MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghaff | 2025-09-14 22:38:58+00:00
>Counterpoint: buying is always better, people just can't afford it.

>Renting has it's charm for youngsters

You're sort of contradicting yourself. So long as you think you're sort of settled in an area, buying is probably better.

But, if it's your first job out of school, even if you have a nice bunch of money you could put towards a down payment, it's not clear that buying is a great idea except maybe if you're in an area with lots of jobs for your chosen profession.

Once I bought, somewhat belatedly, I was in an area that offered enough possibilities in my (broadly speaking) field even if a couple commutes were on the long side.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-14 22:39:12+00:00
Natively I would expect this to be true of every sequential year. Doesn’t really seem like news? Unless population is going to decline rapidly or something

Edit: ya, look at this plot https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/5?geo=g... The yearly peak is not moronically increasing with time, but it’s pretty close. Every year is more or less a new “record”.
by daymanstep | 2025-09-14 22:39:34+00:00
The paper that you cited is the 2009 study: Glantz, M. J., Chamberlain, M. C., Liu, Q., Hsieh, C. C., Edwards, K. R., Van Horn, A., & Recht, L. (2009). Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness. Cancer, 115(22), 5237-5242. https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10...

That paper has been debunked. Its conclusions were based on a coding error. When the coding error is corrected for the gender disparity disappears.

Please stop citing this paper without adding that it was debunked.

See for more details: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-14 22:39:35+00:00
Do you believe that if she had gone on camera and said "I was wrong, trans people shouldn't receive this care in prison" that it would have stopped the GOP ad campaign? No chance.

To die on a hill means that you stand on the hill and get killed rather than leave it. It means having a conviction so strong that you will never walk it back. That's the polar opposite of the establishment dems right now.
by nofriend | 2025-09-14 22:39:49+00:00
Mightn't it be marginally more productive to put a bit of surveillance in front of the container boats, and require registration for the cars being put on them, then trying to totally eliminate free computing and a free internet stopping all secure communication in order to catch the 1/10000000 messages which regard stealing cars?

I don't think the actual accusation is that the police are incompetent, but rather that this can't possibly be the real goal of such a law, because there are approaches to stopping such crimes which are not only far less invasive, but also easier and more practical. So this is at best an excuse, and at worst a justification that the commenter came up with that the actual policy makers never even mentioned (I have seen the latter far too often).
by j1elo | 2025-09-14 22:41:02+00:00
I've successfully used Material Files [1] to set a nework shared folder (I think it was FTP) on one Android profile, and accessing it ("connecting" to it) from the other. So this might also work between GrapheneOS profiles.

[1]: https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/
by chuckadams | 2025-09-14 22:41:28+00:00
Google Pay has never worked on GrapheneOS. GOS supports the attestation API -- a superset of it in fact -- but unless banking apps and Google Pay add GrapheneOS's keys specifically, they're not going to work, locked bootloader or no.

(Google Wallet runs fine for storing cards and tickets and whatnot, you just can't pay with it)
by kulahan | 2025-09-14 22:41:33+00:00
My wife and I are complete opposites. One of us processes data instantaneously, connecting it to dozens of other topics at the flip of a switch, and integrating broad knowledge. This makes for a great member of, say, a tiger team.

The other thinks slowly, often has no initial opinion, and rarely speaks up, but when they do, the input is flawless and monumental. R&D is their forté.

Neither one is better than the other. The quick thinker handles in-the-moment action well, but is so wrapped up in the “now” that it’s difficult for them to get too deep on a topic. The slow thinker meditates on ideas for a while, carefully chooses (almost always the correct) path, and steadies the course. Prick and pull at this one for a quick thought, and it comes out flatter than you could imagine.

Until we know what actual intelligence is, trying to act like one form is objectively better than another is just silly.

I think lots of the graybeard devs are deep thinkers, not fast thinkers. I think fast thinkers were pulled towards the “move fast and break things”-style companies.
by ludicity | 2025-09-14 22:42:00+00:00
I am 99.99% sure that less than 20% of Australian graduates could do this, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the actual answer is <1%.

I was studying at Monash, which is considered a solid university here, and holy moly are the standards low. I had classmates in the second year of my machine learning postgrad asking me things like "What is machine learning?", and they all graduated and found jobs anyway.
by LtWorf | 2025-09-14 22:43:08+00:00
I live in sweden. Police here is extremely incompetent and unwilling to do their jobs.

They will not seriously investigate any white collar crime, so corruption is completely unpunished.

They focus on gangs and so on, or so they say. What they actually do is aggressively target non violent people who smoke weed and occasionally some small fish dealer. Remember that owning any amount (even trace amounts only detectable by a chemist) of THC is a crime. Yes they do spend resources to go after people who occasionally smoke weed.

Meanwhile if you're a 2nd generation immigrant you will be forever subject to daily discrimination, and getting a job that is not hemtjänst or cleaning is going to be very rare.
by ysnp | 2025-09-14 22:46:05+00:00
> Sure it's cool you can turn off google play

Google Play and associated services are not bundled with GrapheneOS, they are completely optional.

> I found the profile feature to be only slightly more convenient than having two physical devices.

User Profiles is a feature inherited from AOSP. This is what AOSP says about the feature: "Android supports multiple users on a single Android device by separating user accounts and app data. For instance, parents might allow their children to use the family tablet, a family can share an automobile, or a critical response team might share a mobile device for on-call duty."

In the community it is popular to use multiple profiles to compartmentalise personas or group apps with hard google service dependencies together, but this is all completely optional. GrapheneOS as a project gently suggest keeping everything in the same initial owner profile and then moving things around to suit your comfort level.

> It's my device, not google's, and certainly not Graphene's.

You've clearly endured a lot of frustration when using the OS. Are there any specific things you remember trying to do that were blocked or prevented by GrapheneOS? It's not a project with unlimited resources, but actionable information about limitations and bugs can potentially be addressed if known.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-14 22:46:39+00:00
> which are not properties I would have expected from cellulose

You know why we've lost so much early cinema history to fire and moisture?

Because silent-film-era film is made of cellulose. It burns. Rapidly. Photography pioneers knew that. They used cellulose anyway because it's flexible and transparent. Right technological decision at the time.

We've known about cellulose properties for literally over a century. There's nothing new here.
by romanpoet | 2025-09-14 22:46:53+00:00
I've seen several complaints here about how GOS does "user profiles", specifically complaining they make the UX too poor. There is a weaker form of user profiles called "work profiles" that one can use to have separation between apps but in a more user-friendly way.

The recommended app is "Shelter". https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
by zeroq | 2025-09-14 22:46:55+00:00
Not really. If it's viable for you then buy your first property as soon as possible and keep saving. When you want to move just buy another and rent the previous one.

In most cases people will need to get a half decent job and save for a few years first but they can keep saving and have enough for another property in few years.

And if you really have to move - then you can still sell that property. People are getting new cars every 2-3 years and it's not that different from swapping real estate.
by neilv | 2025-09-14 22:47:01+00:00
I've had the tiniest nagging confusion about that...

From what I recall, it seemed pretty common to use the recipe on the bag of chocolate chips, yet somehow each family's cookies came out different.

My mom's instantiation of the bag recipe, for example, were pretty consistent across runs, yet not quite like anyone else's (that you're exposed to at friends' houses, school birthdays, bake sales, church potlucks, family reunions, cafes, ad photos, etc.)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-14 22:47:22+00:00
> I don't even see any evidence that 'neuromorphic' architecture is brain inspired in a non-trivial sense

I'm just giving the definition of the word neuromorphic. Individual systems claiming to be neuromorphic can be judged on their own merits, but that does not change the definition of the word.

>> brains operate in asynchronous dataflow type fashion. >That's a questionable statement. To the best of my knowledge, there is no consensus as of 2025 of how to model even a single neuron

You're confusing two things - do we know absolutely everything there is to know about every type of neuron and synapse, in order to build a 100% accurate model of them? No. Do we know that neurons operate asynchronously to each other, only activating when their inputs change? Yes.

> When I asked Steve Furber what 'neuromorphic meant, he said: "There are many things today described as neuromphric. Mead would not call SpiNNaker as neuromorphic!"

Of course not - it was just an ARM-based message passing system, built to be able to efficiently simulate spiking neural networks (modelled as message passing), but with no particular specialization for that task.

> I asked him if SpiNNaker can accelerate back-propagation and he said: "no, because the brain does not do back-propagation".

That's a silly question, and you got the silly answer you deserved. SpiNNaker is basically just an ARM cluster with fast message passing. It can be used to accelerate anything relative to running on slower hardware. If you wanted to train an ANN on it, using backprop, you certainly could, but why would you WANT to mix spiking neural nets and backprop ?!

> If that is the goal, they are also not very successful. On CMOS silicon changes from 0 to 1 or 0 to 1 is what consumes most of the power, this would make the constant spiking expensive, no?

Sure, but biological neurons don't spike constantly. They spike only when an input changes that causes them to activate - maybe on average only 10's of times per second. This is the whole point of an async (no clock)/dataflow chip design - for chip elements to only consume power when their inputs change - not to route a GHz clock to them that continuously draws power (by flipping between 0 and 1 billions of times a second) even if the element's inputs are only changing 10's of times a second (or whatever).
by Havoc | 2025-09-14 22:47:46+00:00
Yeah I can understand shrinkflation style adjustments but they're starting to hit inflection points like this.

Amazon just adjusted the Amazon Grocery minimums +25%...and now it just doesn't work anymore for a 1 person household. It's not that I can't afford it...it's just too much stuff in one go. Forces shifting buying patterns from fresh to frozen & shelf stable junk. I'm not doing +25% bigger cart sizes for a shit diet Amazon
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-14 22:47:52+00:00
I wouldn't want to purely out of the waste, but from a risk perspective, why not? Your other costs don't scale with housing or income, so if you're spending $70k on housing, you might be at $100k overall expenses. Add another $50k for income taxes and $50k for retirement savings and you're still at 50-100k left over for whatever you like (using 250-300 household income).

6k for a mortgage would be scary in case of job loss, but for rent, whatever, just move.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-09-14 22:47:58+00:00
As a homeowner, that is 100% in your control whereas with a condo it isn’t. I have seen so many times in the local news about condos who are underwater because the board decided to not proactively save and fix things which was a democratic decision made by the board.

Honestly I have such low trust in the ability for humans to plan for the future over the now. It is like a bug in our psychology.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-14 22:48:46+00:00
Vitis riparia (wild grapevine endemic to the whole eastern side of North America, grows like a weed all over extremely disease resistant and cold hardy) and hybrids with it also produce gum arabic from their spring pruning wounds: https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/2015/dec/grape/

Combined with the high sugars in the fruit and this cellulose things, overall an extremely useful plant.
by leoh | 2025-09-14 22:48:49+00:00
I've been thinking about something related lately.

I've been going through algorithms problems and although I've been a very successful engineer, I feel terrible when solving algorithms problems.

I had a realization, which is that there are two ways to learn:

1. trying to figure out solutions a priori

2. learning from tutorials online or cormen, rivest, stein, etc.

The two approaches are very difficult for me to reconcile. I'm the type of person that always prefers to do (1). That said, a lot of algorithms probably either

1. took a lot of careful studying to figure out

2. were solved by someone who is really brilliant

3. some combination of (1) and (2)

I think we need to remember that in all likelihood, many "solved" problems in technical fields -- which individuals are expected to be able to solve, at least in programming interviews -- probably were solved in the past by taking a lot of careful time by reasonably smart (but not necessarily genius individuals -- though I am sure there are exceptions).

I would much prefer to be able to do (1) for every algorithms problem, but the fact of it is, I think it is near impossible (probably even for very brilliant individuals, maybe folks like Ramanujan excepted -- and even then, he had exposure to building blocks in textbooks).

Calculus is a special case of this, for example. It doubtless took Newton and Leibniz a lot of very careful studying to discover calculus in addition to them being very bright individuals.

Solving a rubik's cube is another example. I suspect (though am not sure) that the the number of individuals who have solved a rubik's cube a priori is extremely tiny. Maybe on the order of dozens (out of hundreds of thousands if not millions?) in the world ever.

I don't think that these issues are clearly articulated enough and it really is a shame.

It's also a tragedy, I think, that we live in a world where:

1. individuals working in technical fields are often expected to be able to know how to do a lot of very hard things that likely took humanity a very very long time to discover

2. there is a tremendous amount of pressure in many contexts to know how to do very hard things in many cases without very much support in learning

For individuals that don't care too much about figuring things out a priori, I think this can be a very very challenging world.

I think one of the ways out is to appreciate the above -- and to carefully, slowly, thoughtfully attempt to reconcile when to try to understand things a priori versus when to try to learn things from principles others have discovered.

The first individuals who were doing things like sorting algorithms, dynamic programming, etc. likely took months if not years to be able to solve problems that are now considered (relatively) trivial and in only a few lines of code.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-14 22:49:38+00:00
> I'm curious what Claude Code Opus 4.1 has to say on the topic, aren't you?

No. Claude isn’t a person and has nothing to say on any topic without a human providing the prompt.

Again, if I wanted Claude to write me a book about lisp or anything else, I’d ask it too. I ask AI tools to do stuff everyday, not clear value you are adding by inserting yourself between the tool and the readers who have the same access to the same tool.

If you think the stuff has value and you’re sharing it for free, that’s great, but I don’t know you from Adam, so your recent flood of HN posting doesn’t inspire confidence, it just looks like self promotion of AI slop being churned out at a rapid pace.
by layer8 | 2025-09-14 22:49:51+00:00
> the not after attribute could be updated just as easily with the original protocol, reissuing the certificate.

That's not a viable solution if the server you want to verify is compromised. The point of CRL and OCSP is exactly to ask the authority one higher up, without the entity you want to verify being able to interfere.

In non-TLS uses of X.509 certificates, OCSP is still very much a thing, by the way, as there is no real alternative for longer-lived certificates.
by Justsignedup | 2025-09-14 22:50:01+00:00
Counter thought:

Rent is going up A LOT every year. My parent's house in a similar area is not, even with extra taxes, it is far lower than what I pay.

They fix up something, its fixed. We have a problem -- it will be fixed in the cheapest possible terribly looking way.

And rent keeps going up. All the time. By so much.

There's flexibility in it when you're in your 20s. But in 30s and 40s its terrible.
by Izkata | 2025-09-14 22:50:13+00:00
> I’ve heard, many times going back 20+ years, “they should just mine the border”. Kilmeade’s comment about just killing homeless people who wouldn’t accept aid (who cares why they don’t, I guess)? I’ve heard it, that’s not new, what’s new is people that prominent saying it.

Yeah, people who think Trump is far right don't have a clue where the actual far right is. A large amount of what Trump is doing boils down to a simple "enforce the current law", he just has to use executive orders to get it done because of insane resistance from people who have been flouting the law for decades. Trump is a moderate response to the issues, not a far right one, and has attracted the disaffected middle in addition to the people on the far right who see him as finally a step in the right direction.
by gwd | 2025-09-14 22:50:18+00:00
Speaking as an American, this is a part of American culture that's so weird -- using a pre-made mix as a base for a recipe that it's not designed for. That recipe looks like it just has flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt pre-mixed (with a load of other garbage you probably don't need). People don't seem to realize that you can just buy those ingredients yourself. It doesn't take that much extra time to measure them out, and it's way cheaper.
by whymarrh | 2025-09-14 22:50:18+00:00
You’re right, the math is slightly more complicated than rent v. mortgage payment.

Ben Felix, a popular financial YouTuber, made many a video about the math:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j4H9LL7A-nQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=lBG-g1CKfgs
by foota | 2025-09-14 22:50:20+00:00
I've sort of gotten on the bandwagon. I initially used AI auto complete at my previous job and liked it a lot as a better intellisense, but wouldn't have used it to write PRs -- for one I tried it a couple times and it just wasn't good enough.

My new job pushes cursor somewhat heavily and I gave it a try, it works pretty well for me although it's definitely not something I would rely on. I like being able to ask it to do something and let it go off and come back to it in a while to see how it did. For me, I think it makes it easier to start on changes by coming into something (that might be wrong and bad), but for me personally having something in a PR to start from is a nice mental hack.

If it did well enough on the initial attempt I'll try to stick with it to polish it up, but if it failed terribly I'll just write it by hand. Even when it fails it's nice to see what it did as a jumping off point. I do wish it were a bit less prone to "lying" (yada yada anthromorphization it's just tokens etc.,) though, sometimes I'll ask it to do something in a particular way (e.g., add foo to bar and make sure you X, Y, and Z) and it'll conclude (rightfully or not) that it can't do X, but then go on anyway and claim that it did X.

I wish it were easier to manage context switching in cursor though, as it is juggling IDE windows between git repo clones is a pain (this is true for everything though, so not unique to cursor). I wish I could just keep things running on a git branch and come back to them without having to manage a bunch of different clones and windows etc.,. I think this is more of a pain point with cursor since in theory it would allow you to parallelize more tasks but the tooling isn't really there.

edit: the starting point for this is probably worktrees, I remember reading about these a while ago and should probably check them out (heh) but it only solves the problem of having a bunch of clones sitting around, I'd still need to manage N windows.
by nofriend | 2025-09-14 22:50:40+00:00
> watch/rewatch The Wire (2002-08), except make it impossible to tap the communications of the drug gangs because they're all using encrypted messengers with disappearing messages

The drama of that show was principally derived from the fact that the gangsters never so much as spoke near a telephone. The idea that you're going to force a backdoor into whatsapp and the gangsters are going to throw their hands into the air and turn themselves into the police is frankly idiotic. Criminals already use special apps and hardware to communicate more securely. They will continue regardless of what the law says they can do, because they are criminals. The idea that the rest of us should give up secure communication in order that gangsters can still find ways to communicate securely reaches the level of insulting. The cat is firmly and safely out of the bag on wiretapping gangsters.