MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Topfi | 2025-07-17 14:30:26+00:00
> The iPhone 12 and 13 Mini were always marketed as the cheaper versions [...]

No, they were not. They were literally a scaled down version of their respective regular sized counterparts, the 13 Mini had the same cameras, SOC, memory, screen quality and storage options as the regular 13 [0], yet its sales success (or lack thereof [1]) was enough to instantly cure me of any previously held notions that there is a sufficiently large group of buyers for these devices out there.

It isn't because the specs are inferior, the cameras are changed, the display has a lower pixel density (the Mini actually had slightly higher ppi) or anything else. There simply is no sufficient market, the 13 Mini was the worst selling phone in that generation by a frankly impressive margin. 38% for iPhone 13 vs 3% for iPhone 13 mini, despite them being as close to just being scaled down and otherwise identical as one can make a phone speaks a very clear language that any manufacturer wanting to succeed has hear loud and clear. Most certainly why Asus has seized with their more compact smartphones. The amount of people I know that praised Asus for making a more compact flagship with a very large battery [2] was not in any way proportional to their sales. In this case, the battery life was actually superior to many larger competitors. Same for my Xperia 5 V, the compact phone I bought and used at the time, cause I walk my talk and have been following phone releases to a sufficient degree that I can assure everyone, there have been and are flagship speced, compact phones with good battery life, that no one ever buys. I'd love more options in the market, heck, I use both the Xperia 5 and an iPhone 15 Pro Max in a Clicks case, either for different situations, so am on both sides as a consumer. Simply, the lack of any actual market demand beyond online comments makes that impossible, we need to be honest here.

[0] https://www.apple.com/by/iphone-13/specs/

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopula...

[2] https://www.asus.com/mobile-handhelds/phones/zenfone/zenfone...
by anthonypasq | 2025-07-17 14:30:27+00:00
written language is just much more information dense than talking. the goal of writing is to distill someones thinking into the most effective vehicle to transfer it without time constraints.

i imagine cultures that refined oral histories over generations ended up at a similar place, but that doesnt really happen nowadays. It really is true that instead of listening to a 3 hour podcast about a topic, you could probably get all that info within 30 minutes of reading.
by Permit | 2025-07-17 14:30:30+00:00
From the linked PDF:

> This report uses a range of cutting-edge LLM-assisted data techniques to extract key risk information from S&P 500 company filings. Following the recent boom in generative AI, we examine reported risks from these leading firms related to artificial intelligence. We clarify the extent to which firms are reporting new AI related risks, what kind of risks are being reported and what these indicate about the broader dynamics of AI in big business.

This is unrelated to marketing departments.
by komali2 | 2025-07-17 14:30:52+00:00
> Actually, they do, and even significant older games. Retro-games are regularly updated and newly released. Sometimes they are even remastered into new games. Old Consoles are also sometimes resold as special time limited offers, and kinda popular.

No, they re-release a couple of them, as it conveniences them, often with unasked for changes.

And the handheld consoles aren't competing with nintendo for people interested in playing retro games. Someone that picks up a miyoo to play SNES games on the go has no official nintendo option for this, the switch doesn't have all the SNES games and isn't the same formfactor.
by shayway | 2025-07-17 14:32:12+00:00
Not that I disagree with your overall point, but it's worth noting that in this case it wasn't enforced top-down:

> Even more puzzling is the way the system was rolled out. ITA was never adopted nationally, nor required. As Stainthorp explains: “At that time, there was no national curriculum – a headteacher could simply decide to implement it in their school, or a teacher in their class. There was no consistency.”
by Taikonerd | 2025-07-17 14:32:33+00:00
I think the problem with the ITA, or other reform schemes, is that they try to change too much at once. So the new system looks silly and alien to existing speakers, and there's a backlash.

If I were reforming English spelling, I'd take a much slower, more incremental approach. Make a simple change like SR1[0], that doesn't change that many words. Smaller change; less backlash.

(And even in the worst case, if the reform doesn't take, it's easier for the people who learned it to re-learn "classic English" spelling.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR1
by amelius | 2025-07-17 14:32:50+00:00
You could add encoder patterns to the tendons, like stripes. And then use something like a mouse-sensor to track them. This is still much lighter than servos.

Another idea is to use an external camera or two and to track the fingers with a deep learning model. But this can become messy if other objects are in view. And it might also introduce more control delay in the feedback loop than a simple sensor.
by sjw987 | 2025-07-17 14:32:50+00:00
Sorry, in my national market. Apple has 51%, Samsung has around 28% and Google 5%. These 3 hold almost 85% of the UK market.

Samsung, from what I remember used to side-load tons of apps (some alongside identical stock Android apps), so it's in their best interest to maximise screen time through media apps, which generally work best on a bigger screen.

It's against all of these companies interests to sell you a phone which you quickly use and put away. They all have every incentive to keep you staring, because they're all getting extra money from every ad you see in a game, TV show, movie, web browsing, or wherever else they can slot it.
by _seiryuu_ | 2025-07-17 14:33:31+00:00
This resonates strongly. The Pixel 7 is my current holdout due to its 'acceptable' size, even though it's not exactly "mini". It's a shame to see manufacturers like Asus move away from compact form factors, as I'd have been an immediate buyer for a smaller ZenFone.

The market's push towards larger devices is making e-ink 'dumb' phones increasingly appealing for me.
by netsharc | 2025-07-17 14:33:37+00:00
But .gov are for American government sites, and Elon's friends (oh geez I loaded doge.gov, it looks so dodgy...), and I assume the assignment of the domain names under .gov is done by somebody in the federal government, if they haven't been DOGEed as well. If any country's government can get a .gov domain, I can imagine the hacking that could happen, similar to hackers managing to infiltrate Bangladesh's central bank and almost managing a heist, but for a typo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery

At least for Switzerland the federal government puts its sites under the domain admin.ch . And the Cantons have their own domains, e.g. zh.ch for Zurich.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-07-17 14:34:27+00:00
ok I may have exaggerated, but there are quite a bit of people silently writing and maintaining mission critical code in Fortran, Lisp, Cobal, Perl, Pascal, R, Assembly, the different BASICs, Lua, TCL, Erlang, and the list goes on. Plus those are just the ones off the top of my head where I have personally met people doing it in the last decade. I am always shocked by how much

Most of those rarely make to the top of HN, and other generalized forums. If anything, Java and Python are together at the popular kids table and we forget about the silent heros keeping the ship afloat.
by runarberg | 2025-07-17 14:34:42+00:00
Labor laws are not set to satisfy everyone, they are set such that a company cannot use it’s outsized power to exploit their workers, and that workers have fair chance at negotiating a fair deal, despite holding less power.

Similarly consumer protection laws—which the cookie banners are—are not set to satisfy everyone, they are set such that companies cannot use their outsized power to exploit their customers. A good consumer protection law will simply ban harmful behavior regardless of whether companies which engage in said harmful behavior want are satisfied with that ban or not. A good consumer protection law, will satisfy the user (or rather the general public) but it may satisfy the companies.
by npalli | 2025-07-17 14:34:45+00:00
>For those around for the .com bust it does feel very similar.

Not it doesn't. I was around and we didn't have an entire group of GenX gang warning about the .com crash everywhere, everytime. Compared to nonsense metrics like eyeballs, this time we have real revenue and the biggest companies are tech. It might end in some crash but nothing like the .com one.
by smorrebrod | 2025-07-17 14:34:49+00:00
Pornhub has banned many videos already. It forbids and deletes any amateur video not posted by the original author (to prevent revenge porn, non-consensual porn, repost of videos since deleted by the author, etc.) and also forbids certain keywords related to non-consensual porn like rape, sleep.

Mindgeek (company owning Pornhub and many other porn websites) are by no mean a company respecting sex workers as good as they should but they are putting an effort to stop nasty shit from their websites if only not to be banned.

So I would agree that Mindgeek websites are better than others. Not good enough but better.
by furyofantares | 2025-07-17 14:35:01+00:00
> Nobody has ever claimed that you cannot fire all the employees and keep Twitter online with a skeleton crew

Lots of people claimed that, it was a common claim, even on HN, which was odd to me because I felt it had been common for 10 years on HN to wonder what the heck these companies are doing with 80% of their employees.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-17 14:35:29+00:00
> a layperson can often do better

I think it's a mixed bag. I've purchased homes where the previous owner thought they were a wizard at home improvement. One apt example is a dryer outlet that was converted from 14-30R to 10-30R because the homeowner googled the wrong thing and went down a bad rabbit hole. A good electrician would tell you to change the cord on your dryer and that anything else is a code violation.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-17 14:35:56+00:00
Argparse is part of my problem with Python! I can never remember the weird ways it wants to collect all these attributes and features, so I'm always leafing through manual pages or googling for examples. Same for if I'm modifying existing Argparse code, I have no idea how to make it do what I want. It can do a lot for you, but it's a pain in the ass to use.

It's so much easier to write a simple usage() function that has all help text in one big block, and Getopt with a case block. Anyone can just look at it and edit it without ever looking up documentation.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-17 14:36:51+00:00
I go to Portland regularly just so I can enjoy a city that's much nicer than San Francisco. And Seattle recently hit another record population, it is significantly larger than it was before COVID and will soon pass SF.

I suspect the person denigrating the West Coast cities is doing so from their basement in East Prolapse, Kentucky, as a way to rationalize their life choices.
by xienze | 2025-07-17 14:36:51+00:00
> LLMs are not being trained for personal use, they're being trained to be sold to the masses.

Come again? Deepseek and numerous other smaller models can be run locally, for free.

I think what’s really behind this attitude is that “information wants to be free” when I’m pirating IP from a big, faceless corporation. But when it’s _my_ IP being pirated, it’s theft.
by whycome | 2025-07-17 14:37:08+00:00
manipulation or motivation? I suppose it's blurry.

But, I think the point is that once you get the kids into the habit (or help them build the skill) they'll maintain it later on. Even encouraging reading together has societal value.

So, maybe tiny shark teeth are good motivation - i have no idea. I'm not great at gauging what motivates kids. I still don't understand minecraft.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-17 14:37:19+00:00
You can find ethical concerns with anything if you look hard enough. Supermarket foods are not on my list of things I get too wound up about. Yes, the farming practices of developing economies are not congruent with what we in our place of economic dominance and comfort expect, but that's part of "developing." Look at our own, or any first-world country's history.

Feel free to go to the Farmers Market on Saturday and pick up an $8 head of lettuce and some $4/ea heirloom tomatoes if it bothers you.
by rollcat | 2025-07-17 14:37:37+00:00
Interesting! So this is kinda like whole-program static analysis, but the "program" is like eBPF - no loops, no halting problem, etc. This is great for defence in depth (stops the agent from doing the wrong thing), but IMO the process still needs sandboxing (RCE).

I would love to see a cross-platform sandboxing API (to unify some subset of seccomp, AppCointainer, App Sandbox, pledge, capsicum, etc), perhaps just opportunistic/best-effort (fallback to allow on unsupported capability/platform combinations). We've seen this reinvented over and over again for isolated execution environments (Java, JS, browser extensions...), maybe this will finally trigger the push for something system-level, that any program can use.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-17 14:37:54+00:00
People often talk about supply and demand until this subject comes up. “How can you stand to live somewhere so expensive?” “Because it’s so nice that many people want to live here.” “Impossible!”

The high COL is proof that people enjoy it and are voting with their wallets. It’s not as though everyone here is ignorant of the existence of Oklahoma. I’ve lived there-ish. I pay extra not to have to anymore.
by microtonal | 2025-07-17 14:38:13+00:00
Oh, don't get me started on rubber stamps.

I taught at a German university for a few years. And they way grades were handled was, you had to print a standardized piece of paper for every student with their name, date of examination, and grade, and drop them off at the secretary's office.

The secretary would stamp every such Schein with a rubber stamp. Then the students would pick up their Scheine at the secretary's office and bring it to the examination department themselves (!) to get the grade registered. Only at the very of my time there, they changed the system and I could hand in the grades directly to the examination department.

At any rate, the system was so stupid. It was trivial for students to print a new Schein with a better grade and register that (there must have been a lot of fraud). But the counter argument was 'no, it's very safe because the students do not have a rubber stamp'. Of course, the rubber stamp was just the university logo with something like the faculty name next to it. Trivial to copy (or make a rubber stamp for more enterprising students).

Probably the procedure had been followed since 1573, well before home printers, scanners, phone cameras, or get-your-own-rubber-stamp-for-a-few-bucks internet shops.
by never_inline | 2025-07-17 14:38:47+00:00
FWIW I would be skeptical of tech bros claiming they sped up 80% response time on microservice handling 5000000000 RPS. But I will be even more skeptical when they say "analyzed and implemented business requirements into maintainable and high performance code".

More generic, grandiose and oft-repeated someone's claims are, more skepticism is warranted.
by mikestew | 2025-07-17 14:39:02+00:00
Looking it up, it seems this was a fairly common phrase applied to many cities over the years.

It’s not like there was a “Paris of the…” certification process. If Detroit was, it was well before my first visit 50 years ago. As another commenter alluded to, it is an aspirational marketing phrase. Like how Redmond, WA claims to be the “bicycle capital of the Northwest” without having a single protected bike lane.
by duxup | 2025-07-17 14:39:09+00:00
From my interpretation:

I feel like this maybe is one of those discussions where a developer who does the work address something technical and IMO they're not fundamentally wrong, but neither is anyone else?

With these kinds of developer discussions (even here on HN) I often see:

- Folks take issue with individual phrases used by the dev that may or may not even relate to the app?

- A dev, speaking within the boundaries of their time and a given project and codebase says it's not feasible to do X. Others respond that yes it is, but they're speaking globally. Example: If my employer told me to "make facebook" yeah in a global sense I could do that... eventually. At the same time in terms of my current skills, time constraints, I can't do that. Yes and no are both "correct".
by this_user | 2025-07-17 14:39:34+00:00
It gets worse. These German "Sparkassen" are small to at most medium sized credit unions. They are organised in a larger umbrella organisation that takes care of some of the services like IT, but the individual banks can pick and choose what and how much they want to handle themselves.

Some of them are larger and pretty well organised, but there are also a lot of small ones that just don't have the people and expertise for things like proper IT security practices. But customers trust them, because they position themselves as these local neighbourhood banks, even though most of them are pretty incompetent and will rip you off with high fees on accounts and shitty, underperforming investment products.
by throw0101c | 2025-07-17 14:39:46+00:00
> Economists have agency. They don't have to predict what humans will do. They believe they can predict it, attempt to make their predictions, then claim that's what will happen.

Economists study the economy which is made of… a bunch of humans doing stuff with money.

> In both case, past behavior and future behavior, their predictions are untestable. How is that scientific?

What is this not testable about:

> The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation […]

* https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/11/15/open-letter-to-be...

* https://www.hoover.org/research/open-letter-ben-bernanke

Was there (USD) currency debasement? Was there US inflation? No? The predictions were wrong. The same day it was published (in the WSJ) there were critiques about it, e.g.:

* https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/1...

When QE2 went forward and was about to stop there were many predictions (generally involving piles of money), some of which were accurate and others less so:

* https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...

* https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...

* https://equitablegrowth.org/pimco-lose-lots-money-influence-...

How are / were these "untestable"?

People in finance make predictions about what policies will do and where they will take the economy on a daily basis:

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

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(finance)

Do you have a model that tries to explain what tariffs with do to the USD? You can make a prediction and win/lose a lot of money buy shorting/longing the dollar.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-17 14:40:22+00:00
Unihertz is currently serving both the slim size and the QWERTY niche, with a QWERTY Kickstarter running right now. Their hardware actually seems quite appreciated, but they don't seem to care much for software updates.

Currently, foldable smartphones (the flip phone ones) seem to be the fashionable alternative to small phones, but they're even more expensive than the huge ones.
by thomask1995 | 2025-07-17 14:40:30+00:00
Cool idea!

I see this does consumption, and plans on output?

I imagine that's a lot harder as LLMs are training on traditional MD.

Overall, I think there is a pain point here with MD + LLMs. I find myself having to beg is to restrict what Markdown to use because a lot of places only support a subset (ex: SwiftUI)
by slightwinder | 2025-07-17 14:40:34+00:00
Piracy is making a 1:1 copy, there is no own work involved. But AI-Companies usually do not steal data, they buy them and compile them, and the problem is about whether the compiled data are still the original or something new. Which is similar to how humans do not automatically steal content just because they read a book and take this as inspiration for their own book.

So the problem regarding AI is more nuanced and complicated than the plain copyright-question of piracy. It's more akin to cases of plagiarism, which go case by case.
by fidotron | 2025-07-17 14:41:00+00:00
Apparently the providers recognize that there is significant growth in the complexity of control systems, and so there is a lot of fishing around for R&D funding on that side, however, being classic physical hardware people they severely undervalue the contribution software at that level makes.

Most of the actual planning and execution work is done by the usual big civeng consultant companies in a very globalized manner.
by EPendragon | 2025-07-17 14:41:35+00:00
Hey, @jarofgreen! Thank you for the feedback!

1) I only considered LinkedIn alone since I have been posting there and here on HN, and that's it. I figured I will let it play out until I need to allow for more bots to access it. Your suggestion of other people wanting to share the links to the blog is a very valid one that I haven't thought about. I might need to allow several other platforms.

2) With Google and other search engines I have seen a trend towards the AI summaries. It seems like this is the new meta for search engines. And with that I believe it will reduce the organic traffic from those engines to the websites. So, I do not particularly feel that this is a loss for me.

I might eat my words in the future, but right now I think that social media and HN sharing is what will drive the most meaningful traffic to my blog. It is a word-of-mouth marketing, that I think is a lot more powerful than finding my blog in a Google search.

I will definitely need to go back and do some more research on this topic to make sure that I'm not shooting myself in the foot with these decisions. Comments here have been very helpful in considering other opinions and options.