MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2025-09-23 09:08:31+00:00
> [in prison they] pay their debt to society

How exactly is taking away an inmates vote "paying me back" for a crime in my community? "Society" isn't actually benefiting here.

Let's go down the list of justifications:

1. Is disenfranchisement rehabilitative justice? No, if anything it's the opposite, preparing them to fail when they get out, promoting ignorance and helplessness instead of engagement in the political process.

2. Is disenfranchisement punitive justice? Not usefully, because the worst criminals won't care anyway, instead it tends to hurt the people who deserve it the least, the people who would otherwise try to work through "the system."

3. Is disenfranchisement a deterrent? No, LOL. Nobody goes: "OK, I was going to commit the crime and risk being caught and shot or jailed for many years, buuuuut then I realized I wouldn't be able to vote, so I'm out."

What's left? Bad reasons, like helping politicians get away with abusive policies.
by Keirmot | 2025-09-23 09:08:31+00:00
This comment is disingenuous.

In everyday speech, people don’t carefully separate “the people” from “the state.” A French person talking about the U.S. usually says les Américains. A German talking about the French will just say die Franzosen — or, if they’re in the mood to tease, die Froschfresser. It’s only in news or diplomatic language that you see “the American government,” “the French government,” or “London” when referring to Britain.

The phrase “this administration” is mostly used domestically, by citizens talking about their own rulers. In Portugal you’d hear "este governo é uma merda", and in Spain the exact same sentiment — give or take a letter or two.

And “Nazi Germany” is only used when distinguishing regimes — Weimar vs. Federal Republic, Estado Novo vs. the Portuguese Republics, the French Fourth vs. the Fifth Republic, and so on.
by andrepd | 2025-09-23 09:08:46+00:00
> I came to the realization that Microsoft deleted my app, my developer account, and all those comments on my app supporting me and suggesting ideas on how to improve the program. I tried to contact the support and email whoever I could, but I was ghosted.

I think this is the most insidious part. These companies (on which you often depend for very important things, whether you want or not) will just ban you and delete your stuff, or even shadowban you, without (1) so much as an explanation beyond the Orwellian "you have violated our terms and conditions", and without (2) any possibility of appeal or customer support whatsoever.

This goes for google, discord, reddit, YouTube, github, notion, etc etc etc.
by Jgoauh | 2025-09-23 09:09:32+00:00
Big News : company who'se competition makes money from traffic thinks traffic should be free

I'm always fascinated by companies capacity to make deregulation the answer to every problem, included deregulation. Neoliberalism never fails to make me cringe, the idea that any value comes as a direct consequence of the business model is not surprising coming from tech companies but still.

> So how will the business model work? [...] Imagine a future business model of the Internet that doesn't reward traffic-generating [...] but instead rewards those content creators [...]. That will involve some portion of the subscription fees AI companies collect, and some portion of the revenue from the ads they'll inevitably serve, going back to content creators ...

This isn't revolutionary and won't remove the biggest issues with the internet, This is basically how youtube remunerates content creators, that counts AI using your data as a "view" or remunerable unit of consumption.

AI companies will never agree to remunerate anyone without a fight. They spent billions on their AI models and want ROI.

Remember how youtube demonetises content with not 'advertiser friendly' content ? is that how the whole internet works now ? can i get removed from the internet if Trump affiliated CEOs hate me ?

> Our conversations with the leading AI companies nearly all acknowledge that they have a responsibility to give back to the ecosystem and compensate content creators. Confirming this, the largest publishers are reporting they're having much more constructive conversations about licensing their content to those AI companies.

So, pretty transparently, you make content, that content is owned by a publisher, that publisher gives that content to an AI company, the AI company pays back the publisher (how things already work so far), and then the publisher aggrees to give some of it back to the creators. How does cloudflare plan to promise this ? they mention "collaboration" so non binding agreements, as i assume OpenAI won't agree to pay fines to cloudflare for not paying you the 20 bucks you think you deserve for your content.

At no point do they even entertain the idea that you should be remunerated based on how often AI serves your content, or that this remuneration should be mendatory.

This letter would create incredible opportunities for censorship and abuse. Just a few days after Trump makes companies pull Jimmy and Stephen, Cloudflare propose a new internet, controlled by them, centralized in america, where Trump, or any future president could just order Wikipedia to be removed or demonetized. No thanks
by raincole | 2025-09-23 09:09:36+00:00
Work?

Let's not kid ourselves. Russia is still killing Ukrainians right now. They're still occupying Ukraine's land right now. Is this what "work" looks like in your dictionary?

> Ask a russian about the price of fuel.

Oh I see. In your dictionary a working solution is not to stop the war or get lands back, but to ensure average Russian people suffer. Never mind then.
by account42 | 2025-09-23 09:09:52+00:00
It's not that people are OK with being screwed over but rather that they have been conditioned into being helpless about it. Big corporations hire psychological experts that know exactly how to manipulate you into thinking you need their products or otherwise act against your own best interests, whether that's through advertisement, peer pressure or whatever else they can come up with.

You yourself admit that while you don't want to be screwed you only have the option of not being screwed if those around you also choose not being screwed yet somehow you conclusion that others are different and must be OK with being screwed. Presumably you also often choose being screwed over being socially ostracized? Do you really make sure that all those around you have options to still interact without without being screwed?

Yes people often technically have options of not getting screwed but those options almost exist in a different world and in order to choose them you have to abandon the one you are living in now. That people cannot afford to do that does not mean that they are OK with being screwed.
by jjani | 2025-09-23 09:10:28+00:00
Correct! And he hit a nerve laying this logic bare, which is exactly why The Guardian took the unprecedented and absurd measure of removing his manifesto from a decades-old article when it went viral a year or 2 ago. Lest the populace get to see things for what they are. At the same time unmasking their veil that despite their pretenses, they're just as much of a capital interests-captured rag as their "competitors".
by ragebol | 2025-09-23 09:10:36+00:00
Any city would be a bad place for a rocket (test) launch facility, 'collapsing' due to mining or not.

Luckily the city is some 44 km drive away from the launch site.

And there's still people living in Kiruna, it's not collapsing but affected still in some shape of form. Heard on some podcast that mining blasts are timed to reduce the disturbance and some buildings (or their inhabitants probably) relocated, IIRC.
by perlgeek | 2025-09-23 09:10:43+00:00
Also, when you get a new requirement that needs a modification of the data model, you have to both remodel your CRDTs and make sure you have a migration strategy.

After doing this a few times, your stakeholders are probably fed up with the crawling pace of development, and the whole local-first app is scrapped again and replaced by a more traditional app. Maybe the architect is fired.
by sofixa | 2025-09-23 09:11:19+00:00
> For one, even in typical modern democracies, the active administration is chosen by like a third of the voting population via a first-pass-the-post system or a close analog of it

"typical modern democracies" don't use the extremely terrible first past the post. It's mostly used in the UK and a few former colonies, but most of the world's democracies (even the flawed ones) have realised its shortcomings and have evolved past it.
by rapsey | 2025-09-23 09:11:37+00:00
You can find excuses not to invest at any time. Easiest thing in the world has always been finding an excuse not to invest.

Mag7 are some of the most profitable and well run companies in history investing their insane profits.

No other country has public markets as developed, regulated and liquid as the US. Likely you are just investing into the unknown with a ton of risk factors you are not aware of. In places outside of the US politics actually is a significant factor in investing.
by pm215 | 2025-09-23 09:12:17+00:00
Proper focus-follows-mouse does not autoraise the window when it gives it focus. I see that that app does offer "don't raise the window" (which I think is an improvement from last time I was researching this some years back), but only under an "experimental feature" flag that relies on undocumented private macos APIs that might go away in any future macos version...
by andrepd | 2025-09-23 09:12:22+00:00
> the stakes go up: $1M USD fine and up to 20 years in federal prison. Oh and that's a personal risk -- you, the manager or executive in charge, and anyone else who is in the know on the transaction is now facing 20 years in federal pounding-in-the-ass prison

If only this notion of personal criminal responsibility was applied to other types of private company criminality (2008 gfc, cartelization in many industries, the many private data "leaks", ...)
by trhway | 2025-09-23 09:12:57+00:00
Sanctions don't prevent the short-term behavior. Russia thinks that it is winning in Ukraine - thus the one-sided deals, it isn't about the other side accepting it, for Russia it is about Russia forcing such a deal, and it always includes lifting of the sanctions as a key element of a deal that Russia is trying to force because even with traditional lack of long-term vision they understand that the sanctions are crippling the country. They think that winning the war, forcing such a one-sided deal, is the only way to get the sanctions lifted "cleanly", and any deal with concessions, etc. would look less than victorious and would probably have the sanctions lift incomplete/incremental and boggled down with conditions, etc.
by rramon | 2025-09-23 09:12:58+00:00
Tekin, what makes a Turk less white than a Greek or Spaniard?

If it's cultural (religion, music/sports related subcultures and codes) then it's chosen. Nobody can force you into a subculture in the West. As soon as you turn 18 you can essentially do what you want, most likely even way before that.

You can chose your subculture, how you dress, style your hair, talk and are read by the mainstream society. Actual racists go by skin color and ignore your cultural choices, fuck them.
by lukan | 2025-09-23 09:13:21+00:00
"I am positing perhaps they are a democracy."

Then maybe take a closer look into how their system works.

Every candidate has to be approved by the Mullah's. So the Mullah's are effectivly in control. Still, there are differences with the candidates. Would I vote under such conditions? No idea, I am struggle to find a party representing my views and I am in a western democracy.
by plumb_bob_00 | 2025-09-23 09:13:42+00:00
> It's because they support the regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests

> The protests were described as "unlike any the country had seen before", the "biggest challenge" to the government, and "most widespread revolt", since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

> ...

> Although the protests have not been as deadly as those in 2019 (when more than 1,500 were killed), they have been "nationwide, spread across social classes, universities, the streets [and] schools". At least 551 people, including 68 minors, had been killed as a result of the government's intervention in the protests, as of 15 September 2023. Before February 2023 when most were pardoned, an estimated 19,262 were arrested across at least 134 cities and towns and 132 universities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34346192

> Tell HN: Farewell letter of M. Hosseini – executed 01.02.2023 by I.R. of Iran

> ...

> In the dawn of tomorrow, at the foot of the gallows, I will look up to the sky for the last time, see the last star and cry out with all my strength, "Woman, life, freedom". I will cry out in the name of justice and in the hope of a world without violence, a world that loves nature and that is safe for all the children of the world.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 09:13:45+00:00
This is a terrific illustration of comparative advantage and economies of scale.

If Europe and America could trade with trust, Europe could put these resources into space missions. (Or solar panels. Whatever.) SpaceX, meanwhile, would have more resources with which to scale Starship.

Instead we have inefficient duplication and diseconomies of scale. All so…idk, the Italians stop taking advantage of America...
by eddyg | 2025-09-23 09:14:04+00:00
Or the pure zsh version, which is superior, since it eliminates a ton of forking by eliminating calls to external tools (the original z script relies heavily on awk, sort, date, sed, mv, rm, and chown). There are also significant stability improvements to the database thanks to proper locking.

https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z
by rsynnott | 2025-09-23 09:14:21+00:00
> have proven that it makes sense for ESA to develop their own reusable rocket (better late than never)...

It may not actually be that urgent, at least for their own use. A non-expendable Falcon 9 launch costs $70m; an Ariane 6 launch costs 80-100m EUR (for a more capable rocket, especially for GTO). Now, SpaceX may be building a lot of profit into that $70m, but from the customer's POV it hardly matters. They're not in drastically different cost realms. The bulk of the cost of most ESA launches would still be the payload, not the launcher.

Also that Falcon 9 cost is up from about $60m a couple of years ago, so you wouldn't necessarily want to bet on it not rising further. And that's list price; in practice SpaceX charges NASA over $100m/launch and "Space Force" over $110m/launch (https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/reusable-rockets-are-h...), so, assuming that as another space agency ESA would be charged similar, Ariane may actually be the _budget option_.

Now, for commercial it's a different story, though really Arianespace and its predecessors have never been _hugely_ competitive there; even before SpaceX their market was mostly stuff that couldn't go on Russian rockets.
by FacelessJim | 2025-09-23 09:14:55+00:00
It is often the case, that one’s perspective is a personal synthesis of external ideas. The act of quoting great past authors is also a way of recognizing where your influences come from. To describe by association how you think, or aspire to.

These are very difficult topics to properly talk about and correctly express all the nuance in the feeling that you try to convey, and many authors are quoted because they nailed a particular description, evocative of the feeling an author is trying to express and that he feels he can’t do a better job at explaining.

Similarly to how you can narrate a story through a sequence of pictures you can narrate an idea through a sequence of raw concepts, encapsulated in quotes.
by ayongpm | 2025-09-23 09:15:37+00:00
What a beautiful writing. I can't resist the urge to typeset it: https://typst.app/project/p5Ivi8TSuNmFpkoSfoJ06r

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GV-yxI4sBS5gg4belO6hXuFvSFW...
by Theodores | 2025-09-23 09:15:38+00:00
I also stay off the branded clothing and I took rock the Casio watch.

But part of me wants to spend at least one day wearing the team outfit for a team on a sport that I know nothing about, for example, rugby or just normal football (not American 'foot ball'). With this outfit would be desirable footwear, maybe with a Nike swoosh, which is something I have never worn.

Maybe add some fake gold jewellery to complete the look. How would my interactions differ with just a simple change of attire? Would I be drinking lots of beer by the end of the day?
by Terr_ | 2025-09-23 09:15:46+00:00
Several issues here:

1. Declaration of Independence versus Constitution. Not the same in terms of legal weight.

2. You're implicitly combining "representation" with "voting." The writers of the Declaration of Independence believed (even if we dislike it today) that those are separate. You can tell because all their wives and daughters were still prohibited from voting for generations.

3. If what you're suggesting applied, then wouldn't that mean everybody who hasn't registered to vote, or noncitizens and those under 18--are all exempt from sales tax and income tax?
by account42 | 2025-09-23 09:16:20+00:00
That's because we allow corporations to into misleading that products are free even though you are still paying for them by letting yourself be manipulated into giving third parties your money who then give some of it back to the original service provider. This really needs to be considered a kind of fraud unless the full cost is displayed upfront, not unlike when a vendor charges your card more than the agreed price.
by dereg | 2025-09-23 09:16:32+00:00
Young man me likely would have thought, “wow, cool tradition!”

Old man me thinks “$390 million? How are they funding this?! That seems like a massive sum of money to throw down the drain every 20 years.”

Then I did the back of envelope math. Assuming 20% comes from donations, then all you’d need is a $380m fund earning a real 3% to fund the building of the next temple. That’s very doable.
by dcminter | 2025-09-23 09:17:40+00:00
That's a big stretch for the premise, but...

There's no value to it in circumstances where you control all the hardware processing data, so "everyday work in an OS" - only if that OS is hosted on someone else's hardware, "a messaging app" - only if you expect some of the messages or metadata to undergo processing on someone else's hardware.

It seems wildly unlikely that the performance characteristics will improve dramatically, so in practice the uses are going to remain somewhat niche.
by gpderetta | 2025-09-23 09:18:45+00:00
it is "simply" a DSL implementing a full custom language that is run at compile time. As far as I can tell the DSL is implemented with the tried-and-true technique of expression templates[1] combined with constant evaluation and unrestricted template value parameters (although these days there are multiple options to implement compile time DSLs, up to compile time parsing of strings).

As to why, I can't pretend to know the author mind, but I suspect they did it because they could, the project itself is the objective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_templates
by Jgoauh | 2025-09-23 09:18:46+00:00
This is my last message arguing about this, 2/3 of my first message is about our failure to communicate or teach basic morality, unless discussing morality doesn't count as a valid discussion or as a lesser discution i don't think my message counts as only expressing emotions. Maybe they read "shame" and stopped reading there, so props to them for engaging in discussions. But i got more upvotes since so i guess it was just an early misunderstanding and most people get it, oh well, nvm
by nabla9 | 2025-09-23 09:18:48+00:00
>privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.

This is such bullshit and common misconcepton.

Websites DO NOT have to run cookie banners!

If you only have necessary cookie for session and do not track users, you don't have to show cookie banner. Websites that want to invade privacy must run cookie banner to ask permission.
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by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-23 09:19:11+00:00
> From a national security perspective, it makes Russia a lot less concerning if their industrial output is 20% less

Russian military industrial output has significantly increased and more importantly they demonstrated the ability to scale it up very quickly. The economy has grown during the war - the effects of the sanctions may become painful in the long term only if they will stay for decades, which is unlikely.
by MrJohz | 2025-09-23 09:19:17+00:00
I think the point Norvig is making there broadly agrees with this post though. In the Sudoku affair, Norvig had the DSA knowledge there, sure, but his point is more that you need to be willing to look up other people's answers, rather than assuming you have enough knowledge or that you can slowly iterate towards a correct answer. You can't expect to solve every problem yourself with the right application of DSA/TDD/whatever.

That's the same as the blog post: you need to know enough DSA to be able to understand how to look for the right solution if presented with a problem. But Batchelder's point is that, beyond that knowledge, learning testing as a skill will be more valuable to you than learning a whole bunch of individual DSA tricks.
by secret-noun | 2025-09-23 09:19:39+00:00
> we manually curated a set of over 2,000 YouTube channels that release original openly licensed content containing speech. From these channels, we retrieved and transcribed (using Whisper) over 1.1 million openly licensed videos comprising more than 470,000 hours of content.

This is why Gemini has such an advantage.

Also, link to explore data: https://huggingface.co/collections/common-pile/common-pile-v...
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-23 09:20:59+00:00
> "they are required to work or face additional punishment such as solitary confinement, denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence, and loss of family visitation."

"Denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence" means that prisoners with jobs are considered to be better candidates for sentence reduction by various means. That's true, but it doesn't come anywhere near "being compelled to work".

The ACLU doesn't provide any numbers on who reports being compelled to work. They provide a large number that includes some things that qualify as coercion and some that are entirely innocuous. This is the "prison forced labor" analogue of reporting that large majorities of female undergraduates suffer sexual assault on campus, where the definition of sexual assault includes "unwelcome sexual remarks".