MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hizonner | 2025-09-10 00:35:51+00:00
Let me get this straight. AI, one of whose weaknesses is a tendency to randomly come up with creatively buggy, yet syntactically correct code, is meant to be editing spreadsheets, which are the least debuggable kind of computer program imaginable, one where even very serious bugs often have no visually obvious effect, one where the only to actually see the code is in tiny snippets, by clicking through every cell.
by Lammy | 2025-09-10 00:35:52+00:00
I kinda like it. I'm not much of a mobile gamer, so mine only comes on to prolong battery health when the battery is fast-charging. The next model is said to gain water and dust resistance too as well as keeping the active cooling fan: https://www.gsmarena.com/redmagic_11_will_boast_a_world_firs...

I will most likely upgrade to an 11S around this time next year. The other factors that drew me to it were the huge (6500mAh) battery, a real analog headphone jack (used daily with my Etymotic ER4XR), and no dumbass notch cut out of the screen.
by loeg | 2025-09-10 00:36:35+00:00
Wrong. Insider trading is about breaching your duty of confidentiality to some other party who owns the information (your employer, some other business you have an NDA with, etc). The owner of the non-public information is fully allowed to trade on it.

Pump and dumps are fraud because you lie about the target stock in order to achieve the pump. The lying is a crucial element to make it fraudulent.
by sgustard | 2025-09-10 00:38:10+00:00
Good to know! The fine print:

As of September 9, 2025, hypertension notifications are currently under FDA review and expected to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. The feature is not intended for use by people under 22 years old, those who have been previously diagnosed with hypertension, or pregnant persons.
by al_borland | 2025-09-10 00:39:19+00:00
The holds on gas are usually under $100 I think, maybe around $100 or so these days. I keep enough in reserve that I never notice an issues with that. I always like having healthy buffers.

I have always paid my credit card in full every month and never had a problem with debt biting me. I just don't like the games they play, and I prefer spending the money I have rather than borrowing for the sake of borrowing. The credit card creates some metal overhead that I don't find necessary.
by easterncalculus | 2025-09-10 00:39:54+00:00
> This post and its online comment sections are blame-free zones

The author is claiming control over other comment sections? Where is this entitlement coming from? They hide that behind some fictional persona, as if that changes anything.

The author then proceeds to list several reasons someone would fall for this, carefully ignoring the most important detail of the email, being its address. The absolute very first step of detecting email phishing is looking at the address.

Obviously the blame is on NPM for having a system that can be defeated by clicking a bad email, but the JS ecosystem has no interest in doing things right and there's no point in putting our heads in the sand about basic security practices.
by tzs | 2025-09-10 00:40:19+00:00
They used to have this with "Power Reserve Mode" (PRM) which turned off everything except showing the time briefly when you pressed the side button.

If you got below 10% it would ask if you wanted to switch to this mode. You could also turn it on in the battery settings.

I've read that in this mode you could get a week or two on a full battery.

Sometime around watchOS 9 they replaced this with "Low Power Mode" (LPM). LPM reduced things like notifications, background processing, and update frequency enough to get about 50% more life out of a non-Ultra and 100% more on an Ultra 2.

LPM is gone from watchOS now but the underlying functionality still works and there is still a way to access it. You have to turn the watch off. While it is off if you press the crown it will briefly display the time.

If you wanted to frequently switch between normal operation and this low power time-only mode it would be somewhat of a pain since you'd have to turn the watch off and on to switch modes, and watchOS boots really really slow.

If you don't have to quickly switch between modes though it might be reasonable.
by Liftyee | 2025-09-10 00:40:19+00:00
Note that hidden front cameras have been available for a while - for example, the Samsung Z Fold 3 (2021). There are some engineering tradeoffs involved with light transmission and image quality that maybe Apple doesn't find favorable.

Interestingly Chinese manufacturers seem to be the main adopters of this tech. For example, the article below has Samsung, Xiaomi, ZTE, Oppo, Vivo (actually, this may just be due to there being many more large Chinese phone manufacturers in general.) https://www.smartprix.com/bytes/under-display-camera-phones/
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 00:40:23+00:00
when most of the people offshore are employees it can work. The biggest thing is you need to start with good managers there who hire good people. In india good engineers are paid more than their peers in germany, but that is the price you pay for the quality you need for good people. If you don't hire good people you can get plenty of terrible people for really cheap, but the results will be poor quality. Take your pick.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 00:40:28+00:00
Have they failed?

Or are they dutifully resisting cultural shift that threatens the "don't think critically, just go to work, pay your taxes, don't question the system, don't do drugs, go to college, get a job, lease a new car, buy a condo, cross your fingers that stonks go up enough for you to retire" late 20th early 21st century status quo "ideal citizen" and "ideal culture" that they were built to foster (and who are the kind of people who fill out the majority of the system)?

The way I see it peddling blue state bullshit and red state bullshit (depending on a given school district's location) is simply a common sense adaptation districts are making to garner support from local populations who were willing to support the system so long as it provided useful education at a non-insane cost but are more critical now that the deal is worse.
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-10 00:42:00+00:00
You have the context sort of wrong. To do a comparable “real money” heist en masse, you would be stealing from the banks or from the customers of one, or via debit or credit cards. It’s real enough money, but those fraudulent transactions would be covered by existing protections, like FDIC insurance or chargebacks. I don’t think anyone could steal much cash from a single heist from a bank or other hard target, so your analogy is confusing. There is no analogous situation in which “real money” could be stolen from customers or financial institutions or the interchange system that would impinge end users. That’s the whole reason people use them. Even in friendly fraud situations, the money isn’t gone, it’s just frozen, so you might have to wait a month or so to get it unfrozen after the FBI et al clear the source of funds.

Sure, if someone takes my grocery money, that’s a real loss, and that’s why I don’t carry large sums of cash. But that isn’t what happened here.

Can you explain what you meant so I can understand? I think you had a point, I just don’t think that the risk of the kind of attack in TFA is comparable to someone getting their grocery money stolen, because the financial situation for that individual in-person theft can’t really occur on the same scale as the attack in TFA, and even if it could, that’s kind of on the end user for carrying more cash than they can defend.
by Permit | 2025-09-10 00:42:27+00:00
> but if an idea takes 20 years and $100M dollars to develop, and there are no protections for ideas, then no one will take the time to develop them

This sounds trivially true but I have some trouble reconciling it with reality. For example the Llama models probably cost more than this to develop but are made freely available on GitHub. So while it’s true that some things won’t be built, I think it’s also the case that many things would still be built.
by winkelmann | 2025-09-10 00:43:04+00:00
Not the first time that user has been posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072797 ("A16-FuseBypass: Debug Logic Enabled on Production Apple Silicon")

Edit:

"Apple A17 Pro Chip Hardware Flaw?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160947

"iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933435

Both of these submissions are [flagged]. I suspect that OP takes iPhone device logs and feeds the to an LLM to come up with security issues.
by programjames | 2025-09-10 00:43:18+00:00
Particularly, the biggest incentives are test scores and passing rates, which incentivize attention only to the bottom 50% and 20% of students (respectively). This means:

- You do not diversify classrooms by academic ability---the high-performing students can be free tutors to the low-performing students.

- You inflate the GPAs and implement no-zero policies.

- You teach to the standardized tests, and don't worry about the material.

- You make lessons "fun and engaging" because you need the attention of the students least likely to give you their attention.

- You eliminate gifted or honors programs, because that's wasted money not improving your bottom line (bottom students).
by jszymborski | 2025-09-10 00:43:45+00:00
I don't understand this kind of thinking at all.

We announce gender and race a million ways. It's inescapable and undesirable to avoid doing. Our background and gender are relevant to our life experiences and who we are as people. That context is important when interacting with people at work or elsewhere.

Cohesive is a funny and frankly telling word to use here as well. Can you not be cohesive as a group while acknowledging that you are not all the same gender or race?

If I'm honest, this is giving "I don't mind gay people as long as it's not too in my face" vibes and I don't like it.

Very strange comment.
by ggm | 2025-09-10 00:44:11+00:00
In my economy (AU) the premise of debit cards were both "not credit" (and therefore at the time, able to be used to buy food because a local rule restricted credit card use in the supermarkets) and "break the monopoly" because a different EFT model was being promoted. Australia was a regulated banking market with 4 majors, under regulation over market dominance, and a larger number of credit unions and minor state banks. Most of this landscape has changed somewhat, but the registration burdens to "be" a bank remain a point of contention in the fintech sector. (Also, do not allow american experiences with credit unions and small town banks and "it's a wonderful life" to dominate your thinking, the cooperative bank movement is worldwide, and it isn't defined by the bizarre "you're not from round heeeer" cheque behaviours of US credit unions)

The banks of course responded, to preserve income. They all offer both. Debit cards now incur costs, just as credit cards do, distinct from the interest component. Mechanisms like frequent flyer points also are used to provide distinctions. You are bombarded with "which button to push" suggestions from merchants, from banks, from consumer advocacy groups.

All electronic cash movement methods incur questions about taxation (of money flows, and of income streams which in cash avoid the marker) and cost recovery and price (ie, banking system profit). It would be reasonably clear to anyone that even taking sunk costs and ongoings into account, there is no way a payment transaction as pure bytes demands any fee higher than 0.00000000 class digits. They are charged, as a profit line, not as hypothicated strict cost recovery. Please do not allow banking claims to the contrary to sway your mind on the dis-join between transaction price, and true cost of the network. -If it's not abundantly clear to you, ask a shopkeeper or market trader how much they pay for the terminal, and how it affects the price they charge you.

The same network delivers a videostream of GB duration to you bundled into your monthly. IP packets do not weigh more because they're about money. TLS does not cost more because it's protecting money, even if the Bank has PCI registration and compliance costs. The secure terminal the merchant uses is a commodity device no more expensive than a cell phone, which it often is.

Were this not true, 3rd party merchant companies like stripe would not exist. Stripe exists because of the HUGE margin between true cost of electronic funds movement, and the price we appear willing to pay as consumers.

"Credit Score" is a quite bizarre concept. Like Moodys, its not really what it looks like, and it should be more highly regulated too. Chosing not to have a CC should not reduce your credit score, any more than holding debt like student loans or a mortgage. Why does looking up your credit score negatively impact your credit score?

Are we heading back to a world where signatures on the back of a company debt instrument determine the yield?
by taneq | 2025-09-10 00:44:26+00:00
Interesting! My pet theory about the crossover in the optic nerve is that it's the simplest way to get goal-seeking behaviour. Proto-eye activates, activates muscles on opposite side of body, organism turns towards activated proto-eye.

Fun speculation: Maybe we started with no crossover (which gives avoidance behaviour, keeping the organism free-swimming). This still works for a while as the axial angle between eyes and muscle groups increases, so there's no real penalty for having a bit of a twist. As the twist increases, it starts acting a bit like a discriminator, where we avoid small things less than large things, which seems good if we want to eat small things. Past 90°, we start spiraling towards things instead of away from them, which admittedly makes us crash into large things more, but we can chase moving things. Hunting has evolved!
by skellington | 2025-09-10 00:44:52+00:00
You are hilarious.

Schools are dominated by leftwing CRT ideology. It's the rare exception when there is real pushback against dinosaurs or evolution. I very much doubt that you are as angry about Islamic pushback against sex topics in school.

The reward structures, the dumbing down of courses, removing accelerated courses, passing everyone, the move against merit, the removal of structure, discipline, and punishment for bad behavior all come from liberal ideas on teaching.

Anyone who demands standards, values merit, values hard work with high expectations is labeled a fascist, colonizer, or some other pejorative. "Ways of knowing" is an idea that permeates modern teaching where we can't judge or grade anyone for what they know or don't know because different people just "know" differently. Grades are racist. Expectations are racist. Math is racist.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-10 00:46:38+00:00
Obviously this is all true. There was an event in the 5th century that meant we had no summer and all crops failed for 5 years, we all almost starved then. And that was only the most recent of these types of events.

It's not that it can't happen. It obviously can. I'm more talking about the human belief that it will happen, and in our lifetime. It probably won't.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 00:46:51+00:00
Because if you suspect the law does apply to you then you need a lawyer to vet the details. For most this probably doesn't apply, but you have to decide based on the specifics of your situation and those should include details you wouldn't post publically.

also if you are a lawyer or come off as a lawyer giving legal advice and you miss one rare detail that matters for one person you are liable for bad advice. So saying talk to a lawyer is a way to get around that. Talk to a lawyer if you want to know more detail.
by danans | 2025-09-10 00:47:58+00:00
> Trump's economic views have at least as much in common with Bernie Sanders (as Bernie keeps pointing out!) as with pre-Trump Republicans

This is a myth that has the effect (intended or not) of normalizing Trump's economic policies with Bernie supporters.

Bernie Sanders only says that Trump speaks politically about the same working class struggles that he speaks about. That's it.

Bernie opposes 99% of Trump's actual economic policies, including the broad tariffs that are hitting the working class the hardest.

The only other economic policy Trump has done is tax cuts for the wealthy and cutting social safety net programs. Those are in direct conflict with everything Bernie stands for, but they are wholly supported by nearly all pre-Trump Republicans. If you have any doubts about that, just review the vote tally from the big beautiful bill.
by buzzin_ | 2025-09-10 00:48:08+00:00
Well, we all know that when a library method crashes, we blame the caller. It can't be the library's fault, the user simply called it the wrong way.

So, similarly, it is Windows fault that it sent some series of commands that caused the poor innocent SSDs to be invisible to BIOS until power cycle.

Absolutely no fault of the SSD. None.
by blululu | 2025-09-10 00:48:35+00:00
I find this attitude to be really frustrating. Based on my experiences teaching math a student is not going to learn how to do the impressive things that you might call thinking if they don't have a solid foundation in how to do the basics. Imagine saying that learning the alphabet or spelling rules is just rote memorization and therefore not worth doing. If a person needs to spend all of their brain power thinking through elementary operations then they will have very little left over for the things that we might call thinking. I have seen too many kids who struggle with Algebra not because they can't understand the concepts but because they cannot do basic things like multiply 3x4 without needing to add 3 to 3 to 3 to 3.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 00:49:02+00:00
I don’t think advising kids to make their first and possibly only call to an emergency number where someone’s all but guaranteed to pick up quickly and dispatch help instead of to a parent who might not pick up for any number of reasons and can’t personally dispatch emergency responders (but will surely just themselves turn around and call 911) is, like, a Big Government propaganda conspiracy. Seems more like plain old good advice.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-09-10 00:49:24+00:00
I've been using a Kobo Libra color lately, and man E-ink has gotten SO GOOD.

It's high resolution, snappy, and the whole package is light as a feather and with batteries that last for ages.

I know some people prefer paper, but I love modern e-readers. They're amazingly tuned.
by pcmaffey | 2025-09-10 00:50:03+00:00
The day after tomorrow I am driving 12 hours across three states to get my dog the second shot of his immunotherapy treatment for hemangiosarcoma. It’s only available in trial (this is a yale study). Results for him are too early, but the standard prognosis with chemo is 3-6 months.

This feels like we are on the cusp of profound medical breakthroughs treatment of cancer. My thanks to everyone who contributes to this kind of medical and scientific progress.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-10 00:51:43+00:00
When I see a seemingly "random" post on HN I always wonder if someone happened across some random bit of info and thought it so interesting they just had to share, or if there's some other bit of related news I haven't heard about. Did we just discover space starfish on Mars? I'm guessing I would have heard about that. Or did someone post a paper challenging axial twist orthodoxy? Guess I can google that.

But there's a delightful span between seeing someone post something on HN unrelated to AI, Cryptocurrencies or startups selling VS-Code extensions and the moment when I satisfy myself something outlandish (like space starfish) hasn't happened. During that time, all things are plausible.

[Edit. Which is not to say I disparage or discourage posting cool things you've found on the net. That's kind of what many of us are here for.]
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-09-10 00:53:29+00:00
I bought a new pixel, bought a case that had slow shipping. Only a week, what could go wrong? I dropped it flat on the screen on a tile floor.

Cases are dirt cheap, if you're paying over $30 for one you're probably overpaying. The expected value of a screen repair, not only the cost but your time makes it a no-brainer.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-10 00:53:52+00:00
Thanks, yeah, it's interesting. We're not through the whole project, so it may still mess up ;) But so far so good.

I think the key point here is that I'm not trying to learn Ruby. We're trying to get a single project done in Ruby. I'm the best person to do the project, Ruby is the best language to do it in, but I don't know Ruby.

If I was trying to learn Ruby, this is not the way I'd do it, and I'd go up the learning curve as normal, writing all those shitty PRs and making all the mistakes as normal. As you say, there are no shortcuts to achieving understanding.
by Teever | 2025-09-10 00:54:28+00:00
Are they though?

Do you see any legitimate opposition to the big tech companies forming from recently laid off employees?

If there's no alternative for people to work for then if the job market improves people are just going to go back to the same companies.

So, are these people who feel spurned by the big tech companies getting together and starting competitors to bring them down?
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 00:54:44+00:00
If it is really two hours by a reasonable route then you likely have a case that the commute is unreasonable and you would not have taken the job without them paying moving expenses if it offered that way. Therefore they need to offer moving expenses. I'd ask the boss first as they may have contacts in hr that can handle this.

If they won't offer moving expenses odds are you can convince an unemployment judge this is an unreasonable change in working conditions and so you can collect unemployment. (A lawyer can give more detail)
by dmix | 2025-09-10 00:54:52+00:00
People always want to blame the new thing in culture. Some collective sin if only we had better self control. Every generation has one.

Usually it’s just institutional failure at multiple levels and a whole bunch of people who don’t care about the institution’s output sufficiently.

Every time I read about new education stories they’re busy trying to solve wider social issues instead of being the best place to get an education. Just like how libraries turned into homeless shelters instead of being a place for the community to learn and read.
Ask HN: Does anyone else pronounce CLI as "clee"?
by codazoda | 2025-09-10 00:55:38+00:00
I often pronounce CLI as "clee". Many of my co-workers chuckle and repeat "cee el eye". They aren't being disrespectful, they've just never heard it.

Some style guides treat CLI as an initialism, which just means that people tend to pronounce the letters individually.

How do you pronounce CLI?
by rtpg | 2025-09-10 00:55:50+00:00
yes they also support python 3.x, are available on PyPI, and are related to operations in the sense of like... infrastructure management and the like.

You have a huge pile of "sysop Python" out there interfacing with various infrastructure providers who are more interested in selling infra usage than getting off of Python 2.

"In order to use our new storage service via our library you need to upgrade to Python 3 first" "ehhhhhhhh kinda annoying"

That interaction has happened in the past. Time marches forward of course but.