MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-17 11:33:54+00:00
> Can EU laws actually override the constitutional rights of member states?

Sometimes yes.

> I was under the impression that the principle of supremacy isn't absolute and doesn't extend to overriding a country's fundamental constitutional rights.

What are a country's fundamental constitutional rights can be "dynamically adjusted" depending on the political wishes. :-(

> With authoritarian regimes gaining power everywhere, it would only take a few of them working together to pass an EU law that makes everything fair game.

There is a reason why more and more EU-skeptical movements gain traction in various EU countries.
by rkagerer | 2025-09-17 11:34:24+00:00
That's such a self-harmful policy. I have a small business and I've been really supportive to both open source and small, paid-for commercial libraries and building blocks that I rely on. Also advocated this successfully at clients I've consulted with. We do a lot of technical vetting before adopting any particular dependency (vs. building out our own) and it just makes sense that we strive to foster the continued existence and excellence of our tools. Considering the incredible value companies get from open source, I have trouble understanding why they wouldn't throw some cash or idle cycles their way. Seemed to work out for the likes of Google while they were undergoing rapid growth.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-09-17 11:34:56+00:00
> Do submarines swim?

That's the main point of the parent comment. Arguing about the definition of "reasoning" or "pattern matching" is just a waste of time. What really matters is if it produces helpful output. Arguing about that is way better!

Instead of saying: "It's just pattern matching -> It won't improve the world", make an argument like: "AI's seem to have trouble specializing like humans -> adopting AI will increase error rates in business processes -> due to the amount of possible edge cases, most people will get into an edge case with no hope of escaping it -> many people's lives will get worse".

The first example relies on us agreeing on the definition of pattern matching, and then taking a conclusion based on how those words feel. This has no hope of convincing me if I don't like your definition! The second one is an argument that could potentially convince me, even if I'm an AI optimist. It is also just by itself an interesting line of reasoning.
by a022311 | 2025-09-17 11:35:12+00:00
This was my first terminal emulator when I got started with Linux (I skipped GNOME's one because it was completely uncustomizable). It's got many useful features and I'd compare it to Windows Terminal, but the 3 second startup times (with a good computer) were too much. After many other terminals I've now settled on Ghostty which provides the customization options I need and starts instantly. The most useful feature of Tabby which I can't find elsewhere is connecting to remote servers with file upload/download support and serial consoles (useful for people working with embedded systems).
by ycombigators | 2025-09-17 11:35:48+00:00
Very ironic.

I actually am a foreign actor (effectively like your own president). I'm British.

Jones is a rabble rouser, as is most of the "right" in the US. You'd do well to learn how to spot them, and like your president, he's only interested with stuffing his pockets with money.

Enjoy your fascism - comes with a free side of disappearing people. I'm sure you'll be Pinchoeted in no time at all based on your narrative once it's all locked in.
by sarchertech | 2025-09-17 11:35:49+00:00
> This implies some kind of fairness/moral contract in a license like MIT.

The license tells you what you are legally allowed to do. It doesn’t supersede basic concepts of fairness.

The average person would say that if you directly make millions of someone else’s work, the fair thing to do is to pay that person back in some way.

Calling someone a leech is just saying that they aren’t following the the accusers model of fairness. That’s all. There’s no legal definition.

We say things like “my company screwed me over when they fired me right before my RSUs vested” despite that being perfectly legal.
by MrGilbert | 2025-09-17 11:36:10+00:00
> Nobody has the time

I'd erase that part entirely, as it is not true, from my point of view. My day, as has every other person's day, has exactly 24 hours. As an employee, part of that time is dedicated to my employer. In return, I receive financial compensation. It's up to them to decide how they want to spend the resources they acquired. So yes, each and every company could, in theory, contribute back to Open Source.

But as there is no price tag attached to Open Source, there is also no incentive. In a highly capitalized world, where share holder value is more worth than anything else, there are only a few companies that do the right call and act responsible.
by xenelor | 2025-09-17 11:36:21+00:00
As a bonus:

> You can write simple, readable, and maintainable code in C++ without ever needing to use templates, operator overloading, or any of the other more advanced features of the language.

It is incredibly funny how this argument has been used for literally decades, but in reality, you don't see simple, readable, nor maintainable code, instead, most of the C++ code bases out there are an absolute mess.. This argument reminds me of something...
by trhway | 2025-09-17 11:36:53+00:00
>You're reading an awful lot into something not being included in a radio interview.

It isn't something. It is the primary thing here. For a professional such an omission can be only deliberate. The radio interview would be heard by millions of people while the report would be read by a much-much-much smaller number of people. Such an omission in the whole context of the other things - like not calling out genocide of Jewish people by HAMAS on Oct 7, 2023 - can lead to only one conclusion.
by ptero | 2025-09-17 11:37:13+00:00
Freedom of speech is doing not great, but still OK in the US. The government is not prosecuting for speech, which is what the free speech protections can and should guarantee.

What now happens more is that big private companies, having huge influence on individual life in everything from communication to banking, attack people for their views. The cure for it might be to ease and speed up the way for people to push back against that. From de-monopolization to government mediators and arbitrage binding for companies (but not for the individuals so they can still sue), etc.
by naikrovek | 2025-09-17 11:37:27+00:00
it is extremely weird to me that someone would write something like this in javascript. it is very, very wrong, to me. like ... "you need your head examined" wrong.

That will be an unpopular opinion on this site, I know. Javascript is so slow, so bloated, and so far from the CPU that it is almost like building a railroad bridge using plastic. Could you build a railroad bridge out of plastic? yeah I'm sure that could be done. Is plastic the best material for this application? Not in the slightest. Javascript is not the right tool for anything outside of the browser, to me.

But, it's 2025 and plastic is everywhere, even inside our brains, so what do I know?
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-09-17 11:37:35+00:00
It is the usual DRY/WET concern. Having microservices be completely independent and relying only on shared message broker or service discovery has its benefits, but the cost is generally duplication of things. Things like "whitelist this inbound IP for all services" or "configure telemetry endpoint" often end up in making N changes to N separate repos, and it becomes hell if you have to talk to N teams.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-17 11:37:35+00:00
> having multiple simultaneous sexual partners is surely relevant.

medically, not really. the vaccine acts the same. epidemiology wise, it makes it more effective, assuming the correct coverage.

I would just suggest that stating that an entire continent of different races/culture/religions "having multiple simultaneous partners" smells just a little bit of "savages over there", which given that we are talking about _evidence_ based outcomes, jars somewhat.
by gausswho | 2025-09-17 11:37:46+00:00
This may be tinfoil, but this is the kinda configuration that I want version controlled, and I've never felt good about adding ~/.ssh/config (or anything within ~/.ssh) to my dotfiles because I definitely do not want its siblings in version control. And I don't trust myself not to bone myself.

Instead I have some files elsewhere that I source into my terminal on start, containing:

export M4MINI=192.168.1.204
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-17 11:37:54+00:00
Ah, you meant apportionment, not demographics. You are correct about apportionment. So your argument is that Democrats were only gentle on immigration because they wanted the voters in the States that would get those new representatives to like their party? If so, it raises the question...

... Why didn't the Republicans do the same? Seems like a good idea. Of course, the GOP pursuing good ideas may assume competence, something neither of us are assuming. I take your lack of defense of my criticism of this administration's competence as agreement.

(Different topic, but the Democrats were right to vote against proof of citizenship. You know who can't prove citizenship? My elderly mother-in-law who's born in the US and lived here her whole life. She doesn't deserve to be disenfranchised because her family was bad at keeping documentation. The people who get denied the vote when we start playing "papers please" at the polls are American citizens, not illegal immigrants).
by hvb2 | 2025-09-17 11:38:28+00:00
Aside from everything else already said here, you don't allow journalists in and those that are still there get targeted/killed.

It's quite hard to get information out when you're actively trying to make that to be the case. But I understand why they wouldn't let im journalists. That would completely undermine the narrative.

Also, why are you so opposed to taking something from one side of the conflict when you are YOURSELF quoting the Israeli government...

Please go take a civics class
by tamimio | 2025-09-17 11:38:33+00:00
It’s open source, else I wouldn’t recommended it

https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop

I used it along with another called Localsend, but the later one gave me a bit of headache and crashed while transferring some large files last time I used it, but still great as an alternative too, and it’s open source as well.

Edit: Actually, you are correct, it seems they did close it! Try localsend instead.
by wink | 2025-09-17 11:40:25+00:00
Not sure I agree here. Yes, maybe it's 10x the price (which I doubt in the first place) it's actually performing very well, measurably.

I don't know how you benchmark a Rolex vs a Seiko for 500 bucks. That is luxury to me. And yet it is perfectly fine to argue a Casio for 10-20 bucks performs just as well.
by tome | 2025-09-17 11:41:14+00:00
It's not a straw man, and you are incorrect on a number of factual points. For example, there are circumstances under which targeting hospitals is not a war crime. I think that "not as bad as WWII" is the opposite of desperate! WWII is a war that all decent people acknowledge that the allies absolutely had to win, and the human toll, whilst tragic, was necessary.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-17 11:41:14+00:00
> Israels objective is to occupy everything

Wrong. It is only their goal to occupy "everything" because they got attacked and need to secure their borders.

Israel already tried to completely withdraw from Gaza which evidently isn't a feasible solution. And this behavior, which cannot sensibly disputed, would also directly and thoroughly contradict any ambitions for genocide as well for that matter.

Israel has to leave the west bank eventually and what they do is wrong. But it is only tangentially related to the current war in Gaza.
by sitharus | 2025-09-17 11:41:20+00:00
I hadn’t dug that far in to it, thanks for sharing! I assumed my rather old SD card or the adapter I keep stuffed at the bottom of my bag was the issue as I’ve only seen it on a couple of photos.

I’ve used Olympus cameras for over a decade. Well, the same camera to be honest, a PEN E-PM2. This has only appeared in the past couple of years.

I haven’t seen it on photos from my Canon EOS 80D yet, but I guess it’s time to change my workflow. And maybe OS.
by corralal | 2025-09-17 11:42:11+00:00
I tried to use C++ on a new project and what finally killed me was the IDE. I wanted to use the newest language version, with modules. Visual Studio's autocompletion and jump-to-definition fell apart with modules. This was demoralizing, because I was under the impression that Visual Studio was the best C++ IDE, and if it can't handle language features 4 years after their release, what does that mean? CLion or Emacs+clangd were also a pain. The editing/IDE experience has been much nicer in Rust.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-17 11:42:33+00:00
> What does this mean for `Datenschutz` in Germany?

Datenschutz - Schmatenschutz.

"Datenschutz" is something that politicians talk about in their "Sonntagsreden" [Sunday sermons; a term hard to translate into English]. During the rest of the week, the politicians pass laws to gouge out civil liberties (because of "think of the children", "terrorists", "child abusers", "right-wing movements" - whatever is opportune in the current political climate).
by hvb2 | 2025-09-17 11:42:41+00:00
> And another strange thing - why UN didn't call out the genocide of Jewish people by HAMAS?

Just look at death tolls maybe? October 7, 1200 people. While despicable, nowhere near the effort Israel is putting in, right?

Aside from the affect that the Israeli government has pretty much said they want to get all the Palestinians out of Gaza and are actively working towards that.

No one is justifying October 7.
by DocTomoe | 2025-09-17 11:42:42+00:00
You see, we the people are staunchly opposed. But the interests of our political leaders (we all know what 'leader' translates to) do not align with out interests. So ...

The problem is that this is not a party issue. This is a leadership issue. Power corrupts. The only way out of his is a massive overhaul of the political system that makes 'professional politicians' a thing of the past.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-09-17 11:43:02+00:00
Democracy is incompatible with freedom by definition, it's the dictatorship of the majority over the minority.

Especially in a time where controlling public opinion is just a matter of running targeted ad campaigns on social medias and buying newspapers and tv stations.

If we like freedom we need to get rid of power centralisation, as much as possible, and give back the power to the individual by removing as many laws as possible and relying on privatisation and decentralisation.

But there is no one left to fight in the western world, everybody is glued to their smartphone and we're doomed to become the next China.
by watwut | 2025-09-17 11:43:32+00:00
I agree he should not have been killed.

> There is so much more that Charlie could have done if he had lived to his full potential.

Well ... his condoned violence himself and wished harm to others. He literally helped to create more toxic world and did it intentionally. It is wrong to kill people. Pretending that killed people were someone they were not may feel good, but does not make anyone safer.
by phtrivier | 2025-09-17 11:43:34+00:00
EU is not enough. I'm sometimes not happy with the decision taken by governments in France, so what really has to happen is HauteGaronnExit, where my departement is freed from the influence of borders decided in a Revolution two centuries ago, of which I was never explicitly asked to approve.

And, come to think of it, I don't like all the decisions taken by the departement either. Surely things will work great when my street is responsible for the electrical grid, immigration or international commerce.

And when I say "my street", I obviously mean "my half of the street". I'm not against odd-numbered houses "per se", but, you know...
by jncfhnb | 2025-09-17 11:45:07+00:00
> This brings me to my main point: ridiculing or shooting people with whom we disagree is not a sign of intelligence. An extraterrestrial observer might have a hard time concluding that humanity represents an intelligent civilization given our history of political violence.

While Charlie Kirk doesn’t fall into this subgroup, the thing that makes this ignorant is that a great deal of political violence is driven not by intellectual disagreement but rather abuse of power by those in power and as an option of last resort because the social contract is broken.

Carving out Charlie Kirk’s murder as an intellectual no-no amidst a plethora of mass shootings of children is intellectually dishonest about the intentions of the framing.
by flumpcakes | 2025-09-17 11:46:08+00:00
People are so emotive about this issue and the online safety act in the UK. They jump to conclusions that applied to any other issue would be conspiratorial.

It's not about "control" and "spying". The fact is it is policing that has been made extremely hard due to technology.

silk road was only busted because the guy had his http proxy responding on the VPS's IP and not just the tor eth. Silly mistake and unfathomably good luck that someone in the investigating team was just googling around.

The politicians are lay people, and only have one tool in their toolbox: laws. So every solution is a legal one.

"Sorry we can't catch the people sexually abusing one million children every year because they use a VPN." Solution? Create a law requiring VPNs to be registered to a user with their address. There's no conspiracy here - it's simple cause and effect. This is a contrived worst case example because this level of accountability? is not currently proposed.

I would prefer other solutions, but these solutions are firstly much easier for the politicians to understand and also much cheaper to implement and see results.
by josephg | 2025-09-17 11:46:21+00:00
I’ve contributed a huge amount of opensource code over my career - almost all of it entirely unpaid. I don’t know the statistics, but I know many other people who have done the same.

I think there are a lot of high profile opensource projects which are either run by corpos (like React) or have a lot of full time employees submitting code (Linux). But there’s an insanely long tail of opensource projects on npm, cargo, homebrew etc which are created by volunteers. Or by people scraping by on the occasional donation.
by brookst | 2025-09-17 11:46:27+00:00
1. AMD isn’t different enough. They’d be subject to the same export restrictions and political instability as Nvidia, so why would global companies switch to them?

2. CUDA has been a huge moat, but the incentives are incredibly strong for everybody except Nvidia to change that. The fact that it was an insurmountable moat five years ago in a $5B market does not mean it’s equally powerful in a $300B market.

3. AMD’s culture and core competencies are really not aligned to playing disruptor here. Nvidia is generally more agile and more experimental. It would have taken a serious pivot years ago for AMD to be the right company to compete.
by deviation | 2025-09-17 11:47:23+00:00
It seems to be an import pipeline bug.

Photos does a lot of extra work on import (merging RAW+JPEG pairs, generating previews, database indexing, optional deletion), so my guess is a concurrency bug where a buffer gets reused or a file handle is closed before the copy finishes.

Rare, nondeterministic corruption fits the profile.
by shakna | 2025-09-17 11:47:38+00:00
PyPI is working towards attestation [0], and already has "Trusted Publisher" [1].

Ruby has had signed gems since v2 [2].

These aren't a panacea. But they do mean an effort has been made.

npm has been talking about maybe doing something since 2013 [3], but ended up doing... Nothing. [4]

I don't think it's fair to compare npm to the others.

[0] https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/producing-attestations/

[1] https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/

[2] https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/Gem/Security.html

[3] https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/4016

[4] https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/29
by easytube | 2025-09-17 11:49:04+00:00
Free online multiplayer imposter word game with room codes and random word generator. Imposter Game is an innovative online multiplayer word deduction game that combines traditional undercover game mechanics with chameleon game variants. Players give one-word clues to identify imposters within their group, making it perfect for family entertainment, classroom activities, and team building events. The platform supports both local pass-and-play mode and online multiplayer rooms, offering 3-12 players fast-paced intellectual battles lasting 5-10 minutes.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-09-17 11:49:38+00:00
Wow, I have absolutely no need for access to a game engine but I still will do the free trial. Some complaints about cost but $3 per week or $30 per year seems reasonable enough. I am a fan of the Swift Playground.

Starting when I wrote the Chess program that Apple distributed on their Apple II demo cassette tape, I have been interested in writing games for fun. Unfortunately, while I can code, I need artists and generally people with ‘game design style’ to do anything decent - I had that when I worked at Angel Studios.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-17 11:49:40+00:00
god I wish it was that simple. Anything using the native package manager mostly follows this convention (with a variants like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt). As soon as you need to install something that's not available from the system package manager all bets are off and you need to get ready for your home directory to never look the same again.
by snickerdoodle14 | 2025-09-17 11:49:42+00:00
Not really, those technologies are basically designed to be able to enforce DRM remotely.

Secure Enclave = store the encryption keys to media in a place where you can't get them

Secure Boot = first step towards remote attestation so they can remotely verify you haven't modified your system to bypass the above

Advertising rules the world.
by jarym | 2025-09-17 11:50:04+00:00
The AI race is like the nuclear arms race. Countries like China will devote an inordinate amount of resources to be the best - it may take a year or two, but in the grand scheme of things that is nothing.

And NVIDIA will lose its dominance for the simple reason that the Chinese companies can serve the growing number of countries under US sanctions. I even suspect it won't be long before the US will try to sanction any allies that buy Chinese AI chips!
by DocTomoe | 2025-09-17 11:50:04+00:00
Between 'the government is no prosecuting for speech' and 'the government makes up unrelated charges when they do not like your speech', as seem to happen a lot these days is only a very, very thin line. Rümeysa Öztürk comes to mind [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Rümeysa_Öztürk
by theknarf | 2025-09-17 11:50:04+00:00
Npm is owned by Github, which is owned by Microsoft. They could have put more tooling into making npm better. For example; pnpm require you to "approve-builds" so that its only running scripts from dependencies you decide on, and Deno have a bunch of security capabilities to restrict what scripts can and can't do. There is always going to be supply chain attacks, and the biggest package repositories are going to be hit the most. But that doesn't mean that Microsoft couldn't have spent more on building better tooling with better security settings on by default.