MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-24 16:21:12+00:00
I mean your comment, number one on this post, is propaganda to ignore the major sourcing of information that least pretend to have a system for evaluating what i true, what is worthy to present and replace it with.......? In the USA we have historically tried to keep abreast of what is going on in the world, partly because we are a nation of immigrants with ties/emotional ties around the world. Is that a thing in China? It didn't seem so when I was working with people in China. Giving a Chinese cultural position (ignore the world) might not be a fit for an American.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-24 16:21:17+00:00
My wife and I are both Delta Platinum and it’s half and half. Since we always get upgraded to C+ with dedicated overhead and we board early, for non stop flights, we won’t check our bags for short getaways.

We hate lugging luggage around the airport for layovers and now that we don’t live in ATL any more, we almost always have layovers.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-24 16:21:24+00:00
> I think a reasonable and nuanced debate can be had on whether or not that was appropriate, but there is a difference.

I very much agree. It's reasonable to ask if the Biden admin overstepped their boundaries by politely asking if Youtube would help them stop people from murdering each other with disinformation and trying to overthrow the government.

I think the current situation is much less debatable. The government is now issuing ultimatums and very publicly threatening corporations to stifle free speech.
by codedokode | 2025-09-24 16:21:47+00:00
> Aside from age verification, with attribute based authentication you can prove digitally that you're permitted to drive a certain vehicle without revealing your social security number (equivalent).

That doesn't make sense because the government knows about every vehicle and its owner and his social security number and there is no point to hide it. I think you misunderstood something or I misunderstood your comment.

The goal of "bringing identity to your phone" is making identification easier to require it in more cases so that the government knows better what its citizens do. One thing if you are required to fill a 20 fields form to buy a bicycle and another thing if you need just to tap your phone at the cash register.
by harrisoned | 2025-09-24 16:21:58+00:00
> At present the project is focused on mobile platforms, specifically Android and iOS, as they cover the vast majority of users and real-world use cases. (..) Desktop support is not currently within the project's scope.

This is the equivalent of a "Do you guys not have phones??"[1] but on a way larger scale.

At least where i live i am able to use the bare minimum of phones, even working with tech. The friction is increasing though, which worries me a lot, and day after day there is a new attempt to shove it down your throat if you want to be considered a member of society. Seeing that a lot of countries (including mine) are pushing for age verification, and the whole thing about Android blocking 'sideload', by the end of 2026 you won't be considered a human being without a government certified smartphone.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly10r6m_-n8
by cyberpunk | 2025-09-24 16:22:41+00:00
No, we are not afraid of our own systems. The idea that there is some fabled computer system which everyone is too scared to touch doesn’t exist (I work in payment processing). There are levels of controls way outside these systems which provide these safety nets (e.g settlement / reconciliation controls).

If the cobol is still there, it’s not due to risk. If anything, the cobol is a much higher operational risk than replacing it.
by diflartle | 2025-09-24 16:22:50+00:00
"The tie goes to the runner" died with instant replay, and I think that is sad. If you need multiple super slow-motion angles to determine if they were out or safe, it should be a tie, in my opinion.

I also just say watch every angle at full speed for those types of replay, no slow-mo. Keeps the magic, but let's you correct egregious calls.
by Ukv | 2025-09-24 16:22:54+00:00
Bad UX is the result, from the combination of disabling text selection and being in a language you don't understand. Ideally both would be fixed - since unselectable text causes UX issues even when in a language I understand (when I want to select as I'm reading to keep place, or copy a partial link, or right click -> search/define a technical term, or copy-paste to tell someone what button to click, etc.)
by Scene_Cast2 | 2025-09-24 16:23:40+00:00
I have a OnePlus 8 Pro with an IR camera. It's pretty nifty - nature photography looks cool, seeing through stovetops is neat (and seeing when they heat up), and VR things are also often playing around with IR (plastic transparent to IR, IR LEDs, etc).

I ended up having to flash Lineage, as there was some outrage that in a highly limited set of circumstances, thin see-through T-shirts became slightly more see-through and OnePlus disabled that camera in their later firmware updates.
by elmerfud | 2025-09-24 16:24:07+00:00
It's pretty typical that the government that is supposed to be for the people and says it wants to provide open and transparent information clearly does not want to provide that information when the information is used. This is the kind of thing that all of the people in the city should be outraged about and they should begin to vote people out of office for not providing clear and transparent information. There should also be a lawsuit about information that was freely available by the government has been taken away without notice and without cause.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-24 16:24:49+00:00
>They are trying to make money more than anything else.

Who knows what some people will do these days, just for that.

Well, we actually have a pretty good idea, without all the gory details.

But I know what you mean, it's not too easy for multiple sources to be on the same page even when they really try sometimes.

However, only the few most popular are what most people listen to, and those biggies are usually well aware of each others' stance. On an ongoing basis. And if a combined effort were to take place nothing else would have a chance.

Sometimes even sharing personnel, concurrently and/or sequentially, which can also lay the groundwork for approaches that seem competitive but are really complementary. As designed with a single, possibly obscured agenda designed from the ground up to deceive.

Things like this might be why "trust but verify" may have to be deprecated, and reversed to "verify and still be skeptical" if the propaganda keeps getting worse.
by jwally | 2025-09-24 16:24:57+00:00
Chase.com currently is using:

mPulse

Google Marketing Platform Meta

LinkedIn Ads

Trade Desk

Aggregate Knowledge (Trans Union)

Adobe Audience Manger

Can you elaborate on how the risk of ironbank and hornpub colluding by de-anonymizing you via rainbow tables or IP forensics is substantially greater than Chase and PornHub using - Google Marketing?
by shredprez | 2025-09-24 16:24:58+00:00
Great write up! I've found these techniques pretty effective in tricky times over the years, and they don't only apply to tech workplaces.

That said, they're very much geared toward "polishing shit" leadership. Getting yourself and the people you're responsible for through the hard times is a crucial skill. Getting them out and onto something better is important too, even if it can be tougher to square with the mandate middle managers work under.
by havaloc | 2025-09-24 16:25:11+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Airlines

"For many years, all flights featured 2-by-2 leather seating (in aircraft usually fitted with 3-2 seating), ample legroom, complimentary gourmet meals, and warm chocolate chip cookies. This made the airline popular with business travelers. In addition, Midwest Express operated a sizable executive charter operation with a specially configured DC-9."
by hearsathought | 2025-09-24 16:25:12+00:00
> Russias GDP is on par with South Korea’s.

Doesn't that show you what a silly measure GDP (nominal ) is? Do you think south korea could carry out a multi-year war against US/NATO under international sanctions? South korea would collapse immediately under international sanctions. South korea wouldn't be able to feed its own population let alone fund a war under international sanctions. Also using GDP( PPP ), russia's economy is 2X+ larger than south korea.

> Hate to be that guy, but source?

There obviously isn't any. Nobody has trillions for bribes. Trillions is war money, not bribe money.
by cowthulhu | 2025-09-24 16:25:12+00:00
I don’t think that is a practical framework for situations where people aren’t already very closely aligned. What happens when a few people are very vocal (and firm) in opposition to basically every change? Having dissenting views is valuable, but not when they have veto power. Additionally, I think that framework is vulnerable to what I refer to as “death by yes but” - when everyone is just piling on amendments and precursor conditions, oftentimes conflicting, that result in a decision taking months (maybe even years) to make or scuttle.

I’m basing these comments out of experience - one example is a workgroup/committee operating under a similar model that was completely unable to do anything due to decision paralysis. The committee grew significantly more effective when we reformed the decision making process to have a small group of owners to handle pitching and (potentially) implementing the decision, then had approval be a simple yes/no majority vote.
by Lio | 2025-09-24 16:25:13+00:00
Part of the reason this is difficult maybe that there's an ongoing problem in the UK of foreign gangs using faked documents to steal inheritances[1][2].

I'm skeptical though whether a compulsory ID card for British nationals would help with that.

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/shadow-world-the-grav...

2. https://www.theabi.org.uk/news/is-eastern-european-organised...
by hn8726 | 2025-09-24 16:25:31+00:00
Can you give an example? I just checked a random rental website for France and I got a very clear `From $xx` price and I could — in one step — go to checkout with that exact price by simply not selecting any other options.

Sure you will have upsells but if a price for a service is presented, that should be a final price. You can't tack on "resort fees", the price presented must be inclusive of all the required charges. For example as much as I dislike Booking.com, the price they show for a room includes everything — tax, mandatory cleaning fee and city tax if applicable.
by SpaghettiCthulu | 2025-09-24 16:25:50+00:00
I haven't tested this, but in theory running deno with `--v8-flags='--jitless'`[^1][^2] will disable the JIT compiler.

[^1]: https://v8.dev/blog/jitless

[^2]: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/getting_started/command_line_i...
by kulahan | 2025-09-24 16:25:56+00:00
I do find it interesting that in an attempt to bring more people into modern society (via ability to access everything from an inexpensive smartphone), we're creating a stratification in society.

My brother hates tech more than me, and only has an old flip phone. I'm always surprised by the random problems he runs into as a result. Unresponsive desktop sites that beg you to download apps are the worst.
by SmirkingRevenge | 2025-09-24 16:26:07+00:00
Fox (and the right-wing media more broadly) act as boosters for the right and negative partisanship generators for the left. They protect republicans from accountability. They manufacture scandals about the opposition.

And it's so effective we couldn't even collectively manage to banish from public life the guy who nearly murdered congress and his veep on television. Truly scary.
by _alternator_ | 2025-09-24 16:26:41+00:00
This is built in to git as “git hooks”; GitHub not required. But don’t do it. Postgres has a system to trigger commands based on SQL patterns (eg on commit, when updating a row in this table, etc). Much more powerful and maintainable since it is designed for this.

The fact is that basically every data structure can be abused as a database (python dicts, flat files, wave in mercury traveling down a long tube). Don’t reinvent the wheel, learn to use a power tool like Postgres.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-24 16:27:25+00:00
> That stuff is cheap. How do you expect someone moving to a place of fewer resources and less security to make a more expensive product?

Investigative journalism is really not that expensive. A lot of it boils down to needing a phone and money for gas. Rather than costs, the much bigger obstacle to good journalism is censorship, much of it coming from company leadership, which doesn't want a bad relationship with advertisers or the government.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-09-24 16:27:55+00:00
Same. I interface with a team who refuses to conduct business in anything other than Excel, and because of dated corporate mindshare, their management sees them more as wizards instead of the odd ones out.

"They're on top of it! They always email me the new file when they make changes and approve my access requests quickly."

There are limits to my stubbornness, and my first use of LLMs for coding assistance was to ask for help figuring out how to Excel, after a mere three decades of avoidance.

After engaging and learning more about their challenges, it turned out one of their "data feeds" was actually them manually copy/pasting into a web form with a broken batch import that they'd give up on submitting project requests for, which I quietly fixed so they got to retain their turnaround while they planned some other changes.

Ultimately nothing grand, but I would never have bothered if I'd had to wade through the usual sort of learning resources available or ask another person. Being able to transfer and translate higher level literacy, though, is right up my alley.
by khuey | 2025-09-24 16:28:04+00:00
Blocking on an asynchronous task and waiting for it to finish is fundamentally a different operation than spawning an asynchronous operation and returning to the caller to execute entirely different code.

smol's spawn also requires the Future to be 'static (https://docs.rs/smol/latest/smol/fn.spawn.html), while tokio's local block_on also does not require 'static or Send + Sync (https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/struct.LocalSet.html...).
by worldsayshi | 2025-09-24 16:28:11+00:00
With things like tlsnotary you should be able to prove to a third party anything that you can request over https. I.e. <domain> says that <fact about me>. Or uk-identity.com says that I'm a human and I'm >18 years old. Bank says I can pay for this etc.

As I understand it, you can do arbitrary computations on https responses and prove that you didn't tamper with the response or the computation.
by mvhv | 2025-09-24 16:28:23+00:00
This doesn't really seem like "hyperspectral imaging". I think the idea is having a reference colour chart of known emission characteristics and photographing it through a transparent substance gives you an idea of how much that substance attenuates each wavelength.

It's a cool trick if it works, but it seems very finicky and I guess would be limited to transparent/homogeneous liquids?
by cubefox | 2025-09-24 16:28:38+00:00
If you open an image with Google Lens (or select the image in the Google Search app, which seems to result in the same thing) Google does by default an image web search and shows you similar pictures, but it also displays a blue "translate" button on the right, which activates OCR and text selection, and optional translation. Though it doesn't seem possible to avoid it doing the image web search first, which might be problematic for private pictures.
by mothballed | 2025-09-24 16:29:04+00:00
Ah yes I love modern society "they're your kids" until every busybody on earth calls CPS or police at the first sign of doing something they disapprove (happened to me because I shit you not, my kid is a different race and that was 'suspicious' to be a kidnapping -- thanks FOIA for the bodycam revealing that bullshit).

Or when it comes time to tax the shit out of the grown kid made possible by the massive time and money investment made by the parents, the lion's share of the total. "No no no, that was society's investment -- now they owe us those taxes as part the social contract!"

When it comes time to do the gangster shit it's all on the parent, but when it comes time to reap the benefits suddenly "we're a society."
by jonathanstrange | 2025-09-24 16:29:24+00:00
I've worked more than 15 years as a full-time researcher in a philosophy research institute. At least in my area, I highly doubt that any noteworthy amount of "misfit research" should get funding and is worth pursuing. Research is embedded into and needs to be part of the international research culture where many people and many different institutions work on the same topic. In philosophy, this is and has always been mostly within academia. "misfits" are unfortunately often close to "crackpots." There is a myriad of funding opportunities, some of them rather obscure and based on personal projects with a wide range of application conditions and requirements. For example, I know a colleague who once did research in philosophy for the Volkswagen Stiftung, and another one obtained funding from NATO.

Of course, there is research outside of academia in many more practical disciplines like STEM and medical research. But I doubt the situation is very different there. If you're too much of a "misfit" chances are high that your research proposals just aren't good enough. If you have many publications in top journals, you will get funding.

What's more concerning is that for lack of career prospects and job security, mostly those postdocs seem to prevail who are very adapted to the system and those who are extremely persistent and willing to relocate indefinitely. There is too much talent wasted in the second category. I've seen too many good and talented people drop out of the "publish or perish rat race" because they got children or wanted to settle down. These were the opposite of misfits, though.
by mkipper | 2025-09-24 16:29:51+00:00
I'm 6'6" and I basically treat an exit row upgrade as non-negotiable. It's just a fundamental cost of long haul travel for me if I can't swing premium economy or business class.

To get some extra legroom, I paid (round trip, in CAD) $250 for a trip to Dublin this year and $320 for a trip to Hong Kong in 2023. That's a lot of money, but it was <50% of the cost to upgrade to premium economy and <20% of the cost to upgrade to business class.

This used to be much cheaper. I remember paying ~$100 for similar upgrades a decade ago, but airlines got wise to this at some point and jacked the prices way up.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-24 16:29:56+00:00
This is really cool and very clever. But i want to raise one thing.

> designed a special color reference chart that can be printed on a card

My rudimentary understanding of physics makes me suspect this sentence is a simplification.

A normal printer use Cyan Magenta Yellow Black to print. A photo of such a print would already destroy alot of spectral information for the same reason the individual rgb sensors do.

So i suspect those colored dots are a very careful and deliberate concoction of very particular inks with very specific spectral color bands.

I suspect alot of effort went into finding, mixing and algoritmically combining the right inks.

I'm guessing it works similarly to a how a narrow band florescent lamp makes only materials that reflect a very specific frequency be visible, which makea alot of prints and pigments look wierd. (If you do the opposite; use ink with very specific spectral band, you can instead measure the lamp)

Insanely clever. (Whatever they did)
by orionsbelt | 2025-09-24 16:29:58+00:00
Trump’s success is largely a reaction.

The democrats need to change and run a compelling alternative, and I see no evidence that will happen any time soon.

The democrats and the left have, among other issues:

- refused to run legitimate primaries, instead propping up Hillary when she was unpopular, Biden when he was senile, and Kamala when she was also unpopular and a clearly bad candidate

- wasted a lot of goodwill advocating for policies that are unpopular with the center of the country, including trans in woman sports, the border, and crime

- ignored, minimized or outright spoke down to half the country (the “deplorables”)

- spent decades advocating globalization and ignoring the economic effects on half the country

What compelling democratic candidate is there to run in 2028? What is the compelling Democratic vision? The only fresh new charismatic faces I see are AOC and Mamdani; and while I think they are impressive politicians, those types of policies will not win over the center of the country and would lose in any national elections.
by googlywoogly | 2025-09-24 16:30:02+00:00
> you can't really both-sides this argument or say that the right-wing are the champions of free and fair elections.

Those are like two opposite statements, and I think you missed the whole point of my comment. You think you're in some noble partisan fight where your side are the good guys. In reality both sides work closely together to maximally fuck you over, while your cheer one of them on for some reason.
by pron | 2025-09-24 16:30:12+00:00
> it means making an actual effort to bring industry back to the US.

Germany has a huge manufacturing surplus, and yet its share of employment in industry has been declining for at least 40 years now.[1] "Industry" cannot be "brought back" [2] because what it once was no longer exists. Productivity in manufacturing has gone up through the roof, and manufacturing simply doesn't need many jobs now. Jobs are needed in professions like nursing and education.

> Advocate for the rights of American citizens and not of those streaming illegally across the borders.

That borders on stupidity at the level of climate-change denial or anti-vax. First, people are "streaming illegally across the border" because American citizens want them to help the economy. And if Americans change their minds and are willing to live with fewer immigrants in a weaker economy, at any specific point in time, the rights that need to be advocated are those that are in danger. At this point, however, it seems that the Trump administration is threatening the rights of both immigrants and citizens, which is why you see Democrats sounding the alarm on both.

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.IND.EMPL.ZS?location...

[2]: https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/closing-t...
by hansvm | 2025-09-24 16:30:14+00:00
> must reserve

With the current implementation exposed to the end customer, yes, that's required. Reserving specific seats isn't fundamental to the constraint that some people want to sit together.

Plus, the current reservation system is predatory in its own right. When booking you're dumped into a page strongly suggesting you must choose a seat, and all available options cost more than the base ticket.
by tavavex | 2025-09-24 16:30:15+00:00
80% would be way too much, the consumers would catch on and probably not buy tickets anymore. But don't worry, the airlines' best MBAs will be hard at work calculating the exact percentage of flights they have to fly before it starts hurting the bottom line. And once all airlines start doing it, they could bring that percentage down - what are the consumers gonna do if that's the only way to get to the destination?
by tracerbulletx | 2025-09-24 16:30:21+00:00
You can't really believe your own senses either. Science is our only systematic way to arrive at reliable information, you really can't know anything, but you can construct reproduceable experiments that increase your confidence enough that those facts can be relied upon to construct more complex theories by linking experimental results together, and those links increase your confidence because their co-occurrences help validate each other and when experimental results diverge you can also reduce your confidence deconstruct or iterate on the theory.