MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-05 04:12:16+00:00
And most people don’t live in a tier 1 city and they are fine. It’s not our responsibility as parents to fund extravagant life choices.

They don’t have to live in Buckhead either. I have one son that lives in North Cobb and the other lives in Gwinnett.

Heck when I lived in metro Atlanta, I lived in Marietta, Decatur, John’s Creek and finally outside of Cumming. I’m looking at the apartment I use to live in Marietta that I paid $700 a month for in 2003 and it’s now $1100 a month and still gets decent reviews.

And why would an older person want to live in Manhattan? You remember I live in Florida the state where a lot of retirees come to get away from cold weather, their expensive homes, etc.

And as you can tell, I’m not attached to my children I loved them. But we feel no need to be under them constantly. Our jobs are done. It’s up to them to find their own way in life. I moved from my parents the week after I graduated from college. They helped me launch and subsidized me to live to Atlanta early on.

People can’t always have what they want - thst goes for children wanting to be in an expensive city or parents wanting to be near their kids. Even though in my social circle of mostly 10% of earners, we aren’t really that tied to our grown kids wanting to live near them. We want to have our own lives. Admittedly, most 50 year olds don’t have the freedom we have with low expenses, only one person working and working remotely.

As far as money, we don’t spend much on things. But we do spend on experiences, travel by ourselves and with friends and crossing off our bucket list.
by zigzagger11 | 2025-11-05 04:12:22+00:00
The WEF (one member in an opinion piece) said that subscription-based services will become cheap & fast enough that owning things will become less desirable than renting. That's the conspiracy here.

I'm fully willing to believe that the rich are conspiring against us, but the whole "own nothing and be happy," is just another meme-level conspiracy theory. Believe it if you want, but there is NO PUBLIC PLAN BY THE WEF TO REMOVE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP. You can even read in their 2030 document that they explicitly endorse ownership of private property.
by superkuh | 2025-11-05 04:14:25+00:00
Google only ever returns a maximum of <400 results. If you actually click through at 100/page, you'll only get 3.something pages of results. Despite what is says at the top re: results. Those results are not accessible.

Bing only returns 900. Kagi only 200. Deep search and surfing is pretty much gone on all major search "engines".
by Taek | 2025-11-05 04:14:42+00:00
It's not clear to me why a multigenerational dynasty specifically is a bad thing? Presumably the kids can learn from the parents, get connected, etc.

Also, Mamdani's policies are incredibly controversial, that's why it's such big news. Lots of people predicting that Mamdani's criminal policies, economic policies, and lack of experienced staffers will lead the city to dark days.
by arxanas | 2025-11-05 04:15:04+00:00
Just gave a talk about this: https://blog.waleedkhan.name/what-if-sql-were-good/

- Recommend Ascent (Rust only, but supports targeting WASM)

- Soufflé: good, but too hard to integrate into existing systems; lots of ergonomic problems in comparison to Ascent (can elaborate)

- CozoDB: really cool but seems to be abandoned

- Logica: have not tried it yet
by nneonneo | 2025-11-05 04:15:17+00:00
CarPlay/Android Auto is how you can get a modern infotainment system on a car that's a decade old. A new phone - a fraction of the cost of a new car - and you get access to all the new shiny stuff. That also means that people are less incentivized to upgrade a car that has CarPlay/Android Auto support - probably exactly the reason why GM wants to drop support for them.
by someperson | 2025-11-05 04:16:27+00:00
For what it's worth, this is my first pro-Yandex comment after 17 years on Hacker News.

It's a major tech company service based in Russia, so presumably controlled by the government of Russia.

But the results produces for a query like "watch (obscure movie) online stream" are far better than what Google or Bing produces. If you need to check a scene of a specific episode of an obscure TV show, it's the fastest method (but happy to hear alternatives).

Also, the websites it links to aren't operated by the government of Russia.
by testfoobar | 2025-11-05 04:16:52+00:00
Rent control is always initially popular with the people who are already in apartments. But it is longer term effects on supply and quality that are corrosive.

An alternative is Austin:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/22/austin-texas-rents-f...

"Austin rents have fallen for nearly two years. Here’s why.

Austin rents have tumbled for 19 straight months, data from Zillow show. The typical asking rent in the capital city sat at $1,645 as of December, according to Zillow — above where rents stood prior to the pandemic but below where they peaked amid the region’s red-hot growth.

Surrounding suburbs like Round Rock, Pflugerville and Georgetown, which saw rents grow by double-digit percentages amid the region’s pandemic boom, also have seen declining rents. Rents aren’t falling as quickly as they rose during the pandemic run-up in costs, but there are few places in the Austin region where rents didn’t fall sometime in the last year.

The chief reason behind Austin’s falling rents, real estate experts and housing advocates said, is a massive apartment building boom unmatched by any other major city in Texas or in the rest of the country. Apartment builders in the Austin area kicked into overdrive during the pandemic, resulting in tens of thousands of new apartments hitting the market."
by voidhorse | 2025-11-05 04:17:06+00:00
The biggest takeaway to me is how ridiculous it is that the US considers Mamdani somehow "experimental" or even radical.

His campaign revolves around three policies:

1. Universal Child Care 2. Fast and Free Busses 3. Freezing Rent for certain Rent Controlled Units

In any other context these would be policies that basically every citizen, except for a handful of people making buttloads of money off the privatization of childcare, housing, and transportation would support, yet somehow in the USA this is "radical". Somehow a candidate finally proposing positive policies that directly benefit citizens is a radical socialist who needs to be stopped and we all need to vote for the disgraced former governor who resigned after killing seniors during covid and groping his employees. Even here on HN where people are generally well educated you have people arguing. that Mamdani will somehow be the ruin of new york.

Politics in america is like entering an inverted world in which some weird internal drive actively makes people vote against their own personal interests.
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-05 04:17:31+00:00
I agree. I think that copyright should be abolished entirely, especially for scientific articles (if they are good quality scientific research then I think they would be too important to be copyrighted, in addition to the other stuff you mention), but also for anything else too.

Nevertheless I thin there is another thing against the LLM training, which is that the scraping seems to be excessive (although it could be made less excessive; there are many ways to help with making it less excessive) and I think it requires too much power (although I don't really know a lot about it).

These are two separate issues, though.
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-05 04:17:52+00:00
He used Orthodox Jewish communities with top down leaders as a core machine style voting bloc. The whole community turns out and did what the head guy says, just like the old Tammany Hall. I’m sure plenty of people “moved” from their upstate town back to Brooklyn. Usually the old style conservative Catholics vote for him too. (Oddly enough as his divorce and “living in sin” was scandalous)

The issue is that the machine stuff only works when nobody is amped up. And his broader audience is both dying off and angry at the Trump nonsense. The population is shifting, and south asian, Middle Eastern and other, less traditionally powerful blocs are voting now and Zohran activated them. That’s why the dog whistles were so important - he needed to get more republicans and Archie bunker types to turn out.

It’s kind of sad, Cuomo with the right people restraining him is a force. But his enemy is himself.
by nneonneo | 2025-11-05 04:18:27+00:00
O/T, but I'm getting a cert error on this page - wonder if it's just me or if this site is just serving a weird cert. Looks like it's signed by some Fortinet appliance - maybe I'm getting MITMed? Would be kind of exciting/frightening if so.

EDIT: I loaded the page from a cloud box, and wow, I'm getting MITMed! Seems to only be for this site, wonder if it's some kind of sensitivity to the .family TLD.
by rjzzleep | 2025-11-05 04:18:36+00:00
I don't usually comment on these things. But this is phenomenal. I really like that the person that did this thought about a simple space for connect and enter for disconnect. I use rofi based tool whenever I don't feel like using my mouse and frequently disconnect because I toggled something that was already connecting.

The same happens when connecting or disconnecting from VPN using the nm applet. This is a simple but extremely useful way of separating two states.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 04:19:13+00:00
> 34-year-old democratic socialist’s pledge for a four-year pause on any increases on the city’s 1 million or so stabilized units

Out of 3.7mm [1].

> not directly familiar with Berlin

Not comparable. Berlin froze rents “on more than 1.5 million” apartments in 2020 [2] out of about 2mm. 25% versus 75%.

Also, Berlin’s politicians didn’t propose a construction agenda. Mamdani has. (“New York City voters on Tuesday delivered a strong message in support of building more housing, passing three proposals that pitted City Hall against the City Council in an effort to rewrite decades-old development rules” [4].)

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/content/tenantprotection/pages/fast-fact...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/world/europe/berlin-gentr...

[3] https://www.berlin.de/en/news/8283996-5559700-housing-stock-...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/nyregion/nyc-ballot-measu...
by chasil | 2025-11-05 04:19:55+00:00
It is unfortunate that, after the Spanish Inquisition, Jewish refugees were welcome in Istanbul, but the current receptivity is so much colder.

This is exactly the point where the historic tolerance of the middle east is most direly needed, but common ground in so many contexts is absent.

I hope that we can put ourselves back together. We've seen the consequences this year of its lack.
by defrost | 2025-11-05 04:20:06+00:00
I was unaware that Veronica Mars, Sons of Anarchy, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, Lioness, and Landman were considered "Westerns" (in the USofA sense).

I myself would have reserved that label for his multitude of Yellowstone and Glam Ranching spinoff productions.

My own AV collection of media I enjoy watching or have been involved in the production of does include a collection labled Western .. but these are not the Westerns you are thinking of.

* https://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/710/milli-milli.html

* https://www.screenwest.com.au/made-in-wa/production-highligh...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Bastards

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame_(1988_film)

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092220/

* etc. (many more)

( Yes, I've been in a film with Nicole Kidman, and another with Hugh Jackman's wife* )

( * Well not then, nor now - but wife for much of the time between ... )
by mikewarot | 2025-11-05 04:20:07+00:00
Back in the 1980s I wrote an inspection reporting system in Turbo Pascal, with handhelds programmed in PL/N, a proprietary variant.

I was a sysadmin for about 15 years. I made gears for about 5 years before long covid yeeted me out of the labor pool.

I'm a Region Rat, born and raised in Hammond, Indiana. Now I live in the cheapest house in Munster.

Obviously I'm not an SV tech worker. ;-)
by DANmode | 2025-11-05 04:20:10+00:00
They don’t even need to conspire for this to become true,

it is happening by momentum alone, now.

Food delivery is offering financing.

From the jump off point of what they said, and where we’re at, you can start to see how it doesn’t really matter if it’s listed as a top goal on the header of their website or not……………………
by goku12 | 2025-11-05 04:21:31+00:00
I often find myself searching for information that's not from my locality. This sort of 'location personalization' frustrate such efforts so much that I rarely 'google' these days. What's the point of having access to the internet if that access is going to be restricted like this without consent? If they want to make my search experience more relevant, they should provide me an option to limit my search, rather than callously assume my intentions.

It's much more egregious on the Android play store. Many apps like banking, transportation and online shopping apps are geolocked for installation, sometimes even without the developers' request or knowledge. What if I'm flying over there in two days, or just want to help someone who's already there? And even when I'm there, I have to prove my presence by supplying the local credit card details! Nothing else is enough - not GPS, not cell tower IDs, not the IP ranges or whatever else.

This is just outrageous because I can't even get a device that I paid for, to work for me. This is just sheer arrogance at this point - a wanton abuse of their co-monopoly privileges. However, I'm not under any delusions that they're here to improve my digital experience. These corporations profit by restricting their "users'" experience on an otherwise fully open internet.
by tsvetkov | 2025-11-05 04:22:20+00:00
Have you lived in one of those rent controlled “paradises”? In Europe, yes, there are sizeable populations living in subsidized housing, and often there are restrictions on rent increases, but new tenants pay way higher prices and have to compete for every available unit with dozens of other potential tenants. New tenants frantically overbidding each other, while old tenants pay pennies compared to today’s market prices, mmm, what a life.

“it can work” in some way of course. People are surprisingly adaptable to living in semi-dysfunctional environments. But it reality the only thing that truly works is building a lot of housing.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-05 04:22:22+00:00
It depends on whether or not, at the point in which you realize you have an engine on fire, you have room on the runway left to stop.

As I understand it, there is a low speed regime, under 80 knots, where are you stop for basically anything.

Then there is a high speed regime, where you only stop for serious issues, because you now have so much kinetic energy that stopping the plane, while still possible, will involve risk. (i.e. fire from overheated brakes.)

At a certain point, called V1, there’s no longer enough room to stop, no matter what your problem is. You’re either getting airborne or you’re crashing into whatever is ant the end of the runway. In general, getting airborne is the safer option, while obviously still not risk free.

However, this calculation also assumes that the engine fails in an isolated fashion, and its failure did not affect the other engines. If the failure of the left engine threw off debris that damaged the middle engine then we are now talking about a double engine failure. I’m sure the pilots knew there was a problem with the engine when they made the decision to continue, but it’s possible that problems with the middle engine weren’t apparent yet and that it only started to fail once they were committed.

Obviously, this is just speculation, and we will have to wait for the preliminary report at least.

RIP
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 04:22:56+00:00
> For your resume, sure

No, for everyone. Some voters like politicians who pass zero legislation while holding firm to their values. Occasionally they get rewarded. Most often, they’re branded–correctly–ineffective. (And, I’d argue, unfit to lead. If you’re using millions of Americans as human shields to pass an ideologically-pure package, that’s immoral and belongs with Twitter celebrities, not leaders.)
by nemo44x | 2025-11-05 04:23:06+00:00
Republicans have completely given up on cities and without being able to even field a worthy candidate it’s the sign of a dying party longer term. You simply have to have some influence in cities. But they had none after a 20 year run where they remade NYC after decades of failure. Bloomberg went independent but he got in as a Republican after a successful Giuliani admin (yes he’s tarnished that).

But what happened? Why can’t they field a competitive candidate in cities like NYC or SF or LA or Chicago after failed admin after failed admin? Why have they given up?

You need to control cities to have any future. They need to recommit to fighting for them.
by casey2 | 2025-11-05 04:24:15+00:00
>why do large sites You answered your question, they wouldn't be large if they were small, many users means many features which to some appears like bloat. The reality is that of the millions of users there are hundreds of thousands of frontends and extentions and other little programs that together use every little aspect of the site, not to mention all the ads and trackers that pay the bill for sites like nyt
by jameslk | 2025-11-05 04:24:31+00:00
> What would you even call their socioeconomic system? They're not exactly doing neoliberal capitalism, their government is far too involved for that. They're not socialist, they've got free enterprise galore.

What you’re describing is state capitalism, which is largely what the economic system is in China, Russia, and to some degree in the US. It’s where the government intervenes in the economy and controls critical corporations and industries
by RulerOf | 2025-11-05 04:24:34+00:00
> You know the spied everything you browsed, right?

I remember that this "became news" some time ago, but it's always pretty obvious the moment it loads.

App presenting an SFSafariViewController? "Convenience" that's intended to keep users in the app.

App presenting a WKWebView? Assume it's loaded with spyware scripts.
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-05 04:24:48+00:00
It's an Internet connected device that will never receive updates and has none of the features that justify its existence above a $20 dumb thermostat. If you inherited it and don't care about the features and never used it anyway, I'm not sure why you'd care either way.

If you'd bought it for hundreds of dollars for the things it promised to do, you'd probably be much more excited to learn that you at least aren't stuck with a device that was made intentionally dumb by the manufacturer. They're perfectly capable of doing what they were designed to do!
by Spivak | 2025-11-05 04:25:08+00:00
I really don't get the doom and gloom on this, NYC now has a mayor that might inadvertently fuck over the city trying to do right by working class folks instead of a mayor who does it as a matter of course. Forget policy disagreements, just the fact that we have a successful politician any side of the isle that is not currently gargling the balls of rich people and actually has some principles is so refreshing.

You are demand better of your government than "the blatant corruption you've learned to live with."
by edbaskerville | 2025-11-05 04:25:49+00:00
Bill Kristol has come a long way! He would vote for Mamdani...over Cuomo and Sliwa anyway.

https://www.cmcforum.com/post/bill-kristol-says-he-would-vot...

You can hear him discussing it here:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bill-kristol-fake-news-on-60-mi...

I'm also reminded of the time Jon Stewart got Bill Kristol to admit that a government-run health care system (the VA) was good:

https://youtu.be/rRSZiWwiBuE
by AngeliqueB | 2025-11-05 04:25:55+00:00
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by yes_really | 2025-11-05 04:26:23+00:00
> There is no doubt he held ideas that are of the left, but he is clearly a very complicated person. I would say he probably leans more left that he does right, but he is not “a leftist.“

By that logic no one is “a leftist“. You can always just state that someone is "complicated" and therefore doesn't fit your ever-narrowing definition of "leftist".

— "Marx? he held ideas that are of the left, but he is a complicated person, he's not a 'leftist'".

— "Obama? he held ideas that are of the left, but he is a complicated person, he's not a 'leftist'".

— "Luigi Mangione? he held ideas that are of the left, but he is a complicated person, he's not a 'leftist'".

— "Angela Davis? he held ideas that are of the left, but he is a complicated person, he's not a 'leftist'".

This just makes discourse impossible. Tyler Robinson assassinated the leader of a right-wing movement and made multiple explicit statements showing a radical-leftist motivation to that assassination. Calling right-wing people "fascists" and imagining oneself as an "antifa" fighting the "fascists" is a case of that leftist motivation. Right-wingers do not call people "fascists" as a motivation to attack them. Texting "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out" is a case of that leftist motivation. Right-wingers do not say they "had enough of their hatred" as a motivation to attack them. This is not something complicated. It is easy to understand. And refusing to meaningfully use the word "leftist" is the same as simply refusing to engage in the discussion at all.
by testfoobar | 2025-11-05 04:26:57+00:00
The underlying cause of runaway asset price inflation is ZIRP and QE. Renters experience it as rent increases outpacing wage increases - this is socially destructive. But neither Mamdani (DSA) or Democrats or Republicans are willing to touch Federal Reserve QE.

Senator Schumer (D-NY) famously said in 2012 to Ben Bernanke (Federal Reserve Chair): 'Get To Work Mr. Chairman' - encouraging him to start Quantitative Easing 3 (QE3) - a program to digitally print $40billion and eventually $85billion per month of "money" and injecting it into the financial system.
by GenerWork | 2025-11-05 04:27:30+00:00
>his policies are relatively common sense and middle of the road.

Rent control isn't middle of the road, it's 100% socialist. Same thing with city run grocery stores. He also wants to defund the police while replacing them with community outreach people, as well as raising the minimum wage to $30 in 5 years which is absolutely wild. None of this is middle of the road in any way, shape, or form.