MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-24 13:07:57+00:00
Interesting. The deregulation of airlines is already a case study of how deregulation tends to reduce competition and hurt consumers.

I suppose we’ve just given up on the concept of trying to do anything but nakedly extract profit at any cost. You’d think shareholders would be pro-competition in the end, though—I certainly would prefer that.

Edit: I mean short-term profits. As a shareholder I would prefer long-term profits via competition and diversification.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-24 13:07:59+00:00
True, there's an ambiguity in "visible light" between "EM radiation within the visible frequency range" and "EM radiation within the visible frequency range which is of sufficient intensity that we can detect it with our eyes"

But this is independent of the misconception that the radiation observed in this experiment is thermal. Thermal radiation in the visible range at this temperature is much lower in intensity than the biological radiation observed here, but both kinds of radiation are well below the intensity that we can see with our eyes.
by rancar2 | 2025-09-24 13:08:23+00:00
“The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) encourages all airlines to guarantee that young children are seated adjacent to an accompanying adult without charging any additional fee.” https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-family-se...

There is not coverage beyond one adult already in the US. With an additional adult and one child, the airlines already adds in fees. It’s also non-transparent when booking that they have made sure the easy path is the charged path, especially now that airlines make you pay to guarantee being seated together prior to flight checkin 24 hours in advance of takeoff.
by K0balt | 2025-09-24 13:08:26+00:00
This is perfectly reasonable when people know that they have no control of the government, it’s like the weather then…you just deal with it.

The problem is that in the USA , we’ve been told that we have a democratic republic, and that we have significant self-determination in affairs of the state, and that justice, freedom, and the right to live relatively un-disturbed are inalienable rights.

It’s bullshit in practice, of course, but we’ve been told this, and we’ve been told it’s our duty to protect those rights, up to and specifically including armed insurrection.

Many people actually believed what they were told.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-24 13:08:29+00:00
> We can all see how well the deplatforming worked - Trump is president again

Not a compelling argument...

Jan 2021 - Twitter bans Trump (for clear policy violations)

Apr 2022 - Musk buys Twitter

Aug 2023 - Twitter reinstates Trump's account

Nov 2024 - Trump re-elected, gives Musk cabinet position
by piltdownman | 2025-09-24 13:08:38+00:00
No, the bar pays something like 10x the price of a normal subscription to be able to publicly show live Sports as a draw for their customers.

In UK/Ireland you can easily identify if the venue in question is paying for the commercial package as it will intermittently display a pint glass symbol in a bottom corner of the screen. Indeed, Sky investigators, who do spot checks, use it to quickly ensure that the pub has a valid pub contract and not a residential contract.

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/668952/why-pub-TV...

La Liga are presumably muxing infrasonic audio into their residential streams to try and:

(a) watermark the residential account(s) used to provide the streaming services so they can prosecute the providers

(b) Detect commercial usage of residential accounts used in piracy to prosecute the venues, by listening out via the App.

They could presumably get around GDPR by virtue of the fact they're only listening and recording audio out of human audible range, and only for identification of copyright infringement as per the TOS of the La Liga App.
by ndjddirbrbrbfi | 2025-09-24 13:09:05+00:00
It doesn’t have granularity in terms of what parts of the code have what permission - everything in the same process has the same permission, but aside from that I’m not sure what you mean about it being paper thin. Certainly WASM is a great option, and I think it can facilitate a more nuanced capabilities model, but for cases like this AFAIK Deno should be secure (to the extent that V8 is secure, which Chrome’s security depends on).

It being a checkbox feature is a weird way to frame it too, because that typically implies you’re just adding a feature to match your competitors, but their main competitors don’t have that feature.

In what ways does it fall short? If there are major gaps, I’d like to know because I’ve been relying on it (for personal projects only myself, but I’ve recommended it to others for commercial projects).
by pluc | 2025-09-24 13:09:31+00:00
In Canada, we've already learned to always fly a European airline when possible. We have some legal protections but Canadian airlines are happy to put people on a complaint waiting list instead of doing anything - it's pretty laughable. As of August, there's 85k complaints waiting. It's a 1.5-2 years wait.

https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/air-travel-complaints-resolution-p...
by ben30 | 2025-09-24 13:10:06+00:00
Fair point on the "ended debate" phrasing - that was imprecise on my part. What I should have said is "the Swedish study provides the strongest evidence to date and shifts the burden of proof." It's not actually a single study though. The pattern is consistent across study quality levels:

Population studies (many): Small associations, but can't control for confounding

Negative control studies (several): Associations weaken when using better controls

Sibling studies (multiple, including Swedish): Associations disappear entirely

Meanwhile, fever studies (dozens): Consistent risk signals across different populations

The Swedish study is just the largest and best-designed in a hierarchy of evidence that all points the same direction. When you see this "dose-response by study quality" pattern - where better methodology consistently yields weaker effects - it's usually a strong signal that the original association was artifactual.

The Economist piece published yesterday reinforces this. They mention the NIH study of 200,000 children that "found no link at all" - that's another high-quality study reaching the same conclusion. Meanwhile, the studies showing associations (Nurses' Health Study II, Boston Birth Cohort) are exactly the type of population studies that can't control for the fever/infection confounding.

Science is never "settled" in an absolute sense, but the weight of evidence here is pretty clear. We're not waiting for more acetaminophen studies - we're ignoring the ones we already have while making policy based on weaker evidence.

That's the real problem with the current policy shift.
by eagleal | 2025-09-24 13:10:07+00:00
I don't know about US laws, but in most countries agencies/PMs/experts or whoever has access and is involved in the investigation, cannot make a comment if the investigation is ongoing.

Breaching of this, especially as you're making a case, in most cases at best would invalidate the whole case + bring disciplinary actions upon the individual(s) that committed the breach.

Judging by the other comments, looks similar for the US too.

If you're ever partecipated as expert in any investigation or news article you'd know you'd get usually biased hypothesis, if otherwise it meant you wouldn't have the same impact for the news story. Or if you've ever heard of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
by nicce | 2025-09-24 13:10:08+00:00
Depends on whom you ask. Google introducing the developer verification and sideloading on iOS being even bigger hurdle, they want to stay in control on what you use and they want to make sure you don't have possibility to use anything they explicitly permit. Normal desktop is unfortunately too open for that. Discourage people to use desktops and make rely on controlled gardens even more.
by jamiecurle | 2025-09-24 13:10:23+00:00
I don’t want this, but I don’t really see a future where it isn’t a thing. One group of people are right to point out the scope for abuse and control of a population, and another are correct that we already have multiple forms of digital ID in the shape of driving licenses, national insurance numbers, and passports. At this point, I view it as a thing we have to navigate as a society and get to the other side of. If I have any energy at all to fight anything related to this, I’m saving it for after the implementation because, as I said at the start of this post, I view it as inevitable. Luckily for us, though, through total coincidence, we’re now going to have massive AI data centres to help us with this brave new digital identity.
by loudmax | 2025-09-24 13:10:38+00:00
An Apple Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory is around the $10k. If your really need that much power on your home computer, and you have that much money to spend, this could be the easiest option.

You probably don't need fp16. Most models can be quantized down to q8 with minimal loss of quality. Models can usually be quantized to q4 or even below and run reasonably well, depending on what you expect out of them.

Even at q8, you'll need around 235GB of memory. An Nvidia RTX 5090 has 32GB of VRAM and has an official price of about $2000, but usually retails for more. If you can find them at that price, you'd need eight of them to run a 235GB model entirely in VRAM, and that doesn't include a motherboard and CPU that can handle eight GPUs. You could look for old mining rigs built from RTX 3090s or P40s. Otherwise, I don't see much prospect for fitting this much data into VRAM on consumer GPUs for under $10k.

Without NVLink, you're going to take a massive performance hit running a model distributed over several computers. It can be done, and there's research into optimizing distributed models, but the throughput is a significant bottleneck. For now, you really want to run on a single machine.

You can get pretty good performance out of a CPU. The key is memory bandwidth. Look at server or workstation class CPUs with a lot of DDR5 memory channels that support a high MT/s rate. For example, an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7965WX has eight DDR5 memory channels at up to 5200 MT/s and retails for about $2500. Depending on your needs, this might give you acceptable performance.

Lastly, I'd question whether you really need to run this at home. Obviously, this depends on your situation and what you need it for. Any investment you put into hardware is going to depreciate significantly in just a few years. $10k of credits in the cloud will take you a long way.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-24 13:10:50+00:00
BLAKE3 and other parallelizable hashes do exactly this, but using a somewhat more complex algorithm, which ensures that the result is a secure hash.

Such an algorithm has been first published by Ralph Merkle, in 1979, but it has been improved later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

For security, it is necessary to use different hash functions at different levels in the hash tree, but this is trivially achieved by using the same hash function, but also hashing some extra distinguishing data besides the hashes from the previous level.
by robenkleene | 2025-09-24 13:10:53+00:00
Ah, good point, this isn’t `oh-my-zsh` but it does require a couple of options to work as described:

1. `setopt autopushd pushdsilent`: This is the key component, `autopushd` automatically adds directories to the directory stack (and `pushdsilent` option does it without echoing added directories). Without this option, there’s no directory stack to traverse (unless directories are first manually added to it with `pushd` [for completion, `popd` pops directories off the stack navigating back to those directories]). `autopushd` just calls `pushd` on the current directory after each `cd`.

2. To get a menu, Zsh completion also has to be loaded, e.g., `autoload -Uz compinit && compinit -C`

3. Finally `zstyle ':completion:*' menu select` is optional, but that highlights the selected match, which is a nicer UI in my opinion.

Those are the options I used to get this working with `zsh -f` (which starts Zsh with a default config).
Show HN: Tunn – Manage all your SSH tunnels from a YAML file
by strandnerd | 2025-09-24 13:11:19+00:00
I was tired of manually setting up SSH tunnels every time I needed to debug a service or proxy a database.

So I built tunn — a lean Go tool that feels like docker-compose, but for SSH tunnels. You define your services in a YAML file and run all your tunnels concurrently with one command. • Written in Go (only depends on yaml) • Simple log output, clean CLI • Supports grouping services and running selectively

GitHub: https://github.com/strandnerd/tunn

I’d love feedback, feature requests, and ideas for improving DX!
by somenameforme | 2025-09-24 13:11:28+00:00
No they haven't. A proxy war is what we have going on between the US and Russia in Ukraine. You instead have autonomous groups, largely affiliated primarily by religion (like Hezbollah), that receive support from Iran. It's more akin to the situation with Saudi Arabia where extremists of their flavor of Islam, including Al Qaeda, often find material and personnel support. For instance 15 of the 19 attackers from 9/11 were Saudi.

And I doubt you'd call Al Qaeda a 'Saudi proxy' or 9/11 a Saudi-US proxy war. It's nonsensical.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-24 13:11:32+00:00
At some point we’re going to need a better place to put videos than YouTube. The lack of any democratization of bulk storage is beginning to be a real problem on the internet.

Yes, we have archive.org. We need more than that, though.

I’m sure there’s some distributed solution like IPFS but I haven’t seen any serious attempt to make this accessible to every day people.
by baq | 2025-09-24 13:11:33+00:00
This is hardware attestation in a nutshell: a double edged sword, and a sharp one at that.

The biggest issue is that the attestation hardware and the application client is the same device with the same manufacturer, who also happens to have a slight conflict of interest between monetizing customers and preserving any sort of privacy.

IMHO the pro-attestation forces are so overwhelming that we should all cherish the moment while we have anything open left.
by dgrin91 | 2025-09-24 13:11:33+00:00
I listened to the Radiolab podcast. I remained fairly unconvinced by the reporting on the show, but the part that really didn't make sense to me was, what is their definition of death? My (limited, non-medical) understand is that death has a bit of a spectrum associated with it. At what point does this light stop emitting? When you flatline exactly?
by bell-cot | 2025-09-24 13:12:09+00:00
> The study’s authors warn that individuals and paper mills — companies that produce fake papers to order and sell authorships — might be exploiting publicly available health data sets and using large language models (LLMs) to mass-produce low-quality papers that lack scientific value.

I know that "AI" gets the clicks - but it doesn't sound like Nature cares all that much about minimal-value research getting published.

Vs. any human scientist who is trying to keep current has very limited time for reading research articles. Journals that publish junk articles, whether "AI" or "artisinal", are de facto poison.
by doodaddy | 2025-09-24 13:12:23+00:00
> Instead of the clear, itemized pricing system that passengers currently rely on, airlines could hide fees until later in the booking process…

They call what we have now “clear”? Where when looking at a page of flights I don’t know how much the multitude of economy/economy+/economy++/premium economy/business/business++ seats will cost until I click on each flight? Where every carrier offers slightly different variations of these seats such that I can’t cross-shop on Google Flights?

Is that the clear and transparent system the airlines are complaining about?
by Bender | 2025-09-24 13:13:40+00:00
The power strips I use are not vulnerable to most of the issues listed. The Tripp Lite Isobar power strips use oversized gauge wire and a heavy gauge metal enclosure. They are expensive but totally worth it in my opinion. Anecdotally I gave a couple of them to a family member. The old 2 gauge wiring under ground installed in the 1950's was not in a conduit and created a ground-loop and a short smoking all the power strips in the house but the Isobar just had a red LED lit up and was fine otherwise. They also reduce line noise quite a bit.
by gloosx | 2025-09-24 13:14:05+00:00
Football is wild. Imagine countries and governments collect taxes.

Then they use the taxes to buy petroleum products from Qatar.

Then Qatar spends €262 millions on a single football player and gazillions on a European club, which is at €889 million loss over the last five years

In the end, who is paying for it all? Ordinary people ultimately foot the bill – whether through higher energy prices, taxes, or the opportunity cost of that money leaving the productive economy – while the football circus rolls on.
by richardlblair | 2025-09-24 13:14:12+00:00
What's the cost of the fine-tuned model? If you were attempting to optimize for cost, would it be worth it to detect scan layouts to get better OCR?

Honestly, I'm such a noob in this space. I had 1 project I needed to do, didn't want to do it by hand which would have taken 2 days so I spent 5 trying to get a script to do it for me.
by eadmund | 2025-09-24 13:14:16+00:00
> [Elimination of] Automatic Refunds for Cancellations

Does this mean when the passenger cancels or when the airline cancels? If it’s when the passenger chooses to cancel, this seems fine and fair: he paid for a flight; he chose not to take it. If it’s the latter, then it seems very unfair.

> Transparency of Fees

This seems patently unfair. Folks should know what they’re going to be paying ahead of time.

> Family Seating Guarantees

On the one hand, this seems fair. If you want to sit together, pay for that privilege. It doesn’t make sense to tax every other passenger for it. OTOH, families are a net benefit to society, so maybe it’s right for everyone else to pitch in a bit. Also, nothing is worse than the folks who didn’t pay up ahead of time who bug one, ‘may we switch seats so we can sit together?’ So perhaps free family seating makes life easier for everyone.

> [Elimination of] Accessibility Protections for Disabled Passengers

I wonder what that actually means. It could be fair (for example, folks too large for one seat purchasing two) or unfair.
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-24 13:14:36+00:00
I don't think it needs to be this complicated.

Every product at Google is being pressured intensely to put AI everywhere. The focus is on velocity, not well thought out product experiences. This sort of photo editing interaction is not novel so it doesn't require a ton of out of the box thinking to decide to add it to Photos.

Google is worried that other companies are going to steal their lunch and their approach is to try to throw every AI feature they can into their products as fast as possible.
by ghm2199 | 2025-09-24 13:14:37+00:00
Perhaps none of us have living memory of how when the chips are down there is no place to turn to but a source of truth. For every propaganda(ish) outlet, there is a place you can check for real news NYTimes,CNN,Fox juxtaposed to things like propublica,snopes or icij.

One friend got taken in by a fake news story and rued the internet is full of fake news and propaganda that spreads in a minute, I am so dismayed, how can I know what is real?. a friend replied: the internet is wonderful too you can check in under a minute if something is fake.
by Centrino | 2025-09-24 13:15:03+00:00
I thought that Facebook Messenger was end-to-end encrypted for personal one-on-one chats? That's also the reason why Facebook asks you to set a PIN to retrieve your chats on other devices. Only group chats are not E2EE. So yes, this looks like a chat control-like feature where the scanning is done on the client and not on Facebook's servers.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-24 13:15:05+00:00
Cloudflare are https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/02/19/cloudflare-takes-...

What complicates it is that the ISP, Telefonica, is also a Soccer rights-holder.

How they haven't sued La Liga for defamation is beyond me though; publicly condemning Cloudflare's role in enabling piracy by knowingly protecting criminal organisations for profit.

https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/official-statement-in-rela...

Traditionally all soccer organisations from FIFA down are absolutely rife with corruption and other criminal activity. Best to view current events through that lense. For example, Fifa in 2015 were done for bribery, fraud and money laundering to corrupt the issuing of media and marketing rights for FIFA games in the Americas, estimated at $150 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case
by RandomBacon | 2025-09-24 13:15:33+00:00
Flashing brake lights are super annoying. Flashing lights are attention-grabing and thus distracting when you are trying to observe the whole scene and not just fixate on the vehicle in front of you.

Or if you are the type of driver that fixates on the vehicle in front of you, and a vehicle to the side has flashing brake lights, then it distracts you from the vehicle in front of you.

They should be illegal, and they already probably are illegal - in my state, if the brake pedal is pushed, the brake light must be on, and if it is flashing, then it is alternating between on and OFF. (And a judge does not care if "technically it is 1% on and not completely off" - it looks off.)

Next time you are in traffic, imagine if every vehicle in front of you had flashing lights.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-24 13:15:57+00:00
> The deregulation of airlines is already a case study of how deregulation tends to reduce competition and hurt consumers.

What the actual F? Deregulation of airlines was massively beneficial to consumers.

"Base ticket prices have declined steadily since deregulation.[15] The inflation-adjusted 1982 constant dollar yield for airlines has fallen from 12.3 cents in 1978 to 7.9 cents in 1997,[16] and the inflation-adjusted real price of flying fell 44.9% from 1978 to 2011.[17] Along with a rising U.S. population[18] and the increasing demand of workforce mobility, these trends were some of the catalysts for dramatic expansion in passenger miles flown, increasing from 250 million passenger miles in 1978 to 750 million passenger miles in 2005.[19]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation
by brulard | 2025-09-24 13:16:22+00:00
I'm in the same boat. I'm 20 years into my SWE career, I can write all the things Claude Code writes for me now but it still makes me faster and deliver better quality features (Like accessibility features, transitions, nice to have bells and whistles) I may not had time or even thought of to do otherwise. And all that with documentation and tests.
by zabzonk | 2025-09-24 13:16:43+00:00
Ah, ed. Back in the mid 80s, I had to teach a course on Unix & its tools - if I remember correctly it was called "Unix - a modern OS". One of those tools was of course ed. We couldn't use vi because the termcap/terminfo settings were screwed up for the physical serial terminals we had - I eventually fixed this & felt very pleased with myself, as those terminal config files are a b*tch.

Still, teaching bash, C and the usual suspects along with ed was very strenuous for the students, and for me - we only ran the course once.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-24 13:16:49+00:00
Human creativity and explanations were up to now, using arbitrary units to reach the edges of specificity.

Now the automation of that arbitrariness, trained not for specificity, does definitely degrade that leading edge and puts specificity further out of reach - particularly that humans mistake output as valid or specific.

It's an act of insanity made tech-normal.