MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by username332211 | 2025-08-01 09:34:29+00:00
The global issue is that elected representatives are becoming weaker.

The idea that a city hall would need to organize some sort of public meeting before approving a construction project is a fairly new one. The city council is elected to represent the people. If they need "community input" why are they even here? (Nevermind the obvious problem with such participatory process - sane and normal people can't participate in every local government decision unless it's their job. Hence why we have representative democracy.)

If you told someone in the 1980s that the British parliament couldn't impose its will on QUANGOs and local governments to build a rail line, they'd look at you as if you were insane. Parliament's power is supposed to be absolute. Yet that's what's happening with HS2.
Show HN: Automatic local Git snapshots while you code (macOS)
by alessandro-a | 2025-08-01 09:34:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I got tired of making messy "just in case" commits every time AI or a big refactor might break my code. So I built ShadowGit: a macOS app that quietly creates local Git snapshots in the background.

No manual commits, no cluttered history, just instant local restore points.

It's free to download and use during early access and I'd really love your honest feedback.

Happy to answer anything here. Even if you think this idea is dumb, I want to hear it :)

Thank you!
by vntok | 2025-08-01 09:35:11+00:00
> And you are saying that those misuses of money were happening at Harvard?

Out of a more than $2.6B research grant package, yes I do feel pretty certain that there's some misuse happening. Don't you? Misuses of money routinely happen in all sorts of places on much much lower amounts of grants/donations, so what do you think makes Harvard immune to it?

There's also the fact that the institution seems open to settling, an indicator among others that they aren't confident in their ability to sustain an audit (per the NYT: "Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/trump-harvard...)

> Must be really easy to get a research position there if every idiot fraud is able to.

Indeed. Presumably this is a reason for the Trump admin's demand that Harvard turn over employment forms for university staff. The good news is that Harvard seems to be complying (per The Guardian: "Harvard to comply with Trump officials’ demand to turn over employment forms" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/29/harvard-tr...), so if there's anything the admin disagrees with we're sure to hear all about it soon.
by kees99 | 2025-08-01 09:35:30+00:00
You'd probably want to do the filesystem unmount dance first:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo u > /proc/sysrq-trigger dmesg --follow \ | grep -qm1 'Emergency Remount complete' echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger

...least putting a bit too much trust in ext4/btrfs/zfs journalling.
by Shacklz | 2025-08-01 09:35:52+00:00
I'm one of those apparently super rare weirdos who just shut down any computer over night. Takes me just a tiny wee bit longer the next day to get started, but given all the issues my work colleagues have with battery life and whatnot (something I've never had troubles with on several machines going 5+ years), I just stick to it - and stories like OPs are definitely reaffirming :)
by ncruces | 2025-08-01 09:36:01+00:00
Then wait for Google to adopt it at large?

If it (purportedly?) exists so that Google can move multi-million line code bases from C++ to something better bit-by-bit, because it's otherwise infeasible to do so, why would Google drop it after they have ported the first million?

You can simply wait to see if Chrome adopts it.
by spurgu | 2025-08-01 09:36:09+00:00
Indeed. The more powerful tools there are available, the worse kind of people get drawn to them. And the more it corrupts those with initially good intentions.

People seem to be longing for a God of sorts in their aspirations towards authoritarian governments (naively believing that those with the power will be (and remain) benevolent and act in their best interests and with fairness).
by GTP | 2025-08-01 09:37:06+00:00
Not a psychologist, but I have doubts that this is a more conscious and aware way of going through emotions. If you're so stressed about something that it makes you cry, this is a signal that there is something wrong that you need to change or takle/face in some way. If you're inducing cry once a week to relieve your stress, you're instead trying to silence the signal telling that something might be wrong. Like taking a painkiller after breaking a bone, but without taking care of the fracture that is causing the pain.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-01 09:39:09+00:00
(Ah Lithuanian makes more sense, familiarity breeds contempt as they say!)

Sorry! That implied association was accidental, you might even say negligent.

(Even though I do suspect dang has been working on auto-karma which is totally different from the HN-karma, but more for judging the "true merit" of individual posters or posts for the purpose of moderation. Because HN-karma is completely useless for that, but auto karma could work in principle)

Or I might have just completely misunderstood what you meant by auto-karma..
by mastazi | 2025-08-01 09:39:56+00:00
I followed the link to that .eu website which then redirected me to https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

I was expecting to find a big CTA button that I could click to sign some message to my representatives. Instead I found a giant wall of text with "ideas on how to take action" followed by a list of points along the lines of "Is your government in favour? Ask for an explanation" OK, ask how? No links, no email addresses... basically it's just a page saying "if you care about this thing do your own homework and find a way to act"

Whoever made that page needs to look into the concept of conversion rate. As it is right now it's basically useless
by Kon5ole | 2025-08-01 09:40:41+00:00
From the FAQ:

> The plan is for the small amount of spent fuel [..] that comes out of our reactors at the end of their duty cycle to only be temporarily stored on-site until a federal repository or interim storage solution becomes available.

>The NRC is legally required to ensure that, in the event of bankruptcy that the site is secure and the spent fuel remains safely managed before ultimately transferring over to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) possession

So basically like with all other nuclear, the tricky parts with unknown costs are handed over to future taxpayers. These costs are thereby removed from the estimates in Kaleidos business plan making it seem like it's a viable business, which is isn't otherwise.

Meanwhile the founders get rich today, since immense amounts of money has to be presented upfront, before any energy is produced at all.

The obvious replacement for diesel generators today is solar+batteries, which is evident in many countries that used to rely on small scale diesel generators already.
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 09:41:10+00:00
Right, but if a tipped employee in a lower-tipped-minimum state doesn't make the full minimum wage when their tips are included, it's a lot easier in a place like that for a shady employer to fail to top up their wage. Yes, in theory there are ways for employees to get this enforced, but in practice they are very reasonably and understandably wary about making use of those legal avenues.

Not to mention that in a state where there is no lower tipped-wage minimum, all tips go to the employees directly. In a state where the tipped minimum is lower, tips effectively go to the employer for the amount between the tipped minimum and regular minimum, as that's a cost the employer would otherwise have to pay.
Ask HN: What's your take on companies that send technical test before interview?
by shadowjones | 2025-08-01 09:41:59+00:00
A few years ago I was almost never coming across this kind of process.

But over the past few weeks, I've had maybe 5 or 6 companies asking me for a technical test before any kind of interview.

I did it twice, the first took 2-3 hours, followed by 3 interviews, and I did not get the job.

The other was like a 15 minutes test, which seems more acceptable, but still annoying.

The last one was asking for a relatively big feature, with no time limit, and vague requirements, it's up to me to decide how far I want to push it, I'm hesitating to write even a single line of code...

A while ago I would have never tolerated this kind of process, but given how the market is at the moment, I wonder if I should just put up with it.

Do you see this as a red flag from companies that won't respect or value you and your time? Or is just the new "normal" and we should adapt?
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-08-01 09:43:17+00:00
This quote from the CEO of Palantir (Alex Karp) haunts me. ---

> “I actually am a progressive,” he said. “I want less war. You only stop war by having the best technology and by scaring the bejabers — I’m trying to be nice here — out of our adversaries. If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir....
by wat10000 | 2025-08-01 09:46:06+00:00
I’ve had fantastic service in countries where tipping is not the norm. I’ve had atrocious service in the US. UK service may be worse, but I doubt tipping is the reason for it.

Good service is common in industries where tipping doesn’t happen. What makes restaurants special that their workers can’t provide good service if all of their pay comes from their employer just like everyone else’s?
by yieldcrv | 2025-08-01 09:46:42+00:00
we can regulate the intermediary

we can literally get the state to say it is illegal for the point of sale system to have that or sell that to merchants

we can tie it to business codes that dictate which type of business it is to payment processors

control behavior by regulating the intermediary

the beauty of this philosophy is that it works under any system of government: don’t worry about the rights afforded to merchants or individuals, don’t burden them with the law at all, only intermediaries!

poof, tips at the point of sale system before receiving service disappears as fast as it came, short Square (now Block)

we can go deeper too
by a96 | 2025-08-01 09:46:50+00:00
Yes. One of the particular features of engineering and especially software is that you don't usually solve the same problem twice. You just use the previous solution. That kind of thing can make you dream of having a job where you can just do fairly routine and well understood tasks as well and as efficiently as possible instead of spending days going "WTF" and "how is that possible".
by npteljes | 2025-08-01 09:47:20+00:00
Or, one could argue that the influx of money and the ever-increasing hardware capability enabled saner, more human languages. Human both in design, as in, easier to learn, more accommodating to human mental models, and human in a way that they account more for human fallacies. Something that old languages, and lower levels of abstractions cannot do, because it's expensive to double-check, or to defend against the human.
by evaXhill | 2025-08-01 09:47:36+00:00
While I do believe its important to replace legacy and bloated tech in the military to make it more efficient (esp less costly), I doubt the ROI will be able to make up for it/ will be hard to measure effectively considering how hard it is to conduct fully transparent audits. Even if they say that the new agreement would consolidate existing software contracts and lead to “significant cost efficiencies across mission-critical programs.” Also what happened to reducing the gov. deficit?? Very confusing
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 09:47:56+00:00
You keep posting this over and over as if states with a lower tipped minimum are equivalent to states with the same minimum, regardless of tips.

You're not wrong that, in states with a lower tipped minimum, the tips act as a credit. But you're ignoring what the power imbalance in those situations can do to an employee, and you're ignoring the fact that in states like that, tips paid by customers are effectively subsidizing the employer out of paying minimum wage.

And I don't think that it would be surprising that wage theft is more common in places where the tipped minimum is set lower than the general minimum.

As a customer, I would much rather know that the employer is paying the full fair minimum wage regardless, and any tip I leave will always be on top of that. I don't want to be paying a part of the employee's wage that the employer would otherwise be paying.
by cubefox | 2025-08-01 09:48:01+00:00
Animals have a sleep-wake cycle that is usually synchronized with the day-night (24 hour) cycle of the Earth. But this synchronization is not essential. All animals with nervous system have a sleep-wake cycle, even if they live underground or in the deep ocean, where the day-night cycle has no significant effect. So there must be an actual need for the sleep-wake cycle that is independent of the rotation of the Earth.
by specialist | 2025-08-01 09:48:21+00:00
Strict Scrutiny is a SFW alternative to 5-4. They both cover more or less the same events and issues. Strict Scrutiny's hosts are profs and former clerks, whereas 5-4 are "blue color" lawyers.

Though they have different POVs, I think they're both hysterical.

Former prosecutor Preet Bharara (Cafe Insider) has yet another POV. More nuts & bolts. Super informative.

YMMV.
by rightbyte | 2025-08-01 09:48:38+00:00
> “how exactly would landlords continue seeking high rents if housing were no longer scarce?”

I think land lords wont lease out at marker rate due to that would lower the book value of the house which would make the banks call in loans.

Like, bank and land lords have some sort of understanding which in practice is some sort of price fixing and market collusion via proxy.
by belter | 2025-08-01 09:50:00+00:00
You are being disingenuous. The nature of the accident matters:

"...See, a basic collision avoidance system should be able to spot a parked object. It's kind of the entire purpose of things like ultrasonic sensors, which Tesla opted to remove from its cars in favor of a vision-only based system in 2022. Perhaps the Camry was in a blind spot, or maybe the vision system just had a hiccup. Either way, this is a rookie-level mistake that makes it seem like the Robotaxis are swimming in the kiddie pool while Waymo is already doing laps around the deep end..."

https://youtu.be/N2l2KcwBXZ8?t=374
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 09:50:24+00:00
It's easy to report, but retaliation is a thing, and is hard -- and expensive -- to prove. Someone subject to wage theft is not the kind of person who can afford that trouble.

And it's not like restaurant owners don't talk among themselves. Getting blackballed isn't great.

Bottom line is that you seem to think that there's zero reason why people are shy about reporting wage theft. And yet so many people don't want to do it. Maybe try a little humility on and accept that maybe there are reasons you don't know about or don't understand. It's very easy to tell people what they should be doing when you don't have to walk in their shoes.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-01 09:50:37+00:00
>You only stop war by having the best technology and by scaring the bejabers — I’m trying to be nice here — out of our adversaries.

That's haunting indeed to the naive minds who imagine the world must run on political correctness, rainbows and unicorns, but that's not how the real world works or has ever worked, and nobody can say that he's wrong though just because he's not sugar coating it. You only have peace if everyone is scared of you. Why do only small guys get bullied and not the tall muscular jocks? Why does Russia bully the EU and not the US?

Being pacifist doesn't assure you any peace if you're weak, as eventually, inevitably, someone hungry and greedy will build their strength to come for your lunch and you'll have to defend it if you want to keep it, as per human history in the last infinity years. Ask Belgium or NL how their pacifism worked out in WW2 in face of the Nazi army.

He should have just said: "Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war" if he wanted something that sounds nicer.
by logging33 | 2025-08-01 09:50:38+00:00
WTF ??

https://mail.proton.me/api/core/v4/images?Url=https%3A%2F%2F...

does it upload codes to a cloud service running on AWS (cloudinary)?

You cannot export /import from google authenticator. On import it cannot read QRs with camera and that is the only way to do it with G_ATH.

Is this a beta or an alpha version ?

-edited- clarification and typos
by wongarsu | 2025-08-01 09:52:40+00:00
Which was a very outdated number even back when this article was published two years ago

I'm not sure what the exact number was in 2023, but according to [1] it was 6718 at the end of 2022. With that kind of growth, quoting two year old numbers isn't all that helpful

1: https://blog.ucs.org/syoung/how-many-satellites-are-in-space...
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-01 09:53:23+00:00
This is way too narrow of an explanation.

Yes rising inequalities are a problem, but the housing price being absurdly high is a much broader problem: when a middle class family spends $500k+ for a house, they are part of the systemic problem. Same when the same family expects such a sum when selling the old house they inherited from their boomer parents.
by saubeidl | 2025-08-01 09:54:01+00:00
terror

noun

1) a state of intense or overwhelming fear

2) violence or the threat of violence used as a weapon of intimidation or coercion

a regime that rules by terror

especially: violent or destructive acts (such as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terror
by huvarda | 2025-08-01 09:55:30+00:00
In a Louis Rossmann video (i think it was the one on food delivery guys on e-bikes) he mentions never tipping in app but leaving a note that says he will give a cash tip if the driver brings the food straight to his door. That seems like a decent compromise as it doesn't let the app take a cut from the tip and makes so the driver actually goes the extra mile to 'deserve' the tip.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-01 09:55:32+00:00
No surprise there. And no, it's not just due to Elon's antics - Tesla has been locked by a serious labor dispute for well over a year now [1] that quickly evolved to include solidarity strikes in Norway [2].

European countries generally don't like American hire-and-fire and other labor practices. Musk made it so much worse all on his own, and labor unions are pretty powerful when you piss them off too much.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/norway...
by sunshine-o | 2025-08-01 09:55:55+00:00
Is there a cool lightweight alternative to cron for (at least) a single host?

To illustrate what I am looking for, I often end up using supervisord [0] (but I also like immortal [1]) for process control when not on a systemd enabled system. In my experience they are reliable, lightweight and a pleasure to work with.

I am looking for something similar for scheduled jobs.

- [0] https://supervisord.org/

- [1] https://immortal.run/
by kelnos | 2025-08-01 09:57:10+00:00
It's not that simple. Restaurant owners don't pay payroll taxes on tips, but they do pay it on regular wages. Raising restaurant menu prices by 20% (or the average tip amount) will not result in 20% (or the average tip amount) more going to the workers. Some restaurants have tried this out, and it's backfired. Restaurants already run on very thin margins; a loss of a few percent can kill them.

Also consider that customers will get sticker shock: even though they are ultimately paying the same price, seeing 20% higher prices on the menu will make them spend less. Yes, it's dumb, but human psychology is dumb, so there we are.

(Folks in Europe are used to the listed price being what they pay. In the US businesses don't generally list tax-included prices, but businesses that do include tax in their prices end up looking -- in the eyes of customers -- as more expensive than those that don't, even when the final prices are identical.)
by vkou | 2025-08-01 09:57:13+00:00
You are assuming that there was any good way of dealing with a year where nobody went to work because of a global pandemic.

The economic pain of inflation was far preferable to the economic pain of active economic destruction, as short-term disruption to business would have resulted in long-term destruction of real value. It was far less painful long-term to print money and have the economy on pause for a year, with bills still getting paid, than it would have been to have the economy collapse over that year.

If it weren't for those mitigations, we'd all still be sitting around a tire fire, trading bottle caps for ammunition.
by a96 | 2025-08-01 09:57:16+00:00
Comment sections are often actually also the place where the gold is. Tons of authors find the answer to the problems that they were trying to solve in comments or they find greetings from other people doing similar things, or sometimes someone points them at some other person or group doing similar things. Other readers/viewers may find the answer to the question that lead them to read/watch the content in the comments. Or there's a TLDR or a correction there that's really useful.

Depending on the site and community, a comment section vs needing to find a way to email or phone or meet someone in person in order to give them something is often a make or break threshold for contributions. Sadly, it's often also the threshold for bad contributions.

But why do sites do it? Yes, like another commenter said, it boosts engagement. Both for the platform and the users. Creators and commenters and even lurkers.
by tailspin2019 | 2025-08-01 09:57:24+00:00
Your comment history seems peppered with similar low-effort comments about Europe.

As a European, I have some strong opinions about the state of your country at the moment. Opinions shared by quite a large proportion of your own population actually.

But I manage to refrain from regularly and flippantly insulting entire continents and maintain some self awareness that we all have our own problems.

I’d strongly encourage you to do the same.
by Gud | 2025-08-01 09:57:27+00:00
I don’t think these are core reasons why Switzerland is a prosperous nation, no. I would guess what you are pointing out has only benefitted a few select bankers and the average citizen has had little to gain from this.

I believe Switzerland is prospering because the citizens are in charge of their nation, not a select few belonging to the political class and well connected wealthy individuals.
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