MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-09-09 18:33:04+00:00
SIM cards are huge. Even the smallest form factor is a pretty large component. It has to be accessible from the exterior of the device and often has an ejection method of some kind. Getting rid of it is huge from a form factor standpoint.

I am sure there are downsides to eSIM but particularly for the average consumer who gets a SIM in their new phone and never changes it... there is probably zero difference.
by programjames | 2025-09-09 18:33:21+00:00
In the less affluent areas, I'd expect children not attending daycare to just not be getting anything at home. Presumably their parents are both working and cannot afford daycare. In the more affluent areas, I'd expect children only don't attend daycare if their parents prioritize their children over their jobs, and so they'd be getting much more positive attention than in a daycare. But, of course, we'd have to see a study differentiated by socioeconomic status to see what is actually the case.
by reactordev | 2025-09-09 18:33:39+00:00
This is equivalent to people reminiscing about WoW or EverQuest saying gaming peaked back then…

I think you’re right. I think it’s complete bias with a little bit of “it does more tasks now” so it might behave a bit differently to the same prompt.

I also think you’re right that there’s an incentive to dumb it down so you pull the lever more. Just 2 more $1 spins and maybe you’ll hit jackpot.

Really it’s the enshitification of the SOTA for profits and glory.
by Magmalgebra | 2025-09-09 18:33:43+00:00
> Most standard software engineering jobs don’t require that kind of research activity (although it does require some; product development is a creative process)

This seems to describe what good engineers above the senior level do. Certainly everyone with a PhD I work with who rose through the ranks said that being very senior was a lot like being a good researcher - albeit with much more pressure on execution.
by r0fl | 2025-09-09 18:33:48+00:00
Where are those people instead?

The vast majority of western society is in one of those settings most of the day

Planes also have charging ports

Trains have charging ports

If you are at the gym you can have a MagSafe portable charger in your gym bag that charges your phone when you hit the showers

Give me a few examples of who actually isn’t near a charger for 8 hours at a time

A full time skier or surfer?

I can’t think of the groups of people who need such long battery life
by divan | 2025-09-09 18:34:02+00:00
Oh, nice! One of my biggest issues with mainstream LLMs/apps was that working on the long text (article, script, documentation, etc.) is limited to copy-pasting dance. Which is especially frustrating in comparison to the AI coding assistants that can work on code directly in the file system, using the internet and MCPs at the same time.

I just tried this new feature to work on a text document in a project, and it's a big difference. Now I really want to have this feature (for text at least) in ChatGPT to be able to work on documents through voice and without looking at the screen.
by jghn | 2025-09-09 18:34:21+00:00
> that they would go out and run errands during work hours

So? I do this when I work in an office, and I do this when I work remote. If someone doesn't like it, they can go screw. I put in my hours, and I get my work done.

I don't see what this has to do with remote work. Although I also don't see why anyone would care.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-09 18:34:24+00:00
This is something that really surprised me to realise a couple of years ago - that unless they work in tech, most households (I don't know if most isn't an exaggeration, but a large proportion) don't have a laptop or desktop between them now.

There was a joke I saw recently where Millenials have to teach Gen Z employees how to use a computer like they do for a boomer. Gen Z people, especially the younger ones, do everything on their phones or tablets. They don't know how to use a computer like Windows or a Mac.

Also, I've been in poorer countries where the vast majority of the population rely on their phones to work. My real estate agent only used her phone for work including marketing herself, talking to clients on chat apps, and even doing the lease contract. Their phone is literally how they make a living.
by crooked-v | 2025-09-09 18:34:30+00:00
Ultimately it's not really that complex to explain: there just literally aren't enough physical housing units of whatever kind in major US cities to meet demand (https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...), so prices keep going up.

Unfortunately, there are a ton of people who will deny that that factual, well-studied shortage exists, and will try to blame its effects on anything and everything else even tangentially related.
by jameslk | 2025-09-09 18:34:31+00:00
> But the bigger problem for housing affordability, he adds, is that "we just haven't built enough [homes] to keep up with the population growth and household formation."

The circular incentive here is left unsaid. If a house is an investment, you and every other homeowner has an incentive to keep supply low and demand high. This ultimately drives votes, lobbying, and policies that prevent houses being built. Otherwise you end up with falling rents and stagnating property prices, like in Austin.

https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/cooling-rent-growth-d...
by bbor | 2025-09-09 18:34:34+00:00
As much as I want HN to finally support markdown, I really want them to end the baffling anti-emoji stance. They’re adorable, versatile, fun, and useful - the only reason to ban them from forum comments is banal distaste for the new.

Personally speaking, I consider it anti-zoomer discrimination of the highest order!! ;) XD <3

More on topic: the new emoji range from “finally!!” (Sasquatch) to “huh?” (Landslide), as usual. The skin tone improvements are welcome, of course! If we’re gonna abandon the Simpsons monotone aesthetic, we should go all the way. Props to the (unpaid…?) people who made this happen.
by cheeseomlit | 2025-09-09 18:34:39+00:00
Shameless apologia for private equity vultures buying up all the houses, what a terrible article. "Oh but renting costs less so it makes your neighborhood more diverse with more lower-income residents!" Yeah and renting also ensures you stay low-income forever by never getting the opportunity to build any equity. Real 'you'll own nothing and you'll be happy' energy

The opening paragraph is also a laugh. "Daniel Erb became a corporate landlord kind of by accident." Yeah he was an investment banker who decided he wanted to invest in real estate so he decided to call his cousin at BlackRock- woopsie! what a weird accident!
by qafy | 2025-09-09 18:34:46+00:00
I have an only esim since the iPhone 11 was released.

Pros:

- Super easy to get esims while traveling. e.g. in Mexico i downloaded an app while still in the airport and paid $5 with apple pay and instantly activated a 1 month esim.

- You can have multiple esimss. With physical sims you are limited to the physical number of sim slots on your phone, usually 1 or at most 2. With esim there is no such restriction.

- More secure. esims can't be cloned (e.g. sim swapping attack) or simply removed from a stolen phone like physical sims.

Cons:

- If you get a new phone, you cant just pop your physical sim in. You need to go through your provider to transfer, which requires calling them and verifying your identity.

I actually dont see this as a con really, I see this as a security benefit. Since I only get a new phone every 3-4 years, the 20 min on the phone it takes to transfer is not a significant burden.
by francreplai | 2025-09-09 18:34:52+00:00
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We're focused in producing high scales of high quality CGI content (think Game of Thrones) using automations (usually in Python) on products as Autodesk Maya.

We're growing fast and we're profitable and currently investing in our own growth dozens of millions/year.

We're forming a new team of 10 elite developers with the goal of decreasing our animation times to be able to create thousands of hours of the most developed animations for dragons/animals/3D worlds.

We're looking for experienced people able to do it all and quickly reach unreasonable and unlogical goals for the top companies in the world.

Email me at francisco.pacheco@replai.io if you're interested and explain why
by nasretdinov | 2025-09-09 18:34:53+00:00
Go doesn't yet have native SIMD support, but it actually might in the future: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73787

I think when it's introduced it might be worth discussing that again. Otherwise providing assembly for JSON of all packages seems like a huge maintenance burden for very little benefit for end users (since faster alternatives are readily available)
by kube-system | 2025-09-09 18:34:59+00:00
> Now you're playing games with "offer". I've never once seen a Camry with cameras.

I test drove one last year, it wasn't even the highest trim... A few of my coworkers are driving used cars with 360 cameras. These aren't really new features.

> Look, the simple ground truth is that the experience of driving a four year old Tesla (the age of my Y) is simply better than any vehicle I'm going to find anywhere at that price point or lower (or give a bit for inflation, even).

Yeah, they're not bad cars. I never said they were. I said other auto makers are also shipping some of these features. I'm not attacking your vehicle; you're allowed to like it.

> Sigh. I said I wouldn't be trolled[1], but it's a camera-based attention monitoring system now. There's no requirement for the hand on the wheel (well, it will yell at you if it sees you duck out of the camera center and you need a physical input to acknowledge), and hasn't been for more than a year.

Yes, they updated their system to do this last year. A lot of auto makers have hands-free systems today, many of them already had them shipped last year, and some shipped them years before Tesla did. And while Tesla still requires you to look at the road, a couple of auto makers are shipping level three systems.

I'm not making any sort of personal attack on your purchase. I'm just here to tell you that they're not the only ones shipping these sorts of features.
by jedberg | 2025-09-09 18:35:23+00:00
> I think the biggest in the online space is probably Temporal (the one I'm currently using at $DAYJOB), but there's others as well.

The reason none of the others were mentioned is because they all work very differently than DBOS. All of those others require an external durability coordinator, and require you to rewrite your application to work around how they operate.

DBOS is a library that does its durability work in process and uses the application database to store the durability state. This means the latency is much smaller, and the reliability is much higher because there aren't extra moving parts in the critical path that can go down.

Here is a page about this difference: https://docs.dbos.dev/architecture
by bee_rider | 2025-09-09 18:35:44+00:00
It seems impossible that CPUs could ever catch up to GPUs, for the things that GPUs are really good at.

I dunno. I sort of like all the vector extensions we’ve gotten on the CPU side as they chase that dream. But I do wonder if Intel would have been better off just monomaniacally focusing on single-threaded performance, with the expectation that their chips should double down on their strength, rather than trying to attack where Nvidia is strong.
by singlepaynews | 2025-09-09 18:35:45+00:00
Reading this comment I can't help but imagine a high school student using the same pattern to respond to an "open period" being changed to "study hall" with mandatory in-library presence; which is not to dig on you, just to raise the idea that maybe k-12 education really is a conspiracy to train people to sit in factories.

How/can we "montessori-fy"?
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-09 18:35:59+00:00
if god gave us those rights, they wouldn't need to be in a document. they would be intrinsic to our nature.

i know this is cynical and people on Hacker News Dot Com hate when i say this, but it will never change the fact that the constitution was authored and approved by men who owned human beings (including at least one man who took the teeth from human beings he owned to put into his own mouth). i don't care how high-minded the ideals may seem. the foundation is as rotten as Washington's teeth.
by int_19h | 2025-09-09 18:36:16+00:00
Web browsers update far more often than .NET runtime, if anything. And .NET still supports a lot of deprecated stuff going all the way back to 1.0; so does Java (old-style collections, for example).

Also, JavaScript is a shining example of "never ever be able to correct your past mistakes" already, so it's not like this is something new for the web.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-09 18:36:34+00:00
Many businesses outsource their SOC to third parties like Huntress, Carbon Black, SentinelOne, all of whom offer very fancy Endpoint Detection and Respone (EDR) tools. Just about every EDR solution is a Cloud/SaaS offering provided either directly or indirectly through a third party Managed Service Provider (MSP). We call this Managed Detection and Respone (MDR). From technical and privacy standpoints, it probably sounds like a huge risk, but it's also worth acknowledging that EDR companies operate immense threat intelligence platforms through real-time monitoring of customers. From a C-suite perspective, it makes a lot of sense to offload the specializations of real-time protection and malware analysis to EDR solutions. There are risk managers who have quantified the risk tolerance for these types of products/arrangements. The company legal department, the CFO, and the board of directors are all satisfied with the EDR solutions placement on the Gartner quadrant and SOC Type 3 report saying the EDR provider follows best practices. Sometimes it's even a requirement for "cyber insurance" which a business may need depending on the industry. For better or for worse, EDR is how most institutions secure their IT infrastructure today.
by anonyfox | 2025-09-09 18:36:40+00:00
also in the thinner camp here, and would gladly have accepted a way worse camera if they made the back uniformly thin actually. the closer we get to the "just a glass plate" thin design from the expanse the better :-)

but yeah, everywhere around all day there is charging options easily even in many public transports here around europe, battery life is simply not a convern anymore for most people at all. the only time i even thin kis when I forgot recharging over night for some reason, but then in the office theres plenty of options to recharge too
by procaryote | 2025-09-09 18:36:46+00:00
You can get pretty far in python without a lot of dependencies, and the dependencies you do need tend to be more substantial blocks of functionality. Much easier to keep the tree small than npm.

Same with Java, if you avoid springboot and similar everything frameworks, which admittedly is a bit of an uphill battle given the state of java developers.

You can of course also keep dependencies small in javascript, but it's a very uphill fight where you'll have just a few options and most people you hire are used to including a library (that includes 10 libraries) to not have to so something like `if (x % 2 == 1)`

Just started with golang... the language is a bit annoying but the dependency culture seems OK
by lordhumphrey | 2025-09-09 18:36:47+00:00
Whether an action has gotten a legal thumbs-up or not is of little relevance here.

I'd like to leave the question of why that's true as an exercise for the reader, but your comment makes it sound as if you have trouble with this concept, so let's be explicit - a state operating autocratically can, and often will, rubberstamp whatever it decides it wants to do.

Had a quick look for the numbers from FISA to give you an example of this. https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2013/06/fisa-co... says that they denied 11 requests for surveillance warrants out of 33,900 requests over 33 years of operation.

That's a pass rate of 99.07%!

So allow me to say - a warrant wouldn't have changed anything, they give them out like nothing.

In the article though, it does say: "ICE did not respond to requests for comment from SAN. It is not clear whether ICE or any other law enforcement agency obtained a warrant to use an IMSI catcher — commonly referred to as a “Stingray” — to conduct surveillance."
by yalogin | 2025-09-09 18:36:56+00:00
As much as I want this to succeed because Apple makes great products, I don't know who asked for it. People have voted unanimously with their wallets that bigger screens with longer battery life is what they want. The trend to thin down phones stopped around iPhone 8 or so, when the big screen was introduced. Since then we have seen many cycles where the phones got bulkier with larger batteries and screens. No one complained.
by therobots927 | 2025-09-09 18:36:57+00:00
So where is the burner phone kept? It can't be kept at your home - you have to assume its location is being logged. So you have to purchase and store it somewhere besides your house. You can't use your car to purchase it or store it, so you need a bike. On the day of the protest you need to charge the burner phone away from your car or home and then bike to the protest.

Is this too extreme? How expansive are the queries theyre running on these identifiers? Are they running algos to detect burner phones based on the highly anomalous activity patterms described above?

It's becoming common practice for protesters to store their phones in faraday bags. I don't think "no phone" would stand out as much as you think it would.
by mmis1000 | 2025-09-09 18:37:03+00:00
> save as Word 95

This is for format only and a lossy conversion.

Line break or whatever finer behaviour isn't preserved perfectly.

Or probably any conversion between different office version is a lossy conversion.

They (microsoft) truly don't know how their format behaves exactly at any time I believe.

Even office for mac or office for web behaves slightly different.

I don't believe they have a true spec (A pixel perfect one) about word document. Or they should use it on their office mac or office web first.
by stickfigure | 2025-09-09 18:37:26+00:00
As long as population holds constant, it doesn't matter who does/doesn't have kids. Some people have more, some people have fewer, some people immigrate. It all works out in the end.

Childless people pay into the system like everyone else. They aren't freeloaders.

As a parent myself I find this kind of savior complex incredibly embarrassing. We have kids, great. I'm glad our government offers tax benefits, services, and an immigration process to encourage population stability. But let's not pretend we're Atlas holding the nation on our shoulders.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-09 18:37:28+00:00
I'm always impressed how Apple can name so many products with so few words. Recycling Mac[Book] / Pad / Pod, Air, Pro, and 'i' (hardly even a word) gives you basically their whole product lineup. iPad Pro, MacBook Air, AirPods, iPhone Air, iMac Pro. AirTag must be the only one that has a unique word in it.
by const_cast | 2025-09-09 18:37:29+00:00
They don't need to do that to scam her. They already have her on the phone - they don't need the malicious app now and theyre not gonna do it because it's too much work for no extra gain.

Just point granny to the super secure Play Store and have her download anydesk and boom, now you remote control her entire phone. And you didn't even need to hire a development team to do it.
by Dig1t | 2025-09-09 18:37:33+00:00
Lumber is a tiny fraction of the cost of a house, the US produces a huge amount of lumber on its own. I don’t think there’s any real evidence to show that lumber tariffs have had a measurable impact on housing costs. Most housing is built with lumber from here.

Also the tariffs are new this year, housing costs have been a problem for much longer than just this year.
by slg | 2025-09-09 18:37:45+00:00
>Fire protection is generally widely supported because almost everyone shares in the benefit, the protection is a benefit whether or not you need service.

The same is true for things like childcare and education. Improving outcomes for the next generation doesn't only benefit them and their parents, it improves the entire society.

>The reason we have worse government services is because there's no attempt to make them fair, the benefits are almost always highly skewed along partisan lines and thus usually not passed.

You're just debating whether "everyone gets the same" is a better definition of "fair" than "everyone gets what they need". The only way for the government to satisfy the former without UBI (which I would support) is for the government to offer extremely limited services. That's the situation we're in. Because as I have said in another comment, the same argument that applies to stay at home parents applies to childless people so offering any childcare support is unfair according to the "everyone gets the same" definition.
by riazrizvi | 2025-09-09 18:37:54+00:00
Does that pass the basic common sense smell test? Everyone can see on their paycheck the amount, that is paid 30 days after any work day in the worst case. These payments are sent to a single federal bank account, and data-wise are combined with Social Security ID, sending bank id, date. It’s a bank, there’s a database. We are talking at most about 200mm records, a raspberry pi can process that query in minutes. If we can’t query this easily it’s by design. Or we could do some backflips and somersaults to try to come up with a reason for why the bureaucracy has to be more complicated.
by diddid | 2025-09-09 18:37:56+00:00
iPhones last killer feature was usbc. These are all good and appreciated upgrades for someone with no phone, but my wallet is happy none of it is really that interesting and enough to warrant an upgrade. Right now I don’t know what they could do to get me to want to. Folding? Even more zoom? Even more battery? Return of the headphone jack???? I won’t lie, a headphone jack might…
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 18:38:03+00:00
Most likely, the market for a small phone from a mainstream manufacturer is more than strong enough to sustain itself and even be profitable. The real culprit here is that there’s been a shift in the industry — it’s not enough for products to “just” make a profit, they now have to also be smash hits and money printers. Niche audiences may as well not exist, no matter how dedicated they may be, everything must target the masses.
by hellojesus | 2025-09-09 18:38:26+00:00
The act of subsidizing childcare doesn't only help stay-at-home parents work, it forces everyone in the market to work more to maintain their same standard of living.

Flooding the market with new labor increases the supply Against a fixed demand, this lowers wages. So everyone not getting the subsidy feels pressure from stagnating wages plus the increased tax burden.

Let's assume that all those new laborers get paid and therefore demand also increases, moving the equilibrium so some of the wage stagnation pressure is dampened. It's still not going to offset the effect of new labor and taxes.

All this does is modify the equilibrium of supply and demand in the market such that those not receiving the subsidies (or evem those not receiving as much subsidies as others) are negatively impacted through lifestyle discrimination.
by bilekas | 2025-09-09 18:39:00+00:00
> By 1980, Europe was rebuilt. What did they do then?

No it wasn't, and also the EU wasn't even in it's crawling stages. Negotiations were still taking place about EU memberships so no, you are objectively wrong.

> Continue to depend on the US for both tech and military.

In what sense? For the cold war? That was benefiting who?