MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsynnott | 2025-11-13 17:10:32+00:00
> You do not care whether your bus is a "Big Corp" bus or a "Tiny New Outfit" bus, they're both red, they both take Oyster, or credit cards or whatever, they're the same, the bus service is controlled by Transpot for London

Irish urban buses are like this in principle; they're branded TFI and operated by either Bus Eireann (state-owned) for non-Dublin stuff or Dublin Bus (state-owned) or GoAhead (private) for Dublin stuff. Only way to tell these days is a small notice on the door. However, you do care whether your route is Dublin Bus or GoAhead; if it's Dublin Bus it will probably merely be late, whereas if it's GoAhead it will probably be _very_ late or just cancelled. Is this not the case in London; ie are the operators all about the same in terms of level of service?
by riffraff | 2025-11-13 17:10:36+00:00
EU is far more collaborative now than it's ever been, e.g. joint debt was always controversial, but the EU emitted 800M of joint debt during the COVID crisis, which had never happened before.

If you look at the short term, countries may be pulling one way or the other, but the "ever closer union" _is_ happening if you look at a longer trend.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-11-13 17:10:39+00:00
It can be true that overhiring would be corrected, and also that the holy grail invention with the direct purpose of replacing labor will create an even more transformative effect than that.

I agree that more people need to stay aware that we're in the pre-enshittification phase of low prices and less advertising. That will inevitably go away and get replaced with a much worse deal.
by mattglossop | 2025-11-13 17:10:42+00:00
The story of Sarah is exactly why we're building this. She came to us with a overwhelmed trying to figure out how to plan for her future. Now she's locked in with a clear plan.

So proud of how far we've come since that first roast, but we still have a long way to go (of course). Excited to get more feedback from the HN community.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-13 17:10:43+00:00
The senate was explicitly designed to provide a brake on the democratic aspirations of the lower classes by the founders.

American government is a system of baffles designed to frustrate democratic will and preserve the property and political control of elites.

The senate should be abolished along with the undemocratic supreme court (as currently constituted with lifetime appointments and the ability to overrule congress at a whim) and the imperial presidency.

To be honest, we need a new constitution that promotes democracy.
by jleyank | 2025-11-13 17:10:52+00:00
55 years of programming, 44 years professionally. I've been lucky to (mostly) do what I like to do, as long as I was willing to wander about the western world. I think the one question that's left is whether debugging is a skill that tops out at some level of experience, or that it's something that keeps improving as experience re: systems and projects increases. I'm also not sure whether one's personality leads to programming or whether programming alters one's personality.

The one piece of advice re: starting in the field is to have expertise in at least one applications area. While it's important to know how to bend computers to one's will, knowing what the customers are talking about is a real big help. Not having to rely on translating intermediaries helps keep things clear.
by mothballed | 2025-11-13 17:10:55+00:00
Even the legal weed state senators were voting for this.

It is mostly about shifting profits from mom and pop, low regulation hemp industry to wealthy corporations that own dispensaries that have gargantuan regulatory costs that gatekeep out most the competition. This ensures profits are captured by the wealthy rather than small family type setups.

Wealthy former hemp companies will shift to the "legal" weed market, while the mom and pops will get completely wiped out.
by dehrmann | 2025-11-13 17:11:22+00:00
Was there every a real clean bill offramp available early in the shutdown?

I think the Democrat's mistake was as much as they were backing a popular policy, they didn't have the "clean bill" high ground, the Republicans are less concerned with government services, and they were backed into an end date with Thanksgiving travel coming up, so it would always get earmarks attached.

What the Democrats got right was they wanted a fight, and at first, the majority was on their side.
by andrewrn | 2025-11-13 17:11:58+00:00
But do any of the anecdotes in the article seem particularly outlandish? I've also heard the skepticism about actual gains with AI, but some narrow capabilities are undeniable. Made a React UI recently? It's not specialized, sure, but AI just whips React code up effortlessly. That is really hard to deny.

There is a lot of back and forth between "it will take all jobs," and "it shows zero or negative productivity gains." The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, with the tiebreaker being that these tools are getting better at breathtaking speeds. So even if capabilities aren't all-encompassing now, they are increasingly so.

As a Gen-Z who has first-hand experience with the situations described in the article, I am worried.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-13 17:12:14+00:00
talk about a straw man. "fascist authoritarian" is rich, governments don't need that to ban apps. Google can ban apk's on all android phones with a play store any time they want. Microsoft can do this on any windows machine with windows update turned (they have in the past), apple can do that with their OS's too.

Your freedoms are not the subject of this topic, not even remotely. Google isn't even banning you from doing anything on android phone, this is strictly about approving android builds by phone vendors, you're not even the subject here. Google doesn't want to approve android builds that allow sideloading. You can still install lineage.

Your argument here is actually "fascist authoritarian", you want to impose your views on the general public, that sideloading should be enabled. Having an option for yourself and other willing people to just not just vendor built android is not enough, you want the public to also leave the gates open so you can sideload your random apk's.

Oh, and for the record, my post was about finding a compromise, not a false dichotomy as you presented. If you made a car without a seatbelt it won't be allowed on the roads, if a phone vendor also builds an unsafe android where random devs an sideload apks, that shouldn't be allowed. Forget Google, governments should be enforcing the sideload ban lol.

You don't appreciate your freedoms and insist on abusing them, so actual freedoms end up being taken away!
by hiby007 | 2025-11-13 17:12:18+00:00
TL;DR: Upwork benchmarked human+AI collaboration on 322 real, simple freelance jobs (e.g., lead gen, simple coding). Adding a human expert to the loop increased the job completion rate by up to 70% over agents working alone.

How: They used real, paid jobs ($10-$200 range) and had expert freelancers create detailed rubrics to score the deliverables. The "human-in-the-loop" model involved the expert evaluating the agent's work, providing feedback, and guiding it to a final, client-ready state. The dataset is dynamic and based on actual client demand, not static tasks.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-13 17:12:22+00:00
There is a particular sort of partisan who loathes any process, procedure, or rule that acts as an impediment to his agenda. Never mind that, quite often, these same processes, procedures, and rules often act as impediments to his opponents when they are (temporarily) in the majority, he sees his faction as ascendant forever because the universe is designed to promote his peculiar idea of progress and thus there is no longer any need for those hurdles and obstacles. In hushed whispers he might even confess he thinks there never was a need, that those were put in place by his enemies to thwart his righteous cause.
by csours | 2025-11-13 17:12:31+00:00
I feel like the internet/social media has taken over the communication paradigm, and there are conversations that simply cannot and do not take place on social media in any real depth. Deep communication between parties needs those parties to allow for the possibility of recontextualization - telling another story.

If I say that somesuch social movement is causing problems, then people in that social movement will feel attacked. Even bringing up somesuch social movement is a great way to increase vitriol on social media. It just makes people angry because people already feel justified in their anger at the demons on the 'other side'

It feels there there are too many things that are 'Agree with me 100% or we have to fight'.

I feel like the true luxury good of the future is human attention, and specifically careful emotional validation.
by toast0 | 2025-11-13 17:12:32+00:00
It's all tradeoffs. For my personal use, array performance would have to be terrible for me to notice, but durability is important. I've run systems at work where durability isn't required, but performance is.

If you run a fully matched array, you may well get better performance, but you also may wake up one day to all your disks disappeared. There's other ways for all your disks to disappear too, but same firmware, same firmware bug feels more preventable than power supply failed very hot.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-13 17:12:56+00:00
This wasn't "suposed" to be an issue because the federal government was only really supposed to meddle in things that were obviously common issues or flagrantly interstate.

But now that it's in the business of taking everyone's money via income tax and then dolling it back out to the state to spend with strings attached (which is basically how the bulk of the non-entitlements, non-military money gets spent) the minutia of federal regulation matters far more.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-13 17:12:57+00:00
Non-proportionately? For example the Netherlands has a senate but the weight of senators per province is set by population. They don't let Saba have equal powers with Utrecht, which is exactly what the American system does. Other Anglosphere countries — all of which have exceptionally bad forms of government due to the legacy of England and the early influence of the United States Constitution — have upper houses that do not have America's weird geographic correspondece.
by englishrookie | 2025-11-13 17:13:02+00:00
Do you really believe Europe would devolve into actual internal warfare, without the US? What about the EU? I believe it has successfully kept the peace ever since its predecessor, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was created - specifically to avoid another war.

Your example is very on point: the member states are talking - not fighting - to protect their own interests.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 17:13:33+00:00
These folks get $500k to run an experiment. I love that for them, experiments are great, and if someone else will pay for it, also great. YC can afford it based on their capital available for investment. But what they build will have no moat, so it can be copied in the future if traction is found, with a license that prohibits commercial use. My first thought is a directed donation to the EFF for a clone, but there are likely other paths to success (yt-dlp is incredibly effective at empowering people to rip content from 1000+ media storage systems, and runs on free open source dev time and a handful of contributions). The last crucial component is cheap local models for inference for this, remains to be solved for, but the trajectory is clear that local, efficient models will come. For people who can pay, a config dialog to specify your LLM provider and their API endpoint probably works too, but won't scale for the masses imho. Worst case, they fold or are aqui-hired, but will have taught us something on someone else's dime. Could be worse, right?

User owned and controlled inference in their compute context is what beats enshittification, it is equalizing Big Tech power asymmetry against users, or at least keeps it in check. And so, I wish this team much luck, and await their results from their experiment. Many thanks to YC for funding them.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-13 17:14:06+00:00
Thank you for this helpful information. It might be worth a try. I initially moved to brew because it was "new", because I liked the command line interface, and because it seemed more "segregated" from the rest of the OS's files (/usr/local/Cellar and so on). But it's increasingly aggressive messages reminding me I am a second-class (or third-class) citizen due to the age of my OS is really off-putting.
by kalium-xyz | 2025-11-13 17:14:07+00:00
there are a lot of papers on this (some made by inducing seizures in people under lab conditions). The most seizure causing things you could display are simply bars or a grid with moving details, sizes, or alternating in colors.

Basically if it gives you a headache to stare at or just has this sucky attention grabbing feel to it when you look at it its likely to cause seizures. I CBA to dig up the papers on this but there are a bunch if you want to really get into this.
by ddp26 | 2025-11-13 17:14:08+00:00
Constant iteration, mostly!

The most interesting aspect of this is backtesting. Quant models get run on past data to see if their predictions work.

When you use LLMs agents, though, you run into their memorized knowledge of the world. And then there's the fact that they do their research on the open internet. It makes backtesting hard - but not impossible.

We wrote about how we do our pastcasting validation here: https://stockfisher.app/backtesting-forecasts-that-use-llms
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 17:14:16+00:00
It is definitely possible, but not straightforward. With Manifest V3, the only way you can do this stuff is with the browser userScripts API. That is the only way you can execute remote code within the browser (and each script is considered "remote code").

These changes are the reason many of the existing userscript managers stopped working/being developed after MV3 went live. It is a real pain in the butt and unfortunately the functionality is not exactly the same between chrome and the generic browser API that firefox uses. There are a lot of edge cases that make everything even more of a pain.

Life would be much better (in many ways) if chrome didn't force MV3 down our throats.
by mind-blight | 2025-11-13 17:15:04+00:00
This is a weird one. It absolutely should not be haphazardly added as a rider. The 0.4 per container is also insane. But, this really was an unintended loophole of the 2018 farm bill. Most plants grow THCa, which turns into Delta-9 when heated. They were ignorant and straight up forgot to specify anything except Delta-9.

Cannabis is a bioremediator and absorbs basically every environmental toxin from the ground (pesticides, heavy metals, etc.). Extraction (for CBD and THC oil) increases the concentration of any present toxins.

The only way you know of the problem is by thoroughly testing every batch. Pesticides that are safe at low levels can get concentrated and become really problematic at high levels.

States where marijuana is legal require all of this testing, so the products are much safer. Hemp-derived THC does not require these tests. (Same is true for CBD, but that's a while other conversation...)
by generic92034 | 2025-11-13 17:15:30+00:00
> It's the same shit with the Baltic states and other former Soviet satellite states. They're terrified of Russia, but people in Germany or further West think it's all overblown propaganda and there's nothing to fear from Russia.

And that is why Germany is moving a whole Brigade to Lithuania? I think only Spain and Portugal are not appropriately concerned with the Russian threat.
by hemp_is_canvas | 2025-11-13 17:15:38+00:00
I've been a regular consumer of the results of this since about 2020 when I discovered it. It's been quite the journey watching the industry boom and evolve and get better and better.

I've seen an incredible incredible amount of ignorance on this topic. Prior to this, I found 1 comment on HN mentioning this last night. On reddit, it's not on the frontpage of r/politics, r/moderatepolitics or anything relevant. I can find it on r/news but like every other thread not a single person is mentioning something very factual.

Rand tried to stop this provision in the Senate. 76/100 senators voted for this ban to remain. 76 senators from across the political spectrum, from every state have decided to secretly try to destroy a $30b industry, 300,000 jobs, and a lot of lives.
by woodpanel | 2025-11-13 17:15:54+00:00
Just looked through DB's annual report. There's no mentioning of any passenger rail operations in UK. It's "just" DB Cargo. So I don't understand what this "fact" has anything to do with passenger transportation in Germany.

By the way, Cargo is the mode of operation where most profitable rail companies are. Hence the dualism of loss-incurring Amtrak and profitable North Amercian freight operators as well.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 17:16:07+00:00
Apologies if my phrasing was not concise. The idea I intended to communication was "Europe can get all the LNG they want from Canada, and anything manufactured from China."

To your point about the US market, I would put forth the size of China, India, and Africa as import markets for Europe. The population of the US is ~343M, ~745M is Europe, while that of China, India, and Africa combined is ~4.6B (as of this comment, rough proxy for total addressable markets). Admittedly the latter are at various stages of development, but I am of a strong opinion they can replace the US considering demographics, proximity, rate of development and purchasing power increasing, etc. International equities have already outperformed the S&P500 this year, so this may happen faster than we might expect. China is not as quite as wealthy as the US, but India and Africa are the last of global emerging markets and where the economic growth future of the world is. Do you configure and target your export economy for growing markets? Or declining markets?

Citations:

https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3m... | https://archive.today/P2HxS ("International stocks are outperforming the S&P 500 by the widest margin in 16 years.") - November 12th, 2025

Goldman Strategists See US Stocks Lagging All Peers Next Decade - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-12/goldman-s... | https://archive.today/aINUx - November 12th, 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769439

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455077
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 17:16:15+00:00
> It’s unclear to me any stateful keychains are implied here.

Encrypted files are encrypted to a key. It could be a one time use key encrypted to another key as PGP and Age both do, but still there is a long lived secret a user must maintain somewhere, somehow, and have a strategy for backup, rotation, discovery, validation, etc etc.

> it’s unclear to me why point 5 belongs in the cryptosystem layer (such as with PGP) rather than on some higher, more adaptable layer.

There are a ton of other ways these problems could be solved. If we had a time machine we would go back and design way different tools and specs to address the problems PGP solves. We would redesign the internet too.

What I take issue with is people recommending age or minisign or signing with ssh keys when all of these just pretend the problems PGP solves do not exist, and thus set people up to fail.
by ddp26 | 2025-11-13 17:16:19+00:00
One interesting finding in Stockfisher data is that a lot of these business pivots are actually planned by managers years in advance, in their 10-K and 10-Q filings.

Yes, managers are not good forecasters. But they do get certain things right. And if you figure out the patterns of what types of manager promises tend to play out, and assess them individually for their reliability, you can reason about these business model changes decently well.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-13 17:16:49+00:00
I'm just going to leave this here.

https://xmpp.org/

It has been a mistake to build our society around WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and other non-free software. Stallman was right, as usual.

I've been using XMPP for the past month or so and it's quite shocking to realize that we now have E2E encrypted audio and video calls that run on software that's Free and federated.
by dangus | 2025-11-13 17:16:59+00:00
China has almost 3,000 house members. The UK has almost 1,500 parliament members with a far smaller population.

The US also has state representatives in every state.

This idea that a large amount of representatives can’t govern is plainly false.

Even a modest increase in representative count would go a long way to make America more democratic and lessen the impacts of gerrymandering.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-13 17:17:16+00:00
> How are people being obtuse for refusing to compromise for solutions on a problem which doesn’t exist?

I'll give you the benefit of doubt and assume you're just not well informed.

Millions of people are losing billions of dollars. Women are having their private media published to the masses. People are getting divorces, fired from jobs,etc.. because of android malware. The problem is nearly non-existent on iPhones to the most part, because they lock that down (but now thanks to "my freedom" type of freedom abusers are changing that too).

Apple already does this. You can't publish a driver for Windows without verifying your identity and buying an expensive code signing cert. Google isn't doing anything new, matter of fact, they're not doing enough! this still permits things like lineageos and other android builds to be installed -- that's your freedom. But since the prevailing sentiment is to resist a more secure way of doing things, the outcome will be that all smartphones will only load signed kernels/firmware in the future, and all signers will be required to id themselves, this will kill a lot of android builds.

This is why compromise is important. Your liberties are important to you, but you can't just dismiss the harm to the masses like that and refuse to find a compromise or a solution, that's how you lose what little freedom you have.

This is why things like "chat control" keep creeping up, and they will succeed down the road.
by kakacik | 2025-11-13 17:17:27+00:00
This is all correct, as is parent's parent. There is(was) this sense of war being failures of others, fought elsewhere now and we got better and employed more diplomacy (ignoring Yugoslavia which was a civil war to begin with).

It made us look weak internationally compared what could have been, and it made us weak. All that military money went into social programs and heavy lean to the left. It sort of works if you have other's umbrella shielding you, which now is questionable (but is it really, I think its more a projection how further can things go in future).

For Russia Europe never ceased to be a battlefield - eastern part of battlefield itself, western part as prize to win or conquer. Past 2+ decades of quite overt subversion, sowing chaos and discord via both radical left and right (which is hilarious, seeing 'patriots' parroting russian propaganda against their own country or ethnicity), sometimes outright attacks and assassinations.

Secret services kept reporting all this even publicly but were mostly ignored by politicians. Weak long term politicians like Merkel allowed this with open arms, hoping in vain that pure business is enough to keep psychopathic wolves happy. Well what a failure that was (yes I hate her as does most of eastern EU, leftist populist and nothing more which grinded strongest European economy to a halt).

Correction is being done, it will take decades but course is set regardless of what next elections in US brings.

As for geography - its only relevant doe to the fact we are connected by land to russia. Of course any country which has huge ocean between them and russians is much safer from them. The rest can either defend themselves or are an easy prey.