MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2025-09-24 13:44:51+00:00
> I think we are going to see an increasing trend of “true journalists” leaving the legacy news industry to places where they can build direct relationships with their audience, can own their own content distribution channels, and directly monetize those channels. I.E. Substack, YouTube, X, et. al.

Those independent channels seem far more amenable to "opinion-havers" than "true journalists" (though perhaps the "true journalists" transform into opinion-havers or secondhand-analysts when they change distribution platforms).

> ...churn out low effort AP ticker derivatives, social media gossip, and literal government propaganda from The Party whispered in their ear by an “anonymous source.”

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?

> The “news rooms” appear devoid of any real journalistic integrity.

I think you're seeing the result of budget cuts.
by eadmund | 2025-09-24 13:44:54+00:00
> Do you want to sit next to my three-year-old?

Not particularly, no. What I want is for you to purchase the seats your family needs ahead of time, not ask me for them for free.

I know that travelling with kids is really tough. I sincerely sympathize! But it’s not a surprise that a kid needs a seat next to his parents. They know when they bought the ticket that he’ll be coming along, because they’re buying the ticket. They should select the necessary seats then.

Sure, if the airline had to move flights around then 1) they should attempt to preserve group cohesion 2) in extremis folks should negotiate. But for awhile I was getting requests from late-boarders every single time I flew. That’s not an accident: they are flying on cheap tickets and trying to get extra value. I sympathize with that too! But I pay for the value I get, and I don’t appreciate social pressure to give it away.
by disruptiveink | 2025-09-24 13:45:45+00:00
The insane question here is, why would the EU mandate hardware attestation controlled by two private American companies in order to access services?

That seems completely contrary to the spirit of EU laws and regulations, which tend to be about protecting the consumer, preventing monopolies, ensuring people can generally live their lives where all things that are mandatory are owned and ran by the state and foster a certain degree of EU independence, with a recent focus on "digital sovereignty".

This one is a five for one against all of those goals? Harms the customer (you could see this as the polar opposite of GDPR), strengthens entrenched monopolies, force citizens to be serfs of one of two private corporations in order to access information, and on top of that, like it wasn't enough, willingly capitulates to the US as the arbitrates of who is a valid person or not.

This is so against the spirit of the EU itself that it would almost be funny if people weren't serious.
by costco | 2025-09-24 13:45:49+00:00
I've read that at least for for GSM VoIP gateway setups, people typically rotate SIMs because it looks suspicious for one customer to be making calls all day. In fact there is a whole industry most people have no idea about dedicated to detecting these so-called grey routes. Having perused some of these offerings, it seems fairly typical to offer 16-32 radios and 256 SIM card slots. For residential proxy setups, I've seen a bunch of 16 port USB hubs with Huawei LTE modems.
by TuxSH | 2025-09-24 13:45:57+00:00
Somewhat related: I find annoying that C++ doesn't have fetch_update and that Rust's fetch_update doesn't support LL/SC.

Rust fetch_update uses the lowest common denominator, CAS, regardless of platform: https://godbolt.org/z/ncssGnsfx (see the call __aarch64_cas8_acq_rel). In hot loops this can mean double-digit perf loss.
by Levitating | 2025-09-24 13:46:01+00:00
Hey! I must've responded to the wrong thread. Unless the link on this post was changed.

You're blog looks just perfect to me, and loads fine even on my extremely slow Redmi A5. And even the code examples look fine.

So sorry! I must've accidentally written my comment on the wrong page.

The post I thought I was responding to showed a website with an animated "breathing" background which was completely locking up my phone.

Edit: Just to drive this point home, if you're the author https://blog.yossarian.net you've made a perfect looking blog and I wouldn't change a thing.
by tootie | 2025-09-24 13:46:09+00:00
That's a ridiculous statement and honestly this blog post itself is very misleading. The quote taken on condition of anonymity is someone saying there is no evidence this was a national security threat. The NYT article is not at all a hair on fire credulous tale of near disaster. It quotes government officials and experts, connects it to "normal" criminal cartels and offers some opinions on what could be a worst case scenario. As much as this could easily be a simple criminal case, it was already connected to threats made to politicians so it's not far-fetched.
by dathinab | 2025-09-24 13:46:20+00:00
but if age verification is used for what it claims it is such hacking protections are not only unnecessary but fundamentally harmful (i.e. if a child hacks their PC it's fine if they circumvent age verification, the main responsibility still lies with parents and as such tools like parent controls are much more relevant)

the main reason is that this is not a reference implementations or "this is the app everyone must use" case but a "to see what is technical possible/practical" "research/POV" project

this also makes the "EU age verification app" title quite misleading
by cbeach | 2025-09-24 13:46:25+00:00
In the UK we already have population-wide tracking of internet usage, no warrant required.

Once we have a citizen id number, it's probable the UK government will mandate that it is bound to our internet access.

The UK government has form for arresting people (about 30 per day at the moment) for online speech under vague laws criminalising messages that cause ‘annoyance’, ‘inconvenience’ or ‘anxiety’ [1]

This is widely criticised as politically-motivated (Google "two tier Kier" and you'll see what I mean). This phenomenon will only get worse once we have citizen id numbers and the cost of investigation trends toward zero.

Also the technical barriers to shutting down an individual's access to online and IRL services will be reduced.

As we saw during Covid, the UK government seized advantage of the situation to remove civil liberties, and it's likely to do so again, given the lack of apology for bad policy-making at the time.

Digital ID is bad news for the UK.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-0022...
by neilk | 2025-09-24 13:46:47+00:00
Microsoft and Oracle sold closed source software that had obtained tremendous leverage in their fields, if not outright monopolies. Historically, Microsoft and Oracle’s business models were threatened by open source. They have reacted in various ways over decades: alternately resisting, embracing, or acquiring control of important projects.

However, Shopify sells SAAS thst runs on open source. What does it benefit them to take over key aspects of infrastructure?

If they disliked what was happening with the OSS tools, they are big and rich enough to maintain forks or their own toolchain.

The OP seems to be associating the start of this controversy with some feud between DHH and the founder of Sidekiq. Shopify is indeed quite aligned with DHH. And there’s some controversy about so-called supply chain attacks, which I understand might inspire a call for a more locked-down organization. But as an outsider I am confused.
by nu11ptr | 2025-09-24 13:46:58+00:00
> It does make me wonder: How practical is it to just use traditional reference counting and then periodically do a mark-and-sweep? I know it's a very different approach than .net was designed for. (Because they deliberately decided that dereferencing an object should have no computational cost.) It's more of a rhetorical question.

This is what CPython does. The trade off is solidly worse allocator performance, however. You also have the reference counting overhead, which is not trivial unless it is deferred.

There is always a connection between the allocator and collector. If you use a compacting collector (which I assumed .NET does), you get bump pointer allocation, which is very fast. However, if you use a non-compacting collector (mark-and-sweep is non-compacting), you would then fallback to a normal free list allocator (aka as "malloc") which has solidly higher overhead. You can see the impact of this (and reference counting) in any benchmark that builds a tree (and therefore is highly contended on allocation). This is also why languages that use free list allocation often have some sort of "arena" library, so they can have high speed bump pointer allocation in hot spots (and then free all that memory at once later on).

BTW, reference counting, malloc/free performance also impact Rust, but given Rust's heavy reliance on the stack it often doesn't impact performance much (aka just doing less allocations). For allocation heavy code, many of us use MiMalloc one of the better malloc/free implementations.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-24 13:47:28+00:00
Sure, it's a bunch of silos made up of sub-silos with people with their own goals.

But, I have far too often seen this "the government isn't a monolith" assertion used in the most deceitful, dishonest irredeemably bad faith arguments here on HN (and other parts of the internet as well) to shut down discussion of cases where some subset of the government is doing things that are bad for it's own selfish reasons.

Ditto for the "they're not literally conspiring" assertion used to shut down discussion of cases of where interests align and no conspiring or active coordinate is needed to achieve the results.
by dvdkon | 2025-09-24 13:47:44+00:00
I finally took a look at the DSA, and it only mentions anything relevant to age verification in three places:

- Recital 71, which vaguely suggests minors' privacy and security should be extra-protected, but says that services shouldn't process extra personal data to identify them.

- Article 28, which says that platforms should provide a high level of "privacy, safety, and security of minors", again without processing extra personal data to identify them. It also says that the Commision may "issue guidelines", but says nothing suggesting age verification should be implemented.

- Article 35, which says that "large online platforms" should maybe implement age verification.

Furthermore, recital 57 says that the regulations for online platforms shouldn't apply to micro/small enterprises (which has a definition somewhere). All together, I don't see anything suggesting that anyone but the largest online services is being forced to implement age verification right now.

Judging by various posts by the Commision I've seen online, they're certainly pushing for the situation to be seen this way, but de iure, that's currently not happening.

EDIT: I found the guidelines mentioned [0], and a nice commentary on the age verification parts [1].

[0]: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-... [1]: https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/07/31/do-the-dsa-guidelines-...
by eadmund | 2025-09-24 13:48:49+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.

Bin-packing is tough (look at Kubernetes!). Economically, giving folks willing to sit in a random seat an extra $10 and charging folks who want to sit together $10 is a wash.

Evil is, you know, torture and genocide, not efficient allocation of limited space.
by olidb | 2025-09-24 13:49:06+00:00
Maoni Stephens is indeed on the .net team and is, as far as I know, the lead architect of the .net garbabe collector for many years: https://github.com/Maoni0 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/author/maoni/

Therefore she's probably the person with the most knowledge about the .net GC but maybe not the best writer (I haven't read the article yet).
by walterbell | 2025-09-24 13:49:15+00:00
> If people keep declining invitations.. indistinguishable from someone who doesn't like me/the group/our plans that much

Per the second sentence of the article, declines were limited in scope to party invites, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348495#45355972

We ended up hanging out quite a bit during those early months.
by ziotom78 | 2025-09-24 13:49:26+00:00
The course is meant to teach students how to write numerical code (integration, PDEs, Monte Carlo, …) rather than to teach OO design itself. C++ is the chosen vehicle, and the professor has a strong OOP background, so the course material ends up structured that way.

That’s why some of us wonder whether a lighter approach (lambdas, NumPy in Python, etc.) might let students focus more directly on the numerical methods without so much boilerplate.
by nemomarx | 2025-09-24 13:49:26+00:00
First principle is that customers will choose whoever has the cheapest flights in general, and airlines that try to market on having an inclusive price without surprise fees suffer anyway because the real cost is closer to fees.

The second is price discrimination - think current McDonald's prices. Soaking people who can afford it and letting people who are very frugal navigate your confusing system and membership etc is worth a good amount of money
by Y_Y | 2025-09-24 13:49:54+00:00
Oddly there is no such premium for wide people. I understand (somewhat) price discriminating based on the quantity of space required by the passenger (for comfort or from physical necessity), but then why does this apply to one dimension and not the other.

I'm not even talking about pay-by-weight as was famously tried between pacific islands. Nobody wants to have someone spilling over the armrest into their seat, and I'm sure plenty of people who are wider than the seat would like to fit without going first class. I'm not even so unusually sized, but cannot sit in the aisle without being hit by every person and trolley passing by.
by meindnoch | 2025-09-24 13:49:59+00:00
>Awaiting their “premium cannot be shared with people outside household” policy so I can finally cancel.

Then I have good news for you! https://lifehacker.com/tech/youtube-family-premium-crackdown

In fact, I've got an email from them about this already. My YT is still ad-free though, so not sure when it's going to kick in for real.
by whitehexagon | 2025-09-24 13:50:11+00:00
from the .de website I see 2000eur for the 128GB, But looking at the shipping info, it sounds like it might still be shipped from .cn: ´Please ensure you can handle customs clearance and taxes yourself.´

Also it is Windows 11 which is a big No from me.

But if this is the start of the local big model capable hardware it looks quite hopeful. A 2nd hand M2 128GB studio (which I can use Asahi on) is currently ~3600eur

https://es.wallapop.com/item/mac-studio-m2-ultra-1tb-ssd-128...
by ronsor | 2025-09-24 13:50:18+00:00
> The insane question here is, why would the EU mandate hardware attestation controlled by two private American companies in order to access services?

Because the EU doesn't actually care about privacy, otherwise they wouldn't be trying to do this and ChatControl. They care about being the main ones to spy on you, and maybe using fines as additional "taxes" on rich foreign companies. That's it.
by Andrews54757 | 2025-09-24 13:50:24+00:00
Good question! Indeed you can run the challenge code using headless Chromium and it will function [1]. They are constantly updating the challenge however, and may add additional checks in the future. I suppose Google wants to make it more expensive overall to scrape Youtube to deter the most egregious bots.

[1] https://github.com/LuanRT/BgUtils
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-24 13:50:54+00:00
It’s really easy: it’s all about revenue maximization.

Honestly, people fly too much. I’m 6’5 with a 24” shoulder - flying economy is painful for me and the poor soul stuck next to me.

I don’t need to fly for business and am fortunate to have a lot of PTO. So, I fly first class, business class, or not at all. If the cost is too much, i drive. There’s virtually no east coast trip that is more unpleasant to me via car. I’m young enough that I can do NY to Georgia or Chicago overnight with no ill effect. There’s so much wasted time around the airport many flights don’t even save time.

I’m going on a trip to Asia in the early spring with my kid. I could save like $4000 flying in the back… but why? If that amount of money is breaking the bank, I cannot afford two weeks there anyway.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-24 13:51:03+00:00
Depending on the implementation, you can run the app on your computer. I don't see why the iOS app wouldn't work on macOS, and there are tons of tools to run Android apps on Windows and Linux.

If the actual implementations do copy the dependency on Play Integrity and other such APIs, that does become a problem (getting past that is a major annoyance on amd64 computers because there are so few real amd64 Android devices that can be spoofed).

However, the law regarding these apps specifically states that the use of this app must be optional. I'm not sure websites and services will implement other solutions, but in theory you should not need a phone unless you want the convenience and privacy factor of app verification. I expect alternatives (such as 1 cent payments with credit cards in your name) to stick around, at least until we get a better idea about how this thing will work out in practice.
by 9rx | 2025-09-24 13:51:09+00:00
If they were being compared, shouldn't we also see the inverse? There is a discussion about Rust on the front page right now, with 230 comments at time of writing, and not a single mention of Go.

In fairness, the next Rust discussion a few pages deep does mention Go, but in the context of:

1. Someone claiming that GC languages are inherently slow, where it was pointed out that it doesn't have to be that way, using Go as an example. It wasn't said in comparison with Rust.

2. A couple of instances of the same above behaviour; extolling the virtues of Rust and randomly deriding Go. As strange as the above behaviour is, at least Go was already introduced into the discussion. In these mentioned cases Go came from completely out in left field, having absolutely nothing to do with the original article or having any relation to the thread, only showing up seemingly because someone felt the need to put it down.
by phkahler | 2025-09-24 13:51:13+00:00
>> Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.

That means every time the press says something about what Trump did, you have to find a direct quote or video of him saying it. Or read an actual executive order. The media abandons facts to criticize power they don't like.

During covid the Governor of Michigan banned shopping for gardening supplies. This raised a big fuss. One of my FB friends shared a reporters story saying the ban was fake news and that the order did not include anything like that. He even provided a link directly to the order itself so you could see for yourself. Most people would not bother because hey, he went to the source! I followed the link, found the paragraph - which was super clear and explicit about the gardening thing - and posted a direct quote of it in response. I lost a FB friend that day. Facts are hard to find (you must do it yourself) and just piss people off when they don't like them.
by lstodd | 2025-09-24 13:51:19+00:00
Not in my experience (20yrs). If it's all-in-or-we're dead, you either do a stoppie and hope, or do a deliberate lowside and also hope someone will patch you up once they dislodge your parts from wherever you end up in.

In either case it's front brake. A bit of tilt for the second case. The rear brake is not needed at all.

If it's just a overspeed corner, you try to slow down gently, while maintaining both wheels on the trajectory. So just a little play with throttle and just a little front brake so that the bike stays balanced so to say. No rear brake at all because dropping the throttle a bit is all that's needed for the rear wheel.

If that is not enough, you're not going to make that corner, you have had too much speed coming in, and you will pay for that right now by crashing into something.

I learned this in 1990s when I first started riding.

Those are the basics.
Ask HN: Human in the loop error reporters: your thoughts?
by oresorus | 2025-09-24 13:51:25+00:00
How are folks' experiences shaping up in these kinds of roles?

Do you feel you are well compensated for the work you are doing when compared to an equivalent technical/engineering position when handling the same sort of output?

Are you given good guidance on what to correct for, and support/resources on how to perform that correction?

I'd be interested to read some first hand accounts on the matter.

Have a nice day!
by devilbunny | 2025-09-24 13:51:31+00:00
The video specifies that the drug is infused over 8-10 hours. Probe placement - again, as depicted in the video, because I don’t see a real methods section - should take about 1-2 hours. The video isn’t clear if this is interactive MRI or just a preop scan that is then loaded into a stereotactic navigation system in a regular operating room, but the former would add another hour at least. MRI is not fast.
by EE84M3i | 2025-09-24 13:52:29+00:00
To add to this - is there some kind of general rule for what specific industries will devolve into the pattern of having these sorts of anti-consumer practices? Off the top of my mind I can think of cable companies, gyms, cellphone providers, airlines, live events. Is it market capture and/or the high cost of switching providers that prevents meaningful competition?
by ktosobcy | 2025-09-24 13:52:37+00:00
Erm... FUT?

- this project is just one implementation (POC if you want) - they simply state the current scope of the project

For anyone sane managing projects it makes sense to correctly allocate resources that would cover the most people.

and to all those whining butthurt individuals here - reality check is that it's way more probable that someone has and uses a smartphone than a computer. go out of your tiny bubbles...
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-24 13:52:45+00:00
>a single actor cannot take over.

This is a distinction without a difference. People can screech about "we're a democracy, we don't have a king" all they want but if the overwhelming amount of discretionary authority in the system is held by a fairly small group of people cut from approximately the same cloth it doesn't really matter, they're all gonna decide things the same ways and the results are gonna be just as divorced from what people want.

It doesn't matter if you have a thousand people working to appease the ideological whims of one absolute ruler or a thousand people with the same set of ideological whims, it's still one set of ideological whims being worked towards.
by dasil003 | 2025-09-24 13:52:49+00:00
Of course less famous people also had good work ethics we just don’t have their quotes immortalized.

So all you’ve really done is subsumed any discussion of the merits of the idea itself into a hand-wringing fest about privilege that was inevitable from the beginning and could equally apply to any famous quote from history. I really don’t see the value in this kind of hand-wringing.
by afandian | 2025-09-24 13:53:00+00:00
When the UK age verification legislation was being debated I recall people saying "don't worry about unintended consequences, it's not like you'll be have to show your ID to random websites! Someone will show up with a reasonable methodology. You'll be able to e.g. show your ID at a shop and get an anonymous token.".

And plenty of people, including myself, thought "this is so dystopian it couldn't possibly happen".

It did happen, and it's as bad as the doomsayers said it would be.