MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonym29 | 2025-11-17 23:27:14+00:00
Bad news, implied criticism of CCP policy (by acknowledging you'd change it) is an imprisonable offense. You're under arrest for violating the laws of China. You are not granted a trial. A joint unit comprised of the Ministry of State Security and the FBI will be at your house to pick you up and fly you to a Chinese black site tomorrow morning.
by lazide | 2025-11-17 23:27:54+00:00
I think you might want to re-read all of this again.

Manipulation is non-consensual and controlling influence, yes. That part is important.

Just like the difference between a house and a jail is essentially if you are being forced to be there against your will or not.

They both are structures people live in and that provide a degree of structure and protection, but one is generally considered okay or even good, and the other is considered pretty bad and terrible. Largely because one you can choose or do things to change, the other you get stuck in against your will and the environment is outside your control.

Most ‘influencers’ also cross pretty strongly into manipulation many times, so using the title is about as accurate as ‘Democratic Peoples Republic of z’.
by euvin | 2025-11-17 23:27:57+00:00
I often wonder why I felt so disengaged from school, sports, and real life friendships back in the 2010s. Today, I think I can attribute most of that (and heavily relate to the article) to the freedom of online spaces and the lack of supervision; primarily, Roblox. As long as I kept good grades, no one really never peered into what I did online. It didn't help that I lived in the suburbs in the LA county all my life, so I felt both a "push and pull" toward online spaces.

Even back then, that era of Roblox felt distinct from the platform it is today. Roblox used to have their own bespoke forum page, and each forum "topic" had its own culture and regular users. Hence, it resulted in a lot of tribal behavior and personal identification with said topic label (some players would even make "bunkers" as places, where regular hangouts would happen.)

As a result, familiar faces (usernames) arose, and that's where I met my first and only consistent friend group lasting from middle school to university. Though I haven't talked to them much since.

I did get my programming interest and grew skills from such a creative platform, but I think I'm still reeling from my stunted social growth as well. As I hear about the current generation of schools, I wonder how much worse off I'd be if I had to grow up during the 2020s.
Ask HN: How to complete registartion as a Microsoft partner?
by forgetbook | 2025-11-17 23:28:25+00:00
I'm trying to register as a Microsoft partner so I can verify my windows desktop app and not show users the "the app is trying to light your computer ablaze" messages on startup, and after registering via https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/ they made a special email @onmicrosoft.com that just loops back to login when I try to use it!

Has anyone sucessfully done this process? Is it even still used?
by tibbar | 2025-11-17 23:28:41+00:00
This resonates. I spent many years going hard at `5: Connection is about projecting love and acceptance`. I focused on providing unconditional acceptance to everyone I met, inviting them to share their burdens and listening empathetically and supportively. People often left our conversations thanking me for the "therapy session."

And in many ways I think this was a positive energy to bring to the world! But eventually I realized that, deep down, I was doing this out of anxiety. I wanted to be accepted and this was a crutch I was using to achieve that. In fact, I was scared of not providing this level of support, because what if I was too aloof and the other person got mad at me? And since people often liked this quality about me, what would I become without it?

Now I mostly focus on ... relaxing. There are times where intense-therapy-like energy will be useful, and I can provide that if I want. But most of the time it's just not necessary. Unlike the author, I don't necessarily have the ability, or practice, to skillfully provide whatever the person in front of me actually wants, but that's ok too. It's ok to just be calm.
by francescopace | 2025-11-17 23:29:04+00:00
That's a fair point, and as a math graduate, I absolutely agree that ML is fundamentally applied math.

When I say 'No ML,' I mean there is no training phase, no labeled data needed, and no neural network model used to infer the rules.

The distinction here is that all the logic is based purely on signal processing algorithms.

Thanks for raising the point!
by cogman10 | 2025-11-17 23:29:21+00:00
> I believe geothermal has high capital cost and low running costs

Higher capital costs, but not nuclear high capital costs.

> That means it's competing against batteries, which are also great for smoothing out daily cycles, and are very inexpensive.

It likely would supplement batteries rather than compete against them. A battery buffer would allow a geothermal plant to slowly rise to load and fall as that load goes away.

A very large battery can store 200MWh worth of energy. The largest geothermal plant produces 1.5GW. (A lot of the large plants look like they are in the range of 100->200MW). Presumably those plants can run for more than a few hours which ultimately decreases the amount of batteries needed to smooth out the demand curve.
by kstrauser | 2025-11-17 23:29:49+00:00
The distinction in my mind is that if a browser doesn’t ship with XSLT, then devs have to go through the hassle of adding support for it themselves, but if a browser doesn’t support a device driver, it’s completely impossible for devs to do that themselves.

Without built-in support, XSLT is inconvenient. Without built-in support, things like WebUSB cannot possibly exist.

That’s why I think they can’t be compared directly.
by cardanome | 2025-11-17 23:29:53+00:00
As someone growing up with undiagnosed ADHD I have heard a version of

> “I feel like you have a tremendous amount of intellectual potential that you’re wasting here — why are you getting in fights rather than trying to do something interesting?”

for all my life and it has really hurt me. It just caused me to have this internalized guilt for having "wasted" my life. Even though it isn't really (completely) my fault.

And it really is a lie to begin with. What allows me to do crazy amounts of work in a short time is my hyper focus and that thing is not reliable. Its like seeing someone sprint and thinking they would be amazing running a marathon. Nope.

Plus intelligence is super overrated. I don't believe that having above average intelligence improves your life in any meaningful way. In fact people resent those that are more intelligent than they are so you are better of hiding it. And most work is working with other people and then you need to wait for other people to catch up with you anyway.

I would gladly trade my intelligence for being prettier or having more money. Or anything really.
by zie | 2025-11-17 23:30:15+00:00
You get memory safety. That's about it for Security. Quality is in the eye of the beholder. maybe it's quality code? Maybe it's junk, who knows. Rust isn't magic that forces code to be quality code or anything. That said, the code in the Redox system is generally good, so it's probably fine, but that's not because it's written in Rust, it's because of the developers.

Any GC'd language(Python, JS, Ruby, etc) gives you the same memory safety guarantees that Rust gives you. Of course GC'd languages tend to go a fair bit slower(sometimes very drastically slower) than Rust. So really the memory safety bit of Rust is that the memory safety happens at develop and compile time, instead of at runtime, like a GC language does. So you get the speed of other "systems" languages, like C, C++, etc AND memory safety.
by legerdemain | 2025-11-17 23:30:20+00:00
You might think so, but a lot of people can tell when you're ELIZA-ing them to death, and they will learn to avoid you.

There are a lot of people on HN who want a technical manual for how to party, and a lot of them keep telling each other that the art of conversation is about attentive listening. Can you imagine a conversation between two people practicing attentive listening on each other?
by micromacrofoot | 2025-11-17 23:30:21+00:00
We have indeed traded liberty for safety... I wish I could tell someone that it's none of their business where my 10 year old can walk alone, but someone not too far from me has forcefully been entered into the child services bureaucracy for doing the same thing. Not the pit I want to climb out of. I'd rather hear my child tried to join the circus.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-17 23:30:44+00:00
The thing is, while I agree we could just make decent and frugal websites, gemini not being based on html is a feature. It allows us separate both worlds.

When I open lagrange (a gemini client) and click on a gemini link from any gemini capsule (site), I am confident it will open something similar.

If I am opening a website, even a good frugal one made in HTML without js and click on an https link, I can't be sure if that won't send me to a page full of ads, tracking and heavy javascript with an embedded crypto miner.

You often find some http/https links on gemini capsules, but most clients will render the link in a different color so you kbow what to expect when clicking on a web link.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-17 23:31:36+00:00
Yes and yes :)

The vast, vast majority of people here will bring their cart back, deposit or not. There are some b ok eck sheep but you will see maybe 2 carts left in a whole large parking lot (if at all). This is not a matter of deposit anymore, you can get coins at the reception desk.

So the problem of leaving the cats was not one we needed to solve.

People taking the carts - yes. It was just a small fraction, but enough for the shops to take action. They betted on there fact that 1 or 2 francs (this was before the euro) wrote be enough to deter people from yelling the carts with them. And it worked. And it pissed of the best majority that was not doing it. Today everyone is used to the system so it stayed.

I think (but this is just a personal opinion) that having the carts locked helps with their bulk transport
by giantg2 | 2025-11-17 23:31:59+00:00
"Despite what the media (and for crying out loud, the US President), says, London is actually a remarkably safe city."

I'm not sure what the media or president is saying, but looking at the data I would not call it "remarkably safe". It sounds like the London violent crime rate is 28 per 1000 while New York and Los Angeles are about 700 per 100,000. I wouldn't let my kids ride public transport all over those cities until they were at least teens (the laws might not allow it anyways).
by eek2121 | 2025-11-17 23:32:08+00:00
I've seen at least 3 (counting this), seemingly different sites on the first 2 pages of "new" advocating against OOP. What is even going on here? Spam? Something else?

Previous articles:

https://maldus512.medium.com/there-are-no-upsides-to-object-... https://alexanderdanilov.dev/en/articles/oop

Looks suspicious IMO.
by switchbak | 2025-11-17 23:32:13+00:00
I would much rather assume the people I'm interacting with are honest and conveying their real feelings, vs playing some (probably) Machiavellian game with N levels of dishonesty and manipulation from what could easily be a malevolent person at the core. At least that tends to be the assumption when you pick up on a lack of authenticity in this way.

When you have a real indication of dealing with a master manipulator, it's very understandable that you should use an abundance of caution. That's probably an instinct in us at this level.

Of course everyone is at least a little aware that they're putting on a bit of a ruse with their public persona, but that needs to be tethered to some level of authenticity or you'll just be sending out Patrick Bateman vibes.
by _--__--__ | 2025-11-17 23:33:00+00:00
Not so much a kiosk, but American grocery stores often have one parking spot every other row that is blocked off with a fence/barrier and marked as a cart return storage. But that has its own problems because if someone hastily shoves a cart in there instead of stacking them in line it takes up too much space and creates a dangerous extrusion into the adjacent spots.
by bradlys | 2025-11-17 23:33:01+00:00
This didn’t seem to work with a bunch of other startups out there. Carvana, shift, beepi, etc. These startups were all the rage in 2016.

I bought my car off of Shift (wonderful experience in 2016) for such a low price that my credit union heard the price I was buying it for and immediately went, “oh, honey, I’m so sorry. We can’t give loans for a salvage vehicle.” She looked at the carfax and was dumbfounded how it had a clean title, no accidents, etc. and was not just cheaper than blue book for a dealer but cheaper than for a private party by a significant margin.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-17 23:33:03+00:00
The link (including the transcript of Huxley’s lecture) doesn’t seem to be about Soma, unless I’m missing something. Huxley produced a lot of work outside of Brave New World, lots of it concerned with drugs and altered states of consciousness (so much so that personally I don’t think I’ve done enough drugs to understand his perspective, as I find him distinctly, and almost uniquely among such high-profile authors that I’ve tried, unreadable)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-17 23:34:05+00:00
Yes because it’s easy as long as you ignore the details. Speaking of which, how do you surface all of the other features of the AirPod using the Bluetooth protocol?

You claimed other manufacturers have “figured this out” - how?

Every single thing that you say Apple should do is about how Apple can do that in a method that conforms to the spec - you kind of have to “fixate” upon the spec if you claim that Apple isn’t conforming to the spec.

The battery reporting is the one you brought up and had only horrible ideas.
by bronson | 2025-11-17 23:34:27+00:00
> Wind and solar existed in the 70s as well.

Not really. Solar has gone down in price almost 500X since 1975.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

Wind has gone down significantly too.

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/54526.pdf

Meanwhile, the graph for nuclear waste disposal is going rapidly in the opposite direction.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-6587/us-spent-fuel-liabilit...

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2024/ph240/kendall1/
by jameslk | 2025-11-17 23:34:27+00:00
Housing as an investment vehicle is ultimately the problem. Those who buy into it expect prices to keep going up, like any good investment. If rising prices falter, there’s big rippling consequences, especially for those whose net worth is mostly their house value, bought with debt.

On the other side is those who need shelter, who don’t have unlimited income to afford the price of something that rises faster than they earn.

It doesn’t seem like a sustainable system.
by aydyn | 2025-11-17 23:34:30+00:00
> Aisuru is a Turbo Mirai-class IoT botnet

IoT botnet. Just read that again, we're literally inventing problems where none needs to exist.

IoT adds basically null or negative value, except to nerds who like to think they're smarter than other people by consuming the latest e-slop.

Its all so tiresome.
by francescopace | 2025-11-17 23:34:34+00:00
The price difference can vary wildly by region, but €10 is still super cheap compared to a dedicated presence sensor!

Regarding the chip recommendation, it’s a classic trade-off:

ESP32-S3: This is what I mainly recommend today. It gives you more raw processing power (dual-core), which is great for managing the OS, MQTT, and the CSI analysis without hiccups.

ESP32-C6: I just ordered a C6 myself to run extensive tests! The C6 might have a superior quality Wi-Fi module and better internal CSI extraction capabilities due to hardware improvements.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-17 23:35:13+00:00
anti-imperialist here refers to the American empire, which Israel is a tool of (and the U.S. serves Israel also, there is a symbiotic relationship).

> and then be trying to expand their empire into Palestine?

Not related to the above point, but this is happening in the West Bank anyway.

> There is another `anti-` that I would use here instead.

I doubt North Korea is doing this from a principled position of anti-Zionism
by diob | 2025-11-17 23:35:46+00:00
Yes, that image is so funny, because it really is the difference between me being able to make a meal for myself vs needing something immediate.

It also helped do wonders for my anxiety, which I previously treated with sertaline.

I'm not the hyperactive sort of individual who has ADHD so I didn't get diagnosed until late in life, around a year or so ago, I'm just the "Inattentive" type.

But finally I can take my meds, and do things that other people do without feeling like it's mental torture. And I can also remember to do important things, like my taxes, on time!

It's so weird comparing my days on it to off it, when I happen to run out. I start getting a backlog of little things that my brain decided it couldn't take one minute to knock out.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-17 23:35:47+00:00
> To be an Empire, wouldn't Israel need to defacto control _some territory_ and then be trying to expand their empire into Palestine?

To be an Empire in the narrow sense they would have to have a polity that is the metropolitan power and then exert control over some external territory that is distinct from the metropole, and has different rules applied to it, either through direct administration or control of the local administration. Ignoring the disputes over what exactly the meaningful status of Gaza is, the open occupation of the West Bank would seem to qualify.

Though, yes, it is definitely true that lots of people who see Israel as a facet of imperialism hold to a view where there is a single globe-spanning Empire of which the US is the metropole and Israel is simply one of the tentacles. (These people also have elaborate arguments as to why entities that might seem to meet every aspect of the definition of Empire even more than Israel-as-metropole does, particularly modern Russia, are not imperialist powers that amount to “it's only Imperialism if it comes from the US region of North America, otherwise its just sparkling international influence.”)
by wk_end | 2025-11-17 23:36:15+00:00
I actually went to university with him! It's so weird seeing his posts occasionally pop up on HN.

That was when he was in his, as he accurately describes it, performative NPR phase of reading difficult modernist novels and having opinions about Barthes or whatever. I found him very very smart, as he clearly is, and also incredibly obnoxious (though I was obnoxious too). Part of that was because it was extraordinarily apparent how contrived his persona was to be superficially charming, and part of that was jealousy; then and now I wish that I were so smart and so charming, superficially or otherwise.
by tibbar | 2025-11-17 23:36:19+00:00
Important context is that the author was a social outcast as a child. I also had this experience, and I can tell you, I was just desperate to figure out how to get people to like me. It wasn't that I wanted to manipulate them, I just really, really wanted to have friends and be included. And so I also cycled through different tricks that I thought would help. (I went through a standup comedy phase, for instance.)

Of course, in many ways making friends is all much easier than either I or the author was making it out to be. But I suspect we were both burdened with some unrealized oddities, and, unable to directly identify or compensate for them, sought other, more elaborate ways to fit in.
by duderific | 2025-11-17 23:36:22+00:00
I had a colleague who I sensed was giving me the cold shoulder. Just kind of cutting off attempts at friendly conversation, whereas before our relationship had been fine.

As the author suggests, instead of just letting it fester, I caught him at an opportune moment and asked him if I had done anything to upset him (I suspected maybe a not-tactful-enough code review may have been the culprit.) He just denied that anything was wrong, other than that he wasn't sure how to relate to me because our circumstances are so different (I'm quite a bit older than him and have a family, although it hadn't been a problem before.)

Unfortunately this interaction just made our relationship even more awkward, and it never recovered. He ended up leaving the company about six months later.

In summation, simply getting things out in the open is not necessarily the cure-all the author suggests it is.
by jonnybgood | 2025-11-17 23:36:25+00:00
> What is being friends with people other than essentially manipulating them into liking you by being likable and a good friend?

No, that’s not a friendship. That’s just a relationship built on insecurity. You can only hold up the facade for so long. Imagine manipulating a romantic interest in to liking you, or vice versa. That’s not a very nice thing to do. It never ends well.
by overfeed | 2025-11-17 23:37:02+00:00
> why does having to release the footage mean that the cities are shutting down the systems?

It means any rando can now retroactively surveil[1] board members' movements, if they choose, rather than the police or rando-at-city-hall selecting targets.

1. This is what the ciry leadership thought of first, hut the general problem is rich/powerful interests who can fight this are now potential targets of surveillance by anyone. Funny how unplanned egalitarianism consistently results in shutdowns of systems designed to work under a power imbalance.
by gilfoy | 2025-11-17 23:37:13+00:00
Nothing, it’s never anything real and just some fantasy of what they could have if someone else put in an incredible amount of work to achieve something nebulous they got the impression of from a sci-fi book.

They want a cyber deck, except good and useful and apple hardware.

I often find myself wondering why these people aren’t happily using some Android rom and are instead using an iPhone.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-17 23:37:27+00:00
All the levels of education at my high school happened in the same buildings. There were people in my graduating class of 86 people that I never said ten words to in six years in the same school. I was never in the same classes and didn’t live near them.

Which is to say that tracking of any kind is going to end up with this, whether they are separate physical schools or separate curricula within one school.
by nomel | 2025-11-17 23:37:29+00:00
I was more interested in the actual dangers, rather than censorship choices of competitors.

> certain ages of the desired sexual target to the prompt.

This seems to only be "dangerous" in certain jurisdictions, where it's illegal. Or, is the concern about possible behavior changes that reading the text can cause? Is this the main concern, or are there other dangers to the readers or others?

These are genuine questions. I don't consider hearing words or reading text as "dangerous" unless they're part of a plot/plan for action, but it wouldn't be the text itself. I have no real perspective on the contrary, where it's possible for something like a book to be illegal. Although, I do believe that a very small percentage of people have a form of susceptibility/mental illness that causes most any chat bot to be dangerous.
by runjake | 2025-11-17 23:37:30+00:00
You can disable or not use these features.

Like gyomu said below, iPadOS Windows Apps is optional and opt-in. The default is full screen:

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/work-with-multiple-wind...

Select "Full Screen Apps".

And you do not have to use Tab Groups.

iPad User Guide link: https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/organize-your-tabs-with...

Unsarcastically speaking, I've been using these OSes for 2 decades plus but I still read through each OS's respective User Guides and still learn a ton every release.

iPad User Guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/welcome/ipados

iPhone User Guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/welcome/ios

Mac User Guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac