MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 23:26:40+00:00
> So you’re claiming that the trillions of dollars that have been spent trying to uplift the youth of yesteryear were a complete an utter waste

Well, take a look around?

The youth cannot buy homes. They aren't starting families. The wealth gap between the older and younger generations is enormous

Do you really think we have been successful in "uplifting the youth"?
by precompute | 2025-05-01 23:26:54+00:00
> So far there are 26 million people on the network across Europe, South America and the Asia-Pacific region, with 12 million verified, according to a representative for World, who added that its goal is to scale to one billion people. It's moving slower than expected, though: In 2021, the project's goal was to scale to one billion people by 2023.

So, how long until getting an iris scan is a widely-accepted form of identity verification? I don't think it will ever not feel creepy. Perhaps I could cache my iris-print in a physical card...
by ar813 | 2025-05-01 23:27:12+00:00
Between NIH grant-making being slowed down and this, there is no way to interpret these moves than being an underhanded way of causing university research infrastructure to collapse. Consider also, for example, that one Friday last month there was an announcement that indirect rates being cut to 15% for Dept. of Energy grants.. but only for universities, not companies or national labs!

Just from a steady state picture there is now significantly less funding flowing to America's research institutions and institutes. At some point buildings will be shut down, infrastructure mothballed and a generation of scientists will simply not be trained.

An adversary could not ask for a better outcome.
Show HN: Weatherspread, visualizing recent weather and tourism data
by mbforbes | 2025-05-01 23:27:13+00:00
I (Max) built this web app with two friends (Tristan and Shelby) to aid in planning travel and events. Usually you plan things far enough out (say, 3-6 months) that there’s no reliable forecast. So historical data is your best bet.

We’ve observed that the last few years is a much better indicator of what the weather will be like than most data sources which aggregate from 1900 or even 1950.

We’ve also added tourism stats, and synced it to weather data. This has been particularly eye-opening. It lets us see when a country experiences over-tourism (e.g., Croatia and Austria) relative to its population.

There’s lots more we’d like to build, but we’re releasing it now to get feedback. It’s free and there’s no ads, so if you’re interested and would like to support us, there’s a box to give your email. In the future, we may consider a premium app version or an patreon-like support option.

Thanks for checking it out!
by jillyboel | 2025-05-01 23:27:16+00:00
gross and blatantly illegal under dutch law. companies don't need a copy of my id. most of them don't even adhere to the law anyway and demand an uncensored copy. every time I follow the instructions from my government to blank out the BSN (SSN) the (usually american) company rejects it and demands an uncensored version they're not even permitted to have.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/identiteitsfraude/v...

Last time I checked Google isn't any of the following:

* a government instution

* a bank

* a notary

* a casino

* my life insurer

* my employer

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/identiteitsfraude/v...
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-01 23:27:50+00:00
Do you think there is evidence of your country waging a terror campaign against Ukraine in order to break their will to resist the invasion?

You are welcome to continue pointing out single instances of Ukraine "doing the same thing". They will continue to be irrelevant because at no point did I say Ukraine was above reproach.

The disparity in war crimes I mentioned above is characterized by number, severity, and intention.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-01 23:27:58+00:00
I honestly think this is a bad/dumb idea. Age verification in general is just silly on the internet and laws mandating it are inane.

The main thrust of such measures is "Let's make sure a kid can't see/access this". However, without an actual camera to double check that "yes indeedy, this really is the person attached to the ID" then "faking" it is all too simple. I can almost guarantee you'll get IDs floating around the internet which kids will use to completely bypass these protections (or they'll simply swipe their parents' ids when they aren't looking). It's a half step above "what's your birthday" checks.
by stavros | 2025-05-01 23:28:13+00:00
This is going to be a disaster. Societies rely on imperfect enforcement of the law in order to progress. There's no way to create a critical mass of resistance and disobedience that will lead to the toppling of an unfair law if you enforce the law perfectly and universally, and this will lead society to ossify.

Imagine if every single gay person were caught and put in jail the moment they acted on their urges, or every single person who bought or sold weed (or alcohol, during the prohibition) were similarly arrested. We'd still be stuck in the mindset of a century ago.

A society that has removed its own ability to progress is truly a horrifying prospect.
by ultimafan | 2025-05-01 23:28:35+00:00
I feel like this is 100% it. We used to go to McDonald's pretty often as a cheap but tasty treat. Being able to grab a few burgers, orders of fries etc. to feed a whole family for significantly less than it would cost to go out to eat at a "real" restaurant.

Now it's go out and pay $15 per person at McDonald's for crappy, inconsistent food that doesn't even taste that good anymore and eat it in a dirty McDonald's location with crazy homeless people making a scene not 10 feet away from you. Or you pay $17-18 per person to go get a big, juicy, well-made burger from a proper bar and grill with clean seating and family atmosphere. It just makes absolutely no sense to go to McDonald's unless you're on a road trip at weird hours of the night where nothing else within miles of you is open. Taco Bell, KFC and others have had similar problems for us.

We've gone from eating fast food two or three times a month to eating it maybe once or twice a year after the pandemic.
by duxup | 2025-05-01 23:28:45+00:00
Perspective about humanity on the internet is hard.

People are complex, they have different experiences, sometimes all at the same time. Someone can be suffering from cancer ... and go for a swim. This might be jarring watching one video to the next, but that's on the viewer to manage.

I think people expect managed tonal shifts like a movie or TV show, but that's not life.

The folks most active on the internet judgment train don't operate like that, it's all or nothing, you're great, or you're horrible. Anything that reminds the judgment bots of past bad behavior, even by other people, you're all possible suspects the moment they recognize some "clue".

It's sad / scary stuff. I think most internet users aren't that way, but the ones who are, seem to be inexhaustible.

Same on Reddit for leaving that sub up ...
by OkayPlatypus | 2025-05-01 23:29:15+00:00
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by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-01 23:29:26+00:00
> The most satisfying way I ever made a free phone call

I remember as a kid me and my buddies making a free call from one phone booth to another (across the road - not terribly useful) just by asking to reverse the charges. The phone company evidentially never realized that the target number was a phone booth, so it worked as normal by the recipient just agreeing to pay (without actually having to do so by putting any money in).
by echoangle | 2025-05-01 23:29:51+00:00
Age is a proxy for money. You want to set the price for optimum profit (assuming the rail company isn’t controlled by the government and implements social measures), so you want to charge every group of people the amount where (number of costumers)*(profit per customer) is maximized. If you would price every group the same fare, some people wouldn’t get a ticket and you would lose customers. It makes sense to charge those users less, but try to keep the profit of other groups higher by not reducing their fare.
by motohagiography | 2025-05-01 23:29:53+00:00
the main thing that has saved the west from digital ID so far has been android OEM fragmentation, where there just hasn't been a way to manage hardware secrets in a way consistent enough across devices to be pushed down on people as a digital ID.

this thin edge of the wedge age verification solution is to normalize people showing ID everywhere and whether it's their age or some other social credit attribute is immaterial. the product is submission. the original hope for this was first in differential privacy, then ZKSNARKS, then FHE, and whatever proof they're on about now is intended to obfuscate not the data, but the actual use case, which is going back to covid era ID checks. for climate, surely.

I distinctly remember a conversation I had in 2013 while working on early instances of a related identity tech, where I said to the founder and CTO, "nobody wants this, it's something you want to impose on others. your security model needs a failure mode other than catastrophic because the incentives to take it down are tremendous- from fake ID and fraud to people like me who just think you're assholes."

Identity isn't a tech problem, it's a political problem people in bureaucracies who problematize human freedom and dignity keep trying to bully through with increasingly obfuscated tech.

for googlers reading this though, I've got a great name for your identity product: holler-it! it's just like hollerith but so much quirkier and safe feeling.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 23:30:01+00:00
People exist on a continuum between two extremes.

On the one extreme you have people who think it's rude to just talk out of nowhere, it's polite to ask questions, and good conversation always starts with a question, and people make sure to frequently alternate asking the next question that changes the topic.

On the other extreme you have people who think it's rude and invasive to just ask questions out of nowhere, it's polite to give space for the other person to talk about whatever they want when they feel ready to, good conversation always starts with someone making an observation about what's on their mind, and follow-up questions are always a thing, but changing the topic is naturally done by the other person then talking about what's on their mind.

Neither is right. Neither is wrong. Most people exist closer to the middle and can adapt easily to either style. They're happy to ask questions if someone doesn't seem to talk otherwise, and they're happy to talk unprompted if the other person doesn't seem to ask them questions.

But if you're at one of the extremes, it can take work to realize that the other person isn't being rude.

If you think someone is "hogging the conversation" and never asking you questions, just talk anyways, even if it seems uncomfortable at first. It's literally what they've been waiting for, and they've probably been wondering why you're not talking and why they have to keep filling the silence since you aren't contributing interesting things to the conversation about yourself.

On the other hand, if someone just doesn't seem to be talking, try asking questions, even if it seems uncomfortable at first. It's literally what they've been waiting for, and they've probably been wondering why you're not asking things and why they have to keep asking you questions to fill the silence since you aren't contributing interesting questions.

But again -- there's no right and no wrong. I'm deeply disappointed with the article as presenting one style as superior to the other.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-01 23:30:39+00:00
Shcrödinger’s Cat is intuitive if the universe is lazily evaluated - everything is probabilities (or probability amplitudes, if we’re being technical) until an outcome is needed.

The box and cat and radioactive particle are in their own isolated system, cut off from the universe, so the universe can keep going without information from inside the box. From outside, the outcome in the box can remain probabilistic - it does not need to “be resolved”.

But inside the box (the isolated system) the cat knows very well if it’s alive or dead and the radioactive particle knows if it has decayed. The interior of the system must have resolved (an outcome was chosen) with respect to itself.

To match the first intuition, the universe must then be not merely lazily evaluated from your perspective, but actually lazily evaluated from every perspective.

Because everything is lazily evaluated with respect to everything else, this “inside the box or outside the box” lazy evaluation is happening all the time, everywhere. There’s no universal truth or sequence of events and there never was. There are only truths and sequences of events close enough not to matter at the levels of zoom humans operate at.

Whoa.
by trod1234 | 2025-05-01 23:30:46+00:00
> Unfortunately nobody has a good answer for how to deal with abusive users without catching well behaved but deliberately anonymous users in the crossfire...

Uhh, that's not right. There is a good answer, but no turnkey solution yet.

The answer is making each request cost a certain amount of something from the person, and increased load by that person comes with increased cost on that person.
by hahaxdxd123 | 2025-05-01 23:31:12+00:00
I'm not saying getting hidden would be a good thing.

Just that it would happen.

Every time something like this comes out, his supporters mass flag the article no matter how relevant it is to tech. Browsing /active is the only way to see some of these.

In their defense, if every atrocity and grift this administration committed were allowed free and fair voting on HN, it would completely clog the front page.
by joepaolicelli | 2025-05-01 23:31:31+00:00
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by throwanem | 2025-05-01 23:31:32+00:00
Okay, then per the 2021 census (Statistics Canada) and relevant exchange rate (exchange-rates.org), I made after tax actually a bit under twice what you did. For a 97th percentile income of CAD$150,000 (eyeballing the highest income per age range of any range given) and an 0.83:1 rate with USD (the highest that year), that's ca $125k USD after tax compared with ca $201k, which again was cash, not equity, which at issue price was worth about half that again, for a total post-tax compensation of just over $300k US.

Of course those numbers are as bullshit as the first set since we would need to convert and compute tax on the gross and I'm not digging up brackets from four years ago. Still.
by mrandish | 2025-05-01 23:32:19+00:00
Execs will continue to default to obfuscating and misleading in testimony as well as minimally complying with court orders until a high-profile exec spends time in jail for criminal contempt. I fear this particular guy isn't senior enough to be the example we really need. While I'm sure he lied and obfuscated, I doubt a VP Finance was really the top decision-maker on "Despite the clear court order, we're going to keep fucking with Fortnite through aggressive non-compliance". I suspect that's an EVP on Tim Cook's staff.

Having spent several years at the top levels of an F500 valley tech company, I'm certain a consistent, broad and aggressive posture like that doesn't happen by accident or any lower than EVP. There was a meeting at some point where the Chief Legal Officer basically laid out the options: A) Give in and do what the court ordered, B) Do most of what the court ordered but drag our feet on all of it and 'accidentally' miss some of it where plausibly deniable, C) Make only token concessions to the order while ensuring the actual intent of the order is blocked, delayed or minimized wherever possible.

Someone with an EVP title picked "C" and until that person spends a couple months in jail on criminal contempt, senior execs will never pick "A". The VP Finance going down isn't enough. Until Tim Cook's staff meeting has an empty EVP chair for several months, none of this is serious. They'll just accelerate this VP Finance's options, bonus the shit out of him and consider his "sacrifice" to be collateral damage.
by Zaheer | 2025-05-01 23:32:34+00:00
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by cldcntrl | 2025-05-01 23:32:36+00:00
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by cldcntrl | 2025-05-01 23:33:08+00:00
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by divtiwari | 2025-05-01 23:33:10+00:00
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by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 23:33:14+00:00
You might want to ask yourself, why didn't you tell stories too? Why did you need to be asked? Why couldn't you take the initiative in sharing about yourselves? Why didn't you interpret the others' behavior as politely not wanting to put you on the spot, where you'd have to answer a question maybe you wouldn't want to?

It's not selfish or rude. It's just a different style: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864532
by dasickis | 2025-05-01 23:33:20+00:00
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