MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Crosseye_Jack | 2025-10-09 04:53:33+00:00
> I assume if I run out into the middle of the motorway, I'm likely to get hit by a car. That's why I don't do that.

The problem with this is that governments are now requiring you to cross the motorway if you wish to continue having the friends you have already made, but promise that the motorways are now safe for you to cross and they will hold to account anyone who makes crossing motorways unsafe, and the DoT have said "Its fine, we have put in crossings on the motorway to allow you to do so safely!"

Your avg joe is going to take those reassurances made by multiple parties and assume the activity that would otherwise be risky is safe under these circumstances.

When people go on thrill rides at amusement parks and get injured because the operator or manufacturer fucked up, we don't blame the rider "saying they should know better, look at all of those ride failures in the news!", as they expected the ride to be built to a high standard, it be maintained, operated corrected, and have safety watchdogs keeping an eye on everything.
by michaelnovati | 2025-10-09 04:54:58+00:00
Agreed, try to figure out how I benefit in any way from Codesmith's decline. Not theoretical, but hard facts. I know of THREE people that considered going to Codesmith and went to Formation instead. One of them I tried very hard to convince to go to Codesmith and she instead got a job on her own and then came to Formation.

All of this for three customers? It doesn't add up and there are some missing pieces in the story.
by rendx | 2025-10-09 04:55:12+00:00
No need for a filter rule apparently!

https://purelymail.com/docs/features

"Subaddressing allows you to tag the email addresses you give out. […] This also works with example_tagged@purelymail.com (in fact, everything after the first symbol- anything not a letter- in an address is ignored for routing) […]"
A Free transport Vehicle listing platform
by herapherigoods | 2025-10-09 04:56:04+00:00
I built a platform to simplify how people find transport services. Instead of searching through endless vehicle listings, users can post their transport need, and verified vehicle owners contact them directly.

Posts auto-expire in 24 hours to reduce spam and keep the system clean. No login required, and users earn ₹10 for each vehicle they help register.

Would love feedback from the community on how to improve it further. Website: https://herapheregoods.in/
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-09 04:56:18+00:00
The funny thing about this is that it kinda makes it OK for Discord to still have the records. But...

1. Discord still got hacked despite being a company that must have passed some level of authorised audit in order to be able to store government ID cards. (who audits the auditors? Is there an independent rating of security audit companies? What was the vulnerability? Was there any Government due diligence?)

2. This is a great example of why "something else" is needed for proof of identity transactions over the wire, and this "something else" should exist, and have existed for long enough to develop a level of trust, before Governments start mandating that private companies audited by other private companies must undertake actions that require the storage of Government ID documents. Banking level security and regulation should be required for any aggregator of such sensitive data. That fucking Discord had Government ID docs at all is beyond ridiculous. More-so for Governments of countries other than where Discord was incorporated. A state-sponsored Russian / Chinese / North Korean / Iranian / <other> Discord-alternative would have been an interesting situation. The implicit trust in Discord, and any other "app publisher" requiring ID confirmation is just peculiar.
by hermannj314 | 2025-10-09 04:56:34+00:00
Scientific concensus that this is harmful, small bickering on how to set standards, but due to a bureacratic triviality nothing will be regulated at all in any capacity for several years, which happens to align perfectly with the incentives of industry that were struggling to comply with these standards.

Awesome. I am sure the people in charge are smart and this is the best path forward for all of us. After all, that is the promise of free and fair elections.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 04:57:32+00:00
> the issues arise when it gets a smidge more nuanced then that

The issues arise when folks get distracted from common prosperity.

I meet so many people in the Rockies and New York who are up in arms about some imaginary problem, or a problem they have no influence over and which cannot affect them, one they solely know about due to social media.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-09 04:58:03+00:00
It seems clear that this dude is engaged in a vendetta, but I feel like a larger issue lurking in the background is the whole swirling mist of Google, Reddit, and mod policies.

In the first place it's troubling that Google ever had so much power, and that AI search tools do now. The idea that a business can succeed or fail based on what appears on the first screen when someone types your business name into a little box is insane. It's just another indication to me that these large gatekeepers need to be shattered, simply in order to create more independent avenues of potential research.

In the second place, the centralization of forum-like content under Reddit likewise gives Reddit undue influence. There's a lot of good stuff on Reddit but it would be better for all that good stuff to be on a lot of separate sites.

And then there's the question of Reddit mod policies. The policy cited in the article falls into the same trap we see with laws on political corruption and the like. It says what you can not do, and narrowly circumscribes it in terms of "exchange" for "compensation", which focuses only on direct quid pro quo kinds of abuse of power. I think we should push for a much greater level of integrity, more like: "In your moderation, you must put the impartial furtherance of the good of the community ahead of your personal interests." I think there would be very little doubt that this moderator's actions fall afoul of such a policy.
by wpm | 2025-10-09 04:58:05+00:00
I work with an API that returns XML that uses zero tag attributes. It’s all just tags, nested. It’s actually a joy to work with.

I see some XML from other sources and it’s just awful. Everything that should be a nested tag is all jammed into an unreadable tag with attributes with no visual structure at all, spilling over the 80th column and word-wrapping in the terminal, it’s just like, what the hell. Why even use XML at that point?
by SamDc73 | 2025-10-09 04:58:36+00:00
“Linkability is especially problematic because untrusted entities, such as attribute providers and relying parties acting together, can correlate and link auxiliary information to the same user, thereby breaching privacy and enabling tracking, profiling, or de-anonymisation.” [1]

That’s assuming EUDI never gets breached — but if Google and every major tech company has been, it’s only a matter of time, but this will have way more personal info ....

I've been using discord for 5 years and never upload my ID … And I don't want discord (or any other company) to know my age, or any other identification ...

[1] https://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/news/5104-new-publication-pri...
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-09 05:00:17+00:00
Fortunately, I never became addicted to my phone because I never moved past being addicted to my desktop :) I completely forget I have my phone on me when I'm out and about, but I don't leave my house a ton and work remotely.

I unsubbed from all my subreddits a long time ago and don't really comment much. I engage with the site the same if I'm logged out. I'm pretty close to deleting my Facebook, but have at least trimmed friends down to below 100. I suppose I could at least make the transition to just using Messenger for Desktop instead of full-fledged Facebook to preserve the few contacts I message on that platform.

I'll give the book a skim and see if it has anything insightful. Thanks for the suggestion.

I agree I could be meditating more. I have a subscription for Ten Percent Happier and dabble in it, but rarely have streaks longer than a month. I agree that it's possible practicing meditation more heavily would give me a stronger ability to see my mind's desires and respond to them rather than being subject to them.

The actions just feel subconscious at this point. Like when tests/CI are running then I flick back to media on a second screen, or when I get stuck on a problem or am having trouble getting into the zone then I procrastinate by thumbing through media. These aren't really times where I feel I can get up and go do an entirely different activity that puts me away from the screen. It's more like a behavioral pattern that subtlety saps my efficiency when I'm trying to be productive, you know?
by physicsguy | 2025-10-09 05:00:20+00:00
I’m perfectly familiar with SymPy and it’s great but it doesn’t have methods comparable in performance in stiff PDEs to CVODE, and it’s not parallelised either. CVODES offers sensitivity analysis, ARKODE offers multi rate integrators for systems where the ODE can be decomposed into slow and fast rates, etc. etc. - it’s a much more sophisticated and specialist library.
by obscurette | 2025-10-09 05:01:21+00:00
Unfortunately it's not that simple any more. There are already very fundamental issues on which we are already very polarized, online or not. One of these is safety for example – far too many people are ready to give up any freedoms in the name of security. Ideas for EU chatcontrol, camera networks etc don't come from some bureaucrats, there is a very broad social demand for this.
by lurk2 | 2025-10-09 05:02:21+00:00
There used to be bots that would do this automatically, but they seem to have fallen out of favor due to the high rate of false-positives (user from Subreddit A posts in Subreddit B and gets automatically banned by the automoderator on Subreddit A).

They implemented a change recently where users can make their profiles private which seemed like a cool idea to prevent this sort of thing, but in practice it is used almost exclusively by bad actors. Some users suggested the change was made to facilitate government intelligence agencies running influence campaigns on the platform.
by jakobnissen | 2025-10-09 05:02:27+00:00
I basically agree with subtyping (but not multiple dispatch). More importantly, I think it's important to recognize that Julia has a niche that literally no one can compete with - interactive, dynamic and high performance.

Like, what exactly is the alternative? Python? Too slow. Static languages? Unusable for interactive exploration and data science.

That leaves you with hybrids, like Python/Cython, or Python/Rust or Numba, but taken on their own term, these are absolutely terrible languages. Python/Rust is not safe (due to FFI), certainly not pleasant to develop in, and no matter how you cut your code between the languages, you always lose. You always want your Python part to be in Rust so you get static analysis, safety and speed. You always want your Rust part to be in Python, so you can experiment with it easier and introspect.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-09 05:03:10+00:00
Heh.. I get your point! What I meant by authentic is more regional local faire, house-made. For example they recommended this place called Als in Barberton, Ohio that specializes in Barberton chicken which was one of the most amazing meals of my life. Totally worth visiting if you are driving through Ohio:

> The chicken recipe and the meal itself were brought to the New World from Serbia when the Topalsky family immigrated to the farmland of Ohio at the beginning of the 20th century. After they opened Belgrade Gardens, three more restaurants in town began serving the same chicken dinner, which is now Barberton’s claim to culinary fame. Barberton chicken aside, there is one other essential stop in town: Al’s Corner Restaurant. A modest storefront that serves only lunch, Monday through Friday, Al’s is affiliated with Al’s Quality Market just down the street, which is where its sausages are made. The sausages are divine, as is everything else on an Hungarian-accented menu that includes chicken paprikash, halushka, stuffed cabbage, and pierogies.

But literally everywhere I've tried that's been recommended in that book has beem a gem, I check it before every road trip to see what's nearby my planned route.
by _ZeD_ | 2025-10-09 05:03:14+00:00
but then the websites may offer a banner to ask the user to opt-in again and this information can be saved in a cookie, so it would not be asked again

maybe they can call it the "cookie banner"

oh, and also, if it would be annoying to keep saying "no, I don't want to opt-in again" the websites owners may say that it is government fault, as now they are required by law to show this banner
by thr0w | 2025-10-09 05:03:25+00:00
Less interested in interpretation, more interested in the fact that lots of people have the same nightmares (squishy brakes, class test and you haven't been to school in decades, etc.). Here's one - I desperately need to make a phone call or send a text or enter an address into Maps, but I just make typos over and over. Anyone else?
by heywoods | 2025-10-09 05:04:37+00:00
I submitted this not only because of the significance of the fires but how law enforcement built the case largely from his digital footprint.

Less interesting and common evidence was used (e.g. video surveillance, cellphone data) but the inclusion of the alleged arson included their ChatGPT history, and his music history leading up to the fire.

He was also an Uber driver so my guess is they also subpoenaed this as well if they were this thorough.
by Aachen | 2025-10-09 05:05:30+00:00
Fun fact: Discord called them guilds before realising that they could compete with paid services that set up actual (e.g. Mumble) servers for you by pretending this is equivalent and free

I also have trouble going along with the doublespeak. If a supermarket called their beer apple juice, I'd also not be offering my friends "apple juice", I'd call it what it is

Guild is innocuous enough and since the API docs still call their communities that, that can be a term to use among those in the know to have common and clear terminology

'Guilds in Discord represent an isolated collection of users and channels, and are often referred to as "servers" in the UI.' —https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/guild
by safety1st | 2025-10-09 05:06:07+00:00
Reddit has a moderation problem, and it's a big one.

They've now been asked to appear in front of Congress to address concerns about politically motivated violence being incited through their platform: https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-invites-c...

Personally I believe I've seen more people in the past few years wish a politically motivated death on somebody else via Reddit, than I have anywhere else in my life.

Now if it was "just" the incitements to violence, or if it was "just" the libeling of random businesses, that would be one thing. But the fact that BOTH types of illegal speech are becoming a problem at the same time suggests to me that Reddit's failure to moderate is systemic and total.

It is becoming exhausting watching all of these tech companies commit crimes, or enable someone else to do so, and getting off with a slap on the wrist.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-09 05:06:41+00:00
Except for the fact that people don’t know what the price is even with all available knowledge. HFTs serve a pretty useful function in converging to a discovered price the market can bear continuously. Prior to HFT markets were generally less stable on their pricing and liquidity was much worse. The fact you can basically trade at any time on anything instantly is made possible by HFT.

I look at them as providing a service like an energy exchange does in ensuring power distributes evenly and regularly across a region across providers and grids. They clip a fee in the middle but they provide a service in stable supply and prices.

This doesn’t mean automation isn’t without risk, and like an energy exchange, when things go badly they can go very badly. But by and large you never notice either the HFT or the energy exchange while you benefit from their existence.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-09 05:07:01+00:00
Do you mean laying out 50 mile long cables from place to place with big engines on the ground that pull in a cable at a couple hundred miles per hour after a plane attaches to it? That wouldn't work. Not even if you skipped tow out a cable from your departure point so it could be reused.

And if you had a track for the cable to run in or a carriage holding the winch to drive travel along, then you would just make it rail freight.
by SatvikBeri | 2025-10-09 05:07:33+00:00
Very little actually, we try to minimize dependencies, especially for the core inference engine. We just have some basic stuff like Statistics and LinearAlgebra. We use a lot more libraries for offline analysis, but even there it's just popular stuff like DataFrames combined with our own code.

We control memory allocation the boring, manual way – we preallocate all our arrays, and then just modify them, so that we have very little continued allocation in production.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-09 05:08:12+00:00
"The city joined other governments, school districts and individuals pursuing approximately 2,050 similar lawsuits, in nationwide litigation in the Oakland, California, federal court."

"The city also blamed social media for an increase in "subway surfing," or riding atop or off the sides of moving trains. At least 16 subway surfers have died since 2023, including two girls aged 12 and 13 this month, police data show."

"Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said allegations concerning YouTube are "simply not true," in part because it is a streaming service and not a social network where people catch up with friends."

It's wild how since the early 90's it has become possible to claim that a website is a "streaming service" and to disclaim any responsibility for letting other people publish on it

Section 230 has allowed websites to grow to _millions_ of pages. Impossible for any website owner to moderate
by nashashmi | 2025-10-09 05:08:39+00:00
> The powers that be have decided that Reddit is infallible, a reliable set of training data for LLMs, and should be featured fucking everywhere.

This is the line. Remember google bombs? Remember Wikipedia vandalism for company promotion? These were the early search engine hacking. And now we have LLM hacking.

It was only a matter of time. Reddit has become a cesspool.
by 112233 | 2025-10-09 05:10:08+00:00
Sorry for confusion. I am talking about documents like this: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/files/pdf/26/84/268411e4/eket_oct...

that contain all information about series in compact, easy to understand form. Try finding that pdf on their site. Now imagine chances of finding it for someone who is not aware it exists. All it would take Ikea is adding one more pdf to the "Assembly and documents" section, so why hide these so much?
by soorya3 | 2025-10-09 05:10:17+00:00
The are two projects that I know which attempted to solve that problem.

India's has DEPA (Data Empowerment And Protection Architecture) framework that addresses the data consent problem. (e.g bank will ask your consent before sharing the data). The advantage here is it providers legal framework as well.

The solid project from Tim Berners-Lee (who invented world wide web) is an attempt to solve that. https://solidproject.org/. This is pure consumer owned but there is no legal protection from the government.
by haruka_ff | 2025-10-09 05:10:35+00:00
MetaMask (the crypto wallet) has one that shows warning pages to all domains that are remotely similar to crypto-related domains, and it is very prone to false positives and annoying. They have to maintain a list to skip the detection for real domains, and it's really inefficient.

Feels like this kind of detection is hard to balance, and calling legit websites possible phishing might be problematic...
MBCompass v2.0 Design Proposal by solo dev
by nativeforks | 2025-10-09 05:10:37+00:00
Today I’ve revealed the new MBCompass v1.1.12 Redesign Proposal, featuring a refreshed UI with a GPS Speedometer, True AMOLED Dark Mode, and more visual improvements for a better Android experience.

The design was created by Mubarak Native on Figma as a visual and UX direction for the next major update of MBCompass.

Download MBCompass on GitHub and F-droid: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass

(Note: The design is a reference concept; actual implementation may vary to ensure optimal performance and Android best practices.)
by timschmidt | 2025-10-09 05:11:23+00:00
> SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow.

> What that means for our planet isn't entirely clear

100 tons of meteors hit Earth every day[1], so it seems fairly clear the 800kg Starlink v2 mini satellites[2] don't amount to much. Maybe once a dozen providers are deorbiting a similar amount of mass daily, we might notice. But even then I'm not sure there would be any negative effects. This seems like clickbait scare mongering at the moment.

1: https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/astronomybc/chapter/14-1-m...

2: https://dishycentral.com/how-big-are-starlink-satellites
by palmfacehn | 2025-10-09 05:11:38+00:00
Specifically, it feels like the lack of discernment goes off the rails and falls into the chasm of derangement where people assume that their opponents do not have that common goal. Anti-natalists and population control advocates excluded, most of us do share that goal. The differences are in the proposed approaches.

There are legitimate discussions which can be had about those approaches to achieving that common goal. The discussion is no longer in good faith where partisans deny that common goal or assume evil intent.
by carabiner | 2025-10-09 05:11:47+00:00
I've gotta wonder how often this happens in the general case: a prolific user and mod of large subreddits stops posting abruptly without notice. How many users are as active as maxwellhill was with similar seniority? Maybe a few thousand? In a given year, how many of them abandon Reddit suddenly? It seems like some scraping and basic analytics could yield an answer, and then we'd know the posterior.

Don't know if maxwellhill was ghislaine, but whoever he was, I think some big life event caused him to leave, and that it wasn't voluntary.
by wtallis | 2025-10-09 05:12:44+00:00
Virtual environments are an incomplete solution at best. In particular, they really don't help much with the use case of wanting to install a tool: if you're installing a tool and not just setting up a development environment for working on a specific project with its dependencies, then you probably want to make that tool usable without activating its venv. The virtual environment capabilities shipped with Python itself don't really have any affordances for that.
by PauzzzeAI | 2025-10-09 05:13:14+00:00
I've found I just have to really try to keep myself busy and do things that will get me in a state of flow. I usually go on my phone because of boredom. I don't know if this would help you, but along with some friends we are creating an AI notification summarizing app. The whole point is to allow us to be off our phones and be fully present, without feeling like we might be missing important things. It's still in early stages, but it works! If you're interested, let me know! I can send the link and you can try it out. Hopefully it will help :)