MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by criddell | 2025-09-10 14:43:30+00:00
I have sympathy for people living in a place where FEMA redraws the flood plain maps. They bought a home outside of the flood zone and with the stroke of a pen, their home is now inside the zone and can no longer afford to live there.

A group in Houston sued the city there over something like this and their argument was that redrawing the map was an unconstitutional taking of the land.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-09-10 14:43:57+00:00
Por the love of god. I'm already scared of dropping my current phone because its so small in my hand unless I put a beefy case on it. Just leave it thick and use the innovations to put a bigger battery in there. I don't give a shit about saving 2mm but and extra 10 hours of battery life would def perk my ears.
by snow_mac | 2025-09-10 14:44:06+00:00
What's so great about this? A phone with a weird shape due to the camera? Yahoo, yay so light /sarcasm. Who cares? $1000 for another shiny object thats thin, that has "ALL DAY" battery? Like every other iPhone or phone on the market?

It's not innovative -- innovative would be an "ALL WEEK" solution. This is worth looking at: https://youtu.be/WEmZpHXwu5k
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-10 14:44:14+00:00
hm that was an interesting take, I had seen this youtube video by codedamn [1] on how spot instances are really cheap and had always wondered why people weren't using this, well now I understand that the incentives have changed. Thanks for telling me, I didn't knew it or maybe the creator of that video had created it quite recently (10 months from now isn't that much of a time unless things have changed)

Video [1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hM4ZRIuD5g

Have things changed quite a lot in 10 months or was it the author maybe overhyping the usecase I suppose.

I am really wondering but is there any software stack that can work with multi cloud approach the best way. I feel like typescript is really great for such purposes for the most part, I hope that this doesn't get counted as too off topic. I am not a dev ops guy but I just like being frugal and checking different options etc. and I am just wondering what is the best "just works" cloud 2025 without being too much expensive like vercel or netlify.

Have a nice day!
by infecto | 2025-09-10 14:44:19+00:00
How does it make more people homeless? Insurance absolutely is a good proxy for real risk and there are plenty of places to be building homes. If you live in a flood zone you can still get the government to help cover some of the risk but also… flood zones are not new. I don’t really want to incentive people to continue to buy and build in these areas. Use the dollars to rebuild elsewhere.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-10 14:44:28+00:00
I think in my case was a little worse than just that. If I remember right it was when I didn't own a car and I had rented a car to do a long drive so it wasn't like I just got a hold from buying gas once but I probably bought gas for or five times on a weekend so it was more than just one hold. At the time I lowballed my checking account to optimize getting interest in my savings account. I had enough money to cover it all in my savings but only had about $1k in my checking. I think my credit union was putting on $300 holds per gas filling event at that time, people tell me the amount and timing of the holds is variable based on your bank or credit union.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-10 14:44:38+00:00
At some point the rest of us have to stop paying for people's stupid behavior.

US taxpayers have funneled untold billions of dollars into these states to prop up their real estate industry by providing FEMA flood insurance at hugely subsidized rates, while the private insurance that's becoming unaffordable only covers wind damage. When you see those photos of towns wiped away by a hurricane, that's flood damage, and your tax dollars are paying to rebuild those houses in the same place. Over and over.

In a just world there would be legal liability for some of the real estate industry folks who persuaded people to put all of their net worth into an asset that's going to be blown away in the next hurricane, and other consequences for the politicians who enabled and encouraged them. The odds of this happening in real life seem to be about zero.
by rrrobert | 2025-09-10 14:44:39+00:00
In which European city is this true? I can't think of any. Certainly not London/Paris/Amsterdam/Munich/Warsaw.

For comparison, Amsterdam's price per square meter for apartments is some 30% higher than in Seattle and my big tech company that offers total compensation around $500k/yr for L5 in Seattle pays low $200s (converted to USD) in Amsterdam. The only colleagues I know who live in a single family home within reasonable biking distance are late career (L6/L7) American expats.

In any European city, that has a decent tech job market, owning a house (even a small one by American standards) in walking/biking distance of the office means you're rich rich.
Nativeblocks – Server driven ui platform
by alirezat775 | 2025-09-10 14:45:11+00:00
I built Nativeblocks because I was tired of waiting weeks for Apple/Google to approve simple changes.

Nativeblocks lets you push UI updates to production mobile apps in real-time using server-driven UI.

You write SwiftUI/Jetpack Compose components once, then update layouts, content, and A/B tests through our visual editor without resubmitting to app stores.

It's open source. The core SDKs and rendering engines are free, with optional hosted services for teams.

We've been working on this for a year with one enterprise client, who is currently using it in production.

Now ready for more developers to try it and give us feedback.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@nativeblocks GitHub: https://github.com/nativeblocks/ Docs: https://nativeblocks.io/docs/get-started/introduction/
by luizfelberti | 2025-09-10 14:45:24+00:00
I was trying to do this in 2023! The hardest part about building a search engine is not the actual searching though, it is (like others here have pointed out), building your index and crawling the (extremely adversarial) internet, especially when you're running the thing from a single server in your own home without fancy rotating IPs.

I hope this guy succeeds and becomes another reference in the community like the marginalia dude. This makes me want to give my project another go...
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-10 14:45:28+00:00
One of the ways that rational markets work is by allowing people the results of their choices. Yes, I get that in rare cases the stack of circumstances eliminate many or all choices, but in the main people in America have some of the greatest freedoms. The statisticians are noting where the risks are higher and saying "you can have the coverage if it's worth it to you, but this is what it will cost" and competition in the insurance marketplace pressures the premium towards the average true cost. (sometimes below, because they can invest your premium)

Now, if you know you're an outlier due to lifestyle, hurricane proofing, living ontop of a hill or whatever relates to the main risks of the area, then maybe you're better off not buying it? (iirc mortgage rules don't always allow this?)

Another thing to consider is that a lot of people buy Houses like they do cars. They do not evaluate the TCO, they simply look at the monthly amount (and the smarter ones include taxes, insurance, maintenance)... in a rational market the price of houses in disaster-prone areas would be suppressed by the excess cash-flow required to pay the insurance. Really roughly speaking $50 a month of insurance should remove $5000 from the house purchase price.

Keep letting the market reward those who make rational decisions!
by stonemetal12 | 2025-09-10 14:45:37+00:00
The cited findings, don't refute the culture argument though, and maybe even reenforces it. In US culture being illiterate is bad, being bad at math is not looked down up on. The stats show good at reading and bad at math.

While there are STEM (Science Tech Engineering and Math) initiatives, I have yet to see one that actually includes math. You see results in science but not math.
by daveliepmann | 2025-09-10 14:45:39+00:00
It has to do with the fact that air pollution has massively decreased, but cars still kill a lot of people. That's a considered and substantive point, I reckon.

I wrote it because in my experience a "balance" between modes can mean something like Amsterdam, or it can mean the status quo in the USA-outside-NYC, which is to say extreme and punishing car dependence. Sorry if I had you wrongly pegged. My belief is that a good balance is radically fewer cars in city centers. What's your idea of a good balance?
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-10 14:45:41+00:00
>In order to maintain an uninterrupted connection to a target’s phone, the Harris software also offers the option of intentionally degrading (or “redirecting”) someone’s phone onto an inferior network, for example, knocking a connection from LTE to 2G. [1]

>In its most basic functionality, the [LTE] IMSI catcher receives connection/attach request messages from all mobiledevices in its vicinity. These attach messages are forced to disclose the SIM’s IMSI, thus allowing the IMSI catcher to retreive the IMSI for all devices in its vicinity... a fully LTE-based IMSI catcher is possible, very simple and very cheap to implement without requiring to jam the LTE and 3G bands to downgrade the service to GSM. [2]

Exploits on 5G to retrieve the IMSI. [3]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/long-secret-stingray-man...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05171

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06925
by whalesalad | 2025-09-10 14:46:41+00:00
So interestingly, I have an ASUS Thunderbolt EX4 add-in card, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

> you just need to pass through the video card to the motherboard and then run thunderbolt

I will have to experiment with this. I was using the little daisy chain cables that allow you to go out from GPU -> immediately IN to Thunderbolt card, then monitor was connected to Thunderbolt card. But I couldn't even get any output at all.

Would be curious to hear more about your setup!
by big_toast | 2025-09-10 14:46:50+00:00
This is such a cool effect but I'm afraid its novelty is conflicting with its affordances.

Have you seen cases where people are using it in a more familiar manner? Like, they've moved on from the newness but there's still a bunch of people? Feels like being in a subway station where everyone is bumping into each other right now instead of just sharing the space as needed.
by graemep | 2025-09-10 14:46:58+00:00
This seems to vary quite a bit across countries which suggests to me that something can be done about it - I cannot say what though.

Parents can be encouraged and informed, to an extent, but the problem is that if they do not enjoy reading, you cannot pass on something you do not have yourself.

Another problem in the UK is that I think policy makers think of reading as a life skill, and education in general as preparation for work, rather than as something to enjoy - at least for the hoi polloi (or "the gammon" to use a disturbingly common term), their own kids are different.
by mynameisvlad | 2025-09-10 14:47:00+00:00
> students and community use football. They do not use high school libraries.

That's literally the problem being presented, the "joke" as you called it. This isn't something to be weirdly proud about. This is something to be extremely concerned about. Prioritizing football over education in a place dedicated to the latter is absurd. Like, Idiocracy-levels absurd.

How has it gone so far over your head?
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-10 14:47:44+00:00
> Well... given you're comparing to China... regulations and approvals have a point. China just openly sharts on nature, the environment

These ones aren't really accurate in this century. China is making massive gains in clean energy and undoing a lot of the mess they made in the 20th century. I'm honestly blown away by how clean the water, air, and everything as a whole is over there. And I'm a freak who loves visiting places in the middle of nowhere, so it's not some Potemkin village stuff like YouTube China Truthers(tm) pretend is widespread.

> When a project gets screwed up, someone or their entire family ends up gulaged

Yeah, you watch a little too much YouTube. That stuff doesn't happen. Why would anyone be stupid enough to be an engineer if they risk having their entire family being arrested? Seriously.
by DeathMetalHippy | 2025-09-10 14:47:55+00:00
debunked several times. The tic tac was four pilots with an illusion, chasing a paper bag or bird. Stationairy object. Its gimbal rotation. The camera is moving, the object is moving very slowly, the jet is moving very fast. Its a camera rotation test footage.

The puerto rico is two lanters from a wedding down the beach. Again the camera is moving jet speed fast while the objects are moving wind speed.

Brazil was just a drunk kid in the alley wit his body all twisted, there was never an alien
by Spivak | 2025-09-10 14:47:58+00:00
Then you didn't go to a football school. We had a multi-million dollar stadium that could hold a thousand-ish fans and it was packed every game. Most of them were season ticket holders. We also raked in $$ from other schools who wanted to host their events using our stadium.

Also none of the people working the game are paid except for the ref (and the TV crew if you have one). It's all volunteers and students. Our principal was the announcer. The revenue from football paid for every other sport and then some.

Schools that weren't football schools had much more modest stadiums, usually just a field and a pre-fab bleacher.
by comprev | 2025-09-10 14:48:03+00:00
During interviews I make a point about flexibility due to not having my own family, and can also dedicate significantly more time to learning outside of work that perhaps many candidates of a similar age (40-45 bracket) are unable to. I have the same "free time" as a junior dev in their 20s... but with 20yrs Ops experience on top.

It does pay off though and I am delighted when colleagues approach me with a difficult problem to crack. I never take on formal ownership of the problem though, but if I do crack it, my input is well documented (and bonus points: I learned something new).

Cracking some hard problems has earned me a good reputation among the senior engineers & engineering management, and hopefully my future career will benefit from these relationships.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 14:48:19+00:00
I think there are two factors that helped Google. First, the search engine landscape back then was absolutely abysmal. I'm sure someone will chime in saying that it's abysmal today as well, but the reality is that 99%+ of consumer searches get good results today. And that's simply because the nature of search has changed: we have billions of people using the internet, and they overwhelmingly just search for products to buy, local restaurants that offer takeout, or for familiar pop content to watch or listen to. And there's some SEO spam there, but also pretty fierce quality assurance by search engines.

Second, the internet was different: when all nerds declared that Google is good, that was CNN-grade newsworthy (and CNN used to matter a lot more back then), simply because the internet seemed kinda important, but there was no other authority on the topic. Today, that's not the case. If you need someone to opine on the internet on air, you invite some political pundit or a business analyst.

So no, I don't think you can repeat the success of Google the same way. It was a product of its time.
by Ygg2 | 2025-09-10 14:48:26+00:00
> I honestly doubt it would happen if we enforced what a package is in the language. I just don't want to officially endorse one ever because I do view them to be evil.

I don't see how changing package definition is going to help. JS had no concept of package and it was bolted on with NPM. If Odin becomes big enough, the community will override the will of the author.

Plus I don't see huge benefits to not having a package manager other than saving disk space.

Security isn't that much meaningfully better than NPM.

Trust problem exists regardless of package manager.

And people aren't far to trusting, but far too lazy. And importing packages gets job done quickly.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-10 14:48:44+00:00
I am curious about people's experiences who are really good and use the following languages regularly: C, OCaml / Haskell (although Haskell feels way different to me), Common Lisp (or any Lisp), Erlang / Elixir, and Forth / Factor. To me, these languages seem to be significantly different.

Edit (before I will not be able to do so): thank you for everyone's replies (in advance, too)!
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 14:48:47+00:00
As a fellow parent I find dense cities are worse. My kids are not welcome in most of the restaurants, bars, or shops - which is just as well because I couldn't afford to pay for regular family meals at any of them anyway. Even the parks are more art orientation - great for adults but no playground that my kids would enjoy. Not that it matters as 3 bedroom apartments are rare, and more than that impossible to find. They are often food deserts - it is easier for a farmer to get to a grocery store (they expect to drive but the uncontested roads are fast), you often need to drive to a grocery store as there is no option, of if there is one it is the expensive high end store not the discount supermarkets.

Note that most dense cities have within the same city limits less dense areas that look like suburbs. These are often called "inner city" they are generally affordable but because the schools are bad are not places I'd want to live. For this discussion I'm going to count them as suburbs...

It doesn't have to be like the above. I've seen dense cities around the world that are very family friendly. However not in the US.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-10 14:48:49+00:00
Nope, it's just a nice thing I like. It is nearly the platonic ideal of a search engine for me. It causes me no problems and doesn't try to sell me garbage.

It's like discovering that there a better pair of shoes that're more comfortable. Everybody can use a slightly improved more comfortable pair of shoes, so it comes up frequently.
by alexc05 | 2025-09-10 14:49:24+00:00
What an oddly editorialized version of this headline which does not appear to reflect the conclusion made by the article OR the actual headline of the linked article:

actual headline:

> Is Marvel leaving Georgia? Production shifts to UK spark industry shakeup

piece talking about reasons:

> shifting to the United Kingdom, where lower production costs, especially on wages and employee benefits, are giving studios more bang for their buck, according to the Daily Mail.

looks like differences in wages AND benefits. Lower overall salaries in the UK combined with public healthcare costs via the NHS is a much more nuanced take than "leaving to avoid paying health insurance."

I suppose the conclusion though is the same - that a public option would have prevented this flight of capital. Not necessarily dropping of mandates that employers cover health insurance to remain competitive (which I'm sure some will conclude).
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-10 14:49:38+00:00
> if Harvey Weinstein tells some aspiring young actress that he'll cast her in a movie or whatever if she blows him then IMO it's still on her to stand up for herself.

I mostly agree with you, but this is a fuzzy boundary.

Boss: do ... with me or maybe I don't feel like employing you anymore

In my opinion this is not voluntary. It's extortion for sex which I would call rape. But how is it different from:

I employ you, if you ... me?

In both cases it's an ultimatum for sex -> employment.
by epistasis | 2025-09-10 14:49:47+00:00
People had decades of warning of this happening.

Any assistance on moving out is a very bad idea. There are rising insurance costs, slowly, people have time to respond.

People in Florida did not even advocate for mitigations that would have prevented the rising costs, when they were given decades of warning.

Protecting home values above all else is very bad for society. Unless renters are given the same protection and massive handouts, it's a very unfair system
by stronglikedan | 2025-09-10 14:49:54+00:00
> Most of our public spaces prioritize cars instead of people.

Maybe most but there's plenty of public space that doesn't. People choose to live around the public spaces that do. Some even try to change that instead of moving somewhere that doesn't. The great thing about America is that there's plenty of everything for everyone, but it's not just going to come to you.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-10 14:50:11+00:00
People are indicating they feel their best rational option is to stay (or even go there).

If you know the government will throw billions to your aid, then a disaster zone is actually far less risk than if they would not.

Or maybe you just like the beaches in Miami so much that you would rather part with the money than the beauty? Still a market working rationally.
by tharmas | 2025-09-10 14:50:33+00:00
To wear down Russia to manageable size: get the Ukrainians to pay in blood and the EU to pay for the bombs. Bonus: Germany crippled because cut off cheap gas supplies, and prevents Russia Germany alliance turning into rival superpower to USA. Another bonus is EU crippled with war debt.

This war is about geopolitics. Not morals or ethics. The USA wanted this war to wear down Russian power. Putin took the bait.

Who scuttled the early attempt at a peace deal? Boris Johnson, on behalf of USA. Because the USA wanted this war.

But now Russia and China are allies. That's a bad geopolitical outcome for USA.
by skydhash | 2025-09-10 14:50:39+00:00
> But we still don't have a solution to search projects on potentially thousands of servers, including self-hosted ones.

We do.

https://mvnrepository.com/repos/central

https://npmjs.com

https://packagist.org/

https://pypi.org/

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages

https://pkg.go.dev/

https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/

And many others.

And we still have forums like this one and Reddit where people can just announce their project. Github is more of a bad code refuge than a high signal project discovery.
by solarexplorer | 2025-09-10 14:50:45+00:00
It really depends on the city/quarter where you live. I live in the center of Barcelona and had no problems with two small kids at all. Supermarkets, real farmer's markets, hospitals, pharmacies, schools, etc are all within 10min walking distance. I work from home, but I could walk to the office it I wanted to. I don't have to leave the city at all.

Eventually I gave in and bought a car, not because it was necessary but rather to leave the city on weekends and get closer to nature.
by Voultapher | 2025-09-10 14:50:48+00:00
Slow AI.

They are terraforming our planet into a less habitable one, making many people miserable and turn useful things into abominations. One usually can't point at a single person deciding that it should be so, but at the end that's what's the output is.

The paperclip machine is here and it's optimizing for GDP growth.
by marcusverus | 2025-09-10 14:50:56+00:00
Public school is a joke. My 5 year old started kindergarten recently. They're currently learning shapes, which she (and every other child I've encountered) knew when she was two years old.

Meanwhile at home, she's already reading. She's at the hard part, when reading is so slow that it's painfully boring. It's still too slow for the entertainment value to justify the work, so she's not hooked yet. We spend 5-10 minutes a day on it, and I suspect she'll be over the hump in 3-6 months. Public school would have taken another two years to get her there, even though they get her for 7 hours per day.

The one-size-fits-all model of education is a blight on our civilization.