MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-09-24 16:00:32+00:00
We allow all sorts of encumbrances to transfer with property. You can sell a house with an easement that lets neighbors use some amount of your property for access, with a tenant who has a contractual right to stay to the end of a lease regardless of what the new owner wants, or with a covenant to limit development. Hell, a couple years back an entire mall sold for $20 with the agreement that the buyer was assuming all of the seller's debt and also the seller's contractual obligation to perform road maintenance. If you couldn't transfer these agreements with a sale they'd be useless even absent a sale. Either no one would buy the property because its unsellable and the value would plummet or you would buy it with the encumbrances, transfer ownership from your left hand to your right hand to remove them and then do what you want.
by gspencley | 2025-09-24 16:00:56+00:00
I disagree. In a lot of cases text will be clickable, but will also contain content that you want to copy/paste into Wikipedia or a search engine etc. Think annotations (click on this text for more information) or headers/titles that are a proper noun that references something public... like a person's name or a place or a type of object or something.

I don't think that's an "exception." I think that's common enough to make me ask: "please don't make that text not selectable ever."
by fair_enough | 2025-09-24 16:00:57+00:00
It doesn't matter what I value. The people who wanna hire me for jobs or invest in my fund value status.

There's a reason companies hire people they don't need: to make themselves look bigger to investors and in the case of law firms, clients.

Analyzing complex systems from first principles and challenging decisions that have no good reason is a noble cause, but it's only useful if you have the authority to make the changes. I'm not dictator of the world, I don't get to dictate how customers, clients, or employers shall make their business and hiring decisions.
by j4coh | 2025-09-24 16:01:47+00:00
He only said we should look into injecting disinfectants to cure Covid, not to actually do it. The full quote is a bit incoherent it’s hard to say what he was actually thinking - the one thing we can probably all agree on is it would do a tremendous number on your lungs if you injected disinfectant into them:

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. So I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that too. It sounds interesting.

ACTING UNDER SECRETARY BRYAN: We'll get to the right folks who could.

THE PRESIDENT: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.
by storus | 2025-09-24 16:01:51+00:00
"Tylenol, or acetaminophen, can cause liver damage if taken in excessive amounts, particularly over 4,000 mg in a 24-hour period. It is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States, often due to accidental overdoses from multiple medications containing acetaminophen."

Doesn't sound super safe for kids who have small livers given the typical dose is 500mg to be honest.
by jerf | 2025-09-24 16:01:58+00:00
The whole YouTube app is weird. Sometimes it lets you do 1.0x-2.0x. Sometimes it lets you range from .25x-4x. Sometimes it pops up a text selection box with every .05x option from .1 to 4.0. Sometimes it has a nicer UI with shortcut selections for common choices and a sliding bar for speed. It recently picked up a bug where if you're listening to a downloaded video, but turn the screen off and on again, the video playback seems to crash. A few months ago it became very, very slow at casting, all manipulations could take 30 seconds to propagate to the cast video (pause, changing videos, etc)... but they didn't usually get lost. (It would be less weird if they did just get lost sometimes.) You aggressively can't cast a short to a TV, in a way that clearly shows this is policy for some incomprehensible reason, but if you use the YouTube app directly on your set top box it'll happily play a short on your TV. Despite its claims in small text that downloads are good for a month without being rechecked, periodically it just loses track of all the downloads and has to redownload them. It also is clearly trying to reauthorize downloads I made just 30 minutes ago sometimes when I'm in a no-Internet zone, defeating the entire purpose. When downloads are about 1/4th done it displays the text "ready to watch on the download screen" but if you try to watch it it'll fail with "not yet fully downloaded".

Feels like the app has passed the complexity threshold of what the team responsible for it can handle. Or possibly, too much AI code and not enough review and testing. And those don't have to be exclusive possibilities.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-24 16:02:04+00:00
> Please get off of your high-horse and actually try to interact with wider world and not the IT bubble :)

That seems pretty rude and uncalled for, why would you say that to me? Do you think that I don't have friends outside of the "IT bubble" myself, or that I don't have my own spouse who is a non-tech person?
by alecco | 2025-09-24 16:02:10+00:00
In completely unrelated UK news:

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/20/uk_palantir_defense_p...

204 points|rntn|4 days ago|134 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45313793
by bruce511 | 2025-09-24 16:02:24+00:00
This falls into the endless list of "remember you voted for this". With the ever present caveat that, no, clearly not everyone did, but he got more votes than anyone else.

And it's not like this is a surprise. He campaigned with RFK. Kennedy's views on vaccines are well known. Trumps ability to do "medical" was amply demonstrated in his first term.

This is exactly what he campaigned on, and exactly what voters were presumably hoping for. They looked at the options and said, "yeah, let's have some more of this".
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-24 16:02:36+00:00
Interesting. For that to work, though, it has to be true consent, not "it's the boss's idea and I don't dare to object out loud".

But I guess, if that's the environment you're in, then you're stuck with autocratic leadership (no matter what label it claims for itself), and your only choice is to leave or not.
by Reubachi | 2025-09-24 16:02:37+00:00
Because browsers and their operators, like any other industry, over time morph to a shareholder driven mess that needs to constantly be integrating with feature/product X.

If the same operator also controls the entire adspace in the web, and has significant impact/input on other connected media devices beyond webbrowsers, what incentive do they have to empower users to "ignore" content, be it ads, ai slop, bad UI? Ther's literally none, the number still goes up revenue wise.

Unavoidable content delivery attached to revenue generation is the present and the future and the only solution is disonnected services/products that aren't tied to dollars.
by robpalmer | 2025-09-24 16:02:41+00:00
Congrats to the Boa team! It's great to see an independent open source project thrive and become more widely useful. This is huge impact.

On the integration with Kiesel and Chrome, I'm pleased to see that engines/browsers can share the cost of developing new language features. Temporal is massive! Almost as big as the delta of introducing ES6. There are 4,000+ tests. The functionality does not need to be engine-specific, so it makes sense to leverage reuse.

I believe this is the first introduction of Rust into V8 itself. Which seems like a happy side-effect that hopefully makes it easier to share more Rust libraries in future. This helps keep browser development sustainable.
by chrononaut | 2025-09-24 16:02:50+00:00
> No, [journalists] know what they are doing ... Carefully calibrated, highly-selective use of (often, quite awkward) linguistic constructs does not happen unconsciously, it is a deliberate, knowing choice.

The incredible vast majority of people in the world are acting in good faith. The way you are framing this is that nearly all journalists are acting in bad faith, which makes me believe the arguments of the parent ("The journalists don't think they're writing these stories to amplify the police narrative") more so than the argument you're making here.
by catigula | 2025-09-24 16:03:16+00:00
This is not how statistical analysis works. You need to know how the comparison was done to know if it's valid. You can't merely tell me the data points you've used as evidence of the success of your methods. With claims like these, a citation is truly needed.

I'm very skeptical on this because I know there is competing research suggesting AI use makes tasks take longer but feel less burdensome. Also, you'd need to account for regression rate over time. Also, you'd need to ensure your methodology is correct. It's not trivial and great claims require great responsibility.
by f_devd | 2025-09-24 16:03:21+00:00
I've posted this as a response but I'll post it again since it seems like a lot of people are confused about the project:

This project is not THE digital wallet, it is an early prototype of the wallet (which can be criticized for what it is, but the issue is somewhat orthogonal).

The actual infrastructure is not based on attenstation, if you read the guidelines (or the readme) they actually want to implement a double-blind approach with ZKPs, which imo is significantly better than a challenge-response pub key system in term of privacy as some suggested. And allows for cross-platform (and in theory hardware) support.

If you're not familiar this would mean the verifier doesn't learn anything except a statement about attributes (age, license, etc); and the EU doesn't learn what attributes have been tried to verify or by who.
by piazz | 2025-09-24 16:03:37+00:00
Shameless plug for anybody who has been through the hell that is Anki card creation for language learning - I built an LLM powered extension for Anki that allows you to wire up fields to arbitrary prompts, and then generate notes in batch (or selectively per field). I use it every day for generating example sentences, definitions, and TTS. Would have quit Anki ages ago without this.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1531888719

https://smart-notes.xyz

FWIW I did get a lot more mileage from building my own deck vs a custom deck too, would recommend that approach regardless once you're past the initial vocab bootstrapping phrase.
by legacynl | 2025-09-24 16:03:53+00:00
Yeah okay I get it. The law basically states that 'not true' should be 'false' and vice versa.

I still don't get what's the use of this, or is this just a curiosity? It seems like the result is just a kind of ternary operator? Doesn't this still just compile to if(x.present) return x else y? Just with really obtuse syntax
by SmirkingRevenge | 2025-09-24 16:03:57+00:00
I don't have particular knowledge about how things are in China, but the underlying strategy is real and employed by authoritarian regimes against their citizens and adversaries.

In the US, the right-wing media and Trump have been doing it to us, in addition to our adversaries.

In the old days, propaganda was used to make people believe specific things. But information streams aren't as easily controlled today, so instead the idea is to create confusion and distrust. It's a DDoS on reality. Sadly it can be very effective.
by raincole | 2025-09-24 16:03:58+00:00
> how Google built their empire. Who knows

By scraping every page and directing the traffic back to the site owners. That was how Google built their empire.

Are they abusing the empire's power now? In multiple ways, such as the AI overview stuff. But don't pretend that crawling Youtube and training video generation models is the same as what Google (once) brought to the internet. And it's ridiculous to expect Youtube to make it easy for crawlers.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-24 16:04:03+00:00
Agreed. The point of these things is that the company is betting on you doing the decent thing at your expense. I refuse to accommodate their failure.

I was in one of these situations once where we missed a scheduled flight because of an airline screwup, and they refused to accommodate us without a substantial payment - thousands of dollars. Frankly, I couldn’t afford it. This despite the fact I already paid for an assigned seat on the fubar flight.

The predictable outcome happened after they pulled away from the gate and the flight crew came to me and my response was “He’s 20 rows away, what do you expect me to do? Sounds like the options are to move us, or return to the gate.”

They figured it out and were great about it, but the whole situation was stressful to everyone and was completely unnecessary. Flight crews are busy and it’s just senseless toil.
by gr1zzlybe4r | 2025-09-24 16:04:04+00:00
The airline industry is a good example of an "open" market that is really anything but. It is effectively an state-supported oligopoly. Airlines have split up every major market, usually with very little competition amongst themselves, and then have a government bailout backstop if things go wrong (this include things like favorable bankruptcy laws that let them get out of wage commitments). This is without even getting into the unholy public-private airport situation.

The answer is actual competition with some reasonable passenger protections.

Let foreign carriers compete here (9th freedom rights). No bailouts for failed operations or even unusual circumstances like covid.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-24 16:04:06+00:00
Think of the inverse, someone who doesn’t care about where they sit save money.

On the other hand, I never understood this obsession with grown people acting like it’s the end of the world if they don’t sit together. My wife and I fly a lot together - over a dozen trips this year - and she flies more frequently by herself. We both prefer window seats. We hardly ever sit together unless we can get 2 seats next to us by ourselves like on larger planes with a 3-2-3 combination or exit row seats in main.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-24 16:04:14+00:00
I didn't say there was no regulation what so ever. But there were multiple efforts of increasing it that was blocked. And what I specifically noted that the rights are weaker then for airlines.

If your airline is delayed and you miss a connection, you will get a hotel for the night. In a train, you can get that.

Airlines are forced to compete on price and have to publicly list prices and make that accessible to 3rd parties. Train companies do everything in their power to silo as much as they can to force costumers into booking threw their app.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-09-24 16:04:56+00:00
I think a lot would depend on whether they do any kind of on-device processing to determine whether the audio is likely to be a football match or not. I think they could successfully argue that data processed on your phone and not shared with them is processed by you, and then they could argue that the data that is shared falls under legitimate interests and would be proportionate, and pass a balancing test.

IANALEither
by wwweston | 2025-09-24 16:05:40+00:00
“They are all crooks” is the motto of another kind of personal corruption: the kind where people abdicate any responsibility to detail or distinction for the sheer indulgence of moral posture without any of the work.

Every time someone says “they’re all crooks” they are the enablers of crooks. The crooks couldn’t do it without people like that.
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-09-24 16:05:44+00:00
Yeah, I just tried to select text in the button element and translate it specifically or copy it, and it doesn't work. You can highlight it, but you aren't selecting the text.

This is what is copied from the login page, you can see that the button text is missing:

Login

username: password:

Forgot your password?

Create Account

username: password:
by redneno | 2025-09-24 16:05:51+00:00
I built ChronoFrame as a modern alternative to clunky photo galleries. It’s a self-hosted app designed for smooth performance, metadata awareness, and clean architecture.

Why?

Most open-source galleries are either slow with large images, don’t support EXIF/geo properly, or feel outdated. ChronoFrame solves that by using WebGL rendering + progressive image loading for a fluid UX, even on big RAWs.

Features

- WebGL viewer with buttery-smooth zoom/pan

- Progressive & LOD image loading (bandwidth-friendly)

- Full EXIF parsing: camera, timestamp, geolocation

- Map exploration of geotagged photos

- JPEG / PNG / HEIC (auto-converted) support

- Live Photos support

- ThumbHash thumbnails for instant preview

- Responsive UI with touch gestures

Read more at the repo: https://github.com/HoshinoSuzumi/chronoframe
by timmg | 2025-09-24 16:05:54+00:00
> This falls into the endless list of "remember you voted for this".

I think, to be fair, there are only two parties. You can only vote for one "package" of policies. Maybe you are a one-issue voter or maybe you weigh all the different positions of the candidates to find the one who aligns most with you.

I don't think it is accurate to say that all the people who voted for Trump approve of any individual policies -- like this one. So they are allowed to be as upset as anyone else about this stuff.
by jsheard | 2025-09-24 16:06:05+00:00
> If you want to compete with YT you need to basically build AWS S3 in your own data centers. You'd have to find a way to make your service run cheaper than google can if you wanted to survive.

YouTube's economy of scale goes way beyond having their own datacenters, they have edge caches installed inside most ISP networks which soak up YT traffic before it even reaches a Google DC. It would take a staggering amount of investment to compete with them on cost.
by Lio | 2025-09-24 16:06:28+00:00
Labour (and the Tories before them) seem to be pushing very hard to stop any anonymous internet usage in the UK with the justification that the government knows best and have a duty to track everything we do[1].

I really wish that they would instead at least consider strongly improving our rights because it's highly likely they will loose next general election and the incoming government will not be "good actors".

Sadly, instead we get Baroness[2] Thangam Debbonaire rolling her eyes on Newsnight at any critism of what they're doing.

Labour need to stop making these petty unforced errors that don't deliver but instead just piss people off.

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68625232

2. She was made a Baroness to keep her in power after she was voted out as an MP at the last election because, again, the government knows best.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-09-24 16:07:00+00:00
https://www.stlouischildrens.org/health-resources/dosage-tab...

A typical 500mg adult dosage tablet isn't recommended til the child is > 72lbs.

They make smaller tablets. Smaller tablets can also be cut up. And there's liquid preparations that can be tuned to whatever level is needed.
by orochimaaru | 2025-09-24 16:07:07+00:00
I think the democrats squandered opportunities post 2021. To regain people’s trust they need to:

1. Have actual democratic primaries and get rid of their super delegates.

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

3. Protect American industry and labor. This doesn’t just mean propping up unions - it means making an actual effort to bring industry back to the US.

The rest is just theatre. So this autism declaration, or trans baiting is just the sideshow. IMHO - the those are the three main things for me to start considering the democrats again.
by quwanishbek | 2025-09-24 16:07:31+00:00
I built a simple to-do list manager that you can actually chat with.

Instead of just adding and checking off tasks, you can ask questions like:

“What should I do first?”

“Remind me about tomorrow’s deadline.”

“Summarize everything I need to finish this week.”

The AI looks at your tasks and helps you prioritize, so the list feels more like an assistant than a static checklist.

I’m looking for early feedback.

Would love to hear your thoughts on whether this feels useful, confusing, or just unnecessary.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-24 16:07:40+00:00
I'm a big fan of StrongTowns and this is the article that NotjustBikes used as a launching point for the specific episode of fuckcars porn that you posted: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017-1-9-the-real-reason...

Fiscal soundness at the local level should not be a political issue, but IMO the progressive left has turned it into one by attacking anyone and everyone who isn't in rigid alignment with every element of their housing agenda, which includes some pretty radical (and largely undesirable) changes for most Americans. And then of course when people balk at these undesirable changes, they're called racist, selfish, or both.

I don't agree that you can really claim one part of town is subsidizing others based on the analysis from firms like urban3. Sure, if you stuck 10 businesses on a plot of land where only 1 exists now and those businesses all thrive, tax revenue would be higher for that plot of land. Is there demand for 10 more businesses in your city or town, times every drive thru fast food joint or Starbucks? Is it actually a problem that businesses are paying more in taxes than they consume in services, which lets residents pay less than they consume? Would those businesses be there if their owners couldn't live in the type of housing they wanted in the city? There are so many intertwined issues that seem impossible to decouple to me, in addition to the obvious issue that the school system is the primary consumer of tax revenue in almost every area and the taxes paid by parents don't come close to covering that expense.

It's also not a coincidence that they picked an economically depressed area with a fairly high crime rate for this analysis. If they looked at a city with residents who made the median household income for the US, or even above it, I suspect you'd see a very different picture (though the larger point is still worth considering and largely valid).

I do agree completely that the federal and state governments are just setting these places up for failure (and future rounds of external funding), but I don't see YIMBYs talking about that. They just seem to be angry that people are living more comfortably than they would like in lower density housing instead of embracing the urban lifestyle they are so passionate about, and want to force everyone to align to their vision not for fiscal stability, but for ideological reasons.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-24 16:08:16+00:00
The main reason for doing video through JS in the first place, other than obfuscation, is variable bitrate support. Oddly enough some TVs will support variable bitrate HLS directly, and I believe Apple devices, but not regular browsers. See https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/

> unless you have something to sell

Video hosting and its moderation is not cheap, sadly. Which is why we don't see many competitors.
by Manuel_D | 2025-09-24 16:08:17+00:00
Shouting down other people deprives them of their freedom of speech, and is rightfully prevented. Padilla was detained because he was attempting to do that: disrupt someone else from exercising speech. He could have made the exact same speech in his own space without consequences.

If you disapprove of how Padilla was treated, that's fine, just be honest about why he was detained: not for the content of his speech, but his attempt to prevent another from speaking.