MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nmcfarl | 2025-08-26 13:09:27+00:00
I’ve had two cases for this in the last month. Not that I have access to an agentic browser.

* We decided to buy a robot vacuum, again. And we decided on a particular model that yo-yo‘s up and down in price by about $200 every month. We ended up buying it off of Amazon because of camelcamelcamel, but if I could have easily tracked prices and bought elsewhere, I would’ve. And I would’ve considered using an antigenic browser to do that for me – if I could trust them at all. One model number and I know the price I wanna pay, I just don’t want to check a bunch of storefronts everyday

* kids going back to school – and he has a school supply list. He’s up for a new backpack and a new lunchbox, and a bunch of back to school clothes - so those we’ve actually been shopping for all summer. But the wooden ruler, the three sheafs of college rule paper, etc. I don’t wanna shop for. I actually had chatGPT scan the paper list, and then get me either direct links, or links to searches on walmart.com (they are more than an hours drive from us, but they do deliver to my wife’s work). Then I created a cart and had them deliver. ChatGPT solutions were not bad, I only switched one or two items for a version my kid should have versus a version I should buy. In the moment, I probably would have trusted a bot to do this, though retrospectively I’m glad it went the way it did
by the_af | 2025-08-26 13:09:28+00:00
I've heard this of driving: that very novice drivers are terrified and extra careful, as you gain confidence you lose your fear and make dangerous mistakes, and when you're truly experienced the rate of accidents decreases again.

Don't know if it's true.

I can say I know cases of extremely good people committing very dangerous mistakes due to disabling safety checks, thinking they don't apply to them...
by terminalshort | 2025-08-26 13:09:30+00:00
Big tech serves exactly one purpose. Making money by giving people what they want. In the case of Uber that's great because I will never even think about doing business with the cab cartel again. I don't owe them a damn thing. Nor do I owe my own local culture any loyalty over what I can watch on Netflix. You could argue that the algorithmic feed on social media is a negative, but the idea that there is some underlying agenda is ridiculous. At worst it's like a drug dealer saying "I have what you want... heroin!"
by Neywiny | 2025-08-26 13:09:38+00:00
Good. All these software-only projects need to stop eating up all the pis. Especially when they buy multiple just to basically each be a docker instance. Save them for the people that need the hardware interfaces, not that those people always need a pi either. I'll see people online or otherwise using an entire pi just for acting as a Wi-Fi or uart to GPIO bridge, when a USB device would've worked dramatically better. Literally just an FTDI chip is all they need. Set it to individual IO control, use the library, be done with it. No Linux on a microsd card, no waiting for it to boot, no additional power supply, and a fraction of the price
by ethagknight | 2025-08-26 13:09:39+00:00
I’m interested in better understanding why some actions constitute speech, but other actions don’t. Setting aside the politics of the moment, Reading the text of the amendment, it seems like a real stretch to go from the text to “burning a flag is infringement of first amendment, but libel can be prosecuted without infringing.

From the article, here is the justification: >> [anti flag burning policy] is a content-based, indeed viewpoint-based, enforcement policy.
by yaoke259 | 2025-08-26 13:09:44+00:00
I'm already looking at a v2 implementation as some others have correctly pointed this out. Since I'm already relying on customElements and web components, I should make that first class and change the framework implementations into thin wrappers. V2 will be pure js custom elements which can fall back to native html. wrappers will be even more lightweight. Hopefully this design is a strict win
by pjmlp | 2025-08-26 13:09:46+00:00
It seems Python-like indentation based is the one being pushed, due to way Python was own mindshare around learning to programm language, and AI DSL.

I would assume FP is the one being pushed with stuff like Cats and ZIO, anyone that wants OOP with good enough FP has already moved back into modern Java, or Kotlin.
by fidotron | 2025-08-26 13:09:47+00:00
There's a dimension to this people wilfully ignore: the AArch64 design is inspired, especially if you have a team as good as Apple have to execute an implementation of it. And that isn't a one way causality because AArch64 is what it is because of things that the Apple team wanted to do, which has led to their performance advantages today.

I don't think many people have appreciated just how big a change the 64 bit Arm was, to the point it's basically a completely different beast than what came before.

From the moment the iPhone went 64 bit it was clear this was the plan the whole time.
by xnorswap | 2025-08-26 13:10:13+00:00
It doesn't "ruin the content", it's a psychological issue which would be fixed by more high quality productions actually producing high frame-rate content, so the association reverses.

It seems insane to actively make all content worse, having movies worsened down to a lower frame-rate just because we have a hangover from decades old technology.

It's a shame that Peter Jackson's Hobbit wasn't a great movie. Had it been, then maybe it could have been a better driver of high frame-rate movies.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-26 13:10:13+00:00
"directionally correct"... so you don't know and made up some numbers? Great.

I never said it was exactly that size. Apple keeps the sizes of their base, Pro, and Max chips fairly consistent over generations.

Welcome to the world of chip discussions. I've never taken apart and M4 Pro computer and measured the die myself. It appears no one has on the internet. However, we can infer a lot of it based on previously known facts. In this case, we know M1 Pro's die size is around 250mm2.

AMD doesn't "endorse benchmarks" especially not fucking Geekbench for multi-core. No-one could because it's famously nonsense for higher core counts. AMD's decade old beef with Sysmark was about pro-Intel bias.

Geekbench is the main benchmark AMD tends to use: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-5-7600x-has-already-be...

The reason is because Geekbench correlates highly with SPEC, which is the industry standard.
by hedora | 2025-08-26 13:10:25+00:00
It sounds like something is horribly misconfigured.

- Try running powertop to see if it says what the issue is.

- Switch to firefox to rule out chrome misconfigurations.

- If this is wayland, try x11

I have an amd SOC desktop and it doesn’t spin up the fans or get warm unless its running a recent AAA title or an LLM. (I’m running devuan because most other distros I’ve tried aren’t stable enough these days).

In scatterplots of performance vs wattage, AMD and Apple silicon are on the same curve. Apple owns the low end and AMD owns the high end. There’s plenty of overlap in the middle.
by ralferoo | 2025-08-26 13:10:31+00:00
I'm sure I remember reading last time this discussion came up that burning the flag is the only government approved way of disposing of a damaged US flag.

Disclaimer: I'm from the UK, not USA, so I could well be wrong.

EDIT: this article, which describes ceremonial flag burning ceremonies performed by veterans [1] contains a link to the flag code [2] of which section 8(k) states: The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

[1] https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/article/2...

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title4/html/...
by conductr | 2025-08-26 13:11:59+00:00
They’re not mutually exclusive though. My wife has our portraits taken about twice a year and sometimes during a vacation or major event. So we have those, we also have tons unedited candid photos we take on a daily basis and never share (or only on a closed platform like a shared Album in iOS Photos), then my wife does a lot of editing and montage stuff for some of the stuff she posts more broadly to SM. I post nothing to SM so can’t speak from personal experiences here, but what I’m saying is there isn’t a single use case anymore. We have the tools at our disposal to just scratch curious itches even when they don’t get posted or shared (which I’d bet is a majority of photos). You’re viewing it as reductive but it’s expansive from what I’ve seen.
by danaris | 2025-08-26 13:12:18+00:00
Not merely a foreign third party: one operating fairly cozily within a country with a hostile and erratic government.

If Trump ordered Google, tomorrow, to put some egregious measure in place in Android (or Chrome, or Google Search), I, personally, would not want to bet that they would refuse him. And frankly, I don't know that I can even imagine the kinds of things he might try to get them to do.

We absolutely need better competition in smartphone OSes—we need it across the board in tech, really, from a wide array of countries.
by rayiner | 2025-08-26 13:12:25+00:00
No, the point about the economic efficiency of consumption taxes is the main point. Making them progressive is just a way to address the perceived downside of being regressive. The fact that consumption taxes are better than investment taxes remains whether or not you do that. (Trump has floated the idea of rebates to address this.) There’s a ton of literature on this, and it led to european countries widely adopting VAT in the 20th century.

That’s also why the European countries like France have much higher consumption taxes than the U.S., while having similar corporate taxes. They want to discourage consumption.
by weirdpickles | 2025-08-26 13:12:39+00:00
And thus accelerates Google's push away from APKs, preferring instead for all developers to embrace their proprietary App Bundle format. Complete with ad hoc signing performed by the Google Play store at time of download. The bundle is also customized to the device, meaning an .aab file ripped off a device won't necessarily be loadable on another device since it could have different configurations/hardware that happen to limit it.

I think anyone who works as a dev knew this was Google's endgame the moment they started circling the wagons with the app bundle stuff. It was already getting weird before that, but it was uncharacteristically out of step with historic Android.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-08-26 13:12:42+00:00
I understand OP's frustration, but the alternate view is that mandating better practices is a forcing function for businesses that otherwise don't give a shit about users or their privacy or security.

For all the annoyance of SOC2 audits, it sure does make my manager actually spend time and money on following the rules. Without any kind of external pressure I (as a security-minded engineer) would struggle to convince senior leadership that anything matters beyond shipping features.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-26 13:13:00+00:00
It looks like the entirety of the above reply is off topic (and also ignores that everything you said is either false or equally true of hamas and israel, with a name or 2 replaced: s/sinwar/netanyahu/ etc) so let's try to rein it in:

Your assessment that this attack on innocent Palestinian civilians is justified by the unverified and unconvincing claims of the attacker, is incorrect. This is true for israel in particular because israel is globally notorious for lying, for attacking investigators and other civilians, and as we both noted in our posts, for 40+ years of violent, racist terrorist attacks against innocent Palestinian civilians.

Yes: absent independent investigation and judgement, there is no credible justification for this attack on innocent Palestinian civilians by israel. Only insufficient excuses based on probable lies.

(Also, I looked at your sources, and surely you can't be serious. Obviously they're quite biased and can't be trusted to provide an accurate or full view of the situation.)
by layer8 | 2025-08-26 13:13:07+00:00
All the non-wheel buttons are easy and comfortable to click and work consistently, I have no issues with them. The mouse wheel could be a bit better (it’s ratcheted, which I prefer, not free-wheeling), but is good enough for me. I generally don’t use the middle mouse button.

The gliding skates aren’t too great, I replaced them with aftermarket ones.

The RGB lights can be turned off permanently by long press on the DPI button.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-26 13:13:25+00:00
I was thinking more about applications in physics where calculus and irrational quantities are used all the time.

At more advanced levels the theories are based on differential geometry and operators on Hilbert space. I'm not sure if fully worked out finitist versions of these even exist. Where finitist versions do exist, they're often technically more difficult to use than the standard versions, which is the opposite of an improvement in my view.

Whether it's undesirable for your mathematical foundation to prove the Banach-Tarski paradox is debatable. It's counter-intuitive, but doesn't lead to contradictions, as far as is known. It doesn't apply to physics because the construction uses non-measurable sets.
by bzzzt | 2025-08-26 13:13:26+00:00
> If frequencies are illegal, it should be impossible to program it in such a way.

You know there's a very fine line between hardware and software in this case so you're actually advocating for drm like control here.

> They should be deligating that trust to the user upon the sale of the device, through well proven concepts as explained above.

That same user who forgets passwords and recovery keys all the time and loses all access to documents when a device breaks? And you're presuming giving that kind of person who doesn't understand sh*t about backups, device security etc full access to their devices will not result in a lot of compromised devices?

I'm not sure manufacturers are the best party to trust but they have an interest in a secure reputation, which the majority of dumb users or eavesdropping governments do not have.

> They chose to distrust the user instead. Why? Greed!

There are more reasons to distrust the user. I don't buy greed is the only relevant one.
by csande17 | 2025-08-26 13:13:59+00:00
I'm pretty sure "Google-certified" is just the latest term for "has signed a contract to ship the proprietary Google parts of Android". (Google's blog post about this change links to a page which calls it "Play Protect certified", and this page says that all devices that ship Google apps are Play Protect Certified: https://support.google.com/android/answer/7165974?hl=en )

Amazon's "Kindle" tablets and TV devices famously do not ship Google apps, and sometimes you see restricted devices like the Rabbit R1 that just use the open-source parts of Android. But outside of China I don't think you can easily walk into a store and find a non-Google Android phone.

I don't think phones ever officially lapse out of Play Protect certified status -- the Nexus One, a phone from 2010, is still listed -- but presumably it'd be possible to find a phone old enough that it won't be able to download whatever Play Services OTA update they'll use to push this change.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 13:14:01+00:00
> I heard that east-coast mafias had something to do with the over-the-top levels of cronyism involved

I'm in a fairly densely-populated part of the east coast and we have lots of options for trash hauling, and none of them are "official" or provided by the city.

... I do wonder about the wear-n-tear on the neighborhood roads from having like 5+x as many trash truck trips on them per week versus a municipal solution, given how fast road wear scales with axel weight. I bet it's enough to matter, which means we're all paying a hidden cost for being able to choose among trash companies. It also seems like the base costs would have to be significantly higher, given far more trucks required and way fewer pick-ups per mile driven.
by rollcat | 2025-08-26 13:14:14+00:00
I really like the principles behind AMD's chiplet design, of course they've had different design goals behind it (easier diversification of their product portfolio), but it remains a fact that you can slap a not-so-terrible GPU right next to a CPU core.

There's probably a lot still missing: Apple integrated the memory on the same die, and built Metal for software to directly take advantage of that design. That's the competitive advantage of vertical integration.
by perihelions | 2025-08-26 13:14:15+00:00
> "Five months for stealing a flag?"

Serial offender who was convicted of theft in 2004, at the age of 20; convicted again of felony theft in 2012, at the age of 28 (for which he was sentenced to 30 months in prison); and convicted against in 2022, at the age of 40, for his violent role in attacking the US Capitol (for which he was sentenced to 22 years, and pardoned).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Tarrio
by jemiluv8 | 2025-08-26 13:14:28+00:00
Software engineering career advise is a minefield. Contexts vary so wildly that the best advise probably is more like a case study into personal experiences and how one navigated various delicate/intricate issues.

I for one have two part time jobs and one full time job. My primary challenge has to do with triaging issues ahead of time so that I can draw up a comprehensive plan for working on them ahead of time over the weekend so that I'd be in execution mode throughout the week - which is infinitely more productive - low context switching and more flow.

I also have a mini bottleneck with one company where I'm not given production access - not even readonly and only hear about issues later on from the lead developer. There are often things that I'd rather diagnose in a production env but no - policy dictates part time workers are not given that kinda access.

At the same company, I go to some of the websites we maintain and find somethings are broken and wonder - are these really used by real people or just bots.

We have about 2 mobile apps that do similar things and I'd love to push for a monorepo setup but I have to look around at the engineering culture and realize that a monorepo setup would do more harm than good because it requires a better calibre of engineers.

We have a nestjs codebase full of antipatterns that even I a newbie to nestjs can easily pinpoint and identify - but can't truly get them to consider a huge refactor. I see all manner of nasty rest api implementations that make data flow unintuitive but my leadership skills might be lacking.

I work at a "consulting" firm with a colleague that has issues delegating and primarily prefers import statements be arranged in a particular order. I hated working there because I felt arranging import statements were an insult to my time and abilities as a programmer - but the work pays the bills and I've to bide my time.

I've ranted enough. The bottom line is context varies much too wildly for any advise to be particularly useful beyond being a case study. I'd be more interested in the authors specific experiences than advise
by caboteria | 2025-08-26 13:15:07+00:00
I recently received an AI-slop bug report for a small open source project (PureLB) that I maintain, and the slop was generated by DeepWiki. It was very incorrect, but I didn't know what "DeepWiki" was so I wasted about an hour. If DeepWiki is causing garbage bug reports even on tiny projects like mine, I can't imagine how much maintainer time it's wasting over all.
by vient | 2025-08-26 13:15:19+00:00
Weren't we comparing CPUs though? Those Blender benchmarks are for GPUs.

Here is M4 Max CPU https://opendata.blender.org/devices/Apple%20M4%20Max/ - median score 475

Ryzen MAX+ PRO 395 shows median score 448 (can't link because the site does not seem to cope well with + or / in product names)

Resulting in M4 winning by 6%
by chenxin2 | 2025-08-26 13:15:25+00:00
I built a simple online tool called [FakeTextMessage.xyz](https://www.faketextmessage.xyz/) that lets you create realistic text message screenshots in seconds.

It’s useful for: - Having fun or sharing memes - Creating demo conversations for blogs, stories, or videos - Mocking up customer communication scenarios

Features include: - Editable names, avatars, carriers - Flexible message editor with emojis and timestamps - iOS and Android style chat layouts - Downloadable, watermark-free images

Would love feedback and ideas for improvement!
by dcminter | 2025-08-26 13:15:47+00:00
> has not bothered

> This is not a judgement

"did not" is not judgemental but "did not bother" strongly implies judgement.

I do think it's true, however, that had Linus expressed an opinion on this it would have been hard to ignore.

Edit to add: Bear in mind that XDG is a relatively new thing compared to Linux (more so compared to Unix).
by rayiner | 2025-08-26 13:16:00+00:00
Some Muslims, mostly Arabs, voted based on that. But heavily hindu indian cities in NJ also swung heavily towards Trump: https://www.patrickruffini.com/p/do-republicans-have-a-shot-... (“Indian New Jersey, 3% of the statewide vote, swung 14 points to Trump—a striking shift against the first South Asian presidential nominee.”). Don’t forget that, while Indian Americans are one of the most Democrat-leaning groups, a plurality also support Modi: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/indian-america...

Blue Rose’s (the leading dem pollster) comprehensive retrospective of the 2024 election was telling: https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubfs/2024%20Blue%20Rose%2... (“Our best estimate is that immigrant voters swung from a Biden+27 voting bloc in 2020 to a Trump+1 group in 2024.”).
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-26 13:16:19+00:00
I do not think PKI will survive the 47 day change. I am not sure the CAB will survive that change. It seems extremely apparent the people who made the decision have neither any relevant experience in IT nor any practical understanding of security, and I think they've finally flown too close to the sun.

Automated renewal is... probably about a decade or two from being supported well enough to be an actual answer.

In our case, we'll be spending the next couple years reducing our use of PKI certificates to the bare functional minimum.
by kragen | 2025-08-26 13:16:29+00:00
I don't think uncomputable numbers "come from very practical mathematics"! Rather, they come from Gödel, Church, and Turing demolishing Hilbert's program of solving the Entscheidungsproblem once and for all. Possibly, if Hilbert had succeeded, that would have made it "very practical mathematics", or possibly not, but that counterfactual is reasoning from a logical contradiction.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/decision-pr...
by j_w | 2025-08-26 13:16:30+00:00
I definitely don't misunderstand what swap is for. I've implemented swap for a hobby os.

Swap is absolutely "more RAM" in layman's terms. If you NEED 10GB of memory to have open everything you want on your machine, but you only have 8GB of RAM, swap will make that happen for you. Now ideally the OS is using this for inactive pages (those programs you have open but you aren't actually using), and the nuance to how swap can be used to make the RAM you do have more effective is an interesting attribute of swap (another commenter mentioned swap being used as temporary storage to defrag the physical memory), but every single reference you linked says the same thing - swap is for when you need more memory than you have physical memory for.