MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amrocha | 2026-01-02 16:11:47+00:00
I’m not a lawyer, and many of these cases are not famous enough to be reported on in a format easily understandable to a layperson. I’m also not going to read through case resolutions to respond to a hacker news comment. I did take a cursory look at the examples you wrote though.

I will admit that my original statement lacks nuance, which makes it easy to nitpick.

Having read some of your cases though, a pattern emerged: it’s usually supra national organizations adjudicating these cases, and the nations are not bound by the rulings.

For example, in Hirst vs UK it was ruled that it’s a violation of human rights to deny prisoners the vote, and yet the UK government deliberately ignored that ruling and as a result prisoners still can’t vote in the UK. Not to mention that when this case was brought up in a UK court it was dismissed.
by basket_horse | 2026-01-02 16:11:57+00:00
I disagree. I think it is an “accident” that stems from organizations rather than anything sinister.

Companies generally want good parental controls, but let’s face it, it’s not the cash cow or particularly interesting.

This leads to understaffed teams of b-list developers with high churn, hence the overly confusing and half-baked features.
by mostertoaster | 2026-01-02 16:12:05+00:00
As an experienced software engineer, I’m incredibly excited about what AI is going to be able to do, like on a scale of 1-10, I’m an 8.

As a citizen, who doesn’t trust the government, or the media, or giant corporations, I’m also an 8/10 concerned.

That means I’m equally concerned about AI as I am excited, I might be more concerned than someone who isn’t excited at all about AI 1/10, but who is mildly concerned with a 5/10.
by lukres_pango | 2026-01-02 16:12:11+00:00
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by DevOpsMaster | 2026-01-02 16:12:12+00:00
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by K0nserv | 2026-01-02 16:12:16+00:00
The current AI bubble seems like a bad proposition for most people regardless of how it shakes out. The way I've seen it described elsewhere is: either the bubble pops, causing a significant recession or it doesn't and loads of people lose their livelihoods to AI. In either case average people lose.

The problems with AI aren't technical they are political and economical. This topic is discussed in Max Tegmark's "Life 3.0", in which he theorises about various outcomes if we do invent AGI. He describes one possibility where we move to a post-scarcity society and people spends their days doing art and whatever else they fancy. Another option looks more like the world described in Elysium. I suspect the latter prediction feels more likely to most people.
by eqvinox | 2026-01-02 16:12:17+00:00
RFC1925¹, section 2(3):

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is
not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they
are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them
as they fly overhead.

Translation: sure, you can make this work by piling automation on top. But that doesn't make it a good system to begin with, and won't really result in a robust result either. I'd really rather have a better foundation to start with.

¹ https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1925
by justonceokay | 2026-01-02 16:12:32+00:00
This is not an argument in good faith. Nintendo is a company that primarily makes hardware to sell its own games. The Wii is not a general computing device and we never expected it to do that.

Linux claims to be a general computing operating system, but had historically not prioritized gaming (or UI…). This has changed and the article notes as much. Windows OS is used for a benchmark because it is still the gold standard, and the OS that most games are intended to be executed with.
by JStupiansky | 2026-01-02 16:12:40+00:00
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by tylermcgraw | 2026-01-02 16:12:51+00:00
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by distances | 2026-01-02 16:12:52+00:00
Yes, very true. It might be useful to start with overtracking to see where the money actually goes.

I didn't track anything until about 5 years ago as my mental model was "track all purchases", and I wasn't willing to do that. Someone had to point out that higher level tracking can be quite useful too, and this is what I found to work well for me. That's why I bring this up in related topics: it's not an all-or-nothing choice.
by kyboren | 2026-01-02 16:13:00+00:00
I know it's supposed to be an oversimplification, but this is pretty shockingly ignorant of the scope, scale, and brutality of the Japanese campaign. They didn't merely "shoot some of our boats"; that's an egregious minimization of their culpability and the proportionality of their comeuppance. The Japanese launched a coordinated all-out assault not only on Pearl Harbor but also:

- The Philippines, a US territory, where tens of thousands of American soldiers were killed or captured and
subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos are killed during invasion and occupation.

- Guam, also a US territory

- Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore: British territories

- Thailand, an independent kingdom

All this after having already invaded Manchuria and French Indochina, and then later going on to invade and occupy Burma, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo, New Guinea, and a whole slew of Pacific islands and atolls.

Not only did the Japs attack Pearl Harbor, formally declare war on the United States, enjoy an alliance with Germany and Italy who themselves declared war on the Unites States, and conquer or attempt to conquer all those places to build their empire; they also fought fanatically and with exceptional brutality, they committed countless atrocities (wanton murders, amputations and mutilations, gang rapes, sex slavery, vivisections, human experiments--you name it, they did it), they administered conquered territories cruelly, and they treated prisoners of war even more cruelly.

Considering all of the above, conquering the Japanese nation and ensuring their total defeat was not only justified (as I believe you'd agree), it was also entirely proportionate to their warmongering and brutality.

Please stop pushing ahistorical claims.
by SimianSci | 2026-01-02 16:13:03+00:00
To put it very simply, I and other Americans I discuss this with have absolutely zero faith that all of the promises being made around AI will lead to a better life.
For one, if AI stands to threaten our jobs, these jobs are critical to our very survival in this country that has done everything within its power to remove safety nets and programs that benefit those experiencing hard times.
The state of the American system is so poor when it comes to supporting anyone who is not wealthy, that it is fully expected that we would be placed into a category of "Undesirables" where more effort will be placed into purging or removing us than helping us get back on our feet.

Additionally, Americans are very technologically astitute in comparison to other countries, we were first adopters for AI.
I think at this point its been proven that AI is underperforming all expectations, and thus we are starting to resent the sentitment that more and more of our economy needs to be directed towards this technology that still remains a pipedream rather than a reality.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-02 16:13:23+00:00
The US seems to m mostly look down on blue collar work, service workers and other non-desk jobs. Maybe that's part of the reason why AI as a threat to low-skilled desk work is seen as such an offense. Those affected might slide into the "lower class" of people who use their hands to earn an income, and those in the "lower class" will have a harder time climbing up into a desk job
by stormed | 2026-01-02 16:13:52+00:00
Minus work, I've exclusively been using Arch Linux, Ubuntu Server & macOS on my machines and haven't looked back for the last couple years. The biggest annoyance I have is the lack of (modern) Adobe applications on Linux. I'll be real though, I mostly just like Photoshop out of familiarity, I could probably get used to the alternatives but I'm lazy. Photoshop CS6 I hear works fine in WINE which is good enough for me since my workflow hasn't changed much since CS5.

Oh, and also anti-cheat games forcing me to use Windows. Makes me sick to my stomach booting into Windows 11 every couple of months and having to watch my PC performance tank while it's downloading updates, Windows Defender scans, etc. for 30 minutes
by spiffytech | 2026-01-02 16:13:54+00:00
I used Ledger for a while, then some other tools. Now I'm on Actual Budget, a nice FOSS envelope budget app that can import transactions from my bank.

I find value in tracking everything, tracking it by hand, and tracking it with precision (our household budget has 68 categories).

When I've tried easing up in the past (e.g., with Mint's lightweight approach) I was left with a budgetary black box where I felt like I never had enough information to make big purchasing decisions. I knew what I had in the bank account, but I didn't know if it was earmarked for anything, or whether the next surprise expense was going to wreck my plans. I felt afraid and paralyzed.

Earning more didn't make the problem go away. Like the financial equivalent of Parkinson's Law, more income just meant more spending. I couldn't out-earn unrestrained consumption. I had to monitor & manage it.

For peace of mind, I found YNAB's philosophy helpful: one-off expenses often repeat predictably on a long-enough time horizon, and can be amortized accordingly. If I itemize all predictable expenses and save a little each month, I know everything is taken care of, and what I really have left over. I never get blindsided because several big expenses hit at once.

I know not everyone has these problems. But I like to talk about my experiences because people don't all need the same things from their finances. It's okay and normal to want control and visibility. Budget apps exist because people find them useful, not because the whole userbase has failed to reach enlightenment and transcend budgeting.
by bethekidyouwant | 2026-01-02 16:13:55+00:00
No, I think this guy is right if you mention that one of the rare side effects of the HPV vaccine is chronic headaches then you are reducing vaccine uptake even if only over a short amount of time until new studies come out this is definitely worse for the population at hole and everyone involved should be thrown in jail for however long this guy thinks they should be thrown in jail for
by markus_zhang | 2026-01-02 16:14:02+00:00
One of the reasons that we stopped caring is because planning is impossible. You could plan very well and leave 20% capacity, and then get a ton of new requests in the middle of the sprint so need to replan(we leave that to personal judgments).

Can’t blame it on the clients though because they genuinely can’t plan.

My conclusion is, if my team is facing clients that can’t plan properly, don’t bother plan anything for your own team.
by amrocha | 2026-01-02 16:14:13+00:00
Not sure where here is for you. But anyway, even if you can win a battle you can’t win a war. If a government wants to do something, it will regardless of how any individual person, rich or not, feels about it.

It just so happens that most western “democracies” are run by rich people, so they can avoid all that unpleasant business by just running the government in the first place.
by sliken | 2026-01-02 16:14:28+00:00
Do you have a static IPv4, presumably a single IP?

I find it useful, mine does change periodically, but I just have a script that Updates DNS when it changes:

nsupdate -v -y "${KEY_ALGO}:${KEY_NAME}:${KEY_SECRET}" <<EOF
server $DNS_SERVER
zone $ZONE
update delete $RECORD AAAA
update add $RECORD 300 AAAA $CURRENT_IP
show
send
EOF

Sure some services might notice for a bit, but it's plenty good for me.
by sojsurf | 2026-01-02 16:14:31+00:00
Well written, and I agree with you on everything you wrote.

That said, "the internet" is a large place, and I think parents would find more clarity thinking of it the way they think of a physical place. In my mind, letting my son loose on the internet is not like letting him run around the woods unsupervised (which he does). It is more like dropping him off in a large city every night.

As you said, guidance is imperative, and in the real world we would not give only verbal guidance. We would, if we lived in the city, walk our kid to the library, the museum, the coffee shop, the park. We would talk about what parts of town to avoid. We would talk about what "free" means and about not trusting strangers and not just going into any door.

That last part is tricky. On the internet, every link is a door into a neighborhood, and there are a lot of neighborhoods even adults are not well prepared for.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-02 16:14:42+00:00
AI is lifechanging for me when it comes to programming, it made something that I've been doing for more than a decade now exciting again. But I do accept that it's very bad for everyone involved since the end goal is to make humans seem like an inefficiency.

But again, we pretty much acomplished all the major goals of evolution - now we're pretty much just weaponizing it for enjoyment, pleasure and entertainment to keep ourselves from being bored. As for the rest of us where it just seems like the natural continuation to tickle the curiosity on our brains as depressing, dystopian and heartbreaking as it sounds we are currently heading towards accomplishing the final innovation we will produce as a human race: create something superior to our biological lifeforms.

Maybe uploading ourselves into a super computer isn't as sci-fi as we thought since it seems living as a normal human will become extremely difficult.
by n8henrie | 2026-01-02 16:14:45+00:00
After a decade of homebrew, a few years ago I got tired of their very grumpy maintainers and switched to nix-darwin + home-manager. I've been overall fairly happy, and for tinkerers would recommend giving it a shot. Admittedly I bounced off my first try a year before that.

A few of my favorite parts, which I see less represented in this thread so far:

- I simultaneously jumped into nixos on several Linux machines (starting with a few Pis for experimentation), and maintaining all of my systems with a single flake and mostly shared code is a dream come true.
- no more convoluted dotfile syncing, most of my scripts and aliases and bash config and binaries all sync together
- cross-building linux from Darwin -- including integration tests in a vm -- works surprisingly well, this is mostly just nix but nix-darwin has helpers that make this easier
- writing system services (launchd) on my Mac then converting them to a headless Linux machine (systemd) is generally very straightforward
- prefixing my path with GNU coreutils works well and saves me from many e.g. `sed` quirks, I get expected behavior across OSes
- this was always a sore spot in homebrew, either dealing with the `g` prefix on everything (eg `gsed`) or dealing with intermittent breakages when stuff depends on the BSD behavior
- I was also able to put nix-darwin on my wife's MacBook and greatly simplify admin / maintenance tasks I do for her
- finally, the nix crew is just thirsty for help and contributions, particularly the darwin crowd; I feel like my (minor, occasional) contributions are celebrated, differences of opinion are met with an open mind, it is in general a far departure from the relative hostility of homebrew
- on the down side, I have spent far more of my limited time helping contribute to nixpkgs / nix-darwin / home-manager
by oletrn | 2026-01-02 16:14:49+00:00
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by andrewflnr | 2026-01-02 16:15:18+00:00
> If the US had foreseen had powerful China would be today, I expect Russia would have been 'enlisted' into NATO.

Lol no, they would not have sabotaged their defensive alliance against a very real, belligerent, immediate enemy for the sake of defending against a potential enemy decades in the future. In any fantasy where the West has that much foresight, they have lots of better options.

Russia doesn't need to be submissive. All Russia has to do is stop starting violence with its neighbors and around the world. Don't mess with Ukraine. Don't mess with Syria. Try actually making their people's lives better instead. (I can already hear you complaining "but the US--" stop. Tu quoque is a fallacy.)

The bar is embarrassingly low. Even after they annexed Crimea, the rest of the world was willing to pretend Russia was a reasonable actor. But it wasn't enough for Russia, mostly for Putin himself I suspect.
by mingus88 | 2026-01-02 16:15:28+00:00
Sure, the automobile wiped out the horse and buggy industry. The difference is that the average person’s quality of life vastly improved as a result.

Most genAI has been laughably poor at doing what it’s advertised at doing for the average person. People didn’t ask and don’t need a shoddy summary of their text notifications and they don’t want AI to take away their creative hobbies.