MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by happymellon | 2025-09-15 14:19:35+00:00
At least in the UK, a lot of these calls were made by the far right.

It's easy to dismiss as hypocritical, but it doesn't mean that they were wrong. Their "solution" to leave rather than fix was simply because they wanted it but in their control. Honestly they are nutters who make stuff up about "bendy bananas" etc, which dilutes the complaint.
by simonh | 2025-09-15 14:19:41+00:00
The question is, what do autonomy and mental sovereignty consist of when we're talking about massively genetically engineered citizens, and outright engineered minds (designed by other minds). It's a question I've been considering for a while since I switched from considering myself a hard determinist, to being a compatibilist.

I think the key differentiator for true autonomy is open ended psychological flexibility. That is, sufficient deliberative control over our own mental processes and decision making faculties to be able to adapt them to whatever experiences we have, and whatever circumstances we find ourselves in.

We are introspective beings able to inspect our own mental processes, consider our own motivations, priorities and beliefs, and adapt these based on new experiences. On the one hand this means we are very largely shaped by our experiences of the world, on the other hand it means we are not completely locked into the same limited set of behaviours and responses regardless of what experiences we have, and therefore what we learn. I think that our basic biology and psychology do limit this flexibility in important ways, but I do believe that we've just about reached the level where we are in principle capable of open ended mental flexibility.

If the Culture has a similar understanding of mental autonomy, that means that they could consider Culture citizens autonomous while also recognising that the vast majority of them would in fact remain completely satisfied with life in the Culture. In fact, in principle engineering Culture citizens in that way would be an ethical thing to do, because they would in principle still have the ability to adapt in terms of their beliefs and goals in response to changes in circumstances.

Likewise with Minds. A major difference being that the Minds can anticipate most of the experiences average citizens will have within the Culture and how they would behave, whereas Minds have much more varied experiences and much more capable mental resources, and therefore the ability to anticipate their likely resulting opinions, beliefs and behaviours would be much more limited.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-15 14:20:01+00:00
> Their goal is to undermine the unity of the West, one by one

> Imagine yourself a government worker, trying to fight that. Where left and right your colleagues got bribed , threatent, etc. and you can't even find proofs against them. Your enemy on contrary, knows everything about everyone in their country.

That's somehow an argument to outlaw secure communication so even your enemy can spy on your messages?
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-15 14:21:14+00:00
So, do you leave your burritos out for 3 hours so the listeria can grow?

Online arguments about anything like this since COVID boil down to “if you don’t die, it’s ok”. An old or sick person can easily die from food poisoning. If you are hearty and hale, you’re going to feel like crap and get stuff like violent diarrhea.
by optionalsquid | 2025-09-15 14:21:18+00:00
I don't dislike the format, and it is much, much better than what it replaced, but SAM, and its binary sister-format BAM, does have some flaws:

- The original index format could not handle large chromosomes, so now there are two index formats: .bai and .csi

- For BAM, the CIGAR (alignment description) operation count is limited to 16 bits, which means that very long alignments cannot be represented. One workaround I've seen (but thankfully not used) is saving the CIGAR as a string in a tag

- SAM cannot unambiguously represent sequences with only a single base (e.g. after trimming), since a '*' in the quality column can be interpreted either as a single Phred score (9) or as a special value meaning "no qualities". BAM can represent such sequences unambiguously, but most tools output SAM
by tokai | 2025-09-15 14:21:43+00:00
You believe that because you don't understand budgeting in danish municipalities. There are several bins of funds, and dictates from the state on how much can be used on what. Money from a construction budget cannot be used on schools, and so on. Its a much more complicated piece of bureaucracy, and not something that is relatable to a minister of justice going off in the deep end.
by oheyek | 2025-09-15 14:21:46+00:00
I built an open-source trainer for LEGO Batman (2008) in Python. It includes a clean GUI (CustomTkinter) that lets you: change player studs, toggle extras like invincibility, stud magnet, score multipliers, detect power/minikits automatically, etc. Cheats work in real-time by attaching to the running game process. Meant for fun, tinkering, and extending a game with no official mod support.
by dathinab | 2025-09-15 14:21:48+00:00
it's very ironic that they don't realize that this really doesn't work that way in practice

whatever backdoor you put in

- will be used for industry espionage

- will be used against politicians where it's supposed shouldn't apply

- will be used by state actors systematically destabilize EU countries if the relationship with US, China, Russia get's worse (e.g. "ups, I spoofed non encrypted message and no it looks like the prime minister is a pedo" kind of situations)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-15 14:22:12+00:00
Are you predicting that Alabama and Mississippi are going to go Blue in 2026 and 2028? And in 2026, even if people in Mobile Alabama have higher turnout - it still won’t matter because if gerrymandering.

If there is “60% consensus” and those people are in a state that’s already Blue, it doesn’t make a difference. We haven’t even brought up the fact that every state has 2 Senators meaning that the most populous states are represented by the same number of people as the least populous. The Senate decides the Supreme Court judges and the Cabinet.
by genshii | 2025-09-15 14:22:17+00:00
There are plenty of larger ones and plenty of ones that used the date as the version, but I was mainly curious about packages that followed semver.

Any package version that didn't follow the x.y.z format was excluded, and any package that had less published versions than their largest version number was excluded (e.g. a package at version 1.123.0 should have at least 123 published versions)
by globular-toast | 2025-09-15 14:22:28+00:00
Honestly it just sounds like you've been sold on "AI" being a thing and don't have any idea how any of it works. I don't even know what you're referring to with "more accurate than doctors". Classifying scans or something? Do you realise how different that is to generative LLMs writing code etc? Scan classification may well have been shown to be more accurate, but generative LLMs have never been shown to be "better" than humans and in fact it's easy to demonstrate they are much, much worse in many ways.
by pixl97 | 2025-09-15 14:22:34+00:00
Eh, you say I'm not responding in good faith, and yet that's exactly what I'd accuse you of doing.

For example take this line of mine

>The question is, are we going to hold on to economic systems that don't work under that regime

Currently artistry requires artists get paid somehow in our current system. That means instead of making the art they want, they have to make art that's economically useful to a paying customer. And yet for some reason you don't consider that part of a stagnating culture.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-15 14:24:12+00:00
look at any connections to the thyroid gland, down and upstream.

Poor breathing = less NO, less oxygen → potential stress on thyroid metabolism (and almost any other metabolism).

NO is nitric oxide: the paranasal sinuses are a major source of NO gas.

And NO gas has antimicrobial effects (helps sterilize inhaled air), acts as a vasodilator (helps regulate blood flow and oxygen delivery), and enhances oxygen uptake in the lungs.
by eurekin | 2025-09-15 14:24:39+00:00
I'm personally betting, that they simply have easier access to more information, comparing to me at the same age.

When I started Uni, the "A diploma will guarantee you great job opportunities" mantra was unshakeable.

Now I think, the pendulum swung so hard in the other direction, that kids of same age have tons of refuttals at their disposal. It must take a lot more work, from parents, to instill and motivate what was once seen as a good career starter.
by lutusp | 2025-09-15 14:24:53+00:00
>> Yes, but this means existing studies can't be relied on…

> Exactly my point with this line of thinking: It’s used to argue that you can’t rely on any studies, therefore it becomes a free license to reject everything and inject your own desired conclusions.

The "therefore" section of your comment is your own interpretation, not the reality of a society steered by science. It's why uneducated people believe in Bigfoot. We can't disprove Bigfoot, therefore he exists. It makes a certain kind of pre-modern sense, but it fails to take scientific discipline into account.

I'm tempted to call it the Avi Loeb version of cosmology -- we can't disprove the alien provenance of a small distant glowing object, therefore it's an alien craft. And Loeb has a Harvard position on his side -- for those who believe in scientific authority.

When confronted by this kind of thinking, I'm reminded of Richard Feynman's remark: "Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion."

And finally, it's why psychology has the reputation it does -- many psychologists have no hesitation about leaping ahead of the evidence.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-15 14:25:02+00:00
> Political Vector. Vote of no confidence. Once Ursula and the EU decided to respond asymmetrically, they deployed one of their assets, Hungarian Orbán. They tried to remove Ursula, who was advocating for a firm response.

Ursula faced a vote of no confidence (with 2 more in October) because she's unfit to lead EU.

Far right and far left in EU Parliament to file separate von der Leyen no-confidence motions at midnight (https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-far-left-eu-parlia...)
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-15 14:25:20+00:00
Afaik, there are already specific political definitions. It's just that "the common man" isn't very educated in them, and the "language of politics" eschews logic and specificity in favor of generalization (in order to induce rancor and thus party-alignment).

Here is the political classification of the top 50 developed nations (I tried to organize them, but it's hard...):

Qatar Absolute monarchy Oman Absolute monarchy Saudi Arabia Absolute monarchy Brunei Darussalam Absolute monarchy United Arab Emirates Federal absolute monarchy Kuwait Constitutional monarchy (emirate) with parliamentary elements Bahrain Constitutional monarchy (unitary) United Kingdom Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Netherlands Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Japan Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Denmark Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Norway Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Sweden Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Luxembourg Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Spain Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Australia Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy Belgium Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy Canada Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy Liechtenstein Hereditary constitutional monarchy with elements of direct democracy Croatia Parliamentary republic Czechia Parliamentary republic Estonia Parliamentary republic Greece Parliamentary republic Hungary Parliamentary republic Israel Parliamentary republic Italy Parliamentary republic Latvia Parliamentary republic Lithuania Parliamentary republic Poland Parliamentary republic Slovakia Parliamentary republic Slovenia Parliamentary republic Finland Parliamentary republic (semi-presidential features) Austria Federal parliamentary republic Germany Federal parliamentary republic Switzerland Federal directorial republic (collegial executive of seven Federal Councilors) Andorra Parliamentary co-principality (two Co-Princes: French President & Bishop of Urgell) Chile Presidential republic Portugal Semi-presidential republic Argentina Federal presidential republic United States Federal presidential constitutional republic (representative democracy) Cyprus Unitary presidential republic South Korea Unitary presidential republic France Unitary semi-presidential republic (Fifth Republic) Iceland Unitary parliamentary republic Ireland Unitary parliamentary republic Malta Unitary parliamentary republic Singapore Unitary parliamentary republic New Zealand Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy Hong Kong (China SAR) Special Administrative Region of China with “one country, two systems”
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-15 14:25:36+00:00
You are quoting outdated document. There’s the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union which was proclaimed in 2000 and came into force with Lissabon Treaty in 2009 [1].

In that document it’s article 7.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/char_2012/oj/eng
by triceratops | 2025-09-15 14:25:43+00:00
Again, it's not clear to me why "a persistent pattern of labor abuse" needs to be addressed by putting the labor in chains. That's like prosecuting rape victims for adultery or fornication. Labor abuse is a different problem requiring maybe a team sent to Hyundai corporate to crack some heads (figuratively). Put some of those guys in handcuffs.

> I am saying supporting that and then jumping to defend Hyundai-LG for breaking the law as well is hypocrisy

I think people are mostly supporting and defending the workers. So far Hyundai-LG hasn't lost anything except face. The workers are the ones who have taken the hit.
by legacynl | 2025-09-15 14:25:57+00:00
You forget that it was ultimately the people themselves that made those countries have political freedom because they wanted it themselves right.

People knew what autocratic government was like, and couldn't get rid of it soon enough.

If any of you are playing with the idea that autocracy might actually be good for a country; do this thought experiment: instead of thinking your favorite group would wield that power, what if your least favorite group would have that power? Wouldn't you be thankful for the protections that the law gives you in that situation? Taking away the protections of people, means that there's nothing you can do when you get targeted. And in an autocratic society that's just up to a single opinion which you don't control.
by leoedin | 2025-09-15 14:25:59+00:00
I think in the UK “shop bought cake” and “home made cake” are basically 2 different things that look kind of similar.

Having been to a lot of kids birthday parties recently, I’m firmly on the side of “home made cake”. Shop bought cake has a distinctive taste and texture which I really don’t like. If I made a cake at home and it ended up tasting like something from the supermarket I’d consider it a failure.
by rchaud | 2025-09-15 14:26:11+00:00
Apple doesn't care. The iOS app store is just as full of crummy shovelware and ads. They are a "software and services" company after all.

The embarassment should be felt by the commentariat that rushes to defend Apple's store sharecropping tax by repeating ancient canards about how a fee is necessary for Apple to maintain its rigorous app review process that differentiates it from the street markets of Android, F-Droid, and whoever else.
by hasley | 2025-09-15 14:26:59+00:00
I consider myself to be a slow-thinker too. I have several above-average people as friends. New stuff (usually some mathematical topic) that takes me a whole day to internalize the basics, I can tell to them in 15 minutes and they will be able to understand it and to immediately connect it with other topics they know. I have not attended a special school for mathematically gifted like some of them. In school and during my first year at the university, I used to think that I am just intelligent enough to have an idea how true intellegent one could be...

I was always bad at solving equations with more than 3 unknowns, since this includes enough steps to have a significant probability that I forget a sign or mix something up - even though the algorithm itself was completely clear to me.

Today I acceppted myself much more: I think my real advantages are that I am a) interested in a lot of things and b) I am enduring in reading about a topic. Even if I need to read explanations of 5 different authors to grasp something, I do so. And I care much less today than ealier. However, I still like to be faster at times.

While I think I am a decent programmer/SWE, I do not like pair programming. My path of coding is not linear and most of the stuff I type will be erased until I am confident about my solution.

And getting enough sleep is also a big issue.
by iKlsR | 2025-09-15 14:27:02+00:00
> The core technical challenge, as you can imagine, came from trying to do something that Apple otherwise does not allow

I think the main question most would ask is what affordances can you give or details you can share to prove that this will continue working in future versions of the os since the foundations seem brittle.

I use Wallpaper Engine on windows for one purpose mostly to avoid burn in since my monitors are always on but I've grown to like it over the years and would like to try something on mac but would hate to purchase software that stops working or future update comes with a readme of how to "re-enable" it.
Show HN: Flowshapr – Open-Source Agent Flow GUI and Manager
by intheleantime | 2025-09-15 14:27:24+00:00
Hi HN!

I have been working on AI agent Flows for some time now and always found it annoying to have to redeploy my application for small changes to flows, prompts, model definitions etc.

This is why I build Flowshapr (https://flowshapr.ai). It let's you create and manage AI flows and prompts using a simple UI and then execute those flows with a small client side SDK and a one line code integration.

The tool is based on Genkit and will generate Genkit code on the fly if you want to deploy yourself.

This early version can manage simple flows, prompts, generate Genkit code, execute flows remotely and show traces. I am currently working on vector store integrations and more tools.

The repo is here: https://github.com/flowshapr/flowshapr

I'd love to hear your feedback and learn more about your use cases!
by beAbU | 2025-09-15 14:28:27+00:00
I've been aware about the perfectly reusable lithium batteries inside these disposable vapes, which is egregious enough.

But the one in the FTA comes with a full fat microcontroller and USB-C connector! I'm not clear if these connectors are accessible outside or if you need to break open the packaging before being able to get to it.

Like you said: "Many layers of stupid are present here"

All that hardware must surely be worth more than half the value of the actual product!
by lapcat | 2025-09-15 14:29:00+00:00
In the United States, terms such as "conservative" and "liberal" seem to be used primarily to describe whatever currently happens to be popular in the duopolistic Republican and Democratic parties. I'm old enough now to have witnessed both parties, and the definitions of those terms, morph into something unrecognizable to partisans of my youth. And the (morbidly) funny thing is that people today call themselves "true conservatives," for example, apparently with no recollection or recognition of the recent past.

My own view is that the terms don't signify real, stable ideologies but rather just give the pretense that the duopolistic political parties are backed by ideologies rather than by constantly shifting power dynamics.
by rkozik1989 | 2025-09-15 14:29:01+00:00
I've got a hard time believing most folks are clicking on the sources that LLM chatbots sometimes provide with their answers. Especially because they've been hard sold on the idea that AI chatbots are as smart as the smartest people on the planet. They're likely just going to do what normal folks do when smart people answer questions i.e. assume they're right and move on.
by simonh | 2025-09-15 14:29:34+00:00
I don't think the Idiran lack of Mind level AIs and them losing are co-incidental.

The Gzilt did have their own approach, using virtualised and hyper-accelerated crew. We're not told much more about that and how it works, so it's hard to say, but it can't be anywhere near as efficient and capable as using Minds.
by ajross | 2025-09-15 14:29:39+00:00
> How dare OP adapt their family recipes so they can be usable. What an affront to nature.

It's an affront to tradition. And that's important to a lot of people. It happens not to be important to a lot of very inward-looking geeks here on HN, so I felt it was important to call out that disconnect upthread.

You can't show up to your elders with a pull request and performance data and expect them to accept it. That's a misunderstanding at a very fundamental level about What Family Cooking is For, socially.
by fzwang | 2025-09-15 14:30:29+00:00
Sorry to hear that. This info does make it easier to rule out some options.

As a hiring manager, I'm usually not looking for a specific skillset from recent grads, but whether they are competent learners and have good communication skills. Both of these attributes means they can quickly adapt and more likely to contribute (or at least be less of a burden in the short run).

From your other posts, I'd recommend you work on your writing (English and your local language) to be more professional. Don't use AI writing, as you'd lose your writing "voice" and others will judge you for it.

For networking, I'd reach out to senior engineers in your area or prior companies to ask for advice on what's important to learn that you didn't learn in college. Don't ask for a job, as that could send their guards up. Follow through with their advice and update them regularly, every few weeks. The goal would be to show them you're a quick learner and can communicate well. They're more likely to recognize an opportunity and send a lead your way. It may not be with their current company, but a friend's company etc. Many jobs are shopped around informally via vetted social relationships before being shown in public.

If you're really strapped for $$, taking on any tech-adjacent job could be useful, including customer support roles where you can practice your communication skills.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-15 14:30:41+00:00
Actually, I do have anecdotes about this. In 2016, we had a house built in the outskirts of Forsyth County. Yeah this Forsyth County.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0

My stepson was 14 when we moved there but had been living in the burbs all of his life. The outer burbs where we stayed saw a lot of development and had become one of the most affluent parts of Atlanta and was still conservative. But not MAGA conservative. There were only around a dozen other black kids in his entire high school. He is 23 now. He’s dated exclusively White girls - that’s all who has been available - and we have met plenty of parents. There has never been a problem with parents. He’s actually engaged to a white girl now. I haven’t met her. But my wife has a couple of times when she flew back in town and they talk.

We have since moved - he is still lives around the same area. Not because of any discomfort. We downsized in 2022 after he graduated in 2020, I started working remotely and we wanted a change of scenery from GA and moved to a state tax free state with better weather.
by cxr | 2025-09-15 14:30:43+00:00
Trying to eliminate semicolons by doing JS-style ASI is gross and complicates things unnecessarily. You can trivially change the parser/grammar so that the semicolons in import, var, procedure, etc. declarations just aren't required, and likewise with statements that end in "end". They'll still be necessary for statements comprising things like assignments and procedure calls, but for a teaching language who cares.

(Your grammar is missing a definition for proc_call, by the way.)