MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrNosferatu | 2025-09-10 17:51:22+00:00
Compared to Biden-era US, the UK, Europe’s own Nordics's (relative scale) and the other frontline states, and Europe’s own capacity and stated goals, the EU has lagged in sanctions enforcement and loophole closing, energy decoupling, defense production, and timely delivery of critical weapons. The standard isn’t perfection—it’s matching peer action and Europe’s *core* full-scale capabilities relative to the stakes.

Among many others, look at the weapons hesitancy: Delays on long-range strike (e.g., Taurus) and limited Patriots/air defense transfers materially affected Ukraine’s ability to suppress glide-bomb and missile attacks.

Furthermore, the EU as a whole has a chance here to practice bona fide Keynesianism by ramping up production and arming Ukraine to their actual needs: it would be a win-win for Democracy.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-10 17:51:41+00:00
Wealth inequality is causing many protests recently. Indonesia's protest was about wealth inequality where nepo babies flaunt wealth on social media while the poor are suffering. Exact same situation in Nepal. Seems to be the same generally in France even if the trigger for protests is not the same. The main theme is that these protests are led by Gen Z people.

It's the younger generation that is hurting because they do not own real estate and stocks so they have not benefited from wealth creation via money printing and ZIRP era.

My guess is that this will happen in the US soon as well. Entry level jobs are threatened by low investments due to tariffs, high interest rates, and the perceived notion that AI is taking their jobs. Young couples can't afford to buy a home to start a family because interest rates are 3x higher than a few years ago while home prices went way up since covid - not to mention ever increasing real estate tax, home insurance, etc. Now the tariffs will make everything much more expensive for the working class. Tariffs go into paying down national debt while the rich get a tax break via BBB. Tariffs disproportionally affects the poor.

It's hard to be a 22 year old college grad right now. Not as bad as 2008 but definitely harder than in the last 15 years.

PS. Everyone living in the west missed it but the 2019 Hong Kong protests were more about wealth inequality even if the trigger was the China extradition law. This was never mentioned in western media. I was living there during the protest. Young Hong Kongers felt hopeless because real estate prices to income ratio was the highest in the world at the time. By far. They didn't want to live in an apartment the size of an American bedroom with a family of 4 and spend a lifetime trying to pay it off - if they could even muster up the downpayment for it. Unlike Americans who can move to a more affordable city or state, young Hong Kongers had no where else to go. This pent up frustration for young Hong Kongers boiled over into months long riots.
by standardUser | 2025-09-10 17:51:41+00:00
In the US, there's a good chance that AVs will become dominant in 10 years time. In China, it's all but guaranteed.

Apollo One has already launched service in the UAE and is expected to launch in Singapore and Malaysia by the end of the year. They're also expected to start testing in several European countries by the end of the year. The question I have at this point is, will only China benefit from launching this new global industry, or will the US manage to also be competitive on a global scale?
by oldjim798 | 2025-09-10 17:51:54+00:00
When you compare driving to almost every other form of transportation it is wildly dangerous. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...

"Passenger vehicles are by far the most dangerous motorized transportation option compared. Over the last 10 years, passenger vehicle death rate per 100,000,000 passenger miles was over 60 times higher than for buses, 20 times higher than for passenger trains, and 1,200 times higher than for scheduled airlines. Other comparisons are possible based on passenger trips, vehicle miles, or vehicle trips, but passenger miles is the most commonly used basis for comparing the safety of various modes of travel."

>Your safety is at least somewhat in your control Have you ever driven on roads? What control do I have that someone reading their phone instead of looking where their giant SUV is going while speeding
by mschaef | 2025-09-10 17:52:10+00:00
> The RX100 has had wifi transfer since the 3rd gen.

On an iPhone, I can take the picture and I'm immediately a button press away from a photo editor and then whoever I want to send it to.

(A camera that automatically tethered to a phone and dumped pictures into the phone's camera roll would mostly solve the workflow issues I'm mentioning here. Would not surprise me if this already exists.)

> I understand the "second device to carry around" but it isn't a real point for baby pics you might take at home.

Maybe. The camera still has to be charged and in mind and hand. (Then as soon as the kids leave the house you're back to where you were and having to carry something around that you might not otherwise.)

> I also know a number of people who don't leave home with their smartphone anyway

I see that... different people have different sorts of relationships with personal electronics. For me, it wound up being that I'd carry a cell phone and that was about it. Even in the pre-smartphone days, when I might have carried a PDA, I either wouldn't or couldn't.
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-09-10 17:52:12+00:00
> The organization provides the incentives, shapes the data used in the decision process, [...]

Exactly! And who sets those incentives?

Imagine if Satya Nadella was an avid Windows power user that thinks having a vertical tab bar is the best invention since sliced bread. Would he really fuzz around with StartAllBack etc.? Because "it just is like this now"? Or would he be able to influence the Windows team to simply implement it? Of course he could. He just doesn't care about vertical tab bars.

As a side note, I see the blaming of bad situations on "for-profit organizations" as if management had no other choices just because somebody made a spreadsheet as an easy excuse for them to not stand behind their decisions.

If this "profit-uber-alles" theory was true executives would reduce their compensation to minimum wage. It clearly is more complicated.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-10 17:52:25+00:00
The counter to that is that is that performance really matters in inner loops and in those cases the hot area is not that big, it doesn’t matter if your setup and tear down give up a lot of possible performance.

Early this year my son was playing chess which motivated me to write a chess program. I wrote one in Python really quickly that could challenge him. I was thinking of writing one I could bring to the chess club which would have had to have respected time control and with threads in Java this would have been a lot easier. I was able to get the inner loop to generate very little garbage in terms of move generation and search and evaluation with code that was only slightly stilted. To get decent play though I would have needed transposition table that were horribly slow using normal Java data structures but it could have been done off heap with something that would have looked nice on the outside but done it the way C would have done it in the inside.

I gave up because my son gave up on chess and started building and playing guitars in all his spare time.

Chess is a nice case of specialized programming where speed matters and it is branchy and not numeric.
by komali2 | 2025-09-10 17:52:28+00:00
Tokyo has better public transit than the United States, certainly. However it's public transit options and general design aren't that great by modern standards.

First, they have basically no bicycle infrastructure, and bikes are supposed to go on the sidewalk, so pedestrian cyclist collisions are common.

Second, their many lines are semi privatized and split between many companies. That means inefficient design, upkeep, and construction. What should be a place where two lines interconnect is instead an in-station transfer at best - often instead it's a out-station transfer, where you have to return to street level to get to the station serving that company's line. There's also a annoyance around payment and payment systems for this reason.

Third , they don't run enough trains. Rush hour is insane.

Fourth, they still don't have gates at their platforms, despite their absurdly high suicide rate.

I've just traveled through Brussels, London, and Amsterdam. In my opinion Brussels may have had better per capita transit since their tram system was so ridiculously fast and frequent, and cars had only a narrow area to go, with plenty of room for bicycles, however I didn't see much of the city.

London trains were too expensive and too unreliable. I agree with you in this case, Tokyo is better.

Amsterdam I've only been able to explore a bit but so far I'm very impressed. However for unfathomable reasons they let cars and scooter drive in these tiny roads next to the canals, and even more unfathomably, they give cars tons of the most valuable canal side real estate to park in!! So Tokyo does that better, but Amsterdam so far feels much more liveable.

I haven't seen much else of Europe so can't speak to that!
by bstsb | 2025-09-10 17:52:59+00:00
there are some amazing creators on tiktok. yes, the core user loop rewards fast-paced content, but that's led to some amazing educational creators using the short nature of the videos to their advantage. for example, etymologynerd makes really interesting videos on the origins and definition of newly spreading slang online, and goes really in-depth with his content.

also not sure why you kept purposely misspelling TikTok given the app name is the first thing in the headline?
by kulahan | 2025-09-10 17:53:08+00:00
This article mostly talks about a program for girls in developing countries, not US students in general, and it barely touches on the topic of food. What happened to NPR? They were my favorite a few years ago, but man this is a bad article.

As an aside: I’m fine ending literally any girls’ program that doesn’t have a boys’ equivalent. Boys are in huge trouble.

Anyways, this doesn’t support your point well, since it ends by saying they ended up coming to an agreement in ‘16 that still focuses on fruits, veggies, and whole grains.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 17:53:31+00:00
Have you considered that America is a wealthy country, where anyone with a job even flipping burgers can buy a 150cc motorcycle and then take his girl on a date without a process that involves getting accosted by a paranoid schizophrenic?

You can basically buy a small motorcycle or scooter or fast e-bike on credit for the cost of maintaining a bus pass. It's only a rational choice for elderly or people with such mental or physical disabilities they can't maintain or operate similarly cheap alternatives. The end result is public transit gets dominated by hood rats, mentally ill, homeless, and a few elderly and people with disabilities, and due to the first amendment you can't stop the first couple classes from harassing the rest so as soon as a normal person gets their 50cc scooter or whatever similarly cheap other option fixed they go right back on that.
by jd__ | 2025-09-10 17:54:26+00:00
That's super interesting, thanks for sharing the Yelp/PayPal lineage. You're right: there's probably a lot of prior art in internal release engineering systems that never got much written up publicly.

The angle we took in the blog post focused on what was widely documented and accessible to the community (open-source tools like Bors, Homu, Bulldozer, Zuul, etc.), because those left a public footprint that other teams could adopt or build on.

It's a great reminder that many companies were solving the "keep main green" problem in parallel (some with pretty sophisticated tooling), even if it didn't make it into OSS or blog posts at the time.
by arcticbull | 2025-09-10 17:54:42+00:00
It was a prepaid plan that was the same price whether I got the phone or not. I guess you could say everyone who didn’t get the phone was subsidizing those who did, but there’s no way to opt for lower pricing if you BYOD. So no, in this case that’s not really true. If it were Verizon where you can pay less if you BYOD then sure but that’s not what I did.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 17:55:00+00:00
> There are historical, thematic and philosophical aspects to art that make it beautiful beyond the aesthetic.

Those are in the eye of the beholder though. In many cases they are things I still don't care about after learning about them. An ugly painting doesn't become any more interesting to me when I learn about the struggles the artist went through - a lot of people do find it more interesting - good for them, but it isn't for me. (then again the paintings I'm thinking of most people thought were nice even before they learned about the artist...)
by saltcured | 2025-09-10 17:55:11+00:00
You've prompted some interesting memories out of my teenage years and my first truck.

I can recall the experience of getting in on a cold morning, pumping the throttle pedal three times to activate the semi-automatic choke, starting it, and getting out to clear frost off the window while it warmed up a little. The tactile feeling and squeak of the throttle linkage, the sound of the starter motor, the hollow sound of the door closing, and the noxious exhaust from the cold start (which I haven't smelled in 30 years). I remember how my little plastic window scraper sounded when scraping the glass, and even how the defrost vents made two regions which were always easier to scrape. But, I cannot really remember a specific episode of this on a certain date or leading to a particular trip.

On the other hand, I do have an episodic memory on my final trip in this truck. It was sliding off an icy road, rolling over, and sledding down a steep slope. I remember the ruptured, snow-filled windshield, and the sound of the engine idling upside-down. I remember the slow motion way the whole crash unfolded, and the clothes I was wearing as I crawled back to the roadway.

Ironically, I have more emotional context with the generic cold-start memory. It brings with it some vignette of teenage eagerness and pride in having this vehicle and the freedom it represented. The crash is more dissociated, a movie I was watching from within myself. I can meta-remember that I was very distressed afterward, but those feelings are not connected with the memory during recall.
by clickety_clack | 2025-09-10 17:55:14+00:00
I don't think that will work for me. I looked for ways to summarize a transcript into a PRD and all I got was "Wow. Incredible. You’ve managed to hit the trifecta: vague, lazy, and entitled. You dump a transcript here and expect the internet to conjure up a polished PRD for you like some kind of corporate fairy godmother? Newsflash: this isn’t Fiverr, and we’re not your underpaid product managers."
by kelseyfrog | 2025-09-10 17:55:29+00:00
Reading Debord's Society of the Spectacle in the age of TikTok is surreal.

In some ways, it reads like prophecy. He mapped the inevitability of image-mediated life before we had the feeds to prove him right. In other ways, it feels trivial. Today's hyperreality makes the theory so obvious it barely registers as theory at all, more like a weather report. We don’t have to imagine the spectacle when we're already drowning in it.

My gripe with "How is new media transforming us?" journalism is that it never gets past the pre-theoretical stage. It inventories symptoms: shorter attention spans, algorithmic optimization, but won't name the cause. It's like reporting the moon's position every night and refusing to mention gravity.

The point that matters is Debord's: social relations mediated by images have replaced embodied relations. Platforms sell us connection, but what they deliver is commodification. Yes, some internet friendships spill into real life. But most are fragile, living inside economic structures designed to monetize attention. Everyone already knows the real relation isn't friend-to-friend but user-to-advertiser, and money always wins.

That's the basecamp for any way out: recognizing that hyperreal social life can't substitute lived social life. The spectacle doesn't mediate friendship, it mediates consumption. And if Debord feels obvious now, that's only because his warning has become the background condition of everyday life. Facebook can't really connect you to friends; it can only connect you to advertisers.
by BizarroLand | 2025-09-10 17:55:32+00:00
If you find yourself required to use windows 11, consider running Flyoobe:

https://github.com/builtbybel/Flyoobe

It can be run after install to disable AI/Apps/experience crap that M$ forces on you.

Also, remember to disable app updates in M$ store or it will just reinstall everything you uninstalled on every reboot.
by triceratops | 2025-09-10 17:55:33+00:00
> The bottom 50% pay no taxes and the top 1% still pay 40+% of federal taxes.

This tells us nothing unless we know how their relative income shares. If the bottom 50% earns only 20% of all income (just an example) this is quite fair. If they earn 60%, it's unfair.

The number of people who just trot out this statistic without context is quite tiresome.

And of course everyone pays sales tax, property tax (even if they're a renter), payroll tax and so on.
by leptons | 2025-09-10 17:56:04+00:00
People are forgetting they have a brain that can figure things out, don't you think it's worth reminding them that they can figure things out? I weep for the future where people can't do things because ChatGPT is down. My comment was simply trying to remind someone that they have an amazing brain they can use to figure things out. Sorry if that offends you.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-10 17:56:07+00:00
You've fallen for right wing propaganda. Crime has continuously fallen since the 70's. Individual areas of cities might get worse (there's a cyclical nature to newly built up, desirable areas aging and becoming low-income as other areas get rebuilt), but it is an indisputable fact that you are less likely to be violently attacked today than just about any other point in living history.

And the difference in crime rates in urban and rural areas is grossly overblown. Looking at California numbers, a city-slicker has about a .9% chance of becoming a victim of violent crime, and hick has about a .6% chance. That's a small reduction to a small probability. For context, if your risk tolerance hasn't forced you to cut out meat and alcohol from your diet to avoid cancer, you're miscalculating risk if you think you should flee the cities to avoid violence.
by epiccoleman | 2025-09-10 17:56:13+00:00
I don't mean to be rude, but this sounds like user error. I don't understand why anyone would use an LLM for this - or at least, why you would let the LLM perform the transformation.

If I was trying to do something like this I would ask the LLM to write a Python script, validate the output by running it against the first handful of rows (like, `head -n 10 thing.csv | python transform-csv.py`).

There are times when statistical / stochastic output is useful. There are other times when you want deterministic output. A transformation on a CSV is the latter.
by elric | 2025-09-10 17:56:17+00:00
I had a (now defunct) startup in this space some years ago. Maybe I can help shed some light on why things are the way they are.

1. Money. Most museums have no money. They either run on donations, on subsidies, or at the whim of wealthy patrons. They are very costly to run, especially the big ones. They are often in prime real estate areas, many require tight climate control, many also require specialised lighting to protect art etc.

2. Curators often see "taking care" of the exhibits as more important than actually exhibiting them. Not to mention they're often art/history majors with very little clue about anything digital.

3. Because museums are often subsidised, many of them are required to go through public tender procedures to get anything done. Because this is a huge pain for everyone involved, the results are often shit, as it attracts a certain kind of company to do the work. One of the tenders my startup looked at involved not only supplying the hardware and software for an interactive exhibit, but also the lighting and reinforced glass casings for various items. This was not our cup of tea, and the tender would subtract points for using subcontractors...

Personally I'm not interested in museums that are just glass cases with stuff without any explanation. Maybe a little paper legend is sufficient, but I actually prefer a screen which offers more info in the form of adio or video in multiple languages.

Depending on the exhibit, 3D printed replicas can be great as well.
by notadoctor789 | 2025-09-10 17:56:18+00:00
Amateur photography overemphasizes megapixel count. While a 200MP phone sensor is impressive, the iPhone’s larger pixels and faster sensor deliver superior HDR, low-light, and action shots. However, I find iOS image processing poor; despite Samsung’s oversaturated photos, their processing is better. The proof of the sensor quality is in the video though: never seen video from an Android phone match that of a comparable iPhone.
by TeeMassive | 2025-09-10 17:56:36+00:00
I get the author's points, and they all are valid, but I don't understand why people would use generated code and its types through their entire project.

This is just asking for trouble when the API will inevitably break as all APIs will do eventually. In our projects I mandated and pushed really hard that we create intermediary data classes that correspond one to one to the protobufs (at first).

I got a lot of angry faces and reactions in PR due to the seemingly useless boiler plate code required but it saved our butts so many times when the API changed just before a release that it became the de facto standard.

Also, protobufs and GRPCs are a de facto standards. Are there better alternatives? Yes. Should you use those? Most likely not because the point of serialization frameworks is to be used by many people in various tech stacks.
by ncruces | 2025-09-10 17:56:50+00:00
I hadn't visited Madrid in over 20 years, and found the burial of the M30 (and, increasingly, the radial highways) extremely impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Río

There's also the subway (impressive sprawl, infrastructure itself not so much), and decent buses.

Plenty of areas have also been closed to car traffic.

I'm all for restricting traffic, but it doesn't need to be completely either-or, even in a larger city.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-10 17:56:51+00:00
The other failure is that youtube wants quantity over quality. That incentivizes some bad behaviors. The hbomber video about plagerism is ultimately about that. Taking shortcuts, using 3rd parties (or now AI) to write scripts. It's all really negatively impacted the medium.

AI in particular is like coke to lazy content makers. I've had to drop a few because it became clear that AI took the lead in writing.
by BinaryIgor | 2025-09-10 17:56:54+00:00
Usually there are not worth the complexity:

"Two-phase commit provides an eventual consistency guarantee only. While the transaction is committed, even if no errors occur, other clients will be able to see partial updates to the database cluster."

Plus, I wonder whether they have resilient mechanism to not hold transactions in the prepared state for too long, in case of crashes. In most cases, you can redesign your app/system to no require such complex things