And trying is a lawsuit waiting to happen. But tracking Muhammads? If someone has moral problems with that, they better resign before being employed. Because at best they will resign soon after joining, at worst they will become a whistleblower.

[1] I know Europe is big etc, but I used to work in UK on particular and everyone took bank holidays seriously.
by abxyz | 2025-08-15 11:05:26+00:00
Lots of companies have great success using GitHub repositories as a marketing tool. Coplay seem to have identified this and decided to invest in the idea without considering strategy.

Owning a popular repository that your audience is engaged with is valuable because they’re using your free software: you create loyal users that you can then sell to. A successful open source project operated by your company is valuable as a lead generator. The repository itself has no value. Open source by business (this strategy) is just freemium for software.

Why they thought announcing the acquisition of a repository would be of interest to anyone is beyond me.
by Xelbair | 2025-08-15 11:05:42+00:00
Look, I've been visiting Britain as a tourist for years(since more than 10 years ago) - mostly to visit my friends who live there.

Each time i come there it's worse than previous trip, and your whole infrastructure feels oppressive. Constant reminders to be vigilant because something bad might happen(train and metro jingles come to mind) - implying a terrorist attack. Constant reminders that you're watched by cameras, while crime itself is rampant.

I come from Eastern Europe, yet visiting UK genuinely feels like visiting oppressive police state.

I am aware about your history(first The Troubles, then terrorist scare of 2000s, now domestic problems) but this is NOT the normal state for modern western country. Most likely perspective of Brits who have been living through this since ww2 is heavily culturally skewed, rather than then outside observer's one.
by jpcompartir | 2025-08-15 11:06:14+00:00
Edit: OP confirms there's no AI-generated code, so do ignore me.

The code style - and in particular the *comments - indicate most of the code was written by AI. My apologies if you are not trying to hide this fact, but it seems like common decency to label that you're heavily using AI?

*Comments like this: "# Anonymous function"
by cycomanic | 2025-08-15 11:06:35+00:00
To be fair to the previous poster, there were some studies (from Australia I believe), which showed an increase in bike accidents with helmet laws. IIRC they didn't have a good explanation, but thought it could be due to more risky behaviour, but also cars being less considerate if people wear helmet.

There were also some studies that showed that for population health bike helmet laws might be a net negative, because it prevents more people riding bikes and the positive health benefits of riding outweigh the slightly increased risk of biking even without a helmet.
by alkonaut | 2025-08-15 11:08:03+00:00
Yes but pirate site 1 does that for shows A, B, and C while pirate site 2 does it for show B, C, and D now you have rivaling versions of B and C etc, and worst case one of them did a poor job. If you just choose one source you have decent curation but not all the content. If you choose both you get duplication. I don't get how it solves the fundamental problem of getting everything curated with good content and no duplication? Perhaps this is a solved problem - but I just haven't tried recently.
by rwmj | 2025-08-15 11:08:06+00:00
I've been learning guitar for a couple of years (being already an experienced pianist), and it was very surprising to me how many different techniques need to be mastered to play guitar. I never got to the level on piano where the precise way I hit the keys mattered (apart from soft or loud). On a guitar how precisely you hold and move your fingers makes a massive difference. Hammer-on, pull-off, bends, slides, barring and holding down multiple strings with one finger, are all different techniques. Then there's exactly where you hold the finger in relation to the fret which can really change the sound (or in my case, be completely wrong). On your right hand, there's how you pick or strum, even whether you use a plectrum, the pads of your fingers, or your nails.
by mmarian | 2025-08-15 11:08:34+00:00
Great guide! A few things I'd add, after starting my own blog https://developerwithacat.com in Feb:

- it's okay if you don't follow all of the advice; just do whatever you feel like doing, otherwise you'll make it a chore and you won't end up publishing

- Reddit's a great place to have conversations, but be prepared for many negative ones

- if you want to have readers, you need to account for the time you spend sharing your post and engaging with commenters. I might not publish a post this month, just because I had to spend time talking to people about a post I made on Cloudflare pay-per-crawl viability that turned quite popular.

- use AI LLMs to talk about how you feel and should reply to hostile comments. It's helped my mental health a ton.
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by reikuu | 2025-08-15 11:09:04+00:00
I love Clay, but for a solo founder it was overkill—most features I didn’t need, and the price was hard to justify. So I built my own enrichment tool: EnrichSpot. It handles the exact workflows I use daily for lead research, prospecting, and automation, but at a fraction of the cost.
by williamdclt | 2025-08-15 11:10:21+00:00
I'd guess that it's a combination of things:

- The material of the robot's "finger" makes for a very clanky sound (metal?). Actually it sounds kinda like a harpsichord - The perfect rhythm makes for a very robotic feel - The perfect consistency of how a string is plucked (same attack/volume at every note) also makes for a very robotic feel

The first is about harmonics, the second two not so much, but I'd expect that harmonics are the lesser of what makes it feel midi-ey. After all, some people play with metal picks or fingerpicks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerpick).
by imtringued | 2025-08-15 11:10:27+00:00
There also is an absolutely massive gap between Llama 2 and Llama 3. The Llama 3.1 models represent the beginning of usable open weight models. Meanwhile Llama 4 and its competitors seem to be incremental improvements.

Yes, the newest models are so much better that they obsolete the old ones, but now the biggest differences between models is primarily what they know (parameter count and dataset quality) and how much they spend thinking (compute budget).
by nrawe | 2025-08-15 11:11:13+00:00
I'll stand to be wrong, but I believe in one case a member of staff and two police officers were also assaulted. Terrorism isn't necessarily about body count, it's about motivation. If the motive is political change, and the ends is violence/criminal damaged/anti-social behaviour that tends to be enough. Similar cases exist in the US, too.

I personally think its a bit of a stretch and will likely be undone. However, to pretend they are simply peaceful protests being unfairly targeted is also incorrect.
by willis936 | 2025-08-15 11:11:28+00:00
We don't build slow because the cost of labor or raw materials have gone up. In fact productivity and efficiency has gone up across the board in the past century. We build slower because there is a will to build slower. We let local people kill high speed rail, high voltage DC, and, above all, housing. You know how we built rails in the 1800s and highways in the 1900s? We didn't give a shit when someone said "no". That's what's changed.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-15 11:12:08+00:00
At that point in his career, I'm not sure who else would have had Jobs ;-).

From the outside it looks like the opposite though: Jobs was latching on to everything Woz created — beginning with Blue boxes. (Well, not everything Woz created — Jobs seemed uninterested in his dial-a-joke project.)

Woz is indeed truly lucky that Jobs did partner with him. Jobs saw that it was worth going all in (financially) to push the Apple to the masses. Woz seems like the type that would have remained a hobbyist — perhaps doing a write-up about his "Apple" for Popular Electronics.

Jobs too was extraordinarily lucky he had a smart friend who was just on the cusp of the budding personal computer revolution.

A lot of "survivorship" bias too since there were plenty of also-rans at the time.
by fransje26 | 2025-08-15 11:13:00+00:00
Slightly far-fetched, but I wonder if there is not a more nefarious goal behind this recommendation.

It goes like this: Imagine that, as a government, you want to be able to reshape a narrative in the future, of the type "Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia".

For that, you need to be able affirm, without to much push-back, that the view you are trying to re-model, has always been as you claim it was. This implies that there are not too many "historical traces" people can uses are references to successfully argue against your reshaping.

What's on the internet is not too difficult to deal with. You can rely on SEO rigging and AI slope to drown any useful information in an almost unpenetrable sludge of garbage. Worst case, you can use the pretext of child protection to pull down some sites or go after some hosting companies keeping information you would like to see removed.

What's left is the personal records of your citizens. That's a bit more tricky, because it is less easily accessible. It might even be encrypted enough for it to be a nuisance.

Now, if you can convince users that they are "sparing the environment" by deleting their data, they might slowly make it a habit to delete information they don't use that often. Old pictures, invoices, etc. And in the long run, also delete any tangible information that could be used to make your government accountable for the degradation of quality of life, life expectancy, etc.

Even better, by deleting old pictures and memories, you also delete, at the same time, the association thoughts that might come with those resources. A picture at a train station might remind you of a certain convenient train connection that existed in the past, and got removed after privatization. Or a picture of a ticket fare could remind you how disproportionately prices have increased with respect to wages, etc.

Just a far-fetched thought..
by kindkang2024 | 2025-08-15 11:13:27+00:00
How to rig freedom?

It’s simple: you only need the wille to rig and the power to freely manifest that will. No matter how elegant the design of a democratic system, or how many procedural safeguards exist, nothing can stop you.

Sad but true—if there isn’t enough power to balance that wille.

May all who value freedom also have the power to defend it.
by jpc0 | 2025-08-15 11:14:05+00:00
I have found that when asked to output JSON for text extra to the model consistently outputs markdown code blocks with json.

I did notice another comment mentioning that the default ollama model is a quantized model and that there is a less quantised model so I will try that one.

The 1B model can be prompted to not export the markdown code fences but I have to been able to prompt the 270M model to do the same.
by vanderZwan | 2025-08-15 11:14:13+00:00
Ironically, T-Pain, arguably the poster child of using auto-tune, has a great singing voice[0]. Apparently he used it on purpose to stand out.

Probably explains why it works much better for him than for others: he used it as an instrument, not as a crutch to hide a lack of singing skills.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ck0vJBygo
by jbjbjbjb | 2025-08-15 11:14:51+00:00
All the main parties are behind it, some say it doesn’t go far enough.

The vast majority of the British public absolutely love to ban things. If you listen to talk radio or daytime tv most of the time they’ll be having a discussion on banning something. We have a nanny state and the public like it that way.

Personally I use an allow list for my kids internet access and don’t rely on the state to parent them. I guess that’s too much bother for most people.
by pyrale | 2025-08-15 11:15:16+00:00
I'm going to say something that many here won't like given the usual reaction to European regulation, but social media platforms have enabled multiple foreign influence political campaign operations during election times in Europe, and notably led to the invalidation of the 2024 Romanian presidential election [1].

As of recently, probably bolstered by the new US admin, US social media platforms have taken a more confrontational towards regulators in EU countries where they operate. For instance, Twitter refused to cooperate with a French investigation [2].

It really is unsurprising that European countries muscle up their legislative response to what they see increasingly as media platforms going rogue in support of operations aimed to distort political debate in Europe. The only alternative would be to outright ban US social media and build EU platforms.

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lection_pr%C3%A9sidentie...

[2]: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/07/21/x-refuse...
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-15 11:15:31+00:00
>> you are endorsing it

> I strongly disagree.

> [proceeds to claim this is moral and just]

> aggregation of power inevitably leading to tyranny, thus such aggregations must be prevented

Yeah true, aggregation of power makes that easier, bureaucracy makes it still possible, in fact large bureaucracy makes it easier to oppress people by a majority who doesn't want oppression, because everyone is "just doing it's job". That's how Nazi Germany operated.

> We have 250 years of evidence

So you had 250 years to address this and are still complaining? /s

> In living memory, portions of the population were marched into concentration camps.

Why doesn't this lead to a social stigma against it and strong opposition against it? As an outsider it seams more like a large majority doesn't have this in memory at all.

Does the whole society has stockholm syndrome?

> The experiment was successful - now we know these systems don't work.

Now you know YOUR system doesn't work. The same you already knew when you rejected the idea that your state is just (Did you?). In fact the United States of America are not the only existing society.

> Americans falsely believe their institutions are upholding

So you think:

- I am not endorsing the current system. - The current (judical) system is moral. - The current system does not work and did not for 250 years. - The core values (constitution) are against tyranny. - The institutions are upholding the core values. - The core values being uphold is wrong.

What are you arguing for? Your whole country has some cognitive dissonance (from an outsider view). But it fits that a majority seams to claim they are and want to be apolitical, yet isn't happy with the current state or actively distrust it. Or is the intersection of these circles empty?
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-15 11:15:36+00:00
I am a heavy ORG-mode user, but this looks like a more complex variant of a gemlog. A gemlog is just a gemtext file with a list of links to posts, including the date of each post in the link text. Then each post is just a gemtext file. Gemtext being the extremely simple, line-based, format that is used for making Gemini sites. A gemlog is basically a blog that is also its own RSS feed, without any of the complexities of things on the real web.

It is never going to go mainstream, but there is a critical mass of people using it and it is probably for the best if it never grows much beyond that.

https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/gemtext-specification.gmi