MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-09 20:48:13+00:00
Even if there is a new version every day, not every release is born equal. Wouldn't updating while developing to "stay on top of dependencies" only be necessary on a major version? Surely there is not a major version per day. I mean otherwise you would use a library, that constantly imposes work on you and it would probably make more sense to write the library yourself. Minor versions and bugfixes can be incorporated when you do your release.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 20:48:17+00:00
Employers use a lot of data. DoL numbers are one, but they are trying to predict their own future needs. They generally have much better sources of data to their industry that are used as well.

Different companies react differently as well. Companies that have a steady flow of cash (food is very inelastic - people eat about the same every day) realize they can give smaller raises, and this is a good time to invest in the company by building so they often hire. Companies that make luxury goods for the common man (think small boats - large yachts for the rich are different) tighten their belts because they are the first place people in fear cut spending.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-09 20:48:44+00:00
You want different levels of fitting for different things, which is difficult. Tight fighting on grammar and APIs and idioms, loose fitting on creative text, and it's hard to classify it all up front. But still, if it can recite harry potter that's not on purpose, and it's never trained to predict a specific source losslessly.

And it's not really about randomizing output. The model gives you a list of likely words, often with no clear winner. You have to pick one somehow. It's not like it's taking some kind of "real" output and obfuscating it.
by bombcar | 2025-09-09 20:48:54+00:00
Wrong.

They should support the "color combining code" with a 3 byte sequence so you can specify ANY of the 16,777,216 color variations.

And they should also support the gender combining code with any other emoji, in fact, any two emojis should be combinable (if you have the combination in your font, otherwise you just display both next to each other).

I'm only like 33% joking.
by zahlman | 2025-09-09 20:49:03+00:00
> And the employment situation in the US is still very good in historical terms. (There are valid concerns about the methodology behind the headline unemployment rate, but it's still the same methodology.)

I should add: historically, increases in the unemployment rate have a tendency to accelerate and then produce a spike, which is then brought under control by some other mechanism, and tends to correspond with a recession. But this is just the normal boom-bust cycle, and seems rather unavoidable. The rate can't keep going down forever, and having it level out doesn't seem feasible, either. The magnitude of such a spike doesn't necessarily indicate the severity of economic downturn, either.
by carstenhag | 2025-09-09 20:49:28+00:00
I used to say the same, but now I have to use Slack + Gmail + Meet + Google Calendar + Drive + whatever else Google has.

All of this has integrations into each other. Somehow a slack bot can show me calendar entries. Why I would even need such a broken UI/experience is unclear to me. I can't see when people usually work. Meet chats disappear once the meeting is over.

At Teams/Outlook you have a million other issues, but all things considered, I preferred it.
by sethhochberg | 2025-09-09 20:49:33+00:00
This was my first thought. My iPhone 15 Pro is fine and hopefully has much more life left in it, and I've gotten used to the size in general over the years, but I like to wear pants that are reasonably fitted and the "pocket bulge" outline of the phone still annoys me if I'm trying to deliberately look nice.

I'd believe this is an area where even a few millimeters of thickness makes a real difference in how much the phone in pocket stands out despite the overall footprint being larger? Will be curious to read once people get their hands on the things.
by cma | 2025-09-09 20:49:48+00:00
I would be surprised if that line in the prompt caused it without the other thing they did just before mecha Hitler: Elon created a Twitter thread asking users to submit divisive politically incorrect facts for grok training. It was full of Holocaust denial and white supremecy stuff.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1936493967320953090

Most likely they rolled back finetuning on that thread at the same time they adjusted the prompt.
by crooked-v | 2025-09-09 20:49:48+00:00
The studies on this subject look at entire metro areas (https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...), which include places like Oakland and Vacaville, not just city downtowns. "Want to live" here isn't just 'aspirational', it's covering basic elements like 'are there actually enough jobs there'. "Oh, there are fifteen million empty houses" means absolutely nothing because most of those houses are in places where there's no way for any substantial number of people to actually make a living.
by dmitrijbelikov | 2025-09-09 20:50:03+00:00
I started working with PHP back in 2002, it was cool, the first code I had to study was phpBB. By now I have made about 10 applications that have survived to production. I learned how to configure Linux servers, understand the front-end (sometimes), architecture, security, management and do a lot of things that now usually require a whole team to do.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-09 20:50:19+00:00
Same thing happened where I worked, though that was mostly from what I heard from coworkers since I maintained my WFH status. It's all CEO theater designed to layoff folks while also forcing people who RTO to take an effective pay cut. People need to recognize that and demand more from where they work, whether it's in the form of unionizing or otherwise.
by seec | 2025-09-09 20:50:24+00:00
Why would you want worse battery life just for shaving 2,31 mm and 12g. That's a ridiculous compromise, especially since weight is the more important factor and it's going to be barely noticeable in this case.

Battery life isn't just about runtime it's also about the number of cyles you will be able to do before you have to deal with the bullshit that is iPhone battery replacement.

There is objectively no good reason to prefer that compromise appart from the "feeling" factor, which is not a reason by definition.

If get the battery compromise in the mini iPhones (even thought they could have just made them a bit thicker without changing much of the feel/functionality) because that's part of the deal with the form factor but going with a very large display only to make the phone thinner is beyond stupid.

And it's more expensive when most of the specs sheet is equal or worse.
by bri3d | 2025-09-09 20:50:26+00:00
The problem with PowerPC AS tagging was that it relied entirely on the trap instruction. If you could control execution at all, you could skip the trap instruction and it did nothing. This implementation, by my reading, essentially adds a synchronous trap instruction after every single load and store, which builds a real security boundary (even compared to Android MTE, where reads would trap but writes were only checked at the next context switch).
by yumraj | 2025-09-09 20:50:37+00:00
I had even posted a Ask HN: if people had experienced issues with Claude Code since for me it's slowed down substantially, it'll frequently just pause and take much longer. I have a Claude Max 5X plan.

I've been running ccusage to monitor and my usage in $ terms has dropped to a 1/3 of what it was few weeks ago. While some of it could be due to how I'm using it, but a drop of 60%-70% cannot be attributed to that alone and I think is partly due to the performance.

To add: frequently, as in almost every time: 1) it'll start doing something and will go silent for a long time. 2) pressing esc to interrupt will take a long time to take action since it's probably stuck doing something. Earlier, interrupting via esc used to be almost instantaneous.

So, I still like it, but at my 1/3 drop in measured usage I'm almost tempted to go back to Pro and see if that'll meet my needs.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-09 20:50:38+00:00
I've got an iPhone XR with a chunky (highly protective) Speck Presidio case that's comfortably thicker than the camera protrusion and therefore lays 100% flat.

Gotta say it would drive me nuts to have a phone that didn't lay flat and couldn't therefore be put down safely on the edge of the sink etc.
by jofer | 2025-09-09 20:51:27+00:00
That's a common request for manually-created mosaics. Those are often used in flight simulation software. They want all planes manually photoshopped out of airports because they don't want you to look like you're running into another plane when landing/etc. It's a surprisingly big business for flight training. Google is probably sourcing from some of those.

By "we" I mean my company and my product does not do that. That part holds. (or, well, more precisely, that's a different product that I don't work on and isn't marketed as "imagery")

But yes, some other mosaic products are specifically requested with planes photoshopped out of airports and all waterbodies a consistent artificial color so that sunglint can be automatically simulated in flight sims for training pilots.

Because that data is often a high quality dataset available for purchase, sometimes google/etc reuses those datasets.
by tiahura | 2025-09-09 20:51:45+00:00
It seems like it would be hard to make pronouncements about the error rate without knowing the actual rate of unsupportable requests? Moreover, you’re referencing FISA warrants which are so unlike typical warrants that constructing arguments based on FISA practice is risky.

Point me to an article if I’m wrong, but I haven’t heard even a single credible rumor that these Stingrays aren’t being used for exactly what authorities say they are - trying to find particular individuals is a general area. Have you heard of whistleblower accounts or accidentally leaked details about large scale storage ordata mining of location data from Stingrays?

If your argument is simply that law enforcement agencies don’t have the right to conduct a dragnet when pursuing a fugitive murderer, as is the case here, you’re going to need something more persuasive than a rant against authoritarianism.
by Zarkaos | 2025-09-09 20:51:47+00:00
- Kinda with templates, but I don't think this is a pro for JS tho

- Yes there is LLVM for example

- Have you heard of Laravel ?

- No, there is already python for that, use the right tool for the right job

Today PHP is a really really good language to get scalable apps up and running, moreover with frameworks like laravle that comes with tons of batteries included without tanking the performances. But so so many people remains on the good old PHP dead trend just because it's easier to ignore all the great evolutions pf the past decades
by spicybbq | 2025-09-09 20:51:54+00:00
> This is something that really surprised me to realise a couple of years ago - that unless they work in tech, most households (I don't know if most isn't an exaggeration, but a large proportion) don't have a laptop or desktop between them now.

This is noticeable when you interact with consumer software where the mobile app is clearly the preferred or only way to perform some action.
by alex-a-soto | 2025-09-09 20:51:55+00:00
> How many shades of grey does it support?

16 levels of grayscale support.

> How bad is the ghosting?

Ghosting depends on the mode you're using and the content.

> How white is the background?

Varies, depends on the panel you're using.

> Is it clear enough to be used white-on-black?

Yes

> How often does it need a full screen refresh?

That's up to you; you can manually clear with a button press, use auto-clear mode, or programmatically control it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoDYEZE7gDA&ab_channel=Modos
by shaboinkin | 2025-09-09 20:51:58+00:00
“Sixty-three percent of adults said they would cover a hypothetical $400 emergency expense exclusively using cash or its equivalent, unchanged from 2022 and 2023 but down from a high of 68 percent in 2021.”

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2025-economic-we...

$999 is a lot of money.
by CM30 | 2025-09-09 20:52:19+00:00
This is probably a huge factor for sure. Both the UK theory and practical tests are somewhat tricky, at least compared to those in places like the US. Many people will fail them the first time around, and a fair few will fail them multiple times.

The official statistics have a rate of about 40-60% for these tests:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/driving-...

Though it definitely varies by area:

https://www.gocompare.com/motoring/reports-statistics/drivin...

It's closer to a school exam in terms of difficulty, rather than the quick drive around a parking lot that it seems a lot of places have.

So people seem a lot more prepared than in many other places, since they actually have to be able to spot hazards and do driving maneuvers to get their license in the first place.
by TheDong | 2025-09-09 20:52:22+00:00
My iPhone mini lasts about 6 hours. If I hike in the cold it lasts maybe 2.5 hours tops, and hikes are usually 4-6 hours total, so it's usually dead by the time I'm done, and so I can't tap to ride the train home unless I bring a power bank.

If I have a long train ride, like 2 hours, and I read on it, it'll usually use about 50% of the battery in that duration.

If I go somewhere new, and use google maps a lot to navigate around, it'll last about 3 hours total.

If I go somewhere with bad cellular signal, it constantly fights to connect and drains incredibly quickly, often in a matter of 2 hours.

The Air looks like it's supposed to have a battery that's about 30% larger than the mini's, and the mini is wildly insufficient for regular use.
by jjice | 2025-09-09 20:52:23+00:00
PHP got a lot better. Their types are actually awesome and better than average. The problems are now about the developers more than the language. Legacy PHP is the majority of PHP and it'll still make you go insane since you'll have to deal with that awful, ugly code someone wrote in the Summer of 2004 when they were an intern that is now core to a business. The people that have been writing PHP and only PHP for two decades also don't usually have great patterns they follow, so when you step into their code base, there's hell to experience.

Had this at my last job where I wrote PHP full time for two years. There were so many bugs caused by things that PHP has since remedied. I updated everything we could and it was huge step up (the available linting and static analysis tools are very solid), but there's still some deep, dark legacy code there that no one wanted to touch. Hell, a good part of my problem with that code base was actually because of Apache and mod_php.

If you have a fresh PHP code base, it's not that bad anymore. It wouldn't be my first pick, but definitely not my last.

Edit: I never got to work with Laravel, but I've played around independently and read their docs and it seems like a good dev experience.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-09 20:52:25+00:00
Not to mention, the people who've been writing code in 2012 are still writing PHP code like it's 2012, and plenty of people are learning to write PHP the same way.

I haven't seen too many PHP codebases in the past decade, but every one has been full of a mix of commits that are beautiful, clean, functional code... and just the worst mishmash of garbage I've ever seen.

PHP might be fine, but I'm still not sure if I'm ready to work with other PHP developers.
by k310 | 2025-09-09 20:52:31+00:00
Point taken.

That might be useful with GPS. I am thinking of some worst cases.

And of course, that doesn't help you avoid all the others out there without it, facing over-bright oncoming headlights, and guessing which way the road bends.

And deer.

Remember the motto: Drive carefully. The life you save may be mine.
by Unai | 2025-09-09 20:52:37+00:00
Which is great for beginners, and for anyone who couldn't care less about managing a server. You can get a shared hosting for literally less than peanuts and it will come with php support and a SQL database.

Back in the day I had one of those, even when I was broke, because the value was fantastic. There were tons of "self-hosted" type apps built with that stack (php+mysql), so you could have all sorts of apps running on there. I haven't checked in a while, but I guess nowadays that type of thing will be made for node, docker, etc.

In the endless framework wars where one day we are friends with server side rendering, the next with client side rendering and the next with eurasia, I keep seeing people reinventing what we already were doing with PHP long ago. I doubt it will happen, but I keep waiting for a PHP renaissance.
by olex | 2025-09-09 20:52:42+00:00
I get a new iPhone as a work phone bi-yearly, and get to pick the model, with co-pay for anything above the most basic one (currently 16E). In a month or so, it'll be that time again.

Last time I went with the non-Pro option was 6 years ago with the 11. Back then I regretted it, it was a clear downgrade from my previous iPhone X (which I consider the first "Pro" iPhone) - largely because of the screen, 11's LCD really wasn'g great after the X's AMOLED. Since then, I've had the 13 Pro and 15 Pro, both have been great, even though both are a bit weak in the battery department. Now I'm again considering the base 17.

Not interested in the Air or the 17 Pro Max, and the 17 Pro doesn't really seem like it's worth the extra cost to me, since the base model seems really good this time around. At a glance, the things you get with the 17 Pro for extra 350€ (German pricing) are:

- Unibody, but same aluminum material

- Same size, same _exact_ screen (all specs match)

- A19 Pro chip vs A19 - relevant for gaming (I don't) or other highly intensive applications (video editing I guess? again, not something I do a lot of)

- Better camera system - arguably the only relevant thing for a daily driver here

- LiDAR - very limited usefulness, in my experience having it on the 15 Pro

- USB 3 with 10 Gbit speeds vs USB 2 speeds on the USB-C port - relevant if you transfer large files like ProRes video, for me it's basically only when doing local backups to the Mac to install iOS betas, so largely irrelevant

- 31 hours battery life vs 30 - marginal difference

- Same charging, connectivity, everything else really

Will likely end up visiting an Apple Store to fiddle with both options, and look at the co-pay prices that our company will offer, then decide. But so far, it's much less of a clear Pro choice than it was in the previous years.
by ksenzee | 2025-09-09 20:52:47+00:00
That’s a perfectly valid argument. I’m not saying people shouldn’t make that argument. I’m just saying I don’t want to hear about mysql_real_escape_string.

To answer your question, I don’t know that modern PHP has big advantages over other modern languages. I’m not knocking on doors to spread the gospel of Symfony. But there’s no need to switch away from it either. And hosting is still easy and cheap. Prototyping your product as a Laravel or Symfony app is a reasonable choice.
by moralestapia | 2025-09-09 20:52:48+00:00
People underestimate what you can do with trillions of dollars at your disposal.

They could build a small town with all things you can imagine, cars, cinemas, hospitals, schools, whatever then get people to live there for months and use whatever new device prototypes they plan to launch a year later, and have an army of analysts even looking at their damn micro-expressions each time they pick up their phones in different ways and all of that might come down to like 50 million a year, which is like 0.05% of their revenue.

Apple is not anymore a startup where two/three guys make major decisions out of intuition (they ousted Ive because of that), again, this is a 2 trillion dollar company, they're not just vibing, lmao.
by dang | 2025-09-09 20:52:54+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186044 - Sept 2025 (42 comments)

Apple Debuts iPhone 17 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186023 - Sept 2025 (104 comments)

iPhone Air - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015 - Sept 2025 (431 comments)
by dang | 2025-09-09 20:53:05+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

Compare the New iPhone Models - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186294 - Sept 2025 (95 comments)

Apple Debuts iPhone 17 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186023 - Sept 2025 (104 comments)

iPhone Air - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015 - Sept 2025 (431 comments)
by GeoAtreides | 2025-09-09 20:53:08+00:00
>ESTA visas for 90 days. No issue there.

Wrong. ESTA is not a visa, it's a requirement for all travelers to US.

The visa-waiver program (VWP) doesn't include the right to work. You need to have an appropriate visa if you're being paid (or given material benefits) while travelling in US.

Things like interviews or conferences or workshops are not included in the right to work requirement.
by reify | 2025-09-09 20:53:18+00:00
Those were the days.

Fond memories of learning linux

I loved JTR better than hashcat.

Capturing all my neighbours handshakes, and cracking them over a weekend, with 6 and 8 char [:xdigit:] and [:alpha:] passwords on my old gaming rig.

I wonder if it is still possible in todays climate of 12-14 "0-9A-Za-z" [:alnum:], default passwords on routers, to crack them with a single GPU in a day.

I gave up once passwords went beyond 8 uppercase and 8 lowercase.
by dang | 2025-09-09 20:53:27+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

Compare the New iPhone Models - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186294 - Sept 2025 (95 comments)

iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186044 - Sept 2025 (42 comments)

iPhone Air - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015 - Sept 2025 (431 comments)
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-09 20:53:29+00:00
I don’t think you can compare UFO50 and Silksong.

UFO50 is voluntarily retro and purposefully use poor design as a kind of homage to video game progress and as a way to foster nostalgia. Part of the pleasure is seeing the changes between the games pretending to be older and the newer ones. Plus, it’s pretty clear it wasn’t made with the idea that most players would finish all the games. Part of the pleasure is sampling the large collection, closing games you don’t like until you find one that sticks. UFO50 objectively contains games which are not that good next to real gems but it is particularly brillant as a collection. Plus independently of how it plays, it’s interesting in itself as a kind of experience. That’s indie at its best.

Silksong is supposed to be a modern game and excels at some parts but the issue is that some design decisions are just, well, bad. I agree with the person you are replying to that it’s not particularly respectful of its player’s time for exemple forcing you to grind and slog repeatedly through uninteresting parts to actually play the fun parts. This is notably something FromSoft entirely solved a long time ago. To me that’s entirely orthogonal to being difficult. It’s an enjoyable game but a flawed one which makes for a tarnished experience.
by Swizec | 2025-09-09 20:54:17+00:00
> The Mini didn’t fail because it was too small. It failed because it wasn’t small enough.

The size is fine. But why they gotta handicap cameras?

All I want is a mini-sized phone with max's camera. Is that so much to ask for?

At this point I'm strongly considering ditching the iPhone and going Watch + Fujifilm Camera. Maybe keep an old phone at home to manage the watch.