MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-24 14:06:39+00:00
As a frequent hobbyist travel there is so much bad advice in this article.

First, I never ever ever use a third party portal. If things go wrong, now you have to deal with customer service from two places. I know American charges fees if you make changes to your flight that you book through a third party portal.

Second, flights are more expensive two weeks out, and this isn’t pre 2020, as far as I know, unless you buy the cheapest ticket, all airlines let you make changes or cancel flights for an airline credit, If you book directly.

I’m not sure what he is referring to specifically as “basic economy”. But on Delta it means - no refunds not even airline credit, no seat selection, and you don’t earn miles for flying. Economy is the lowest I will go.

I do care about frequent flyer programs. My home airport until 3 years ago was ATL so of course we flew Delta. It’s still our preferred airline because we end up in ATL a few times a year and the only airline that flies into my parents city in south ga is Delta.

With Delta with status (and lounge access via credit card especially in Atlanta) makes everything better.

The issue also is not the variability of time at the airport especially with digital ID, Clear, TSA pre check and even with a check bag either using curb side check in (again Delta in our case) or Sky Priority check in (thanks to status), it’s the time to get to the airport and not worrying about traffic. Being at the airport killing time with my computer, tablet or phone - even if I didn’t have lounge access - is better than worrying about Atlanta traffic when I lived on the other side of the metro area.

> You have a safe upper bound of how long it takes. I agree that adding 30% is mostly safe enough for taxis

That’s true for the most part.

He also mentions not checking bags. I agree with the sentiment. But that is diametrically opposed to buying the cheapest seats where you are last to board and not worrying about status which would get you earlier boarding.
by skwee357 | 2025-08-24 14:06:49+00:00
I basically no longer use Google search for fact checking, product suggestions, or research. Every time I want to get some information, I just prompt perplexity. When I need to find something, I do the same. I only use Google with queries for "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to get opinions of real people on a particular manner.

Now, before you jump on me saying that AI is wrong, this is true. But at the same time, I no longer can be 100% sure that whatever SEO optimized website I land at provides accurate information. If I need solid facts, I usually double check AI with various other sources. For queries like "best keyboard for software engineers", I'd rather get a table with pros/cons from AI rather than landing on whatever affiliate related website is promoted on Google. LLM gives me a good starting point to either dig deeper into particular products, or query further to find more suggestions.

Same for coding. I used to Google "how to split a string in ruby" and land on flame war, or 19 years old, StackOverflow question. Now I can get an updated answer from whatever LLM you prefer with a reference to the official documentation. It works for simple queries, as well as code snippets.

Lastly, I use LLMs to plan trips or gift ideas. I'd just throw in my preferences, and let LLM build a rough plan, from which I can iterate further, or start doing my own research.
by petertodd | 2025-08-24 14:06:57+00:00
> The tracking itself for air traffic control purposes has an obvious good purpose.

There's probably a way that the system could achieve the same safety benefits without invading privacy. Obviously, this FAA list is part of that. But there's probably even better tech that could achieve this too.

I'm not an aviation expert so I'll leave the details to those people. But we should be trying to find ways to improve the privacy of this system.

Give it time and people will try to justify real time tracking of all car traffic for "safety" reasons too...
by physicles | 2025-08-24 14:07:21+00:00
MQTT and Kafka solve different problems. At my current company, we use both.

Kafka isn’t a queue. It’s overkill to use it as one.

Kafka is a great place to persist data for minutes, hours or days before it’s processed. It fully decouples producers and consumers. It’s also stupidly complex and very hard to operate reliably in an HA configuration.

MQTT is good for when data needs to leave or enter your cloud, but persistence is bolted on (at least it is in mosquitto), so a crash means lost data even though you got a PUBACK.
by jacknews | 2025-08-24 14:08:30+00:00
AGI is a science problem.

We've lucked into these amazing abilities by just scaling.

But we don't really understand how they work.

And they are obviously missing a piece, some self-reflection, or continuous-loop operation perhaps, which we again don't understand.

Perhaps we'll do all this engineering and luck the solution again, but I think probably not.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-24 14:08:36+00:00
> I don't know why I'm being mass-downvoted.

You aren't, and your post hasn't even existed for a tenth of one day, give it at least a week or so to settle out before raising your blood pressure about a score you might've had for a fraction of a moment before it changed.

That said, regardless of the (imo probable) correctness of your theory, commentary about being downvoted runs contrary to HN's posting guidelines, so you might expect downvotes in the future for that alone.
by rehathia | 2025-08-24 14:08:41+00:00
Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn engineers, primarily Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao, around 2010.

It was later open-sourced in 2011 and became a top-level project under the Apache Software Foundation in 2012.

The creators went on to co-found Confluent, a company that provides commercial support and enterprise features around Kafka.
by 4ad | 2025-08-24 14:08:46+00:00
> While scientists have considered accessing the liquid to further analyze the content, as of 2024, the bottle has remained unopened because of concerns about how the liquid would react when exposed to air.

...This seems like a trivial non-concern? Just open it in an inert atmosphere?

> While it has reportedly lost its ethanol content

Why, and more importantly how would it lose its ethanol content?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-24 14:09:16+00:00
I learned 20 years ago to never share code online with programmers when it comes to making a point (or, sadly, asking for help.)

I promise if someone posted human made code and said it was LLM generated, it would still be nit-picked to death. I swear 75% of developers ride around on a high horse that their style of doing things is objectively the best and everyone else is a knuckle dragger.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-24 14:10:32+00:00
>The whole idea of supressing stupidity in a democracy leads to some sort of elitist society.

there's nothing wrong with this. Stable democracies tend to be republican and elitist. One of the reasons why the US has been, until recently, an exceptionally stable country was because decision making was largely insulated from the whims of the public. Democracy properly understood is best used as a tool for legitimacy and as a check against the worst abuses of power, not actually as a tool for decision making.

Having the inmates run the asylum is generally a bad idea, we've known this since Plato.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-08-24 14:13:24+00:00
Cars are being tracked at significant scale. Police and private entities commonly use ALPR systems and that data gets fed back to the manufacturer for resale on the capitalist surveillance market. Combine that with an IMSI catcher and you can derive identities without access to the license plate database. This works in conjunction with vehicles that have cellular modems sending GPS position to the manufacturer, for resale, and phones that send GPS position to the network operator, for resale. The non-flying public is extensively tracked.
by mitchellh | 2025-08-24 14:13:41+00:00
> There's probably a way that the system could achieve the same safety benefits without invading privacy.

Probably, but the FAA and aviation in general leans towards "use the dumbest, most reliable technology possible" (for good reason, this isn't a dig at that). A relatively cheap wing-attachable beacon that beep boops on a frequency with no handshakes, encryption, etc. is one of the simplest possible thing.

Look at the fact that piston engines in aircraft still use magnetos and manual mixture controls. :) There's a ton of literature on that, we've had real world examples of more reliable alternatives, and yet... Luckily magento replacements such as SureFly are making some headway (after long, long long last). But they're a tiny tiny part of aviation today.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-24 14:13:48+00:00
Agree completely, between myself and my wife as an authorized user, I gladly pay the almost $2000 a year in annual fees for the Delta Reserve and the Amex Platinum for lounge access in almost every scenario.

The Reserve easily pays for itself with the once a year round trip companion pass good for anywhere in the US, Caribbeans, Mexico or Central America and the hotel credit and the Platinum the same with the credits.

My wife and I have averaged around a flight per month since Covid. With a lot of random trips back home to ATL where Delta has nine lounges
by jolmg | 2025-08-24 14:14:23+00:00
> I would find it unreasonable for anyone to think that who ever they are calling is able to take a phone call at all times. Sometimes I am driving, [etc.]

Hence why I said,

>> It also depends on whether you call back, in case you were driving or something.

and

>> If they didn't text back

Everyone understands that picking up a call is not always practical, and many times accepting the call itself is not really as important as accepting the prompt for contact at some vague, near point in the future.

> If you don't set guidelines for your own time and attention, someone else will do so for you.

Everything said is about implied/default expectations. If you set guidelines and they're accepted (it's really a negotiation), then those are the expectations. That's why I said "depends on your relationship with them".
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by amanaplanacanal | 2025-08-24 14:15:12+00:00
You got downvoted so I gave you an upvote to compensate.

We seem to all be working with conflicting ideas. If we are strict materialists, and everything is physical, then in reality we don't have free will and this whole discussion is just the universe running on automatic.

That may indeed be true, but we are all pretending that it isn't. Some big cognitive dissidence happening here.
by dahart | 2025-08-24 14:15:44+00:00
Personal Home Page is crappier than PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. :P Reputations take a long time to fix, and PHP earned a bad rep for its security problems around ~2006. It’s also a language that doesn’t worry about being pure and covering every minor conceivable inconsistency that never comes up in practice like the rabbit holes some other languages go down. PHP is more focused on just getting things done, so don’t take the mockery personally, in a way it’s a compliment.
by hamdingers | 2025-08-24 14:16:07+00:00
I previously worked at a company where everyone got a budget of ~$2000. The only requirement was you had to get a mac (to make it easier on IT I assume), the rest was up to you. Some people bought a $2000 macbook pro, some bought a $600 mac mini and used the rest on displays and other peripherals.

Equality doesn't have to mean uniformity.
by alphazard | 2025-08-24 14:16:40+00:00
Like modeling everything as graphs, it is often a trap. Just because a model is flexible enough to capture all of your use cases doesn't mean you should use it. In fact you should prefer less flexible more constrained models that are simpler.

Distributed ledgers like Bitcoin do store transitions as events, and that's because nodes need the transitions to valid the next state. So you might say that Bitcoin is a widely run piece of software, using an event driven architecture.

Not every system needs to have all of it's state transitions available for for efficient reading. And often times you can derive the state transition from the previous and next state if you really need them (Git does that). Even though Git can compute all of the state transitions for the system, it doesn't store events, it stores snapshots.
by glenstein | 2025-08-24 14:17:05+00:00
I don't know if there are particular good ground-level solutions to infrastructure (mesh networks can have their application but are difficult to drive critical mass adoption and every square inch of mesh network has "last mile" problems).

Ideally you would have good government involvement to enforce traffic neutrality, but that's out the door. I'm sure this has been talked to death but ground level P2P infrastructure is what I would be rooting for.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-24 14:17:08+00:00
That’s just the opposite from what I have found. Given the choice between the Delta lounge and the Amex lounge, I always choose Delta lounges. They also seem to be less conveniently located.

That’s especially true in ATL with a lounge at each gate for delta more or less. I still don’t know where the Centurion lounge is in LAX as often as I’ve been there.
by petertodd | 2025-08-24 14:17:21+00:00
Yes. A good example is the continued use of AM modulation for aviation radio. While bandwidth inefficient, the failure modes of AM modulation are easy to understand and predictable, which is good for safety.

But, even then, there may still be something clever that can be done to improve privacy without something as heavy-weight as, say, encryption. We should be open to the possibility.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-24 14:17:34+00:00
Certainly not.

Truth is, there are no longer any dead giveaways, let alone any where you can really catch an AI red-handed.

Chat-GPT had, and still has, its quirks: Delves, "underscoring __" (and variants thereof, like "highlighting ___") "it's not just __, it's __," em-dashes, and various characteristic structural and word choices. (It could hardly ever resist ending its responses with a summary paragraph.)

But some of these have been patched out. (I don't think I've seen "delve" in more than a year!) And, especially in GPT-5, the others have become less common and less obvious than they used to be.

Besides, DeepSeek and Kimi-2 write in a completely different and more natural style. Gemini 2.5 is also a very natural writer with a generic style that has fewer identifying characteristics.

So it has become very difficult to identify AI for certain...
by rakejake | 2025-08-24 14:17:50+00:00
Digesting a big code base in a new job.

Claude and Gemini have been very useful in helping me come up to speed on a code base written in Go (a language I have used before but not for many years). Figuring out where the business logic lies, how the dependency injection is done, how the tests are written, what overall design pattern is being etc.

Of course, I could have done all this without LLMs but it would have taken several weeks/months longer. Letting the LLM handle the boilerplate and framework jargon lets me focus on the business logic and the design patterns, and helps me contribute much faster. But LLMs do often make mistakes so it's not like I blindly trust the output. They don't replace your colleagues in terms of being the ultimate source of truth. But it has speeded up the learning process, no doubt.

Also, when writing code I provide the style guide to the LLM as context and have it review the code.
by physicles | 2025-08-24 14:17:53+00:00
Totally agree with this. I’ll add that replaying your data needs special tooling to 1) find the correct offsets on each topic, and 2) spin up whatever daemon will consume that data out-of-band from normal processing, and shut it down when completed.

I don’t remember where I read this, but someone made the observation that writing a stream processing system is about 3x harder than writing a batch system, exactly for all the reasons you mentioned. I’m looking at replacing some of our Kafka usage with a clickhouse table that’s ordered and partitioned by insertion time, because if I want to do stuff with that data stream, at least I can do a damn SQL query.
by mrkramer | 2025-08-24 14:17:59+00:00
In capitalism everybody specializes in something, retailers in trading, logistics in storage and transport and producers in producing. The most efficient way to improve all that is to have vertically integrated business where you do all of the above. In my country we had one big retailer like that but it became so huge and in the end it imploded. And yes I agree that capitalism is exploitive and I think that instead of working for salary people should work for equity. I would certainly be more motivated if I own piece of the business instead of merely getting a salary.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-24 14:18:09+00:00
Some broadcasters do already have this feature. For example if you watch adult content (doesn’t have to be nudity, could be violent shows or other content that isnt considered appropriate for children) on SkyTV (UK satellite) then then you get promoted for a pin if its before 9pm.

The thing I referred to in my previous comment is more of a historical thing before smart TVs and similar tech. Current RF technology is still just an evolution of the same signals sent 70+ years ago. So they’d moderate content via scheduling. “Terrestrial TV” still works that way today.
by sojournerc | 2025-08-24 14:18:11+00:00
As someone who is 6' 3" paying more for economy premium absolutely makes sense. I get that others might not see the value but I enjoy not having my knees smashed. You also get off the plane faster which can matter for connections.

Get an airline credit card for one based in your city and checked bags are no longer a cost. Aside from a few minutes to drop and pick up. Usually there are other perks like food and beverage discounts on the plane, etc. I fly to the Caribbean once a year on the miles we accumulate.
by breuleux | 2025-08-24 14:18:23+00:00
I think there is potential to do something like that with template strings [1] (upcoming feature in Python 3.14). The choice of {} for interpolation isn't ideal because any code with dict and set literals becomes super awkward, but besides that, it could be super interesting for codegen.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/
by sebastiennight | 2025-08-24 14:19:55+00:00
Adding "it's a fact" to claims does not make them impossible to disprove. You made a wild generalization (with the assumed meaning that ALL people want X) and the GP shared examples of people consuming "not X".

You can also see, on this same thread, people explicitly building experiments of uncurated content, which means they want it so much that they are willing to spend much effort building it themselves.

What would it take for you to consider that listing what you want does not necessarily imply a "fact" that all people want the same?
by wadudu | 2025-08-24 14:19:58+00:00
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by ajmurmann | 2025-08-24 14:20:31+00:00
"The food at the airport is not ideal, and it is more expensive than usual"

This one really bothers me. The Portland airport mandates all food prices to be the same as at the businesses off-airport locations. As a passenger that makes it really great. As a free-market worshipper I have some concerns about this but it seems to work really well in practice and we get excellent options. Unfortunately, other airports don't rely on free-market competition to result in great offerings either but instead usually have most vendors operated by the same concession company like HMSHost, SSP Group. This gives a captive audience to a quasi-monopolist. It's the easiest situation to avoid a monopoly or cartel situation and foster competition, yet most airports seem to either be operated by people who don't care, crooks or idiots.
by danaris | 2025-08-24 14:20:46+00:00
That's effectively a semantic argument, redefining "consciousness" to be something that we don't definitively have.

I know that I am conscious. I exist, I am self-aware, I think and act and make decisions.

Therefore, consciousness exists, and outside of thought experiments, it's absurd to claim that all humans without significant brain damage are not also conscious.

Now, maybe consciousness is fully an emergent property of several parts of our brain working together in ways that, individually, look more like those models you describe. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
by netfortius | 2025-08-24 14:21:08+00:00
This part caught my attention: "People being flown out of the country by ICE are frequently shackled for the duration of the journey...". It made me think on how America was built: people forcibly put in shackles and brought in, from another continent, to work for free (for some), then other people shackled, when no longer of use (to some), when forcibly moved out.
by mannykannot | 2025-08-24 14:21:35+00:00
This is a myth: in Germany, as in many other countries, copyright covers only specific expression; you cannot copyright either the name of a historical person or a topic of discourse. The videos were briefly taken down as an automatic response to a complaint, but it seems the complaint was not upheld and the videos were restored.

At the time, Germany had a law censoring insulting comments about foreign heads of state, but that only applied to living ones (and maybe only those in office at the time?) That law was repealed in 2018.

The videos remained blocked in Turkey, but on account of a specific law banning criticism of Ataturk, not copyright.
by inktrace | 2025-08-24 14:21:43+00:00
Body: I recently bought an Acer laptop and immediately ran into something confusing:

Pressing 0 gave me /.

Some keys only worked if I held down Fn, making it feel like I needed two hands to type basic input.

Switching between EN (US/UK) and RU layouts didn’t fix it.

After digging, I discovered it wasn’t a hardware failure but a mix of:

Fn Lock behavior (the laptop booted with Fn mode engaged).

Layout mismatches (stickers were RU/US, but the physical board was UK).

Windows quietly defaulting to Dvorak in the background.

I’ve put together a small open-source utility that:

Detects when a laptop keyboard is stuck in Fn Lock.

Shows you the real scan codes coming from each key.

Maps them against the OS layout you’ve chosen, so you can see why 0 became /.

Gives a one-click option to reset to sane defaults (US or UK).

Try it here: [https://github.com/inktrace81/acer-keyboard-debugger] (no signup, just a small executable; runs in a console window)

I’d love feedback on:

How useful this is for people who troubleshoot laptops (Acer, Lenovo, HP all have Fn quirks).

Whether adding “automatic fix” features (e.g. turning off Dvorak or Intl layouts) is safe or too intrusive.

Any additional keyboard weirdness I should cover (e.g. swapped Ctrl/Fn keys, BIOS settings, etc.).

This is very early-stage — but it already saved me from typing one-handed with Fn held down .