MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-16 19:54:58+00:00
I'm curious why they went with fixed-wing aircraft and not airships for this purpose. Wouldn't an airship work much better for delivering blades to e.g. the top of a mountain ridge? Or is the plan to fly the blades to the nearest flat area and then drive the rest of the way, without having to worry about tunnels and overpasses.
by mint5 | 2025-09-16 19:55:04+00:00
Well to the extent it draws people from public transit, yes because traffic makes being a pedestrian more unpleasant and waymos still are traffic. And increased traffic adds friction to crossing streets and they park obnoxiously, among other things.

So yes, they would be obnoxious at any significant quantity and also not really help with getting across the city since transit is pretty good
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-16 19:55:06+00:00
> Surely that is obvious?

It kinda is but I didn't want to make that assumption. That is what I had assumed, for what it's worth. (Actually, I figured it was either knowledge or resources.) It also helps for the reason to be given explicitly so others can weigh in with relevant arguments rather than one that refutes something you didn't mean.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-16 19:55:18+00:00
Read the book. It's not about "lying on this form is a felony" and "posessing X much coke" type stuff. It's more about the ambiguity of the law and enforcement discretion than anything else. Think like Martha Steward "well you said X to us and despite believing it in good faith at the time we can prove that on day Y you were informed of Z therefore lied to us, therefore we can prosecute this as a felony if we so choose" type of fact patterns.
by GioM | 2025-09-16 19:55:29+00:00
Ah, I think I get it. Article says:

> In the Gmail app on iOS, it looked completely legitimate — the branding, the case number, everything. Even the drop-down still showed “@google.com.”

> So when he asked me to read back a code — supposedly to prove I was still alive — in a moment of panic, I did.

The sentences do not refer to the same thing.

The code was not in the email... The narrator was asked to read back "a code" not the case ID in the email. "A code" here referes to a 2fa push notification code. The email was used to rattle the narrator / build trust to get them to comply.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-16 19:55:42+00:00
>Do you have any data on that?

The original stated intention of the practice was that "it" [mandatory phone number registration] "prevents fraud" (though this stance was being critiqued by the person who raised it, not defended).

I'll concede that it probably has stymied some of the most trivial, incompetent fraud attempts made, and possibly reduced a negligible amount of actual fraud, but the idea that it can "prevent" fraud (implying true deterministic blocking, rather than delaying or frustrating) is refutable by the very reasonable assumption that there is almost certainly no company that implements mandatory phone number registration that has or will experience ZERO losses to fraud.

That said, in fairness, this is an unfalsifiable and unverifiable claim, as to my knowledge, there is nothing resembling a public directory of fraud losses experienced by businesses, and there is no incentive for businesses to admit to fraud losses publicly (they may have tax incentives to report it to the IRS, legal incentives to report it to law enforcement, and publicly traded companies may have regulatory incentives to at least indirectly acknowledge operating losses incurred due to fraud in financial reporting), but that doesn't make the claim itself unreasonable or improbable.

>What is to stop a non-fraudulent user from doing the same thing to prevent the tracking by the company?

The argument isn't that mandatory phone registration unavoidably forces privacy infringement upon all users, just that it does infringe upon the privacy of some (I'd suggest a vast majority) of users in practice.
by dang | 2025-09-16 19:55:53+00:00
No, the rules haven't changed—they've been the same for many years. Let me try to dig up some past explanations.

Edit: here's one from a few months ago, which covers the principles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738815.

Re how we approach political topics (or political overlap) on HN in general: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Re how we deal with Major Ongoing Topics, i.e. topics where there are a ton of articles and submissions over time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re how we approach turning off flags: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re the perception that "HN has been getting more political lately" (spoiler: it hasn't - though it does fluctuate): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

If you or anyone will check out some of those links and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-16 19:55:58+00:00
There are a lot of ways one can prepare for such a collapse, the most impactful way is to develop skills and preserve knowledge of history, production, and other important information that is being suppressed or pigeonholed to only industry in foreign countries; to a greater or lesser degree.

Preserve the dependencies that promote critical thinking, rational thought, and measured reason.

Aside from that, figure out what you need for survival beyond the basics in a non-permissive environment without a rule of law; and build a community of people that have these skills. The lone wolf always dies, the pack survives.

Austere Medicine, Food Preservation, Guns/Self Defense, Information Recon, etc... Map dependencies, costs, and yields (information that is largely kept confidential these days).

Learn how to make stuff from scratch, and learn what areas you can leapfrog given knowledge of the development of such the technologies in such industries.

Most of the materials we rely on today would not be available because we rely on knowledge of chemistry which few have.

The actual factors that determine the Wealth of Nations are based in the ability of the individual citizen to be self sufficient and produce necessities from scratch that will last without excessive recurring cost. Through a distribution of labor. The book from Adam Smith covers these factors in great detail, and while LTV is now defunct/refuted, the cost portion implicit in the making of intermediate goods resulting from such valuation/economics is not, and remains valid.

Debt-based money-printing on the otherhand is all about distorting the market allowing nationalized industry to outcompete legitimate companies through slave labor under financial engineering. The debasement stolen from everyone holding the currency is in fact slave labor. A runaway positive feedback system that destroys everything it touches (eventually), tainted by Ahriman.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-09-16 19:56:52+00:00
> If I forget to update OpenJDK, Oracle could come after me

I must have missed that section of the GPLv2.

Oracle does distribute a different (not OpenJDK) Java distribution under a special not-open-source no-cost license, which includes a stipulation that you can't use updates after the next LTS release. This only adds to the confusion: you really only need Oracle's special distribution if you want paid Oracle support for it or their stuff that requires it.
by noselasd | 2025-09-16 19:57:04+00:00
Do the list go on ? For gas Q2 2025, figure 5 at https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports it's

UK 5,6% Azerbadjan 3,8% Algeria 12,5% Norway 30,1% Other LNG 9,4% USA LNG 27,2% Russia 11,5%

Most of the "Other LNG" comes from Turkstream in the underlying data. Edit: I was wrong, Turkstream is included in "Russia", other sources points to Qatar and Nigeria being the largest part of "Other LNG"

If I read it right, for oil in Q1 2025, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

United States 15,0% Norway 13,5% Kazakhstan 12,7% Libya 9,0% Saudi Arabia 6,6% Nigeria 6,3% United Kingdom 5,2% Iraq 4,5% Guyana 4,3% Brazil 4,1% Azerbaijan 4,1% Algeria 3,4% Russia 2,5% Mexico 2,1% Other 6,6%
by riggsdk | 2025-09-16 19:57:04+00:00
In Denmark you can. I was in my mid thirties when I went to my doctor to ask them to prescribe it. Before each shot I would go to the pharmacy and buy one dose and go to the doctor to have them administer it for me (if I wanted to). At that time I think it was free for teenage girls, now it's free for teenage boys as well.
by Alifatisk | 2025-09-16 19:57:17+00:00
Glad to hear Ruby is being in the list as well!

When it comes to the unis, I was thinking of both AI detection for student work. I mean like plagiarism checkers are common nowadays and the systems I know of just forces every student to upload their work and it compares similarities, one even broke it down to AST level (I think?) for detection so it didn't matter if the students renamed the variables.

But for ai detection, it's still a new area. From what I know, unis just make the students check a field when uploading their work as a contract that they never used ai tools and all is their own work, and after that is up to the teacher to go through their code and see if it looks odd or something. Some even have the students just present their code and make them explain what they did. But as of a tool for ai detection is pretty new, as far as I know.
by bingboingbang | 2025-09-16 19:57:29+00:00
Seems likely to be an SMS code, Google will use a phone for recovery if you claim to have no other access.

This person read an SMS code — one that explicitly says not to give it to anyone — and then they said "I work in tech. I design authentication experiences. I know you’re not supposed to share verification codes! And yet, I got phished."

This person's greatest mistake was answering the phone to a stranger. Who knows what hell can be unleashed on one's emotions nowadays with AI. One cannot expect to be rational in a lion's den.

They are royally fucking up their PSA by throwing Google under the bus rather than telling people to avoid answering their phone to scammers. I suspect this PSA will help approximately no one because of that. Not getting your voice captured (for AI synthesis) is, by itself, a great reason not to answer random calls like this.
by pier25 | 2025-09-16 19:57:34+00:00
So glad I left JS for backend last year. It was a big effort switching to a new language and framework (still is) but it looks like so far the decision was worth it.

I'm still looking at Bun and all the effort they're doing with built-in APIs to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) third party deps. I would prefer using TS for the whole stack if possible but not at the expense of an insecure backend ecosystem.
Show HN: Meresei – Calendar for Non-24 (Sleep-Wake Disorder)
by lakesare | 2025-09-16 19:57:43+00:00
I have non-24-hour sleep disorder with a 25-hour cycle, and used to draw these calendars manually in Excel to track my shifting sleep schedule. Finally automated it.

Green cells show when you're awake. You can click any cell to toggle it (useful for marking unavailable times when sharing with others). The "padding hours" feature helps set buffer zones around sleep/wake times.

Been using this daily for months – thought others with non-24 might find it helpful too.
by xnx | 2025-09-16 19:57:52+00:00
It would be great if Tesla figured out how to do safe autonomous driving with their very limited sensor suite, but there's a lot of reason to be skeptical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

I wouldn't not be surprised if they figure out some very narrow way to have no safety driver in the car (1:1 remote ops?) by the end of the year.
by vkou | 2025-09-16 19:58:02+00:00
Let's be realistic.

I'm a huge critic of the cult of crypto, but the odds of a key collision are smaller than the odds of <some highly improbable series of mistakes/coincidences/malice happening that result in you losing your money in the traditional banking system>.

The odds of a 'someone gets access to your account/wallet and instantly drains it with no recourse' are much higher in the crypto space, as the author of the post experienced.
by codyb | 2025-09-16 19:58:32+00:00
I didn't say go to war, I said adversarial.

Adiplomatic is... _very mild_ considering the threats he's made about taking over Greenland and Canada. Bluster or not, the fact is... the President of the United States is openly talking about it, and currently using the military and all it's levers quite actively here and abroad.
by johnsillings | 2025-09-16 19:58:59+00:00
Sadly, this doesn't work on the line-level yet. I know that wasn't the main purpose of your comment, but figured I'd mention that first.

Getting more to the heart of your question: the main use-case for this (and the reason Span developed it) is to understand the impact of AI coding assistants in aggregate for their customers. The explosion of AI-generated code is creating some strange issues that engineering teams need to take into account, but visibility is super low right now.

The main idea is that – with some resolution around which code is AI-authored and human-authored – engineering teams can better understand when and how to deploy AI-generated code (and when not to).
by Balgair | 2025-09-16 19:59:28+00:00
Kevin Kelly says that 7 'why's are enough. As in, if you ask 'why?' 7 times, that's about as deep as you'll need to ever go.

I've heard that if you read the top 3 books/articles in the subject, that's pretty much enough too.

Pareto principle works too. Aim to learn the 20% of concepts that will give you 80% of the material

The Feynman technique is also great. You try to teach the material back to someone. Chatbots are great for this one if you can manage the prompt well enough.

Decide in advance how much time the topic deserves. No cluse as to how to do this well though, sorry.

Ask yourself: 'will knowing more about this change my decisions?'

In fast-changing fields, it’s more useful to set a rhythm for refreshing your knowledge (quarterly or annually) than to go endlessly deep once.
by yndoendo | 2025-09-16 19:59:59+00:00
How would consuming static information from a book versus a dynamic system that is book-esk be any different? You are using ML to help quickly categorize and assimilate information that spans multiple books, magazines, or other written medium. [0] [1]

Why do people speak of ML/AI as an entity when it is a tool like a microwave oven? It is a tool designed to give answers, even wrong ones when the question is nonsensical.

[0] https://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/theus...

[1] https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/statementspols/other...
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-16 20:00:01+00:00
The people existed, but a portable always-running conveyor belt of bad news that is addictive enough to make them glued to the screen did not.

In the 1990s, you had maybe 15 minutes a day on average to consume news, either from a paper newspaper, or from an evening TV relation. Now, quite a lot of people spend 20 times as much time doomscrolling. Of course the impact will be much more massive.
Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the Cost
by andyprevalsky | 2025-09-16 20:00:54+00:00
Hi HN!

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From there, Canteen: • Ingests your job description • Searches across arXiv, GitHub, LinkedIn, EthResearch, etc. to find relevant technical talent • Uses our agentic communication layer to handle outreach + lead verification • Pipes warm, verified, hard-to-reach leads straight into your hiring funnel (email, CRM, calendar, etc.)

We’re building this because recruiting engineers shouldn’t require endless cold emails and bloated agency fees. Agents + open technical graphs unlock a faster, cheaper, and more direct way to hire.

Would love your thoughts and feedback!
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-16 20:01:02+00:00
Build two windmills that spin opposite directions.

I wish I could source it, it someone told a story of a contract no one could meet for dropping in either some heavy equipment to a site or maybe windmill parts? It was a small site and it seemed impossible to land them take off... The winning bidder for the contract just landed the plane then abandoned it. Not sure what else you'd do if your blades are your plane!
by gameman144 | 2025-09-16 20:01:24+00:00
It isn't feasible to audit every line of every dependency, just as it's not possible to audit the full behavior of every employee that works at your company.

In both cases, the solution is similar: try to restrict access to vital systems only to those you trust,so that you have less need to audit their every move.

Your system administrators can access the server room, but the on-site barista can't. Your HTTP server is trusted enough to run in prod, but a color-formatting library isn't.
by SilasX | 2025-09-16 20:01:33+00:00
1) I was curious why they can't just attach two partial blades onsite to make a longer one, and the article makes some attempt to address it, so, to save you from reading the whole thing:

>Shipping them in multiple pieces and reassembling them on-site won’t work because the joints would create weak spots. Junctions would also add too much weight compared with that of blades made from single pieces of polymer, says Doug Arent, executive director at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Foundation and emeritus NREL researcher.

>“It comes down to the stress engineering of the components,” Arent says. Blades could one day be 3D-printed on-site, which could negate the need for an airplane, but that research is still in early stages, he says. (Lundstrom says 3D-printed blades will never happen, since it would require a large, sophisticated manufacturing facility to be built at every wind farm.)

2) I'm also curious if anyone has done the numbers on how long it takes these large turbines to pay back the energy cost of flying them there? You would have to a) find out how much more energy they make from the same footprint compared to smaller wind turbines, and b) how much more energy it takes to fly them there compared to transporting the smaller ones (and I'd be curious about a smaller plane vs ones that can be transported on the ground).
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-16 20:01:41+00:00
It doesn't even pass the smell test. A bit like "dogs can't look up" which is ridiculous to anyone with a dog.

Eg. https://imgur.com/a/GwwzIEh for my cat playing with tiny objects on the screen. Take this behaviour 100x over each day and you'll wonder how anyone can think they can't see things up close.
by Foomf | 2025-09-16 20:01:58+00:00
Licensing for OpenJDK is non trivial. Look at the large table and various bullet points Oracle had to make to tell you the license. https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.htm... (open the first dropdown on their FAQ page to open up their "licensing matrix")

This is a mess, and is the license going to change again while I'm locked in the java ecosystem?

Edit: It looks like the openjdk is consistently under the gplv2, I don't know why it has so many different entries in their table. I think I probably got opendjk and oracle jdk mixed up. I think the person I was replying to who said openjdk needs to be updated every half year got confused as well. It's so hard to even talk about all the different jdks without getting them mixed up or confused. Again, no other java competitors have this problem.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-16 20:02:05+00:00
Thanks for sharing that. Nate’s article links to a comment in which he says the US has no legal cooperative structure “except for limited state-specific exceptions”. I don’t know why those state-specific laws for cooperatives don’t count - they aren’t in any way restricted to operating within the organizing state. I am a member/owner of a grocery store organized under NY’s cooperative corporation law, and they definitely do business with out of state suppliers.

But that organization operates on a one person, one vote model, not a one dollar, one vote model. He seems to want one person to put in a disproportionate amount of investment capital and end up with a disproportionate amount of voting authority. That’s not the kind of “cooperative socialist” model which Jonathan was advocating, it’s a standard capitalist one.

And I’m not saying that he has no right in the way the world works now to operate as a capitalist. He does. But he shouldn’t be surprised if someone who wants a cooperative model doesn’t view that as even aspirationally qualifying and isn’t satisfied by vague comments about how workers can gradually buy their way toward an approximation of equal power.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-16 20:02:06+00:00
A fair few things are boilerplate and also complete bullshit in their conception, and thus far I haven’t been able to determine why this isn’t one of them.

(The only actual argument made in this subthread, as far as I can see, is impaired judgment. Which, maybe? But I’d want to see something other than vibes to weigh the risks of worse judgment against the additional recidivism, and my current intuition is that alcohol probably should make the list of risk factors but cannabis probably shouldn’t.)
by Detrytus | 2025-09-16 20:02:30+00:00
Russia selling gas to China is completely orthogonal to Nord Stream issue.

The strategic win in bombing Nord Stream was that Ukraine finally got Europe on their side. Before NS was blown up many countries, especially Germany were sitting on the fence, reluctant to give Ukraine any help. They were hoping for Ukraine to lose the war quickly, then they would give Putin some slap on the wrist punishment, and return to "business as usual" with Russia. Nord Stream being destroyed removed the biggest incentive for doing that.
by harmmonica | 2025-09-16 20:02:30+00:00
If you step back do you really think that's indicative of a mental disease? Does it make any difference to you that many times I'm taking a Waymo to go and hang out with friends? Not much of a stretch to say it's allowing me to socialize more because I don't have to worry about my meter running dry, or having one too many drinks to drive myself home, or being able to move around from area to area in comfort. And if you say "you can do that with an Uber too!" it's true! But does it really surprise you that someone would want a car that drives calmly, obeys all traffic laws and gives you a little downtime from the outside world pre or post the activity you'd been doing before stepping in the car? Does that really rise to the level of mental disease?

It seems like a huge catastrophizing stretch to get there based solely on preferring to be in a Waymo rather than a taxi or Uber.

edit: grammar
by tln | 2025-09-16 20:02:40+00:00
I'd guess Waymo covers 5% now. San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Austin, and Phoenix are ~10% of US population. Waymo service areas don't cover all of those cities.

Considering tourism and people living just outside service areas who see them but don't get to use them (which includes me sadly) I would not be surprised if 10% of population had seen at least one.