MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-07 18:50:31+00:00
At issue here is... what exactly "freedom" is

Speech is restricted the world over for things (fraud, threats, libel/slander, secrets, and more), and we're almost universally in favour of that.

It's a balancing act, and the point where we set the balance is difficult, and constantly changing (should we allow speech that encourages the persecution of other people, sometimes called "hate speech" or should people be allowed to advocate for the murder/rape/extermination of other human beings because of the way they look)
by dotancohen | 2025-10-07 18:50:36+00:00
That ice melting absorbs the energy that would otherwise be warming the atmosphere and causing cataclysmic storms and crop failures due to heat. And that is exactly what is going to happen once the glaciers melt.

The people worried about melting glaciers are not laminating the loss of pretty ice. They are worried about where this extra energy will go once there is no more ice to change phase and absorb it.
by jackphilson | 2025-10-07 18:50:37+00:00
I suppose you would need to weigh the utility points lost from people no longer enjoying their jobs with the positive utility points gained by the consumers of products and services.

My intuition is that with the law of leverage in mind, the former would be relatively low and the latter would be relatively high.

It is of course up to the government and culture to minimize the former and maximize the latter.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-07 18:51:29+00:00
Wow, yeah, it looks like the Duramax engine has a 15-year belt replacement interval that costs $10K at today's rates.

They aren't even trying to hide the whole planned-obsolescence thing at this point. Average age of cars on the road is approaching 13 years now, so someone who buys a Duramax-based vehicle will end up with a metal and plastic brick that costs more to maintain than it's worth, just because of the timing belt alone.
by Delk | 2025-10-07 18:51:42+00:00
People probably feel less in control in an unfamiliar environment even if the superficial functionality is similar. I suspect this might be a greater factor for those who are somewhat tech-savvy and used to knowing their way around their computer to some degree. Once you go a bit beyond launching apps and using their UIs, the differences become apparent, bringing about a sense of unfamiliarity and a loss of a sense of control and competence.

People for whom the computer is just an appliance with limited applications (and who recognise their relationship to the computer as such) might even be better able to switch, provided that everything is set up for them. My elderly parents used a Linux box I set up for them for years at some point.
by pona-a | 2025-10-07 18:51:44+00:00
I’ll go a step further: if EU sovereigns claim the right to “lawfully intercept” their citizens' private communications, why shouldn’t every state enjoy the same privilege? Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Uganda will be exemplary custodians of such technology. You have nothing to fear, citizen: their democratic constitutions and impeccable legal codes will protect you.
by amelius | 2025-10-07 18:51:52+00:00
I hope this will make Arduino more suitable as a quick & easy dev tool for professional products.

I recently tried it out, with an STM32 board, but found out that the USB communication buffer is overwritten when data comes in too quickly. This is quite disappointing because the relevant communication protocol is perfectly capable of stalling transfers. Some internet searching revealed that many people are complaining about this. And the proposed solution of increasing the buffer size is of course not really a solution.

Someone should fix this. I know Arduino is marketed as hobbyist, and I can live with not being able to squeeze the juice out of my hardware to the fullest, but I was surprised to see that apparently they don't take correctness seriously.
by qzw | 2025-10-07 18:51:56+00:00
> in short, the ARM systems boot Windows and only Windows.

I’ve not tried it myself, but a quick google seems to indicate people are running Linux on existing ARM64 laptops and there’s active development to try to achieve full support. For example, Ubuntu is installable on a number of off the shelf laptops, including one of Microsoft’s own Surface devices [0].

[0] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdrag...
by bananalychee | 2025-10-07 18:52:12+00:00
I know quite a few longtime Windows users who are interested in moving to Linux today because of what Microsoft has done to Windows 10/11. But I'm not too optimistic that they'll last long. Things still break a lot on my Linux devices (laptops mostly). I can't boot from a suspended state, I've been locked out of my system after an upgrade, and I've been tortured by cyclical dependency package conflicts. Getting a few pages out of my printer with the Linux drivers sometimes takes several attempts because it just locks up at random. KDE keeps breaking my two-monitor layout for some reason I haven't bothered investigating. I can get around those problems, but Windows, with all its problems, is more stable and hands-off. I use the Enterprise version and turn off as much garbage as possible, but that's a one-time annoyance.
by kaibee | 2025-10-07 18:52:21+00:00
> Your claim is that the local governments shouldn't be allowed to collect this data period.

Not OP but that is obviously not his claim..? The cyclist data doesn't identify specific people. How are you missing the distinction between that and a report on specific individuals?

So when you say

> My claim is that the local government doesn't need a warrant to get information from a contractor whose only reason for collecting that information was to produce it as part of their contract.

You're missing the whole disagreement. Yes, even if the contractor might capture specific license plates so that the report can say "yeah this road has X unique users" its very different from a report that says "the road has these specific users".
by Terr_ | 2025-10-07 18:52:30+00:00
Well, I've been surrounded by "machines that think" for my entire life, formed of unfathomably complex swarms of nanobots. So far we seem to get along.

If there were a new kind of "machines that think"--and they aren't a dangerous predator--they could be a contrast to help us understand ourselves and be better.

The danger from these (dumber) machines is that they may be used for reflecting, laundering, and amplifying our own worst impulses and confusions.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-10-07 18:52:32+00:00
There is a sort of people who read 1984 and blame the protagonist for being an idiot who called the fire upon himself, or still don't get what's wrong with ice9 and people behind it when turning the last page of Cat's Craddle.

And a sort of people who sympathize Winston and blame Felix Hoenikker, but still fail to see any parallels between "fiction" and life.
by shevy-java | 2025-10-07 18:52:46+00:00
There is a recent tiny "update", or more a comment - see here (I only use old.reddit; the new reddit UI is so much worse, but this is an aside):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1nzxgb9/buckle_up_the...

In the event the ruby-reddit moderators remove it, the comment had this content verbatim at the time of linking to it here:

"I have tried so much. It’s Ruby Central that won’t talk. They’re hiding behind lawyers at this point."

Now, we have to concede that this could be wrong; or incomplete. Personally I believe him though, but in theory it could be a wrong statement. Nonetheless ... just think about this for a moment ...

The organisation that claims it is all about the community, refuses to be transparent and now hides behind lawyers, after having been caught with making several incorrect statements before already. Does this look more like a community-centric organisation or possibly a front for corporations? Just think it through for yourself what it means when they suddenly have to hide behind lawyers.

In my opinion they are now deliberately making the community angry. But, even without this, I believe we can conclude that by far the biggest fault for all of this lies on Ruby Central.
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 18:53:04+00:00
Holy crap, the UK has absolutely awful solar insolation, that solar and battery is now cheaper than coal really emphasizes how much the tech has advanced, and continues to advance!

Germany also has absolutely terrible solar resources, worse than any continental US state, and is also deploying tons and tons of solar.

Solar really is one of the more amazing technologies of our time, especially when combined with batteries, which advance almost as fast.

We will have such greater reliability, cost, and air quality as coal is completely replaced by modern clean energy systems.
by halflife | 2025-10-07 18:54:01+00:00
From your own link it says that the UN concluded that the blockade is legal (“Israel was justified in stopping vessels even outside its territorial waters”), only that excessive force was used. That was 15 years ago, now no excessive force was used so everything was legal right?

And regarding your second link, which has nothing to do with this matter, but it’s easy to pick and choose one small mistake when you ignore that Israel killed Hamas leader which was literally hiding under a hospital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_European_Hospital_st...
by kulahan | 2025-10-07 18:55:02+00:00
Because it's no different than me saying something completely useless like:

europe: live in government row-houses, watch national economy implode, drink warm beer

america: have some of the most affordable housing in the world (compared with income), watch national economy grow, sip three-buck-chuck

No hyperbole!!! therefore it's just a normal observation and not fetishization!
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-10-07 18:55:13+00:00
I experimented with Cuckoo tables a lot, but sadly never managed to beat quadratic probing. It's honestly quite depressing just how hard beating "having your data right next to each other" is.

The one thing Cuckoo tables can do much better than anything else I've tried is load factor. Insertions get slow well above 90%, but as long as your buckets are large enough or you got enough inner tables, it'll do fast lookups even at a perfect 100%.

But you'll have a hard time beating getting all the data you'll need for 99% of your lookups within a single cache line.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-07 18:55:15+00:00
Legal process is not an “authoritarian trick," it's the primary enforceable framework for wide scale, lasting societal change as it's the only method that actually has teeth.

Also, calling legal enforcement as “leaning on the violence of the state” is hyperbolic and a false dichotomy. Every system of rights for and against companies (contracts, privacy, property, speech) comes down to enforceable legal policies.

Examples of cases that have shaped society: Brown v Board of Ed, pollution lawsuits against 3M and Dow Chemical, Massachusetts v. EPA resulted in the clean air act, DMCA, FOSTA-SESTA, the EU Right to Be Forgotten, Reno v. ACLU which outlined speech protections online, interracial marriage protected via Loving v. Virginia, the ruling that now requires police have a warrant to access cell phone data was Carpenter v. US, and these are just a few!

> And even if this were a viable answer: legal process _where_? What's to stop these "creators" from simply doing their computation in a different jurisdiction?

Jurisdictional challenges don't mean a law is pointless. Yes, bad actors can operate from other jurisdictions, but this is true for all transnational issues, from hacking to human smuggling to money laundering. DMCA takedowns work globally, as does GDPR for non-EU companies.

Nobody’s arguing for blind criminalization or over policing AI. But perhaps there should be some legal frameworks to protect safe and humane use.
by isr | 2025-10-07 18:55:27+00:00
[tcl'ers wiki page on tcl editors](https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl+Editors)

An interesting one I hacked around with for a while is [ma](https://github.com/kdltr/ma). It's a single window implementation of an acme-like editor. It was originally written (& still used by) Felix Winkleman, the creator of chicken scheme
by shoubidouwah | 2025-10-07 18:55:35+00:00
This is actually one of my own fears for efficient organization at state level and above: - any new technology, any new opportunity either has checks and balances or gets exploited by smart optimizers with no regards for the commons or human flourishing - checks and balances are as you say a constant drain on public attention and resources: you need smart people doing the checking (finite resource), and receptive eyeballs (finite also) - it is thus an optimization problem. attack_surface - check_capacity = societal_explots I worry that the check_capacity term is constrained, but that the attack_surface keeps aexpanding with new technologies. At some point, we started playing whack a mole, frantically jumping from one check to another, and we're holding the fray stochastically. but at some point it's going to become extremely adversarial.
by jama211 | 2025-10-07 18:55:38+00:00
I’ll be honest I really don’t understand the desperation to avoid it. It works fine, you barely ever have to interact with it or use it, you use a pin to log in, it’s not like you can’t log in if you’re offline or something, it’s just to tie your settings to an online account like anything else. I use windows, Linux and Macos on different machines - until I read this thread I had no idea people cared at all about the Microsoft account thing. Using it is fine. It’s not lovely, but it’s just… fine. Not a big deal at all.
by superfist | 2025-10-07 18:55:54+00:00
One of these catalogs is connected to an interesting story that happened to me not long ago. The situation took place in Poland. I recently visited a friend’s house, and there my attention was caught by an old chest of drawers that must have been made during the communist era (the PRL period). I asked my friend if he knew what model it was, since there weren’t many such pieces made in those days — there are catalogs and auctions, so these things must be documented somewhere. He told me that he had already searched for it online but couldn’t find anything.

Out of curiosity, we moved the chest of drawers and looked behind it. There we found a small label with a production date (probably 1963) and the name of one of the Polish state-owned furniture factories. There was also the model name – quite enigmatic – and when I searched for it online, nothing came up.

The mystery intrigued me so much that I spent several hours going through old PRL-era catalogs and online auctions. After quite some time, I finally came across a photo on an auction site where someone was selling a similar piece – another item from the same furniture set. The description was very detailed; the seller even claimed it was a unique piece and included an extensive history of these furniture items.

It turned out that they were designed by Marian Grabiński, and the set was originally a wedding gift for Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA. Kamprad liked the gift so much that the furniture went into mass production – but only in Sweden. They were never available in Poland!

The auction also included scans from one of the old IKEA catalogs from 1964 (pages 111–114, see thread link). But how did these pieces end up in Poland? I don’t know if the Polish company actually produced them for IKEA, but according to the description, at least prototype series was made in Poland and distributed among some communist party officials in limited number. This was never available to buy in Poland.

As I later found out from my friend – his aunt actually was a communist party member and even held a fairly high position there so it made perfect sense.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-07 18:56:11+00:00
I have heard of jj. I have tried jj, I love jj but I couldn't get myself towards using it.

This itself seems to me the thing which will make me push towards jj.

So if I am correct, you are telling me that I can have jj where I can then write anything in the project and it can sort of automatically record it to jj and afterwards by just learning some more about jj, I can then use that history to create a sane method for me to create git commits and do other thing without having to worry too much.

Like I like git but it scares me a little bit, having too many git commits would scare me even further but I would love to use jj if it can make things less scary

Like what would be the command / exact workflow which I am asking in jj and just any details since I am so curious about it. I have also suffered so much of accidentally deleting files or looking through chat logs if I was copy pasting from chatgpt for some one off scripts and wishing for a history of my file but not wanting git everytime since it would be more friction than not of sorts...
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-07 18:56:16+00:00
Quite true. Do you have any solutions that come to mind?

I sold my car and have been at peace ever since. No more tickets. Believe it or not, but even when I lived in the distant suburbs, it was generally feasible to bike to the office, particularly if one lives very near to work. Now I live in more crowded suburbs where I can rely on Uber/Lyft or public transportation. If I had to purchase a means to transportation, it's most likely to be an ebike, potentially even a three-wheeled one. The main time when they aren't good enough is in deep winter when the temperature is about 10F or less. Always wear a helmet and highly reflective clothing when on these things, and mind the speed.
by mikestew | 2025-10-07 18:56:23+00:00
I won’t even go into how the air filters are replaced — but it starts with removing the dashboard…

That's just bad design having nothing to do with EVs. It takes me about 30 seconds to replace cabin filter in a Hyundai Ioniq 5. The horns aren't quite as easy, but certainly do not require removal of the car's front end.
by cyanydeez | 2025-10-07 18:56:33+00:00
Well, people do care about PFAS, global warming, environmental degradation...it's just htey've decided the solution is _depopulation_. They're fighting over the very carrying capacity of an earth that no ones going to fix.

So, like, you realy think israel, russia, america, china, india are all flirting heavily with fascism because of their religion, nationalism, isolationism? Or is it more likely they're trying to isolate themselves from humanity to reduce the overall social costs.

Biollionaires out there building their bunkers, and here we are...
by InMice | 2025-10-07 18:56:47+00:00
Alcohol - stopped having an intoxicating effect on me. I feel a change in my balance and reaction time but there is almost no buzz or no buzz sometimes. alcohol used to always give me a buzz, feel silly, relaxed etc. if you look on pubmed there is some published research that notes this in their results. and if look online you can find personal accounts.

now it makes me feel a little anxious. it also gives me silent reflux feeling, which that i think already was there before as ive gotten older.

in short - before trying alcohol always made feel the same way - since trying that drug ive literally never felt that way from alcohol ever again. i never was much of a drinker only in college and a few years after. but even if you have wine at a guests house at dinner you can feel its effects quickly. thats just been completely gone ever since.

otherwise see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502828
by fengjiabo2400 | 2025-10-07 18:57:17+00:00
AI photographer packages will replace IRL photoshoots.

AI models are getting so good at creating realistic photographs with just some selfies. So why do we need human photgraphers? iPhone photos + AI seems to do the trick for most.

Thhink professional headshots, graduation photos, weddings, family portraits...

The entire photography profession is disrupted.
by BizarroLand | 2025-10-07 18:58:21+00:00
1.1% of workers earn federal minimum wage or less, roughly 900,000 people.

And only idiots think that removing the minimum wage will make things better, but they are idiots, so there's no helping them.

If you eliminated the federal minimum wage then many states would immediately remove it without a replacement and let their people starve to death in the gutters fighting with each other to get any income so that they didn't starve to death in the gutters while raking in the votes from the middle class business owners who are raking in the dough because they don't have to pay their employees any more.

If anything, we need to make the federal minimum wage not be a set minimum but instead it should change and vary based on the economic health of the city, state, and county that the worker works in, and it should be enough that any person who works a full time job earns enough money to afford 1/2 of a 2 bedroom apartment's average rent + food, insurance, car, gas, and fun.

That would give incentive to local businesses to keep their prices affordable because lower prices would mean lower wage costs and therefore more potential profit.
by silicon5 | 2025-10-07 18:58:31+00:00
Most fans I saw called it by the Japanese title, Shingeki no Kyojin. You could almost tell whether someone watched the official licensed translation or not, based on what they called the series.

Actually, another quirk is the German lyric in the first season's opening theme. Crunchyroll doesn't usually translate opening or ending lyrics, but translating the lyrics was standard practice in the fansub era, so the. However, they misheard the lyric as "Sie sind das Essen und wir sind die Jäger" - "You are the food and we are the hunters" - as if the line is spoken by the Titans (perhaps the English-speaking audience is primed to the Germans being the bad guys in movies). The actual lyric was revealed in official Japanese sources as spoken from the perspective of the humans: "Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger!" - "Are we the food? No, we are the hunters!" However, the incorrect lyric persists among fans because the second opening theme superceded the first before the error was widely noted in the English speaking anime community.
by lxgr | 2025-10-07 18:58:32+00:00
Other things are enshrined in the EU human rights as well, many of them ultimately contradicting each other if you follow them to their logical conclusion.

It's the task of parliaments, governments, and courts to reevaluate and resolve all these contradictions over and over again. It's tedious and takes a lot of resources, but that's the price for democracy.
by mkhalil | 2025-10-07 18:58:45+00:00
>> "Complexity is not inherent to web development"

>> "Hotwire is sort of vanilla rails and it enables you to create very modern experiences with content live updating through web sockets and it is basically a one liner to setup."

My point was that web development isn't complex, but the core is simple; but modern web development is.

Your "Hotwire is sort of vanilla rails" statement is a perfect example.

What you claim to be simple, is a big list of tooling, web-sockets included, integrated together. The end result is using it might be a "one-liner", but that doesn't mean it's simple. And that's OKAY. Because simplicity should be the standard; and adding things, like sockets for live updates, should be something you explicitly enable (with modern web-apis, its definitely simpler than it used to be, but that doesn't mean its simple)
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-10-07 18:58:51+00:00
I don't understand. Why is it that in every single discussion about power- and in particular, solar power- is the cost of land omitted ?

This is literally the most important factor to consider as it is a very scare resource in some markets - nevermind that this would be a significant driver of cost for solar, as it requires massive amounts of land (and taxes). This is true for solar, wind, etc be built.