MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _alastair | 2025-09-15 17:16:44+00:00
Thanks! I'm hoping to continue down this path and write up some thoughts on how you might actually achieve seamless in-app webviews at some point but, y'know... time.

In the meantime (hey, it's already a thread of self-promotion) my last writeup was about the native views WKWebView generates when you use hardware accelerated CSS transforms:

https://alastair.is/learning-about-what-happens-when-you-use...
by andoando | 2025-09-15 17:17:08+00:00
They need to regulate the nicotine content. In Canada its 2% at least. In the US its pretty much 5% juice only.

5% is 50mg/1ml. A cigarette pack has about 25mg. A geek bar has 16ml of juice = 800mg of nicotine = 32 packs of cigarettes.
by mhashemi | 2025-09-15 17:17:30+00:00
Haha, glad you like it! So, originally this was a B2B concept for a friend who was starting an advisory. Original model was around referrals, and advisor client funnels. That might still have a place, but tbd.

The B2C version you're looking at is an app store, so marketplace / app fee structure. Currently, when you save a View to your space, you're actually subscribing to updates. Instead of paying for a newsletter you have to read, digest, and model off, FinFam enables a paid subscription to a spreadsheet that gives you an answer. Skip the read, straight to the guidance.

For most people facing decisions with significant financial components, they keep an eye on the situation for weeks if not months. If they're subscribed to an expert's View, they can pay per update or per time period, kind of like Patreon.

I'm thinking we'll probably add some premium tier for certain SaaS features. E.g., similar to Figma, you can have X spaces, but if you want more, you need to pay more. Something tied to advanced use cases, # of chatbot convos, etc.

For now it's all available for the low low cost of bug reports. the more detailed the better!
by baalimago | 2025-09-15 17:17:55+00:00
It repeats commands as quickly as it can. So it's not a cronjob manager.

Quite battletested on heavy devops tasks. The design is simple: every command is a subprocess spawned by in -n number of go routines. Then there's some extra fluff to tie the worker pattern together and deliver statistics.

Why not xargs? Ergonomics, and speed. Repeater is faster, see benchmarks.
by aredox | 2025-09-15 17:18:41+00:00
Elections happen in Turkey, Russia and even North Korea.

Elections will happen in the USA, but only if they give the right answer. Didn't you get the memo that there is massive fraud, that voter rolls have to be purged (and are already purged in some states), that gerrymandering is normal, and that this is war?

Do you think Kash Patel, Pam Bondi and Tulsi Gabbard are just there to do their job honestly and independently? That they are just firing people left and right (mostly left, and not enough right) just because of incompetence? Do you think the Jan 6th coupists were pardoned only by magnanimity, and the military honours ordered for Ashli Babbitt are just there because Trump has a bleeding heart?
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-15 17:19:44+00:00
I hear constantly how in-demand this shit supposedly is and then every time I look around a corner LLMs are being stuffed into every damn thing and I'm left wondering how much of this alleged "engagement" is just because LLMs are in fucking everything now and it's impossible to run a lot of mainstream software without a few calls going to one or another of them.

I have never, ever, in my entire life, seen a tech work so hard to be everywhere while simultaneously not being very useful.
by dv_dt | 2025-09-15 17:19:53+00:00
The answer is do both, industrial utility PV has so far been lower cost, but individual PV is higher resilience - especially in the age of extreme weather events.

I have a grid detachable PV system with battery. It's been invaluable for grid blackouts in my area to have the capability even as I have paid (at least for the first couple years) a higher price per kwh for it. Over more years, it's really nice to have price insulation against utility price increase.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-15 17:19:58+00:00
> The ROI of a large PV farm must be substantially better than a home scale install.

Actually, it's the other way around.

A rooftop solar doesn't require much: the land is already there (it's yours), there isn't any bullshit with permits, all you need is a ladder or a bucket truck, a few ultra cheap panels, an aluminum frame, an inverter and a few dozen feet worth of wiring.

A large scale solar farm however? The developer needs to find suitable land (challenging to do when competing against big ag), there's permit paperwork involved because solar farms ain't agriculture, they need to pay for a high voltage connection to the nearest substation, the huge ass panels need a really solid support construction that can withstand wind and weather and that needs a solid foundation as well, you need thousands of feet worth of wiring, complex and massive inverters, lightning arrestors, god knows what.

Oh and you get resilience against natural disasters for free on top of that. Some drunk driver plows into a power pole, some redneck shoots up some birds and kills the power line (yes, that happens so often that utilities release yearly reminders to please leave the birds alone), or a heavy storm / flood takes out entire substations for weeks, whatever - you throw the transfer switch, kill off all the non-essential consumers and can easily ride through a week worth of outage.
by stefan_ | 2025-09-15 17:20:16+00:00
Ok, then follow through please?

Having two ports with one taken up for charging (so one usable) is inadequate. But I suppose the problem with adding more is now you need to offer all the things that could be connected on all of them. But you are not willing to provision the hardware to do that. Thats not sunsetting, thats being cheap.
by AegirLeet | 2025-09-15 17:22:08+00:00
The upside of starting with Consider Phlebas is that the story doesn't really take place within the Culture. It provides you with an outside perspective. It also sets up some things that are referenced in later books.

The downside is that it's quite a bit different from (and imo a bit worse than) the other books and could mislead you about what the series is like - or even turn you off entirely.

If you're already committed to reading the entire series, I'd start with Consider Phlebas. If you're unsure, start with The Player of Games.
by greyb | 2025-09-15 17:22:13+00:00
Suing for $43 would absolutely be frivolous and would be thrown out by all but the most bored small claims courts.

The best you could do is send your client to collections, though if you try and mess with their credit report, that incurs liability on your part. Funny enough, German companies do send SaaS/IaaS clients with small bills owing to collections, even for amounts as small as 15-20 EUR.
by alkyon | 2025-09-15 17:23:06+00:00
In the last ten years Poland life expectancy has risen by 5 years, in the same time period US was almost stalled. Now (as of the 2025 projection), Poland has slightly better LE overall.

However, approx. 9% of US population is uninsured, in Europe (including Eastern Europe) health care systems are universal.

Edit: Even for those insured, insurance claim rejection rate is 19%
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-09-15 17:23:10+00:00
> > I think a lot of the reasons for this is because AI helps provide a productivity boost to non-profitable sectors of most businesses, i.e. software development, finance, HR, etc. Since these departments do not directly drive profits, there's no visible bottom line to make meaningful observations on.

So the right place to look should be looking at free time of employees or cognitive load/stress they are under.

How is it possible to measure that?

Anyways Goldman might not be the right firm to measure it because they are not interested in anything that isn't money.
by crowcroft | 2025-09-15 17:23:41+00:00
Interesting, using webviews is a common shortcut for a lot of functionality, and even native apps will occasionally have some webviews (that you might not even notice) out of convenience (and sometimes necessity).

Apple themselves run into these exact cases and develop a compromise for themselves, while at the same time telling third party developers that aren't allowed to use the exact same compromise, and they MUST use Apple's native UI if they want liquid glass...
by munksbeer | 2025-09-15 17:23:50+00:00
> Does not not strike you as odd?

Not really. What struck me as odd was someone citing papers as evidence for their opinion that having children increases your happiness, when the papers drew no such conclusion.

It's great that it has worked out that way for you. Sadly, I have a different experience, but life happens. If this makes any difference to you, I don't know, but let's move on.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-15 17:23:55+00:00
Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Lots of twiddly things wrong, like:

Doing a crop, the cursor almost disappears. Same with freestyling the outline of some complicated shape to cut.

Picking a color doesn't work consistently.

Choosing a pencil or brush - WTF, it's all wrong.

The layers menu is incomprehensible.

There's a lot more.
by ecommerceguy | 2025-09-15 17:23:56+00:00
Stable coins can print anytime they want, there's no one at the SEC that will regulate it in this admin. As a matter of fact it's pretty well accepted in some circles, especially on subreddits, that Tether did exactly that, printed usdt, purchased btc at effectively 0 cost basis, inflating bitcoin prices by decreasing supply and then turned around and purchased treasuries. Cantor Fitzgerald ran that for them.

Further, stable coins / crypto are almost certainly being used to slop up as much liquidity as possible and has essentially so far pulled 4 trillion out of circulation. If not for that sleight of hand trick, hyperinflation, at least in the USA, would have already happened. Probably still will as there's only so much can kicking that can occur. I know of 30 year olds that literally live in mom's basement and dump nearly all of their just above minimum wage checks straight into Robinhood to blindly purchase crypto. Will forever beat inflation is the mentality.

Sure looks like there's going to be lots of pain for poor and middle class people in the next 5 years.
by snackbroken | 2025-09-15 17:24:17+00:00
I'm generally opposed to that as well. Agreeing with Muromec's reply, I don't think it is necessarily anticompetitive in the case where the console vendor doesn't favor its first party games, but of course all three do that in practice. The situation is somewhat mitigated by the existence of a flourishing open market alternative (PC games).

More broadly, and not based on antitrust grounds but on property rights grounds, I am opposed to every kind of DRM. First, it should be legal to circumvent any and all DRM/anti-copying measures. Second, it should be illegal to deprive the next owner of their property rights so that you can exert ownership control over a product past its sale.

If I buy a computer, do nothing but install a keylogging rootkit on it, and sell it on to someone else, I would rightly risk jail time. "The malware is part of the product" is not a valid excuse. DRM is also malware. It should be prosecuted as such, and if existing legislation is found wanting, more specific laws need to be written.
by virtualritz | 2025-09-15 17:24:39+00:00
So in 2025, in Python, if I depend on two packages. A and B, and they both depend on different, API-incompatible or behavior-incompatible (or both) versions of C, that won't be an issue?

That's not my experience and e.g. uv hasn't helped me with that. I believe this is an issue with Python itself?

If parent was saying something "grossly ridiculous" I must be doing something wrong too. And I'm happy to hear what as that would lower the pain of using Python.

I.e. this was assumably true three years ago:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70828570/what-if-two-pyt...
by jaredwiener | 2025-09-15 17:25:14+00:00
FYI, In addition to being able to download straight from fonts.google.com, Many (if not all?) of the fonts are also on Github, including TTF/OTF/WOFF2 files.

For example, here's Roboto Mono WOFF2s: https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono/tree/main/fonts/we...
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-15 17:25:25+00:00
> the main reason webviews in apps have such a bad reputation is because you don't notice the webviews that are integrated seamlessly

very true, and why I got out of mobile app development when I noticed like a decade ago, scrubbed my whole resume of it to switch to other kinds of dev

I'm surprised there is still demand for that though, but I've found other solutions to be good enough, when a phone is involved
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-15 17:25:52+00:00
Yep, every so often I remember staring out the window on the highway in the car as a kid and seeing single use bags snagged on fences or trees pretty much anywhere inaccessible or not routinely cleaned.

I also catch it on B roll footage in movies or shows from the 90s/2000s a lot. It’s a specific type of visual blight I rarely ever see after those ultra flimsy single use bags that could be carried dozens of miles on a gentle breeze were eliminated.

(This children's book was written basically at the tail end of the era where seeing a bag flying could conjure the imagination)

https://www.amazon.com/Bag-Wind-Ted-Kooser/dp/0763630012#ave...
by nepthar | 2025-09-15 17:26:31+00:00
I had one of these. My account ended up eventually being reinstated. No reason was given for the initial account freeze or reinstating.

One thing I did - in response to them saying I could no longer do business, I told them that they also could no longer do business with me, requested a copy of all of the user data they had on me under CCPA, and told them to then delete all of my personal information. They did not actually comply and I didn't pursue. I probably should, though.
by munificent | 2025-09-15 17:26:42+00:00
Before the Internet and print-on-demand, it was hard for any rando to write a piece of text and get it in front of the eyeballs of strangers. You had to at least commit to spending a chunk of cash on a press run. That meant that the average quality of a randomly selected piece of text was relatively high. Then the web and print-on-demand democratized that. If you read a random web page, or a randomly selected post or comment on some social media site/app, odds are it will be near nonsense. Likewise a randomly selected self-published work. (Though the quality tends to be a bit higher there because the pressure to write a work of a significant enough length tends to filter somewhat.)

You don't notice this as much because you almost never encounter a truly randomly selected text work. You're reading only comments that get upvotes, and blog posts that get reshared, and self-published works with a lot of reviews and sales. Crowdsourced sorting has helped make the giant mass of garbage less visible.

Likewise, before digital cameras and cheap web hosting, it was hard for any rando to take a photo and get it in front of the eyeballs of strangers. You have to pay for film, pay to develop it, pay to make enlargements. That meant most photos you saw where either snapshots with personal relevance that gave them quality, or actually decent photography. Then digital cameras and cheap hosting democratized that. If you look at a randomly selected image posted (and not re-posted) to Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, etc., odds are it will be blurry poorly-lit trash.

Again, you don't notice this because Instagram and company use crowdsourcing, AI, and algorithms to ruthlessly filter out the garbage.

The same story is true for a lot of music coming out these days, though that one still have a few structural gatekeepers in many places.

If AI really does radically lower the bar to shipping, an app, we should expect to see the same thing play out there too. An enormous sea of worthless shovelware with a handful of decent apps mixed in. It will become even more important for app stores to filter and curate these collections so that users can find what they want.
by esafak | 2025-09-15 17:27:02+00:00
> Someone whose political agenda is to force society to confirm to a doctrinal ideology that in opposition to the established broad status-quo norms of that society is by definition not a conservative.

Conservatives believe that the status quo may violate the transcendent order and that they are duty bound to restore it. Neither conservatives nor liberals believe the status quo is sacred.

Do you think the rolling back of Roe vs. Wade was not a conservative act because it was a "status quo norm" ? They never liked it, so perhaps it was not a norm?

Status quoism is different from conservatism.
by palata | 2025-09-15 17:27:06+00:00
E-waste like this exists because it's legal and profitable.

I believe that we as a society don't want e-waste (at least I don't). And when the society does not want something profitable to be done, it sets regulations.

If it wasn't illegal to steal your neighbour's car and sell it, then it would be profitable. But we as a society don't want it to happen.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-15 17:27:38+00:00
I think people do care, but cynical tech types aren't very good at explaining why using a loyalty card or installing an app to save money on gas is ultimately about trade-offs and could be bad for them in the long run. We can't just shake a stick at them and say "abandon your grocery and gas discounts, fools, big tech is always watching!"
by alvis | 2025-09-15 17:27:49+00:00
It's interest to see this quote: `for the bottom 10% of user turns sorted by model-generated tokens (including hidden reasoning and final output), GPT‑5-Codex uses 93.7% fewer tokens than GPT‑5`

It sounds like it can make simple tasks much more correct. It's impressive to me. Today coding agent tends to pretend they're working hard by generating lots of unnecessary code. Hope it's true
by hectormalot | 2025-09-15 17:27:53+00:00
Netherlands. No distribution fees are separate.

Roughly speaking the electricity is about €0.06 with about €0.20 in taxes on top. So offsetting consumption nets me about €0.26 cents per kWh.

The installation of a 2800kWp system cost me about €2600 and generates between 2400-2750kWh annually, so about €650 euro. In a 10 year timespan that’s an IRR of 20%, creeping up to 25% for 20 years.
by whitehexagon | 2025-09-15 17:27:56+00:00
It's an interesting thought exercise, but the quick short term solution would be a 5kWh buffer battery just for the evenings to save buying at peak times.

I started that way before going fully off-grid to avoid subsidising the fossil fuel industry here. Plus ~70% of my bill was fixed charges, and they wouldnt pay for excess solar generation above what I used.

I think this sort of mega home battery bomb could be avoided through legislation by offering free grid connections. So I 'pay-in' 10kWh today, and maybe my account is credited with '5kWh' for later use. I'm sure we would see a much bigger uptake of home solar with such a scheme.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-15 17:28:15+00:00
They marked my account as hacked (it wasn't), and the first two submissions of a photo of my driver's license from my phone were rejected... not until the third time after calling the third operator was like.. yep, that's a driver's license with your name on it.

That's not even close to the worst stories I've heard... like running Rippa through the ringer.
by int_19h | 2025-09-15 17:28:34+00:00
If this is your metric for a "failed app store", then the iOS app store also qualifies, since it has just as many such listings.

As far as Mac app store, even ignoring Apple's first-party apps, just to name a few, it has MS Office, WhatsApp, Telegram, Kindle, Facebook, Slack, Parallels, LibreOffice, VLC. I use Mac as my primary desktop, and I'd say that about half of the apps I use daily are from the store. As far as I can tell, the ones that are missing, are mostly missing because they can't do what they need to do within the sandbox.
by evermike | 2025-09-15 17:28:55+00:00
Of course we would never do anything like that. In the post I just shared two different cases to give some perspective to the community.

From everything discussed in the article, there are a 2 major takeaways:

1) You need to avoid chargebacks as much as possible.

2) If a chargeback does happen, the chances of winning are basically zero — unless you can convince the customer to withdraw it.
by progbits | 2025-09-15 17:29:27+00:00
Spoiler for Surface Detail:

There is that battle where a single Culture ship absolutely destroys a GFCF fleet without breaking a sweat. The ship's Mind says they stood no chance because their AI didn't have autonomous authority over weapons systems and relied on accelerated crews for decisions.

What I love most is how the battle is explained to a human passenger over the course of several pages and at one point they have an exchange like:

Mind: Now here comes my favorite bit. Human: What do you mean? This isn't live? Mind: Oh, no, the battle was over in fraction of a second. I'm showing you a slowmo replay.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-15 17:29:30+00:00
I use poundcake as a synonym to spongecake. The ingredients and process are the same, with variations large enough between recipes to accommodate both. (Cupcake, chocolate cake, lemom cake, some apple cakes all use the same basic dough composition too)

Poundcake vary greatly beyond a "pound".

If anything, spongecake is more strictly defined, originally not using leveling agents, relying on the air bubbles introduced in the beating of the eggs.

But thats semantics. Perhaps spongecake is more recognised as the umbrella term.
by skwee357 | 2025-09-15 17:29:38+00:00
I’ve been recently hit with my first chargeback. The first thing I learned, you pay the chargeback fee no matter what.

The second thing I learned, you pay a fee if you intend to respond.

Basically, from what I understood, a chargeback is a lose-lose situations for the business. If the cost of the transaction is less than the two fees, it’s better to let chargeback settle in customers favor. Otherwise, you risk losing both fees, as the chance for winning a chargeback is very small (from what I learned).

I had a customer who used a “wrong credit card” (read: a corporate card that they had access to). I reached out to the customer asking them why they filed a chargeback, they told me “sorry, used the wrong card, the owner filed for chargeback”.

I didn’t bother to file the counter argument. Just blocked the customer, and ate the fee.

Enable 3D secure, this _might_ help with chargeback protection. And as someone said, enable Radar, it costs extra. There are also service that automatically refund the customer when they “intend” to file. Basically, stripe sends you a webhook when chargeback is about to arrive, so you can refund, this avoiding the chargeback fee.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-09-15 17:29:39+00:00
I am not disagreeing with you. I agree that these disposable vapes should be made illegal. What I meant is that "disposing" is a broad term and is not always bad. Many good products eventually become naturally obsolescent, at which point it's often best to responsibly dispose of them.

The actual problem here is how the product is intentionally designed to only be used once, when that's absolutely unnecessary. We both agree on that. That falls within the issue of planned obsolescence, and that's what regulation needs to target.