MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-09-14 23:34:42+00:00
"Failed", hah. If you fail, you never even touch stuff like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaokao

As fucked up as it is, the virtue of individualism is often studied as a capitalist/western phenomenon that causes crime and internal conflict. Many of the people building this likely genuinely believe that they are working for the greater good and repressing a harmful social underclass.
by bananaboy | 2025-09-14 23:35:02+00:00
I'd agree with this. I did a double degree in Comp Sci/Comp Sys Eng at RMIT (1998-2002) and even from that era I would say that's largely true. Out of the people who did my course (and those I knew from other degrees like Comp Sys Eng/Business) very few are still doing deep technical programming for a career and/or hobby programming on the side on deep technical non-web things. The rest are mostly working for places like consulting companies, banks, big data, Telstra, etc in management roles like project manager, scrum master, solutions architect, change management. A lot of folks I think were just not that interested in stuff like writing an OS, how does virtual memory work, how does the hardware work, etc so they gravitated out of those software development roles into management roles. Nothing wrong with that, but I just think not everyone is interested in or capable of writing an OS!
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-14 23:35:56+00:00
> I just want a place where my kids some day can grow up, where I can enjoy the sun in the garden and invite family and friends over to spend a nice evening.

This quote makes real estate "investors", banks and the government tax revenue service drool over how hard you would work to guarantee your children's future. You're up against soulless, calculating cowards who are more than willing to live themselves in misery for the chance to suck your blood.
by kikokikokiko | 2025-09-14 23:36:02+00:00
The most infuriating case of shrinkflation I've encontered yet is abot the "Oreo" style cookies, that were used to be sold on packages where each cookie was stacked on top of another, "laying flat". Over time, rhe packages started getting lighter, the cookies itself started getring smaller etc. Then, a couple years ago, those packages started having the cookies "side by side", instead of laying one on top of the other... I refuse to buy any brand that uses these types of shenanigans. Fuck shrinkflation.
by sedawkgrep | 2025-09-14 23:36:30+00:00
Take a look at the administration's first term and all the involvement and ties (financial, political, etc.) there are to Russia (and Russian-related objectives like Ukraine). It sounds bonkers, but the more you dig in and see how closely tied the relationships have been, and then see how totally soft Trump has been towards Putin/Russia - including direct actions towards Ukraine like removing the long-term diplomats, stopping weapons sales and aid, and recently killing USAID (whose #1 beneficiary was Ukraine) - it all coalesces into a single coherent view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...
by TheFreim | 2025-09-14 23:36:37+00:00
> Like I said, he was excusing political violence. A woman had been murdered by neo-Nazis and he went out of his way to minimize, justify and excuse the act, while condemning imaginary "alt-left" violence at the same event.

I again strongly encourage you to go watch the video or read the transcript since it directly contradicts what you are continuing to claim. Trump explicitly said that that the neo-Nazis should be "condemned totally." A total condemnation is exactly the opposite of your claim that he was "excusing" or trying to "minimize" the events. I will also note that I find it quite odd that you claim to be upset about Trump allegedly downplaying violence, but then go on to downplay and minimize left-wing extremist violence. I believe that all political violence should be condemned, its unfortunate that you appear to believe otherwise.

> I don't find it credible that he died coincidentally the day after being assaulted.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree here, I don't find it likely that I will be convinced to ignore the medical expert who examined the case and the corresponding documentary evidence that points against the idea that Sicknick was killed.
by LexiMax | 2025-09-14 23:36:38+00:00
> Could you watch The Wire and point out exactly what you'd do differently.

The whole point of the Wire is how meaningless those wiretaps ended up being.

On either side of the board, the kings stayed the kings, most of the other pieces were chewed up and spit out, a new crop of pieces would come along to replace them, and the game stayed the same.
by kuschku | 2025-09-14 23:36:45+00:00
> Total surveillance is not what the Danish minister is arguing for

If you backdoor E2EE crypto for one user, you've got to weaken it for everyone. There's no way around that.

What he's arguing for would require wiretapping every citizen, just in case you need to listen to the logs from any one citizen.

Even worse, the criminals will just compile the open source E2EE apps themselves without the backdoor, so the only people you'll be able to wiretap will be law-abiding citizens.

The "best" option (if there even is such a thing) would be to surveil endpoint devices, but the governments have failed to strongarm Apple into complying, so now they're going after the service providers.

Additionally, even with E2EE protocols, you can already tell from the metadata who is talking to whom, which is everything a government needs to get warrants, seize devices, and install surveillance devices.

So in the end, this proposal won't affect criminals, will reduce the security for every law-abiding citizen, and isn't even going to do anything useful against crime.
by Quekid5 | 2025-09-14 23:37:04+00:00
I take your point. There were some previous leaked docs about Thorn involvement (I'm pretty sure Palantir was mentioned in those docs, but not 100% sure), so yeah...

The biggest issue is the lack of transparency about the people/groups involved in those meetings and why this ineffectual privacy-destroying idiocy gets pushed so hard.
by SamoyedFurFluff | 2025-09-14 23:38:32+00:00
Yes I think this is fine red meat stuff. It’s probably less extreme of declaring the catholic hospitals to be murdering women by denying them care or whatever histrionics would be comparable but sure. Thanks. I just don’t see nearly the same sorts of things happening. Your example was from over a quarter ago back in May. Whereas I can point to stuff happening within 48h comparatively (again, calling Charlie Kirk’s killer a trans, although I think that’s the killer’s roommate now or something; either way pinning the assassinations on the trans people)
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-14 23:38:58+00:00
The primary constraint that you are glossing over is that there is a premium that must be paid that most people cannot afford (if they can even access a plan like this outside of a group). Add in the co-insurance, deductibles, uncovered procedures, etc and that becomes a VERY hard constraint on most families. Are you not aware that healthcare affordability is one of the main political arguments for the past few decades?

You must recognize that you are in a position of extreme privilege. Most people simply do not have access to a plan like yours, or cannot casually afford the many thousands of dollars on top of premiums it takes for the insurance to start paying for things. It is not a given that every employed person has 1. a health insurance plan 2. that is paid for in any way by their employer.

Simply put: money is the constraint. You are wealthy enough that you fail to see that spending thousands of dollars is a constraint. Lucky you. That you have never even heard of daily medical treatment tells me that you are also extremely privileged to have never been chronically ill or even known the health needs of someone who is. I can't speak for your insurance policy, but my experience with chronic illness and US insurance companies is that an insurance company that paid for daily treatments without at least making someone jump through many hours of hoops is incredibly rare.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-09-14 23:40:06+00:00
It's not just being able to afford it. It's also how easy can you sell it. Basically, how liquid is the house, and how many expenses are there on the transaction, impacts how much it's worth to buy.

My thought experiment is basically: If I get a new job in a new city, is it smart buy a house right away? And if the answer is not always "yes", then obviously buying is not always the best option.
by davewritescode | 2025-09-14 23:40:21+00:00
I don’t think renting or buying makes a difference in communities. I had a much better relationship with my neighbors when I rented vs now where I own my own home.

I chalk up the difference to the fact that a lot of people my age couldn’t afford to live where I moved so my neighborhood is full of wealthier older people who I have nothing in common with.
by neilv | 2025-09-14 23:40:22+00:00
I wish there would be negative feedback to shrinkflation, yet, even in my own buying behavior (and I might do more things "on-principle" than the average consumer) I mostly still stick with brands of product I've found I like or that work for me, so long as the shrinkflation remains suspiciously mostly in lockstep with other brands.

What I've seen does get consumer negative feedback is when, say, Club(?) brand crackers change owners and formula, and lose their buttery taste.

And lately I've been wondering whether Post raisin bran has deteriorated to be the same as Kellogg's. I'm feeling less loyal to Post, and have started experimenting with more brands (e.g., WFM's store brand isn't much more expensive). And also straying to other kinds of product (e.g., Grape Nuts still offers fiber for healthy trumps, but less sugar than raisin bran, and it actually doesn't taste bad to adults).

Recently, I'm seeing more negative feedback to bean-counter-looking product changes in sensitive skin products. For example, Aveeno changed their sensitive-skin fragrance-free body wash to have strong fragrance(!) which made me and others incredulously furious. And Cetaphil (an expensive sensitive-skin brand often recommended by doctors, for which you might spend 10x what a bar of soap you used to buy costs) changed their formula in a way that caused many devotees to report breaking out in rashes.

(If you have sensitive skin, or you ever got painful contact dermatitis, and desperately replaced all the products that might've triggered that... you become a very loyal customer of whatever working solution you found. And a new CEO, perhaps trying to cash in long-term brand goodwill and customer base, such as to hit a personal compensation performance target, by changing the formula/process/quality... is pure evil to you.)
by lazide | 2025-09-14 23:40:39+00:00
Petrol is really quite harsh and includes cancerous chemicals like benzene in sizable quantities. It’s not something you can soak something in and then use to expose to food.

Diesel and other oils tend to be (somewhat) less bad - but there are many oils in food which are nearly identical, and hence anything which breaks down in those situations is likely to breakdown while in food contact too.
by angusturner | 2025-09-14 23:40:42+00:00
I recently made the shift to graphene from iOS and am mostly enjoying it.

The user profiles was slow to set up and not having shared filesystem between the user profiles creates friction. But I love that I can effectively sandbox my work apps, sandbox the Zuck apps etc, with different VPN profiles for each user.

Getting a burner google account (for gplay services) is a PITA if you are determined to get a clean slate from Googles tracking. Gplay is the only safe way to get certain apps at the moment, and make certain apps pass the device integrity checks.

I suspect one of the biggest barriers to mass adoption will be the fact that tap to pay doesn't work. IIUC apple/google pay are generally considered a privacy and security improvement over physical cards, since you don't give every merchant your actual card number.

Overall love the project and really nice to see such high quality open source software.
by Balgair | 2025-09-14 23:41:37+00:00
I had a family member that used to work for the county in the SNAP-like assistance program.

He was aghast at the state of the average family. No, not the average one coming to the county for assistance, just the average.

The average household in the county was without a kitchen. Maybe a dorm fridge, maybe a microwave or a hotplate, typically neither. A Winnebago had better food preparation than the average county resident. Oh and the household thing was a huge misnomer, as census-wise the physical house has 3+ households in it. People were crammed in!. Plumbing problems were huge deals!

Like even considering to bake a cake on your own was laughable. You didn't even know of anyone that you could borrow an oven from. The poverty in the county was, and remains, shockingly high.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-14 23:42:41+00:00
> How do you imagine that working? Do you call many things you don’t support “God’s perfect law?”

Imagine instead of the Bible, it's The Lord Of The Rings. Somebody examining it might describe the special master ring as being Sauron's perfect creation, or whatever. That doesn't mean they believe it is in real life. They're talking within the context of the story.

You're saying he preaches hate by promoting killing gays. If that's what he was doing, wouldn't he have been clearer about it instead of just using it as part of a smug retort showing somebody else's hypocrisy?

> What do you mean here?

She used Leviticus to justify her beliefs, but apparently cherry-picked the parts she wanted and neglected the stoning gays part. He's pointing out that the actual text says the opposite of what she believes based on that same book of the bible.

Since every example you've shown and I've looked at has been weak or nothing, I conclude that you're wrong about him preaching hate and instead you've just been fooled by media telling you that and you never bothered to look at the evidence. Really, it's that media that's been preaching hate - hence why he was so widely hated.
by weaksauce | 2025-09-14 23:42:41+00:00
the places around here are using compostable plastic bags. not sure what it's made of but it can be composted in municipal facilities according to the bag. one downside is they are green tinted and harder to see what is in there but if it removes some of the plastic killing the ocean then i'm for it... assuming it's not a plastic that degrades into microplastics.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-09-14 23:42:42+00:00
> “Socioeconomic factors are what mostly constitute the risks of ending up in crime,” not ethnicity, says Felipe Estrada Dörner, a professor of criminology at Stockholm University

This is an interesting comment and sounds correct. I'm curious though, what is the driver of increased socioeconomic distress in Sweden? I thought they were doing pretty well.

I did a bit of reading and it seems like Sweden has been seeing :

- increasing segregation, with low-income and immigrant populations concentrated in certain districts

- a youth unemployment problem

- housing price crunch
by epistasis | 2025-09-14 23:43:10+00:00
> “The most plausible explanation seems to be [that] the black hole developed before the galaxy,” said Marta Volonteri (opens a new tab), a theorist at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics who helped with the new analysis of QSO1.

For those that like science communication in video form, Becky Smethurst's YouTube channel has a ton of great info on super massive blackholes, and cosmology in general, from a practitioner in the field. Here's one from a month ago about the evidence (then) for whether super massive black holes or galaxies came first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9yDWbilIG4

The science appears to be moving very quickly with all the new info from JWST.
by ars | 2025-09-14 23:44:46+00:00
> but if it removes some of the plastic killing the ocean then i'm for it

It doesn't. The plastics in the ocean don't come from your grocery store. They come from fishing gear and from places without municipal trash service.

Honestly? It's basically greenwashing, it doesn't actually do anything at all. No one ever composts this things, and landfilling or incinerating a bag does not harm the environment.
by glitchc | 2025-09-14 23:45:17+00:00
The author uses the following examples to describe slow thinking:

> In a mathematics context, it would be doing mental math to figure out things like the split of a restaurant bill.

> In a social context, it would be coming up with witty responses in conversation.

> In a recall context, it would be quickly remembering facts.

> In a sports context, it would be like a badminton playerï¿½s quick ability to hit the shuttle in a gap.

> In a job interview context, it would be solving small scale coding problems and quickly designing algorithm

But they are all in fact completely different kinds of thinking, and an individual may be fast or slow depending on the kind. As an example, I have no trouble with 1), 3) and 4), but am abysmally slow with 2) and 5). Am I a fast thinker or a slow one? I also know why 2) and 5) are slow, because they are human interactions and I spend extra time thinking about whether what I wanted to say may offend the other person. That's not necessarily slow thinking persay, but more so overthinking, resulting in a delayed or absent response.
by rtpg | 2025-09-14 23:46:04+00:00
When your configuration value from PG15 was different from the old default and the new default on something like the statement timeout, and the statement timeout was previously working fine, and obstensibly set for a reason.... I dunno, are you going to question the value that much?

And you might say "well I know how a statement timeout works" and I agree! I would also generally agree that something like a timezone setting would generally be something I'd expect to be fairly stable.

That's what I meant about rebuilding the config from scratch. Rebuilding from scratch would almost involve _not even looking at the existing configuration_ and then doing first principles footwork to figure out what is needed.

I think the diffing flow you went through is the right way to do it, but I believe that flow might lead to some values getting less scrutiny than others. Still perfectly reasonable though
by weaksauce | 2025-09-14 23:46:14+00:00
they linked to the study... https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/fb/d5fb0...

> These films exhibit a transparency of 83.70–84.30% mm−1 and a tensile strength of 15.42–18.20 MPa. They biodegrade within 17 days in soil at 24% moisture content. These films demonstrate outstanding potential for food packaging applications. Our research approach of repurposing agricultural byproducts to create high-value products helps reduce plastic waste, conserve the environment, and provide economic benefits to farmers.

on the lower end of plastics but might be fine for this application: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/3-Tensile-strength-and-i...

seems comparable to LDPE which i think the common bags are made from.
by vpShane | 2025-09-14 23:46:30+00:00
Not sure if this is related, but Google open sourced their zero knowledge proof libraries (https://github.com/google/longfellow-zk)

Think: verify age without giving any other information. I've seen compelling stories against it, but the zero knowledge proof aspect is a fun thing to look in to.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-ze...
by Nifty3929 | 2025-09-14 23:46:58+00:00
It just forces the police to do good-old-fashioned policing. For example, nab one of the few street level guys and force them to give up the higher-level guys. Maybe make them wear a wire.

The real problem is that we've given up on going after the low-level guys, whether they're stealing cars or selling drugs or pickpocketing the tourists. If we catch them at all, we just release them.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-14 23:47:06+00:00
I love this one. I use it every day.

What i love in particular is the combination with OpenPGP keys on a yubikey. Because of this you have two factor and more importantly, you unlock each password individually. This way an attacker can't steal your entire database of passwords even if they have full control over your computer. They can only see the passwords you unlocked. Because each password requires a physical touch on the yubikey.

With some other community favourites like keepass and bitwarden, once your database is unlocked, all the data is open..
by hedora | 2025-09-14 23:47:12+00:00
In fairness, those industrial waste streams are mostly produced by “recycling” facilities for consumer waste.

The whole plastic straw thing is nuts. The old waxed paper straws were fine. The new “paper” straws are coated in PFAS and way worse for your health and the environment than most alternatives.

This article reminds me of that. Cellulose isn’t a new technology, but, like wax paper straws, it’s apparently forgotten arcane knowledge.
by ars | 2025-09-14 23:47:56+00:00
> it sounds like I'm just describing something like petrol in a solid form at room temperature

That's what plastic IS. That's why it sounds like it, because plastic is in fact solid hydrocarbon.

So not only is it not farfetched, it exists today, which is also why incinerating plastic for energy is the best possible way to dispose it. You remove the plastic from the world, you reduce the amount of oil pumped for fuel, and you get to use the oil you do pump, twice! Once for plastic, and again for fuel.

It's one of those environmental slam dunks with zero downsides. (Before you ask: Modern incinerators do not release any toxins from burning plastic, none.)
by shoo | 2025-09-14 23:48:02+00:00
Interesting. Down here in Australia our economy has been doing OK, we've had a great run of dodging recessions, but due to house prices appreciating so much since the 90s, there's similar problems with house down payments being far out of reach of many people.

Recently, our government is making a change to allow first homebuyers to purchase properties with only a 5% deposit.

Historically the Australian government set up the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation in '67, to provide insurance for banks against the risk of borrowers defaulting, to support home buyers. In 1997 the Howard government privatised the HLIC by selling it to GE, and we've had a private sector for mortgage insurance since, compulsory if borrowers are borrowing more than 80%.

Now in 2025 the current Albanese government is rolling out a scheme where the government will act as a public mortgage insurer again to allow first home buyers to buy with only a 5% deposit.

I'm not quite sure what to think. I heard an economist interviewed who reckoned this was a great idea to make it easier for young people to get into the property market, arguing that Aussie homeowners historically hardly ever default on mortgages. But naively it seems like this is yet another change that is going to push up house prices even further by increasing demand, without doing something to increase supply.

I also wonder if systemic mortgage default risk appears like it is lower than it actually is because Australia has been lucky enough to escape a major recession for so long.
by wk_end | 2025-09-14 23:48:14+00:00
That's from a non-representative online poll for people already searching the internet for information about whether or not their tap water was safe to drink.

> Those are findings from a recent survey of 2,800 visitors to EWG’s landmark Tap Water Database, updated in late 2021 [...] Although EWG ran the survey for only a few days, responses came from 2,800 people in about 1,580 unique ZIP codes in all 50 states and D.C., and even some from Canada and Mexico.

Here's an article, also from 2021, based on an academic study which suggests "Nearly 60 million Americans don't drink their tap water", which (US population being 331.9M in 2021) would still leave over 80% who do.

[0] https://theconversation.com/nearly-60-million-americans-dont...