MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geocar | 2025-09-11 10:04:45+00:00
Society is the conditions of living with other people; you do not get your society and my society because if we can both coexist it is the same society.

There are a lot of unwell people; Some of them it might be a literal genetic mental illness, but a lot of them probably only ever experienced joy after misery, and never saw real kindness.

I think you should treat "those" people as if they were abused and vulnerable humans with broken brains, and how you treat "those" people is how I think you will treat other abused and vulnerable humans with broken brains.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-11 10:05:03+00:00
I mainly remember the Zensursula title in connection with the ISP-level DNS-blocking initiative (the Stopsign thing) which was to combat CSAM.

I remember all the nerds going "That's a slippery slope to blocking other stuff as well though", and being dismissed. Now we got the CUII blocking libgen, scihub, piracy sites and as I recently read on HN, russia today(that's not the cuii I'm pretty sure, but same mechanism).
by volkadav | 2025-09-11 10:05:09+00:00
doctors and nurses have enough power to demand fixed professional(0) wages that "unskilled labor"(1) does not. no one _wants_ to make $2/hr(2) and to have to rely on the generosity of the general public for a living; in other words, it isn't the waitstaff having special privileges but rather the opposite case of them lacking better protections.

(0) which is to say, much higher (1) a propaganda term if there ever was one. work one shift as a waiter and tell me it take no skill afterwards! (2) $2.13 barring state-level increases over the federal minimum, to satisfy the pedants
by plumb_bob_00 | 2025-09-11 10:06:43+00:00
You are correct.

> Meet the People Taking over Hacker News

> by Paul Graham 3/29/2014

> ...

> Finally, I’m delighted to announce that Daniel Gackle (pronounced Gackley), who has already been doing most of the moderation for the last 18 months, is going to join YC full-time to be in charge of the HN community.

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-people-taking-over...

Bin Laden was assassinated in 2011.
by tgv | 2025-09-11 10:06:54+00:00
The problem is management and short-term stock-holder interest. If some spreadsheet cowboy convinces some C-level suit that this is the way to go, and it works now, not in 6 months time, IT and development will be made to bear the brunt. Same with AI. The most ardent supporters of its use seem to be the higher-ups, $$$ in their eyes. Convinced of their superior decision skills, they can wreck the place, or in their view, rightsize the help desk/IT/dev departments. Then they get a bonus for delivering cost reductions, and move to another job before being held accountable.
by tucnak | 2025-09-11 10:07:18+00:00
I reckon that would only serve to play into their hands. There is just enough plausible deniability for conspiracy-theory optics. Moreover, European politicians really hate to be publicly humiliated like that, so it might as well achieve the opposite from desired effect. The Balkan Insight findings, among other journalistic results, were published years ago, and it had little, if any effect. The audience that would resonate with anti-American messaging on the subject are already catalysed contra ChatControl, and the undecided would just read this as conspiracy theory...
Ask HN: How to be free from Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-09-11 10:07:26+00:00
It seems to be my personality totally. I do not think I am getting free from it ever. I work very hard on meditation, JPMR but since I cannot see results in few days, weeks, I leave doing it. IDK where I am heading into. I feel unemployable.
by saghm | 2025-09-11 10:07:41+00:00
I don't really understand the relevance of this comment to this thread, but since it's here...I remember running into something somewhat similar when trying to dual-boot Windows for something on a machine I already had Linux installed on, and while I can't remember whether it was actually MediaTek or not, I think it might have been. If my recollection is correct, I ended up figuring out that having the wifi configured to 1 Gbps in Windows somehow reverted the wifi to only 100 Mbps in Linux, and the only way for me to fix it was to boot back into Windows and switch it to whatever it had been by default (I think 100 Mbps?). Not sure if this is something you care enough to actually try out or not, but I figured it couldn't hurt to mention!
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-09-11 10:08:06+00:00
Well yes, any creation tries to anticipate some reaction, be it audience, environment, or only the creators one.

A prediction is just a reaction to a present state, which is the simplest definition of intelligence: The ability to (sense and) react to something. I like to use this definition, instead of "being able to predict", because its more generic.

The more sophisticated (and directed) the reaction is, the more intelligent the system must be. Following this logic, even a traffic light is intelligent, at least more intelligent than a simple rock.

From that perspective, the question of why a creator produced a piece of art becomes unimportant to determine intelligence, since the simple fact that he did is sign of intelligence already.
by esperent | 2025-09-11 10:08:32+00:00
What gave you the idea they are foreign? On the contrary, it's relatively hard to open a bank in Vietnam as a foreigner.

This is because Vietnam is in the process of a massive modernization of their banking and tax system. They introduced biometric ids for citizens a few years ago, then around a year ago they required everyone with a bank account to link it with their id.

These are the bank accounts that didn't get linked. I'm sure a big chunk of them are just people's old barely used accounts that they couldn't be bothered going into a bank and registering.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-11 10:09:36+00:00
someone has to prove illicit connections to private companies and potentially black markets. the data is guaranteed to end up in the wrong hands which will have a worse impact on the lives of citizens, workers as much as educated ones, and definitely officials; how to better gain dirt on someone if the law supports breaking encryption and they falsely believe their state of the art messaging app is worth more than the skeletons in their closets?

at the least the basic human rights and privacy laws should be on everyones' side ... except rapists, the many kinds of violent abusers, murderers, especially the genocidal kind, drug punchers, and these fuckers roofying kids in clubs and bars just to have sex ... I probably forgot some ... sorry I didn't stay on topic.

As Freud wanted to let us know, the ageing rich are perverts with enough means to hide any crime ... then they made him bend over and invent the Oedipus complex, ffs

the only way for them to create an argument for ChatControl is more terrorism or some fucked up crimes against children so this damn thing is a sure-fire shitstorm with recursive, bad yields.
by mihaaly | 2025-09-11 10:09:49+00:00
The loudest and the weirdest get the most airtime. Not all conversations are golden. He is a lying, opportunistic, self-existence driven ass. Farage is not a reference for how to do things, not even close, not at all!

It is of course unfortunate that a big part of the population is heavily influenceable by almost anything that has some scary perspective, in whatever size, over-considering dangers to opportunities to the extremes (want to eliminate dangers, hopelessly), also can only hear what is too loud, so the real democratic conversations and resulting decisions are distorted a lot. Better focus on improving this, than put a self centered ass on the pedestal to follow!
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-11 10:10:05+00:00
> An interesting factoid from the Roman Empire is that in their later years there was a major fertility collapse to the point that various laws were passed in order to try to motivate fertility in various ways, and they ultimately failed.

The same thing happened (declining fertility rates) between WW1 and WW2, which I found interesting. Also a time of great wealth inequality and economic dislocation.

Another thing I got from the same book (Dark Continent) was that pre-Nazi Germany was basically being run by the equivalent of executive orders due to political polarisation and deadlock in the Parliament. Definite vibes of modern US in that statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Continent:_Europe%27s_Twe...
by refurb | 2025-09-11 10:11:24+00:00
I doubt they are mostly foreign accounts.

It’s not easy to open a bank account in Vietnam even before these changes. Typically you’d need some sort of long-term visa.

It’s more likely Vietnam who opened these accounts. Often done to keep money of dubious sources separate from their normal bank account.

Hiding money from the tax man is incredibly common in Vietnam. It’s very common for businesses to pay themselves some small amount, declare it on taxes, then take the other 80% of income tax free.

Not to mention the extensive bribery in Vietnam.
by GJim | 2025-09-11 10:12:28+00:00
> All it requires is "informed consent" (i.e a click or a tap on a button) from the "data subject"

Correct. Clear, opt-in informed consent to use personal data is the fundamental principle of the GDPR. As it should be. I'm puzzled why you think this is a negative.

> and people can evade privacy with impunity.

Certainly not. The GDPR does not permit data trawling or allowing data controllers to do what they like with your personal data once they have it. It must only be used for the purpose it was requested for.

> ugly cookie banners

Once again, there is no requirement for 'cookie banners'. You are free to use whatever cookies you want to run your site. HOWEVER, if you are using those cookies to track me (advertisers take a bow) then you need my clear, opt-in informed consent to do so. And so you should!

I continue to be astounded at the ignorance some people have of such a vital privacy law; one that is fundamental to modern data use and respect for the customer.
by lproven | 2025-09-11 10:12:29+00:00
I totally agree.

I use Tilde myself, which is very close.

https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde

I have written about it:

"Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976"

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/17/tilde_text_editor/

Nobody got the gag in the title. 1976 was when Vi first appeared.
by lores | 2025-09-11 10:12:51+00:00
1/ There is no "distribute a limited amount of funds". There is even less a "distribute a limited amount of funds after shareholder profit and massive executive paychecks". Customers have bought coverage; if the company overissued policies, they make a loss, or they go bankrupt and their own insurers cover the existing claims. Anything else is privatised profit and socialised losses, which even a callous teenager just blown away by their first glimpse at Ayn Rand should find objectionable.

2/ I carefully said "entitled to" to avoid a debate about personal responsibility and limit the conversation to "paid for a life-saving service they did not receive", which everyone will agree is wrong.

3/ If you think the CEO did not issue orders to make it as difficult to claim as possible, and drag the process as much as possible, you are a fool.

Denying help to a human is one thing. Denying them help after they paid for the help so you can buy a yacht another thing entirely.
by fastest963 | 2025-09-11 10:13:05+00:00
What's the payment threshold? I assume you're paying 2.9% and $0.30 (or around there) for the transaction. You charge that to the customer but what if their bill is $0.01, are you really going to make them pay $0.32 for $0.01 of usage? How do you expect SaaS providers to communicate that on their pricing page? If they charge $0.01 per request and the end-user makes 100 requests their bill is actually $1.33 which means the actual per-request charge is $0.0133.

Several years ago Stripe offered more favorable pricing for small transactions but it's my understanding that that pricing is no longer available to new Stripe businesses.
by silverliver | 2025-09-11 10:13:17+00:00
There is no on-device scanning without compromising privacy. Scanning that can detect child abuse can also detect human rights activists, investigative journalists, and so on. I imagine this technology can be easily used by the government to identify journalists by scanning for material related to their investigation.

On-device scanning is a fabrication that Apple foolishly introduced to the mainstream, and one that rabid politicians bit into and refuse to let go.
by esperent | 2025-09-11 10:13:34+00:00
> now including facial recognition

As a foreigner with a beard living in Vietnam, the facial recognition is an absolute pain. It took me an hour of sitting in a bank with the staff taking photos of me over and over, then whenever I need to do a facial recognition scan in the app (thankfully just for large transactions) it's a complete crapshoot as to whether it'll work.

Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg regards to problems of banking in Vietnam as a foreigner, and it seems to be getting worse and worse.
by lenkite | 2025-09-11 10:13:46+00:00
Nah - ICE under the Trump administration has deported dozens of Irish folks who have overstayed in the US, even folks from Germany and UK. There have already been famous cases like Cliona Ward from Dublin. Lot of whites kept in solitary confinement.

You can accuse the agency of authoritarianism but not racism. They are going after everyone illegally in the US.
by moocow21212 | 2025-09-11 10:13:47+00:00
This is a nash equilibrium situation. When only one side largely commits the violence, they gain big political advantages. Eventually, the other side joins in. the result is a bad situation but the amount of violence is what leads to a compromise, the fear of returning to that violence is the new social contract. Eventually, people who remember that cycle die out, and new people repeat
by lmpdev | 2025-09-11 10:13:51+00:00
As an Australian normally subject to two upper houses (the current state I happen to live in is the only unicameral state) that seems very counter intuitive

The way it seems to work in practice (here at least) is most partisan/normative legislation goes through the lower house upwards

And bipartisan (or broadly unpopular or highly technical) legislation goes from the upper house down

It’s more complicated than that, but a one way flow committee sounds extremely restrictive for meaningful reform

A small number of pathways is a good thing, one lone process is probably not (you risk over fitting on both sides)

Edit: Australian legislation has a lot of flaws, but this multimodal setup from my experience is not one of them
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-11 10:14:08+00:00
> If you build/design your products here then you use EU's trained labor, EU's infrastructure, EU's legal system, EU's defense, etc. then you should pay your fair share to support these facilities that help you be a billion dollar corporation.

What EU country do you live in?

The only way to make this happen is to work really hard on electing national politicians who will do that, and then change the Treaties to make it possible.

The EU does not currently have these powers, maybe it should?
by lifeformed | 2025-09-11 10:14:30+00:00
Winning through "reason" seems kind of naive given today's social landscape. Are our politics broken because the facts simply aren't known? The misinformation-firehose/attention-economy/propaganda-machines are simply too powerful to be countered by merely being correct.

I'm not saying murdering everyone is the right alternative, but if you think trying to balance political power by "winning debates" or something seems reasonable, that ship has long sailed.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-11 10:16:19+00:00
> It makes no sense to me. Of course companies are going to choose the most favorable location to incorporate. Counting on companies to be "fair-play" or whatever the politician word-of-the-day is seems completely braindead to me. Unless there were some kind of backroom deals going on, which wouldn't surprise me one bit coming from the EU nomeklatura, and now they're trying to conceal it by blaming "the rich" / "corporate greed".

So the issue is more around transfer pricing, which wasn't really a thing until relatively recently. This has a really, really large impact on services, particularly computer enabled services, whereas in a world where most GDP comes from goods it's not really as big a deal (as you can tax the value-add from a factory much easier than you can from a software sales deal).

Unfortunately, the big corporations put a lot of money into finding ways around whatever law you pass, and the EU are not united on this stuff, at all, at all.
by port11 | 2025-09-11 10:16:38+00:00
I'd never advocate for the French level of rioting violence, but I hope we follow some of their footsteps here in Belgium. We're under the same pressure and have allowed an abomination of a neo-liberal government to take hold.

I have some acquaintances complaining they will now have to pay a modest tax of stock purchases and capital gains. My, oh my… sorry about that, let's keep destroying the lower and middle classes instead.

Belgium really could borrow a spine from its neighbour. We don't have one Macron, we have a small cabinet of 'em.
by lproven | 2025-09-11 10:17:04+00:00
I agree.

I can imagine multiple use cases...

* A complete multiwindow console environment you can access locally or over an SSH session

* An extremely low-resource multi-app session for very low-end devices, such as a Raspberry Pi Zero or the like, where you have under a gigabyte of RAM

* A very fast very low-resource environment for a console-only server that happens to have a big hi-res LCD attached

* I am less sure but this could potentially be highly accessible for users with low vision or users of screenreaders.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-11 10:17:14+00:00
> In general, the data here is really interesting. Germany and the US have a pretty similar value, both averaging at about 11% in recent years. I would have assumed that Germany would have a higher rate. I wonder if this data is misleading somehow or if my assumptions were just wrong here. I guess one variable missing here is government debt, which is not a tax but is still used to pay for government expenses.

Lots of German spending is devolved to the regions, maybe your figures are missing that?
by jbreckmckye | 2025-09-11 10:18:13+00:00
I always saw "design patterns" as a symptom of the OOP culture. The mid 2000s was the worst era for this. Everything had to be packaged as nouns and programmers saw their "profession" as being about defining taxonomies of design patterns and ideally encoding them in abstract classes.

This is what leads to almost satirical situations where a "command evaluator abstract class" is a way to express "a function"
by teekert | 2025-09-11 10:19:01+00:00
Good addition,thanx.

I've been in a similar situation, letting everyone know I was fired. Apparently in the US this has a negative connotation, and they use "being let go" (or something confusing as "handing in/being handed your 2 weeks notice", a concept completely unknown here). Here we only have one word for "your company terminating your employment", and there is no negative connotation associated with it. This can be difficult for non-natives. We can come across very weird or less intelligent.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-11 10:19:14+00:00
> I'm not familiar with the situation of New Zealand with respect to Australia (its neighbours). But the problem in the EU, is that there are a few countries (Ireland and the Netherlands inside the Union, and Switzerland which is right next door and enjoys many advantages and no constraints) which charge way less tax than the "central" EU countries. So companies have a tendency to set up their HQs in those countries.

Speaking as an Irish person, this is definitely true and tax is a big reason for a lot of the multinationals we have here.

However, also note that the Irish people have one the highest debt per capita, basically incurred to pay off debts to EU/UK banks during the financial crisis. If you mutualise debt, and do the capital markets union then you could 100% fix this (but the political will definitely isn't there for that).
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-11 10:19:31+00:00
This generation of AI systems isn't "break the world" dangerous. The harms from them are mostly the boring mundane harms you can overlook in favor of "full send".

But the performance and capabilities of AI systems only ever goes up.

Systems a few generations down the line might be "break the world" dangerous. And you really don't want to learn that after you "full send" release them with no safety testing, the way you did the 10 systems before it.
by potatoz2 | 2025-09-11 10:20:00+00:00
I grew up in Paris and that’s where I’m raising my son right now. I think there couldn’t be a kid-friendlier place (other than cost):

- I can walk to a gigantic park with many playgrounds in 5 minutes - I can walk to a small little park with a few swings and a slide in 1 minute - I can walk to a pool in 15 minutes - I can walk to my son’s future kindergarten and elementary school in 2 minutes - I can take public transportation to a gigantic zoo in a bit over 30 minutes (also a gigantic aquarium, playgrounds, etc. in the same area) - I can take public transportation to a world-class kid science museum in under 30 minutes (also a kid-centered movie theater, indoor skydiving, bowling, many more play areas, etc. in the same spot) - I can take public transportation to an amusement park in 45 minutes (1h to a second one, Disneyland Paris) - There are tons of indoor play areas for days it rains I can walk to or take public transportation - I have pediatrician and world-class pediatric hospitals walking distance, or a 5 minute wait away for EMS

And all of that much more safely than if I had to drive my kid everywhere (leading cause of death from 4 year onward IIRC. Once my son is old enough, he'll also be able to independently go to all that (say when he’s 12), which would be completely impossible in suburbia.

The only thing you can do in the suburbs is try to privatize all these resources, which is what a backyard is more-or-less (and a private pool, a home theater, buying tons of toys, etc.), but you inevitably get lesser versions as a result.
by baranul | 2025-09-11 10:20:37+00:00
Agree with the sentiment, for Zig is continually involved in many other wars (to various degrees), with languages like: Vlang, Dlang, C3, Jai, etc...

Of course comparisons are inevitable or to be helpful, but then let consumers choose what they like and find to be useful. Leadership should not be seen by everyone as in the forefront of throwing gas on the flames, displaying unprofessional behavior, or allow themselves to be known as the face of toxicity.
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-11 10:21:47+00:00
A Fourier transform is just a change of coordinates. It has nothing to do with the signal per se. If you have a signal which was measured or recorded with finite precision (as any signal must be) then the fourier transform (as a pure mathematical object) simply preserves the same amount of loss that the original signal had. But, in fact, to do that, we would need to do the transform on hardware that could represent real numbers. This hardware does not exist in computers or in your brain, and so a fourier transform is lossy in that case. Still, the idea that your brain encodes all information in oscillations is not accurate - your temporary electrical activity can be substantially disrupted without you losing your memories, suggesting very strongly (to put it mildly) that some of your memories are encoded chemically and physically in changes to the connectivity between neurons that do not depend on persistent electrical activity. That encoding scheme must be lossy.