MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saltcured | 2025-09-19 19:39:39+00:00
Where the medical establishment pushes it, it is largely about establishing habits for people who may get a lot of exposure that they didn't plan for.

Also, local climates differ dramatically. A couple of my worst sunburns in my life were on extremely gray days on the California coast. It is easy to fool yourself into thinking the sun isn't strong when you don't feel the heat of it. But on those kinds of days, it's just diffuse UV blasting from every direction.

I found it instructive when I got photochromatic eye glasses. Since they are UV-activated, it is like carrying a UV detection instrument around with a heads-up display. It really helped me get a better sense for what conditions and hours of the day have significant UV in my normal daily life.
by _wire_ | 2025-09-19 19:40:05+00:00
The hazard of these cars is surprise: They can be operated with dynamics that surrounding traffic do not or cannot expect.

Speed differentials are hazardous because of limits of human attention.

Consider the simple case of an urban crosswalk: The rate of vehicles vs. pedestrians has an attention hazard for both: there's a speed beyond which the pedestrian can not safely judge a crossing because the vehicle will pass in a duration shorter than the attention span of the ped. Similarly there's a speed at which the operator can not react to appearance of ped.

Simple V differences are a well known hazard of surprise. EVs create another hazard which arise from relatively high delta-V dynamics. The vehicles can accelerate at surprising rates and therefore appear in places that operators don't expect them to be. For example, merging requires anticipation that the surveyed gap will be maintained during the crossing. Surrounding vehicles operating with disproportionate V or high dV upset the balance of the gap.

Surprise can have cascading effects, where surprised operators lose attention which in turn causes further hazards.

We might suspect that given the surprising power of EVs, their saving grace is that their operation in urban traffic tends towards operator passivity. But this tendency obviates power: the proper power level is that which permits the vehicle to operate fluidly with traffic.

Regardless of attention spans for operators, the simple mechanical comfort of occupants places very low limits on vehicle dynamics.

Vehicle power was already becoming well balanced before EVs, and EV development should be further refining the balance in favor of safety, comfort, efficiency, and wear.

But there's always an edge of fascination with performance limits.
by krapp | 2025-09-19 19:40:07+00:00
>Therefore people argue that we have to shame (not imprison or kill) celebrations on attacks on free speech to protect free speech.

So what you're saying is "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences?"

Odd. I suspect the same people arguing that now would have been outraged at the very thought before Charlie Kirk's death. Because they celebrate the death of people also practicing free speech all the time while insisting that freedom of speech exists to defend the speech you disagree with, not the speech you agree with.

It's just weird how fast their principles turn on a dime when it's one of theirs.
by yard2010 | 2025-09-19 19:40:39+00:00
You can't be distracted from driving no matter where you are driving or when. When driving you have to be 100% focused in driving because every tiny risk you take can be fatal or worse.

I hate to be this guy but I've lost too many people for small stupid mistakes. The equivalent of this is getting killed when you accidentally bump into someone in the supermarket. This is just not fair.

Never take a chance, stay safe, life is precious and fragile.
by jb55 | 2025-09-19 19:40:41+00:00
> The event protocol that drives the system doesn't authenticate public keys, so asymmetric signatures are performative: attackers that can intercept messages (Nostr servers, the presumed adversary of an E2EE messaging system) can just swap out keys and re-sign.

This is completely nonsense, most clients do in fact check signatures. All relays do as well.

> Two major clients, the mobile phone Damus app and the web Iris app, don't even verify signatures to begin with.

Author of Damus here. this is an analysis of an old version. This has since been fixed. In the early days we connected to a fixed relay list of trusted relays. These relays verified signatures. This was just a pragmatic tradeoff thing until we had an optimized work queue for verifying notes (this lead to nostrdb, a custom embedded nostr database built on lmdb. it's a sqlite but for nostr https://github.com/damus-io/nostrdb)

> DMs in this system are unauthenticated CBC, so attackers can simply bitflip messages and events to say what they want.

not really true since the whole note is covered by a secp256k1 signature.

> The apps do automatic link-preview, so they've managed to reconstitute the EFAIL attack: attackers can locate links within messages (they'll be revealed by SNI and DNS anyways) and then bitflip them to point to attacker-controlled servers, exposing both the URLs (which will often contain tokens) and, with a bit of extra work, the message itself (by tacking `?foo=` onto a URL).

you can turn off these, you can turn off images as well. people should run a VPN of course if they are worried about these things.
by ForHackernews | 2025-09-19 19:40:51+00:00
I feel like we're talking in circles here: your "far better app compatibility" is a phone useful for nothing, and if the user chooses to install Google Play then they have a usable phone at the cost of their privacy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The goal of /e/OS is to provide a more-private degoogled OS that is usable out of the box by normal people: an app store, maps, etc.

This whole conversation reminds me of talking to Slackware users in the early 2000s: "I don't understand what you mean, it's compatible with everything you just have to recompile it. It's 100% secure, it comes with zero services running."
by nielsbot | 2025-09-19 19:40:54+00:00
The Kimmel case is a straightforward protection racket.

Nexstar, the owner of 39% of the local TV stations in the country, wants the FCC to change their rules to allow them to merge with [other conglomerate name I forget] to increase their local market ownership share to 80%.

(If you listen to what Kimmel said, he mainly mocked Trump.)
by 101008 | 2025-09-19 19:41:17+00:00
I love going to concerts and love going to sport events. Ticketmaster is awful, but most of the ticketing platforms are. I always talked with fellow friends how we would love to start a new startup for this, for selling tickets, a fair one, etc. But of course people in the industry wouldn't want it. Really a shame, because it would be one of those cases where I'd be working on somethign that excites me so I would give it all.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-19 19:41:32+00:00
> Doesn’t this just mean less talent? Companies would hire locally if equal level talent was available. I doubt it’s really about saving money when these jobs earn a lot of revenue per employee. Adding this fee means companies may just not find anyone worth hiring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224057

Your reply to my comment there:

(me) ... I don't think US workers should have to compete with 1 billion+ other global workers for their jobs ...

(you) They already do though. Do you own any items made in other countries? If so, you’re competing with other workers already. It seems weird to focus on immigrants workers in America versus citizens in America while importation is allowed at all. I find all of this also very much in conflict with HN’s anti tariff attitude.

So, you seem to understand the problem. This is not about lack of domestic US talent. This is about disempowering US corporations from importing unnecessary labor to disadvantage US workers (who are currently facing an unfavorable domestic labor market).

Citations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880832 ("There is no requirement to demonstrate that you cannot find an American to do the job to get an H1b visa approved. If that person applies for a PERM position (needed to convert to a green card) there is. Hence the H1b is easy to game by employers to get cheap indentured servants. With PERM (converting to a green card) they try to hide the job postings so that people will not apply so that they can get the green card approved. Some of the tricks include putting ads in the newspaper, using esoteric websites and other media such as radio instead of job boards where tech people actually look for jobs. Some Americans who have trouble finding jobs in the current market took on a side project of scraping newspaper ads and these job boards and created https://www.jobs.now/ which lists these jobs. If enough Americans that meet the minimum qualifications apply for a listed job it stops the green card process for that position, usually for 6 months before the sponsor may try again. Also, there are a lot of stories about people getting O-1 visas via fake credential mills and research papers. Both can and are being gamed to get O-1's." -- u/lgleason)

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719 - September 2025 (526 comments)

Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44892321 - August 2025 (108 comments)

H-1B Middlemen Bring Cheap Labor to Citi, Capital One - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398978 - June 2025 (4 comments)

Jury finds Cognizant discriminated against US workers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385000 - December 2024 (65 comments)

How middlemen are gaming the H-1B program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123945 - July 2024 (57 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454509 (additional citations)
by sampo | 2025-09-19 19:42:14+00:00
M. ibericus queens produce ibericus males and ibericus females, so that these can mate and produce more ibericus queens. This keeps the normal sexual reproduction of the species going on.

M. ibericus queens produce ibericus×structor hybrids as infertile female worker ants.

M. ibericus queens produce structor males, so future queens can keep producing the hybrid worker ants.

My guess is, maybe there is some benefit having the workers to be hybrids and not pure ibericus ("hybrid vigor" [1]). So it's worth the effort of keeping the structor males along, to be able to produce the hybrid workers. But I think the pure ibericus genes in the line of queens are in control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-19 19:42:17+00:00
I go to a few concerts a year and enjoy them, but the only Ticketmaster concert I’ve ever been to was last year. I paid $115 each (with fees!) for good floor seats to see Weezer, Dinosaur Jr, and the Flaming Lips in 2024. The multi hundred or multi thousand dollar event tickets are insane, I’d never pay that much for a concert.

I am lucky to have local independent music venues (First Avenue in Mpls, they own a few local venues) with sub $100 ticket prices that have acts I want to see, which isn’t the case for everyone. Taylor Swift fans (for example) are squeezed as hard as possible for every penny, I think it’s absolutely disgusting.
by bobthepanda | 2025-09-19 19:42:34+00:00
It's hard to sympathize with the experience between scalping, which is bad, but also now there's all sorts of priority queues for people with various levels of pay-to-play which are pretty distasteful. AMEX presale, cell carrier presale, etc. all feels terrible. And the show is fun but my local arena renovated within the last decade and now feels like an airport terminal with all the tiered lounges, ripoff concessions even for an arena (I saw a $48 espresso martini), etc.

Similar to how I hear that Disney has basically made going to its resorts and scheduling Fastpass basically a second job.
by nwienert | 2025-09-19 19:42:35+00:00
Which API's did they not implement?

I really never commented on lock-in, even said it's fine to dislike it. You're fighting an imaginary opponent here.

I really just pointed out that Safari largely caught up on web standards. It's Google doing the whole "embrace, extend, extinguish" thing that IE pioneered by stuffing non-standards into their browser so they can lock people in.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-19 19:42:39+00:00
Yes, much of the anger is coming from the petard-hoisting nature of this, and people who spent 2017-2024 trying to silence (or worse) everyone who disagreed with them and cheering on governments that tried to suppress "disinformation" and other speech they didn't like, having to come up with elaborate justifications why It's Different This Time.
by b0sk | 2025-09-19 19:42:47+00:00
Don't be naive. There was no jawboning from the previous administration to networks to cancel someone -- especially someone who always made fun of the President.

However, this is a a classic example of violation of 1A. (I agree that the thing that was probably in the grey area was they asked Twitter to remove certain COVID-19 medical disinformation tweets -- But, come on, many people were consuming horse dewormers for COVID and dying. )

The right's cancel culture is a violation of constitution because it's the government that's doing the cancelling.
Show HN: OS layer for running multiple Codex agents in parallel
by arnestrickmann | 2025-09-19 19:42:48+00:00
We built an open source layer to orchestrate multiple Codex agents in parallel. Found myself and some friends running Codex agents across multiple terminals. Thats why me and a friend built emdash. Each agent gets its own isolated workspace, making it easy to see who’s working, who’s stuck, and what’s changed.
by jimbob45 | 2025-09-19 19:42:51+00:00
You can’t resell old episodes. They only talk about news and celebrities relevant to each specific week. They’re instantly dated - no one is rewatching old episodes beyond a week. Even if there are some stragglers still watching them with their ancient cable TV subscriptions, they’ll be gone within five years and who wants to invest in a dying show with an expiration date?
by lstodd | 2025-09-19 19:44:35+00:00
IMO it all combines into confidence. Which you can't project so to say if you can not make yourself believe in your own lies for a moment, and charisma is just another name for confidence. Or hutzpah for that matter.

Key point is to not let yourself forget what is that you're doing: manipulating people. Or in other words, don't forget that there is such thing as reality. Many fell into this one trap.
by tristor | 2025-09-19 19:44:44+00:00
It mentions in his Wikipedia article that he had money although the source was unknown. The issue with vagrancy throughout history is not the vagrancy itself primarily, but the problems of theft and anti-social behaviors that go with it. Since this person had money, didn't steal, and seemed to mostly leave people alone, they weren't a problem and got an exemption because they were well known.
by FungalRaincloud | 2025-09-19 19:45:45+00:00
The Hedgehog Review? Yes, they've been around since 1999, and publish a few times a year. But I'm not sure where you're leaping to a strong political leaning. They're an academic journal published by the University of Virginia. I don't religiously follow them, but I've been cursorily aware of them for a while. I don't think I've ever considered them to lean one way or another when reading their publications.
by com2kid | 2025-09-19 19:45:47+00:00
When I was doing job interviews during my last year of college, I was able to chat with all my interviewers about the morning's Slashdot headlines. Everyone had checked the /. front page that morning and I was able to have a nice ice breaker about the day's stories.

That isn't the case anymore. That sort of monoculture where everyone is reading the same stories, discussing the same topics, and reading about shared values and principles, is long gone.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-09-19 19:45:48+00:00
But many concertgoers buy their tickets early specifically to get the discount. The discount over later pricing is a valid marketing tactic. Airlines also raise seat prices closer to the day of the flight to encourage people to buy earlier ahead of time.

If Ticketmaster enjoys such market dominance, they become responsible to prevent widespread misuse of their own platform, lest they become negligent. They are owned by livenation which is a public company.
by volleyball | 2025-09-19 19:45:53+00:00
I would argue that on this matter and all matters relating to the middle-east, American minds are still being swayed by a foreign country and have been for the last 50 to 80 years. At least, with Chinese Tiktok, Elon's twitter and competition between the various social media platforms, Americans for the first time were exposed to voices from the other side. And between the two sides, were able to make up a more informed decision. This is a desperate attempt to reverse that. I doubt it will work in the long-term and i don't think it is expected to. But I think in near-term this is a measure to control the narrative to prepare for American misadventures in the region over the next couple of years. Which almost certainly includes a second war with Iran, Israeli annexation of the West Bank and even possibly a partial American occupation of Gaza.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-19 19:46:44+00:00
> Elon Musk — who is, don’t forget, the head of a major AI lab — has said that AI is just as dangerous as nukes

Unherd keeps advancing the state-of-the-art in absentminded opinion columns. Can the author not fathom why Elon and Altman amplify this discussion?

"Elon Musk wants your attention again, don't forget that he's supposed to be a very smart individual!"
by xyzelement | 2025-09-19 19:47:28+00:00
That's a nuance without consequence. Barr is a random example that came to mind.

The larger point is that it's been very difficult for a while to be a conservative in media, or academia or in the workplace, due to the ease with which you were canceled. The reason people stick with principles because it helps them and the other side - it's a high ground maneuver.

But once you feel like you are consistently deprived of all the benefits of that principle, you are no longer inclined to uphold it.

So in general I would expect conservatives to now attack via pathways they were previously above. The fact that people are surprised they are getting fired for celebrating Kirk's murder is one sign of how benign the conservatives had been about that stuff. I think that's over now.
by anematode | 2025-09-19 19:48:12+00:00
Unfortunately even the RTX 6000 Pro has nerfed double-precision throughput at about 2 TFLOPS, 64x slower than single precision. For comparison an EPYC 9755 does ~10 TFLOPS, while drawing less power. An A100 -- if you can find one -- is in the same ballpark.

The best option for DP throughput for hobbyists interested in HPC might be old AMD cards from before they, too, realized that scientific folks would pay up the nose for higher precision.
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-19 19:48:25+00:00
It looks too much like "Acme" so it gets confused as a joke about cartoons. It looks too much like "acne", that is a too common skin problem, and it looks too much like "eczema" that is a rarer nasty-looking skin problem.

Whoever created that name should get a prize.

Anyway, the community not adopting that brand doesn't mean one can't rebrand JS.
by mandevil | 2025-09-19 19:48:55+00:00
That is a (relatively) new thing, however- at least in the US. Prior to the September 11th security reforms there no ID checks against tickets, and you could resell them. This was so commonplace that one US airline (People's Express) back in the 1980's did all their tickets paid in cash after you boarded. They had no idea who would be on a flight at all until the boarding started!

(You can see this in the spoof movie Airplane II: The Sequel from 1982, where our hero boards the Lunar Shuttle buying a ticket from a scalper.)

So this policy is younger than Google.
by setopt | 2025-09-19 19:48:55+00:00
There are other benefits as well. For example, some eye exposure to violet or ultraviolet light have been shown to reduce myopia, which might be one reason why glasses usage has increased a lot. (Screen usage is a big myopia factor as well, but it’s not the whole story.)

There are also studies suggesting that low-level UV exposure lowers risk of death by more than what can be explained by serum vitamin D levels alone, suggesting other unknown mechanisms at play.
by jpk | 2025-09-19 19:49:09+00:00
> A few individuals can completely takeover the government

That's not what's happening.

When most people serving in positions of government do so in good faith, most forms of government work, including the American one. When most people serve in bad faith, most forms of government do not work, including the American one.

The American system has checks in place to keep what is happening from happening, but those checks aren't working because those who would exercise them aren't doing so, as withholding those checks benefits them personally, at least in the short term. The underlying theory of the American system is that if you distribute power enough, one or a few bad actors can't seize total power.

But, there are just too many people in elected office right now who did not take their oath to uphold the Constitution in good faith. Namely, in Congress which has simultaneously demonstrated that it is unwilling to effectively wield the impeachment check, and is unable to do effective legislative work, leading to a latent desire for a stronger executive. In this circumstance, no form of government will hold up without a correction towards replacing all the bad-faith actors.
by estearum | 2025-09-19 19:49:17+00:00
Absolutely not true. Trump hasn't been "winning" at the Supreme Court.

The Trump administration has won exactly two cases at SCOTUS, which is Trump vs CASA and United States vs Skrmetti.

Every other "positive outcome" from SCOTUS has been the Supreme Court reaching down into lower court decisions and delaying/pausing lower courts' decisions in lieu of the Supreme Court actually hearing and deciding the case.

And in a growing number of these cases, there has been zero rationale provided for the reversal. None whatsoever. You cannot possibly make the claim they were for "breaking the rules." In fact, with the (very aberrational) lack of provided rationale, I'd suggest you can infer quite the opposite: SCOTUS's interventions are actually not readily defensible with any cogent legal argument.

In other words, you are a victim of the same ignorance discussed at the top of the thread. Trump's wins are not wins, they are SCOTUS using procedural tools to overturn lower decisions without having to hear evidence, consider arguments, or provide decisions themselves.
by jfengel | 2025-09-19 19:49:31+00:00
Mark 11:24: "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Malachi 3:10: "'Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.'"

Matthew 25: 29-30: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

The Bible is a pretty big book. There's something in it to justify just about anything you want to believe.

That does sometimes involve tapdancing around the plain meaning of some other parts. That's called "prooftexting", and it's frowned on by serious theologians, but the kind of people who hoard wealth usually aren't serious theologians.