MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kergonath | 2025-08-04 15:26:03+00:00
The goalposts somewhat shifted, here. The original point was

> It surprises me that the monied elite seem to have so little awareness of what happens when they keep winning.

What happened is that the Russian elite ended up dead or penniless in exile. What happened after that is not really relevant to the lot of the blind elite of the ancien régime.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-04 15:26:22+00:00
I’m not that surprised.

To reach the level of billionaire, it’s pretty much a requirement that you abandon all empathy and ethics.

What’s surprising is that nobody in their circle has educated them on the concept of a win-win. These people could be folk heros, universally loved and respected in ways buying a social media platform and banning all the haters will never accomplish.
by observationist | 2025-08-04 15:26:23+00:00
Crawling and scraping is legal. If your web server serves the content without authentication, it's legal to receive it, even if it's an automated process.

If you want to gatekeep your content, use authentication.

Robots.txt is not a technical solution, it's a social nicety.

Cloudflare and their ilk represent an abuse of internet protocols and mechanism of centralized control.

On the technical side, we could use CRC mechanisms and differential content loading with offline caching and storage, but this puts control of content in the hands of the user, mitigates the value of surveillance and tracking, and has other side effects unpalatable to those currently exploiting user data.

Adtech companies want their public reach cake and their mass surveillance meals, too, with all sorts of malignant parties and incentives behind perpetuating the worst of all possible worlds.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-04 15:26:27+00:00
In the regional hospital near me, they've begun actively fighting for fewer alarms. In part because they annoy everyone: patients, visitors, and hospital staff alike. But mostly because the inevitable alarm fatigue that the cacophony results in actively endangers patient safety.

The policy of this hospital is that all alarms, beeping, etc. should be disabled except in limited circumstances. Particularly at night.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-04 15:26:47+00:00
>> if they have open source (or if an internal transfer, internal) code I can review.

I give you a lot of credit for doing this. When I was still in development, I had a pretty robust github page, a sizable portfolio of stuff I had built and other side projects I was working on with various other platforms like Salesforce.

Not once did an interviewer review any of that. I would find myself referring to my github page several times over during the interview. I got so frustrated with interviewers asking me how to do simple things in interviews, I finally walked out of several and told them if they had just taken five minutes and looked at any of my github projects, they would've saved themselves a lot of time asking stupid questions about basic stuff.
by nradov | 2025-08-04 15:27:36+00:00
Anyone who graduates from medical school with an MD / DO degree needs to complete several years of graduate medical education (residency) at a teaching hospital in order to become a physician legally authorized to practice medicine. Most residency slots are funded by Medicare, although some are funded by other sources. Teaching hospitals are usually run by non-profit corporations, or by state or local governments. While internal accounting is always a bit fuzzy and opaque they simply don't have the money to pay residents directly. Most residents generate less revenue than they cost to train. And hospitals don't have the freedom to raise prices to cover the cost of running residency programs. Thus the need for subsidies.

If we force prospective doctors to take on even more debt then we'll likely end up with an even worse shortage. Current levels of student debt are already unsustainable, at least for many specialties.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-04 15:27:42+00:00
In my experience, candidates who demand equivalent face time always underestimate how much time is spent selecting candidates, reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, preparing the interview structure, reviewing interviews, advocating for candidates to progress, getting their offers approved, dealing with HR, and the countless other things that go into getting someone from the application phase to being hired.

If you reduce an interview to “face time” and start trying to keep score on that metric you’re not seeing the full picture.

Though to be honest, whenever a candidate vocally removes themselves from the candidate pipeline for something like this (which is very rare) it feels like we dodged a bullet.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-04 15:28:07+00:00
I have never created a website that I would not mind being fully crawled and indexed into another dataset that was divorced from the source (other than such divorcement makes it much harder to check pedigree, which is an academic concern, not a data-content concern: if people want to trust information from sources they can't know and they can't verify I can't fix that for them).

In fact, the "old web" people sometimes pine for was mostly a place where people were putting things online so they were online, not because it would translate directly to money.

Perhaps AI crawlers are a harbinger for the death of the web 2.0 pay-for-info model... And perhaps that's okay.
by nick486 | 2025-08-04 15:28:22+00:00
I mean, to be a bit of a devil's advocate, its not impossible. Bitcoin sort of has the reputation of being used to buy "shady stuff". Its not unreasonable for MasterCard to not want to be "That card company people buy edgy porn with".

Which is why we need them to be legally required to process all lawful transactions, so that they cannot be singled out for it.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-04 15:28:32+00:00
> If these reports say that things are better for low income people, why do people living that reality overwhelmingly disagree?

I'll give an example. In 2019, a 1bd apartment near me cost $800 per month. The McDonalds paid $7.50 per hour. Today the same 1bd costs $2000 per month, and the McDonalds pays $15 per hour.

So both can be true. Wages have gone up 100% for the low income worker, which is good news. But it's not enough to offset the cost of living increases, so they are actually worse off than they were before their wages went up.
by brunohaid | 2025-08-04 15:28:56+00:00
LEDs help to supplement in regions that don't have that much light (Netherlands etc) or when you try to achieve something very specific (scientific, flavor profile etc) but bypassing the reactor in the sky is just not a very good idea.

The other issue you mentioned also killed 50%+ of vertical farming startups: you need a diverse living ecosystem. You need a living soil crawling with organisms of all sizes (check Arbico Organics, Jim's Worms and others), the whole thing needs to be balanced, otherwise it's hard to grow in the first place and/or a single unpredicted "intruder" will wipe out your entire operation (Bowery Farms and plenty of others from what I understand).
by infecto | 2025-08-04 15:29:00+00:00
You’re incorrect on both legal and factual grounds. The First Amendment applies only to government actors. Private companies, including Mastercard, have no legal obligation to carry or support speech they disagree with. This is settled law (Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, 2019).

Net neutrality was about common carriers (ISPs) due to their chokepoint role in internet access. Payment processors are not classified as common carriers and are not subject to those rules.

If you want laws changed to regulate them like utilities, that’s a policy argument, not a free speech violation under current law.
by alwa | 2025-08-04 15:29:01+00:00
That bothered me for a while about a dryer I use. Eventually, it clicked for me that it based its estimates on a best guess at the material and quantity you’d be drying in that cycle; but it (correctly, in my view) actually timed the cycle based on feedback from humidity/temperature sensors in the air path.

I prefer low-heat, “delicate” settings for most everything (and even that, only in the rare cases where I don’t have time to line-dry). And I favor heavy natural fibers. So it routinely takes much longer than the upfront estimate for a light load of polyester dainties.

But I’m happy to accept the error now that I understand it’s the same tradeoff I’d choose: doing a proper job of things, instead of cranking up the heat or something to hit the time target!

That infernal 30-second end-of-cycle jingle, though… I’d much prefer an assertive but ambient kind of droning sound or something.
by sjm-lbm | 2025-08-04 15:29:06+00:00
I think you're underestimating how hard it is to shoot yourself in the foot when using the PHP language defaults and the defaults for any modern PHP framework - it's genuinely hard to do.

I still don't think PHP is a good idea for a greenfield project or anything, but they have done a good job of hiding all the footguns.
by jltsiren | 2025-08-04 15:29:11+00:00
It was mostly about the perception that people with a bachelor's degree had not learned anything useful yet.

There is a lot of variation between countries, but European countries often have a dual-track system in higher education. You can choose between the academic track (universities) and the vocational track, with more people ending up in the vocational track. Some fields are available in the academic track, some in the vocational track, and some in both. Professional fields such as healthcare, business, and engineering are often available in both, with the tracks preparing for different roles in the field (such as nurse vs. doctor).

Imagine being used to an educational system with two kinds of degrees. Some indicate practical studies preparing for a job, while others tell of longer theoretical studies and specialization. Suddenly the system changes and you start seeing a third kind of a degree: shorter theoretical studies without going particularly deep in anything. What use do you have for people like that?
by catigula | 2025-08-04 15:29:42+00:00
I think the jobs and "fuck you, scum. third-world workers do 10x your output for 10x cheaper" situation might end up being too much for people.

You can put people through a lot of indignity but once you start having people acclimated to a Western first-world lifestyle now actively competing with AI and people from the third-world and telling that they're not working hard enough if they're not willing to live the debased existence of an AI or that someone from the third world is willing to live for basic first-world access, something must give.

Surely.
by calibas | 2025-08-04 15:29:45+00:00
Mastercard's rule is that they can ban whatever they want, whenever they want.

> A Merchant must not submit to its Acquirer, and a Customer must not submit to the Interchange System, any Transaction that is illegal, or in the sole discretion of the Corporation, may damage the goodwill of the Corporation or reflect negatively on the Marks.

Create amorphous rules, enforce them as you feel like, then blame others for breaking the rules...
by thevivekshukla | 2025-08-04 15:29:45+00:00
I've been building something with HTMX since the last week, I have not done whole lot of complex things with it but I don't think it will pose any problem when time comes.

I get the premise of HTMX and when and why to use it, it's not solution to everything however it is a blessing for backend developers' who wants to work on frontend.

-> A bit of backstory

For my project Daestro[0], which is bit complex (and big) I chose Rust as backend and Svelte (with Sveltekit) as frontend SPA app. This was my first time working on both. After years of working on Django, I wanted to try statically typed language, after some research and trial, I chose Rust. Sveltekit was obvious because it made sense to me compared to other frameworks and it was super easy to pick up.

After working on Sveltekit for a year, I realised I've been spending a lot of time doing these same thing: 1. You create the api on the backend 2. then you create Zod schema on the frontend for form validation 3. the create +page.ts to initialize the form 4. in +page.svelte you create the actual form and validate it there itself with zod before sending it to the server

Hopping over two code bases just for a simple form, and Daestro has a lot of forms. I was just exhausted with this. Then HTMX started to get a lot of traction, I was watching it from a distant but having worked with Django and it's template, I was dismissive of it and thought having separate frontend is best approach.

-> Why I'm leaning towards HTMX now?

- Askama (rust crate) is a template engine which is compile time checked - Askama supports block fragments[1], which is you can render certain part (block) of template, plus for HTMX usage - Askama's macro almost don't make me miss Svelte's components - Rust has amazing type system, now you can just use it, no need to replicate those on Typescript - same codebase, no more hopping - only one binary to deploy (currently for Daestro I've 3 separate deployments)

-> My rules for using HTMX

You must self-impose a set of rules on how you want to use HTMX, otherwise things can get out of you hand and instead of solving a problem you'll create bigger ones. These are my rules:

- Keep your site Multi-page Application and sprinkle some HTMX to make it SPA like on per page basis - make use of hx-target header to only send the block fragments that is required by HTMX (very easy with Askama) - do not create routes with partial page rendering instead a route must render complete page, and then use block framents to render only what is being asked in hx-target - Do not compromise on security[2]

[0]: https://daestro.com [1]: https://askama.readthedocs.io/en/stable/template_syntax.html... [2]: https://htmx.org/docs/#security
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-04 15:29:51+00:00
It does!

> "The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rising dramatically in children as well as in adults. Between 1975 and 2016, the prevalence of obesity in Europe rose 138%, with a 21% rise between 2006 and 2016.1 The prevalence of overweight rose by 51% between 1975 and 2016, and by 8% between 2006 and 2016. It is expected that by 2030, over half of Europe will live with obesity – up to 89% in some countries. No Member State is on track to reach the target of halting the rise in obesity by 2025" - https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/europes-obes...

> "Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight is on the rise in low- and middle-income countries. In Africa, the number of overweight children under 5 years has increased by nearly 12.1% since 2000. Almost half of the children under 5 years who were overweight or living with obesity in 2024 lived in Asia." - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and...

Americans are at the forefront of driving to the drive through for a McSuperSize meal, and wealthy enough to eat that every day. Mexico has an obesity crisis heavily driven by the Coca Cola company.

> "The Rothschilds are using 5G to signal my brain that I must not stop until I reach the bottom of the XXL bag of Costco potato chips."

Yes, there are no constant JustEat or Deliveroo or McDonalds adverts, no CocaCola adverts connecting Coke with Christmas and fun, no Pepsi adverts connecting Pepsi with attractive women draping themselves over sports cars, nothing.

> "Edit: @jodrellblank damn, then I guess I stand corrected. Am I the only one immune to marketing then?"

No, you're one of many people who believes they are immune to marketing. That $350Bn annual spend on advertising[1] in the USA is not there for a laugh. What's the betting you could answer a whole lot of questions like "which company had the 'why 1984 won't be like 1984' and 'think different'" adverts? Which fast food company has a clown as its mascot? Which fast food company has a southern Colonel as their mascot? Which drink was "the choice of a new generation"? Name an insurance company or a bank that you've heard of but never used? Name a shop you've heard of but never been to? Complete the jingle: "head-on, apply <...>"? If you were immune to advertising, you wouldn't be able to picture any company logo, signboard, complete any jingle, name any product or service or shop you hadn't researched or heard of from a friend. Drive past a dentist every day on your way to work and recognise their signboard because you've seen it before? Not immune to advertising. Recognise where you are by the giant Walmart sign? Not immune to advertising. Turn off the TV when you hear the start of a jingle you remember and dislike? Not immune to advertising. Coworker drives a <brand> and you know because of the logo? Not immune to advertising.

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/bed/total-advertisin...
by Aurornis | 2025-08-04 15:30:04+00:00
I gave feedback like this when I first started doing interviews

I had to stop very quickly when I realized how many candidates take it as an invitation to argue, accuse me of being wrong, or see it as an invite to redo the problem and resubmit.

I also had one case where someone tried to go on a rampage against me and the company because they though our rejection was unfair (the candidate wasn’t even top 5 among the applicants)
by mtlynch | 2025-08-04 15:30:14+00:00
>Another comment asserted HTMX can handle this, it just needs to be configured to do so. If that is the case, then I don’t see an actual issue.

You can, but it feels like you're sort of fighting the htmx library at that point. I do it, as it's the least bad option, but I generally find footguns with violating HTTP conventions (e.g., returning HTTP 200 for a bad request) or going outside the mainstream of a library (telling htmx that HTTP 400 can have a meaningful response body).
by DoctorOW | 2025-08-04 15:30:27+00:00
> Monday Tesla told shareholders it was "confident" that the $29bn of shares "will incentivize Elon to remain at Tesla" especially as "the war for AI talent is intensifying".

Is Elon considered "AI Talent"? Was there any risk at all he steps down and works only on XAI? He's been doing whatever handful of companies the whole time. This feels like him justifying his pay raise with a marketing pitch.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-04 15:30:38+00:00
I think 1 is a myth. It’s easy to deploy as long as you don’t care about atomic updates, like the newly uploaded version of foo.php importing bar.php which hasn’t been uploaded yet. Solve that, say with a DAG of which files to upload in which order, and it’s no longer easier than anything else.

Like many other things, PHP makes it easier to do the wrong thing than other languages which make you do the same thing correctly.
by iainctduncan | 2025-08-04 15:30:53+00:00
PHP did well for ONE reason: it was really, really, really easy to deploy. This was, of course, underestimated by programmers in the know, but I remember first getting into web dev, and I could start putting real programs (!!!) on the web, in minutes!

I would say it was more like the bicycle. Cheap, no license, even a kid could be suddenly zooming around town with no ceremony, no red tape, minimal investment.

I haven't used it in well over a decade, but still remember fondly how great it was as a gateway drug to bigger and better things.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-04 15:31:28+00:00
I don't know if there are "Tsunami stones" in the area but the nuclear power plant is built at sea level [1] so would most probably be below them.

The issue is the height of the seawalls that was not sufficient (and perhaps historical warnings, if any, were ignored):

"The subsequent destructive tsunami with waves of up to 14 metres (46 ft) that over-topped the station, which had seawalls" [1]

Edit: Regarding historical warnings:

"The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake occurred in exactly the same area as the 869 earthquake, fulfilling the earlier prediction and causing major flooding in the Sendai area." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/869_J%C5%8Dgan_earthquake
by cess11 | 2025-08-04 15:31:31+00:00
It's an absurd feature. Cars have had gauges for things like fuel for decades and decades, as a driver you know how much you have left, the car does not have to signal this in any other way.

Same with other newfangled annoyances where the car is trying to have an opinion, like "lane assist" and speeding complaints.

If the car is having an opinion on things like this, then the manufacturer should carry some of the burden when there is a crash because they are actively trying to take responsibility and influence the driver.

Noises on home appliances is something else, and while they can be annoying they can also help blind people access their functions.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-04 15:31:32+00:00
The content is legal, and therefore your entire argument is irrelevant, as is your attempt to personify corporations. The whole point of being an adult is understanding that your personal tastes aren’t a mandate on others to comply for your comfort; in other words, if you dislike legal content, your sole recourse is to simply not engage with that content.

Go proselytize elsewhere.
by trinix912 | 2025-08-04 15:31:57+00:00
It used to be dim red LEDs but then in the early 2010s everyone switched to blue to look more fancy and modern. Sometimes really bright ones too, I used to have an ASUS router that had bright enough (blinking!) blue LEDs to light the entire room up. Without any option to disable them, of course.

With all public debate around the effects of blue light on sleep, it's weird more people haven't found that concerning.
by bombcar | 2025-08-04 15:32:38+00:00
My earliest memories, sketchy and faint, are around eight or so years old.

By that time my youngest sibling was already out of diapers; I had literally zero experience with newborns and had changed ONE diaper in my life before the hospital shoved one in my arms and said "good luck, don't shake her."

Larger families of yore, the eldest kids would be in their teens when the last baby was born; they would have living memory (and probably even were enlisted to help). And as others have mentioned, you don't really begin to meet the parents of your children's friends until they're old enough to have friends, which is usually daycare at the earliest; often school for many.

You have to make an effort and action to join a "mom's group" these days; before local family, church, even the neighborhood would spontaneously be a "mom's group".
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-04 15:32:47+00:00
There is an expression “the dose makes the poison”. With any sufficiently complex or broad category situation, there is rarely a binary ideological position that covers any and all situations. Should drugs be legal for recreation? Well my feeling for marijuana and fentanyl are different. Should individuals be allowed to own weapons? My views differ depending on if it a switch blade knife of a Stinger missile. Can law enforcement surveille possible criminals? My views differ based on whether it is a warranted wiretap or an IMSI catcher used on a group of protestors.

People can believe that corporations are using the power asymmetry between them and individuals through copywrite law to stifle the individual to protect profits. People can also believe that corporations are using the power asymmetry between them and individuals through AI to steal intellectual labor done by individuals to protect their profits. People’s position just might be that the law should be used to protect the rights of parties when there is a large power asymmetry.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-04 15:33:00+00:00
Having recently come off a micro-binge of the rise of USSR and it's history, the common theme in keeping a state communist through change of leadership is "The system works great, they just didn't know how to run it properly." Then they also proceeded to just continue the devastation.

The fundamental problem of communism is that everyone needs to play along, but the rewards for not playing along grow as more people do play along.