MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by butvacuum | 2025-11-17 20:28:01+00:00
This gets shot down PDQ. A significant case of this was a County charging $0.50/page for a title company requesting a CD of all their records (note: they're digital) going back a large length of time. The judge over the lawsuit ruled they could only charge costs (note, this isn't wishy washy 'going rate'- they have to expose salaries and actual times and the employees involved can be asked directly, under oath) which amounted to $100/per CD/DVD.

Kind of a teeth grinding win though, because title companies are absolute scum.
by ebbi | 2025-11-17 20:28:25+00:00
When you increasingly lose the court of public opinion, you resort to this sort of gaslighting.

Because the Israeli Hasbara is now failing at this gaslighting strategy, you're leveling ad hominems towards people who see this as what it is - decades of war crimes and a humanitarian crisis.

So either come up with a proper argument, or stay quiet. Gaslighting us into thinking we're being biased, or that we're ill informed, just isn't going to work anymore.
by _heimdall | 2025-11-17 20:28:35+00:00
By browser vendors, you mean? Yes it seems like they were in agreement and many here seem to think that was largely driven by google though that's speculation.

Users and web developers seemed much less on board though[1][2], enough that Google referenced that in their announcement.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578 [2] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523
by wtfwhateven | 2025-11-17 20:28:36+00:00
Not sure why you're so insistent on avoiding the multiple questions people have asked you that are inconvenient for your narrative.

Why does believing something is right or wrong require religion or is in any way religious?

Why does someone having signals in their brain making them a believer of religion make their beliefs more justified than someone who does not?

Have you ever asked someone why they believe in god or do you just immediately stop questioning the "legitimacy" of their beliefs the moment you realize they believe in religion so they must be right?

People have explained to you why they believe x is wrong, you refuse to accept their answer and insist they "sound religious"

Why, in your opinion, must nonreligious people constantly justify their belief in x being wrong if you don't demand the same of religious people? Double standards.
by bangaladore | 2025-11-17 20:28:46+00:00
I'm not sure I agree that OCs argument was focused on knowing that you were hosting illegal material that is encrypted. I'd argue that no-where in jiggawatt's comment is that argued. I think that's your argument, which is fine, and I agree with that. I also agree that you can be compelled to remove data, encrypted or not from your servers through lawful orders and if your system is designed in a blockchain like manner where it is not possible to remove illegal content, that's an even bigger issue.

My point all along, is that Google is not liable for someone uploading previously encrypted blobs of illegal content to Google Drive. And even more so, Google isn't liable if someone uploads illegal content to Google Drive that isn't encrypted. Google simply needs to remove it and follow the correct processes if reported / detected.

Could you make an argument for either that theoretically they could be? Sure. But in reality, no, they are not liable.

This is law due to Section 230:

> Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, provides limited federal immunity to providers and users of interactive computer services. The statute generally precludes providers and users from being held liable—that is, legally responsible—for information provided by another person, but does not prevent them from being held legally responsible for information that they have developed or for activities unrelated to third-party content. Courts have interpreted Section 230 to foreclose a wide variety of lawsuits and to preempt laws that would make providers and users liable for third-party content. For example, the law has been applied to protect online service providers like social media companies from lawsuits based on their decisions to transmit or take down user-generated content.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46751 https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

Also, the blockchain problem already exists. I've linked some commentary about it.

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/94558/what-prev...
by mcphage | 2025-11-17 20:28:48+00:00
So I do agree with you that Iain Bain's methods is better than his father's, especially for us mere mortals. But George's method for consistent rope widths (step 1: draw them all the same width) did work better for me when I was getting a program to generate knotwork on grid of squares and rhombuses, where following Iain's method led to irregular rope widths because the angles changed.
by justincarter | 2025-11-17 20:29:03+00:00
Interesting to read, but this is where movies are more "real" than true life - people can't verbalize their true feelings and need to experience or work through them in some way non-verbally.

If you've seen any Kar-wai Wong movies, that's basically his whole filmography (In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, etc.).
by nine_k | 2025-11-17 20:29:25+00:00
Since humans associate cuteness with large eyes and small body size, nocturnal / twilight animals, like raccoons, sugar gliders, cats, squirrels, etc have a larger chance to be domesticated as pets.

Daytime, larger animals (e.g. sheep, goats, or even rabbits) have a larger chance to be domesticated as food.
by morsecodist | 2025-11-17 20:29:54+00:00
I see this advice a lot in various forms. I think people are probably too conflict averse on average so there is some merit to it but there are limits. I feel like there are a lot of times in my life where just moving on or being diplomatic has been the right call.

The manager example is a good case study. There are a lot of examples here where there might be genuine repercussions for raising an issue with a manager. I wouldn't give this as blanket advice.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's a simple rule about whether or not you should raise an issue and it needs to be decided case by case.
by wparad | 2025-11-17 20:29:57+00:00
Good catch. The truth is, while we track downtime for incident reporting, it's much more correct to actually be tracking the number of requests that result in a failure. Our SLAs are based on request volume, and not specifically time. Most customers don't have perfect sustained usage. Being down when they aren't running is irrelevant to everyone.

This is where the grey failures can come into play. It's really hard to tell, often impossible to know what the impact of an incident is to a customer, even if you know you are having an incident, without them telling you.

In order to know that you are "down", our edge of the HTTP request would need to be able to track requests. For us that is CloudFront, but if there is an issue before that, at DNS, at network level, etc... we just can't know what the actual impact is.

As far as measuring how you are down. We can pretty accurately know the list of failures that are happening, (when we can know), and what the results are.

That's because most components are behind cloudfront in any case. And if cloudfront isn't having a problem, we'll have telemetry that tells us what the HTTP request/response status codes and connection completions look like. Then it's a matter of measuring from our first detection to the actual remediation being deployed (assuming there is one).

Another thing that helps here is that we have multiple other products that also use Authress, and we can run technology in other regions that can report this information, for those accounts (obviously can't be for all customers), which can help us identify with additional accuracy, but is often unnecessary.
by mihaaly | 2025-11-17 20:30:17+00:00
Legal systems are so convoluted and so colossally heterogenous - also very protective of their ways - around the globe that miniscule collaborations require grandiose efforts to initiate and maintain. No chance these fast paced adversaries will be caught by the interplay of several dozens of reluctant dinosaur legal systems.

Tangential: once I was targeted by a pretty primitive scam. More than 10 years ago (after someone I love was naive and inexperienced, having a medium amount stolen in a sensitive and stressful time of this person's life). I recognised fast and having time and will I sarted to play along, pretending I bite the bait. Collecting info while acting. In parallel trying to connect local and international authorities to report an ongoing scam effort. I believe I tried 4 organizations in 3 different countries apparently involved, I believe one was dedicated to online scams, also trying to warn Western Union, they are about to be used for scam. I even went personally to a police station locally to get some advice on how to assist catching the criminals. Since all I encountered insisted to report my damages, so they could start an investigation on an actual loss happened, I furiously gave up and decided whenever I will be having financial trouble I will invest my efforts in scamming others. No-one cares catching those in act! So the thugs can be incredibly bold and dumb, like the one I encountered, it is no effort doing better.
by havblue | 2025-11-17 20:30:40+00:00
There was an anime called Marmalade Boy where I believe every plot involved people being unable to communicate. It had the central romance that was a "will they or won't they" plot... They liked each other but were usually incapable of talking about it. Then the subplots involved their friends who were constantly scheming to break them up. Which the central couple was also incapable of discussing or confronting. It gets worse when they mistakenly believe at the end of the series that they were siblings. Did they ask for clarification? Nope, not until maximum drama was extracted from each misunderstanding.
by baklavaEmperor | 2025-11-17 20:30:54+00:00
What’s striking is how often these ‘small’ surveillance tech stories trace back to the same state-aligned ecosystem. When Israel does it, it’s treated as a complex security issue. When another ‘bad’ country does the same thing, we immediately call it espionage. And almost on cue, the discussion drifts anywhere except the uncomfortable fact that it’s the same ecosystem from the same country showing up again.
by bluGill | 2025-11-17 20:30:59+00:00
You misunderstand the point though. Sure there is always 5GW of demand - but we don't need generation that always supply 5GW cheap since wind/solar is much cheaper for base load. What we need is non-base load generation that can jump in at a moment's notice when needed because wind/solar isn't enough. Previously we would use those peak plants from when there was 6GW of demand (or whatever), but now between those peak plants coming down in price and wind/solar being so cheap we don't want that 5GW from plants that cannot adjust to load anymore - we are getting the can't adjust to load from wind/solar.
by cxr | 2025-11-17 20:31:26+00:00
> If Mozilla had ever wanted a healthy side business, it wasn't in Pocket, XR/VR, or AI. It would have been in building a DevEx platform around MDN and Rust[…] Those people have since been let go.

The first sentence isn't wrong, but the last sentence is confused in the same way that people who assume that Wikimedia employees have been largely responsible for the content on Wikipedia are confused about how stuff actually makes it into Wikipedia. In reality, WMF's biggest contribution is providing infrastructure costs and paying engineers to develop the Mediawiki platform that Wikipedia uses.

Likewise, a bunch of the people who built up MDN weren't and never could be "let go", because they were never employed by Mozilla to work on MDN to begin with.

(There's another problem, too, which is that addition to selling short a lot of people who are responsible for making MDN as useful as it is but never got paid for it, it presupposes that those who were being paid to work on MDN shouldn't have been let go.)
by Aurornis | 2025-11-17 20:32:01+00:00
I recognized her name when one of her blog posts was trending on HN yesterday (from the same submitter as this one, actually).

For what it's worth: She has something of a history in the professional poker world of being a less than reliable narrator. To be fair, the fallout during her time in the poker world overlapped with her admitted drug addiction problem. However, from what I recall from that era I'd suggest taking some of her stories with a grain of salt.

She is very good at storytelling and charming people, though. There is probably a lot of value in studying how she delivers messages, puts spin on the past, and charms audiences.
by donatj | 2025-11-17 20:32:15+00:00
> The other day, someone told me, “I can’t imagine you ever being awkward with people.”

I was telling my therapist of several years recently about being uncomfortable with the number of new people I've had to meet recently.

He seemed surprised that I wasn't excited by it all and said something along the lines of "You seem like a very social person, that seems out of character." It struck me… am I really that good at masking that my therapist didn't realize I am absolutely terrified in near all social situations? I have zero idea how to make small talk with people I haven't known for years.

Working from home since COVID has made my social skills so much worse because I don't get the practice.
by akerl_ | 2025-11-17 20:32:37+00:00
Yes, that's what I mean. In this comment tree, you've said:

> google has been the party leading the charge arguing for the removal.

and

> many here seem to think that was largely driven by google though that's speculation

I'm saying that I don't see any evidence that this was "driven by google". All the evidence I see is that Google, Mozilla, and Apple were all pretty immediately in agreement that removing XSLT was the move they all wanted to make.

You're telling us that we shouldn't think too hard about the fact that a Mozilla staffer opened the request for removal, and that we should notice that Google "led the charge". It would be interesting if somebody could back that up with something besides vibes, because I don't even see how there was a charge to lead. Among the groups that agreed, that agreement appears to have been quick and unanimous.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-11-17 20:33:17+00:00
I'm curious what your bubble is.

The peice is relatable to me at least. A great many of the lessons were something that I also arrived at through deliberate practice. Though the paths we both took are radically different, the main ideas are universal and the resulting destinations are similar.

I can't list all of the times when someone has shared that they didn't mean to "share all that" because it happens often enough that it's become countless.

As mentioned elsewhere, it illuminates the spectrum of interpersonal and social intelligence where it becomes impossible to not notice how some people repeatedly, and perhaps even compulsively are their own impediment to personal connection.
by nwellnhof | 2025-11-17 20:34:02+00:00
Python ElementTree uses Expat, only lxml uses libxml2. Right now, I'm working on SIMD acceleration in my not yet released, GPL-licensed fork of libxml2. If you have lots of character data or large attribute values like in SVG, you will see tremendous speed improvements (gigabytes per second). Unfortunately, this is unlikely to make it into web browsers.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-17 20:34:07+00:00
Having worked on a number of message brokers, but not really fucked with append-only log streams, what's the actually selling point here?

Feels like the simplicity wins are made by only solving one half of the problem space (only writes), and it introduces new problems of its own (like how do we truncate the append-only log once readers are done with it?)
by butvacuum | 2025-11-17 20:34:16+00:00
The real one is people coming up with minor, but recognized, reasons to request footage from different cameras.

Most everything is covered, as you mentioned. But there's a huge difference between things like Obama's birth cert(canned reply after paying the fee), and the entire US populations worth of people requesting a single 5min segment from a camera... But everybody wants a different camera, date, and time.

I suspect an organized campaign will sink the cities/flock, or they'll make the streams public and not retain anything. Public streams with no retention is how TXDOT handled this.
by sally_glance | 2025-11-17 20:34:25+00:00
Thanks for the insights! A bit disappointing that this avenue didn't turn out to be the one worth pursuing at the time, although I don't think the ball was completely dropped. Some light prodding surfaces recent research into dark patterns with empirical data based on player perception [1] and attempts to create frameworks for categorization [2].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390642492_Dark_Patt...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396437975_All_'Dark...
by skissane | 2025-11-17 20:34:47+00:00
Democracy-in the contemporary sense that you were defining it (near-universal adult suffrage)-is only a bit over a century old, in its widespread existence. Maybe too soon to judge what its long-term prospects will be?

And I think if we look at history-sometimes excessive inequality is the downfall of a regime, yes; but then regimes also fall for lots of other reasons, and on other occasions inequality can endure seemingly-sustainably for centuries or even millennia.
by floatrock | 2025-11-17 20:34:54+00:00
Only about 30% of the energy in gasoline is converted to useful work in a gasoline car (the 'make metal box go forward' part). The remaining 70% is Rejected Energy (the steam you see going out the tail pipe in winter).

Which (not sure if you did this intentionally or accidentally) brings up an interesting point on the parent comment and the LLNL sankey:

> It's always worth remembering that electricity only accounts for ~20% of global energy consumption (in the US it's closer to 33%).

That "global energy consumption" figure includes a lot of Rejected Energy going out tailpipes and smoke stacks turning burnables into electricity. A secret bonus of wind and solar is if you produce electricity without burning things, you actually decrease the energy demand! If you're not losing 70% of your energy consumption to the Rejected category, you suddenly need a lot less total energy.
by w_for_wumbo | 2025-11-17 20:35:03+00:00
I recognize all of these steps, having gone through flavours of them myself. The root for me, was that I learned at a young age that to feel safe, I needed to cater to what others wanted for me. Never learning to ask myself, what I wanted. It might be the author's next step, is reconnecting with his inner-desire and finding out what he wants from the world, instead of how he wants to appear in the world.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-17 20:35:17+00:00
I read that book because it was on so many generic book recommendations lists.

It was less sleazy than I expected from the title. It actually had a lot of points about being genuine, being a good listener, showing respect to other people's opinions, admitting when you're wrong, being sincere, and so on. Decent advice, really.

A side benefit of reading it is you learn how to spot when other people are insincerely trying to use the tricks in the book against you. Once you see it, it's hard not to miss.
by lazide | 2025-11-17 20:35:24+00:00
The challenge is with the remainder, which is actually a much bigger problem.

Thermal heating for example, even using heat pumps, will require more than 5x the existing electrical grids peak energy capacity - just on its own. I’ve done the math several times, it’s staggering.

And it will do it during typically minimal insolation times.

Germany has made good progress, don’t get me wrong, but it highlights just how hard of a problem this really is.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-17 20:35:41+00:00
Cheap devices get subsidized by shitty adware. The cheaper the device, the more likely that it's full of terrible adware.

Consumers often have a choice, at least between "filled to the brim with crap" and "a modicum of crap", by choosing between buying their phone from a store or from a carrier. Carriers have better deals but shovel their phones full of the worst apps you can imagine. Still, people will buy the crap-filled experience that makes you want to tear your hair out because they like the idea of scoring a better deal.

Nothing like unadulterated greed combined with short-sighed consumer behaviour at scale to drive a market segment into an awful race to the bottom.
by dpark | 2025-11-17 20:35:54+00:00
My response is in a chain discussing browsers in response to someone who literally said “The web wasn’t the browser it was the protocols.”

I responded essentially “it was indeed also the browser”, which it seems you agree with so I don’t know what you’re even trying to argue about.

> willing to read actively and provide people with the most minimal benefit of the doubt.

Indeed
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-17 20:36:01+00:00
I think the author is probably aligning with "is" rather than "ought". So a language made this list if it IS being used as a configuration format, regardless of whether it OUGHT to be used as one.

Which is a way of deciding that makes sense given that I think the purpose of this article is "use my language instead". Getting lost in the weeds about each language's original design intent would bloat the article without meaningfully contributing to their thesis.
by id00 | 2025-11-17 20:36:16+00:00
I agree. It is very easy to fall in the trap: "I let AI write all the tests" and then find yourself in a situation where you have an unmaintainable mess with the only way to fix broken test within a reasonable time is to blindly accept AI to do that. Which exposes you to the similar level of risk as running any unchecked AI code - you just can't trust that it works correctly
by butlike | 2025-11-17 20:36:25+00:00
I totally believe there's a correlation between addiction and the aha moment. You don't even need to "aha!" with facts; pairing emotion to a simple fact will suffice.

Try pairing a feeling to: "So THAT'S how a mouse cursor moves"

"So THAT'S why revolving doors move clockwise!"

"So THAT'S why lights at night feel cosy!"

With a little practice, you can arbitrarily get 'aha' moments. I assume the good feeling is some sort of dopamine release where my brain is rewarding me for "figuring something out," even though I've kind if hijacked the mechanism.
by Teever | 2025-11-17 20:37:42+00:00
You're implicitly assuming three things here:

1. That stated goals reflect real motivations

2. That every president and their administration operates with a coherent, disciplined strategy

3. That competence can be assumed by default.

Unfortunately these assumptions simply don't match anything we've seen from this administration.

There's a difference between good intentions, stated intentions, and effective execution of policy and there's nothing to indicate that these things are aligned here.

There's also nothing to indicate that the American democratic process guarantees a President who always has Americas best interests in mind and there's nothing to indicate that every person who has filled that roll has had that as their primary motivation.
by dijit | 2025-11-17 20:38:38+00:00
Interesting, when I was reading it I got a real sociopathic vibe from many of the points and especially how the author was talking about them.

If I take a helicopter view of the main themes they make sense, but I will admit feeling a little sleazy by reading the book.

Reading is subjective however, so I’m glad it didn’t make you feel this way.