MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noir_lord | 2025-10-25 17:19:14+00:00
All of which should be dealt with by governments.

As an old post on usenix I liked (paraphrased) went “of course they shit on the floor, it’s a corporation, it’s what they do, the job of government is to be the rolled up newspaper applied to their nose when they do”.

That’s the fundamental problem, our governments don’t stand up to businesses enough when they should and roll over too easily when they shouldn’t.

The relationship is far too cosy at the top levels as well.
by glxxyz | 2025-10-25 17:19:14+00:00
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘unsustainable’ nor ‘critical mass’ here. Of course not everyone can net meter- on a sunny but mild day with no-one using A/C nor heating and everyone contributing back to the grid it doesn’t work.

My local utility is well aware of that, applications for permits to net meter have to be made, and only a fraction (something like 15%) of properties in each area can net meter. Also the government is aware and there are no grants for net metering, only for battery systems.

I’m giving details about my personal system for one property in one location, not in any way making a statement about what works for anyone else.
by dkersten | 2025-10-25 17:19:57+00:00
Its how they're used though, not just that they are used. For example, hyphenating words is common enough, but what wasn't all that common prior to LLM's is people using them to combine sentences -- like this.

In general while reading blogs, Reddit, HN, youtube comments, X posts and so forth, I rarely never saw run-on sentences like that combined with em-dashes. Sure, they existed, but it was pretty uncommon up until about two years ago and now I see them all the time. So anecdotally, there is absolutely a shift in usage right around the time that LLM's took off. I wouldn't judge a professional article or book by its use of em-dashes, but I absolutely judge user generated text on the web.

Its not the only thing I judge on, though. Its just one of a number of red flags. Frequent uses of lists (of usually three items) and of bullet points too -- and run on sentences, not just the em-dashes. Yes, I did that on purpose.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-25 17:22:04+00:00
I’d agree that China is more of a laissez-faire system than the US with one proviso, the CCCP mostly stays out of it until it doesn’t and then they descend like the wrath of an angry and vengeful god.

If you avoid that you have more freedom to operate as a corporation in China than in the US, of course in the US the corporations just buy sorry lobby the politicians.

It used to be much more understated than it has been recently though, that they’ve pulled the mask off more over time suggests they think they can get away it.

Interesting times.
by epage | 2025-10-25 17:22:14+00:00
I'd guess that in 99% of cases, if the borrow checker is a problem for you in Rust then you are likely not ready yet for C or Zig, particularly when you need to work in a team where mainatainability by others is critical.

There are some cases the borrow checker requires you to go through hoops for but I see that as a win for adding friction and raising visibility of weird patterns.

And yes, there are cases that can't be expressed the same way,
by matklad | 2025-10-25 17:22:59+00:00
There's a change in the tradeoffs in the above scenario:

- you still get extra benefit from Rust, but the magnitude of the benefit is reduced (e.g., no UAF without F).

- you still get extra drawbacks from Rust, but the magnitude of drawbacks is increased, as Rust generally punishes you for not allocating (boxing is a common escape hatch to avoid complex lifetimes).

Just how much tradeoff is shifted is hard to qualify unambiguously, but, from my PoV (Rust since 2015, TB/Zig since late 2022), Zig was and is the right choice in this context.
by rurban | 2025-10-25 17:23:15+00:00
That's probably the cause why I cannot get an Australian phone number nor data plan for my month long business visit here.

3 different prepaid SIM's cannot get registered with my foreign Austrian passport. Roaming is way too expensive here. Telstra support tells me to call their free support number, nice catch 22. I cannot use my phone, only hotel, company or free wifi. There is no free wifi, because hackers. Telstra website sends my password to my new phone number via SMS, which is not yet activated. Catch 22. Or they just claim unknown error. I've tried all providers.

Telstra customer service gives me a date for a personal visit (so I can actually get my password to finish registration), but then at the date there is no appointment alotted. I got another date, but then my month long visit will be already over.

Every 14 year old Asian kid tries to hack into everything here. If access cards, wifi or web pages. It's the wild east here.
by ac29 | 2025-10-25 17:23:21+00:00
> Not 10 years. For example, another commenter mentioned the 7700 CPU which is from 2017. Keep in mind that 2017 was the launch of this CPU which means it was available to consumers for a couple of years at least. So presumably you could build a new system around 2019 which is just six years ago and not make the cut.

Apple seems to get a lot of praise for long term software support and the latest iOS doesnt support hardware released before 2019 as far as I can tell.

In fact Linux is probably the only major exception to this, and if you need commercial support for 10+ year old hardware it costs $$$$
by linkjuice4all | 2025-10-25 17:23:36+00:00
I guess I'm not shocked but this is certainly disappointing. That being said, do you need a native app to provide most of the functionality? It seems like you could do most of this stuff through browser functionality and some kind of distributed hosting. At the very least you could capture basic reporting through simpler mediums like SMS.

Unsaid in this article is that these phones quickly become useless if governments are able to just shut off internet connectivity through cell service and perhaps targeted local outages to reduce wifi alternatives. Without some kind of mesh networking it doesn't really matter that Apple and Google already sold you out.
by DaveZale | 2025-10-25 17:23:46+00:00
the short version (at least to my eyes): " Agüera y Arcas goes even further. He argues that prediction is intelligence: “Is the emergence of intelligence merely a side effect of ‘solving’ prediction, or are prediction and intelligence actually equivalent?” He favors the latter. Not only is an internal model of the world or others good, he argues, when it effectively predicts the future—it is also good merely because it can, and does: “In fact, evolutionarily speaking, only creatures with models that successfully predict their own future even have a future!”

But I cannot agree with the remarks about evolution. Genetic changes don't anticipate anything. Random mutations occur always, and the result is that rare mutations provide unanticipated advantages in unanticipated future circumstances. I can't imagine any other long-term advantages. Sure, we can direct "evolution" in the short term, say, the way dog breeders do, but long-term survival is subject to randomness. Or is this view oversimplistic?
by papanoah | 2025-10-25 17:25:51+00:00
Personally I hate it when people just leave comments on my PR without explicitly blocking or approving it. To me it comes across as indecisive. Either you are fine with the changes -> approve. If you think this code shouldn't be merged in it's current state -> block. Just leaving a comment feels like you want to complain, but don't really take any responsibility for what happens next. There are exceptions of course and it all depends on the comments and the circumstances, but I generally prefer explicit yes or no.
by bjackman | 2025-10-25 17:26:32+00:00
It seems like if you aren't gonna use Linux and you aren't severely cash-constrained, Macbooks are almost the only credible choice at this point?

Pretty annoying coz Linux is non-negotiable for me. I've just bought a laptop and it feels like I'm getting much worse value for money than I would with a Mac.

If you really need something cheap... Seems you are basically just screwed at this point, unless you are able to use Linux. Admittedly, I installed Ubuntu for my 70 year old mother a few months back and I haven't had a single support request so far. She's on a 2013 MacBook Air.
by udev4096 | 2025-10-25 17:26:54+00:00
It's been there from the beginning. Apple is very good at deceptive marketing, from promising false privacy protections and impossible to repair to lying about being eco friendly. Apple users are extremely naive, stupid and loves to live in denial of Apple's wrongful and outright manipulative actions.

If you are a high target or require better privacy & security, GrapheneOS is the best option which delivers on everything it promises
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-10-25 17:28:04+00:00
> Speaking of which, the memo implies that “significance” in this context is interpreted as being relative to the population of the UK, not relative to the user base of the service. We have seen risk assessments that take the other interpretation and consider their UK user base to be “significant” because it makes up a large portion of their overall user base, but the advice we received suggests we should not use this interpretation.

Interesting - this implies that the vast majority of niche communities are not considered to be in scope, so long as they're not on a service like Discord I guess.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-25 17:28:17+00:00
Really grateful that a project like this took on the task to ask for legal advice, and extra kudos for actually releasing a statement based on their understanding of the legal advice. Hopefully will be useful to lots of similar organizations.

Libera.chat seems to say that even if Ofcom thinks they have a case, they don't as Libera's user base doesn't have enough UK users:

> The exact fraction of the UK’s online population that must use a given service to be considered “significant” is unknown, but based on our counsel’s observations of Ofcom’s previous regulatory actions, it appears to be much higher than our internal estimates of how large our UK user base is.

Related submission with 788 comments from ~1 week ago: "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614148
by codedokode | 2025-10-25 17:28:18+00:00
Instead of requiring a phone number, accept a small amount ($1-2) in cryptocurrency. You can charge extra if the user sends too many DMs or gives too many likes. Perfect solution against spammers.

However, personal information costs much more than $2, so the companies will continue to demand a phone number. Mobile OS developers even developed a format for automatically transferring SMS OTP to a website to help scammy companies.
by kelipso | 2025-10-25 17:28:26+00:00
You are just making things up and asking people to prove otherwise it seems like.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf-mute

you have

> Some consider it to be a derogatory term if used outside its historical context; the preferred term today is simply deaf.[2]

which refers to

Moore, Matthew S. & Levitan, Linda (2003). For Hearing People Only, Answers to Some of the Most Commonly Asked Questions About the Deaf Community, its Culture, and the "Deaf Reality", Rochester, New York: Deaf Life Press

and I am not reading that or considering it authoritative.

From 2nd ed OED you have,

deaf-mute, a., n. [After F. sourd-muet.] a. Deaf and dumb. b. One who is deaf and dumb.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 322/2 s.v. Deaf and Dumb, In all these conditions of deafness, the person is consequently mute, or dumb. Hence the expression Deaf-Mute, as used in the continental languages, and Deaf and Dumb, as used in England and America. 1865 New Syd. Soc. Year-Bk. for 1864. 479 A deaf-mute child. 1881 H. James Portr. Lady xxv, He might as well address her in the deaf-mute's alphabet.

Hence ˈdeaf-ˈmuteness, ˈdeaf-ˈmutism, the condition of a deaf-mute.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John Bapt, ii. 109 The deaf-muteness of Zacharias. 1865 New Syd. Soc. Year-Bk. for 1864. 318 Congenital deaf-mutism. 1874 Roosa Dis. Ear 515 Deaf-muteism is caused by diseases of the middle and internal ears. 1884 A. J. Ellis in Athenæum 12 Jan. 55/2 This art [of lip-reading], the keystone of the modern bridge from deaf-mutism to deaf sociality.

which doesn’t indicate derogatory.

Plus I have never heard it used in a derogatory manner. Also from an argument or debate perspective, when stating something improbable, you should not be asking people to prove improbable things wrong and instead should be showing the proof of improbable things yourself
by outlore | 2025-10-25 17:29:17+00:00
The Windows hullabaloo actually made me want to move off Mac and try Linux. I tried daily driving Bazzite and Omarchy. It's funny how the smallest things can cause resistance to change. For me, the lack of inertial scrolling with mouse wheel and the different copy/paste shortcuts were the dealbreakers. Even though the tiling windows, lack of bloat etc was super nice
by Jare | 2025-10-25 17:29:47+00:00
My recent experience with Linux Mint on a new PC is the opposite. I went from USB installer to a fully functional system with drivers, chrome, my fave web pages, and my fave games on Steam and Battlenet, etc running flawlessly without ever doing a single "techie" thing.

On Windows 11 I had to figure out that I needed hop on another computer to search, download and copy via USB some motherboard and wifi drivers before I could even access the Internet. A number of things in the system remain rather quirky and not entirely reliable, including video playback of all kinds.

If I was setting up a PC for say my dad tomorrow, I'm finally at the point where I'd rather give him Linux than Windows.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-25 17:30:28+00:00
The comments here seem to prove him right. Half of them are airing their personal grievances or talking generically about what it means to have a community.

HN frontpage posts also have a way to get the attention of some pretty shitty people, directly or indirectly. HN itself takes active steps so site operators cannot detect when someone is coming from HN or not (like adding noreferrer to links to some domains) so the admins here are aware of the problem and decide to go against linked authors' wishes.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-10-25 17:31:04+00:00
In a way, it's a return to simpler times. I remember learning programming C and it was about programming computers, not abstract concepts. As languages got higher level abstractions, we lost touch with the computer. That's why programs are so bloated today. Zig respects that we are programming a computer, with concrete behaviours, it doesn't try to abstract things away, doesn't hide complexity, and yet gives you tools for managing it. That's why I enjoy it.
by grg0 | 2025-10-25 17:31:13+00:00
Yeah, that is a lot more insightful than Synadia's marketing spew, thanks.

The BDFL point is particularly interesting to me having followed C++ for almost two decades and having been disenfranchised by the inconsistency of the design. I am more of the belief now that a BDFL is the right model for programming language design, particularly one that isn't insular and listens to feedback, but upholds their vision for the language above all else.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-25 17:32:59+00:00
From that article, you also have:

> In informal American English the term dumb is sometimes used to refer to other hearing people in jest, to chide, or to invoke an image of someone who refuses to employ common sense or who is unreliable.[9] In the past deaf-mute was used to describe deaf people who used sign language, but in modern times, the term is frequently viewed today as offensive and inaccurate.[10]

I have shown all of the evidence available to me. “I am not reading that or considering it authoritative.” is not a counterargument.

> From 2nd ed OED you have,

The 2nd edition of the OED is not paywalled. (It also has several methodological issues: https://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/oed-editions/oed2/) The Wikipedia article references the paywalled online edition, which is probably the 3rd edition entry. All of this information was available to you. Please do not accuse me of "just making things up" without at least checking.
by habitue | 2025-10-25 17:33:38+00:00
This just doesn't explain things by itself. It doesn't explain why humans would care about reasoning in the first place. It's like explaining all life as parasitic while ignoring where the hosts get their energy from.

Think about it, if all reasoning is post-hoc rationalization, reasons are useless. Imagine a mentally ill person on the street yelling at you as you pass by: you're going to ignore those noises, not try to interpret their meaning and let them influence your beliefs.

This theory is too cynical. The real answer has got to have some element of "reasoning is useful because it somehow improves our predictions about the world"
by kelnos | 2025-10-25 17:34:02+00:00
> It is just sad what some people are doing on "behalf of us"

I find this very frustrating. Most of the time it seems that people who do this sort of thing haven't even talked to a disabled person and asked what language offends them or makes them feel bad.

> just so they don't have to grapple with the fact that some people have a harsh life.

The cynical part of me thinks that often it's not even this; it's just virtue signaling.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-25 17:34:29+00:00
Several types of correctness are more difficult to enforce in Rust than in some other languages due to its relatively weak compile-time facilities. Modern database engines don't allocate memory at runtime, aren't multithreaded, they explicitly schedule ownership, etc. They also use the types of data structures and patterns that give the borrow checker fits. Rust's correctness capabilities are relatively less valuable in this context.

Extensive compile-time capabilities that allow you to verify many other types of correctness add enormous value when building database engines. This is a weak part of Rust's story.
by not_kurt_godel | 2025-10-25 17:34:56+00:00
I will concede the thrust of my argument probably does not fully align with Fielding's academic definition, so thank you for pointing me to that and explaining it a bit.

I'm realizing/remembering now that our internal working group's concept of HATEOAS was, apparently, much stricter to the point of being arguably divergent from Fielding's. For us "HATEOAS" became a flag in the ground for defining RESTful(ish) API schemas from which a user interface could be unambiguously derived and presented, in full with 100% functionality, with no HTML/CSS/JS, or at least only completely generic components and none specific to the particular schema.
by cloverich | 2025-10-25 17:34:59+00:00
I definitely do a lot less lifting with React than with jquery or backbone; like OP I also used all three (and others) in production, and my React sentiments at the time seemed to be relatively common: React felt like a breath of fresh air. In particular, counter point to the article, i loved that i could do something relatively complex, relatively easily, but still pop open dev tools and understand what was happening. I think tis great new libraries and concepts are sprouting but imo looking back wont help; browser javascript has come a LONG way obviating a large chunk of the reason we were all using jquery in the first place. Basic CRUD does fine with server side rendering, and is easier to test and maintain. Using that until it hurts is a solid strategy for avoiding react if thats ones goals.

The reality is stateful UI is complex on its own. Then JS tooling is complex (byo typescript and std lib). Then UI is something everyone sees so the whole company has opinions about how it should look. Mush it all together and FE development is rough. React is a punching bag because its been dominant so long. Id welcome the next phase when it arrives. But building toy apps with aged technology imo wont bring to light any unturned stones. Id recommend researching the plethora of real code and discussions that have beaten this horse to death on the open internet instead.
by godelski | 2025-10-25 17:36:00+00:00
> Because the switch doesn't flick until a second or two after I've woken up.

That sounds a lot like the "half-asleep state" being discussed before.

> I didn't ask for help. > If you interpreted it as a request for help

You did right here[0]. You have to understand that I, cannot, read your mind. Nor can I hear any inflections in your voice. If you ask someone "how" you should expect them to answer. It is a reasonable and standard interpretation of such a question, especially as you continue. Getting upset at them is an extremely unreasonable thing to do.

It is not our miscommunication, it is yours.

You can take responsibility for yourself, no need to include others. I had more to write, but you clarified you didn't want help.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694744
by kakacik | 2025-10-25 17:36:22+00:00
Lets call it a next great man-made filter. Weak personalities will take a hit and have a lesser life compared to their potential, the ones more mentally resilient or with good parents (or both) gain a clear advantage in basically all aspects of life. Waiting around for state regulations to cover our asses has always been a bad move, and its same now. They will come but too little too late, one has to fight for oneself and closest ones in true capitalist spirit, and this is indeed distilled capitalism at work. Its jungle out there, and servants of the biggest predators form like 50% of this very forum (go ahead and downvote some meaningless number in DB, but take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself how good human being you truly are).

I can't bring myself to feel much sympathy for the ones that fully realize this, and yet go full speed to their addictions, even push it to their kids since good parenting always take a lot more continuous effort. We keep discussing this mind cancer for a decade here, its not something shocking on any level for anybody who gives a fraction of a f*k about their quality of life or mental health. The rest has bread and games for the poor, version 2025.
by ValentineC | 2025-10-25 17:36:31+00:00
> I forgot the login to my Mac M1 and now I can't 'install Linux' on it, due to 'activation lock' - no apple support since I can't remember the phone number or e-mail and got it from e-bay.

You got locked out of your own Apple account? I don't see how getting it used from eBay matters.
by mindslight | 2025-10-25 17:36:34+00:00
I think even highly-engaging well-written high-production-value TV doesn't satiate all of your brain's achievement circuits. Being an Internet native, I was binge watching shows well before the term was invented, and before shows were fluffed out to compensate for bulk half-engaged viewing. When an episode ends I don't want to leave the universe - it's so easy to up-arrow, backspace to the episode number, tab, enter. But I always found there was kind of a limit whereby eventually I would have "had enough" and move on to something different to feel like I was actually achieving something - getting back to work, social interaction, physical chores, etc.

Whereas the plethora of web/apps can provide simulations for all those different circuits in your brain, as you move between them each satiating a different aspect of your personality. And then when you've got time to really "relax", you can still turn on TV in the background to be engaged in multiple low effort stimulations at once.
by jedberg | 2025-10-25 17:36:47+00:00
Nah, it's more than that. My very boomer parents just sit on the couch doom scrolling all day, and they were late getting smartphones.

Although they also got us Ataris in the early 80s and internet access in the late 80s, so they were technology forward through their whole lives. So maybe they lived more like late Gen X...