MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghaff | 2025-09-16 23:27:22+00:00
I can't really imagine the circumstances where I wouldn't want to still own my own vehicle even if it had an autonomous mode. I drive it places where I don't have cellular service. I keep lots of stuff in the vehicle. It's customized with accessories like roofracks. I can hop in my vehicle from my house immediately whenever I want to.

If I lived in a city and garaging a car were inconvenient/expensive? Maybe. But that's not me or a lot of other people.
by abustamam | 2025-09-16 23:27:27+00:00
Wait what happened? Was it that people who typically vote blue voted against those who supported Israel? As a Muslim and staunch supporter of Palestine, I didn't think that many people turned red because of this, at least not enough to swing the election. Wayne County, which has Dearborn Michigan (the city with the largest population proportionally of Muslims), stayed blue. I figured if Dearborn couldn't tip the scales any which way then the issue was probably not something worth campaigning on in terms of demographics
by sunrunner | 2025-09-16 23:27:50+00:00
> no ones playing games, recording videos, taking pictures or doing any kind of immediate activity with smart watches.

This is a good point, but my point was more that if a smart watches are doing less than a smart phone and people still seem to be happy to have to charge them everyday, I'm not so convinced that having to fast-charge a set of AR glasses for time-limited use would put people off if they felt it was useful enough.

For context, I was imagining that most of the AR/VR overlays would be time or context dependent. Perhaps when travelling to aid with directions or on a commute for entertainment.

Are people really going to be walking through life with an always-on HUD? If they are then yes, completely fair point around battery usage. Perhaps once a global network of wireless charging is fully operational this will be a problem of the past...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-16 23:27:53+00:00
> Why shouldn't Hamas leadership be bombed wherever they may be?

Israel wouldn't be nearly as criticised if they're restricted themselves to surgical strikes on Hamas. Hell, they could have done exactly what they did until hostages started being exchanged, and then switched to surgical strikes, and I suspect--while folks would grumble--leaders would have better things to focus on.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-16 23:27:55+00:00
> if someone is calling from a legit number on caller id it means NOTHING. You have to call back to a legit number to be sure it's real.

This reminds me of one time where I got a call from a number I don't know, got yelled at something about spamming calls. Yelling includes threats about getting reported to police or whatever, which was confusing since I never had any history with this number.

I suspect my number was spoofed. I'm not sure if there's any defense against that.

Now my default is to ignore any unknown numbers.
by brunoborges | 2025-09-16 23:28:52+00:00
> "Am I using the correct language runtime distribution (or version thereof) so I don't get into legal trouble?" Is a question none of Java's competitors have to ask.

I am not sure this is 100% true. I think that if you download a specific binary of Anaconda (for Python), you may get into a situation where you have to pay.

For example, at Anaconda.com, one can download their distribution (their build) but the fine print says: "Use of Anaconda’s offerings at an organization of more than 200 employees/contractors requires a paid business license unless your organization is eligible for discounted or free use."

I think that PSF License is permissive and allows binary versions of Python without the maker having to release the source code.

So, downloading Anaconda as a Python distribution (build) is analogous to downloading Oracle JDK (a commercial build of OpenJDK, from Oracle).
by stubish | 2025-09-16 23:29:04+00:00
Conversely, some of us don't hang out on sites that are an endless bombardment of political discourse. That sounds awful. The HN approach seems uniquely useful. One or two post on an event, easily skipped over and ignored if you want with all the comments hidden behind clicking on that headline. Whole trees of comments trivially collapsed at will when they become uninteresting. It is actually a really great way of getting international news (including US news for me) and sampling opinions and commentary, even if it was not intended that way.
by ra7 | 2025-09-16 23:29:16+00:00
Yes, but SFO (and the city of SF) has a long history of being hostile towards Waymo: https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/waymo-rebuffed-by-sfo-sf-gu...

What likely happened now is that SFO got a kick up their backside from the Mayor after the press started asking why it was still dragging its feet, while SJC approved Waymo swiftly.
by Theodores | 2025-09-16 23:29:17+00:00
Allegedly your grandpa, armed with his slide rule, has even more random violence:

"Spitfire or Hurricane come and hurry to our aid"

This works for me as the order of the functions matches the order shown on my trusty FX82A. Your version is kind of messed up.

I am giving this AI thing a wide birth, however, could we ask a LLM to invent a new aide memoire for this? We have got the silent generation and the boomers covered, but is there something we can do for kids today? Maybe it references Cinnamoroll, Hello Kitty or Octonauts characters that actual kids know, without it being ultra-violent.
by zippyman55 | 2025-09-16 23:29:52+00:00
We were looking to employ someone with experience in server experience in the field of High Performance Computing. We got a resume for a bartender with server experience. I so wanted to interview them.

Also, the number of junk resumes, where I take a resume block and post it into a search engine and it comes back with an exact match of the text. I write up a caustic response as to why not to hire the person… and they still slipped in!
by rexpop | 2025-09-16 23:29:56+00:00
The perspective that nature, including the Everglades, should be "attractive or safe" for human convenience is profoundly misguided and chauvinistic. Nature does not exist for humanity's comfort or aesthetic preferences—its value and purpose are independent of human desires or perceptions. The Everglades is a complex, irreplaceable ecosystem essential for biodiversity, climate regulation, water filtration, and flood control. It hosts countless species found nowhere else on Earth, including apex predators like alligators, which are critical to the ecological balance.

To suggest draining such a vital natural landscape and replacing its inhabitants with "friendly" animals ignores the intricate interdependencies that sustain these ecosystems. This not only threatens extinction of unique species but undermines the health of the entire region, affecting millions of people who rely on its ecosystem services. Demanding nature conform to a sanitized or human-safe version reflects a narrow, anthropocentric arrogance.

The wildness of the Everglades is part of its profound purpose and beauty. Any view that diminishes this is reductive, environmentally ignorant, and ethically troubling. Nature is not a backdrop to human desires but a living system demanding protection, understanding, and awe.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-16 23:29:58+00:00
Why do you need z-index?

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https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/styl-us/
by 63 | 2025-09-16 23:31:56+00:00
There was a very similar discussion on lobsters the other day. You might be interested in reading it.

In general, I agree with the idea that writing everything yourself results in a higher quantity of low quality software with security issues and bugs, as well as a waste of developers' time. That said, clearly supply chain attacks are a very real threat that needs to be addressed. I just don't think eliminating package managers is a good solution.

https://lobste.rs/s/zvdtdn
by fujigawa | 2025-09-16 23:32:02+00:00
This is going to upset some, but the tech industry is full of delusional people that are completely out of touch with reality and the needs and struggles of everyday Americans.

I recently stumbled upon a YouTuber grousing about losing her six-figure tech job. She was in full freakout mode about budgeting etc. but something didn't seem quite right. Then she disclosed she's married, financially stable, husband still has a great job, etc.

It made me stop and think how there's people out there delivering groceries, putting on an apron, all so they don't have to switch to eating cat food by the end of the week.

OTOH ex-Googlers are worried they might be forced to switch to store-brand mineral water within weeks.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-16 23:32:23+00:00
> how much of my Muslim community was so anti-Harris that they voted for Trump

I'm honestly split between pro-Palestinian Arab-American Trump voters and soybean-farming Trump voters as the stupidest voting blocks of 2024. Not only are you helping put someone in power who is so obviously going to work against your interests. You've also removed yourself from the other party's table where your issue might have gained priority down the road.
by brailsafe | 2025-09-16 23:32:56+00:00
> only worth dealing with if one really needs an income, esp. considering the signal for prospective employers.

Is this not the purpose of a job? I've had 3 long-term jobs/contracts since the pandemic, for a total of 2.5/5 years, and that's a better rate of the prior 6 years before that. Idk what their story is, but I think it's pretty typical for people who've had stable careers for one reason or another to assume it's within someone's control how often or how long they're able to work for. Sure, sometimes you're just job hopping or intentionally taking risks on early startups, but if the job goes away—depending on many factors—the ability to turn around and get another one can take a laughable amount of time, and the awareness of the perception of "the signal for prospective employers" compounding that difficulty makes it harder the longer it takes.

I try not to think about it, but there's been numerous times where I've been a year or more out from losing a job due to layoffs or financials or whatever, and getting rejected by even the least desirable place in the 4th+ round of interviews, usually by that point shifting my energy from applying/interviewing to looking at trade school. Imo it's always been brutal out there if you don't know someone running a startup who'll hook it up right away.

In my personal experience, as of the start of my current job and every time prior, in 10 years I'd accumulated no savings, always draining it to nearly zero by the time I'd get the next one. Ain't pretty.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-16 23:32:59+00:00
According to the article, nobody actually knows when the attack took place. And the BBC is assuming that it was an Israel attack, even though 1/3 to 1/6 of Hamas rockets fall back into Gaza - that is disingenuous. Furthermore, the single photograph of the clinic shows absolutely zero kinetic damage. How does an Israeli shell or bomb leave no kinetic damage? The Hamas rockets leave little to no kinetic damage as they are fuel-air bombs, not HE.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-16 23:33:06+00:00
There are 6000 to 7500 gray wolves in the US lower 48 states (and nearly 10000 in Alaska.)

The Eastern Coyote is larger than the western variety and has some wolf DNA. It seems to be evolving to fill the niche the wolf occupied in the eastern US. There may be as many as 4.7 million coyotes in the US. There's a pair in Central Park in New York City; Chicago has ~2000.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-16 23:33:43+00:00
That is a weird thing to highlight anyway. I assume there are 10-100x more people who face a problem vs file a ticket. Especially for something as nebulous as, “program runs slowly”.

I have a long list of bugs in programs I use everyday, but I am not going to waste my time filing a ticket that will be ignored. GTA5 had famously bad loading times which nobody on the inside cared to fix until a nobody posted a solution to their JSON parser.
by Retric | 2025-09-16 23:34:00+00:00
Vetted resumes seem like a real solution here, the issue is incentives.

One possibility for a free and impartial services would be via government funding. Unemployment insurance is paying out a few hundred per week per person, cutting that time down even a little could pay for a decent background check. That doesn’t get you a job specific resume but it should be good enough for an initial screening for most jobs.
by JohnTHaller | 2025-09-16 23:35:09+00:00
A right wing terrorist assassinated the Democratic Speaker of the House of Minnesota, her husband, and their dog in their own home just a few months ago. The terrorist had a target list of other Democratic law makers, abortion rights advocates, and abortion providers. It didn't get a ton of coverage even in the United States due to all the right-wing nastiness on the regular.
Show HN: Luna, an in-memory SQL server for object storage data
by f14t | 2025-09-16 23:35:51+00:00
Hi HN,

Chew here, CTO at [Alphaus](https://alphaus.cloud/en/). We've been running a similar version of Luna at Alphaus, to cache really huge CSVs and PARQUETs in memory (hundreds of GBs per account across multiple files). It's written in Go, and uses DuckDB and Apache Arrow behind the scenes.

We're now at a point where a single VM's memory is really not enough to hold these huge files (the really hi-mem VMs are not yet available in our region) so we're thinking of distributing the cache across multiple hi-mem VMs (with disk spill-over). I've been "itching" to rewrite this software using a non-GC language, and so I thought it's a good timing to do an OSS version of it. I did consider C++ (and Zig) but I think Rust is a good fit here.

I've looked at [Ballista](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista) actually as I'm quite familiar with DataFusion, and of course, MotherDuck, but the amount of custom duct-tapes we do behind the scenes made me think it's going to be worth the effort.

And so, sharing to you, "Luna". Still alpha-level, and still a lot of things missing, but the main goal is an easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy, columnar in-memory SQL server process, leveraging DuckDB and Apache Arrow, with more focus on cloud and object storage data. And a distributed/cluster version of Luna as well; sort of alternative to Ballista.
by scotty79 | 2025-09-16 23:36:18+00:00
I started with Players of Games and was very happy with it. I followed it with Use of Weapons which was tougher reading due to complex intertwining narratives, one in reverse chronology and way darker themes. So that probably wasn't a great choice. I don't find Consider Phlebas particularly strong. However I love Matter, Excession and Surface Detail.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-16 23:36:56+00:00
It's not that their FSD tech isn't less impressive, it's that it's not FSD tech.

Even worse (for Tesla) is that if they do try an make their non-FSD tech do FSD, and it decks little jimmy because the flashlight in his hand looked like a far off street light, Tesla is liable to face a knee-jerk federal law mandating lidar. And just like that the dream is dead.

This forces Tesla to be extremely paranoid, as it's one visual mistake away from being told to use lidar.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-16 23:37:29+00:00
Calling someone directly out/impugning their motives instead of responding is actually a violation of the HN guidelines. You can respond to topics, not posters. You are the one in violation.

This isn't the first time I've seem this 'you aren't in good faith' response on this topic, and is partly why again, HN just isn't a place where a real discussion can be had on this subject.
by misnome | 2025-09-16 23:37:40+00:00
There are a lot of contact numbers for e.g. banks and often it’s not obvious how to re-contact the department you are talking to. So, I’m happy to take a number, but I have to be able to find it on the conpany site somewhere (will also accept generic e.g. “call the bank fraud line and supply this reference number”)
by spartanatreyu | 2025-09-16 23:37:51+00:00
Post-acquisition the Digital Ocean ran it for a little while with the same staff, then they let a whole bunch of people go (both digital ocean and css-tricks staff).

The css-tricks website was basically dormant for a few years.

Chris (the original creator of css-tricks) sick of seeing his creation stagnate tried to get Digital Ocean to get the website going again but it looked like Digital Ocean didn't know enough about the site to resume posting.

At some point the website's editor (Geoff) who had been let go as part of the layoff came back to work on the website and their was much rejoicing.

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You can read more about it here: https://chriscoyier.net/2024/02/28/where-im-at-on-the-whole-...

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CSS-trick's content had a bit rocky at the start of its comeback, but it's feels much better now than it did when it first resumed.

The vibe is a little bit different now, but I think that's because so many webdev writers are experimenting and writing in the open on mastodon before posting on their own blogs and larger platforms like css-tricks.

We didn't get as much of a peak behind the curtain before.
by dang | 2025-09-16 23:38:39+00:00
However dismayed you are by the low quality of the discussion, I promise you it bothers us even more. It's awful.

Not only that but whenever a thread like this appears, tomhow and I end up spending all day on it, which is by far the worst part of the job. I don't mean to complain—that would be grotesque, given the suffering that's going on—but rather to say how much easier it would be if HN did not discuss this or similar topics at all.

But I don't think that's an option. It wouldn't be consistent with the values or the mandate of this site as I understand them, and it's our duty to try to be as true to those as we can. I want to be able to look back and say we did our best at that, even though the outcomes are this bad. I tried to explain this in a recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403787, though I don't know how successfully.

The upshot is that there's no good option and no way out. Maybe experiencing that is the best we can do to honor what's happening. It feels congruent with the situation being discussed, albeit in the trivial form that everything on an internet forum takes.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-16 23:39:13+00:00
>Even putting aside that it destroys incredible natural beauty for land that's not even productively useful, it astounds me that people still buy into major terraforming projects. Every single time it's had absolutely horrendous consequences often with millions of human deaths attached. Don't make large changes to chaotic systems!

Ah, yes, terrible consequences, such as, the irrigation and suitability for farmland of central California, the lack of frequent flooding of the Mississippi river and tributaries and the present dryness of the Netherlands.

I don't think draining the everglades is tractable and I think it's more valuable as is since you're not gonna out farm the midwest. But it's really easy to be on a high horse and not appreciate the successful projects that we benefit from the results of.
by caycep | 2025-09-16 23:39:55+00:00
This is what puzzles me - ppl keep railing about being pro or anti Israel and it's overly simplistic and also not really accurately describing things. It's more pro/anti Likud or Kahanists, or really at heart a right vs left wing divide. There's still plenty of Labor or more progressive elements of the Israeli public who are against what Netanyahu and his political allies are doing.
by maxerickson | 2025-09-16 23:40:08+00:00
The energy content of the max fuel load of a 747 is something like 2.5 gWh. The specifics of the site matter an awful in how fast that pays back.

So like if the extra generation were 1 megawatt with a capacity factor of 30%, you are looking at 7500 hours, less than a year, to yield that much energy.

That's a lot of assumptions, but the delivery flights probably average less fuel than that, and one of the benefits of size is that the capacity factor goes up.
by dmix | 2025-09-16 23:42:11+00:00
RFK Jr may be a bit biased, his opposition has been profitable

> Kennedy for years has earned referral fees from Wisner Baum, a Los Angeles personal injury law firm that is currently suing Merck, alleging the pharmaceutical giant failed to properly warn the public about risks from its vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil, according to financial disclosure documents filed by Kennedy with the Office of Government Ethics.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-confirmation-robert-f-ke...
by krisoft | 2025-09-16 23:42:12+00:00
> they still build to a high enough standard that I'm not aware of any failure that could kill someone if they had be there

There is a bunch of very energetic windturbine collapses captured on video. In each case someone standing at the wrong spot could have been crushed by falling debris. (Altough i also must admit an overspeeding turbine looks so plainly obviously deadly that anyone with a healthy dose of self preservation would evacuate the danger zone. At least in the cases where we have video of the collapse. There might be a bias to that of course, because nobody would think of filming an unexpected sudden collapse.)

A particularly well documented one is the Hornslet wind turbine collapse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-turbine_collap...

https://youtu.be/jvHBUSSAzyw?si=NDpN-ZgXqPrTavvk

There was this one in Oklahoma: https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-turbine-collapses-on-calm-d...

This i believe happened in Italy: https://youtu.be/af9Mm5nkNAQ?si=wajCXTCpN19z9okJ

Just a few days ago there was a collapse in Perth: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5330408/blades-perth-av...

There is also a widely shared very dramatic video with horses running away from the turbine just before it collapses. But because i can’t figure out where it happened, and if it even happened, i’m reluctant to include here.
by godelski | 2025-09-16 23:43:16+00:00
I think you're making the naïve assumption that large organizations are heterogeneous.

The people at the top are idiots because the idiots were able to secure advisory positions. They were able to secure positions because those promoting them were either tricked or idiots themselves. This pattern repeated all the way down.

So I really do mean grease the wheels. And I really mean we won't kill the beast overnight. But we won't make any progress towards fixing things if we won't look at how the problems are created in the first place. We'll only perpetuate the problems if we oversimplify things, as that's exactly what got us into this mess in the first place.
by Legend2440 | 2025-09-16 23:43:33+00:00
Online banking wire transfers are subject to a relatively low daily limit. You must appear in person and show ID to wire large amounts of money.

The victim may also have a chance to cancel the transfer, because they’re not instant. (especially outside of business hours)

It’s just not an attractive way to mug someone, it’s easier to take them to an ATM.
by Manuel_D | 2025-09-16 23:43:48+00:00
People in the thread are asking why people ride Waymo to SFO, which is well outside San Francisco proper. Thus, the whole peninsula's density is what's relevant.

The US does not have many metro areas with population densities above 3,000/km2. And those that do, like Washington D.C, NYC, Boston, Chicago, do have metro systems.