MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschild | 2025-09-07 15:47:15+00:00
I'm conflicted.

On the one hand, curtailing free speech is a problem and a lot of governments have started doing it to a massive degree.

On the other hand, social networks are a cancer that are used to spread misinformation, steal information, and invade privacy like nothing else before.

In that regard I do believe that banning them is a net benefit to society, but I fear that for the most part it is done out of the wrong intentions with more sinister goals.
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-09-07 15:47:16+00:00
It depends. Pollution can be higher in the cities, or it can be higher in areas with high wildfire risk, or it can depend on specific geography which traps polluted air. You have to look at each case individually.

For example, in my state there is a specific more rural area which has a high incidence if heating with wood stoves, and they have higher air pollution that other more urban areas.

Another possibility is that urban areas are richer on average, and therefore might have better air filtration systems in homes and businesses than poorer rural areas. You can't tell without actually gathering the data.
by Bluecobra | 2025-09-07 15:47:27+00:00
When I am playing around in the cloud I am super paranoid about charges, so I end up locking the ACLs to only permit traffic to my home IP. It’s too bad that they don’t have a better built in way of making sandbox labs. When I was doing cloud training with A Cloud Guru, it would generate a whole global AWS instance that would only last for 30 minutes.
by karaterobot | 2025-09-07 15:48:37+00:00
If it turns out the dip is caused by a lag between the implementation of new tariff rules and the implementation of processes to handle them, and that in a short time traffic to the U.S. goes back to essentially its prior levels, what will that mean to the commenters in this thread? All of the hyper-rational, fact-based people in this thread, I mean. Because that seems like the most likely outcome to me.
by 2b3a51 | 2025-09-07 15:49:22+00:00
Yeah, Daniels was selling watches for low 7 figures so VAT or other forms of purchase tax would have been a significant chunk of change. And income tax of course.

"Daniels claimed that there was little money to be made in watchmaking, but his lifestyle suggested otherwise. In 1982 he moved, for tax reasons, to the Isle of Man, where he bought a substantial Georgian house complete with tradesmen’s entrance and sweeping drive."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8846796/George-D...
by cthalupa | 2025-09-07 15:49:25+00:00
All you have to do is look at all of the impositions that republican administrations and politicians have placed on USPS and the heaps of denigration they've piled on it to see the truth of the matter.

From forcing them to fund all future retirement funding in a way that no other government agency is (the PAEA) to all of the attacks on it around "mail-in vote fraud," to the constant attacks on the budget issues that they created, it's plainly apparent that the Republicans desire USPS failing and being privatized.

Many of them have also literally said as much. AEI and Cato are big proponents of privatization, Trump has talked about it many times, Wells Fargo has created some proposed frameworks, etc., and the worse it performs as a public entity the better they can make the argument for privatization.
by diebeforei485 | 2025-09-07 15:49:39+00:00
Seeking Alpha (this author anyway) is also wrong. They don't have data, and there are tons of examples of Waymo making mistakes, hitting buses, etc.

None of this is independent reporting. They're reading the same social media posts and repackaging them into articles. None of these authors are based in Austin where robotaxi is.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-07 15:49:42+00:00
>1. If a democrat is elected, they will take all their guns (their campaign rhetoric keeps saying this will happen, but it continues being no part of democratic presidential campaign messaging, and hasn’t happened the times they warned it definitely would—this one’s fake)

The key missing piece here is the guns will be taken from law abiding citizens while criminals will be undeterred. Add to this a concern over team blue's rhetoric about replacing police with social workers and mental health advocates.
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-07 15:49:55+00:00
Lol. Every fucking forum has people constantly bellyache about the moderation systems. Hivemind is a dead giveaway for thoughtless criticism. It's so tiresome. If it's flagged on HN it's almost always lowest common denominator mindless drivel or flamebait. No one serious would advocate for a system where comments can't be flagged as such.
by iwontberude | 2025-09-07 15:50:04+00:00
I think Siri is bad because it’s an expert system. As good as LLMs are, they waste a lot of time with how wordy and inconsistent they are. Apple has been churning out polished versions of viable tech for decades and only now are people intimating Apple isn’t capable and that the tech is ready. My guess is that the tech isn’t ready and when it is, Apple will knock it out of the park.
by Manuel_D | 2025-09-07 15:51:08+00:00
For what it's worth, international arrivals are down about 3.8%: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/08/26/have-for...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/08/26/have-for...

A statistically significant drop, but not exactly plummetting.
by jsheard | 2025-09-07 15:51:15+00:00
You're missing the unit, it's $0.085 per GB, not TB, and that's only for NA/EU traffic. I rounded up a bit from that number because other regions cost more, plus you get billed a flat amount for each request as well.

They do offer progressively cheaper rates as you use more bandwidth each month, but that doesn't have much impact until you're already spending eye watering amounts of money.
by alberth | 2025-09-07 15:51:26+00:00
I’m fairly certain that’s incorrect.

Businesses are only taxed on actual revenue earned.

What you decide to charge—whether $100, $50, or even giving it away for free—is purely a business decision, not a tax one.

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This is different from a nonprofit donation scenario though. For example, if your service normally costs $X but you choose to provide it for free (or at a discount) as a donation to a non-profit, you can typically write off the difference.
by sungam | 2025-09-07 15:51:44+00:00
The goal of my app is to educate patients so that they recognise that they need to take further action.

Regarding AI-assisted skin cancer diagnosis: This is a huge area that started with the publication of Esteva et al (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21056) and there have been hundreds of publications since. There are large publicly available datasets that anyone can work with (https://challenge.isic-archive.com/).

My lab has previously trained / evaluated convnets for diagnosis of skin cancer e.g. see this publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32931808/

I have no doubt that it will be possible to train an AI model to perform at the same level as a dermatologist and AI models will become increasingly relevant. The main challenge at the moment is navigating uncertainty / liability since a very small proportion of moles / skin lesions that appear entirely harmless both the naked eye and with the dermatoscope (skin microscope) are cancerous.
by thegrim33 | 2025-09-07 15:52:08+00:00
Another thing about IRC is that the protocol is simple and easy to understand. You can write your own IRC client, or IRC server, it's not difficult. It's not closed down / proprietary like Discord. It's not "open" but insanely complicated like the modern web. You just need a copy of the RFC and after writing some basic socket code can very quickly have a basic client up and running. I always appreciated that.
Ask HN: CASL or Casbin for Authorization?
by chaidhat | 2025-09-07 15:52:20+00:00
Hi, I have a 20k LOC backend that I need to implement authorization. We have

1. users, 2. admins, 3. organizations where users belong 4. roles which belong to an organization and users can be assigned to said roles 4. audit forms which are read/write capable for users, roles and admins

What is best for authorization? I am a pretty beginner programmer so I don't know which is best/whether to use RBAC, ReBAC or ABAC.

Thanks!
by crowbahr | 2025-09-07 15:52:28+00:00
ID will be a new form of auth. ISO-18013-7 establishes the equivalent of OAuth for electronic ID presentation on the Internet. It's already accepted. Apple and Google announcing the ability to use your ID at TSA is ISO-18013-5 and it's a short hop to 18013-7 from there.

We will be barred from accessing sites without valid ID. The question is can we get a few IdPs to provide the ID in a privacy sensitive way (the relying party really only needs to know your age after all).

Ideally an international governing body, under the auspices of the UN, holds the IDs and transmits the specific claims when requested and keeps no logs on requests.

Realistically it will be Apple and Google and you'll just have to trust them to totally not use the data of what sites request your ID to track you (lmao. lol, even.)
by bietroi | 2025-09-07 15:53:27+00:00
Oh, that's pretty funny actually.

In retrospect, if I cared about getting peoples' attention I should have mentioned something about "static reflection", or positioned this as more of a direct "threat" to macro expansion (and made it opt-in instead of opt-out, I forgot how frightened people are by any new ability to infer things).

I'm just a coder, not an influencer, though I do have one additional change in mind which borders on sensationalism.
by bitmasher9 | 2025-09-07 15:53:29+00:00
Why is this brought up here every time an association article is mentioned, every undergraduate that took a statistics course has covered the difference between correlation and causation.

We do population level correlation studies because sometimes a double blind study is unethical, and double blind studies is the bar for establishing causation in the medical community. We cannot give one person randomly worse air to breath, and even if it were experimentally feasible it would be ethically impossible because there is strong suspicion we would be harming the subjects.

Let’s discuss the actual data. The dose dependent result that was found is an indicator of a strong relationship. There is a clear potential mechanism of action (Air -> Lungs -> Bloodstream -> Brain). This isn’t a controversial result in the literature, it’s more evidence for what we already know —- air pollution is very bad.
by tbu | 2025-09-07 15:53:40+00:00
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Technologies: Polymath who picks up new tech quickly, but these are things that I've recently worked with: LM Studio, LocalAI, ollama, docker, terraform, vault, huggingface API, anthropic API, local LLMs (Mistral, Devstral, Qwen3 coder, Llama 3.3, hermes, gpt-oss, magistral), ToolHive, MCP, RAG pipelines (industries: Law, Outdoor Activities, Manufacturing), AWS Bedrock, GCP, AWS, R, Python, JavaScript, Go.

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by toast0 | 2025-09-07 15:53:45+00:00
I removed my Google Home; IMHO, it got worse at processing voice commands over time, and I didn't use it that much.

However, when it was working well, it was nice to be able to set a timer handsfree when my hands were busy. And when running a recipie where the measurements are inconvenient, I apprechiated being able to access unit conversions without context switching to a computing device (memorizing unit conversions could fill that gap).

I'm not in a rush to replace the device, but if I hear about a device that can do those things in an offline way, I might consider it. None of the online features were useful or reliable enough, and by their nature they would be changing all the time ... having them was a negative.

False positive wakeword triggering was annoying too. But maybe a talking timer would have a wakeword that was more specific.
by geocrasher | 2025-09-07 15:54:09+00:00
Facebook for a couple things, IG for keeping up with friends, sharing pics with friends. And a carefully curated YouTube subscription list. Only stuff that's worth watching: People I can relate to, have no ego, and are just having a good time sharing what they do. I gravitate toward hackaday worthy stuff and off-road exploration type videos. I limit intake of news sites, and instead try to focus on living my own life, accomplishing goals that I have set, and focusing on improving myself so I can help others.

Also, being a Gen-X-er who grew up without any of this stuff, I have to snicker just a little bit at people being up in arms about a ban on things that didn't exist 20-30 years ago. I know there is FAR more nuance to it. I simply found the thought humorous at a simplistic level.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-07 15:54:26+00:00
Yeah I get it. It just irks that it's something I'd like to spend more time with and learn, but at every corner I feel like I'm exposing myself. For what I have done w/AWS & GCP so far with personal accounts, complete deletion of all resources & images would be annoying to be sure, but still preferable to unlimited liability. Ofc most companies using it won't be in that boat so IDK.
by chasil | 2025-09-07 15:54:41+00:00
Dr. Hipp has said several times that nobody expected a weakly-typed database to achieve the pervasiveness that is observed with SQLite.

At the same time, strict tables address some of the concern of those coming from conventional databases.

Dates and times are a core problem to SQLite not seen elsewhere as far as I know, but this does evade UTC and constantly shifting regional time. My OS gets timezone updates every few months, and avoiding that had foresight.

Default conformance with Postel's Law is SQLite's stance, and it does seem to work with the ANSI standard.
by cluckindan | 2025-09-07 15:55:14+00:00
Not all inhalable drugs are the same. Also, not all inhalations are the same.

Your idea could hold for people who smoke cigarettes or use combustion-heated pipes to consume hard drugs like meth or crack, or for people who smoke a lot of poor quality cannabis, especially without any kind of filtering.

It probably doesn’t hold for people who use a dry herb vaporizer to consume cannabis, since the method of consumption doesn’t generate PM2.5 or combustion gases, and the volatile constituents of cannabis are well established to have local and systemic anti-inflammatory effects.
by lazarus01 | 2025-09-07 15:56:27+00:00
I wouldn’t call it “successful” or “useful”. It was a low effort attempt to make something interesting and it wasn’t. It’s a response to the hype of vibe coding. Lowers the bar for what good software really is.

Perhaps you may want to question your bias and ability to process criticism.

Anyone who shares their ideas publicly will receive criticism. Not only is it ok, it’s helpful to expand the discussion beyond your bias.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-07 15:56:49+00:00
I highly doubt they are doing that. If the quality is good then presumably it's also not the direct output of an LLM with RAG tool use.

I'd guess it might be more of a structured/agentic approach - maybe having learnt how to map "search" strings to relevant data retrieval queries, then combining/summarizing the returned results.
by gundmc | 2025-09-07 15:57:36+00:00
I agree, AI Mode is _very good_. But there's a huge branding and discovery problem in that 100% of the people I mention this to think I'm talking about the (error riddled) AI Overviews and have never heard of AI Mode.

I do probably 40% of my searches with AI Mode now. It can't possibly be profitable (and maybe that's why it's not more discoverable), but the results are awesome.

Edit: I also tried to show my aging parents how to use it, and it was inexplicably not available on their devices. They use old (10ish year) ios devices, which is apparently incompatible even though it's a web interface.
by namegator | 2025-09-07 15:57:39+00:00
Okay so this might sound like a first world problem, but hear me out lol.I've been working on this side project that needed like 50+ domain variations checked (think: brandname.com, brandname.io, brandname.co, etc.). The usual process was opening GoDaddy or Namecheap, typing each one manually, waiting for results, then doing it again... and again... and again.After about the 20th domain check, I was ready to give up. My brain was fried from keeping track of what was available vs taken.Then I stumbled across this bulk domain search tool at namegator.net/bulk-domain-search/ and honestly? Game changer.What it actually fixes: The tedious one-by-one checking - You can paste a whole list and it checks everything at once Cross-TLD comparison - Shows availability across .com, .io, .co, .net all in one view The "did I already check this?" problem - Everything's in one organized list Time waste - What used to take me 2 hours now takes maybe 10 minutes The interface is pretty clean too, not cluttered with upsells like most domain sites.Only downside? I probably should've found this 3 weeks ago before manually checking 200+ domains like a caveman Anyone else been stuck in the manual domain checking hell? Or have other tools that make this process less painful?
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-07 15:58:19+00:00
With both Windows and Linux, it's always a luck-of-the-draw thing. Sometimes closing the lid works perfectly, sometimes you get a doofus manufacturer with lousy drivers, so 1 in 20 times you pull your laptop out of your bag and it's red hot with a drained battery.

It's maddening that only Apple gets this right 100% of the time, and it's among the things keeping me on Apple's platform for the moment. I can't fathom why this isn't a bigger priority for everyone else: much like "trackpads that don't suck", it's a huge quality-of-life thing which keeps tons of people on Macs because they want it to Just Work without ever thinking about it.
by antonvs | 2025-09-07 15:58:34+00:00
> three laws in Haskell

The laws are mathematical ones, that can't be expressed in the Haskell type system.

> And at some point the original meaning got lost

This is false. The original meaning is a mathematical one, and its use in Haskell conforms to that.

That meaning is not "lost", it's the only valid and rigorous definition there is. People who think the meaning is lost are simply ignorant. All they would have to do to correct that ignorance is a minimal amount of research.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-07 15:59:54+00:00
I think that blog talks about selling their batteries to other car manufacturers.

But, to support your wider point, there's some reporting that the initial grid BESS Megapack batteries had a test setup in the car park at Tesla and Elon was unaware they existed until they got mentioned to him in a meeting and someone pointed out the window to explain.

He immediately wanted to shut that project down to focus on cars.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-09-07 16:00:23+00:00
It's fine to not want your address shared and you don't even need to justify that opinion, you could just want privacy in general. But what you said is a false equivalence. Just because two things are both bad, does not mean they are equivalent. Mild inconvenience is bad, violent death is bad, does not mean mild inconvenience is the same as, and therefore directly comparable with, violent death.
by bobmcnamara | 2025-09-07 16:00:44+00:00
Completely agree, and this is a bit of a ramble...

I think part of might be that Apple recognized that integrated GPUs require a lot of bulk memory bandwidth. I noticed this with their tablet derivative cores having memory bandwidth that tended to scale with screen size but Samsung and Qualcomm didn't bother for ages. And it sucked doing high speed vision systems on their chips because of it.

For years Intel had been slowly beefing up the L2/L3/L4.

M1Max is somewhere between Nvidia 1080 and 1080TI in bulk bandwidth. The lowest end M chips aren't competitive, but near everything above that overlaps even the current gen NVIDA 4050+ offerings
by thadk | 2025-09-07 16:00:56+00:00
I tried the cheap IKEA model and with my severe dust mite allergies the model was insufficient in comparison to calm my sixth sinus-bound sense.

My main suspicion: In my last 3 abodes with pre-1955 construction in East Coast, the pre-filter on the top Wirecutter pick needs to be cleaned 3x per carbon filter replacement in order to reduce largest particle accumulation on the carbon or HEPA filters.

The inexpensive IKEA model did not have a viable and easily cleaned pre filter as far as I could figure out.