MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by incrudible | 2025-12-18 13:33:40+00:00
> Neither was slavery. Was that OK too? And to clarify (though it’s worrying this point needs to be made), I mean morally.

From the perspective of a pre-abolitionist society, it evidently was, but that's not a political issue you're gonna have to deal with in 2025. Consider yourself lucky.

> Fascism has a very clear definition.

First of all, that isn't true. Secondly, even if it was true, it wouldn't matter. You are using the word as a though-terminating cliché. That doesn't work in the long run, you'll just get ignored. As a result, you can pat yourself on the back for calling out fascism while all the behaviors and actions that you believe to be fascist are mainstreamed and affecting people's lives. If I was you, I'd be more worried about criticizing those behaviors and actions on their merits (or lack thereof), rather than trying to tie them to some textbook definition fascism and dismissing them wholesale.
by mariusor | 2025-12-18 13:33:43+00:00
With the risk of being a pedant, I think that even at the time that Trump got elected, the validity of saying he was supported by a majority of Americans would have been questionable. Today, I'm positive that it's wrong.

But please, answer my question: do you disagree that the discourse of Trump's administration, where immigrants and minorities are "the enemy" and every measure is allowed against them, is not fascism?

To quote one of their golden boys Pete Hegseth's book *first* chapter:

> The other side—the Left—is not our friend. We are not “esteemed colleagues,” nor mere political opponents. We are foes. Either we win, or they win—we agree on nothing else.

> The United States has the top economy and military in the world, but our cultural and educational institutions—America’s soul—have succumbed to leftist rot.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-18 13:33:45+00:00
The problem is that many things that reduce the probability of cancer increase the probability of other diseases.

Therefore there is no good solution for this.

For instance, some studies have demonstrated that certain kinds of malnutrition, i.e. the consumption of inadequate amounts of protein and/or with bad amino-acid profile, inhibited the development of tumors caused by carcinogen agents (in rats and mice). This was not really surprising, because tumors grow faster than the rest of the body so they need to synthesize more proteins. If they are starved, they grow slowly and the immune system has time to react and to eliminate the incipient tumors early enough.

Despite this, starving yourself in the hope to avoid cancer would be a very bad idea. While the probability of cancer is lowered, the probabilities of low resistance to infectious diseases or of muscular weakness leading to falling and breaking some limb, or of cardio-vascular diseases, become higher.
by reify | 2025-12-18 13:33:46+00:00
Wouldn't big pharma and USA psychiatric community just love to find a genetic cause for mental illness.

A new mRNA mental health vaccine, wonder drug.

The dominant model for thinking about thinking across the Atlantic is Behaviourism, which depends on animals in laboratories, ‘controlled’ experiments, and various other trappings of science.

Never once looking at the societal causes of mental illness.

Prescribing SSRI's to a depressed mother, with three small children, who really needs a warm safe home, enough money to buy decent food and clothing, enough money to pay bills without the constant stress and worry, all of this is the real cause of her depression, not some disproved chemical imbalance.

Can you imagine the helplessness a psychotherapist experiences to see clients like this, week in week out, in their practice, knowing full well that an extra £50 a week would change that mother and childrens lives forever, and has nothing to do with any mental illness. These are societal causes!
by Bender | 2025-12-18 13:33:51+00:00
I park mine by having no IP address, MX record is "0 ." meaning it does not receive email, the SPF record is "v=spf1 -all" and DMARC is a strict reject, CAA is 0 issue ";", BIMI is "v=BIMI1; l=; a=;". I do the same for wildcard DNS. There's probably more I should add.
by p_v_doom | 2025-12-18 13:33:57+00:00
Almost everywhere management- whether wearing the skin of agile on top, is still bound to good old school Taylorism. And there is always this complete lack of understanding of the types of work there are and that you cannot cramp work related to complex, novel things in the same way you do something standardized. Alas, business dont care, cause they wont their estimates and roadmaps and plans, and we all pretend it works ...
by dv_dt | 2025-12-18 13:34:02+00:00
It seems a shame that there is a gap between the limits of what is possible to deduce from direct evidence, and what is likely possible given human ability. And further that the public viewing the reconstructions doesn't take away the subtleties of the difference. To me it's unlikely that some of these works weren't vastly better works of art created by what were likely master artists and craftsfolk of the day.

One way to close that gap would be to offer interpretations to be painted by modern artists to show what was possible and a viewing public could view a range of the conservative evidence based looks, and maybe a celebration of what human artistic ability can offer.
by ericpauley | 2025-12-18 13:34:22+00:00
We did a large-scale study of this phenomenon recently: https://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/paper-archive/wung-if...

Across a broad sample of typo domains of major sites, most registered domains aren’t actually reachable, implying they are registered for defensive, legitimate, or unrelated purposes. Interestingly, the typo space on major sites is actually very sparsely registered (2% at edit distance 1), meaning that typosquatting may actually be underexploited.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-12-18 13:34:56+00:00
Sure, but in addition to everything they learn at school (and get tired of), do they really need 3x2 hours of violin, 3x2 hours of tennis and 3x2 hours of spanish weekly? + weekend tennis matches. (my coworkers kid taken as example, 12yo)

I like my job too, i learn a lot of it, but that's basically half-time of a second job (if you include commute) for a 12yo kid... that's just too much, both for the kids and their parents.
by hilbert42 | 2025-12-18 13:35:19+00:00
It's true that children in the first decade or so of the 20th Century considered work normal and not that unpleasant despite their often horrific work conditions.

The Library of Congress has a wonderful collection of photographs taken at the request of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) by photographer and psychologist Lewis Wicks Hine from about 1908 through to about 1920.

These remarkable photographs shouldn't be missed and should be viewed in conjunction with this article.

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/nclc/
by trillic | 2025-12-18 13:35:27+00:00
What school is offering sailing scholarships?

HINT: NONE. If this is true, I'd really like to know what program that is.

Sailing isn't an NCAA sport, it's governed by its own association the ICSA. Sailing Scholarships are explicitly disallowed, in fact the bigger issue that's been happening in collegiate sailing is the opposite of a scholarship.

Eager and wealthy parents making huge donations to sailing programs, rowing programs, lawn dart programs, fencing programs, etc to get admission into top schools where their kid wouldn't be able to get in on their own merit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal
by sph | 2025-12-18 13:36:00+00:00
I went 30+ years telling myself I am a night owl, with delayed sleep phase, unable to wake up before 11, finding my groove only in the late night.

Then one day based off someone's comment I bought blackout blinds for my bedroom, the kind you can't even see your hands in front of your face. Overnight I became a morning person. I haven't been able to sleep past 7:30am in almost a decade. My mornings are sacred now.

Unfortunately, small time slots just don't work for me. It's all about making the time weird ideas pop into my head coincide with the time I can sit down and engage with them fully. This is why I believe it's crucial not to waste that precious time with distractions.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-12-18 13:37:03+00:00
The comparison doesn't quite hold because AWS is a utility; they aren't an arbiter of quality. Amazon charges for a serverless call regardless of whether your code worked or crashed. You pay for the effort (compute), which is verifiable and binary.

Once you shift to billing for outcomes like "resolutions," the vendor switches from a utility provider to the judge and jury of their own performance. At scale, that creates a "fox guarding the henhouse" dynamic. The friction of auditing those outcomes to ensure they aren't just Goodharted metrics eventually offsets the simplicity the model promises. Frankly, I just cannot and will not trust the judgment of tech companies who evangelize their own LLM outputs.
by Kbelicius | 2025-12-18 13:37:07+00:00
> The UK arrests 12k people per year for social media posts, using vague laws to undermine free speech.

This doesn't mean anything in isolation.

> Here's the citation from the EU parliament itself [1], since I doubt you'd believe non-government sources.

Do we know each other?

> The fact that the UK and Germany are in some aspects still better than the ones I mentioned doesn't make them beacons of democracy.

No, but there aren't many that are much better so when you take all of that in to account, yes UK an Germany are beacons of democracy.

> It's sad that those countries declined so fast that we are now comparing them.

I already asked this but by what metric are they declining faste?
by moralestapia | 2025-12-18 13:37:21+00:00
This just happened to me a month ago, I was waiting for a unused domain to expire. The domain was hosted on Epik (which I think is a trashy company but w/e).

About a month before expiration it somehow got renewed for 10 years, which is weird because it was not available ... and is now hosting a "get-rich-quick" scam that pretends to be a genuine Petro Canada campaign.
by alistairSH | 2025-12-18 13:37:30+00:00
Not sure if serious... but just in case, very simply put...

DC pulls water out of local water supply. DC uses evaporative cooling (not all use closed systems, and even those that do see some loss over time) Water lost to cooling is now in the atmosphere.

If the DC (and other local users) withdraw water faster than local conditions allow it to be replenished, you end up without any local water.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-18 13:38:01+00:00
Lots of jokes made, but in reality this mistake could have been made by a real human watching a video feed. The student was intentionally mimicking a weapon with a long, tubular object. It's not like he was just walking down the hall with it in his hands, and suddenly SWAT TEAM!

AI is often awful, but I'm giving it a pass on this one.
by majes | 2025-12-18 13:38:29+00:00
> Would you be a better basketball player if everyone else had to heave from 3/4 court but you could shoot layups? No, you’d be playing by different rules in an essentially different game. You might have more impressive stats but you wouldn’t be better.

I think the correct analogy here is that if everyone had to shoot from 3/4 court, you would likely end up with a different set of superstars than the set of superstars you get when dunking is allowed.

In other words, if the IQ test were much much harder, but you had a month to do it, you might find that the set of people who do well is different than who does well on the 1 hour test. Those people may be better suited to pursuing really hard open ended long term problems.
by weinzierl | 2025-12-18 13:38:39+00:00
"Implicit in the design of most tests is the idea that a person's ability to quickly solve moderately difficult problems implies a proportional ability to solve very difficult problems if given more time."

I used to share that doubt, especially during my first semesters at university.

However, my experience over the decades has been, that people who solved moderately difficult problems quickly were also the ones that excelled at solving hard and novel problems. So in my (little) experience, there is a justification for that and I'd be definitely interested (and not surprised) to see credible evidence for it.
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-18 13:39:03+00:00
Small communities. Usenet ~1990 was ~1m people with access, most at either universities or tech-oriented companies or government labs.

Amongst more general discussion platforms, HN, Metafilter, possibly Tildes.net.

Anything large is by definition popular and common, both terms with freighted meanings. The more so if they're advertising-driven.
by D13Fd | 2025-12-18 13:39:26+00:00
I wish we had a neighborhood island. The road we live on is a quarter mile long (so, short) with few houses. It ends in a road where cars go 40+ mph. That road is awful - not only are there no sidewalks, but it twists and turns, and the road is cut into a hill with steep unwalkable slopes on either side. At any point a car could be coming downhill around the bend and your options as a pedestrian are to hope they see you or to just get run over.
by delichon | 2025-12-18 13:39:35+00:00
I was 10 in '72, in a big metropolis. I'd take off on my Stingray bike on all day jaunts all over. The only comments I got were from my mom who made sure I had change to phone home in case I got a flat. I started a 4am paper route on that bike two years later, nobody batted an eye. It was the best of times.
by oceanplexian | 2025-12-18 13:39:56+00:00
I think the parent has a valid point. What's the big deal with simply stating the facts?

When I think about dirty industry I don't think of CO2, I think of Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxide, etc. For example a Natural Gas plant that emits CO2 is not even remotely "dirty" the way that a Coal plant is. When you trivialize the issue you're training people to stop caring about pollution that actually causes acute and immediate health consequences to the people around it.
by benterix | 2025-12-18 13:40:50+00:00
> Switching CI providers isn't hard, we had to do it twice already. Granted, most of our CI logic is in a custom build script that you can run locally, and not in the proprietary YAML file. But to be honest, I'd recommend that sort of setup for any CI provider, as you always want the ability to debug things locally.

I believe this has been a CI/CD best practice for over a decade. Even in venerable Jenkins, this is one of the core principles when designing pipelines[0]: don't give in to the temptation to do fancy Groovy stuff, just use simple shell commands in steps, and you will be grateful to yourself several times years later.

[0] https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/pipeline-best-pract...
by james_marks | 2025-12-18 13:41:37+00:00
This was how my daughter’s virtuoso violin instructor taught, after a lifetime of teaching.

His method was to play alongside the student at 100x their skill level, pushing against their idea that it was too difficult.

But they’d play it, at tempo, horribly, from beginning to end. And then zoom in to a section and begin improving a few phrases at a time.

It was wild to watch, because after months of this, my 11yo could do something that seemed impossible.
by jve | 2025-12-18 13:41:39+00:00
Counter point about general knowledge that is documented/discussed in different spots on the internet.

Today I had to resolve performance problems for some sql server statement. Been doing it years, know the regular pitfalls, sometimes have to find "right" words to explain to customer why X is bad and such.

I described the issue to GPT5.2, gave the query, the execution plan and asked for help.

It was spot on, high quality responses and actionable items and explanations on why this or that is bad, how to improve it and why particularly sql may have generated such a query plan. I could instantly validate the response given my experience in the field. I even answered with some parts of chatgpt on how well it explained. However I did mention that to customer and I did tell them I approve the answer.

Asked high quality question and receive a high quality answer. And I am happy that I found out about an sql server flag where I can influence particular decision. But the suggestion was not limited to that, there were multiple points given that would help.
by casey2 | 2025-12-18 13:42:01+00:00
富不过三代 Wealth does not last three generations.

Most of America (at least west and east coast) is at this stage now. Look no further than startup culture were people have convinced themselves that repeated embarrassing failure is actually a sound investment strategy. This is the environment children are growing up in, of course they will all grow up to be embarrassing failures.
by qcnguy | 2025-12-18 13:42:25+00:00
Lots of plausible alternative histories don't end with the destruction of Nazi Germany. Others already named some, another is if the RAF collapsed during the Battle of Britain and Germany had established air superiority. The Germans would have taken out the Royal Navy and mounted an invasion of Britain soon after; if Britain had fallen there'd have been nowhere for the US to stage D-Day. Hitler could have then diverted all resources to the eastern front and possibly managed to reach Moscow before the winter set in.
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-18 13:42:28+00:00
Meta-discussion isn't in the spirit of intellectual curiosity. HN mods deprioritise and/or bury those threads. Even where the points made are otherwise correct or useful.

tomhow's acknowledged the criticism and revised his edit to reflect it. You've won your argument.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29788452>
by rkomorn | 2025-12-18 13:42:55+00:00
I've done this as well but the flip side for me is that I find myself probably checking various apps (etc) for new content probably more often than I would if I just had notifications on.

So ultimately, I feel like I've replaced an intolerable amount of notifications with an intolerable amount of application switching.

I acknowledge it's a me problem, of course, but it's still a problem. We are way too peppered with bits of "info" from way too many sources.
by throwaway_2494 | 2025-12-18 13:43:34+00:00
It also looks hopelessly Gen Z to want all communication to be asynchronous and ignorable. If you guys have your way, we’ll all be connecting via API like 1U machines in a rack somewhere.

Seriously—if you’re going to go overboard, so can I.

WTF is it with everything having to be mediated by a machine these days? People can’t get around without GPS, remember phone numbers, or now even do their work or homework without 'AI.'

How do you explain how people managed to do all of these things before without assistance? And how do you square that with telling 'boomers'—who were able to do these things—that they’re stupid and that you’re somehow better?

Seriously, it’s like we used to have weightlifting competitions where humans physically lifted weights overhead, and then you guys decided, "Nah, that’s too old and boomerish. From now on, all weightlifting competitions will use forklifts. Anyone who wants to lift the weights themselves is boomerish and stupid."

And where's your solidarity? If you lose your job, you may find yourself wishing you could meet people in person, when all your 'ignoreable,' electronically submitted job applications somehow get thrown away.
by palmotea | 2025-12-18 13:43:35+00:00
> Yeah, you go ahead and sue someone for the few minutes of your time it took to send in a application for a fake job. Then you'll really see what wasting time looks like.

1. That is exactly what class actions are for, because small damages multiplied by many people are big damages.

2. That's also why we need punitive damages, so someone can't get away with unlawful actions by deliberately coasting along under the threshold where it makes sense to sue. For instance, IIRC, you can collect something like $5000 from someone who doesn't put you on their "do not call list" when requested. That amount has nothing to do with the value of the "few minutes of your time it took to" answer a telemarketing call.
by laurentiurad | 2025-12-18 13:43:38+00:00
You won't get consistency between pics with nano banana. I tried using it in Headsnap and the results weren't as good. Faces change drastically between pics. Also the cost per pic with nano banana is 0.24 per pic, x 30 pictures that I generate for a pack, you would pay $7 (with big quality issues).
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-18 13:44:31+00:00
I think all of firefox's alternatives depend on firefox as an upstream. firefox itself has low adaption right now. I'm all for any approach that isn't google/chrome being the only browser standards driver. This type of knee-jerking doesn't help with that goal.. I don't care so much about mozilla's past or how terrible an "ai browser" will be, as much as having viable alternatives and not having a monopoly for browser standards. a fork and alternative browsers will do nothing to help with that. Either there is an alternative to Mozilla or there isn't.
by Razengan | 2025-12-18 13:44:56+00:00
> This matters, because it made for a different balance of power.

In actual practice, it just means that users get fucked from every side: You have 100 different "launchers", just like the 1000 toolbars in the internet's early days. You have to keep track of 100 different emails, accounts, recurring bills and all sorts of shit.

You'd have to be naive as heck to believe corporations fighting against a platform's monopoly are benefactors who want distribution of power and access for the benefit of users, instead of mobsters wanting a cut of each user's pie.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-18 13:45:01+00:00
I’m surprised that SSNs could be published like that. It’s curious that nobody has attempted to “do a journalism” and publish the SSNs of HNW individuals. It seems there would be little to stop you.

> Law in the United States isn't an autistic, overly-rigid computer system where edge cases can be probed for "gotchas:" judges and case law exist to figure out these tough questions.

That’s obvious, and you seem to be going against yourself here. If some details are considered too sensitive for publication then it would follow that a judge may be able to interpret the law to prevent mass publication of even sensitive public or semi-public data by creating an interpretive carve-out. But if you can publish SSNs then there’s little to no hope for that. It almost seems that the law is “autistically” tilted in favor of data brokers.

Someone ought to set up a tracker that updates a list of known HNW individuals with last detected location based on license plate data and/or facial recognition. Maybe also a list of last detected million dollar+ supercars. That will get some bills started.
by wl | 2025-12-18 13:46:10+00:00
That doesn't explain omitting vowels here. Whatever brevity you gain from omitting vowels is more than made up by the phonetic complements and determinatives you need to make up for their loss. Besides, individual Egyptian hieroglyphs tend to contain a lot of unnecessary detail. Look to hieratic if you want to see what the Egyptians did when writing required some efficiency.
by egeozcan | 2025-12-18 13:46:14+00:00
As someone of Turkish origin with Kurdish, Bulgarian, and Greek roots (somehow my genes don't fight each other!), I'm deeply saddened by the current state of the region. Growing up in western Turkey, I didn't give much thought to the eastern part of the country, let alone Iran. Funnily, my first real interactions with Iranian culture didn't happen until I moved to Germany. Aside from their cuisine being the only one besides Turkish where I actually enjoy the rice (pilav/pilaf), I've found Iranians to be such warm, kind people who have suffered far too much due to politics. Maybe that's why we connected so deeply... We share similar struggles, though I recognize that Turkey's situation involves much less external interference than Iran's... ours is mostly our own doing.

I hope the rulers solve this problem as quickly as possible without causing pain to the civilians.