MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jach | 2025-07-17 13:15:37+00:00
That's a good followup article, but it doesn't really contradict anything and the myth is still a myth. So no, it is not based on solid science, and the whole framing should be discarded because it will just be used to rescue the hard line oversimplification. (fMRI research by itself is also not solid science; it can definitely be a useful tool and can support things, especially if paired with other behavioral and developmental science, but it has many flaws with methodology in interpreting data as well as often being statistically underpowered. At least the papers themselves are typically better than press in using appropriately uncertain language. e.g. an imaging study mentioned in the article found huge variation in actual age with a "maturation index", showing 8-12 year olds can have the same maturity as 25-30 year olds, the r^2 for their asymptotic growth curve was only 0.555.)

Some things that are better supported by multiple lines of scientific research, to quote two consecutive bits from the second article: "young people’s general cognitive skills, including their ability to reason, don’t change much after the age of 14 or so." "What does change with age is the ability to reason while distracted; emotions and peer pressure are more likely to hamper decision making in teens and early twentysomethings." These things are really outside of the pop idea of "your brain isn't fully developed until 25".
by jmlim00 | 2025-07-17 13:15:49+00:00
Terrifying. I opened this thread to leave the same comment that Google pay is working for me on my pixel 5. I bought it second handed and replaced battery so I didn't spend too much money on it, but it would be a real shame when that rollout reaches me. Especially because I also quite enjoy the size and functionality. It's enough for everything I need to do on a phone..
by delusional | 2025-07-17 13:15:56+00:00
Heh, we did something similar at the bank where I work. Our marketing department, tasked with getting people to complete some "ongoing due diligence" (a bank term, part of KYC), sent out a bunch of SMS' with links to a page (on a non-core business domain) where we then asked customers to enter a bunch highly personal information. The SMS contained a lot of scary language about your account getting blocked and stuff.

I didn't know about it before my grandmother handed me an article from the local newspaper and told me some of her friends were worried about it. We laughed and I took the newspaper clipping to work and posted it on the wall of failures. Everybody in IT could immediately tell that this was a pretty bad idea, but we weren't asked.

I'd link the article and provide more details, but I'd have to visit my local library, and maybe later.
by acka | 2025-07-17 13:16:35+00:00
Do you use APIs with n8n? Just curious. If you do, then you might want to factor in the cost of using those as well, including privacy implications.

In my limited testing, I found n8n to be heavily focused on cloud API use, from their onboarding quick tutorial to the collection of provided nodes, I found adapting them to strictly local use something of a chore.
by hagbard_c | 2025-07-17 13:16:37+00:00
They can be made to turn out easily as children around that age - yes, children, teenage children but still children - are highly susceptible to group pressure. I do wonder whether the Labour leaders who thought this would help them win the next election have had a look at the results of many of those school polls which do not paint a rosy picture for old stodgy parties like Labour. It is far more likely for someone like Farage to benefit from 16yo boys being able to vote and whatever radical leftie - no name comes to mind which is a problem for the political left in the UK - to gain votes from 16yo girls.
by brookst | 2025-07-17 13:16:51+00:00
Private companies have valuations. Your can pedant on whether it’s appropriate to use the word “market”, but the fact is pretty well known.

Musk paid $44B and it is generally considered to be worth less than $10B today[1], though his open participation in political corruption has resulted in valuations all over the map, including $44B[2].

It’s kind of Schroedinger’s valuation; if he and Trump are having a spat it’s worth less because there’s a risk Trump orders it shut down or seized or whatever, if he and Trump make up the company is a a part of the ruling party’s government apparatus.

But as far as actual product value, outside of a clubhouse for red hats, it’s pretty close to zero. They have to literally sue companies to force them to advertise[3], which would be laughable if creeping fascism wasn’t so bad that it’s actually a successful strategy. Any attempt to claim free speech high ground while suing companies for declining to advertise is incredibly disingenuous.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258129/musks-44-billion...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/19/value-elo...

3. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsu...
by sumtechguy | 2025-07-17 13:17:14+00:00
Finding people is easy. Finding good ones is hard. You basically have to interview them. Even then you can end up with a slick salesman and garbage crew.

Needed a moving company. One guy shows up sits in my driveway gives me a quote. The next guy walked thru the house and gave me a quote. The third guy shows up opens every closet every cabinet and has a fairly spot on estimate. The first two were off by nearly 30% on weight/cost.

Needed someone to paint the entire interior of a house. One guy pulls a no show on the walkthru and then 3 months latter says I didnt show on time that day (it was already a done job at that point). Second guy goes 'hmm duno maybe X price'. Next guy measures everything has a itemized estimate. I hired the one with the good estimate.

My sister needed some simple electrical work done. 2 guys just handed her a number and an open ended contract. The 3rd guy had an itemized estimate that was lower than the first two because he did the prework.

Had some AC work done. Again with the 3. 1 just random didnt even come out, 1 driveway guy, and 1 who actually looked around and figured it out correctly. Even then I walk out there and the outside unit is installed backwards. I tell them, they puff out on me. I grab the foreman and walk him over with a 'uh there is a small issue here' didnt tell him what. They had to redo 3 hours of work once the foreman saw it backwards. All because the guys he had were willing to do backwards work. The foreman is usually the key. If they give a crap it will be done right.

Trying to have a covered porch added to my current house. So far 2 no shows and totally ghosted.

I wish this was atypical. But it isn't. I have many more.
by TheFreim | 2025-07-17 13:17:18+00:00
My bank uses a fraud detection system that calls you if suspicious activity is detected on your account. It then asks you to call back a number to verify the account activity. Every time they call, they provide a different callback number. Searching for the callback number online yields only one result, which is the fraud detection systems web page telling you to NOT trust phone calls of any kind (their advice is solid, but it tells you to not respond to their own legitimate calls)!
by epistasis | 2025-07-17 13:17:55+00:00
You are the one bringing politics into this, not the comment that you are falsely accusing of being politically motivated, with some sort of "free speech" nonsense and an image that has been filled with so many tweets that it's not even legible. Even collecting that image is odd and strange and shows highly politically motivated behavior on your part!

Twitter's valuation with investors was based on the idea of heavy growth. It wasn't even profitable when purchased, and when it did make a profit, it was on the order of $1B/year, nothing that would validate it's market cap.

Musk squashed all potential for growth. Twitter advertisers, users, and the hope of a brighter future are all gone now. A well-established brand has been abandoned for an amorphous X, on which it's pretty much impossible to establish a new brand.

Musk has destroyed so value much from Twitter with bone-headed moves that if he had to answer to investors, he'd be out in a second.
by AAAAaccountAAAA | 2025-07-17 13:18:13+00:00
IRCv3 has "chathistory" extension. It basically involves combining an IRC network and a bouncer. There are at least two server implementations using it: ergo, which is more or less production ready, but does not have support for multi-server networks, and Libera's sable, which is under (very slow) development.

I wonder why such thing wasn't done 15...20 years ago. Now it seems to be too little too late, with Matrix more or less having been taken the place of IRC.
by egorzudin | 2025-07-17 13:18:33+00:00
Thanks for the honest feedback — you're absolutely right: from an Adblock user’s perspective, blocking notifications and analytics isn't a bug, it’s a feature.

But here's the nuance: most people install ad blockers to remove intrusive ads, not realizing that this often breaks useful functionality — like notifications they explicitly agreed to receive, or analytics that help improve the user experience.

My proxy isn’t trying to trick the user. It's meant for situations where the user has given explicit consent, but the OneSignal script simply fails to load because of blanket blocking.

By the way, this isn’t just about Adblock — there have been cases where entire countries have blocked onesignal.com, making notifications completely unusable even when the user trusts the site.

In that sense, this isn't about "bypassing" blockers, but rather restoring transparency: if a user agreed to a feature, it should be allowed to work.
by acdha | 2025-07-17 13:18:37+00:00
That’s kind of the big failure of post-WWII 20th century American urban planning. People, especially young ones, want to live in the fun cities they saw on TV where you can live in fun neighborhoods and walk to cool restaurants on the way to a show, so they move to places like SF, LA, NY, etc. but unless you bought in the 90s anyone without family wealth has the abrupt disappointment that they’re actually in some suburb 45 minutes away and spending a couple hours a day driving and trying not to think about how much they’re paying for even that.

I don’t know how quickly we’ll find the political will to break that since everyone who owns property in a city has a financial incentive to keep prices artificially high. Removing density restrictions helps by making redevelopment financially advantageous for individuals but the degree of uncertainty we have now is going to slow that down, too.
by eej71 | 2025-07-17 13:18:40+00:00
I can only say that this direclty matches the experience of my two college graduates.

First kid gradudated end of 2023, and I played an active role in helping him finding jobs to apply for. Applied to easily 200+ roles. Many of them seemed like spam or junk listings that fullfilled some regulatory obligation. It wasn't that the kid got back a no thanks, just silence. He eventually did find a job, but it was almost a bit of dumb luck that something came together. CS degree for those curious.

Second kid graduated May 2025. Same boat. We apply to everything that is a match or is even a bit of a reach, because why not. The reply rate is terrible. It's not a no. Just silence. He did score a virtual interview. But so far, no answer there either. Nuclear Engineering degree with this one. So more specialized, but fewer graduates... so... maybe easier than CS these days? I dunno. Makes me nervous for those who are further away from these STEM fields.

Kid #3 is still working their way through the system. We shall see how this plays out.
by anonfordays | 2025-07-17 13:18:48+00:00
No one needed a code of conduct to police and enforce rules in a community. They didn't exist until 15 minutes ago and communities were fine without them.

>That is why all grown-up open source projects have one.

All ones that bandwagoned and let leftist entryists take over you mean. Grown-ups don't need a CoC to stop trolls with anime character profile pics from using the platform to defend pedophiles. They simply get a ban and life moves on. You can have rules without a code of conduct.
by JimDabell | 2025-07-17 13:19:15+00:00
Also very important for a lot of use-cases: Node-RED is open source, but n8n is not.

https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/master/LICENSE

https://docs.n8n.io/sustainable-use-license/

We previously looked into integrating n8n but they wanted $50k for a commercial license, which didn’t make sense for us.
by Taikonerd | 2025-07-17 13:20:14+00:00
If anyone is interested in the history of spelling reform, I recommend Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell.[0]

It's light and fun -- good beach reading, if you're a word nerd. And it does cover the ITA, from the article.

One thing I thought was funny: English spelling became more-or-less standardized in the years after the printing press made it to England in 1476. And almost immediately after the spelling was standardized, 15th-century Englishmen started complaining that the new system made no sense. ("Why is there a b in 'debt'?")

More than 500 years later, we're still complaining ;-)

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063360217/
Show HN: Userband: Free User Feedback Platform
by ashbrother | 2025-07-17 13:20:32+00:00
We initially started building an email client called Taurin, but we’ve since pivoted. We decided to focus on something we believe we can build even better.

We’re now building a user feedback platform that connects everything from feedback collection to changelogs, roadmap, documentation, and even a blog into a single, streamlined flow.

This helps teams build alongside their users and reach product-market fit faster.

We’re planning to start beta testing with early sign-ups in early August.

We may introduce paid plans later if we add advanced features like customer support widgets. However, features like Changelog, Feedback, Roadmap, and Docs will remain free within reasonable usage limits, since they don’t cost much to maintain. Custom domains will also be supported.

If you’re building in public through HN or are interested in doing so, we believe the free version could already be very useful as you build your product, so we wanted to share this with you.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-17 13:21:03+00:00
Note that this applies to vanilla investing, like index funds. You can easily automate that if you want. If you're really just looking for modest stable yields, you may as well invest in bonds right now. The US GOV 12 month is at >4%. With inflation significantly below, that's like free money (if you've been an adult in the 2010s you'll know what I mean). But don't expect to make a lot of money in less than a generational timeframe either way.
by mattmanser | 2025-07-17 13:21:59+00:00
But this isn't new, this is something that was very common pre-internet too.

It's an art form, and it's about exploring the people behind the ideas as well as the ideas themselves.

I used to love reading the Saturday and Sunday magazines that came with the paper, this was back in the 1990s. Many of those were always of this long form, rambling, structure.

If you can see the pattern it's obvious once you start reading.

There's a sort of teaser at the beginning. Then they dive into a person's history like this:

Super Bionics is an exciting new form of prosthetic that's revolutionising lives.

Steve Jones was sitting on his porch when he first thought of super-bionics. Steve had always been fascinated by robotics when he was growing up. At 3 years old.........

5 paragraphs later they'll finally do a bit more about the super-bionics.

Then each section gradually moves the story forward in exactly the same way. They intro the subject. They introduce a new person behind the subject and explore them and their motivations. Then they say a bit more about the actual subject.

You're mistaking a writing style with time wasting.

I don't have the patience for it any more, but lots of people do.
by _petronius | 2025-07-17 13:22:21+00:00
Consumer-facing financial services in Germany are really bad at this, and it is not just Sparkassen: a few years ago an email supposedly from our corporate credit card provider to all of the foreign nationals at our company asking for scans of their passport photo pages triggered a deluge of phishing reports to IT, who had to subsequently inform everyone that yes, the email did indeed look exactly like a phishing attempt, but no, it was real.

I don't really know why the situation is so terrible -- there are many good and competent security professionals working in corporates in Germany -- but perhaps as the post alludes to it is due to a lack of legal or regulatory pressure to date.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-17 13:22:36+00:00
... and when the results are junk, you go back to Google and so the KPI "time spent on Google" rises.

That's the problem when the metrics are focused on how the company is doing and not how the user is doing, but when there is barely any competition that is not dogshit you don't have to care about how the customer feels because they can't go anywhere anyway so you can feel free to extract the maximum profit from them.

That's also why Google, Facebook, Microsoft and OpenAI are all so hellbent on AI: they all want to be the one and only place that you interact with to get answers to your questions so that as much of your "eyeball time" as possible (and with it, ad income) stays in their respective walled gardens.
by jstummbillig | 2025-07-17 13:22:54+00:00
To be fair though though, the "open" models are fairly sketchy as well, from a business standpoint, because somebody is paying for a lot of GPUs and expensive talent. It's probably the least obviously sustainable open source product of all time, and it's not at all clear to me why that would change going forward.

Right now there seem to be roughly two paths, when it comes to frontier-level LLMs: Meta just not giving a fuck, spending instagram money and pretending it's a business, and whatever Deepseek is doing that might make it both good and also super cost-effective (and there it's even less clear, how much of it is real and what the actual costs are).
by aiforecastthway | 2025-07-17 13:23:08+00:00
A lot of the comments here are talking about startups. But the chart in the article is the forward P/E of the top 10 companies in the S&P.

For reference, those 10 companies are: Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Braodcom, Alphabet (Class A), Alphabet again (Class C), Tesla, Berkshire.

This isn't a pets.com situation.

These companies are ENORMOUS cash engines with incredibly well-proven moats operating in an extremely monopoly-friendly political climate. Nothing like this existed in the 90s. Microsoft, but anti-trust still had some teeth.

The author makes a comparison between these companies and the rest of corporate America, arguing (implicitly) that the forward P/E of these ten symbols is too high relative to the rest of the S&P 500 index.

So let's look at the flip side. Many of the other companies in the S&P are vulnerable to these exact players' moats and pricing power. It's a zero-sum game and the winner is clear, so of course the winner's P/E looks really high compared to the expected loser.

Every single one of them has an AWS bill. Every single one of them has a big Windows/Office install base. Every single one of them probably has a huge apple install base. Every single one of them needs to pay to play in the App Store.

And many of them are also in the unenviable position of being on the losing side of an unfair competition in their actual core business. Walmart/HD/Coca-Cola vs Amazon. IBM/Oracle vs AWS. Or other complicated market dynamics that pose only upside to the big guys and potential downside to the rest (Biotechs vs Amazon Pharmacy).

The remainders are competing margins away from one another, are vulnerable to disruption of mid-market non-S&P players (or similarly sized companies that just aren't on the public markets -- see the huge size of privacy capital relative to the 90s). Some also face significant tariff risk. Think banks, consumer goods.

What percent of the difference in P/Es between the best and rest is justifiable on the thesis that we are entering a multi-decade period of (1) tech feudalism and (2) unpredictable populist fits that wreck havoc on everyone except the tippy top of the echelon who can blow enough cash to control the narrative?
by einpoklum | 2025-07-17 13:23:14+00:00
My very lax criteria yield only 4 phones released since 2023:

* A phone, not a watch

* Android 14 or later OS

* Thickness: 9mm max

* Height: 150mm max

* Width: 71mm max

and three of them are the overpriced Samsung Galaxy S phones. Only 7 released since 2020:

https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?nYearMin=2020&nHeightMa...

and they are Samsung Galaxy S's, a couple of Asus ZenFone's, and Google Pixel 5.

If you're willing to add another 5mm, there are also a couple of Sony Xperia's and Sharp Aquous, and Google Pixel 8. And if you want to cap the height at 145 mm - it's just Google Pixel 5.
by shuckles | 2025-07-17 13:23:35+00:00
> In San Francisco specifically, crime also increased due to police officers quietly going on strike against policies they disagreed with.

People love repeating this point with absolutely no evidence and then asking the world of those who disagree. Beware, selective calls for rigor.

> Crime has been on a downward trend for a generation, outside of a few areas.

This is basically untrue. The decrease in crime that began in the mid 80s more or less bottomed out in the early 2010s at rates much higher than comparably rich nations. This doesn't include the huge reporting issues with non-violent crimes that manifests in low property and drug crime data juxtaposed with crackheads clearing out any products not behind plexiglass in major American cities.
by hn_acker | 2025-07-17 13:24:11+00:00
Classes and homework take up a massive chunk of daytime hours, and nighttime hours for some students. Swap protest and homework hours? Be unable to work with other students on homework at night. Additionally, on the day of a protest, if I were a leader of any large gathering of people I would prefer to start talking to the other planners before 8 AM.
by Alex3917 | 2025-07-17 13:24:16+00:00
I don't remember the exact details, but it basically involved something along the lines of:

1) Loop through a list of permissions in a for list

2) After the loop block, check if the user had a certain permission. The line of code performing the check was improperly indented and should have failed, but instead succeeded because the last permission from the previous loop was still in scope.

Fortunately there was no real impact because it only affected users within the same company, but it was still pretty bad.
by AAAAaccountAAAA | 2025-07-17 13:24:38+00:00
I have heard so, too. Maybe I'll give it or some of its derivatives a try some time.

I think there is a some sort of catch-22 going on. Matrix Foundation can't fund the replacement of Synapse with a better-designed server, because hosting matrix.org consumes all the money. And it consumes so much money because it runs Synapse, which uses computing resources in a very inefficient manner.

And the Foundation might have a some sort of conflict-of-interest, since it is closely interwoven with the New Vector company, which business case is being able to make Synapse work despite its flaws.