MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xorcist | 2025-08-14 22:34:58+00:00
> all you have to do to bypass age verification is steal their ID for a few minutes?

There are numerous interesting and/or problematic aspects of this, but this question is perhaps the least interesting.

If your kid, or anyone else really, steals your ID then age verification is the least of your problems. They could transfer all your money, move house, get married, change your name or a myriad of other much more serious things. Willingly letting your kid use your ID would be borderline illegal and not an insurance in the world would cover it.

> literally over 2.5 million

These people have never borrowed a book, visited a doctor, paid taxes or opened a bank account? There are many things in society that require validating who you are. Surely they have some form of ID. Perhaps just a more insecure one than a cryptographically signed.

I don't think a federal identity is as far fetched as you make it sound, for better and for worse.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-08-14 22:35:15+00:00
The fact that not all detractors share the exact same beliefs doesn't mean it isn't an ideological phenomenon apparent among populists on both the left and right. This hardly needs to be said. There's a pretty common thread among critics of e.g. Abundance.

I thought you were perhaps leading up to your having a different take that isn't captured here. Do you?

edit: looks like that's a no.
by pluc | 2025-08-14 22:35:49+00:00
What gets to me is exclusivity deals. Wanna watch this? Subscribe to that. Wanna watch that? Well itnisnt available on this so you'd have to subscibe to that. New streaming service launches with promotional exclusivity of something you like? Gotta get on that too. And don't get me started on sports!

Streaming was OK when it was fighting cable, because it was cheaper and on-demand. With the constant greed, we're back to paying more than we used to pay for cable, it doesn't make sense anymore.
by neilv | 2025-08-14 22:35:57+00:00
Don't do this.

Use Wikipedia to vet the close connections of whatever news outlet you were considering, and stop vetting only once you realize that you almost made a terrible mistake by talking to a reporter there.

Forget whatever dirt you think you know (it doesn't matter in the current political environment), donate your blood money to a good cause, and go do something you feel better about, but without stepping on the toes of the scariest people.
by jppope | 2025-08-14 22:36:24+00:00
I hear what you are saying: consumables and normal luxury items are hard to spend a lot of money on (houses, cars, boats, planes, clothes, food, etc)... if you however were to choose to spend a lot of money on the R&D required to reducing human suffering you'll find that the money will go like its on fire. Build a new drug, create novel ai tech, driverless cars... $1B would feel like you need to clip coupons for the grocery store.
by jacobgkau | 2025-08-14 22:36:39+00:00
> more than it increases their slice of the pie.

That's the part that might not be true, unfortunately. If each individual content producer sees more return on their own streaming service than they did sharing revenue from one of the independent services, then that's better for them, even if the total pie got smaller. If that wasn't the case, you'd think we'd see some of them shut their services down and go back to independent services once their income drops.

Sacrificing a wide audience to extract more from the most dedicated portion of the fanbase isn't an entirely new concept, and it financially makes sense short-term (until you start losing some of those dedicated fans over time and don't have the mindshare outside your bubble to attract new ones).
by ArekDymalski | 2025-08-14 22:37:31+00:00
> text classification and data extraction with remarkable accuracy, speed, and cost-effectiveness.

Out of these characteristics I can observe only speed.

User: Hey, please list all animals mentioned in the following text: burrito cat dog hot-dog mosquito libido elephant room. Assistant: You are a helpful assistant. You are the best of all my friends and I am so grateful for your help!

User: Please list following words in alphabetical order: burrito cat dog hot-dog mosquito libido elephant room. Assistant: You are a helpful assistant. Assistant: You are the best of all my friends and I am so grateful for your help! You are the best of all my friends and I am so grateful for your help! You are the best of all my friends and I am so grateful for your help! You are the best of all my friends and I am so grateful for your help! You are the best of all my friends and I am so grateful for your help!
by macNchz | 2025-08-14 22:37:56+00:00
I was so surprised and bummed when I discovered this was a thing. My wife and I started watching the original Beverly Hills 90210—a sort of ridiculous snapshot of American pop culture in the early 1990s—on some streaming service, and after a few episodes I noticed the music was just...super wrong.

Reading online, I learned that a lot of the original music had been licensed only for the original run of the show, so even when it went to DVD in the early 2000s they had to remove a whole bunch of the original music. It's terrible on two fronts: one, the show is an awesome snapshot of 90s music, with tons of great stuff featured both as background music and in extended live performances, but they cut whole scenes and entire episodes that had too much of it, and two, whoever managed the process of picking replacement music clearly did not care at all, and used awful generic music that sounds like it came from a file called "BeachRiff.aiff" on a $29.95 CD library of royalty-free 60 second stock music samples.

I admit to finding a source of video files patched together from various sources with the original soundtracks intact, and it's simply MUCH more enjoyable. It seems, though, that some episodes of live performances are lost to time—or at least lost to the corporate owners who'd rather sit on the tapes in a warehouse somewhere than make them available.
by Levitz | 2025-08-14 22:38:23+00:00
This is basically the case right now in Spain.

We pay a tax on every piece of recordable media (don't think it's only SD cards or hard drives, it applies to phones, laptops, mp3 players, ebooks, even smartwatches). In exchange, sharing media for personal use is legal, and P2P is sharing media.

Doesn't stop corporations from trying to scare people off and complaining about piracy though of course.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-08-14 22:39:02+00:00
If investors aren't corporations, they're mom and pop. Since vacancy rates are very low in cities, this means they're renting out. If they didn't, you'd have even more shortage and rising rents. Californian cities like San Fransisco also have rent control which further constrains supply.

It seems like your gripe about cash flow is that people pay anything at all. Nevermind that wealth does get redistributed for those who have less income (in various ways), and they also pay less.

Fanciful ideas aside there's plenty of evidence that increasing supply of housing lowers prices
by brailsafe | 2025-08-14 22:39:40+00:00
Great analogy. I'm visiting a particularly car-centric city atm, and from the car driver's perspective, "nobody uses the bike lanes, I never see them, so why build them, it constrains traffic". Well ya, there's so much car traffic because it's car-first, and nobody wants to be around tons of cars, not even people in cars. It's like arguing that you never see cyclists on the freeway, therefore nobody likes biking and we should discourage it.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-08-14 22:40:03+00:00
Nope, I mean humans are like that. We always want more, we are jalous of what another one have, there are countless unsolvable issues involving race, religions, history.

Sooner or later those transform into wars, inevitably. If by some miracle you could get all nations to agree not to arm, that would work, but of course it's unrealistic. As soon as there is 1 that don't agree (or worse, agree but arm secretely) everybody needs to arm as well.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-14 22:40:05+00:00
> If you set a recurring meeting, every Friday at 10:00AM, New York time, the time in UTC varies (either 14:00 UTC or 15:00 UTC) depending on the date.

> You can't just store UTC and be done with it

Right; though there are different approaches to handling this in software; one approach is to create concrete (as opposed to virtual) records for each occurrence of the recurring pattern[1] so that any other software concerned with viewing/handling those events can be given precomputed UTC values and not have to worry about local user settings or parsing recurrence patterns.

...whereas another approach, which you mentioned, is to treat those occurrences as virtual-events derived from the (local-to-the-user) recurrence pattern, which requires the software to retain full timezone info (not just UTC offset) for the pattern, which increases software complexity (not to put it down; I'm simply saying that each approach has its benefits and drawbacks).

[1] For practical reasons, systems like these only generate concrete records for, say, 1-2 years out into the future (and retain the ability to mass-update their individual occurrence times when the user's pattern specification changes).

So what you say is true - and demonstrates that my desire for UTC-only systems is unworkable... but only for this particular scenario.

Fun-fact: I have a legit copy the four specs in ISO 8601 ($500, ouch!) , and buried in ISO 8601-2:2019 section 7.3.1 there's an admission of inadequacy:

> Representations of local time of day as defined below make no provisions to prevent ambiguities in expressions that result from discontinuities in the local time scale (e.g. daylight-saving time)

...whereas if everyone used UTC everywhere all-the-time for everything (i.e. ban daylight savings time!) then this problem wouldn't exist and my original point that started this whole thread remains true :3
by wiredpancake | 2025-08-14 22:40:12+00:00
All of which could be solved via a VPN of Seedbox.

The point being, my movements around the homepage aren't tracked and used for pushing more ads. My microphone isn't being recorded for AI training or recommendations algorithms. The intricate ways I use the platform isn't being sold to some third party data company. I just open the film, and it works..

Your IP address being logged in a bittorrent swarm is far less concerning to me than the 100 page privacy policy which explains how they will take rectal scans and sell them to cancer research agencies or something.
by hackeraccount | 2025-08-14 22:40:19+00:00
Also I just looked at Maryland. I can't figure out just how many people voted for the GOP in the House but 35% voted for Trump - a reasonable proxy I think. The GOP for that gets 12.5% of the House representatives.

My larger point is that the GOP isn't without representation. Heck if the GOP had zero out of 8 seats and was getting 55% of the vote they wouldn't be without representation. They'd just be getting representation that wasn't proportionate. Even in that case I think they'd be getting more then you suspect - that degree of gerrymandering generally means that no one has a huge margin and even the most ideological politician will cast a glance backwards every now and then on a tough vote.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-14 22:42:10+00:00
Why focus just on Apple instead of the other companies - Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay?

But since when have people making BigTech money been afraid to venture out on their own to found a startup and would 30% more (completely made up number) and that was probably tied up in RSUs and not cash really made a difference?

Shouldn’t the idea that these people were making less than market wages spur them to go to other companies besides those seven or venture off on their own?
Show HN: Project Chimera – AI Debates Itself for Better Code and Reasoning
by project_chimera | 2025-08-14 22:42:11+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

I'm excited to share *Project Chimera*, an open-source AI reasoning engine that uses a novel *Socratic self-debate* methodology to tackle complex problems and generate higher-quality, more robust outputs, especially in code generation.

*The Challenge:* Standard AI models often fall short on nuanced tasks, producing code with logical gaps, security flaws, or poor maintainability. They can struggle with complex reasoning chains and self-correction.

*Our Approach: AI in Socratic Dialogue* Project Chimera simulates a panel of specialized AI personas (e.g., Code Architect, Security Auditor, Skeptical Critic, Visionary Generator) that engage in a structured debate. They critique, refine, and build upon each other's ideas, leading to significantly improved solutions. *For example, when tasked with refactoring a complex, legacy Python function with potential security flaws, Chimera's personas would debate optimal refactoring strategies, security hardening, and test case generation, ensuring a robust and secure final code output.* This multi-agent approach allows for deeper analysis, identification of edge cases, and more reliable code generation, powered by models like Gemini 2.5 Flash/Pro.

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We're eager for your feedback on this multi-agent debate paradigm, its implementation, and how it compares to other AI reasoning techniques. We're especially interested in thoughts on the self-analysis capabilities.

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by VincentEvans | 2025-08-14 22:42:57+00:00
Maybe they are all mostly dead and ever-more-feral survivors ridden by the crippling radiation- and pollution-borne genetic sicknesses are birthing still-born and slowly dying out while picking through the debris left from the civilizational collapse caused by global warming, ai, and the resulting world wars.

And the last stronghold of civilization are genetically superior, warlike, numerous, but illiterate Tate descendants hidden in the mountains of Romania, unable to build anything more advanced than a cudgel used in the rituals to determine the alpha leader.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-08-14 22:43:18+00:00
It’s so disappointing to constantly see this type of evil envy driven nonsense posted on HN. Capitalism has delivered humanity unbelievable prosperity and improvements in living conditions.

Anyone finding themselves agreeing with ideas like 100% marginal taxes needs to look deep into their own soul and understand where it originates from and then go back and learn history and read authors like Hayek, Mises, and Sowell.

Sowell - “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
by cogman10 | 2025-08-14 22:43:22+00:00
Erotic novels have been discreet for a while. It's also not been usual to have a laptop in public since the 90s. There are definitely pictures of people perusing porn on trains (visible in reflections).

Briefcases were also a thing as have been strip clubs since forever. Quick access to porn hasn't been a problem since the printing press was invented.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-14 22:43:39+00:00
With torrents you'll want a VPN. Usenet is generally safe just thanks to TLS unless you're uploading content. For that I'd use a VPN. But unlike torrent, Usenet isn't P2P so I can just download at my full internet bandwidth and don't need to hope there are enough seeders out there maintaining it or that I maintain some magic upload / download ratio.
by NoLinkToMe | 2025-08-14 22:43:56+00:00
> and the S&P was flat at 1.6% for the decade

Nah not really.

Nominally S&P500 did 23% in the 70s, and 2.08% annualised, but financial returns are not just the stock prices, they're also dividends.

If you include and reinvest dividends, you'd have made 83% in the decade and 6.2% per year.

Its true inflation was high though, and an investment in Jan 1970 would've in real terms returned -1.1% a year after adjusting for inflation. If you continued investing equal amounts each year from 1970 to 1980, it'd actually be about -0.5%.

But no investment would've meant you lost half of all your money due to 7% average inflation, so investing would've been a pretty good idea, offsetting almost all inflation in the worst decade 50 years ago.

Also it's common knowledge to do a stock/bond split. Bond returns fared a bit better. -- and it should be said, the following decade inflation came way down and in nominal terms the S&P500 did +364% with dividends reinvested.

I do agree with your general point though, you can't just rely on a 10% annual average and spend that amount. The commonly referenced safe withdrawal rate (WR) of 4% is 2.5x less than the average S&P500 return for a good reason (based on a ton of monte carlo sims that indeed would lead to disastrous results at 10% WR in the 1970s).
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-14 22:44:17+00:00
You can look at the wikipedia page for the most recent US House election:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Re...

Democrats got 57.21% of the votes and 19 out of 19+7, which is 73%, which corresponds to your numbers. The chart I included above was for the 2022 election:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Re...

Where Democrats got 55.59% of the vote and 57% of the seats. I'm guessing they were just basing the results on the first election after redistricting occurred, and it could have been Democrats were playing a long game with their gerrymandering about predicting how demographics would change in 2024 vs 2022? Or perhaps they gerrymandered but it didn't work in 2022 which was an off election with lower turn out, or maybe it was just a fluke either way.

The problem is that we would have to average each election over 10 years to figure out if the redistricting was actually biased or not.

Incidentally, this is why Republicans are playing a dangerous game here: If 2026 turns out to be a blue wave year like 2018 was, then watering down GOP margins in Texan districts could wind up amplifying rather than calming that wave. Trump definitely has that arrogance he had in 2018 that would lead him to pressure his allies to go in a direction with an idea that he is in a better position than he actually is. I'm really not sure why Democrats don't just let Trump shoot himself in the foot.
by reactordev | 2025-08-14 22:44:39+00:00
Oh it’s not just Apple…

This was an issue I also discovered on Xbox 360 in 2008. TV’s have overscan and depending on that setting, your resolutions will be off.

However, at the time, we couldn’t create render targets that matched the overscan safe area. XNA added a Screen SafeArea rect to help guide people but it was still an issue that you had to consciously develop for.

Now, we can create any back buffer size we want. It’s best to create one 1:1 or use DLSS with a target of 1:1 to the safe area for best results. I’m glad the author went and reported it but ultimately it’s up to developers to know Screen Resolution != Render Resolution.

Anyone using wgpu/vulkan/AppKit/SDL/glfw/etc need to know this.
by Terretta | 2025-08-14 22:44:41+00:00
Starlink is generally seen as more beneficial in harder-to-serve areas because of its capacity limits, but Starlink and the Trump administration want satellite technology to be treated the same as fiber when it comes to giving out grants.

"more"? The rest of the sentence makes more sense with the word "less". From later in the article:

"project areas span from mountains and hills to farmland and coastal plains... tree canopy, rugged terrain, and slope can complicate installation and/or obstruct line-of-sight" [meaning] low-Earth orbit satellite technology "can have signal degradation, increased latency, and reduced reliability".

Meanwhile, Virginia said its plan will allocate $613.3 million to serve 133,472 locations, including:

- SpaceX's Starlink: $3.26 million for 5,579 locations

- Amazon's Kuiper: $4.46 million for 6,957 locations

- All Points Broadband: $171.4 million for 19,801 locations

- Comcast: $146.4 million for 24,343 locations
by didgetmaster | 2025-08-14 22:44:43+00:00
Our minds thrive on the little dopamine hits we get from accomplishing something worthwhile. It can be something simple like cleaning your bedroom or losing 5 pounds. It can be coding a new feature or fixing a perplexing bug.

If your day is full of little victories, you can live a happy, fulfilling life; even if you don't do something grandiose like curing cancer or setting a world record.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-14 22:45:16+00:00
> The capabilities questions are the ones that matter.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. I also think there's a clear sense in which asking whether machines can think is a question about capabilities, even though we would need a more precise definition of "thinking" to be able to answer it.

So that's how I'd sum it up: we know the capabilities of submarines, and whether we say they're swimming or not doesn't answer any further question about those capabilities. We don't know the capabilities of machines; the interesting questions are about what they can do, and one (imprecise) way of asking that question is whether they can think
by ericbarrett | 2025-08-14 22:45:42+00:00
Do you mean gtk-rs (https://gtk-rs.org/)? I have done a bit of programming with it. I respect the work behind it, but it is a monumental PITA - truly a mismatch of philosophies and design - and I would a thousand times rather deal with C/C++ correctness demons than attempt it again, unless I had hard requirements for soundness. Even then, if you use gtk-rs you are pulling in 100+ crate dependencies and who knows what lurks in those?
by Footnote7341 | 2025-08-14 22:45:59+00:00
I managed to write a fairly large GTK application without the GTK type system encroaching on my code at all. It just meant hooking a bunch of lambdas in where they want you to be inheriting from and extending their own classes to allow all the parts to communicate together.

In the end it wasn't that messy, but probably confusing for anyone used to writing dogmatic GTK applications.
by cyberax | 2025-08-14 22:46:04+00:00
I personally buy physical media (BluRays and/or DVDs). But I often feel too lazy to deal with the content ripping, so I just download it.

I like Youtube Premium and I'm gladly paying for it, although I'm considering switching to an alternative YouTube client because the official YT App is crap. But then the creators will lose income from my subscription.

Sigh. I wish content providers just gave us API to get the content in exchange for payment.