MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PolicyPhantom | 2025-09-16 22:53:04+00:00
Interesting thought — long-term contracts could indeed align incentives for growth and stability. The challenge, as you note, is trust: few employees or companies are willing to bind themselves for 5–10 years in today’s fluid market.

That’s why governance frameworks (whether in labor or in AI) matter: they provide external guarantees of trust where bilateral promises may not hold.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-16 22:53:15+00:00
Inlining isn't necessarily a requirement for how it's used here. E.g. you could put something like:

.container:nth-child(1) {--i: 1} .container:nth-child(2) {--i: 2} ...

In your CSS. Still not all that ideal given you need to ensure you have enough entries for all the entries you might have... but at least a more dynamic and self-contained option until the `sibling-index()` feature they mention roles out.
by sublinear | 2025-09-16 22:53:20+00:00
> On June 19th, my life changed with a phone call. I was doing yard work when my phone rang. The number showed up as Pacifica, CA — (650) 451-5708. I answered.

I'm not trying to undermine the idea behind this article, but I was raised to never answer the phone and that was in the 90s
by kayodelycaon | 2025-09-16 22:54:26+00:00
We have bombed their leadership. This is an entirely different war. Hamas was/is the government of Gaza. They're part of the people there, not outside it.

You're trying to fight an organization that is part of the civilian population, not above it or outside of it. And that organization is deliberately using human shields to blur the lines even further.

It's not easy to figure out who's a random Palestinian or who's going to fire a rocket into Israel five years from now. If we want to keep bombing our way to victory, that's going to continue down the road of genocide.

Humanity needs to be better than this. We need to be better than this.
by fragmede | 2025-09-16 22:55:04+00:00
Buy a Comma.ai and install it in a supported vehicle, and just try it out. It doesn't talk to GPS, but it handles left right gas brake on the freeway well enough, and that's with two fairly shit optical cameras and a radar system. Granted, geohot helped start the company, and he's no slouch, but if their system is that good, a couple things are true. A) Lidar isn't necessary b) Extensive mapping that Waymo does also isn't necessary c) that last 10% gonna take 500% of the time to get to L3/4/5 autonomous, and that last 1% is maybe never. The other day I was in a Waymo, and there was a semi totally blocking the street, backing into a loading dock. The Waymo correctly identified that there was an object in the way, and stopped and did not plow into it. At first it crept up to the semi, blocking it from making progress as well. It might have started backing up, I've seen them do that, but I was already on the customer support line as soon as I saw the semi blocking the road.

Comma.ai is probably the purchase I'm most happy with this year (to be fair though, I buy a lot of crap off Temu). Drives are now just "get on the freeway, and just chill." Pay enough attention because it's not collected to GPS and just in case something goes wrong. So to be clear, Comma.ai is not autonomous driving, it's classified as an ADAS, advanced driving assistance program. It just makes driving suck that much less, especially in stop and go traffic, for $1,000, and compatible with recent vehicles that have built-in lane guidance features. Waymo's got to be light years ahead of them, given how much money they've spent, so it's my belief that Waymo's taking it very slow and cautious, and that their technology is much more advanced than we've been told.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-09-16 22:56:34+00:00
This was me. I was browsing Hamas' Telegram account as they released the FPV videos that day. The two most disturbing scenes were the pantless body of a teenaged girl being burned amidst chanting of "Allahu Akbar", and militants scouring buildings for any person or pet they could kill and doing just that whenever they found someone.

I learned a very uncomfortable—though valuable—lesson about humans that day.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-16 22:56:39+00:00
Spoofing email and phone caller ID is actually really common these days, but line-tapping is also active in some places.

Call the persons extension back from an out-of-band line, but after checking the contact phone number on the old web page or government business registry.

This is effective against most forms of line tampering, as targeting an unknown random line number is much more difficult to predict.

Most nuisance calls we get are the classic foreign operator message repurposed language translations trying to get people to "press 1 if you like ice cream" which bills 3rd party long distance calls. There was a local dubious calling card scammer arrested twice for this con. Just hang up, and report/block the number =3
by quotemstr | 2025-09-16 22:57:10+00:00
> During flight, the hold is only pressurized to about the level of the peak of Mt. Everest, to save energy.

Everest's peak is about 29,000 feet above sea level. I imagine this thing flies at, what, 40,000 or so? Why bother pressurizing the cargo hold at all if people can't breathe anyway? You have all the headaches of compression but none of the advantages. Am I missing something?
by runarberg | 2025-09-16 22:58:32+00:00
This resolution came 20 days into what would eventually be known as the Gaza genocide. The IDF had enganged in dozens of massacres at this point. The number of Palestinian victims was already over 6x that of the Oct 7 massacres (7326 when the resolution was published).

If the resolution was going to mention Hamas, it would also have to mention the IDF. The wording was deliberate for that reason.
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-16 22:58:41+00:00
> A political debate thread about Isreal is what "good hackers" would find intellectually satisfying?

Personally, one aspect I always enjoyed about this site was how it was often an escape for me from the endless bombardments of political discourse that is constantly being shown/recommend to me on other platforms. I do understand the importance of the nature of these types of discussions, but I agree with you, I am not certain much honest debate is being had here.

In the n number of threads like this, I would be surprised if many leave with any of their opinions changed. All too often do people comment to soothe their own knee-jerk reactions rather than to facilitate understanding or intellectually challenge one another.
by palata | 2025-09-16 22:58:50+00:00
I can use pkg-config just fine.

Not sure how relevant the "in order to use a tool, you need to learn how to use the tool".

Or from the other side: not sure what I should think about the quality of the work produced by people who don't want to learn relatively basic skills... it does not take two PhDs to understand how to use pkg-config.
by jofer | 2025-09-16 23:00:48+00:00
As someone who's recently been hiring (sorry folks, position was filled just a few days ago), it's wild to me how distorted things have become.

We had 1200 applications for an extremely niche role. A huge amount were clearly faked resumes that far too closely matched the job description to be realistic. Another huge portion were just unqualified.

The irony is that there actually _are_ a ton of exceptionally qualified candidates right now due to the various layoffs at government labs. We actually _do_ want folks with an academic research background. I am quite certain that the applicant pool contained a lot of those folks and others that we really wanted to interview.

However, in practice, we couldn't find folks we didn't already know because various keyword-focused searches and AI filtering tend to filter out the most qualified candidates. We got a ton of spam applications, so we couldn't manually filter. The filtering HR does doesn't help. All of the various attempts to meaningfully review the full candidate pool in the time we had just failed. (Edit: "Just failed" is a bit unfair. There was a lot of effort put in and some good folks found that way, but certainly not every resume was actually reviewed.)

What finally happened is that we mostly interviewed the candidates we knew about through other channels. E.g. folks who had applied before and e-mailed one of us they were applying again. Former co-workers from other companies. Folks we knew through professional networks. That was a great pool of applicants, but I am certain we missed a ton of exceptional folks whose applications no actual person even saw.

The process is so broken right now that we're 100% back to nepotism. If you don't already know someone working at the company, your resume will probably never be seen.

I really feel hiring is in a much worse state than it was about 5 years ago. I don't know how to fix it. We're just back to what it was 20+ years ago. It's 100% who you know.
by skydhash | 2025-09-16 23:01:02+00:00
Tags: Important commits. Branches are working spaces, so having a bunch of them can clutter up completion when switching and stuff.

Stash: A nicer way to store diffs than the filesystem. I could create a new branch, but the same clutter would happen. The stash is also a temporary space. Anything older than a few days is probably irrelevant.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-16 23:01:04+00:00
> You have an IDE

No, I don't.

For some reason there exists a group of programmers that refuse to acknowledge use cases like "let me write a small program in nano over SSH" or "let me change one hardcoded variable and recompile the project and never touch its source code again". If your code is unreadable without IDE, it means that either IDE should be shipped with the compiler because it's an essential part of the language, or the language is garbage because its designers literally admit "we're too stupid to figure out how to solve this issue, hope that IDE does something smart because we can't".
by collinmanderson | 2025-09-16 23:01:16+00:00
> sort of a "delayed" mode to updating my own dependencies. The idea is that when I want to update my dependencies, instead of updating to the absolute latest version available of everything, it updates to versions that were released no more than some configurable amount of time ago.

For Python's uv, you can do something like:

> uv lock --exclude-newer $(date --iso -d "2 days ago")
by ojosilva | 2025-09-16 23:01:45+00:00
From your link:

> In most cases, such attacks are discovered quickly and the malicious versions are removed from the registry within an hour.

By delaying the infected package availability (by "aging" dependencies), we're only delaying the time, and reducing samples, until it's detected. Infections that lay dormant are even more dangerous than explosives ones.

The only benefit would be if, during this freeze, repository maintainers were successfully pruning malware before it hits the fan, and the freeze would give scanners more time to finish their verification pipelines. That's not happening afaik, NPM is crazy fast going from `npm publish` to worldwide availability, scanning is insufficient by many standards.
by toss1 | 2025-09-16 23:01:55+00:00
No, I did NOT say the safety features were not due to Musk, I stated clearly I believe he was responsible for that safety initiative, just as I thought him responsible for the door handles, but I doubt he had much input in the detailed design of either, and OBVIOUSLY the design of a whole modern automotive crash safety system is more than the work of one person.

More importantly, the juxtaposition of the two features makes clear his motivation is primarily a collection of features that Musk thinks will make Musk seem cool, which is a very different thing than trying to make the safest cars in all respects to protect his customers.

As for when and why my opinion of Musk changed, again it changed years before 2024, and was cemented when he argued publicly with one of his software engineers and revealed a level of cluelessness showing his previous reputation as some kind of tech genius was a curated sham.

You seem to suggest it is wrong of people to reconsider their opinion of Musk around 2024 when he claims to be a "Free Speech Absolutist" yet used his ownership of the largest social media platform and his massive fortune to actively promote proto-fascists in the US and around the world to convert democracies into racist authoritarian states.

It is not wrong to shun people who work to introduce intolerance into a society — in fact, the only thing that an open tolerant society can not tolerate if it wants to survive is intolerance itself [0]. While I was not one of them, I am perfectly happy to see people changing their opinion of Musk due to his actions around 2024. If you have not, you are not looking closely enough; please do so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
by dmix | 2025-09-16 23:02:20+00:00
> Always good to see assessments of international legal impacts from people who don’t know that the International Court of Justice deals exclusively with cases between states, and that the standing body that deals with individual offenses that are war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression is the International Criminal Court.

So what is your expert opinion then? What is the risk to the state of Israel itself if ICJ makes a case against them?

Informing people > admonishing them
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-16 23:03:14+00:00
> When the equation changes vis-a-vis Israel's credibility, this entire Jenga structure has to be reevaluated. It's not satisfying to think about, but it is intellectually prudent and remains important regardless of how civil the response ends up being.

If the topics and responses pertained to such a discussion, then that would be one thing. However, it seems like that is not what is being discussed in this topic nor comments section.
by dang | 2025-09-16 23:03:25+00:00
Yes, but as pg once put it, "note those words most and probably" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426). That was in 2012, btw, which shows how far back HN's approach to this goes.

That leaves open the question of which stories to treat as on topic, but the links in my GP comment go into detail about how we handle that.

I'm not saying we always make the correct call about individual stories. There will never be general agreement about that, since every reader has a different set of things they care about. But I hope we can at least make the principles clear, as well as the fact that they haven't changed.
by cyanydeez | 2025-09-16 23:04:22+00:00
It's not surprising if you understand that minipcs are basically all just using laptop parts.

Really, it'd be surprising if they didn't go into that corner. Chinese makers have proliferated because there is a market for small devices that have external monitors, etc.

I think you're using your 2000's brain and not updating your firmware to the modern consumer appliance. We're watching computer tech growth decline sharply with fewer leaps and bounds.

So when I hear about this upgrade stuff, it's just sounds like 'get off my lawn' when it comes to this specific type of mini pc.
by frugalmail | 2025-09-16 23:05:10+00:00
Could you share the video where he says "women should be secondary to men"? I'm interested in seeing this. I'm familiar with him saying "...prioritize marriage and children over career goals.." and "young women who supported Kamala Harris don't value having children..." but that had nothing to do with "secondary". He also said "young MEN should order their lives correctly by putting family first." But I'm always interested in knowing if I'm missing something.

You're completely misrepresenting and misquoting the access to weapons comment. A parallel would be "give me liberty or give me death" which is a foundational quote in the invention/founding of the Constitutional Federal Republic system that has been adopted by many western nations.
by giantg2 | 2025-09-16 23:05:17+00:00
"I think the high cost of full time hires for entry level software jobs (total comp + onboarding + mentoring) vs investing in AI and seeing if that gap can be filled"

I think it's more to do with the outsourcing. Software is going the same way as manufacturing jobs. Automation hurts a little, but outsourcing kills.
by femto | 2025-09-16 23:05:32+00:00
Australia rolled out the HPV vaccine for girls in 2007. Boys were included in the program in 2013. Modelling says that "elimination" depends on both the vaccine and a screening program [3].

[1] https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/news/australian-success-sto...

[2] https://www.ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-07/HPV%20F...

[3] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...
by eek2121 | 2025-09-16 23:07:37+00:00
Yes, and that same lack of lawyers/friction is what also allows legitimate small businesses to thrive. I've worked for many, and out of those many, none of them had lawyers involved at all.

It is all about balance. Google could do more here, however the answer is not as obvious as you might think. Especially in an age where identities get stolen often and the lag time on catching said fraud is quite long.

The issue is that the entities mentioned are doing...nothing at all. Not even basic MANUAL identity checks and payment checks. Automated checks work very well until they don't.
by Aunche | 2025-09-16 23:07:41+00:00
The Biden administration brokered and pressured Israel into a ceasefire that asymmetrically disfavored them. Israel exchanged 30 Hamas militants per Israeli hostage. The ceasefire outlined a permanent resolution to the conflict, including Israel's full withdrawal from Gaza. They also pressured Israel to keep aid channels open during the war, which is exceptionally obvious now given significantly longer blockades and that famine broke out under Trump. The 2006 withdrawal from Gaza and Oslo Accords were also brokered by America. Israel would not have agreed to any of this without any security reassurances in the form of military aid.

On the other hand, there is no guarantee that completely cutting off ties with Israel, would make anything better for Gazans. While it's possible there would be fewer civilian casualties, it's also possible there would be more if Israel switched to from precision strikes to ground invasions and dumb weapons.
by autoexec | 2025-09-16 23:07:51+00:00
You can place your bets against the US, and considering how unstable things are it might pay off down the road. I think that however ugly the economy gets in the next few months/years this isn't the impending collapse of the US economy, so it'll probably improve again eventually. That said, I've considered converting some cash to foreign currencies whose value is less likely to decline as quickly.

Things will probably get worse before they get better and I'm not sure that there's much most people can do about it anyway besides giving up and buying Labubus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1O6bN2zWSM)
by itisit | 2025-09-16 23:09:45+00:00
Had Redford passed some 30 years ago, your remarks would have been true. By the early 2000s, Sundance became nothing more than a marketplace for a formulaic film type (quirky dramedies with offbeat characters) that big studios (a.k.a. Hollywood) would bid over. Sundance ultimately commodified "independent film".
by tguvot | 2025-09-16 23:09:52+00:00
the only attempt on genocide was hamas attempt to kill as much jews and infadels as possible. but you glance over this, because this genocide you approve of.

here is nice quote [0] : "for the past two years theHamas leadership had been talking about implementing "the last promise" (alwaed al'akhir) – a divine promise regarding the end of days, when all human beings will accept Islam. Sinwar and his circle ascribed an extreme and literal meaning to the notion of "the promise, " a belief that pervaded all their messages: in speeches, sermons, lectures in schools and universities. The cardinal theme was the implementation of the last promise, which included the forced conversion of all heretics to Islam, or their killing."

everything that followed would be eventually known as largest brainwashing by mainstream and social media.

[0] https://judaic.arizona.edu/sites/judaic.arizona.edu/files/20...
by tvb12 | 2025-09-16 23:10:01+00:00
For others who might not know, KDE Neon is a distribution. I was initially confused because I thought it might have been an alternative desktop environment to KDE Plasma.

This is probably the greatest curse and blessing of modern Linux: there are an impractical number of distributions. I guess you could probably say the same thing for desktop environments, various services, bootloaders, etc.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-16 23:10:29+00:00
Has someone reputable reported/shown they've been denied due process? Here's a lawyer talking about his clients, which doesn't sound like they've been denied it:

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/10/south-korea-w...

You (or I) may not like the law or policy, but that should be a separate discussion. We have rules; they should be followed. If they are bad they should be changed.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-16 23:11:02+00:00
>There are a ton of apartments in China, Hong Kong and Singapore exceeding 10–20 floors or more without a single functional elevator

Citation needed. Chinese building codes require elevators for any residential building taller than 6 stories [0]. Hong Kong and Singapore certainly have similar regulations. Unless you're implying that elevators are frequently broken in these countries? Perhaps in poor, rural parts of China, but I'm doubtful this is the case in a wealthy country like Singapore. Indeed, local regulations in both Singapore [1] and Hong Kong [2] require validated monthly maintenance schedules of elevators.

[0] https://codeofchina.com/standard/GB50096-2011.html

[1] https://www1.bca.gov.sg/regulatory-info/lifts-escalators/lif...

[2] https://bestpractice.emsd.gov.hk/en/lift-and-escalator-insta...
by kanary | 2025-09-16 23:11:05+00:00
Discord published their approach to age verification in wake of UK child safety laws. The k-ID platform they worked with seems to take a logical technical approach to minimize risks of sensitive data breach and keep age verification private to the user. Temporary ID verification, no further storage of documents, verification videos are stored on device, etc.

With Discord, age verification felt urgent because it's a social platform with known grooming and CSAM problems. With something like OpenAI, it's less clear why it matters in its current state where it's mostly single-player. But it becomes way more problematic as advertisers gain more power on the platform and influence users. OpenAI doesn't want to eval every advertiser for harmful content, so instead they/and the government fall back on age as the filter and where to draw the line.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-16 23:11:22+00:00
If the only reason is "because CCP" - then why is China bothering to provide him with a palatial residence, massive research funding, etc.? They coulda spent all that money on aircraft carriers or data centers or something.

It's almost as if Prof. Zhu didn't actually care about anything but himself and his academic career - and China made him a job offer that he knew American academia would never match.