MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OJFord | 2025-09-11 16:28:14+00:00
There are open air urinals in a lot of Europe, including Brussels, so as long as that's what you need (and you're male)... I imagine stations are just so high traffic that it's partly an attempt to limit demand, and partly to fund the almost continual cleaning necessary to prevent them being completely disgusting. Kings Cross is paid too for example (but not (London) Waterloo, curiously).
by coredog64 | 2025-09-11 16:28:15+00:00
I can't speak to smaller employers who actually use the insurance capability, but larger employers (e.g. 500+ employees) are almost certainly self-insured. They bring the money for the loss pool and use the insurance company for claims service and network.

On it's face it might seem like this isn't related to your complaint, but one of the consequences of self-insurance is that the employer essentially has a dial that they can turn that influences what level of service you get from the provider. If the pool is okay, then your employer might spring for additional benefits like free telehealth. If the pool is marginal, they might force you into a pharmacy plan. And if the pool is completely hosed, then the provider can get aggressive about requiring documentation to bring pool spend back in line.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-09-11 16:28:24+00:00
They’re clearly referring to “doublethink” which was absolutely part of Newspeak in 1984…

Quote from the book:

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”

Serverless being in fact server-based seems like a pretty clear example of this, and so calling it an Orwellian term seems perfectly reasonable.
by fhdkweig | 2025-09-11 16:28:25+00:00
If you lost 90 lbs, you must have been at least 90 lbs overweight. That isn't a little bit of fat. That is a lot of fat. And it takes a lifetime to put on that much fat. You can't really claim that you had proper exercise and diet before you started taking medications. I have seen many episodes of My 600 LB Life and similar shows where the clients and their caretakers swear on their mother's graves that they even eat at all, but that isn't how reality and physics work.

Don't misunderstand, I'm glad they made the GLP-1 drugs, but still, they have for years been reversing Type 2 diabetes through exercise a diet.
by armchairhacker | 2025-09-11 16:28:31+00:00
Twitter's original idea and format (short attention-grabbing posts) is antithetical to quality and nuance. I prefer Reddit's format: posts are links to blogs on other sites, and the comments are a common area for discussion.

Sure, link-curation sites can also be low-quality, toxic echo chambers. Reddit is roughly a link-curation analogue of BlueSky, and even HN has some low-effort content, toxicity and groupthink (though it's not nearly as bad). And there are high-quality posters on Twitter, and high-quality invite-only Mastodon instances (at least in theory, I'd love to find some).

But high-quality posts are hindered by Twitter's format. High-quality posts don't fit in 150 words, hence the "thread 1/N", "thread 2/N" workaround. High-quality discussion is hard with a handful of random reply-chains as opposed to a comment tree. Specifically on Twitter, high-quality posts get limited reach because it's non-public with a (mostly) non-customizable algorithm, to the extent I mainly find said posts via links on link-curation sites.

Meanwhile, link-curation sites encourage high-quality content by encouraging (if not requiring) posts to be links. Instead of posting a "hot take", you link to an article, paper, or at least self-hosted blog*. Or when possible, you link to the primary source, and maybe post your opinion in the comments, where it's presented almost exactly like opposite opinions (just with the "OP" indicator). Comments are also better, because every reply to every reply is shown and you can collapse reply trees to view others; and because there's no word limit, so even comments can be substantive (although there's no encouraging mechanism to comment with a link to your blog post or related/contrasting primary source, which in theory could lead to especially high-quality discussions and insight, but I suspect in practice would almost never be used).

* Self-hosted blogs tend to be higher-quality due to an expected minimum length and the effort required to set it up and get attention. Although unfortunately, I've seen some links to no-name blog articles that were especially short and low quality. As mentioned, link-curation doesn't guarantee high quality like Twitter-style doesn't guarantee low quality, they facilitate high/low quality respectively.
by proee | 2025-09-11 16:29:06+00:00
I am forever grateful to Starbucks in San Francisco for offering a public accessible restroom during an extreme bathroom emergency. For whatever reason, my body did not react well to "Vitamin Water" while riding on the BART. I think perhaps the crystalline fructose was the problem (Have never drank it since).

Bottom line, I barely made it out of the BART station and had maybe 30 seconds left until purse disaster. I hobbled across the street to a Starbucks and prayed with all my might that the door would not be locked or require some kind of access code. Thankfully it opened and I was relieved from what would have been a most embarrassing day.
by inanutshellus | 2025-09-11 16:29:13+00:00
Hilarious, I love it. I'm a cheaparse so if I paid for an extra phone number for something like this, I think I'd "everything-looks-like-a-hammer" it.

I'd have it...

* give me wakeup calls, * call to remind me of all meetings with an exclamation in the title, * call my wife whenever my phone detects i'm entering a casino, * call me whenever my wife's within 3 miles of her ex's house, * answer when I call and it'd give me uplifting life advice platitudes like "Hey, you're doing alright. Also, you look /fabulous/ today!" * ... :ponder_emoji_here: ;-)
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-11 16:29:47+00:00
It's not about disk space, it's about what all that data is doing. Quite a lot of it is what we would traditionally call malware. Or shovelware if you want to be generous.

Given Microsoft's recent history, it would be reasonable to assume that most of that bloat is full of software that is actively aiming to harm you, scam you, or spy on you. More than disk space, it burns CPU cycles and bandwidth that you are paying for.
by nradov | 2025-09-11 16:29:49+00:00
Commercial health plans already have very low profit margins, enforced by the ACA minimum medical loss ratio and competitive pressures. There's nothing much to squeeze there. If you analyze the actual cashflows, most of the money is ultimately going to things like provider wages, facilities operations, prescription drugs, and medical devices. Regardless of whether bills are paid by employers, consumers, or government, any attempt to reduce overall healthcare system costs will have to focus on those areas.

And it's horrifying that you would advocate for violence on this issue so I flagged your comment.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 16:30:17+00:00
If you're going to say that someone is "a threat to democracy" then you should be specific. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence and all that. Charlie Kirk most certainly was not a threat to democracy. Many many loonies in this thread.

And by the way, if someone can be "a threat to democracy" then surely it's also possible that someone could commit electoral fraud. I.e., if you and others here are so upset at those who say that 2020 was rife with electoral fraud as to call them "threats to democracy", then surely those people are equally justified in saying that the electoral fraud they think took place was itself a threat to democracy (as were the people who might have perpetrated it).

You really can't have it both ways.

This way of "I'm justified, you're not" lies madness. Stop it.
by vincentchu | 2025-09-11 16:30:33+00:00
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by tzs | 2025-09-11 16:31:00+00:00
Here's a Federal Transit Administration report, "Effectiveness of Wireless Charging for Electric Transit Buses" [1].

Here's on article on wireless bus charging at transit agencies in Washington [2].

[1] https://www.inductev.com/press-releases/sound-transit-to-go-...

[2] https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/2024-12/...
by bigyabai | 2025-09-11 16:31:27+00:00
I agree. How do we stop this from happening?

You seem to implicate "you/society" as the issue, but I didn't shoot anyone. So really it's society's issue, and we're in this situation because the Overton window is so irrevocably wide. Moreso than ever before, our bipartisan system is chock-full of extremists. People who want to kill CEOs, people who want to kill politicians, people who want to kill minorities.

The ordinary response is always "well, some gun violence is tolerable" but that doesn't seem to be reflected at all in this comment section. Many people are treating this as entirely unacceptable - so, from square one, how do we want to legislate a solution?
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-11 16:31:44+00:00
Your employer will not pass any savings on to employees. When has that EVER happened in modern history?

You will be taking a shadow pay cut instead. Or soooo much worse, they will cut your healthcare benefits, and instead pay you the balance of your portion of the premium, which isn't even close to what health benefits cost, and they will angrily expect you to thank them for the privilege.
by taviso | 2025-09-11 16:32:12+00:00
It's fun, but reminds me of a trick using Xvfb.

For example...

$ Xvfb :7 & [1] 21688 $ xeyes -display :7 & [2] 21697 $ xwd -display :7 -name xeyes -out /dev/stdout | convert xwd:- sixel:-

It looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/Eq2ToVO

Obviously no input though, you would have to use xdotool! The main benefit is that you probably already have all these tools installed :)
by AuryGlenz | 2025-09-11 16:32:45+00:00
Yes, and their report was buried. It didn't say that they changed their minds.

From further in the article: "But the once controversial theory has been gaining ground among some intelligence agencies - and the BND is the latest to entertain the theory. In January, the US CIA said the coronavirus was "more likely" to have leaked from a lab than to have come from animals."

Clearly world leaders were afraid of anti-Chinese sentiment, didn't want to be seen "siding" with Trump, or just didn't want to piss China off.
by delecti | 2025-09-11 16:33:07+00:00
Assuming this isn't a joke, find one of the services you can pay to get your data deleted from brokers, and then look at which brokers they delete data from. DeleteMe and Incogni both have lists. https://blog.incogni.com/opt-out-guides/ and https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/
by sudobash1 | 2025-09-11 16:33:46+00:00
Dithering is still more important than is commonly known, even with 24-bit "true color". For example, imagine that you had a gradient that goes from white to black across a 1920x1080 monitor. 24-bit color means you only have 256 levels of color, so a naive gradient implementation will result in 256 discrete bands of different grays, each about 8 pixels wide (about as wide as this "w" character).

You might not thing that you'd notice that, but it looks surprisingly bad. Your eyes would immediately notice that there are "stripes" of solid gray instead of a smooth continuum. But if you apply dithering, your eyes won't be able to notice (at least not easily). It will all look smooth again.

In a situation like this, I like to use "blue noise" dithering, but there are scores of dithering methods to choose from.
by palata | 2025-09-11 16:33:57+00:00
I'm against ChatControl like most tech-savy people. But because someone is in favour doesn't mean they are a fascist. Usually they just don't understand why it is a problem.

"If it helps the good guys, I don't see a problem" is easy to say. And if you tell them "yeah but if it helps the good guys, it helps the bad guys", they will simply answer "well, make it such that it doesn't help the bad guys".
by bluecalm | 2025-09-11 16:34:05+00:00
The trick is not about macros but about removing function calls altogether. Macros are there only to generate functions for specific types. The way the trick works is to implement the stack manually and put indexes there instead of passing them as function arguments. This removes a lot of overhead and makes the implementation I linked to significantly faster than C's and C++'s standard library implementation.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-11 16:34:15+00:00
This is why I think the single "home button" interface was one of the most brilliant UI innovations ever (no, I'm not joking) and Apple was insane to abandon it. Hit home (maybe twice, if you weren't on the very first screen of apps) and you're back to somewhere you know. Hit it too many times, nothing bad happens. And it's a physical (or, convincingly physical-imitating) button! It never moves around, it's always in the same place and you can feel it! It's one of the most comfortable, reassuring, and for normal users practically useful UI elements ever created. Even if you hold the button down and get in a "weird" mode (app moving and deleting mode) the way out is to... press the button once. It always works.

No other buttons (visible on the face, anyway) to confuse it for. It's right in comfortable reach of the thumb. "Which button do I push again? Oh right, there's only one."

(I also think going to "swipe up to unlock" instead of the brilliant slider they had before was a big mistake, as far as reducing the level of comfort for the median user)
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-11 16:34:41+00:00
> China doesn't exercise much power to lock up someone, or to disempower someone, at least so long as you don't visit China.

I am not certain that is necessarily true. At least, not if one is originally from China.

https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc/brfng-mtrls/prlm...
Show HN: Which Airbnb did your friends stay in?
by arpitagarwal | 2025-09-11 16:34:43+00:00
Wouldn't finding where your friends stayed increase your confidence in selecting an Airbnb?

Facebook took the network graph SDK away and all social features in apps just died between 2016-2018.

However, those network connections still exist on our phonebooks. I thus built the ContactsManager SDK - to build a network graph, while ensuring privacy of users and their contacts. I don't think anyone wants another Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Have a read here: https://www.contactsmanager.io/case-studies/making-airbnb-so...

Website: https://www.contactsmanager.io
by nradov | 2025-09-11 16:35:22+00:00
Exactly right. Many consumers naively blame their health insurance company when they have trouble with a denied claim or prior authorization. What they don't realize is that in most cases the "insurance" company isn't actually providing insurance (bearing financial risk) at all and is simply acting as a third-party administrator for a self-funded employer. It's ultimately the employer that decides what to cover (within legal limits). Insurance companies are happy to offer plans that pay 100% of every claim for everything no questions asked if that's what an employer wants.
by mothballed | 2025-09-11 16:35:23+00:00
I also was buying out of pocket while employed for awhile. Unless you have a qualifying event you can only switch insurance at the beginning of the year, at least from the insurance options I was able to find that fit my family.

I honestly didn't even realize the thing about the standard deductible until I had already done it. I was shocked to find I couldn't deduct it because I'd have to use the itemized deduction which would have been lower. I just assumed my insurance could have been deducted like it was when I bought it through my employer... how wrong I was.

But yes I would absolutely prefer the "imagine if" scenario.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-11 16:35:45+00:00
> Why is Bluesky an echo chamber but X, Rumble, Gab, Gettr are not? I bet there's huge vile "damn leftists" commentary there, even though we don't know who shot Kirk or why. Why isn't that an echo chamber?

I have not even heard of some of those. So I am not saying that they aren’t echo chambers either. But given the reputation for civil discourse that blue sky has, I was surprised to see a lot of comments that were saying disgusting things in thinly coded ways.
by triceratops | 2025-09-11 16:36:38+00:00
Wealthy people's stock in retirement accounts would also not be taxed. This can be considerable: Peter Thiel's Facebook investment was made in an IRA.

I imagine there'd be some net worth number, excluding retirement accounts, that policy wonks could work up. You draw the line between "wealthy" and "regular" there. Or, more likely, several lines because there would be wealth brackets similar to income brackets. Without that it would be a regressive tax.
by pklausler | 2025-09-11 16:36:43+00:00
As an old-timer, I worry that it may have been forgotten that all the major systems vendors used to have extensive shelves of high-quality technical manuals for their software, written by their in-house teams of professional technical writers. And many of them were really good, especially the ones on programming languages. The Univac APL 1100 manual might be the best book on APL ever, for example, and the CDC Fortran manual was a superb reference. I wonder if any of these old gems are available on-line.
by palata | 2025-09-11 16:37:19+00:00
I think many genuinely just want to increase security for their people. Not mass surveillance and orwellian control.

They just don't understand why it's technically not possible to achieve what they want without unacceptable risks.

Similar to the climate change issue: no politician is aiming at having their children die before retirement age from the consequences of climate change. They just don't understand that they are pushing us there (like most of the people, to be fair).
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-11 16:37:41+00:00
BlueSky seems like it is the viable exit from the dark forest, by virtue of the network being open data.

It's not clear right now what tools we'll build to analyze users & subnetworks, to try to get a pulse for what is authentic versus propoganda. But I am 100% here in large part because it's the only network where the data will be available! Where there is a strong commitment & the protocol is designed to making the firehose/backfill readily available. And with that I think humanity stands some kind of chance of engineering defense against the Dark Forest, can reach up towards some exaltant connection.

The Fediverse is much more focused on small communities (which personally I think it mostly fails to do usefully) and has an ethos that strongly rejects search / findability / data-gathering / network monitoring. There's little hope for me if that's the outlook: limited networking. For it means no defense, no higher views. Big Social is of course now totally inaccessible, as dark as it comes, with academic research having been buried by massively expensive API access costs, brutally short retention limits, and utterly opaque ranking/moderation systems.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 16:37:43+00:00
Wild exaggerations don't help. No one at J6 had a weapon -- if they haad, we'd know. Don't mention the pipe bomber, because that's been looking a lot like a false flag. Blah blah blah. Oh, and gerrymandering is rich: the blue states are more gerrymandered than the red states. These are not threats to democracy considering that:

- J6 was not in fact an insurrection (no weapons, no plan, just a crowd acting like a mob)

- all attempts to challenge the 2020 election results were through legal means (even the call to the GA SoS was not a crime)

- gerrymandering is absolutely standard in American politics and has been almost from the start

- "attempts to throw out certain ballots" has "attempts to stuff ballot boxes" on the flip side, which you ignore.

You are not even-handed.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-11 16:37:49+00:00
Are we posting this as a reminder that false flag events are something to look out for by the current administration? Lot's of people have suggested Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, etc were these types of events. Ironically, these same people tend to be fans of the current administration, so would they we be willing to call similar events as false flag events when it's someone they are a fan??
by imiric | 2025-09-11 16:38:10+00:00
RSS isn't dead, though some companies would certainly like that.

The main reason it isn't as popular as it once was is because of advertising. Companies want you on their sites because they can track you and show you ads. They could show ads in RSS feeds as well, but since there's no JavaScript environment, they can't data mine your browser, serve you cookies, profile you, track your behavior, and, ultimately, can't show you valuable microtargetted ads.

This is why even when sites offer RSS feeds, it's often a short blurb with a link to the main site. For these, special solutions like RSS-Bridge or RSSHub are needed, which are often blocked and need constant maintenance. I'd rather not have to use these tools, since they're effectively going against the site's wishes and scraping their content, but I think this is justifiable considering that the content is available publicly, and the user should have ultimate control in how they wish to consume it. I'm not going to be forced to accept a business transaction with a shady middleman where my data is mined, sold, and used to manipulate me into buying something or thinking a certain way.

In any case, I agree with the article's other reasons for the decline of RSS: it's too technical, most people prefer algorithmic feeds, platform centralization, etc. I think all of those are UX and technical challenges that can be addressed by building on top of RSS, but there is little incentive for a company to take them on.
by franktankbank | 2025-09-11 16:39:08+00:00
Then the market would adjust and offer a rebate for not requiring insurance. You can make any claims against that but then you'd have to say something akin to "there is no market for employees". The money that my employer pays in premiums as indicated on my w2 must be going to the insurer surely, even if they are self-insured? If its going to a pool that my employer just gets to keep then why is that tax deductible and why would I trust them with my health insurance?