MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jermaustin1 | 2025-09-24 17:27:12+00:00
I flew a LOT pre-covid, and still more than average post-covid (2-4 times a year), and primarily via United (thanks to racked-up miles from the Continental days) out of Houston/NYC/London, and I have never had any issues with delays or cancellations - In 2009, a Continental flight did have me circling IAH for 2 hours while they troubleshot a landing gear malfunction before landing again and switching planes, though, but that is the only issue I remember, and I was flying 2-5 flights/week at that point between HOU/NYC/LAX/DEN.

The handful of times I've flown Southwest have been slightly less than perfect, but some of that was user error not understanding how Southwest worked compared to normal carriers.

I don't want to discount yours, or the thousands upon thousands of reports about United or Southwest, but in my experience, it has been pretty solid on both counts.
by daedrdev | 2025-09-24 17:27:33+00:00
I think too many people starting companies dream of getting bought rather than running a profitable business. They care far more about financial games rather than the complex details of say their products manufacturing that matter most (instead relying on a third party in china who arguably is the more important partner). I don’t know how saas relates to this problem.

This is HN though so my complaints are ironic for sure
by Tade0 | 2025-09-24 17:27:36+00:00
> - Would TSMC have gotten as far if Apple couldn't reliably buy out months of capacity on the next node, bankrolling TSMC's tech development?

TSMC would have had other customers. And if not them, then e.g. Samsung or Intel would have something to offer.

Sure, without this investment the pace of development wouldn't be as fast, but are chips from e.g. a decade ago already utterly useless? Of course not. Life would be largely the same, only somewhat slower.

Perhaps without hardware updates we would finally start thinking long and hard about performance optimisations?
by westurner | 2025-09-24 17:27:37+00:00
> As of 2023, less than 1% of dedicated hydrogen production is low-carbon, i.e. blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, and hydrogen produced from biomass.

There is at least one large green hydrogen producer.

I don't know how that changes the total energy problems of hydrogen production and storage. Is it that new methods of hydrogen production have more efficiency?

Let's hope for more green hydrogen production.

A plentiful catalyst like Aluminum might make more green hydrogen, for which there are numerous applications like deoxidizing aluminum and deoxidizing reduced graphene oxide wafers for semiconductor and superconductor production.
by tavavex | 2025-09-24 17:27:47+00:00
Is that a bad thing? Democracies, even if flawed, are accountable to their citizens at least to an extent. Their power structures aren't dictatorial, like in a company, and can be steered and course-corrected. Private companies are accountable to no one, their only motivator and reason for existence is profit. If they're allowed to run our society, the outcome that we're seemingly inching towards, there will be nothing to stop their inevitable abuse for the sake of value extraction.
by dasil003 | 2025-09-24 17:28:25+00:00
This is an easy reaction to have in an internet forum, and of course it will get a lot of support because it resonates with the rank and file, so you'll naturally get a lot of internet points at places like HN and LinkedIn.

But as you rise in the org chart things get more nuanced and complicated. First, you have to pick your battles. You can stand up for precisely as much as your reputation allows, and in a large corporation that is always pretty small when it comes to ingrained culture or explicit leadership mandates.

Second, business realities and the end of ZIRP are something that a whole generation of software developers have been sheltered from, but is nevertheless a real thing that is not purely a result of greedy management. I started working in 2000, and had a decade under my belt leading teams and becoming CTO of a Web 2.0 era startup before I made as much money as new grads expect to earn today fresh out of school.

I am thankful for that time though, because being in a small company truly flattens and aligns things so every single person understands the business stakes because it's an open book. At scale, leadership empathy and rank and file business understanding inevitably break down, and middle managements job is to satisfice between them as much as possible while still recognizing what pays the bills. Ultimately as an employee of a large company you have to see past the cognitive dissonance and corporate speak, and make a call on whether you believe in the leadership or not. If you don't, then your best bet is to move on, grandstanding for the sake of reputation with the burnt out and the jaded doesn't actually benefit anyone.
by claviska | 2025-09-24 17:28:27+00:00
Oh, hey. I made that :D

I’ve been quietly working on this for the last two years. It started as a creative outlet and a way to discover and learn modern Web APIs. It ended up as an addiction.

I built Quiet from scratch to improve my design skills. To learn new APIs. To try different approaches that may or may not in my main focus, which is Web Awesome.

I learned so many new things building it. It let me explore newer APIs such as `color-mix()`, the Popover API, and Element Internals. It let me use newer CSS features such as `:has()` and nesting before they were baseline. It taught me about color, especially OKLAB and OKLCH, which is still a mysterious box of wonder, but slightly less intimidating now.

Quiet has given me the freedom to explore ideas that make me a better developer and designer, many of which would be out of scope for a more established product.

I’d love to hear what you think, and I'm happy to answer any questions!
by lifexplorer | 2025-09-24 17:28:32+00:00
I used Stella to explore and develop my thoughts around the “junk paper” issue in academic research publications, and I came out the other side with a better and deeper understanding of the problem. Stella gently prodded me to think about how my new understanding might translate into a solution as well. The dialogue was so cathartic for me that I slept extra well that night. Well done on your prototype. I hope that you develop this Socratic approach to thinking and learning further.
by tracerbulletx | 2025-09-24 17:28:52+00:00
Yes, also there's science the social system, and science the method. I'm only really speaking about the portion where senses are prone to a bunch of different failure modes, and science is a way to compile a bunch of sensory observations as a form of parity check or error correction mechanism. Science the social system also has failure modes, but the system is the only thing we have that has shown any actual progression in its results, and has a strong track record.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-24 17:29:40+00:00
> The Bell system was broken up, resulting in a geographically distributed telecom network

For the record, this system where AT&T was broken up between long distance and regional local companies (called the Regional Bell Operating Companies or RBOCs) was a terrible solution to anticompetitive behavior and is one of many examples (some of which you also quote) about how the US is terrible at breaking up monopolies.

The problem is the RBOCs simply became regional monopolies and regional monopolies aren't really any better than national monopolies. By the 90s the RBOCs could become long distance providers by meeting certain criteria and of course the whole system was gamed.

What needed to happen is the exact same thing that needs to happen with national ISPs today: municipalities need to own, maintain and build last-mile infrastructure.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-24 17:29:51+00:00
Flying is a luxury. It’s one thing to pay taxes to fund the school system, pre-K, health care, even state college. I’m all for that. But if you want to fly as a parent either suck it up and pay or don’t fly. There are parents who take long road trips because they can’t afford to fly.

But I paid for my seat and if I did pay to sit next to my wife (which isn’t really a big deal for either of us), I would be really pissed if my seat was changed because a parent was too cheap to pay to have an assigned seat.

My wife and I have chosen a different flight because the seats we wanted wasn’t available.

Of course all of these opinions of mine go out of the window if it truly is an emergency. But even then, at least with Delta, they only allocate a certain number of seats as “basic economy” and once those are sold out - like they might be on a last minute flight - you have to pay a fare where you choose your seat.
by w10-1 | 2025-09-24 17:30:03+00:00
This should be re-titled something like: with 200x longer sequences and making products without culturing, dirt can make antibiotic gold.

The two prospects:

Erutacidin, disrupts bacterial membranes through an uncommon interaction with the lipid cardiolipin and is effective against even the most challenging drug-resistant bacteria.

trigintamicin, acts on a protein-unfolding motor known as ClpX, a rare antibacterial target

The difficulty with bacterial DNA is that they have common elements and actively share DNA to boot. Sequencing only short sections make genome assembly unreliable. 200x longer sequences makes much more accurate genomes.

Then even if you find genes, we can't usually culture enough bacteria to make the product (typically instead injecting the sequences into bacteria we can culture). So being able to make the product without culturing the organism is key.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-09-24 17:30:27+00:00
Yes, when the Russian military was assembling outside of Ukraine, I was chatting with a lot of Russians on social media who were convinced (by their media) that it was just a normal drill, and that the Americans were just buying into their own government propaganda. Over the course of those conversations, Russians would say things like, "We know our media is propaganda, but you don't know that yours is just as propagandist". It was interesting that the goal of Russian propaganda wasn't to get Russians to believe that their media was infallible, but rather to get them to believe that there were no facts, that the truth was subjective, that every country's media was equally propagandist.

I saw a similar theme in right-wing American propaganda wherein American conservatives know that their media is biased, but they assume that "mainstream media" is just as bad.

It seems like in all of these cases, propagandists aren't trying to get people to believe the propaganda, but rather to discredit the entire idea of objective facts or reliable reporting.
by fragmede | 2025-09-24 17:30:46+00:00
I'll admit to using yt-dlp to get copies of videos I wish to have a local copy of, which can't be taken away from me by somebody else, but I pay for premium because that pays for content I watch. If you don't pay for content, where's it going to come from? Patreon only works for super dedicated stars with a huge following.
by woah | 2025-09-24 17:30:51+00:00
> Waymo could still happen, only it'd be a publicly funded project

You really think so? All of the examples you gave are military technology during wartime, which the government does tend to be able to do since the existential risk motivates the organization to root out graft and free riding.

I could see some kind of alternate reality future government funded Waymo being spun out of drone tank tech from WWIII but we wouldn't have it today.
by DSingularity | 2025-09-24 17:30:53+00:00
It’s naive either in the way you put it or at the very least in your eyes. There is a lot to be said about the narcissism of innovators radically rethinking anything and everything traditional just because we think we can do better by our current metrics.

If things continue to be advanced haphazardly just because these companies have budget capacity what’s to say that in a hundred years the bulk of humanity will have lost capacity for independent critical thought? Is that really the world you want to create?

It’s not just a “ChatGPT will replace you”. Our humanity is potentially at stake if we don’t deliberately evolve this tech.
by whakim | 2025-09-24 17:31:07+00:00
You enforce them; if I get a ticket for parking at an intersection, I won't do it again!

(Also, in the specific context of this discussion, parking restrictions near intersections are super common; this is not some esoteric new law that has been introduced. See https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...)
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-09-24 17:31:11+00:00
> Even when you don’t agree with decisions the company leadership is making, part of your job is representing and facilitating those decisions with full alignment.

Naw, man. Do your work as you were hired to do, as an expert, disagree and push back against idiotic and clueless decisions, loudly and publicly. None of this militaristic, jingoist "the C-suite always knows best and we have to follow their 'orders' blindly because they have the title, we can't possibly know all that they know." Fuck that. You were hired for your skills, your form of "loyalty" that they so desperately want is showing them why they are wrong and doing good work. Dangerous? Yes. But you have to be prepared to leave as well.

People are so hopelessly inured to the craziness of corporate life they forget that they, the laborers, have -all- of the power in the relationship. And don't forget that you -are- the labor until you get on the list of "major holders".
by fmbb | 2025-09-24 17:31:18+00:00
Reading your first three bullet points I thought you were dreaming about how much better the world could have been.

But your main paragraph following them reads to me like you want Waymo, a powerful TSMC, and huge LLMs.

If there is one thing concentrating power and wealth does it is preferring shorttermism. Growth in the next quarter trumps anything else. Humanity’s ecological niche is suffering long term. Civilization suffers as wealth inequality increases (which concentration of power makes happen).
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-24 17:31:26+00:00
> They work under the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), not the SFPD.

The other points are valid, but note that California’s main general purpose state police force (CHP, which also absorbed the named-as-such State Police in 1995) is part of the State Transportation Agency, so being organizationally subordinated to a transportation agency is not really evidence of not being “police” in the normal sense.
by JohnMakin | 2025-09-24 17:31:40+00:00
> The right thing to do in this situation is to acknowledge that you see the situation the same way they do, but do it privately, within your immediate team only or in 1-1s. “Yeah, this new policy sucks, I get it. It’s going to affect me in negative ways too.” It’s really important that you validate the emotions that all of these aspects are bringing up in people.

This I wish more leaders did. It can be really demoralizing to the point of leaving a role when you hear company stuff that's blatantly false, in bad faith, or whatever - and your leader, who you know damn well is smart enough to see it as well, looks you dead in the eye and repeats the company line.

In other words, "don't piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining." I'd rather be told you're screwing me than being screwed and gaslit about it. No matter what, in the end I'm going to remember I was screwed and how you approached that.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-24 17:31:45+00:00
Unless you can show a direct cause-and-effect relationship from clicking OK on some form to something negative happening in their real life that impacts them in actual physical real life, a real event at a particular time that they can observe with their eyes that relates to their real life (family, job, social life, going about their day), most people won't care. Otherwise it all blurs to some abstract words and theoretical tinfoil-like worries about the "government" and ufos and sovereign citizens.
by vovavili | 2025-09-24 17:31:47+00:00
>What is the probability of a person with both the attributes "looks like they belong to berghain" and "can solve an obscure live optimisation challenge" ?

As a person who has been there, you'd be surprised. Strict door policy is sort of a soft intelligence test, and the music there is so insanely good that it attracts highly creative, highly open folks.
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-24 17:32:03+00:00
It's directionally correct but not entirely accurate IMO. It would be more accurate to say, your audience does not have the experience and context necessary to turn the facts into a decision criteria. You need to translate your "raw data facts" into "refined facts" ready for consumption by the audience. That's what a good communicator does. The original phrasing makes it almost sound like the decisions are not fact-based or emotional, which should elicit eye-rolls.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-24 17:32:24+00:00
FFI support (like they have) is essential for any alternative Python to be worthwhile because so much of what makes Python useful today is numpy and keras and things like that.

That said, there is a need for accelerating branchy pure-python workloads too, I did a lot of work with rdflib where PyPy made all the difference and we also need runtimes that can accelerate those workloads.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-24 17:32:37+00:00
To be fair, there is an entire class of GC/memory problems that aren't technically a leak but manifest in effectively the same way.

The most common one I see is LOH (Large Object Heap) fragmentation. When objects are promoted to the LOH the runtime doesnt bother with moving them around anymore. There is a way to explicitly compact the LOH but it can be a non-starter for a lot of applications.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime....

I've once exposed this as a button that a customer's IT department could click whenever they received an alert on memory utilization. The actual solution would have been to refactor the entire product to not pass gigantic blobs around all the time, but that wasn't in the cards for us.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-24 17:32:57+00:00
I'm flying out of the west and have to go through SLC or DEN when flying United. It's ALWAYS a PITA. Now that I think about it... I had a segment a couple years ago on United from JAX to ORD that was delayed only 5 minutes and wound up arriving 5 minutes early, so maybe east of the Rockies things are better. And my brother tells me international flights on Untied through SFO to Asia are generally pretty stable.

I bet if I looked at where flights originated, United is doing a East to West pattern and there are just fewer opportunities for cascading delays to impact people getting on the plane in the east. Comparing with Alaska, which has other problems, but hasn't canceled too many flights on me, I bet most of the flights I take originate out of SEA going south or east, so you don't have that same pattern.

Also... Southwest... I remember when it was a good airline. Just another example of what hedge funds can do to you. FWIW, they have a train at DFW now that will take you to either downtown Ft. Worth or downtown Dallas (or even Las Colinas. Or DENTON. I took a train from DFW to "downtown" DENTON once!!! The wonders never cease.) I would love to see LUV field step up it's mass trans game.
by GorkFangirl | 2025-09-24 17:33:02+00:00
That's the thing that creeps me out the most about the entire ordeal, the more I think about it the more serious it gets to me to the point where I can't imagine it going down any other way anymore... What worries me a lot too is that all the same people that poured endless money into fake tech companies a la WeWork and Uber 10 years ago are at it again in the AI space right now too.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-24 17:33:03+00:00
Except this is impossible:

>They want a job market where one single breadwinner can support their house, spouse and kids

If society also wants women to be able to have the same income earning opportunities as men and hence have financial freedom.

Animals compete and compare themselves to others, and so everywhere, dual earning households will outcompete single earning households, and so most market participants will be incentivized to be dual earning households.
by incomingpain | 2025-09-24 17:33:50+00:00
im nobody, i cant speak for whoever/everyone who flagged it. i try to stay out of foreign politics, but ill reply trying to share my understanding. Probably going to regret trying to help.

I'd say the article is extremely opininated and biased against primarily trump and rfk. the article is very far from neutrally reporting facts. extremely hyperbolic and alarmist; immediately visible in the title itself. emotionally charged and advocating for political action.

Its full of personal attacks, trump is unhinged insane, incompetent, dangerous, and irrational?

The article seems to be entirely rhetorical. There's no audience for it. The only people who will find use if it are those who dont need any convincing.
by johanyc | 2025-09-24 17:34:26+00:00
> as a business offering a lifetime membership

> If the bank refused to return the money I loaned them, I would rightfully be very upset.

Everyone who bought the app STILL have access to the app. All features they paid for are still available (except if you consider no ad a feature).

The "correct" way to do it is change current app to classic and release a new app but that's quite cumbersome. I would like Apple or Google to offer an option to provide paid upgrade options.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-24 17:34:32+00:00
Part of the appeal of software is that it's so low friction that you actually can be a small team and take on giants.

I love hardware but I have basically abandoned any hope of bringing products to market. Just to get compliance certifications can cost upwards of $250k for a basic product, nevermind needing to wrangle with supply lines, manufacturing, and physical distribution. Forget it. You all have seen the graveyard of Kickstarters.

At my day job though, these huge costs can be readily absorbed and amount to a small fraction of the total cost.
by f_devd | 2025-09-24 17:34:45+00:00
> This is misleading. They are merely exploring options that may allow for issuer unlinkability, but they are actually implementing a linkable solution based on standard ECDSA..

The repository we're commenting on has the following in the spec[0]: "A next version of the Technical Specifications for Age Verification Solutions will include as an experimental feature the Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP)". So given that the current spec is not in use, this seems incorrect.

> It will also be trivial to circumvent

If you have a key with the attribute of course you can 'bypass' it, I don't think that's bug. The statement required should be scaled to the application it's used for; this is "over-asking" is considered in the law[1].

> The project is supposed to prove that age verification is viable, while it completely disregards privacy by design principles in its implementation. That the project intends to perhaps at some point implement privacy enhancing technologies doesn't make it any better.

I agree that in it's current state it is effectively unusable due to the ZKPs being omitted.

[0]: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic... [1]: https://youtu.be/PKtklN8mOo0?si=bbqtzMhIK7cFLh6S&t=375
by Manuel_D | 2025-09-24 17:35:02+00:00
Absolutely, repeatedly interrupting people with questions can get you arrested. Go to a public commentary session at your local town hall. Exceed your allotted time period and keep questioning the officials. You'll eventually be arrested and taken away. Because in doing so, you're depriving the rest of the town from their opportunity to give a public comment.

There's nothing complicated about this. Padilla isn't being treated any differently from anyone else. Freedom of speech does not entail freedom to prevent others from speaking.