MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-15 22:48:30+00:00
These aren’t “in tech” in the sense you seem to be thinking of it; from the article:

California lawmakers announced the agreement in late August, paving a path for ride-hailing drivers to unionize as labor wanted, in exchange for the state drastically reducing expensive insurance coverage mandates protested by the companies. It earned rare public support from Gov. Gavin Newsom and received final approval from state lawmakers this week.
by internetter | 2025-09-15 22:49:25+00:00
> and that Paypal is shielding them or insuring their purchase in some way

Yes, I absolutely do think that. When I make a purchase through paypal, I am redirected to an authorization page hosted on paypal's domain. The recipient never sees my card number. I must authorize each charge. Whereas when I give my card number, the recipient can charge whatever they want, whenever they want, however much they want*

* subject to fraud protection.

This matters because sites do get hacked. The paypal horror stories you see are typically not consumer sided.
by epistasis | 2025-09-15 22:49:29+00:00
California has done this with their latest version of net metering for residenial solar, NEM 3.

It makes solar a very financially unattractive option unless there's storage attached to the system, and has drastically reduced the rate of residential solar deployment.

NEM3 was justified under the proposition that lower-income households were "funding" the higher income households to get solar. So as solar finally gets cheap enough for the lower income households, they changed the rules again so that only those rich enough to afford batteries and solar can save money.

NEM3 has a few nice things about it when looked at narrowly, but overall seems pretty disastrous for the state.
by grishka | 2025-09-15 22:50:40+00:00
I once worked on a VK mini app with one guy. He was building the app itself, I did the backend. He just recently started learning web development, having never done any programming before.

So I'm ready for him to test my backend, I tell him to make a request to https://... and pass this and that parameter. And he just has no clue what I'm talking about. He somehow managed to learn React, a bit of HTML and a bit of CSS without any of the underlying basics. I had to explain him some of HTTP, the URL structure, and what an XMLHttpRequest is.

This was a revelatory experience for me.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-09-15 22:50:47+00:00
This is annoying approach. Mine is not Powerwall so I have to try to play with HAs scripts to only charge battery on excess solar - I have far more panels than I can export, and inverter (Deye) can only handle so much AC so excess DC needs to go into batteries.

Trouble is you don't really know how much excess power you've got until you crank up battery charge current.
by jongjong | 2025-09-15 22:50:57+00:00
My grandmother, who lived to 90, used to tell me "The only thing which really improved in my life is medicine." She would tell me that people were so happy and society was so safe when she was a child that her family used to sleep with the windows open.

I also observed things only getting worse in my life. So I really don't buy this narrative that things keep getting better. IMO, the only people who think things got better are billionaires and multi-millionaires; of course it got better for them but it didn't get better for the average-luck person. For the average ambitious person who worked hard to improve their situation, things got MUCH worse; there are all these artificial barriers preventing them from succeeding, depriving them of opportunities and then constant gaslighting to blame them for systemic issues (including their own failure to thrive). Low birth rates, high rates of depression, high rates of homelessness, high suicide rates speak for themselves.

The fact that it all gets covered up by social media echo chambers to the extent that some people think life got better, makes it MUCH, MUCH worse, not better. People just don't seem to notice the tent cities, the increased immigration (due to worsening conditions in poor countries), the political division (again, driven by poverty).
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-15 22:50:58+00:00
Oh no I don't think it's perfect at all. It would be a horror for me with all the formalities. It would be like a minefield for me. I can only be myself.

But I didn't realise women were in danger on trains. That doesn't happen here, no. Well, it does incidentally but not to the point that women-only cars are warranted, luckily. But Spain is still a pretty patriarchal society.
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-15 22:51:04+00:00
Wait, is your question serious, and people talking about it being in jest directed at my comment and not the one above it?

How often do you think the OP's "functional" team fixes small problems with their code before they become large problems? How often do you think they discover small features that lead to huge gains but need a developer's understanding of sized to discover it's small? And also, how often do you think they get stuck creating nearly impossible features that can be worked around with a small amount of work from the users that they would rather not do?

And none of those is the large issue anyway. The large issue is that teams working like that can barely create any software, for much more complex reasons than fits in a comment.
by karmakaze | 2025-09-15 22:52:01+00:00
Perfect. Apple can implement efficient decode in current/next gen devices then enable support in iOS Safari/WKWebView to chew up battery life of older devices. It's more defensible than Batterygate[0]. For current transition, Liquid Glass might be enough extra load.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-15 22:52:03+00:00
Honestly I just asked ChatGPT for the list and didn't notice x.x Interesting omission on its part, haha. I asked ChatGPT what's up, and it replied:

"China is not in the top-50 group of “very high human development” countries. The United Nations Development Programme’s 2024 Human Development Index (HDI) places mainland China around the mid-60s globally (most recent figure is roughly 64th–68th, depending on the exact update). The “top 50 developed countries” list I used earlier is based on that HDI ranking, so China does not qualify as one of the top 50 most-developed nations. Hong Kong, which is a Special Administrative Region of China, does rank in the global top 10 and is why you saw “Hong Kong (China SAR)” in the earlier table—but that is treated separately from mainland China in the UN’s HDI reports."
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by kminehart | 2025-09-15 22:52:40+00:00
> Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however.

It doesn't exist at the moment. :\

I would pay 2x the price of a macbook for a linux laptop with the same hardware quality.

The battery life and power/efficiency of my m4 pro is insane. It's so good that it's really hard to justify using anything else right now.
by nradov | 2025-09-15 22:52:42+00:00
Government policies were a part of the problem but a lot of Detroit area manufacturing companies were simply not very good at their jobs. They coasted on past success while being unresponsive to customers, and failed to improve on quality or productivity. This was primarily a management failure — only a true moron could approve production of vehicles like the Ford Granada — but the adversarial approach taken by most union leaders certainly didn't help. Union leaders were mostly corrupt and incompetent, acting to win elections and enrich themselves in ways that ultimately hurt their members.

The best thing the US government probably could have done to prop up the manufacturing economy in general would have been to spread knowledge of modern best practices, like those promoted by W. Edwards Deming. Plenty of people were willing to improve but simply hadn't been trained in how to do it. For auto manufacturing specifically, legislators and regulators could have phased in emissions and fuel economy rules more slowly to give manufacturers a few more years to react instead of forcing them to hastily modify old powertrain designs in ways that drove up costs and ruined reliability.
Show HN: Summarize Any Article, Paper, or Video in 5 Bullet Points
by rriley | 2025-09-15 22:54:47+00:00
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It’s not perfect, but surprisingly useful for research papers and long talks.

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by sabellito | 2025-09-15 22:54:50+00:00
I remember seeing Mint quite a few years ago. I love the idea, I really like the language design, but I agree 100% with your take on the drawback. It's hard to sell that to teams.

What's surprising to me is how many alternatives exist in this space. Between elm, imba, svelte, and mint, and probably more that I don't know about, I wonder how many devs in the world are shipping to prod using them.

edit: have you thought about including Form Validation to the core lib?
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-15 22:56:13+00:00
I just don't read it that way - they certainly try to remove what they see as bad, but beyond that they do not interfere. We don't need to guess about it. Three is plenty of first person Mind stuff in The Culture where Minds communicate with one another. Its pretty clear that Culture Minds have agendas other than total control of the citizens. It is too bad Banks isn't alive to chime in, but I think if you read all the books, its hard to support your interpretation.
by rchaud | 2025-09-15 22:56:24+00:00
I recently bought a mini laptop with an Intel N100 chip that came with W11 pre-installed. My work PC is running some enterprise LTS version of Windows 10, which feels barely any different from Windows from the past 15 years or so.

Imagine my shock when I booted up W11. It felt like Bill Gates' wildest fantasies of vendor lock-in come to life, if the DOJ and EU cases never happened. A non-removable Edge icon on taskbar, Copilot bloat, lock screen widgets showing tabloid nonsense from MSN.com disguised as 'news'. Even the taskbar couldn't be oriented vertically!

Thankfully I was able to install Linux on it (Aurora, based on Fedora) on a separate partition, and wifi, touchscreen, usb and other things work. I hadn't tried Linux at all in over 10 years, and was worried about bricking the machine. With W11 being this bad, it was more than worth it!
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 22:56:33+00:00
The part you quote is a logical fallacy. (This does not invalidate Snopes' refutation of your point; that would be another logical fallacy.) A group led by extremists can contain moderates, and there is ample evidence that this group indeed did contain moderates. I assure you I am very well informed about the event. It was a subject of very intense discussion in my circles at the time.

Please stop following me around to post about this. I already explained why I was not willing to continue the discussion before, and one of your comments in those other threads has already been flagged and killed.
by coldtea | 2025-09-15 22:56:39+00:00
>Japan is a good example of a country where the population has been in steady decline for a long time now. The economy has stagnated, but it has not collapsed.

Give it time. Japan only crossed the point of deaths > births about 20 years ago, which was also the time it reached peak population (as recorded by a census around that time).

Give it 20 years for the peak kids to grow above 40 and it will be a dystopia.
by ares623 | 2025-09-15 22:56:57+00:00
It’s been shoved down enterprise throats for months/years. Shareholders, CEOs, workers (at the start) and users (at the start) have never had such a unified understanding in what they want than this AI frenzy. All stars were aligned for it to gain more traction. And yet…

It’s the prodigal child of tech.
by mhuffman | 2025-09-15 22:57:12+00:00
Ah yes, what most jobs these days lack is tension! Too bored? Get yourself worked up over some other task! What an insight!!!

>If you can’t tackle these at work, do it in your personal projects.

Just gold analysis. Most people in SWE have plenty of personal projects supported by their work managers and encouraged to implement work tasks into personal projects.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-15 22:57:45+00:00
> What did the insurance cover?

Excess liability from drivers with insufficient insurance (the driver’s themselves would still be liable here, but unlikely able to pay; the ridesharing firms having overlapping liability and an insurance mandate means that there is a stronger guarantee of some ability to pay where damage occurs.)

> (Also, were AV insurance standards also reduced for Uber and Lyft?)

California’s separate AV insurance mandate is on the manufacturer, and is not impacted.
by j45 | 2025-09-15 22:58:18+00:00
Sounds like the difference between finding what needs to be done, making a plan, and executing on it remains something to consider and be aware of.

Claude Code has been a revelation and a bit of a let down the past 45 days.

Some open acknowledgement would have been great, but in lieu of it, it seems it's best to hop on a new tool and make sure you learn how to prompt better and not rely on the model to read between until usage is "optimized" and it no longer seems to work for those folks.

I've seen some interesting files that help any model understand a programming language as it's strong suit and it might not even be an expert in and how to best develop with it.
by squidsoup | 2025-09-15 22:59:01+00:00
Curious if has anyone had much success using web components within a react UI library? When building a component library on a bespoke design system, I'm quite pleased that I can rely on a headless library like RAC to ensure that the base component implementation is accessible and works well on touch devices. I can see theoretically that web components could be a complimentary tool, but in practice I'm not certain where they're best used.
by christophilus | 2025-09-15 22:59:18+00:00
Just upgraded my wife’s laptop and my iPhone. It’s fine. I think her use (she lives in the browser) and my iPhone use (calls, camera, browser) don’t really reveal anything terrible. It’s kind of a dumb gimmick, but it’s mostly fine so far. It would annoy me if a UI that I frequently used “upgraded” to this, though.
by mullingitover | 2025-09-15 22:59:21+00:00
I don't see there being any orphanages, you could simply have babies on demand for anyone who wants to adopt them. There are enough couples with fertility problems, women who can't carry a pregnancy to term for medical reasons, etc etc. The adoption process is currently unworkable: couples will routinely spend tens of thousands for a chance at adopting, and the birth parent can reverse the adoption at any time and you've simply set a five figure sum on fire.

You could also incentivize couples to adopt up to the point that the (augmented) fertility rate hits replacement level. That's the ultimate problem to solve here, you're not trying to grow the population, simply put a floor under it to stabilize and prevent demographic collapse.
by tschwimmer | 2025-09-15 23:01:25+00:00
Strongly disagree with most of the consensus here to start with Player of Games and that Consider Phlebas is boring. I found Player of Games to be the much weaker book, with lots of heavy handed social critique and a generally quite stock plot.

It's true that Consider Phlebas is set outside The Culture. I think that's for the best as The Culture is pretty alien and the Phlebas protagonist is more relatable. Banks does a great job of building the world such that when you get to the end of the book, you're like "I get it" in terms of understanding the Culture. Plus, Phlebas has a number of wonderfully evocative set pieces that are super cool. You can see how influential the series was on later sci-fi, especially stuff like Halo.
by coldtea | 2025-09-15 23:01:40+00:00
Economy in general doesnt require growth.

The economy we were born into, the level of material production, business, amenities etc and how we run things, does.

It can find an equilibrium at some point, but it will be blood and people who think they should have robot servants and food delivery wont like it. As for the time it will be achieving that equilibrium, it will be painful.
by ashirviskas | 2025-09-15 23:02:00+00:00
Huh, your numbers are weird. 22x980Ah of 3.2V cells would give you over 60kWh.

And the price of LiFePo4 continues dropping, it is not a good deal if your cells are aboe $80 per kWh (which at 22kWh should be below $2000).
by vlucas | 2025-09-15 23:02:19+00:00
> the only people who seem to think that operating systems should have "personality" are techies

I am not so sure. It might even be the opposite. Techies and designers gave us the flat UI aesthetic, Material UI, Windows Metro design, etc. Techies also nitpick design and aesthetics far more than average folks do. Techies and designers derided Windows XP, but most average users thought it was "cute" and "fun" compared to the "boring" previous design. It is definitely the most memorable release in the past 30 years as far as UI goes. This iOS version could wind up being similar after so many years of the flat UI.

The bugs/kinks are a good point though, and I have noticed some UX changes too that I am unsure about. This is the first complete UI redo in long time for iOS, so I am sure they will get these things worked out over time.
by analog31 | 2025-09-15 23:02:40+00:00
I've had a PP merchant account for well over a decade, to sell a boring, non computer related gadget. I make roughly one sale per business day, with typical statistical variation. PP has been nearly 100% reliable.

Some advantages for me:

1. I don't touch your credit card or personal info. I don't want to know those things. I don't want to be responsible for keeping them secure.

2. Integration with the post office for generating shipping labels is seamless.

3. I think people are more confident to buy something from a little known business if they feel that PP is protecting them. The increase in sales probably covers the PP fee.

4. I can run my business from a passive web page. All of the other services require me to manage some kind of server, running code, that I become responsible for maintaining. I love coding, but don't want it to be part of this business.

From reading articles and forum posts two main sources of horror stories seem to be:

1. People who just seem to be "accident prone" in terms of getting into disputes with others.

2. Selling non-physical goods, which I can only imagine has its own pitfalls that I don't know about.
by metalman | 2025-09-15 23:03:03+00:00
there has been news about similar ideas of restarting the house keeping aspect of internal cellular debrits, and everything imaginable has been proposed, including plain lithium and having watched as both of my parents respond to the shingles vacine with improved cognitive performance in spite of a significant difference in there conditions is interesting, dad 97 and had two bad(real bad) falls over the last few years and mom 83, with alzhymers that she compounded by becoming a secret lush, after never drinking in her life, both medical people. I am working on getting lithium added to there meds in very small doses, cant hurt
by epolanski | 2025-09-15 23:04:28+00:00
Question, how do I get the equivalent of Claude's "normal mode" in Codex CLI?

It is super annoying that it either vibe codes and just edits and use tools, or it has a plan mode, but no in-between where it asks me whether it's fine it does a or b.

I'm not understanding why it lacks such a capability, why in the world would I want to choose between having to copy paste the edits or auto accept them by default...
by feoren | 2025-09-15 23:04:42+00:00
I totally agree: em-dashes simply do not belong glued to the words on either side, style guides be damned! They look awful and wrap badly. There are no other punctuation marks that conceptually separate words without spaces! Every other punctuation mark that connects two words brings them syntactically closer together than a single space. And/or, hyphen-style, person@place, A&W, foo.bar -- they're all creating a closer association between the words than a space would. Why should the em dash stand alone in making a more distant association -- essentially a lower-precedence operator -- while removing spaces? It's nonsense. Put spaces around your em-dashes and fuck the style guides!
by DimmieMan | 2025-09-15 23:04:45+00:00
Silverblue is great but regular Fedora is worth a look too if you don't want to deal with the teething issues of managing all your dev-tools with Silverblue's immutable setup, granted that was 2 years ago when i tried so thing's might be better now.

Infuriatingly; I have a macbook because a couple years ago I wanted a laptop that just worked while keeping my familiar tools but it really feels like Linux is trending up in polish and macOS on the down with an intersect possibly happening in a couple years.
by basisword | 2025-09-15 23:04:53+00:00
A lot of the focus here is on the design (obviously). It took me a while to get used to it. But there are a lot of really great improvements in this release that make it worth it. Spotlight gets big updates. Live activities and notifications syncing from your phone. Journal. Music app has been massively updated and redesigned. Phone app. And surprisingly it doesn’t feel like a launch release - definitely less buggy than previous efforts.
by jvanderbot | 2025-09-15 23:05:51+00:00
I disagree because I think boring work needs discipline. The expectation that everything should be exciting or fulfilling is also false. You can't expect meaning in everything, and your response of wading through discomfort is best.

Or perhaps we should all be taoists, and find find joy in the taste of vinegar because it is pure life that we are tasting, by being alive and breathing and choosing to take on a task that is always new, because even if the work hasn't changed we have.

Or maybe just to quote the dwarves in Majesty: Hard work is its own reward.

Or perhaps the omnissiah demands it and it is not ours to question his will, only ours to ensure the machine spirits thrive.

There's a million reasons to get out of bed and do the work. Maybe the most noble is Meditations-esque "we work because we are humans" and the work must be done.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-15 23:06:33+00:00
If anything, I’d wager that a lack of impulse control in some folks leads them to eat junk food and consume THC. Correlation, not causation.

There are a number of impulse control disorders that I feel are all related, in the sense that if you’ve got a lack of impulse control you’re more likely to overeat, consume drugs and alcohol, get addicted to video games, gamble, have risky sex, etc. I have gone down a few of these paths personally due to to my own problems with impulse control and have seen similar patterns in others.