MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-02 07:15:52+00:00
I know plenty of Uber (and normal taxis) drivers around the airport here who pick up a someone, then ask if they mind taking someone else. Because it is usually vans and business customers, they don't care and actually kind of like talking with other business guys who probably went or are going to the same seminar/conference etc. The driver will then load up whatever fits who are waiting for taxis or drivers and only report 1 person to the service. As this is hotel to airport to hotel, there are not many ways of uber, lyft etc detecting this unless someone rats them out. I asked a driver and obviously he responded with Uber screws me, I screw Uber.
by Pamar | 2026-01-02 07:15:57+00:00
Not sure I understand your point about

Everybody already has local regional tickets anyway. And most people can't be in more then one place at the time anyway. And most people stay in the same region most of the time anyway.

I live in Rostock. So if I want to go to Berlin or Hamburg (you know, where stuff like actual airports are) I am crossing "regional borders" even if it is a 200-250 km trip to each city
by olivierroy | 2026-01-02 07:18:36+00:00
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by onion2k | 2026-01-02 07:19:16+00:00
Isnt it that nowadays usually on the side of the driving seat? Or does this apply only to EU vehicles?

That would mean designing two separate entire fuel tank placements, fuel lines, etc for cars that are available both in left- and right-hand drive variants, with different SKUs for each of the parts needed. There is no way a car manufacturer would do that.
by jonway | 2026-01-02 07:20:43+00:00
Yeah they didn’t manufacture anything so they did get stuck with this crap especially after their influence waned on their suppliers.

Washing machines used to be better and much more reliable in my experience (if less efficient) for ex my parent have a high end Samsung and WOW is it SLOW! The drying is much worse(slow) too.

Probably much more efficient though.
by mrheosuper | 2026-01-02 07:20:47+00:00
when i go into secure zone at factory, they cover our phone camera lens with a piece of sticker. It was quite trouble some because my phone has 5 camera(S21U). The sticker is similar to the warannty sticker you find on electronic device, so if you try to remove they will know.

But the sticker seem generic, so i bet someone can prepare it before hand if they really want.
by silisili | 2026-01-02 07:21:53+00:00
I'm torn here because you're both right, kinda, from my viewpoint. And that is you should do a thing, whether getting married, having kids, etc. as soon as you're sure you want that.

You shouldn't rush it thinking of years lost, but at the same time, shouldn't delay it until everything's perfect/'the right time', because, from experience, everything will never be perfect.
by keiferski | 2026-01-02 07:21:53+00:00
I’m responding to comments like this in the article:

So I am betting that the US and China are more compelling forces for change. Stalin was fond of telling a story from his experience in Leipzig in 1907, when, to his astonishment, 200 German workers failed to turn up to a socialist meeting because no ticket controller was on the platform to punch their train tickets, citing this experience as proof of the hopelessness of Germanic obedience. Could anyone imagine Chinese or Americans being so obedient?

This isn’t a serious analysis of German culture. It’s perfectly fine to argue that certain countries are economically or industrially problematic, but when you throw in comments like this, it really doesn’t help your argument.

And I’m not from Europe, but I have lived here for years. The constant clueless comments by my fellow North Americans about the somehow monolithic entity of “Europe” are irritating.
by choppaface | 2026-01-02 07:22:10+00:00
Appreciate the nature and scale of the internet... and also how it's changing though, yeah?

While I agree with much of the article's thesis, it sadly appears to ignore the current impact of LLMs ...

> it’s never been easier to read new ideas, experiment with ideas, and build upon & grow those ideas with other strong thinkers on the web, owning that content all along.

But, "ownership" ? Today if you publish a blog, you don't really own the content at all. An LLM will come scrape the site and regenerate a copyright-free version to the majority of eyeballs who might otherwise land on your page. Without major changes to Fair Use, posting a blog is (now more than ever) a release of your rights to your content.

I believe a missing component here might be DRM for common bloggers. Most of the model of the "old" web envisions a system that is moving copies of content-- typically verbatim copies-- from machine to machine. But in the era of generative AI, there's the chance that the majority of content that reaches the reader is never a verbatim copy of the original.
by croo | 2026-01-02 07:22:19+00:00
I am sorry that this is your experience. A newborn brings in so much responsibility and unknowns and there is no rest - as with anything with a lot of responsibility, unknowns and no rest, it can cause tremendous amount of stress.

For centuries we lived in large families and those within communities where everyone witnessed birth at home with multiple siblings and responsibilities around raising children from a small age. The current atomic families with two adult both completely inexperienced in raising a child is unprecedented in history.

I agree that reliving memories is not a large part, though it is impactful. But it's not dreary ... large part is also having fun and good time with your kids.
by leeoniya | 2026-01-02 07:22:54+00:00
> Did we choose the age at which we would have children? What does it mean to choose?

we planned to have a kid by our early thirties. she specifically wanted one by 30. we were both healthy, financially stable with solid careers.

then came multiple miscarriages, 10 years of background/foreground stress, and IVF. now we finally have two healthy ones. i think daily about those 10 years we've lost to spend with our kids while still younger and able to do activities that i still enjoy like snowboarding, mountain biking, etc. thankfully i'll still be able to do some of it, but man, it has been rough. my awesome father-in-law died of cancer 9mo before his grandson's birth; the only thing he ever knew were our ongoing struggles :(

something else that happens is that all your same-aged friends with kids...they have different lives now. you can't talk to them about the same child struggles / tips in real time, the kids don't go to school together or know the same people; they're a generation apart. it becomes an isolating event when the delay is long enough.

despite all that, when i think of where i was financially then and now (and what i did in those 10 years to get from there to here that would not have happened otherwise), and that if i had a kid 10 years ago it would be a different [probably worse] kid instead of the adorable 2.5yo that runs to me each morning now, i feel a lot better.

my advice would not necessarily be to start earlier, but if you've decided to procreate and are consciously deferring it until the "right" time, just expect the really, really unexpected.
by rhubarbtree | 2026-01-02 07:23:12+00:00
I’m about to become a parent, about 10 years later than I’d have liked. Main reason for that is just not meeting the right person, pandemic, money etc.

But I only feel ready now. I’m a late developer in general (aren’t all software engineers haha arf) and I honestly felt too free spirited in the past. Many friends had kids a decade or more ago, and they are looking forward to their kids leaving home so they can travel etc. But I’ve already done all that, I have nothing to devote my life to now other than work and family.

In my case at least, being ready was a real thing. It’s really about maturity and having had enough of a life myself.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-02 07:23:40+00:00
The issue for me is that bookmarks suck. They don't store the state (where I was reading) and they reload the webpage so I might get something else entirely when I come back. They also kinda just disappear from sight.

If instead bookmarks worked like tab saving does, I would be happy to get rid of a few hundred tabs. Have them save the page and state like the tab saving mechanism does. Have some way to remind me of them after a week or month or so.

Combine that with a search function that can search in contents as well as the title, and I'm changing habbits ASAP.
by GauntletWizard | 2026-01-02 07:23:52+00:00
I buy vinyl for the album cover. If somebody were to sell me a digital download which also ships me an empty slipcase, I would buy it, for almost the same price that I pay for vinyl. I do have the record player, but I don't think I've used it more than a dozen days in my life.

There's a lot of value to the physical artifact, but the precise nature of the physical artifact is up for playing with.
by carbonguy | 2026-01-02 07:24:14+00:00
In one sense, you can't; the world they lived in lived with them, and when they were gone their world was gone with them too.

In another sense, you can't *avoid* that world; the world they lived in was one they *created*, physically, and much of it is still here with us, shaping us as they shaped it.

And remember, none of the people who came before us ever experienced anything but pieces of their world, just like we only ever experience pieces of our own. But you can at least try to show your kids as many of those pieces as possible.
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-01-02 07:24:55+00:00
I was born with a heart defect that will kill me young. I spent my youth waking up from surgeries until I became disappointed I'd woken up. This author is still just a tourist of death going through what I view as an early developmental stage of death realization and their view is effectively just myopic shaming because they had their first realization.

My parents died before I turned 20 and 28.

Death is horrible and loss is horrible but each person gets to pick their meaning generation, that's what makes humans fucking cool.

We are like a random forest of meaning generation, an epicenter of complex meaning creation, the plurality and uniqueness of paths is critical, and each of us gets to decide what our meaning exploration/creation will entail, and no one can rationally shame us for that.

We are all very special. Each and every person. We are the unique meaning generators of the universe, like stars emit photons we emit complex meaning, there is no entity we have observed that has explained to the universe the how and why of bird flight, we generated the how and why of that, we are meaning generating organs of the universe bootstrapped by simpler meaning in rna and dna and each one of us is rare.

Complex meaning generation, storage and emission is still in it's infancy from our empirical observations we can't predict how far into the future meaning generation will reach or what it will accomplish, we can't ex ante predict how important we are, no one can tell us we won't be very important to the casual chain of the universe, it simply cannot be computed ahead of time.

As a child I read the book version of A Baker's Dozen, a true story about an efficiency expert with a heart defect that had 12 children and dies at the end while calling his wife.

Each person generates unique meaning in the universe and the one thing we get to do is decide what our unique meaning exploration path is, no person is guaranteed to see any time with their kids, guaranteed to want to have kids, guaranteed to have a kid they enjoy being around. Decide what you intrinsically find meaningful and generate meaning, the random forrest requires the diversity of search/creation paths.
by sublinear | 2026-01-02 07:26:20+00:00
> In fact, one of the better ways for an engineer to be labeled as "not independent enough for advancement" is a lack of curiosity about what you're building, because the lack of curiosity limits the engineer to a very narrow scope of work.

I don't think we're talking about the same topic at all. It sounds like OP is so curious that they made the whole thing up, and I think you might be out of touch with businesses that have plenty of tech workers, but aren't a tech company (most businesses around the world).
by Animats | 2026-01-02 07:28:52+00:00
Maker spaces declined over time. When I first started going to TechShop, it was people making nozzles for X-Prize rockets, Stanford grad students who needed better machine tools, Burning Man people making props, steampunks making props, and very serious model railroaders making model locomotives. Four milling machines in use all the time, CNC mills, plasma cutters, water jet cutters - heavy equipment. All the usual woodworking stuff.
A paint shop with proper ventilation.
Autodesk Inventor on all the computers. Lots of very smart people with interesting skill sets. The serious maker spaces were descended from the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT.[1]

By the time the maker movement collapsed, it was people grinding out crap to sell on Etsy, "hand made" on a CNC laser cutter. High school students doing the maker thing to get it on their college resume. Printing trinkets with a 3D printer. Classes for teenagers where everybody built kits. Arts and crafts at the advanced kindergarten paper folding level.

[1] https://cba.mit.edu/
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 07:29:00+00:00
> A significant increase in debris at 550km would have an impact on all orbits below it, including all vehicles raising through that debris zone

Space is huge. Try this trick: the number of satellites in orbit is about the same as the number of planes in the air at any time. (~12,000 [1][2].)

The volume of space from the ground to 50,000 feet is about 200x smaller than the volume from the Karman line to the top of LEO alone (~2,000 km).

Put another way, we approach the density of planes in the sky in LEO when there are milliions of satellites in that space alone. Picture what happens if every plane in the sky fell to the ground. Now understand that the same thing happening in LEO, while it occurs at higher energy, also occurs in less-occupied space and will eventually (mostly) burn up in the atmosphere.

Put another way, you could poof every Starlink simultaneously and while it would be tremendously annoying, most satellites orbiting lower would be able to get out of the way, those that couldn't wouldn't cause much more damage, the whole mess would be avoidable for most and entirely gone within a few years.

There are serious problems with space pollution. Catastrophic Kessler cascades that block humans from space, or knock out all of our satellites, aren't one of them.

[1] https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/number-of...

[2] https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/number-of...
by magic_hamster | 2026-01-02 07:29:02+00:00
No matter how long we waited, we did not feel ready. There was always too much to do, it was never really the right time. At some point we just gave in and perhaps we should have done it sooner.

Having kids in a later stage has a lot of advantages. You (hopefully) saved more. You are more mature and informed. You know how to save for your children from day one and what to teach them.

But the thing about time is true and doubly so when it comes to grandparents. First of all if you live around your family and they can help out, it's an invaluable rock to lean on, and of course if you waited the grandparents are going to be too old to really help. But what's worse, is your kids will probably know them for a very short time if they even remember them when they grow up.

The thing about "being ready" is nonsense because you can't be ready. You don't understand what a massive gift and blessing it is to have children, and also how everything changes. You can't be ready because you just can't understand it before it happens. So waiting for the perfect time is useless. If you know want children at some point, just do it.
by twiceaday | 2026-01-02 07:29:07+00:00
You assume the goal is to dominate the EV market. It seems pretty clear that this hasn't been Teslas revealed preference for a long time. The goal is to keep raising the stock price. If that involved selling fewer EVs Elon would do it. He turned Teslas humble beginnings as an EV company into just the first stage in $TSLAs booster rocket to the moon, one that it already separated from.
Hearing a lot that SEO is dead, GEO is future. So, got some questions about it
by cosmicbeing | 2026-01-02 07:29:23+00:00
1. Do you believe that?
2. Does anyone knows how to rank on that? or does it even have a ranking ?
3. How does a LLM decide what to cite?
4. How can you make sure that your page/product is recommended?

Seeking something more than : write extensive blog posts about your product, pay a big blogging site to write about you
by daveoc64 | 2026-01-02 07:30:10+00:00
>What occurs if your order is placed in a bucket of other priority deliveries? Doesn't that simply become a regular order? Also, AFAIK based on some digging, the drivers are not alerted to priority orders they are simply routed for it. That could have changed though.

At least on the platforms in the UK, the only thing that priority is advertised as doing is making your driver exclusively deliver your food.

If you don't choose priority, you'll probably end up waiting for the driver to pick up/deliver other people's food along the way.

It doesn't make the restaurant prepare the food faster. It also doesn't allocate you a driver more quickly.

It just means that the driver goes straight to pick your food up, then straight to you to deliver it.
by cosmicgadget | 2026-01-02 07:31:07+00:00
> 'No of course you can't join us - we're organizing to fight you!'

If only this had a more complicated explanation than something akin to schoolyard drama.

> NATO largely stopped that by putting them under a common umbrella.

You're thinking of democratization, the end of imperialism, and the elimination of aggressive regimes. Helped along by the financial devastation caused by the war.

> I don't think Russia is broadly hostile to the world.

Sure, unless you listen to all of their broadly hostile rhetoric or are on a Malaysian or Azerbaijani airliner or something.

> This inevitably sets the stage for geopolitical conflict

This your way of saying Russia needs to cut undersea cables and invade neighbors?
by lostlogin | 2026-01-02 07:31:20+00:00
> Which rear facing "key port" on a Mac are you suggesting should be on the front?

USB.

I used iMacs, mini and pro machines. Any ports in the front would be nice.

My m4 mini does have some front ports. It’s less of an issue now with usb-c but the iMac presumably still rear mounts them.
by qsera | 2026-01-02 07:31:38+00:00
I think it comes down to

1. In `c` one have to remember a few, fairly intutive things, and enforce them without fail.

2. In rust, one have to learn, remember ever increasing number of things and constantly deal with non-intutive borrow-checker shenanigans that can hit your project at any point of the development forcing you to re-architecture your project, despite doing everything to ensure "safety". But the borrow-checker can't be convinced.

I have had enough of 2. I might use rust if I want to build a critical system with careless programmers, but who would do such a thing? For open source dependencies, one will have to go by community vouching or auditing themselves. Can't count something to be "Safe" just because it is in rust, right? So what is the point. I just don't see it. I mean, if you look a bit deeper, It just does not make any sense.
CleanCloud v0.4.0: Trust-first cloud hygiene scanner (now with parallel scans)
by sureshcsdp | 2026-01-02 07:32:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve just released CleanCloud v0.4.0, an open-source CLI for cloud hygiene — safely identifying orphaned or inactive cloud storage and log resources without auto-deleting anything.

This release focuses on making scans faster and safer:

Parallelized cloud API calls for much faster scans

Safety integration tests to prevent risky recommendations

Improved “doctor” diagnostics for permissions and environment issues

Repo moved to a dedicated org (cleancloud-io) for long-term maintenance

CleanCloud is intentionally:

Read-only and agentless

Conservative (never recommends deletion on a single signal)

Transparent (confidence levels instead of yes/no decisions)

Telemetry-free

The goal is to help SRE teams review cloud hygiene issues safely, especially in IaC-heavy environments where ownership is often unclear.

Project: https://github.com/cleancloud-io/cleancloud

Feedback very welcome — especially from folks running this in CI or large AWS/Azure estates.

Suresh
by duttish | 2026-01-02 07:32:41+00:00
For decades the discussion in schools have been around "this is how you avoid unwanted pregnancy", safe sex and all of that.

With our(northern Europe) crashing fertility rate there's now also discussions about adding on "when the woman is 25 this happens and you're this likely to get pregnant, at 30 it's like this...", just so that people can plan and try for the family they want. If one wants 3 kids and don't want IVF you should apparently start around when the woman is 25-28 or something like that?

But who's financially secure at 25?
by utopiah | 2026-01-02 07:33:54+00:00
Neat, thanks for taking the time to explain!

Indeed "global edge network and cache" is not my interest. I do prototyping so I don't care about scale or super low latency Worldwide. If I want to share a prototype I put on my small server in Germany, share the URL and voila, good enough.

That being said I understand others do, so this helps me understand the broader appeal of cloud workers and now some limits of this project.
by mdhb | 2026-01-02 07:34:00+00:00
There’s a meaningful amount of blame here that sits squarely at the feet of Apple.

1. They produce the world’s buggiest browser by far. Look at this chart that shows the number of bugs that ONLY OCCUR IN A SINGLE BROWSER. https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...

2. They don’t support any modern testing protocols like WebdriverBiDi

3. They don’t make their software available to anyone who isn’t using Apple’s hardware.

The core root of the problem is very clearly Apple who’ve done nothing other than make the world’s buggiest and least accessible browser and then tried to hold everyone hostage who was previously forced to use it until courts had to stop them and they had no choice.
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-02 07:34:19+00:00
>If the customer allows for all this crap

You imply they ever had a choice.

Companies like Tesla and Rivian pioneered the trend of bringing webshit-as-an-instrument cluster to the mainstream. Other car companies saw dollar signs, rode their coattails and immediately copied it.

What is a customer supposed to do? Buy a Mitsubishi Mirage? Build their own instrument cluster?
by krige | 2026-01-02 07:34:57+00:00
The peace treaty? What peace treaty? Multipolar world order is a buzzword that failed states like Russia certainly like to spout on their media channels to try and prove that they are not complete failures, and that in fact losing a million people to barely advance a frontline over 3 years is just and necessary. At this point they should be really worried about China just waltzing in on Siberia and taking whatever they need.
by robin_reala | 2026-01-02 07:37:14+00:00
I did Kafka’s “The Castle”, Agatha Christie’s “Giant’s Bread”, and Stella Benson’s “The Faraway Bride”.

Been meaning to do a Kafka for a while but the Gutenberg editions are later translations that aren’t actually public domain. This is the first time a Kafka novel has entered the US PD.

The other two I picked from the list of “works Standard Ebooks wants for public domain day” back in October. We’re reasonably organised about this.