MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hopelite | 2025-09-24 13:26:09+00:00
What the cost of living inside SF is, is irrelevant to the matter. As city employees they also have other benefits related to commuting and no one makes them commute into the city for that job that pays at minimum $70k and up to $100k in a country where the average wage is $39k...the average...and it is for *checks notes* driving around, looking, and pushing buttons all day.

You seem to lack perspective, probably because as most here, we all likely make well above what the average person makes around us. It can be forgiven as ignorance, but it's the same thing as the people around me who are worth 9+ figures who flatter their multiple staff with all kinds of pleasantries and benefits while paying them 6 figure salaries out of an odd poorly understood "guilt" or something that is prevalent among those who are better off than others.

I get your point, but reality is that under no objective perspective is $100k a bad income for what they do, especially since those "officers" pull in $90 million per year in citations.

But to answer your question, no, you will not be living in Sea Cliff on even $100k, but seriously, let's put into perspective what someone who drives around, looks, and then pushes buttons to print out a paper should be making. How many other people could be doing that job. I guarantee that it's not even a competitive position that hires in the best interest of the public.
by btreecat | 2025-09-24 13:26:29+00:00
Honestly I found the "smart" parts of my nest to be pointless once I connected it to HA.

I have automations, sensors, and weather in HA.

I'm looking at moving to a zwave thermostat now. I wouldn't have gotten the nest but it was a (re)gift and I didn't want it to go to waste.

Now Google made it waste.
by stringsandchars | 2025-09-24 13:26:39+00:00
OTOH - partly playing devil's advocate here - I'm dealing with several bank and inheritance-related issues in the UK from my home in Sweden now, and needing to do pretty much ANYTHING with an authority in the UK feels like stepping back into the 17th century.

There's a constant requirement for paperwork to prove who I am - always in the form of items that are 100% digital nowadays in the Nordic countries (like a "utility bill" or a "credit card statement" - on paper, posted by snail-mail to my home address!)

These then need to be 'notarized' by a legal person - with seals and embossed stamps before they can be used to identify me. It's medieval.
by codedokode | 2025-09-24 13:26:51+00:00
There could be valid reasons for fighting downloaders, for example:

- AI companies scraping YT without paying YT let alone creators for training data. Imagine how many data YT has.

- YT competitors in other countries scraping YT to copy videos, especially in countries where YT is blocked. Some such companies have a function "move all my videos from YT" to promote bloggers migration.
by sasper | 2025-09-24 13:27:07+00:00
This is a silly piece of legislation written by Republican partisan hacks in the Michigan House. It has no chance of clearing the Democratic-led Senate (19–18 with one vacancy) or the Governor’s desk. Even if it did, it wouldn't pass First Amendment scrutiny. They are trying to criminalize ASMR, written erotica, or depictions of trans people which is unconstitutionally vague. At best, this is a messaging bill meant to rally the GOP base, not a serious attempt at lawmaking.
by suncore | 2025-09-24 13:27:12+00:00
There is an interesting discussion about the need for ray tracing in one of the later Digital Foundry videos. The argument goes that sometimes baked lighting is impractical due to the size of the maps and how much dynamic lighting you need. The latest Doom game is one such game where light maps would be 100s of GBs. But I guess most other games are fine with baked lighting.
by reyqn | 2025-09-24 13:27:30+00:00
I'm lucky. I'm lucky because I didn't ever have to try hard at anything in my life, and I have a good life.

I was born from two parents that cared about me. Luck

In a country where most people have a decent shot at life. Luck

I'm lazy, but I was granted a body that never failed me, and was pushed by people around me to try stuff. Luck

I'm lazy, but my laziness is somehow useful in this computer driven world. Luck

All this luck compounds, and thanks to the activities I was pushed to do, the schools I was pushed to go to, I was lucky to meet great friends, an amazing girlfriend, and have a cushy job, a nice house in a beautiful place. Luck. Luck. Luck. Luck

I have no ambition, I was never prepared for anything, but all I've had was luck.

That's what you call luck, and a lot of people try to convince themselves everything good that happens to them is because they somehow deserve it. Because they were "ambitious" and "prepared", and an "opportunity" struck at the right time, and obviously they seized it, and everyone that didn't just didn't deserve it as much as them.

Obviously some people weren't as lucky as me, and actually had to work hard, and managed to seize an actual opportunity that wasn't gifted to them. But that's not all luck, only a little part is. And those people are quite rare.
by brookst | 2025-09-24 13:27:39+00:00
It is possible to accept that one can’t know the absolute, complete, detailed truth without giving up on identifying and rejecting lies.

That’s the whole authoritarian / fascist shtick: if you can’t be 100% certain that no formulation of any vaccine has ever increased illness, then “vaccines kill people” is just as true as “vaccines save lives”.

I don’t need to have personally reviewed all records of every single version of every single vaccine to confidently assert the two statements are not remotely equivalent in accuracy.
by jmcgough | 2025-09-24 13:28:20+00:00
> Scientists need better messaging or else we're going to stop having breakthroughs like this

Sure, but it's really sad that scientists need to justify their funding to the public - they already spend so much time justifying it to the NIH and others for funding.

So many people have had their careers jeopardized by finding pulled mid-project. I am really concerned about our research pipeline, because my post-doc friends are all applying to jobs outside the US now.
by afthonos | 2025-09-24 13:28:33+00:00
We are constantly bombarded by links to information. It is reasonable to make snap judgments about the quality of the information based on who is providing it. If I’m looking for accurate, factual information on a topic that is clearly prone to magical thinking, a provider whose reputation is to listen to anyone, including people who very much engage in magical thinking, is actually a very bad source. Because they will not filter on anything beyond “is this neat to listen to.”
by jmclnx | 2025-09-24 13:28:37+00:00
Lets pretend the EU would mandate Desktop Support, we all know it will be only applied to Windows and Apple. Maybe for Linux, BSD it will never be applied.

In anycase we all know ways of bypassing this age verification will be found, probably by the kids themselves. But all this will do is enable US big tech, killing the very EU based companies the EU has been crying about for years.

Meta, Twitter, Google and M/S could not have created a better law to protect them then this law.
by CommieBobDole | 2025-09-24 13:29:06+00:00
I'd like to point out that the student's advice, "of course the news is ridiculous propaganda, just ignore it and go about your life and focus on your friends and family" is the the response desired by the authoritarian Chinese government who has carefully engineered the situation in the first place.

The purpose of constantly publishing obvious lies is not for people to believe them (though some always will), it's to devalue the idea of truth in general. Combine that with overt (but unpredictable) penalties for supporting the 'wrong' cause, and a disinterest in politics becomes the easiest and safest path for a member of the public. As long as the economy's good, people just don't care about anything that doesn't harm them directly.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-24 13:29:27+00:00
I cannot about the NYT, but the BBC is one of the most impartial sources available.

So much so that the left and the right accuse the BBC of biasing the other in equal measures!

If you want to talk about bias in the UK press then you’re better off looking towards The Sun, The Mail and anything owned by Murdoch (that guy has done so much damage to the world it’s unreal).
by pjmlp | 2025-09-24 13:29:28+00:00
Want do you think Windows 11, latest macOS, ChromeOS hardware requirements are all about?

CoPilot+ PCs even require the same security chip as XBox and Azure Sphere IoT board (Pluton), in addition to TPM 2.0.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...
by handwarmers | 2025-09-24 13:30:06+00:00
This might be the case if all your travel boils down to off season direct flights between major airports.

In my experience, it has been rapidly going up in price and down in quality since the end of the pandemic. You have very few protections as a passenger, and while you may have some rights on paper, they have been made excruciatingly difficult to pursue with the way support lines work with airlines.

To add insult to the injury, look up the history of bailouts airlines have received.
by vinceguidry | 2025-09-24 13:30:09+00:00
It's nowhere near ready but I made a gist:

https://gist.github.com/VinceGuidry/b44f02117d452bde7471dae2...

I like crystal but without pure OO and the fact that the community is so far behind Go or even Scala it's hard for me to see a good use for it.

You can create static binaries with ruby, just use mruby. I had a bunch of small scripts in crystal that I replaced with mruby and never noticed the difference. You don't get runtime reflection or ruby's enormous library base, but it could fill the need. I may end up transcribing my editor, or perhaps just the parser, to mruby once it's ready.

https://mruby.org/docs/articles/executing-ruby-code-with-mru...

For a fully-static binary, the option you want is at the bottom,
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-24 13:30:13+00:00
UK politics is very simple: People have a lot of economic grievances and they are frustrated. People are made to believe that the source of their problems are immigrants/non-white people. So for a lot of people in the UK, anything against immigrants, even more drastic measures, are worth it and it makes the government appear to do something about their problems. Nothing ever really gets better of course, but they have no way to think about it any other way.
by wraptile | 2025-09-24 13:30:37+00:00
Days of just getting data off the web are coming to an end as everything requires a full browser running thousands of lines of obfuscated js code now. So instead of a website giving me that 1kb json that could be cached now I start a full browser stack and transmit 10 megabytes through 100 requests, messing up your analytics and security profile and everyone's a loser. Yay.
by alkonaut | 2025-09-24 13:31:24+00:00
> system under some very obscure set of circumstances that you are very unlikely to encounter in the real world.

Is there any way to use HN karma? Like, can I sell my account on some shady exchange like people sell big twitter accounts? And if I can, what's the going rate for internet points these days? Asking for an unscrupulous friend.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-24 13:31:50+00:00
I mean :/ Let me be devil's advocate, You have added yet another comment without actually giving a link to that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFrggyDXdUk&list=PL2s7AeEJ2f...

And I mean, I do feel like that as long as they aren't actively harming the "ethos" of hackernews, then we can cut each other a little slack each other

I feel like I have sometimes done a disservice like this too to HN where I ask for links sometimes and maybe they just wanted to confirm if this was the right course or they might be coming from a job tired and didn't think this tooo much y'know?

But i mean I also understand your standpoint that you want less clutter on HN which is why I feel a bit :/
by palmotea | 2025-09-24 13:31:50+00:00
> * Family Seating Guarantees: Under current regulations, airlines must ensure that families with young children are seated together without additional charges. This would no longer be guaranteed under the new proposal, meaning families could face extra costs just to sit next to one another.

Capitalist money-making idea: guarantee young children are seated as far away as possible from their parents if the fee is not paid, then offer to collect the fee from other passengers seated next to the child. Double the cost if it's a baby.
by alphabettsy | 2025-09-24 13:32:08+00:00
Thank you for providing this report that had a conclusion before the investigation even started.

Fortunately, the Trump administration has given us an example of what a threat and coercion actually looks like. They declared exactly the action they would take if they did not get their preferred outcome and it’s clearly politically motivated.

That’s quite a bit different than we’re concerned about this misinformation and would like you to do something about it.

I think a reasonable and nuanced debate can be had on whether or not that was appropriate, but there is a difference.
by hedora | 2025-09-24 13:32:30+00:00
Family seating guarantees are pretty crucial.

Many airlines have punitive seating algorithms (looking at you, Alaska), or pull crap like moving your seats around and separating you after you select them unless you have status (United used to, at least, since they had a practice of selling non-existing flights, then bin packing planes the day before) so without this you can end up having a breast feeding infant sitting across the plane from its family.

In essentially all cases, the kid can be put next to the parent without splitting up another parrty.
by chamomeal | 2025-09-24 13:32:46+00:00
I honestly didn’t even realize it was missing until I was reading this thread, cause I’m always in a zellij session which has a “search in default editor” key.

Pop the whole scrollback in helix, where I can search, select, jump around, paste stuff into a scratch buffer. It’s slick. It’s got a normal search too. But yeah I haven’t used a built in emulator search in a while I guess!
by ksajadi | 2025-09-24 13:32:57+00:00
This is off topic, slightly but I think a good place to say this:

I wish the media outlets would mention the fact that at least one of the scientists in this post is an immigrant in the UK. (in this case I’m not sure 1st or 2nd gen)

In the current climate of anti-immigrantion rhetoric around the world, simple things like that might help a little with the perception of immigrants as freeloaders.

Just a thought.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-09-24 13:33:00+00:00
At least for YouTube, viewbotting is very much a thing, which undermines trust in the platform. Even if we were to remove Google ads from the equation, there’s nothing preventing someone from crafting a channel with millions of bot-generated views and comments, in order to paid sponsor placements, etc.

The reasons are similar for Cloudflare, but their stances are a bit too DRMish for my tastes. I guess someone could draw the lines differently.
by beala | 2025-09-24 13:33:13+00:00
I'm also a premium subscriber, and have struggled with the same issues on the iPad app. I try to keep some shows downloaded for my toddler, and the download feature never seems to work on the first try.

I finally got so fed up, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 off ebay for $50 and flashed it with LineageOS. I can now load whatever media I want onto the 1 TB sdcard I've installed in it. The 5 year old hardware plays videos just fine with the VLC app. And, as a bonus, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. I was planning on using yt-dlp to load up the sdcard, but now I don't even need to do that.
by jjcob | 2025-09-24 13:33:20+00:00
> If you want to sit together, pay for that privilege

This is evil. There is no cost to the airline to put people who booked together next to another. It's seems like Mafia-tactic to seat people apart from another unless they pony up another $500 in upgrades.

I refuse to fly with United. I understand that there may not be 10 adjacent seats when flying with a big group, but spreading out a family on purpose just so you are more likely to buy an upgrade is evil.

I understand paying for checked luggage because luggage handling costs money. But purposely making the experience worse just so you can charge money for upgrades is evil.
by brulard | 2025-09-24 13:33:28+00:00
How about a bug fixing use case? Let agents pick bugs from Jira and let it do some research and thinking, setting up data and environment for reproduction. Let it write a unit test manifesting the bug (making it failing test). Let it take a shot at implementing the fix. If it succeeds, let it make a PR.

This can all be done autonomously without user interaction. Now many bugs can be few lines of code and might be relatively easy to review. Some of these bug fixes may fail, may be wrong etc. but even if half of them were good, this is absolutely worth it. In my specific experience the success rate was around 70%, and the rest of the fixes were not all worthless but provided some more insight into the bug.
by mtalantikite | 2025-09-24 13:34:01+00:00
I've had some successful sprints using Anki, but I always get fatigued making cards for it after a few months, even when leaning on LLM tools to speed up the process.

One app I used early on when beginning French was Clozemaster, set to keyboard input (instead of multiple choice). The largest benefit was I didn't have to make all the decks, they progress you through the most common words (used in context), and there are ChatGPT grammar explanations for everything if you wanted to drill into it. It sounds very similar to what OP created for themself.

At a certain point you just need to switch to native content, but at the beginning I found Assimil + Clozemaster + comprehensible input on YouTube to be able to get me to watching regular French TV in maybe 6 months.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-24 13:34:02+00:00
No, when I call somebody a fascist it’s because I think they are supporting and spreading fascist ideals or are otherwise just being a fascist.

I legitimately think that Donald Trump is behaving like a fascist and the only things that are keeping him in check are the few laws he hasn’t been brazen enough - or perhaps hasn’t cared enough - to openly challenge. Their are objectively fewer laws and precedents checking his power than there were in his first term, and he has certain ideas and policies that if you support them I will describe you as supporting fascism.

I don’t know why you’re trying to enforce some made up rule that we are not allowed to call people fascist without it immediately being an ad hominem.

If I call someone a racist for saying racist things, I’d say they earned the label. This is no different.
by pella | 2025-09-24 13:34:06+00:00
Still in the honeymoon phase with gpt-codex

codex -m gpt-5-codex -c model_reasoning_effort="high"

it’s my current favorite, with claude-code as runner-up.

As someone with aphantasia[1] I naturally lean toward backend / abstract modeling ( maps, technology radars, databases ) , so non-visual tools like codex-cli, claude-code, or even https://omarchy.org/ are especially appealing. I haven’t yet seen a technology radar that makes a visual vs. non-visual distinction. If you ever run a survey, adding such a category could be interesting - surprising patterns might emerge.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=aphantasia
by breppp | 2025-09-24 13:34:22+00:00
> Seriously, you trigger me with your absurdity and logical incoherence. sighs. I replied for other people, but you are on your own now. Take your own suggestions and execute them.

I could continue to counter your arguments which are either cherrypicked or false, and the fact you blame me for moving goal posts, when you had done so yourself. But I really can only admire your continued ability to defend your mind against new information which such vigor. I am also stopping here
by Illniyar | 2025-09-24 13:34:29+00:00
The goal remains the same - AGI is what we see in sci-fi movies. An infallible human like intelligence that has access to infinite knowledge, can navigate it without fail and is capable of performing any digital action a human can.

What changed is how we measure progress. This is common in the tech world - some times your KPIs become their own goal, and you must design new KPIs.

Obviously NLP was not a good enough predictor of progress towards AGI and we must find a better metric.
by maleldil | 2025-09-24 13:34:38+00:00
It's been years since typing was added to Python, and many people still underestimate it. You're right; Python with strict type hints is more type-safe than Java and Go. It even has features like pattern matching and proper enums, both of which Go lacks.

The only issue is that some libraries (not many!) are still untyped, so you may need to write wrappers or stubs occasionally. But that applies to a small and decreasing minority of libraries.

I only wish Python were faster and had ahead-of-time binary compilation.
by adamkurkiewicz | 2025-09-24 13:34:56+00:00
This guide shows how to send real money (such as USD, EUR, GBP, and 46 other currencies) using the Python programming language. Money is sent using bank transfers between bank accounts, and currencies are converted at competitive rates for international transfers (so one can hold money in e.g. EUR and pay it out in e.g. USD).
by worldsayshi | 2025-09-24 13:34:58+00:00
Swede here. I would not want to go back to days without BankID and related tools. That being said, the implementation has some less than desirable features. It's privately owned by some kind of joint venture by the banks. It only supports the major OS:s. So you're pretty much forced to own a Android or IPhone to function. Also, I haven't had the need to do this myself but taking care of somebody else's legal dealings (like an old parent or children) I understand is quite cumbersome. I think that kids are kind of forced to get BankID when they are quite young.

There are alternative implementations but I'm not aware of anyone that uses them.

It's more like we've slipped into this solution out of pure convenience than having made a deliberate choice.
by physicsguy | 2025-09-24 13:35:01+00:00
> There's a constant requirement for paperwork to prove who I am - always in the form of items that are 100% digital nowadays in the Nordic countries (like a "utility bill" or a "credit card statement" - on paper, posted by snail-mail to my home address!)

These are always digital in the UK too. When I did my mortgage application I had to go to my bank, ask them to print me out a statement and then stamp it to 'verify' that it was real.
by ghaff | 2025-09-24 13:35:26+00:00
I'm most familiar with United. Economy Plus (which is mostly about a bit more legroom) does have a modest premium absent sufficient status that gets you it for free. But Premium Economy that gives you somewhat wider seats as well as legroom gets into the hundreds of dollars. International business has lots of benefits including legroom and lie flat seating but that usually gets into the thousands.
by hannasanarion | 2025-09-24 13:35:48+00:00
Train operators aren't as strictly regulated because they can't do as much harm, both in terms of the inherent catastraophic consequences of air travel disasters for passengers and bystanders, and in terms of the financial risk that passengers take on by purchasing a ticket. A no-refunds-for-cancellations policy on a $100 intercity train ticket that rarely ever cancels hits different from a $400 flight itinerary that cancels multiple times a week because of normal weather.