MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jMyles | 2025-09-25 21:22:28+00:00
Well, maybe the word "plausible" is doing too much work in my statement.

Most abuse happens from people known to the child, and of that portion, most are family members. It seems like there is sufficient opportunity in-person comms to route around this limitation.

Moreover, even the communications that do happen online can still easily happen through encrypted media; presumably the perpetrators will simply move to other ways of communicating. And kids, at least kids over 10 or so, don't seem like a demographic particularly likely to follow this law anyhow.

There's another nuance worth considering: by and large, parents _want_ their kids to have access to encrypted communications. I'll happily assist my kiddo in maintaining good opsec - that's much more important to me than some silly and uninformed policy decision being made far away by people I've never met.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210522003136/https://blog.nucy...

So, the kids are still going to be where the encrypted comms are. I still think it's reasonable to say that the protections offered to kids by criminalizing encryption are implausible.
by nebula8804 | 2025-09-25 21:22:35+00:00
I honestly don't think we will have a clear answer to this question anytime soon. People will be in their camps and thats that.

Just to clarify, have you ridden in a Waymo? It didn't seem entirely clear if you just experienced living with Waymo or have ridden in it.

I tried it a few times in LA. What an amazing magical experience. I do agree with most of your assertions. It is just a super careful driver but it does not have the full common sense that a driver in a hectic city like LA has. Sometimes you gotta be more 'human' and that means having the intuition to discard the rules in the heat of the moment (ex. being conscious of how cyclists think instead of just blindly following the rules carefully, this is cultural and computers dont do 'culture').
by apimade | 2025-09-25 21:22:35+00:00
It is strange to launch this type of functionality with not even a privacy policy in place.

It makes me wonder if they’ve partnered with another of their VC’s peers who’s recently had a cash injection, and they’re being used as a design partner/customer story.

Exa would be my bet. YC backed them early, and they’ve also just closed a $85M Series B. Bing would be too expensive to run freely without Microsoft partnership.

Get on that privacy notice soon, Ollama. You’re HQ’d in CA, you’re definitely subject to CCPA. (You don’t need revenue to be subject to this, just being a data controller for 50,000 Californian residents is enough.)

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

I can imagine the reaction if it turns out the zero-retention provider backing them ended up being Alibaba.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-25 21:23:03+00:00
The Afghanistan bit is over simplified isn't it? My understanding is that the US military successfully imposed regime change between 2001-2003. I doubt those rifles slowed the tanks and bombers much at all.

The fact that we packed up and left eventually doesn't really change the fact that the US rolled over the men with guns like they weren't there in the early 2000's.
by code_biologist | 2025-09-25 21:23:08+00:00
I've seen a lot of young people (teens especially) cross active streets or cross in front of Waymos on scooters knowing that they'll stop. I try not to do anything too egregious, but I myself have begun using Waymo's conservative behavior as a good way to merge into ultra high density traffic when I'm in a car, or to cross busy streets when they only have a "yield to pedestrian" crosswalk rather than a full crosswalk. The way you blip a Waymo to pay attention and yield is beginning to move into the intersection, lol.

I always wonder if honking at a Waymo does anything. A Waymo stopped for a (very slow) pickup on a very busy one lane street near me, and it could have pulled out of traffic if it had gone about 100 feet further. The 50-ish year old lady behind it laid on her horn for about 30 seconds. Surreal experience, and I'm still not sure if her honking made a difference.

I like Waymos though. Uber is in trouble.
by scott_w | 2025-09-25 21:23:33+00:00
> If you are not able to do it sincerely, you either do what the author describes or you go somewhere that aligns with you better.

This part. You seem under the impression that it’s impossible to do a good job unless you’re in total agreement with your management chain. That simply can’t happen 100% of the time, even in a job where you generally enjoy the work.

> It is good for your well-being, your self-respect

You seem to think one loses their self respect when they pick their battles and focus their energy on what they can control. I say that it’s better for your well being to not scream your life away into the void.

Look, there comes a time in every job where you need to move on because it’s not giving you what you want or need any more. I don’t judge that.

But part of management is knowing when you gotta suck it up, put on your big boy pants, and tell the team something you don’t agree with and that you need to make it work somehow. If you can’t handle that part of the job, then you’re really not cut out for management or leadership.
by dcreater | 2025-09-25 21:23:34+00:00
Ollama , the local inference platform, stays completely local. Maintained by a non-profit org with dev time contributed to by a for-profit company. That company can be VC backed and can make their cloud inference platform. And can use ollama as its backed, as a platform to market etc. But keep it as a separate product (not named ollama).

This is almost exactly how duckdb/motherduck functions and I think theyre doing an excellent job.

EDIT: grammar and readability
by amarant | 2025-09-25 21:23:35+00:00
Are least where I'm from, there are pretty strong laws against reading snailmail post of others. To this day, any law enforcement that tries to open people's snail mail will laughed out of the courtroom, and quite possibly out of their jobs too!

Today nobody uses snail mail. This proposal is the equivalent of proposing to read everyone's private letters back in the day.

Technical details are technical details
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-25 21:23:36+00:00
I don't have a lot of nostalgia for an "old web". I like the new web. But there are some aspects of the old web that I'd like to see more of. To that end, I've been trying to find ways to make the new web adopt those principles. One of them is ownership: If your friend from school runs the website, you know your data isn't being siphoned up by Big Tech. Lowering the barrier to entry to make a "cool" website (such a small social media platform) is the goal. Back in the day, this meant setting up phpBB. These days, it probably means setting up a Mastodon node.
by mpetroff | 2025-09-25 21:23:41+00:00
> My initial instinct is that finding 12 colors that are visually distinguishable for all users is likely impossible.

Without going to lightness extremes, I agree that this likely isn't possible, at least when trying to accommodate all three types of dichromacy and for small color patch sizes (like those typically used for line and scatter plots). For example, you could take the 10-color accessible palette from work I've published [1] and add black and bright yellow to get twelve colors, but the lightness extremes of adding these colors would result in significantly-different visual weights. Based on a validation survey I conducted, I think even ten colors is pushing the limit of what's reasonable when lightness extremes aren't used.

> could share what colors in the 12-bit palette...are problematic

#9d5 and #4d8 is the color pair I find particularly problematic.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02270
by jakelazaroff | 2025-09-25 21:23:43+00:00
It's very easy to make that case: healthcare should be a human right, and our society should provide it to every person to the extent that it can.

We can just decide to make things public services. No one ever says "wait a minute, kids shouldn't be get to use roads for free before paying a dime into the system." It sounds ridiculous! But for some reason, people buy that logic when it comes to healthcare and college.
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-25 21:24:02+00:00
Daily driving with a Pi was very very close to possible for me, back in 2020 when I last tried it, but unfortunately a Pi 4 just didn’t have enough oomph to handle bigger web apps like outlook webmail, Google’s productivity suite, or a few other tools I needed for my job.

How does the Pi 5 family compare, five years on?
by nick__m | 2025-09-25 21:24:21+00:00
from the article

While Bill C-8 does not explicitly grant law enforcement direct access, information disclosed under its cybersecurity compliance regime could still be forwarded to police or national security agencies. This raises the possibility of using compliance obligations as a back door for investigative surveillance, without warrant, reasonable grounds, or even public transparency. Civil liberties advocates have cautioned that the Bill should be amended to include strict use limitations and notification requirements when such information is transferred
by dimal | 2025-09-25 21:24:26+00:00
I still feel like people are missing the deeper problem with DOGE. Yes, they’re dismantling the government, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It’s stupid, reckless and cruel. But most Americans want the government reduced, and so we end up arguing over “effectiveness”. Notice how half the comments here follow that track.

The deeper problem is that the richest man in the world bought his own department of the federal government of The United States and was allowed unchecked power within it. Nothing like this has ever occurred before in American history. The only thing that got him out was that Washington isn’t big enough for two egos as big as Musk and Trump, and one had to go. And since Musk’s people are still embedded in there, I would bet that he still has plenty of influence.

For those in the red tribe that support this, would you support George Soros or Bill Gates buying their own department and using it to rearrange the government to fit their will? Well, shit like that is now on the table. Good job.
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-09-25 21:24:46+00:00
Looking at strings in the linked apptranslator.org website, a lot of them have ampersands (&) e.g. "&Back" or "&Book View"

What do those mean?

Translations seem to put them in the middle sometimes

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on the other hand, there are languages even with "0 untranslated strings" that have untranslated "unused strings" - what are those about, and is it okay to not have those be tracked?
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-25 21:24:51+00:00
> It’s hard to make the case that a healthy 22-year-old is entitled to a lifetime of free health

The economic future potential of a healthy 22-year-old is way higher than an aged 68-year-old. I don't think it's very hard at all to make the case we should be spending money on keeping the 22-year-old healthy, in fact I think it's very easy to tilt so far into claiming it's so that you'd be justifiably accused of cruelty ("what if everyone over 70 were tossed into the Soylent Green vats," etc.)
by oconnor663 | 2025-09-25 21:24:58+00:00
This is a common misconception, based on the difference between password hashing and other general uses for a cryptographic hash. Password hashing is special, because we want to protect people who pick terrible passwords, so we need guess-and-check to be expensive. But for most other use cases, like say HMAC or signing, the number of possible inputs is so astronomically large that guess-and-check would be impossible even if each guess was e.g. just a single add instruction. This distinction is why we say never to use a general purpose hash with passwords.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-25 21:25:35+00:00
The Java JIT and most other Javascript jits are essentially operating the same way. The core difference is the java language spec sets up a whole bunch of requirements that need to be figured out at startup and are easy to trigger.

For example, static initialization on classes. The JDK has a billion different classes and on startup a not insignificant fraction of those end up getting loaded for all but the simplest applications.

Essentially, Java and the JS jits are both initially running everything interpreted and when a hot method is detected they progressively start spending the time sending those methods and their statistics to more aggressive JIT compilers.

A non-insignificant amount of time is being spent to try and make java start faster and a key portion of that is resolving the class loading problem.
by huijzer | 2025-09-25 21:25:35+00:00
> As publishing becomes cheaper, the content quality bar is lowered for creating new books.

Might play a role yes, but I think it’s a more widespread phenomenon because finding quality in our society becomes harder each day. Think modern architecture, modern interiors, modern cutlery, modern chairs, modern tables, or modern washing machines. They say that only great stuff survives as an explanation, but that would mean my grandparents would also throw away their washing machine each few years. They certainly did not.

My theory is that quality was valued and appreciated more in the past.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-25 21:25:44+00:00
Robinson was explicitly jailed for making libellous accusations. He invented claims that the refugee had bullied other kids, supplemented by unrelated photos that he stole. He admitted it was all fake, but then repeated the claims in a film. This is all clearly documented.

A 15 year old refugee boy had been assaulted, had water forced into his mouth, had had his arm broken, his sister had been assaulted. He's now terrified of going back to the school because of the hate that Robinson has filled other kids' heads with. Robinson's behaviour was utterly shameful, and it's shameful that you defend him in this instance.

> the UK government fines and jails more people for speech than most authoritarian dictatorships

This is another false claim that Robinson peddles about. I've addressed it previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488099
by tverbeure | 2025-09-25 21:25:49+00:00
About this part:

> In 2004, Intel wrote off the Itanium and cloned AMD64.

AMD introduced x86-64 in 2003. You don't just clone an ISA (even if based on AMD documents), design it, fab it etc. in a year or two. Intel must have been working on this well before AMD introduced the Athlon64.
by XorNot | 2025-09-25 21:25:54+00:00
Huh I read minicomputer and assumed we were talking about the first home computers, which that was about their epoch. (TBF I don't think any were ever $20 so that's on me).

Although if you go from the Pi 1 in 2012 at $35 at launch, it would be about $50 today.
by varispeed | 2025-09-25 21:26:26+00:00
Why downvote? Because the terrorists wear suits, speak in committees, are mostly white, and there’s no blood on the floor (yet)? The method is different, but the aim is the same: intimidation and control of a population for political ends.

If terrorism is defined as using violence or threats to intimidate a population for political or ideological ends, then “Chat Control” qualifies in substance.

Violence doesn’t have to leave blood. Psychological and coercive violence is recognised in domestic law (see coercive control offences) and by the WHO. It causes measurable harm to bodies and minds.

The aim is intimidation. The whole purpose is to make people too scared to speak freely. That is intimidation of a population, by design.

It is ideological. The ideology is mass control - keeping people compliant by stripping them of private spaces to think, talk, and dissent.

The only reason it’s not “terrorism” on paper is because states write definitions that exempt themselves. But in plain terms, the act is indistinguishable in effect from terrorism: deliberate fear, coercion, and the destruction of free will.

You can argue legality if you like, but the substance matches the textbook definition.
by gambiting | 2025-09-25 21:26:33+00:00
And if you read literally one paragraph from the bit that you quoted:

"The majority of national courts have generally recognized and accepted this principle, except for the part where European law outranks a member state's constitution. As a result, national constitutional courts have also reserved the right to review the conformity of EU law with national constitutional law"

And guess why and how they are able to do that - that's right, by retaining full sovereignty of their own justice systems. Even obeying rulings of the ECHR is purely a matter of courtesy more than anything, as neither EU nor ECHR have any enforcement mechanism beyond withholding funding, as many EU member states have proven time and time and time again.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-25 21:26:57+00:00
> Anarchist and Communists very much wanted a fundamentally different society,

They still want it.

> one so different that its essentially impossible to get there without destroying the existing one first.

Everything else they say is demagogy, in the end, all they are good for is fomenting strife and wars. After the bloodshed, these fools and their fantasies are quickly disposed of, the little tools they are.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-25 21:27:02+00:00
Yeah, cowboy coding as a strategy makes most sense if it's very likely that the next person to look at the code will be you.

I'm not advocating either way as superior, but cowboy coding shouldn't mean that you don't pay your tech debt. It just means that it's much more common to roll a bug fix or small factoring improvement in with a feature, probably because you were already touching that code and testing it.

If prod bugs are so critical that there will be a rollback and a forensic retrospective on each one, then yeah you should bite the bullet and use all the most defensive PR tactics. If prod bugs have small costs and you can quickly "roll forwards" (ship fixes) then it's better to get some free QA from your users, who probably won't mind the occasional rough edge if they're confident that overall quality is OK and bugs they do find won't stay unfixed for years.
by hashim | 2025-09-25 21:27:38+00:00
No, the Palestinian narrative for those of us actually knowledgeable of history has not changed since 1948. As for Israel being consistent - how are those hostages doing? Cause it definitely doesn't care about any of them now (those it hasn't killed itself), and Netanyahu and others in the cabinet have admitted they want to occupy the land once more.

I'm not American, but you must be if you think racism magically stops outside of America. The racism most Americans and Zionists have towards brown people and the Islamophobia they have towards Muslims are some of their most prejudiced, and at least equal to any form of anti-Semitism you've ever experienced, but for some reason, you only believe in one of those. To be clear, "brown people" don't have to be "brown" just like black people aren't all black, it's a generic term that indicates a rough place of origin, and the point that you're clearly trying to obscure is that racism towards Palestinians is still racism no matter what colour they actually are.
by al_borland | 2025-09-25 21:28:08+00:00
When ordering without Prime it says you have 24 hour (I think) to add other items without incurring additional shipping charges. I don't remember Prime doing this, and there is little benefit to the customer to care, because it's all "free" anyway.

I ordered something on Sunday, I had until Monday to add additional items. I was charged on Wednesday evening, it shipped Thursday (today), and should show up tomorrow.

I can buy the priority method. Sit it on until a lull in demand, or 3-4 days pass, whichever comes first. That's how it feels.

Even though thad had this order for 4 days so far, they are effectively giving me 1-2 day shipping once it finally ships.
by zugi | 2025-09-25 21:28:26+00:00
Indeed the article is less an article and more a random collection of gripes and quotes. The third paragraph betrays that they're not really doing any analysis...

> The government would likely end 2025 with about 300,000 fewer employees... The total figure amounted to one in eight workers... In recent weeks, hundreds of the employees DOGE pushed out have reportedly been offered reinstatement.

"Hundreds" coming back is portrayed as if it offsets the 300,000 gone. They continue:

> The true scope of DOGE’s attack on the federal government remains unknown. While there is no reason to think it achieved meaningful cost savings or operational efficiencies...

and then go on to complain about an immigrant database, which has nothing to do with the reduction in the federal workforce. Simple quick math would suggest $60 billion or so a year in savings from the workforce reduction. Of course the larger savings is in the whole programs that were eliminated, not just the salaries and benefits savings.

DOGE saving $2 trillion / year is indeed impossible. That kind of savings would require a national conversation about what federal roles we no longer need. But DOGE likely achieved hundreds of billions a year in savings. USAID alone had a $50 billion budget that was mostly eliminated, though a few billion just moved over to State.
by keybored | 2025-09-25 21:28:30+00:00
> - smaller PRs aren’t necessarily easier to review (and this arbitrary obsession almost always leads to PR overload in chunks that don’t make any sense, reducing code quality as a result)

This is why I gave up reading the article shortly after reaching the point about making a history with commit messages. The comments—even if it is on a Git forum—will just be full of people that either say that it’s a waste of time or that it is literally impossible for this to be practiced by anyone.[1]

Your best bet is to find projects where this is practiced (and you don’t have to look far). But making the case to a general audience? No, too many loud voices that treat version control like “I am committing now because I need to pick up the dry-cleaning” arbitrary/random snapshot-maker.

[1] No one, period? Sounds like a bit of a strict ontological rule to me.
by thisisit | 2025-09-25 21:28:32+00:00
You do realise Chinese form a large immigrant population in the US, right?

And as much as I dislike saying this - Chinese government doesn’t want you talking about politics. Otherwise you should be mostly fine.

While US government is going beyond politics. Pushing stuff like that autism and Tylenol connection on correlation study. That is going beyond politics and impacting academic and scientific analysis.
by saynay | 2025-09-25 21:28:48+00:00
> means you can stop paying $1000+/month to someone who is already a millionaire, that's still a savings even if it adds $20 in overhead.

Only if these hypothetical millionaires you are stopping make up more than 1/50 of the people you are means-testing. You are not only paying for those who fail the means-test, but for all those who are passing it.
by cocoricamo | 2025-09-25 21:28:55+00:00
That's precisely the issue. There's a subset of the community that resorts to labeling anyone they deem guilty of wrongthink as a nazi or fascist and is the same crew that preach the "punch a nazi" line.

If it was just a normal exchange of ideas it wouldn't matter and DHH would be just whining, but first response was "he's a nazi" "lets take away his project".

There's crazier stuff in Lunduke's tweets from days ago including death threats and inciting violence against him on public events. I knew he was disliked by a large chunk of the OSS community but to threaten to kill people because someone attends a conference is crazy.

That is not the way to behave in a civilized society and is time people stop bending backwards to appease the lunatics otherwise there's no telling when any of us will be on the wrong end of the mob.