MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by heffer | 2025-09-14 01:17:26+00:00
Germany had this principle in place for a while for internet. It's called "Störerhaftung". Just google it and see the craziness that ensued. Led to exactly the kind of court cases you'd expect to see: grandmas paying to settle lawsuits for people abusing their misconfigured WiFi, AirBnB hosts paying for their tenants' torrenting. This gave rise to movements like Freifunk which allowed people to share an open WiFi that in many cases just tunnelled back the internet traffic to central exit points using IPs assigned to registered charities that were, for all intents and purposes, classified as ISPs and therefor exempt from this secondary liability. Another nice twist was that German privacy law only requires (and sometimes only allows) ISPs to store information about their customers needed for billing purposes. But because the service is free there is no billing and thus no information about the customer is known and nothing can be provided to courts or law enforcement as a result.

I've been running one of these Freifunk networks in my hometown since 2013. In all these years I only really had law enforcement reach out 4 or 5 times. One from Austria, the rest from Germany. One for CSAM, one for bomb threats, the rest were about fraud. After explaining the situation to them I never heard back.
by thor-rodrigues | 2025-09-14 01:18:05+00:00
Anecdotally, I had a myocardial infarction at 23, and I was honestly surprised to learn that it wasn’t already well known that infectious diseases could trigger such events.

Up until that point, I’d never had any heart-related issues, nor does anyone in my family. Just two days before being admitted to the hospital with a suspected heart attack, I came down with food poisoning. It wasn’t pleasant, of course, but I thought it was nothing unusual—something a couple of days of rest and hydration would normally resolve.

Since my bloodwork at the hospital matched the expected results for a heart attack, and I underwent surgery, the doctors understandably focused on treating the immediate problem rather than identifying the underlying cause (I’m eternally grateful to the team and staff at St. Vincentius-Kliniken. I truly don’t think I’d be here without them).

That said, I’m glad to see this area receiving more attention. Hopefully, it will lead to further studies and the development of better strategies for prevention and treatment.
by cgio | 2025-09-14 01:19:28+00:00
Maybe anecdotal, but in solution design I have often encountered designs that try to be generic for the sake of generality, also designs that complicate a simple repeatable task to accommodate arbitrary potential complications. I would argue that in many cases we like to introduce complexity to feel like we are doing something advanced. I like to design systems with a view that they do one thing only and that thing right but there is, to your point, arbitrariness and art and judgement in deciding the thing.
by manwe150 | 2025-09-14 01:20:35+00:00
I don’t think that answers GPs question. They asked it could be fast (a result), not if it could use a JIT (an implementation detail). I would argue it is an easy language to JIT since its semantics are clear and straightforward, just that it might not gain any speed if there aren’t any optimizations it can apply over the code run in the JIT.

If you want an example of a bad language to JIT, take C for example, where parsing and running code is hugely context dependent and adding new code can change just about anything about the existing code without anything knowing about it. And yet most C runs via a JIT: dlopen, the just in time loader. Just look at the mess that is historic ELF to attempt to deal with the problem
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 01:21:36+00:00
> Yesterday, Fox News

No, one specific show host.

> for innocent homeless people

No, specifically for those who are mentally ill, and only if they refuse help. Still abhorrent, but also unrelated.

> The day Kirk died, Fox was quite literally calling for war.

I legitimately have no idea what you're referring to.

> Then when we found out it was a conservative shooter, it's still the left's fault

Shootings are the fault of the shooter and no other person.

We did not find out that the shooter is conservative. This is speculation, and many of the initial bases for this speculation were quite spurious.

> because them not mourning Kirk is worse than the killing

As far as I can tell, nobody has said anything remotely like this.

> the President says he "couldn't care less" about bridging the divide between Americans.

The political divide. And it's not clear what he could in principle do about it.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-14 01:22:03+00:00
It also has a values based bent to it.

Things like:

1. We value the average outcome more than the outcome the (tax)payer receives

2. We value equality of outcomes, a rich person cannot pay more to get more

3. We fix the amount we'll spend and then prioritize the sickest person. You may not get any help until you're the sickest person.

Personally, those 3 violate my values.
by crooked-v | 2025-09-14 01:22:52+00:00
Most media piracy is a direct result of it being somewhere between inconvenient and impossible to consume that media legally. See, for example, the tremendous drop in music piracy resulting from various music streaming purchases and Apple's popularization of direct track purchases before that.

Movies and shows, by comparison, are not just absurdly fragmented* but often literally unavailable not long after release for bizarre tax dodge purposes.

(* Check out the official guide on what services have the Pokemon cartoon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-...)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-14 01:23:08+00:00
The premise of intermediary liability is such a scourge. You have a dispute between two parties but the plaintiffs don't want to be bothered to actually prove their case, so instead they want to a) deputize some conglomerate as the judge and then b) be able to sue the conglomerate if it sides with the accused; but not allow the accused the same privilege.

And then the conglomerate never had the capacity to actually do any judging, but under that set of incentives it will default to siding with the accuser so that the accuser never has to prove their case. But what do you think happens when anyone can make an accusation and you abolish due process?

I mean forget about all the peasants who are going to get steamrolled; does Hollywood not realize that they themselves require internet access? That's not even going to require false accusations -- they're hosting millions of hours of content with complex licensing and are nowhere near infallible enough to have made less than three mistakes.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-14 01:23:10+00:00
First, the mall is the internet as a whole- you're going to have to pay to be there (entrance is free, getting there is not), then you use their property to get to private businesses that have leased space at the mall.

And finally: https://www.techspot.com/news/105769-meta-reportedly-plannin...

The internet runs on backhaul. A LOT of backhaul is now owned by FAANG. Along with that, most those companies can financially ruin any business simply by banning them from the platform. So, the companies use their backhaul fiber and peering agreements to crawl everybody else. And nobody says anything because of "The Implication" that if you sue under Computer fraud and abuse Act (among others) they'll just wholesale ban you.

A "door to door" analogy doesn't work because sidewalks are generally considered "Public." The best I can tweak that analogy is a gated neighborhood and everybody has "no soliciting" signs. (NB: at least in my area, soliciting when theres a no-soliciting sign is an actual crime, on top of being trespassing)
by logicalmind | 2025-09-14 01:23:48+00:00
I guess in your world, there are no opinions that incite violence. Even if those opinions are that violence should occur. Which, unless you live in a vacuum is simply not how the world works. Why don't you walk into your local bar tonight and walk up to each couple. Tell the male that in your opinion his wife/girlfriend is ugly. Surely you're not going to incite any violence. It's just your opinion man, you should just be debated.
by beeflet | 2025-09-14 01:25:50+00:00
It's not decentralized at all. It represents a total commercialization of the town square.

The situation you reference with regard to Israel/Gaza is only possible because TikTok is partially controlled by Chinese interests. But it also goes to show that TikTok could have easily been banned or censored by western governments. Just kick them off the App Stores and block the servers. For example, there is no support Net Neutrality in the USA that would defend them if the government wanted to quietly throttle their network speed.

Social media as it exists now is not decentralized in any meaningful capacity.
by dheera | 2025-09-14 01:26:02+00:00
> Devs often want the inherent safety of the boring, easy stuff for a while.

Part of the problem is that in big orgs, you need to show consistent progress in order to not get put on some PIP and kicked out of the company. There are performance review cycles and you have to show something continuously.

That ONLY works if you have boring, easy work. It's easy to deliver consistent progress on that.

Interesting and difficult work is nice only if you are trusted to try your best and given the freedom to fail. That's the nature of hard problems; progress in those domains is very sudden and Poissonian and not consistent by nature. If you're going to be judged on your ability to be sub-Poissonian and consistent, and get put on a PIP for not succeeding at it one review cycle (and possibly risking income that you use to put a roof over your head or feed your family) it's not worth the career risk to try difficult things.

Not saying this is the way I think, it's just the reality of how things often work in big orgs, and one of the reasons I dislike many big orgs.
by skissane | 2025-09-14 01:26:24+00:00
> I have not heard of a city moving between continents however.

Continents are conventional are there are multiple competing conventions. The same place absolutely can and will move continents if you decide to swap out one of those conventions for another.

Or consider Cyprus-traditional geography assigns it to Asia-it may be an island, but that’s the nearest continental landmass-and so IANA tzdata lists it as Asia/Nicosia-but since it (or at least the internationally recognised part of it) is in the EU, a lot of people view it as part of Europe. And the standard name for its time zone is “Eastern European Time”
by logicprog | 2025-09-14 01:26:37+00:00
This would honestly be really awesome. I barely type when I can voice dictate at this point, even though I'm a very fast and comfortable typist, especially with my ergonomic keyboard, but sometimes voice dictation just really is awkward or not an option, and this would completely solve that problem. Not to mention, it would solve the problem of background noise. Funnily enough, in all of the science fiction novels that I write, the main interface characters have with their computers — which I represent as augmented reality glasses similar to Meta's Orion Project — is subvocalization.
by jolmg | 2025-09-14 01:27:16+00:00
> Let PDT be PDT(-8) and PST be PST(-7). Why do I need to choose Cupertino, CA (or LA in the blog post example)

Whether daylight savings time is being used at a given location at a given time of year is a matter of government policy. The city-based timezone selectors should handle that automatically based on the jurisdiction you choose.

> Sure, it's duplicate data but a backend system (Postgres config files, say) should only store the value of the TZ, i.e. -7 / -8.

Then the time may be wrong for half the year depending on where you are.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-14 01:27:56+00:00
A bit of an edge case, but there's also the problem that the time zone you pick today might not be the time zone you have tomorrow: The jurisdiction you're in can change what their clocks use on an institutional whim.

It's very unlikely, but tomorrow some state or major city in PST could decide to add 15 minutes to all their wall clocks. Should your computer's clock change? That depends on what you're using it for...
by ushiroda80 | 2025-09-14 01:28:01+00:00
I don't think reasoning needs to be that complex. Addictive things are harmful, social media is design to be addictive (and is increasing). There is a correlation of higher addictiveness with harm. Children in particular are vulnerable for addictive things. So given the above, the expectation for social media which is highly addictive is that it would be highly harmful, unless there are clear reasons that it's not harmful.
by logicalmind | 2025-09-14 01:28:25+00:00
I've seen your comments elsewhere and you're not arguing in good faith. You're doing a "no true scottsman" argument when you know full well there is plenty out there. But nothing will convince you.

For you it seems like unless there is a video where Charlie Kirk is telling a soldier to pull the trigger and kill somebody directly, you won't be convinced. It's the same argument that Charles Manson shouldn't be guilty because it was just his opinions that caused people to be killed.
by eviks | 2025-09-14 01:28:59+00:00
Given how many improvements are ignored or rejected in so many of the open source projects, it doesn't seem like "one of the hardest parts" is hard at all.

Especially when "burden of proof is on the contributor, never the repo" and the repo is hiding behind immeasurable principles such as "ultimate success of a project isn’t measured by the number of features it has, but by the coherence of its vision and whether it finds resonance with its users." with the perfect example

> This threat can take many forms. The most obvious is a feature that’s wildly out of scope, like a request to add a GUI to a CLI tool

Indeed, a threat to the project that can transform a niche tool into a widely used one of at least reduce the usability barriers for a wider user base. Shoo the "incoherent vision" of a drive by Trojan horse bearing gui contribution gifts!

> there is a significant transfer of responsibility when a PR is merged. ... maintainer who is suddenly on the hook for it.

> we’ve introduced and documented the contrib

Oh, so all you had to do to get off the hook was add a comment that you're not responsible?
by skissane | 2025-09-14 01:31:14+00:00
> Let PDT be PDT(-8) and PST be PST(-7)

The problem is both the US and Australia have “EST/EDT” - the Australian version sometimes has an A stuck on the front to disambiguate it from the US timezone, but that isn’t always done (especially given some systems insist timezone abbreviations can be max 3 characters). And the problem with disambiguating on the basis of UTC offsets is you’d be surprised by how many people have no clue what any of them are. But “Americas” vs “Australia”, they’ll get that right
by adelmotsjr | 2025-09-14 01:32:06+00:00
Location: Curitiba, Brazil

Remote: yes (preferably part-time, but I can do full-time as well)

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Pytho, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Angular, ExpressJS, AWS, Rust, Axum, HTMX and TailwindCSS.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelmo-junior-2a576b156/ | PDF on request

Email: development@silvajunior.dev

I'm a software engineer working to help people build products and deliver value to their customers.

I can help build:

- web applications using modern principles with the latest technologies (Angular, React, TypeScript, Vue, TailwindCSS, HTMX)

- services that monitor equipments using telecommunications protocols (SNMP, NETCONF, TR-069)

- serverless programs on any business domain to help reduce costs and increase availability (AWS Lambda)

- microservices that expose REST APIs for consumption using battle-tested frameworks (SpringBoot, Quarkus)

- data processing applications and services that consumes streams of data using common parsing techniques (Rust with Nom)

- small CLI apps to help automate common tasks (Rust)

- integration of different services using distributed log (Kafka, AWS SNS), WebSocket (with NodeJS) or with simple HTTP requests

- proper documentation for common services using OpenAPI specification (Swagger)
by adelmotsjr | 2025-09-14 01:32:37+00:00
SEEKING WORK

Location: Curitiba, Brazil

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Angular, ExpressJS, AWS, Rust, Axum, HTMX and TailwindCSS.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelmo-junior-2a576b156/ | PDF on request

Email: development@silvajunior.dev

I'm a software engineer working to help people build products and deliver value to their customers.

I can help build: - web applications using modern principles with the latest technologies (Angular, React, TypeScript, Vue, TailwindCSS, HTMX); - services that monitor equipments using telecommunications protocols (SNMP, NETCONF, TR-069); - serverless programs on any business domain to help reduce costs and increase availability (AWS Lambda); - microservices that expose REST APIs for consumption using battle-tested frameworks (SpringBoot, Quarkus); - data processing applications and services that consumes streams of data using common parsing techniques (Rust with Nom); - small CLI apps to help automate common tasks (Rust); - integration of different services using distributed log (Kafka, AWS SNS), WebSocket (with NodeJS) or with simple HTTP requests; - proper documentation for common services using OpenAPI specification and/or frameworks such as Diátaxis (Swagger)
by brandonb | 2025-09-14 01:33:34+00:00
1) ApoB itself is more accurate than LDL and triglycerides. The latest evidence is that ApoB and Lp(a) together are more accurate than even LDL, VLDL, non-HDL, triglerycerides, etc combined: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article-abstract/46/27/27...

2) The terminology is confusing, but each Lp(a) particle is "just" a cholesterol particle wrapped with an extra protein, apoprotein (a). So each Lp(a) particle includes one ApoB molecule (the structural protein in atherogenic cholesterol particles) and many cholesterol and triglyceride molecules, but the extra protein makes each Lp(a) particle about 6x more atherogenic than a typical cholesterol particle.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-14 01:34:26+00:00
> I guess in your world, there are no opinions that incite violence. Even if those opinions are that violence should occur.

I am a bit confused. An opinion that states that a violence towards particular group should happen is an incitement for violence.

> Tell the male that in your opinion his wife/girlfriend is ugly. Surely you're not going to incite any violence. It's just your opinion man, you should just be debated.

This is a silly example: beauty is subjective. Thus, what you are doing you are insulting a person, and of course there are consequences for that.
by bbanyc | 2025-09-14 01:36:09+00:00
You can't just go by time zone names because there are weird exceptions, like most of Arizona not doing DST. Then there's Indiana, which didn't do DST until 20 years ago, and there are some counties that switched time zones when the DST law took effect... if you're in one of those counties will you just accept old timestamps being an hour off? Granted, this gradually becomes less of an issue the further we get from the change. But nothing guarantees that there won't be further changes in the future.

And that's just the US, there's almost 200 other countries each with their own laws.
by ivansavz | 2025-09-14 01:36:16+00:00
We could simplify it even further: it's all about intellectual stamina.

From my personal experience and from my observations of others, the limiting factor to learning is the availability of mental energy to persevere/endure in the learning process.

You have a problem. Either an academic homework problem or a real-world problem of some sort (think error message in the console). You try one thing but it doesn't work... then another, and still you're not making progress. You're starting to realize solving this problem is not obvious and will require some "brain sweat" and you have to make a choice whether to invest the hour (or day!) of your time to learn enough to solve your problem.

Learners willingness to persevere in their efforts to solve the problem depends on lots of factors, but most importantly they are conditional on the level of learners' interest/motivation (intrinsic or extrinsic). Ideally, learners will be motivated purely by the "knowledge buzz" of learning new concepts and seeing the connections between them, but any source of motivation is OK: as long as it pushes/pulls you enough to go through the necessary learning and solve the problem.

I recognize that learning to learn is a useful multiplier, but learners need to have base rate of (1) intellectual stamina (brain muscles?) and (2) interest/motivation to push through. Otherwise learning is not going to be happening.
by atmavatar | 2025-09-14 01:37:01+00:00
> Our entire society suffers because a bunch of people want to freeload on media

The freeloaders also include the copyright holders. Copyright was originally 28 years, but now it's life of the author plus 70 years, which from a consumer's perspective is effectively indefinite.

The purpose of copyright was to secure a limited monopoly so creators can profit off their works and be incentivized to create more. Nowadays, the copyright is no longer limited, and the copyright holders are most often not those creating the works. The social contract with copyright has long since been broken.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-09-14 01:37:55+00:00
Even abbreviations have issues. PST (UTC+8) is also Philippine Standard Time. EST could mean Eastern Standard Time in Australia, granted that nowadays is AEST.

Timezones are such a headache. Obviously even UTC for a location varies depending on the time of year.

Even the International Space Station shifted timezones from Houston time to UTC+0.

Curiosity and Perseverance's clocks are UTC but operations run on LMST (local mean solar time) Gale Crater and LMST Jezero Crater- their landing locations. That point is moot until humans start spinning up VMs on Mars which they will one day.
by abstractspoon | 2025-09-14 01:38:08+00:00
The thing I've yet to grasp about the AI hype is that I thoroughly enjoy thinking. The last thing I would want to offload on to a machine is my thinking.

Even really hard software problems (for me) bring me joy when I finally understand enough to determine an appropriate solution.

Maybe it's because I largely identify myself through my capacity for both abstract and concrete thought.
by plaidfuji | 2025-09-14 01:38:10+00:00
The internet is back!

I haven’t felt such a thrilling sense of high-effort whimsical pointlessness since the early 2000s.

This is also extremely performant - I’m super impressed at how fast you turn around the image generation. And whatever your system prompts are, they’re excellent.

The loading screen is also :chefs-kiss:

Edit: wait, I just discovered the Reviews. It just keeps getting better. Double edit: wait, I thought these were AI-generated. People are actually writing these?
by minhaz23 | 2025-09-14 01:38:19+00:00
Curious about attempting something like this in my area as well since I’m remote. Are you doing both or does one have to give way to the other eventually?

Also im seeing the same trend as you at my company, roles replaced overseas while people only focus on AI taking the jobs i think this is the more sinister thing happening quietly (by that i mean not getting much news coverage)