MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 08:00:45+00:00
While that is true, it does not change the fact that the internationally-recognized borders are those of Mandatory Palestine. Those were the internationally-recognized borders even between 1948 and 1967, which is why the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank was not internationally recognized, and also why Egypt was able to squeeze all her refugees into the Gaza Strip before severing ties with the strip in 1956. Or did you not know why Egypt has no refugee camps and almost no refugees today?
by dep_b | 2025-10-03 08:01:20+00:00
They still treat the g consistently the same in every word. It's silent-ish in all words, not some.

The influence of English does exist in Western Dutch accents. Speaking like somebody that sounds like they're coming from Leiden or Vlaardingen should be much easier for people from English speaking countries. Like the r that sounds like a w, like the English pronounce "rare".
by n4r9 | 2025-10-03 08:01:23+00:00
> women's rights to single-sex spaces is about boundaries, consent and protection

I agree that these are important things, and there's a discussion to be had about it. There's an argument for some safe spaces such as women's refuges having some kind of biological criteria. But I think the Supreme Court ruling is too broadly sweeping and I have doubts that it's a net positive.

This is slightly derailing from topic though, which is about how transphobia has surged in recent years. I'm curious to know if you think it's reasonable to boycott Netflix because they have produced kids shows with transgender characters.
by BatteryMountain | 2025-10-03 08:02:16+00:00
I think a digital id in concept is fine but will ultimately be used to exploit or exclude people from the system.

A digital id can be great but it needs some extra decorations to make it better suited to being used in the wild. Some thoughts:

What happens if "the system is offline"? No healthcare that day? No transactions? What are the effects of downtime, whether intentional or cause by hackers etc?

What happens in countries with low literacy rates? Some people cannot read or write, some countries use paper only, how will you travel to those countries?

On privacy abuse, I think there should be an app alongside the digital id, that when a third party requests information, I get the request and I have to approve it. It should have an expiry date attached so that the third party has to delete their records. I should be able to see exactly what data they request. What happens if the system is offline?

A digital id can eliminate many cases where people have to "trust" each other and they would rather rely on the system instead. Lets say the bank asks me to give them certified copies of my id or statements from a different party. Many fraud occur as people can forge documents, so with a digital id, this whole step gets eliminated as the bank can simply ask the gov for the information so they don't have to trust me or that the documents are valid.

Some laws might be needed to ensure that you are forced to keep your data up to date, so that when someone needs to request your home address (as an example, an attorney might need it), they should be able to get an up to date address.

But still, all round with how things are at the moment, such a system WILL be abused, especially by special interest groups, politicians, scammers etc. Technically feasible but the specific society might not be compatible with the convenience it brings.
by normie3000 | 2025-10-03 08:03:24+00:00
> most people - even natives - pronounce Xavi badly, due to...the lack of the "sh" sound in Castillan

Catalans seem to pronounce "caixa" fine, so I think they _could_ say "Shabi"... But this does back up your larger point about "x" -> "sh" in Catalan.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-03 08:05:43+00:00
the British public get the chance to play at democracy every 5 years. Otherwise their opinion is irrelevant as far as Starmer is concerned.

That line about controlling illegal immigration is infuriating and false. At the moment Britain can't get control of the situation because all our sovreignty has been surrendered to the eu and activist judges and lawyers who based on their messed up humanist worldview allow basically everyone who comes here illegally to stay and prevent any meaningful effort from the government to stop it. Not that there's much political will from two tier kier to do anything about it.

Trump has proved that you don't need any crazy, complicated schemes to deal with illegal immigration.

This just feels like more authoritarianism from the starmer government who can't hold themselves back from scoring own goals because they are completely out of touch with what the people want.
by dep_b | 2025-10-03 08:05:49+00:00
I speak Dutch to anyone that serves me in English. Which is pretty common at bars or shops in The Netherlands nowadays. At first I thought doing that was rude, but I'm actually doing people a favor to have the chance to learn Dutch. We can always switch to English when it gets too hard or confusing.

And to be honest, somebody that refuses to even try to understand that "Twee croissants en een koffie, alsjeblieft" means "Two croissants and a coffee, please", but replies with "English please" instead can kindly go fuck themselves.

At least TRY
by yason | 2025-10-03 08:06:14+00:00
Am I weird because I don't consider, in particular, the tracking nature of ads the biggest problem? Sure, I my browser doesn't share data between websites, I delete cookies automatically except whitelisted, and I don't give apps permissions for no good reason. But the problem with ads is their display, not the contents.

Early Google style text box ads were fine. Any ad put on the side of the page with no animated elements is probably fine. But in reality ads are intrusive and those block my mental process when I'm trying to read about of focus on something. Especially ads in videos would just make me focus really, really hard on blocking off the message until I can restore my mental stack and continue with the original video. (I can't watch youtube with ads, for that reason.) Anything that pops up, takes space, or requires me to find an X button to shut them off gets me to C-w the browser tab nearly without exception.

If the ads do behave I don't particularly mind. I even used to peruse ads in print magazines. In fact, untargetted ads are generally complete shit and if the "inter Net cloud thing" has even an inkling of what I might be interested at all, that's all the better I think. I don't ever click on ads though, so I'm probably not part of the prime target audience. But meaningful ads may make me add their products in the comparison set if I'm in the process of buying something similar.
by Simulacra | 2025-10-03 08:06:50+00:00
I used to volunteer at an independent living facility for seniors. With a few others, we spent several days teaching them how to use tablets and smart phones. The one thing I came away with is what I called the "try it" mentality. A lot of people who came of age with computers, through the 80s and 90s, and especially tech enthusiasts, are more comfortable with this. If you don't know how to do something on a device, try something. Imagine how you would do it in real life without the device, and then try to replicate that on the device.

Unfortunately, a lot of non-technical people, especially older people, are deathly afraid they are going to break something. They worry about this so much that they are not willing to just try things, and figure it out.

We had to get them comfortable with making mistakes, and that it was OK to make mistakes with these devices, because they are mostly locked down and you can't break them. Especially if you're 73 years old, trying to play bingo.
by therein | 2025-10-03 08:08:03+00:00
On OSX there is a bug where if you have automatic ear detection on, even with latest AirPods, it will connect back properly but the OS will not switch the output to it, but it will think it did. You will have to turn off bluetooth and turn it back on again, even disconnecting from airpod and reconnecting doesn't fix it.

I mean, Apple software quality has gotten so abyssmal, I haven't updated TailScale to latest version because when it updates, briefly a notification appears telling me to go into settings to approve something but even when I click that notification, it doesn't take me there. And I know the location it is talking about, when I go there, there are no pending requests.

It is all so tiresome. Except for battery life, it is literally a terrible platform now. And just several years ago, it was light-years ahead.
by newtrino | 2025-10-03 08:08:13+00:00
Location: Berkeley, CA, USA

Remote: Yes (preferred but also open to hybrid)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, React, React Three Fiber, PyTorch, TensorFlow, PySpark, GraphQL, Express.js, Vite

Resume: https://newtrino.ink/Resume.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishanth-jayram/

Email: nishanthjayram@gmail.com

About Me: - Developer with experience in machine learning, data science/engineering, and full-stack development

- Currently at Mastercard, where I've worked on developing a recommendation system to match cardholders with personalized merchant offers

- Built models to handle transaction/redemption forecasting

- Developed internal dashboards to visualize model performance metrics, combining full-stack and data science capabilities

- Looking for ML or full-stack / front-end roles

In my spare time I like to play guitar, photograph birds, and watch old episodes of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
by cdt01 | 2025-10-03 08:08:50+00:00
I was part of the first SolveIt course cohort and have signed up for the second one too. SolveIt and its methodology really changed how I approach programming and problem solving with AI. It gives you a collaborative partner that helps you think through problems without just handing you answers. You still do the hard thinking, but you are never completely stuck. It has also allowed me to tackle tasks, ideas and experiments that I had previously put to the side knowing they would have taken too much time and effort to explore.

Although it can take more steps and iterations than other tools, that is part of the difference, they are more considered and thought through steps. It makes me more productive overall. The ability to edit the conversation and work in short steps lets you create better context, together with sharing your thought process and building genuine understanding that is useful in the future.

It is refreshing to find an approach that makes me better rather than just faster at producing code without full understanding of it. I find it jarring to use chat with other LLMs now and that typical code completion can be frustrating, that is how different it is.
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-03 08:09:52+00:00
Thanks for responding. Everything you say I agree with. I think our differences lie in the scope of how much of my private activity do I want to share in public.

You’re right that GitHub, GitLab et al let you use their tooling to write the final commit message (for the merge commit or squash commit). My preference has always been to do that in git itself.

In both cases you end up with a single atomic commit that represents the approved change and its description. For me, the commit is created the moment a review is requested, instead of from the moment it is approved and landed. One reason this is particularly useful is that you can now treat the commit as if it had already landed on the main branch. (It is easier to share, cherry-pick, rebase, etc. — easier than doing so with a branch of many commits, in my experience.)

Prospective changes do not change type (from branch to squashed commit or merge commit) either, when they are approved, which simplifies these workflows.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-03 08:10:19+00:00
That's not me being misinformed. That's you intentionaly misrepresenting the situation.

The question is not if the Greek could refuse. The question is was the terms put forward by "the Greek creditors", that is to say Germany, were fair and in the interest of the union as a whole. If I put a gun to your head, no one will listen if I tell them I gave you a choice you could have refused. You just had to take the bullet.

Germany basically refused to Greece what they themselves got in 1953 despite the situation being in part caused by their own complete mismanagement of the economy, a situation they have yet to fix by the way.

I don't know what is more repugnant: what they did or that there is people defending it and having so little shame they pretend others are misinformed.
by californical | 2025-10-03 08:10:21+00:00
> It's how humans become extinct.

Don’t you think it’s likely more of a pendulum? Maybe the equilibrium is 5-7 billion, and there are times when people have more kids, and times of fewer. Even if we drop to 3 billion, the world would find ways to go on, likely implementing policies that make big families more favorable again.
by Shank | 2025-10-03 08:10:52+00:00
Observationally, there are many systems in Japan that place disproportionate value on international income and demand. Some of them are supported by data and others are not. I think that international markets are a relatively good place for Japan to focus, but it is the case that particularly with the US levying tariffs on Japan, people are now questioning this status quo more. In the spaces I'm familiar with, there is ample market data to show overseas growth, but this mostly focuses on Japan's historical market exports, like culture and IP. Almost on a yearly basis, there is some meaningful cultural export that Japan is able to export quite effectively. Japanese companies, who previously would have licensed this to an overseas distributor or team of companies are starting to move in house. The most prominent example of this is Sony acquiring Crunchyroll, Funimation, and RightStuf, all of which contribute to Sony creating a vertically integrated anime production stack, with Aniplex owning end-to-end domestic-to-overseas production, merchandising, and distribution.

There is definitely room to be worried, but the increase in tourism (perhaps, one might refer to it as "overtourism") supports the credence that there are valuable elements of Japanese culture that have demand overseas.

I think the more you stray from traditional mainstay IP and culture exports, the more unreliable it is. Again, a notable prolific example is Nippon Steel attempting to gain profit from operating US Steel, rather than simply taking market share.

On the topic of tariffs, though, I would definitely say that many Japanese people are upset about the tariffs, first directly at the US, and second at Ishiba for not negotiating a lower tariff rate. But here the sentiment is that the tariffs themselves are not only unjustified, but also deleterious to the US-Japan relationship. Japan is rather unique in the aspect of being militarily-tethered to the US, and the US has asked it to make uncomfortable (and difficult to gain large support for) economic investments in its own JSDF for the US's benefit. Subsequently, the tariff impact makes the LDP's position quite upsetting, because the LDP failed to negotiate tariffs and more-or-less shoved the military changes through with the intention of strengthening ties with the US.

So, there are a lot of things at play, but the current economic winds and the international relationship with the US has definitely skewed people towards isolationism and made it difficult for the LDP to retain the support they have.
by themafia | 2025-10-03 08:11:03+00:00
> The 1 indexes are only a difference from what you're used to

The left handed scissors are only a difference from what you're used to.

> Lua was made by mathematicians

The default value is nil and using nil as an index on a table returns nil. Yet nil + number is not valid and results in a runtime error.

> it's pretty much just a leftover habit from C devs

It's reflective of the fact that these languages are either intended to work with C APIs or are implemented in C itself. This makes writing FFI and extensions _far_ easier than it would be otherwise.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-10-03 08:11:53+00:00
No idea who that is, but it's not particularly challenging to realize evolution doesn't overall favor empathy -even if it played some role-, sometimes it's the full opposite, sometimes is punished ("no good deed goes unpunished"), firemen are the most prone to burns, the equivalent it's true for many other altruistic endeavors, including rare occasional ones unlike firemen.

It's also not particularly challenging to see society lacks any intrinsic defence from the most ruthless and greedy from advancing in any given power structure inside of it, it's a long term damage so it's abstracted away while more immediate issues take presedence, it's in our DNA to give too priority to immediate threats, while long term problems such as this don't make the top 10 (another example being climate change, etc)
by ttoinou | 2025-10-03 08:12:00+00:00
All of this and more. A lot of what I'm doing with the browser could be automated.

I don't understand why this isn't a solved problem already, I tried a few options but none could control the browser properly. For example, I asked Claude Code Chrome extension to look for bookings at specific dates, it would never be able to use the calendar UI widgets to select dates automatically.
by alwa | 2025-10-03 08:12:40+00:00
I think that part is made easier by the fact that I uploaded the ID in the first place under fully trusted conditions.

If I have the same physical piece of ID—as I imagine OP might have, upon release from prison—then they can directly compare it to the copy that I supplied previously. Scuff marks and specific document numbers included. I think that probably even scales.

If I lose access to my main identity document, one advantage of government ID is that I’ll urgently have it reissued. In most of the places I’ve lived, that’s the kind of thing you can validate against either the underlying authority or a sleazy-but-reasonably-accurate data broker. But in either case it’s out-of-band from my relationship with the tech company, in a way they can validate by semi- or fully-automated means, and with reference to an independent authority.

If somebody wants to physically mug me to steal my ID for access to my GitHub, I figure I’m pretty much out of luck—to paraphrase James Mickens [0], Mossad’s gonna Mossad.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
by bogdan_pi | 2025-10-03 08:13:12+00:00
Yeah, that’s how I started as well. But as soon as I had dozens of prompts, some hundreds of lines long with specific formatting and dozens of input parameters, it turned into a constant struggle to maintain.

On top of that, I had non-dev teammates responsible for tweaking prompts. For them, touching the project code added risk and complexity.

Dakora is just a simple UI on top of proven mechanics. You still have plain files under git, but with a cleaner repository of prompts and some guardrails.

Curious what would it take for you to consider a tool like this?
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-03 08:13:13+00:00
> My understanding is that thorn is one of the rarer sounds in the worlds languages,

Not as rare as the lateral fricative, the "ll" in Welsh and "hl" in Southern African languages. e.g. in the place names Llandudno in Wales and Hluhluwe in KwaZulu.

And then there's the clicks in Southern African languages. Which are usually written as a Q not followed by a u. e.g. in the place name Gqeberha or the Mbaqanga music style.
by michaelt | 2025-10-03 08:14:33+00:00
Here in the UK, the government wants:

* ID checks for social media (to protect children)

* A digital ID card, allowing ID check records to be provably linked to the original ID document (to prevent illegal working)

* The police arresting people for posting unfashionable takes on human sexuality to social media

And even if you trust the current government, there are very real fears the next government will be Trump-admiring right wing populists who are eager to upend the status quo.
by Groxx | 2025-10-03 08:14:33+00:00
given this is in a thread about simplicity: I think "dozens/hundreds of new features a year" speaks for itself why it's a problem.

but Apple (and Windows) nowadays reeks of promotion-driven development. ship a new feature and make sure people use it by making it as annoyingly in-your-face as possible, so you can show "impact". do that for just a few years and you're reliably left with a confusing, inconsistent, and extremely chaotic new user experience as each of those features jockeys for prime eyeball real estate.

mobile games with tons of features to spend money on are often a prime example of this, where new users a year after it launched are stuck in hours of tutorials and broken UI due to dozens of notifications that barely fit on screen, and Windows is not far behind with some sellers' junkware. Apple hasn't reached that far yet (AFAICT), but it's clearly headed in the same direction.

Linux has many, many flaws as a user-friendly desktop environment, but this is not one of them. take a clean install. boot up the first time. it's very likely you'll be greeted by a single "welcome" window (a normal one that you can just close) or nothing at all, just a working environment, regardless of the version you chose. that's unambiguously a more simple, less annoying, less spammy experience. Apple used to be almost this smooth.
by jtrn | 2025-10-03 08:14:35+00:00
Rug-pull is a good description of how I feel also.

And the most annoying thing for me is that I, like you, actually WOULD be happy to pay a REASONABLE price. But all the patterns nowadays are bi-modal. Stripped-down community edition to get open-source and community credit (and hopefully free coding contributions) on one end.And on the other end; enterprise pricing, with per-user or other complex pricing rules and restrictions. And only after "Let's talk" and "Contact sales" waste of time.

What about a reasonable, low recurring fee with no limits on what I can do with it if I self-host? Or a modest one time price for one version of the software? It doesn't cost the creator any more whether I have 2 users or 200 if I self-host.

I used to disagree a lot with Richard Stallman, but now when I ask AI to help search for software alternatives, I always specify "Only TRUE FOSS alternatives, with no enterprise option or paywalled features." Not because I don't want to pay a fair price, but to avoid being flogged AND the unnecessary complexity of setting up a damn equation to figure out how much it will cost.
by xwolfi | 2025-10-03 08:14:39+00:00
It is fragile because it does not matter - a better lie will obfuscate it quickly.

Let's imagine a simple truth: vaccines are efficient, work well, are tested seriously, produced immense good for humanity for at least a hundred years. Well just find 3 random kids who got autism randomly after taking one and you have entire slices of the population rushing to the lie like flies to a turd, that vaccines are more harm than good. You can brandish the truth a million times, the lie is better.

Truth is fragile, people are seduced by lies, because lies are crafted, they're targeted, they're intelligently designed. They give you what you want, that God decides our fate in this particular case, and that medicine is evil for trying to change it (or whatever is the deeper reason antivax are so desperate for these lies, I really don't get it, I'm more attracted to pro-medicine arguments, even if they are lies themselves maybe). The truth is dumb, simple, inelegant, uninteresting and, quite powerless: we often don't even want to hear about it.

You need countless proofs to even observe the truth. You need nothing to observe a lie, you can fabricate all the proofs you want.

Give me a counter example ? I'm so annoyed at people telling me the Americans didn't go to the moon because a flag was waving suspiciously, I don't believe a truth ever took over a lie now.