MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-08-11 02:47:46+00:00
> A replaceable battery doesn't have to make the phone thicker, heavier, or less waterproof if implemented correctly

A replaceable battery will reduce the water resistance by adding more possible water ingress points. There is no question about this.

It will increase thickness because you need a wall between the battery compartment and the device now.

It will add weight and thickness because the battery cover is now a separate piece and can’t contribute as much to the structural rigidity of the chassis.

Thinking that a device could have a removable battery with no downsides is fantasy.
by jmbwell | 2025-08-11 02:48:09+00:00
The point I was waiting for them to get to was saved for last: entails completion.

Try to do something, you might or might not do it. “I’m going to try to persuade them to decide in my favor.”

Try and do something, you expect to get it done one way or another. “I’m goin down there to try and straighten them out.”

I don’t have a long history of research in this going back to the 1500s, but I grew up in southeast Texas, and this is how I’ve always understood it to be used around here, when it is used with any intention at least.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-11 02:48:24+00:00
How about a law that a company can't disable your product remotely, full stop? Or at least make it a negative right, so that any company can't disable your car/dishwasher/thermostat/video game, unless there's a very good reason to (say theft for example), with the burden of proof being on the company and not the consumer's shoulder?
by dangus | 2025-08-11 02:48:29+00:00
When the EU mandates this it’ll be the fastest eating of your words anyone’s ever seen.

All of a sudden trillion dollar smartphone companies will magically have the engineering talents to produce a waterproof and thin phone with a replaceable battery.

I dunno guys do you think a company that designed a mobile phone chip with 20 billion transistors in it can make a battery door with a gasket?
by yuliyp | 2025-08-11 02:49:20+00:00
In Hack, collection objects were one of the biggest early mistakes that the took a huge amount of effort to undo. It turns out that the copy-on-write semantics of PHP array were extremely important for performance and good APIs. Being able to pass arrays to things without fear of mutation allowed for tons of optimizations and not needing to copy things just in case. This is why Hack switched to using `dict`, `vec`, and `keyset` rather than collection objects.

More generally, it's weird to see a whole blog post about generics for PHP not even mentioning Hack's generics designs. A lot of thought and iteration went into this like 5-10 years ago.

See https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/arrays-and-collections/object-col... and https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/arrays-and-collections/vec-keyset...
by kbolino | 2025-08-11 02:49:22+00:00
Is that really the long pole in the tent, though?

No doubt the most tightly integrated package can outperform a looser collection of components. But if we could shorten the distances, tighten the tolerances, and have the IC companies work on improving the whole landscape instead of just narrow, disjointed pieces slowly one at a time, then would the unsoldered connections still cause a massive performance loss or just a minor one?
by valenterry | 2025-08-11 02:49:59+00:00
Yes it does. Apache ant did that... many many years ago.

Creating a new language that looks like XML but is not XML is... kind of unforgivable. I'd go as far and call it amateur-like. We already have good configuration languages (such as dhall-lang) and when more power is needed, then just use a real language and provide a DSL inside of it.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-11 02:50:16+00:00
IMHO, there are two review branches to discuss in this example:

First, if `ptr` is declared in the translation unit before and outside defining `class foo`, then there is no check for previous initialization and thus is likely a run-time defect.

Second, if `ptr` is not declared in the translation unit before and outside defining `class foo`, then it is likely a missing member definition and is a compile-time defect.
by mythrwy | 2025-08-11 02:50:18+00:00
I replaced my central air heat pump myself last spring. Outside unit and inside air exchange.

The inside unit happened to fit pretty well with a little adjustment in the place the old one (from the 1980s) had been, and I made my own connections to the ductwork. I placed the 2 ton outside unit on the pad where the old one had been. I did have an AC company come and remove the Freon from the old unit, then I cut it up and took it to the scrap yard.

I was able to do this with no vacuuming lines as they sell precharged kits with lines similar to mini splits. It's been over a year and it worked like a charm through summer and winter. It took about 5 days or a week including removing the old unit, pulling the lines under the house, setting the inside and outside units and buttoning everything up. The reason it even took a week was a I did it entirely myself including moving the units with roller logs.

I saved over $6,000 from what I was quoted from an HVAC company which I felt was entirely worth a week of manual labor.
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-08-11 02:51:28+00:00
I am not a fan of censorship either, like most people, but what you are saying is true. This kind of alibi talk built on the premise that “propaganda is just an opinion” is naive. It is a total refusal to face reality because it avoids seeing the world in a more complex way. In the Middle Ages there were pogroms against Jews based on the claim that they ate small children. That too was someone’s opinion, deliberately spread to kill and rob people. Today we call it propaganda, not an opinion. A weaponized word in the hands of an attacker is a weapon.

And even with all that said, I am uneasy about the growing power and reach of potential censorship. Particularly the part when politician's it self are exempted from these rules. This proposed solution with "think about the kids" argument is absurd.
by ar-nelson | 2025-08-11 02:51:51+00:00
It's surprisingly funny for AI, but there's just so much of it... It has no sense of pacing. It repeats the same jokes for too long, without including bits of normalcy in between as a breather. Still, it's a lot better than I would have expected from something written 100% by AI, and I'm very curious what the prompt involved.
by atmavatar | 2025-08-11 02:52:18+00:00
This was 25-ish years ago, so apologies if I got that detail wrong. In vs. out-of-state tuition was a big deal for nearly every school I was looking at, but I no longer remember them on a case by case basis.

What I do remember was that MIT was so incredibly expensive that I didn't have to give it much thought -- it was never a viable option due to cost and lack of financial aid possibilities.
by valenterry | 2025-08-11 02:54:36+00:00
> I'm thinking what is the missing piece here

First, it's cool that you work on it. Creating a new language is not an easy task.

I would suggest to try to stand on the shoulders of giants instead of trying to come up with a completely new thing.

Have a look at dhall: https://dhall-lang.org/ - it is a language that was created for cases like yours. Or, if you want to make POML a fully fledged language (and turing complete, with for-loops etc.) then it would be advised to use an existing programming language and create a DSL-like library.

See react. React did it right JSX. It might look like XML, but that's just the syntax part. You can create components in pure javascript syntax, because JSX is just the wrapper. You could do the same with POML. That will future proof it and relieve you from a lot of headache when people will ask you for more features, but without breaking backwards compat.
by DavidCanHelp | 2025-08-11 02:54:43+00:00
I just scrolled way, way back. Found the original Claude Code prompt: ```This folder exists to write a book. You're the author, and I'm guiding you in tech topics to write about. This book is called Reactive, and it has a unique twist: it is a book that teaches React to people who hate react, the idea of react, how react looks and behaves and all the downsides. Be wistful for alternatives but contrast the way things are done. Somebody who reads the book should be amused, entertained, and learn react programming. Write the book in markdown, with numbered files and one file per chapter. Make it a full book, with an index, table of contents, and all the classic sections (Introduction) a book would have.```
by kortilla | 2025-08-11 02:54:47+00:00
>But, yeah, it's low hanging fruit from the anti-science playbook to focus on what hasn't been done, and pretend that means nothing has been done.

Good comment until here. This is a strawman.

There is a huge gap between the vision of what medical advances might have brought us with technological breakthroughs and what has actually materialized.

Cloning and stem cell research was supposed to let me grab a new organ whenever I needed it. Instead I’m still waiting for a poor person to get in a car wreck and be declared brain dead so they can scoop out whatever is useful.

Cancer is still killing half of my family members, just different kinds after a cancer breakthrough helped them with an earlier kind. Others are hit by strokes, heart failures, and the occasional horrific Alzheimer’s.

50 years I’ve heard doctors saying “it was just their time” as an excuse for some old person dying. The field barely has a grasp on human biology and we’re barely making inroads.
by fishywang | 2025-08-11 02:55:31+00:00
I tried to use fish on some of my debian servers that i only rarely update packages/kernel, so I don't have to carry my bashrc there, but found their completion for apt is pretty naive. for example after updated kernel i would want to clean up the old ones, but `apt purge linux-image-<TAB>` would list all available kernel versions, not just the ones currently installed.

in the end i switched back to bash.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-11 02:58:12+00:00
Seems to be the worst of both worlds: mutable by default, and one must add a "const" keyword to the "let", disincentivizing const behavior by making it super verbose (e.g. the "final" problem from Java)

https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/0.1.0/doc/Bolt%20Progr...
by Duanemclemore | 2025-08-11 02:58:29+00:00
Ah yes, polyphasic sleep. Like the classic Seinfeld episode [0].

Inspired by this, a buddy of mine tried "DaVinci Sleep" at our residential high school, and lasted a week before he crashed for 20 hours and went back to a normal schedule.

Apropos of nothing, he's now a very well regarded academic - in an unrelated field.

To be fair, computer science is famous for people rearranging their sleep schedule around when the compute time was available.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friar%27s_Club
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-08-11 02:58:44+00:00
I experimented with polyphasic sleep for a few months. It was really interesting to experience time as more continuous, not broken up into days.

I gave it up because I found it wasn't very fault tolerant. If I missed a bedtime even by just a few hours, or ate before trying to sleep, I was in a bad state for a day or two until I could get back on track.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-11 02:58:57+00:00
> One theory I have for this is that younger people are taught by teachers, when they are at an impressionable age, to revere the smartphone as the pinnacle of human achievement.

Probably over-analyzing this, but I can see why this might happen:

1. There's an ulterior motive of getting them to treat it safely, as it's one of the more-expensive and breakable things they might be carrying around, and they become obstreperous if it is unavailable.

2. It's probably the most immediate and tangible candidate. They probably aren't going to be around MRI scanners or cryo-cooled qubits or whatever.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-11 02:59:12+00:00
I believe it's neither:

"The origin of queueing theory dates back to 1909, when Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929) published his fundamental paper on congestion in telephone traffic [for a brief account, see Saaty (1957), and for details on his life and work, see Brockmeyer et al. (1948)]." -- https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/queueing-th...
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-11 02:59:19+00:00
People know relatively recent history of large nation states because we live in the post-Gutenberg era and we live in an era where vast majority of people do 12 years schooling at a minimum (a quite recent phenomenon). You can read, the vast majority of people in human history could neither read nor write. So people largely relied on oral history. How many Swedes can tell you about the various tribes that made up the oroginal identity of Sweden itself? Would a modern Swede think about the Götar, Upplänningar, or the Värmlänningar? These tribes occupied Sweden before the Swedish national identity emerged somewhere between the 1200s and 1500s. Unless they're history buffs probably not, and there are countless others for which we have no record of.

Many areas of the world existed outside the bounds of extensive record keeping. Thousands of tribal identities and city-states were absorbed into the modern day nation state. Even Germany did not exist as a country until 1871. At one point there was 300 principalities in the region now known as Germany.

The Cathedral of San Fernando was built by the Spanish in 1738, not Mexico. Mexico didn't exist as a nation state until the establishment of the First Mexican Empire in 1821. Meanwhile the Republic of Texas was founded in 1835, just 14 years later, as it broke off from a Mexican dictatorship. The Texans were wise to keep around beautiful and historic works from the Spanish and even retain the names of many Spanish established cities (although they might pronounce them differently as in Amarillo).

Texas wasn't conquered by the U.S., it was a sovereign republic for 10 years before the Texans voted to join the U.S.

Either way history is extremely complex and even as we know so much there is a lot that went undocumented and is lost to the ether. There are many cases where entire cultures were assimilated away, by the Romans and otherwise.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-11 03:00:33+00:00
It’s tempting to see it as people being hypochondriacs, but often when there is an issue only after learning about it you notice that it has been affecting you badly. Noise pollution and air pollution are but two most common examples.

Sure, positive mindset is important, but it can only take you so far when northern wind makes you cough because there is a dozen factories out there, or when you are chronically sleep-deprived because a noise source you might not even know exists switches on at ungodly hours.

Low-frequency sound waves can be brutal. Something can just happen to resonate where you are, but meters away everything is fine. To make things even more interesting, go low enough and you might not actually be hearing it per se, but feeling it with your body. Good luck explaining it to people who can enact change.

Relatedly, Benn Jordan investigated[0] certain sound that some refuse to believe is real yet others suffer from.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_ctHNLan8
by mareko | 2025-08-11 03:01:16+00:00
I'm impressed by your determination.

A while back, I had a big paper deadline a week away and knew I didn’t have enough time to finish without sacrificing sleep.

Rather than cutting my sleep short, I decided to stick with 7–8 hours of rest and instead lengthen my wake window. I worked out a schedule that gave me six nights of sleep across seven days. It meant waking up at stranger and stranger times as the week went on, and getting some odd looks from my roommates when I emerged from my room. But in the end, it was totally worth it. I was waking up well-rested and ready to tackle those extra-long days.

The effort paid off 100%. Not only did I make the deadline, but my paper was accepted as well. A year later, that same paper helped me get into my PhD program of choice.

It’s funny how these short bursts of intense effort can sometimes have such a big impact.

Best of luck with your side hustle!
by gnabgib | 2025-08-11 03:01:32+00:00
If that's your concern, you can read the coverage by:

FT (23 points, 7 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858340

CNBC (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858991

Bloomberg (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44859584

Reuters (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44859996

BBC (10 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860131
by Reason077 | 2025-08-11 03:03:25+00:00
> "disabling a vehicle remotely at a in a way that puts the driver at risk, not only should be illegal but a criminal liability"

This actually happened to me some years ago. I rented a car from one of those "on demand" rental services - a Zipcar competitor who are no longer in business (AFAIK). While picking it up from Heathrow airport, either I managed to not unlock the car correctly from the app, or the device inside the car which controls this was buggy/faulty. Either way, I was still able to start the car and drive away normally.

But after about 10 minutes of driving, the car suddenly stalled and shut down in a live running lane on the M4(!!) and would not restart. Thankfully traffic was slow moving at the time so there wasn't too much danger of being rear-ended at high speed. Called the customer support line from within the app and within about 30 seconds of explaining the problem the car was unlocked again and started normally. The way they responded to my situation so quickly and without seeming at all surprised suggested that it was certainly not the first time it had happened...
by zdw | 2025-08-11 03:03:41+00:00
I'm fearing the day when my quite old ICE car dies and I end up in a situation where the best option is a newer car that is a computer on wheels running software that I know will stop getting updates very quickly.

Of all the new cars ideas I've seen recently, only the Slate mini-truck seems to be taking a minimalist approach, with no fancy head unit or navigation system.
by Aidevah | 2025-08-11 03:04:26+00:00
The main reason for the commotion during the Paris premiere seems to be the publicity which whipped up the audience on both sides and made a clash inevitable. The Russian ballet had been playing the snobbery of the Paris audience for Stravinsky's two previous ballets, but misjudged the response in the third.

The subsequent performances, the London premiere, and the Paris concert premiere in 1914 all went off without a hitch. And the status of the Rite has only steadily increased ever since.

As Taruskin says, the music of the Rite is actually not very difficult to appreciate[1]:

> While it was at first a sore test for orchestra and conductor, and while it took fully half a century before music analysts caught up with it, The Rite has never been a difficult piece for the audience.

> The sounds of the music make a direct and compelling appeal to the listener’s imagination, and the listener’s body. In conjunction with Stravinsky’s peerless handling of the immense orchestra they have a visceral, cathartic impact. They leave—and to judge from the history of the score’s reception, have always left—most listeners feeling exhilarated. It is only the mythology of The Rite that would suggest anything else.

[1] https://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/Richard-Taruskin-Res...
by camdroidw | 2025-08-11 03:04:40+00:00
On phone:

Bad for your reasons (slow etc), good for siblings (objects).

Also, understandable flags that auto-shorten. Eg:

Descriptive-Command-Name -DescriptiveOption 32

Can be typed as:

d-c-n <tab> -des 32

---

Interactively it's still far behind zsh sadly due to startup time but when I'm doing something thoughtful I prefer it. If you're not entering directories and doing small stuff, use pwsh. And for all shell scripting
by mannykannot | 2025-08-11 03:06:34+00:00
I too can hear distant trains at night, especially if it is a still, clear night creating a low-level inversion to channel the sound.

There are several places in Britain (and elsewhere, I imagine) where beam engines have been preserved and are periodically run using live steam. the engines themselves are quiet by modern standards, though I believe the machinery they drove often produced a racket.
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by mattwiese | 2025-08-11 03:08:14+00:00
> I gave it up because I found it wasn't very fault tolerant. If I missed a bedtime even by just a few hours, or ate before trying to sleep, I was in a bad state for a day or two until I could get back on track.

That's what terrifies me about polyphasic sleep at sea. I had a few "cheat" days while attempting this, but of course the safety of myself and others didn't depend on if I hit snooze 5 times in an hour. Claude just got lonely for a bit.

It's really an interesting technique and I hope to find and talk with sailors who've done it. Thanks for sharing your experience.
by jasonfarnon | 2025-08-11 03:08:44+00:00
Did tasker do it for you? I tried about 10 yrs ago but with no success. I'll give it another go, thanks. I don't have any future plans for these but similar to OP I see them on a "pictures screensaver", sometimes on chromecast to a TV. I certainly regret not having done this in the 90s, particularly the BBS era, so that is justification enough for me to continue doing it.
by anilgulecha | 2025-08-11 03:09:14+00:00
Here's one line of thought - You can hand over 130K to your son, and let him decide.

Then he'll have to treat that as an investment, either into college (and hence he'd hopefully be Very Serious about it), or use it for something else - travelling, entrepreneurship, MF/stock investment, etc. The weight of the decision and the ensuing use of the monies are both the payoff, not a degree per-se.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-11 03:10:13+00:00
On the less-technical side, Hyundai has a corporate-legal mechanism to request "Delete personal information" [0] that might be worth doing, just to round things out.

> one step of which involved removing this "garnish" panel behind the screen. Easier said than done

Different year/model, but same experience with the same task: I really hate situations where the secret is "a suspicious amount of force", especially if there's no sufficiently trustworthy/detailed information showing that things can be pulled or pried in a certain manner.

> Having a couple of non-marring plastic pry tools does help with this sort of thing

IMO these are worth buying, they're quite cheap and trying to make-do with metal tools will cause more scratches and scrapes than you'd expect, no matter how careful you're trying to be.

[0] https://owners.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/privacy/data-request/new...