MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-08-26 18:22:09+00:00
Professional surnames tend to reflect trades that were common when surnames were introduced to a culture. In English, that means ~1066. In Turkey, that means 1934. For whatever reason, there doesn't seem to have been a lot of tentmakers that established family names in England during the Norman Conquest. Not so in other places, though:

The Arabic surnames Kheyyam/Khayam/Khayami are all derived from the word for tent maker, Plachta is Polish, but more closely aligns with canvas-maker, mostly sails. And then theres Zeltman, which is German for tent man (which is ambiguous between "man who sells tents" and "man who lives in a tent")
by didibus | 2025-08-26 18:22:33+00:00
The harm adds up, time to prepare and apply, possible time and effort and travel expense wasted if an interview was also conducted. You could say financially it's not a lot to one person, but if 100 people got deceived by the same listing? If 20% of all job listing are like that, maybe 2 million people got deceived in aggregate, now the financial harm total adds up to a lot more. And individually, to an unemployed person, even if the total loss is small, the percentage loss is higher as they likely have no revenue.

You could also argue there is loss to other companies listing real postings, as those fake ones add noise and people might miss their posting and not apply, causing them delays in filling their position.

Plus, if the ghost jobs are to appear to be growing to investors, or to satisfy regulators to justify internal positions or foreign hiring, now there is harm to investors or false compliance to regulations.

And I'd also say, the misrepresentation of demand, might lead people to pursue education in some careers and upskill thinking there is a lot of jobs for those skills, that would be a pretty hefty financial loss if they were mislead.
Show HN: Sip: Alternative to Git Clone
by seeyebe | 2025-08-26 18:22:47+00:00
Built a tiny CLI called sip; lets you grab a single file, a directory, or an entire repo from GitHub without cloning everything.

Works smoothly on Linux/macOS. On Windows, there’s still a libstdc++ linking issue with the exe, contributions or tips are welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/allocata/sip
by pcaharrier | 2025-08-26 18:22:55+00:00
Several years ago I had the opportunity to observe when a detective came to a magistrate's office to petition for a search warrant. The warrant sought to search the contents of a person's phone, essentially without any limitations. The alleged crime was assault and battery on a family member. When asked "What is your probable cause that the phone is likely to contain evidence of the commission of this crime?" the detective had basically nothing to say (having put nothing to that effect in the affidavit for the search warrant) other than some vague (cooked up on the spot?) statements about the "mobile nature of our modern society and the fact that cell phones are everywhere and everyone has one." The magistrate denied the warrant, but it's a sad testament to the propensity of law enforcement to cut corners that that search warrant affidavit was far from the last one I saw that targeted the cell phone of an accused and claimed that it was necessary to search the entire contents of the phone.
by mothballed | 2025-08-26 18:23:12+00:00
Even better, if they wait long enough between selections or only do minimal enforcement, then no one has any standing to challenge it (Knife Rights v Garland) even on constitutional grounds.

Plaintiffs plainly lack standing when they fail to provide evidence that the statutory provision has ever been enforced against them or regularly enforced against others.

(key word here, regularly enforced against others)

So if you think the law is bullshit the judge can just say you probably won't be prosecuted so you have no imminent fear of prosecution and you can't challenge it.
by madaxe_again | 2025-08-26 18:23:36+00:00
Not so. There exist BOM analysis tools which are free for manufacturers of products to use - you just upload your parts list and your suppliers, and it works down the list either requesting info from the supplier or using pre-supplied info. The suppliers in turn contact their suppliers, etc. - it’s the suppliers who ultimately pay a few hundred bucks a year for access. At the end of the process you know exactly what’s in your doodad, get a materials compliance declaration, don’t poison any kids, etc.

This is something this manufacturer should already be doing, otherwise it’s unclear how they’re complying with RoHS or REACH.
by thanatropism | 2025-08-26 18:23:41+00:00
I grew up fascinated by these essays from maybe age 8 onward.

Now I realize the pervasive bad faith in them, e.g. dismissing Murray (The Bell Curve) and enthronizing the in-retrospect-irrelevant Jay Gould. I knew his novels were kind of silly, but he was supposed to be a Scientist educating us in the scientific view of the world, goddamn it.
by tom_m | 2025-08-26 18:23:50+00:00
No, some of that is horrible advice even at a healthy functional organization. You don't want to break rules silently, defiantly, or row in the opposite direction.

Leadership should be establishing cultural and communication norms. So if you have ideas, questions, concerns, for example - you don't need to break rules or work against the engineering org vision, culture, or process.

Mistakes and learning and being busy and lack of communication process aside... You should be expected to have a negative consequence for following some of this advice. It'd be well deserved.

Now, hopefully, you have some excellent managers who can help guide and support you...but if we have articles like this that kinda drive the behavior we don't want to see and people put more trust in random internet junk than they do their managers. That's a problem.
by Yoric | 2025-08-26 18:24:03+00:00
Indeed, this specific sentence seems a bit odd.

However, if there is one thing we're not lacking, it's crisis zones, where people are desperate to move away from if given half a chance. Given both the current rate of climate change and the current political climate, this is bound to increase, even after the global population peak.

So I suspect that a lack of migrants willing to resettle to unaffected/less affected regions will not be a problem for the next few decades.
by kwimajs | 2025-08-26 18:24:05+00:00
To be honest, I haven't done any research on this, but it's something that crosses my mind from time to time. My laptop has 32 GB of RAM and an i7-14700H processor, with Linux Mint installed. I'm more than happy with its performance, especially considering I bought it for a price that was very cheap for the market.

I wonder what specs a MacBook would need to give me similar performance. For example, on Linux with 32 GB of RAM, I can sometimes have 4 or 5 instances of WebStorm open and forget about them running in the background. Could a MacBook with 16 GB of RAM handle that? Similarly, which MacBook processor would give me the real-world, daily-use performance I get from my 14700H? Should I continue using cheap and powerful Windows/Linux laptops in the future, or should I make the switch to a MacBook?

(Translated from my native language to English using Gemini.)
by jimbo808 | 2025-08-26 18:24:16+00:00
This reminds me of the guy who implanted magnets in his fingertips to pick up metal stuff. Apparently a side effect of this was that they would vibrate when near some electromagnetic fields, giving him the ability to sense them. I don't think it gave him the ability to feel what magnetic fields feel like really, just learned what vibrating magnets feel like when near them.
by throwanem | 2025-08-26 18:24:31+00:00
You won't be able to use more than compatibility modes if any with hardware newer than about 2015, because the drivers were built to a newer kernel ABI. It's great for legacy gaming, I still maintain an install for that purpose, but the idea of using Windows 7 in 2025 for a legitimately compute-bound workload is rather silly. Good heavens, even your disk IO is likely to run at half or less the speed it could!

The aesthetic here slaps, though. The sort of overcooked reheated Geocities fantasy of what I assume an Eastern European teenager would imagine American kids having access to - well, there are two Georgias in the world and I grew up two states over from the other one, and in some ways I think I get it. After all, the rich folks back home lived in their own little world, too. Cobbling together what we could, dreaming of bigger and better...who'd we have believed, telling us then how fondly we would come to look back on those days now?
by konfusinomicon | 2025-08-26 18:24:40+00:00
voicemail is a dead technology, just like the mini tapes they used to be saved on. its just 1 more notification type to waste your time anymore. disable it and never look back and i assume you that you wont regret it. if they really need to contact you they will text afyer an unanswered call. I suppose its only redeeming factor is if someone you care about passes away you have a recording of their voice to hold on to, which is priceless to some. regardless, I haven't had it enabled in over 10 years and it hasn't held me back
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-26 18:24:56+00:00
I use GrapheneOS, but it doesn't solve this class of problem. If your {banking|taxi|cash} app doesn't pass Play Integrity API running under GrapheneOS, you are out of luck for those apps. There are different levels of Play Integrity pass, and GrapheneOS does not pass the highest level of them, so some apps may work, and others not. I don't want to use Google Pay, but I couldn't if I wanted to on GrapheneOS, and I've seen people in this thread saying that where they live it can be difficult to pay for something any other way.
by pear01 | 2025-08-26 18:24:59+00:00
a good point, and one that highlights the fact that people are unironically relying on "objective"/"subjective" distinctions in this thread - when this division is not necessarily a straightforward one in neurology or philosophy/language. putting a neurological implant in someone's brain doesn't strike me as an act that immediately clarifies this issue, to put it mildly. but this technology is still in its infancy. thus, the more people to "review" it, the better... doesn't mean the benefits they are giving people or the work has to stop... it just doesn't mean some skepticism isn't warranted either...
by claudiulodro | 2025-08-26 18:25:17+00:00
As far as playing it, one of my kids uses BlueStacks[1] a lot to play old/beta/abandoned mobile games. It's like an emulator that lets you run mobile APKs on PC. That would be way easier than trying to find an old phone and actually playing it on a mobile device.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueStacks
by post_break | 2025-08-26 18:25:19+00:00
You know what I really love about MacOS? Every time I pair my bluetooth headphones it defaults the microphone to that sound input. Can you disable that microphone like in Windows? Nope.

I use SoundSource because without it digital audio has audio levels locked, which is also asinine. We have to admit, audio control on Macs is straight up garbage, and having to buy third party tools to do something the other major OS does out of the box is not a good look.
by xg15 | 2025-08-26 18:25:21+00:00
> otherwise they assume the entire PCB consists of copper, aluminum, and steel, and charge a 100% tariff on the whole product.

This seems like it could also lead to absurd situations. If a device contained both, would customs pretend it was simultaneously 100% made out of copper and 100% made out of steel and apply both tariffs?
by pacoWebConsult | 2025-08-26 18:25:26+00:00
> Ghost job postings negatively impact interstate commerce.

Sure, people wasting time applying to ghost jobs has a societal and economic cost, but what is the impact of government regulation of freely advertising job postings?

How does that stack up against the compliance cost of ensuring all of these regulations are being met so the company aren't fined, and the loss of legitimate postings to all of the places they would normally be posted to due to those regulatory cost?

The government has no business to be restricting speech in this manner.
by baby_souffle | 2025-08-26 18:25:32+00:00
Listening to friends that are connected with the manufacturing industries in China, it sounds like most factories didn't struggle that hard to find alternative markets. In some cases, the Chinese government has been stepping up to help factory owners find alternative markets.

In this case, though, I would imagine that lightly waterproofed decorative outdoor lighting would sell about equally well to any first or second world market.
by Fluorescence | 2025-08-26 18:25:33+00:00
Enough. You don't know what you are talking about.

What's with posting 5 year old medium articles about a different version of Geekbench? Geekbench 5 had different multicore scaling so if you want to argue that version was so great then you are also arguing against Geekbench 6 because they don't even match.

https://www.servethehome.com/a-reminder-that-geekbench-6-is-...

"AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3995WX, a huge 64 core/ 128 thread part, was performing at only 3-4x the rate of an Intel D-1718T quad-core part, even despite the fact it had 16x the core count and lots of other features."

"With the transition from Geekbench 5 to Geekbench 6, the focus of the Primate Labs team shifted to smaller CPUs"
by spacedrone808 | 2025-08-26 18:25:36+00:00
that's quite a bold statement. i am doing all my stuff without any problems. If you check ms bulletin you'll see that quantity of bugs in recent Windows is waaaay above old crony, just see ghacks for comparison. I'm applying patches from 2008R2 which are still coming (till 2026). Having two firewalls, h/w and s/w, all unneeded services are stripped off or disabled. So the chance is slim to none.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-08-26 18:26:12+00:00
I don't know how you read that into my post.

It is quite different: Having such a limited channel as Teletext one has to be even more selective on the news being reported and then which aspects of it to report.

Over here in Germany I got some TV stations discussing on celebrity news, some station focusing on economy/business news, others on political things, some in sports.

But yeah, USA has this "two sides" issue with a touch of zero sum (it's always either this or that side and either helping one or the other side)
by catapart | 2025-08-26 18:26:16+00:00
Same! This is really awesome! I'm hoping it's generalizeable enough to do with something like Game Informer, or other magazines. Seems like the underlying tech is just "load unreasonably sized images without performance issues" which feels plenty generalizeable, as a framework. So the question is in how complex or tedious it is to get every page into a single image (or whatever format these are loaded as), in a catalogued way.

Regardless, this is just a really fantastic example of this whole kind of project, and the fact that it was done with BYTE is the cherry on top.
by carefulfungi | 2025-08-26 18:26:31+00:00
I've conducted probably 700+ interviews as a hiring manager. A lot of candidates I've spoken to assume job listing advertisements are an org chart. In reality, job listings (at scaling companies especially) are a lead generation tool to attract desired talent into a hiring pipeline.

The org chart is dynamic and is affected constantly by changing priority, changing budgets, promotions and departures, and the talent you're attracting. You can't effectively staff at scale under a rule that 1 job listing = 1 box in an org chart. Or at least I've not seen it done - I'd appreciate counter examples :-)
by bawolff | 2025-08-26 18:26:54+00:00
Its a sample size of 1, of course its ancedotal.

Its a promising first sign, but that's all. I think you have unrealistic expectations if you expect rigorus science on the cost/benefit after just one experimental procedure. Stuff like this takes time.

The mere fact he didn't die from the procedure is probably a success in and of itself.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-26 18:26:57+00:00
This is not a minor annoyance, this consumes time and resources both for candidates at scale and diminishes the integrity of data from a labor economics perspective ("open jobs"). It is arguably fraud and should be prosecuted as such (and I'm fairly confident this case can be made to an electorate who isn't going to shrug off even more corporate malfeasance in a softening labor market).
by wat10000 | 2025-08-26 18:27:03+00:00
It's not a tangent. It's the worst example of the anti-immigrant actions being taken by this administration, and it's supported by its supporters.

You think (or at least say) it's a tangent because you're deflecting. This is basically a No True Immigrant argument. I point out immigrants being abused, you come up with reasons why that doesn't count. I'm sure this would continue. I could talk about, say, a green card holder who gets arrested by ICE because of a decades-old marijuana offense and then after being held in bad conditions for several days is released into the middle of the night with no way to get in touch with anyone she knows, and you'll just say that they have a right to do this because of that marijuana offense, or this is standard treatment, or some other such faff.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-26 18:27:20+00:00
It’s clearly a personal pet project where they’ve heavily leaned, hard, into some creative ways to present traditional documents.

We all complain about dull corporate themes and walled gardens making the web stale. But you can’t have a creative fun web without having the odd site that breaks some readability conventions.

Personally, I’d rather see more personal sites like this and fewer stuff on Medium or using boring React/Vue/whatever themes. But each to their own.
by bitpush | 2025-08-26 18:27:37+00:00
Apple being a better choice is just marketing. They bend over backwards the moment something is at stake. They made a big deal with FBI, because it was an easy decision. When it is a tough decision, Apple is the first to kiss the ring.

See Apple in China. They need China for manufactoring and for the market, and no qualms about "privacy is human right" there. They say nothing about it there.

Atleast Google had the balls to pack up and leave China. I'll respect Apple the day when they sacrifice profits for their principles. It is all empty talk otherwise.
by quectophoton | 2025-08-26 18:27:45+00:00
I don't get spam emails, but I get spam phone calls. Sometimes it happened suspiciously a few minutes before a call that's actually related to the position I applied for.

But a phone number is expected here where I live (Spain). Few companies seem to respond via email (some do, but it's rare). Everyone just wants you to give them your phone number so, if they decide to call you, they will do a surprise call a few weeks after you applied, at the most inconvenient moment, with no advance notice of any kind.

And since first impressions are important, not being available during that inconveniently-timed surprise screening call is probably a negative point at least on a subconscious level.
by swader999 | 2025-08-26 18:27:48+00:00
Not op, but Paul was on his way to persecute Christians when he was confronted by a vision of the risen Jesus.

Acts 9:15 – The Lord said to Ananias about Paul: “This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.”

His mission to bring the Gospel to the Gentiles makes him a good choice for this work.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-26 18:27:59+00:00
I'll associate but sorta make fun of them in conversation.

It's not the most productive but for all the pain their "opinions" create, the least I can do is make them feel the group believes their opinions to be ridiculous as the group all laughs.

I don't think they should get civility outside of the voters booth if they're uncivil within the booth.
by hajile | 2025-08-26 18:28:18+00:00
In Haswell, 4.8w out of 22.1w for the core were used for the decoder for integer/ALU instructions[0]. According to this[1] analysis of the entire ubuntu repository, 89% of all instructions were composed of just 12 instructions (all integer/ALU).

From this we can infer that for most normal workloads, almost 22% of the Haswell core power was used in the decoder. As decoders have gotten wider and more complex in recent designs, I see no reason why this wouldn't be just as true for today's CPUs.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/cooldc16/cool...

[1] https://oscarlab.github.io/papers/instrpop-systor19.pdf
by mkhalil | 2025-08-26 18:28:59+00:00
Seems like it was major enough that it was the lone patch[0] in all active Apple OS's:

macOS Ventura 13.7.8 | macOS Sonoma 14.7.8 | macOS Sequoia 15.6.1

iPadOS 17.7.10 | iPadOS 18.6.2 | iOS 18.6.2

Usually, its multiple CVE's in a security update.

Examples:

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122375 (macOS Ventura 13.7.5)

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122718 (macOS Ventura 13.7.6)

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/124151 (macOS Ventura 13.7.7)

--------------------------- References/Sources ---------------------------

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/124925 -> https://support.apple.com/en-us/124929 | (124925 -> 124929)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43300#vulnConfigur...
by estearum | 2025-08-26 18:29:36+00:00
The current understanding is that you're 15 to 20 times more likely to suffer severe eye damage from taking Viagra than even the highest risk group (young men) is to encounter a serious adverse effect from the COVID vaccine.

The information has not changed dramatically since a few months after its release, and the myocarditis risk was not detected in clinical trials because it is an unbelievably rare event. Detecting it would've required trials orders of magnitude larger than any clinical trial ever.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-26 18:30:12+00:00
No matter what the pretext, it should be completely clear that the only real goal of this is to damage the US economy.

Just as the real effect of a vaccine ban will be to damage US health, and the real effect of dismantling government funded R&D will be to damage US education and competitiveness.

I have no doubt some people believe patriotism is involved, and some large companies will get exemptions.

But I also have no doubt these decisions aren't being made for the long-term benefit of the US as a whole. Or even most of it. Or even those parts of it which are currently exempt.

This is Brexit++, sponsored by the same people, with similar - but much worse - lasting effects.
by anthem2025 | 2025-08-26 18:30:23+00:00
I don’t understand what you’re even trying to say here.

AfD is objectively far more popular in the former east Germany. Look at a map of votes, it’s clear as day. The borders are exact. They are not a left wing party, not at all. They are a far right party.

It makes sense that the the economically struggling former communist areas would be both more drawn to extreme parties and have a distaste for the left.