MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gausswho | 2025-09-21 18:39:38+00:00
I can't intuit moral reasoning for why a media rights holder has the right to restrict a rebroadcast. They put it out there to reach a wide audience. Why can't I receive it and share it?

I can play physical copies of music and movies wherever I happen to bring them. Why can't I do it with the digital variant?

Largely I feel like the response to this is a rephrasing of 'because no one will be able to monetize the creation of entertainment'. But that's not a moral reasoning, that's a choice of how to foster a market. Which undermines the explanation of this being about piracy. We can try other ways of growing a market that doesn't inhibit an intuitive natural urge to share.
by exoverito | 2025-09-21 18:39:38+00:00
There is no anti-authoritarian party. Are lockdowns not authoritarian? Do mandates to take an experimental vaccine not violate bodily autonomy? How quickly everyone forgets the widescale censorship and lawfare. Snowden had to flee the country and Chelsea Manning was imprisoned during the Obama presidency.

On a more pragmatic level, take the one-party state of California, and the absurd burden of its regulations. These largely prevent the construction of anything new, as seen in the infamous high speed rail project, and the restricted supply of new housing, pricing many young people out of ever owning a home. Perhaps you don't think regulations are authoritarian, yet they're enforced with the power of the state, which wields the monopoly on violence.
by Mawr | 2025-09-21 18:40:04+00:00
The 12 & 13 mini with their 5.4 inch screens are huge. The SE 2nd & 3rd generation at 4.7 is already too big. The 1st SE's 4 incher was probably a little too small, but a slightly bigger form factor combined with thinner bezels would probably allow for a screen of about 4.2-4.5 which should be perfect.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-09-21 18:40:17+00:00
While I see what you’re saying I think it’s taking the “outside view” of things. It’d be great for those people to down tools and protest, but what would they gain?

It’s difficult to know when to down tools and make noise. If they avoid the almost certain ruin of dissidence and just keep working and living, there’s a chance things blow over, and their families get a better future.
by r14c | 2025-09-21 18:41:18+00:00
I don't understand this at all. I love being an independent adult. I am certainly critical of how certain things are done where I live, but I really do not long for being a child. I had a good childhood, but I like being able to chart my own course and face my own challenges.

I love the adventure ig, it saddens me to see people trapped in nostalgia when there's a whole world of possibilities out there if you're just a little bit brave.
by anthk | 2025-09-21 18:41:56+00:00
Ah, yes, the ZX Spectrum arcade games and text adventures from the 80's in Spain, 'fairly recent'.

https://base.speccy.org/ProyectoBASE_Historia.html

The parent comment confuses Spain and Italy as if they were the same... as if Spain didn't had French and UK influences from the North at all since the 1600's and before... yeah sure.

Spain had and has picaresca as the Italians, of course... but we aren't 100% the same and it shows off. We used to buy legal games in the 80's because the prices plumetted down because of the piracy, and between the shaddy game loaders and having to wait 15 minutes per load, everyone wanted at least to buy one or two original games in order to play something without losing literal hours trying to tweak the casette player.

Italy in the meanwhile just resold foreing games as if they were local. Some Spaniards did the same too; but it had small powerhouses as Aventuras AD, Erbe Software and such, not just a few by any means.
by duxup | 2025-09-21 18:42:54+00:00
>The Department of Defense will force reporters to pledge not to gather or use any information that had not been formally authorized for release, or risk losing their credential to cover the military.

That's pretty absurd.

Government should be held accountable, and that sometimes means people will report on information that they don't like ... in fact they SHOULD.

But instead we see SCOTUS, and the current administration do everything it can do to enable those with power to have more power, be more equal than others, and stifle anything they don't like.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-09-21 18:43:55+00:00
Nothing binding, just talking about goals:

-The U.K. commits to buying over $80 billion from U.S. tech & defense companies over the next five years. -The U.K. firm GSK (a pharmaceutical company) announced a ~$30 billion investment in AI R&D and infrastructure in the U.S.

-There will be regulatory cooperation to speed up approvals/licensing in nuclear energy.
by bjackman | 2025-09-21 18:44:19+00:00
This is just how it looks when you publish an open source project at Google.

Google controls the repo hence it's under the Google GitHub org. But then you just slap the "not a Google product" thing at the end to clarify that it's "just" some engineers publishing code rather than the release of the code of a Google product (nor a major strategic open source initiative like Go).
by mystraline | 2025-09-21 18:44:45+00:00
I think you're not seeing the end result of "everything has micro transactions", and how you can't see the content UNTIL you pay.

In a grocery, you can see the goods or the box. Nutrition labels have various details. You see the price. You can pay or not.

With internet of micro transactions, everything would be gamified to eek out as much money for as little content. You'd have content gatekept behind a paywall, with ads you had to download and watch for a password to unlock. Infinite scroller websites are also infinite money generators. Things in the background would attempt to steal from you by silently paying/downloading content underneath they pay threshold.

Every thing would have their hand out demanding money.

And with this, in order to enforce, you'd have onerous DRM baked in everywhere. Lest scrapers aggregate and create multiple pricepoint sites to target micro transaction levels.

And, in this world, only the rich can access everything.

This view of an alternate internet is a hellscape. At least we can block adverts and disable JavaScript.
by RaftPeople | 2025-09-21 18:45:02+00:00
I think that paper assumes a better understanding than actually exists of the functions/capabilities/rates of cells in the brain.

From Appendix B:

"The typical spiking neuron can be viewed as a point-process channel: It converts a continuous time-varying input, like the synaptic current s(t), into a discrete train of spikes at the output, r = {ti}"

Here are a couple interesting bits from recent research based on a new more detailed measurement mechanism of neurons and signaling that showed two things:

1-The synapses at the end of the axon do not all transmit the signal for each action potential. They found a shifting pattern of outbound synapse activity based on the animal learning new visual input.

2-They found spike timing contained information, down to the single milliseconds level.
by mrkeen | 2025-09-21 18:45:15+00:00
For instance, C#:

public static System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TResult> SelectMany<TSource,TCollection,TResult>(this System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource,System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TCollection>> collectionSelector, Func<TSource,TCollection,TResult> resultSelector);

compared to:

(>>=) :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

Guess which one I googled, and which one I typed from memory.
by moomin | 2025-09-21 18:45:21+00:00
Funnily enough, the book goes into the anti-war thing a bit. The idea put forward in the book is that straight after the war there wasn’t a great deal of anti-war sentiment, just anti-losing sentiment. But after the Cold War started, and the major powers wanted Germany militarised again, to be on the front line of a battle against checks notes other Germans on the other side’s front lines, they developed an anti-war culture pretty quickly.
by gruez | 2025-09-21 18:45:36+00:00
>which can be and is frequently abused by the party in a position of power (in this case, a 2 trillion dollar company).

Define "abuse"? Is it just because Meta is a trillion dollar company? Or that they offered a huge amount? Does that mean the courts should refuse to enforce any sort of agreement between Meta and any individual? If meta decides to offer me (no prior relationship to them) 50k to stop talking shit about them, and I accepted, am I being "abused"? What if I'm a vocal critic? Would that be abuse?
by afavour | 2025-09-21 18:45:49+00:00
But that isn’t a connection. It’s a coincidence. Where is the evidence that an Oxford with only 4 A* students would not have any such language on its campus? There is none.

If I argued that his comments were an obvious sign that Oxford needs to stop admitting people whose last name starts with A you’d rightly say I was being absurd. But basing the argument around his grades is no more valid.

“allegedly due to ideological fit” says it all. We’re just making stuff up to fit preconceived notions.
by programjames | 2025-09-21 18:45:51+00:00
Clearly you need to reread The Bible:

> To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations—that one 'will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery'—just as I have received authority from my Father. (Revelation 2:26–27)

Any good Sanctuarian[^1] would know this refers to the AR-15, and Americans' right to bear arms.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Iron_Ministries
by t_luke | 2025-09-21 18:46:00+00:00
All the UK university ranking systems use basically the same data — the National Student Survey (NSS) which measures students' impression of teaching quality, the Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) which measures employment 15 months after graduation, and a bunch of standard data collected by HESA — entry standards, whether students complete their degrees, average degree classifications, etc.

Much of this data is extremely 'gameable', and a lot of the 'alpha' between successful and less successful institutions is being 'good at surveys.' e.g. for NSS, between comparable institutions it's really a question of how good they are at getting students to complete the survey (students mostly ignore it, and you lose marks for poor completion rates).

Of course — it should also go without saying that there is no 'correct' weighting for any of this data, and depending on how you weight the different indicators, the rankings change.
by password54321 | 2025-09-21 18:46:30+00:00
Labour is down really bad in the polls [1] and they need to score political points at least with left-wing voters who are currently split. This doesn't actually change anything on the ground especially as the UK is still arming Israel [2].

In the end, they might just end up tanking more in the polls as they end up having no consistent values.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

[2] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
by andmikey | 2025-09-21 18:46:41+00:00
This was also my observation but in the reverse direction. I turned down a place at Cambridge to do my undergrad at Edinburgh a few years ago (for various reasons, not relevant here). It was only the top n% of students in the cohort who'd turn up for tutorials (prepared, or indeed at all), do assignments without cheating, ask questions in lectures, etc. Getting high grades in exams was mostly a memorization game. There was a really high workload but that was more due to busywork than intellectual challenge.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-09-21 18:46:43+00:00
Which is unfortunately very true. I think, that in a healthy organization such kind of mentoring requires extremely well defined boundaries and rules. Can I spend 1h of my time explaining basic stuff to a junior, who will then be able to finish his task in 2h instead of 8h? Mathematically this is a win for the company. But economically, maybe that junior dev should be fired.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-21 18:47:35+00:00
> One might argue that if someone is appreciated on the basis of whether that person makes one feel good in the moment - they are being treated no different than a drug

The efficacy of psychology can vary widely with each party - both the patient and the helper.

While mood-altering drugs are more consistent in general, their effects degrade, depending where one is on the usage timeline (1st use, 10th, 100th).

I use Kratom to somewhat dull the effects of mild anxiety. It is enough to preserve general functionality - and that, in-turn, makes causes (of anxiety) less forbidding to consider.

Doing this means I tend to live in a '10th use' space. To preserve that benefit, I don't try to increase dosage if I venture into distress territory. My current regimen is helpful or it isn't.
by platevoltage | 2025-09-21 18:47:35+00:00
> The DEA has no justification to exist, and the War on Drugs has been used to destabilize dozens of foreign regimes in order to benefit the US' neoliberal policies. It's now being used to take away even more rights as it's being used in part to justify ICE raids, and Trump's imperialist skirmish and attempted regime change in Venezuela. Additionally, the cartel has destroyed northern Mexico and now Trump is floating the idea of "cleaning up" Mexico.

You just explained the entire justification for it existing.
by ivape | 2025-09-21 18:47:42+00:00
You’ll probably take this the wrong way but I have no other way to say it. If are not in grief over your past, you truly had a poor past, or you have not yet realized the significance of it.

Good things that end should elicit mourning, and I do believe this can be an everlasting mourning that no human will escape.

And again, subjectively, there’s is no reason why you can’t mourn something good forever. In that way, depression is a way of life.
by designgirl001 | 2025-09-21 18:47:49+00:00
Interested in the design role - thanks for posting this. What kind of work are you looking for in the portfolio? More brand/website design work or SaaS products? I'm a product-focused designer, and can learn the tech, but I have enterprise UX experience and have run customer discovery and the likes of it.

Just checking if there's one or the other you are looking at, for this role.
by Phemist | 2025-09-21 18:47:49+00:00
In the Netherlands, live streaming of Premier League matches is done by Viaplay (I'm guessing in other countries too?). Their service is very spotty, lots of buffering, especially during highly dynamic (e.g. important) parts of the matches, and they stream at very very low bitrate, often dropping down to 360p.

As a result, people cancel their subscriptions. To recuperate some of the losses, Viaplay now licenses one match every weekend to a third party streaming service, this year it is on Amazon Prime.

So, now besides the high cost and shoddy service, you suddenly need an additional streaming subscription to be able to view every match. Granted, the streaming on Prime is excellent though.

This weekend, the Prime match was Liverpool v Everton, which as a Dutchie is the most interesting match of the weekend (given Liverpool's title win last season, the Dutch trainer and several outstanding Dutch players).

Several friends of mine who are into football immediately quit their Viaplay subscription, so who knows how many matches will not be streamable through Viaplay next season?

As a legit customer you are constantly chasing an ever shifting landscape of poor quality and overpriced services. Meanwhile with an IPTV subscription you pay little, get high quality streams and have access to _all_ content.
by nja | 2025-09-21 18:48:25+00:00
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it may fit the use case.

I've recently been replacing some of the wiring in my house as part of a renovation, and I discovered that Leviton sells outlets with PD USB-C built in now! Not talking about the useless 2A USB-A "built-in" chargers of yore, now they actually have proper PD up to 60W!

They do also sell non-PD, so it requires some careful checking of the model numbers. And the 60W one is pretty large (the in-wall part) so it might not quite fit in an existing wallbox if it is a small one. But briefly: - T5636: two USB-C PD, up to 60W total / 60W individual or 30W each if both in use - T5635: two USB-C PD, up to 30W total / 30W individual or 15W each for both - T5634: one USB-C PD and one USB-A. USB-A is 10W and USB-C is up to 50W (even if both are in use) They also make T8xx versions of these that have 20A receptacles (NEMA 5-20R) but those are harder to find.

They also make other T56xx/T58xx which have non-PD USB-C, good for places like bathrooms where shavers/etc work fine on 5V.

I've found that putting a few of these around has eliminated a lot of the Anker chargers I used to have sticking out everywhere. They're completely in-wall and they leave both outlets free. If I need 100W for my computer, I'll still use a separate charger, but otherwise these are fine.

The only point they don't hit on your list is the ports facing down, but because they're flush at the wall, that means they don't interfere with furniture (any more than having any plug plugged into the outlets at all would).

If you're in Europe/elsewhere, not sure if other manufacturers make similar devices. I know Legrand makes some 30W PD ones in the US market, and as they're French, maybe they make them for others as well.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-09-21 18:48:39+00:00
The race was between Kamala and Trump. If you legitimately believe Kamala winning would have made zero difference to the wellbeing of any Palestinians, I don’t know what to say.

>start demanding better from your party or be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Stop building strawmen and explain what I could have done on election day for the couple hours spent on voting that would have been more useful for the Palestinians than voting for Kamala, and explain why.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-09-21 18:48:53+00:00
Have you done a survey, like how many people ran away because of the massacres per se, and how many ran away because their leaders told them to (for reasons unrelated to avoiding a possible massacre)?

You seem to assume that it is 0% of the former and 100% of the latter, which I find dubious.

Because even if it is let's say 50% and 50%, it is no longer true to say that all have left voluntarily.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-09-21 18:49:12+00:00
> Governments and all of us would like to see cancer and Alzheimer disease cured.

i think an important question is "who is this "all of us" you speak of and who made you god to pronounce it"

you are making an arbitrary distinction because vibes, because it's a cause you care about. it's irrelevant. if you take money for Alzheimer's research, you owe the government one (because that money is extracted from the people in a way you could never have done yourself). if you take money from, say a 501c3, it's a completed transaction of services.
by rayiner | 2025-09-21 18:49:19+00:00
The notion that the British A levels have “cultural bias” is absurd, given that Asians outperform white British: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education....

In the U.S., research shows the SAT is highly predictive of college performance: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-week-educatio... (summarizing research).
by rcxdude | 2025-09-21 18:49:38+00:00
Keep in mind that the rating here is mostly about the student's opinion of the university, especially in terms of the teaching. And a dirty little secret of oxbridge I feel is that the teaching isn't particularly great. It's not bad, to be clear, and supervisions are something that you don't really get elsewhere, but it's very much a 'chuck people into the very deep end and let them sink-or-swim' approach with the sheer amount of material that they expect you to get through in a pretty short amount of time. The reputation they have is because a) they can afford to be (and are fairly good at) being highly selective in admitting those who can cope with this, b) if you do manage to swim, you've shown a higher level of aptitude for the subject than other universities, and c) because of said selectivity, you'll tend to be around other students who are able to support you. The actual level of support and teaching from the university itself is not as top-class.
by nunez | 2025-09-21 18:49:59+00:00
Yes, it's much larger. The Mini feels better in the hand, for sure.

The Air feels good in the hand, albeit in a different way.

The Air is 2mm thinner than the Mini while being only 20g heavier (which you don't feel given that the phone is larger and the weight more evenly-distributed). This, to me, is a bigger deal than having a small phone.

The weight and thickness of the Pros that came before this were big factors driving my hate for large phones. This phone's ergonomics have, so far, made interacting with its large screen very tolerable (for me).

Between this, a better virtual keyboard experience (by dint of having a bigger screen and iOS 26 improvements) and the 13 mini's aging processor (which makes its already-challenged battery life even worse), the decision to upgrade both of my Minis was effortless.
by jmaker | 2025-09-21 18:50:03+00:00
This is what is very often overlooked - Python and Java have an overlap, but the symmetric difference of their problem spaces is substantial. One can write CRUD servers with any language and this is what’s usually discussed in lieu of a real comparison. But this subset of their intersection is minuscule and is too shallow to hold for a comparison that would have an impact. This is universal across lots of discussions comparing “programming languages” or their “ecosystems” which is hard without material experience in all of them.

On the other hand, how universal is the problem of migrating from one ORM to another? Not all problems Java I has been leveraged to solve are relevant today. This is the extra baggage we have to carry forward.
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-09-21 18:50:17+00:00
I try to get 20k steps/day (10 miles). The jump from 10k to 20k steps/day was a big improvement: better sleep and clearer thinking. Most of those steps are from walking. It helped sprinkling in some hard efforts (running/basketball) that push breathing from ~18 to ~40 breaths/min. Feels ancestral: lots of walking, punctuated by occasional all-out bursts.
by lwhi | 2025-09-21 18:50:19+00:00
I understand what you're trying to say, but I think you're making a false equivalence between socio-economic disparity and innate talent.

Imagine the same person, cloned. Clone A is born into an economically challenged household; while clone B is born into an upper-middle class household.

Now consider whether both clones would achieve the same results at A level.

One could expect the child born into the poorer household to experience more challenges, and perhaps achieve worse results as a consequence.

In this instance, how would it be appropriate to call clone A thick or less intelligent than clone B?
by 6stringmerc | 2025-09-21 18:50:22+00:00
Counterpoint: The instance at the cheerleading convention here in Dallas where a knocked over piece of equipment prompted a panic and viral news spread with incorrect assumptions.

The "ripple effect" of trauma is magnified more than ever. You don't even have to go out of your way to get the news, as with the past, oh, before 30 years ago...now it's in our pockets. I think the assumption passes the intuition prima face test in my world, too bad not yours. Equipment may need better calibration.
by raybb | 2025-09-21 18:50:22+00:00
I recently read the paper "Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants" which argues that the opioid epidemic isn't as supply driven as we tend to think and that places with weaker social ties and economies recently changed for the worse tend to see more overdoses.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5846593/