MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pazimzadeh | 2025-09-20 21:41:50+00:00
It matters what type of skin you have, there’s a genetic component. Most “Australians” are of Irish/British descent and not ready for that much sun even with a bit of a tan/priming. Indigenous Australians do not have high melanoma incidence.

Although skin color is an obvious visual indicator, two people with the same shade of skin can have very different responses to sunlight because there are non-tan-related genes which affect rapid DNA/tissue repair on your skin:

Clinical and Biological Characterization of Skin Pigmentation Diversity and Its Consequences on UV Impact https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6163216/

So what I said is especially applicable to people who are not the palest on earth. If you are mixed like me (French and Iranian combo) then you can push it more than a say “pure” Irish person.

Thankfully the paler you are the less time in the sun you need to make vitamin D. But I will bet that some sun exposure is still better than none.
by mindslight | 2025-09-20 21:42:02+00:00
The problem is that it would just be an excuse to turn on the money printer as he's already itching to do. And then it's not like this wannabe autocrat is going to sit idly by through the collapse and hyperinflation.

Also one of Trump's master skills is slithering out of blame. He should have been a one term president after his abjectly terrible anti-leadership through Covid, yet he was able to parlay the chaos he mostly caused himself into an excuse of why he was unable to execute on all his outlandish and contradictory promises.
by mothballed | 2025-09-20 21:42:05+00:00
Do you take contention with the part where I indicate the money paid goes into the state coffers?

Or the part that money from the state coffers is then laundered to friends of the political class via favored private enterprises that win contracts?

Let us be specific about the part that is the "unsubstantiated rumor", so that I can come up with "any evidence" which is a low bar to pass indeed.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-09-20 21:42:05+00:00
glass can either scratch or resist impact. It's not that they have a secret alien technology, just basic engineering tradeoffs. (and maybe slightly better than average quality control, which today is basically just not shipping known bad production lots)

Also, i find it nice that they decided to honor they allegiance pledge to the regime with an Orange model. It was a nice touch.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-20 21:42:47+00:00
Well, start-ups are an incredible journey! :)

We have no aim to "enshittify", I'm actually not sure what an incredible journey is? Can you elaborate on who has gone on such incredible journey's?

I wonder if some of the enshitiffication is a result of investor demands (as another comment alluded to).

We're doing our best to bootstrap Affectable. Bootstrapping a neurotech hardware start-up is not easy, and it's a bit of a miracle we've mostly managed so far.

Thanks for your input, and your early support. I'd be keen to know if there were other details you'd like to hear about on our mailing list.

We'll keep reviewing our pricing model based on feedback. We do appreciate you taking the time, and for your consideration.
by condiment | 2025-09-20 21:43:12+00:00
A talented chef might cut vegetables at 25hz, while the blade is moving at 44khz. So whatever cutting improvement is conferred by the ultrasonic tech will certainly be applied towards fast cutting. It seems that the main benefit for fast cutting would be that food doesn't stick to the blade.

I'll cut bread with my chef's knife (amazon shun knockoff) when I want to make less of a mess. One interesting thing I noticed is that when Scott was cutting bread in the video he was cutting a croissant and no crumbs fell.

It will be interesting to see the knife in the hands of real chefs. Two things I'm curious about are whether the ergonomics of the button are good, and whether the ultrasonic action atomizes foods as they're being cut, changing the experience of cooking in some way.
by harrall | 2025-09-20 21:43:19+00:00
My phone is also mounted above my dash immediately to the right of my steering wheel, allowing me to always have the road in sight.

With many in-car screens, you have to look down and right. You can’t even see the road in your peripheral anymore.

I’ve driven for over 20 years and have only slammed on my breaks 3 times in my entire life and not once in the last 10 years.

I’m going to admit: I’ve done extremely bad things while driving but for 20 years, my eyes basically have never left a small window that includes the road, even if I’m fiddling with my phone or stuffing Panda Express into my face with a stupid fork.

I literally bring a phone mount with me when I rent a car on a trip.
Show HN: TakeCode – Self-hosted web viewer for massCode snippets
by codebude | 2025-09-20 21:43:23+00:00
I built a small side project called takeCode, a web-based viewer for massCode snippet databases.

massCode is a great snippet manager, but it only runs as a desktop application. I often wanted to quickly browse my snippets remotely (e.g. when working on another machine), so I wrote a simple web viewer:

Read-only access to existing massCode snippet database files (no risk of corrupting them)

Self-hostable, intended to be run via Docker (docker-compose.yml included)

Provides a lightweight web UI to navigate your snippets

Demo available here: https://demo.take-code.dev/

This started as a private project for myself, but I thought it might be useful to others, so I’m sharing it now. It’s still early and not highly polished, but functional.

Feedback and ideas are very welcome!
by rolph | 2025-09-20 21:44:13+00:00
its good to know about Reid, and how the process begins the instant an LEO contacts you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique

also loosely referred to as the "reid 9", or the "9 steps"

reid is still clutched dear, in places but has in others, been supplanted by "p.e.a.c.e."

PEACE method of interrogation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEACE_method_of_interrogation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEACE_method_of_interrogation
by sema4hacker | 2025-09-20 21:44:26+00:00
Note that in the USA there are typically three kinds of assistants: (1) they're an established business and you simply pay their quoted rates, in which case they don't net all that you pay them due to their overhead and IRS obligations, (2) they're classified as a "household employee" and the IRS wants both of you to cover extras like Social Security and Medicare, in which case their paycheck has deductions and you owe taxes to the IRS, or (3) you give them under-the-counter cash payments to avoid paying taxes, but that's illegal.
by kmeisthax | 2025-09-20 21:44:49+00:00
It's not, but you hear about them more often because they're America's attack dog. AFAIK China has their own mobile spyware too, and the US has several private companies that make spyware too.

Smartphones are juicy targets. Most people have one, originally by choice and now by social mandate. And people have a habit of loading lots of personal data on them - at a minimum, just by using the location features on the device, which produces a near-perfect location tracking log. Lots of governments would love nothing more than to have access to telepathy - i.e. actual mind reading - to figure out which citizens were loyal, disloyal, engaged in criminal behavior, etc. And having a full unencrypted phone backup is basically a mind rip.

The only countries that aren't interested in mobile spyware are countries not big enough to afford a spyware engineering org.
by the_sleaze_ | 2025-09-20 21:44:50+00:00
I worked in some of the best kitchens on the planet and for every hipster with a blue paper #2 carbon steel hand made japanese chefs knife there was an old gray beard with a row of old busted victorinoxes hanging on the wall. Both of these cooks would filet a halibut beautifully.

It isn't the knife.
by pron | 2025-09-20 21:45:10+00:00
AST macros are very powerful. As to them being "good", that's debatable. They have advantages but also disadvantages. For one, they operate on syntax, so they're a separate metalanguage and not so pleasant to debug. For another, they are referentially opaque (i.e. when passed different expressions with the same meaning, they can produce different results), which makes them powerful but also mysterious.

What's interesting about Zig's comptime is that while it's strictly less powerful than AST macros, it can do a lot of what macros can do while not being a metalanguage - just Zig.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-20 21:45:17+00:00
… and writing a detective story rather than a non-fiction book.

The reality is that someone writing in Harper's in 2025 and using a Dorothy L. Sayers Peter Wimsey story from 1934 as a supporting source is presenting a hopelessly outdated and fictional picture of the world and is going to come up for starters against the Australia and New Zealand Association of Bellringers, founded in 1962.

* https://anzab.org.au
by ztwye | 2025-09-20 21:46:05+00:00
I don't get the higher status part. Why would big tech companies, for example, be more favorable to immigrants than americans? There are a lot of companies that will reject you simply because you are not american/greencard holder.

Obviously personal opinion but I don't think gutting H1B will lead to more jobs for americans or just more jobs in general. I can't predict the side effects, but I doubt the tech industry is going to stay the same
by pukexxr | 2025-09-20 21:46:21+00:00
Have you seen this knife do any of these things in action? Will it continue to do so? Nobody has, or will, until this gadget hits the market.

I remain skeptical in spite of your weird defensive reaction. I'm speaking about how a product appears to me as a professional. Not attcking you personally (unless it's your product... then I think you should do something good for society with your time)
by thayne | 2025-09-20 21:46:51+00:00
Look at it from the other angle, there are many developers (myself included), especially younger developers who would much prefer developing rust to c, and for at least some of them, don't want to learn how to write c (including how to avoid undefined behavior).

> I've written my own Git clients and have built a web server around Git repositories. I don't want to lose the hack-ability of Git.

How does the git project using rust inhibit your ability to do any of that?
by _ache_ | 2025-09-20 21:46:52+00:00
OMG. I was quite young. /o\

I wish it was code-switching but the true may be that my english wasn't very good.

I learn yesterday that a French spy DGSE (French NSA) was spotted by the Canadian after exactly this kind of english errors (and other hints like the use of "octet" instead of "byte" and compiled with french local).
by sReinwald | 2025-09-20 21:47:14+00:00
It's not always, but Israel is uniquely positioned for tech companies of this kind thanks to Unit 8200.

Israel has mandatory military service. They grab the most promising teenagers and give them insanely good cybersecurity training on the government's dime. They do their mandatory service, maybe spend a few more years in the unit, then move on to the private sector. Most, if not all, of Israel's tech companies in the cybersecurity/surveillance sector are related to Unit 8200 for this reason.

But also: I think it's fair to say that Israeli spyware gets more media attention party because of geopolitical factors. Similar to Russian or Chinese spyware. I doubt the same headline would catch as much attention if you swapped Israeli-founded with Spanish-founded.
by marbartolome | 2025-09-20 21:47:16+00:00
Been unemployed since 2018.

It started with a maternity leave. Then after a year, I tried going back to my old job and it was a disaster, so I decided to delay it for a bit longer. Then COVID hit. Then I had another child. Then one day you realize, "has it really been 5 years since I stopped working?"

Coming back at that point felt impossible: I wanted a part time job, my skills were outdated and rusty - I didn't even bother applying anywhere, I wouldn't stand a chance. I started searching for alternatives: small freelance gigs, bounties, personal projects... None were a success.

This year I mustered the courage to start applying to jobs again, only to realize that my most pessimistic fears were totally falling short.

I haven't burned all my rope yet, but It's not looking great.

If you're wondering: the way I'm surviving financially is because my spouse does have a full-time job, so we adapted to live with that.
by duxup | 2025-09-20 21:47:24+00:00
Reddit used to have some groups who "researched" this kind of content.

They weren't violent that I know of, they just knew all the lingo in a way that made you think they were really just the actual people doing the bad things. Just setting up a sort of excuse. They also told these weird fairy tales about how they interacted with police sometimes, fairy tales that indicated they clearly didn't understand how police work ...
by cube2222 | 2025-09-20 21:49:09+00:00
It's up to you whether you think you need it.

I'm a person who tends to accidentally throw my phone around a lot, and don't use a case (cause the added bulk makes me throw it around even more). Often on ceramic tiles, often with added velocity from me walking or hitting it in the air while trying to catch it.

My iPhone 13 Pro still survived 3 years, and only had some scratches and bruises on its corners, but nothing broke (still in use, by someone else now). My iPhone 16 Pro after a year of that same treatment is almost unblemished (a small bruise on one of the corners).

These are, in practice, extremely resistant to damage.
by uecker | 2025-09-20 21:49:24+00:00
Rust is a nice language, but it pushed too aggressively with the argument of "memory safety" at all cost ignoring other considerations. And Cargo is certainly a disaster even though it may be considered "fantastic tooling" by some. In any case, I do not think it is funny that I now depend on packages without timely security update in my distribution. This makes me less secure.
by jongjong | 2025-09-20 21:49:35+00:00
My issue with formal proofs for code is that it assumes that the code is static and requirements are fixed and won't change. This assumption doesn't hold up in the vast majority of projects.

Surely LLMs can make this more practical but I think many projects suffer from a more mundane problem that they aren't architected properly. Without proper separation of concerns and proper abstraction, you won't get stability in the base modules, which means that you will have to re-evaluate and re-write tests and formal proofs constantly.
by pron | 2025-09-20 21:50:45+00:00
It's clear once you know that an object implements the Drop trait, but you can't see that at the use site, ergo it's hidden (same goes for C++ destructors). Zig wants every call to be visible.

The tradeoff is between making sure you don't forget to write the cleanup call (Rust, C++) and making sure you don't forget to read the cleanup call (Zig). For low-level code I personally prefer Zig's tradeoff; others prefer the C++/Rust tradeoff.
by gambiting | 2025-09-20 21:51:14+00:00
No, it inspires a feeling of deep hatred towards this stupid system that cannot understand simple commands that any English person would understand without any issue whatsoever.

(and I do actually genuienly blame whatever voice recognition algorithm they are using - I use the interactive voice chat feature of ChatGPT daily and it has 100% success rate, no problems understanding my English whatsoever).
by panick21_ | 2025-09-20 21:51:59+00:00
I agree, but the issue with hieing people is that your pipeline is also limited, along with other functions. So you need to heir more people to heir more people. You need more admin staff and so on. And the management needs to focus on that and build up the organization.

I also don't think its not as rare as you suggest finding people. Depending on your location and industry. It takes time to add people. Good people existing somewhere on the world wasn't enough, specially before remote work.

Also if you can grow your 50% margin business even a little bit faster by focusing on it, over the 5% margin business. It doesn't take that much focus for that to be the better choice. So if to achieve this 5% margin, lots of your best people work it, shifting those to the larger margin business might make sense.

But I agree, if you are a mature company that has the needed infrastructure to keep that product alive then doing so makes sense. Specially because maybe in the future it could be a more important better business.
by dwoldrich | 2025-09-20 21:52:45+00:00
James Shore prefers committing packages to source control, so yours isn't an entirely outlandish suggestion. The NPM package removal rug pull you describe is a use case I hadn't thought of.

Rather than loading up my git repo with binaries, I find it more appealing to maintain an enterprise repository that proxies to NPM and keeps a local cache for the enterprise. Part of what bothers me about letting `npm` point to the https://registry.npmjs.org public repository is the valuable trove of information they can gather about what my team is currently working on by watching what we download.

By pointing npm to a hosted repository proxy, not only can we protect against package deletion rug pulls, but we can also keep hidden details about what we are working on right now. There are also uptime benefits from self-hosting a repo, although registry.npmjs.org has been remarkably dependable.

The self-hosted proxying npm repository I have used in mega-corp was Artifactory, and it was pretty great.
by rtkwe | 2025-09-20 21:53:17+00:00
What's the third shaker for?!

https://nowiknow.com/the-mystery-of-the-third-shaker/

TL;DR: There's a unknown 3rd shaker in many 19th century table settings and no one really knows what went in it as far as I can tell. There's some indication it might have been for dried mustard powder but that's the only guess anyone has and it wasn't that popular as a condiment as far as anyone can tell outside of the tiny references in late 19th century catalogs for the 3 shaker sets including a 'mustard bottle'.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-20 21:54:38+00:00
Your comment basically perfectly describes why Scala is a wonderfully pleasant language to work with. I could review code and know that if it had the right high level steps and if it compiled, it was probably right. When writing code you figure out the high level steps and then write whatever you need to make it type check. If you don't go out of your way to do something perverse, it's probably correct.
by badlibrarian | 2025-09-20 21:55:47+00:00
Again, the Music Modernization Act (2018), which the Archive itself celebrated, was meant to put a dent in this problem. You prepare a list of works, then send a spreadsheet to the copyright office. Copyright holders then have 90 days to state that they're using the material commercially. If not, the library or archive (or individual) is free to make these works downloadable.

Orphaned works are a problem, but here was a way to move things a tiny bit forward. Unfortunately, just like Controlled Digital Lending it was left in the hands of some particularly careless people. I'd imagine the settlement also prohibits them from submitting the list (and thus causing the parties to do an enormous amount of research work).

I'm always up for a good ethics debate and likely wholeheartedly agree with your position. But this is a very different issue that resulted in clear damage to the culture we share and the future we all want.
by kakabelo3 | 2025-09-20 21:56:39+00:00
What does this device accomplish in the kitchen, besides being able to make fine slices of vegetables more easily? Electric carver knives beat it for slicing meat.

And then for most any other situation of knife usage it isn't necessary at all, as knives are mostly used for chopping. The one (1) thing I can see this being useful for is a shrunken down version for paring, but whether or not that is mechanically feasible, I don't know. The curve and the handle are more important than this vibro-verbing.

Nice dialogue, btw. "Help chefs feel great about themselves in the kitchen", "access to sous vide". <Kitchen Woke> ?
by wishfish | 2025-09-20 21:56:45+00:00
Sometimes TikTok live streams are like that. Not always, but at certain times of day, there's a huge variety. For me, I interact with it like an old television. Just flipping channels. Not knowing what I'll get and not seeking out specific live streams. At 3 AM my time, I stumble across weirdness and it feels like my childhood watching random stuff on cable.
by Scoundreller | 2025-09-20 21:57:52+00:00
> 90% of Chinese own their own properties

By "own" you mean 70 year leases with ??? renewal conditions?

> Urban land use rights in Mainland China were typically granted for fixed terms: 70 years for residential, 50 years for office or industrial, and 40 years for commercial purposes. As these terms approach expiration, the question of renewal becomes paramount. The legal framework, primarily the Property Law and the Urban Real Estate Administration Law, provides a general outline but leaves specific implementation to local governments.

> Mainland China’s Property Law (Article 149) and The Civil Code of Mainland China (Article 359) guarantee automatic residential land use right renewals but provides no specific arrangement in respect of non-residential terms. Currently, without detailed implementation guidelines, local governments devise varied approaches, skewing valuations and unsettling investors. This uncertainty hinders market efficiency.

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/greater-china/insights/b...

But yeah, you could argue that you have to pay property taxes in USA and if you don't, you'll eventually lose your land
by lucb1e | 2025-09-20 21:58:18+00:00
Tbh, the $5 claim was in response to me but I never said any VPS would have the storage capacity to host a catalogue. I said any server. Call it my self-hoster's bias but I really did picture a hardware server with a hard drive in it, not a virtual access tier with artificial limits

But yeah okay, not any server variant can do this and the cloud premium is real. You'd need so spend like 5€/month on real hard drives if you want, say, 4TB of video storage on top of your existing website (the vimeo and dailymotion price points mentioned suggest that their catalogue is above 1 but below 2 TB). The 5€/month estimate is based on the currently most-viewed 4TB hard drive model in the tweakers pricewatch (some 100€), a modest average longevity of 5 years, triple redundancy, and that you would otherwise be running on smaller drives anyway for your normal website and images so there's no (significant) additional labor or electricity costs for storage (as in, you just buy a different variant of the same setup, not need to install additional ones)
by gregsadetsky | 2025-09-20 21:58:38+00:00
This display is definitely programmable to show any output you'd want. A similar display is the Turing Smart Screen (linked in the article) which is a small image-over-usb display.

((I really wanted the latter display to work on my Mac, but there's unfortunately some OS-level USB buffering (I think) that ends up creating a corrupted image - https://github.com/mathoudebine/turing-smart-screen-python/i... ))
by abeppu | 2025-09-20 21:59:01+00:00
I think technically, in terms of "removals" based on an immigration judge ordering it, Obama still has the record. For "repatriations" which includes "removals", "returns" (no order, can be voluntary), and Covid-19 health related "expulsions", Biden holds the record.

I think data availability has been poor during the Trump administration, but from public numbers that I could find for spring of this year, it's not clear that even with all the raids the Trump administration is actually deporting more people than prior administrations ... but perhaps the goal is to keep more people in detention.

https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/immigration-enforcem... https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2019/table3... https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-were-deported-f...