MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattmanser | 2025-09-24 14:20:17+00:00
The already tried one login for all government services (Government Gateway Id), but they released it when all the services had their own tech teams and it was a general disaster.

Each service would issue you a different one.

It's not so bad now, but it's extremely irritating to have a number as the user id as when you run a business or two, you end up with more, and then you have no idea which is which.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-24 14:20:20+00:00
Your entire reply to my post, from beginning to end, is 1 sentence, quoted below for posterity (before subsequent edits anyways, I can't keep track of all your changes made after this reply):

> Stalin is very, very, very different from Hitler

We see that you're literally ideologically repeating, almost verbatim, an ideological opinion, while complaining that someone else is an ideologue. Thus, your comment is extremely ironic given the context of this thread and your prior complaints. Indeed, you are the only one who appears to be the ideologue, and so all we have to go on as far as Snyder, are the naked, unsupported assertions of an ideologue.

Sure, stalin is very, very, very different from hitler, just like an isosceles triangle is very, very, very different from a scalene triangle. Any 2 different things in the universe are different by definition, and "very" is nebulous, therefore your logic also means that anything can be described as "very, very, very different" from everything else. A truly meaningless statement.

In short, the evidence presented indicates that Snyder is not an ideologue, and there aren't actually any issues with what Snyder is saying, only ideologues who either disagree with what he says or don't like that he's saying it.
by codyb | 2025-09-24 14:20:26+00:00
I add memory tricks (mostly mnemonics in this case) in that I learned from Dominic O'Brien [0] (I think some of his work has PDFs available) in order to juice the process a bit (helps with the tricky ones, and can make learning the new ones quicker if you do it from the get go)

[0] - (https://peakperformancetraining.org/)
by cyphax | 2025-09-24 14:21:14+00:00
It greeted me with a message: "Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person!" which is an interesting departure from the usual "this app won't work without javascript". But I couldn't select the text from the message to paste it here... while looking at the header above it "Just let me select text" I thought: yeah!
by kamaal | 2025-09-24 14:21:15+00:00
If you look at programming language list- Apart from Python, Java. Most are targeted to specific platforms(databases, browsers, embedded systems) or tech(SQL for database).

The general purpose programming languages today are still- Python, Java, and Perl. Make whatever of this you will.

Larry Wall at one point said, if you make something very specific to a use case(like awk, sed, php etc), it sort of naturally starts to come out of general purpose use.

Its just that Kotlin, Rust, Go, SQL, Julia, SQL, Javascript etc. These are not general purpose programming languages.
by jghn | 2025-09-24 14:21:21+00:00
And yet as someone who only flies 10-15 times a year and being a terminally online dipshit, I have seen this happen. Not like one of those TikTok videos with fisticuffs, mind you.

I remember as I was annoyed that this whole thing was holding up my flight. Family asked someone to move, they declined, family kept insisting. Boarding line was getting held up due to this. FA arrives, starts imploring the man to move his seat, obviously just trying to get boarding complete so we can all move on with our lives. Eventually the man got up & changed.
by jjcob | 2025-09-24 14:21:48+00:00
I have no issue with airlines offering reserved seats for money. Let people buy their aisle seats and window seats and exit rows.

Most people don't give a shit where they sit, so most seats are not reserved. Traditionally, airlines tried to just put people close together when they booked together. When we check in, we just get random seats that are close together. That's okay. I'm fine with taking whatever seats no-one else wants.

If I understand United marketing correctly, they will actively sit you apart from others in your group unless you buy an upgrade. That is, instead of assigning you some of the free spots close together, you get put as far apart as possible, and they hope that you will buy an upgrade to sit close together.

Other airlines don't do that.
by sschueller | 2025-09-24 14:21:54+00:00
The Swiss are voting again for the e-ID this weekend. It is likely to pass this time although there are still some issues.

The implementation of the self custody wallet is open source: https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch . What is missing is the verification system used to issue the ID which is not open at this time and the law is vague on who gets to ask for the ID. These two things still need to be settled.
by PlotCitizen | 2025-09-24 14:22:07+00:00
> Internet does not work in Spain when there are football matches.

There's a distinction between the above statement and the truth, which is that CloudFlare and other large CDNs do not work in Spain when there are football matches.

Yes, it's not CloudFlare's fault in this instance, since I believe CloudFlare is not being notified to take action in real time. The blocking needs to happen quickly to block access to illegal streams of a live event. My understanding is that CloudFlare is largely out of the picture when this decision is happening, and CloudFlare is only taking the blame since that's what Twitch uses, which also can't react as quickly as La Liga wants.

That being said there is a solution to this that helps protect from collateral as well as the decentralized open nature of the internet: moving away from those large CDNs
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-24 14:22:19+00:00
>it's a distinction with A TON of difference. Well-functioning democracies have a push-and-pull that tends to slow things down BUT also prevents massive outreaches. Systems with tons of "sides" are stabler than dual systems because of this.

Right, a democracy won't succumb to one insane leader peddling particularly insane whims the way a dictatorship possibly can. But for the other 99/100 years of the century when things are business as usual it's a distinction without a difference.

The fact that we have a nominal democracy doesn't change the fact that we're being ruled by the small ideological minority that holds the bulk of the power in the system.

>that's exactly the point - there's a third option.

Yeah, we could have a government by some semblance of the people and all the diversity of that implies, but we don't, at least not to any serious degree at the federal level, so here we are.
by bilekas | 2025-09-24 14:22:23+00:00
These two in particular :

> Automatic Refunds for Cancellations

> Transparency of Fees

How does a lawmaker justify this being in the publics interest ? I'm not even joking, I know "well lobbyist going to lobby", but this is a legitimate question. How does a regulatory body say "Yup, that's okay with us to remove" ?
by spaceisballer | 2025-09-24 14:22:40+00:00
There are certainly some news outlets that operate like propoganda. I mean Fox comes to mind, if you ever watch you’ll notice they carefully craft their statements and rarely talk about facts, mostly feelings. News is at its core a business, and they know they get eyes on things by scaring people or talking about things that seem shocking at face value. NYT and other outlets that do long form articles (Wired) have invaluable information. But we live in a world where most people (especially perpetually online people) just browse the headlines and take what they want from it. We’ve lost nuance, and because of that in the US one party is using that to their advantage.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-24 14:22:51+00:00
I think for me it has been this way for a year or so. Maybe it is because I am on a VPN. I also cannot view YouTube videos on YouTube any longer, because it always wants me to log in, to "prove I am not a bot". So I have switched to only using invidious instances, and if they don't work, then I just cannot watch the video.

I wish content creators would think of their own good more, and start publishing on multiple platforms. Are there any terms that YouTube has for them, that reduce revenue, if they publish elsewhere as well? Or is it mostly just them being unaware?
by sjw987 | 2025-09-24 14:23:18+00:00
I think you're exactly right, and the groundwork is being laid today by the standards society is setting for everybody. People will assume a lack of phone or the presence of a phone but lack of usage / content on it, makes you guilty of some sort of crime similar to owning a burner phone.

Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-24 14:23:18+00:00
> "you can't analyze the data you didn't record"

It IS recorded. It's right there in scrollback (Literally the default buffer to record). It's easily accessible with most tooling, including nice scrolling, mouse support, find/search, etc...

Except in Ghostty, it's not so accessible. No find, no scrollbars.

I end up having to dump it into another tool, which at least they make pretty easy (ex: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind/reference#write_scro...).

Although deciding when to do that would be easier if I had a better indicator for just how much scrollback content exists. Ex - if it's 3 pages... I'll just scroll through it. If it's 3000 pages... time to dump to file.

So no - by default I use a pager... just about never. Why would I when I have absolutely everything in scrollback by default 99.9% of the time?

---

Don't confuse your preferences with "correct" :P

I'm doing just fine with code and best practices, I'm simply stating that this is a rough edge on an otherwise lovely tool.
by bashy | 2025-09-24 14:23:48+00:00
Will be very similar to this type of abuse report someone got on their Hetzner server (even though it had no piracy activity);

> On 27 Nov 23:27, operations@friendmts.com wrote: To whom it may concern:

Our reference: PRB-XXXXXX Security Code: 2x364371x-x45x-59x2-8760-32x46276790

Access to the IP address detailed below has been blocked in the United Kingdom by court order.

The block will apply to: IP Address: 95.217.118.31 For all Premier League Match Periods Until: 07 Dec 2020

Further notifications will not be sent about this IP address unless and until further infringements are detected after the date and time indicated above, though the IP address will remain subject to blocking until then. If your organisation is planning to reallocate this IP address to another customer before the date listed above, please notify us at ipallocation@friendmts.com with the appropriate information so that we can consider releasing the IP from subsequent blocking.

A copy of the court order, which was obtained by the Football Association Premier League Limited is available here: https://www.fmtsoperations.com/HC-2017-002013-ORDER.PDF

Any affected server operator or hosting provider has the right to apply to the Court to discharge or vary the Order.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-24 14:24:30+00:00
Safety is massively improved since the days of regulation. Fares are way down in real terms. Flying might be miserable, but that's because people realize they'd rather pay less than pay more for luxuries they don't actually value very much.

Your comments remind me of the arguments Ma Bell gave to justify their monopoly. Oh noez, quality will suffer if there's telecom competition. Well, people ended up being willing to make the tradeoff.

You did score a hit with airline profits being low. The whole purpose of regulation was to artificially inflate prices to ensure profits for airlines.
by ramblerman | 2025-09-24 14:24:31+00:00
> you don't mean that all C programs have memory bugs

Well all of them "potentially" do, which is enough from a security standpoint

There have been enough zero days using memory leaks that we know the percentage is also non trivial.

So yes, if programmers can write bugs they will, google SREs were the first to famously measure bugs per release as a metric instead of the old fashioned (and naive) "we aren't gonna write any more bugs"
by bArray | 2025-09-24 14:24:38+00:00
Ronsor [1] and reply by seproDev:

> Why can't we embed a lightweight interpreter such as QuickJS?

> @Ronsor #14404 (comment)

The linked comment [2]:

> @dirkf This solution was tested with QuickJS which yielded execution times of >20 minutes per video

How on earth can it be that terrible compared to Deno?

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3...

[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3...
by mkipper | 2025-09-24 14:25:08+00:00
I don’t have any data to back this up, but I think window and aisle seats being more valuable doesn’t necessarily mean they can be sold for more.

I am very tall and I always pay for a seat with extra legroom in economy. Whenever I’m picking my seat early, almost every seat in economy is available. People could pay to reserve a window or aisle seat, but anecdotally it seems like almost no one does this. Everyone I know just tries to check in as early as possible so they can grab a good seat before they’re all taken.

I don’t think airlines are actually losing any money by seating families together. It’s not like all those window and aisle seats would have been paid for otherwise.
by jamal-kumar | 2025-09-24 14:25:38+00:00
Yeah he types weird and linked some generic YouTube search result that pops Joe Rogan up for some people, but there's some pretty interesting research along these lines that's becoming harder to dismiss as just Roger Penrose stepping way outta his field (I don't see people personally attacking Hameroff or Tuszynski for their roles in this research which always struck me as telling). I think it's more trying to zero in on how consciousness works from the perspective of trying to figure out how xenon administration in anesthesiology works to induce its effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXElfzVgg6M

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106452...
by rimunroe | 2025-09-24 14:25:54+00:00
Flying with babies (and other young children) presents challenges which "everyone else" doesn't have to deal with. Babies and children need much more attention. Babies are much more likely to throw tantrums, to feel pain from pressure changes, to be sick, etc. They often need a LOT of soothing. Many also need to be breast fed (some babies don't take bottles), which depending on the baby's length and the side they're nursing on may involve their legs sticking into the aisle or their neighbor's space. They also like to fling solid foods, spit up or vomit with no warning, and are generally fantastic at making messes.

My spouse and I just finished our first two flights with our 11 month old this weekend which were about 3.5 and 4 hours apiece. Even with an extra seat reserved for them and an overall extremely well tempered baby, I cannot imagine how much harder the flight would have been if the gate agent hadn't been able to rearrange our seats so all three of us were sitting together. If that hadn't been guaranteed, we would have had to ask one of the neighbors to swap seats with us. They'd have been highly motivated to do so, but it wouldn't have been a sure thing. They may have their own needs. Impromptu swaps during boarding seems not great for making the process go smoothly.

Having to get an extra seat to fit a car seat for an infant isn't required, but flying with the infant in a car seat is strongly recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Having somewhere to put the baby or their various toys/bottles temporarily helps a whole lot over a four hour flight. This already added $500 onto the price of our trip.

The cost of raising children is already very high in the US, so it will really suck if flying becomes yet more expensive and stressful. In my opinion, this (and many others) are a cost which we should spread out if we actually want people to have kids.
by encom | 2025-09-24 14:25:57+00:00
[Trigger warning: Old man yells at cloud.] One of countless reasons I hate doing anything on my phone. Text selection is imprecise, slow and janky. Text input is slow and error prone, and autocorrect (or predictive text) produces danish with wrong grammar (so does Chrome). It's like using a computer with boxing gloves on. And despite phones now being huge, I prefer my triple monitor desktop. And also most apps are proprietary ad-ridden slop or borderline scams (Tinder, Happn, Hinge certainly leans heavily in that direction. I'd rather die alone than pay them money. I miss Ok-Cupid from 20 years ago.
by mcaravey | 2025-09-24 14:26:01+00:00
I think that part of the problem is a want versus a need. I don't particularly care if me and my wife don't sit together. We see each other all the time. But I don't want to have my four-year-old sitting in between two strangers, six rows in front of me where I can't see him. That's not fair to the two strangers, but also I don't trust strangers.

I get the idea of paying for the privilege, but at the same time, it's not like they roll out the red carpet for someone who flies with their kids. Pretty much every time that I can remember them ever rearranging seats to get us together, we always wind up sitting in the rows at the very back of the plane close to the bathroom, which is fine with me. If I wanted red carpet treatment, I'd pay for first class for everyone. But I'm not about to do that.

All I do know is that if they were to stop rearranging seats, it would make the frequency of our flying go down quite a bit. At a minimum, if they went that route, I would want there to be a guaranteed payment to be able to get everyone to sit together. That way I can at least plan for the extra cost. Knowing airlines they would probably use a sliding scale based on age or something.
Ask HN: How can I make my Open Source project easier to self host?
by Sean-Der | 2025-09-24 14:26:26+00:00
I have this[0] project. It allows people to have their own live streaming/broadcast servers. I provide docker images and some basic instructions. However it is still too hard for people to run. I get lots of questions on discord about how to run it.

Do any services exist that would allow a user to run something/handle DNS/LetsEncrypts easily?

[0] https://github.com/glimesh/broadcast-box
by thieving_magpie | 2025-09-24 14:26:28+00:00
Some of us are just trying to survive financially or couldn't care less what you think.

Tough luck then buddy. Have fun with the kids.

There has to be some kind of middle ground here, imo. Nobody wants to sit next to kids. Families don't want to be penalized financially anymore than they already are for providing a benefit to society. We don't need to further disincentivize families and further our declining birth rates. At the same time it's wildly unfair to ask people to switch seats when they've paid for them (or even if they haven't).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-24 14:26:38+00:00
How could I've forgotten the legendary torvalds!

Sqlite team also seems to be one of the 100x people imo. Maybe I just cherish sqlite's simplicity and its hyperfocus and it delievers exactly what it says (somewhat), a lot!

Definitely feel like we need a forum where we can all compile a list of 100x developers and vote who is the best 100x developer

I feel like although Mitchell is up in the top three. To me bellard/torvalds tops it all of if you consider it from a pure software perspective and not that Mitchell went back from a billion $ empire to hacking again

Bellard has created qemu and ffmpeg and tcc/jslinux/ I think even xterm js kind of came somehow due to bellard so a lot of terminal emulators and their recent work is just as fascinating.

Torvalds with linux and git are two back to back things which we know and love and use today.

Bellard is just a little less known because unlike linus torvalds who named the os as linux ie. after himself. Ffmpeg and qemu don't really tell them that they are created by the same guy.
by epistasis | 2025-09-24 14:26:55+00:00
A decade ago where I worked we used gluster for ~200TB of HDD for a shared file system on a SLURM compute cluster, as a much better clustered version of NFS. And we used ceph for its S3 interface (RadowGW) for tens of petabytes of back storage after the high IO stages of compute were finished. The ceph was all HDD though later we added some SSDs for a caching pool.

For single client performance, ceph beat the performance I get from S3 today for large file copies. Gluster had difficult to characterize performance, but our setup with big fast RAID arrays seems to still outperform what I see of AWS's luster as a service today for our use case of long sequential reads and writes.

We would occasionally try cephFS, the POSIX shared network filesystem, but it couldn't match our gluster performance for our workload. But also, we built the ceph long term storage to maximize TB/$, so it was at a disadvantage compared to our gluster install. Still, I never heard of cephFS being used anywhere despite it being the original goal in the papers back at UCSC. Keep an eye on CERN for news about one of the bigger ceph installs with public info.

I love both of the systems, and see ceph used everywhere today, but am surprised and happy to see that gluster is still around.
by mattkrause | 2025-09-24 14:26:58+00:00
This is where the funders really ought to step up.

A spokesperson from (say) NINDS really ought to be shouting to anyone who will listen about how excited they are to see their <many year>, <many dollar> investment in Huntington's pay off.

I'd love it if they highlighted some of the especially "weird" studies that went into this to demonstrate how important fundamental research is and how it goes in unexpected directions.
by NoraCodes | 2025-09-24 14:27:00+00:00
Given that this page has the following styles which aren't applied anywhere else on the blog:

body { -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none; }

I think it's safe to assume that being unable to select text on this page is not unintentional, as several comments here assume, nor "ironic", but an intentional effort to demonstrate how annoying this behavior is.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-24 14:27:25+00:00
You don't have to carry any form of ID in the UK and there are no ID cards, anyway. That said, obviously most people have their driving licence on them.

As a foreigner you do not have to carry your passport.

No-one is going to ask for ID unless you are doing something specific at a bank or government office, for instance. Or, indeed if you are trying to buy alcohol or cigarettes anywhere and look very young... But young people can get provisional driving licences before they have passed their driving tests.
by mtrovo | 2025-09-24 14:27:49+00:00
I don't know, it's really hard to blame them. In a way, the next couple of years are going to be a battle to balance easy access to info with compensation for content creators.

The web as we knew it before ChatGPT was built around the idea that humans have to scavenge for information, and while they're doing that, you can show them ads. In that world, content didn't need to be too protected because you were making up for it in eyeballs anyway.

With AI, that model is breaking down. We're seeing a shift towards bot traffic rather than human traffic, and information can be accessed far more effectively and, most importantly, without ad impressions. So, it makes total sense for them to be more protective about who has access to their content and to make sure people are actually paying for it, be it with ad views or some other form of agreement.