MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jfyi | 2025-09-29 14:22:20+00:00
We need to start working on the premise that large corporations are different beasts than small businesses. I mean as a people of the world as a whole.

There is a tipping point somewhere and that is definitely up for conversation but we need to pick a point and start making sure regulation hits where it does good.

Frankly, the outcomes of both "regulate it" and "don't regulate it" have already both been captured by the biggest offenders to use as they wish.
by callc | 2025-09-29 14:22:33+00:00
Basic human decency.

Just as the author says: “Publishing someone’s photo online, without their consent, without another strong justification, just because they happen to be in view of one’s camera lens, feels wrong to me.”

It doesn’t fall to the legal level, but a social rules level.

People who obnoxiously recording people in public, even if 100% legal, and disregard the wishes and conform of others around them deserve social consequences.

Some things should only exist at the social norms level. IMO it would be hunky dory if societies considered what “privacy in public” looks like in the modern age, and came to the conclusions like “no dragnets pls”.
by smaudet | 2025-09-29 14:23:05+00:00
> but I still feel the policies must do something

That has been the problem with Apple, a lot of feeling inspired by nice UI design, and a lot of screw-you-over in the background (draconian dev policies, nonsense security requirements that make you less, not more, secure, and money grubbing that doesn't make the users any better off)...

Maybe in a world with Steve Jobs, it could have been different, who knows. I don't get the sense that Tim Cook "gets" it.
by deaddodo | 2025-09-29 14:23:08+00:00
> The last EA game I played was the excellent C&C remaster - and EA's main contribution was getting out of the way of the project.

Not only did they get out of the way, but they actively hired the studio that sprung up from the corpse of the original developers (Westwood): Petroglyph. Not only letting the original designers/developers do their thing, but giving them a chance to work on their own baby again.

It’s rare for larger companies to be willing to humble themselves for something like that, so they gained an iota of respect from me.
by ceedan | 2025-09-29 14:23:09+00:00
Compared to the 90s, I'm sure those years did feel pretty awful, but 2008-2010 were far worse. The global financial crisis caused college graduates to return to school for additional 1-2 year degrees in order to simply defer student loan payments, and avoid the job market. Once they graduated from their masters programs, or additional majors, they were still applying for the same entry level positions.
by physicsguy | 2025-09-29 14:23:13+00:00
This gets asked at basically every wedding I've been to in the UK i.e. there is a professional photographer, please don't take photos of the bride and groom in the church and it still gets ignored. At my own wedding, one of the guests (not even someone invited to the whole day, just a neighbour of my wife's parents who knew her growing up) is leaning out of the aisle with their phone taking photos ruining a load of photos.

It's incredibly frustrating. I also think it's really strange that when something happens in public, the default isn't to look to see if the person isn't OK anymore, it's to pull out a camera phone and start filming.
by orangebread | 2025-09-29 14:23:45+00:00
What if there was some sort of middle layer escrow holdings platform for users to sign up to that has your identity, facial biometrics, and crypto wallet. The user can also specify how they want their likeness used, or if they do not want to appear, etc.

Any user uploading to a video platform has to run their video through this integration user-facial detection layer at some point in their editing pipeline. Payments are made accordingly.

Just brainstorming.
by komali2 | 2025-09-29 14:23:55+00:00
Yeah unfortunately those BBs are going to stay there basically forever. Biodegradable means it'll degrade in like, hella hot temperatures that you'll never get unless there's a forest fire.

Plus side I don't think they degrade into microplastics? And aerate your soil! :D

Though water bottles is probably orders of magnitude more harmful to the planet.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-29 14:24:53+00:00
"Good taste" I have found comes from experiencing "good" API's and other "good" code. You know good code (and API) when you see it — and in time you should be able to write it as well.

In short though, it's hard to have good coding taste when you are new to the field. (But, as you point out, it's not true that experience guarantees you will acquire taste — you have to both be looking out for it, recognize it, and be able to to mirror it.)
by linksnapzz | 2025-09-29 14:24:59+00:00
I don't think that this is so much an outsourcing issue, as it is an incestuous relationship between JLR and a different part of the Tata empire.

JLR mgmt could've decided to outsource to Tata IT had they not been sister divisions of the same holding company, but arguments against doing so would've been easier to make.

Really, "operating a vehicle factory, and associated software and logistics systems" strikes me as a core competency of "being an automaker", and not one that should be handed off to separate entity not quite as committed to the enterprise.
by _Rabs_ | 2025-09-29 14:25:03+00:00
H-1B's are absolutely exploited. I'd personally testify to the abuses at financial companies. Hearing threats of "If you don't complete this by tomorrow, you can expect to be back in India by next week" From one Indian to another too...

It's awful to witness it. Please don't spread misinformation that "They are not taking abuse or being exploited" That is extremely disingenuous.
by watwut | 2025-09-29 14:25:24+00:00
Show me three whose lives show them being bullying victims striking back. Go to read a biography of pretty much any popular one and you find raising levels of aggression toward people around. I have yet to see a ONE that would be a bullying victim lashing back.

Really, show me some that were primary bullying victims string back.

Adam Lanza and Elliot Rogers had both mental health issues and family that allowed them to isolate themselves. Adam Lanza mom was reported to be afraid of him before the end and basically in abusive relationship with him (where he was the abusers) before being killed. In case of Nikolas Jacob Cruz, you see volatile boy threatening and attacking others including a girl that school assigned to tutor him. She stopped because he was bullying her. He WAS ostracized and lonely as a results ... but that is the kids avoiding the bully who mistreats them rather then him anything else. He had host of mental health problems for sure too.
by cjfd | 2025-09-29 14:25:42+00:00
Good for them. I like C++. It is a language that supports both being close to the computer and abstraction. I studied Rust a bit but it seems that their rules exclude some perfectly good software designs. If two classes need to work together as equals so class A has a reference to B and class B has a reference to A this is not very well possible. Especially if both A and B have multiple instances that are stored in containers. This is common with the bridge design pattern.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-29 14:26:18+00:00
> Training should be software independent.

Agree, and I see this problem in both non-tech users and even sysadmins on my team when I'm looking for new hires.

I'll get resumes of people that are seemingly great, but they really only learned a few specific tools and had no general understanding of theory or even what those tools were doing. I don't care if you "know" Ansible, I do care if you know why we use orchestration management in the first place, and what those ansible playbooks are doing. Tools come and go, but the principles remain.

Likewise with general users. Don't train how to use Word, train how to communicate clearly, format ideas, and share them with others using a computer. The tool is irrelevant
by evanelias | 2025-09-29 14:26:32+00:00
I don't really understand why this restriction would be necessary. Wouldn't the computed value just get stored in the index btree keys, exactly the same as an indexed expression?

For comparison, MySQL permits indexing of virtual columns, and indexes on expressions share the same underlying implementation to support this. In other words, in MySQL an index on an expression is literally just an index on an internally-hidden virtual column.
by komali2 | 2025-09-29 14:27:12+00:00
> Airsoft but-actually-in-public would have people concerned about a terrorist attack, not being recorded for insta.

I live in Taiwan. My friend and I were drinking beers by the river one night and decided to go on a late night bike ride, maybe 1am. We grabbed citybikes and tooled along the river, which in Taipei in many places is a nice bit of pavement next to massive mangroves and then the river itself. We were coming up on a brushy bit when a squad of completely kitted out soldiers came out of the bush with massive rifles, night vision goggles, full camo, geared to the nines. My buddy and I both nearly fell off our bikes and were immediately thinking the same thing: Oh fuck the PLA is here. Common knowledge is they'd come up that exact river and make straight for the presidential palace if they were gonna do their thing.

Turns out it was just very enthusiastic airsoft players. Apparently you can just play it wherever in Taipei, there's not really rules about it? So people play in the riversides at night.

Their kit was ridiculous. One guy had tracer pellets. They let us wear their night vision goggles and shoot trees. Great time.
by Tepix | 2025-09-29 14:27:21+00:00
> 99.99% a me problem: I had a hard time with spatial awareness and a difficulty building a mental map of the world and my best guess is that it's because I personally found the default field of view to be too "zoomed in".

Agreed on the spatial awareness issue. I think games like Mario Galaxy are a bit better in that regard because you see more of the world at a time. In this game you can sometimes not see what's 5m in front of you.
by physicsguy | 2025-09-29 14:27:23+00:00
The thing that I find more frustrating than anything is photos of children. I'm not so bothered about myself.

I have a young child - he's two and a half. Most people are considerate and ask if it's OK to take a photo - and I generally say yes if it's friends - but we were at a wedding recently and a staff member, total stranger, at the venue was laughing at him running around and asked if they could take a picture, and then got stroppy when I said no. I just think it's quite strange behaviour to want to take photos of a child you don't know. It's quite different to the professional photographer taking photos for the hosts in my mind, which you basically accept by bringing your kids to an event like that.

A mum at a playgroup just took out phone and started filming my son playing with her child. My wife asked her to stop and she again got quite stroppy, even though the group explicitly said that photos should only be taken with consent in that space!
by bhouston | 2025-09-29 14:27:36+00:00
> Especially when it comes to something as polarising as Gaza

One should expect news sources to report that the main Israeli human rights groups believe it is a genocide, the main international human rights groups believe it is a genocide, UN investigatory panels believe it is a genocide, genocide scholars believe it is a genocide:

https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o

Those that disagree with this assessment are in a minority. But to you it is just "polarizing."

You are denying reality that is in front of you because you want to. And this is resulting in more families being wiped out, people starving to death and for Netanyahu and his coalition that want to "voluntary migrate" the Palestinians away from Gaza for Israeli settlements: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/middleeast/israel-approves-pr...
by derbOac | 2025-09-29 14:27:51+00:00
IMHO the problem usually isn't the degree history, it's putting providers in situations where they lack the requisite training, or are understaffed in general. So you have, e.g., complaints about incompetent PAs being put into roles they are not as good at, but when you look at the details, they are being asked to do these things right out of school without background training, and there are insufficient staff period. But then the blame is put on the use of PAs, rather than the lack of supervision in a type of intervention or procedure before doing them, and insufficient staffing. The problem to me usually is e.g., private equity firms not requiring the right experience for the job, not the degree itself.

It's a bit weird and disingenuous to me — if you took a bunch of MDs right out of medical school with no residency training and asked them to function as a senior staff physician in a given specialty, there would be complaints about them as well. It's no different from hiring an inexperienced computer science BA graduate to handle a complex high-stakes network security position.
by grafmax | 2025-09-29 14:28:18+00:00
YouTube offers free hosting and is widely available. Presumably that’s why it was chosen to host these videos. Other people cannot duplicate YouTube. VCs financed YouTube to build a free service with network effects that allow them to turn around and charge rent on the one hand and exercise capricious control on the other. It’s not in the public interest to allow these billionaires to retain control of these companies. Their control over these rent seeking enterprises directly conflicts with the public interest. This incident, erasing political ads, is an egregious example of private entities using their wealth to silence essential public discourse.
by jve | 2025-09-29 14:28:23+00:00
- I was at public park. There was an event. I remember there was a warning/poster/whatever - this place features XYZ and is being photographed. If you do not like, do not participate or stand here or something along the lines.

- When kids came to my workplace as part of educational program to show how people work - we gave them out papers, adults had to give approval that their child will be photographed and photo shared on social network. If any would opt out, we would just photograph without him. I think the sole purpose of that event was to photograph on some background with national flag or something and just publish it online.

Sometimes it is ridiculous, but still this thing works like this: the school or kindergarten wants class photo: please sign here that you consent. Basically this photo is not public but limited to families for all the children that attend that class. So seems kind of too much, but ok, can live with that.

I live in EU
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-29 14:28:34+00:00
No, read back on the thread. The person imagined a kind of law that limited public photography except for cases of preventing crime etc. I said it works like that in Switzerland. You said also in the rest of the EU, and I'm pointing out it does not work that way in the rest of the EU, because countries like Czechia are far more lax about public photography than Switzerland or even The Netherlands.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-09-29 14:28:34+00:00
I do appreciate you looking out for the community. It's a strange rule for you to say a person's worldview can't be included in comments about how to live, effects of worldview's on society, and so on. Especially when the topic is community's effect on health with the parent comment exploring how our worldview drives our prioritization:

"Car-centric lifestyle, few third places, low work-life balance, high and increasing inequality, underdeveloped social safety net, employer-tied social benefits, etc all tied together with American individualism. If we want prosocial, community-oriented behavior, we have to actually prioritize it."

Either supporting a connected, loving society or responding to that comment requires a foundational justification for it. I noted that popular philosophies encourage selfishness, disconnects, anxiety, depression, and hate. Whereas, the older worldview, the Bible, produced individuals with more peace, work ethic, stable families with decades-long marriages, Western democracy (eg the Constitution), and so on. Solving the problem requires building on the right foundation (eg Christ & the truth).

You mention you respect all's religious convictions with some censorship apparently but all claims shouldn't be treated the same. Jesus lives perfectly, works miracles, raises from the dead, and has biographical evidence approaching Julius Caeser. Then, His Gospel impacts 4,000 people groups with all of them reporting life transformations and miracles. Countries founded on Judeo-Christian principles turn out to be the best ones to live in with the most freedoms while the atheist, Buddhist, and Hindu countries still jail or kill those disagreeing with them. Scientific discoveries actually confirmed the Bible more, too.

Whatever has strong evidence with high, global impact should always be allowed:

https://www.gethisword.com/evidence.html

The biggest issues, though, is we will all face the Lord Jesus Christ during Judgement Day. He promised every knee will bow, some willingly and others fearfully. He will render to each for their works, from day to day life up to moderation or lawmaking decisions. Our whole life might be replayed second by second with Him asking if each decision prioritized our God, His character, His truths, and love for others.

So, we have to answer questions like "why have a lifetime of social ties? with God both designed us for and commanded us to love others as ourselves. Also, to bring them into fellowship with Jesus Christ for forgiveness of their sins, into the Church which is like a family, help with their earthly needs, and God uses them to do the same. It multiplies starting with hearing the Gospel and His truths. Jesus said "blessed are those who are not offended by me" so please don't be and please allow God's truths on Hacker News.
by rossdavidh | 2025-09-29 14:28:35+00:00
"ChatGPT is here to stay..."

Well, LLM's are probably here to stay. I'm not sure that OpenAI has found a viable business model, and as Matt Levine of Bloomberg put it recently, OpenAI is a "money furnace", that takes stupifying amounts of VC money (and, more importantly, cloud compute capacity) and burns it for purposes that do not remotely pay for the cost.

The biggest reason not to rely on ChatGPT specifically, is that it is likely to either disappear or else become much, much more expensive in the future. But, if you can use DeepSeek or some other much, much cheaper alternative just as well, I suppose that will do.
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-29 14:28:49+00:00
I have lost faith in Apple as a current best choice because of the things you say. Maybe it's dumb for me to think of it this way, but I was just expressing that I'm happier overall with how Apple handled it while I've had an iPhone. I felt like I was in better hands, even though I know just about all their shortcomings that have been made public. Still, I don't think there was a better choice for the general average Joe than an iOS device. They have kept my parents safe from identity theft, any malware (that I know of), stolen credit cards, etc. And I think they deserve some (intangible, feelings-based) credit for that.

This morning I ordered a Pixel phone after realizing they are available in my price range after all (thanks to this discussion, specifically one of the few who didn't try to argue with me) so GrapheneOS is what I would personally recommend if anyone was thinking I was trying to say "iOS is better, prove me wrong". I was more looking for others to share similar thoughts, not attempt to shut me down, but such is life.
by deaddodo | 2025-09-29 14:29:09+00:00
Not necessarily. Private ownership can give you the benefit of operating at a stagnate revenue since it still represents a positive income stream for the owners.

This is an impossible status for public ownership as people don’t want a stock that stays at 10usd for multiple subsequent quarters. They see it as an investment. So you either have to offer significant dividends or find a way to show growth. If not, investors lose interest and your value drops, despite being perfectly profitable.

That’s not to say this private owner set will be happy with that, but that’s the benefit private ownership offers over public capital.
by deltarholamda | 2025-09-29 14:29:25+00:00
The graphic design version of this is "Get it done, make it beautiful," but it works for code too.

I used to get hung up on things like doing a loop when a ternary operator would work. "Somebody is going to see this and be rude about it." But sometimes you write code how you're thinking about the problem at the time. And if you think of it as a loop, or a series of if statements, or whatever, do it that way.

If it makes you feel better, note it in a comment to revisit later. And if somebody is rude about it, so what. It's not theirs, it's yours.
by vid | 2025-09-29 14:29:32+00:00
There are still plenty of people in that group who don't want performance vehicles, highways, McMansions &c. Not only are there people who didn't "benefit" from that environment, there are many people who chose to focus on the needs of the planet or others. A lot of this comes down to urban/suburban/rural divides.

It's just really counterproductive to focus on these easy "majority" stats that break down on examination and contribute to the polarization of society.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-29 14:29:58+00:00
> Thus: A normal wedding with a normal amount of invited guests is one of the most non-secret events to exist

private !== secret

You seem to have this concept crossed in your thinking. Just because people know about it doesn't make it not private. Try getting into an event at Davos. Try getting into any well known event without an invitation. You'll see just how not public they are.

The fact that people think it is acceptable to post pictures of other people on their social sites says it all. This couple's request is not egregious. Just because you can't imagine not posting something doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same way. This is just another example to me of how few people think of others first, and only ever think about "me me me"
by mothballed | 2025-09-29 14:30:08+00:00
Hmm... I'd be interested to look at any 1A cases regarding that. I'm unable to find any 1A exceptions regarding mere information on weapons. The US is allowed to suspend constitutional rights at border controls, which is how they prevent exporting the information outside the US, but I'd bet dollars to donuts the blueprints/information part is unenforceable as non-commercial speech within the US.

Here's an example of T-shirt with a machinegun blueprint on it for instance, for sale in USA without any checks as to your immigration status [note US law considers a device that induces automatic fire as a 'machinegun' despite the fact the device itself isn't really a gun]:

https://ctrlpew.com/product/yankee-boogle-tee-gatalog-editio...
by dahart | 2025-09-29 14:30:14+00:00
> Do you feature?

Yes, this is what the author is concerned about. There’s a big difference between being filmed incidentally, and being filmed on purpose for the activity you’re engaged in. Being accidentally in the background is one thing, while being the subject of a video and having the camera aimed at you is another. Even though public photography is also legal where I live, and I believe we should keep that right, if I filmed close-ups of people in the car park getting in and out of their cars, I’d expect most people would object and find it uncomfortable.