MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjburgess | 2025-09-24 14:00:29+00:00
This seems helpful, but I think the misattribution of a general "anti-immigrant" sentiment to immigration detractors is part of the problem.

Very few detractors in the west have any issues with highly qualified immigrants occupying scientific or research roles. Being opportunistic with which kind of immigrants one offers as Good is partly what's aggravating the issue. It's a radical kind of dismissiveness and denialism which is provoking people and ignoring their issues.

The broad western detraction against immigration at the moment is targeted at specific waves of mass immigration with specific compositions that have specific effects on the places those immigrants have landed.

People are primarily concerned about the ability of state, social and corporate institutions to absorb immigrants at this pace and scale without significant zero-sum effects. And, in addition, the significant amount of state support segments of those populations (eg., esp. asylum seekers) have to receive at a time when gov. are under inflationary pressures, debt pressures, etc. and cannot service their own welfare obligations.

Going, "oh but we get good cancer research from immigration!" is so dismissive to these concerns, that the backfire against this messaging is one of the major contributors to people's disaffection.

The idea that people need to be told that there are people who want to immigrate that are in our national interest to absorb, is just plainly absurd. This is uncontroversial and obvious.
Ask HN: How do you expose telemetry data to non-tech?
by mehdig10 | 2025-09-24 14:00:34+00:00
Hey,

We have a ton of logging/metrics in kibana/prometheus, so whenever there is an issue with some client data feed or whatever, support asks us to check what happened. Since the problem might not be on our side, developers started giving non-tech teams access to those tools. Feels a bit weird to have a non-tech build a grafana dashboard, and do some sort of debugging, but even if it's clumsy they do seem to enjoy the visibility they get over the system, and developers are no longer in charge of debugging every little thing.

Is this specific to our business ? Or is this something you have experienced as well ? If so how were you able to expose this data to non-tech people.
by egonschiele | 2025-09-24 14:00:36+00:00
> Family Seating Guarantees: Under current regulations, airlines must ensure that families with young children are seated together without additional charges. This would no longer be guaranteed under the new proposal, meaning families could face extra costs just to sit next to one another.

This one is wild. You want to sit next to somebody's crying 2 year old? Go nuts. Change their diaper while you're at it.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-24 14:00:36+00:00
Just wiki'd Eddington and I'm adding it to my watch list. Thanks for the recommend prisenco.

One of the sentiments I've been flirted with in posts below/above is the idea that while bad takes and their amplification are indeed a kind of societal evil-- in a society which was more effectively mediated bad takes might serve a vital purpose in the discourse. Societies committed to their own felicity might treat disagreements as an opportunity to extend the public discourse. This seems to be the crux of the thing-- we can take all day about checks and balances but unless a society is truly at some level committed to its own preservation and expansion those checks and balances will end up becoming tools for domination and exploitation as we see in the United States.

It don't care how well you can bake you can't make apple pie with rotten apples. No amount of sugar will correct the rot. Th trick is growing healthy apples.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-09-24 14:00:51+00:00
I suspect it’s something about how often in the US, taxes are added to the displayed price at the cash register. That’s not true in Europe, and is jarring when visiting or moving here.

However, this doesn’t apply to gas stations in the US. The displayed price is always inclusive of all taxes and fees. I don’t think there are any states in the US where that isn’t true.
by wzdd | 2025-09-24 14:01:03+00:00
Youtube has already accounted for this by using a separate endpoint to count watch stats. See the recent articles about view counts being down attributed to people using adblockers.

Even if they hadn't done that, you can craft millions of bot-sponsored views using a legitimate browser and some automation and the current update doesn't change that.

So I'd say Occam's razor applies and Youtube simply wants to be in control of how people view their videos so they can serve ads, show additional content nearby to keep them on the platform longer, track what parts of the video are most watched, and so on.
by miyoji | 2025-09-24 14:01:27+00:00
> `mycsv = pandas.read_csv("/path/to/input.csv")`

You have to count the words in the functions you call to get the correct length of the implementation, which in this case is far far more than 20 words. read_csv has more than 20 arguments, you can't even write the function definition in under 20 words.

Otherwise, I can run every program by importing one function (or an object with a single method, or what have you) and just running that function. That is obviously a stupid way to count.
by phplovesong | 2025-09-24 14:01:28+00:00
Youtube is the real monopoly. Creators are also slaves, as they cant monetize elsewhere, and also they cant let their users download their own content. And the icing on the cake is youtube is unbearable without an ad-blocker, and even with that youtube has started throttling ad-block users.

Its such a shithole, with no real replacement, sad state of affairs.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 14:01:33+00:00
> people who hold discretionary authority backed by government violence ought to keep it in their pants

That applies to violating the out-of-classroom First Amendment rights of publicly employed teachers by their publicly employed management at the urging of the federal government, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independe...

"The Court famously opined, 'It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.'"
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-24 14:01:35+00:00
And if you do hand-tool woodworking it's cheap. More time consuming, but also harder to screw up.

I prefer metalworking, but the equipment is larger & more expensive. And you still need a workbench for a bunch of the finishing steps (hand filing, polishing, engraving, etc.) so some basic woodworking is very handy for making said workbench.
by vonneumannstan | 2025-09-24 14:01:40+00:00
>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.

I don't understand, are people buying random tickets and hoping to be put together once on the plane? I've literally only bought assigned seats on flights except on Southwest.
by oresorus | 2025-09-24 14:01:53+00:00
If one guy managed to do this then I suppose we have bigger problems.

The coincidence of these cyberattacks on aviation infrastructure with the H1-B visa kerfuffle (and the resulting rush for return flights due to poor guidance/communication from the gov) seems a little.. fishy.

Yeah, coincidence is not correlation I know. But there's a little voice screaming in my conscience about how two such large events occuring almost simultaneously couldn't possibly be unconnected.

Hey wouldn't it be crazy if a simfarm network was set up to blockbook then cancel a load of inbound/connecting flights, or just DDOS via resource hogging all of the major airline ticket sellers, due to how their booking systems function?
by zitterbewegung | 2025-09-24 14:01:57+00:00
Each gas station in America does two things. One they take delivery of gas and they have to factor this with the future price of gas which requires one piece of data to setup the price of gas. The other piece of data is that they determine the price to also factor in demand which is obvious for them. Thats primarily why you can't predict gas prices. They can mess this up this easily.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-24 14:02:12+00:00
> Every time I paid by cache on oil stations. Sometimes my car was half empty, sometimes it was almost full, but I expected long run. And every time amount I need to pay was completely unpredictable.

How is this any different than filling up a car in any other country?

Gas stations post their prices outside. You should get a feel for how many gallons are going into the tank when it’s half full or mostly full.

The pump shows the price in real time as you’re pumping. You can stop whenever you want. I’m having a hard time believing your story because it’s so clear what your price is by the second as you pump.

Also FYI: You could have walked into the gas station and asked the attendant for “$20 on pump #3” and then pump #3 would only dispense $20.00 of gas before stopping.

> I had very strong aftertaste that USA as part of the Western Civilization at this moment built on top of hidden slavery,

Gas stations charging by the gallon is slavery? What? I’m having a hard time believing this comment is real and not just some “America bad” thing. You can’t honestly equate paying for gas to slavery or act like paying by the gallon only happens in the United States.
Show HN: A self-hosted social network where your Ethereum address is your ID
by garbinhuang | 2025-09-24 14:02:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the creator of epress. After a lot of work, I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to finally share it with you.

For years, I've been feeling like a digital tenant on the platforms I use every day. My content, my social graph, my online identity—they were all stored on someone else's servers, subject to their rules, algorithms, and business models. I could be de-platformed, my data could be sold, or an API I relied on could suddenly be put behind a paywall.

I looked into existing decentralized alternatives. While many are great projects, I found they often shifted the trust from a big corporation to a server admin (in federated models) or relied on a network of voluntary relays that could be unreliable or eventually charge fees. The fundamental dependency on third-party infrastructure remained.

epress is my attempt at a solution, built on a simple, almost nostalgic principle: true ownership requires self-hosting.

It's a decentralized social network where:

* You run your own node: Your node is your sovereign territory. All your data lives with you.

* Your Ethereum address is your identity: We use EIP-4361 (Sign-In with Ethereum) for authentication. No more username/password juggling.

* There are no third-party dependencies: No relays, no hubs, no federated servers. Content is distributed peer-to-peer via a lightweight "notify-pull" protocol between nodes.

* All content is verifiable: Every piece of public content is signed and bundled with a "Proof of Source," a cryptographic receipt that proves who published what, and when.

This project is heavily inspired by the spirit of the early internet, but built with modern technology to make self-hosting feasible and accessible again.

It's still early days, and there's a long road ahead. To show you this is not just a demo, the code is now open source and we already have live nodes waiting for you to follow. The official project blog is at https://epress.blog, is an epress node, and you can also check out my personal node at https://garbin.blog.

I'm here all day to answer any questions and, more importantly, to listen to your feedback and critiques. For real-time support during setup or more immediate feedback, feel free to join our Telegram group: https://t.me/+mZMgNSIVy1MwMmVl

Whitepaper (for a deep dive): https://github.com/epressworld/epress/blob/main/docs/en/WHIT...

Video Demo: https://youtu.be/BB1Zn3oFDVc

Thanks for taking the time to check it out.
by westurner | 2025-09-24 14:02:24+00:00
Markov chain > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#History

Examples of Markov chains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_Markov_chains

A Hopfield network is an RNN Recurrent Neural Network.

Hopfield network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfield_network

From "Ask HN: Parameter-free neural network models: Limits, Challenges, Opportunities?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41794272 re: neural network topologies :

> The Asimov Institute > The Neural Network Zoo: https://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo

> PNG: "A mostly complete chart of neural networks" (2019) includes Hopfield nets!" https://www.asimovinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/N...

> [ Category:Neural network architectures, Types of artificial neural networks ]
by dvdkon | 2025-09-24 14:02:50+00:00
Yes, but this isn't part of the digital wallet project. As I understand it, the Commision was so impatient with age-verification that they commissioned this project separately, because they didn't want to wait for the full solution, hence it being called a "mini-ID wallet".

I'm certainly not against vigilance and making sure no new laws mandating the use of either this or the full digital wallet sneak through, but my point is that, despite the Commision's misleading public stance, age verification is (mostly) not mandatory today.
by thrance | 2025-09-24 14:03:18+00:00
I think you have a shallow understanding of both free speech and free will if you think this is the gotcha you seem to think it is. Why couldn't people have discussions about free will in a determinist universe? They could be weaved by the laws of physics into having them.

As for free speech online, do you think there should be no limit to what can be said or shared online? What about pedophilia or cannibalism? Or, more relevantly, what about election-denialism, insurrectionism or dangerous health disinformation that are bound to make people act dangerously for themselves and society as a whole? Point is, free speech is never absolute, and where the line is drawned is an important conversation that must be had. There is no easy, objective solution to it.
by riffraff | 2025-09-24 14:03:26+00:00
also football can be played in basically any number, from 1:1 to 11:11, which means you can go out with a ball, meet one other kid and play, and random other kids can just join in.

I've literally seen kids unable to speak with each other because of different languages able to join a match :)

I was terrible at football as a kid so it's not like it did much for me, but one cannot deny how universal the game is.
by mgkimsal | 2025-09-24 14:03:27+00:00
petrol is one of the few things we buy that has tax built in. you pump $23.72, that's exactly what you pay. You prepay with cash - you're having to estimate what, say, $15 will get you. Delta of $2.80/gal vs $3.30/gal - yeah, it's a bit different, but nothing is hidden.

Sales tax on literally everything is fairly different state to state (and within sometimes) but petrol is a major daily thing that is tax inclusive.
by LightBug1 | 2025-09-24 14:03:35+00:00
One of my biggest regrets is not travelling the length and breadth of the US two decades ago when I had an opportunity.

What with orange two-chins in charge, MAGA, ICE, deregulation across the board, and the general shit-housery that seems to be going on over there, I'm not sure I'll ever be able to attempt it again in my lifetime ... it's not the actual travel that is the issue, it would be the non-stop gag-reflex on landing ...

RIP USA ...
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-24 14:03:50+00:00
> I think it's more that smartphones have built in security measures that prevent hacking.

Which is a joke when you know that most phones in the wild are using an obsolete OS version (most of the time due to lack of software support from the manufacturer, but sometimes because some people just refuse to update because updates are in fact downgrades — looking at you iOS).
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-24 14:03:55+00:00
The app this discussion is about is a reference implementation that is part of a long-term process for building a digital identity app. Specifically, this discussion is about the age verification part of the app, which is the first part expected to be finished but is also only a small part of a much wider ideal.

Europe's dependence on American tech is a major pain point but realistically, there are only two smartphone vendors. If a European vendor does rise up, I'm sure whatever app comes out of this process will happily hook into the hardware attestation API for that OS as well.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet
by Hasz | 2025-09-24 14:04:04+00:00
I strongly disagree with this. While I am generally pro-immigration, injecting a political view into an article ostensibly about a new scientific discovery is how science loses credibility and objectivity. See the "trust the science" phrase weaponized during COVID in the US.

Let people draw all the inferences they want about the origins of the scientists involved, but a hamfisted paragraph about a.b scientist being an immigrant from y country does not have a place here.
by herval | 2025-09-24 14:04:22+00:00
it's a distinction with A TON of difference. Well-functioning democracies have a push-and-pull that tends to slow things down BUT also prevents massive outreaches. Systems with tons of "sides" are stabler than dual systems because of this.

> It doesn't matter if you have a thousand people working to appease the ideological whims of one absolute ruler or a thousand people with the same set of ideological whims, it's still one set of ideological whims being worked towards.

that's exactly the point - there's a third option.
by wintermutestwin | 2025-09-24 14:04:23+00:00
I agree and feel that the time is now to archive all of the truly valuable cultural and educational content that YT acquired through monopolistic means.

This solution looks interesting, but I am technical enough to know that this looks like a PITA to setup and maintain. It also seems like it is focused on downloading everything from a subbed channel.

As it is now, with a folder of downloaded videos, I just need a local web server that can interpret the video names and create an organized page with links. Is there anything like this that is very lightweight with a next next finish install?
by costco | 2025-09-24 14:05:03+00:00
Finally someone in this thread who gets it. In fact many of the temporary phone number registration services used to make bot accounts have pages on their website where they say "Do you live in country X and have access to large amounts of SIM cards? Partner with us - we will send you the equipment." Calling the US through standard means is so cheap that I suspect the only reason anyone would use a grey market provider is if they were making spam calls, but maybe I'm wrong.
by imiric | 2025-09-24 14:05:06+00:00
Like another comment mentioned: that's a problem for YouTube to solve.

They pay a lot of money to many smart people who can implement sophisticated bot detection systems, without impacting most legitimate human users. But when their business model depends on extracting value from their users' data, tracking their behavior and profiling them across their services so that they can better serve them ads, it goes against their bottom line for anyone to access their service via any other interface than their official ones.

This is what these changes are primarily about. Preventing abuse is just a side benefit they can use as an excuse.
by Thiez | 2025-09-24 14:05:08+00:00
If humans could detect this light then we could see living things in otherwise complete darkness. But we cannot. So it stands to reason that these photons do not explain "auras", and "It's just your imagination" remains the best explanation for auras. Perhaps they are based on simple after-images: if you stare at something long enough the color detecting cells in your eyes get tired and you start seeing weird visual effects that seem to match how people describe "auras".
by EE84M3i | 2025-09-24 14:05:11+00:00
I think the title "EU age verification app not planning desktop support" is misleading because it gives the impression that there will be no way to support EU age verification on the desktop.

This is addressed in the comments:

> It should also be noted that this project is an example of a solution that is considered to meet certain requirements of the DSA, regarding the protection of minors. It does not prevent the use of other solutions that also meet those requirements.

So I think a better title might be "EU age verification example app not planning desktop support"

(don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of how this is implemented, but it's important to be accurate in our critique)
by NickC25 | 2025-09-24 14:05:31+00:00
anything that encourages the youth to get outside and play makes the world a better place almost by default.

god forbid they exercise, they should be indoors studying or playing on their phones 100% of the time. 


maybe the world would be a better place without football hooligans, sure. but without a sport that billions love and play? no.
by toth | 2025-09-24 14:06:01+00:00
Maybe we are just quibbling over semantics but the compiler intrinsic here is '__builtin_popcount'. 'stdc_count_ones' is a standard library element that presumably will be implemented using the intrinsic.

And FWIW all major C/C++ have for a long time have had a an intrinsic for this. In clang it even has the same name, Visual Studio it's something like just '_popcount'. So it has long been easy to roll your own macro that works everywhere.
by suddenlybananas | 2025-09-24 14:06:05+00:00
Stalin is very, very, very different from Hitler.

(Again I cannot reply to the comment below, but my point is not that I am not ideological; of course I am. But Snyder is also extremely ideological and uses his history to push a very particular kindideologues of politics, which is ironic given the context of the thread. )

(Adding another edit since I can't reply! But again, I don't understand why my interlocutor cannot understand that both sides can be ideological and that one needs to take that ideology into account when evaluating claims. Snyder is one such ideologue who consciously seeks to minimise Polish and Ukrainian collaboration with the Holocaust and claim that Jewish Soviet partisans fighting the Nazis were "criminals", see: [1] for examples (also an ideological source--of course--but some of the quotes from Snyder are really quite damning. ))

[1]: https://jacobin.com/2014/09/timothy-snyders-lies/
by jvvw | 2025-09-24 14:06:16+00:00
If you're travelling with young children being seated together isn't a luxury, so it's basically a tax on travelling with children, and a fairly expensive one ($100 easily for a return flight perhaps for four seats?) when you've paid it for all the seats for your family.

Though when we had young children, we seriously considered not paying and enjoying having somebody else looking after our four or five year old for the flight :-)

Given it is a necessity, I feel it should either be a compulsory extra cost if you have children below a certain age or it should (ideally) be free to be seated together, so that people who do pay for particular seats know that there won't be an unsupervised child allocated to the seat next to them.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-09-24 14:06:19+00:00
I'm not educated, let alone a historian, but there do seem to be some parallels here and it seems like the most disparate factor would be the very specific oppression of Jewish people. But the Soviet mass murders involved the death of a huge number of 'undesirables'; most just happened not to be Jewish. They were thrown into unspeakable conditions of torture, murder, starvation, etc. so I can see why Snyder would see them as similar.