MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amluto | 2025-09-09 18:39:06+00:00
They nailed it. Big horizontal dimensions so it’s hard to hold in one hand (yes, I realize that many users want this, but many users don’t want this), a big thick camera so it doesn’t actually fit well in slim pockets (but lots of young people seem to like their phone sticking out of their pocket?!), and super thin everywhere else so a high capacity battery doesn’t fit. Nice job!

Seriously, Apple has not attempted a narrow high-end phone since the iPhone 5. The 12 and 13 minis were not positioned as premium phones and they did not have great cameras or battery life. If Apple had tried for a 13 Pro Mini and it didn’t sell, then maybe I’d believe that their market statistics were worth something.
by minimaxir | 2025-09-09 18:39:11+00:00
The bumper is back! I was one of the weirdos who liked it unironically for the iPhone 4 back in the day, antennagate prevention aside.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MH004ZM/A/iphone-air-bump...

It's $39, but if it's indeed rigid as the description implies, then it may be a legit option for drop protection without compromising the thinness.
by Brendinooo | 2025-09-09 18:39:13+00:00
Seems pretty incremental, especially if the blood pressure stuff will go to the Series 10 and 9 as well as their fine print seems to say.

The increase in battery life is good, though! Getting up to a full 24h to enable a more regular charging rhythm is nice.

Overall though this probably keeps the Watch in that "good enough to make you wish it was better" territory. More faces with second hands for always-on display, please...
by benterix | 2025-09-09 18:39:25+00:00
Not sure about your point. I live in Europe, and State pays for the first 1 year or two. Then you get your kid to preschool which is either paid or free. In this way the mother (who usually has more burden related to breastfeeding etc.) can finally breathe freely. Can she go to work? Yes, and in some Europaen countries she has the right to ask for part work with the current employer, and they can't refuse. A few years later the kid goes to school (again, paid or free) and parents can decide how they organize their lives based on their needs an expectations. If your kid is sick, you can stay with them, and I always assumed this is normal and civilized way, I can't imagine otherwise.
by kragen | 2025-09-09 18:39:50+00:00
You must have failed to notice that you were replying to a comment of mine where I gave a specific example of a book that I think wouldn't exist without Word (or similar WYSIWYG word processors), because you're asserting that I'm never going to see what I am telling you I am currently seeing.

Generally, when there's a new tool that actually opens up explosive changes and development of new products, at least some of the people doing the exploding will tell you about it, even if there's no direct way to track it, such as Darwen & Date's substandard typography. It's easy to find musicians who enthuse about the new possibilities opened up by digital audio workstations, and who are eager to show you the things they created with them. Similarly for video editors who enthused about the Video Toaster, for programmers who enthused about the 80386, and electrical engineers who enthused about FPGAs. There was an entire demo scene around the Amiga and another entire demo scene around the 80386.

Do people writing code with AI today have anything comparable? Something they can point to and say, "Look! I wrote this software because AI made it possible!"?

It's easy to answer that question for, for example, visual art made with AI.

I'm not sure what you mean about "accelerating technologies". WYSIWYG word processors today are about the same as Bravo in 01979. HTML is similar but both better and worse. AI may have a hard takeoff any day that leaves us without a planet, who knows, but I don't think that's something it has in common with Microsoft Word.
by elAhmo | 2025-09-09 18:39:51+00:00
My old 13 pro is quite thin and uncomfortable to hold in hand without a case. Why would someone push so hard for a thinner phone? Boosting about extra battery if SIM slot is removed, while doing insane over-engineering to shave a few millimeters is quite a tell.

I know Apple is super successful and will have another great set of quarters, but this is quite disappointing.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-09 18:39:57+00:00
Personally the lifespan of my phone is much shorter when I can't easily hold it and type on it with the same hand. Inevitably I end up dropping it trying to do that anyway.

So I really don't understand people who would choose a larger phone, over a smaller one and then save the money they would have spent replacing it (plus the money they would have paid extra because larger is more expensive) to buy a cheap laptop or something
by babaceca | 2025-09-09 18:40:18+00:00
> there might be some dependence on what you mean by "useful".

I should've been clearer about that, but what I mean by that is pretty much what a normal non-technical person would consider an useful piece of software - Photoshop, Figma, Excel, Chrome, Windows, Android, Blender, AutoCAD, Unreal Engine, any Office Suite...

Since this is a technical forum I think we'd both easily agree on a bunch of very technically impressive software that the average person hasn't heard of - ffmpeg, qemu, LLVM, Linux, Postgres, V8, etc.

It would be a stretch to put any of the tool on either of those lists. Given the popularity of Rust, and that it's now over 10 years old, I'd expect at least one major program that can serve as an example of "here's this very useful, complex software package, as proof that our methodology works and you can do cool things this way."
by rlpb | 2025-09-09 18:41:05+00:00
> In this case, the core issue is still not the privatization intrinsically, but the mechanisms of corruption and competing interests with some other areas.

Ironically, this is also the argument for privatization in the first place - that corruption and competing interests lead to government inefficiency, that the private sector is incentivised to cut out the bloat in a way that governments cannot, and therefore something that intrinsically is a public rather than private concern should regardless be privatized.

> The point that I want to make here, is that the biggest issue might be the lack of enforcement and regulatory effectiveness, plus bad legal framework and contracts.

Absolutely. I didn't think that this was even up for debate.
by neilv | 2025-09-09 18:41:20+00:00
Would you support censoring the publicly available imagery of "asymmetric" vulnerabilities like that, against a number of less-sophisticated national security adversaries?

(Such as adversaries without their own satellite imagery capabilities, but with access to trucks, small arms, and crude explosives.)

If Google were censoring, but Microsoft wasn't, then maybe that's an oversight. (For example, maybe MS were told/asked to, but no one noticed that MS didn't, or that MS missed that spot.)

If you wanted to alert authorities to a possible oversight, I don't know who; maybe start by calling one of your congressperson's offices, and someone there could forward the info, or suggest who to call?
by captn3m0 | 2025-09-09 18:41:25+00:00
Yeah, Editor extensions are both auto-updated and installed in high risk dev environments. Quite a juicy target and I am surprised we haven’t seen large scale purchases by bad actors similar to browser extensions yet. However, I remember reading that the VsCode team puts a lot of effort in catching malware. But do all editors (with auto-updates) such as Sublime have such checks?
by immibis | 2025-09-09 18:41:36+00:00
IIRC insider trading is any trading based on any non-public information. Everyone knows you're running ads because they can see the ads, but not everyone knows how long you're going to run them for, or how much you're paying for them, and that would be enough. Also if you do it before you start the ad campaign, that's non-public knowledge, similar to a pump-and-dump.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-09 18:41:37+00:00
> A huge portion of the world only has 1 computer and it's their phone.

If those people wish to use phones for something they're not suited for, that's their business. But companies can, and should, have more than one product for different use cases. Nobody says "well only 5% of the market wears this size clothes so you better get used to going naked", instead manufacturers make all different sizes so as to capture more profits. I don't even particularly care if the smaller phone costs more because it's not as much in demand (so, less economy of scale). The problem is that nobody makes one at all, so I can't get what I want at any price whatsoever.
by dingnuts | 2025-09-09 18:41:48+00:00
How is this better/faster than typing "xyz language framework site://github.com" into Kagi

IDK about you but I find it faster to type a few keywords and click the first result than to wait for "extended thinking" to warm up a cup of hot water only to ignore "your ask" (it's a "request," not an "ask," unless you're talking to a Product Manager with corporate brain damage) to search and then outputs bullshit.

I can only assume after you waste $0.10 asking Claude and reading the bullshit, you use normal search.

Truly revolutionary rechnology
by dh2022 | 2025-09-09 18:41:56+00:00
Immigrants help with housing - because a lot of builders are immigrants. In my Seattle/Bellevue area - any time I needed help with anything housing related it was either Latinos or Ukrainians or Eastern Europeans. By housing related I mean plumbing, electrical, re-building a deck. The outside of the house next door was repainted (and some of its siding replaced) by Latinos. The roofers on a house on my walk spoke Spanish. Same with the workers who were doing a remodel.

When I installed French drains the guy that inspected and calculated the bid was American. The guy that dug the ditches and connected the house drains was Latino (I need to add that the Latino's English was better than mine. He used to be elementary teacher in Everett and switched to construction. He explained to me the term "lingua franca" :)).

In my neighbourdhood I also see a lot of Chinese laborers working in construction (the population of my neighbourdhood is probably 50% Chinese, and the rest either Korean or Japanese or South East Asian or Indian.)

I hardly ever see US born people working in construction around me.
by Veliladon | 2025-09-09 18:42:33+00:00
They can do it with 3D NAND because the electrons are injected into the charge storage medium through brute force. The problem is that the capacitance scales with area. We're reducing the node size but now the aspect ratios are insane and the trenches for the storage wells are >3um high. That's over 1,000 times thicker per layer compared to NAND.
by j_w | 2025-09-09 18:42:37+00:00
Depends on the state. My state is 1:3 for under 2, 1:6 for 2-3, and then 1:10 for 3-5. Presumably after that you're out of child care and into school. Ratios get more complex when it's a mixed group, but most childcare centers are going to have children separate based on age.

These ratios seem reasonable to me. Much better than the 1:25 in elementary school.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-09 18:42:56+00:00
I have a 12 Pro, I am definitely going to be upgrading, I've had my phone for 5 years now (since 2020) that's actually longer than I've owned any other cell phone without upgrading.

I think I could probably squeeze more life out of my phone, but the 17 has a nicer camera, me and my wife are noticing our relatives with newer iPhones have photographs that look slightly (I meant to write NOTICEABLY here) better. As we raise our first child, having a quality camera is definitely important to us.

I was really tempted by the iPhone Air, but the Pro has better camera features. I am actually really excited to see what they will do for the iPads. If they release a thin iPac Mini similar to the iPhone Air, I would immediately buy it. I am not usually a fan of thin, but something in me has always wanted a thin iPad Mini, not sure why, but I'm waiting for it still.

Great demo, the most impressive demo had to have been the Airpod Pros translation piece.

Edit: Needed to annotate that I wrote 'slightly better' but its not just slightly, we both visually noticed a different in quality.

One last note, the 12 Pro was my first iPhone ever. I was on Android since 2009, every Android I had lasted about 2 years. My last one probably would have lasted me 5 years but I was tired and wanted a change at my 2 year mark. I have not regretted my decision to date.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-09 18:43:14+00:00
Irrational ideological purity is "more important" than reasonable regulation.

In the US, there are private individuals with pre-ban 40 mm L/60 Bofors antiaircraft autocannons and towed artillery. And there are many thousands of people with title II firearms.

I live in hill country where about 5-8% of residents are DVs, and my immediate neighbor has TBI/CTE from IED injury and believes in batshit wonky things without evidence / whatever Joe Rogan believes in.
by LoganDark | 2025-09-09 18:43:14+00:00
They want a bigger screen because they don't have a laptop.

> save the money they would have spent replacing it (plus the money they would have paid extra because larger is more expensive) to buy a cheap laptop or something

The kind of people who want an iPhone are not going to settle for a Cheap Laptop. A MacBook Air can only really be had new for around $800 nowadays and those big iPhones are only like $599 right now (if iPhone 16e).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-09 18:43:24+00:00
Sounds a bit extreme, but OTOH this is what tradesfolk typically do - charge $100 to ring your doorbell and take it from there, since it does cost them money just to get to you.

Still, even if there is some sort of justification (moreso if the company chooses to locate themselves away from residential/affordable areas), I'm not sure how you would avoid abuse. Maybe just pay employees a fixed amount for each day they are required to drive to the office ?
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-09 18:43:33+00:00
This comment section is making me realize the gulf between the average dev and the average consumer (again)

This is the first iPhone is 5+ years that is will be hard to ignore for the massive base of users who'd given up on yearly upgrades.

I came here expecting to see that reflected (and see how others feel about the camera trade-off) but it's mostly repetitive comments asking who wants a thinner phone (ignoring it's almost 40% lighter than the most of the Pro Max devices out there)
by mandeepj | 2025-09-09 18:43:53+00:00
> tempted to go back to Pixels

I got my first Pixel (10 Pro XL); Only because their AI integration felt cool. My iPhone 11 Pro is still doing great overall, besides sluggishness here and there, and random Chrome crashes. I might consider upgrading to 17 now due to speed and camera upgrades. Honestly, it was not an exciting upgrade, just like their last 5.
by hyperman1 | 2025-09-09 18:43:55+00:00
Is this true outside the USA?

In the EU, employees have an expectation of privacy even on their corporate laptop. It is common for e.g. union workers to use corporate email to communicate, and the employer is not allowed to breach privacy here. Even chatter between worker is reasonably private by default.

I suspect, if the attacker is inside the EU, this article is technically a blatant breach of the GDPR. Not that the attacker will sue you for it, but customers might find this discomforting.
by Theodores | 2025-09-09 18:43:55+00:00
> And yeah countries like China messing with their map datum is weird. And so easy to compensate that it serves no military purpose.

They have bought into mangled maps and it would be a challenge to update everything for simple lat/lon. It would be easier to get every car in China to drive on the left, for them to change their railway gauge to 7' 1/4" or to move to the Swatch Internet Time standard. Think of all the title deeds, utility maps and everything that you need surveyors for.

As for military purpose, have you ever done any work with the military? Even though every army plays a good ballistics game, they tend not to be mathematicians. I would not want it to be tested, but my hunch is the mangled maps would work extremely well, even though their foes have had decades to do their own map making.
by papyrus9244 | 2025-09-09 18:43:56+00:00
Babies, just like adults, are extremely social animals. And they absolutely need to interact with a bunch of other people their age, even more than us. Daily, and for a long period of time. An hour at the park doesn't cut it, and being all day with a sibling doesn't either.

So beyond everyone going back to a Neolithic way of life and living in a bunch of straw teepees all bundled close together, daycare is the best solution I've found to this need.

Just as an example, my oldest has been besties with another kid since they were both 7 months old.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-09 18:44:22+00:00
"Housing as investment" is such a terrible idea, embedding it in culture should be avoided at all costs. Not only does it drive up housing costs, but it has people dumping loads of money into a single investment. Of course people don't want home prices to go down when, for many, it's their primary investment vehicle.

I hope we can get to a point where this idea eventually dies. I'm shocked that 2008 didn't wake people up in this regard, but I guess the supply shortage made real estate a pretty rational place to invest for a while.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-09 18:44:26+00:00
In most of those other households, it's highly probable that they wish they could have a stay-at-home-parent but can't afford it. A small payment can help nudge people over the line where it suddenly becomes financially viable. A voucher type solution would also work great for families that would also prefer to e.g. hire a private nanny instead of sending their child to daycare.
by lucius_verus | 2025-09-09 18:44:32+00:00
Strictly speaking, Volcker caused two recessions (the first of which likely ended Carter's re-election prospects).

Although raising interest rates tamped down inflation on the demand side, we don't give enough credit to Carter for attacking the supply side by deregulating energy markets.

Carter typically doesn't get credit because prices didn't really ease until he was out of office. However, it looks like energy prices wouldn't have decreased if Carter hadn't deregulated the oil and gas industry, which allowed domestic producers to become competitive. (Ironically, Carter thought deregulation would raise prices and foster a move to alternative energy. Instead we got shale oil and fracking. Unintended consequences.)
by josephg | 2025-09-09 18:44:33+00:00
The way I’m defining it, my shared state is the data we store in a crdt. And CRDTs have strong eventual consistency. That’s what makes them great. So we can have a data structure which shows all users an identical view of the world.

Normally we do that by storing something totally different under the hood. Eg, git actually stores a commit graph. But the system makes a determinism guarantee: we promise that all users who have the same version checked out will see exactly the same thing. At one level, we’re storing “a list of facts” (the commit graph). But at another level of abstraction, we’re just storing application data. It’s just also replicated between many peers. And editable locally without network access.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-09 18:44:40+00:00
Are there any more heart emojis? I'm not sure we have enough with Beating Heart, Broken Heart, Two Hearts, Sparkling Heart, Growing Heart, Heart with arrow, Blue Heart, Green Heart, Yellow Heart, Purple Heart, Heart with Ribbon, Revolving Hearts, Heart Decoration.

* https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+1F300

The original emojis were (AIUI) there to support Japanese carrier characters. They've now grown to including seemingly 'everything' for some value of everything.

What is the process for adding them? Are there examples of emojis being rejected?
by amluto | 2025-09-09 18:45:04+00:00
The battery life while in use is amazing. The battery life while closed and apparently asleep is abysmal and probably the worst of any laptop I’ve used in the last 20 years.

I think the problem is that Safari allows tabs to ask to be periodically woken while the laptop is asleep, and there is no obvious way to turn this off. And it will keep doing this until the battery is so low that the laptop needs to hibernate.
by djankauskas | 2025-09-09 18:45:05+00:00
Could you explain the case that TfL charges too low for fares due to a "socialist" mayor? Looking at the agency's reported recovery ratios, they actually recover more than 100% of their direct operating costs on the Underground from fares, and even buses have a 70% ratio. In the Western world this is actually abnormally high; in NYC buses don't even clear 20%. It's possible some of this gap is explained by accounting differences, but nonetheless London is clearly not charging cheap fares.

The reasons why Western systems often don't recoup even operating expenses, let alone capital costs, from fares are because transit is a public service with public externalities. Drivers on the road contribute to pollution and congestion, especially relevant in dense areas like London. Some level of subsidy is appropriate to account for the positive externalities of discouraging these negative outcomes while still encouraging regional mobility.

This is not to say TfL is as efficient as it could be; there is a well-documented capital costs crisis in the Anglosphere, particularly when it comes to transit. The issues here are more complex, though, than vote buying from an allegedly "socialist" mayor.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-09 18:45:15+00:00
Do not give them permission to your clipboard. It is possible today. I copy and paste passwords and I clear the clipboard afterwards, and I do not use junk like Spotify, and were I to use Spotify, it would be through the browser, not the application. Were it the application, it would be firejailed to oblivion.

It is possible to restrict clipboard access when running applications inside Firejail, i.e. Firejail allows you to restrict access to X11 and Wayland sockets, which prevents the sandboxed application from reading or writing to the system clipboard. See: "--x11=none", "--private=...", "--private-tmp", and so forth. You can run a GUI app with isolated clipboard via "firejail --x11=xvfb app".

For Wayland, you should block access to the Wayland socket by adding "--blacklist=/run/user/*/wayland-*".

I do not use autofill on desktop at all. I use it on Android, however.